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“It definitely puts you in a dark space when you’re in there, especially those first two days. But I’m so happy to have such an amazing team and such amazing doctors that were working with me to get me through it. … I mean, I was battling for my life. I was in the hospital. And the good thing is now I can hit the ground running, hopefully.”
In July, Chicago police Officer Karol Chwiesiuk was accused of breaching the building with the mob and entering the office of U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. Another man, Christian Kulas, 24, of Kenilworth, was arrested on charges alleging he posted video of himself on Instagram storming the Capitol building during the siege while wearing a designer coat and pro-Trump hat.
“José, his consistency and his competitiveness — and the way he prepares, where he literally can attack pitches at all parts of the strike zone — those are represented in his RBI totals,” Sox manager Tony La Russa recently said. “The statistic (leading the league in RBIs), that’s hard-earned, man.
The report, published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, uses interviews from 140 of the 158 undergraduate students at the Hyde Park campus who were diagnosed with COVID-19 between March 15 and May 3. After spring break, which took place the last week of March, the cases had “increased rapidly” even as the university cracked down via multiple mitigation efforts — including a stay-at-home directive, the report states.
Ricardo Jimenez, the associate director of public health initiatives with the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, said the organization has made an effort to encourage vaccination and COVID-19 testing in the neighborhood as delta variant cases, which are more transmittable to young children, rise in the city.
“OK, you made it,” he said. “Now what are you going to do next to keep this job? Like I’ve said before, if you don’t produce in this league then you can’t stick around. Yeah, you made the team. But that wasn’t the end-all, be-all for me.
Two patients have filed a lawsuit seeking class-action status against DuPage Medical Group just days after the physicians’ group said it was notifying 600,000 patients that their personal information may have been compromised during a July cyberattack. (Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune)
Illinois’ Black population, particularly in Chicago, has continued to fall and Blacks now make up 13.9% of the state’s population, down from 14.3% in 2010. The Latino population is now 18.2% of the state, up from 15.8% a decade ago, the census results released last month showed.
Officers encountered Huff in October 2016, after he drove a car into the front of a liquor store at Roosevelt Road and Cicero Avenue, then walked away, according to testimony at trial. He was on PCP; and earlier that day, he had been in court for a case from a few months earlier in which he was accused of injuring a Forest Park police officer.
Former candidate for Illinois State Representative Jason Gonzales, left, talks with voter Nadine Cedano, 50, outside a polling place at Kinzie Elementary School in Chicago on March 15, 2016. Gonzales was challenging Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan. (Zbigniew Bzdak / Chicago Tribune)