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Cubs right fielder Jason Heyward adds his signature to a beam on Aug. 11, 2021, at the future site of a 10-acre sports, education and health campus in the 1800 block of North Laramie Avenue that will include a 120,000-square-foot indoor sports facility. The facility will host youth sports, tournaments, soccer programing and basketball. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
“No contact with this person, Mr. Danzy, direct or indirect,” Gilbert said. “(Not) by person, by telephone, by letter, by email, by social media, by hand signals, by smoke signals, by carrier pigeon, no contact at all with that person under these conditions.”
In its ruling, the NCAA said the allegations centered on conduct never before presented to the Committee on Infractions, “namely, that Baylor shielded football student-athletes from the institution’s disciplinary process and failed to report allegations of abhorrent misconduct by football student-athletes, including instances of sexual and interpersonal violence.”
“CPS now proposes to offer testing to all adult teachers and staff but NOT to all students. Limited student testing would be triggered by the citywide transmission rate and, except for sports, only offered to unvaccinated students,” the union tweeted Wednesday. “While Chicago’s current transmission rate is high enough to trigger student testing, we believe any testing program needs to cover all students — including vaccinated students, as we know the virus can be transmitted by both the vaccinated and unvaccinated.”
Sergio Hernandez, 40, of the 3100 block of North Austin Blvd., Chicago, was charged with criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual abuse and concealment of a death. Joslia Williams, 18, of the 1700 block of North Menard Ave., Chicago, was charged with child pornography and concealment of a death, according to the Oak Park Police Department.
“He wasn’t happy about it,” Lynn said of his teammate. “The season he’s having and stuff like that, he wanted to keep going. I don’t think it’s going to be anything crazy, but you never know. But he seems to think a little rest will help and he’ll be ready to go here in the near future.”
Other organizations who pitched in include Adler Planetarium, Chicago Botanic Garden, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Joffrey Ballet, Shedd Aquarium and the Common Ground Foundation, which was launched by the Chicago-bred rapper Common. Museums such as the Chicago Children’s Museum, DuSable Museum of African American History, Field Museum and Museum of Science and Industry are also on the list.
Kaegi, whose office determines residential and commercial values in the county’s property tax process, was expected to be joined by a slate of endorsers in Illinois including U.S. Reps. Chuy Garcia and Robin Kelly as well as several progressive-minded aldermen and county commissioners, according to a news release.
Amtrak has also restored pay protection for fully vaccinated employees who might need to quarantine after testing positive for a breakthrough case of the virus, according to the memo. Unvaccinated employees required to quarantine because they are close contacts with someone who has contracted the virus can receive excused absences, but their pay will not be protected.
Wednesday morning, Commonwealth Edison reported that there was still about 230 power outages that affected about 5,600 people, or less than 5% of its customers, in Chicago, according to its outage map. Countywide there was about 830 power outages that affected about 27,800 people, out of about 2,370,000 customers.