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Akyumen Technology CEO Aasim Saied and Gary Mayor Jerome Prince shown after October 2020 news conference announcing a partnership with Akyumen Technology, a state of art technology provider, at the Genesis Center in Gary. (John Smierciak / Post-Tribune)

Google’s office in Chicago is pictured Friday, Feb. 15, 2019. Google said Wednesday it is postponing a return to the office for most workers until mid-October and plans to eventually require all employees to be vaccinated. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune / Chicago Tribune)

On July 27, Governor J.B. Pritzker repealed the state’s 32-year-old HIV criminalization statute—a law that overwhelmingly impacted Black people in Cook County—making Illinois just the second…

Horvat and his colleague, Assistant State’s Attorney Paul Fangman, were acting as civil attorneys, they argued. As members of the office’s Civil Actions Bureau, they were not prosecutors in the traditional sense, Assistant State’s Attorney Amy Crawford said, and Horvat had no idea about Trutenko’s relationship with the witness until the night before the testimony.

In a surprising opening to the offseason, the Hawks continued to put their stated “rebuild” plan in the rear view mirror, adding another veteran forward to a team that’s already acquired defenseman Seth Jones and goaltender Marc André-Fleury, who is reportedly considering all options, including retirement. They made another subtraction Wednesday, sending defenseman Nikita Zadorov to the Calgary Flames for a third-round pick in 2022, erasing the memory of another dismal trade — for Brandon Saad — that didn’t pan out.

In Waukegan, residents gather outside Pine Grove Apartments, where gusts tore off parts of the roof on two buildings. “I was crying and trying to go downstairs,” one resident said. “Everything was flying. A tree right in front burst. I ran out with my shoes off, barefoot.” Despite the damage throughout the Chicago area, the storm caused only a few injuries. (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune)

Thriveworks, a counseling, psychology, and psychiatry services with more than 300 locations, found that one in three elite athletes suffer from anxiety and depression. In an analysis of more than 18,000 data points from print, online, broadcast and social media sources covering track and field, swimming, tennis, gymnastics and soccer, 69% of negative mentions were about female athletes compared to 31% about male athletes.

An Olympic worker disinfects and cleans the weightlifting bar after an athlete finished a lift at the Tokyo International Forum in Tokyo during the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics on July 24, 2021. After decades of rampant doping, bribery, vote-rigging and corruption at weight lifting’s highest levels, the International Olympic Committee finally took action last year by threatening to drop the sport from the Games in the coming months if the International Weightlifting Federation does not introduce a host of fixes, including rigorous drug testing measures and governance reforms. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

Vaccination prospects for younger people have improved, and some can get their shots organized by work places and colleges, while others still wait based on seniority. But there are also concerns over hesitancy among the young, with surveys showing many have doubts, in part due to false rumors about side effects.

“We share a lot of the same values,” Shea said. “We both like spending time with our families, nesting and baking. I’m not saying these are strictly Midwestern things, but we both appreciate some good sweet corn and some Culver’s when we’re home,” she said.