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The state’s highest court last year ordered that speedy trial deadlines could be suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ordinarily, defendants can formally demand trial, at which point prosecutors have a specific time frame in which they must bring them to trial or the case is dismissed.
The nurses’ union and health system reached the tentative agreement shortly after midnight Monday, said Angela Walker, a Cook County Health nurse and member of the bargaining team. As part of the proposed contract, Cook County Health has agreed to add another 300 nurses within 18 months and give nurses raises, and pay them incentives to help with retention, she said.
The Indiana lawsuit maintains the requirement wrongly singles out doctors providing abortion drugs and their patients. The plaintiffs include Planned Parenthood, which operates abortion clinics in Indianapolis, Merrillville, Bloomington and Lafayette, and groups that operate other clinics in Indianapolis and South Bend.
Chicago police officers detain Ruben Roman on March 29, 2021. Roman was identified by Cook County prosecutors as the man who fired the shots that attracted police to the area in the moments before Adam Toledo was shot. (Civilian Office of Police Accountability)
Northwestern clinical psychologist Inger Burnett-Zeigler at the hospital June 29, 2021. Burnett-Zeigler wrote a new book, “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women,” which looks at how Black women’s strength is intimately tied to their unacknowledged suffering. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
When the pandemic hit in March 2020, it prompted a statewide stay-at-home order for everything but essential businesses, and waves of furloughs and layoffs. Last year, the state paid out nearly $19.7 billion in unemployment benefits to about 1.5 million recipients, both annual records for Illinois, according to IDES spokeswoman Rebecca Cisco.
Current and former Lightfoot advisers, however, complain that she doesn’t take advice and can be difficult to approach. Like her predecessor, Emanuel, Lightfoot is known to be profane and hard-charging with other elected officials, once telling aldermen “don’t come to me for s—” if they voted against her budget.
Toews, 33, last played for the Hawks on Aug. 18, 2020, a 4-3 elimination loss to the Vegas Golden Knights during the return-to-play postseason in the Edmonton, Alberta, bubble after the regular season was shortened to 70 games by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“This fire, because of it involving lithium batteries, normal conventional firefighting such as water or firefighting foam will not extinguish this fire, in fact, it will make it more violent and react more violently if we introduce water or firefighting foam,” Steffes said during a news conference Monday afternoon. “We made the decision to allow this fire to burn its course.”
Junked automobiles, used appliances and other metallic waste would be shredded at the plant. Opponents say granting a permit to Southside Recycling would amount to environmental racism because it would move a polluting business from Lincoln Park, a white, wealthy neighborhood, to a Latino-majority community.