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In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, President Tsai Ing-wen, second from right, and Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, right, listen as U.S. Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska, at left, speaks next to Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois in Taipei, Taiwan, on Sunday, June 6, 2021. (AP)

The $50,000 award is divided in half — $25,000 for the recipient’s personal use and $25,000 for the affiliated organization’s general operations. Wade’s work through Brave Space Alliance, which provides community services such as a food crisis pantry, support groups, an LGBTQ and BIPOC-centered job board and HIV testing, aims to amplify the voices of transgender people of color in Chicago and to build their decision-making at micro and macro levels.

Both Ald. Keith Turner, 6th Ward, and Ald. Felix Rivera, 7th Ward, said they want the Waukegan Park District to install a gate at Bowen Park — and perhaps others — to keep people out when the park is closed. They want to know how such a large crowd could assemble unnoticed.

Medline on Saturday said it agreed to sell a majority stake in the company to funds managed by private equity firms Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group and Hellman & Friedman. Medline CEO Charlie Mills and President Andy Mills, who are cousins, declined to disclose the size of the stake and the value of the deal Tuesday, but said 20 to 30 family members should benefit from it. The Wall Street Journal reported the value of the deal at about $34 billion, including debt, based on information from anonymous sources.

The driver, Jason Mitchell, 35, of the 3500 block of Greene Street in Steger, Illinois, disregarded officers’ attempt to pull him over and he continued to flee east on U.S. 30, according to the release. Mitchell then turned south on U.S. 41 through Schererville and St. John, police said.

Dr. Robert Murphy, executive director of the Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said vaccinated people who don’t have immunodeficiency (meaning no active cancers, no organ transplants, no one on immunosuppressive therapy) “are very safe from getting symptomatic COVID-19, hospitalization and death. A relatively small number may get infected but for the most part, without symptoms. They essentially have no restrictions and no longer have to use masks except in hospitals, medical facilities, long term care residences.”

“Their first question, ‘Do you have drugs or weapons in the car?’ Granted, I’m a big Black guy with ‘locks and the first thing they see, I’m just suspicious. But, as I was telling the guys, I got to make it home to my family,” he said. “I can’t be another case where some officer have his knee on my neck, choking me out. So, my biggest thing is making it back home, regardless.”

“CPS has created the Fall 2021 Survey as a way to connect with families around planning for the new school year,” officials said, adding that the anonymous survey is also available in Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Arabic, Urdu, and Polish, and responses need to be received by June 18.

On Tuesday, Porter County Sheriff Detective Dan Alonzo walked the jury in John Silva’s trial through the department’s evidence collection from Kerner’s grandparents’ home March 2 and March 3, 2019. Silva, 20, of Hamlet was charged May 22, 2020, with two felony counts of aiding, inducing or causing murder in the perpetration of a robbery and two felony counts of aiding, inducing or causing attempted robbery in connection with the Feb. 25, 2019, deaths of Molley Lanham, 19, of St. John, and Thomas Grill, 18, of Cedar Lake.

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