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“When COVID happened, it compounded the situation, and made it more comfortable to say, ‘It’s OK now,’” said Armstrong. “‘Because I ain’t gotta work, ain’t nobody hiring anyway.’ That false reality of, ‘As soon as they open the city up, I’m going to get me a job.’ It’s not going to happen like that.”
On the first day of summer, McGhee visited Lane; the mother and son talked about the future. A few hours later, shortly before 7 p.m. June 20, McGhee and a friend were shot near the Western Blue Line after running away from a few men, one of whom reached into his waistband for a gun.
“He’s dealt with it, he’s gone out there like a good competitor and it takes away from his game,” Sox manager Tony La Russa said before Thursday’s game against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park. “The decision was made, just get him well.”
The ensemble of Black and Latinx string players brings their instruments to the scenes of tragedy — shootings, usually. But also suicides, overdoses, car accidents. They play concerts around the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. They play a song for each stage, plus a sixth song for what Hallmon calls a sixth stage of grief: faith. They set up away from the crime tape, out of the way of the police, but close enough for the neighbors to hear them.
Under the bill, which earlier won approval from the state Senate, the city’s school board would become a hybrid panel in January 2025, with 10 members elected to four-year terms in the 2024 general election and 11 members appointed to two year terms by the mayor, including the board president. Mayoral appointments would require City Council confirmation, another element Lightfoot’s office had opposed.
Rachelle Zola drinks Pedialyte while listening to her friend Mazell Sykes during Zola’s hunger strike on June 14, 2021, outside Cosmopolitan United Church in Melrose Park. Zola began the 40-day, all-liquid hunger strike to support HR 40, a House bill that would set up a commission to study reparations. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
Jerryon Stevens, of Humboldt Park, was charged in the shooting, which took place Dec. 22 in the 700 block of North Ridgeway Avenue, Chicago police announced Wednesday. The victim was identified by the Cook County medical examiner’s office as Jim Courtney-Clarks, 20.
The state’s health department has identified more than 9,400 variant cases of the virus in Illinois, more than 6,300 of which are the Alpha variant, first found in the United Kingdom. The next biggest slice comes from the Gamma variant, first identified in travelers from Brazil, with more than 2,400 cases.
“When we think about racism, many of us think about its visible and audible forms,” Lightfoot said. “But the reality is, the insidious nature of systemic racism has other impacts that are every bit as deep and harmful but are often ones we can’t see, like impacts on the psyche and other impacts on our bodies that are just as, if not more, deadly.”
Best known for his work nationally with ESPN and currently Fox, Myers has been a Marquee contributor since its 2020 launch. In addition to “Play at Home Trivia,” the quiz show he hosted when baseball shut down during the pandemic last year, he has an interview program called “Chris & Tell.”