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“The Chicago Police Department this morning is taking a big swing at community policing, community engagement and building trust,” Brown said. “Arguably, this will be the most significant commitment of effort, resources and leadership to building trust in Chicago PD’s history.”
The scholarship, named “NEIU for You,” will cover 12 credit hours of tuition and mandatory fees for at least 500 first-year, full-time students, after federal, state, institutional, internal/external scholarships and grants have been applied, according to a news release from NEIU. This means that scholarship recipients can earn a four-year degree for the cost of three years.
A little-known substance derived from hemp is flying off the shelves of U.S. gas stations and smoke shops, offering users a cheap and convenient high even in states where marijuana isn’t legal. But large cannabis producers are now pushing to clamp down on Delta-8 THC. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Stringer/Getty Images)
The 13 neighborhoods will be Auburn Gresham, Austin, Chatham, East Garfield Park, Englewood, Hegewisch, Montclare, Riverdale, Roseland, South Deering, South Shore, West Englewood and West Garfield Park. Some of them overlap with the original 15 communities that were first targeted with “Protect Chicago Plus,” a city-run effort that began in January to bring up vaccination rates in places hard-hit by COVID-19 and with barriers to the shot.
San Francisco led the surge in expensive home purchases, with an 82% jump, according to Redfin’s analysis of the country’s 50 most-populous metropolitan areas. Following were neighboring Oakland, California, with a 72% gain, and Miami, where high-end sales rose 70%.
“I would like to see our main training facility be somewhere in the city,” Mansueto said. “To do that, for the vision we have, you need 20, 25 acres. And you know one of the downsides of being in a major metro area like Chicago is it’s pretty well built up. There’s not a lot of 25-acre parcels laying around.
Flight attendants who choose to get vaccinated will get up to three extra vacation days in 2022, the union representing United’s flight attendants said. To get the maximum number of days, flight attendants must have received at least one dose by June 9.
“Today was a win for the people of this great state,” said Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, a Democrat from Hillside. “With Gov. Pritzker’s signature, people of Illinois can be confident in a legislative map that is reflective of the diversity that we see in every corner of our state.”
“I’m going to bring the things I know I’m good at: screening, finding people when they’re open, scoring when I have to and playing good defense,” she said. “Everyone is positive. If you continue to get down on yourself, you’re going to go on a downward spiral. I was pleasantly surprised around this team to see how positive they are going forward and doing everything we can to get a win.”
“Here in the West,” she writes, “we often employ two types of motivation: rewards (e.g., praise, gifts, stickers, allowances) and punishment (e.g., yelling, timeouts, groundings, threats). But in many cultures, moms and dads tap into another type of motivation: a child’s drive to fit in with their family and to work together as a team. To belong.”