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“Since we’re in a drought, the ground is solid and dry. It would be nice if we could get some light showers first, to moisten up some of the soil, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to be the case. We’ve got our fingers crossed, but it looks like it’s going to come down fairly hard and therefore the water’s going to run off fairly quickly because of the dry, hard ground,” Leatherwood said.

Weekly applications for unemployment aid had dropped for six straight weeks, and economists had expected another dip last week. Still, the report showed the the four-week average of claims, which smooths out week-to-week ups and downs, fell by 8,000 last week to 395,000 — the lowest four-week average since the pandemic slammed the economy in March 2020.

In a recorded phone call on May 23, 2017, Doherty told Maani that the Oak Lawn trustee was “looking for a job for his kid,” to which Maani asked whether he would want to be a violations reviewer for SafeSpeed, according to Maani’s deferred prosecution agreement, which offered the most detailed version of the alleged scheme.

“We’re going to see what happens there and go from there. I’m hoping that the judge will make some decision,” Elizabeth Wolff, who directed Monday’s episode, told the Tribune. “If he rules in our favor and some of these case files are turned over, I’m hoping that it will help other investigators, help Chris’ family … but really maybe be a lead for other citizen sleuths, like Michelle, to pick up where she left off.”

The 39-year-old bicyclist was riding in the 7100 block of South Bennett Avenue about 2:55 a.m. when he was shot in the head and upper and lower body, according to a police media notification. Preliminary police information indicates two men wearing all black were standing on a street corner and shooting at some other person or people. The man shot was likely not the intended target of the shooting, according to police.