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A ceremony will be held at Ara Pace, or “Place of Peace,” outside Village Hall, 1400 S. Ravinia Ave., at 11 a.m. May 31. The observance will include a wreath-laying ceremony, addresses by community veterans and a reading of the names of 55 veterans added to the village’s granite memorial wall, according to a village spokeswoman. The event will also be accessible on the village’s YouTube.

The CTA pledged to accelerate improvements to more than 125 of its 145 rail stations, nearly 90% of the system’s rail stations, according to a news release, with each station to be repainted and power washed this year at a minimum. Nearly a third of the identified stations in the “Refresh & Renew” program announced Wednesday will undergo more extensive maintenance, including upgraded lighting, concrete repairs and improved amenities such as trash bins and benches.

At 9:48 a.m., he then walked up to the driver’s side door of a car, aimed the rifle at a 30-year-old woman, and demanded she get out and give him her valuables, police said. The woman, who was not physically injured, complied, but he didn’t take the car, he just walked away.

As an example of the profits some homes make, state regulators cited one unnamed large for-profit group that made almost $18 million from homes that had high Medicaid populations and understaffing, compared with a $1 million loss at homes that had more private payers and proper staffing. In other words, regulators said, the current payment model rewards understaffing.

“Since I’ve had her I feel like I have to work harder and faster,” Pickett said earlier this week. “Because there’s going to come a time when my child is going to be made to feel less than, and there’s nothing I can do to stop that. I can only hope that with the work that I do, parents are educating their children to defend her innocence, to stand up as allies.

“Being transparent about it, we’re not a player away from being 85%,” he said. “It’s just a disappointing thing that we will have anxieties and restrictions that others don’t. That few days we had (in April), scratching Kyle (Hendricks) before a start when he was congested, and when (coaches) Chris Young and (Craig) Driver had it. Going through all that, it was a pretty horrible feeling, a helpless feeling, and the fact we weren’t able to eliminate that is disappointing.