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Daley Center security staff officers Al Faulkner, left, and Steve Holmes raise the pride flag at the start of Cook County’s Pride Month ceremony at Daley Plaza on June 1, 2021. The rainbow flag will fly in Daley Plaza during the entire month of June for the first time ever. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)

“When the students found out the next day, they had brought in counselors,” Hess said. “And when the children started speaking up about ‘they are sad,’ ‘this is my family,’ ‘I don’t want the school to close,’ etc., I had to walk out because it broke my heart. I didn’t want to have the children see me cry. I wanted them to know it was going to be OK, and when one door closes another opens.”

In the decade leading up to the pandemic, American companies spent more than $6 trillion to buy their own shares, roughly tripling their purchases, according to a study by the Bank for International Settlements. Companies in Japan, Britain, France, Canada and China increased their buybacks fourfold, though their purchases were a fraction of their American counterparts.

A prefabricated three-bedroom, 2,341-square-foot midcentury modern home in Michigan City, Ind. that is on the National Register of Historic Places sold on May 14 for $850,000 — $100,000 above its asking price. – Original Credit: @properties (Rudy Conner / HANDOUT)

Officers were called to the 4700 block of South Ada Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood about 2:15 a.m., police said. Three males had been standing outside when someone in a gray SUV began shooting at them, before driving off north on 47th Street, according to police.

The former First Midwest Bank branch in Aurora on Jan. 19, 2016. First Midwest and Old National announced a $6.5 billion merger June 1, 2021, that will create a Midwestern bank with $45 billion in combined assets under the Old National banner. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

Mercy has a long history in Chicago. The hospital, which opened more than 150 years ago, was the first chartered hospital in the city — starting in an old rooming house near present-day Rush Street and the Chicago River in 1852 before moving to the South Side during the Civil War, according to the hospital.

In Sumida, a district in downtown Tokyo where boxing events will be held, vaccinations for its 61,000 elderly residents began on May 10, and within two weeks, 31% of them had gotten their first shots, compared to the national average of 3.7%. Sumida is now looking to start inoculating younger people later this month, well ahead of schedule.

All of Hollywood was watching those numbers for hints about what is in store for the delayed summer movie season. After largely sitting out the pandemic, or diverting to streaming platforms, blockbusters are again queuing up. On tap are Warner Bros.′ “In the Heights,” Universals’ “F9” and Disney’s “Black Widow.”

Illinois is in line to receive $8.1 billion in relief from President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan, but the latest proposal calls for spending only a portion of that, with $1 billion to be used for infrastructure projects. The other $1.5 billion would be used for programs such as business relief, violence prevention and affordable housing, said Rep. Greg Harris, a Democratic majority leader from Chicago.