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White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson (7) and right fielder Jake Lamb celebrate after scoring on a Yasmani Grandal double during the fifth inning Wednesday in Pittsburgh. The double put the Sox ahead 4-2, and they held on for a 4-3 victory, snapping a five-game losing streak. (Gene J. Puskar / AP)

After the resolution clears the Forest Preserve board’s finance committee, it will go to a full floor vote sometime next month before another round of votes in December that would finalize the language, Suffredin said. He said the money should be used to acquire and restore land, improve programming for the community, address the backlog of maintenance needs, support the Brookfield Zoo and Chicago Botanic Garden and, perhaps most importantly, help close the funding gap for the district’s pension shortfall.

Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, is seen May 5, 2019, in Omaha, Nebraska. Buffett, 90, is stepping down as trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as he exits all other corporate boards. He said while he still loves his job, “I’m clearly playing in a game that, for me, has moved past the fourth quarter and into overtime.” (Nati Harnik/AP)

The 18-month effort, funded by the Joyce Foundation, will focus on the state’s flagship public university, where just under 6% of students are Black, 11% are Latino and well under 1% identify as Native American or Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, under-representations of the state’s population, according to school data. The largest demographic groups are white students at 41% and Asian American students at 16%.

The “FHFA’s structure violates the separation of powers, and we remand for further proceedings to determine what remedy, if any, the shareholders are entitled to receive on their constitutional claim,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote for a majority of the court.

Wearing white T-shirts printed with the face of a Black girl with Afro puffs and a mask, youths and adults from groups like the Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization, GoodKids MadCity, H.E.R. Chicago, Mothers Opposed to Violence Everywhere, Protect Black Girls and Long Walk Home walked together while chanting in unison: “When Black girls are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!”

“This was not about this appointment. This was about their mistreatment of Ms. Young,” Taylor said. “I’ve said to her and I’ll say to you all, ever since we’ve been in a global pandemic and she got this ultimate power, she doesn’t feel like she has to work with us and that is not how this is going to work,” Taylor said. “I’m not for it. I’m going to stand up for Ms. Young.”

Goldman Sachs required most of its employees to return to the office on June 14, with some exceptions extending that deadline to Sept. 30. It requires every employee to state their vaccine status, but does not require proof. JPMorgan is asking employees to submit their vaccination records as well, in the form of an internal portal.

Jason Peden, 35, of Ford Heights, was arrested Monday on suspicion of the attempted murder of a 49-year-old Ford Heights man who was found bleeding from the mouth in the 1400 block of Diplomat Lane, according to authorities. The victim was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he remains hospitalized, officials said.

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