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Earlier last summer, Preckwinkle broke from Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Gov. J.B. Pritzker when she announced support for curtailing law enforcement spending — a movement that the mayor has called a “hashtag.” The footprint of the county sheriff’s police force, however, is much smaller than that of Chicago police’s. Ultimately, both the city and county slightly cut the 2021 budgets of Chicago police and the Cook County sheriff’s office, respectively, citing the financial strain of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A witness saw something in the water in the 500 block of West Montrose Avenue in the Uptown neighborhood and called 911, police said. Just before 8:30 a.m., the Chicago Fire Department and the Chicago police marine unit responded and pulled an 80-year-old man out of the water.
United Airlines said searches for flights to Europe were up 19% the day after reports first surfaced in April that Europe would soon reopen. The airline is starting new flights between New York and Dubrovnik, Croatia, a week earlier than expected and adding a fourth weekly flight. The Croatia flights will start July 1, the same day as two other recently announced flights from Chicago to Reykjavik, Iceland, and Washington, D.C., to Athens, Greece. United also said it will resume service to Barcelona and Madrid and add additional flights to Italy in July.
Chris Cuomo, the host of CNN’s nightly show “Cuomo Prime Time,” attends a reception on April 11, 2019, in New York. Cuomo joined strategy session phone calls with the staff of his older brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to discuss the handling of sexual harassment allegations. (Evan Agostini)
A damaged tennis court net hangs from a wire at Lindbloom Park as weeds protrude from the cracks near 61st Street and Damen Avenue in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago on May 19, 2021. West Englewood is an area with a high violence and obesity correlation. (Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)
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IU officials announced the requirement for its campuses across the state Friday, saying it will allow the university to lift most coronavirus-related restrictions such as face masks and physical distancing. The university says knowing that the vast majority students and employees are vaccinated is the only way it “can confidently return to in-person classes, more in-person events and a more typical university experience.”
Kaufman, who believed the undercover officer to be a bouncer from Gingerman, wound up getting in a scuffle with Mirus before Dakuras, who was also in plainclothes, approached and allegedly struck him repeatedly. As Kaufman tried to record the incident on his cellphone, Dakuras allegedly grabbed the phone and ran.
Gurnee police said they began an investigation into stolen school equipment in November. The school district had begun receiving calls from people who had bought gear on eBay, police said, but the equipment was locked and displayed messages that it belonged to the Woodland district. Officials compared serial numbers to confirm that the equipment did come from District 50.
“For us, the customer is everything,” Cook explained while wearing a face shield, but no mask in an Oakland, California, courtroom that has limited access to a handful of people because of the pandemic. That commitment includes ensuring technology remains “simple, not complex” for users of Apple products, Cook said, and protecting their privacy, which he called “one of the most important issues of the century.”