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For a $30 admission fee, each participant will receive an empty six-pack, which they can fill with six different colored plastic eggs. The eggs are scattered about the golf course, and the colors represent prizes of different values, from $5 to $50, said recreation supervisor Scott Gray.
Ananias Ocampo receives paperwork following an appointment with a dermatologist at Cook County Health on March 14, 2022. At right is advocate and caregiver Hilda Burgos. Ocampo, 78, uses Health Benefits for Immigrant Adults, a Medicaid-like program that benefits immigrants 65 and older regardless of their immigration status. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)
On the Senate floor Tuesday, Sen. Terri Bryant, a Murphysboro Republican, expressed her opposition to Mears’ appointment. She expressed concern over Mears’ vote to grant parole for Paula Sims, convicted in 1990 for killing her two daughters, one who was six weeks old and the other 13 days old. Last fall, the board granted Sims’ parole in a 12 to 1 vote.
Dr. Allison Arwady, shown in February announcing Chicago would end its mask mandate, said Tuesday she “hopeful and relatively confident that we wouldn’t see the really out of control spikes (with ‘stealth’ omicron) like we’re seeing in some other parts of the world.” (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
“We are asking Jensen Hughes to independently review what occurred in the case of Mr. Williams, and the city’s policies and practices regarding the investigation, arrest, interrogation, charging and detention of juvenile suspects in general,” she said.
On the recording, Seeger said, Serpico “used the ‘F-word’ over and over, as a noun, a verb, and an adjective,” hurled a racist epithet for Blacks at Cozzi, who is white, and told him, “Do me a (expletive) favor and sit down and shut the (expletive) up.”
Woulfe, 27, is charged with reckless homicide in the July 24, 2017, crash at Corning Road and Yates Avenue. Woulfe, who is free on bond while awaiting trial, was traveling east when he sped through a stop sign and slammed into a car carrying Lindsey Schmidt and her sons, prosecutors said. Schmidt was pregnant at the time.
When Daiana Torres, 26, saw that her playful 19-month-old daughter was not moving much, she sensed something was wrong. It had been two days since Torres had last seen her toddler, Vanessa Lopez, be energetic by doing things like climbing on tables and chairs.
Such suffering is largely preventable, experts say, with studies showing a strong link between widespread lead poisoning in eagles and the use of lead ammunition by deer hunters. The ammunition fragments and disperses in a deer’s body, and eagles ingest it when they feast on “gut piles,” the internal organs that hunters remove and leave behind.
In December, the River North Residents Association, a 22,000-member nonprofit neighborhood advocacy group, sent a letter to Ald. Walter Burnett, 27th; Ald. Brendan Reilly, 42nd ; and Ald. Brian Hopkins, 2nd, expressing concern over the Bally’s Freedom Center proposal. The letter, which is posted on the group’s website, said noise, traffic congestion and crime would likely be exacerbated by the casino, “negatively impacting” home values and local businesses, the group said.