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Officials with the Illinois Federation of Teachers, one of the state’s largest teachers unions, which includes the CTU, said in a Tuesday statement that educators “are grateful for Governor Pritzker’s leadership throughout the pandemic ensuring that science, not politics, has informed guidance.”
Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv is among Chicago’s 27 remaining Sister Cities, whose roster also includes Bogota, Colombia; Accra, Ghana; Osaka, Japan; and Warsaw, Poland. Chicago formalized its Sisters Cities program under former Mayor Richard M. Daley in 1990, the proposed order states.
Ezike’s assistant director, Amaal Tokars, will take over as interim director. Tokars, who is not a medical doctor, has a Ph.D. in leadership and policy from Northern Illinois University and previously worked for the Kendall County Health Department and as president of the Northern Illinois Public Health Consortium.
The airport wants to build a road through the Bell Bowl Prairie, one of the last remaining places in the state where prairie exists much as it did 8,000 years ago. Conservationists are fighting the road in the name of rare plants and animals found on the 5-acre stretch of land, including the federally endangered rusty patched bumblebee.
“Since [OIG’s period of analysis], the Department has made great strides in Use of force and Procedural Justice training and has revised numerous policies including, but not limited to, the entire Use of force suite of orders. In fact, the Department has achieved preliminary compliance on the use of force paragraphs in the Consent Decree,” the police department told the inspector general’s office.
Duncan, 57, runs Chicago CRED, a nonprofit aimed at violent prevention. Before that, Duncan served as President Barack Obama’s education secretary and CEO of Chicago Public Schools. He has been considering a run for months but ruled it out today, saying in a statement, “I am exactly where I need to be, doing the work I love.”
The driver, Jarett Astin Rivera, 31, of Indianapolis, is facing seven charges including felony resisting law enforcement (prior conviction); felony resisting law enforcement; felony possession of legend drug and felony obstruction of justice. Rivera was also charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana, possession of paraphernalia and reckless driving.
White collar crimes are extremely difficult to detect, because the perpetrator will try to hide any paper trail, as in this case, DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin said. He credited the “painstakingly thorough investigation” of Ken Tatarelis, supervisor of the office’s public integrity/financial crimes division, and with Itasca police Officer Katlyn Jezior.
Amanda Cisneros-Elacio, 20, of the 800 block of East Old Willow Road, was taken into custody Monday on a warrant for leaving the scene of an accident causing death, the sheriff’s office said. She is charged in the Oct. 9 death of Wojciech Glowik, 22, of Glenview.
A 69-year-old man and 66-year-old woman were found unresponsive in a vehicle in the 11100 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue, after being struck by another vehicle, police said. Both were taken to area hospitals in critical condition, where they died, police said.