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On Wednesday, the board that oversees CPS approved a resolution reiterating its COVID-19 protocols, including universal masking for staff and students, testing for unvaccinated employees and quarantine policies. Board members cited progress with declining case numbers, but said the district is not ready to make masks optional.
An O’Hare Airport bound Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train enters the Grand Avenue station on Feb. 25, 2022. A study has found that the loudest section of the Blue Line is between Grand and Chicago Avenues. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
This past week the Hope Chicago team, led by former CPS CEO Janice Jackson and Pete Kadens and Ted Koenig, Hope Chicago’s co-founders and co-chairmen, visited high schools — including Benito Juarez High School, Al Raby High School, Morgan Park High School and Noble-Johnson College Prep — that are part of their inaugural cohort to announce to 4,000 students that their postsecondary education will be fully funded.
Maria Klimchak, curator at the Ukrainian National Museum in Chicago, reacts to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022. Klimchak came to Chicago from the Ukraine in 1993 with her family. The portraits in the background are Cossack leaders in Ukrainian history. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
“Very powerful political figures have been commenting on this case since 2019,” Nenye Uche, Smollett’s lead defense attorney, said in court. “… What we are afraid of is if cameras are put in the courtroom, beyond the possible distractions, we don’t want anyone attempting to exert any sort of influence on our judicial process.”
“As you travel across Europe, you come across cemeteries of the fallen soldiers of the United States, the men and women who went overseas to fight the battle against the Nazis, against the communists, over the years, and gave their lives in doing that,” Durbin said. “They were standing up for principles and values, which are still as viable today as they were 75 years ago.”
On Wednesday about noon, police responded to a disturbance at Ella Flagg Young Elementary School, 1434 N. Parkside Ave., where a school social worker on lunch duty was “made aware” by several students that the 6-year-old had a gun, according to a police report.
Three homemade explosive devices allegedly found in a backpack belonging to Xavier Pelkey, 18, of Waterville, Maine, who is accused by federal prosecutors of threatening to blow up Chicago-area mosques. (U.S. District Court records/U.S. District Court records)
During icy Midwest winters, a Chicagoan’s step onto the sidewalk is often met with a familiar crunch underfoot. But salt, used to keep roads safe for driving and sidewalks safe for walking, comes with an ecological price: It ends up in our water, and once it’s there, it’s almost impossible to remove. As levels of chlorides continue to rise in Lake Michigan and exceed state limits in Chicago-area waterways, municipalities across the region are grappling with the urgent need to reduce the use of road salt in winter.
John Kronenberger, outside of Major Hector P. Garcia M.D. High School, where Kronenberger had been mistakenly ticketed for speeding on Nov. 12. The city of Chicago sent out speeding tickets from cameras near the school on that date, even though school was not in session because of a citywide push to encourage students to get vaccinated. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)