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In the Wright case, police officers suddenly surrounded the car, broke the windows and pulled Wright out of the vehicle by her hair, she said. While Wright was prone on the ground, an officer placed his knee on her neck, she said. Wright was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, though the charge was later dropped.

“Though one state has come off our advisory, and Chicago and Illinois now have our lowest daily COVID-19 case rates in months, the virus is still with us, in Chicago and around the country,” Dr. Allison Arwady, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, said in a statement. “The fact remains that nearly every state or territory is on the advisory.”

Chicago firefighters work on a two-alarm church fire in the 4500 block of North Spaulding Ave in the Albany Park neighborhood on Wednesday Feb. 23, 2022. This is the second fire this week in Albany Park. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune) (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)

“Even though we are seeing some increases in vaccination rates, our vaccination rates vary so much across our community or city across our schools. And so we want to make sure that we just continue to be extra conservative, extra safe, but we will continue again to monitor and to consult,” Martinez said. “… This is not going to be a decision that’s done alone. But again, we just want to be sensitive to the fact that we still have a lot of our staff, a lot of our parents that are very anxious.”

The suit says that on Sept. 16, 2014, when the boy was 12 years old, another student attacked him in a bathroom at Jordan Community Elementary School in the Rogers Park neighborhood. The boy suffers from “severe physical, developmental and learning disabilities,” according to the suit.

At the Feb. 22 Skokie Village Board meeting, Janet Kaplan of Skokie urged the Village Board not to give final approval to clear the way for a Carvana 14-story glass building to be built next to the Harms Woods Forest Preserve. Many who spoke against the project feared the building’s glass curtain wall would kill birds. (Brian L. Cox / Pioneer Press)

Illinois state Sen. Thomas E. Cullerton leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse after pleading not guilty, Aug. 16, 2019, in federal court to embezzlement charges alleging he pocketed almost $275,000 in salary and benefits from the Teamsters union despite doing little or no work. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)

Tammy Prentiss, superintendent at Hinsdale Township High School District 86, center, recites the Pledge of Allegiance during a meeting of the Hinsdale Township High School District 86 Board of Education at Hinsdale South High School, Feb. 10, 2022, in Darien. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)

Athanasios Zoyganeles, 44, who has previously lived in both Chicago and northwest Indiana, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Washington with misdemeanor counts of unlawfully entering a restricted government building and disorderly conduct on U.S. Capitol grounds, court records show.

One day after Secretary of State Jesse White offered his unwavering endorsement to secretary of state candidate City Clerk Anna Valencia, the two sit down at Manny’s Deli to meet and greet other elected officials and guests on Feb. 18. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)