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Earlier this month, the forest preserve’s began a strategic planning process to review its goals and operations. In consultation with Commissioner Scott Britton, in whose district the coyote is kept, the agency is now expanding that initiative to include a review of its ambassador animal program, including its procedures and practices, for all nature centers.
“I think this will probably be a point that I’ll make at sentencing, that not only did Mr. Smollett lie to the police and wreak havoc in this city for weeks on end for no reason whatsoever, but then he compounded the problem by lying under oath to a jury, which I don’t think should happen,” Webb said.
The Fire, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Ald. Jason Ervin, 28th, and Chicago Housing Authority CEO Tracey Scott on Thursday announced the start of preliminary discussions for the team to build in Addams/Medill Park. The space is roughly bordered by Roosevelt Road to the north, 14th Street to the south, Ashland Avenue to the east and Loomis Street to the west.
Baron Rothschild, the famed Jewish philanthropist, never showed up in Albany Park, where we lived. Nor the West Side, where Nathan and Maurice Goldblatt grew up sleeping in the same bed. Born in Poland, they came to Chicago with their parents in 1904. Two younger brothers, Joel and Louis, were American-born.
Also this month, Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission placed the eight names of its Name-A-Snowplow contest winners directly on its vehicles, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. The monikers are mostly puns on “Star Wars” characters” and ’90s hip-hop acts and songs, including Snowbi-wan Kenobi, Darth Blader, Sir Plows-A-Lot and Ah, Push It … Push It Real Good!
People attend a vespers service at St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral on Jan. 26, 2022, in Chicago. The Pope has designated Wednesday as a day of prayer for peace in Ukraine following increased Russian aggression along the Ukraine border. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
Chicago police block off the intersection in the 200 block of East Lower Wacker Drive while investigating a shooting on Jan. 26, 2022. A 25-year-old man was in critical condition Wednesday night after police and people in the car the man was in exchanged gunfire, officials said. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)
Chicago Park District Interim Inspector General Alison Perona, shown in November, wrote in the report that her office’s findings span several locations with “an environment where bullying, harassing and sexual misconduct flourished.” (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)
The discussion arose during Wednesday’s monthly board meeting after CPS’ chief health officer, Dr. Kenneth Fox, noted the challenge in persuading parents who are hesitant about the vaccine. Around 116,000 of the 330,000 students enrolled in CPS are fully vaccinated, while about 148,000 students have received at least one dose, according to the district.
Ashley Eisenmenger, Access Living’s public relations coordinator, is a blind person and a full-time white cane user. Snow and ice can impair her ability to identify places where the sidewalk turns into the street, or hear the sound of her cane tapping as it reverberates off surrounding buildings, she said.