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Audubon Great Lakes released a report last year on wetland habitat restoration targets, including in the Calumet region, where about 8,000 acres are expected to be restored by the end of the decade. At Big Marsh, where there’s a water control structure in place, two key marsh bird species were spotted in 2015. By 2018, that number grew to 11. Today, avian visitors include state-threatened and state-endangered species.
Karin Norington-Reaves, chief executive officer at Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership, in Dawes Park in Chicago on April 26, 2021, where Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced her capital and infrastructure plan called “Chicago Works.” (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
She was found motionless in her car after police responded to a ShotSpotter alert, said Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan. Video footage showed a vehicle pulling up to Patrick’s car and two males getting out, drawing handguns and shooting at her, Deenihan said, but that footage has not been released to the public.
Burton Odelson, attorney for Oak Lawn High School District 229, said board member Robert Cruz had violated the board’s code of conduct when he, in a federal lawsuit against Gov. J.B. Pritzker opposing a statewide mask mandate, claimed he was acting in his official capacity. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
“I’m reliving (Assistant State’s Attorney) Todd Dombrowski’s conversation with Miss Bonjean,” he said, apparently unprompted. “… Did you see her going nuts? Glasses off, fingers through her hair, the phone’s going all over the place, it’s insane.”
Officers work at the scene where a Cook County sheriff’s deputies shot a person on electronic monitoring on the 7400 block of South Yates Blvd., on Jan. 12, 2022, in Chicago. According to the Chicago Police Department, the sheriff’s deputies exchanged gunfire with the suspect and a weapon was recovered at the scene. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
The first floor of the west wing in the Illinois state Capitol building has been updated with new sprinklers, exit signs, fire alarms and a restoration of its paint, ceiling and decorative wall molding to make the area “Capitol proper,” dating to the 1890s and early 1900s time period. The chandelier was selected to replicate a gas-fed flame. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
Officers work the scene where a 14-year-old boy was shot in the head near the 1400 block of West 73rd Street in the Englewood neighborhood Wednesday Jan. 12, 2022 in Chicago. Earlier in the day a 14-year-old boy was fatally shot on the street on 2200 block of West Adams nearly half a mile from the United Center. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
NFL Alumni Health members, including former Bears defensive back Charlie Brown, former Green Bay Packers running back Michael Blair, Simon Chandler of the Kansas City Chiefs, Michael Harris of the Oakland Raiders, and former NFL coach Angel Lopez, also are scheduled to attend.
The altercation, captured on video, appears to show O’Dekirk grabbing Victor Williams Jr., a Lockport man who was 23 at the time, by the collar and forcibly walking him backward to a police vehicle at a chaotic public demonstration. The May 31 demonstration was one of many protests across the country that came in the wake of Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police.