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Teacher Toni Armer communicates remotely with other teachers, assistants and middle grade school students during the first day of school at Chicago’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Academy of Social Justice in September 2020. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)

State data shows more beds have opened since, as some hospitals have canceled nonemergency surgeries. Still, many regions’ hospital systems remain stressed, according to state measurements. In some regions, such as the one covering Will and Kankakee counties, the number of available intensive care unit beds had dwindled to the single digits. And across Illinois, at last count, the number of open beds remained below 7,000, for a state with nearly 13 million residents.

At about 9:30 a.m., the U.S. Marshal’s Great Lakes Fugitive Task Force with help from Indiana State Police served a search warrant in North Manchester, Indiana, and Sullivan was arrested along with Daniel Acros, 19, of Kankakee, according to Indiana State Police. The men are being held in Wabash County Jail, authorities said.

McHenry and Kankakee county officials had filed suit, alleging that the law exceeds the state’s authority by superseding federal law. Both counties have contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to keep detainees behind bars until their court hearings. In December, U.S. District Judge Philip Reinhard dismissed the suit, ruling in effect that it limited local officials, not the federal government.

In Chicago, 415 children ages 17 and under have been shot in Chicago this year through Dec. 26, up from 367 in 2020, according to statistics kept by the Police Department, which does not include shootings on the city’s interstates. So far this year, 55 people ages 17 and under have been killed, according to CPD, the same number as in 2020.

FILE – Actress Betty White poses for a portrait following her appearance on the television talk show “In the House,” in Burbank, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. Betty White, whose saucy, up-for-anything charm made her a television mainstay for more than 60 years, has died. She was 99. (Chris Pizzello/AP)

Peterson also argues that two of the state’s key witnesses, Neil Schori and Harry Smith, should not have been allowed to testify about what Stacy Peterson told them regarding Savio’s death or her own concerns about Peterson. Peterson argues conversations with Schori, a pastor, and Smith, an attorney, should have been privileged. However, both were allowed to testify under the state’s hearsay law.

When officers arrived and began securing the area, 35-year-old Ryan Scott Mlady, of Chicago, emerged from an apartment and shot a gun into the air, the report said. A woman inside the apartment was able get exit with the help of the officers, and Mlady retreated back into the building, the report said.

Precipitation will likely start as rain south of the city Saturday morning, before changing over to a wet, heavy snow by late morning, he said. A swath of four to eight inches of accumulation is likely from west of the city, south to Kankakee, and north to the Wisconsin border, with lesser amounts to the north and south.

“It’s very hard, because prior to omicron, this fall, the entire church was packed, and I remember one Mass, where the pews were full, and almost 30 people standing,” he said.“I had almost forgotten what it was like, and that is what church is meant to be, filled with families.”