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Sean, 12, laughs while falling in the snow as he throws a snowball at his friend Isiah, 13, while behind them, 12-year-old Damarrian watches Jeremiah, 14, reach into the the snow in the Englewood neighborhood on Jan. 31, 2021, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)
Martinez said CPS expects “cases to be high” as students return from a two-week break with the city, state and country experiencing spikes. The district reported its highest daily new case total on Dec. 18, the first day of winter vacation, with 173 students and 121 adults testing positive, according to CPS data.
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The judges also rejected arguments from the NAACP of East St. Louis that Democrats unfairly diluted Black voters from a traditionally Black state House district, instead saying the move was done to shore up white Downstate Democratic districts in rural areas where Republican strength is increasing. Political gerrymandering, while controversial, is legal, they said.
“Masks are mainly for what we call source control. So, the person who’s infected doesn’t infect other people. We’re also finding that it offers some element of protection for the person who’s wearing the mask, even if they’re not infected. So, if an infected person and a noninfected person are both wearing masks, correctly, the chance of transmission is almost zero,” Segreti said. “Nothing is 100% but they will significantly decrease the transmission, especially if you’re the one that’s infected.”
On Monday, the CDC updated its recommendation to shorten isolation for people who contract COVID-19 from 10 days to five days if they don’t have symptoms, which might include a fever, chills, sore throat, cough, shortness of breath, body aches and loss of taste or smell. But those people must wear a mask for five days after their isolation period ends.
“If we proactively looked at this situation, we knew what the outcomes and results would be right? But let’s take it a little step further,” Hazzard told the Englewood group. “When you think about the developmental brain of a 15-,16-, 17-year-old, when you think about the fact that the brain isn’t fully developed until 25, so we have 15-, 16-, 17-year-olds in these high stress situations. They are in a high trauma community, right? So proactively, what resources do we need?”
Rittmanic, who lived in Kankakee, joined the Bradley Police Department in 2007 and was promoted to sergeant in 2014, said Lt. Philip Trudeau, a department spokesman. She previously spent seven years as a deputy with the Iroquois County Sheriff’s Department, he said.
While prosecutors did not detail a motive for the attack, leading up to it, twelve phone calls transpired between Hayer and Pullum, who knew each other, and about an hour before the shooting, the two had been “making fun of one another,” prosecutors said.
“A safe and happy New Year’s Eve for everyone is our shared goal, so we’re reminding everyone to think and act responsibly,” Brown said. “We all want to be safe this weekend, and we share that aspiration for every Chicagoan, and there’s no reason we can’t be if we all, not just law enforcement, all of us do our part.”