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They’ve lost a washer, dryer, water heaters, clothes, bedroom furniture and countless things that were stored in their basement and damaged from the rainwater, she said. During heavy rains, they’ve used up to seven pumps to get water out of the basement and they are now on their second wet vacuum.
“Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” bottom, and an original layout, top, are part of a special collection at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. The book is from the estate of Robert May, a Dartmouth graduate who wrote the famous story in 1939 as part of a Montgomery Ward marketing campaign. The book is copyrighted 1939 Robert L. May Company, LLC. All rights reserved. Original Robert Lewis May Materials Courtesy of Dartmouth College Library. (Toby Talbot / AP)
Some of the backup is because NorthShore’s hospitals are generally full of COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients, meaning it can sometimes be difficult to find hospital beds for people who come to the ER and need to be admitted. Earlier this week, NorthShore’s ERs in Skokie, Glenview, Highland Park and Evanston had 40 people waiting for beds in other parts of the hospitals, he said.
Erin Galfer, who was principal there before taking on a different role in CPS, was recently fired. Last month Galfer, through her attorney, told the Tribune she was “wrongly terminated” and that CPS “long knew about the misconduct and did not take timely steps to protect the students.”
Deon Williams, center left, and Diamond Williams, center right, sisters of Shermetria Williams, release balloonsd with others during a vigil, June 16, 2021, for Shermetria who was among four people killed the previous day in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)
F.T. Wetzel, 82, of 3641 N. Kedvale Ave., rides down a street in Chicago in his prized possession, a horse and sleigh more than 20 years old in February 1939. Cars had taken over the road from the days when horses and sleighs ruled the winter streets. Editor’s note: This historical print has some hand-painting on it. (Chicago Herald and Examiner)
Lightford, the Democratic senate majority leader and the second highest-ranking senator in the General Assembly, was in a vehicle with her husband, Eric McKennie, when they were carjacked at about 9:45 p.m. Tuesday. The couple was in the near west suburb to drop off a friend, police have said.
Lisa Leon, a patient service coordinator, draws up a syringe full of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at the Esperanza Health Centers vaccination clinic on Tuesday, December 21, 2021 in Chicago. Today the vaccination clinic will give out nearly 450 vaccines. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)
Just after 7 a.m. on Dec. 1, police responded to a shots-fired call and found Park, bloodied and lying on his back next to his Honda Odyssey, which was running with its keys in the ignition, and its driver’s door opened, according to a police report.
Ferguson, 54, denies the allegations. Besides raising various legal challenges, including one based on the statute of limitations, his legal team argued in its motion to dismiss the lawsuit that DeNicolo cannot sue Ferguson because she signed a separation agreement that included a clause barring her from any future claim against management “in return for a substantial severance package.”