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At least half of 118 new licenses issued for craft growers, infusers and transporters have gone to companies majority-owned by nonwhite applicants, in contrast to the previous all-white ownership, said Danielle Perry, the state’s cannabis regulation oversight officer. Forty-three percent of the Department of Agriculture licensees are black-owned, 10% by Latinos, 9% by coalitions of people of color and 4% by Asians, she said.
“Agreements can take a lot of forms, and the Potawatomi do not get to dictate that we were required to come up with some particular form of agreement, some detailed development agreements, some detailed real estate acquisition agreements, a host of other agreements that would go into actually building out a casino,” Davis said.
About noon, a helicopter dropped divers into the river by Lake Street where the man was last seen in the water, the department said. A fireboat and Chicago police also respond. The fire department said it is believed that the man fell into the river.
McHenry County Board Chairman Mike Buehler, a Republican from Crystal Lake, called the ruling “a blow to local governmental control, as well as the supremacy of the U.S. Constitution, against a clear case of overreach by the General Assembly and Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
While the week is starting out chilly, Petr forecast much warmer weather ahead with temperatures possibly reaching the mid-50s by Friday. The weather service’s Climate Prediction Center predicted unseasonably warm weather for two weeks starting next week with more than an 80% chance temperatures will be well above the seasonal norm.
His testimony is the centerpiece of the defense case at his trial that will roll into its sixth day Tuesday. Later on — potentially as early as late Tuesday — jurors will be tasked with deciding a credibility contest: Who is more believable, Smollett, or the Osundairo brothers, who told prosecutors they helped Smollett fake the attack on himself?
During the roughly two-hour meeting, the diverse, mostly older group of listeners vented their skepticism of Amazon, while others shared salty words for the local alderman, whom they accused of keeping them in the dark about the project’s progression. A groundbreaking took place in early November without any notice, according to some residents. Ald. Emma Mitts, 37th, has held community meetings in the past to update residents.
Members of the Pony Shop cyclocross team navigate a slope covered with wet leaves while working out on Dec. 5, 2021, around Montrose Beach to prep for the national championships, which begin in Wheaton on Tuesday. Cyclocross is a cross-country cycling sport that requires riders navigate obstacles. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
“Schools and local health departments should consider vaccination levels, number of students in quarantine, ability of the local health department and school to effectively contact trace, adherence to all layers of mitigations — in particular exclusion, isolation, universal masking, and testing — and availability of staff to conduct in-person learning,” Arnold said.
Gustavo Cornejo Jr, then 17, and his father pulled off the shoulder in Sauk Village, Illinois, on Sept. 27, 2016, when their landscaping trailer’s lights appeared out, lawyers said in the civil suit. The teen was out of the truck when a semitractor-trailer was barreling toward them. There were skid marks for 300 feet, lawyers said.