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Police said they were alerted to an altercation outside of Gizmo’s, and that an officer saw a woman, later identified as Allmon, holding a gun while a man tried to grab it from her. During a struggle, Allmon fired the gun into the air and the man was able to take it from her, police said in a news release.
“This was horrible. I mean the crime was a hate crime, but a horrible hate crime. There was a noose, there was bleach,” Theis said. “It was local news, it was national news, international news. Everyone wanted to know what happened, from the mayor on down, everybody wanted answers.”
“It remains a variant of concern because we think it is likely more transmissible, more contagious than delta based on the pattern that we were seeing in South Africa,” Arwady said. “We may see more breakthrough infections in people who are vaccinated, and we may see more repeat infections in people who previously had COVID. We don’t have any real evidence at this point that it’s making people sicker, but they’re still doing the work to figure that out.”
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced new measures in place at all CVS Health’s 392 retail pharmacy locations across Illinois to help prevent pharmacy robberies and secure controlled substance medication, Nov. 30, 2021. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)
The man said he was inside his car in the drive-thru lane, picking up some tacos after working an earlier shift as a limo driver, when he saw a person walk in front of his car with what looked like a crowbar in his hand and begin striking the drive-thru window with it. The person then turned toward the victim’s car, looked at him, and hit the car’s hood and fender with the crowbar, the victim said.
Mr. and Mrs. Egbert H. Gold with their two sons Egbert Jr. and Dick Gold and their daughter Mary Jayne Gold circa March 1926. Mary and Dick had just joined their parents and brother at the Nautilus Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. (Chicago Tribune archive)
As a show of strength aimed at warding off any primary challenges, including a possible bid from fellow Republican U.S. Rep. Mary Miller, Davis on Tuesday unveiled endorsements from 31 of the 35 GOP county chairmen in the new 15th District, as well as from two of his Illinois Republican congressional colleagues, Darin LaHood of Peoria and Mike Bost of Murphysboro.
“I want you to attack me, but when you hit me, I want you to kind of pull your punches a bit because I don’t want to get seriously hurt,” Webb said Smollett told the brothers. Smollett also instructed them to put a rope around his neck to “make it look more like a lynching, like a hate crime,” Webb said.
Roseland residents listen to CPD commanders during a community meeting at Lavizzo Elementary School to discuss safety issues in their neighborhood after a 14 year-old boy and his mother were killed recently, Nov. 29, 2021. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)
“I started trying to help her get out and she said, ‘Just tend to my son,’” Vera said. “So I went back across the street. He didn’t want me to leave his sight. He wanted me to stay right next to him. I was holding him until the ambulance came and got him. He was a wonderful boy. I just kept telling him, ‘It’s OK, you did good,’ telling him a lot of positive things.”