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Another 5,044 new confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases were reported by state health officials Wednesday, the most in a single day since Sept. 10. Over the past week, the state has averaged 3,122 cases per day, a 41% increase from the previous week and the highest level since late September, when the late-summer surge driven by the highly contagious delta variant was subsiding.
Agin and other residents have rushed through the moving process — finding movers, locating new apartments — in five days. The seven-story building, at 930 North Boulevard in the west suburb, was in the process of being renovated into apartments with higher rent. Agin was planning to leave when his lease was up in June, but not like this.
In its response to Griffin’s comments, Pritzker’s camp, as it did following the Economic Club event last month, referred to Griffin’s support of Rauner, whose unsuccessful anti-union agenda clashed with Democratic lawmakers, leading to a record-setting two-year budget standoff that helped decimate social services including funding for violence prevention.
Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners President Avis LaVelle speaks during a press conference addressing claims of sexual misconduct by park district beaches and pools employees and an independent report on the district’s handling of sexual misconduct claims conducted by the Arnold & Porter Law Firm on Nov. 2, 2021, at Jesse White Park in Chicago. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)
University officials said they “have been in close contact with Mayor (Lori) Lightfoot, Chicago Police Department Superintendent (David) Brown and other members of the Mayor’s team, along with local aldermen,” regarding public safety strategies for Hyde Park and nearby communities.
Then 17 and living in Antioch, Rittenhouse fired the shots while patrolling downtown Kenosha with an AR-15-style rifle amid the turmoil and unrest surrounding the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by a white police officer. Despite not being old enough to openly carry a gun, Rittenhouse said he volunteered to act as an armed guard that night after businesses had been burned and vandalized during demonstrations held the previous day.
Heather Mack is mobbed by reporters as she arrives in the courtroom for her sentencing hearing at a district court in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, on April 21, 2015. Mack, who served more than seven years in an Indonesian prison for killing her mother at a luxury resort in Bali was indicted on federal murder conspiracy charges and taken into custody by FBI agents at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on Nov. 3, 2021. (Firdia Lisnawati/AP/AP)
Several allies of U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, the Chicago Democrat who is the state’s lone Latino congressman, also have expressed interest in the race including state Sen. Omar Aquino of Chicago, Eira Corral Sepulveda, a Metropolitan Water Reclamation District commissioner, and state Rep. Delia Ramirezstate Rep. Delia Ramirezstate Rep. Delia Ramirezstate Rep. Delia Ramirez, a Chicago Democrat.
When jurors walked by Rittenhouse after the judge called a recess to allow him to regain his composure, many looked up at him in apparent sympathy as he continued to cry. On a courtroom bench across the room and within earshot of the jurors, Rittenhouse’s mother, Wendy Rittenhouse, sobbed loudly.
“It just really has to do with just the change of seasons,” Borchardt said of the huge variations Chicago is seeing this week. “You get these bigger dynamic weather systems that are able to pull in warmer temperatures from the south or colder temperatures from the north. And that seasonal transition is just far more prone to seeing these wild swings.”