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A solemn Rittenhouse also appeared to being paying close attention to the videos, taking notes and whispering to his lawyers while the sound of his gunshots rang out in the courtroom. He purposefully looked away, however, whenever images appeared on the screen of the men he shot injured and, in one case, dying.
Heather Mack is mobbed by reporters as he 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 has been indicted on federal murder conspiracy charges and taken into custody by FBI agents at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on Wednesday Nov. 3, 2021. (Firdia Lisnawati, File/AP)
Rittenhouse, who lived in far north suburban Antioch, was 17 when he fatally shot two people and wounded a third in downtown Kenosha with an AR-15-style rifle that a friend testified Tuesday he purchased for him because Rittenhouse was underage. Despite not being old enough to openly carry a gun, Rittenhouse decided to patrol the southeast Wisconsin town amid the turmoil surrounding the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by a white police officer days earlier in August 2020.
Among city departments, the police department has one of the lowest response rates to the vaccination reporting requirement. Still, there have been inroads, with the percentage of officers reporting their status jumping from 65% in mid-October to 75.6% as of Wednesday. Overall, nearly 87% of city workers have complied with the reporting requirement, and of those 82% are fully vaccinated, according to city data.
From center, Alicia Saucedo waves smoke from the resin of a coco tree as workers and supporters gather on Dia de los Muertos outside El Milagro in Chicago’s Little Village on Nov. 2, 2021, for a vigil and rally in honor of five workers who died of COVID-19. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
Compare that with suburbs with the highest vaccination rates, all above 80%, and all but one a north suburb: Barrington, Glencoe, Glenview, Northbrook, Olympia Fields and Wilmette. (This may not count communities with their own health departments, which aren’t covered by the county’s.)
The measure, which takes effect Jan. 1, requires additional disclosures from officials on personal financial interests, aims to prevent lawmakers from lobbying their former colleagues immediately after they leave office, and allows the legislative inspector general to initiate investigations of alleged wrongdoing without the blessing of the ethics commission, among other changes.
Jervin Roman, 9, bites his sister’s stuffed animal as his mom, Angela Lopez, and sister, Anahi Morales, 11, try to keep him calm before he receives his COVID-19 vaccine from Veronica Flores, left, at Esperanza Health Centers on Nov. 3, 2021, in Chicago. After getting the vaccine, Jervin said he was glad he did it. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)
In the center of the protest, which blocked four eastbound lanes of traffic, eight people sat around a black banner with bold yellow lettering that read: “Durbin & Congress, Deliver Citizenship NOW.” Some attendees lined the streets carrying signs, while dozens more sat evenly spaced throughout the block.
So far, five Republican senators have voiced support for Emanuel — moderate Sen. Susan Collins of Maine; retiring Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri; Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina, a top ally of former President Donald Trump; Sen. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, who was ambassador to Japan under Trump; and Sen. James Risch of Idaho, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee.