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Martesa Lee, a Chicago Transit Authority supervisor, was arrested after complaining to a Chicago police sergeant about an interaction she had with an officer at a crime scene at the Jackson Red Line station on Feb. 4, 2020. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
“Día de los Muertos teaches us to turn the pain, the grieving, into love and appreciation for the time we had those people in our lives, in our community,” said Isabel Hernandez, a longtime Pilsen resident who created a 15-foot ofrenda in her backyard to celebrate the life of more than 250 people lost to COVID-19.
DIxmoor’s economic development director, John Thompson, left, talks with public works Superintendent Hubert Darden, second from right, water operator Rufus Fisher, center, and an engineer outside a pumping station as ongoing water pressure problems continue in Dixmoor on Oct. 20, 2021. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
“I’ve got to tell you, what’s carrying this data is the neighborhood schools like Amundsen,” new CPS CEO Pedro Martinez said at a news conference at Amundsen High School on the North Side. “I will always applaud our amazing magnet schools and selective enrollment programs, but I’ll tell you, our neighborhood schools, when you look at the quality programming that we have, the outcomes that we are getting, I’m sorry, folks, I mean, I’ll put these schools against anybody in the country.”
In Illinois, about two-thirds of existing homes were built prior to 1978, with 100,000 in suburban Cook County built before 1940. The number of children with blood lead levels that trigger intervention in Illinois has decreased with time, from 654 children in 1997 to 62 in 2018, even as officials lowered the intervention level to 5 micrograms per deciliter in the blood.
“Honestly, I really don’t understand a woman of color carrying the water for a guy who’s demonstrated over and over again he’s racist, he’s a misogynist, he’s xenophobic, he hates immigrants and refugees, he stands in support of the 1/6ers,” Lightfoot said, in an apparent reference to Catanzara’s history of inflammatory online posts, for which he he faces potential firing from the Police Department. “I think people in her ward need to ask, why is it this alderwoman is carrying the water for a guy like that?”
Rev. Marvin Hunter, senior pastor of Grace Memorial Baptist Church & the great uncle of Laquan McDonald, speaks at a press conference responding to President Joe Biden’s nomination of former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to Ambassador to Japan at his church in Chicago on Oct. 21, 2021. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
Jayden Lindsay, a 16-year-old junior at Leo High School, reads scripture to students and others from Academy of St. Benedict the African School and others as they participate in a Prayer Walk for Peace in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood on Oct. 21, 2021. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
The study was also conducted before the Delta variant became the dominant strain of COVID-19, Tanna said. Additionally, the study primarily looked at antibody counts, which are a good measure of general resistance; however, it didn’t look at the T-cell response, which is harder to measure but is indicative of how well a vaccine limits the severity of the illness.
Thursday morning, Lyons police Chief Thomas Herion said the two arrested were a 28-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman. Their names have not been released, pending charges of possession of a weapon, possession of narcotics and possession of a stolen vehicle to be filed, Herion said.