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District Chicago, where Trooper Mason was assigned, has had a total of 185 reported expressway shootings in 2021, compared with 83 at this time last year, the statement said. And in 2020 there were more than twice the number of shootings than the 52 expressway shootings in 2019. There were 43 in 2018, according to the state police.

Jordan S. Christensen, 33, of 1700 block of River Road, is accused of using a spring-loaded knife to assault the person, whom he knew, a news release said. The victim’s neck was cut and they received stab wounds to the left side of the neck and around the ear, the release said.

The measure is one of many so-called “heartbeat laws” passed in various states, which try to ban abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected. Other similar statutes, though, have been blocked by the courts, citing Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case that established the right to terminate a pregnancy.

Soldier Field, right, home of the Chicago Bears, on Sept. 29, 2021. The Chicago Bears have signed a purchase agreement for Arlington International Racecourse, a move that takes the team a step closer toward securing property for a new stadium and leaving their longtime home at Soldier Field. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)

Garrett Mercado, who operated D and D Kennel, reacts after he is reunited with Capone, one of the missing dogs outside of DuPage County Animal Control on Jan. 14, 2019, in unincorporated West Chicago. Mercado’s dog kennel was destroyed by an early morning fire. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)

Canadian prosecutors put a freeze on the property. This year, a data center company, Green Data Center Real Estate Inc., put up nearly $1 million in escrow money toward buying the site, Kelly said, but its bid fell through. About $500,000 of the escrow was applied to the building’s back taxes, he said.

Instead, prosecutors have said only that Lathem and Warren, both deeply depressed, had a suicidal agreement to kill each other. Warren, testifying for the state as part of a plea agreement, said Lathem spoke in general about killing people, and one night in July 2017 summoned Warren to his apartment because he wanted to kill his boyfriend, Trenton Cornell.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot answers questions as she gives an update on Chicago’s COVID-19 vaccination distribution at the Gage Park Vaccination Site in Chicago on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021. (Jose M. Osorio/ Chicago Tribune) coronavirus, COVID-19 (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)

For years, Lee, 35, owner of Chicago-based brokerage Great Tickets, would pass Costello an envelope full of cash, and Costello would pass back an envelope of tickets that, using insider knowledge, he had fraudulently procured for free or at a heavy discount. Lee would then sell the tickets on the online resale forum StubHub, prosecutors said.

The board “has followed the disciplinary process laid out in rule for both private and public schools,” she said in a statement. “Compliance with the state’s mask mandate helps keep students and teachers safe, aids in the reduction of community transmission of COVID-19, and positions schools — both nonpublic and public — to avoid the consequences of failing to adhere to public health requirements.”