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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, center, attends pregame ceremonies before the Chicago Bears face the Minnesota Vikings at Soldier Field in 2019. Any decision she makes on the Bears will be a tough one, a city council colleague said. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)
Nearly every American has PFAS in their blood, studies have found. The compounds are known largely for their use in products featuring the Teflon and Scotchgard brands, manufactured by DuPont and 3M, respectively. But dozens of related compounds are still widely used in firefighting foam, food packaging, stain- and water-resistant clothing, carpets and household products, among other things.
“He automatically knew there was danger,” said the visually impaired Freeman, 44, late Thursday afternoon as he sat on a porch across the street hours after a blaze ravaged several homes, including his, early that morning in the 4900 block of South Princeton Avenue in the city’s Fuller Park neighborhood.
Chicago Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez, 25th, at microphones, joins El Milagro tortilla plant workers, other politicians and clergy in a rally in front of the tortilla plant on West 26th Street at Albany Avenue in Chicago on Sept. 30, 2021. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
Thursday’s testimony brought yet another sordid element to what has been a strange and salacious trial. Prosecutors allege Lathem and a British man, Andrew Warren, met up in Chicago to execute a death pact, in which Warren would shoot Lathem and Lathem would stab Warren. Instead, however, Lathem decided to kill Cornell, Warren testified Wednesday.
In the two-part series, the Tribune also reported how the number of stolen guns from federally licensed firearm dealers jumped by about 5% from 2018 to 2020, according to statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and cited by the advocacy organization Everytown for Gun Safety. In Wisconsin, there were 217 guns stolen from firearm dealers in 2020 compared with 97 in 2018, the figures show.
The company admitted that top executives, including onetime CEO Anne Pramaggiore and Vice President Fidel Marquez had conspired with lobbyist John Hooker and Michael McClain, a longtime Madigan confidant, to make off-the-books payments to lobbyists and consultants who were close to Madigan’s political operation.
Emergency room personnel at Franklin Hospital in Benton have been dealing with a significant increase in demand for beds. Without an ICU, the small downstate hospital is forced to send patients to other hospitals or sometimes treat COVID patients in their emergency department. Photographed Wednesday, September 15, 2021. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)
The bridges on the following streets will be affected: Jean Baptiste Point DuSable Lake Shore Drive, Columbus Drive, Michigan Avenue, Wabash Avenue, State Street, Dearborn Street, Clark Street, LaSalle Street, Wells Street, Franklin Street, Lake Street, Randolph Street, Washington Street, Madison Street, Monroe Street, Adams Street, Jackson Boulevard, Van Buren Street, Congress Parkway, Harrison Street, Roosevelt Road, 18th Street, Canal Street, Cermak Avenue, Halsted Street, Loomis Avenue and Ashland Avenue.
“On our website, we will be reporting out cases daily. We will be more complete. We will not only just show active cases, we’ll show quarantine. Please give us some grace, because it is daily, that means there will be some clean up of data,” Martinez said.