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Pharmacist David Antoine, left, speaks during rounds to Cristy Sali, ICU charge nurse; Eric Gray, chaplain; ICU Dr. Mateo Tole and Sharon Dufault, a nurse manager, during rounds in the ICU unit at Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital on Oct. 1, 2021, in Lake Forest. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)

Meanwhile, Catanzara is facing his own controversy: Next month he faces firing from his job as a police officer on 18 department charges, including that he made comments on social media that investigators deemed offensive and incendiary. Unrelated to the charges, Catanzara also faced national scorn for public comments he made, and later apologized for, downplaying the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Police said Cauley had a case management hearing on a May charge for aggravated battery to a Deerfield police officer. Cauley was out on bail, but court records indicate he failed a test for illegal substances. During the hearing, the judge ordered him into custody for violating the terms of his bond, police said.

Heather Mack, of Chicago, center, 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 was convicted of assisting her then-boyfriend in her mother’s murder and stuffing the body in a suitcase on the resort island in 2014, is being released early from a 10-year sentence, a prison official confirmed on Oct. 6, 2021. (Firdia Lisnawati/AP)

Carlos A. Bedoya, 66, of Aurora, was found guilty by a Kane County jury in 2019 of eight counts of predatory criminal sexual assault. In the plea deal this week, he agreed to plead guilty to 12 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in exchange for the 60-year sentence — five years for each count, the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office said.

Quintero cursed at the group and entered a store. When she exited, they approached again and asked if she was part of the Latin Saints street gang. She told them that she wasn’t but her mother was, according to prosecutors at Martinez’s bond hearing. In response, they replied, “We’re Saint killers,” said Assistant State’s Attorney Eugene Wood in court.

Surveillance testing, for those without symptoms, was at about 0.2% positive rate, Arwady said at a news conference, appearing with new CPS CEO Pedro Martinez. They said CPS’ contact tracing and screening programs have improved, though Martinez acknowledged testing has not yet expanded to all schools, despite an earlier vow that would happen by the end of last week.

Bradley’s wife, meanwhile, told law enforcement that Bradley had called her about 5:45 p.m. Monday and stated he robbed a bank by strapping fireworks to his chest and that he’d ditched his car in Elmhurst, the complaint alleged. He then texted her the picture of himself holding a handful of cash, which his wife provided to law enforcement.

Applicants must live in suburban Cook County and earn no more than $52,200 for a single-person household or $74,550 for a family of four. They must prove financial hardship during the pandemic, such as losing income, working fewer hours or being furloughed. Other qualifications can be losing work because of child care, risk of infection or other costs from COVID-19.

“I put Andrew and Trent in the same room, I gave Andrew the drugs, I took out a knife without telling Andrew about safe role play with knives,” he said on the stand, red-faced, his eyes squeezed shut. “I brought that drywall saw into the bedroom and I didn’t stop Andrew from hurting him, I didn’t, I hid in the bathroom like a coward.”