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In an effort to reengage students, many of whom hadn’t seen the inside of a classroom in a year and a half, CPS said Wednesday that its staffers reached out to about 85,000 students through canvassing, phone banking and marketing campaigns, and that they made contact with about 80% of that group ahead of the start of school. CPS also said about thousands of students with the “greatest challenges to getting to school” were offered “intensive support.”

The Illinois attorney general’s office will conduct interviews along with public and private meetings with police officers, city officials, Joliet residents and other stakeholders, a news release from the Illinois attorney general’s office said. Investigators have met with community groups; O’Dekirk; Joliet Police Department leadership, including the department’s new chief, Dawn Malec; police union representatives; and the Will County state’s attorney’s office.

The vaccine is more widely available now than during the last school year, and is now required for school personnel statewide. But “what’s different,” Sharkey said, “is, the virus is more contagious, we’ve got more people in the schools, so it’s worse in terms of exposure, but the testing program actually got scaled down,” Sharkey said. “They’ve kept the same number of contact tracers, despite the fact that the number of students went up by a factor of six. … It’s been a disaster.”

Prosecutors’ witnesses fell largely into two categories. Kelly’s accusers, mostly young women, have alleged that he was violent and manipulative, even controlling when they could leave their rooms to use the bathroom. Kelly’s alleged enablers have taken the stand to testify about the structure of the so-called enterprise, including Kelly’s rules keeping women isolated to their rooms or on tour buses.

Dawn Frankowski, of Naperville, and David Wiersma, of Posen, were charged in a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., with entering and remaining in a restricted building and disorderly conduct on U.S. Capitol grounds, according to court records.