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“Most districts in the country have their own police forces where they can train them in a certain way on how to work with our children. We sort of have a little bit of a hybrid here, and so that’s something that I just want to explore with our police chief, with the mayor, and really try to see what’s the best solution for our schools. But like I said, my commitment is, I need to make sure we’re meeting the needs of parents, and parents want schools to be safe.”
“We had an honest and heartfelt discussion on this very complex issue at our meeting,” it said. “Going forward we will look for opportunities for dialogue in our community about how we remain true to our Catholic mission while meeting people where they are in their personal journey through life. For now, we hope that this is the first step in healing the Benet community.”
“Swimming conditions will be life-threatening, especially for inexperienced swimmers,” it said. “Remain out of the water to avoid dangerous swimming conditions and do not venture out onto piers, jetties, breakwalls, or other shoreline structures.”
He told authorities the man then stabbed him multiple times in the arm, hip and chest. The man who attacked the 32-year-old with a knife was said to be heavyset and wearing a blue, black and white jacket. He was last seen running north from the scene, police said.
Meanwhile, California and Puerto Rico were taken off the list, keeping the total at 48 states and three territories from which Chicago health officials are advising unvaccinated travelers to take extra COVID-19 precautions. Those recommendations include a one-week quarantine after returning to the city, although the city continues to urge people who want to travel to just get vaccinated.
Police referred to the break-in as a home invasion but did not immediately say whether it was a home invasion robbery or provide information about whether anything was stolen. It was also unclear how investigators pieced together the sequence of events. A police spokeswoman would not say if detectives were able to get a statement from the victim, a witness, surveillance images or a combination of those sources.
The technicians also submit a sample of shell casings, whether they’re from a test-fired gun or one from a crime scene, into a computer that uploads high-resolution images of the evidence into a database for the National Integrated Ballistic Information Center, or NIBIN, a program that has been around since the 1990s and is administered by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
“I think a lot of killings around here, it just goes off, like, guys probably just riding around, like, ‘Oh, we bored. Let’s kill him,’ you know? Like, stuff like that,” Williams said. “Because he didn’t bother nobody. He walked everywhere he went.”
In a statement Monday, Kaegi defended his record in what he described as “transforming the old, broken property tax system into one based on fairness, transparency, and ethics.” He cited that in 2021, residential tax bills went up just 1% this year, the average property tax bill in Chicago went down and appeals declined.
Hinsdale police were called on Jan. 14, 2019 to a report of an unresponsive person at her home, the news release said. Upon arrival, authorities found the victim deceased in the residence, the apparent victim of a drug overdose. Authorities recovered baggies in the victim’s bedroom containing a substance, later determined to be a heroin/fentanyl mixture, the release said.