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Beale wants to get rid of $35 tickets for cars caught by the cameras going 6 to 9 mph too fast — the lower citation threshold Lightfoot initiated as part of the city’s 2021 budget, ostensibly to improve safety near parks and schools. Beale’s alternative would keep the $35 tickets for cars caught going 10 mph too fast, and $100 tickets for those busted at 11 mph or more over the limit.
“Separate from that, it is our state and federal responsibility to protect children in our charge, and we will continue to act in the best interests of our students, families and community,” the statement said. “We will continue to adhere to the directives from our local health authority and guidance from the CDC in order to be the most responsive to what our immediate community is demanding and expecting from us.”
During the week ending Monday, an average of 2,287 COVID-19 patients per day were filling hospital beds statewide, up from an average of 2,207 during the week ending Aug. 31, an increase of about 13%. During the previous two-week period, the average jumped from 1,787 patients per day to 2,201, a 23% increase.
“While Zizumbo Elementary is a part of a tri-located campus, each school is located on a separate floor with separate points of entry for scholars,” Stangle said in her statement. “Additionally, Acero Schools deploys robust COVID-19 mitigation practices including universal mask-wearing, social distancing whenever possible, hygienic protocols, air filtration and purification devices, facilities cleaning and disinfecting practices, along with surveillance testing and contact tracing, to mitigate the risk of spreading COVID-19.”
In the weeks before she allegedly shot and killed Kaden, Fallon Harris displayed “weird, erratic behaviors,” according to Ingram, Harris’ husband of 16 years. The pair recently separated and Ingram moved out, but he continued to spend the majority of his time at the family home in the 8000 block of South Bennett Avenue in South Chicago. Their marital problems, he said, were linked to her increasing paranoia and distrust.
“You should have due process in place for all schools, all parents who are invested in these schools, whether public or private, and most importantly, the children that attend,” Republican Sen. John Curran of Downers Grove said at Tuesday’s hearing of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules.
“I share all of this because I think sometimes we can have a flawed vision of America,” Szmara said. “We wrongly believe unity means uniformity. … There is richness and beauty in each of our immigrant neighbors and who they are, their values, their languages, their food, their families, their hard work, their culture. They make us better together, they make us stronger, because immigrants are a blessing, not a burden.”
“I don’t regret it at all. It is something that needs to be addressed,” she said, referring to a culture that deters officers from speaking up. “Either you are with the culture, or you are not. If you are not with the culture … if you speak out, you are ostracized, you are blackballed, you get a brick on you. I have been on the job a long time, and I have always tried to do things the right way.”
4. There’s a lot we don’t know — about transmission, for example. Hewlett said we don’t have the data yet to understand whether, for example, J&J recipients contract or spread the virus more easily than those who got the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines. We also don’t know how long protection lasts, exactly, although the vaccines that were initially given out early in the year still seem to be effective. Still, these questions and more are why Prickett advises maintaining cautions in your life such as masking and social distancing.
When Lightfoot introduced the ordinance to the full council Tuesday, Northwest Side Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez, 33rd, used a parliamentary procedure to move it to the council Rules Committee. That should delay its implementation for at least a month, as that body will need to convene and vote on sending it to the Public Safety Committee for an up-or-down vote.