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Friends for 40-years, Sophia Taylor-Edwards, left, and Recina Reynolds, right, hug with Cacina Reynolds after receiving COVID-19 vaccinations from volunteers with the Northern Connecticut Black Nurses Association on July 14 in Hartford, Connecticut. The state was recently removed from Chicago’s travel advisory. (Mark Mirko/The Hartford Courant)

Activists march towards Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s home in Logan Square to protest Chicago Public Schools COVID-19 response and approach to mitigation for students and teachers Monday, Sept. 13 2021, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune) (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)

Jose Montanez hugs his nephew, Aiden Vazquez, 7, while his sisters, Carmen Vazquez, center, and Norma Montanez, right, look on after he was released from Danville Correctional Center on July 20, 2016. Montanez was wrongfully convicted for fatally shooting Rodrigo Vargas and served 23 years in prison. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)

During the pandemic, Illinois has funneled more than $700 million in relief funding into the state’s child care industry, according to the governor’s office. Through an initial round of grants, over 5,000 providers received monetary support, including 85% of eligible child care centers and 40% of licensed family child care homes. On average, child care centers have received over $270,000 each and child care homes have received an average of $13,000, according to the governor’s office.

That suit, filed by construction worker Benjamin George, claimed that Gardiner told his ward boss, Charles Sikanich, to report the phone stolen. Police officers were sent to George’s home, where they “profanely” harassed his roommate, according to the suit.

“We’re waiting to see what else the Park District is going to do,” LeBourgeois said. “Yes, it’s good that there’s a life ring on Pratt Pier, but it’s just a drop in the bucket of what the citizens of the city of Chicago deserve and need.”

Single-use utensils and plates are stacked next to the bar at a tavern which serves food in Chicago. Under a proposed ordinance, people who want plastic utensils with their pick-up and delivery meals would need to ask for them. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)

Schenia Smith, 42, of the 15300 block of Evers Street in Dolton, was the person who died, according to Natalia Derevyanny, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office. Smith was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 10:28 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The measure aims to put Illinois on a path to 100% carbon-free energy by 2050, with coal, oil and natural gas-fired power plants scheduled to close over the coming decades. It also seeks to boosts the development of wind and solar energy across the state, put more electric vehicles on the road, and make it easier for Black and Latino workers and businesses to enter the renewable energy industry.

Arnold said his team’s proposal would include an ice hockey arena, potentially for a minor league team, along with senior housing, condominiums and apartments, an entertainment district with retail and restaurants, and would potentially include the Bears, if they so desired.