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In the family’s view, the U.S. had the greatest leverage to make a deal to return Frerichs home during peace talks with the Taliban in Doha, Qatar, that concluded in February 2020, about a month after the kidnapping. But the agreement, which stipulated a timetable for the U.S. pulling out of Afghanistan, was signed on Feb. 29, 2020, by then-President Donald Trump with no mention of Frerichs.

Besides Illinois, all U.S. states and territories . are now subject to the advisory, under which unvaccinated travelers returning from those areas to Chicago must quarantine for a week, according to a Wednesday press release from the Chicago Department of Public Health. States get on the list by surpassing 15 daily COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents, but Illinois is not subject to the advisory because the city does not want to restrict intrastate travel.

Roger Patz, public information officer with the St. John Police Department, said that U.S. 41 between 77th and 85th Streets would be closed for the better part of the afternoon so that law enforcement could conduct a “slow, methodical search” of the entire school campus and surrounding area. They were conducting the search because police “don’t know for sure that there is gun,” he said.