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Though Illinois is just about as far northwest that tropical storm remnants from the Atlantic Basin have traveled, Chicago has experienced heavy rain and flooding, strong winds and an occasional tornado from hurricane remnants at least 17 times since 1886.

“This is a violence prevention, crime prevention (and) public safety initiative,” Cliff Nellis, LCLC executive director, said. “For decades we have spent billions policing, prosecuting, and incarcerating primarily Black and Latino communities in Chicago. This has led to the doling out of massive numbers of permanent, debilitating criminal records, lengthy prison sentences, and exacerbated the cycle of poverty, cycle of violence, and racial inequity in our city.”

Most recently, the city’s Business Affairs and Consumer Protection department issued 10 citations for failing to follow the masking requirements from last Thursday to Sunday, according to a Tuesday news release. One business was given a warning and, in total, BACP did 110 investigations during that time frame.

Southwest Side Ald. Mike Rodriguez, 22nd, said officers should be required to disclose outside jobs they’re working after they get off shift or on their days off. It’s important that officers don’t come to work tired from another job, since they need to be sharp to make split-second decisions, Rodriguez said.

Exelon has long threatened to close two nuclear plants if it doesn’t get enough money out of the state energy package, and after the Senate vote the company gave a Sept. 13 deadline for shutting down its plant in Byron, Illinois. Exelon said it would close its plant in Dresden in November. A third plant that would receive subsidies, in Braidwood, isn’t threatened with being shut down.

A review of Officer A’s log-ins to the Bureau of Prisons internal information system, meanwhile, showed that the officer had improperly accessed Kelly’s records 153 times between July 15, 2019, when Kelly first arrived at the MCC, and Dec. 12, 2019, shortly before her retirement, according to the warrant.

“Counterfeiters are savvy and follow trends in consumer demand, including the high demand for vaccination cards during the pandemic,” LaFonda Sutton-Burke, the director of field operations for the Chicago customs office, is quoted as saying in the news release.

Police were called to the 1700 block of Dodge Avenue Saturday around 10:27 p.m. for a report of a person shot inside a home, according to an Evanston Police Department news release. When officers arrived, they found Stanley A. Butler, 21, in the residence, police said.

Meteorologists Tuesday were warning of the possibility of thunderstorms in Chicago beginning around noon, which could also produce choppy waves on Lake Michigan, half dollar-sized “damaging hail” and winds as strong as 40 mph — hefty enough to down tree limbs or power lines, according to the National Weather Service.

At least 11 children and teenagers were among those shot, including 4-year-old Mychal “MJ” Moultry Jr., who was shot Friday evening when bullets pierced the windows of a Woodlawn apartment where he had been getting his hair braided. Moultry, who was pronounced dead Sunday, was visiting Chicago from his home in Decatur, Alabama.