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The latest data available on CPS’s online tracker, which was updated Wednesday, reflects 28 adult and 11 student cases this week. Nearly 150 people are in “close contact” quarantine, which means they came within 6 feet of a person with COVID-19 for 15 or more minutes in a 24-hour period while wearing or not wearing a mask, per the district.
In response, the state passed a law creating two additional lotteries in which applicants qualified by scoring 85% or better. Nevertheless, some applicants complained that the process unfairly favored white, politically connected, wealthy applicants by allowing unlimited applications for those who could pay the $5,000 fee for each application.
“A few days strung together in a row could give you hope but not necessarily tell you what the trend is, so we’re watching these numbers closely,” he said. “Certainly over the last few days, when put together and averaged, it seems like things are flattening, and that’s a really good piece of news for all of us.”
The data analysis includes gathering data owned by both CPD and the Office of Emergency Management and Communications, Boik said. The data collection began in 2019, and it includes the number of foot pursuits that ended in use of force, what kind of force was used, the number of foot pursuits that ended in an arrest and what the arrest was for, he said.
About 2:20 a.m., three men were found shot in Old Town in the 1300 block of North Hudson Avenue. A 41-year-old man was shot in the hip, lower backside and leg. He was transported in critical condition to Stroger Hospital. A second man, 40, was shot in the leg and transported to Northwestern Medical Center in fair condition. The third victim, age unknown, was grazed in the leg, and refused medical treatment. Police said no one is currently in custody and witnesses were not cooperating.
Susan Edwards, Blythe’s mother, said they arrived a few minutes before the 6:46 a.m. scheduled pickup time on Monday and Tuesday only to later learn the bus actually departed at 6:15 a.m. The headaches stretched into the afternoon, Edwards said, with the bus dropping Blythe off more than an hour after dismissal from her school, Galileo Scholastic Academy of Math & Science.
The case involving the two officers also was the subject of a 2017 federal lawsuit filed by Joseph Baskins, the Black man who was with a group of friends and loved ones in a parking garage elevator, where they encountered Jarocki, Kelly and the sergeant, Patrick Gilmore. The trio, along with the city of Chicago, were named as defendants in the lawsuit, which the city settled with Baskins in 2019 for $450,000.
Chicago officials estimate it will cost $27,000 to replace each of the 650 lead service lines. Meanwhile, Denver replaced 5,200 lead service lines at an average cost of $10,000 per line last year, and Detroit replaced 1,100 pipes costing an average of $5,000 per line in 2018.
In July, Chicago police Officer Karol Chwiesiuk was accused of breaching the building with the mob and entering the office of U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. Another man, Christian Kulas, 24, of Kenilworth, was arrested on charges alleging he posted video of himself on Instagram storming the Capitol building during the siege while wearing a designer coat and pro-Trump hat.
The report, published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, uses interviews from 140 of the 158 undergraduate students at the Hyde Park campus who were diagnosed with COVID-19 between March 15 and May 3. After spring break, which took place the last week of March, the cases had “increased rapidly” even as the university cracked down via multiple mitigation efforts — including a stay-at-home directive, the report states.