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Illinois’ Black population, particularly in Chicago, has continued to fall and Blacks now make up 13.9% of the state’s population, down from 14.3% in 2010. The Latino population is now 18.2% of the state, up from 15.8% a decade ago, the census results released last month showed.
Officers encountered Huff in October 2016, after he drove a car into the front of a liquor store at Roosevelt Road and Cicero Avenue, then walked away, according to testimony at trial. He was on PCP; and earlier that day, he had been in court for a case from a few months earlier in which he was accused of injuring a Forest Park police officer.
Former candidate for Illinois State Representative Jason Gonzales, left, talks with voter Nadine Cedano, 50, outside a polling place at Kinzie Elementary School in Chicago on March 15, 2016. Gonzales was challenging Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan. (Zbigniew Bzdak / Chicago Tribune)
“In some states, the number of children hospitalized with COVID-19 is higher now than at any other point during the pandemic,” said the letter, which was co-signed by several local legislators, including Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Chicago), Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston) and Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Naperville). “This surge and the rise of new, more dangerous variants is coming right as the school year begins, as temperatures drop, and as more parents are required to return to in-person work.”
Beginning Saturday, all mobile vaccination events will offer the Visa gift cards, while the home visit appointments will give them out starting Tuesday. People get one $50 gift card per dose of the Pfizer vaccine, which requires two shots, or two $50 gift cards upon getting the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Thousands of women already travel to Illinois from other states each year to access abortions. In 2019, roughly 7,500 crossed state lines for the procedure, about 16% of all terminated pregnancies in Illinois that year. The number of out-of-state abortions has increased every year since 2014, according to Illinois Department of Public Health data.
Police said the collision occurred around 6:05 a.m. while the truck driver was making a delivery in the shopping center, which is located northeast of the Advocate Lutheran General Hospital campus. The driver, a 52-year-old man from Chicago, remained at the scene and is cooperating with the investigation, police said. He did not show signs of impairment, according to police.
Police conducted a room-by-room search at the high school as they tried to locate the student, who police believed was carrying a gun. The lockdown was lifted at about 10:20 a.m. when the student was located by police “a couple of miles” away from the school and was in police custody, Oak Lawn District 229 Superintendent Michael Riordan said.
Lt. Wilfredo Roman, a Chicago cop since June 2000, was charged with aggravated battery and official misconduct, both felonies, according to Tandra Simonton, a spokeswoman for the Cook County state’s attorney’s office. He is due to appear for a bond hearing Thursday afternoon in the Leighton Criminal Court building.
Gauges on the site show readings from the main stem near Michigan Avenue, the North Branch near Goose Island and the South Branch near the Studio Gang-designed Eleanor Boathouse in Bridgeport. Although the site says it’s not meant to evaluate the biological safety of the river, depending on what sensors are picking up, assessments can range from good, meaning bacteria levels are likely within the recreational standards for water quality, to high caution, when swimming, for example, would not be considered safe.