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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.
The toddler had been sitting outside a home in Englewood when someone fired shots, striking her in the arm. Someone drove her to St. Bernard Hospital and she was transferred to Stroger Hospital. She had been listed in good condition, officials said. No arrests had been made in that shooting.
Seibel, who owns farmland in an area where her father has spent his entire life, said that monarchs never gathered on her property before. She suspects the influx, which began about two weeks ago and lasted until late August, may have been due in part to the alfalfa field, which had been allowed to bloom and emanated a strong, honey-sweet scent.
The studies plan to establish if there is a correlation between irregular menstruation and the Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccines, and if so, why the change is occurring, according to Dr. Diana Bianchi, director of Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, a branch of the NIH funding the study.
Brandon Jefferson, 33, of Wheeling, was arrested Monday night and charged with two felony counts of robbery, two felony counts of aggravated battery and one felony count of receiving/possessing/selling a stolen vehicle. Jefferson is scheduled to appear in court Thursday.
“One or more of those mitigations — social distancing, masking, testing, vaccines, working ventilation and more — have failed at schools across the city,” the CTU claims in a Wednesday news release. “Overcrowding, lack of testing, AC breakdowns, and other mitigation failures will drive needless infections and preventable harm, while Lightfoot continues to allow her CPS team to drag on landing safety agreements with the CTU and (SEIU) Local 73.”
“We’re not at that point yet,” Frye said. “And we felt that for the safety of both the people in the parade, and really the hundreds of thousands of people who crowd together to watch the parade, it was better if we postponed it, let’s say, until next June.”
Jaime Gusanas, a third grade teacher, hands out lunch items to students in her class at Pleasant Hill Elementary in Palatine on Aug. 31, 2021. The nationwide food supply chain crisis has hit suburban Chicago schools hard this fall, including Pleasant Hill Elementary School, where the school lunch crew learned recently its main vendor was halting service due to a shortage of delivery drivers. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)
Southern Illinois Healthcare, which has two of the largest hospitals in the region, in Carbondale and Herrin, had filled its 29 ICU beds at those hospitals Wednesday, said Jennifer Harre, chief nursing officer. In fact, the two hospitals had 30 ICU patients, meaning that some were receiving ICU care in other parts of the hospital, she said.
“A lot of the animals come to us with injuries, parasites; heartworm disease is a very common thing down there in the South, so it takes a lot of extra special care,” Swiniarski said. “They also come here very stressed and scared coming from a state far away, through a lot of transport, but also just because of the disaster down there that can be quite terrifying for animals.”