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Pallbearers carry the casket containing the body of Denise Huguelet following her funeral Aug. 23, 2021 at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Orland Park. Huguelet, 67, was a retired special education teacher and killed in a shooting on the Dan Ryan. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)

Ruzich typically arrived at work early, in the 13300 block of South Baltimore Avenue, and her stepson drove in a separate car to wait with her until her boss arrived, Deenihan said. Early on Aug. 16, she was waiting in her car and her stepson was waiting in his, when he saw several cars drive past, make a U-turn and park behind them.

But the reviews from good-government groups, along with Carol Pope, who resigned as legislative inspector general, and Pritzker himself, have been mediocre at best, with critics contending lawmakers followed the longstanding Springfield tradition of responding to a scandal with a proposal that fails to fully address the problems that have been exposed.

Vega, 26, was killed Aug. 31, 2020, after the officers’ unmarked squad car was fired upon in the 1300 block of West 19th Street, according to court records and the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, which investigates police-involved shootings.

In the counties south of Springfield’s Sangamon County, only one, Monroe, bordering St. Louis, has reported more than half of its residents being fully vaccinated. Several run in the 25% to 35% range, with Alexander County at the southern tip of the state, which saw the nation’s largest drop in population according to recent federal census results, reporting 16.2% of its residents fully vaccinated.

The shooter fled the scene, but witnesses told police they believed Garibay was the shooter. Garibay and the first victim had gotten into a physical confrontation earlier in the week over an unknown issue, police said. The man who was killed was not involved in the initial fight, they said.

As of noon Friday, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported 4,942 new cases, the highest daily number reported since late January, when Illinois was coming down from the fall surge. Daily figures can rise and fall significantly based on when test results come in, but even the average of the past seven days’ worth of cases has risen to its highest level since late January: an average of 3,662 new infections reported per day.

There are two known candidates who interviewed for the regional administrator post: Debra Shore, an elected commissioner at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, an agency that manages sewage and storm runoff in Chicago and Cook County, and Micah Ragland, a utility executive who helped lead the response to the Flint, Michigan, water crisis while working at the EPA during the Obama administration.

In this courtroom artist’s sketch R. Kelly, left, listens during his trial in New York on Aug. 26, 2021. The 54-year-old Kelly has repeatedly denied accusations that he preyed on several alleged victims during a 30-year career highlighted by his mega hit “I Believe I Can Fly.”  (Elizabeth Williams/AP)

Lightfoot also expressed concerns about the effect e-learning has had on some students, noting that thousands of them didn’t connect remotely. It’s a disservice to those students if CPS doesn’t provide “a safe and nurturing environment for our kids to learn,” Lightfoot said, adding schools are more than a place where people learn their ABCs.