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“There are going to be a lot of people probably rushing to want to get a booster again, similar to how it was at the beginning,” Arwady said during an online question-and-answer session. “So please take this next month, if you’re not vaccinated, to get it, because I don’t want people in this whole scramble.”
Marychu Vargas, right, and her brother Jesus Vargas place flowers and balloons near the site of a shooting on the 6200 block of West Grand Avenue in Chicago’s Belmont Central neighborhood on Aug. 16, 2021. Serenity Broughton, 7, was fatally shot and her sister, Aubrey, 6, was wounded. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
Paloian, of Elmwood Park, admitted in a plea agreement earlier this year that he used “a number of agents” to recruit gamblers for his illegal business in Chicago, Melrose Park and Elmwood Park. He took in more than $2,000 on some days, and used a foreign website to handle bets and bookkeeping, according to his plea.
Cicero police Officer Eduardo Diaz adjusts the badge of fellow Officer Didier Cervantes, adorned with the badge number of Chicago police Officer Ella French, before funeral services at St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)
Pace began her testimony Wednesday, when she said Kelly had sex with her repeatedly over the course of six months in 2009 and 2010, when she was only 16. During their time together, his abuse and control of her escalated, she said, and he made her follow manipulative “rules” that prosecutors said are the hallmark of his criminal scheme.
The child was sitting in the rear seat of the vehicle in the 1000 block of North Honore Street around 8:20 p.m. His mother, 29, was approached by a woman she didn’t know, who came up to the driver’s side door, police said in a media notification.
Javunte Wheeler, 26, known as Squeak and part of a Chicago hip-hop group called Pivot Gang, was shot to death Monday in the 5000 block of West Saint Paul Avenue. His uncle, Darion Hood, who was 27, was also killed in the shooting, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
But whichever was more important to “MamaJo,” as she’s been known for decades, was irrelevant. Those material things that the retired Streets and Sanitation Department worker and liquor store clerk had an affinity for, while part of her charm, didn’t come close to taking the top spot in her heart. That has always been reserved for family, said her daughter, Karla Ruzich, 42.
Jack Mungovan, 12, addresses the board during an Arlington Heights School District 25 board of education meeting on July 14, 2021. “I don ‘t like wearing masks because they make me feel claustrophobic and that makes me feel anxious,” he said. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
The man was identified as Arion J. McNeary, 22, of the 0-99 block of North Hamlin Blvd., Chicago, according to Natalia Derevyanny, spokesperson for the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. He was shot in his arm and the bullet then went into his chest, Drerevyanny said, adding that his death was ruled a homicide.