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By 8:30 a.m., John Schoen, a ComEd spokesman, said crews had gotten to about half the calls, with power already restored to some 20,000 customers. The main damage from the storm system, most of which hit north of the Wisconsin border, was downed tree limbs and power lines, according to meteorologists.

After the crash, a group of people approached the vehicle, and “you basically had a swarm of people attack the car and were beating and pulling on the two victims … punching them, trying to pull them out of the car,” Brendan Deenihan, who oversees the detective division for Chicago police has said.

The 16-year-old, shot in the shoulder, was initially identified as a victim by a bystander of the North Austin shooting, along with a 42-year-old man who was shot in the leg. But after investigating, detectives determined that he was one of the people who shot the older man, said Karie James, a spokeswoman for the Chicago Police Department.

“It’s basic math that if we take those federal dollars, and we use those federal dollars to create full-time positions at high numbers, that within a couple of years, when those federal dollars are gone, we will not have the funds to pay for those positions,” Board President Miguel del Valle said before issuing a warning: “The cliff is going to be there. And so as a board, it’s our obligation to make sure, as I said, that we mitigate it, that we try to lessen the blow that’s inevitable.”

Bryant, a museum curator at the National Museum of African American History & Culture, also chaired a similar review commission in Baltimore, which voted to remove a handful of Confederate statues. All of Baltimore’s Confederate monuments were removed following the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, according to Bryant.

Robert Solomon, 25, cleans a stove in a home that will house him and other young men, ages 18-30, in the MAAFA Redemption Project in Chicago’s West Garfield Park on July 28, 2021. Solomon said he has been in the program for two months. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)

Those who qualified for Thursday’s lottery for 55 licenses came from a pool of 937 unique applicants who submitted more than 4,500 applications, Hutchinson said. They qualified by earning at least 85% of the maximum score — rather than having to have a perfect score, as occurred in the initial scoring round last year.

Kubistal was charged with driving under the influence of drugs, possession of marijuana, disobeying a stop sign, operating an uninsured motor vehicle and failing to reduce speed to avoid an accident, state police said. He was also later charged with four counts of felony aggravated driving under the influence resulting in death, Kendall County court records show.

This year the Masses were especially important after the community was harshly hit by the pandemic and as it continues to be affected by street violence, said the Rev. Don Nevins, pastor of St. Agnes of Bohemia Parish, which hosts Street Masses every summer.

Carl Hansberry, an African American real estate broker, moved his family in 1937 into this three-flat at 6140 Rhodes Ave. in Chicago in defiance of a restrictive covenant. The legal and social ordeal that followed inspired his daughter Lorraine later to write the play “A Raisin in the Sun.” (Zbigniew Bzdak / Chicago Tribune)