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Barring the closure of the warehouse, protesters demanded Target electrify its truck fleet within the first year of operation there, pay its workers at least $20 to $25 an hour with benefits, as opposed to the current $18 starting wage, and hire 50% of its workers from two ZIP codes that encompass parts of Little Village and other neighborhoods, including Archer Heights, Brighton Park and North Lawndale.
Police found a 9 mm gun under the driver’s seat; the gun was the same caliber as the one used in the fatal shooting of King, DeBoni said. Police also found a brown bag that had 55 grams of ecstasy, a clear bag that had 5 grams of crack cocaine and multiple baggies containing about 3 grams of heroin.
“But where we are right now, we’re taking COVID seriously. And I can’t promise that there won’t be any COVID cases associated with Lolla. When you’re having this many folks who are coming through, almost certainly there will be some cases. But I’m confident that the combination of what we know about limiting risk in outdoor settings, pairing that with vaccination and/or testing — and ideally mostly vaccination, which is what we expect — as well as all the other mitigation factors, I’m certainly hopeful that we won’t see a significant problem.”
Previously, Illinois was one of 37 states that criminalized HIV exposure in some form, according to a review last year from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A mix of Democratic- and Republican-controlled states — California, Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina and Virginia among them — have updated their laws in recent years, but Illinois becomes the first state to fully repeal its law since Texas did so in 1994.
But South Side Ald. Jeanette Taylor, 20th, who co-sponsored the measure, said kids stay out of school because they are erroneously listed as gang members in the police database, and residents of her ward have been denied apartment rentals and loans because they’re on the list.
The Illinois Department of Public Health lists COVID-19 variants of concern. As of their most recent data, updated July 26, the original alpha still accounts for the majority of cases, with 6,973 of the total 10,886 cases. Next up is the gamma variant, with 2,641 cases, followed by 636 cases of the delta variant.
At around 3 a.m. Thursday the man forcibly entered the home through the bedroom window and sexually assaulted the child, police said. When the girl’s father found him, the man ran into the East 102nd Street alley between South Prairie Avenue and South Forest Avenue, according to police.
After four members of the Washington Metropolitan Police Department and the Capitol Police testified about battling insurrectionists that day, Kinzinger choked back tears and said, “You guys may individually feel a little broken. You guys all talk about the effects you have to deal with and, you know, you talk about the impact of that day. But you guys won. You guys held.
According to the Cook County medical examiner’s office, the man was located at 5302 S. Cicero Ave. and he was pronounced dead at 5:18 p.m. The medical examiner’s office had not released information about the man’s age or identity Tuesday morning.
The 29-year-old motorcyclist, whose identity has not been released, was in the left turn lane on northbound Washington about 3:35 p.m. at the same time the 54-year-old Dodge Durango driver from Bolingbrook was turning east onto Royce Road from southbound Washington. The two vehicles collided in the intersection, police said.