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The city initially proposed the amendment because plantings near intersections and alleyways can obstruct the view of drivers, and other plantings too close to trees can threaten their well-being, David Stoneback Evanston’s public works agency director, said.
Five men were wounded in a mass shooting in South Austin early Sunday, the fourth such attack with four or more victims in less than a week. The men, ages 23 to 50, were gathered in a yard in the 4800 block of West Race Avenue when a man with a gun entered the yard about 12:30 a.m. and began shooting at them, police said in a media notification.
“Unfortunately, many health care and long-term care personnel remain unvaccinated,” the health care organizations said in their statement. “As we move toward full FDA approval of the currently available vaccines, all health care workers should get vaccinated for their own health, and to protect their colleagues, families, residents of long-term care facilities and patients. This is especially necessary to protect those who are vulnerable, including unvaccinated children and the immunocompromised.”
Asked what her threshold is for reinstating a mask mandate, Lightfoot said, “Well, look, if we get back into an area where we feel like we’re in a red zone, which we are working very hard to make sure that our daily case rate is below 200, if we start to see consistently going over that, we’re not only going to look at a mask mandate, but we’re going to look back at other tools that we’ve been compelled to use.
5. More recently, the FDA has targeted his claims about COVID-19. In February, the agency sent Mercola a warning letter about vitamins and other products that his websites or social media accounts have directed customers to purchase, indicating that they’re “intended to mitigate, prevent, treat, diagnose, or cure COVID-19 in people.”
Chicago police officers work the scene where an officer shot a person in the leg in the 4500 block of South Drexel Boulevard in the Bronzeville neighborhood July 25, 2021. According to police, a gun was recovered at the scene and no officers were injured. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
About 45 minutes later, Powell’s group allegedly accosted a woman trying to withdraw money at a drive-thru ATM on East 95th Street. Powell is accused of ordering the woman to open her driver’s side door, but she was too close to the machine to open it, according to prosecutors. When the woman reversed her vehicle to comply with the request, Powell allegedly fired a shot that exited the dashboard, shattering glass.
Onesti thanked police several times for protecting property during the 2020 summer unrest in response to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. He also talked about Marco DiFranco, an Italian American officer who died of COVID-19 complications last summer. Onesti presented John Catanzara, president of the Chicago FOP, with a Marco DiFranco Hero Award, in honor of the group of officers who guarded the Columbus statue at Grant Park on July 17, 2020, when demonstrators tried to remove it.
Three men were injured in a shooting in the East Garfield Park neighborhood around 12:45 p.m. Sunday, police said. The men were standing outside in the 3200 block of West Lake Street when they were shot at by someone in a vehicle. One man, 30, was struck in the leg and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition.
Details of the shooting were widely circulated because it happened just three blocks away and about 10 minutes before another shooting in which five people were wounded. That attack, in the 1400 block of South Ridgeway Avenue, left four teenagers wounded, ages 14, 15, 17 and 18, as well as a 22-year-old man. All of those victims were expected to survive, including the 15-year-old boy who was an innocent bystander who was shot while seated in his father’s vehicle, police have said.