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Gov. J.B. Pritzker holds a press conference at South Elgin High School announcing Illinois K-12 school districts will receive $7 billion in federal funding to support students as they return to the classroom after distance and hybrid learning due to COVID-19, on Wednesday, March 31, 2021 in South Elgin. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune) (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)
The collision happened just before 8 p.m. when a car driven by the Harvey man and traveling south on Halsted Street near 173rd Street crossed into the northbound lanes, striking the vehicle driven by the Homewood woman, according to East Hazel Crest police Chief Roy Janich.
The long-sought compromise between activists and Mayor Lori Lightfoot, shown July 16, 2021, would give a civilian board power to pass no-confidence votes against the police superintendent, and appoint and remove the chief of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability. (Vashon Jordan Jr./Chicago Tribune)
Around 11 a.m., a 36-year-old man shot himself in the leg after a 32-year-old woman claimed he pointed a handgun at her in the 4300 block of South Wentworth Avenue in Fuller Park on the South Side. The man has been identified as Keelan Gillard, of the 9600 block of South Calumet Avenue in Rosemoor, police said.
“We really have to get away from the misinformation that’s costing us our lives, literally,” she said. “Because everyone has access to this vaccine, right now. There is a pharmacy near you. There’s a mass vaccination site. There’s a pop-up clinic. There’s a religious institution. … There’s something within a few miles of everyone. And to pass it up, unfortunately, and get COVID thereafter and not have a favorable course, it’s really a tragedy.”
County Board Commissioner Deborah Sims, shown at a 2013 meeting, said she in a statement: “I accept the findings and recommendations of the inspector general and we have complied with his recommendations.” (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
On Sunday, Chicago police were called to the South Side, 1700 block of West 79th Street in Gresham, around 4:10 p.m. for a report of a man who had been shot in the stomach and hand. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition, police said, and he was pronounced dead there at 4:41 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office, which had not released his name or age as of Monday morning.
Of the $267 million proposed for the coming school year, more than $27 million would be used to “ensure” all students are proficient readers by the end of second grade, with plans for teacher development and leadership training at 200 schools, library supplies and take-home textbook sets at 47 schools and “culturally responsive” programming for parents, grandparents and other caregivers to support literacy development for students at 75 schools. New computers, cameras, projectors and interactive displays would be added to the tune of $19 million.
Rick Klein prepares to play a vintage video tape in his home in Lisle on July 9, 2021. Klein’s YouTube channel, the Museum of Classic Chicago Television, catalogs news shows, cartoons, TV movies and commercials from the 1970s and ’80s, some of them captured on formats that stopped being made decades ago. (Vashon Jordan Jr. / Chicago Tribune)
People at the protest held up their hands to form an “L” with their fingers, which stands for libertad, or freedom, said participant Hillary Bruzon. The protests in Cuba have died down a bit since they started last week, Bruzon said, but in that time people have been incarcerated, gone missing, been tortured and been killed by the government.