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Hynes’ teammates refer to him as “Skip,” as in “Skipper,” a joking reference to the colloquial name for the captain of a baseball team. During his first at-bat in a recent league game, which ended in a base hit, a friend cheered him on and called him “Big Cat,” a nickname from high school. He hadn’t been called that in years, he said, and his high school coach at St. Ignatius in University Village gave the nickname to him. He was a catcher in high school, and catchers are supposed to have quick, catlike reflexes. But Hynes didn’t, he said, so it was another lighthearted quip.
In the lawsuit, filed July 8, lawyers for the six people alleged the building’s owner, Matanky Realty Group, “improperly operated, managed, maintained, and controlled” the property and “negligently and carelessly” violated Chicago city codes, resulting in injuries to the occupants.
A reunion for Hall of Fame inductees will be held at the Hall of Fame site in Forest Park on July 18, according to the Hall of Fame website. There are over 300 living Hall of Famers, according to Maag, and he hopes between 150 and 200 will come to the reunion. Chicago singer John Vincent will be there to sing “the national anthem and a couple of other Chicago songs to entertain that day,” Maag said. The reunion is for both inductees and fans, according to a flyer for the event.
Preckwinkle dismissed that, saying on WBEZ-FM: “One of the things that’s happened, of course, is that my relationships with SEIU have been damaged, but my primary responsibility is not, frankly, my relationship with SEIU. It’s to the residents and taxpayers in Cook County, to be a good steward of county government, and that’s what I’ve tried to do.”
Chicago police Superintendent David Brown, left, and Wilmington, Delaware, Chief of Police Robert Tracy leave the White House after meeting with President Joe Biden to discuss reducing gun crimes on July 12, 2021. (Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times)
The city position is busy and significant, overseeing all of the city’s arts-and-entertainment programing, along with the supervision of its signature special events, including (among many others) Taste of Chicago, the exhibitions at the city’s downtown Cultural Center, the Maxwell Street Market, Nights Out in the Park and the various music festivals in Millennium Park. Kelly has also been at the center of efforts to support the city’s artistic community in the wake of the devastating impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the sector.
Security and other hospital personnel stand inside the University of Chicago’s Adult Emergency Center as the first patients walk in, during a quiet opening, Friday Dec., 29, 2017. University of Chicago Medicine said Tuesday it will require its workers to get COVID-19 vaccines, making it at least the second Chicago-area hospital system to do so. (Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)
“The COVID-19 pandemic is not over, and this only goes to show that the virus is still very much a threat and that we must all remain vigilant against it,” the city’s public health commissioner, Dr. Allison Arwady, said in a statement. “That means getting vaccinated and wearing a mask in public settings if you are not fully vaccinated.”
SEIU employees work in offices under the Cook County president, in the county clerk’s office, in civilian positions in the sheriff’s office and for Cook County Health. About 1,473 of those workers are part of Cook County Health, working at Stroger and Provident hospitals, clinics and in mental health services at Cermak, which provides health care to jail inmates. They include technicians, physician assistants and service and maintenance workers, among others.
According to the weather service, there were several meteorological factors that contributed to the storm, including high atmospheric moisture, a slow-moving pressure system, a near-stationary warm front that had lifted north during the day and “was parked in the area of the heavy rain on Monday evening.”