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Illinois State Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, D-Glenview, celebrates the passage of House Bill 367, a bill that requires public schools teach Asian American history, on the floor of the Illinois House of Representatives on the last day of session at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., Monday, May 31, 2021. (Justin L. Fowler / AP)
”It’s a hot area, at least when I first moved here,” she said, adding that she moved to the neighborhood about three years ago. “It has calmed down a lot. … But this, I’ve never seen this happen in this spot right here, but shots fired, you hear that.”
Lightfoot Chief of Staff Sybil Madison was out of the office on Thursday and Friday, Madison told city workers in an email. Madison, who became chief of staff just last month after serving as the mayor’s deputy for education and human services, said Lightfoot’s new chief operating officer, Paul Goodrich, would be in charge while she’s out.
“We know that in-person learning offers vital opportunities for all students to develop healthy, nurturing relationships with educators and peers, and that students receive essential supports in school for their social and emotional wellbeing, mental health, and academic success,” he said in a statement.
Pedestrians walk through Macy’s department store at Water Tower Place Thursday Jan. 7, 2020. Macy’s closed the department store, leaving the space vacant for the first time since the eight-story mall opened in 1975 with Marshall Field’s as the anchor tenant. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune) (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
A Chicago police officer looks at a vehicle with a broken rear window and surrounded by police tape that is parked in a gas station at the corner of N. Kimball Ave. at West Foster Avenue in Chicago on July 9, 2021. A person was shot in the back while driving on the 5500 block of N. Kimball Ave. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
When the Moras came to visit, they would take all of Juan Jr.’s friends out to dinner. In Florida, they introduced Kaade to Cuban coffee and food, he said. “They were the kind of people that even if someone says ‘I’m not hungry,’ they would just continue to order food to make sure you had a full belly,” he said.
When the Moras came to visit, they would take all of Juan Jr.’s friends out to dinner. In Florida, they introduced Kaade to Cuban coffee and food, he said. “They were the kind of people that even if someone says ‘I’m not hungry,’ they would just continue to order food to make sure you had a full belly,” he said.
“There were certainly some conversations about that, and we had a long conversation about what, from my perspective, I thought we were seeing, not just in Chicago, but really across the U.S.,” Lightfoot said in a Zoom call with reporters to discuss the trip. “They’re in the city of San Francisco. They’re proximate to L.A. They obviously know a lot about New York and other markets they’re in that are experiencing the same kinds of challenges that we are over this last year around public safety.”
“Those are all the things that I will never be able to get back,” Elizarraraz said. “The desperation I felt hearing the kids cry, asking me to come home, or hearing Kristin, my fiancée, cry because some days it was just too much for her to bear, I cannot even put into words what that felt like.”