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“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.”

Licensed practical nurse Ashley Randolph administers a COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test to Josh Humke at the Blessing Express Clinic, a drive-thru site, on July 8, 2021, in Quincy. The clinic, run by Blessing Health System, was previously a Sears tire center and renovated to deliver medical services in January. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)

“Right now, they are still very rare,” Dr. Ramon Lorenzo-Redondo, a COVID-19 scientist and researcher at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said of breakthrough infections. Even with the new delta variants, the protection rate offered by vaccines continues to be high, he said.

City Hall wasn’t talking today about who in the San Francisco Bay tech world the mayor was rubbing shoulders with. There’s no shortage of possibilities with Uber, Lyft, Facebook, Twitter, Slack, Cash App, Adobe and so many others headquartered there.

The first four winners in the state’s COVID-19 vaccine lottery are an adult from Chicago, who took the $1 million cash prize, and students from Chicago, suburban Cook County and DeKalb County who each won a $150,000 scholarship, the state announced Thursday.

Death row inmate Anthony Porter is interviewed by the media in the library of the Cook County Department of Corrections Division IX in Chicago before his release in February 1999. Porter was reacting to the fact that a Milwaukee laborer, Alstory Simon, made a videotaped statement implicating himself in the 1982 murders of two teenagers. (Heather Stone / Chicago Tribune)

“I see Rose carrying an eggshell away from the nest and dropping it maybe 15 feet from the nest,” Dolgan said. “I quickly then turned to the nest, and normally you could see speckled eggs. But this time, instead of four speckled eggs, there were three eggs, plus what looked like this little mass of feathers.”

In late May, wildlife managers in Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky began receiving reports of sick and dying birds with eye swelling and crusty discharge, as well as neurological signs, such as birds twitching their eyes, according to Allisyn Gillet, an ornithologist with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.

Bobby Heard, 37, and another man went into a business in the 1600 block of Ravine Lane about 7:30 p.m. Sept. 7, 2016, armed with guns, prosecutors said. They restrained the computer store’s owner and an employee, took cash and electronics equipment, and then fled, according to reports.

Customers pay a $4.20 entry fee (the amount is a reference to smoking pot) and may buy CBD, pipes and rolling papers and rent bongs out of the old bank vault. The lounge will provide entertainment, with bands, a fire eater and a tarot card reader for opening night, and comedians on other nights, plus video, cards and board games.