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“We’ve talked about this a lot,” Arwady said during her regular online Q-and-A session about the pandemic. “The basic answer is that even before we had a vaccine available, we saw that where you have appropriate COVID precautions in place, schools have not been sources of outbreaks. They have not really contributed to community spread significantly. And we’ve seen such negative impacts, particularly in the youngest children, where a lot of the social, emotional learning, a lot of the needs where young children have struggled with trying to learn via Zoom.”

“We must rally around our neighbors who are living in areas of our city that are under siege by violence. We can’t ignore them. We can’t forget them. We can’t just say there but for the grace of God go I,” the mayor said. “We all have a responsibility, all of us — not just a mayor, not just a police department, all of us have a responsibility and in particular, we must hold our neighbors in our hearts, our minds and our prayers.”

Kyle Rittenhouse, right, listens to his attorney, Mark Richards, during Rittenhouse’s pretrial hearing Friday, May 21, 2021 at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis. Rittenhouse’s attorneys and prosecutors are expected to iron out deadlines and other housekeeping matters ahead of his trial in November. Rittenhouse is charged with killing two men and wounding a third during the August protests. (Sean Krajacic/AP)

A man at the same party received a minor graze wound when someone fired at him as he was leaving about 1:30 a.m., police said. He said he didn’t realize he was injured or that his car had been damaged until he was in South Elgin, where he was treated by the South Elgin Fire Department and released, the report said.

An evidence technician works the scene where a 16-year-old girl and 17-year-old boy were shot on the 4400 block of North Clarendon Avenue in the Uptown neighborhood during the Fourth of July holiday weekend Monday July 5, 2021 in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune) (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)

Carolyn Bernard, center, stands across the street July 4, 2021, as police work the scene where a 5-year-old girl was shot in the leg in an alley in the 11700 block of South Normal Avenue in the West Pullman neighborhood. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)

“I remember my parents asking me before my graduation ceremony where I would be sitting, because they were worried they wouldn’t be able to see me, and I told them, ‘Oh, don’t worry, you’ll be able to find me,’” said Khan, who spent a decade working as a civil engineer in Chicago before becoming an educator.

Max Lewis, 20, died three days after being shot on the train around 6 p.m. Thursday near the 51st Street Green Line stop. Lewis was shot in the back of the neck while the train was in the 300 block of East 51st Street in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side, according to Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

“I’m not mad at it … the park is left in disarray. People are disgusting, they left … beer bottles, cases of beer bottles, people’s diapers were left out. It’s just disgusting, and so for people to be there all day, and that’s what the intention is right? … (The price) didn’t bother me,” she said.

“The Black community is taught to be resilient, taught to survive, taught to get out of the way, taught to just go to work and do your very best, taught to be exceptional,” he said. “You have no time to cry, no breaks, you gotta do what you got to do to survive and get out of the way.”