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“Putting on a grandiose fireworks display to celebrate both our city’s reopening and Independence Day is an excellent way to kick off the summer we’ve all been waiting for,” Lightfoot said in Friday’s statement. “Thanks to the hard work of our residents, who followed public health guidelines and did their part to slow and stop the spread of COVID-19, we are now able to bring back exciting summer traditions like these. As our newly reopened city continues adapting to a new normal, I want to urge our residents to continue getting vaccinated so we can bring back even more of our favorite outdoor events.”
Officials said drinking water is safe for residents to use and consume, and air quality is currently good. Len Zintak, the on-scene coordinator with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said his team is sampling the area for environmental impacts in the air and water. The monitoring that has been done has shown “well below action” levels regarding long-term health risks, Grundy County Health Department spokeswoman Michelle Pruim said.
President Joe Biden speaks on gun crime prevention measures at the White House on June 23, 2021 in Washington. Biden pledged to aggressively go after illegal gun dealers and to boost federal spending in aid to local law enforcement. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
“If the current rate of vaccination continues through August, coverage among young adults will remain substantially lower than among older adults,” the study concluded. “Efforts to improve vaccination coverage are needed, especially among younger adults, to reduce COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths.”
Kelly has been in a tiny cell in the Special Housing Unit since his arrival in New York last month, and must make phone calls from the shower “in a desperate effort to obtain privacy,” his lawyers allege in a motion filed Thursday. COVID-19 protocols make it difficult to get face-to-face meetings with his attorneys. And since Kelly is functionally illiterate, he cannot effectively review evidence and paperwork on his own, his lawyers said.
“It is not clear what record-keeping deficiency of the city would have caused Cole’s repeated detention, since the database that caused the detention is a statewide database, and the entry in said database that led to his detention was not put there by the city of Chicago,” the city wrote in a filing. “Plaintiff alleges circumstances that are unfortunate, but that are not the fault of the defendant.”
Because the mansion long has been used as office space, it likely will require considerable renovations to convert it to single-family use. For instance, its six bathrooms lack bathing units such as showers or tubs. The mansion also has nine fireplaces, 10-foot-tall wrought iron doors, intricate moldings, stained-glass windows, marble staircases, elaborate plaster ceilings, carved stone mantelpieces and herringbone-patterned hardwood floors.
A day after Lightfoot’s lawyers filed the motion, a CBS producer emailed Lightfoot’s then-deputy press secretary, Pat Mullane, to request an interview with Lightfoot. In the email, the producer said CBS planned to ask questions “about this last minute court action to keep the video concealed and the city denying Young’s FOIA for her video.”
Rittenhouse, 18, is charged with killing Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and wounding Gaige Grosskreutz, 26, on Aug. 25 during protests in Kenosha over the police shooting two days earlier of Jacob Blake, a Black man who was left paralyzed when he was shot by a white police officer.
The phony texts — as well as emails — come with a variety of traps designed to lure unwitting recipients into a potential world of computer viruses, stolen password credentials or driver’s license numbers, and identity theft. Hundreds of people have contacted White’s office with questions and complaints about the scam, Druker said. Likewise, IDOT spokesman Guy Tridgell said the agency has received inquiries from likely hundreds of people.