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Firefighters work the scene of an industrial fire on June 29, 2021, in Morris, Ill. Lithium batteries have been noisily exploding inside a burning abandoned paper mill in northern Illinois and firefighters are letting the blaze burn out because they fear trying to extinguish it could trigger more explosions, officials said Wednesday. (Armando L. Sanchez/AP)
O’Hare International Airport is still well below normal for rainfall for the year, with only 13.73 inches of rain in 2021, against a normal for the first six moths of the year of 18.75 inches, according to preliminary National Weather Service data. But June, which normally sees only 4.1 inches of rain, saw 6.78 inches of rain at O’Hare International Airport, according to the weather service.
Lincoln Park High School reinstated dean John Johnson, from left, reinstated assistant coach Donovan Robinson, partially reinstated girls basketball coach Larry Washington and fired varsity boys basketball coach Pat Gordon. They, along with two fired administrators who filed lawsuits last year, have been dubbed the “Lincoln Park Six” by the lawyer representing the four men who also filed suits against CPS. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)
Officers were called to the 11300 block of South Wentworth Avenue on the Far South Side about 1:10 a.m. Two women, one 40 and the other 30, had been shot as they sat on a porch, police said. The 40-year-old was shot in the torso and she was rushed to Advocate Christ MEdical Center in Oak Lawn where she was pronounced dead.
“Fostering racial identities, promoting the idea that they are in conflict, and perpetuating divisive stereotypes pits teachers and children against one another based on the color of their skin,” the lawsuit says. ” … They teach them that their whole identity comes from the color of their skin. They teach them to hate each other. They teach them not only how to be racist, but that they should be racist.”
“There are really like two directions you can take the study of meteorites, and one is to study early solar system history to get a clearer idea of what the early solar system looked like,” Valdes said. “The other is to understand our own planet, actually. Unlike on Earth, where our early history has largely been overprinted by geological processes, asteroids … have not undergone the same sort of geological overprinting. Their histories are really frozen in time, they have pristine records of early solar system history. So by studying asteroids, we really get a clear idea of how the Earth came to be, how it was processed and why it looks the way it does today.”
“I voted in support of the select committee because the truth matters, because it is our duty to conduct a thorough investigation of this most egregious attack on the Capitol, because the American people — and especially the families of our brave law enforcement on the front lines that day — deserve answers,” he said.
A Northern Illinois Police Alarm System (NIPAS) vehicle is parked on Franks Avenue near the former Niles Elementary School South building on June 30, 2021 following a barricade situation that police said occurred inside a nearby home. (Jennifer Johnson / Pioneer Press)
In LaCrosse, as he talked about spending money on more rail infrastructure, he took a tongue-in-cheek swipe at Chicago: “Imagine if you could get from Chicago — from La Crosse to Chicago in two hours, instead of four and a half,” only to quip “I don’t know why you’d go to Chicago, but — you know, all kidding aside — it would reduce the largest source of pollution in America: vehicle travel.”
Volunteers Richard Calhoun, left, and John Lattyak prepare food for distribution at Harmony Community Church in Lawndale in Chicago on Dec. 9, 2020. The food pantry at Harmony Community Church in Lawndale is supplied by the Greater Chicago Food Depository. (Zbigniew Bzdak / Chicago Tribune)