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The evacuation comes two weeks after an explosion and massive fire at a chemical plant near Rockton, an Illinois community along the Wisconsin border, forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes for several days as the fire burned. Nobody at the plant or the surrounding community was injured by the June 13 fire that officials later determined was started accidentally during maintenance work.
“What we’re seeing now is an extension of the credit card fraud and the retail theft that goes on continuously, as these criminal organizations shift over to target unemployment agencies nationwide,” Adam Ford, the Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology’s chief information security officer, said in March.
McGrath was ordained at Old St. Pat’s in 2006, according to a statement from the Midwest Jesuits. Previously he was the Midwest Jesuits provincial assistant for secondary education and taught at St. Ignatius in University Village, according to the statement. He has been the president at Loyola Academy since 2009, according to the statement.
“Urban districts might be less likely to open for full-time in-person learning, in part because of higher COVID-19 community rates, and these districts generally include more students of color,” the study authors wrote. “Further, rates of COVID-19 hospitalization and mortality have been higher in communities of color, and districts serving a larger share of these students might have faced more significant public health challenges as they made decisions about reopening schools.”
An officer gave chase, and saw Jones remove a handgun from his waistband as he ran, and at one point aim the gun at the officer, Keane said. The officer fired shots “in fear of his life,” then Jones ran into a yard and fired shots at the officer, who returned fire, Keane said.
“Right now, while our outbreak remains in very good control locally, even with the delta here, there’s not a reason to adjust that (CDC) guidance,” Arwady said. “I don’t want to rule out that this could be something that could be a recommendation again in the future … But right now, I think we are feeling good about where we are. The most important thing of course is to get vaccinated.”
Tengis Burenkhuu, of the 1700 block of Mission Hills Road, was identified as the boy who drowned, according to the medical examiner’s office. He was found unresponsive Monday evening in a retention pond in the 1600 block of Provenance Way and was transported to Glenbrook Hospital, according to the sheriff’s office.
Under the agreement, voter registration information will be available in additional languages at driver services facilities in areas with large numbers of people who speak languages other than English, as required by the federal Voting Rights Act. In Cook County, for example, that means instructions will be made available in Spanish, Chinese, Hindi and Urdu.
“We were encouraged in May to see your in-person learning resolution for the fall of 2021 as we want to have our students fully back in-person,” the letter states. “Given this resolution, coupled with the move to phase 5 statewide, we believed new guidance reflecting these changes would be quickly forthcoming. Unfortunately, to date, that has not happened. While new guidance was issued earlier this month, it did not reflect the reality of conditions needed to conduct full in-person learning or the provisions of the recent Illinois’ phase 5 designation.”
California passed the first such law in 2019, with the policy set to take effect in 2023. Since then, 18 others states have enacted similar policies, with laws taking effect Thursday in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico and Texas. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine issued an executive order Monday with similar provisions.