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The attack happened in the 6300 block of South Artesian Avenue around 10:55 p.m., police said in a media notification. Of the 11 people who were hit, a woman whose name and age had not been released early Monday was the only fatality, officials said.
The Lake County Health Department urges residents to follow the “4 Ds of Defense” to protect themselves from West Nile virus: Drain standing water from around their homes; defend themselves by using insect repellent; dress in long sleeves, pants and closed toed shoes when outdoors; and protect themselves throughout the day, making sure to wear insect repellent at dawn and dusk. Repellent should contain DEET, picaridin, oil of lemon, eucalyptus, 2-undecanone, or IR3535 and be reapplied according to label instructions.
Sandy Lopez, left, coordinator for undocumented student support at Northern Illinois University, works with NIU students Ariana Nava, standing right, and Alejandra Hernandez, peer academic coaches who are providing workshops on time management and how to find scholarships, at the Office of Undocumented Student Support at NIU in DeKalb on June 24, 2021. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
This fall, CPS will have 16,020 preschool seats available, the district said in a news release. For the 2020-21 school year, private preschools in Chicago served more than 54,000 children, according to Private School Review, which compiles school-reported enrollment data from private schools across the nation. But the financial burden of losing enrollment, plus the increased cost of caring for infant children, has left many child care centers hastening to adjust their model to account for losing students to CPS pre-K.
The victims were two 21-year-old men, a 19-year-old man, a 15-year-old boy and an additional man, who were all stabilized at area hospitals, police said. The sixth victim, who police said was female but not yet identified, was in critical condition, according to police.
Joseph Coles and Karen Phillips attend a news conference June 27, 2021, to talk about their missing daughter Kierra Coles outside the Daley Center in Chicago. Coles was three months pregnant with her first child when she went missing on Oct. 2, 2018, near her apartment at 81st Street and Vernon Avenue in the Chatham neighborhood. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
Martinez’s court-appointed attorney, Courtney Smallwood, argued against denying bail, saying her client didn’t make any admissions to police after his arrest, adding that his statement claiming to have shot a girl wasn’t anywhere in police paperwork. “Presumably, if my client had made admissions, that would be an important fact that you would want to highlight in a report,” she argued.
“We want to take Pride back to its roots, which was (to) protest against police brutality, racism and war,” said Andy Thayer, co-founder of the Gay Liberation Network. “It was truly a people’s uprising, as opposed to a parade of bar floats and banks and politicians.”
The National Weather Service had inspectors out looking at damage in the area from Saturday’s storms that likely produced tornadoes, with unofficial reports near Crete, Dyer and Chatsworth, as well as northwest Indiana, and a possible water spout over Lake Michigan, meteorologist Ricky Castro said.
A woman had been jogging in the area of 4032 W. Foster Ave., near the Jewel Osco shopping center at Foster and North Pulaski Road, according to Chicago police and the medical examiner’s office. Around 8:30 p.m., she” noticed something in the water,” according to a police notification.