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Still, he said, steadier rain is best for getting out of a drought, as opposed to heavy rain like the kind expected this weekend. The metro area’s drought had been steadily getting worse since April until last week, he said, when the area started experiencing some improvement with precipitation. Areas closer to the Wisconsin border are experiencing an extreme drought, while the southern part of the metro area is not experiencing a drought, he said.
At CAST Water Safety Foundation in Forest Park, which offers an intensive six-week program for babies and children up to age 6, scholarships are available, and director Liz Huber says no one is turned away due to lack of ability to pay. However, Huber said, there are already a couple hundred people on the summer wait list.
“But if we can’t get it to the floor, if what it’s going to take for us to get it to the floor is, with the mayor saying ‘OK, this is what I’m going to allow on the floor, this is what I will support,’ then that’s where the compromise came in.”
As word has spread about the multimillion dollar ticket being sold at the station, “we’re seeing a lot more people coming in to buy lottery tickets,” perhaps thinking some of the winning customer’s luck will rub off on them, the station owner said.
“The act prohibits a federal officeholder or an ‘entity directly or indirectly established, financed, maintained or controlled by or acting on behalf of 1 or more … individuals holding federal office’ from soliciting, receiving, directing, transferring, or spending funds in connection with ‘any election other than an election for federal office,’ unless the funds do not exceed the act’s contribution limits and are not from sources prohibited by the act,” they wrote.
But looking at satellite photos, it’s evident that hundreds, if not thousands, of trees were within the path of the three block-wide whirlwind. On the ground, it seemed few escaped damage, with many broken in half, shorn of huge branches or uprooted altogether. So many were cracked open that the air carried the scent of a lumberyard.
In September 2020, the 17-year-old boy was outside with a group of people in the 4400 block of West Jackson Boulevard when a man fired shots from a black Nissan Altima, striking the teen in the neck and chest. He was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital, according to police.
Chicago police describe the man, who they said may be homeless, as aman in his 30s, 5′9 to 5′11 with either dread-styled hair or wearing a bandanna that may look like dreads, according to the alert sent Thursday morning. In two of the attacks, he approached the victim from behind and hit them with an unknown object.
The 44-year-old was shot in the leg and reported in fair condition. The 52-year-old was shot in the arm and lower backside and in critical condition. The third victim, 57, was shot in the leg and reported in fair condition and the last victim, 65, was shot in the arm and transported in fair condition, according to officials.
To avoid a repeat of that situation with the next storms, city officials and weather watchers advise taking steps now — not waiting for the next storm watch or warning. They say municipal sirens are intended mainly to reach people who are outdoors, not inside their homes, and recommend taking steps to turn on phone alerts, download weather apps with alerts or buy a weather radio.