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Beyer, who was not present for the call but said he learned details through a witness account and by watching police body camera footage, alleged that responding officers did not follow proper procedure on the call. Beyer said sobriety tests were not performed on the driver, an ambulance was not called, a detailed report documenting the incident was not completed, and the driver was given a ride to his home 40 miles away in a police vehicle.

While Vice President Kamala Harris is leading the vaccination effort, focusing her visits on the South, Emhoff and first lady Jill Biden have been assigned to travel to areas of the Midwest where inoculation rates are low — though the second gentleman has traveled to other parts of the country to get the message out. Vaccination rates have fallen off overall, but concerns have been raised about lower rates among Black and Latino residents, so officials have been taking their message to vaccine sites and barber shops, hair salons and other businesses in those communities.

And there is much of it. Anthony Jackson beat Sanchez Mixon in March 2013 on a CTA Green Line platform that is blanketed with cameras. Early in Tuesday’s presentation of evidence, prosecutors displayed the footage: Mixon approaching Jackson, the two men briefly speaking, then Jackson hauling off and punching Mixon, throwing him to the ground, kicking him in the head.

The at-home vaccination program, which began in March for only homebound individuals before expanding, offer both the Pfizer vaccine, currently approved for those 12 and older, and Johnson & Johnson, which is for adults only. Up to 10 people can be vaccinated per household, with each family qualifying for one $50 gift card. A total $100,000 was donated from the food delivery company to support the gift cards.

“They should be building statues to you, not cells,” Gettleman said to Webb, who participated in the hearing via videoconference. “This wasn’t a one-time thing, where it was, ‘I’m desperate, I’m behind in my debt to the casino’ or whatever. It was your idea to take these bribes to begin with.”

Volunteers from My Block My Hood My City pick up tree debris in the Gage Park neighborhood after a strong storm system passed through the Chicago area the previous evening, on June 21, 2021 in Chicago. Earlier in the day workers with the city’s Streets and Sanitation department removed fallen tree debris that was blocking the street. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)

Sebastian Taylor, of the 7200 block of South Morgan Street, died at 2:42 a.m. Monday at Comer Children’s Hospital, where he had been a patient for a little less than 24 hours, since the crash at 1:15 a.m. Sunday, according to the medical examiner’s office and Chicago police.

“This industry, which is cruelly ironic, is on its knees. And we need a seat at the table. We never got one,” said Alyssa Tushman, co-owner of Burn Fitness, which operates two gyms in Rochester Hills and Clawson and has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. A third gym in Livonia closed its doors for good. She said revenue and membership are down 60% across the industry, and called for aid in addition to what has been included in federal and state relief packages.

Still, despite some gains in the decade following the recession, officials are concerned about the “full impact that COVID-19 will have on Illinois children, particularly poor children of color,” Bill Byrnes, a KIDS COUNT project manager at Voices for Illinois Children, part of the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago said Monday.

“My opinion is that out of 10,000 or 20,000 people who see an object they sincerely believe was or may have been a UFO, (researchers) capture only one of those sightings,” he said. “If you want to test my theory, go to a big party sometime and ask everyone who saw a UFO to raise their hands. Then ask how many have reported them. Virtually all of the hands go down.”