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Churchill Downs, which currently owns and operates the racetrack, announced this past winter that the property would be up for sale for redevelopment opportunities. And the Bears have now expressed at least preliminary interest in building a stadium and developing the land around it.
Healthcare workers (seated) Karyn Lyons, left, and Linda Hempfling, draw up doses of the COVID-19 vaccine while Gov J.B. Pritzker speaks with Mark Pfister, right, the Lake County Health Department’s executive director, and other politicians at the drive-thru vaccination location set up inside of the Lake County Fairgrounds on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021 in Grayslake. Gov Pritzker toured the center, spoke with healthcare officials and commented on the status of vaccinations in Illinois. He also complimented the Biden administration on their communication and commitment to greater pandemic efforts. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)
Police said they interviewed more than 20 witnesses, including employees, customers and the two men directly involved. Police also reviewed multiple videos, including a video that spread on social media, and security camera footage provided by Portillo’s, officials said.
On the first day of summer, McGhee visited Lane; the mother and son talked about the future. A few hours later, shortly before 7 p.m. June 20, McGhee and a friend were shot near the Western Blue Line after running away from a few men, one of whom reached into his waistband for a gun.
Under the bill, which earlier won approval from the state Senate, the city’s school board would become a hybrid panel in January 2025, with 10 members elected to four-year terms in the 2024 general election and 11 members appointed to two year terms by the mayor, including the board president. Mayoral appointments would require City Council confirmation, another element Lightfoot’s office had opposed.
Rachelle Zola drinks Pedialyte while listening to her friend Mazell Sykes during Zola’s hunger strike on June 14, 2021, outside Cosmopolitan United Church in Melrose Park. Zola began the 40-day, all-liquid hunger strike to support HR 40, a House bill that would set up a commission to study reparations. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
Jerryon Stevens, of Humboldt Park, was charged in the shooting, which took place Dec. 22 in the 700 block of North Ridgeway Avenue, Chicago police announced Wednesday. The victim was identified by the Cook County medical examiner’s office as Jim Courtney-Clarks, 20.
The state’s health department has identified more than 9,400 variant cases of the virus in Illinois, more than 6,300 of which are the Alpha variant, first found in the United Kingdom. The next biggest slice comes from the Gamma variant, first identified in travelers from Brazil, with more than 2,400 cases.
“When we think about racism, many of us think about its visible and audible forms,” Lightfoot said. “But the reality is, the insidious nature of systemic racism has other impacts that are every bit as deep and harmful but are often ones we can’t see, like impacts on the psyche and other impacts on our bodies that are just as, if not more, deadly.”
Vaccines will be offered on the “Vaccination Station,” a mobile bus that will be parked outside of “L” stations, as part of city’s effort to increase vaccine access, especially in neighborhoods with lower vaccination rates. Pfizer will be available to those 12 years old and up, and Johnson & Johnson to those 18 and up. People under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.