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“I think when people see that the downtown is fully reopened, and I’m seeing it now, there’s an uptick in the number of people taking the trains now, traffic is definitely back up. I think there’s a real hunger to be back together,” Lightfoot said during an appearance on WGN-TV. “Just as we’re seeing people really excited to be in restaurants, music venues, and just outdoors, we’re going to see people wanting to come back downtown to work.”

Horvat and his colleague, Assistant State’s Attorney Paul Fangman, were acting as civil attorneys, they argued. As members of the office’s Civil Actions Bureau, they were not prosecutors in the traditional sense, Assistant State’s Attorney Amy Crawford said, and Horvat had no idea about Trutenko’s relationship with the witness until the night before the testimony.

At a hearing held by telephone earlier this week, Kelly told the judge he wished to terminate attorneys Steven Greenberg and Michael Leonard. Instead, the singer said he’s opted to go with two other members of the legal team, Thomas Farinella of New York and Nicole Blank Becker of Michigan.

“Unfortunately, the draft legislation continues key formula rate policies that guarantee ComEd’s profits, while also increasing their profit levels,” Abe Scarr, director of the Illinois Public Interest Research Group, a consumer watchdog, said in a statement. “We will be releasing more analysis soon, and urge the governor and legislative leaders to remove policies that guarantee utility profits from the final bill.”

An employee of Accurate Emission Clinic, located next to the bank, said after 3 p.m. that the road was shut down and police officers asked nearby businesses to lock their doors. The employee, who declined to give his name, said he heard from police that a security guard was shot.

Officer Karol Chwiesiuk, 29, was charged in a criminal complaint in U.S. District Court in Washington with five misdemeanor counts, including entering a restricted building, disrupting government business and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds with intent to impede a congressional proceeding.

The suit, filed Thursday on behalf of five individuals of Latino heritage, contends the use of estimated survey data rather than specific data from the federal census has left the districts “malapportioned” in violation of the “one person, one vote” equal protection constitutional mandate.

The parents of detained journalist Danny Fenster, Buddy and Rose Fenster, with Danny’s brother Bryan, in Huntington Woods, Michigan, on June 4. Danny was trying to catch a flight home to Michigan from Myanmar to see his parents when he was taken into custody. (Jeff Kowalsky/Getty-AFP)

Sister Mary Joseph of the Trinity, formerly known as Ann Russell Miller, was a prolific letter writer during the 31 years she lived at the Carmelite Monastery in Des Plaines, Ill. Since she had so many friends and relatives to correspond with she would often make a copy of her original letter then add a personalized greeting or message — often in red ink — at the top or on the back of the letter. (Kori Rumore/Chicago Tribune)

Lake Zurich police said a motorist driving a Honda van was northbound on Buesching when the driver attempted to turn left into a private drive. The van struck the rider of a 2017 Wolf Motor Scooter, a 63-year-old Lake Zurich man, who was headed south on Buesching, police said.