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One key metric: declining hospitalizations. Statewide, the number of people hospitalized each day with COVID-19 has dropped in the past month from nearly 2,000 during a brief third surge to less than 1,000. To put that in context, last fall, the figure peaked at 6,000, and the fear then was that hospitals could become overwhelmed.
Kevin Riddle, left, Chicago field office director for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, asks Illinois National Guard Spec. Alan Juarez, second from right, to recite the oath of allegiance in a special ceremony at Cook County Health’s vaccination site at Thornton Township High School in Harvey on June 10, 2021. Major Gen. Richard Neely, adjutant general of the state of Illinois and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle were on hand. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
State Superintendent of Education Carmen Ayala, pictured at a South Elgin High School news conference announcing federal COVID-19 relief funding, has spoken favorably about a proposal to increase standardized testing in Illinois schools. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)
Adan Godinez, 35, of Morris, pleaded guilty in 2018 to drug and weapons offenses, admitting in a plea agreement with prosecutors that he was trying to kill law enforcement agents who were attempting to arrest his brother in the Louis Joliet Mall parking lot, court records show.
Prosecutors say Smith was involved in a fight in the parking lot of D Hangout Bar and Grill, 550 S. McLean Blvd., on the afternoon of Sept. 9, 2018, and fired multiple shots before fleeing. Four people were injured, one of whom was Shaprie Smith-Tate, 25, of Elgin, who died later the same day.
Earlier this week, Omar tweeted a videoconference exchange with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in which she called for justice “for all victims of crimes against humanity.” She also said: “We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban. I asked @SecBlinken where people are supposed to go for justice.”
“People come out here to sunbathe, to walk, jog, but the lifeguards are (only) on duty during that time period and so no one enters the water,” Lemons said of beach activity outside of the season. The Park District works closely with the Chicago Police Department to make sure people aren’t in the water, she added.
South LaSalle Street, photographed from the fourth floor of the Chicago Board of Trade building, is seen Feb. 22, 2018, in Chicago. Workers on some Tuesdays this summer and fall will be able to eat lunch on the street in front of the Board of Trade building at the southern end of the LaSalle Street canyon, the city announced June 10, 2021. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)
A solar eclipse occurs when the moon moves between the sun and Earth, casting a shadow that fully or partially blocks the sun’s light on Earth. However, the moon’s orbit around Earth is not a perfect circle, so the moon is closer or farther away from Earth at different points in its cycle, Nichols said.
A McHenry County department of health news release stated that “swimmer’s itch,” or cercarial dermatitis, is an “allergic reaction to certain microscopic parasites that infect some birds and mammals. These parasites are released from infected snails into the water. If the parasite comes into contact with a swimmer, it burrows into the skin causing an allergic reaction and rash.”