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“In that conversation, oftentimes I will just say, ‘Hey, full transparency, I’ve received a vaccine,’” Lambert said. “A lot of times, it’s patients on the fence. They’re like, ‘Let me ask a trusted source,’ and for a lot of folks, that’s their primary care doctor.”
During a telephone hearing in Brooklyn, U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly asked Kelly directly whether he no longer wanted attorneys Steven Greenberg and Michael Leonard to represent him, choosing instead Thomas Farinella, of New York, and Nicole Blank Becker, of Michigan.
A cold front is forecast to move into the Chicago area Saturday, bringing the possibility of scattered thunderstorms with strong gusts of wind, according to Leatherwood. This will lead to a fall in temperatures to the upper 70s by Sunday, dropping to the mid-70s on Monday and the upper 60s by Tuesday, according to the weather service.
The tentative agreement spells out additional supports for special education students, a high priority of the CTU, and would allow the educators at Urban Prep’s Bronzeville, Englewood and West campuses to reopen the contract for renegotiation shortly after the next school year — a “safety measure” the union said was necessary due to what they described as “troubling financial practices” at the organization.
The boy had been with his mother, visiting a relative’s house, and was with other children playing as several adults outside the home were talking, when a black Lexus SUV drove east on 54th Street, then parked at the end of the 5300 block of South Morgan, according to preliminary police information.
An annual report from the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation, released Wednesday, examines the status of U.S. government efforts to secure the release of hostages and unlawful detainees in foreign countries. The report’s findings are based on interviews with former hostages and detainees or their representatives and relatives, as well as current and former government and military officials.
When the officers checked the garage, they found a 60-year-old man with a gunshot wound the right thigh and a man in his 50s with a gunshot wound to the right leg, according to a police media notification. Both were taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center for treatment, with the younger man in serious condition and the 60-year-old in good condition.
The White House has launched a month-long blitz to combat vaccine hesitancy and a lack of urgency to get shots, particularly in the South and Midwest, but it is increasingly resigned to missing the president’s vaccination target. The administration insists that even if the goal isn’t reached, it will have little effect on the overall U.S. recovery, which is already ahead of where Biden said it would be months ago.
The exterior of the Vautravers building is seen as it is being prepared for relocation on June 8, 2021. The CTA is preparing to move an historic three-story Lakeview apartment building about 30 feet to the west in August to preserve it as part of the ambitious Brown Line flyover project under construction near the Belmont station. (Vashon Jordan Jr. / Chicago Tribune)
In November, a grand jury returned a 50-page indictment charging McClain, former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore, former ComEd lobbyist John Hooker, and Jay Doherty, a consultant and former head of the City Club of Chicago, with participating in the alleged bribery scheme. All four have pleaded not guilty. Another ComEd executive, Fidel Marquez, has pleaded guilty.