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Dontay Banks, who performed under the stage name “D-Thang,” was killed early Sunday at Club O in the 17000 block of South Halsted Street when he was shot by another patron, Harvey police said. Banks, 32, was shot multiple times, including to the head and pronounced dead at the scene, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
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“The reality is that we have a tough road ahead to recover from the pandemic and the toll it has taken on our young men, both academically and socially-emotionally,” said Troy Boyd, the charter schools’ chief operating officer. “This strike is not in the best interest of our students, particularly during the last six days of school after more than a year of COVID-related school disruption.”
He couldn’t tow the truck the nearly 30 miles back to the shop because tipping the trailer up could be even more dangerous for the chickens, Loucks said, so his team chained up an axle and had the semi drive back to Super Truck Service on eight wheels instead of 10. That meant driving 35 to 40 mph down I-90, which wasn’t a very safe option either, Loucks said.
In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, President Tsai Ing-wen, second from right, and Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, right, listen as U.S. Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska, at left, speaks next to Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois in Taipei, Taiwan, on Sunday, June 6, 2021. (AP)
The $50,000 award is divided in half — $25,000 for the recipient’s personal use and $25,000 for the affiliated organization’s general operations. Wade’s work through Brave Space Alliance, which provides community services such as a food crisis pantry, support groups, an LGBTQ and BIPOC-centered job board and HIV testing, aims to amplify the voices of transgender people of color in Chicago and to build their decision-making at micro and macro levels.
Both Ald. Keith Turner, 6th Ward, and Ald. Felix Rivera, 7th Ward, said they want the Waukegan Park District to install a gate at Bowen Park — and perhaps others — to keep people out when the park is closed. They want to know how such a large crowd could assemble unnoticed.
The driver, Jason Mitchell, 35, of the 3500 block of Greene Street in Steger, Illinois, disregarded officers’ attempt to pull him over and he continued to flee east on U.S. 30, according to the release. Mitchell then turned south on U.S. 41 through Schererville and St. John, police said.
Dr. Robert Murphy, executive director of the Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said vaccinated people who don’t have immunodeficiency (meaning no active cancers, no organ transplants, no one on immunosuppressive therapy) “are very safe from getting symptomatic COVID-19, hospitalization and death. A relatively small number may get infected but for the most part, without symptoms. They essentially have no restrictions and no longer have to use masks except in hospitals, medical facilities, long term care residences.”
“Their first question, ‘Do you have drugs or weapons in the car?’ Granted, I’m a big Black guy with ‘locks and the first thing they see, I’m just suspicious. But, as I was telling the guys, I got to make it home to my family,” he said. “I can’t be another case where some officer have his knee on my neck, choking me out. So, my biggest thing is making it back home, regardless.”