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This is a return to form after the fair canceled most of its events last year and modified the few remaining ones to comply with public health guidelines related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The fair will feature traditional events, including a parade, talent show, rodeo, demolition derby and more. —Andrew Adams, Effingham Daily News, via Tribune Content Agency
Chicago police were called to the 400 block of East Monroe at 12:20 a.m. for a traffic collision involving four vehicles, according to a media notification. The driver of a black Chrysler 300 had been traveling north on Lake Shore Drive “at a high rate of speed,” when he lost control of his vehicle, causing it to strike three other vehicles, police said.
On April 2, Nelson’s older sister, Sharon Nelson-Cruikshank, 68, died of lung cancer. On the same day, Sanders, 87, was in the hospital for tests for several medical issues, but his family expected him out that day, Nelson said. Sanders frequently asked his wife about Nelson-Cruikshank. After learning his daughter had died, Sanders, whom Nelson described as an honorable man who loved his wife and children, also died, just 13 hours later.
The woman, 30, had been at home in South Austin with her toddler when a man outside “shot through the window of the garden apartment striking the mother and child,” according to a media notification from Chicago police. Officers were called to the 5200 block of West Congress Parkway in South Austin about 11:45 p.m. and found the woman with a graze wound somewhere on her body and another to her hand, police said.
“Good fish, bad fish, red fish, blue fish,” said Kevin Irons, manager of the aquatic nuisance species program with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. “We can put the invasive carps in one holding bin, in one bag, one net. And we can let the good fish pass, whatever situation it is — either back into the river, over a levy, into Emiquon, over a lock and dam somewhere else where they can’t do it.”
Looking ahead to the fall, when schools will reopen, getting information to families and vaccines for children will be important, she said. She is also monitoring whether or when people might need boosters, another moment when information will be key. People might question whether the vaccine was effective if they need a booster, even as health experts have said this is a likely possibility.
Mario Meza, team leader of collections, tends to Paulette C. Wilson as she donates platelets at the R. Scott Falk Family Blood Donation Site on June 1, 2021. The American Red Cross and American Cancer Society are partnering to encourage blood and platelet donations as cancer treatments resume. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)
“We can’t have a school board that’s more than twice as large as the largest school board in the country. That just doesn’t make sense,” said current Board of Education President Miguel del Valle, the only candidate in the city’s 2011 mayoral race to back an elected school board. “Down the road, I could see dysfunction, I could see lots of problems, I can see stalemates, I can see all kinds of issues here.”
“We can’t have a school board that’s more than twice as large as the largest school board in the country. That just doesn’t make sense,” said current Board of Education President Miguel del Valle, the only candidate in the city’s 2011 mayoral race to back an elected school board. “Down the road, I could see dysfunction, I could see lots of problems, I can see stalemates, I can see all kinds of issues here.”
“Throughout the years, it has become abundantly clear through community discussions, enrollment trends, census data, parish data and the great faith of our community that there is an urgent need for an expansion of Catholic education on the West Side of Chicago’s vibrant Little Village neighborhood,” said Scott Ernst, principal of Epiphany.