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The group will have roughly two dozen members, including domestic abuse survivors, law-enforcement officials and legal experts, according to the bill. The move will allow the state to take a comprehensive look at its domestic violence laws, which have been written in a piecemeal fashion for decades, said Republican Rep. David Welter of Morris, the measure’s chief sponsor.
Republicans asked why Democrats were moving the primary date for only 2022. In his answer, sponsoring state Rep. Maurice West, a Rockford Democrat, didn’t say anything about the congressional map, instead noting that “the state has always had a really long window between the primary and the general, which makes the political season long and risky and negatively affecting public policymaking.”
Especially early in the pandemic, many veterans were sent to Lincoln National Cemetery for direct interment, or burial immediately after their death, without a service or memorial, said Antonio Henderson, the cemetery’s assistant director. The cemetery gave those families an option to have memorial services in recent months as pandemic guidelines loosened, which has been “very popular” among military families, Henderson said.
Rep. Tom Demmer, a Dixon Republican, called the package “a great initiative” that, in addition to encouraging people to get vaccinated, would “support the food and beverage industry, restaurants and bars, that were so dramatically impacted over the course of the last year and are now starting to open their doors to invite people back.”
Rep. Tom Demmer, a Republican from Dixon, called it “a great initiative” that, in addition to encouraging people to get vaccinated, would “support the food and beverage industry, restaurants and bars, that were so dramatically impacted over the course of the last year and are now starting to open their doors to invite people back.”
A bill that the Senate unanimously passed during the previous session in January would have banned prone restraint immediately, but the legislation stalled in the House. In the current session, the House unanimously passed a revamped measure that addressed the private schools’ concerns and would have allowed some use of prone restraint until 2023, but the Senate balked, with some lawmakers arguing that the schools already had ample time to phase out the practice. The Senate amended the bill to end the practice in 2022, and the House agreed to that change.
The medical examiner’s office on Sunday said she had been identified as Teresa Sandoval, 66, of the 3800 block of South Aberdeen Street. Francisco Sandoval, also 66 and who had been driving the Sentra, suffered injuries that were not considered life-threatening, officials said.
On the South Side, two people were shot about 1:50 a.m. in the South Shore neighborhood. A man, 21, and a woman, 20, were inside an apartment building in the 2400 block of East 78th Street when they were both shot in the leg. The man was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center and the woman to South Shore Hospital, both in fair condition.
That’s why, despite his fear of needles, Beth on Saturday decided to get his first Pfizer shot at Thornton Township High School in Harvey, one of Cook County’s new inoculation sites that are all located in suburban areas with lagging vaccination rates. He hopes that by sharing online his journey toward opting for a vaccine, he can convince his peers to make an informed decision.
The Dreadhead Cowboy, aka Adam Hollingsworth, rides his horse Bella as he joins protesters in front of a line of police officers during a march to remember the May 25 killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, Saturday, May 30, 2020, in downtown Chicago. (Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune)