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“Once the pandemic hit, a lot of students felt like, ‘What’s the point of anything?’ because there was no reason to work hard anymore, when all you needed to do was pass,” said Shipinski, 16, a junior, whose repeated request to have his “pass” grades from last spring changed to traditional letter grades were soundly denied by Elmwood Park Community Unit School District 401.

Police said a 26-year-old man was involved in an argument with two people when one of them hit him in the face, causing him to fall before both of them opened fire. The victim suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the body, and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.

House Republican Leader Jim Durkin, R-Western Springs, asks that Republican names be removed from House Resolution 359, a descriptive resolution outlining the criteria used to draw the new Illinois House districts, on the House floor on May 28, 2021, in Springfield. (Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register)

First, the plan would clear the way for the state to distribute 75 licenses that were supposed to be awarded more than a year ago, but got held up after complaints and lawsuits that the scoring of applications was unfair. Only 21 finalists were given perfect scores to qualify for a lottery, out of more than 900 applicants, and many of those who qualified included wealthy white investors.

“It’s pretty upsetting, because other people excel at sports, but for me, my grades at school are my focus, and I’ve put in a lot of time and effort,” Shipinski said. “The district seemed to think I’m asking for every student to be on a grading scale, but I made it pretty clear, I don’t want to cause harm to anyone. But for me, it’s causing harm by not giving me my grades.”

“A decade ago, if someone ran you just chased before you knew they were involved in criminal activity,” said former Tuscon Chief of Police Roberto Villasenor, who served on former President Barack Obama’s Policing Task Force and now advises departments across the country on policing issues, including reform. “A policy will help slow you down, and it will counter the normal instinct so that mistakes are not made, abuses don’t occur and people are not hurt.”

Another person who was in the apartment came back into the room after going into the kitchen for water and saw McCullum on top of Jones, who was still on the mattress, while the other suspect was bent over, looking behind Jones’ air mattress, prosecutors said.

Cook County Commissioner Stanley Moore, who opposes an ordinance to change Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day, holds a family photo of his great-great-grandfather, William Alford Trotter, top row, third from right, at the Gerald Griffin Gallery in Chicago on May 28, 2021. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)

For this year’s events, the city will also host a qualifying competition, the “Race to Gately” for students in grades five to 12 on June 12, 19 and 26. The race will consist of a 60-meter sprint. On those days, the competition will be held at Lindblom Park, Jackson Park, Lincoln Park at Wilson Avenue and La Follette Park in the mornings, and Dunbar Park, Marshall High School, Brooks High School and Steinmetz High School in the afternoons.

Jeremy Hylka faces five criminal charges in connection with his April 27 visit to a Joliet-area McDonald’s to allegedly meet and solicit someone whom he believed to be an underage boy he met through the internet, according to court documents. The criminal charges include traveling to meet a child, two charges of indecent solicitation, grooming and soliciting to meet a child — all felonies.