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The study, led by Maggie Hickey, a former federal prosecutor and former executive inspector general of Illinois, found multiple criticisms of Mapes, including accusations of enforcing unwritten policies he made up on the spot, yelling and cursing, and making “explicit or indirect threats regarding people’s jobs.”
On police body-camera footage released by COPA of the Alvarez shooting, officers can be seen running down an alley first, then bearing down on Alvarez as they turn a corner onto a small lawn. Third-party camera footage from a security camera from the home Alvarez was shot in front of shows him release a gun as he falls to the ground, and police have said a gun was found at the scene.
Henry Taylor, 31, is charged with first-degree murder in the death May 21 of Luevenia Gardner, 35, after she was injured April 16 at her home in the 10600 block of South Hoxie Avenue in the South Deering neighborhood, officials said. Court and other records show Tayler and Gardner lived at the same address on Hoxie, although police did not indicate whether they were in a relationship.
Temperatures will be in the mid 40s and low 50s — nearly 25 degrees below normal late-May temperatures, the forecast office said. After Friday, temperatures will warm up, reaching the low 70s by the holiday. The coldest Memorial Day on record had a high temperature of 42 degrees on May 30, 1889.
The “closure will mark the end of a two-month effort, in partnership with Advocate Aurora Health and the Chicago Cubs, that delivered more than 42,000 vaccine doses to Chicagoans—more than the capacity of Wrigley Field itself,” according to the release. Going forward, Aurora Health will instead work on local, community vaccination efforts, “including staffing the City’s mobile vaccine buses—the Vaccination Station.”
More than 46,500 pregnancies were terminated in Illinois in 2019 compared to about 42,400 in 2018, according to state health department figures. While the majority of these women resided in Illinois, more than 7,500 women came from other states to have an abortion in Illinois in 2019, about 16% of all terminated pregnancies that year. This was roughly 2,000 more out-of-state women compared with 2018, when they comprised about 13% of all abortions statewide.
Jackie Montesdeoca feeds her daughter Ava, 11 months old, at their home in McKinley Park in Chicago, May 11, 2021. After picking up her daughter from day care and taking a walk in McKinley Park, Jackie said, “I’d love to open the windows but I can’t in the summer,” because of the smell of the MAT Asphalt plant across the street. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
“There are not enough treatment beds available, and particularly there’s a problem with babies who are born of drug-addicted mothers,” Vincent Lane, the center’s first board chairman, said at the time. “We’ve got shuttered hospitals around the city, so what better way to utilize them?”
Illinois state Rep. Lisa Hernandez, D-Cicero, speaks with Illinois state Rep. Ryan Spain, R-Peoria, prior to a public hearing with the Illinois House and Senate redistricting committees on the proposed boundaries for new state legislative districts, at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield on May 26, 2021. (Justin L. Fowler / AP)
When the project is completed at the end of next year, the Chicago Department of Water Management will have installed 880 miles of new water mains throughout the city. Each of those cast iron pipes, up to 16 inches in diameter, will have been connected to smaller lead pipes known as service lines that convey water into homes and two-flats.