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The Sox game promotion is just one of several county health officials have staged in a bid to increase the percentage of area residents vaccinated against COVID-19. For example, on Wednesday tickets to Six Flags Great America were offered to those vaccinated at Cook County Health vaccination sites.
Temperatures are expected to rise Sunday, approaching 60 near the lake and 70 inland, according to Donofrio. Areas near the lake are expected to see similar temperatures Monday, but suburban and inland temperatures are expected to rise to the mid-70s, he added, making way for a warm and partly sunny Memorial Day.
Temperatures are expected to rise Sunday, approaching 60 near the lake and 70 inland, according to Donofrio. Areas near the lake are expected to see similar temperatures Monday, but suburban and inland temperatures are expected to rise to the mid-70s, he added, making way for a warm and partly sunny Memorial Day.
Community health organizer Natalia Mojica makes a contract tracing call in Chicago on May 24, 2021. City Colleges of Chicago and the Chicago Department of Public Health’s joint online vaccine ambassador course will be available to the public for free at Malcolm X College. The course, which Mojica enrolled in, aims to address common misinformation and pervading questions or concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
During the multiyear joint federal and local investigation, multiple kilograms of heroin and cocaine were seized from Chicago neighborhoods, including a 14-kilogram cocaine seizure in Belmont Cragin and a 2-kilogram seizure in Buena Park. The investigation, dubbed “Operation Tragic Blow,” was led by U.S. Homeland Security officials and Chicago police.
The medical examiner’s office said he had been identified as Jalen Parker, 21, of the 7500 block of South Chappel Avenue, which that agency said was the same location where the shooting occurred. Chicago police initially had said he was 22 and Sally Bown, a police spokeswoman, said investigators list the location of the shooting as the 2000 block of East 75th Street. Bown said it wasn’t clear where the ShotSpotter alert was set off or how many gunshots were heard.
The need for a centralized rollout has given way to a new strategy of meeting hard-to-reach residents where they are, so the Tinley Park, South Holland and River Grove mass vaccination centers will be “consolidating” into the remaining locations. That means residents seeking a mass vaccination site in the suburbs must go to Forest Park, Des Plaines or Matteson for an inoculation shot, either with an appointment or walk-in.
Two women, 18 and 23, were double-parked in a black Toyota sedan in the 300 block of South Western Avenue at 12:02 a.m., according to an online media notification. The driver of a black Chrysler 300 was headed north on Western when he rear-ended the Toyota with his Chrylser, police said.
“We have developed a robust vaccine delivery system to deliver the current COVID-19 vaccines, including doctors’ offices and smaller medical providers, and that will be the blue print if a booster dose needs to be administered,” Melaney Arnold, a spokeswoman for IDPH said in a statement.
Officers examine a vehicle at the scene where a 23-year-old woman and 26-year-old man were shot in a vehicle on the 1700 block of East 57th Street near the Museum of Science and Industry Wednesday May 26, 2021 in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)