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Angeliki Vassilatos, an 18-year-old senior at Whitney Young Magnet High School, is taking a gap year following graduation to work on a farm in Seattle. She’ll be attending Gallaudet University, but not until fall 2022. She is deaf, so having to wear masks is an extreme barrier for communication. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
Members of the Chicago Police and Fire Department work the scene where a vehicle went into the water on the 12400 block of South Torrence Avenue Sunday May 23, 2021 in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune) (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
The latest map from U.S. Drought Monitor shows severe drought conditions in McHenry, Lake, Kane, DuPage and Cook counties due to lack of precipitation in the area. It’s the first time severe drought has appeared in Cook County since August 2012, according to the Illinois State Climatologist Office.
Responding officers found a 29-year-old Matteson man, a 31-year-old Country Club Hills man, a 30-year-old Harvey woman and a 33-year-old Country Club Hills man injured, according to the release. Two of the people were seriously injured, but none of the wounds are considered life threatening.
The 46-year-old man, who had been shot in the back, died at University of Chicago Medical Center, police said. A 30-year-old man was shot in the head and was in critical condition, and a 50-year-old man was shot in the arm and was in good condition, both at University of Chicago Medical Center, police said.
“We had some tough times growing up, and Verndell was real quiet as a result of that, and he basically was trying to find a way to express himself, and he found that through dance,” his sister LaToya Smith, 39, said. “Once he realized that he can affect the life of children by doing his passion, that just motivated him even more to go further with it.”
Boyd-Peoples said “2020 was horrible.” She lost her brother and aunt due to health reasons unrelated to the coronavirus, and she also had back surgery, which was difficult because she couldn’t have anyone at the hospital with her due to the coronavirus-related restrictions. She is on disability leave from her job at Walmart but is looking forward to going back. She received her second dose of the Moderna vaccine Monday, and “now, I’m feeling fantastic, and I’m just glad to be back out in society again.”
But an hour later, the fully COVID-19-vaccinated 59-year-old from Jefferson Park was barefaced and merrily strolling through the crowd of about 70 other fully inoculated people as her favorite music genre — house — blared from the speakers. Hardly a mask was in sight among the audience, which was mostly seated or waiting for beverages. Some, though, got up and shuffled side-to-side in front of the white stage.
Residents of other affluent suburbs also had luck finding shots in the city between December 2020 and mid-April, a period when eligibility rules were still in play, people were desperate to find appointments and city officials were promising to steer doses to the hardest-hit neighborhoods. At least 1 in 8 of all residents in ZIP codes covering Oak Park, Kenilworth, Wilmette, Winnetka and River Forest received their first dose in Chicago, the data shows. When looking only at those residents who got vaccinated, the numbers are even more stark: At least 1 in 4 found shots in the city.
About 2 a.m. Saturday, two men were standing outside in the 4000 block of West Wilcox Street when someone approached on foot and opened fire. One victim, a 24-year-old man, was struck in the head, neck, chest and leg, and was taken to Loretto Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The other man, 28, suffered wounds to the chest, torso and arm, and was taken to Stroger Hospital where he also was pronounced dead, police said.