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Groups in the coalition include Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Chicago, Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community, the Latino Policy Forum, the Blackroots Alliance and the state and Cook County Black Chambers of Commerce, the NAACP South Side Branch, the Illinois Muslim Civic Coalition, Common Cause Illinois, the League of Women Voters of Illinois and Chicago, the Better Government Association and CHANGE Illinois, an organization which has long sought an independent mapmaking process.

Deanna Apps, a physical scientist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Detroit District, told the Tribune that most of the Great Lakes region saw drier conditions toward the end of 2020 through this year leaving lake levels in between. “We’re kind of in the middle there,” Apps said. “We’re about a foot and a half above average, and a foot and a half below record highs, roughly.”

Gov. J.B. Pritzker holds a news conference at South Elgin High School announcing Illinois K-12 school districts will receive $7 billion in federal funding to support students as they return to the classroom after distance and hybrid learning due to COVID-19, on March 31, 2021, in South Elgin. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)

Johnson, a field training officer, was accused by COPA of several rule violations, among them failing to treat Kersh with “dignity and respect” by “dragging and/or carrying” Kersh without justification while he was unconscious; failing to activate his body camera on time; and making “false, misleading, incomplete, and/or inaccurate statements” by omitting that Kersh lost consciousness and claiming he was alert, according to Police Board paperwork.

Artists Book House was founded by bestselling author and Evanston native Audrey Niffenegger. It is described as “a new educational and cultural organization devoted to the Book Arts.” Those arts include writing, reading, printing, bookbinding, papermaking, typography, calligraphy, poetry, fiction, memoir, artist’s books, comics, zines, publishing, conservation, history, and more, according to the group’s proposal to take over the mansion.