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Police responded to a report of the shooting and crash at 2:09 a.m. on the Ryan at Garfield Boulevard, according to a news release from state police. The male driver of the vehicle involved in the crash was struck by gunfire and was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Chicago Fire Department crews responded to the scene and found the man down the shaft and two firefighters were lowered about 40 feet, using what’s known as a GripTech system, said Deputy District Fire Chief Dennis Carbonneau, in a short news conference at the scene, according to news video. GripTech is “a rope rescue system that allows rescuers to be lowered vertically or horizontally from one level to another, or for raising victims,” according the company’s website.
The girl was riding in the back passenger seat of a vehicle when another vehicle pulled up next to it and someone inside opened fire, hitting only her, not the male driver, police said. The girl suffered a gunshot wound to the leg and was taken in a private vehicle to Mount Sinai Hospital, before being transferred to Stroger Hospital, where she initially was in good condition, police said.
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.
New York-based Columbia Care, which acquired Curative Health after it won the license, is one of the largest cannabis operators in the world, with 100 facilities in 18 jurisdictions in the United States and Europe, including dispensaries in Chicago’s Jefferson Park community and west suburban Villa Park. In contrast, Medponics is an upstart challenger, trying to get its first and only cannabis license.
The Northwestern Medicine study, published Friday in a peer-reviewed science journal that focuses on aging, found that more than 20% of the surviving patients who were admitted to the hospital during the first month of the pandemic returned to the hospital within four months. Of those, 12% returned in the first 30 days.
Wendolyn Reyes, 19, receives a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine during a mass vaccination event held by St. Anthony Hospital on May 2, 2021, in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago. St. Anthony hired about 80 people to go out into communities like Little Village, North Lawndale and Chinatown for the vaccine effort. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)
The Northwestern Medicine study, published Friday in a peer-reviewed science journal that focuses on aging, found that more than 20% of the surviving patients who were admitted to the hospital during the first month of the pandemic returned to the hospital within four months. Of those, 12% returned in the first 30 days.
Displaying “people’s report cards” that gave Lightfoot “F” grades for policing, education, the environment, housing, health and COVID-19, they chanted, “a people united will never be divided” and “if we don’t get it? Shut it down” as they marched through the neighborhood.
Even so, the indictment alleged that former 13th Ward Ald. Frank Olivo was paid $256,000 in consulting fees by Doherty’s company from December 2013 to April 2019. Two 13th Ward precinct captions were paid a total of $469,000 by Doherty’s firm from March 2014 to October 2016, according to the indictment.