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The statement in question had been distributed widely for nearly a week before a spokeswoman for State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office on Thursday said that while the facts stated in court were correct, the prosecutor, Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy, should not have phrased them in a way that could imply Toledo was armed at the exact moment he was shot.

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan speaks during a meeting where his replacement, Angie Guerrero-Cuellar, was chosen as the new state representative on Feb. 25, 2021, at the Balzekas Museum in West Lawn. Democratic committeemen in the 22nd House District met again to choose a replacement for Madigan in the Illinois House after the original appointee, Edward Guerra Kodatt, resigned three days into the job. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)

The gathering, advertised widely on social media, was the first major demonstration against the Chicago Police Department since the city released the video of Toledo’s killing Thursday. That night saw smaller protests in Millennium Park, at police headquarters in Bronzeville and in front of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge in the West Town neighborhood, as well as solemn vigils in Little Village, where the fatal shooting took place.

“If the General Assembly believes that the policies passed during the scheme were good but not biased enough toward ComEd and Exelon, that consumers should be forced to pay even more to get even less, then it should pass this bill,” said Abe Scarr, director of the Illinois Public Interest Research Group, a consumer watchdog. “But in doing so, it should defend its position to Illinois voters rather than obscuring its intent.”

“There’s some ridiculous numbers that have been put out there previously with no substantiation, no analysis, no information, just wild numbers,” Ferguson said before saying the legislation on the table was “as good as it gets if we really care about transparency” during a time of fraught public trust in Chicago police.

A mother from Cicero brought her daughters to pray April 16, 2021, at a memorial in the alley where Adam Toledo was fatally shot by police in the Little Village neighborhood. Artist Pablo Serrano painted the mural. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)

The hospital said it provided 15,668 vaccines, and 70% of them went to people of color. The audit found no other instances of ineligible shots, according to the hospital. In addition, the hospital said 95% of its staff is vaccinated. Less than 1% of its vaccines were improperly given, the hospital said.

According to district data from March, of nearly 208,000 eligible elementary and cluster students, 49,281 in total attended in person at least one day between Feb. 11 and March 12, out of 59,302 anticipated in-school learners. The most students in schools on any one day was 31,728, on a day when 42,372 were “expected.”

Colleges and universities will have specific links where students can register for an appointment, according to the health department. Those appointments will be available Saturday through Tuesday at sites throughout Adams, Kane, Madison, Sangamon, St. Clair, Winnebago, Cook, DuPage, Grundy, Lake and Will counties.

As he left the car, he told her, “Stay safe, take care, get home to East Chicago, you’re really sweet,” court records said. The woman told police she immediately sped off and called her mom, who was already at the Gary Police Station filing a missing persons report, records said.