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Trucks travel on the outbound Eisenhower Expressway in Chicago on Jan. 18, 2022. A new study found the Chicago metropolitan area trails only Los Angeles and New York City in deaths and disease from breathing diesel soot pollution. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)

A Center for COVID Control location is closed in Des Plaines on Jan. 14, 2022. The Minnesota attorney general’s office announced Wednesday that it has filed a lawsuit against the company and its Illinois-based lab, Doctors Clinical Laboratory Inc. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)

Symptoms of severe THC poisoning can include respiratory distress, loss of coordination, lethargy and loss of consciousness, or in milder cases, anxiety, paranoia and heart palpitations. The effects depend largely on the amount consumed compared to body weight, which is why children can have more severe reactions.

For much of the school year, CPS has tried to administer 40,000 nasal swabs a week through its testing program. About 35,000 tests were taken last week, according to CPS data, with students only in school for three days because of the showdown. About 5% of those tests yielded positive results, which is higher than usual for the district.

Gary Rabine, a businessman from Bull Valley, reported $525,752 in cash on hand to start the year and has raised $22,500 in large-dollar contributions since then. In the three-month reporting period, Rabine raised $580,626, including a $180,000 loan he gave to his campaign in December. But Rabine spent nearly $471,000 during the time period. Since announcing his candidacy last year, Rabine has put more than $450,000 of his money into his campaign.

Crystal Carey, director of the emergency department at Loretto Hospital, second from right, and registered nurse Sandra Weeks, right, set up an additional bed in the hallway next to the nursing station as paramedics arrive with a patient on Jan. 12, 2022. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)

Plans for the $858 million project include a technology gauntlet — an electric barrier, underwater sound, an air bubble curtain and flushing lock — to stop carp from swimming to Lake Michigan. The prolific fish, able to reproduce rapidly and consume loads of plankton, threaten to transform ecosystems and harm the region’s $7 billion fishing industry.

Portrait of Marni Yang in the library at Logan Correctional Center on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020 in Lincoln, Illinois. Yang is serving a double life sentence for the murder of Rhoni Reuter and her unborn child. Yang’s case is currently being appealed by defense attorney Jed Stone. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune) (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)

Family and friends of Tamiko Talbert-Fleming, a hairstylist who was shot and killed while on her way to work last Friday, place flyers on vehicles Jan. 19, 2022, as they canvas the area in Chicago near where Talbert-Fleming was killed. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)

According to an order signed Tuesday by Chief Judge Timothy Evans, Raines has been reassigned to “restricted duties or duties other than judicial duties,” which generally focus on paperwork. He also must undergo sensitivity training and gender bias counseling, and the matter will be referred to the Judicial Inquiry Board.