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The United Center site will be the biggest in the state. It will have a “soft opening” on Tuesday, said Dan Shulman, a Federal Emergency Management Agency spokesman. Wednesday will be the first day the site will try to hit its goal of 6,000 vaccines per day. The site will be open seven days a week for eight weeks. Registration began at 8:30 a.m. Thursday.

About 8:15 a.m., in the 13700 block of South Brainerd Avenue in the Hegewisch neighborhood, a man was on train No. 114 when he became aggressive with a ticket collector and conductor who requested assistance from a transit police officer. When the officer, a railroad police officer with the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District, tried to remove the man, he became physically aggressive and a struggle ensued, and the officer discharged his weapon, Chicago police said.

About 8:15 a.m., in the 13700 block of South Brainerd Avenue in the Hegewisch neighborhood, a man was on train No. 114 when he became aggressive with a ticket collector and conductor who requested assistance from a transit police officer. When the officer, a railroad police officer with the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District, tried to remove the man, he became physically aggressive and a struggle ensued, and the officer discharged his weapon, Chicago police said.

Calvin Jones, 28, was arrested by the Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force early Tuesday afternoon in the 900 block of North Monticello Avenue in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, police said in a release. Jones is charged in the slaying of Pierre Romell Anderson of the Austin neighborhood.

It’s on the city seal. Mayor Richard J. Daley, then later Mayor Richard M. Daley, liked to celebrate with giant birthday cakes, always for the city incorporation date, which also happened to be the birthday of Eleanor “Sis” Daley, the elder Daley’s wife and the younger Daley’s mother.

It’s on the city seal. Mayor Richard J. Daley, then later Mayor Richard M. Daley, liked to celebrate with giant birthday cakes, always for the city incorporation date, which also happened to be the birthday of Eleanor “Sis” Daley, the elder Daley’s wife and the younger Daley’s mother.

The sites opening Thursday at 1155 E. Oakton St. in Des Plaines and in downstate Quincy, together, are geared to give shots to up to 4,000 people a day once at full capacity, the state said. With those sites, the state has 18 state-supported mass vaccination sites.

Along with the 25-year-old driver who had “unspecified injuries,” there were five passengers in the Aviator, including Zendejo. A boy, 6, was taken to Comer Childrens Hospital with minor injuries, police said. A 20-year-old man had a fractured arm and a 32-year-old man and a 19-year-old man each suffered “minor injuries,” all three were treated at a local hospital, officials said.

The initial strategy for distribution of the vaccine put in place in Chicago failed to account for language barriers, lack of technology access and work schedules in Black and Latino communities, and that contributed to mistrust that already existed, said Dolores Castañeda. Misinformation spread faster than proper resources and scientific facts from the start of the pandemic, and that’s contributed to mistrust, Castañeda said.

Kelly’s election also represents an abrupt shift for Democrats who now see their party’s largest organizations run by women, including two women of color: Kelly, becoming the first Black elected as state party chair, and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who heads the Cook County Democratic Party. Kristina Zahorik, of McHenry County, leads the Democratic County Chairs’ Association.