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Gov. J.B. Pritzker, during an unrelated news conference in Belleville, was asked about Madigan’s announcement. Rather than focus on the former speaker, Pritzker lavished praise his family: “Look, I wish former Chairman Madigan, former Rep. Madigan, former Speaker Madigan well. One thing I will say is that when you serve as long, and in as dedicated a fashion in terms of just (the) sheer … number of hours that the man put into the job, his family can really suffer. It’s a challenge for the spouses and children and grandchildren of somebody who’s put that much into public service and I just want to call them out today and say, they really deserve kudos for, you know, the public service that that former Speaker Madigan did because it’s the family that often suffers … the fact that he’s not home when they’d like him to be.”

After arriving at the apartment, police obtained Oray’s phone number from her son and contacted Oray, who told police she was already on her way home. About 45 minutes after the call, Oray surrendered to police without incident and was released on a recognizance bond, said Joliet police Sgt. Dwayne English.

The company, which doesn’t own helicopters, has partnered with an operator to station aircraft for passenger use at Vertiport. The helicopters seat six, with passengers booked for each flight by Blade. Prices for Chicago have not been set, but run as low as $95 per person for airport flights in New York, Wiesenthal said.

In an email to county officials earlier this month, Olenek said she needed to hire 20 nurses, four registration clerks and eight nonmedical floaters. Other funding requests included money for medical supplies such as personal protective equipment, defibrillators, first aid kits and EpiPens as well as tablets, heaters, signs, traffic cones and flags.

By midday, 2.6 inches had fallen in Northbrook, with 2.2 inches in Schaumburg, 2 inches in Evanston and 1.7 inches in Oak Park, according to the weather service. Brief bursts of heavier snow were falling in the northwest and west suburbs and some counties west of the Chicago area, according to the weather service.

In addition to closures, restaurants and bars found in violation of COVID-19 restrictions face fines ranging from $100 to $500 for each instance of breaking an order set by the city Health Department and $2,000 to $10,000 for violating a BACP order. The fines are set at city administrative hearings after businesses are cited.

“It’s an absolute, abject, total, undeniable failure, which leads me to conclude that the only way that we can get out of this morass, this mess, this total breakdown in the mail delivery for the South Side and indeed for the entire Chicago postal district is we need a new management team,” Rush said. “I can only conclude and demand that the postmaster, Postmaster Prater, resign immediately or that she be terminated immediately. And I don’t do this lightly.”

“So that money, the CARES Act money, should have gone to our cousins, our family members who did not have enough PPE when we were all out doing mutual aid drives, should have gone to people getting food, which we were all giving out doing mutual aid drives, not more criminals. Not the police, who have already proven that they cannot stop, they cannot follow the law and they cannot stop beating Chicagoans.”

“The beauty here is that we have all the colleges — nursing, pharmacy, medicine, dentistry — helping out and volunteering, over 6,000 volunteer hours,” said Dr. Robert Barish, vice chancellor for health affairs. “It’s also great to see them working together. … They all get to interact together in a way they generally don’t have an opportunity to do.”