chicagotribune--2020-08-21--3 shot at Ukrainian Village barbershop

3 shot at Ukrainian Village barbershop

A 52-year-old woman was shot in the thigh , an 18-year-old man was shot in the ankle and a 20-year-old @ @ @ @ @ ankle and thigh , police said .
The woman was in fair condition at Mount @ @ @ @ @ men were take to Stroger Hospital , where they also were listed in fair condition

Chicago police point to bullet shells outside a barbershop in the 1100 block of North Western Avenue where three people were shot, Aug. 21, 2020. (Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)
A 52-year-old woman and two men have been shot at a barbershop in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood Friday afternoon.
About 2:30 p.m. the door of MVP Cuts, 1107 N. Western Ave., flew open and two gunmen opened fire, hitting the victims, all of whom were inside the shop, police said.
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The assailants fled and the victims were tended to by Chicago Fire department paramedics.
A 52-year-old woman was shot in the thigh, an 18-year-old man was shot in the ankle and a 20-year-old man was shot in the ankle and thigh, police said. The woman was in fair condition at Mount Sinai Hospital, while the men were take to Stroger Hospital, where they also were listed in fair condition
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Multiple shell casings could be seen inside and out of the shop. As of about 3:15 p.m., staffers could be seen inside the shop speaking with Chicago police officers. The sidewalk on Western was taped off.
Nobody was arrested, police said.
Area Three detectives are investigating.
Check back for details.
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chicagotribune--2020-08-21--Mayor Lori Lightfoot invokes Kent State shootings to oppose National Guard troops in Chicago after a

Mayor Lori Lightfoot invokes Kent State shootings to oppose National Guard troops in Chicago after allies stall plan to seek state of emergency

The meeting became tense at times .
Ald .
Byron Sigcho-Lopez , 25th , criticized Lightfoot for not sharing information @ @ @ @ @ communicating more often with aldermen .
Referring to Lightfoot ’ s recent comment that President @ @ @ @ @ , Eric , has sent her “ little notes ” after the city ’ s @ @ @ @ @ “ protesters and vigilantes , ” Sigcho-Lopez said Eric Trump has an easier time getting @ @ @ @ @ than people on the South and West Side of Chicago .
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot uses her gavel to begin a virtual City Council meeting from her office at City Hall on June 17, 2020. (Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune)
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and her City Council allies stalled an effort led by political rivals on Friday to ask the governor to declare a state of emergency in Chicago and send the National Guard into the city.
At a news conference after the meeting, Lightfoot reiterated her opposition to bringing in the guard by invoking the 1970 Kent State shootings where guardsmen killed four and injured nine others on the Ohio college’s campus.
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“That was a huge moment in my young life,” Lightfoot, an Ohio native who was 7 at the time, said.
Lightfoot said she understands the concerns of people worried about their safety but learned from that experience that National Guard troops have very different training than police.
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“I don’t want a circumstance where we bring in a tool that isn’t the right tool for the moment,” Lightfoot said.
A handful of aldermen, including Raymond Lopez, Anthony Beale and Anthony Napolitano, had invoked a rarely used state law on Wednesday to force the City Council into a special meeting. Only 26 members were needed to hold a meeting, but nearly the entire council roster was present for the virtual meeting.
Moments into it, and after a brief debate, Lightfoot allies maneuvered the National Guard proposal into a committee — delaying the matter for possible future consideration.
Public safety chairman Ald. Chris Taliaferro, 29th, accused the aldermen who pushed the measure of being anti-democratic for circumventing the normal system where proposals are introduced and debated in committee before heading to the full City Council. Taliaferro then called for a vote to send the matter to committee and Beale started to speak.
Lightfoot attempted to cut him off and he accused her of stifling debate.
“This not a dictatorship, madam President,” Beale countered.
Lightfoot relented, but after a short debate, aldermen voted 30-17 to send the matter to committee. Aldermen also voted 43-4 to send a resolution calling on the budget committee to hold monthly hearings on public safety to that same committee.
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Some of the aldermen who voted against sending the National Guard issue to committee expressed concerns about recent civil unrest in Chicago.
But others said they voted no because they were prepared to speak against the motion on Friday.
“I voted ‘no’ to refer the National Guard resolution to committee because I’m prepared to discuss and vote against this misguided resolution today,” Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, 35th, tweeted. “This mayoral administration has consistently used her hand-picked committee chairs to (stifle) debate and our democratic process.”
Any request for the Guard to be called in is unlikely to receive an enthusiastic response from the Illinois National Guard, whose commander has repeatedly said he is uncomfortable with using uniformed soldiers as law enforcement officers and the potential perception of his troops going to war with other citizens.
The meeting became tense at times. Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez, 25th, criticized Lightfoot for not sharing information with the City Council and communicating more often with aldermen. Referring to Lightfoot’s recent comment that President Donald Trump’s son, Eric, has sent her “little notes” after the city’s protected Trump Tower downtown from “protesters and vigilantes,” Sigcho-Lopez said Eric Trump has an easier time getting responses from the mayor “than people on the South and West Side of Chicago.”
At the end of the meeting, Beale asked whether there were three items on the agenda.
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“The meeting is adjourned, sir,” Lightfoot replied — and the feed cut off.
Afterward, Lightfoot noted that aldermen can adjourn at any time, even if there’s unfinished business.
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chicagotribune--2020-08-21--Hundreds more lawsuits filed over ethylene oxide emissions at Sterigenics plant in Willowbrook

“ Sterigenics empathizes with anyone battling cancer , but we are confident that operations at our Willowbrook facility are not @ @ @ @ @ alleged in any lawsuit , ” a spokesman for the company said in a statement @ @ @ @ @ lawsuits .
“ As we have stated previously , we intend to vigorously defend against @ @ @ @ @ meritless claims .
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Hundreds of new lawsuits have been filed against Sterigenics alleging that health problems including cancer and miscarriages were caused by ethylene oxide emissions from the Willowbrook facility, bringing the total number of cases filed in Cook County against the sterilization company to more than 700.
This week, more than 600 individual lawsuits were filed on behalf of people who lived and worked near Sterigenics, according to Romanucci & Blandin, one of the law firms filing the cases. The new lawsuits follow the approximately 75 filed previously.
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Sterigenics has known of ethylene oxide’s carcinogenic effects since at least 1984, one of the complaints alleges. “Notwithstanding, Defendants chose to operate their business and emit EtO in a densely populated area full of children, houses, parks, schools, and business,” the filing reads.
Defendants in the lawsuits include Sterigenics U.S. LLC, Sotera Health, Griffith Foods, private equity firm GTCR LLC and two managers.
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Willowbrook Mayor Frank Trilla hugs state Rep. Deanne Mazzochi, R-Westmont, left, and Michele Berg after a news conference on Sept., 30, 2019, at Village Hall to celebrate Sterigenics' announcement of its plans to exit operations in the suburb. (Camille Fine / Chicago Tribune)
“Sterigenics empathizes with anyone battling cancer, but we are confident that operations at our Willowbrook facility are not responsible for causing the illnesses alleged in any lawsuit,” a spokesman for the company said in a statement responding to inquiries about the lawsuits. “As we have stated previously, we intend to vigorously defend against the plaintiffs’ unfounded and meritless claims.”
Patrick Salvi II of Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard, another firm representing the plaintiffs, said in a statement that the “magnitude of the number of individual cases filed shows the devastating impact Sterigenics had on the Willowbrook community.”
“But this is not about a large number of lawsuits, this is about individual people — each of whom has suffered physical, emotional and financial hardship and, in too many cases, even death,” Salvi said. “They each deserve to have justice served.”
In January, attorneys said more lawsuits were likely to come over health problems allegedly caused by the facility. In the 76th lawsuit filed, six women who worked at Hinsdale South High School for at least 18 years alleged they contracted cancer because of toxic ethylene oxide emissions from the company’s plant in Willowbrook.
Activists from Stop Sterigenics gather at Willowbrook Village Hall to celebrate Sterigenics' announcement of its plans to exit operations in Willowbrook on Sept., 30, 2019. (Camille Fine / Chicago Tribune)
The initial 75 cases filed in Cook County Circuit Court were assigned to Judge Christopher Lawler with Antonio M. Romanucci as the court-appointed lead counsel.
Sterigenics closed its Willowbrook plant in September, citing an unstable regulatory landscape and a failure to broker a new deal on its lease amid opposition from community groups and local politicians.
The Willowbrook facility, which sterilized medical equipment with ethylene oxide, came to public attention in 2018 when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency listed surrounding neighborhoods among just a few dozen nationwide facing cancer risks from air pollution that exceeded agency guidelines.
Nearly all of the risk is from exposure to ethylene oxide, a volatile, easily absorbed chemical added to the federal list of carcinogens in 1985. More recent research shows the chemical is far more dangerous than previously thought, and in 2016 the EPA concluded that exposure to even small concentrations can cause breast cancer, leukemia and lymphomas.
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chicagotribune--2020-08-21--Toddler dies in Northwest Indiana mobile home fire; mother airlifted

Eakins said it was a tragic afternoon for firefighters , as well .
“ The firemen are all heartbroken .
@ @ @ @ @ could under the circumstances .
My heart goes out to the family , ” said @ @ @ @ @ get used to this .
We all have families .
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Fire investigators returned Friday to the scene of a Thursday afternoon New Chicago mobile home fire that killed a 2-year-old girl and injured her mother, who was airlifted to the University of Chicago Hospital. (Carole Carlson / Post-Tribune)
A 1-year-old girl died in a Thursday mobile home fire in New Chicago and her mother is fighting for her life in a Chicago hospital.
The Lake County coroner’s office said the girl’s identity has not been confirmed and an autopsy was scheduled Friday to determine the cause of death.
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Authorities said the fire broke out in the single-wide trailer on Scotch Street in the Ravinia Pines Mobile Home Park, 534 E. 37th Place, in Hobart.
Flames were so intense that nearby mobile homes on each side were badly damaged. Little remained of the trailer where the fire began, other than twisted metal and rubble.
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The mobile home park straddles the neighboring communities of Lake Station, New Chicago and Hobart.
New Chicago Fire Chief Joe Eakins said the fire began about 2:30 p.m. and the smoke was so heavy it could be seen from miles away.
Six neighboring fire departments including Hobart, Lake Station, Portage, South Haven, Merrillville and Lake Ridge, joined New Chicago’s volunteer department in supplying water and fighting the fire.
“We needed water,” said Eakins. “There’s one hydrant, but it’s a long drop.”
Eakins said the girl’s mother was found on the floor in a bedroom by New Chicago and Hobart firefighters. He said she was unconscious when they carried her out of the home.
She was airlifted to the University of Chicago Medical Center.
Neighbors told firefighters the toddler could still be trapped inside.
Firefighters discovered the girl’s body on the living room floor.
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Merrillville Fire Marshal Phil Topar, the lead investigator for the state fire marshal’s office, said there was no indication of arson. While some neighbors said they heard an explosion, Topar said nothing inside the home exploded. A tire on a neighbor’s car, buried in debris, might have exploded, he said.
Topar said a Hobart firefighter suffered from heat exhaustion during the blaze but wasn’t hospitalized.
Lake Station Fire Chief Chuck Fazekas, who was on the scene Friday with Eakins and Topar, said the park doesn’t have enough fire hydrants. The officials said the park was private property and Topar said mobile home park regulations fall under state guidelines. He said the trailer where the fire erupted was built in 1977.
Louis Alvarado, who lives next door, lost his mobile home, as well.
He said he left about 11:30 a.m. Thursday to help his fiancée plan her grandfather’s funeral. Their three children went with them.
He received a call from his sister-in-law telling him his house was on fire.
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“I came home about 3ish. It was all gone,” he said of his mobile home.
A park official said Alvarado and his family were relocated to another mobile home in the park.
Eakins said it was a tragic afternoon for firefighters, as well. “The firemen are all heartbroken. They did the best they could under the circumstances. My heart goes out to the family,” said Eakins. “You never get used to this. We all have families.”
Jacqueline Carman, of Beecher, Illinois, the aunt and godmother of the injured woman said the toddler’s father, who works in the maintenance department at the mobile home park, came home and tried to enter the trailer as it burned.
“He went there and was beating on the windows and the cops pulled him away,” she said.
Carman said her niece was in critical condition and could require surgery. She said she suffered burns and smoke inhalation. “I’m just praying my niece will make it.”
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She said her great niece, who died in the fire, would have turned 2 later this month. “She was a happy baby; she always danced,” said Carman.
Carman said the family did not have health insurance and she is raising money for funeral expenses, as well as collecting clothing for the family who lost all their belongings. She has also set up an online fundraising page.
She can be contacted at 708-890-7973.
Ravinia Pines is also accepting donations for the family in its office.
Carole Carlson is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune.


chicagotribune--2020-08-21--Kanye West is off Illinois’ Nov. 3 ballot, state elections board rules

Also on Friday , the Ohio secretary of state ’ s office tossed West from that critical presidential state ’ @ @ @ @ @ paperwork .
A day earlier , the Wisconsin Elections Commission voted to kick him off @ @ @ @ @ ballot for submitting candidacy petitions after a 5 p.m. deadline on Aug. 5 .
Also @ @ @ @ @ tossed his name off the ballot for insufficient signatures .
His ballot status is pending @ @ @ @ @ , Massachusetts and New Jersey .

Kanye West makes his first presidential campaign appearance, in North Charleston, S.C., on July 19, 2020. (Lauren Petracca Ipetracca/The Post And Courier)
Rap artist, entrepreneur and aspiring presidential candidate Kanye West, a Chicago native, did not qualify to appear on Illinois’ Nov. 3 ballot, the Illinois State Board of Elections decided Friday.
Board members, acting to finalize the fall ballot, voted 8-0 that West, whose independent campaign has been associated with a number of Republican operatives in other states, fell short of filing the required number of signatures needed to appear on the ballot.
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The move by the board, made up equally of Republicans and Democrats, was not surprising after two separate binder checks reviewing the authenticity of West’s candidacy petitions found they fell far below the minimum needed.
Of the 3,128 signatures West filed with the elections board on July 20, one review found 1,928 of them were invalid, leaving him 1,300 signatures short of the 2,500 needed to become an independent candidate on the Illinois ballot. Attorneys for West did not contest the findings of the review.
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The 2,500 signature standard is actually 10 times lower than usually required under a federal court order prompted by challenges to state law by third-party and independent candidates who cited personal restrictions due to the pandemic hindered their efforts to circulate petitions. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the modified filing rules Thursday.
West’s campaign can appeal the election board’s ruling in court. Representatives for his campaign were not available for comment.
West’s efforts to make ballots in a variety of states, where his campaign did not miss already expired deadlines, have met with mixed success.
He has qualified for the ballot so far in Iowa, Arkansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Utah and Vermont. Earlier this week, he filed petitions for the ballot in Minnesota and Wyoming, where he lists his residence.
Also on Friday, the Ohio secretary of state’s office tossed West from that critical presidential state’s ballot due to botched paperwork. A day earlier, the Wisconsin Elections Commission voted to kick him off the battleground state’s ballot for submitting candidacy petitions after a 5 p.m. deadline on Aug. 5. Also on Thursday, Montana officials tossed his name off the ballot for insufficient signatures. His ballot status is pending in Missouri, West Virginia, Massachusetts and New Jersey.
West, who was a supporter of President Donald Trump, had said he had a falling out with the Republican chief executive. But Democrats contended West’s late bid for the White House was an attempt to take Black votes away from Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
In an interview with Forbes on Aug. 6, West acknowledged he was playing a spoiler role since his campaign would not appear on ballots in enough states to gain the 270 electoral votes needed to run a successful campaign for the presidency.
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Trump has said that he likes “Kanye very much,” but “I’m not involved” in his campaign. The New York Times reported that West met with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka Trump in Colorado in early August. Kushner said they did not talk about the campaign and West told Forbes the two speak “almost daily.”
Speaking to reporters Thursday, Democratic U.S. Rep. Danny Davis of Chicago said he doubted West would have much of an impact on siphoning Black votes from Biden in states where he appears on the ballot.
“I don’t think there are many individuals who are viewing Kanye West’s efforts to do whatever he’s doing seriously,” Davis said. “So I don’t think it will have much impact at all. As a matter of fact, he’s a good entertainer and he ought to stick to it.”
In mid-July West held a bizarre kickoff rally in North Charleston, South Carolina, where he occasionally wept, pledged that mothers should receive $1 million per child and criticized Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist icon who helped free slaves from the South through the Underground Railroad, as merely moving slaves to “go work for other white people.”
West’s wife, Kim Kardashian West, has raised concerns about her husband’s history of mental illness. In an Instagram post, she asked for understanding about the rapper suffering a bipolar episode in late July and said that “those who are close with Kanye know his heart and understand his words sometimes do not align with his intentions.”
West’s presidential bid surfaced as he promoted the release of a new album last month named after his late mother, Donda.
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Meanwhile, a challenge to the petitions filed by Willie Wilson, who twice failed in bids to become Chicago’s mayor and who also failed in a long shot bid for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, was withdrawn. Wilson will be on the ballot, challenging Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, who is seeking a fifth term. Former Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran is the Republican nominee.
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chicagotribune--2020-08-21--Running list: Chicago-area restaurants closed permanently due to coronavirus pandemic economic woes

La Sardine , which has been a fixture in the West Loop for nearly 22 years , has closed for good .
“ It ’ s sad , ” said partner and executive chef Oliver Poilevey about closing La Sardine , founded by his parents , along with Le Bouchon in Bucktown .
“ A month , month and a half ago , I thought we were going to make it.
” La Sardine has no outdoor space in which to set up tables , but had eked by with meals-to-go and , eventually , indoor dining with the 25 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ turned warm and the unthinkable happened : The air conditioning broke down .
Looking at $ 80,000 in repairs , Poilevey asked the building ’ s landlord to fix it .
After a month of negotiations , the answer was no .
And Poilevey knew he could not risk taking on the cost .
“ There ’ s no way we could pay for that , heading into the fall with no rent abatement , ” Poilevey said .
“ Throwing 80K at something and then having to close — that ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ remains open for pickup and indoor dining , though space inside is limited .
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chicagotribune--2020-08-21--After nearly 18 years, Tin Fish restaurant closed permanently by coronavirus

“ I made a deal with my landlord ; we bumped elbows on it yesterday , ” he said .
@ @ @ @ @ canceling Nicor and ComEd , and what a pain in the butt , you ’ @ @ @ @ @ hours trying to get through .
I ’ m looking at the Tin Fish logo @ @ @ @ @ .
We had gotten one of the last boxes of ( fresh ) Dover sole @ @ @ @ @ to freeze most of it ; I ’ m going to be enjoying that for @ @ @

Tin Fish in Tinley Park closed in July. Partner Curtis Wierbicki says he has “no idea” what will come next. (Bob Bong / Daily Southtown)
The coronavirus claimed another high-profile restaurant victim with the permanent closure of Tin Fish, a highly regarded restaurant in south suburban Tinley Park.
A sign on the front door of the seafood restaurant and oyster bar thanked customers “for 18 great years,” and said the decision to close came “with a heavy heart.”
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The closure was first reported Aug. 11 by the Daily Southtown, a Tribune Publishing newspaper.
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“I’m not happy, but it’s something a lot of us are going through,” said partner Curtis Wierbicki, who launched the restaurant in September 2002 with partner Colin Turner. Both had significant restaurant experience at the time; Turner was a Shaw’s Crab House veteran and Wierbicki helped launch North Pond restaurant (then North Pond Cafe). The two of them turned the Tinley Park restaurant into a destination for serious cooking, particularly seafood. An independent restaurant in a sea of chains.
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Wierbicki said he tried different ways to maintain business after the shutdown. “But we didn’t have any patio,” he said. “We tried carryout, but seafood doesn’t travel well, not compared to Italian.”
Tin Fish partner Curtis Wierbicki, pictured at the restaurant in 2018, said they struggled to maintain business. (Howard Ludwig / Daily Southtown)
When indoor dining returned, Tin Fish reopened, but Wierbicki said he had trouble staffing his kitchen. “It wasn’t that they were afraid of getting sick,” he said. “The crew didn’t want to pass (the virus) to older family members.”
And then, Wierbicki said, two of the restaurant’s regular guests told him that they had tested positive.
“We gathered everybody together,” he said. “It was July 2, and we were going to be closed for the Fourth of July weekend anyway. And we closed down. That was it after 18 years.”
Wierbicki says he has “no idea” what will come next. He’s busy with final details and paperwork.
“I made a deal with my landlord; we bumped elbows on it yesterday,” he said. “Now I’m canceling Nicor and ComEd, and what a pain in the butt, you’re on the phone for hours trying to get through. I’m looking at the Tin Fish logo, sitting in my garden. We had gotten one of the last boxes of (fresh) Dover sole, and ended up having to freeze most of it; I’m going to be enjoying that for awhile.”


chicagotribune--2020-08-21--Central Illinois teen convicted of shooting 3 at Bradley frat party in 2018, killing pre-med student

Central Illinois teen convicted of shooting 3 at Bradley frat party in 2018, killing pre-med student from Chicago

The South Peoria man will be sentenced Oct. 14 , for the deaths of Anthony Polnitz , 22 , and @ @ @ @ @ Chicago woman who was a pre-med student at Bradley .
Another woman was shot in @ @ @ @ @ 8 , 2018 , shooting at the party in Peoria .

A family photograph of Nasjay Murry, a graduate of King College Prep in Chicago. Murry, an aspiring doctor studying at Bradley University in Peoria, was shot to death during a party near the campus. (Zbigniew Bzdak / Chicago Tribune)
PEORIA, Ill. — A central Illinois teenager has been convicted in a 2018 shooting that killed two people and wounded a third at a fraternity party near the Bradley University campus.
A Peoria County jury found Jermontay Brock, 18, guilty Thursday of all four counts he had faced, including first-degree murder charges, WEEK-TV reported.
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The South Peoria man will be sentenced Oct. 14, for the deaths of Anthony Polnitz, 22, and Nasjay Murry, an 18-year-old Chicago woman who was a pre-med student at Bradley. Another woman was shot in the hand in the April 8, 2018, shooting at the party in Peoria.
Prosecutors said Brock, who was then 16, opened fire at the party because he wanted to make a name for himself within the Bomb Squad — a local street gang — when he saw a rival gang member at the party.
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Murry’s parents, Tarrano Murry and Natalie Hilton, said they were relieved that justice was served and that the person who killed their daughter would remain behind bars for a long time, the Peoria Journal Star reported.
But Hilton told said Brock’s convictions didn’t help with the pain of losing a daughter.
Polnitz’s father, Evester Polnitz, said after the jury’s verdict that justice had “prevailed in the end.”
“I’m always going to have to talk to my son from the grave. As time goes on, I can probably forgive... but no, I can never move on,” he said.
Brock’s four-day trial was spread out over a month. The presiding judge continued the case late last month after several positive COVID-19 cases were reported at the Peoria County Jail.


chicagotribune--2020-08-21--COVID-19 cases in Illinois by ZIP code: Search for your neighborhood

Search below by street address , ZIP code or city , then click on the map to see the number @ @ @ @ @ state is not providing data for any ZIP code with five cases or fewer .

Note: With Chicago and Illinois moving into phase 5, the Tribune is no longer updating this data. If the state moves back into bridge phase, the Tribune we reassess. Daily metrics on COVID-19, like cases, deaths and hospitalizations, can be found here. And Daily metrics on the vaccination effort can be found here. More on where the coronavirus stands nationally and around the world can be found here.
Illinois releases the number of positive COVID-19 cases by ZIP code daily. The map below shows the cumulative cases for each area as well as other analysis of the data.
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chicagotribune--2020-08-21--COVID-19 in Illinois by the numbers: Here’s a daily update on cases, positivity rate and hospital da

COVID-19 in Illinois by the numbers: Here’s a daily update on cases, positivity rate and hospital data in your area

Among the metrics ( see below ) tracked under guidelines set by Gov .
J.B. Pritzker are the percentage of @ @ @ @ @ , the number of people hospitalized for COVID-19-like illnesses , and the capacity of hospitals @ @ @ @ @ state will decide how much or how little to restrict activities based on these metrics @

Note: With Chicago and Illinois moving into phase 5, the Tribune is no longer updating this data. If the state moves back into bridge phase, the Tribune we reassess. Daily metrics on COVID-19, like cases, deaths and hospitalizations, can be found here. And Daily metrics on the vaccination effort can be found here. More on where the coronavirus stands nationally and around the world can be found here.
To assess how different parts of Illinois are handling the COVID-19 pandemic, officials look at the state through the 11 regions of Emergency Medical Services. The city of Chicago is one region, for example, and the rest of Cook County is another.
Among the metrics (see below) tracked under guidelines set by Gov. J.B. Pritzker are the percentage of coronavirus tests that return positive, the number of people hospitalized for COVID-19-like illnesses, and the capacity of hospitals to take in new patients.The state will decide how much or how little to restrict activities based on these metrics. (Cases, deaths and tests data is as of Dec. 31).
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chicagotribune--2020-08-21--Watch live: Mayor Lori Lightfoot provides an update after Chicago City Council meeting

Mayor Lori Lightfoot is expected to provide an update after a meeting of the Chicago City Council at 12:45 p.m. @ @ @ @ @ updates here .


chicagotribune--2020-08-21--Daily Illinois coronavirus graphs: 24 new deaths, 2,208 new confirmed cases and a record 51,736 new

Daily Illinois coronavirus graphs: 24 new deaths, 2,208 new confirmed cases and a record 51,736 new test results

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chicagotribune--2020-08-21--Gary teens charged as adults in October pizza delivery driver’s murder

Hearne showed up with the pizza order that evening on the 3500 block of Pierce Street .
Honeycutt ordered him @ @ @ @ @ a gun , charges state .
Hearne got out and jumped on top of him @ @ @ @ @ off , he shot him , documents said .

Two Gary teens were charged Tuesday with luring a Rico’s Pizza delivery man to his death during a robbery.
Melvin Brown and Arshield Honeycutt, both 17, were charged as adults with murder in the Oct. 26 shooting death of Phillip Hearne, 60, Lake Superior court records show.
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Hearne showed up with the pizza order that evening on the 3500 block of Pierce Street. Honeycutt ordered him out of the SUV with a gun, charges state. Hearne got out and jumped on top of him and after Honeycutt pushed him off, he shot him, documents said.
Arshield Honeycutt (Lake County Sheriff's Department)
Hearne tried to drive away, hitting two cars. Gary police initially thought it was a crash until paramedics realized Hearne had been shot, documents show. The pizzas in the back seat were still warm and he later died at Methodist Hospitals, documents said.
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Police linked the murder to a robbery of a Domino’s pizza delivery driver the prior day, documents state.
The teens allegedly robbed the Domino’s driver of $10 and two large pizzas, other charges show. It was his first or second day on the job, the man told police.
In both cases, the pizzas were ordered at the same address down the block. Police traced both calls to the same cellphone, documets state. Both teens are charged with theft and armed robbery in that case.
As police interviewed Brown, with his mother present, they played the audio from Domino’s order, where she identified the voice, giving the name “Joshua” as her son, records show.
Melvin Brown. (Lake County Sheriff's Department)
Brown told detectives that it was Honeycutt’s idea for Rico’s Pizza robbery, records state. He made the call for the pizza, while Honeycutt shot the driver, charges state.
At the time, Hearne’s family waited for hours at the hospital, thinking he had been in a car crash. His widow later said she found out he got shot through an online news update. Then-Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson apologized to the family.
Littered with abandoned homes, the city has been hit in recent years with several opportunistic crimes, often from suspects in their teens or 20s living nearby, targeting pizza deliverers, whom often work alone. Rico’s is one of the few places in Gary that delivers pizzas. Most don’t because of safety concerns.
In 2015, Tate Hatchett, 68, of Chicago, was behind the wheel, assisting a friend delivering pizzas for Rico’s when he was shot to death in a robbery.
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In November, Luigi’s delivery driver David Shelton was shot dead in Gary’s Glen Park section.
In January, another Gary teen, Gary Lee Higgins, then 18, was charged with calling in a pizza order to an abandoned house on his block for a robbery. Higgins is also charged in the shooting death of Johnny Peluyera, 16, of Merrillville, lured to an ambush after he offered to buy his used Xbox.


chicagotribune--2020-08-21--Column: Biden drives a stake through Trump’s ‘Sleepy Joe’ attacks, reminds us what we’ve missed in a

Column: Biden drives a stake through Trump’s ‘Sleepy Joe’ attacks, reminds us what we’ve missed in a leader

For four years we ’ ve been bombarded by childish taunts and imbecility .
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Former Vice President Joe Biden accepts his party's presidential nomination during the Democratic National Convention, in Wilmington, Delaware, on Aug. 20, 2020. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
I had been told Joe Biden was incapable of completing a sentence, that he was a doddering old man holed up in his basement and also an unstoppable, raging leftist who would unleash terror on America’s suburbs.
I never put much stock in any of that, and on Thursday night, as the Democratic National Convention wrapped up, the former vice president drove a stake through the heart of President Donald Trump’s “Sleepy Joe” and “Slow Joe” attacks.
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Biden will never be a grand orator. And when it comes to convention speeches, or most political speeches, for that matter, you can take the promises and soaring rhetoric with a grain of salt.
But Biden did precisely what he needed to do Thursday night, speaking without an audience in our coronavirus-altered world. Passionately, clearly and forcefully, he said things we aren’t used to hearing.
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Things like: “I will draw on the best of us, not the worst. I will be an ally of the light, not the darkness.”
He promised to be “an American president,” adding: “I will work hard for those who didn’t support me.”
He decried America’s divisions under Trump: “Too much anger. Too much fear. Too much division.”
You can say that again. In fact, please say that again. It’s honestly refreshing to hear.
For four years we’ve been bombarded by childish taunts and imbecility. We’ve had a president who treats any American who doesn’t support him as an enemy, even members of his own party. A president who just the other day shared a tweet that read: “Leave Democrat cities. Let them rot.”
Biden will never change the minds of the president’s most loyal followers. They’ll stick with him through the presidency and beyond, never finding fault.
That’s OK. That’s where they want to be, and it’s a point of no return.
But for the rest of us, the liberals and the independents, and even the conservatives who maybe, just maybe, think character counts and extreme narcissism is troubling, Biden showed something.
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He showed empathy. Compassion for the tens of thousands who have died from COVID-19, for their families and friends. Concern for Americans who confront racism, bigotry and sexism.
He showed he’s imperfect, and unafraid to admit it. He showed it’s possible to deliver an entire political speech without extolling your own greatness.
He showed his voice won’t be the only one that matters. That he’ll listen, that he’ll take advice.
He didn’t need to be cruel. He didn’t need to write off Americans who disagree. He presented himself to all Americans and said: “Are you ready?”
What I saw Thursday night was not a perfect person — there are none — or a perfect presidential candidate. What I saw was not a person I think will get everything right or manage to mend all the tears in our national fabric.
What I did see was an American. Someone who, I believe, actually gives a damn about something greater than himself. Someone capable of taking steps forward without knocking somebody else down.
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I don’t know if that moment Thursday night in Delaware, in the middle of a year of health and economic cataclysm, will change minds.
But it was a moment that reminded many of us — and I’ll bet even some reluctant to admit it — exactly what we’ve missed seeing in a leader.
rhuppke@chicagotribune.com


chicagotribune--2020-08-21--Woman, 73, shot while opening door to relative in Calumet Heights on South Side

She was shot around 2 a.m. in the 9000 block of South Oglesby Avenue , police said .
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A 73-year-old woman was shot in the chest when she opened the back door of her home for a visiting relative in the Calumet Heights neighborhood on the South Side early Friday, according to Chicago police.
The woman was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in serious condition, police said. No one was in custody.
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She was shot around 2 a.m. in the 9000 block of South Oglesby Avenue, police said. The relative told police he believes someone was aiming at him as he entered the home and hit the woman.
No description of the gunman was available.


chicagotribune--2020-08-21--Pilot killed when plane veers off runway and catches fire at Rockford Airport

The pilot of a private plane died when it veered off a runway and caught fire Thursday at Chicago Rockford @ @ @ @ @ .

Airport officials investigate a fatal plane crash at the end of a runway at Chicago Rockford International Airport, Aug. 20, 2020, in Rockford. (Scott P. Yates/Rockford Register Star/AP)
The pilot of a private plane died when it veered off a runway and caught fire Thursday at Chicago Rockford International Airport, authorities said.
The Beechcraft King Air twin-engine plane was taxiing when it ran off a runway, authorities said. The National Transportation Safety Board was investigating.
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Winnebago County Coroner Bill Hintz did not identify the victim of the accident.
The FAA says the plane can carry between seven and 13 passengers.


chicagotribune--2020-08-20--The COVID-19 crisis truly won’t end until we have a vaccine — here’s a rundown of our current effort

The COVID-19 crisis truly won’t end until we have a vaccine — here’s a rundown of our current efforts and how long it might take

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Jeffrey Hubbell in his lab at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at University of Chicago on Aug, 12, 2020. He specializes in bioengineering and is involved in early-stage vaccine development. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)
As COVID-19 continues to ravage the world, much attention is focused on one great hope: a safe, effective and widely available vaccine that would allow people to again embrace friends, go back to work and ditch that lurking feeling of dread.
Getting there won’t be simple. Devising a vaccine is a complex, multistep process that takes years — and sometimes never succeeds.
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Still, scientists have great expectations this time around, given the worldwide focus on vaccine development, recent leaps forward in biotechnology and the federal government’s declaration of Operation Warp Speed, a multibillion-dollar taxpayer funded effort to ramp up production of vaccines even before scientists determine which one will be effective and safe.
“Right now, we pray that this will work,” said Dr. Kathleen Mullane, an infectious disease expert at University of Chicago Medicine who has been involved in clinical vaccine trials. “We might be able to expect to see a vaccine available commercially either by next fall or Christmas — not the coming one, but a year from now.”
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Despite all the urgency, scientific advances and funding, there are many hurdles. In addition to the difficulty of creating and evaluating vaccines at an accelerated pace, countries must figure out how to manufacture, store and distribute hundreds of millions of doses — as well as convince enough people to be vaccinated to halt the spread of the disease.
Here’s a rundown of how the process works and where we stand now:
How vaccines work
The goal of vaccination is to prevent someone from getting infected with the targeted disease or give their immune system the tools to quickly defeat the infection if it occurs. Some do both.
The idea is to trigger a robust immune response to the attacking virus or bacterium — the same type of bodily reaction that in most cases is able to defeat the infection and prevent a recurrence — but without causing the life-threatening illness.
“We want the vaccine to do as well as severe disease in inducing an immune response, but not have any severity with it,” said Dr. Stanley Perlman, a University of Iowa professor of microbiology and immunology who has studied coronaviruses for 38 years.
Heather Lieberman, 28, receives a COVID-19 trial vaccination at the Research Centers of America in Hollywood, Florida, on Aug. 13, 2020. (Chandan Khanna/Getty-AFP)
A successful vaccine will protect most, but not all, of the individuals it’s given to. The ultimate goal is to vaccinate enough people that it becomes very hard for the disease to spread. This kind of community protection is commonly called herd immunity.
“Vaccines don’t prevent anything — vaccination does,” Dr. Barry Bloom, a professor of public health at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University, said in a recent forum.
The vaccination percentage that is necessary to achieve herd immunity varies from disease to disease. Many scientists estimate that for COVID-19 the necessary percentage is around 60%.
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But doctors and public health experts worry that not enough people will get vaccinated to reach that target, given the government’s involvement in the effort at a time when trust in institutions is waning and an anti-vaccination movement is alive and well.
“Polls show that less than half of Americans would take the vaccine,” Perlman said. “That has to change a lot.”
[ A COVID-19 vaccine still hasn’t emerged — but some are already wary of it ]
Indeed, a recent poll and a separate survey each found reluctance or refusal to take a vaccine in a significant portion of the population. The hesitancy is particularly great in the Black community, which has the highest rate of mortality from COVID-19.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has taken note of the problem, saying the city will develop a vaccination education program to boost the numbers if a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available.
“I hope that people — if we see that it’s effective of course — will follow through and get the vaccine to protect their families, protect their friends and everybody else in the world,” Mullane said.
Building a vaccine
Many vaccines are based on a weakened, partial or killed virus or bacterium that still triggers the necessary immune response. Toxins caused by a targeted bacterium are sometimes also used.
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In addition, scientists for years have been trying to use RNA, a genetic building block, to cause the body to produce a type of toxin called an antigen that would provoke an immune response. It’s hoped that such vaccines will be safer, less expensive and easier to manufacture.
Once a potential vaccine shows promise to work in a test tube, it is typically tried on small animals and then primates. If that all goes well, the research moves into the human trial stage.
Testing for safety is the focus of phase 1 trials.
“The essence of that is do no harm,” Bloom said. “No vaccine can be given to anyone if there’s a reasonable likelihood they will be harmed by it.”
The first phase can also involve scientists measuring the body’s immune response to the vaccine, to make sure they are headed in the right direction.
Phase 2 is based on a larger number of human subjects and involves identifying the proper dosage — one that minimizes any side effects while still prompting an adequate immune response. Several vaccine candidates have passed that hurdle and are now in phase 3.
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In that next phase, thousands of people get the vaccine and a relatively equal number receive a placebo. Then the groups’ rates of infection are compared to see if vaccinated people fare better. Ideally, the test subjects are people who are more likely to be exposed to the virus because they live in hot spots, work at jobs where exposure is more likely or are part of a racial or ethnic group in which the disease is causing more illness and death.
Often, phase 3 can take years, as scientists wait to accumulate enough data to draw final conclusions. But for COVID-19, trials are being accelerated by enrolling more test subjects from the start and then tracking them over time on a compressed schedule that Bloom called “revolutionary.”
But that tighter timeline raises some concern among scientists. A vaccine could be approved, only to have harmful effects show up months or years later, after millions of people are inoculated, they say.
And with the November election approaching, some scientists fear a rush to judgment for political advantage — particularly after the Food and Drug Administration OK’d emergency use of hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment, as well as scores of coronavirus antibody tests, only to rescind those approvals.
Bloom said there’s reason to fear “an October surprise” from the FDA where a vaccine could be rushed into emergency use without waiting for all the data from phase 3 to be collected and analyzed.
“That would really I think compromise what little trust we have in this country left about, A, vaccines in general and, B, the government’s controlling or regulating vaccines to protect the public interest,” he said.
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There’s also a phase 4, which involves tracking everyone who’s been vaccinated for years after inoculation to see if any adverse effects show up later. For example, it took years to fully understand that a 1960s measles vaccine, no longer in use, could cause serious illness in some people.
Prevent or protect?
One thing scientists conducting the trials hope to discover is whether the vaccine will prevent disease or just fight it.
If the vaccine is able to fight the disease, that would be “nothing to sneeze at,” according to Harvard epidemiology professor William Hanage. But, he said, it wouldn’t have the same broad public health advantage of a vaccine that prevents infection and leads to herd immunity.
If a vaccine does prevent infection, scientists will then ask in what percentage of the population it works.
The goal set by the federal government is at least 50%, which isn’t out of line with annual flu vaccines. But at just 50% protection, twice as many people would have to be inoculated to achieve herd immunity than would be necessary if it were 100% effective — which is never the case with any vaccine.
“I think having expectations that everyone who gets a COVID vaccine will be guaranteed protection is something that is an unrealistic expectation,” Bloom said.
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There’s also the question of how many shots will be needed, and how long vaccine immunity will last — both of which could vary from one vaccine to another. If immunity is shorter lived, annual “boosters” could be needed.
Current efforts
The worldwide quest for an effective vaccine for COVID-19 has spawned more than 100 candidates, several of which have progressed to final testing just nine months after SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes the disease, was identified in China.
The rapid progress was made in part because Chinese scientists quickly mapped the virus’ genome and shared that information with the rest of the world.
The efforts also were aided by previous research on coronaviruses other than SARS-CoV-2 and the fact that a certain protein is widely accepted as the most crucial target for a vaccine. That so-called S protein is a spike that sticks out from the surface of the virus, allowing it to invade cells. If a vaccine can trigger production of neutralizing antibodies that block the invasion, the virus can’t infect.
Also speeding development is the U.S. government’s commitment to help cover production costs, given that vaccine-producing factories can cost more than $1 billion to build. Federal scientists also are teaming up with some private companies on the research and trial costs.
University of Chicago professor Jeffrey Hubbell in his lab at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering on Aug, 12, 2020. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)
“That’s what Operation Warp Speed has been about, just getting money to these companies so that the government takes the financial risk rather than the company,” said Jeffrey Hubbell, a University of Chicago professor who specializes in bioengineering and is involved in early-stage vaccine development.
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Producing vaccines on the assumption they will work is a gamble, Hubbell said. “But it’s better to place those bets than not place those bets.”
Production and distribution
Some of the phase 3 trials underway could be ready for analysis before the end of the year, but that doesn’t mean a vaccine will quickly be available to everyone.
The results must be reviewed by many scientists, then be submitted for FDA approval. If the vaccine is sanctioned, production has to be dramatically ramped up, because it will take millions of doses in the United States, and billions around the world, to get the job done.
“We have no company at the moment that could make 200 million doses for Americans or 5.6 billion doses to get 60% of the world’s people protected against coronavirus,” Bloom said. “And that explains why there has been support for multiple, different vaccines.”
Rachel Wallace, a Ph.D. student in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago, operates a flow cytometer analyzing immune cells from mice in a vaccine test on Aug, 12, 2020. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)
If there are multiple effective vaccines, broad availability to the public could come as soon as mid-2021, Bloom said. If it’s just one or a couple, it would likely be at the end of next year.
Once the vaccines are produced, they have to be distributed. It’s a tightly controlled process and sometimes involves keeping the vaccines cold or even frozen. The mRNA vaccines, for example, would need to be stored at below-zero temperatures.
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When vaccines start to become available, the government will have to determine who should get them first. One school of thought is that they should first go to people most at risk: health care workers, nursing home residents and staff, prisoners, essential workers and people in hard-hit areas. Another says vaccines should go first to groups thought to be “spreaders” — perhaps college students or other young people.
Perlman, who sits on a federal advisory committee that deals with this question, said it’s possible that millions of doses could be available for health care workers and other vulnerable people before the end of the year.
The candidates
Some vaccines in the final testing stages include:
⋅ The Oxford vaccine, being developed in conjunction with international drug firm AstraZeneca. It was made by taking a virus from chimpanzees, weakening it so it won’t harm humans and attaching DNA coding that creates the S protein in SARS-CoV-2.
Initial stages of testing found the vaccine triggered an immune response that included not only production of a neutralizing antibody that blocks the virus from invading cells but also the mobilization of the body’s T cells. These cells attack and kill infected cells, and they also can bring on a faster immune response.
“You want both, if possible,” said Mullane, the infectious disease expert at U. of C. Medicine. “You’d like to have a vaccine that will prevent uptake of the virus, but also one that activates the T cells as well to capture any virus that may have escaped the system you’ve set up to prevent infection.”
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⋅ A vaccine being developed by Massachusetts-based Moderna in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health. It uses what’s called messenger RNA, or mRNA, to trigger an immune response. Operation Warp Speed to date has committed nearly $2.5 billion to the Moderna effort.
The mRNA sends signals to the body to create a piece of the virus, but not the whole thing, in the hopes that the benign piece triggers an immune response. Early indications are that this vaccine too can produce neutralizing antibodies and activate T cells, and the government is moving forward with trials involving 30,000 people.
If the mRNA vaccine gets approved, it will be the first of its kind to be deployed, although experimentation with that type of vaccine has gone on for some time. “The mRNA vaccines are completely unproven, but they hold a lot of potential,” Hubbell said.
⋅ Another mRNA vaccine from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German company BioNTech that Pfizer says also is triggering neutralizing antibodies and T cells. Through Operation Warp Speed, the federal government has agreed to pay $1.95 billion to mass produce the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine if it proves safe and effective.
⋅ A more traditional vaccine from Sinovac, a Beijing-based company, which has launched a phase 3 trial in Brazil. The vaccine uses an inactivated human virus to trigger an immune response. That method, however, has the potential to actually make an infection worse in a little understood reaction that sometimes occurs with such vaccines.
⋅ A deactivated human virus vaccine approved Aug. 11 by the Russian government even before it underwent phase 3 testing. Scientists expressed concern that this vaccine could turn out to be harmful later.
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hdardick@chicagotribune.com


chicagotribune--2020-08-22--‘I don’t know what I would have done if I had been planning a funeral,’ says dad of boy recently sho

‘I don’t know what I would have done if I had been planning a funeral,’ says dad of boy recently shot during Friday night prayer circle at Mamie Till-Mobley Park

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Chicago police Officer Lemond Lee, left, shakes hands with John Shorter in Mamie Till-Mobley Park in Chicago on Aug. 21, 2020, when community members gathered to hold a prayer vigil for Shorter's son, who was shot and wounded there days earlier. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
With their heads bowed and eyes clinched, several dozen residents gathered at a South Side park to pray for peace after a child was recently shot there, while playing basketball with his cousins.
In the center of the prayer circle was the family of a 12-year-old boy who was shot last week.
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“A kid should be able to go to the park without worrying about being shot,” said John Shorter, the victim’s father and a Chicago firefighter. “I don’t know what I would have done if I had been planning a funeral.”
The group gathered in Mamie Till-Mobley Park, 6372 S. Ellis Ave., in the Woodlawn neighborhood, to take a stance against gun violence. One week earlier, Shorter’s 12-year-old was shot multiple times in the same park while playing basketball.
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Community residents gather with members of the Chicago Police Department in Mamie Till-Mobley Park on Aug. 21, 2020, to hold a prayer vigil for a boy who was shot and wounded there days earlier. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
According to police, the boy was playing with several cousins when multiple gunmen stepped from a gangway across the street and opened fire. The boy, who was an unintended target, was taken in fair condition to a hospital.
Chicago’s violence is approaching record levels this year, taking a devastating toll on children. As of Aug. 16, 464 people have been killed, the majority were the result of gun violence, according to data compiled by the Chicago Tribune.
While Chicago’s violence is well-documented, particularly on the city’s South Side, for the last three years violence has eluded Mamie Till-Mobley Park.
Genora Stone, president of the park’s advisory council, said she was “shocked” when she heard about last week’s shooting. “I was hurt. This is not something that usually happens here.
“It’s very important for us to have peace and a safe haven for our children and families to come to play in this park,” Stone said.
In the last few years, the park hosted several events, including basketball tournaments and movie nights.
Even as Stone spoke Friday evening, children were power-climbing on the playground’s jungle gym. Others kicked their feet in the air as they swung on the swing set. Adults sat on a park bench that is decorated with blue and green handprints of children.
But last week's shooting disrupted the sanctity of the park.
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“This court was my sanctuary,” said the Rev. Brad Beier, pastor of Living Hope Church, who lives across the street from the park.
Keith Perry, a friend of the 12-year-old’s family, was visibly upset with the shooting.
“These are innocent babies,” he said. “This baby could be dead.”
Stone said it’s also important to keep the park safe given that it’s named after Mamie Till-Mobley, an educator and activist who did a lot of work for children. Till-Mobley came into prominence after her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, was brutally beaten and killed by a white mob in Mississippi after he was accused of offending a white woman.
"We have to keep this place safe in honor of her," Stone said.
At the end of Friday's prayer circle, the Chicago Police Department gifted the 12-year-old boy a basketball and a backpack.
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“Any time he wants to, he can look at this ball and not allow this situation to hinder his dreams,” said Officer Lemond Lee said as he handed the basketball to the 12-year-old boy’s father.
“If at any time he wants to come to this park and shoot this ball, he can call me and I’ll come out here with him.‘'
jaanderson@chicagotribune.com


chicagotribune--2020-08-22--‘To call me an agitator just flips all of the narrative on its head,’ says protester accused of hitt

‘To call me an agitator just flips all of the narrative on its head,’ says protester accused of hitting Chicago cop with skateboard

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Camden Stacey takes the photo as he's flanked by Jake Doan, left, and Jeremey Johnson in their last apartment in Uptown in early April. (Camden Stacey)
Jeremey Johnson says he has been falsely accused of being an agitator who helped turn a Loop march last weekend into a violent clash with police.
That doesn’t mean he’s denying — or confirming, for that matter — accusations that he repeatedly hit a cop with his skateboard at Wacker Drive and Michigan Avenue late Saturday afternoon.
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“To call me an agitator just flips all of the narrative on its head and completely blames protesters for agitation that police are guilty of because police officers should not be infringing upon the rights of citizens,” Johnson said Friday, a day after he was released from Cook County Jail.
Johnson, a 25-year-old rap artist, was among dozens arrested during the downtown protest that injured at least 17 officers and a score or more of protesters.
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But it was Johnson who was singled out by Chicago police Superintendent David Brown as he blamed “agitators” for yet another weekend of tense, sometimes violent demonstrations.
One of the first videos police released was one that Brown said showed Johnson attacking the officer.
Organizers, in turn, rallied around Johnson after his arrest and created a Facebook page, “Freedom for Mohawk,” after his nickname. They created a Twitter hashtag to follow developments and circulated a letter to send to Johnson’s alderman on the North Side.
When Johnson was released from Cook County Jail — it took days to get him fitted with an electronic monitoring device — he tweeted to his followers: “I have two neck tattoos and I have now been to jail. Will y’all please go listen to my music now?”
He then posted a new song titled, “Blacked out, Pissed Off.”
Johnson called jail conditions “horrendous” and said there was a lack of communication with corrections officials about his case. But he added that he was treated respectfully by correctional officers, and noted that other people arrested from the protest remained in custody longer than he did.
Johnson said he turned out for the protest because he feels strongly about increasing investment in the South and West sides as a way of cutting crime and protecting residents.
“I am a firm supporter in defunding the Chicago Police Department,” he said. “I feel like that money could be used for infrastructure. I feel like the police department, as it stands, does a lot to punish crime but is not very preemptive in regards to things that we build.”
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According to the police report, an officer was “controlling an uncooperative crowd” at Wacker and Michigan around 6 p.m. when someone grabbed his baton and started pulling him into the crowd.
The officer struggled “to gain control … and prevent offenders from disarming him.” Someone in the crowd then hit the officer “with multiple overhead swipes” of a skateboard, the report states.
Police say cameras caught the incident, and a description of the suspect was radioed out: clear goggles, black T-shirt, black and white shoes, carrying a skateboard. Johnson was arrested minutes later about a mile away, at 190 S. LaSalle St., because police said he matched the description.
The officer was wearing a helmet and was treated for minor injuries, police said.
Johnson said he does not confirm or deny the allegations against him, but called on people to redirect energy spent criticizing him toward the killings of Black women like Rekia Boyd, 22, and Breonna Taylor, 26. Both were fatally shot by police in what police said were unintentional killings.
“I wish that (those cases) had been pursued with the swiftness and with the vigor that I was pursued for allegedly hitting a person in the helmet,” Johnson said. “If that had occurred, we wouldn’t be here.”
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Johnson was charged with felony aggravated battery of an officer and ordered held on $20,000 bond. The Chicago Community Bond Fund paid Johnson’s bail on Monday.
But he wasn’t released until late Thursday, a delay caused by “him and his attorney not being able to find a residence at which he could stay,” according to Cook County Jail spokesman Matt Walberg.
Johnson had been ordered to have an electronic monitoring device, which requires an inmate to find hosts that will house him while awaiting trial.
Johnson lives in Lakeview with three roommates. One of them, Camden Stacey, said everyone left the house after the arrest because they feared for their safety after the block address was released to the public.
“We had to scramble in a somewhat secret fashion,” said Stacey, 24, who has produced some of Johnson’s music. “Not even I know where he is right now, but a couple of his work friends took it upon themselves to make sure that he is in a safe place.”
Friends and supporters say they plan to attend Johnson’s next court hearing Monday. They told the Tribune they do not believe the video supports the police version of events.
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Stacey said it appears the person hitting the officer was trying to protect the front line of protesters from police. Organizers have claimed police were corralling protesters and not allowing them to exit the space, raising tensions and sparking confrontations. Superintendent Brown has denied this.
Johnson’s longtime friend, 26-year-old Derrick Williamson Jr., said Johnson would never hit someone unprovoked, saying his friend is “more protective than aggressive.”
Johnson has performed some stand-up routines at The Second City, where Stacey said he was outspoken about the treatment of Black people by police. In a song on his EP “The Relapse,” he sarcastically thanks police for assuming he was breaking into his own house.
“I was having too good of a day and you reminded me, you know, what color I am,” Johnson says on the track. “Thank you for that. I would’ve never remembered I was Black if you hadn’t made me almost die.”
Stacey said he knew he wanted to work with Johnson after seeing him perform at a house show two summers ago. “Once you get him going about anything he knows remotely anything about, he just goes and goes and goes, and he channels that into all of his artistic outlets,” he said.
Johnson said protests are another outlet. He walked his first picket line when he was 12.
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“You cannot talk about protester violence if you do not talk about the purpose of the protest,” he said. “And the system that created the necessity for that protest.”


chicagotribune--2020-08-22--Coronavirus in Illinois updates: State sets another testing record; 2,356 new cases and 17 deaths re

Coronavirus in Illinois updates: State sets another testing record; 2,356 new cases and 17 deaths reported Saturday

As scientists across the globe race to create a COVID-19 vaccine that is safe and effective , the American public @ @ @ @ @ comes to the prospect of getting vaccinated against the new virus , which has so @ @ @ @ @ and killed more than 172,000 in the United States .
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Paca Kujtim of Arlington Heights self-administers a COVID-19 test in his car at the Arlington International Racecourse on March 31, 2021 in Arlington Heights. Kujtim was getting testing as a precaution for upcoming travel. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)
Illinois Public Health officials on Sunday reported 1,893 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 and six additional deaths.
That brings the state’s total to 220,178 cases and 7,880 fatalities. There were 54,351 tests reported, a day after the state set another testing record with 56,766 tests.
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If Illinois doesn’t bring its steadily rising coronavirus numbers down quickly, it is among the areas of the country facing a “perfect storm” of risk factors for transmitting the highly contagious disease this fall, according to a Philadelphia medical research center that is tracking COVID-19 in hundreds of counties nationwide.
State health officials on Friday said 20 counties are now considered at a warning level for COVID-19, and that cases of the virus connected to schools are beginning to be reported.
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Meanwhile, the Illinois Department of Public Health acknowledged Friday that the agency did not investigate nursing home complaints of neglect and abuse for nearly 3½ months during the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement came a month after the the agency fire the state’s top nursing home regulator without explanation and disciplined another.
Here’s what’s happening this weekend with COVID-19 in the Chicago area and Illinois:
Sunday
With late summer cases stubbornly high, Illinois faces a ‘perfect storm’ of COVID-19 risk this fall, researcher says
If Illinois doesn’t bring its steadily rising coronavirus numbers down quickly, it is among the areas of the country facing a “perfect storm” of risk factors for transmitting the highly contagious disease this fall, according to a Philadelphia medical research center that is tracking COVID-19 in hundreds of counties nationwide.
The combination of some schools returning to in-person instruction, Labor Day travel and cooler fall weather would all be piled on top of a steady uptick in Illinois’ statewide test positivity rate over the last several weeks, said Dr. David Rubin, director of the PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
“What worries me is if you have that big reservoir of circulating cases and then you get some of those colder fall days that start to come, and then you’re also returning kids to universities and schools and the mixing goes up in the community, it’s just kind of like a perfect storm,” Rubin said in an interview with the Chicago Tribune. “You set yourself off on the wrong foot as we go into what’s going to be a difficult fall and winter.”
Rubin’s warning about the fall and winter echoes what other experts have been predicting for months. The state has endured a late summer uptick in a number of metrics, with daily case counts topping 2,000 several times in August, for the first time since late May. The statewide seven-day average test positivity rate stood at 4.3% as of Thursday, only a month after it had been whittled down to 3%.
That uptick could be particularly poorly timed heading into fall, when Rubin predicts the wave of the pandemic in the U.S. will shift back north. Read more here. —Jamie Munks
Trump announces plasma treatment authorized for COVID-19, a treatment that has had inconclusive results
President Donald Trump on Sunday announced emergency authorization to treat COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma — a move he called “a breakthrough,” one of his top health officials called “promising” and other health experts said needs more study before it’s celebrated.
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The announcement came after White House officials complained there were politically motivated delays by the Food and Drug Administration in approving a vaccine and therapeutics for the disease that has upended Trump’s reelection chances.
On the eve of the Republican National Convention, Trump put himself at the center of the FDA's announcement of the authorization at a news conference Sunday evening. The authorization makes it easier for some patients to obtain the treatment but is not the same as full FDA approval.
The blood plasma, taken from patients who have recovered from the coronavirus and rich in antibodies, may provide benefits to those battling the disease. But the evidence so far has not been conclusive about whether it works, when to administer it and what dose is needed.
In a letter describing the emergency authorization, the chief scientist for the FDA, Denise Hinton, said: “COVID-19 convalescent plasma should not be considered a new standard of care for the treatment of patients with COVID-19. Additional data will be forthcoming from other analyses and ongoing, well-controlled clinical trials in the coming months.”
But Trump had made clear to aides that he was eager to showcase good news in the battle against the virus, and the timing allowed him to head into his convention with momentum. He and aides billed it as a “major” development and used the White House briefing room to make the announcement. Read more here. —The Associated Press
Great Wolf Gurnee water and adventure park reopening with masks requirements, temperature checks
With a smaller staff, half the capacity and new safety measures, Gurnee’s Great Wolf Lodge is set to reopen Monday, allowing families into its water park and adventure area for the first time in five months after the coronavirus forced it to close.
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“With all of the guidance that the government and CDC has given, we feel confident that we’re able to open safely to our pack and our guests,” said Nadine Miracle of Grayslake, the Gurnee location’s general manager.
In addition to the advice from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the resort and indoor water park can learn from the experience of sister properties and observations of other facilities in the region.
Nearby Six Flags Hurricane Harbor, an outdoor water park, opened about a month ago with thermal imaging scans and masks required outside of the pools and waterslides. The Six Flags Great America theme park remains closed. In Wisconsin Dells, where Great Wolf has another location, the well-known Noah’s Ark Waterpark, which is outdoors, closed after two employees tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a story published by The Associated Press. It will not reopen until next year, according to the park’s website.
Great Wolf Lodge Illinois in Gurnee will be limited to about 50% of its capacity, with only 208 rooms in use at the 414-room property. Read more here. —Karie Angell Luc, Lake County News-Sun
Unemployment benefits: Here’s who will get Trump’s $300 boost in coronavirus aid and when
Two weeks have passed since President Donald Trump announced that he would sidestep a congressional stalemate to deliver $400 in extra weekly benefits to tens of millions of unemployed Americans — a short-term fix meant to replace the $600-a-week emergency federal supplement that expired last month.
Since then, as more details of the plan — known as Lost Wages Assistance — have emerged, so have problems with finding the funding and getting it to the hands of those who need it. What is now clear is that the federal supplement is $300 a week, not $400. And by Thursday, only one state, Arizona, had started paying out.
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Here is what we know. —The New York Times
COVID-19 testing returned 9 positive cases for the Bears — but it was later determined all were false positives
The Chicago Bears pushed back Sunday’s morning practice to the afternoon after Saturday’s COVID-19 tests indicated nine players or staff members were positive — results that later proved to be false positives.
“This morning we learned yesterday’s Covid-19 testing identified nine players/staff as positive,” the club said in a statement. “We followed additional NFL-NFLPA testing protocol and confirmed all nine results as false positives. Out of an abundance of caution, we postponed this morning’s practice to this afternoon.”
The team was scheduled to begin practice at 9:20 a.m. An updated schedule indicates practice will now start at 1:30 p.m. The team is scheduled to have a day off from practice on Monday. About an hour after a security guard at the front of Halas Hall turned away media after 8 a.m., the league released a statement revealing testing irregularities for other teams. Read more here. —Brad Biggs
Lake County charter fishing operators continue recovering financially from COVID-19 closures; ‘People were afraid to come fishing’
Shuttered during the weeks that are typically the busiest of warm weather fishing season, Lake Michigan charter boat captains are still hoping to recapture revenue lost to COVID-19 before the cool weather arrives.
“People were afraid to call,” said charter captain Rich Boren of Wadsworth who operates Renegade Charters at North Point Marina in Winthrop Harbor, located in Illinois Beach State Park. “People were afraid to come fishing.”
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May is typically the busiest month of their fishing season, but the pandemic created by the coronavirus changed that. And Winthrop Harbor-based captains said it was especially hard because they couldn’t even access their boats when Illinois Beach State Park closed for social distancing safety measures imposed by state order, said charter captains Josh Slawkin of Hinsdale and Caleb Weiner of Kenosha, Wisconsin. Read more here. —Karie Angell Luc, Lake County News-Sun
Saturday
House approves bill to reverse USPS changes, send $25 billion to boost agency ahead of election
With heated debate over mail delays, the House approved legislation in a rare Saturday session that would reverse recent changes in U.S. Postal Service operations and send $25 billion to shore up the agency ahead of the November election.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi had recalled lawmakers to Washington over objections from Republicans who dismissed the action as a stunt. President Donald Trump railed against mail-in ballots, including in a Saturday tweet, and urged a no vote. He has said he wants to block extra funds for the Postal Service.
“Don’t pay any attention to what the president is saying, because it is all designed to suppress the vote,” Pelosi said at the Capitol.
Pelosi called the Postal Service the nation’s “beautiful thread” connecting Americans and said voters should “ignore” the president’s threats.
The daylong session came as an uproar over mail disruptions puts the Postal Service at the center of the nation’s tumultuous election year, with Americans rallying around one of the nation’s oldest and more popular institutions. Millions of people are expected to opt for mail-in ballots to avoid polling places during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Read more here. —The Associated Press
17 additional deaths and 2,356 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday
Illinois health officials on Saturday announced 2,356 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 17 additional fatalities and the statewide death toll to 7,874 since the start of the pandemic.
Officials reported 56,766 new tests in the last 24 hours. That total represents another statewide testing record. The statewide seven-day positivity rate stands at 4.3%.
Since the start of the pandemic, 218,285 people in the state have been infected, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. 3,649,685 tests have been performed in total.
Read more here. —Chicago Tribune staff
Naperville reports bumps in cases, hospitalizations
Naperville had 198 active cases of COVID-19 on Aug. 19, the highest number reported since the pandemic started in March, according to data on the city’s coronavirus dashboard.
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The number eclipsed the record 164 active cases registered on May 24 and had remained below that number until this month, data shows. The low point was June 28, when there were just 47 known active cases.
Since then, however, the active case numbers have been going back up, breaking the record on Aug. 14 when there were 177 cases and topping it again two days later with 198, data shows.
Active cases are those in which the person has had the virus for 14 days or less, meaning they are believed to be infectious and able to pass it to others, according to the dashboard.
The number of patients being treated for the virus at Edward Hospital in Naperville has also been slowly creeping back up. After having just four people hospitalized for treatment on July 27, the number was 14 on Aug. 21, the hospital reported.
According to the most recent data from the Illinois Department of Public Health, DuPage County is seeing a 4.4% test positivity rate and Will County is seeing 7.1% test positivity.
Read more here. —Erin Hegarty
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chicagotribune--2020-08-22--Man accused of stabbing sleeping homeless men ‘stalked’ them ‘like they were prey,’ says judge

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A judge denied bail for a 28-year-old Englewood neighborhood man charged in connection with stabbing three homeless men as they slept in Chicago.
“He stalked these people like they were prey,” said Judge John Fitzgerald Lyke Jr. before denying bail for Bryant McCalip during a bond hearing, audio of which was broadcast live on YouTube from the Leighton Criminal Court Building on Saturday afternoon.
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The attacks happened while the victims, all between the ages of 30 and 60 and stabbed in the neck, were “asleep and defenseless,” said Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy, who did not offer a motive.
McCalip, of the 6600 block of South Peoria Street, was identified as the man who stabbed multiple victims since early July after police released images of the person believed to be responsible for the attacks. He was placed into police custody Wednesday.
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McCalip was charged Friday with three counts of attempted murder and three counts of aggravated battery, great bodily harm, for three victims who were attacked Tuesday at 14 W. 95th St., July 24 at 1135 S. Michigan Ave. in Grant Park and July 15 at 220 W. 63rd St., police said.
“If this is true, this is the epitome of evil,” said Lyke, who called the acts “heinous” and “despicable.”
Speaking of the latest attack, the victim, a 40-year-old man, was “minding his own business,” when McCalip “stalked him,” the judge said. “He looked at him a few minutes and then attacks. And walked away. And walked away,” the judge stressed. McCalip used a similar “modus operandi” in the other attacks, all of which were captured on surveillance cameras.
Byrant McCalip (Chicago Police Department)
Courtney Smallwood, a court-appointed defense attorney, said McCalip is a lifelong resident of Cook County who lives in Chicago with his brother and sister. He attended South Shore High School and also a school called “No Adults Left Behind,” Smallwood said. He attended through 11th grade and has been laid off from a job as a car wash attendant because of virus-related issues. His father was in the jury room to support him, noted Smallwood, who added that McCalip has “minimal” criminal background, all of which was nonviolent.
In the most recent incident, which happened Tuesday aboard a CTA Red Line train, McCalip approached a 40-year-old sleeping man about 3:40 a.m.
“He was sitting in front of him for several minutes, looking at the victim,” before he got up, walked past him, and returned a few seconds later and stabbed him two or three times in the neck, Murphy said. He then deboarded the train.
A Ventra card with his name and phone number verified he was on the train at that time, and several family members contacted police after seeing his image in media reports, Murphy said.
In all of the stabbings, the attacker was wearing the same gray hooded sweatshirt with “Aero 1987″ written in red on the front and used his left hand, Murphy said. The sweatshirt was never found.
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There was another similar attack, which was fatal, that happened between July 7 and July 9, but McCalip, though a suspect, has not been charged with it, according to police. Aaron Curry, 58, was found dead on a mattress on the south end of Grant Park.
McCalip was scheduled to appear again at the Skokie Courthouse on Aug. 28.
Editor’s note: This story was updated on Aug. 22, 2020 to correct the spelling of the defendant’s last name to McCalip.
dawilliams@chicagotribune.com


chicagotribune--2020-08-22--3 dead, 21 wounded in overnight shootings, police say

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Four people are dead and 20 people were wounded in shootings from 6 p.m. Friday to early morning Saturday, Chicago police said.
The latest homicide happened about 7:25 a.m. Saturday, when police responded to the 2500 block of South Trumbull Avenue in the Little Village neighborhood. There, they found a 43-year-old Esteban Campos, Jr. with a gunshot wound to the head and multiple wounds to the body. Campos, of the 5400 block of South Mozart Street, was taken in critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital, where was pronounced dead at 8:42 a.m.
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While Campos was being transported, another man, 30, showed up at Stroger Hospital with a wound to the left arm. He told police when he heard shots, he took off running from Trumbull Avenue.
About 5 a.m. on the West Side in the South Austin neighborhood., a man was found unresponsive outside in the 100 block of North Mayfield Avenue with a gunshot wound to the head. He was taken in critical condition to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where he was pronounced dead.
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Police said there were no witnesses.
Shortly after 2 a.m., a 33-year-old man was fatally wounded while he was on a porch of a residence in the South Chicago neighborhood in the 8500 block of South Burley Avenue.
Police said the victim and another man, 32, were on a porch when someone exited a black vehicle and fired shots in their direction. The older victim suffered a wound to the head and abdomen, and was pronounced dead at the scene. The second victim was hit in the abdomen and leg, and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition, police said.
Shortly before 12:15 a.m., three people were shot, one fatally, in the South Austin neighborhood in the 800 block of North Lorel Avenue.
Police said the three victims were outside when someone exited a black Jeep Cherokee and opened fire, striking them each. A 26-year-old man suffered wounds to the neck, chest and leg. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to police.
A 37-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman were both shot in the leg, and were both taken to Stroger Hospital in fair condition, police said.
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chicagotribune--2020-08-22--Daily Illinois coronavirus graphs: 17 new deaths, 2,356 new confirmed cases and a record 56,766 new

Daily Illinois coronavirus graphs: 17 new deaths, 2,356 new confirmed cases and a record 56,766 new test results


chicagotribune--2020-08-22--3 juveniles in custody after strong-arm robbery on North Side

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Three juveniles were placed in police custody after they were caught on a CTA platform following a strong-arm robbery in the Sheffield Neighbors neighborhood on the North Side, Chicago police said.
Shortly before 10:30 p.m. Friday, a 23-year-old woman was walking in the 2000 block of North Sheffield Avenue when she was approached by three juveniles who attempted to grab her purse. After falling during a struggle, they punched her in face, threw her to the ground, and took her purse and other personal items, police said.
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The youths fled the scene but were caught about 30 minutes later at a CTA platform in the 900 block of West Armitage Street, after matching the description of the offenders in the robbery.
The victim refused medical attention, and charges were pending.