chicagotribune--2020-07-21--22 charged in West Side drug bust after yearlong federal investigation

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A handgun allegedly bound for the Monticello Avenue drug market was seized by law enforcement as part of a yearlong investigation. (federal affidavit)
Law enforcement officers arrested almost two dozen people in a drug sweep in the Humboldt Park neighborhood last week following a yearlong sting investigation, according to federal prosecutors and court documents.
Members of the group sold heroin and fentanyl-laced heroin to undercover agents in approximately 80 hand-to-hand exchanges totaling thousands of dollars, according to an affidavit filed by a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent as part of the federal case against the group.
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In addition to 18 men charged in federal court with conspiring to distribute illegal narcotics, four other people appeared in state court on other charges, according to a news release.
Law enforcement officers shut down the open-air drug market located in the 1000 block of North Monticello Avenue, according to the release.
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Agents in the investigation, dubbed “Operation Monticello’s Revenge,” estimate the operation sold at least 27.8 pounds of heroin and at least 57.3 pounds of heroin laced with fentanyl or synthetic fentanyl between February 2019 and November 2019.
Heroin usually is sold in packets of less than 0.3 ounces, known as a blow, according to the affidavit, meaning that the drugs could have been sold in as almost 39,000 individual drug packets.
Drug sales by the group generated approximately $7,200 daily, according to the complaint. Based on calls intercepted by law enforcement, Kelvin Franklin, 28, discussed exchanging $12,621 for heroin from August to October 2019, the complaint said.
Franklin and Sam Howard, 32, were the street-level managers of the organization, according to the complaint. They coordinated the operation’s sales and personally sold illegal narcotics to undercover officers each over a dozen times.
Franklin also tried to acquire a handgun for the Monticello Avenue drug market in October 2019, the complaint said. Law enforcement officials seized the firearm after stopping a woman, who was supposed to deliver the handgun, for a broken taillight and a failure to make a complete stop at a stop sign. The handgun aspect of the probe remains under investigation.
Willie Tate, 45; Morrio Bonds, 37; and Antonio Lee, 39, were responsible for cutting the narcotics with additives and diluting substances well as for repackaging the drugs in aluminum foil and baggies for distribution, according to the charges. The other 13 people charged in federal court are accused of serving as street-level traffickers for the operation.
The 134-page complaint details numerous conversations recorded by undercover officers in intercepted phone calls during drug sales.
Howard asked the undercover officers if they were the police during a sale in April 2019, according to the complaint. Howard tested the officers by asking what kind of heroin the operation sells and how the drugs are usually packaged. An officer answered correctly and negotiated with Howard to buy three packs of heroin.
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In an October 2019 text conversation between Franklin and Lee, Lee complained about not finding enough people who would work early in the morning. He told Franklin the drug market is “a real life job for me.”
There were approximately 2,424 narcotics-related local arrests, 227 firearm-related arrests and 19,241 narcotics-related calls to the Chicago Police Department in the area around the Monticello Avenue drug market from January 2017 to May 2020, according to the complaint.
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chicagotribune--2020-07-21--Illinois’ new COVID-19 plan: How the state will manage any outbreaks in 3 charts

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Jemal R. Brinson, Nausheen Husain, Jonathon Berlin

Amid an uptick of COVID-19 cases over the past month, Gov. J.B. Pritzker laid out a new approach to managing any resurgence across the state.
The new approach is more surgical, dividing the state into 11 regions — Illinois’ existing Emergency Medical Services regions — and tightening the metrics officials will watch to determine if any action is warranted.
The plan also includes mitigation steps unique to different categories, like restaurants and bars, offices or salons, that could be used to specifically respond to a type of outbreak in a specific part of the state. Read more on Pritzker’s plan here.
Check our tracker for daily metrics for each region.
Here is a breakdown of the plan.


chicagotribune--2020-07-21--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--2020-07-21--Illinois coronavirus graphs: 7,324 deaths, 163,703 confirmed cases and 2.31 million tests

Illinois announced a 955 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 Tuesday , as well as 23 new deaths .
The state @ @ @ @ @ 29,745 new test results .

Johns Hopkins University & Medicine tracked coronavirus cases, deaths and test totals from Jan. 22, 2020 through March 10, 2023, but is no longer providing this data. These charts will no longer be updated.
Check the Illinois Department of Public Health for the most up-to-date data for Illinois.
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chicagotribune--2020-07-21--Gurnee family sues University of Notre Dame after freshman son’s fall causes ‘catastrophic injury’

Students are required to live in one of the residence halls for their first three years at the school , @ @ @ @ @ .
Seniors are encouraged , but not required , to remain on campus and are @ @ @ @ @ financial incentives to live there for their final year .

Sean Tennant, now 20, of Gurnee, was beginning the second semester of his freshman year at Notre Dame in 2019 when he fell about 30 feet from a second-floor stairwell to a concrete basement floor inside the historic Sorin Hall. (Family photo)
The parents of a former University of Notre Dame freshman who was severely injured during a party are suing the college, alleging the school put their son at risk by condoning a “quasi-fraternity atmosphere” in an on-campus residence hall.
Sean Tennant, of Gurnee, was beginning the second semester of his freshman year Jan. 27, 2019, when he fell about 30 feet from a second-floor winding stairwell to a concrete basement floor inside the historic Sorin Hall.
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Tennant, who was 18 at the time, survived the fall but suffered a traumatic brain injury that left him with “a catastrophic decline in neurocognitive and functional abilities,” according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in St. Joseph County, Indiana.
The complaint alleges the student’s injuries were avoidable and accused the Roman Catholic university of negligence. The adult rector was not inside the residence hall and “despite knowing about a party, he failed to take reasonable precautions to ensure the safety of the student-residents under his care, custody, control, and supervision,” the lawsuit said.
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In addition to lack of supervision, Tennant family’s lawyers also allege a systemic problem in which Notre Dame has “actively encouraged” a “quasi-fraternity atmosphere” in its residence halls as part of its philosophy to keep students living on campus throughout most of their college experience.
The university, near South Bend, Indiana, does not have fraternities or sororities. Instead, residence halls are the focal point of student social life.
Students are required to live in one of the residence halls for their first three years at the school, according to the university website. Seniors are encouraged, but not required, to remain on campus and are offered hall leadership roles and financial incentives to live there for their final year.
The student handbook prohibits alcohol consumption by minors but alcohol is allowed for students of legal age in their on-campus dorms. Consumption or possession of alcoholic beverages in open containers is barred in dorm corridors and common areas, such as lounges or lobbies, according to the handbook.
“This is a kid who never drank in high school‚” said attorney Peter Flowers of Illinois, who filed the suit with Indianapolis lawyer Robert Dassow. “(Tennant) was introduced to alcohol at Notre Dame. They encourage the kids to act like the dorms are fraternities, where you’ve got kids of legal age mixed in with underage kids and inadequate policies and procedures in place, creating an unreasonably dangerous environment.”
As a result of the accidental fall, Tennant lost consciousness and suffered a depressed skull fracture, brain hemorrhage and trauma to his spine that has left him unable to talk or walk without assistance or perform basic daily tasks, including bathing and dressing, the suit said.
He will incur a lifetime of lost wages and hefty medical expenses due to his injuries, said Flowers, who noted it is unlikely Tennant’s condition will improve given the lack of progress he has made since the fall.
A Notre Dame spokesman on Tuesday said the university had yet to be served with a copy of the lawsuit and had no comment.
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Tennant, now 20, graduated Warren Township High School in Gurnee before heading to Notre Dame. A triplet, with a brother and sister, he had hoped to pursue an architecture major and is the only member of his family to have attended Notre Dame.
He was receiving rehab services at a facility near his home but, due to COVID-19 concerns, his parents, Stephen and Debbie, moved him back home and are his full-time caregivers, Flowers said.
The couple, through their attorney, declined to comment.
The complaint, on behalf of Tennant and his parents, named the university as a defendant and seeks an unspecified amount in compensatory and punitive damages.
The lawsuit comes as Notre Dame students prepare to return to campus with a fall semester that will begin and end earlier than usual due to the ongoing public health crisis. Students will arrive on campus in phases in early August with new safety guidelines, such as wearing masks in public, and other restrictions on travel, events and visitors.
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Sorin Hall, where Tennant fell, was built in 1888 and named after the university’s founder, the Rev. Edward Sorin. It is one of about 30 residence halls on campus and is designated for male students and is a stone’s toss from the famous Golden Dome.
The lawsuit said Tennant was at a party in the dorm where alcohol was being served to him and other underage students. Besides a lack of supervision, the complaint also alleges the university was negligent in the “inspection, maintenance, repair, management, and operation of Sorin Hall and has allowed it to fall below current building code standards.
Flowers said Tennant was likely drinking that night , but he would not disclose the student’s blood alcohol content when it was taken later at the hospital. The family has not yet determined how he obtained the alcohol, Flowers said.
The Notre Dame fire department responded to the hall at about 2 a.m. Jan. 27, 2019 to provide medical attention to a student, the university said in a statement released to the media at the time.
The university did not identify Tennant but confirmed the freshman was in critical condition from a head injury suffered in a fall in Sorin Hall. Notre Dame police were investigating the cause of the fall, the release said.
A copy of the police report was not immediately available. Though university police can investigate and make arrests, the department is not required to make records public.
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This was not the first time a Notre Dame student was injured on campus from a fall. In the earlier incident, the student died after falling from the roof of Joyce Center, which houses the school’s basketball arena.
William Meckling, 21, of Centennial, Colorado, was a mechanical engineering major about to graduate and a member of the school’s fencing team.
The St. Joseph County coroner determined he was under the influence of alcohol in May 2015 and had injuries consistent with a fall from about 35 feet. His death was ruled accidental.
The Tribune could not find public record of a lawsuit surrounding his death.
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chicagotribune--2020-07-21--DuPage County Health Department’s COVID-19 test site closes early Tuesday as cases rise

Bolger said DuPage has plans to increase its testing capacity but said he could not share details Tuesday .
He @ @ @ @ @ the testing site as early as possible .
For people who have obligations that prevent @ @ @ @ @ Bolger said he recommends people make reservations to get tested at Pillars Community Health Family @ @ @ @ @ Jeans Elementary School in Willowbrook .
People can call 708-745-5277 for reservations .

CTU workers direct vehicles lined up for COVID-19 testing outside of the Chicago Teachers Union on Dec. 30, 2021, in Chicago. CPS starts back to school on Monday following their holiday break. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)
As COVID-19 cases rise in DuPage County, the local Health Department’s testing site closed early Tuesday after two hours of testing.
The testing site, open from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, is on the east side of the DuPage County complex on County Farm Road in Wheaton. People who want to get tested can drive up, roll down their windows and conduct nasal swab tests on themselves with provided instructions.
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But some residents were left without the option to get tested Tuesday. Health Department spokesperson Don Bolger said the county is capped at 400 tests per day because of state lab capacity.
“I think the county has been doing the best that they possibly can,” said Ashley Nuzzo, 33, who lives in Bloomingdale and commented on the Health Department’s Facebook post about the closing. “I think anybody can only do as much as their resources can allow.”
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Bolger said DuPage has plans to increase its testing capacity but said he could not share details Tuesday. He encouraged people to arrive at the testing site as early as possible. For people who have obligations that prevent them from arriving early, Bolger said he recommends people make reservations to get tested at Pillars Community Health Family Health Center at Anne M. Jeans Elementary School in Willowbrook. People can call 708-745-5277 for reservations.
“We just know that a lot of people showed up today,” Bolger said.
He said the large number of people seeking testing is not unusual on Tuesdays. Since the site is closed Sundays and Mondays, the county sees an uptick when it reopens.
But the county’s Health Department Twitter page shows that the test site closed between about 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in recent weeks, with Tuesday’s 9 a.m. closing the earliest.
The county saw 103 new cases reported July 19, a number not seen since May 27, according to DuPage County data. The county’s total cases have reached more than 10,300.
“Sites shouldn’t be running out of tests at this point,” said 44-year-old Joseph Baker, a Villa Park resident in DuPage County who also commented on the department’s Facebook post. “It seems like what they’re describing is the lab can’t process the samples fast enough.”
Nuzzo has children who will be returning to school in the fall. She hopes to see testing expanded for DuPage residents.
“I just want to thank all of the county workers for doing what they’re doing,” she said.


chicagotribune--2020-07-21--Running list: Chicago-area restaurants closed permanently due to coronavirus pandemic economic woes

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The restaurant business as i know it @ @ @ @ @ return for years .
It was hard enough when the playing field was supposedly level @ @ @ @ @ beyond recognition .
So , i am closing Fahlstrom ’ s Fresh Fish Market .
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chicagotribune--2020-07-21--Few details released in shooting on Dan Ryan that injured 1

The shooting was the latest on Chicago area expressways this year , the number already surpassing what is normally seen @ @ @ @ @ increasing pressure for the installation of better cameras as well as scanners that read license @ @ @ @ @ Police had tallied 62 expressway shootings in Cook County this year as of Tuesday .
@ @ @ @ @ all of 2019 , 43 in 2018 , 51 in 2017 and 54 in 2016 @ @ @ @ @ violence in Chicago hit levels not seen since the 1990s .

One person was injured in a shooting that Illinois State Police said happened on the Dan Ryan Expressway near 79th Street about midnight Monday.
Larry Merritt, a Chicago Fire Department spokesman, said the agency was called to 79th Street and the Dan Ryan shortly after midnight. An ambulance took a man with a gunshot wound to St. Bernard Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.
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About 12:05 a.m. Tuesday, troopers then were called to the hospital to speak with a man who had been shot and was suffering from injuries not considered life-threatening, according to a statement from state police.
The man told troopers he was shot while driving his vehicle and he believed the gunshots were fired by someone in a passing vehicle.
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Chicago police officers also were seen responding to a connected scene at South Halsted and West 82nd streets, near what appeared to be a white Jeep Grand Cherokee. However, a representative of the Chicago Police Department said, “because ISP is the leading agency, CPD is not able to make a comment.”
On Halsted, just south of 82. Early reports of person shot while in this white vehicle. Victim taken to St. Bernard. #ChicagoScanner https://t.co/FS6e8UgZMP pic.twitter.com/onpjro3xLC — Paige Fry (@paigexfry) July 21, 2020
At 1 a.m. ramps to the interstate at 71st and 79th streets were closed for the investigation, the statement from state police said. At 2:05 a.m. all lanes reopened. Authorities said the investigation is ongoing and no additional information was released.
The shooting was the latest on Chicago area expressways this year, the number already surpassing what is normally seen in an entire year and increasing pressure for the installation of better cameras as well as scanners that read license plates. The Illinois State Police had tallied 62 expressway shootings in Cook County this year as of Tuesday. That compares with 52 for all of 2019, 43 in 2018, 51 in 2017 and 54 in 2016, a year that gun violence in Chicago hit levels not seen since the 1990s.
Check back for updates.


chicagotribune--2020-07-21--Protest against federal forces in Chicago

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Expand Autoplay Image 1 of 9 Activists square off with Chicago police officers on July 20, 2020, during a march through the Loop to protest the possible deployment of federal agents. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is crafting plans to deploy about 150 federal agents to the city this week, the Chicago Tribune has learned.


chicagotribune--2020-07-21--Severe thunderstorms, strong winds could hit Chicago area Tuesday afternoon, with greatest risk sout

Severe thunderstorms, strong winds could hit Chicago area Tuesday afternoon, with greatest risk south of I-80

Birk said Tuesday ’ s rainstorms are likely to be a larger cluster of storms that produce strong wind gusts @ @ @ @ @ microbursts can ’ t be ruled out .
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Severe thunderstorms, some with winds around 60 miles per hour, are likely Tuesday evening in the Chicago area, with the highest chance for strong storms south of Interstate 80, according to the National Weather Service.
Storms with winds of about 50 mph in some suburbs two weeks ago downed trees and caused widespread power outages. There is a chance of seeing some of the same level of wind damage Tuesday, said Kevin Birk, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Chicago-area office.
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Although the strongest storms are forecast south of I-80, Birk encouraged people in Chicago to also stay-up-to-date for a possible severe thunderstorm warning.
“Certainly can’t rule out a stronger storm getting north of I-80, but right now it’s looking like the better chances would be mainly south of the city,” Birk said.
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Birk said Tuesday’s rainstorms are likely to be a larger cluster of storms that produce strong wind gusts, although the potential of microbursts can’t be ruled out. The storms two weeks ago were caused by microbursts, in which precipitation builds up inside a cloud until it “bursts” and spreads over a smaller area, while sending a blast of wind down toward the ground, then rushing in all directions.
There’s significant heat and humidity forecast for the weekend, Birk said. Temperatures could be in the lower to mid-90s and even possibly creep past 100 degrees.
“It looks pretty quiet for the next couple of days after today, but it looks like we could be back in for some pretty good heat for the weekend,” Birk said.
Check the Tribune’s weather page for updated forecasts.


chicagotribune--2020-07-21--Guthrie’s Tavern, a Lakeview mainstay for 34 years, closing permanently due to new coronavirus bar r

Guthrie’s Tavern, a Lakeview mainstay for 34 years, closing permanently due to new coronavirus bar restrictions

“ Getting to know people that way , on a real kind of personal level , I don ’ t @ @ @ @ @ in a lot of jobs , ” he said .
“ There ’ s always @ @ @ @ @ you get in the bar business .
You know , people are having a couple @ @ @ @ @ might reveal more than you ever expected them to , so you really get to @ @ @ @ @

Ron DeNicolo and his wife, Cynthia, take a photograph outside Guthrie's Tavern, 1300 W. Addison St., on July 21 in Chicago. DeNicolo said he and Cynthia had their first date at the bar 10 years ago. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)
Monday morning, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration abruptly announced a rollback of the city’s phase four reopening plan, scrapping indoor seating for bars that do not sell food.
Monday night, Guthrie’s Tavern, one of Chicago’s oldest and most popular neighborhood bars, announced it would be closing permanently this week, citing the latest regulations as a primary cause. Guthrie’s has occupied the corner of Addison Street and Lakewood Avenue for 34 years.
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“It is with a heavy heart that we announce the closing of Guthrie’s Tavern. With the new restrictions set today for bars and the ongoing COVID restrictions, we don’t see a way we can survive,” read a Facebook post on Guthrie’s page.
The tavern’s last day of business will be Thursday. It had just reopened July 8.
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Bartender and manager Mark Fellows, who has worked behind Guthrie’s bar since 1993, said that when managers heard the rollback news, they were about to sit down for a meeting exploring how to sustain the tavern under phase four regulations.
[ Goodbye to Guthrie’s Tavern, the first-date capital of Wrigleyville ]
“We were gonna meet yesterday and discuss how we can move forward. Do we give it until the end of next month? But once that news broke, it was just like, ‘OK, this is just not gonna happen, unfortunately,’” Fellows said.
“It’s tough. It’s almost like a death in the family. All the outpouring right now from customers and people from long ago — I don’t think it has really sunk in yet. We’ll see as time goes on just how much this hurts.”
The Facebook announcement went up at about 7 p.m. Monday, and by early Tuesday morning, had garnered more than 1,000 cumulative likes, comments and shares.
“A lot of the outpouring has been, ‘I met my wife there,’ ‘We had our first date there.’ Fast forward 20 years later, and it’s, ‘Now we have a family, and we’ve shown our kids, this is how mommy and daddy met.’ Things like that,” Fellows said.
He seconded those feelings when asked what he’ll miss most: “It’s just the friendships we’ve made along the way.”
“Getting to know people that way, on a real kind of personal level, I don’t think you really get that in a lot of jobs,” he said. “There’s always kind of a truth that you get in the bar business. You know, people are having a couple of drinks, and they might reveal more than you ever expected them to, so you really get to know some people.”
Guthrie’s is among an increasingly large number of bars and restaurants in Chicago that have been forced to shutter due to the financial difficulties created by COVID-19 and resulting regulations.
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[ Running list: Chicago-area restaurants closed permanently due to coronavirus pandemic economic woes ]
Owner Steve Leith, who bought the bar in 1986 with a partner when it was Lil’s Lounge, said Tuesday he remembers opening the place “on a shoestring.”
“We did it on some money, but not a lot of money,” Leith said. “We built the bar ourselves. We built the table ourselves. We pretty much did everything ourselves.”
“We had a vision of just this cozy neighborhood bar, and we maintained it just as it was when it opened,” he said. “We maintained that idea even though the neighborhood changed. Even though we were surrounded by sports bars, we were never that into the sports thing.”
One of the key elements of the bar’s place in the neighborhood, and its success, was its collection of board games.
“We came up with the board game idea and took it to the max,” Leith said. “You’d go in there on a Friday night, and virtually every table would have a board game out. It was absolutely amazing.” But that ended with coronavirus restrictions.
“We had to clear out the game cabinet. We had to clear out the tables,” he said.
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Although Leith said he supports the mayor, the rollback was a sign of the end for the bar. He had predicted he would step away if a rollback came: “I said, if we close again, that was it for me. I’m gonna retire. The idea of running a quote-unquote ‘COVID bar’ was so far from what that bar was supposed to be.”
Asked at an unrelated event Tuesday about the closing of the bar, Lightfoot said, “We don’t want to see any business close, obviously,” but she defended the need for the rollback, emphasizing that she was not singling out the bar as a problem.
“I’ve been in Guthrie’s many times to and from Wrigley Field,” she said. Nevertheless, she added that “we know that the bars are a source of potential spread” of the virus.
The tavern offers mostly indoor seating, so it was restricted to 25% capacity. Fellows said the bar had filed through Alderman Tom Tunney’s office for an exemption to create some outdoor seating, but had not yet heard back before yesterday’s news.
There’s nothing special planned for the bar’s final few days. If the copious responses are any indicator, the focus will mostly be on spacing and accommodating as many guests as they (safely) can, Fellows said.
“It sounds like we have a lot of people coming from near and far, so we might have an issue with maybe having too many people — which is a terrible thing to say, but what are you gonna do?” he said.
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Fellows also added that there has been little thought about what ownership will do beyond the closing, even in the midst of an outpouring of support: “We’ll give it a lot more thought (over the next few days) and see what’s a practical move.”
Regardless of the circumstances, the Guthrie’s team is simply hoping to share some final moments among the people with whom they’ve shared three-plus decades of drinks and discussion.
“A lot of these mom-and-pop operations, it’s all about the one place. … We’re here to cater to all the neighborhood people, first and foremost, and then it just goes from there,” Fellows said. “But yeah, we’re just hoping to see people over the next couple of days and say our goodbyes, I guess, or our regards.”


chicagotribune--2020-07-21--Man, 34, fatally shot on Far South Side, 2 others killed in overnight attacks, police say

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Another man @ @ @ @ @ officers who were leaning on a car , saying they were being disrespectful .
After @ @ @ @ @ car , he exclaimed it wasn ’ t his and walked away .

A 34-year-old man was fatally shot about 12:30 a.m. July 21, 2020, in the 600 block of East 133rd Street in the Altgeld Garden Homes, according to Chicago police. (Paige Fry / Chicago Tribune)
The homicide scene in the Altgeld Gardens Homes early Tuesday was contained to just a square of a parking lot.
Chicago police officers created a perimeter around it as residents came out quietly for a look before turning back around. It felt more like a police training exercise, drawing nothing like the crowd that’s often seen after shootings in the area.
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A ShotSpotter alert caught eight rounds of the shooting that occurred about 30 minutes past midnight in the 600 block of East 133rd Street, police said. Officers found a man lying on the asphalt, bleeding from the chest. They told some residents to keep back as they tended to him and waited for an ambulance.
The man, 34, was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition and died at the hospital, police said.
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At least eight shell casings were found at the scene, a mix of 9 mm and .45-caliber casings, according to a law enforcement source. The man who was shot did not have a weapon on him.
The man was walking when someone passing in a black sedan fired shots, police said. No arrests had been made Tuesday morning.
After detectives arrived, they made their way unit to unit, knocking and writing down notes. A few people came outside to say a few words. One man and a detective sat together on lawn chairs and spoke.
A van drove up to the scene at one point and a woman with two young girls came outside a home. A detective walked with the two girls to the van as they cheerfully yelled “Goodbye!” to the woman.
The detectives shined flashlights over the scene, which didn’t contain much other than the casings, a piece of clothing and some medical supplies left behind by the paramedics.
After a while, some men argued near the scene as the hours crept into early morning. Another man walked over to yell at officers who were leaning on a car, saying they were being disrespectful. After taking a look around the car, he exclaimed it wasn’t his and walked away.
Two other homicides occurred earlier in Chicago from Monday night into Tuesday.
About 5:50 p.m., a 32-year-old man was on a sidewalk in the 2000 block of West 18th Place in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood on the West Side when a light-colored vehicle pulled up next to him and someone inside fired shots, police said.
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The man was shot in the back and taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
In another West Side shooting, a man and a woman were on the street in the 300 block of South Springfield Avenue in the East Garfield Park neighborhood when someone in a black sedan fired shots, police said.
The 25-year-old man was shot in the chest and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he later died, police said. A bullet grazed the 24-year-old woman’s head, and she was taken to Mount Sinai in good condition.
No arrests had been made in either shooting Tuesday.
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chicagotribune--2020-07-21--AJ Freund saga: The family’s interactions with DCFS and how the tragedy unfolded

Someone calls for a well-being check on the house because it allegedly had been without power for weeks and appeared run-down .
Cunningham would not allow police inside , but an officer saw AJ and his younger brother and said they appeared to be `` healthy and happy . ''
Police notify DCFS , but the agency declines to investigate based solely on nonworking utilities .
After Cunningham calls police to accuse a former boyfriend of stealing her cellular phone and prescription medications , police check out the family 's home , which they describe as `` dirty , cluttered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the DCFS hotline after noticing a large bruise on AJ 's hip .
Both AJ and Cunningham attribute the bruise to being pawed by the family dog .
AJ also told a doctor , `` Maybe someone hit me with a belt .
Maybe mommy did n't mean to hurt me . ''
DCFS allowed the boys to go home from the hospital as long as their father is there .
During a search of deleted files on Cunningham 's cellphone , police would later say , authorities find a two-minute video from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ AJ on a bare , urine-soaked mattress in a crib .
The boy is nude except for small bandages around his wrists and circling his hips .
Cunningham , who is recording the video , is heard verbally berating him for wetting the bed .
After AJ removes an ice pack from his face , he is seen to have deep red bruising around his eyes and on his neck and clavicle area .
Cunningham had sent the video to Freund to illustrate to him her concerns about their son 's behavior , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ father calls police to report the boy missing , saying that after waking up he could not find his son .
AJ 's parents say the boy was last seen at bedtime the night before , about 9 p.m. , in his family 's home in Crystal Lake , according to police .
The FBI is called in to assist .
Police observe the home to have ripped-up floors and clothes and garbage everywhere .
DCFS initiates another investigation , and AJ 's younger brother is placed with a licensed foster parent under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ brother showed no obvious signs of abuse or neglect .
An officer and bloodhound search in front of AJ 's Crystal Lake home on April 18 , 2019 .
( Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune ) Police release a five-minute 911 call made by Freund in which he calmly said he searched for AJ in the neighborhood before calling police .
Police also release five years of police reports related to the home and its occupants .
They paint a grim picture of unsanitary and unsafe conditions , including dog feces , a lack of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's parents appear at a DCFS hearing in McHenry County court .
Nothing is resolved , but an attorney for Cunningham says DCFS made `` multiple allegations . ''
Divers search for AJ in the pond in Veteran Acres Park on April 23 , 2019 , in Crystal Lake .
Dozens of searchers from as far away as Boone County searched wooded areas , ballfields and the pond .
( Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune ) Cunningham , right , leaves the McHenry County Courthouse in Woodstock on April 23 , 2019 , after a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 3-year-old brother , who is in protective custody .
( Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune ) State officials confirm Carlos Acosta and his supervisor , Andrew Polovin -- two child welfare professionals whose dismissal was recommended for their handling of a hotline investigation four months before AJ 's death -- are no longer state employees following an internal disciplinary process .
A spokesman for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services declined to say whether the men were fired or voluntarily quit .
McHenry County Board member Carlos Acosta attends a board meeting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Acosta , who also works for DCFS , was the last child welfare investigator who made contact with AJ Freund before the young boy 's death .
( Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune )

The plight of missing Crystal Lake 5-year-old Andrew “AJ” Freund came to a tragic end April 24, 2019, when authorities found his body wrapped in plastic in a shallow grave near Woodstock. Parents JoAnn Cunningham and Andrew Freund both face multiple charges in the boy’s death.
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services had at least 10 prior hotline calls concerning Cunningham’s care of children, including four before AJ was born.
Here is how the case unfolded:


chicagotribune--2020-07-21--Hundreds of food service workers at Northwestern University lose their jobs; company cites ongoing c

Hundreds of food service workers at Northwestern University lose their jobs; company cites ongoing coronavirus impact on campus

UNITE HERE Local 1 , a union representing dining hall workers at Chicago-area colleges , said in June that more @ @ @ @ @ in Northwestern dining hall or hospitality jobs are Black or Latino , groups that have @ @ @ @ @ pandemic .
At the time , the union was rallying for Compass to provide compensation @ @ @ @ @ .

The Weber arch at Northwestern University campus in Evanston on July 21, 2020. The university's food service provider is planning to cut food service staff. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
A food service vendor for Northwestern University has announced it plans to permanently lay off about 230 employees.
The decision by food service giant Compass Group comes in anticipation of reduced traffic and social distancing at Northwestern this fall due to COVID-19, said Jennifer Byrdsong, vice president of Compass’ Northwestern operations.
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“This will substantially impact the on-campus location,” Byrdsong said in a Monday news release. “Unfortunately, there will not be enough demand to support past levels of staffing.”
The affected employees were hit with temporary layoffs in March, when Northwestern and campuses across the country abruptly shut down because of the coronavirus.
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Compass said the workers will continue receiving health benefits until Sept. 20, or a date determined by their individual collective bargaining agreement.
The layoffs represent about 40% of the Compass employees at Northwestern, a company spokesman said.
“We understand and regret the deep impact this will have on those who have been let go, workers who are and have been a vitally important part of our campus community,” said Jon Yates, director of media relations at Northwestern.
Layoffs among campus food services workers were sudden and widespread when the pandemic hit in the spring.
Compass Group CEO Gary Green said at the time its workers were being furloughed with the intention of being hired back.
Northwestern publicly pledged after the March layoffs to continue compensating workers until June to “help bridge a short-term downturn caused by the pandemic,” Yates said.
But since Northwestern is returning at a smaller capacity, “there will also be reduced demand for dining and food and hospitality services, which will require fewer workers,” he said.
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UNITE HERE Local 1, a union representing dining hall workers at Chicago-area colleges, said in June that more than 80% of workers in Northwestern dining hall or hospitality jobs are Black or Latino, groups that have been hard hit by the pandemic. At the time, the union was rallying for Compass to provide compensation to workers for lost wages.
Byrdsong noted that since the initial coronavirus-related shutdowns, “we have made every effort to help our furloughed workers by providing free groceries as part of our Compass Grocery Relief Program and other forms of assistance.”
But she said the company made the decision about layoffs because of reduced traffic expected on campus for the fall quarter that is expected to affect retail, catering, dining and concessions across both campuses “due to the social distancing measures, reduced density requirements and current guidance from federal and state officials."
Northwestern partnered with Compass Group in 2018 and previously employed about 600 dining hall workers. DePaul University is another of its local clients.
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chicagotribune--2020-07-21--5 people shot in Lawndale neighborhood attack: Cops

Two hours after the shooting took place , some neighbors sat outside .
One young boy waited on his stoop @ @ @ @ @ his gate .
Some , a few houses down from where the shooting took place @ @ @ @ @ backyard , blasting “ That ’ s What I Like ” by Bruno Mars before @ @ @ @ @ ”

Five people were shot Monday night in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side, officials said.
The shooting occurred about 8:45 p.m. in the 1300 block of South Lawndale Avenue, according to Chicago police.
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A 31-year-old man was shot in the right knee and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, police said. Also taken to Mount Sinai was a 38-year-old man who suffered a wound to the buttocks. Both were in good condition, according to police.
A 56-year-old woman was wounded in the ankle and taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition, as well as a 51-year-old man who suffered a gunshot wound to the ankle and a 63-year-old man shot in the forearm, police said.
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At the scene, an area was taped off in the middle of the block on Lawndale, a residential one-way street.
Two hours after the shooting took place, some neighbors sat outside. One young boy waited on his stoop to let his mother into his gate. Some, a few houses down from where the shooting took place, were celebrating in their backyard, blasting “That’s What I Like” by Bruno Mars before singing “Happy Birthday.”
As some of the partygoers left, they hugged and wished each other to be safe, “Make sure to call when you get home!” and then asked officers if they could get their cars inside the crime scene tape.
Two officers held up the tape for them as they backed out onto 13th Street.
No one was in custody and detectives are investigating.
At least 71 people were shot, 12 of them fatally, from Friday afternoon to Monday morning in Chicago, according to authorities.
Sunday night, two people were killed and three others injured in a shooting in the Morgan Park neighborhood on the Far South Side, according to police.
Check back for updates.
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chicagotribune--2020-07-21--Hurricane Harbor opens in Gurnee with coronavirus measures in place

Arms are up jubilantly as Ryan Rozak , 12 , a seventh-grader of Palos Hills passes through the turnstile as @ @ @ @ @ to enter the swim area at 11 a.m. Ryan 's sibling on right is Chase @ @ @ @ @ .
Their parents are Steve and Kelli Rozak .
Images from Six Flags Hurricane Harbor @ @ @ @ @ , 2020 .

Michael Christenson of Elmwood Park experiences Skull Island with son Logan, 3. Images from Six Flags Hurricane Harbor in Gurnee on July 20, 2020. (Karie Angell Luc / Pioneer Press)
When the inside park gate opened at 11 a.m. on Monday to Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Chicago in Gurnee, the Rozak siblings of Palos Hills raised their arms in jubilation.
Once Ryan, 12, a seventh-grader, and Chase, 10, a fifth-grader, passed through the turnstile, they cheered.
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Of the opening, "It's about time," said their father Steve Rozak.
Kelli Rozak, the boys' mother, said she was, "very excited."
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About to enter the large Tornado funnel is the Lin family of South Milwaukee, Wis. From top, clockwise, are Ameera, 10, a fifth-grader, her father Thomas,, sibling Tai, 12, a seventh-grader, and mother Quiwda. Images from Six Flags Hurricane Harbor in Gurnee on July 20, 2020. (Karie Angell Luc / Pioneer Press)
To Six Flags Great America, she said, “We appreciate their hard work to let us back in, because we’ve missed it,.”
With sunny skies and temperatures hovering around 80 degrees, the Lake County water park opened to members and 2020 season pass-holders on Monday for the season pass-holder, one-week-long preview.
Hurricane Harbor opens for everyone else on July 27, and remains that way through Labor Day weekend.
Due to COVID-19, guests must use the park's new online reservation system at sixflags.com/reserve and select the date and time they wish to visit.
"Our reservations are full," said Caitlin Kepple of Libertyville, communications manager at Six Flags Great America.
The water park’s reopening plan, which the company developed with guidance from epidemiologists, meets or exceeds federal, state, and local guidelines for sanitization, hygiene and social distancing protocols, according to a park statement.
Of guest attendance and staggered times, “We are well within the state’s guidelines for percentage capacity, and the reservation system allows us to limit capacity levels so we can maximize social distancing,” Kepple said.
Arms are up jubilantly as Ryan Rozak, 12, a seventh-grader of Palos Hills passes through the turnstile as part of the first family to enter the swim area at 11 a.m. Ryan's sibling on right is Chase, 10, a fifth-grader. Their parents are Steve and Kelli Rozak. Images from Six Flags Hurricane Harbor in Gurnee on July 20, 2020. (Karie Angell Luc / Pioneer Press)
Before the members of the Rozak family could get to the interior gate at Hurricane Harbor, they were among guests who had to pass through the park’s main entrance gate off Grand Avenue.
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A thermal imaging screen scanned for body temperature to indicate guest wellness. Touch-less bag checks were also part of the advanced gate technology.
The Great America amusement theme park area is not open. The water park would have typically opened Memorial Day weekend and the theme park would have opened in April, Kepple said.
“We are still waiting for guidance from the state to open the theme park,” she said.
About to exit the large Tornado funnel is the Lin family of South Milwaukee, Wis. Images from Six Flags Hurricane Harbor in Gurnee on July 20, 2020. (Karie Angell Luc / Pioneer Press)
Guests must also have PPE face masks and wear them except on waterslides, water attractions and in pools. If guests did not have masks, they could buy disposable ones for $1 or cloth masks with decorative fabric designs for $5.99 or $7.99, depending on the logos or superhero symbols.
“I like it, I mean, it’s not like we’ve got to wear the mask while we’re in the water, so I understand everyone’s safety,” said Thomas Lin of South Milwaukee, Wis., who went down the Tornado slide’s funnel with his family.
The wave machine was not operational on Monday due to COVID-19, but the popular buckets dumped large amounts of water at Skull Island.
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"It's a good way to cool off," said Michael Christenson of Elmwood Park, who experienced Skull Island with son Logan, 3.
“It’s nice because they have a younger kids’ bucket and they have a more adult bucket, so we get to experience it,” he said.
The bucket dumps gallons of water on left. On the bridge, upper right, are Michael Christenson of Elmwood Park with his son Logan, 3. Images from Six Flags Hurricane Harbor in Gurnee on July 20, 2020. (Karie Angell Luc / Pioneer Press)
It could be said Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Chicago was on the Christenson family's summer bucket list.
“As soon as we found out they were opening, we made sure we got a reservation right away, took the day off of work (and) made sure everything was good to go,” Logan’s father said. “We love it.”


chicagotribune--2020-07-22--Daywatch: Mass shooting in Gresham, how many Chicago businesses have permanently closed and what hap

Daywatch: Mass shooting in Gresham, how many Chicago businesses have permanently closed and what happens to your pets when you go back to work

The stay-at-home order made for the “ perfect ” time to adopt , said Rachel Stopchinski .
She adopted Mocha @ @ @ @ @ — from PAWS Chicago in May , seeking a companion for her other cat .
@ @ @ @ @ for more than two years because her epilepsy required a home that could provide a @ @ @ @ @ Stopchinski , who also has epilepsy , said she connected to Mocha ’ s story @ @ @ @ @ right .

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Activists square off with Chicago police officers on July 20, 2020, during a march through the Loop to protest the possible deployment of federal agents. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
President Donald Trump will be sending federal law enforcement agents to help police and the U.S. attorney’s office fight Chicago violence and the city intends to cooperate, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said.
But Lightfoot also said Tuesday that her administration would be vigilant to ensure the Trump administration doesn’t repeat in Chicago what happened in Portland, Oregon.
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Chicago police investigate the scene of a mass shooting near 79th Street at Morgan Street on July 21, 2020. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)
At least 15 people were shot Tuesday evening in the Gresham neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side and one person was in custody, authorities said.
About 6:30 p.m., shots were fired at attendees of a funeral in the 1000 block of 79th Street from a black vehicle speeding west, according to First Deputy Superintendent Eric Carter, who spoke at the scene Tuesday night
Blackbird restaurant in Chicago closed in June, one of thousands of business affected by the coronavirus pandemic. (Zbigniew Bzdak / Chicago Tribune)
Chicagoans have watched for months as “For Sale” and “For Rent” signs popped up in windows of their favorite coffee joints and neighborhood bars, and they’ve wondered whether treasured restaurants will ever reopen. A tally is in: The coronavirus pandemic has forced an estimated 4,400 businesses in the Chicago area to close, including 2,400 that say they won’t reopen.
Running list: Chicago-area restaurants that have closed permanently due to coronavirus pandemic economic woes
Guthrie’s Tavern, a Lakeview mainstay for 34 years, is closing permanently due to new coronavirus bar restrictions
Jamie Vogl took the Medical College Admission Test in Chicago this spring. Some prospective medical students want the test moved online during the COVID-19 pandemic. "It certainly just puts another level of stress of people and can become an extra burden," Vogl said. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
Designed to measure fitness, character and competence, the bar exam is a grueling 12-hour test typically administered over a two-day period to thousands of recent law school graduates. But with coronavirus cases still surging in many parts of the nation, some law school graduates view this communal experience not as a shared rite of passage but as a potentially life-threatening risk.
Rachel Stopchinski holds with her cat Mocha, who she adopted through PAWS Chicago. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)
The stay-at-home order made for the “perfect” time to adopt, said Rachel Stopchinski. She adopted Mocha — a 2-year-old black cat — from PAWS Chicago in May, seeking a companion for her other cat. Mocha had been at PAWS for more than two years because her epilepsy required a home that could provide a special level of care. Stopchinski, who also has epilepsy, said she connected to Mocha’s story and the timing was just right.


chicagotribune--2020-07-22--An estimated 4,400 Chicago-area businesses have closed during the pandemic. 2,400 say they’ll never

An estimated 4,400 Chicago-area businesses have closed during the pandemic. 2,400 say they’ll never reopen.

Yelp gathered the data by counting businesses on its platform on March 1 and tallying how many of those owners @ @ @ @ @ by July 10 , either through changing hours or through a COVID-19 banner on its @ @ @ @ @ the option to mark their business as either permanently or temporarily closed .
The company @ @ @ @ @ and excluded one-day closures unrelated to the pandemic , such as Easter .

Blackbird restaurant in Chicago closed in June, one of thousands of business affected by the coronavirus pandemic. (Zbigniew Bzdak / Chicago Tribune)
Chicagoans have watched for months as “For Sale” and “For Rent” signs popped up in the windows of their favorite coffee joints and neighborhood bars, and they’ve wondered whether treasured restaurants ever will reopen.
A tally is in: The coronavirus pandemic has forced an estimated 4,400 businesses in the Chicago area to close, including 2,400 that say they won’t reopen.
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The data, released Wednesday, comes from crowd-sourced business review platform Yelp.
Nationally, more than 132,500 businesses have permanently or temporarily closed since March, according to Yelp. Temporary business closures are decreasing nationally as some states reopen, but permanent closures are rising, accounting for 55% of all closed businesses.
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The Chicago area has suffered the fourth-highest number of closures among the nation’s metro areas, behind Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco.
Restaurants and retail have been the hardest-hit sectors in the Chicago area. According to Yelp’s data, more than 800 restaurants and 700 retail businesses have closed since March 1. More than 550 of those restaurants and 420 of those retailers will not reopen. Other sectors that have seen more than 350 businesses shutter include beauty services, home services and financial services.
A sign stating the store is closed is posted at Dylan's Candy Bar on Michigan Avenue, March 23, 2020, in Chicago. (Raquel Zaldivar / Chicago Tribune)
Yelp gathered the data by counting businesses on its platform on March 1 and tallying how many of those owners had marked their businesses closed by July 10, either through changing hours or through a COVID-19 banner on its page. Business owners have the option to mark their business as either permanently or temporarily closed. The company then vetted the closures, and excluded one-day closures unrelated to the pandemic, such as Easter.
The company declined to disclose the total number of businesses on its platform.
The numbers could continue to rise with coronavirus cases, as Chicago rolls back some of its reopening plans.
Starting Friday, the city will limit indoor fitness classes to a maximum of 10 people and ban personal services requiring the removal of masks, such as shaves and facials. Bars that don’t sell food no longer will be able to serve alcohol indoors.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration announced the rollbacks Monday. That night, Guthrie’s Tavern in Lakeview announced it will close permanently by the end of the week. “With the new restrictions set today for bars and the ongoing COVID restrictions, we don’t see a way we can survive,” said a post on Guthrie’s Facebook page.
The fate of many Chicago-area businesses lies in the reopening guidelines, and whether they’ll be able to operate and abide by them, said Tanya Triche Dawood, vice president and general counsel of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association. Few small businesses have “a ton of capital to rely on,” she said.
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“These small businesses are really hurting,” she said. “The impact is real. You may not see a closed sign on the business, but that doesn’t mean that they’re not in trouble.”
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chicagotribune--2020-07-22--Column: Guthrie’s Tavern. Jeri’s Grill. Taqueria Sabor y Sazon. We grieve the businesses lost to COV

Column: Guthrie’s Tavern. Jeri’s Grill. Taqueria Sabor y Sazon. We grieve the businesses lost to COVID-19.

I was surprised by the pang I felt the day I noticed that my neighborhood Le Pain Quotidien had closed @ @ @ @ @ chain , after all , and it hadn ’ t been there forever , so @ @ @ @ @ the emotional order of Guthrie ’ s .
Nevertheless , its arrival had given new @ @ @ @ @ and brought more people onto the sidewalks .
I ’ d enjoyed the times I @ @ @ @ @ , reading , musing , talking with a friend .
The chain had financial problems @ @ @ @ @ COVID-19 contributed , and its closing felt like another fallen leaf .

Some days it feels as if the businesses lost during the pandemic are like leaves falling off a tree when winter comes. Look. There goes another one.
This week one of those falling leaves is Guthrie’s Tavern, a beloved Chicago corner bar that on Monday announced it couldn’t survive the latest COVID-19 bar regulations and would close after 34 years.
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“It’s almost like a death in the family,” Guthrie’s manager, Mark Fellows, was quoted as saying in the Tribune.
Not every business closure cuts as deep for its customers as Guthrie’s does, but these things we call businesses are more than business. They’re the people who make the business run, from the workers to the customers, and losing them, even the ones without the history or charm of a Guthrie’s, can feel like a death.
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Lately I walk through my neighborhood and see the pandemic’s toll in the form of new “For Lease” signs and boarded windows, the old store names already removed. I can’t always remember what was there, and yet I sense a loss.
I was surprised by the pang I felt the day I noticed that my neighborhood Le Pain Quotidien had closed. It’s a chain, after all, and it hadn’t been there forever, so its disappearance was hardly on the emotional order of Guthrie’s. Nevertheless, its arrival had given new life to an old building and brought more people onto the sidewalks. I’d enjoyed the times I sat there with a coffee, reading, musing, talking with a friend. The chain had financial problems before the pandemic, but COVID-19 contributed, and its closing felt like another fallen leaf.
“I have felt a couple of gut punches when finding out specific places were closing,” says a friend. “I’m not even sure why, because it’s not like I go out that much. I guess it has more to do with feeling like things that seemed permanent turn out to be so easily wiped out.”
I’ve been asking people to name business casualties of the pandemic that feel to them like personal losses. The names are like a roll call of the dead, in the city and the suburbs.
The Mercury Theater. Taqueria Sabor y Sazon. Eddie’s Pizza & Pub. The Lattof YMCA. Some people mention nail salons or vintage clothing shops. Several people mentioned Jeri’s Grill, a 24-hour diner in the North Center neighborhood that recently closed after 57 years. It was the kind of place you can miss even if, like Nia Arnold, you’d never been there.
Arnold always meant to go to Jeri’s. She drove past often enough to admire the female server with the arm tattoo who always seemed to treat her customers like friends.
“I really regret procrastinating to go,” she says. “Locals have told me I have really missed out, and my stop at the Western Avenue stoplight doesn’t feel the same anymore. I really enjoyed partaking in the diner’s energy even if only through my car window.”
Customer and friend Ken Dreier, left, chitchats with cook Jeff Morrison while waiting for customers at Jeri's Grill on North Western Avenue in 2013. (Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)
That radiant energy — the kind you sense simply in passing — is part of what’s lost when a business vanishes, which helps explain why we can miss places we never went but thought we might go, places we rarely went but which carried memories.
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Not all businesses that have closed during COVID-19 time closed because of the virus. In some cases the pandemic hastened a business’s demise but wasn’t the sole cause.
And businesses come and go all the time. In my neighborhood, most of what’s there wasn’t there a decade ago. Still, before COVID-19, there was a sense of relative stability amid the change. COVID-19 accentuates and accelerates our understanding of a constant truth: The world is always in flux.
“Jeri’s Grill was a part of the past living in a modern world,” its owner, Frank Di Piero, wrote in his closing announcement. “Unfortunately the past can no longer survive in this post pandemic world.”
But some of the past will survive COVID-19, just as some hardy leaves hang on to a tree through winter. In the meantime, if a small business you care about is hanging on, support it as best you can. If it has a GoFundMe page for workers, for example, help out there.
And remember that new leaves always come.
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chicagotribune--2020-07-22--Column: Donald Trump doesn’t care about Chicago’s violence. Sending the feds is Barack Obama payback

Column: Donald Trump doesn’t care about Chicago’s violence. Sending the feds is Barack Obama payback.

You might wonder why we ’ re so special .
We have never done anything to Trump except provide a @ @ @ @ @ s rise to power .
Now that it looks like he might be on his @ @ @ @ @ he ’ s determined to take Chicago down before he goes .

Donald Trump has been threatening to take on Chicago’s violence problem since he got into office. It looks like he’s finally getting his wish.
Trump has ordered the deployment of about 150 federal agents to Chicago this week. Mayor Lori Lightfoot adamantly opposes it, but she acknowledged Tuesday that the city will cooperate.
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He has threatened to do the same in other Democratic-run cities like New York, Philadelphia, Detroit and Baltimore, but Chicagoans know he has been salivating over taking control of Barack Obama’s old turf. He has wanted to get his hands on us from the moment Obama handed over the keys to the White House.
You might wonder why we’re so special. We have never done anything to Trump except provide a platform for his archenemy’s rise to power. Now that it looks like he might be on his way out the door, he’s determined to take Chicago down before he goes.
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Everyone knows that this cheap political ploy has nothing to do with stopping the violence. It’s about revenge. Trump hates Chicago. He has never tried to hide it.
But maybe we shouldn’t fight him on this. If Trump is hellbent on proving that he’s smart enough to solve the gang violence Chicago has grappled with since the 1960s, let’s give him a shot.
Here’s the thing, though. Once he takes on the violence, he owns it. From now on, every person murdered in Chicago will have a checkmark with Trump’s name on it.
Trump has long insisted that solving Chicago’s violence problem would be easy if law enforcement officials weren’t tied down with political correctness and given free rein to treat human beings any way they like, regardless of their civil rights. Actually, the U.S. Justice Department found that Chicago police never have been too concerned about the civil liberties of Black people, so that’s his first mistake.
He thinks that Lightfoot is too soft. He thought the same of her predecessor, Rahm Emanuel. Trump definitely is the most powerful man in America. Let’s see what he’s got.
Portland, Oregon, offers a glimpse of what he has in mind. We’ve seen federal agents dressed in camouflage gear round up protesters on the streets and toss them into unmarked vans. The agents don’t bother to identify themselves, much less tell people why they’re being arrested.
They’re the feds and they’re acting on the president’s orders. As far as Trump is concerned, that’s all anybody needs to know.
Lightfoot says that from her understanding “at this point,” Trump has something more collaborative in mind for Chicago. She’s been told that he’s sending additional agents from the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to augment federal agencies that are already here.
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Surely, the mayor isn’t buying that. Given her attacks on him for mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump despises her as much as he does Obama. The last thing he would do is try to help her solve arguably the toughest problem she faces as mayor.
Being an outsider, one thing Trump will figure out fast is that Chicago isn’t Portland. Sending in the feds to bring a few protesters under control isn’t the same as destroying the culture of violence that permeates Chicago.
It will take more than a few days or weeks of federal agents throwing Black men in jail to get rid of our systemic problem.
Of course, Trump isn’t concerned about the long term. He just needs the numbers to go down while the feds are in town so that he can cut a campaign ad touting his law and order platform. Once his interest dies, as it quickly does with most things, Chicagoans will be stuck with the rubble.
If Trump actually had been a smart businessman, he would understand that lucrative businesses do whatever it takes to keep making money. While the heat is on, drug-dealing enterprises on the West Side will go underground. Once the coast is clear, they will resume normal operations. Their loyal customers will demand it.
On the South Side, young men might be forced to hide their illegal guns as long as federal agents are on the prowl. But at home, they will continue to use social media to pick fights with each other over petty things. And the grudges they held against each other before the lockdown began will fester.
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“Tru Killer” won’t forget that someone from a rival gang murdered his cousin, “Baby Vicious,” in a drive-by shooting a year ago, and as soon as it’s safe to get back on the streets, the first thing he and his crew will do is get their revenge.
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That’s the reality of Chicago’s cycle of violence. While some of it revolves around the drug trade, much of it isn’t about anything more than getting back at someone for what they did to you. The only way to stop the cycle is to figure out where it began.
Trump doesn’t have time for that. Even if he did, he’s not interested in committing the financial or community resources necessary to get to the core of the problem. He isn’t even willing to support federal legislation to stop the flow of illegal guns onto the streets.
All he wants is a quick fix. He couldn’t care less whether it lasts.
But Chicagoans do care about what happens here, and we aren’t fooled by Trump’s fake compassion for the people who live in violent neighborhoods. We might not be able to stop him from bringing his vindictive campaign against “liberal Democrats” to our city, but there is one thing he can be sure of when he leaves.
Regardless of what Trump does, Chicago always will be the city that produced Obama — and proud of it.
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chicagotribune--2020-07-22--Students push back against in-person bar and medical college exams amid coronavirus fears: ‘We’re fo

Students push back against in-person bar and medical college exams amid coronavirus fears: ‘We’re forced to choose between our livelihoods and our lives’

One student who took the MCAT exam last month said she thought it was “ horribly hypocritical ” that the @ @ @ @ @ profession expect us to go to these tests in these tiny rooms with people we @ @ @ @ @ six hours and just breathe that in.
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Jamie Vogl took the Medical College Admission Test in Chicago this spring. Some prospective medical students want the test moved online during the COVID-19 pandemic. "It certainly just puts another level of stress of people and can become an extra burden," Vogl said. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
Designed to measure fitness, character and competence, the bar exam is a grueling 12-hour test typically administered over a two-day period to thousands of recent law school graduates.
But with coronavirus cases still surging in many parts of the nation, some law school graduates view this communal experience not as a shared rite of passage but as a potentially life-threatening risk.
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One person worried about the uncertainties of the in-person bar exam is aspiring child protection lawyer Mollie McGuire of Chicago.
McGuire, along with Dalton Hughes and Steven Tinetti, formally filed a legal petition with the Illinois Supreme Court, asking the state’s highest court to grant 2020 law school graduates diploma privilege, meaning they could practice law without sitting for the bar exam. Nearly 1,400 law school graduates, faculty members, lawyers and health care workers signed on to support the effort.
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In its response, the Illinois Board of Admissions to the Bar, which administers the state’s bar exam, reiterated the necessity of the in-person exam, citing the board’s “duty to protect the public from dishonesty and incompetency.” The board also said it did not believe diploma privilege “ensures a necessary prerequisite to licensure, that of competence and public protection.”
The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday, without explanation, denied the request to grant 2020 law graduates diploma privilege. McGuire said she was devastated. “I can’t believe they replied to a 111-page petition with one sentence,” she said.
Without the option of taking the exam remotely or having it waived, McGuire had a difficult decision: If she didn’t take the exam, she stressed out about not being able to begin her career while still needing to pay living expenses and soon-to-come loan installments.
If she did take the exam, she wondered how she would find child care for her 4-year-old son so she could study, especially with options limited by the pandemic. She worried about accidentally bringing the coronavirus home to her family.
After months of stress, McGuire finally made the decision not to take the in-person bar exam this fall, which had already been postponed from July. She said she does not trust the bar admission board’s ability to keep all test-takers safe.
“The thought of being around that many people is terrifying, but the thought of not becoming an attorney is heartbreaking,” McGuire said. “Every time I say that out loud I cry, because I went to school to do this job. ... We’re forced to choose between our livelihoods and our lives.”
In a different sphere of academia, prospective medical students across the country are fighting a required in-person entrance exam. Organizers of the group Students for Ethical Admissions have asked not to be named publicly because they worry it would jeopardize their admissions chances in a process that, as one of the students put it, “tends to have a heavy focus on ‘professionalism.’”
The Association of American Medical Colleges, the organization that administers the Medical College Admission Test, or MCAT, canceled many testing dates in March after the coronavirus arrived in United States. Testing resumed in Illinois on June 19, with the test length shortened from seven hours and 30 minutes to five hours and 45 minutes, said Karen Mitchell, the association’s senior director of admissions testing service. Most weekends, three shifts of students begin testing at 6:30 a.m., 12:15 p.m. and 6 p.m. on each testing date.
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Both the AAMC and the Illinois bar admissions board have emphasized that they are implementing precautionary measures, such as limiting the number of test-takers in the room, spacing out participants, requiring face masks, providing hand sanitizer and checking temperatures.
The bar admissions board released its protocols Thursday, saying no remote option was planned. The board said the in-person Sept. 9 and 10 exam will be canceled if Illinois moves back to stage three of its coronavirus restrictions.
The board said it will release testing locations two to three weeks before the test date, assuring students “hotels are abundantly available in all cities where the exam will be given.” If a test-taker displays symptoms during the exam, the admissions board said, all test-takers will be dismissed temporarily “so that the room can be sanitized as quickly as possible,” according to the protocols.
One student who took the MCAT exam last month said she thought it was “horribly hypocritical” that the “gatekeepers of the medical profession expect us to go to these tests in these tiny rooms with people we don’t know for six hours and just breathe that in.” She noted the COVID-19 situation is worse in many parts of the country than when the AAMC initially canceled exams in March.
The student said her MCAT experience during the already-stressful test was “so uncomfortable” because some of the equipment, such as headphones and palm scanners, was not sanitized between uses. She said the room was not cleaned between the three shifts of students.
Mitchell said in an email that AAMC has “received a handful of reports and (has) worked with our testing vendor, Pearson VUE, to review the concerns.”
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Scott Overland, director of media relations at Pearson VUE, said the company’s priority “is the health and safety of test-takers and our employees.”
He added: “Across all of our test centers we have strict sanitization protocols that include the cleaning of testing stations and high touch points between every user. Our teams take these sanitizing protocols very seriously. If we receive any claims that cleaning procedures were not followed, we will investigate immediately.”
Mitchell said the MCAT is an important predictor of success in medical school and a necessary aspect of a holistic admissions review. When asked if the exam could be administered remotely, Mitchell said that “in-person testing helps protect groups with fewer resources,” citing students without a quiet space to concentrate or the technology needed for an online exam.
But others worry requiring in-person standardized testing disproportionately burdens disadvantaged and underrepresented groups, exacerbating existing inequities in the medical and law professions. Both McGuire and the premedical student said it can be difficult for some test-takers to take time off work to study or to continue to purchase study materials indefinitely, especially when test dates are subject to cancellation if the local coronavirus situation worsens.
Jamie Vogl took the MCAT in Chicago last month. She said she felt safe overall, and believes the MCAT can be a valuable tool. At the same time, “in light of a pandemic and (Black Lives Matter) it certainly just puts another level of stress of people and can become an extra burden. It might not accurately reflect the capabilities of the person taking the test,” Vogl said.
The Stanford University School of Medicine in California has made the MCAT optional for admissions. Illinois schools have not followed suit, though many noted their deadline for scores has been extended and told the Tribune the test is one part of admissions process.
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In an email to graduates on Sunday, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law Dean Kim Yuracko and Vice Dean Jim Speta wrote that they advocated for diploma privilege in early July but said diploma privilege was unlikely to occur in Illinois.
Nine Illinois law school deans sent a letter to the bar admissions board Sunday asking the organization to cancel the September in-person exam and plan for an October remote exam instead. They pledged to work with the admissions board to resolve any lack of access issues presented by the remote exam.
The deans noted other states have moved to a remote exam.
Melissa Hale, director of academic success and bar programs at Loyola University, said she believes there is value to some parts of the bar exam but called other parts “questionable.” She said she doesn’t think that waiving the bar exam would introduce unqualified attorneys because law schools in Illinois do a good job preparing students.
Hale said Loyola is hopeful the Illinois Supreme Court will make adjustments if it’s unsafe to hold an in-person bar exam in September.
“I’m not a medical professional ... but if things look like they do right now in September, I think it’d be really difficult to conduct an in-person bar exam safely,” Hale said.
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chicagotribune--2020-07-22--At least 15 people shot in exchange of gunfire at funeral in Gresham neighborhood on South Side, aut

At least 15 people shot in exchange of gunfire at funeral in Gresham neighborhood on South Side, authorities say

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Chicago police investigate the scene of a mass shooting near 79th Street at Morgan Street on July 21, 2020. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)
At least 15 people were shot Tuesday evening in an attack on people attending a funeral in the Gresham neighborhood and one person was in custody, authorities said.
Shots were fired at attendees of a funeral in the 1000 block of 79th Street from a black vehicle speeding west about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to First Deputy Superintendent Eric Carter, who spoke at the scene Tuesday night.
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The funeral attendees exchanged gunfire with those in the vehicle, he said. The vehicle then turned north on Carpenter Street, and shots continued to be fired at the attendees, before the vehicle crashed midway down the block, Carter said. Those inside the vehicle fled.
[ Update: Chicago mass shooting: With 15 people shot outside Gresham funeral home, ‘An eye for an eye makes us both blind,' top cop says ]
A neighbor, who asked not to be identified, said it sounded like multiple weapons were used in the shooting.
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The neighbor said multiple victims fell in front of a liquor store between a laundromat and a funeral home on 79th Street, and many were bleeding.
Fourteen people were being treated at five area hospitals, Carter said.
A 65-year-old woman, was treated at the scene, police said.
Most were in serious to critical condition when they were taken to the hospital, according to Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford.
Carter said there were 60 shell casings on the scene. The number of shooters was still being determined by detectives, he said.
After initially saying there were at least 14 victims, Chicago police gave an update Wednesday morning that there were at least 15 victims and another man at the scene said he had been grazed by a bullet but had not sought medical attention.
The victims include at least 10 women, police said. Their ages are: 21; two are 24; 26; 27; 30; 37; 43; 49; and 65.
The 26-year-old woman was in serious condition at the University of Chicago Medical Center and the 43-year-old was in serious condition at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said. The rest were in good condition.
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Five men were shot, police said. One is 22, two are 31 and one is 32. All the men except one of the 31-year-olds were in serious condition.
Police said the shooting happened at or near the site of a funeral or postfuneral event for a man fatally shot last week in the Englewood neighborhood.
Carter said there was a police presence at the funeral due to its size, but it was unclear whether a squad car was present at the time of the shooting. Police often assign beat cars to funerals for homicide victims.
“While families were mourning at a funeral in Auburn Gresham, cowardly gunmen opened fire, wounding 14 in a horrific mass shooting,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said in a tweet Tuesday night.
“We cannot give shelter to killers. People know who are responsible,” Lightfoot said. “Too many guns are on our streets and in the hands of people who should never possess them. These individuals will be held accountable.”
Tuesday night at the scene of the attack, one young man stood near the crime scene tape. He said he was waiting in line to go inside the funeral home when the shooting started. As he ran, he realized he was grazed by a bullet, he said.
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His right knee had a fresh wound. He said he didn’t tell police or paramedics because it was a minor wound, so he would not have been included in a victim count.
He didn’t know how many victims there were in total until afterward, he said. He saw at least six people who had been shot during the commotion.
“Their conditions were good, but it was blood everywhere,” he said. “I didn’t even have nothing to do with it. ... I’m just glad I’m good.”
After firefighters washed off the sidewalk outside of Cookie’s Cocktail Lounge, 1024 W. 79th St., Teresa Wilson, 44, stood outside and pointed to where her friend’s blood had pooled.
When the shooting started, Wilson was inside Cookie’s, where she works as a bartender, but was visiting Tuesday on her own time, playing a bowling video game. At first, the bangs sounded like fireworks, but when she and the handful of others realized it was gunshots, they dropped to the ground.
One of Wilson’s friends had just stepped outside the lounge with a plate of food to go home before the shooting began. After Wilson dropped to the floor, she realized her friend was outside, also on the ground, tapping on the glass. The friend had been shot multiple times and went into surgery Tuesday night.
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But in that moment, Wilson didn’t know what to do. She said she thought to herself, “Are they still shooting? Can we pull her in? Where was she shot?”
“To me, this is no different. It’s nothing new. It’s been going on since the ’80s, ’90s,” Wilson said of the violence.
Nobody inside the lounge was hit, she said.
Before the shooting happened, Wilson arrived at the lounge about 4 p.m. and the blocks up and down both Carpenter and 79th were lined with cars and people. Usually, there aren’t too many people on the block because there are only a few businesses, she said. So she assumed it had to be for a funeral.
A Chicago police squad car was parked on the sidewalk a block over from the funeral home and another in a nearby alley when she arrived, she said. After the shooting, an officer walked into the lounge and said he was checking that they were wearing masks, Wilson and one of the bartenders said.
Wilson said she was upset that police officers didn’t try to break up the crowd before the shooting, because then her friend may not have been caught in the crossfire.
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“It could’ve been better controlled,” she said. “They should’ve called people for back up before it escalated.”
“It’s horrible they did this. My friend was shot out here,” she said. “Because of this COVID, we can’t even check on our friend and be supportive.”
The Tuesday shooting marked one of Chicago’s worst in recent memory.
Last year, 13 people were wounded, four of them critically, in a shooting inside a memorial gathering in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
In September 2013, 13 people were shot in Cornell Square Park in the city’s Back of the Yards neighborhood. A 3-year-old boy was among the wounded in that shooting.
There have been other cases over the years of gunfire outside of funeral services in Chicago.
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In October 2018, six people were shot as mourners were leaving a funeral at Bethlehem Star Missionary Baptist Church at 92nd Street and Cottage Grove Avenue. As many as five mourners drew their own weapons and returned fire during the broad daylight attack. The services were for Vantrease “Dooski Tha Man” Criss, a local rapper who was gunned down earlier that month.
In November 2012, two men were shot, one of them killed, outside St. Columbanus Church at 71st Street and Prairie Avenue. The shooting took place during a church service for a slain reputed gang member.
Meanwhile, Tuesday’s shooting happened as Chicago continues to reel from shootings that have once again brought unwanted national attention to the city.
So far in 2020, Chicago has experienced one of its most violent years in recent memory, especially since late May with the fallout over the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minnesota. Through Sunday, homicides in Chicago were up 51% with 414, compared with 275 at the same time last year, official CPD statistics show. Shootings were also up by 47%.
During a 28-day period through Sunday, at least 116 people were slain in Chicago, the statistics show. That’s up from 40 during the same period in 2019.
As the violence has intensified this summer, police Superintendent David Brown announced plans to start a roving citywide unit of officers to respond to flare-ups in violence throughout the city, a strategy that has come and gone throughout the years in Chicago. In the meantime, President Donald Trump’s administration is expected to unveil plans to deploy more federal agents to Chicago in an effort to fight the violence.
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