chicagotribune--2020-07-26--Hurricane Hanna hits southern Texas, heavy rain continues

Paola Pérez, Monivette  Cordeiro , Lynnette Cantos

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Hurricane Hanna maintained its impact in southern Texas on Saturday night, hours after the eye of the hurricane hit Texas’ coastal region.
The first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic season, Hurricane Hanna made landfall in Padre Island, Texas at 6 p.m. Eastern timezone with maximum sustained winds of 90 miles per hour.
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According to the National Hurricane Center’s 8 p.m. advisory, Hanna moved toward the west-southwest near 8 miles per hour and Hanna’s eye should continue to move farther inland over southern Texas tonight and move into northeastern Mexico on Sunday.
9 p.m. forecast image of Hurricane Hanna for Saturday, July 25, 2020 (National Hurricane Center)
The NHC also issued storm surge warnings in effect for Port Mansfield to Sargent, Texas, a hurricane warning toward Port Aransas, Texas and a tropical storm warning from Port O’Connor, Texas to Barra El Mezquital in Mexico.
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An observing station at Ricon del San Juan, Texas, recently reported sustained winds of 60 miles per hour and a gust to 74 miles per hour, according to the 6 p.m. advisory from the National Hurricane Center. Hanna is now about 15 miles north of Port Mansfield, Texas.
8 PM CDT Position Update: #Hanna moving inland across south Texas pic.twitter.com/i4ib0VvdQA — National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) July 26, 2020
In the eastern wall of Hanna’s eye, a buoy from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration measured a sustained wind of 60 miles per hour, a gust to 69 miles per hour at a height of 12 feet, according to the update. Hanna is not expected to directly impact Florida.
“Some slight strengthening is still possible before Hanna makes landfall later today,” forecasters said Saturday morning. “Rapid weakening is expected after Hanna moves inland.”
A hurricane warning was issued from Port Mansfield to Mesquite Bay, the NHC said, meaning hurricane conditions are expected within the next 12 hours in the listed areas. A storm surge warning is also in effect from Port Mansfield to Sargent, and a tropical storm warning is in effect along the Texas and Mexico coasts.
Hanna is expected to turn toward the west-southwest Saturday night and continue on that path through Sunday, forecasters said.
Flash flooding is the main concern from Hanna, according to Chris Birchfield, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Brownsville, the Associated Press reports.
Hanna is expected to dump 6 to 12 inches of rain, perhaps up to 18 inches in some areas, through Sunday night in south Texas and nearby Mexican states. The deluge could lead to life-threatening flash flooding, rapid rises on small streams, and isolated minor to moderate river flooding in south Texas. Areas along the upper Texas and Louisiana coasts — and inland to the Mexican states of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and northern Tamaulipas — can expect several inches of rain as well, forecasters said.
Hurricane #Hanna Advisory 10A: Noaa Hurricane Hunters and Doppler Weather Radars Find Hanna Has Become the First Hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season. https://t.co/VqHn0u1vgc — National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) July 25, 2020
By Saturday evening, remnants of Tropical Depression Gonzalo were producing gusty winds and heavy rains as they moved westward across the southern Caribbean Sea for the next couple of days, according to NHC.
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Gonzalo is moving west at 21 mph about 125 miles west-northwest of Trinidad with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph.
“The system is forecast to dissipate by Sunday night, if not sooner,” forecasters said in the 2 p.m. update.
There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect for Gonzalo.
Gonzalo will likely produce heavy rain over these areas with up to 4 inches of rainfall over far northeastern Venezuela. Forecasters said earlier the storm had potential for life-threatening flash flooding but removed that warning late Saturday.
Meanwhile, off the coast of Africa, the NHC is monitoring a wave that has a 60 percent chance of developing into the a storm in the next five days. It’s expected to move west over the next several days and could become a tropical depression early next week.
David Harris and Tiffini Theisen of the Sentinel staff, and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Paola Pérez can be reached at paoperez@orlandosentinel.com or on Twitter @pdesiperez.


chicagotribune--2020-07-28--Daywatch: Wisconsin added to Chicago quarantine order, how parents are creating schooling pods at ho

Daywatch: Wisconsin added to Chicago quarantine order, how parents are creating schooling pods at home and virtual Lollapalooza is happening

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Good morning, Chicago. Here’s the coronavirus news and other top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Pedestrians near the lake at Elm Park in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, on May 14, 2020. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
Anyone entering Chicago after spending more than a day in Wisconsin will soon be required to self-quarantine for 14 days because of the number of coronavirus cases in the state, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday.
Wisconsin becomes the 19th state from which travelers are being told to self-quarantine due to coronavirus concerns. Lightfoot, who said Wisconsin will be added to the list later this week, didn’t offer further details during an afternoon news conference.
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A COVID-19 tester retrieves mouth swab samples from people at a free testing event at Harrison Park in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood, July 24, 2020. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
As Gov. J.B. Pritzker appeared with officials in two downstate counties that have seen coronavirus outbreaks, Illinois on Monday reported 1,231 new known cases of COVID-19, the sixth straight day the tally has topped 1,200. Earlier Monday, Pritzker joined local officials in downtown Quincy in Adams County, in one of four counties placed on a “warning level” for COVID-19 last week, and hinted the state would take action if infection rates worsen.
View of Rush University Medical Center and Chicago skyline, Monday, July 27, 2020. Rush has broken into the top 20 nationally in a U.S. News hospital ranking. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)
A second Chicago hospital — Rush University Medical Center — has cracked U.S. News & World Report’s list of the top 20 hospitals in the country, joining Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Northwestern earned the top spot in the state for the ninth consecutive year, and 10th in the nation for the second year. Rush ranked as the second best hospital in the state and 17th in the country.
The House, a tutoring center in Glencoe, has refocused its business since the pandemic. Here, a pod has clear shields to separate the student from the tutor. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
The idea of pandemic pods is to supplement or oversee remote learning, rather that replace it, for parents who have the resources. The cry for help, which includes legions of parents daunted by the prospect of their kids returning to school and potentially catching the virus, has also spawned a burgeoning network of providers ranging from posh private tutoring centers to retired public school teachers and recent college grads, all of whom are offering to organize and supervise in-home instruction for groups of roughly three to five children.
Attendees dance at the Perry's stage during the last day of the 2019 Lollapalooza Music Festival in Grant Park Sunday Aug., 4, 2019, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
No flower crowns, no underbutt, no stepping on smushed piles of uncertain provenance as you rush to a stage. Is it really Lollapalooza without sunburn, sore feet, the incessant thump of Perry’s stage and a weekend of human pinball are questions you will have to answer for yourself, but virtual Lolla is happening.


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Expand Autoplay Image 1 of 9 A pod with clear shields to separate students from tutors is shown at The House in Glencoe on July 24, 2020. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
The House tutoring center’s new micro-school pods may appeal to parents who are reluctant to have their North Shore children return to reopened schools amid the coronavirus. “Not quite ready to send your student back to school? You are not alone,” said owner Gil Gibori.


chicagotribune--2020-07-28--‘Pandemic pods’ and ‘micro-schools’: How parents are finding ways to help their kids — and themselve

‘Pandemic pods’ and ‘micro-schools’: How parents are finding ways to help their kids — and themselves — manage schooling at home

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A pod with clear shields to separate students from tutors is shown at The House in Glencoe on July 24, 2020. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
After spending months keeping her 6-year-old daughter occupied with nature hikes, scavenger hunts and virtual play dates, Julia Devetski was hoping she could finally return to work full time again once the energetic rising first grader was back in the classroom this fall at her school in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood.
But as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage — and after learning that her daughter and her Chicago Public Schools classmates will be doing remote learning at home at least part of the time when the new school year starts in September — Devetski joined the soaring ranks of parents who are counting on “pandemic pods” or “micro-schools” as a solution to their dilemma.
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“She needs more time with kids, and I need a little more help with controlling the remote learning situation while I’m working,” said Devetski, a consumer researcher and single parent who’s been brainstorming with her neighbors to find the right person to lead a pod for her daughter and a few other children in their condominium building.
“I had looked at my neighborhood public school as a place where I could send (her) every day, and know that she was safe, happy and learning while I was working,” Devetski said. “Now, everything seems so uncertain, and totally out of our control.”
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Chicago mother Julia Devetski hopes to find the right person to lead a schooling "pod" for her daughter and other children in her Lakeview building. “She needs more time with kids, and I need a little more help with controlling the remote learning situation while I’m working,” Devetski said. (Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)
Equal parts traditional home schooling and Mary Poppins-style nurturing — with a COVID-19 sheltering-in-place twist — these new arrangements are beckoning parents who desperately need support as they juggle working from home with keeping tabs on their kids’ education.
Generally, the idea of pandemic pods, sometimes called micro-schools, Safe Centers for Online Learning or SCOLs, is to supplement or oversee remote learning, rather than replace it, for parents who have the resources.
The cry for help, which includes legions of parents daunted by the prospect of their kids returning to school and potentially catching the virus, has also spawned a burgeoning network of providers ranging from posh private tutoring centers to retired public school teachers and recent college grads, all of whom are offering to organize and supervise in-home instruction for groups of roughly three to five children.
The movement, which advocates a safe, small-group learning environment, and allows families to pick and choose their children’s pod-mates, is highly appealing to parents like northwest Indiana mom MacKenzie Ledley, who said she is not ready for her 6-year-old son, Joseph, who has asthma, to return to the classroom this fall while the pandemic shows no signs of subsidizing.
“I think the pods are a nice idea, because they provide a measure of safety due to it being just a small group, and it also offers a chance for our children to socialize,” Ledley said. “We had a choice for him to go back in person, or do remote instruction, which we selected, because we’re just not comfortable with him going back into a school environment at this time.”
Ledley, a library director, said she and her husband, a hospital communication director, have been working from home since mid-March, and the couple is searching on Facebook for a tutor to support their son and his fellow pod-mates during their remote learning experience.
“I know we’re lucky to be able to have two incomes to help pay for a tutor, and we’re grateful, because we know a lot of families don’t have that option,” Ledley said.
At this point, Loren Godfrey’s daughter Raegan, 6, is due to return to Nettelhorst Elementary School in Lakeview in the fall with two days of in-person learning, and two to three days of remote instruction.
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Jarrod, left, and Loren Godfrey, right, sit with their daughters Raegan, 6, and Piper, 3, outside their Lakeview home on July 27, 2020, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
But with the Chicago Teachers Union calling for a remote-only instruction model for fall, and the district not due to make a final decision until next month, parents are dealing with a lot of uncertainty on top of concerns about safety and schooling.
Godfrey, who works for a publishing house, and her husband, Jerrod, who just launched a startup company, had briefly considered a pod or micro-school for their rising first grader, but concluded the trend, albeit interesting, could have potential legal consequences.
“What would happen if we hire a retired teacher, and they get exposed to COVID? Or if one of the kids in the pod gets hurt in your home?” said Godfrey. “I just don’t think you can take that kind of risk these days.”
The couple, who both work from home and also have a 3-year-old, are hopeful that their neighborhood Jewish community center might open a classroom for students who need schoolwork supervision, which would also give their older daughter a chance to socialize with peers.
“She’s spent four to five months stuck in the house. ... It’s time,” Loren Godfrey said.
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced Gil Gibori to shutter his academic tutoring lounge, The House, in Glencoe last spring, the timing could not have been worse.
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Arriving during a season which, in normal times, would find tutors booked solid with customized ACT and SAT prep — such tests were canceled because of the virus — Gibori said as a small business owner, he faced one of three fates: close, survive or thrive.
The House, a tutoring center in Glencoe, has refocused its services on "micro-schooling pods" to help students with remote learning in small groupings to address safety concerns. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
Four months later, he anticipates that his members-only North Shore venue’s new micro-school pods, which have already attracted several clients, will soon be humming with socially distanced teens gathering in small groups of their choosing for personalized academic support.
Gibori, who plans to open a second academic tutoring lounge in Highland Park in September, also is offering students who enroll in his new micro-school pods door-to-door transportation from their homes, as well as an on-site cafe serving gourmet meals like organic acai bowls, sushi and truffle macaroni.
“Parents have shifted from being in survival mode last spring, to now worrying about how their kids can safely and effectively receive their education this fall,” said Gibori, a father of four, whose micro-school pods are being pitched to parents on his website with the question: “Not quite ready to send your student back to school? You are not alone.”
While he acknowledges that The House’s $250 monthly membership fee, and private tutoring costs that range from roughly $115 to $170 an hour, are not in the budget for many families, he said the business is committed to enrolling 10% of its young members pro bono.
“We’re an education business, and our tutors are all about progressive learning, which is a core part of our values,” Gibori said.
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The House, a tutoring center in Glencoe, has refocused its services on "micro-schooling pods" to help students with remote learning in small groupings to address safety concerns. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
Retired schoolteachers, including Heidi Allen of Island Lake, are also seizing the moment as pandemic pods and micro-schools appear to be on the cusp of becoming a coronavirus-era cottage industry.
Allen, a single parent and retired special education teacher, said her own financial struggles have inspired her to offer her services at a rate affordable to many working families.
“I hope to help families who financially can’t afford expensive tutors, but I also need to eat and pay my own bills,” said Allen, a reading specialist, who plans to charge $40 an hour to support students who are engaged in remote learning, and $60 an hour for home-school lessons that require her to create a curriculum.
“I’m thinking that a few hours a day for three days a week would work for most kids, but I’m willing to provide support for students however it’s needed,” Allen said.
Of course, private micro-schools and even more moderately priced tutoring is likely out of reach for economically disadvantaged students, many of whose parents who are essential workers at jobs that don’t allow them to work from home.
“We believe that all children, no matter the color of their skin or what ZIP code they are from, should have access to the same high-quality education,” said Kathi Griffin, president of the Illinois Education Association.
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“We certainly acknowledge that some students may need to seek extra help through a private tutor, but we would strongly encourage any school districts using remote learning to make sure that its plan is an equitable one that reaches students at all learning levels, and also makes sure all students have access to the internet and a device to access remote lessons,” Griffin said.
Indeed, some experts say the disparities that could arise alongside the advent of pandemic pods and micro-schooling are not unlike the inequities that quickly surfaced when schools were closed last spring, and many students from low-income communities lacked access to digital technology, including laptops and Wi-Fi, required for remote learning.
“The sacrifices for all parents are huge right now, but the pandemic is affecting the education of students from low-income families even more,” said Howard Bultinck, a professor and chairman of the Department of Literacy, Leadership and Development at the Daniel L. Goodwin College of Education at Northeastern Illinois University.
“The questions we have to ask ourselves are not only how we can best serve these students right now, but just as important, how post-pandemic we can help those children as much as possible who have fallen behind,” Bultinck said.
Despite the possible backslide in student learning that appears more likely the longer schools remain closed, entrepreneurs like Sarah Kurtz McKinnon of Ann Arbor, Michigan, remain optimistic that pandemic pods can be accessed by families from all economic backgrounds.
“Our thought is, if families can work together to self-coordinate hiring a tutor, it will be much more affordable,” said Kurtz McKinnon, co-founder and CEO of the Summer Camp Society.
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She is busy these days working alongside camp leaders and educators to create an online training program for “pod coaches” that teaches the basics of youth development, group dynamics, safety and educational best practices.
One way of making pods more economical and accessible would be hiring college students or recent college grads who can support online learning while creating “a safe space for personal growth and socialization for pods of kids,” said Kurtz McKinnon, who is also hoping to collaborate with local school districts and nonprofits in Ann Arbor and Lansing, Michigan.
“The term ‘pod’ has become a thing, just like the term ‘social distancing,’” Kurtz McKinnon said. “These are phrases we all know, that we didn’t know before the pandemic.”
Back in Lakeview, mom Julia Devetski said even if she and her neighbors are successful in securing an instructor for their children’s pod, the question of how she will pay for their services looms large.
“I’ve only been able to work part time since the pandemic started, and now, I’m stuck in this limbo, and can’t afford a tutor,” Devetski said. “In some ways, this is really not a viable solution, because basically, I’ll be taking on more debt.”
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chicagotribune--2020-07-28--Class-action lawsuit demands ComEd issue refunds for customers after bribery scheme

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As ComEd made its first court appearance Tuesday since being hit with federal bribery charges involving House Speaker Michael Madigan’s political operation, the power company also dealt with a new class-action lawsuit demanding that customers be reimbursed at least $150 million for the benefits the utility gleaned from the scheme.
In a brief phone hearing at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, prosecutors and lawyers for ComEd agreed that after a formal arraignment next week, the company would not have to return to court until 2023, when a three-year deferred prosecution agreement with the government is set to expire.
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ComEd has agreed to pay a record $200 million fine and cooperate with the ongoing probe of its lobbying practices in Springfield in exchange for the charges being dropped at the end of the agreement period.
The fine cannot be raised through rate hikes, according to the terms of the agreement. The deal, however, does not require ComEd to reimburse customers for any additional money received because of the scheme — an omission that the class-action lawsuit aims to address.
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“The corruption of ComEd has cost consumers and businesses in Illinois far too much for far too long,” said attorney Stephan Blandin, who is representing the plaintiffs. “While it’s important that ComEd came clean about bribery and agreed pay the government, there are 4 million families and businesses across the state that now deserve to be compensated for their overpayment for electricity for years and years.”
The civil suit, filed in Cook County on Monday, comes less than two weeks after ComEd stipulated to a “yearslong bribery scheme” involving jobs, contracts and payments to Madigan’s allies as it sought favorable treatment from the legislature.
“Through rampant and widespread corruption in the form of bribery of Illinois elected officials, ComEd and its parent company, Exelon Corporation, deprived ratepayers of vast sums of money, totaling in the hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars,” the suit states.
ComEd has publicly apologized for its actions, but the company denies the scheme meant customers were unfairly charged. To the contrary, a utility spokesman said Tuesday, the company has increased reliability by 70% since 2012 and customers’ bills are lower now than they were nearly a decade ago because of legislation passed by the Illinois General Assembly.
“We apologize for the past conduct that did not live up to our values and have made significant improvements to our compliance practices to ensure that nothing like it ever happens again,” spokesman Paul Elsberg said. “The improper conduct described in the deferred prosecution agreement, however, does not mean that consumers were harmed by the legislation that was passed in Illinois.”
While ComEd drew a sharp distinction between the criminal conduct described in court documents and its impact on customers, class-action attorney Blandin suggested the company’s position violated its pact with prosecutors to never disparage or contradict the agreement.
“There’s absolutely no question that Commonwealth Edison has a systemic problem with telling the truth,” he said. “When it’s in their benefit to cut a deal with the federal government, they will cut a deal. When they’re asked to be held accountable to the ratepayers, then they will go back on that agreement.”
Blandin also has called for the resignation of Illinois Commerce Commission Chairwoman Carrie Zalewski, whose agency regulates ComEd’s rates and safety practices. The Tribune has identified Zalewski’s father-in-law, former 23rd Ward Ald. Michael Zalewski, as one of the Madigan associates who prosecutors referenced receiving a job for “little or no work.”
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Carrie Zalewski’s office has said there is no conflict of interest with her remaining on the state board, and Gov. J.B. Pritzker has said she has his complete confidence. She is expected to preside over an ethics reform hearing with ComEd executives Wednesday.
Prosecutors have said ComEd’s scheme began around 2011 — when key regulatory matters were before the Illinois House that Madigan controls — and continued through last year. They agreed to defer their prosecution of ComEd for three years as it cooperates with the ongoing investigation. ComEd’s parent company, Exelon, has said lobbying practices have been cleaned up.
Neither the speaker nor any of his associates have been charged with wrongdoing. A spokeswoman has said the speaker “has never made a legislative decision with improper motives and has engaged in no wrongdoing here.”
In all, prosecutors put a value of at least $150 million on the legislative benefits ComEd received. The federal court documents specifically noted the 2011 passage of the Energy Infrastructure and Modernization Act, which “helped improve ComEd’s financial stability” by establishing rate guidelines and a smart grid overhaul.
The civil case was filed on behalf of three individuals and three Chicago-area companies. The parties have been ComEd customers since at least 2011, when the alleged scheme began, according to the complaint.
The suit was filed as a class action, meaning it seeks to include a large percentage of ComEd customers during the time period established by prosecutors.
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“Even though ComEd has already paid a $200 million fine, it’s important to keep in mind that not a penny of that is going to ComEd ratepayers,” said attorney Adam Levitt, who also represents the plaintiffs. “The purpose of our lawsuit is to work toward seeking full and complete justice for ComEd’s ratepayers, to be made whole for what we believe will be shown as improper inflation of rates.”
Also Tuesday, a Downers Grove resident flied a federal racketeering lawsuit — also seeking class-action status — alleging ComEd, Madigan, and others participated in a conspiracy that defrauded customers out of millions of dollars.
Plaintiff Lawrence Gress alleged in the 36-page suit that “Madigan and his fellow racketeers have used their power as public officials to line their own pockets by infiltrating and corrupting both public and private enterprises subject to his power and selling secret and unlawful indulgences to the highest bidder.”
Madigan has denied wrongdoing.
“The speaker has never helped someone find a job with the expectation that the person would not be asked to perform work by their employer, nor did he ever expect to provide anything to a prospective employer if it should choose to hire a person he recommended,” a spokeswoman said in a July 17 statement.
Just as in the class-action lawsuit filed Monday, ComEd denies its scheme hurt customers.
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“In large part as a result of legislative action in Illinois, ComEd has made some of the largest improvements in service at the best value of any utility serving a U.S. major metro area,” Elsberg said. “This in no way excuses the conduct described in the DPA, but that is a distinct issue from the effect of the legislation for ComEd’s customers.”
Gress is also a plaintiff in a similar racketeering suit filed in February against former state Sen. Martin Sandoval, who pleaded guilty in a related federal probe to accepting bribes in exchange for acting as political protection for a red light camera company.
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chicagotribune--2020-07-28--Coronavirus in Illinois updates: 1,231 new confirmed COVID-19 cases reported as Chicago adds Wiscons

Coronavirus in Illinois updates: 1,231 new confirmed COVID-19 cases reported as Chicago adds Wisconsin to quarantine list and Pritzker visits downstate counties hit with outbreaks

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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 health officials on Monday announced 1,231 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 18 additional deaths. It was the sixth straight day with more than 1,200 new cases. That brings the state total to 172,655 cases and 7,416 deaths.
The announcement came as Gov. J.B. Pritzker appeared with officials in two downstate counties that have seen coronavirus outbreaks. The governor joined local officials in downtown Quincy in Adams County — one of four counties placed on a “warning level” for COVID-19 last week — and hinted the state would take action if infection rates worsen.
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In Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday said people who have spent more than 24 hours in Wisconsin will soon be required to self-quarantine for 14 days upon entering city. Wisconsin becomes the 19th state from which travelers are being told to self-quarantine due to concerns over high coronavirus case rates.
Meanwhile, Northwestern Medicine is searching for 5,000 Chicago adults to partake in clinical trials aimed at understanding COVID-19 prevention, including potential vaccines, according to a Monday news release. Researchers are asking for participants who are at high risk for being exposed to COVID-19. The first study is expected to launch in August, and it will explore a potential vaccine for COVID-19.
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Here’s what’s happening Monday regarding COVID-19 in the Chicago area and Illinois:
8:43 p.m. (update): White Sox manager Rick Renteria is sidelined for precautionary reasons after coming down with a cough and nasal congestion
The Chicago White Sox began their first road trip of the pandemic-shortened season with manager Rick Renteria sidelined.
Renteria awoke Monday morning with a slight cough and nasal congestion and was not with the team before Monday night’s game against the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field was postponed because of rain.
“After consulting with our team doctors, Ricky underwent precautionary testing (Monday) at a Cleveland hospital,” Sox general manager Rick Hahn said in a statement. “Out of an abundance of caution, Ricky will remain at the team hotel and not manage until we receive confirmation of (Monday’s) test result.”
Hahn’s statement didn’t specify that Renteria was being tested for COVID-19. A Sox spokesman called it “a precaution due to the current circumstances.”
Read more here. —LaMond Pope
4:17 p.m.: Notre Dame withdraws as host of presidential debate amid outbreak
The University of Notre Dame has become the second university to withdraw as the host of one of this fall’s three scheduled presidential debates amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The university was set to host the inaugural face-off between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden on Sept. 29. The first debate will now be hosted by Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates announced Monday.
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Read more here. — The Associated Press
2:50 p.m.: Pritzker visits downstate counties hit with COVID-19 outbreaks: ‘What’s happening here ... is alarming’
As Gov. J.B. Pritzker appeared with officials in two downstate counties that have seen coronavirus outbreaks, Illinois on Monday reported 1,231 new known cases of COVID-19, the sixth straight day the tally has topped 1,200.
Eighteen more deaths were confirmed, most of them from Cook County and the rest from DuPage, Peoria and Winnebago counties.
Since the pandemic began, a total of 7,416 deaths and 172,655 cases of coronavirus have been reported in Illinois.
Earlier Monday, Pritzker joined local officials in downtown Quincy in Adams County, in one of four counties placed on a “warning level” for COVID-19 last week, and hinted the state would take action if infection rates worsen.
As of Monday, the seven-day positivity rate for Region 3, which includes Adams County, had increased to 3.8%, Pritzker said. A county health official stated at the news conference that Adams County has 340 reported cases of COVID-19.
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“What’s happening here in Adams County is alarming,” Pritzker said. “And if these trends continue in the negative direction, the state will need to take immediate action to impose additional mitigations to slow the spread and keep more people from getting sick.”
Besides Adams County, LaSalle County, just outside the Chicago area, and Peoria County, as well as rural Randolph County in southwest Illinois, were put on a “warning level” Friday. The four counties all saw outbreaks of coronavirus recently related to various risk factors, according to state officials.
Read more here. —Alice Yin
2:40 p.m.: People coming to Chicago from Wisconsin will have to self-quarantine for 14 days under latest coronavirus order from Lightfoot
People who have spent more than 24 hours in Wisconsin will soon be required to self-quarantine for 14 days upon entering Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday.
Wisconsin becomes the 19th state from which travelers are being told to self-quarantine due to concerns over high coronavirus case rates. Lightfoot, who said Wisconsin will be added to the list later this week, didn’t offer further details during an afternoon press conference.
Lightfoot’s self-quarantine requirement was first implemented during the Fourth of July weekend but is not being actively enforced aside from signs and billboards telling people that they must self-quarantine. The order figures to be particularly problematic with Wisconsin, given its proximity and the high number of people from Illinois who spend weekends and vacations there.
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The order requires people who have spent more than 24 hours in high-risk states to self-quarantine for 14 days after entering Chicago. States already on the list include Florida, Arizona, Louisiana, Alabama, Nevada, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, Idaho, California, Arkansas, Utah, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Iowa.
Exceptions include essential workers, those coming here for medical treatment and those for whom “self-quarantine is not possible, practicable or advisable.” The order also does not apply to people who are at the airport for a connecting flight, or are driving through the city on their way elsewhere.
Nobody has been fined yet, and Lightfoot on Monday said she’s trying to “educate” people into compliance.
Read more here. —Gregory Pratt
2:06 p.m.: Responding to conflict, Greenhouse Theater will no longer create shows — though rental stages remain
William Spatz, the co-owner of the Greenhouse Theater Center, said Monday that he no longer intends to produce theater at the multi-space Lincoln Park venue located at 2257 N. Lincoln Ave., formerly the home of the Victory Gardens Theater.
Spatz, who shares ownership of the space with his wife, Wendy Spatz, cited online attacks on the couple following their decision to re-open the theater with a production of a musical revue, “Judy & Liza.”
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“The Facebook mob impugned our characters, our reputations, and our contributions to the community,” Spatz wrote in a lengthy letter to the theater community. “There was little nuance, thoughtful suggestions, nor any kindness from our fellow theater producers and creators. We were all swept up in one big pile and treated like total dirt.”
The producers and creative team of “Judy & Liza” said that they had decided to close Sunday night.
“We sincerely thought that our attempt to create a safe production with a two-person cast and a widely-spaced, mask-wearing audience would be met with interest by the theatre community as a possible way forward,” said musical director Robert Ollis, in a shared statement, “but our well-meaning experiment received vocal condemnation, which we heard and are responding to. We love the theatre and had no intention of causing distress or danger to anyone.”
Spatz struck a very different tone, referencing “the self-destructive nature of the theater community and the harm caused by the herd mentality on Facebook.” He said he did not regret his decision to produce the show, which he said followed state and city Phase 4 guidelines, had rigorous safety precautions in place, and attracted only about 20 people to each of three weekend performances in a 200-seat theater.
Read more here. —Chris Jones
1:42 p.m. (update): Cork & Kerry closed by city for violating COVID-19 guidelines
Cork & Kerry, an Irish pub in West Beverly sometimes called “the soul of Beverly,” was closed by the city Sunday after repeated violations of COVID-19 guidelines, according to a news release from Alderman Matthew J. O’Shea of the 19th Ward.
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City investigators were sent to the restaurant after the alderman’s office received a written complaint of an employee testing positive for COVID-19 last week and forwarded it to the Chicago Department of Business Affairs & Consumer Protection. Early Saturday morning, the BACP issued citations to the restaurant when investigators found it operating after midnight and employees and patrons not wearing face coverings. The next day, a follow-up inspection found the same conditions, according to a statement by the BACP. Additional citations were issued.
This wasn’t the first time Cork & Kerry has been issued citations related to COVID-19. The bar, which does not have a retail food license, was open and operating during phase three, which only allowed for outdoor restaurant service. It was cited for this alleged violation June 5.
Read more here. —Grace Wong
1 p.m.: Lightfoot announces $33 million in housing assistance grants, including mortgage and rent relief, from federal coronavirus relief funds
Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday announced that $33 million in funding from the federal coronavirus relief bill will go toward housing grants, including mortgage and rental assistance for city residents.
Residents can apply for a series of programs through the city’s website at chi.gov/housinghelp.
For those making up to 50% of the area’s median income, the city will provide between three and six months of rental support through the Department of Family and Support Services, with the amount of the award based on need, officials said.
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Half the funds will go toward those making less than 15% of the area’s median income, the city said. That application opens July 27 and closes Aug. 10.
Through the Department of Housing, the city will provide grants between $2,000 and $3,000 depending on need, available to those earning up to 60% of the area’s median income, which is $67,000 for a two-person household. That application also opens July 27 and closes Aug. 10.
Lightfoot’s housing department will also provide mortgage assistance, up to $3,300, to those whose income is at or below 120% of the area’s median income. The funding would be paid directly to the lenders, the city said. That applications opens Aug. 3, and the city didn’t say when it would close.
In addition, the city will work with Lawyers Committee for Better Housing to provide no-cost legal defense in eviction court for people making 60% of the area median income or below.
Read more here. —Gregory Pratt
12:55 p.m.: Northwestern seeks 5,000 volunteers to participate in COVID-19 vaccine trials
Northwestern Medicine is searching for 5,000 Chicago adults to partake in clinical trials aimed at understanding COVID-19 prevention, including potential vaccines, according to a Monday news release.
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Researchers are asking for participants who are at high risk for being exposed to COVID-19. The first study is expected to launch in August, and it will explore a potential vaccine for COVID-19. Earlier phases of the same study showed the drug safely increased antibody responses, the release said. Antibodies are proteins that fight viruses and bacteria in the body.
People who agree to be on the registry for clinical trials will be contacted when studies match their health profiles. Participants will not receive compensation for being part of clinical trials. The trials will take place at Lake Forest Hospital, Central DuPage Hospital and the downtown Chicago campus.
Participants from high risk backgrounds include retail workers, health care professionals and public transportation employees. Others who live or work in crowded facilities, like nursing homes, are included in this group.
The clinical trials need people from groups that are disproportionately affected by COVID-19, including African American, Latinx and Native American residents. Older people and those with health conditions are also encouraged to participate.
”We are casting a really wide net so we can make sure we have enough people identified and ready to go for upcoming studies,” said Dr. Karen Krueger, principle investigator of the registry and Northwestern Medicine physician and instructor. “This is vital to individuals’ and community health during the coronavirus pandemic.”
People who want to participate can call 312-694-0414, email nuvaccinestudy@northwestern.edu or find the consent form here.
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—Sydney Czyzon
12:30 p.m.: CPS parents skeptical of health protocols as officials emphasize student pods to promote safety
Hundreds of messages from parents and educators flooded in as soon as the Chicago Public Schools’ first fall reopening feedback meeting Monday opened up to the audience for questions — many doubting the district’s safety protocols and wanting more detail for what happens when someone in school tests positive for COVID-19.
In response to many of the concerns, CPS officials repeatedly highlighted the district’s proposal to split students into “pods” of 15 to minimize contact with other classmates.
CPS CEO Janice Jackson said coronavirus will likely be a concern “not just for a few months until a magical vaccination appears” but for the next year-and-a-half to two years.
“Even with what we know about COVID and the risk being minimal for children, the thought of one child getting it freaks everyone out, so we want to make sure people understand we take that seriously,” Jackson said. “But I think the point to underscore here is we have to learn how to live with COVID, period, whether we’re talking about schools, going to the grocery store, doing the most mundane things or recreational things.”
As concerns over ventilation, cleaning and PPE continued to pour in, a visibly frustrated Jackson again said that the district’s hybrid plan will have to be implemented at some point, even if that is not when the school year starts on Sept. 8. She and CPS officials emphasized the district will only reopen if they believe it is safe to do so.
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Read more here. —Claire Hao
11:20 a.m.: Youth baseball ramps up in Chicago’s suburbs, with coronavirus restrictions in place
Youth baseball is back in Chicago’s suburbs, with youngsters from ages 4 through high school hitting, throwing, fielding and catching with regularity.
While the game is the same for the players stepping between the white lines, just outside the playing field’s markers, fans are social distancing by sitting on portable folding chairs. The bleachers are nearly always empty.
Drew Schnurman, a catcher/third baseman for the 9U Red travel team in the Deerfield Youth Baseball and Softball Association, didn’t seem to mind.
”It feels great to be able to play baseball and be with my friends again,” he said.
Schnurman is among hundreds of youngsters who started playing games as early as June 26 when house and travel teams began competing with the arrival of phase four of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s Restore Illinois plan.
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Read more here. —Steve Sadin
10:20 a.m.: There will be a Lollapalooza of sorts after all, a virtual event to be hosted on YouTube, with old and new content
No flower crowns, no underbutt, no stepping on smushed piles of uncertain provenance as you rush to a stage. Is it really Lollapalooza without sunburn, sore feet, the incessant thump of Perry’s and a weekend of human pinball are questions you will have to answer for yourself, but virtual Lolla is happening.
There are lots of twists, but the biggest thing about this year’s event, scheduled to take place over the same four days — Thursday to Aug. 2 — is that it’s free. All of it.
It’s a “four-night broadcast event” exclusively on YouTube that will include more than 150 performances and appearances. There will be fan favorite sets from previous festivals (including international editions), original performances and classic sets. Yeah, you were there for LCD Soundsystem, Chance the Rapper, Metallica, OutKast and Paul McCartney, to name a few. But maybe your vantage point was all backs and butts, or maybe you were dog tired and heading for the exits.
This year’s virtual Lollapalooza will feature new sets from the likes of H.E.R., Kali Uchis, Kaskade, Louis the Child, Vic Mensa and other artists.
Read more here. —Kevin Williams
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9 a.m.: Target to close on Thanksgiving, joining Walmart in ending Black Friday kickoff
Target is joining Walmart in closing its stores on Thanksgiving Day, ending a decade-long tradition of jump starting Black Friday door buster sales.
The move, announced Monday, come as stores are rethinking the Black Friday in-store bargain shopping as they try to curb the spread of the coronavirus, which has seen a resurgence in a slew of states. Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, announced the move on Tuesday, and at the time, analysts expected more would follow.
Read more here. —The Associated Press
6:59 a.m.: Facing shortage, Red Cross seeking donations of plasma from people who have recovered from COVID-19
The Red Cross is seeking donations of what’s known as convalescent plasma from those recovered from COVID-19 as the plasma, which studies have shown can help people recover from the coronavirus, has become harder to obtain for patients as the number of virus cases increases across the country.
“Convalescent plasma is plasma that is collected from patients who have recovered from an infection and have antibodies that might help fight that infection—in this case, those who have fully recovered from COVID-19,” according to a Red Cross news release.
“The Red Cross has seen demand for convalescent plasma more than double over the last month as the number of coronavirus cases increases across the U.S.,” according to the release.
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The plasma is “now being distributed faster than donations are coming in,” according to the Red Cross.
Anyone who’s had a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis and has fully recovered is asked to sign up to donate at RedCrossBlood.org/plasma4covid.
Those who donate between Aug. 1 and Sept. 3 will be given $5 Amazon gift cards, according to the release.
The Red Cross also still needs regular blood donations, according to the agency. Anyone can download a free blood donor app, visit RedCrossBlood.org, call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or use what’s known as the Blood Donor Skill on any Alexa Echo device.
—Chicago Tribune staff
6:45 a.m.: City to announce housing grants for people affected by COVID-19
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and other city officials were expected Monday to announce grants for housing help for people affected by the coronavirus.
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Lightfoot and the city’s housing and family and support services commissioners were scheduled to hold an afternoon news conference at City Hall to announce the grants.
Check back for updates.
—Chicago Tribune staff
6 a.m.: ‘I see a disaster in the making.’ Professors slam reopening plans at Illinois colleges amid COVID-19 crisis, prompting some schools to reverse course.
Illinois State University’s first attempt to articulate its vision for reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic this fall didn’t sit well with everyone.
The plan, dubbed “Redbirds Return” after the central Illinois college’s mascot, drew swift criticism from faculty after it was shared in early June, prompting instructors to draft their own proposals and call for greater precautions when scores of students are expected to descend on campus next month. The faculty’s letter objecting to plan has been signed by more than 500 employees, students, parents and other community members.
“Since releasing the plan, we’ve received a great deal of feedback,” ISU President Larry Dietz said earlier this month. “Many faculty and staff members have also made it clear they would like a greater voice formulating plans.”
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At the same time, Dietz announced modifications the faculty had been seeking: increased flexibility to work from home, through at least December, and to teach remotely if the subject matter allows.
With the fall term rapidly approaching, faculty members at Illinois colleges are escalating their complaints and have emerged as a leading force against the resumption of in-person instruction. Their concerns, aired in petitions and debates in academic senates, are taking on renewed urgency after reports that students returning to some college towns are spreading the coronavirus at parties and other gatherings. Read more here.
—Elyssa Cherney and Claire Hao
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chicagotribune--2020-07-28--DuPage County board candidate withdraws from race over tweet about ‘laughing’ at officer getting hit

DuPage County board candidate withdraws from race over tweet about ‘laughing’ at officer getting hit in face

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A Democratic candidate for the DuPage County board withdrew from the race after apologizing for a tweet in which she said she laughed repeatedly at a video of a law enforcement officer getting hit in the face with a projectile.
Twenty-year-old Hadiya Afzal attracted national attention and said she was targeted by a “harassment campaign” after Texas Sen. Ted Cruz posted on Twitter that her comment was “Hateful & sick.”
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Hateful & sick.
Does @JoeBiden agree? Will any reporter ask him? https://t.co/flUCbRneXu — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 26, 2020
The video shows what appears to be an officer behind a barricade wall at a protest throw an object off-screen, and then recoil after getting hit in the face with a projectile.
Afzal, who narrowly won the March primary in District 4, wrote on Twitter, “ive been watching this on repeat for fifteen minutes and laughing every single time.”
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After extensive online criticism, Afzal tweeted a statement Sunday night stating, “My post was in poor taste and doesn’t reflect the values I was raised with and hold dear. I do not support or condone violence in any form. I appreciate and support the role that law enforcement plays in keeping our communities safe. I sincerely apologize for the irresponsible tweet.”
The tweet was reposted by Andy Ngo, a conservative online reporter, who indicated it occurred in Portland, Oregon. That’s the site of the federal courthouse where federal agents have been shooting tear gas canisters and other projectiles to disperse protesters.
On her Facebook page, Afzal said the exposure launched “a wave of coordinated racist, sexist, and Islamaphobic harassment against me.”
“I do not condone violence in any form, and indeed have been one of many voices calling for policy changes to our policing problems today,” she wrote. “The specific related video showed a federal officer throwing a water bottle at unarmed protesters, unprovoked, and having it returned seconds later. I regret the comment and apologize to any individuals hurt by the remark. I do believe, however, that we must continue to push back against extrajudicial encroachment in municipal matters by the federal government and as a candidate for county board, I only want the safest possible life for every resident in District 4.”
In a phone interview Monday, Afzal, who said she is Muslim and wears a hijab, said she has been the target of numerous threats, and that critics have posted the address of relatives, and she was afraid for her safety.
She said she dropped out of the race on the recommendation of the local Democratic Party, and said she did not want to be a “distraction” from the fall election.
In 2018, Afzal won a primary and lost the general election for a county board seat. This year, promoting policies to address climate change, public transit, drug overdoses and criminal justice, she was challenging incumbent Republican Tim Elliott.
Afzal grew up in Glen Ellyn and graduated from Glenbard South High School. District 4 includes Glen Ellyn along with large parts of Wheaton and Carol Stream and portions of several other surrounding towns.
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After a destructive house fire in 2012, Afzal wrote on her campaign site, the community rallied to help her family, and she’s since been looking for ways to give back.
She worked previously in legislative offices, and recently graduated from DePaul University. She thanked her supporters for their work, saying her withdrawal was “an all-around disappointment and a shame.”
Afzal worked as an intern last summer for U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood of Naperville, and before that for state Rep. Will Guzzardi of Chicago, both Democrats, officials said.
Democratic Party of DuPage Chair Cynthia Borbas said in a statement that the party “strongly condemns” Afzal’s original tweet, but said it was Afzal’s responsibility to respond, not Underwood’s. Borbas added in an interview that some of the criticisms of Afzal “crossed the line,” and were Islamaphobic and unacceptable.
Democratic precinct committee members will vote in mid-August on a replacement for Afzal on the ballot, Borbas said.
Elliot, a civil litigation attorney, condemned Afzal’s original tweet, as well as many of the comments attacking her.
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He noted that board member Pete DiCianni, a fellow Republican, also resigned recently as chairman of the county’s health and human services committee, after criticism of his behavior at a pro-police rally in Elmhurst and his response to an email.
DiCianni was shown in a video on social media yelling at close range at counterprotesters while not wearing a mask, despite the coronavirus pandemic. According to Patch.com, when a resident emailed him to call for his resignation, DiCianni reportedly replied, “Go stick your vote in your a--.” DiCianni apologized for the comment.
In both cases, Elliott said, people made “divisive and disrespectful” comments, but then were blasted by “a firestorm of vitriol.”
“On all sides, we need to stop this,” he said. “Does everyone want to be judged by the worst or dumbest email they send? It’s destructive, it results in extremism and kills legitimate conversation. It hurts our ability to compromise.”
rmccoppin@chicagotribune.com


chicagotribune--2020-07-28--1 killed, 4 wounded in shooting in Burnside neighborhood on South Side

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Chicago police officers exit a crime scene in the 700 block of East 92nd Place in Chicago where one person was killed and four others wounded in a shooting on July 27, 2020. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
A young man was killed and four others wounded Monday evening in a shooting in the Burnside neighborhood on the South Side, authorities said.
The shooting occurred outside a two-story frame house on the southeastern corner of East 92nd Place and Langley Avenue just after 6:20 p.m.
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Two men, both 22, were taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where one who was wounded in his back was pronounced dead, according to police. He later was identified as D’Andre Anderson of the 800 block of East 89th Place, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said Tueday morning.
The second man, who was wounded in the left buttock, was listed in critical condition.
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Chicago police officers on the scene where one person was killed and four others were wounded following a shooting in the Burnside neighborhood on July 27, 2020. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
Two other men, 26 and 24, were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where both were listed in good condition. The fifth victim, a 25-year-old woman, was taken to Advocate Trinity Hospital in Chicago, where she was also listed in good condition.
Police at the scene said it appeared that at least one gunman got out of a white vehicle and opened fire on the group as they stood on the home’s porch. Chicago fire officials initially issued a call for additional medical personnel to help assist all of the victims, according to a department spokesman.
Police evidence technicians marked about 15 bullet casing on the sidewalk and street corner outside the home, as detectives conducted their investigation inside. Outside, only a handful of neighbors stood watch while detectives began their canvass for eyewitnesses.
The Burnside neighborhood, which served as home for a generation of steelworkers and a former hub for the old Illinois Central Railroad, has seen this type of violence before. A few blocks away, gunmen opened fire on mourners attending a funeral for a local rapper in October 2018.
Earlier in the day, Chicago police Superintendent David Brown announced the formation of two citywide units to help quell such sudden outbreaks of violence.
No arrests have been made.
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chicagotribune--2020-07-28--Disinvestment in Black and Latino Chicago neighborhoods is rooted in policy. Here’s how these commun

Disinvestment in Black and Latino Chicago neighborhoods is rooted in policy. Here’s how these communities continue to be held back.

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Nausheen Husain, Darcel Rockett, Christen A. Johnson, Jemal R. Brinson

It’s an oft-quoted statistic: White families have significantly more wealth than nonwhite families in America — nearly 10 times that of Black families. The racial wealth gap continues to greatly impact the differences in opportunity and access, from long-term health outcomes of a global pandemic, to education and income levels, to what happens when a business doesn’t make enough money.
Wealth inequality exists primarily because of legal federal and local policies that prioritize white wealth, says Darlene Hightower, vice president at Rush University’s community health equity office. “When you’re thinking about why white wealth is preserved and protected and Black wealth isn’t, I think it’s just our origin story, like in a superhero movie,” she said. “I think our country has an origin story and it is built on racism, racist policies, oppression and white privilege. It’s an origin story we can’t seem to get beyond.”
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This Home Owners’ Loan Corporation map and document from 1940 describes Maywood and its Black population in this way: "The area is of mixed and rather poor appearance and unlikely to improve very much due to the age and low grade population, of which considerable portion are negroes. This is fourth grade because of poor prospects and undesirable population." Explore the maps with with this tool build by Mapping Inequality. (Mapping Inequality images from Library of Congress)
Redlining
Racially restrictive covenants, which eventually made redlining possible, started appearing in private property records in the late 1800s to exclude nonwhite people from buying or renting buildings, homes and apartments, according to Kirsten Delegard, cofounder of the University of Minnesota’s Mapping Prejudice Project. The restrictive covenants were made popular by the real estate industry at a time when real estate agents felt it was their ethical duty to preserve racial homogeneity.
One of the earliest examples of a racially restrictive covenant found in Minneapolis states, “premises shall not at any time be conveyed, mortgaged or leased to any person or persons of Chinese, Japanese, Moorish, Turkish, Negro, Mongolian or African blood or descent.” These covenants were later used to indicate which areas of a city were safe and which were hazardous — real estate agents making maps would describe nonwhite neighborhoods as “infiltrated” by Jews, Asians or Black people, drawing red lines around them to mark them as undesirable — redlining.
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“If there were any Black people who lived in that neighborhood, or anyone undesirable, that area would get a hazardous rating, which meant that banks could not get federal backing to put money into homes in that neighborhood,” said Delegard. “It basically cut off all capital to places where Black people lived.”
While these covenants are no longer legal, largely due to the opposition and work of the NAACP and Black activists, their effects linger. Today, segregation in Chicago is distinct, and most metrics of stability in which there is a large gap between Black and white populations — homeownership, education, health access — can be traced back to redlining. In 2017, for example, Chicago had higher than a 30 percentage point gap between Black and white homeownership, according to a report by the Urban Institute. Delegard attributes gaps in homeownership to intergenerational wealth transfer, which is only possible if you were allowed to own a home at all.
“Most white people have no idea that the gap is that large,” said Delegard, “and they think it’s growing smaller when in fact it’s growing larger.”
Throughout American history, Black and Latino neighborhoods, including in Chicago, have witnessed disinvestment. The severe outcomes of this are shown in a series of charts below.
Education
By 1970, the Great Migration brought an influx of Black people to Chicago. Chicago leaders, however, did not integrate Black students into majority-white schools. Instead, they were sent to school in shifts, or by mobile classrooms, called “Willis wagons.”
“When they were protesting in 1963, it was a desegregation protest but the things that people were chanting were like, ‘What do we want? Books! When do we want them? Now!’” said University of Illinois at Chicago history professor Elizabeth Todd-Breland. “These were young people saying, we’re entitled to new textbooks as well; we shouldn’t have things that are falling apart.”
There remain Chicago Public Schools policies that continue the ideas behind redlining, though less explicitly, said Chicago Teachers Union researcher Pavlyn Jankov. Jankov referred to certain policies he said have been harmful: The School Quality Rating Policy, which ranks schools by testing results; the student-based budgeting policy, which awards funding to schools based on enrollment; the proliferation of charter schools in Black neighborhoods, which privatizes education and prioritizes expansion. According to his 2017 research on segregation in CPS, the Black student population has dropped from close to 60% in 1981 to less than 40% in 2015.
“When you have schools and communities that are disinvested, you have students leaving these schools, and you have schools that end up in a death spiral of declining enrollment and resources,” said Jankov.
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Historical and contemporary experiences of segregation and disinvestment in community schools have led to a pronounced discrepancy in higher education. In 2018, more than 60% of white people in Chicago had a bachelor’s degree, but that number hovered around 20% for Black people and 16% for Hispanics, according to census data.
Food and transportation
Disparities run through the veins of Black and Latino communities, so much so that two Chicago neighborhoods, 9 miles apart, have the largest life expectancy gap in the country — 30 years, according to a 2019 NYU School of Medicine analysis. Englewood residents live to be 60 years old on average, compared with 90 years for those who reside in Streeterville. Food insecurity in Chicago’s South and West side communities continues to negatively affect health, education and economic mobility, according to the Greater Chicago Food Depository.
Decadeslong racial segregation and disinvestment are behind these food desert communities, says Daniel Block, professor of geography at Chicago State University and an adjunct professor of preventative medicine at Northwestern. “There’s racism there, but it’s also going through this deeply set system of investment that refuses to invest in these communities because homes are not well valued and people aren’t seeing the possibilities, banks aren’t willing to take a risk,” said Block, who also serves on the Chicago Food Policy Action Council board.
West Garfield Park is one such food desert in Chicago, where public officials continue to try to lure food retailers, but when they get one, another retailer leaves the area. Parts of South Shore had been designated a food desert before a grocery store opened in December on the vacant site Dominick’s left when it closed six years earlier.
“People’s everyday lives in segregated, poor, Black communities, they have to go to multiple stores in multiple neighborhoods just to feed their families,” Block said. “If we can learn how to bring more investment, but investment that is somehow locally controlled somewhat so that we don’t just bring more investment in and immediately see gentrification, then we can really start to improve things.”
This issue feeds into another area of inequity — transportation. In Chicago, eight of the 10 ZIP codes with the highest percentages of people without cars are on the South and West sides, which means a heavy reliance on public transit. (Research found Black Chicagoans lose about one week more to commuting time annually than white residents.) Deloris Lucas, an activist in the Golden Gate neighborhood in the city’s Riverdale community area, said the South Side’s transportation problems have been overlooked for years.
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University of Illinois at Chicago’s Urban Transportation Center has been working with the municipalities of Dolton and Riverdale on their rail crossing issues, says UTC’s director, P.S. Sriraj. Dolton especially is burdened with about 10 grade crossings within a 1-mile length, he said, making it difficult to get in and out of those communities, with an average wait time of 15 minutes.
“Everyone that I’ve been talking to is very much aware and sympathetic to the needs and equity issues that are still very much present in society, in the Chicago area,” Sriraj said. “It’s not just going to work, it’s going to doctor’s appointments, going to get food ... transportation is the great equalizer.”
The more multimodal public transportation is, he said, the more ways mobility serves the needs of the people.
“This is the time when we can introduce and explore new ideas, such as the Divvy experiment being integrated into the CTA Ventra app. There should be more of that. But they need to germinate now, in order for them to benefit the industry and communities in the long run,” he said.
Hospitals and clinics
The inequities in access to health care have not only been maintained, but have gotten worse, said Dima Qato, an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacy Systems, Outcomes and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
“Most of the areas that are in need don’t even have primary care facilities,” she said, adding that because a significant portion of the population on the South and West sides are primarily insured through Medicare and Medicaid, it doesn’t encourage new clinics to open because reimbursements will be low.
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“Our pharmacy desert closure data shows it’s actually getting worse in Black communities in Chicago,” said Qato, who has extensively researched pharmacy access for years. “When pharmacies close most of them close on the South Side, which is an area that is already underserved. And I think the same for the clinics.
“I guess that raises the question then on (federally qualified health centers), why aren’t there enough?” she said, adding that these centers would be able to get funding from the federal government to open in areas that are medically underserved. “I think it’s an important question to answer and it could be some politics, it could be some priorities — of who’s willing to open where — but there needs to be a shift.”
Areas designated by the government as underserved need to be updated to more accurately reflect the needs and differences of the local populations throughout the various neighborhoods, Qato explained. Where Medicaid and Medicare patients are being told to go for services could also be a part of the issue.
“People that are insured through public funding are not necessarily always encouraged to go to their local clinics, or hospitals, or even pharmacies, because they’re part of a network where they’re told (in order) to pay less, you need to go here, and if you go out of network, you pay more,” said Qato. “So what does that do to local clinics, businesses and pharmacies? They end up not able to sustain themselves and they close.”
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chicagotribune--2020-07-29--City threatens fines for Chicagoans who don’t self-quarantine upon return from Wisconsin. Up north,

City threatens fines for Chicagoans who don’t self-quarantine upon return from Wisconsin. Up north, concerns are few: ‘I don’t think people are going to listen to it.’

Other exceptions are those coming here for medical treatment and those for whom “ self-quarantine is not possible , practicable @ @ @ @ @ to the mayor ’ s office .
The order also does not apply to people @ @ @ @ @ for a connecting flight , or are driving through the city on their way elsewhere @

John Byrne, Gregory Pratt, Robert McCoppin

A sign reminds people to maintain a social distance of 6 feet between one another as they enjoy the day at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, on July 28, 2020. (Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)
Got summer plans to head to Wisconsin, maybe hit Lake Geneva this August to load up on sun and curds and New Glarus beer?
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot wants you to think about making other arrangements, and if you can’t, to lock yourself inside for a couple of weeks when you get back to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.
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Lightfoot’s administration on Tuesday officially added Chicago’s northern neighbor — and vacation home to large numbers of Illinoisans, including Gov. J.B. Pritzker — to the list of states considered risky enough because of the growth rate of COVID-19 cases to require self-quarantine once back in the city.
That means starting this Friday, anyone who has spent more than 24 hours in Wisconsin should stay inside for two weeks upon getting to Chicago, or risk a fine of $100 to $500 per day for violating city statute.
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“That’s ridiculous,” said Lynn Cole, owner of Geneva Lakes Jewelry in Lake Geneva, where many Chicagoans have second homes or vacation. “I don’t think people are going to listen to it. People are going to come to their summer homes.”
While the pandemic has had an effect on business in the area, some said they don’t expect the order to make things any worse.
“I don’t understand how you can enforce it,” said Barbara Phillips, broker associate for Keefe Real Estate in Lake Geneva. ”So how is it going to affect us? It’s not.”
City Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady urged those thinking of a trip to Wisconsin to reconsider.
“My recommendation would be, if possible, to think about changing some of those plans to staying closer to home, to heading to Michigan, which has a much, much lower rate of COVID than Wisconsin does, in terms of thinking about the main places where folks from Chicago do go,” Arwady said on a Tuesday morning call with reporters.
“The state of Wisconsin has not even put a mask requirement in place, and there’s not a sign that they are turning their outbreak around,” she added.
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Phillips said businesses in the Lake Geneva area need all the help from tourism they can get. She also said people in the area do take the pandemic seriously, but since the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the governor’s restrictions, preventive measures like masks are largely optional.
The four states added to the self-quarantine list this week brings the total to 22. While Iowa was already on the list and Missouri will get added starting Friday as well, Wisconsin has by far the strongest symbiotic cross-border relationship with Chicago among those states now deemed high-risk.
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Underlining that fact, Arwady said the large number of commuters from Wisconsin who work in Chicago will be exempt from the strict quarantine rule, though they will be expected to only perform work tasks while in the city, and not go out shopping or socializing in public.
Other exceptions are those coming here for medical treatment and those for whom “self-quarantine is not possible, practicable or advisable,” according to the mayor’s office. The order also does not apply to people who are at the airport for a connecting flight, or are driving through the city on their way elsewhere.
Included in the worker exemption are players from professional sports teams like the Chicago Cubs and White Sox and the Milwaukee Brewers, who have games scheduled against each other in their respective ballparks as part of Major League Baseball’s virus-shortened 60-game season.
Arwady said the city has talked to the teams about “balancing risk.”
“Particularly risk in other social settings,” she said. “So if players are working, if they’re playing baseball essentially, doing the work related to that, the organization is taking on that risk,” she said. “We don’t want that risk extending broadly to others in Chicago.”
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The city’s self-quarantine enforcement has been notably lax since Lightfoot announced the first 15 states on the list early this month.
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No citations have yet been issued, and the mayor has repeatedly stressed she’s more concerned with educating people about the risks than trying to punish them.
That’s about to change, Arwady said Tuesday.
If city contact tracers get information that people who’ve come down with the virus were in close proximity to someone who got back from Wisconsin or another quarantine state and flouted the rules, they’ll issue a ticket, she said.
The same goes for people who are on social media “flagrantly posting their social activities, clearly out and about in Chicago after being in settings that are subject to our quarantine order, within the time frame,” Arwady said.
Investigators also will be looking into any reports they get that city workers aren’t adhering to the stay-at-home guidelines, she said.
The daily fines can top out at $7,000 if there are enough examples of a person venturing out in public when they should be staying indoors for two weeks.
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The mayor’s office said it’s adding any state to the list with an average of more than 15 new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents over a rolling seven-day period.
Since July 14, Wisconsin has had fluctuations in its number of new known daily cases. The state reported 964 additional cases on July 14, and 957 on Sunday, but has reached totals as high as 1,117 in the last week.
Indiana has been in the “10 to 15″ new cases-per-100,000 residents range in recent days, Arwady said. Heading to Indiana is a risk, she said, but the neighboring state hasn’t reached the city’s benchmark for quarantine yet.
In addition to Wisconsin and Missouri, people coming into Chicago from North Dakota and Nebraska will be required to quarantine starting Friday.
States already on the list include Florida, Arizona, Louisiana, Alabama, Nevada, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, Idaho, California, Arkansas, Utah, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa.
Linda Williams, owner of Cobblestone Peddler in Lake Geneva, said she understood the motivation behind the order, and speculated it might be an effort to get other states like Wisconsin to impose more restrictions.
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“It makes sense,” she said. ”We should all be in this together.”
Robert McCoppin reported from Lake Geneva.
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chicagotribune--2020-07-28--15 Chicago high schools have voted to keep their school resource officers, despite protest movement

15 Chicago high schools have voted to keep their school resource officers, despite protest movement against police in CPS buildings

“ Chicago Public Schools is committed to increasing transparency and awareness around critical decisions being made by LSCs and as @ @ @ @ @ it is posting dates of LSC meetings and information online for the public , ” @ @ @ @ @ .
“ Last year was the district ’ s inaugural process of having LSCs vote @ @ @ @ @ taken firm steps to improve and further formalize the process with training and additional resources @ @ @ @ @ they navigate this decision .
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Dozens of high schools in Chicago have yet to vote on retaining their school resource officers. (Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune)
At least three Chicago high schools have voted to discontinue having resource officers from the Chicago Police Department — but at least 15 more have decided to keep their officers, and dozens of others have yet to decide.
Chicago Public Schools released a list on its website this week for tracking the votes by local school councils on school-based police officers following requests for greater transparency in the process.
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So far, Benito Juarez Community Academy in Pilsen and Northside College Prep in North Park have voted to eliminate resource officers, as has Roberto Clemente Community Academy in West Town, though that was not yet updated on the website.
Amundsen, Douglass, Kenwood, King and Marshall are among the schools whose councils have voted to retain the officers, and several more votes were scheduled for Tuesday.
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The new list debuted as a parent advocacy group has called into question the legitimacy of the votes last summer that placed officers in 72 district-run schools.
Raise Your Hand, one of the groups that’s advocated for police-free schools, said records they obtained through the Freedom of Information Act contradict the district’s previous assertion that all local school councils at schools with assigned officers voted last year to retain them. The group also called for more investment in the councils.
The data “continues to show that the only body with the full power to remove police from schools is the Board of Education,” said the group’s executive director, Jianan Shi. “While we fully support all the local organizing to remove cops at their high schools, only the Board can remove the 48 mobile units and 22 staff sergeants in this contract. Even when all schools vote to remove SROs, CPS will still be paying millions to CPD.”
The district last year paid $33 million to CPD for the resource officer program.
CPS officials said some of the data provided for the Raise Your Hand report was missing information.
But Raise Your Hands says its records show that more than a dozen local councils voted without having enough members present for a quorum, so the vote was invalid.
The group also raised other concerns about some of the votes, such as what it said was unclear guidance for the handful of schools whose council members are appointed rather than elected and generally don’t have full powers.
Karen Zaccor, a teacher and local school council member at Uplift Community High School, said four members of the council were present at a “hastily called” meeting last year and told to reach out to poll the other members, something they’d never done before. Many members included “qualifications” to their yes votes, such as wanting the resource officers to be unarmed and to have more involvement with students, Zaccor said.
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The former council chair at King College Prep, Natasha Erskine, said she disputed the 6-2 vote recorded for that council last year. King’s council members were told at a monthly meeting that they needed to vote on the police decision within eight days, she said. Though members discussed the issue, including the number of complaints against an officer assigned to their school, she said they didn’t actually vote.
“Because we were not previously told, the item was not on our regular agenda in order to vote,” Erskine said in a statement. “... I’m not clear as to how our discussion (without any guiding information) was used to tally a 6-2 retention determination.”
CPS officials said they’re aware of some of the issues surrounding the local school councils and are working on it.
“Chicago Public Schools is committed to increasing transparency and awareness around critical decisions being made by LSCs and as part of that commitment, it is posting dates of LSC meetings and information online for the public,” said CPS spokeswoman Emily Bolton. “Last year was the district’s inaugural process of having LSCs vote on SROs and we have taken firm steps to improve and further formalize the process with training and additional resources and support for LSCs while they navigate this decision. We are encouraged by this renewed interest in the role of LSCs and hope it encourages more people to serve their local schools in this critical capacity.”
Since last year, CPS has taken steps to formalize the process for voting and clarified expectations, offering training for local school council members and providing a toolkit to help them vote on officers.
On Friday, Raise Your Hand released a toolkit of its own to address perceived shortcomings with the district’s, including youth-led information, background on the Police Department consent decree and reports from civil rights groups.
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If a council lacks a quorum, CPS is still asking them to vote on a recommendation, but the principal and network chief will make a final decision. Schools with appointed, rather than elected, LSCs will still vote — a departure from last year when the district didn’t give them explicit directions to vote on the matter of officers.
Though many local school councils have not been regularly posting meeting agendas or minutes online, they aren’t required to under the Open Meetings Act, as long as agendas are physically posted at the school and minutes made available for review.
Regardless, CPS officials said schools that don’t post those documents online aren’t following best practices for transparency. The training guide for LSCs states they should be posted online.
At Mather High School last September, minutes show the local school council discussed “a changing role of the police officers that have been assigned to our school.”
“We need to take a vote whether or not to continue with the SRO’s,” one member said, according to the minutes. “They have been more of a presence outside of our building around the perimeter. They have assisted information with what our school is allowed to do within the law.”
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Another member said there is “a real terror” among the school’s immigrant and refugee populations when they see uniformed officers. Another said students “don’t really notice” police presence but are glad to know they’re around. No vote was noted in the minutes.
CPS officials said while the council did not record a vote, the principal and LSC members “indicated consensus” during the meeting.
The local school councils were due to have elections this past spring, but those were postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic that shut down all schools in the state.
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chicagotribune--2020-07-28--Judge denies bail for man accused of fatally stabbing girlfriend in South Side park

Officers found Williams a short time later about a half-mile from the scene , where they detained him .
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A judge denied bail to a South Loop man accused of fatally stabbing his on-again, off-again girlfriend following an afternoon of bickering and drinking in a South Side park, according to Cook County prosecutors.
Authorities allege Julius Williams, who has gone by the nickname “Hollywood,” stabbed the woman multiple times while a friend watched in horror in the first block of West Root Street near the grounds of Bronzeville Classical Elementary School on Sunday afternoon.
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Williams, 53, of the 500 block of West 14th Place, faces first-degree murder charges in the death of Enjoli Haymore, 36. During a bail hearing broadcast on YouTube, Judge Arthur Wesley Willis granted the prosecution’s no-bail request for Williams, who has several felony convictions that include attempted murder, armed robbery and a sex conviction from Minnesota. The judge also barred Williams from contacting the eyewitness.
Julius Williams, 53, faces first-degree murder charges in the death of Enjoli Haymore, 36. (Chicago police / HANDOUT)
Haymore and Williams had been in what prosecutors called an on-again, off-again romantic relationship for about a year. It had been a rocky one. Last November, Metra police officers arrested Williams at the Stony Island Metra station after they witnessed him on surveillance shoving and choking Haymore, Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy said. He added that Haymore refused to sign a complaint against Williams.
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The main witness, a friend of Williams for about five years, was hanging out in Metcalfe Park with the couple, drinking beers and gin, according to prosecutors.
After leaving the park to shower, the witness returned a short time later to find the couple still drinking and bickering about sharing a cigarette and about alcohol, Murphy said. The quarreling intensified and Williams stormed off, shouting back at his girlfriend, Murphy said. Haymore and the witness drank more beer until they briefly left the park.
As they walked back to the park, they encountered Williams walking in the opposite direction on Root Street, authorities said. Haymore slowed her pace as she approached Williams, but the friend walked past him, wanting to give the couple space to talk, Murphy said.
The sounds of grunting made the man turn to find Williams allegedly stabbing Haywood multiple times just a few feet away, Murphy said. “Do you want some of this?” Williams asked his friend when he tried to intervene, the prosecutor added.
Surveillance cameras from the nearby school captured the stabbing. Officers with remote access to the video also witnessed the stabbing and were aided by another camera angle with a closer view of Williams and his path of flight.
Officers found Williams a short time later about a half-mile from the scene, where they detained him. The friend identified Williams as Haymore’s attacker, authorities said. Haymore was rushed to the University of Chicago Medical Center where she was pronounced dead. An autopsy determined that Haymore suffered three stab wounds in her center chest, right upper stomach and mid upper stomach areas, and that her death was a homicide, according to Murphy and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Williams’ court appointed attorney said his client earned a psychology degree from Prairie State College and worked as a line worker at the Ferrera Candy company.
Williams is expected to return to court Aug. 17.


chicagotribune--2020-07-28--Chicago adds Wisconsin and 3 other states to 14-day self-quarantine order, which now covers 22 state

Chicago adds Wisconsin and 3 other states to 14-day self-quarantine order, which now covers 22 states

Exceptions to the self-quarantine order include essential workers , those coming here for medical treatment and those for whom “ @ @ @ @ @ practicable or advisable.
” The order also does not apply to people who are at @ @ @ @ @ flight , or are driving through the city on their way elsewhere .

Pedestrians near the lake at Elm Park in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, on May 14, 2020. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
Chicago added Wisconsin and three other states to Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s 14-day self-quarantine order on Tuesday.
There are now 22 states from which travelers are being told to self-quarantine upon arrival in Chicago due to coronavirus concerns. The requirement covering Wisconsin, Missouri, North Dakota and Nebraska goes into effect on Friday.
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Lightfoot’s self-quarantine requirement was first implemented during the Fourth of July weekend but is not being actively enforced aside from signs and billboards telling people that they must self-quarantine.
The order figures to be particularly problematic with Wisconsin, given its proximity and the high number of people from Illinois who spend weekends and vacations there. Many Illinois and Chicago residents, including Gov. J.B. Pritzker, have homes there.
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The order requires people who have spent more than 24 hours in high-risk states to self-quarantine for 14 days after entering Chicago. States already on the list include Florida, Arizona, Louisiana, Alabama, Nevada, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, Idaho, California, Arkansas, Utah, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa.
The mayor’s office said any state with an average of more than 15 new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 resident population over a rolling seven-day period goes on the list.
Since July 14, Wisconsin has fluctuations in its number of new known daily cases. The state reported 964 additional cases on July 14, and 957 on Sunday, but has reached totals as high as 1,117 in the last week.
Exceptions to the self-quarantine order include essential workers, those coming here for medical treatment and those for whom “self-quarantine is not possible, practicable or advisable.” The order also does not apply to people who are at the airport for a connecting flight, or are driving through the city on their way elsewhere.
Also exempted, according to the mayor’s office are sports teams — the Milwaukee Brewers were in town to play the Chicago Cubs over the weekend.
Nobody has been fined yet for failing to follow the order, and Lightfoot on Monday said she’s trying to “educate” people into compliance.
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