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“The longest-serving alderman in Chicago history, Burke used the Finance Committee chair’s gavel to wield nearly unquestioned power at City Hall from a suite of offices decorated with Chicago history memorabilia and marked by a cabinet filled with guns.”
IDOT said that from March through June of this year, motor fuel tax revenues are down $82 million from the same period last year. “I can’t afford to lose a bridge, but I could live with a little bit of potholes,” Acting Transportation Secretary Omer Osman said.
The order also says people with flu-like symptoms, those directed to quarantine by a medical professional or people who have close contact with someone subject to a quarantine should not enter courthouses.
The Chicago Transit Authority has told drivers not to argue with people who are not wearing masks, in an effort to protect the personal safety of their drivers. Said Keith Hill, the president of the union that represents about 6,000 current CTA bus workers, “The concerns of safety measures is an all-time high on many different levels.”
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The testing is so widespread on campus that UIUC tests represented 20% of all tests administered in the state of Illinois and 1.5% of all tests administered nationwide.
Examining excess deaths can help capture both COVID-19 cases that went uncounted and the greater numbers of deaths from conditions exacerbated by the pandemic, such as untreated heart attacks or fatal drug overdoses.
As of Thursday night, there were 1,546 people in Illinois hospitalized with COVID-19, an increase of 20 compared to a week earlier, according to state health department data. The number of people hooked up to ventilators increased by 11 to 132 during that period. There were 352 patients in intensive care units, one more than last week.
In March, a southern Illinois man who was under isolation orders for showing COVID-19 symptoms entered a busy gas station. An employee recognized him from Facebook. Prosecutors charged him with reckless conduct. Now, the case has been dismissed.
“The fact there’s so many unpaid commercial bills is maybe the beginning of the dam breaking for commercial real estate,” Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas said. “How can they pay if nobody is paying them? I think we’re on the verge of a commercial collapse, but I’m just an independent observer.”
The officers broke the windows after the suspect, who appeared to have moved from the front seat to the back seat, refused to get out of the car, and a struggle ensued. During the struggle, the suspect shot both officers. A third officer arrived and returned fire, hitting the suspect, the police superintendent said.
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