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Six people, including four teenage girls — the youngest of them 12 — were injured in a mass shooting late Saturday on the West Side. The children were among 24 people shot, two fatally, from Saturday night into yesterday, according to Chicago police and records maintained by the Tribune.
Meanwhile, the U.S. surgeon general said yesterday that he’s worried about the rising rates of COVID-19 infection. During an interview, he noted that nearly all coronavirus deaths now are among the tens of millions of people who haven’t received vaccines, despite their widespread availability.
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Every morning for the past year, David Kendziera’s mother sent him a text message with an inspirational quote as he trained for an Olympics postponed by the pandemic. They were on this delayed road to Tokyo together. Until suddenly they weren’t.
A few months before Kendziera, a Mount Prospect native and former University of Illinois standout, qualified to compete in the 400-meter hurdles, Olympic organizers barred foreigners from attending the Games in an attempt to blunt the spread of COVID-19. The ban was expanded last week to include all spectators, leaving athletes to compete in empty stadiums and forcing parents to watch their children realize hard-fought dreams on television.
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Tribune reporter Stacy St. Clair and photojournalist Brian Cassella are in Tokyo for the 2020 Olympics. Have a question? Ask them here.
The Chicago Board of Education is prepared to vote later this month on a $9.3 billion budget that officials say will address student needs as they return to full-time in-person learning 17 months after the pandemic took hold in Chicago. Here’s what to know ahead of the vote.
As companies in Illinois call workers back to offices, some may face a new challenge: employees who became addicted to drugs or alcohol during the pandemic
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.The isolation and stress of the past year spurred alcohol and drug use. Some people have been able to hide those habits while working from home, but employers may soon find themselves dealing with substance abuse head-on as workers again convene in conference rooms and share cubicle walls.
Rick Klein’s obsession began when he was a teen. He came across an overlooked videocassette in his family’s Cicero home, stuck it into the VCR and found a 1983 episode of “The Bozo Show” in which he and his brother were in the audience.
Since then, Klein, a 46-year-old systems administrator who now lives in Lisle, has dug up thousands of other TV shows and clips captured on home video systems or squirreled away by television professionals, creating a nonprofit archive of local programming that doesn’t exist anywhere else.
The first time Rod Thill downloaded TikTok, he deleted it. It wasn’t until the COVID-19 pandemic hit, when he, and millions of others, picked up the video-sharing social media app and never put it down again.
More than a year later, the Pilsen resident has acquired over 1 million followers on his account, where he self-describes as an “anxious millennial,” and focuses on mistrials of corporate work-from-home culture. And now, he has followed a record number of Americans in doing something else: He quit his job.