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A 14-year-old boy was wounded in a shooting Tuesday on the Near West Side.
About 7:40 p.m., he was in the 200 block of South Western Avenue when he suffered a gunshot wound to his finger, Chicago police said.
He took himself to Rush University Medical Center, where he was in good condition, police said.
Area Three detectives are investigating.
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Illinois government saw too many make ‘naughty’ list in 2020
Illinois government saw too many make ‘naughty’ list in 2020 COVID-19 showed everyone the heroes in health care and essential services, but it also exposed weak character or bad behavior of many in Illinois government.
Illinois has big reserves of coal, which is good because Santa will need a lot of it to cover the misdeeds in Illinois state government from 2020.
Here are some highlights of those making the “naughty” and “nice” lists during a year of unrest, uncertainty and dysfunction in Illinois.
Naughty: Mike Madigan
Illinois House Speaker Madigan’s 35 years of accumulating power was at great risk after federal prosecutors and Commonwealth Edison detailed how over $1.3 million in payments were made to his cronies to win his favor for legislation worth more than $150 million to the electric utility. Similar allegations are being probed involving AT&T, Walgreens and Rush University Medical Center
Ilan Gibori, a 46-year-old Vernon Hills man, was caught by the Department of Homeland Security trying to flee the country the day after the Department of Children and Family Services notified Vernon Hills police that Gibori repeatedly sexually assaulted a minor over the course of several years, according to the Lake County state’s attorney’s office.
December 18, 2020
COVID-19 has wreaked havoc around the globe, with more than 310,000 fatalities occurring in the United States alone. While much has been learned about the virus since it was first detected, the long-term effects on the health of coronavirus survivors may take years to understand. To find some answers, investigators from the Yale School of Medicine and partners across the country are launching a nationwide study of patients who were infected.
INSPIRE (Innovative Support for Patients with SARS COV-2 Infections Registry) is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded project led by Yale University with Rush University Medical Center; the University of Washington; the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of California, San Francisco; and Thomas Jefferson University. They will track 4,800 individuals to assess the longitudinal outcomes