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Prior to attending GBN, Dylan Buckner was a graduate of Maple School in Northbrook. (Shutterstock)
NORTHBROOK, IL The community is reeling following news of the death of a local student. In emails to parents from Glenbrook North High School and Northbrook/Glenview School District 30, school officials said Dylan Buckner, 18, of Northbrook, died Thursday. He was the capitan and quarterback of the Glenbrook North High School varsity football team and someone teachers wanted to clone. It was a great pleasure knowing Dylan. It was a great pleasure to have gone into battle with him, to have gotten to languish in the hot summer sun with him, Will Erens, a classmate and fellow football player at GBN, told Patch. But he was more than a teammate. He was simple, but he was strong. He was a great leader. I lost a friend, a teammate, but the world lost a great man.
Chicago police said the boy was rushed to Roseland Community Hospital, but he did not survive.
At around 9:45 p.m., a fire broke out inside a home in Altgeld Gardens on the far South Side.
Police said four other children, ages 13, 5, 4, and 1 were able to get out of the building with the help of a neighbor, Angie Flemings. It was traumatizing, and I panicked, Flemings said.
She said she heard her neighbor s smoke detectors going off, and then a 13-year-old boy started banging on her door pleading for help to get his 6-year-old brother out of a second-floor bedroom. His three other siblings, ages 5, 4 and 1, were also still inside.
The Cook County Medical Examiner s Office handed a record 16,049 cases in 2020, far surpassing the previous record of 10,654 set in 1977. The county s 8,192 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, officials said, accounted for more than half of cases. Nearly half of all cases reported in 2020 were Black or Latino residents.
Approximately 6,200 deaths are reported in the county on an average year.
Additionally, a record number of opioid overdose deaths occurred in 2020. A total of 1,599 opioid overdose deaths had been confirmed as of Friday, while approximately 450-500 cases were awaiting toxicology results.
In 2019, Cook County saw its previous high of 1,277 opioid overdose deaths.
The medical examiner s office revealed that overall suicides did not increase year over year. However, the rate of suicide in Black communities dramatically increased in 2020. Black residents accounted for 94 of the 432 suicides in 2020, which is a 65% increase from 2019, officials said.
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As of Sunday, Illinois coronavirus case count increased to 937,909, up 4.2 percent from a week earlier. The coronavirus has claimed the lives of 15,969 state residents. (Shutterstock)
LA GRANGE, IL La Grange, where new coronavirus cases have increased by about 100 each week for two months, saw a hike only half that last week, according to the Cook County Public Health Department.
As of Sunday, La Grange, including La Grange Highlands, had seen 1,450 coronavirus cases, up by 53 from a week earlier, a 3.8 percent increase. This percentage hike is far less than those of the two previous weeks, both of which hovered around 8 percent.