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John Laratta, who is facing Ward 5 incumbent Mary Sullivan in the April 6 election, is under criminal investigation in connection with a 2019 shooting, police records indicate. (Shutterstock)
DARIEN, IL Darien police are continuing to investigate a 2019 shooting in which a Darien City Council candidate is a suspect, records show.
Darien Patch filed a public records request for the police report and the complaint. The police department did not release the report, saying doing so would interfere with an ongoing criminal investigation.
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According to a Darien police news release at the time, officers responded to a call of possible shots fired in the 8000 block of Barrymore Drive late the night of Dec. 29, 2019.
WESTMONT, Ill. (WLS) Two people were critically injured in a building collapse in west suburban Westmont Monday afternoon, village officials said.
A spokesperson for the village said around 12:30 p.m. there was a partial collapse at a new multi-use building under construction at the intersection of Cass Avenue and Quincy Street. Two workers suffered critical but non-life threatening injuries, the spokesman said.
The workers were taken to Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital for treatment. No information about them, including ages, genders or names, have been released.
Cass Avenue is closed between Quincy and Richmond while the incident is being investigated. Officials did not say when they expected the street to reopen.
Updated 12/23/2020 6:41 AM
More than 63,000 people outside Chicago have received the first doses of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine a week into the state s immunization effort.
As Moderna adds to the supply, here are answers from suburban experts to common questions about the vaccines.
Q. Can the vaccine give me COVID-19?
A. The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines do not contain the virus itself. The groundbreaking vaccines use messenger RNA, or mRNA, technology to deliver a piece of genetic material that instructs your cells to make the spike protein found on the surface of the coronavirus, inducing an immune response. Your body then produces antibodies to the spike protein to prevent the actual virus from binding to cells.