Fox32-TV (Chicago),
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Mike Flannery
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Chicago - Illinois’ top health official cast more cold water Wednesday on dreams of Covid-19 fading away anytime soon.
Despite declining infection numbers, neither Dr. Ngozi Ezike nor Gov. JB Pritzker were ready to reduce mitigations.
When Covid-19 vaccines arrived, many experts said that once enough people had been immunized, so-called herd immunity could kick in and effectively end the pandemic. But that's not what Ezike said Wednesday afternoon.
"Australia is 90% vaccinated. And they don't have herd immunity. They're still having outbreaks. They're still seeing an uptick," Ezike said. So when might Illinois and Chicago see an end to rules such as requiring proof of vaccination to
Fox News,
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Eli Steele
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1/19/2022 10:50:29 AM
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Chicago - Aside from his Rooftop Revelations series, Pastor Corey Brooks wanted to share his brief thoughts on the five children shot in Chicago in the last 24 hours. (Snip)That's five children shot in less than 24 hours. If this happened in any other community in America, it would be total outrage, and I mean, outrage.
The question that I want to ask is: Where is Black Lives Matter? Where is ... unfortunately, I have to say it, the NAACP? Where are all these organizations that say they support and are committed to black lives, but when we have five young people shot, no one is saying a word?
Newsweek,
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Khaleda Rahman
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Aleya Siyaj is the woman behind a COVID testing company that is under investigation after complaints were lodged across the country.
The Illinois-based Center for Covid Control runs more than 300 testing locations nationwide and offers free same-day rapid test results, according to the company's website.
But it is now at the center of several state investigations after people complained about their experiences with the company's testing sites—some of which are pop-ups run out of sheds or mobile storage units.(Snip)The profile also lists Siyaj as the CEO of an axe throwing bar in South Barrington, Illinois. She previously operated a donut shop
New York Post,
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Alyson Krueger
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“Every time I do something I’m like, ‘This is it, I am going to get COVID,’” said Rachel McMullin, a 36-year-old swing dance instructor and performer who lives in Crown Heights.(Snip) almost eight million since Jan. 1, 2022 — and even fully vaccinated people reporting breakthrough cases — it seems as if almost no one has been left untouched by the Sars-Cov-2 virus. But like McMullin, there are some who have failed to contract COVID during the entire pandemic, even as Omicron spreads like wildfire.Call them the “COVID Invincibles” - and they want to know why they’re immune. Could it be dumb luck? Genetics?
The Federalist,
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Shawn Fleetwood
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Students at the University of Chicago are speaking out against their school’s recent decision to mandate COVID-19 boosters for students ahead of their return to campus for the upcoming semester.
The editorial staff of The Chicago Thinker rightfully noted how the decision to mandate boosters for the school’s student body “is demonstrably unsafe, ineffective, unnecessary, inconsistent, and unethical.”(Snip)“Similarly, the CDC’s initial recommendation that Americans under the age of 65 receive boosters was made against the counsel of its own Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which voted to recommend boosters only for those over the age of 65 or who have underlying conditions.
Fox32-TV (Chicago),
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Staff
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Highland, Ind. - Three fires were set inside a Meijer store in northwest Indiana Monday in order to distract employees and shoplift items, Highland police said.
At about 9:10 p.m. Monday, Highland Police and Fire Departments were dispatched to the Meijer store located at 10138 Indianapolis Blvd. for a report of a fire.
Upon arrival, officers were informed by Meijer employees that three small fires appeared to have been deliberately set in three different locations in the store. (Snip) According to preliminary information, authorities believe the fires were set to distract employees so that a few suspects could shoplift items from the store.
The Federalist,
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Tristan Justice
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The FBI refused to answer questions about the agency’s possible provocative involvement with the Jan. 6 Capitol riots during a Tuesday hearing on Capitol Hill.
“How many FBI agents or confidential informants actively participated in the events of Jan. 6?” Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz asked the Executive Assistant Director for the FBI’s National Security Branch Jill Sanborn.
“I can’t go into the specifics of sources and methods,” Sanborn said.(Snip) “This was strange behavior, so strange that the crowd began chanting ‘Fed, fed, fed, fed, fed.’ … Ms. Sanborn, was Ray Epps a fed?”
“I can’t answer that question,” Sanborn said.
New York Post,
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Nolan Hicks
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Craig McCarthy
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Mayor Eric Adams has named former NYPD chief Philip Banks — an unindicted co-conspirator in a sweeping federal police corruption case — the deputy mayor of public safety, City Hall officials confirmed Friday.
Banks, who’s long been rumored to be appointed to the reinstituted post by Adams, will return to public office nearly eight years after abruptly resigning (Snip) feds probed “hundreds of thousands” of dollars in Banks’ account as part of the investigation into Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg, who bribed cops with hookers and jewelry. Banks was never charged in the case but later named by the feds as an unindicted co-conspirator.
Fox32-TV (Chicago),
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Chicago - The Chicago Public Library and the Chicago Department of Public Health announced Thursday a new program that will offer the overdose reversal medication Narcan at select library branches.
According to a news release, by increasing access to this harm reduction tool, the program aims to prevent opioid-related overdose deaths in areas of the city most acutely affected by overdose. (Snip) "We hope that this collaboration will inform future partnerships between CDPH and CPL as we consider new and innovative ways to integrate mental health and recovery resources into Chicago’s libraries."
New York Post,
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Gabrielle Fonrouge
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An angry Floridian has a message for their snowbird neighbors: If you’re woke, go back to New York.
A number of cars with New York license plates parked on Palm Beach streets received notices on their windows over the weekend urging them to leave if they lean left politically, police said.
“If you are one of those ‘woke’ people — leave Florida. You will be happier elsewhere, as will we,” reads the missive, typed in all capital letters. (Snip) Concerned citizens reported the letters to the Palm Beach Police Department on Sunday but after a brief investigation, cops determined a crime hadn’t been committed.
Breitbart Sports,
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Dylan Gwinn
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Most Hall of Fame/MVP voters will at least wait until after the voting is over before they reveal that they’re too stupid and petty to vote on such matters.
Then there’s Hub Arkush.
Arkush, a longtime Chicago sportswriter and one of 50 people chosen by the Associated Press to cast a vote for the NFL MVP Award, told Chicago’s 670 The Score that he will not vote for Packers QB Aaron Rodgers because he is a “bad guy” and the “biggest jerk in the league.”
Though, it doesn’t take much between the line reading to realize Arkush just hates Rodgers for not telling people he was unvaccinated.
Washington Examiner,
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Jeremiah Poff
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The Chicago Teachers Union is claiming that Mayor Lori Lightfoot has locked teachers out of virtual classrooms after the union voted to move to remote instruction in defiance of city officials.
In a pair of tweets sent Wednesday morning, the Chicago Teachers Union said that Lightfoot had “started locking Chicago public school teachers and staff out of their Google Classrooms” and added the hashtag “#LoriLockout.” (Snip) The union voted late Tuesday night to move all classes to remote instruction, a move city officials considered an illegal strike. The city responded by canceling classes for Wednesday.
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They're never going to let go.