Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) stepped down from her City Council role after Monday’s meeting. She announced her decision to resign in December, citing the job’s toll on her mental health and the recent passing of her mother. “I have been reminded that life is short,” Fleming wrote in her resignation letter. “We forget that as.
The coyote was found in Tennessee by people who took him for an abandoned dog. He was socialized and trained to be adopted like a pet. Since 2018, he’s been kept in a metal enclosure at the River Trail Nature Center in Northbrook, where the Cook County Forest Preserve District says he gets expert care.