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This afternoon will be cloudy with a high near 19 degrees and a 60% chance of snow. More snow is in the forecast for tonight as temperatures will dip to a low of around 9 degrees. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a high around 15 degrees.
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After months of arguing about hand sanitizers, positivity rates, air purifiers and the like, a sense of normalcy returned to the city’s public schools today at least from the outside as parents clutching mittened hands led their children up snow-dusted steps and back to the classroom.
“I’m kind of scared, but at the same time, he needs to be in school instead of on the computer,” said Eboni Johnson, walking her preschooler, Ashton, to William H. Brown Elementary School on the Near West Side. “He needs to be with other kids. He’s an only child. He needs to have hands-on with his learning.”
<em>Judas and the Black Messiah </em>chronicles the life of Illinois Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton through the eyes of William O Neal the man who infiltrated the group on behalf of the FBI.