Walgreens in Chicago aim to vaccinate more than 10,000 residents with houses of worship
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Walgreens will give COVID-19 vaccinations to more than 10,000 members of houses of worship across the city of Chicago this month, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Saturday.
More than 70 religious places will partner with Walgreens clinics for the next three weeks as part of a new “COVID-19 Vaccine Faith Initiative” in Chicago, Lightfoot said during a press conference at JLM Abundant Life Center on the city’s Near West Side. She touted the new vaccination partnership as a means to cover moderate to high-risk residents who have not participated in previous equity campaigns from the city.
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Thank you for the Sun-Times editorial pointing out that the 70 acres of parking lots surrounding Sox Park remain a lost opportunity for redevelopment. The White Sox would also benefit from their development, since White Sox fans would no longer face the prospect of every game being book-ended by traffic jams on the Dan Ryan. Sox fans could linger in the neighborhood to shop, eat and play, just as Cub fans do in Wrigleyville.
Let’s be honest: The difference in attendance between our two teams has more to do with their neighborhoods than with baseball.
Soon after the Chicago Journal, a now-defunct paper covering the Near West and South Sides, suggested in 2005 this vision for a “Comiskeyville” or “Soxville” on these vacant lots, the White Sox revealed plans to develop a portion of the parking lot north of 35th Street. That plan was started, and that’s when the Chisox Bar & Grill and Chicago Sports Depot were built. Those businesses were to ser
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A CTA bus driver crashed into a construction site Tuesday morning on the Near West Side.
About 1:40 a.m., the driver was driving north on Canal Street, when the bus struck a construction crane causing the crane to strike a light pole, Chicago police said.
Two passengers and the driver refused treatment at the scene, police said. Next Up In News
Antonio Butler, 18, is accused of going on crime spree that included stealing judge’s car, bragging about robberies
CHICAGO (WBBM) Police and Cook County prosecutors say Antonio Butler is an 18-year-old carjacker who recently went on a crime spree.
As CBS 2’s Chris Tye reported Monday night, that wild day reportedly included robbing a judge, ramming a handful of police cruisers, and boasting about it all on social media.
Two Fridays ago, prosecutors said Butler orchestrated eight crimes in 12 hours. Before the weekend was over, they said he stole four cars.
As he sits in jail, we put the pieces together of what criminal experts such as CBS 2 Legal Analyst Irv Miller call “an exceptional case.”
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