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Good Tuesday morning, Illinois. Another bit of normalcy: Chicago public health Commissioner Allison Arwady told aldermen Monday she expects block parties will return this summer.
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker put the James R. Thompson Center up for sale May 3, 3021, announcing a request for proposals on purchasing the state government building. | Getty Image
A year and a half after a Des Plaines police officer accidentally shot a promising young guitarist at a Northwest Side music school, the department’s chief is finally speaking publicly and raising questions about how the teenager’s devastating injuries occurred.
“We just didn’t feel that the full picture and the totality of the events that occurred that evening were made clear to the community,” Des Plaines Police Chief David Anderson told the Chicago Sun-Times on Monday.
Anderson, who has been chief for about four months, said that after repeatedly reviewing security video from UpBeat Music & Arts, he is uncertain whether Des Plaines Police Officer James Armstrong actually struck Rylan Wilder, a budding musician working as an intern at the store on the evening of Nov. 19, 2019, when he was shot.
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The 21-month-old boy critically injured during a road-rage incident on Lake Shore Drive earlier this week continues to show “some signs of improvement,” doctors treating him at Lurie Children’s Hospital said Friday.
But Kayden Swann remained in “very critical” condition.
“Over the past 24 hours, the patient has remained critically ill but has been starting to demonstrate some improvement in brain function,” Dr. Marcelo Malakooti, medical director of Lurie’s pediatric ICU, said in a statement Friday. “He continues to require a ventilator to support his breathing, and ICU therapies to continue to support his brain during this tenuous period.”