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Chicago Journal
This time it's Oregon suing Illinois-based Center for Covid Control. Oregon AG Ellen Rosenblum sued the CCC, and its testing partner, Doctors Clinical Laboratory, for deceptively marketing testing services and for violating Oregon’s Unlawful Trade Practices Act.
Chicago Business
After Apple Inc. faced a similar proposal in March, Chicago-based McDonald's is the next major corporation facing a civil rights audit from a shareholder advocacy group that supports union pension funds.
Chicago News
The 22-year-old woman was walking at about 6 p.m. in the Wicker Park neighborhood when she was struck by the debris from a commercial building, Chicago police said.
Chicagoland News
Merminga currently serves as the director for the Fermilab's Proton Improvement Plan II, or PIP-II. She said her goal as director will be to successfully see the U.S. lead the way in global particle physics research.
Crime
Police are reporting three people have been shot and killed on the city's south side today, so far. The victims are all males, age 18, 30, and 37.
Crime
Police said they discovered three people, an 81-year-old woman, a 65-year-old woman, and a 61-year-old man shot to death in a home in the Morgan Park neighborhood on the city's south side.
Chicago Journal
The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Lindsey LaPointe (19th District), directs state pension funds to eliminate any investments in Russian-based companies, prepares the state to accept Ukrainian refugees, and sets up a group to study Russian money-laundering in Illinois real estate.
Chicago Journal
One was in response to a man suspected of murdering two sisters, another was in response to a man shooting two other individuals, and another involved a woman believed to have been having a mental health episode who went into a busy grocery store and fired shots at police.
Chicago Journal
Illinois Democrats outlined anti-crime measures Friday amid pressure from rising violence and Republican critics, promising more in the final days of the Legislature's spring session.
Chicago Journal
Police said the victims were involved in an exchange of gunfire with offenders in a red pick-up truck when they were shot.
Chicago Journal
Prosecutors allege one of the men would receive orders from members of the Gangster Disciples in Chicago for specific guns, buy them from dealers in Tennessee and Kentucky, and give them to gang members who paid through money transfer apps, including Zelle and CashApp.
News
The video was posted Friday by The New Yorker, which says it obtained it from an unidentified individual in Afghanistan. Frerichs appears by himself in the video, sitting upright before a dark curtain and wearing what appears to be traditional Afghan clothing.