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2d CPD officer to die of COVID-19 sought after his demise ‘to serve as a warning,’ Lightfoot says
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Two days after the funeral of the primary Chicago police officer to die of the coronavirus, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and and period in-between Supt. Charlie Beck on Saturday remembered the dept’s 2nd deadly COVID-19 sufferer as “a Chicagoan through and through.”
Sgt. Cliff Martin had a adorned 25-year occupation within the division, maximum lately within the Area Central detectives department, ahead of coming down with the virus ultimate month.
“Our hearts go out to Sgt. Martin’s wife and his three children who are now grieving over the unimaginable loss of a husband and father who was taken from them so suddenly by this terrible disease,” Lightfoot mentioned at a information convention.
The mayor mentioned Martin’s widow relayed that he “would want his death to serve as a warning to civilians that they must stay home.”
“Our first responders are making daily sacrifices to protect the lives of others… Don’t make their sacrifices be in vain. Stay home and save lives,” Lightfoot mentioned.
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10:34 a.m. Jussie Smollett donating $5,000 for face mask in Cook County
Jussie Smollett is again.
But now not in Chicago.
Sneed has discovered the previous “Empire” actor is donating $5,000 to buy 3,000 face mask for the Cook County Health Foundation — the clinic’s charitable arm — to fight Chicago’s COVID-19 pandemic.
Smollett could also be within the strategy of enlisting pals to up the ante and is sending 1,000 PPE (non-public protecting apparatus) mask to Harlem Hospital in New York.
“I lived in Chicago for five years and know many essential workers driving buses, working in child care, or working in grocery stores — are black,” mentioned Smollett by the use of a written commentary to Sneed.
“I’m also aware 70% of the city’s residents who died from COVID-19 in Chicago are black,” added Smollett, who returned to Chicago in past due February to as soon as once more input a plea of now not in charge on disorderly habits fees for allegedly staging a hate crime assault in January 2019.
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9:58 a.m. Crime drops around the globe as COVID-19 helps to keep folks inside of
The coronavirus pandemic that has crippled big-box outlets and mother and dad stores international is also creating a dent in illicit industry, too.
In Chicago, one in every of America’s maximum violent towns, drug arrests have plummeted 42% within the weeks because the town close down, when put next with the similar duration ultimate yr. Part of that lower, some legal attorneys say, is that drug sellers don’t have any selection however to attend out the industrial hunch.
“The feedback I’m getting is that they aren’t able to move, to sell anything anywhere,” mentioned Joseph Lopez, a legal attorney in Chicago who represents reputed drug sellers.
Overall, Chicago’s crime declined 10% after the pandemic struck, a pattern enjoying out globally as towns record surprising crime drops within the weeks since measures have been put into position to sluggish the unfold of the virus. Even amongst areas that experience the easiest ranges of violence outdoor a battle zone, fewer individuals are being killed and less robberies are happening.
Still, police officers fear a few surge of unreported home violence, and what occurs when restrictions carry — or cross on too lengthy.
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9:30 a.m. In illness, as in well being, Shirley Williams has Hall of Famer husband of 60 years at her aspect
Cubs nice Billy Williams urges all people to stick house if we will be able to. That’s what he’s doing — with a heavy center — as he cares for a spouse who’s experiencing late-stage dementia.
At house in Glen Ellyn, Williams, 81, cares for Shirley the most efficient he can. Fortunately, he has quite a lot of assist. Nurses rotate in day-to-day, from 10 a.m. to six p.m., and the couple’s 4 daughters — all reside close by in…