Good morning, Chicago. On Tuesday, Illinois public health officials reported 2,556 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and 23 additional deaths. Officials also said there were 81,152 doses of the vaccine administered Monday.
Meanwhile, Illinois officials also said Tuesday that nearly 1 in 3 people in the state has been fully vaccinated. See the latest totals on our vaccine tracker.
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker is adjusting his statewide mask mandate to align with new, looser federal guidelines while Chicago is preparing to unveil a vaccine passport for events geared toward young people, promising a semblance of pre-pandemic normal for those who’ve been fully vaccinated.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday it’s safe for fully vaccinated people to go outdoors without face coverings in many situations, with the exception of events with large crowds.
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‘I have no answers’: Family of Anthony Alvarez views video of his fatal shooting by Chicago police
A Chicago police officer shot and killed a 22-year-old man as he ran away from police on the Northwest Side late last month, a lawyer for the man’s family told reporters late Tuesday after they viewed video of the man’s death.
Todd Pugh, who is representing the family of Anthony Alvarez, said the fatal shooting of the young father in the early morning hours of March 31 has left his family “with more questions than answers.”
Gov. J.B. Pritzker accused Republicans of failing to work with majority Democrats on new political boundaries, though he acknowledged Democrats have yet to disclose what population estimates they are using in lieu of delayed data from the federal census.
When Mia Neal accepted her Oscar on Sunday, she mentioned that her late grandfather, a Tuskegee Airman, was a Northwestern University alum who was barred from living on campus.
The YMCA that most likely housed him? It was on Emerson Street, and it offered rest and respite to Evanston’s Black residents and students when many of the city’s institutions were turning their backs on them. Here’s the story behind it, from columnist Heidi Stevens.
Chicago’s preeminent plovers are together again, settling in for their third summer of saving their species at Montrose Beach along the Lake Michigan coast.
Monty and Rose, the endangered Great Lakes piping plovers who became the first pair to nest successfully in Chicago in decades, collectively traveled more than 2,000 miles to make it back to Chicago just one day apart.
