Kaitlin Washburn

COPA Chief Administrator Andrea Kersten raised “grave concerns” about the officers in a letter to Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling last week.

Estos casos no son los mismos que el reciente brote de sarampión porque la tuberculosis ocurre en Chicago cada año, a diferencia del sarampión, dijo una doctora.

The Chicago Department of Public Health would not reveal the number of TB cases or identify shelters. A health department spokesperson said, “I would not characterize this as an outbreak.”

Unite Here Local 1, que representa a los trabajadores, dijo en una demanda que el empleador no dio aviso adecuado sobre su cierre, violando la ley estatal.

Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough was hospitalized for serious medical condition, her spokesperson said. “Her family is requesting privacy, and we ask for prayers for the Clerk and her family at this difficult time,” said Sally Daly, deputy clerk of communications.

Sendy Soto, a former official with the city’s Department of Housing and co-chair of the housing committee on Johnson’s transition team, will take on the job next week.

His surgeons spent 10 hours transplanting his new lungs and liver in September. Six months after the operation, Dr. Gary Gibbon remains cancer-free, able to breathe on his own and celebrated his 69th birthday on Wednesday.

Unite Here Local 1, representing the workers at the Signature Room and its lounge, said in a lawsuit in October the employer failed to give 60 days notice of a closing or mass layoff, violating state law.

The city of Chicago has worked for years on building design standards that prevent fatal crashes of migratory birds. Making those standards optional for builders is a problem, bird lovers say.