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Weather forecast: Chicago-area snow storm could make for messy morning commute | Radar
CHICAGO (WLS) — Snow could make a mess of Wednesday morning’s commute, as flakes have begun to fall across the Chicago area.
A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for Boone, DeKalb, Kane, Lee, McHenry, Ogle and Winnebago counties until 3 p.m.; eastern Will, Grundy, Kankakee, LaSalle, Livingston, northern Will, southern Cook and southern Will counties until 6 p.m.; central Cook, DuPage, Lake and northern Cook until 9 p.m. and until 1 a.m. EST in Lake and Porter counties in Indiana.
Snow is expected to be steady through the morning, and ease up by mid-afternoon, ABC7 Chicago meteorologist Tracy Butler said.
She forecast 2 to 4 inches total, with up to 5 inches in Indiana.
Temperatures will be in the low- to mid-30s, with poor visibility at times, Butler said.
The Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation has deployed over 200 salt spreaders to focus on arterial routes.
Light snow fell in the city about 5 a.m., but it was coming down at a steady clip and accumulating on some surfaces.
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Snow was coming down fast in Oak Brook about 5 a.m., and the roads were partially snow-covered.
The main roads were cleared for the most part but were very slick.
Near Roosevelt Road and the Eisenhower Expressway, snow can be seen sticking to the side roads.
It’s melting on the highways, but it’s a slippery mess.
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In Forest Park, the snow is accumulating, covering the grass and neighborhoods there.
And in south suburban Minooka, the drive was just treacherous early Wednesday.
Snow plows could also be seen in the suburbs.
Motorists are advised to give them space and slow down.
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RSV surge stretching Chicago-area children’s hospitals
Children with the respiratory illness RSV are filling Chicago-area children’s hospitals, leading to longer ER waits, occasionally delayed surgeries and difficulty transferring pediatric patients between hospitals.
RSV, which stands for respiratory syncytial virus, can cause a runny nose, coughing and fever, and in most people is mild and resolves within a week or two. But sometimes it can be more serious, especially among babies, causing pneumonia and inflammation of the small airways in the lung. Each year, about 1% to 2% of babies younger than 6 months old who catch RSV may need hospitalization, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
RSV often surges during the late fall and winter, but this year, it has arrived early and is making some older children sick as well. It comes on top of an early swell of other respiratory illnesses that have kept Chicago-area children’s hospitals packed for months.
“We are in a major crisis and we absolutely need all hands on deck for our children!!!,” Dr. Frank Belmonte, chief medical officer at Advocate Children’s Hospital, posted Thursday on Twitter in response to a tweet about similar surges in other parts of the country.
In Chicago, the percentage of emergency department visits by children younger than 5 for RSV is about 10 times higher now than at the same time in 2019, according to the Chicago Department of Public Health.
“We’re coming out of a pandemic where a lot of kids weren’t exposed because we were socially isolated and trying to protect ourselves,” said Dr. Marcelo Malakooti, associate chief medical officer at Lurie Children’s Hospital. “There was this preponderance of children who may not have been exposed to the virus before and this was perhaps the first time.”
Some doctors have compared this RSV surge to what adult hospitals faced in March 2020.
University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital has been full for 53 days in a row. Since Sept. 1, Comer has been able to accept more than 670 sick children transferred from other hospitals, but has had to say no to about 500 other transfer requests because it had no more available beds, Comer leaders said in an email sent to all Chicago Medicine staff and faculty Oct. 27.
In recent years, many Chicago-area community hospitals have closed their pediatric inpatient units, meaning when they get very sick children, they must often transfer them elsewhere.
“Unfortunately, some of these children wound up being transferred to hospitals as far away as St. Louis,” Comer leaders said in the all-staff email, of children it couldn’t take from other hospitals.
Comer is also seeing about 150% more patients in its emergency department than it saw at this time last year. In just one month, from September to October of this year, Comer saw the number of patients visiting its ER shoot up by about 32%.
“It’s very severe,” said Dr. John Cunningham, physician-in-chief at Comer. He noted that in the past, many children with severe cases of RSV were 1 or 2 years old. Now, the hospital is seeing 4 and 5 year olds. “Children have been cocooned in the last couple years (and) are now getting RSV late.”
Lurie Children’s Hospital is also running at capacity, meaning all of its beds are generally fully, Malakooti said. So far, Lurie has had two RSV deaths this season, he said. Each year in the U.S., about 100 to 300 children younger than 5 die of RSV.
Lurie has had to turn away more transfer requests from other hospitals than usual.
Both Comer and Lurie have delayed some surgeries to keep more beds open. The hospitals have also had to board some children in ERs, meaning keep them in ER beds until beds elsewhere in the hospitals open.
“It’s obviously overloading the pediatric health systems,” Malakooti said.
RSV rates are high in other areas of the country as well, with some hospitals in other states reportedly setting up tents outside their ERs, doubling up children in rooms and considering calling in the National Guard for support.
Doctors at Lurie and Comer say they haven’t had to take any of those steps at this point. They are, however, trying to get creative.
University of Chicago Medicine is asking medical staff who normally care for adults to volunteer for overtime shifts working with children at Comer.
In the late afternoons and evenings, Comer is trying to use part of its fourth floor as a “fast track” space for children who arrive at the ER with less serious illnesses, to help take pressure off the ER. It’s also transferring some older pediatric patients into adult beds at University of Chicago Medical Center.
Comer is also looking at changing some of its regular beds into intensive care beds.
Despite the high numbers of kids with RSV, Malakooti said cases have not yet peaked, and the situation might get worse before it gets better.
Children’s hospitals are also bracing for the flu season, which some are predicting will be the worst in years. The risk of flu infection remained low in Chicago for the week ending Oct. 22, though it was increasing, according to the Chicago Department of Public Health.
Pediatricians are urging parents to make sure their children get flu shots. Doctors say parents should keep their kids home if they’re sick, make sure they’re washing their hands, call their pediatricians if their children are sick, and bring them to ERs if there’s an emergency.
“We’re very concerned, and we’re preparing for it as best we can,” Cunningham said.
Police find man suspected in shooting at Chicago-area parade
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — A 22-year-old man identified as a person of interest in a shooting during an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago that killed at least six people, wounded at least 30 and sent hundreds of people fleeing was taken into custody Monday evening following an hourslong manhunt, police said.
Highland Park Police Chief Lou Jogmen said Monday evening that a police officer briefly chased Robert E. Crimo III as he drove about five miles north of where the shooting occurred before the man pulled over and was taken into custody.
Police declined to immediately identify Crimo as a suspect but said identifying him as a person of interest, sharing his name and other information publicly was a serious step.
The July 4 shooting was just the latest to shatter the rituals of American life. Schools, churches, grocery stores and now community parades have all become killing grounds in recent months. This time, the bloodshed came as the nation tried to find cause to celebrate its founding and the bonds that still hold it together.
“It is devastating that a celebration of America was ripped apart by our uniquely American plague,” Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said at a news conference.
“I’m furious because it does not have to be this way… while we celebrate the Fourth of July just once a year, mass shootings have become a weekly — yes, weekly — American tradition.”
The shooting occurred at a spot on the parade route where many residents had staked out prime viewing points early in the day for the annual celebration. Dozens of fired bullets sent hundreds of parade-goers — some visibly bloodied — fleeing. They left a trail of abandoned items that showed everyday life suddenly, violently disrupted: A half-eaten bag of potato chips; a box of chocolate cookies spilled onto the grass; a child’s Chicago Cubs cap.
“There’s no safe place,” said Highland Park resident Barbara Harte, 73, who had stayed away from the parade fearing a mass shooting, but later ventured from her home.
Lake County Major Crime Task Force spokesman Christopher Covelli said at a news conference “several of the deceased victims” died at the scene and one was taken to a hospital and died there. Police have not released details about the victims or wounded.
Lake County Coroner Jennifer Banek said the five people killed at the parade were adults, but didn’t have information on the sixth victim who was taken to a hospital and died there. One of those killed was a Mexican national, Roberto Velasco, Mexico’s director for North American affairs, said on Twitter Monday. He said two other Mexicans were wounded.
NorthShore University Health Center received 26 patients after the attack. All but one had gunshot wounds, said Dr. Brigham Temple, medical director of emergency preparedness. Their ages ranged from 8 to 85, and Temple estimated that four or five patients were children.
Temple said 19 of them were treated and discharged. Others were transferred to other hospitals, while two patients, in stable condition, remained at the Highland Park hospital.
The shooter opened fire around 10:15 a.m., when the parade was about three-quarters through, authorities said.
Highland Park Police Commander Chris O’Neill, the incident commander on scene, said the gunman apparently used a “high-powered rifle” to fire from a spot atop a commercial building where he was “very difficult to see.” He said the rifle was recovered at the scene. Police also found a ladder attached to the building.
“Very random, very intentional and a very sad day,” Covelli said.
President Joe Biden on Monday said he and first lady Jill Biden were “shocked by the senseless gun violence that has yet again brought grief to an American community on this Independence Day.” He said he had “surged Federal law enforcement to assist in the urgent search for the shooter, who remains at large at this time.”
Biden signed the widest-ranging gun violence bill passed by Congress in decades, a compromise that showed at once both progress on a long-intractable issue and the deep-seated partisan divide that persists.
Police believe there was only one shooter but warned that he should still be considered armed and dangerous. Several nearby cities canceled events including parades and fireworks, some of them noting that the Highland Park shooter was still at large. Evanston, Deerfield, Skokie, Waukegan and Glencoe canceled events. The Chicago White Sox also announced on Twitter that a planned post-game fireworks show is canceled due to the shooting.
More than 100 law enforcement officers were called to the parade scene or dispatched to find the suspected shooter.
More than a dozen police officers on Monday evening surrounded a home listed as an address for Crimo in Highland Park. Some officers held rifles as they fixed their eyes on the home. A large armored truck, marked “Police Rescue Vehicle,” occupied the middle of the road near the residence. Police blockaded roads leading to the home in a tree-lined neighborhood near a golf course, allowing only select law enforcement cars through a tight outer perimeter.
Highland Park is a close-knit community of about 30,000 people located on the shores of Lake Michigan just north of Chicago, with mansions and sprawling lakeside estates that have long drawn the rich and sometimes famous, including NBA legend Michael Jordan, who lived in the city for years when he played for the Chicago Bulls. John Hughes filmed parts of several movies in the city, including “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Sixteen Candles” and “Weird Science.”
Pritzker, a Democrat, promised support for the community as well as to bring gunman to justice.
“There are no words for the kind of evil that shows up at a public celebration of freedom, hides on a roof and shoots innocent people with an assault rifle,” Pritzker said.
Ominous signs of a joyous event suddenly turned to horror filled both sides of Central Avenue where the shooting occurred. Dozens of baby strollers — some bearing American flags, abandoned children’s bikes and a helmet bedecked with images of Cinderella were left behind. Blankets, lawn chairs, coffees and water bottles were knocked over as people fled.
Gina Troiani and her son were lined up with his daycare class ready to walk onto the parade route when she heard a loud sound that she believed was fireworks — until she heard people yell about a shooter. In a video that Troiani shot on her phone, some of the kids are visibly startled at the loud noise, and they scramble to the side of the road as a siren wails nearby.
“We just start running in the opposite direction,” she told The Associated Press.
Her 5-year-old son was riding his bike decorated with red and blue curled ribbons. He and other children in the group held small American flags. The city said on its website that the festivities were to include a children’s bike and pet parade.
Troiani said she pushed her son’s bike, running through the neighborhood to get back to their car.
“It was just sort of chaos,” she said. “There were people that got separated from their families, looking for them. Others just dropped their wagons, grabbed their kids and started running.”
Debbie Glickman, a Highland Park resident, said she was on a parade float with coworkers and the group was preparing to turn onto the main route when she saw people running from the area.
“People started saying: ‘There’s a shooter, there’s a shooter, there’s a shooter,’” Glickman told the AP. “So we just ran. We just ran. It’s like mass chaos down there.”
She didn’t hear any noises or see anyone who appeared to be injured.
“I’m so freaked out,” she said. “It’s just so sad.”
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Foody contributed from Chicago. Associated Press writers Mike Balsamo in New York, David Koenig in Dallas, Jeff Martin in Woodstock, Georgia and Fabiola Sánchez in Monterrey, Mexico contributed reporting.
Bird Flu: Over 200 birds are suspected to have died from the avian flu at a Chicago-area forest preserve
The deaths occurred at the Baker’s Lake forest preserve, the Forest Preserves of Cook County said in a statement on Thursday.
The federal government, which provides the only declaration of incidences of avian influenza, is conducting further tests to determine the cause of death.
Zoos across the country have been moving their birds indoors over the past couple of months to protect them from the spread of the potentially deadly strain.
The Baker’s Lake preserve is home to one of the most significant heron rookeries in the Midwest, according to the Forest Preserves organization.
In addition, many other native and migratory birds nest and feed there. “Because of the nature of the local bird population, the avian influenza impact to date has only been observed among waterfowl and water birds,” the organization added.
Biologists presented “seven cormorants for necropsy and testing to state pathologists” on April 7 after finding numerous dead birds a day earlier, the organization said.
Lab results showed the birds were suffering from a presumed outbreak of H5 avian influenza, it said.
Cases of avian flu have been rising in backyard flocks and wild birds across dozens of states in recent months.
The flu was first detected in February in a commercial turkey flock in Dubois County, Indiana, according to the US Department of Agriculture. This was the first case of infection in the US since 2020.
Chicago-area DA Kim Foxx ripped by Illinois Republican after Oak Brook mall shooting
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A Republican county commissioner based outside Chicago lashed out at Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx this week after gunfire at an Oak Brook shopping mall left at least four people wounded – and sent Christmas shoppers scrambling for safety.
Speaking just hours after the shooting, Commissioner Peter DiCianni of suburban DuPage County – where the mall is located – accused Foxx of failing to crack down on violent crime in Chicago and other parts of Cook County, with the result being more safety concerns in surrounding communities.
“DuPage County is always a county that prides itself that safety is a top priority,” DiCianni said in a TV interview near the mall Thursday night with Chicago’s WGN-TV, “and a lot of our violent crime has been coming in from the east.
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“We have a [Cook County] state’s attorney that often does not prosecute the crime as she should,” he continued, referring to Foxx. “I can tell you that these offenders, speaking on behalf of our state’s attorney [in DuPage County], will be fully prosecuted.
“We have a [Cook County] state’s attorney that often does not prosecute the crime as she should.”
Commissioner Peter DiCianni (DuPage County website photo)
“And we need to send a message that we don’t tolerate this kind of crime in our county.”
According to authorities, shots were fired inside the mall around 5:44 p.m. Thursday after two armed suspects became involved in a dispute. The four people wounded in the incident were one of the suspects and three bystanders, police said. All were expected to survive.
“We need to send a message that we don’t tolerate this kind of crime in our county.”
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Police declared the mall safe later Thursday night, according to a statement.
The wounded suspect and a second suspect were taken into custody while a third suspect was being sought, according to police. Oak Brook Police tweeted photos of the at-large suspect early Friday.
DiCianni claimed that a rapid response from law enforcement prevented the shooting from becoming a greater tragedy.
“As a former mayor, right next store [in Elmhurst, Illinois], I saw my police officers helping out this community … we could have had casualties,” he said. “Today we didn’t, thankfully, but we cannot allow this to happen in our county and our fine village of Oak Brook.
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“We pride ourselves on safety – and we will keep that pride and fully fund our officers as we have been, and support our officers. We’ve got a chief that’s a professional. We had a phenomenal response … all of our communities came together to take this on.
“Four SWAT teams were here to make this as efficient as possible. So we take the crime very seriously and we will not tolerate this crime and we will fully prosecute these individuals.”
Foxx, 49, a native of Chicago, has been the Cook County state’s attorney since 2016. The Democrat has faced steady criticism from Republicans, including for dropping several charges that were filed against Jussie Smollett in connection with the actor’s hate-crime claim. (Smollett was ultimately convicted earlier this month on five out of six charges in connection with the case.)
“If, as it has been alleged, policies of my office are proven to contribute to looting or lawlessness, I will be the first to change them.”
Cook County (Illinois) State’s Attorney Kim Foxx speaks to reporters in Chicago, Feb. 22, 2019. (Associated Press)
A 2020 Chicago Tribune analysis found that Foxx “dropped all charges against 29.9% of felony defendants, a dramatic increase over her predecessor.” Meanwhile, the Chicago Sun-Times reported in October that Cook County was on track in 2021 to see its highest carjacking numbers in 20 years, with such crimes up 43.5% over 2020.
Also in October, a group of Illinois Republicans and Chicago-area police chiefs threw their support behind a bill in the state Legislature that would allow them to override decisions by Foxx to relax charges against criminal defendants.
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Foxx took on her critics in August in an op-ed essay published in the Chicago Tribune.
She accused them of “pointing fingers of blame” amid what she conceded was “surging” gun violence in Chicago.
“But pointing fingers of blame will not make us any safer,” she wrote. “I invite my colleagues in law enforcement at the city, county, state and federal level to join me at a table devoted to advancing public safety and equal justice.
“If, as it has been alleged, policies of my office are proven to contribute to looting or lawlessness, I will be the first to change them.”
Fox News’ Danielle Wallace and Louis Casiano contributed to this story.
Chicago-area mall shooting leaves several wounded; 2 suspects in custody, 1 sought
Police in a Chicago suburb released two photos of an at-large suspect early Friday as a manhunt continued following a shopping mall shooting Thursday that left at least four people wounded.
Those struck by gunfire included one of two suspects who were taken into custody, police said.
The gunfire around 5:44 p.m. at the Oakbrook Center mall in Oak Brook, Illinois, sent Christmas shoppers running for cover, police said. An Oak Brook police officer who was working an extra detail at the mall immediately responded, receiving help from other responding officers as well as mall security, according to police.
Investigators recovered two handguns at the scene, police said. In addition, police located a vehicle that was registered to one of the suspects. The identities of the suspects and victims were not immediately released.
Authorities believe the incident started when two armed people and a companion became engaged in a confrontation.
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Two suspects were in police custody and one remained at large after shots rang out at a Chicago-area shopping mall on Thursday night.
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“We believe that two individuals that were known to each other shot at each other, and potentially three would have been struck by gunfire either directly or by ricochet,” Oak Brook police Chief James Kruger told FOX 32 of Chicago.
After the gunfire, two suspects ran into the Nordstrom store in an attempt to flee, Kruger said.
The four people wounded by gunfire were taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
One of the four people wounded was believed to be one of the offenders, Kruger said. Another person of interest was in custody and authorities said a third suspect was at large.
The wounded suspect was shot four times – in the left thigh, right thigh, right calf and lower back, police said.
Two women, both in their 40s, also were shot, both in the left thigh. A woman in her 20s was shot in her right foot, according to authorities.
A fifth person suffered an ankle injury while fleeing the area.
The mall was locked down as police continued to investigate. The scene was declared clear at 11:55 p.m., according to police.
Authorities at the Oak Brook Center mall.
(WLS-TV, Chicago)
“We have SWAT teams that are going store-to-store in order to clear each store and to make sure that there isn’t another possible offender,” the chief said.
In a statement, Oak Brook Center thanked the police department “for their diligence in leading this developing investigation.”
“Tonight’s isolated incident is extremely upsetting for our shopping center community,” the statement said.
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The shooting came hours after a suspect and 14-year-old girl were killed in a Burlington Coat Factory in Los Angeles. Officers opened fire on the suspect and the girl was struck by a bullet that pierced a wall and hit her as she was in a dressing room, police said.
Chicago-area high school apologizes for “Fire Nagy” chants directed at Bears coach’s son
Bears coach Matt Nagy has been under an intense spotlight in Chicago, but students at one Chicago-area high school crossed the line by targeting Nagy’s son.
Cary-Grove High School has issued an apology for the conduct of some of its students toward Nagy’s son, who played for Lake Forest High School in a playoff game on Saturday.
“At the recent Cary-Grove vs. Lake Forest 6A high school football game played on Saturday, November 20, members of the Cary-Grove student body began a chant targeting the parent of one of the Lake Forest team members and his family,” the statement from Cary-Grove’s principal said. “On behalf of Cary-Grove High School, I want to assure our community that the chant was not acceptable nor appropriate and was immediately addressed by administration at the game. We also felt it was important to meet with our student superfans that lead our chants and cheers to talk about what happened and give them an opportunity to reflect and correct their actions.”
Cary-Grove beat Lake Forest to advance to the state championship game against East St. Louis on Saturday.
Chicago-Area Schools Announce Closures, Moves to E-Learning Amid Winter Storm – NBC Chicago
With heavy snow expected to hammer the Chicago area through Tuesday morning, dozens of school districts have canceled classes or announced that they will move to e-learning as a result of the weather.
According to the latest updates from the Emergency Closing Center website, numerous districts have announced that they will either fully cancel classes or move to e-learning as a result of the severe weather.
Here is a full list of the schools that have announced closures.
You can find the latest information on the ECC website.
All in-person classes in Chicago Public Schools are also canceled on Tuesday, with those classes transitioning to remote learning.
Several area colleges have also announced the cancellation of in-person classes, including DeKalb’s Northern Illinois University. All classes after 5 p.m. Monday will be moved online for the rest of the day.
All in-person classes at the University of Chicago have been canceled beginning at 2:30 p.m. Monday, and those cancellations will run through noon on Tuesday.
Non-essential activities are also canceled.
City Colleges of Chicago announced that all in-person classes are canceled Tuesday, with some moving to in-person learning.
DePaul University’s Lincoln Park and Loop campuses will close Monday evening and remain closed on Tuesday due to the inclement weather, according to university officials.
All in-person classes are canceled, with online classes allowed to resume as scheduled. The school is calling for in-person classes to transition to remote learning if possible.
The University of Illinois-Chicago’s campus will close effective at 4 p.m. Monday, the school announced on social media.
Kankakee Community College will close its facilities at 2 p.m. Monday and will remain closed on Tuesday. All learning will move to remote learning format, the school said.
All facilities at Purdue University Northwest and Indiana University Northwest are also closed due to the inclement weather.