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One impact of the pandemic is that community college enrollment fell 14%, mostly among Black and Latino students. Once school is fully “normal” again, enrollment will increase.

‘We’re waiting for the city to come with a wrecking crew and come and confiscate the tents,” said Willie Parker, 66, who lives in a tent in Fulton Street viaduct.

The remains had apparently been brought to an alley on the West Side and dumped there, a source said.

The owner of a controversial McKinley Park asphalt plant is the winning bidder for the 23-acre Southwest Side property, offering $6.5 million.

“It was like they were just aiming at us, which is crazy because you couldn’t see anything but kids and women,” said the woman who organized the vigil. “We are so hurt.”

South Shore was long seen as a “first-house neighborhood” for middle-class residents, and it saw one of its favorite daughters go to the White House as first lady. Residents now hope the nearby Obama Presidential Center will make it “an area where people want to move into.”

Many customers already are struggling to pay their bills. The cost of the pipeline replacement program has ballooned to what looks like some $11 billion by the time the project is expected to be finished in 2048, eight years behind schedule.

The publishers of controversial newspapers with heavy political messaging targeting Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker are able to avoid disclosure requirements covering campaign committees.

U.S Rep. Danny Davis called for “a massive infusion of cash money, resources to really reconstitute urban communities on the West Side of Chicago” and across the country — “the same kind of money” being sent to support Ukraine’s fight against Russia.

The Society of Family Planning recently estimated that U.S. clinicians performed 6% fewer abortions in August than they did in April.

The next clerk will serve as the chief election authority for more than 125 municipalities in suburban Cook County, as well as administer all the county’s vital records. That might sound a tad dry, but the two rivals and their aides also exchange charges of political misconduct and shenanigans.