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The 18-year-old, of Waterville, Maine, was in communication with two juveniles about his plans to attack a mosque, and possibly a synagogue, prosecutors said. A federal magistrate judge this week ordered him held without bail.

Those ambulance rides stopped about a year ago — in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic — during a dire nursing shortage in the ER of the Bronzeville hospital, formerly known as Mercy Hospital.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot hopes at least some of the roughly 2,800 Chicago police officers who remain unvaccinated will now get their shots, leaving fewer officers subject to suspension or firing.

"It’s a huge political problem for President Biden, because we’re already feeling the effects of inflation related to the pandemic," David Axelrod told the Sun-Times. "As [Winston] Churchill did in Britain, [Biden] needs to explain to people why that sacrifice is necessary."

Employees have filed petitions with the National Labor Relations Board seeking a union election, part of a national organizing effort with the Service Employees International Union.

Spots for eight instructors and one coordinator are open for the fishing programs of the Chicago Park District; while the Illinois Department of Natural Resources needs six more instructors this summer for the Chicago Urban Fishing Program.

The quartet is undertaking a kind of farewell tour, which includes what is billed as its final stop in Chicago.

Back after a 12-year interregnum is "Law & Order," the Coca-Cola Classic of NBC's Dick Wolf universe. It's not as if the brand, or its sister brand of shows that begin with the word "Chicago," has been moribund in the meantime, with its hot-button topics, its where-and-when title cards, accompanied…

"I don’t know what’s worse, being over there and being in danger or being here and knowing that we can’t do anything, really," said Oleksiy Vynnytskyy, 28, an urgent care nurse from Wheeling.