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An officer walks near their car outside the Chicago Theatre in the Loop on May 2, 2022, the day after a 27-year-old man and 55-year-old man were shot near the theater.
Over a 48-hour period last weekend, three shootings erupted within a mile of one another in Chicago’s downtown area, leaving two people dead. During that same time, some 17 other people were shot around the city, most of them in neighborhoods where a higher level of violence is more commonly experienced.
Holly Tuten, center, a vector ecologist with the Illinois Natural History Survey, does field collection of tick specimens in a central Illinois wooded area with Erica Hernandez, far left, and Emily Struckhoff, far right. The collection methods include dragging a white cloth across the ground, as well as using a carbon dioxide trap that naturally attracts ticks by using carbon dioxide sublimated from dry ice.
As spring settles in, tick activity is growing in Illinois, a state where researchers say the arachnids are now widespread.
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Tick activity is growing in Illinois as multiple species converge on the state: ‘Every year is a bad tick year’There are about 850 tick species globally, but the ticks to keep an eye out for in Illinois include the blacklegged tick (or deer tick), the American dog tick, the lone star tick and the Gulf Coast tick — a more recent arrival.
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‘Chicagoans feel like they own the Loop’: Violence resonates downtown as city’s center reflects troubles in its neighborhoodsShootings downtown last weekend, including one outside a major theater that canceled its evening performance, captured most of the attention from the media and city leaders despite continuing issues in Chicago neighborhoods.
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Homeowners Try to Block Investors From Scooping Up Properties to Rent OutInvestors bought more than one in five U.S. homes in December. Some homeowners and HOAs are pushing back.
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