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After a long, emotionally charged debate, a defiant City Council voted 34-14 to lay the groundwork to tie Mayor Brandon Johnson’s hands when it comes to canceling the contract with the gunshot detection technology known as ShotSpotter.
The trial — a first for thousands of similar cases across the country to make it to a jury — has lasted three weeks. The jury of nine women and three men will now deliberate over whether the heartburn drug caused an 89-year-old Brookfield woman's colon cancer.
For tourists, Illinois is the place to be for the historic cicada emergence. The 17-year brood in the state's northern half and the 13-year brood in the southern part are set to converge near Springfield.
The risk to the public remains low, but farmworkers exposed to infected animals are at higher risk, health officials said. As of Wednesday, the virus had been confirmed in 51 dairy herds in nine states.