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Patchin will succeed Jim Garrett, who will retire after serving as president and CEO of the bureau since 1996.
"I think that one’s still to be determined, to be perfectly frank with you,” Mayor Brandon Johnson told the Sun-Times Editorial Board Monday, referring to Bally's plan for a $1.7 billion permanent casino along the Chicago River.
“The state can’t give or take away who you are,” said Sasha Buchert, a senior attorney at the LGBTQ+ advocacy group Lambda Legal. “But it certainly is nice to have a gender marker that reflects who you are.”
David O'Donnell, 27, died and another worker was injured Thursday after they fell from scaffolding at still-under-construction University of Chicago Cancer Center. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating.