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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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