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The tension was palpable Tuesday afternoon in many places around Chicago and beyond as everyone awaited the verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin.
Both were taken to the University of Chicago Hospital.
"We are ready to arrest and bring to prosecution anyone who will try to destroy the dream of a business owner."
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said the guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial "gives me hope that we can strive for a system of justice in our nation that is applied equally to all."
Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Tuesday afternoon that justice was served as fired Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all counts in the death of George Floyd.
Former president and longtime Chicagoan Barack Obama issued a statement Tuesday saying jurors in Minneapolis "did the right thing" in convicting fired police Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd.
"No courtroom can ever replace a life, but it can and should deliver justice. Today, the jury in Derek Chauvin's murder trial honored that truth," Pritzker said in a statement Tuesday afternoon.
The city is preparing for the public's response to the verdict and businesses are getting ready too. Many downtown stores are boarded up.
The statewide seven-day average case positivity rate in Illinois is down to 3.8%, the lowest it's been since April 5, and the first time it's been below 4% since April 6.
There were enough off-campus cases for everyone to switch to remote classes as a precaution.
The group will meet outside the Pilsen Law Center at 10:30 a.m. to call for an outside investigation.
City officials have updated Chicago's emergency travel order, adding five states and Puerto Rico to the locations facing additional COVID-19 mitigations, while four other states -- including Wisconsin and Iowa -- have been removed from the list of travel restrictions.
"Black Chicagoans once again are getting sicker, requiring hospital care, and dying more than any other demographic in our city, but we are not taking this life-saving vaccine like we should," Mayor Lightfoot said.
Cook County Health is releasing approximately 10,000 first-dose vaccine appointments Tuesday at noon.
