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(SMcaoft tribune Questions? Call 1-800-Tribune Wednesday, December 21, 2016 Breaking news at chicagotribune.com CHICAGO VIOLENCE A CITY WOUNDED TAVON AND THE BULLET Tavon Tanner, now 11, was with his mom and twin sister on their West Polk Street porch when he was shot Aug. 8. He was in the hospital until late September. BY MARY SCHMICH Chicago Tribune Photos by E. JASON WAMBSGANS Chicago Tribune He wanted to see the bullet For weeks, he had felt it, a bump and an ache, lodged just below his left shoulder.

Sometimes other kids asked if they could touch it, and he'd say yes, but not too hard. If asked, he might pull up his shirt and show the long, fresh scar that snaked from his breastbone to below his navel. "Thirty staples," he might say, shyly, wondrously, but even the staples in his tender sldn didn't grip his mind the way the bullet did. He had carried the bullet in his small body since the August night it pierced his back near the base of his spinal cord and ripped upward, ravaging his pancreas, his stomach, his spleen, a lddney, his left lung. He sometimes texted his mother in the middle of the night to tell her that it hurt.

Now, on a gray October day, a doctor is about to cut the bullet out, and he's hoping for the chance to inspect the little metal invader. In a surgery prep room at Lurie Children's Hospital, he sits in a chair, leaning on his mother's arm, while doctors and nurses bustle around. "How do you prefer to be called?" a doctor asks. "Tavon," he said. Not Tay-von.

Tuh-von. He'll be under general anesthesia, the doctor explains, so he'll get an astronaut mask. Would he like it to be scented? Before he can decide which scent cherry, candy, bubble gum? another woman enters, a specialist trained in the fears of children. "My guess," she tells him, "is your imagination is working like crazy right now." As she talks, he looks away, silent. Withdrawn behavior, the specialist knows, is common in children who have been shot When she tells him he'll be given laughing gas, though, he laughs, and for a moment a different boy flashes into view, the old Tavon, charming, lighthearted, graced with an incan- Turn to Tavon, Page 10 Islamic State claims Berlin truck attack that killed 12 Illinois economic plan may end with Amazon jobs deal JOSEPH HERNANDEZTRIBUNE 6 restaurants you shouldn't miss Food Dining By Ally Marotti and Ray Long Chicago Tribune Amazon is bringing two more distribution centers to the Chicago area with the promise of more than 1,000 jobs in Aurora, thanks in part to nearly $12.9 million in new corporate tax breaks through a state jobs program that soon may be overhauled.

It's the latest in a set of tax breaks that potentially could save Amazon more than $100 million over the next decade if By Kirsten Grieshaber and Frank Jordans Associated Press BERLIN The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Tuesday for a truck attack on a crowded Berlin Christmas market that German authorities said came right out of the extremist group's playbook, inflicting mass casualties on a soft target fraught with symbolic meaning. The Monday night attack on the popular market by the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the heart of former West Berlin the giant delivery company fulfills promises to create thousands of jobs. With this latest announcement, Amazon's workforce in Illinois would total more than 7,000 full-time jobs. The company already operates similar facilities in Joliet, Romeoville and Edwardsville, near St Louis. Another center is under construction in suburban Monee.

Because of Illinois' special brand of political gridlock, the Amazon announcement also Turn to Jobs, Page 13 left 12 dead and 48 injured the first mass casualty attack by Islamic State group, also called ISIS, carried out on German soil. German security forces were hunting for the perpetrator after releasing a man from custody for lack of evidence. The claim of responsibility carried on the Islamic State group's Amaq news agency described the man seen fleeing from the truck as "a soldier of the Islamic State" who "carried out the attack in response to calls for Turn to Attack, Page 15 "ASSASSIN'S CREED" Michael Phillips' movie review in AE rr ol j. Chicago Weather Center: Tom Skllling'S forecast High 35 Low 22 Complete forecast on back of AE $1.99 city and suburbs, $2.50 elsewhere 169th year No. 356 Chicago Tribune "49485 00001 FINE CHOCOLATES SINCE 1920 Pixies $iooo lib Pre-Wrapped Box 'Offer valid in store on December 21 201 6.

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