{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_swoglfawin4goe47o55q","title":"City gives update on injured DeKalb mayor: Barnes family thanks community, EMS ‘for incredible support’","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/city-gives-update-on-injured-dekalb-mayor-barnes-family-thanks-swoglfawin","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_swoglfawin4goe47o55q","seq":1423635,"kind":"article","title":"City gives update on injured DeKalb mayor: Barnes family thanks community, EMS ‘for incredible support’","url":"https://www.shawlocal.com/daily-chronicle/2026/10/02/city-gives-update-on-injured-dekalb-mayor-barnes-family-thanks-community-ems-for-incredible-support","summary":"DeKalb Mayor Cohen Barnes, who’s been absent from the public for weeks after suffering serious injuries in a Sept. 12 home accident, extended gratitude to the community and first responders for their “incredible support” in an update shared by the city Friday.","published":"2026-10-02T19:45:00Z","seen":"2026-10-02T20:46:24Z","lang":"en","country":"US","source":{"id":"kite-shawlocal-com-e2f96d","name":"shawlocal.com","domain":"shawlocal.com"},"via":"kite-shawlocal-com-e2f96d","topics":["chicago"],"authors":["Kelsey Rettke"],"entities":[{"id":"Q580478","name":"DeKalb","type":"place"},{"id":"Q22112057","name":"William Barnes","type":"person"}],"image":"https://www.shawlocal.com/resizer/Gp05lMk7K4VNSzo2dMC2w0tr06c=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/shawmedia/SFDA2UQCO5CCVEDHSUDZTR2REY.JPG","story":"st_swoglfawin4goe47o55q","category":"disaster-accident","category_p":0.23999999463558197,"sentiment":"negative","tone":-0.11999999731779099,"political":0.14000000059604645}]}