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President Acts CRUSHING NEEDS

To Undermine
Science Agency
A New Staff Questions
Climate Change
By CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE
and LISA FRIEDMAN
WASHINGTON — The Trump
administration has recently re-
moved the chief scientist at the
National Oceanic and Atmos-
pheric Administration, the na-
tion’s premier scientific agency,
installed new political staff who
have questioned accepted facts
about climate change and im-
posed stricter controls on commu-
nications at the agency.
The moves threaten to stifle a
major source of objective United
States government information
about climate change that under-
pins federal rules on greenhouse
gas emissions and offer an indica-
tion of the direction the agency
will take if President Trump wins
re-election.
An early sign of the shift came
last month, when Erik Noble, a
former White House policy advis-
er who had just been appointed
NOAA’s chief of staff, removed
Craig McLean, the agency’s act-
ing chief scientist.
Mr. McLean had sent some of
the new political appointees a
message that asked them to ac-
knowledge the agency’s scientific
integrity policy, which prohibits
manipulating research or
presenting ideologically driven
findings.
STEFANI REYNOLDS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The National Oceanic and At-
mospheric Administration.
The request prompted a sharp
response from Dr. Noble. “Re-
spectfully, by what authority are
you sending this to me?” he wrote,
according to a person who re-
ceived a copy of the exchange af-
ter it was circulated within NOAA.
Mr. McLean answered that his
role as acting chief scientist made
him responsible for ensuring that
the agency’s rules on scientific in-
tegrity were followed.
The following morning, Dr. No-
ble responded. “You no longer
serve as the acting chief scientist
for NOAA,” he informed Mr. Mc-
Lean, adding that a new chief sci-
entist had already been ap-
pointed. “Thank you for your
service.”
It was not the first time NOAA
Continued on Page A15
Biden Reaches Across a Divide
And All the Way Back to F.D.R.
Thousands Flee California Blazes
As a pair of rapidly growing wildfires threatened homes across Orange County, officials told 90,000 people to evacuate. Page A22.
Justice Echoes How Trump Wriggled Out of Trouble in Chicago
Trump’s View A Faltering Skyscraper,
On Balloting Defaults, Lawsuits
By JIM RUTENBERG
and NICK CORASANITI
The Supreme Court decision
on Monday barring the counting
of mail-in ballots in Wisconsin
that arrive after Election Day
was not a surprise for many
Democrats, who
NEWS had pressed for it
ANALYSIS but expected to
lose.
But a concurring opinion by
Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh set
off alarms among civil rights and
Democratic Party lawyers, who
viewed it as giving public sup-
port to President Trump’s argu-
ments that any results counted
after Nov. 3 could be riddled with
fraudulent votes — an assertion
unsupported by the history of
elections in the United States.
The decision also unnerved
Democrats and local election
officials in Pennsylvania, where
Republicans are asking the Su-
preme Court to weigh in again on
whether the state can accept
ballots received up to three days
after Election Day. While Demo-
crats in Wisconsin had been
appealing for an extension, the
current rules in Pennsylvania
allow for ballots to arrive three
days after the election. Any
change could threaten the more
than 1.4 million absentee ballots
Continued on Page A13
This article is by David Enrich,
Russ Buettner, Mike McIntire and
Susanne Craig.
The financial crisis was in full
swing when Donald J. Trump trav-
eled to Chicago in late September
2008 to mark the near-completion
of his 92-floor skyscraper.
The fortunes of big companies,
small businesses and millions of
Americans — including the
Trumps — were in peril. But the
family patriarch was jubilant as
he stood on the terrace of his
gleaming glass tower.
“We’re in love with the build-
ing,” Mr. Trump gushed. “We’re
very, very happy with what’s hap-
pened with respect to this building
and how fast we put it up.”
and Tax Dodges
He and his family hoped the
Trump International Hotel &
Tower would cement their compa-
ny’s reputation as one of the
world’s marquee developers of
luxury real estate.
Instead, the skyscraper became
another disappointment in a port-
folio filled with them. Construc-
tion lagged. Condos proved hard
to sell. Retail space sat vacant.
Yet for Mr. Trump and his com-
pany, the Chicago experience also
ERIC THAYER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
turned out to be something else:
the latest example of his ability to
strong-arm major financial insti-
tutions and exploit the tax code to
cushion the blow of his repeated
business failures.
The president’s federal income
tax records, obtained by The New
York Times, show for the first time
that, since 2010, his lenders have
forgiven about $287 million in debt
that he failed to repay. The vast
majority was related to the Chi-
cago project.
How Mr. Trump found trouble in
Chicago, and maneuvered his way
out of it, is a case study in doing
business the Trump way.
When the project encountered
problems, he tried to walk away
from his huge debts. For most in-
Continued on Page A14
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STRAIN HOSPITALS
AMID VIRUS SURGE
BEDS IN SHORT SUPPLY
An Explosive New Phase
Hits Regions Spared
by Earlier Waves
This article is by Giulia McDon-
nell Nieto del Rio, Simon Romero
and Mike Baker.
MILWAUKEE — The patient
who died on Tuesday morning at
Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center
was rolled out of her room under a
white sheet. One nurse, fighting
back tears, stood silently in the
hall as the outline of the body
passed by — one more death in an
eight-month-old pandemic that
has no end in sight.
“Those moments, they hit the
soul,” said Jodie Gord, a nurse
manager who oversees a team of
about 120 people at the hospital in
Milwaukee.
Aurora St. Luke’s is far from
alone in coming under strain. Hos-
pitals around the United States
are reeling from the rampaging
spread of the coronavirus, many
of them in parts of the country that
initially had been spared the
worst.
Approaching the eve of the elec-
tion, President Trump has down-
played the steep rise in cases, at-
tributing much of it to increased
testing. But the number of people
hospitalized for the virus tells a
different story, climbing an esti-
mated 46 percent from a month
ago and raising fears about the ca-
pacity of regional health care sys-
tems to respond to overwhelming
demand.
The exploding case numbers
point to a volatile new phase in the
pandemic, coming after earlier
waves hit large cities such as New
York, then Sun Belt states like
Florida and Arizona. While some
of those places have begun to
bring the virus under control, the
surge of hospitalizations is crip-
pling some cities with fewer re-
sources.
In El Paso, where the number of
people hospitalized with Covid-19
has more than tripled over the last
three weeks, doctors at University
Medical Center have started air-
lifting some patients to hospitals
as far away as San Antonio while
treating others in a field hospital
in a nearby parking lot. Across the
border in Mexico, the mayor of Ci-
udad Juárez, himself hospitalized
after testing positive for the virus
for the second time, is urging a
temporary ban on U.S. citizens
crossing into his city.
“We have never seen this in El
Paso,” said Dr. Joel Hendryx, chief
medical officer at University Med-
ical Center, one of the largest hos-
pitals along the border. Citing the
need for field hospitals, Dr.
Hendryx drew a sharp contrast to
the city’s earlier surge in July,
when mitigation measures drove
case numbers down.
Dr. Hendryx’s hospital had 195
inpatient coronavirus cases as of
Tuesday compared with about 30
Continued on Page A7

BRITAIN Health workers are

By JONATHAN MARTIN and KATIE GLUECK
WARM SPRINGS, Ga. — Jo-
seph R. Biden Jr. reached for polit-
ical history on Tuesday as he
swept into a red-state town with
deep Democratic resonance and
made a direct pitch to voters who
flocked to President Trump in
2016, urging them to give him a
chance to “heal” the country after
a year of crippling crises.
One week from Election Day,
Mr. Biden chose to expend pre-
cious political time and capital on
Georgia, a state that has not voted
for a Democratic presidential can-
didate since 1992, but where pub-
lic and private polling indicate he
can win if he assembles a coalition
of staunch Democrats, Black vot-
ers, white suburban women and
enough white voters in rural areas
like Warm Springs to put him over
the top.
Delivering a speech intended to
be part of his closing argument to
voters in the homestretch, Mr. Bi-
den traveled to the onetime re-
treat of Franklin D. Roosevelt,
making a let-us-come-together
appeal that evoked the sort of
common purpose that sustained
the country during the Great De-
pression and World War II and
that Mr. Biden said was needed to
overcome the coronavirus.
With language that at times
sounded more like that of a presi-
Continued on Page A16
Dodgers Are Back on Top
Los Angeles beat the Tampa Bay Rays, 3-1, to end a 32-year World Series title drought. Page B7.
New Challenges Push Californians to Rethink Tax Revolt of 1978
By CONOR DOUGHERTY
OAKLAND, Calif. — In 1978, a
Los Angeles businessman named
Howard Jarvis led an insurgent
campaign to pass Proposition 13, a
ballot measure that limited Cali-
fornia property taxes and inspired
a nationwide tax revolt. The law
has been considered sacrosanct
ever since, something California
governors and legislators chal-
lenge at their peril.
Now, as a pandemic tears
through local budgets, a well-fi-
nanced campaign backed by
teachers’ unions has mounted a
serious challenge to a major por-
tion of the law: its application to
commercial property.
If voters approve the effort next
week, they will give labor and pro-
gressive groups a striking victory
in raising the low tax rates that
longtime property owners enjoy.
If it fails, the campaign will have
Once Thought Sacred,
a Measure Is Tested
spent tens of millions of dollars
only to affirm that Proposition 13
is untouchable.
The new initiative, Proposition
15, would amend the state’s Con-
stitution so that properties like of-
facing a second wave, but this
time with less support. PAGE A7
fices and industrial parks would
no longer be protected by Proposi-
tion 13. By creating a “split roll”
system, in which residential prop-
erty would continue to be shielded
from tax increases but commer-
cial property would not, backers
hope to capitalize on Democratic
energy to raise taxes on large cor-
porations without alarming home-
owners.
“We can’t afford to continue to
Continued on Page A23

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An East Village Casualty
Astor Place Hairstylists, a beacon of
New York cool for decades, could not
recover from the pandemic and will
close before Thanksgiving. PAGE A4
Tamping Down Vaccine Hopes
Pfizer’s chief executive said that much-
anticipated results from its clinical trial
wouldn’t be coming this month. PAGE A6
NATIONAL A12-23
American Arsenal
INTERNATIONAL A8-11
Beloved Dolphin Goes Missing
Fungie, who for 37 years has powered
an Irish town’s tourist industry, is
feared to have left for good. PAGE A10
Al Qaeda’s Staying Power
Airbnb’s ‘Party House Problem’
The home rental company is racing to
address the risks that rowdy guests
pose before it goes public. PAGE B1
Targeting Tech’s Legal Shield
A law that Republicans say lets Face-
book and Twitter mute conservative
views is likely to take center stage at a
Senate hearing on Wednesday. PAGE B1
SPORTSWEDNESDAY B7-9
Tarnished Olympic Gold
Sun Ra Arkestra’s Journey
“Swirling,” the group’s first album of
new recordings in 20 years, is an affir-
mation of how vital the band remains
under the direction of the 96-year-old
saxophonist Marshall Allen. PAGE C1
FOOD D1-8
Resilience of Small Cinemas
Despite the continued shutdown of
Puerto Rican Comfort Food
movie houses throughout New York Even amid food insecurity, and with
City, indie theaters just may survive: limited ingredients, chefs on the island
They are less reliant on Hollywood and cook in ways that are soul-nourishing.
Above, arroz con pollo. PAGE D1
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ELECTION 2020
■■■■■■

Biden
makes a
play for
GOP
states
He evokes FDR in
Warm Springs, Ga.,
now Trump country,
as president hustles in
Upper Midwest.
By Janet Hook,
Jenny Jarvie
and Eli Stokols

WARM SPRINGS, Ga. —

With just one week until
election day, Joe Biden is
playing offense and Presi-
dent Trump is on the defen-
sive, scrambling to replicate
his 2016 come-from-behind
victory.
Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times Biden has begun making
THE DODGERS’ Julio Urías is hugged and mobbed after completing a dominant Game 6 performance by six L.A. relievers to help forays into Republican-lean-
bring a World Series championship to Los Angeles for the first time since 1988. It is the Dodgers’ seventh world title, their sixth in L.A. ing states that few expected
to be within reach for Demo-
crats, while Trump is cam-

THE REIGN RETURNS

BILL PLASCHKE
Dance like Mookie. Soar like Belli.
Scream like Kersh.
The 31-year drought is over, the heav-
ens have opened, and all over Los Ange-
les it’s raining blue.
The Dodgers are World Series cham-
pions.
We’ll write it again, with feeling, for all
the times in the last three decades you
thought you’d never read it again.
The Dodgers are World Series champions!
The weight is over, the burden has been lifted, the
dream deferred has become a reality embraced.
MORE COVERAGE
Dodgers finish off
Rays in six games
They go from dormant to
dominant after Tampa Bay
pulls starting pitcher Snell
in sixth inning. SPORTS, D2
Turner tests positive
for coronavirus
Dodgers learned the result
during the game, pulling
him two innings before win-
ning the title. SPORTS, D5
paigning in territory in the
Upper Midwest where he
won four years ago but now
trails, according to multiple
polls.
The Democratic nomi-
nee campaigned Tuesday in
ger blue never wavered. This is our year!” GOP-friendly Georgia to
From Gibby to J.T., from Bulldog to Buehler, from evoke the spirit of Franklin
Tommy to Doc, the torch was finally passed on a chilly D. Roosevelt, making a trip
fall night in Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. that showcased his confi-
Taking advantage of an analytic blunder by Rays dence in the election out-
manager Kevin Cash — he incredibly removed Blake come and the ambitions of
Snell in the middle of a two-hit shutout — the Dodgers his governing agenda.
scored two runs in the sixth and cruised to a diamond Trump stumped in Mich-
party for the ages. igan and Wisconsin, attack-
Julio Urías threw a 97-mph fastball past a frozen ing Biden as “corrupt”
Willy Adames to finish it, then all redemption broke out. and vilifying a series of
Urías doubled over in screaming celebration before prominent Democrats while
walking into the arms of catcher Austin Barnes while all [See Campaign, A5]
around them were flying caps, tossed gloves and tearful
hugs.

For the first time since 1988, the Dodgers hoisted the
Commissioner’s Trophy on Tuesday night with a 3-1
victory over the Tampa Bay Rays to clinch the World
Series four games to two.
“This is our year! We said it! This is our year!”
shouted manager Dave Roberts during the postgame
celebration. “Everyone all over the world wearing Dod-
Fans’ parties give coronavirus a field day
Dodgers and Lakers
gatherings help spread
COVID, especially
among the young.
By Rong-Gong Lin II
and Iris Lee
Southern California
counties are reopening their
economies at a slower
pace than other parts of the
state, and officials blame
celebrations. Lakers and
Dodgers viewing parties and
public events are keeping
coronavirus infections high
enough to hold the region
back, officials warn.
California has avoided
Pandemic
feeds surge in
plastic waste
Recycling industry in
South Korea is pushed
to the limit as virus
spurs changes in din-
ing habits. WORLD, A3
O.C. fires burn
out of control
Two blazes have con-
sumed 27,000 acres
and helped create the
nation’s worst air
quality. CALIFORNIA, B1
Weather
Sunny and dry.
L.A. Basin: 78/56. B6
the substantial spike in
coronavirus cases seen
across the country this fall,
but some of the state’s most
populated counties — Los
Angeles, Riverside and San
Bernardino — remain in the
most restrictive reopening
tier.
That means indoor din-
ing rooms are shut, as are in-
door operations of gyms and
houses of worship. San Di-
ego County, now in the red
tier, is teetering on backslid-
ing into the most restrictive
category.
Public health officials
have identified gatherings
as a significant source of
virus transmission in South-
ern California, where young
adults are driving the spread
Killings at marijuana farm a mystery
Riverside County site
was a haven for
immigrants; all seven
victims were Laotian.
By Matthew Ormseth
and Stephanie Lai
ANZA, Calif. — The boy
knew how his mother made
a living. He also knew the
danger inherent in it.
As recently as two
months ago, he had stayed
at a property in Aguanga, a
small community in rural
Riverside County, where his
mother, helped by recent im-
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See all of our photo and
video galleries from
Arlington, Texas, at
latimes.com/sports.
of the highly contagious dis-
ease.
There are also troubling
signs of a potential increase
in coronavirus cases. Even
after accounting for a
backlog, Los Angeles
County has gone from about
940 daily new cases at the be-
ginning of October to nearly
1,200 new cases each day as
of last week, based on the
date of a positive test or the
first onset of symptoms, said
Barbara Ferrer, the county’s
director of public health.
Officials are worried that
the postseason success of
the Lakers and the Dodgers
may be playing a role in
the increase in coronavirus
cases.
[See Parties, A7]
POLICE have not named suspects or a motive in the
shooting at an Aguanga, Calif., operation, above.
“It’s phenomenal … this was incredible … we never
stopped,” said Corey Seager, the unstoppable World
Series MVP, who batted .400 with two homers and five
runs batted in. “To be able to finally … get the last out,
win the last game, it’s surreal and it’s unbelievable.”
Also surreal and unbelievable — and so very 2020 —
[See Plaschke, A7]
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
MOSTLY MASKLESS fans cheer Mookie Betts’
home run at Club Bahia near Dodger Stadium.
migrants from Laos, grew
marijuana.
By day, he watered the
plants and lugged buckets
full of soil and supplements
that helped them grow; by
night, he slept on a small cot
in a trailer alongside his
mother, her boyfriend and
her friend.
Though he did not think
his mother growing marijua-
na made her a bad person,
the 16-year-old recalled an
unease, the sense that vi-
olence could at any moment
intrude on that dusty, far-
flung property.
Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times “It’s drugs,” he said. “And
anything can happen when
[See Killings, A12]
Mail-in
ballot
system’s
big test
Signature verification
is ‘ripe for error’ in an
election marked by
uncertainty, some say.
By Maya Lau
and Laura J. Nelson
Mail-in ballots are pour-
ing in by the millions to elec-
tion offices across the coun-
try, getting stacked and pre-
pared for processing. But
before the count comes the
signature test.
Election workers eyeball
voter signatures on ballots
one by one, comparing the
loop of an “L” or the squiggle
of an “S” against other sam-
ples of that person’s writing.
When performed by pro-
fessionals in criminal cases
or legal proceedings, signa-
ture verification can take
hours. But election employ-
ees in many states must do
the job in as little as five sec-
onds.
In an election marked by
uncertainty amid the pan-
demic, the signature verifi-
cation process represents
one of the biggest un-
[See Signatures, A6]
For Democrats,
no lead is safe
Despite Biden’s steady
polling edge, his team is
anxious amid 2016 flash-
backs. NATION, A4
Obama vs. Trump
on the economy
Economic measures in
2014 to 2016 and 2017 to
2019 were roughly the
same. BUSINESS, A9

BUSINESS INSIDE: Gig companies press their workers to vote for Proposition 22. A8
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CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK

Chicago faces tougher restrictions

Gov. J.B.
Pritzker takes
Indoor dining, bar use curbed; mayor says she’ll try to sway Pritzker
questions
from the
By Jamie Munks, Hours after Pritzker an- ting down a significant portion of
media Tues-
Gregory Pratt nounced the rollback in Chicago our economy at a time when those
day during his
and Dan Petrella starting Friday, citing increases in same businesses are really hang-
daily update
the city’s positivity rate and in ing on by a thread, so we’re going
of COVID-19
Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Mayor hospital admissions for people to continue our engagement with
cases in Illi-
Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday clashed with COVID-19 symptoms, Light- the governor and his team,” Light-
nois, in the
over his order for tighter restric- foot in a televised interview said foot said on PBS.
Blue Room of
tions that would prohibit indoor she’s trying to convince him not to “But it’s not looking good, and if
the Thomp-
dining and bar service in Chicago, go through with his order, citing we can’t convince him that some
son Center.
with the governor saying they’re concerns about the economy. other metrics should apply, then
needed to help stop the co- “Our restaurant industry, our the shutdown unfortunately is
ronavirus spread and the mayor bars, our gyms, indoor spaces, if going to take effect starting Friday
ABEL URIBE/ indicating she’ll try to change his the governor’s order goes into
CHICAGO
TRIBUNE mind. effect, it’s really effectively shut- Turn to Virus, Page 8

ELECTION 2020

Biden
tests
waters
in GOP
territory
Trump devotes day
to 2 Midwest states
he carried in 2016
By Will Weissert,
Alexandra Jaffe
and Aamer Madhani
Associated Press

WARM SPRINGS, Ga. —

One week until Election Day,
Joe Biden went on offense
Tuesday, heading to Georgia,
which hasn’t backed a Demo-
crat for president since 1992
and pushing into other terri-
tory where President Donald
Trump was once expected to
ANTONIO PEREZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
easily repeat his wins from four
Rory Dominick pours juice for son Connor, 12, as son Cameron, 14, who is in a special education program at Riverside-Brookfield, works on his years ago.
laptop at the family’s Riverside home Tuesday. Dominick said she’s thrilled her 14-year-old is finally back in the classroom. The Democratic presi-
dential nominee planned to

School of hard choice

travel to Iowa, which Trump
took by 10 points in 2016, later
in the week. His running mate,
California Sen. Kamala Harris,
is hitting Arizona and Texas,
where Republicans haven’t lost
any statewide office since 1994
Parents of special ed kids can accept ‘heartbreaking’ remote learning limits or risk virus in return — the nation’s longest political
winning streak.
By Hannah Leone After the seizure, he had bad headaches The family has already decided they’d The aggressive schedule is a
and Karen Ann Cullotta and double vision. Subsequent doctor’s ap- continue remote learning anyway, because of sign of confidence by the Biden
pointments took even more time away from health concerns, but would have a hard time team, which is trying to stretch
When Katherine Buitron’s son froze mid- classes. In addition to epilepsy, the fifth grader making an informed decision based on the the electoral map and open up
sentence and collapsed on his Chromebook has autism and dyslexia, and is immunocom- sparse plans the district has presented. more paths to 270 Electoral
during a virtual class, some of his classmates promised, Buitron said. His two siblings also “They expect parents to make choices College votes. Trump is coun-
were scared. Others seemed to think he just are in special education programs, but none is without the full information,” Buitron said. tering by focusing on the
fell asleep, she said. in the first groups of students tapped by Even with the limited details, Deidra Democrats’ “blue wall” states
She moved her son and closed the Chicago Public Schools to return to in-person that he flipped in 2016 and
Chromebook. learning. Turn to School, Page 6 maintaining a far busier travel
schedule that will take him to
more of the country.
He traveled to the Michigan
capital of Lansing and visited

A TOAST TO MOM West Salem, Wisconsin, just

three days after holding a rally
in the state. First lady Melania

WITH RARE TOKEN Trump was on the road, too,

making her first solo campaign

Her kids scoured land metallic taste and aerobic studio
vibe. Introduced in 1963 by the
for cans of scarce Tab Coca-Cola Co., it was once the
soda to pay homage nation’s dominant diet soda, pro-
ducing a legion of fans so hard-
By John Keilman core they called themselves Taba-
holics.
Kathleen Berger died in May But Tab lost its mojo over the
from coronavirus-related causes, decades, surpassed by Diet Coke
leaving behind eight kids and a and other carbonated descen-
legacy encapsulated by a bright dants, and Coke finally dis-
pink soda can. patched the brand earlier this
Berger, who was 73, was a month with a eulogy of buzz-
voracious consumer of Tab, the words (“We’re prioritizing bets
saccharin-infused cola known for
its distinctive packaging, vaguely Turn to Tab, Page 8
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■ IN NATION & WORLD:
Democrats and Republicans in
the battleground state of Wis-
consin were pushing Tuesday
to get 320,000 outstanding
absentee ballots returned by
the close of polls on Election
Day after the U.S. Supreme
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Court refused to extend the
Sarah Kennie has a Tab toast with her husband, J.R., and son Carter, 3, deadline to receive and count
along with her siblings who joined on a video call in honor of their late ballots, as Democrats had
mom, Kathleen Berger, on Tuesday, from their Elmhurst home. wanted. Page 9

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Offers valid 10/28/20 - 11/3/20 Back Ribs Equal or Lesser Value Item Cooked Shrimp Limit 10 lbs. 2.5 lbs. PRICE GOOD AT CHICAGOLAND STORES ONLY.