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U.S. ECONOMY GETS

A STRONG BOUNCE
BUT FACES BUMPS
Federal Aid Helps Drive Record Quarter
— Rally Shows Signs of Slowing
By BEN CASSELMAN
U.S. economic output increased
at the fastest pace on record last
quarter as businesses began to re-
open and customers returned to
stores. But the economy has
climbed only partway out of its
pandemic-induced hole, and
progress is slowing.
Gross domestic product grew
7.4 percent in the third quarter, the
Commerce Department said
Thursday. The gain, the equiva-
lent of 33.1 percent on an annu-
DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES alized basis, was by far the biggest
TAMPA, FLA. President Trump, with the first lady, Melania Trump, returned to one of the few areas of the state he lost in 2016. since reliable statistics began af-
ter World War II.
The rebound was fueled in part
by trillions of dollars in federal as-
sistance to households and busi-
nesses. That aid has since dried
up, even as the recovery remains
far from complete: The economy
in the third quarter was 3.5 per-
cent smaller than at the end of
2019, before the pandemic. By
comparison, G.D.P. shrank 4 per-
cent over the entire year and a
half of the Great Recession a dec-
ade ago.
The report was the last major
piece of economic data before the
presidential election on Tuesday.
President Trump’s campaign
hailed the big gain as “absolute
validation” of the administration’s
policies, while the campaign of
former Vice President Joseph R.
Biden Jr. dismissed it as a “partial
return” that was already fading.
Economists said the third-quar-
ter figures revealed less about the
strength of the recovery than
about the severity of the collapse
that preceded it. G.D.P. fell 1.3 per-
cent in the first quarter and 9 per-
cent in the second as the pan-
demic forced widespread busi-
ness closures. A big rebound was
inevitable once the economy be-
gan to reopen. The challenge is
what comes next.
“The reason we had such a big
bounce is that the economy went
Continued on Page A10
VIRUS SPIKE The U.S. set a daily
record with at least 86,000 cases,
topping 9 million over all. PAGE A6

Trump Ties to Erdogan Snarled

U.S. Inquiry Into Turkish Bank
By ERIC LIPTON and BENJAMIN WEISER
WASHINGTON — Geoffrey S.
Berman was outraged.
The top federal prosecutor in
Manhattan, Mr. Berman had trav-
eled to Washington in June 2019 to
discuss a particularly delicate
case with Attorney General
ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES
William P. Barr and some of his
COCONUT CREEK, FLA. In a Democratic stronghold, Joseph R. Biden Jr. delivered a tailored message intended to motivate Latinos. top aides: a criminal investigation
into Halkbank, a state-owned
Turkish bank suspected of vio-
lating U.S. sanctions law by fun-
Road to White House Crosses Central Florida, for a Day at Least neling billions of dollars of gold
and cash to Iran.
In addition, the Justice Depart-
ment would agree to end investi-
gations and criminal cases involv-
ing Turkish and bank officials who
were allied with Mr. Erdogan and
suspected of participating in the
sanctions-busting scheme.
Mr. Berman didn’t buy it.
The bank had the right to try to
negotiate a settlement. But his
prosecutors were still investigat-
Continued on Page A12

By KATIE GLUECK
and PATRICIA MAZZEI
TAMPA, Fla. — That old politi-
cal heartbreaker, the presidential
battleground of Florida, lured the
two White House contenders to
the same city on Thursday, as
President Trump and Joseph R.
Biden Jr. confronted some of their
biggest political vulnerabilities in
a state that is once again shaping
up as the most elusive prize in
the tougher parts of the state for
him four years ago, Tampa, one of
the few areas he lost to Hillary
Clinton in the vote-rich I-4 corri-
dor. Now behind in the polls, the
president sought again to win
over independents and moderates
with a message about corrupt
Democrats, an attack that he has
had difficulty making stick
against the former vice president.
Mr. Biden, in turn, faces an in-
creasingly urgent need to build up
his margins with Latinos, a di-
Seeking Advantage in a
Make-or-Break State
nize so far. He made a blunt appeal
to Cuban-Americans and Vene-
zuelan-Americans, reminding
them of human rights abuses in
Havana and Caracas.
The rare convergence of the two
men on the same day — with Mr.
was one of the clearest signs yet
that both candidates not only see
their political fortunes tied to the
state but also are far from confi-
dent that they are ahead here.
Though Mr. Biden has gained
ground with older voters who
were once part of Mr. Trump’s
base, the president is immensely
popular with the conservative Re-
publican electorate in Florida.
As with Mr. Trump, it was un-
clear if Mr. Biden’s message would
For months, President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey had
been pressing President Trump to
quash the investigation, which
threatened not only the bank but
potentially members of Mr. Erdo-
gan’s family and political party.
When Mr. Berman sat down with
Mr. Barr, he was stunned to be
presented with a settlement pro-
posal that would give Mr. Erdogan
a key concession.
Mr. Barr pressed Mr. Berman to
allow the bank to avoid an indict- THE NEW YORK TIMES

next week’s election. verse demographic in Florida that Biden appearing at a drive-in rally resonate with enough voters to ment by paying a fine and ac- Prosecutors accused Halkbank
Mr. Trump returned to one of he has struggled to broadly galva- on Thursday night in Tampa — Continued on Page A21 knowledging some wrongdoing. of violating sanctions on Iran.

‘We Have a Fight’: Big Stakes As Deaths Soar in Wisconsin, 2 Islamist Terror Attacks Strain
But Little Investment in Texas Virus Is Political Dividing Line French Relations With Muslims
By JONATHAN MARTIN
BROWNSVILLE, Texas —
When Senator Ted Cruz of Texas
spoke with President Trump on
the phone last week, he congratu-
lated the president on his debate
performance, nudged him to keep
driving policy-oriented attacks
against his opponent, Joseph R.
Biden Jr., and relayed one more
message.
“We have a fight” in Texas, Mr.
Cruz said he told Mr. Trump,
warning him that the country’s
second-largest electoral prize was
in play and that he should take it
seriously. In an interview, Mr.
Cruz said he expected the presi-
dent to win here — but that he also
saw the same surging liberal ener-
gy in his state that had propelled
Beto O’Rourke to a closer-than-
expected defeat against him two
years ago.
G.O.P. Losing Ground
in Largest Red State
“There’s no doubt that it’s a real
race,” said the senator, echoing a
similar case Mr. O’Rourke made
to Mr. Biden earlier this month in
their own phone conversation.
But it’s not clear if Mr. Trump or
Mr. Biden fully believe it.
They may be on opposite sides
of the partisan divide, but Texas
Republicans and Democrats alike
believe the long-awaited moment
has arrived: The state is a true
presidential battleground, and ei-
ther candidate could prevail next
week.
Although a Democrat has not
carried Texas since 1976, recent
Continued on Page A27
By REID J. EPSTEIN
MINOCQUA, Wis. — When co-
ronavirus cases began to spike in
Wisconsin this fall, Rob Swearin-
gen kept his restaurant open and
let customers and employees de-
cide whether they wanted to wear
masks.
Mr. Swearingen, a Republican
seeking his fifth term in the Wis-
consin State Assembly, didn’t re-
quire other employees at his
restaurant in Rhinelander to be
tested after a waitress and a bar-
tender contracted the virus be-
cause, he said, nobody from the lo-
cal health department suggested
it was necessary.
Kirk Bangstad, Mr. Swearin-
gen’s Democratic opponent, took
the opposite approach at the
brewpub he owns in Minocqua, 30
miles away. He has served
customers only outdoors, and
Swing State’s Conflicts
Play Out Across U.S.
when a teenage waiter became in-
fected after attending a party, Mr.
Bangstad shut down for a long
weekend and required all employ-
ees to get tested.
Mr. Bangstad has since turned
his entire campaign into a referen-
dum on how Republicans have
handled the coronavirus. On Face-
book, he has served as a town
shamer, posting lists of restau-
rants and stores in Wisconsin’s
Northwoods that have disre-
garded state limits on seating ca-
pacity and don’t require masks.
With just days until the election,
the contest for Mr. Swearingen’s
Continued on Page A21
By NORIMITSU ONISHI and CONSTANT MÉHEUT
NICE, France — A terror attack
that killed three people in Nice on
Thursday left France increasingly
embattled at home and abroad, as
the government called for tough-
ening measures against Islamist
extremism, amid rising tensions
with Muslim nations.
A knife-wielding assailant left
two people dead in Nice’s tower-
ing neo-Gothic basilica, including
a 60-year-old woman who was
nearly decapitated, and a third
victim died after taking refuge in a
nearby bar.
The attack in Nice came less
than two weeks after the behead-
ing of a teacher shook the nation
and led to President Emmanuel
Macron’s suggesting that Islam
was in need of an Enlightenment.
Jean-François Ricard, France’s
top antiterrorism prosecutor, said
the suspected killer was a
Tunisian man, born in 1999, who
had entered France after arriving
in Italy on Sept. 20. He said the
man, who was unknown to the
French authorities, was arrested
after lunging at police officers
while yelling “Allahu akbar,” and
was hospitalized with serious
wounds.
“Very clearly it is France that is
attacked,” Mr. Macron said after
traveling quickly to Nice. French
authorities placed a jittery coun-
try on its highest terrorism threat
level.
The government’s recent words
and deeds have put it at odds with
Muslims in France and abroad, in-
cluding heads of state like Presi-
dent Recep Tayyip Erdogan of
Turkey. What many French peo-
Continued on Page A15

INTERNATIONAL A11-15 SPORTSFRIDAY B8-10 WEEKEND ARTS C1-12

Xi Tightens Grip on Helm A Disco-Era Comeback Post-Lockdown Exhibitions

TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-10
Dutch Ask What Went Wrong
Renowned for its efficient government,
the Netherlands is humbled by a sky-
rocketing infection rate. PAGE A5
President Xi Jinping laid out plans for
post-pandemic China at a meeting of
the Communist Party elite. PAGE A11
BUSINESS B1-7
Fight to Save the Silver Screen
The pandemic has staggered both the
film industry and small, independent
theaters like the Park Plaza Cinema in
Hilton Head Island, S.C. PAGE B1
Tony La Russa, a 76-year-old Hall of
Famer, will manage the Chicago White
Sox, who first hired him for that posi-
tion in 1979. On Baseball. PAGE B8
No Sports at a Division I College
Bethune-Cookman, in Florida, canceled
basketball and other athletics through
spring because of the pandemic. PAGE B8
OBITUARIES A29, B11
In three shows, the Queens Museum
stakes out its role in the life of the diverse
residents of its neighborhood. PAGE C1
New Books to Watch For
NATIONAL A18-28 Barack Obama’s memoir is landing. So
are a biography of Adrienne Rich and a
Gray Wolves Lose Protections thriller by Jo Nesbo. PAGE C10
The species, shielded by the U.S. since
the 1960s, has rebounded, though critics EDITORIAL, OP-ED A30-31
say the move is premature. PAGE A18
David Brooks PAGE A31

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■ ■ ■ ELECTION 2020 ■ ■ ■

Trump fights
against polls
in Florida
He and Biden hold
contrasting rallies in a
state that’s a must-win
for the president but is
leaning the other way.
By Evan Halper,
Eli Stokols
and Melissa Gomez
TAMPA, Fla. — The pres-
idential candidates un-
leashed a frenzy of last-min-
ute campaigning Thursday
Emily Baumgaertner Los Angeles Times in Florida, a must-win state
A RESIDENT of Freetown, Sierra Leone, in 2016. She takes care of her niece, an Ebola survivor whose for President Trump, whose
immediate family died of the virus. Many people still saw Ebola as a hoax even as the death toll rose in 2015. packed rallies have become
their own political liability
COLUMN ONE amid surging coronavirus
cases.
Both Trump and Demo-
pandemic comes raging
back in Florida, where
COVID-19 has killed more
than 16,500 people and the
number of new infections
has increased 47% during
the last two weeks. “We
locked down. We understood
the disease, and now we are
open for business.”
Trump believes his rallies
were key to his 2016 victory
and to the possibility of a re-
peat. Polls, however, indi-
cate his approach to the
virus, which many voters see
as cavalier, has become a
damaging turnoff. Since
June, Trump has held six
major rallies in Florida, with
crowds as big as 15,000.
Asked about the rallies,
59% of voters nationwide
said they disapproved of
Trump holding them during

Ebola’s lessons for the U.S. cratic nominee Joe Biden

headed to the rapidly grow-
ing Tampa region, where
their get-out-the-vote
events showcased sharply
contrasting approaches to
the pandemic, while 64% ap-
proved of Biden’s decision
not to hold large rallies, ac-
[See Florida, A6]

Nation’s COVID-19 disaster
has parallels to 2015 outbreak
in West Africa, including
conspiracies and denial.
By Emily Baumgaertner
home after buying cellphone messag-
ing credits and a case of Fanta. The
Shell station had been crowded; the
cashier had been feverish.
Within 21 days, the teenager, Mary
Yavannah, had watched helplessly as
blood poured from her mother’s nose
and mouth. It was Ebola, and she died
A low
bors still believed Ebola was a hoax, the COVID-19 pandemic.
or a biological weapon planted by The focus on Florida comes
powerful elites to exploit oil and as polls give Biden a slight
diamonds. edge in the state, which
Government messaging had been
haphazard and often contradictory.
Health workers lacked adequate
protective gear. The economy
holds 29 electoral votes the
Trump campaign desper-
ately needs for a viable path
to victory.
profile

our years before COVID-19

F swept the globe, I climbed
onto the back of a motorbike
in Freetown, Sierra Leone,
and headed three miles up
the steep, dusty terrain behind the
local Shell gas station. It was the only
way to reach the village of Dirty Box
Junction.
Months earlier, a 14-year-old girl
had taken the same winding route
In a hellish year,
within hours, Mary told me, crouch-
ing on her bare mattress as she fid-
dled with her hair beads and wiped a
tear from her chin.
I sat with her for a while, my note-
book long since tucked away. We
listened as her aunties bartered for
bleaching lotion out front. Mary was
consumed with guilt: She had later
tested positive for the virus. Had she
carried it to her mother’s doorstep?
I couldn’t give her an answer.
But even as the death toll had
climbed in 2015, many of Mary’s neigh-
teetered on the brink of collapse.
Still, communities refused to heed
public health warnings and socially
distance.
“Joe Biden’s plan is to de-
liver punishing lockdowns,”
Trump said before thou-
sands of supporters stand-
for ‘shy’
Sound familiar?
I have to admit, I’m surprised.
Years ago, I parachuted into West
Africa to report on the virus with a
buoyant pack of elitism — a smug,
subconscious belief in America as the
land of the obedient, home of the
ing close together and
mostly without masks as
Trump lobbed attacks the
Biden campaign says are
baseless. “He’s going to lock
you down.”
“We’re never going to lock
Biden
voters
hygienic; the country with a digitized down,” Trump said, disre-
disease surveillance system, trust- garding the warnings of
[See Lessons, A12] public health officials as the In a Trump stronghold
in Pennsylvania, many
of Democrat’s backers
prefer to stay quiet.
By Mark Z. Barabak
and Melanie Mason

firefighters win NEW CASTLE, Pa. —

Jami Colich loves everything
about New Castle, her home

a couple in O.C.
Timing, water drops
and building codes
prevent disaster in
Irvine, Yorba Linda.
By Joseph Serna
The conditions seemed
ripe for disaster.
Gusting Santa Ana
winds had grounded water-
started on the outskirts of
master-planned Orange
County, where the roads are
smooth and wide, communi-
ties were built under the
state’s most recent fire code
and the largest regional fire-
fighting force in the world
was at the ready and just a
phone call away.
Despite 45-mph gusts
launching embers into the
suburban sprawl, where cars
sat bumper to bumper try-
in western Pennsylvania.
The fact her kids go to school
with the children of her for-
mer classmates. The ability
to text the principal or su-
perintendent whenever she
likes. The familiar faces. The
easy rhythm.
Colich has lived her en-
tire 37 years in this town of
20,000, save for a brief time
in Texas. She hated the
cookie-cutter housing devel-
opments and pancake-flat
landscape of the Houston
area.
Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times But New Castle, with its
A SUPPORTER of President Trump drives through the conservative Shasta century-old homes and
County stronghold of Redding. “You can feel the tension,” one resident says. dense woods bursting in
technicolor, has come to feel

Seeing red in blue state

dumping aircraft for hours,
and flames were spreading
across a tinder-dry fuel bed.
Downwind sat a tangled
maze of suburban streets
where more than 80,000 peo-
ple were ordered to evacu-
ate.
Had this week’s Silve-
rado fire began anywhere
else, and at any other time,
firefighters said it could
have been the latest disaster
in California’s busiest fire
year on record — a time
when firefighting resources
have been stretched peril-
ously thin.
But this latest fire
AN O.C. firefighter prepares to defend a home as
flames near Irvine’s Orchard Hills neighborhood.
ing to flee the oncoming
flames, not a single home
was lost or seriously dam-
aged. In the end, thanks to a
semi-formal agreement
among the region’s biggest
fire departments and the
first-ever use of the world’s
biggest, fastest water-drop-
ping helicopter at night,
crews were able to stand
their ground, keeping the
flames largely north of Por-
tola Parkway, a major road
that divides the subdivi-
sions of Irvine from the back
country.
“In some ways, we got a
[See Victories, A7]
Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times
Mood sours in California’s conservative swaths
ballot for Joe Biden — a man
By Hailey he believes is too old to be
Branson-Potts seeking the presidency —
because “I’m not going to
SHINGLETOWN, Calif. vote for that narcissistic [ex-
— Victor Castellanos says pletive] Trump.”
the presidential election In this Shasta County
feels a lot like this: a choice hamlet of 2,200 people
between a raw jalapeño and named for the shingle-mak-
a snow-cone. Two radically ers who supplied Gold Rush
disparate things he’s not miners, enormous flags
really in the mood for. backing President Trump
“I can’t wait until it’s flap in the autumn wind all
over,” Castellanos, 58, said along Highway 44.
as he washed the windows of Like vast swaths of rural
his Dodge Ram outside the California, this is Republi-
Shingletown Store. Ulti- can country. But in these fi-
mately, he said, he held his nal days before the election,
nose and cast his mail-in voters on both sides of the
Knife attack kills Zeta leaves trail
three in France of destruction
Assault in a Nice church After hitting Louisiana,
is the third in two the storm pelts the
months that authorities Southeast, causing
attributed to Islamic outages and killing at
extremists. WORLD, A3 least six. NATION, A4
aisle in the old logging towns
of Northern California and
flat farmlands of the Central
Valley seem to agree: They
want the campaign, and the
constant partisan bickering
that has infiltrated all as-
pects of life, to end.
“I almost wish I could be
put to sleep and be woken up
in February or something,”
said Doni Chamberlain, an
independent journalist who
lives in Redding. “You can
feel the tension.”
A self-described liberal,
Chamberlain, 64, sees
Trump gear in the local
[See Conservatives, A5]
Weather
Mostly sunny.
L.A. Basin: 83/58. B6
a lot less welcoming than it
used to. This is Trump coun-
try, red as an autumn leaf,
and Colich supports Joe
Biden, though she doesn’t
make a big noise about it.
“We are the minority,” she
said of those backing the
Democratic former vice
president. “At least as far as
vocally.”
Colich, a speck of blue in a
Republican sea, is like many
Biden voters around here
who feel it best to keep their
heads down.
The election of President
Trump, which shocked
many pollsters and reputed
experts, gave rise to a much-
discussed species: the shy
Trump voter, a citizen so
cowed by critics and the me-
dia they won’t dare express
their feelings out loud.
Trump calls them “a silent
majority,” and his backers
believe that untold millions
who lie to political pollsters,
or refuse to take part in opin-
ion surveys, will again stun
the world, defying predic-
tions and delivering the
president a second term
next week.
Less noted are the shy
Biden voters, who may qui-
etly help the Democrat chip
away at Trump’s base in
[See Voters, A6]

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For new
manager,
Sox hire
old hand
Ballclub reunites with
experienced Hall of
Famer Tony La Russa
By LaMond Pope
Hall of Famer Tony La Russa
figured he always would have
the opportunity to manage
again.
He just didn’t think he
would want to.
That changed with the
chance to go back to where his
big-league managerial career
began.
The Chicago White Sox
stunned the baseball world
Thursday, announcing the hir-
ing of La Russa as their new
manager.
It’s a blast
E. JASON WAMBSGANS/CHICAGO TRIBUNE from the
Heated-tent dining takes place at Piccolo Sogno, Wednesday. Tony Priolo, chef/owner, said he has invested nearly $31,000 in outdoor tenting, past for the
heating, and air filtration that uses UV light. Effective Friday, the state is shutting down indoor dining at restaurants in Chicago. franchise
with the re-
turn of La
CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK Russa, who
led the Sox
to a division

Restaurants left to eat

title in 1983.
La Russa La Russa
will look to
do it again — and more — in a
surprising reunion. Terms of
the multiyear contract were

losses on safety gear

Indoor-dining ban hurts many who spent big on tools to shield diners
By Phil Vettel
and Adam Lukach
Anybody interested in buying a
like-new air-purifying system?
How about some custom-made,
acrylic table dividers? Barely
used.
It might not actually be for sale
(yet), but pandemic-weary
restaurateurs say they’re not far
off.
In addition to the loss of
revenue and likely layoffs for
large numbers of dining industry
workers, Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s new
ban on indoor dining (which goes
into effect Friday in Chicago and
is either already in effect or will
be Saturday for the collar coun-
ties) is dealing another financial
blow to restaurants that have
invested heavily in safety equip-
ment for their dining rooms
ahead of winter.
It’s money that, until the in-
door dining ban is lifted, is going
to waste at businesses already
struggling with drastically lower
customer counts and notoriously
thin profit margins — even in
pre-pandemic times.
“We’re all trying really, really
hard,” said Michael Roper, owner
of Hopleaf in Andersonville.
“Some of us are going to the
absolute limit of our personal
finances. People are putting sec-
ond mortgages on their homes;
people are liquidating their re-
tirement accounts in order to
save their place. That’s how
serious it is.”
Restaurant owners expressed
an overarching sense of fear and
hopelessness in the wake of
Turn to Dining , Page 7
not released.
“I’m fired up, I’m ready to
go,” La Russa said during a
conference call with reporters.
“I’m anxious to get with the
players. I want to show them
what I represent as a person, as
a professional.”
La Russa, 76, last managed in
2011, when he guided the St.
Louis Cardinals to a World
Series title. He won three
World Series as manager of the
Oakland Athletics (1989) and
Cardinals (2006, ’11).
“As everyone in baseball is
well aware, I have always
respected Tony and am proud
to have maintained a great
friendship with him over the
Turn to La Russa, Page 2

A raft of election
rulings by justices
State-specific orders
may have a role after
ballots are counted
By Mark Sherman
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — North
Carolina, yes. Pennsylvania, yes.
Wisconsin, no. That’s how the
Supreme Court has answered
questions in recent days about an
extended timeline for receiving
and counting ballots in those
states.
In each case, Democrats
backed the extensions and Re-
publicans opposed them. All
three states have Democratic
governors and legislatures con-
trolled by the GOP.
across the country. But elections
are largely governed by states,
and the rules differ from one
state to the next.
These cases are being dealt
with on an emergency basis in
which the court issues orders
that either block or keep in place
a lower-court ruling. But there is
almost never an explanation of
the majority’s rationale, though
individual justices sometimes
write opinions that partially ex-
plain the matter.
Conservative justices, a ma-
jority on the Supreme Court,
object to what they see as
intrusions by federal judges who
order last-minute changes to
state election rules, even in the
middle of the coronavirus pan-
demic. The power to alter absen- JOHN J. KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

At first blush, the difference in
the outcomes at the Supreme
Court seems odd because the
high court typically takes up
issues to harmonize the rules
tee ballot deadlines and other Camila De La O, 16, smiles while holding one of her family dogs, Coco, in front of an elaborate ofrenda, or
voting issues rests with state home altar, Friday, in Chicago. Camila and her mother, Rosa Lilia De La O, decorate their home to remember
legislatures, not federal courts, relatives and friends who have died, as part of the annual Dia de Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, holiday.

Because ‘the love never dies’

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Families gather CPS: Basketball Latino families honor loved ones lost to COVID-19 for Day of Dead rituals
to rally for change season postponed By Laura Rodríguez Presa their favorite dishes, cempasuchil flowers and lots of
catrinas — skeletal figures associated with the

Greeted by a standing ova-
tion and chants of “say her
name,” Breonna Taylor’s
mother and the families of
other people of color shot or
killed by police gathered for
a rally in Grant Park on
Thursday to urge people to
vote and “get the change we
need.” Chicagoland, Page 3
The boys and girls basket-
ball seasons have been
postponed indefinitely in
Chicago’s storied Public
League. Chicago Public
Schools made the an-
nouncement late Thursday,
also sidelining wrestling
and elementary school
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W
hen she was growing up, as the Day of
the Dead approached, Sophia
Irizarry would help her grandmother
set up an altar in their living room to
remember and honor their loved ones.
Putting up the ofrenda was a celebration in itself,
she recalls.
Her grandmother would look at old photos and
reminisce about those who had died, telling her
tales of the old times and decorating the altar with
holiday.
Dia de los Muertos, celebrated in the United
States starting from Oct. 31 through Nov. 2, and
coinciding with All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day
on the Roman Catholic calendar, was her grand-
mother’s favorite holiday, she said.
Her grandmother, Ramona Fuentes, taught her
that “It’s a time full of nostalgia, but at the same
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