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Biden is going bigger,
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100 days in Oval Office
By Jonathan Lemire
and Calvin Woodward
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The card tucked in
President Joe Biden’s right jacket pocket
must weigh a ton. You can see the weight
of it on his face when he digs it out, squints
and slowly reads aloud the latest tally of
COVID-19 dead.
The message is always clear: The toll of
the virus weighs on him constantly, a mill-
stone that helps explain why the typically
garrulous politician with the megawatt
smile has often seemed downright dour.
For any new leader, a lingering pandemic
that has killed more than 572,000 citizens
would be plenty for a first 100 days. But it
has been far from the sole preoccupation
for the 78-year-old Biden.
The oldest person ever elected president
is tugging the United States in many new
directions at once, right down to its literal
foundations — the concrete of its neglected
bridges — as well as the racial inequities
and partisan poisons tearing at the civil
society. Add to that list: a call for dramatic
action to combat climate change.
He’s doing it without the noise of the
last president or the charisma of the last
two. Biden’s spontaneity, once a hallmark
and sometimes a headache, is rarely seen.
Americans are seeing more action, less talk
and something for the history books.
Biden “sees the virtue of going bigger
and bolder,” said Matt Delmont, who
teaches civil rights history at Dartmouth
College in New Hampshire. “It so strongly
echoes FDR.”
The scope of what Biden wants to do
would — if he succeeds — put him in the
company of that New Deal president,
whose burst of consequential actions set
the 100-day marker by which all succes-
sors have been informally measured since.
It’s not all been smooth.
Biden has struggled to change course on
immigration practices he railed against in
the campaign, drawing accusations from
within his party that he’s “caved to the poli-
tics of fear.”
Yet in 100 days he has achieved a
pandemic relief package of historic
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Deadly fires,
broken promises
CHICAGO’S POLITICAL LEADERS FAIL
TO ENACT SAFETY RULES THAT STICK
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fter a fire killed four children in a South Side apartment building with known fire safety problems,
indignant politicians again vowed consequences for landlords who fail to keep tenants safe.
It was just one more in a pattern of broken promises going back more than a century.
“We are putting these negligent landlords on notice that we mean business,” then-Mayor Rahm
Emanuel announced after the 2014 tragedy. “We will not stand by and allow these landlords to
neglect the services and protections their tenants are entitled to under the law.”
Emanuel pushed two new ordinances through the City
Council. One required fines on landlords who violate smoke
detector regulations. The other established a public list of
problem landlords.
More than six years later, both ordinances are routinely
ignored. City officials soon abandoned the list of bad land-
lords, and records show they do not consistently impose
the required fines for smoke detector
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violations.
a collaboration
between the
Eric Patton Smith, the father of one
Chicago Tribune
of the children who died, was a driving
and the Better force behind the list of problem land-
Government lords. He solicited support from City
Association. Council members, testified at a coun-
cil hearing and even drafted an initial
proposal.
“It was supposed to give renters some type of power, give
the community some type of power, to be able to push back
against the slums,’’ he said. “I’m thinking we made a change.
“Boy, was I wrong.”
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at the fire-gutted Little Village apartment where 10 children
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Chicago Tribune Civilian Climate Corps. The modern CCC “I think Illinois is in a very special position
would employ Americans “to conserve and here to help launch a program that could
They built limestone aqueducts in the Dan restore public lands and waters, bolster have a huge impact on people’s lives and on
Ryan Woods and dug out the Skokie Lagoons community resilience, increase reforesta- our infrastructure,” said Jerry Adelmann,
one shovel at a time. At Starved Rock State tion, increase carbon sequestration in the president and CEO of the conservation
Park, they raised lodges, and along the I&M agricultural sector, protect biodiversity, nonprofit Openlands, which helped shape
Canal, they extended dozens of bridges. improve access to recreation, and address the Renew act. “We’re trying to build a big
They carved out trails and cleared camp- the changing climate.” tent and get everybody under it.”
grounds and planted billions of trees, and The $2 trillion infrastructure plan intro- Illinois conservationists are working to
they did all of this as part of their time in the duced at the end of March included $10 create a program that they hope will find
Civilian Conservation Corps, a widely popu- billion for a corps. Multiple CCC-esque bipartisan support, like the original. For the
lar New Deal program now being re-imag- bills have also been introduced in Congress, Great Lakes region, a new corps could mean
ined for the 21st century. including the Renew Conservation Corps checking off a long list of items on advocates’
In President Joe Biden’s January execu- Act by Illinois U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, with
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New transgender studies center
commemorates the 30th anniversary of his column’s first
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the Pulitzer Prize winner’s columns, and a long overdue
archive of his best work, covering topics such as politics,
aims to combat misinformation
social issues, pop culture, race, family, new media and By Elyssa Cherney
prominent figures, as well as his personal life. Chicago Tribune
Join us for today’s event: Takeout Awards TJ Billard, an assistant
On April 26, from 6 p.m. to 7:15 p.m., please join us for professor at Northwest-
a virtual celebration of the hospitality workers, chefs and ern University, is on a quest
owners who made a difference in our city in 2020. The to fill the void of research
event will take place via Zoom. Ticket holders will receive about transgender people,
a link via email 24 hours before the start of the event. culture and politics.
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benefit DishRoulette Kitchen, a nonprofit organization gender population and the
providing grants, training and business assistance to local, last comprehensive study,
minority-owned restaurants and food vendors. conducted by a national
Featured speakers will include Diana Davila (chef and advocacy group, dates to
owner of Mi Tocaya Antojeria), Jeremy Joyce (founder of 2015. The implications are
Black People Eats) and Beverly Kim (co-chef and co-owner far-reaching: Information
of Parachute and Wherewithall). cited to craft legislation
that affects the transgender
“Prep School: How to Improve Your Kitchen Skills and community can be incom-
Kitchen Techniques.” This collection from the weekly plete at best and inaccurate
column by chef, culinary instructor and award-winning at worst.
food writer James DeWan is a go-to guide for perfecting Billard’s new organiza-
any kitchen skill. It includes easy instructions for those tion, the Chicago-based
starting out, and new techniques for professionals. Center for Applied Trans-
gender Studies, aims to
“10 Things You Might Not Know About Nearly provide a more thorough
Everything.” You may never need to know the human picture. As a nonprofit, it
body contains a half-pound of salt, but that’s just one of will tap transgender schol-
the obscure facts you’ll find about sports, history, religion, ars from varying institu-
politics, arts and culture, food and leisure, and science and tions to collaborate and
technology in this collection of columns from Mark Jacob conduct empirical research
and Stephan Benzkofer. to help inform policymak-
ing and public discourse.
“Ask Amy: Advice for Better Living” For over a decade, “Trans people have
Amy Dickinson has been the Chicago Tribune’s signature become objects of curiosity,
general advice columnist, helping readers with questions but that knowledge hasn’t
both personal and pressing. This book, which collects over been for trans people,” said
200 columns from 2011 to 2013, is a testament to the Billard, the center’s exec-
empathetic counsel and practical common-sense tips utive director, who identi-
that Dickinson has been distilling for years. fies as nonbinary and uses
they/them pronouns. “It’s
frequently been done by cis
(non-transgender) people
Accuracy and ethics because they find trans
people interesting … to kind
Margaret Holt, standards editor of unpack or understand.”
The center publicly
The Tribune’s editorial code of principles governs launched March 31 —
professional behavior and journalism standards. Everyone International Transgender
in our newsroommust agree to live up to this code of Day of Visibility. While the
conduct. Read it at chicagotribune.com/accuracy. center is an independent
research organization, it is
Corrections and clarifications: Publishing information partnering with Northwest-
quickly and accurately is a central part of the Chicago ern to publish an online
Tribune’s news responsibility. journal to make academic
research on transgender
issues accessible, Billard
said. It’s also exploring
relationships with other
Chicago institutions.
In addition to Billard
and two co-founders, one
of whom is a postdoctoral
candidate at Northwest-
ern, the center consists of
17 senior research fellows
and 10 junior fellows. Not
all the fellows hail from
academia — some work in
tech and health — but they
all hold identities that typi-
cally fall under the trans-
gender umbrella, a term
that includes people whose
gender identity or expres-
sion differs from the sex
assigned at birth.
Stephanie Skora, asso-
ciate executive director
at Brave Space Alliance,
a Black and trans-led
LGBTQ+ Center on the
South Side, said the little
research that exists about
her community is outdated
and doesn’t meet the popu-
lation’s pressing needs.
The lack of data makes it
challenging to secure fund-
ing for community services,
said Skora, a genderqueer
trans woman, and some-
thing Brave Space has strug-
gled with since forming in
2017.
“Funders, especially
funders that control large
amounts of money and give
grant funding, they want
the numbers,” Skora said.
“They want to see research
that backs up the things that
we’re seeing in our commu-
nity. And all we have are our
knowledge and anecdotal
evidence … and so resources
are routinely denied.”
Elizabeth Ricks, legal
director and staff attorney at
Chicago House’s TransLife
Care Program, said a trans-
led research organization
can help build trust in the
community when collect-
ing data. Some transgender
people might not feel safe
disclosing their identity
in surveys and studies to
cisgender people they don’t
know, she said.
“There can be this very
grotesque kind of lab-rat
treatment of trans people.
Like, please perform all of
the unpaid labor of telling
us about the trauma you’ve
experienced for an academic
paper that may or may not
result in some sort of libera-
tion for you,” said Ricks, who
is cisgender.
The center also comes at
a time when various facets
of transgender life are being
restricted by conservative
state legislatures.
In Arkansas, the Repub-
lican-controlled legisla-
ture passed a law that will
prohibit gender-reaffirm-
ing treatments or surgery
to minors, overriding a veto
by the Republican governor.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi
Noem, a Republican, issued
two executive orders that
effectively bar transgender
students from competing in
female sports in college and
high school, and nearly three
dozen similar bills have been
filed in statehouses across
the country.
Referring to the Arkan-
sas legislation, known as
the Save Adolescents from
Experimentation Act, Bill-
ard said the “defense of that
law in public discourse and
in the policymaking process
was a lot of misinformation
about trans health care and
what it looks like and how
safe it is.”
Billard said the center
can “hopefully intervene
in instances like this to, No.
1, prevent the legislation
from happening and make
sure legislation is passed
that is informed by accu-
rate information, but also
to inform the public debate
that happens in media and
in communities.”
According to 2014 data
collected by the Illinois
Department of Public
Health, about 50,000 people
in the state identified as
transgender. Younger adults
between the ages of 18 and
24 were more likely to iden-
tify as transgender than
adults over 65.
The Chicago Department
of Public Health estimates
that about 10,500 transgen-
der or gender-nonconform-
ing adults live in the city
based on the results of tele-
phone surveys from 2014 to
2016 that reached 45 trans-
gender people. The depart-
ment’s Healthy Chicago
Survey has collected infor-
mation on gender identity
since 2014, but the small
number of respondents
makes it difficult to project
reliable numbers, according
to the agency.
Skora cautioned that
government-run surveys
often undercount vulner-
able populations. She
pointed to the Chicago
survey, saying an informal
post on the Brave Space
Facebook page identified
300 transgender people
at the same time. Surveys
that use a methodology
like phones overlook the
fact that many trans people
don’t have a stable home
address where they can be
located or don’t want to
answer phone calls from
unknown numbers.
Brave Space estimates
there are 75,000 trans
people in Cook County.
“Our community has been
so beset by the government
and so under-resourced,
intentionally marginalized
and disinvested from, we’ve
made ourselves difficult to
find,” she said. “It’s a survival
tactic.”
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Workers from the Kroehler Furniture company attempt to pull survivors from a passenger car after a two-train wreck on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad tracks adjacent to the
Naperville factory on April 25, 1946. CHARLES W. CUSHMAN PHOTOS/INDIANA UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES
Naperville’s deadliest day
45 died when one train slammed into another 75 years ago
By Suzanne Baker
Naperville Sun
The school day ended
earlier than usual for Ron
Keller when his father drove
over to pick him up from
Miss McDermond’s class
on April 25, 1946.
Dad didn’t want the young
boy anywhere near the rail-
road tracks at Loomis Street,
which he’d typically cross
on his walk home from Ells-
worth School. In the car,
the elder Keller told his son
about a horrific wreck in
Naperville, explaining how
one train ran into the back
end of another.
“As a first grader, I didn’t
quite understand what the
problem was because all
I could relate to was my
Lionel train,” said Keller,
who for more than 50 years
has been the Naperville
Municipal Band conductor.
“When one train ran into
the other one, you’d put it
back on the track.”
When their car reached
the wooden bridge on
Columbia Street over the
railroad tracks, Keller’s dad
stopped so they could survey
the jumbled crash site.
“You could see the mess
that was there,” Keller said.
“The locomotive of the
second train ran almost
completely through the back
car of the lead train. Peeled it
open like a tin can.”
Sunday marks the 75th
anniversary of the crash, one
of the worst train wrecks in
Illinois history in which 45
people were killed and many
more injured.
Naperville residents —
the town had a population
of about 5,000 in 1946 —
rushed to the aid of survi-
vors and collect the dead in
a disaster that shattered the
early afternoon peace.
The wreck
The day was clear and
temperature in the 60s on
Thursday, April 25, 1946,
when the Advance Flyer
and the Exposition Flyer
trains left Union Station
westbound at 12:35 p.m.,
filled with families headed
home from Easter celebra-
tions the weekend before
and soldiers returning from
World War II, according to
former Naperville resident
Chuck Spinner.
His 2012 book, “The Trag-
edy at the Loomis Street
Crossing,” has made him the
authority on what happened
that spring afternoon and the
lives that were changed both
on and off the trains.
Because the two passen-
ger trains shared the same
Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad tracks
outside of Chicago, it was
the custom that the Advance
Flyer would take the lead,
with the Exposition Flyer
trailing two to three minutes
CHICAGOLAND
behind at speeds of 80 to 85
mph, Spinner said.
“It was an accident wait-
ing to happen,” he said.
On this day, brakeman
Sherman Grant, of Chicago,
was in the lead train and
saw something fly out from
beneath one of the coaches,
Spinner said, prompting
engineer A.W. Anderson,
of Galesburg, to stop the
Advance Flyer at Loomis
Street in Naperville at 1:03
p.m. so the crew could
inspect for possible damage.
Spinner said two signal
lights were triggered to warn
the approaching second
train.
It would not have been
unusual for Exposition Flyer
engineer Wallace “William”
Blaine to see the first yellow
signal, and Blaine likely
slowed the speed instead of
applying the brakes, he said.
But it wasn’t until after
rounding the curve enter-
ing Naperville that the crew
would have seen the second
red signal and stopped the
train.
Despite attempts by Blaine
to stop the train, the engine
slammed into the back end of
the stationary Advance Flyer.
Injuries and fatalities
A report from the Inter-
state Commerce Commis-
sion lists 45 deaths — 39
passengers, four dining car
employees, an off-duty
worker and a train service
employee — and 69 injured,
including 48 passengers,
19 dining car employees, a
porter and a train service
employee.
But the number of injuries
remains under dispute.
Despite ICC’s exhaustive
investigation, it was diffi-
cult to determine how many
people were injured, Spin-
ner said. Some accounts put
the number of injured at 125,
he said.
“I think it’s a difficult
task to put a number on the
injured based on the extent
of the injury, those taken
to the hospital, those that
required a stay in the hospi-
tal,” Spinner said. “Although
there was only one death on
the Exposition Flyer, there
were a number who were
injured on that train as well.
“It’s kind of interesting
because if you sat on the
aisle, your chances of surviv-
ing were greater than if you
were in a window seat,”
What Spinner does know
is the Advance Flyer had a
capacity to hold 150 passen-
gers and the Exposition
Flyer could seat 175.
“We don’t know whether
that day all seats were taken,”
he said. “However, as I’ve
mentioned with soldiers
returning from the war and
passengers returning to
points south from Easter
— the Sunday before the
train wreck — visitations in
Workers sprang into action, creating a makeshift hospital to
treat the survivors of the crash as they awaited transportation
to hospitals in other towns. PAUL HINTERLONG
The two train cars piled up on top of each other. CHARLES W.
CUSHMAN/INDIANA UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES
Chicago, the trains most prob-
ably carried near capacity.”
Crash responders
Harold Schrader saw it
coming.
A lumberyard foreman for
the Kroehler Manufactur-
ing Co., Schrader, who died
in 2011, had just returned to
work after lunch when he
saw the stalled train, said his
son, Bob Schrader, a second
grader at Naper School at the
time.
While walking over to
chat with the crew, Harold
Schrader caught sight of the
approaching train and a man,
later identified as the fire-
man, jump from the engine
near Wright Street, his son
said.
His father then ran to call
the company switchboard
operator to alert the police
and fire departments, Bob
Schrader said.
Within minutes of the
crash, 800 Kroehler work-
ers sprang into action.
“Everybody in the factory
basically stopped what they
were doing and started help-
ing out one way or the other,”
said Schrader, a longtime
history teacher in Naperville.
“Ladies in the cafeteria
made sandwiches. It was
just a complete stoppage of
work, and everybody basi-
cally pitched in and helped
out.”
Besides the factory, assis-
tance came from through-
out Naperville, including
policeman, volunteer fire-
fighters, neighbors, students
at North Central College and
the Evangelical Theological
Seminary, priests and medi-
cal professionals, Spinner
said.
Two members of the
Chicago chapter of the
American Red Cross were
giving first aid instruction
at North Central College,
and were able to redirect
their efforts and those of the
students.
Bob Schrader said his
cousin, Delbert Schrader,
who’d just returned from
World War II, was work-
ing as as a contractor on a
house at Fourth and Loomis
street. The lumber from the
construction site was used to
build scaffolding to help the
passengers get through the
train roof and out of the car,
he said.
Delbert Schrader also
warned Kroehler work-
ers against using acetylene
torches to cut open the sides
of train cars because of all
the spilled oil. Instead, crews
climbed on top of the cars
with the torches.
The west end of the Kroe-
hler factory became a make-
shift triage area to assess
survivors’ injuries.
Keller said because the
company manufactured
sleeper sofas, the beds
were pulled out and used
as temporary hospital beds
until an ambulance could
transport the survivors to
the hospital.
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students also brought
mattresses that were placed
on pieces of plywood and
used as gurneys as the
injured were pulled from
the train.
The only ambulances in
Naperville at the time were
hearses from the funeral
homes, Keller said.
“The town didn’t have
paramedics like they have
today,” he said.
“A lot of people went to the
hospital in the back end of a
truck (because) they didn’t
have enough ambulances,”
Bob Schrader said.
Military deaths
Those who didn’t survive
the crash were placed in a
temporary morgue set up in
Harold Schrader’s office.
Keller said because many
of the people killed were
dismembered, volunteers
like his father helped gather
body parts for two or three
days.
“He kind of lost his appe-
tite for about a week,” Keller
said. “It seemed he was so
shook by what he saw.
“They had to identify
people by their clothing,”
Bob Schrader said. “Can you
imagine that, going in there
and matching up pieces of
cloth to arms and legs?”
What Keller found sad was
that among the dead were
sailors returning home.
“They survived the war
and then died in a train
wreck,” he said.
Spinner’s research found
13 of 45 people who died
were military personnel.
“Some of them were on
leave and some had just
been discharged,” he said.
“Several were engaged and
were returning home to be
married.”
One Exposition death
The only person to die
from the Exposition Flyer
was the fireman, Curtis
Crayton, of Galesburg,
who jumped from the train
before impact, Spinner said.
Perhaps memories of a
relative’s tragic railroad
death nearly three years
earlier played into his deci-
sion, Spinner said.
Crayton’s brother-in-law,
Fred Bishop, was the engi-
neer of a gas-electric train
that collided with a freight
locomotive in Aurora on
April 23, 1943. The man died
when flames trapped him
inside the train’s cab.
Ironically, when Expo-
sition Flyer went into the
Advance Flyer, a sharp piece
of the roof tore through the
window the cab where
Crayton would have been
sitting.
“His fate was determined
either way,” Spinner said.
Parents nearly died
The first person report-
edly pulled from the wreck-
age was a baby girl who
ended up in the arms Harold
Schrader until her mother
could be rescued from the
train.
Although the story didn’t
make it into his book, Spin-
ner said he was able to track
down the woman who had
been the rescued child. She
wrote a letter to Spinner
telling him how she was
6 months old and travel-
ing with her parents on the
train.
Another couple appar-
ently agreed to watch her
when her parents went to
the dining car for lunch, she
said.
Fortunately, her mother
had returned to her seat and
her father was in the smok-
ing car when the collision
occurred or they could have
been among the fatalities,
she said.
The impact catapulted
her from her mother’s arms,
the woman said, and she was
caught by a man in the mili-
tary.
“My parents and I
survived, but the couple in
the dining car did not,” the
woman wrote.
NCC student’s connection
Lawrence Cena met his
wife, Patricia Hayes, of
Naperville, while he was
serving in World War II.
After his discharge from
the Navy, the couple moved
to Naperville, where he
attended North Central
College on the GI Bill.
“At the time he had no
interest in railroading or
anything like that,” Spinner
said.
Cena was headed to
the college for a psychol-
ogy class when he saw the
stopped train at the station
and people eating in its
dining cars.
Within minutes, he
was watching the calam-
ity unfurl and bodies being
thrown from the train.
In his book, Spinner wrote
of how Cena and another
man commandeered a sedan
from the Kroeher fleet to
transport a woman with a
severe leg injury.
Because Naperville had
no hospital at the time, the
two convinced the staff
at Edward Sanitorium, a
Naperville tuberculosis
treatment center, to take in
the woman.
Cena would go on to a rail-
road career railroad after
college.
In April 1948, Cena, who
died in 2016, took a job as
a steno clerk at the Santa
Fe Railway in Chicago
and worked his way up
the ladder to eventually
become president and chief
executive officer of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe Railway.
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White-tailed deer walk along the shoreline at sunset near the Skokie Lagoons Nature Preserve near Winnetka in 2012. CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Climate
from Page 1
lists: more green space and
infrastructure in cities,
much-needed assistance to
eroding shorelines, habitat
restoration, reforestation of
dwindling canopies — and
new jobs.
And, advocates say, the
timing seems right.
“A convergence, really,
of intersecting challenges,”
Adelmann said. “Climate,
being one, racial justice
being another, and then
the economy, unemploy-
ment. These three things
are coming together in
powerful ways. Don’t they
suggest that there should be
a program?”
‘900 trees in a
week’
Created in 1933 under
President Franklin D. Roos-
evelt, the Civilian Conserva-
tion Corps employed more
than 3 million mostly young,
white men, offering a holis-
tic education in conserva-
tion and requiring most of
the earnings, usually about
$30 a month, to be sent
home to their families.
When some CCC alumni
returned to an old corps
site in 2000 to build a park,
Ted Golema, then 82, of
Lyons, recalled his earlier
work as repetitious, but he
was glad to have a job. “I
must’ve planted 900 trees
in a week,” he said. “But the
most important thing was
we got three meals a day
and a paycheck. That was a
godsend to the family.”
Participants lived at corps
camps, where they received
meals and medical care, and
when they weren’t work-
ing, many attended classes
together.
According to the Illinois
Department of Natural
Resources, at Camp Danville
in Vermilion County’s Kick-
apoo State Park, workers
could study topics including
auto mechanics, agriculture,
tree surgery, beekeeping,
hospital administration and
radio broadcasting.
“Roosevelt’s Tree Army”
arrived at a time of stagger-
ing unemployment, but also
struggling natural areas —
stressed forests, eroding
land, monuments in disre-
pair.
Today the results of their
work can be seen in parks
and preserves across the
country.
One camp worked as far
away as Mount McKinley
National Park, now Denali,
in Alaska. Backbone State
Park, near Dundee, Iowa,
was home to corps work
— and has a CCC museum.
New Salem, a pioneer settle-
ment in Illinois where Abra-
ham Lincoln once lived,
was re-created by the corps
about a century later.
“The legacy of the CCC
here and across the coun-
try in parks and preserves
and national parks is just
unbelievable and exten-
sive and beautiful,” said
Benjamin Cox, executive
director of Friends of the
Forest Preserves. “It’s just a
national treasure.”
Oscar Stanton De Priest,
Chicago’s first Black alder-
The Skokie Lagoons shortly after their completion by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1937. CHICAGO AERIAL SURVEY CO.
man and later an Illinois
representative, added an
amendment to CCC legis-
lation banning discrimina-
tion, but camps were usually
segregated.
Decades later, archi-
vists are still in search of
rare photos and stories
representing camps that
employed Native Ameri-
cans and Black Americans.
An image from a Michigan
camp, identified in 2018,
marked a small step toward
recognition of the over-
looked CCC experience.
A photo labeled “Big Jim”
was found to be of James
Richardson, reportedly “a
quiet, strong, hardworking
rural Michigan farmer who
served in World War I and
went on to join the CCC.”
Shaping lives
“People remembered it,
their lives were shaped by it,
in some cases it introduced
people to new careers,”
Adelmann said.
Illinois housed about
50 corps camps, accord-
ing to the state’s Depart-
ment of Natural Resources,
with larger ones hosting as
Birders keep watch at the Skokie Lagoons on April 8. ERIN HOOLEY/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
many as 200 workers. Sixty
million trees were planted
in the state, more than 1,000
miles of trails were created,
nearly 5,000 flood control
structures were added and
total acreage of state parks
and monuments rose from
2,800 in 1930 to 16,500 a
decade later.
The largest concentration
of camps in the country was
in the Skokie Valley, where
workers excavated a few
million cubic yards of soil
and created about 200 acres
of lagoons.
Newspapers from the
camps, some more serious
than others and collected as
part of an archive from the
Center for Research Librar-
ies, depict days marked
by hard work, but never
too busy for a joke. Camp
updates often made the
front page, with significant
column space devoted to
sports and pages filled with
everything from fun facts
about the natural world to
thinly veiled gossip.
An item in the 1934 edition
of a paper from the Chica-
go-Lemont site announced
“Officers are getting ritzy”
with quarters resembling
“the lobby of the Grand
Hotel — well, maybe the
Drake — Oh well, then, your
own living room,” according
to archives from the Center
for Research Libraries. A
column in a paper from a
Mount Carroll camp, one
of the few in Illinois where
mostly Black workers were
employed, broke down the
process of soil erosion.
The Fort Farce out of
Sheridan ran an obituary
for its company mascot, a pet
rabbit named Ida Minnie,
whose services were held at
her owner’s tent, according
to archives from the Center
for Research Libraries. Her
last words: “Ida lived if I
could have.”
The Civilian Conserva-
tion Corps disbanded by
1942; some participants
went on to serve in WWII
and others moved on to new
careers. Versions of corps
programs continued in
some locations, and others
were created, like the Youth
Conservation Corps.
In later years, some
of those paths appeared
in Tribune obituaries: a
construction worker at
Glacier and Grand Teton
national parks who grew
up in coal mining country
and went on to work as a
carpenter at the Art Insti-
tute; a Bucktown native
who joined the CCC and was
later known as an esteemed
pinball designer.
Floyd Fritz, of Geneva,
joined the corps at Silver
Falls State Park in Oregon,
preserving natural sites and
clearing paths. After light-
ning ignited a forest fire, he
and some fellow workers
were lost for days; author-
ities reported them dead.
Fritz made it out, became
a popular meat cutter, and,
in retirement, ended up
coming full circle and work-
ing as a manager for his son’s
landscaping business.
Son Paul Fritz said he
remembers hearing about
that narrow escape, and the
structure of his father’s days
at the camp. He wishes his
father was still around to ask
more questions.
“He loved gardening, he
loved planting trees,” Fritz
said. “It was kind of nirvana
for him to be outside.”
‘Bottom-up
approach’
John Rogner, assis-
tant director of the Illinois
Department of Natural
Resources, has his own
personal connection to the
CCC. He worked as a crew
leader for the Youth Conser-
vation Corps in the 1970s,
helping to rehab some work
at Mississippi Palisades
State Park created by the
original corps.
Like the original, Rogner
said he’d like to see a new
program put a lot of Illinois
residents to work. Secondly,
he hopes for investment in
conservation infrastructure
on the federal, state and
local level.
But in contrast with the
original program, advocates
are prioritizing equity and a
corps that reflects the cities
where they work.
“This wouldn’t be a
top- down approach,”
Rogner said. “It would
be largely a bottom-up
approach. Getting dollars
down to local communities
where they know what the
priorities are.”
How the various propos-
als end up intersecting with
the White House plan is still
a bit of a mystery. But, said
Rogner, “I think it is not a
pipe dream.”
There’s the congressional
interest, the circumstances
of the pandemic and the
Biden administration’s focus
on climate change, he said.
“You can see how the
stars are somewhat aligned
toward something like what
we’re all talking about here,”
Rogner said. “I think the
challenge will be to look at
all of the proposals that are
out there and take the best
of them.”
One challenge may be the
name change in a hyperpar-
tisan environment.
“I think the shift from
a conservation corps to a
climate corps is reflective
of an evolution in environ-
mental thinking,” said Anna-
Lisa Castle, water policy
manager for the Alliance for
the Great Lakes. But, Castle
said, “I think that could be
unnecessarily politicized.”
Overall, the CCC may face
the same challenges as other
parts of the infrastructure
plan, Castle said, including
overcoming a narrow infra-
structure definition.
“And I think we’re way
past the point of needing
to expand that definition to
include not only roads and
bridges, but also things like
water service, things like
green infrastructure that
manages stormwater and
civic infrastructure, frankly,”
Castle said.
There’s reason to think
that if political challenges
can be overcome, the
program could be popu-
lar and help address envi-
ronmental injustice, Castle
said. “I would love to see a
climate corps put people in
my neighborhood to work
in my neighborhood,” Castle
said, calling from the South-
west Side.
Looking ahead, officials
will determine the corps’
structure and funding. The
Durbin bill, which calls for
$55 billion over five years to
put 1 million people to work,
is expected to be reintro-
duced soon.
“What we wanted was
a piece of legislation that
was extremely flexible and
comprehensive, and that
could play equally well out
West, down South, East,
North, in territories, in tribal
lands, anywhere,” Adelmann
said.
The growing aware-
ness and appreciation of
the natural world inspired
during the pandemic may
give a new corps the final
push it needs to get going.
Eileen Figel, deputy
general superintendent of
the Forest Preserve District
of Cook County, helped
spark the Illinois CCC plan
more than a year ago and
has watched advocates run
with it. Now, she’s imagin-
ing the possibilities: “100
years from now people
could be looking back at
projects built by this new
conservation corps.”
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enforcement repeatedly gave way to broken
promises, watered-down regulations and
abandoned reforms.
After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871,
Joseph Medill was elected on the “fireproof”
ticket but caved on his most ambitious plans.
In 1958, when 92 children and three nuns
died as the result of a Catholic school fire,
the City Council pushed back deadlines
for one of the first serious fire sprinkler
mandates. And in 2003, when six died in a
Loop high-rise, the City Council demanded
that sprinklers be installed in tall buildings
but exempted many older structures.
More recently, Chicago officials backed off
their long-standing opposition to tamper-
proof smoke detectors, but many property
owners won’t be fined for violations for
more than a decade — a move that puts the
city well behind the rest of the state. They
also drastically cut the number of required
building inspections in favor of a complaint-
based system that puts the onus on tenants
to report their own landlords.
Chicago’s approach contrasts with some
other major cities that are moving away from
complaint-based systems and toward routine
inspection schedules. Some other cities also
are investing in beefed-up data collection and
requiring landlords to be licensed.
The BGA/Tribune investigation revealed
how fires killed 61 Chicagoans from 2014
through 2019 in buildings where the city
had been warned about fire safety problems
yet failed to adequately address them. The
majority of those fires were in low-income
neighborhoods mostly populated by Black
and Latino residents.
Efforts to reach Emanuel for comment
were unsuccessful.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot also declined
requests to be interviewed for this report.
However, her administration recently made
some promises of its own.
In February and March, Lightfoot’s
administration supported two initiatives
she said would increase accountability for
landlords. One is a new ordinance phasing
in requirements for tamper-proof smoke
detectors over the next decade.
The second is yet another list of problem
landlords.
“The top priority of this administration is
to ensure the health and safety of our resi-
dents in every neighborhood of the city of
Chicago,” Lightfoot said in a news release
after the City Council approved the smoke
detector ordinance.
Critics say Chicago has long lacked the
political will to enact substantial safety
reforms and crack down on landlords.
“Chicago has a system set for going
through the motions and basically failing,”
said Douglas Pensack, a former associate
director of the Illinois Tenants Union. “The
building code is pretty strict, but it is poorly
enforced and there is great bifurcation in the
way it is enforced.
“Unless there is a tragedy involved or
somebody dies, no one looks back.”
‘Sincerely, a grieving father’
In the months after his daughter and her
three siblings died in their South Side apart-
ment in 2014, Patton Smith was sending
emails to city officials late into the night.
As he learned more about the numerous
housing code violations found in the build-
ing where his daughter died, he wondered:
Why didn’t the city do more before the fire?
Why wasn’t it easier for tenants to learn the
enforcement history of their buildings?
The grieving father was determined to get
the attention of public officials, he said, even
after his family warned him his efforts would
be futile.
“This city took my life,” he remembers
insisting at the time. “Something is going to
happen.”
Patton Smith first emailed the Emanuel
administration in late 2014 with an idea on
holding landlords more accountable for
unsafe buildings. He suggested a law requir-
ing rental properties to display color-coded
signs with the number of safety violations
found there. His draft of the ordinance
included a forfeiture provision for landlords
of the worst-maintained buildings.
“I even understand that if presented it
may not pass the council cause a lot of coun-
cil members are real estate owners,” Patton
Smith wrote to Emanuel’s office, “but if you
can look at this ordinance and have some-
one get back to me I would appreciate it.
Sincerely, a grieving father.”
Emanuel’s response came from Farzin
Parang, then the mayor’s deputy direc-
tor for legislative counsel and government
affairs and City Hall’s point person on Patton
Smith’s proposed reforms.
“I agree with your instinct that it would
be very difficult to pass in its current form,”
Parang wrote to Patton Smith. “Not only are
some council members real estate owners,
but the real estate industry as a whole will
come out against it in full force.”
Parang asked Patton Smith for patience as
a draft proposal worked its way through the
political process.
The ordinance passed by the City Coun-
cil in 2015 was named after Patton Smith’s
daughter and her siblings, but it was not what
the father had hoped.
No color-coded signs would be posted on
buildings. Instead, the city would electron-
ically publish a list of problem landlords,
barring them from most city contracts until
repairs were completed. Landlords would
qualify for the list if they failed to fix seri-
ous safety issues after at least two separate
enforcement cases over two years.
After the ordinance took effect, repre-
sentatives for the building owners’ industry
met with city building department officials
to express concerns. Mary Kay Minaghan,
then a lobbyist for the Chicagoland Apart-
ment Association, said landlords mainly
feared the information might not be accurate.
The city stopped adding landlords to the
list in 2016. It was produced only twice before
being abandoned.
The Tribune/BGA investigation found the
ordinance had problems from the beginning.
Violations referred to Circuit Court
didn’t count against landlords, eliminating
Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Monday, April 26, 2021 7
homeowners. The new models cost $18, he
said, versus about $5 for standard models.
But by February 2021— following inquiries
from the BGA and the Tribune — the Fire
Department reversed course and supported
the change. The City Council then finally
passed an ordinance that by 2023 requires
property owners who are replacing smoke
detectors to install tamper-proof devices
with long-lasting batteries. But under the
ordinance, fines cannot be issued for viola-
tions in owner-occupied units until 2033.
That is a full decade after the deadline set
for the rest of the state.
Russ Sanders, executive secretary with the
Metropolitan Fire Chiefs Association, said
working smoke alarms are especially critical
in older buildings without other modern fire
safety provisions.
“For these older buildings, they got smoke
alarms but they don’t have sprinklers, and if
they don’t maintain the smoke alarm you’ve
Eric Patton Smith’s daughter, 7-year-old Eri’ana Patton Smith, was the youngest of four got no protection,” Sanders said.
children killed in 2014 when a fire erupted in her mother’s apartment building in the Roseland Though the overall rate at which people
neighborhood. ARMANDO L. SANCHEZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE die in residential fires nationwide has fallen
since its peak in the 1980s, the risk is increas-
ing for those who live in single-family homes
or two-flats, according to the National Fire
Protection Association, a nonprofit fire
safety advocacy group.
In larger apartment buildings, the number
of deaths per 1,000 fires was 29% lower in
2019 than it was in 1980, the group reported.
But in one- and two-family homes, there was
a 28% increase. The organization also found
smoke detectors decrease the risk of some-
one dying in a house fire by 55%.
In Chicago, records show, there were no
working smoke detectors in at least 69 of the
140 fatal fires from 2014 through 2019. Nine-
ty-two people died in those fires.
Six caskets at a memorial at Our Lady of Tepeyac Catholic Church on Sept. 1, 2018, in Chicago A reactive approach
for six of the 10 children who died in the Little VIllage fire. ABEL URIBE/CHICAGO TRIBUNE to safety
some of the most serious safety violations. Read the first story in this investigation After a fire trapped and killed 66-year-
The list was also based on repeat violations and more at chicagotribune.com old Johnny Horton in his East Garfield Park
at individual buildings, rather than all of a  The failures before the fires: In six years, apartment in 2016, firefighters found — in
landlord’s properties. And the list relied 6 1 people died in Chicago buildings where the addition to a lack of working smoke detec-
on record-keeping systems city officials city knew of fire safety issues. tors — a daisy chain of extension cords from
acknowledge are outdated and incomplete.  About the investigation: How reporters an overloaded outlet on the back porch.
In the end, a total of 44 buildings and their analyzed six years of fatal fires and Chicago Investigators determined the electrical
landlords ended up on the list before the city officials’ enforcement record. overload started the blaze. Horton’s sister
stopped using it.  Go deeper on each fire: Look at photos. told police they used the porch outlet to
A BGA/Tribune analysis of building code Listen to 9 1 1 calls. Read excerpts from key power a freezer because using the kitchen
violations from 2013 through 2020 found documents. outlets tripped the circuit breaker.
hundreds of landlords might have qualified  Sign up for our live event: Join our panel Public records show the rental prop-
if the city had not abandoned the list. to explore the findings of the investigation, erty had not been inspected for at least
Parang, now executive director for the discuss flaws in city policies and oversight, five years before the fire. That’s because
Building Owners and Managers Association and ask questions of the reporters. Chicago — unlike some major cities — does
of Chicago, said he didn’t remember many of not routinely inspect all rental properties
the details of putting together the ordinance. without first getting complaints. In this case
Patton Smith said he had no idea the ordi- building records show no one complained.
nance he championed in his daughter’s nois Rental Property Owners Association. A Tribune/BGA review of all fatal house
memory was no longer being used by the city. At least 13 other states have similar laws in fires in Chicago from 2014 through 2019 found
“For what reason do politicians sit and place. more than two dozen similar cases in which
allow this to go by the wayside?” he said. But Chicago opted out of the safety firefighters said safety conditions played a role
“That hurts like hell.” measure, in part because the Chicago Fire in the blazes, but records show the buildings
In a recent interview, Buildings Commis- Department opposed it. had not been inspected by the building depart-
sioner Matthew Beaudet said his office is At the time, CFD spokesman Larry Lang- ment for five years, sometimes more.
working on an improved list of problem ford said the high cost of the better smoke
landlords. detectors would be a problem for some Turn to Fires, Page 8
“The problem landlord list was a prob-
lem in and of itself, in that it was very inef-
fective,” he said. “The building that actually
prompted the problem landlord list would
not have been on the problem landlord list.
“And then with this new list that we’re
looking at, we’re going to be doing more
inspections tied to that list,” Beaudet said.
On March 11, as the Tribune and the
BGA were pressing Lightfoot’s office for a
response to their findings, the mayor issued
a news release proposing the creation of “one
consolidated list based on criteria that will
address the most egregious offenders.”
“I am confident the new Building Code
Scofflaw List will allow the city to more
closely monitor these buildings, hold
building owners accountable, and, most
important, enhance the safety of building
occupants,” Lightfoot said in the release.
Pensack, formerly of the Illinois Tenants
Union, said the city’s new plans could help
if adequately enforced, but substantial
improvements to housing safety in Chicago
would require much stronger efforts to
ensure property owners follow the rules.
“It is going to require strictly enforcing
the building code and not going from one
hot-button issue to the next.”
The ‘tamper-proof’ debate
In addition to the failed list of problem
landlords, the City Council adopted another
Emanuel-backed reform after the 2014 fatal
South Side fire.
The ordinance mandated fines for land-
lords whose properties did not meet smoke
detector requirements. Before, landlords
could avoid fines if they fixed the problem
before their first hearing on the issue.
A city spokeswoman acknowledged this
law is also not enforced, and fines for miss-
ing smoke detectors are issued case by case.
Four years after the tragic incident
prompted the efforts at reform, another fire
killed 10 children at a Little Village building
with no working smoke detectors and a long
history of housing safety problems.
Before the notorious 2018 fire, city inspec-
tors documented a lack of these lifesaving
devices in the main building or in the nearby
coach house three times over 11 years,
including once just seven weeks before the
fire. Under the 2014 smoke detector ordi-
nance, the landlord should have been fined
for those violations. Records show he was
not. Investigators determined the same
problem existed the night the children died.
In the political fallout from the fire, city
officials offered up a new set of promises.
Chicago aldermen introduced an ordi-
nance to speed up enforcement of smoke
detector requirements, a proposal that died
in committee nine months later.
The Little Village fire also inspired a
2019 proposal by Ald. Gilbert Villegas, 36th,
to require that smoke detectors in build-
ings throughout the city be equipped with
a tamper-proof battery that lasts 10 years
unless the detector is wired into the home’s
electrical system. The design prevents resi-
dents from simply removing the batteries
when the alarm sounds.
An Illinois law already requires this type
of smoke detector; the legislature approved
it in 2017 over the objections of the Illi-
8 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Monday, April 26, 2021

Lessons unheeded
Over and over, Chicago fails to learn from fatal fires
Fires
from Page 7

In Chicago, nearly all housing safety

By Madison Hopkins
Better Government Association
and Cecilia Reyes
Chicago Tribune
When a Chicago fire makes headlines,
politicians often push for new safety stan-
dards. Sometimes these reforms made life
safer, but frequently the city faltered in the
face of opposition and the conditions left
in place led to more preventable disasters.
Today, many of the city’s safety require-
ments still have their roots in these notori-
ous fires, but Chicago politicians’ failures
to take stronger action left many residents
vulnerable to another fatal blaze.
Here are some key moments:
Oct. 8-10, 1871:
The Great Chicago Fire
Up to 300 people killed
After flames destroyed the city in Octo-
ber 1871, Joseph Medill was elected mayor
on a “fireproof” ticket, vowing in his inau-
gural speech to reverse “the combustible
character of the city” with a citywide ban
on wooden construction.
But property owners balked at the price
tag, and the City Council buckled. The ban
on wooden buildings was limited to the
Loop and a small surrounding area.
A few years later, another fire tore
through Chicago’s South Side, stopping
only when it hit the newly built stone build-
ings within the new fire district. A large
insurance association called for all policies
to be canceled in Chicago until city lead-
ers adopted stricter fire safety measures,
including Medill’s original proposal.
The City Council gave in to the demands,
expanding the fire limits to the city’s bound-
aries at the time. By the end of 1875, the city
had restructured its Fire Department, writ-
ten one of the nation’s first building codes
and created the Department of Buildings to
enforce the new rules.
Dec. 30, 1903:
Iroquois Theater
Up to 605 people killed
In December 1903, a stage light set a
curtain on fire at the Iroquois Theater
during an overcrowded matinee. The
standing-room-only crowd panicked
and raced for exit doors that only opened
inward. More than 600 people died in the
scramble to escape.
The catastrophe outraged the public,
which criticized city leaders for failing to
learn their lesson from another theater
Firefighters battle a blaze Dec. 1, 1958, at
Our Lady of the Angels school in Chicago.
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
disaster that killed several people just
two years earlier. A child yelled “Fire!”
in a crowded theater after he saw smoke
emanating from a heating vent. Although
there wasn’t any fire, the audience panicked
and rushed for the exits, jamming a stair-
case and small hallways. Five people were
trampled to death or died after falling from
a balcony. Fifty others were injured.
The Iroquois Theater fire finally
prompted changes to the building code,
including occupancy limits and a require-
ment that exit doors swing outward.
Municipalities across the world followed
suit.
Dec. 1, 1958: Our Lady
of the Angels School
92 children and 3 adults killed
In December 1958, three nuns and 92
students died as the result of a fire at Our
Lady of the Angels school in Humboldt
Park.
A coroner’s inquiry later detailed several
fire safety failures. The building — old
enough to be exempt from the fire safety
standards at the time — lacked enclosed
stairways and had no fire sprinklers or
smoke detectors. There was only one fire
escape.
The National Fire Protection Associa-
tion blamed authorities “who have failed
to recognize their life safety obligations in
housing children in structures which are
‘firetraps.’ ” The president of the associa-
tion said “there are no new lessons to be
learned from this fire; only old lessons that
tragically went unheeded.”
After the tragedy, Mayor Richard J. Daley
pushed for new rules requiring all schools
to be retrofitted with fire sprinklers and
alarms directly connected to fire depart-
ments, as well as other fire safety upgrades.
Many reforms were passed, but the high
cost of fire sprinklers prompted City Coun-
cil members to issue multiple extensions.
For decades afterward, many schools
remained without the upgraded protection.
The building, no longer a school, where the
tragedy occurred was retrofitted with fire
sprinklers in 2020.
Oct. 17, 2003: Cook County
Administration Building
6 adults killed
In October 2003, a faulty light fixture
started a fire on the 12th floor of a 35-story
government office building with no sprin-
klers above ground level.
As employees opened stairway doors to
evacuate the building, firefighters opened
a door that connected to the same stairwell
on the bottom level, creating a chimney
effect. Smoke flowed upward toward the
evacuating employees, who were trapped
after the upper doors automatically locked
behind them. Roughly 90 minutes after the
first alarm, firefighters found the bodies of
six employees in the stairwell.
An investigative report later found Chica-
go’s building code “essentially endorsed the
design flaws that contributed to the fatali-
ties” and said a single sprinkler could have
extinguished the fire.
One year later, the City Council approved
an ordinance requiring all commercial
high-rises be retrofitted with sprinklers.
Residential high-rises were given the
option to develop less expensive upgrades
as long as they passed a life safety evalu-
ation.
The deadline to complete the evalua-
tions was 2006, and all upgrades were to be
completed by 2017. After years of deadline
extensions, the building department said
that as of August 2020, at least 12 high-rise
buildings still did not have fire sprinklers
and had not passed life safety evaluations.
Madison Hopkins is a reporter for the
Better Government Association. Cecilia
Reyes is a Tribune reporter.
mhopkins@bettergov.org
creyes@chicagotribune.com
inspections are prompted by a complaint to
the city’s 311 hotline — a reactive approach
to enforcement that can let life-threatening
hazards go undetected.
Some major cities have adopted programs
to routinely inspect all rental units to detect
problems without relying on complaints. In
Boston, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.,
landlords are required to register with city
officials, who then determine how often a
unit needs to be inspected based on the land-
lord’s history.
Chicago used to have an annual inspec-
tion program for buildings taller than three
stories, but the City Council eliminated that
requirement in 2017, saying it was outdated
and distracted inspectors from focusing on
buildings with known problems.
“Honestly, mandatory inspections favor
bad landlords,” Beaudet said. “There’s only
a number of hours in the day and I’d rather
have the inspectors out where they need
to be rather than going through a high-rise
luxury apartment building.”
Beaudet said the city’s complaint-based
system is a better way to find problems and
target issues. “The public will tell us exactly
where we need to be,” he said.
The BGA/Tribune investigation found
the city failed to fully investigate many
complaints of serious safety issues before
fatal fires broke out. Sometimes, weeks
or months passed before an inspector
attempted to visit the building.
Two years after City Hall abandoned its
annual inspection mandate in 2017, the City
Council also eliminated the requirement
for building inspectors to respond to 311
complaints within three weeks — even for
allegations of serious problems.
That decision followed a 2018 inspec-
tor general’s report chastising the building
department for failing to meet the 21-day
deadline more than half the time.
Buildings department spokeswoman
Mimi Simon said the elimination of the
mandate freed inspectors from wasting time
responding to complaints that wouldn’t have
resulted in code violations — such as winter-
time complaints of apartments being too hot.
But the changes left Chicago with no rules
governing how city officials should respond
to complaints about building hazards.
Gregory Miao, a senior attorney at
ChangeLab Solutions, a tenant research and
advocacy organization, said any successful
inspection program should strongly enforce
consistent rules.
“Letting those landlords get away with
doing what they’re doing and issuing them
notice, that is the worst outcome,” Miao said.
“You’ve effectively done nothing.”
AnnMarie Hilton, Carolina Gonzalez,
Nicole Stock, Sahi Padmanabhan and
Deborah Wilber contributed to this report
as interns for the Better Government
Association.

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Community remembers Jaslyn Adams
Community members release balloons at the end of a peace walk for 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams at McDonald’s on
Roosevelt Road in North Lawndale on Sunday, where Adams was fatally shot April 18. Community groups including
Hug a Child Make a Change, Women Empowering Women and House of Hope Foundation organized the march.
No bail for alleged getaway driver in girl’s slaying
By William Lee
Chicago Tribune
Prosecutors on Sunday
said a combination of social
media posts and surveil-
lance video placed an
18-year-old man inside the
Audi sedan that brought
two gunmen to a West Side
McDonald’s where a 7-year-
old girl was fatally shot.
The post included a video
of Marion Lewis, 18, with
the two suspected gunmen
two hours before the
shooting in the drive-thru
line outside the fast-food
restaurant in the 3200 block
of West Roosevelt Road,
authorities said during an
audio-only bail hearing
broadcast on YouTube.
The post also showed
both gunmen holding fire-
arms, one of them an AK-47-
style rifle that fired nearly
30 shots into the Infin-
iti with tinted windows
containing Jaslyn Adams
and her father, Jontae
Adams, prosecutors said.
Both gunmen remained
at large, while Lewis, of
Chicago’s East Garfield
Park neighborhood, faces a
first-degree murder charge
in Jaslyn’s death April 18.
He also faces several
more felonies connected
to his arrest on the Eisen-
hower Expressway on
Thursday afternoon.
Lewis allegedly evaded
undercover police vehi-
cles attempting to box him
in, leading to a high-speed
chase to the expressway
near Hillside, where he was
shot while trying to carjack
a motorist stopped in traffic.
Authorities also accused
Lewis of firing through the
window of a Land Rover in
an attempt to get the driver
and his family out of the
vehicle. That’s when an offi-
cer confronted Lewis and
shot him in the left shoul-
der. He was treated at an
area hospital and released
to authorities.
Jaslyn and her father
were each wounded around
4:15 p.m. in the drive-thru
in the city’s Homan Square
neighborhood, police said.
Cameras outside the busi-
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ness showed the gunmen
exiting the passenger side
doors, one with a handgun
and the other with a rifle
loaded with an extended
magazine, and opening fire
on Adams’ parked vehi-
cle, Assistant State’s Attor-
ney Kevin DeBoni told the
court.
The shooters entered the
getaway car but got back out
and fired more shots when
the bullet-riddled car tried
to move, DeBoni said.
Police recovered 25
rifle shell casings and 17
.40-caliber shell casings at
the scene. Jaslyn, who was
sitting in the passenger seat,
was wounded in the upper
back, arm and leg.
After learning that Lewis
had previously threatened
Jontae Adams on social
media, detectives located
Lewis’ page with the video
of him behind the wheel of
the Audi with the gunmen
hours before the shooting,
DeBoni said.
Police also recovered
surveillance video from
a gas station before the
shooting that showed the
Audi, the clothing they were
wearing and the unmasked
face of one of the gunmen.
Authorities tracked
Lewis to a building in
Lombard, where he was
placed under surveillance.
On Thursday, as police tried
taking him into custody, he
used a stolen SUV to evade
officers.
Following Lewis’ arrest,
police recovered a bag
containing the rifle and
.40-caliber handgun, which
matched casings recovered
from the scene of the homi-
cide, authorities said.
Lewis’ attorney, Steve
Greenberg, argued against
holding his client without
bail, adding that Lewis lived
with his grandmother and
has mental health prob-
lems.
But the judge approved
the request, citing the
evidence against him and
a lengthy juvenile record.
Lewis, who was also
barred from contacting any
witnesses, is scheduled to
return to court Thursday.
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Biden
from Page 1
breadth and taken execu-
tive actions to counter the
legacy and agitations of
Donald Trump.
The U.S. has pivoted on
the environment and estab-
lished payments that could
halve child poverty in a
year. It has embraced inter-
national alliances Trump
shunned. It has elevated the
health insurance program
Republicans tried for years
to kill.
“He ran as the antithesis
of Trump — empathetic,
decent and experienced,
and he is delivering,” said
former Barack Obama
adviser David Axelrod.
“He’s restored a sense of
calm and equilibrium to
a capital that lived on the
jagged edge for four years
of Trump.”
Gone are the out-of-con-
trol news conferences, the
sudden firings, the impul-
sive policy declarations, the
Twitter drama.
Instead Americans are
getting something more
methodical.
Biden has appeared in
public far less than his
predecessors. That’s partly
because of the pandemic
but also because he wanted
to occupy less of the Ameri-
can consciousness than did
Trump, who spoke loudly
but achieved little legisla-
tively in his 100-day debut.
If there is a consistent
through line to Biden’s
term, it’s his attempt to
respond to age-old racial
inequalities, even in unex-
pected corners of public
policy.
His massive infra-
structure plan, for exam-
ple, contains measures to
address harms inflicted
generations ago when
governments built urban
highways through Black
neighborhoods.
“That’s something most
Americans don’t think
about if they don’t have a
direct experience of it,”
Delmont said. “People hear
infrastructure and think it’s
a race-neutral set of poli-
cies.”
For the most part,
Biden is doing more than
he promised during the
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The election dealt him
a hand that makes bigger
things possible, thanks
to majorities so thin in
Congress that he needs
Vice President Kamala
Harris to cast tiebreaking
votes in a 50-50 Senate.
But first-term presidents
historically see their party
lose big in the midterms
and Republicans have
shown no inclination to
support his policies.
Biden was deprived
of an orderly transition
by Trump’s false claims
of election fraud, which
meant delays through the
federal bureaucracy. It
meant the Trump admin-
istration had done little to
facilitate vaccine distri-
bution before Biden took
office, prompting his
complaint about “the mess
we inherited.”
Still, the Trump admin-
istration and Congress had
made a massive investment
in vaccine development.
Trump also locked in early
supplies for the U.S. while
many developed countries
still face crucial shortages.
Biden’s success in surg-
ing vaccine distribution
since then was a significant
early achievement, helped
by the $1.9 trillion COVID-
19 relief bill signed into
law within two months.
No Republican lawmakers
supported it.
Biden does enjoy
healthy poll numbers. Pew
Research found an approval
rating of 59% this month,
in league with Obama and
President George W. Bush
and far better than Trump,
39% in April 2017.
Few people have tried
longer to be president than
Biden, who had formed a
clear vision of the job after
decades in Washington.
He talks more quietly
now, moves a little slower
and has lost weight. Mind-
ful of his age, and his own
life touched by immense
tragedy, Biden knows
tomorrow is never a given.
He speaks of all he wants
to do, “God willing.”
“I’m just going to move
forward and take these
things as they come,” Biden
said at his only formal news
conference. “I’m a great
respecter of fate.”
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COVID-19 patients die in Iraqi fire
82 killed, 110 injured
as oxygen tank blast
cited in ICU inferno
By Samya Kullab
Associated Press
BAGHDAD — The death
toll from a massive fire at a
Baghdad hospital for coro-
navirus patients rose to at
least 82 Sunday as anxious
families searched for miss-
ing relatives and the govern-
ment suspended key health
officials for alleged negli-
gence.
The flames, described
by one witness as “volca-
noes of fire,” swept through
the intensive care unit of
the Ibn al-Khatib Hospital,
which tends exclusively to
COVID-19 patients with
severe symptoms. Officials
said the blaze, which also
injured 110 people, was set
off by an exploding oxygen
cylinder.
Nurse Maher Ahmed
was called to the scene late
Saturday to help evacuate
patients.
“I could not have imag-
ined it would be a massive
blaze like that,” he said.
The flames overwhelmed
the hospital’s second floor
isolation hall within three to
four minutes of the oxygen
cylinder exploding, he said.
“Volcanoes of fire.”
Most of those killed
suffered severe burns, he
said. Others were overcome
by smoke, unwilling to leave
behind relatives hooked up
to ventilators.
Ahmed said the patients
could not be moved. “They
would have minutes to live
without oxygen.”
Widespread negligence
on the part of health officials
is to blame for the fire, Iraq’s
prime minister, Mustafa
al-Kadhimi, said Sunday.
With Chauvin convicted,
focus turns to 3 ex-cops
How much prison
time ex-officer gets
is key, experts say
By Steve Karnowski
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — With
Derek Chauvin convicted
of murder in George Floyd’s
death, activists and the
Floyd family are turn-
ing their attention to this
summer’s trial for the other
three officers involved in his
May 2020 arrest.
All three have already
sought to deflect responsi-
bility to Chauvin, the most
senior officer on the scene.
Thomas Lane, J. Kueng
and Tou Thao face trial
in August on charges of
aiding and abetting both
second-degree murder and
second-degree manslaugh-
ter. Hennepin County Judge
Peter Cahill ordered that
they be tried together, but
separately from Chauvin, to
reduce the number of people
in the courtroom amid the
COVID-19 pandemic.
As the three weigh their
strategies, legal experts say
they are sure to be watch-
ing what kind of prison
time Chauvin gets at his
June 16 sentencing — as
much as 30 years, though
likely less. Minnesota law
sets the same penalties for
U.S. soldiers help train Afghan troops in Helmand province in
Afghanistan. ADAM FERGUSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES 2016
NATION & WORLD
Mourners attend a funeral procession Sunday in Najaf, Iraq, for some of those killed in a fire at a Baghdad hospital reserved for
COVID-19 patients. Scores were killed as “volcanoes of fire” swept through the intensive care unit. ALI NAJAFI/GETTY-AFP.
Following a special Cabinet
meeting to discuss the blaze,
the government suspended
key officials, including the
health minister and the
governor of Baghdad prov-
ince. Other officials, includ-
ing the hospital director,
were dismissed from their
posts.
It took firefighters and
civil defense teams until
early Sunday to put out the
flames.
Among the dead were at
least 28 patients on ventila-
tors, tweeted Ali al-Bayati, a
spokesman of the country’s
independent Human Rights
Commission, a semi-official
body.
Paramedics carried the
aiding and abetting murder
or manslaughter as for the
act itself.
They’ll also be mindful
that it took jurors less than
24 hours to find Chauvin
guilty on all charges. That
could ratchet up pressure to
consider a plea deal.
“The factual differences
between Chauvin and
the other three are what
should drive this,” said Tom
Heffelfinger, a former U.S.
attorney for Minnesota.
Experts said the best
Lane, Kueng and Thao
can hope for is a jury of 12
people who think Chauvin
was guilty but aren’t so sure
about what roles the other
three played. And they said
the evidence against the
three is weaker than the
evidence against Chauvin,
which provides opportuni-
ties for their attorneys.
“I would expect the
theme of all three would be,
‘That’s a really bad thing that
Chauvin did. I didn’t like it.
I’m not responsible for what
happened,’” former Ramsey
County prosecutor Susan
Gaertner said.
Prosecutors declined to
discuss their case. Attorneys
for Lane and Kueng also
declined, and Thao’s attor-
ney did not return a message
seeking comment. But past
filings and the evidence offer
clues for likely strategies.
bodies, many burned beyond
recognition, to al-Zafaraniya
Hospital, where Ahmed said
forensics teams will attempt
to identify them by matching
DNA samples to relatives.
On Sunday, relatives were
searching anxiously for
loved ones.
“Please, two of my rela-
tives are missing. ... I am
going to die (without news
about them),” posted a
young woman on social
media after a fruitless search
for her family members. “I
hope someone can help us
find Sadi Abdul Kareem and
Samir Abdul Kareem, they
were in the ICU.”
Rokya Kareem, 30, was
looking frantically for her
Lane and Kueng can
argue they were rookies, in
just their first week as full-
fledged cops, and felt a need
to defer to Chauvin — their
training officer — when he
pinned Floyd’s neck to the
ground with his knee for
nearly 9 ½ minutes as Floyd
shouted repeatedly that
he couldn’t breathe before
going silent, then limp.
“Those two rookies have
a facially different defense,
and a very real factual
defense, as compared to
Chauvin,” Heffelfinger said.
Lane might have the best
defense. Body camera video
shows he asked the other
officers if they should turn
Floyd on his side — and
Chauvin said no.
Kueng can be heard
reporting to Chauvin at one
point that he could not find
Floyd’s pulse.
“They’re raising questions
about what was happening
and whether they should
be doing something differ-
ent,” said local defense attor-
ney Brock Hunter. “It’s not
nearly as clear-cut as I think
the evidence against Chau-
vin was.”
But Chauvin and Kueng
maintained their restraint,
and body camera video
shows Kueng holding up
one of Floyd’s handcuffed
hands — an action that pros-
ecution medical experts
General: US wrapping up Afghan operations
By Kathy Gannon
Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan —
America’s top general in
Afghanistan said Sunday
that the U.S. military has
begun closing down opera-
tions in the country and that
Afghanistan’s security forces
‘must be ready” to take over.
“I often get asked, how are
the security forces, can the
security forces do the work
in our absence? And my
message has always been the
same. They must be ready.
friend Riyam Rahman,
a pharmacist, who was
visiting her mother at the
hospital. Rahman’s mother,
Basima, was admitted to the
hospital 45 days ago with
complications from COVID-
19.
“All we know is they were
in the room next to where
the fire started,” she said.
“Her phone is switched off,
and her family has gone to
every hospital trying to find
them.”
The fire happened as
Iraq grapples with a severe
second wave of the corona-
virus pandemic. Daily virus
cases now average around
8,000, the highest level since
Iraq began recording infec-
People hold placards of George Floyd after former police Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted
of murder last week in Minneapolis. The trial for three other ex-officers involved in Floyd’s death
is scheduled for August. JOSHUA RASHAAD MCFADDEN/THE NEW YORK TIMES
testified made it even harder
for Floyd to breathe.
Thao can argue that it was
crowd control, keeping an
agitated group of about 15
onlookers at a safe distance,
and that he largely had his
back to the other officers
and Floyd.
“His defense could be, ‘I
was just present and it takes
more than presence to make
a crime,’” Heffelfinger said.
But one of the onlookers
Thao specifically ordered to
stand back was Genevieve
Hansen, a Minneapolis fire-
fighter who can be heard on
video pleading repeatedly
for officers to check Floyd’s
pulse. Hansen cried on the
witness stand at Chauvin’s
trial.
The quick conviction
They must be ready,” Gen
Austin Miller told Afghan
journalists at a press confer-
ence in Kabul, the capital.
He also said the Taliban
not returning to peace talks
“does not make sense.”
His comments came
hours before Taliban negoti-
ator Sher Mohammad Abbas
Stanikzai appeared to indi-
cate a breakthrough in nego-
tiations.
In a tweet, Stanikzai said
“soon the Taliban leaders
name will be removed from
blacklist. And 7,000 Taliban
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tion rates early last year. At
least 15,200 people have died
of coronavirus in Iraq among
at least 1 million confirmed
cases, according to Johns
Hopkins University.
Years of sanctions and
war have crippled the coun-
try’s health sector, and the
latest infection wave has
tested the limits of health
facilities. Security concerns
also plague the country
as frequent rocket attacks
continue to target army
bases hosting foreign troops
and the seat of Iraq’s govern-
ment.
The deadly fire was only
the latest chapter in Iraq’s
poor record for public safety.
In March 2019, more than
for Chauvin spurred spec-
ulation about plea deals.
Heffelfinger said prosecu-
tors may be open to that
because they’re aware of the
potential weaknesses in the
cases against the three.
“Prosecutors know this
stuff, so this is a good time
for all parties to consider
settlement over the next two
or three months,” he said.
Gaertner said prosecu-
tors will feel pressure not to
strike a plea deal that could
be seen by activists as letting
the officers off lightly. But
she said she hopes they do
consider deals that would
avert a trial, particularly due
to the stress and expense
of the just-completed trial
that transformed parts of
Minneapolis into a milita-
prisoners will be released.”
Until now Afghani-
stan’s Council for National
Reconciliation has tied the
Taliban’s twin demands to a
cease-fire. Stanikazai made
no mention of a cease-fire
and there was no immediate
comment from the recon-
ciliation council headed by
Abdullah Abdullah.
Afghan President Ashraf
Ghani has until now refused
to release any more Tali-
ban prisoners, charging
the 5,000 his government
released last year were in
100 people died when a ferry
capsized on the Tigris River
near the northern city of
Mosul. The boat overturned
due to overcrowding and
high water.
In September 2019, a fire
ripped through Baghdad’s
Shorja market, a major
commercial area in the city,
burning many shops to the
ground.
Part of the problem is that
laws and regulations govern-
ing public safety and health
are old, said Yesar al-Maliki,
an adviser to the Iraq Energy
Institute.
“It has to do with the
overall system. There are
no detailed regulations and
(standard operating proce-
dures) on how to do basic
things step by step, espe-
cially when handling risky
equipment,” said Al-Maliki,
who also worked in Iraq’s oil
and gas industry.
The prime minster
convened the special Cabi-
net session hours after the
flames broke out.
In addition to suspend-
ing the health minister,
Hasan al-Tamimi, and Bagh-
dad’s governor, the Cabinet
ordered an investigation of
the health minister and key
hospital officials respon-
sible for overseeing safety
measures.
The Cabinet also fired
the director-general of the
Baghdad health department
in the al-Rusafa area, where
the hospital is located, and
the hospital’s director of
engineering and main-
tenance, according to a
statement from the Health
Ministry and the prime
minister’s office.
“Negligence in such
matters is not a mistake,
but a crime for which all
negligent parties must bear
responsibility,” al-Kadhimi
said Sunday after a meeting.
rized zone.
“Clearly these three
defendants are significantly
less culpable than Chauvin,”
she said. “And that should be
taken into account. Another
trial is going to be very
disruptive, costly and I’m
not sure that that’s in the
best interests of the public.”
But Friedberg said he
doesn’t expect any deals.
“None of them will ever
plead guilty,” Friedberg
predicted. “They have three
really good lawyers who
are extremely aggressive
lawyers. There’s no question
in my mind they’re going to
go to trial and they’re going
to claim that they were
completely unaware of the
depths of what Derek Chau-
vin was doing.”
part responsible for the
stepped-up violence, having
returned to the battle-
field. The Taliban deny the
charges.
The 5,000 prisoners were
released in keeping with
the peace deal the previous
U.S. administration negoti-
ated with the Taliban, which
the Biden administration
reviewed. In mid-April,
the Biden administration
announced that the final
phase of the withdrawal
would begin May 1 and be
completed before Sept. 11.
12 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Monday, April 26, 2021
Pentagon part of internet mystery
A shadowy company
now owns big swath
of online addresses
By Frank Bajak
Associated Press
BOSTON — A strange
thing happened on the
internet the day President
Joe Biden was sworn in. A
shadowy company residing
at a shared workspace above
a Florida bank announced
to the world’s computer
networks that it was now
managing a colossal, previ-
ously idle chunk of the
internet owned by the U.S.
Department of Defense.
That real estate has since
more than quadrupled to 175
million addresses — about
½5th the size of the current
internet.
“It is massive,” said Doug
Madory, director of internet
analysis at Kentik, a network
operating company. It’s also
more than twice the size of
the internet space actually
used by the Pentagon.
After weeks of wonder
by the networking commu-
nity, the Pentagon has now
provided a terse explanation
for what it’s doing.
But it has not answered
many basic questions, begin-
ning with why it chose to
entrust management of the
address space to a company
that seems not to have
existed until September.
The military hopes
to “assess, evaluate and
prevent unauthorized use
of DoD IP address space,”
said a statement issued by
Brett Goldstein, chief of the
Pentagon’s Defense Digital
Service, which is running
the project. It also hopes to
“identify potential vulnera-
bilities.”
The statement did not
specify whether the “pilot
project” would involve
outside contractors.
The Pentagon periodically
contends with unauthorized
squatting on its space, in part
because there has been a
shortage of first-generation
internet addresses since
2011; they now sell at auction
A relative waits with a COVID-19 patient Saturday outside a hospital in India. The country on
Sunday set a global daily record of new infections. ATUL LOKE/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Crushing surge of infections
‘swallowing’ hard-hit India
By Sheikh Saaliq
and Aijaz Hussain
Associated Press
NEW DELHI — With
life-saving oxygen in short
supply, family members in
India are left on their own to
ferry coronavirus patients
from hospital to hospital
in search of treatment as
the country is engulfed in
a devastating new surge of
infections. Too often their
efforts end in mourning.
The stories are told on
social media and in tele-
vision footage, showing
desperate relatives pleading
for oxygen outside hospitals
or weeping in the street for
loved ones who died wait-
ing for treatment.
One woman mourned
the death of her 50-year-
old younger brother. He was
turned away by two hospi-
tals and died waiting to be
seen at a third, gasping after
his oxygen tank ran out and
no replacements were to be
had.
She blamed Prime
Minister Narendra Modi’s
government for the crisis.
“He has lit funeral pyres
in every house,” she cried
in a video shot by India’s
magazine The Caravan.
The Pentagon has offered a terse explanation for why it hired a shadowy company located above a Florida bank to manage a
colossal, previously idle chunk of the internet it owns. CHARLES DHARAPAK/AP 2008
for upwards of $25 each.
Madory said advertising
the address space will make
it easier to chase off squat-
ters and allow the U.S. mili-
tary to “collect a massive
amount of background
internet traffic for threat
intelligence.”
Some cybersecurity
experts have speculated
that the Pentagon may be
using the newly advertised
space to create “honey-
pots,” machines set up with
vulnerabilities to draw hack-
ers. Or it could be looking
to set up dedicated infra-
structure to scour traffic for
suspect activity.
“This greatly increases
the space they could moni-
tor,” said Madory, who
published a blog post on the
matter Saturday.
What a Pentagon spokes-
man could not explain is
why the Defense Depart-
ment chose Global Resource
Systems LLC, a company
with no record of govern-
ment contracts, to manage
The breakdown is a
stark failure for a country
whose prime minister only
in January had declared
victory over COVID-19, and
which boasted of being the
“world’s pharmacy,” a global
producer of vaccines and a
model for other developing
nations.
For the fourth consecu-
tive day, India on Sunday
set a global daily record of
new infections, spurred by
a new variant.
The 349,691 confirmed
infections over the past
day brought India’s total
to more than 16.9 million
cases, behind only the
United States. The Health
Ministry reported another
2,767 deaths in the past 24
hours, pushing India’s fatal-
ities to 192,311.
Experts say this toll
could be a huge under-
count, as suspected cases
are not included, and many
COVID-19 deaths are being
attributed to underlying
conditions.
The crisis is most visceral
in India’s overwhelmed
graveyards and crematori-
ums, and in heartbreaking
images of gasping patients
dying on their way to hospi-
tals due to lack of oxygen.
the address space.
“As to why the DoD would
have done that, I’m a little
mystified, same as you,”
said Paul Vixie, an inter-
net pioneer credited with
designing its naming system
and the CEO of Farsight
Security.
The company did not
return phone calls or
emails from The Associ-
ated Press. It has no web
presence, though it has the
domain grscorp.com. Its
name doesn’t appear on
the directory of its Planta-
tion, Florida, domicile, and
a receptionist drew a blank
when an AP reporter asked
for a company representa-
tive at the office this month.
She found its name on a
tenant list and suggested
trying email. Records
show the company has not
obtained a business license
in Plantation.
Incorporated in Dela-
ware and registered by a
Beverly Hills lawyer, Global
Resource Systems LLC now
Burial grounds in New
Delhi, the capital, are
running out of space.
Bright, glowing funeral
pyres light up the night sky
in other badly hit cities.
In the central city of
Bhopal, some crematori-
ums have increased their
capacity from dozens of
pyres to more than 50. Yet
officials say there are still
hourslong waits.
At the city’s Bhadbhada
Vishram Ghat cremato-
rium, workers said they
cremated more than 110
people Saturday, even as
government figures in the
entire city of 1.8 million put
the total number of virus
deaths at 10.
“The virus is swallow-
ing our city’s people like a
monster,” said Mamtesh
Sharma, an official at the
site.
The unprecedented
rush of bodies has forced
the crematorium to skip
individual ceremonies
and exhaustive rituals that
Hindus believe release
the soul from the cycle of
rebirth.
“We are just burning
bodies as they arrive,” said
Sharma. “It is as if we are in
the middle of a war.”
manages more internet
space than China Telecom,
AT&T or Comcast.
The only name associ-
ated with it on the Florida
business registry coincides
with that of a man listed
as recently as 2018 in
Nevada corporate records
as a managing member of
a cybersecurity/internet
surveillance equipment
company called Packet
Forensics. The company
had nearly $40 million in
publicly disclosed federal
contracts over the past
decade, with the FBI and
the Pentagon’s Defense
Advanced Research Projects
Agency among its custom-
ers.
That man, Raymond
Saulino, is also listed as
a principal in a company
called Tidewater Laskin
Associates, which was
incorporated in 2018 and
obtained an FCC license
in April 2020. It shares
the same Virginia Beach,
Virginia, address — a UPS
Election conspiracies live on
with audit by Arizona GOP
By Jonathan J. Cooper
and Bob Christie
Associated Press
PHOENIX — Months
after former President
Donald Trump’s election
defeat, legislative Repub-
licans in Arizona are chal-
lenging the outcome as
they embark on an unprec-
edented effort to audit the
results in the state’s most
populous county.
The state Senate used
its subpoena power to take
possession of all 2.1 million
ballots in Maricopa County
and the machines that
counted them, along with
computer hard drives full
of data. They’ve handed
the materials over to Cyber
Ninjas, a Florida-based
consultancy with no elec-
tion experience run by
a man who has shared
unfounded conspiracy
theories claiming the offi-
cial 2020 presidential elec-
tion results are illegitimate.
The process is alarming
election professionals who
fear the auditors are not up
to the complex task and will
severely undermine faith in
democracy.
“I think the activities
that are taking place here
are reckless and they in no
way, shape or form resem-
ble an audit,” said Jennifer
Morrell, a partner at Elec-
tions Group, a consulting
firm advising state and local
election officials, which has
not worked in Arizona.
Conspiracy theories
about the election have
proliferated across the
country even before Presi-
dent Joe Biden’s victory but
have had particular staying
power in Arizona, which
flipped to the Democratic
column for just the second
time in 72 years.
Trump on Friday
predicted the audit would
reveal fraud and would
prompt similar reviews in
other states he lost.
“Thank you State Sena-
tors and others in Arizona
for commencing this full
store — in corporate records
as Packet Forensics. The
two have different mail-
box numbers. Calls to the
number listed on the Tide-
water Laskin FCC filing are
answered by an automated
service that offers four
different options but doesn’t
connect callers with a single
one, recycling all calls to the
initial voice recording.
Saulino did not return
phone calls seeking
comment, and a longtime
colleague at Packet Foren-
sics, Rodney Joffe, said he
believed Saulino was retired.
Joffe, a cybersecurity lumi-
nary, declined further
comment. Joffe is chief
technical officer at Neustar
Inc., which provides inter-
net intelligence and services
for major industries, includ-
ing telecommunications and
defense.
In 2011, Packet Forensics
and Saulino, its spokesman,
were featured in a Wired
story because the company
was selling an appliance to
Former Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett walks the
floor last week during setup for a 2020 election audit of
ballots cast in Maricopa County. ROSS D. FRANKLIN/AP
forensic audit,” the former
president said in a state-
ment. “I predict the results
will be startling!”
Cyber Ninjas began a
manual recount of ballots
Friday, a day after Demo-
crats asked a judge to put
an end to the audit. The
judge ordered the company
to follow ballot and voter
secrecy laws and demanded
they turn over written
procedures and training
manuals before a hearing
Monday on the Democrats’
request. He offered to pause
the count over the week-
end if Democrats posted
a $1 million bond to cover
added expenses, but the
party declined.
On a since-deleted
Twitter account, Cyber
Ninjas owner Doug Logan
used hashtags and shared
memes popular with people
promoting unsupported
allegations casting doubt
on Biden’s victory.
Logan insists that his
personal views are irrele-
vant because he’s running
a transparent audit with
video streamed online.
Logan refuses to disclose
who’s paying him or who’s
counting the ballots, and
government agencies and
law enforcement that let
them spy on people’s web
browsing using forged secu-
rity certificates.
The company continues
to sell “lawful intercept”
equipment, according to its
website. One of its current
contracts with the Defense
Advanced Research Proj-
ects Agency is for “harness-
ing autonomy for countering
cyber-adversary systems.” A
contract description says it is
investigating “technologies
for conducting safe, nondis-
ruptive, and effective active
defense operations in cyber-
space.” Contract language
from 2019 says the program
would “investigate the feasi-
bility of creating safe and
reliable autonomous soft-
ware agencies that can effec-
tively counter malicious
botnet implants and similar
large-scale malware.”
Deepening the mystery is
Global Resource Systems’
name. It is identical to that
of a firm that independent
internet fraud researcher
Ron Guilmette says was
sending out email spam
using the very same inter-
net routing identifier. It shut
down more than a decade
ago. All that differs is the
type of company. This one’s
a limited liability corpora-
tion. The other was a corpo-
ration. Both used the same
street address in Plantation.
“It’s deeply suspicious,”
said Guilmette, who unsuc-
cessfully sued the previ-
ous incarnation of Global
Resource Systems in
2006. Guilmette consid-
ers such masquerading,
known as slip-streaming, a
ham-handed tactic in this
situation.
Guilmette and Madory
were alerted to the mystery
when network operators
began inquiring about it on
an email list in March. But
almost everyone involved
didn’t want to talk about it.
Mike Leber, who owns
Hurricane Electric, the
internet backbone company
handling the address blocks’
traffic, didn’t return emails
or phone messages.
he won’t commit to using
bipartisan teams for the
process. The GOP-domi-
nated Senate refuses to let
media members observe the
count. Reporters can accept
a six-hour shift as an official
observer, but photography
and notetaking are prohib-
ited. It would be a violation
of journalistic ethics for
reporters to participate in
an event they’re covering.
Cyber Ninjas plans to
have teams manually count
each ballot, looking only at
the presidential and U.S.
Senate contests, which
were won by Democrats.
Cyber Ninjas also plans
to review ballot counting
machines and their data,
and to scan the composi-
tion of fibers in the paper
ballots in search of fakes.
It plans to go door-to-door
in select precincts to ask
people whether they voted.
Logan was vague about how
the precincts were chosen
but said a statistical analysis
was done.
Election experts said
hand counts are prone to
errors and questioned a
lack of transparent proce-
dures for adjudicating voter
intent.

NEWS BRIEFING
Turkey summons US
envoy over declaration
of Armenian ‘genocide’
From news services
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s
foreign ministry has
summoned the U.S. ambas-
sador in Ankara to protest
the U.S. decision to mark the
deportation and killing of
Armenians during the Otto-
man Empire as “genocide.”
Deputy Foreign Minister
Sedat Onal met with David
Satterfield late Saturday
to express Ankara’s strong
condemnation.
“The statement does not
have legal ground in terms
of international law and has
hurt the Turkish people,
opening a wound that’s hard
to fix in our relations,” the
ministry said.
On Saturday, U.S. Pres-
ident Joe Biden followed
through on a campaign
promise to recognize the
events that began in 1915
and killed an estimated 1.5
million Ottoman Armenians
as genocide.
That prompted state-
ments of condemnation
from Turkish officials,
although Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is yet
to address the issue.
Turkey rejects the use of
the word, saying both Turks
and Armenians were killed
in the World War I-era fight-
ing, and has called for a joint
history commission to inves-
tigate.
For years, American pres-
idents have avoided using
“genocide” to describe
what Armenians call Meds
Yeghern, or the Great Crime.
Ibrahim Kalin, spokes-
man to the Turkish pres-
ident, tweeted Sunday:
“President Erdogan opened
Turkey’s national archives
& called for a joint histori-
cal committee to investigate
the events of 1915, to which
Armenia never responded.
It is a pity @POTUS has
ignored, among others, this
simple fact and taken an
irresponsible and unprinci-
pled position.”
Armenia PM resigns: Arme-
nia’s prime minister has
resigned, a step necessary
to hold snap parliamentary
elections June 20.
Prime Minister Nikol
Pashinyan announced the
elections last month to try
to resolve political tensions
that arose after last year’s
defeat in a war with Azer-
baijan.
Under a cease-fire signed
by Pashinyan, Armenia
ceded large swaths of terri-
tory in and around the
Nagorno-Karabakh region
of Azerbaijan that had been
under the control of ethnic
Armenian forces since the
end of a separatist war in
1994.
The agreement sparked
large protests calling for
Pashinyan’s ouster that
persisted for months.
Under Armenian law,
snap elections can be held
after a premier resigns and
the parliament fails twice to
choose a new one.
Israeli blast: A mysteri-
ous blast heard in central
Israel appears to have come
during a rocket engine test
conducted at a secretive
military base associated
with the country’s missile
program, according to an
analyst and satellite images.
Video of the incident at
Sdot Micha Air Base circu-
lated online last week.
Iranian state media seized
on it amid its tensions
with Israel after a series of
attacks targeting its nuclear
program and amid nego-
tiations in Vienna over its
tattered atomic accord.
However, the smoke
and flames filmed April 20
appear to be from a rocket
engine test, said Jeffrey
Lewis, an expert at the
James Martin Center for
Nonproliferation Studies at
the Middlebury Institute
of International Studies,
who located the site with
others. Lewis said the image
Remembering the fallen: A veteran salutes Sunday during the Anzac Day march to the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne,
Australia. Anzac Day marks the 1915 landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps in Gallipoli, Turkey, during World War I.
For the second consecutive year, the coronavirus pandemic pared back remembrances. WILLIAM WEST/GETTY-AFP
compared to others of simi-
lar tests he and experts have
extensively studied.
Satellite photos taken
by Planet Labs Inc. and
analyzed by The Associated
Press of a known rocket
test stand at Sdot Micha
showed char marks and
foliage burned away at the
site after April 20. However,
the surrounding buildings
bore no signs of damage.
The location also mirrored
details of the video posted to
social media.
The Israeli Defense
Ministry did not immedi-
ately respond to questions
from the AP on Sunday.
France protest: Protesters in
Paris and other French cities
Sunday denounced a ruling
by France’s highest court
that the killer of a Jewish
woman was not criminally
responsible and therefore
could not go on trial.
Thousands filled
Trocadero Plaza in Paris,
in front of the Eiffel Tower,
answering a call by Jewish
associations and groups
fighting antisemitism who
say that justice has not been
done.
Other protests took place
in Marseille, Lyon, Stras-
bourg, Bordeaux.
Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-
old Jewish woman, died
in 2017 after being pushed
out of a window of her Paris
apartment by her neighbor,
Kobili Traore, who allegedly
shouted “Allahu Akbar”
—“God is great” in Arabic.
Traore admitted pushing
her.
The ruling issued this
month said there was
enough evidence to show
the act had antisemitic
motives. But the court said
a person who committed a
crime while in a “delirious
state” cannot be sent to trial
even if that state was caused
by the habitual use of illegal
drugs. Traore used to smoke
heavy quantities of cannabis.
Under French law, people
cannot be held criminally
responsible for actions
committed while fully losing
their judgment or self-con-
trol due to a psychiatric
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disorder. Traore has been in
a psychiatric hospital since
Halimi’s death.
Airline bans senator:
Alaska Airlines has banned
an Alaska state senator for
refusing to follow mask
requirements.
“We have notified Sena-
tor Lora Reinbold that she
is not permitted to fly with
us for her continued refusal
to comply with employee
instruction regarding
the current mask policy,”
spokesman Tim Thompson
told the Anchorage Daily
News.
Reinbold, a Republican,
said she had not been noti-
fied of a ban.
Last week, Reinbold was
recorded in Juneau Interna-
tional Airport arguing with
airline staff about mask poli-
cies. A video posted to social
media appears to show staff
telling Reinbold her mask
must cover her nose and
mouth.
Reinbold told the news-
paper that she had been
inquiring about a “mask
exemption with uptight
employees at the counter.”
Reinbold has been a vocal
opponent to COVID-19
mitigation measures and
has repeatedly objected to
Alaska Airlines’ mask policy.
Indonesia sub: Indonesia’s
military Sunday officially
said all 53 crew members
from a submarine that sank
and broke apart last week
are dead, and that search
teams had located the
vessel’s wreckage on the
ocean floor.
The grim announcement
comes a day after Indone-
sia said the submarine was
considered sunk, not merely
missing, but did not explic-
itly say whether the crew
was dead.
“We received underwater
pictures that are confirmed
as parts of the submarine,
including its rear vertical
rudder, anchors, outer pres-
sure body, embossed dive
rudder and other ship parts,”
military chief Hadi Tjah-
janto told reporters Sunday
in Bali.
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TRIBUNE VOICES Commentary and analysis from Tribune columnists and staff

Our patience is wearing thin

Every mayor for the last 30 years has failed to keep his or her promise to bring the violence under control
Dahleen Glanton
Seven-year-old Jaslyn Adams
was killed in a hail of bullets
while sitting in a car at a McDon-
ald’s drive-thru on a Sunday after-
noon in Homan Square.
That was just three days after
authorities released video show-
ing a police officer shoot and kill
13-year-old Adam Toledo in Little
Village.
A few weeks before, 22-month-
old Kayden Swann was shot in
the head and critically injured in a
road rage incident on Lake Shore
Drive near Grant Park.
A month before that, 11-year-
old Ny-Andra Dyer was killed
when a gunman opened fire on
her mother’s car at a gas station in
West Pullman.
Fifteen people were shot at a
funeral in the Gresham neighbor-
hood last July. It was the dead-
liest shooting in recent memory
— until 15 people were shot, two
fatally, at a pop-up party in the
Park Manor neighborhood in
March.
Last August, rapper FBG Duck
was gunned down in a brazen
shooting on the Gold Coast. In
December, Dwain Williams, a
retired Chicago fire lieutenant,
was killed during an attempted
carjacking in Morgan Park.
It’s time for us to come to
terms with a fact no one wants
to admit: Chicago is a dangerous
city. No neighborhood is shielded
from the violence. We can’t even
protect our children.
Every mayor for the last 30
years has failed to keep his or her
promise to bring the violence
under control. Richard M. Daley
didn’t know what to do about it.
Rahm Emanuel couldn’t fix it.
And Lori Lightfoot hasn’t either.
Since I moved to Chicago in
1989, there have been eight police
superintendents who were as
clueless as the mayors.
Superintendent David Brown’s
first-year legacy does not give us
reason to feel hopeful. There have
been nearly 1,000 homicides in
Chicago since he took over the
Police Department in April 2020.
It would be unfair to blame
Brown for every killing during
his short tenure, but under his
leadership thus far, the violence
clearly has gotten worse.
Though the numbers remained
uncomfortably high, Chicago had
seen a three-year decline in homi-
cides prior to Brown’s arrival
last year. In 2020, there were 769
killings, about 270 more than the
previous year. In all, more than
4,000 people were shot last year,
the most since 2016.
Maybe we’d be better off if
Lightfoot and Brown admitted
that they’re in over their heads.
That way, we wouldn’t keep look-
ing to them for solutions.
Brown didn’t spend much of
his first year getting to know the
residents of Chicago. If he has
a detailed plan to address the
violence, he hasn’t revealed it to
us. We’re still waiting for him to
tell us what he plans to do and
what we can do to help.
Early on, Brown seemed to
think that he could just arrest the
violence away. But long-term,
sustainable solutions require a
thoughtfully laid-out plan that
engages the entire city. We need
a proactive approach to polic-
Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks April 19
about the death of Jaslyn Adams, 7.
ERIN HOOLEY/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
ing, in which potential issues are
identified and addressed before a
problem arises.
For too long, police officers
have followed a script that does
more to terrorize communities of
color than encourage residents to
work with them as a team. Noth-
ing Brown or Lightfoot does will
succeed until the trust issue is
resolved.
Last week, Brown indicated
that he is open to a more compre-
hensive approach, which involves
changing police culture to build
relationships.
“If we’re going to change our
culture, it’s going to be because
the community demands it,”
Brown said during a rare news
conference. “And we as a profes-
sion, not just as a department,
have to … embrace this change
that’s happening across this
country in law enforcement.
“A lot of what that means is
shut up and listen,” he said.
If Brown had listened sooner,
he would have known that the
community has been demanding
change for a long time. Residents
who live in the most challenged
communities have good ideas.
What they need from the Police
Department is a willingness to
hear them and the leadership to
carry them out.
If residents could fix the prob-
lems in their neighborhoods on
their own, they would have done
so long ago. They are continu-
ously putting their heads together
to figure how to stop the next
shooting from occurring. But
they don’t have the resources
to protect themselves day to
day, much less effect long-term
change.
They have marched through
their streets in an attempt to
reclaim their communities from
gangs. They have pleaded with
the business community, philan-
thropic groups and volunteers
from throughout Chicago to join
them.
They have begged politicians in
Chicago, Springfield and Wash-
ington to lend a hand. They’ve
mostly gotten empty promises.
Meanwhile, innocent chil-
dren are dying. As summer
approaches, we are braced for
an onslaught of violence, while
hoping that it isn’t as bad as the
last one.
When 3-year-old Mekhi James
was shot to death on Father’s
Day weekend last year in Austin,
a Tribune editorial called for
Chicago to make his killing a
“springboard for change.” Turns
out it was the beginning of a
bloody summer.
Mekhi was killed while riding
in the back seat of a car with his
father. Two hours later about five
blocks away, 13-year-old Amaria
Jones was dancing with her
mother when a stray bullet fatally
struck her in the neck inside her
South Austin home.
In the following weeks, inno-
cent children kept dying.
Twenty-month-old Sincere
Gaston was shot to death while
riding in the car with his mother
in Englewood. Ten-year-old
Lena Nunez Anaya was killed by
a stray bullet that went through
the window of her grandmother’s
apartment in Logan Square.
Seven-year-old Natalia Wallace
was killed on the Fourth of July
while playing in front of her
grandparents’ Austin home.
Nine-year-old Janari Ricks was
killed as he played outdoors in
Cabrini-Green on July 31. And
8-year-old Dajore Wilson was
riding in the car with her parents
in Canaryville on Sept. 7 when
gunmen opened fire.
It isn’t too late for Lightfoot
and Brown to turn things around.
But we are running out of time.
Summer is just around the corner.
Chicagoans want the mayor
and the police superintendent to
succeed because it’s the only way
the city can win. Many residents
are anxious to help in any way
they can. Young and old voices
from all over the city have a lot
to say. They’re just waiting for a
chance.
But our patience is wearing
thin.
If Lightfoot and Brown can’t
help us protect our children, we
will keep searching until we find a
mayor and police superintendent
who can.
dglanton@chicagotribune.com
Twitter @dahleeng

‘Who better to advocate for us than us?’

Mamas Caucus wants to make Illinois the most mom-friendly state in the nation
Heidi Stevens
Josina Morita was the first
commissioner on Chicago’s
Metropolitan Water Reclamation
District to have a baby while in
office and was told, at one point,
to use an empty tech support
office when she needed to pump
breastmilk.
State Rep. Margaret Croke
had a 2-month-old son during
the 12th House District primary
race and brought her son to work
every day because Illinois, unlike
several other states, doesn’t
consider child care an allowable
campaign expense.
“That was cute and all when
he was 2 months old,” Croke
said. “But now he’s 18 months old
and he doesn’t stop moving. The
barrier to be a public servant is
that you have to be able to afford
a full-time household employee,
and that’s crazy.”
City Clerk Anna Valencia had
a baby during the pandemic. She
said she struggled with the isola-
tion and fear that so many new
parents experienced in 2020,
even as she watched her friends
and constituents get pushed
out of a workforce that wasn’t
prepared to support working
mothers during a global crisis.
City Treasurer Melissa
Conyears-Ervin is raising a
4-year-old daughter. “On the
West Side of Chicago,” she said.
“Even more reason to fight for
equity for working families, espe-
cially working mothers.”
The four women have joined
forces, along with 18 other bipar-
tisan elected officials — alder-
men, county commissioners, state
representatives — to form an Illi-
nois Mamas Caucus. Their goal
is to turn Illinois into the most
mom-friendly state in the nation,
through policies that support
working families, protect female
and maternal health, provide
high-quality public education and
make it easier for women to run
for elected office.
“Women, especially moth-
ers, are the ones who don’t crack
under pressure,” Conyears-Er-
vin said. “We know how to have
the baby on one hip and stand up
to the microphone on the House
floor, Senate floor, talk about our
legislation, nurse our babies on
Zoom calls, you name it. That’s
Josina Morita, chair of the Mamas Caucus, stands with her husband, Cornell Collins, and children Kai Collins, 2, and
Mei-Mei Collins, 1. E. JASON WAMBSGANS/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
State Rep. Margaret Croke.
DEAN LA PRAIRIE/CROKE CAMPAIGN
why we’re doing this. Is it diffi-
cult? Yes. Do we have time for it?
No. But it is so very important.”
The founding members of the
Mamas Caucus are hosting a
virtual town hall, where they’re
inviting the public to share their
stories of living and working and
parenting through a pandemic.
“So many of the things we were
always told were impossible — it’s
impossible to work remotely, it’s
impossible to have flextime, it’s
impossible to do all these things
— the pandemic created a whole
new normal,” Morita said. “Some
things we were able to prove are
possible, we hope to hold onto.
Part of what we want to talk
about in this town hall is, ‘What
is it going to take, right now, to
help keep you in the workforce?
Chicago Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin, left, and City Clerk Anna Valencia
stand at City Hall on Thursday. They are two of 22 women in elected office
forming an Illinois Mamas Caucus with the goal of making Illinois the most
mom-friendly state in the nation. ANTONIO PEREZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
What supports do you need right
now? How do we help you fight
for these? How do we take some
of these temporary changes and
make them permanent? How do
we use this time as a way to build
a more mama-friendly economy
and a more mama-friendly set of
policies?’ So when we talk about
a mama recovery, hopefully that
recovery becomes a new normal
in a good way for moms in the
workforce.”
You can RSVP for the virtual
town hall at www.mamascaucus.
org. It’s scheduled for 1-2:30 p.m.
May 1 and will be broken into four
discussion topics: employment,
child care, schools and self-care.
Morita, who chairs the Mamas
Caucus, said city and state
government bodies are undergo-
ing a substantial shift in who sets
policy.
“There are a lot of women in
the General Assembly and City
Council who are moms, but their
kids are older, out of the house, in
college,” said Morita, whose chil-
dren are 1 and 2. “This is the first
time we’ve had a group of young
moms in legislative office, and
we all kind of found each other
and supported each other on the
campaign trail and while we’re
serving.”
With that shift, Morita said,
is an increased visibility for the
actual work of mothering.
“We’re taking our kids to
events,” Morita said. “We’re
campaigning with babies in
Björns on our chest. There’s just
a visibility and a pushing through
that space right now to make
it the norm. If we’re not there,
things aren’t changing.”
Conyears-Ervin talked about
successfully sponsoring 2018
legislation to require lactation
rooms at the Illinois State Capitol
building when she was serving as
a state representative for the 10th
District and co-chair of the Illi-
nois House Democratic Women’s
Caucus.
“Who better to advocate for us
than us?” Conyears-Ervin said.
Valencia said the Mamas
Caucus feels particularly urgent
in light of the number of women
who left the workplace during
the pandemic. Women accounted
for 55% of the 2020 job losses,
according to the National
Women’s Law Project. Immigrant
women and mothers — particu-
larly Black mothers — bore the
brunt of the job losses.
“Those statistics are real
people,” Valencia said. “They’re
our constituents. They’re our
friends. They’re our sisters.
There’s no reason we can’t be
pushing progressive policies here
at City Hall and on a state level,
advocating for working moms.”
Morita said she doesn’t know
of any other states with a Mamas
Caucus, making this endeavor
both groundbreaking and
untested.
“We have no idea what to
expect, in terms of the town hall
and how many people will show
up,” Morita said. “I think this is
one of those examples, ‘If you
build it they will come.’ ”
I hope May 1 proves her right.
The surest solutions, the ones
that serve the most people and
have the best shot at effecting
lasting change, come from a
plurality of voices with a diversity
of backgrounds.
“We always say, if mamas can’t
figure it out across the aisle,”
Morita said, “if mamas can’t
figure it out across the state, then
nobody can. So we’re excited to
try.”
hstevens@chicagotribune.com
Twitter @heidistevens13
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Recreational pot rules Why can’t we invent an effective

Illinois has to get real if it wants to
oversee the responsible use of recre-
ational marijuana.
First, it should get rid of the name
“cannabis dispensaries.” By defini-
tion, a dispensary is a place where
medicine is prepared and provided.
Recreational pot is not that.
Second, we have to regard weed
products the same way as alcoholic
beverages. Both are intoxicating and
can cause impairment. Partakers
often use nonmedical pot and booze
to self-medicate for mental problems
and pain.
Illinois can start by using labels
similar to what the federal govern-
ment requires for whiskey. Cannabis
should be identified by type, name
and address of grower/importer, and
strength of active ingredients. And a
warning should state that consump-
tion impairs the ability to drive a car
or operate machinery and may cause
health problems.
The state also should ensure all
cannabis edibles are sold in child-
proof containers so our young folks
don’t mistakenly poison themselves.
Lastly, our state should speed
up the creation of reliable tests to
allow police to assess when drivers
White Sox starting pitcher Carlos Rodon delivers his final pitch to the Cleveland Indians en route to a or workers are impaired enough to
no-hitter at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago on April 14. CHRIS SWEDA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE cause harm.
Right now, recreational pot in Illi-
nois is a free-for-all. Consumers do
device for law enforcement that
disables suspects without causing
permanent harm or death? Why do
we still use guns, which are ancient
inventions? (Remember when Tasers
were going to solve this?)
We’ve conquered much bigger and
more complex technological chal-
lenges. This seems simple in compar-
ison to me. Who’s working on this
solution?
— Paul Calamari, Lake Zurich
Law and order
in Juarez
Welcome to Juarez, Mexico.
No car chases. No foot chases. No
warrants. No arrests.
Homicides. Opioid overdoses.
Burglaries. Carjackings.
— Roberto Garcia, Chicago
Try a gang summit?
We wring our hands in anguish
over the deaths of children and give
lip service to solutions, but do noth-
ing. We know the problem is gangs
and the illegal guns their members
employ.
I propose a solution from Chica-
go’s early mob problem: a summit
of gang heads with our mayor and
select aldermen. The aim would be
to reach a deal to lessen the violence

... And in baseball news, moving not have the information they need to
intelligently pick and safely consume
it. If they bring weed into their
and warfare and possibly provide a
mechanism for them to address and
work out their issues.

the pitcher’s mound. Yea or nay? homes, others may be endangered.

Baseball is a game steeped
in history and tradition. The
National League started up
in 1876 and the American
League in 1901 — and it’s a
testament to baseball’s attach-
ment to custom that inter-
league play didn’t arrive until
1997. Half the fun of being a
serious baseball fan is fighting
change.
This season, though, base-
ball will experiment with an
idea that may cause purists to
incur dental damage gnash-
ing their teeth. The Atlan-
tic League, an independent
minor league affiliated with
Major League Baseball, will
move the pitcher’s mound
back a foot — increasing the
distance from the rubber to
home plate to 61 feet and 6
inches.
This audacious step is a
response to trends that some
fans find regrettable. As pitch-
ers have increased their aver-
age velocity, strikeouts have
soared with twice as many in
2019 (the last full season) as
in 1980.
As analytic advances have
spurred hitters to try to reach
the fences rather than settle
for singles, the number of
home runs has also doubled in
the past three decades.
The number of batters who
reach base by drawing walks
or being hit by pitches has
also risen. The overall result is
that nearly one-third of plate
appearances end without
a ball being put into play —
which has the effect of reduc-
ing fielders to expensive lawn
ornaments.
All this means less action
for fans to watch. It may not
be a coincidence that total
attendance at major league
games fell every season from
2016 through 2019.
You can’t make pitchers
throttle back. You can’t make
hitters slap the ball the other
way. You can’t force manag-
ers to order steals when they
deem the risks excessive. But
you can make changes that
could elicit more action on the
field.
After the 1968 season, in
reaction to excessive domi-
nance by pitchers, MLB
lowered the mound and
shrank the strike zone. In
1973, the American League
excused pitchers from the
generally hopeless task of
batting, turning that duty over
to designated hitters.
In 2014, runners were
barred smashing into catchers
at home plate. In 2016, MLB
adopted new rules to prevent
base runners from bowling
over infielders trying to make
double plays.
The 60-feet, 6-inch
distance from mound to plate,
however, has always seemed
sacrosanct, like the 90 feet
span between bases — which
legendary sports writer Red
Smith said “may be the closest
man has ever come to perfec-
tion.”
Pitchers will doubtless
resist the move, with a plausi-
ble fear of more arm injuries.
As for attendance, the average
baseball game draws some
11,000 more spectators than
the average NBA game, even
though basketball has far
more action. And it’s always
possible that the extra foot
won’t prove to help hitters.
The people in charge of
the game, however, fear that
velocity and other changes are
warping the way baseball is
played.
As an anonymous MLB offi-
cial told The Washington Post,
“We kept coming back to the
fact that we can try to change
four or five things . . . But we’d
probably be negligent if we
didn’t at least try the one solu-
tion that, while we were call-
ing it radical, might in and of
itself be the solution.”
Jed Hoyer, president of
baseball operations for the
Chicago Cubs, told The
New York Times that “the
rules aren’t written on stone
tablets.”
They’re not? If nothing else,
the experiment will give fans
something to argue about.
Which is not a bad way to pass
the time between home runs.
And since it’s so difficult for police
to detect cannabis levels in users,
there is almost no way to prevent
those who are high from driving and
causing accidents.
Illinois, we can do better!
— B. Elizabeth Mina, Chicago
Knocking mayor’s
upgrades
Gregory Pratt’s April 15 article (“In
midst of shortfall, mayor splurged”)
on the mayor’s “splurge” on tech
upgrades in summer 2020 is beneath
the Tribune. In a world where
government waste — real govern-
ment waste — exists, focusing on a
hundred thousand in tech upgrades
during the COVID-19 pandemic
nearly a year ago is muckraking.
A world-class city needs world-
class conference rooms.
— Steve Richart, Chicago
Alternative to guns
for police
Once again, I read another heart-
breaking story about a senseless and
avoidable death in a police encounter.
Rather than wade into the complex
issues that cause these tragedies, I
have one simple question: Why can’t
technology eliminate these extreme
outcomes in the first place?
For online exclusive letters go to www.chicagotribune.com/letters.
Send letters by email to letters@chicagotribune.com or to Voice of the People,
Chicago Tribune, 560 W. Grand Ave., Chicago, IL, 60654.
Include your name, address and phone number.
The gangs are a reality as are their
turf wars. They are not going away
anytime soon. Our Constitution,
our civil rights laws and our politi-
cal correctness prevent the radical
crackdown alternative: the outlawing
of gang membership, mass incarcera-
tion, stopping and frisking, and mass
searches.
— Charles Katz, Wilmette
Spending to please
the boss
There is an old saw about how
“one screw-up cancels out a thou-
sand attaboys.” So it is unfortunate
that such good works as Mayor Lori
Lightfoot may do are overshadowed
by the overspending on her office’s
remodeling and upgrading of audio-
visual equipment under the guise of
needing to operate virtually.
It is far too easy for staff to commit
these financial improprieties to
please the boss when there is no
controlling profit-and-loss structure.
There are many tales of government
officials, such as Cabinet members,
spending absurd amounts of money
for such things as a $100,000 dining
set.
Maybe I was too afraid of criticism
when I was in local government to
seize the opportunity to upgrade my
office surroundings.
— Elliott Fredland, Chicago

ABOUT THAT ‘FREE’ FEDERAL DOUGH EDITORIAL CARTOON

Blessed with an embarrassment of riches, Utah will

have a $1.5 billion surplus and get a match from the
federal government.
The Beehive State is collecting another $1.5 billion
in federal stimulus funds from The American Rescue
Plan. The coronavirus “bailout” for Utah is just part of
the $350 billion in aid for state and local governments
after a year of pandemic shutdowns and struggling
economies.
But for Utah, its economy has been able to with-
stand the downturn that has hurt other states. As Gov.
Spencer Cox said in a press release about the finan-
cial health of the state, Utah’s economy has long-term
strength.
“Key indicators continue to show that the Utah
Way has again paid dividends, with our state leading
the nation in the economic recovery,” Cox said.
That “Utah Way,” including “prudent use of
taxpayer resources,” allowed for a $1.5 billion
surplus. The governor credited the extra money after
an unprecedented year with the “Utah economy
performing exceptionally well relative to expectations
in the beginning months of the pandemic.”
So why did the state get $1.5 billion from the federal
stimulus?
The spending plan made no distinction between
states that managed its finances well and states that
didn’t, between states that had extensive shutdowns
and those that didn’t, between states that have gotten
some of its tourism dollars back and those that haven’t
welcomed tourists back.
And no state has turned down the “free” money
from the federal government.
Adam Andrzejewski, OpenTheBooks,
via RealClearWire DANA SUMMERS/TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY
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Local police departments can’t
reform themselves. Bring on the feds.
By Erwin Chemerinsky
Attorney General Merrick Garland’s
announcement last week that the
Justice Department is starting an
investigation into the Minneapo-
lis Police Department for unlawful
policing practices is one step toward
systemwide reform. This is a welcome
change from the Trump administra-
tion’s refusal to use this federal power.
The reality is that it is very difficult
for cities to reform their own police
departments. Their instinctive reac-
tion is defensive, even in response
to egregious police misconduct, like
Derek Chauvin’s killing of George
Floyd. The first statement put out by
the Minneapolis police the day after
Floyd’s death was not about the need
to investigate. Instead, it said, “Man
dies after medical incident during
police interaction,” suggesting that
nothing happened between Floyd’s
arrest and his transport to the hospital.
Police unions often exercise signifi-
cant political influence and are obsta-
cles to major changes. High-profile
instances of police abuse might trigger
efforts at reform, but as public atten-
tion wanes, reform efforts fade as well.
That’s why using federal author-
ity to compel reforms in police
departments is critical. The Justice
The Supreme Court debates the all-powerful F-word
By Nicholas Goldberg
The F-word will soon be coming to the
nation’s most august courtroom — again.
This time, it will get there courtesy of
B.L., an anonymous young woman who
wrote a profanity-filled Snapchat post
after she was rejected for her high school’s
varsity cheerleading team. Her post — and
her school’s decision to punish her for it —
has ignited a free-speech case that will be
argued before the U.S. Supreme Court this
week.
But B.L. was not the first to focus the
justices’ attention on the F-word. That
distinction belongs to Paul Robert Cohen,
whose case 50 years ago resulted in a land-
mark decision on the First Amendment
and the regulation of profanity.
Cohen’s long legal saga began in Los
Angeles on April 26, 1968, when he went
to the county courthouse in downtown LA
wearing a jacket that had the phrase “F—-
the draft” stenciled on the back (except
that the word was fully spelled out).
Cohen, who was 19 at the time, says he
was not trying to cause a confrontation.
Nevertheless, he was promptly arrested
for “maliciously and willfully disturb(ing)
the peace or quiet ... by offensive conduct.”
Rather than go to jail for 30 days, he chal-
lenged his conviction, fighting it all the way
up through California courts and beyond.
In the spring of 1971, his case reached the
U.S. Supreme Court, where nine aging
justices, all men, were called upon to
decide whether the F-word was indeed
“unprintable language” that could be
banned by the government, despite the free
speech protections of the Constitution.
It’s difficult to remember now just how
seriously some people took profanity in
those days. It often had been deemed
punishable by law and was widely viewed
as inherently offensive, especially to
women and children.
Before oral arguments in Cohen v. Cali-
OPINION
Department can sue local and state
governments if there is a pattern
of constitutional violations and
seek appropriate remedies. In most
instances, the department’s inves-
tigation forces cities to enter into a
settlement and a consent decree, with-
out going through protracted litiga-
tion. Jeff Sessions, former attorney
general in the Trump administration,
however, essentially banned the use of
consent decrees, saying they harmed
police morale.
These consent decrees are enforce-
able through the federal court, usually
with a court-appointed monitor who
oversees the implementation of the
reforms. Typically, these agreements
include provisions to stop racial profil-
ing, improve investigations of accu-
sations of excessive force and reform
police discipline. The court can
impose sanctions on the local govern-
ment if it does not carry out the terms
of the agreement.
The Justice Department has used
this authority on many occasions —
such as in Baltimore, Cincinnati, Los
Angeles, New Orleans and Pittsburgh
— to reform police departments.
In each instance, major changes in
policing resulted. The Chicago Police
Department is in the midst of reforms
mandated by a consent decree that
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fornia, Chief Justice Warren Burger, a
Nixon appointee, went to Cohen’s lawyer,
Melville Nimmer, and asked him to not
use the offending word in the courtroom.
According to Thomas G. Krattenmaker, a
clerk at the time for Justice John Marshall
Harlan, Burger said he didn’t want anyone
to “use that word” because it “would be the
end of the court.”
But times were changing. In the late
1960s and early 1970s, a new generation
was waging battles against its elders over
moral restrictions on sex and squeamish
attitudes toward profanity and obscenity,
and many young people liked to say, justifi-
ably, that the use of the F-word was hardly
as offensive as the killing of civilians in
Vietnam.
David Nimmer, the son of Cohen’s
lawyer, told me: “I was 16 years old sitting
in the Supreme Court gallery when my
father ignored Chief Justice Burger’s
admonition” and spoke the offending word
before the justices.
It was a risky decision, but it did not
followed the 2014 police shooting
death of Laquan McDonald.
A study in 2017 examined 23 police
departments that had been subject to
consent decrees and found that “civil
rights suits against these departments
dropped anywhere from 23% to 36%
after a federal intervention.” Consent
decrees overseen by a monitor have
led to a 29% decrease in civilian fatali-
ties at police hands.
The Justice Department investi-
gated the Los Angeles Police Depart-
ment after the Rampart scandal came
to light; it involved police violence,
their planting evidence on inno-
cent people and lying in court to
gain convictions. The department
informed the city that it would sue
unless a settlement was reached.
In November 2000, Los Angeles
entered into a consent decree that
affected almost every aspect of polic-
ing in the city. The decree created a
database to track police use of force
and police discipline, among other
actions. It required police to record
information with regard to every stop.
It changed how police use of force was
to be investigated. It altered control
of the anti-gang units; it was an anti-
gang unit in the Rampart Division
that led to the scandal. A monitor was
appointed and for 12 years, until 2013,
bring down the walls of the courthouse
after all.
Cohen was an unlikely free-speech
champion. I tried and failed to reach him
for this column, but he said in a 2016 inter-
view with the Freedom Forum Institute
that a woman he met the night before his
arrest had stenciled the offending words on
his jacket. “I wasn’t trying to make a polit-
ical statement,” he said. He added, “I had
a Ph.D. in partying back in those days.” In
explaining why he fought all the way to the
Supreme Court, Cohen said that he simply
didn’t want to serve the 30 days. He didn’t
attend the oral argument at the Supreme
Court.
In the end, a divided court ruled
narrowly — 5 to 4 — in favor of Cohen.
Justice Harry Blackmun, in a curmud-
geonly dissent, said that the case was all
about an “absurd and immature antic”
and that “this court’s agonizing over First
Amendment values seems misplaced and
unnecessary.”
But the majority disagreed, and Justice
a federal judge oversaw the operation
of the consent decree.
The Harvard Kennedy School did
a detailed study and found that the
consent decree significantly changed
policing in Los Angeles. The study
found, for example, that serious use of
force incidents decreased by 15%.
Did it solve all of the problems of
the LAPD? Of course not. But by any
measure it instituted reforms and
improved policing in a city that had
a long pattern of police misconduct.
For those who worry that enforcing
a higher standard of police behavior
may hinder crime-fighting, it is worth
noting that crime declined signifi-
cantly in Los Angeles during the years
that the consent decree was in effect.
There is clearly a need for additional
federal legislation to reform policing
— to outlaw practices such as the use
of the chokehold, to expand the ability
to hold officers and the cities liable for
abuses, to increase transparency and
monitoring of police behavior. Getting
the Justice Department back into this
work is a crucial first step after four
years of neglect by the Trump admin-
istration.
Tribune Content Agency
Erwin Chemerinsky is dean of the UC
Berkeley School of Law.
Harlan wrote a strong pro-speech deci-
sion. The message on Cohen’s jacket
wasn’t incitement to violence, Harlan
wrote, because it didn’t constitute “fight-
ing words” directed at a person. It wasn’t
obscenity because it wasn’t erotic. The
offending language wasn’t “thrust upon”
people unwittingly, because they could
simply avert their eyes. The court rejected
the notion that the government could act as
“guardian of the public morality” in excis-
ing “one particular scurrilous epithet from
public discourse.”
And Cohen’s underlying message about
the draft merited constitutional protection,
despite the manner in which he chose to
express it.
“While the particular four-letter word
being litigated here is perhaps more
distasteful than most others of its genre,”
wrote Harlan, “it is nevertheless often true
that one man’s vulgarity is another’s lyric.”
Today, half a century has passed and
we’re still fighting over the F-word. This
newspaper won’t use it spelled out except
on the rarest of occasions. Society still
imbues it with a certain ability to shock, to
insult, to enrage. That’s why B.L., a Penn-
sylvania schoolgirl, is before the Supreme
Court now, all these years later. The ques-
tion in Mahanoy Area School District v.
B.L. is whether her school can punish her
for what she said on Snapchat (“f—- school
f—- softball f—- cheer f—- everything.”)
even though she was not at school when
she wrote and posted it.
Once again the justices will be forced to
consider the word and its power, and the
right of the authorities to police it.
This time the language wasn’t used to
comment on a burning social issue. But
isn’t it time we got over our squeamish-
ness?
Tribune Content Agency
Nicholas Goldberg is an associate editor and
op-ed columnist for the Los Angeles Times.

People receive their COVID-19 vaccines on April 15 at Grossinger Motors Arena in Bloomington, Illinois. BRIAN CASSELLA / CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Treating vaccine skeptics like crackpots
won’t get us to herd immunity
By Gabrielle Finestone
About 1 in 4 Americans do not want
to receive a COVID-19 vaccine — a
surprisingly significant number — and
dismissing those hesitant to receive
the shots as conspiracy theorists and
anti-science yokels is a big mistake
that risks our ability to reach herd
immunity and fully reopen society.
Though the U.S. recently paused use
of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19
vaccine after six women developed
rare blood clots, data collected to date
strongly suggest that this single-dose
shot as well as the two-dose Pfizer
and Moderna vaccines authorized by
the Food and Drug Administration
and recommended by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention are
safe and effective.
But that doesn’t mean politiciz-
ing vaccine hesitancy or ignoring
concerns held by about 25% of Ameri-
cans is a good idea.
Now that all adults in the U.S. are
eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine,
it’s critical that we begin addressing
the reasons why some are putting off
getting the shots.
Many people of color, for example,
are suspicious of government health
programs, given the long history of
institutionalized discrimination and
outright racism that led to atrocities
like the Tuskegee experiment, during
which hundreds of Black men with
syphilis were lied to about having
“bad blood” over a 40-year period so
medical researchers could see how
their symptoms would progress if left
untreated. Given this history, it’s not
surprising that more Black adults than
white (24% versus 16%) are saying
they plan to wait to get the vaccine
until more people have taken it.
Since the vaccines were not tested
in pregnancy during the clinical
trial phase, it’s understandable that
some are worried about the potential
Illinois’ student loan bailout program: Unfair and unwarranted
By Jeanne Ives
Two years ago, state legislators in Illinois
took it upon themselves to force the rest
of us to pay for the personal decisions and
personal debt of other people.
In 2019, Illinois passed the $45 billion
Rebuild Illinois Capital Plan. It was a
bipartisan plan negotiated by a few chosen
leaders on both sides.
This “infrastructure” plan set aside $25
million for the SmartBuy program that
pays off up to $40,000 of student loans if
the recipients of the loan purchase a home
in Illinois and hold it for three years. An
additional $5,000 is available as a no-in-
terest loan for a down payment or closing
costs.
Flipping houses and still have student
loans? This is the perfect setup for you.
According to an April 5 Chicago Tribune
article, the SmartBuy program began in
December 2020. The Illinois Housing
Development Authority indicated that the
program would make access to homeown-
ership more equitable. Up to 1,000 people
are expected to be served by the SmartBuy
program, but roughly 2 million Illinoisans
have student loan debt.
Does that sound equitable to the other
1,999,000 with student loans? It’s not equi-
table for the students who worked through
college, earned scholarships, went into the
OPINION
harm to pregnant people and their
unborn babies. The CDC is currently
investigating this and has found “no
evidence that antibodies formed from
the COVID-19 vaccination cause any
problem with pregnancy, including
the development of the placenta.”
And because these are entirely
new types of vaccines (the Pfizer and
Moderna shots are mRNA vaccines,
while the Johnson & Johnson shot is
a DNA vaccine) that received emer-
gency use authorizations — not full
approval from the FDA — it’s logi-
cal that some Americans are worried
about the lack of a long-term safety
record.
It is easy to dismiss vaccine skep-
tics as brainwashed, groundlessly
suspicious and extremist. However,
ignoring the roots of this skepticism
won’t solve the problem. We need
to ask ourselves how it came to be
that millions of Americans no longer
trust the institutions of science and
medicine that created the COVID-19
vaccine, and how this broken trust can
be rectified.
It is time to rethink the way we
frame vaccine skepticism.
History suggests that the right
amount of skepticism can be a power-
ful tool for improving public health
outcomes. Grassroots responses to
public health crises of the past have
demonstrated the role of those who
question established authorities in
shaping the production of scientific
knowledge. The resulting transpar-
ency and sense of collaboration is
powerful; it may even hold the key
to rebuilding broken trust between
people and the systems that govern
them.
In a time when rebuilding trust in
these institutions is more crucial than
ever, ridiculing vaccine skeptics only
further alienates those who feel a
deep sense of mistrust of institutional
science and medicine.
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military, went to a less-expensive school
or whose parents scrimped and saved to
send them. And it’s not equitable to make
taxpayers pay off loans when they had no
input on the course of study or how the
money was spent.
The majority of people across the coun-
try do not support student loan bailouts,
according to a recent survey from Yahoo
Finance and The Harris Poll. For good
Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Monday, April 26, 2021 17
The value of scientific skepticism
was clear in the fight to reveal the
dangers of tobacco to the public. In
the anti-tobacco movement of the
1970s, activists pushed for more scien-
tific research to explore the effects of
secondhand smoke. With the knowl-
edge that the tobacco industry had
purposely obscured the dangers of
tobacco in the past, activists called
for the removal of smoke from public
spaces despite lack of scientific
evidence proving its harm.
It was not until 1987, when the
surgeon general reported on the
impact of secondhand smoke on
bystanders for the first time, that its
risks were recognized by regulatory
authorities. In this case, activists’
mistrust of existing science pushed
for the production of new scientific
knowledge and caused a shift in public
behaviors that ultimately improved
health outcomes.
HIV/AIDS activists also fought hard
for scientific advancements during
the height of the AIDS epidemic. Lay
treatment activists played a major
role in the design of clinical trials for
AIDS treatment drugs, serving not
only as advisers but also as “full voting
members” of the National Institutes
of Health and FDA committees that
approved HIV/AIDS drugs.
Many of these activists were highly
skeptical of the formal institutions
working on HIV/AIDS research. They
questioned scientific expertise and
elevated AIDS treatment research
in the process. It was their skepti-
cism rather than blind acceptance of
science that not only improved AIDS
research and treatment options, but
also increased levels of trust between
scientific experts and lay activists.
The anti-vaccine movement and
HIV/AIDS and anti-tobacco move-
ments are not identical for many
reasons; each movement has its own
identity, motivations and goals.
reason: It’s a policy that sends money to the
upper-middle class and highly educated
people.
Meanwhile, we struggle to deliver
services to people with developmental
disabilities. Our Medicare system does
not deliver services efficiently. And we
continue to struggle with unemployment
numbers. To boot, bailing out student loans
does nothing to make college more afford-
In particular, the vaccine skepti-
cism movement is complicated by
dynamics unique to the 21st century,
including the rise of the internet,
the politicization of science and the
hyper-accessibility of information,
which is often conflated with expert
knowledge.
But like many HIV/AIDS and
tobacco activists, vaccine skeptics
harbor mistrust against the institu-
tions that govern them, influenced by
their negative experiences with these
systems and a sense of being misled or
even wronged. All three movements
fight against the politicization of
science — each in different ways. Each
of these movements has adapted an
activist designation, bound together
by the values of autonomy and iden-
tity.
Labeling skeptics’ questions as triv-
ial and unfounded intensifies their
concerns rather than relieving them.
Vaccines are deeply complicated by
the different motivations of the pharma-
ceutical industry (profit), the govern-
ment (public health) and the individual
(personal protection). We must validate
that many vaccine skeptics are not only
responding to the physical risk of receiv-
ing a vaccine but also a mistrust of the
various interest groups that influence
vaccine production.
While there is no evidence of the
COVID-19 vaccine being unsafe to
the general population, dismissal
and rejection of skepticism can easily
backfire by amplifying the feelings of
neglect, mistrust and fear that vaccine
skeptics already experience.
If we seek to truly create a safer,
healthier environment in which infec-
tious diseases are controlled, we must
recognize the concerns of vaccine
skeptics in order to work effectively to
relieve them.
Gabrielle Finestone is a senior major-
ing in history at Barnard College.
able, which is the root of the problem.
Many of us have friends over the age of
40 still paying off student loans. Is this fair
to people who have played by the rules and
made sacrifices? Is it fair that people who
didn’t go to college should directly pay off
loans for those who did?
Under SmartBuy, there is no require-
ment that proceeds from student loans had
to be spent in-state or that the borrower
actually obtained a degree. There is an
income limit of no more than $109,200 to
qualify for the loan, which is 65% higher
than the median household income in
Illinois of just under $66,000. Legisla-
tors should explain the equity in having
middle- and lower-income residents pay
off the personal debt of the wealthier.
This story gets worse. The money for
SmartBuy is borrowed money — backed
up by 20 new taxes and fees. Every time
you fill up your car, remember that the
higher gas tax is not necessarily going to
infrastructure. It is also paying off other
people’s student loans.
Legislative leaders and Gov. J.B. Pritz-
ker know if this program had been debated
outside the capital bill, it would have failed.
Illinoisans should tell their legislators to
end this program immediately.
Jeanne Ives is a former state representa-
tive.
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Your guide to managing money, work and the business of life

Jill Schlesinger
Jill on Money

Will spending
on infrastructure
supersize growth?
If you didn’t have the time or the energy
to dive into the Biden administration’s $2.3
trillion American Jobs Plan (AJP), fear not
— I have you covered.
The plan seeks “to reimagine and rebuild
a new economy” by deploying government
money in four areas:
„ Classic Infrastructure: Roads, rails,
bridges and transit systems ($621 billion)
„ Home Economy: Water ($111 billion),
child care facilities ($25 billion), schools
($100 billion), federal buildings ($10
billion), broadband ($100 billion), afford-
able housing ($213 billion)
„ Caregiving Economy: To help the
nation’s elderly and disabled ($400 billion)
„ Workplace Economy: R&D ($180
billion), manufacturing and small busi-
nesses ($300 billion) and workforce devel-
opment ($100 billion)
The rationale for infrastructure spend-
ing is that the country needs an upgrade
to many of its systems. The White House
notes that “public domestic investment as
a share of the economy has fallen by more
than 40% since the 1960s,” which is why
the wealthiest country in the world ranks
13th when it comes to the overall quality of
our infrastructure.
The AJP makes the leap from physical
infrastructure to “human infrastructure”
when it adds in money allocated to the MOHAMAD FAIZAL RAMLI/DREAMSTIME
caregiving economy. Human infrastruc-

3 ways you can

ture is a term that has been coined to cover
government spending on health, education
and nutrition.
Spending on infrastructure would be
spread out over eight years, but it would be
paid for over 15 years through higher taxes
on corporations. The plan would increase

sabotage your
the corporate tax rate to 28%, a walk back
of the 2017 tax law that slashed corporate
rates from 35% to 21%. Additional changes
include imposing a 15% minimum tax on
large companies (those with income above
$2 billion), doubling the tax rate on compa-
nies’ foreign earnings from 10.5% to 21%,
and the establishment of a global minimum
tax to stop companies from taking advan-
tage of lower tax rates abroad.
In addition to making up for the lack of
investment over past decades, the AJP’s
other promise is that “it will create millions
of good jobs.” While the plan may add
company culture
a bunch of jobs, the U.S. labor market is By David Finkel | Inc. Team members who don’t sciously hold off on doing it until the
already on track to recover its former glory. last minute.

According to Moody’s Analytics, the AJP
would help the labor market return to its
pre-pandemic level by early 2023, “not
much different than without the plan.” The
reason is that it would likely take a couple
of years for government spending to boost
growth and lead to more jobs.
The government’s investments in
infrastructure will add more juice to the
economy over the next few years, but esti-
mates are all over the place for just how
much of a boost the plan would provide.
In fact, the economy was set to explode
higher this year, before the AJP. In its most
recent outlook, the IMF made “a size-
able upgrade for the United States (1.3
percentage points),” predicting growth
to come in at 6.4% this year. That comes
after a 3.5% contraction in 2020. The IMF
also upgraded its view on global growth,
which is expected to be 6% in 2021 after
the historic contraction of -3.3% in 2020.
Global growth has accelerated due to
the massive $16 trillion in government
spending worldwide, which “prevented
far worse outcomes.” The IMF’s estimates
suggest “last year’s severe collapse could
have been three times worse had it not
been for such support.”
The IMF has not yet weighed in on the
AJP, but the most immediate impact of the
legislation is that it could supersize growth
both in the U.S. and around the globe.
Jill Schlesinger, CFP, is a CBS News
business analyst. A former options trader
and CIO of an investment advisory firm,
she welcomes comments and questions
at askjill@jillonmoney.com. Check her
website at www.jillonmoney.com.
S
haping your company
culture is one of the most
important things you can do
as a business owner. It is the
invisible guiding hand that
could make the difference between
you reaching your goals or missing
the mark. And many business owners
struggle with the company culture
they envision in their head versus the
reality of their day-to-day culture.
Here are three ways you are person-
ally sabotaging your company culture
and how you can prevent these
mistakes in the future.
1. Feedback is
discouraged
Many business owners suffer from
control issues and fear that no one will
be able to do the job like they do. So
they instinctively micromanage people
on their team.
This behavior can affect your ability
to hire and obtain team members, and
can also prevent you from scaling and
growing your business.
Team members who don’t feel able
to do their job without constant over-
sight are often fearful of giving feed-
back or offering up suggestions. And
that means there may be a lot of good
ideas left on the table.
It’s important that you take steps to
keep your micromanaging tendencies
in check. Allow your team members
feel able to do their job
without constant oversight
are often fearful of giving
feedback or offering up
suggestions. And that
means there may be a lot of
good ideas left on the table.
to own projects or tasks within their
skill set, and ask for and listen to any
feedback that they may have along the
way. If you follow the gold standard of
hiring, you can be confident that you
have team members with experience
in their position and can offer insight
outside of your own.
2. You are never happy
Another issue many business
owners face has to do with feedback
given to team members. Are you one to
gloss over victories and successes and
focus on shortcomings and mistakes?
This can have a huge impact on your
company culture in more ways than
you think.
If your team is constantly worried
about whether they can do a good job,
this can breed procrastination amongst
your team members. They are so afraid
of doing the wrong thing, or giving a
presentation or a report that isn’t up to
your standards, that they will subcon-
To prevent this issue, give your staff
the ability to make mistakes. Ask them
for a draft. Give them room to grow
and make mistakes, and work with
them on how to improve things in the
future. In the same realm, if you find
yourself making a mistake, own it and
give yourself grace to do better next
time.
3. You don’t eat your
own cooking
The last way that you are sabotaging
your company culture has to do with
your inability to eat your own cook-
ing. Do you tell your team to be on time
for meetings but consistency show
up five minutes late? Do you ask them
to complete their quarterly action
plan by next Friday but fail to turn
in your own? Your team is watching,
and anything you ask your team to do,
you should model yourself whenever
possible.
Company culture is an ongoing task.
Every day, you have the opportunity to
help shape the future of your business.
By changing these three behaviors,
you will be well on your way to shap-
ing a company culture that you can be
proud of.
David Finkel is a business coach,
former Olympic athlete and author of
“The Freedom Formula” and “Maui
Mastermind CEO.”

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SUCCESS
A month left for 2020
retirement contributions
Elliot Raphaelson
The Savings Game
With the federal tax filing deadline
less than a month away, it’s well worth
taking a final reflection on your retire-
ment account contributions for the 2020
tax year.
Because of the coronavirus pandemic,
the IRS extended the filing deadline to
May 17. If your contribution is postmarked
by that date, your contribution will be
accepted.
Regulations governing retirement
contributions are complex, which leads
to a lot of confusion. Ed Slott & Co. (www.
irahelp.com) recently identified many
of the common misconceptions, and I’ll
discuss a few below.
Age limits on traditional IRAs. Thanks
to the SECURE Act of 2019, if you have
earned income, you have more flexibility
contributing to your retirement account.
Prior to the SECURE Act, those older
than 70 ½ could only make contribu-
tions to Roth accounts. The new regula-
tions allow you to make contributions to
traditional IRAs as well as Roth accounts,
regardless of your age. This flexibil-
ity does not affect your responsibility to
take required minimum distributions if
you reached 70 ½ before December 31,
2019 and have assets in your retirement
accounts at the end of 2020.
Contributing even if you don’t have
earned income. There is one exception to
the earned-income requirement. If you
file a joint return, a contribution can be
made to each two IRA accounts in 2020.
Example: John and Mary file a joint
return, with modified adjusted gross
income (MAGI) of $60,000. John did not
work in 2020. Mary earned $50,000. A
$6,000 IRA contribution can be made to
each IRA account for 2020.
Contributions from other sources. As
long as you have sufficient earned income,
you can make contributions even if your
funds are supplied by parents, grand-
parents or other parties. Current estate
tax laws allow individuals to make gifts
of up to $15,000 per person without
affecting lifetime estate tax exemptions.
Current regulations provide generous
credits, known as savings credits, to indi-
viduals with relatively low income. For
single filers, the upper income limit is
$33,000; for married joint returns, the
Get your
savings back
on track
By Sandra Block
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
The pandemic has hindered many
workers’ ability to save for retirement.
Layoffs, furloughs and reduced hours
forced millions of workers to reduce
contributions to their 401(k)s and other
savings accounts or take withdrawals to
pay the bills. Others who managed to keep
their jobs tapped their savings to help
family members.
To get your savings back on track, start
by repairing any damage. If you took a
coronavirus-related hardship withdrawal
from your 401(k) or other tax-advantaged
retirement plan, the Coronavirus Aid,
Relief and Economic Security (CARES)
Act gives you up to three years to repay
the funds you withdrew, as long as your
A 5-point plan for empowering your employees
Oftentimes employees go to their managers looking for help, but instead of getting that help the manager does the work for them.
Sometimes it seems like the more efficient way to get it done, because you know it will be done right (or at least the way you want).
It’s counterintuitive, but taking more time
upfront to guide, teach, coach—and even
to correct—will save time in the long run.
It’s that “teach a person to fish” adage.
I like to use the following steps to help
team members become more indepen-
dent and empowered — and help me get
back to the work that I should be doing.
limit is $66,000. The regulations allow
a credit of 50% of contributions up to
$2,000. Accordingly, if you qualify and
you contribute $2,000 to your retirement
account in 2020, you will save $1,000.
Example: Joan, who files as a single
person, earned $30,000 in 2020. Her
father contributed $6,000 to her IRA.
$6,000 is the upper limit for contribu-
tions in 2020. By contributing $6,000 to
her traditional IRA, she receives a $1,000
savings credit. Her contribution is not
taxable, because contributions to tradi-
tional IRAs are not taxable. The credit
reduces her federal tax liability by $1,000.
If total gifts made by her father in 2020 do
not exceed $15,000, his lifetime allowance
for estate tax purposes is not affected.
Using the “backdoor” option when your
income is too high. Even if your income
is too high to make a Roth IRA contribu-
tion, you are allowed to use what is called
the “backdoor” option. If your income is
greater than $124,000, you can still make
a traditional IRA contribution and then
convert that contribution to a Roth IRA,
regardless of your age.
Options you have even if you partic-
ipate in an employer-retirement plan.
Many people erroneously believe that if
DREAMSTIME
employer allows it. The repayment will be
treated as a tax-free rollover. (If you repay
the distribution after you’ve paid taxes on
it, you can file an amended return and get
a refund.)
Similarly, if you took a loan from your
401(k) plan last year, resolve to repay it
as soon as your finances allow. While the
CARES Act gives you six years instead of
five to repay a 401(k) loan, replacing the
funds you borrowed as soon as possible
will pay off over the long term.
During the pandemic, many Amer-
icans who managed to keep their jobs
saved more than ever. However, a lot of
that money is in low-interest (or no-inter-
est) bank savings accounts. Improve your
wealth-building chops by using some of
that money to increase contributions to
your retirement savings plans. In 2021,
Assess the capability. You want to always set them
up for success, which means making sure that they
have the right coaching and access to necessary
resources.
Communicate what success looks like. Be crystal
clear on all of the expectations — make sure they know
what success looks like.
Ensure there’s a learning curve, and show guidance.
Ensure that they are comfortable coming to you when
issues arise. You are still accountable for the results. It’s
easier to fix problems when you hear about them early.
YURI GRIPAS/DREAMSTIME
they make the maximum contribution to
their workplace retirement plan, they will
be unable to make independent contribu-
tions to their IRA account.
As long as income is within established
limits, additional contributions can also
be made to IRA accounts. However, the
ability to deduct a traditional IRA contri-
bution phases out at higher income levels
for active plan participants. For exam-
ple, contributions to traditional IRAs are
allowed a full deduction only if MAGI is
$104,000 or less for workers filing joint
returns, and $65,000 or less for single
filers. However, Roth contributions can
be made for married filers with MAGI of
$196,00 or less, and for single filers with
MAGI of $124,000 or less.
Example: John, who is single and age
45, had reported MAGI of $100,000
income in 2020. He is allowed to contrib-
ute $19,500 to his 401(k) account with
his employer’s account. He also is able to
contribute $6,000 to a Roth IRA account
because his MAGI is less than $124,000.
(Individuals older than 50 could contrib-
ute an additional $6,500 to their 401(k)
account and an additional $1,000 to their
IRA account.)
Elliot Raphaelson welcomes questions
and comments at raphelliot@gmail.com.
you can save up to $19,500 in a 401(k)
or similar workplace plan, or $26,000 if
you’re 50 or older.
There are other strategies to boost your
retirement nest egg that will also lower
your taxes in retirement. In 2021, you can
invest up to $6,000 ($7,000 if you’re 50 or
older) in a Roth IRA, as long as you meet
income thresholds. Withdrawals from a
Roth are tax-free as long as you’re 59 ½
and have owned the account for at least
five years.
If your employer offers a Roth 401(k)
plan, divert at least a portion of your
contribution to that account. Contribu-
tions to a Roth 401(k) won’t reduce your
taxes now, but as is the case with a tradi-
tional Roth, withdrawals will be tax-free
when you retire. There are no income
limits on Roth 401(k) plans.
If you have an eligible high-deduct-
ible health insurance plan, you can fund a
health savings account. Contributions are
pretax (or tax-deductible, if your HSA is
not employer-sponsored), the funds grow
tax-deferred in the account, and with-
drawals are tax-free for qualified medi-
cal expenses, without a time limit. If you
don’t use the money for out-of-pocket
expenses while you’re working, you can
take tax-free withdrawals to pay for medi-
cal expenses after you retire.
In 2021, you can contribute up to $3,600
if you have self-only coverage or up to
$7,200 for family coverage. If you’re 55 or
older by the end of the year, you can put in
an extra $1,000 in catch-up contributions.
Sandra Block is a senior editor at
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine.
Establish checkpoints to monitor progress.
Hold people accountable to expectations and do
this frequently. This prevents you from receiving
nasty surprises at the end.
Celebrate success. Applaud accomplishments.
Let the team have the roles of the heroes.
Your company will be in a better place once you master
this skill. There will always be work to be done that you
can’t get done. Focus on what’s most important. Hiring
more people and enabling them to do more work will free
you to do what matters and enable you to scale.
Terry Savage
The Savage Truth
Here’s why you
shouldn’t cash
stimulus check
The federal government is in the process
of sending out nearly $300 billion in stim-
ulus payments of $1,400 each to qualifying
recipients. And soon it will start sending
$250 per month — per child — to low-in-
come families for the new $3,000 annual
child care credit. Also, many people who
do not pay taxes will be sent an earned
income tax credit of nearly $6,000 if the
recipient has two children.
Much of the stimulus money will be
direct-deposited in bank accounts that
were listed on tax returns, or into accounts
where people already receive Social Secu-
rity checks. And some stimulus money will
come on debit cards sent directly to recipi-
ents. But millions of paper checks will also
be sent out.
And that’s the problem. Nearly 6% of
American households are considered
unbanked. They literally have no place to
cash the check — except the local currency
exchange. That means they pay 3% or
more — $42 — to cash that $1,400 check.
If a family of four gets $5,600 in stimulus
payments, the currency exchange pockets
$168. And in many cases, the fees are even
higher.
Cashing your stimulus payment is a
terrible idea in the first place. Yes, many
families will quickly use the money to
catch up on rent, pay utility bills and buy
food. But no one should be walking around
with that much cash. Even worse, this
might be the first chance an individual or
family has to start building a safety fund for
emergencies.
For millions of Americans, putting
money in the bank is an idea that wasn’t
even considered before because they never
had enough money to make a start.
So now, as checks start arriving, is the
moment to start a national campaign: Don’t
cash that check! Deposit it!
April is financial literacy month, and
you can help spread this message about
basic banking realities. These government
payments could be the perfect opportu-
nity to get started. Here’s what to tell those
without bank accounts:
„ Banking is not expensive. Some of the
largest banks in your city offer free check-
ing with no minimums, no monthly fees, no
ATM fees and a useful debit card that can
be used to get cash at ATMs around the city.
„ Banking does not require visits to a
building that is not in your neighborhood.
You only have to visit the bank once — to
open an account by depositing the check.
Then you can deposit future checks by
taking a picture of it on your smartphone or
by mailing the deposit to the bank. (Be sure
to get the address for bank deposit by mail.)
„ You have access to your money at any
time — with no fees — through an ATM
near you. (Some banks waive fees if you
use an ATM that does not belong to their
bank.) Even if you pay a fee for withdraw-
ing cash from an ATM not connected
with your bank, it will be a lot less than a
currency exchange charges.
„ You can arrange to have future govern-
ment benefits deposited directly into
your checking account. That includes tax
refunds, monthly child credit benefits
and even court-mandated child support
payments.
„ You no longer have to pay bills such as
utilities at the currency exchange and pay
a fee. You can pay bills automatically from
your new checking account. Or use your
debit card to pay your bill by mail or online.
„ You can’t be “overdrawn” because if
there’s no money in your account, you can’t
take it out.
„ You’re safer not carrying a lot of cash.
People complain about the banks
“making too much money.” But the real
problem for unbanked people is payday
loans and currency exchanges that prey
on their ignorance. So, if you’re nodding
your head in agreement, please join me
in spreading the word now, as billions of
dollars moves into the hands of people who
have never had this opportunity.
Don’t cash that check; deposit it in a
bank account. It’s the perfect time. And
that’s The Savage Truth.
Terry Savage is a registered investment
adviser and the author of four best-selling
books, including “The Savage Truth on
Money.” Terry responds to questions on
her blog at TerrySavage.com.
SOURCE: Maynard Webb, Fast Company

SUCCESS
It’s prime time for SBA’s live
events grant program — finally
By Diana Ransom | Inc.
Update: After technical issues downed the
SBA’s SVOG site for a large part of the day
on April 8, the agency shut down the portal
to ensure fair and equal access. “This deci-
sion was not made lightly as we understand
the need to get relief quickly to this hard-hit
industry,” said SBA spokesperson Andrea
Roebker. There’s no reopening date yet.
If you’re a venue operator, promoter or
live-events producer, this is the moment
you’ve been waiting for since the start of the
pandemic.
On April 8, the Small Business Admin-
istration began accepting applications for
its Shuttered Venue Operators Grant, or
SVOG, a $16.25 billion grant program run
directly through the SBA. Eligible appli-
cants may apply for grants equal to 45% of
their gross earned revenue, up to a maxi-
mum of $10 million. SBA defines “earned
revenue” or “gross earned revenue” as
money received from the sale of goods or
services rather than, say, donations or spon-
sorship income.
It’s not a minute too soon, said Michael
Strickland, the founder and chair of Bandit
Lites, a lighting design and installation
company based in Knoxville, Tennessee.
“By the time we get back to work, we will
have been shut 94 weeks at a minimum.
Totally shut. Not partially shut like a restau-
rant, totally shut.” Strickland said he helped
craft an earlier bill that inspired the SVOG
program.
Strickland had expected the program
to launch Feb. 22 — 45 business days after
the program was first authorized by the
Economic Aid Act, which passed under
then-President Donald Trump on Dec. 27.
The program was initially allocated $15
billion. SVOG received another $1.25 billion
when President Joe Biden signed the $1.9
trillion American Rescue Plan Act into law
on March 11.
That latest law also authorized the
Restaurant Revitalization Fund, or RRF,
a $28.6 billion grant program. There’s no
start date for this offering, but it’s widely
expected to launch shortly after SVOG
kicks off.
Restaurants continue to struggle amid
business capacity limits and consumer
unease over in-person dining. For shuttered
venues, coping with no revenue for more
than a year has been particularly grueling —
especially as businesses have been unable
to access emergency aid for much of the
pandemic.
Biden’s Rescue Plan Act makes it possi-
ble for venue operators to receive both a
first- or second-draw Paycheck Protec-
tion Program loan and a SVOG, provided
the grant amount is reduced by the total
amount of PPP funds approved. Businesses
What to make of Bitcoin
By Nellie S. Huang
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
The price of bitcoin was already soaring
when Tesla announced in February that it
had bought $1.5 billion worth of the digital
currency, sending its value climbing higher.
The electric-vehicle maker said it would
soon accept bitcoin as payment for its prod-
ucts, too. But in truth, Tesla was a tad late to
the party.
Several well-known firms had already
embraced bitcoin in one way or another.
And Mastercard and PayPal have each said
customers will soon be able to use bitcoin
to pay for purchases through their respec-
tive networks. As of early April, demand has
driven up the price of the cryptocurrency
by nearly 700% over the past 12 months.
Does that mean it’s time for regular folks
to buy bitcoin? Not necessarily. There are
pros and cons to buying it, and its recent
popularity doesn’t erase its drawbacks.
What is bitcoin? The 11-year-old cryp-
tocurrency was the first of its kind. It gets
its name from the technology behind it —
every transaction is encrypted by computer
code, known as blockchain technology,
which eliminates the need for a middleman
or a central bank.
What’s driving the price? There is a finite
supply of bitcoin. Only 21 million tokens
will ever be made, and nearly 19 million
Know your rights when dealing with debt collectors
By Rivan Stinson
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
Nearly 30% of consumers with a credit
report had some type of debt in collections
last October, according to the Urban Insti-
tute.
Credit and debt issues are among the top
complaints that consumers file with state
and local consumer agencies. And thanks to
a new debt-collection rule issued last year
by the government’s Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau, complaints aren’t likely
to decline anytime soon.
The CFPB’s two-part rule, set to take
effect in November, will allow debt collec-
tors to contact consumers via email, text
and direct messages on Facebook and other
social media sites — and there’s no limit on
can’t apply for a SVOG and then a PPP,
however. The PPP is slated to end on May
31, after it was extended on March 30.
Eligible entities for SVOG — not just busi-
nesses — include operators of live venues,
museums, movie theaters, promoters and
talent representatives. An entity must
generally have been in operation as of Feb.
29, 2020, and it needs to attest that it experi-
enced hardship as a result of the pandemic.
Funds can be spent on state and local taxes
and fees, insurance and utility fees, mort-
gage and rent payments, payroll costs and
building expenses.
The rollout of the SVOG program will
flow in a system of tiers with priority given
to the most economically devastated oper-
ations.
For 14 days after the SBA begins making
awards — not the date when it begins
accepting applications — the agency will
prioritize applications from entities with at
least a 90% revenue loss between April and
December 2020.
Following that is another 14-day period
for entities with revenue losses of 70% or
more, over the April to December period.
SVOG then opens up to those that suffered
at least a 25% drop in earned revenue from
one quarter in 2020, over the corresponding
quarter in 2019. SBA spokesperson Andrea
Roebker said that 20% of total program
funds must be held for eligible recipients
during this third priority period.
There’s also a $2 billion small employer
set-aside, which is designated for those
with up to 50 employees.
That program crosses over all priority
periods, but the small employers will still
need to meet the revenue-loss requirements
bitcoins are already in circulation, so there
are fewer than 3 million left to be created.
And the rules around how the tokens are
created, along with other restrictions, mean
a dwindling number of tokens will be issued
in the coming years. Such scarcity is driving
demand, said Tom Jessop, head of digi-
tal assets at Fidelity Investments, which
launched a passively managed bitcoin fund
targeted at institutions.
Will other digital assets displace bitcoin?
Scarcity and increased demand could help
bitcoin stay dominant. Yassine Elmandjra, a
cryptocurrency analyst at Ark Investments,
said bitcoin will capture the lion’s share
of the market for digital assets over time.
“There may be room for two to five addi-
tional currencies that capture 25% to 35% of
the total market share,” he said.
Is bitcoin a good investment? It has been
over the past 12 months. But some invest-
ment professionals still view the virtual
currency skeptically, including Matt Andru-
lot of Verdence Capital Advisors, which
caters to ultra-high net worth investors.
“It’s volatile and speculative,” he said.
He’s right about the volatility. In just
two weeks in January, bitcoin lost 25% of
its value. During the pandemic sell-off in
2020, the price of bitcoin fell 49% from its
peak to its trough (the S&P 500 index, by
contrast, dropped 34%). Because bitcoin
doesn’t generate any cash flow or earnings
how many times the collectors can reach
out to you using these methods. On the plus
side, you may not receive as many phone
calls during dinner because collectors will
be limited to seven calls a week for each
debt. If you pick up the phone during one of
these attempts, the collector can’t call you
again that week to discuss that particular
debt.
That’s still a lot of calls, and consumer
advocates are concerned about the lack of
a cap on electronic communications, said
Linda Sherry with Consumer Action, an
advocacy group. If you have, say, three debts
in collections, you could receive up to 21
calls a week and mountains of social media
messages.
Under the federal Fair Debt Collection
Practices Act, it’s illegal for debt collectors
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THANYALAK CHALERMARREWONG/DREAMSTIME
to apply, Roebker said.
How to apply for a SVOG
Before applying, you must have already
registered for a Data Universal Numbering
System, or DUNS number, through Dun
& Bradstreet. You would need to use this
number to register in the federal govern-
ment’s System for Award Management,
the system used by contractors seeking to
work with the federal government. Both
steps are free but can take up to two weeks
to complete.
You’ll also need to gather documents to
prove financial necessity. In addition to
a written attestation of need, you should
document the number of your employees as
of Feb. 29, 2020, as well as list their names,
job function and full- or part-time status.
Next, determine the amount of gross
revenue loss your business saw between
2019 and 2020 to see if you qualify for one
of the priority periods. Calculate the extent
of gross earned revenue loss you logged
between 2019 and 2020 to see if you qual-
ify for the non-priority period. SBA will
require 2019 financial returns and a 2020
return, if filed. SBA will also require quar-
terly income statements for every quarter
in which your business was in operation in
2019 and 2020.
You may also be required to provide floor
plans, contract copies and other evidence to
back up your application. For more details,
the SBA has a preliminary application
checklist (https://www.sba.gov/
document/support-shuttered-venue-
operators-grant-preliminary-application-
checklist).
DREAMSTIME
— and never will — its price is driven purely
by demand, so it’s speculative. “Be prepared
to lose the entirety of your principal,” said
Thomas Stapp, a certified financial planner
in Olympia, Washington.
That said, bitcoin could still have a small
place in an investor’s portfolio. But given
the sky-high volatility, it should take up no
more than 1% to 3% of your assets, accord-
ing to many advisers. Limit your investment
to an amount you can afford to lose, said Leo
Marte, a CFP in Huntersville, North Caro-
lina. “That kind of mind-set will bring you
to the right allocation for you.”
Nellie S. Huang is senior associate editor
at Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine.
to use abusive, unfair or deceptive tactics
when trying to collect a debt. And debt
collectors usually can’t call you before 8
a.m. or after 9 p.m.
You also have the right to write to
the debt collector and instruct it to stop
contacting you. After that, a debt collec-
tor may not contact you again unless it’s to
verify that it has received your request or
to tell you that it plans to take some form of
legal action.
The statute of limitations on debts in
collection varies by state and the type of
debt. But typically, debt collectors have
three to six years from when the debt goes
into collection to file a lawsuit against you
to collect payment. After that, the debt
collector can’t sue you.
But that doesn’t mean collection calls will
Steve Rosen
Kids & Money
Scholarships
and loans are
just the tip of
college iceberg
Just a few weeks ago, I wrote about
different strategies to cover college
tuition and all the related bills. Read-
ers weighed in with ideas of their
own.
With college tuition, coming up
with any additional money that
doesn’t involve going deep into debt
can make a big difference, especially
this late into college admissions
season.
Here’s a rundown of additional
options submitted by readers — with
a few cautionary caveats.
Take CLEP tests. Strangely, this is
one of the most overlooked programs
for completing your college degree
faster and saving money. Designed
by the College Board, the College-
Level Examination Program allows
students of all ages to test out of intro-
ductory college-level material.
There are 34 CLEP exams — mostly
multiple choice, though several
require essays — on topics such as
history, social science, American and
English literature, and math. There
are more than 2,000 test centers, but
some sites have changed test dates
and protocols because of COVID-19.
Each exam costs $89, though there
could be additional fees for sending
test scores to schools after taking the
exam (there is no charge for decid-
ing during registration which schools
will receive the scores). The tests are
free for military service members.
I heard from one reader who took
CLEP exams, and she earned two
years of college credit and graduated
in three years from a state university.
Once she got to college, she said, “I
didn’t have to take prerequisites.”
Keep in mind that some colleges
offer credit for only a few exams,
while others accept test scores on all
of the topics. For a complete rundown
of the program, including test regis-
tration information, go to www.clep.
collegeboard.org.
Another overlooked area: Applying
for scholarships offered by religious
groups and organizations, local civic
and professional organizations, your
employer from a part-time job and
your parents’ employer.
Even at this late date, many local
groups still are seeking applicants.
While the money might not cover
more than $500 in book fees, every
little bit helps.
Several readers suggested borrow-
ing from your employer-provided
401(k) retirement account. But be
careful because the interest you pay
on the loan is essentially replacing the
earnings you would otherwise have
received. In addition, some employ-
ers stop contributing matching funds
until the 401(k) loan is repaid, several
financial planners said.
The main time borrowing from
your retirement account may be
necessary is if the parent has bad
credit and is ineligible for private
loans or federal PLUS loans, said
Mark Kantrowitz, a college financing
expert.
Pay with plastic? Credit cards can
be a good option for covering smaller
college-related expenses, such as
books and fees, as long as the balance
is paid on time and in full every
month.
But don’t put the tuition bill on
plastic, since you may be incurring
sizable interest charges or late fees.
Your best bet? “Plan ahead so
you’re not stuck using a credit card
at the last minute,” said Joe DePaulo,
chief executive of College Ave
Student Loans.
Questions, comments, column ideas?
Send an email to sbrosen1030@
gmail.com.
stop, Sherry said. What’s more, making a
payment on an old debt may reset the clock
on the statute of limitations, and the collec-
tor could sue you for the full amount.
The new CFPB rule requires that
consumers receive more information about
debts in collection. Debt collectors must
provide you with a written “validation
notice,” either before contacting you for the
first time or within five days of contacting
you. It must include details on the amount
you owe and advise you that you have the
right to dispute the debt within 30 days.
Debt collectors must also wait 14 days
after sending some type of notification
before alerting the major credit report-
ing companies (Equifax, Experian and
TransUnion) that a debt has gone into
collection.
Rivan Stinson is a staff writer at
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine.
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WARDELL LAVENDER

Community activist known

as the ‘Mayor of Woodlawn’ Massarik MD, Ronald
Dr. Ronald Massarik, aged 89, of Deerfield, IL, a
devoted husband of Marline,
Death Notices father of David (Bonnie) and
By Alice Yin Sara, and cherished grand-
Chicago Tribune father of Shoshana, Juliana,
Berliant, Ronald Michelle, Madeleine, and
Ronald Berliant, age 88. For almost 64 years, he was Rebecca. He was a revered
A community organizer the great love of her life for and respected physician in
and Woodlawn neighbor- his wife Sandy, nee Lerner. private practice after his 10-
hood fixture known over Adored father of Jordan and year career in the Medical
the years for protesting Tracy, Alan and Ranee, and Corps as an Army physician
the feared displacement of Leslie and Chris. Fun and with the final rank of Major.
longtime residents near the loved grandfather of Adina, In lieu of flowers, donations to the
proposed Obama Presiden- Dylan, and Rachael. Dear American Diabetes Association, www.
tial Center in Jackson Park friend and brother of Ken and diabetes.org/donate, in his memory
died earlier this month. his wife Esther, and his sister- would be greatly appreciated. Private
in-law Mickey. Special and graveside service. Please attend via
Wardell Lavender, 80, admired uncle of Marcus, livestream, Monday 2PM. For the link to viwe the
died on April 7. Laven- Ardath, Sharon, Shana, Joan, Linda, service, shiva information and to leave condolences:
der, who had been diag- Bruce, Steven, and all of their partners Shalom Memorial Funeral Home, www.shalom2.com
nosed with prostate cancer, and children. Ron was a graduate of the or (847) 255-3520.
embarked on a late-in-life University of Illinois, with a degree in ge-
career in political activism Wardell Lavender marches to push for a community benefits ology. After serving in the armed forces in
that spanned co-founding agreement tied to the construction of the Obama Presidential Germany, he began his career as a civil engineer. He
the organization Southside Center in 2017. NUCCIO DINUZZO/CHICAGO TRIBUNE was a partner at Mirza Engineering, and later joined
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Together Organizing for Homart Development Corporation and General
Growth Properties as VP of Design & Construction Mochocki, Vincent F.
Power, door-knocking for hailed by supporters as a first wave of Black families (which he humorously referred to as the “Malling Vincent F. Mochocki, 69, of Streamwood, died April
Ald. Jeanette Taylor’s 2019 catalyst for economic devel- to integrate Woodlawn in of America”). Among the boards he served on, Ron 23, 2021. Vincent was the
campaign and getting kicked opment on the South Side, the early 1950s. His prolific was a past president of ICSC (International Council beloved husband of Monica
out of City Hall multiple but many longtime commu- knowledge of the neighbor- of Shopping Centers). He failed retirement and after for 39 years; loving brother of
times during demonstra- nity members and activists hood’s role in African Amer- a very brief respite, Ron returned to work consult- Harriet (the late Curtis) White,
tions. said the arrival of such an ican history was a comfort ing for firms including the Greeby Companies and James, George (Kimberly),
Recognizable in seem- ambitious project would to Taylor, long before she Miller Capital Advisory. He worked well into his 80s, John (Patricia), Richard (Gina),
ingly every block in the surely push out low-income dreamed of being the 20th much to the chagrin of his family and the delight Barbara and the late Henry
neighborhood, he was affec- residents. Ward alderman and when of his clients. He taught geology at Chicago City (Christine); cherished son of
College, and was mentor and friend to many of his the late Stanley and Irena;
tionately nicknamed the Those organizers, includ- she was simply a fresh, disil- colleagues. Ron was a lifelong supporter of social dear son in law of the late
“Mayor of Woodlawn,” his ing Lavender, formed the lusioned face in the neigh- justice and progressive causes, a lover of music, art, Walter and Josephine Sporek; fond brother in law of
younger brother Gethmus Obama CBA Coalition and borhood. theatre, and travel, and a devoted fan of the Chicago Linda (Michael) Cornejo and the late Shirley (Rocco)
Lavender said. in June took over a vacant “I wasn’t happy,” Taylor White Sox. He stood in awe of nature and the uni- Addante. Vincent will be missed by many loving niec-
“When they said ‘Mayor lot in Woodlawn with a said about her move a decade verse. He died as he lived; with grace, dignity, and es and nephews, he was a dear uncle to them all. He
of Woodlawn,’ I took that dozen tents as a symbolic ago from Bronzeville to love. He will be missed by all who knew him but made many friends over the years, they will cher-
as what a mayor would do,” message to Lightfoot about Woodlawn. “I felt like I was left a legacy of kindness. In lieu of flowers and sad ish his memory. Vincent proudly worked at Jewel
Lavender said. “You would their concerns of worsen- kicked out of my commu- songs, memorial contributions made to any of the for 50 years. Visitation Thursday April 29, 7:30am
go out of your way or make ing homelessness without nity, and I was forced to go following organizations would be greatly appreci- until time of prayers 9:15am at Countryside Funeral
ated: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 150 N Home and Crematory 1640 S. Greenmeadows Blvd
sure you was able to help an agreement. there because my mother Michigan Ave #600, Chicago, IL 6060, www.aclu-il. (at Barrington Road) Streamwood/Schaumburg,
everybody in the commu- A month later, they and my children couldn’t org or Habitat for Humanity, 1100 W Cermak Rd Ste. to St. John the Evangelist Church, Mass 10:00am.
nity, and that’s what his posi- reached such a deal with afford to move anywhere 404, Chicago, IL 60608, www.habitatchicago.org Following services cremation will be private at
tion was.” the city. else in the city.” or International Rescue Committee, 122 East 42nd Countryside Crematory. In lieu of flowers donations
Most recently, Wardell “His gift was really kind of Then she met Lavender, Street, New York, New York 10168-1289, www. to the Morton Arboretum https://www.mortonarb.
Lavender and other activists making it plain,” Alex Gold- an elder in Woodlawn who rescue.org or Save the Children, 501 Kings Highway org/ would be appreciated. For info (630)289-8054
under the umbrella of the enberg, another co-founder touted the neighborhood’s East, Suite 400, Fairfield, CT 06825, www.savethe- or www.countrysidefuneralhomes.com
Obama Community Bene- of STOP and member of the deep roots in Black culture children.org or Oxfam, 226 Causeway Street, 5th
fits Agreement Coalition CBA Coalition, said about and told her, “You can Floor, Boston, MA 02114-2206, www.oxfamamerica.
org or Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, 70 E Lake
reached a deal with Mayor Lavender. “‘They want us make a home anywhere.” St, Chicago, IL 60601, www.chicagohomeless.org. A
Lori Lightfoot’s adminis- out. We need this,’ saying The two soon learned they memorial service will be planned at a future date.
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tration last July to require things like that so clearly. shared a background in Arrangements by Chicago Jewish Funerals - Skokie Panozzo, Lawrence C.
more affordable housing in The people would nod along community activism, her Chapel, 847.229.8822, www.cjfinfo.com. Lawrence C. Panozzo, age 91, passed away peace-
Woodlawn as the neighbor- like, ‘You’re right.’ ” with the Kenwood-Oak- fully on April 22nd at his
ing community to the pres- Beyond the Obama CBA land Community Organi- home in Flossmoor. Licensed
idential center’s planned movement, Lavender also zation and him with STOP, Funeral Director for 67 years.
location faced the threat of protested the University and their future adventures Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries Proud owner of the Panozzo
gentrification. of Chicago’s creeping real included making a ruckus Bros. Funeral Home which
recently celebrated its 95th
Friends and family said estate footprint on the South in City Hall to serene car
Devine, John year. Beloved husband for 68
Lavender was a crucial Side, the shuttering of half rides during her aldermanic years of Antoinette “Netti”
John Devine, 57, sudden; beloved husband of Mary
figure in getting that agree- of Chicago’s mental health campaign’s door-knocking nee Lill; loving father of Michael (Jill) and Philip nee Rigoni. Loving father of
ment inked. clinics and the lack of an blitzes, when the two of (Cassie); cherished Papa of Sylvester Lucas and Lucy Lawrence D. (Carol), Dennis
Lavender stirred Wood- adult Level I trauma center them would listen to the Rose; dear brother of Kathleen (James) Greenwald, (Dianne), Danielle (Paul) Clarke, Michael (Ellen),
lawn and Washington Park on the South Side up until same K’Jon song again and Rita (Michael) Stock, Gerri (Jack) Felke, Una (Dan) Phillip and Claudia (Bob) Bliese. Proud “Nonno”
residents to overwhelm- 2018. But he didn’t start his again. Vitiello, Mary Devine, Eugene (Michelle); fond uncle of Ben (Erin) Clarke, Anthony Panozzo, Lidia
ingly back a nonbinding full-time political activism There were somber of many; loving son of the late Peggy and Eugene; Panozzo, Maria Clarke, Miriam Panozzo, Sam Bliese,
2019 referendum in support until the early aughts. He moments too, Taylor said, Visitation Tuesday 3-8 PM at Gibbons Family Funeral Lawrence E. Panozzo, and Max Bliese. Devoted son
Home 5917 W. Irving Park Rd. (1/2 block East of of the late Dionisio “Dan” Panozzo and Catherine
of a community benefits led earlier lives as a Harold’s like when she almost quit
Austin). ). *Covid -19 protocols will be followed, and nee Dal Santo. Brother of Dennis (Marie) Panozzo
agreement from the city to Chicken Shack owner and, the campaign after her and Catherine “Cuppy” (William) Van Heel. Beloved
space is limited, please wear a mask and pay your
preserve affordable hous- in his spare time, a colorfully mother died in January respects quickly so others may do the same.* A “Uncle Larry” to many. Born and raised in Chicago’s
ing, reaching thousands dressed but practiced pool 2019. He firmly said, “Your live stream of the visitation will be available on the Roseland neighborhood. Graduate of St. Anthony of
through door-knocking player. mother would be upset funeral home website. In lieu of flowers donations Padua grade school, Mt. Carmel High School Class
and phone calls. Though he “He just got fed up with with you if you dropped out. may be made to Special Olympics. For info 773-777- of 1947, and the University of Notre Dame Class of
and others didn’t think the the way the conditions were Don’t drop out. This is what 3944 or www.GFFH.com 1951. U.S. Army Veteran. Longtime Secretary of the
latest ordinance approved for people in the commu- you’re supposed to be.” At Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries Funeral Directors Services Association of Greater
last year after negotiations nity and people living in his urging, the two of them Chicagoland. Resting at Panozzo Bros. Funeral Home,
530 W. 14th St., (US Rt. 30, 3 blks E. of Western Ave)
with the Lightfoot admin- the city of Chicago,” Geth- ditched the day’s schedule
Fenton, Richard Lee Chicago Heights on Wednesday April 28th from
istration went far enough, mus Lavender said about of door-knocking and got ice Richard Lee Fenton, 67. Beloved husband of Judy 12noon until 9:00 PM. Funeral Thursday morning
Taylor said after his death his brother’s transition into cream instead. nee Alsofrom. Loving father of Leslie 9:00 AM prayer service to Infant Jesus of Prague
that there was “not a doubt activism. “Just got kind of “I wouldn’t be in office if Fenton, Jessica (Jeremy Kahn) Fenton Church, 1131 Douglas Ave., Flossmoor. Funeral
in my mind” the CBA move- fed up with it, the housing it wasn’t for Mr. Wardell,” and Jonathan (Regina) Fenton. Dear Mass 10:00 AM. Entombment Holy Sepulchre
ment was not over. and the crime and all that Taylor said. “He really is brother of Larry (Gayle) Fenton and Cemetery, Worth. Due to the pandemic, 50 people
The $500 million Obama stuff.” the reason why I fell in love brother-in-law of Daniel (Julie) Alsofrom at a time, masks must be worn and social distancing
Presidential Center, Wardell Lavender, who is with Woodlawn and made it and Sarah Alsofrom. He loved his entire extended while inside the funeral home. For further informa-
family and family by choice. He was a prominent tion (708) 481-9230 or panozzobros.com.
announced in 2016 as a survived by one daughter, home for me.”
attorney, a partner at Dentons LLC for his entire Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries
sprawling campus in the originally was from Mantua, career. He graduated from the University of Chicago
storied Jackson Park, was Alabama, and was part of the ayin@chicagotribune.com Undergraduate and Law School Degrees. He was a Petraitis, Emma A.
member of the national board of the Anti-Defamation Emma A. Petraitis (née Ascilla), age 103. Beloved
League. He was the first board president of District wife of the late Anthony J. Devoted mother of
112, Highland Park. He loved music, travel and ev- Pamela (Charles) Rice and Peter Sr. (Cynthia). Loving
erything life had to offer. To keep everyone safe and grandmother of Amy (Michael) Bulbrooke, Peter
healthy, the synagogue service and interment are Petraitis Jr., Tyler Petraitis and great-grandmother
private. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions of Gavin and Effie Bulbrooke. Longtime member
may be made to Makom Solel Lakeside, 301 Clavey of Chicago Lithuanian Women’s Club, Balzekas
ON APRIL 26 ... was born in Hamilton, Ohio. exploded a 1-megaton nuclear Women’s Guild, Suvalkieciu Club and Willow Springs
Road, Highland Park, IL 60035, www.mymakom.org
device called “Boxcar” and the Anti-Defamation League, 120 South LaSalle Seniors. Vice President of Lithuanian National
In 1607, an expedition of In 1937 planes from Nazi beneath the Nevada desert. Street, Chicago, IL 60603, https://chicago.adl.org. Cemetery. Visitation Tuesday 9 AM until time of
colonists, including Capt. Germany raided the Basque To attend the funeral live stream, please visit our service, 11 AM at Palos-Gaidas Funeral Home, 11028
John Smith, went ashore at town of Guernica during the In 1980, following an unsuc- website. Arrangements by Chicago Jewish Funerals S. Southwest Hwy. (7700W) Palos Hills. Interment
Cape Henry, Va., to establish Spanish Civil War. cessful attempt by the United - Skokie Chapel, 847.229.8822, www.cjfinfo.com Lithuanian National Cemetery. Express your
the first permanent English States to rescue the U.S. thoughts and memories in the online Guest Book at
www.palosgaidasfh.com (708) 974-4410
settlement in the Western In 1945 Marshal Henri Embassy hostages in Iran,
Hemisphere. Philippe Petain, the head of the Tehran government
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In 1865 Abraham Lincoln’s during World War II, was being scattered to thwart any
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assassin, John Wilkes Booth, arrested. future rescue effort.
was surrounded by federal Kaufman, Dorothy ‘Dottie’ Prusko, Estelle H.
Dorothy “Dottie” Kaufman nee Langer, 96. Beloved Estelle H. Prusko (nee) Wodzinski age 97 passed
troops on a farm near Bowl- In 1961 Roger Maris of the In 1986 the world’s worst wife for 78 years of the late Morton away peacefully Friday April 23, 2021. Loving wife of
ing Green, Va. (He later was New York Yankees hit the nuclear accident occurred Kaufman. Loving mother of Donna the late Walter J. Prusko for 63 years. Dearest moth-
found dying in a barn, the first of a record 61 home runs at the Chernobyl plant in (Richard) Kaplan and Susan Foreen. er of Charmaine (Ken) Zuchel, Camille (late Gordon)
victim of either a suicide or in a single season. the Soviet Union. (An explo- Proud grandmother of Jeffrey Kaplan, Hjelm, Christine (Bob) Clark and Wally (late Cheryl)
a shooting.) sion and fire killed at least 31 Andrew (Jennifer) Kaplan, Ilissa (Jeffrey) Prusko. Dear grandmother of 10, great-grandmother
In 1964 the African nations people and sent radioactiv- Curry, Nanci Kaplan and Sarah (Mark) Schmidt. of 16. Fond sister of the late Jean and Bruno Kubiak,
In 1900 seismologist Charles of Tanganyika and Zanzibar ity into the atmosphere.) Cherished great grandmother of Jacob, Ilan, surviving sister Dorothy (late Phil) Manata. Loving
Richter, who devised the merged to form Tanzania. Hannah, Judah, Ben, Jesse, Eloise, Madelyn, Kinsley aunt of many nieces and nephews and friend to
earthquake-measuring In 1989 actress-comedian and Archer. Dear sister of the late Mae (the late all she met. Visitation Monday April 26th from
Norman) Oppenheim, the late Sally Dempsey and 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM and Tuesday April 27th 9:00
scale that bears his name, In 1968 the United States Lucille Ball died in Los the late Marge Langer. In order to keep everyone AM until time of funeral services at 10:00 AM from
Angeles; she was 77. safe and healthy, funeral services and Shiva are TOHLE FUNERAL HOME 4325 W. Lawrence Ave to St.
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Marilyn “Toddy” Richman, nee Melvoin, 94, April
24, 2021. Loving daughter of
the late Charles and the late
Selma Melvoin, and sister of
the late Hugo (Loie) Melvoin.
Beloved wife of the late
William S. Richman. Devoted
partner of the late Dr. Alex
Hilkevitch. Loving mother of
Daniel Richman, Elizabeth
(Mitch Dayan) Richman, and
Ruth Richman. Adored grand-
mother of Sam (Jayme) Besser, Ariel
(Yaakov) Sugarman, Wiley Kornbluh,
and Rachel Kornbluh. Doting great-
grandmother to Aviva, Naomi, and Liam
Besser, and to Shayna Baila, Chavi, and
Leah Sugarman. Loved by step-grandchildren Isaac
(Talia) Dayan, Max (Mariya) Dayan, and Stanley (Sara)
Dayan, and their 10 children. Beloved aunt and
cousin to many. Toddy had a quirky sense of humor.
She laughed freely and often. She would frequently
break into song, prompted by a word or phrase
someone had just spoken. She wrote a unique
ditty for each child and grandchild. For special oc-
casions, she composed funny, pithy poems in rhym-
ing couplets. And when she felt moved, she jotted
down more pensive reflections. She was a loving,
creative grandmother and great-grandmother who
kept a collection of costumes, musical instruments,
puppets and props -- along with a puppet theatre --
upstairs in a spare room. The kids and their friends
found it irresistible. She baked apple pies every
Thanksgiving with her grandchildren and crafted
classic family meals, like “upside-downside chili
pie.” There was a song for that dish, too, now sung
by the great-grandchildren. Born in Chicago in 1927,
Toddy grew up in Wilmette and attended New Trier
High School, where she began a lifelong pursuit of
acting. During and after attending Wellesley College,
she was a stage and TV actress. Over the years,
her flair for acting grew into an interest in drama’s
life-enhancing potential. Toddy was the found-
ing director of the Institute for Therapy through
the Arts and one of the founders of the National
Association of Drama Therapy. She received her
Masters of Education from the National College of
Education and completed the Teacher Education
Program at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.
She taught drama therapy courses at Columbia
College and National-Louis University. She served
as registry chair for the National Association of
Drama Therapy and presented workshops and pa-
pers for 23 annual conferences. During her time at
ITA, she provided drama therapy for preschool and
grade-school children, adolescents, and the elderly.
She worked as a clinical consultant to the ITA staff
and served as chairman emeritus of its board for
as long as she was able. Toddy loved Judaism -- its
melodies, its philosophies, its prayers. Over several
years, she taught creative dramatics to children at
Congregation Solel in Highland Park. A strong be-
liever in the importance of Jewish education, Toddy
served as a long-time member of the Board of
Jewish Education of Metropolitan Chicago and was
honored in 2009 with their “Rambam Award” for her
service to the community. Always a fan of outdoor
activities, especially fishing, she served as her child-
rens’ Cub and Girl Scout leader. Toddy played piano,
sang, and shared her appreciation for the arts with
her children and grandchildren. She coordinated a
wide range of family vacations that always had a
learning component, exposing her kids to experi-
ences that she rightly said we’d “appreciate more
later.” Toddy believed in inclusion, helping to keep
our far-flung extended family connected. She was
an optimist who believed that people are basically
good at heart. She was full of love and kindness.
She will be deeply missed by the many people she
touched. To keep everyone safe and healthy, the
service and interment are private. We will celebrate
her life together some time later this year. In lieu of
flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the
Institute for Therapy through the Arts, 2130 Green
Bay Road, Evanston, IL 60201, https://itachicago.
org; or Makom Solel Lakeside, 301 Clavey Road,
Highland Park, Illinois 60035, www.mymakom.org;
or the Board of Jewish Education of Metropolitan
Chicago, 3610 Dundee Road, Northbrook, IL 60062,
www.bjeecc.info. To attend the funeral live stream,
please visit our website. Arrangements by Chicago
Jewish Funerals - Skokie Chapel, 847.229.8822,
www.cjfinfo.com.
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the Cook County Juvenile Court System, continued
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non-profit social service agency. Janice, a staunch
civil libertarian, was a life-long champion of causes
which advance social and economic justice and
equal opportunities for everyone, especially the
most vulnerable among us. As a true intellec-
tual, Janice was an avid theatergoer and voracious
reader who appreciated the tragedies of William
Shakespeare and the detective novels of Robert
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and humor captivated her friends and family. She
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LEGAL NOTICES
GOVERNMENT/EDUCATION
COUNTY OF COOK OFFICE OF THE
CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER FOR THE
COOK COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT
INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) SECURITY
MACHINES MAINTENANCE & REPAIRS
IFB NO.: 2106-18685
Document: The Bid document is available for
download at: https://legacy.cookcountyil.
gov/purchasing/bids/listAllBids.php
Contact Person: If you are not able to
download the Bid or if you have other
questions, please contact LaTosha Gholar at
latosha.gholar@ccsheriff.org
Questions: Questions can be submitted in
writing to the contact person above until
2:00 PM (CST) on May 03,2021.
Bid Submittal Due Date, Time, and Location:
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 10:00 AM (CST)
All Bids/Proposals/Submittals must be
submitted electronically and uploaded to
https://www.cookcountyil.gov/service/
online- solicitation-bid-submission following
the instructions set forth in the Bid
Solicitation document.
Toni Preckwinkle
President,
Commissioners
Cook County Board
Raffi Sarrafian Chief Procurement Officer
of
Late Proposals Will Not Be Accepted
4/26/2021 6938088
GENERAL SERVICES
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LEGAL
NOTICES
STATE OF INDIANA ) IN THE TIPPECANOE SUPERIOR COURT 3
) SS:
COUNTY OF TIPPECANOE )
In The Matter of The Termination of The Parent-Child
Relationship: JR (DOB 5/3/2014)
And
Benjamin Roberts (Alleged Father)
TO: Benjamin Roberts Whereabouts unknown
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the above noted parent whose whereabouts are unknown, that the Indiana Department of
Child Services has filed a Petition for Involuntary Termination of your Parental Rights, and that an adjudication hearing has
been scheduled with the Court.
YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED to appear before the Judge of the Tippecanoe Superior Court 3, 301 Main Street,
Lafayette, IN 47901, 765-423-9295 for a(n) Initial Hearing on Publication on 6/14/2021 at 2:30 PM and Termination of Parent
Rights Hearing on 6/14/2021 at 2:30 PM and to answer the Petition for Termination of your Parental Rights of said child.
You are further notified that if the allegations in said petition are true, and/or if you fail to appear at the hearing, the Juvenile
Court may terminate your parent-child relationship; and if the Court terminates your parent-child relationship you will lose
all parental rights, powers, privileges, immunities, duties and obligations including any rights to custody, control, visitation,
or support in said child; and if the Court terminates your parent-child relationship, it will be permanently terminated, and
thereafter you may not contest an adoption or other placement of said child.
You are entitled to representation by an attorney, provided by the State if applicable, throughout these proceedings to
terminate the parent-child relationship.
YOU MUST RESPOND by appearing in person or by an attorney within thirty (30) days after the last publication of this
notice, and in the event you fail to do so, adjudication on said petition and termination of your parental rights may be entered
against you, in your absence, without further notice.
Christopher S. Costello, 36003-79
Attorney, Indiana Department of
Child Services c/o DCS
Lafayette, IN 47901
Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Monday, April 26, 2021 5
LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL
GOVERNMENT/EDUCATION NOTICES
ART BIDS WANTED PUBLIC NOTICE
Cicero School District 99 (“School District”) Public notice is hereby given that the City of
is requesting sealed bids for Art Supplies. Chicago, through its agents the Community
Specifications will be available on our Development Commission and the
district website, www.cicd99.edu beginning Department of Planning and Development,
Monday, April 26, 2021 until bid opening is issuing a Request for Proposals for the
day. Sealed bids must be received by the purchase and development of the property
Administration Building, 5110 West 24th located at 3601 W. Chicago Avenue and 3625
Street, Cicero, Illinois 60804, on or before W. Chicago Avenue (PIN 16-11-107-036 & 16-
1:30 pm on Monday, May 10, 2021. Bids will 11-107-001) within the Chicago/Central Park
be publicly opened and read at that time. TIF Redevelopment Project Area in Chicago,
Indicate on the face of the sealed envelope: Illinois.
“SEALED BID FOR ART SUPPLIES”. Unsigned Public notice is hereby given that the City of
or late bids will not be considered. The bidder Chicago, through its agents the Community
assumes the risk of any delay in handling or Development Commission and the
delivery of the mail. Cicero School District 99 Department of Planning and Development,
reserves the right to accept or reject any or is issuing a Request for Proposals for the
all bids when there are sound documented purchase and development of the property
reasons to do so and to waive informalities located at 4000 to 4008 W North Avenue
and minor irregularities in bids received. and 1616 to 1638 N Pulaski Road (PINs 13-
4/26/2021 6938220 34-430-035; 13-34-430-034; 13-34-430-036;
13-34-430-027; 13-34-430-026; 13-34-430-
CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS RFP FOR 025; 13-34-430-024; 13-34-430-023; 13-34-
430-022; 13-34-430-040) within the Pulaski
SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES DUE: MAY 24, Corridor TIF Redevelopment Project Area in
2021 AT 2:00 P.M. Chicago, Illinois.
Public notice is hereby given that the City of
See: www.cps.edu/purchasing
04/26/2021 6938740 Chicago, through its agents the Community
Development Commission and the
Department of Planning and Development,
WASTE REMOVAL AND DISPOSAL BIDS is issuing a Request for Proposals for the
purchase and development of the property
WANTED
located at 2908-2916 E. 79th Street; 7843
Cicero School District 99 (“School District”)
is requesting sealed bids for Waste removal S. Escanaba; 7850 S. Escanaba (PIN(s): 21-
30-409-008-0000 and 21-30-409-009-0000;
and disposal services. Specifications will
21-30-409-005-0000; 21-30-409-006-0000),
be available on our district website, www.
cicd99.edu beginning Monday, April 26, 2920-2926 E. 79th Street (PIN(s): 21-30-
409-010-0000), 7901-7907 South Exchange
2021 until bid opening day. Sealed bids
(PIN(s): 21-31-203-001-0000),7911-7933
must be received by the Administration
Building, 5110 West 24th Street, Cicero, South Exchange (PIN(s): 21-31-203-003-0000,
21-31-203-004-0000, 21-31-203-005-0000,
Illinois 60804, on or before 1:00 pm on
21-31-203-006-0000, 21-31-203-007-0000,
Monday, May 10, 2021. Bids will be publicly
opened and read at that time. Indicate on 21-31-203-008-0000, 21-31-203-009-0000,
21-31-203-010-0000, 21-31-203-011-0000,
the face of the sealed envelope: “SEALED
21-31-203-023-0000)within the Avalon
BID FOR WASTE REMOVAL AND DISPOSAL
SERVICES”. Unsigned or late bids will not South Shore TIF Redevelopment Project
be considered. The bidder assumes the risk Area in Chicago, Illinois.
The Department of Planning and
of any delay in handling or delivery of the
mail. Cicero School District 99 reserves the Development hereby invites proposals
for consideration by the Community
right to accept or reject any or all bids when
Development Commission.
there are sound documented reasons to
do so and to waive informalities and minor The Request for Proposals document will
be available for download starting on April
irregularities in bids received.
23, 2021 from the City’s website at https://
4/26/2021 6938601
www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/invest_sw/
home.html
Proposals will only be accepted by the
Department at 121 N. LaSalle St., Room
1000, Chicago, IL 60602 until 4pm on
LEGAL August 31, 2021. It is the responsibility of
NOTICES the offeror to ensure that the submission
package is received by the Department of
Planning and Development on or before
the indicated deadline. The City of Chicago
NOTICE
reserves the right to reject all proposals and
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF BANK
to waive any informalities in any submission.
SUBSIDIARY
Notice is hereby given that Belmont Bank & All proposals must be submitted in the
Trust Company, an Illinois state bank with its form approved by the City of Chicago and
must be complete with respect to the
main office located at 8250 West Belmont
Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, has submitted an information contained therein. Offerors
application (the “Application”) to the Federal must be financially and otherwise qualified
to complete the proposed development.
Deposit Insurance Corporation requesting
Jorge J. Perez, Chairman
approval for Belmont Bank & Trust Company
to assume all remaining assets and liabilities COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
4/26, 5/3, 5/10/2021 6938222
of 9A150 Hawthorne Apple River, LLC, an
Illinois limited liability company with its
main office located at 8250 West Belmont
Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, following the
voluntary dissolution of 9A150 Hawthorne
Apple River, LLC.
This notice is published pursuant to Section
18(c) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.
Any person wishing to
comment on this application may file his or
her comments in writing with the regional
director of the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation at its regional office located
at 300 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 1700,
Chicago, Illinois 60606, or via email to
CHIMailRoom@FDIC.gov with the subject
of “Public Comment to Belmont Bank &
Trust Company, Interagency Bank Merger
Act Application” Any comments should be
submitted no later than May 26, 2021. The
non confidential portions of the Application
are on file in the Regional Office and are
available for public inspection during regular
business hours. Photocopies of the non
confidential portion of the Application files
will be made available upon request.
Belmont Bank & Trust Company, Chicago,
Illinois
9A150 Hawthorne Apple River, LLC, Chicago,
Illinois
April 26, 2021
May 10, 2021
May 21, 2021
4/26, 5/10, 5/21/21 6938564
LEGAL LEGAL
NOTICES NOTICES
PUBLIC NOTICE - NOTICE OF FILING
NORTHERN ILLINOIS GAS COMPANY
d/b/a Nicor Gas Company hereby gives
notice to the public that it has filed with the
Illinois Commerce Commission on April 15,
2021, testimony and exhibits in Docket No.
20-0881 setting forth a reconciliation of the
Company’s Gas Supply Cost revenues with
actual gas costs for 2020. Further information
with respect thereto may be obtained either
directly from this Company or by addressing
the Chief Clerk of the Illinois Commerce
Commission at Springfield, Illinois 62701.
Northern Illinois Gas Company
d/b/a Nicor Gas Company
John O. Hudson III,
President & CEO, Nicor Gas
Gas Supply Cost Notice: GSC
CAUSE NUMBER: 79D03-2103-JT-000022
)
)
SUMMONS FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION & NOTICE OF
)
) TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS HEARING
)
)
Julie Roush
Juvenile Court Clerk
6 Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Monday, April 26, 2021
LEGAL
NOTICES
LAND OFFERED FOR SALE BY THE CITY
OF CHICAGO
Public notice is hereby given that the
Department of Planning and Development of
the City of Chicago is offering for sale to the
public the surplus property described below.
Address 6411 S. Central Ave.
Property Index Numbers 19-21-109-005
Land Size 6,500 sf
Building Two-Story, Vacant, Former
Firehouse (approx. 4,064 sf)
Zoning B1-1(current); with consideration
for potential rezoning up to B2-2 to
accommodate residential dwelling units on
or above ground floor
The City seeks redevelopment proposals
in accordance with the requirements of
the indicated zoning district and the goals
and objectives of the Archer/Central Tax
Increment Financing Redevelopment Project
Area. The property is also located in the
Midway Height Restriction Zone, and all
development proposals are subject to FAA
approval. The sale will not close until the
buyer is prepared to commence the project
as indicated below. The City will accept
proposals for any use allowed by zoning
that is also in accordance with the goals and
objectives of the TIF plan.
The property is currently improved with a
vacant, two-story, plus lower-level boiler
room, masonry, former firehouse building
containing approximately 4,064 square feet
of above grade building area. The estimated
building construction date is circa 1920.
The building exterior is in average overall
condition, while the interior is in poor
condition. The building layout includes three
restrooms and a kitchen (non-operational).
The building has 120/480-volt electrical
service, and all utilities have been shut
off. The building has been vacant since
2014. Upon request, interior photos can be
provided to prospective bidders.
The successful proposer will be required
to obtain a Phase I Environmental Site
Assessment (ESA) compliant with ASTM
E1527-13 and conducted within 180 days
prior to the conveyance of the property.
In the event the Phase I ESA identifies
recognized environmental conditions,
the City may require soil sampling and
enrollment of the site in the Illinois
Environmental Protection Agency’s Site
Remediation Program to ensure the
property will be safe for use. The Abatement
of identified hazardous materials, which
include asbestos and lead based paint, as
required by and in accordance with local,
state and/or federal regulations must occur
prior to occupancy. Costs for environmental
remediation may be considered credited
against the purchase price. If environmental
costs exceed the purchase price, the
amount exceeding the purchase price is the
responsibility of the purchaser.
The City will require the successful proposer
to close on the sale of the property within 3
months following the effective date of the
land sale ordinance and begin hazardous
material abatement and redevelopment of
the property within 6 months of purchase,
unless such dates are extended by the City
in accordance with the sales ordinance. The
sale will not close until the buyer provides
proof of project financing (e.g., closed or
concurrently closing loan documents).
The property will be sold in as-is condition
without warranty. Sales will be all cash, and
the City will not offer the purchaser financial
assistance of any kind. The sale will be
made by quitclaim deed. All offers must be
accompanied by a 10% good faith deposit
payable to the City of Chicago and include
a descriptive narrative of the intended use,
respondent qualifications, project timeline,
and proposed site plan and architectural
drawings.
The proposal due date is shown below. The
list price is not a minimum bid. In addition to
purchase price, proposals will be evaluated
based on buyer qualifications, and the
extent to which the proposal enhances
the commercial corridor and neighborhood
quality of life.
Address: 6411 S. Central Ave.
List Price: $90,000
Bid Due Date at 4:00 p.m. Chicago Time:
June 25, 2021
Property information and questions should
be directed to John Molloy at john.molloy@
cityofchicago.org or (312) 744-7223.
The City reserves the right, at any time
and in its sole and absolute discretion, to
reject any or all submissions, or to withdraw
the request for development proposals
without notice. In no event shall the City
be liable to respondents for any cost or
damages incurred by the respondents,
team members, consultants, or other
interested parties in connection with the
request for development proposal process,
including by not limited to an and all costs
of preparing the preliminary cost budget,
architectural drawings and renderings or
other submitted materials, and participation
in any conferences, oral presentations or
negotiations.
The City further reserves the right, but shall
have no obligation, to extend the proposal
due date, seek clarification of any element
of a proposal, and negotiate with any of the
responsive proposers subsequent to the due
date. The City will not be authorized to sell
the property until approved by City Council
and published in the Journal of Council
Proceedings. It is the responsibility of the
offeror that his or her offer is received by the
Department of Planning and Development
on or before the designated time.
4/26, 5/10, 5/24, 6/7 & 6/21/2021 6936559
NOTICE TO DISADVANTAGED
BUSINESSES
J. Nardulli Concrete, Inc., 3517 S. 60th
Court, Cicero, IL 60804, 708-652-3000,
is seeking disadvantaged businesses for
the Vil. of Western Springs 2021 Roadway
& Water Main Improvements Project
for subcontracting opportunities in the
following areas: Underground, Landscaping,
HMA Patching, and Pavement Marking.
All disadvantaged businesses should
contact IN WRITING (certified letter, return
receipt requested) Mr. Jose A. Gaucin to
discuss subcontracting opportunities. All
negotiations must be completed prior
to bid opening 5/14/21. Proposals will
be evaluated & awarded based on price,
qualifications, & availability.
4/26/2021 6937901
NOTICE TO DISADVANTAGED
BUSINESSES
DiNatale Construction Inc. 1441 W. Bernard
Drive, Addison, IL 60101 (630)629-4428, is
seeking disadvantaged Businesses For the
Village of Western Springs 2021 Roadway
& Water Main Improvements Project
for subcontracting opportunities In the
following area: earth excavation, granulated
materials, storm sewers, Ductile Iron water
main.
All disadvantaged businesses should
contact, IN WRITING, (certified letter,
returned receipt requested), Mike DiNatale
to discuss the Subcontracting opportunities.
All negotiations must be completed prior to
bid opening May 14, 2021.
04/26/2021 6937636
CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS NOTICE OF
TIME EXTENSION AND ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
Notice is hereby given that the bid opening
date heretofore advertised as Monday, April
26, 2021 has been extended to Monday,
May 3, 2021 no later than 2:00 P.M. for the
following items:
Req No: C21FT102551756,
Invitation for Bids (IFB) for Removal, Furnish,
Deliver, Install and Commission of One Floor
Mounted Wheel Press Machine Suite. F.O.B.
Destination.
PROPOSAL GUARANTEE: NONE
For additional information, please contact
Lolita Hendrix, Procurement Administrator
at: lhendrix@transitchicago.com.
Any contract resulting from this bid is
subject to a financial assistance between
the Chicago Transit Authority, the United
States Department of Transportation and the
Regional Transportation Authority.
The contractor will be required to furnish
certified copies of any and all Insurance
Policies required in relation to this contract
prior to CTA’s execution.
Contractor will be required to comply
with all applicable Equal Employment
Opportunity laws and regulations and
affirmative action requirements of the
Federal Transit Administration and Illinois
Human Rights Commission.
All bidders will be required to certify that
they are not on the Comptroller General’s
list of ineligible contractors.
Any contract resulting from this
advertisement will be awarded to the lowest
responsive and responsible bidder.
Chicago Transit Authority hereby notifies
all bidders that it will affirmatively ensure
that in regard to any contract entered
into pursuant to this advertisement,
Disadvantaged Business Enterprise will be
afforded full opportunity to submit bids in
response to this invitation and will not be
discriminated against on the grounds of
race, color or national origin in consideration
for an award.
PLEASE NOTE: The right is reserved to
accept any proposal or to reject any and all
proposals.
CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY
By: Ellen McCormack
Vice President,
Purchasing & Supply Chain
April 26, 2021
4/26/2021 6938089
LEGAL
NOTICES
CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY
ADVERTISEMENT FOR PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES NOTICE OF TIME EXTENSION
AND ADDENDUM NO.1
Notice is hereby given that the proposal
opening date heretofore advertised as
Monday, April 26, 2021 has been extended
to Monday, May 10, 2021 no later than 3:30
P.M for the following items:
Req No: B21OP01982,
Request for Proposals (RFP) for Pre-
Employment Background Checks for a
period of up to three years with two one-
year options.
PROPOSAL GUARANTEE: NONE
For additional information, please
contact John Hegg, Senior Procurement
Administrator, Jhegg@transitchicago.com.
Any contract resulting from this
advertisement will be awarded to the lowest
responsive and responsible bidder.
The contractor will be required to furnish
certified copies of any and all Insurance
Policies required in relation to this contract
prior to CTA’s execution.
Chicago Transit Authority hereby notifies all
bidders that it will affirmatively ensure that in
regard to any contract entered into pursuant
to this advertisement, Disadvantaged
Business Enterprise will be afforded full
opportunity to submit bids in response to
this invitation and will not be discriminated
against on the grounds of race, color, or
national origin in consideration for an award.
PLEASE NOTE: The right is reserved to
accept any proposal or to reject any and all
proposals.
CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY
By: Ellen McCormack
Vice President,
Purchasing & Supply Chain
April 26, 2021
4/26/2021 6936890
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT April 26, 2021
CITY OF CHICAGO
DEPARTMENT OF PROCUREMENT SERVICES
The Bidder must complete and submit an
Electronic Bid prior to the bid due date. An
electronic bid must be submitted through the
City of Chicago’s website at
www.cityofchicago.org/eprocurement, on or
before the due date and time stated below. The
City’s system will not accept electronic bids
after the due date and time. Bidders must
register for a log-in account to submit an
electronic bid. Please allow up to three
business days for creation of your log-in
account. Paper bids will not be accepted. All
Bids will be opened and publicly read aloud for
the following:
Notice of Addendum: Addendum #1 will be
e-mailed to all bidders on the Bid Opportunity
Take-Out List
DESCRIPTION: Rehabilitation for Taxiways Y,
Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4
ELECTRONIC BID DOCUMENTS CAN BE
DOWNLOADED AND RESPONDED TO FROM
THIS URL ADDRESS:
www.cityofchicago.org/eprocurement
SPECIFICATION NO: 1217758 RFQ NO: 7878, 3
BID/PROPOSAL OPENING DATE: May 7, 2021
TIME: 11:00 a.m. Central Time
CONTACT: Carmella Duran,
Procurement Specialist
Email: Carmella.Duran@cityofchicago.org
Bid Bond:
Bids requiring a bid deposit must be
accompanied by a Bid Bond, provided by a
surety company authorized to do business in
the United States, and made payable to the City
of Chicago. A scanned copy of the bid bond
must be attached to the online bid submission,
with the original bond to be received by DPS
within 3 business days of the bid opening. This
is required of all bidders, not just the apparent
low bidder. Any late Bids received after
announced date and time, for the opening of
Bids, will not be accepted.
Pub: 4/26/2021 6937210
TO: My REA Properties, LLC; My REA
Properties, LLC, c/o Jeffery B. Stolberg, Its
Reg. Agt.; My REA Properties, LLC, Miguel
Rea, Its Manager; Heirs and Legatees of
George Broz; Gustavo Martinez; Rosa
Martinez; Occupant, 3215 N. California Ave.,
Chicago, IL 60618; VMB Auto Clinic; KAREN
A. YARBROUGH, COUNTY CLERK; Persons or
tenants in actual occupancy or possession
of said property; Unknown owners or parties
interested in said property. TAX DEED NO.
2021COTD000297 FILED: 3/3/2021 TAKE
NOTICE County of Cook Date Premises Sold:
5/7/2019 Certificate No.: 17-0007141 Sold for
General Taxes of (year): 2017 Sold for Special
Assessments of (Municipality) and special
assessment number: N/A Warrant No.: N/A
Inst. No.: N/A THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN
SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property
located at: 3215 N. California Ave., Chicago,
ILLINOIS Legal Description or Property Index
No.: 13-24-406-003-0000 This notice is to
advise you that the above property has been
sold for delinquent taxes and that the period
of redemption from the sale will expire on
9/3/2021. The amount to redeem is subject
to increase at 6 month intervals from the
date of sale and may be further increased
if the purchaser at the tax sale or his or her
assignee pays any subsequently accruing
taxes or special assessments to redeem the
property from subsequent forfeitures or tax
sales. Check with the county clerk as to the
exact amount you owe before redeeming.
This notice is also to advise you that a
petition has been filed for a tax deed which
will transfer title and the right to possession
of this property if redemption is not made
on or before 9/3/2021. This matter is set for
hearing in the Circuit Court of this County
in Chicago, Illinois, on 9/8/2021 in Room
1704 of the Richard J. Daley Center at 50 W.
Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois at 9:30
a.m. You may be present at this hearing
but your right to redeem will already have
expired at that time. YOU ARE URGED TO
REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS
OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at
any time on or before 9/3/2021 by applying
to the County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois,
at the Office of the County Clerk in Chicago,
Illinois. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT THE COUNTY CLERK ADDRESS:
118 N. Clark Street, Room 434, Chicago,
Illinois 60602 TELEPHONE: (312) 603-5645
BT LIENS, LLC Purchaser or Assignee Dated:
April 19, 2021 Balin Law, P.C. Attorneys at
Law 100 N. LaSalle, Suite 1200 Chicago, IL
60602 (312) 345-1111 Firm #58864
4/26, 4/27, 4/28/2021 6935253
TO: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National
Association S/B/M to Bank One, National
Association S/B/M to American National
Bank and Trust Company of Chicago as
Trustee U/T/A/D 12/20/1994 a/k/a Trust
No. 11986403; Chicago Title Land Trust Co.
as S/I/I to American National Bank & Trust
Company of Chicago as Trustee U/T/A/D
12/20/1994 a/k/a Trust No. 11986403; City
of Chicago, c/o Anna M. Valencia, City Clerk;
City of Chicago Dept of Water Management;
Todd Lipnick; Maxine Lipnick; Unknown Heirs
and Legatees of Clarence Lipnick; Occupant,
1721 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60647;
Fifth Third Bank, National Association, f/k/a
Fifth Third Bank SBMT MB Financial Bank,
N.A., S/I/I to Lincoln National Bank; KAREN
A. YARBROUGH, COUNTY CLERK; Persons or
tenants in actual occupancy or possession
of said property; Unknown owners or parties
interested in said property. TAX DEED NO.
2021COTD000296 FILED: 3/3/2021 TAKE
NOTICE County of Cook Date Premises Sold:
5/8/2019 Certificate No.: 17-0010672 Sold
for General Taxes of (year): 2017 Sold for
Special Assessments of (Municipality) and
special assessment number: N/A Warrant
No.: N/A Inst. No.: N/A THIS PROPERTY
HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES
Property located at: 1721 N. Milwaukee
Avenue, Chicago, ILLINOIS Legal Description
or Property Index No.: 14-31-322-023-0000
This notice is to advise you that the above
property has been sold for delinquent
taxes and that the period of redemption
from the sale will expire on 9/3/2021. The
amount to redeem is subject to increase at
6 month intervals from the date of sale and
may be further increased if the purchaser
at the tax sale or his or her assignee pays
any subsequently accruing taxes or special
assessments to redeem the property from
subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check
with the county clerk as to the exact
amount you owe before redeeming. This
notice is also to advise you that a petition
has been filed for a tax deed which will
transfer title and the right to possession of
this property if redemption is not made on
or before 9/3/2021. This matter is set for
hearing in the Circuit Court of this County
in Chicago, Illinois, on 9/8/2021 in Room
1704 of the Richard J. Daley Center at 50 W.
Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois at 9:30
a.m. You may be present at this hearing
but your right to redeem will already have
expired at that time. YOU ARE URGED TO
REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS
OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at
any time on or before 9/3/2021 by applying
to the County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois,
at the Office of the County Clerk in Chicago,
Illinois. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT THE COUNTY CLERK ADDRESS:
118 N. Clark Street, Room 434, Chicago,
Illinois 60602 TELEPHONE: (312) 603-5645
BT LIENS, LLC Purchaser or Assignee Dated:
April 19, 2021 Balin Law, P.C. Attorneys at
Law 100 N. LaSalle, Suite 1200 Chicago, IL
60602 (312) 345-1111 Firm #58864
4/26, 4/27, 4/28/2021 6935269
TO: Arturo Zavala a/k/a Arthur Zavala; Leticia
Zavala; Illinois Department of Employment
Security, c/o Director Jeff Mays; Illinois
Attorney General; City of Chicago, c/o Anna
M. Valencia, City Clerk; J. Sterling Morton
High School; Occupant, 5747 W. Cermak Rd.,
Cicero, IL 60804; Occupant, 5741 W. Cermak
Rd, Cicero, IL 60804; Cermak Immediate Care,
Urgent Care / Primary Care; Joseph Lozano;
KAREN A. YARBROUGH, COUNTY CLERK;
Persons or tenants in actual occupancy
or possession of said property; Unknown
owners or parties interested in said property.
TAX DEED NO. 2021COTD000291 FILED:
3/3/2021 TAKE NOTICE County of Cook
Date Premises Sold: 5/3/2019 Certificate
No.: 17-0001377 Sold for General Taxes of
(year): 2017 Sold for Special Assessments
of (Municipality) and special assessment
number: N/A Warrant No.: N/A Inst. No.:
N/A THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR
DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at: AN
APPROX. 57.67’ X 113’ PARCEL LOCATED
AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF CERMAK
ROAD AND 58TH AVENUE, CICERO, ILLINOIS
Legal Description or Property Index No.:
16-29-204-001-0000 This notice is to advise
you that the above property has been sold
for delinquent taxes and that the period
of redemption from the sale will expire on
9/3/2021. The amount to redeem is subject
to increase at 6 month intervals from the
date of sale and may be further increased
if the purchaser at the tax sale or his or her
assignee pays any subsequently accruing
taxes or special assessments to redeem the
property from subsequent forfeitures or tax
sales. Check with the county clerk as to the
exact amount you owe before redeeming.
This notice is also to advise you that a
petition has been filed for a tax deed which
will transfer title and the right to possession
of this property if redemption is not made
on or before 9/3/2021. This matter is set for
hearing in the Circuit Court of this County
in Chicago, Illinois, on 9/8/2021 in Room
1704 of the Richard J. Daley Center at 50 W.
Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois at 9:30
a.m. You may be present at this hearing
but your right to redeem will already have
expired at that time. YOU ARE URGED TO
REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS
OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at
any time on or before 9/3/2021 by applying
to the County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois,
at the Office of the County Clerk in Chicago,
Illinois. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT THE COUNTY CLERK ADDRESS:
118 N. Clark Street, Room 434, Chicago,
Illinois 60602 TELEPHONE: (312) 603-5645
BT LIENS, LLC Purchaser or Assignee Dated:
April 19, 2021 Balin Law, P.C. Attorneys at
Law 100 N. LaSalle, Suite 1200 Chicago, IL
60602 (312) 345-1111 Firm #58864
4/26, 4/27, 4/28/2021 6935239
TO: The 2633 Union Trust dated September
29, 2017; The Law Office of Carmelo
G. Chimera; Law Office of Carmelo G.
Chimera; Carl Galione; Xiaofeng Wang
a/k/a Xiao Feng Wang; Occupant, 2633 S.
Union Avenue, Chicago, IL 60616; KAREN A.
YARBROUGH, COUNTY CLERK; Persons or
tenants in actual occupancy or possession
of said property; Unknown owners or parties
interested in said property. TAX DEED NO.
2021COTD000298 FILED: 3/3/2021 TAKE
NOTICE County of Cook Date Premises Sold:
5/8/2019 Certificate No.: 17-0010546 Sold
for General Taxes of (year): 2017 Sold for
Special Assessments of (Municipality) and
special assessment number: N/A Warrant
No.: N/A Inst. No.: N/A THIS PROPERTY
HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES
Property located at: AN APPROX. 24’ X
125’ PARCEL LOCATED ON THE EAST SIDE
OF UNION AVENUE APPROX. 261’ NORTH
OF 28TH STREET, Chicago, ILLINOIS Legal
Description or Property Index No.: 17-28-
302-014-0000 This notice is to advise you
that the above property has been sold for
delinquent taxes and that the period of
redemption from the sale will expire on
9/3/2021. The amount to redeem is subject
to increase at 6 month intervals from the
date of sale and may be further increased
if the purchaser at the tax sale or his or her
assignee pays any subsequently accruing
taxes or special assessments to redeem the
property from subsequent forfeitures or tax
sales. Check with the county clerk as to the
exact amount you owe before redeeming.
This notice is also to advise you that a
petition has been filed for a tax deed which
will transfer title and the right to possession
of this property if redemption is not made
on or before 9/3/2021. This matter is set for
hearing in the Circuit Court of this County
in Chicago, Illinois, on 9/8/2021 in Room
1704 of the Richard J. Daley Center at 50 W.
Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois at 9:30
a.m. You may be present at this hearing
but your right to redeem will already have
expired at that time. YOU ARE URGED TO
REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS
OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at
any time on or before 9/3/2021 by applying
to the County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois,
at the Office of the County Clerk in Chicago,
Illinois. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT THE COUNTY CLERK ADDRESS:
118 N. Clark Street, Room 434, Chicago,
Illinois 60602 TELEPHONE: (312) 603-5645
BT LIENS, LLC Purchaser or Assignee Dated:
April 19, 2021 Balin Law, P.C. Attorneys at
Law 100 N. LaSalle, Suite 1200 Chicago, IL
60602 (312) 345-1111 Firm #58864
4/26, 4/27, 4/28/2021 6935263
TO: Chicago Title Land Trust Company
successor to Integra Bank, N.A. u/t/a 08-
030 dated 4/22/2008 c/o CT Corporation
System R.A.; Occupant; Exact Performance,
Inc.; Exact Performance, Inc. c/o Damian
P. Dabrowski R.A.; ACM Technologies;
Stanislaw K. Chrobak; Helena K. Chrobak;
Estate of Helena K. Chrobak and Unknown
Heirs; Karen A. Yarbrough, Cook County
Clerk TAX DEED NO. 2021COTD000376 FILED
4/14/2021 TAKE NOTICE County of COOK
Date Premises Sold: 1/7/2020 Certificate
No.: F56745 Sold for General Taxes of: 2017
and 2nd 2009, 1st 2010 & 2011-2016 Sold for
Special Assessment of (Municipality) N/A and
special assessment number N/A Warrant No.
N/A Inst. No. N/A THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN
SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property
located at: 8415 45th Street Lyons, Illinois
Legal Description or Property Index No. 18-
02-308-011-0000 Vol. 073 This notice is to
advise you that the above property has been
sold for delinquent taxes and that the period
of redemption from the sale will expire on
September 17, 2021. The amount to redeem
is subject to increase at 6-month intervals
from the date of sale and may be further
increased if the purchaser at the tax sale or
his or her assignee pays any subsequently
accruing taxes or special assessments to
redeem the property from subsequent
forfeitures or tax sales. Check with the
county clerk as to the exact amount you
owe before redeeming. This notice is also to
advise you that a petition has been filed for a
tax deed which will transfer title and the right
to possession of this property if redemption
is not made on or before September 17,
2021. This matter is set for hearing in the
Circuit Court of this county in Room 1704,
Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W. Washington
St., Chicago, Illinois 60602 on September 24,
2021 at 9:30 a.m. You may be present at this
hearing but your right to redeem will already
have expired at that time. YOU ARE URGED
TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS
OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at
any time on or before September 17, 2021,
by applying to the County Clerk of Cook
County, Illinois, at the Office of the County
Clerk in Room 434, 118 North Clark Street,
Chicago, Illinois. For further information
contact the County Clerk: Address: 118
North Clark Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL
Telephone: 312-603-5645 Village of Lyons
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 4/14/2021
4/26, 4/27, 4/28/2021 6930999
TO: Unknown Heirs and Legatees of Ernest
Whitehead; Lucille D Whitehead; Duane K
Whitehead; Patricia Ann Whitehead; Byron
Erik Whitehead II; Byron E Whitehead;
William E Whitehead; Erik Justin Whitehead;
Alice Ruth Whitehead; Karen R Johnson;
Deandre Whitehead; Andrick C Whitehead;
Latonya P Charles; Arthur M Whitehead;
Bobbie Whitehead; Occupants, 745 E. 41st
Street, Chicago, IL 60653; Occupants, 751 E.
41st Street, Chicago, IL 60653; Erik Justine
Whitehead; Arthur Whitehead; KAREN A.
YARBROUGH, COUNTY CLERK; Persons or
tenants in actual occupancy or possession
of said property; Unknown owners or parties
interested in said property. TAX DEED NO.
2021COTD000289 FILED: 3/3/2021 TAKE
NOTICE County of Cook Date Premises Sold:
5/6/2019 Certificate No.: 17-0005049 Sold
for General Taxes of (year): 2017 Sold for
Special Assessments of (Municipality) and
special assessment number: N/A Warrant
No.: N/A Inst. No.: N/A THIS PROPERTY
HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES
Property located at: A PARCEL OF LAND
WITH 16’ OF FRONTAGE ON THE SOUTH
SIDE OF 41ST STREET APPROX. 154’ WEST
OF COTTAGE GROVE AVENUE, CHICAGO,
ILLINOIS Legal Description or Property Index
No.: 20-03-215-025-0000 This notice is to
advise you that the above property has been
sold for delinquent taxes and that the period
of redemption from the sale will expire on
9/3/2021. The amount to redeem is subject
to increase at 6 month intervals from the
date of sale and may be further increased
if the purchaser at the tax sale or his or her
assignee pays any subsequently accruing
taxes or special assessments to redeem the
property from subsequent forfeitures or tax
sales. Check with the county clerk as to the
exact amount you owe before redeeming.
This notice is also to advise you that a
petition has been filed for a tax deed which
will transfer title and the right to possession
of this property if redemption is not made
on or before 9/3/2021. This matter is set for
hearing in the Circuit Court of this County
in Chicago, Illinois, on 9/8/2021 in Room
1704 of the Richard J. Daley Center at 50 W.
Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois at 9:30
a.m. You may be present at this hearing
but your right to redeem will already have
expired at that time. YOU ARE URGED TO
REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS
OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at
any time on or before 9/3/2021 by applying
to the County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois,
at the Office of the County Clerk in Chicago,
Illinois. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT THE COUNTY CLERK ADDRESS: 118
N. Clark Street, Room 434, Chicago, Illinois
60602 TELEPHONE: (312) 603-5645 SMM-
TAX, INC. Purchaser or Assignee Dated: April
16, 2021 Balin Law, P.C. Attorneys at Law 100
N. LaSalle, Suite 1200 Chicago, IL 60602 (312)
345-1111 Firm #58864
4/26, 4/27, 4/28/2021 6933216
TO: Elizabeth Valencia; Byline Bank f/k/a
North Community Bank s/b/m to Metrobank
f/k/a Citizens Community Bank of Illinois;
McCormick 110, LLC; McCormick 110, LLC,
c/o James M. Smith, Esq., Its R/A, Gebhardt
& Smith, LLP; McCormick 110, LLC, c/o
Illinois Corporation Service C, Its Reg. Agt.;
McCormick 110, LLC, c/o Beltway Capital
Management, LLC; Occupant, 1640 W. 47th
Street, Chicago, IL 60609; Acuario Travel
Agency; Elizabeth’s Beauty Salon; KAREN
A. YARBROUGH, COUNTY CLERK; Persons or
tenants in actual occupancy or possession
of said property; Unknown owners or parties
interested in said property. TAX DEED NO.
2021COTD000295 FILED: 3/3/2021 TAKE
NOTICE County of Cook Date Premises Sold:
5/7/2019 Certificate No.: 17-0007765 Sold for
General Taxes of (year): 2017 Sold for Special
Assessments of (Municipality) and special
assessment number: N/A Warrant No.: N/A
Inst. No.: N/A THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN
SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property
located at: 1640 W. 47th Street, Chicago,
ILLINOIS Legal Description or Property Index
No.: 20-06-424-043-0000 This notice is to
advise you that the above property has been
sold for delinquent taxes and that the period
of redemption from the sale will expire on
9/3/2021. The amount to redeem is subject
to increase at 6 month intervals from the
date of sale and may be further increased
if the purchaser at the tax sale or his or her
assignee pays any subsequently accruing
taxes or special assessments to redeem the
property from subsequent forfeitures or tax
sales. Check with the county clerk as to the
exact amount you owe before redeeming.
This notice is also to advise you that a
petition has been filed for a tax deed which
will transfer title and the right to possession
of this property if redemption is not made
on or before 9/3/2021. This matter is set for
hearing in the Circuit Court of this County
in Chicago, Illinois, on 9/8/2021 in Room
1704 of the Richard J. Daley Center at 50 W.
Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois at 9:30
a.m. You may be present at this hearing
but your right to redeem will already have
expired at that time. YOU ARE URGED TO
REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS
OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at
any time on or before 9/3/2021 by applying
to the County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois,
at the Office of the County Clerk in Chicago,
Illinois. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT THE COUNTY CLERK ADDRESS:
118 N. Clark Street, Room 434, Chicago,
Illinois 60602 TELEPHONE: (312) 603-5645
BT LIENS, LLC Purchaser or Assignee Dated:
April 19, 2021 Balin Law, P.C. Attorneys at
Law 100 N. LaSalle, Suite 1200 Chicago, IL
60602 (312) 345-1111 Firm #58864
4/26, 4/27, 4/28/2021 6935257
TO: 9400, LLC; 9400, LLC, c/o Odis Reams, its
R/A; 9400, LLC, c/o Jesse White, IL Secretary
of State; Odis Reams; Bank of America,
National Association s/b/m to LaSalle Bank
National Association f/k/a LaSalle National
Bank s/b/m to LaSalle Bank NI f/k/a LaSalle
Bank Lake View f/k/a La Salle Bank Lake
View; Indian Head Transit Company, Inc.
a/k/a Indianhead Transit Company, Inc.
f/k/a Indian Head, Inc.; Indian Head Transit
Company, Inc. a/k/a Indianhead Transit
Company, Inc. f/k/a Indian Head, Inc., c/o
Anthony Benish, its R/A; City of Chicago,
c/o Anna M. Valencia, City Clerk; Big “O”
Movers; Occupant, 9400 S. Cottage Grove
Avenue, Chicago, IL 60619; KAREN A.
YARBROUGH, COUNTY CLERK; Persons or
tenants in actual occupancy or possession
of said property; Unknown owners or parties
interested in said property. TAX DEED NO.
2021COTD000294 FILED: 3/3/2021 TAKE
NOTICE County of Cook Date Premises Sold:
5/7/2019 Certificate No.: 17-0006385 Sold
for General Taxes of (year): 2017 Sold for
Special Assessments of (Municipality) and
special assessment number: N/A Warrant
No.: N/A Inst. No.: N/A THIS PROPERTY
HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES
Property located at: 9400 S. Cottage Grove
Ave., Chicago, ILLINOIS Legal Description
or Property Index No.: 25-03-424-005-0000
This notice is to advise you that the above
property has been sold for delinquent
taxes and that the period of redemption
from the sale will expire on 9/3/2021. The
amount to redeem is subject to increase at
6 month intervals from the date of sale and
may be further increased if the purchaser
at the tax sale or his or her assignee pays
any subsequently accruing taxes or special
assessments to redeem the property from
subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check
with the county clerk as to the exact
amount you owe before redeeming. This
notice is also to advise you that a petition
has been filed for a tax deed which will
transfer title and the right to possession of
this property if redemption is not made on
or before 9/3/2021. This matter is set for
hearing in the Circuit Court of this County
in Chicago, Illinois, on 9/8/2021 in Room
1704 of the Richard J. Daley Center at 50 W.
Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois at 9:30
a.m. You may be present at this hearing
but your right to redeem will already have
expired at that time. YOU ARE URGED TO
REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS
OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at
any time on or before 9/3/2021 by applying
to the County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois,
at the Office of the County Clerk in Chicago,
Illinois. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT THE COUNTY CLERK ADDRESS:
118 N. Clark Street, Room 434, Chicago,
Illinois 60602 TELEPHONE: (312) 603-5645
BT LIENS, LLC Purchaser or Assignee Dated:
April 19, 2021 Balin Law, P.C. Attorneys at
Law 100 N. LaSalle, Suite 1200 Chicago, IL
60602 (312) 345-1111 Firm #58864
4/26, 4/27, 4/28/2021 6935245
TO: Chicago Title Land Trust Company u/t/a
dated June 9, 2005 u/t/n 1114442 c/o CT
Corporation System R.A.; TNTW Distinctive
Properties, LLC c/o Patricia G. Witte R.A.;
Donald Witte; City of Chicago c/o Corporation
Counsel; Tycoy Investments, Inc. c/o Illinois
Secretary of State; Bobby Binion; Elite
Class Corp. c/o Illinois Secretary of State;
Occupant; Karen A. Yarbrough, Cook County
Clerk TAX DEED NO. 2021COTD000386
FILED 4/14/2021 TAKE NOTICE County of:
Cook Date Premises Sold: July 12, 2019
Certificate No.: 19S-0000785, 19S-0000787,
19S-0000789 Sold for General Taxes of:
2010-2017 Sold for Special Assessment of
(Municipality) N/A and special assessment
number N/A Warrant No. N/A Inst. No.
N/A THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR
DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at:
Beginning at the intersection of 123rd
Street and Lincoln Street, 65.8 feet East, 158
feet South, 32.8 feet West, 125 feet North,
then 32.8 feet East, in Calumet Township,
Cook County, Illinois, commonly known as
1851 W 123rd Street, Calumet Park, Illinois;
Beginning at the intersection of 123rd Street
and Lincoln Street, 115.8 feet East, 158
feet South, 25 feet West, 125 feet North,
then 25 feet East, in Calumet Township,
Cook County, Illinois, commonly known as
1847 W 123rd Street, Calumet Park, Illinois;
Beginning at the intersection of 123rd Street
and Lincoln Street, 165.8 feet East, 158
feet South, 25 feet West, 125 feet North,
then 25 feet East, in Calumet Township,
Cook County, Illinois, commonly known as
1843 W 123rd Street, Calumet Park, Illinois
Legal Description or Property Index No. 25-
30-402-001-0000 Vol. 037 25-30-402-003-
0000 Vol. 037 25-30-402-005-0000 Vol. 037
This notice is to advise you that the above
property has been sold for delinquent taxes
and that the period of redemption from the
sale will expire on September 21, 2021. The
amount to redeem is subject to increase at
6-month intervals from the date of sale and
may be further increased if the purchaser
at the tax sale or his or her assignee pays
any subsequently accruing taxes or special
assessments to redeem the property from
subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check
with the county clerk as to the exact
amount you owe before redeeming. This
notice is also to advise you that a petition
has been filed for a tax deed which will
transfer title and the right to possession of
this property if redemption is not made on
or before September 21, 2021. This matter
is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of
this county in Room 1704, Richard J. Daley
Center, 50 W. Washington St., Chicago,
Illinois 60602 on September 27, 2021 at
9:30 a.m. You may be present at this hearing
but your right to redeem will already have
expired at that time. YOU ARE URGED TO
REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF
PROPERTY Redemption can be made at any
time on or before September 21, 2021, by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Village of Calumet Park
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 4/14/2021
4/26, 4/27, 4/28/2021 6931076
TO: Chicago Title Land Trust Company
u/t/a dated June 9, 2005 u/t/n 1114442
c/o CT Corporation System R.A.; Frank G.
Zubricki; TNTW Distinctive Properties, LLC
c/o Patricia G. Witte R.A.; Donald Witte; City
of Chicago c/o Corporation Counsel; Tycoy
Investments, Inc. c/o Illinois Secretary of
State; Bobby Binion; Elite Class Corp. c/o
Illinois Secretary of State; Occupant; Karen
A. Yarbrough, Cook County Clerk TAX DEED
NO. 2021COTD000378 FILED 4/14/2021 TAKE
NOTICE County of: Cook Date Premises Sold:
July 12, 2019 Certificate No.: 19S-0000788,
19S-0000790, 19S-0000792 Sold for General
Taxes of: 2010-2017 Sold for Special
Assessment of (Municipality) N/A and
special assessment number N/A Warrant No.
N/A Inst. No. N/A THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN
SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property
located at: Beginning at the intersection
of 123rd Street and Lincoln Street, 140.8
feet East, 158 feet South, 25 feet West, 125
feet North, then 25 feet East, in Calumet
Township, Cook County, Illinois, commonly
known as 1845 W 123rd Street, Calumet
Park, Illinois; Beginning at the intersection
of 123rd Street and Lincoln Street, 190.8
feet East, 158 feet South, 25 feet West, 125
feet North, then 25 feet East, in Calumet
Township, Cook County, Illinois, commonly
known as 1841 W 123rd Street, Calumet
Park, Illinois; Beginning at the intersection
of 123rd Street and Lincoln Street, 240.8
feet East, 158 feet South, 25 feet West, 125
feet North, then 25 feet East, in Calumet
Township, Cook County, Illinois, commonly
known as 1837 W 123rd Street, Calumet Park,
Illinois Legal Description or Property Index
No. 25-30-402-004-0000 Vol. 037 25-30-
402-006-0000 Vol. 037 25-30-402-008-0000
Vol. 037 This notice is to advise you that the
above property has been sold for delinquent
taxes and that the period of redemption
from the sale will expire on September 21,
2021. The amount to redeem is subject to
increase at 6-month intervals from the
date of sale and may be further increased
if the purchaser at the tax sale or his or her
assignee pays any subsequently accruing
taxes or special assessments to redeem
the property from subsequent forfeitures
or tax sales. Check with the county clerk
as to the exact amount you owe before
redeeming. This notice is also to advise
you that a petition has been filed for a tax
deed which will transfer title and the right to
possession of this property if redemption is
not made on or before September 21, 2021.
This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit
Court of this county in Room 1704, Richard J.
Daley Center, 50 W. Washington St., Chicago,
Illinois 60602 on September 27, 2021 at 9:30
a.m. You may be present at this hearing
but your right to redeem will already have
expired at that time. YOU ARE URGED TO
REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF
PROPERTY Redemption can be made at any
time on or before September 21, 2021, by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Village of Calumet Park
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 4/14/2021
4/26, 4/27, 4/28/2021 6931086
TO: Chicago Title Land Trust Company u/t/a
dated June 9, 2005 u/t/n 1114442 c/o CT
Corporation System R.A.; TNTW Distinctive
Properties, LLC c/o Patricia G. Witte R.A.;
Donald Witte; City of Chicago c/o Corporation
Counsel; Tycoy Investments, Inc. c/o Illinois
Secretary of State; Bobby Binion; Elite
Class Corp. c/o Illinois Secretary of State;
Occupant; Karen A. Yarbrough, Cook County
Clerk TAX DEED NO. 2021COTD000379
FILED 4/14/2021 TAKE NOTICE County of:
Cook Date Premises Sold: July 12, 2019
Certificate No.: 19S-0000791, 19S-0000793,
19S-0000794 Sold for General Taxes of:
2010-2017 Sold for Special Assessment of
(Municipality) N/A and special assessment
number N/A Warrant No. N/A Inst. No.
N/A THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR
DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at:
Beginning at the intersection of 123rd Street
and Lincoln Street, 215.8 feet East, 158
feet South, 25 feet West, 125 feet North,
then 25 feet East, in Calumet Township,
Cook County, Illinois, commonly known as
1839 W 123rd Street, Calumet Park, Illinois;
Beginning at the intersection of 123rd Street
and Lincoln Street, 265.8 feet East, 158
feet South, 25 feet West, 125 feet North,
then 25 feet East, in Calumet Township,
Cook County, Illinois, commonly known as
1835 W 123rd Street, Calumet Park, Illinois;
Beginning at the intersection of 123rd Street
and Lincoln Street, 298.61 feet East, 158
feet South, 32.81 feet West, 125 feet North,
then 32.81 feet East, in Calumet Township,
Cook County, Illinois , commonly known as
1833 W 123rd Street, Calumet Park, Illinois
Legal Description or Property Index No. 25-
30-402-007-0000 Vol. 037 25-30-402-009-
0000 Vol. 037 25-30-402-010-0000 Vol. 037
This notice is to advise you that the above
property has been sold for delinquent taxes
and that the period of redemption from the
sale will expire on September 21, 2021. The
amount to redeem is subject to increase at
6-month intervals from the date of sale and
may be further increased if the purchaser
at the tax sale or his or her assignee pays
any subsequently accruing taxes or special
assessments to redeem the property from
subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check
with the county clerk as to the exact
amount you owe before redeeming. This
notice is also to advise you that a petition
has been filed for a tax deed which will
transfer title and the right to possession of
this property if redemption is not made on
or before September 21, 2021. This matter
is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of
this county in Room 1704, Richard J. Daley
Center, 50 W. Washington St., Chicago,
Illinois 60602 on September 27, 2021 at
9:30 a.m. You may be present at this hearing
but your right to redeem will already have
expired at that time. YOU ARE URGED TO
REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF
PROPERTY Redemption can be made at any
time on or before September 21, 2021, by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Village of Calumet Park
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 4/14/2021
4/26, 4/27, 4/28/2021 6931090
TO: Chicago Title Land Trust Company u/t/a
dated June 9, 2005 u/t/n 1114442 c/o CT
Corporation System R.A.; TNTW Distinctive
Properties, LLC c/o Patricia G. Witte R.A.;
Donald Witte; City of Chicago c/o Corporation
Counsel; Tycoy Investments, Inc. c/o Illinois
Secretary of State; Bobby Binion; Elite
Class Corp. c/o Illinois Secretary of State;
Occupant; Karen A. Yarbrough, Cook County
Clerk TAX DEED NO. 2021COTD000374 FILED
4/14/2021 TAKE NOTICE County of COOK
Date Premises Sold: 7/12/2019 Certificate
No.: 19S-0000786 Sold for General Taxes of:
2010-2017 Sold for Special Assessment of
(Municipality) N/A and special assessment
number N/A Warrant No. N/A Inst. No.
N/A THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR
DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at:
Beginning at the intersection of 123rd Street
and Lincoln Street, 90.8 feet East, 158 feet
South, 25 feet West, 125 feet North, then
25 feet East, in Calumet Township, Cook
County, Illinois, commonly known as 1849
W 123rd Street, Calumet Park, Illinois Legal
Description or Property Index No. 25-30-402-
002-0000 Vol. 037 This notice is to advise
you that the above property has been sold
for delinquent taxes and that the period
of redemption from the sale will expire on
September 21, 2021. The amount to redeem
is subject to increase at 6-month intervals
from the date of sale and may be further
increased if the purchaser at the tax sale or
his or her assignee pays any subsequently
accruing taxes or special assessments to
redeem the property from subsequent
forfeitures or tax sales. Check with the
county clerk as to the exact amount you
owe before redeeming. This notice is also to
advise you that a petition has been filed for a
tax deed which will transfer title and the right
to possession of this property if redemption
is not made on or before September 21,
2021. This matter is set for hearing in the
Circuit Court of this county in Room 1704,
Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W. Washington
St., Chicago, Illinois 60602 on September 27,
2021 at 9:30 a.m. You may be present at this
hearing but your right to redeem will already
have expired at that time. YOU ARE URGED
TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS
OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at
any time on or before September 21, 2021,
by applying to the County Clerk of Cook
County, Illinois, at the Office of the County
Clerk in Room 434, 118 North Clark Street,
Chicago, Illinois. For further information
contact the County Clerk: Address: 118
North Clark Street, Room 434, Chicago,
IL Telephone: 312-603-5645 Village of
Calumet Park Purchaser or Assignee Dated:
4/14/2021
4/26, 4/27, 4/28/2021 6931093
TO: D.S. Associates, Inc. c/o Illinois Secretary
of State; Occupant; D S Associates; Karen
A. Yarbrough, Cook County Clerk TAX DEED
NO. 2021COTD000375 FILED 4/14/2021 TAKE
NOTICE County of COOK Date Premises Sold:
7/12/2019 Certificate No.: 19S-0000800 Sold
for General Taxes of: 2004-2017 Sold for
Special Assessment of (Municipality) N/A and
special assessment number N/A Warrant No.
N/A Inst. No. N/A THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN
SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property
located at: Beginning at the intersection of
124th Street and Wood Street, 33 feet West,
then 57 feet South, 49 feet South, 124.75
feet West, 25 feet South, then 124.75 feet
East, 25 feet North, in Calumet Township,
Cook County, Illinois, commonly known as
12402 S Wood Street, Calumet Park, Illinois
Legal Description or Property Index No.
25-30-408-026-0000 Vol. 037 This notice is
to advise you that the above property has
been sold for delinquent taxes and that
the period of redemption from the sale
will expire on September 21, 2021. The
amount to redeem is subject to increase at
6-month intervals from the date of sale and
may be further increased if the purchaser
at the tax sale or his or her assignee pays
any subsequently accruing taxes or special
assessments to redeem the property from
subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check
with the county clerk as to the exact
amount you owe before redeeming. This
notice is also to advise you that a petition
has been filed for a tax deed which will
transfer title and the right to possession of
this property if redemption is not made on
or before September 21, 2021. This matter
is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of
this county in Room 1704, Richard J. Daley
Center, 50 W. Washington St., Chicago,
Illinois 60602 on September 27, 2021 at
9:30 a.m. You may be present at this hearing
but your right to redeem will already have
expired at that time. YOU ARE URGED TO
REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF
PROPERTY Redemption can be made at any
time on or before September 21, 2021, by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Village of Calumet Park
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 4/14/2021
4/26, 4/27, 4/28/2021 6931068
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Arrieta’s
effort not
enough
for win
Starter keeps it close,
but offense struggles
as Brewers take series
By Meghan Montemurro
Chicago Tribune

For eight innings Sunday after-

noon at Wrigley Field, a bases-
loaded walk by Jake Arrieta in
the first was all that separated the
Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers.
The Cubs’ hopes of a late come-
back were derailed in the top of the
ninth, however, with reliever Jason
Adam on the mound. The first six
Brewers reached base against
Adam, sparking a five-run inning
that put the game away in the Cubs’
6-0 loss at Wrigley Field.
The offense couldn’t get going
against Brewers starter Brandon
Woodruff, who tossed six scoreless
innings, and the Cubs finished with
four hits. Arrieta recovered from
a shaky start in which he surren-
dered two hits and walked two
batters to open the game, quickly
finding himself in a bases-loaded,
no-out jam with the Cubs down
1-0.
But he recovered after the
run-scoring walk and retired the
next 15 Brewers. He struck out
eight in six innings, representing
his most strikeouts since May 25,
2019, which also came against the
Brewers when he was with the
Philadelphia Phillies.
The loss puts the Cubs back
under .500 (10-11) as they embark
on a seven-game trip against the
Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati
Reds. Here are three takeaways
after the Brewers took two of three
in the series.

1. Jake Arrieta’s ability to navigate

tough situations with runners
on base has been a staple of his
success. Through five starts, Arri-
eta has been at his best this season
in the toughest moments.
The Brewers could have blown
the game open in the first and
forced the Cubs to play major
catch-up before they had batted.
The Brewers got to Arrieta quickly
with a double, single and walk to
load the bases, and a full-count

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White Sox pitcher Michael Kopech delivers during Sunday’s game against the Rangers at Guaranteed Rate Field. STACEY WESCOTT/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

WHITE SOX 8, RANGERS 4

Sunday best
Kopech steps up with 10 strikeouts in a 5-inning spot start as Sox complete sweep
By LaMond Pope
Chicago Tribune
Michael Kopech struck out
Willie Calhoun on six pitches to
begin Sunday’s game at Guaran-
teed Rate Field.
It was the start of an overpow-
ering performance for the White
Sox pitcher.
Kopech struck out 10 in five
innings as the Sox beat the Rang-
ers 8-4 to sweep the three-game
series. He allowed one run on four
hits on 87 pitches.
“It means a lot because that’s
how I still consider myself, a start-
ing pitcher,” Kopech said. “And so
to not get that opportunity for a
while and then take advantage of
that opportunity and to be able to
get a little bit deeper than the plan
was, I think that’s good for me and
for the team.”
Kopech has been used primar-
ily out of the bullpen this season.
He was a spot starter for Game 2 of
a doubleheader against the Boston
Red Sox on April 18 at Fenway
Park; it was his first start since
Sept. 5, 2018.
Lucas Giolito was originally
scheduled to start Sunday, but he
said he cut the top of the middle
finger on his pitching hand while
the team was in Cleveland on
Monday night. Giolito is sched-
uled to pitch Tuesday against the
Tigers.
Giolito’s cut opened the door
for another start for Kopech, who
struck out eight of the nine Rang-
ers starters at least once.
“To step up and give us five
innings, that’s a pressure perfor-
mance over and above just being
a starter in a game we are trying to
win,” Sox manager Tony La Russa Cubs starting pitcher Jake Arrieta
said. reacts after striking out Brewers
The Sox’s long-term plan is for right fielder Billy McKinney to end the
sixth inning Sunday at Wrigley Field.
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By Colleen Kane and Dan Wiederer
Chicago Tribune

The Bears need a quarterback, but they also have several

other roster holes it would be wise to address in this week’s
NFL draft.
If general manager Ryan Pace doesn’t make an aggressive
move up to select one of the top five quarterbacks in this draft
class early in the first round, it’s possible he will use the No.
20 pick Thursday on a cornerback, offensive tackle or wide
receiver he believes will make an impact.
As the Bears prepare to make a first-round pick for the first
time since 2018, here are 10 non-quarterbacks who might be
of interest to them.

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2 Chicago Tribune | Section 3 | Monday, April 26, 2021
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Bulls outside playoff picture
after another tough defeat
By Deantae Prince
Chicago Tribune
The Bulls’ 106-101 loss to the Miami
Heat followed a familiar path.
The Bulls, who now sit at 25-35 and
11th in the Eastern Conference, were
attacked from the outset and forced to
play from behind.
While they have been honest about
lifeless performances and slow starts
in the past, the Bulls did little to alter
that Saturday night, as they applied
light defensive pressure and allowed
Heat forward Duncan Robinson to
bury four 3-pointers in the first quar-
ter.
The Heat exited the quarter with a
33-18 cushion that would buoy them
for much of the night at AmericanAir-
lines Arena in Miami.
After trailing by as many as 24
points, the Bulls finally found daylight
in the fourth quarter. They cut the
deficit to 83-74 with an 11-3 run to start
the quarter and continued to tighten
their grip.
Denzel Valentine, who has a repu-
tation for being erratic, hit a 3-pointer
to make the score 87-84 with seven
minutes to play, but he later hurt the
Bulls when he lofted a 31-foot heat
check against a set defense. His team
managed to rebound, and Coby White
dunked with 15.8 seconds left to bring
the Bulls within two at 103-101.
Heat stars Jimmy Butler and Bam
Adebayo — and a few untimely turn-
overs — held the Bulls at bay. They
also had help from Simeon alumnus
Kendrick Nunn, who scored 10 of his
22 points in the fourth. Butler and
Adebayo both scored 20 points.
The loss came in one of White’s
best games of the season. He scored
31 points to go with five rebounds
and five assists. Nikola Vučević also
posted another impressive game with
26 points, 14 rebounds and six assists.
Here are two takeaways from the
Bulls’ latest loss.
1. Zach LaVine is still on the sideline.
The Bulls continued to play without
their best player as LaVine remains in
the NBA’s COVID-19 protocol.
And while the original expectation
was LaVine would miss 10 to 14 days, it
remains unclear when he will return.
“Zach will probably have to go
through some checkpoints dealing
with all this,” Bulls coach Billy Dono-
van said. “But in terms of the timeline,
I just don’t have one.”
LaVine, who missed his first game
this season with an ankle injury March
BLACKHAWKS
Stillman agrees to 3-year contract
By Phil Thompson
Chicago Tribune
Defenseman Riley Stillman reached
terms Sunday with the Chicago Black-
hawks on a three-year contract that
runs through 2023-24.
“It’s really exciting,” Stillman said.
“I was happy to come in and be given
an opportunity here.
“To get this done and out of the way
gives myself an opportunity to just
focus on the team and getting into the
playoffs and doing everything we can
in this stretch here coming down to
the end of the year.”
The deal carries a $1.35 million
annual salary-cap hit, and he’ll be a
restricted free agent in 2024-25.
“Having a young, physical defense-
man like Riley in the fold is exciting
for the future of our team,” said Stan
Bowman, president of hockey oper-
ations and general manager. “He is
growing into an excellent all-around
defenseman, and that continued
development is something we look
forward to seeing firsthand. We
love his size, and his toughness adds
another piece to our defense.”
Stillman, 23, has played six games
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the second half Saturday in Miami. MARTA LAVANDIER/AP
31, prides himself on being available
after an ACL tear forced him to sit out
almost an entire year from February
2017 to January 2018.
Injuries can be isolating for NBA
players, and it appears LaVine is
having a similar experience as he
waits to rejoin his team. This is a tough
time for LaVine to be sidelined. He
was in the midst of an All-Star season,
averaging 27.5 points, 5.1 rebounds and
5.1 assists and putting together some
of the best performances of his career.
“I know he misses the games,”
Donovan said. “I think the boring
part I mentioned was the fact that he
sees us playing and is watching games
and just wishes he could be out there
playing and it’s unfortunate that he
can’t be.”
Donovan said LaVine is quarantin-
ing at home and has not been cleared
for individual workouts at the team
facilities.
“He’s holding tight,” Donovan said.
“The biggest thing is the isolation part
is really challenging for anybody. He’s
by himself, away from the team and
the camaraderie of teammates and
being around guys you’re playing with
on a nightly basis and traveling with.
And then when you’re separated like
that, it’s a lot. It kind of all of a sudden
comes to a stop.”
2. Where do the Bulls stand in the
postseason race?Two teams — the
Houston Rockets and Minnesota
Timberwolves — were mathemati-
cally eliminated from the NBA post-
Blue Jackets forward Eric Robinson,
left, tries to control the puck against
Blackhawks defenseman Riley
Stillman. PAUL VERNON/AP
for the Hawks since they acquired him
in a trade with the Florida Panthers in
which they also netted Brett Connolly
and Henrik Borgström and sent Lucas
Wallmark and Lucas Carlsson to Flor-
ida.
So far for the Hawks, Stillman has
16 hits and eight blocked shots in 16
minutes, 43 seconds per game. He
has a minus-1 rating and two penalty
minutes. He explained his motivation
to get a deal done.
“From what I’ve seen here the last
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season this past week, underscoring
the importance of every game being
critical at this stage of the season.
In late March, the Bulls appeared
to be a shoo-in for the play-in tour-
nament for the seventh through 10th
seeds in the Eastern Conference. But
they now sit in a precarious spot,
competing with the Washington
Wizards (26-33) and Toronto Raptors
(25-35) for the 10th and final spot.
The Bulls remain without LaVine
and have struggled since the March
25 trade deadline. After acquir-
ing Vučević in a franchise-altering
move, the Bulls proceeded to lose 11
of 17 games, including five straight in
April. A large portion of that stretch
— 11 games — was played on the road.
“Our schedule’s very, very difficult,”
Donovan said. “We’re playing against
a lot of very good teams. This month
has been a real grind for the group
with the number of games we’ve had
to play on the road in April.”
The Bulls have 12 games left, and
the schedule doesn’t get easier with
games against the Heat, Philadelphia
76ers, Brooklyn Nets and Milwaukee
Bucks.
Donovan admitted players watch
the standings but emphasized the
importance of showing up and putting
together quality performances.
“Our guys know what’s going on,
they follow it, they know what’s at
stake,” Donovan said. “We’ve just
got to make sure we’re playing good
basketball to give ourselves an oppor-
tunity to be able to play after May 16.”
two weeks, I love the city of Chicago,
the organization all the way through is
top-notch and I’m really excited to be
here,” he said. “So I wanted to get that
done, get it behind me and just focus
on the team.”
Stillman joins a young core of
blue-liners that is filled with poten-
tial but inconsistency. The Hawks
have been developing Adam Boqvist,
though his progress this season was
interrupted by stints in the COVID-
19 and concussion protocols. He often
has been paired with another young
defender, Nikita Zadorov.
The team also has rotated between
Wyatt Kalynuk, Ian Mitchell and
Nicolas Beaudin to get them experi-
ence — or when injuries have opened
opportunities.
“We have a young group,” Stillman
said. “Obviously we have some young
defensemen like Boqy, Z’s pretty
young and Beaudy on the way up and
Wyatt and Mitchy.
“So to come into a young group
and have an opportunity to grow and
develop and get better alongside those
guys, especially on the back end, is
really exciting to see what this team
and we can do in the future.”
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OT Teven Jenkins, Oklahoma State: If the Bears want to add
an element of “nasty” to the offensive line, Jenkins is worth
serious consideration at No. 20. “He’s a fun one to study,”
NFL Network draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah said. “He’s just
a really tough, physical, kind of a violent player.” Jenkins’
arms are only 33 ½ inches long, a legitimate cause for concern
in NFL circles. But he started 39 games in college, showed
a strong combination of savvy, athleticism and tenacity and
has the potential to develop into a long-term answer at right
tackle.
OT Christian Darrisaw, Virginia Tech: Several outlets rank
Darrisaw as the third offensive tackle in this draft class
behind Oregon’s Penei Sewell and Northwestern’s Rashawn
Slater, both of whom are predicted to be out of reach for the
Bears at No. 20. The 6-foot-5, 322-pound Darrisaw started 35
games at left tackle over three seasons for the Hokies, earn-
ing first-team All-ACC honors in 2020. Jeremiah believes
he could also move to right tackle or guard. Jeremiah lauded
Darrisaw’s “really, really strong upper body. He can latch
and control guys, powerful guy. He’s really good in the run
game.” However, analysts suggest he needs to work on more
consistently finishing his blocks.
WR Kadarius Toney, Florida: Toney was a high school quar-
terback in Alabama before he moved to wide receiver and
returner at Florida. After modest production his first two
seasons, the 6-foot, 193-pound Toney broke out in 2020 to
finish with 70 catches for 984 yards and 10 touchdowns in 11
games. He also returned 11 punts for 139 yards and a touch-
down and seven kickoffs for 155 yards. He has a history of
shoulder issues and also had a couple of minor off-the-field
incidents in 2018, but analysts call him an electric, versatile
player who is dangerous after the catch.
WR Elijah Moore, Mississippi: Moore was a first-team
All-American in 2020 after he set a school record with 86
catches for 1,193 yards and eight touchdowns in just eight
games before he opted out to begin draft preparation. His
10.8 catches and 149.1 receiving yards per game led the
nation, and he finished his Ole Miss career with 189 catches
for 2,441 yards and 16 touchdowns. Moore is undersized at
5-foot-9 and 178 pounds, but multiple analysts have raved
about his playmaking ability in the slot, sure hands, instincts
and toughness.
WR Rashod Bateman, Minnesota: Bateman was a third-
team All-American and the Big Ten Receiver of the Year
in 2019, finishing his junior season with 60 catches, 1,219
yards and 11 touchdowns. His 20.3 yards per catch that year
demonstrated his big-play ability. The Bears may need more
help in the slot with Anthony Miller’s future uncertain, and
Bateman has the versatility to contribute both inside and
outside. He has shown crisp route running and strong ball
skills.
CB Jaycee Horn, South Carolina: Horn’s father, Joe, carved
out a 12-year NFL career as a receiver, and Jaycee certainly
inherited his old man’s confidence and athleticism. Horn is
comparable in size to Kyle Fuller, whose release in March left
the Bears with a starting cornerback hole to fill. But Horn is
more of a man coverage corner and uses his physicality well.
That could make him an intriguing addition to Sean Desai’s
defense. Horn might not last until No. 20, but if he does, Pace
could find himself intrigued.
CB Caleb Farley, Virginia Tech: Farley, who was a high school
quarterback, played two seasons at Virginia Tech, totaling six
interceptions, including one pick-six, 25 passes defended and
56 tackles over 24 games. He opted out of the 2020 season
in part to protect his family from COVID-19 after losing his
mother to breast cancer in 2018. There are questions about
whether he will drop in the draft after having his second back
surgery in just over a year in March, which came after a 2017
ACL tear. But Jeremiah believes that if a team is comfortable
with Farley’s medical evaluations, it should scoop up the
6-2, 197-pound corner whom Jeremiah called a “big-time,
big-time talent” with rare movement skills for his size.
CB Greg Newsome II, Northwestern: This would be a fun
hometown story for the Bears as Newsome hails from North-
western by way of Glenbard North — with a one-year stop at
IMG Academy in Florida in between. But beyond the poten-
tial local angle, Newsome can really play. He has sound tech-
nique and a smooth backpedal and has shown an ability
to consistently stay on top of routes. The Bears’ needs at
cornerback are well-documented. So, too, are Newsome’s
impressive length and strength. He can excel in both man
and zone coverage.
Edge rusher Kwity Paye, Michigan: Paye started 20 games
and appeared in 38 on the Wolverines defensive line. The
Michigan captain in 2020 finished his four-year career
with 11½ sacks, 100 tackles and 23 ½ tackles for a loss. ESPN
analyst Todd McShay praised Paye’s suddenness and motor,
noting “there were no Michigan players who played harder
than Kwity Paye.” But Paye’s pass-rushing tools and instincts
still need to develop, and McShay said he could be a better
pro than he was a college player with that work. Cornerback,
offensive tackle and wide receiver are more pressing needs,
but the Bears might find the 6-2, 261-pound Paye’s potential
too good to pass up.
ILB Zaven Collins, Tulsa: The Bears likely will address
more pressing needs in Round 1, but Collins’ college tape is
certainly attention-grabbing. He has impressive quickness
and range for his size (6-5, 259) and is, quite simply, a play-
maker. In eight games last season, Collins had 53 tackles,
including 11½ for a loss, four sacks and four interceptions,
and he returned two of those picks for touchdowns. He was
honored with the Bednarik Award and Bronko Nagurski
Trophy as the best defensive player in college football. If
the Bears are looking for more big-play potential in their
defense, Collins can provide it. As an intriguing chess piece,
he would be a value pick at No. 20.

SPORTS
COMMENTARY
Perspectives, traditions can
change; so can team names
By Andrew Golden | Chicago Tribune
Some of my favorite childhood memo-
ries took place at Turner Field.
From 6 years old until I was 17, I took
an annual summer trip to Georgia. My
dad originally is from Augusta, where my
grandmother still lives. My aunt and uncle
have lived in the Atlanta area for years.
And inevitably, those trips meant seeing
my favorite team, the Atlanta Braves, play.
I loved the atmosphere and participated in
many of the traditions — the seventh-in-
ning stretch, the food at the ballpark and
the wave.
Something I also joined in on was the
tomahawk chop, a tradition Braves fans
adopted in 1991 in which spectators —
either holding foam tomahawks or using
their hands — move their hands back and
forth while yelling an exaggerated chant
that mocks and stereotypes Native Ameri-
can and Indigenous people.
As a kid, I didn’t understand the negative
implications. But recently baseball, football
and college teams across the country have
started to reconsider their nicknames and
racist imagery associated with them.
The Cleveland Indians announced
earlier this year they would change their
name in the near future — after already
moving away from using Chief Wahoo
imagery. The Washington Football Team
took on its new name after businesses
threatened to pull their sponsorships.
These discussions have also forced my
family and me to reassess the histories and
Brewers starting pitcher Brandon Woodruff delivers during the first inning Sunday at Wrigley Field. ERIN HOOLEY/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
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walk on a borderline inside sinker to Travis
Shaw put the Brewers ahead 1-0 before
Arrieta recorded an out.
The veteran right-hander buckled down,
though. He got out of the inning without
surrendering another run and didn’t allow
another baserunner until the sixth.
“It’s kind of been a pattern with him:
Once he settles in, he just really rolls,” Cubs
manager David Ross said. “Once he (found
his release point), he locked it in. I’ve said
it a couple of times, you have such trust that
once he finds it, he’s going to be just fine.
The fastball came around after that first
inning of knowing where it was going.”
The Brewers didn’t put another batter
on base until Omar Narváez’s leadoff
walk in the sixth. Javier Báez’s fielding
error allowed Avisaíl García to reach, and
García’s stolen base put runners on second
and third with nobody out.
Arrieta again didn’t let the inning spiral
out of control, especially imperative in
trying to maintain the one-run deficit. He
struck out the next three Brewers to get out
of the sixth.
“Giving up one in the first and being able
to squeeze my way out of it, I understood
that was about as much as I could give up if
we wanted a chance to win the ballgame,”
Arrieta said. “Sometimes you’ve got to bear
down and make big pitches. The mindset
after the first was to get weak contact, try
and preserve the pitch count to pitch as
deep as I could.”
Part of Arrieta’s success this season stems
from stranding baserunners. He has been
among the best in baseball in not letting
runners score.
Arrieta’s 83.3% Left On Base percent-
age is the best among Cubs starters and
is tied for 20th in the majors. While that
LOB% likely isn’t sustainable — his career
best is 80% during his 2015 Cy Young
Award season — Arrieta isn’t relying on
pure stuff to find success. He understands
what makes him successful, adjusting as
needed whether it’s pitch usage or where
he’s throwing around the zone.
Starts like Sunday’s reinforce how Arri-
eta can navigate challenging situations at
traditions of the teams we root for.
My Braves fandom comes strictly
through my dad, who encouraged it from
the moment I was born despite my grow-
ing up hundreds of miles away in Balti-
more.
My dad, Chris, grew up watching the
Braves on television in the 1970s with his
grandmother, and he remembers a time
when the team used the “Chief Noc-A-
Homa” mascot.
The mascot, used for 20 years starting
in 1966, initially was portrayed by a white
man before Levi Walker, a member of the
Odawa Tribe, took over the role in 1968. He
believed he was honoring his heritage, but
many felt the mascot was still insensitive.
For decades the Braves used a logo
dubbed the “screaming Indian” before
retiring the image.
My dad, like me, admits he didn’t recog-
nize the connotations of the tomahawk
chop at the time — partaking in the tradi-
tion like everyone else — and remembers
Deion Sanders being on the team making
the ritual cool. Sanders had played at Flor-
ida State, where the tomahawk chop origi-
nated in the 1980s.
“I feel very, very different about that than
I used to 30 years ago,” my dad said, adding
the tradition is wrong.
My dad believes the “Braves” name
will change — he just doesn’t know when.
It took the killing of George Floyd last
summer, he noted, to galvanize leagues
such as Major League Baseball, the NFL
and the NBA to make systemic changes.
this juncture of his career.
“That’s just a normal evolution of a
pitcher and a guy that’s been in really big
moments and made really big pitches with
stuff, and now maybe his stuff is not quite
97 but it’s still really good stuff,” Ross said.
“He’s on the corners a little bit more and
still has a ton of movement and can manip-
ulate the ball really well in the zone as well
on the corner and to the corners.”
2. Nico Hoerner is building a case to stay
in the majors after Joc Pederson returns.
When Hoerner was informed he would
open the season at the alternate site in
South Bend, Ind., the Cubs told him that
if a starter got hurt, he would be the first
player called up. That came to fruition this
past week when outfielder Joc Pederson
landed on the injured list Thursday with
left wrist tendinitis.
Beyond this opportunity, there are no
promises to Hoerner about what comes
next. Ross said Hoerner’s status when
Pederson comes off the IL is still to be
determined. Pederson is eligible to return
Saturday, though he won’t join the Cubs
on the road trip and will work out in South
Bend. Pederson has shown good progress
the last two days, Ross said, and could start
swinging Tuesday or Wednesday and get
live batting practice reps by the weekend.
Meanwhile, Hoerner made his third
straight start Sunday.
“Every major-leaguer, especially young
major-leaguers, have to go out and prove
that they belong here,” Ross said. “He’s
well on his way to doing that. There’s guys
that come up and force your hand some-
times, too, right? I mean, some guys come
up and are playing really well and it’s hard
to send them back down. You want to have
the best team you possibly can, so, yeah, I
don’t think we’ve predetermined anything
on that end yet.”
Hoerner is building a strong case to stay
on the big-league roster. His defensive
versatility in the infield and outfield gives
Ross options, both putting together the
lineup and having flexibility with his bench.
Hoerner’s baseball IQ was on display
in the eighth inning Sunday, when he
smartly allowed a pop-up in shallow left to
drop with a runner on first. García wasn’t
running out of the batter’s box, and with
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As my granddad, Joseph Hill, often
jokes, “one of the only ways to spark
change is to take money out of people’s
pockets.”
He was right last summer: After years
of owner Daniel Snyder rejecting calls to
change the name, his favorite NFL team
became “The Washington Football Team”
after sponsors such as FedEx, Nike and
PepsiCo threatened to end partnerships.
It isn’t the first time the franchise has
gone back on its word.
Team founder George Preston Marshall
had never put a Black player on the field in
more than 25 years owning the team.
But Marshall’s hand was forced by the
federal government, which owned D.C.
Stadium and threatened to revoke the
team’s 30-year lease if it didn’t integrate.
In 1962, Bobby Mitchell became Washing-
ton’s first Black player.
Washington, Atlanta and other teams
need to be more thoughtful and proactive
moving forward. My granddad supported
the Washington Football Team’s name
change and hopes the organization is
committed to change.
“Everybody should be forced to change
anything that’s offensive,” he said.
Yet some teams have chosen to keep
their names despite backlash from Native
communities. The Florida Indigenous
Rights and Environmental Equality
(FIREE) protested before this year’s Super
Bowl because of the Kansas City Chiefs’
name and use of the tomahawk chop.
Two years ago, the Braves were criti-
Narváez barely off first base, Hoerner let
the ball fall, threw out García and the Cubs
retired Narváez in a rundown for a double
play.
Hoerner credited Báez for yelling at him
that García wasn’t running to first.
“Great communication between the
middle infielders, awareness knowing that
you’re in the grass, the ball is not going to
take that big of a hop,” Ross said. “There’s
just a sense of being a great baseball player
and his IQ is extremely high, so you love
that type of stuff, that baseball mentality
and having that communication between
the middle infielders. That’s one that really
makes you smile, and I’ll hold on to that
one.”
Hoerner looked good at the plate during
the series, going 4-for-8 with three doubles,
four walks and three RBIs. His all-around
game was an asset, and if he keeps playing
well, he’ll have a strong argument to stick
around after Pederson is activated.
3. The Cubs don’t have to worry about
facing Brandon Woodruff and Co. for a
while. The Cubs and Brewers have seen
each other plenty in the first 3½ weeks. That
has meant the Cubs offense being chal-
lenged by the best rotation in the majors
(2.22 ERA, 10.34 K/9). Sunday’s game
was the Cubs’ ninth against the Brewers,
accounting for 43% of their first 21 games.
They’re 3-6 in the season series.
Only three previous times had the Cubs
played nine games against one opponent
quicker to begin a season, according to
team historian Ed Hartig: 1920 (Reds), 1914
(Cardinals) and 1913 (Reds). After Sunday,
the Cubs won’t face the Brewers again
for nearly two months until a three-game
series June 28-30 in Milwaukee. The Brew-
ers don’t return to Wrigley until August.
Avoiding Woodruff, Freddy Peralta and
Corbin Burnes, who did not start in this series,
will be a nice break for the Cubs offense.
“His sinker, his fastball had extra life
today,” first baseman Anthony Rizzo said
of Woodruff. “It was two-seam hard in and
down. His changeup was the best I’ve seen.
His off-speed, he commands all three.
“He’s a bulldog up there and it’s fun
facing him because you know he’s coming
at you, and we just didn’t have it today. He’s
had success off us.”
Andrew Golden (center) at an Atlanta Braves
game with his dad, uncle, aunt and grandma
in 2013. GOLDEN FAMILY
cized by St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Ryan
Helsley, a member of the Cherokee nation
who called the chop disrespectful. It was
only then that the Braves decided to keep
foam tomahawks in storage for Game 5 of
the National League Division Series. They
are still undecided on whether they’ll allow
the chant to continue moving forward.
But if members of marginalized groups
are offended by names, logos and customs,
that should be enough to support change.
That’s why this lifelong Braves fan
thinks the team should change its name.
It’s time the team makes amends by
acknowledging past mistakes and honor-
ing these communities moving forward.
A name change wouldn’t alter my love
for my favorite team — my granddad and
dad echoed the same sentiment. But some-
times not all tradition is good tradition.
The hope is fans will continue to hold
teams accountable for their actions to
ensure they are properly honoring, high-
lighting and respecting Native American
and Indigenous people.
Perspectives can change. Conversations
can change. Traditions can change.
So can team names.
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Kopech to start, and he showed why Sunday.
The first seven outs he recorded came via
strikeout.
He reached double digits in strikeouts for
the first time in his career.
“I’m happy every time I get a strikeout, but
I wouldn’t say I’m impressed with myself
to where I’m thinking about that moving
forward throughout the game,” Kopech said.
“As soon as one hitter’s gone, I’m on to the
next. I feel like if you want to be successful
in this game, then you have to treat every guy
as a new guy.”
Kopech received plenty of help from the
offense early. José Abreu hit a two-run home
run in the first inning, and the Sox added
three runs in the second to make it 5-1. Nick
Madrigal knocked in two with a triple during
a three-run third as the Sox extended the
lead to 8-1.
While the Sox hitters came out swinging,
Kopech made the Rangers swing and miss.
He struck out at least two batters in four
of his five innings, including three in the first
and second.
“Everything he’s shown is electric,” Sox
catcher Zack Collins said. “He’s got that fast-
ball. He’s got the good slider today. He threw
a couple of good changeups, got a couple of
double plays or a couple of ground balls. But
everything he’s throwing is amazing right
now and obviously throwing a lot of strikes,
and that’s what he needs to do.”
The original plan was for Kopech to pitch
four innings Sunday. But he retired the
side in order in the fourth, striking out two,
setting the stage for his return in the fifth.
The 87 pitches are a career high.
“It felt more familiar than I was assuming
it would,” Kopech said of being stretched
out. “I kind of felt I would get pretty tired
before I got to five innings today. I was a lot
more energetic than I would have expected
to be in the fourth and fifth inning, just
considering that I haven’t started in so long.
“But just being able to get out there and
push through those last couple innings and
still feel competitive means a lot to me.”
Kopech has a 1.72 ERA and 27 strikeouts
in 15 ⅔ innings. He helped the Sox (12-9)
extend their winning streak to a season-high
four games.
“The more he goes out there, getting outs
when he has to get them, whether it’s in
relief or as a starter, it gets into the bank for
his future,” La Russa said. “Michael Kopech
is going to be a top-line starting pitcher. But
right now, it made sense to get him in condi-
tion and add more and more pitches. More
importantly, the fact that he has competed so
well shows that he has guts when he goes out
there, he keeps his cool and concentration.
“He’s going to have to help us right now
when he’s available, but if it comes that
there’s a start and we can get him the proper
rest, that’s a terrific advantage for our team.”
White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu points
to the sky after his two-run home run in the
first inning Sunday at Guaranteed Rate Field.
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BASEBALL

AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE

EAST W L PCT GB WCGB L10 STR HOME AWAY EAST W L PCT GB WCGB L10 STR HOME AWAY
Boston 14 9 .609 — — 5-5 W-1 8-8 6-1 New York 9 8 .529 — — 5-5 W-1 6-2 3-6
Tampa Bay 11 11 .500 2½ 1½ 6-4 L-1 4-6 7-5 Philadelphia 10 11 .476 1 1 4-6 L-1 8-4 2-7
Toronto 10 11 .476 3 2 5-5 W-1 3-3 7-8 Atlanta 9 12 .429 2 2 5-5 L-2 4-6 5-6
Baltimore 9 12 .429 4 3 4-6 W-1 2-8 7-4 Miami 9 12 .429 2 2 4-5 L-1 4-7 5-5
New York 9 12 .429 4 3 4-6 L-1 4-7 5-5 Washington 8 11 .421 2 2 5-5 L-1 5-5 3-6

CENTRAL W L PCT GB WCGB L10 STR HOME AWAY CENTRAL W L PCT GB WCGB L10 STR HOME AWAY
Kansas City 13 7 .650 — — 7-3 W-4 8-5 5-2 Milwaukee 13 8 .619 — — 7-3 W-2 4-5 9-3
Chicago 12 9 .571 1½ — 7-3 W-4 6-3 6-6 St. Louis 11 10 .524 2 — 5-5 W-3 5-4 6-6
Cleveland 9 11 .450 4 2½ 3-7 W-1 5-5 4-6 Pittsburgh 11 11 .500 2½ ½ 6-4 W-2 4-3 7-8
Minnesota 7 13 .350 6 4½ 2-8 L-2 3-7 4-6 Chicago 10 11 .476 3 1 5-5 L-2 8-7 2-4
Detroit 7 15 .318 7 5½ 1-9 L-4 4-8 3-7 Cincinnati 9 12 .429 4 2 2-8 L-7 7-5 2-7

WEST W L PCT GB WCGB L10 STR HOME AWAY WEST W L PCT GB WCGB L10 STR HOME AWAY
Oakland 14 8 .636 — — 9-1 L-1 8-6 6-2 Los Angeles 15 6 .714 — — 6-4 W-1 7-2 8-4
Seattle 13 9 .591 1 — 6-4 L-1 6-5 7-4 San Francisco 14 8 .636 1½ — 6-4 W-1 8-2 6-6
Los Angeles 10 10 .500 3 1½ 3-7 W-1 6-4 4-6 San Diego 12 11 .522 4 — 4-6 L-1 5-8 7-3
Houston 10 11 .476 3½ 2 4-6 L-1 4-6 6-5 Arizona 11 11 .500 4½ ½ 7-3 W-2 2-3 9-8
Texas 9 13 .409 5 3½ 4-6 L-3 3-6 6-7 Colorado 8 13 .381 7 3 5-5 W-1 8-7 0-6

BOX SCORES TODAY’S PITCHING COMPARISON

CLEVELAND 7, N.Y. YANKEES 3 BALTIMORE 8, OAKLAND 1 BOSTON 5, SEATTLE 3 TORONTO 1, TAMPA BAY 0 AMERICAN LEAGUE 2021 2020 VS OPP LAST 3 STARTS
New York AB R H BI SO AVG Oakland AB R H BI SO AVG Seattle AB R H BI SO AVG Toronto AB R H BI SO AVG TEAM PITCHER TIME W-L ERA TR W-L IP ERA W-L IP ERA
KC Keller (R) 1-2 12.00 2-2 1-0 6.0 0.00 1-2 10.2 8.44
Gardner cf 3 0 0 0 1 .194 Canha lf 4 0 0 0 1 .260 Haniger dh 3 1 1 0 0 .292 Biggio rf 2 0 0 0 1 .169 Det Turnbull (R) 12:10p 1-0 1.80 1-0 0-1 5.0 5.40 1-1 16.0 3.38
a-Frazier ph-lf 1 0 0 0 0 .146 Lowrie dh 4 0 1 0 1 .293 France 2b 4 0 1 1 2 .316 Davis cf 0 0 0 0 0 .091
Stanton dh 5 0 1 0 0 .186 Olson 1b 4 0 0 0 1 .319 Seager 3b 4 0 0 0 1 .235 Bichette dh 4 0 0 0 2 .250 Min Berríos (R) 2-2 3.00 2-2 0-1 10.2 4.22 1-2 15.0 4.20
Judge rf 5 0 1 0 1 .246 Laureano cf 4 1 1 1 0 .227 Lewis cf 4 0 0 0 2 .125 Guerrero Jr. 1b 3 0 0 0 1 .338 Cle Plesac (R) 5:10p 1-3 6.75 1-3 0-1 7.0 6.43 1-2 12.2 8.53
Odor 2b 3 0 0 0 1 .175 Chapman 3b 2 0 0 0 2 .158 White 1b 4 0 0 0 2 .186 Grichuk cf-rf 4 0 0 0 1 .292 NYY García (R) 0-0 0.00 0-0 0-1 4.2 7.71 2-1 16.2 7.02
Torres ss 3 1 1 0 0 .213 Piscotty rf 2 0 1 0 0 .234 Moore rf 4 0 1 0 1 .117 Semien ss 4 1 1 0 1 .214 Bal Harvey (R) 6:05p 1-1 5.12 2-2 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-1 14.2 5.52
Urshela 3b 4 1 1 2 3 .250 a-Brown ph-rf 1 0 0 0 1 .257 Haggerty lf 3 1 1 0 0 .270 Gurriel Jr. lf 4 0 2 0 1 .203
Oak Manaea (L) 2-1 3.04 3-1 0-0 0.0 0.00 2-0 19.0 1.42
Ford 1b 4 1 1 1 1 .133 Andrus ss 3 0 0 0 2 .162 Murphy c 3 1 1 1 2 .128 Panik 2b 4 0 1 0 0 .286
TB Hill (L) 6:10p 1-0 8.82 2-2 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-0 12.1 8.76
Sanchez c 2 0 0 0 0 .196 Garcia c 3 0 0 0 1 .133 Crawford ss 3 0 1 1 1 .239 Espinal 3b 4 0 2 1 0 .357
Tauchman lf-cf 3 0 1 0 2 .214 Kemp 2b 0 0 0 0 0 .150 TOTALS 32 3 6 3 11 Jansen c 4 0 0 0 0 .049 LAA Ohtani (R) 0-0 1.04 2-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 0.00
TOTALS 33 3 6 3 9 Machin 2b 1 0 0 0 0 .143 Boston AB R H BI SO AVG TOTALS 33 1 6 1 7 Tex Lyles (R) 7:05p 1-1 4.64 2-2 0-1 6.0 4.50 0-1 15.2 5.17
Cleveland AB R H BI SO AVG b-Murphy ph-c 1 0 0 0 1 .152 Tampa Bay AB R H BI SO AVG Sea Sheffield (L) 1-1 4.86 2-1 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-1 16.2 4.86
Hernandez cf 3 2 1 0 0 .250
A.Rosario cf 4 0 0 0 2 .164 TOTALS 29 1 3 1 10 Devers 3b 2 1 0 0 1 .269 Diaz 1b 3 0 0 0 1 .254 Hou Urquidy (R) 7:10p 0-2 5.14 1-3 0-0 5.2 3.18 0-2 16.2 5.40
Hernandez 2b 4 1 2 0 1 .197 Baltimore AB R H BI SO AVG Martinez lf 3 1 2 0 1 .370 Arozarena lf 3 0 0 0 3 .289
Ramirez 3b 3 1 1 1 0 .247 Mullins cf 5 0 3 0 1 .329 Bogaerts dh 4 0 1 1 1 .366 Meadows dh 4 0 0 0 0 .246 NATIONAL LEAGUE 2021 2021 VS OPP LAST 3 STARTS
E.Rosario lf 4 1 1 1 1 .216 Mancini dh 4 0 1 2 0 .213 Vazquez c 4 1 1 1 0 .257 Brosseau 3b 3 0 1 0 2 .222 TEAM PITCHER TIME W-L ERA TR W-L IP ERA W-L IP ERA
Reyes dh 4 2 3 3 0 .286 Franco 3b 4 1 1 1 2 .253 Renfroe rf 3 0 0 1 2 .176 Lowe 2b 3 0 0 0 0 .167 ChC Davies (R) 1-2 8.80 2-2 0-1 4.0 9.00 0-2 9.2 12.10
Naylor 1b 4 0 0 0 1 .226 Severino c 4 0 0 0 2 .236 Gonzalez ss 2 0 0 1 0 .217 Margot rf 4 0 1 0 0 .231 Atl Morton (R) 6:10p 1-1 3.91 1-3 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-0 18.0 3.50
Bauers 1b 0 0 0 0 0 .121 Mountcastle 1b3 2 0 0 1 .167 Arroyo 2b 2 0 0 1 1 .296 Wendle ss 4 0 0 0 1 .324
Luplow rf 4 1 1 1 1 .233 Hays lf 3 3 2 3 1 .267 Dalbec 1b 3 0 0 0 0 .241 Mejia c 4 0 1 0 2 .282 Mia Rogers (L) 2-1 1.64 2-2 0-0 0.0 0.00 2-0 18.0 1.00
Gimenez ss 3 0 0 0 3 .200 Galvis ss 4 0 1 0 1 .254 TOTALS 26 5 5 5 6 Kiermaier cf 4 0 2 0 0 .270 Mil Burnes (R) 6:40p 2-1 0.37 2-2 0-0 0.0 0.00 2-0 18.0 0.00
Hedges c 2 1 1 1 1 .118 Urias 2b 3 1 0 0 1 .172 TOTALS 32 0 5 0 9 Phi Wheeler (R) 1-2 3.80 1-3 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-2 16.2 5.40
Seattle 100 020 000 — 3 6 0
TOTALS 32 7 9 7 10 McKenna rf 3 1 1 1 0 .200 StL Wainwright (R) 6:45p 0-2 5.03 1-3 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-1 17.0 2.65
Boston 410 000 00x — 5 5 0 Toronto 000 010 000 — 1 6 0
TOTALS 33 8 9 7 9
New York 000 300 000 — 3 6 0 Tampa Bay 000 000 000 — 0 5 0 Col Gomber (L) 1-2 3.38 1-3 0-1 6.1 2.84 1-1 18.1 3.44
LOB: Seattle 3, Boston 5. 2B: Haniger
Cleveland 000 412 00x — 7 9 1 Oakland 000 100 000 — 1 3 1 SF DeSclafani (R) 8:45p 1-0 2.14 2-2 1-0 6.0 0.00 1-0 16.0 2.25
(7), France (8), Moore (4), Murphy (1), LOB: Toronto 8, Tampa Bay 9. RBIs:
Baltimore 010 200 05x — 8 9 0
a-walked for Gardner in the 6th. E: Crawford (2), Bogaerts (8), Martinez Espinal (2). Runners left in scoring Cin Mahle (R) 1-1 1.74 2-2 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-1 15.2 1.15
Naylor (3). LOB: New York 9, Cleveland a-struck out for Piscotty in the 7th. 2(10). RBIs: France (13), Murphy (2), position: Toronto 3(Bichette, Jansen); LAD Urías (L) 9:10p 3-0 2.80 4-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 2-0 18.2 3.38
3. 2B: Tauchman (1), Luplow (3). 3B: b-struck out for Machin in the 8th. E: Crawford (5), Vazquez (6), Renfroe Tampa Bay 3(Wendle, Meadows 2). NOTE: Only games with one or both pitchers designated are listed.
Reyes (2). HR: Urshela (3), off McKen- Andrus (3). LOB: Oakland 4, Baltimore (8), Gonzalez (6), Arroyo (4), Bogaerts RISP: Toronto 1for 6; Tampa Bay 0for 6. TR: Team’s record in games started by today’s pitcher.
zie; Ford (1), off McKenzie; Reyes (5), 8. 2B: Galvis (5). HR: Laureano (3), off (12). Runners left in scoring position: Runners moved up: Espinal, Lowe. Vs. Opp: Pitcher’s record versus this opponent.
off Taillon. RBIs: Urshela 2(9), Ford (2), Means; Hays 2(2), off Luzardo; Franco Seattle 3(White, Crawford, Seager); TORONTO IP H R ER BB SO ERA
E.Rosario (12), Reyes 3(14), Ramirez (2), off Guerra. RBIs: Laureano (8), Boston 3(Vazquez, Renfroe, Bogaerts).
Ryu 3⅔ 3 0 0 1 5 2.60
(9), Luplow (12), Hedges (2). SB: Reyes Hays 3(5), Franco (15), McKenna (1), RISP: Seattle 2for 11; Boston 2for 10. Mayza, W, 1-0 ⅓ 2 0 0 0 0 0.00
(1). SF: Ramirez. Runners left in scoring Mancini 2(13). SB: Mountcastle (3). Runners moved up: Seager, Vazquez. Chatwood, H, 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
position: New York 4(Urshela 2, Stan- CS: Mullins (1). Runners left in scoring GIDP: France, Arroyo, Dalbec. DP: Seat- Borucki, H, 1 1⅔ 0 0 0 0 1 2.00 RESULTS, SCHEDULE
ton); Cleveland 2(Luplow, E.Rosario). position: Oakland 1(Chapman); Balti- tle 2(Crawford, France, White; Seager, Phelps, H, 4 1 0 0 0 1 2 1.08
Dolis, S, 2-2 1⅓ 0 0 0 0 0 3.48 AMERICAN LEAGUE
RISP: New York 0for 3; Cleveland 5for more 4(Franco, Mancini, Severino). France, White); Boston 1(Gonzalez, NATIONAL LEAGUE
9. Runners moved up: Torres. LIDP: RISP: Oakland 0for 1; Baltimore 1for 8. Arroyo, Dalbec). TAMPA BAY IP H R ER BB SO ERA SUNDAY’S RESULTS SUNDAY’S RESULTS
Torres. DP: Cleveland 1(Naylor). Runners moved up: Laureano. GIDP: Patino 2⅔ 0 0 0 1 3 0.00 Boston 5, Seattle 3 G1: Arizona 5, Atlanta 0(7)
SEATTLE IP H R ER BB SO ERA Fleming, L, 1-2 4⅓ 4 1 1 2 3 1.23 Baltimore 8, Oakland 1
Canha. DP: Baltimore 1(Franco, Urias, N.Y. Mets 4, Washington 0
NEW YORK IP H R ER BB SO ERA Margevicius, L, 0-2⅓ 2 4 4 4 1 8.25 Head 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 Cleveland 7, N.Y. Yankees 3
Mountcastle). St. Louis 5, Cincinnati 2
Taillon, L, 0-2 4 5 4 4 0 6 6.23 Steckenrider 1⅔ 1 1 1 2 1 4.66 Strickland 1 2 0 0 0 1 2.35
Sadler 2 0 0 0 1 0 1.86
Toronto 1, Tampa Bay 0 Pittsburgh 6, Minnesota 2
Nelson 2 4 3 3 1 2 9.72 OAKLAND IP H R ER BB SO ERA Inherited runners-scored: Mayza 1-0, Kansas City 4, Detroit 0
Cessa 2 0 0 0 0 2 0.77 Newsome 4 2 0 0 0 4 1.69 Milwaukee 6, Chicago Cubs 0
Luzardo, L, 1-2 6⅔ 7 3 3 2 8 5.40 Chatwood 2-0, Borucki 1-0, Dolis 1-0. L.A. Angels 4, Houston 2
BOSTON IP H R ER BB SO ERA Colorado 12, Philadelphia 2
CLEVELAND IP H R ER BB SO ERA Romo ⅓ 0 0 0 0 0 12.15 HBP: Chatwood (Brosseau), Phelps
Guerra ⅔ 1 5 2 4 0 3.38
Pittsburgh 6, Minnesota 2 G2: Arizona 7, Atlanta 0(7) (No-hitter)
McKenzie 4 4 3 3 4 5 4.32 Rodriguez, W, 4-0 7 6 3 3 0 8 3.52 (Diaz). Umpires: Home, Ramon De Chicago White Sox 8, Texas 4
Kolarek ⅓ 1 0 0 1 1 8.44 Ottavino, H, 4 1 0 0 0 1 1 4.32 San Francisco 4, Miami 3
Hentges, W, 1-0 1⅔ 2 0 0 0 1 3.38 Jesus; First, Mark Wegner; Second,
Quantrill, H, 1 1⅓ 0 0 0 1 0 2.92 BALTIMORE IP H R ER BB SO ERA Barnes, S, 4-4 1 0 0 0 0 2 3.00 San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, late
Chris Guccione; Third, Roberto Ortiz. T: TUESDAY’S GAMES
Karinchak 1 0 0 0 0 3 0.00 Inherited runners-scored: Stecken- 3:13. A: 6,372(25,000).
Clase 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 Means, W, 2-0 6⅓ 2 1 1 3 6 1.50 Minnesota at Cleveland, 5:10p.m.
Plutko, H, 3 ⅔ 0 0 0 0 1 1.42 rider 3-1. HBP: Steckenrider (Arroyo). TUESDAY’S GAMES
Inherited runners-scored: Quantrill 1-0. Fry, H, 3 1 0 0 0 0 2 1.08 Umpires: Home, Gabe Morales; First, MILWAUKEE 6, CHICAGO CUBS 0 Kansas City at Pittsburgh, 5:35p.m. Kansas City at Pittsburgh, 5:35p.m.
HBP: Karinchak (Sanchez). WP: Nelson, Lowther 1 1 0 0 0 1 0.00 Bill Miller; Second, Brian Knight; Third, N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 6:05p.m. Washington at Toronto, 6:07p.m.
Milwaukee AB R H BI SO AVG Washington at Toronto, 6:07p.m.
Hentges, Quantrill. Umpires: Home, Inherited runners-scored: Romo 2-0, Erich Bacchus. T: 2:44. A: 4,510(37,755). Boston at N.Y. Mets, 6:10p.m.
Andy Fletcher; First, Greg Gibson; Kolarek 3-3, Plutko 1-0. Umpires: Wong 2b 5 2 2 1 0 .281 Boston at N.Y. Mets, 6:10p.m. Chicago Cubs at Atlanta, 6:20p.m.
Second, Rob Drake; Third, Will Little. T: Home, Laz Diaz; First, Manny Gonza- Narvaez c 3 0 2 0 0 .389 Oakland at Tampa Bay, 6:10p.m. Miami at Milwaukee, 6:40p.m.
3:07. A: 8,766(34,788). lez; Second, Nick Mahrley; Third, Mike Garcia rf 4 0 0 0 2 .206 L.A. Angels at Texas, 7:05p.m. Philadelphia at St. Louis, 6:45p.m.
Estabrook. T: 2:56. A: 8,107(45,971). Shaw 3b-1b-3b 3 0 1 2 1 .216 Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 7:10p.m. San Diego at Arizona, 8:40p.m.
COLORADO 12, PHILADELPHIA 2 Hiura 1b 4 0 0 0 2 .145 Seattle at Houston, 7:10p.m. Colorado at San Francisco, 8:45p.m.
N.Y. METS 4, WASHINGTON 0 D.Williams p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Cincinnati at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10p.m.
Philadelphia AB R H BI SO AVG SATURDAY’S RESULTS
Washington AB R H BI SO AVG d-Taylor ph-lf 0 0 0 1 0 .364
CHICAGO WHITE SOX 8, TEXAS 4 Kansas City 2, Detroit 1
McCutchen lf 4 0 0 0 2 .154 McKinney lf-1b 5 1 1 0 3 .240 SATURDAY’S RESULTS
Harrison 2b 4 0 1 0 1 .318 Texas AB R H BI SO AVG Seattle 8, Boston 2
Hoskins 1b 4 0 0 0 1 .250 Bradley Jr. cf 4 1 0 0 0 .195 St. Louis 2, Cincinnati 0
Hernandez rf 2 0 2 0 0 .313 Pittsburgh 6, Minnesota 2
Calhoun dh 3 1 1 0 1 .333 Harper rf 4 2 2 2 0 .338 Robertson ss-3b2 1 0 0 1 .105 Pittsburgh 6, Minnesota 2
Turner ss 2 0 0 0 0 .274 Houston 16, L.A. Angels 2
Kiner-Falefa ss 5 1 3 0 0 .258 Kingery rf 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Yardley p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Milwaukee 4, Chicago Cubs 3
b-Zimmerman ph 1 0 0 0 1 N.Y. Yankees 2, Cleveland 1
Gallo rf 4 1 2 0 2 .242 Realmuto c 2 0 0 0 1 .306 Woodruff p 2 0 0 0 1 .000 Washington 7, N.Y. Mets 1
.294 Tampa Bay 5, Toronto 3
Lowe 1b 4 0 1 1 2 .256 Knapp c 1 0 0 0 1 .158 b-Vogelbach ph1 0 0 0 0 .229 Philadelphia 7, Colorado 5
Rainey p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Chicago White Sox 2, Texas 1
A.Garcia cf 4 0 1 1 1 .265 Gregorius ss 4 0 1 0 0 .269 Feyereisen p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Miami 5, San Francisco 2
Bell 1b 4 0 0 0 1 .119 Oakland 7, Baltimore 2
Dahl lf 3 1 1 1 1 .214 Bohm 3b 4 0 0 0 2 .213 Urias ss 1 1 1 2 0 .167 L.A. Dodgers 5, San Diego 4
Schwarber lf 4 0 0 0 1 .192
Solak 2b 4 0 2 1 1 .296 Maton 2b 3 0 2 0 0 .500 TOTALS 34 6 7 6 10 Arizona at Atlanta, ppd.
S.Castro 3b 4 0 0 0 1 .257
Holt 3b 4 0 0 0 2 .233 Moniak cf 4 0 1 0 1 .120 Chicago AB R H BI SO AVG
Gomes c 4 0 0 0 1 .222
Heim c 4 0 0 0 2 .125 Anderson p 1 0 0 0 1 .000
Robles cf 3 0 1 0 0 .214 Happ cf 3 0 0 0 1 .154
TOTALS 35 4 11 4 12 a-Quinn ph 1 0 0 0 1 .065
Corbin p 1 0 0 0 1 .333 Adam p 0 0 0 0 0 --- AROUND THE HORN
Chicago AB R H BI SO AVG b-Miller ph-1b 2 0 1 0 1 .381
Voth p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Maples p 0 0 0 0 0 ---
TOTALS 34 2 7 2 11
a-Stevenson ph1 0 1 0 0 .244 Anderson ss 4 1 1 1 2 .333 Bote 3b 3 0 1 0 0 .191
Mercer ss 0 0 0 0 0 .316 Eaton rf 4 1 1 2 0 .243
Colorado AB R H BI SO AVG
Mills p 0 0 0 0 0 .000 „ Orioles, Athletics: The games of the four-game
TOTALS 30 0 5 0 7 Tapia lf 5 1 2 2 0 .306 Contreras c 1 0 0 0 0 .242
New York AB R H BI SO AVG
Moncada 3b 3
Abreu 1b 4
1 0
1 2
0
3
1
0
.254
.225 Hampson cf-ss 4 1 0 0 2 .269 Rizzo 1b 4 0 1 0 2 .235
Athletics’ 13-game winning series.
Nimmo lf 3 0 0 0 1 .370 Mercedes dh 4 0 1 0 1 .414 Story ss 4 2 2 4 1 .288 Bryant lf 4 0 0 0 2 .309 streak ended Sunday as „ Extra innings: An MRI
Robert cf 3 0 0 0 1 .305 Hilliard cf 0 0 0 0 0 .121 Baez ss 4 0 1 0 0 .234 Austin Hays hit a pair of on Brewers OF Christian
Alonso 1b 2 2 1 1 1 .267
Collins c 3 1 3 0 0 .206 McMahon 2b 3 2 1 0 1 .273 Heyward rf 3 0 0 0 1 .212
Lindor ss 4 0 1 0 0 .210
L.Garcia lf 4 1 1 0 0 .170 Cron 1b 5 2 4 2 0 .266 Hoerner 2b-cf 2 0 0 0 1 .444 HRs, starter John Means had Yelich (lower back strain)
Davis 3b 4 2 3 2 0 .414
Guillorme 3b 0 0 0 0 0 .333 Madrigal 2b 4 2 2 2 0 .308 Daza rf 4 0 2 1 0 .325 Romine c 2 0 0 0 2 .111 another stellar performance showed no major issues.
TOTALS 33 8 11 8 5 Fuentes 3b 4 1 2 1 0 .194 c-Sogard ph-2b1 0 0 0 1 .250
Conforto rf 4 0 1 0 0 .214
Nunez c 4 2 2 1 2 .233 Arrieta p 1 0 0 0 1 .000 and the Orioles earned an 8-1 The 2018 NL MVP hasn’t
McCann c 3 0 1 1 1 .234
Villar 2b 4 0 1 0 2 .242
Texas
Chicago
010 003 000 — 4 11 2
233 000 00x — 8 11 0
Gray p 3 1 1 1 2 .273 a-Duffy ph-3b 2 0 1 0 0 .240 victory in Baltimore. The played since April 11. “We
c-Trejo ph 1 0 0 0 0 .222 TOTALS 30 0 4 0 11
Almora Jr. cf 2 0 0 0 0 .143
TOTALS 37 12 16 12 8
A’s, who opened the season basically just ruled out
Walker p 3 0 0 0 3 .000 E: Gallo (1), Kiner-Falefa (2). LOB: Milwaukee 100 000 005 — 6 7 0
M.Castro p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Texas 7, Chicago 9. 2B: Anderson Philadelphia 101 000 000 — 2 7 1 Chicago 000 000 000 — 0 4 2
with six straight losses, put anything significant struc-
Diaz p 0 0 0 0 0 --- (2). 3B: Eaton (1), Madrigal (2). HR: Colorado 000 721 02x — 12 16 0 together their third-lon- turally that would show up
Dahl (2), off Kopech; Abreu (5), off a-singled for Arrieta in the 6th. b-flied
TOTALS 29 4 8 4 8
Arihara. RBIs: Dahl (6), Lowe (18), a-struck out for Hale in the 5th. b-sin- out for Woodruff in the 7th. c-struck gest winning string since on the MRI,” manager Craig
Washington 000 000 000 — 0 5 0 A.Garcia (13), Solak (12), Abreu 3(17), gled for Howard in the 7th. c-popped out for Romine in the 8th. d-walked moving to Oakland in 1968. Counsell said. “We still need
New York 200 110 00x — 4 8 0 out for Estevez in the 7th. E: Gregorius for D.Williams in the 9th. E: Baez (4),
Anderson (4), Eaton 2(18), Madrigal 2
(8). SB: Kiner-Falefa (4). SF: Abreu. S: (5). LOB: Philadelphia 7, Colorado 8. Mills (1). LOB: Milwaukee 10, Chicago
The A’s won 14 in a row in to make progress ... and so ...
a-singled for Voth in the 8th. b-struck 1988 and a then-AL record not much has changed.” ...
Eaton. Runners left in scoring position: 3B: Nunez (2). HR: Harper 2(6), off 5. 2B: Wong 2(3), McKinney (1), Rizzo
out for Turner in the 8th. LOB: Wash-
Texas 3(Lowe, Holt, Solak); Chicago 5 Gray; Story (1), off Hale; Cron (3), off (3). RBIs: Shaw 2(17), Urias 2(10), of 20 consecutive wins in Shohei Ohtani’s tiebreaking
ington 7, New York 6. 2B: Robles (1),
(L.Garcia, Mercedes, Anderson). RISP: Falter. RBIs: Harper 2(10), Fuentes (10), Wong (2), Taylor (4). SB: Garcia (2). CS:
Conforto (4). HR: Davis (2), off Corbin;
Texas 3for 9; Chicago 4for 9. Runners Gray (1), Tapia 2(10), Story 4(9), Nunez Happ (1). S: Robertson. Runners left in 2002. The Indians broke solo HR in the eighth helped
Alonso (5), off Corbin. RBIs: Davis 2
(6), McCann (4), Alonso (12). CS: Villar moved up: A.Garcia. LIDP: Eaton. GIDP: (10), Daza (4), Cron 2(11). SF: Fuentes. scoring position: Milwaukee 7(Brad- that mark with 22 straight in the Angels to a 4-2 road win
Kiner-Falefa, Lowe, Heim. DP: Texas 1 S: Daza. Runners left in scoring posi- ley Jr. 2, McKinney, Wong); Chicago 2
(1), Nimmo (1). SF: Conforto. Runners
(Holt, Lowe, Holt); Chicago 3(Madrigal, tion: Philadelphia 3(Anderson, Bohm, (Rizzo, Baez). RISP: Milwaukee 3for 2017 — the Athletics’ string over the Astros to snap a
left in scoring position: Washington 5
(Bell 2, Turner, Schwarber); New York Anderson, Abreu; Moncada, Madrigal, Hoskins); Colorado 4(Gray, Daza, 14; Chicago 0for 6. Runners moved up: had been the longest in MLB four-game skid. It was the
Nunez). RISP: Philadelphia 0for 4; Colo- Happ, Bote, Bryant. DP: Milwaukee 1
3(Nimmo, McCann). RISP: Washing- Abreu; Moncada, Madrigal, Abreu).
rado 5for 12. Runners moved up: Tapia. (Narvaez, Shaw, Narvaez); Chicago 1
since that run by the Indians. second consecutive game
ton 0for 7; New York 1for 6. Runners TEXAS IP H R ER BB SO ERA
moved up: Conforto. DP: Washington 1
GIDP: Hampson. DP: Philadelphia 1 (Baez, Rizzo, Hoerner, Rizzo). Means (2-0) lowered his with a HRfor the two-way
Arihara, L, 2-2 2 6 5 5 4 0 4.03 (Bohm, Maton, Miller).
(Schwarber, Gomes, Schwarber). de Geus 1 3 3 3 2 2 8.10 MILWAUKEE IP H R ER BB SO ERA ERA to 1.50 — best among star, who’s tied for the MLB
Martin 2 1 0 0 0 2 4.76 PHILADELPHIA IP H R ER BB SO ERA
WASHINGTON IP H R ER BB SO ERA Sborz 2 1 0 0 0 0 5.14
Anderson, L, 0-3 3⅔ 6 6 6 3 2 6.48
Woodruff, W, 2-0
Feyereisen, H, 5
6
1
2
1
0
0
0
0
2
0
8
2
1.55
0.00
AL starters. lead with seven HRs and
Corbin, L, 0-3
Voth
4
3
7
1
4
0
4
0
3
0
3 10.47
4 2.08
Hearn 1 0 0 0 0 1 6.94
Hale ⅓ 2 1 1 1 0 5.23 D.Williams, H, 3
Yardley
1
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
5.87
5.00
„ Blue Jays: Starter Hyun who’s scheduled to pitch
CHICAGO IP H R ER BB SO ERA Howard 2 4 3 3 1 4 8.31
Rainey 1 0 0 0 1 1 7.36
Kopech, W, 2-0 5 4 1 1 0 10 1.72
Falter 2 4 2 2 0 2 9.00 CHICAGO IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Jin Ryu was forced to leave Monday. ... Trevor Story hit
NEW YORK IP H R ER BB SO ERA Stiever 0 4 3 3 0 0 Inf COLORADO IP H R ER BB SO ERA Arrieta, L, 3-2 6 2 1 1 3 8 2.57 early with a minor strain and a grand slam to cap a seven-
Crochet, H, 3 3 3 0 0 1 1 1.00
Walker, W, 1-1
M.Castro
7
1
3
2
0
0
0
0
3
0
4
3
2.14
2.57 Ruiz 1 0 0 0 1 1 2.35 Gray, W, 3-1
Estevez
6
1
4
2
2
0
2
0
2
0
6
2
2.54
4.70
Mills
Adam
2
0
2
3
0
5
0
5
0
2
0
0
3.45
9.45
five relievers completed the run fourth, letting loose a
Diaz 1 0 0 0 0 0 2.25 Stiever pitched to 4batters in the 6th Stephenson 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.89 Maples 1 0 0 0 1 2 2.00 shutout, lifting the Blue Jays shout to his dugout and a
Inherited runners-scored: Voth 1-0. Inherited runners-scored: Crochet 3-2. Sheffield 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.00 Adam pitched to 6batters in the 9th
HBP: Walker (Turner), Voth (Nimmo). HBP: Crochet (Calhoun). WP: de Geus. Inherited runners-scored: Hale 3-3. Inherited runners-scored: Maples over the host Rays 1-0. Ryu, big bat flip, and the Rockies
WP: Walker, M.Castro. Umpires: Home, Umpires: Home, Brennan Miller; First, Umpires: Home, Ryan Additon; First, 3-2. HBP: Adam (Robertson), Maples who finished third in the AL overcame two solo HRs by
Doug Eddings; First, Dave Rackley; Jordan Baker; Second, Mark Carlson; Adam Hamari; Second, Kerwin Danley; (Shaw). Umpires: Home, Mark
Second, Marvin Hudson; Third, Edwin Third, Chris Segal. T: 3:32. A: 9,285 Third, CB Bucknor. T: 3:16. A: 20,244 Ripperger; First, Tom Hallion; Second,
Cy Young voting last season Bryce Harper to beat the
Moscoso. T: 2:42. A: 7,784(41,922). (40,615). (50,445). Phil Cuzzi; Third, Cory Blaser. a year after finishing second Phillies 12-2. It was Story’s
in the NL voting while with third career slam. Sonny
AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS the Dodgers, gave up three Gray (3-1) allowed two runs
HOME RUNS SLUGGING Mercedes, CHW 29 HOME RUNS SLUGGING HITS hits and struck out five in 3 ⅔ and four hits in six innings.
Cruz, MIN 7 Trout, LAA .804 Mullins, BAL 28 Acuna Jr., ATL 7 Acuna Jr., ATL .821 Acuna Jr., ATL 26 innings, but exited with right All his wins this season have
Ohtani, LAA 7 Martinez, BOS .753 McMahon, COL 7 Winker, CIN .667 Frazier, PIT 26
Martinez, BOS 7 Cruz, MIN .672
Haniger, SEA
Verdugo, BOS
26
26 Castellanos, CIN 7 Molina, STL .661 Hosmer, SD 26
glute injury after giving up come at home. ... Logan
Buxton, MIN 6 Ohtani, LAA .662 France, SEA 25 Tatis Jr., SD 6 Turner, LAD .658 Turner, LAD 26 a single to Manuel Margot. Webb pitched three-hit ball
Trout, LAA
Olson, OAK
6
6
Mercedes, CHW
Olson, OAK
.657
.638
Gurriel, HOU 25 Naquin, CIN
Contreras, CHC
6
6
Castellanos, CIN .646
Bryant, CHC .632
Castellanos, CIN
Reynolds, PIT
24
24
Marcus Semien singled off over seven scoreless innings
Robert, CHW 25
Ramos, DET 6 Reyes, CLE .614 Guerrero Jr., TOR 24 Baez, CHC 6 McMahon, COL .597 Winker, CIN 24 Josh Fleming (1-2) to begin and had a two-run triple for
Devers, BOS 6 Brantley, HOU .594 Kiner-Falefa, TEX 24 Escobar, ARI 6 Naquin, CIN .596 Edman, STL 23 the fifth for the Jays’ first his first career extra-base
12 tied 5 Bogaerts, BOS .573 Solak, TEX 24 Hoskins, PHI 6 Chisholm Jr., MIA .586 Cronenworth, SD 22
Guerrero Jr., TOR .563 7 tied 5 Harper, PHI .578 11 tied 21 hit and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. hit as the host Giants edged
RBI ERA followed with a bunt single. the Marlins 4-3. Webb (1-1)
Martinez, BOS 21 OBP Duffy, KC 0.39 RBI OBP ERA
Seager, SEA 19 Trout, LAA .521 Means, BAL 1.50 Naquin, CIN 19 Nimmo, NYM .477 deGrom, NYM 0.31 Semien scored on Santiago matched his career-best
Eaton, CHW 18 Guerrero Jr., TOR .472 Cole, NYY 1.71 Turner, LAD 17 Harper, PHI .469 Burnes, MIL 0.37 Espinal’s single. with eight strikeouts and
Devers, BOS
Lowe, TEX
18
18
Mercedes, CHW
Gurriel, HOU
.461
.451
Boyd, DET
Glasnow, TB
1.82
2.05
Shaw, MIL
Baez, CHC
17
17
Acuna Jr., ATL
Turner, LAD
.468
.435
Musgrove, SD
Woodruff, MIL
1.04
1.55
„ Royals: Danny Duffy allowed three singles and
Olson, OAK 17 Martinez, BOS .446 Matz, TOR 2.31 Acuna Jr., ATL 16 Winker, CIN .435 Rogers, MIA 1.64 pitched five scoreless walked three. ... Tyler O’Neill
Lowrie, OAK
Abreu, CHW
17
17
Gallo, TEX
France, SEA
.444
.409
Gibson, TEX 2.31 Peralta, ARI
Moran, PIT
16
16
Realmuto, PHI
Muncy, LAD
.423
.422
Mahle, CIN
Scherzer, WAS
1.74
1.80
innings, and the visit- homered twice and Jack
Civale, CLE 2.42
Haniger, SEA 17 Canha, OAK .406 Pineda, MIN 2.42 Aguilar, MIA 15 Marte, MIA .414 Brubaker, PIT 2.02 ing Royals kept the Tigers Flaherty tossed seven sharp
Santana, KC 16 Mullins, BAL .404 Bieber, CLE 2.48 Seager, LAD 15 Soto, WAS .410 DeSclafani, SF 2.14 offense quiet again in a innings as the Cardinals beat
Grichuk, TOR 16 Bogaerts, BOS .402 6 tied 14 Carlson, STL .407 Gausman, SF 2.14
Ohtani, LAA 16 STRIKEOUTS Walker, NYM 2.14 4-0 victory. A day after the the visiting Reds 5-2. It was
Franco, BAL 16 RUNS SCORED Bieber, CLE 57 STOLEN BASES RUNS SCORED Royals prevailed 2-1 in a the seventh straight loss
Canha, OAK 23 Cole, NYY 50 Baez, CHC 5 Acuna Jr., ATL 21 STRIKEOUTS
STOLEN BASES Martinez, BOS 19 Glasnow, TB 46 Hampson, COL 5 Hoskins, PHI 16 deGrom, NYM 50 game that took 2 hours, 10 for the Reds. Jesse Winker
Laureano, OAK 8 France, SEA 17 Bundy, LAA 34 Turner, WAS 5 Bryant, CHC 15 Bauer, LAD 45 minutes,Duffy (3-1) allowed homered for the Reds and
Merrifield, KC 8 Haniger, SEA 17 Chisholm Jr., MIA 4 Hampson, COL 15 Burnes, MIL 40
Rosario, CLE 5 Verdugo, BOS 17
Berrios, MIN
Heaney, LAA
30
29 Edman, STL 4 Harper, PHI 15 Peralta, MIL 38
four hits while striking out extended his hitting streak
Semien, TOR 5 Wendle, TB 16 Luzardo, OAK 29 Grisham, SD 4 Marte, MIA 15 Darvish, SD 37 eight. He’s allowed one to 10 games, the longest
Benintendi, KC
Canha, OAK
4
4
Eaton, CHW
Hernandez, BOS
15
15
Means, BAL 29 Machado, SD
Myers, SD
4
4
Reynolds, PIT
Carlson, STL
15
14
Musgrove, SD
Gausman, SF
37
34
earned run in 23 innings active string in the majors.
Bassitt, OAK 27
Kiner-Falefa, TEX 4 Trout, LAA 15 Duffy, KC 27 Profar, SD 4 Castellanos, CIN 14 Woodruff, MIL 34 so far this season. The AL Flaherty (4-0) retired the
Moore, SEA 4 5 tied 14 Eovaldi, BOS 27 7 tied 3 Escobar, ARI 14 Scherzer, WAS 33 Central-leading Royals first 10 batters and allowed
Ramirez, CLE 4 Kopech, CHW 27 Turner, LAD 14 Alcantara, MIA 32
Robert, CHW 4 HITS Lynn, CHW 27 Lopez, MIA 32 have won four straight. just three hits in a 95-pitch
Straw, HOU 4 Bogaerts, BOS 30 Nola, PHI 32 They’ve allowed only three stint. He struck out six and
Martinez, BOS 30
runs through the first three didn’t walk a batter.
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SCOREBOARD

NBA NHL SOCCER GOLF

EAST GP W L OT PTS GF GA
EASTERN MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER PGA TOUR ZURICH CLASSIC
ATLANTIC W L PCT GB Pittsburgh 49 32 14 3 67 169 135 EASTERN W L T PTS GF GA OF NEW ORLEANS
Washington 48 31 13 4 66 170 144 4th of 4 rds; TPC Louisiana; Avondale,
Brooklyn 41 20 .672 — N.Y. Islanders 48 29 14 5 63 136 113 Montreal 1 0 1 4 6 4 La.; 7,425 yds; Par 72
Philadelphia 39 21 .650 1 ½ Boston 47 27 14 6 60 136 118 Atlanta 1 0 1 4 3 1 x-won on the first playoff hole
New York 34 27 .557 7 N.Y. Rangers 49 25 18 6 56 164 131 New England 1 0 1 4 3 2 x-Leishman/Smith 63-72-63-70—268 -20
Boston 32 29 .525 9 Philadelphia 48 22 19 7 51 136 171 New York City FC 1 1 0 3 6 2 Oosthuizen/Schwartzel63-71-63-71—268 -20
Toronto 25 35 .417 15 ½ New Jersey 48 14 27 7 35 121 170 Inter Miami CF 1 1 0 3 4 4 Uihlein/Werenski 65-69-68-67—269 -19
Buffalo 49 13 29 7 33 121 171 D.C. United 1 1 0 3 2 2 Burns/Horsche 63-73-65-69—270 -18
SOUTHEAST W L PCT GB CENTRAL GP W L OT PTS GF GA Nashville 0 0 2 2 4 4 Bradley/Steele 63-73-64-70—270 -18
Atlanta 34 27 .557 — Orlando City 0 0 2 2 1 1
Carolina 47 31 10 6 68 153 114 Mitchell/Snedeker 66-71-64-69—270 -18
Miami 32 29 .525 2 Columbus 0 0 1 1 0 0
Florida 49 31 13 5 67 158 133 Palmer/Rahm 65-71-65-70—271 -17
Charlotte 30 30 .500 3 ½ Philadelphia 0 1 1 1 1 2
Tampa Bay 48 32 14 2 66 160 125 Hatton/Willett 65-73-65-69—272 -16
Washington 27 33 .450 6 ½ Toronto FC 0 1 1 1 4 6
Nashville 49 26 21 2 54 133 138 Scheffler/Watson 64-69-66-73—272 -16
Orlando 18 42 .300 15 ½ Chicago 0 1 1 1 3 5
Dallas 47 20 15 12 52 135 121 Lewis/Pieters 67-70-63-72—272 -16
Cincinnati 0 1 1 1 2 7
Chicago 48 22 21 5 49 135 151 Hoffman/Watney 64-74-65-70—273 -15
CENTRAL W L PCT GB New York 0 2 0 0 3 5
Detroit 50 17 25 8 42 115 158 Duncan/Schenk 64-73-63-73—273 -15
WESTERN W L T PTS GF GA
Milwaukee 37 23 .617 — Columbus 50 15 25 10 40 121 170 Garnett/Stallings 62-75-64-72—273 -15
Indiana 29 31 .483 8 WEST GP W L OT PTS GF GA LA Galaxy 2 0 0 6 6 4 Cantlay/Schauffele 64-74-68-67—273 -15
Chicago 25 35 .417 12 Seattle 1 0 1 4 5 1 Rose/Stenson 65-68-70-70—273 -15
x-Vegas 47 34 11 2 70 160 103 Los Angeles FC 1 0 1 4 3 1 Ghim/Suh 65-73-63-72—273 -15
Cleveland 21 39 .350 16 x-Colorado 45 31 10 4 66 161 108
Detroit 18 43 .295 19 ½ Sporting KC 1 0 1 4 3 2 Gooch/Homa 66-71-67-70—274 -14
x-Minnesota 47 31 13 3 65 151 123 Vancouver 1 0 1 4 3 2 Redman/Ryder 66-71-66-71—274 -14
Arizona 48 21 22 5 47 128 150 San Jose 1 1 0 3 4 3 Champ/Finau 63-68-67-76—274 -14 D’backs starter Madison Bumgarner didn’t allow a hit in
WESTERN St. Louis 45 20 19 6 46 131 142
SOUTHWEST W L PCT GB San Jose 47 18 24 5 41 125 163
Real Salt Lake 1 0 0 3 2 1 Clark/van Rooyen 64-74-63-73—274 -14 the second game of a seven-inning doubleheader Sunday.
Houston 1 1 0 3 3 3 Kokrak/Perez 65-70-66-74—275 -13
Dallas 33 26 .559 — Los Angeles 45 17 22 6 40 120 136 Austin 1 1 0 3 3 3 Noren/Norlander 67-70-64-74—275 -13
It won’t be an official no-hitter. TODD KIRKLAND/GETTY
Memphis 31 28 .525 2 Anaheim 48 14 27 7 35 105 156 Portland 1 1 0 3 2 2 McDowell/Wallace 66-70-68-72—276 -12
NORTH GP W L OT PTS GF GA
San Antonio
New Orleans
30
26
29
34
.508
.433 7½
3
Toronto 48 30 13 5 65 159 130
FC Dallas
Colorado
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
3
3
Lee/Stanley 63-74-64-75—276 -12
Murray/Oppenheim 66-70-67-74—277 -11
DIAMONDBACKS 7-5, BRAVES 0-0

No hits for 7
Houston 15 46 .246 19 Winnipeg 47 27 17 3 57 148 129 Minnesota United 0 2 0 0 1 6 Hovland/Ventura 62-69-68-78—277 -11
Edmonton 45 27 16 2 56 144 125 Kirk/Todd 66-70-69-73—278 -10
NORTHWEST W L PCT GB Montreal 46 20 17 9 49 134 135 NOTE: Three points for victory, one Hagy/Kim 67-71-66-75—279 -9
x-Utah 44 16 .733 — Calgary 47 21 23 3 45 127 137 point for tie. Straka/Teater 68-70-65-78—281 -7
Denver 39 21 .650 5 Vancouver 41 19 19 3 41 113 130 Gligic/Whaley 67-71-68-75—281 -7
Ottawa 48 17 27 4 38 131 170 SATURDAY’S RESULTS Baker/Malnati 65-73-68-76—282 -6

no small thing
Portland 32 28 .533 12
Oklahoma City 20 40 .333 24 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point New York City FC 5, Cincinnati 0 Hearn/Sucher 67-71-68-77—283 -5
Minnesota 17 44 .279 27 ½ for overtime loss. The top four teams Montreal 2, Nashville 2 Chalmers/Percy 66-70-69-82—287 -1
in each division will qualify for play- Vancouver 2, Toronto FC 2
PACIFIC W L PCT GB offs under this season’s temporary San Jose 3, FC Dallas 1
realignment. Seattle 1, Los Angeles FC 1 LATE SATURDAY: LPGA LA OPEN
Phoenix 42 18 .700 — x-clinched playoff spot Real Salt Lake 2, Minnesota 1 4th of 4 rds; Wilshire Country Club; Los
L.A. Clippers 43 19 .694 — Angeles; 6,450 yds; Par 71
L.A. Lakers 35 25 .583 7
y-clinched division
z-clinched conference
Inter Miami 2, Philadelphia 1
New England 1, D.C. United 0 Brooke M. Henderson69-65-67-67—268 -16 By George Henry Other pitchers had come
Golden State
Sacramento
30
24
30
35
.500 12
.407 17 ½
Atlanta 3, Chicago 1 Jessica Korda 64-65-68-72—269 -15 Associated Press close since Commissioner
SUNDAY’S GAMES Austin FC 3, Colorado 1 Hannah Green 68-67-69-66—270 -14
x-clinched playoff spot Pittsburgh 1, Boston 0 Jin Young Ko 67-65-66-72—270 -14 Rob Manfred and MLB
SUNDAY’S RESULTS
N.Y. Rangers 6, Buffalo 3 SUNDAY’S MATCH So Yeon Ryu 68-67-69-68—272 -12 ATLANTA — Madison switched to seven-inning
Angela Stanford 68-66-68-70—272 -12
Charlotte 125, Boston 104
Philadelphia 4, New Jersey 3(SO)
Tampa Bay 4, Columbus 2(OT)
LA Galazy 3, New York 2
Jeongeun Lee 68-69-70-66—273 -11
Bumgarner definitely had doubleheaders last year
Brooklyn 128, Phoenix 119
FRIDAY’S RESULT Morgan Pressel 68-71-66-69—274 -10 no-hit stuff, even if the during the coronavirus
Memphis 120, Portland 113
Washington 119, Cleveland 110
MONDAY’S GAMES Orlando City 1, Sporting KC 1 Tiffany Chan
Mel Reid
65-70-70-69—274 -10
70-67-73-66—276 -8
Major League Baseball pandemic.
Montreal at Calgary, 5:30p.m.
Atlanta 111, Milwaukee 104
Colorado at St. Louis, 6p.m. NWSL CHALLENGE CUP Nelly Korda 66-73-70-67—276 -8 record book said he didn’t. “It feels good. I just want
Indiana 131, Orlando 112
Sacramento at Golden State, late
Vancouver at Ottawa, 6p.m. EAST W D L GF GA PTS Lauren Stephenson 71-69-69-68—277 -7 Bumgarner threw a to say two things before
Carolina at Dallas, 6:30p.m. Dana Finkelstein 66-70-73-68—277 -7
Florida at Nashville, 7p.m.
Gotham FC 2 0 0 5 3 6 Ally Ewing 67-69-72-69—277 -7 seven-inning no-hit- I go celebrate with the
MONDAY’S GAMES Orlando 1 1 1 3 2 4 Esther Lee 69-71-72-66—278 -6 ter, an achievement that guys,” Bumgarner said on
Atlanta at Detroit, 6p.m. Edmonton at Winnipeg, 8p.m. North Carolina 1 0 1 6 6 3 Inbee Park 68-68-72-70—278 -6
L.A. Lakers at Orlando, 6p.m. Anaheim at Los Angeles, 9p.m.
Arizona at San Jose, 9:30p.m.
Washington 1 0 2 3 4 3 Gerina Piller 71-68-72-68—279 -5
won’t officially count but a TV interview after the
Oklahoma City at Philadelphia, 6p.m.
San Antonio at Washington, 6p.m.
Louisville
WEST
0
W
1
D
1 2 3 1
L GF GA PTS
Christina Kim 69-69-72-69—279 -5 completed a dominant day game. “I want to thank
Cleveland at Toronto, 6:30p.m. TUESDAY’S GAMES
Portland 3 0 0 5 1 9
Ryann O’Toole 69-70-70-70—279 -5
Moriya Jutanugarn65-72-72-70—279 -5
of Diamondbacks pitch- these shadows in Atlanta.
Boston at Pittsburgh, 6p.m.
Phoenix at New York, 6:30p.m.
Buffalo at N.Y. Rangers, 6p.m. Houston 0 2 0 0 0 2 Sei Young Kim 67-66-76-70—279 -5 ing for a 7-0 win over the They helped me out a good
Chicago at Miami, 7p.m.
L.A. Clippers at New Orleans, 7p.m. Detroit at Columbus, 6p.m. Chicago 0 2 1 1 2 2 Gabriela Ruffels 70-67-71-71—279 -5 Braves and a doubleheader bit. That was awesome.
N.Y. Islanders at Washington, 6p.m. Kansas City 0 1 1 2 3 1 Ariya Jutanugarn 71-71-69-69—280 -4
Utah at Minnesota, 7p.m.
Philadelphia at New Jersey, 6p.m. OL Reign 0 1 1 0 2 1 Carlota Ciganda 66-72-71-71—280 -4 sweep Sunday. And I want to thank Rob
Memphis at Denver, 8p.m.
Dallas at Sacramento, 9p.m. Florida at Nashville, 7p.m. Ashleigh Buhai 71-69-68-72—280 -4 Could he have kept the Manfred for making these
MONDAY’S MATCHES P. Anannarukarn 71-68-69-72—280 -4
Tampa Bay at Chicago, 7p.m.
Carolina at Dallas, 7:30p.m. North Carolina at Louisville, 5 p.m. Shanshan Feng 69-72-73-67—281 -3
magic going for a nine-in- seven-inning games.”
TUESDAY’S GAMES ning game? There have already been
Houston at Kansas City, 7:30 p.m. Sarah Burnham 70-71-71-69—281 -3
Milwaukee at Charlotte, 6p.m.
Oklahoma City at Boston, 6p.m. WEDNESDAY’S GAMES
TUESDAY’S MATCHES
N. Koerstz Madsen 67-72-71-71—281 -3
Jennifer Kupcho 68-70-71-72—281 -3
“I don’t know. There’s two official no-hitters this
Vancouver at Ottawa, 4:30p.m.
Portland at Indiana, 6p.m.
Brooklyn at Toronto, 6:30p.m. St. Louis at Minnesota, 6p.m. Gotham FC at Washington, 6 p.m. Xiyu Lin 68-72-67-74—281 -3 too many variables,” season.
Minnesota at Houston, 8p.m. Toronto at Montreal, 7p.m. Chicago at OL Reign, 9 p.m. Celine Boutier 69-73-73-67—282 -2 Bumgarner said. “If it Joe Musgrove pitched
Edmonton at Winnipeg, 8p.m. A Lim Kim 67-71-76-68—282 -2
Dallas at Golden State, 8:30p.m.
Colorado at Vegas, 8:30p.m. Angel Yin 70-69-74-69—282 -2 worked for seven, it’s hard the first no-no in the
WEDNESDAY’S GAMES Anaheim at Los Angeles, 9p.m. ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Minjee Lee 70-73-69-70—282 -3 to imagine it not working history of the Padres when
CLUB GP W D L GF GA PTS Wichanee Meechai 71-66-73-72—282 -2
Atlanta at Philadelphia, 6p.m. Arizona at San Jose, 9:30p.m.
Brittany Altomare 72-69-68-73—282 -2
for two more.” he topped the Rangers on
Orlando at Cleveland, 6p.m. Man City 33 24 5 4 69 24 77
Charlotte at Boston, 6:30p.m. SATURDAY’S RESULTS Man United 33 19 10 4 64 35 67 Austin Ernst 66-70-72-74—282 -2 After Zac Gallen tossed April 9. Carlos Rodón of
Chicago at New York, 6:30p.m. Pittsburgh 4, New Jersey 2 Leicester 32 18 5 9 58 37 59 Alison Lee
Aditi Ashok
67-71-79-66—283 -1
70-71-69-73—283 -1
a one-hitter to win the the White Sox no-hit the
L.A. Lakers at Washington, 6:30p.m. St. Louis 5, Colorado 3 Chelsea 33 16 10 7 51 31 58
San Antonio at Miami, 7p.m. Washington 6, N.Y. Islanders 3 West Ham 33 16 7 10 53 43 55 Azahara Munoz 69-68-73-73—283 -1 opener 5-0, Bumgarner did Indians on April 14.
New Orleans at Denver, 8p.m. Dallas 2, Detroit 1, OT Liverpool 33 15 9 9 55 39 54 Wei-Ling Hsu 72-72-72-68—284 E even better. The Braves’ only hit
Toronto 4, Winnipeg 1 Marina Alex 68-73-74-69—284 E
Portland at Memphis, 8p.m.
L.A. Clippers at Phoenix, 9p.m. Florida 4, Carolina 3, OT
Tottenham
Everton
33
32
15 8
15 7
10
10
56
44
38
40
53
52 Giulia Molinaro 70-70-75-69—284 E Bumgarner struck out during the afternoon was
Utah at Sacramento, 9p.m. Calgary 5, Montreal 2 Leeds 33 14 5 14 50 50 47 Ssu-Chia Cheng 72-70-72-70—284 E seven and the only Braves by reigning NL MVP Fred-
Anna Nordqvist 71-70-73-70—284 E
SATURDAY’S RESULTS
Vegas 5, Anaheim 1
Minnesota 6, San Jose 3
Arsenal 33 13 7 13 44 37 46
Lexi Thompson 70-70-74-70—284 E
batter who reached base die Freeman, who lined a
Aston Villa 32 13 6 13 46 37 45
New York 120, Toronto 103 Arizona 4, Los Angeles 0 Wolverhampton 33 11 8 14 32 45 41 Amy Yang 71-73-69-71—284 E against him came on short- clean single to right-cen-
Milwaukee 132, Philadelphia 94 Vancouver 4, Ottawa 2 Crystal Palace 31 10 8 13 33 52 38 Haeji Kang 68-73-71-72—284 E
Pornanong Phatlum 69-75-72-69—285 +1
stop Nick Ahmed’s throw- ter field off Gallen with
Indiana 115, Detroit 109 Burnley 33 9 9 15 30 45 36
Miami 106, Chicago 101 Southampton 32 10 6 16 40 58 36 Yealimi Noh 68-73-74-70—285 +1 ing error in the second one out in the sixth of the
San Antonio 110, New Orleans 108 NHL LEADERS Newcastle 33 9 9 15 36 54 36 Megan Khang 71-70-73-71—285 +1 inning. opener.
Dallas 108, L.A. Lakers 93 Name, Team GP Goals Maria Fassi 68-71-73-73—285 +1
Minnesota 101, Utah 96 Connor McDavid, EDM 45 52
Brighton
Fulham
33
33
7 13
5 12
13
16
33
25
39
43
34
27 Lindy Duncan 73-70-76-67—286 +2 Bumgarner casually Bumgarner and Gallen,
Denver 129, Houston 116 Patrick Kane, CHI 48 43
West Brom 33 5 10 18 30 64 25 Su Oh 66-76-74-70—286 +2 shook hands with catcher however, are officially
Leon Draisaitl, EDM 45 42 Jennifer Song 76-66-72-72—286 +2
NBA INDIVIDUAL LEADERS Mitchell Marner, TOR 48 42
Sheffield United 33 5 2 26 18 56 17
Mi Hyang Lee 72-69-73-72—286 +2
Carson Kelly after Marcell credited with shutouts.
REBOUNDS G OFF DEF TOT AVG Nathan MacKinnon, COL 41 41
SUNDAY’S MATCHES Mina Harigae 73-69-70-74—286 +2 Ozuna lined out to end This made the Diamond-
Capela, ATL 52 253 511 764 14.69 Adam Fox, NYR 47 38
Gobert, UTA 59 202 602 804 13.63 Artemi Panarin, NYR 37 38
Wolverhampton 0, Burnley 4 Brittany Lang
Lizette Salas
72-72-72-71—287 +3
72-70-74-71—287 +3
it. Then the rest of the backs the first team to
Leeds 0, Man United 0
Valanciunas, MEM 50 209 419 628 12.56 Mark Scheifele, WIN 47 36
Aston Villa 2, West Brom 2 Emma Talley 74-69-72-72—287 +3 Diamondbacks joined in throw a pair of complete-
Vucevic, ORL 44 87 430 517 11.75
Sabonis, IND 53 134 481 615 11.6
Jonathan Huberdeau, FLA 49
Sidney Crosby, PIT 47
36
35
Sophia Popov 67-77-70-73—287 +3 and the celebration livened game shutouts in a double-
Charley Hull 70-72-71-74—287 +3
Kanter, POR 59 247 433 680 11.53 Mark Stone, VEG 46 35
MONDAY’S MATCH
Leicester vs. Crystal Palace, 2p.m. Jodi Ewart Shadoff 68-75-69-75—287 +3 up around the mound. header since the Red Sox’s
Anttknmpo, MIL 50 86 480 566 11.32 Auston Matthews, TOR 44 34 Gaby Lopez 69-74-77-68—288 +4 “I like to keep it pretty Reggie Cleveland and Don
Westbrook, WAS 52 86 492 578 11.12 Nicklas Backstrom, WAS 48 34 Sarah Kemp 69-72-76-71—288 +4
Jokic, DEN 60 175 478 653 10.88
CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE low-key,” the stoic lefty Aase against the Blue Jays
Anze Kopitar, LA 45 34 TUESDAY’S QUARTERFINALS Jennifer Chang 70-74-71-73—288 +4
Ayton, PHO 59 193 436 629 10.66 Victor Hedman, TB 47 34 Atlanta (U.S.) vs. Pernilla Lindberg 73-68-72-75—288 +4 said. “They definitely on Sept. 5, 1977 in Toronto.
Randle, NY 60 76 554 630 10.5 Shea Theodore, VEG 44 33
Plumlee, DET 54 141 365 506 9.37 Kris Letang, PIT 47 32
Philadelphia (U.S.), 7p.m. Lindsey Weaver 69-73-69-77—288 +4
Sarah Jane Smith 71-70-70-77—288 +4
didn’t, which that’s fine The 2014 World Series
Toronto (Candada) vs.
Adebayo, MIA 54 122 371 493 9.13 John Carlson, WAS 48 32 Cruz Azul (Mexico), 9p.m. Marissa Steen 71-73-75-70—289 +5 and I appreciate that, too. MVP with the Giants, the
Adams, NO 56 212 293 505 9.02
Holmes, SAC 50 128 319 447 8.94
Tyson Barrie, EDM
Brad Marchand, BOS
45
44
32
32
WEDNESDAY’S QUARTERFINALS In Kyung Kim 70-74-75-70—289 +5 It’s pretty special for all of 31-year-old Bumgarner
Montreal (Canada) vs. Katherine Kirk 74-69-77-70—290 +6
Howard, PHI 58 155 331 486 8.38 Dougie Hamilton, CAR 47 31 Columbus (U.S.), 7p.m. Georgia Hall 74-66-71-79—290 +6 us and like I said, I’m just (2-2) retired the last 17
Thompson, BOS 45 138 229 367 8.16 Mikko Rantanen, COL 43 26 Muni He 67-71-70-82—290 +6 blessed and fortunate to be batters after Ozzie Albies
America (Mexico) vs.
Poeltl, SA 58 191 275 466 8.03 Brad Marchand, BOS 44 25 Dani Holmqvist 71-73-73-76—293 +9
Hart, NO 47 53 324 377 8.02 Connor McDavid, EDM 45 25
Portland (U.S.), 9p.m.
Albane Valenzuela 72-69-76-76—293 +9
able to do that and be a part reached on Ahmed’s error
Doncic, DAL 54 43 388 431 7.98 Alex Ovechkin, WAS 43 24 Jaye Marie Green 72-71-77-75—295 +11 of this.” leading off the second.
Collins, ATL 51 107 286 393 7.71 Tyler Toffoli, MON 43 24
Simmons, PHI 48 80 287 367 7.65 Alex DeBrincat, CHI 44 23 TENNIS Bumgarner’s gem won’t Making his 300th career
Porter, DEN 50 84 295 379 7.58 Aleksander Barkov, FLA 43 22 EUROPEAN TOUR GRAN CANARIA go into the official list of start, Bumgarner has won
Jordan, BKN 52 102 284 386 7.42 WTA ISTANBUL CUP LOPESAN OPEN PAR SCORES
Bazley, OKC 44 33 292 325 7.39
Kyle Connor, WIN
Leon Draisaitl, EDM
47
45
22
22 Sunday at Garanti Koza ArenaIstanbul; 4th of 4 rds at Meloneras Golf Club,Las
no-hitters. MLB’s eight- his last two starts with a
Tatum, BOS 54 37 361 398 7.37 Kirill Kaprizov, MIN 47 22 Purse: $235,238; Red clay Palmas, Spain; Purse: $1.2 million man committee on statis- 0.75 ERA. He posted an
Zubac, LAC 62 169 285 454 7.32 Max Pacioretty, VEG 45 22 Yardage: 6,503; Par: 70 tical accuracy decided in 11.19 ERA in his first three
Nikolaj Ehlers, WIN 47 21 WOMEN’S SINGLES, CHAMPIONSHIP 255 (-25)
ASSISTS G AST AVG Sebastian Aho, CAR 47 20 Sorana Cirstea def. Garrick Higgo 65-64-63-63 1991 that a no-hitter was starts this season.
Westbrook, WAS 52 568 10.9 Pavel Buchnevich, NYR 47 20 Elise Mertens (1), 6-1, 7-6(3). 258 (-22) a game of nine or more In the first game, Gallen
Young, ATL 54 516 9.6 Sidney Crosby, PIT 47 20 Maximilian Kieffer 63-65-68-62
Doncic, DAL 54 473 8.8 Ryan O’Reilly, STL 45 20 WOMEN’S DOUBLES, CHAMPIONSHIP 259 (-21) innings that ended with (1-0) struck out six, walked
Paul, PHO 58 508 8.8 Brayden Point, TB 47 20 Veronika Kudermetova and Jeff Winther 67-66-62-64 no hits. two and hit a batter.
Green, GS 52 453 8.7 Sam Reinhart, BUF 46 20 Elise Mertens (1) def. 261 (-19)
Jokic, DEN 60 524 8.7 Bryan Rust, PIT 48 20 Makoto Ninomiya and Sam Horsfield 69-61-65-66
Lillard, POR 54 408 7.6 Power-Play Goals, Short-Handed Goals Nao Hibino (2), 6-1, 6-1. 262 (-18)
Morant, MEM 50 371 7.4 Chris Kreider, NYR 48 11 Thorbjorn Olesen 65-61-70-66
Butler, MIA 44 322 7.3 WTA PORSCHE TENNIS Connor Syme 71-61-62-68
DeRozan, SA 50 358 7.2
Joe Pavelski, DAL
Kyle Connor, WIN
47 11
47 10
GRAND PRIX 263 (-17) IN BRIEF
Sunday at Porsche ArenaStuttgart,

Smith, Leishman win

Fox, SAC 58 417 7.2 Leon Draisaitl, EDM 45 10 Joachim B. Hansen 63-67-66-67
Lowry, TOR 42 304 7.2 Germany; Purse: 456,073; Red clay 264 (-16)
Auston Matthews, TOR 44 10
Simmons, PHI 48 341 7.1 T.J. Oshie, WAS 47 10 Marcel Schneider 68-66-65-65
McConnell, IND 56 370 6.6 WOMEN’S SINGLES, CHAMPIONSHIP Richard Bland 64-66-68-66
Steven Stamkos, TB 38 10

PGA Tour team event

Rubio, MIN 57 376 6.6 Ashleigh Barty (1) def. Jack Senior 66-65-67-66
through Saturday
Irving, BKN 44 279 6.3 Aryna Sabalenka (5), 3-6, 6-0, 6-3. Darius Van Driel 66-65-67-66
VanVleet, TOR 47 292 6.2 Joost Luiten 63-68-66-67
Antetokounmpo, MIL 50 302 6.0 WOMEN’S DOUBLES, CHAMPIONSHIP Matthias Schwab 65-63-66-70
Conley, UTA 48 286 6.0 AUTO RACING Ashleigh Barty and Jennifer Brady def. Matthieu Pavon 66-64-64-70
Garland, CLE 49 295 6.0 Bethanie Mattek-Sands and 265 (-15)
Desirae Krawczyk (1), 6-4, 5-7, 10-5.
Randle, NY 60 360 6.0 NASCAR CUP SERIES GEICO 500 Antoine Rozner 66-68-67-64 News services College football: Central
Sabonis, IND 53 319 6.0 Sunday’s race; at Talladega Super- Adrian Meronk 67-68-66-64
speedway; Talladega, Ala. Lap length:
ATP WORLD TOUR BARCELONA Justin Harding 65-67-65-68 Michigan QB John Keller
OPEN BANC SABADELL
STEALS G STL AVG 2.66miles Sunday at Real Club de Tenis Barce- Nicolai Hojgaard 67-64-66-68 Cameron Smith and was among two shoot-
Butler, MIA 44 94 2.14 (Start position in parentheses) Jamie Donaldson 65-67-64-69
Holiday, MIL 47 84 1.79 1. (10) Brad Keselowski,
lona; Barcelona, Spain; Purse:
Guido Migliozzi 70-64-62-69
Marc Leishman outlasted ing victims at an off-cam-
1,565,480; Red clay
McConnell, IND 56 99 1.77 Ford, 191laps, 49points. 266 (-14) Louis Oosthuizen and pus party Saturday night.
VanVleet, TOR 47 80 1.7 2. (4) William Byron, Chevrolet, 191, 41. MEN’S SINGLES, CHAMPIONSHIP Victor Dubuisson 68-62-71-65 Charl Schwartzel to win Keller, who sat out last
Leonard, LAC 46 77 1.67 3. (23) Michael McDowell, Ford, 191, 45. Rafael Nadal (1) def. Maverick Antcliff 66-63-71-66
Green, GS 52 85 1.63 4. (16) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 191, 35. Stefanos Tsitsipas (2), 6-4, 6-7 (6), 7-5. Jonathan Caldwell 68-65-67-66 the Zurich Classic in a season as a transfer, was in
Simmons, PHI 48 77 1.6 5. (13) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford, 191, 42. Niall Kearney 66-68-64-68266 playoff that capped a tight serious condition.
Murray, SA 56 88 1.57 6. (38) Kaz Grala, Chevrolet, 191, 31. Alejandro Del Rey 64-68-65-69
Thybulle, PHI 57 88 1.54 7. (20) Tyler Reddick, Chevrolet, 191, 30.
MEN’S DOUBLES, CHAMPIONSHIP
Clement Sordet 65-68-64-69 and tense final round
Robert Farah and
Covington, POR 57 86 1.51 8. (11) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 191, 29. Juan Sebastian Cabal (1) def. Alexander Bjork 67-66-64-69 Sunday near New Orleans. NBA: Kevin Durant scored
Fox, SAC 58 87 1.5 9. (7) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 191, 42. Ashun Wu 67-68-61-70
Paul, PHO 58 84 1.45 10. (27) Cole Custer, Ford, 191, 27.
Horia Tecau and
267 (-13)
Smith and Leishman 33 points in his latest
Kevin Krawietz, 6-4, 6-2.
Conley, UTA 48 67 1.4 11. (25) Chase Briscoe, Ford, 191, 26. (seedings in parentheses) Garrick Porteous 68-67-67-65 won with a par on their return from injury, Kyrie
Rubio, MIN 57 80 1.4 12. (30) Anthony Alfredo, Ford, 191, 25. Robin Roussel 63-65-72-67 second trip up the par-5 Irving had 34 and the
Ball, NO 46 64 1.39 13. (28) Ryan Newman, Ford, 191, 24. Pep Angles 71-64-65-67
Jokic, DEN 60 83 1.38 14. (29) Ryan Preece, Chevrolet, 191, 29. NFL DRAFT Calum Hill 68-66-66-67 18th after Oosthuizen Nets beat the visiting Suns
Irving, BKN 44 60 1.36 15. (14) Aric Almirola, Ford, 191, 22. April 29-May 1, in Cleveland. Richie Ramsay 68-65-66-68 pushed his tee shot into 128-119. Durant missed
Murray, DEN 48 64 1.33 16. (18) Ross Chastain, ROUND 1, Thursday Lars Van Meijel 66-68-66-68
Green, PHI 59 78 1.32 Chevrolet, 191, 21. 1. Jacksonville Jaguars Aaron Cockerill 71-62-65-69 the water and just missed three games after bruis-
Westbrook, WAS 52 68 1.31 17. (6) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 191, 23. 2. New York Jets Benjamin Poke 66-66-66-69 an 11-foot putt for par. ing his left thigh early in a
Haliburton, SAC 53 69 1.3 18. (9) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 191, 26. 3. San Francisco 49ers (from Mia via Hou) Will Besseling 64-63-69-71
Tate, HOU 61 78 1.28 19. (24) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 191, 28. 4. Atlanta Falcons 268 (-12)
The Australians forced loss to Heat on April 18 and
Rozier, CHA 56 71 1.27 20. (39) Harrison Burton, Toyota, 191, 0. 5. Cincinnati Bengals Alejandro Canizares 70-65-67-66 the playoff by shoot- has been limited to just 25
Anderson, MEM 56 70 1.25 21. (21) Chris Buescher, Ford, 191, 25. 6. Miami Dolphins (from Philadelphia) Ivan Cantero Guitierrez 67-67-67-67 ing a 2-under 70 in alter- games this season. He
Holiday, IND 59 73 1.24 22. (26) Corey Lajoie, Chevrolet, 191, 15. 7. Detroit Lions Julien Guerrier 68-67-66-67
Huerter, ATL 60 74 1.23 23. (19) Daniel Suarez, 8. Carolina Panthers Nino Bertasio 69-63-68-68 nate-shot play at the PGA played 28 minutes off the
George, LAC 46 56 1.22 Chevrolet, 191, 14. 9. Denver Broncos Scott Jamieson 64-68-68-68 Tour’s lone regular-season bench in his return, shoot-
Brown, BOS 53 64 1.21 24. (8) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 191, 21. 10. Dallas Cowboys Dean Burmester 65-67-65-71
Beal, WAS 50 60 1.2 25. (31) BJ McLeod, Ford, 191, 0. 11. New York Giants Rhys Enoch 65-62-69-72 team event. Oosthuizen ing 12-for-21.
Garland, CLE 49 59 1.2 26. (37) JJ Yeley, Chevrolet, 191, 0. 12. Philadelphia Eagles (from Mia via SF) 269 (-11) and Schwartzel began the
27. (22) Erik Jones, 13. Los Angeles Chargers Marcus Armitage 69-64-72-64
BLOCKS G BLK AVG Chevrolet, accident, 190, 10. 14. Minnesota Vikings Gregory Havret 65-70-67-67
round with a one-stroke NHL: Mika Zibanejad
Turner, IND 47 159 3.38 28. (33) Cody Ware, Chevrolet, 190, 0. 15. New England Patriots Sihwan Kim 67-65-69-68 lead, but shot a 71 with scored three times for his
Gobert, UTA 59 165 2.8 29. (40) Timmy Hill, Ford, 190, 0. 16. Arizona Cardinals Zander Lombard 66-65-70-68 three pars and two bogeys. third hat trick in 22 games
Capela, ATL 52 114 2.19 30. (34) Justin Haley, Chevrolet, 190, 0. 17. Las Vegas Raiders Sebastian Heisele 69-66-66-68
Noel, NY 54 118 2.19 31. (3) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 189, 6. 18. Miami Dolphins Ben Evans 64-67-68-70 It’s Smith’s third career and seventh of his career to
Boucher, TOR 59 110 1.86 32. (1) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 188, 12. 19. Washington Football Team Romain Langasque 67-63-68-71 victory — second at the help lift the host Rangers
Poeltl, SA 58 104 1.79 33. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, 20. Chicago Bears 270 (-10)
Williams, BOS 47 84 1.79 Chevrolet, 186, 7. 21. Indianapolis Colts Justin Walters 69-65-71-65 team event. It was Leish- past the Sabres 6-3. It was
Holmes, SAC 50 82 1.64 34. (35) Joey Gase, Ford, 186, 0. 22. Tennessee Titans Paul Waring 68-65-71-66 man’s sixth career title. the Rangers’ seventh win
Lopez, MIL 58 81 1.4 35. (15) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 185, 2. 23. New York Jets (from Seattle) Oliver Wilson 65-69-69-67
Washington, CHA 52 68 1.31 36. (36) Josh Bilicki, Ford, 180, 1. 24. Pittsburgh Steelers John Catlin 67-67-67-69
in their last 10 games.
Antetokounmpo, MIL 50 63 1.26 37. (32) Quin Houff, 25. Jacksonville Jaguars (from LA Rams) 271 (-9) Auto racing: Andretti
Covington, POR 57 70 1.23 Chevrolet, accident, 168, 1. 26. Cleveland Browns Richard Mansell 68-66-72-65 Autosport driver Colton Tennis: Top -ranked
Jordan, BKN 52 63 1.21 38. (5) Alex Bowman, 27. Baltimore Ravens James Morrison 69-66-70-66
Gasol, LAL 45 54 1.2 Chevrolet, garage, 123, 5. 28. New Orleans Saints Sean Crocker 67-68-69-67 Herta won the IndyCar Ash Barty beat Aryna
Ayton, PHO 59 67 1.14 39. (2) Joey Logano, 29. Green Bay Packers Fabrizio Zanotti 68-67-67-69 race on the downtown Sabalenka 3-6, 6-0, 6-3 to
Stewart, DET 59 65 1.1 Ford, accident, 59, 1. 30. Buffalo Bills Jordan Smith 68-65-68-70
Adebayo, MIA 54 59 1.09 40. (12) Kyle Larson, 31. Baltimore (from KC) Rafa Cabrera Bello 65-67-67-72 streets of St. Petersburg, win the Porsche Grand
Biyombo, CHA 53 57 1.08 Chevrolet, engine, 3, 1. 32. Tampa Bay Buccaneers 272 (-8) Fla. It was the fourth Prix in Stuttgart, German,
Len, WAS 44 47 1.07 Berry Henson 70-63-72-67
Grant, DET 52 55 1.06 Race Statistics were not immediately Rounds 2-3 Friday, April 30 Adri Arnaus 69-66-69-68
career series victory for her first title on clay since
through Saturday available. Rounds 4-7 Saturday, May 1 Mike Lorenzo-Vera 65-68-70-69 Huerta. the 2019 French Open.
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NATIONAL SPORTS REPORT

SPORTS SHORTS

Hall of Famer Mulkey to coach LSU
Hall of Fame coach Kim Mulkey
has left Baylor to return home and
take over the LSU women’s basket-
ball team. LSU announced the move
Sunday. Mulkey, who won three
national championships at Baylor, is
a native of Tickfaw, Louisiana. She
helped Baylor win the 2019 NCAA
championship, and the Bears lost in the regional finals
to UConn last month. Mulkey replaces Nikki Fargas, who
stepped down earlier this week. In 21 years as the head
coach at Baylor, Mulkey led the Lady Bears to four Final
Fours, winning three national titles. Her teams reached
the Elite Eight six times and the Sweet 16 on five other
occasions. A member of the 2020 Naismith Memorial
Basketball Hall of Fame Class, Mulkey, 58, built Baylor
into a national power, as they became just the third
program in NCAA history to have at least three national
titles, joining UConn and Tennessee. Before coming to
Baylor, Mulkey spent 19 years as a player or coach at Loui-
siana Tech. She helped the Lady Techsters win the first
NCAA championship in 1982.
Nadal secures 12th Barcelona title
Knowing he’s still far from his best,
Rafael Nadal just kept grinding it out.
He found a way Sunday to overcome
lost opportunities in the Barcelona
Open final and escape defeat while
facing a red-hot opponent. Nadal won
his first title of the year, squandering a
couple of match points and then saving
one on his way to beating Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-7 (6),
7-5. Nadal secured his record 12th title at the clay-court
event by converting on his third match point to cap a satis-
fying victory. It had been a lackluster start to the season for
the third-ranked Nadal after he didn’t play much last year
amid the pandemic. The match lasted 3 hours, 38 minutes,
making it the longest best-of-three set ATP final since
stats started being tracked in 1991. It was also the longest
best-of-three ATP match so far this year. It was Nadal’s
seventh title in the last 10 editions of the Barcelona Open,
and 12th in 16 editions. The tournament wasn’t played last
year because of the pandemic. Nadal called it “probably the
toughest final” he had to play in Barcelona. The 34-year-
old Nadal has won all 12 finals he reached in Barcelona.
Man City wins another League Cup
A rare goal from Aymeric Laporte
produced a familiar outcome:
Manchester City winning the League
Cup. For the fourth successive season,
Pep Guardiola’s side triumphed in the
final of English football’s second-tier
competition Sunday with a 1-0 victory
over Tottenham in London. With
Tottenham proving hard to find a way past despite City’s
domination, it took the center back Laporte, above, head-
ing in his second goal of the season in the 82nd minute
from Kevin De Bruyne’s free kick. What was less famil-
iar for the finalists was officially being allowed to play in
front of supporters from both teams. That hasn’t happened
since March 2020, but pandemic restrictions were eased to
allow a crowd of 7,773 inside Wembley to see the first piece
of silverware of the season handed out. Defending the title
completed the first part of a potential treble for Guardio-
la’s runaway Premier League leaders with a Champions
League semifinal match against Paris Saint-Germain on
Wednesday. “We have to keep this rhythm, this way to
win more titles,” Laporte said. —AP

NASCAR

Keselowski
times it right
in overtime
By John Zenora
Associated Press

TALLADEGA, Ala. — Brad Keselowski

made exactly the right final move this
time, winning again at Talladega Super-
speedway and demonstrating a painful
lesson well learned.
Keselowski’s overtime victory made
him the ninth driver to win through
10 NASCAR Cup races this season and
avenged an embarrassing Team Penske
gaffe in the season-opening Daytona 500.
Keselowski and teammate Joey
Logano triggered a last-lap crash as
Keselowski tried to pass Logano for the
victory.
“Daytona, that’s a big one. Oh man, it
stings still,” Keselowski said. “But this
is a good one. We’ll take it. Beggars can’t
be choosers. I certainly learned some
lessons from that race and I tried to apply
them, and it all came together there at
the end.
“Michael McDowell gave me a good
push like he did at Daytona, and I was a
little bit smarter with how I handled it.”
Keselowski led just one lap, the last one,
in a race that featured 35 lead changes
among 27 drivers.
“The whole race I had a couple oppor-
tunities to take the lead, but I just kept
thinking,
‘Man, keep your car in one piece,’ ”
Keselowski said.
Logano was involved in an airborne
wreck and called on NASCAR to change
the dangerous racing conditions at
Daytona and Talladega.
“On one hand, I am mad about being
in the crash and on the other, I am happy
to be alive,” Logano said. “On another
hand, I am wondering when we are going
to stop because this is dangerous doing
what we are doing. I got a roll bar in my
Offensive lineman Rashawn Slater participates in Northwestern’s pro day for NFL scouts last month. CHARLES REX ARBOGAST/AP head. That is not OK.
“I am one hit away from the same situ-
ation Ryan Newman just went through.
NFL DRAFT I just don’t feel like that is acceptable.”
Newman escaped serious injury racing
for the win on the final lap of the 2020

Under uncertain conditions Daytona 500.

Pandemic leaves GMs guessing
more than usual on prospects
By Arnie Stapleton
Associated Press
About the only certainty in the confound-
ing 2021 NFL draft is Trevor Lawrence going
to the Jaguars with the first overall pick.
Beyond that, it’s really anybody’s guess
following the most unorthodox of run-ups
to the league’s annual parade of prospects.
COVID-19 opt-outs and shortened or
shelved seasons in the fall were followed
by the combine cancellation and the elim-
ination of in-person interviews this spring
because of the pandemic.
Teams had to rely on Zoom calls to get to
know players.
“I’ve said this before: what we’re doing is
educated guessing,” Giants GM Dave Gettle-
man said. “So, this makes us a little more
uneducated, not having this personal touch
with these players.”
Although all 32 teams received the videos
from all 103 pro days, the lack of uniform,
electronic timing resulted in suspect 40-yard
dashes on fast surfaces clocked by hand.
Only 150 players went to Indy this month
for physicals, leaving spotty medical reports
on many of the athletes heading into the
259-pick draft.
All of this should result in a wild week-
end of buildup for the 2021 season, when
the NFL hopes sellouts replace opt-outs and
normalcy returns in sports and society alike.
“It’s a very complicated draft,” ESPN
analyst Mel Kiper Jr. said. “I always say,
‘mysterious/complicated’ draft” because
teams didn’t have uniform 40-yard dash
times and other measurements and didn’t
get to poke and prod the prospects them-
selves.
“The opt-outs complicate things even
more,” added Kiper.
“It’s a year like no other,” agreed Bengals
player personnel director Duke Tobin.
“There are players in this draft who have
really only played one year of college foot-
ball. You’re projecting.”
More so than ever.
“There are guys in this draft that (come)
August it’ll be the first time in 20 months
they’ll have put pads on,” Gettleman
marveled. “And some of those guys are very,
very highly rated.”
Hall of Fame executive Bill Polian called
this year’s draft a throwback to a bygone
era before technology changed the scout-
ing world.
“I think it will probably be less homoge-
nous than it’s been in the past — which is not
a bad thing,” Polian said.
NFL Network analyst Daniel Jeremiah
said consensus this year was as elusive as
Tyreek Hill is in man coverage.
“Look, group think is a real thing,” Jere-
miah said. “When you get scouts that pal
around together, we go to the same schools
and you’d be at the same places watching the
same players. Everybody ends up talking and
and you kind of end up getting some consen-
sus on some players.”
Same thing at the combine.
“So there’s just been less gathering. I think
in some ways it’s better because you get indi-
vidual evaluations,” Jeremiah said. “But I
can’t remember more variance just talking
to buddies around the league about specific
players where the (evaluations) are so wildly
different.”
Jeremiah also considers this shakeup a
positive development.
“That makes it fun,” he said. “I think a lot
of teams that I’ve talked to have really tried
to shrink their draft board more so than in
years past.”
You know what else has dwindled?
The entire pool of candidates.
With the NCAA granting an extra year of
eligibility because of the pandemic, a crush
of players stayed in school. By mid-April,
fewer than 700 players had signed a stan-
dard representation agreement with an NFL
agent, about one-third the usual number.
That left this thinnest of draft classes
with their college pro day performances to
replace the one-stop scouting combine —
unless they were lucky enough to get invited
to the Senior Bowl, where every team got 15
minutes of face time with them.
The result of all these factors is a puzzling
draft loaded at the top but blindfolded at the
bottom.
“We had so many kids go back to school.
That’s what’s going to impact the bottom
half of the draft,” Jeremiah said.
Risk-takers might find gems this year,
but the temptation will be to load up on
2022 picks when the pool of prospects will
be much deeper — and, the hope is, better
vetted.
“There’s going to be less to know about
the character of a person because you just
haven’t spent time around them,” ex-NFL
executive Mark Dominik said.
Teams were allowed up to five one-hour
videoconferences with prospects this spring,
so that softened the blow of not getting to fly
them in or interview them at the combine.
Still, team doctors couldn’t get their hands
on them.
However it all shakes out, Kansas State
tight end Briley Moore has a bold prediction
for this year’s draft class that had to navigate
such an unusual path to the pros.
“Ten years from now,” Moore said, “this
class is going to be special just because of the
mental toughness that everyone has built to
go through to play a full season and offsea-
son with the climate of the world right now.”
The victory, Keselowski’s sixth at
Talladega, came after team owner
Roger Penske pulled the three Team
Penske drivers and affiliate Matt DiBen-
edetto onto a call this week to discuss
his expectations on how they should
race Sunday. Penske refused to accept
another Daytona disaster when Logano
or Keselowski should have won the race
but instead of working together the two
triggered a fiery crash that also collected
a third Penske car.
All three Penske drivers have now
claimed spots in the 16-driver playoff
field.
William Byron was second, Daytona
500 winner McDowell — the beneficiary
of that February blunder — took third and
Kevin Harvick a season-high fourth.
“I felt like I was in a good spot again
working with Brad and drug back off of
him coming off of Turn 4,” McDowell
said.
“I thought I would have the run but just
didn’t suck him down enough.”
DiBenedetto, who led 28 laps, finished
fifth but gave away the win with a late
lane change that allowed Keselowski to
surge to the front.
Ford drivers took four of the top five
spots.
Kaz Grala finished a career-best sixth
and was followed by Tyler Reddick and
Austin Dillon in a trio of Chevrolets.
Ford drivers took spots nine through
13 and the highest finishing Toyota driver
was Christopher Bell in 17th.
Keselowski tied Dale Earnhardt Jr. and
Jeff Gordon with six wins each at Talla-
dega. But it was his first since the fall race
in 2017.
“I would have never dreamed I’d tie
Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr. here,”
Keselowski said. “That’s something.
Those guys are really legends.”
The series next heads to Kansas Speed-
way, where Denny Hamlin has won the
last two races.
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A+E
ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT

Antioch’s Brooks hosts

new HGTV design show
By Tracy Swartz
Chicago Tribune
Tiffany Brooks is hosting
a new HGTV series based
in the Chicago area a dozen
years after launching her
interior design business
here.
“My dream of all dreams
is for it to be a franchise,
and for it to be one of
HGTV’s most-watched
shows in history,” Brooks
told the Tribune by phone.
“$50K Three Ways”
follows Brooks as she
redesigns spaces in her
“livable luxury” style after
the homeowners pick from
three options. Back-to-
back episodes are sched-
uled to air at 7 p.m. Monday
on HGTV. Ten half-hour
episodes and one hour-
long special are on tap
this season, which will be
available to stream on the
Discovery Plus platform.
Brooks — an Antioch
resident who was born in
Waukegan — won Season
8 of the “HGTV Star”
competition, which aired
in 2013. The North Chicago
Community High School
graduate hosted “The Most
Embarrassing Rooms in
America” miniseries and
the annual “HGTV Smart
Home” special. She also
competed on the most
recent “Rock the Block”
season with fellow Chica-
go-area HGTV star Alison
Victoria Gramenos.
Brooks said the idea
for her new series came
from HGTV. Homeown-
ers are typically willing to
spend about $50,000 on a
project when they come to
her Grayslake-based firm,
which she started after
designing an award-win-
ning model home while
working in property
management. The show
began filming in the fall of
2020, and Brooks said it
was not difficult bringing
her business to the small
screen.
“Since we do this in real
The HGTV series “$50K Three Ways,” based in the Chicago area, is hosted by Antioch resident
Turn to Brooks, Page 2 Tiffany Brooks. She won Season 8 of the “HGTV Star” competition, which aired in 2013. HGTV

Actor and “One Night in Miami” director Regina King, center, kicks off a retooled Academy Awards ceremony Sunday night at Union Station in Los Angeles. ABC

93RD ACADEMY AWARDS

An Oscar night unlike

any other awards night
After a year that erased movie titles from marquees and sent seismic shock- Station and with a batch of nominees that have barely played in movie theaters.
waves through Hollywood, the 93rd Academy Awards show landed Sunday night Who won, who lost and what did they wear? Find out on Page 3. For complete
— two months later than usual — in a crowdless ceremony at Los Angeles’ Union coverage, go to chicagotribune.com/entertainment.

‘Hollywood ending’: Chatham likely to

keep its 14-screen movie theater after all
By Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
South Side Chicago’s
14-screen Chatham theater
complex may reopen as
early as July under a new
name: The Chatham Cine-
mas.
“Sometimes there’s a
Hollywood ending,” the
property’s owner, Jon
Goldstein, said Friday.
This is heartening
In 2019, Detroit-based Emagine Entertainment converted a news of what we’ll call a
former Dominick’s grocery store in Frankfort into a 10-screen maybe-probably. Earlier
movie theater. Later this year, if plans come to fruition, this month, the Dallas-
the 14-screen venue in Chicago’s South Side Chatham based Studio Movie
neighborhood will reopen as The Chatham Cinemas powered Grill, hammered by the
by Emagine. MIKE NOLAN/DAILY SOUTHTOWN pandemic like everyone in
the moviegoing business,
cut ties with the Chatham
14, closed since March
2020.
But now, Goldstein is
rolling ahead with plans
to rebrand and reopen the
venue located at 210 W.
87th St., just off the Dan
Ryan Expressway.
He intends, he said
Friday, to refresh the inte-
rior and exterior to the
tune of an estimated $1
million — and more firmly
establish the theaters, as
year two of the pandemic
allows, as a neighborhood
destination and community
player, financed partly by
public and private invest-
ment.
Along with the Chatham
operation, Goldstein owns
and operates nine Emag-
ine-branded theaters in
Minneapolis, three in the
Detroit area and two in
Pennsylvania.
His plans for the reborn
Chatham Cinemas, said
21st Ward Ald. Howard
Brookins Jr. Friday, can be
“a win-win for the commu-
nity. Jon’s trying to create
a neighborhood theater, as
opposed to just a theater in
a neighborhood.” Brook-
ins discussed the theater’s
future Saturday during a
virtual town hall meeting.
If plans come to fruition,
the venue’s official name
will be “The Chatham
Cinemas, Powered by
Emagine,” with ticketing
services provided by Emag-
ine Entertainment. Gold-
stein maintains a licensing
and partnership agreement
with Emagine.
Detroit-based Emag-
ine runs 25 movie venues
in four states, including a
10-screen Frankfort, Illi-
nois, location as well as a
location in Lake Geneva,
Wisconsin. In 2016, the
Turn to Chatham, Page 2
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CELEBRITIES
Wilson speaks out against Rudin
From news services
As the fallout continues
from allegations of work-
place abuse and bullying
against Scott Rudin —
detailed in a Hollywood
Reporter story — Rita
Wilson has spoken out
about her experiences
with the producer.
In a New York Times
article published on
Saturday, Wilson said
Rudin had made her feel
“replaceable” after her
breast cancer diagnosis in
2015. Wilson was star-
ring in Larry David’s play
“Fish in the Dark,” which
Rudin produced. When
she told Rudin about her
diagnosis, Wilson said
he “complained that she
would need time off during
Tony voting season and
asked to see her medical
records,” among other
actions.
“I felt like he was trying
to find a way to fire me
legally,” Wilson told the
Times. “He is the kind of
person who makes some-
one feel worthless, unvalu-
able and replaceable.”
Wilson underwent a
double mastectomy and
reconstructive surgery, and
returned to the play after a
one-month hiatus.
A Rudin spokesperson
told the Times that the
producer thought Wilson
“had wanted to open the
show and then leave,” but
denied that Rudin had
wanted Wilson to delay
treatment. In the same
story, Rudin also said he is
resigning from the Broad-
way League, the trade
association for theater
owners and producers.
DMX immortalized at
memorial: DMX’s legacy
was immortalized as a
man beloved by his family,
honored for his strong
faith and respected as one
of hip-hop’s greatest icons
at his memorial service
Saturday, with heartfelt
speeches from those who
knew the rapper best.
The speakers included
New TV program
focuses on local
convicted killer
By Tracy Swartz
Chicago Tribune
Michael Gargiulo was
convicted in 2019 of fatally
stabbing two women and
attempting to kill a third
in Southern California.
Gargiulo returns to the
TV spotlight as he awaits
sentencing for those crimes
and extradition to Illinois
to stand trial for a similar
slaying in the Glenview
area.
An hourlong episode of
“People Magazine Inves-
tigates,” scheduled to air
at 9 p.m. Monday on the
Investigation Discovery
network, recalls the 2001
murder of 22-year-old
Ashley Ellerin; the 2005
killing of 32-year-old Maria
Bruno; and the 2008 attack
on Michelle Murphy.
A jury recommended the
death penalty for Gargiulo
— who has been dubbed the
Chatham
from Page 1
Frankfort theater was
repurposed out of a Domi-
nick’s grocery store.
Goldstein has owned
the Chatham property
since 2019. It’s rare to
have a landlord who’s
also invested in the movie
exhibition game.
“I’ve been trying to get a
theater in Chicago for 20
years,” he said.
Private investors, Gold-
stein said, had to “put
up close to a million” to
service the Chatham prop-
erty’s loan and keep the
building “out of the hands
of the bank.”
Goldstein’s near-term
plans, he said, include
seeking property tax relief
(“the property value has
diminished greatly”) and,
like so many other owners
of entertainment venues
Rita Wilson says Scott Rudin made her feel “replaceable”
after her 2015 cancer diagnosis. AMY SUSSMAN/GETTY 2020
friends Swizz Beatz and
Nas, as well as DMX’s
daughter, who rapped in
honor of her father. Kanye
West and Busta Rhymes
were among the big
names who attended the
two-hour ceremony at the
Barclays Center in New
York.
DMX died April 9 after
suffering cardiac arrest.
Razzies reveal winners:
Sia’s feature directorial
debut, “Music,” was the big
winner at The Razzies, the
annual awards honoring
the worst in film. “Music”
won awards for worst
actress, worst supporting
actress and worst direc-
tor. Following with two
wins each were Mike
Lindell’s election fraud
film “Absolute Proof” for
worst picture and worst
actor, and Rudy Giuliani’s
performance in “Borat
Subsequent Moviefilm” for
worst supporting actor and
worst screen combo. Other
honorees included “Dolit-
tle” for the worst remake,
rip-off or sequel, and “365
Days” for worst screenplay.
‘Mortal Kombat,’‘Demon
Slayer’ lead box office:
“Hollywood Ripper” — in
October 2019, but he has yet
to be formally sentenced.
A court date is scheduled
for July.
A spokesperson for
the Cook County state’s
attorney’s office told the
Tribune the office plans
“to seek Gargiulo’s extradi-
tion to Illinois for further
proceedings at the conclu-
sion of the matter in Cali-
fornia.”
Gargiulo, 45, is charged
with first-degree murder
in the 1993 killing of
18-year-old Tricia Pacac-
cio. The Glenbrook South
High School graduate was
stabbed to death outside
her family’s home in unin-
corporated Glenview days
before she was set to study
engineering and environ-
mental issues at Purdue
University. Gargiulo, who
was 17 at the time, lived
nearby and had been an
“We want to run a movie theater,
but we look at this as potentially doing
some true community work.”
— Jon Goldstein, owner of South Side Chicago’s 14-screen
Chatham theater complex
shuttered by the COVID-
19 crisis, making his case
for long-delayed federal
Shuttered Venue Operator
Grant funds, also known
as the “Save Our Stages”
initiative.
“We’re applying on
Monday,” Goldstein said,
“so hopefully we’ll get an
answer.”
With its emphasis on
upscale dining options,
the Studio Movie Grill
concept, Brookins said,
never was a great fit for the
neighborhood.
“Some of the choices on
the menu were really more
about the suburbs,” he
Warner Bros.’ “Mortal
Kombat” reboot and
the Japanese anime film
“Demon Slayer: Mugen
Train” vied for the top spot
at the North American box
office this weekend, with
“Mortal Kombat” narrowly
edging “Demon Slayer.”
“Mortal Kombat” earned
an estimated $22.5 million,
according to studio esti-
mates, while Funimation’s
“Demon Slayer” grossed
$19.5 million. Mean-
while, “Godzilla vs. Kong”
crossed $400 million
worldwide on Sunday.
Musk to host ‘SNL’:
Tech mogul Elon Musk is
going to host the TV show
“Saturday Night Live.”
Musk will appear May 8
with Miley Cyrus as the
musical guest.
April 26 birthdays:
Comedian Carol Burnett
is 88. Singer Bobby Rydell
is 79. Actor Giancarlo
Esposito is 63. Actor Joan
Chen is 60. Actor Jet Li is
58. Comedian Kevin James
is 56. Actor Marianne
Jean-Baptiste is 54. Singer
T-Boz is 51. Actor Chan-
ning Tatum is 41. Actor
Emily Wickersham is 37.
Michael Gargiulo at a hearing introducing a motion for a new trial in Los Angeles on Feb. 28, 2020. DAMIAN DOVARGANES/AP
occasional visitor to the
Pacaccio home as a family
friend.
Authorities say a 2003
DNA test linked Gargiulo
to Pacaccio’s death, but he
was not charged until July
2011. Shortly after watch-
said. (SMG’s sole remain-
ing Illinois location is in
Wheaton.)
He added: “You just
can’t make a little kid like
gourmet nachos.”
In mid-May, Gold-
stein said, he and Brook-
ins will reconvene and
discuss issues of financing;
community involvement
and cleanup; the transfer
of the liquor license; and, if
the finances and commu-
nity partnerships are
favorable, a target opening
date this summer.
Earlier this year, news
of a Discover Financial
Services call center taking
Sister’s chronic depression is constant topic
Dear Amy: I am an adult
female in my 50s who
has lived with ongoing,
treatment-resistant major
depression for most of my
adult life.
I have, for the most part,
accepted that it will prob-
ably always be something I
have to deal with, although
the severity of it does vary.
And I do my best to keep it
under control with medi-
cation and therapy.
The problem, though, is
that my sister only seems
to see that part of me.
She means very well and
is genuinely concerned for
me. I understand that, and
I appreciate her concern,
but almost every commu-
nication I get from her is
about my depression: Daily
suggestions about things I
should be doing differently,
lots and lots of unsolicited
advice, frustration if I don’t
always implement her
suggestions, etc.
How do I get her to
understand, that even
though I appreciate her
concern, the barrage of
“suggestions” can some-
times come across as
judgment or criticism,
especially when advice has
not been requested?
Also, how can I gently
suggest that I’d like to talk
about other aspects of
my life than just mental
illness? I feel like all she
sees in me is brokenness.
— There is More to Me
than My Illness
Dear There is More to
Me: Any person living with
serious chronic illness
must wrestle with this
question of identification,
and it is vital that others
realize that their own
expressions of compas-
sion and concern can come
across instead as a desire to
control the outcome.
ing a May 2011 episode of
CBS’ “48 Hours Mystery”
about the string of slayings,
two men came forward to
say Gargiulo had told them
he killed a girl in Chicago.
The “People Maga-
zine Investigates” episode
over the former Target
location at 86th Street and
Cottage Grove Avenue
brought good news (start-
ing wages: $17.25 an hour)
to Chatham development.
A reopened multiplex
would also be good news.
“We want to run a movie
theater, but we look at this
as potentially doing some
true community work,”
Goldstein said.
His design plans include
a theater lobby makeover,
and walls and hallways
lined with movie post-
ers inspired by Black film
history.
In other words, he said,
“we’re really going to try
not to look like an AMC.”
Michael Phillips is a
Tribune critic.
mjphillips@chicago
tribune.com
Twitter @phillipstribune
ASK AMY
By Amy Dickinson
askamy@amydickinson.com Twitter@askingamy
My own theory is that
when people constantly
offer unsolicited advice —
they are actually express-
ing their own very deep
anxieties.
Depression is an isolat-
ing illness, and your sister’s
eagerness to connect and
talk about it seems to result
in you feeling even more
isolated from her.
I hope you will express
exactly how you feel: “I
know you are worried
about me, but when you
only want to discuss my
depression, I feel like all
you see in me is broken-
ness. I am so much more
than my illness. If I prom-
ise you that I will gratefully
let you help me if things
are bad, can you trust me
that I’m managing pretty
well? I long for a sense of
normalcy and would really
like to talk about other
things. I really miss that!”
Your sister might be
sitting on her own valid
fears about what might
happen to you if you are
in a severely depressed
phase, but she needs to
understand that her fears
are hers — not yours — to
manage.
I recommend writer
and psychologist Andrew
Solomon’s TED talks, and
especially his comprehen-
sive book on depression,
“The Noonday Demon: An
Atlas of Depression” (2011,
Scribner).
Dear Amy: My husband
and I have been planning
a trip overseas with two
other couples.
We had started to
plan this trip before the
pandemic but had to put it
aside. So now we are back
to planning it for 2022.
I realize that trips
overseas may have to be
canceled if travel restric-
features interviews, police
photos and footage of
Gargiulo’s Los Angeles
trial, which drew inter-
national interest because
actor Ashton Kutcher
testified he was supposed
to meet Ellerin for drinks
Brooks
from Page 1
life, we have a good handle
on it. We typically are used
to working with 30 projects
at a time, and with ‘$50K
Three Ways,’ that takes up
11 of them,” Brooks said.
“We work as a well-oiled
machine getting all these
projects done. So it’s kind
of crazy. We do have our
moments though, where
it gets hard and we’re late
night in here with wine and
pizza crying together. But
it’s few and far between.”
Besides being the
designer, Brooks also plays
the role of relationship
counselor on the show as
she helps couples choose
which rooms to make over.
She said the drama stems
from construction prob-
lems, material shipping
delays and homeowner
indecision.
tions have not been lifted.
However, the husband of
one of the couples doesn’t
know if he wants to be
vaccinated.
If the host country we
plan to visit requires vacci-
nation, would it be uneth-
ical for the rest of us to
travel without this couple?
— Eager to Travel
Dear Eager: I don’t see
this as an ethical dilemma.
If this man chooses not
to be vaccinated, it is his
business, and whatever
consequences flow from
that choice will be his
responsibility, including
the possibility of having to
stay home from a hoped-
for trip. It is important that
all international travel-
ers follow the destination
country’s guidelines for
visiting.
Dear Amy: A question
from “DNA Dispute”
noted that two first cous-
ins learned that while one
shared the family DNA
through her father, the
other cousin did not.
These two concluded
that the “other cousin”
might have been the result
of infidelity, and this has
led to estrangement.
You neglected to point
out the possibility that
the DNA split might have
happened in the previous
generation and that these
cousins’ two dads, who
were brothers, might not
have been.
— Reader
Dear Reader: Many
people pointed to this
possibility. Thank you all.
Copyright 2021 by Amy
Dickinson
Distributed by Tribune
Content Agency
the night she was killed.
“People Magazine Inves-
tigates” recently recalled
another Illinois slaying on
an episode that aired in
March.
tswartz@tribpub.com
The series premiere
follows a Grayslake couple
contemplating between
renovating their master
bedroom, kitchen and
foyer.
Ebony Wilson, who
graduated from North
Chicago three years before
Brooks, plans to tune in.
She said Brooks is a great
representative of the tight-
knit community of North
Chicago.
“She’s always had such
a bubbly attitude, always
smiling. When we were in
school 20-something years
ago, she was just always
such a pleasant person
to be around. We’re just
really proud of her in North
Chicago. It’s awesome
to see a Warhawk on TV
like that,” said Wilson, the
family and community
liaison for North Chicago
School District 187.
tswartz@tribpub.com
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