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In protest, Palestinians wage strike

Israeli troops clash with demonstrators across West Bank
By Fares Akram
and Ravi Nessman
Associated Press
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Pales-
tinians across Israel and the occu-
pied territories went on strike
in a rare collective protest Tues-
day as Israeli missiles toppled a
building in Gaza and militants in
the Hamas-ruled territory fired
dozens of rockets that killed two
people.
U.S. officials said the Biden
administration was privately
encouraging Israel to wind down
its bombardment of Gaza. Egyp-
tian negotiators also were work-
ing to halt the fighting, and while
they have not made progress with
Israel, they were optimistic inter-
national pressure would force it to
the table, according to an Egyptian
diplomat who spoke on condition
of anonymity.
The general strike was a sign that
the war could widen again after a
spasm of communal violence in
Israel and protests across the occu-
pied West Bank last week.
Although the strike was peace-
ful in many places, with shops in
Jerusalem’s usually bustling Old
City markets shuttered, violence
erupted in cities in the West Bank.
Hundreds of Palestinians
burned tires in Ramallah and
hurled stones at an Israeli military
checkpoint. Troops fired tear gas,
and protesters picked up some of
the canisters and threw them back.
Three protesters were killed and
more than 140 wounded in clashes
with Israeli troops in Ramallah,
Bethlehem, Hebron and other
cities, according to the Palestinian
Health Ministry.
The Israeli army said two
soldiers were wounded by
gunshots to the leg.
The general strike was an
uncommon show of unity by
Palestinian citizens of Israel, who
make up 20% of its population, and
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Scrap CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK

shredder
suing
Chicago
Company claims mayor
hasn’t followed through
on promise of a deal
By Michael Hawthorne
Chicago Tribune

A clout-heavy scrap dealer is

suing the city for more than $100
million, accusing Mayor Lori
Lightfoot of reneging on a deal to
fast-track a new metals shredder
in one of Chicago’s most polluted
neighborhoods.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in
U.S. District Court, urges a judge
to order Lightfoot’s administra-
tion to award a permit Ohio-based
Reserve Management Group
needs to begin chopping up junked
automobiles, used appliances and
other metallic waste along the
Calumet River near 116th Street
and Avenue O.
Lightfoot delayed a decision
about the permit this month after
Michael Regan, the new U.S. Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency Christina De La Torre, 25, and Andre Dalgo, 26, both of Ecuador, wait in line May 2 at a restaurant at newly reopened Navy Pier in Chicago.
administrator, raised concerns ARMANDO L. SANCHEZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
about locating another polluter

The great mask debate:

in a heavily industrialized neigh-
borhood where people already
breathe some of the city’s dirtiest
air.
RMG’s lawsuit hinges in part on
a September 2019 agreement that
prompted the company to close
its often troubled General Iron
shredder on the edge of wealthy,
predominantly white Lincoln
Park. In return, the city pledged to
help clear the way for a new shred-
Obvious answers elusive
der near low-income, mostly Black
and Latino neighborhoods on the
Individuals and
Southeast Side.
Operating now as Southside
businesses grapple
Recycling, the company has largely with proper course
completed construction of its new
facility on the ruins of the former By Alison Bowen
Republic Steel mill, where several and Alice Yin
related businesses operated for Chicago Tribune
years without permits.
“We regret filing this lawsuit, To mask or not to mask?
but we are left with no choice to Chicago will follow the state
protect our business, employ- of Illinois in allowing fully vacci-
ees, suppliers and customers,” nated people to go maskless in
Steve Joseph, RMG’s chief exec- most settings — but some busi-
utive, said in a statement. “A busi- nesses will be strongly advised
ness that has spent $80 million to to keep a requirement in place,
build the most environmentally public health officials announced
conscious metal recycling plant a day after Gov. J.B. Pritzker loos-
in the country must be able to rely ened his mask mandate to match
on government agencies follow- the latest federal guidance.
ing their own laws, regulations and Under Tuesday’s update to the
agreements.” city’s mask guidance, those who
The company ’s 28-page are two weeks past their final
complaint includes most of RMG’s vaccination dose can take off the
responses to community activ- mask except in hospitals, public
Seaman ETHS Mia Holland prepares to get a COVID-19 vaccine from Seaman HM2 Ian Farry at the Great transportation, jails and schools,
Turn to Lawsuit, Page 12 Lakes Naval Base on May 7 in North Chicago. STACEY WESCOTT/CHICAGO TRIBUNE public health Commissioner
Dr. Allison Arwady said during

The musical “Paradise Square.”
ALESSANDRA MELLO
Showbiz mogul
returns to Chicago
Garth Drabinsky, controversial
father of the Loop’s theater district,
is coming back to the city with a
pre-Broadway musical. A+E
‘SENSE OF DUTY’
As the military nationwide battles vaccine hesitancy, sailors
at Great Lakes are lining up to get their shots
By Angie Leventis Lourgos
Chicago Tribune
The sailor removed the
green-and-brown camou-
flage shirt of his uniform and
smiled a little as the needle
quickly jabbed his left bicep at
a COVID-19 vaccine clinic held
recently at Naval Station Great
Lakes.
It was Seaman Peter
Muscott’s second dose of
the Moderna vaccine, and
the 19-year-old from Gratiot
County, Michigan, said he was
grateful to finally be fully vacci-
nated.
“Not everyone in the world
gets this opportunity,” he said.
“I feel I can be part of the solu-
tion, getting vaccinated.”
Muscott was one of
hundreds of sailors getting
immunized on a recent week-
day at the roughly 1,600-acre
naval station in Lake County,
about 30 miles north of down-
town Chicago. The vaccines
were administered in a red
brick building typically used
for technical training, and the
line of uniformed men and
women awaiting their shots
snaked outside and spilled out
onto the manicured lawn of the
naval station, with Lake Michi-
gan in the backdrop.
Yet not everyone serving in
the military has been so eager
Turn to Vaccine, Page 9
a news conference. She cited
strong evidence of the vaccine’s
effectiveness before adding the
caveat that many businesses do
not have the ability or “desire” to
regulate who is vaccinated and
who isn’t.
Because of that logistical chal-
lenge and the fact that only 38%
of Chicagoans are fully vacci-
nated, those settings will be
Turn to Masks, Page 10
Lollapalooza will
return in 2021
Ending months of speculation,
organizers announce the event
will be staged at Grant Park at full
capacity July 29-Aug. 1. A+E

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Prize winner’s columns, and a long overdue archive of his John Myefski remained
best work, covering topics such as politics, social issues, stunned.
pop culture, race, family, new media and prominent figures, “He was one of those
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chicagotribune.com/printbooks Jahn died May 8 after The building at One South Wacker Drive was designed by architect Helmut Jahn in the Loop in
he was struck by two vehi- Chicago. ERIN HOOLEY/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
cles while riding his bicycle
through an intersection in Chicago-based DLR Group,
Accuracy and ethics Campton Hills, a suburb in Stephen Cavanaugh of
Kane County. Highland Park worked for
Margaret Holt, standards editor Following Jahn’s death, Jahn for 10 years, mostly in
several architects on the the 1990s. He contributed to
The Tribune’s editorial code of principles governs North Shore who worked a series of high-profile proj-
professional behavior and journalism standards. Everyone for him recalled how their ects in Germany, including
in our newsroommust agree to live up to this code of time with the German-born the Cologne Bonn Airport.
conduct. Read it at chicagotribune.com/accuracy. star architect shaped their Like Myefski, Cavana-
own careers. ugh recalled the big open
Corrections and clarifications: Publishing information Today, Myefski heads his spaces where the architects
quickly and accurately is a central part of the Chicago own 24-employee firm, but worked, noting the office
Tribune’s news responsibility. in 1986, he was close to grad- didn’t immediately adapt to
uating from the University the computer usage of that
 A story Tuesday about state mask mandates included of Michigan. He contacted era.
some incorrect coronavirus data. The story should have Jahn, whose fame had “He was a big fan of hand
given the seven-day average for testing as 65,410; the skyrocketed partially due to drawing because that was
seven-day average of new cases as 1 ,5 4 6, the lowest since the opening of the State of The Chicago Police Department 5th District building, which one of the ways he moni-
1,514 on March 1 5; and said the seven-day average of new Illinois Center, now known was designed by architect Helmut Jahn, is seen this month. tored progress, through the
cases as a share of total tests, 2 .4%, was the same for the as the Thompson Center, in BRIAN CASSELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE drawings. So we were all in
second day in a row. downtown Chicago. this big open room with all
 A story in the May 9 Sunday Sports section about PGA Attaching a thick binder of and bold to this day, and I and ultimately the influence this pinup space,” Cavana-
golfer Bryson DeChambeau was cut short. The complete his sketches, Myefski wrote go through it on a monthly on the profession, (were) at ugh recalled. “We would
sentence was: “He plays the 18th hole differently than to Jahn explaining how he basis and I am reminded of the pinnacle of architecture just work through designs
most — DeChambeau sees a lot of things differently — and liked the process of sketch- him and that project,” he of the time.” and various options and
he ended up with a double bogey.” ing and working through said. Frisch believed Jahn pin them up on the wall and
The Tribune regrets the errors. ideas. Jahn inspired his use Myefski conceded some maintained an overall he would come through
of that method. of Jahn’s initial design ideas philosophy in his work. the studio and critique the
“It was pure and simple, were “crazy,” but he did not “What he was trying to work.”
that reason alone was why I mind that. do was build buildings that Cavanaugh believed a
How to contact us 7 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday–Friday got hired,” Myefski said. “That was the excitement were inspired by both the Jahn trademark was his use
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Myefski said the work was impresses me. I’m focused the time he brought his son timber projects. Cavana-
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Examiner details police shooting of Alvarez
Autopsy report says
he was struck twice,
once in the back
By Jeremy Gorner
and Annie Sweeney
Chicago Tribune
Anthony Alvarez, 22,
fatally shot in late March by
a Chicago police officer, was
struck twice, including once
in the back, according to an
autopsy report released
Tuesday by the Cook County
medical examiner’s office.
The autopsy report said
that Alvarez was also shot
once in his thigh and that
he died of multiple gunshot
wounds.
Also Tuesday, the lawyer
for Officer Evan Solano,
who fatally shot Alvarez,
confirmed that police Super-
intendent David Brown
relieved his client of police
powers, placing him on paid
desk duty without the ability
to carry a badge or gun for
work purposes. A Chicago
police spokesman, however,
would only say “the matter is
under review.”
Alvarez was walking
through a Portage Park gas
station parking lot just after
midnight March 31 when
two officers in an unmarked
police SUV advanced
quickly toward him. Alva-
Therapy horses back to work
Nora Ignoffo, 6, meets a miniature horse named Hope as the group Mane in Heaven makes a visit Tuesday to the courtyard outside Shriners Hospitals for
Children in Chicago. The miniature horses help with physical and emotional well-being, giving patients a chance to greet them and go for walks. This was the
therapy animal’s first trip back to the hospital after transitioning to virtual visits during the pandemic.
Alexi Giannoulias gets Downstate
county chairmen’s endorsement
By Rick Pearson
Chicago Tribune
Former state Trea-
surer Alexi Giannoulias on
Sunday won the endorse-
ment of Democratic county
officials from 26 Downstate
counties in his bid for the
Democratic nomination
to replace Jesse White as
secretary of state next year.
The 22-county Southern
Illinois Democratic County
Chairs’ Association voted to
endorse Giannoulias for the
nomination in the March
2022 primary. In addition,
Giannoulias said four other
Downstate counties gave
their endorsement.
“I’m honored to have
earned the endorsements
of so many accomplished
and dedicated leaders, and
I look forward to working
with them in fighting for
what’s important for South-
ern Illinois,” Giannoulias
CHICAGOLAND
rez ran, with the officers
first following in their police
vehicle and then on foot. The
foot pursuit went through
an alley and then around a
corner onto a small residen-
tial lawn, where Alvarez was
shot by Solano.
In footage of the shoot-
ing, which was captured on
Solano’s body camera and
a home security camera,
Alvarez appeared to stum-
ble and then drop a handgun
once he was shot. An officer
chasing him also repeat-
edly asked him to drop his
weapon.
At no point on the foot-
age does Alvarez appear to
point a weapon at police
during the foot chase. But
the shooting remains under
investigation.
The records released
Tuesday show Alvarez —
who at the time of his death
was 5 feet 3 inches tall and
weighed 127 pounds — had
an entrance wound to the
right side of his back with an
exit wound to the right side
of his chest. The records also
show he had an entrance
wound and exit wound in
his left thigh.
The first report of Alvarez
getting shot was at 12:18 a.m.
March 31, and he was trans-
ported by an ambulance to
Advocate Illinois Masonic
Medical Center, where he
said in a statement.
“Our campaign contin-
ues to build a strong broad-
based coalition heading into
the primary and Southern
Illinois voters will play an
important role in determin-
ing who wins the race,” he
said.
While southern Illinois
has turned deeply Repub-
lican in recent years, the
endorsement of Downstate
Democratic leaders is still
significant in a partisan
primary contest, includ-
ing the organization effort
it brings to Giannoulias’
campaign.
Giannoulias is among
five Democrats seeking to
replace White, 86, who is
the state’s longest serving
secretary of state and has
been in the post since 1999.
White has said he will not
seek reelection.
Other Democrats in
the race are Chicago Ald.
A memorial for Anthony Alvarez in the Portage Park neighborhood, where a Chicago police
officer shot and killed the 22-year-old during a foot chase. ERIN HOOLEY/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
was pronounced dead at 1:13
a.m., the records show.
At least six hours after the
shooting, Alvarez still had
not been identified, accord-
ing to the records.
They also show he had
a tattoo on his right fore-
arm with his daughter’s
name, “Ailani 9/30/2018,”
and there was some sort of
illegible writing with a black
marker to his right hand and
forehead, the records show.
When asked about the
findings, Todd Pugh, an
attorney for the Alvarez
family, said it confirms
“what we believe.”
Pat Dowell, 3rd, and Ald.
David Moore, 17th, as well
as Chicago City Clerk Anna
Valencia and state Sen.
Michael Hastings of Frank-
fort.
Giannoulias, the unsuc-
cessful Democratic
contender for the U.S.
Senate against Republican
Mark Kirk in 2010, got the
endorsements Sunday at
the International Union of
Operating Engineers Local
318 Hall in Marion.
Ed Smith, an influential
veteran Downstate union
leader, was among those
endorsing Giannoulias.
Perry County Chair
Calen Campanella, who
leads the Southern Illinois
Democratic county chairs,
said, “Alexi has a proven
track record of standing
with southern Illinois and
has the passion, vision and
ideas that will help restore
trust and build confidence
“The video showed ...
that Anthony was shot in
the back,” Pugh said. “I feel
more strongly (than before)
it was use of excessive force.
It was an unjustified shoot-
ing.”
But Solano’s lawyer, Tim
Grace, said the autopsy
results confirmed what
Solano told the Civilian
Office of Police Accountabil-
ity, which is investigating
whether the officer violated
policy in the shooting.
“The entry and exit
wounds are consistent with
what the officer testified
to,” Grace said. “The offi-
BRIAN CASSELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Ex-state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias seeks to be secretary of
state. E. JASON WAMBSGANS/CHICAGO TRIBUNE 2010
in our elected officials and
government.”
Giannoulias’ campaign
noted that as treasurer,
he administered one of
the nation’s farm-loan
programs that provided
assistance to farmers and
also backed college schol-
arships for high school
students looking for agri-
culture-related careers.
The Southern Illinois
Democratic County Chairs’
Association is made up of
Clay, Clinton, Crawford,
Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Wednesday, May 19, 2021 3
cer believes (Alvarez) is
turning to shoot at him. ...
All he had to do was release
the weapon. ... Put his
hands up and follow verbal
commands.”
The footage was released
late last month by COPA.
Videos from Chicago police
body cameras, and surveil-
lance footage from homes
and businesses in the area,
were included in the release,
along with police reports.
The shooting was one
of two fatal police shoot-
ings during the last week
of March. Two days before
Alvarez’s death, 13-year-old
Edwards, Fayette, Frank-
lin, Gallatin, Hardin, Jasper,
Jefferson, Marion, Monroe,
Moultrie, Perry, Pope,
Pulaski, Randolph, Saline,
Shelby, Washington, Wayne
and White counties.
Giannoulias said he also
received endorsements
from Jackson, Johnson,
Union and Williamson
counties during the meet-
ing.
rap30@aol.com
Twitter @rap30
Adam Toledo was fatally
shot by a Chicago police offi-
cer, also during a foot chase,
in the Little Village neigh-
borhood.
Toledo’s shooting initially
earned more attention and
national outrage, due to his
young age. But both shoot-
ings drew attention to the
Chicago Police Depart-
ment’s lack of a foot pursuit
policy, which police depart-
ments in other cities have
drafted in an attempt to
give officers guidance on
the dangerous and highly
charged chases.
In the wake of the shoot-
ings, Mayor Lori Light-
foot announced that a
policy would be in place
by summer. Police Depart-
ment officials said they
were drawing on best prac-
tices from other cities and
would seek comment from
the public before finalizing
the policy.
On Tuesday, a spokes-
woman for the Cook County
state’s attorney’s office,
which is reviewing whether
to criminally charge the offi-
cers who fatally shot Alvarez
and Toledo, said there were
no updates in either case.
jgorner@chicagotribune.
com
asweeney@chicagotribune.
com
Ind. clears
Chicago’s
travel
order
7 states left on list
where travelers
face restrictions
By Alice Yin
Chicago Tribune
Only seven states remain
on Chicago’s emergency
travel order, which just
bumped Indiana off the list
on Tuesday, officials said.
The removal of Indiana
— two weeks after it was
reinstated on the travel
order — means none of Illi-
nois’ neighbors are subject
to additional coronavi-
rus restrictions, although
Midwestern states Minne-
sota and Michigan are still
on the list. In total, 11 states
and Puerto Rico moved
from the “orange” tier to the
“yellow” one, according to
a Tuesday Chicago Depart-
ment of Public Health news
release.
“The country overall is
making really good prog-
ress,” public health Commis-
sioner Dr. Allison Arwady
said during a morning ques-
tion-and-answer session.
Travelers coming from
the seven orange states are
required to quarantine for 10
days or test negative for the
coronavirus no more than
72 hours before arriving in
Chicago. People can avoid
either requirement if they
have been fully vaccinated,
which means getting the
final dose at least two weeks
before arrival.
The full list of states
subject to the orange tier
restrictions contains Colo-
rado, Florida, Maine, Mich-
igan, Minnesota, West
Virginia and Washington.
The remaining 42 yellow
tier states plus Puerto Rico
and Washington, D.C., do
not have any quarantine,
vaccination or COVID-19
test restrictions for travelers
returning to Chicago.
The orange category
includes states or territories
that have a seven-day rolling
average above 15 daily cases
per 100,000 residents, while
yellow states are under that
threshold.
The travel order is
updated every two weeks
and goes into effect Friday
at midnight. Essential work-
ers traveling for their job are
exempt, as are people travel-
ing for medical or caretak-
ing reasons. People passing
through the orange states for
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Teen shot while walking

dog in Washington Park
By Sarah Freishtat
and Clare Proctor
Chicago Tribune
A 15-year-old girl was
taken to the hospital in crit-
ical condition after she was
shot Monday afternoon
while walking a dog in the
Washington Park neighbor-
hood, according to police.
The girl was in the 6100
block of South Martin
Luther King Drive when
a man on foot fired shots
about 3:40 p.m., striking her
in the arm and the chest,
according to a police media
notification. She was taken
to Comer Children’s Hospi-
tal.
Police said they were not
sure whether the 15-year-
old was the target.
No one was in custody,
and detectives were inves-
tigating.
On Tuesday, stand-
ing outside Comer, Rabbi
Michael Ben Yosef said
the shooting was “another
example in our community
where we are gunned down
Chai Inter-National. “We
just can’t even walk on the
streets. That’s unaccept-
able.”
Yosef said he hadn’t talked
with the girl’s family but
he was optimistic that she
survived through the night.
But Monday’s shooting is
“just another example” of
children being shot or killed
in their neighborhoods, he
said.
“These families didn’t
have these children to be
murdered or to be gunned
down,” Yosef said. “They
had these children for long
legacies.”
Yosef said he and other
activists are seeking
resources for the commu-
nity and stricter bond
restrictions against people
with prior gun violence
convictions.
If what it takes is having
community members
stand on street corners to
keep neighborhoods safe,
Yosef said these “angels on Chicago police officers investigate the scene where two officers were shot and the man who allegedly shot them was also
the street” would be a first wounded Sunday in the 1500 block of South Lawndale Avenue on the West Side. ERIN HOOLEY/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
step in policing themselves

$10 million bail set for man, 45,

like animals.”
“Unfortunately, this prob-
lem is just terrorizing every-
one,” said Yosef, founder of
humanitarian group Tikkun
16-year-old shot to death
in East Side neighborhood
By Katherine Rosenberg-
Douglas
Chicago Tribune
A 16-year-old boy died
after his father found him
on a front porch on the Far
South Side, unresponsive
and suffering a gunshot
wound to the torso, police
said.
Officers responded to
an alert from ShotSpotter,
the city’s gunshot detec-
tion system, about 2:50 a.m.,
according to a statement from
Chicago police. They found
the teenager on the porch in
the 3300 block of East 109th
Street, in East Side.
The boy was taken
initially in critical condition
to Advocate Trinity Hospi-
and shoring up community
safety.
sfreishtat@chicagotribune.
com
accused of shooting 2 officers
By Madeline Buckley
Chicago Tribune
A Cook County judge on
Tuesday ordered a Chicago
tal, where he later was man held on $10 million
pronounced dead, accord- bail after he was charged
ing to police. with attempted murder in
The high school junior connection with the shoot-
was believed to have been ing of two Chicago police
shot near the corner and officers Sunday morning.
tried to make it home. His Bruce Lua, 45, faces
father found him unrespon- two counts of attempted
sive on the porch, police murder, two counts of
said. aggravated battery to a
There were no witnesses peace officer and one
to the shooting, but surveil- count of unlawful use of a
lance video showed what weapon. Lua, who was shot
may have been a black or by an officer in the confron-
gray Ford Fusion with tinted tation, remains hospitalized
windows in the area around and did not appear in court.
the time of the shooting, Cook County Judge
according to police. Arthur Wesley Willis
No arrests had been made. ordered the monetary bond
while a request for no bail
kdouglas@chicagotribune. from prosecutors remains
com pending.
Twitter @312BreakingNews A defense attorney
for Lua said she had not
been able to speak to him
because of his hospitaliza-
tion, so Willis set a hear-
ing on the prosecution’s
request for Monday.
Around 7:10 a.m. Sunday,
two officers were called to
the 3600 block of West
Douglas Boulevard in
the West Side’s Lawn-
dale neighborhood after
a ShotSpotter alert for
gunfire, prosecutors said at
the bail hearing. When the
officers arrived, a bystander
pointed to Lua, indicating,
the officers believed, that
Lua had a gun.
The officers started
following Lua, who wore
dark pants, a black hooded
sweatshirt and carried a
backpack, prosecutors
said. In addition to the
ShotSpotter alert, another
person called 911 to report
gunfire in the area and gave
a description matching
Lua’s, according to prose-
cutors.
The officers, in uniform,
continued to follow Lua
while telling him to “drop
it” and “show your hands,”
according to prosecutors.
Lua never responded to the
officers.
Another two officers,
also in uniform, arrived in
a squad car in the area of the
1500 block of South Lawn-
dale Avenue and got out of
the car with their weapons
drawn, prosecutors said.
Lua walked toward the
officers while they ordered
him to stop and remove his
hands from his pocket.
Lua then removed a
handgun from his pocket
and began firing at the
officers, prosecutors
said. Three of the officers
returned fire. One officer
was hit in the hand and the
other in the hip and shoul-
der. Lua was shot in the leg.
The officers were taken
to Mount Sinai Hospi-
tal and were released the
same day. Lua was taken to
Stroger Hospital, where he
was still being treated Tues-
day.
One officer needs to see
a hand specialist, and the
other needs assistance
walking, prosecutors said.
Willis noted the two
police officers were shot
multiple times, but said he
has not been able to hear
the defense’s case for miti-
gation because of Lua’s
condition.
“The individual appears
to be going through some
sort of mental health crisis,”
Willis said.
The judge also set
$100,000 bail for a charge
of violation of bail bond in
a separate case against Lua.

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Black aldermen back civilian oversight of police

By John Byrne
Chicago Tribune

While aldermen wait for

Mayor Lori Lightfoot to
bring forward her long-de-
layed plan for civilian over-
sight of the Chicago Police
Department, Black alder-
men have meanwhile
endorsed a grassroots over-
sight ordinance the mayor
opposes.
At least 15 of the 20
members of the City Coun-
cil Black Caucus endorsed
the compromise oversight
package, caucus Chairman
Ald. Jason Ervin said.
The proposal “isn’t
perfect,” Ervin said, but it
at least gives aldermen a
starting point to discuss
the hot-button issue in the
absence of the mayoral plan
Lightfoot has been promis-
ing for years.
It’s becoming increasingly
tough for council members
not to take a position, and
the ordinance combin-
ing elements of the Civil-
ian Police Accountability Ald. Jason Ervin, 28th, at podium, and members of the Chicago Aldermanic Black Caucus speak at a news conference in Chicago on Oct. 16, 2019. A majority of
Council and the Grassroots the 20 members of the City Council Black Caucus endorse a compromise police oversight package, Ervin said. JOSE M. OSORIO/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Alliance for Police Account-
ability proposals is the only her own ordinance, then it teen of the 18 members of change further once Light- like it more,” Ervin said. “If with lots of people to get it
one out there. could pass the 50-member the Progressive Caucus also foot publicizes her plan. the mayor is going to bring right.
“We do hear from people council despite the mayor’s belong to either the Black or Aldermen frequently forward her own ordinance, In the meantime, GAPA
about it. We get calls on a objections. Latino caucus, so even now, endorse a colleague’s now is the time.” and CPAC backers put aside
regular basis,” Ervin, 28th, The council’s 13-member support may fall short of a proposal, only to switch Lightfoot has been saying their differences earlier this
said. “But we also know that Latino Caucus and its council majority. their votes as the mayor’s for months that she would year to craft a single ordi-
something needs to happen 18-member Progressive The Public Safety office pressures them and soon finish crafting her civil- nance that would ask voters
on this.” Caucus also have endorsed Committee, which will they learn more about ian oversight plan. She origi- to create an elected board
If Black aldermanic the compromise ordinance, consider the ordinances, competing ideas during nally pledged to do so during with the power to hire and
support remains strong for though it isn’t clear how tilts heavily toward alder- council committee hearings. her first 100 days in office in fire the police superin-
the CPAC-GAPA plan even many members of each men who are mayoral allies. “I’m sure people may look 2019, but has since said she’s tendent and set the Police
after Lightfoot introduces group signed on. Seven- And the situation will at another proposal and deliberating and consulting Department budget.

Interim leader for civilian police watchdog agency picked

By Jeremy Gorner
Chicago Tribune
Chicago’s civilian investi-
gative police watchdog has
a new temporary leader, a
spokesman for the agency
confirmed Monday night.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot
tapped Andrea Kersten as
interim chief administra-
tor for the Civilian Office
of Police Accountabil-
ity, according to agency
spokesman Ephraim Eaddy.
Kersten previously was a top
official for the agency under
the leadership of Sydney
Roberts, who resigned as
the head of COPA last week.
Meanwhile, Lightfoot’s
office said details on how
the mayor plans to select a
permanent replacement for
Roberts will be forthcoming
but could not provide specif-
ics Monday night.
On the day Roberts
announced she’d be resign-
ing from COPA, Lightfoot told
reporters she was “extraordi-
narily unhappy” with how
the agency handled some
issues under Roberts’ lead-
ership, especially the Anja-
nette Young case, which took
nearly a year and a half for the
agency to conclude.
Young was the subject of
a faulty search warrant at
her Near West Side home in
early 2019, and COPA after
16 months announced in late
April that it found nearly
100 allegations of wrong-
doing against more than 12
officers who played roles in
the wrongful raid. The case
is still pending a review by
Chicago police Superinten-
dent David Brown.
Kersten was the chief of
investigative operations
under Roberts. Kersten also
once worked for eight years
as a prosecutor in the Cook
County state’s attorney’s
office, primarily handling
sexual abuse and domestic
violence cases, according to
COPA.
In an interview with the
Tribune in January related
to a few police reforms
that went through the state
legislature, Kersten stressed
the importance of getting
alleged victims of police
misconduct to agree to
being interviewed by COPA
investigators. She said at the
time she believed that’s why
many COPA cases are closed
without a resolution.
“There are many, many
barriers that we cannot legis-
late our way out of that exist in
obtaining that cooperation,”
Kersten said. “Short of video
evidence or other witnesses
that are willing to come
forward, if we don’t have
that complainant’s version of
events, we often have noth-
ing with which to proceed on
a case.”
Kersten also once was an
administrative law judge
for the Illinois Department
of Healthcare and Family
Services.
She earned her law degree
from John Marshall Law
School and holds a bach-
elor’s degree in sociology
from North Park University.

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Vaccine
from Page 1
to get vaccinated. As the
Defense Department tack-
les the arduous mission of
getting shots in the arms
of some 2.2 million troops
across the globe, a major
battle is vaccine hesitancy,
with early indications that
service members are turn-
ing down the shots in droves.
Roughly a third of military
personnel were declining
the vaccine as of February,
according to congressio-
nal testimony by Defense
Department officials. A
December report from the
nonprofit organization Blue
Star Families found 40% of
military personnel surveyed
planned to get vaccinated
against the coronavirus,
while 49% said they were
not and 11% were unde-
cided.
Unlike other immuni-
zations such as the annual
flu shot, the military can’t
legally mandate COVID-19
vaccines because they’re
administered under an
emergency use authoriza-
tion. However, the Pentagon
could require the COVID-19
vaccine once the U.S. Food &
Drug Administration grants
full approval.
But the policy has
come under fire amid the
pandemic, with some
lawmakers recently urging
President Joe Biden to
issue a waiver requiring
the COVID-19 vaccine for
military personnel, calling
unvaccinated troops “harm-
ful to our national security.”
While the president has
said he would not rule out
mandatory vaccinations, he
described the decision as a
“tough call” that he would
leave to the military for now.
So far, around half of
the U.S. armed forces have
taken at least one COVID-
19 shot, with more than a
million active duty person-
nel, reservists and National
Guard either partially or
fully vaccinated, according
to the most recent Depart-
ment of Defense statistics.
Of all service branches,
the Navy has had the great-
est percentage of person-
nel to take the vaccine, with
more than half of all active-
duty members and reservists
partially or fully vaccinated.
But some military lead-
ers fear service members
— much like the rest of the
nation — have hit a plateau
of vaccine enthusiasm, as
many of those most eager to
get vaccinated have already
done so.
At Great Lakes, about 65%
of the 8,000 active-duty
personnel, civilian staff and
contractors have received
at least one vaccine dose.
This is predominantly Navy
personnel, but also includes
some members of the Air
Force, Army and Marines
who are also based there.
Those statistics, though,
don’t include Navy recruits
in boot camp and students
who are training in technical
skills at Great Lakes, a total
of about 49,000 individuals
over the course of the year
who cycle in and out of the
naval station.
Great Lakes has the
Navy’s only boot camp in the
nation, and its recruits — a
generally younger, health-
ier and a less-prioritized
population — just began
getting vaccinated in late
April. Since then, more than
2,000 recruits have received
their first vaccine dose, and
officials expect to admin-
ister another 700 or more
doses this week. The naval
station is also the Navy’s
largest training installation;
of the student population
there, 1,200 personnel have
received the first dose.
So far, more than 75%
of recruits who have been
offered the vaccine have
taken it, according to the
health care center. The naval
station is continuing to offer
weekly vaccine clinics for
those interested in getting
inoculated.
Capt. Tom Nelson is
the deputy director and
commanding officer at the
Captain James A. Lovell
Federal Health Care Center
in North Chicago, which
serves Veterans Affairs
patients, active-duty mili-
tary and their dependents.
Nelson described the
process of getting COVID-
19 vaccines into the arms of
all these different patients as
a “herculean effort.”
While storing, adminis-
tering and tracking the new
vaccine have been challeng-
ing, he said sometimes the
toughest and most criti-
cal part is often convincing
people on the fence — mili-
tary and civilian alike — to
Seaman FC Maximus Werry gets his COVID-19 vaccine shot from Seaman HM2 Brian Bello at the Great Lakes Naval Base on May 7 in North Chicago.
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Sailors wait in line to get their COVID-19 vaccine from at the Great Lakes Naval Base on Friday in
early May in North Chicago.
A member of the Navy draws up a syringe of the COVID-19 vaccine at the Great Lakes Naval
Base on May 7 in North Chicago.
get the shot.
“One of the hardest things
to do is to get people to
want to get vaccinated,” he
said. “While some people
might look at not getting
vaccinated as an individual
right, I’ve tried to appeal
to people’s sense of duty.
I think we have an obliga-
tion to our fellow man to
get vaccinated, our fellow
men and women, to protect
them.”
Preparing for
their mission
Seaman Dana
Malinowski, 19, of west
suburban Yorkville recently
graduated from Navy boot
camp, and in August she’s
scheduled to embark on
the USS Gerald R. Ford,
the world’s largest aircraft
carrier.
She said she chose to get
vaccinated against COVID-
19 in part to prepare for this
mission: The berthing area
on a ship is a tight space,
and she’ll be sleeping in
Navy racks, shipboard bunk
beds stacked several atop
one another — close quar-
ters with a higher risk for
contracting and spreading a
contagious virus.
Malinowski added that
she was drawn to the Navy
because she desired to travel
and experience the world,
and the COVID-19 vaccine
will make it safer for her to
do so.
“I want to explore new
things, see some cool
places,” she said, shortly
after getting her second
shot. “The vaccine will help
with all of that.”
Since the pandemic
began, the U.S. armed forces
have had more than 190,000
COVID-19 cases, and 26
service members have died
of the virus.
The Navy in particular has
struggled with operations
during the pandemic, most
notably an outbreak in late
March 2020 aboard the USS
Theodore Roosevelt aircraft
carrier that killed one sailor,
infected about 1,200 others
and led to the resignation of
the Navy’s top leader.
Since then, the Navy
introduced a slew of new
protocols aimed at prevent-
ing outbreaks, from masking
guidelines to social distanc-
ing onboard ships to restric-
tions of travel at ports.
Great Lakes has also had
to change some of its opera-
“I want to explore
new things, see
some cool places.
The vaccine will
help with all of
that.”
— Seaman Dana
Malinowski, 19, of west
suburban Yorkville
tions, often in creative ways:
In spring 2020, hundreds of
new recruits were quaran-
tined at a temporarily closed
nearby indoor water park,
Great Wolf Lodge in north
suburban Gurnee; military
officials noted that recruits
had no access to “resort
amenities.”
In August the Navy began
quarantining new recruits
at Fort McCoy, a west-
ern Wisconsin Army base,
before shipping them to
Great Lakes, though this
practice ended last month.
Sailors say boot camp has
also changed in many ways,
from cleaning protocols to
masking to distancing. Some
lamented that traditional
large-scale boot camp grad-
uation ceremonies had to
Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Wednesday, May 19, 2021 9
be suspended, and family
members and friends could
no longer be present for this
major milestone. Instead,
smaller ceremonies have
been videotaped and posted
on the Facebook page of the
U.S. Navy Recruit Training
Command.
On Mother’s Day, there
was a special message
on the social media site,
reflecting the fears and
anxieties moms of recruits
have endured during the
pandemic.
“Some of you had to
have your hearts crushed
when you received a call
from (your) son or daugh-
ter stating they had to go
into another quarantine or
tested positive for COVID,”
reads part of the post, which
received more than a thou-
sand likes. “As a mother, you
feel helpless as you cannot
be here for them.”
Many mothers posted
thankful replies.
“It’s a hard journey to go
through as my daughter is
one of the ones that has to go
back into quarantine,” one
mom responded. “Mother’s
Day this year is definitely
very different and hard but
we are proud of her for serv-
ing our country.”
Fears, history,
informed
consent
Seaman Preston Wood-
rum said he decided to get
vaccinated in anticipation
of an upcoming trip home
to the Columbus, Ohio,
area, so he can safely visit
his parents, grandparents
and others who are at higher
risk.
“It helps out everyone
around us,” he said, just after
getting his second dose.
Yet Defense Department
officials say vaccine skep-
ticism remains a major
hurdle, particularly among
younger service members.
“We have heard anecdot-
ally that, and also through
surveys, such as Blue Star
Family surveys, that younger
people may feel that they’re
not as vulnerable to COVID
and that perhaps the risk of
getting vaccination is higher
than getting the disease,
which of course we know
not to be true,” said Dr. Terry
Adirim, acting assistant
Defense secretary for health
affairs, at an April news
briefing. “We’ve also heard
that people want to allow
those who may be more at
risk to get vaccinated. So
there’s all kinds of reasons
... and this is an area where
I think we could focus and
we could do a lot better in
focusing on that population,
to help them get educated
because the message really is
that you’re doing it not only
to protect yourself but also
your colleagues and team-
mates, your family and your
community.”
Social media sites offer a
glimpse at some of the fears
of service members who
are on the fence or plan to
decline vaccination, despite
the tested safety and effec-
tiveness of all three vaccines
available in the United
States.
“I (don’t) want a rushed
vaccine that could poten-
tially be harmful to my long-
term health,” one person
posted on a Reddit site for
Marines. “Simple as that
(don’t) want or need to go
much deeper into it than
that.”
Another Reddit page
titled “Why are soldiers
so afraid of the COVID
vaccine?” received more
than 200 comments.
“They offered a couple to
my unit and no one wanted
it except me,” one person
replied.
Some responses alluded
to the military’s controver-
sial anthrax vaccine immu-
nization program, created
decades ago to protect
service members from
biological warfare. A 2000
congressional commit-
tee report criticized that
vaccine’s “untested efficacy”
and “uncertain safety,” while
noting service member
complaints of side effects
and health problems.
In mid-2000, a federal
court ordered the Defense
Department to suspend
compulsory anthrax vacci-
nations, largely over ques-
tions as to whether the
immunization was effec-
tive against the inhalation
of anthrax as opposed to
exposure through touch-
ing the contaminant. But
after the FDA reaffirmed
the safety and effectiveness
of the vaccine against all
forms of anthrax, the mili-
tary eventually resumed its
use in some cases, making it
mandatory for personnel at
high-risk but voluntary for
most others.
Congress in 2003 passed
a law requiring informed
consent before military
personnel receive vaccines
under emergency use autho-
rization. Under the National
Defense Authorization Act,
the president can waive
informed consent in the
interest of national security.
While the Defense
Department can’t force
service members to get
immunized without that
waiver, military leaders
across the country have
been combating vaccine
myths and conspiracy theo-
ries with their own educa-
tion campaigns.
Senior officers have been
vaccinated publicly, to show
they believe the shot works
and is safe. Several Army
bases have offered extra
incentives for getting vacci-
nated, like additional days
off or gym access, according
to CNN.
Locally, Lovell Federal
Health Care Center crafted
a pro-COVID-19 vaccine
video featuring the hospi-
tal’s namesake: retired
astronaut and naval aviator
Capt. James A. Lovell, famed
commander of the Apollo 13
who resides in north subur-
ban Lake Forest.
The clip was posted on
Facebook in January and has
been viewed at least 5,000
times.
“Really, everybody should
be getting this vaccine to cut
out this coronavirus,” Lovell
said in the video, as he got
his shot. “Let’s get rid of this
terrible virus that has taken
over the entire country.”
eleventis@chicagotribune.
com
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Masks “The onus is what do I

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subject to an optional advi-
sory to continue their mask-
ing policy until COVID-19
restrictions are lifted in the
city, Arwady said. To avoid
confusion, she said, all busi-
nesses are asked to post a
sign informing customers
what their mask policy will
be “so the public can choose
whether to enter.”
“We continue to strongly
advise, though not require,
masking policies for all
indoor settings in Chicago
until COVID capacity
restrictions are lifted,”
Arwady said. “This advisory
applies to any setting that
does not have the capacity
to check vaccination status
and/or where employees,
clients or attendees are not
all known to be vaccinated.”
Whether to continue
wearing a mask in many
spaces is also the ques-
tion for many vaccinated
people after the Centers for
Disease Control and Preven-
tion revised their guid-
ance, saying that those who
are two weeks past their
vaccines can mostly return
to pre-pandemic activities
without masks.
We asked people who
live and work in different
areas where they would and
would not wear masks, and
what they were consider-
ing as they made these deci-
sions.
For now, Dr. Jeffrey
Linder, Northwestern Medi-
cine’s chief of general inter-
nal medicine and geriatrics,
has a generally clear line.
He plans on wearing a mask
indoors and not wearing a
mask outdoors.
“Outdoors is easier,” he
said. “It has always seemed
very low-risk to me and,
since more data has come
out about the effectiveness
of vaccines, even lower risk.”
Echoing many who
said something similar,
he plans to wear a mask
indoors not for him, but
for others. He feels it is out
of respect for people who
for many reasons, whether
because they have cancer
or a compromised immune
system or can’t get time off,
haven’t been vaccinated yet.
“Even though my risk of
transmitting COVID to them
People walk outside cafes and restaurants Tuesday in the 1300 block of East 57th Street in Chicago.
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is extremely low, they do not
know that I’m vaccinated
and could be concerned,”
Linder said.
As overall case rates come
down, he noted, the risk for
everyone will go down. Still,
he added, “I’m not sure I’ll
ever get on the CTA again in
the winter without a mask.”
On Monday, Mayor
Lori Lightfoot said she
thinks “some clarification
is needed” from the CDC,
adding that she plans to
continue wearing a mask
indoors and in some outdoor
situations in which she is
uncertain whether folks
around her have been vacci-
nated.
“It’s great to say you don’t
need to wear masks if you’re
fully vaccinated, but that
raises a whole set of ques-
tions that I think, perhaps,
they didn’t clearly antici-
pate,” Lightfoot said. “So I
think some clarification is
needed, and I expect that to
be coming soon.”
The CDC released the
new, unexpected guidelines
last Thursday. A day later,
Chicago instated new rules
for restaurants and bars that
expanded vaccine exemp-
tions for capacity limits and
included additional perks
for late-night venues, which
would escape the 1 a.m.
curfew if they only allowed
vaccinated people inside.
Businesses must check their
patrons’ vaccination status
to qualify.
Owners of places from
restaurants to fitness studios
have been scrambling to
figure out how to respond
to the updated guidance,
balancing keeping custom-
ers happy and protecting
their employees. Businesses
must ensure all visitors can
practice social distancing or
encourage masks.
Deborah Rivera, owner of
Ambrosia Euro-American
Patisserie in Barrington,
said she won’t be taking
down the sign requiring
masks any time soon. “I feel
like it’s important to protect
my staff when customers
are ordering at our counter,”
she said.
And she’ll keep wearing
a face covering on errands
to the store, the post office,
Home Depot. “It seems like a
common courtesy, whether
you’re vaccinated or not.”
Adding to the calculation
for parents or teachers is
being around children under
age 12, who cannot yet be
vaccinated.
Sonja Crum Knight, vice
president of programs and
impact for Carole Robert-
son Center for Learning,-
said staffers at their West
Side programs will continue
to wear masks, even as the
majority of employees are
vaccinated. “The bottom
line for us is that children
cannot yet be vaccinated,”
she said, adding they “expect
we’ll require masks for some
time to come.”
Kristin Meekhof, a Mich-
igan author and thera-
pist, is fully vaccinated.
But because her mother is
immunocompromised, she
will keep wearing a mask
around people where she
can’t be sure of their status.
Plus, now that she knows
more about how masks can
protect from other illnesses,
too, like the flu, “I’m going
to be using the mask as a
preventative measure.”
Much of the new world
might come down to how
much we can trust others.
The city acknowledged
in an FAQ that “at this point,
there is no uniform proof
of vaccine.” Ultimately,
Arwady said Tuesday, the
solution is getting more
people vaccinated.
“We now have a tool
that is more effective than
a mask, than distancing,
than hand-washing, and
that is choosing to get your
vaccine,” Arwady said. “It’s
by far the most important
thing you can do for your
family, your community
and the city to get us past
COVID.”
The CDC’s decision was
not only a recommenda-
tion change but also a phil-
osophical shift, said Laurie
Zoloth, a bioethicist at the
University of Chicago. It
essentially changed the
national philosophy from
“none of us is safe until all of
us is safe” to a more person-
al-protective approach, she
said. Because vaccinated
people are protected, they
can loosen restrictions.
But what about those who
cannot be vaccinated, like
those with health conditions
that restrict vaccine options
or children?
The new guidance might
tempt people to lie, she said,
creating situations where
people can more easily avoid
masks even if not vacci-
nated. “Have we made it so
that people can harm them-
selves?” she asked.
For people mulling
whether to wear masks
around others, she said the
way to think about it ethi-
cally is to think about the
other person.
owe the other,” she said,
“and what I owe the other
is to wear a mask.” Absent
a situation where some-
one looks at you and says,
“I’ve been vaccinated,” she
said, “the default should be
that you should be wearing
a mask around strangers
because you don’t know and
you want to protect them.”
As far as trusting that a
stranger is being honest with
their vaccination status, “I
think our default should be
that people are good and
people are honest. But it’s
a contagious disease that
could kill you.”
She will be wearing her
mask while indoors and
around others, and outside
when she sees someone else
wearing a mask. “I want to
signal that I’m in solidarity
with those people who are
not vaccinated,” she said,
adding, “It’s no big deal to
wear a mask.”
The most obvious ethical
choice, she said, is to at least
bring a mask. “It has to be
readily available.”
Recently, Dr. June McKoy,
associate professor of medi-
cine at Northwestern
University Feinberg School
of Medicine, was sitting on
a CTA bus when a masked
man asked if he could sit
on the seat next to her. It
was the first time since the
pandemic that she had been
faced with a non-distanced
seating request, and it star-
tled her for a moment. She
asked if he’d been vacci-
nated. He said yes, and she
said yes. “I took a chance,”
she said, that he was telling
the truth.
She will keep her mask on
in public places, knowing
she can’t be sure of ventila-
tion systems in, for example,
a grocery store. She will eat
in a restaurant where she
is confident in the ventila-
tion; her co-diners must be
fully vaccinated. In the park,
she’ll take her mask off, but
if it gets congested, back on
it will go.
As for any large family
gatherings, she said, “I love
my family, but until they
are all fully vaccinated, they
will not see my face anytime
soon.”
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Attorney: New photos point to Yang’s innocence

By Clifford Ward
For The News-Sun
Previously undisclosed
crime scene photos buttress
Marni Yang’s assertion that
she did not kill the girl-
friend of former Chicago
Bear Shaun Gayle, Yang’s
attorney said in a new court
motion filed Monday.
Her attorney, Jed Stone,
said Yang could not have
shot Rhoni Reuter to death
in 2007 based on photos of
Reuter’s condo that were
recently released by Deer-
field police. The photos
support Yang’s contention
that she did not kill Reuter,
who was pregnant with
Gayle’s child at the time of
her death.
Yang, who had been
romantically involved with
Gayle, was found guilty of
Reuter’s murder in 2011 but
has filed a post-conviction
petition alleging her inno-
cence. Her petition says that
bullet trajectories measured
at the crime scene rule out
the 5-foot-tall Yang as the
shooter. Stone said that
crime scene photos further
support the assertion.
After the court-ordered
release, the photos were
discovered among those
taken by investigators after
the homicide, Stone said.
The motion also contends
that Reuter, who was 42, had
facial contusions that she
received two or more days
before her death on Oct. 4,
2007. The original autopsy
failed to take note of them,
the motion said.
“Someone beat this
woman a few days before
she was killed,” the motion
said. “It wasn’t Marni Yang.”
The motion said friends
heard Reuter and Gayle
arguing several days before
she was killed, and that
Gayle had unexplained
scabs and abrasions on his
hands when he was ques-
tioned by police following
the fatal shooting.
Gayle, however, was
excluded as a suspect by
police.
Police later arrested Yang,
whom authorities say shot
Reuter out of jealousy. At her
trial, prosecutors played a
recording of a conversation
during which Yang impli-
cated herself. Yang, 53, is
serving a life sentence.
Yang’s petition seeking
a new trial or vacation of
her conviction was back in
court Tuesday for a brief
hearing. Judge Christopher
Stride set a late July date for
Lake County prosecutors
to respond to the defense
motion. Prosecutors did not
immediately respond to a
request for comment.

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ists, who accuse the city of

perpetuating environmen-
tal racism in neighborhoods
scarred by heavy metals
and toxic chemicals from
current and defunct indus-
tries.
Air-quality modeling
commissioned by RMG
determined the proposed
shredder would not endan-
ger its neighbors, the
company said in its lawsuit,
which contends the facility
would help protect the envi-
ronment by keeping scrap
metal out of landfills.
The complaint accuses
the city of violating RMG’s
constitutional rights as a
landowner. By refusing to
award the city permit, the
company’s lawyers argued,
the Lightfoot administra-
tion “has effectively taken
the value of RMG’s property
without just compensation.”
City officials also are being
squeezed by the EPA and the
U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development. In
response to a petition from Reserve Management Group on the Southeast Side has filed a lawsuit of more than $100 million against the city of Chicago, charging Mayor Lori Lightfoot of
community groups, HUD reneging on a deal to fast-track a new metals shredder along the Calumet River near 116th Street and Avenue O. ZBIGNIEW BZDAK/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
launched a civil rights inves-
tigation last year focusing on thorough analysis of the After quietly doing busi- 2018. Neighbors routinely lobbyists close to the two Though General Iron
city ordinances that protect cumulative burden of pollu- ness in Chicago for years, complained about noxious previous mayors, Rich- shredded its last car at the
industries in certain parts tion on the Southeast Side. RMG became a target in odors and shards of metal ard M. Daley and Rahm end of 2020, its troubles
of Chicago without consid- In a statement, Light- 2019 when it purchased the drifting into their homes; Emanuel, as well as Patrick with the EPA aren’t over.
eration of the health and foot said her administration General Iron shredder and a city inspector once docu- Collins, a former U.S. attor- On Tuesday, the agency
well-being of people who “has engaged in a thought- scrap yard from members of mented “untreated emis- ney who led the prosecution sent RMG a notice that it
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Mideast
from Page 1
those in the territories Israel
seized in 1967 that the Pales-
tinians have long sought for
a future state.
The strike was intended
to protest the war and Israeli
policies that many activists
and some rights groups say
constitute an overarching
system of apartheid that
denies Palestinians rights
afforded to Jews.
Israel rejects that charac-
terization, saying its citizens
have equal rights. It blames
the war on Hamas, the
Islamic militant group that
controls Gaza, and accuses
it of inciting violence.
Leaders of the Palestin-
ian community in Israel
called the strike, which was
embraced by the interna-
tionally backed Palestin-
ian Authority in the West
Bank, where ministries and
schools were closed. Most
businesses appeared to be
observing the strike.
Strike organizer Muham-
mad Barakeh said Palestin-
ians are standing against
Israeli “aggression” in Gaza
and Jerusalem, as well
as “brutal repression” by
police.
The war has also seen
an unusual outbreak of
violence in Israel, with
groups of Jewish and Pales-
tinian citizens fighting in the
streets and torching vehicles
and buildings.
In both Israel and the
West Bank, Palestinian
protesters have clashed
with Israeli security forces.
Scores have been injured,
including a Jewish man
who died Monday after
being attacked last week by a
group of Arabs in the central
city of Lod.
The fighting began
May 10 when Hamas fired
long-range rockets toward
Jerusalem in support of
Palestinian protests against
Israel’s heavy-handed polic-
ing of the Al-Aqsa Mosque
compound, a flash point site
sacred to Jews and Muslims,
and the threatened eviction
of dozens of Palestinian
families by Jewish settlers.
At least 217 Palestin-
ians have been killed in
airstrikes, including 63 chil-
dren, with more than 1,500
people wounded, according
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A Palestinian youth looks for salvageable items in the rubble
of a building in Gaza that was hit by an Israeli airstrike Tuesday.
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Israelis in the city of Ashdod take shelter in a building stairwell
Tuesday after a siren warned of rockets fired from the Gaza
Strip. HEIDI LEVINE/AP
to the Gaza Health Ministry,
which does not break the
numbers down into fighters
and civilians.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad
say at least 20 of their fight-
ers have been killed, while
Israel says the number is at
least 130.
Twelve people in Israel,
including a 5-year-old boy,
have been killed in rocket
attacks.
Tuesday’s rocket attack
from Gaza hit a packaging
plant in a region border-
ing the territory, killing
two Thai workers. Israel’s
Magen David Adom rescue
service said it took another
seven to the hospital. Thai
Foreign Ministry spokes-
man Tanee Sangrat said the
wounded were also Thai.
The Israeli military said
rockets also were fired at
the Erez pedestrian cross-
ing and at the Kerem Shalom
crossing, where humanitar-
ian aid was being brought
into Gaza, forcing both to
close. It said a soldier was
slightly wounded at Erez.
Israeli airstrikes into Gaza
demolished a six-story build-
ing housing bookstores and
educational centers used by
the Islamic University and
Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Wednesday, May 19, 2021 13
other colleges. Desks, office
chairs, books and wires could
be seen in the debris. Israel
warned its occupants before-
hand, sending them fleeing
before dawn.
There were no reports of
casualties.
The Israeli military has
launched hundreds of
airstrikes it says are target-
ing Hamas’ militant infra-
structure, while Palestinian
militants have fired more
than 3,400 rockets from
civilian areas in Gaza at civil-
ian targets in Israel.
Israeli military spokes-
man Lt. Col. Jonathan
Conricus said the military
was focusing on destroying
the tunnels where Hamas
fighters hide, move between
locations and resupply
launchers with rockets to
fire at Israel.
The tunnels run under
civilian neighborhoods, and
Israeli airstrikes have been
trying to target roads above
them to minimize damage to
buildings, Conricus said.
One weekend airstrike
that Israel said targeted a
tunnel caused several build-
ings to collapse and killed 42
people in the deadliest single
attack of the conflict.
14 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Wednesday, May 19, 2021
McConnell hits ‘pause’ on riot panel
GOP hesitancy may
slow push to look at
Jan. 6 Capitol siege
By Mary Clare Jalonick,
Alan Fram and
Lisa Mascaro
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Senate
Republicans are signaling
that they will try to block
— or at least slow down — a
Democratic effort to create
a 9/11-style commission
on the deadly Jan. 6 insur-
rection at the U.S. Capitol,
threatening the chances of
a deeper, independent look
at the siege and how it could
be prevented from happen-
ing again.
Senate Republican Leader
Mitch McConnell said Tues-
day that he is “pushing the
pause button,” on the legisla-
tion to form the commission,
which is expected to pass the
House this week despite the
opposition of House Repub-
lican Leader Kevin McCar-
thy. That means the bill is
likely to have a more diffi-
cult path when it reaches
the Senate, where majority
Democrats will need at least
10 GOP votes to pass it.
McConnell told report-
ers that his caucus is “unde-
cided” but “willing to listen”
to the arguments about
“whether such a commis-
sion is needed.” He ques-
tioned whether the panel’s
work would interfere with
the hundreds of criminal
investigations into the Jan.
6 attack and whether the
“fine print” of the bill would
ensure that both parties on
the commission have an
equal say.
He also questioned a
separate, $1.9 billion spend-
ing bill that the House is
expected to pass this week
for security upgrades.
Mideast conflict dwarfs
Biden’s domestic agenda
Issue, Mich. protests
siphon steam out of
infrastructure push
By Jonathan Lemire,
Darlene Superville
and Josh Boak
Associated Press
DEARBORN, Mich. —
President Joe Biden’s efforts
to spotlight his infrastruc-
ture plans are suddenly
being overshadowed by the
escalating violence between
Israel and the Palestin-
ians, the conflict sparking
protests during his visit to a
Ford electric vehicle center
in Michigan on Tuesday
as the White House faced
growing pressure to inter-
vene.
Biden, who planned to use
the two-week stretch before
Memorial Day to build
Republican support for his
$2.3 trillion package, visited
a Ford plant in Dearborn on
Tuesday to make his case
that his plans could help
steer the country toward a
bright electric-car future.
But any presidential script
is subject to real-world
rewrites, and Biden faces
rising pressure to weigh in
more forcefully to stop the
Middle East violence — as,
by a scheduling quirk, he
visited a city that is almost
half Arab American.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that his caucus is “undecided” but “willing to listen” to arguments about
“whether such a commission is needed.” With McConnell are GOP Sens. John Thune, left, and Roy Blunt. KEVIN DIETSCH/GETTY
“We’re not sure what to
spend the money on yet,”
McConnell said.
McCarthy’s opposition
and McConnell’s hesitancy
will almost certainly mean
fewer Republicans will
support the commission in
both chambers.
Most in the party are still
loathe to upset former Pres-
ident Donald Trump, who
had encouraged his support-
ers to head to Capitol Hill
that day to stop the count-
ing of the electoral votes
and overturn his defeat to
Democrat Joe Biden.
But it will also expose
divisions in the party, as
some Republicans have said
they think an independent
The Ford Rouge plant
is in a section of Dearborn
that’s estimated to be more
than 90% Arab American
Muslim, many of the locals
strong supporters of Pales-
tinians. Protests took place
across the city while Biden
was there.
In a speech at the plant,
Biden made only passing
mention of the conflict,
warmly addressing Mich-
igan Rep. Rashida Tlaib,
as she sat in the audience,
saying he would pray that
her grandmother and other
family were well in the West
Bank.
“I promise you I’m going
to do everything to see that
they are,” said Biden, who
met Tlaib and fellow Michi-
gan Democratic Rep. Debbie
Dingell earlier at the Detroit
airport where all three
huddled in conversation
on the tarmac for several
minutes.
The Biden administra-
tion has been conducting
what it calls quiet diplomacy
while declining to press for
an immediate cease-fire by
close ally Israel and Hamas.
But privately, Biden admin-
istration have encouraged
Prime Minister Benja-
min Netanyahu and other
top Israeli officials to wind
down the bombardment of
Gaza, a person with knowl-
edge of the discussions said
review is necessary.
In private GOP caucus
meetings across the Capi-
tol on Tuesday, members
argued for and against the
idea.
Several Republican
lawmakers joined McCar-
thy in speaking against the
commission early Tuesday
during a meeting of House
Republicans, according
to one Republican famil-
iar with the private session
who was granted anonymity
to discuss it.
The Republican who
negotiated the bill with
Democrats, New York Rep.
John Katko, argued in favor.
“I recognize there are
differing views on this issue,
Tuesday.
Top Biden administra-
tion officials underscored
to the Israelis on Monday
and Tuesday that time is
not on their side in terms of
international objections to
more than a week of Israeli
airstrikes and Hamas rock-
ets, and that it is in their
interest to conclude the
operations soon, accord-
ing to the official, who was
not authorized to comment
publicly on the talks and
spoke on condition of
anonymity.
The account shows Biden
administration officials
going further privately in
messaging to Netanyahu
than they have previously
revealed.
A White House readout
of a Biden call to Netanyahu
on Monday said Biden had
expressed support for a
cease-fire, but said nothing
about the U.S. urging Israel
to bring fighting to a close.
The Palestinian ambas-
sador to the United Nations
on Tuesday challenged the
Biden administration to
show any results from what
it is calling its quiet diplo-
macy to stop the new Israe-
li-Hamas battles.
Ambassador Riyad
Mansour pointed to the U.S.
repeatedly blocking a U.N.
Security Council action on
the conflict, and he urged
Famed rock formation in the Galapagos collapses
By Daniel Victor
The New York Times
Darwin’s Arch, a famous,
photo-friendly rock forma-
tion in the remote Galapa-
gos Islands, has collapsed
because of natural erosion,
Ecuadorian officials said.
The collapse Monday of
the natural archway in the
Pacific Ocean, about 600
miles west of continental
Ecuador, left a pile of rubble
between two pillars.
The waters around the
arch are known as a desti-
which is an inherent part
of the legislative process
and not something I take
personally,” Katko said in
a statement. “However,
as the Republican Leader
of the Homeland Secu-
rity Committee, I feel a
deep obligation to get the
answers U.S. Capitol Police
and Americans deserve and
ensure an attack on the heart
of our democracy never
happens again.”
McConnell said his
caucus had “a good discus-
sion” in their closed-door
lunch.
Some Republicans,
such as Missouri Sen. Roy
Blunt, recommended that
his colleagues oppose the
President Joe Biden made only a passing mention of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during a
speech Tuesday at a Ford electric vehicle center in Dearborn, Michigan. EVAN VUCCI/AP
the Biden administration
to do more. “If the Biden
administration can exert
all of their pressure to bring
an end to the aggression
against our people, nobody
is going to stand in their
way,” Mansour said.
The White House has
made the calculation the
Israelis will not respond to
international resolutions or
public demands by the U.S.
and that the greatest lever-
age is behind-the-scenes
pressure, officials said.
At the same time, the
White House is mindful
that the longer the conflict
goes, the greater chance of a
very-high-casualty event or
other provocative action by
either side that could make
reaching a cease-fire more
nation for divers, with tours
from the main islands offer-
ing the opportunity to spot
sharks, turtles, manta rays
and dolphins. The arch
was less than a mile from
the uninhabited Darwin
Island; both are named after
Charles Darwin, the scien-
tist whose study of species
on the islands in 1835 influ-
enced his theory of evolu-
tion and natural selection.
Monuments and islands
everywhere are under
threat of erosion, sometimes
from the simple passage of
commission.
Blunt, the top Repub-
lican on the Senate Rules
Committee, is working on
a bipartisan report with his
Democratic colleagues that
will include some recom-
mendations for security
upgrades. He said an inde-
pendent investigation would
take too long and “frankly, I
don’t think there are that
many gaps to be filled in on
what happened on January
6th, as it relates to building
security.”
Other Senate Republi-
cans have signaled support
for the commission.
Utah Sen. Mitt Romney
said earlier Tuesday that
given the violent attack, “we
difficult.
To this point in Biden’s
young term, foreign policy
has taken a backseat.
The president has
stressed the need to first
focus on domestic matters
— taming the COVID-19
pandemic and reshaping
the economy — to prove
that democracies can still
compete with global autoc-
racies, namely China.
But the intractable
conflict in Gaza has derailed
that narrative.
Aboard Air Force One
for the flight to Michigan,
White House press secre-
tary Jen Psaki was peppered
with questions about the
administration’s response to
the violence before she was
asked about electric cars.
time. But UNESCO, the
U.N. Educational, Scien-
tific and Cultural Organi-
zation, has warned that the
Galapagos Islands are one
of the world’s most vulner-
able places to the effects of
climate change.
The islands sit at the
intersection of three ocean
currents and are vulnera-
ble to the El Nino weather
system, which causes rapid
warming of Pacific Ocean
waters. The warming waters
threaten the species that
Darwin observed.
should understand what
mistakes were made and
how we could prevent them
from happening again.”
Modeled after the inves-
tigation into the 9/11 terror-
ist attacks, the bill would
establish an independent
10-member commission
that would make recom-
mendations for securing
the Capitol and preventing
another insurrection. The
panel would have to issue a
final report by Dec. 31.
The debate over the
commission comes at a time
when some Republicans
have begun to downplay the
severity of the Jan. 6 attack.
And many Republicans say
the commission should
only be established if it can
investigate other violent
acts, including protests last
summer in the aftermath of
the death of George Floyd.
McConnell declined to
answer a question about
whether he agreed with
that, saying only that Repub-
licans were “evaluating what
is appropriate.”
Some have suggested that
McCarthy himself could be
subpoenaed by the panel
because he talked to Trump
as the Capitol was breached.
Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney,
who was booted out of GOP
leadership last week for her
criticism of Trump’s false
claims of a stolen election,
suggested as much in an
interview with ABC News,
saying she “wouldn’t be
surprised” if McCarthy was
questioned in the investiga-
tion. Cheney has backed the
commission.
Cheney and Katko are two
of 10 Republicans who voted
to impeach Trump after
the insurrection for telling
his supporters that day to
“fight like hell” to overturn
his defeat. The Senate later
acquitted him.
She defended Biden’s
cautious approach to this
point.
“He’s been doing this long
enough to know that the best
way to end an international
conflict is typically not to
debate it in public,” she said.
During his tour of the
Dearborn facilities Biden
kept the focus on jobs while
emphasizing the impor-
tance of his infrastructure
plan.
“The future of the auto
industry is electric. There’s
no turning back,” Biden said.
Biden wanted to orient his
foreign policy around Amer-
ican workers, but the Israel
conflict has underscored the
challenges in combining his
domestic and international
agendas.
Easter Island also stands
to be eroded by rising
waters, threatening its resi-
dents and moai statues.
The Galapagos, once a
destination for only well-
off travelers, had seen an
increase in tourism before
the coronavirus pandemic,
with visitor numbers jump-
ing 90% between 2007 and
2016. That has concerned
some conservationists, who
worried the extra visitors
would put pressure on the
islands’ infrastructure and
encroach on animal habitats.

Interpreters fear being left behind
With US pullout on
horizon, Afghans say
they ‘are not safe’
By Rahim Faiez
and Ben Fox
Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan —
He served as an interpreter
alongside U.S. soldiers on
hundreds of patrols and
dozens of firefights in east-
ern Afghanistan, earning
a glowing letter of recom-
mendation from an Ameri-
can platoon commander and
a medal of commendation.
Still, Ayazudin Hilal
was turned down when he
applied for one of the scarce
special visas that would
allow him to relocate to
the United States with his
family.
Now, as American and
NATO forces prepare to
leave the country, he and
thousands of others who
aided the war effort fear
they will be left stranded,
facing the prospect of Tali-
ban reprisals.
“We are not safe,” the
41-year-old father of six
said of Afghan civilians
who worked for the U.S. or
NATO. “The Taliban is call-
ing us and telling us, ‘Your
stepbrother is leaving the
country soon, and we will
kill all of you guys.’ ”
The fate of interpreters
after the troop withdrawal
is one of the looming uncer-
tainties surrounding the
pullout, including a possi-
ble resurgence of terrorist
threats and a reversal of frag-
ile gains for women if chaos,
whether from competing
Kabul-based warlords or the
Taliban, follows the end of
America’s military engage-
ment.
Interpreters and other
civilians who worked for the
U.S. government or NATO
can get what is known as
a special immigrant visa
under a program created in
2009 and modeled after a
similar program for Iraqis.
Both programs have been
dogged by complaints about
a lengthy and complicated
Rep. Grace Meng, left, joined by Rep. Mark Takano and Rep. Judy Chu, speaks about the
passage of the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act on Tuesday in Washington. KEVIN DIETSCH/GETTY
Congress sends anti-Asian
hate crimes bill to president
By Brian Slodysko
Associated Press
WA S H I NG T O N —
Congress approved legis-
lation Tuesday intended to
curtail a striking rise in hate
crimes against Asian Amer-
icans and Pacific Island-
ers, sending President Joe
Biden a bipartisan denun-
ciation of the spate of brutal
attacks that have prolifer-
ated during the coronavi-
rus pandemic.
The bill, which the House
passed on a 364-62 vote,
will expedite the review of
hate crimes at the Justice
Department and make
grants available to help local
law enforcement agencies
improve their investigation,
identification and reporting
of incidents driven by bias,
which often go underre-
ported. It previously passed
the Senate 94-1 in April
after lawmakers reached a
compromise. Biden has said
he will sign it.
“Asian Americans have
been screaming out for help,
and the House and Senate
and President Biden have
clearly heard our pleas,”
said Rep. Grace Meng,
D-N.Y., who helped lead
efforts to pass the bill in the
Ayazudin Hilal, 41, a father of six and a former Afghan interpreter with U.S. forces, shows his photo with American Army soldiers
during an interview after a protest against the U.S. government and NATO last month in Kabul, Afghanistan. MARIAM ZUHAIB/AP
application process for secu-
rity screening that grew
more cumbersome with
pandemic safety measures.
U.S. Secretary of State
Antony Blinken said last
month that the U.S. is
committed to helping inter-
preters and other Afghan
civilians who aided the war
effort, often at great personal
risk.
The Biden administra-
tion is reviewing the visas
programs, examining the
delays and the ability of
applicants to challenge a
rejection.
Former interpreters,
who typically seek to shield
their identities and keep a
low profile, are becoming
increasingly public about
what they fear will happen
should the Taliban return to
power.
“They absolutely are
going to kill us,” Moham-
mad Shoaib Walizada, a
former interpreter for the
U.S. Army, said in an inter-
House.
To many Asian Amer-
icans, the pandemic has
invigorated deep-seated
biases that in some cases
date back to the Chinese
Exclusion Act of more than
a century ago. President
Donald Trump repeatedly
referred to the virus, which
emerged in Wuhan, China,
as the “China Virus” or the
“Kung Flu.” And as cases
of the illness began to rise
in the U.S., so too did the
attacks, with thousands of
violent incidents reported
in the past year.
Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif.,
said it’s painful for many
to “open up the newspaper
everyday and see that yet
another Asian American
has been assaulted, attacked
and even killed.”
In February, an 84-year-
old man died after he was
pushed to the ground near
his home in San Francisco. A
young family was injured in
a Texas grocery store attack
last year. And in Georgia, six
Asian women were killed
in March during a series of
shootings targeting workers
at spa businesses. Prosecu-
tors are seeking hate crimes
charges.
Yet to some activists,
view after joining others in
a protest in Kabul.
At least 300 interpreters
have been killed in Afghan-
istan since 2016, and the
Taliban have made it clear
they will continue to be
targeted, said Matt Zeller, a
co-founder of No One Left
Behind, an organization that
advocates on behalf of the
interpreters.
He also served in Afghan-
istan as a U.S. Army officer.
“The Taliban considers
them to be literally enemies
of Islam,” said Zeller, now
a fellow at the Truman
National Security Project.
“There’s no mercy for them.”
In December, Congress
added 4,000 visas, bringing
the total number of Afghans
who can come with their
immediate family members
to 26,500, with about half
the allotted amount already
used and about 18,000 appli-
cations pending.
The application process
now typically takes more
including organizations
representing gay and trans-
gender Asian Americans,
the legislation is misguided.
More than 100 groups have
signed onto a statement
opposing the bill for relying
too heavily on law enforce-
ment while providing too
little funding to address the
underlying issues driving a
rise in hate crimes.
“We have had hate crimes
laws since 1968, it’s been
expanded over and over
again, and this new legis-
lation is more of the same,”
said Jason Wu, who is
co-chair of GAPIMNY-Em-
powering Queer & Trans
Asian Pacific Islanders.
“These issues are about bias,
but also rooted in inequality,
and lack of investment and
resources for our communi-
ties. Not a shortage of police
and jails.”
Meng acknowledged
some of the concerns, but
countered that the wide-
spread underreporting of
hate crimes needs to be
addressed.
“Law enforcement is
currently underreporting
these kinds of incidents and
it makes it easy to ignore
hate crimes all together,”
she said.
than three years.
Noah Coburn, a politi-
cal anthropologist whose
research focuses on Afghan-
istan, estimates there could
be as many as 300,000
Afghan civilians who
worked for the U.S. or NATO
in some form over the past
two decades.
Adam Bates, policy coun-
sel for the International
Refugee Assistance Project,
said that “there is a wide
range of Afghans who would
not be tolerated under the
Taliban’s conception of what
society should look like.”
Former interpreters have
support in Congress, in part
because many also have
former American troops
vouching for them.
Walizada, for example,
submitted a letter of support
from a U.S. Army sergeant
who supervised him in
dozens of patrols, including
one where the interpreter
was wounded by Taliban
gunfire. “I cannot recall a
NC prosecutor: 3 deputies
justified in shooting driver
By Ben Finley
and Jonathan Drew
Associated Press
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C.
— A North Carolina pros-
ecutor said Tuesday that
sheriff ’s deputies were
justified in fatally shooting
Andrew Brown Jr. because
he struck a deputy with his
car and nearly ran him over
while ignoring commands
to show his hands and get
out of the vehicle.
D i s t r i c t At t o r n e y
Andrew Womble said at
a news conference that
Brown used his car as a
“deadly weapon,” causing
Pasquotank County depu-
ties to believe it was neces-
sary to use deadly force.
Womble, who acknowl-
edged Brown wasn’t armed
with guns or other weapons,
said the deputies will face
no criminal charges after he
reviewed a state investiga-
tion of what happened.
Brown’s family released a
statement calling Womble’s
decision “both an insult and
a slap in the face.”
The prosecutor also said
he would not release body-
cam video of the April 21
confrontation between
Brown and the law enforce-
ment officers, but he played
portions of the video during
the news conference that
news outlets broadcast live.
The multiple angles of the
footage, played once each
on a projector, depicted
a chaotic minutelong
scene, but it was hard for a
viewer to discern a detailed
sequence of events.
While authorities have
shown footage to Brown’s
family, a judge has refused
to release the video publicly
because he didn’t want to
harm a state investigation.
Attorneys for Brown’s
family who watched body
camera footage have previ-
ously said that he was trying
to drive away from deputies
and posed no threat. The
shooting has prompted
weeks of protests in Eliza-
beth City and calls for trans-
Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Wednesday, May 19, 2021 15
linguist who had a greater
dedication to his country
or the coalition cause,” the
sergeant wrote.
Walizada was initially
approved for a visa, but it
was later revoked. U.S. Citi-
zenship and Immigration
Services told him that it had
“adverse information you
may be unaware of,” accord-
ing to a letter he provided to
Associated Press. Walizada
said he has appealed the
decision and hasn’t received
a response.
Hilal, who translated
from Dari and Pashto to
English for the U.S. Army
from June 2009 to Decem-
ber 2012, was rejected by the
U.S. Embassy, which said he
did not meet the require-
ment for “faithful and valu-
able service,” because he
was fired by the contracting
firm that hired him after 3 ½
years of service.
“If I haven’t done faithful
and good service for the U.S.
Army, why have they given
Pasquotank County District Attorney Andrew Womble
explains Tuesday why deputies would not be charged in the
fatal shooting April 21. TRAVIS LONG/THE NEWS & OBSERVER
parency.
During his news confer-
ence, Womble said six
Pasquotank County depu-
ties attempting to serve
drug-related search and
arrest warrants arrived in
a truck and approached
Brown’s car on foot with
weapons drawn while
ordering him to get out.
A deputy who tried to
open Brown’s car door was
jerked over the hood when
the car backed up, and the
deputy’s body was struck by
the vehicle, the prosecutor
said. The deputy then found
himself in the car’s path as
Brown drove forward again,
Womble said, and had to
push off the hood with his
hand “to avoid being run
over.”
Womble said that was
when the first shot was fired
by a fellow deputy.
“I find that the facts
of this case clearly illus-
trate the officers who used
deadly force on Andrew
Brown Jr. did so reasonably
and only when a violent
felon used a deadly weapon
to put their lives in danger,”
Womble said, referring to
Brown’s car.
He added that “Brown
posed an immediate threat
to the safety of the officers
and others.”
Though Womble said
me this medal?” he said,
holding the commendation,
in an interview at an office
in Kabul used by the former
interpreters to meet with
journalists.
Why he was fired by
the U.S.-based contrac-
tor, Mission Essential, is
unclear. Hilal said he had
a conflict with supervisors
that started with a dispute
over a work assignment. The
company says it does not
discuss current or former
employees and declined to
comment.
But whatever happened,
a November 2019 letter of
support from his platoon
commander was highly
complimentary of “stel-
lar” service that “rivals that
of most deployed service
members.”
Hilal was by the
commander’s side on
hundreds of patrols and
dozens of firefights, moni-
toring enemy radio traf-
fic and interpreting during
encounters with locals, U.S.
Army Maj. Thomas Good-
man said in the letter.
“He was dependable
and performed admirably,”
Goodman wrote. “Even in
firefights that lasted hours
on end, he never lost his
nerve, and I could always
count him to be by my side.”
As it happens, an AP jour-
nalist was embedded with
the unit for a time, amid
intense fighting in eastern
Afghanistan, and captured
images of Hilal and Good-
man, surrounded by villag-
ers as American forces
competed with the Taliban
for the support of the people.
Goodman said he stands
by his recommendation
but declined to comment
further.
The special immigration
visa program allows appli-
cants to make one appeal,
and many are successful.
Nearly 80% of 243 Afghans
who appealed in the first
quarter of 2021 were subse-
quently approved after
providing additional infor-
mation, according to the
State Department. Hilal said
his appeal was rejected.
at least two deputies were
endangered by Brown’s
driving, the sheriff has
said his deputies weren’t
injured.
The deputies who fired
shots — Investigator Daniel
Meads, Deputy Robert
Morgan and Cpl. Aaron
Lewellyn — have been on
leave since it happened. The
sheriff’s office said Morgan
is Black, while Meads
and Lewellyn are white.
Womble said the deputies
have no prior use-of-force
complaints.
Four other deputies
involved in serving the
warrants were reinstated
after the sheriff said it was
clear they didn’t fire shots.
Womble said a medi-
cal examiner working for
the state found that Brown
died from multiple gunshot
wounds after being hit in
the back of the head and
right shoulder. Womble said
the medical examiner, who
spoke to him by phone, also
described superficial “abra-
sions” to his arm, leg and
back from bullet shrapnel.
The state’s written autopsy
hasn’t been released.
Two deputies fired nine
shots from Glock hand-
guns and the third fired five
rounds from an AR-15 rifle,
according to Womble, based
on spent shell casings.
16 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Wednesday, May 19, 2021
CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK
Keeping masks on, maybe forever
But public backlash
mounts on those still
choosing to cover up
By Sarah Maslin Nir
The New York Times
Whenever Joe Glickman
heads out for groceries, he
places an N95 mask over his
face and tugs a cloth mask on
top of it.
He then pulls on a pair of
goggles.
He has used this safety
protocol for the past 14
months. It did not change
after he contracted the coro-
navirus in November. It did
not budge when, earlier
this month, he became
fully vaccinated. And even
though President Joe Biden
said last week that fully
vaccinated people do not
have to wear a mask, Glick-
man said he planned to stay
the course.
He plans to do his grocery
run double-masked and
goggled for at least the next
five years.
Even as a combination
of evolving public health
recommendations and
pandemic fatigue lead
more Americans to toss
the masks they have worn
for more than a year, Glick-
man is among those who say
they plan to keep their faces
covered in public indefi-
nitely.
For people like Glickman,
a combination of anxiety,
murky information about
new virus variants and the
emergence of an obdu-
rate and sizable faction of
vaccine holdouts means
mask-free life is on hold —
possibly forever.
“I have no problem being
one of the only people,” said
Glickman, a professional
photographer and musician
from Albany, New York. “But
I don’t think I’m going to be
the only one.”
Whether made of bedaz-
zled cloth or polypropyl-
ene, masks have emerged as
a dystopian political flash-
point during the pandemic.
A map of states that
Profiteers prey on COVID-19 misery in India
By Hari Kumar and
Jeffrey Gettleman
The New York Times
NEW DELHI — Within
the world’s worst corona-
virus outbreak, few trea-
sures are more coveted than
an empty oxygen canister.
India’s hospitals desperately
need the metal cylinders to
store and transport the life-
saving gas as patients across
the country gasp for breath.
So a local charity reacted
with outrage when one
supplier more than doubled
the price, to nearly $200
each. The charity called the
police, who discovered what
could be one of the most
brazen, dangerous scams in
a country awash with coro-
navirus-related fraud and
black-market profiteering.
The police say the
supplier — a business called
Varsha Engineering, essen-
tially a scrapyard — had been
repainting fire extinguishers
and selling them as oxygen
canisters. The consequences
could be deadly: The less-
sturdy fire extinguishers
might explode if filled with
high-pressure oxygen.
“This guy should be
charged with homicide,”
said Mukesh Khanna, a
volunteer at the charity. “He
was playing with lives.”
The owner is in jail.
A coronavirus second
wave has devastated India’s
medical system and under-
mined confidence in the
ability of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s govern-
ment to treat its people and
quell the disease. There are
widely believed to be far
more deaths than the thou-
sands reported each day.
Hospitals are full. Drugs,
vaccines, oxygen and other
supplies are running out.
Pandemic profiteers are
filling the gap.
Medicine, oxygen and
other supplies are brokered
online or in hushed phone
calls. In many cases, the sell-
ers prey on the desperation
and grief of families.
“These people, the cyber-
criminals, were already out
there,” said Muktesh Chan-
Joe Glickman loads groceries into his car in Slingerlands, New York. He wears two masks and goggles on grocery runs. CINDY SCHULTZ/THE NEW YORK TIMES
enforced mask mandates
corresponds closely with
how people in those states
voted for president.
Last year, protesters
staged rallies against offi-
cial requirements to wear
masks, built pyres to burn
them in protest and touched
off screaming matches when
confronted about not wear-
ing them inside supermar-
kets.
But as more Americans
become vaccinated and
virus restrictions loosen,
masks are at the center of a
second round in the coun-
try’s culture brawl.
This time, people who
choose to continue to cover
their faces have become
targets of public ire.
In interviews, vaccinated
people who continue to
wear masks said they are
increasingly under pres-
sure, especially in recent
COVID-19 patients receive oxygen April 29 at a gurdwara, a Sikh place of worship, in New Delhi. ATUL LOKE/THE NEW YORK TIMES
der, a special commissioner
for the Delhi Police. “The
moment they got this oppor-
tunity they switched on to
this modus operandi.”
Sometimes the goods are
fraudulent, and some are
potentially harmful.
Last week, police officers
in the state of Uttar Pradesh
accused one group of steal-
ing used funeral shrouds
from bodies and selling them
as new. The day before, offi-
cers in the same state discov-
ered more than 100 vials of
fake remdesivir, an antiviral
drug that many doctors in
India are prescribing despite
questions about its effective-
ness.
Citing the predatory sales,
a top court in New Delhi
said this month that “the
moral fabric of the society is
dismembered.”
Over the past month,
the New Delhi police have
arrested more than 210
people on allegations of
cheating, hoarding, crimi-
nal conspiracy or fraud in
connection with COVID-re-
days; friends and family have
urged them to relax, or even
have suggested that they are
paranoid.
On a recent trip to the
grocery store, Glickman said
he was stared down by a man
who entered, unmasked.
“I’m confused,” the
retired news anchor Dan
Rather wrote on Twit-
ter last week as backlash
mounted on the platform
to those still masked. “Why
should people care if some-
one wants to wear a mask
outside?”
Following the latest
guidance from the Centers
for Disease Control and
Prevention, at least 20 states
repealed mask mandates
or issued orders that gave
vaccinated people exemp-
tions from wearing masks.
Other states, including New
York, said they were review-
ing their rules.
lated scams. Similarly, the
police in Uttar Pradesh have
arrested 160 people.
“I have seen all kinds of
predators and all forms
of depravity,” said Vikram
Singh, a former police
chief in Uttar Pradesh, “but
this level of predation and
depravity I have not seen in
the 36 years of my career or
in my life.”
The scams and profiteer-
ing represent the flip side of
the huge online help system
that has emerged to fill the
void left by the government.
Do-gooders across the
country have swooped in to
connect those in need with
lifesaving resources.
The ad hoc system has
limits.
Vital supplies like oxygen
are still stuck in bottlenecks,
and people keep dying after
hospitals run out. Vaccine
and pharmaceutical makers
can’t keep up. Politicians in
some places are threatening
people who publicly plead
for supplies.
That empowers the black
But for some people, no
newfound freedom will
persuade them to reveal
their faces just yet. After
a year, they say they have
grown accustomed to the
masks and glad for the extra
safety they provide.
A day after the CDC’s
announcement, George
Jones, 82, a retired mail
carrier, stood in the sunshine
outside of the General Grant
Houses where he lives in
Harlem in New York City
and said his blue surgical
mask — though uncomfort-
able and inconvenient —
would stay put for at least
another year.
“I’m in no hurry; why
should I be in a hurry?” said
Jones, who became fully
vaccinated about a month
and a half ago. Until New
York City reaches a higher
level of vaccination — just
40% are completely vacci-
market, with its exorbitant
prices and dicey goods.
Many people feel they have
no choice.
Rohit Shukla, a graduate
student in New Delhi, said
that after his grandmother
died in late April in a neigh-
boring state, an ambulance
driver demanded $70 for
the three-mile ride from
the hospital to the crema-
tion ground, over 10 times
the normal price. When
the family arrived, workers
demanded $70 for firewood
that should have cost $7.
“Everyone is trying to
profit from this pandemic,”
Shukla said. “I don’t know
what has happened to
people.”
Some of the more egre-
gious examples can be
found in the country’s strug-
gling hospital system. Infec-
tions and deaths are widely
believed to be many times
more numerous than the
official figures indicate, and
in hospitals across India, all
the beds have been filled and
people are dying for lack of
nated — he believes it is too
risky to unmask.
“Being around is more
important. That’s what
counts. I’m an old man — I’d
like to be around as long as
I can.”
On Broadway, a group of
young men walked past him,
with not a mask in sight.
Jones said he understood:
“Young people, they figure
they’re invulnerable — and
I hope they are.”
Public health data shows
that masking and social
distancing have most likely
had far-reaching positive
impacts, beyond slowing the
spread of COVID-19. While
over 34,000 adults died
from influenza in the 2018-
19 season, this year deaths
are on track to remain in the
hundreds, according to CDC
data.
Barry J. Neely, 41, a
composer from Los Angeles,
oxygen or medicine.
Accusations by one doctor
in Madhya Pradesh have
gone viral.
The doctor, Sanjeev
Kumrawat, said he tried
to stop a local activist for
India’s governing party from
selling access to beds in a
government hospital where
he works.
“We all know that to get
a bed is a big struggle all
around,” Kumrawat said.
“Government resources are
to be distributed equitably
and can’t become the prop-
erty of one person.”
The activist, Abhay Vish-
wakarma, disputed the
accusations but said he had
asked the local authorities
to investigate. “I don’t know
why the doctor has accused
me,” he said.
A brisk market has devel-
oped for contraband plasma,
which many doctors in India
have used to treat COVID-
19 patients. Police officers
in the city of Noida, in Uttar
Pradesh, last week arrested
two men they accused of
fell ill with the coronavirus
in March 2020 and battled
symptoms for months. He
has also struggled with guilt
over whether he had inad-
vertently infected people he
came in contact with before
his diagnosis — which came
at a time when the govern-
ment discouraged mask use.
He plans to wear a mask
whenever he feels under the
weather, in perpetuity.
He is taking his cue from
several East Asian countries,
he added, where wearing a
mask when you are feel-
ing sick is not just socially
acceptable but seen as
considerate.
“If I possibly spread a
virus a year ago, and then
learned that wearing a
mask is important to prevent
spreading this virus, then
what’s the harm in wear-
ing it if I have the common
cold?” he said.
selling plasma for up to
$1,000 per unit. According
to the police, one of the men
begged for plasma donors
for his own needs on social
media, then sold the plasma
through a middleman.
Young cybersleuths are
trying to help by cruising
social media sites to find
scammers.
Helly Malviya, a univer-
sity student, flagged a Twit-
ter post advertising a drug,
tocilizumab, an anti-inflam-
matory drug sometimes
used to treat COVID-19
patients with pneumonia
that is hard to find in India.
The seller wanted $2,000 in
advance.
Malviya flagged the
post as a possible scam
and received a flurry of
messages, but they were
from people desperate for
the drug.
“This is the kind of help-
lessness people are facing
these days,” she said.
Remdesivir, the antiviral
drug, has been the focus of a
number of scams.
The police in New Delhi
recently said they had
arrested four people work-
ing at medical facilities
who swiped unused vials
of remdesivir from dead
patients and sold them for
about $400 each. Before
the drug became so scarce
in India, hospitals were
charging about $65 for it.
The Surin family, from the
city of Lucknow, recently
paid more than $1,400 to a
middleman for six doses of
remdesivir.
Lucky Surin, an event
manager, said the family had
little choice. Her mother and
sister-in-law were seriously
sick. Her mother has since
died.
“What do we do?” asked
Surin. “If the doctor has
prescribed it, then you have
to buy it.”
Dr. Jawed Khan, owner of
the hospital that prescribed
the drug for the Surins but
couldn’t provide it, said
families could procure their
own and physicians would
check vials and labels for
authenticity.

NEWS BRIEFING
COVID-19 deaths still
on the rise in India as
infections top 25M
From news services
NEW DELHI — India’s
total virus cases since the
pandemic began swept past
25 million Tuesday as the
country registered more
than 260,000 new cases
and a record 4,329 fatalities
in the past 24 hours.
The numbers continue a
trend of falling cases after
infections dipped below
300,000 for the first time
in weeks Monday. Active
cases in the country also
decreased by more than
165,000 Tuesday — the
biggest dip in weeks.
But deaths have contin-
ued to rise and hospitals are
still swamped by patients.
India has recorded
nearly 280,000 virus deaths
since the pandemic began.
Experts warn that both the
number of deaths and total
reported cases are likely vast
undercounts.
Infections in India have
surged since February in
a disastrous turn blamed
on more contagious vari-
ants as well as government
decisions to allow massive
crowds to gather for reli-
gious festivals and political
rallies.
In the last month, cases
have more than tripled and
reported deaths have gone
up six times — but testing
has only increased by 1.6
times, according to Bhramar
Mukherjee, a biostatistician
at the University of Michi-
gan tracking India’s battle
with the virus. With infec-
tions outrunning testing
capabilities, there are fears
that many cases are going
undetected.
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UAE booster shots: The
United Arab Emirates
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recipients of the Chinese
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months after their initial
two-dose regimen. The
move appears to make the
UAE the first country world-
wide to formally introduce
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Influx of migrants: A member of the Spanish Red Cross comforts a migrant Tuesday near the border of Spain and Morocco.
Spain deployed its military to the border and expelled nearly half of the thousands of migrants who jumped fences or swam onto
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18 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Politics of fear: Masks and mushroom cloud
John Kass
Many Republicans are right-
fully gleeful over the mask
dysphoria being suffered by
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, the
high TV priestess of the establish-
ment left.
But as they ridicule her for
mask neurosis, I wonder if
they’ve blocked from their own
memories that “mushroom
cloud” argument for the estab-
lishment Republican war in Iraq.
The mushroom cloud, like today’s
COVID-19 masks that are often
sodden and clutched like reli-
gious relics, was a symbol. And
such symbols are used in the poli-
tics of fear.
Maddow recently admitted she
was disoriented and confused
after the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention’s abrupt
announcement that fully vacci-
nated Americans no longer
needed to wear masks:
“I feel like I’m going to have
to rewire myself so that when I
see someone out in the world not
wearing a mask, I don’t instantly
think, ‘You are a threat, or you are
selfish or you are a COVID denier
and you definitely haven’t been
If Lolla is back, all other
COVID-19 precautions
make no logical sense
Chris Jones
At Ravinia, they’re carefully
drawing socially distanced circles
on the lawn. At the Goodman
Theatre, they’re streaming shows
from an empty theater. At Second
City, most of the tables have been
removed, and you have to sip your
drink and then restore your mask
in seconds, lest you get asked by a
house manager to hit the road.
Meanwhile, we learn Tues-
day, the music festival known as
Lollapalooza is back in July. At
full capacity.
The disconnect is nothing short
of stunning.
I thought this was going to be
a quiet summer of live entertain-
ment in Chicago: thoughtfully
chosen outdoor events, focusing
on local artists and staged with
an eye to a gradual recovery along
with some indoor performances
with careful but not excessive
spacing of audience members.
You know, way more than 2020
but not full-on 2019.
Certainly, all of the local
cultural organizations have been
proceeding as such. Very few of
them are producing anything live,
even on a limited scale. For one
thing, production funds are low.
For another, the unions involved
have demanded such extensive
safety precautions as to blow
budgets out of the water. For a
third, institutions also have feared
blowback from their progressive
constituents and peers, many of
whom are not even remotely will-
ing to declare the pandemic over.
For better and worse, it’s time to plan for our futures again
Mary Schmich
Not long into the pandemic,
whenever someone asked me
“How are you?” I took to saying
the most honest thing I knew:
“Just living day by day.”
The first time I heard that
answer pop out of my mouth, it
made me pause and think: Am I?
Really? Am I even capable of that?
And I realized, yeah, to the extent
that living day by day was possi-
ble for the highly revved engine of
my brain, I was. In the midst of a
pandemic, what was the option?
And so it’s become my standard
reply, a truthful answer that also
reminds me that it’s how I want
to live.
Deep down we all know that
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vaccinated.’ I mean, we’re going
to have to rewire the way we look
at each other.”
I’ve mocked Maddow in the
past, but her comments here were
stunningly refreshing in their
honesty.
Thoughtful people of good-
will on both the left and the right
understand the politics of fear. So
do the manipulative cynics seek-
ing to exploit it.
In blue states generally, the
masks during COVID-19 shut-
downs became a totem of that
fear, and of political fealty in the
Democratic campaign to topple
former President Donald Trump.
To the liberal left, those who
would not wear masks were —
and still are — viewed as if they
are witches to be burned.
Yet early on in the pandemic,
Dr. Anthony Fauci told Ameri-
cans that those cloth and paper
masks we’d buy in stores were
ineffective.
He zigzagged for months on
the issue of mask-wearing.
“Whenever you have the threat
of a transmissible infection,”
Fauci said, “there are varying
degrees from understandable to
outlandish extrapolations of fear.”
But he did get the fear thing
right, didn’t he? And whatever
the science, the masks came to
be a political symbol. By wear-
ing one, you signaled that you’re
not some immoral, dangerous,
To open up first meant the risk of
a Facebook barrage of criticism.
A few weeks ago, it was consid-
ered a radical move around town
to be planning a live show with
limited capacity for a September
opening. A lot of folks seemed
more comfortable with January.
Now Lollapalooza is back in
July! At full capacity!
It’s fine because it’s outside,
you say? Ha!
Like many parents of Chicago-
area teens, I have a Lolla story.
Mine involves the lodging of a bit
of the tooth of a fellow concert-
goer inside the cheek of my son
a couple of years ago. From a
concertgoer he claimed not to
have previously known before
the ecstatic mosh-pit crush that
caused the emergency room-
worthy mishap.
Lollapalooza is outside, sure. I
also know a great piece of land in
swampy Florida I could sell you.
I recognize that July is still two
months away, and I have read
enough to understand that the
risk of infection coming from, or
flowing to, the vaccinated is very
low — not zero, but comparable
to other risks we take on a daily
basis. I’d also allow that many arts
organizations, and their unions,
have been far too slow to antici-
pate the arrival of the post-vac-
cine landscape and failed to take
the opportunity to maximize an
opportunity that big out-of-town
money, replete with its lobbyists,
is going to grab with both hands
right in Chicago’s front yards.
That means lost jobs and revenue.
Even now, a lot of groups are
very slow to see that the only
precaution that is going to be
viable with the public a few
weeks from now is an insistence
on a vaccination record. Few will
we’re always living day by day,
that we could be yanked from
this mortal life in a fraction of a
second. There are countless quot-
able quotes and singable songs
built around the idea: Tomorrow
is promised to no one. Sha la la la
live for today. Be here now.
We say such things, we sing
them, but given the opportunity
to think about the future rather
than the moment, we allow our
minds to be pulled forward,
forward, forward, toward some
elusive place we imagine is better.
We often call this
forward-thinking “planning,” and
it feels like a survival mechanism:
Plan for the future and you’ll have
a future.
But then the little virus came,
and our notions of the future
were upended.
Weekend plans? Summer
plans? Holiday plans?
The pandemic hit the brakes
on everything. Restaurants:
self-absorbed conservative, a
heretic in need of purging.
President Joe Biden in April
said it was our patriotic duty to
wear masks.
But now, after months of
demonizing conservatives and
casting them as anti-science
Neanderthals, he asks that those
Neanderthals show sensitivity
to those who defy CDC science
and keep their masks on. Defying
science is now OK and we should
be nice about it.
“ … please treat them with kind-
ness and respect,” Biden said.
Even liberal news sites like the
Atlantic are publishing pieces
questioning why some can’t let
go of shutdown policies and
mask-wearing. From the article,
headlined “The Liberals Who
Can’t Quit Lockdown”:
“For this subset, diligence
against COVID-19 remains an
expression of political identity
— even when that means over-
estimating the disease’s risks or
setting limits far more strict than
what public-health guidelines
permit.”
I prefer to call this Democratic
Mask Neurosis. But what of that
Republican mushroom cloud
used to take us to war.
The mushroom cloud wasn’t a
physical object, an icon, like the
masks. It was a mantra calling
Americans to spill their blood
and treasure on the sands of Iraq.
A concertgoer twirls a hula hoop at Perry’s Stage during Lollapalooza in Chicago in 2013. Lollapalooza will be
returning to the city at full capacity in July. SCOTT STRAZZANTE/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
want to watch something on their
laptops this summer, however
much digital product is thrown
their way. Heck, not when you
can go to Lollapalooza. Or if you
share a house with those that will.
But let’s get real here. A
full-capacity Lolla isn’t a grad-
ual reopening, it’s a go-for-broke,
knock-down, roaring-back,
defiant declaration of summer
normalcy. It will be greeted by
its fans with an ecstatic response
and hooray for those Lolla kids.
They’ve been through a lot. And,
in all likelihood, everything will
be fine. Let’s hope so.
But let’s at least acknowl-
edge that this hasn’t been fair to
Chicago organizations that have
been facing an ever-changing
menu of city and state regula-
tions and restrictions, often with
closed. Offices: closed. Concerts:
canceled. Travel: complicated.
In that state of life suspended,
we were forced to live one day at
a time. For many people, it caused
deep, physical, financial hard-
ship. But for others, the hardship
was mostly in the mind, and if we
could, we shifted our relationship
to time.
If we planned, it was close to
home and cheap. It involved the
internet and takeout. Planning a
month ahead felt like planning a
trip to Mars: impossible, so why
pretend?
But lately we’re able to plan
again. Vaccines are available.
Mask requirements are easing.
We venture back into restaurants.
The outdoor bacchanal known
as Lollapalooza is on the summer
schedule.
The return to planning is liber-
ating and exciting. But — dare
I say it? — it has its downside.
A friend of mine expresses the
And President George W. Bush’s
once “humble” foreign policy was
transformed in ways that desta-
bilized the Middle East, even to
today.
We were told war with Iraq
would make us and the world
safe from Iraqi dictator Saddam
Hussein and spread democracy
through the region. It would
flourish among all those budding
Patrick Henrys and Alexander
Hamiltons in Iraq, Afghanistan
and eventually, Syria and beyond.
But it didn’t happen that way,
did it?
In early September 2002, then-
Vice President Dick Cheney —
father of U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney
— appeared on NBC’s “Meet the
Press” to falsely accuse Iraq of
developing nuclear weapons to add
to its chemical and biological stock-
piles — those weapons of mass
destruction that were never found.
Condoleezza Rice, the
national security adviser to Bush,
appeared on CNN and said the
administration couldn’t deter-
mine with absolute certainty
that Iraq was close to obtaining
nuclear weapons. But she added:
“We don’t want the smoking gun
to be a mushroom cloud.”
She made headlines across the
world. Her comment served the
politics of fear that made way for
a radical foreign policy agenda
of perpetual war. Going to war to
transform the world is as radical
changes coming with no notice
at all. Let’s point out that a more
functional way to recover would
be gradual, fair, equitable, upbeat
and reasoned. Let’s observe that
some preference should have
been afforded to groups and
venues that are here year in, year
out, and who just went through
about the most difficult 15 months
in their collective history.
I say this should have been
their summer of reasoned recov-
ery. This should have been their
moment.
Sure, there’s some excellent
new financial support from the
city. And let’s also stipulate that
the feds have moved so fast that
the city and state really can’t do
much else other than go along. If
we’re dropping restrictions, then
we’re dropping restrictions. For
ambivalence well.
“Prior to COVID,” she says,
“I carried my (print) planner
around with me literally every-
where. As COVID started, I found
myself erasing, erasing, erasing
in it until there was nothing left
to erase. And then I found myself
leaving it at home, where it got
buried at times in other paper-
work, because there was nothing
really to plan for outside of that
day. I went from hating that, and
feeling really empty, to liking it.
“Now that I’m starting to fill it
up again, I have mixed feelings.
It feels great to pencil in things
that I’m looking forward to, but I
don’t particularly like waking up
on a Saturday morning and real-
izing my day is already promised
away. Even if it’s stuff I want to
do!”
When the history of the
pandemic is written, it will record
that some people called it “a lost
year.” I’ve heard that a lot. “We’ve
as you can get. And we’re still
living with it today.
Many of us bit down on that
one at the beginning. I did, to my
shame. But I learned a lesson
about how people are herded,
through politics and media and
the expert use of fear.
And I promised myself then
that I would never forget it, or
how that the politics of fear
often are followed by destructive
government power.
Like those generational wars.
Like the loss of privacy and the
rise of the surveillance state after
the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Like the
sporadic and at times nonsensi-
cal suspension of civil liberties
during the pandemic: You could
protest in the streets maskless but
couldn’t go to church.
Fear is used to push policies
the American people would not
otherwise accept.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
says she will keep her mask on.
“I know for me personally, I’m
gonna continue to wear a mask in
public and I’m gonna encourage
others to do so.”
Lightfoot isn’t alone. Many
Democrats feel her pain.
Once we wed ourselves to the
totems of fear, we’re easily herded
like cattle toward the chutes. Too
many like it that way.
jskass@chicagotribune.com
Twitter @John_Kass
good or ill.
Still. A full-capacity Lollapa-
looza? We’re really going that far?
In July?
On a personal note, I’d just say
that I can’t get my overseas mother
here for my kid’s high school grad-
uation (no travel insurance avail-
able) and that same kid can’t dance
close at his own June prom. And
due to capacity restrictions, he can’t
even take his girlfriend to the big
dance.
But he’s hitting me up for
tickets to Lolla now; he seemed
to know it was happening even
before anyone in the media.
He’s learned something about
Chicago.
Chris Jones is a Tribune critic.
cjones5@chicagotribune.com
lost a whole year,” they say, and
it’s true that it has been a year of
profound loss.
In the United States alone,
586,000 people have lost their
lives. The families and friends of
those people have lost someone
they love. Many people have lost
their jobs, their homes.
But for those of us who are still
here, the year itself was not lost. It
was time passed in an extraordi-
nary way, in a different rhythm.
A couple of days ago I stum-
bled on a notepad that I used
last spring to scribble my stray
pandemic thoughts. On one page,
I had written: We are living in a
time of truth.
That truth has had many tenta-
cles. One truth I hope to hold on
to, even as it becomes reasonable
to plan again: Whether we feel it
or not, we’re all still living day by
day.
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Don’t bring back
congressional earmarks
For a long time, pork barrel legisla-
tion and corruption have been close
companions. Politicians had ways of
bringing federally funded projects to
their districts, and special interests that
stood to profit from those outlays sought
to influence the politicians. Members of
Congress could insert earmarks to direct
spending as they saw fit, and some of
them used that power to enrich them-
selves — not always within the bounds of
what was legal.
Who can forget the “bridge to
nowhere,” a proposed span between
the Alaska mainland and a tiny island
that was home to just 50 people? That
$233 million scheme, canceled only
after public outcry, was the product of
an earmark by the late Sen. Ted Stevens,
R-Alaska. But most people have forgot-
ten former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunning-
ham, R-Calif., who went to prison for
taking bribes from defense contractors.
It was his ability to earmark some $50
million a year that made lobbyists so
eager to befriend him.
His case was just one of the lurid scan-
dals that in 2011 prompted Congress to
ban earmarks. That move was one of the
few issues of agreement between Repub-
lican House Speaker John Boehner and
President Barack Obama.
At the state level, earmarks (pork) in
Illinois are known as “member initia-
tives,” and the same abuses forced a
clampdown on them. Dan Hynes, now
one of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s deputies,
blocked pork spending in 2002 as comp-
troller after then-Gov. George Ryan
agreed to set aside $100 million for proj-
ects that included a $250,000 Jack Benny
statue in Waukegan and a lily pond in
Lincoln Park — all while the state faced a
wide gap in its budget.
In Washington, the U.S. House of
Representatives, now under Demo-
cratic control, has voted to lift the ban on
earmarks, and the Senate seems likely to
agree.
The rationale is that “congressio-
nally directed spending” is a small price
to pay to bring about more cooperation
between Democrats and Republicans in
passing needed legislation.
ABOUT WEINGARTEN’S EPIPHANY
American Federation of Teachers
President Randi Weingarten on Thurs-
day hopped onto the caboose that has
already left the station: “There is no
doubt: Schools must be open, in person,
five days a week,” the teachers union
chief declared in a speech.
That’s nice of her to say now
that nearly all school districts have
announced plans to return to in-person
learning five days a week next fall amid
growing pressure from parents. …
Weingarten and her union friends who
run big-city districts have held children
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We don’t buy it. Bipartisanship has
gone missing even in matters that have
nothing to do with federal expenditures,
such as Supreme Court nominations
and gerrymandering. Republicans and
Democrats have starkly different views
of what government should do, which
often makes compromise unpalatable.
Reviving earmarks won’t change their
basic views on policy. What it would do is
encourage the wrong sort of cooperation
across the aisle — trading favors that help
members win reelection by channeling
funds to projects that couldn’t survive
the usual vetting done by federal agen-
cies.
We haven’t heard the American public
clamoring for the return of earmarks.
But the idea certainly has some fans. As
the Washington newspaper Roll Call
reported: “Congressional earmarks prac-
tically built the modern lobbying busi-
ness. And though the influence sector
has endured a decade without them, the
and parents hostage to obtain more money
from Washington for higher salaries and
pensions. The $1.9 trillion spending bill
that Democrats passed in March includes
$129 billion for K-12 schools, which was
on top of the $13.2 billion allocated in last
spring’s CARES Act and the $54.3 billion in
the December COVID-19 bill.
Schools haven’t had to reopen to
receive any of the extra cash. The
Congressional Budget Office projected
that only $6 billion of the $129 billion
would be spent in fiscal year 2021. Most
of the booty won’t be spent until 2023 or
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likely return of member-directed federal
spending has sent cautious jubilation
down K Street.”
Main Street? Not so much.
Members already have ample incentive
to vote for major infrastructure pack-
ages, as long as they fund projects that
are visibly beneficial to the citizenry and
worth the cost. The obstacle to congres-
sional approval of President Joe Biden’s
“American Jobs Plan” is that it goes so
far beyond the traditional bricks-and-
mortar investments that command
broad support. If Biden is willing to work
with Republicans on shoring up roads,
bridges, ports and the like, however,
there’s a good chance of reaching agree-
ment.
Getting rid of earmarks was a useful
measure to curb waste and combat
corruption. They should not be returned
as an excuse for finding bipartisanship
now.
later, and some not until 2028. ...
Weingarten also called for districts
to add summer classes, increase tutor-
ing, extend the school day and hire more
mental health counselors to help kids
cope with the yearlong shutdown. No
doubt unions will now demand remu-
neration for the time they have to spend
making up for all the lost instruction.
The pandemic has been a catastrophe
for millions of children, but it has turned
out very well for Weingarten and her
union.
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
Consolidate more towns
In reading “What do Chicago’s south
suburbs need? New, strong leadership”
(May 17), I definitely agree with many
of the points you make in this editorial.
However, I feel one item that you touched
on just a little bit near the end, the consoli-
dation of services, really only scratches the
surface of what is needed in terms of this.
What really needs to happen is a
consolidation of municipalities. If you
want to see property taxes truly lower,
then consolidate the tax base for two (or
in a few cases, three) municipalities. With
a shrinking population, this would be a
much better use of costs and municipal
services. Let’s look at a few examples:
Park Forest and Olympia Fields, both
areas that neighbor each other. Or nearby,
there is Matteson and Richton Park. I’ll
also suggest some towns, like Dolton or
Riverdale, consider consolidation into
Chicago. This would be mutually beneficial
as it would increase the tax base in Chicago
and these communities would have much
better resources from Chicago, which still
has a much stronger tax base to work with.
There are many more examples. If
this state wants to do something about
property tax woes, let’s combine some
governments and reduce the ridiculous
redundancy of costs that plague the whole
Chicago area.
— Brian Miller, Elmhurst
Name Riverwalk
for DuSable
It doesn’t make sense to name a motor-
way after someone who was born in 1745.
Mayor Lightfoot’s counter-offer of naming
the Riverwalk, where Jean Baptiste Point
DuSable had his trading post, is most
appropriate.
— J. Greg Perdue, Chicago
Manchin, Sinema
selling ‘pipe dream’
Daily Kos has finally called out Sens. Joe
Manchin, D-West Va., and Kyrsten Sinema,
D-Ariz. While they continue to tout the
filibuster as the way to achieve “bipartisan
compromise,” they’ve had four months to
come up with a “bipartisan compromise,”
and now it’s time for them to name the 10
Republicans they have achieved compro-
mise with.
I doubt they could come up with any
more than, perhaps, one. Enough of sell-
ing a pipe dream. And the evidence that
“bipartisan compromise” is totally out of
the question with the Republicans is all
around us, loud and clear. Mitch McCon-
nell has repeatedly stated his sole goal is to
prevent any Democratic legislation from
being enacted.
We have the means to save our democ-
racy, and it’s in their hands. By forsaking
the filibuster and voting to pass the For
the People Act, they would effectively shut
down the Republicans’ anti-democratic
efforts. Do they want to save our democ-
racy or not?
— Lee Knohl, Evanston
The truth about
‘tax-dodgers’
In my opinion, Biden is wrong to tell an
incomplete story when he says there are 50
Fortune 500 companies that pay no taxes.
If it happens, it is because those corpora-
tions are following the legal tax code and
doing things such as taking accelerated
depreciation allowances, which are set up
to encourage investment. As an example,
when you see Amazon delivery vans every-
where, that is good for the domestic manu-
facturer of those vehicles and all the people
working for those companies. Biden is
wrong to infer that companies are cheat-
ing, and not paying their “fair share.”
Secondly, Biden is pushing a big spend-
ing program aimed at helping the 8 million
workers who are unemployed. This spend-
ing program amounts to several trillion
dollars and would be further increase our
deficit, which is passed on to future gener-
ations.
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A baseball analogy explains
why ‘fair’ maps aren’t fair
Eric Zorn
Imagine for a moment that
Rick Hahn, general manager of
the Chicago White Sox, decides
next week to hire a new field
manager despite the team’s excel-
lent start under Tony La Russa.
And imagine that this new skip-
per is old-school and, like many
baseball purists, thoroughly
despises the designated hitter
rule.
That rule has been in place
since 1973 in the American
League, where the White Sox
play. It allows a team to have
another player bat in the pitch-
er’s place, which creates more
scoring since pitchers tend to be
lousy hitters. In 2019, the last full
season for which statistics are
available, one analysis showed
that American League DH’s
batted .236 and hit 532 home
runs, while National League
pitchers batted .105 and hit just
24 home runs.
So imagine that this hypothet-
ical new White Sox manager
decides to do what he firmly
believes to be the right thing
Where young asylum-seekers find safe refuge
By Mary Wisniewski
The young people at Viator
House and Bethany House, two
Chicago-area group homes for
immigrants seeking political
asylum, seem like typical college-
age kids — full of fun, ambition
and energy.
They’re taking classes, work-
ing fast-food jobs and sometimes
staying up too late listening to
music or playing video games.
They tease each other, talk about
dreams for the future, play soccer,
ride bikes and study.
But the personal stories told by
the 22 young men at Viator House
and the 10 young women at Beth-
any House are often terrifying,
filled with unimaginable trauma.
The young adults in these
“houses of hospitality” are seek-
ing political asylum in the United
States after escaping what they
say are deadly situations in their
home countries in Asia, Africa
and Central America. They fled
while they were still children,
often alone.
Some report being beaten and
imprisoned by agents of their
governments. Others say they
were attacked and left for dead
by gangs. Some say they fled
sexual trafficking. One teen told
of returning from school and
seeing his mother being assaulted
by soldiers because his parents
were in the wrong political party.
When he intervened, they broke
his leg and he had to go into
hiding.
“His parents decided they had
to get him out of the country,” said
the Rev. Corey Brost, a Viatorian
priest who runs Viator House
with Brother Michael Gosch,
both whom I know through my
church.
The families of these children
were desperate to get them out
of danger and scraped together
money to buy them plane tick-
ets to Brazil or Peru, where visa
restrictions are looser, said Gosch,
who learned about the unaccom-
panied-minor issue from work
with the Interfaith Community
for Detained Immigrants.
From there, many immi-
grants travel thousands of miles
north to the U.S.-Mexico border.
The trip often includes a jour-
ney by foot through the Darién
Gap, a 60-mile-long mountain-
ous, wild, jungle region on the
border between Colombia and
Panama. Travelers are often beset
by robbers. One former Beth-
any resident saw her father get
swept away trying to cross a river,
said Sister Patricia Crowley, who
founded Bethany along with
other Catholic sisters.
Coming to the border, these
minors ask for asylum, and hope
to become U.S. citizens. After
interviews, U.S. authorities deter-
mined they have a “credible fear”
of returning home and were
accepted for the asylum process,
Crowley explained.
But with immigration courts
OPINION
by opting not to use designated
hitters in hopes of persuading
Major League Baseball to aban-
don the rule.
Traditionalists would admire
his commitment to principle and
fans of the other four teams in the
American League Central would
cheer, particularly if he also
refused to employ “the shift,” an
increasingly popular but similarly
controversial defensive tactic of
placing three infielders on one
side of second base.
White Sox fans? Not so much.
Talk about a sacrifice. Send-
ing lighter-hitting pitchers to the
plate four or five times a game
and eschewing a strategy that
thwarts the other team’s pull
hitters would likely cost the team
a few games over the course of
the season and might keep them
out of the playoffs.
Sox fans would demand, as
they should, that their team do
everything it can within the rules
to win.
This improbable fantasy is
the best analogy I can think of to
illustrate why the push for “fair”
political maps in Illinois ought
to be a non-starter for the state’s
Democrats now busily attempt-
ing to draw and then pass new
district lines in advance of a
June 30 constitutional deadline.
If they miss that deadline, they
House Coordinator Stella Akello, an immigrant from Uganda, right, organizes the kitchen at the Bethany House of Hospitality on Monday, in Chicago.
ERIN HOOLEY/CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS
Ifra, an immigrant from Pakistan, makes bread at the Bethany House of
Hospitality on Monday, in Chicago.
packed, and many asylum-seek-
ers lacking attorneys, it’s a
process that can take more than
four years. While waiting, minors
without family sponsors may
be housed in facilities run by
child care agencies funded by
the Department of Health and
Human Services’ Office of Refu-
gee Resettlement.
From there they can be
released to family members, but
not everyone has relatives willing
or able to submit to the vetting
process to accept them. Facility
risk control of the mapmaking
process falling into Republican
hands.
The rules — in this case, the law
as interpreted by numerous court
decisions — are lax in allowing
political parties in power to draw
district boundaries that give them
the best chance to keep and even
increase that power. The process,
known as gerrymandering,
offends the ideals of representa-
tive government that reflects the
will of the people.
For example, as I wrote in a
column on this topic last month,
57% of Illinois voters voted
Democratic in 2020 elections
for U.S. Congress, yet Democrats
won 72% of the House races (13
out of 18).
We recently learned that Illi-
nois is going to lose one House
seat due to national population
realignment. And Greg Hinz
of Crain’s Chicago Business is
reporting that a proposed map
circulating behind the scenes
among key members of the
Democratic supermajority in the
General Assembly “is designed
to leave the state with 14 Demo-
cratic congressmen and 3 Repub-
licans.”
That would make the Illinois
House delegation 82% Demo-
cratic. Whereas a map drawn by
a nonpartisan commission — a
staff can be caring, but the facili-
ties are not like homes.
A Bethany resident who’s a
devout Muslim told me that
when she was at a juvenile facil-
ity, the headscarf she used for
daily prayers was thrown into the
trash.
On their 18th birthdays, if they
haven’t yet found anyone to take
them in, these young people
“age out” of youth facilities and
are taken in handcuffs to adult
detention centers, often county
jails, Brost said. They might wait
“fair map” as proponents like to
call it — to reflect the actual party
split in the state would have just
10 Democratic seats, 59% of the
delegation.
Yes, the 14-3 map favoring
Democrats seems unconscio-
nable, but only when you don’t
consider that, by several esti-
mates, Republican gerryman-
dering currently gives the GOP
an undeserved and even more
unconscionable advantage of
between 16 and 22 House seats
nationwide.
So for Illinois Democrats, in
the name of principle and setting
a good example for the nation, to
cede four seats to the Republi-
cans in a narrowly divided House
instead of waiting for a national
law to limit partisan influence on
political mapmaking would be
like the White Sox sending their
pitchers to the plate and keeping
their infielders in their customary
spots all season instead of waiting
for the American League to aban-
don the DH and baseball’s gran-
dees to ban the shift.
Noble, perhaps, but potentially
ruinous to achieving bigger goals.
For Illinois Democrats to unilat-
erally disarm in the nationwide
gerrymandering war would be to
imperil the prospects for Presi-
dent Joe Biden’s agenda.
Groups pushing Illinois to
for years for their cases to be
resolved.
Started in 2017, Bethany
House and Viator House offer
a “rare” opportunity for young
asylum-seekers, said Raia Stoi-
cheva, staff attorney in the
Chicago office of the Young
Center for Immigrant Rights.
Instead of going to jail after they
turn 18, they can share a home
with other young people hoping
to live the American Dream.
Bethany House, on Chicago’s
South Side, has hosted 54 women
and 11 children; Viator, in the
northwest suburbs, has hosted
71 young men. While waiting for
their cases to be resolved, they go
to high school and college. They
get English lessons (taught by
an army of volunteers), freedom
to practice their own religions,
access to legal help, counseling
and medical care. They get to be
free.
“I got a new life,” laughed the
young woman who had lost her
headscarf, and is now at Bethany
House with her three sisters and
going to college. She hopes to be a
social worker but dreams of being
a doctor. She and her sisters get to
talk with their mom back home,
assuring her that they are safe.
The number of unaccompanied
immigrant children referred to
ORR has grown dramatically in
recent years. As of March, there
were nearly 15,000 in the care of
the Office of Refugee Resettle-
adopt fair maps don’t agree.
“The argument that we should
wait for federal lawmakers to make
it right is a red herring that can be
applied to literally any issue when
you don’t have a good reason for the
state to step up,” wrote Ryan Tolley,
policy director for CHANGE Illi-
nois, one such group. “Imagine if
we applied these arguments to rais-
ing minimum wage or legalizing
cannabis.”
In an online essay taking issue
with my earlier column, Tolley
pointed to the California’s first
nonpartisan, independent remap
in 2011. In the election after a
neutral commission redrew
boundaries, “the state Senate
went from 64% Democratic to
68%, and the state House went
from 65% to 70% Democratic.”
Tolley wrote that Illinois
voters “shouldn’t wait for federal
lawmakers to give us the repre-
sentation we deserve” and should
“demand better from state elected
officials now (by keeping) pres-
sure on them to draw district
maps that reflect community
input, not their own self-interest.”
Fair enough.
But for those Democrats who
don’t want to risk losing just to
prove a point, a foul ball.
ericzorn@gmail.com
Twitter @EricZorn
ment, according to HHS. More
than a third were 17 or older.
With so many young
asylum-seekers, there’s a need for
more nurturing, safe places such
as Viator and Bethany. Viator
House wants to expand. There’s
also a need for a more compas-
sionate asylum process, the right
to an attorney for asylum-seekers
and a fair, consistent way to get
work permits, said Brost. Young
immigrants are eager to send
money home.
Gosch and Brost say the young
people they see are smart, brave,
resourceful, compassionate
and hardworking — the kind of
new citizens this country needs.
Brost sees their presence not as a
“border crisis,” as some see it, but
an “opportunity for the country to
live its best values.”
The children’s parents are
like the Jewish parents in Nazi
Germany, sending their kids off,
knowing they might never see
them again, Brost said. Given the
choice, they’d rather send their
children into the unknown than
see them killed.
“Who in their right mind as a
16-year-old would leave everyone
and everything they know to go
to another country?” said Gosch.
“Who would do it, unless they
had to?”
Mary Wisniewski is a Chicago
writer and the author of “Algren:
A Life.”

The University of Illinois at Chicago’s John Marshall Law School in January 2018. JOHN J KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Yes, there is a case for offensive
language in classrooms — sometimes
Clarence Page
Should white professors be allowed
to use the N-word in class, especially
when it is an essential element of the
lesson that is being taught?
That question caused an uproar
at the University of Illinois at Chica-
go’s John Marshall Law School this
past winter that still hasn’t quite gone
away, the professor at the center of the
controversy told me.
“They put me on this ridiculous
‘indefinite suspension,’ ” law professor
Jason Kilborn told me. “But it was leave
with full pay. So, at least I got a vacation
for this entire spring semester.”
Still, he said, he’d rather teach his
classes, which were canceled during
the investigation. Students had called
for Kilborn to be disciplined after he
wrote a Civil Procedure exam related
to employment discrimination that
included redacted versions of the
epithets “n——-” and “b——,” which he
described as “profane expressions for
African Americans and women.”
“What bothers me is that we are
not only incapable of having intelli-
What if the left got its wish for Israel?
By Bret Stephens
Imagine an alternative universe in
which an enlightened Israeli government
did almost everything progressive America
demanded of it.
An immediate cessation of hostilities in
Gaza. An end to Israeli controls over the
movement of goods into the territory. A
halt to settlement construction in the West
Bank. Renunciation of Israel’s sovereign
claims in East Jerusalem. Fast-track nego-
tiations for Palestinian statehood, with the
goal of restoring the June 4, 1967, lines as
an internationally recognized border.
Oslo would be placing phone calls to
Jerusalem and Ramallah in October, to
bestow the Nobel Peace Prize on the Israeli
and Palestinian leaders. Arab states such
as Saudi Arabia would establish formal
diplomatic relations with Israel. The inter-
national community would agree on a
multibillion-dollar aid package for the new
state of Palestine.
But there would be flies in this ointment.
Damascus would refuse to recognize
Israel until it agreed to return the Golan
Heights, which even the most left-wing
Israeli government would refuse to do,
given Bashar Assad’s record of brutality
and Iran’s extensive military presence in
Syria.
Lebanon, dominated as it is by Hezbol-
lah (an Iranian proxy), would also refuse
to recognize Israel, using the pretext of the
Shebaa Farms, a sliver of land that Beirut
claims is occupied Lebanese territory, even
OPINION
gent conversations about these issues
(employment discrimination in this
case),” he said, “but if we can’t even
bring up a respectfully abbreviated
version of a word that comes up in the
employment discrimination context,
then where are the boundaries?”
He’s hardly alone in that view,
even among his would-be critics. For
example, Kathryn Rubino, a progres-
sive-leaning columnist for the legal
website AboveTheLaw.com, wrote
that she was prepared to attack
Kilborn’s word choices until she
learned that he actually had respect-
fully used the redacted version of the
words, not their spelled-out versions.
Noting that she spends “an unfor-
tunate amount of time writing about
law professors’ use of the N-word,” in
this case the prof appeared to do the
right thing. “No one wants to be in a
place where discussing the way racism
shapes the legal system is off limits,”
she wrote.
Indeed, and as well-intentioned
as some of the efforts by the politi-
cal correctness police may be, I also
would caution, the students aren’t
always right.
A white first-year student at Rutgers
Law School in Newark, for example,
kicked up a commotion during a Zoom
meeting with a professor and other
students by quoting the N-word from
though the U.N. says otherwise.
As for Gaza, the end of the so-called
blockade (“so-called” because plenty
of licit goods reach Gaza today through
Israeli border crossings) would turn
the steady trickle of military equipment
into the strip, most of it from Iran, into a
cascade. Hamas, which currently makes
do with relatively unsophisticated rock-
ets, would replenish its arsenal with more
powerful guided munitions, able to reach
any target in Israel.
This would require Israel to change
its military doctrine toward Hamas. Out
would be the approach of periodically
degrading the group’s military capabil-
ities through targeted strikes. In would
be a strategy calling for a full-scale land
invasion and reoccupation of the strip in
order to defend the Israeli heartland from
Hamas’ missiles. The casualty count in the
next war would be multiples of what it is
today.
In addition to its new military might,
Hamas would be strengthened politically.
Its policy of resistance — i.e., guerrilla
warfare and terrorism — against Israel
would look to many Palestinians as if it
forced a change in Israeli policy, while
the more peaceful policies of Mahmoud
Abbas’ Fatah party would smack of fruit-
less collaboration.
The international community would try
to help Fatah with lavish economic aid and
technical assistance. But Fatah has a long
record of corruption and mismanagement,
two factors that helped Hamas win parlia-
Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Wednesday, May 19, 2021 21
a 1993 murder case before the New
Jersey Supreme Court.
At Emory University in Atlanta,
a law school professor was placed
on administrative leave last year for
using racial slurs quoted from a race
discrimination case. The professor
was later reinstated.
Such disputes tend to boil down to
a clash between the First Amendment
free speech rights of students and
faculty versus the eternal question of
how a law school, as a statement from
Rutgers officials put it, can best “create
classroom environments in which all
of our students feel seen, heard, valued
and respected.”
I would suggest, for starters, that the
arc of justice and fairness should bend
toward freedom of expression, clarity
and open, honest debate, particularly
in a law school, which as an institu-
tion is supposedly grounded in such
principles.
That doesn’t apply only to law
schools, though. Timothy Boudreau, a
tenured professor at Central Michi-
gan University, was fired for repeating
the slur in a journalism law class as
he read from a court opinion that was
all about how First Amendment law
treats that epithet.
Maybe he used the offensive words
too much or with too little sensitivity. I
won’t even try to judge that case from
mentary elections in 2006. Since then,
Abbas’ approach to his political opponents
has been to suspend elections and perse-
cute rivals such as Mohammed Dahlan and
Salam Fayyad.
But at 85, Abbas won’t be able to stave
off elections forever. Eventually, Hamas
will come to power, doubly legitimized by
success at the polls and its commitment to
wipe Israel off the map.
Before then, however, Israel would
freeze all settlement construction with a
view toward forcing settlers to leave their
homes or be stranded inside a future Pales-
tinian state.
The result would be massive radicalization
among Israelis against their own govern-
ment, dwarfing the unholy furies that led to
Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination in 1995. Any
decision to repartition Jerusalem in ways
that risked or hampered access to the West-
ern Wall and other sacred Jewish sites such
as the Mount of Olives (the entire Old City
was in Jordanian hands before the Six-Day
War) would likely spark civil war.
But perhaps the progressive Israeli
government might yet succeed if a
U.N.-sanctioned, U.S.-led force — you
might almost call it a mandate — agreed to
deploy peacekeeping forces to guarantee
Jewish rights and security. America’s appe-
tite for such deployments hasn’t exactly
been growing in recent years, and its stay-
ing power is easily tested. Some Israelis
might wonder how long their ostensible
benefactors would stay should a suicide
bomber kill several hundred Marines in a
a distance. But, as a former J-school
major myself, I think journalism
professors and students should aim for
accuracy and clarity without “sugar-
coating,” as one of my old journalism
profs used to say, yet also without
rubbing new salt into old wounds.
Sometimes the old editorial slogan,
“When in doubt, leave it out,” should
be deployed.
But neither should we sugarcoat — in
ways that, as John McWhorter, author
of the new “Nine Nasty Words: English
in the Gutter: Then, Now and Forever”
puts it, treats his fellow African Ameri-
cans — like me — as being too “fragile” to
deal with honest language.
With that, I am reminded of the
Marshall law student who reportedly
said that the words on Kilborn’s exam
gave her “heart palpitations.” Perhaps
she should consider changing her
career choice.
After all, if anyone should be
prepared to deal unflinchingly with
the world’s brutal realities and often
brutal language, it is lawyers and jour-
nalists. Words are our business.
Clarence Page, a member of the Tri-
bune Editorial Board, blogs at www.
chicagotribune.com/pagespage.
cpage@chicagotribune.com
Twitter @cptime
Beirut-style barracks attack.
In the meantime, a Hamas administra-
tion in the West Bank wouldn’t take long
to duplicate the formula that paid such
dividends for it in Gaza: the complete mili-
tarization of the territory, putting every
Israeli at immediate risk of rocket attack.
In this it would be greatly assisted by
Iran, especially if rising oil prices and
the potential lifting of economic sanc-
tions as part of a new nuclear deal replen-
ish Tehran’s coffers and its appetite for
regional adventures. Jordan, too, would be
at risk if a radical Palestinian state turns its
sights on a fractious Hashemite regime.
And what about peace? A Hamas
government would likely renege on
any agreement with a Jewish state that
does not honor the “right of return” of
the descendants of Palestinian refugees.
Anti-Zionist groups such as Jewish Voice
for Peace would make the Palestinian case
in the United States while the Tucker Carl-
son wing of the Republican Party would
call for sharp restrictions on immigration.
As for Israelis, they would eventu-
ally emerge from the morass, at a terrible
cost in blood, because they have no other
choice. When they did, they could be sure
the progressive wing of the Democratic
Party would be quick to denounce them for
having the temerity to survive.
The New York Times
Bret Stephens is a New York Times colum-
nist.
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Former ‘GMA’ leader to join NewsNation
Corn to be top news
exec at Chicago-based
national news channel
By Stephen Battaglio
Los Angeles Times
Michael Corn, who led ABC’s
“Good Morning America”
during much of its run as the
most watched network morn-
ing program, is joining Nexstar’s
NewsNation, according to several
people familiar with the plan.
Corn will become the top news
executive at the Chicago-based
national news channel, replac-
BUSINESS
ing Jennifer Lyons, who departed
the operation in March just seven
months after its launch.
Corn left ABC News abruptly
on April 15, the day after the Walt
Disney-owned unit announced
that Kim Godwin, a longtime
executive at CBS News, was hired
to run the division. Corn, senior
executive producer for “GMA”
since 2014, was among the inter-
nal contenders for the ABC News
presidency after the departure of
James Goldston.
Corn will be stepping into a
challenging situation, as NewsNa-
tion has failed to attract a signifi-
cant audience with its strategy of
offering an unbiased alternative
to established cable news chan-
nels that have added more opin-
ion programming to their lineups.
NewsNation was formerly WGN
America, a general entertainment
cable channel carrying repeats
of broadcast network dramas
and sitcoms. The channel now
broadcasts five hours of live news
programming a night and has plans
to expand to a full-time service
over the next two years.
But the plan has been hampered
by the hiring of Bill Shine, the
former president of Fox News,
as a consultant for the channel.
The involvement of Shine, a close
friend of conservative Fox News
host Sean Hannity and briefly
communications director for the
Trump White House, became
an issue for some NewsNation
employees after it was revealed in
February.
Shine had been involved for
months before the staff was told,
raising the suspicions among staff
that the channel was going to chase
a conservative audience.
Shine is focused on the two talk
programs added to the NewsNa-
tion lineup in April, “The Donlon
Report” and “Banfield,” and is not
involved in the channel’s news-
casts.
Corn’s resume is expected to
quell concerns about the chan-
nel developing any political lean-
ings. He has a long track record of
success at ABC News, overseeing
“ABC World News Tonight with
Diane Sawyer” before he joined
“GMA” in 2014.
Corn arrives just as NewsNa-
tion prepares to launch a five-hour
morning program. Former ABC
News correspondent Adrienne
Bankert has been hired as one of
the anchors for the show expected
to launch later this year.
This story originally appeared
in the Los Angeles Times.

JPMorgan
names 2
women to
key roles
Will run bank’s biggest
division, possible
successors to CEO
By Ken Sweet
Associated Press

JPMorgan Chase will promote

two women to jointly manage the
bank’s consumer finance division —
the bank’s biggest business by far —
potentially signaling that a woman
may eventually run the nation’s
biggest bank.
The bank said Tuesday that Mari-
anne Lake, who was JPMorgan’s
chief financial officer for several
years until recently, and its current
CFO Jennifer Piepszak will become
co-CEOs of the consumer banking
business. Gordon Smith, who has
run that division for several years,
plans to retire at the end of the year.
The plans for Lake, Piepszak and
Smith were announced in an inter-
nal memo from JPMorgan CEO
Jamie Dimon.
The promotion of Lake and
Nate Mullins, a former bartender from Oak Harbor, Washington, who quit his job in November, stands near a street mural on Monday in Mount Vernon, Piepszak into the bank’s second-
Washington. Mullins’ unemployment checks are enough to get by while he looks for jobs that would provide benefits. ELAINE THOMPSON/AP most important post is a likely
signal that Dimon, who has been at
the helm of JPMorgan Chase since

‘The opportunity
2005, is leaning toward choosing a
woman to lead the company after
he retires. Dimon has made no
public statements on his succession
plans, even after some health issues
the last couple of years.
“They have proven track records

to take a step back’

of working successfully across the
firm and both are well known and
respected within the financial
industry for their exceptional char-
acter and capabilities,” Dimon said
in his memo.
If a woman would be chosen to
Pandemic benefits, stimulus checks give some time to rethink careers run JPMorgan Chase, it would be
only the second female to be the
head of a major financial institu-
By Dee-Ann Durbin, Stephen Groves, tion. Citigroup promoted Jane
Alexandra Olson and Joseph Pisani Fraser into the CEO role this year,
Associated Press the first woman to run a major Wall
Street bank.

T
here’s a wild card in the
push to return to pre-pan-
demic life: Many workers
don’t want to go back to the
jobs they once had.
Layoffs and lockdowns, combined
with enhanced unemployment benefits
and stimulus checks, gave many Amer-
icans the time and the financial cushion
to rethink their careers. Their former
employers are hiring again — and some,
like Uber and McDonald’s, are offering
higher pay — but workers remain hesitant.
In March, U.S. job openings rose 8%
to a record 8.1 million, but overall hiring
rose less than 4%, according to govern-
ment data.
Nate Mullins quit his job as a bartender
last November after clashing with
managers over mask rules and worrying
that he would spread the coronavirus to
his immune-compromised sister.
Turn to Careers, Page 8
Smith’s retirement is a sea
change at JPMorgan. Smith has
largely been considered one of the
most successful consumer bankers
in the industry, creating such prod-
ucts like Chase’s Sapphire Reserve
Card and heavily promoting Chase
to use digital channels to reach
customers.
Smith’s name came up repeat-
edly in reports and rumors that he
was a possible successor to Dimon,
or could potentially become CEO
of another bank. However, there
were two factors that went against
him. Smith, 62, is relatively close
in age to Dimon, 65, and would not
be considered a viable long-term
replacement for Dimon when he
retires.
Ellen Booth, 57, studies Monday at her kitchen table to become a certified medical coder The other issue is outside pres-
as her cat, Juji, sits on a bed behind her in Coventry, Rhode Island. When the restaurant sure. Politicians, industry watchers
she worked for closed last year, Booth said it gave her “the kick I needed.” She started a and activists have actively pressed
yearlong class to learn to be a medical coder. DAVID GOLDMAN/AP
Turn to JPMorgan, Page 8

Amazon works with nonprofit to fill openings

Company seeks to fill thousands of spots
at new south suburban fulfillment centers
By Mike Nolan
Daily Southtown
As it looks to fill thousands of
jobs at new fulfillment centers
due to open in the south suburbs,
Amazon is turning to a public-pri-
vate partnership with a track record
of securing job opportunities for the
unemployed and underemployed.
Skills for Chicagoland’s Future
is working with Amazon to, at least
initially, connect job seekers with
positions available at Amazon’s
fulfillment center in University
Park.
The group’s role could expand
to assist in filling job openings at
fulfillment centers underway in
Markham and Matteson, according
to Susan Dunseth, vice president of
business development.
“University Park launched about
a month ago, so that is the one we
are really working on now, but our
plan is to work with Amazon on
other facilities,” she said.
Public employment agencies
tend to match people to jobs but
Skills for Chicagoland’s Future
works with employers to find their
hiring needs then recruits job seek-
ers with necessary backgrounds.
Launched in September 2012,
Skills works with dozens of
community organizations to get
the word out about job opportuni-
ties, and the University Park facil-
ity is Skills’ first partnership with
Amazon, Dunseth said.
“We’re sort of a connector for
them, our job is about awareness,”
she said. “We’re trying to show that
you cannot only get a job but you
can build a career with Amazon.”
Amazon this week said it was
looking to bring on 75,000 addi-
tional employees in the U.S. and
Canada including 3,800 in Illinois.
It said average starting wages
are $17 an hour and some posi-
tions offer sign-on bonuses of
up to $1,000. It’s also offering
$100 bonuses for prospective
hires who’ve been vaccinated for
COVID-19.
Construction started in April of
last year on the 1.2 million-square-
foot fulfillment center near Inter-
state 57 and University Parkway in
University Park.
It will handle larger customer
orders, such as sports equipment,
patio furniture, bicycles and larger
household items.
Turn to Amazon, Page 8
8 Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Careers
from Page 7
Mullins’ unemployment
checks don’t match what
he was making at his Oak
Harbor, Washington bar,
but they’re enough to get by
while he looks for jobs that
would provide health care
and retirement benefits.
“This opportunity to take
a step back and really think
about what you’re doing
really changed my mind,”
said Mullins, 36. “(It) made
me think long-term for the
first time.”
Workers like Mullins
are one reason U.S. hiring
slowed in April. Employers
and business groups argue
that the $300-per-week
federal unemployment
supplement gives recipi-
ents less incentive to look
for work. Several states
have begun requiring those
receiving the benefits to
show they are actively
searching for work, and a
few will stop providing the
supplement.
But Heidi Shierholz,
a senior economist who
researches low- and
middle-income workers
with the Economic Policy
Institute, said health
concerns and child care
responsibilities seem to be
the main reasons holding
workers back.
In April, she said, at least
25% of U.S. schools weren’t
offering in-person learning,
forcing many parents to stay
home. And health concerns
could gain new urgency for
some workers now that the
U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention has
said fully vaccinated people
can stop wearing masks in
most settings.
Shierholz added that
unemployment benefits are
designed to give workers
the time to find jobs that are
better suited to their abilities.
“We want people well-
matched to their skills
and experience,” she said.
“That’s what helps the
economy run better.”
Higher pay for work-
ers can push up inflation,
which jumped in April as
the economy struggled
with widespread short-
ages of raw materials and
parts amid a faster-than-ex-
pected reopening. If
companies are forced to
raise prices to cover the
cost of higher wages, that
could slow the recovery
and reduce Americans’
“This opportunity to take a step back
and really think about what you’re doing
really changed my mind. (It) made me
think long-term for the first time.”
— Nate Mullins, former bartender
purchasing power.
For now, most econo-
mists see labor shortages
as likely to be temporary. As
more Americans are vacci-
nated, fewer will worry
about getting sick at work.
Schools should reopen
in September, freeing
more parents to return to
work, and the extra $300
in unemployment aid is
also set to expire in early
September. Those steps
should bring more people
into the job market.
‘Something just
kind of broke’
Sarah Weitzel gave
birth to her second child
in February 2020. She was
on leave from her job at a
Victoria’s Secret store in St.
Louis when the pandemic
threw her life into chaos.
She got a text telling her
she was furloughed. Then
her husband lost his restau-
rant job. In financial straits,
they sold their home, moved
in with friends, survived on
unemployment insurance
and fell deeper into debt.
In the fall, Victoria’s Secret
offered Weitzel part-time
work that would pay $12 an
hour, but she declined. She
and her husband, who now
works long hours at a new
restaurant job, can’t afford
child care.
“Something just kind
of broke, where I thought
about how hard I was
working for this job that
paid about $32,000 a year,”
Weitzel said.
Weitzel, 31, got accepted
to Rung for Women, a St.
Louis program that offers
career coaching and train-
ing for jobs in high demand,
including banking, health
care, customer service
and technology. In the fall,
when her oldest daughter
starts preschool, Weitzel
hopes to get part-time work
in a new career.
‘I always viewed
this job as
temporary’
Mark Smithivas drove for
Uber and Lyft for four years
before he abruptly quit last
spring out of concern for
his health. He has spent the
last year taking technology
classes in a federal worker
training program.
Smithivas, 52, just got his
second vaccination, but he
doesn’t want to go back to
ride-hailing. He worries
about carjackings and other
crimes targeting drivers in
Chicago, where he lives.
“I always viewed this job
as temporary, and I really
do want to find some-
thing that fits my career
and background better,”
he said.
Some workers say the
pandemic helped them
prioritize their mental and
physical health.
After a lifelong career
as a bartender, 57-year-old
Ellen Booth was in constant
pain from lifting ice buckets
and beer kegs. But without
a college degree, she felt she
had limited options.
When the restaurant she
worked for closed last year,
she said it gave her “the kick
I needed.” Booth, of Coven-
try, Rhode Island, started a
yearlong class to learn to
be a medical coder. When
her unemployment bene-
fits ran out two months
ago, she started drawing on
her retirement funds. Booth
will take an exam in the
coming weeks to get certi-
fied, after which she will hit
the job market.
From restaurants
to film school
Shelly Ortiz, 25, used to
love her career as a restau-
rant server. But things
changed last June, when
her Phoenix restaurant
reopened its dining room.
She wore two masks and
glasses to protect herself,
but still felt anxiety in a
restaurant full of unmasked
diners.
Sexual harassment also
got worse, she said. Patrons
would ask her to pull down
her mask so they could see
how cute she was before
tipping her.
Ortiz quit in July after
she learned that the restau-
rant didn’t deep-clean the
bar after a bartender was
potentially exposed. She
and her partner, a teacher,
curtailed their spend-
ing, and Ortiz returned
to school full time. This
month, she is graduating
from Glendale Commu-
nity College with a degree
in film and a certificate in
documentary directing.
Ortiz stopped getting
unemployment benefits in
November, when she did
some part-time film work.
Money is tight, she said, but
she’s never been happier.
And she doesn’t think she’ll
ever be a restaurant server
again.
“I don’t know if I could
do it with a smile anymore,”
she said. “I don’t think it
should be an option for
anyone to treat any worker
the way that service indus-
try workers are treated in
America.”
In a tight labor market,
some workers are also find-
ing that if they hold out,
they might get a better job
than the one they left.
‘They didn’t value
the work I put in’
Taryn Henderson spent
six years working at Best
Buy before she was unex-
pectedly let go in February.
“They didn’t value the
work I put in, the time I
put in, because I got laid
off,” said Henderson, 24, a
college student who lives in
Austin, Texas. “It was just
really discouraging.”
At first she focused on
her schoolwork, living on
her unemployment checks
and a severance payment
that gave her 10 weeks’
worth of pay. But soon she
was anxious to work again,
and thought a new job that
valued her more would
make her feel better.
After a few months
of searching, she found
another job with a music
streaming service. She’ll
start later this month and
will make $10 more per
hour than the $17 she made
at Best Buy.
“As long as I’m making
enough money that I can
support myself, the people
that I love and I can get to
travel every once in a while,
I’m good,” said Henderson.
“I think this job will afford
me the opportunities to do
that.”
The AP’s Christopher Rug-
aber contributed.
Amazon is working with a Chicago-based nonprofit to fill job
openings at new fulfillment centers in the south suburbs,
including one in Matteson at Harlem Avenue and Vollmer
Road. MIKE NOLAN/DAILY SOUTHTOWN
Amazon
from Page 7
The new fulfillment
center is just a couple of
miles north of a larger
distribution center Amazon
operates off I-57 at Monee
Manhattan Road in Monee.
The center is one of six
facilities Amazon operates in
Will County, with University
Park becoming the seventh.
Amazon has more than 7,000
employees at its Will County
locations and is the county’s
biggest employer, accord-
ing to the county. Amazon
opened its first Illinois facil-
ity in 2015 in Joliet.
“Amazon is the largest
employer in the Chicago
area, in Illinois and the coun-
try right now,” Dunseth said.
Work is also underway
on a fulfillment center in
Matteson at Harlem Avenue
and Vollmer Road, and in
Markham on the south side
of 159th Street between Inter-
state 294 and Dixie Highway.
Those two multilevel facil-
ities each have footprints of
about 800,000 square feet,
but each contains more
than 3 million square feet
of floor space. Each of the
three fulfillment centers is
expected to have about 1,000
employees, and Dunseth said
she did not have information
about how many positions
had been filled so far at the
University Park location.
Some weeks ago, the
nonprofit Skills started hosting
informational call-in sessions
about job opportunities at the
University Park facility.
“There’s a lot of informa-
JPMorgan
from Page 7
for JPMorgan and other
major banks to consider
promoting a woman, partic-
ularly since banking is such a
male-dominated profession.
tion and benefits that you just
can’t convey on a billboard,”
Dunseth said.
Skills has also posted infor-
mation about jobs at amazon.
com/scf.
Much of the organization’s
work has involved improving
job opportunities in Chicago
neighborhoods and commu-
nities where opportunities
had been scarce, and double-
digit unemployment rates
were common. Skills is work-
ing with credit card company
Discover to fill more than
1,000 jobs at a customer care
center in Chicago’s Chatham
community. Dunseth said
the center will open in
phases, with the first batch of
employees attending training
sessions next month.
While the economic fallout
of the COVID-19 pandemic
had “sent unemployment
through the roof,” some
employers are now having a
difficult time wooing candi-
dates to fill job openings,
Dunseth said. She said she did
not know if tight labor markets
were affecting Amazon as far
as filling job openings.
Last week, following the
release of a lackluster jobs
report for April, the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce
called for an end to the $300
weekly supplement to unem-
ployment insurance benefit,
arguing it was providing an
incentive for people to not
actively seek work. Compa-
nies have sweetened wages
and offered perks such as
sign-on bonuses as a result.
“It’s an interesting time
right now,” Dunseth said.
“It’s a very competitive land-
scape for talent.”
At a congressional hear-
ing in 2019, all seven heads of
the major Wall Street banks
were asked whether they
were considering a woman
or person of color as their
successor. None of the CEOs
at that hearing raised their
hands.

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Shoppers venturing out
again, retail results show
Major stores see a rise in sales as vaccinations — and optimism — take hold
By Anne D’innocenzio
Associated Press
NEW YORK — At Walmart, sales of teeth
whitener are popping as customers take
their masks off. So are travel items. Macy’s
says that special occasion dressing like
prom dresses are on the upswing as well as
luggage, men’s tailored clothing and dressy
sandals.
Shoppers, newly vaccinated, are emerg-
ing from their homes and going out again,
and that, along with government stim-
ulus payments, is helping to boost fiscal
first-quarter results for major retailers.
Walmart and Macy’s were among the
first retailers to release figures that covered
the spring period.
Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer,
boosted its annual earnings-per-share
outlook, while Macy’s swung back into the
profit column.
“Our optimism is higher than it was at the
beginning of the year,” said Walmart CEO
Doug McMillon. “In the U.S., customers
clearly want to get out and shop.”
Razor wire surrounds the perimeter fencing at the former Arthur Kill Correctional Facility last week in the Staten Island borough of New York.
The facility was purchased by Broadway Stages in 2017 and has been transformed into a film and television studio. JOHN MINCHILLO/AP
Prisons get new lease on life
As facilities keep closing,
communities search for ways
to repurpose empty buildings
By Pat Eaton-Robb
Associated Press
One shuttered prison in Connecticut has
been repurposed for document storage.
Another is used to process and train newly
hired correction officers. A third that was
emptied of prisoners within the last decade
remains unused.
With the state’s inmate population down
by more than half from its peak of almost
20,000 in 2008, decisions will need to be
made about what to do with three more
prisons slated for closure, including the
Northern Correctional Institution that
once housed death row. It’s scheduled to
be shuttered next month.
It’s a predicament and opportunity facing
many states as declining crime rates, and
an emphasis on alternatives to incarcera-
tion for nonviolent offenses, allow them to
explore new uses for prisons.
Since 2009, the percentage of U.S. resi-
dents who are in prison has dropped 17%,
according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice
FTC: Investors lose $2M to Musk impostors
By Neil Vigdor
The New York Times
The proposition was tantalizing: Hand-
some returns awaited investors who would
be willing to provide an infusion of crypto-
currency to Elon Musk, the billionaire chief
executive of Tesla and founder of SpaceX,
for a moneymaking venture.
It seemed too good to be true, because
it was.
Investors lost $2 million in six months
to fraudsters who impersonated Musk,
the Federal Trade Commission said in a
report released Monday that was meant to
draw attention to a spike in cryptocurrency
scams.
The commission found that nearly 7,000
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Jeff Gennette, CEO of Macy’s, told
analysts on the earnings call Tuesday that
shoppers feel more emboldened to shop.
“Clearly our customer is ready to get on
with life,” Gennette said.
Home Depot, the nation’s largest home
improvement chain, also delivered stel-
lar results Tuesday, showing that an over-
charged housing market continues to keep
aisles full. The Atlanta-based company
reported sales that blew past Wall Street
expectations.
The overall results are a good omen for
other major retailers who are slated to
report their results in the next few days.
During the height of the pandemic-in-
duced lockdowns, Walmart and Home
Depot were allowed to stay open, while
nonessential retailers like Macy’s were
forced to temporarily close, dealing a devas-
tating blow to business.
Tuesday’s results show that for now,
Walmart and Home Depot are able to keep
sales strong even as the pandemic eases.
Walmart served as a pandemic lifeline
for shoppers loading up their pantry with
Statistics. That was helped along during the
last year by the pandemic as many prisons
furloughed inmates. The number of people
incarcerated in state and federal prisons
and local jails declined from 2.1 million in
2019 to 1.8 million in late 2020, according
to the nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice.
While some new prisons have been built,
many states are downsizing.
Between 2011 and 2016, 94 state prisons
and juvenile facilities across the U.S. closed,
according to the nonprofit Sentencing Proj-
ect, which tracks prison closures.
Around the country, prisons have been
converted into homeless shelters, centers
for troubled teens and in at least one case,
a movie studio.
Owners of many private prisons have
filled beds by entering into contracts with
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforce-
ment to hold immigrant detainees, said
Eunice Cho, a senior staff attorney with the
American Civil Liberties Union’s National
Prison Project.
Nine years ago, community leaders in
Gainesville, Florida, were searching for a
solution to the area’s homeless problem
just as the state was closing the Gainesville
Correctional Institution as part of budget
cuts.
people lost a reported $80 million overall
from October through March as part of
various scams targeting investors in Bitcoin
and other cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin, a
nebulous marketplace that Musk has bull-
ishly promoted on Twitter. The median
amount that they lost was $1,900, accord-
ing to the commission.
The spate of fraud cases — a nearly
1,000% increase compared with the same
period the previous year, the report said —
came as the price of Bitcoin and Dogecoin
soared toward record highs.
“All of this plays right into the hands of
scammers,” the commission’s report said.
“They blend into the scene with claims that
can seem plausible because cryptocurrency
is unknown territory for many people.”
Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Wednesday, May 19, 2021 9
groceries and basic household goods, while
Home Depot benefited as shut-in shop-
pers continue to focus on making home
improvements.
Macy’s solid comeback is encourag-
ing news for other department stores and
specialty chains, indicating that customers
are ready to buy clothing.
Retailers still face plenty of challenges,
particularly shortages of essential workers
even as the unemployment rate remains
high.
Many companies are now having to offer
more perks or increase hourly wages.
At Walmart, sales at stores opened at
least a year rose 6%, slowing from the 8.6%
increase during the fiscal fourth quarter.
Macy’s said that net income hit $103
million after massive losses during the same
period last year. Revenue of $4.71 billion
also exceeded analyst projections.
At Home Depot, sales hit $37.5 billion, up
32.7% from the same year.
Sales at stores open at least a year, a crit-
ical indicator of a retailer’s health, jumped
31%. In the U.S., those sales rose 29.9%.
The opportunity met the need.
The city acquired the former correctional
institution. The razor wire was removed,
trees were planted and the walls were
painted bright colors. It is now GRACE
Marketplace, a 135-bed center providing
dormitory-style temporary housing and
other services for the homeless.
The former Arthur Kill Correctional
Facility on Staten Island in New York was
bought by Broadway Stages in 2017 and
transformed into a film and television
studio. Much of the prison was preserved
as a set, lending authenticity to scenes in
productions including “Orange is the New
Black” and “Oceans Eight.”
Five other sound stages are being built
on the 69-acre site, giving production
companies the ability to shoot entire proj-
ects there, said Samara Schaum, a spokes-
woman for Broadway Stages.
The studio has created about 40 perma-
nent jobs and each production that comes
in brings between 200-300 people, she said.
“And to the extent that they can, they like
to use local restaurants for food, local busi-
nesses for craft services anything that they
need,” she said. “That’s part of the identity
of Broadway Stages. I know that it has had
a positive impact on local businesses there.”
It was not immediately clear how many
people had been duped by the imperson-
ators or whether they had received solici-
tations for the money. It also was not clear
whether they had used a particular crypto-
currency platform.
The commission did not immediately
provide more details about the cases.
Representatives for Musk at Tesla also
did not immediately respond to a message
seeking comment.
The FTC cautioned Monday in the report
that fraudsters had used online dating plat-
forms to lure people into cryptocurrency
scams. About 20% of the money that people
reported losing through romance schemes
since October was sent in cryptocurrency,
the report said.
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Agency lists
energy keys
to hit climate
goals by ’50
By Frank Jordans
Associated Press
BERLIN — The International Energy
Agency says immediate action is needed to
reshape the world’s energy sector in order
to meet ambitious climate goals by 2050,
including ending investments in new coal
mines, oil and gas wells.
The Paris-based agency, long considered
close to the fossil fuel industry, said in a
report released Tuesday that it has deter-
mined there is a narrow but viable pathway
for building a global energy sector with net
zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Several countries, including the United
States and the European Union, have
pledged to achieve net zero emissions —
meaning only as much planet-warming gas
is released into the atmosphere as can be
absorbed — by mid-century.
The energy sector is vital for this effort
because it accounts for 90% of carbon diox-
ide emissions worldwide and three-quarters
of the total human-made greenhouse gases
released into the atmosphere.
The report comes as governments discuss
what countries can do to meet the 2015
Paris climate accord’s goal of keeping global
warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahr-
enheit) by the end of the century compared
with pre-industrial times. The world has
already warmed by 1.2 C since the late 19th
century, and leaders are expected to make
a concerted push for further emissions
reduction pledges before U.N. climate talks
in November.
The report sets out 400 steps to transform
how energy is produced, transported and
used. These include no investment in new
fossil fuel supply projects, an end to the sale
of new internal combustion engine passen-
ger cars by 2035, and a four-fold increase in
the deployment of solar and wind power by
2030 compared to last year’s record level.
BUSINESS BRIEFING
Irish health IT
still shut down
LONDON — Ireland’s health system was
still struggling to restore its computers and
treat patients Tuesday, four days after it shut
down its entire IT system in response to a
cyberattack.
Thousands of diagnostic appointments,
cancer treatment clinics and surger-
ies have been canceled or delayed since a
ransomware attack Friday. Authorities said
hundreds of people have been deployed to
tackle the attack, but it could be weeks before
the health service can return to normal.
More than 2,000 patient-facing IT
systems are affected, with around 80,000
devices linked to such systems throughout
the health service, Health Service Executive
chief clinical officer Colm Henry told Irish
broadcaster RTE.
Poland outage
affects Europe
WARSAW, Poland — Energy experts
worked Tuesday to restore full operations at
Poland’s biggest power plant after a network
failure switched off 10 of the brown coal-fu-
eled Belchatow plant’s 11 units, a disruption
felt across Europe’s power network.
Poland needed emergency energy imports
from Germany, Sweden, the Czech Republic
and Slovakia to fill in for the suddenly miss-
ing power supply. It was a second major
outage since 2015 at Belchatow, which
provides up to 20% of the energy in Poland.
Officials said the outage was the units’
automatic reply to a failure at a nearby power
switchboard where 10 of Belchatow’s units
are connected. The 11th unit, the largest one,
is connected to a different switchboard and
was not affected.
New residential
construction
New housing unit permits authorized, in
millions
2.0 April 2021: 1.76 million
1.5
1.0
0.5
APRIL APRIL
2020 2021
SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau TNS
10 Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Wednesday, May 19, 2021 

CHARLES GRODIN 1935-2021

Offbeat actor who starred in

‘Midnight Run,’ ‘Beethoven’
In Memoriam Cavanagh, Jr, Ross Michael
By Jake Coyle Ross Michael Cavanagh Jr died at home May 13,
2021. The first child of Ross
Associated Press
and Marjorie (Miller) was
born September 28,1925 in
Charles Grodin, the droll, Evanston IL. The first 17 years
offbeat actor and writer of his life was spent moving
who scored as a caddish between 14 apartments in
newlywed in “The Heart- three Chicago neighbor-
break Kid” and later had hoods before finally settling
roles ranging from Robert in South Shore. After 1935,
De Niro’s counterpart in the his summers were spent
comic thriller “Midnight John C. Abraham in the kerosene lit cabin on Squaw Island, on the
John, Eastern edge of Lake Duroy and exploring the Elk
Run” to the bedeviled father I miss and love you more than you’ll ever know. It River in Phillips, Wisconsin. It was here his life-long
in the “Beethoven” come- has only been a year but it seems like eternity. love for fishing and the outdoors was born and nur-
dies, died Tuesday. He was You will always be my one and only love. tured; returning every autumn he was able for the
86. All My Love Forever, rest of his life to fish for the elusive Muskellunge.
Grodin died at home in Charles Grodin was an actor, writer and TV commentator. Linda With his parents’ consent he joined the U.S. Navy
Wilton, Connecticut, from SUZANNE DECHILLO/THE NEW YORK TIMES 2000 in 1943. After boot camp and radio school, Ross
bone marrow cancer, his transferred to his post on the minesweeper YMS
son, Nicholas, said. ful, wealthy blonde played others with a fake aggres- 50 in New Guinea summer 1944. Ross and the
Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries YMS 50 swept mines during the Philippine cam-
Known for his dead-pan by Cybill Shepherd. The siveness that made audi-
paign at Leyte and Manila Bay. On the morning of
style and everyday looks, movie was a hit and Grodin ences cringe and laugh at Death Notices June 18,1945, the YMS 50 had orders to sweep off
Grodin also appeared in received high praise. He the same time. Balikpapan, Borneo to prepare for the invasion. They
“Dave,” “The Woman in commented: “After seeing “It’s all a joke,” he told the Ashford, Lucille struck a mine. He and his 32 shipmates abandoned
Red,” “Rosemary’s Baby” the movie, a lot of people Los Angeles Times in 1995. Lucille Ashford, age 91, fell asleep in the Lord on ship at their CO’s orders. After surviving several
and “Heaven Can Wait.” would approach me with “It’s just a thing. It was a May 15, 2021. Beloved wife hours in the sea under heavy shore fire, they were
On Broadway, he starred the idea of punching me in choice to do that.” of the late James. Loving rescued. Ross was always thankful and amazed that
with Ellen Burstyn in the the nose.” His biggest stage success mother of Dean (Anne) and at the end of that day though many were wounded,
the late Tom. Devoted daugh- none of his crew mates were dead. After the war,
long-running 1970s comedy In the next few years, was “Same Time, Next Year,” ter of William and Constance Ross returned to Chicago and in 1952 found a place
“Same Time, Next Year,” and Grodin played in a lavish which opened on Broadway Pappas. Proud grandmother as a photographer for the Chicago Tribune’s market-
he found many other outlets 1976 film remake of “King in 1975 and ran nearly 3½ of James (Karina), Michael ing department, where he worked for the next 23
for his talents. Kong” as the greedy show- years. He and Burstyn were (Karie), James (Jenna) and years. In May 1960, after making a speech about
In the 1990s, he made his man who brings the big two people who — though Victoria (James) Shannon. the viability of a Catholic president at the College
mark as a liberal commenta- ape to New York. He was each happily married — Great grandmother of of Complexes on Clark Street in Chicago, an attrac-
tor on radio and TV. He also Warren Beatty’s devious meet in the same hotel once Raphael, Isabella, Bri, Sophia, tive redhead bought him a drink. She became the
wrote plays and television lawyer in “Heaven Can a year for an extramarital Ellie, Olivia, Audrey and Arianna. Dear love of his life. Ross and Mary Ellen Carroll were
scripts, winning an Emmy Wait” and Gene Wilder’s fling. Beyond the humor, the sister of Helene Patterson and the late married on April 28,1962 in McGregor, Iowa. They
George Pappas. Fond aunt of Stephanie bought a home in the West Lincoln Park neighbor-
for his work on a 1997 Paul friend in “The Woman in play won praise for deftly and Linda Patterson and many others. hood in 1964, where they raised their four children
Simon special, and wrote Red.” (Less successfully, tracing the changes in their Visitation Thursday, May 20, 2021 from and several Airedales over the next 35 years. Here
several books humorously he appeared in May’s 1987 lives, and in society, from the 9:30 AM until time of Funeral Service 10:30 AM at Ross imbued his brood with his many passions - art
ruminating on his ups and adventure comedy “Ishtar,” 1950s to the ’70s. Assumption Greek Orthodox Church 601 South in all its forms being primary. In the early 1980s’
downs in show business. a notorious flop). After 1994’s “My Summer Central Avenue, Chicago, IL 60644. Interment to Ross secured a position with the City of Chicago at
Grodin became a star In 1988’s “Midnight Run,” Story,” Grodin largely aban- follow at Bronswood Cemetery, Oak Brook, IL. O’Hare Airport where he worked until retirement. At
in the 1970s, but might Grodin was a bail-jump- doned acting. From 1995 to Arrangements by Memory Eternal Funeral Directors, Ross’ urging, Mary Ellen and he returned to the hills
have broken through years ing accountant who took 1998, he hosted a talk show Ltd. 847-375-0095. of her youth in Northeast Iowa in 1999 and settled
earlier: He auditioned for millions from a mobster on the CNBC cable network. in the valley of Village Creek outside Lansing. Here
the title role in Mike Nich- and De Niro was the bounty He moved to MSNBC and he enjoyed summer evenings fishing for trout and
listening to Edith Piaf while sipping John J Jameson
ols’ “The Graduate.” But the hunter trying to bring him then to CBS’ “60 Minutes
Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries on his deck. Ross would often comment to Mary
part for what became a clas- cross-country to Los Ange- II.” He returned to the big Ellen - “We live in a beautiful place.” In addition
sic went instead to Dustin les. They’re being chased screen in 2006 as Zach Budzyn, Alice Marie ‘Dolly’ to his parents, Ross is preceded in death by his
Hoffman. by police, another bounty Braff’s know-it-all father-in- Daughter of the late Alice Marie Cunningham and wife Mary Ellen, his sister Mary Louise Ritcherson,
Grodin did have a small hunter and the mob, and law in “The Ex.” More recent the late Robert Cunningham, his brother-in-law Thomas Tallman, sister-in-law
role in “Rosemary’s Baby” because Grodin is afraid of credits include the films “An wife of the late Edwin Kathleen Milewsky, his nieces Michelle and Bessie
and was part of the large flying, they are forced to go Imperfect Murder” and Budzyn, mother of Edwina Rubenstein, and his nephew Brian Cavanagh. Ross
(Bruce) Synder, Adam is survived by his brother Patrick (Marilyn) Cavanagh
cast of Nichols’ adaptation by car, bus, even boxcar. “The Comedian” and the TV
(Jackie), Edwin Jr. (Rosalie), of Spartanburg, SC. His children Ross M Cavanagh
of “Catch-22” before he “Beethoven” brought him series “Louie.” Matthew (Stacey), and Daniel III of Lansing, IA, Sean (Michelle Kaiser) Cavanagh
gained wide notice in the success in the family-animal Grodin and his first (Emily), and grandmother of of Chicago, Kevin (Trish) Cavanagh of San Francisco
1972 Elaine May comedy comedy genre in 1992. wife, Julia Ferguson, had a Andrea, Samantha, Sabrina, and Molly (Michael) Cummins of Edwardsville, IL. His
“The Heartbreak Kid.” Amid his film gigs, Grodin daughter, comedian Marion Dillon, Chad, Ashley, Jasmine, grandchildren: Chloe and Abigail Cavanagh, Michael,
He starred as a Jewish became a familiar face on Grodin. The marriage ended Caitlyn, Adrian, and Eren. Jane and Nora Cummins. Countless nephews and
newlywed who abandons late-night TV, perfecting in divorce. He and his second Memorial service and luncheon will be held in nieces, great and small. In lieu of flowers, donations
his comically neurotic a character who would wife, Elissa Durwood, had a Lombard, Illinois on July 22, 2021. in honor to ‘Himself’ can be made to the Alzheimer’s
bride to pursue a beauti- confront Johnny Carson or son, Nicholas. Association, or to the Wexford Foundation c/o Mary
Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries O’Neill 2444 Wexford Hollow Dr Lansing, IA 52151.
Visitation Friday May 21, 2021 from 5pm-7pm at
Burke, Barbara A.
Thornburg-Grau Funeral Home 490 Main St Lansing,
Barbara A. Burke (nee Gesiakowski), beloved wife
IA. Mass of Christian burial Saturday May 22, 2021
of James B. Burke; loving
11am Immaculate Conception, Wexford 1416 Great
mother of David, Karen (Eric)
River Rd Rural Lansing, IA.
ON MAY 19 ... Hansberry (“A Raisin in the In 1988 Carlos Lehder Rivas, Dirst, Kathleen and James
(Annette) Burke; devoted
Sun”) was born in Chicago. co-founder of Colombia’s Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries
grandmother of Alec, Bryan,
In 1536, Anne Boleyn, the Medellin drug cartel, was Daniel, Benjamin, Alison,
second wife of England’s In 1935 T.E. Lawrence, the convicted in Jacksonville, LeeAnn and Hannah; cher- DeBenedictis, Angeline C. ‘Julie ‘
King Henry VIII, was British archeologist, soldier Fla., of smuggling more ished great grandmother of
beheaded after being and writer who became than 3 tons of cocaine into Angeline C. “Julie” DeBenedictis, nee Aiello, for-
Lydia; dearest sister of Daniel
merly of Hillside; beloved wife of the late Robert
convicted of adultery. known as Lawrence of the United States. (Chun) Gesiakowski, Edward
L. DeBenedictis; loving mother of Michael (Dawn),
Arabia, died in Dorset, (Joyce) Gesiakowski, Constance (the late Patrick)
Frank (Ingrid), Debra (Richard) Olsen & Robert
In 1588 the Spanish Armada England, from injuries In 1991 martial-law courts in Kearney, Leonard Gesiakowski and Antoinette
A. DeBenedictis; dear grandmother of 9, great
set sail for England. sustained in a motorcycle Kuwait began trying people (the late Harry) Bishop. Dear aunt of many nieces
grandmother of 13; fond sister of Gloria Culotta &
and nephews. Visitation Friday 3-8 P.M. at Lawn
crash; he was 46. accused of collaborating the late Connie Aiello, Susan O’Neil & Jean Aiello.
Funeral Home 17909 S 94th Ave. Tinley Park Il 60487
In 1643 delegates from four with Iraqi occupation forces, Interment Private. In lieu of flowers please make
Aunt of many. Visitation Sunday, 3-8 pm, and
New England colonies met In 1943, in an address to the sentencing one man to life in donations to Shriners Hospital for Children shriner-
Monday 9:30-10:30 am, at Hursen Funeral Home
in Boston to form a confed- U.S. Congress, British Prime prison for wearing a Saddam & Crematory, 4001 W. Roosevelt Rd, Hillside (SW
shospitalforchildren.org. Due to the Current health
eration. Minister Winston Churchill Hussein T-shirt. (The trials corner of Mannheim and Roosevelt Rds), followed
guidelines, we are limited to 50 attendees at a time.
by a Funeral Mass, 11 am, at St. Domitilla Church,
pledged his country’s full came under international We kindly ask that you quickly exit the funeral home
Hillside. Interment Queen of Heaven Cemetery.
In 1795 Johns Hopkins, the support in the war against criticism and were halted.) after paying your respects to the family so that all
Funeral info 800-562-0082 or www.hursen.com
millionaire philanthropist Japan. visitors have an opportunity to enter. Masks and
who endowed the Maryland In 1992 the 27th Amendment proper social distancing required. The coffee lounge
is not available for use so please refrain from bring-
university and hospital that In 1945 Pete Townshend, to the Constitution, which
ing food into the funeral home. Funeral info (708)
bear his name, was born in rock musician and founder prohibits Congress from 532-3100.
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London. raises, went into effect. Also
In 1879 Nancy Witcher in 1992, in Massapequa, N.Y., Eldridge, Scott E.
Astor, the first woman to In 1958 the United States Mary Jo Buttafuoco was Scott E. Eldridge 54, of Arizona passed away on
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serve in Britain’s House and Canada formally estab- shot and seriously wounded May 11, 2021. Beloved son of Barbara & James
of Commons, was born in lished the North American by her husband Joey’s teen- Castellano, Robert Carmine Shumate, loving father of Jessica and Jennifer, dear-
Robert Carmine Castellano, 55, dear son of Carole est brother of Craig (Laura) & Vince (Joyce), cher-
Danville, Va. Air Defense Command. age lover, Amy Fisher. Also
Schacht and the late Lanny Castellano; beloved ished grandfather of Zackary. Scott is also survived
in 1992 Vice President Dan by several nieces, nephews and friends in Arizona.
husband of Katherine nee Gatlin; loving father of
In 1890 North Vietnamese In 1962, during a Democratic Quayle criticized the CBS Funeral service Saturday, May 22, 2021 at 10:30
Adam; fond brother of Ronald, Michael, Russell,
leader Ho Chi Minh was fundraiser at New York’s sitcom “Murphy Brown” and Marie; uncle of Vince, Vanessa, Chase, Vince, A.M. at Bormann Funeral Home, 1600 Chicago Ave.
born in Hoang Tru, Vietnam. Madison Square Garden, for having its title character Tara, Michael, Melik, Dominique, Cortavian, Maggie, Melrose Park, Illinois. Visitation, Friday, from 3:00
actress Marilyn Monroe decide to bear a child out of Danny, Heather, Kristen, Kyle, Kelly, Catie, and P.M. until 7:00 P.M. at the funeral home. Interment
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Firestone, Nathan U ‘Nate’
Nathan “Nate” U. Firestone, age 102. Beloved hus-
band of Mildred, nee Lurie;
cherished father of Diane
Firestone, Marilyn Rothschild
and Joanne Nemerovski; lov-
ing grandfather of Alexandra
“Allie” Rothschild, Rachel
Nemerovski (fiancé Connor
Sea), Benjamin Rothschild,
Nicole Nemerovski, Max
(Amanda) Brown, Elana and
Rose Brown; dear brother
of the late Hadassah (Samuel) Baskin,
Solway (Jessie) Firestone, Bernard
(Betty) Firestone, Rachel Korshak, Dr.
William (Roberta) Firestone; fond uncle
and great-uncle of many nieces and
nephews. Army-Air Force Veteran, he received 2
Purple Hearts and numerous other medals after
escaping from a German prison camp during World
War II. Graveside services Wednesday, May 19th,
3 PM at Shalom Memorial Park-Arlington Heights.
Contributions in Nathan’s name to Wounded Warrior
Project www.support.woundedwarriorproject.org
or Jewish War Veterans, Post 29 in Highland Park
would be appreciated. Info Mitzvah Memorial
Funerals 630-MITZVAH 630-648-9824
www.mitzvahfunerals.com
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Hall, Charles R. ‘Chuck’
Charles R. (Chuck) Hall, 91, of Lake Forest, IL, passed
away at home on May 13,
2021.
Loving husband of Helen
Persson Hall; father of three
sons, Chic (Paula), Tim
(Renee), Jeff (Beth, deceased);
grandfather of Megan, Emily
(Matt), Timmy (Chelsie),
Lacey, Julie, Peter, Nick and
Eric; great grandfather of Arabella, Meadow, Max,
Mollie and Katrina. Uncle to Nancy Tisdall and Joan
McLaughlin (Patrick).
Chuck (A GREAT GUY!), was born at home in
Marysville, Kansas, son of Percy (Slim) and Zella Hall.
While growing up, he was active in sports, music,
scouting (Eagle Scout) and working with the family
road building business (Hall Brothers Construction).
Chuck graduated from the University of Kansas in
May 1951. He belonged to the Phi Delta Theta frater-
nity and several honor societies. Chuck and Helen
were married in Winnetka, IL in 1952. At the time
Chuck was an Ensign in the Navy and stationed in
Hastings, NE, where their first child Chic (Charles Jr.)
was born.
Chuck began his distinguished business career in
Chicago in 1954 with the Continental Illinois National
Bank earning the title of Executive Vice President
and was a member of the Bank’s Management
Committee. In 1980 Chuck joined the insurance
brokerage firm Rollins Burdick Hunter as Chairman
and CEO. In 1990 Chuck joined Merrill Lynch Capital
Markets as a managing director and then ultimately
helped establish their first Trust Company.
Helen and Chuck lived in Glencoe, IL for 50 years
where they were active in many aspects of the com-
munity including The Glencoe Union Church. They
were enthusiastic followers and supporters of their
children, grandchildren and great grandchildren’s
school and sports activities. Chuck loved Chicago
and actively participated in many charitable endeav-
ors including serving as Chairman of the John Crerar
Foundation which supported the John Crerar Library
focused on science, medicine and technology in the
University of Chicago library system. He was also a
loud and loyal fan of the Cubs and the Bears.
Chuck and Helen wintered for almost 40 years at
the Lost Tree Club in North Palm Beach, FL. where
they developed cherished friendships and were ac-
tive in all aspects of the community including the
Chapel and Chuck’s service as a President of the
Club.
Chuck’s favorite spot was their summer cottage at
the Sequanota Club in Charlevoix, MI. It is known
within the family as “paradise”. He loved to futz
and fix and sail his boat “Rarin’ To Go”. The natural
beauty of the setting and strong life-time friend-
ships have made this the family’s gathering place,
a goal of Chuck’s. One of his favorite sayings was to
“leave the campground better than when you found
it”. He was successful.
The Hall family want to thank special friends Maria
Sanchez and her sister Carmen who have assisted
them for many years and we hope for many more.
We know Chuck loved his family and we all loved
him. We will miss him.
Memorial donations may be made in memory of
Charles R. Hall to the Juvenile Diabetes Research
Foundation (JDRF.org).
Memorial Donations may be made in memory of
Charles R. Hall to the Hadley Institute for the Blind
and Visually Impaired at 700 Elm Street, Winnetka,
IL 60093.
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Heim, Vernette F.
Vernette F. Heim (nee Schindel), age 99, a lifelong
resident of Naperville, IL, passed away peacefully on
Sunday, May 16, 2021 at her home. She was born
October 4, 1921 in Naperville.
Arrangements by Friedrich-Jones Funeral Home &
Cremation Services, Naperville, IL.
For service times and a complete obituary, please
visit www.friedrich-jones.com or call (630) 355-0213.
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Kronenberg, Charlotte
Charlotte Kronenberg, nee Gyarfas, 100, beloved
wife of the late Harry; loving mother of
Bill Kronenberg; devoted daughter of the
late Theresa and Leslie Gyarfas; dear sis-
ter of the late Emery Gyarfas; treasured
aunt, cousin and friend of many.
Graveside service Thursday, May 20, 2021 at
10:00 AM at Shalom Memorial Park, 1700 W. Rand
Road, Arlington Heights. For the link to view the
service virtually and to leave condolences: Shalom
Memorial Funeral Home, www.shalom2.com or (847)
255-3520.
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Lanigan Jr., John J. ‘’Jack’’
John “Jack” J. Lanigan Jr. passed away peacefully
at his home in New Lenox,
Illinois Saturday, May 15, age
70 after a lengthy illness. He
went to be with his Lord and
Savior, Jesus Christ, and with
his parents John and Patricia
Lanigan. Over the past five
years Jack fought hard bat-
tling cancer with strong
determination to always
stay positive, constantly upbeat for his family and
friends. Jack was a loving, caring, friendly, gener-
ous, and selfless man. Jack was a devoted husband,
father, grandfather, brother, uncle, and friend to all.
He was the first-born child to loving parents John
and Patricia Lanigan November 1, 1950 in Chicago,
Illinois. He married the love of his life, Laura on
September 22, 1985. They were married 36 years.
They treasured every moment together and lived life
to the fullest. He always referred to her as his better
half and his heart. She was his biggest supporter.
Jack adored his father, cherishing every moment
together. Throughout the years Sr. mentored Jack Jr.
creating the family legacy, Mi – Jack Products. He
was instrumental in building the foundation and the
growth of the company for 53 years. His hard work,
determination, and creativity was a big example of
Mi-Jack’s success. The family company’s tag line,
“Where Service is Golden” was fostered by Jack Jr.
His leadership paved the way demonstrating to co-
workers this high standard of excellence. Jack and
his late father, Jack Sr., designed the first Mi-Jack
building in 1972. Going forward Jack Jr. took the
initiative to design and construct all future build-
ings at Hazel Crest and Homewood. After Jack Sr.’s
death, Jack Jr. completed his father’s book, “A Better
Way: An Entrepreneur’s Story.” His fingerprints are
a piece of Mi-Jack and his legacy etched into its
foundation. He was mechanically inclined, which
led to his affection for cars growing at a young age.
He intuitively took cars and motor bikes apart and
put them back together. Additionally, Jack enjoyed
being one of the largest collectors of muscle cars
in the Midwest. He bought a 1969 Dodge RT at age
19, which remains in the family to this day. He took
meticulous care of his cars together with his sons
and grandsons at his garage, where he cherished
his time with them. Jack’s affection for cars lead him
into being an avid Indy Car fan. Together he shared
this love with his brothers dating back to the late
sixties. Jack and especially his brother, Mike, never
missed an Indy 500 in the last forty years. His dream
came true on August 23, 2020 when he and his fam-
ily along with the Indy Car team, Rahal Letterman
Lanigan won the Indianapolis 500. This brought Jack
extreme joy as he was seen smiling on television.
In his spare time, Jack enjoyed boating with his
family and close friends on Extreme Machine in the
Gulf of Florida. He always had a smile on his face
taking his family and friends out for an afternoon
water excursion. His love and generosity of fam-
ily and friends was his best attribute. He lead by
example, always making sure everyone was taken
care of. His humble generosity is cherished by many.
Jack will be greatly missed and his memory will be
forever present in our hearts. Jack leaves behind
his beloved wife, Laura (nee Cromwell), daughter,
Kristine (nee Lanigan) (Scott) Zabinski, son John
(Mindy) Lanigan III, and son James Lanigan. Jack is
the proud grandfather of Zachary, Justin, Kyle, Kara,
Kaitlyn, Payton, Madelyn, Eryn, and Erik. He is a lov-
ing brother of Michael (Mary Kay) Lanigan, William
(Donna) Lanigan, and Daniel (Jill) Lanigan. He is the
brother in law of Gregory (Kathy) Cromwell and
Mark (Cromwell). He is the cherished uncle of many
nieces and nephews. Jack is preceded in death by
his parents, John Sr. and Patricia Lanigan. Visitation
Thursday 3-9 p.m. for all to attend. Funeral Friday
10:45 a.m. from the Robert J. Sheehy & Sons Funeral
Home, 9000 W. 151st Street, Orland Park to St.
Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Mass 11:30 a.m.
for family and close friends to attend. To keep every-
one safe and healthy, Interment at Holy Sepulchre
Cemetery will be private for the family and close
friends. To keep in Jack’s philanthropic spirit, in lieu
of flowers, please send donations to The Cancer
Support Center.
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Malloy, Maureen E
(nee Walsh) Beloved wife of the late David; loving
mother of Tricia Malloy and Kelly (Kevin) Koss; fond
grandmother of Taylor Malloy, Ryan, and Jackson
Koss; dear sister of James M. (Patricia) Walsh; fur
mom of Minnie; cousin, friend, and favorite teacher
of many. Visitation will be held on Thursday; May
20th from 3:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M. at Curley Funeral
Home 6116 111th St, Chicago Ridge. Family and
Friends will meet Friday, May 21st at Our Lady of the
Ridge Church 10811 S. Ridgeland (Chicago Ridge) for
Mass of Christian Burial 10:00 A.M. Interment Holy
Sepulchre Cemetery. For Funeral Info 708-422-2700,
or www.curleyfuneralhome.com
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McNulty, Michael Joseph
Mike McNulty, 52, of Woodbridge, Virginia, died
Wednesday, December 23, 2020. He was
born in Chicago, IL son of the late Sue
Ann (Hulska) and Michael McNulty.
He is survived by his father, Michael
McNulty (Judy) of Chicago, IL; his brother,
John McNulty of Chicago, IL; his brother, Jim McNulty
(Juliet) of Des Plaines, IL, nephews Liam and Vaughn
McNulty, his aunt Patricia Hammersten (Henry), un-
cle Jerry Hulska (the late Elaine) and many cousins.
He was preceded in death by his mother Sue Ann
McNulty and brother Brian McNulty.
Mike grew up in Chicago, the son of a police officer
and a homemaker. He attended Catholic school
from kindergarten through high school. In 1996,
Mike left the cold Chicago winters to relocate to
Tampa. Being able to ride year-round, his enthusi-
asm for motorcycles thrived. While living in Florida,
he made many friends, covered every road Florida
has to offer, and probably every bar as well. Looking
for new adventures and new roads, Mike moved to
Virginia in 2011. He loved the view of America from
his bike and spent most of his vacation time on dis-
tant motorcycle trips making his brothers jealous.
When he wasn’t traveling by motorcycle, he would
often come back to Chicago to spend time with his
family which was very important to him. He was
one of a kind, lived how he wanted and didn’t make
excuses for it. He had a unique perspective on life
and we loved him and will miss him more each day.
A funeral mass will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Friday,
May 21 at St. Zachary Catholic Church. Please join
family and friends to celebrate the life of Mike
McNulty at an open house at noon on Sunday, May
23 at the McNulty household in Des Plaines.
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Niec, Stanley J.
Stanley J. Niec, age 95. Navy veteran of WWII.
Beloved husband of the late Rose T.
(nee Musial). Devoted father of Mary
Jo (David) Murray, Frank (Audrey) Niec,
Linda (Bob) Alpert and Nancy Morariu.
Loving grandfather of Candice, Victoria,
Ashlee (Dave), Melissa, Brandon (Sarah) and Steven.
Great-grandfather of Kate, Samantha, Paige, Aiden,
Isabella, Benjamin and Miles. Great-great grandfa-
ther of Emmett and Reid. Fond brother of the late
Eugenia (late Joseph) Dziewinski.
Stanley was very proud of his military service and
was a participant of the Honor Flight Program. He
was also a member of V.F.W. Post #6863, Catholic
War Veterans Post #500 and St. Jane de Chantal
H.N.S., Ushers Club and the Seniors Club. Funeral
Friday, May 21, 2021 at 8:15 a.m. from the Richard-
Midway Funeral Home, 5749 Archer Ave. (Corner
of Lorel) to St. Michael Church in Orland Park, for
a 9:30 am mass. Entombment Pope John Paul II
Mausoleum at Resurrection Cemetery. Visitation
Thursday, May 20, 2021 from 3 to 8 p.m
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, pre-registration is
requested for the funeral mass per Archdiocesan,
CDC, and Illinois Department of Health directive. Per
State of Illinois guidelines, sixty (60) people are per-
mitted in the funeral home at one time, Face masks
and social distance practices will be observed. At
this time our lounge is closed to food and drinks,
only bottled water is permitted. For information
please call 773-767-1840 or www.richardmidwayfh.
com
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Nuñez, Alan
Alan Nuñez, 32, loving father of Konstantine Nuñez;
beloved husband of Sofia; caring son of Elisa and the
late Cruz; cherished brother of Horacio (Carmen).
Visitation will be Thursday, May 20, from 3 PM to 9
PM at Chicago Tabernacle Church, 3231 N. Cicero
Ave., Chicago.
Prayer service will be Friday, May 21, at 10 AM at
Nelson Funeral Home, 820 W. Talcott Rd. Park Ridge,
IL with interment to follow at Montrose Cemetery.
The family requests attendees wear something
white to symbolize the light and love Alan brought
to us all. For info, 847-823-5122 or www.nelsonfu-
nerals.com.
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Poulos, Carron A.
Carron A. Poulos was born in Chicago on August 24,
1960 and passed away in Chicago on May 13, 2021.
She was the daughter of George Poulos and Marion
(Mickey) Spierling. She was a graduate of Foreman
High School and attended some college courses.
She was an amazing mom, daughter, and sister.
No matter what she went through, she always re-
mained positive and never let things get her down.
She was kind and loving to everyone she met. She
will truly be missed by all. She is survived by her
son, Kyle Boyko; daughter, Melissa A. Cade (Jeremy);
her sister, Mary Bigwood (Michael); and her nephew,
James Bigwood. Also her loving dog, Sophie and her
Kit Kat. At this time, we will be celebrating Carron’s
life at a later date. May she Rest in Peace.
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Reifman, Bernard
Bernard Reifman, 92 of Mt. Prospect, IL, beloved
husband of late Rose, loving father of Teri
(Dr. Glenn) and Howard Reifman, adoring
brother of late Philip (Blossom) Reifman,
late Lillian (Hyman) Weissman and car-
ing brother-in-law of late Arthur (Joyce)
Gartzman and kind uncle of many nieces and neph-
ews. Bernie was a longtime successful business
owner (Kenard’s Shoes) in Arlington Hts., IL. Bernie,
a gifted artist attended Chicago’s Art Institute and
was also a chess champion and tournament billiard
player. Bernie’s zest for life, humor, and kindness will
be missed. Special thanks from daughter Teri to the
Symphony of Buffalo Grove for providing excellent
care the many years Bernie and Rose resided there,
and to her family & friends for their loving support.
Graveside services will be held Noon, Thursday, May
20, 2021 at Westlawn Cemetery, 7801 W. Montrose
Ave., Norridge, IL 60706. Memorial contributions
to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (www.
nationalmssociety.org) appreciated. Funeral infor-
mation 847-256-5700.
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Rose, Gus C.
Gus C Rose, born May 26, 1928. At rest April 1, 2021.
Son of the late Michael and
Athena Rose; Brother of the
late Michael Rose; Husband
of the late Georgia K. Rose;
Father of Gregory, Geoffrey,
Michael, and Christopher
Rose; Grandfather of
Nicholas, Geoffrey, Kristena,
and Michael Rose; Great-
grandfather of Corban
Aleksander; And a beloved close family friend Alex
Micele; as well as various other family and friends at
his late wife Georgia’s Book Club at the Wood Dale
Library.
Not only was Gus a family man, but he was also
an Army Air Corps veteran, an author, and an avid
reader, a woodworker, and a golfer.
Gus and Georgia married on June 1, 1952, and
shared over seven decades together until Georgia’s
passing on April 6, 2014. The two created a family
that spanned four generations.
A memorial service is being held for Gus on what
would have been his 93rd birthday, Wednesday,
May 26, 2021 from 4:00 to 8:00 PM at Geils Funeral
Home, 260 W Irving Park Rd, Wood Dale, IL 60191.
Arrangements handled by Geils Funeral Home. For
information, please call: (630)766-3232.
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Saville, Marcie Weintraub
Marcie Weintraub Saville, nee Wolberg, 71. Beloved
wife of Kevin H. Saville. Loving mother
of Scot (Lauren) Weintraub . Cherished
Nonnie of Caroline Weintraub, William
“Will” Weintraub and Theodore “Teddy”
Weintraub. Dear sister of Barbara (Dick)
Rosicky. To keep everyone safe and healthy, the
interment service will be private. To attend the fu-
neral live stream, please visit our website. In lieu of
flowers, memorial contributions to Pets are Worth
Saving, (PAWS) 1997 N. Clybourn Ave., Chicago,
IL 60614 www.pawschicago.org and the Cystic
Fibrosis Foundation, 150 N. Michigan Ave., Room
400, Chicago, IL 60601 www.cysticfibrosis.com
would be appreciated. Arrangements by Chicago
Jewish Funerals - Skokie Chapel, 847.229.8822,
www.cjfinfo.com
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Sloan, Bernard Henry ‘Barney’
Bernard Henry (“Barney”) Sloan passed away peace-
fully in Albuquerque, New
Mexico, on May 13, 2021, sur-
rounded by his family. He was
102 years old. Barney was a
farmer in his youth, a soldier
in his twenties, a postwar
father of seven, a successful
businessman and, in his later
years, a beloved family elder
to his extended family.
Barney was born on the Sloan family farm near
Hoopeston, Illinois, on January 31, 1919, to John
Henry and Ellen (Colgan) Sloan. The third of five
children, he was born into the worst of the Spanish
Influenza—the first pandemic of his long life and
one that killed his brother, John Francis, just weeks
before Barney was born. He learned the value of
hard work in his early years, working the fields with
horses and mules, animals that would shape his
future in unexpected ways.
A graduate of the University of Illinois in June 1941
(B.S. Animal Husbandry), he was immediately drafted
into the then-peacetime U.S. Army. Following Pearl
Harbor, he was assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division,
in part due to his skill with horses and mules.
Ironically, the Division soon dismounted, switching
from animals to trucks and jeeps. Barney adapted,
becoming a logistics expert in moving needed ma-
terials from landing craft to front lines.
Barney fought with the 1st Cavalry throughout
the entire war: from Ft. Bliss, Texas, to Brisbane,
Australia, then on to battles in the Admiralty Islands,
New Guinea, and the Philippines. On September
2, 1945, he was aboard a ship in Tokyo Bay as the
surrender documents were signed on the nearby
USS Missouri. He finished the war as a Captain. He
remained a proud World War II veteran the rest of
his life.
Though he endured grim moments in the war,
Barney emerged with body and spirit intact. He
painted a more peaceful war for his growing kids
in the 1950s and ‘60s, his tall stories populated by
giant pythons, boinging kangaroos, and an unfor-
tunate tiger Barney famously turned inside out by
reaching into its mouth, grabbing its tail, and yank-
ing hard. To his children, he had been on the coolest
four-year campout ever. His real war stories didn’t
emerge until his kids were well into middle age and,
he judged, able to handle the realities of war.
In 1943, while fighting in the South Pacific, he
was introduced by mail to Margaret “Peg” Dalton
through a mutual friend. Their two-year V-mail
courtship blossomed on Barney’s return from the
war. They met for the first time in Chicago’s Union
Station in 1946. He had written to her to look for
a soldier with a horse’s head on his shoulder; she
spotted his 1st Cavalry insignia on the first try. They
were married at Maternity B.V.M. Church in Chicago
on April 19, 1947.
Peg gave birth to seven children—a half-dozen boys
and a girl—and she and Barney raised six. Their first,
James Bernard, was born prematurely in 1948 and
died at two days of age. The six who followed en-
joyed robust health and kept Barney on his paternal
toes until the day he died. Barney and Peg were
married 69 years, inseparable until Peg’s death in
2017.
A successful career in the grain-milling business
took Barney and his family from Dubuque, Iowa,
to Evansville, Indiana and Kankakee, Illinois. He fi-
nally retired at age 80, capping his career as Vice
President of the J.R. Short Milling Company in
Chicago and Kankakee. The man loved to work—
thinking back at his 90th birthday party, he told his
kids that he might have retired “too young.”
Barney will be remembered for his love of family
and of life, his sense of fairness and kindness to all,
his humility, quiet humor, and his willingness to go
on adventures, whether learning to ski in his 70s,
visiting the World War II Memorial in Washington
in his 90s, or riding up a Taos Ski Valley chairlift at
101 for beer and banter at 11,000 feet. A long-time
Cubs fan, Barney attended an Albuquerque Isotopes
minor league game four days before his death; the
home team unfortunately got clobbered.
Barney Sloan is preceded in death by his wife, Peg,
his son James Bernard, and by his brothers, John
Francis, Donald, Nicholas, and sister, Sr. Mary Ellen
Sloan FSM. He is survived by his children Bernard
(Sharon Stoerger), Stephen (Carrie), Mark (Elisabeth
Chicoine), John Henry (Susan Lindner), Mary Ellen
Murnane (Patrick) and Christopher (Mary). He leaves
16 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Barney is also survived by his loving brothers- and
sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, many other rela-
tives, and countless friends.
Private funeral services will be held in Albuquerque.
A celebration of Barney Sloan’s life will take place in
Chicago this fall.
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Snorewicz, Edward V.
Edward V. Snorewicz, U.S. Marine Corps Veteran,
age 93 of Crestwood, passed away
May 16, 2021. Beloved husband of 54
years to Kay (nee Ruane); Loving Dad
to Ed (Michelle) and Kathy; Proud GPa
of Emily; Dear brother-in-law to the late
Mary (late Don) O’Malley and the late Tom (late Rhea)
Ruane; Fond uncle to the O’Connor, McDonough,
O’Malley, Ruane, and Snorewicz families. Ed was
a proud member of IBEW Local 134. Visitation will
be Thursday from 3:00-8:00 p.m. at Curley Funeral
Home, 6116 W. 111th St., Chicago Ridge; Funeral
will be Friday 9:00 a.m. from the funeral home to
Incarnation Catholic Church, 5757 W. 127th Street,
Crestwood for Mass at 10:00 a.m. Interment Holy
Sepulchre Cemetery, Alsip. In lieu of flowers, dona-
tions to the Veterans Affairs, www.va.gov
would be appreciated. For funeral info: (708) 422-
2700 or www.curleyfuneralhome.com
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Spratt , Ethel
Ethel Spratt, 89, Beloved wife of the late Harold
Spratt; loving mother of Harold “Gene” (Susanne)
Spratt Jr., Jim (Joan) Spratt, Julie (Ron) Vincent,
and Kimberly (Joe) Duple-Bassett; devoted grand-
mother of Jason, Jeremy (Jennica), Gina Spratt,
James (Ashley) Spratt Jr., Kelly Spratt, Caitlin (Chris)
Schweder, LoriAnn, Eric, Shane Vincent, Michelle
(Billy) Roth, and Jackie Duple; great-grandmother of
Taylor, Ryleigh, Charleigh, Brenden, Liam, McKenzie,
Paisley, and Molly; fond sister of Joseph ( Mary Ellen)
Gregoria and Daniel (Betty) Gregoria and of many
sister-in-law and brother-in-laws; aunt of many
nieces and nephews. Visitation Thursday, May 20th,
3-8PM, at Knollcrest Funeral Home, 1500 S. Meyers
Rd. (3 blks. So. of Roosevelt Rd.) Lombard. Due to
Covid-19 restrictions, all visitors are required to
check in, as we are limited in the number of guests
we can have at a time. All visitors are required to
wear a face mask while inside the building and
maintain social distance. Funeral Friday, May 21st,
2021, 9:15 AM from the funeral home to Ascension
of Our Lord Catholic Church, 1S314 Summit Ave,
Oakbrook Terrace, for Mass at 10:00 AM. Interment
Private. Memorials to the Alzheimer’s Association
are appreciated.
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Glenn “Torgy” Torgerson died on May 17, 2021, at
the Vi in Glenview, Illinois.
Torgy will be remembered as
a man of intellect and integ-
rity, guided by a strong moral
compass. These qualities
were tempered by a sense
of humor and a great love of
family.
Torgy was born at home
in Hayward, Wisconsin
on August 30, 1928. His parents, Ole and Thora
Torgerson, immigrants from Norway and Denmark,
taught him the importance of education, which he
valued all of his life.
After high school Torgy joined the army and served
in the Counter Intelligence Corps of the Occupying
Forces in Japan from 1946 to 1947. Upon returning
home, taking advantage of the GI Bill, he attended
the University of Wisconsin Madison, graduating Phi
Beta Kappa with a degree in accounting in 1952.
After graduation, Torgy joined the accounting firm
of Ernst & Ernst, serving in their Denver and Chicago
offices, soon rising to level of partner. During his 36-
year career with the firm, he provided wise counsel
to his clients, many of whom became close friends.
Torgy met Mary Mulgrew on a blind date on New
Year’s Eve in Chicago. They married in 1960 and
spent over 60 happy years together.
Torgy was an avid golfer and bridge player, as well
as a dedicated Bear, Cub and Badger fan. He loved
nothing more than cheering on his teams with his
children and grandchildren.
Throughout his life, he shared his talents and finan-
cial expertise with various not-for-profits, includ-
ing the Hadley School for the Blind, the “I Have a
Dream” Foundation and the Executive Service
Corps of Chicago.
He is survived by his wife, Mary; their three children,
Cathy DeWeirdt, Lisa Torgerson, and Ted Torgerson;
sons-in-law, Mike DeWeirdt and Toby Smalley;
daughter-in-law, Liz Torgerson; and grandchildren,
Caroline and Peter DeWeirdt and Charlie and Helen
Torgerson.
Visitation Friday, May 21, 2021, 4:00 p.m. to 7:00
p.m. at Donnellan Family Funeral Home, 10045
Skokie Blvd. at Old Orchard Road, Skokie, IL 60077.
In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be
made to the Hayward Library Foundation, P.O. Box
1303, Hayward, WI 54843.
Info: donnellanfuneral.com or 847-675-1990.
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NAMES
Notice is hereby given, Pursuant to “An Act
in relation To the use of an Assumed Business
Name in the conduct or transaction of
Business in The State” as amended, that a
Certification was filed by the Undersigned
with the County Clerk of Cook County
File No.
Y21006968 on the
Date: May 14. 2021
Under the Assumed Name of: GRANITE7
with the business located at:
2150 120TH PLACE
BLUE ISLAND, IL, 60406
The true name and residence Address of
the owner is: OLLIE NATHAN TALBOTT
2150 120TH PLACE
BLUE ISLAND, IL, 60406
5/19, 5/26, 6/2/2021 6955066
Notice is hereby given, Pursuant to “An Act
in relation To the use of an Assumed Business
Name in the conduct or transaction of
Business in The State” as amended, that a
Certification was filed by the Undersigned
with the County Clerk of Cook County
File No.
Y21006854 on the
Date: May 5, 2021
Under the Assumed Name of: HEAVENLY
PARADISE CLEANING SERVICE
with the business located at:
7307 S. CALIFORNIA AVE
CHICAGO, IL, 60629
The true name and residence Address of
the owner is: PATRICIA D SWAN
7307 S. CALIFORNIA AVE
7307 S. CALIFORNIA AVE, IL, 60629
5/12, 5/19, 5/26/2021 6948816
Notice is hereby given, Pursuant to “An Act
in relation To the use of an Assumed Business
Name in the conduct or transaction of
Business in The State” as amended, that a
Certification was filed by the Undersigned
with the County Clerk of Cook County
File No.
Y21006958 on the
Date: May 13, 2021
Under the Assumed Name of: STEVIEVIEW
PHOTOGRAPHY
with the business located at:
5709 S. MORGAN APT 1
CHICAGO, IL, 60621
The true name and residence Address of
the owner is: STEVEN WILLIAMS
5709 MORGAN APT 1
CHICAGO, IL, 60621
WED 5/19-6/2/21 6955702
Notice is hereby given, Pursuant to “An Act
in relation To the use of an Assumed Business
Name in the conduct or transaction of
Business in The State” as amended, that a
Certification was filed by the Undersigned
with the County Clerk of Cook County
File No.
Y21006970 on the
Date: May 14, 2021
Under the Assumed Name of: SUGAR FOOT
DANCE
with the business located at:
4531 N ASHLAND AVE #311
CHICAGO, IL, 60640
The true name and residence Address of
the owner is: ANDREA DISLER
4531 N ASHLAND AVE #311
CHICAGO, IL, 60640
5/19, 5/26, 6/2/2021 6955110
LEGAL NOTICES
GOVERNMENT/EDUCATION
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Board
of Education of Crete-Monee Community
School District 201-U, in the county of Will,
State of Illinois, that the tentative amended
budget for said School District for the fiscal
year beginning July 1, 2020, will be on
file and conveniently available for public
inspection at the Crete-Monee School
District 201-U Administrative Center located
at 1500 Sangamon Street; Crete, Illinois,
from and after 8 o’clock a.m. (CST), on the
seventh day of May, 2021.
NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that a
Public Hearing on said amended budget
will be held at 6:30 pm on the eighth day of
June, 2021, at Crete-Monee Administrative
Center located at 15oo Sangamon Street,
Crete, Illinois.
Dated this eighth day of May, 2021
Maurice Brown, Secretary
Board of Education
5/8/2021
5/19/21 6955623
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responsive and responsible bidder.
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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
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CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY
By: Ellen McCormack
Vice President
Purchasing & Supply Chain
May 19, 2021
5/19/2021 6955590
MANLEY, DEAS, KOCHALSKI LLC One East
Wacker – Suite 1250 Chicago, IL 60601 IN
THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY,
ILLINOIS, NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A
CHAMPION MORTGAGE COMPANY., Plaintiff,
v. BILLIE WOODS, AKA BILLIE J. WOODS, AKA
BILLIE JEAN WOODS; THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA, SECRETARY OF HOUSING
AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; UNKNOWN
OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS,
Defendants, Case No. 2021CH01816 The
requisite affidavit for publication having
been filed, notice is hereby given you, Billie
Woods, AKA Billie J. Woods, AKA Billie Jean
Woods, Unknown Owners and Non-Record
Claimants, that the said suit has been
commenced in the Circuit Court of the Cook
County Judicial Circuit, Cook County, Illinois
by the said plaintiff against you and other
defendants, praying for the foreclosure of
a certain Mortgage conveying the premises
described as follows, to-wit: Lot 34 in
Block 15 in Frederick H. Bartletts Greater
Calumet Subdivision of Chicago, being part
of the South 1/2 of Section 20, Township 37
North, Range 14, East of the Third Principal
Meridian, in Cook County, Illinois. 11718
South Elizabeth Street, Chicago, IL 60643
25-20-320-027-0000 Now, therefore, unless
you, Billie Woods, AKA Billie J. Woods, AKA
Billie Jean Woods, Unknown Owners and
Non-Record Claimants, and the said above
named defendants, file your answer to the
complaint in said suit or otherwise make
your appearance therein, in the office
of the Clerk of the Cook County Judicial
Circuit, Cook County, Illinois, on or before
July 13, 2021, default may be entered
against you at any time after that day and
a Judgment entered in accordance with
the prayer of said Complaint. E-filing is
now mandatory for documents in civil
cases with limited exemptions. To e-file,
you must first create an account with an
e-filing service provider. Visit http://efile.
illinoiscourts.gov/service-providers.htm to
learn more and to select a service provider.
If you need additional help or have trouble
e-filing, visit http://www.illinoiscourts.gov/
faq/gethelp.asp or contact the Clerk of this
Court. You may qualify as a Covered Person
under the Governor’s Executive Order if
you are a resident or tenant of the subject
property. You must complete the form
“Declaration Under Penalty of Perjury for
State of Illinois Executive Order 2020-72”
available at www.IHDA.org or at https://
df7qosnywqs6g.cloudfront.net/wp-content/
uploads/2020/11/Tenants-Declaration-Form.
pdf and provide to the plaintiff’s attorney
and plaintiff to be considered for these
please protections. Edward R. Peterka (6220416)
MANLEY DEAS KOCHALSKI LLC Attorneys
for Plaintiff One East Wacker, Suite 1250,
Chicago, IL 60601 Phone: 312-651-6700;
this
Fax: 614-220-5613 Atty. No.: 48928 Email:
sef-erpeterka@manleydeas.com One of
Plaintiff’s Attorneys 8120-914906
5/19, 5/26, 6/2/2021 6955510
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.;
Elite Class Corp. c/o Illinois Secretary of
State; Samuel A. Garnello; John M. Garnello;
Blanche Guariniello; Sollie Mitchell a/k/a
Sollie Guariniello; Manuel D. Jurado:
Occupant; Karen A. Yarbrough, Cook County
Clerk TAX DEED NO. 2021COTD000380 FILED
4/14/2021 TAKE NOTICE County of: Cook
Date Premises Sold: July 12, 2019 Certificate
No.: 19S-0000795, 19S-0000796 Sold for
General Taxes of: 2007-2017 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: 1821 W 123rd, Calumet Park, Illinois and
1847 W 123rd Calumet Park, Illinois Legal
Description or Property Index No. 25-30-
403-002-0000 Vol. 037 25-30-403-003-0000
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: Village of Calumet Park
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 4/14/2021
Address: 118 North Clark Street, Room 434,
Chicago, IL Telephone: 312-603-5645
5/17, 5/18, 5/19/2021 6952359
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Patience and trust

‘Time is the biggest question’ in Fields’ development; a look back at past rookie QBs lends insight into the process
More than two decades later, the visceral
reaction of Philadelphia Eagles fans to the
selection of Donovan McNabb with the No.
2 pick in the 1999 NFL draft remains fresh
in Brad Childress’ memory.
Childress was kneeling next to the
Eagles table at the Theater at Madison
Square Garden when Commissioner Paul
Tagliabue announced the pick, but he
wasn’t there to take in the extravaganza.
He was on a mission, sent by coach Andy
Reid to get the team’s new quarterback on
the fast track to be ready to play.
Armed with a playbook — which he
presented to McNabb in a limou- Childress recalled. “So we end
sine shortly after Eagles fans up with Donovan, which is who
lustily booed the Mount Carmel we wanted. The big thing was I
graduate — Childress was tasked said, ‘He’ll come in and be the No.
with introducing the first pick of 3 guy?’ And Andy’s statement to
the Reid era to the offense, years me was, ‘When you take a guy this
before playbooks were available Brad Biggs high, he’s got to be No. 2.’
on mobile devices. On the Bears “Listening to the people boo,
“The plan when we went to which should have been the
Philadelphia and Andy talked me happiest day for Donovan, it was
out of staying at Wisconsin — we had just really surreal. We proceeded to get right
gone to the Rose Bowl — he says, ‘Come on back in the limousine because we had
and coach the quarterbacks. We’re going minicamp at the end of the week. If he’s
to take one. We’ve got the second pick,’ ” going to take turns as the second quarter-
back, he’s got to get it in pretty quick. He
needs to know cadence, snap count, all
that kind of stuff. So I took him through
the whole installation, talked to him on the
phone every night that week.”
The 1999 draft was the second time in
league history quarterbacks were selected
with the top three picks, with Tim Couch
going to the Cleveland Browns at No. 1,
followed by McNabb and Akili Smith to
the Cincinnati Bengals. In all, five quar-
terbacks were chosen in the top 12 picks
Turn to Biggs, Page 2

WHITE SOX
La Russa calls Mercedes
home run ‘big mistake’
Swing on 3-0 count
late in blowout sparks
‘unwritten’ rules debate
By LaMond Pope
Chicago Tribune
MINNEAPOLIS — The White
Sox scored a season-high 16 runs
Monday at Target Field.
It was the final run that domi-
nated Tuesday’s pregame discus-
sion.
Designated hitter Yermín
Mercedes hit a solo home run in
the ninth inning on a 47 mph, 3-0
pitch from Minnesota Twins utility
player Willians Astudillo.
“I have never seen that 47,
but I’m always prepared for it,”
Mercedes said Tuesday.
On the Twins broadcast, the
announcers weren’t particularly
pleased with the swing on a 3-0
count with the game well out of
reach. The Sox won 16-4. It led to
a big discussion on social media
all afternoon about baseball’s
“unwritten” rules.
Sox manager Tony La Russa
called the swing a “big mistake”
because Mercedes missed a take
sign.
“Just about the time the guy
started making the pitch, I took
several steps from the dugout onto
the field, yelling, ‘Take, take, take,’ “
La Russa said. “Just the way he was
set up, it looked to me like he was
going to swing. And the whole time
he was running the bases, I’m out
there. I was upset because that’s
not a time to swing 3-0. I happened
to look over there, and I know the
Twins knew that I was upset.
Turn to Sox, Page 3
Nationals left fielder Kyle
Schwarber tips his hat to the fans
at Wrigley Field Monday. ARMANDO
L. SANCHEZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Schwarber’s return a lot
sweeter than departure
After having a half-filled plas-
tic bottle of beer thrown at him
during a City Series game on the
South Side a few years ago, then-
Cubs outfielder Kyle Schwarber
joked he should’ve picked up the
beer and shotgunned it.
That probably would’ve
sealed the Schwarber legend
in Chicago and forced Cubs
management to keep him in blue
pinstripes for life.
Instead, Schwarber returned
to Wrigley Field on Monday
with the curly “W” of the Wash-
ington Nationals and received
second billing to Jon Lester in
a homecoming of two former
Cubs champions.
Lester was honored with his
own highlight reel and gift from
the Cubs before Tuesday’s game,
and Schwarber no doubt will get
more ovations as the series goes
on. Since Dexter Fowler’s return
Paul Sullivan
In the Wake of the News
in 2017, the only member of the
2016 champs to hear booing
at Wrigley Field was Miguel
Montero during a 2017 trip with
the Toronto Blue Jays.
“I really don’t care,” Montero
said afterward. “They cheered
a lot of big hits when I was here,
and whether they hate me or
love me, they’re going to remem-
ber me forever.”
The same can be said for
Schwarber, who left the Cubs
in a less-than-desirable manner
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Vegas odds stacked against Bears in 2021
By Brad Biggs
Chicago Tribune
The odds are stacked against the Bears
once again in 2021.
At least, that’s the position they find them-
selves in right now with Las Vegas oddsmak-
ers.
Westgate SuperBook released point
spreads for the entire season, and in the
initial numbers, the Bears are favorites in
only three of their 17 regular-season games.
This should not be surprising considering
the Bears were favored only three times last
season in an 8-8 year. The addition of quar-
terback Justin Fields to the mix has excited
not only those in the building at Halas
Hall, but also the fan base. It’s unknown
when Fields will take the field and how the
gambling public would react.
Oddsmakers set lines with the goal of
attracting even money on each side, which
ensures a profit for the house on every game
with 10% vigorish, or juice. Popular public
teams are ones with high-powered scoring
machines — and the Bears have not had that
kind of offense for a very long time.
The Bears were not popular with Las
Vegas oddsmakers last season, when they
were 4 ½-point favorites over the New York
Giants in Week 2 (a 17-13 win). They didn’t
go off as a favorite again until Week 13, when
they were three-point favorites at Soldier
Field against the Detroit Lions for what was
a 34-30 loss. The third and final time the
Bears were favored was three weeks later,
when they were 9 ½-point favorites before
crushing the Jacksonville Jaguars 41-17.
The Bears did win six games as an under-
dog last season, and it’s important to realize
all of the lines listed below can move signifi-
cantly between now and game week. Any
number of factors can swing the odds, and if
the Bears get hot and Fields breaks through,
they could find themselves favored several
more times. Oddsmakers are in the business
Biggs
from Page 1
as the Minnesota Vikings selected Daunte
Culpepper at No. 11, one pick before the
Chicago Bears took Cade McNown.
Quarterbacks also went off the board
with the top three picks last month. Trevor
Lawrence (Jacksonville Jaguars), Zach
Wilson (New York Jets) and Trey Lance
(San Francisco 49ers) went 1-2-3 before
the Bears traded up to grab Justin Fields at
No. 11.
The Bears introduced Fields to their
playbook for the first time last weekend
during rookie minicamp, and the focus
now is on how they will develop the Ohio
State product and when he’ll be ready to
supplant veteran Andy Dalton.
Childress is an interesting resource
because he was with Reid in Philadelphia
when they developed McNabb into one of
the league’s better quarterbacks, and he
was on the Kansas City Chiefs staff when
they chose Patrick Mahomes with the No.
10 pick in 2017. Childress also served as a
Bears assistant under Matt Nagy in 2018
and 2019 before the Aurora native retired,
so he offers unique insight into the process
at Halas Hall to try to end a never-ending
quarterback search.
All three scenarios — the Eagles with
McNabb, the Chiefs with Mahomes and
the Bears with Fields — are different. The
Chiefs had the best starting quarterback in
place for a rookie to learn behind in Alex
Smith. The Bears are better off with Dalton
than the Eagles were at the time with Doug
Pederson, who had not started an NFL
game before the 1999 season after coming
with Reid from the Green Bay Packers.
The Bears have to balance preparing
Dalton for an offense that is new to him
while readying Fields for what is unques-
tionably the franchise’s future.
“There’s no doubt that the urge in
Chicago from fans — probably not as much
from ownership because they trust Matt
and Ryan (Pace) — is they’re going to want
to see what they bought,” Childress said.
“And you know Philly was a city like that.
They booed Doug off the field a couple
times.
“You’ve got to get (Fields) turns, and
that’s the thing Andy thrust home. So
Donovan was going to get turns. If it was a
10-play script, the starter was going to get
six and he was going to get four. If it was
a 25-play period, the starter may get 15, 17
plays, and the No. 2 is going to get the next
amount.
“It will be interesting to see how (the
Bears) derive that because they’re going to
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of making money for the house, and they
usually adjust quickly.
Even as the Bears got off to a good start
last season — winning five of their first six
games — they didn’t convince oddsmak-
ers they should be favored with any kind of
regularity. Maybe that changes in 2021.
want to see (Fields) with good versus good
(first offense against first defense). Some-
times when you play the third quarterback
with the third line and third receivers, it’s
not fair. You say, ‘Boy, he’s not playing very
good.’ Well, there’s not a lot of other guys
that are playing very good around him
either.”
Nagy has talked extensively about the
plan he’s preparing with offensive coordi-
nator Bill Lazor and passing game coordi-
nator/quarterbacks coach John DeFilippo.
He has been short on details, but Fields is
likely to get some reps with the starters and
the plan could evolve if the rookie shows
he’s capable of more.
“My big thing with Donovan, he would
tell you, is you’ve got to present yourself as
the first in, last out,” Childress said. “You’ve
got to be getting off the treadmill with a
sweat when everybody is just starting to
walk in the locker room. You’ve got to have
spent time looking at the tape. They’ve
got to know you’re invested in this and it’s
not just a deal where you’ve been crowned
king and you’re going to make the grand
appearance.
“You’ve got to earn it and you’ve got to
show it to the guys on the practice field. I
am sure that is what Matt is referring to
when he says, ‘Everybody will know when
it’s time.’ They’ve got probably as good a
staff as you can have in place for grooming
a guy that way.”
Fields has a reputation for being a gym
rat, so it’s easy to envision him understand-
ing the responsibilities and commitments
Childress describes that come with being
essentially the CEO of the roster. Childress
said Mahomes quickly took to arriving
early and the Chiefs expedited his devel-
opment under quarterbacks coach Mike
Kafka with projects they worked on early
every day.
There’s a rush for teams to get highly
drafted quarterbacks on the field. The Bears
felt that four years ago with Mitch Trubisky,
who was thrust into action in Week 5 of his
rookie season. Most teams drafting quarter-
backs that high need a makeover, and few
have the luxury of a guy like Alex Smith in
place. Patience and time for development
can be scarce, and the blending of what
used to be considered college offensive
concepts into the pro game has made the
process somewhat easier. Still, odds are
stacked against even high picks developing
into franchise quarterbacks.
Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer has a
detailed chart of the quarterbacks drafted
in Round 1 since 2000, and as he notes,
the trend for playing first-year QBs began
to shift in 2008, when Matt Ryan (Atlanta
Falcons) and Joe Flacco (Baltimore
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weeks at Westgate SuperBook:
Sept. 12 at Los Angeles Rams
Rams are favored by 7 points, 44 ½ over/
under
Sept. 19 vs. Cincinnati Bengals
Ravens) were drafted and started all 16
games as rookies for playoff teams.
Thirty-nine quarterbacks were selected
in Round 1 from 2008 through 2020, and
only three sat for all or nearly all of their
rookie seasons: Jordan Love (2020 Pack-
ers), Mahomes (2017 Chiefs) and Jake
Locker (2011 Tennessee Titans). Thir-
ty-one started by the eighth game of the
season. Twenty-eight started by Week 5, to
use Trubisky’s timeline during John Fox’s
final season as Bears coach.
While the Bears didn’t pick up Fields in
a limo at the draft — he was watching the
event with family in Georgia — they intro-
duced him to their system in Zoom meet-
ings during the two weeks before rookie
minicamp. So the process, which will
merge him in with veterans as the volun-
tary offseason program unfolds, is well
underway.
“Whenever you get a player of this
athletic ability, this is a guy you really want
to work with,” DeFilippo said. “The thing
I’ve noticed with Justin is he’s very coach-
able. I think the first few days, there was
a little — I don’t want to say shock to the
system — but there was a little bit of, he’s
got to know the amount of information
that’s coming at him in a very short amount
of time and what we demand and the way a
quarterback meeting is run in the National
Football League, where it’s dialogue
between the coach and the player.
“That’s the way I like to run our quar-
terback meetings. There’s dialogue back
and forth. I call it Charlie Brown’s Teacher
Syndrome. You don’t want to be the guy at
the front of the room that’s just, ‘Wah, wah,
wah, wah, wah.’ They tune you out after a
while. So there needs to be that dialogue
there in understanding how quarterback
meetings are run, and I think he’s done a
fantastic job of adapting to that and adapt-
ing to our coaching style.”
Fields said he tried to emulate Cam
Newton when he was younger, but in
recent years he has attempted to pattern
himself after Russell Wilson. Newton
started for the Carolina Panthers from Day
1 in 2011 as the No. 1 pick. Wilson emerged
from a three-way camp battle with Matt
Flynn and Tarvaris Jackson as the Seat-
tle Seahawks starter in 2012 after getting
drafted in the third round.
Wilson displayed uncanny leadership
from the start and blew away coaches
with his preparation. It helped that the
Seahawks could put him into an offense
with a bruising running game and a stout
defense also in place. He excelled immedi-
ately and Pete Carroll hasn’t turned back
since — even rebuffing trade interest from
the Bears in March.
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under
Sept. 26 at Cleveland Browns
Browns are favored by 7 points, 44 ½ over/
under
Oct. 3 vs. Detroit Lions
Bears are favored by 5 ½ points, 44 ½ over/
under
Oct. 10 at Las Vegas Raiders
Raiders are favored by 3 ½ points, 46 ½ over/
under
Oct. 17 vs. Green Bay Packers
Packers are favored by 2 ½ points, 46 over/
under
Oct. 24 at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Buccaneers are favored by 10 points, 48
over/under
Oct. 31 vs. San Francisco 49ers
49ers are favored by 4 points, 44 ½ over/
under
Nov. 8 at Pittsburgh Steelers
Steelers are favored by 5 ½ points, 45 ½ over/
under
Nov. 21 vs. Baltimore Ravens
Ravens are favored by 3 ½ points, 45 ½ over/
under
Nov. 25 at Detroit Lions
Lions are favored by 3 ½ points, 45 over/
under
Dec. 5 vs. Arizona Cardinals
Cardinals are favored by 1 ½ points, 46 over/
under
Dec. 12 at Green Bay Packers
Packers are favored by 5 ½ points, 45 ½ over/
under
Dec. 20 vs. Minnesota Vikings
Vikings are favored by 1 point, 42 ½ over/
under
Dec. 26 at Seattle Seahawks
Seahawks are favored by 5 ½ points, 45 over/
under
Jan. 2 vs. New York Giants
Bears are favored by 2 points, 42 over/under
Jan. 9 at Minnesota Vikings
Vikings are favored by 4 points, 45 ½ over/
under
McNabb didn’t have immediate success
in Philadelphia. He completed only 49.1%
of his passes in six starts as a rookie. Chil-
dress vividly recalled Tampa Bay Bucca-
neers defensive tackle Warren Sapp
chasing McNabb all over the field during
one game at Veterans Stadium.
But the Eagles went 11-5 the next season,
and in McNabb’s third year they started a
run of four consecutive appearances in the
NFC championship game with one Super
Bowl trip.
Conventional thinking is the Bears want
to begin the season with Dalton, as the
last thing they want to do is risk damaging
Fields’ development by throwing him into
regular-season action before he’s ready.
But he’s also the shiny new toy in the build-
ing — the quarterback with electric athletic
ability, a big-time arm and a proven track
record at a Big Ten powerhouse — so Nagy
and his staff will be tempted to play the
rookie. There’s no reason to tap the brakes
on his development, but the Bears have to
be prudent after failing to develop their last
QB project, Trubisky.
Timing is of the essence for an offense in
need of a major spark, and it’s also the No. 1
thing on everyone’s mind.
“So we have a guy like Andy that’s
coming in here that’s eager to learn this
offense and show what he can do and also
help groom Justin, you know?” Nagy said.
“Be able to help him and let him be the best
quarterback that Justin can be through the
experiences that Andy’s had. I know that
time is the biggest question right now for
Justin, and I completely understand that
because there is an excitement and there is
that want for all of us to be able to see what
Justin can do.
“We’d be lying to you if we didn’t say that
or believe that, but we’ve got to make sure
as we go through this thing that we also
do what’s best for the Bears and for Justin.
And so that’s where I think, as time goes by
and we see how things go, we’ll know and
we’ll all see it and feel it and I think it will
be very natural how this process goes.”
For his part, Fields said he’s trying to
take the process step by step, each period,
each lesson, each coaching point. He has
been making flash cards to help digest
the offense piece by piece. His arrival has
raised the energy level at Halas Hall, and
everyone is eager to see how he integrates
with the veterans over the next month and
then in training camp.
“I kind of feel like I’m made for this,”
Fields said. “I’m built for this.”
He’s on his own fast track. Where that
process leads remains to be seen. Fortu-
nately, he didn’t have to endure a chorus of
boo birds on his draft night.

SPORTS
BULLS
‘Overwhelming’ call
Kukoč — key member of Bulls’
2nd 3-peat and a top European
player —now a Hall of Famer
By Jamal Collier | Chicago Tribune
Toni Kukoč felt fortunate to be spending
time in Croatia when he received the call
he had been waiting on for years — that he
had been selected to the Naismith Memorial
Basketball Hall of Fame.
Before he became a crucial member of
the second Bulls three-peat, his basketball
career began in his home country. And while
attending a home game of his old EuroLe-
ague club later that night, the emotions
began to hit him.
“I was watching them play and all the
memories of the place we played and prac-
ticed kind of came over me,” Kukoč said
Tuesday during a video conference call from
Croatia. “There were some pictures of me
from my younger days playing there, so in
a way it’s overwhelming. But it’s so nice, so
cool to see the messages (from) players, their
reactions of me getting into the Hall of Fame.
It’s good to be me these days.”
Kukoč joins a decorated 16-person class
revealed Sunday that also includes Chris
Bosh, Paul Pierce, Chris Webber, Yolanda
Griffith and Jay Wright.
Once the news got announced, Kukoč said
the texts, calls, Zooms — from numbers he
didn’t know — started to flow.
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CUBS RECAP
The Cubs moved back over .500 with a 6-3 victory against the Washington Nationals, boosted
by a pair of home runs. David Bote’s two-run homer in the sixth broke a tie, and Ian Happ added
to the lead in the eighth with a solo homer into the left-center-field basket. An injury concern
popped up during the game, however. First baseman Anthony Rizzo exited in the fifth because
of lower back tightness. The Cubs announced Rizzo’s departure was precautionary. Rizzo,
who has a history of back problems, was seen stretching at his position as right-hander Zach
Davies completed his warm-up pitches at the start of the fourth. That seemingly prompted
manager David Ross and a team trainer to check on Rizzo. He remained in the game after a brief
conversation, but on the next ball in play, his awkward maneuvering to make the play resulted
in an error. Rizzo did not come out for the fifth. Kris Bryant shifted to first base, and Jason
Heyward entered off the bench to play right field. For more, go to chicagotribune.com/sports
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but was welcomed back like a conquering
hero.
Cubs fans gave him a standing ovation
before Monday’s game when his highlight
reel played on the video board and again
when he homered in the fourth inning
off Cubs starter Adbert Alzolay. The ball
was thrown back onto the field, of course,
because rules are rules whether they’re
unwritten or not.
Manager David Ross presented Schwar-
ber with a “12” innings window from the
old Wrigley scoreboard, a ceremony we’ve
seen many times over the last few years
with different returning players and vari-
ous presenters.
And Cubs players and staff, from his old
teammates to longtime clubhouse man
Otis Hellmann, welcomed him back with
pregame hugs and in-game treats, namely
a Twix bar that Kris Bryant left in left field
between innings.
“Definitely ate a Twix bar out on the
field, and it led to a hit,” Schwarber said of
his 407-foot, two-run homer to left-center.
“I might have to eat a Twix (Tuesday). It
was pretty good.”
It was a Little League gesture that was
made for Twitter and showed the kind of
bond Schwarber had with his teammates.
“I looked at him like, ‘You crazy, man?’
“ Schwarber said. “It was a funny gesture,
and actually he texted me after the game
and I sent him a shout back. … You form
bonds from what we did and being able to
play together for so long. Gave me a good
little jab there.”
Schwarber theorized “the Twix calmed
my nerves down or something like that,”
opening the door to an endorsement deal.
He has a future in marketing after base-
ball, or at least a job with Bryzzo Inc.
This is the start of the second act of
Schwarber’s career. His first act included
a home run that literally and figuratively
became part of Wrigley Field history, a
comeback from a regular-season-end-
ing injury in the 2016 World Series that
evoked memories of Willis Reed and
Babe Ruth, a return trip to the minors the
following spring and various moon shots
known locally as “Schwarbombs.”
But it all ended in relative silence in
December after the 2020 season with-
out fans. The shock value of Schwarber’s
departure was lessened by former Cubs
President Theo Epstein’s own departure a
couple of weeks earlier.
After hitting .188 with 11 home runs in
the pandemic-shortened, 60-game season,
Kukoč averaged 11.6 points, 4.2 rebounds
and 3.7 assists during his 13-year NBA career,
winning three championships with the Bulls
and the Sixth Man of the Year award in 1996.
He also racked up accolades internationally,
winning three EuroLeague titles, two Olym-
pic silver medals and a FIBA World Cham-
pionship MVP.
“When Toni joined the Bulls in 1993, he
had already established himself as one of
the best players ever to come out of Europe,”
Bulls Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said in a
statement. “While we knew what kind of
player he was, we were not sure how he
would adapt to the NBA. He quickly proved
that his game was suited to play with the best
players in the world.
“He was a star player on his championship
teams in Europe, and one of the best sixth
men in the NBA on our second three-peat
championship teams in Chicago. There are
not many players in the history of the game
who have excelled at the level that Toni has.
Congratulations on this very well-deserved
honor.”
Kukoč was excited to become the latest
member of the Bulls dynasty elected to the
Hall of Fame, joining fellow players Michael
Jordan, Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman,
coaches Phil Jackson and Tex Winter, Reins-
dorf and general manager Jerry Krause, who
drafted Kukoč and was crucial to bringing
him to the NBA.
The Bulls drafted Kukoč at the end of the
first round in 1990, but he did not join the
Schwarber was non-tendered by the Cubs
in what was seen as a cost-cutting move.
He was expected to get about $8 million in
arbitration.
The Cubs eventually signed Joc Peder-
son to a one-year, $7 million deal that
includes a $2.5 million buyout of a $10
million option in 2022, so they really only
saved about $1 million. That suggests
the decision by President Jed Hoyer was
more about the belief Schwarber would
not return to form than about paring the
payroll. Hoyer could’ve kept Schwarber
and gotten something in return in July if
Schwarber’s 2021 numbers were compa-
rable to 2019, when he hit 38 home runs
with 92 RBIs and an .871 OPS.
The switch from one left-hand-
ed-hitting slugger to another means the
offensive numbers from Schwarber and
Pederson will be compared all season.
Both got off to slow starts and endured
stints on the injured list, but overall,
Schwarber has the early advantage with
six home runs and a .750 OPS to Peder-
son’s one homer and .674 OPS.
Schwarber mistakenly said Monday
night he had been designated for assign-
ment by the Cubs. Being non-tendered
was the same kind of slap in the face.
“The end result of how I departed from
the Cubs wasn’t ideal,” he said. “Obvi-
ously you want to to finish your tenure
with your team and move on from there,
and whatever happens, happens (in free
agency).
“It’s not a ‘hate’ thing or anything like
that. It’s more going out there and proving
something to yourself.”
That has been a recurring theme in
Schwarber’s career, from trying to prove
he could be a major-league catcher to
proving he’s more than an all-or-nothing
hitter.
Now he’s gone but surely not forgotten.
Schwarber’s most memorable Schwar-
bomb — his mammoth home run in Game
4 of the 2015 NL Division Series against
the St. Louis Cardinals — remains under
a Plexiglas case on top of the right-field
video board where it landed.
The ball has survived heat waves, bliz-
zards and polar vortexes, and now it’s
outlasting the pandemic.
“It’s really cool, especially for how
much history this field has,” Schwarber
said Monday. “I remember when they first
asked about it, I was like, ‘If you guys don’t
want to do anything with it, I’ll take it. If
you guys want to leave it here and I can
leave a little mark here on Wrigley Field
with all the history here this field has.’
“I think it’s awesome. It’s an honor for it
to still be up there.”
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Toni Kukoc, who played seven seasons with the Bulls, is a member of the latest Naismith
Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame class. NANCY STONE/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
team until three years later.
“The difficult thing for me was adjusting
to the new team,” Kukoč said. “As well as
I played here in Europe, it was something
totally different. I had to get used to a new
system, new teammates, a new coaching
staff. Maybe in a way Michael not being there
my first year helped me a little bit because I
got a lot of minutes that first year right away
and could play my natural role more than I
would later in my Bulls years.”
Infamously, Kukoč was met with hostil-
ity from Jordan and Pippen during the 1992
Olympics, memories Kukoč chuckled about
Tuesday.
Kukoč proved to be a valuable part of
those Bulls teams and emerged as one of
the pioneers of international players having
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“(Third base coach) Joe (McEwing) had
given the take sign. I just think that Yermín
was locked in. He and Astudillo, they know
each other from different competitions. He
was locked in: ‘I’ve got to get him, I’ve got to
get him.’ But he missed a 3-0 (take) sign with
that kind of lead. That’s just sportsmanship
and respect for the game and respect for
your opponent.
“He made a mistake. So there’ll be a
consequence that he has to endure here
within our family. But it won’t happen
again. Because Joe will be on the lookout
and I will be too, and we’ll go running in
front of the pitcher if we have to. He’s not
going to do that again.”
La Russa said he had a conversation with
Mercedes and also offered an apology to
the Twins.
“I sent a message over there, it’s not
acceptable,” La Russa said. “And I’m certain
that it will not happen again with Yermín.
“They know that I was really upset with
it. It shouldn’t have happened. I hope it’s
enough.”
The Twins appeared to retaliate in the
seventh inning Tuesday when reliever Tyler
Duffey threw a pitch behind Mercedes’ legs.
Duffey and Twins manager Rocco Baldelli
were ejected.
Mercedes, who met with reporters before
La Russa did, said of the “unwritten” rules
and having fun: “I’m Yermín. I can’t be
another person. If I change it, everything is
going to change it.”
Mercedes leads the majors with a .364
batting average entering Tuesday. He said
he won’t change his approach if a position
player is pitching.
“I’m going to stay focused every time, it
doesn’t matter who’s on the mound,” he
said. “Just stay focused at home plate.”
La Russa called the situation a “learning
experience.”
“I heard he said something like, ‘I play my
game,’ “ La Russa said. “No he doesn’t. He
plays the game of major-league baseball,
respects the game, respects the opponents.
And he’s got to respect the signs. When he
gets the take sign, he takes. He’s in (the start-
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success in the NBA. Now his impact is being
recognized as one of basketball’s greats.
“It wasn’t easy. At that time not much was
known about the European players,” Kukoč
said. “We were coming in there, I don’t want
to say total enigmas, but the few games
we played against the Dream Team, some
folks saw us playing the Olympics or World
Championships and that’s about it.
“I’m really, really happy that Jerry
(Krause) stuck with that idea to bring me to
the Bulls. Obviously, he had a world cham-
pion team there, but his idea of how I fit in
that team was something of him talking me
into coming over there. And then giving it a
shot was the turning point for me. I decided
to come over and everything else was pretty
much recorded.”
ing lineup Tuesday), so the consequence is
not sitting him down. It’s a learning expe-
rience.”
La Russa said he never wants to “give the
other team an excuse to take a shot at one
of our players.”
“We were taught from day one: Respect
the game, respect the competition, respect
your opponent,” La Russa said. “And the
way you respect is you both go out and play
as hard and good as you can. And if someday,
the other team is having a tough day and
the decision is final, then you don’t steal,
you don’t hit 3-0. When is that? That’s every
manager’s decision.
“In the old days, by the way, Sparky
(Anderson) and those guys, if they had a
five-run lead in the eighth inning, where
(with) a grand slam you’ve still got the lead,
they would stop running. And the game has
changed, there’s more offense now. You play
in ballparks now that are more accommo-
dating to crooked numbers, so you can’t
follow that rule as much.”
La Russa reiterated that the issue was
the missed take sign and that the scenario
would have been different on a 3-1 count.
“You can’t take at-bats away from these
guys,” La Russa said. “Seven times out of
10 they fail, they hit .300. I could not tell a
guy to just hit a ground ball. I wouldn’t do
that. Over the years, I’ve been on the wrong
side of (a blowout). I don’t begrudge them
hitting line drives or if a home run has been
hit.”
La Russa recalled the April 19 game in
Boston in which Mercedes and infielder/
outfielder Danny Mendick pitched for the
Sox in the seventh and eighth innings.
“If you could do it differently (Monday)
and we didn’t have to play positions (after-
ward), I’d send three pitchers up there just
to stand there and tap the ball someplace,”
La Russa said. “And we’ve all been on the
other side of that unhappy situation where
you’re getting beat up.
“And once you’re on the other side, you
know what the other side feels like. There’s
sportsmanship, respect for the game,
respect for your opponent that’s real and
has to be the philosophy, and we follow
it. I’ve been taught it. The fact that he is a
rookie that was excited helps explain why
he just was clueless. But now he’s got a clue.”
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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 25 18 .581 — — 5-5 L-2 13-12 12-6 New York 20 16 .556 — — 7-3 W-2 11-4 9-12
Toronto 22 17 .575 ½ — 7-3 W-3 10-5 13-12 Philadelphia 22 20 .524 1 1½ 5-5 W-1 14-6 8-14
Tampa Bay 24 19 .558 1 ½ 6-4 W-5 11-12 13-7 Atlanta 19 23 .452 4 4½ 4-6 L-3 9-13 10-10
New York 22 19 .537 2 1½ 6-4 L-2 11-9 11-10 Miami 18 23 .439 4½ 5 3-7 L-1 8-9 10-14
Baltimore 17 24 .415 7 6½ 2-8 L-1 6-16 11-8 Washington 16 22 .421 5 5½ 3-7 L-2 9-10 7-12

CENTRAL W L PCT GB WCGB L10 STR HOME AWAY CENTRAL W L PCT GB WCGB L10 STR HOME AWAY
Chicago 25 15 .625 — — 8-2 W-2 14-8 11-7 St. Louis 24 18 .571 — — 6-4 W-1 13-8 11-10
Cleveland 21 18 .538 3½ 1 5-5 L-4 10-7 11-11 Chicago 21 20 .512 2½ 2 6-4 W-3 15-8 6-12
Kansas City 19 22 .463 6½ 4 3-7 W-1 9-12 10-10 Milwaukee 21 21 .500 3 2½ 4-6 L-1 10-12 11-9
Detroit 15 26 .366 10 ½ 8 6-4 W-1 9-12 6-14 Cincinnati 19 21 .475 4 3½ 4-6 L-2 10-9 9-12
Minnesota 13 26 .333 11 ½ 9 2-8 L-2 7-14 6-12 Pittsburgh 17 24 .415 6½ 6 4-6 L-2 8-11 9-13

WEST W L PCT GB WCGB L10 STR HOME AWAY WEST W L PCT GB WCGB L10 STR HOME AWAY
Oakland 25 17 .595 — — 6-4 W-1 13-11 12-6 San Francisco 26 16 .619 — — 7-3 W-3 14-4 12-12
Houston 24 17 .585 ½ — 8-2 W-6 15-9 9-8 San Diego 25 17 .595 1 — 7-3 W-4 13-10 12-7
Seattle 21 21 .500 4 2½ 4-6 L-1 12-10 9-11 Los Angeles 23 18 .561 2½ — 6-4 W-1 13-6 10-12
Los Angeles 18 22 .450 6 4½ 5-5 W-2 9-9 9-13 Arizona 18 24 .429 8 5½ 3-7 L-2 9-9 9-15
Texas 19 24 .442 6½ 5 3-7 W-1 10-10 9-14 Colorado 15 27 .357 11 8½ 3-7 L-3 13-12 2-15

BOX SCORES TODAY’S PITCHING COMPARISON

SAN FRANCISCO 4, CINCINNATI 2 N.Y. METS 4, ATLANTA 3 TAMPA BAY 13, BALTIMORE 6 TORONTO 8, BOSTON 0 INTERLEAGUE 2021 2020 VS OPP LAST 3 STARTS
San FranciscoAB R H BI SO AVG New York AB R H BI SO AVG Tampa Bay AB R H BI SO AVG Boston AB R H BI SO AVG TM PITCHER TIME W-L ERA TR W-L IP ERA W-L IP ERA
Mil Burnes (R) 2-3 1.57 2-4 1-0 6.0 0.00 1-2 16.0 2.81
Tauchman cf-lf 4 0 0 0 4 .197 Villar 3b 4 1 1 2 0 .225 Arozarena rf 5 2 1 0 0 .257 K.Hernandez cf4 0 1 0 1 .239 KC Keller (R) 7:10p 3-4 6.75 4-4 0-1 5.0 9.00 1-2 15.1 4.11
Ruf 1b 5 0 1 0 4 .226 Lindor ss 4 1 2 0 0 .195 Meadows lf 5 2 2 3 1 .218 Verdugo lf 4 0 2 0 2 .285
Yastrzemski rf 4 0 1 0 1 .226 Do.Smith lf 4 0 1 0 2 .248 Choi dh 4 1 1 2 2 .500 Martinez dh 4 0 0 0 0 .333
Longoria 3b 4 0 0 0 2 .233 Alonso 1b 3 0 0 1 1 .236 Lowe 2b 5 0 2 1 1 .203 Bogaerts ss 4 0 1 0 2 .342 AMERICAN LEAGUE 2021 2020 VS OPP LAST 3 STARTS
Crawford ss 4 2 2 1 1 .248 Nido c 4 1 1 1 1 .265 Diaz 1b 5 2 2 0 2 .278 Devers 3b 4 0 0 0 2 .270 TM PITCHER TIME W-L ERA TR W-L IP ERA W-L IP ERA
Flores 2b 0 0 0 0 0 .219 Peraza 2b 4 0 1 0 0 .219 Wendle 3b-ss 5 2 3 0 0 .292 Vazquez c 3 0 0 0 0 .252 ChW Giolito (R) 2-4 4.97 2-6 0-2 14.2 7.36 1-2 16.1 3.86
1-Dubon pr-2b 3 1 1 0 1 .244 Lee rf 4 0 0 0 4 .000 Zunino c 5 2 2 4 3 .218 Renfroe rf 4 0 1 0 2 .226 Min Shoemaker (R) 12:10p 2-4 6.62 2-5 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-2 14.1 8.16
Dickerson lf 4 1 3 3 0 .230 Castro p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Phillips cf 4 1 1 3 3 .225 Gonzalez 2b 4 0 0 0 1 .211 TB Hill (L) 2-1 4.26 4-4 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-0 15.2 0.00
Littell p 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Hunter p 1 1 1 0 0 1.000 Adames ss 3 1 1 0 2 .202 Dalbec 1b 2 0 0 0 1 .207 Bal Means (L) 6:05p 4-0 1.21 5-3 1-0 5.2 1.59 2-0 22.0 0.82
McGee p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Gsellman p 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Padlo 3b 1 0 0 0 0 .083 TOTALS 33 0 5 0 11
Casali c 3 0 0 0 1 .094 May p 0 0 0 0 0 --- TOTALS 42 13 15 13 14 Toronto AB R H BI SO AVG Bos Richards (R) 3-2 3.89 4-4 0-1 4.2 7.71 2-0 18.0 2.50
DeSclafani p 2 0 0 0 2 .000 a-Mazeika ph 1 0 0 0 0 .125 Baltimore AB R H BI SO AVG Tor Stripling (R) 6:37p 0-2 5.91 2-3 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-1 13.0 4.85
Semien 2b 5 1 2 1 2 .273
c-Duggar ph-cf 1 0 0 0 1 .243 Loup p 0 0 0 0 0 --- NYY Kluber (R) 3-2 3.48 5-3 0-0 0.0 0.00 2-0 19.2 2.75
Mullins cf 3 0 1 0 2 .313 Bichette ss 4 1 1 1 2 .274
TOTALS 34 4 8 4 17 Familia p 0 0 0 0 0 --- a-McKenna ph 0 1 0 0 0 .208 Tex TBD 7:05p 0-0 0.00 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 0.00
Guerrero Jr. 1b 5 1 3 0 0 .329
Cincinnati AB R H BI SO AVG Diaz p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Hays lf 5 0 1 2 2 .257 T.Hernandez rf 5 1 3 1 0 .305 Cle Civale (R) 5-1 3.40 6-2 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-1 19.1 4.19
Fargas cf 3 0 1 0 0 .333
Winker lf 4 1 2 1 0 .350 Mancini 1b 4 1 1 1 1 .256 Grichuk cf 5 2 2 2 0 .277 LAA Ohtani (R) 7:07p 1-0 2.10 3-2 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 0.00
Castellanos rf 3 1 2 1 0 .338 TOTALS 32 4 8 4 8 Stewart rf 5 0 2 1 2 .216 Gurriel Jr. lf 5 1 3 1 2 .234
Atlanta AB R H BI SO AVG Hou Greinke (R) 3-1 4.18 7-2 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 0.00
Suarez 3b-ss 4 0 0 0 2 .158 Franco 3b 5 0 0 0 2 .204 Biggio dh 5 0 1 0 2 .214
Oak Montas (R) 8:40p 5-2 4.93 6-2 1-0 6.0 1.50 3-0 17.1 3.12
Naquin cf 3 0 1 0 1 .267 Acuna Jr. rf 3 0 0 0 2 .285 Galvis ss 2 1 0 0 1 .256 Espinal 3b 4 0 1 0 1 .294
Farmer ss 3 0 1 0 0 .226 Freeman 1b 3 1 1 1 0 .220 Valaika ss 1 0 1 1 0 .189 Jansen c 3 1 2 1 0 .143 Det Skubal (L) 0-6 5.73 0-8 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-3 14.0 6.43
d-Moustks ph-1b1 0 0 0 1 .241 Ozuna lf 4 0 1 1 1 .212 Mountcastle dh4 0 0 0 2 .212 TOTALS 41 8 18 7 9 Sea Gilbert (R) 9:10p 0-1 9.00 0-1 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-1 4.0 9.00
India 2b 4 0 1 0 0 .224 Albies 2b 4 0 0 0 2 .230 Sisco c 3 1 1 0 0 .180
Barnhart c 4 0 0 0 1 .287 Swanson ss 4 0 0 0 3 .201 Wilkerson 2b 4 2 2 1 1 .500 Boston 000 000 000 — 0 5 1
Blandino 1b-3b 4 0 1 0 1 .234 Riley 3b 4 1 1 1 2 .291 TOTALS 36 6 9 6 13 Toronto 010 311 02x — 8 18 2 NATIONAL LEAGUE 2021 2020 VS OPP LAST 3 STARTS
Castillo p 1 0 0 0 1 .200 Contreras c 2 0 0 0 2 .250 TM PITCHER TIME W-L ERA TR W-L IP ERA W-L IP ERA
Tampa Bay 062 021 020 — 13 15 0 Col González (R) 2-1 4.79 2-4 0-1 4.1 10.38 1-1 15.2 6.32
a-Akiyama ph 1 0 0 0 1 .261 c-Sandoval ph 1 0 0 0 0 .257 E: Renfroe (1), Bichette (8), Espinal (1).
Baltimore 001 300 002 — 6 9 0 SD Musgrove (R) 3:10p 3-4 2.86 4-4 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-2 15.0 6.00
Doolittle p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Heredia cf 3 0 1 0 1 .300 LOB: Boston 8, Toronto 11.
Hembree p 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Davidson p 2 0 0 0 2 .000 a-walked for Mullins in the 9th. 2B: Verdugo (8), Grichuk (9), Gurriel SF Gausman (R) 3-0 1.84 5-3 0-0 6.0 7.50 2-0 20.0 1.35
b-Payton ph 1 0 0 0 0 .125 Jackson p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Jr. (7), Bichette (9), T.Hernandez (3), Cin Miley (L) 5:40p 4-3 3.69 4-3 1-0 5.0 0.00 2-1 17.0 5.29
Hendrix p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Matzek p 0 0 0 0 0 --- LOB: Tampa Bay 7, Baltimore 10. Guerrero Jr. (8).
e-Stephnsn ph 1 0 0 0 0 .299 b-Adrianza ph 1 1 1 0 0 .242 2B: Adames (6), Meadows (12), Wilker- Mia Rogers (L) 5-2 1.84 5-3 0-1 3.0 24.00 2-1 16.0 2.81
TOTALS 34 2 8 2 8 W.Smith p 0 0 0 0 0 --- son (1). 3B: Wendle (1). HR: Grichuk (7), off Andriese. Phi Eflin (R) 6:05p 2-2 3.86 4-4 0-1 4.0 9.00 1-1 18.2 4.34
TOTALS 31 3 5 3 15 NYM Peterson (L) 1-3 4.86 3-4 1-1 12.0 3.00 0-0 14.0 3.86
San Francisco 000 300 100 — 4 8 0
HR: Phillips (2), off Harvey; Meadows RBIs: Jansen (7), Semien (24), Bichette Atl Morton (R) 6:20p 2-2 5.08 2-6 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-1 10.2 5.91
Cincinnati 100 000 010 — 2 8 0 New York 002 001 001 — 4 8 0
Atlanta 000 011 010 — 3 5 0 (9), off Harvey; Zunino (9), off Wells; (26), Gurriel Jr. (12), T.Hernandez (19),
Was Scherzer (R) 3-2 2.10 5-3 0-0 0.0 0.00 2-0 21.1 0.84
Zunino (10), off Lakins Sr.; Choi (1), off Grichuk 2(32).
ChC Arrieta (R) 6:40p 4-3 4.10 4-3 1-0 5.0 1.80 1-2 15.1 5.87
a-struck out for Castillo in the 5th. Armstrong.
b-lined out for Hembree in the 7th. a-lined out for May in the 7th. Runners left in scoring position: Boston Pit Cahill (R) 1-4 5.97 1-6 0-1 5.1 8.44 0-2 15.2 4.60
c-struck out for DeSclafani in the 8th. b-doubled for Matzek in the 8th. RBIs: Phillips 3(11), Meadows 3(25), 3(Vazquez, Martinez, Gonzalez); StL Flaherty (R) 6:45p 7-0 2.47 8-0 1-0 6.0 4.50 3-0 19.0 1.42
d-struck out for Farmer in the 8th. c-flied out for Contreras in the 9th. Zunino 4(20), Lowe (18), Choi 2(3), Toronto 5(T.Hernandez, Semien 2, Ari Smith (R) 1-3 6.83 1-4 1-0 3.1 0.00 0-2 12.0 9.76
e-popped out for Hendrix in the 9th. Hays 2(15), Wilkerson (1), Mancini (33), Guerrero Jr., Grichuk). LAD Kershaw (L) 9:10p 6-3 3.20 6-3 2-0 16.2 1.62 2-1 12.0 6.75
1-ran for Flores in the 2nd. LOB: New York 3, Atlanta 4. Stewart (10), Valaika (4).
2B: Lindor (3), Peraza (1), Heredia (8), Runners left in scoring position: Tampa RISP: Boston 1for 8; Toronto 7for 19.
LOB: San Francisco 8, Cincinnati 7. Adrianza (3). Bay 1(Wendle); Baltimore 5(Sisco, Runners moved up: Guerrero Jr..
RESULTS, SCHEDULE
2B: Dickerson (2), Yastrzemski (10). Franco, Stewart, Wilkerson, Mount- GIDP: Grichuk.
HR: Villar (3), off Davidson; Nido (2), off castle). DP: Boston 1(Bogaerts, Gonzalez,
HR: Dickerson (4), off Castillo; Craw- W.Smith; Riley (5), off Gsellman; Free- RISP: Tampa Bay 6for 10; Baltimore 6 Dalbec). AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE
ford (10), off Hembree; Winker (8), off man (12), off May. for 16. TUESDAY’S RESULTS TUESDAY’S RESULTS
DeSclafani; Castellanos (11), off Littell. Tampa Bay 13, Baltimore 6 San Francisco 4, Cincinnati 2
BOSTON IP H R ER BB SO ERA Toronto 8, Boston 0
RBIs: Villar 2 (11), Alonso (19), Nido N.Y. Mets 4, Atlanta 3
TAMPA BAY IP H R ER BB SO ERA Rodriguez, L, 5-2 5 11 5 5 1 6 4.70 Kansas City 2, Milwaukee 0
RBIs: Dickerson 3(16), Crawford (23), (4), Riley (12), Freeman (28), Ozuna St. Louis 5, Pittsburgh 2
Patino 3⅓ 6 4 4 2 6 3.60 Andriese 3 7 3 3 1 3 5.48 Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, late
Winker (23), Castellanos (26). (23). Philadelphia 8, Miami 3
Kittredge, W, 4-0 1⅔ 1 0 0 0 1 1.37 TORONTO IP H R ER BB SO ERA N.Y. Yankees at Texas, late
CS: Castellanos (1). SF: Alonso. McHugh 2 0 0 0 0 3 4.38 Chicago Cubs 6, Washington 3
S: DeSclafani. Runners left in scoring position: New Reed ⅔ 0 0 0 2 2 3.72 Ryu, W, 4-2 7 4 0 0 0 7 2.51 Cleveland at L.A. Angels, late Kansas City 2, Milwaukee 0
Thompson ⅓ 0 0 0 0 0 2.37 Bergen ⅔ 1 0 0 1 1 0.00 Houston at Oakland, late Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, late
Runners left in scoring position: San York 2(Villar, Lee); Atlanta 2(Swanson,
Springs 1 2 2 2 2 1 3.38 Chatwood ⅓ 0 0 0 0 0 0.60
Francisco 4(DeSclafani, Dubon, Ruf); Acuna Jr.). Detroit at Seattle, late Colorado at San Diego, late
Dolis 1 0 0 0 1 3 3.95
Cincinnati 2(Castillo, Suarez). RISP: New York 1for 3; Atlanta 1for 7. BALTIMORE IP H R ER BB SO ERA
RISP: San Francisco 1for 6; Cincinnati Runners moved up: Fargas, Freeman. Harvey, L, 3-4 1⅔ 7 6 6 1 1 5.93 THURSDAY’S GAMES THURSDAY’S GAMES
Inherited runners-scored: Chatwood
0for 4. GIDP: Villar, Nido, Freeman. Wells 2⅓ 2 2 2 0 6 5.21 Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 11:35a.m. San Francisco at Cincinnati, 11:35a.m.
Lakins Sr. 1⅓ 3 3 3 2 3 5.93 2-0. PB: Vazquez (3).
DP: New York 1(Lindor, Alonso); Atlanta N.Y. Yankees at Texas, 1:05p.m. Washington at Chicago Cubs, 1:20p.m.
Sulser 1⅔ 0 0 0 1 2 2.45 Houston at Oakland, 2:37p.m.
2(Freeman, Swanson, Freeman; Riley, Armstrong 2 3 2 2 1 2 8.59 Umpires: Home, Alfonso Marquez; Miami at Philadelphia, 6:05p.m.
SAN FRAN. IP H R ER BB SO ERA G1: Minnesota at L.A. Angels, 3:07p.m.
Albies, Freeman). First, Roberto Ortiz; Second, Mark Pittsburgh at Atlanta, 6:20p.m.
DeSclafani, W, 4-1 7 6 1 1 2 7 2.03 G2: Minnesota at L.A. Angels, 6:07p.m. Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10p.m.
Littell, H, 3 1 2 1 1 0 1 1.17 Inherited runners-scored: Kittredge Wegner; Third, Tim Timmons.
Boston at Toronto, 6:37p.m.
McGee, S, 11-13 1 0 0 0 0 0 4.82 NEW YORK IP H R ER BB SO ERA 3-2, Thompson 2-0, Wells 1-0, Sulser
2-0. T: 3:16. MONDAY’S RESULTS
CINCINNATI IP H R ER BB SO ERA Castro 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.14 MONDAY’S RESULTS San Francisco 6, Cincinnati 3
Hunter 2 0 0 0 1 4 0.00 A: 1,566(8,500).
Castillo, L, 1-6 5 6 3 3 3 11 7.44 Texas 5, N.Y. Yankees 2 N.Y. Mets 3, Atlanta 1
Doolittle ⅔ 1 0 0 1 0 4.02 Gsellman, H, 1 2 2 1 1 1 3 3.00 HBP: Patino (Mullins). WP: Patino,
May, H, 4 1 1 1 1 0 2 2.81 Chicago White Sox 16, Minnesota 4 Chicago Cubs 7, Washington 3
Hembree 1⅓ 1 1 1 0 2 0.82 Kittredge.
Hendrix 2 0 0 0 0 4 3.86 Loup, H, 3 1 1 1 1 0 2 1.69 Detroit 4, Seattle 1 San Diego 7, Colorado 0
Familia, W, 2-0 1 1 0 0 1 1 2.63 Umpires: Home, Ed Hickox; First, Vic LATE MONDAY: L.A. Angels 7, Cleveland 4 L.A. Dodgers 3, Arizona 1
Diaz, S, 7-7 1 0 0 0 0 2 3.63 Carapazza; Second, Jansen Visconti; CHICAGO WHITE SOX 16,
Inherited runners-scored: Hembree Third, Jerry Meals. MINNESOTA 4
ATLANTA IP H R ER BB SO ERA
2-0.
Davidson 6 5 3 3 1 5 4.50 T: 3:42.
Chicago AB R H BI SO AVG AROUND THE HORN
Jackson 1 0 0 0 0 1 1.65
IBB: off Castillo (Casali). Matzek 1 1 0 0 0 0 3.00 A: 5,429(45,971). T.Anderson ss 5 2 2 0 0 .331

Umpires: Home, Ron Kulpa; First,

W.Smith, L, 0-4 1 2 1 1 0 2 4.76 b-Collins ph-c 1 0 0 0 0
Madrigal 2b 5 3 3 2 0
.204
.282
„ Mets: OF Kevin Pillar The defending AL champi-
Bruce Dreckman; Second, Nic Lentz; Inherited runners-scored: Familia 1-1.
LATE MONDAY: Moncada 3b 2 2 2 1 0 .281 suffered multiple nasal frac- ons are a season-high five
CHICAGO CUBS 7, WASHINGTON 3
Third, Joe West. PB: Nido (2). a-Lamb ph-lf 2 0 0 0 0 .154 tures when he was hit in the games over .500 at 24-19.
Washington AB R H BI SO AVG Mercedes dh 6 2 3 3 1 .364
T: 2:52. Umpires: Home, Sam Holbrook; First, Vaughn 1b-rf 6 1 2 0 3 .242 face by a fastball from Braves The Orioles have lost eight
Turner ss 3 1 1 1 0 .329
A: 8,745(42,319). Mike Muchlinski; Second, Jim Wolf; Soto rf 4 0 1 0 1 .264 Grandal c-1b 0 3 0 1 0 .132 reliever Jacob Webb on of their last 10 games and are
Third, Marty Foster. Garcia lf-rf-3b 5 2 3 2 0 .234
PHILADELPHIA 8, MIAMI 3 Bell 1b 3 1 2 0 0 .172
Mendick rf-3b-ss4 1 1 5 0 .265
Monday night, a frightening an MLB-worst 6-16 at home.
Miami AB R H BI SO AVG T: 2:36.
Schwarber lf 3
Castro 3b 4
1
0
1
0
2 1
0 1
.226
.270 Hamilton cf 4 0 2 2 0 .225 scene that shook both teams. „ Pirates: Rennie Stennett,
Chisholm Jr. 2b 4 2 2 2 1 .308 A: 21,667(41,084). Harrison 2b 4 0 1 0 2 .296 TOTALS 40 16 18 16 4
Minnesota AB R H BI SO AVG
Pillar met Tuesday with a the sure-handed second
Rojas ss 4 0 1 0 2 .290 Gomes c 4 0 0 0 0 .273
Aguilar 1b 4 0 0 0 1 .274 ST. LOUIS 5, PITTSBURGH 2 Lester p 2 0 0 0 1 .143 Garlick rf 5 0 0 0 3 .267
facial specialist in Atlanta baseman who was part of
Duvall rf 3 0 0 1 1 .218 Pittsburgh AB R H BI SO AVG Finnegan p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Donaldson 3b 3 1 1 2 0 .274 to determine the next steps. the first all-Black starting
Dickerson lf 4 0 1 0 3 .281
Frazier 2b 4 0 1 0 0 .321
b-Stevenson ph1 0 0 0 1 .250 Larnach lf 1 1 1 0 0 .286 He was placed on the 10-day lineup in MLB history and
B.Anderson 3b 4 0 2 0 0 .215 Clay p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Cruz dh 3 0 0 0 2 .285
Leon c 4 0 0 0 3 .180 Newman ss 4 0 2 0 0 .213 Rainey p 0 0 0 0 0 --- c-Rortvedt ph-c1 0 0 0 0 .150 injured list, but was at Truist later helped the Pirates
Reynolds cf 3 1 0 0 2 .293
Sierra cf 3 0 0 0 1 .220
Craig 1b 4 1 0 0 2 .158
Espino p 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Polanco 2b 4 0 1 1 0 .245 Park to watch the Mets beat win the 1979 World Series,
Bass p 0 0 0 0 0 --- d-Hernandez ph1 0 0 0 0 .288 Garver c 1 1 1 0 0 .198
Floro p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Polanco rf 3 0 2 1 0 .220 Robles cf 3 0 0 0 1 .241 Astudillo c-p 3 0 0 0 1 .300
the Braves 4-3 in the second died following a fight with
Curtiss p 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Gonzalez 3b 4 0 1 1 0 .212 TOTALS 32 3 6 3 8 Refsnyder cf 4 0 4 1 0 .750 game of the series between cancer. He was 72. Stennett
Poteet p 2 0 0 0 2 .000 Tom lf 3 0 0 0 0 .200 Chicago AB R H BI SO AVG
Bender p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Gamel lf 1 0 0 0 0 .133
Sano 1b
Arraez lf-3b
4
4
0 1
0 1
0
0
1
1
.141
.274
NL East rivals. Pillar is hit .274 with 41 HRs and
Contreras c 4 2 2 1 1 .254
Bleier p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Perez c 4 0 0 0 2 .091
Bryant lf 4 0 1 0 2 .301 Simmons ss 4 1 1 0 1 .239 expected to be out for an 432 RBIs in 11 big league
Brubaker p 2 0 0 0 0 .182
Berti cf 1 1 0 0 1 .165
Shreve p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Rizzo 1b 3 1 2 1 0 .254 TOTALS 37 4 11 4 9 extended period. Webb seasons, nine of them with
TOTALS 33 3 6 3 15
Philadelphia AB R H BI SO AVG b-Difo ph 1 0 0 0 0 .233 Baez ss 4 1 1 1 2 .260 Chicago 301 244 011 — 16 18 0 reached out to Pillar, who the Pirates. Though he was
Stratton p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Duffy 3b 4 1 1 0 0 .282 Minnesota 010 002 010 — 4 11 0
McCutchen lf 2 1 0 1 0 .220 TOTALS 33 2 6 2 6 Heyward rf 4 1 2 3 1 .187 responded that there were never named to an All-Star
Segura 2b 4 0 1 1 2 .317 St. Louis AB R H BI SO AVG Hoerner 2b 4 1 1 0 0 .319
a-lined out for Moncada in the 7th.
no hard feelings. ... Mets team, he received MVP
Harper rf 5 0 2 2 0 .311 Happ cf 3 0 1 0 2 .188
Hoskins 1b 5 1 2 0 0 .256 Edman 2b 5 0 3 2 0 .274 Alzolay p 1 0 0 0 0 .100 b-grounded out for T.Anderson in the starting pitcher Taijuan votes in both 1974 and in
Bohm 3b 5 1 2 1 1 .229 Carlson rf 4 1 2 0 1 .287 a-Bote ph 1 0 0 0 1 .182 8th. Walker also was forced to 1977. Stennett, who was
Herrera cf 4 1 2 0 0 .265 Goldschmidt 1b4 0 0 0 0 .242 Brothers p 0 0 0 0 0 --- c-grounded out for Cruz in the 8th.
Knapp c 3 1 1 0 1 .196 Arenado 3b 3 2 2 2 0 .307 Tepera p 0 0 0 0 0 --- LOB: Chicago 7, Minnesota 6. leave Monday’s 3-1 win over born in Panama, reached
Maton ss 4 2 1 1 0 .313 Molina c 4 0 2 0 0 .302 c-Sogard ph 1 0 1 1 0 .258 2B: Vaughn (8), Madrigal (6), Moncada the Braves. Walker pitched the majors with the Pirates
Bader cf 3 1 0 0 0 .268 (8), Mercedes (7), Garcia (4), Garver
Wheeler p 2 0 1 0 0 .200
Williams lf 4 0 0 0 4 .169
Chafin p 0 0 0 0 0 ---
(4), Refsnyder (1), Larnach (3).
only three innings, allowing in 1971. On Sept. 1, 1971, he
a-Miller ph 1 0 1 0 0 .304 Nance p 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Alvarado p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Sosa ss 4 1 2 1 0 .222 TOTALS 33 7 12 7 9 one hit and no runs, before started at second as part of
Gant p 1 0 0 0 0 .000
Bradley p 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Cabrera p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Washington 001 200 000 — 3 6 1
HR: Madrigal (1), off Happ; Mendick
(2), off Law; Mercedes (6), off Astudi-
exiting with tightness in the first all-Black lineup in
b-Torreyes ph 1 1 1 2 0 .333
Neris p 0 0 0 0 0 --- a-Carpenter ph 1 0 0 0 0 .108 Chicago 121 001 11x — 7 12 0 llo; Donaldson (5), off Keuchel. his left side. Mets manager MLB history in a 10-7 victory
TOTALS 36 8 14 8 4 Gallegos p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Luis Rojas said the team got over the Phillies, a group
c-Nogowski ph 1 0 0 0 0 .077 RBIs: Mercedes 3(25), Grandal (15),
Miami 000 100 020 — 3 6 0 Reyes p 0 0 0 0 0 ---
a-struck out for Alzolay in the 5th.
Madrigal 2(13), Moncada (24), an encouraging report on that included Hall of Famers
b-struck out for Finnegan in the 7th.
Philadelphia 000 000 17x — 8 14 1 TOTALS 34 5 11 5 5
c-singled for Tepera in the 7th. Mendick 5(10), Garcia 2(16), Hamilton Walker after an MRI. “The Roberto Clemente and
2(5), Refsnyder (2), Donaldson 2(16),
Pittsburgh 000 002 000 — 2 6 0 d-grounded out for Espino in the 9th.
Polanco (17).
MRI came back clean. He Willie Stargell. On Sept. 16,
a-singled for Wheeler in the 7th. St. Louis 221 000 00x — 5 11 0
b-doubled for Bradley in the 8th. E: Gomes (3). LOB: Washington 5, SF: Grandal, Hamilton. feels great today,” Rojas said. 1975, Stennett became the
Chicago 3. 2B: Happ (3), Rizzo (8). Runners left in scoring position:
Chicago 2 (Garcia, Mercedes); Minne-
„ Brewers: Former NL only player in the modern
E: Wheeler (1). LOB: Miami 4, Philadel- a-grounded out for Cabrera in the 6th. HR: Turner (10), off Alzolay; Schwarber
phia 9. 2B: B.Anderson (5), Wheeler (2), b-popped out for Shreve in the 7th. (6), off Alzolay; Heyward (4), off Lester; sota 3 (Arraez, Simmons, Garlick). MVP Christian Yelich was era to go 7-for-7 in a nine-in-
Bohm (7), Torreyes (1). c-popped out for Gallegos in the 8th. Contreras (8), off Lester; Baez (9), off RISP: Chicago 7 for 13; Minnesota 2 activated from the IL and ning game when hit four
for 9.
HR: Chisholm Jr. (5), off Alvarado.
LOB: Pittsburgh 6, St. Louis 9. 2B:
Lester.
Runners moved up: Mendick, Rortvedt. was in the lineup for the singles, two doubles and a
RBIs: Duvall (29), Chisholm Jr. 2(9), RBIs: Turner (21), Schwarber 2(17),
McCutchen (18), Bohm (23), Maton (8), Newman (3), Sosa (1). Rizzo (16), Heyward 3(13), Contreras LIDP: Mercedes. Brewers’ road game against triple in a 22-0 victory over
GIDP: Collins, Sano. DP: Chicago 1
Torreyes 2(2), Segura (9), Harper 2(13).
HR: Arenado (10), off Brubaker.
(19), Baez (27), Sogard (7). SB: Sogard
(Moncada, Madrigal, Vaughn); Minne-
the Royals. Yelich played the Cubs.
SB: Rojas (4), Dickerson (2), Berti (2).
SF: Duvall, McCutchen.
(2). SF: Rizzo.
Runners left in scoring position: Wash- sota 2(Sano; Polanco, Simmons, Sano). nine games to start the „ Extra innings: Nolan
Runners left in scoring position: Miami RBIs: Polanco (8), Gonzalez (16), ington 2(Castro); Chicago 2(Bryant 2). season before leaving with Arenado hit a two-run HR,
3(Dickerson, Poteet, Sierra); Philadel- Arenado 2 (30), Edman 2 (8), Sosa (1). RISP: Washington 0for 2; Chicago 2 CHICAGO IP H R ER BB SO ERA
phia 4(Maton, Hoskins, Herrera, Bohm). S: Gant. for 9.
stiffness in his lower back his fourth in four games
Keuchel, W, 3-1 7 7 3 3 0 6 4.44
RISP: Miami 2for 9; Philadelphia 6for Runners left in scoring position: Pitts- Runners moved up: Contreras. GIDP: Ruiz 1 2 1 1 0 1 2.70 against the Cardinals on and 10th overall, and the
burgh 2(Reynolds, Perez); St. Louis 5 Crochet 1 2 0 0 0 2 0.77
14. Runners moved up: Knapp, Miller.
(Goldschmidt, Gant, Williams, Carlson).
Gomes, Baez. DP: Washington 1(Turner, April 11. He tried to return Cardinals beat the visiting
Harrison, Bell); Chicago 1(Hoerner, MINNESOTA IP H R ER BB SO ERA
MIAMI IP H R ER BB SO ERA
RISP: Pittsburgh 1for 5; St. Louis 2for 9. Baez, Rizzo). Happ, L, 2-2 3⅔ 7 6 6 3 1 5.35
May 3 against the Phillies, Pirates 5-2. John Gant (3-3)
Runners moved up: Polanco, Gamel.
Poteet 5 3 0 0 2 3 1.80
Astudillo
Law
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Bender, H, 1
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4.24 PITTSBURGH IP H R ER BB SO ERA
WASHINGTON IP H R ER BB SO ERA S.Anderson 2 4 4 4 2 2 9.00 before returning to the IL. in 5 ⅓ innings to earn the
Lester, L, 0-2 5⅓ 8 5 5 0 4 3.80 Alcala 1 1 1 1 2 0 4.11
Bass, BS, 0-4 ⅔
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4.20
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Brubaker, L, 3-3 5⅔ 8 5 5 3 3 3.27 Finnegan ⅔ 0 0 0 0 1 4.86 Yelich was hitting .353 but win. Alex Reyes pitched the
⅓ 0 ⅓
Curtiss ⅔ 3 2 2 1 0 3.15
Shreve
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Inherited runners-scored: Law 1-1. had no HRs and just one ninth to record his 12th save
PHILADELPHIA IP H R ER BB SO ERA ST. LOUIS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Espino 1 2 1 1 0 1 2.57
PB: Astudillo (1), Garver (2).
RBI in 41 plate appearances in 12 chances. ... Anthony
Wheeler
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5
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4.62
3.14
Umpires: Home, Todd Tichenor; First,
Jim Reynolds; Second, Chad Whitson;
„ Rays: Mike Zunino hit run in seven innings, Alex
Reyes, S, 12-12 1 0 0 0 1 0 0.41 1⅓
Tepera, H, 6
Chafin, H, 9 1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
2
3
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3.44
2.70 Third, John Libka. two HRs and the Rays Dickerson hit a three-run
Inherited runners-scored: Bleier 1-0, Inherited runners-scored: Shreve 1-0, Nance 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00 T: 3:11. connected five times in all, HR and the Giants beat the
Bass 2-1, Curtiss 3-3. Inherited runners-scored: Rainey 1-0, A: 8,431(38,544).
Cabrera 2-2.
Tepera 1-0. hammering the Orioles 13-6 host Reds 4-2. DeSclafani
WP: Bleier, Alvarado. WP: Stratton(2), Cabrera. WP: Clay. for their fifth straight win. (4-1), who signed with the
Umpires: Home, Scott Barry; First,
Jeremie Rehak; Second, Dan Iassogna; Umpires: Home, Ben May; First, John Brett Phillips and Austin Giants after five seasons
Umpires: Home, Erich Bacchus; First,
Third, Ryan Wills. Tom Hallion; Second, Mark Ripperger; Tumpane; Second, Chris Conroy; Third, Meadows hit three-run HRs with the Reds, was outstand-
Pat Hoberg.
T: 3:34.
Third, Phil Cuzzi. in the second and Ji-Man ing in his first appearance
A: 11,114(42,792). T: 2:53. T: 2:53. Choi hit a late drive as the back at Great American Ball
A: 14,005(45,494). A: 11,144(41,649). Rays matched their longest Park, scattering six hits and
winning streak of the year. striking out seven.
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SCOREBOARD

NBA NHL SOCCER

PLAYOFF SCHEDULE EAST GP W L OT PTS GF GA MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER

PLAY-IN ROUND EASTERN W L T PTS GF GA
y-Pittsburgh 56 37 16 3 77 196 156
Tuesday’s East first round
x-Washington 56 36 15 5 77 191 163 New England 3 1 2 11 7 6
Indiana 144, Charlotte 117
x-Boston 56 33 16 7 73 168 136 Orlando City 2 0 3 9 6 2
Washington at Boston, late
x-N.Y. Islanders5632 17 7 71 156 128 N.Y. City FC 2 1 2 8 10 4
Wednesday’s West first round
N.Y. Rangers 56 27 23 6 60 177 157 Atlanta 2 1 2 8 6 4
San Antonio at Memphis, 6:30p.m.
Philadelphia 56 25 23 8 58 163 201 Montreal 2 2 2 8 8 7
Golden State at L.A. Lakers, 9p.m.
New Jersey 56 19 30 7 45 145 194 Philadelphia 2 2 2 8 5 5
Thursday’s East second round
Buffalo 56 15 34 7 37 138 199 Inter Miami CF 2 2 2 8 8 9
Indiana at
CENTRAL GP W L OT PTS GF GA Nashville 1 0 4 7 6 4
Boston/Washington loser, 7p.m. N.Y. Red Bulls 2 3 0 6 7 6
Friday’s West second round y-Carolina 56 36 12 8 80 179 136 D.C. United 2 4 0 6 5 10
San Antonio-Memphis winner at x-Florida 56 37 14 5 79 189 153 Columbus 1 2 2 5 3 4
Golden State-L.A. Lakers loser, TBA x-Tampa Bay 56 36 17 3 75 181 147 Toronto FC 1 2 2 5 7 9
x-Nashville 56 31 23 2 64 156 154 Chicago 0 4 1 1 3 10
EAST CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND Dallas 56 23 19 14 60 158 154 Cincinnati 0 3 1 1 4 13
(Best-of-7; times TBA) Chicago 56 24 25 7 55 161 186 WESTERN W L T PTS GF GA
#1 Philadelphia vs. TBD Detroit 56 19 27 10 48 127 171
Game 1: Sunday in Philadelphia Columbus 56 18 26 12 48 137 187 Seattle 5 0 1 16 13 2
WEST GP W L OT PTS GF GA LA Galaxy 4 1 0 12 10 8
#5 Atlanta vs. #4 New York Sporting KC 3 2 1 10 9 7
z-Colorado 56 39 13 4 82 197 133
Game 1: Sunday in New York Colorado 3 1 1 10 8 6
x-Vegas 56 40 14 2 82 191 124 San Jose 3 3 0 9 10 8
x-Minnesota 56 35 16 5 75 181 160
#6 Miami vs. #3 Milwaukee Houston 2 2 2 8 7 8
x-St. Louis 56 27 20 9 63 169 170
Game 1 : Saturday inMilwaukee Real Salt Lake 2 1 1 7 6 4
Arizona 56 24 26 6 54 153 176 Vancouver 2 3 1 7 5 7
Los Angeles 56 21 28 7 49 143 170
#2 Brooklyn vs. TBD Portland 2 3 0 6 6 8
San Jose 56 21 28 7 49 151 199
Game 1: Saturday in Brooklyn Austin FC 2 3 0 6 5 7
Anaheim 56 17 30 9 43 126 179 Minnesota United 2 4 0 6 5 10
NORTH GP W L OT PTS GF GA
WEST CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND FC Dallas 1 2 2 5 6 6
#1 Utah vs. TBD y-Toronto 56 35 14 7 77 187 148 Los Angeles FC 1 2 2 5 5 6
Game 1: Sunday in Salt Lake City x-Edmonton 56 35 19 2 72 183 154 NOTE: 3 points for victory, 1 pt for tie.
x-Winnipeg 56 30 23 3 63 170 154
#5 Dallas at #4L.A. Clippers x-Montreal 56 24 21 11 59 159 168 SATURDAY’S MATCHES
Game 1: Saturday in Los Angeles Calgary 55 25 27 3 53 150 159 Cincinnati at Montreal, noon Grizzlies point guard Ja Morant on Wednesday night’s play-in tournament game against the
Ottawa 56 23 28 5 51 157 190 LA Galaxy at Portland, 2:30p.m.
Vancouver 55 22 28 4 50 149 182 Miami at Chicago, 5p.m.
Spurs: “Obviously, we know what’s at stake. We got to be ready.” BRANDON DILL/AP
#6 Portland at #3 Denver
Game 1: Saturday in Denver x-clinched playoff spot Toronto FC at Orlando City, 6p.m.
y-clinched division Columbus at N.Y. City FC, 6:30p.m.
TUESDAY’S RESULT New York at New England, 7p.m.
#2 Phoenix vs. TBD
Game 1: Sunday in Phoenix Vancouver 4, Calgary 2 Real Salt Lake at FC Dallas, 7p.m. NBA
Vancouver at Houston, 8p.m.

Grizzlies’ big goal:

WEDNESDAY’S GAME Sporting KC at San Jose, 9p.m.
Vancouver at Calgary, 2:30p.m. Colorado at Los Angeles FC, 9:30p.m.
GOLF
STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS SUNDAY’S MATCHES
103RD PGA CHAMPIONSHIP (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Atlanta at Seattle, 3:30p.m.
TEE TIMES Philadelphia at D.C. United, 6p.m.
EAST DIVISION FIRST ROUND

Take the next step

At Kiawah Island Golf Resort (Ocean Austin FC at Nashville, 8p.m.
Course); Kiawah Island, S.C.; 7,838 #4 N.Y. Islanders 1, #1 Pittsburgh 0
yards; Par 72 Tuesday: at Pittsburgh, late NWSL
THURSDAY-FRIDAY Thursday: at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m. CLUB W L T PTS GF GA
FIRST HOLE-10TH HOLE Saturday: at N.Y. Islanders, 2 p.m.
Portland 1 0 0 3 5 0
7 a.m.-12:25 p.m.: Patrick Rada, U.S.; x-May 24: at Penguins, TBD
Gotham FC 1 0 0 3 1 0
Adam Long, U.S.; Cam Tringale, U.S.. x-May 26: at N.Y. Islanders, TBD
Orlando 0 0 1 1 1 1
7:11 a.m.-12:36 p.m.: Dylan Frittelli, x-May 28: at Pittsburgh, TBD
Washington 0 0 1 1 1 1
May 16: N.Y. Islanders 4-3 (OT)
Play-in game vs. Spurs gives
South Africa; Larkin Gross, U.S.; Kansas City 0 0 1 1 0 0
Matt Jones, Australia. North Carolina 0 0 1 1 0 0 probably could,” Spurs forward Rudy Gay
#2 Washington 1, #3 Boston 1
7:22 a.m.-12:47 p.m.: Byeong Hun said Tuesday. “And that’s obvious. We are at
An, South Korea; Derek Holmes, U.S.;
George Coetzee, South Africa.
Wednesday: at Boston, 5:30 p.m.
Friday: at Boston, 5:30 p.m.
Reign FC
Louisville
0 0 1 1 0
0 0 1 1 0
0
0 young team early opportunity a point right now where we are desperate.”
Houston 0 1 0 0 0 1
Sunday: at Washington, TBD
7:33 a.m.-12:58 p.m.: Bernd Wies-
x-May 25: at Boston, TBD
Chicago 0 1 0 0 0 5 The Grizzlies won the season series 2-1
berger, Austria; Tom Hoge, U.S.; Joel
Dahmen, U.S.. x-May 27: at Washington, TBD
NOTE: 3 points for win, 1 point for tie. News services against the Spurs — with the road team
7:44 a.m.-1:09 p.m.: John Daly, U.S.; May 15: Washington 3-2
FRIDAY’S MATCH winning each time.
Jimmy Walker, U.S.; Jason Dufner, U.S.. May 17: Boston 4-3 (OT)
7:55 a.m.-1:20 p.m.: Kevin Kisner, U.S.;
Washington at Louisville, 6:30p.m. The Grizzlies entered the season hoping Coach Gregg Popovich has his youngest
Martin Laird, Scotland; CENTRAL DIVISION FIRST ROUND
SATURDAY’S MATCHES to speed up the rebuilding process for the roster yet as the Spurs coach. The Spurs
#1 Carolina 1, #4 Nashvillle 0
Hudson Swafford, U.S..
8:06 a.m-1:31 p.m.: Henrik Stenson, Wednesday: at Carolina, 7 p.m.
Orlando at North Carolina, 6p.m. NBA’s second-youngest team by reaching have an average age of 25.5 with nine play-
Goltham FC at Chicago, 7p.m.
Sweden; Danny Willett, England; Bubba Friday: at Nashville, 6 p.m. the playoffs. ers under 25.
Sunday: at Nashvile, TBD
Watson, U.S..
x-May 25: at Carolina, TBD
SUNDAY’S MATCHES The can take the next step in achieving Guard Dejounte Murray’s advice for his
8:17 a.m.-1:42 p.m.: Keegan Bradley,
U.S.; Martin Kaymer, Germany; Charl x-May 27: at Nashville, TBD
Kansas City at Houston, 6p.m.
Reign FC at Portland, 9p.m.
that goal Wednesday night in Memphis young teammates includes not taking any
Schwartzel, South Africa. x-May 29: at Carolina, TBD — if they can beat the Spurs in the NBA’s plays off and competing at a high level for
8:28 a.m.-1:53 p.m.: Harris English, U.S.; May 17: Carolina 5-3
Stewart Cink, U.S.; ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE
new play-in game postseason format. The 48 minutes.
Alexander Noren, Sweden. #3 Tampa Bay 1, #2 Florida 0 CLUB GP W D L GF GA PTS Spurs-Grizzlies winner will play either “Pop is going to have a short leash
Tuesday: at Florida, late
8:39 a.m.-2:04 p.m.: Kevin Na, U.S.;
Tom Lewis, England; Thursday: at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m. Man City 37 26 5 6 78 32 83 the Lakers or Warriors on Friday night to because he understands what’s at stake,”
Jason Kokrak, U.S.. Saturday: at Tampa Bay, 11:30 a.m. Man United 37 20 11 6 71 43 71 earn the No. 8 seed and a spot in the best- Murray said. “If your number is called, be
x-May 24: at Florida, TBD Chelsea 37 19 10 8 57 34 67
8:50 a.m.-2:15 p.m.: Jason Scrivener,
x-May 26: at Tampa Bay, TBD Leicester 37 20 6 11 66 46 66 of-seven first-round playoff series with the ready to go.”
Australia; Stuart Smith, U.S.; Emiliano
Grillo, Argentina. x-May 28: at Florida, TBD Liverpool 36 18 9 9 63 42 63 top-seeded Jazz. The Spurs were 19-17 on the road this
Tottenham 36 17 8 11 63 41 59
9:01 a.m.-2:26 p.m.: Brad Marek, U.S.; May 16: Tampa Bay 5-4
West Ham 36 17 8 11 56 46 59
“Obviously we know what’s at stake,” season for their 21st consecutive winning
Peter Malnati, U.S.; Lanto Griffin, U.S..
9:12 a.m.-2:37 p.m.: Mark Geddes, WEST DIVISION FIRST ROUND Leeds 37 17 5 15 59 53 56 Grizzlies point guard Ja Morant said. “We record away from home. That’s the longest
England; Denny McCarthy, U.S.; Rikuya #1 Colorado 1, #4 St. Louis 0 Everton
Arsenal
36
36
16 8
16 7
12
13
46
50
43
38
56
55
got to be ready. Our goal is to win, so we streak in the NBA ahead of the Thunder,
Wednesday: at Colorado, 9:30 p.m.
Hoshino, Japan.
12:30 p.m.-7:05 a.m.: Frank Bensel Jr., U.S.; Friday: at St. Louis, 8:30 p.m. Aston Villa 36 14 7 15 51 44 49 not even thinking of losing those games for Mavericks and the Lakers who are all tied
Robert Streb, U.S.; Kurt Kitayama, U.S.. Sunday: at St. Louis,TBD Wolverhampton 36 12 9 15 35 49 45 our season to end. We’re looking to win the at 12 straight.
x-May 25: at Colorado, TBD Crystal Palace 36 12 8 16 40 61 44
12:41 p.m.-7:16 a.m: Alex Beach, U.S.;
x-May 27: at St. Louis, TBD Southampton 37 12 7 18 47 65 43 game and look forward to whoever we play
Daniel van Tonder, South Africa;
Wyndham Clark, U.S.. x-May 29: at Colorado,TBD Brighton 37 9 14 14 40 44 41 next.” Pacers, Celtics win play-in games: Doman-
Burnley 36 10 9 17 33 51 39
12:52 p.m.-7:27 a.m.: Abraham Ancer, May 17: Colorado 4-1
Newcastle 36 10 9 17 43 62 39
The Grizzlies started the best playoff tas Sabonis had 14 points, 21 rebounds and
Mexico, Max Homa, U.S.; Sam Burns,
U.S. #3 Minnesota 1, #2 Vegas 0 Fulham 37 5 13 19 27 51 28 run in franchise history by knocking off the nine assists, and the ninth-seeded Pacers
1:03 p.m.-7:38 a.m.: Tony Finau, U.S.; Tuesday: at Vegas, late West Brom
Sheffield United
36
36
5 11
6 2
20
28
33
19
70
62
26
20
top-seeded Spurs in 2011. That run ended in routed the No. 10 Hornets 144-117 in the
Thursday: at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m.
Matt Fitzpatrick, England; Corey
Conners, Canada. Saturday: at Minnesota, 7 p.m. 2017 with a 4-2 first-round loss to the Spurs. Eastern Conference’s first play-in game
1:14 p.m.-7:49 a.m.: Phil Mickelson, x-May 24: at Vegas, TBD TUESDAY’S RESULTS Now the Grizzlies have rebuilt the roster Tuesday night in Indianapolis.
x-May 26: at Minnesota, TBD Leeds 2, Southampton 0
U.S.; Jason Day, Australia; Padraig
x-May 28: Vegas, TBD Man United 1, Fulham 1 with Morant, the No. 2 pick overall in 2019, Led by Sabonis and Doug McDer-
Harrington, Ireland.
1:25 p.m.-8 a.m.: Tommy Fleetwood, May 16: Minnesota 1-0 (OT) Brighton 3, Man City 2 and Jaren Jackson Jr., the fourth overall mott, who scored 16 of his 21 points in the
Chelsea 2, Leicester 1
England; Jon Rahm, Spain; Patrick pick in 2018. The Grizzlies played in the first quarter, the Pacers snapped a fran-
Reed, U.S.. NORTH DIVISION FIRST ROUND
1:36 p.m.-8:11 a.m.: Gary Woodland, #1 Toronto vs. #4 Montreal WEDNESDAY’S MATCHES NBA’s first version of a play-in format last chise-worst nine-game losing streak in the
U.S.; Justin Rose, England; Cameron Thursday: at Toronto, 6:30 p.m. Tottenham vs. Aston Villa, noon
Newcastle vs. Sheffield United, noon
summer in the bubble in Orlando, but lost postseason.
Saturday: at Toronto, 6 p.m.
Smith, Australia.
1:47 p.m.-8:22 a.m.: Steve Stricker, U.S.; May 24: at Montreal, TBD Everton vs. Wolverhampton, noon to the Trail Blazers and fell short of securing They also moved within one win of
Billy Horschel, Unied States; Daniel May 25: at Montreal, TBD Crystal Palace vs. Arsenal, 1 p.m. the eighth seed. making a sixth straight playoff appearance.
x-May 27: at Toronto, TBD West Brom vs. West Ham, 2:15 p.m.
Berger, U.S..
x-May 29: at Montreal, TBD Burnley vs. Liverpool, 2:15 p.m. “This is the first time really going through On Thursday night, the Pacers will visit
1:58 p.m.-8:33 a.m.: Webb Simpson,
U.S.; Will Zalatoris, U.S.; Jordan Spieth, x-May 31: at Toronto, TBD this play-in experience in a normal NBA the No. 8 seed Wizards to determine who
SUNDAY’S MATCHES
U.S.
West Ham vs. Southampton, 10 a.m.
season,” Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins will face the top-seeded 76ers in the first
2:09 p.m.-8:44 a.m: Dustin Johnson, #2 Edmonton vs. #3 Winnipeg
U.S.; Shane Lowry, U.S.; Sergio Garcia, Wednesday: at Edmonton, 8 p.m. Sheffield United vs. Burnley, 10 a.m. said. “It’s always learning and growth, round.
Spain. Friday: at Edmonton, 8 p.m. Man City vs. Everton, 10 a.m.
Liverpool vs. Crystal Palace, 10 a.m.
doesn’t matter if it’s year one, two or 20. The Wizards fell to the No. 7 Celtics
May 23,: at Winnipeg, TBD
2:20 p.m.-8:55 a.m.: Thomas Pieters,
Belgium; Patrick Cantlay, U.S.; Matt May 24: at Winnipeg, TBD Leicester vs. Tottenham, 10 a.m. We’ve got to learn from it, and we got to 118-100 in Tuesday’s other East play-in.
Kuchar, U.S.. x-May 26: at Edmonton, TBD Leeds vs. West Brom, 10 a.m. know how we got to be better.” The Celtics advanced to the first round
x- May 28: at Winnipeg, TBD Fulham vs. Newcastle, 10 a.m.
2:31 p.m.-9:06 a.m.: Chris Kirk, U.S.;
x-May 30: at Edmonton, TBD Aston Villa vs. Chelsea, 10 a.m. The Spurs record-tying streak of 22 and will face the No. 2 Nets.
Pete Ballo, U.S.; Cameron Davis,
Australia.
Arsenal vs. Brighton, 10 a.m. consecutive playoff appearances came to The Pacers won their game despite losing
Wolverhampton vs. Man United, 10 a.m.
2:42 p.m.-9:17 a.m.: Dean Burmester, an end in the Florida bubble, and they stum- forward Caris LeVert to the league’s health
South Africa; Greg Koch, U.S.; K.H. Lee, TENNIS ble into this game having lost four straight and safety protocol.
South Korea.
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
ATP GENEVA OPEN
CHAMPIONSHIP
SATURDAY, MAY 29 IN ISTANBUL
and five of their last six. LeVert, who had surgery earlier this year
THURSDAY-FRIDAY;
10TH HOLE-FIRST HOLE
Tusday from Geneva Open at Club de Manchester City (england) Those losses haven’t been that close to remove a cancerous growth in his kidney
Geneve Eaux-Vives; outdoors-hard
7:05 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: Ben Polland, U.S.; MEN’S SINGLES, ROUND OF 32
vs. Chelsea (England), 2 p.m. either with the eight in May by a margin of after being acquired in a January trade with
Talor Gooch, U.S.; Harry Higgs, U.S.. #6Fabio Fognini d. Guido Pella, 6-2, 6-2. CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 15.25 points. the Nets, can’t return for 10 to 14 days — if
7:16 a.m.-12:41 p.m.: Rob Labritz, U.S.; Marco Cecchinato d.
Brendan Steele, U.S.; Harold Varner Stefano Travaglia, 6-3, 3-0, ret. SEMIFINAL ROUND, times TBA “We haven’t been playing as well as we the Pacers are still playing.
Feliciano Lopez d. Aug. 10 and Sept. 16
III, U.S..
Daniel Altmaier, 7-6(6), 6-4. Cruz Azul (Mexico) vs.
7:27 a.m.-12:52 p.m.: Paul Casey,
Marton Fucsovics d. Monterrey (Mexico)
England; Garrick Higgo, South Africa; Henri Laaksonen, 7-5, 7-5. America (Mexico) vs.
Marc Leishman, Australia. Ilya Ivashka d. Philadelphia (United States)
7:38 a.m.-1:03 p.m.: Rickie Fowler, U.S.; Fernando Verdasco, 7-6(5), 6-4.
Adam Scott, Australia; Tyrrell Hatton, Pablo Cuevas d.
England. Reilly Opelka, 7-6(5), 6-2. ODDS IN BRIEF
Dominic Stephan Stricker, d.

Trout out 6-8 weeks with calf strain

7:49 a.m.-1:14 p.m.: Robert MacIntyre,
Marin Cilic, 7-6(5), 6-1. MLB WEDNESDAY
Scotland; Cameron Champ, U.S.; John Laslo Djere d.
Catlin, U.S.. Thiago Monteiro, 6-7(7), 6-3, 7-5. National League
8 a.m.-1:25 p.m.: Zach Johnson, U.S.; MEN’S SINGLES, ROUND OF 16 FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE
Francesco Molinari, Italy; Scottie Pablo Andujar d. at San Diego -250 Colorado +208
Scheffler, U.S.. #1 Roger Federer, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. San Francisco -113 at Cincinnati -102
8:11 a.m.-1:36 p.m.: Louis Oosthui- at Philadelphia -125 Miami +110 News services lar-season record, their first Pacific Division
ATP OPEN PARC AUVERGNE- at Atlanta -125 NY Mets +100
zen, South Africa; Ryan Palmer, U.S.;
Thomas Detry, Belgium. RHONE-ALPES Washington -142 at Chi. Cubs +127
title since 2007 and the No. 2 seed in the
8:22 a.m.-1:47 p.m.: Lee Westwood, Tuesday at Parc de la Tete d’OrLyon, at St. Louis -215 Pittsburgh +183 Angels outfielder Mike Trout is expected Western Conference playoffs.
England; Viktor Hovland, Norway; France; outdoors-Red clay at LA Dodgers -357 Arizona +250 to miss six to eight weeks with a right calf
Xander Schauffele, U.S.. MEN’S SINGLES, ROUND OF 32 American League
8:33 a.m.-1:58 p.m.: Rory McIlroy, #5 Gael Monfils d. Chi. White Sox -140 at Minnesota +130 strain, the team announced Tuesday. NHL: Bryan Rust and Jeff Carter scored in
Northern Ireland; Justin Thomas, U.S.; Thiago Seyboth Wild, 7-5, 6-4. Tampa Bay -120 at Baltimore -105 The three-time American League MVP the first period and Tristan Jarry stopped 39
Brooks Koepka, U.S.. Lorenzo Musetti d. #7 Felix NY Yankees -196 at Texas +150
8:44 a.m.-2:09 p.m.: Colin Morikawa, Auger-Aliassime, 7-6 (3), 3-6, 7-5. at LA Angels -156 Cleveland +125 was placed on the injured list a day after shots to help the Penguins edge the visiting
U.S.; Bryson DeChambeau, U.S.; Hideki #8Karen Khachanov d. at Toronto -121 Boston +110 exiting the Angels’ 7-4 victory over the Indi- Islanders 2-1 and tie the East Division first-
Benjamin Bonzi, 6-1, 4-6, 7-6(4). Houston -105 at Oakland -105
Matsuyama, Japan.
8:55 a.m.-2:20 p.m.: Charley Hoffman, Kamil Majchrzak d. at Seattle -125 Detroit +115
ans after the first inning. round series at 1-1. ... Steven Stamkos, Ondrej
U.S.; Matt Wallace, England; Erik van Joao Sousa, 6-3, 7-6(8). Interleague Trout, 29, was limping after running Palat and Yanni Gourde scored and Andrei
Rooyen, South Africa. Richard Gasquet d. Milwaukee -160 at Kansas City+150 to third on an inning-ending popup. He Vasilevskiy made 32 saves as the defending
9:06 a.m.-2:31 p.m.: Chan Kim, U.S.; Gregoire Barrere, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3.
Brett Walker, U.S.; Brian Gay, U.S.. NBA PLAYOFS WEDNESDAY entered the game sixth in the AL with a Stanley Cup champion Lightning beat the
9:17 a.m.-2:42 p.m.: Aaron Wise, U.S.; FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG .333 batting average but was 1-for-17 in his host Panthers 3-1 to take a 2-0 lead in the
Sonny Skinner, U.S.; Kalle Samooja, WTA EMILIA-ROMAGNA OPEN at Memphis 4 (222) San Antonio
Finland. Tuesday in Romania; outdoors-clay at LA Lakers 4½ (219½) Golden State last six games. Central Division series. ... The Red Wings
12:25 p.m.-7 a.m.: Si Woo Kim, South WOMEN’S SINGLES, FIRST ROUND
NHL WEDNESDAY
gave coach Jeff Blashill, 47, a contract exten-
#2 Petra Martic d.
Korea; Danny Balin, U.S.; Jim Herman,
Varvara Gracheva, 6-4, 6-2. FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE Auto racing: In the first day of practice for sion despite a five-year postseason drought
U.S.
12:36 p.m.-7:11 a.m.: Sami Valimaki, #3 Cori Gauff d. at Calgary -156 Vancouver +128 the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor and a career record of 172-221-62. Assistant
Kaia Kanepi, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (7) PLAYOFFS
Finland; Joe Summerhays, U.S.; Richy
Anna-Lena Friedsam d. at Boston -166 Washington +141 Speedway, Will Power turned the fastest coach Dan Bylsma, who led the Penguins
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12:47 p.m.-7:22 a.m.: Sebastian Munoz, Viktorija Golubic, 6-4, 6-7(1), 6-2. at Carolina -192 Nashville +161 lap (226.470 mph) in a Chevrolet for Team to the 2009 Stanley Cup, will leave the Red
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Liudmilla Samsonova d. at Colorado -318 St. Louis +251
Penske. He was followed by two other Wings to pursue a head coaching job.
field, England.
12:58 p.m.-7:33 a.m: Y.E. Yang, South Giulia Gatto-Monticone, 6-2, 6-2. For the latest odds, go to FanDuel former race winners: Ryan Hunter-Reay
WOMEN’S SINGLES, SECOND ROUND Sportsbook, https://sportsbook. (226.371) and defending champ Takuma Tennis: Top-seeded Serena Williams fell to
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1:09 p.m.-7:44 a.m.: Joaquin Niemann, #1 Serena Williams, 7-6 (4), 6-2. Sato (226.132). The Indy 500 is May 30. 68th-ranked Katerina Siniakova 7-6 (4), 6-2
#4 Daria Kasatkina d. WNBA in the second round of the Emilia-Romagna
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#5 Amanda Anisimova d. EAST W L Pct GB
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1:20 p.m.-7:55 a.m.: Branden Grace,
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charged former Louisville assistant coach 39, who lost her opening match at the Ital-
Rasmus Hojgaard, Denmark.
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Aliaksandra Sasnovich d.
2:15 p.m.-8:50 a.m.: Victor Perez, Xiyu Wang, 6-7(6), 6-0, 6-2.
TUESDAY’S RESULTS
analyst before joining Louisville in 2018. est player in league history to record a
Kamilla Rakhimova d.
France; Omar Uresti, U.S.; Maverick
McNealy, U.S.. Olga Danilovic, 6-2, 6-4. New York 86, Minnesota 75 triple-double, helping the Liberty to their
2:26 p.m.-9:01 a.m.: Tyler Collet, U.S.; Reka Luca Jani, d. Phoenix 91, Washington 70 NBA: The Suns’ Monty Williams was voted first 3-0 start in 14 years with an 86-75 win
Tereza Martincova, 6-2, 0-6, 7-5. Las Vegas at Seattle, 9 p.m.
Brendon Todd, U.S.; Lucas Herbert,
WOMEN’S SINGLES, ROUND OF 16 WEDNESDAY’S GAMES the National Basketball Coaches Associa- over the visiting Lynx. At 23 years, 163 days,
Australia.
2:37 p.m.-9:12 a.m.: Ben Cook, U.S.;
#4Paula Badosa d.
Mihaela Buzarnescu, 6-0, 6-4.
Chicago at Atlanta, 6 p.m. tion coach of the year. The league’s 30 head Ionescu tallied 26 points, 12 assists and
Indiana at Connecticut, 6 p.m.
Mackenzie Hughes, Canada; Takumi #5Nadia Podoroska d. THURSDAY’S GAME
coaches vote on the award. Williams, 49, 10 rebounds for the first triple-double in
Kanaya, Japan. Oceane Dodin, 6-2, 6-3.
Seattle at Minnesota, 7 p.m. led the long-suffering Suns to a 51-21 regu- Liberty history.
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NATIONAL SPORTS REPORT

IN BRIEF

Doctor: Burrow on track for Week 1
Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow, who
underwent reconstructive left knee
surgery in December, should be ready
for the Sept. 12 regular-season opener
against the Vikings, Dr. Neal ElAttra-
che told ESPN on Tuesday. “He’s on
track for full go for start of the season,”
ElAttrache, who operated on Burrow,
above, in early December, wrote in a text. “He’s doing all
the work. He’s worked his tail off and been an amazingly
mature participant in his recovery. He’s focused and great
to work with.” ElAttrache is working with the Bengals’
medical staff on the quarterback’s rehabilitation, and all
parties believe that goal is well within reach. Doctors
don’t want any contact until nine months, which means
Burrow may sit out the preseason. Burrow, the No. 1 overall
draft pick last year after leading LSU to a national cham-
pionship, suffered the injury during a Nov. 22 loss against
the Redskins. He underwent surgery Dec. 2. Before the
injury, Burrow started 10 games and completed 65.3% of
his passes for 2,688 yards with 13 touchdowns and five
interceptions.
Federer falters in return from layoff
Roger Federer lost his comeback match
after two months away from tour on
Tuesday, falling to Pablo Andujar 6-4,
4-6, 6-4 in the second round of the
Geneva Open. His first match on clay
in almost two years kept him on court
for almost two hours in only his second
tournament since the 2020 Australian
Open. The last 15 months have included two surgeries
on his right knee. “It (losing) never feels great,” Federer
said. “Looking at the long road that I have been on from
the comeback, sure it’s rewarding to be back on a tennis
court but you know I expect better from myself.” In the
decisive set, the top-seeded Federer forced a service break
before Andujar rallied. Federer saved two match points on
his own serve, but the third ended with a wayward fore-
hand under pressure on the baseline. Next is the French
Open, site of Federer’s most-recent match on clay — a
2019 semifinals loss to Rafael Nadal — before Tuesday’s
defeat. “Roland Garros is not the goal,” said the 39-year-old
Federer, an eight-time Wimbledon champion. “The goal
is the grass so I still have time.”
Stanford won’t eliminate 11 sports
Wrestling, synchronized swimming,
men’s volleyball and eight other varsity
sports at Stanford that were scheduled
to be eliminated will be able to continue
because of an improved financial
picture, university officials said Tues-
day. The university had announced last
July that the 11 sports would be cut after
the current school year because of a budget deficit in the
athletic department. “We have new optimism based on
new circumstances, ... which have convinced us that rais-
ing the increased funds necessary to support all 36 of our
varsity teams is an approach that can succeed,” university
President Marc Tessier-Lavigne, above, said in a state-
ment. The teams that have been saved also include men’s
and women’s fencing, field hockey, lightweight rowing,
men’s rowing, coed and women’s sailing and squash. The
36 Sports Strong group, which includes former university
athletes and was involved in a push to save the programs,
said school leaders worked with group members to find
a way forward. “We are grateful for their engagement,”
the group said in a statement. —News services

PGA CHAMPIONSHIP PREVIEW

(South) Carolina on their minds A look at top contenders

JORDAN SPIETH
World ranking: 28.
Worldwide victories: 15.
Majors: Masters (2015), U.S. Open (2015),
British Open (2017).
PGA Championship history: Eight
appearances, two top 10s, best finish
runner-up in 2015.
PGA Championship moment: With a
chance to become the first player to win
the “American slam,” finished second to
Jason Day at Whistling Straits in 2015.

RORY MCILROY
World ranking: 7.
Worldwide victories: 27.
Majors: PGA Championship (2012, 2014),
U.S. Open (2011), British Open (2014).
PGA Championship history:
12 appearances, two victories, 33 of
43 rounds at par or better.
PGA Championship moment: Winning
at Kiawah Island in 2012 to set the PGA
Championship record with eight-shot margin.

DUSTIN JOHNSON
World ranking: 1.
Worldwide victories: 25.
Majors: Masters (2020), U.S. Open (2016).
PGA Championship history:
11 appearances, two runner-up finishes,
six top 10s.
PGA Championship moment: Grounding
his club in the sand of Whistling Straits
and learning later it was a bunker, costing
him a two-shot penalty that knocked him
out of the playoff in 2010 between Martin
Kaymer and Bubba Watson.

HIDEKI MATSUYAMA
World ranking: 15.
Worldwide victories: 15.
Majors: Masters (2021).
PGA Championship history: Eight
appearance, two top 10s, best finish a tie
for fourth in 2016 at Baltusrol.
PGA Championship moment: Having
a chance over final three holes at Quail
Hollow in 2017 until missing a short par
putt on the 16th, in tears when it was over.

XANDER SCHAUFFELE
Brooks Koepka is just two months removed from surgery to repair a dislocated right kneecap and ligament damage. PATRICK SMITH/GETTY World ranking: 5.
Worldwide victories: 4.
Majors: None.

Koepka playing through

PGA Championship history: Four
appearances, one top 10.
PGA Championship moment: Opening
with a 66 for his lowest score in 14 rounds
at the PGA.

2-time champ says he can hit
‘every shot’ despite knee pain
By Ben Nuckols
Associated Press
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Brooks Koep-
ka’s preparation for the PGA Championship
included playing the Byron Nelson last week
in Texas — just to see if he could walk 18 holes
without pain in his surgically repaired right
knee.
He missed the cut, but the walking wasn’t
a problem. Playing to the standard of a four-
time major champion while doing 2 ½ hours
of rehab a day might be tougher.
“Every day’s been a long day,” Koepka said
Tuesday.
Koepka is two months removed from
surgery to repair a dislocated kneecap and
ligament damage. He’s in better shape than he
was at the Masters, where he hobbled his way
to a missed cut while struggling to bend his
knee enough to read putts or retrieve the ball
from the cup. But he’s hardly at full strength.
“I can’t run. I’m not where I want to be.
But at the same time, it’s what I’ve got to deal
with, so just move on,” Koepka said. “I still
have days where it sucks, when my knee just
doesn’t feel good waking up and it’s not going
to feel good all day, but those are getting less
and less.”
Koepka won his most recent major and
second PGA two years ago at Bethpage Black.
At the time, he had also won back-to-back
U.S. Opens, and he swaggered into brawny
Bethpage with a confidence bordering on
arrogance, saying majors were “the easiest”
tournaments to win because he only had to
worry about a small portion of the field beat-
ing him.
Since then, injuries have taken big chunks
out of his schedule and robbed him of oppor-
tunities to be competitive even when he has
played.
“I mean, I can play. You’re never 100%,
that’s the thing. For two straight years it’s
been left knee, right knee, herniated a disk in
my neck,” he said. “I can deal with the pain.
That’s not an issue. It’s just a matter of being
able to hit the shots that I want to hit and do
things I want to do, and I’m starting to be able
to do that. Even though I’m not 100%, I can
still hit the shots.”
Koepka gave himself a chance at a third
consecutive PGA Championship last year at
Harding Park before fading with a final-round
74. He skipped the FedEx Cup playoffs but
managed a tie for seventh at the Masters.
Since then he has five missed cuts in
eight starts. He also has a victory and a tie
for second, although those came before the
surgery.
His doctors tell him he won’t be fully
healthy for six more months, although
Koepka believes he can improve upon that
timeline.
For now, the Ocean Course at Kiawah
Island at least presents a more manageable
challenge than hilly Augusta National.
“I feel like I can hit every shot. It’s not
like Augusta where I’m trying to figure out
what’s the best line to walk,” he said. “Now
I can actually hit golf shots and understand
what’s going on.”
Most of the time, anyway. In about one out
of every 20 swings with the driver, he tries to
push off his right leg only to discover he can’t
do it. No wonder all but one question he got
at his pretournament news conference was
injury-related. The only reprieve was a query
about the tough par-3 17th hole.
“I haven’t played it yet,” Koepka said.
PGA Championship
at a glance
Site: Kiawah Island, South Carolina.
Course: Kiawah Island Golf Resort (Ocean).
Yardage: 7,838. Par: 72.
Prize money: TBA ($11 million in 2020).
Winner’s share: TBA ($1.98 million in 2020).
TV: Thursday-Friday, noon-6 p.m. (ESPN).
Saturday-Sunday, 9 a.m. to noon (ESPN);
noon-6 p.m. (CBS).
Defending champion: Collin Morikawa.
Notes: The PGA Championship was last at
Kiawah Island in 2012 when Rory McIlroy set
the championship record with an eight-shot
victory. ... The field is the strongest among
majors with 99 of the top 100 players in the
world. Matthew Wolff, who withdrew, is the
only player missing. ... Jordan Spieth, coming
off his fourth straight top-10 finish, needs to
win the PGA Championship to become only
the sixth player with the career Grand Slam.
None of the other five completed it at the
PGA Championship. ... This is the second
time in three years the PGA is held in May.
It moved back to August last year because
of the COVID-19 pandemic. ... Americans
have won the last five times in the PGA
Championship starting with Jimmy Walker
at Baltusrol in 2016. ... The top 60 in the
world ranking after this week are exempt
for the U.S. Open. The top 50 are exempt
for the British Open. ... The PGA of America
is allowing about 10,000 spectators.
They are not required to wear masks. ...
Americans have won 17 of the last 24 major
championships.
Next year: Southern Hills in Tulsa,
Oklahoma.
— Associated Press
JUSTIN THOMAS
World ranking: 2.
Worldwide victories: 14.
Majors: PGA Championship (2017).
PGA Championship history: Five
appearances, one victory, one reasonable
job with a title defense.
PGA Championship moment: Winning
at Quail Hollow and celebrating his father,
Mike, a longtime club professional.
BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU
World ranking: 4.
Worldwide victories: 9.
Majors: U.S. Open (2020).
PGA Championship history: Four
appearances, one top 10, two missed cuts.
PGA Championship moment: Contended
for the first time in a major last year in the
PGA at Harding Park and tied for fourth. In
his next major, he won the U.S. Open.
JON RAHM
World ranking: 3.
Worldwide victories: 11.
Majors: None.
PGA Championship history: Four
appearances, one top 10.
PGA Championship moment: Shooting
68 or better all four rounds at Bellerive in
2018 and being in contention in the final
hour until tying for fourth.
COLLIN MORIKAWA
World ranking: 6.
Worldwide victories: 4.
Majors: PGA Championship (2020).
PGA Championship moment: In his
PGA debut, he hit driver to 7 feet for
eagle on the 16th hole at Harding Park
that carried him to victory.
— Associated Press
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A+E
ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT

Lolla is back for 2021

Proof of COVID-19
vaccination or negative
test will be required
By Tracy Swartz
Chicago Tribune
Lollapalooza will return to
Grant Park at full capacity July
29-Aug. 1, organizers announced
Tuesday, ending months of spec-
ulation about whether Chica-
Lollapalooza will return to Grant Park this summer after being canceled in go’s largest music festival would
2020. ANTONIO PEREZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE 2019 be canceled again because of
COVID-19. This year’s lineup
is set to be revealed at 10 a.m.
Wednesday, with tickets going on
sale two hours later.
“What’s up, Chicago? I’ll
see you this summer with my
good friends, the Foo Fight-
ers,” frontman Dave Grohl says
in a video of Mayor Lori Light-
foot, Lollapalooza co-founder
Perry Farrell and Chicago public
health Commissioner Dr. Alli-
son Arwady announcing festi-
val dates. The video, nearly two
minutes long, also features music
from rumored act Journey and
Chicago rapper Polo G, a past
performer.
Lollapalooza typically
welcomes 100,000 daily attend-
ees to see more than 170 acts
perform across eight stages. This
year, proof of full COVID-19
vaccination or a negative COVID-
19 test result is required to attend.
For festgoers who are not fully
vaccinated, a negative test result
must be obtained up to 24 hours
Turn to Lolla, Page 3

Hailee Kaleem Wright, Karen Burthwright, Sidney Dupont and the cast are seen in a production of “Paradise Square” by Berkeley Repertory Theatre. ALESSANDRA MELLO PHOTO

Drabinsky returning to Chicago

Controversial theater
figure will be offering
pre-Broadway musical
By Chris Jones
Chicago Tribune
Garth Drabinsky is coming
back to Chicago.
The controversial Canadian
showbiz mogul who wrestled the
pivotal 1998 restoration of the
Oriental Theatre in the Rich-
ard M. Daley era, staged epic
Chicago productions of “Show-
boat” and “Ragtime” and put
Donny Osmond in “Joseph” to
the delight of audiences here for
years is reigniting high-profile
theater in Chicago this fall with
a new Broadway-bound musical,
“Paradise Square.”
The piece, which uses both
original music and the songs of
Stephen Foster, focuses on the
Lower Manhattan neighborhood
of Five Points, positing that its
1863 blend of Irish immigrants
and Black Americans, both escap-
ees from slavery and free-born
individuals, was a singular fusion
wherein two oppressed groups
intermingled, intermarried and
shared music, dance and culture.
The show features a book by
Christina Anderson, Marcus
Gardley, Craig Lucas and Larry
Kirwan. Music, including both
original songs and Foster adap-
tations, is by Jason Howland,
Nathan Tysen and Masi Asare.
The director is Moises
Kaufman (“I Am My Own Wife”),
choreography is by Bill T. Jones
(“Spring Awakening”) and musi-
cal staging is by Graciela Daniele,
who famously worked with
Drabinsky and director Frank
Galati on “Ragtime.”
Performances are sched-
uled to begin Nov. 2 and play
through Dec. 5 at the James M.
Nederlander Theatre (formerly
the Oriental Theatre), 24 W.
Randolph St. Individual tickets go
on sale June 8.
“I am delighted to back,”
Drabinsky said Monday in a tele-
phone interview. “Without the
return of the theater, great cities
like New York and Chicago are
just not the same.”
Drabinsky expects the show to
move directly to Broadway, open-
ing early in 2022.
Not all has gone smoothly for
the producer since the heady days
of the 1990s. In 2009, following
accusations that he essentially
kept two sets of books, one of
which inflated box office receipts
to cover expenses, he was
convicted in Canada of forgery
and defrauding shareholders of
the company known as Livent, of
which he was the chief executive.
Drabinsky was sentenced
to seven years in prison (later
reduced to five years on appeal).
Drabinsky was convicted along
with his Livent business partner,
Myron Gottlieb.
Drabinsky served his time in
Canada and has spoken publicly
of the experience of incarcera-
tion. For many years, though, he
was considered a fugitive from
U.S. justice, following an indict-
ment for accounting fraud by
the United States Attorney’s
Office for the Southern District
of New York, and thus he was
Turn to Drabinsky, Page 3

MY WORST MOMENT

Busy Philipps on bombing an audition for a big-name director

By Nina Metz
Chicago Tribune
A satire of a 90s-era girl group-
turned-middle aged comeback,
the Peacock comedy series “Girl-
s5eva” is from producer Tina Fey
and creator Meredith Scardino
(whose previous credits include
“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”
and “Saturday Night Live”).
“Even though it’s this wild
ride and so much fun, one of the
things I love most about it is that
there’s also a lot of heart in it,”
said Busy Philipps, who stars on
the show. “You get to follow these
women as they’re figuring out
that maybe they didn’t have that
much control over their careers
back when they were young
women starting out — that’s
something I can relate to — and
they decide that now they are in
control of their own story.”
Philipps first came to notice
more than 20 years ago on the
cult favorite “Freaks and Geeks”
and her credits in the years
since include everything from
“Dawson’s Creek” to “White
Chicks” to “ER” to “Cougar
Town.”
When asked about a worst
moment in her career, she
replied: “I’ve been doing this
professionally since I was a teen-
ager and I’ve had so many differ-
ent cringe-y moments navigating
red carpets or just not under-
standing how to exist in this space
because there’s no class you can
take. I was a theater major in
college, but they don’t teach you
what to do if you bomb in front of
a huge director at an audition.”
And that’s precisely what
happened when she auditioned
for a role in the biopic about June
and Johnny Cash.
My worst moment…
“This is a memory that, to
this day when I look back on it, I
want to cry. Obviously you know
the movie ‘Walk the Line’ (from
2005) and integral to the story is
Johnny Cash’s first wife, and they
were reading many actresses for
that part.
“A few things were happening
in my personal life at the time. I
had gone through a really terrible
breakup. I was in my early-to-
mid 20s and it was the kind of
breakup that ruins you for a bit.
Where you’re lying on the floor
waiting for people to spoon feed
you because you’re so devastated.
He’d broken my heart and I was
just feeling terrible about myself.
“So my confidence level was
completely destroyed when I
got this audition. And then I had
Googled Johnny Cash’s first wife
Vivian and I didn’t look anything
like her, so I was convinced that
there was no way I was going to
get this part anyway.
“I kept looking at the (script)
pages and thinking, I should really
Busy Philipps arrives at the Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel
Turn to Moment, Page 2 in 2020. JORDAN STRAUSS/INVISION
2 Chicago Tribune | Section 4 | Wednesday, May 19, 2021
CELEBRITIES
Naomi Campbell welcomes baby girl
From news services
Naomi Campbell says
she has become the
mother of a baby girl.
The British supermodel,
50, announced the news
Tuesday on Instagram,
posting a picture of her
hand holding a baby’s feet.
She wrote: “A beautiful
little blessing has chosen
me to be her mother, so
honoured to have this
gentle soul in my life there
are no words to describe
the lifelong bond that I
now share with you my
angel. There is no greater
love.”
Campbell’s spokesper-
son declined to provide
more information.
Congratulations poured
in from other fashion
industry figures.
Designer Marc Jacobs
posted: “Oh my God!!!!!
Today is the day?? How
absolutely incredible. How
lucky she is and how lucky
you are! What a wonderful
Mother you will be. Bless-
ings all around.”
Disney Junior series
to feature Roots’ music:
“Rise Up, Sing Out,” an
animated shorts series
presenting the concepts
of race, racism and social
justice to young viewers, is
coming to Disney Junior.
Designed for children
ages 2 to 7 and their fami-
lies, the series will include
music by Ahmir “Quest-
love” Thompson and Tariq
“Black Thought” Trotter of
The Roots, who are execu-
tive producers with Latoya
Raveneau.
“We hope these shorts
will encourage the young
audience to recognize and
celebrate our differences
as human beings while
learning the tools to navi-
gate real-world issues of
racial injustice,” Thomp-
son and Trotter said in a
joint statement Tuesday.
They said their hope is
to “empower and uplift
the future generations in
the way we know best,
through music.”
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ team reimagined Chicago
Do-Rite, RedEye
among local flavor
that pops up in
recent episode
By Tracy Swartz
Chicago Tribune
Chicago is ravaged by
war on “The Handmaid’s
Tale” — but of course our
damn parking meters
managed to survive.
Last week’s episode of
the dystopian Hulu series
follows June (played by
Elisabeth Moss) and Janine
(Madeline Brewer) after
they escape to Chicago,
which has become a major
battleground in the fight
against Gilead forces. The
pair hide out in a Dante’s
Pizzeria; swap their hand-
maid’s cloaks for a Cubs
hat at the Field Museum;
and wander past Do-Rite
Donuts in a deserted West
Town neighborhood.
“We actually had reached
out to various companies
to see if we can get clear-
Moment
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work on this. It was a really
intense scene they chose.
She cries and screams at
Johnny, all this stuff that
you want to see an actor
really come through on.
And because I was crying
so much at the time — like,
my roommate would come
home from her job and find
me lying on the kitchen
floor with a package of
spaghetti opened and
water boiling but noth-
ing being done because I
had given up to lie down
and cry — I was looking at
these pages thinking, well
I should be able to tap into
these emotions (laughs).
“So I go to the audition.
I already knew that James
Mangold was directing it
and I already knew that
Reese Witherspoon was
doing it and Joaquin Phoe-
Naomi Campbell announced Tuesday that she has become
the mother to a baby girl. MARK RALSTON/GETTY-AFP 2020
“Rise Up, Sing Out” will
debut this year on Disney
Junior platforms, includ-
ing the channel and app. A
date wasn’t announced.
Grande, Gomez tie the
knot: Ariana Grande is
a newlywed. A repre-
sentative for the singer
confirmed that she
recently married real
estate agent Dalton
Gomez.
Grande’s rep told People
that they tied the knot
in a small and intimate
wedding, where fewer
than 20 people attended.
It wasn’t clear when the
wedding took place.
“The room was so happy
and full of love. The couple
and both families couldn’t
be happier,” the rep told
People.
Grande, 27, and Gomez,
25, announced their
engagement in Decem-
ber. They began dating in
January 2020 and quaran-
tined together during the
pandemic.
ance on their logos. Of
all the ones that gave us a
yes, that was one of them,”
Emmy-winning production
designer Elisabeth Williams
told the Tribune by phone
about Do-Rite Donuts.
The donut chain is happy
to be part of “such a terrific
show. ... They reached out
to us for permission to use
our logo, and we said, ‘Yes,
please!’ ” Do-Rite chef
Francis Brennan said in an
email.
Dressing areas of Canada
to look like Chicago is not
new — but usually it’s not
done very well. Williams
said she has never visited
Chicago, but the episode’s
supervising art director,
Martha Sparrow, is very
familiar with the city. She
worked on the fourth season
of FX’s “Fargo,” which
filmed here last year.
“The Handmaid’s Tale”
team studied Google images
of real West Town blocks to
create its fictional streets in
the southern Ontario city
of Brantford, Williams said.
Even amid the destruction,
nix was doing it. And actu-
ally, Ginnifer Goodwin,
who I’ve known for a long
time (and who ultimately
got the role), came in and
sat down and she put head-
phones in and I could see
tears forming in her eyes
already. And I was like: Oh
God, she looks exactly like
Vivian. Oh, she’s getting the
part. I’m sitting there liter-
ally psyching myself out for
an audition I’m about to do.
“So I go in and meet
James Mangold and I went
into some sort of fugue
state for the next 7-15
minutes of my life. Part of
it was that I made a deci-
sion that he hated me. I
don’t know why, I had no
reason to. But that’s what I
decided was happening.
“And to say that the tears
did not come is an under-
statement. But what did
come was me sort of fake
sobbing.
“And the accent that I
Allen tapped for anthem
at Indy 500: Chart-top-
ping, platinum-selling
country recording artist
Jimmie Allen will perform
the national anthem at this
year’s Indianapolis 500.
Allen will sing “The
Star-Spangled Banner”
before drivers are called to
their cars May 30 at India-
napolis Motor Speedway.
Allen made history in
2018 as the first Black artist
to launch a career with two
consecutive No. 1 hits on
country radio, with “Best
Shot” and “Make Me Want
To.”
May 19 birthdays: TV
personality David Hart-
man is 86. Actor Nancy
Kwan is 82. Musician Pete
Townshend is 76. Model
Grace Jones is 73. Singer
Dusty Hill is 72. Actor
Jason Gray-Stanford is
51. TV personality Kim
Zolciak Biermann is 43.
Comedian Michael Che is
38. Actor Eric Lloyd is 35.
Singer Sam Smith is 29.
Janine (played by Madeline Brewer, left) and June (Elisabeth Moss) escape to Chicago on an
episode of “The Handmaid’s Tale” that dropped May 11 on Hulu. SOPHIE GIRAUD/HULU
it’s easy to spot a Milwau-
kee Avenue sign, a RedEye
newspaper box and some
of those dreaded parking
meters.
Last week’s episode ends
with a major blast. June
chose to do — an accent I
didn’t work on ahead of
time, I just decided to do
it in the moment — was all
over the place; at one point
I was in New Jersey, at one
point I was in Texas, at one
point I was in England.
“I cannot describe to you
how bad this audition was.
The look on the casting
director’s face was confu-
sion and disappointment.
I couldn’t even look her in
the eye, I was so humili-
ated. This was next level
bad. It was hands down the
worst audition of my life,
but it was also so horrible
because it was in front of
a casting director who I
really respected and had
always given me a shot.
Who I knew liked me.
“So I left and when I
got to my car I sobbed and
sobbed and sobbed. And
I literally said aloud to
myself, ‘Now you can cry?’
I was so mad at myself. It
Woman in market for romantic renovation
Dear Amy: I am a
62-year-old divorced
woman. I have not dated
— or been interested in
dating — for many years.
In January, my house
caught fire and now is
being completely reno-
vated. There is a man who
is part of the crew that I
have fallen for.
This is unusual for me —
to say the least.
My daughter and my
best friend are shocked at
how I am acting — like I
am in high school!
The problem is that I
don’t know if he is married,
has a girlfriend, etc., and I
am way too shy to ask him.
How do I find out if he is
married? All the other guys
have wedding rings except
for him.
I know construction
workers frequently do not
wear their wedding rings
due to possible injury.
I feel as if I am losing my
mind! Help?
— Crushed
Dear Crushed: You could
check social media (Face-
book, etc.), to see if you
can locate a profile for the
object of your crush. His
“status” might clear this
up.
I am married to a
builder, and I assure you
that the men on his crew
wear “work-safe” wedding
rings if they’re married.
(I could say that the “risk
of injury” applies more
to what might happen at
home if they didn’t.)
When I shared your
question with my husband,
he heartily encouraged you
to go for it!
One benefit of that “high
school” feeling is that the
wacky energy you’re expe-
riencing can propel you to
be bold. You just need to
steel yourself to accept the
and Janine are in the West
Town area when it happens,
but Williams said the script
initially called for the bomb
to drop on the Cloud Gate
sculpture in Millennium
Park.
was just all the pressure
I had put on myself and
letting the feelings from
this heartbreak bleed into
the thing I had historically
always been good at.”
This was about a year or
so after ‘Dawson’s Creek’
had ended. Consistent
work on a TV show is
validating, so when that
was over was Philipps
feeling the pressure of
finding her next job?
“You’re always feeling
like that as an actor — that’s
a constant — which is basi-
cally why I stopped acting
in the last several years
because I was like, I can’t
take the stress and pres-
sure. The toll of what that
can do to you, the compar-
ison and the rejection and
trying to keep going in the
face of that, you have to
decide if that’s worth it.
Comparing myself to other
actors, and where they
ASK AMY
By Amy Dickinson
askamy@amydickinson.com Twitter@askingamy
possibility of a gentle “no.”
I can’t help you to
become less shy, but maybe
I can inspire you.
Over a decade ago, under
circumstances extremely
similar to yours, I acted
on my own crush. I did
it by utilizing my version
of Napoleon’s legendary
battle plan: “You engage.
And then you wait and
see.”
I got up the nerve to
ask the handsome builder
renovating my house out
for coffee. After many
years as a single parent, it
was the bravest and best
bid for romance I’ve ever
dared to make. (My teen-
age daughter rolled her
eyes — and cheered me
on.)
Six months later, we
were married. Talk about a
renovation!
Dear Amy: For my 80th
birthday, my four sons gave
me a “trip anywhere on
Highway 80.”
COVID-19 and other
aspects of life intervened,
and I had my 81st birthday
six months ago.
No one seems to remem-
ber that promise.
They’ve all had vaca-
tions of their own, but no
one has mentioned my
80th trip. This would be
the highlight of my life.
Can you give me the
words to remind them
without sounding greedy?
— Not Getting Any
Younger
Dear Not Getting Any:
What a creative and
thoughtful gift!
Now, it’s time to collect.
I suggest you send an
email to all four of your
wonderful sons, perhaps
quoting the John Denver
song: “All my bags are
packed, I’m ready to go, the
“We had actually
designed a portion of The
Bean. We didn’t start build-
ing it because it had been
taken out of the script by
the time we were ready to
start building. But we had
were in their careers, that
was always tricky for me.
And I really had to let go
of that.
“I’ve never seen the
movie, by the way. But that
was the same year ‘Broke-
back Mountain’ came out
and Michelle Williams is
my very dear friend and
that was the first year she
was in Oscar contention,
so I went to almost every
party and event with her
and definitely the ‘Walk
the Line’ people were there
(laughs). So each time it
was this reminder of the
worst audition of my life.
I was mortified. That was
hard because I really did
feel like I didn’t belong
here.”
The takeaway …
“It took a long time for
me to shake it off after
that audition. I’ve always
been fearless in the way
taxi’s waiting, it’s blowing
its horn …”
Say, “Gentlemen, I’m not
getting any younger. Let’s
plan the trip of my lifetime!
Route 80 is the trans-
continental highway going
from the NYC area all the
way across the United
States to San Francisco.
Because they’ve offered a
trip “anywhere on High-
way 80,” you might want to
choose the route between
two desired destinations,
in order to try to lock them
into a specific plan.
I located a fun roundup
of things to do along the
Route 80 corridor on
roadtrippers.com. Attrac-
tions range from muse-
ums, spectacular natural
sites, the country’s largest
time capsule (Seward,
Nebraska), to Lagomarci-
no’s legendary Confection-
ary in Moline, Illinois. I’ll
happily meet you there.
Dear Amy: Your
response to “Bored” both-
ered me. She reported
being chastised by her
husband, who insists that
she must let others talk,
uninterrupted, until they
stop. Then wait two beats
to make sure they’re not
just taking a breath.
She says this leads to
monologues that can last
for 20 minutes or more.
For sure, this woman
is an interrupter, and her
husband is calling her on it.
— Been There
Dear Been There: Even
if she is an interrupter, her
husband can offer feed-
back, but he does not have
the right to control her.
Copyright 2021 by Amy
Dickinson
Distributed by Tribune
Content Agency
actually designed, basically,
the interior structure of The
Bean. The reflective mate-
rial had fallen off because a
bomb had fallen on it,” she
said.
“We would have had a
skeleton of the structure,
and then visual effects
would have, basically, put
the cityscape behind The
Bean. I mean, we had a plan.
We were very thankful that
it got taken out of the script
because to make something
like that work and look good,
you need to have a huge
budget and a lot of time. In
TV series like ours, it’s not
something that we have. We
have a good budget, but we
don’t have a lot of time.”
New Season 4 episodes
of “The Handmaid’s Tale”
are scheduled to drop at 11
p.m. Tuesdays in Chicago.
Moss, meanwhile, is playing
a Chicago journalist in the
upcoming Apple TV Plus
series “Shining Girls.” In
real life, Moss is a Cubs fan
with family ties to the area.
tswartz@tribpub.com
I approached work and
auditions and after that I
had a real crisis of confi-
dence in my abilities.
“The thing is, in any
life there are things that
are for you and there are
things that aren’t for you
and that’s OK. The trick
is knowing when things
aren’t for you. It can hurt,
but there is something out
there that is for you.
“There are so many
things I could have done
differently that day. I could
have said, ‘I’m having a
terrible day and I need
to come back.’ Even that
would have been prefer-
able to what I did, which
was fail through it in the
most embarrassing and
humiliating way.
“I just hope that tape
was destroyed as soon as I
walked out of that room.”
nmetz@chicagotribune.
com

Navy Pier announces full reopening
Second phase
starts Thursday;
summer programs,
fireworks slated
By Doug George
Chicago Tribune
Navy Pier announced
plans for a full reopening
this summer, with indoor
spaces, retail stores and
summer programs grad-
ually joining the outdoor
Pier, fireworks shows, busi-
nesses and rides that began
reopening April 30.
In this second phase of
reopening for Navy Pier, the
indoor hallways and spaces
will reopen Thursday, with
select businesses and retail
stores following, according
to the Tuesday announce-
ment, “with the goal of
being fully open by Memo-
rial Day weekend.” Happy
summer news for tourists
and Chicagoans unafraid of
looking like tourists.
The current fireworks
MUSIC REVIEWS
Lambert and pals’ campfire set is an unpolished marvel
Miranda Lambert and
her buddies Jack Ingram
and Jon Randall first
headed to remote Marfa,
Texas, together in 2016.
That initial retreat yielded
a hit for Lambert in the
devastating heartache song
“Tin Man,” and the trio
penned “Tequila Does,” a
crowd-pleasing staple of
Lambert’s arena-size coun-
try concerts on a return
trip.
So with a pandemic
putting a stop to the music
business, what were the
three Lone Star State
friends to do but head back
to the high-desert home
of sculptor Donald Judd’s
Chinati Foundation and
the atmospheric phenom-
enon of the Marfa Lights?
Last September, Ingram,
Lambert and Randall gath-
ered around the campfire,
seeking to recapture the
in-person intimacy that
COVID-19 has robbed so
many musicians of.
“The Marfa Tapes”
(Vanner Records/RCA
Nashville) is a marvel-
ous off-the-cuff success.
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unable to cross the border
without risking arrest.
However, Drabinsky said
that he planned to come to
Chicago in September.
“I will drive down and
be there for the whole
process,” he said. “I can’t
wait.”
In a statement provided
to the Tribune, Drabin-
sky’s U.S. attorney, Gary
Becker, said that “on June
25, 2018, the federal pros-
ecutor primarily respon-
sible for Mr. Drabinsky’s
case, with the concur-
rence of the highest-rank-
ing authority in her office,
formally asked a United
States federal judge to
dismiss all charges against
Mr. Drabinsky. The judge
granted the government’s
application the very next
day, permanently dismiss-
ing all (U.S.) charges
against Mr. Drabinsky
without the imposition of
any penalties or stigma.”
A source familiar with
the show said the Neder-
lander Organization,
which controls Broadway
in Chicago and its theaters,
has been careful to insist
on the show’s full finan-
cial backing being firmly in
place, in advance.
And thus, “Paradise
Square,” an early version
of which was seen in 2018
at the Berkeley Reper-
tory Theatre, represents
the return of one of North
America’s most ebul-
lient producers, a care-
ful studier of audiences
and famously intellec-
tual showman of the old
school.
“My life has been dedi-
cated to the entertainment
business,” Drabinsky said.
“It is something I always
have been compelled to
do.”
Chicago was a clear
schedule will expand to add
Wednesdays, with shows
Wednesday at 9:30 p.m.
and Saturdays at 10:15 p.m.
through Sept. 4 — but no
specific plan yet for Inde-
pendence Day weekend.
(Separately, a number of
suburban fireworks shows
have been announced for
Fourth of July.)
Free summer programs
also will resume, beginning
with Neighborhood Arti-
san Markets outdoors on
May 28, highlighting local
artisans and small busi-
ness owners from across
Chicago. Markets will
continue through Sept. 5 on
the South Dock.
„ Wave Wall Moves dance
performances will be
Saturdays at 3:15 p.m.
„ Wave Wall Wax with DJ
music will be Saturdays at 5
p.m. to 7 p.m.
„ Live on the Lake with
live music at the Navy
Pier Beer Garden, will be
Saturdays and Sundays
beginning at 2 p.m.
Miranda Lambert performs at the 56th Academy of Country Music Awards in April at the
Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. JASON KEMPIN/GETTY
It’s intentionally unpol-
ished: Logs crackle, the
wind howls, Border Patrol
helicopters fly overhead.
Giggles and miscues are
not edited out.
Sidney Dupont, A.J Shively, Jacobi Hall and the cast of “Paradise Square” perform in a
production by Berkeley Repertory Theatre. KEVIN BERNE PHOTO
Theater producer Garth
Drabinsky is coming back to
Chicago. HUDSON TAYLOR
PHOTO
beneficiary: Drabinsky’s
restoration of the Orien-
tal (with the help of public
funds) reignited interest in
the Loop theater district,
resulting in similar work
at the Cadillac Palace
Theatre and other down-
town venues.
His shows, along with
In Chicago, Navy Pier’s Centennial Wheel is illuminated on Jan. 26, 2020. TERRENCE ANTONIO
JAMES/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
„ Pier Fitness will be
Tuesdays from June 1, with
Rush Hour Workouts 6
p.m. and Sunset Yoga 7:30
p.m. in Polk Bros Park.
„ Water Colors jazz series
will be 6:30 p.m. Fridays
from July 2 in Polk Bros
Park.
Of course, that lack of
polish could come across
as performative authen-
ticity-flaunting. But “The
Marfa Tapes” avoids such
pitfalls, thanks to quality
the big Cameron Mack-
intosh productions at
the Auditorium Theatre,
made the case in the 1990s
that Chicago could and
would support long runs
of several months, and
sometimes years, buoying
the fortunes of downtown
restaurants and parking
lots.
Coming during the fall
recovery, the five weeks of
“Paradise Square” repre-
sent a bold new bet on the
Loop’s live-entertainment
fortunes, fully in line with
Drabinsky’s past risk-tak-
ing efforts. This will be
the city’s first pre-Broad-
way production since
the COVID-19 closures,
offering a restoration of a
crucial Chicago franchise
and economic generator.
“When we were
derailed by the pandemic,
the man never lost his
passion or his commit-
„ Rhythm World dance
will be 7 p.m. July 28 in
Polk Bros Park.
„ Noche Caribena with a
celebration of Latin music
will be 6:30 p.m. Aug. 14 in
Polk Bros Park.
„ Water Flicks outdoor
movies will be 6:30 p.m.
songwriting. “Tin Man”
and “Tequila Does” are
reprised, but the other 13
loosely performed songs
are all new traditional
country tunes of a high
ment to the project,”
Kaufman said of his
producer. “He is trying to
do something here both
interesting and daring.”
Drabinsky said he was
convinced the demo-
graphics of Chicago, a
city whose culture was
formed in no small part
by Irish immigrants and
Black Americans, would
embrace the show and be
compelled by the largely
unknown story of a neigh-
borhood that promised
hope for the future, albeit
long deferred.
“The Oriental is incred-
ibly special to me,” he
said. “And we could not be
coming to a more fitting
city.”
Chris Jones is a Tribune
critic.
cjones5@chicagotribune.
com
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Mondays and Thursday
beginning July 8 in Polk
Bros Park.
„ Wiggleworms will be 10
a.m. Fridays from June 4 in
Polk Bros Park.
„ Navy Pier Pride is June
26 pier-wide; LatiNxt is
Aug. 6-7.
order.
Lambert is the focal
point, but while she
handles most lead vocals,
Ingram and Randall are
also showcased, and their
musical camaraderie is
unmistakable.
When Randall sings lead
on “Homegrown Toma-
toes” (not the Guy Clark
song), Lambert’s concen-
tration on her harmony
vocal is evident. “Nailed it!”
she compliments herself,
before the moment passes.
Yep, you sure did.
— Dan DeLuca, Philadel-
phia Inquirer
Marianne Faithfull
with Warren Ellis: “I have
been half in love with ease-
ful death,” Marianne Faith-
full recites on “She Walks
in Beauty” (BMG), her
album of Romantic poems
set to ambient sound-
scapes by Warren Ellis, of
the Dirty Three and Nick
Cave’s Bad Seeds.
She sounds earnest and
committed to that line
from John Keats’ “Ode
to a Nightingale.” The
Lolla
from Page 1
before entry. Organizers
said they will detail the
festival entry process in
early July.
“The easiest way, by
far, if you want to attend
Lollapalooza is to get vacci-
nated now. You’re going
to be hearing some more
in the days to come about
ways in which we may tie
Lollapalooza tickets to
opportunities for vaccina-
tion,” Arwady said during a
Tuesday news conference.
“And, certainly, I want to
thank the folks who are
organizing here for their
willingness to say, We want
to bring this festival back.
We want to bring it back
big, and we want to bring
it back in the safest way
that we can, which really is
around encouraging people
to get vaccinated.”
The U.S. vaccine roll-
out recently expanded to
children ages 12 to 15, but
it’s unclear if the COVID-
19 vaccine will be avail-
able to kids younger than
12 before Lollapalooza
begins. All ages have been
welcome at Lollapalooza in
the past, and the festival’s
Kidzapalooza youth area is
very popular.
This year’s event is
being billed as Lollapa-
looza’s 30th anniversary.
Conceived by Farrell as
a farewell tour for his
band, Jane’s Addiction,
Lollapalooza was a touring
festival in the early ’90s
before settling in Grant
Park in 2005. The festival
expanded from three days
to four in 2016.
A virtual Lollapalooza
was held last year after the
in-person event and other
Chicago festivals were
nixed to slow the spread
of coronavirus. The 2020
Lollapalooza lineup had
not been revealed before
Hours of operation from
May 28 through Labor
Day will be 10 a.m. to 10
p.m. Sunday to Thursday
and 10 a.m. to midnight on
Friday and Saturday. Park-
ing garage rates will also
change from the current
flat rate of $29 to tiered
hourly rates.
A number of COVID-19
related precautions and
added cleaning procedures
will remain in place. Face
masks will be required on
the Pier. Capacities will be
monitored, according to the
announcement, including
for “guest volume and traf-
fic across high-traffic zones
on the Pier.” For events
taking place on the Polk
Bros Park Performance
Lawns, the Pier will outline
social distancing circles in
the grass for guests.
More information and
summer programs at
navypier.org.
dgeorge@chicagotribune.
com
74-year-old Faithfull is a
survivor: of Rolling Stones
scandals and a suicide
attempt, of heroin addic-
tion and homelessness, of
breast cancer and recently
COVID-19.
On “She Walks in
Beauty,” Faithfull performs
canonical poems from the
early 1800s by Keats, Shel-
ley, Wordsworth, Tennyson
and others. The gravitas
of her posh, weathered
voice suits familiar texts
such as “Ozymandias,” “To
Autumn” and “The Lady of
Shalott.”
Faithfull began “She
Walks in Beauty” before
the pandemic, and she and
Ellis finished the project
after her life-threatening
bout with COVID-19. Ellis
mostly stays out of the way
of Faithfull’s engrossing
vocals, content to create
shimmering, undulating
musical backdrops with
the help of Brian Eno, Nick
Cave and cellist Vincent
Ségal.
— Steve Klinge, Philadel-
phia Inquirer
the festival’s June 2020
cancellation. Lollapalooza
promoter C3 Presents
was on the hook to pay
the Chicago Park District
$750,000 for last year’s
canceled fest, per the terms
of their multi-year contract,
which spells out finan-
cial terms, clean-up rules
and other regulations. The
contract is set to expire at
the end of this year.
Lollapalooza is a major
revenue generator for the
Park District, which report-
edly received $5.7 million
from the festival in 2019.
The local economic effect is
even greater with restau-
rants, hotels, music clubs
and trains packed with
visitors.
Music fans were
concerned Lollapalooza
wasn’t going to happen
this year after some of the
country’s largest festivals,
including Burning Man
in the Nevada desert and
California’s Coachella and
Stagecoach events, were
scratched again. Some 2021
international Lollapalooza
editions, such as Paris and
Stockholm, were canceled
as well.
Chicago, meanwhile,
is in the bridge phase of
its reopening plan, which
allows for no more than 30
people per 1,000 square
feet at outdoor festivals.
Festival season is set to
begin here in July with
the Windy City Smokeout
country music celebration
outside the United Center.
Attendees are required to
show proof of vaccination
or a negative COVID-19 test
and wear masks to enter.
Pitchfork Music Festi-
val, Riot Fest, North Coast
Music Festival and Spring
Awakening Music Festival
organizers have announced
their 2021 lineups for later
in the year.
tswartz@tribpub.com
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What ‘Life at
the Waterhole’ MOVIES
YOU’LL LOVE
to watch
WEDNESDAY
May 19, 2021
All times Central. Start times can vary based
on cable/satellite provider. Confirm times on
your on-screen guide.

The Goldbergs ‘Pitch Perfect 3’

UNIVERSAL PICTURES
ABC, 7 p.m.  Season Finale
In “The Proposal,” Geoff shares with the JTP Big Mommas: Like Father,
that he is planning on asking Erica to marry Like Son (2011, Comedy) Martin
PBS Lawrence, Brandon T. Jackson BET,
him and gives them the engagement ring
for safekeeping. Like any good romantic 5 p.m.
comedy, several miscommunications and Dazed and Confused (1993,
misunderstandings between Geoff and
Erica’s friends and family result in a potential
CATCH A Drama) Jason London, Wiley

derailing of the proposal, forcing Adam to

step in to keep the couple’s special moment
alive.
Kids Say
the Darndest Things
CBS, 7 p.m.
Tiffany Haddish helps an 8-year-old with
big dreams achieve his Hollywood ending,
and two sisters rock Tiffany’s world when
they discuss outer space in the new episode
“World’s Oldest Third Grader/Sugar Rush.”
The Masked Singer
FOX, 7 p.m.
In “Semifinals,” the final four singers sing
their hearts out with the goal of reaching the
finals, and Cluedle-Doo finally reveals himself
in a not-to-be-missed unmasking.
Chicago Med
NBC, 7 p.m.
In “Stories, Secrets, Half Truths and Lies,”
Crockett (Dominic Rains) worries he made
a surgical error when a recent transplant
patient comes in with complications, Carol
(Margaret Colin) is once again in distress,
and Will (Nick Gehlfuss) and Natalie (Torrey
DeVitto) must take action to right their wrong.
Life at the Waterhole
PBS, 7 p.m. (WTTW Chicago, 8 p.m.) 
New Series
Meet the first animal visitors to a new man-
made waterhole in the African savannah.
CLASSIC
TCM Spotlight:
Order in the Court:
‘Military Justice’
TCM, beginning at 7 p.m.
Turner Classic Movies’ Monday night
spotlight takes the stand again with more
movies centered around courtrooms. This
evening’s films are focused on courts-
martial, tribunals and other forms of
military justice. The lineup begins with the
powerful 1961 Best Picture Oscar nominee
Judgment at Nuremberg (pictured),
one of the most impactful courtroom
dramas of all time, a fictionalized account
of the third of the 12 military tribunals
that tried Nazi war criminals after World
War II. It was nominated for 11 Oscars and
won for Best Actor (Maximilian Schell as
defense counsel Hans Rolfe) and for its
screenplay by Abby Mann. Next, co-writer/
director Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory
(1957) stars Kirk Douglas as a World War
I commanding officer of French soldiers
Using state-of-the-art cameras, scientists
watch as warthogs and elephants discover the
new oasis. Things become dangerous when
leopards and lions close in.
The Conners
ABC, 8 p.m.  Season Finale
Here come the brides? The blue-collar comedy
Wiggins IFC, 5 p.m.
Is There a Killer in My Family?
(2020, Suspense) Anna Hopkins,
Christopher Jacot LMN, 5 p.m.
Spaceballs (1987, Comedy) Mel
Brooks, John Candy BBC America,
5 p.m.
They Live by Night (1948, Crime
UNITED ARTISTS drama) Cathy O’Donnell, Farley
who refuses to continue a suicidal attack, Granger TCM, 5 p.m.
then later tries to defend his troops Transformers: Revenge of the
against charges of cowardice in a court- Fallen (2009, Action) Shia LaBeouf,
martial. The evening rounds out with the Megan Fox SYFY, 5 p.m.
1980 Oscar-nominated Australian drama
Breaker Morant, about a 1902 court- Notorious (2009, Biography)
Angela Bassett, Derek Luke VH1,
martial that was one of the first war-crime
prosecutions in British military history; 5:30 p.m.
The Rack (1956), with Paul Newman as Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
an American officer who returns home (2018, Adventure) Chris Pratt,
after two years in a North Korean prison Bryce Dallas Howard FX, 6 p.m.
camp only to find himself charged with
collaboration; and I Accuse! (1958), the Pitch Perfect 3 (2017, Musical
fact-based drama directed by and starring comedy) Anna Kendrick, Hailee
Jose Ferrer as Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish Steinfeld FXX, 6 p.m.
captain in the French army who was falsely Demolition Man (1993, Science
accused of treason. — Jeff Pfeiffer fiction) Sylvester Stallone, Wesley
Snipes AMC, 7 p.m.
The Mummy: Tomb of the
wraps its third season with not one but at
Dragon Emperor (2008,
least two marriage proposals. Of course,
Adventure) Brendan Fraser, Jet Li
that doesn’t guarantee anyone will say yes. TNT, 9 p.m.
“There’s potential in all of the relationships
for dramatic or comedic outcomes,” teases
executive producer Bruce Helford, adding that
three of the show’s four couples have “major From the editors of
events” in the finale. TV Weekly and tvinsider.com

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HEALTH&FAMILY Food | Recipes | Life at Home

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To see clearly, Experts believe

a decreased exposure to
outdoor lights is a major
factor in the rising rates

glide outside
By Jane E. Brody | The New York Times vision is blurry, and correction with glasses or
of nearsightedness
in young children
Susceptibility to myopia is determined by genet-
contact lenses is likely to be needed for activities ics and environment. Children with one or both

L ook and you shall see: A generation of the

real-life nearsighted Mr. Magoos is growing
up before your eyes. A largely unrecognized
epidemic of nearsightedness, or myopia, is afflicting
the eyes of kids.
People with myopia can see close-up objects
clearly, like the words on a page. But their distance
like seeing the blackboard clearly, cycling, driving or
recognizing faces down the block.
The growing incidence of myopia is related to
changes in children’s behavior, especially how little
time they spend outdoors, often staring at screens
nearsighted parents are more likely to become
myopic. However, while genes take many centu-
ries to change, the prevalence of myopia in the U.S.
increased from 25% in the early 1970s to nearly 42%
just three decades later. And the rise in myopia is not
indoors instead of enjoying activities illuminated by
daylight. Turn to Vision, Page 2

7 unexpected ways to make potato salad without mayo

By Jesse Szewczyk
TheKitchn.com
It’s hard to beat a classic
potato salad made with creamy
mayonnaise. But good news for
the mayo-averse: The winning
combination of potatoes and
mayo isn’t where this backyard
barbecue favorite ends. There
are a number of condiments that
work equally well as a potato
salad dressing.
So whether you’re in need of a
mayo substitute or you’re simply
in the mood to bring something
different to the party this year,
you’ve got plenty of options.
1. Tahini: The sesame paste
most commonly used to make
hummus not only lends creami-
ness to potato salad, but also adds
nutty, toasted flavor. It’s sure to
have people guessing what the
secret ingredient in your salad is.
2. Pesto: Stir pesto into most
things, and it will be better — and
that definitely includes potato
salad. Pick up your favorite store-
bought brand to keep things easy
on yourself. Or make your own if
you have an abundance of basil in
your backyard.
3. Buttermilk: A splash of
buttermilk is often added to tradi-
tional mayo-based potato salad
to thin out the mayo and offset its
full flavor with a touch of tang.
But it can also be used on its own
if you’re looking for a little cream-
iness that’s not overpowering.
4. Greek yogurt: If you already
have a tub of Greek yogurt in your
refrigerator for your morning
granola routine, you have one
of the best substitutes for mayo
ready and waiting. You can swap
in all or some of the mayo called
for in a potato salad recipe with
Greek yogurt. You’ll just want
to opt for full fat to achieve the
richest, creamiest taste (although
low-fat can be used if you prefer).
5. Sour cream: Sour cream
and potatoes are a natural pair-
ing (think baked potatoes). Like
yogurt, sour cream brings cream-
iness with the addition of tang. It
can also be used in place of or in
combination with mayonnaise.
6. Vinaigrette: The simple
vinaigrette you use to dress your
green salad every night is also a
solid choice for your potato salad.
Toss it with the potatoes while
they’re still warm, so it can soak
into them and make each bite
extra flavorful. Or, go bold with a
vinaigrette made of bacon fat.
7. Olive oil: Yes, you can dress
your potato salad with just olive
oil. Good olive oil can be equally
as rich and flavorful as mayo.
Again, toss it with the potatoes
while still warm to ensure they’ll
absorb it easily, and toss in extra Many condiments work just as well as mayonnaise as a potato salad
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Employers, insurers expand virtual-first plans
Some doctors worry
online care push will
create over-reliance
By Tom Murphy
Associated Press
Make telemedicine your
first choice for most doctor
visits. That’s the message
some U.S. employers and
insurers are sending with a
new wave of care options.
Amazon and several
insurers have started or
expanded virtual-first care
plans to get people to use
telemedicine routinely,
even for planned visits
such as annual checkups.
They’re trying to make
it easier for patients to
connect with regular help
by using remote care that
grew explosively during
the COVID-19 pandemic.
Advocates say this can
keep patients healthy and
out of expensive hospitals,
which makes insurers and
employers that pay most of
the bill happy.
But some doctors worry
that it might create an
over-reliance on virtual
visits.
“There is a lot lost when
there is no personal touch,
at least once in a while,”
said Dr. Andrew Carroll,
an Arizona-based family
doctor and board member
of the American Academy
of Family Physicians.
Telemedicine involves
seeing a doctor or nurse
from afar, often through a
secure video connection. It
has been around for years
and was growing even
before the pandemic. But
patients often had a tough
time connecting with a
regular doctor who knew
them.
Virtual-first primary care
attempts to smooth that
complication.
The particulars of these
programs can vary, but the
basic idea is to give people
regular access to a care
team that knows them.
That team may include
a doctor, nurse or physi-
cian assistant, who may
PEOPLE’S PHARMACY PRESCRIPTIONS AND HOME REMEDIES
Some report ringing in the
ears after COVID-19 vaccine
By Joe Graedon
and Teresa Graedon
King Features Syndicate
Q: I received the
Moderna vaccine. After
the second shot, I devel-
oped tinnitus that has
lasted five weeks (so
far). I haven’t found
much about this side
effect online in medi-
cal reports. However,
I did find a forum with
other people complain-
ing of tinnitus that has
not gone away. Have you
heard of this?
A: As far as we can tell,
the clinical trials for the
Moderna and Pfizer/BioN-
Tech vaccines did not
reveal tinnitus (ringing in
the ears) as a side effect.
There are, however, some
reports in the Vaccine
Adverse Event Reporting
System database.
We have received a
couple of similar stories:
“I’ve had both doses
of Moderna vaccine.
After the second dose my
chronic tinnitus, which
was worked up extensively
in the past, got louder and
continues that way over a
month later.”
Another person wrote:
“I received my last shot
of the Pfizer vaccine two
weeks ago. I had COVID in
June 2020, and it caused
some ringing in my ears.
I never connected it to
COVID, though.
“Then after each injec-
tion, I got more ringing in
my ears. It’s now worse
than ever. Will it ever
go away? I hope it is just
temporary and will resolve
with time.”
The possibility of tinni-
tus as a rare vaccine side
effect should not discour-
age people from getting
their shots.
As our reader above
noted, COVID-19 infec-
tions themselves can cause
tinnitus. One study found
that 6.6% of hospitalized
Dr. Vibin Roy, medical director of Doctor on Demand, prepares to conduct an online visit at his Texas home in April. LM OTERO/AP
not be in the same state as
the patient. Patients can
also message or email the
caregivers with a quick
question in addition to
connecting on a video call.
People who choose this
option may have to give
up a doctor they’ve been
seeing in person. They also
will need a smartphone,
tablet or computer paired
with a fast internet hookup.
The goal of the virtual-
first approach is to
make patients feel more
connected to their health
and less reliant on Google
searches for advice or the
nearest urgent care center
to treat something minor.
“We have a large portion
of the population that is
avoiding going to a primary
care doctor because they
don’t have time or they
think they can’t afford it,
even though its generally
covered under their bene-
fits,” said Arielle Trzcinski,
patients developed this
condition (International
Journal of Audiology,
online, July 31, 2020). Only
time will tell if the ringing
will fade.
Q: For the past few
years, I have experienced
varying degrees of pollen
reactions in the spring.
I live in the middle of an
old Southern pine forest,
with other hardwood
trees mixed in.
I experience lethargy,
throat tightness and
mild nausea for several
weeks when the yellow
stuff starts falling. Has
anyone else experienced
these symptoms? I take
quercetin for relief, but
it only helps a bit.
A: Experts will some-
times tell you that pine
pollen is too big to cause
allergy problems. It turns
out, though, that is not
quite true. While aller-
gies to pine pollen are less
common than other pollen
allergies, some people do
suffer (Clinical and Exper-
imental Allergy, September
2009).
You may need to keep
your windows closed and
stay inside, at least until
the afternoon, to mini-
mize your pollen exposure.
Some people find it helpful
to use a saline nasal rinse
morning and evening.
Others have told us that a
daily shower with sham-
a health care analyst with
Forrester who works with
insurers.
Amazon Care pairs
patients with a regular care
team and, in some markets,
also sends providers such
as nurses to them if they
need in-person care. The
retailer developed the
program for its employees
but said in March that it
would expand it to other
employers nationwide.
Insurers such as Oscar
Health, UnitedHealth-
care and Kaiser Perma-
nente also have started or
expanded virtual-first care
plans this year. Priority
Health in Michigan began
selling a plan for people
without employer-spon-
sored coverage after
the insurer noticed that
customers weren’t visiting
doctors as much as they
expected.
A vice president, Carrie
Kincaid, said Priority
DREAMSTIME
poo before bed during
pollen season helps.
Quercetin is a natu-
ral compound found in
many plants, including
berries, fruits and vege-
tables such as broccoli,
kale, onions and tomatoes,
green tea and red wine.
Supplements containing
this antioxidant have been
used to treat allergy symp-
toms and don’t appear to
have serious side effects
(Allergy, Asthma, and Clin-
ical Immunology, May 14,
2020).
Other options include
stinging nettle supple-
ments or NasalCrom. This
drugstore nasal spray was
originally derived from a
plant called bishop’s weed.
Q: I read your column
about coffee being help-
ful against dementia.
Does decaf also help?
A: Caffeine is not the
only compound in coffee
that may help protect
the brain. Other poten-
tially beneficial chemicals
include caffeic acid, quer-
cetin, chlorogenic acid and
trigonelline (International
Journal of Molecular
Sciences, Dec. 24, 2020).
This suggests that decaf
might be beneficial.
In their column, Joe and
Teresa Graedon answer
letters from readers. Send
questions to them via www.
peoplespharmacy.com.
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Health found that some
customers didn’t have time
to leave work for appoint-
ments. Another group,
early retirees, travels
frequently and isn’t able to
make it back to Michigan
for in-person visits.
She said the new
plan, run with virtual
care provider Doctor on
Demand, blew past enroll-
ment projections and had
more than 5,000 people
signed up on the first day.
“When members get
exposed to virtual care in
general, they really, really
like it,” she said.
Wendy Katje signed up
for a Priority Health virtu-
al-first primary care plan
by accident online, but she
plans to stick with it.
The 60-year-old multiple
sclerosis patient said the
doctor she got through the
program has helped adjust
her cholesterol medica-
tions and made sure she
Vision
from Page 1
limited to highly devel-
oped countries. The World
Health Organization esti-
mates that half the world’s
population may be myopic
by 2050.
Given that genes don’t
change that quickly, envi-
ronmental factors — espe-
cially children’s decreased
exposure to outdoor light
— are the likely cause of
this rise in myopia, experts
believe.
Consider, for exam-
ple, factors that keep
modern children indoors:
an emphasis on academic
studies and their accom-
panying homework, the
irresistible attraction of
electronic devices and
safety concerns that
demand adult supervision
during outdoor play. All
of these things drastically
limit the time youngsters
now spend outside in
daylight, to the likely detri-
ment of the clarity of their
distance vision.
Recent research
suggests that months
of coronavirus-induced
confinement may be
hastening myopia’s silent
progression among young
children.
A Canadian study that
examined children’s phys-
ical activity, outdoor time,
screen time and social
media use during lock-
down in early 2020 found
that 8-year-olds spent an
average of more than five
hours a day on screens
for leisure, in addition to
screen time needed for
schoolwork.
This report and a new
study of school-aged
children in China after
five months of COVID-
19 home confinement
informed the title of an
editorial, “2020 as the Year
of Quarantine Myopia,”
in a recent issue of JAMA
Ophthalmology.
Researchers described
a substantial decline in
the visual acuity among
123,535 elementary school
children following school
closures last year from
January until June.
Compared to the results
stays connected with a
neurologist she usually sees
in person.
Katje said the virtu-
al-first approach makes
sense during the pandemic,
when she wants to avoid
waiting rooms.
“It’s not quite as personal
as sitting in an office with
someone, but for what I’ve
needed to have done, it was
perfectly adequate,” the
Otsego, Michigan, resident
said.
Walter Woodberry, of
Albuquerque, New Mexico,
signed up for a virtual-first
plan through his employer,
ABF Freight, after he tried
telehealth and grew used to
its convenience.
He said he doesn’t have
to leave work early for an
appointment, and he feels
more comfortable giving
medical information to
someone who knows him.
“I’m not trying to
schedule my life around a
“Given the fact that the younger children
were assigned fewer online learning
tasks than the older ones, it is unlikely
that rapidly progressing myopia in
younger children was caused by more
intense screen time or near work,”
like reading, typing, doing homework
or playing video games.
— recent research reported in JAMA Ophthalmology
of previous screen-
ings, the ability to see
distant objects clearly
had fallen precipitously,
especially among those
ages 6 to 8. The children
became far more myopic
than expected, based on
changes in acuity that
were measured at the
start of the school years
2015 through 2019. But a
similarly dramatic drop in
acuity among older chil-
dren was not found.
“Given the fact that the
younger children were
assigned fewer online
learning tasks than the
older ones, it is unlikely
that rapidly progressing
myopia in younger chil-
dren was caused by more
intense screen time or
near work,” like reading,
typing, doing homework
or playing video games,
the research team wrote
in JAMA Ophthalmology.
Rather, a lack of exposure
to outdoor light is the more
likely explanation.
Dr. Neil M. Bressler, an
ophthalmologist affili-
ated with Johns Hopkins
Medical Institutions, said
that the high intensity
of outdoor light has an
important influence on the
shape of the eye, which
in turn affects whether
images are seen clearly.
To be in focus, light rays
from an image have to
converge on the retina. In
myopic eyes, the conver-
gence occurs in front of
the retina, and a corrective
lens is needed to redi-
rect incoming rays so that
distant objects are in focus.
Most children are born
slightly farsighted. Their
eyes are shaped like partly
deflated balls, causing
doctor’s appointment,” he
said.
Consumers have grown
used to shopping for
clothes, gifts or grocer-
ies online. But Carroll, the
family physician, noted that
patients sometimes need an
in-person visit.
For example, Carroll
said he once had a patient
diagnosed virtually with
pink eye. In person, Carroll
could see that the patient
actually had a form of glau-
coma and was in danger of
blindness.
Doctors are still sort-
ing out what can be
treated virtually and what
demands in-person care.
These new plans gener-
ally reserve those visits
for emergencies or if the
doctor or patient requests
them.
Virtual-first propo-
nents say they aren’t trying
to eliminate in-person
visits. They are focused on
improving health.
Patients are more likely
to follow a doctor’s orders,
get laboratory tests or take
prescribed medicine when
they receive care from
someone they’ve gotten to
know and trust, said Doctor
on Demand CEO Hill
Ferguson.
“That’s what we need to
get back to in this country,”
he said.
Stanford University’s
Dr. Megan Mahoney esti-
mates that about half of
primary care visits can be
done virtually, depending
on whether insurers and
other payers reimburse for
the care.
The family physician
says her practice still does
30% to 40% of its visits
virtually, months after
reopening its offices. The
pandemic has changed
how patients view care, she
said.
“We had made assump-
tions about consumers’
willingness to adopt tele-
health, yet we see 89-year-
olds who are on video visits
with their providers every
other week with no prob-
lem now,” she said.
images to converge behind
the retina.
But as they get older,
their eyes elongate to
form a sphere, permit-
ting images to converge
directly on the retina.
However, if elongation
fails to stop at some point,
the eyes become more oval
and images then converge
in front of the retina, the
definition of myopia.
Outdoor light stimulates
the release of dopamine
that may slow elongation
of the eye, Bressler said.
Concern over the
increasing prevalence
of myopia goes beyond a
growing need for glasses,
contact lenses or laser
treatment to redirect
images by changing the
shape of the cornea. In
general, people with
myopia are more likely to
develop sight-threatening
complications later in life
like cataracts, glaucoma
and degeneration of the
macula, the center of the
retina.
If the condition becomes
extreme, Bressler said, “it
can be tough to correct.”
The eye becomes
stretched, the retina can
spread and form scar
tissue and the gel in the
center of the eye can
become stuck to the sides
of the eye, causing retinal
tears or detachment, he
explained.
“The pandemic has put
fuel on the fire,” Bressler
said, “but we don’t have a
treatment yet.”
Currently, the most
effective prevention may
be for young children to
spend less time on screens
and a lot more time
outdoors.
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Americans want federal help to age at home

Poll finds a majority believe government
should offer assistance for long-term care
By Emily Swanson and
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
Associated Press
A majority of Americans
agree that government
should help people fulfill
a widely held aspiration
to age in their own homes,
not institutional settings, a
recent poll finds.
There’s a surprising level
of bipartisan agreement on
some proposals that could
help make that happen,
according to the late March
survey from Associated
Press-NORC Center for
Public Affairs Research.
Still, Republicans lag
Democrats in support
of some policies, includ-
ing the most far-reaching
idea: Only 42% of Repub-
licans favor a government
long-term care insurance
program for all Americans,
compared with 78% of
Democrats. Overall, 60%
of the public supports that
approach.
Other government
options to help people deal
with the costs of long-
term care get solid support
across the political spec-
trum.
For example, 63% favor
more funding to help
low-income people age at
home, a policy reflected in
President Joe Biden’s stim-
ulus plan and his COVID-
19 relief law. That includes
about half of Republicans
and about three-quarters
of Democrats. Overall, only
10% are opposed.
There’s also bipartisan
alignment about proposals
involving public-private
partnerships.
The poll found broad
backing for facilitating the
purchase of long-term care
coverage through a supple-
mental insurance plan
such as Medicare Advan-
tage (supported by 70% of
Americans, including 77%
of Democrats and 65% of
Republicans) and for tax
breaks to help purchase
long-term care insurance
(supported by 61%, includ-
ing 64% of Democrats and
58% of Republicans).
Behind it all is a deep
desire among Americans
to maintain their indepen-
dence in an aging society.
Contrary to common
belief, Medicare does not
cover long-term care.
Relatively few people
plan ahead, and it remains
prohibitively expensive for
most middle-class people.
Nationally, nursing home
care averages more than
$100,000 a year. Home and
community-based services
can cost tens of thousands
of dollars.
Private long-term care
insurance has failed to
catch on because premi-
ums are high and preexist-
ing conditions restrictions
apply.
“I’d like to age in place as
long as I can,” said Steven
Martens, of Nashville,
Tennessee, who retired Geriatrician Megan Young, left, prepares to give Edouard Joseph, 91, a COVID-19 vaccination at his Boston home in February. A
from a career in bank- recent poll found a majority of Americans agree that government should help people age in their own homes. STEVEN SENNE/AP
ing. “It’s the privacy, the
feeling of independence. coming out of a year in a little bit more, we get Chair Frank Pallone, Retired dentist Fred
That feeling that you are lockdown because of a taxed for lots of things D-N.J., has been working Rich, of Syracuse, New
still taking care of yourself sustained campaign to anyway,” added Quintana, on a plan that would York, said he tried to buy
means something to me vaccinate residents and who describes herself as a establish a new benefit private long-term care
and others. We feel good staff in order to break the progressive Democrat. “We under Medicare, paying a insurance but wasn’t able
about ourselves because cycle of infections and might as well do something modest daily sum to help to get it because his medical
we are still taking care of deaths. that benefits our elders.” defray the cost of home- history includes cancer.
ourselves.” Los Angeles-area resi- But Nashville retiree based or institutional care. “There’s a great need,”
The poll found that 88% dent Tevina Quintana Martens doesn’t think And Rep. Thomas Suozzi, Rich said. “The baby
would prefer to get long- says she’s now able to see that’s the best way. D-N.Y., has proposed a boomers are getting older.
term care services as they her mother, who lives in “I’m concerned that public-private partnership They’ve had fewer chil-
age at home or with loved a community for older fiscally, how do we pay to provide long-term care dren, and their children
ones. Just 12% would want adults. Both are vaccinated. for that?” said Martens, insurance for services in aren’t as affluent as they
to receive care in a senior During the COVID-19 who describes himself as a the home. were. So I think it’s going to
community or nursing surges last year, “it seems moderate Republican. “Our A new Medicare benefit be a problem.”
home. like they were never not on Medicare and Social Secu- would have the advantage The AP-NORC poll of
However, Americans’ lockdown,” said Quintana, rity systems are challenged of leaving no one behind, 1,114 adults was conducted
concerns about nursing who works in children’s the way it is. If we increase since all Americans would from Feb. 12 to March 3,
homes have eased some- education. the level of support for be guaranteed a basic level with funding from The
what since the ravages of Although Quintana is long-term care, how do we of coverage. But public-pri- SCAN Foundation.
the pandemic last year. in her 30s, she says long- fund it?” vate partnerships would It used a sample drawn
The share saying they’d term care should be part It would be a challenge. also make long-term care from NORC’s probability-
be very or extremely of the foundation of social Democrats, who control insurance more widely based AmeriSpeak Panel,
concerned about a loved supports. She favors a both chambers of Congress available. which is designed to be
one needing long-term care government program like and the White House, are It’s not necessarily an representative of the U.S.
in a nursing home dropped Social Security to provide working slowly and delib- either-or choice. For exam- population.
from 60% in September to long-term care. “I think erately, testing the feasibil- ple, many Medicare recipi- The margin of sampling
44% in March. it should be available for ity of potential approaches. ents buy private insurance error for all respondents is
Nursing homes and everybody,” she said. In the House, Energy to fill the gaps in their plus or minus 3.7 percent-
senior communities are “If we have to get taxed and Commerce Committee government benefits. age points.

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The robot
surgeon will
see you now
Research shows automated robot can match
a human in dexterity, precision and speed
By Cade Metz guided by Fer.
The New York Times The training exercise
was originally designed for
Sitting on a stool several humans; moving the rings
feet from a long-armed from peg to peg is how
robot, Dr. Danyal Fer surgeons learn to oper-
wrapped his fingers around ate robots like the one in
two metal handles Berkeley. Now, an
near his chest. automated robot
As he moved performing the test
the handles — up can match or even
and down, left and exceed a human in
right — the robot dexterity, preci-
mimicked each sion and speed, The da Vinci Research Kit conducts a peg transfer at a California lab in April. SARAHBETH MANEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES
small motion with according to a new
its own two arms. research paper from it’s time to exit the highway. by what are called neural working to automate their uncertainty.
Then, when he Fer the Berkeley team. “We can’t automate the networks, mathematical robot, which is based on the The Berkeley team
pinched his thumb The project is a whole process, at least not systems that can learn skills da Vinci Surgical System, decided to build a new
and forefinger together, part of a much wider effort without human oversight,” by analyzing vast amounts a two-armed machine that neural network that
one of the robot’s tiny claws to bring artificial intelli- he said. “But we can start to of data. By analyzing thou- helps surgeons perform analyzed the robot’s
did much the same. This gence into the operating build automation tools that sands of cat photos, for more than 1million proce- mistakes and learned how
is how surgeons like Fer room. Using many of the make the life of a surgeon a instance, a neural network dures a year. Fer and his much precision it was
have long used robots when same technologies that little bit easier.” can learn to recognize a cat. colleagues collect images losing with each passing
operating on patients. They underpin self-driving Five years ago, research- In much the same way, a of the robot moving the day. “It learns how the
can remove a prostate from cars, autonomous drones ers with the Children’s neural network can learn plastic rings while under robot’s joints evolve over
a patient while sitting at a and warehouse robots, National Health System in from images captured by human control. Then time,” said Brijen Thanan-
computer console across researchers are working to Washington, D.C., designed surgical robots. their system learns from jeyan, a doctoral student
the room. automate surgical robots a robot that could automat- Surgical robots are these images, pinpointing on the team. Once the
But after this brief too. These methods are still ically suture the intestines equipped with cameras the best ways of grabbing automated system could
demonstration, Fer and his a long way from everyday of a pig during surgery. It that record three-dimen- the rings, passing them account for this change, the
fellow researchers at the use, but progress is accel- was a notable step toward sional video of each oper- between claws and moving robot could grab and move
University of California at erating. the kind of future envi- ation. The video streams them to new pegs. the plastics rings, matching
Berkeley, showed how they “It is an exciting time,” sioned by Hager. But it into a viewfinder that But this process came the performance of human
hope to advance the state said Russell Taylor, a came with an asterisk: The surgeons peer into while with its own asterisk. operators.
of the art. Fer let go of the professor at Johns Hopkins researchers had implanted guiding the operation, When the system told the Other labs are trying
handles, and a new kind of University and former tiny markers in the pig’s watching from the robot’s robot where to move, the different approaches. Axel
computer software took IBM researcher known in intestines that emitted a point of view. robot often missed the Krieger, a Johns Hopkins
over. As he and the other the academic world as the near-infrared light and But afterward, these spot by millimeters. Over researcher, is working to
researchers looked on, father of robotic surgery. “It helped guide the robot’s images also provide a months and years of use, automate a new kind of
the robot started to move is where I hoped we would movements. detailed road map show- the many metal cables robotic arm, one with fewer
entirely on its own. be 20 years ago.” The method is far from ing how surgeries are inside the robot’s twin arms moving parts. Researchers
With one claw, the Greg Hager, a computer practical, as the markers performed. They can help have stretched and bent in at the Worcester Polytech-
machine lifted a tiny plastic scientist at Johns Hopkins, are not easily implanted new surgeons understand small ways, so its move- nic Institute are developing
ring from an equally tiny said that surgical automa- or removed. But in recent how to use these robots, ments were not as precise ways for machines to care-
peg on the table, passed tion would progress much years, artificial intelli- and they can help train as they needed to be. fully guide surgeons’ hands
the ring from one claw to like the Autopilot software gence researchers have robots to handle tasks on Human operators could as they perform particular
the other, moved it across that guides his Tesla down significantly improved the their own. By analyzing compensate for this shift, tasks.
the table and gingerly the New Jersey Turnpike. power of computer vision, images that show how a unconsciously. But the “It is like a car where the
hooked it onto a new peg. The car drives on its own, which could allow robots surgeon guides the robot, automated system could lane-following is autono-
Then the robot did the he said, but his wife still has to perform surgical tasks a neural network can learn not. This is often the mous, but you still control
same with several more her hands on the wheel, on their own, without such the same skills. problem with automated the gas and the brake,” said
rings, completing the task should anything go wrong. markers. This is how the Berke- technology: It struggles Greg Fischer, one of the
as quickly as it had when And she takes over when The change is driven ley researchers have been to deal with change and Worcester researchers.

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6 Chicago Tribune | Section 5 | Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Thinking
about joining
a wine club?
By Eric Asimov
The New York Times
Consume enough media
and you cannot help but
stumble over an invitation
to join a wine club.
NPR wants you as a
member. So do Turner
Classic Movies and
National Geographic. Eater
promises “surprising and
highly drinkable wines
on your doorstep every
month,” if you join its club.
Hundreds of wine clubs
operate in the United
States. The most visible
are those associated with
illustrious brands that have
little to do with wine, like
these publications and
media outlets.
Too often, these sorts
of clubs offer mundane
wine selections with little
to attract curious consum-
ers. They appeal more to
people who enjoy associat-
ing themselves with these
brands.
Other types of clubs are
far more focused on good,
interesting wine. They
cater to customers who not
only want to enjoy wines
regularly but are curi-
ous about how the wines
were made and the people
behind them.
The range of good wine
clubs is vast. Are you a
fan of a particular Oregon
winery? Most American
wine producers have clubs
that offer regular ship-
ments to fervent customers,
often including small-pro-
duction cuvées that are
available only to members.
Many serious wine shops
also offer clubs. Customers
settle on a budget, and the
shop will pick the wines.
These selections can often
be tailored to fit prefer-
ences for white or red or
style. Customers can also
set the frequency of ship-
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ments, like once a month,
every two months or quar-
terly.
Some shops, like Cham-
bers Street Wines in
Tribeca and Leon & Son
in Brooklyn, will ship to
any state that permits such
arrangements. Others, like
Perrine’s Wine Shop in
Atlanta, only deliver locally.
If you have a wine shop you
adore or have heard about,
it pays to examine its club
options.
Some of the most inter-
esting that I have found
include Plonk Wine Club,
offering an international
selection focused on wines
grown organically or biody-
namically; Winestyr, which
offers an excellent array
of American producers,
primarily from California;
and Blackpoolmatt’s Wine
Club, founded last year by
Matthew Gaughan, who
holds a doctorate in English
literature and emphasizes
wine education and music
along with his fine, concise
selection.
Then, there’s Natu-
ral Action Wine Club, a
nonprofit startup that
combines a love of wine
and art with a strong
emphasis on racial justice.
Members receive a rotating
selection of four bottles
quarterly, made by Cali-
fornia winemakers who
work naturally. Proceeds go
toward efforts to diversify
the wine industry through
scholarships, internships
and career support.
“We figured out things
we could do, offering great
wine experiences and
raising awareness,” said
Khalil Kinsey, one of a team
of eight behind the club,
which took form after the
racial justice protests last
summer. “Nothing changes
unless consciousness
changes. If you can provide
Eric Bach, from left, Teron Stevenson and Khalil Kinsey are part of the team at Natural Action
Wine Club, a nonprofit dedicated to good wine. JESSICA PONS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
information that will edify
and foster understanding,
then we’re all better for it.”
Anybody arguing the
relative merits of the NPR,
TCM, National Geographic
and Wall Street Journal
clubs might be surprised
that they are all run by the
same company, Laithwaites
Direct Wines, an Amer-
ican affiliate of a British
company.
The New York Times
Wine Club is adminis-
tered by Lot18, which also
manages the Williams
Sonoma Wine Club and its
own club, Tasting Room.
From a wine-lover’s
view, the problem with all
these clubs is an almost
C
ers who want to know
where and how the grapes
were grown, who farmed
them, who made the wine
and how.
The Eater club, which
emphasizes natural wines,
is different. Each month’s
selection is themed, with
traceable bottles selected
by a different wine profes-
sional each month.
For me, this is a great
dividing line in wine clubs.
Can you trace the wine to
a specific place and to an
identifiable producer?
“Only real wineries,” the
Winestyr website promises,
and it makes good, offering
terrific West Coast produc-
ers like Enfield, Tatomer,
Lioco and Division among
their selections.
“At the end of the day,
we want real wines, a
real story, a real place
and a connection to our
members,” said William
Whelan, who manages the
Winestyr portfolio.
Winestyr, which began
in 2012, looks like an online
store. It operates a facility
in Santa Rosa, California,
where wines are stored,
packed and shipped to 39
states, but the actual busi-
ness of buying is between
consumers and producers,
who in effect sell direct to
consumers through the
Winestyr platform.
The club serves about
3,000 members, said
Robert Wilson, the chief
executive, and is hoping
to grow to 20,000 in two
years.
For people who are curi-
complete lack of trans- Club and Tasting Room, ous about wine, but have
parency about the wines. both, like The Times club, yet to dip their toes, wine
Several of the Laithwaites administered by Lot18. clubs can remove some
Direct Wines clubs, for That’s because most of of the anxiety of wine
example, offer a Califor- the bottles offered by Lot18 selection. And especially
nia zinfandel labeled Book and Laithwaites Direct for people who have felt
of Shadows. You can even Wines are proprietary marginalized or unwanted
find that $15 bottle in a few labels. These companies by wine culture, a club like
wine shops. But you will may buy remainders of Natural Action offers a
have difficulty determining unsold lots of wine and put welcoming invitation.
who makes it, or where the custom labels like Trilus on “You really have to
grapes were grown. them. They may buy wines remove as many barriers
The Times Wine Club on the bulk market and as you can,” Kinsey said,
offers Trilus, a $15 bottle of bottle it themselves. noting that those who are
California chardonnay. But Nothing is necessarily curious are often stopped
searching online for Trilus wrong with these wines. by the idea that wine is an
will not yield a trove of They might be tasty and elite space for white people.
details, or even vague hints satisfying, and for some “We are interested in shar-
about the wine. The only people that’s enough. ing in an unconventional
other places I could find But they are untraceable, and informal way, remov-
that offered Trilus were the anathema for wine lovers ing the stigma of who can
Williams Sonoma Wine and conscientious consum- be in wine.”
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JeanMarie Brownson
Dinner at Home
True confession: I grill outside
all year long. Memorial Day
weekend just makes it official!
This year, I won’t stand for
anything bland to come off my
grill — and, if I can help it, yours.
An herby marinade sparked with
a little crushed red pepper can
add flavor to lean meats and vege-
tables. A dry seasoning blend that
combines smoke, spice and garlic
will feature in nearly all my steak
and rib grill sessions.
And after grilling, I propose the
liberal use of rich, slightly sweet,
bronzed butter to add a chef’s
touch of flavor and luxury.
Let’s talk about marinades. I
recommend using acidic, deeply
seasoned wet marinades to infuse
flavor into simple poultry pieces,
lean pork and bland vegetables,
such as zucchini and eggplant.
Marinades high in acid will do a
bit of tenderizing, too, although
most don’t penetrate more than
¼ inch into the foods.
Dry marinades, like grill
seasoning rubs, add flavor as well
as salt — and sometimes sugar —
to the surface of tender meats,
such as beef steaks, chicken
breasts and fish fillets.
Dry rubs should be applied
well in advance of grilling for the
biggest impact. A simple blend
that contains smoked paprika
helps underscore the smoke of a
charcoal grill and proves a great
boon when cooking on gas grills.
It might not be a well-kept
secret, but steakhouse chefs
almost always boost flavor with
butter.
I propose you follow suit with
a highly seasoned butter full of
caramelized onions, fresh garlic,
spices and a splash of sweet-tart
pomegranate molasses. You can
keep small parcels of the butter
in the freezer for easy retrieval on
grilling day.
To take advantage of these
flavor-boosting creations, I’ll
be grilling kebabs for our small
Memorial Day gathering. Kebabs
please everyone. We can make
meatless kebabs, lean turkey
kebabs and, for a treat, beef sirloin
kebabs. Scale the recipes up or
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Turkey and vegetable kebabs
Prep time: 25 minutes; marinade 1 hour or overnight
Cook time: 13 to 15 minutes
Makes: 4 to 6 servings
Boneless chicken breast or pork tenderloin can replace the turkey
here.
2 pounds boneless, skinless turkey breast or turkey tenderloins, cut
into 1 ½-inch pieces
4 green onions, white portion only, cut crosswise in half
2 small zucchini, 5 ounces each, trimmed, each cut crosswise into
8 rounds
Herby marinade for grilling 1 red bell pepper, cored, cut into 1 ½-inch pieces
Herby marinade, see recipe
Prep time: 5 minutes Chopped fresh chives, optional
Makes: about ⅔ cup 1. Put the turkey pieces, onions, zucchini and bell pepper pieces on
Use this marinade with pork, poultry, fish and vegetables. a large cutting board. Set aside ⅓ of the marinade to use as a grill
5 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil basting sauce.
5 tablespoons white wine vinegar 2. Slide a piece of zucchini on a skewer. Add a piece of turkey, then
5 cloves garlic, crushed bell pepper and another turkey piece and then onion. Repeat the
1 ½ teaspoons dried tarragon pattern to fill up 4 to 6 skewers.
½ teaspoon ground sage 3. Place the skewers in a shallow dish or on a rimmed baking sheet.
½ teaspoon dried basil Brush with the marinade. Turn to coat all sides with marinade.
½ teaspoon salt Refrigerate covered, periodically spooning or brushing the marinade
¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes over the skewers for at least 1 hour or up to overnight.
Freshly ground pepper to taste 4. Preheat a gas grill to medium-high or prepare a charcoal grill and
1. Mix all ingredients in a bowl using a whisk to dissolve the salt. let coals burn until they are covered with ash and glowing red.
2. Alternatively, mix all ingredients in a jar with a tight-fitting lid. 5. Remove skewers from baking dish (discard the remaining
3. Refrigerate, covered, up to 2 weeks. Use at room temperature. marinade). Place skewers directly over heat source on the preheated
grill. Cover the grill and cook 5 minutes.
6. Brush with the reserved marinade. Cover the grill and cook
5 minutes. Brush again and grill until meat feels nearly firm when
Smoky dry rub pressed, 3 to 5 minutes more.
7. Remove skewers from grill to a serving platter. Drizzle with any of
Prep time: 5 minutes the remaining reserved marinade. Sprinkle with chives if desired.
This rub tastes great on pork, beef, salmon and eggplant slices.
2 teaspoons sweet paprika
2 teaspoons smoked paprika
1 ½ teaspoons salt Smoky beef and mushroom kebabs
½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
¼ teaspoon ground cayenne Prep time: 25 minutes; marinate 1 hour or overnight
1 teaspoon granulated garlic or 4 cloves garlic, crushed Cook time: 8 to 9 minutes
In a small bowl, mix all ingredients. Refrigerate, covered, up to 1 week. Makes: 4 to 6 servings
Use at room temperature. Boneless strip steak and filet work well here too. You can also use
boneless, skinless chicken thighs or chunks of boneless pork loin;
increase cooking time by about 5 minutes.
2 pounds (1 ½-inch thick) beef top sirloin steak, trimmed, cut into
Red chile garlic butter 1 ½-inch pieces
Smoky dry rub, see recipe
Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 10 minutes 8 to 12 small cremini or button mushrooms
Makes: about 1 cup 8 to 12 large cherry tomatoes
Dollop small bits of this butter over grilled steak, burgers, chops, Arugula for serving
vegetables and corn as soon as they come off the grill. Red chile garlic butter, optional; see recipe
1 tablespoon safflower, sunflower or expeller-pressed canola oil Chopped fresh cilantro
1 large (10 to 12 ounces) sweet onion, halved, very thinly sliced Lime wedges
3 cloves garlic, crushed 1. Put beef pieces into a large bowl. Add the smoky dry rub and toss
2 tablespoons pomegranate molasses or balsamic vinegar with clean hands to coat the meat well. Refrigerate covered at least
½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened 1 hour or up to 2 days.
2 teaspoons sweet paprika 2. Place 1 piece of meat on a skewer. Add a mushroom, another piece
1 teaspoon salt of meat and then a cherry tomato. Repeat the pattern to fill the
½ teaspoon ground cumin skewer and make 4 to 6 skewers as desired.
¼ teaspoon ground cayenne, optional 3. Preheat a gas grill to medium-high or prepare a charcoal grill and
1. Heat a large, well-seasoned cast-iron or nonstick skillet over let coals burn until they are covered with ash and glowing red.
medium heat. Add oil and onion. Cook and stir over medium heat 4. Place skewers directly over heat source on preheated grill. Cover
until onion is soft and richly browned, about 10 minutes. the grill and cook 5 minutes.
2. Stir in garlic and cook 1 minute. Stir in pomegranate molasses. 5. Turn skewers. Cover the grill and cook until meat is medium-rare
Remove from heat and cool. and nearly firm when pressed 3 to 5 more minutes.
3. Put onion mixture into food processor along with butter, paprika, 6. Remove skewers from grill to a serving platter lined with arugula.
salt, cumin and cayenne. Process with on/off turns until nearly Dot meat with bits of the seasoned butter, if using. Sprinkle with
smooth. Scoop out into a covered container. Refrigerate covered up cilantro. Pass lime wedges for squeezing over skewers. Drizzle with
to 2 weeks. Use at room temperature. any of the remaining reserved marinade.
down based on the number of two-pronged skewer, which wooden skewer will help secure sprinkled with the season’s first
people to serve. holds everything in place. the food. chives and tender dill fronds
For easiest grilling, use metal Wooden skewers also work; just Serve the kebabs over a bed of make a perfect side — ditto for
skewers that are flat so the meat pick out a length that fits on the greens, which will get the flavor grilled or steamed asparagus.
doesn’t move when you turn it on grill and soak the skewers in cool from the juices dripping off the Gather around the grill with
the grill. water before adding the ingre- hot kebabs. cold rose wine or a variety of
Another option is a dients to them. Using a second Steamed, small new potatoes nonalcoholic beers and enjoy!
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Roasting sugared rhubarb until the juices condense into a tangy syrup is essential for this dessert. CHRISTOPHER SIMPSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Rhubarb cobbler makes
sweet-tart flavors sing
By Melissa Clark
The New York Times
Some cobblers are like cake: neatly slice-
able, with bits of soft fruit strewn in the
crumb. Others are more like pie, with a
jammy compote sandwiched between two
flaky crusts.
But the cobblers I love best are the
biscuit-crowned ones, which don’t resem-
ble any other pastries at all. Juicy and soft
on the bottom, with golden rounds on top,
they are exactly what to make when you
have fresh, ripe fruit in need of a home, and
when you are craving something cozy and
maybe even a little sloppy in the best possi-
ble way.
You can use nearly any type of fruit in a
cobbler, but tangy rhubarb works particu-
larly well, its vivid acidity contrasting with
The hardest part of this recipe is waiting for your caramel popcorn to cool before you eat it.
CARL TREMBLAY/AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN
Once caramel corn pops,
you won’t stop snacking
America’s Test Kitchen
Did you know that popcorn comes in
different shapes? There are two main
kinds: butterfly (also called snowflake)
and mushroom. Most of the popcorn you
get at the movies or buy at the market is
butterfly shape, which pops up light and
fluffy with lots of “wings” sticking out.
Caramel popcorn, however, is often
made with mushroom popcorn, which is
Caramel popcorn
Makes: 7 ½ cups
Vegetable oil spray
7 cups popped plain popcorn
5 tablespoons unsalted butter
¾ cup packed light brown sugar
¼ cup dark corn syrup
¼ teaspoon salt
¾ teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ teaspoon baking soda
½ cup salted peanuts (optional)
1. Adjust the oven rack to the middle
position and heat the oven to 250 degrees.
Spray the inside bottom and sides of a 13-by-
9-inch metal baking pan with vegetable oil
spray. Place popcorn in the baking pan.
2. In a large saucepan, melt butter over
medium-high heat. Add brown sugar,
corn syrup and salt to the saucepan. Bring
mixture to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-
low and simmer, stirring occasionally with
a rubber spatula, until the mixture thickens
slightly, about 3 minutes. Turn off heat and
slide saucepan to a cool burner.
3. Carefully add vanilla and baking soda
all the fluffy, buttery biscuits covering it.
(And yes, rhubarb is botanically a vegeta-
ble, but it’s so often cooked like a fruit.)
Whether made from fruit or, in this
case, a vegetable, most cobblers call for
some kind of starch — cornstarch, tapioca
or flour — to be mixed into the filling so it
thickens as it bubbles and bakes.
This one is different. Instead of using
starch to thicken the juices, I roast slices
of rhubarb with sugar before the rounds
of biscuit dough are added to the pan. This
extra step allows the juices to condense
into a sweet-tart syrup without any of the
stodgy flavors and cloudiness you’d get
from a starch.
I also like to add some vanilla bean and
orange zest to the filling to help mellow the
rhubarb’s strident nature. You can leave
these ingredients out or substitute other
a rounder shape (like a mushroom with a
cap) and a sturdier texture. Both popcorn
shapes work for this recipe, but if you find
mushroom popcorn in a specialty store
or online, give it a try with this caramel
popcorn recipe.
Use plain popcorn in this recipe, not
popcorn with butter flavoring. And make
sure to use dark corn syrup here. Light
corn syrup won’t give you that deep cara-
mel-y color.
(mixture will bubble and foam). Add peanuts
(if using) and stir to combine.
4. Use a rubber spatula to carefully scrape
the caramel mixture onto the popcorn in
the baking pan (the saucepan will be heavy,
and the caramel will be hot). Use the rubber
spatula to gently stir until the popcorn is
evenly coated. Spread the popcorn into an
even layer.
5. Place the baking pan in the oven and bake
for 20 minutes. Remove the baking pan from
oven. Place baking pan on a cooling rack.
Use the rubber spatula to carefully stir the
popcorn, scraping up caramel from bottom
of pan (the pan will be hot). Spread the
popcorn back into even layer.
6. Return the baking pan to the oven and
bake until the popcorn is deep golden brown,
about 40 minutes, repeating stirring halfway
through baking.
7. Remove baking pan from the oven. Place
baking pan on a cooling rack and carefully stir
the popcorn one last time (the pan will be
hot). Let caramel popcorn cool completely
in pan, about 30 minutes. Break the popcorn
apart with your hands and serve.
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aromatics. Grated fresh ginger, spices (like
a broken-up cinnamon stick or a few carda-
mom pods) or a dash of orange liqueur
are excellent substitutes. Use them in any
combination.
For the prettiest, pinkest cobbler, try
to find scarlet stalks of rhubarb, although
green ones will still work even if they’re
not as striking. Or, you can throw a handful
of raspberries into the pan to redden things
up. Add them after the rhubarb is roasted
and before nestling the biscuit dough on
top.
All cobblers — biscuit-topped, pastry-
crusted or cakelike — are best served on the
day they are baked, preferably warm from
the oven and smothered in heavy cream
or ice cream. And this gorgeous rhubarb
version — exceptional in so many other
ways — is no exception.
SERIOUSLY SIMPLE
An Indonesian delight
By Diane Rossen
Worthington
Tribune Content Agency
In Cathy Erway’s book
“Sheet Pan Chicken,” you’ll
find myriad recipes for
easy, unusual dishes. The
author also advises on best
sheet pans, nonstick vs.
non-nonstick and how to
choose a chicken and cook
different chicken parts.
Sheet pan cooking is a
technique worth learning.
This recipe, for example,
can be prepared in steps.
Make the sauce the day
before. You can marinate
the chicken up to four
hours ahead of cooking.
The chicken in the
following recipe is also
quickly marinated and
baked, and accompa-
nied by a sweet and spicy
peanut sauce. There are
tons of recipes for satay, The chicken is served with a sweet and spicy peanut sauce.
but this one includes LIZZIE MUNRO/TNS
toasted cumin and cori-
ander seeds, giving it a is broiled on a sheet pan,
distinct Indonesian flavor. yielding a glazed slightly
While most satay reci- burnished exterior. What
pes are grilled, this satay could be better than wrap-
Chicken satay lettuce wraps
with peanut sauce
Makes: 4 servings
Prep time: 25 minutes
Cook time: 15 minutes
For the chicken:
1 teaspoon coriander seeds
½ teaspoon cumin seeds
1 ½ pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs
or breasts, cut into 1-inch cubes
1 small garlic clove, grated
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon sugar
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon ground turmeric
2 tablespoons vegetable oil or coconut oil
For the peanut sauce:
¼ cup finely chopped onion or shallots
1 garlic clove, minced
¼ cup peanut butter
¼ cup water
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
1 teaspoon fish sauce
1 tablespoon sambal oelek (Indonesian chile
paste) or sriracha (optional)
1 tablespoon sugar
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ cup roasted peanuts, chopped (optional)
Roasted rhubarb cobbler
Makes: 6 to 8 servings
Total time: 1 ½ hours
For the rhubarb filling:
1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise (or use ½
teaspoon vanilla paste or 1 tablespoon vanilla
extract)
2 pounds rhubarb, trimmed and cut into
½-inch pieces (about 7 cups)
¾ cup sugar
1 teaspoon finely grated orange zest
Pinch of kosher salt
For the biscuit topping:
¾ cups all-purpose flour, plus more for
shaping
2 tablespoons sugar
2 ¼ teaspoons baking powder
Pinch of kosher salt
3 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into
½-inch cubes
⅓ cup plus 1 tablespoon heavy cream, plus
more for serving, if you like
Demerara sugar, for sprinkling
Ice cream, for serving (optional)
1. Heat oven to 425 degrees. Using the tip of a
paring knife, scrape the pulp out of the vanilla
bean halves and add the pulp to a 1 ½ quart
gratin or baking dish or 9-by-9-inch pan along
with the scraped-out pods. (Alternatively,
add the paste or extract to the pan.) Add the
rhubarb, sugar, zest and salt, and toss well.
Let sit at room temperature to macerate
while preparing the biscuit dough.
2. Make the biscuit dough: Put the flour,
sugar, baking powder and salt in a food
processor. Pulse to combine. Add cubed
butter, then pulse until the mixture has
formed bean-size pieces. Drizzle in ⅓ cup
heavy cream and pulse until everything
just clumps together, taking care not to
overprocess. (To make the dough by hand,
put the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt
in a large bowl and whisk to combine. Add
cubed butter, then mix it in with your hands,
pinching and squeezing with your fingers — or
use a pastry blender — until the largest pieces
are the size of peas. Drizzle in ⅓ cup heavy
cream a little at a time, mixing until the dough
comes together.)
3. Dump dough onto a lightly floured surface
and gently pat it together until it’s a cohesive
lump. Using a small ice cream scoop or a large
spoon, form dough into 6 evenly sized balls.
Slightly flatten dough balls into thick rounds.
Cover rounds with plastic wrap and chill for at
least 30 minutes (and up to 6 hours).
4. Put the rhubarb in the oven and roast,
stirring halfway through, until the rhubarb has
softened and the liquid has formed a syrup,
about 30 minutes.
5. Remove pan from oven and use tongs to
remove the vanilla bean pods.
6. Lower oven temperature to 375 degrees.
Arrange biscuit rounds on top of the rhubarb,
leaving space in between them. Brush
biscuits with remaining tablespoon of heavy
cream and sprinkle with Demerara sugar.
7. Bake cobbler until biscuits are golden
brown, about 25 to 35 minutes. Serve warm
or at room temperature, with cream or ice
cream, if you like.
ping the chicken into
crispy lettuce leaves and
drizzling with this spicy,
sweet peanut sauce?
To finish:
1 small head Bibb, Boston or Little Gem
lettuce, or ½ head iceberg lettuce, leaves
separated
¼ cup fresh cilantro leaves (optional)
1. Preheat the broiler.
2. Toast the coriander and cumin seeds
in a small dry pan over high heat, shaking
frequently, for 1 to 2 minutes, until fragrant.
Immediately transfer them to a spice grinder
and pulse for a few seconds, until the spices
are well ground.
3. Combine the chicken, ground coriander
and cumin, garlic, soy sauce, sugar, salt,
turmeric and vegetable oil in a large bowl
and mix thoroughly. Thread the chicken onto
four bamboo or metal skewers and place
them in a single layer on a sheet pan. Broil for
about 5 minutes, until the edges are crisp
and browning, then carefully flip the skewers
using tongs and broil for another 5 minutes,
until browned and crispy.
4. Meanwhile, make the sauce: Combine
the onion, garlic, peanut butter, water, lime
juice, fish sauce, sambal, sugar, salt and
peanuts (if using) in a medium bowl and mix
well.
5. Serve the satay skewers with the lettuce,
cilantro (if using) and peanut sauce on the
side, so diners can make their own wraps.
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