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CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK

City mandates masks indoors

New COVID-19 cases top 400;
no plans for state to follow suit
By Alice Yin, Josh Noel
and Dan Petrella
Chicago Tribune
Chicago officials announced
Tuesday that an indoor mask
mandate will return to the city,
more than two months after most
COVID-19 restrictions were lifted
but as a highly contagious variant
of the coronavirus drives a late
summer surge.
Starting Friday, anyone age 2 and
older will have to wear a face mask
Shoppers wear masks while inside a clothing store Tuesday in Chicago. in indoor public spaces, regardless
ANTONIO PEREZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE of vaccine status, Chicago public
health Commissioner Dr. Allison
Arwady said in a news conference.
She cited the far more transmis-
sible delta variant and its role in
pushing the city into the higher
risk category of more than 400
new daily COVID-19 cases — but
she added that residents need not
panic.
“Four hundred cases per day is
concerning. It means that if you’re
out and about in Chicago, the risk
of you potentially being exposed to
someone who has COVID has gone
up,” Arwady said. “But in terms of
where we’ve been, as a city, it is not
a cause for alarm. It is a cause for
caution.”
The mandate will apply to loca-
tions including gyms, common
areas of apartment or condo
complexes, private clubs and bars
and restaurants, though patrons
will be able to remove their masks
while eating or drinking. Masks
can be removed in workplaces
that are not open to the public,
if employees are “static” and can
maintain 6 feet of social distancing,
according to a city news release.
Businesses must comply with
the mandate even if they’re only
letting in patrons who show proof
of vaccination.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker does not have
Turn to COVID-19, Page 7

Lawsuit AFGHANISTAN CRISIS

targets
Kenosha
police
Family of man slain
during protests says
cops incited violence
By Christy Gutowski
Chicago Tribune

The parents of a man fatally

shot during last summer’s
violent demonstrations in
Kenosha on Tuesday sued
authorities alleging they incited
the bloodshed by allowing Kyle
Rittenhouse and other armed
civilians who clashed with
protesters to “mete out punish-
ment as they saw fit.”
The federal lawsuit filed
in Milwaukee on behalf of
Anthony Huber’s estate seeks
unspecified damages against
Kenosha County Sheriff David
Beth; Daniel Miskinis, the
former city of Kenosha police
chief; and Eric Larsen, the city’s
acting police chief; as well as
unnamed officers and deputies.
Last Aug. 25, Rittenhouse
traveled to Kenosha from his
former home in Antioch and
joined numerous individuals
armed with rifles who inserted
themselves into chaotic demon-
strations that raged for three
nights in the city just over the Officials arrange a Taliban flag Tuesday before a news conference by Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid at the Government Media Information
Wisconsin border. Center in Kabul, Afghanistan. RAHMAT GUL/AP

Taliban pledging to
They clashed with demon-
strators who had assembled
after a white Kenosha police
officer shot a Black man during
a domestic disturbance. The
man, Jacob Blake, is paralyzed

honor women’s rights

from the waist down.
Prosecutors said Ritten-
house, at the time 17 and carry-
ing an assault-style rifle, opened
fire on Joseph Rosenbaum, 36,
and Huber, 26, of Silver Lake,
killing both. A third man, Gaige
Grosskreutz, was shot in the

Turn to Lawsuit, Page 10

Kyle Rittenhouse, right, listens
to his attorney, Mark Richards,
during Rittenhouse’s pretrial
hearing May 21 at the Kenosha
County Courthouse. SEAN
KRAJACIC/THE KENOSHA NEWS
Many Afghans still wary as insurgents patrol Kabul streets
By Ahmad Seir, Tameem
Akhgar, Kathy Gannon
and Jon Gambrell
Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — The
Taliban vowed Tuesday to respect
women’s rights, forgive those who
fought them and ensure Afghan-
istan does not become a haven
for terrorists as part of a public-
ity blitz aimed at reassuring world
powers and a fearful population.
The speed of the Afghan
government’s collapse, the ensu-
ing chaos and the near-complete
takeover of the country — just two
weeks before the final pullout of
the last U.S. and NATO troops —
has shocked many in Afghanistan
and beyond.
The Taliban have sought to
portray themselves as more
moderate than when they
imposed a strict form of Islamic
rule in the late 1990s.
But many Afghans remain skep-
tical.
For Afghan women, it raised
fears that all they had achieved in
women’s rights, the right to go to
school and work, would be swiftly
taken away.
Older generations remember
the Taliban’s previous rule, when
they largely confined women to
their homes, banned television
and music, and held public execu-
tions.
A U.S.-led invasion drove them
from power months after the
9/11 attacks, which al-Qaida had
orchestrated from Afghanistan
while being sheltered by the Tali-
ban.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the Tali-
ban’s longtime spokesman,
emerged from the shadows Tues-
day in his first-ever public appear-
ance to address those concerns at
a news conference.
He promised the Taliban would
honor women’s rights within the
norms of Islamic law, without
elaborating.
The Taliban have encouraged
women to return to work and have
allowed girls to return to school,
handing out Islamic headscarves
at the door. A female news anchor
interviewed a Taliban official
Monday in a TV studio.
Turn to Afghanistan, Page 9

R. Kelly’s trial set to get
underway in New York
On Wednesday, federal prosecutors are
slated to deliver opening statements.
They have charged the musician under a
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“If you choose to send a
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mask, and you accept the
consequences of that action
in a respectful and lawful
way, there will be no inter-
vention from the police,”
they wrote. “Noncompli-
ance from a citizen doesn’t
have to mean something
is criminally unlawful and
requires police interven-
tion.”
Hundreds of people
rallied Aug. 10 outside
Lincoln-Way Central High
School in New Lenox
against the masking rule,
and many people showed
up that evening for school
board meetings in Homer
Elementary District 33C
and Frankfort Elementary
District 157C to demand
that students be allowed to
return mask free.
Some of the boards were,
just before the governor’s
order, looking to implement
mask optional plans for the
new school year before the
Aug. 4 mask mandate.
Some people told school
board members they would
openly defy the mask
mandate or take their kids
out of school. Nearly all said
they believed the state and
school districts were usurp-
ing the role of parents in
determining their children’s
safety.
“No matter what side
you’re on, we’re all parents,”
Nicole Queen told the 157C
Board. “Why are my rights
as a parent being taken
away?”
The Homer 33C Board
said in an Aug. 10 statement
it is aware of “the concerns
and passionate voices”
expressed by community
members who have “points
of view on opposing ends of
the same issues.”
“We respect and support
all stakeholder viewpoints
and hope that we can
continue to work together as
a community to support our
children,” the board wrote.
In an Aug. 11 letter posted
at the Illinois State Board
of Education’s website,
Carmen Ayala, the state’s
superintendent of educa-
tion, warned that schools
that do not enforce the mask
mandate risk the loss of state
funding and potential inabil-
ity for their sports teams to
compete in athletic compe-
titions.
“School districts have
the moral and legal obliga-
tion” to follow the mandate,
which she said “has the
force of law.”
While saying she under-
stands “the pressure some
school and district leaders
may be facing from commu-
nity members” on the mask
issue, “noncompliance is not
an option.”
“Local boards of educa-
tion, schools and school
boards do not have the
authority” to defy the
mandate, Ayala wrote.
“Doing so not only puts
students’ health and safety
at risk but also opens the
district to extraordinary
legal liability — potentially
without any insurance to
cover damages,” she wrote.
Blondean Davis said
Monday she has not expe-
rienced any backlash over
masking in the schools
she oversees — Southland
College Prep Charter High
School in Richton Park
and Matteson Elementary
District 162.
Both were preparing, after
summer school programs
that required masking, to do
the same for the new school
year, she said.
“The message we hear
from the community is that
the safety of the children is
of paramount importance,”
Davis said. “We have to listen
to the will of the commu-
nity, but I don’t believe our
community expected us to
do anything differently.”
Southland College Prep in
Richton Park began phasing
in the return of students last
week, with all 592 in class-
rooms as of Monday. The
2,400 students in District
162 in kindergarten through
eighth grade will return
Monday, she said.
In Prairie-Hills Elemen-
tary District 144, which
serves kindergarten through
eighth grade students at
schools in Country Club
Hills, Hazel Crest, Markham
and Oak Forest, universal
masking was to have been
the policy before the gover-
nor’s mandate.
Regular COVID-19 testing
for staff and students is also
a requirement, and Superin-
tendent Kimako Patterson
said she has fielded calls on
both testing and masking.
“I believe the majority of
my parents understand, but
some do not care and they
don’t want the masking or
the testing programs in the
schools,” she said in an email
Monday.
During the Aug. 10 Homer
33C meeting, where board
members voted to adopt the
back-to-school plan, Super-
intendent Craig Shoppe
told board members that
not abiding by the mask
mandate could expose the
board members and district
administration to legal
action.
Before going along with
the plan, board member
Chris Trzeiciak said he was
doing so reluctantly. “I am
not happy about requir-
ing people to wear masks,”
he said. “It’s not something
most of us are in favor of.”
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No hints on new charges in ComEd probe
Judge sets ’22 trial
date in bribery case
orbiting Madigan
By Jason Meisner
Chicago Tribune
Federal prosecutors
said Tuesday the grand
jury investigation into the
alleged bribery scheme
involving former House
Speaker Michael Madigan
remains active, but offered
no hints on whether new
charges will be brought in
the high-profile case.
Madigan has been the
elephant in the courtroom
since May, when lawyers
for four people charged
with conspiring to bribe the
former speaker on behalf of
utility giant Commonwealth
Edison said they expect
more charges were coming
that would make it difficult
for them to prepare for trial.
CHICAGOLAND
Michael Madigan has not
been charged and has
vehemently denied any
wrongdoing. TRIBUNE
During a telephonic status
hearing Tuesday morning,
U.S. District Judge Harry
Leinenweber himself tried
to pry some information
from prosecutors on the
possibility of a supersed-
ing indictment, but all they
would say was that the
investigation was ongoing
and they were “not at liberty
to publicly discuss grand
jury matters.”
“The government at this
time has no further infor-
mation regarding whether
there will be a superseding
indictment,” Assistant U.S.
Attorney Sarah Streicker
said.
A superseding indictment
typically brings new defen-
dants to an existing case,
though sometimes they add
only new charges for those
already named.
At the request of the
defense teams, Leinenweber
then set a tentative trial date
for the four defendants for
Sept. 12, 2022. Prosecutors
said presenting their case
would take about a month.
Prosecutors also said
Tuesday they’re still in the
process of turning over
records and evidence in the
case, with the most recent
“large production” made in
late June. Another discov-
ery production was “being
loaded now,” Streicker said.
The feds had previously
turned over more than a
million pages of records in
discovery as well as discs
containing wiretapped
calls and other electronic
evidence.
A status hearing in the
case was scheduled for Oct.
21.
Madigan, 79, who lost the
speaker’s gavel in January
and later resigned from his
House seat after holding it
more than 50 years, has not
been charged and has vehe-
mently denied any wrong-
doing.
A 50-page indictment
returned in November
charged Michael McClain,
an ex-lobbyist and one of
Madigan’s top confidants;
former ComEd lobby-
ist John Hooker; former
ComEd CEO Anne Pramag-
giore; and Jay Doherty, a
consultant and former head
of the City Club of Chicago.
All four have pleaded not
guilty to bribery conspiracy
charges.
Another former ComEd
executive, Fidel Marquez,
was later charged with brib-
ery conspiracy and pleaded
guilty in October to his role
in the scheme.
ComEd, meanwhile,
admitted to the scheme as
part of a deferred prosecu-
tion agreement with the U.S.
attorney’s office, agreeing to
pay a record $200 million
fine and cooperate with
investigators in exchange for
the charges being dropped
in three years.
The indictment alleged
that beginning in 2011, the
defendants “arranged for
various associates” of Madi-
gan — including his political
allies and campaign workers
— to “obtain jobs, contracts
and monetary payments”
from ComEd, even in
instances where they did
little or no actual work.
McClain and the other
defendants also conspired
to have ComEd hire a Madi-
gan-favored law firm and
lawyer, previously identified
in public testimony as Victor
Reyes of Reyes Kurson, and
to accept into ComEd’s
summer internship program
a certain number of students
who lived in Madigan’s 13th
Ward, according to the
charges.
Pramaggiore and McClain
also allegedly took steps
to have an individual
appointed to ComEd’s board
of directors at the request
of Madigan and McClain,
the indictment stated.
The Tribune has identi-
fied the appointee as Juan
Ochoa, the former head of
the Metropolitan Pier and
Exposition Authority of
Chicago.
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Summer stroll along the bridge

People cross the BP Pedestrian Bridge in Chicago on Tuesday. The bridge, designed by Frank Gehry, connects Millennium Park and Maggie Daley Park.

Opening statements Wednesday Pharmacist allegedly

in R. Kelly’s fed conspiracy trial
By Megan Crepeau
and Jason Meisner
Chicago Tribune
In the years leading up to
his last trial, R&B superstar
R. Kelly toured nationally
and sold countless records.
The day of the verdict in
2008, he bowed his head,
praised Jesus, and walked
out of a Cook County court-
room acquitted of child
pornography charges.
But according to federal
prosecutors in New York, he
continued the same alleged
pattern of sexual moles-
tation, physical abuse and
psychological control that
he had been perpetuating for
years: A criminal enterprise
operating just under the
surface of his music empire.
Thirteen years after that
first acquittal, in a federal
courtroom 800 miles away,
Kelly faces a drastically
different landscape. His
music was boycotted across
the country; his alleged
abuses have been the target
of in-depth investigative
journalism and a popu-
lar Lifetime docuseries; he
has been in federal pretrial
custody for more than two
years; and he has pending
cases in four jurisdictions
across the country.
On Wednesday, federal
prosecutors in New York
are slated to deliver open-
ing statements in the first
of those cases to go to trial.
They have charged Kelly
under a racketeering law
more commonly used for
mob bosses, cartel kingpins
and leaders of street gangs.
“They allege an extraordi-
narily broad range of crimes,
all pointing to a coordinated
effort to supply Kelly with
boys, girls and women and
abuse them to keep them
under their control. Kelly’s
defense team, which has had
a turbulent summer, will of
course address the jury in
Brooklyn as well, expected
to argue that Kelly’s accusers
are out to smear him for their
own personal gain.
Kelly’s lead attorney,
Thomas Farinella, tweeted
Tuesday night that “the
public has only heard one
side of the story” and he and
his team looked forward to
attacking the case against
Kelly in court.
“After all, the RICO
‘Enterprise’ is based on a
series of independent rela-
tionships and events that
the government is trying to
patch together like different
types of fabrics and trying to
pass it off as silk,” Farinella
wrote.
A jury of seven men, five
women and six alternates
was selected last week.
They are being identified by
number rather than name,
and they will be escorted to
and from the courtroom in a
“partial sequestration” due
to the high-profile nature
of the case and allegations
of jury tampering at Kelly’s
2008 trial.
One juror, a flight atten-
dant for the past 18 years,
said during questioning last
week that he has a friend
who is a relative of Bill Cosby
and followed the comedian’s
criminal sexual abuse trial.
The juror said nothing about
that high-profile case would
affect his ability to be fair in
judging the evidence against
Kelly.
Many of the members of
jury acknowledged they’d
heard of Kelly and bits and
pieces of the allegations, but
all promised to put what
they’d heard aside.
They are expected to
hear about Kelly’s rushed
marriage to singer Aali-
R. Kelly’s federal trial will get
underway Wednesday in New
York. E. JASON WAMBSGANS/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE 2019
yah in suburban Rosemont
when she was underage.
Many of Kelly’s accusers
are slated to take the stand,
including Azriel Clary, who
lived at Kelly’s Trump Tower
apartment until early 2020
and alleges myriad abuses at
Kelly’s hands
The trial is expected
to several last weeks. If
convicted on all counts, Kelly
could face from 10 years to
life in prison, according to
prosecutors.
And either way, after
his New York proceedings
have concluded, he still
faces a federal indictment
in Chicago on allegations he
conspired with two former
employees to rig his 2008
Cook County trial by paying
off witnesses and victims to
change their stories. And he
has four pending cases in
Cook County, alleging sexual
abuse and assault. Kelly also
has been charged in Minne-
sota with solicitation.
sold vaccine cards
Chicago man
faces federal
theft charges
By Zach Harris
Chicago Tribune
A Chicago pharmacist
was arrested for allegedly
selling authentic COVID-
19 vaccination cards on
eBay.
Tangtang Zhao, 34,
allegedly sold 125 vacci-
nation cards from the
Centers for Disease
Control and Preven-
tion for $10 each during
March and April. Zhao
is accused of taking the
cards from his employer,
an unnamed national
pharmacy chain that
administered vaccines,
and sold them online to
11 buyers, according to
a news release from the
Department of Justice.
He is charged with 12
counts of theft of govern-
ment property, according
to the release. He faces a
maximum of 10 years for
each count if convicted.
Zhao’s lawyer, Gal
Pissetzky, in a Tues-
day court appearance
described his client’s
record as “squeaky-
clean” aside from this
charge.
Zhao received a $4,500
unsecured appearance
bond, which means he
only has to pay should
he fail to appear for
future court dates. He
is still employed as a
pharmacist, but he must
report the charges to his
employer, according to
U.S. Magistrate Judge
Sheila Finnegan.
“We take seriously,
and will vigorously
investigate, any criminal
offense that contributes
to the distrust around
vaccines and vacci-
nation status,” Assis-
tant Attorney General
Kenneth Polite Jr. said
in the statement.
The case was inves-
tigated jointly by the
FBI and the Office of
the Inspector General.
Special agents in charge
of each agency said the
sale of vaccination cards
put the health of untold
people at risk.
zharris@chicagotribune.
com
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West Nile virus case NIU faculty gets green light

reported in Deerfield to go remote if cases hit 8%
By Brian L. Cox 80s was reported to be the
For Chicago Tribune first case of the year in Cook By Karen Ann Cullotta Earlier this week, the University spokesman
County earlier this month. A Deerfield man in his 70s Chicago Tribune COVID-19 positivity rate Joe King said in a statement
Lake County health offi- Health officials are asking has become ill from West in DeKalb County was that safety has been “of
cials are asking residents to residents to follow the “4 Ds Nile virus. Lake County Faculty and staff at 5.2%, with around 45% of paramount importance”
take precautions to protect of Defense” to protect them- reported that 85 batches of Northern Illinois Univer- the population fully vacci- as the school prepares to
themselves from mosquitoes selves from mosquitoes. mosquitoes in the county sity in DeKalb will be nated, according to the resume classes next week.
after a Deerfield man in his The actions include drain- have tested positive for the allowed to pivot to remote DeKalb County Health “That concern guided us
70s became ill from West Nile ing standing water from virus. CHICAGO TRIBUNE FILE instruction for students if Department website. when we made the decision
virus in late July. items around homes, yards on-campus COVID-19 rates “Faculty are so excited to require that students
The man is the first and businesses. Defending presence in two dead crows hit or exceed 8% this fall, to begin the fall semes- get vaccinated and as we
reported case of West Nile against mosquitoes when found in the Chicago area, union officials said Tues- ter in-person with our worked with local health
virus in Lake County in 2021, outdoors by using an insect according to the Illinois day. students, and we certainly officials to create protocols
according to a Tuesday Lake repellent containing DEET, Department of Public Health The new agreement was hope to stay that way,” said that will help minimize
County Health Department picaridin, oil of lemon euca- website. forged after NIU faculty Keith Nyquist, instructor chances for transmission
news release. lyptus, 2-undecanone or “The following year, the and staff staged a rally last of business communica- of the virus,” he said. “This
“Take precautions to IR3535, and reapplying it state’s first human cases week demanding a more tions and president of the latest agreement with the
protect yourself from according to label directions. and deaths from West Nile robust health and safety non-tenured faculty union. University Professionals of
mosquito bites and West Residents can also protect disease were recorded and plan for university employ- “But in the event the surg- Illinois builds upon those
Nile virus,” said Mark Pfis- themselves by using repel- all but two of the state’s 102 ees. It also includes a stip- ing delta variant makes that efforts and will enhance
ter, the department’s exec- lent outdoors from dawn to counties eventually reported ulation allowing faculty too dangerous, we believe our ability to keep the
utive director. “Even as the dusk when mosquitoes are a positive human, bird, members to teach students the agreement our union campus community safe.”
weather gets cooler, mosqui- especially active, and dress- mosquito or horse” accord- remotely if they or a family bargained will help ensure After a two-week shift
toes will remain active until ing in long sleeves, pants, ing to the state health depart- member are immunocom- the greatest level of safety to remote learning last fall,
the first hard frost.” and closed toe shoes when ment. promised, officials with possible for our students, our officials at NIU restarted
According to the release, 85 outdoors. Environmental health the Illinois Federation of families, and our neighbors.” in-person classes by late
pools or batches of mosqui- West Nile virus was first care experts said that while Teachers said in a Tuesday Other campus safety September after seeing a
toes in the county have tested identified in Illinois in there has been flooding due statement. measures include a student drop in COVID-19 cases
positive for West Nile virus in September 2001 when labo- to heavy rains at times this In addition, the agree- vaccination requirement, among students and find-
2021. A suburban man in his ratory tests confirmed its summer, Culex mosquitoes, ment calls for an indoor regular testing of students ing that no infections
which typically spread the mask-wearing require- and faculty, and the use of were linked to classroom
virus are not the same as flood ment for NIU students air purifiers with HEPA instruction.
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Businesses tasked with enforcing mask mandate
Establishments
say it’s better than
alternative methods
By Robert Channick,
Josh Noel
and Louisa Chu
Chicago Tribune
Reaction from Chicago
businesses that will be
tasked with enforcing the
renewed indoor mask
mandate announced by
the city Tuesday ranged
from relief and support
to concerns about getting
customers to comply after
many have gone maskless
for weeks.
Mary Kay Tuzi, a
second-generation
co-owner of Twin Anchors
Restaurant & Tavern in
Old Town, said she’s not
surprised by the mandate
based on surging cases in
Chicago and nationally, but
worries battles with custom-
ers may be ahead.
While about half of Twin
Anchors bartenders have
gone back to wearing masks
on the job and most servers
have also, most customers do
not, she said.
“Hopefully word gets out
and we don’t have to be the
people to educate every-
body,” she said.
Tuzi said a renewed mask
edict is preferable to being
COVID-19
from Page 1
plans to implement a state-
wide mask mandate at this
time, spokeswoman Jordan
Abudayyeh said Tues-
day. Masks were already
required in schools based on
a statewide mandate issued
by the governor.
The state continues
to follow the Centers for
Disease Control and Preven-
tion’s recommendation that
everyone wear masks in
indoor public places, regard-
less of vaccination status, in
areas of substantial or high
coronavirus transmission.
According to the latest CDC
data, that includes all but
one of Illinois’ 102 counties.
At the Tuesday news
conference announcing
the new mandate, Arwady
noted additional restrictions
— such as indoor capacity
limits — could be reimposed
if current trends continue.
Benchmarks that could
prompt other rules would
be a spike in hospitalizations
and deaths and the average
daily cases surpassing 800,
she said. On the flip side,
the mask mandate would
be repealed once caseloads
drop below 400 for at least
a week or two, Arwady said.
She added the city has
no current plans to require
restaurant patrons to be
vaccinated against COVID-
19 but is watching places
such as New York City that
are trying the measure.
Arwady also noted that,
in the first peak of the
pandemic last winter, aver-
age daily cases topped
2,000 in Chicago. She said
even she was taken aback
at how entrenched the
delta variant, now present
in more than 95% of new
Chicago cases, has become
as the nation deals with its
latest COVID-19 wave. She
predicted Tuesday the city
should brace for another few
weeks to two months of this
delta-driven surge.
“I have been alarmed
by how quickly delta has
spread,” Arwady said. “It’s
shown that the virus can
mutate very quickly, and I’m
the most worried about the
potential for new variants
that could emerge that the
vaccines are not protected
against. And then all bets
are off.”
Just hours before
Chicago’s public health
department announced
the new indoor mask
mandate, Arwady said the
400-new-cases-per-day
threshold will not affect the
opening of Chicago Public
Schools on Aug. 30.
The city passing the
400-case threshold —
which Arwady previously
described as a “line in the
sand for us” — does not
affect the school district’s
plan to return to in-person
learning this month because
there is now a vaccine, she
said.
“I want to be very clear
that in no way does it change
the recommendation related
to being able to have school
in person,” Arwady said
when asked during an
forced to check for proof of
vaccination at the door.
“Having to check vaccine
cards would have been a
nightmare,” she said. “If this
was the compromise they
came up with, I’d rather do
it.”
Her brother, Paul Tuzi,
who is also a co-owner,
said there may be particu-
lar customer pushback at
the bar, where people have
returned to crowding in
together like the pre-pan-
demic days. The fact that
so many people are vacci-
nated may also add a hurdle,
he said, with some custom-
ers arguing that they don’t
need to wear masks because
they’re vaccinated.
“I can already anticipate
we’ll have arguments like
that,” he said.
Jewel-Osco said it would
begin requiring custom-
ers to wear a mask at all
of its 37 Chicago stores on
Friday. The company didn’t
address questions about how
it would handle situations
where customers walked in
without a mask.
Target said it will “follow
all local mandates, as
we have throughout the
pandemic.” In areas where
masks are required, employ-
ees at the front of the store
inform customers about
local rules and offer masks to
customers who enter with-
Shoppers, mostly wearing masks, ride an escalator Tuesday at the Water Tower Place in Chicago. The Chicago Department of Public Health will reinstate a mask
mandate for all indoor public settings, as the average number of new daily cases of COVID-19 in Chicago surpasses 400. ANTONIO PEREZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
“I want to be clear
that that risk is
especially for
people who are
unvaccinated.”
— Chicago public health
Commissioner Dr. Allison
Arwady
online question-and-answer
session about where her
new “line in the sand” was.
The average number of
new positive COVID-19
tests in Chicago rose to 419
Monday and then 444 on
Tuesday, the highest it had
been since May 4 and more
than a tenfold increase from
the rate’s lowest point in
June.
Also on Tuesday, the
city’s public health depart-
ment added eight states
and Washington, D.C., to
its optional travel advisory.
New on the list are Minne-
sota, New Jersey, North
Dakota, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia
and West Virginia.
That brings the total to
39 states and three terri-
tories from which the city
is recommending travel-
ers who are not vaccinated
quarantine for 10 days or
test negative for COVID-
19 within three days before
arrival. States get on the list
by surpassing 15 daily cases
per 100,000 residents.
News of the mask
mandate was welcomed
by some business owners;
it also prompted some to
prepare for renewed gripes
from customers, arriving a
year and a half since COVID-
out one or encourage them
to use contactless shopping
options, such as curbside
pickup, the company said in
a statement.
Certain retailers either
never stopped requir-
ing masks or began asking
customers to mask back up
before the city’s mandate,
including some grocery
stores such as West Town
grocery store Green Grocer
Chicago and several shops
catering to kids, who aren’t
yet eligible for the vaccine.
Marcos Carbajal, owner
of Carnitas Uruapan, which
has locations in Gage Park
and Pilsen, said his whole
staff is vaccinated and most
of his patrons still wear
masks when entering the
restaurant, so enforcing this
mandate won’t be that hard.
“With things going in the
direction they are going in,
and with how transmissi-
ble the new variant is, this
makes sense,” Carbajal
said. “It’s a small sacrifice
to make, especially if we
can avoid another round of
capacity restrictions.”
At Lift Chicago, a River
North gym that offers
personal training and small
group classes, owner Josh
Siroko said he hopes the new
mask mandate will be short-
lived.
“People were really
excited to take the masks off,
19 restrictions first hit the
city.
Chicago’s Business Affairs
and Consumer Protection
acting Commissioner Ken
Meyer said city workers will
be enforcing the mandate
but may apply punishments
differently based on the
severity of the violation. For
example, “something egre-
gious” such as a crowded
place with no masking or
social distancing could lead
to a citation, but a couple
patrons breaking the rules
may lead to a warning for
the owner, Meyer said.
Rob Karr, president of the
Illinois Retail Merchants
Association, said in a Tues-
day statement that the
city’s latest masking rule
“misses the mark” because
it puts the onus on business
owners, not the individuals
who have “threatened or
attacked” employees who
tried to enforce the public
health order.
In defending her support
for a full return to class-
rooms at the same time as
she imposed the indoor
mask mandate, Arwady
said no benchmarks have
changed. Surpassing the
400-case metric leads to
the higher risk category for
COVID-19 transmission,
she noted, while breaking
200 cases had been moder-
ate risk and resulted in an
optional indoor masking
recommendation regardless
of vaccination status.
She also noted that the
positivity rate stands at
4.3%, under the 5% moder-
ate risk threshold. Hospital-
izations and deaths remain
at lower risk.
“I want to be clear that
that risk is especially for
so it’s going to be a change
for everyone, everywhere,”
he said. “It’s going to be
weird.”
The gym has not been
requiring masks for vacci-
nated clients, and does plan
to enforce the new mandate.
Siroko doesn’t anticipate it
will hurt business, because
masks weren’t a deter-
rent to clients earlier in the
pandemic, he said.
“We take this all seriously,
because the faster we’re
through all this, the better it
is for everyone and the better
it is for businesses,” he said.
Spencer Ng, second-gen-
eration owner of Triple
Crown restaurant on the
South Side, said he agrees
with the mask mandate.
The restaurant has no
outdoor seating, occupying
a second floor with a view
of the Chinatown Gate over
Wentworth Avenue. “All my
employees and I still wear
masks every day when we’re
at the restaurant,” he said.
“For us, it’s not too much of
a change.”
Masks are currently
optional for vaccinated
diners at the business best
known for dim sum. About
70% of their diners have
remained masked. China-
town was one of the few
neighborhoods where
masks were not uncommon
even before the pandemic.
people who are unvacci-
nated,” Arwady said, with
nearly all new cases and
hospitalizations occurring
among the unvaccinated.
A year ago, Arwady said
the prospect, then looming,
of the city hitting 400 new
cases a day would mark “a
line in the sand for us, partic-
ularly around major things
like planning to open one of
the largest school districts in
the country.”
Ultimately, CPS students
began the 2020-21 school
year with all remote learn-
ing, and it was only until the
spring that a hybrid learning
model, combining in-person
and remote classes, took
effect following negotiations
with the Chicago Teachers
Union.
But this fall, nearly all
CPS students will be learn-
ing in-person full time, a far
cry from last year, when only
about a quarter of students
returned for any in-person
classes.
Arwady said last August’s
decision to start the school
year remote was a “conser-
vative” one because “we
were still learning a lot about
COVID.”
State officials on Tues-
day reported 3,639 new
confirmed and probable
cases of COVID-19, bring-
ing the average number of
new daily cases over the past
week to 3,327.
That’s the highest level
since the week ending April
15. During the state’s spring
surge, the seven-day average
of new cases peaked at 3,390
during the week ending
April 13.
A week ago, the state was
averaging 2,751 daily cases,
and a month ago the average
Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Wednesday, August 18, 2021  7
“Some places I go down-
town, I don’t see anybody
wearing a mask,” Ng said.
At Salon Envy in Lincoln
Park, owner Susan Gardner
implemented her own mask
mandate two weeks ago, as
concerns about increasing
COVID-19 cases and the
more transmissible delta
variant began to hit home in
Chicago.
“With everything going on
and the new variants, I just
want to protect the staff and
the guests,” said Gardner, 51.
“I don’t want anyone to have
anything happen here.”
The 15-year-old salon has
10 chairs, nine stylists and
about 20 people inside at
any given time throughout
the day. When the mandates
were lifted in June, most
customers abandoned their
masks during their appoint-
ments, although a few styl-
ists kept wearing them,
Gardner said.
Salon Envy did not ask
customers if they were
vaccinated.
“Whoever wanted to be
in the salon without a mask
could be in without,” Gard-
ner said.
Gardner, who stopped
wearing a mask herself at
work this summer, had a
change of heart as masks
began to resurface at grocery
stores and coffee shops in
the wake of the delta variant
was 691 cases per day.
After signing a bill desig-
nating an official state
microbe at the University
of Illinois at Springfield,
Pritzker was asked about
Chicago’s mask mandate
and explained why the state
isn’t taking the same course.
“I’m very pleased when
a local government takes
action to make sure that
the people who live in that
community, or in this case
that city, (are) safer,” Pritz-
ker said.
He pointed to the indoor
mask requirements he put
in place for schools and the
vaccination requirements
for workers at state prisons
and other state-run congre-
gate facilities. He also noted
that “We already have a
very strong recommenda-
tion from the CDC to wear
masks.”
“I haven’t been reticent to
consider mitigations when
they’re necessary, and of
course we’re always watch-
ing the numbers to make
sure that we’re bending the
curve as we need to,” Pritz-
ker said.
The governor, who’s
been heavily criticized by
many Republicans for his
orders during the corona-
virus pandemic, said he’s
not holding back on further
mandates for political
reasons.
“Have you seen me reti-
cent to consider mitigations
or oppose mitigations for
political reasons? No, you
have not,” he said.
Pritzker repeated that
the state is following the
science. “We’re doing what
we think is necessary and if
we need to do more than we
are doing today, we will do
surge. She decided to make
them mandatory at her salon
Aug. 3.
A sign was posted on the
door and customers who
didn’t have a mask received
one at the front desk. Most
took the salon’s mandate in
stride, she said.
“We had one person who
was not happy and refused to
wear it,” Gardner said. “But
other than that, we haven’t
had any problems. People
have actually been like, ‘I’m
glad you guys are masking up
again.’ “
Gardner said the citywide
mandate is “a good thing”
and a measure that most
Chicagoans will support,
as evidenced by the prolif-
eration of mask-wearers in
recent weeks. Having the
city behind her will add
teeth to her in-house rules,
she said.
“You’re going to sit in front
of somebody for two hours
doing their hair color and
cut and you’re not going to
mask?” Gardner said. “No, I
don’t think so.”
Chicago Tribune’s Sarah
Freishtat, Nick Kindelsperg-
er and Lauren Zumbach
contributed.
rchannick@chicagotribune.
com
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lchu@chicagotribune.com
that,” he said.
The statewide case posi-
tivity rate — the percent-
age of new cases as a share
of total tests — reached a
seven-day average of 5.4%
during the week ending
Monday, a level not seen
since mid-January, when
the massive fall surge was
still subsiding,
Hospital beds also
continue to fill up with
COVID-19 patients, with
1,952 hospitalized as of
Monday night for an aver-
age of 1,727 per day over the
past week. That’s the highest
level since mid-May.
The latest surge, driven by
the delta variant, appears to
be spurring a rise in vacci-
nations, with the average
number of daily doses reach-
ing 39,011 statewide during
the week ending Monday.
That’s up from an average
of 24,965 a week earlier but
still well below the more
than 100,000 daily shots that
were being administered
during the height of the
vaccination effort in April.
Nearly 61% of eligible Illi-
nois residents have been
fully vaccinated, according
to the state Department of
Public Health.
The state reported 17
additional fatalities Tues-
day, pushing the average
number of daily deaths over
the past week to 14, up from
an average of 12 per day a
week earlier.
In all, the state has
recorded 23,640 coronavirus
deaths since the pandemic
began.
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Afghanistan
from Page 1
The treatment of women
varies widely across the
Muslim world and some-
times even within the same
country, with rural areas
tending to be far more
conservative.
Some Muslim countries,
including neighboring Paki-
stan, have had female prime
ministers, while ultracon-
servative Saudi Arabia only
recently allowed women to
drive.
Mujahid also said the Tali-
ban would not allow Afghan-
istan to be used as a base for
attacking other countries,
as it was in the years before
9/11.
That assurance was part
of a 2020 peace deal reached
between the Taliban and the
Trump administration that
paved the way for the Amer-
ican withdrawal.
The Pentagon said U.S.
commanders are commu-
nicating with the Taliban as
they work to evacuate thou-
sands of people through
Kabul’s international airport.
It said the Taliban have
taken no hostile actions
there.
Mujahid reiterated that
the Taliban have offered full
amnesty to Afghans who
worked for the U.S. and the
Western-backed govern-
ment, saying “nobody will
go to their doors to ask why
they helped.”
He said private media
should “remain indepen-
dent” but that journalists
“should not work against
national values.”
Kabul, the capital, has
remained calm as the Tali-
ban patrol its streets.
But many remain fearful
after prisons and armor-
ies emptied out during the
insurgents’ sweep across the
country.
Kabul residents say groups
of armed men have been
going door-to-door seeking
out individuals who worked
with the ousted government
and security forces, but it
was unclear if the gunmen
were Taliban or criminals
posing as militants.
Mujahid blamed the
security breakdown on the
former government, saying
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and order after the police
melted away.
A broadcaster in Afghan-
istan said she was hiding at
a relative’s house, too fright-
ened to return home much
less go to work.
She said she and other
women do not believe the
Taliban have changed their
ways. She spoke on condi-
tion of anonymity because
she feared for her safety.
A group of women wearing
Islamic headscarves demon-
strated briefly in Kabul,
holding signs demanding
the Taliban not “eliminate
women” from public life.
U.S. national security
adviser Jake Sullivan said the
U.S. and other governments
will not simply take the Tali-
ban at their word when it
comes to women’s rights.
“Like I’ve said all along,
this is not about trust. This
is about verify,” Sullivan said
at a White House briefing.
Whatever their true inten-
tions, the Taliban have an
interest in projecting moder-
ation to prevent the inter-
national community from
isolating their government,
as it did in the 1990s.
The European Union said
it was suspending develop-
ment assistance to Afghan-
istan until the political
situation is more clear but
that it would consider boost-
ing humanitarian aid.
EU foreign policy chief
Josep Borrell said the Tali-
ban must respect U.N. Secu-
rity Council resolutions and
human rights to earn access
to some $1.4 billion in devel-
opment funds earmarked
through 2024.
Foreign Secretary Domi-
nic Raab said Britain
might provide up to 10%
more humanitarian aid,
but the Taliban would not
get any money previously
earmarked for security.
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Lawsuit
from Page 1
arm but survived.
John Huber and Karen
Bloom maintain their son,
Anthony, who was among
demonstrators protesting the
police shooting, is a hero who
sacrificed his life to protect
others. Authorities say Huber,
toting his skateboard, was
trying to disarm Rittenhouse
shortly after the teen shot and
killed Rosenbaum.
“At the end of the day,
(police) basically decided
to turn the streets over to a
bunch of armed vigilantes,”
said attorney Anand Swam-
inathan, of the Chicago law
firm Loevy & Loevy, who
filed the federal lawsuit on
behalf of Huber’s estate.
“Bad things are going to
happen when you have a
bunch of armed, untrained,
so-called militia men who
have been basically depu-
tized by the police. It really
created a serious powder
keg situation that was fore-
seeable.”
The Loevy & Loevy firm
immediately released a state-
ment from Huber’s parents
as the lawsuit was filed.
“The police are supposed
to serve and protect,” said
John Huber, the victim’s
father, “but that’s not what
the Kenosha police did.
They walked away from
their duties and turned over
the streets of Kenosha to
Kyle Rittenhouse and other
armed vigilantes. If they had
done their job, my son would
still be alive today.”
Kenosha police did not
respond to requests for
comment Tuesday. Attorney
Sam Hall, who represents
Sheriff Beth and Kenosha
County, in a statement said:
“While we understand that
the family of Anthony Huber
is grieving his loss, we must
make it clear that the allega-
tions ... are demonstrably false
and that the facts will show
that Mr. Huber’s death was
not caused by any actions or
inactions of Kenosha County
law enforcement.”
The lawsuit alleges
authorities were warned
about the counterprotest-
ers’ plans. In fact, a local
militia group had put out a
call on social media to armed
followers to come to the city
and help protect businesses.
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The rifle used in the Kenosha shooting was seized from
the trunk of a car belonging to a friend of Kyle Rittenhouse,
according to police reports. ANTIOCH POLICE DEPARTMENT
Kevin Mathewson, a former
Kenosha alderman and the
group’s commander, emailed
Miskinis, the city’s police
chief at the time, and posted
the message as an open letter
on Facebook, the suit said.
“We are mobilizing
tonight and have about 3,000
RSVPs,” the email read,
according to the lawsuit.
“We have volunteers that
will be in uptown, down-
town, and at the entrances
to other neighborhoods.”
The group’s Facebook
page had sought “patri-
ots willing to take up arms
and defend our city tonight
against the evil thugs,”
sparking responses such as,
“Armed and ready. Shoot to
kill tonight,’ ” the complaint
said. Still, it alleges, author-
ities allowed armed militia
members and Rittenhouse
“despite his obviously tender
age” to patrol the streets
without questioning them or
attempting to disarm them.
Furthermore, the lawsuit
said, law enforcement treated
Rittenhouse’s pro-police
group with “a different set
of rules,” such as enforc-
ing the city’s curfew order
only on demonstrators who
were assembled to protest
police violence. In fact, the
lawsuit quotes a Kenosha
police sergeant’s words in
the department’s internal
messaging system just before
10 p.m. Aug. 25 that down-
played the threat posed by
the armed citizens, whom he
described as “very friendly.”
About a half-hour later,
shortly before the shootings,
law enforcement officers
were seen in widely distrib-
uted video footage offering
water to Rittenhouse and his
group and thanking them,
with one officer stating,
“We appreciate you guys. We
really do,” the litigation said.
Swaminathan said police
ordered the demonstrators
to move south, thus funnel-
ing them into a confined
area where they were met
by the armed civilians. After
the shootings, video foot-
age shows, police allowed
Rittenhouse to leave even
though the teen was hold-
ing a rifle and had his hands
up in what many interpret as
a gesture of surrender.
Police cited more than
150 demonstrators with
curfew violations but not
a single counterprotester
was ticketed, the lawsuit
said. Furthermore, it alleges
if Rittenhouse and the
other armed civilians were
Black, police would have
responded differently. It
alleges that the officers’
response was motivated by
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racial discrimination and in
retaliation for protests crit-
ical of police.
The alleged conduct
violated the U.S. Constitu-
tion’s guarantees of a right
to free speech and peace-
ful assembly and to equal
protection of the law, among
other state law claims,
according to the lawsuit,
filed in the U.S. Eastern
District of Wisconsin.
“Defendants created an
extremely and obviously
dangerous and deadly envi-
ronment, which led directly
and foreseeably to the shoot-
ing of Anthony Huber and
others,” the lawsuit said.
“Defendants’ open support
of and coordination with
the armed individuals in the
minutes and hours before the
shootings deprived Anthony
Huber and the other protest-
ers of the basic protections
typically provided by police,
and it was a license for the
armed individuals to wreak
havoc and inflict injury.”
Rittenhouse is not a defen-
dant in the lawsuit.
Prosecutors have charged
him with several felonies,
including intentional homi-
cide, reckless homicide,
recklessly endangering
safety, and misdemeanor
minor in possession of a
dangerous weapon. An
intentional homicide charge
is the equivalent of a first-de-
gree murder charge in Illi-
nois.
Lawyers for Ritten-
house, now 18, maintain he
shot all the men in self-de-
fense. They said Huber and
Grosskreutz were part of a
mob that was chasing the
teen. Video taken that night
shows Huber reaching for
Rittenhouse’s rifle as his
skateboard hits the teen’s
shoulder.
Rittenhouse remains
free on $2 million bail. The
money was largely raised
through social media among
conservatives and gun rights
advocates who have held
him up as a symbol for gun
rights. Supporters of the
Black Lives Matter move-
ment, however, paint him as
a white supremacist.
The teen’s pretrial free-
dom has sparked contro-
versy. Most recently,
prosecutors tried unsuc-
cessfully to persuade Judge
Bruce Schroeder to issue an
arrest warrant and increase
the teen’s bond amount
because he had failed to
inform the courts of where
he’s living as he awaits trial.
That came weeks after
prosecutors took issue with
Rittenhouse visiting a south-
ern Wisconsin bar immedi-
ately after his arraignment
in a T-shirt reading “Free
as (expletive).” Cameras
captured the teen flashing
hand signs appropriated by
white supremacist groups,
and a group of men sere-
naded Rittenhouse with a
song purportedly favored by
the Proud Boys, an extrem-
ist group.
In response, Schroeder
ordered that Rittenhouse
“shall not knowingly have
contact with any person or
group of persons known to
harm, threaten, harass or
menace others on the basis
of their race, beliefs on the
subject of religion, color,
national origin, or gender.”
The teen’s lawyers have said
he has no ties to extremist
groups.
A court hearing regarding
pretrial motions is sched-
uled for Sept. 17. The judge
also set a Nov. 1 tentative trial
date.
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A ‘code red for humanity’
— and the Great Lakes
Most people who live in Chicago and
the Great Lakes region probably think of
climate change as primarily a headache
for West Coast homeowners and busi-
nesses weary of wildfires.
Midwesterners, think again.
A recent report by the United Nations’
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change is a 4,000-page document
viewed as the most comprehensive look
at climate ever undertaken. Among the
findings: “It is unequivocal that human
influence has warmed the atmosphere,
ocean and land.”
U.N. Secretary General António
Guterres called the report’s conclusions
“a code red for humanity.” In many ways,
it’s also a code red for the Prairie State.
In Illinois, the changing climate makes
the future look wetter and warmer,
as reported in a climate assessment
focused on this state earlier this year
by the Nature Conservancy. Like the
U.N. report, it offered a grim outlook for
coming decades.
Even after cutting carbon emissions
to meet current bench marks, changes
in this state by the end of this century
could include: average annual tempera-
tures warming 4 to 9 degrees, a month
of temperatures reaching 95 degrees or
higher and 3 more inches of rain during
the spring.
That would mean more flooding and
more health threats from heat, water-
borne pathogens, mold and disease
carried by mosquitoes and ticks.
In Chicago, flooding has forced sludge
into basements and unleashed swarms
of sewer flies, a vision out of a horror
film, except it’s real. Communities that
already have the highest risk of health
challenges are likely to suffer even more.
On farms, climate change could bring
a longer growing season for the state’s
biggest crops — corn and soybeans. But
it’s a mixed picture. Intensifying drought
and heat could reduce corn yields and
force some planting zones to shift north.
Overseas, the Italian island of Sicily
may have set a modern record for the
hottest day ever recorded in Europe.
A monitoring station on the island
reported a temperature of 119.84 degrees
Fahrenheit, 48.8 degrees Celsius, on Aug.
11. If verified, it would be the highest
temperature ever recorded in Europe.
ABOUT A VACCINE MANDATE FOR TROOPS
The Biden administration next month
will mandate that all active-duty mili-
tary personnel be vaccinated against the
coronavirus. This commonsense imper-
ative is nothing new — troops are already
mandated for vaccination against 17
diseases — but it is nonetheless contro-
versial among those who have turned
anti-vaccination hokum into a culture
war sacrament.
It should go without saying that full
vaccination of the armed forces against
any dangerous virus is crucial to Ameri-
ca’s security. The tiny ledge that crit-
ics have to stand on is the fact that the
Food and Drug Administration so far has
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So far, countries are falling short of
doing what scientists say is needed to
avoid the worst effects of climate change,
according to a U.N. analysis from earlier
this year. Meeting current emissions
pledges would bring only a 1 percent
reduction in global emissions by 2030,
compared to 2010 levels. Scientists say
something closer to a 50 percent reduc-
tion is needed.
“We must act decisively now,” said
Guterres, the U.N. chief. “Every fraction
of a degree counts.”
Using new data sets to make centu-
ry-to-century comparisons, the U.N.’s
IPCC report finds that human influence
has warmed the climate at a rate that is
unprecedented in at least the last 2,000
years.
“There’s no going back,” tweeted
Darrell Kaufman, a climate scientist at
Northern Arizona University and one
of the report’s authors. “At least, not for
centuries.”
What can be done? It’s too late to avoid
some of the most devastating effects the
new assessments indicate are on the way.
Even if nations made drastic cuts today,
the amount of cumulative warming still
is likely to rise 1.5 degrees Celsius within
the next 20 years, the report concludes.
There’s still time, however, to take
action to prevent the planet from getting
even hotter. Planting more trees is a great
idea, but only a start. The infrastruc-
ture bill now before Congress includes
billions of dollars to help the country
granted only emergency-use approval
for the coronavirus vaccines. Full, formal
approval, long overdue, could come
soon, and that should end this ridiculous
debate once and for all. …
The approval process had to be accel-
erated due to the deadly spread of the
virus, but the vaccines have been in
wide use since December — more than
the six months generally needed for full
approval — with no significant reports of
adverse effects. Right-wing circus bark-
ers who have falsely claimed otherwise,
like Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, have
blood on their hands. Defense Secretary
Lloyd Austin says he will seek a waiver
Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Wednesday, August 18, 2021  11
Christine W. Taylor, Managing Editor
Michelle G. Lopez, Todd Panagopoulos,
SCOTT STANTIS
deal with flood control, river dredging,
mapping of areas most likely to have
flooding and wildfires and relocating
Native American populations away from
the most fire-vulnerable areas.
Nations also need to band together to
stop adding carbon dioxide to the atmo-
sphere by about 2050, climate scientists
say. Congress took an important step in
December by authorizing $447 million to
research and develop large-scale carbon
removal.
Although it’s easier and a lot less
expensive to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions at their source than to pull
released carbon back in from the atmo-
sphere, some companies, including a
growing number of start-ups, are using
new technologies to develop more
renewable fuel and efficient energy — or
to capture and scrub CO2 from the air
and store it underground.
The private sector still tends to resist
such steps unless legally required to do
so. But the more individuals and compa-
nies get engaged in the effort, the more
costs will go down, as we have seen in the
solar and wind power industries.
Accurate research like the IPCC report
has produced alarming news of the
earth’s climate future. Now the world
needs U.S. and international action on
a massive scale, rather than feel-good
public relations gestures.
After all, we only have one planet
and, if we treat its resources right, one is
enough.
from a federal law to allow the mili-
tary vaccine mandate if full Food and
Drug Administration approval doesn’t
come before mid-September. For the
sake of putting the argument to rest, full
approval would be preferable. That is
expected to happen within weeks. At
that point, any debate about the validity
of a military vaccination mandate should
be over. As should the already-strained
patience of the responsible majority of
Americans who have been vaccinated,
toward the irresponsible minority who
continue to endanger everyone.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Editorial Board
DIRECTORS OF CONTENT
Phil Jurik, Amanda Kaschube,
Rochell Bishop Sleets
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
Remember Afghan women
As the Taliban take control of all of Afghan-
istan, I do not worry about which American
administration is to blame for this disaster.
I also am not concerned about America’s
future role in Afghanistan.
I am disquieted about what the future
holds for the more than 19 million Afghan
women who have had some or even a
tremendous amount of personal freedom
for the past 20 years. Will members of the
Taliban go back to their pre-2001 practices
regarding women, or will they be more
“liberal” and behave more like the Saudis or
even Iranians?
People in the West, such as Hillary Clin-
ton, like to intone slogans such as: “Women’s
rights are human rights.” I agree. However,
a slogan without moral or physical force
behind it is just empty rhetoric.
May the women of Afghanistan weather
this latest catastrophe.
— Stan Palder, Chicago
Reckless withdrawal
Kudos to the Tribune Editorial Board for
acknowledging and supporting the efforts
of those men and women who so valiantly
served America’s interests in Afghanistan
(“With Afghanistan ending in failure and
chaos, all the more reason to appreciate those
who served,” Aug. 17). At least there is one
strong voice applauding those who served.
The headline noting an ending in failure
and chaos is also so appropriate. Thousands
of Afghans are at risk and have been left by
their government, their military and their
allies whom they supported for years. This is
a humanitarian disaster.
There are ways to strategically withdraw.
There are processes that can and should be
followed to protect those who supported
our efforts and to ensure that they are not
left behind. While President Joe Biden
says he “stands by his decision,” how can
he possibly stand by a decision that was not
supported by any plan of concrete action
but was a reckless retreat? It’s time to look
at those put in charge of national security.
Biden may stand by his decision, but how
can he stand by those responsible for imple-
menting this decision?
At least we have one strong editorial voice
saying: “The first thoughts of this page are
with those of our fellow Illinoisans who gave
their time, their energy, their hearts and in
some cases their lives for the multiyear U.S.
mission in Afghanistan.” At least, as the edito-
rial says, we can show our appreciation for
these fellow Americans, even if we certainly
cannot show it to the administration that had
the idea of withdrawing but none of the plans
to implement that idea.
— Sarah Beyne, Northbrook
A message to veterans
We cannot choose where, when or why we
deploy. We take an oath to the Constitution,
and in doing so, place our trust in our elected
leaders to make those decisions. Veterans of
Afghanistan accepted their task and excelled
as a fighting force. But the war in Afghani-
stan was marred by subsequent administra-
tions embracing political expediency over
conditions-based realities and Congresses
more eager to acquiesce than act as the seat
of power.
To every veteran who served in Afghan-
istan; who left a piece of himself or herself
over there; who took life and saw life taken;
who lost a best friend, and another, and
another; who now carries a secret sacrifice;
who is reliving painful memories; who is now
questioning, “Was it worth it?”; and who feels
betrayed:
You are not alone.
— Kevin D. Ryan, Washington
America’s other wars
To withdraw or not withdraw from
Afghanistan, that is the question. The answer
is simple. America’s useless participation
in Vietnam’s civil war ended in the deaths
of over 50,000 brave American men and
women. We have already seen over 20,000
American men and women injured or killed
in Afghanistan’s civil war.
America needs to tend to the climate war,
the poverty war and the injustice war in our
own country and stop sending our best to
civil wars around the world.
— Richard J. Aronson, Highland Park
Double standards
So President Joe Biden says he had no
choice but to follow through on the “bad
deal” then-President Donald Trump had
made with the Taliban. Really? Funny how
he wasted no time reversing the deals Trump
had made on the Keystone XL Pipeline, the
border wall and immigration policy, the Paris
climate agreement and the Iran nuclear deal.
If Democrats didn’t have double standards,
they would have no standards at all.
— Martin Dettmer, Wheaton
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OPINION

President Joe Biden walks from the East Room after talking about Afghanistan on Monday at the White House. EVAN VUCCI/AP

President Biden’s Afghan pullout

looked good — until it didn’t
Clarence Page
In the lead-up to Kabul’s fall, Pres-
ident Joe Biden’s most memorable
quote appears to be his answer on
July 8 to a reporter’s question about
an assessment from the intelligence
community that Afghanistan’s govern-
ment teetered on the brink of collapse.
“That is not true,” the commander
in chief insisted. “They did not reach
that conclusion. … There is going to be
no circumstance where you see people
lifted off the roof of an embassy. … The
likelihood that you’re going to see the
Taliban overrunning everything and
owning the whole country is highly
unlikely.”
The Taliban obviously had other
ideas. On Sunday they rolled into
Kabul with surprising ease to topple
the Afghan government, sending
thousands of desperate civilians, many
of whom had worked with our mili-
tary, scrambling to the airport.
Biden’s remark about helicopters
on the embassy roof was a reference
to this country’s humiliating scram-
ble to get out of Vietnam in 1975. A few
weeks later, news media were running
photos of that Saigon withdrawal with
images of an American Chinook heli-
copter hovering over our embassy in
Kabul during another disastrous with-
drawal.
Now the familiar rituals of recrim-
inations and finger-pointing begin.
After 20 years and two presidents
from each party, there are plenty of
targets.
But, as difficult as the mission to end
America’s involvement in Afghanistan
has been, it is Biden who gets stuck
with the blame for its chaotic execu-
tion.
In his televised statement, a day
earlier, Biden tried to shift blame to
his predecessor Donald Trump, who
forged an agreement with the Taliban
to withdraw by May 1. Biden pushed
that back to coincide with the anni-
versary of the Sept. 11 attacks. But
since the Taliban wasn’t honoring the
agreement, Biden wasn’t particularly
obligated either.
Even if the U.S. had broken the deal,
it would not necessarily mean we
would need to send more troops to
join the roughly 2,500 American mili-
tary “advisers” already in the country.
We might have continued the exist-
ing state of affairs by using air cover to
contain Taliban advances before they
invaded the cities.
But, after 20 years of war, Biden was
too impatient for that. In a sentiment
that undoubtedly reflects a strong
majority of Americans, he said, “One
more year, or five more years, of U.S.
military presence would not have
made a difference if the Afghan mili-
tary cannot or will not hold its own
country.”
Indeed, we have heard simi-
lar sentiments from Presidents
George W. Bush, Barack Obama and
Donald Trump, each of whom prom-
ised to protect democracy without
“nation-building,” even as they tried to
do both in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In Iraq that policy appears to have
had more success. The U.S. still has
about 2,500 troops in Iraq, help-
ing local forces contend with what
remains of the Islamic State group.
Yet, in Afghanistan, even as Amer-
ican jets still were attacking Taliban
positions in July, Biden continued his
plans to pull out of that country. Some
observers have questioned, with
good reason, why Biden stuck with
his plans to pull out of Afghanistan,
while leaving a similarly sized force
in Iraq.
As a draftee in the final years of long,
drawn-out Vietnam War, I appreci-
ate the pressures rising in both parties
to end this country’s “neocolonial-
ist” and “neoconservative” impulses
that too often have tried to promote
democracy in countries that weren’t
ready for it.
But our missions in Iraq and
Afghanistan were directly tied to
perceived threats against our coun-
try, the same reason we currently
have more than 170,000 troops in 170
countries. That’s one reason why, even
though I was drafted in the Vietnam
call-up, I wound up working with our
NATO allies in Germany.
Occasionally you hear political
candidates in both parties complain,
as candidate Trump did, about
“endless wars” and that we have too
many troops in Europe, Asia and else-
where around the globe. Yet, there
were more troops in the Middle East
after Trump became president than
before his ascent to the Oval Office.
Tens of thousands of American
troops remain deployed in such war
zones as Somalia and — even still —
Syria, plus such long-allied countries
such as Germany, South Korea and
Japan.
In time, will our Afghanistan pull-
out look like a sudden abandonment
of our commitment to stability? Could
it even slip back into providing a new
safe haven for al Qaida or other terror-
ist groups?
I’d like to think the new Taliban
leadership is smarter than that, but I
wouldn’t bank on it.
Clarence Page, a member of the
Tribune Editorial Board, blogs at
www.chicagotribune.com/pagespage.
cpage@chicagotribune.com
Twitter @cptime

To move forward after officer’s death, Chicago must address root causes of gun violence
By Arne Duncan
The shooting death of Chicago
police Officer Ella French, the
critical wounding of her part-
ner, and the alarming increase
in the number of Chicago cops
who have faced gunfire this year,
should prompt some serious
reflection on the role of police
officers in a society overrun with
guns.
With Chicago experiencing
one of the most violent years in
history, it should further prompt
even deeper reflection on our
collective failure to bring gun
violence under control.
Theories as to why gun
violence is spiking run from
COVID-19, the economy and
civil unrest, to hot weather and
low clearance rates. The truth is,
no one knows for sure why the
numbers go up and down. But we
can at least ask questions.
For example, do we really
expect police to prevent shoot-
ings, or merely to investigate
them? Is it necessary for armed
police to enforce traffic laws?
Would unarmed traffic enforc-
ers be less likely to escalate traffic
stops into armed encounters?
How many other non-violent or
non-criminal activities might be
better addressed by non-police?
And does confiscating guns by the
thousands each year reduce gun
shooting or being shot to earn a
legal living. We have to give them
a reason to put down their guns,
a chance to heal and a chance to
support their families.
Under CRED’s model, they
get a stipend while they transi-
tion, counseling and life coaches
to keep them on track, as well
as role models and support they
never had growing up. Our work-
ers also negotiate peace treaties,
intervene in online disputes,
occupy “hot spots” to discourage
violence, and help young people
at risk earn degrees and get jobs.
It’s slow, expensive, and risky
work and it’s not foolproof, but
Special Agent Hugo River prays at the memorial site set up in honor of research from Northwestern
Chicago police Officer Ella French on Aug. 10 French was shot and killed University and the University of
while on duty. ANTONIO PEREZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE Chicago shows promise. We esti-
mate that taking these programs
violence? ings in Chicago are solved. to scale would cost $400 million
The fact is, there is no correla- Violence prevention organi- to $500 million per year.
tion between the number of guns zations such as Chicago CRED, Expensive as all of this may
recovered and the level of gun READI Chicago, Communities sound, it’s far less expensive than
violence. In 2016, gun recoveries Partnering 4 Peace, Youth Peace the sprawling criminal justice
rose by 25% while the number Center in Roseland, UCAN in system we have in Chicago today.
of homicides increased almost North Lawndale, Maafa on the Our Police Department alone costs
60%. In 2020, gun recoveries rose West Side, Iman on the South $1.7 billion per year. Add in courts,
by about 50% the same as the Side, New Life Centers in Little prosecutors, jails, prisons, proba-
homicide rate. . Some years, both Village and several others across tion, health care for victims, lost
numbers drop. the city begin by recognizing that investment and lower tax revenues
It may feel counterintuitive, but street violence is tied to social due to crime, and the annual cost to
the likely explanation is simple. failure and trauma. Chicago is about $7 billion.
The vast majority of people carry- We need to reduce the incen- For a fraction of that $7 billion,
ing guns are not active shooters. tive to steal or sell drugs by we could house, feed and employ
They simply don’t feel safe, in providing a way for young men every one of the young men and
large part because so few shoot- who are at the greatest risk of women at risk of shooting or
being shot. We could cut off the
pipeline of teens into street gangs
and invest in crime-plagued
neighborhoods to create new
housing, jobs and local-owned
businesses. If we got our murder
rate on par with other big cities
like New York and Los Angeles,
the return on investment is on the
order of 20 to 1.
Treating gun violence exclu-
sively with arrest and incarcer-
ation isn’t working. We have not
had under 400 homicides in a
single year since 1965, while our
prison population has exploded.
We already have one of the largest
police forces in the country on
a per capita basis. Adding more
isn’t the answer.
As we honor officer French
and pray for her partner, let’s also
remember the hundreds of civil-
ians dying from gun violence each
year. Let’s remember the count-
less other community members
struggling with physical and
mental trauma, including many
Chicago police officers. Like it or
not, people and police are in this
together and we all want the same
thing: safety.
Arne Duncan is the founder of
Chicago CRED and a managing
partner of Emerson Collective.
He served as the secretary of
education under President Barack
Obama from 2009 to 2016.

OBITUARIES
HUGO SONNENSCHEIN
As U. of C. president, oversaw
building and enrollment expansion
By Bob Goldsborough
For Chicago Tribune
Over seven years as the
University of Chicago’s pres-
ident, Hugo F. Sonnenschein
oversaw several important
building projects on the
Hyde Park campus, worked
to increase undergraduate
enrollment and pared down
the required courses in the
university’s vaunted Core
Curriculum.
“Hugo’s leadership was
crucial in helping the univer-
sity community understand
the importance of having a
nationally competitive and
widely esteemed under-
graduate college at the heart
of a great university,” said
John W. Boyer, the dean of
the university’s undergrad-
uate college for the past 29
years.
Sonnenschein, 80, died of
complications from cancer
on July 15 at the University
of Chicago Hospitals, said
his wife of 58 years, Eliza-
beth. He had been a Hyde
Park resident.
Born in Brooklyn,
Sonnenschein received a
bachelor’s degree in math-
ematics from the University
of Rochester in 1961. While
in college, Sonnenschein
took interest in economist
Kenneth Arrow’s schol-
arship in the area of social
choice.
“It was this application of
mathematics to economics
theory that made him real-
ize he could use mathemat-
ics, which he viewed as a
beautiful discipline, but use
it in application to economic
problems,” Sonnenschein’s
wife said. “It was just a good
match. He never tired of
(economics).”
After college, Sonnen-
schein earned master’s and
doctoral degrees in econom-
ics from Purdue University.
Sonnenschein’s research
helped establish the modern
theory of aggregate demand,
and his scholarly work
also covered multimarket
demand and supply func-
tions in economics.
Sonnenschein taught at
the University of Minnesota,
the University of Massachu-
setts, Northwestern Univer-
sity and Princeton before
becoming dean of arts and
sciences at the University of
Pennsylvania in 1988.
In 1991, Sonnenschein
returned to Princeton to
serve as its provost, or chief
academic officer. Sonnen-
schein was drawn to the
challenges and opportu-
nities offered in academic
leadership, his wife said.
“I think while he was
ON AUGUST 18 ...
In 1227 the Mongol
conqueror Genghis Khan
died.
In 1587 Virginia Dare
became the first child of
English parents to be born
on American soil, on what is
now Roanoke Island, North
Carolina.
In 1834 Chicago depart-
ment store founder Marshall
Field was born near Conway,
Massachusetts.
In 1914 President Woodrow
Wilson issued his “Procla-
mation of Neutrality,” aimed
at keeping the United States
out of World War I.
In 1920 Tennessee became
the 36th state to ratify the
19th Amendment, which
guaranteed the right of
American women to vote.
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Hugo Sonnenschein in 1999.
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doing research, he was
observing what was going
on around him at the differ-
ent universities he taught
at and saw challenges and
saw needs that an effective
administrator could address,
and he was eager to do that,”
she said.
In December 1992, the U.
of C. announced Sonnen-
schein’s hiring as its 11th
president, succeeding
Hanna Gray. The Tribune
story on his hiring noted he
had developed a “reputa-
tion as a nimble administra-
tor who is also a first-class
scholar, a certified egghead
as comfortable with people
as he is with books.”
During his first years as
president, he oversaw a
capital campaign that raised
$676 million for student aid,
faculty support, research
and construction projects.
The campaign led to an
extensive building program
that resulted in a new build-
ing for the Graduate School
of Business, two new resi-
dence halls and a new athlet-
ics center.
When Sonnenschein
took office the U. of C. had
about 3,400 undergradu-
ate students — far less than
the undergraduate enroll-
ments at Ivy League peers.
In April 1996, Sonnenschein
proposed increasing its
undergraduate enrollment
to at least 4,500 students
within a decade.
In a letter to faculty, he
argued that in a time of
“dynamic change in knowl-
edge and technology,” those
with a rigorous liberal arts
education were a crucial
resource for “a world in
which hope, respected lead-
ership and thoughtful citi-
zenship are in short supply,
and in which prejudice,
fear and the manipulation
of public opinion are all too
prevalent.”
Sonnenschein’s plan was
In 1934 Roberto Clemente,
the Baseball Hall of Fame
outfielder, was born in Caro-
lina, Puerto Rico.
In 1954 Assistant Labor
Secretary James Wilkins
became the first African
American to attend a meet-
ing of a president’s Cabinet
as he sat in for Labor Secre-
tary James Mitchell.
In 1963 James Meredith
became the first Africa
American to graduate from
the University of Missis-
sippi.
In 1969 the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair in Bethel,
New York, wound to a close
after three nights with a
midmorning set by Jimi
Hendrix.
In 1983 Hurricane Alicia
slammed into the Texas
coast as a Category 3 storm,
leaving 22 dead and causing
more than $1 billion worth
of damage.
In 1987 American journalist
Charles Glass escaped his
kidnappers in Beirut after
62 days in captivity. (Glass
had been abducted June
17 with two Lebanese who
were released after a week.)
In 1988 Indiana Sen. Dan
Quayle was nominated to be
George H.W. Bush’s running
mate during the Republican
convention in New Orleans.
In 1991Soviet hard-liners
launched a coup aimed at
toppling President Mikhail
implemented, and enroll-
ment increased to 4,500
undergraduates by 2004 and
is today about 7,000.
“I think he was proud
that while the (enrollment)
increase was being imple-
mented, the actual academic
quality of the undergradu-
ates was improving,” Eliz-
abeth Sonnenschein said.
“Maintaining the values
of the U. of C. overall in
everything he did was very
important to him.”
Sonnenschein also
reduced the U. of C.’s “core
curriculum” of required
courses. The idea drew
criticism from students
and alumni, some of whom
publicly charged Sonnen-
schein with diluting the
university’s intellectual
rigor.
“Hugo was tough-
minded, smart and deter-
mined to do the right thing
for the university,” said U.
of C. law professor Geoffrey
Stone, who was the univer-
sity’s provost from 1994
until 2002. “Some of these
things were understandably
controversial, but they were
necessary to preserve the
long-term excellence of the
university.
“Hugo … never put his
own popularity or desire to
avoid criticism ahead of his
responsibility to do the right
thing for the university. In
the end, he was proved right
and even most of his harsh-
est critics came to accept the
wisdom of his decisions.”
After stepping down as
president in 2000, Sonnen-
schein returned to the
classroom as an economics
professor, teaching courses
in game theory and micro-
economic theory and also
mentoring and advising
students and colleagues.
He retired from the
faculty five years ago, his
wife said. However, he
continued writing academic
papers and informally advis-
ing students until his death.
“In many ways, I would
say he was never in retire-
ment,” said his daughter,
Amy Venetianer. “He was
always doing economics and
working with students and
colleagues.”
In addition to his wife and
daughter, Sonnenschein
is survived by two other
daughters, Leah Schrauden-
bach and Rachel Mossi; five
grandchildren; and a cousin
in whose home he had
grown up, Helen Freedman.
The U. of C. is planning a
memorial service in 2022.
Bob Goldsborough is a free-
lance reporter.
Gorbachev, who was vaca-
tioning in the Crimea. (The
coup collapsed three days
later, marking the begin-
ning of the end of the Soviet
Union.)
In 1994 Florida Gov. Lawton
Chiles declared an immi-
gration emergency and
demanded federal help to
cope with the largest surge
of Cuban refugees since the
1980 Mariel boatlift.
In 2003 a senior French
health official resigned
after France’s health minis-
ter admitted that up to 5,000
people might have died in a
heat wave. Also in 2003 the
Liberian government and
rebels signed a peace accord.
In 2009 former South
Korean President Kim Dae
Jung, who won the Nobel
Peace Prize in 2000 for his
efforts to foster reconcilia-
tion on the Korean penin-
sula, died; he was 85. Also
in 2009 conservative politi-
cal columnist Robert Novak
died after battling brain
cancer; he was 78.
In 2014 President Barack
Obama hailed “signifi-
cant progress” after U.S.
airstrikes helped Iraqi and
Kurdish ground forces
retake Mosul Dam from
Islamic State militants.
In 2017 President Donald
Trump dismissed his embat-
tled chief strategist, Steve
Bannon, in a major White
House shake-up following a
week of racial unrest.
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In Memoriam
Larry Schwartz
Happy Birthday, Larry!
We miss you every day & more each year.
We cherish the memories of our talks, the sound of
your laughter, & the kindness of your heart.
Love, Mom, Dad, Mike, Rick, & Sue
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Athy, Josephine
(nee Murphy), age 99, Native of Castlebar, Co. Mayo,
Ireland. Beloved wife of the late Patrick Athy for 57
years. Loving mother of Pauline (Vince) Burke, Chris
(Cathy) Athy, Sheila Linden & Mary (Perry) Cronin.
Cherished grandmother of 9 & great grandmother
of 6. Visitation Saturday, August 21st from 9:00
a.m. until time of chapel prayers 11:00 a.m. at the
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7020 W. 127th Street, Palos Heights proceeding to
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Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. Please omit flowers, in
lieu of flowers, contributions to St. Jude’s Children’s
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Burke, Kathryn S. ‘Kathy’
Kathryn (Kathy) Suzanne Burke, 53, of Lemont,
passed away peacefully on
August 15th, 2021 surround-
ed by her beloved family.
Kathy was born in LaGrange,
IL to Gerald and Mary Panzer
on December 12th, 1967, the
second of five children. She
married the love of her life,
Roger Burke, on November
10th, 1989 in Lemont IL. She
worked as an administration assistant for Nardi &
Company for Ten years until she had her first child,
Michael. Later, she worked as the administrative as-
sistant to the CEO at Timberline Knolls in Lemont
where she formed friendships she will cherish
forever. To know Kathy was to love her, she will be
remembered for the beaming smile you could pick
out in any crowd & the imprint she left on so many
hearts.
Kathy is preceded in death by her grandparents,
Joseph & Francis Panzer, Michael & Louise O’Brien,
and her parents Gerald and Mary Panzer. Kathy is
survived by her husband Roger Burke and their
beloved children Michael Burke, Shannon (Curtis)
Homan, & Kristin Burke. As well as her siblings,
Michael (Chris) Panzer, Carolyn Panzer, Theresa
(Jason) Serpe, and Joseph Panzer.
The visitation will be 3PM-9PM Friday, August 20th
at Markiewicz Funeral Home, Lemont IL.
Funeral services will be held 12 PM Saturday
August 21st at St. Alphonsus Parish, Lemont IL with
Rev. Brian P. Ardagh, officiating. Burial will follow
at St. Alphonsus cemetery. Arrangements are by
Markiewicz Funeral Home.
Pallbearers will be Michael Burke, John Burke,
Joseph Burke, Lawrence Burke, Paul Burke, Michael
Panzer, Joseph Panzer, Joseph Ekkert, and Jason
Serpe.
Memorials may be given to St. Jude’s Children’s
Hospital.
The family of Kathy wishes to extend our sincere
thanks to her medical team that provided the care
that gave her five years of cherished time, all of the
family and friends near and far that supported Kathy
and her family through this journey, and her hospice
team at Seasons hospice that supported Kathy and
her family through their toughest season of life. Info:
630-257-6363 or www.markiewiczfh.com
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Caminiti, Sylvester Daniel
Sylvester Daniel Caminiti, age 89 of Naperville,
formerly of Cicero and Lake Villa. Beloved husband
of the late Rachel (nee Guzzi) for 66 years, loving
father of Susan (Ralph) Wagner and Samuel Michael
(Nicole) Caminiti, cherished grandfather of Carly,
Daniel and Adyson Caminiti, dear brother of the
late Samuel (Judith) Caminiti Jr., the late Sharron
Mattera and brother-in-law of Frances (late Arthur)
Parello and Karen (late Mark) Pellegrino-Scandura,
fond uncle of many nieces and nephews. Cremation
private. Graveside service and inurnment Saturday,
August 21st, 10:30am at Queen of Heaven Cemetery
Hillside. Family and friends are asked to meet at the
cemetery office by 10:15am. Arrangements handled
by Kuratko-Nosek Funeral Home. Online condolences
may be offered to the family at www.KuratkoNosek.
com. Info: (708) 447-2500
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Dempsey, James Joseph
James Joseph Dempsey, age 85. Beloved husband
of Hon. Julia Quinn Dempsey (ret). Cherished fa-
ther of Laura Gens (Timothy), Leonora Dempsey,
Terrence Dempsey MD FACS (Anne MD FACS), the
late Thomas (Karen). Adored grandfather to Julia,
Eva, Henry, Travis, Christine, James, Bridget, Hannah,
Matthew, Michael and the late Quinn. Great grandfa-
ther to Channing. Fond brother of the late Terrence
and Thomas Dempsey. Born February 26th, 1935
in Chicago, Illinois. James grew up at Mooseheart
after the death of his father in 1942. He became
the youngest U.S. Eagle Scout while in grammar
school. He served in the U.S. Army after graduating
from Loyola University and later went on to receive
his MBA from the University of Chicago. He died
in Stuart, Florida on May 7th, 2020, soon after the
national lockdown for COVID was implemented.
Funeral Saturday, August 21, 2021 at St. Luke’s
Catholic Church, Lake and Lathrop in River Forest IL.
Internment following at Queen of Heaven, Wolf Road
and Roosevelt, Hillside, IL.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to
Treasure Coast Hospice, Martin County, FL.
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DiMonte, Raymond
Raymond
y J. DiMonte died unexpectedly on August
8, 2021, at age 62. He was
born on May 15, 1959 in
Chicago, IL. Ray grew up in
Naperville, IL. He attended
St. Raphael School and
graduated from Naperville
Central High School in 1978.
As an adult, Ray returned to
the city of Chicago and spent
many years working for his
father at Victone Manufacturing Company. Ray was
a city boy at heart. He rode his bike all around the
city and loved going to the beach. Recently, he was
overjoyed to move to an apartment overlooking
Lake Michigan. Sadly, it was this beloved lake that
took his life while swimming in waters that turned
choppy on a Sunday afternoon. Ray is survived
by his father, Joseph A. DiMonte (Maria) of Sugar
Grove, IL, and siblings Joseph N. (Laurie) DiMonte of
Gilbert, AZ, Susan DiMonte of Peoria, AZ, and Sandra
(Michael) Frost of Geneva, IL. He is also survived
by his nieces and nephews Joseph R. DiMonte
(Adella DeHaro), Jaclyn DiMonte (Steve Puklin), Mike
Carroll (Tina Alnimri), and Merissa (Tim)Murphy all of
AZ, and Abbey Frost of IL, as well as several great
nieces and nephews in Arizona. Ray will certainly
be missed by his many friends as well. Ray was
preceded in death by his mother, Jean Rae DiMonte.
A service to remember Ray will be held Tuesday,
August 24, 2021, at 12:00 P.M at Moss Family
Funeral Home, 209 South Batavia Avenue Batavia, IL.
Visitation will be held from 10:00 A.M. until the time
of the service. In lieu of flowers, donation may be
made to a charity of the donor’s choice. 630-879-
7900, www.mossfuneral.com
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Fischer, Susan Elizabeth
Susan Elizabeth Fischer nee Wilke, age 79, of
Wilmette, IL. Beloved wife
of the late Wayne S. Fischer.
Devoted mother of Stephen
(Sarah) and Brian (Kerri)
Fischer. Adoring grand-
mother of Ellen, Ada, Shane
and Margaret Fischer. Loving
daughter of the late Harold
and the late Helen Wilke.
Visitation Friday, August,
20, 2021 4:00 pm until time of Funeral Service at
6:00 p.m. at Donnellan Family Funeral Home, 10045
Skokie Boulevard, Skokie, IL 60077. Interment pri-
vate Eden Memorial Park Cemetery, Schiller Park,
IL. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to
Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook Road,
Glencoe, IL 60022.
Info: donnellanfuneral.com or (847) 675-1990.
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Hartmann, Jeremiah Peter ‘Jerry’
Jeremiah (Jerry) Peter Hartmann, 95, passed
away peacefully after a short illness at Clarendale
Retirement Community on August 8, 2021. He was
born on July 4th, 1926 to Olive Albertson and Frank
Hartmann. He and his wife Marilyn were married
sixty nine years before her death on September
18th, 2018.They lived in Roseland and then South
Holland IL.
He is survived by his three loving children: Alan (Sue)
Hartmann, Dennis (Judy) Hartmann, and Kristina
(Paul) Coccaro. He also leaves his beloved grandchil-
dren: Jeff, Jennifer, Valerie, Stephanie, Jessica and
her husband Alex Romero. He also leaves behind
his brother Frank Hartmann and his sister Leona
Hartmann.
Memorial visitation, Saturday August 21, 2021 from
9:00 AM-10:30 at Vandenberg Funeral Home 19604
Wolf Road, Mokena, IL. Mass of Christian Burial
11:00 AM at St. Mary Church, Mokena, IL. Interment
Private.
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Kalivas, John
John Kalivas, born in Poulithra, Ky-
nourias, Greece on November 27, 1931,
to his American citizen father Nikolaos
and mother Hrysoula (Alexandraki) Kali-
vas. Moved to the U.S.A. in 1949 where
he lived the rest of his life. Proud Army
veteran of the Korean War, serving with
the XVIII Corps of the 82nd Airborne Division (“Air-
borne all the way!”). A successful restauranteur,
owning restaurants including the Clubside Inn in
Wheaton, IL, and Pegasus in Chicago, IL. Later a
successful general manager of food sales with
Kronos Foods and Corfu Foods. Survived by his
beautiful wife of 49 years, Anna (Nahurska) Kalivas;
loving and wonderful daughter Jane Kalivas Pe-
ters; loving son-in-law Bernard Peters; two grand-
children and four great-grandchildren through his
late son Nick Kalivas; two step-grandchildren; and
a nephew and many nieces and cousins in the
U.S.A., Greece and Poland. Preceded in death by
his brother Jimmy Kalivas and sisters Nitsa (Nick)
Athanasopoulou and Olga (John) Boudouri. Visita-
tion at the Pedersen Ryberg Funeral Home, 435 N.
York St., Elmhurst on Friday, August 20, 2021 from
9:00 a.m. until time of Funeral Service at 11:00
a.m. Interment with Military Funeral Honors to fol-
low at Assumption Catholic Cemetery, Wheaton,
Illinois. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made
to the 82nd Airborne Division Association, P.O.
Box 87482, Fayetteville, NC 28304-7482. For info
630-834-1133.
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Krosnjar, Peter ‘Peki’
Peter “Peki” Krosnjar, age 35, of Libertyville, IL
passed away unexpectedly on August
14, 2021. Beloved son of V. Rev. Djuro
and Protinica Anne Krosnjar; loving
brother of Marija Krosnjar (Brian Eckert),
he is also survived by Baba Ljubica,
many aunts, uncles, cousins and kumovi here and
in Europe. Visitation on Saturday, August 21, 2021
from 9:30 AM until the 11 AM Funeral Service at
New Gracanica Serbian Orthodox Monastery, 35240
W. Grant Ave., Third Lake, IL 60046. Interment at
New Gracanica Cemetery. For information – Reuland
& Turnbough Funeral Directors of Lake Forest, 847-
234-9649 or www.RTfunerals.com. Memorial con-
tributions in Peki’s name may be made to St. Basil
of Ostrog Serbian Orthodox Church, 27450 Bradley
Rd., Lake Forest, IL 60045.
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Loeffler, Timothy C. ‘Tim’
Timothy C. Loeffler (Tim) died at his home in Chicago
on August 9, 2021, and in the presence of his loving
wife of over 29 years, Jacqueline (Jackie). They trav-
eled extensively and had plans to begin traveling
again as soon as possible. Tim was born February
22, 1961, in Chicago to Roger and Sally (McGuire)
Loeffler. A Certified Management Accountant, Tim
retired from TTX Company in November 2020 after
more than 30 years with the company. Tim spent
his life as a loving husband, a good son, a kind soul
and a devoted sibling. Tim loved sports, especially
baseball, and played on the Maine South 1979 state
championship basketball team. Tim is survived by
his wife Jackie (Mitchell); his parents (Roger and
Sally); his siblings, Marianne Griebler (Dave), Keith
(Barb), Denise Brown and Julie Aho (Scott); brother-
in-law (Anthony Mitchell); and sister-in-law (Dorothy
Mitchell). Tim was preceded in death by his sister-in-
law, Ann. Donations may be made in Tim’s honor to
Chicago History Museum or Chicago Cubs Charities.
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McGrath, Thomas Anthony
Thomas ‘Tommy’ Anthony McGrath age 60 of
Chicago and Champaign, IL
passed on Monday, August
9, 2021. A talented, skillful,
and accomplished roofer,
Tom was loved dearly by his
family and community. He
was known as the guy with
the big soft heart, big smile,
and a boisterous contagious
laugh. He worked hard; some
would say too hard. Tom loved music and sharing it
with his children and siblings as a way to bond. He
was known for singing loudly and off-key. He was a
movie fanatic who was was extremely knowledge-
able about movies. He knew all about directors,
actors, and producers. He loved old westerns and
gangster movies. He was the glue of our family who
always encouraged a healthy and loving family rela-
tionship. He will be missed dearly. He is survived by
his children Julia and Conor McGrath; “Pops” Donald
W. Cranley; sisters Mary Downes and Julie Cranley;
brothers Michael McGrath and Duke (Sarah) Cranley,
nieces, nephews and friends who are too many to
name. He was preceded in death by his parents
Mary Ellen Moran Cranley and Tom “dago” (Caryl)
McGrath, and his brother Joey McGrath. A visita-
tion will be held on Saturday, August 21, 2021 at
Crescent Park (2200 W 108th Pl, Chicago, IL 60643)
between 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM with a Celebration of
Life picnic immediately following.
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Medina Jr., Michael
Michael Medina Jr., age 79 of Cicero. Beloved hus-
band of the late Catherine (nee DePerro), loving fa-
ther of Michael (Patricia) Medina and Dawn (Joseph)
Pasaye, cherished grandfather of Jonathan and
William Medina, Joseph (Kiara) Pasaye and Chynna
Pasaye and great grandfather of Jaylen Smith,
Jordon Pasaye and Jo’Vonni Randle, dear brother of
Antoinette (Robert) Aguilar, Carol Padgett, Reyes R.
(Jennie) Molina and the late Richard Molina, fond un-
cle to many nieces and nephews. Funeral Saturday,
August 21, 10:00am Prayers at Johnson-Nosek
Funeral Home, 3847 Prairie Avenue, Brookfield to
St. Barbara Church, 4008 Prairie Avenue, Brookfield.
Mass 10:30am. Cremation Private. Visitation Friday,
August 20th, 3:00pm-9:00pm.
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Mudra, Donald W.
Donald W. Mudra, age 85, Air Force Vet-
eran of LaGrange Park. Retired Police
Sergeant of Westerns Springs. Beloved
husband of 64 years to Mary Ann Mu-
dra, nee Pardus; loving father of Julie
(David) Denson and Robert (Kristine)
Mudra; devoted grandfather of Alexan-
dria (Christopher) Wiley, Kyle Mudra, Molly (John)
Harris, Karli Mudra and Olivia Denson; proud great
grandfather of Zoey and Allie Harris; brother of the
late Marjorie (the late Warren) Zeiss; brother in
law of Margaret (James) Hook and Frank Pardus;
“grandpaw” of Annie, Murray, Glenn, Floyd, Reggie,
Penny, Dudley and Heidi. Donald will Lie in State
on Saturday, August 21, 2021 from 9 A.M. to time
of Mass 11 A.M. at All Saints Episcopal Church,
4370 Woodland Ave., Western Springs. Interment
Woodlawn Cemetery, Forest Park. Memorials
appreciated to All Saints Episcopal Church, 4370
Woodland Ave., Western Springs, IL 60558 or the
Hinsdale Humane Society, Salt Creek Lane, Hins-
dale, IL 60521 Arrangements entrusted to Hitze-
man Funeral Home, Ltd., 9445 W. 31st Street,
Brookfield, IL 60513 Information 708-485-2000 or
www.HitzemanFuneral.com
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Mullaghy, John Joseph
John Joseph Mullaghy age 90. Beloved
husband of the late Ellen “Theresa” nee
Gollogly. Loving father of Anne (Kevin)
Byrne. Dearest Grandfather of Heather
(Justin) Long and Andrew (Jennifer)
Byrne. Great grandfather of Hope Byrne.
Fond brother of 8. Many nieces, neph-
ews, relatives and friends. Visitation Thursday
2:00 pm until 7:00 pm at Corpus Christi Catholic
Church 1415 Lies Rd Carol Stream. Prayers Friday
10:15 am until time of funeral mass 10:30 am at
church. Interment All Saints cemetery Des Plaines,
IL In lieu of flowers donations to the Chicago Fire-
fighters memorial fund appreciated. For info call
Brust Funeral home Carol Stream 630-510-0044
Murrin, Michael J.
Michael J. Murrin, age 83, of Chicago, passed away
July 27, 2021. Professor Emeritus in the Department
of English, Comparative Literature, and the Divinity
School at the University of Chicago. Dear brother
of David (Sandy) Murrin of Hopkins, MN, the late
Marilyn (the late G. Thomas) Buchman of Coon
Rapids, MN and the late John (Mary) Murrin of
Lawrenceville, NJ. Uncle of many nieces and
nephews. Michael received his BH degree from the
University of St. Thomas, along with his master’s
and PhD. from Yale University. Michael taught for 50
years at the University of Chicago. During his ten-
ure, he authored several books including: The Veil
of Allegory, The Allegorical Epic: Essays in its Rise
and Decline, History and Warfare in the Renaissance
Epic, and Trade and Romance which was awarded
the American Comparative Literature Assn’s. Rene
Welleb Prize. He was a master of Latin, German,
Norse and Old English languages. He received the
Norman Maclean Faculty Award in 2016 for extraor-
dinary contributions to teaching and student experi-
ence at the U of C. A Mass of the Resurrection will
be held at 10:00am Monday, August 23rd. at Calvert
House 5735 S. University Ave. Chicago (FACE MASKS
REQUIRED). A Memorial Service will be held Sept.
2nd at the Washburn-McGreevy Funeral Home in
Hopkins, MN. Inurnment at Resurrection Cemetery
in Mendota Heights, MN. Arrangements entrusted to
Donnellan Funeral Home. For info (773) 238-0075 or
sign guestbook at www.donnellanfuneralhome.com
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Nagy, Elizabeth J.
Elizabeth J. (nee
( Groenwald) Nagy, 85 of Algonquin.
Beloved wife of the late
Robert Nagy; loving mother of
Joseph (Melanie) Nagy, Diane
(Terry) Ebel, James (Lynn)
Nagy, Barbara Nagy, Steve
(Denise) Nagy, Mary (Mike)
Pauly, Mike (Carolyn) Nagy
and the late Brian Nagy; cher-
ished grandmother of 11 and
great grandmother of 5; fond
sister of Bill Groenwald, late Edward, late Virginia
and late Patricia. Memorial visitation Saturday,
August 21, 2021 at Glueckert Funeral Home Ltd.,
1520 N. Arlington Heights Road, Arlington Heights,
from 9:00 AM until the time of memorial service at
11:00 AM. Family requests all guests wear masks
regardless of vaccination status. Interment pri-
vate. Funeral Information and condolences can be
given at www.GlueckertFuneralHome.com or (847)
253-0168.
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Norberg, Sr., William George
William George Norberg, Sr., age 84, beloved hus-
band of the late Katherine, nee Lisciandrello; loving
father of Michael (Suzanne), William, Jr. (Cindy),
Thomas (Martha), and George (Patricia); cherished
grandfather of Christopher (Katy), Stephen, Kathleen
(Cody), Natalie, Holly (Matt), Sophia, Anthony,
Trevor, and Trenton; great grandfather of 7; fond
uncle of many nieces and nephews; dear friend of
Judy. Visitation at the Skaja Terrace Funeral Home
7812 N. Milwaukee Avenue Niles on Friday from
4:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Funeral Saturday 9:00 AM.
Interment Ascension Cemetery. In lieu of flowers,
donations to Bethesda Lutheran Communities, Attn:
Development Dept. 600 Hoffmann Drive Watertown,
WI 53094 appreciated. Funeral info: 847-966-7302
or www.skajafuneralhomes.com
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O’Harrow, Robbin E.
Robbin E. O’Harrow, age 65, of Oak Park; loving moth-
er of Sage and the late Laina; former wife and dear
friend of Edwin O’Harrow; cherished grandmother
of Solomon and Maya. Robbin owned and operated
Munch Restaurant in Oak Park. Robbin received
both her undergraduate and master’s degree in
Fine Arts from The Art Institute of Chicago. Visitation
Saturday August 21, 10 a.m. until time of Service
11:45 a.m. at Drechsler, Brown & Williams Funeral
Home, 203 S. Marion St., Oak Park. Interment Queen
of Heaven Cemetery. Info: drechslerbronwwilliams.
com or 708-383-3191
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Polito, Frances R.
Frances R. Polito, ageg 98, a longtime resident of
Maywood, IL and most re-
cently of Indian Head Park, IL,
passed away peacefully on
August 14, 2021 at TaborHills
Health Center in Naperville,
IL. She was born in Forest
Park, IL on October 11, 1922.
Longtime parishioner of St.
Eulalia Parish, Maywood
and longtime employee of
Commonwealth Edison. Devoted daughter of the
late James and Bess Polito; loving sister of Charles
(Lynn) Polito, James Polito, the late Joseph (the late
Christine) Polito and the late Ignatius Polito in in-
fancy; cherished aunt of the late Sarah Polito. Mass
of Christian Burial Friday, August 20, 10:00 AM at St.
Thomas the Apostle Church, 1500 Brookdale Rd.,
Naperville. Visitation 9:30 - 10:00 AM at the church.
Private interment Mount Carmel Cemetery, Hillside.
Friedrich-Jones Funeral Home, Naperville was en-
trusted with arrangements. For info call 630/355-
0213 or visit www.friedrich-jones.com
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Sabacan, Leovigildo Puno ‘Leo’
Leovigildo “Leo” Puno Sabacan age 82, beloved
husband of Conchita (nee Pascual); loving father
of Maria Victoria Sabacan and Leah (Paul Loriaux)
Sabacan; cherished grandfather of Auguste Bayani
“Auggie”; dearest brother of Sofia Frances, Reynaldo
Sabacan, Marianita Soliven and Liwayway Gonzales.
Visitation Sunday 1-7 P.M. Funeral Monday 9:00
A.M. from Lawn Funeral Home 7909 State Rd.
(5500W) Burbank, to St. Mary Star of the Sea Church
Mass 10:00 A.M. Interment Private. Funeral Info: 708
636-2320
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Scanlon, Michael
Michael “Mike” Scanlon, age 79, U.S. Army Veteran,
born in Ballyhahill, Co.
Limerick, Ireland, passed
away on August 16, 2021,
at home surrounded by his
loving family. Mike was the
beloved husband of Ann (nee
O’Callaghan), for 54 won-
derful years; loving father HONOR THE
life
of Joann M. (Lane) Hendle,
Michael J. (Kathleen) Scanlon
and Eileen F. (Billy) Mahler;
dearest son of the late Margaret and
James Scanlon cherished grandfather
of Kyle, Kaileen, Ryan, Kevin, Aaron,
Brayden, Payton and Connor; dear
&
brother of Patrick (Peggy) and Morty
memories
(Ann) Scanlon, Joan (the late James) Mahon, Mame
(Gerry) Kavanagh and the late Bobby Scanlon;
brother-in-law of Patrick (Ida) O’Callaghan, the
late Hannah (and late Joseph) McPartlan, the late
Sean (Rita) O’Callaghan and the late Sister Eileen
O’Callaghan D.C.; fond uncle of many and friend
to all who crossed his path. Mike worked for both
Sears, Roebuck & Co. and the City of Chicago. He
was a longstanding member and served on the OF YOUR LOVED ONE
board of both the Limerick Hurling Club and the
G.A.A. In lieu of flowers, donations to either the
Alzheimer’s Association or the American Heart
Association would be appreciated. Funeral services
will be Friday, August 20, 2021, friends and family
are asked to meet at St. Francis Borgia Church 8033
W. Addison, Chicago, IL for a funeral mass at 11:00
a.m. To livestream the funeral mass https://you-
tube.com/channel/UC_jaJ_-iqiA4HkuCHd1hhYQ The
interment will follow at Queen of Heaven Cemetery
in Hillside, IL. Arrangements have been entrusted
to Cumberland Chapels for more information www.
cumberlandchapels.com or call (708)456-8300.
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Starshak, Albert Joseph
Albert Joseph “Al” Starshak of Marco Island, Florida
and Minnetonka, Minnesota
died December 14, 2020 in
Naples, Florida. Preceded in
death by his parents, Kathleen
Winzenberg Starshak and
Thomas Starshak; his sisters,
Ruth Martin and husband
Edgar, Mary Kay Ahern and
husband Hugh; brother
Thomas Starshak and wife
Barbara and brother-in-law, John Klemmer. Survived
by his wife, Mary Mannion Starshak; daughter, Ann
Olson (Todd); sons Thomas (Summer) and William
(Maura); grandchildren, Elise and Finn Olson,
Kathryn and Aine Starshak and Oliver Starshak;
sister, Sue Klemmer; brother, Joseph Starshak(Mary
Clare) as well as many nieces, nephews and friends.
A Mass of Remembrance will be celebrated at 11
am, Saturday, August 21, the Church of the Holy
Family, 1080 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago, St. Ignatius
College Prep Campus. Memorials may be directed
to Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, 1852 W. 22nd Place,
Chicago IL, 60608, 773-890-6800.
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Witous, George
George Witous, age 90, of Oak Lawn, Army Veteran,
Village Attorney of Chicago Ridge for 51 years,
Graduate of University of Notre Dame, 1953,
Graduate of De Paul University, 1958, Supernumerary
of Opus Dei, passed away on August 16, 2021.
Loving husband of 63 years to Helen Witous, nee
Hession; Beloved father to James (Vicky) Witous,
Kathleen (Jeff) Weisgerber, Joseph Witous, Jennifer
(Dan) Grogan, and Daniel (Karen) Witous; Cherished
grandfather to Jeff (Mandy), Meg (Tony), Patrick
(Caley), Andy, Beth, Danny, Kelly, Nichole, and Luke;
Adored great grandfather to Anthony, Brayden, and
Skylar; Dear uncle and friend to many. George was
preceded in death by his siblings, Alice, Joseph, John
(Dell) and Carole (Bill) Kenny, along with his sister-in-
law’s, Marge (Dan) Flaherty, Therese (Pat) Condon,
Virginia (Mike) Madden, and his brother-in-law,
William Hession.
Visitation for George will be from 3-8 PM on Friday,
August 20, at Blake-Lamb Funeral Home, 4727 W
103rd, Oak Lawn. Funeral to begin at 10:30 AM on
Saturday, August 21, at Blake-Lamb Funeral Home, GIVE THEM
proceeding to St. Linus Church, 10300 Lawler Ave,
Oak Lawn, for an 11 AM Mass of Christian Burial.
Interment to follow at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.
THE MEMORIAL
AN EXCEPTIONAL
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Wood, Charles Richard ‘Charlie’
Remembering the life, death and legacy of entre-
preneur Charles Wood who PERSON
passed away peacefully on
July 20, 2021 at age 87.
Born in Middleboro, MA, he
DESERVES WITH
obtained his BS/BA Degree
from Boston University, LIFE TRIBUTES
where he was President of
Interfraternity Council and
Treasurer of S.A.L.
Charles (AKA Charlie) had a Our professional
hunger for business and dedicated his life to building
Republic Packaging Corporation, which he founded writers will assist
in September of 1961, and served as President and
Chairman of the Board since its inception. His bril- you to showcase and
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LEGAL NOTICES
GOVERNMENT/EDUCATION
LEGAL NOTICE
STATE OF ILLINOIS ) YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND APPOINTMENT
) OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT
COUNTY OF COOK ) TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL
In the matter of the revision of the
assessment of Real Property for 2021:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to the
provisions of
Section 14-35 of the Illinois Property Tax
Code (35 ILCS 200/14-35) that the Assessor
of Cook County will sit for the purpose of
reviewing the proposed 2021 assessment
of Real Property located in the following
township(s) or taxing district(s) in Cook
County.
Lemont
Identified also as Area(s) 22, under the
Permanent Real Estate Index Numbering
System of Cook County.
The last date within which applications
for revisions of assessment (Real Estate
Assessed Valuation Appeals) may be filed for
consideration at such sitting is September
14, 2021.
Such sitting will be held at the office of the
Assessor of Cook
County, Room 301, in the County Building,
118 North Clark Street,
Chicago, Illinois 60602, and will continue
thereafter from day to day as necessary
until all such revisions in said township(s) or
taxing district(s) have been completed.
Done by the Assessor of Cook County this
18th day of August, 2021.
FRITZ KAEGI
ASSESSOR OF COOK COUNTY
8/18/21 7020575
LEGAL NOTICE
STATE OF ILLINOIS )
)
COUNTY OF COOK )
In the matter of the revision of the
assessment of Real Property for 2021:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to the
provisions of
Section 14-35 of the Illinois Property Tax
Code (35 ILCS 200/14-35) that the Assessor
of Cook County will sit for the purpose of
reviewing the proposed 2021 assessment
of Real Property located in the following
township(s) or taxing district(s) in Cook
County.
Palos
Identified also as Area(s) 23, under the
Permanent Real Estate Index Numbering
System of Cook County.
The last date within which applications
for revisions of assessment (Real Estate
Assessed Valuation Appeals) may be filed for
consideration at such sitting is September
13, 2021.
Such sitting will be held at the office of the
Assessor of Cook
County, Room 301, in the County Building,
118 North Clark Street,
Chicago, Illinois 60602, and will continue
thereafter from day to day as necessary
until all such revisions in said township(s) or
taxing district(s) have been completed.
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County this 18th day of August, 2021.
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LEGAL NOTICES
GOVERNMENT/EDUCATION
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
A’Mya-Ellen Moutry
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Shawntella
Moutry (Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 19JA00919
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Shawntella Moutry
(Mother) and Unknown (Father),
respondents, and to All Whom It May
Concern, that on June 14, 2021, a petition
was filed under the Juvenile Court Act by
KIM FOXX in this court and that in the
courtroom of Judge Patrick Murphy in
the Cook County Juvenile Court Building,
1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois,
ON September 22, 2021, at 9:30 A.M. in
CALENDAR 1 COURTROOM A, ZOOM 1, or as
soon thereafter as this case may be heard,
a hearing will be held upon the petition to
terminate your parental rights and appoint a
guardian with power to consent to adoption.
THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS
CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY
AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO
TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND
TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO
CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL
PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE
PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF
YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND APPOINTMENT
OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT
TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL
RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.
UNLESS YOU appear, you will not be entitled
to further written notices or publication
notices of the proceedings in this case,
including the filing of an amended petition
or a motion to terminate parental rights.
UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and
show cause against the petition, the
allegations of the petition may stand
admitted as against you and each of you,
and an order or judgment entered.
Iris Y. Martinez, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
August 18, 2021 7020408
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
Andrea Watkins
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Tamika Gatlin
(Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 21JA00035
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Unknown (Father),
respondents, and to All Whom It May
Concern, that on January 20, 2021, a
petition was filed under the Juvenile Court
Act by KIM FOXX in this court and that in
the courtroom of Judge Bernard Sarley in
the Cook County Juvenile Court Building,
1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois,
ON September 9, 2021,at 10:30 A.M. in
CALENDAR 9 COURTROOM A, or as soon
thereafter as this case may be heard, an
adjudicatory hearing will be held upon the
petition to have the minor declared to be a
ward of the court and for other relief under
the Act.
THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS
CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY
AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO
TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND
TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO
CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL
PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE
PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF
YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND APPOINTMENT
RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.
UNLESS YOU appear, you will not be entitled
to further written notices or publication
notices of the proceedings in this case,
including the filing of an amended petition
or a motion to terminate parental rights.
UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and
show cause against the petition, the
allegations of the petition may stand
admitted as against you and each of you,
and an order or judgment entered.
Iris Y. Martinez, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
August 18, 2021 7020700
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
Angel Camacho
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Terry Kruczek
(Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 21JA00466
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Hector Flores
(Father), Unknown Father, respondents,
and to All Whom It May Concern, that on
May 12, 2021, a petition was filed under the
Juvenile Court Act by KIM FOXX in this court
and that in the courtroom of Judge Vilkelis
in the Cook County Juvenile Court Building,
1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois,
ON October 13, 2021,at 10:00 A.M. in
CALENDAR 13 COURTROOM M, or as soon
thereafter as this case may be heard, an
adjudicatory hearing will be held upon the
petition to have the minor declared to be a
ward of the court and for other relief under
the Act.
THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS
CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY
AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO
TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND
TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO
CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL
PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE
PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF
YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND APPOINTMENT
OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT
TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL
RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.
UNLESS YOU appear, you will not be entitled
to further written notices or publication
notices of the proceedings in this case,
including the filing of an amended petition
or a motion to terminate parental rights.
UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and
show cause against the petition, the
allegations of the petition may stand
admitted as against you and each of you,
and an order or judgment entered.
Iris Y. Martinez, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
August 18, 2021 7020390
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
D’Noble Bey
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Angelique Bowie
(mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 20JA00842
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Antoine Ivy (father),
Unknown (father), respondents, and to All
Whom It May Concern, that on June 1,
2020, a petition was filed under the Juvenile
Court Act by KIM FOXX in this court and
that in the courtroom of Judge Nicholas
Geanopoulos in the Cook County Juvenile
Court Building, 1100 So. Hamilton Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois, ON September 8, 2021,at
9:30 A.M. in CALENDAR 17 COURTROOM A,
or as soon thereafter as this case may be
heard, an adjudicatory hearing will be held
upon the petition to have the minor declared
to be a ward of the court and for other relief
under the Act.
THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS
CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY
AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO
TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND
TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO
CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL
PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE
PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF
YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND APPOINTMENT
OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT
TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL
RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.
UNLESS YOU appear, you will not be entitled
to further written notices or publication
notices of the proceedings in this case,
including the filing of an amended petition
or a motion to terminate parental rights.
UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and
show cause against the petition, the
allegations of the petition may stand
admitted as against you and each of you,
and an order or judgment entered.
Iris Y. Martinez, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
August 18, 2021 7008969
LEGAL NOTICES
GOVERNMENT/EDUCATION
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
Emma Ortega
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Rocio Ortega
(Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 21JA00726
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Jorge Ramos Jr.
(Father), respondents, and to All Whom It
May Concern, that on August 6, 2021, a
petition was filed under the Juvenile Court
Act by KIM FOXX in this court and that in
the courtroom of Judge Levander Smith
in the Cook County Juvenile Court Building,
1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois,
ON September 3, 2021,at 9:00 A.M. in
CALENDAR 10 COURTROOM A, or as soon
thereafter as this case may be heard, an
adjudicatory hearing will be held upon the
petition to have the minor declared to be a
ward of the court and for other relief under
the Act.
THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS
CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY
AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO
TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND
TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO
CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL
PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE
PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF
YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND APPOINTMENT
OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT
TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL
RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.
UNLESS YOU appear, you will not be entitled
to further written notices or publication
notices of the proceedings in this case,
including the filing of an amended petition
or a motion to terminate parental rights.
UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and
show cause against the petition, the
allegations of the petition may stand
admitted as against you and each of you,
and an order or judgment entered.
Iris Y. Martinez, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
August 18, 2021 7020444
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
Giulia Frank
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF INGA FRANK
DACOSTA
JUVENILE NO.: 21JA00074
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, David J. Harvey
(Father), aka David Harvey, Unknown
(Father), respondents, and to All Whom It
May Concern, that on February 5, 2021, a
petition was filed under the Juvenile Court
Act by KIM FOXX in this court and that in
the courtroom of Judge Jennifer Payne in
the Cook County Juvenile Court Building,
1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois,
ON September 8, 2021,at 10:30 A.M. in
CALENDAR 12 COURTROOM A, or as soon
thereafter as this case may be heard, an
adjudicatory hearing will be held upon the
petition to have the minor declared to be a
ward of the court and for other relief under
the Act.
THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS
CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY
AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO
TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND
TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO
CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL
PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE
PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF
OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT
TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL
RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.
UNLESS YOU appear, you will not be entitled
to further written notices or publication
notices of the proceedings in this case,
including the filing of an amended petition
or a motion to terminate parental rights.
UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and
show cause against the petition, the
allegations of the petition may stand
admitted as against you and each of you,
and an order or judgment entered.
Iris Y. Martinez, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
August 18, 2021 7008972
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
Isaiah Greenlaw AKA Isaih Greenlaw
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Alicia Gordon
(Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 21JA00617
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Robert Greenlaw
(Father), Unknown Father, respondents,
and to All Whom It May Concern, that on
June 25, 2021, a petition was filed under the
Juvenile Court Act by KIM FOXX in this court
and that in the courtroom of Judge Buford
in the Cook County Juvenile Court Building,
1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois,
ON November 4, 2021,at 10:00 A.M. in
CALENDAR 4 COURTROOM D, or as soon
thereafter as this case may be heard, an
adjudicatory hearing will be held upon the
petition to have the minor declared to be a
ward of the court and for other relief under
the Act.
THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS
CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY
AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO
TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND
TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO
CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL
PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE
PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF
YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND APPOINTMENT
OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT
TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL
RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.
UNLESS YOU appear, you will not be entitled
to further written notices or publication
notices of the proceedings in this case,
including the filing of an amended petition
or a motion to terminate parental rights.
UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and
show cause against the petition, the
allegations of the petition may stand
admitted as against you and each of you,
and an order or judgment entered.
Iris Y. Martinez, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
August 18, 2021 7020463
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
Ja’Kaylah Cruz
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Krystal Cruz
(Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 21JA00636
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Emmanuel Ayala
(Father), AKA Emanuel Ayala, Unknown
(father), respondents, and to All Whom
It May Concern, that on July 6, 2021, a
petition was filed under the Juvenile Court
Act by KIM FOXX in this court and that
in the courtroom of Judge Sarley in the
Cook County Juvenile Court Building, 1100
So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois,
ON September 9, 2021,at 9:30 A.M. in
CALENDAR 9 COURTROOM A, or as soon
thereafter as this case may be heard, an
adjudicatory hearing will be held upon the
petition to have the minor declared to be a
ward of the court and for other relief under
the Act.
THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS
CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY
AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO
TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND
TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO
CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL
PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE
PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF
YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND APPOINTMENT
OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT
TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL
RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.
UNLESS YOU appear, you will not be entitled
to further written notices or publication
notices of the proceedings in this case,
including the filing of an amended petition
or a motion to terminate parental rights.
UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and
show cause against the petition, the
allegations of the petition may stand
admitted as against you and each of you,
and an order or judgment entered.
Iris Y. Martinez, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
August 18, 2021 7020429
16  Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Wednesday, August 18, 2021
LEGAL NOTICES
GOVERNMENT/EDUCATION
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
Jeremy Keathley
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Anita Keathley
(Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 21JA00694
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Unknown (Father),
respondents, and to All Whom It May
Concern, that on July 29, 2021, a petition
was filed under the Juvenile Court Act by
KIM FOXX in this court and that in the
courtroom of Judge Levander Smith in
the Cook County Juvenile Court Building,
1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois,
ON September 30, 2021,at 9:00 A.M. in
CALENDAR 10 COURTROOM A, or as soon
thereafter as this case may be heard, an
adjudicatory hearing will be held upon the
petition to have the minor declared to be a
ward of the court and for other relief under
the Act.
THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS
CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY
AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO
TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND
TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO
CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL
PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE
PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF
YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND APPOINTMENT
OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT
TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL
RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.
UNLESS YOU appear, you will not be entitled
to further written notices or publication
notices of the proceedings in this case,
including the filing of an amended petition
or a motion to terminate parental rights.
UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and
show cause against the petition, the
allegations of the petition may stand
admitted as against you and each of you,
and an order or judgment entered.
Iris Y. Martinez, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
August 18, 2021 7020518
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
AND CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT
JUVENILE JUSTICE DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
JERRODD JARMARION COBBINS
A MINOR
NO. 2020JD01444
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
Notice is given you, JUDEA JACKSON
(MOTHER) SHERROD COBBINS (FATHER),
respondents, and TO ALL WHOM IT MAY
CONCERN, that on November 21, 2020, a
petition was filed under the Juvenile Court
Act by KIM FOXX, STATE’S ATTORNEY
OF COOK COUNTY through her assistant
State’s Attorney in this court and that in the
courtroom of Judge DARRYL JONES in the
Cook County Juvenile Court Building located
at 1100 South Hamilton, Chicago, Illinois
on September 13, 2021 at 9:00 A.M. IN
CALENDAR 57 COURTROOM 7 ,
or as soon thereafter as this case may be
heard, an adjudicatory hearing will be held
upon the petition to have the minor declared
to be a ward of the court and for other relief
under the Act. The court has authority in
this case to take from you the custody and
guardianship of the minor.
Unless you appear at the hearing and show
cause to the contrary, an order or judgment
by default may be entered against you for
the relief asked in the petition.
Iris Y. Martinez, CLERK OF COURT
August 18, 2021
ASSISTANT STATE’S ATTORNEY:
P. SLOAN, A. ISLAM
ATTORNEY FOR:
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS
ADDRESS: 1100 SOUTH HAMILTON
CITY/STATE: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60612
TELEPHONE NUMBER: (312) 433-7000
ATTORNEY NO.: 33182
CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT,
COOK COUNTY OF ILLINOIS
August 18, 2021 7029851
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
Kennedy Round AKA Baby Girl Round
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Ariel Barlow
(Mother) AKA Sheila Round
JUVENILE NO.: 21JA00672
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Ariel Barlow
(Mother) AKA Sheila Round, Unknown
(mother), Frank Round (Father), Unknown
(father), respondents, and to All Whom
It May Concern, that on July 20, 2021, a
petition was filed under the Juvenile Court
Act by KIM FOXX in this court and that in
the courtroom of Judge Bernard Sarley in
the Cook County Juvenile Court Building,
1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois,
ON September 13, 2021,at 9:30 A.M. in
CALENDAR 9 COURTROOM A, or as soon
thereafter as this case may be heard, an
adjudicatory hearing will be held upon the
petition to have the minor declared to be a
ward of the court and for other relief under
the Act.
THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS
CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY
AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO
TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND
TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO
CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL
PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE
PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF
YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND APPOINTMENT
OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT
TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL
RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.
UNLESS YOU appear, you will not be entitled
to further written notices or publication
notices of the proceedings in this case,
including the filing of an amended petition
or a motion to terminate parental rights.
UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and
show cause against the petition, the
allegations of the petition may stand
admitted as against you and each of you,
and an order or judgment entered.
Iris Y. Martinez, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
August 18, 2021 7020579
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
Kesley Kelly Celmer AKA Kelsey Celmer
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Melissa Celmer
(Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 20JA00521
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Stanley Wafer
(Father), respondents, and to All Whom
It May Concern, that on May 26, 2021, a
petition was filed under the Juvenile Court
Act by KIM FOXX in this court and that in
the courtroom of Judge Patrick Murphy in
the Cook County Juvenile Court Building,
1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois,
ON September 28, 2021, at 3:30 P.M. in
CALENDAR 1 COURTROOM A, ZOOM 1, or as
soon thereafter as this case may be heard,
a hearing will be held upon the petition to
terminate your parental rights and appoint a
guardian with power to consent to adoption.
THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS
CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY
AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO
TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND
TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO
CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL
PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE
PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF
YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND APPOINTMENT
OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT
TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL
RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.
UNLESS YOU appear, you will not be entitled
to further written notices or publication
notices of the proceedings in this case,
including the filing of an amended petition
or a motion to terminate parental rights.
UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and
show cause against the petition, the
allegations of the petition may stand
admitted as against you and each of you,
and an order or judgment entered.
Iris Y. Martinez, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
August 18, 2021 7020483
LEGAL NOTICES
GOVERNMENT/EDUCATION
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
Malachi Barnett
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Kiara Cherry
(Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 20JA01547
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Martinique
Washington (Father), respondents, and
to All Whom It May Concern, that on
November 16, 2020, a petition was filed
under the Juvenile Court Act by KIM FOXX
in this court and that in the courtroom of
Judge John Huff in the Cook County Juvenile
Court Building, 1100 So. Hamilton Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois, ON September 8, 2021,at
1:30 P.M. in CALENDAR 14 COURTROOM A,
or as soon thereafter as this case may be
heard, an adjudicatory hearing will be held
upon the petition to have the minor declared
to be a ward of the court and for other relief
under the Act.
THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS
CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY
AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO
TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND
TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO
CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL
PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE
PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF
YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND APPOINTMENT
OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT
TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL
RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.
UNLESS YOU appear, you will not be entitled
to further written notices or publication
notices of the proceedings in this case,
including the filing of an amended petition
or a motion to terminate parental rights.
UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and
show cause against the petition, the
allegations of the petition may stand
admitted as against you and each of you,
and an order or judgment entered.
Iris Y. Martinez, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
August 18, 2021 7008963
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
Maryah Johnson
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Sondra Johnson
(Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 20JA00525
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Unknown (Father),
respondents, and to All Whom It May
Concern, that on March 23, 2020, a
petition was filed under the Juvenile Court
Act by KIM FOXX in this court and that in
the courtroom of Judge John Huff in the
Cook County Juvenile Court Building, 1100
So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois,
ON September 24, 2021,at 9:30 A.M. in
CALENDAR 14 COURTROOM A, or as soon
thereafter as this case may be heard, an
adjudicatory hearing will be held upon the
petition to have the minor declared to be a
ward of the court and for other relief under
the Act.
THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS
CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY
AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO
TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND
TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO
CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL
PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE
PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF
YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND APPOINTMENT
OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT
TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL
RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.
UNLESS YOU appear, you will not be entitled
to further written notices or publication
notices of the proceedings in this case,
including the filing of an amended petition
or a motion to terminate parental rights.
UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and
show cause against the petition, the
allegations of the petition may stand
admitted as against you and each of you,
and an order or judgment entered.
Iris Y. Martinez, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
August 18, 2021 7020504
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
Shamar Stewart
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Shaunte Stewart
(Mother) AKA Shaunta Stewart
JUVENILE NO.: 20JA00524
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Anthony Pope
(Father), respondents, and to All Whom It
May Concern, that on March 23, 2020, a
petition was filed under the Juvenile Court
Act by KIM FOXX in this court and that in
the courtroom of Judge Shannon O’Malley
in the Cook County Juvenile Court Building,
1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois,
ON November 15, 2021,at 9:30 A.M. in
CALENDAR 6 COURTROOM A, or as soon
thereafter as this case may be heard, an
adjudicatory hearing will be held upon the
petition to have the minor declared to be a
ward of the court and for other relief under
the Act.
THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS
CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY
AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO
TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND
TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO
CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL
PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE
PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF
YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND APPOINTMENT
OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT
TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL
RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.
UNLESS YOU appear, you will not be entitled
to further written notices or publication
notices of the proceedings in this case,
including the filing of an amended petition
or a motion to terminate parental rights.
UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and
show cause against the petition, the
allegations of the petition may stand
admitted as against you and each of you,
and an order or judgment entered.
Iris Y. Martinez, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
August 18, 2021 7020592
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
Tashiyah Wallace
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Tashanna
Wallace (Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 15JA00799
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, “Red” (Father), and
Unknown (Father), respondents, and to All
Whom It May Concern, that on July 12,
2021, a petition was filed under the Juvenile
Court Act by KIM FOXX in this court and
that in the courtroom of Judge Levander
Smith in the Cook County Juvenile Court
Building, 1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago,
Illinois, ON October 18, 2021, at 10:00 A.M.
in CALENDAR 10 COURTROOM A, or as
soon thereafter as this case may be heard,
a hearing will be held upon the petition to
terminate your parental rights and appoint a
guardian with power to consent to adoption.
THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS
CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY
AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO
TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND
TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO
CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL
PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE
PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF
YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND APPOINTMENT
OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT
TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL
RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.
UNLESS YOU appear, you will not be entitled
to further written notices or publication
notices of the proceedings in this case,
including the filing of an amended petition
or a motion to terminate parental rights.
UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and
show cause against the petition, the
allegations of the petition may stand
admitted as against you and each of you,
and an order or judgment entered.
Iris Y. Martinez, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
August 18, 2021 7020604
LEGAL NOTICES
GOVERNMENT/EDUCATION
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
Tiffany Steed
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Denisha Steed
(Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 21JA00547
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Unknown (Father),
respondents, and to All Whom It May
Concern, that on June 7, 2021, a petition
was filed under the Juvenile Court Act
by KIM FOXX in this court and that in
the courtroom of Judge John Huff in the
Cook County Juvenile Court Building, 1100
So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois,
ON November 19, 2021,at 9:00 A.M. in
CALENDAR 14 COURTROOM A, or as soon
thereafter as this case may be heard, an
adjudicatory hearing will be held upon the
petition to have the minor declared to be a
ward of the court and for other relief under
the Act.
THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS
CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY
AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO
TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND
TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO
CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL
PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE
PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF
YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND APPOINTMENT
OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT
TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL
RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.
UNLESS YOU appear, you will not be entitled
to further written notices or publication
notices of the proceedings in this case,
including the filing of an amended petition
or a motion to terminate parental rights.
UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and
show cause against the petition, the
allegations of the petition may stand
admitted as against you and each of you,
and an order or judgment entered.
Iris Y. Martinez, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
August 18, 2021 7020618
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
Tre’Auna Riley
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Tracey Frasure
(Mother) AKA Tracy Frasure
JUVENILE NO.: 19JA00286
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Deonte Riley
aka Deante Riley (Father), Unknown
(father), respondents, and to All Whom It
May Concern, that on March 26, 2019, a
petition was filed under the Juvenile Court
Act by KIM FOXX in this court and that in
the courtroom of Judge Kimberly Lewis in
the Cook County Juvenile Court Building,
1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois,
ON September 8, 2021,at 3:00 P.M. in
CALENDAR 8 COURTROOM A, or as soon
thereafter as this case may be heard, an
adjudicatory hearing will be held upon the
petition to have the minor declared to be a
ward of the court and for other relief under
the Act.
THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS
CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY
AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO
TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND
TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO
CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL
PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE
PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF
YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND APPOINTMENT
OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT
TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL
RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.
UNLESS YOU appear, you will not be entitled
to further written notices or publication
notices of the proceedings in this case,
including the filing of an amended petition
or a motion to terminate parental rights.
UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and
show cause against the petition, the
allegations of the petition may stand
admitted as against you and each of you,
and an order or judgment entered.
Iris Y. Martinez, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
August 18, 2021 7008954
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
Ty’Rell Robert Lee Horton-Gordon AKA
Tyrell Gordon
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Tameka Gordon
(Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 18JA00302
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Karl Green (Father),
Unknown (Father), respondents, and to All
Whom It May Concern, that on May 20,
2021, a petition was filed under the Juvenile
Court Act by KIM FOXX in this court and
that in the courtroom of Judge Jennifer
Payne in the Cook County Juvenile Court
Building, 1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago,
Illinois, ON October 4, 2021, at 10:30 A.M.
in CALENDAR 12 COURTROOM A, or as
soon thereafter as this case may be heard,
a hearing will be held upon the petition to
terminate your parental rights and appoint a
guardian with power to consent to adoption.
THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS
CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY
AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO
TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND
TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO
CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL
PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE
PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF
YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND APPOINTMENT
OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT
TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL
RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.
UNLESS YOU appear, you will not be entitled
to further written notices or publication
notices of the proceedings in this case,
including the filing of an amended petition
or a motion to terminate parental rights.
UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and
show cause against the petition, the
allegations of the petition may stand
admitted as against you and each of you,
and an order or judgment entered.
Iris Y. Martinez, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
August 18, 2021 7020662
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
Tyrell Rogers
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Melissa Rogers
(Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 18JA00010
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Unknown (Father),
respondents, and to All Whom It May
Concern, that on June 9, 2021, a petition
was filed under the Juvenile Court Act by
KIM FOXX in this court and that in the
courtroom of Judge Bernard Sarley in
the Cook County Juvenile Court Building,
1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois,
ON September 24, 2021, at 9:00 A.M. in
CALENDAR 9 COURTROOM A, or as soon
thereafter as this case may be heard, a
hearing will be held upon the petition to
terminate your parental rights and appoint a
guardian with power to consent to adoption.
THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS
CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY
AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO
TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND
TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO
CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL
PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE
PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF
YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND APPOINTMENT
OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT
TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL
RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.
UNLESS YOU appear, you will not be entitled
to further written notices or publication
notices of the proceedings in this case,
including the filing of an amended petition
or a motion to terminate parental rights.
UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and
show cause against the petition, the
allegations of the petition may stand
admitted as against you and each of you,
and an order or judgment entered.
Iris Y. Martinez, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
August 18, 2021 7020557
LEGAL NOTICES
GOVERNMENT/EDUCATION
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
Yahir Lopez
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Maria Lopez
(Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 17JA00368
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Cesar Noe Cardenas
Sandoval (Father), respondents, and to All
Whom It May Concern, that on May 27,
2021, a petition was filed under the Juvenile
Court Act by KIM FOXX in this court and
that in the courtroom of Judge Levander
Smith in the Cook County Juvenile Court
Building, 1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago,
Illinois, ON October 5, 2021, at 9:00 A.M.
in CALENDAR 10 COURTROOM A, or as
soon thereafter as this case may be heard,
a hearing will be held upon the petition to
terminate your parental rights and appoint a
guardian with power to consent to adoption.
THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS
CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY
AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO
TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND
TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO
CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL
PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE
PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF
YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND APPOINTMENT
OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT
TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL
RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.
UNLESS YOU appear, you will not be entitled
to further written notices or publication
notices of the proceedings in this case,
including the filing of an amended petition
or a motion to terminate parental rights.
UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and
show cause against the petition, the
allegations of the petition may stand
admitted as against you and each of you,
and an order or judgment entered.
Iris Y. Martinez, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
August 18, 2021 7020839
LEGAL
NOTICES
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
August 18, 2021
CITY OF CHICAGO
DEPARTMENT OF PROCUREMENT
SERVICES
The Bidder must complete and submit an
Electronic Bid prior to the bid due date. An
electronic bid must be submitted through the
City of Chicago’s website at
www.cityofchicago.org/eprocurement, on or
before the due date and time stated below. The
City’s system will not accept electronic bids
after the due date and time. Bidders must
register for a log-in account to submit an
electronic bid. Please allow up to three business
days for creation of your log-in account. Paper
bids will not be accepted. All Bids will be
opened and publicly read aloud for the
following:
Notice of Addendum: Addendum #1 Bid
Postponement will be e-mailed to all bidders
on the Bid Opportunity Take Out List
DESCRIPTION: BACKHOE LOADER
WITH EXTENDABLE DIPPER STICK
AND 15’ DIGGING DEPTH (RE-BID)
BID DOCUMENT CAN BE DOWNLOADED
AND PRINTED FROM URL ADDRESS:
www.cityofchicago.org/eprocurement
SPECIFICATION NO: 663813A
RFQ NO: 8176,1
ORIGINAL BID/PROPOSAL OPENING
DATE:
August 19, 2021
REVISED BID/PROPOSAL OPENING DATE:
September 20, 2021 Per Addendum # 1
TIME: 11:00 a.m., Central Time
CONTACT: William L. Dotson,
Procurement Specialist
Email: William.Dotson@cityofchicago.org
Pub: 8/18/2021 7020353
LEGAL NOTICE
CITY OF NAPERVILLE
Bid and Requests for Proposals
Available Online
All City of Naperville solicitations will be
advertised on our web site:
http://www.naperville.il.us/bidrfps.aspx
You are invited to review all bid or
proposal requests for any upcoming
projects. All projects are available for
download or pick-up. Please contact the
Procurement Services Team office at
630.420.6064 if you have any questions.
TO: John E. Huddleston, Successor Trustee of
the Verna N. Huddleston Declaration of Trust
dated 7-2-1998; Occupant, 243 Dorchester
Ave, Palatine, IL; Parties in occupancy and
possession; any unknown owners and
occupants. TAX DEED NO. 2021COTD001447.
FILED: July 20, 2021. TAKE NOTICE. County
of Cook. Date Premises Sold 5/6/2019.
Certificate No. 17-0002483 & 17-0002484.
Sold for General Taxes of (year) 2017. Sold
for Special Assessment of (Municipality) and
special assessment number N/A Warrant No.
N/A Inst. No. N/A. THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN
SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES. Property
located at. 243 Dorchester Ave, Palatine,
Illinois. Legal Description or Property Index
No. 02-21-220-001-0000 and 02-21-220-002-
0000. This notice is to advise you that the
above property has been sold for delinquent
taxes and that the period of redemption
from the sale will expire on 12/15/2021. 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
12/15/2021. This matter is set for hearing
in the Circuit Court of this county in the
Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W. Washington
St., Chicago, IL 60602, on 12/20/2021 at
9:30 AM in room 1704. YOU ARE URGED TO
REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF
PROPERTY. Redemption can be made at any
time on or before 12/15/2021 by applying to
the County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois at
the Office of the County Clerk in Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk. ADDRESS: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, Illinois 60602.
TELEPHONE: (312) 603-5645. Pine Valley
One Real Estate, LLC, Purchaser or Assignee.
Dated: August 6, 2021.
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7014425
TO: DFRS LLC; Village of Palatine; Occupant,
548 S Hale St, Palatine, IL; Parties in
occupancy and possession; any unknown
owners and occupants. TAX DEED NO.
2021COTD001460. FILED: July 20, 2021. TAKE
NOTICE. County of Cook. Date Premises
Sold 5/6/2019. Certificate No. 17-0002496.
Sold for General Taxes of (year) 2017. Sold
for Special Assessment of (Municipality) and
special assessment number N/A Warrant No.
N/A Inst. No. N/A. THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN
SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES. Property
located at. 548 S Hale St, Palatine, Illinois.
Legal Description or Property Index No. 02-
23-304-022-0000. This notice is to advise
you that the above property has been sold
for delinquent taxes and that the period
of redemption from the sale will expire
on 12/15/2021. 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
12/15/2021. This matter is set for hearing
in the Circuit Court of this county in the
Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W. Washington
St., Chicago, IL 60602, on 12/20/2021 at
9:30 AM in room 1704. YOU ARE URGED TO
REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF
PROPERTY. Redemption can be made at any
time on or before 12/15/2021 by applying to
the County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois at
the Office of the County Clerk in Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk. ADDRESS: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, Illinois 60602.
TELEPHONE: (312) 603-5645. Pine Valley
One Real Estate, LLC, Purchaser or Assignee.
Dated: August 6, 2021.
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7014431
TO: Kornfield Properties Services, Inc.
c/o Illinois Secretary of State; Kornfield
Properties Services, Inc. c/o Robin Pride R.A.;
RK Capital Partners, Inc. c/o Illinois Secretary
of State; RK Capital Partners, Inc. c/o Scott
Haugh R.A; Arlen Olson; City of Chicago c/o
Corporation Counsel; Kazi Hassan; Auburn
Loan Servicing, Inc. Auburn Loan Servicing,
Inc. c/o Todd Johnson Sr. R.A; Auburn Loan
Servicing, Inc. c/o Kbhr Statutory Agent Corp.
R.A.; Occupant ; Karen A. Yarbrough, Cook
County Clerk; Unknown Owners, Occupants,
and Parties Interested Generally TAX DEED
NO. 2021COTD001847 FILED 7/30/2021 TAKE
NOTICE County of COOK Date Premises Sold:
5/7/2019 Certificate No.: 17-0008186 Sold
for General Taxes of: 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: 6239 S Honore Street, Chicago,
Illinois Legal Description or Property Index
No. 20-18-427-016-0000 Vol. 426 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 January 28, 2022. 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 January
28, 2022. 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 February 4,
2022, 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 January 28, 2022 by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Gross & Duquesne 2019
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 7/30/2021
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7013583
TO: Myguel Hayes; Kishelle Robinson a/k/a
Kishell Robinson; Diane Blair; City of Chicago
c/o Corporation Counsel; Occupant; Karen
A. Yarbrough, Cook County Clerk; Unknown
Owners, Occupants, and Parties Interested
Generally TAX DEED NO. 2021COTD001848
FILED 7/30/2021 TAKE NOTICE County
of COOK Date Premises Sold: 5/7/2019
Certificate No.: 17-0008265 Sold for General
Taxes of: 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:
6754 S Marshfield Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
Legal Description or Property Index No. 20-
19-406-041-0000 Vol. 428 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
January 28, 2022. 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 January
28, 2022. 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 February 4,
2022, 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 January 28, 2022 by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Gross & Duquesne 2019
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 7/30/2021
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7013605
TO: Maudie Mae Taylor; Tenesha Taylor;
Occupant; Tommy Anderson; Steve L.
Wilson ; City of Chicago c/o Corporation
Counsel Karen A. Yarbrough, Cook County
Clerk; Unknown Owners, Occupants, and
Parties Interested Generally TAX DEED NO.
2021COTD001850 FILED 7/30/2021 TAKE
NOTICE County of COOK Date Premises Sold:
5/7/2019 Certificate No.: 17-0008280 Sold
for General Taxes of: 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: 7017 S Wood Street, Chicago,
Illinois Legal Description or Property Index
No. 20-19-428-007-0000 Vol. 428 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 January 28, 2022. 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 January
28, 2022. 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 February 4,
2022, 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 January 28, 2022 by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Gross & Duquesne 2019
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 7/30/2021
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7013610
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TO: Ben McCaskill; Estate of Margaret
McCaskill; Marquette National Bank, Trustee
u/t/a dated August 12, 1977 u/t/n 7978;
Adrienne Gage; Paul Wright; Occupant;
Margaret’s Filling Station Lounge, Inc. c/o
Roderick T. Sawyer R.A.; Margaret’s Filling
Station Lounge, Inc. c/o Illinois Secretary of
State; Margaret Filling Station; Terry Hall;
Shateria L. McCaskill; Sherry McCaskill; City
of Chicago c/o Corporation Counsel; Karen
A. Yarbrough, Cook County Clerk; Unknown
Owners, Occupants, and Parties Interested
Generally TAX DEED NO. 2021COTD001849
FILED 7/30/2021 TAKE NOTICE County
of COOK Date Premises Sold: 5/7/2019
Certificate No.: 17-0008413 Sold for General
Taxes of: 2017 and 2015 2nd 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: 7007 S Racine Avenue, Chicago,
Illinois Legal Description or Property Index
No. 20-20-424-004-0000 Vol. 430 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 January 28, 2022. 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 January
28, 2022. 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 February 4,
2022, 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 January 28, 2022 by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Gross & Duquesne 2019
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 7/30/2021
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7013612
TO: Walter T. Rice; Occupant; Illinois
Department of Revenue Lien Unit; Illinois
Department of Revenue; Karen A. Yarbrough,
Cook County Clerk; Unknown Owners,
Occupants, and Parties Interested Generally
TAX DEED NO. 2021COTD001852 FILED
7/30/2021 TAKE NOTICE County of COOK
Date Premises Sold: 5/7/2019 Certificate
No.: 17-0005560 Sold for General Taxes
of: 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:
7304 S Luella Avenue, Chicago, Illinois Legal
Description or Property Index No. 20-25-217-
015-0000 Vol. 262 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
January 28, 2022. 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 January
28, 2022. 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 February 4,
2022, 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 January 28, 2022 by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Gross & Duquesne 2019
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 7/30/2021
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7013524
TO: Charmaine Sanders; Occupant; Donald
Bowen; Tony E. Bowen; Lessie R. Bowen; City
of Chicago c/o Corporation Counsel; Cavalry
SPV I, LLC c/o CT Corporation System; Illinois
Department of Revenue; Illinois Department
of Revenue Lien Unit; Karen A. Yarbrough,
Cook County Clerk; Unknown Owners,
Occupants, and Parties Interested Generally
TAX DEED NO. 2021COTD001853 FILED
7/30/2021 TAKE NOTICE County of COOK
Date Premises Sold: 5/7/2019 Certificate
No.: 17-0008567 Sold for General Taxes
of: 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:
7136 S Racine Avenue, Chicago, Illinois Legal
Description or Property Index No. 20-29-109-
055-0000 Vol. 434 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
January 28, 2022. 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 January
28, 2022. 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 February 4,
2022, 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 January 28, 2022 by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Gross & Duquesne 2019
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 7/30/2021
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7013618
TO: James Arrington; Occupant; Ester Afeni;
Chyna Cato; Gloria Arrington; City of Chicago
c/o Corporation Counsel; Department of
Treasury Internal Revenue Service; Karen
A. Yarbrough, Cook County Clerk; Unknown
Owners, Occupants, and Parties Interested
Generally TAX DEED NO. 2021COTD001854
FILED 7/30/2021 TAKE NOTICE County
of COOK Date Premises Sold: 5/7/2019
Certificate No.: 17-0008622 Sold for General
Taxes of: 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:
7355 S Green Street, Chicago, Illinois Legal
Description or Property Index No. 20-29-223-
023-0000 Vol. 435 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
January 28, 2022. 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 January
28, 2022. 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 February 4,
2022, 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 January 28, 2022 by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Gross & Duquesne 2019
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 7/30/2021
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7013622
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TO: St. Michael House of Prayer; St. Michael
House of Prayer a/k/a Mt. Zion Baptist
Church; Bernard F. Lord, Ozinga, Lepore,
Campbell & Lord; Dr. Corey Brackenbridge;
American Church Mortgage Company c/o
Philip J. Myers’ American Church Mortgage
Company c/o Scott J. Marquis, CFO and
Treasurer; City of Chicago c/o Corporation
Counsel; Occupant ; Karen A. Yarbrough,
Cook County Clerk; Unknown Owners,
Occupants, and Parties Interested Generally
TAX DEED NO. 2021COTD001855 FILED
7/30/2021 TAKE NOTICE County of COOK
Date Premises Sold: 5/7/2019 Certificate
No.: 17-0008821 Sold for General Taxes
of: 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:
7959 S Aberdeen Street, Chicago, Illinois
Legal Description or Property Index No. 20-
32-202-018-0000 Vol. 440 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
January 28, 2022. 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 January
28, 2022. 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 February 4,
2022, 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 January 28, 2022 by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Gross & Duquesne 2019
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 7/30/2021
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7013624
TO: Weil Enterprises, Inc. c/o Aryeh Weil; D
Business Enterprises, Inc. c/o David Osei
Bonsu; D Business Enterprises, Inc. c/o
Illinois Secretary of State; City of Chicago c/o
Corporation Counsel; Occupant; Telon Scott;
Lakia Reed; Shansce Reed; Kevin Lenell;
Dushun Davis; Karen A. Yarbrough, Cook
County Clerk; Unknown Owners, Occupants,
and Parties Interested Generally TAX DEED
NO. 2021COTD001857 FILED 7/30/2021 TAKE
NOTICE County of COOK Date Premises Sold:
5/7/2019 Certificate No.: 17-0008907 Sold
for General Taxes of: 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: 8006 S. Union Avenue, Chicago,
Illinois Legal Description or Property Index
No. 20-33-109-015-0000 Vol. 442 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 January 28, 2022. 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
TO: Raleigh Myles Jr.; Acceptance Capital
Mortgage Corporation c/o Illinois Secretary
of State; Acceptance Capital Mortgage
Corporation; Mortgage Electronic
Registration Systems, Inc. As Nominee for
Acceptance Capital Mortgage Corporation
c/o Genpact Registered Agent, Inc.; Citizens
Bank, N.A.; The Wolcott Group, LLC; The
Wolcott Group, LLC c/o Illinois Corporation
Service C; Occupant; Belinda Pickett; Amelia
Kelly; Karen A. Yarbrough, Cook County
Clerk; Unknown Owners, Occupants, and
Parties Interested Generally TAX DEED NO.
2021COTD001861 FILED 7/30/2021 TAKE
NOTICE County of COOK Date Premises
Sold: 5/7/2019 Certificate No.: 17-0009000
Sold for General Taxes of: 2017 and 2016
1st & 2nd Sold for Special Assessment of
(Municipality) N/A and special assessment
number N/A Warrant No. N/A Inst. No.
N/A THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR
DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at:
Beginning at the intersection of 90th Street
and Lowe Ave, 150 feet North, then 125.6
feet West, then 25 feet North, then 125.6
feet East, then 25 feet South, adjacent side
yard to 8938 S Lowe Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
Legal Description or Property Index No. 25-
04-118-038-0000 Vol. 448 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
January 28, 2022. 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 January
28, 2022. 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 February 4,
2022, 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 January 28, 2022 by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Gross & Duquesne 2019
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 7/30/2021
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7013629
TO: Antoinette Hamilton; Versia M. Boyd;
Gayvonne T. Gary; Occupant; Charles D
Mathis; Maceo J. Davis; Michael J Davis
Jr.; Karen A. Yarbrough, Cook County
Clerk; Unknown Owners, Occupants, and
Parties Interested Generally TAX DEED NO.
2021COTD001862 FILED 7/30/2021 TAKE
NOTICE County of COOK Date Premises Sold:
5/7/2019 Certificate No.: 17-0009082 Sold
for General Taxes of: 2017 Sold for Special
Assessment of (Municipality) N/A and
special assessment number N/A Warrant No.
N/A Inst. No. N/A THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN
SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property
located at: Beginning at the intersection
of 92nd Street and Ada Avenue 53.47 feet
South, then 124.98 feet West, then 32 feet
South, then 124.98 feet East, then 32 feet
North, adjacent side yard to 9210 S Ada
Street, Chicago, Illinois Legal Description
or Property Index No. 25-05-312-017-0000
Vol. 450 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 January 28,
2022. The amount to redeem is subject
to increase at 6 month intervals from the
TO: Emil Sayles; Estate of Emil Sayles; Su Yun
Kolar; Occupant; Shirley A Fortson; Demar
V. Perkins; Marshall E Fortson; Maurice
Williams; Karen A. Yarbrough, Cook County
Clerk; Unknown Owners, Occupants, and
Parties Interested Generally TAX DEED NO.
2021COTD001865 FILED 7/30/2021 TAKE
NOTICE County of COOK Date Premises
Sold: 5/7/2019 Certificate No.: 17-0009375
Sold for General Taxes of: 2017 and 2016
1st & 2nd 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:
10440 S Church Street, Chicago, Illinois
Legal Description or Property Index No. 25-
17-106-035-0000 Vol. 460 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
January 28, 2022. 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 January
28, 2022. 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 February 4,
2022, 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 January 28, 2022 by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Gross & Duquesne 2019
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 7/30/2021
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7013648
TO: Felecia S. Garrett; LTG Management
c/o Felecia S. Garrett, Evelyn Murdock, LTG
Management, Felecia Garrett, Rent Collector
of 2040 111st St, Glennvester Garrett,
Evelyn Murdock, Acorn Glen Townhouse
Association c/o Charles M. Keough, Acorn
Glen Townhouse Association, Bank of
America, N.A.; Occupant, 2040 W. 111th
St., Chicago, IL; Parties in occupancy and
possession; any unknown owners and
occupants. TAX DEED NO. 2020COTD003510.
FILED: October 19, 2020. AMENDED FILED:
March 9, 2021. SECOND AMENDED FILED:
August 5, 2021. TAKE NOTICE. County
of Cook. Date Premises Sold 7/23/2019.
Certificate No. 19S-0008287. Sold for
General Taxes of (year) 2019 Scavenger
(2007-1st of 2010 and 2014-2016). Sold for
Special Assessment of (Municipality) and
special assessment number N/A Warrant No.
N/A Inst. No. N/A. THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN
SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES. Property
located at. 2040 W. 111th St., Chicago,
Illinois. Legal Description or Property Index
No. 25-18-319-016-0000. This notice is to
advise you that the above property has
been sold for delinquent taxes and that
the period of redemption from the sale
will expire on 12/29/2021. 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
TO: James Moran; Eleanor Moran; Occupant;
Alexis Meekins; Ladeliah Jackson; Timothy
Bunch; City of Chicago c/o Corporation
Counsel; Capital One Bank (USA), N.A.; Karen
A. Yarbrough, Cook County Clerk Unknown
Owners, Occupants, and Parties Interested
Generally TAX DEED NO. 2021COTD001887
FILED 7/30/2021 TAKE NOTICE County
of COOK Date Premises Sold: 5/7/2019
Certificate No.: 17-0006736 Sold for General
Taxes of: 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:
9513 S Oglesby Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
Legal Description or Property Index No. 26-
07-100-025-0000 Vol. 297 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
January 28, 2022. 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 January
28, 2022. 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 February 4,
2022, 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 January 28, 2022 by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Gross & Duquesne 2019
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 7/30/2021
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7013582
TO: Clarence Johnson, Jr.; Clarence D.
Johnson III; Josephine V. Johnson; Alex
D. Johnson; Pamela Johnson Occupant;
Clay-Town Construction, Inc. c/o Illinois
Secretary of State; Select Funding, LLC c/o
David Goldberg R.A.; City of Chicago c/o
Corporation Counsel; OneMain Financial
Services, Inc. c/o CT Corporation System
R.A.; Illinois Department of Revenue;
Illinois Department of Revenue Lien Unit;
Department of Treasury Internal Revenue
Service; Karen A. Yarbrough, Cook County
Clerk; Unknown Owners, Occupants, and
Parties Interested Generally TAX DEED NO.
2021COTD001868 FILED 7/30/2021 TAKE
NOTICE County of COOK Date Premises Sold:
5/3/2019 Certificate No.: 17-0000931 Sold
for General Taxes of: 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: 14928 Artesian Avenue,
Harvey, Illinois Legal Description or Property
Index No. 28-12-425-042-0000 Vol. 028
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 January 28, 2022. 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
TO: National Trading Inc.; Illinois Department
of Employment Security; Illinois Attorney
General; Occupant, 120 E 156th St, Harvey,
IL; Parties in occupancy and possession;
any unknown owners and occupants. TAX
DEED NO. 2021COTD001472. FILED: July
20, 2021. TAKE NOTICE. County of Cook.
Date Premises Sold 5/6/2019. Certificate
No. 17-0004057. Sold for General Taxes of
(year) 2017. Sold for Special Assessment
of (Municipality) and special assessment
number N/A Warrant No. N/A Inst. No.
N/A. THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR
DELINQUENT TAXES. Property located at. 120
E 156th St, Harvey, Illinois. Legal Description
or Property Index No. 29-17-310-002-0000.
This notice is to advise you that the above
property has been sold for delinquent taxes
and that the period of redemption from
the sale will expire on 12/15/2021. 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
12/15/2021. This matter is set for hearing
in the Circuit Court of this county in the
Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W. Washington
St., Chicago, IL 60602, on 12/20/2021 at
9:30 AM in room 1704. YOU ARE URGED TO
REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF
PROPERTY. Redemption can be made at any
time on or before 12/15/2021 by applying to
the County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois at
the Office of the County Clerk in Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk. ADDRESS: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, Illinois 60602.
TELEPHONE: (312) 603-5645. Pine Valley
One Real Estate, LLC, Purchaser or Assignee.
Dated: August 6, 2021.
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7014422
TO: Socorro Mendoza; Margarita Morales,
Socorro Mendoza, Margaret Common,
Carolyn Common, Troy Jeffries; Occupant,
The south 25 feet of the real estate c/k/a
15432 Ashland Ave, Harvey, IL; Parties in
occupancy and possession; any unknown
owners and occupants. TAX DEED NO.
2021COTD001476. FILED: July 20, 2021. TAKE
NOTICE. County of Cook. Date Premises
Sold 5/6/2019. Certificate No. 17-0004098.
Sold for General Taxes of (year) 2017. Sold
for Special Assessment of (Municipality) and
special assessment number N/A Warrant No.
N/A Inst. No. N/A. THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN
SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES. Property
located at. The south 25 feet of the real
estate c/k/a 15432 Ashland Ave, Harvey,
Illinois. Legal Description or Property Index
No. 29-18-231-025-0000. This notice is to
advise you that the above property has been
sold for delinquent taxes and that the period
of redemption from the sale will expire
on 12/15/2021. 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
12/15/2021. This matter is set for hearing
in the Circuit Court of this county in the
Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W. Washington
St., Chicago, IL 60602, on 12/20/2021 at
9:30 AM in room 1704. YOU ARE URGED TO
REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF
PROPERTY. Redemption can be made at any

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
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
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
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
If you’re
time on or before 12/15/2021 by applying to
the County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois at
the Office of the County Clerk in Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk. ADDRESS: 118 North Clark

redemption is not made on or before January
28, 2022. 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 February 4,
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
if redemption is not made on or before
12/29/2021. This matter is set for hearing
in the Circuit Court of this county in the
Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W. Washington
St., Chicago, IL 60602, on 1/3/2022 at 9:30
redemption is not made on or before January
28, 2022. 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 February 4,
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Street, Room 434, Chicago, Illinois 60602.
TELEPHONE: (312) 603-5645. Pine Valley
One Real Estate, LLC, Purchaser or Assignee.
Dated: August 6, 2021.
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7014413

2022, 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
is not made on or before January 28, 2022.
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 February 4, 2022, at 9:30
AM in room 1704. YOU ARE URGED TO
REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF
PROPERTY. Redemption can be made at any
time on or before 12/29/2021 by applying
to the County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois
to whip
2022, 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 TO: Equity Trust Company Custodian FBO
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OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at
Occupant, 778 Burnham Ave, Calumet City,

any time on or before January 28, 2022 by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
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
at the Office of the County Clerk in Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk. ADDRESS: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, Illinois 60602.
TELEPHONE: (312) 603-5645. Pine Valley
One Real Estate, LLC, Purchaser or Assignee.
any time on or before January 28, 2022 by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
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IL; Parties in occupancy and possession; any
unknown owners and occupants. TAX DEED
NO. 2021COTD001473. FILED: July 20, 2021.
TAKE NOTICE. County of Cook. Date Premises
Sold 5/6/2019. Certificate No. 17-0004493.

Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Gross & Duquesne 2019
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 7/30/2021
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7013627
any time on or before January 28, 2022 by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Dated: August 6, 2021.
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7014696
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Gross & Duquesne 2019
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 7/30/2021
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7013507
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Sold for General Taxes of (year) 2017. Sold
for Special Assessment of (Municipality) and
special assessment number N/A Warrant
No. N/A Inst. No. N/A. THIS PROPERTY
HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES.

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Property located at. 778 Burnham Ave,
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone: Calumet City, Illinois. Legal Description or
312-603-5645 Gross & Duquesne 2019 Property Index No. 30-18-228-025-0000.
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 7/30/2021 This notice is to advise you that the above
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7013634 property has been sold for delinquent taxes
and that the period of redemption from the

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TO: Kevin Baker; Kamren Baker; Erica Wright;
Tina Walker; Occupant; Karen A. Yarbrough, sale will expire on December 15, 2021. The
Cook County Clerk; Unknown Owners, amount to redeem is subject to increase at
TO: Christopher Michael Bretzing; Occupant; TO: Perry Israel; Paris L. Israel; Occupant;
Occupants, and Parties Interested Generally 6 month intervals from the date of sale and
Edward Stokes; Valerie McNish; City of Marco C. Hall; Albert Taylor; AJ Taylor; City
TO: IMNP LLC; EXR, LLC c/o VCorp Agent TAX DEED NO. 2021COTD001886 FILED may be further increased if the purchaser
Chicago c/o Corporation Counsel; Karen A. of Markham c/o Leslie Trimuel, Clerk; City
Services, Inc.; City of Chicago c/o Corporation 7/30/2021 TAKE NOTICE County of COOK at the tax sale or his or her assignee pays
Yarbrough, Cook County Clerk; Unknown of Markham c/o Steven Miller City Attorney

Daily
Counsel Occupant; Karen A. Yarbrough, Cook Date Premises Sold: 5/8/2019 Certificate any subsequently accruing taxes or special
Owners, Occupants, and Parties Interested Miller & Ellison Attorneys at Law; Karen A.
County Clerk; Unknown Owners, Occupants, No.: 17-0009553 Sold for General Taxes of: assessments to redeem the property from
Generally TAX DEED NO. 2021COTD001858 Yarbrough, Cook County Clerk; Unknown
and Parties Interested Generally TAX DEED 2017 and 2016 1st & 2nd Sold for Special subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check
FILED 7/30/2021 TAKE NOTICE County Owners, Occupants, and Parties Interested
NO. 2021COTD001863 FILED 7/30/2021 TAKE Assessment of (Municipality) N/A and with the county clerk as to the exact amount
of COOK Date Premises Sold: 5/7/2019 Generally TAX DEED NO. 2021COTD001867
NOTICE County of COOK Date Premises Sold: special assessment number N/A Warrant No. you owe before redeeming. This notice is
Certificate No.: 17-0006196 Sold for General FILED 7/30/2021 TAKE NOTICE County

5/7/2019 Certificate No.: 17-0009356 Sold
Taxes of: 2017 Sold for Special Assessment
for General Taxes of: 2017 Sold for Special
of (Municipality) N/A and special assessment
Assessment of (Municipality) N/A and
number N/A Warrant No. N/A Inst. No. N/A
special assessment number N/A Warrant No.
THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR
N/A Inst. No. N/A THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN
DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at:
SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property
Meal
N/A Inst. No. N/A THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN also to advise you that a petition has been
of COOK Date Premises Sold: 5/3/2019
SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property filed for a tax deed which will transfer title
Certificate No.: 17-0000947 Sold for General
located at: 11442 S Wentworth Avenue, and the right to possession of this property
Taxes of: 2017 and 2016 1st and 2nd Sold for
Chicago Illinois Legal Description or Property if redemption is not made on or before
Special Assessment of (Municipality) N/A and
Index No. 25-21-227-018-0000 Vol. 467 December 15, 2021. This matter is set for
special assessment number N/A Warrant No.
hearing in the Circuit Court of this county in

8644 S Manistee Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
Legal Description or Property Index No. 21-
31-330-035-0000 Vol. 277 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
January 28, 2022. 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 January
28, 2022. 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 February 4,
2022, 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 January 28, 2022 by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Gross & Duquesne 2019
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 7/30/2021
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7013527
located at: 10938 S State Street, Chicago,
Illinois Legal Description or Property Index
No. 25-16-422-032-0000 Vol. 459 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 January 28, 2022. 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 January
28, 2022. 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 February 4,
2022, 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 January 28, 2022 by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Gross & Duquesne 2019
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 7/30/2021
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7013638
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 January 28, 2022. 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 January
28, 2022. 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 February 4,
2022, 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 January 28, 2022 by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Gross & Duquesne 2019
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 7/30/2021
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7013650
today.
N/A Inst. No. N/A THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN
the Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W. Washington
SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property
St., Chicago, IL 60602, on 12/20/2021 at
located at: 15404 Birch Road, Markham,
9:30 AM in room 1704. YOU ARE URGED TO
Illinois Legal Description or Property Index
REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS
No. 28-14-204-012-0000 Vol. 030 This notice
OF PROPERTY. Redemption can be made at
is to advise you that the above property
any time on or before December 15, 2021 by
has been sold for delinquent taxes and that
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
the period of redemption from the sale will
Illinois at the Office of the County Clerk in
expire on January 28, 2022. The amount to
Chicago, Illinois. For further information
redeem is subject to increase at 6 month
contact the County Clerk. ADDRESS: 118
intervals from the date of sale and may be
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North Clark Street, Room 434, Chicago,
further increased if the purchaser at the
Illinois 60602. TELEPHONE: (312) 603-5645.
tax sale or his or her assignee pays any
Pine Valley One Real Estate, LLC, Purchaser
subsequently accruing taxes or special
or Assignee. Dated: August 6, 2021.
assessments to redeem the property from
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7014428
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 January
28, 2022. 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 February 4,
2022, 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 January 28, 2022 by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Gross & Duquesne 2019
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 7/30/2021
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7013511

TO: Ixtaccihuatl Piedra a/k/a Ixtaccuhuatl

TO: Ausencia Hinojosa; Oscar G. Hinojosa;
Occupant; City of Chicago c/o Corporation
Counsel; Karen A. Yarbrough, Cook County
Clerk; Unknown Owners, Occupants, and
Parties Interested Generally TAX DEED NO.
2021COTD001860 FILED 7/30/2021 TAKE
NOTICE County of COOK Date Premises Sold:
5/7/2019 Certificate No.: 17-0006220 Sold
for General Taxes of: 2017 and 2013 1st &
2nd; 2014 1st; 2015 1st & 2nd; 2016 1st &
2nd; 2017 1st 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:
8427 S Brandon Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
Legal Description or Property Index No. 21-
32-204-011-0000 Vol. 278 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
January 28, 2022. 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 January
28, 2022. 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 February 4,
2022, 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 January 28, 2022 by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Gross & Duquesne 2019
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 7/30/2021
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7013545
TO: Pamela Clemons; Occupant; Jeffery B
Beane; Richard Young Sr.; Venus Williams
Young; City of Chicago c/o Corporation
Counsel; Cook County Assessor Legal
Department; Illinois Department of
Revenue Lien Unit Illinois Department of
Revenue; Karen A. Yarbrough, Cook County
Clerk; Unknown Owners, Occupants, and
Parties Interested Generally TAX DEED NO.
2021COTD001864 FILED 7/30/2021 TAKE
NOTICE County of COOK Date Premises Sold:
5/7/2019 Certificate No.: 17-0009366 Sold
for General Taxes of: 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: 347 W 110th Place Chicago,
Illinois Legal Description or Property Index
No. 25-16-427-002-0000 Vol. 459 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 January 28, 2022. 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 January
28, 2022. 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 February 4,
2022, 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 January 28, 2022 by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Gross & Duquesne 2019
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 7/30/2021
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7013641
Piedra; Estate of Rafael Piedra; Raul A
Piedra; Occupant; Fifth Third Bank, N.A.;
Prestige Aluminum Corporation c/o Illinois
Secretary of State; Dennis S. Kanara, Trustee;
Chicago Lumber and Construction c/o Illinois
Secretary of State; Joseph Dezona, Trustee;
Chase Bank, N.A.; Karen A. Yarbrough, Cook
County Clerk; Unknown Owners, Occupants,
and Parties Interested Generally TAX DEED
NO. 2021COTD001866 FILED 7/30/2021 TAKE
NOTICE County of COOK Date Premises Sold:
5/7/2019 Certificate No.: 17-0006703 Sold
for General Taxes of: 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: 8845 S Houston Avenue, Chicago,
Illinois Legal Description or Property Index
No. 26-06-211-018-0000 Vol. 296 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 January 28, 2022. 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 January
28, 2022. 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 February 4,
2022, 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 January 28, 2022 by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Gross & Duquesne 2019
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 7/30/2021
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7013547
TO: Antonio Echols; Occupant; Latonja Brown
Fair; Wayne Fair a/k/a Wade Fair; Linda
Lloyd; Joyce Lloyd Karen A. Yarbrough, Cook
County Clerk; Unknown Owners, Occupants,
and Parties Interested Generally TAX DEED
NO. 2021COTD001891 FILED 7/30/2021 TAKE
NOTICE County of COOK Date Premises Sold:
5/6/2019 Certificate No.: 17-0003530 Sold
for General Taxes of: 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: 13804 Kanawha Street,
Dolton, Illinois Legal Description or Property
Index No. 29-03-104-011-0000 Vol. 194
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 January 28, 2022. 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 January
28, 2022. 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 February 4,
2022, 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 January 28, 2022 by
applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois, at the Office of the County Clerk in
Room 434, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago,
Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk: Address: 118 North Clark
Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL Telephone:
312-603-5645 Gross & Duquesne 2019
Purchaser or Assignee Dated: 7/30/2021
8/17, 8/18, 8/19/2021 7013515
18  Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Wednesday, August 18, 2021 

CHICAGO WEATHER CENTER

chicagoweathercenter.com | BY TOM SKILLING AND

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 18 NORMAL HIGH: 82° NORMAL LOW: 63° RECORD HIGH: 98° (1947) RECORD LOW: 49° (1963)

Humidity/shower chances on the increase

LOCAL FORECAST NATIONAL FORECAST Tuesday afternoon the
-10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 9900s 1100s
00s 110s humidity increase was
noticeable as dew points
reached into the lower 70s
over southern portions of
Seattle
79/58
Spokan
72/5
53
ne
50s International Falls 70s our area with mid to upper
HIGH LOW 94/70
Concord 60s elsewhere. The
86 70 Steady or
rising at night Portland
83/59
Boise
Billings
60/50

Minneapolis
Green Bay
86/63 100s
Bismarck
101/65
Buff
ffalo
f o
Albany 84/6
78/6
67
68
Boston
86/ 72
humidity will increase a
little more Wednesday and
■ Low-level moisture 75/51 79/669 combined with an upper
along with a weak 80s Rapid City 91/71
Chicago Detroit N ew York air disturbance aloft looks
disturbance aloft will 70s
70s
Tuesday’s0s
s lowest:
90/60
82/68 80/74
to boost our afternoon and
give an increased Reno 34° at Bo odie, Calif.
aliff 660s
60
0s
0s
Cheyenne
88/56
Des Moines 86/70
88/69 Cleveland d
Pittsburgh
evening t-storm chances.
chance of t-storms. 79/52 Omaha 90s 79/68
75/667
880s A little drier air at mid
■ Warm and humid. Highs Salt Lake Cit ty 90/71
San 68/55 Indianap polis Washington -levels aloft will lower the
reach the mid-upper 80s – Denver 855/ 70 83/770
expectation of showers on
Francisco Kansas City
cooler at the lake. Las V ega s 96/62 St. Lo ui s Lo u is v il le
74/57 Wichita 87/71
90/772 899/74
Thursday and Friday but
■ Building cumulus clouds 99/774 87/71 Charllotte
the approach of a cold
will result in an increased Los Angeles 90s Nashville
89// 72
80s front looks to trigger
chance of afternoon and 75/66 Oklahoma Ci
ity
Phoenix x 89/72 another round of t-storms
early evening t-storms. 100s
95/7 76 Albuquerque
83
3/771
Little Rock Atlant ta Saturday.
■ Easterly winds 6-12 mph. 88/63 81/772 Birmingham 89/73 3
San Dieg ego 90/74 A glance at the Atlantic
■ Clearing skies overnight. 76/69 9
Dallas 80s
Jackson and Caribbean shows
Tuesday’s highest: 118°
at Stovepipe Wells, Calif.
El Paso 84/776
H o uston
93/75 90s Tropical storm Grace likely
88/69
91/79 Orlando intensifying into a
New
Orleans 90s 93/76 hurricane headed for the
91/80 Mexican coast and Tropical
(Precipitation at 7 a.m. CDT)
Miami storm Henri eventually
91/81
SNOW RAIN making a turn back out into
the Atlantic.
THURSDAY, AUG. 19 FRIDAY, AUG. 20 SATURDAY, AUG. 21 SUNDAY, AUG. 22 MONDAY, AUG. 23 TUESDAY, AUG. 24

HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW

88 70 90 71 89 71 87 72 91 73 90 71
Steady or Steady or Steady or Steady or Steady or Steady or
rising at night rising at night rising at night rising at night rising at night rising at night
Quite warm and humid. Partly cloudy, very warm Front approaches increas- Seasonably warm, but with Hot and humid with highs in Partly cloudy, hot and
Clouds build through and humid. Temps peak ing chances of afternoon more comfortable humidity the lower 90s – cooler 70s humid with a chance of
midday leading to an around 90, with a heat index and overnight t-storms. levels. Ample sun helps at the lakefront Increasing t-storms. High temps in the
isolated afternoon/evening near 100. Increasing clouds Temps approach the 90 temps climb to the mid to clouds at night with a 80s north and 90s south
t-storm. High temps overnight with a chance of degree mark. SW winds upper 80s inland and mid chance of t-storms. SE with cooler 70s at the
approach 90 in spots, cooler showers toward morning. 10-20 mph. 70s at the beaches. Light winds. lakefront. Chance of
lakeside. East to SE winds Southerly winds 8-15 mph. NE-E winds increase to t-storms at night. Easterly
5-10 mph. m
10-15 mph. winds.

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T.S. Henri
T.S. Henri

NOTE: Predicted high/low temps on Tribune weather page are chronological—the “high” refers to maximum reading expected during day and “low” is the minimum reading expected the following night.

ASK TOM CHICAGO DIGEST

Dear Tom, Active Tropical Storms—heavy rains spread into Northeast TUESDAY
MONDAY TEMPERATURES
LOCATION HI LO LOCATION HI LO
What is rain that never reaches RAINFALL SATURDAY OUTLOOK TROPICAL UPDATE Aurora 85 55 Midway 83 68
the ground called? We see this a OUTLOOK Upper level winds steering Tracking multiple systems Gary 79 61 O’Hare 84 66
0.50” Kankakee 82 61 Romeoville 85 63
lot in Arizona. Forecast tropical storms in the Atlantic Basin Lakefront 79 68 Valparaiso 83 60
—Gerard Mann totals for Note how steering-level winds 15,000 Lansing 82 60 Waukegan 80 57
6 a.m. WED. 2”+ to 20,000 feet aloft "steer" the CHICAGO PRECIPITATION
Dear Gerard, through Chicago Remnants PERIOD 2021 NORMAL
tropical storms/low pressure remnant
Precipitation that never 6 a.m. THUR. 1” of “Fred” 7 a.m. Tues. (through 7 p.m.) 0.00" 0.15"
0.50” 7 a.m. SAT. 7 a.m. Month to date 1.33" 2.39"
reaches the ground is called FRI. SUN. Year to date 16.96" 24.85"
virga. With humidities 1-2” Remnants to 7 a.m.
“Fred” steered THU. 7 a.m. WEDNESDAY SUNBURN FORECAST
generally lower in Arizona, the out to sea 7 a.m.
WED.
SAT. TIME OF EXPOSURE BEFORE SUNBURN BEGINS
7 a.m.
Southwest in general, the SAT.
7 a.m. 2 hours, 28 minutes
TUESDAY’S DEW POINTS 1 p.m.* 22 minutes
mountainous West and western Humidity creeps back into NE illinois 7 a.m.
7 p.m.
TUES. 4 p.m. 55 minutes
JET FRI.
Great Plains, the bases of and NW Indiana STREAM
*Peak intensity
SOURCE: Dr. Bryan C. Schultz
t-storms there are higher than 63 63 66 7 a.m. 7 a.m. LAKE MICHIGAN CONDITIONS
70° dew points THUR. WED.
in the rest of the country. This reach into south- 63 ‘”HENRI”
WEDNESDAY THURSDAY

66 Tropical Storm Wind SE 10 kts. S/E 5-10 kts.

makes these regions especially ern portions “Henri” turns Waves 1 foot 1 foot
good places to observe the of the Chicago 66 65 64 back to sea 7 a.m. 7 a.m.
SAT. FRI. 7 p.m.
Tues. shore/crib water temps 73°/64°

evapo- rating streaks of rain area; mid-to 68 THUR. 7 a.m. 7 p.m.

68 WED. TUES.
T E
TUESDAY’S PEAK POLLEN LEVEL
69 69
and/or ice crystals that upper 60s Hurricane “Grace” ‘”GRACE”
POLLEN LEVEL
67 70 Tree 0
comprise virga, since they are elsewhere 66 72 steered into Mexico Grass Low
74
best able to evaporate in the 72 Mold Moderate
Ragweed Moderate
dry subcloud air there. These SOURCES: Frank Wachowski, National Weather Service archives PAUL DAILEY, THOMAS VALLE / WGN-TV Weed High
streaks can take on a hook- like SOURCE: Loyola Medical Allergy Count,
Dr. Rachna Shah
appearance—vertical at the top
MIDWEST CITIES OTHER U.S. CITIES WORLD CITIES CHICAGO AIR QUALITY
but more horizon- tally Tuesday’s reading Moderate
WED./THUR. FC HI LO FC HI LO WED./THUR FC HI LO FC HI LO WED./THUR FC HI LO FC HI LO WED./THUR FC HI LO FC HI LO WEDNESDAY FC HI LO WEDNESDAY FC HI LO
oriented closer to the ground. Illinois Abilene ts 88 75 pc 93 74 Fairbanks pc 59 43 sh 56 47 Palm Beach pc 89 74 pc 90 74 Acapulco ts 88 77 Kyiv rn 69 56 Wednesday’s forecast Moderate
Albany ts 78 67 rn 72 65 Algiers pc 86 69
The descending raindrops Carbondale
Champaign
cl
pc
87
85
69
66
ts
pc
85
85
71
67 Albuquerque ts 88 63 su 86 65
Fargo
Flagstaff
w
ts
96
66
73
50
su
su
95
69
72
48
Palm Springs su 99
Philadelphia ts 87
71
75
su100
pc 88
74
74 Amsterdam sh 67 61
Lima
Lisbon
pc 66
su 83
60
61
Critical pollutant Ozone
Decatur pc 86 67 pc 86 68 Amarillo pc 90 68 pc 94 70 Fort Myers ts 93 74 su 92 74 Phoenix pc 95 76 su 97 77 Ankara su 91 58 London cl 70 58
grow smaller through Moline pc 89 67 su 89 69 Anchorage pc 63 52 pc 65 54 Fort Smith ts 82 73 ts 88 75 Pittsburgh rn 75 67 ts 79 67 Athens su 93 71 Madrid su 95 63
TUESDAY’S RISE/SET TIMES
Peoria su 87 68 su 87 69 Asheville pc 83 65 ts 82 65 Fresno su 92 65 su 93 66 Portland, ME cl 79 68 rn 74 65 Auckland sh 56 44 Manila ts 88 78 Sun 6:01 a.m. 7:47 p.m.
evaporation as they fall and Quincy
Rockford
su
pc
86
87
68
66
pc
su
84
89
70
66
Aspen
Atlanta
ts 80
su 89
50
73
ts
ts
71
88
44
73
Grand Junc.
Great Falls
ts
sh
79
53
61
44
ts
pc
70
68
53
49
Portland, OR su 83
Providence cl 84
59
70
su 81
ts 81
61
71
Baghdad
Bangkok
su110
su 94
76
79
Mexico City pc 78
Monterrey pc 99
59
75 Moon 4:21 p.m. 12:32 a.m.
their rate of fall slows. Springfield
Sterling
pc
su
87
86
67
63
pc
su
86
88
68
66
Atlantic City cl 84
Austin ts 88
74
76
pc
pc
89
93
72
75
Harrisburg
Hartford
ts
cl
80
84
73
71
pc
ts
85
83
71
68
Raleigh
Rapid City
sh 87
su 90
73
60
pc 92
ts 81
73
56
Barbados
Barcelona
w 87
su 79
78
69
Montreal
Moscow
ts 83
ts 85
69
63
Baltimore ts 84 73 pc 91 73 Helena sh 57 48 cl 71 54 Reno su 79 52 su 82 54 Beijing cl 85 71 Munich sh 69 54
Indiana Billings sh 60 50 sh 61 54 72 Beirut su 86 77
Honolulu su 87 75 pc 87 76 Richmond ts 85 73 pc 92 Nairobi pc 74 56
Bloomington ts 85 68 ts 83 66 Birmingham pc 90 74 ts 86 73 Rochester su 85 65 su 86 66 Berlin cl 70 59
Write to: ASK TOM Evansville cl 88 71 ts 83 71 Bismarck su101 64 pc 91 63
Houston
Int'l Falls
ts
su
91
94
79
70
ts
su
94
94
78
70 Sacramento su 93 60 su 93 58 Bermuda ts 85 80
Nassau
New Delhi
su 90
pc100
79
82
Fort Wayne ts 84 67 ts 84 65
2501 W. Bradley Place Indianapolis ts 85 70 ts 84 69
Boise
Boston
su 75
cl 86
51
72
su
ts
79
79
55
73
Jackson
Jacksonville
pc
ts
93
86
75
74
ts
pc
92
91
74
74
Salem, Ore. su 84
Salt Lake City ts 68
55
55
pc 82
ts 67
58
54
Bogota
Brussels
ts 65
sh 65
50
59
Oslo
Ottawa
pc 67
ts 83
50
67 Aug 22 Aug 30 Sep 6 Sep 13
Lafayette sh 85 66 pc 86 66
Chicago, IL 60618 South Bend ts 85 67 ts 84 66
Brownsville su 97
Buffalo ts 79
81
69
su
ts
98
82
80
68
Juneau
Kansas City
rn
su
58
87
51
71
pc
ts
64
87
51
74
San Antonio sh 93
San Diego cl 76
78
69
pc 96
pc 75
77
67
Bucharest
Budapest
pc 90
pc 74
62
52
Panama City ts 84
Paris sh 70
74
60 WEDNESDAY’S PLANET WATCH
asktomwhy@wgntv.com Wisconsin
Green Bay su 86 63 su 86 62
Burlington
Charlotte
ts 80
pc 89
67
72
rn
pc
77
92
67
72
Las Vegas
Lexington
su
pc
99
85
74
69
su
ts
96
78
75
66
San Francisco su 73
San Juan pc 88
57
79
su 72
pc 88
57
80
Buenos Aires pc 76
Cairo su 96
56
74
Prague pc 69
Rio de Janeiro su 85
55
63
PLANET RISE SET
Kenosha pc 84 65 su 86 65 Charlstn SC ts 86 76 ts 89 75 Lincoln su 91 69 pc 90 72 Santa Fe su 81 57 su 81 58 Cancun ts 89 75 Riyadh su110 78 Mercury 7:24 a.m. 8:28 p.m.
La Crosse su 88 66 su 88 68 Charlstn WV ts 80 68 ts 79 67 Little Rock ts 81 72 ts 86 74 Savannah ts 90 75 ts 90 74 Caracas ts 87 75 Rome su 86 71
WGN-TV meteorologists Mark Madison pc 84 64 su 87 65 Chattanooga pc 90 72 ts 84 71 Los Angeles sh 75 66 pc 73 62 Seattle pc 78 58 su 78 58 Casablanca pc 89 67 Santiago rn 60 44 Venus 9:12 a.m. 9:13 p.m.
Milwaukee pc 82 68 su 84 67 Cheyenne su 88 57 ts 75 52 Louisville cl 89 74 ts 82 72 Shreveport ts 91 76 ts 91 76 Copenhagen sh 65 56 Seoul su 82 71 Mars 7:27 a.m. 8:29 p.m.
Carroll, Steve Kahn, Richard Wausau su 87 64 su 87 65 Cincinnati pc 85 70 ts 80 68 Macon pc 90 73 pc 92 73 Sioux Falls su 91 71 su 90 72 Dublin cl 63 53 Singapore ts 84 76
Cleveland sh 79 68 cl 81 66 Memphis ts 85 74 ts 86 75 Spokane pc 72 53 su 79 58 Edmonton su 72 49 Sofia ts 88 56 Jupiter 7:55 p.m. 6:16 a.m.
Koeneman, Paul Merzlock and Michigan Colo. Spgs su 92 61 su 86 56 Miami pc 91 81 pc 90 79 St. Louis pc 90 73 ts 87 74 Frankfurt sh 72 59 Stockholm rn 57 49
Detroit ts 82 68 ts 84 66 Saturn 6:03 p.m. 4:42 a.m.
Paul Dailey, plus Bill Snyder Grand Rapids cl 85 66 pc 86 65
Columbia MO pc 88
Columbia SC sh 89
70
75
pc
pc
87
91
72
75
Minneapolis
Mobile
su
pc
91
90
71
75
su
ts
92
88
72
74
Syracuse ts 77
Tallahassee ts 90
69
75
sh 80
ts 92
67
74
Geneva pc 74
Guadalajara ts 82
55
63
Sydney
Taipei
pc 64
ts 87
46
78
Marquette su 86 61 su 88 60 BEST VIEWING TIME DIRECTION
contribute to this page St. Ste. Marie pc 85 60 su 84 61
Columbus cl 82 69 ts 82 67 Montgomery su 93 74 pc 93 74 Tampa ts 94 78 ts 93 78 Havana ts 91 74 Tehran pc 98 71
Mercury Not visible
Concord ts 84 68 ts 74 65 Nashville ts 88 72 ts 83 71 Topeka su 89 70 ts 88 73 Helsinki rn 62 56 Tokyo w 86 77
Traverse City su 85 64 pc 85 64 Crps Christi pc 95 79 su 95 79 Tucson pc 91 70 su 93 68 Hong Kong cl 89 81
New Orleans ts 91 80 ts 92 79 Toronto ts 80 69 Venus 8:30 p.m. 7.5° W
Hear Demetrius Iowa Dallas ts 84 76 ts 91 77 New York cl 80 74 ts 85 73 Tulsa ts 86 74 ts 86 76 Istanbul su 88 71 Trinidad ts 85 75
Ames su 89 66 su 88 68 Daytona Bch. pc 89 76 pc 91 74 Norfolk ts 89 76 pc 89 76 Washington ts 84 70 pc 90 70 Jerusalem su 87 64 Vancouver pc 71 60 Mars Not visible
Ivory’s weather Cedar Rapids su 88 65 su 88 67 Denver su 96 62 ts 83 56 Okla. City ts 81 71 ts 87 74 Wichita pc 88 71 pc 88 73 Johannesburgsu 71 49 Vienna pc 69 55 Jupiter 1:00 a.m. 34.5° S
Des Moines su 88 69 su 88 72 Duluth su 89 66 su 89 67 Omaha su 90 71 su 90 73 Wilkes Barre ts 80 70 sh 80 67 Kabul su 89 65 Warsaw pc 69 58
updates weekdays 3 to 6 p.m. Dubuque su 86 64 su 87 66 El Paso su 88 69 su 89 68 Orlando pc 93 76 pc 93 75 Yuma su101 79 su 99 77 Kingston w 88 79 Winnipeg pc 87 62 Saturn 11:45 p.m. 29.5° S
on WGN-AM 720 Chicago FORECAST (FC) ABBREVIATIONS: su-sunny pc-partly cloudy cl-cloudy rn-rain ts-thunderstorm sn-snow fl -flurries fr-freezing rain sl-sleet sh-showers rs-rain/snow ss-snow showers w-windy na-unavailable Source: Dan Joyce, Chicago Astronomical Society

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US likely to authorize booster shots
Officials said to be
closer to advising
extra dose for public
By Zeke Miller
and Matthew Perrone
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — After
struggling for months to
persuade Americans to
get the COVID-19 vaccine,
U.S. health officials could
soon face a fresh challenge:
talking vaccinated people
into getting booster shots to
gain longer-lasting protec-
tion as the delta variant
sends infections soaring
again.
As early as Wednesday,
U.S. health authorities are
expected to recommend an
extra dose of the vaccine for
all Americans eight months
after they get their second
shot, according to two
people who spoke to The
Associated Press on condi-
tion of anonymity to discuss
internal deliberations.
That means the biggest
vaccination drive in U.S.
history is about to get even
more extensive.
The move is being driven
by both the highly conta-
gious variant and prelim-
inary evidence that the
vaccine’s protective effect
starts dropping within
months.
Last week, U.S. health offi-
cials recommended boost-
ers for some people with
weakened immune systems,
such as cancer patients and
organ transplant recipients.
If the shots are expanded
as expected to other Amer-
icans, among the first to
receive them could be health
care workers, nursing home
residents and other older
people.
Some experts have
expressed concern that a
Taliban OK ‘safe passage’
from Kabul in US airlift
Inquiry underway
after frantic Afghans
rush departing plane
By Robert Burns,
Ellen Knickmeyer
and Zeke Miller
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The
Taliban have agreed to allow
“safe passage” from Afghan-
istan for civilians struggling
to join a U.S.-directed airlift
from the capital, President
Joe Biden’s national secu-
rity adviser said Tuesday,
although a timetable for
completing the evacuation
of Americans, Afghan allies
and others has yet to be
worked out with the coun-
try’s new rulers.
Jake Sullivan acknowl-
edged reports that some
civilians were encountering
resistance — “being turned
away or pushed back or
even beaten” — as they tried
to reach the Kabul interna-
tional airport.
But he said “very large
numbers” were reaching the
airport and the problem of
the others was being taken
up with the Taliban, whose
stunningly swift takeover of
the country Sunday plunged
the U.S. evacuation effort
A car attempts to drive through floodwaters Tuesday near
Peachtree Creek outside Atlanta. BRYNN ANDERSON/AP
NATION & WORLD
Pharmacist Tiffany Aljets, left, gives a COVID-19 vaccination Monday to Jonila Shehu, an 18-year-old exchange student from
Kosovo, at the state fair in Des Moines, Iowa. CHARLIE NEIBERGALL/AP
new campaign calling for
boosters could muddle the
public health message and
undercut the continuing
drive to win over the tens of
millions of Americans who
are hesitant to get their first
COVID-19 shots.
Calling for third doses
could discourage people
who had been skeptical of
the shot’s effectiveness in
the first place, Lawrence
Gostin, a public health
specialist at Georgetown
University, warned Tuesday.
“We have to really make
sure that while we’re spend-
ing a lot of time and effort
on third doses that we don’t
undermine our campaign
for first vaccinations,” he
into chaos, confusion and
violence.
On Monday, the airlift
had been suspended when
Afghans desperate to escape
the country breeched secu-
rity and rushed onto the
tarmac. Seven people died
in several incidents.
The Air Force said Tues-
day that its Office of Special
Investigations is investigat-
ing an incident in which a
C-17 transport plane taking
off from Kabul airport was
swarmed by desperate
Afghan civilians, some of
whom died.
The Air Force said human
remains were found in the
plane’s wheel well when it
landed in Qatar.
Pentagon officials said
that after interruptions
Monday, the airlift was back
on track and being accel-
erated despite weather
problems, amid regular
communication with Tali-
ban leaders.
Additional U.S. troops
arrived and more were on
the way, with a total of more
than 6,000 expected to be
involved in securing the
airport in coming days.
The State Department
said it was sending John
Bass, a former ambassador
to Afghanistan, to manage
said. The booster campaign
could also cause ill will
toward the United States:
Global health officials,
including the World Health
Organization, have called on
wealthier nations to hold off
on booster shots to ensure
poor countries have enough
vaccine for the initial doses.
Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng, a
South African expert advis-
ing the United Nations,
condemned the move
toward booster shots in
the U.S., saying it will have
the effect of “advancing
and deepening the exist-
ing inequities” when “there
are people who are yet to
receive a single shot.”
But White House press
the evacuation operation
in Kabul, and the Pentagon
said it will send Army Maj.
Gen. Christopher Donohue,
a special operations officer
and current commander of
the 82nd Airborne Division,
to take command of airport
security operations.
Pentagon spokesman
John Kirby disclosed that
U.S. officers were speaking
with Taliban commanders
“multiple times a day” about
avoiding conflict at the
airport. This suggested that
the new rulers of Afghani-
stan, who swept to power
after 20 years of war against
the U.S.-supported Kabul
government, plan not to
disrupt the evacuation.
Kirby would not discuss
details of the Taliban
arrangement, and Sullivan
said the question of how
much time the Taliban will
give the evacuation was still
being negotiated.
Biden has said he wants
the evacuation completed
by Aug. 31. Sullivan declined
to say whether that deadline
would hold.
Gen. Frank McKen-
zie, head of U.S. Central
Command and overall
commander of U.S. troops
in Kabul, made an unan-
nounced visit to the Afghan
Weaker Fred spawns floods, possible twisters
By Bryan Anderson
Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. — Tropi-
cal Storm Fred weakened to
a depression and spawned
several apparent torna-
does in Georgia and North
Carolina on Tuesday as it
dumped heavy rains onto
the Appalachian mountains
along a path that could cause
flash floods as far north as
upstate New York.
One death was reported
— a Las Vegas man whose
car hydroplaned and over-
secretary Jen Psaki said
the question of whether to
distribute boosters or help
other nations “is a false
choice. We can do both.”
She said the U.S. is “far
and away” the biggest
contributor to the global
fight against COVID-19
and will “continue to be the
arsenal for vaccines” to the
world.
“We also have enough
supply, and we have long
planned for enough supply,
should a booster be needed
for the eligible population,”
Psaki said.
Booster shots would
only begin to be adminis-
tered widely once the U.S.
Food and Drug Administra-
National security adviser Jake Sullivan addresses the situation in Afghanistan during a news
briefing Tuesday at the White House. STEFANI REYNOLDS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
capital Tuesday.
In a statement, he said he
found that military air traf-
fic controllers and ground
handlers were “rapidly scal-
ing up” airlift operations.
McKenzie on Sunday
negotiated the safe passage
agreement with Taliban
leaders in talks held in Doha,
Qatar.
“I cautioned them against
interference in our evacua-
tion, and made it clear to
them that any attack would
be met with overwhelming
force in the defense of our
forces,” McKenzie said.
At the White House, Sulli-
van said U.S. officials were
engaged in an “hour by
hour” process of holding
turned into a water-filled
ditch Monday night near
Panama City, Florida, the
Florida Highway Patrol said.
The National Hurri-
cane Center said Fred had
top sustained winds of 35
mph as it crossed south-
east Alabama into western
and north Georgia. Senior
hurricane specialist Stacy
Stewart said Tuesday that it
could dump 5 to 7 inches of
rain onto parts of Alabama,
Georgia and the Carolinas —
and possibly up to 10 inches
of rain in isolated spots.
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tion formally approves the
vaccines, which are being
dispensed for now under
what is known as emergency
use authorization.
More than 198 million
Americans have received at
least one dose of a COVID-19
vaccine, or 70% of those who
are eligible, according to the
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. Just under
60% of Americans 12 and
older are fully vaccinated.
The vaccination drive has
been slower than the Biden
administration had hoped
for. At the same time, the
variant is spreading aggres-
sively through unvaccinated
communities and also caus-
ing an increasing number of
the Taliban to their commit-
ment to allow safe passage
for civilians wishing to leave
the country.
Asked whether the Biden
administration recognizes
the Taliban as the legiti-
mate rulers of Afghanistan,
Sullivan said it was too soon
to say and that the Taliban’s
record of adhering to inter-
national human rights stan-
dards “has not been good.”
Overnight at the airport,
nine Air Force C-17 trans-
port planes arrived with
equipment and about 1,000
troops, and seven C-17s
took off with 700-800 civil-
ian evacuees, including
165 Americans, Army Maj.
Gen. William Taylor told
Clay Chaney, a meteorol-
ogist with National Weather
Service, said a local fire
chief in North Carolina told
the agency a tornado hit
northern Iredell County.
The weather service was
also looking into reports
of a tornado in Alexander
County.
At least three apparent
tornadoes touched down
in Georgia: One hit Amer-
icus, in the southwestern
part of the state, one hit a
rural area of Meriwether
County, between Atlanta
“breakthrough infections”
of fully inoculated people.
Studies show the vaccine
remains highly protective
against severe COVID-
19, but results from Israel
released last month suggest
its effect wanes. Its effective-
ness against symptomatic
infection peaked at 96% two
months after study partici-
pants got their second dose.
By six months, it was down
to about 84%.
Israel, which exclusively
administered the Pfizer
shot, has been offering a
booster to people over 50
to control its delta surge.
Researchers are still trying
to understand to what
extent the breakthrough
infections are due to waning
immunity or vulnerability to
the delta variant.
The new urgency from
U.S. officials reflects how
quickly the variant has
knocked the country back
on its heels.
On July Fourth, Presi-
dent Joe Biden proclaimed
that the nation was declar-
ing its independence from
the virus. But since then,
infections, hospitalizations
and deaths have increased
nationwide, overloading
emergency rooms across
parts of the South and West.
Dr. William Moss of
Johns Hopkins University
said more data is needed
on whether waning anti-
body levels lead to hospi-
talizations and deaths. The
antibody research alone
is “insufficient to call for
booster doses for the general
population.”
And Dr. Carlos del Rio, a
professor at Emory Univer-
sity’s medical school, said:
“Our hospitals are not full
of people who were vacci-
nated six or eight months
ago. Our hospitals are full of
the unvaccinated.”
a Pentagon news confer-
ence. The total included
Afghans who have applied
for Special Immigrant Visas
and third-country nationals,
he said.
The goal is to ramp up to
one evacuation flight per
hour by Wednesday, with
5,000 to 9,000 evacuees
leaving per day, Taylor and
Kirby said.
Taylor said that more
than 4,000 U.S. troops are
at the airport. That number
is expected to top 6,000 in
coming days — more than
twice as many as in all of
Afghanistan when Biden
announced in April he
would be ending the U.S. war
and pulling out all troops.
and Columbus, and one hit
Jeffersonville, near Macon,
according to the National
Weather Service.
Meanwhile, reconnais-
sance aircraft found Grace
regained tropical cyclone
strength Tuesday. Grace’s
sustained winds grew to
45 mph as it left Haiti on a
path between southeast-
ern Cuba and Jamaica.
Forecasters said it could
be near hurricane strength
as it approaches Mexi-
co’s Yucatan peninsula late
Wednesday or Thursday.
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Many preachers silent on vaccine
Some don’t want
to anger followers,
others don’t believe
By Jay Reeves
Associated Press
Dr. Danny Avula, the head
of Virginia’s COVID-19
vaccination effort, suspected
he might have a problem
getting pastors to publicly
advocate for the shots when
some members of his own
church referred to them
as “the mark of the beast,”
a biblical reference to alle-
giance to the devil, and the
minister wasn’t sure how to
respond.
“A lot of pastors, based on
where their congregations
are at, are pretty hesitant
to do so because this is so
charged, and it immediately
invites criticism and furor by
the segment of your commu-
nity that’s not on board with
that,” Avula said.
Across the nation’s reli-
gious Bible Belt, a region
beset by soaring infection
rates from the fast-spread-
ing delta variant, churches
and pastors are both helping
and hurting in the campaign
to get people vaccinated
against COVID-19.
Some host vaccination
clinics and pray for more
inoculations, while others
are issuing fiery anti-vaccine
sermons from their pulpits.
Most are staying mum on the
issue, something experts see
as a missed opportunity in a
swath of the country where
church is the biggest spiri-
tual and social influence for
many communities.
That was on display
recently in metro Birming-
ham, where First Baptist
Church of Trussville had an
outbreak following a 200th
anniversary celebration that
included a video greeting
by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey.
The pastor promised more
cleaning and face mask
availability without uttering
two words that health offi-
cials say could make a differ-
ence among people long on
religion but short on faith in
government: Get vaccinated.
Firefighters work to control the Dixie Fire in Janesville, Calif., on Tuesday. The fire was moving
toward Susanville, population 15,000. CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Fueled by winds, monstrous
California blaze menaces city
By Ethan Swope
and John Antczak
Associated Press
SUSANVILLE, Calif. —
Firefighters faced danger-
ously windy weather
Tuesday as they struggled
to keep the nation’s larg-
est wildfire from moving
toward a Northern Cali-
fornia city and other small
mountain communities.
Forecasters issued red
flag warnings of critical fire
weather conditions, includ-
ing gusts up to 40 mph.
The warnings came after
the Dixie Fire grew explo-
sively from winds spawned
by a new weather system
that arrived Monday. It was
about 8 miles from Susan-
ville, population about
18,000, early Tuesday, fire
spokesman Doug Ulibarri
said.
Numerous resources
were put into the Susanville
area, where residents were
warned to be ready to evac-
uate, said Mark Brunton, an
operations section chief.
“It’s not out of play, and
the next 24 hours are going
to be crucial to watch as to
what the fire is going to do
there,” he told an online
briefing.
Tony Spell, pastor of the Life Tabernacle Church of Central City, Louisiana, prays with supporters June 7 outside the 5th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Spell has preached that the COVID-19 vaccinations are “demonic.” GERALD HERBERT/AP
A few outspoken reli-
gious leaders have garnered
crowds or media atten-
tion for their opposition to
the vaccines, such as Tony
Spell, who repeatedly defied
COVID-19 restrictions to
hold in-person services at
the Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
church where he is pastor.
He has preached that vacci-
nations are “demonic” and
vowed that the government
will not “force us to comply
with your evil orders.”
But they appear to be
outliers, according to theo-
logian Curtis Chang, with
the majority of ministers
avoiding the vaccine issue so
as not to inflame tensions in
congregations already strug-
gling with the pandemic and
political division.
“I would say that the vast
majority are paralyzed or
silent because of how polar-
ized it has been,” said Chang,
who has pastored churches
and is on the faculty at Duke
Divinity School.
A survey by the National
To the east, spot fires
became established south
of the small community of
Janesville, which had been
ordered evacuated.
Some structures were lost
there, but a surge of fire-
fighters was able to herd the
fire around the majority of
the town, Brunton said.
Firefighting managers
warned to expect spot fires
to up to 1 mile ahead of the
main fire, Ulibarri said.
The Dixie Fire is the
largest of nearly 100 major
wildfires burning across
more than a dozen West-
ern states that have seen
historic drought and weeks
of high temperatures and
dry weather that have left
trees, brush and grasslands
as flammable as tinder.
Climate change has made
the U.S. West warmer and
drier in the past 30 years
and will continue to make
the weather more extreme
and wildfires more destruc-
tive, according to scientists.
Susanville is the seat of
Lassen County and the larg-
est city that the Dixie Fire,
named for the road where
it started, has approached
since it broke out last
month.
The former Sierra
Association of Evangelicals
found that 95% of evangel-
ical leaders planned to get
inoculated, but that number
hasn’t translated into wide-
spread advocacy from the
pulpit, he said.
The disparity matters
because vaccination rates
are generally low across the
Bible Belt, where Southern
and Midwestern church-
goers are a formidable bloc
that has proven resistant to
vaccination appeals from
government leaders and
health officials. While many
Black and Latino people
haven’t been vaccinated, the
large number of white evan-
gelical resisters is partic-
ularly troubling for health
officials.
A poll by Associated Press-
NORC Center for Public
Affairs Research in March
showed that 40% of white
evangelical Protestants said
they likely would not get
vaccinated, compared with
25% of all Americans, 28% of
white mainline Protestants
Nevada logging and mining
town has two state prisons,
a nearby federal lockup and
a casino.
Ash fell from the advanc-
ing fire and a Police Depart-
ment statement urged
residents “to be alert and be
ready to evacuate” if the fire
threatens the city, although
no formal evacuation warn-
ing had been issued.
The weather forecast
prompted Pacific Gas &
Electric to warn that it
might cut off power to
48,000 customers in parts
of 18 California counties
from Tuesday evening
through Wednesday after-
noon to prevent winds from
knocking down or hurling
debris into power lines and
sparking new wildfires.
Most of those custom-
ers are in Butte and Shasta
counties, which have seen
a number of deadly and
devastating wildfires in
recent years, including the
Dixie Fire.
The Dixie Fire has
scorched more than 940
square miles since it ignited
July 13 and eventually
merged with a smaller blaze
called the Fly Fire.
It’s less than a third
contained.
and 27% of nonwhite Prot-
estants.
Some national voices
including Black mega-
church minister T.D. Jakes,
evangelist Franklin Graham
and former Southern Baptist
Convention President J.D.
Greear have taken public
stances in favor of vaccina-
tions. But there hasn’t been
a sustained, unified push
that could give local pastors
“cover” to speak out them-
selves, Chang said.
First Baptist Trussville
has taken multiple steps to
guard against spreading the
virus, including following
public health guidelines and
limiting in-person events,
according to spokesman
and business manager Alan
Taylor. Yet when it comes to
the vaccines, church leaders
consider them “a personal
choice,” he said.
“When I am asked
personally, I say it was the
right choice for me and
my wife,” said Taylor, who
contracted a relatively
Tropical storm feeds anger
in earthquake-stricken Haiti
By Mark Stevenson
and Evens Sanon
Associated Press
LES CAYES, Haiti —
Heavy rain from Tropi-
cal Storm Grace forced a
temporary halt Tuesday to
the Haitian government’s
response to the deadly
weekend earthquake, feed-
ing the growing anger and
frustration among thou-
sands who were left home-
less.
Grace battered south-
western Haiti, which was
hit hardest by Saturday’s
quake, and officials warned
some areas could get 15
inches of rain before the
storm moved on. Intermit-
tent rain fell in the earth-
quake-damaged city of Les
Cayes and in the capital of
Port-au-Prince.
The storm hit late
Monday, the same day that
Haiti’s Civil Protection
Agency raised the death
toll from the earthquake
to 1,941 and the number of
injured to 9,900, many of
whom have had to wait for
medical help lying outside
in wilting heat.
Patience was running
out in the Western Hemi-
sphere’s poorest nation.
Haitians already were
struggling with the corona-
virus, gang violence, wors-
ening poverty and the July
7 assassination of President
Jovenel Moise when the
quake hit.
Bodies continued to be
pulled from the rubble, and
the smell of death hung
heavily over a pancaked,
three-story apartment
building. A simple bed
sheet covered the body of
a 3-year-old girl that fire-
fighters had found an hour
earlier.
Neighbor Joseph Boyer,
53, said he knew the girl’s
family.
“The mother and father
are in the hospital, but all
three kids died,” he said.
The bodies of the other two
siblings were found earlier.
Illustrating the lack of
rare breakthrough case of
COVID-19 despite having
been vaccinated. “I firmly
believe it helped when I
became infected.”
The story is the same in
Mississippi and Georgia,
where some churches are
returning to online services
and some pastors are quietly
talking about the need for
vaccination.
More than 200 pastors,
priests and other church
leaders from Missouri went
further as cases exploded
last month, signing a state-
ment urging Christians
to get vaccinated because
of the biblical command-
ment to “love your neigh-
bor as yourself.” Springfield
Mayor Ken McClure said
the region saw a big jump in
vaccinations after the pastor
of a large church used his
sermon to tell parishioners
it was the right thing to do.
Dr. Ellen Eaton, an infec-
tious disease specialist at
the University of Alabama at
Birmingham, said churches
Earthquake-displaced Haitians sit inside a church the
morning after Tropical Storm Grace hit Les Cayes on Tuesday,
three days after an earthquake. MATIAS DELACROIX/AP
government presence,
volunteer firefighters from
the nearby city of Cap-Ha-
tien had left the body out in
the rain because police have
to be present before it could
be taken away.
The lack of adequate aid
was made more apparent
by the fact that the only
help that arrived was from
poorly equipped volunteers.
“All we have are sledge-
hammers and hands. That’s
the plan,” said Canadian
volunteer Randy Lodder,
director of the Adoration
Christian School in Haiti.
Sarah Charles, assistant
administrator for the U.S.
Agency for International
Development’s Bureau for
Humanitarian Assistance,
said its disaster response
teams were forced to
suspend operations as the
storm arrived Monday, but
members were back Tues-
day to assess its impact and
continue helping.
“We do not anticipate
that the death toll related
to this earthquake will be
anywhere near the 2010
earthquake, where more
than 200,000 people were
killed,” Charles said.
The scale of the damage
also was not as severe as
that earthquake, she said,
adding: “That’s not what
we’re seeing on the ground
could be effective at promot-
ing vaccination as a way “to
love your neighbors during
this pandemic.”
“Many Southerners are
very close to their pastors
and church communities.
Next to their personal physi-
cian, many here in Alabama
routinely turn to their
church leaders with health
issues,” she said.
One pastor at a liberal
United Methodist church
in Birmingham issued a plea
on social media for members
to get vaccinated, while
the minister at a moder-
ate Baptist church nearby
prayed during worship for
divine intervention for more
vaccinations.
“We pray, Lord, that there
will be good judgment used
and that people would see
the need for the vaccine and
that it would be available not
only here in our own coun-
try but around the world and
that might stem the tide of
this terrible, terrible virus,”
said the Rev. Timothy L.
Kelley of Southside Baptist
Church.
Evangelical pastor Keven
Blankenship was among
those trying to walk that
tightrope after COVID-
19 invaded his indepen-
dent church in suburban
Birmingham, sickening
three of his family members,
among others. Initially he
didn’t preach about the
vaccines, considering it a
personal choice.
But on a recent Sunday,
during the first in-person
services in a month, Blan-
kenship revealed he had
gotten his first shot and was
due for a second.
“If you feel comfortable
receiving it, I want you to
receive it. If you don’t feel
comfortable, I want you to
talk to your doctor and you
get your doctor’s guidance,”
he told worshipers. “But I
want you to do what you
feel is the best thing for you
and your family, and don’t be
bullied into anything.”
Blankenship ended with
an “Amen,” said almost as if
a question. He was met by
silence.
right now.”
The rain and wind raised
the threat of mudslides
and flash flooding as Grace
slowly passed over south-
western Haiti’s Tiburon
Peninsula before heading
toward Jamaica and south-
eastern Cuba. Forecasters
said it could become a hurri-
cane before hitting Mexico’s
Yucatan Peninsula.
Officials said the magni-
tude 7.2 earthquake
destroyed more than 7,000
homes and damaged nearly
5,000, leaving about 30,000
families homeless.
Structural engineer Kit
Miyamoto said he has seen
places struck by earth-
quakes build back stronger.
He said the destruction in
Port-au-Prince from the
devastating 2010 earth-
quake led masons and
others to improve building
practices. But Etzer Emile,
a Haitian economist and
professor at Quisqueya
University, a private institu-
tion in Port-au-Prince, said
the earthquake’s impact
will almost certainly result
in more long-term poverty
for Haiti’s struggling south-
western region.
“The earthquake has
just given a fatal blow to a
regional economy already
on its knees for about 2 1/2
years” Emile said.

GOP shifts amid extreme weather
But Republicans
not interested in
curbing emissions
By Lisa Friedman
and Coral Davenport
The New York Times
WASHINGTON — After
a decade of disputing the
existence of climate change,
many leading Republicans
are shifting their posture
amid deadly heat waves,
devastating drought and
ferocious wildfires that have
bludgeoned their districts
and unnerved their constit-
uents back home.
Members of Congress
who long insisted that the
climate is changing due to
natural cycles have nota-
bly adjusted that view, with
many now acknowledging
the solid science that emis-
sions from burning oil, gas
and coal have raised Earth’s
temperature.
But their growing accep-
tance of the reality of climate
change has not translated
into support for the one
strategy that scientists said
in a major United Nations
report last week is imper-
ative to avert an even more
harrowing future: stop burn-
ing fossil fuels.
Instead, Republicans
want to spend billions to
prepare communities to
cope with extreme weather,
but are trying to block
efforts by Democrats to cut
the emissions that are fuel-
ing the disasters in the first
place.
Dozens of Republicans in
the House and Senate said
in recent interviews that
quickly switching to wind,
solar and other clean energy
will damage an economy
that has been underpinned
by fossil fuels for more than
a century.
“I’m not doing anything
to raise the cost of living
for American families,”
said Sen. Rick Scott of Flor-
ida, where climate-fueled
disasters have cost the state
more than $100 billion over
the past decade according to
estimates from the federal
government.
Statue of loathed dictator survives — barely
By Andrew Higgins
The New York Times
LABINOT MAL, Alba-
nia — Swaddled in straw
on the dirt floor of a stable,
the once omnipotent dicta-
tor lies helpless on his back.
His face specked with bird
droppings, he stares blankly
at the sagging roof, a final
indignity for a leader whose
all-seeing eyes held millions
in terrified thrall for four
decades.
Enver Hoxha, who died
in 1985, was Europe’s
most enduring and feared
communist tyrant, creat-
ing a cult of personality
that left the impoverished
Balkan nation of Albania
awash with grandiose stat-
ues, marble busts and giant
portraits in his honor.
Now, 30 years after the
brutal system he left behind
imploded, the cult has
shrunk to a single tribute
in bronze, toppled from its
stone pedestal in a remote
mountain village and
dumped in a stable — but
still watched over day and
night by an elderly Albanian
woman and her daughter.
“In his time, he was a good
man, but nobody wants him
anymore,” said Sabire Plaku,
80. “I have protected him
with all my strength.”
Although now nearly deaf
and partly blind, she still
hobbles daily from her home
in Labinot Mal in the moun-
tains of central Albania to
the nearby stable to make
sure that the widely loathed
former dictator is safe.
While not particularly
enamored of Hoxha’s poli-
cies — a toxic mix of Stalin-
ist paranoia and repression,
with North Korean-style
isolation and economic
misery — Plaku still feels a
duty to watch over what is
almost certainly Albania’s
last intact statue of a man
who put her remote and
now neglected mountain
village on the map.
It was here in Labinot
Mal that Hoxha first took
charge of Albania’s Commu-
nist Party during World War
II, and presided over the
founding July 10, 1943, of the
Sen. Bill Cassidy made sure the $1 trillion infrastructure package had billions to protect coastal states from sea level rise. T.J. KIRKPATRICK/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Scott said he wants to
address climate change, but
“you can’t do it where you’re
killing jobs.”
It’s a message supported
by polling that shows
Republican voters are more
concerned with jobs than
the environment. A Pew
Research Center survey
in May found just 10% of
Republican and Republi-
can-leaning independents
were deeply concerned with
addressing climate change,
while a majority thought
President Joe Biden’s ambi-
tious plans to curb climate
change would hurt the econ-
omy.
With the exception of
young Republicans who
have been agitating for their
party to take climate change
more seriously, conserva-
tive voters as a whole have
not shifted much on the
issue over the past 10 years.
That skepticism may have
reached a pinnacle with
A bust of Enver Hoxha, second from right, is set amid statues of Stalin and Lenin at the back of the national art gallery in Tirana,
Albania’s capital. The image of Hoxha was once everywhere in Albania. LAURA BOUSHNAK/THE NEW YORK TIMES
National Liberation Army.
That guerrilla force, aided
by Britain and communist
partisans from neighboring
Yugoslavia, helped defeat
invading Italian fascists and
then the Nazis.
After the war ended,
Hoxha, a French-educated
botanist, took control of
Albania and began execut-
ing his wartime comrades.
Labinot Mal became a
place of pilgrimage, which
ensured that it avoided at
least the worst of the depri-
vation visited on the coun-
try by his 41-year rule. The
village got a clinic, electricity
and a museum. It also got a
10-foot-tall bronze statue of
the “Supreme Comrade.”
The museum, housed in
a grand villa built before the
war as a summer retreat and
then confiscated by Hoxha’s
communists, closed decades
ago, along with the clinic
and the collective farm. Part
of its roof has collapsed, and
the current government has
shown no interest in saving
it from ruin.
Agim Qoku, a local histo-
rian, said he rejoiced at
President Donald Trump,
who famously derided
climate science, loos-
ened emissions rules and
expanded oil and gas drill-
ing on public lands.
As the impacts of global
warming becoming more
apparent with each weather
forecast, Republicans and
their allies now argue for
investment in research and
development, or technolog-
ical solutions that are years
away from viability, such as
cleaning the air after oil, gas
and coal are burned. Many
also favor expanding nuclear
energy, which does not
produce greenhouse gases
but poses other challenges
including the lengthy time
it takes to build new plants
and concerns about disposal
of spent fuel and risk of
radioactive leaks.
A few Republicans, like
Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah
and Lindsey Graham of
South Carolina, have said
Albania’s retreat from poli-
cies that, in Hoxha’s time,
made the country Europe’s
most oppressed and back-
ward. But he still thinks the
museum should be revived,
as a tribute not to the dicta-
tor but to Albania’s wartime
struggle against foreign
fascists.
The stable where Hoxha
lies on his back is at the side
of the defunct museum. It
is the only part of the villa
that, thanks to Plaku and
her daughter, has not been
plundered.
For all of the agonies of
Hoxha’s rule — when Alba-
nia broke with not only the
West but also Yugoslavia, the
Soviet Union and eventu-
ally even China, all of which
the Balkan dictator came to
view as too liberal — some
villagers still remember his
reign with nostalgia. He
did improve the country’s
health care and schools.
Still one of Europe’s
poorest countries, Albania
has hemorrhaged people
since student protesters
tore down a 30-foot statue
of Hoxha in the center of
Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Wednesday, August 18, 2021  3
they support charging
companies for the carbon
dioxide they generate, a
strategy that economists
say would create a power-
ful incentive to lower emis-
sions.
But neither man is cham-
pioning such a measure with
any urgency.
The majority of Repub-
lican lawmakers back less
aggressive responses popu-
lar with their voters, like
planting trees to absorb
more carbon dioxide from
the atmosphere, or offering
tax credits to businesses that
capture carbon dioxide after
it has been released into the
air by power plants or indus-
trial sites.
“What they are opposing
is any program to meaning-
fully reduce emissions,” said
David Victor, co-director of
the Deep Decarbonization
Initiative at the University of
California, San Diego.
And while Sen. Kevin
Tirana, the capital, in Febru-
ary 1991. It was an example
quickly followed in towns
across the country.
In the following decade,
Hoxha’s acolytes, including
his widow, were put on trial
and a capitalist free-for-all
replaced dogmatic commu-
nism. And nearly a quarter
of the population emigrated,
not because people pined
for the old order but mostly
because they could for the
first time leave to find work.
Before, trying to leave Alba-
nia was a serious crime
punishable by death.
Ruzhdi Balla, the 42-year-
old owner of a tiny cafe —
Labinot Mal’s only business
— recalled watching in 1991,
when the authorities in the
nearest town sent a crane,
escorted by police cars, to
lift a statue of Hoxha from
its pedestal in front of the
museum. Workers hoisted
the statue into the air and
then recoiled in horror as
a big black snake appeared
under its feet.
Since then, four of Balla’s
eight siblings have moved
to Greece to find work,
Cramer, a North Dakota
Republican, allowed that
climate change is driving
the extreme drought that
has devastated crops and
decimated livestock in his
state this summer, he said
the gases produced by burn-
ing fossil fuels should be the
target, not the fuels them-
selves.
“We need to be on an
anti-carbon mission, not
an anti-fuel mission,” said
Cramer, whose state is also
a top oil and gas producer.
Even Sen. James Inhofe,
an Oklahoma Republican
who famously once threw a
snowball on the Senate floor
to claim the planet is not
getting hotter, insisted last
month that he never called
climate change a “hoax,”
only that the dire conse-
quences have been over-
blown.
Inhofe is the author of
a book titled “The Great-
est Hoax: How the Global
while two others have left
the shrinking village, which
now has at most a few
hundred people, for other
parts of Albania.
Residents disagree on
whether Hoxha got what
he deserved when he was
pulled down, but there is
broad agreement that the
removal of his statue was the
last time government offi-
cials paid much attention to
their village.
“Let’s put him back,” said
the cafe owner’s 72-year-
old older brother, Islam
Balla. “TV crews will come
and film us. Maybe then the
world will remember that
we still exist.”
Whatever his many faults,
according to the older
brother, the dictator at least
cared about Labinot Mal,
trekking there in 1968 for the
unveiling of his bronze like-
ness. “It was a really spec-
tacular day,” the elder Balla
said, recalling the festivities.
“We have seen nothing like
it since.”
The only visitors today, he
added, are a few “fanatics”
who arrive once a year to lay
Warming Conspiracy
Threatens Your Future.”
“They don’t want to look
like they are denying the
science, but they don’t want
to look like they’re anti-
free market and support
regulation,” said Michael
Oppenheimer, a professor
of geosciences and interna-
tional affairs at Princeton
University.
“But the fact is, there’s no
way to solve this without
regulating and mandating
the cut of emissions. There’s
no magical easy ‘innova-
tion-only’ way out of this.”
Democrats say the tools
exist now to stave off a hotter
planet: rapidly expand wind
and solar energy, beef up
energy storage and the elec-
tric grid, electrify transpor-
tation, and make buildings
energy efficient.
Many of those elements
are tucked into a $3.5 trillion
budget package that Demo-
crats hope to pass in the fall.
a wreath at the base of the
toppled statue’s pedestal.
To prepare for the dicta-
tor’s 1968 visit, the govern-
ment resurfaced the only
road connecting the village
to the outside world. A
half-century later, the road
has crumbled into a treach-
erous pitted track.
Qoku, who is also a school-
teacher, said the area had
always been a world apart,
submitting to the Ottoman
Empire long after the rest
of Albania had succumbed,
and resisting the Nazis with
such zeal that the area lost
more fighters per capita
than anywhere else in the
country.
But these ornery habits,
he said, have today put
Labinot Mal at odds with
the spirit of the times, which
are dominated by rejection
of Hoxha and everything he
stood for.
In Tirana, the only Hoxha
statuary still on public
display is a battered marble
bust, its nose smashed and
face disfigured. It stands
at the back of the national
art gallery, near an under-
ground museum detail-
ing the horrors of Hoxha’s
secret police, the Sigurimi.
Construction work
started this year in Tirana to
transform a Pharaonic trib-
ute to Hoxha — a huge pyra-
mid built in 1988 to house a
memorial museum — into
a complex of cafes, class-
rooms and studios. Defaced
by graffiti and falling apart,
the pyramid had previously
been used as a horror movie
set, a temporary NATO base
during the Balkan wars of
the 1990s and a nightclub.
Plaku said she had no
desire to see another leader
like him. But she still feels a
sense of responsibility to the
past.
Worried that thieves
want to steal the bronze
statue and melt it for scrap,
she lamented that “only bad
people want Hoxha today.”
With her health failing, she
said her daughter, Fatush
Balla, 66, would soon have
to protect him on her own.
“I have done my duty,”
Plaku said.
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NEWS BRIEFING

Texas Gov. Abbott has

tested positive for
COVID-19, office says
From news services
AUSTIN, Texas — Repub-
lican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
tested positive for COVID-
19 on Tuesday, according to
his office, which said he is in
good health and experienc-
ing no symptoms.
Abbott, who was vacci-
nated in 2020, was isolating
in the governor’s mansion in
Austin and receiving mono-
clonal antibody treatment,
spokesman Mark Miner said
in a statement.
The governor is the latest
Texan to test positive as
cases of the virus soar and
hospitals around the state
are stretched thin.
More than 11,500 patients
were hospitalized with the
virus as of Monday, the high-
est levels since January.
The positive test comes a
day after Abbott tweeted a
photo of himself not wear-
ing a mask while speaking
indoors near Dallas to a
group of Republicans, most
of whom were unmasked.
Virus lockdown: New
Zealand’s government took
drastic action Tuesday by
putting the entire nation
into a strict lockdown for
at least three days after
discovering a single case of
coronavirus infection in the
community.
Prime Minister Jacinda
Ardern invoked some of
the stirring rhetoric she
used early in the pandemic
by urging the “team of 5
million” — New Zealand’s
population — to go hard and
early in trying to eliminate
the latest outbreak.
“We have seen what
happens elsewhere if we
fail to get on top of it,”
Ardern said. “We only get
one chance.”
She said Auckland, where
the infected man lives, and
Coromandel, where he had
visited, would go into a full
lockdown for seven days and
the remainder of the country
for three days while health
experts tried to find the
source of his infection.
New Zealand has also
been slower than other
developed nations to inoc-
ulate its population, leaving
it vulnerable to outbreaks.
Only 32% of people have had
at least one shot and 18% are
fully vaccinated.
New Zealand has
reported just 26 virus deaths
since the pandemic began.
Hong Kong restrictions:
Hong Kong will tighten
entry restrictions for travel-
ers arriving from the United
States and 15 other countries
beginning Friday, extending
the quarantine period to 21
days.
Previously, the 15 coun-
tries, which also include
Malaysia, Thailand, France
and the Netherlands, were
classified as medium-risk,
with travelers able to serve
only 7 days of quarantine if
they were fully vaccinated
and tested positive for anti-
bodies prior to leaving for
the city.
A resurgence of corona-
virus cases in these coun-
tries due to the delta variant
led them to be recatego-
rized as high high-risk and
stricter measures imposed,
as the government sought
to “uphold the local barrier
against the importation of
COVID-19,” it said in a state-
ment.
The changes come after a
domestic worker who had
returned to Hong Kong from
the U.S. earlier this month
tested positive for the coro-
navirus, despite receiving
two shots of vaccine and
testing positive for antibod-
ies.
Also Friday, the manda-
tory quarantine period was
extended from 7 to 14 days
for fully vaccinated travelers
with a positive antibody test
arriving from Australia, now
categorized as medium-risk.
Quarantine requirements
French wildfires: A firefighter battles a blaze Tuesday near Toulon. Hundreds of firefighters battled a wildfire racing through
forests near the French Riviera that forced the evacuation of thousands of people from homes and vacation spots. French
President Emmanuel Macron later said firefighters were able to “stabilize” the blaze. SDIS 83 FIRE BRIGADE OF THE VAR REGION
for New Zealand, which is
the only country considered
low-risk, remain at seven
days for fully-vaccinated
passengers.
Deadly visit to dentist:
The parents of a 3-year-old
Kansas boy who died after a
procedure to pull teeth at a
Wichita dentist’s office filed
a wrongful death lawsuit
Tuesday.
Angel Zapata and Nancy
Valenzuela, of Scott City,
argue in the lawsuit that
their son, Abiel Zapata
Valenzuela, did not receive
adequate care during the
appointment July 6.
The lawsuit says Abiel’s
mother was told by two
dental offices in south-
west Kansas that he needed
to have two teeth pulled
because of a gum infection,
KSNW-TV reported.
She took him to Tiny
Teeth Pediatric in Wich-
ita. The lawsuit names the
practice, Dr. Scott White,
nurse-anesthetist Jeremy
Salsbury and Special Anes-
thesia Services.
Michigan sign dispute: A people still missing after
white neighbor who shot
at a Black family’s home
in Warren, which borders
Detroit, slashed tires on a
vehicle and wrote racist
graffiti on a pickup truck,
told a judge Monday that
he did it because of a Black
Lives Matter sign in the
window.
Michael Frederick Jr.
said during his sentencing
in Macomb County Circuit
Court that his actions
weren’t an attack on Eddie
and Candace Hall “person-
ally.”
“I targeted these people
because I didn’t like their
political sign that they had
in the window,” he said. “I
think you guys are some
great people and didn’t
deserve this at all.”
Frederick, 25, was
sentenced to four to 10 years
in prison, according to The
Macomb Daily of Mount
Clemens.
Turkish floods: Rescue
workers in Turkey kept up
the search Tuesday for 34
severe floods ravaged parts
of the country’s Black Sea
coast, with excavators clear-
ing the sludge and build-
ing wreckage that was left
behind.
At least 77 people were
killed after torrential rains
battered Turkey’s north-
western Black Sea prov-
inces Aug. 11, causing floods
that demolished homes and
bridges, swept away cars and
blocked access to numerous
roads.
The Turkish disaster
management agency, AFAD,
said 26 people were unac-
counted for in Kastamonu
province and eight others
were reported in Sinop
province.
Pompeii discovery: Archae-
ologists in the ancient city
of Pompeii have discov-
ered a well-preserved skel-
eton during excavations of
a tomb that also shed light
on the cultural life of the city
before it was destroyed by a
volcanic eruption in AD 79.
White hair and part of an
ear, along with bones and
fabric fragments, were found
in the tomb in the necropolis
of Porta Sarno, an area not
yet open to the public that
is east of Pompeii’s urban
center.
The discovery is unusual
since most adults were
cremated at the time.
An inscription of the tomb
suggested that its owner,
Marcus Venerius Secun-
dio, helped organize perfor-
mances in Greek in Pompeii.
Experts said it was the first
confirmation that Greek was
used alongside Latin.
“That performances
in Greek were organized
is evidence of the lively
and open cultural climate
which characterized ancient
Pompeii,” the director of
the Archaeological Park of
Pompeii, Gabriel Zuchtrie-
gel, said in a statement
announcing the discovery.
The eruption of Mount
Vesuvius in 79 AD destroyed
Pompeii. Excavations over
the years have yielded
discoveries of tombs, chari-
ots and frescoed homes.

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BUSINESS
Walmart’s CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK

strong sales
boost its
NorthShore mandating
forecast
By Anne D’Innocenzio
vaccines for team members
Associated Press By Denny Jacob staff will continue to undergo daily system and Amita Health, have yet
Chicago Tribune standard screening questions and to require vaccines for their workers.
NEW YORK — Walmart temperature checks. Cook County Health also announced
raised its sales outlook for the No r t h S h o re Un i ve r s i t y “The vaccines have been shown Monday that it will require all staff,
year as Americans returned to HealthSystem announced Monday to be safe and effective against contractors and students to be fully
shopping for back-to-school that all of its team members will COVID-related hospitalization and vaccinated by Oct. 1 or demonstrate
clothes and travel goods during be required to be fully vaccinated death. Requiring COVID-19 vacci- a verifiable medical or religious
the second quarter. against COVID-19 by Oct. 31. It is nation as a condition of employ- exemption.
Still, concerns are mount- the latest health care institution to ment is a critical and essential The Chicago Department of
ing over how shoppers will NorthShore University mandate the vaccine. defense against this pandemic,” a Public Health reported there were
behave in the months ahead as HealthSystem’s Evanston Hospital NorthShore’s 18,000 team spokesperson said in a statement. 419 confirmed cases and a test posi-
the delta variant of COVID-19 is seen April 5, 2016, in Evanston. members — including employ- NorthShore joins Lurie Children’s tivity rate of 4.3%, based on data
surges across the U.S. and mask NorthShore announced Monday ees, volunteers and contractors Hospital, Advocate Aurora Health, updated Monday. That’s up from
mandates are reinstated. that all of its team members will — across its six hospitals will be Loyola Medicine and University 347 confirmed cases and a test posi-
On top of that, higher prices be required to be fully vaccinated required to get the vaccine. North- of Chicago Medicine in requiring tivity rate of 3.8% the prior week.
on everything from food to against COVID-19 by Oct. 31. Shore may make exceptions for vaccination. Other health systems,
automobiles are making shop- CHICAGO TRIBUNE religious or medical reasons. All such as Northwestern Medicine djacob@chicagotribune.com
pers more conscious about
spending.
And temporary government
stimulus and other benefits,
which helped prop up overall
spending, are dissipating.
Other major retailers are
reporting quarterly results this
week and next, and there is
early evidence that behaviors
that changed vastly during the
pandemic have begun to change
again, or at least normalize.
Data from Home Depot,
which also reported earnings
Tuesday, showed that traffic in
stores fell a bit after a massive
rush of DIY projects during
lockdowns. At Walmart, the
blistering growth in online
orders has slowed drastically.
Also on Tuesday, the U.S.
reported that retail sales in July
fell a seasonal adjusted 1.1%. It
was a much larger drop than the
0.3% decline Wall Street analysts
had expected. According to
Tuesday’s report, spending fell
at stores that sell clothing, furni-
ture and sporting goods.
“There is now a very clear
sign that the momentum, which
has propelled the sector over
the few months or so, is slow-
ing and that growth rates are
moderating as a result,” said
Neil Saunders, managing direc-
tor of GlobalData Retail. “To be
clear, this is not catastrophic
and it in no way signals anything
near a contraction for retail.” Kimberly Harrod, of Wheaton, and Steve Chanders, of Winnetka, do “mountain climbers” during “Fall Football Challenge,” during an aerobics class at the
Saunders noted that the East Bank Club in 2005. MICHAEL TERCHA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

East Bank Club to require

savings rate remains high,
which means “better-off house-
holds” still have a buffer of cash.
It was yet another strong
quarter for Walmart, which has
been able to retain customers

vaccines starting in the fall

who rely on its stores and curb-
side pickup services, as well as
delivery.
Walmart reported earnings of
$4.27 billion, or $1.52 per share,
during the three-month period
ended July 31. Adjusted results
were $1.78 per share, better
than the $1.57 per share that
analysts had expected, accord-
ing to FactSet.
Net profit last year was $6.47
billion, or $1.77 adjusted per
share.
Sales in the most recent quar-
ter rose 2.2% to $139.87 billion,
also better than the $137 billion
industry analysts expected.
Comparable sales at U.S.
stores rose 5.2%, a bit of a slow-
down from the 6% increase in
the first quarter. Online sales
growth dramatically slowed to
6%, but that’s compared with
last year when the pandemic
shocked the U.S., and Walmart’s
online orders surged 97%.
There was a 37% increase in the
first quarter and 69% increase in
the fourth quarter.
Company executives told
analysts Tuesday that shop-
pers went to stores for items
like party supplies, luggage and
clothing. For back-to-school,
customers bought backpacks
and paper supplies in addition
to fashion.
Walmart is facing rising costs
for everything from labor to
shipping as supply chain back-
ups hit companies worldwide.
Brett Biggs, Walmart’s chief
financial officer, said Tuesday
that the company is monitor-
ing transit and port delays. The
company is also chartering
vessels for Walmart goods as it
heads into the fall and holiday
shipping crunch, Biggs said.
Home Depot also has secured
its own transportation, and
Amazon.com has long pushed
for autonomy in shipping.
Walmart now says that it
expects sales at stores opened
at least a year to be up 5% to 6%
for the year; it had previously
said the metric would be up in
the low single digits.
Shares of Home Depot fell
more than 4%, or $14.30 to
$320.74, while Walmart’s stock
rose 26 cents to $150.99.
By Lauren Zumbach
Chicago Tribune
East Bank Club will require its
staff and members to be vaccinated
against COVID-19 starting Oct. 1.
While some Chicago restaurants
have already announced vaccine
mandates, the high-end River
North health club is one of the first
major gyms in the city to require
vaccines.
When East Bank Club surveyed
its members, most supported the
idea of requiring vaccines, said
Amazon hiring workers for another Naperville store
By Suzanne Baker
Naperville Sun
Amazon is hiring workers
for another new grocery store
in Naperville, according to the
company website.
While the company has yet to
officially confirm the location of its
second grocery store or the open-
ing date, the building at the north-
west corner of Ogden Avenue and
Naper Boulevard being renovated
right now looks almost identical to
the Amazon Fresh store at Route 59
and 95th Street.
The chief difference right now is
the north location has no signage
on the building yet.
The south Naperville store
opened in December 2020, 10
months after Amazon Retail LLC
requested a Class D liquor license
to sell package goods at the 3116 S.
Route 59 operation.
The city has received a simi-
lar liquor license request from
Amazon for a store at 2055 W.
Ogden Ave., according a city
spokeswoman.
Among the jobs Amazon is
advertising are grocery, food
service and kitchen workers. Pay
starts at $15 per hour with benefits
available.
A year ago Thompson Thrift
CEO Mel Kleist.
“We know the science right now
does suggest that if everyone’s
vaccinated, we’re in a much safer
place,” he said.
Crain’s Chicago Business first
reported East Bank Club’s vaccine
requirement.
The rule won’t go into effect
until Oct. 1 to give unvaccinated
members and employees time to
get the shot, Kleist said. Members
will have to show proof of vaccina-
tion once at check-in.
East Bank Club will consult
A worker Monday heads toward the building under construction at the
northwest corner of Ogden Avenue and Naper Boulevard. The company is
hiring workers for the location. SUZANNE BAKER/NAPERVILLE SUN
Retail Group announced the
purchase of 4.2 acres for a $19
million, 46,000-square-foot shop-
ping development with an “undis-
closed nationally recognized
business as the anchor.”
The plan was to demolish the
former Fair Oaks Ford dealer-
ship structure and put up a new
35,000-square-foot store as well as
5,000 to 7,000 square feet of addi-
tional retail space.
The company projected the
shopping center would open in
late 2021.
Around the corner from that
location is Naperville’s second
with experts on how to handle
situations where members
decline the vaccine due to medi-
cal or religious reasons and kids
under 12, who aren’t yet eligible
for the vaccine, Kleist said. The
club also has not yet determined
how it will respond to members
who refuse to get the vaccine for
other reasons.
Earlier this month, Equinox
Group said it plans to require
customers and employees show
proof of vaccination to enter Equi-
nox Clubs and SoulCycle studios,
Costco, scheduled to open at 8 a.m.
Thursday at 1255 E. Ogden Ave.
If the business on Ogden Avenue
is an Amazon Fresh store, it will
join others already open in Illinois,
including locations in Blooming-
dale, Oak Lawn and Schaumburg.
The first Amazon Fresh grocery
store in the nation debuted in 2020
in Woodland Hills, an area near Los
Angeles.
The 35,000-square-foot Naper-
ville store on Route 59 was the
company’s fifth nationwide and the
first to be built outside of California.
Before opening to the public,
Amazon had been using the Naper-
starting with locations in New York
City in early September. The city is
phasing in rules requiring COVID-
19 vaccines for anyone who wants
to dine indoors at a restaurant or
go to the gym. Equinox did not say
when it plans to implement the
policy in Chicago.
Kleist said other gyms have
reached out to ask about East Bank
Club’s vaccine mandate but isn’t
aware of any in the Chicago area
that have imposed similar rules.
lzumbach@chicagotribune.com
ville location for six months to
fulfill online grocery orders.
What makes Amazon Fresh
different from most groceries is its
high-tech shopping experience.
Dash Carts, which use cameras,
sensors and scales to iden-
tify the items and ring them up,
allow customers to tally up their
purchases by linking the payment
to the credit card affiliated with
their Amazon account. In doing so,
they can skip the checkout line and
an electronic receipt is sent to their
email address.
In addition, terminals with
voice-enabled Alexa, Amazon’s
personal assistant technology, help
shoppers locate products and offer
recipe suggestions.
Special deals are available to
Prime members, such as free same-
day delivery and pickup.
A section of the store also is dedi-
cated to lockers in which items
purchased online can be picked up
or returned.
The Naperville store offers a
variety of items, including fresh-
baked bread, sushi, rotisserie chick-
ens, and made-to-order pizzas
and hot sandwiches in addition to
national, local and Amazon- and
Whole Foods-exclusive brands.
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Heir: Sacklers won’t settle
unless shielded from suits
OxyContin family won’t donate cash to abate opioid crisis without protection
By Geoff Mulvihill
Associated Press
Members of the family that owns
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma won’t
contribute billions of dollars to a legal
settlement unless they get off the hook for
all current and future lawsuits over the
company’s activities, one of them told a
court Tuesday in a rare public appearance.
David Sackler, grandson of one of the
brothers who nearly 70 years ago bought
the company that later became Purdue,
testified at a hearing in federal bank-
ruptcy court in White Plains, New York,
that unless the settlement is approved
with those protections included, as they
currently are, “I believe we would litigate
the claims to their final outcomes.”
“We need a release that’s sufficient to
get our goals accomplished,” Sackler said
in response to questions from a lawyer for
the U.S. bankruptcy trustee. “If the release
fails to do that, we will not support it.”
That’s the heart of argument over the
settlement plans of the family and the
Marissa Meizz, at a No More Lonely Friends meet-up, exchanges Instagram QR codes Aug. 8 at Central Park in New York. In June, Meizz posted
a TikTok telling everyone looking for new friends to meet at Central Park on a Saturday. JASMINE CLARKE/THE NEW YORK TIMES
From friendship loss to gain
Neglected New Yorker turns
viral TikTok video into
No More Lonely Friends
By Taylor Lorenz
The New York Times
NEW YORK — Marissa Meizz, 23, was
out to dinner with a friend in the East
Village in mid-May when her phone started
buzzing. She tried to silence it, but the texts
kept coming. They all wanted to know: Had
she seen the TikTok video?
She clicked the link and a young man
appeared on screen. “If your name’s
Marissa,” he said, “please listen up.” He said
he had just overheard some of her friends
say they were deliberately choosing to hold
a birthday party when she was out of town
that weekend. “You need to know,” he said.
“TikTok, help me find Marissa.”
Meizz’s heart sank. After getting in touch
with the man who posted the video, which
amassed more than 14 million views, she
confirmed that she was the Marissa in ques-
tion and that it was her friends who had
conspired to exclude her from their party.
Her feelings were hurt. But rather than
sulk, Meizz decided to do something about
Job vacancies in Britain hit record high
By Pan Pylas
Associated Press
LONDON — Job vacancies in the U.K.
have spiked to their highest recorded level,
official figures showed Tuesday, in a further
sign that the British economy is rebounding
more than anticipated following the lifting
of coronavirus restrictions.
With the unemployment rate falling
and the number of people on payroll rising
toward pre-pandemic levels, wage pres-
sures are clearly building — a development
that financial markets suggest will lead
the Bank of England to raise interest rates
sooner than previously thought as it could
further fuel inflation.
The Office for National Statistics revealed
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company, based in Stamford, Connecticut.
The U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee, nine states
and the District of Columbia object to the
company’s settlement plan because it
would grant legal protection to members
of the wealthy Sackler family even though
none of them are declaring bankruptcy.
The concept has sparked protests and
federal legislation known as the SACKLER
Act that would bar these deals, known as
third-party releases. They are granted by
courts in some parts of the U.S., but not all.
The bill has sputtered in Congress.
Suits against the company and the Sack-
lers, including from several states, have
been paused since Purdue filed for bank-
ruptcy nearly two years ago. If the reorga-
nization is approved as it is, it would freeze
those forever. Sackler family members
are also seeking protections from future
lawsuits over opioids and any actions
involving Purdue, even those that had noth-
ing to do with the drugs.
The deal would not protect Sackler
family members from any criminal charges.
None have been announced against family
it. She went on TikTok to reveal that the
video had been about her. The reaction was
instantaneous. “People immediately started
messaging me saying, ‘Let’s be friends!’ ”
she said. “ ‘Screw your old friends.’ ”
Meizz’s story took hold as the corona-
virus pandemic has radically transformed
relationships. Some old friendships have
withered after a lack of in-person interac-
tions and people have forged more online
connections to alleviate loneliness. What
happened next to Meizz encapsulated
those changes, with her online and offline
worlds blurring to create something new
— and joyful.
Within days of her revelation on TikTok,
Meizz, a costume designer, received more
than 5,000 messages. Strangers invited her
to their birthday parties, housewarmings
and weddings. Some who lived outside
New York City asked if she could set up a
post office box so they could be pen pals.
Thousands — especially Gen Zers and
millennial adults — seemed hungry for new
connections as summer began and corona-
virus restrictions lifted.
“I was like, OK, how can I use this to help
people?” she said.
The answer: Meizz decided to hold a
meetup.
that the number of job vacancies rose by
290,000 between May and July from the
previous three-month period, to 953,000.
That’s the highest level since records were
started in 2001.
The increase in vacancies came during
a period when most lockdown restrictions
were lifted across the U.K. following the
rapid rollout of vaccines. The increase in
job vacancies was particularly evident in
those sectors, such as arts, leisure and food
service, that had suffered most during the
multiple lockdowns in the U.K.
In further encouraging news, the agency
said the number of people on payroll rose by
182,000 between June and July, taking the
total to 28.9 million. Still the overall figure
is 201,000 lower than before the pandemic
members. The Purdue reorganization plan
does have costs for Sackler family members.
They would be required to give up owner-
ship of the company, with future profits
going to abate the opioid crisis. They would
also have to contribute a total of $4.5 billion
in cash and a charitable fund over time.
That money is also slated to go to efforts to
battle the crisis, with a share of it going to
victims and their families.
But a report commissioned by a group
of state attorneys general said that because
most of the payments come years from
now, family members could use investment
returns and interest to build even greater
wealth while they make the payments. The
family’s collective wealth is estimated at
nearly $11 billion, with much of that built
on sales from OxyContin.
In the hearing, David Sackler, who served
on the company’s board from 2012 until
2018, was asked whether the family would
emerge with more money in a decade, when
its share would be paid off, than it has now.
“I don’t think anyone can say that with
certainty,” he said.
In June, Meizz posted a TikTok telling
everyone looking for new friends to meet
at Central Park on a Saturday. The video
went viral. On the day of the meetup, 200
people showed up. For more than eight
hours they laughed, played games, chatted
and bonded.
The event was such a success that Meizz
started No More Lonely Friends, an online
community of people looking to make
friends in real life, or IRL, meetups across
the country.
Meizz has since held meetups in Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Wash-
ington, Philadelphia and elsewhere. The
events are free and open to anyone.
Meizz said she tries to greet all the
attendees and help make connections
between them. She bops from group to
group to ensure that no one is left alone. To
break the ice and help cover event costs,
Meizz recently began selling merchandise,
including T-shirts that say, “If you’re read-
ing this, we should be friends.”
Though No More Lonely Friends isn’t a
business, the events have attracted interest
from brands. This month, representatives
from Arizona Iced Tea showed up to one
gathering with free drinks and merchan-
dise.
struck in March 2020.
“Today’s figures show that the recov-
ery continued to gain momentum through
the spring as restrictions eased,” said
Tony Wilson, director of the Institute for
Employment Studies.
The latest figures have raised hopes that
the British government’s decision to bring
an end to a salary support scheme it intro-
duced at the outset of the pandemic will not
lead to big job losses.
Under the Job Retention Scheme, the
government paid 80% of the salaries of
those workers unable to work because of
lockdown measures. The program, which
is being phased out and is due to finish at
the end of September, helped support over
11 million people.
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Spending
fell in July
as US virus
cases grew
By Joseph Pisani
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Americans cut back on
their spending last month as a surge in
COVID-19 cases kept people away from
stores.
Retail sales fell a seasonal adjusted 1.1%
in July from the month before, the U.S.
Commerce Department said Tuesday. It was
a much larger drop than the 0.3% decline
Wall Street analysts had expected.
The report offers the first solid glimpse
of how the spread of the delta variant of
COVID-19 may have changed the spending
habits of Americans. At the end of July, the
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preven-
tion began recommending that even vacci-
nated people start wearing masks indoors
in public places.
According to Tuesday’s report, spend-
ing fell at stores that sell clothing, furniture
and sporting goods. At restaurant and bars,
spending still rose nearly 2%, but the rate
of growth has slowed from recent months
before the delta variant spread and people
were feeling safer about dining without their
masks with others.
Economists think Americans are also
shifting spending from goods to services,
things like haircuts or vacations, which are
not included in Tuesday’s report. And rising
prices for everything from food to washing
machines may have checked spending.
Major retailers are releasing quarterly
financial results this week, offering more
insight into behavior during yet another
uptick in infections.
On Tuesday, Walmart raised its sales
outlook for the year, a sign it expects Amer-
icans to keep on shopping at the same pace.
But the Commerce Department reported
Tuesday that even online sales have begun
to slow, falling 3.1% from the month before.
BUSINESS BRIEFING
Old ship leaking
fuel near Alaska
JUNEAU, Alaska — A ship that sank
off Kodiak Island four decades ago has
started to leak diesel fuel, and a state official
suspects ground shaking from last month’s
massive magnitude 8.2 earthquake might
be the reason.
The vessel sank in 1989 in Womens Bay,
“and it’s been resting there since,” Jade
Gamble, the state’s on-scene spill coordina-
tor, told CoastAlaska.
The first reports of an oil sheen came in a
week after the July 28 earthquake, the larg-
est in the U.S. in the past half-century.
The 138-foot former scallop boat was
hit by a rogue wave in November 1981 near
Marmot Island. The crew of 12 abandoned
ship; only two survived. The vessel was
towed to Womens Bay, where it later sank.
Factory output
in US rebounds
WASHINGTON — U.S. factory produc-
tion in July posted the strongest gain in four
months, reflecting a surge in production at
auto plants that are still wrestling with major
supply chain problems.
Manufacturing output increased 1.4% last
month following a decline of 0.3% in June,
the Federal Reserve reported Tuesday. It
was the best showing since a 3.4% gain in
March.
Overall, industrial production — which
includes manufacturing, utilities and mining
— posted a 0.9% increase, the best perfor-
mance since a 2.8% surge in March.
Still, economists say output in coming
months will likely moderate given the on-go-
ing problems with supply chains and labor
shortages.
Airline traffic
Monthly scheduled passengers on U.S.
airline flights, international and domestic,
scale in millions
80
June 2021: 66.4 million
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
JUNE
2020
JUNE
2021
SOURCE: Bureau of Transportation Statistics TNS
 Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Wednesday, August 18, 2021  7

Secretive Israel-UAE oil deal

puts prized Eilat corals at risk
By Ilan Ben Zion
Associated Press

EILAT, Israel — The

Red Sea reefs off the Israeli
resort of Eilat host some of
the greatest coral diversity
on the planet.
A symphony in splen-
did technicolor, the reefs
are among the world’s
most resilient coral colo-
nies against warming seas.
They have also become
an unlikely battleground,
caught between Israeli
diplomatic and business
interests, and ecological
groups that fear this natural
treasure could be in danger.
A clandestine oil deal
Belgian sheep herder Lukas Janssens tends his flock last week at Schoonselhof cemetery in struck last year as part of
Hoboken. Cutting emissions of carbon dioxide is one of his group’s goals. VIRGINIA MAYO/AP the historic agreement A scuba diver swims near the EAPC oil jetty in Israel’s city
establishing formal diplo- of Eilat on Aug. 5. A secretive oil deal would bring dozens of

Individuals seek to do their matic ties between Israel

and the United Arab Emir-
ates is turning Eilat into
tankers alongside the coral reefs. NOA SITI ELIYAHU/AP

founded in the 1960s to shipped across Israel in a

part after UN climate report

By Raf Casert
Associated Press
HOBOKEN, Belgium
— Young urban shepherd
Lukas Janssens guides his
flock among the graves
in Schoonselhof, one of
Belgium’s iconic ceme-
teries, knowing sheep are
kinder to nature than lawn-
mowers.
Limiting emissions
of carbon dioxide, a key
contributor to climate
change, and promoting
biodiversity are two key
goals of De Antwerpse Stad-
sherder — The Antwerp
City Shepherd, Janssens’
company of one human and
270 sheep.
“We won’t stave it off
with a flock of sheep,” Jans-
sens said of global warm-
ing. “But it is another step
to build an more ecological
society.”
Only days after the alarm-
ing U.N. report on climate
change, the message of U.N.
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres was still stuck in
his head — “code red for
humanity,” with global
warming threatening to
choke the planet.
Even if Guterres’s words
were aimed primarily at
governments, investment planet from overheating?
managers and asset owners, “Not everyone is going
some citizens have known to become a shepherd, of
this day would come for course. But it is great that
decades. there is such a variety of
Janssens is one of many initiatives,” said bio-engi-
who have taken on a very neer Benjamin Clarysse
personal commitment to do of BBL, a confederation of
something, along with those environmental groups in
who refuse to fly, adapt their northern Belgium.
personal diet or skip school And all together, he
to protest on Fridays. insisted, individuals might
“I started as a shepherd amount to more than the
because, together with the sum of their parts.
small sheep, I wanted to The challenges raised in
commit myself to society, the U.N. report are huge.
to have a social goal beyond It gives a guarantee that
the production of meat, warming will get worse and
milk or wool. I want them insists it is “an established
to be useful,” he said. fact” that climate change
None of this might matter clearly was human-caused.
unless nations show simi- If that were not enough,
lar commitment when they a summer of exceptional
meet in Glasgow, Scotland, floods, heatwaves and wild-
in November for the COP26 fires from the U.S. west over
UN meeting on climate much of Europe and north
change. Participants will Africa to Siberia has added
seek to agree to measures to that sinking feeling.
to try to limit warming to Greta Thunberg
2.7 degrees Fahrenheit addresses political and
above levels in the late 19th business leaders at U.N.
century. The figure has conferences and is feted by
already reached 2 degrees world leaders — even if they
Fahrenheit. Which begs stop well short of following
the question: Are Janssens much of her advice.
and his ilk 21st century Don Activists warn, though,
Quixotes or the vanguard of that politicians should not
a global Green revolution shrug off responsibility on
that might help keep the the individual.
a waypoint for Emirati
oil headed for Western
markets.
Initially hailed as a move
that could cement fledgling
diplomatic ties and further
Israel’s energy ambitions,
the deal is now in question
after Israel’s new govern-
ment opened a review. The
decision has upset investors
and risks a diplomatic spat
with Israel’s Gulf allies.
The UAE and Israel,
which normalized rela-
tions last year as part of the
U.S.-brokered “Abraham
Accords,” have since signed
over $830 million in trade
deals and inked numer-
ous trade and cooperation
agreements.
But the deal between
the Europe-Asia Pipe-
line Company, an Israeli
government-owned corpo-
ration, and MED-RED
Land Bridge, a joint Isra-
el-Emirati venture, remains
a secret.
Senior officials in former
Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu’s government
— including his former
energy, foreign and envi-
ronment ministers — said
they didn’t know about the
deal until it was announced
last September, after the
accords were signed at the
White House.
The pipeline company,
known as EAPC, was
bring Iranian oil to Israel
when the countries had
friendly relations. Its oper-
ations are shrouded in
secrecy, ostensibly for secu-
rity reasons.
Israeli environmental
groups have asked the coun-
try’s Supreme Court to halt
oil shipments, citing EAPC’s
safety record and the risk
posed by parking super-
tankers alongside Eilat’s
fragile coral ecosystems.
As for an oil spill, it’s
“not a question of if it will
happen, but when it will
happen,” said Assaf Zvuloni,
a Nature and Parks Author-
ity ecologist in Eilat. Even
a small rupture or human
error would have disastrous
consequences, he said.
Israel suffered its worst
ecological disaster in Febru-
ary, when a spill in the east-
ern Mediterranean coated
virtually all of its 170-mile
coastline with oil. The
petitioners — three Israeli
environmental groups —
argued that incident would
“be dwarfed alongside a
massive oil spill” off Eilat.
Israel long lacked natural
resources. But that began
to change after the 2009
discovery of natural gas in
the Mediterranean Sea and
Israel’s first exports.
The deal with the UAE
would expand this fledg-
ling energy sector, with oil
pipeline to the Mediterra-
nean port of Ashkelon and
on to European markets.
Yona Fogel, executive of
one of the Israeli partners
in the project, told public
broadcaster Kan in June
that the UAE deal “will
produce for EAPC earnings
of hundreds (of millions)
and perhaps billions of
dollars” without “raising
the risk to the environment
whatsoever.”
The Emiratis are gain-
ing “a cheaper, alternative
route, something that they
can use in case they need
to divert some of the tank-
ers to this direction,” she
said.
But opponents say the
potential cost is irreversible
damage to a natural wonder.
The EAPC terminal
dominates a stretch of Eilat
shoreline a half mile north
of Israel’s Coral Beach
Nature Reserve. Its cranes
and pipes jut into the Red
Sea’s aquamarine and navy
blue waters. The air reeks of
petroleum.
A senior government
official said Prime Minis-
ter Naftali Bennett’s office
asked the Supreme Court
for more time to respond to
the environmentalists’ chal-
lenge. The official spoke on
condition of anonymity
because he was not autho-
rized to talk to reporters.

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8  Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Wes Mathison performs close-up magic at Chicago Magic Lounge during its grand reopening on Aug. 5. TERRENCE ANTONIO JAMES/CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS
PRESTO!
Magic Lounge and other magic shows
reopen in Chicago, putting the illusions
right in front live audiences again
By Jerald Pierce
For Chicago Tribune
There’s nothing quite like the
magic scene in Chicago, at least
not anywhere in the Midwest,
according to Joseph Cran-
ford, co-owner and CEO of the
Chicago Magic Lounge, which
reopened recently to live audi-
ences.
“Blues has a history in
Chicago,” Cranford said, “comedy
has a history in Chicago. Well,
magic has a big history in
Chicago, for over 100 years.”
Cranford’s Magic Lounge is full
of that history, with posters and
memorabilia covering decades of
magic and magicians in the city.
Even the venue’s entrance — an
unassuming laundromat that sits
as a facade hiding a two-story
cabaret venue, magic bar, and its
VIP 654 Club — takes inspiration
DINING REVIEW ASIAN CUISINE EXPRESS
Believe it: Best al pastor tacos in Chicago
can be found at ... Asian Cuisine Express
By Nick Kindelsperger
Chicago Tribune
Before I ever took a bite, I knew
these were the best al pastor tacos
in Chicago.
It began the moment I walked
into the Little Village storefront
and spotted the towering trompo
— a large cone of pork slices
stained red from the complex
chile marinade and stacked at
least four feet high.
Instead of lazily spinning in
front of a modest flame, this one
sits mostly idle until someone
places an order. Only then does
the cook flip a switch, unleashing
an outrageous burst of fire that
sounds like a jet engine warm-
ing up. As the intense heat whirs
around the meat, the chef stands
close, watching the cone and
rotating it by hand as one side
starts to crisp up. When it’s done
to his liking, he cuts razor thin
slices off with a huge knife, often
straight onto a corn tortilla.
I was even more excited when
I sat down. On the table, I found
three stunning salsa (green, red
and dark orange), each spicier
and more exciting than the last.
They were joined by bowls of
crunchy sliced onions, limes and
escabeche, a pickled collection of
chiles, cauliflower and carrots.
Then the tacos arrived. Each
single corn tortilla contained
slender slices of pork heavily
charred on one side, yet still juicy
and succulent. Great al pastor is
all about this mercurial balance.
ARTS & LIVING
from old venues from the early
and mid-1900s like Jim Ryan’s
The Magic Tap and the South
Side’s Little Bit O’ Magic.
In the first week of August,
Cranford and his slew of magi-
cians once again welcomed audi-
ences back into its space to enjoy
the close-up magic for which
Chicago is known. Returning to
the stage has taken some getting
used to, even for veteran perform-
ers like Luis Carreon, a co-found-
ing ensemble member who has
been around the Magic Lounge
since its inception.
Carreon said he adjusted the
beginning of his set to accom-
modate the strangeness of the
moment. Rather than queuing up
music and going straight into the
beginning of his act, he instead
takes the stage first to simply take
in the audience before diving into
the magic.
Al pastor tacos, as sold at Asian Cuisine Express on 31st Street in Chicago’s
Little Village neighborhood. CHRIS SWEDA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Go for too much char, and you
end up with dry meat. Cook the
meat too little, and the pork tastes
chewy and lacks the irresistible
flame-licked flavor. But when
right in that sweet spot of crispy
and luscious, it’s easy to see why
al pastor makes people like me
lose our minds. If you’d like to
know what my last meal would
be, look no further.
The name of this taco hot spot?
Asian Cuisine Express. Yes, you
read that correctly.
As is often the case, I first heard
about this spot last year from
Titus Ruscitti, someone who has
seemingly eaten at every restau-
rant in the city. (Please follow
Paige Thompson performs magic in the 654 Club at Chicago Magic Lounge.
“We were nervous,” added
resident house magician Paige
Thompson. “We’re like, ‘Why
are we so scared? What is this?’
It was more of an excitement
than nerves, I think, because we
get to go back to what we love,
and we’re going to actually have
humans in an audience.”
One part of Thompson’s
performance, which closed out
him, if you haven’t already.) But
this establishment has existed for
a couple years. Local food host
Selene Partida actually posted a
video about it on Facebook back
in 2019. (Watch her stuff, too.)
As you’d expect for an estab-
lishment called Asian Cuisine
Express, the restaurant has a
pan-Asian menu featuring a
collection of popular Chinese,
Thai and Japanese dishes like
kung pao pork, pad thai and
chicken teriyaki. Buried on the
official menu is a small section
of tacos, including carne asada
($1.75), lengua ($2.50) and, of
Turn to Tacos, Page 10
the night in the 654 Club, she
said she’d never been able to do
in front of a live audience before.
Now, unlike doing magic via
Zoom, she was able to fully take
in the reaction from her audience.
“This is what I need,” Carreon
said of walking back out on a live
stage. “It’s really the energy of
people that came in. That’s really
the whole show.”
Seats sit empty at Broadway in Chicago’s dormant James M.
Nederlander Theatre in June 2020 in Chicago. The theater will reopen
with “Paradise Square” in November. ARMANDO L. SANCHEZ/CHICAGO
TRIBUNE
Coalition of Chicago
theaters, Lyric Opera,
CSO to require vaccines
Negative tests, face
coverings also part
of reopening efforts
By Doug George
Chicago Tribune
A large number of Chica-
go-area theaters, dance and
performing arts companies,
led by the League of Chicago
Theatres, announced Tues-
day morning they will require
COVID-19 precautions includ-
ing proof of vaccination or
negative tests, and masks for
Over the years, Magic Lounge
has had magicians in from all over
the country, including the likes
of Penn & Teller’s Penn Jillette,
as well as contestants from Penn
& Teller’s “Fool Us.” But what’s
unique about Magic Lounge,
Thompson said, is just how close
this close-up magic gets.
With the entire staff vacci-
nated, and the performers on
stage work without masks, a
handful of magicians spend the
first hour of the night ventur-
ing right up to tables performing
magic right in front of audience
eyes.
“They can’t accuse you of
using camera tricks or mirrors,”
Thompson said. “It’s right there.
And they get to see five magicians
come to their table sometimes.”
That’s in addition to the night’s
two mainstage magicians and the
potential to add one final magi-
cian to the night through the 654
Club.
“Something that we all work
really hard to do here is to give an
intimate experience to the spec-
tator, to touch them deeply with
magic,” said Jan Rose, the Magic
Lounge’s resident house magician
and MC. “It’s right up close and
personal, and most of the time
Turn to Magic, Page 11
audience members, at least
through the end of 2021.
According to a statement
from the League, a coalition of
more than 65 theaters and arts
producers will require proof of
vaccination or in some instances
a negative COVID-19 test for
entry, as well as face coverings,
though protocols will vary by
theater. According to the state-
ment, “the unified COVID-19
protection protocol” will go
into effect Sept. 1 for all indoor
productions, and will include
Loop theaters run by Broadway
Turn to Theaters, Page 11

CELEBRITIES
Studio head responds to star’s tweet
From news services
Marvel Studios CEO
Kevin Feige was on the
defensive Monday while
fielding questions about
recent criticism regard-
ing “Shang-Chi and the
Legend of the Ten Rings,”
as well as a lawsuit filed by
“Black Widow” star Scar-
lett Johansson.
At the Los Angeles
premiere of “Shang-Chi,”
Feige responded to a crit-
ical tweet from star Simu
Liu after Disney boss Bob
Chapek came under fire
for calling the project’s
mid-pandemic release
strategy “an interesting
experiment.”
“(Liu) is not a shy man,”
Feige said. “In that partic-
ular tweet you can see, and
I think everyone does, a
misunderstanding. It was
not the intention.
“The proof is in the
movie, and we swing for
the fences as we always
do. With the amount of
creative energy we put in
and the budget, there’s no
expense spared to bring
this origin story to the
screen.”
During an earnings
call this month, Chapek
uttered the controversial
remark in response to a
query about the movie’s
exclusive, 45-day theatri-
cal window. Until now, the
studio has been debuting
films simultaneously in
theaters and on Disney+ —
for a “premier access” fee
— during the pandemic.
Many, including Liu,
interpreted the “exper-
iment” comment as an
insult to the action drama’s
groundbreaking all-Asian
cast.
“We are not an exper-
iment,” tweeted Liu,
the Marvel Cinematic
Universe’s first lead-
ing superhero of Asian
descent. “We are the
underdog; the underesti-
mated. We are the ceil-
ing-​breakers. We are the
celebration of culture and
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Spouse concerned about husband’s drinking
Dear Amy: I have been
married for 45 years to
a man who has a severe
drinking problem. It wasn’t
this way in the beginning,
but over the years his
drinking has progressed
into alcoholism.
I have tried to help him
in every way I know. He
went to rehab last winter
but didn’t follow through
with any of the support
that was offered to him.
Now he is drinking
again, and he is headed
down that road once more.
I want to leave him if he
won’t quit drinking, but I
am afraid of what he will
do if I leave.
To make matters worse,
he was recently diagnosed
with cancer.
What should I do?
— Worried
cally abused the girl, who
is only referenced as J.C., Dear Worried: You might
the suit claims. need to make a stark
A representative for choice between the possi-
Dylan denied the allega- bility of your husband
tions. “The 56-year-old self-destructing in your
claim is untrue and will be absence or of him self-de-
vigorously defended,” said structing in your presence.
Larry Jenkins in a state- What I’m trying to
ment. express is that you are not
The lawsuit alleges the the answer to his existen-
abuse occurred during tial question. You do not
April and May 1965. possess God-like powers to
Because of the alleged save him.
sexual molestation, J.C. Your husband has alco-
was depressed, angry and hol use disorder, and in
anxious and suffers from order for him to get well,
issues related to it to this he requires treatment.
day, according to the suit. If you want to continue
to help him, it might be
Aug. 18 birthdays: Actor wisest for you to focus on
Robert Redford is 85. Actor his cancer diagnosis and
Henry G. Sanders is 79. treatment. Make sure his
Actor Martin Mull is 78. physicians know about
Singer Sarah Dash is 76. his alcoholism. His team
Comedian Denis Leary is might prescribe a medica-
64. Actor Christian Slater tion to assist him in stay-
is 52. Actor Edward Norton ing off of alcohol (several
is 52. Actor Malcolm-Ja- medications have FDA
mal Warner is 51. Come- approval for treating alco-
dian Andy Samberg is 43. hol use disorder).
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I’ll leave”) do work, but I
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you to make a choice based
on your own needs and
capacities — and so an
alternative would be for
you to simply separate
with no strings attached
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Dear Amy: My boyfriend
and I play tennis at a local
park. We disagree on how
to handle the following:
A man used the court’s
back fence as a practice
soccer goal. He kicked the
ball into the fence directly
behind where we were
playing.
He did this over and
over again. I wanted to
talk to him. My boyfriend
objected, stating that I
should be aware of and
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The man happened to be
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a person has a right to use
the fencing around the
tennis court as a backstop,
certainly if there are no
other options.
Must others around you
behave quietly, as if you
are in the final rounds at
Wimbledon?
All the same, if someone
is behaving in a way that
bothers you, you have the
right to respectfully ask
them to stop, regardless of
their ethnicity.
If you had done so, the
soccer player might have
chosen to remind you that
soccer is the most popu-
lar sport in the world for
a reason and that even
though your tennis play-
ing might have bothered
him, he had chosen to be
tolerant.
Dear Amy: In a response
to the “Testy Traveler,” the
traveler who was bothered
by her chatty seatmate on
an airplane, my response
to talkative seatmates is, “I
hope you don’t mind paus-
ing our conversation, but I
must rest my mind, now.”
I then close my eyes and
relax.
— Florida Reader
Dear Reader: I like
your polite and definite
response. I hope my own
defenseless seatmate will
use it on me the next time
I fly.
Copyright 2021 by Amy
Dickinson
Distributed by Tribune
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10  Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Wednesday, August 18, 2021
The Saweetie Meal? It’s a complicated process
The latest from
McDonald’s creative,
sticky and sweet
By Louisa Chu
Chicago Tribune
McDonald’s released its
newest celebrity collab-
oration meal with music
artist Saweetie on Monday.
The Saweetie Meal marks
the first partnership by the
fast-food company with
a woman in its signature
order series. The meal
series last featured Korean
band BTS.
Saweetie debuted with
the platinum-selling single
“Icy Grl” in 2018. You may
have heard the American
rapper’s hits “My Type”
last year on TikTok, or
“Best Friend” as one of the
songs of this summer.
The Saweetie Meal
includes a Big Mac burger,
four chicken McNuggets,
a medium-size order of
french fries, a medium
Sprite, plus barbecue and
sweet-and-sour dipping
sauces, the latter relabeled
as Saweetie ’n Sour.
Price varies according to
location.
At the Global Menu
headquarters restaurant
in the West Loop area of
Chicago, the Saweetie Meal
is priced at $9.99. At the
location formerly known as
the Rock ’n’ Roll McDon-
ald’s in River North, the
meal rings up at $11.79.
At a franchise in a bunga-
Here’s why red wine and tacos are the perfect pair
By Chasity Cooper
Chicago Tribune
If the day after Monday
rolls around and cooking is
a distant thought, chances
are there is a neighborhood
spot with cheap tacos and
drinks that can satiate any
craving.
In recent years, tacos and
margaritas have become
a culinary dynamic duo.
From themed day parties
and happy hours to full-
blown restaurant concepts,
these Mexican delicacies
are loved and cherished by
Chicagoans.
Perhaps it is the flawless
alliteration that has made
tacos and tequila such a
marketable pair, but there
remains room for improve-
ment. The answer? Red
wine.
Margaritas are the
default drink of choice
because they are light,
refreshing and acidic —
all qualities that can help
Tacos
from Page 8
course, al pastor ($1.50).
(Hot tip: Visit on Mondays
and the al pastor tacos are
$1.)
According to co-owner
Gregorio Gomez Galicia,
the combination of the
two cuisines came about
because he and business
partner Lucy Kinsley
decided to open a restau-
rant together. “A person
told me that somebody was
selling this space,” Galicia
said. “(Kinsley) wanted to
partner up with me. She’s a
very good friend and busi-
ness partner.”
Galicia realizes that it’s
sort of confusing to have
a restaurant named Asian
Cuisine Express with tacos
on the menu, but he said
the Little Village neighbor-
hood has been supportive.
The tacos are extremely
popular, and he also has a
catering business called
Taquizas Los Primos,
where he makes al pastor
for events.
His marinade for the
pork includes typical al
pastor ingredients like
chiles, garlic, vinegar and
pineapple juice, along
with one secret ingredi-
ent. I asked nicely, but he
wouldn’t budge.
In addition to the regular
menu, you’ll find a number
of taco specials scrawled
on signs around the room.
Don’t pass them up. When
I visited, the kitchen dished
out a fantastic grilled
shrimp taco ($2.99), featur-
ing plump grilled shrimp
The Saweetie Meal with Big Mac, chicken McNuggets, french fries, Sprite plus barbecue and Saweetie ’n Sour sauces at
McDonald’s in Chicago. LOUISA CHU/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
low neighborhood on the
Northwest Side of the city,
it’s $11.19.
The meal may be bagged
in a branded Saweetie
paper bag, with fries in
a branded box, or not
depending on supplies, but
how does it taste?
The Saweetie ’n Sour
sauce is the only edible
element designed for this
meal. McDonald’s states
Tacos and wine from local shops like Foxtrot turn out to be a
perfect pairing. JOE LINGEMAN/TNS
to cut through smoki-
ness, fattiness or spiciness
wrapped in a corn or flour
tortilla.
But red wine has the
depth to go up against the
robust flavors of the best
tacos. I enjoy tacos where
the meat (chicken, seafood,
carne asada) plays the lead
role, with simple accouter-
ments like cilantro, onion
Exterior of Asian Cuisine Express on 31st Street in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood.
CHRIS SWEDA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS
topped with a spicy, creamy
salsa. The crispy fried fish
taco ($2.99) was nearly as
good.
Currently, the menu
draws hard lines between
Mexican options and the
Asian menu. But I can’t be
the only one who’d love to
see what happened if the
two started to blur together.
This combination has actu-
ally existed for hundreds
of years, especially around
communities like Mexicali
in northwest Mexico. You
won’t find al pastor fried
rice on the menu, but if
you ask very nicely, they’ll
make it happen ($10.95).
The result is a mountain of
stir-fried rice dotted with
bright nuggets of juicy,
crispy al pastor meat peek-
ing through.
Of course, this all leads
★★
★
it’s their same sweet-and-
sour, just renamed. The
packet I opened looked
different though, remark-
ably lighter in color with a
textured puree.
Was this a small yet
delightful surprise from
the fast-food company? Of
course not. My first taste
revealed only sweet, no
sour. The first ingredient
on the labels of the new
and salsa enhancing the
flavor. For lovers of spicy-
hot foods like me, red wines
offer a nice balance of acid-
ity and fruit.
With scores of increas-
ingly creative tacos across
the Chicago area to choose
from, picking the perfect
wine for your favorite taco
may seem daunting, but
it is easier than you might
to the question of why one
would want tacos from a
restaurant that has 95% of
its menu dedicated to other
cuisines.
Chicago is blessed with
some of the best Mexican
restaurants in the country,
and al pastor is a common
filling. But al pastor is not
one of our specialties.
Usually, that’s due to a lack
of a trompo. Griddled mari-
nated pork can be tasty,
but it never reaches that
sublime balance of great
al pastor (remember: thin
and crispy, yet still juicy)
cooked on a trompo.
Even when there is a
trompo, too often the meat
is cooked ahead of time,
and then warmed back up
on a griddle, which dries
out the meat.
When a great al pastor
and original sauces does
not lie: high fructose corn
syrup. There’s supposed to
be apricot or peach puree
in there somewhere, but
any trace of the coveted
stone fruits has been
completely lost.
McDonald’s claims that
this is Saweetie’s favorite
order, as with their previ-
ous celebrity collabora-
tors. The other so-called
think.
When visiting your local
wine shop, ask for light- to
medium-bodied red wines.
Full-bodied wines, such as
a syrah, tannat or cabernet
sauvignon, might be over-
powering and leave your
tongue with an unpleasant
stinging sensation.
Whether you’ve got an
old-school ground beef
taco sprinkled with shred-
ded cheese or an elevated
carnitas taco with cilantro
and onion wrapped in a
blue tortilla, here are three
red wines to consider pair-
ing:
Lini 910
Labrusca Rosso
Ask any wine lover,
novice or expert, and they
will tell you with confi-
dence that lambrusco is
always a crowd favorite. Its
resemblance to grape pop
— fruity, fizzy and slightly
spot does open in Chicago,
it has the sad habit of
disappearing. Little Village
favorite Taqueria Los
Barrilitos closed during the
pandemic, while, my other
go-to, Tacos Mario’s, shut
down its brick-and-mor-
tar location in West Lawn
a few years ago, though its
food truck still operates.
Chicago, we can’t let
the same fate befall Asian
Cuisine Express. I fell in
love with al pastor tacos
while wandering around
Mexico City, where every
street corner seems to have
a glistening red-tinted
trompo of al pastor with a
dutiful chef standing guard,
large knife in hand. Asian
Cuisine Express is the clos-
est Chicago has come to
replicating this form of al
pastor excellence.
Famous Orders lineup
featured Travis Scott, J
Balvin and the aforemen-
tioned BTS.
What might be the
tiniest saving grace of
the newest meal is not
the food, but the creativ-
ity that’s encouraged.
Promotional photos start
with fries in the burger
progressing to sauce on
the bun and burger patties
sweet — pairs well with
everything from pizza and
burgers to spaghetti and
seafood. Shredded pork,
grilled chicken, shrimp and
veggie tacos are all great
options for this fun-loving
wine. $18. Foxtrot Market,
locations vary, foxtrotco.
com.
2018 J Vineyards
Russian River
Valley pinot noir
Because of its cool,
foggy weather, the Russian
River Valley is known for
its delightful and elegant
expressions of pinot noir.
While it would be assumed
this pinot noir is light, this
wine’s high alcohol content
(14.3%) adds a little weight
and texture to the palate.
With notes of black and red
fruit (cherry, blackberry
and blueberry) and hints
of spice and smoke, this
wine would be ideal with
Chef Iker Torres adjusts his fresh pineapple on a trompo of al
pastor at Asian Cuisine Express.
Detail of the al pastor tacos at Asian Cuisine Express in
Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood.
Asian Cuisine
Express
Address: 3823 W. 31st St.
Phone: 773-847-4883
Open: Wednesday to Satur-
day, 3-9 p.m.; Saturday, noon
to 9 p.m.; Monday, 3-9 p.m.;
closed Tuesdays
as buns. I tried some of
the hacks. My editor (who
initially asked about said
hacks, “wtf is this!!!!!!” and
“why have two sauces for
four nuggets??”) inquired
if I had time to get my nails
done beforehand, presum-
ably in the creative nail art
style of the music artist.
I did not.
My editor suggested that
I listen to Saweetie while
eating to see if I felt the
synergy.
I did so, and did.
As a food critic and
trained chef, I found the
hacks, or remixes, as the
artist calls them, impracti-
cal yet insightful. Instead
of trying to drizzle the
sauces, I dipped into them
with fries and nuggets,
then placed the soaked
pieces. They did nothing to
improve the sticky, sweet
flavors for me, but showed
that the creative process is
complicated and personal.
That message may be the
unintended prize to the
meal.
Imagine if McDonald’s
would’ve actually collab-
orated with Saweetie.
It’s infuriating since they
could’ve drawn on her
all-American, Black-Fil-
ipina-Chinese culi-
nary culture. Yet again,
a company with global
resources served up the
bare minimum to a public
that wants more.
Meanwhile, The
Saweetie Meal is available
at participating McDon-
ald’s until Sept. 5.
tacos filled with charred
beef, barbecue chicken or
sautéed mushrooms. $44.
Mariano’s, locations vary,
marianos.com.
2020 Kumusha
cabernet
sauvignon-cinsault
blend
Made in South Africa
by sommelier Tinashe
Nyamudoka, this unique
blend of cabernet sauvi-
gnon and cinsault is burst-
ing with red fruit flavors of
cherry, plum and straw-
berry. Ideal with slow-
cooked meats, pairing this
red blend with chicken,
pork or beef would be a
winning combination. $20.
All Together Now,
2119 W. Chicago Ave.,
alltogethernow.fun.
Chasity Cooper is a free-
lance writer.
Prices: $1 to $2.99 for tacos;
$9.95 to $17.95 for entrees
Noise: Mostly moderate,
though loud when someone
orders al pastor
Accessibility: Wheelchair
accessible, bathroom on
same level.
 Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Wednesday, August 18, 2021  11

Magic
from Page 8

it happens right in their

hands.”
This type of magic makes
virtual shows tricky for
many Chicago magicians.
Many of the performers
rely heavily on that energy
gained from a live audi-
ence.
So, while many venues
like Magic Lounge have
been in a deep hibernation
or have pivoted to Zoom,
Aaron Rabkin’s Trickery
has been open for busi-
ness for months, reopen-
ing initially in July 2020
to a capacity crowd of only
10 people. Rabkin joked
that this was not the way
he expected to become the
best show in town.
“More than ever we
needed escapism and all
people had was Netflix,”
said Rabkin, Trickery’s
founder and central
performer. “There was
a joy in getting to be that
kind of experience for
people who were leaving
the house.”
For many venues,
reopening at only 25%
capacity wasn’t really
an option. For Trickery,
though, moving to an
audience of 10 people felt
perfect for Rabkin’s inti-
mate show. After Rabkin
opened last summer,
excitement around the Magicians perform inside Chicago Magic Lounge on Clark Street during its grand reopening on Aug. 5. TERRENCE ANTONIO JAMES/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
show grew up through
October, before winter sent
many back inside.
Growing up in Los
Angeles, Rabkin spent
time working at that
city’s famed Magic Castle
before moving to Saratoga
Springs, New York, where
he worked as a magician,
altering his act from one
aimed at an upscale audi-
ence to one aimed at those
simply looking for enter-
tainment and a good night
out.
After that upstate New
York stint didn’t work out
the way he wanted, Rabkin
moved to Chicago, where
he became fascinated
with the local storefront
theater scene. After decid-
ing to start his own theater,
Rabkin began Trickery Dennis Watkins does close-up magic for an audience at the Palmer House Hilton for “Magic Deven Brown, right, performs close-up magic at Chicago
performances in July 2017, Parlour.” KYLE FLUBACKER Magic Lounge. TERRENCE ANTONIO JAMES/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
adding himself to a trend
that he had been seeing. was expecting. People, as performing in person at whatI do. But coming back and made the audience being in the room together
“Obviously it’s going to it turns out, weren’t simply the Palmer House, he joked to it, right before our first member who was choosing with people again. We all
have to now bounce back,” going to put themselves that it’s been an adjustment preview night on Wednes- the bags the magician.” feel like we’re navigating it
Rabkin said, “but back in in a situation where they for his 2-year-old son who day, I was a mess.” He also adapted part of together.”
2019 and the years leading would be uncomfortable. had grown accustomed But with his return, his performance where
up to it, it seemed like it “It’s certainly the most to his dad working from Watkins added a few new he reads an audience Chicago Magic Lounge is
was just this trend of magic fun it’s been as of late,” home. pieces to his show, includ- member’s mind, upping open daily at 5050 N. Clark
shows in Chicago and all said Rabkin, who added “My passion is that ing one that involves a the ante to involve three St. Audience members must
cities.” that performing now show for 44 people at a handful of paper bags, audience members instead be vaccinated and masks
Despite the excitement has reached a point of time at the Palmer House,” most empty except for of one. are recommended. Tickets
that had been building normalcy. Watkins said. “I thought one that has a nail stick- With the Magic Parlour and more information at
prior to the pandemic, Rabkin noted that it would be really difficult ing out of a piece of wood reopening at capacity last www.chicagomagiclounge.
Rabkin said he was initially there’s a certain exchange to have a show that was as — and one (lucky?) audi- week, Watkins pointed out com
nervous to restart perfor- of energy that happens interactive as the live show. ence member chooses just how much of a need
mances at his Northalsted during a magic perfor- That was the goal, but I which bag the magician the community aspect Trickery Chicago runs
venue. mance that can only was intimidated by that.” will slam his hand down of live entertainment is. Wednesdays to Sundays at
Part of Trickery’s iden- happen in real time. What works so well for on. The moment replaces Despite the virus still 3453 N. Halsted St. In ac-
tity is the fact that Rabkin It’s a thought that was Watkins in person became a similarly unnerving lingering, Chicago’s magi- cordance with current city
is both the main performer echoed by the Magic difficult to replicate online, moment in his show where cians as well as their audi- and state guidelines, no en-
and the most promi- Parlour’s Dennis Watkins, with his style of magic he previously would eat ences are finding ways to try requirements and masks
nent front-of-house face, who had to adjust his own working to put the audi- razorblades, a part of his escape and experience the are recommended. Tickets
who checks in audience show during the pandemic ence in the driver’s seat as performance that felt not childlike wonder of magic and more information at
members as they arrive. to accommodate virtual much as possible. quite right for a pandem- again. www.trickerychicago.com
He expected audience performances. After a year and a half ic-era show. “You can feel a real
members to be anxious Despite feeling like this away, Watkins admitted “It’s a piece that I had sense of apprehension and “The Magic Parlour” is
about returning to in type of performance was that he was feeling incred- played with in the past, excitement from people as Fridays and Saturdays at
person performances. out of his wheelhouse, ibly apprehensive and but I never really liked they’re stepping into the the Palmer House Hilton,
However, over the Watkins wound up doing anxious about returning it,” said Watkins of the world again and trying to 17 E. Monroe St. Audience
months, especially after he upward of 600 virtual to his Palmer House home nail in the bag segment. figure out how it works members must have proof
began welcoming audi- shows during the depths with an audience once “Then I rescripted it and and what the rules are and of vaccination or a negative
ences back at the beginning of the pandemic for audi- again right in front of him. re-engineered it and put what feels comfortable to COVID-19 test from the last
of this year and more and ences all over the world. “In the world before it in the virtual shows everybody,” Watkins said. 72 hours, and masks are
more people became vacci- He created a studio in his COVID, I was perform- and discovered that I had “We’re all just trying to required. Tickets and more
nated, he found that people basement to perform in. ing nearly 400 shows a found a frame for it that navigate that. But it’s one of information at www.the
weren’t as anxious as he As he has now returned to year,” Watkins said. “It’s put the audience in control the beautiful things about magicparlourchicago.com.

Theaters Dance, Hell in a Hand-

from Page 8
in Chicago.
The coalition includes
16th Street Theater, A Red
Orchid Theatre, About
Face Theatre, Aguijón
Theatre, Albany Park
Theatre Project, Ameri-
can Blues Theater, Apollo
Theater Chicago, Arte-
mesia Theatre, Artistic
Home, Aston Rep Theatre
Company, Athenaeum
Theatre, Auditorium
Theatre, Babes with Blades,
Black Button Eyes Produc-
tions, Bluebird Arts, Bright-
side Theatre, Broadway in
Chicago, Chicago Danz-
theatre Ensemble, Chicago
Humanities Festival,
the Chicago Latino Theater
Alliance (CLATA), Chicago
Magic Lounge, Chicago
Shakespeare Theater,
Chicago Symphony
Orchestra Association,
Chicago Youth Shake-
speare, Court Theatre,
First Floor Theatre, First
Folio Theater, Goodman
Theatre, Greenhouse
Theatre Center, Harris
Theater for Music and
bag, Her Story Theatre,
High Concept Labs, House
Theatre of Chicago, Inter-
national Voices Project, the
Joffrey Ballet, Lookingglass
Theatre Company, Lyric
Opera of Chicago, Marri-
ott Theatre, Midsommer
Flight, the Neo Futurists,
the New Coordinates,
Northlight Theatre, Oak
Park Festival Theatre, Oil
Lamp Theater, Old Town
School of Folk Music,
Paramount Theatre, Piven
Theatre Workshop, Pivot
Arts, Playmakers Labo-
ratory, Porchlight Music
Theatre, Pridearts, Promet-
hean Theatre Ensemble,
Raven Theatre, Red Tape
Theatre, Rivendell Theatre
Ensemble, Saint Sebastian
Players, Saltbox Theatre
Collective, Second City,
Shattered Globe Theatre,
Skokie Theatre, Stage
Left Theatre, Steppen-
wolf Theatre Company,
Theatre Wit, Three Broth-
ers Theatre, Timeline
Theatre Company, Urban-
Theater Company, Victory
Gardens Theater, Wild-
Claw Theatre, Williams
Street Repertory Theatre
and Writers Theatre.
Where negative tests
are accepted, audience
members must provide
proof of a COVID-19 PCR
test within 72 hours of the
performance start time, or a
negative COVID-19 antigen
test taken within 6 hours of
the performance start time.
This includes accommo-
dations for children under
12 and people with medi-
cal conditions or religious
beliefs preventing them
from being vaccinated.
In addition, Lyric Opera
of Chicago made a separate
announcement Tuesday
morning that the Lyric
would require proof of full
vaccination for all audi-
ence members, and that
masks would be required in
the opera house. Accord-
ing to the announcement,
children under the age of
12 who are not currently
eligible for vaccination
presently will not be admit-
ted to performances. Those
who have purchased chil-
dren’s tickets for the season
may exchange them or
get a refund. Lyric’s main
stage productions will be
performed at full-length,
including intermissions,
and houses will be seated
at full capacity. Lyric is also
introducing virtual streams
of the season’s productions
for ticket holders as an
alternative to attending in
person.
The opera company
encourages the use of the
mobile app MyBindle,
which stores photo ID and
COVID-19 vaccination
proof. Audience members
can also provide a photo ID
and valid vaccine record for
entry.
The Chicago Symphony
Orchestra Association also
made a separate announce-
ment, updating health
protocols for Symphony
Center. Audience members
must have proof of vaccina-
tion or a negative COVID-
19 test and will be required
to wear masks.
In the announcement,
the CSOA also said that
tickets for fall and holiday
programming would go
on sale 10 a.m. Aug. 19. Fall
programming begins with
music director Riccardo
Muti leading the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra
Sept. 23, as well as a Sept.
2 concert with Herbie
Hancock.
Across the coalition,
specific venue require-
ments can be found on the
organizations’ websites.
Some of Chicago’s
nonprofit theaters have
already opened, includ-
ing the Goodman Theatre
with “School Girls; Or, The
African Mean Girls Play.”
The dinner circus produc-
tion Teatro ZinZanni has
reopened at the Cambria
Hotel in the Loop. Both
productions currently
require all patrons to be
vaccinated, allowing nega-
tive COVID-19 tests for
specific exceptions includ-
ing medical conditions and
religious beliefs.
The first big touring
musical hosted by Broad-
way in Chicago is slated
to be “Rent” at the CIBC
Theatre Oct. 5-10.
At Lyric Opera, “Sunday
in the Park with Lyric’s
Rising Stars” will be an
outdoor production at the
end of August in Millen-
nium Park. The season
opener on its main stage
in the Civic Opera House
will be Giuseppe Verdi’s
“Macbeth” from Sept. 17.
But not all Chicago
theaters will be able to
open this fall, acknowl-
edged League of Chicago
Theatres executive director
Deb Clapp.
“The arts and cultural
community is embedded in
the fabric of Chicago. Not
all of the League’s more
than 200 member theaters
will be able to open this
fall,” she said in the state-
ment. “We are pleased
that many members of
our vibrant performing
arts community that will
be opening have come
together to craft a unified
response to this crisis so
that audiences can once
again experience the joy of
live performance without
future disruption.”
The announcements
follow others in the arts
and performing arts indus-
tries. Concert promoter
Live Nation confirmed
recently it will require
vaccinations or recent
COVID-19 tests for entry to
all of its shows and venues.
dgeorge@chicagotribune.
com
12  Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Wednesday, August 18, 2021
‘Lost Leonardo’ unpeels mysteries of painting
But film refuses to
pick side in disputes
over Salvator Mundi
By Jake Coyle
Associated Press
We’re accustomed to
movies — usually adven-
tures, like “Indiana Jones”
— with lines that traverse
the globe and pinball
between global capitals,
showing us where our
characters are traveling.
“The Lost Leonardo,” a
documentary about the
rediscovery of a Leonardo
da Vinci painting, begins
with such a line. But its
international stops, chron-
icling the painting’s sales,
are baffling leaps.
„„New Orleans, 2005:
$1,175.
„„London and Geneva,
2013. $83 million, then
$127 million.
„„Saudi Arabia, 2017.
$450 million.
Such is the winding
journey of the Salvator
Mundi, a painting of Jesus
Christ attributed to Leon-
ardo da Vinci that has been
enveloped in mystery and
intrigue ever since it was
first acquired, restored
and celebrated as a lost
original of the Renaissance
master. “The Lost Leon-
ardo,” which Sony Pictures
Classics recently released
in theaters, engrossingly
frames the unlikely saga
like an international thriller
as opaque as any John Le
Carre novel.
To its director, the
Danish filmmaker Andreas
Koefoed, it’s also a kind of
dark fairy tale, complete
with a prince and a lost
treasure. Above all,
perhaps, it’s a portrait of an
art world where master-
works can serve as global
capital.
“You have this
romantic idea of art as
something pure and a beau-
tiful expression of human
beings through history, and
then it meets this very cyni-
cal, capitalistic world,” says
Koefoed. “It’s an explosive
Drama runs deeper than money on ‘Challenge’
MTV reality show’s
500th episode to
air in 37th season
By Michael Ordoña
Los Angeles Times
Do you like competition?
Amazing stunts? Nasty
scheming, drunken indis-
cretions and long-term
character development
most professional writers
couldn’t dream of conjur-
ing? If you answered “yes,”
it might be time to step up
to “The Challenge.”
MTV’s highest-rated
program, the reality
competition series, which
debuted in 1998 as a cross-
over between “The Real
World” and “Road Rules,”
has entered its 37th season;
its 500th episode will air
during “The Challenge:
Spies, Lies and Allies,”
which recently kicked off.
The show has shot in 27
countries, and this season’s
competitors represent 10
nations.
Of all its qualities —
imaginative stunts super-
vised by the coordinator
behind “Mad Max: Fury
Road” and “The Suicide
Squad”; gorgeous people
falling in love (or lust);
idiotic, inebriated conflicts
— one sets “The Challenge”
apart from other entries in
the genre: the “Boyhood”-
like phenomenon of watch-
ing people change over
time.
Clips of the stunts and
fights on “The Challenge”
amass millions of views, but
the relationship viewers
forge with veteran compet-
itors — some have appeared
on more than 15 seasons
— is what gives it unex-
pected depth. Some have
gone from callow, arrogant
20-somethings to centered
parents while still compet-
ing at high levels. Some,
of course, never seem to
change.
This season brings back
a number of old hands.
English roue Kyle Christie
hasn’t won a title but is the
sound-bite gold medalist.
Dianne Modestini and Ashok Roy inspect a copy of the Salvator Mundi in “The Lost Leonardo.” SONY PICTURES CLASSICS
cocktail together.”
The painting in 2017
obliterated art-sale records.
But it was first acquired,
like a far-fetched episode of
“Antiques Roadshow,” at a
Louisiana estate sale. While
browsing, a pair of New
York art dealers believed it
worth buying to get a better
look. They brought it to one
of the field’s top conserva-
tors, Dianne Dwyer Modes-
tini, who carefully removed
the heavy overpainting
that coated it and mended
other mistreatments from
the intervening centu-
ries. Gradually she and
others began to think the
painting wasn’t the work
of a Leonardo pupil, as
once suspected, but of the
master, himself.
Modestini’s bond with
the painting was especially
strong. She worked on it
for three years following
the death of her husband,
Italian conservator and art
buyer Mario Modestini.
MTV’s highest-rated program, “The Challenge” distinguishes itself from its competitors through long-running character development. ARCHIBALD VIENOT/MTV
Devin Walker-Molaghan,
another dependably hilar-
ious interview, is an IT
guy trying to prove brains
can eventually overcome
brawn. The physically and
mentally tough Kaycee
Clark played tackle football
for the San Diego Surge;
pot-stirrer Amanda Garcia
seems to have embraced
her nickname “Spawn of
Satan.” And Cory Whar-
ton, who in the past glee-
fully accepted the crown of
“Challenge” hookup king,
now appears to have settled
down with controversial
reality star Taylor Selfridge.
Aneesa Ferreira is
the show’s elder states-
woman, and while she’s not
expected to beat out the
younger competition, one
of the showrunners, Emer
Harkin, describes Ferreira
as among the series’s most
thoughtful players.
And as a bisexual woman
of color on a popular reality
series, Ferreira has herself
been both an advocate for
and an emblem of more
diverse representation
on other shows like “The
Challenge.” While she has
been open about the pres-
sure that comes with that
role, she has also praised
“It’s not just a paint-
ing. It’s more than that,”
Dianne Dwyer Modestini
says. “It’s an object infused
with power. That sounds a
little weird and corny, but
I believe that. When I was
working on it, I had this
experience of feeling my
husband was right by my
side the whole time. And I
couldn’t have done it with-
out him.”
Many art historians and
institutions — like London’s
National Gallery, which
exhibited the painting in
2011 — have arrived at the
same attribution. (Modes-
tini created a website with
technical details on her
findings.) But not everyone
agrees with her conclu-
sions. In the film, art critic
Kenny Schachter jokes
that it’s a “contemporary
painting” for how heav-
ily it was restored. The
art critic Jerry Saltz calls
it “no more real than any
of the dreamed-up scams
the series for being ahead
of the curve. “This show
is awesome because it’s a
smorgasbord of people of
color,” she told Hollywood
Life in December. “I’d
never seen anything like it.
It was full-on representa-
tion. We talked about a lot
of important things, and
I was happy to be part of
that.”
Then there’s Chris “CT”
Tamburello. As Harkin says
of perhaps the best-known
returning player, “CT is the
famous bad boy. We’ve seen
him in every bad situation:
all of the highs, the lows. To
see the renaissance of his
character, see him evolve
into who he is today and
be one of the most-loved
reality stars of all time is
something.”
Tamburello debuted on
MTV’s “The Real World:
Paris” (2003) as a charm-
ing Boston bruiser with
a penchant for disturb-
ing drunken brawls. After
joining “The Challenge”
in 2004, he cemented that
reputation, especially in
one Hulk-like rage in which
his bloodlust couldn’t be
restrained by numerous
bulked-up castmates.
“He was like a big gorilla
and schemes by people
that may not mean to be
flim-flamming, but in the
end, they all went along for
the ride.”
In “Lost Leonardo,”
it’s a ride through an art
world peopled by colorful
characters and eccentric
billionaires. The paint-
ing was first sold to Swiss
businessman Yves Bouvier,
who expanded the use
of freeports as tax-free
stations for high-priced
goods, like artwork. He
paid $83 million but he was
really acting on behalf of
Russian oligarch Dmitry
Rybolovlev, whom Bouvier
immediately flipped
it to for $127.5 million.
(A high-profile lawsuit
resulted when Rybolovlev
learned of Bouvier’s negoti-
ating tactics.)
In the art market as
seen in “Lost Leonardo,”
it’s seldom clear who’s
buying and who’s sell-
ing. One person calls it the
going after (castmate)
Adam (King) in a onesie. I
was like, ‘That’s the scar-
iest human alive,’ ” says
BMX star and musician T.J.
Lavin, who has hosted 29
seasons of the series and its
spinoffs.
Over the years, however,
Tamburello has matured
before our eyes. His
ill-fated love affair with
contestant Diem Brown,
who was diagnosed with
ovarian cancer in her 20s,
visibly changed him. Now
in his 40s, he’s calmer,
funnier. He’s a father who
went from Greek god to
“dad bod” (his words)
yet remains a dangerous
competitor, a four-time
champion constantly
revealing new sides. He
has gone from the gamma-​
irradiated bull in the China
shop to the jovial, even
cuddly figure castmates call
a “teddy bear.”
“The complexity of these
characters, it’s real,” says
Harkin. “You can’t contrive
that for such a long period.
You can relate to that, when
somebody’s going through
a really rough time, when
you’re madly in love, when
you’re at your lowest low.”
Episodes of “The
most unregulated market
after drugs and prostitu-
tion. Even once the Salva-
tor Mundi was auctioned
by Christie’s, the winning
bidder of $450 million
was unknown. Only later
did reports leak out that
the ruler of Saudi Arabia,
Crown Prince Mohammed
bin Salman, was behind the
purchase.
The Salvator Mundi was
later expected to be shown
at the Louvre, but was ulti-
mately absent from a major
exhibition reportedly due
to the museum’s refusal to
exhibit it, as Mohammed
requested, alongside the
Mona Lisa. Since 2017, the
painting hasn’t been seen
publicly.
“It proves a point of the
story that the truth is some-
how lost in all this,” says
Koefoed. “There’s so much
at stake, so many power
interests, so many money
interests that the truth
disappears. Not only do we
Challenge” devote time
to interpersonal drama,
competitive politicking,
daily challenges and
climactic head-to-head
eliminations — and at
times the focus on playing
a “scared game” to dodge
elimination can become
tiresome.
But none of those power
moves and own goals can
match the real-life drama
to which the series some-
times bears witness. The
winding tale of Tamburello
and Brown, captured by
MTV in a moving compila-
tion video, is Exhibit A.
“That’s the heaviest story
in ‘Challenge’ history,” says
Lavin.
In one indelible scene
early in her “Challenge”
career, Brown, who had
recently been through
chemotherapy, had to
remove her wig for a
muddy, water-based race.
“It was just after her
treatment, and her hair
was just growing back, and
she looked so beautiful.
And she took it off. And she
started to embrace what
she was going through,”
said Harkin. “What a
moment. What a woman.
She was just amazing.”
have a lost painting, we also
have lost the truth some-
how.”
Koefoed, a veteran docu-
mentary filmmaker, has no
fine arts background and
was only drawn into the
story of the Salvator Mundi
after its headline-making
auction. He and cinema-
tographer Adam Jandrup
shot many of the subjects
head-on, as if they’re sitting
for a portrait, and lit them
a little like a Renaissance
painting. The movie refuses
to take sides in the still
simmering disputes over
the Salvator Mundi.
“I decided to remain
open to both possibilities,”
says Koefoed. “I think it’s
more interesting to let the
viewer become their own
detective in the story.”
The National Gallery,
the Louvre and Christie’s
declined to participate. But
of the many players that
did, none has a role like
Modestini. Her experi-
ence with the painting and
its contested reputation is
rendered intimately. She
has only praise for Koefoed
and his film, but debates
over the Salvator Mundi
that Modestini no longer
has energy for.
“I don’t really care. I
know what I know about
the painting, and it seems
to me a no-brainer to me,
the attribution. If people
have other ideas, that’s fine.
But I really would like to
get on with my life. It’s been
so consumed by this. I will
never make another film,”
Modestini says. “This is it
for me.”
The painting, though,
still looms large in her
mind. Its power, she says,
is only really conveyed in
person. The effect can’t be
photographed. It can’t be
reproduced.
“It just emanates this
extraordinary sense of
something totally beyond
human understanding,”
Modestini says. “It’s a trag-
edy that it was so abused,”
she adds, before reflecting
on it being out of sight. “It’s
a continuing tragedy.”
Brown kept private that
her cancer had recurred
as she began filming
her eighth season; she
collapsed on set and died a
few months later. She was
34.
“Diem spent some of
her last weeks with us,
very close to her passing,”
Harkin said. “She wanted
to be with us, doing what
she had loved for so long,
with the people that she
loved the most.”
Although Brown’s story
is unique in the series’s
annals, Harkin notes that
major life changes are
commonplace: Challengers
have explored their sexual
orientation on the show,
like Ferreira. Some have
gone through marriages
and divorces.
“We’re really going
through life and death
with these people,” says
Harkin. Thinking of the
journeys of the show and
the grueling finals, she says,
“T.J. and I will stand at the
finish line; they’ve accom-
plished something that’s
really remarkable. And
you’ll always hear,” — in the
panting relief of a finisher
— “ ‘This is the best game in
the world.’ ”
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What
through various emotional barriers with the
hope of authentically changing their lives for
the better. MOVIES
to watch Beat Shazam
FOX, 8 p.m.
A mother and daughter, middle school
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Aug. 18, 2021
All times Central. Start times can vary based
on cable/satellite provider. Confirm times on
your on-screen guide.
Growing Up Animal
Disney+  New Series
This six-episode series from National
Geographic features heartwarming stories that
follow the development of baby animals on
their journey from the safety of the womb to
the challenges of the wild.
Press Your Luck
ABC, 7 p.m.
In “Whammageddon!” host Elizabeth Banks
is joined by contestants Keyla Ragland
(hometown: Severn, California), Dulce Gomez
(Newport Beach, California), and Craig
Kuykendall (Redondo Beach, California).
MasterChef: Legends
FOX, 7 p.m.
In “Cook for Your Legend,” the home cooks
whip up a dish for their own personal legends.
(Dig in, Mom!)
America’s Got Talent
NBC, 7 p.m.
In “Quarterfinals Results 2,” find out who
among last night’s contestants advanced in the
talent-competition series.
Age of Humans
Smithsonian Channel, 7 p.m.
In “Earth,” take a visually stunning world tour
‘House Calls With Dr. Phil’
CLIFF LIPSON, CBS
as we explore humankind’s growing impact
on the Earth’s surface. Humankind is now the
dominant factor in changes to the surface and
ecosystems. Discover the severe consequences
industrial farming, cities and roads have had
on our planet over the millennia, and what’s
being done to alter the effects of human
habitation.
The $100,000 Pyramid
ABC, 8 p.m.
In this new episode, Ginger Zee faces off
against actress Dascha Polanco followed by
Dorinda Medley and Sonja Morgan.
House Calls With Dr. Phil
CBS, 8 p.m.  New Series
Dr. Phil McGraw travels across the country
visiting families in need of his help. Using his
unique, proven techniques, McGraw will work
with each family as they attempt to work
surprising final elimination and an even more
unbelievable endgame in the new episode
“Our Most Shocking Show Ever!”
Family Game Fight!
NBC, 8 p.m. ‘The Parent Trap’
In “The Strutner Family vs. the Caropino DISNEY
Family,” hosts Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard Enemy of the State (1998,
are “adopted” into a family of four to compete Suspense) Will Smith, Gene
in a series of fun-filled and larger-than-life Hackman AMC 5 p.m.
games. The competing families play Pie
Rollers, Nosy Neighbors, Taste Buds, Deep Dish Her Pen Pal (2021, Romance)
Dash and Brain Freeze. The winning family Mallory Jansen, Joshua Sasse
moves on to play Spin Cycle for a chance to Hallmark, 5 p.m.
win $100,000. Killer Grandma (2018, Suspense)
Kelly Sullivan, Nana Visitor LMN,
I Survived a Serial Killer 5 p.m.
A&E, 8:30 p.m.  New Series
Tyler Perry’s the Family That
Each episode documents the harrowing, heroic Preys (2008, Drama) Kathy Bates,
stories of one or more survivors of the same
Alfre Woodard BET, 5 p.m.
serial killer. Told from the survivors’ point of
view, the series highlights the strength and Fences (2016, Drama) Denzel
perseverance of regular people encountering Washington, Viola Davis
and overcoming pure evil. Interviews with Showtime, 5:30 p.m.
those closest to the cases will round out the Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
stories of these unimaginable crimes. Over (2018, Adventure) Chris Pratt,
the 12-episode series, viewers will hear from Bryce Dallas Howard FX, 6 p.m.
survivors of killers including Andrew Urdiales,
Richard Beasley (aka the Craigslist Killer), Midway to Love (2019, Romance)
Angel Resendiz (aka the Railroad Killer) and Rachel Hendrix, Daniel Stine
Hallmark Movies & Mysteries,
David Parker Ray (aka the Toy Box Killer).
6 p.m.
The FBI Declassified The Parent Trap (1998, Children)
CBS, 9 p.m. Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid
New episodes! Agents and analysts from the Freeform, 6 p.m.
Federal Bureau of Investigation talk through Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea
their most taxing cases, taking viewers behind Halloween (2017, Comedy) Tyler
the scenes of big wins. Perry, Diamond White E! 6:30 p.m.
Deranged Granny (2020,

CATCH A CLASSIC birthday (he was born Charles Robert Redford

Summer Under the Stars:
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TCM, beginning at 5 a.m.
Amazingly, this month marks the first time
quintessential movie star Robert Redford has
been spotlighted with his own day of films
during Turner Classic Movies’ Summer Under
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Jr. on Aug. 18, 1936). The lineup celebrating
the blond-haired birthday boy begins with
Suspense) Wendie Malick, Amanda
Righetti LMN, 7 p.m.
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
his second feature film, the 1962 drama War
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Globe winner for Most Promising Newcomer Fast & Furious (2009, Action) Vin
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Crossword
Nicks documentary captures
interrupted school year on film
By Jake Coyle
Associated Press

Oakland filmmaker
Peter Nicks had already
made two well-regarded
documentaries capturing
the flawed institutions of
his city and their role in
shaping local lives: 2012’s
“The Waiting Room,”
about a public hospital,
and 2017’s “The Force,”
about the Oakland Police
Department during a wave
of shootings and protests.
To complete his Oakland
trilogy, Nicks turned to
Oakland High, a public
school with a diverse
student body of mostly
Asian American, Black
and Latino children. His
teenage daughter, Karina,
had been going through a
difficult time. In making a
movie about the hardships
of growing up as a teen-
ager of color in Oakland,
he was, in a way, making a
movie about her.
“A lot of films have
explored the inner-city
high school experience.
I was more interested in
something akin to ‘The
Breakfast Club’ but for kids
of color,” Nicks said. “A lot
of that was driven not just
to complete the trilogy, but
we had really been strug-
gling with our daughter,
and we’re a family with
resources. Navigating
the mental health system
was very difficult, and I
started thinking: What’s
it like for families without
resources?”
Just as Nicks was begin-
ning filming in September
2019, Karina died suddenly
at age 16. He decided to
keep going with the film,
even though that meant
immersing himself in
the lives of kids a lot like
his daughter. The movie,
“Homeroom,” is dedicated
to her.
“It was hard. The
essence of it is holding
your grief and holding
the beauty that these kids
represented and why we
“Homeroom” follows a class of Oakland High students. HULU
were there and what we are we going to possibly
were trying to capture. finish this movie? Are we
Having those two things going to do it over Zoom?
coexist simultaneously That was a shock, but it
was just something I had forced us to look at what
to get used to,” said Nicks. we had captured.”
“The one thing I do carry Nicks and his crew
and hold very dearly is that discovered a rich thread. By Jacqueline E. Mathews. © 2021 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. All rights reserved.
8/18/21
this is a film that honors Since the beginning of the
her spirit. She was really school year, some students ACROSS 46 Landing __; Solutions
like these kids in the film. had been working to have 1 Slice runway
In whatever way she’s police removed from the 4 Uptight 49 Weak
doing it, she’s been push- school campus. Their 9 Slightly cracked 51 Adriatic or
13 Not bananas Yellow
ing us along because it’s a presence, they argued, was
14 Trojan War epic 54 Court record
miracle the film ever got an impediment to a good
15 “Rio __”; John 56 One not to be
finished.” learning environment, and Wayne film trusted
Yet “Homeroom” got potentially triggering to 16 Getting on in 57 Sty cry
made, through personal those who lived with the years 58 Common
tragedy and pandemic. threat of police brutality. 17 Sounds familiar greeting
The movie, now available Nicks dug into the 19 Carter or 59 Formerly
on Hulu, won an edit- footage that had once Clinton: abbr. 60 Cookware
ing prize at the Sundance seemed a more minor 20 Partners 61 Do-nothing
Film Festival and is exec- plot line. When many of 21 Wild brawl 62 Word of disgust
utive produced by “Black the students took to the 22 1 of 7 deadly sins
Panther” filmmaker Ryan protests that followed the 24 Backyard pond DOWN
Coogler. It follows a class police murder of George fish 1 Parakeet’s home
of students through a Floyd, “Homeroom” 25 Castle 2 Not working
school year that, for a became a portrait of 2020 27 Trusted adviser 3 Senator Cruz
while, bears no sign of the in microcosm: A year inter- 30 Take the honey 4 Angry speech 25 Vet’s patients 42 Beverages
cataclysm to come. Figur- rupted, then a galvanizing and run 5 Chosen few 26 Lanai greeting 43 Beau
ing he had some time, sense of purpose. 31 Sound of a fire 6 Evening hour 27 Destination of 45 Red __; Rhode
Nicks was just narrow- Most of the students bell 7 Hangs limply NASA’s Viking 1 Island’s state
ing down to the kids that as seen in “Homeroom” 33 Compadre 8 O’Neill & 28 Persecuting tree
would be the film’s central aren’t headed to Ivy 35 Gifts for children Sheeran 29 Less common 46 Traffic sign
characters when the League colleges, and their 36 Capital city 9 Even though 31 Ripken Sr. & 47 Small ensemble
pandemic hit the Bay Area. intelligence isn’t likely to 37 Lively 10 Biblical book Ripken Jr. 48 Make a scene
“I had the name picked register chart-topping SAT 38 “Ain’t __ Sweet” 11 Capable 32 Recline 49 Pebbles’ pop
out years ago. The fact that scores. But by patiently 39 Shoe parts 12 Acting part 34 Harp of old 50 Small brook
the kids ended up in home observing them, “Home- 40 Less furnished 13 Melancholy 36 Curtain puller 52 Every
at the end was kind of room” shows the smarts, 41 Deadly snakes 18 In the midst of 37 Build up a nest 53 “__ you kidding
serendipitous,” Nicks said social-media savvy and 43 Harsh 20 Rodents egg me?”
of “Homeroom.” “Shortly strength of a multiracial 44 Scarlet 23 Knocks 39 Oozes out 55 Fraternity letter
after that it was like: What generation in the midst of 45 Stubborn 24 Game similar to 40 Actress 56 __ Diamond
are we going to do? How finding its voice. animals lotto Catherine Phillips
14  Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Horoscopes Dilbert By Scott Adams

Today’s birthday (Aug. 18): Link arms

with your partner this year. Share the load
faithfully to grow. Community connection
touches your heart this summer, before
changes with your industry require autumn
adaptation. Enjoying delicious moments
with beloved people this winter inspires a professional blos-
soming next spring. Lead with your heart.
Aries (March 21-April 19): Today is a 9. Take care of business.
It may take a mess to get the job done. Words and actions get
results now. Keep the balls in motion.
Taurus (April 20-May 20): 8. Explore opportunities. Avoid
expensive or difficult options. Use your own good judgment.
Connect with the world outside. Participate in a larger con- Baby Blues By Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott
versation.
Gemini (May 21-June 20): 9. Discuss shared finances with your
partner. Avoid risky business. Draw upon hidden resources.
Balance accounts and work out the details. Share the load.
Cancer (June 21-July 22): 9. Work together to refine the plan.
Talk about how you want things to be, and get into action.
Make notes and sketches. Results satisfy.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): 8. Physical action gets results. Work
with trusted doctors and coaches. Practice your moves and
pick up the pace. Communicate to refine and adjust.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): 7. Romance could spark, but it may
not look like your fantasy. Relax and have fun. Avoid risk,
expectations or expense. Keep things simple.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): 7. Home renovations start with a
mess. It’s amazing the difference a coat of paint can make. Zits By Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
Coordinate family support and feed all helpers.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): 8. Get into an intellectual puzzle.
Research, dig and sort out potential solutions. Monitor a
larger conversation with talented experts.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): 9. Monitor finances. Find
ways to conserve resources. Defer gratification, if necessary.
Restraint serves you well. Do the work behind the scenes for
rising income.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): 8. Take charge for the results
you want. Dress for success. Love energizes you. Reduce
tension and stress with yoga, meditation or music.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): 8. You can get especially pro-
ductive behind closed doors. Reduce public interactions,
noise and distraction. Complete old projects and prepare for
what’s next. Rest and recharge. Mr. Boffo By Joe Martin
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): 8. Teamwork gets satisfying re-
sults. It could get messy. Push to advance a shared cause and
worry about cleanup later. An exciting opportunity beckons.

— Nancy Black, Tribune Content Agency

The Argyle Sweater By Scott Hilburn

Frazz By Jef Mallett

Bliss By Harry Bliss Classic Peanuts By Charles Schulz

Pickles By Brian Crane

Bridge
North-South vulnerable, East deals
North
♠ 10 9 5 4 3 Dick Tracy By Joe Staton and Mike Curtis
♥A
♦ K4
West ♣ A J 10 9 8 East
♠ AJ ♠ K6
♥ 42 ♥ Q J 10 8 5 3
♦ A 10 8 7 6 5 3 ♦ J9
♣76 South ♣Q32
♠ Q872
♥ K976
♦ Q2
♣K54
West was just fooling around with his two-spade
bid, hoping to muddy the waters for his opponents. The
opponents, however, were Italian World Champions
Lorenzo Lauria and Alfredo Versace, who had smelled this
Animal Crackers By Mike Osbun
rat before.
Lauria, North, could not be sure that West was being
devious, but he
The bidding: doubled to show his
spades just in case. He
East South West North was willing to take his
2♥ Pass 2♠ Dbl chances on defense
Pass 3♥ Pass 4♥ if necessary. Versace,
Pass 4♠ All pass
South, cue bid to show
a spade fit with at least
Opening lead: Four of ♥ invitational values.
North cue bid his heart
control in case South had grander ideas than just game.
South did not, and North-South settled in the spade game.
Versace won the opening heart lead in dummy and went
after trumps right away. He ran the 10 of spades to West’s
jack. West shifted to the ace of diamonds and then led Prickly City By Scott Stantis
another diamond. A second spade crashed the king and ace
and put West back on lead. West reverted to hearts, which
Versace won in hand and ruffed a heart in dummy. Versace
inferred from East’s play in diamonds, the jack followed by
the nine, that East started with only two diamonds. This
made his initial distribution 2-6-2-3. East was therefore the
three-to-two favorite to hold the queen of clubs. Versace
finessed East for the queen and brought home his contract.
Note that West could have defeated the contract by
leading the ace of diamonds originally, and then another
diamond. He would then have been able to give partner a dia-
mond ruff with the king of spades to take three trump tricks.

— Bob Jones
tcaeditors@tribpub.com
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Sudoku 8/18

For Better or for Worse By Lynn Johnston

Complete the grid

so each row, column
and 3-by-3 box in
bold borders contains
Blondie By Dean Young and John Marshall every digit 1 to 9.

Tuesday’s
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1 Inferior in quality Cincinnati dir. 21 Part of 46-Across
6 Temple mascot Hooter 47 Only even prime 22 Dover and Edwards,
T. __ number e.g., briefly
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that features stunts 20-, 33- and 43-Across 35 Tightly connected
and a time limit effectively are? 36 Hearty entrée
22 State as fact 61 Sported 37 It’s not a bear
25 Parlor art, briefly 62 Didn’t stop behind in 41 Classic name in shoes
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film icon Boris National Anthem
Karloff narrated 9 Elementary math
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the 1966 animat-
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Offensive lineman Teven Jenkins (76) is the Bears’ top injury concern heading into the second preseason game. The rest of the top 10 concerns are (below, left to right, top to bottom): Robert
Quinn, Tarik Cohen, Akiem Hicks, Danny Trevathan, James Daniels, Germain Ifedi, Larry Borom, Roquan Smith and David Montgomery.

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From Jenkins to Hicks: Top 10 injury and absence worries the Bears are facing right now
By Dan Wiederer | Chicago Tribune for the Bears. A new injury setback? Hurt feelings? More on that shortly.

B
ears defensive lineman Akiem Hicks was at practice Tuesday morning at Halas
Hall. Until he wasn’t.
Shortly after stretching began, Hicks walked off the back practice fields and was
spotted driving away from the facility soon after.
Coach Matt Nagy isn’t available to reporters after practice, and a team spokesman
declined to provide any explanation for Hicks’ abrupt exit.
What is this all about?
Hicks’ mystery departure was the latest twist in an August full of unwanted absences
The Bears practiced Tuesday without four defensive starters and four of their top 10
offensive lineman. That list doesn’t include offensive tackle Jason Peters, whose signing
became official Monday. But Peters, according to Nagy, still is going through the NFL’s
COVID-19 testing process, and there is no firm word on when his first practice might be.
With the second preseason game Saturday and the season opener just 22 days later,
the team’s health issues are becoming increasingly significant. With that in mind, here’s a
ranking of the Bears’ 10 most notable injuries and absences right now.
Turn to Bears, Page 2

WHITE SOX
‘Man, Kopech is nasty’
Reliever continues to
get pivotal outs — and
impress QB Mahomes
By LaMond Pope
Chicago Tribune
The Chicago White Sox called
on Michael Kopech in a pivotal
part of Thursday’s Field of
Dreams game in Dyersville, Iowa.
The Sox led by three, but the
New York Yankees had runners
on first and second with no outs
in the sixth inning.
Kopech got slugger Giancarlo
Stanton to ground out to short-
stop Tim Anderson, with the
runners moving up a base. The
right-hander then struck out
Luke Voit and Rougned Odor to
escape trouble without giving up
a run.
A fired-up Kopech slapped his
glove twice in excitement.
He allowed one hit, walked one
and struck out two in 1 1/3 innings
in the outing — and impressed
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback
Patrick Mahomes, who tweeted,
“Man, Kopech is nasty.” Mahomes
and Kopech pitched against each
other when they were younger.
After a hiccup at the end of last
month, allowing five runs in one
inning against the Cleveland Indi-
ans, Kopech has returned to that
“nasty” form he has displayed for
most of this season.
He has allowed one run on
three hits with seven strikeouts in
Turn to Sox, Page 3
White Sox reliever Michael Kopech
throws against the Athletics on
Monday at Guaranteed Rate Field.
TERRENCE ANTONIO JAMES/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Ricketts family will honor
itself as team is unwatchable
Two of the most frequently
asked questions I’ve gotten the
last few weeks:
“Don’t you feel sorry for Jed
Hoyer?”
“Don’t you feel sorry for David
Ross?”
With the Cubs having posted Paul Sullivan
In the Wake of the News
yet another double-digit losing
streak, sympathy for the two men Others are more concerned
in the middle of the disaster since about Ross, who watched Hoyer
the trade-deadline sell-off seems trade his best players — and
to be peaking. some close friends — forcing the
Some fans feel sorry for Hoyer, second-year manager to try to
the Cubs president, for having compete with a talent-deficient
this mess “dumped in his lap” by roster. “Ross didn’t sign up for
predecessor Theo Epstein, who this” is a common phrase.
resigned last fall with one year My answer to everyone who
remaining on his contract while asks is the same: Save your tears.
knowing the fates of Anthony Hoyer and Ross knew what
Rizzo, Kris Bryant and Javier
Báez were up in the air. Turn to Sullivan, Page 3
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BULLS
Coach Cotter
entertains with
his Australian
catchphrases
By Jamal Collier | Chicago Tribune
When asked to describe what it was like
working with Patrick Williams during the
NBA Summer League, Chicago Bulls assis-
tant coach Damian Cotter offered his form
of high praise.
“As we say back home, Pat’s a good bloke,”
Cotter said.
The description caused a double take
among reporters in the room during Cotter’s
news conference last week in Las Vegas, just
like some of his phrases have at times during
film and practice sessions during Summer
League.
It’s not until Cotter — who is from
Melbourne, Australia, and was the team’s
head coach at the start of Summer League
— notices the blank stares around the room
that he realizes he needs to add some clarity.
“He dropped a couple phrases,” guard
Jaylen Adams said. “He threw the ‘bloke’ out
there. He said something like ‘fair dinkum.’ ”
“Sometimes in film, sometimes in prac-
tice, but really all the time,” guard Ethan
Thompson said with a laugh. “If he catches
himself using one of (those) terms, he’ll
clarify and ask around if we know what he’s
talking about.”
That’s “fair dinkum,” which, as Cotter
explains, means a person is being authentic.
He’ll tell the Bulls they need to be more
“cagey” on offense.
“Yeah, he says some head-scratchers at
times,” guard Devon Dotson said, shaking
his head and smiling. “You don’t know what
he’s saying.”
Before joining the Bulls as head coach of
the G League’s Windy City Bulls in 2019-
20, Cotter rose through the coaching ranks
in Australia. He started coaching in 1999
and eventually landed with the Australian
national development team. He became
head coach of the Sydney Kings in Austra-
lia’s National Basketball League for the 2014-
15 season.
The Brooklyn Nets hired him as an assis-
tant with their G League affiliate, the Long
Island Nets, in 2017-18, his last stop before
joining the Bulls. Last season, Cotter became
an assistant on coach Billy Donovan’s staff.
So he had experience working with
Williams, who said Cotter constantly
reminds him to “back yourself.”
“He uses that a lot with us and with me
especially,” Williams said. “Back yourself
just means have confidence in what you do.
Nobody has to believe in you, just believe in
yourself.
“It’s always good to build a relationship
with somebody not from the U.S. to see
how interesting it is and how different it is,
honestly. He’s a good coach, player-first and
asking us guys what we see out there before
he draws up a play or before he talks.”
Cotter coached the Bulls’ first three
Summer League games before Henry
Domercant, one of the team’s player-devel-
opment coordinators, finished the final two
as head coach. The Bulls said they wanted to
give Domercant, who had been on Cotter’s
staff, an opportunity.
Williams expressed a familiar refrain
among the players. They had fun with
Cotter’s quirky catchphrases, but they
seemed to enjoy their experience playing
under him this summer.
“He’s a great dude to be around, funny
guy,” Thompson said. “And he knows what
he’s talking about for sure.”
Cotter also was helpful in drawing on
his experience to guide forward Marko
Simonović — a 2020 second-round pick who
will join the Bulls roster from Serbia — with
his adjustment to life in the U.S. and playing
professional basketball here.
Cotter isn’t the first member of the Bulls
organization with Australian ties. Luc
Longley played center for the Bulls for five
seasons and was a starter on the second
three-peat teams.
“Ah, yes,” Cotter said. “Luc’s a fair dinkum
bloke.”
“Yeah, he says some head-
scratchers at times. You don’t
know what he’s saying.”
— Bulls guard Devon Dotson on assistant
coach Damien Cotter
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Johnson named starting QB
Chicago Tribune
Northwestern has picked its quarter-
back for the Sept. 3 opener versus Michigan
State. Who will join him in the backfield is
less clear.
Fifth-year senior Hunter Johnson, who
lost the starting job during the 2019 season
and played in only two games last year, will
get the nod against the Spartans over South
Carolina transfer Ryan Hilinski and fifth-
year senior Andrew Marty.
The Wildcats also announced that
running back Cam Porter, who led them in
rushing as a freshman last fall, will miss the
season after suffering a lower-body injury
during preseason camp. Porter rushed for
Bears
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Teven Jenkins
This is veering toward Kevin White terri-
tory at this point with a seemingly minor
July health issue mushrooming into some-
thing far more concerning. The Bears’
attempts at the outset of camp to down-
play the severity of Jenkins’ back injury and
Nagy’s assertions a week later that things
were “trending in the right direction” have
proved hollow.
Jenkins, who the Bears originally hoped
could emerge as their starter at left tackle,
missed his 15th practice of camp Tuesday
morning and doesn’t seem to be anywhere
close to returning. It would be a stunner if
the rookie was able to play in next week’s
preseason finale in Nashville against the
Tennessee Titans. And there’s a real chance
the Bears will place Jenkins on injured
reserve in Week 1 to free up a roster spot.
The signing of the 39-year-old Peters,
a six-time All-Pro, may wind up being
serendipitous and just what Nagy needs to
solidify the left tackle position. But’s also
a desperation signing that became neces-
sary because of Jenkins’ back problems.
The Bears traded up to draft Jenkins at No.
39. There are increasing outside fears that
it was a costly swing and miss.
Robert Quinn
The 31-year-old pass rusher has been
battling his own back issues since the
spring. And after flashing a couple of times
during the first quarter against the Miami
Dolphins on Saturday, Quinn has an ankle
injury that has kept him out of practice the
last two days.
The Bears guaranteed Quinn $30
million on a five-year, $70 million deal in
March 2020. Quinn responded with only
two sacks, the lowest total of his 10-year
career. At this point, it would be foolish for
the Bears to expect Quinn to be a healthy,
consistent game-wrecker for all 17 games.
The development of second-year outside
linebacker Trevis Gipson and the produc-
tion of veteran Jeremiah Attaochu take on
greater meaning.
Tarik Cohen
Cohen tore the anterior cruciate liga-
ment in his right knee 11 months ago when
he was run into while making a fair catch
against the Atlanta Falcons. The running
back’s road to recovery hasn’t been an
expressway. Cohen has been on the phys-
ically unable to perform (PUP) list since
reporting to camp last month. And from
the looks of his gait as he moves around the
Halas Hall sidelines at practices, he doesn’t
appear close to a return to a full strength.
The Bears have decent depth at running
back with Damien Williams and Khalil
Herbert establishing themselves as reliable
backups behind David Montgomery. Arta-
vis Pierce had the Bears’ longest play from
scrimmage in the preseason opener, busting
off a 51-yard run in the fourth quarter.
Cohen’s talents as a punt returner will
be missed until the Bears find a suitable
replacement. And Nagy might have to
go without Cohen as a chess piece in the
offense for the foreseeable future.
Akiem Hicks
Hicks was on the back practice fields
Tuesday morning but then departed.
The Bears were mum when pressed for a
post-practice update, leaving Nagy to offer
some sort of explanation Wednesday.
Hicks, who sat out the team’s July 29
Friday Saturday
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333 yards with five touchdowns in seven
games last season.
With Porter out, the rushing duties likely
will be shared among Bowling Green gradu-
ate transfer Andrew Clair, redshirt sophomore
Evan Hull and freshman Anthony Tyus III.
The versatile Clair rushed for 1,937 yards
and 13 touchdowns and caught 44 passes
for 330 yards and four scores in 30 games
over four seasons at Bowling Green, twice
earning third-team All-MAC recognition.
Hull has 495 rushing yards and six touch-
downs in 13 games over the last two seasons.
Redshirt sophomore offensive lineman
Zach Franks, who appeared in eight of nine
games last fall, also is out for the season
with a lower-body injury.
Bears defensive end Robert Quinn chases Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa in the first
quarter Saturday at Soldier Field. JOHN J. KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
practice with what Nagy called foot sore-
ness, has been committed to a boycott of
media interviews since last season ended.
Last week, agent Drew Rosenhaus made it
clear that Hicks wants a contract extension
ASAP. That’s a move Bears general manager
Ryan Pace isn’t likely to prioritize given the
team’s salary-cap restrictions and the fact
Hicks will turn 32 in November.
So how does this all tie together? It’s diffi-
cult to say. Hicks isn’t talking, and the Bears
have little incentive to detail any behind-
the-scenes friction. But it certainly is worth
keeping an eye on as the season closes in.
Rumors that Hicks could be traded bounced
through league circles in the spring. Could
such chatter pick back up? It’s the NFL.
Stranger things have happened.
Danny Trevathan
The 10th-year linebacker has been deal-
ing with knee soreness for the past week.
The decision to be careful with his return
makes sense. But Trevathan got off to a slow
start in 2020, and the Bears would rather
not worry about a repeat in 2021.
With Trevathan out, fellow veteran Alec
Ogletree — who became a Bear on Aug. 4 —
has played well in the middle of the defense
and seems to be positioning himself to make
the initial 53-man roster in two weeks.
James Daniels
The Bears came into training camp feel-
ing confident that a sturdy and steady offen-
sive line would become a major catalyst
for a resurgence in 2021. But the last three
weeks have been filled with setbacks and
there has been little continuity to speak of
up front.
Daniels, the projected starter at left
guard, just can’t seem to keep himself
available. He missed the final 11 games last
season with a torn pectoral muscle. Now
he’s working through a quadriceps issue
that has been a hindrance since Aug. 3 with
nine consecutive practices missed. Only 10
more practices remain before the Bears are
in Week 1. The clock is ticking.
Germain Ifedi
Ifedi moved from guard to right tackle
down the stretch of last season and played
pretty well there. The Bears believe he can
remain a reliable starter in that position.
But Ifedi strained a hip flexor during the
conditioning test on the first day of train-
ing camp and was immediately put on the
shelf. His return from the PUP list should
come soon, perhaps this week, allowing
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Coach Pat Fitzgerald’s selection of John-
son to start at quarterback came as a bit of a
surprise after Hilinski transferred to North-
western in January.
A former five-star recruit who trans-
ferred from Clemson in 2018, Johnson
opened the 2019 season as the starter but
struggled, completing only 46.3% of his
passes for 432 yards with one touchdown
and four interceptions in six games (five
starts). Aiden Smith and Marty also took
turns as the starter during a 3-9 season.
Last year Johnson backed up graduate
transfer Peyton Ramsey as the Wildcats
rebounded to win the Big Ten West. John-
son did not attempt a pass during two brief
appearances.
him enough runway to get in shape for the
opener against the Los Angeles Rams. But
as with all things involving the offensive
line right now, any optimism should be
cautious.
Larry Borom
The Bears coaching staff was impressed
with Borom’s footwork and composure
during the first practice in full pads at
Family Fest at Soldier Field. The fifth-round
pick out of Missouri handled himself well
in his opportunity to take valuable first-unit
reps at left tackle that day. But he wound up
in the concussion protocol the next day and
hasn’t practiced since.
Asked about that lengthy absence, Nagy
was hesitant to say much.
“With that whole concussion protocol, to
each their own,” Nagy said.
The window of opportunity for Borom
to prove himself a reliable starting option at
the most important position up front seems
to be closing. Peters’ arrival will change the
equation as well.
Roquan Smith
Smith’s availability for Week 1 is a top
priority. So it’s no surprise the Bears are
taking a cautious approach in easing the
inside linebacker back from the groin injury
he suffered two weeks ago.
Nagy emphasized Tuesday morning that
there is little internal concern about Smith’s
health.
“No news is probably good news with
him,” Nagy said.
Still, Smith has missed six consecutive
practices. The concern shouldn’t be elevat-
ing, but it also won’t disappear until he’s
back and able to string together a week or
two of work without aggravating anything.
David Montgomery
Montgomery had only one rushing
attempt in the preseason opener, a 3-yard
run on the Bears’ first play from scrimmage.
He hobbled to the sideline after that play
and couldn’t make it through Monday’s
practice with what the team called “general
soreness.”
Not to fear: Montgomery was back in
action Tuesday and able to participate for
much of the practice. He looked good. Nagy
expressed zero worries about the running
back’s physical state. And one of the key
cogs in the Bears offense seems to be right
back in working order.
See? There can be promising news for the
Bears on the injury front after all.

BASEBALL
CUBS 2, REDS 1
CUBS RECAP
The Cubs’ longest losing streak of the season is over at 12 games. Right-hander Kyle Hendricks helped stop the skid by holding the Cincinnati
Reds to one run in six innings, and relievers Rowan Wick, Adam Morgan and Codi Heuer combined to deliver much-needed zeros for the maligned
bullpen as the Cubs outpitched the Reds in a 2-1 victory Wednesday night at Great American Ball Park. Frank Schwindel (RBI double) and Ian
Happ (homer) provided the offense. The Cubs have an opportunity to win the series Wednesday and will turn to right-hander Adrian Sampson,
who will be called up from Triple A for his first big-league appearance since 2019 with the Texas Rangers. For more, go to chicagotribune.com
Winkler designated for assignment,
outfielder Hermosillo called up
By Meghan Montemurro
Chicago Tribune
CINCINNATI — In a span of a week,
reliever Dan Winkler’s standing in the
Chicago Cubs bullpen torpedoed.
The Cubs opted to move on from Winkler
after he surrendered 13 runs (12 earned)
in 12/3 innings while retiring only five of
21 batters over three appearances during
the last week. They designated Winkler
for assignment Tuesday afternoon after
another implosion Monday night.
The Cubs selected the contract of
outfielder Michael Hermosillo from
Triple-A Iowa to replace Winkler. They
also announced left-handed reliever Kyle
Ryan was outrighted and elected free
agency.
Manager David Ross explained Winkler’s
departure was partly to give somebody else
an opportunity given the situation the Cubs
are in.
“That’s a tough conversation,” Ross said
Tuesday. “It’s unfortunate about this game
— you have a guy that’s given me a lot ever
since I’ve been the manager. He’s given me
a lot, worked through a lot, some ups and
downs. We’re at a spot to maybe give some-
one else a shot in a moment where he’s just
struggling a little bit. I don’t think we have a
lot of time to help him work through those
moments right now.”
Winkler, 31, had 22 consecutive scoreless
outings between April 4 and June 4, striking
out 18 and walking 10 in 19 innings during
that span.
He hadn’t been as effective since then,
posting a 5.19 ERA with opponents produc-
ing a .337 on-base percentage in his next
Sullivan
from Page 1
they were getting into, and neither can
be labeled a victim in this ongoing train
wreck of a season.
Hoyer was general manager of the Cubs
for nine years before being promoted, so
he is at least partly responsible for the
lack of extensions and absence of organi-
zational depth that put the Cubs in this
predicament.
Ross was not interviewed by any other
team for a managerial opening in 2019,
so his choice was to become the Cubs
manager knowing the “Big 3″ could be
gone by his second season or continue
making a nice living as an ESPN analyst
and celebrity endorser from his “Dancing
with the Stars” appearance.
The Cubs lost 11 straight in late June
and early July, leading to Hoyer’s massive
sell-off that still reverberates almost three
weeks later. The Cubs finally ended a
12-game skid with a 2-1 victory Tuesday
night in Cincinnati, coming within two
losses of the franchise record of 14 consec-
utive defeats set in 1997.
With a .250 winning percentage (14-42)
over their last 56 games before Tuesday,
the Cubs are on a pace that would trans-
late to 121 losses over a 162-game season.
The 1962 New York Mets, considered the
worst in modern history, lost 120 games.
I wrote about that ‘97 debacle during
the earlier winless stretch, so there’s no
need to rehash the horrors and comedic
mishaps of the Andy MacPhail era.
But in my newly created role as senior
Cubs losing streak expert — having been
part of the Tribune’s coverage of four of
the longest losing streaks in Cubs history
— I can report this season is exponentially
worse than either 1997 or 2012, when the
Cubs lost 12 straight during the first year
of the rebuild.
In essence, the 2021 Cubs have featured
two groups of everyday players suffer-
ing through double-digit losing streaks
— with Hoyer and Ross as the common
21 appearances after his scoreless streak
ended — and that doesn’t even include his
struggles in the past week. Walks became
more of an issue for Winkler, who was aver-
aging one per inning since early June.
“The walks were always a little bit of
what you kind of live with with him,”
Ross said. “The velocity was down a little
bit, those foul balls that you saw some in
Miami and some last night, just not getting
off the barrel. ... But if we could pinpoint
(the issue), we would have taken that to
him and fixed it, so it’s just one of those
things.”
Hermosillo — who went to high school
in Ottawa, Illinois, and signed to play foot-
ball on scholarship at Illinois before the
Los Angeles Angels drafted him in 2013
— earned a big-league promotion with
his consistent production at Iowa. The
26-year-old right-handed hitter posted a
.310/.448/.600 slash line with 10 homers,
10 doubles and 29 RBIs in 42 games.
His previous big-league experience
consists of 56 games with the Angels from
2018-20. Hermosillo signed a minor-league
deal with the Cubs in the offseason that
included an invitation to big-league camp
in spring training.
Ross said Hermosillo will get an oppor-
tunity to contribute. He envisions using
Hermosillo in a center-field platoon with
the left-handed-hitting Rafael Ortega.
Nico Hoerner continues to progress: In
the latest step in his rehab, Nico Hoerner
(right oblique strain) hit in the cage Tues-
day and is slated to do it again Wednesday.
Ross said Hoerner looked good and will
get the day off Thursday with the Cubs not
Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts at Wrigley Field
in April. BRIAN CASSELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
denominators.
Naturally, the Cubs are trying to make
lemonade with lemons. They’re increas-
ing the number of minor-league games
carried on Marquee Sports Network,
which makes sense. The White Sox did
likewise on NBC Sports Chicago when
their top prospects were developing in the
minors.
And the Cubs also are showcasing their
beloved ballpark, celebrating the end
of the renovation of Wrigley Field with
a “rededication” event Thursday after-
noon in Gallagher Way. According to a
Cubs news release, the team will unveil
two plaques to “commemorate Wrigley
Field’s official designation as a National
Historic Landmark and … the Ricketts
family’s commitment to preserving Wrig-
ley Field.”
That’s right. The Ricketts family is
honoring the Ricketts family for “preserv-
ing” the iconic ballpark by adding more
premium clubs, advertising and a video
board, while also charging more for tick-
ets than almost anyone else in the game.
“Thank you to us.”
Cubs fans were rewarded with a cham-
pionship season in 2016 and a promise
from the owners and business opera-
tions President Crane Kenney that all the
revenue from the improvements would
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playing. Then Hoerner will likely hit on the
field Friday at Wrigley Field.
Hoerner has been sidelined since July 29.
When he returns to the lineup, Ross might
look to use him in the outfield as a potential
preview of next year. With second baseman
Nick Madrigal in the fold for 2022, Hoern-
er’s defensive versatility allows both to be
in the lineup. Hoerner could slot into center
field next year, whether that becomes his
regular position or he gets moved around
the diamond.
Ross mentioned the possibility of playing
Hoerner in the outfield after he’s activated,
though the more likely scenario has him
at shortstop, where he took pregame reps
this week.
“He goes out there (in the outfield) every
once in a while,” Ross said. “I watch him run
around and he looks really good. ... I think
there’s a couple possibilities of where he
can contribute when he comes back.”
Cubs reportedly will play in next year’s
Field of Dreams game: After a successful
spotlight on Major League Baseball during
last week’s Field of Dreams game between
the Chicago White Sox and New York
Yankees, MLB announced another game
will be played at the famed site in Dyers-
ville, Iowa, in 2022.
While MLB hasn’t officially announced
the matchup, multiple reports say it will
feature the Cubs and Cincinnati Reds on
Aug. 11. That’s currently scheduled as a day
off for both teams, but NBC Sports Chicago
reported the schedule will be adjusted
with the day off moved to Aug. 12, and the
remainder of the three-game series played
in Cincinnati.
go right back into the team to make it
competitive for years to come.
The Ricketts family spent enough to win
but the team didn’t reciprocate. The Cubs
failed to repeat in 2017, blew the division
title with a late collapse in 2018, missed the
postseason in 2019, endured the fan-free
experience of the COVID-19 pandemic in
2020 and dumped the contract of ace Yu
Darvish to reduce payroll.
The surge in May that briefly put the
Cubs in first place gave fans hope Hoyer
would re-sign at least one or two of the
Big 3, but the subsequent collapse made
the sell-off inevitable.
So here we are in the middle of another
classic Cubs free-fall with seven weeks
remaining.
The one question I’ve yet to hear this
summer is this: “Don’t you feel sorry for
the Rickettses?”
When a team such as the San Diego
Padres outspends you, you’re not living up
to your promise of investing your profits
back into the team.
At Cubs Convention in January 2020,
Chairman Tom Ricketts said the team’s
promise to fans over the next decade was
to “continue to have the best relationship
with our fans of any professional sports
team in the world, and that starts with the
Marquee Network.”
Cubs fans booed, which surprised Rick-
etts.
“What do you have against the Marquee
Network?” he asked. “Believe me, you
won’t be booing about that in a year.”
Maybe they’re now saying “Boog” and
not “boo.” Who knows?
Either way, the Rickettses got their
renovation and their TV network, not to
mention their giant video board, roof-
top clubs, an office building, a hotel and
restaurants, including the shuttered
Maddon’s Post, which recently was used
to administer COVID-19 vaccines. Soon
they’ll cram a sports book facility at the
corner of Addison and Sheffield to make
even more money.
What they don’t have is a team that’s
watchable — and that’s on them.
Sox
from Page 1
six innings during five August relief appear-
ances.
That includes two scoreless innings in
Monday’s 5-2 victory against the Oakland
Athletics at Guaranteed Rate Field. Kopech
walked one and struck out three.
“It was getting back to trusting myself,”
Kopech said Monday. “You have a rough
one like that (July 31 game) and it’s easy to
go back to the drawing board and figure out
what you’re not doing well and what you
are doing well. It can really be a downward
spiral if you go deep in that rabbit hole.
“But just going back and getting confident
in what I’ve been doing all year and throwing
every pitch with conviction, little stuff like
that helped me get back on track.”
Kopech is 3-1 with a 2.42 ERA in 29
outings, including three starts. He has 13
holds, 67 strikeouts and 20 walks in 48 1/3
innings.
He’s one of the first pitchers the Sox turn
to in high-leverage situations such as the
Field of Dreams game.
“I’m trying to embrace the new role I’m
put in,” said Kopech, who is working primar-
ily out of the bullpen this season with a
return to starting the future plan. “But since
making that transition, I guess, it’s been a
lot of fun.
“It’s kind of a learning curve there for a
second. But I’m starting to feel competition
as soon as I touch the ball, no matter what
the situation is. As long as we can keep that
going throughout the rest of the season, I
think I’ll be in a good spot.”
Craig Kimbrel and Liam Hendriks
followed Kopech in Monday’s game. The
three combined for nine strikeouts in four
scoreless innings.
“It can look different almost every night
and still be comfortable with what we are
putting out there,” Kopech said of the bull-
pen. “It’s the kind of pitching staff we have.
But when everything is going good, every-
thing is going great.
“We’ve got those two guys at the back
end you can flip a coin and be comfortable
they are going to dominate. I don’t think any
rough stretches for any of us dictate what
kind of a team this is. Everybody knows what
we are capable of offensively and defen-
sively. Every time we come to the field, we
are ready to win and compete.”
Kopech learns from the two veteran clos-
ers, even when an appearance doesn’t go
their way.
“And there are other examples in the club-
house of guys who have had rough ones,”
Kopech said. “We don’t have anybody carry-
ing a bad game into the next game. That
shows the kind of leadership they have.”
The Sox will continue to monitor
Kopech’s usage. He missed all of 2019 recov-
ering from Tommy John surgery and opted
out of the pandemic-shortened 2020 season
for personal reasons.
“You have to take the day he goes out
there, if it’s one inning and he gets quick
outs, he’s right there now where he can be
available the next day,” Sox manager Tony
La Russa said Tuesday. “When he has two
innings (like Monday), double the workload,
then there’s no way he’s going to pitch (Tues-
day). And most probably it would be wise to
hold him out and give him two days’ rest.
“He had a good outing and if he feels good,
maybe, but two innings to me is two days.
Back-to-back (appearances) is something he
can do already. In the end, though, it’s still his
first opportunity to be in that bullpen, and
you want to err on the side of caution for a
lot of reasons.”
Yasmani Grandal transferred to Triple-A:
Sox catcher Yasmani Grandal took the next
step in his rehab assignment, moving from
Double-A Birmingham to Triple-A Char-
lotte on Tuesday.
Grandal slashed .364/.385/.364 with two
RBIs in four games with the Barons. He went
on the injured list July 6 with a torn tendon
in his left knee.
His checklist during the rehab assignment
is slightly different than the ones outfielders
Luis Robert and Eloy Jiménez went through.
“Because of the catching position and
all the different things you have to do as a
catcher, plus the hitting, it’s a different eval-
uation,” La Russa said. “To be going to Triple
A, that’s a very healthy sign for us.”
WHITE SOX 9, A’S 0
ERIN HOOLEY/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
WHITE SOX RECAP
Oakland Athletics starter Chris Bassitt exited
Tuesday’s game against the White Sox after
getting struck in the head by Brian Goodwin’s
liner back to the mound. The scary moment
occurred in the second inning at Guaranteed
Rate Field in a game the Sox won 9-0. Trainers
immediately ran onto the field to attend to
Bassitt, who was taken away on a cart. The
A’s tweeted that Bassitt — a former Sox
pitcher who leads the American League
with 12 wins — was “conscious and aware”
as he was transported to a hospital. The
game resumed with the bases loaded, and
Andrew Vaughn hit a two-run single, followed
by Jake Lamb’s three-run home run. José
Abreu added a three-run homer in the fourth.
Reynaldo López, Ryan Burr and Mike Wright
combined to limit the A’s to four hits. For
more, go to chicagotribune.com
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BASEBALL
AMERICAN LEAGUE
EAST W L PCT GB WCGB L10 STR HOME AWAY
Tampa Bay 72 47 .605 — — 7-3 W-1 36-22 36-25
Boston 69 52 .570 4 — 5-5 L-1 37-24 32-28
New York 67 52 .563 5 1 7-3 W-4 34-25 33-27
Toronto 63 54 .538 8 4 5-5 W-1 31-25 32-29
Baltimore 38 79 .325 33 29 0-10 L-12 17-37 21-42
CENTRAL W L PCT GB WCGB L10 STR HOME AWAY
Chicago 69 50 .580 — — 6-4 W-1 40-22 29-28
Cleveland 57 60 .487 11 10 4-6 L-1 29-27 28-33
Detroit 58 62 .483 11 1/2 10 1/2 6-4 L-1 33-27 25-35
Minnesota 53 66 .445 16 15 7-3 W-3 29-32 24-34
Kansas City 50 67 .427 18 17 3-7 W-1 30-30 20-37
WEST W L PCT GB WCGB L10 STR HOME AWAY
Houston 70 48 .593 — — 5-5 L-2 37-23 33-25
Oakland 68 51 .571 2 1/2 — 7-3 L-2 34-25 34-26
Seattle 63 56 .529 7 1/2 5 5-5 L-1 37-25 26-31
Los Angeles 59 61 .492 12 9 1/2 3-7 L-1 32-30 27-31
Texas 42 76 .356 28 25 1/2 3-7 W-1 28-31 14-45
BOX SCORES
GAME 1: LATE MONDAY:
N.Y. YANKEES 5, BOSTON 3 (7)
Boston AB R H BI SO AVG
Hernandez 2b 2 1 0 0 1 .253
Renfroe cf 4 0 1 0 1 .253
Bogaerts ss 3 0 1 2 2 .309
Devers 3b 3 0 1 0 0 .285
Martinez rf 3 0 0 0 2 .291
Schwarber dh 3 0 1 0 2 .333
Vazquez c 3 1 2 1 0 .256
2-Arauz pr 0 0 0 0 0 .214
Verdugo lf 3 0 1 0 0 .283
Dalbec 1b 2 1 1 0 1 .232
b-Shaw ph 1 0 0 0 0 .000
TOTALS 27 3 8 3 9
NY Yankees AB R H BI SO AVG
LeMahieu 2b 4 0 1 0 1 .270
Gardner cf-lf 2 1 0 0 0 .211
Judge rf 3 1 0 0 2 .286
Gallo dh 3 1 0 0 1 .169
Voit 1b 2 1 1 2 1 .239
Odor 3b 2 1 2 0 0 .226
a-Stanton ph 1 0 1 1 0 .262
1-J.Davis pr-cf 1 0 0 0 1 .063
Sanchez c 3 0 0 0 1 .214
Wade lf-3b 2 0 2 0 0 .273
Velazquez ss 3 0 1 2 1 .158
TOTALS 26 5 8 5 8
Boston 002 010 0 — 3 8 0
N.Y. Yankees 020 030 x — 5 8 0
a-singled for Odor in the 5th. b-lined
out for Dalbec in the 7th. 1-ran for
Stanton in the 5th. 2-ran for Vazquez
in the 7th.
LOB: Boston 5, New York 10.
HR: Vazquez (5), off Montgomery.
RBIs: Bogaerts 2(66), Vazquez (38),
Velazquez 2(2), Voit 2(19), Stanton (57).
Runners left in scoring position: Boston
2(Bogaerts 2, Renfroe 2); New York 6
(LeMahieu, Velazquez 3, J.Davis 2).
RISP: Boston 2for 6; New York 4for 12.
Runners moved up: Renfroe.
BOSTON IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Houck 4 5 2 2 0 2 3.12
Whitlock, L, 4-2 1/3 0 2 2 2 1 1.72
Taylor, BS, 0-1 0 2 1 1 1 0 3.46
Robles 1 1 0 0 2 3 7.11
A.Davis 2/3 0 0 0 1 2 5.68
NY YANKEES IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Montgomery 42/3 5 3 3 2 6 3.77
Abreu, W, 2-0 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 4.07
Loaisiga, S, 5-8 2 3 0 0 0 3 2.37
Taylor pitched to 3batters in the 5th
Inherited runners-scored: Taylor 2-2,
Robles 2-0, A.Davis 2-0, Abreu 1-0.
HBP: Houck (Voit).
Umpires: Home, Jerry Meals; First, Vic
Carapazza; Second, Junior Valentine;
Third, Carlos Torres.
Time: 2:56. A: 39,078 (47,309).
LATE MONDAY:
COLORADO 6, SAN DIEGO 5
San Diego AB R H BI SO AVG
Tatis Jr. rf 4 1 1 0 0 .299
Frazier 2b 4 0 1 0 0 .268
Machado 3b 4 0 2 1 0 .282
Cronenworth ss 3 2 2 0 0 .278
Nola c 4 1 1 0 0 .290
Hosmer 1b 4 0 0 0 2 .277
Myers lf 4 0 2 0 0 .258
Grisham cf 4 1 1 3 1 .258
Weathers p 1 0 0 0 0 .167
Adams p 0 0 0 0 0 ---
a-Pham ph 1 0 0 0 0
Crismatt p 0 0 0 0 0
.243
.000
c-Caratini ph 1 0 0 0 0 .227
Diaz p 0 0 0 0 0 .000
d-Kim ph 1 0 0 0 0 .206
Hudson p 0 0 0 0 0 ---
TOTALS 35 5 10 4 3
Colorado AB R H BI SO AVG
Joe lf 4 2 2 1 0
Rodgers 2b 4 1 1 0 0
.291
.284
Story ss 4 1 1 2 1 .258
Blackmon rf 4 1 1 2 0
Cron 1b 3 1 2 1 1
.270
.263
McMahon 3b 3 0 1 0 1 .265
Diaz c 3 0 1 0 0 .225
Daza cf 3 0 0 0 0 .283
Senzatela p 2 0 0 0 1 .036
b-Hilliard ph 1 0 0 0 1 .206
Estevez p 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Bard p 0 0 0 0 0 ---
TOTALS 31 6 9 6 5
San Diego 010 001 003 — 5 10 0
Colorado 104 000 001 — 6 9 0
One out when winning run scored.
a-grounded out for Adams in the 6th.
b-struck out for Senzatela in the 7th.
c-grounded out for Crismatt in the 8th.
d-lined out for Diaz in the 9th.
LOB: San Diego 4, Colorado 1. 2B:
Cronenworth (27), Tatis Jr. (22), Story
(29).
HR: Grisham (13), off Bard; Joe (7), off
Weathers; Blackmon (8), off Weathers;
Cron (20), off Hudson.
RBIs: Machado (79), Grisham 3(50),
Joe (25), Story 2(56), Blackmon 2(54),
Cron (64).
Runners left in scoring position: San
Diego 0(Nola); Colorado 0(Daza).
RISP: San Diego 2for 8; Colorado 2for 4.
Runners moved up: Nola, Myers.
GIDP: Grisham, Nola, Myers, McMahon,
Daza.
DP: San Diego 3(Frazier, Cronen-
worth, Hosmer; Frazier, Cronenworth,
Hosmer; Machado, Cronenworth,
Hosmer); Colorado 3(Story, Rodgers,
Cron; Rodgers, Story, Cron; Rodgers,
Story, Cron).
SAN DIEGO IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Weathers 4 8 5 5 0 3 5.06
Adams
Crismatt
1 0 0 0 0 1 2.81
2 0 0 0 1 1 3.14
Diaz
Hudson, L, 0-1
1 0 0 0 0 0 2.61
1/3 1 1 1 0 0 7.71
COLORADO IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Senzatela 7 6 2 2 1 2 4.58
Estevez, H, 13 1 1 0 0 0 0 4.57
Bard, W, 6-5 1 3 3 3 0 1 4.53
WP: Senzatela.
Umpires: Home, Adam Hamari; First,
Marvin Hudson; Second, Dave Rackley;
Third, Larry Vanover.
Time: 2:32.
A: 24,565(50,445).
ON THIS DATE
AUG. 18
1915: Boston opened Braves Field with
a 3-1 victory over the Cardinals.
1931: New York’s Lou Gehrig played in
his 1,000th consecutive game. Gehrig
went hitless in the 5-4 loss to Detroit.
1948: Brooklyn’s Rex Barney pitched
a one-hitter for a 1-0 win over Robin
Roberts and the Phillies at Shibe Park.
2007: Micah Owings went 4-for-5,
including a pair of mammoth homers,
drove in six runs and scored four times
while pitching three-hit ball through
seven innings as the Arizona Diamond-
backs beat the Atlanta Braves 12-6.
2011: Mike Jacobs became the first
player suspended by Major League
Baseball for a positive HGH test under
TAMPA BAY 9, BALTIMORE 2
Baltimore AB R H BI SO AVG
Mullins cf 3 1 1 1 0 .318
Mancini 1b 4 0 1 1 0 .253
1-MFranco pr-1b
0 0 0 0 0 .213
Santander dh 4 0 0 0 0 .245
Hays rf 3 0 0 0 1 .240
Stewart lf 3 0 0 0 1 .201
Urias 3b 3 0 1 0 1 .268
Mateo 2b 4 1 2 0 1 .308
Wynns c 4 0 1 0 0 .179
Martin ss 4 0 1 0 1 .233
TOTALS 32 2 7 2 5
Tampa Bay AB R H BI SO AVG
Lowe 2b 4 2 3 3 0 .233
Choi 1b 2 2 1 0 0 .241
a-Luplow ph-1b
1 0 0 0 0 .125
Margot lf 5 1 1 0 0 .254
Meadows dh 4 0 1 2 1 .233
Wendle ss 4 0 1 1 3 .273
Brosseau 3b 4 1 1 1 0 .187
Phillips rf 4 1 2 1 1 .217
Kiermaier cf 4 1 1 1 1 .242
Mejia c 4 1 1 0 1 .259
TOTALS 36 9 12 9 7
Baltimore 001 000 010 — 2 7 0
Tampa Bay 000 233 10x — 9 12 0
a-flied out for Choi in the 8th.
1-ran for Mancini in the 8th.
LOB: Baltimore 7, Tampa Bay 7.
2B: Mateo (5), Mancini (26), Wendle
(25). 3B: Meadows (2).
HR: Kiermaier (4), off Harvey; Lowe
(27), off Harvey; Phillips (10), off Fry;
Lowe (28), off Fry; Brosseau (5), off
Abad.
RBIs: Mullins (41), Mancini (62), Mead-
ows 2(79), Kiermaier (28), Lowe 3(68),
Wendle (40), Phillips (35), Brosseau
(18).
S: Mullins.
Runners left in scoring position: Balti-
more 4(Mancini, Wynns, Stewart,
Martin); Tampa Bay 2(Brosseau 2).
RISP: Baltimore 1for 9; Tampa Bay 2for
5. Runners moved up: Martin, Wynns.
GIDP: Wynns. DP: Tampa Bay 1(Wendle,
Lowe, Luplow).
BALTIMORE IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Harvey, L, 6-12 42/3 5 5 5 1 6 6.25
Fry 2/3 4 3 3 2 0 5.44
Sulser 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 2.86
Abad 2 3 1 1 0 1 15.43
TAMPA BAY IP H R ER BB SO ERA
McHugh 2 0 0 0 0 1 1.35
Fleming, W, 10-6 52/3 6 2 2 1 2 4.86
Head 11/3 1 0 0 1 2 1.85
Inherited runners-scored: Fry 1-1,
Sulser 1-0, Head 2-0.
HBP: Harvey (Lowe), Fleming (Stew-
art).
Umpires: Home, Adrian Johnson; First,
Brian Gorman; Second, Jeremy Riggs;
Third, James Hoye.
Time: 2:53.
A: 5,460(25,000).
LATE MONDAY:
CHI. WHITE SOX 5, OAKLAND 2
Oakland AB R H BI SO AVG
Canha lf 5 0 2 1 1 .246
Marte cf 4 0 0 0 1 .361
Olson 1b 3 0 0 0 1 .281
Gomes c 4 0 0 0 1 .219
Lowrie dh 4 0 2 0 1 .262
1-Kemp pr-dh 0 0 0 0 0
Chapman 3b 4 1 1 1 2
.252
.224
Harrison 2b 2 1 0 0 1 .276
Piscotty rf 1 0 0 0 0
a-Brown ph-rf 2 0 0 0 1
.212
.207
Machin ss 2 0 1 0 1 .107
b-Moreland ph 1 0 0 0 1 .233
TOTALS 32 2 6 2 11
White Sox AB R H BI SO AVG
Anderson ss 5 1 2 0 1 .301
Hernandez 2b 2 0 1 1 0 .246
Abreu 1b 4 0 0 0 3
Jimenez lf 4 0 1 1 1
.255
.328
Moncada 3b 3 0 1 0 2 .251
Vaughn dh 4 0 0 0 1
Robert cf 4 3 3 1 1
.260
.328
Goodwin rf 2 0 0 0 0 .230
Zavala c 3 1 2 2 0 .230
TOTALS 31 5 10 5 9
Oakland 020 000 000 — 2 6 1
Chi White Sox 001 111 01x — 5 10 0
a-flied out for Piscotty in the 6th.
b-struck out for Machin in the 9th.
1-ran for Lowrie in the 8th.
E: Machin (2).
LOB: Oakland 8, Chicago 8. 2B: Lowrie
(21).
HR: Chapman (18), off Keuchel; Robert
(3), off Guerra.
RBIs: Chapman (56), Canha (42),
Hernandez (4), Zavala 2(13), Jimenez
(20), Robert (12).
SB: Hernandez (1), Robert (5), Goodwin
(1). CS: Robert (1). SF: Hernandez.
S: Zavala.
Runners left in scoring position:
Oakland 6(Gomes, Olson 2, Harrison 3);
Chicago 4(Jimenez, Vaughn, Moncada,
Anderson). RISP: Oakland 1for 7;
Chicago 2for 9. Runners moved up:
Olson, Chapman, Goodwin.
GIDP: Canha, Vaughn. DP: Oakland 1
(Machin, Harrison, Olson); Chicago 1
(Hernandez, Abreu).
OAKLAND IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Montas, L, 9-9 5 8 3 3 3 6 4.04
Petit
Puk
1 1 1 1 0 0 3.28
1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00
Guerra 1 1 1 1 0 1 3.83
WHITE SOX IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Keuchel, W, 8-6 5 5 2 2 2 2 4.48
Kopech, H, 13 2 0 0 0 1 3 2.42
Kimbrel, H, 2 1 1 0 0 0 3 4.70
Hendriks, S, 27-33
1 0 0 0 0 3 3.35
HBP: Keuchel (Harrison), Kimbrel
(Olson), Guerra (Goodwin). WP: Puk.
PB: Zavala (7).
Umpires: Home, Ron Kulpa; First, Nic
Lentz; Second, Nick Mahrley; Third,
Bruce Dreckman.
T: 3:16. A: 19,410 (40,615).
the sport’s minor league drug testing
procedures. The 30-year-old minor
league first baseman, who was in the
big leagues from 2005-10, received
a 50-game suspension for taking
the banned performance-enhanc-
ing substance and was subsequently
released by the Rockies.
2017: Manny Machado capped a
three-homer night with a grand slam in
the bottom of the ninth inning, and the
Orioles rallied past the L.A. Angels 9-7
in a game that featured 10 home runs.
2018: Mets ace Jacob deGrom pitched
his first complete game of the season
and lowered his major league-lead-
ing ERA to 1.71 with a 3-1 win over the
Phillies.
LATE MONDAY:
N.Y. YANKEES 2, L.A. ANGELS 1
LA Angels AB R H BI SO AVG
Ohtani dh 4 0 0 0 2 .269
Fletcher 2b 4 0 0 0 1 .299
Upton lf 4 1 1 1 2 .224
Walsh 1b 4 0 1 0 3 .264
Gosselin 3b 4 0 1 0 1 .272
J.Iglesias ss 3 0 0 0 0 .267
Marsh cf 2 0 0 0 2 .205
Stassi c 3 0 0 0 2 .279
Adell rf 3 0 0 0 2 .234
TOTALS 31 1 3 1 15
NY Yamkees AB R H BI SO AVG
LeMahieu 2b-1b
2 0 0 0 0 .270
Judge dh 3 1 2 0 0 .288
Gallo lf-rf 3 1 1 2 2 .177
Stanton rf 4 0 1 0 2 .260
Gardner lf 0 0 0 0 0 .212
Voit 1b 3 0 1 0 0 .236
Wade 3b 0 0 0 0 0 .258
Odor 3b-2b 2 0 0 0 1 .220
Higashioka c 3 0 0 0 1 .165
Davis cf 3 0 0 0 2 .067
Velazquez ss 3 0 0 0 1 .125
TOTALS 26 2 5 2 9
LA Angels 100 000 000 — 1 3 0
NY Yankees 200 000 00x — 2 5 1
E: Odor (12).
LOB: Los Angeles 4, New York 5.
HR: Upton (16), off Cole; Gallo (4), off
Suarez.
RBIs: Upton (37), Gallo 2(8). CS:
LeMahieu (1).
Runners left in scoring position: Los
Angeles 1(Stassi); New York 1(Voit
2, Stanton).RISP: Los Angeles 0for 2;
New York 0for 4. Runners moved up:
J.Iglesias.
GIDP: Voit.
DP: Los Angeles 2(J.Iglesias, Fletcher,
Walsh; Gosselin, Fletcher, Walsh).
LA ANGELS IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Suarez, L, 5-6 5 4 2 2 3 6 3.88
Cishek 2 0 0 0 1 2 3.42
Quijada 2/3 1 0 0 1 1 4.35
Guerra 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 5.37
NY YANKEES IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Cole, W, 11-6 52/3 2 1 1 1 9 3.04
Britton, H, 9 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 6.06
Abreu, H, 1 12/3 0 0 0 0 2 4.12
Rodriguez, H, 2 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 2.70
Green, S, 4-8 1 1 0 0 0 2 3.08
Pitches-Strikes: Suarez 82-46; Cishek
21-13; Quijada 18-8; Guerra 4-3; Cole
90-59; Britton 4-3; Abreu 15-14; Rodrí-
guez 5-3; Green 17-10
Ground Balls-Fly Balls: Suarez 8-2;
Cishek 1-2; Quijada 0-0; Guerra 0-1;
Cole 6-3; Britton 0-0; Abreu 2-1; Rodrí-
guez 0-0; Green 2-0.
Batters Faced: Suarez 21; Cishek 6;
Quijada 3; Guerra 1; Cole 21; Britton 1;
Abreu 5; Rodríguez 1; Green 4.
Inherited runners-scored: Cishek 3-0,
Guerra 1-0, Britton 1-0.
Umpires: Home, Junior Valentine; First,
Jerry Meals; Second, Jansen Visconti;
Third, Vic Carapazza.
T: 2:49.
A: 37,010(47,309).
LATE MONDAY:
CINCINNATI 14, CHICAGO CUBS 5
Chi Cubs AB R H BI SO AVG
Duffy 3b
Schwindel 1b
5 1 2 0 0
5 1 2 0 0
.258
.373
Wisdom lf 4 0 0 0 3 .255
Bote 2b 4 0 1 0 1 .198
Chirinos c 3 1 1 2 0 .286
Heyward rf 4 1 1 1 1 .199
Fargas cf 3 0 0 0 3 .269
Winkler p 0 0 0 0 0
Jewell p 0 0 0 0 0
.000
.000
c-Happ ph 1 0 1 2 0 .179
Meisinger p 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Alcantara ss 3 0 1 0 0 .192
Steele p 1 0 0 0 1 .000
a-Romine ph 1 0 0 0 0 .231
Rucker p 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Ortega cf 2 1 1 0 0 .329
TOTALS 36 5 10 5 9
Cincinnati AB R H BI SO AVG
India 2b
Castellanos rf
6 2 3 5 1
4 1 2 0 1
.283
.317
Akiyama rf 0 0 0 0 0 .221
Votto 1b 4 1 3 1 1
1-Stphnsn pr-1b 0 0 0 0 0
.284
.291
Farmer ss 5 1 1 1 3 .261
Hembree p 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Hoffman p 0 0 0 0 0 .143
Suarez 3b 3 2 0 0 2 .172
Aquino lf 4 3 2 3 0 .216
Naquin cf 3 1 1 1 0
Barnhart c 4 1 2 3 1
.251
.268
Miley p 3 1 0 0 1 .156
b-Barrero ph-ss
TOTALS
1 1 0 0 0
37 14 14 14 10
.000
Chi Cubs 000 000 050 — 5 10 0
Cincinnati 000 220 82x — 14 14 0
a-grounded out for Steele in the 5th.
b-walked for Miley in the 7th.
c-doubled for Jewell in the 8th.
1-ran for Votto in the 7th.
LOB: Chicago 6, Cincinnati 8.
2B: Schwindel (6), Heyward (13), Happ
(11), Barnhart (20), Farmer (16), India
(21).
HR: India (16), off Steele; Aquino (8),
off Rucker; Barnhart (7), off Meisinger.
RBIs: Chirinos 2(7), Heyward (23),
Happ 2(32), India 5(55), Aquino 3(17),
Farmer (44), Naquin (62), Barnhart 3
(40), Votto (76).
SF: Barnhart.
Runners left in scoring position:
Chicago 3(Bote, Schwindel, Alcan-
tara 2); Cincinnati 4(Suarez 2, India,
Aquino).
RISP: Chicago 4for 13; Cincinnati 4
for 13.
GIDP: Schwindel.
DP: Cincinnati 1(Suarez, India, Votto).
CHI CUBS IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Steele, L, 2-2
Rucker
4 5 2 2 3 5 3.22
2 4 6 6 2 4 9.26
Winkler 1/3 2 4 3 3 0 5.22
Jewell 2/3 1 0 0 0 1 7.88
Meisinger 1 2 2 2 0 0 14.73
CINCINNATI IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Miley, W, 10-4 7 4 0 0 1 7 2.84
Hembree 2/3 5 5 5 0 2 6.38
Hoffman 11/3 1 0 0 0 0 4.31
Pitches-Strikes: Steele 82-51; Rucker
53-32; Winkler 28-15; Jewell 13-8;
Meisinger 28-18; Miley 97-65; Hembree
30-21; Hoffman 23-12.
Ground Balls-Fly Balls: Steele 5-4;
Rucker 3-2; Winkler 1-0; Jewell 0-2;
Meisinger 2-2; Miley 10-4; Hembree
0-0; Hoffman 2-2.
Batters Faced: Steele 20; Rucker 12;
Winkler 6; Jewell 3; Meisinger 5; Miley
26; Hembree 7; Hoffman 5.
Inherited runners-scored: Winkler 3-3,
Jewell 2-1, Hoffman 2-2.
HBP: Miley (Chirinos). PB: Chirinos (2).
T: 3:37.
A: 15,404(42,319).
NATIONAL LEAGUE
EAST W L PCT GB WCGB L10 STR HOME AWAY
Atlanta 63 56 .529 — — 8-2 W-4 31-29 32-27
Philadelphia 61 57 .517 1 1/2 4 1/2 6-4 L-1 36-25 25-32
New York 59 59 .500 3 1/2 6 1/2 3-7 L-4 36-23 23-36
Miami 51 68 .429 12 15 4-6 L-1 30-28 21-40
Washington 50 68 .424 12 1/2 15 1/2 1-9 L-7 29-33 21-35
CENTRAL W L PCT GB WCGB L10 STR HOME AWAY
Milwaukee 72 47 .605 — — 7-3 W-2 32-27 40-20
Cincinnati 65 55 .542 7 1/2 1 1/2 6-4 W-2 32-27 33-28
St. Louis 61 56 .521 10 4 8-2 W-6 32-25 29-31
Chicago 52 69 .430 21 15 0-10 L-12 31-28 21-41
Pittsburgh 42 77 .353 30 24 1-9 L-3 24-35 18-42
WEST W L PCT GB WCGB L10 STR HOME AWAY
San Francisco 77 42 .647 — — 8-2 W-2 41-18 36-24
Los Angeles 73 46 .613 4 — 8-2 W-4 37-20 36-26
San Diego 67 54 .554 11 — 5-5 L-1 40-24 27-30
Colorado 53 66 .445 24 13 5-5 W-1 39-21 14-45
Arizona 38 81 .319 39 28 4-6 L-1 24-36 14-45
TODAY’S PITCHING COMPARISON
LATE MONDAY: INTERLEAGUE 2021 2020 VS OPP LAST 3 STARTS
ATLANTA 12, MIAMI 2 TM PITCHER TIME W-L ERA TR W-L IP ERA W-L IP ERA
Atlanta AB R H BI SO AVG Tor Berríos (R) 8-6 3.52 12-11 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-1 16.1 3.86
Was Gray (R) 3:05p 0-1 4.12 2-2 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-1 16.0 2.81
Albies 2b 5 2 3 3 1 .263
Soler rf 5 0 2 0 1 .250
Freeman 1b 4 1 3 3 1 .294
AMERICAN LEAGUE 2021 2020 VS OPP LAST 3 STARTS
a-Adrianza ph-3b
1 0 0 0 0 .243 TM PITCHER TIME W-L ERA TR W-L IP ERA W-L IP ERA
Riley 3b-1b 4 1 1 0 3 .292 Cle Plesac (R) 7-4 4.64 10-7 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 0.00
Swanson ss 6 2 2 2 0 .265 Min TBD 12:10p 0-0 0.00 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 0.00
Duvall lf 5 2 1 2 1 .229 Bos Pivetta (R) 9-5 4.20 15-8 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-1 16.2 2.16
d’Arnaud c 5 1 2 2 1 .230 NYY Heaney (L) 6:05p 7-8 5.78 9-12 1-0 5.1 5.06 1-1 15.0 9.00
Heredia cf 2 2 0 0 0 .235
Bal Watkins (R) 2-4 5.25 2-5 1-1 12.0 3.75 0-3 15.2 8.04
Toussaint p 3 1 0 0 3 .000
TB McClanahan (L) 6:10p 7-4 3.73 11-7 2-0 12.0 3.00 3-0 18.1 2.95
Santana p 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Webb p 0 0 0 0 0 .000 LAA Ohtani (R) 7-1 2.94 11-6 1-0 6.0 1.50 3-0 19.0 1.89
TOTALS 40 12 14 12 11 Det Skubal (L) 6:10p 8-10 4.10 10-11 0-0 0.0 0.00 2-1 16.2 2.16
Miami AB R H BI SO AVG Sea Gonzales (L) 4-5 4.35 8-8 1-1 18.1 4.42 1-0 21.2 0.83
Chisholm Jr. ss 4 1 1 1 1 .254 Tex Foltynewicz (R) 7:05p 2-11 5.66 7-16 0-3 32.2 4.13 0-1 18.0 3.00
Aguilar 1b 4 0 1 0 1 .269 Hou Greinke (R) 11-3 3.51 16-8 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 0.00
Brinson cf-lf 3 0 0 0 0 .276 KC Singer (R) 7:10p 3-8 5.42 6-14 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-2 11.2 10.03
Sanchez rf 3 0 0 0 1 .256
Guzman p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Oak Irvin (L) 8-11 3.52 11-12 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-2 18.1 2.95
Okert p 0 0 0 0 0 .000 ChW Lynn (R) 7:10p 10-3 2.26 13-8 2-0 19.1 1.86 0-0 16.0 4.50
Detwiler p 0 0 0 0 0 .333
b-Leon ph 1 0 0 0 0 .181 NATIONAL LEAGUE 2021 2020 VS OPP LAST 3 STARTS
Anderson 3b 4 0 0 0 1 .244 TM PITCHER TIME W-L ERA TR W-L IP ERA W-L IP ERA
Alfaro c 2 0 0 0 2 .235 ChC TBD 0-0 0.00 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 0.00
Guenther p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Cin Mahle (R) 11:35a 10-3 3.58 16-8 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 0.00
Sierra cf 1 0 0 0 0 .239
SD Arrieta (R) 5-11 6.88 6-14 0-0 4.0 9.00 0-2 12.0 10.50
Diaz 2b 3 1 1 1 0 .194
Col Gomber (L) 2:10p 9-7 4.09 10-10 1-1 20.1 2.21 1-2 11.0 7.36
De La Cruz lf-rf
3 0 1 0 1 .300
Garrett p 1 0 0 0 1 .182 NYM Megill (R) 1-2 3.42 6-4 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 0.00
Campbell p 0 0 0 0 0 .000 SF DeSclafani (R) 2:45p 11-5 3.29 16-7 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-1 12.0 7.50
A.Jackson c 2 0 0 0 2 .154
Atl Morton (R) 11-4 3.49 13-11 1-1 22.1 5.24 1-1 18.0 2.00
TOTALS 31 2 4 2 10
Mia Luzardo (L) 6:10p 4-5 7.52 5-4 0-0 0.0 0.00 2-1 14.2 9.20
Atlanta 100 702 200 — 12 14 0 Mil Peralta (R) 9-3 2.26 15-6 0-0 7.0 0.00 2-0 17.1 2.08
Miami 110 000 000 — 2 4 0 StL Flaherty (R) 6:45p 9-1 2.65 10-2 1-0 6.0 0.00 1-1 14.2 3.07
a-popped out for Freeman in the 8th. Phi Suárez (L) 5-3 1.07 3-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 10.0 0.90
b-flied out for Detwiler in the 9th. Ari TBD 8:40p 0-0 0.00 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 0.00
LOB: Atlanta 13, Miami 4.
2B: d’Arnaud 2(6), Riley (22), Soler 2(3). Pit Brubaker (R) 4-12 5.13 5-16 0-1 4.2 5.79 0-2 16.0 7.88
HR: Freeman (26), off Campbell; Duvall LAD TBD 9:10p 0-0 0.00 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 0.00
(22), off Campbell; Chisholm Jr. (13), TR: Team’s record in games started by today’s pitcher.
off Toussaint; Diaz (4), off Toussaint. Vs. Opp: Pitcher’s record versus this opponent.
RBIs: Swanson 2(72), Albies 3(83), Free-
man 3(68), Duvall 2(68), d’Arnaud 2(14),
RESULTS, SCHEDULE
Chisholm Jr. (38), Diaz (15).
S: Toussaint.
Runners left in scoring position: AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE
Atlanta 7(Duvall, Soler, d’Arnaud, TUESDAY’S RESULTS TUESDAY’S RESULTS
G1: N.Y. Yankees 5, Boston 3 (7) Toronto at Washington, late
Swanson 2, Toussaint, Riley); Miami 2
(Sanchez, A.Jackson). G2: Boston at N.Y. Yankees, late Atlanta at Miami, late
RISP: Atlanta 8for 22; Miami 1for 3. Toronto at Washington, late Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, late
Baltimore at Tampa Bay, late. Milwaukee at St. Louis, late
Runners moved up: Diaz.
L.A. Angels at Detroit, latem. San Diego at Colorado, late
Seattle at Texas, late. Philadelphia at Arizona, late
ATLANTA IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Cleveland at Minnesota, late N.Y. Mets at San Francisco, late
Toussaint, W, 2-2 61/3 3 2 2 2 7 4.01 Houston at Kansas City, late Pittsburgh at L.A. Dodgers, late
Santana 12/3 1 0 0 0 2 3.41
Oakland at Chi. White Sox,late.
Webb 1 0 0 0 0 1 4.29
MIAMI IP H R ER BB SO ERA THURSDAY’S GAMES THURSDAY’S GAMES
Garrett, L, 1-2 3 3 3 3 6 2 5.03 Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 12:10p.m. Philadelphia at Arizona, 2:40p.m.
Campbell 1 5 5 5 0 2 8.47 L.A. Angels at Detroit, 12:10p.m. Miami at Cincinnati, 6:10p.m.
Guenther 2 3 2 2 3 1 9.53
Seattle at Texas, 1:05p.m. Milwaukee at St. Louis, 6:45p.m.
Guzman 1 2 2 2 2 3
18.00
Okert 1 1 0 0 0 2 2.41 Houston at Kansas City, 1:10p.m. N.Y. Mets at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10p.m.
Detwiler 1 0 0 0 0 1 5.49 Oakland at Chi. White Sox, 1:10p.m.
Inherited runners-scored: Santana 1-0, Minnesota at N.Y. Yankees, 6:05p.m.
Campbell 2-2. MONDAY’S RESULTS
WP: Okert. PB: Alfaro (13). MONDAY’S RESULTS Atlanta 12, Miami 2
Umpires: Home, Stu Scheuwater; First, N.Y. Yankees 2, L.A. Angels 1 Cincinnati 14, Chi. Cubs 5
Roberto Ortiz; Second, Chad Fairchild; Tampa Bay 9, Baltimore 2 Colorado 6, San Diego 5
Third, CB Bucknor. Kansas City 7, Houston 6 L.A. Dodgers 2, Pittsburgh 1
T: 3:28. A: 6,442 (36,742). Chi. White Sox 5, Oakland 2 San Francisco 7, N.Y. Mets 5
Minnesota 5, Cleveland 4 (10)
LATE MONDAY:
SAN FRANCISCO 7, N.Y. METS 5 AROUND THE HORN
NY Mets AB R H BI SO AVG
Nimmo cf 4 1 1 0 1 .280 „„Pirates: A former Pirates the game batting .231 with
Conforto rf 4 1 0 0 2 .217 reliever was sentenced three HRs and 28 RBIs in 113
Alonso 1b 4 1 1 2 1
Smith lf 4 0 0 1 1
.250
.251
Tuesday to at least two games. INF Vimael Machín
McNeil 2b 5 0 0 0 1 .255 years behind bars for statu- was optioned to Triple-A
Davis 3b
Villar ss
4 1 3 0 0
4 1 2 2 2
.308
.249
tory sexual assault and child Las Vegas.
McCann c 4 0 2 0 2 .240 pornography, among other „„Dodgers: LHP Cole
Hill p 2 0 0 0 2 .000 charges, in a case involving Hamels was place on the
Castro p 0 0 0 0 0 ---
e-Blankenhorn 1 0 0 0 0 .211 a girl who was 13 when the 60-day IL on Monday, effec-
Familia p 0 0 0 0 0 --- encounters began. Felipe tively ending his season
Loup p
May p
0 0 0 0 0 ---
0 0 0 0 0 ---
Vazquez, 30, was sentenced before he ever pitched for
g-Drury ph 1 0 1 0 0 .307 to two to four years. He the defending World Series
Lugo p
TOTALS
0 0 0 0 0
37 5 10 5 12
.000 has already served almost champions. The 37-year-
San Fran. AB R H BI SO AVG two years in jail and will be old signed a one-year,
Slater cf 2 0 0 0 1 .232 eligible for a parole hearing $3.05 million deal with the
c-Dickerson ph 1 1 1 0 0 .234 one month after arriving Dodgers on Aug. 4. The four-
Jackson p 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Alvarez p 0 0 0 0 0 .000 in prison, according to the time All-Star was expected
Watson p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. to add depth to a pitching
f-Belt ph-1b 2 1 1 1 0
Bryant rf-lf 4 2 2 3 0
.248
.321
Vazquez was arrested in staff that’s been ravaged by
Posey c 4 1 1 0 1 .330 September 2019 and is injuries and is minus reign-
Ruf lf 2 0 1 1 0
d-Wade Jr. ph-rf
2 0 0 0 1
.270
.249
facing related charges in ing NL Cy Young Award
Longoria 3b 3 2 1 0 2 .278 Florida and Missouri. winner Trevor Bauer, who’s
Crawford ss 4 0 4 1 0 .306 „„Yankees: Catcher Gary on paid administrative
Flores 1b 4 0 2 1 0 .251
Rogers p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Sanchez and LHP Jordan leave as authorities inves-
McGee p 0 0 0 0 0 --- Montgomery were acti- tigate allegations of sexual
Solano 2b 1 0 0 0 0
a-La Stella 2b 3 0 0 0 1
.275
.248
vated from the COVID-19 misconduct. Hamels will
Gausman p 1 0 0 0 0 .211 list on Tuesday and started earn about $1 million from
b-Yastrzemskicf
TOTALS
3 0 0 0 0
36 7 13 7 6
.221 the Yankees’ 5-3 win over the deal. Manager Dave
the visiting Red Sox in the Roberts said Hamels was
N.Y. Mets 000 030 020 — 5 10 0 first game of a doubleheader. building up in Arizona when
San Francisco 000 220 30x — 7 13 1 Montgomery (4-5, 3.77 ERA) his arm “didn’t respond
a-lined out for Solano in the 4th. allowed three earned runs well,” although he wasn’t
b-grounded out for Gausman in the 5th.
c-doubled for Slater in the 5th. d-struck
and struck out six over 4 sure whether it occurred
out for Ruf in the 5th. e-flied out for 2/3 innings but didn’t factor during a bullpen session
Castro in the 6th. f-homered for Watson into the decision. Sanchez, or throwing to hitters.
in the 7th. g-singled for May in the 8th.
E: Crawford (7). LOB: New York 9, San hitting seventh in the lineup, Roberts didn’t elaborate on
Francisco 6. went 0-for-3 with a strike- the specific injury. Hamels
2B: Posey (14), Dickerson (8). 3B:
Alonso (1), Crawford (2).
out. For the season, he’s was limited to one start last
HR: Villar (14), off Rogers; Bryant (2), batting .214 with 17 HRs and season with the Braves due
off Castro; Belt (16), off May; Bryant
(3), off May.
39 RBIs in 85 games. to shoulder inflammation
RBIs: Alonso 2(67), Smith (52), Villar 2 „„Nationals: RHP Joe and arm fatigue. He went 3
Ross will miss the rest of 1/3 innings on Sept. 16 against
(31), Ruf (32), Flores (44), Bryant 3(8),
Belt (36), Crawford (70).
SB: Villar (10). SF: Smith. the season but won’t need the Orioles and allowed
Runners left in scoring position: New surgery for his partially torn three earned runs. Hamels,
York 4(Smith 2, Hill, Conforto); San
Francisco 3(La Stella, Yastrzemski,
ulnar collateral ligament at the 2008 World Series
Flores). this time, Nats manager and NLCS MVP with the
RISP: New York 1for 7; San Francisco 3
for 7. Runners moved up: Alonso.
Dave Martinez announced. Phillies, has spent 15 seasons
Ross will rest his injury and in the majors. He has a
NY METS IP H R ER BB SO ERA “go through some extensive career record of 163-122
Hill
Castro, L, 3-4
32/3 6 2 2 0 2 4.98
11/3 2 2 2 0 2 3.38
rehab” with the hope he can with a 3.43 ERA and 2,560
Familia 2/3 2 0 0 0 2 3.89 return to pitch in the spring, strikeouts in 423 games. In
Loup
May
1/3 0 0 0 0 0 1.17
1 3 3 3 1 0 4.17 Martinez said. Ross (5-9, 4.17 his last full season in 2019
Lugo 1 0 0 0 0 0 3.30
ERA), 28, had Tommy John with the Cubs, he went 7-7
SAN FRAN.
Gausman, W, 12-5
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
5 5 3 3 2 7 2.40
surgery in 2017. with a 3.81 ERA. “We’re
Jackson, H, 3 1/3 2 0 0 0 0 3.68 „„Athletics: SS Elvis just sad for Cole because he
Andrus was reinstated from did everything he could to
Alvarez, H, 4 2/3 0 0 0 0 1 2.33
Watson, H, 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
Rogers 1 3 2 2 0 2 2.05
McGee, S, 26-29 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.66 the paternity list and was put himself in a position to
Inherited runners-scored: Castro 2-0, in the starting lineup for get back on a major league
Loup 2-0, Alvarez 2-0.
HBP: Gausman (Alonso). Athletics’ game against the team and pitch major league
Umpires: Home, Dan Iassogna; First, White Sox in Chicago. He innings,” Roberts said.
Jeremie Rehak; Second, Scott Barry;
Third, John Libka.
was placed on the paternity “Unfortunately, it didn’t
T: 3:23. A: 23,511(41,915). list Saturday. Andrus entered happen.”

SCOREBOARD
SOCCER
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER
EASTERN W L T PT GF GA
New England 13 3 4 43 37 23
New York City FC 9 5 4 31 34 18
Nashville 7 2 10 31 31 19
Orlando City 8 4 6 30 28 23
Philadelphia 7 5 7 28 25 19
D.C. United 8 8 3 27 29 26
CF Montréal 7 7 5 26 26 25
Columbus 6 7 6 24 21 24
Atlanta 4 6 9 21 22 25
Chicago 5 9 5 20 21 29
New York 5 9 4 19 22 24
Inter Miami CF 4 9 4 16 15 28
Cincinnati 3 7 7 16 18 30
Toronto FC 3 10 6 15 24 40
WESTERN W L T PT GF GA
Sporting KC 11 4 4 37 35 20
Seattle 10 3 6 36 32 16
LA Galaxy 11 6 2 35 30 28
Colorado 9 4 4 31 25 17
Minnesota United 7 6 5 26 21 22
Real Salt Lake 6 6 6 24 27 20
Portland 7 9 2 23 25 35
Los Angeles FC 6 8 5 23 24 26
San Jose 5 7 7 22 21 27
FC Dallas 5 8 6 21 23 27
Houston 3 7 9 18 20 28
Vancouver 3 7 8 17 19 28
Austin FC 4 10 4 16 13 21
Three points for win, one point for tie.
TUESDAY’S RESULTS
Colorado at LA Galaxy, late
Minnesota at San Jose, late
WEDNESDAY’S MATCHES
D.C. United at New England, 6p.m.
Toronto FC at Atlanta, 6p.m.
CF Montréal at Cincinnati, 6:30p.m.
N.Y. City FC at Philadelphia, 6:30p.m.
Chicago at Miami, 6:30p.m.
Columbus at New York, 7p.m.
Orlando City at Nashville, 7:30p.m.
Portland at Sporting KC, 7:30p.m.
Seattle at FC Dallas, 7:30p.m.
Vancouver at Austin FC, 8p.m.
Houston at Real Salt Lake, 9p.m.
NWSL
CLUB W L T PT GF GA
Portland 9 3 2 29 21 8
North Carolina 7 4 3 24 18 9
Gotham FC 5 2 6 21 14 9
Orlando 5 4 6 21 18 17
Chicago 6 7 2 20 15 21
Washington
Reign FC
5 5 4 19 17 17
6 7 1 19 17 15
Houston
Louisville
5 6 3 18 17 20
4 6 3 15 11 19
Kansas City 1 9 4 7 7 20
WEDNESDAY’S MATCH
Chicago at Louisville, 6:30p.m.
SATURDAY’S MATCHES
Kansas City at North Carolina, 6p.m.
Gotham FC at Reign FC, 9p.m.
SUNDAY’S MATCH
Orlando at Washington, 4p.m.
ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE
CLUB GP W D L GF GA PT
Man United
Chelsea
1 1 0 0 5 1
1 1 0 0 3 0
3
3 Connecticut 16 6 .727 —
Liverpool 1 1 0 0 3 0 3
West Ham
Everton
1 1 0 0 4 2
1 1 0 0 3 1
3
3
Brentford 1 1 0 0 2 0 3
Watford 1 1 0 0 3 2 3
Brighton 1 1 0 0 2 1 3
Leicester 1 1 0 0 1 0 3
Tottenham 1 1 0 0 1 0 3
Aston Villa
Burnley
1 0 0 1 2 3
1 0 0 1 1 2
0
0 Minnesota 13 8 .619 21/2
ch-Man City 1 0 0 1 0 1 0
Wolverhampton 1 0 0 1 0 1
Newcastle 1 0 0 1 2 4
0
0 Los Angeles 7 13 .350 8
Southampton 1 0 0 1 1 3 0
Arsenal 1 0 0 1 0 2 0
Crystal Palace 1 0 0 1 0 3 0
Norwich 1 0 0 1 0 3 0
Leeds 1 0 0 1 1 5 0
ch - clinched championship
SATURDAY’S MATCHES
Liverpool vs. Burnley, 6:30a.m.
Aston Villa vs. Newcastle, 9a.m.
Crystal Palace vs. Brentford, 9a.m.
Leeds vs. Everton, 9a.m.
Man City vs. Norwich, 9a.m.
Brighton vs. Watford, 11:30a.m.
SUNDAY’S MATCHES
Southampton vs. Man United, 8a.m.
Wolverhampton vs. Tottenham, 8a.m.
Arsenal vs. Chelsea, 10:30a.m.
MONDAY’S MATCH
West Ham U. vs. Leicester City, 2p.m.
TENNIS
WESTERN & SOUTHERN OPEN
Tuesday at Lindner Family Tennis
Center; Cincinnati; outdoors-hardcourt
MEN’S SINGLES, ROUND OF 64
#9 Hubert Hurkacz d. Alejandro
Davidovich Fokina, 6-1, 6-7 (3), 6-1.
Grigor Dimitrov d.
#13 Roberto Bautista Agut, 6-3, 6-4.
Sebastian Korda d. Laslo Djere, 6-4, 6-4.
Alexander Bublik d. Marcos Giron,
3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5).
Marin Cilic d. Aslan Karatsev, 7-5, 6-3.
John Isner d. Cam Norrie, 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4.
Lorenzo Sonego d. Carlos Alcaraz,
6-3, 7-6 (6).
Reilly Opelka vs. Corentin Moutet, late
MEN’S SINGLES, ROUND OF 32
#3 Alexander Zverev vs. Lloyd Harris,
late
#6 Denis Shapovalov vs. Benoit Paire,
late
#16 Cristian Garin vs. Tommy Paul, late
Ugo Humbert vs. Frances Tiafoe, late
Dusan Lajovic vs. Gael Monfils, late
Fabio Fognini vs. Guido Pella, late
LATE MONDAY, ROUND oF 64
#14Alex de Minaur d.
Filip Krajinovic, 0-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Andy Murray d. Richard Gasquet, 6-4, 6-4
Karen Khachanov d. Kevin Anderson,
6-2, 6-4.
Mackenzie McDonald d.
Brandon Nakashima, 7-5, 6-2.
WOMEN’S SINGLES, ROUND OF 64
#12 Simona Haelep d. Magda Linette,
6-4, 3-6, 6-1.
Karolina Muchova d. Johanna Konta,
3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2.
Bernarda Pera d. RebeccaPeterson,
6-4, 6-1.
Elena Rybakina d. Sam Stosur, 6-3, 6-3.
Coco Gauff d. Hsieh Su-Wei, 6-1, 6-2.
Veronika Kudermetova d.
Jasmine Paolini, 6-3, 6-2.
Jessica Pegula vs. Camila Giorgi, late
#1 Ashleigh Barty vs. Heather Watson,
late
Ons Jabeur vs. Anett Kontaveit, late
Catherine McNally vs. Dayana
Yastremska, late
#14 Victoria Azarenka vs. Liudmilla
Samsonova, late
#10Belinda Bencic vs. Marketa
Vondrousova, late
Caroline Garcia vs. Sloane Stephens,
late
LATE MONDAY, ROUND OF 64
#13Jennifer Brady d.
Ekaterina Alexandrova, 6-3, 7-6 (3).
#15Elisa Mertens d. Nadia Podoroska,
6-3, 6-4.
Yulia Putintseva d. Zhang Shuai, 6-2, 6-0
Shelby Rogers d. Danielle Collins,
6-4, 2-1, retired.
Alison Riske d. Leylah Fernandez, 6-2, 6-2.
Paula Badosa d. Petra Martic,
4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (6).
Angelique Kerber d. Maria Sakkari, 6-2, 6-3.
WTA CHICAGO 125
Tuesday at XS Tennis Village; Chicago;
outdoors-hardcourt
WOMEN’S SINGLES, ROUND OF 32
Hailey Baptiste d. #2 Danka Kovinic,
6-3, 6-4.
Zarina Diyas d. #5 Madison Brengle,
6-7(2), 7-6(5), 6-4.
Clara Tauson d. Harriet Dart,
6-1, 6-7(2), 6-2.
Storm Sanders d. Caroline Dolehide,
6-3, 4-6, 6-2.
Kateryna Kozlova d. Maryna Zanevska,
5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (2).
Emma Raducanu d.
Alison Van Uytvanck, 7-6 (7), 6-3.
Vitalia Diatchenko d. Ana Konjuh,
7-6 (4), 6-3.
Clara Burel d. Ivana Jorovic, 7-5. 3-2, ret.
Jule Niemeier d. Greet Minnen, 6-2, 6-2.
Oceane Dodin d. Coco Vandeweghe
7-6 (3), 6-4.
Amanda Anisimova vs. Nuria Parrizas
Diaz, late
NFL PRESEASON
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
EAST W L T PCT PF PA
Buffalo 1 0 0 1.000 16 15
N.Y. Jets 1 0 0 1.000 12 7
New England 1 0 0 1.000 22 13
Miami 0 1 0 .000 13 20
SOUTH W L T PCT PF PA
Houston 1 0 0 1.000 26 7
Indianapolis 1 0 0 1.000 21 18
Tennessee 1 0 0 1.000 23 3
Jacksonville 0 1 0 .000 13 23
NORTH W L T PCT PF PA
Baltimore 1 0 0 1.000 17 14
Cincinnati 1 0 0 1.000 19 14
Cleveland 1 0 0 1.000 23 13
Pittsburgh 2 0 0 1.000 40 19
WEST W L T PCT PF PA
Denver 1 0 0 1.000 33 6
Kansas City 1 0 0 1.000 19 16
L.A. Chargers 1 0 0 1.000 13 6
Las Vegas 1 0 0 1.000 20 7
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
EAST W L T PCT PF PA
N.Y. Giants 0 1 0 .000 7 12
Philadelphia 0 1 0 .000 16 24
Washington 0 1 0 .000 13 22
Dallas 0 2 0 .000 19 35
SOUTH W L T PCT PF PA
Atlanta 0 1 0 .000 3 23
Carolina 0 1 0 .000 18 21
New Orleans 0 1 0 .000 14 17
Tampa Bay 0 1 0 .000 14 19
NORTH W L T PCT PF PA
Chicago 1 0 0 1.000 20 13
Detroit 0 1 0 .000 15 16
Green Bay 0 1 0 .000 7 26
Minnesota 0 1 0 .000 6 33
WEST W L T PCT PF PA
Arizona 1 0 0 1.000 19 16
L.A. Rams 0 1 0 .000 6 13
San Francisco 0 1 0 .000 16 19
Seattle 0 1 0 .000 7 20
WEEK 2
THURSDAY’S GAME
New England at Philadelphia, 6:30p.m.
FRIDAY’S GAMES
Cincinnati at Washington, 7p.m.
Kansas City at Arizona, 7p.m.
SATURDAY’S GAMES
Buffalo at Chicago, noon
N.Y. Jets at Green Bay, 3:25p.m.
Atlanta at Miami, 6p.m.
Baltimore at Carolina, 6p.m.
Detroit at Pittsburgh, 6:30p.m.
Tennessee at Tampa Bay, 6:30p.m.
Houston at Dallas, 7p.m.
Indianapolis at Minnesota, 7p.m.
Denver at Seattle, 9p.m.
Las Vegas at L.A. Rams, 9p.m.
SUNDAY’S GAMES
N.Y. Giants at Cleveland, noon
San Fran. at L.A. Chargers, 6:30p.m.
MONDAY’S GAME
Jacksonville at New Orleans, 7p.m.
WNBA
EAST W L Pct GB
Chicago 11 10 .524 4 1/2
New York 10 12 .455 6
8 11 .421 6 1/2
Washington
Atlanta 6 14 .300 9
Indiana 4 17 .190 11 1/2
WEST W L Pct GB
Las Vegas
Seattle
16 6 .727
16 6 .727 —
— 20. Scottie Scheffler U.S.
Phoenix
Dallas
10 10 .500
9 13 .409
5
7
TUESDAY’S RESULTS
Connecticut 72, Minnesota 60
Dallas at Chicago, late
Indiana at Phoenix, late
Washington at Las Vegas, late
Atlanta at Los Angeles, late
WEDNESDAY’S GAME
Seattle at New York, 6p.m.
THURSDAY’S GAMES
Minnesota at Connecticut, 6p.m.
Washington at Phoenix, 9p.m.
Atlanta at Los Angeles, 9:30p.m.
LEAGUE LEADERS
POINTS
Tina Charles (WSH)
GP
18
PTS
467
PPG
25.9
Jonquel Jones (CONN) 16 334 20.9
Breanna Stewart (SEA) 21
Brittney Griner (PHX) 20
433
403
20.6
20.2
REBOUNDS GP REB RPG
Jonquel Jones (CONN) 16 181 11.3
Sylvia Fowles (MIN)
Tina Charles (WSH)
20
18
198
178
9.9
9.9
Brittney Griner (PHX) 20 195 9.8
ASSISTS
C. Vandersloot (CHI)
GP
21
AST
192
APG
9.1
Chelsea Gray (LV) 22 140 6.4
Natasha Cloud (WSH) 14 89 6.4
through Monday
NBA
LAS VEGAS SUMMER LEAGUE
TUESDAY’S RESULTS
Dallas 83, Miami 82
Philadelphia 103, Utah 98
Houston 95, Portland 92
Toronto 86, Brooklyn 72
L.A. Lakers 84, Golden State 76
New Orelans vs. Minnesota, late
Sacramento vs. Boston, late
MONDAY’S RESULTS
Indiana 74, Washington 65
Denver 94, Milwaukee 87
Oklahoma City 116, San Antonio 91
Cleveland 88, Phoenix 85
New York 104, Atlanta 85
Detroit 79, Orlando 78
Memphis 104, L.A. Clippers 95
Chicago 99, Charlotte 74
REGULAR SEASON: OPENING WEEK
TUESDAY, OCT 19
Brooklyn at Milwaukee, 7:11 p.m.
Golden State at L.A. Lakers, 9 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, OC. 20
Boston at New York, 6:30 p.m.
Denver at Phoenix, 9 p.m.
THURSDAY, OCT. 21
Dallas at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.
LA at Golden State, 9 p.m.
FRIDAY, OCT. 22
Brooklyn at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m.
Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 9 p.m.
CHRISTMAS DAY GAMES
Atlanta at new York, noon
Boston at Milwauke, 1:30 p.m.
Golden Sate at Phoenix, 4 p.m.
Brooklyn at L.A. Lakers, 7 p.m.
Dallas t Utah, 9:30 p.m.
LITTLE LEAGE BASEBALL
WORLD SERIES
At South Williamsport, Pa.
GREAT LAKES (A): Taylor, Mich.
GREAT LAKES (B): Hamilton, Ohio
MID-ATLANTIC (A): Oaks, Pa.
MID-ATLANTIC (B): Toms River, N.J.;
MIDWEST (A): Hastings, Neb.
MIDWEST (B): Sioux Falls, S.D.
NEW ENGLAND (A): Hooksett, N.H.
NEW ENG. (B): Manchester, Conn.
NORTHWEST (A): Sammamish, Wash.;
NORTHWEST (B): Lake Oswego, Ore.
SOUTHEAST (A): Nolensville, Tenn.
SOUTHEAST (B): Palm City, Fla.
SOUTHWEST (A): Lafayette, La.
SOUTHWEST (B): Abilene, Texas
WEST (A): Honolulu, Hawai
WEST (B): Torrance, Calif.
Double Elimination
THURSDAY’S GAMES
Game 1: Honolulu, Hawaii vs.
Manchester, Conn., noon
Game 2: Nolensville, Tenn. vs.
Hamilton, Ohio, 2 p.m.
Game 3: Hastings, Neb. vs.
Toms River, N.J., 4 p.m.
Game 4: Hooksett, N.H. vs.
Torrance, Calif., 6 p.m.
FRIDAY’S GAMES
Game 5: Oaks, Pa. vs.
Lake Oswego, Ore., noon
Game 6: Taylor, Mich. vs.
Palm City, Fla., 2 p.m.
Game 7: Lafayette, La. vs.
Sioux Falls, S.D., 4 p.m.
Game 8: Sammamish, Wash. vs.
Abilene, Texas, 6 p.m.
Chicago Tribune | Section 3 | Wednesday, August 18, 2021  5
AUTO RACING
NASCAR CUP POINTS LEADERS
1. Kyle Larson, 953.
2. Denny Hamlin, 931.
3. Kyle Busch, 796.
4. William Byron, 790.
5. Chase Elliott, 774.
6. Joey Logano, 763.
7. Martin Truex Jr, 762.
8. Ryan Blaney, 747.
9. Kevin Harvick, 733.
10. Brad Keselowski, 696.
11. Tyler Reddick, 666.
12. Alex Bowman, 653.
13. Austin Dillon, 638.
14. Kurt Busch, 607.
15. Christopher Bell, 562.
16. Matt DiBenedetto, 521.
17. Chris Buescher, 520.
18. Ross Chastain, 490.
19. Michael McDowell, 480.
20. Ricky Stenhouse Jr, 479.
21. Bubba Wallace, 464.
22. Chase Briscoe, 424.
23. Aric Almirola, 416.
24. Daniel Suarez, 408.
25. Erik Jones, 408.
26. Ryan Newman, 393.
27. Ryan Preece, 382.
28. Cole Custer, 368.
29. Corey Lajoie, 307.
30. Anthony Alfredo, 234.
31. Josh Bilicki, 130.
32. Quin Houff, 116.
33. James Davison, 109.
34. Jamie McMurray, 30. Daniel Berger is among several American players looking to bolster their case for a Ryder Cup
35. Scott Heckert, 20.
spot with a strong performance in the FedEx Cup playoffs. SAM GREENWOOD/GETTY
36. Mike Marlar, 6.
37. David Ragan, 4.
38. Chris Windom, 4.
39. Rc Enerson, 3.
40. Derrike Cope, 1. GOLF
With stretch run,
41. Shane Golobic, 1.
42. Ryan Eversley, 1.
LAP LED
No. Driver PCT. LAPS
1. Denny Hamlin 87.5 4604
pressure hits peak
2. William Byron 83.9 4410
3. Kyle Larson 83.4 4387
4. Chase Elliott 79.8 4198
5. Kevin Harvick 79.0 4155
6. Joey Logano 78.8 4146
7. Martin Truex Jr 76.9 4046
8. Kyle Busch 73.4 3862
9. Ryan Blaney 73.3 3853
Players feeling it as playoffs
10. Brad Keselowski 71.5 3761
Berger is No. 10 in the Ryder Cup and
No. 20 in the FedEx Cup. A win this week
GOLF open, Ryder Cup picks loom at Liberty National likely would move him
WORLD RANKINGS to the top of the FedEx Cup and inside the
RK. GOLFER
1. Jon Rahm
COUNTRY
Spain
AVG
9.85
By Doug Ferguson top six in the Ryder Cup standings. That’s
2. Dustin Johnson U.S. 9.06 Associated Press a lot to take in.
3. Collin Morikawa U.S. 8.64 “This is the advice I could give them,”
4. Xander Schauffele U.S. 7.39
5. Justin Thomas U.S. 6.87 JERSEY CITY, N.J. — This is one time said Jon Rahm, who has no such concerns
6. Bryson DeChambeau U.S. 6.34 where winning really does take care of as a Spaniard who’s No. 5 in the FedEx Cup
7. Louis Oosthuizen
8. Brooks Koepka
S. Africa
U.S.
6.15
6.10
everything. and has locked up a spot on the European
9. Patrick Cantlay U.S. 5.77 For most players, it’s all about the money. team. “Focus on playing good. Forget about
10. Harris English
11. Abraham Ancer
U.S.
Mexico
5.67
5.58
And for a dozen or so Americans, it’s the Ryder Cup and forget about East Lake.”
12. Jordan Spieth U.S. 5.55 about playing for no money at all. One cup or two, that’s what late summer
13. Tyrrell Hatton England 5.39 The Northern Trust not only is the start on the PGA Tour was designed to be.
14. Viktor Hovland Norway 5.30
15. Rory McIlroy N. Ireland 5.30 of the FedEx Cup playoffs, it’s the begin- “I think it’s probably the most cutthroat
16. Daniel Berger U.S. 5.22 ning of the end for Ryder Cup qualifying. golf that we can have in terms of pressure,”
17. Patrick Reed U.S.
18. Hideki Matsuyama Japan
5.22
5.19
Two tournaments are left before the top Schauffele said.
19. Webb Simpson U.S. 4.92 six Americans earn a spot on the team, and “We always have so much to play for, and
21. Paul Casey England
4.82
4.72
then Steve Stricker has six captain’s picks it all comes out of this.”
22. Tony Finau U.S. 4.49 a week later. The idea behind the FedEx Cup playoffs
23. Matt Fitzpatrick England 4.30 Whatever stress or pressure a player feels when they began in 2007 was for players to
24. Sam Burns U.S. 3.94
25. Jason Kokrak U.S. 3.93 depends on his position on each list. be at their best during the postseason chase
26. Billy Horschel U.S. 3.74 The solution is the same for both: Play for a cash bonanza — $10 million for the
27. Joaquin Niemann Chile
28. Cameron Smith Australia
3.64
3.56
well. winner back then, $15 million now, rising
29. Sungjae Im S. Korea 3.32 “I still think it’s about preparing for to $18 million next year.
30. Lee Westwood
31. Will Zalatoris
England
U.S.
3.32
3.28
each individual tournament as best you Playing well throughout the season
32. Phil Mickelson U.S. 3.24 can,” Patrick Cantlay said. “Because it’s so certainly helps, which explains why Mori-
33. Kevin Na U.S. 3.20 complicated, there can be so much ebb and kawa with his British Open and a World
34. Kevin Kisner U.S. 3.19
35. Ryan Palmer U.S. 3.17 flow, it’s not worth trying to get caught up Golf Championship title is the top seed
36. Corey Conners Canada 3.00 in all that points business.” going into the first of three postseason
37. Adam Scott Australia
38. Tommy Fleetwood England
2.91
2.90
Cantlay is No. 3 in the FedEx Cup. There’s events.
39. Marc Leishman Australia 2.82 not much stress there, at least not yet. That already earned him $2 million for
40. Shane Lowry
41. Max Homa
Ireland
U.S.
2.71
2.70
He’s No. 11 in the Ryder Cup and after his leading the regular season.
42. Matthew Wolff U.S. 2.69 experience in the Presidents Cup at Royal It guarantees little else.
43. Brian Harman U.S. 2.63 Melbourne, making the team is a priority. Tiger Woods in 2007 and Spieth in 2015
44. Garrick Higgo S. Africa 2.62
45. Justin Rose England 2.57 “The Ryder Cup, I’d love to play,” he said. are the only players who started the post-
46. Stewart Cink U.S. 2.54 “That feels totally different. That feels like season as the No. 1 seed and won the FedEx
47. Victor Perez France
48. Ch. Bezuidenhout S. Africa
2.53
2.52
the only thing that’s important is the points Cup. Spieth began that postseason by miss-
49. Ian Poulter England 2.52 that are going on. But the way way to do that ing two straight cuts. Woods sat out the first
50. Siwoo Kim S. Korea 2.49 is to take care of your business.” of what was then four playoff events. All
LPGA MONEY LEADERS Collin Morikawa is the No. 1 seed in the that mattered was the final event at the Tour
No. Golfer
1. Nelly Korda
EV Money
13 $1,856,649
FedEx Cup and No. 1 in the Ryder Cup Championship.
2. Yuka Saso 4 $1,181,642 standings, having already clinched a spot on It’s a little different now with a system
3. Lydia Ko 15 $1,169,962 the U.S. team, along with Dustin Johnson. that rewards players with a head start at
4. Patty Tavatanakit 12 $1,022,212
The Ryder Cup points are big because the the Tour Championship depending on their
5. Ariya Jutanugarn 15 $1,014,089
6. Nasa Hataoka 14 $990,493 money is big — a $9.5 million purse each of FedEx Cup ranking. The No. 1 seed starts at
7. Minjee Lee
8. Inbee Park
13 $940,894
13 $938,159
the next two weeks. 10-under par before even hitting a shot at
9. Lexi Thompson 13 $867,069 Xander Schauffele is holding down East Lake. The No. 2 seed starts at 8 under,
10. Hyo Joo Kim
11. Jin Young Ko
12 $815,312
12 $803,185
the sixth spot over Jordan Spieth — both all the way down to the last five players at
12. Jeongeun Lee6 17 $757,977 figure to be at Whistling Straits at the end of even par.
13. Leona Maguire 14 $709,175 September, even if they don’t qualify auto- The stakes are high. That doesn’t end
14. Lizette Salas 17 $705,516
15. Danielle Kang 14 $680,545 matically. Harris English and Daniel Berger until FedEx Cup money is paid out, and
16. Brooke M. Henderson 16 $666,968 are in the top 10 with no Ryder Cup experi- Stricker fills out the rest of his Ryder Cup
17. Moriya Jutanugarn
18. Jessica Korda
15 $657,726
13 $630,480
ence. More is at stake for them. team.
19. Sei Young Kim 13 $579,182
20. Ally Ewing 16 $573,984
21. Yealimi Noh 17 $572,431
22. Austin Ernst 16 $568,280
23. Pajaree Anannarukarn 17 $564,331
24. In Gee Chun 16 $554,908
25. Amy Yang 15 $521,638 IN BRIEF
Seahawks sign Adams to extension
26. Shanshan Feng 8 $520,964
27. Matilda Castren 10 $507,854
28. Megan Khang 15 $483,510
29. So Yeon Ryu 13 $479,403
30. Jennifer Kupcho 16 $478,339
31. Hannah Green 12 $473,441
32. Ryann O’Toole 15 $465,838 News services after their second shot. ... Steelers second-
33. Angel Yin 15 $454,477 year WR Chase Claypool suffered a minor
34. Celine Boutier 16 $424,581
35. Brittany Altomare 17 $394,631 The Seahawks signed safety Jamal Adams ankle sprain during training camp prac-
36. Xiyu Lin 13 $392,502 to a four-year contract extension Tuesday tice Tuesday. ... The 49ers waived QB Josh
37. Georgia Hall
38. Mina Harigae
16 $389,162
14 $388,136
that is expected to make the former All-Pro Rosen, sending the former No. 10 overall
39. Amy Olson 16 $380,275 the highest-paid safety in the NFL. pick back to an uncertain future. Rosen, 24,
40. Lauren Stephenson 16 $347,925
41. Wei-Ling Hsu 15 $337,353
Adams was on the practice field for the never played in a regular-season game for
42. Gaby Lopez 15 $332,338 first time this training camp after the deal the 49ers. He was drafted by the Cardinals
43. Esther Henseleit 11 $327,432 was signed and announced. in 2018. ... The Lions waived long snapper
44. Giulia Molinaro 14 $318,767
45. Jenny Shin 14 $318,676 NFL Network first reported the agree- Don Muhlbach, 40, who played 17 seasons
ment, which is expected to be worth up to with the team. Muhlbach’s 260 games ranks
$70 million and includes $38 million guar- second in Lions history behind kicker Jason
ODDS anteed. Hanson.
MLB WEDNESDAY Adams had been “holding in” since the
NATIONAL LEAGUE start of camp while waiting for a new deal NBA: The Celtics and G Marcus Smart
FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE
at Cincinnati -240 Chi Cubs +195
to get done with his rookie contract set to agreed to a four-year, $77 million extension
at Colorado -115 San Diego +100 expire after this season. that begins with the 2022-23 season, ESPN
at San Fran. -164 N.Y. Mets
Atlanta -194 at Miami
+146
+165
Adams had been attending meetings but reported Monday night. ... The Grizzlies are
Milwaukee -117 at St. Louis +100 hadn’t been participating in on-field activ- trading G Patrick Beverley to the Timber-
Philadelphia -125 at Arizona +105 ities. wolves for G Jarrett Culver and F Juancho
at L.A. Dodgers -300 Pittsburgh +235
AMERICAN LEAGUE The 25-year-old was acquired from the Hernangomez, ESPN reported Tuesday.
at Minnesota -130 Cleveland +110 Jets in a trade last summer, a deal that cost The Grizzlies acquired Beverley, 33, from
at N.Y. Yankees -113 Boston
L.A. Angels -152 at Detroit
-103
+133
the Seahawks two first-round picks. the Clippers on Sunday. ... The defending
at Tampa Bay -334 Baltimore +260 Last season, Adams set a league record for champion Bucks will host the Nets and the
Seattle
Houston
-162 at Texas +144
-185 at Kansas City +161
sacks by a defensive back with 9 1/2. Lakers will host the Warriors to open the
at Ch Wh. Sox -181 Oakland +157 „„The Raiders will require all fans attending season Oct. 19. And the Bucks will host the
INTERLEAGUE home games to show proof of vaccination Celtics as part of the league’s annual Christ-
Toronto -179 at Washington +156
For the latest odds, go to for COVID-19. The team said Monday that mas Day slate. Also scheduled for Christ-
FanDuel Sportsbook, the policy will take effect for the first regu- mas: Hawks at Knicks, Warriors at Suns,
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lar-season home game on Sept. 13 against Nets at Lakers and Mavericks at Jazz.
20222 NBA FINALS CHAMPION ODDS the Ravens. The Raiders implemented the
Brooklyn 11-5 LA Lakers
Milwaukee 17-2 Golden State 9-1
7-2
change in accord with new directives from NHL: The NHL will have advertising on
Utah 14-1 LA Clippers 14-1 Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak regarding the front of team jerseys for the first time
Philadelphia 16-1 Phoenix
Denver 18-1 Miami
16-1
22-1
large events. Vaccinated fans will not need starting in the 2022-23 season, according
Dallas 28-1 Atlanta 35-1 to wear masks at the games. The Raiders to reports. The league’s board of governors
Boston 40-1 Chicago 60-1 played their first season in Las Vegas in formally voted this month to approve jersey
Portland 66-1 New York 80-1
New Orleans 100-1 Indiana 100-1 2020 without fans but will be at full capacity advertisements. The league had surveyed
Memphis 100-1 Charlotte 100-1 this season. The team will offer the oppor- its teams and found the majority of them in
Toronto 100-1 Washington 150-1
Sacramento 250-1 San Antonio 300-1
tunity for fans to receive vaccinations on site favor of jersey ads. The ads will be featured
Minnesota 300-1 Cleveland 500-1 at Allegiant Stadium prior to home games. in a 3-inch-by-31/2-inch rectangle, which is
Detroit
Houston
500-1 Orlando 500-1
500-1 Okla. City 500-1
Fans who do get vaccines at the stadium will larger than the NBA’s 21/2-by-21/2-inch space
source: bovada.lv be required to wear masks until two weeks for uniform ads.
6  Chicago Tribune | Section 3 | Wednesday, August 18, 2021

NATIONAL SPORTS REPORT

SHORTS

Embiid signs $196 million extension
Joel Embiid has deep into the decade
to try and win his first NBA champion-
ship with the 76ers. Another big-money
deal locked up, the All-Star nicknamed
“The Process” wants to end his career
a 76ers lifer. The team kept their trust
in Embiid and signed the 7-footer to a
multiyear contract that reportedly was
a four-year, $196 million extension, taking him through
the 2026-27 season. Terms of the deal weren’t made
public Tuesday. “There’s no place like PHILADELPHIA!!!
Excited to continue working towards bringing a title home
and eventually retire here #PHILLY,” Embiid wrote on
social media. His new deal will start in 2023-24. Embiid
and the 76ers signed a five-year, $148 million extension
that kicked in with the 2018-19 season. The 27-year-old
Embiid was NBA MVP runner-up this season, making him
eligible for the supermax extension. Embiid led the 76ers
to the best regular-season record in the Eastern Confer-
ence. They lost in the second round to the Hawks. Embiid,
the No. 3 pick in the 2014 draft, shook off more injuries and
averaged 28.5 points and 10.6 rebounds last season.
Jags cut Tebow, ending comeback
Tim Tebow’s comeback and NFL career
are over. The Jaguars waived Tebow
on Tuesday, parting with the 2007
Heisman Trophy winner who switched
from quarterback to tight end in hopes
of rejuvenating his pro football career.
“We knew that was an uphill battle for
Tim,” said coach Urban Meyer, who
recruited Tebow to nearby Florida. “Players loved him,
locker room loved him, but it was the right thing (to do).”
Tebow’s blocking ranged from awkward to awful in the
Jaguars’ preseason opener against the Browns on Saturday.
The polarizing player also failed to record a catch and got
no snaps on special teams. Meyer said he expects this to
be the end of Tebow’s playing career. “I would guess it is,”
Meyer said. “We didn’t get that deep with it. Obviously he’s
his own man, elite warrior, elite competitor. But he’s also
34.” Tebow, a Jacksonville native, thanked his hometown
team on Twitter. “Thankful for the highs and even the
lows, the opportunities, and the setbacks,” Tebow wrote.
“I’ve never wanted to make decisions out of fear of failure
and I’m grateful for the chance to have pursued a dream.”
Rapinoe to ponder playing future
Megan Rapinoe said Tuesday that she’s
going to “take some time to think about”
her playing future. Rapinoe, 36, made
the comments during an interview on
an ESPN morning show when asked
whether she’s planning to retire. “Just
in terms of my whole career, I don’t
really know yet. I need to take some
time to think about it,” Rapinoe told ESPN. “They always
say, ‘You’ll know when you know,’ but it’s not really like
that, because you could kind of keep going, and it’s like ‘Aw
yeah, you’ve accomplished so much, you’ll be fine stepping
away.’ But the conversation is always anguished in your
mind. Or people just don’t think about it. I’ve been think-
ing about it a lot.” Rapinoe was asked about retirement in
the wake of Carli Lloyd calling it a career Monday. In the
interim, Rapinoe said she’ll be returning to NWSL club OL
Reign (Tacoma, Wash.) later this week. Rapinoe and Team
USA won bronze medal in the Tokyo Olympics. Rapinoe
has 61 goals and 70 assists in 185 caps with USWNT. She’s
also a two-time World Cup winner and won a gold in the
2012 London Olympics. —News services

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Preseason hype, hope only goes so far

Reality check: Which top have been since joining the ACC in 2004,
but how about this? Miami has finished the
teams may end up as flops? season ranked just six times as a member of
the ACC and never better than 11th.

By Ralph D. Russo
Associated Press
The preseason AP Top 25 is all about hope
and optimism.
Reality Check is all about, well, being real-
istic. Sometimes the truth can be painful.
As has become tradition, the first AP Top
25 Reality Check of the season is a reminder
that your promising college football team,
newly minted with a cool ranking as it heads
into the season, might turn out to be not as
good as you and the poll voters thought.
Alabama is No. 1, followed by Oklahoma,
Clemson and Ohio State in the poll released
Monday.
From 2010-2020, on average, 9.5 teams
that appeared in the preseason Top 25
finished the season unranked — about 38%
of the picks. During that time, the fewest
preseason ranked teams to finish outside
the final Top 25 was seven in 2011; the most
was 12, in 2010.
Even in an anything-but-normal 2020
season played through the pandemic, the
number of teams that started the season
ranked only to finish unranked was a typi-
cal 10.
What was unusual about last season was
the number of flameouts that came from the
upper half of the preseason Top 25.
Over the last 11 seasons, 17 teams that
started the season ranked in the top 10
finished unranked, just 1.5 per season. But
last year, three top 10 teams — and five
among the top 12 in the preseason rankings
— did not finish the season ranked, led by
2019 national champion LSU, which was No.
6 going into last season.
As expected, most of the preseason
ranked teams that fail to make the final Top
25 come from the bottom of the rankings.
Teams ranked 21-25 in the preseason make
up 27% of the teams (28 total) that finished
unranked.
To put it another way, a little more than
half the teams that started the season ranked
between 21-25 from 2010-20, finished
unranked.
At the top of the poll? Only seven presea-
son top-five teams over that span have failed
to be ranked somewhere in the final Top 25.
How likely is your team to be one of the
disappointments?
No. 1 Alabama (13-0 last year)
Opener: vs. Miami in Atlanta, Sept. 4.
Reality check: The Crimson Tide have not
finished ranked lower than 10th the last
13 seasons. There is no reason to believe this
season’s defending champion is vulnerable
to an LSU-type tumble.
Coach Brian Kelly and No. 9 Notre Dame open against three teams currently not ranked before
taking on No. 12 Wisconsin at Soldier Field in Chicago. JOHN MERSITS/SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE
recruiting like the perennial playoff teams
ranked in front of them and have four straight
top-seven finishes under Kirby Smart.
Georgia is a better bet to break its four-
decade national title drought than to tank
and finish unranked.
No. 6 Texas A&M (9-1)
Opener: vs. Kent State, Sept. 4.
when Lou Holtz’s teams ended seven straight
seasons ranked from 1987-1993.
No. 10 North Carolina (8-4)
Opener: at Virginia Tech, Sept. 3.
Reality check: Coach Mack Brown tries to
make it two straight seasons with a ranked
finish for the Tar Heels. That hasn’t been done
in Chapel Hill since the final two seasons of
No. 15 USC (5-1)
Opener: vs. San Jose State, Sept. 4.
Reality check: Since 2010, the Trojans have
had four seasons that started ranked and
ended unranked. Coach Clay Helton could
have a hard time surviving another season
at USC that doesn’t live up to expectations.
No. 16 LSU (5-5)
Opener: at UCLA, Sept. 4.
Reality check: The Tigers became the first
defending champions since Auburn in 2011 to
finish the season outside the Top 25. There is
talent for a bounce back in Baton Rouge.
No. 17 Indiana (6-2)
Opener: at No. 18 Iowa, Sept. 4.
Reality check: Coach Tom Allen’s Hoosiers
will try to become the first team in the history
of the program to start and end the season
ranked.
No. 18 Iowa (6-2)
Opener: vs. No. 17 Indiana, Sept. 4.
Reality check: In 22 seasons under Kirk
Ferentz, the Hawkeyes have neither finished
four straight seasons ranked, nor had three
straight seasons that began and ended in the
AP poll. Iowa can accomplish both of those
this season.
No. 19 Penn State (4-5)
Opener: at No. 12 Wisconsin, Sept. 4.
Reality check: The Nittany Lions had a string
of four straight Top 25 finishes snapped last
year. There is reason to believe it was just a
glitch, but a tricky early-season schedule
should reveal a lot.
No. 20 Washington (3-1)
Opener: vs. Montana, Sept. 4.
Reality check: The Huskies seemed primed
to settle into a perennial Top 25 team under
coach Chris Petersen when they had three
straight ranked finishes from 2015-18.
Second-year coach Jimmy Lake is trying to
prove the program’s slip was small.
No. 21 Texas (7-3)
Opener: vs. No. 23 Louisiana-Lafayette, Sept. 4.
Reality check: Former Alabama offensive
coordinator Steve Sarkisian takes over a
program that for all the drama has finished
ranked three straight seasons for the first
time since a 12-year run under Mack Brown
from 1998-2009.

No. 2 Oklahoma (9-2) Reality check: Heading into Jimbo Fisher’s

Opener: at Tulane, Sept. 4.
Reality check: The Sooners have their
most balanced team in years, with a quality
defense to go with Lincoln Riley’s usual
potent offense. For whatever it’s worth:
Twice in the last 12 seasons (2009 and ’14)
Oklahoma has been a preseason top five
team and finished unranked.
fourth season as coach, all signs are pointing
in the right direction for the Aggies. But A&M
has only finished the season ranked five times
this century and hasn’t had consecutive
top-10 finishes in 27 years.
No. 7 Iowa State (9-3)
Opener: vs. Northern Iowa, Sept. 4.
Reality check: This whole ranked in the
Brown’s first stint at UNC in 1996-97.
No. 11 Oregon (4-3)
Opener: vs. Fresno State, Sept. 4.
Reality check: There has been a lot of buzz
around the Ducks because of the way coach
Mario Cristobal has been recruiting, but
Oregon has finished a season ranked just
once in the last five years.
No. 22 Coastal Carolina (11-1)
Opener: vs. The Citadel, Sept. 2.
Reality check: The Chanticleers will try
to follow up their magical 2020 season by
becoming the first Sun Belt team to begin
and finish a season ranked.
No. 23 La.-Lafayette (10-1)
Opener: at No. 21 Texas, Sept. 4.

No. 3 Clemson (10-2) top 10 thing is new and different to the

Opener: vs. No. 5 Georgia in Charlotte,
North Carolina, Sept. 4.
Reality check: The Tigers are on a six-year
run of top-four finishes and haven’t
finished unranked since 2010. Coach Dabo
Swinney’s team has lost one ACC game since
October 2017 and it’s to a team (Notre Dame)
that is not in the conference this season.
Cyclones. Iowa State finished last season
ranked for just third time in program history.
Can Matt Campbell’s program continue to
outperform its DNA?
No. 8 Cincinnati (9-1)
Opener: vs, Miami (Ohio), Sept. 4.
Reality check: The Bearcats have finished
ranked each of the last three seasons
No. 12 Wisconsin (4-3)
Opener: vs. No. 19 Penn State, Sept. 4.
Reality check: In two of the last three
seasons, Wisconsin started ranked and
ended unranked. It’s happened a total of
four times to the Badgers in the previous
13 seasons, but the last time Wisconsin
went two straight seasons finishing
outside the Top 25 was 2003.
Reality check: The Ragin’ Cajuns will try to
follow up 21 victories in the last two seasons
by becoming, yes, the first Sun Belt team to
begin and finish a season ranked.
No. 24 Utah (3-2)
Opener: vs. Weber State, Sept. 2.
Reality check: The Utes had a run of three
straight seasons from 2014-16 in which they
started the season unranked and finished

No. 4 Ohio State (8-1)
Opener: at Minnesota, Sept. 2.
Reality check: The Buckeyes have finished
unranked just once since winning the national
title in 2002, and have 16 top-10 finishes over
that span. Coach Ryan Day has yet to lose to
a Big Ten opponent in 16 games.
under coach Luke Fickell, improving each
season. They’re loaded for another run in
the American Athletic Conference, with
nonconference games at No. 17 Indiana and
No. 9 Notre Dame likely to determine just
how high they can go in 2021.
No. 9 Notre Dame (10-2)
No. 13 Florida (8-4)
Opener: vs. Florida Atlantic, Sept. 4.
Reality check: Coach Dan Mullen has
brought some consistency with three straight
ranked finishes, a first for Florida since Urban
Meyer left after the 2010 season.
ranked. Utah doesn’t get undervalued
quite so much anymore. Like a lot of Pac-12
teams, the Utes bring back a boatload of
experienced players.
No. 25 Arizona State (2-2)
Opener: vs. Southern Utah, Sept. 2.

No. 14 Miami (8-3) Reality check: The Sun Devils are ranked in

No. 5 Georgia (8-2) Opener: at Florida State, Sept. 5.

Opener: vs. No. 3 Clemson, Sept. 4.
Reality check: The Bulldogs have been
Reality check: The Fighting Irish have
finished the season ranked four straight
seasons. The last time that happened was
Opener: vs. No. 1 Alabama in Atlanta, Sept. 4.
Reality check: There are many ways to
describe how underwhelming the Hurricanes
the preseason for the first time since 2015.
Arizona State has only had one season (2014)
in the last 24 years that began and ended
ranked.

HEALTH & FOOD
For skirt steak bulgogi, the steak tastes best with char from a grill, but a hot skillet on the stovetop would work in a pinch. RYAN LIEBE/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Bulgogi, any way
you slice it
By Eric Kim
I
The New York Times
n a decades-old spiral-bound
police community cookbook,
Songza Park’s recipe for “BUL
KOGI (Barbecued Beef )” calls
for 2 pounds of sirloin steak that
you have to slice “very thin on the bias”
before scoring each piece with an X.
In 1965, when Park immigrated to the
United States from South Korea, she
had no access to Korean grocery stores,
where today entire cases are dedicated
FDA paves way to automatically swap generic for brand-name insulin
By Linda A. Johnson
Associated Press
U.S. regulators have The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has agreed that
taken action that will make Viatris Inc.’s Semglee insulin, above, is interchangeable with
it easier to get a cheaper, the widely used Lantus, a fast-acting insulin. VIATRIS
near-copy of a brand-name
insulin at the drugstore. tion will allow pharmacists
Doctors now have to to automatically substitute
specifically prescribe the cheaper version, just as
what’s called a biosimilar they do with generic pills
or OK substituting it for for other kinds of drugs.
a more expensive brand- It’s the FDA’s first
name insulin. approval of an “inter-
The recent move by the changeable” biosimilar, a
Food and Drug Administra- near-copy of an injected
Come, celebrate
elebrate
c with us.
the music us
to presliced meat often labeled “bulgogi
beef.”
“Back then, you couldn’t just buy
bulgogi beef like you can now,” she
said. “You got a chunk of meat and had
the butcher slice it for you.” Or, if there
wasn’t a butcher, you did it yourself.
For Park, a forensic chemist who has
since retired, bulgogi was a weeknight
workhorse, even without the conve-
nience of presliced meat.
An adaptable staple of Korean
cuisine, bulgogi is most often made
from thin slices of marinated and
biologic medicine that’s
manufactured inside living
cells. It could save diabetics
and health plans millions
of dollars annually and
encourage other drugmak-
ers to create more biosim-
ilar medicines. Health
data firm IQVIA projects
C Chicago Tribune | Section 5 | Wednesday, August 18, 2021  1
Skirt steak bulgogi
Total time: 30 minutes, plus
marinating
Makes: 6 to 8 servings
2 pounds skirt steak, cut into
4-inch-long pieces
1 medium Asian pear or Fuji
apple (about 8 ounces),
peeled, cored and chopped
1 cup chopped yellow onion,
plus 1 large yellow onion, cut
into 1/2-inch-thick rounds
10 large garlic cloves, peeled
1 (2-inch) piece fresh ginger,
peeled and chopped
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup maple syrup
2 tablespoons sugar
Kosher salt (Diamond
Crystal) and black pepper
2 bunches scallions
Neutral oil, such as vegetable
or canola, for grilling
Steamed white rice, for
serving
1. On a large cutting board,
pound the steak until it is
1/8-inch thick using a meat
mallet or heavy skillet.
Transfer to a large bowl.
2. In a food processor
or blender, blitz the pear,
chopped onion, the garlic,
ginger, soy sauce, maple
syrup, sugar, 1/2 teaspoon
salt and 1 teaspoon pepper
until smooth. Pour the wet
mixture over the steak, cover
tightly and marinate in the
refrigerator for at least 1 hour
and up to 24 hours.
3. When ready to cook,
prepare a charcoal grill for
direct high-heat cooking, or
heat a gas grill to high. On a
sheet pan, coat the sliced
onions and the scallions with
1 tablespoon oil and season
with salt and pepper.
4. Carefully grease the grill
grate: Use tongs to grip a
wadded paper towel dipped
in oil and then rub the grates
with the oiled towel. Wipe
off any marinade clinging
to the steaks and place the
steaks on the hot, greased
grate, along with the onion
rounds and scallions. Grill
the steak until charred and
caramelized at the edges, 2
to 4 minutes per side. Grill
the onions and scallions
until charred but still crisp,
1 to 2 minutes per side. If
using a gas grill, close the lid
between flips. Discard any
remaining marinade. (See
note for stovetop method.)
5. Arrange the steaks on
a large platter, and top
with the grilled onions and
scallions. Serve family-style
grilled beef (though sometimes pork with steamed rice.
and less commonly chicken). If you Note: Alternatively, you can
grew up in a Korean household, then cook the steaks and onions
the dish wasn’t just occasional barbe- on the stovetop in batches in
cue; it was dinner on the regular, a a lightly oiled large skillet or
quick pan-fry on the stovetop. grill pan over medium-high
Just as there is no one way to make heat. Sear the steaks until
kimchi, there is no one way to make charred and caramelized at
bulgogi. Versatility is a chief character- the edges, 2 to 3 minutes per
istic of the dish. side. Cook the onions and
Variations on the original grilled scallions next, until charred
preparation hint at the many ways in but still crunchy, 1 to 2
minutes per side. Discard any
Turn to Bulgogi, Page 6 remaining marinade.
U.S. savings from increas- India’s Biocon. lars at AmerisourceBergen,
ing use of biosimilars from Mylan N.V., one of two a top drug wholesaler.
2020 through 2024 will top companies that merged to Only 20 of 29 FDA-​
$100 billion. create Viatris last Decem- approved biosimilars —
The FDA agreed that ber, launched Semglee for cancer and immune
Viatris Inc.’s Semglee was in the United States last disorders like rheumatoid
interchangeable with the summer. Red tape, lengthy arthritis — are sold in the
widely used Lantus, a patents and pushback from U.S. so far, he said.
long-acting insulin. brand-name drugmakers Depending on the phar-
Approval of a second have limited U.S. sales of macy, Semglee injector
such interchangeable biosimilars to far below pens cost about $150 to
biosimilar of a fast-acting levels in Europe. $190 without insurance for
insulin appears imminent “These products are a typical month’s supply,
from the same developers, highly similar but much compared to $340 to $520
Pittsburgh-based generic more affordable,” said Sean for the same supply of
giant Viatris and its partner, McGowan, head of biosimi- brand-name Lantus.
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Pandemic has changed pregnancy, birth rates
Some effects defy
expectations, others
are hard to explain
By Marie McCullough
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Early in the pandemic,
there were predictions that
stay-at-home orders would
spawn a baby boom.
“Nine months after folks
are forced to hunker down
and ride out a natural disas-
ter, the birth rate suddenly
spikes,” stated an article on
Fatherly, a parenting news
website. “Whether it’s the
boredom ... or the sense of
impending doom, there’s
something about these situ-
ations that makes people do
what comes naturally.”
In July, Fatherly ran a
sequel titled, “The COVID-
19 Baby Boom is a Lie.”
But it isn’t a lie. In the
Philippines and other poor
countries where families
were already struggling
to make ends meet, lock-
downs did cause a spike
in pregnancies, largely
because women were
unable to access birth
control.
The pandemic has had
profound impacts on preg-
nancy and birth rates, as
well as birth outcomes,
and the long-term conse-
quences could ripple
through economies, educa-
tion systems and more. The
thing is, some effects have
defied expectations, and
some are hard to explain.
For example, the prema-
ture birth rate declined
last spring and summer
— around the world.
Vincenzo Berghella,
director of maternal-fetal
medicine at Philadelphia’s
Thomas Jefferson Univer-
sity Hospital, was one of
the first to document the
phenomenon, using data
from his hospital. One
possible partial explana-
tion: telemedicine visits
eliminated frequent, incon-
venient, time-consuming
treks to the obstetrician’s
office, which lessened
expectant mothers’ stress.
PEOPLE’S PHARMACY PRESCRIPTIONS AND HOME REMEDIES
Hot water can help ease itch Molecular imaging important
of fire ant, mosquito bites tool for dense breast tissue
By Joe Graedon
and Teresa Graedon
King Features Syndicate
Q: While I was mowing
the lawn, fire ants bit my
leg. I ran to the bath-
room and turned the hot
water on as hot as I could
stand it without burn-
ing. Within seconds of
putting my leg under the
tap, all traces of ant bites
were gone, and I felt no
discomfort. It seems the
hot water deactivated
the formic acid of ant
bites.
The key points: Get the
hot water on the bites
quickly and don’t burn
yourself. I also washed
my leg with soap just to
prevent infection.
A: Thank you for shar-
ing your story. Hot water
can ease the itch of poison
ivy or mosquito bites as
well. Anyone who tries this
must take care not to burn
their skin!
Q: I’ve had a wart on
the inside of my thumb
for the past few years.
It was about the size
of a small pea and just
seemed like tough skin.
It didn’t hurt so I didn’t
panic over it, but I
wanted it gone.
My dermatologist
froze it a couple of
times, and I put enough
Compound W on it to
float a boat. No results.
Then I read about using
plain iodine. With a
few applications every
day or so, the wart was
completely gone in about
five weeks. There is abso-
lutely no sign of it ever
being there. I couldn’t
believe it.
A: Warts are frequently
treated by freezing or with
salicylic acid (like the
Compound W you tried).
However, those methods
don’t always work.
Twenty-five years ago,
we received this message
“You’d think the in-per-
son care which we’ve been
doing forever is beneficial,
but maybe not in some
ways,” Berghella said. “The
bottom line is we don’t
know why preterm births
declined, but most people
say this is real. It has been
shown in Europe and Asia,
as well as the U.S.”
But this unexpected
pandemic benefit has
socioeconomic nuances,
researchers at the Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh Medical
Center found. At UPMC
Magee-Womens Hospi-
tal in Pittsburgh, the rate
of births before 37 weeks
of pregnancy declined by
a percentage point among
white women and those
living in affluent neigh-
borhoods, but not Black
women. “Systemic dispari-
ties in health care outcomes
are at play here, too,” said
Hyagriv Simhan, vice chair
of obstetrical services at
Magee.
U.S. fertility indicators
One reader who was bitten by fire ants used hot water to
alleviate the itch. DREAMSTIME
from a reader: “My Lith-
uanian grandmother
had me put iodine on my
left thumb, which had
sprouted a wart. I was
religious about applying
the iodine, as the wart was
so ugly. I don’t remember
how long it took, but the
wart disappeared. I’ve had
no others.”
Povidone iodine has
antiviral as well as anti-
bacterial and antifungal
activity. This old-fashioned
antiseptic is often used
to disinfect skin before
surgery.
A small randomized,
placebo-controlled trial
found that 2% povidone
iodine in dimethyl sulfox-
ide (DMSO) eliminated
warts much better than
DMSO alone (Dermatol-
ogy and Therapy, Decem-
ber 2015). The authors
concluded: “Twice-daily
topical povidone-iodine
solution in the novel vehi-
cle employed for this study
is an effective, safe and
easy-to-use treatment for
common warts.”
Q: Although I’m a
retired physician, I am
not much of a medicine
man. I’ve seen too many
problems with drugs and
their side effects. Alter-
native treatments have
— the annual birth rate and
lifetime births per woman
— have been falling fairly
steadily for decades.
Meanwhile, deaths have
outpaced births in many
parts of the country. In
2019, before the pandemic
hit, deaths exceeded births
in almost half of U.S. coun-
ties, and the nation added
just 892,000 people, the
lowest population growth
in a century, according to
an analysis by University of
New Hampshire demogra-
pher Kenneth M. Johnson.
This trend was pronounced
in farming, mining and
older industrial regions, as
well as in counties with lots
of elderly residents.
In 2020, population
growth shrank even more.
The U.S. added 229,000
people, reflecting the
tsunami of pandemic
deaths, and diminished
immigration, Johnson’s
updated snapshot found.
But 2020 was marked
by another anomaly: A
helped so many, and I
prefer them when possi-
ble.
My wife has arthritic
knees. NSAIDS like
ibuprofen and naproxen
have not provided relief.
Can you offer any guid-
ance on fish oil or anti-
inflammatory herbs?
A: A large randomized
controlled trial of vitamin
D and fish oil (VITAL)
found no benefit for knee
arthritis (Arthritis &
Rheumatology, November
2020). The study lasted
over five years. Conse-
quently, we can’t recom-
mend fish oil.
Other natural options
worth consideration
include turmeric, boswel-
lia, ashwagandha and
ginger. There is research
to support the anti-inflam-
matory activity of these
botanicals. For exam-
ple, a systematic review
of controlled trials of
turmeric extract found
that curcumin relieved
pain and joint stiffness
with fewer side effects
than NSAIDs (Bioscience
Reports, June 25, 2021).
In their column, Joe and
Teresa Graedon answer
letters from readers. Send
questions to them via www.
peoplespharmacy.com.
C
sudden, sharp decline in
women getting pregnant.
At the height of
pandemic restrictions in
late March and early April,
more than 310 million
Americans were stuck
at home. Modified shut-
downs persisted in many
places for a year. Grappling
with economic hardship
and zoom schooling, many
couples decided to forgo, or
at least postpone, repro-
ducing.
“The decline in births
could be on the order of
300,000 to 500,000 fewer
births” in 2021, predicted a
Brookings report published
in December.
To help with that predic-
tion, the authors, econo-
mists Melissa Kearney and
Phillip Levine, extrapolated
from two historic crises.
During the Spanish Flu
pandemic of 1918-19, birth
rates dropped sharply with
each of the three big waves
of deaths. During the Great
Recession of 2007-2009,
Q&A
Mayo Clinic
Q: After a recent
mammogram, I was
told that I have dense
breast tissue. What does
that mean? Should I be
concerned? What does
that mean for my future
screenings?
A: When health care
providers say “breast
density” or “dense breasts,”
they are referring to
how the breasts look on
a mammogram. Women
have different amounts of
tissue and different types
of tissue in their breasts.
Breasts are composed
of fat, connective tissue
that holds the breasts
together, and the part
of the breast that makes
milk when breastfeeding.
Those tissues look differ-
ent on a mammogram. We
can see through the fat,
which appears black on a
mammogram. However,
the other types of tissue
are white and can be diffi-
cult to see through. Dense
breast tissue can make it
more challenging to see
cancer on a mammogram
because the dense tissue
and the cancer are both
white. Dense breasts are
common, with about half
of women having dense
breasts.
In addition to cancers
being more difficult to
see in dense breast tissue,
having dense breast tissue
confers a slightly higher
risk of developing breast
cancer.
Because of these issues,
Mayo Clinic developed
a test called molecular
breast imaging, or MBI,
which looks at the function
of the breast tissue rather
than the anatomy. We have
performed several large
screening trials and incor-
porated MBI into Mayo’s
clinical practice. Molecu-
lar breast imaging consis-
tently finds about three
to four times more breast
cancers in women who
DREAMSTIME
the birth rate decreases
correlated with increases in
unemployment.
“An analysis of the Great
Recession leads us to
predict that women will
have fewer babies in the
short term, and for some of
them, a lower total number
of children over their life-
times,” the authors wrote.
The short- and long-term
distinction is important.
If the rate of pregnan-
cies this spring is inflated
by pregnant women who
postponed because of the
pandemic, then not only
could there be a rebound
in births later this year, but
a big spike. On the other
hand, there might not be
a spike, depending how
many women who post-
poned find their biological
clocks have run out.
If a University of
Michigan study recently
published in JAMA
Network Open is a guide,
there will be a spike.
Researchers in UM’s
have dense breast tissue
than screening mammog-
raphy alone.
Molecular breast imag-
ing and mammography
have only been studied
where MBI is performed
in addition to mammogra-
phy. There are a couple of
reasons for this.
Mammography is really
good at detecting calcifica-
tions, which you can think
of as tiny stones or grains
of sand in the breast. Calci-
fications sometimes can be
the earliest sign of breast
cancer. Molecular breast
imaging does not perform
as well with abnormalities
that present as calcifica-
tions only. However, MBI
is very good at finding
those lesions that might be
hiding in the dense breast
tissue, so they really work
in concert together.
Molecular breast imag-
ing uses a radiotracer,
which is a radioactive
agent that goes to active
parts of the breast and
lights up in areas that have
more metabolic activity,
like cancer. That activity
is detected with a special
camera. The radiotracer
used in MBI has been used
for a long time, and it is
safe. The radiation doses
for mammography and
molecular breast imaging
are very low — below the
amount of background
radiation we get just by
walking around outside.
Any risk from radiation at
these extraordinarily low
department of obstetrics
and gynecology analyzed
electronic medical records
and found the average
weekly number of new
obstetric patients fell from
131 in March through June
2019, to 122 during the
same months in 2020 —
when Michigan was under
shutdown orders. Based
on the decline in pregnant
patients, they projected
a 16% decline in deliver-
ies from December 2020
through April 2021.
When those months
actually came around
and the delivery projec-
tions were accurate, the
researchers made a new
forecast. Based on the
number of new obstet-
ric patients this spring,
the volume of births this
summer and fall will
rebound to 15% above
normal — a temporary baby
blip, if not a boom.
“Pandemics and other
major society events alter
population dynamics,”
wrote the authors, led by
maternal-fetal medicine
specialist Molly J. Stout.
“Population dynamics are
of interest for governments,
businesses, and economists
because fluctuations in
young and aging, work-
force, and school-aged
populations are critical
variables in the ability to
plan for social well-being.”
The UM study, like
others, also found a marked
decline in preterm births.
Berghella, at Jefferson,
said this surprising silver
lining opens a whole new
avenue for studying ways
to prevent the mysteri-
ous, intractable problem
that is the leading cause
of newborn death and
disability. Did stay-at-home
orders reduce pregnant
women’s smoking, driving,
infections, shift and phys-
ical work? Or did restric-
tions lead to improvements
in women’s nutrition,
hygiene, exercise, family
support? All of the above?
“Basically, the idea is
pregnant women had less
stress,” Berghella said.
DREAMSTIME
doses is purely theoreti-
cal. In contrast, it is known
that the risk of breast
cancer is real for women.
One in 8 women is going
to get breast cancer in her
lifetime, and the goal is to
find those cancers while
they are small and most
treatable. MBI is one tool
that helps do that.
In a molecular breast
imaging exam, a woman
receives an injection
of the radiotracer. The
breasts are placed in mild
compression to stabi-
lize them while pictures
are taken, but it’s less
compression than a
mammogram and most
women report that it is not
uncomfortable.
Women should get their
yearly screening mammo-
grams, and those women
with dense breast tissue
should consider supple-
mental screening. Molec-
ular breast imaging is an
important complementary
tool that helps find cancers
that might otherwise go
undetected for a long
period of time because
they can’t be seen on a
mammogram.
— Katie Hunt, M.D.,
Division of Breast Imag-
ing, Mayo Clinic, Rochester,
Minnesota
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educational resource and
doesn’t replace regular
medical care. Email ques-
tions to MayoClinicQ&A@
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Migraine sufferers may
want to eat more fish
In study, diet high
in omega-3s led to
fewer headaches
By Anahad O’Connor
The New York Times
For most of her life,
Tanya Kamka suffered
migraine headaches on a
weekly basis.
The headaches would
come on gradually and then
build, causing excruciating
pain and pressure behind
her left eye that would
culminate in her vomiting
or visiting the emergency
room. The ordeal would
often leave her feeling weak
and exhausted for days.
“Anytime I had a
migraine I’d be wiped out
for three or four days,” said
Kamka, 58, a post office
clerk who lives near Fort
Bragg, North Carolina.
“I missed a lot of work
because of migraines.”
But a few years ago,
Kamka and 181 other
people who routinely expe-
rience migraine headaches
joined a clinical trial, spon-
sored by the National Insti-
tutes of Health, which was
designed to test whether a
special diet could alleviate
their frequent headaches.
The diet that Kamka was
assigned to follow empha-
sized foods that contain
large amounts of omega-3
fatty acids, the oils found
in some fish, while limiting
foods that are rich sources
of omega-6 fatty acids, such
as many vegetable oils.
Omega-3s and omega-6s
are both considered essen-
tial fatty acids — critical
for health, and because our
bodies can’t make them,
they must be obtained
from foods. Historically
humans consumed roughly
equivalent amounts of both
fatty acids. But the typical
American diet today tends
to contain a much larger
proportion of omega-6 fats.
Some health authorities see
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this as a good thing: Vege-
table oils and other rich
sources of omega-6 fats
have been found in many
studies to be beneficial for
cardiovascular health. But
others argue that this could
be problematic because
omega-6 fats have been
shown to promote pain
and inflammation, while
omega-3 fats tend to have
the opposite effect in stud-
ies, helping to reduce pain
and inflammation.
The authors of the new
study wanted to know:
Could a diet that boosts
omega-3 fats while lower-
ing omega-6 fats make life
easier for people burdened
by frequent migraine head-
aches?
For Kamka, the bene-
fits of a change in diet
were striking: After a few
months of increasing her
fish intake and avoiding
many common vegeta-
ble oils, she noticed that
her headaches had all
but disappeared. Other
people on the new diet
also reported fewer head-
aches. Although the trial
ended after 16 weeks,
Kamka has remained on
it ever since. Gone are the
days when she ate foods
like fried chicken, French
fries and potato chips that
were cooked in vegetables
oils rich in omega-6 fats.
She now makes a point of
eating foods like cod, tuna,
sardines, spinach salads,
hummus and avocados,
and she cooks with olive
oil instead of corn, soybean
and canola oils.
Migraine headaches are
one of the most common
causes of chronic pain,
affecting about 12% of
Americans, most of them
women. For many people,
the condition can be debil-
itating, causing intense
pain, nausea and other
symptoms and sharply
increasing the likelihood of
developing depression and
anxiety.
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But the new study
provides evidence that the
right diet could provide
relief to some people
who experience frequent
migraine attacks, helping
them reduce the number
and severity of their head-
aches.
Dr. Christopher E. Rams-
den, the lead author of
the study, said the find-
ings suggest that dietary
changes could be a useful
complement to existing
treatments. “Many people
with chronic pain continue
to suffer despite taking
medication,” said Rams-
den, a clinical investigator
in the National Institute on
Aging Intramural Research
Program. “I think this is
something that could be
integrated with other treat-
ments to enhance their
quality of life and reduce
their pain.”
For the new trial,
published in the BMJ in
July, participants were
randomly split into three
groups and followed for 16
weeks. One group followed
a diet that was high in
omega-3 fats and relatively
low in omega-6 fats. To
make it easier to follow the
diet, all the subjects were
given meals, snacks and
recipes prepared by a dieti-
tian throughout the course MARGEAUX WALTER/THE NEW YORK TIMES PHOTOS
of the study.
Vegetable oils high in the participants experi- headaches each month. and fast foods, which are
omega-6s are abundant in enced, on average, about Both groups reported typically made with oils
the American diet. They are 16 “headache days” shorter and less severe that are low in omega-3s
often used for cooking and per month. But after 16 headaches than people in and high in omega-6s.
found in many packaged weeks, the group that had the control group. Beth MacIntosh, a co-au-
foods and restaurant meals. increased their fish intake For people who want to thor of the new study, said
To see whether reducing and avoided vegetable try the diet, the researchers that extra-virgin olive oil,
these fats could have an oils had an average of four said that the simplest way avocado oil, macadamia oil,
impact on migraine head- fewer “headache days” to increase omega-3 intake coconut oil and butter tend
aches, the researchers had each month compared to is to eat more fatty fish, to contain low amounts of
a second group of people the control group, as well as such as sardines, anchovies, omega-6 fats.
add more fish and other a 30% to 40% reduction in mackerel, salmon, albacore The researchers also
rich sources of omega-3s “headache hours” each day. tuna and trout. For vege- encouraged people in the
to their diets without The group that increased tarians, good plant sources study to eat at least five
decreasing their intake of their omega-3 intake with- of omega-3 fats are ground servings of fruits and vege-
omega-6s. A third group of out reducing their omega-6 flaxseeds, chia seeds and tables per day. “Fruits and
people, serving as controls, consumption benefited walnuts. vegetables are naturally
consumed typical amounts as well, though they had Another important low in omega-6 fatty acids
of both types of fats. a smaller improvement of component of the diet is — and they’re just healthy,”
At the start of the study, two fewer days without avoiding fried, processed said MacIntosh.
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Debate over radon gas treatments recharged
Low-dose radiation
tested in COVID-19
cases, but caution
urged on mine trips
By Katheryn Houghton
Kaiser Health News
BOULDER, Mont.
— Twice a year, Brian
Tichenor makes the 1,200-
mile drive each way from
his home in Kansas to a
defunct uranium mine in
Montana, where he takes
an elevator 85 feet below
the surface to sit amid
radioactive radon gas to
ease the pain from his
chronic eye condition.
“I found it like I think
a lot of people do,” said
Tichenor, 67. “It’s a point of
desperation with conven-
tional treatment.”
While radon is
commonly known as a
hazardous gas removed
from basements, people
in pain travel to Montana
and pay to breathe, drink
and bathe in its radioac-
tive particles. The travelers
view the radon exposure
as low-dose radiation ther-
apy for a long list of health
issues. But the Environ-
mental Protection Agency
and the World Health
Organization, among
others, blame the gas as
the second-leading cause
of lung cancer. Although
doctors use radiation as
a front-line treatment to
destroy dangerous cells,
its role in the U.S. in low
doses for other ailments is
disputed. The pandemic
has recharged that debate
as clinical trials across the
world test whether low
doses of radiation can help
treat COVID-19 patients.
But radon gas isn’t
the same radiation U.S.
doctors use, radiation
experts caution. Radon is
just one of the radioactive
chemical elements and,
because it’s a gas, it can be
inhaled, making it partic-
ularly dangerous. Sitting
in a radon-filled room and
targeted radiation treat-
Device taps brain waves to help Cancer centers pushing patients
paralyzed man communicate
By Lauran Neergaard
Associated Press
In a medical first,
researchers harnessed the
brain waves of a paralyzed
man unable to speak — and
turned what he intended
to say into sentences on a
computer screen.
It will take years of addi-
tional research, but the
recently reported study
marks an important step
toward one day restoring
more natural communica-
tion for people who can’t
talk because of injury or
illness.
“Most of us take for
granted how easily we
communicate through
speech,” said Dr. Edward
Chang, a neurosurgeon at
the University of Califor-
nia, San Francisco, who
led the work. “It’s exciting
to think we’re at the very
beginning of a new chap-
ter, a new field” to ease
the devastation of patients
who lost that ability.
People who can’t speak
or write because of paral-
ysis have very limited
ways of communicating.
For example, the man in
the experiment, who was
not identified to protect
his privacy, uses a pointer
attached to a baseball cap
that lets him move his head
to touch words or letters
on a screen. Other devices
can pick up patients’ eye
movements. But it’s a frus-
tratingly slow and limited
substitution for speech.
In recent years, exper-
iments with mind-con-
trolled prosthetics have
allowed paralyzed people
to shake hands or take a
drink using a robotic arm
— they imagine moving
and those brain signals
are relayed through a
computer to the artificial
limb.
Chang’s team built on
that work to develop a
“speech neuroprosthetic”
— decoding brain waves
that normally control the
vocal tract, the tiny muscle
LEFT: Free Enterprise Radon Health Mine, just outside Boulder, Montana, offers exposure to radioactive radon gas as a therapeutic treatment. RIGHT: Visitors
can soak in radon-laced waters inside the defunct Merry Widow Health Mine in Basin, Montana. KATHERYN HOUGHTON/KAISER HEALTH NEWS PHOTOS
ment in a medical facility
are as different as “chalk
and cheese,” said Brian
Marples, a professor of
radiation oncology at the
University of Rochester.
“In clinical therapy, we
know exactly what the dose
is, we know exactly where
it’s going,” he said.
Marples said much of
the argument for radon’s
therapeutic use relies on
historical reports, unlike
evidence-based research
on clinical radiation. Still,
some radiation experts are
split on what level of radon
should be deemed danger-
ous and whether it could
have positive health effects.
Another concern: The
radon treatment in the
mines is largely unreg-
ulated. The Montana
Department of Public
Health and Human
Services doesn’t have the
authority to permit or
license the mines, though
department spokesperson
Jon Ebelt said the adverse
health risk from exposure
is well-known.
Nonetheless, each year
travelers head to west-
ern Montana, where four
inactive mines flush with
radon are within 11 miles of
to quit smoking to aid outcomes
Researcher David Moses works with a clinical trial participant
who suffered a brain-stem stroke 15 years ago to record brain
activity. TODD DUBNICOFF/UCSF 2020
movements of the lips, jaw,
tongue and larynx that
form each consonant and
vowel.
Volunteering to test
the device was a man in
his late 30s who 15 years
ago suffered a brain-
stem stroke that caused
widespread paralysis and
robbed him of speech. The
researchers implanted
electrodes on the surface
of the man’s brain, over the
area that controls speech.
A computer analyzed
the patterns when he
attempted to say common
words such as “water” or
“good,” eventually becom-
ing able to differentiate
between 50 words that
could generate more than
1,000 sentences.
Prompted with such
questions as “How are
you today?” or “Are you
thirsty?”, the device even-
tually enabled the man to
answer “I am very good”
or “No I am not thirsty” —
not voicing the words but
translating them into text,
the team reported in the
New England Journal of
Medicine.
It takes about three to
four seconds for the word
to appear on the screen
after the man tries to say
it, said lead author David
Moses, an engineer in
Chang’s lab. That’s not
one another near the rural
communities of Basin and
Boulder. The gas naturally
forms when radioactive
elements in the mountains’
bedrock decay.
Outside the Merry
Widow Health Mine, a
billboard-like banner
announces “Fountain of
Youth. FEEL YOUNG
AGAIN!” Inside its tunnels,
water seeps from the rock
walls. Those who want
full immersion can slip
into a clawfoot tub filled
with radon-tainted water.
People soak their feet and
hands in water or simply sit
and work on a puzzle.
To owner Chang Kim, 69,
his business is a mission,
especially for those with
chronic medical condi-
tions such as arthritis or
diabetes. Those who swear
by radon therapy say that,
in low doses, a little stress
on the body triggers the
immune system to readapt
and reduces inflammation.
“The people coming
to the mines, they’re not
stupid,” Kim said. “People’s
lives are made better by
them.”
He learned about the
mines 14 years ago when
he and his wife, Veronica
nearly as fast as speaking
but quicker than tapping
out a response.
In an accompanying
editorial, Harvard neurol-
ogists Leigh Hochberg
and Sydney Cash called
the work a “pioneering
demonstration.” They
suggested improvements
but said if the technol-
ogy pans out it eventu-
ally could help people
with injuries, strokes
or illnesses like Lou
Gehrig’s disease whose
“brains prepare messages
for delivery but those
messages are trapped.”
Chang’s lab has spent
years mapping the brain
activity that leads to
speech.
How did the researchers
know the device inter-
preted the man’s words
correctly? They started
by having him try to say
specific sentences such as,
“Please bring my glasses,”
rather than answering
open-ended questions
until the machine trans-
lated accurately most of
the time.
Next steps include ways
to improve the device’s
speed, accuracy and vocab-
ulary size — and maybe
allow a computer-​gener-
ated voice rather than text
on a screen — while testing
additional volunteers.
C
Kim, lived in Seattle and a
connective tissue disease
crumpled Veronica’s hands
and feet. Traditional medi-
cine wasn’t working. After
two sessions a year in the
mines ever since, Veronica
smiles when she shows her
hands.
“They’re not deformed
anymore,” she said, adding
she has been able to cut
down on her use of meloxi-
cam, a medication to
reduce pain and swelling.
Tichenor said going to
a mine with radon over
six years has been one of
the few things to calm his
scleritis, a disorder that
causes pain he describes as
ice picks stabbing his eyes.
As for its potential danger,
he said radon treatment is
just like any medication:
Too much can cause harm.
He and other radon users
point to European coun-
tries such as Germany,
where the therapy may be
controversial but doctors
still can prescribe radon
treatments for various
conditions.
In the U.S., the EPA
maintains that no level of
radon exposure is risk-
free even though everyone
encounters the element
By Carla K. Johnson
Associated Press
When cancer patients
stop smoking, they heal
faster, experience fewer
side effects from treatment
and lower their chances
of tumors returning. Now,
top cancer hospitals are
helping patients quit as
evidence mounts that it’s
never too late.
The recently reported
research shows lung
cancer patients who
stopped smoking gained
nearly two years of life
compared to those who
continued to smoke.
“It is a huge effect,” said
Dr. Mahdi Sheikh, who led
the study for the World
Health Organization’s
cancer research agency
in Lyon, France. In lung
cancer, he said, quitting
smoking is “as necessary as
the treatments.”
In the U.S., many cancer
centers offer proven quit
strategies: phone coun-
seling, nicotine patches
and pills that ease the urge
to smoke. More cancer
doctors are talking to their
patients about quitting.
For some patients, the
shock of a cancer diagnosis
can be highly motivating.
“It’s the biggest reason
I’ve ever had in my life
to quit,” said Preston
Browning, an electrician
in Tennessee who quit
cigarettes while recovering
from cancer surgery earlier
this year.
Browning, now 20
years old, had smoked a
pack a day since he was
14. He credits the stop-​
smoking drug Chantix
and support from tobacco
treatment specialists at
the Vanderbilt-Ingram
Cancer Center. Nurse Lesa
Abney listened to Brown-
ing’s reasons for smoking
— he described smoking
as “me time” and “a little
reward” — and suggested
strategies he could use:
Eat breakfast instead of
lighting up each morning.
in their lives. The agency
notes radon is respon-
sible for about 21,000
lung cancer deaths every
year. It recommends that
homeowners with radon
levels of 4 picocuries per
liter or more should add a
radon-reduction system.
By contrast, the owners of
Montana’s oldest radon
therapy mine Free Enter-
prise Radon Health Mine
said their mine averages
around 1,700.
Antone Brooks, formerly
a U.S. Department of
Energy scientist who stud-
ied low-dose radiation, is
among those who believe
the federal government’s
no-level-of-radon-expo-
sure stance goes too far.
He pointed to research
that indicates low doses of
radiation potentially turn
on pathways within bodies
that could be protective.
Though what’s considered
a “low dose” depends on
who’s talking.
“If you want to go into
a radon mine twice a year,
I’d say, OK, that’s not too
much,” he said. “If you
want to live down there, I’d
say that’s too much.”
In the early 1900s, small
doses of radiation were
Cancer patient Preston Browning is pictured in July at
Tennessee’s Vanderbilt Medical Center. PRESTON BROWNING
Reach for a toothpick after
lunch. Treat yourself with
dessert.
“If it wasn’t for Lesa, I
think it would have been
harder,” Browning said.
Browning had sarcoma
in his leg, a rare cancer of
unknown cause.
In contrast, lung cancer
is largely linked to tobacco
use, so smokers may feel
shame, despair and hope-
lessness after diagno-
sis, experts say. It can be
welcome news to hear
from doctors that they, too,
can benefit from quitting.
In the recent study,
researchers followed
517 Russian lung cancer
patients who smoked,
checking annually to see
whether they’d quit. After
five years, nearly 60% of
those who quit smoking
were alive, compared to
about 47% of those who
continued smoking.
The effect held up
regardless of tumor stage,
how much the patient
smoked or how long
after diagnosis they quit,
researchers reported in the
journal Annals of Internal
Medicine.
A $27 million National
Cancer Institute program
is helping 53 cancer
used to treat pneumonia
with reports it relieved
respiratory symptoms.
Since then, fear has largely
kept the therapeutic poten-
tial of low-dose radiation
untapped, said Dr. Moham-
mad Khan, an associate
professor with the Winship
Cancer Institute at Emory
University. But amid the
pandemic, providers strug-
gling to find treatments
have been giving clinical
radiation another look.
So far, the trials Khan has
led show that patients who
received targeted low-dose
radiation to their lungs got
off oxygen and out of the
hospital sooner than those
without the treatment.
Khan said more research
is necessary, but it could
eventually expand clinical
radiation’s role for other
illnesses.
“Some people think all
radiation is the same thing,
that all radiation is like
the Hiroshima, Nagasaki
bombs, but that’s clearly
not the case,” Khan said.
“If you put radiation in the
hands of the experts and
the right people — we use
it wisely, we use it carefully
— that balances risk and
benefits.”
centers integrate tobacco
treatment into care. It has
reached more than 50,000
patients since 2018.
“We’ve already learned a
tremendous amount from
this,” said Director Dr. Ned
Sharpless. “With relatively
modest support — these
are not huge, expensive
programs — you can mark-
edly increase the number
of patients you reach.”
In California, the Stan-
ford Cancer Institute
phones patients who use
tobacco to offer support
from specialists and
stop-smoking medication
“If you’ve got life-​saving
treatment it should be
provided to all patients,”
said Judith Prochaska who
directs Stanford’s tobacco
program, which received
the federal funds.
At Stanford’s cancer
clinics, about 1 in 4 patients
who accept tobacco treat-
ment remain tobacco-free
after two years, Prochaska
said.
Browning, the Tennes-
see patient, had tried to
quit smoking twice before.
He believes it will stick this
time.
“Smoking with cancer?
I feel like that’s tempting
fate.”

Summer’s hot find: Boozy ice pops
By Melody Baetens
The Detroit News
Hard seltzer rocked the bever-
age market in 2019, causing an
explosion of brands to flood
store and bar shelves. Even beer
makers like Bud Light, Coors
and Corona got in on the action,
releasing cans of the sparkling,
alcoholic fruity drink.
This summer, the hot new find
is boozy ice pops: frozen wine,
seltzers or cocktails in a plastic
sleeve like the Fla-Vor-Ice from
childhood, but this time with an
AVB on the label.
Many have been around for a
season or two, but this summer
we’re seeing stores flooded with
a wide variety. Many are coming
from the same brands that
brought us hard seltzer.
Some are claiming to be low
calorie, which can be deceiving
considering there are only a few
ounces of actual drink in each pop
— about 3.4 ounces. One pop is
going to get you about as buzzed
as a big gulp of chardonnay
would, which may be what you’re
looking for as low-alcohol bever-
ages are definitely in vogue.
Another thing to note is that
these are usually sold unfrozen.
So if you’re planning on getting
some for a party, make sure
there’s time for them to freeze
first.
Here’s how some of the most
widely available alcoholic ice pop
brands measure up.
Cutwater Cocktail Pops:
Maker of award-winning spir-
its, canned cocktails, mixers and
now cocktail pops, Cutwater’s
flavors are bold. The San Diego-
based company’s frozen pops
have no artificial sweeteners and
come in all-natural flavors like
lime margarita, rum and cola, gin
melon and vodka mule. You can
really taste the ginger in the mule,
and the gin melon has a natural
watermelon flavor. These run
about $22-$25 for a 12-pack. 7%
ABV. 80 calories.
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A zucchini noodle salad with an East Asian-inspired dressing is an easy summer dish. GRETCHEN MCKAY/PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE
Salad is the answer to zucchini overload
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vegetables I grow each summer in what-
ever I’m cooking that day. As such, one of
my favorite things to do during my morn-
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gardens to see how my green(ish) thumb
stacks up.
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always lose out to an elderly neighbor who
grows some of the best-looking zucchini
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Daily’s Poptails: You may have treats come
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This company makes frozen pops cocktail products in the past; lemonade,
with wine and spirits. I think they are not new to this game. mango
their best offerings are the peach Their wine-infused poptails lemonade and
mango bellini wine cocktail and come in strawberry, green apple strawberry
the orangeberry mimosa. You can and watermelon. At $14.99 for a lemonade.
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Threezer pops are three layers these pops come in cherry lime-
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fruit flavor and a third with a ice. They’re branded Bud Light,
cream center, giving it more of but these are frozen seltzers, not
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layers seem to separate, though, for a limited time, they’ve been
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At 160 calories for 3 ounces, they Seltzer Frozen Icicles are smaller
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Zucchini noodle salad with
tahini-ginger dressing
Makes: 4 to 6 servings
For the dressing:
1/2 cup tahini
5 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons unseasoned rice vinegar
4 teaspoons grated ginger
1 tablespoon honey
2 teaspoons hot sauce, or more to taste
1 garlic clove, minced
1/2 teaspoon salt
For the salad:
2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil
12 ounces broccoli florets, cut into 1/2-inch
pieces
2 ears corn, off the cob
1 pound zucchini noodles, from 2 zucchini
squash
1/2 red and 1/2 yellow bell pepper, stemmed,
seeded and cut into strips
1 carrot, peeled and shredded
4 scallions, sliced thin on bias
1 tablespoon sesame seeds, toasted
1. Prepare the dressing: Process all
ingredients in a blender until smooth, about
30 seconds. If it seems too thick, add a little
more vinegar or soy sauce, or more hot sauce
if you like it extra spicy. Transfer to a large
serving bowl. (Dressing can be made and
refrigerated up to 24 hours in advance; whisk
I’ve ever seen in an unlikely spot: behind spot with its East Asian flavors and pretty to recombine before using.)
his garage, on a tiny patch of grass along- summer colors. 2. For the salad: Heat oil in a 12-inch nonstick
side an alley. It starts with zoodles — long, raw skillet over medium-high heat until shimmery.
I ask him every year how he does it, and zucchini noodles made with a spiralizer Add corn and broccoli to pan and cook until
I always get the same response: a sheep- or vegetable peeler. They’re tossed with softened and spotty brown, about 5 minutes.
ish shrug, followed by, “Maybe because my sliced bell peppers, charred broccoli, Transfer to plate and let cool thoroughly.
daughter gets the plants in West Virginia?” shredded carrot and green onion, then 3. Add zucchini, bell pepper, carrot, scallions,
Maybe. covered in a dressing made with tahini, corn and broccoli to bowl with dressing and
What I do know is that piles of locally rice vinegar, ginger and soy. The result is a toss to combine. Sprinkle with sesame seeds,
grown zucchini are at farmers markets, low-carb, fresh summer salad that bursts and serve.
farm stands and grocery stores, and that with taste, color and texture. — Adapted from “The Complete Salad
after you’ve made your umpteenth loaf If you use store-bought squash, look for Cookbook” by America’s Test Kitchen
of zucchini bread, you’ll be looking for a smaller, in-season zucchini, which have
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Dinner at Home
hen friends ask
about my favorite
foods, my answer
changes with the
season. In August, the answer
is corn, and I enjoy it as often as
possible in any form.
One of summer’s greatest plea-
sures is grilled corn. As it turns
out, there are two ways to grill
corn: in and out of the husk.
To cook corn in the husk, first
do your best to extract the silk
from whole ears, taking care
to keep the husk intact. After a
soak in cool water, the ears can
be roasted over a gas or charcoal
grill, turning often until the husks
are beautifully charred, about 30
minutes. The interior will taste
of smoke and sweetness. Be sure
to roast at least two per guest —
nobody will eat just one.
Grilling shucked ears adds char
directly to the kernels and takes a
mere 15 minutes on the grill. This
is my preferred method when
sprinkling the kernels over salads
or adding them to sautés and stir-
fries.
But the joys of corn don’t have
to be limited to late summer. You
can make frozen corn (grilled
or raw) to enjoy after the season
ends by freezing corn kernels in
a shallow layer on a baking sheet
until the corn is solid. Then spoon
it into freezer bags or containers
and freeze for up to four months.
An average-size ear of corn yields
about 1 cup of corn kernels, so
plan your freezing accordingly.
It’s important to know how to
cut the kernels off the cob safely.
First, stand the cob up in a large
bowl, holding it at the top with
one hand. Starting at the top, use
a sharp knife to cut the kernels
from the cob, working your way
down. Turn the cob and repeat
the cutting until the cob is clean.
What to do with all that corn?
You can cook it in a skillet — corn
and bacon pair as perfectly as
peanut butter and jelly. Add ripe
tomatoes and lots of basil for a
skillet full of goodness. Serve it
over lettuce leaves as a side dish
to grilled fish, chicken or skew-
ered shrimp. You can also stir in
sautéed chunks of tofu or feta to
turn this into a main dish.
In another classic combo, I love
A sweet
summer
tradition
Corn on the cob is one of the season’s
greatest pleasures; these recipes
reinvent this classic vegetable
Bacon, basil and tomato skillet corn is a dish full of goodness that will please just about everyone.
Bacon, basil and tomato skillet corn
Prep time: 20 minutes Cook time: 20 minutes
Makes: 4 cups (about 6 servings)
4 thick slices (8 ounces total) smoky bacon, cut
crosswise into ¼-inch pieces
2 shallots or 1 small white onion, finely chopped
1 large poblano chile, seeded, chopped
1 large or 2 small garlic cloves, finely minced
3 cups fresh or grilled corn kernels
1 pint ripe cherry tomatoes, halved, or 2 to 3 cups large
chunks of ripe tomatoes
½ teaspoon coarse (kosher) salt
¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 cup loosely packed, thinly sliced fresh basil leaves,
about 1 ¼ ounces
corn and lima beans in a summery
succotash. Here, the corn gets
grilled along with sweet onion
and tender napa cabbage. Shelled
edamame makes a more contem-
porary version of the old-time
dish, but we don’t pass up lima
beans when we can find baby
limas in the freezer case. Crum-
bled fresh cheese or a drizzle of
heavy cream enriches the dish.
Sweet corn ice cream always
brings back memories of a family
vacation in Mexico. We ordered
it sprinkled with hot chile and
lime. The surprising sweet and
salty combination makes this one
of the things every foodie should
have on their summer bucket list.
C Chicago Tribune | Section 5 | Wednesday, August 18, 2021  7
Sweet corn and maple
ice cream
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 10 minutes
Chill time: Several hours
Makes: 1 ½ quarts
For a fun sweet and salty twist,
sprinkle on a little chile lime
seasoning. The trick to great ice
cream texture is to thoroughly chill
the base before putting it into the
ice cream machine. Don’t skip the
straining of the base through the
sieve; it will remove the corn kernel
skins.
3 cups fresh raw corn kernels
1 cup whole milk
2 cups heavy whipping cream
½ cup sugar
½ cup pure maple syrup
½ teaspoon salt
4 large egg yolks
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Fresh black raspberries or
blackberries, for serving
Chile lime seasoning or Tajin Classic
Chile Lime seasoning, optional for
serving
1. Puree 1 1/2 cups corn kernels with
1/2 cup whole milk in a blender until
very smooth. Transfer to a deep,
heavy saucepan. Repeat with
remaining 1 1/2 cups corn and 1/2 cup
milk.
2. Stir 2 cups heavy whipping
cream, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup maple
syrup and 1/2 teaspoon salt into the
corn mixture. Heat over medium
heat until simmering.
3. Meanwhile, set a large bowl over
a larger bowl of ice. Place a mesh
sieve in the large bowl.
4. Whisk 4 egg yolks in a small bowl.
5. Slowly ladle 1 cup of heated corn
mixture into the egg yolks to heat
them gently. Then, whisk egg yolk
mixture back into the simmering
corn mixture and cook on very low
heat just until thickened, 2 or 3
minutes. Do not boil.
6. Immediately pour mixture
through sieve into the bowl set over
ice. Whisk to cool the mixture and
stop the cooking. Stir in 1 teaspoon
vanilla. Refrigerate the corn mixture
until very cold or up to 2 days.
7. Pour cold corn mixture into ice
cream maker and freeze according
to the manufacturer’s directions.
Scoop into a container. Cover and
freeze solid for at least 1 hour.
8. Serve small scoops of the ice
cream topped with berries. If
desired, shake a little chili-lime
seasoning over the ice cream.
Warm grilled corn and
edamame succotash
salad
Prep time: 25 minutes
Cook time: 15 minutes
Makes: 6 cups (about 6 servings)
2 ears corn on the cob, shucked,
rinsed
1 large sweet onion, peeled, sliced
crosswise into 3 sections
2 thick wedges Napa or green
cabbage, about 6 ounces total
1/3 cup olive oil, plus more for
drizzling
1/2 teaspoon coarse (kosher) salt,
plus more for sprinkling
1 1/2 cups frozen shelled edamame or
lima beans
2 small limes
1 teaspoon sweet paprika
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 cup (about 2 ounces) crumbled
queso fresco or feta cheese or ¼
cup heavy whipping cream
1/4 cup thinly sliced fresh chives or
green onion tops
1. Prepare a charcoal grill or preheat
a gas grill until medium hot.
2. Put 2 ears of corn, onion sections
and cabbage wedges on a baking
sheet. Drizzle all sides with some
oil and sprinkle with salt. Place
vegetables directly on the grill over
the heat. Grill, occasionally turning
until nicely golden on all sides,
about 15 minutes. Transfer to a
cutting board. Let cool.
3. Meanwhile, cook 1 1/2 cups
edamame in a small pot of boiling
1. In a large, well-seasoned cast-iron or nonstick skillet salted water until crisp-tender,
over medium heat, cook 8 ounces sliced bacon, stirring about 2 minutes. Drain.
often, until bacon is crisp and golden, about 10 minutes. 4. Grate rind from 2 limes into a
Remove bacon with a slotted spoon to a plate. Tip off large bowl. Then squeeze juice
(and save for another use) all but 2 tablespoons of the from limes into the bowl. Stir in 1/3
rendered fat from the pan. cup olive oil, 1 teaspoon paprika, 1/2
2. Add 2 chopped shallots and 1 seeded, chopped teaspoon cumin and 1/2 teaspoon
poblano to the pan. Cook over medium heat, stirring salt in a large bowl. Add warm
often until soft, about 4 minutes. edamame to dressing in a bowl.
3. Stir in 2 cloves minced garlic and cook for 1 minute. 5. Use a sharp knife to remove
Stir in 3 cups corn kernels. Cook, stirring often, about corn kernels from cobs and add to
3 minutes, then stir in 1 pint halved cherry tomatoes. the dressing. Chop grilled onion and
Cook until everything is very hot, about 2 minutes. cabbage and add to the dressing.
4. Season with ½ teaspoon salt and ¼ teaspoon Mix well. Add 1/2 cup crumbled
pepper, or to taste. Remove from heat and stir in crisp queso fresco or 1/4 cup heavy
bacon. Fold in 1 cup sliced basil. Serve right away. cream. Serve at room temperature
sprinkled with 1/4 cup chives.
Warm grilled corn
and edamame
succotash salad.
Shelled edamame
makes a more
contemporary
version of this
old-time dish, but
don’t pass up lima
beans when you
can find baby limas
in the freezer case.
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By Eric Asimov
The New York Times
T
he color of a wine
can convey a lot
about its character.
But color is easy to misin-
terpret, and it sometimes
reveals less than it seems.
This seeming paradox
arises because analyzing
the color of a wine requires
an understanding of
context and many variables.
Too often, people make
reflex judgments of a wine
based solely on its color.
Twenty years ago, for
example, the American
public seemed fixated on
the color of red wines. The
darker the wine, the think-
ing went, the denser, more
powerful and more concen-
trated it was, and therefore
the better it was presumed
to be.
This simple, blanket asso-
ciation of darker color with
higher quality made no
sense, nor, for that matter,
did the assumption that
power and concentration
were always better.
Some red grapes, includ-
ing nebbiolo, sangiovese
and pinot noir, can make
intense wines that are natu-
rally paler hued than wines
made with, say, cabernet
sauvignon or syrah, grapes
that ordinarily yield darker
colors.
The intensity and lumi-
nosity of colors can also
vary depending on other
factors, like the pH of the
wine and its level of acidity.
Colors of red wines will
also change as they age.
The bright glow of youth
will fade with time, as the
edges of a cabernet sauvi-
gnon, perhaps blue-black in
its youth, turn the color of
bricks.
At the peak of this
obsession with dark red
wines, some producers
who no doubt knew better,
employed methods to
make their wines darker,
whether allowing the juice
to macerate longer with the
pigment-rich skins or using
additives such as Mega
Purple, a grape concentrate
used to “correct” the color
of a wine, that is, make it
darker.
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A rose by any other color
Both of these approaches
have their downsides. Over-
maceration could result
in extracting too much
tannin and other elements
from the skins, resulting in
wines that were dark but
heavy, astringent and out of
balance, perhaps requiring
further manipulation. Mega
Purple can make a wine
seem soft and sweet.
This association of dark
colors with high quality is
by no means solely a recent
phenomenon. Older gener-
ations of winemakers, with-
out access to modern tools,
bred a class of dark-fleshed
grapes primarily for blend-
ing to darken a wine’s color.
These include alicante
bouschet, often a part of old
California field blends, and
the aptly named colorino, a
traditional blending grape
in Chianti.
In our current
wine-drinking era, the
opposite perception seems
to reign with rose. Nowa-
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that the paler the rose, the
better or more attractive
it is.
Perhaps no wine is as
judged by its color as rose.
Possibly this is because
no other wine comes in so
many immediately discern-
ible hues and shades, from
the palest pink — referred
to by the French as oeil de
perdrix, or partridge’s eye
— to scarlet and ruby. The
color itself gives little hint
of the quality or character
of the wine.
And yet, the public is so
enchanted with pale roses
that winemakers will go to
great lengths to give them
what they want, often to the
detriment of the wine.
For the last month, we’ve
been drinking dark roses,
both to counter the notion
that roses must be pale but
also to examine the ques-
tion of what color conveys
about wine. As usual, I
suggested three bottles:
Broc Cellars North Coast
Love Rose 2020, Château
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dimension.
The Tiberio was likewise
bigger and more serious
than the Broc at 14% alco-
hol, but with more acidity
than the Trinquevedel. It
seemed to combine tangy,
juicy flavors of red fruits
with a chalky minerality.
I felt as if I could offer
all three wines at a single
dinner party. The Broc
would be the aperitif,
with hors d’oeuvres. The
Tiberio could go with the
midcourse. It was light
enough for shellfish yet
juicy enough to stand up to
something heartier, such
as roast chicken. Mean-
while, the Trinquevedel
seemed sturdy enough for a
veal roast or Umbrian-style
rabbit or chicken caccia-
tora.
A simpler differentiation
would be to call the Broc
a vin de soif, or a wine for
quenching thirst, while the
other two are more gastro-
TONY CENICOLA/THE NEW YORK TIMES 2010 nomic, intended to go with
meals.
As different as these
wines are, was the color
really meaningful? Dark
doesn’t translate as power-
ful — witness the Broc. You
could say that it does for
de Trinquevedel Tavel 2020 in California, along with the other two, but I’ve had
and Tiberio Cerasuolo some zinfandel and trous- pale roses from all over that
d’Abruzzo 2020. seau. The Tiberio was made were just as potent.
All three are darker than entirely of montepulciano, I think many readers
your average rose, although while the Trinquevedel was would agree with me, espe-
they each varied slightly. a blend of Southern Rhône cially after enjoying these
The Broc was garnet-col- grapes, including 60% wines. Max de Zarobe of
ored, with perhaps a tinge grenache, 18% cinsault, 5% Montepulciano, Italy, (the
of orange. The Trinqueve- syrah, 5% mourvèdre and, place in Tuscany, not the
del was garnet, too, but a interestingly, 12% clairette, grape of the same name)
slightly paler shade than a white grape. conjectured that Insta-
the Broc, while the Tibe- Beyond color, origin gram and other visual social
rio was a pale ruby, with no and production, the wines media might not only be
orange at all. differed quite a bit. The responsible for the fixation
Beyond these minor Broc was bone dry, lightly on color, but also for the
color distinctions, the wines spicy, tangy and fresh. It rising popularity of rose.
are actually quite differ- was just 11% alcohol, the Quite a few people also
ent. The Trinquevedel was kind of wine you could expressed long-standing
from Tavel, a French appel- drink for refreshment at the affection for Tavels, which
lation just southwest of beach or by the pool. This Eduardo of Florida called
Châteauneuf-du-Pape that fit in well with the popu- the “undisputed kinds of
only produces roses. lar conception of roses as roses.”
The Tiberio was from simple, easygoing wines, He also said, “Nothing
the Abruzzo region on the although I would say the has the body, mouthfeel
Adriatic coast of Italy, while Broc was a superb example. and taste of a Tavel,” which
the Broc was from North- The Trinquevedel was might be closer to the truth.
ern California. entirely different. It was Jeff and Kay of Media,
The three were also rich and powerful at 14.2% Pennsylvania, had less
made with entirely differ- alcohol, with a floral aroma. experience with Tavels. But
ent grapes. The Broc was On the palate, it was more after trying the Trinqueve-
primarily valdigue, a variety earthy and mineral than del, they called it “their new
once called “Napa gamay” fruity, with depth and favorite rose.”
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