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Bustling WAR IN UKRAINE

in person,
‘blighted’
on paper
Skokie’s Old Orchard
fighting a battle other
shopping centers lost
By Robert McCoppin
Chicago Tribune

Westfield Old Orchard shop-

ping center sells gold watches
at Rolex, diamond necklaces at
Tiffany & Co. and fabulous purses
at Coach. Luxury cars cruise
through crowded parking lots, and
shoppers stroll past more than 100
stores while wearing pricey parkas
and furs.
The site seems to be thriving.
Yet “blighted” is the legal designa-
tion the village of Skokie is giving
it, in order to qualify for a 1% sales
tax hike at Old Orchard businesses
to pay for improvements to the ERIN HOOLEY/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
outdoor mall. Chicago demonstration
Monday, the Skokie Village
Board will consider whether to Ukrainian-born Halyna Stetsyuk, center, is comforted by her brother, Vasyl Stetsyuk, as hundreds of people gather Sunday in Daley
give final approval to the plan. Plaza in the Loop to protest the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Marina Lebedima, also Ukrainian, stands at right. Story on Page 3.
Some residents strongly oppose
the idea, but only one trustee
voted against it in a preliminary

Shelling halts evacuations

vote. With the mayor’s support,
the measure is likely to pass.
Shoppers around the Chicago
area should expect to see more
such public-private partnerships
to update malls, one industry
leader said, because without them,
shopping centers won’t survive.
“It’s being done or contemplated Food, water, other supplies running out in besieged port city
at every mall and lifestyle center in
the Midwest,” said Richard Spinell, By Yuras Karmanau “The latest wave of missile the fighting in Ukraine, where where Russian and Ukrainian
principal of Mid-America Real Associated Press strikes came as darkness fell,” Russia’s plan to quickly overrun forces had agreed to an 11-hour
Estate Group, which represents Ukrainian presidential adviser the country has been stymied cease-fire that would allow civil-
shopping centers across the LVIV, Ukraine — Russian Oleksiy Arestovich said on tele- by fierce resistance. Russia has ians and the wounded to be evac-
Midwest. “A lot have become func- forces stepped up shell- vision. made significant advances in uated.
tionally obsolete, and you need to ing of cities early Monday in The outskirts of Kyiv, Cherni- southern Ukraine and along But Russian attacks quickly
reinvent them.” Ukraine’s center, north and hiv in the north, Mykolaiv in the the coast, but many of its efforts closed the humanitarian corri-
Skokie’s proposal would bring south, a Ukrainian official said, south, and Kharkiv, the coun- have become stalled, including dor, Ukrainian officials said.
the sales tax rate to 11.25% for retail as a second attempt to evacuate try’s second-largest city, faced an immense military convoy that “There can be no ‘green corri-
and 13.25% for restaurants at the besieged civilians collapsed. intense shelling. Heavy artillery has been almost motionless for dors’ because only the sick brain
mall. Russian President Vladimir hit residential areas in Kharkiv days north of Kyiv. of the Russians decides when
The village would disburse Putin shifted blame for the war and shelling damaged a television Food, water, medicine and to start shooting and at whom,”
the money to the owner — to Ukraine and said Moscow’s tower, local officials said. almost all other supplies were in Interior Ministry adviser Anton
the international, billion-dol- invasion could be halted “only if The attacks dashed hopes desperately short supply in the
l a r, Pa r i s - h e a d q u a r t e re d Kyiv ceases hostilities.” that more people could escape southern port city of Mariupol, Turn to Ukraine, Page 12
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield —
for upgrading elements such as
heating and air conditioning, fire
suppression, electrical and data

Former first lady of Ukraine, a Chicago

service, facades, common areas,
landscaping and lighting, and for
demolition for new construction.

native, urges more action from West

The advantage to a such a busi-
ness district sales tax is that, unlike
tax increment financing, or TIF, it
doesn’t take property taxes from
other taxing bodies, and there-
fore is supported by local school
districts.
Despite its chic image, Old
Orchard faces the problems of
all retailers in losing sales to
online shoppers and due to recent
COVID-19 restrictions. In 2018,
Lord & Taylor left the mall, and
its store remained vacant. Barnes
& Noble recently departed, and
Amazon plans to close its two
stores there.
The mall typically generated
about $50 million a year in sales
tax, but that fell to about $36
million in 2020 due to COVID,
village officials said, and sales have
not fully recovered.
The site also is hit with property
taxes in Cook County that eat up
Turn to Tax, Page 6
‘The world cannot just
stand by and watch,’
Yushchenko says
By Angie Leventis Lourgos
Chicago Tribune
A former first lady of Ukraine
with deep roots in Chicago called
on the international community
to take stronger action against
Moscow, as Russia’s brutal inva-
sion threatens her nation’s inde-
pendence — and potentially
global order and security.
Kateryna Yushchenko, who
was born in the Humboldt Park
area and served as first lady of
Ukraine from 2005 to 2010,
thanked supporters in Chicago
and all over the world for their
protests, donations and messages
of solidarity with Ukrainians.
But Yushchenko, a former
White House and State Depart-
ment official, has been “very
distressed the West isn’t doing
enough,” she told the Tribune
in a recent telephone interview
from an undisclosed location
amid security concerns for her
and her family.
She urged ally nations to
impose more severe sanctions
against Russian President Vlad-
imir Putin and others in power,
as well as increase provisions and
weapons for Ukrainian troops.
She added that more interna-
tional companies should fully
cut ties with Russia, warning Kateryna Yushchenko, wife of then-Ukrainian President Viktor
Yuschenko, attends a gathering at the University of Chicago’s Graduate
Turn to Yushchenko, Page 4 School of Business on April 4, 2005. CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Pandemic erodes affordable rentals

Some landlords for Chicago’s apartments forced to three-flats. The buildings make
up a large portion of the country’s
change management style, sell units, study finds supply of unsubsidized affordable
housing, and many of the landlords
By Sarah Freishtat style to adapt or consider selling manage their properties in ways
Chicago Tribune altogether, a recent study found. that benefit tenants, such as limit-
That would mean one more ing rent increases, forgoing fees
Already disappearing before hurdle for tenants, and one more and being more flexible on partial
COVID-19, Chicago’s two-, three- challenge for communities as the or late payments, according to the
and four-flats, long seen as sources city looks to combat a shortage of study.
of affordable homeownership and affordable housing. But the basis for that manage-
rental opportunities, may emerge The findings were outlined in a ment style might be more precar-
from the pandemic with an iden- December report by researchers ious than it once seemed. As small
tity crisis. from the American Bar Founda- landlords grapple with financial
The uncertainty of the past two tion and the University of Illinois challenges during the pandemic,
Two- and three-flat apartment buildings line the 1200 block of West years could alter some of the signa- at Chicago, which examined small, some are considering reining in
Newport Avenue in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood. JOSE M. OSORIO/ ture benefits for renters as land- independently-owned rental prop-
CHICAGO TRIBUNE lords change their management erties in Chicago, such as two- and Turn to Apartments, Page 2

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politics, social issues, pop culture, race, family, new media In interviews with 51 small Chicago-
and prominent figures, as well as his personal life. area landlords during the pandemic,
researchers found 10 who said they
“10 Things You Might Not Know About Nearly would take steps such as raising rents,
Everything.” You may never need to know the human adding fees or screening tenants more
body contains a half-pound of salt, but that’s just one of closely. The researchers referred to
the obscure facts you’ll find about sports, history, religion, that figure as a “sizable minority,” and
politics, arts and culture, food and leisure, and science and said the shifts “have the potential to
technologyin this collection of columns from Mark Jacob undermine the relative affordability
and Stephan Benzkofer. and accessibility” of this type of rental
unit.
“Life Skills: How To Do Almost Anything” How do you “When landlords take these shifts
give a good wedding toast? How do you fix a clogged to more rigid approaches, they end up
drain? How do you bowl without hurting anyone? passing the risks of this crisis, the finan-
Questions like these make up this engaging do-it-yourself cial crisis, onto tenants,” researcher
guide. Allison Suppan Helmuth said.
The findings follow a 2021 study
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to hold onto their buildings, despite
pandemic challenges. Peg Olson, who
for more than four decades has owned
the West Rogers Park three-flat where
she lives, said whether she changes her
management philosophy will depend
on what the future brings. But she
knows she wants to continue helping
tenants as much as possible. And she
wants to keep her building, because
the alternative is to leave her longtime
home.
Before the pandemic, she agreed
to rent one of her units at a lower-
than-usual rate, she said. During the
pandemic, the tenant fell behind.
Olson, a former nurse, no longer
works regularly so she couldn’t pick
up extra shifts to cover her costs, she
said. She has had to weigh her grocery
list against her bills.
“I still have my mortgage, I still have
heating, I still have taxes,” she said.
Olson worked with a Rogers Park
organization and received pandemic
rental assistance in the second half of
2021, which she said helped her keep
her building.
Olson has long completed back-
ground checks and researched
prospective tenants, but she says she
should think more like a businessper-
son, rather than a nurse. She would like
to be able to pay her bills without feel-
ing like she is scraping by.
Still, she wants to try to continue
being flexible with tenants.
“I am a nurse, first and foremost,”
she said. “People need to be cared for.
People need compassion and caring.
There’s too much cruelty in the world
today. I don’t want to be part of the
problem, I want to be part of the solu-
tion.”
Olson’s and Fisk’s experiences
mirror what the nonprofit homeown-
ership organization Neighborhood
Housing Services of Chicago has seen,
said Chief Operating Officer Donna
Clarke. While some small landlords
are getting by, others are struggling or
pulling rental units off the market, she
said.
The study’s findings are a concern
for the organization, which has teamed
with other groups to try to preserve
and rehab two- and four-flats, main-
Peg Olson with her plant collection at her home, a three-flat in West Rogers Park,
where she rents out the other two units. “I don’t want to be part of the problem, I
want to be part of the solution,” she says. ERIN HOOLEY/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
tain rental affordability, and help
homeowners build wealth.
“I think it ends up pushing out,
unfortunately, the Black and Latinx
community,” she said. “It makes home-
ownership that much more difficult
for them. It destabilizes their housing.
Because a lot of these units are falling
in these communities.”
An owner who decides to screen
tenants more closely, fearing they
might not otherwise be able to pay
rent, could make it more difficult for
a renter in the country illegally to find
a home, she said. Requiring security
deposits can be prohibitive for some
renters.
But less flexibility on the part of
landlords doesn’t have to limit afford-
ability, Clarke said. Formalizing a lease
can help both tenants and landlords.
More research will be needed to see
what ultimately plays out, Reosti said.
More landlords reported changing
their management practices toward
the end of their research in 2021, and
it remains to be seen whether that
trend will continue or whether access
to more rental assistance will cause it
to shift.
Landlords said clearer guidance
about rental assistance and stronger
mortgage protections would have
helped, the study found.
“We heard people say they felt like
they were on their own,” Helmuth said.
Eviction mediation programs,
which help resolve disputes with
tenants before an eviction takes place,
have also helped, especially when they
include money for rental assistance,
Reosti said.
Fisk agreed. He didn’t oppose the
moratorium on evictions that kept
his tenants in place, but said better
communication and consideration of
small landlords would have helped. A
direct payment program to homeown-
ers could have allowed him to cover his
expenses.
“We all go through hard times,” he
said. “And for me, this has changed my
outlook on ownership and the strug-
gles with that.”
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People hold a large Ukrainian flag as hundreds of people
gather in Daley Plaza on Sunday to protest Russia’s invasion.
‘It’s a cry for
humanity’
Hundreds of protesters gather at Daley
Plaza to rally against Russian invasion
By Tatyana Turner
Chicago Tribune
Roughly 1,000 protest-
ers, most of them donning
blue and yellow, stood in
Daley Plaza to rally against
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
on Sunday afternoon.
Children held up hand-
crafted signs that said “I stand
with Ukraine” while adults
held up signs saying “Close
the sky” and “No fly zone.”
Protesters are pushing for
NATO to make the airspace
over Ukraine a no-fly zone
Former WTMX radio host’s $10 million suit dismissed
McGurren alleged
defamation
By Christy Gutowski
and Tracy Swartz
Chicago Tribune
A federal judge has
dismissed Chicago radio
host Melissa McGurren’s
defamation lawsuit against
her former employer,
Hubbard Radio Chicago,
whom she alleged falsely
branded her a liar while
responding to her harass-
ment claims against former
co-host Eric Ferguson.
McGurren brought the
$10 million claim in October
in response to an email in
which the company told its
staff that it had “thoroughly
investigated” her U.S. Equal
Employment Opportunity
Commission complaint
against Ferguson and did
“not agree with Melissa’s
characterization of events.”
McGurren alleged the
statement attacked her
credibility and integrity
and that a thorough review
“was never conducted or,
at a minimum, was a sham
investigation,” according to
her lawsuit.
In his recent writ-
ten ruling, Judge Ronald
Guzman found Hubbard
Vice President Jeff
England’s comments were
nonactionable statements
of opinion and did not fall
into any of the five catego-
ries that Illinois law deems
to be defamatory.
The judge granted
Hubbard’s motion to
dismiss McGurren’s lawsuit
on March 1. Her attorney,
Carmen D. Caruso, said
in a statement he is disap-
pointed in the court’s ruling
and is “reviewing the path
forward. And we are confi-
dent of our client’s underly-
ing claims against Hubbard
and look forward to our
hearing in arbitration.”
Attorneys for Hubbard,
meanwhile, quickly seized
on the ruling as a victory. On
$1M bail for man accused of shooting cops
By William Lee
Chicago Tribune
A judge ordered a $1
million cash bail on Sunday
for a South Side man
accused of opening fire on
two Chicago police officers
and wounding both after his
handgun fell to ground in
front of one of the officers.
Kailon Harris-Caldwell
was absent from his bail
hearing Sunday at the Leigh-
ton Criminal Court Building,
having been hospitalized for
CHICAGOLAND
for Russian aircraft.
The event was what
Ukrainian native Olexande-
ria Kolenskyj called “a cry
for humanity.”
“I am shocked about
this war because it started
suddenly,” Kolenskyj said.
“I came from Ukraine just
three months ago and every-
thing was fine.”
Kolenskyj described
Ukraine as a beautiful,
developed country full of
people and lots of tourists.
“And now it’s ruined,”
Kolenskyj said. “It’s very
Friday, they asked another
federal judge presiding
over an earlier defamation
lawsuit against Hubbard to
adopt Guzman’s reasoning
and dismiss that claim as
well.
In that earlier federal
lawsuit, former assistant
producer Cynthia DeNi-
colo alleged Hubbard
defamed her in statements
that it “found no evidence
to corroborate allegations of
illegal workplace conduct”
after she accused Ferguson
of coercing her into sexual
acts in 2004.
DeNicolo also has filed
a separate lawsuit against
Ferguson in Cook County
court. Ferguson was side-
lined from the morning
program he led for 25 years
in late October, shortly after
the Tribune reported that
DeNicolo had sued him
earlier in the year.
More allegations against
Ferguson followed from
three other women who used
to work at The Mix, includ-
ing McGurren, who said in
court filings that she left the
show after Ferguson created
an unbearably hostile work
environment. She and the
other women allege manage-
ment protected him because
of his popularity.
Ferguson has not spoken
publicly about the alle-
gations, but through his
lawyers and in legal filings
he has denied inappropriate
workplace conduct.
Station management
initially said Ferguson would
be off the air through Octo-
ber. Then, in late October,
a statement from Ferguson
was circulated to station
employees announcing he
planned to “step away from
the show” and felt “confident
that at the end of the day the
courts will rule and the right
outcome will prevail.”
WTMX afternoon host
Chris Petlak succeeded
Ferguson as host of the
morning show in January.
DeNicolo contends
Ferguson orchestrated
back pain after his arrest,
authorities said.
Harris-Caldwell, 24, of
Chicago’s Burnside neigh-
borhood, faces two counts of
attempted murder of a police
officer after he allegedly shot
two uniformed officers after
an encounter outside the
Original Maxwell Street hot
dog stand in the 3800 block
of West Harrison Street early
Friday.
Prosecutors sought a peti-
tion denying bail for Harris
Caldwell, but Judge Kelly
Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Monday, March 7, 2022  3
Newly married Oleksandr Bytsko, of Kyiv, Ukraine, center, puts his arm around his wife, Julia Poliakova, as they stand with his
son, Marko, left, in Daley Plaza on Sunday to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The couple wed in Kyiv in February and were
honeymooning in Egypt when the war began. They arrived in Chicago on Thursday. ERIN HOOLEY/CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS
difficult to accept.” over the border to Poland, from Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, church in Kyiv. On Feb. 23,
Kolenskyj, who is from Germany, somewhere, with went to the rally with his the couple flew to Egypt for
western Ukraine, said that one bag and children in their son, Marko, and new wife, their honeymoon. And on
although she was in her hands.” Julia Poliakova. Feb. 24, the war began.
native land not too long ago, Kolenskyj said each day “We are here to ask people “There was no possibil-
she can’t imagine what it’s that passes gets scarier for of the world to try and close ity for us to come back to
like now. her because she worries the sky,” Bytsko said. “This Ukraine,” Bytsko said.
“Today, 38 children were about her loved ones. war has to stop.” But Bytsko said he wants
killed and 67 were wounded,” “I have relatives out there, Bytsko landed in Chicago to make his way back in one
Kolenskyj said. “Intelligent my brother lives out there,” with his family on Thursday. week.
people in Ukraine (who Kolenskyj said tearfully. It’s a trip they did not plan “I think my wife will
don’t) like to fight were “Every day (Russia’s military) to take. stay here and I will go back
bombed, killed and pressed is getting closer and closer. On Feb. 22, Bytsko and to Ukraine to fight for my
to move from their home Oleksandr Bytsko, who is Poliakova got married at a country,” Bytsko said.
her dismissal in May 2020
using COVID-19 as a pretext.
ment that it disagreed
with her “characterization
“Taken in context, a
reasonable reader would
edge the existence of the
EEOC claim, convey to
Her suit against Fergu- of events” regarding her not understand the internal the radio station’s employ-
son states that in 2004 she EEOC complaint. In grant- email by England to have ees that the matter is being
stopped providing oral sex ing Hubbard’s motion to been made for the purpose investigated, and indicate
in response to his demands, dismiss the lawsuit, Guzman of causing harm to (McGur- that the radio station does
for which he allegedly used ruled the company’s emailed ren’s) reputation or lowering not agree with (McGur-
the code words “I need a statement to employees did her standing in the commu- ren’s) interpretation,” the
back rub.” She said Ferguson not defame her. nity, but rather to acknowl- judge wrote.
taunted her with the phrase
throughout her tenure at the
station.
In her federal defamation
claim, DeNicolo included
a written statement from
a former sales employee
who said Ferguson groped
the employee at WTMX’s
2003 Christmas party in full
view of her husband and
co-workers.
McGurren worked for
The Mix for more than two
decades. Her abrupt depar-
ture from the airwaves
stunned her fans in Decem-
ber 2020. When she left,
Hubbard said in a public
statement it was surprised
and disappointed she had
Know Dementia: Who,
declined a contract exten-
sion — a comment McGur-
ren disputes.
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Yushchenko
from Page 1
that Ukrainians are not only
fighting for their survival
but for “freedom, peace and
democracy in Europe.”
“The world cannot just
stand by and watch,” she
said. “If the world does not
stop Putin here, you will
have to fight him in your
own country.”
Her husband, Viktor
Yushchenko, served as
Ukraine’s third president,
surviving an apparent assas-
sination attempt during
a tumultuous campaign
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against a Russian-backed
candidate, which spurred
a wave of protests and civil
unrest known as the nation’s
Orange Revolution.
Now that hard-earned
and often perilous quest for
Ukrainian sovereignty is at
risk.
Kateryna Yushchenko
said millions of Ukrainians
are sheltering in basements
and subways, fearing for
their lives and the future of
their nation.
“The Russian army is
aiming missiles at schools,
hospitals, apartment build-
ings, ambulances, orphan-
ages,” she said. “The army is
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shooting at buses and people
on the street. These are war
crimes … and I truly believe
that Putin’s goal is to destroy
the free and democratic
world that we’ve built since
World War II, and destroy
the rule of law that has given
us peace and prosperity.”
Return to Ukraine
Kateryna Yushchenko’s
parents came to Chicago as
refugees sponsored by the
Ukrainian Orthodox Church
in 1956. She was born here
in 1961, and later moved to
northwest suburban Mount
Prospect, where she grad-
708-221-9144
uated from Prospect High
School.
In the 1970s, Yushchenko
twice visited Ukraine while
it was under Soviet rule.
Meeting her extended
family and seeing her
ancestral homeland “made
a strong impression,” she
recalled.
“It made me dream about
coming back to Ukraine,”
she said.
After earning her master’s
degree in business admin-
istration at the University
of Chicago Booth School
of Business in 1986, Yush-
chenko held a series of posi-
tions in Washington, D.C.,
630-225-7414
including serving as an
adviser on Eastern Euro-
pean ethnic affairs in the
Reagan White House and
in the human rights office of
the State Department.
She went on to co-found
the nonprofit U.S.-Ukraine
Foundation and moved to
Kyiv as the Soviet Union
began to crumble, just before
Ukraine declared its inde-
pendence in August 1991.
“I can say that maybe
other than giving birth to
my children, this was the
happiest day of my life,”
she said. “When Ukraine
became independent, things
changed so quickly and
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that was earth shattering
for many people. Because
suddenly there were oppor-
tunities. People could now
travel. They could choose
their jobs. They could
choose where they spent
their vacation. They could
read anything they wanted.
They could watch any kind
of films or television that
they wanted. It was almost
like a century of change that
happened in a few years.”
Amid this whirlwind
of change and breakneck
reform, she met her husband
Viktor Yushchenko, who
was then head of the central
bank. They married in
1998 and have three chil-
dren together; he has two
children from a previous
marriage.
Her husband went on to
serve as prime minister and
then president of Ukraine,
winning a turbulent elec-
tion that nearly proved fatal
for him.
Poison, revolution
In his bid for president,
Viktor Yushchenko faced a
Russian-backed candidate,
then-Prime Minister Viktor
Yanukovych.
Following a dinner with
Ukrainian officials in Kyiv
in September 2004, Viktor
Yushchenko fell mysteri-
ously ill.
“When they kissed, his
wife noticed a strange
taste on his lips, something
medicinal and unpleasant,”
the Tribune reported in
December 2004.
“I asked him what that
could be,” Kateryna Yush-
chenko told the Tribune at
the time. “And he said, ‘Oh,
maybe it was a little wine or
cognac that I had.’ I said, ‘No,
it had much more a metallic
taste to it.’ ”
He was transported to
Austria for medical treat-
ment, and testing later
determined he suffered from
dioxin poisoning, indicating
he had ingested poison. He
suffered severe gastrointes-
tinal problems, and his face
was disfigured and jaun-
diced, but he survived what
was widely believed to be an
assassination attempt.
In a runoff election
between the two candidates,
Yanukovych was declared
the winner amid accu-
sations of election fraud,
igniting mass protests that
were known as the nation’s
Orange Revolution.
Ukraine’s Supreme Court
ruled the election invalid
and ordered a new runoff,
which Yushchenko won. He
was sworn in as president in
January 2005.
“I am particularly happy
that the Ukrainian nation
has risen from its knees,” he
told a crowd of Chicago-area
supporters during an April
2005 appearance at the
Palmer House Hilton. “We
also rose from our knees
because you were by us.”
His opponent, Yanu-
kovych, went on to serve as
president of Ukraine from
2010 until 2014, when he was
ousted from office and exiled
to Russia. His refusal to sign
a European Union agree-
ment was seen as caving to
Russia and ignited a wave
of 2013 and 2014 protests at
the Maidan, Kyiv’s Indepen-
dence Square, which culmi-
nated in the nation’s 2014
Revolution of Dignity.
In 2019, a Ukrainian court
found Yanukovych guilty of
treason.
But various interna-
tional media have recently
reported that Putin is hoping
to reinstate Yanukovych as
Ukraine’s next president.
Ultimately, the former
first lady believes that
Ukraine will persevere and
remain a sovereign nation,
in part because “every single
Ukrainian is going to fight to
the death.”
“I am absolutely certain
that Ukraine will win, that
we will be independent,”
Kateryna Yushchenko said.
“Ukraine will never ever be
subservient or subject to
Russia again. I just fear that
there’s going to be a terrible
loss of blood — destruction
of our cities, of our monu-
ments — and mass murder
of our people before that
happens.”
She described Kyiv as “a
beautiful city,” similar in
some ways to Chicago. Both
are about the same size in
population; and Chicago and
Kyiv became Sister Cities in
1991.
“Very often that I thought
that Kyiv did remind me of
Chicago,” she said. “It’s a
beautiful city. It’s a warm
city. People are very warm
and welcoming just the way
they are in Chicago.”
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com
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8  Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Monday, March 7, 2022
Principal
picked for
Hinsdale
South
Hardy comes from
Proviso East High
By Zareen Syed
Pioneer Press
The Hinsdale High School
District 86 board has appointed
the new principal of Hinsdale
South High School.
Patrick Hardy, former prin-
cipal for Proviso East High
School in Maywood, will take
on the role July 1, when current
principal Arwen Pokorny Lyp
will officially step down to take
the same position at Downers
Grove South High School.
Hardy’s appointment was
approved at the board’s Feb. 24
meeting
Before board president Terri
Walker called the vote for
Hardy’s approval, she turned
to Cheryl Moore, Assistant
Superintendent of Human
Resources, who said the inter-
view process was thorough
and involved all the stake-
holders of the Hinsdale South
community.
“Dr. Hardy will add incredi-
ble value to the district,” Moore
said, adding that students, staff
and parents had a say in the
decision.
The board voted unan-
imously to give Hardy a
two-year contract with a start-
ing base salary of $176,000.
Before voting yes, member
Jeff Waters shouted out to Eric
Martzolf, South’s assistant
principal for curriculum, who
was also a candidate for the top
spot at South.
“I wanted to give a nod to
Eric Martzolf,” Waters said.
“There are a lot of good candi-
dates in the field. He’s been
here for about 13 years. We’re
getting a tremendous person
in Dr. Hardy. Hats off to him
for what it’s worth. My condo-
lences to a great leader here,
Mr. Martzolf.”
Hardy was in attendance at
the meeting Thursday, where
he thanked the board directly
for the opportunity to lead
Hinsdale South.
“I sincerely thank you for
every single minute you spent
contemplating, imagining and
thinking about the future of
South and what it will take to
achieve the schools goals as
well as the districts goals,” he
said. “Thank you to the search
committee and the district’s
leadership team and every
community member who
contributed to the gauntlet
— I mean the process — that I
enjoyed very, very much.”
Hardy’s comments garnered
smiles from both the board
members and several of those
in the audience.
“Please know that I am proud
and humbled at this moment. I
Intend to work hard, I intend to
have a little fun but also please
know that I feel the weight
of history in this moment. I
acknowledge the high stan-
dards that so many phenom-
enal educators have set long
before I arrived,” Hardy added.
Hardy has 15 years of experi-
ence as a principal and instruc-
tional leader in a variety of K-12
settings, which include his six
year stint at Proviso East High
School and five years spent at
Rockford School District 205
(five years).
He currently serves as the
executive director of equity and
student success for Oak Park
and River Forest High School,
and began his career in educa-
tion as a teacher in Boston,
Massachusetts.
“He has an extensive back-
ground in education, a wealth
of experience in a variety of
leadership roles and a proven
track record for success.
I believe these qualities,
coupled with his impressive
array of accomplishments,
strong commitment to educa-
tion and passionate advocacy
for children, will help foster
the school’s continued growth
and support our students in the
pursuit of their ideal future,”
Superintendent Prentiss said
in an email.
Patrick Hardy, former principal
of Proviso East High School, will
take on the Hinsdale South role
July 1. CONTRIBUTED
Oak Park library seeks new director
Former chief retiring
after 8 years of service
By Kyra Senese
The Oak Park Public Library is
beginning the search for its next
executive director in March after
David Seleb, known for a focus on
equity and other accomplishments
during his eight-year tenure,
retired on Feb. 25.
Seleb joined the Oak Park
library as executive director, and
had previously worked at other
Chicago-area libraries for about
33 years, said Matthew Fruth, the
library’s board president.
Seleb has become known for
his work supporting the library’s
anti-racism and equity initiatives,
Fruth said, as well as ensuring the
library serves as a comfortable
gathering space for the commu-
nity’s teens.
“He and his leadership team
recognized that there was a
strong sense in the community
that there were still a lot of equity
issues going on that needed to be
addressed,” Fruth explained.
“Conversations have been
happening in the schools, but
maybe not in a lot of other public
spaces.”
The library’s leadership recently
put out a request for proposals to
search firms to help determine
LAKE COUNTY
Two YouthBuild participants work on an affordable housing project in the Waukegan area. YouthBuild is for ages 17 to 24. YOUTHBUILD LAKE COUNTY
For students who struggle or
drop out, an alternate path
YouthBuild program helps young adults ‘transition into a job, trade school or college’
By Steve Sadin
For News-Sun
Traditional schooling did not
work for LaTorya Crawford of
Waukegan and Alan Buenrostro
of Beach Park, but they found the
right formula for education and
training for the workforce through
YouthBuild Lake County.
Buenrostro is now a journey-
man concrete carpenter earning
$49.50 an hour. Crawford found
a path to her high school diploma
at 17, and is now seeking work as
a medical assistant on her way to
a career as a real estate entrepre-
neur.
YouthBuild mentors young
adults with low-income back-
grounds — from places like Wauke-
gan, North Chicago, Zion, Gurnee
and Round Lake — who are often
high school dropouts, assisting
them with education, job training
and career planning. It is based in
North Chicago.
Tameka Wilson, YouthBuild’s
executive director, said the orga-
nization’s eight-to-12-month
program helps people between the
ages of 17 and 24, putting them on a
path toward stability and success.
It is a combination of academics,
counseling and work. There is a
focus on high-demand jobs.
“Many of them dropped out of
high school,” Wilson said. “We
want them to get an industry-rec-
ognized credential and hands-on
experience. From us, they tran-
sition into a job, trade school or
college. They work in health care,
transportation, the trades and
logistics.”
who the next executive director
will be, and while the selection
process could take months, Fruth
is optimistic about the next steps.
“We got a number of responses
back,” he said.
He explained that the leader-
ship is still in the phase of choos-
ing which firm will be the best fit
for the library’s process.
Plans surrounding Seleb’s
retirement have been discussed
at multiple library board meet-
ings, including the Feb. 22 meet-
ing. At the meeting, Fruth said
several requests for proposals for
an executive search firm had been
submitted.
Library board member Sarah
Glavin asked Seleb for his opinion
on whether future executive direc-
tor candidates must have earned a
Master’s of Library and Informa-
tion Science to be considered for
the position of executive director.
Seleb said the decision regard-
ing the educational requirements
should be clearly communicated
to the selected search firm, accord-
ing to board meeting minutes.
On March 8, the library will hold
a special board meeting to inter-
view finalist search firms. The
board will ask questions about the
firms’ different approaches, how
they would work with the library
staff and possible community
engagement, Fruth said.
“We want to make sure that we
As part of the YouthBuild
program, Wilson said participants
construct and renovate affordable
housing projects around Wauke-
gan and North Chicago. They
also learn practical lessons like
managing finances or how to get
eyeglasses. Once they get them,
things can change quickly.
“Teachers assumed they were
goofing off, when they just couldn’t
see very well,” he said. “No one
realized they couldn’t see what
was written on the board. We
want to get them out of the cycle
of poverty.”
Along with academics and
building or renovating afford-
able homes, Wilson said there are
sessions where participants are
able to talk about issues important
to them. They learn they are not
alone, and offer solutions to each
other.
Before they are accepted into the
program, Crawford and Buenros-
tro said they must succeed in a
mental toughness session to show
they are motivated to make the
commitment to succeed at Youth-
Build.
Working on the affordable
housing projects for YouthBuild is
what set Buenrostro on his career
path. Growing up in Waukegan
since second grade, school went
well for him until he became a
teenage single father in 2015. He
was raising his infant son and
working at Menards retrieving
carts.
“I was always tired,” he said. “I
was working and sleeping, and
didn’t have time for school. I was
helping a woman in the parking
David Seleb is retiring after an eight-
year tenure as executive director
at the Oak Park Public Library. TINA
HARLE
also get a really broad range of
candidates that come forward,”
Fruth said.
The executive director posi-
tion will be posted for candidates
to apply after the search firm is
selected. At the time that Seleb was
brought onboard, Fruth said the
library saw candidates applying for
the role from across the country.
“I’m fully confident the work
that we have done — as an early
adopter of late fee elimination, of
mental health work that has been
pioneered in our in our library and
this anti-racism and equity work —
I’m fully confident we will attract
a national pool of candidates, and
I’m really looking forward to it,”
lot and she told me about Youth-
Build.”
With more and more difficulty
in school, Buenrostro said he was
attending the Alternative/Optional
Education Center program in
Waukegan Community Unit
School District 60 for students
who need to “get back on track” to
attain proper grade level, accord-
ing to the district website. He grad-
uated from Waukegan High School
in 2016.
A few months later, Buenros-
tro was a YouthBuild participant.
“I was always tired.
I was working and
sleeping, and didn’t
have time for school.”
— Alan Buenrostro of Beach Park
Working on a project, he was doing
concrete work with a group of
other people. It was the first time
he tried manual labor, and took to
it.
“I liked getting my hands dirty,”
he said. “They taught me construc-
tion techniques, and how to use a
trowel. We do the forms for build-
ings. Then I did a project at home
with my father and grandpa.”
After nine months in Youth-
Build, Buenrostro had a job with
Blinderman Construction as an
apprentice carpenter. He was a
union member with the benefits
flowing from membership. Now
Fruth said.
Fruth noted that the library is
open to the community roughly
355 days per year and the leader-
ship team believes it is an import-
ant space to provide, particularly
for youth who may not have the
ability to participate in after-
school or extracurricular activi-
ties.
He noted that having a sense
of place in the community that
doesn’t require kids to spend
money to gather is helpful.
The library staff is hoping to
secure a replacement for Seleb
by June or July, Fruth said, which
would give the board staff time to
acquaint the new hire with the
upcoming year’s budget process.
“We have a really skilled and
experienced leadership team and
a set of department managers that
will be able to step right up and
provide that information around
the budget that our new director
will need to make things work
with a board,” Fruth said.
In the meantime, Fruth said the
library has extended an invitation
for an interim director position to
Lori Pulliam, the current director
of public services and programs.
The board will vote on March 8 to
name Pulliam as interim director.
“Along with her many, many
years of experience at the Oak Park
Library, we feel very comfortable
with her stepping in,” Fruth said.
he is a journeyman carpenter
earning $49.50 an hour.
Still a single father, he is raising
two sons in the Beach Park home
he purchased in 2020.
Born in Chicago, Crawford, 17,
lived in a number of places until
moving to Waukegan two years
ago. Before the pandemic, she
said she did well academically,
but then schools closed and she
had to adjust to learning through
a computer screen.
“I just wasn’t able to focus,” she
said. “I needed to be face-to-face.”
After a friend told her about
YouthBuild, Crawford applied and
was accepted in April of last year.
She learned a new way of learn-
ing with a computer, earning her
high school diploma through Penn
Foster’s online program.
“You took a course at your own
pace,” she said. “You took a test at
the end, and then you took another
course.”
Completing her YouthBuild
program in January, Crawford is
using the job-hunting skills she
acquired there to get work as a
medical assistant. She said she
wants to gain the savings and
stability necessary to achieve her
long-term professional real estate
goal using some of the skills she
gained working on construction
projects.
“I want to flip houses,” Crawford
said. “I want to own a few places,
and rent them out.”
Wilson said YouthBuild has a
success rate of more than 90%,
with over 75% of participants
placed in a job or continuing their
education after completion.
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

Putting politicians the cleanup of the mess we are

on notice
We have now finally seen
longtime Illinois power broker
Mike Madigan indicted. Long-
time Chicago alderman and City
Hall power broker Ed Burke
has been indicted. A member
of the Daley family, Ald. Patrick
Daley Thompson, was recently
convicted of federal crimes. State
Sen. Tom Cullerton, the cousin
of longtime Illinois political force
John Cullerton, pleaded guilty to
corruption-related charges.
If even Daleys, Burkes, Culler-
tons and Madigans can be caught
and prosecuted, elected officials
everywhere in Illinois should
Flight attendants hand out refreshments to a packed Delta Air Lines flight on May 21, 2021. Delta wants all air now have pause about abusing
carriers to share no-fly lists with the FAA. KENT NISHIMURA / LOS ANGELES TIMES their office. Thank you to the
federal prosecutors involved in
Unruly airline passengers are a problem. these cases. They continue to go
after corruption at the highest
creating.
— Mary Stamler, Chicago
Why take down
so many trees?
Anyone who has driven by the
area around Hobson and College
roads in Naperville likely remem-
bers the beautiful stand of mature
growth forest. I used to purposely
drive down that area just for the
aura.
Well, I say “remember”
because it is no more — destroyed
by the same agency with
“Preserve” in its name. In their
infinite wisdom, the naturalists of
the Forest Preserve District aim
to “restore” everything to the ice
age. They have stripped out acres
of mature forest.
I tried to find out what is

But a government no-fly

levels in Illinois and are doing happening. I got silence or that
a tremendous job prosecuting “they are clearing out invasive
those who use elected office to species.” That would be great if
illegally enrich themselves. that were all they were doing.

list is not the solution.

The flight from Chicago to
Connecticut isn’t long, but it
must have seemed like forever
for the flight attendants stuck on
board with a passenger who got
belligerent when told no alcohol
was available.
Even after they allowed him
to inspect the beverage cart for
confirmation, he continued to
remove his face mask and berate
the crew. In November, the
Federal Aviation Administra-
tion fined this man $9,000 for
his disruptive behavior. United
could decide to ban him from
ever flying on the airline again.
Case closed? Not if the
government takes the bait being
dangled by some airline execu-
tives and employees who want
a new national “no-fly list” for
travelers guilty of crossing them
in the skies.
Led by Delta Air Lines Chief
Executive Ed Bastian, a lobby-
ing effort is underway for a
“comprehensive list” of indi-
viduals whom the U.S. would
ban from air travel, potentially
forever.
On the surface, canceling
passengers who disrupt flights
has an undeniable allure. Who
wouldn’t enjoy seeing that
loudmouth on the United flight
banned from ever setting foot in
an airport again?
Consider, though, the poten-
tial for unintended conse-
quences. For nearly two decades,
the federal government has
maintained an official no-fly list
aimed at grounding terrorists.
Seemed reasonable, in the after-
math of 9/11.
In practice, the list uses vague
and undisclosed criteria, and
several years ago a federal judge
declared its process for redress
unconstitutional. The list report-
edly is packed with Muslims
of Arab, Middle Eastern and
South Asian heritage, because, as
everyone knows, especially after
the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol,
terrorists couldn’t possibly be
white and Christian.
Some allege abuses by law
enforcement. A recent lawsuit
accused the FBI of using the
list to pressure a U.S. citizen of
Lebanese descent into becoming
an informant. For more than two
years, Ahmad Chebli, a Mich-
igan auto engineer, could not
travel by air for his work, to see
family and friends, or to fulfill
his religious pilgrimage obliga-
tion. The feds took off his name
shortly after the lawsuit was
filed.
A new no-fly list would give
the airlines a powerful tool for
the same kind of overreach,
racial profiling and violations of
due process — reminding us of
the Chicago Police Department’s
shamefully bloated and inac-
curate database of alleged gang
members.
These are the same airlines,
remember, that periodically melt
down, canceling flights while
blaming the weather, air traffic
control and illnesses among
their crews, as opposed to taking
responsibility for mechanical
problems and unofficial work
stoppages. They rely on byzan-
tine “conditions of carriage”
contracts to avoid giving none-
lite customers richly deserved
refunds and compensation, or
rebooking stranded passengers
onto rival airlines.
As for dealing with those who
fail to comply with instructions
from airline employees, the
record is problematic. Dr. David
Dao was booked and seated on a
United flight at Chicago O’Hare
International Airport when
he was ordered off the plane
to make room for an airline
employee. The airline called in
security officers who broke his
nose and teeth while dragging
him away.
Fortunately for the Kentucky
physician, viral video of the 2017
incident made it obvious that
United had blown it. The airline
apologized, promised to change
its ways and settled the lawsuit
Dao filed. Not everyone who gets
on the wrong side of a customer
service agent or flight attendant
receives such satisfaction.
At the same time, those
front-line workers deserve our
sympathy and support for the
abuse heaped on them, which
got worse during the pandemic.
Thousands of incidents were
reported to the FAA last year,
as arguments with anti-mask
hard-liners became depress-
ingly routine. The same decline
in civility that is showing up in
many public settings has flown
into the air as well.
We believe strong action is
warranted, but that should not
mean another federal no-fly list.
Airlines already maintain lists
of passengers they have decided
to ban, which is their right as
private businesses.
Delta’s Bastian observes
that, in some cases, those same
passengers can evade a ban by
flying on other carriers. Leave
it to an airline CEO to over-
look how passengers often have
few options for getting to their
destinations. The airline bans
are powerful deterrents on their
own, and the FAA can impose
fines on top of them.
Further, the law already
provides tough penalties for
those convicted of serious
crimes at airports and aboard
aircraft. To the extent stron-
ger enforcement is needed,
the Justice Department is best
equipped to bring cases while
ensuring due process for the
accused.
Here’s another idea: restrict
the booze. As almost every
frequent flyer knows, some
people can’t resist celebrating
the wonders of flight by drinking
to excess and making everyone
around them miserable.
Flight attendants can cut off
drunk passengers any time, and
they should. For those deter-
mined to tank up at airport bars,
which should not be serving
alcohol at breakfast time, check
their boarding passes and make
sure they are sober before they
head down the jetway . Such
simple steps could go a long way
toward heading off trouble at the
gate and on board, with no Big
Brother list required.
— Kevin Coyne, president, Safe
Suburbs USA Political Action
Committee
Harming
drinking water
Thank you for last Monday’s
front-page story (“Cities seek
alternatives to toxic road salt”)
about our winter use of salt
on roads and walkways and
its effects on our water. I am
concerned about activities that
decrease water quality and hope-
ful that we can correct harmful
behaviors.
The story quotes water
resource specialist Scott Kuyken-
dall, who warns, “If we continue
to behave the way we are, we’re
going to be causing a lot of prob-
lems for future generations to
have to clean up after us. ... We
should be taking care of our own
mess.”
So true. Not only regarding
behaviors that affect our water,
but also activities affecting the
air, soil and biodiversity of our
common home.
— Carol Richart, Dowers Grove
Make road salt
less toxic
Regarding the use of toxic road
salt, it’s not a problem limited to
roads. The amount of salt spread
by city workers on sidewalks
around parks and in public places
such as beneath the Metra over-
passes is obscene. At Ravenswood
and Wilson, there is so much salt
the sidewalk isn’t even visible.
If the city is serious about the
problem, workers should be more
conscientious and not so waste-
ful. An ecological type of salt less
damaging to the environment
and the water supply should be
used. The higher cost would be
mitigated by using less. It would
also be less costly for future
generations who will be left with
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You don’t need to cut down
every tree to do that. Apologists
for the district attacked me for
questioning. They say that “these
are experts. They know what they
are doing.”
Time for the public to put the
Forest Preserve District in its
place. It’s your money.
— Jeffrey Crowell, Naperville
Making baseball
great again
Some people are Christians
and some Jews or Muslims. I’m
a baseball fan. My churches are
major league ballparks. My cathe-
drals are Fenway, Yankee Stadium
and, of course, Wrigley Field.
But arguments between billion-
aire owners and millionaire
players threaten the start of the
season and maybe the year. Both
sides ignore the major compo-
nent of the game: the fans. If our
voices are raised, maybe both
sides will pay attention.
Here’s one plan to get players
on the field and fans in the stands.
First, appoint an independent
arbitrator to resolve all financial
issues. Then make changes to
speed up an ever-bloated game
that now runs three hours or
more. Install a video timer that
requires pitchers to speed up
their delivery to a pitch every
20 seconds. Lower the pitching
mound but open the strike zone
to its former size — letters to the
knees. If umpires won’t enforce
the new strike zone, replace
them.
Outlaw shifting. Allow teams
just three relievers per game. Cut
commercial time to 90 seconds
between innings and make up for
lost revenue by doubling ad rates.
Cut ticket prices in half for chil-
dren 12 and under. Get rid of team
mascots; they are an embarrass-
ment!
Remember: If they rebuild it,
we will come!
— Art Cerf, Park Ridge

ABOUT DESANTIS’ KAREN MOMENT

EDITORIAL CARTOON Ron DeSantis had a Karen moment.

The governor on Wednesday was supposed to make a run-of-the-
mill announcement at the University of South Florida about state
investments in cyber security workforce education. A group of high
school students stood in the back wearing masks.
The governor was triggered.
As he walked to the podium, DeSantis stopped, faced the students —
and ranted.
“You do not have to wear those masks,” the leader of Florida said,
jabbing his finger in their faces. “Please take them off. Honestly, it’s not
doing anything. We’ve got to stop with this COVID theater. So if you
wanna wear it, fine, but this is ridiculous.”
He did everything but demand to “speak to the manager.”
How dare those youngsters ruin the governor’s photo-op by wear-
ing pieces of cloth or surgical fabric over their noses and mouths? After
DeSantis’ outburst, some of the students obliged and removed their
masks with embarrassed smiles.
Others kept their masks on. After all, it’s their choice, right, gover-
nor? You did say “if you wanna wear it, fine” — even though your atti-
tude said just the opposite, as you stood there in your official capacity
as governor. And as you used those young people to advance your
agenda …
DeSantis’ attitude was classic Karen — the slang for self-centered,
entitled white women who berate service workers and call 911 on Black
people. During the pandemic, a new breed of Karens has emerged, the
ones set off by other people wearing masks …
Unlike anti-maskers, maskers don’t put other people’s health at risk.
So let them be, governor. Save your anti-mask, anti-vaccine diatribes
for Fox FOX News. The only one looking ridiculous is you.
DANA SUMMERS/TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY Miami Herald Editorial Board
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OPINION

Members of Yes for Independent Maps place pages containing hundreds of thousands of signatures into a long metal binding apparatus at their office on April 30, 2014, on the
near west side of Chicago. ALEX GARCIA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

To prevent a repeat of the Madigan debacle,

ethics must control state government
By Madeleine Doubek
Let’s be clear: Michael Madigan
held sway in Springfield for decades
because of control. That control, at
its base, began with drawing districts
that the former House speaker knew
would elect a majority of loyalists who
would keep him in power.
Nearly all else in the enterprise
prosecutors say he led flows from that
act of gerrymandering.
Madigan, the Velvet Hammer,
nailed gerrymandering to the point
that he reigned over a supermajority
in the House until recently when 19
courageous caucus members success-
fully challenged him during the
mounting criminal investigation into
his alleged enterprise.
Yes, he doled out campaign
funds and campaign workers. He
got members on what he called
“the program.” His minions helped
members collect the signatures
required to get them on the ballot.
All of that was done in service of his
control and power. According to
federal prosecutors, that is what then
enabled him to control legislation,
command jobs, curry business for
his law firm and get favors from giant
corporate utilities like ComEd.
Madigan clearly understood the
value of his control over redistricting.
He valued it so much that, in 2016,
Madigan’s top lawyer, Mike Kasper,
represented former ComEd offi-
cials Frank Clark and John Hooker,
who filed suit to block a residents’
group, Support Independent Maps,
from getting a question before voters,
asking if they wanted an independent
group drawing the state’s district maps
instead of politicians.
The residents’ group had collected
more than 570,000 voters’ signa-
tures to gain a ballot spot when Clark
and Hooker jumped in. ( Hooker is
among the ComEd officials also under
indictment.) The case went to the Illi-
nois Supreme Court, where majority
Democrats including Justice Anne
Burke, wife of indicted Ald. Edward
Burke, ruled 4-3 in favor of the ComEd
officials and against allowing voters to
decide whether they wanted district
drawing taken out of politicians’ hands.
The foundation of our representa-
tive democracy starts with the draw-
ing of districts for the state House, the
state Senate and Congress. When poli-
ticians control that process, the result
is a loss of your power, your voice, your
vote.
Madigan further exerted that
control over elections by controlling
when primaries are held, by block-
ing legislation modernizing candi-
date petition collection and blocking
changes to the Byzantine require-
ments candidates are required to meet
to secure a ballot spot. All of these
things gave him more control and gave
lawyers like Kasper more business.
Why does this matter now? Kasper
has been hired by the city of Chicago
to oversee the drawing of a new ward
map. That City Hall map was drawn
in a backroom, not where any resident
could see or get an explanation for
why any neighborhood was divided
up the way it was. But Chicago voters
might get a chance for the first time in
30 years to choose among ward maps
and regain some of their own power
over shaping their wards and repre-
sentation.
Why else does it matter? While
Madigan no longer was in charge
when lawmakers drew state House,
Senate and congressional maps last
year, Democratic House Speaker
Chris Welch and Democratic Senate
President Don Harmon kept the
gerrymandering control going, their
members voted for rigged maps and
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed them into law.
They gave themselves the power to
pick their voters rather than allow-
ing voters to choose. Yes, Republi-
cans briefly had this power after the
1990 Census and they also rigged the
districts.
In the wake of Madigan’s watershed
22-count indictment, it’s important
to recognize the 19 members who
challenged his control, leading to
his departure from the House. But if
we expect change, we cannot claim
victory just yet.
Lawmakers recognize the recently
approved ethics law was only a start.
Now let’s seize the chance to change
the systems that enabled Madigan’s
record tenure and control over state
government. We can start with fully
empowering the state’s watchdog
over the legislature. Let’s keep updat-
ing our election laws and ballot rules.
Let’s finally deliver the indepen-
dent mapping process residents have
wanted for years.
Maps matter. When they’re rigged,
it’s literally a form of stealing elections
and voter suppression.
The enterprise starts with
controlling maps and elections. Let’s
end it in Chicago and Illinois once and
for all.
Madeleine Doubek is executive director
of CHANGE Illinois and the CHANGE
Illinois Action Fund, nonpartisan
nonprofits that advocate for ethical and
efficient government.

It’s time for Congress to fix our broken child care system
By Kate Zinsser
Lindsay Percival has been a
child care provider in Evanston
for decades. She loves her job, but
that passion is not enough to pay
the bills. Every time she admits
a new child into the Learning
Bridge Early Education Center,
she knows there’s an 80% chance
that she’s taking on $6,000 in
annual debt. Across all five class-
rooms in her child care program,
that can add up to a total deficit of
over $300,000 each year.
This massive deficit arises
from the mismatch between
how Illinois subsidizes early care
and education for low-income
families and the actual cost of
providing high-quality care. And
Lindsay is far from the only child
care provider facing this pinch.
Thankfully, President Joe
Biden has a plan to finally address
our nation’s child care crisis. In
his State of the Union address last
week, Biden reminded the Amer-
ican people that in this time of
inflation, Congress can and must
help lower everyday costs for
families.
His child care plan would do
just that, by reimbursing early
childhood providers for the true
cost of care while keeping costs
down for families. It’s time for
our leaders in Congress to come
together to finally fix a broken
system and support our child care
providers and the families they
care for.
In Illinois, the average market rate for full-time care for a 4-year-old child is
around $10,000. ALLEN CUNNINGHAM/DAILY SOUTHTOWN
Child care is expensive,
surpassing college tuition in
most states. Because child care is
treated as a business rather than a
public good, monthly tuition and
reimbursement rates are subject
to the market — specifically what
parents can afford, which is not
nearly enough.
In Illinois, the average market
rate for full-time care for a 4-year-
old child is around $10,000 and is
among the among the least afford-
able in the country. While this
sounds expensive, this price far
from covers the true cost of caring
for young children in develop-
mentally appropriate ways.
Lindsay strives to provide
the children at her center with
enriching environments and
interactions with supportive and
well-trained professional educa-
tors. These are the components of
care that research has repeatedly
shown benefits children, families
and the economy. But they don’t
come cheap.
To obtain even the base level of
quality and satisfy state licensure
requirements while breaking
even, Learning Bridge would need
to charge families $11,000 per
year for preschool-aged children.
In Illinois, however, the average
true cost of providing high-quality
care is closer to $20,000 per year
for four-year-old children and as
much as $33,000 for infants and
toddlers.
Research continues to
demonstrate that only through
high-quality early learning expe-
riences can we unlock the long-
term benefits of preschool for
children’s learning and develop-
ment. Lower-quality programs do
not adequately support children’s
academic success. Put simply, the
vast majority of middle-income
households cannot afford to pay
the true cost of high-quality care,
let alone low-income families
who rely on state subsidies.
Lindsay readily admits that
she could cut corners to keep
expenses down — hire teachers
with less experience, offer smaller
pay raises, skimp on professional
development — but she’s not will-
ing to compromise. Instead, she
runs an aggressive fundraising
campaign each year to make up
the difference so that her parents
don’t pay more than they can
afford.
Biden’s plan, outlined in last
year’s Build Back Better Act
(BBB), would not only dramat-
ically expand who is eligible to
receive subsidies, but impor-
tantly also increase the reim-
bursement rate for programs to
more closely match the true cost
of care. Currently, just over 5% of
children under 6 in Illinois qualify
for subsidized child care. When
fully implemented, the child care
provisions in BBB would subsi-
dize the care of 92.5% of chil-
dren and reduce a typical family’s
out-of-pocket expenses by more
than half.
At the same time, programs
such as Learning Bridge would
receive federal dollars that more
closely align with the true cost of
providing high-quality care. By
using reimbursement rates based
on a statewide cost estimation
model that accounts for regional
differences, as is commonly done
for elementary teacher compen-
sation, providers like Lindsay
would be able to close the gap
between what they charge and the
cost of care.
The research is clear: Invest-
ments in early childhood programs
yield tremendous short- and long-
term economic and societal bene-
fits. The COVID-19 pandemic put
in sharp relief how critical these
programs are, yet public funding
for increasing access to high-qual-
ity early learning experiences
remains inadequate.
The passage of Biden’s child
care plan would dramatically
alter the lives of families with
young children in Illinois and
finally treat the care and educa-
tion of our youngest citizens as a
public responsibility rather than
a burden to be shouldered by
parents and programs alone.
Dr. Kate Zinsser is an associate
professor of psychology at the
University of Illinois at Chicago
and author of the forthcoming
book, “No Longer Welcome: The
Epidemic of Expulsion from Early
Childhood Education.” Lindsay
Percival, executive director at
Learning Bridge Early Learning
Center in Evanston, contributed to
this op-ed.

Honoring the likely first Black female Supreme
Court justice means respecting her full name
By Jorie Goins
I am not going to discuss Judge
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s profes-
sional history, her husband or
President Joe Biden’s choice to
nominate her for the Supreme
Court.
I want to talk about names, and
the weight names carry for Black
people in particular.
As I played my favorite news
podcast recently, I was surprised
and slightly put off by the quick-
ness and comfort with which the
podcast host referred to Jack-
son as KBJ as he discussed her
impending nomination. The
letters K, B and J seemed to roll
off the host’s tongue in the same
vein, I can only assume, as Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s RBG and
Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s ACB.
(I’ll admit, the latter was news to
me.)
This acronymization of Jack-
son’s name might seem like a way
to establish that she’s poised to
join an exclusive club that thus
far only five women (and no Black
women) have been a part of. But
as the owner of a unique name
myself, I’m in no hurry to refer
to Judge Ketanji Brown Jack-
son as KJB now or after she is
confirmed.
Short of knowing whether
Jackson approves of this version
of her name, I can only look at the
fraught history of Black people
and names. “Distinctively Black
names reduce the probability of
employer contact by 2.1 percent-
age points relative to distinc-
tively white names,” a July 2021
study from the National Bureau
of Economic Research found.
Students of African descent
have shared how they routinely
feel forced to Anglicize, shorten
or otherwise reject their given
names to make them easier
for teachers and classmates to
pronounce.
Uzo Aduba, one of the stars
of the Netflix series “Orange is
the New Black,” offers a light-
hearted example of this. Her
mother taught her to take pride
in — and make people learn to
say — her full name, Uzoamaka,
after a young Aduba asked if she
could go by Zoe instead. Her
mother replied: “If they can
learn to say Tchaikovsky and
Michelangelo and Dostoevsky,
then they can learn to say Uzoa-
maka.”
Then there are the names
Black people were given in the
not-so-distant past: the racial
epithets and stereotypical arche-
types. Pastors, business owners,
Immigration should be part of US response to Russia on Ukraine
By Christopher Richardson
The Biden administration has
granted Temporary Protected
Status (TPS) to Ukrainians. While
this welcome news will provide
work permits and block deporta-
tion for Ukrainians already in the
United States, much more needs
to be done.
As Europe confronts a situation
of legions of Ukrainians escap-
ing the invasion and war, Amer-
ica will need to think bigger and
bolder. During our last Cold War
era, presidents and congressio-
nal members from both parties
leaned on immigration as part of
an array of options in the face of
authoritarian global aggression.
Given how polarizing the issue of
immigration is, it would surprise
most Americans to know this. But
in that era, immigration became
more than a bipartisan act of
compassion. It was a frank state-
ment of who we were as a nation.
We will need that kind of
comity once again.
Immediately after World
War II, Democratic President
Harry Truman and Congress
embarked on an ambitious
agenda wherein America spent
billions aiding those devastated
by war. However, Truman recog-
nized that America — which had
only taken in 5,000 refugees —
had to do more for the 60 million
individuals displaced in face of a
global authoritarian onslaught.
In a special message to
Congress, Truman reminded
us that, as a nation, “(w)e have
thrived on the energy and diver-
sity of many peoples.” In reac-
tion, the Republican-controlled
Congress passed America’s first
refugee resettlement law — the
Displaced Persons Act of 1948.
The legislation, while certainly
not perfect, provided resettle-
OPINION
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks after being nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court at the White House on Feb. 25. SAUL LOEB/AFP
mothers, teachers and other
citizens were reduced to little
more than “boy,” “girl” or slurs.
These names were unwanted,
disrespectful and violent, but
the recipients were forced to
accept them because insisting
that a white person address them
properly could mean harass-
ment, abuse or death. Today, the
names that are lovingly given to
children because their parents
want them to stand out and have
pride in their names, are paro-
died, mocked and exaggerated by
people who cannot and will never
understand their history or signif-
icance.
I would be remiss if I didn’t
also mention the enslaved
Africans who were brought to
this country against their will,
stripped of their given names and
often unwillingly handed first
names and surnames as a way of
completely erasing their iden-
A young refugee sits on luggage after crossing the border from Ukraine into Medyka, Poland, on Friday.
ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES
ment and funds to over 400,000
European refugees displaced
by the war and persecuted by
both the Nazi government and
communist takeover of Eastern
Europe.
This may have been one of the
first acts, but certainly not the
last. The United States, under
the Republican administration
of President Dwight D. Eisen-
hower, would eventually resettle
close to 40,000 Hungarian and
675,000 Cuban refugees, after the
Hungarian revolt against commu-
nism in 1956 and the takeover of
Cuba by Fidel Castro.
In the wake of the fall of Saigon
tity and memory of life as free
human beings, who were more
than the backbreaking labor
they performed for their white
captors.
I am a Black woman, and Jorie,
while unique, is shorter than
the many names I’ve heard get
butchered over the years. But
even I wasn’t exempt from the
callous disregard for what my
parents named me and what I
wished to be called. For years,
I had non-Black dance teach-
ers and schoolteachers call me
the wrong name. (“Gorie” was a
common one.) When I was 14, a
dance teacher referred to me and
another dancer as “trees” because
of our height. She was aghast
when I demanded to be referred
to by my name. It wasn’t until I
moved to Illinois from Florida
that I realized my name wasn’t
too big to say. It was easy to say for
those who made the effort, and
in 1975, Republican President
Gerald Ford reminded both
Democratic and Republican
Congress members that this was
“a nation built by immigrants”
and that he had been “damned
mad” at any suggestion other-
wise. Congress quickly passed the
Indochina Migration and Refu-
gee Assistance Act which allotted
refugee status, relocation aid
and financial assistance to those
escaping totalitarian regimes in
Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
And no less than Ronald
Reagan himself remarked that
“(m)ore than any other coun-
try, our strength comes from our
Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Monday, March 7, 2022  11
I neither needed nor deserved
to be assigned nicknames that I
didn’t approve of.
I don’t mean to speak for Jack-
son. KBJ may be intended as a
compliment and nothing more.
And if it lands with her as such,
then so be it. But even if that’s
the case, news sources and other
authorities should normal-
ize saying her full name before
implicitly giving the public a cue
to skip to a cutesy nickname for
the person who is likely to be the
first Black female Supreme Court
justice. A person’s name should
be respected and used. Given
how unique names are so often
treated when the owners of those
names are Black or nonwhite, I
can’t help but fear that many will
take the KBJ acronym and run
with it without making sure Jack-
son’s first name isn’t erased or
“othered.”
As we unfortunately saw
own immigration heritage and
our capacity to welcome those
from other lands.” Reagan put
his words to action and despite
criticism from members of both
parties, ensured processing of
immigrants from Cuba during
the 1980 Mariel boatlift and
from Southeast Asia. Reagan saw
immigration and aid for refu-
gees as one of our many tools in
defeating communism in the long
term.
In view of this history, Demo-
crats and Republicans today who
embrace opening our doors to
Ukrainian and other refugees
during this moment of crisis
with Vice President Kamala
Harris, sometimes it takes many
not-so-subtle reminders to get
white people to be intentional
about correctly saying a Black
person’s name, especially when a
Black woman is involved. But this
is no excuse for anyone.
I may decide I don’t agree
with Jackson’s rulings, I may
decide that she’s not progressive
enough to balance out the still
right-leaning Supreme Court.
But I will never waver on the
fact that an acronym shouldn’t
stand in place of the name of any
Black woman.
If white Americans can learn to
pronounce Gorsuch, Rehnquist,
Alito and Kavanaugh, then they
can and must learn to say Ketanji
Brown Jackson.
Jorie Goins is a content editor who
works with the Tribune Editorial
Board.
aren’t the outliers — their oppo-
nents are.
Immigration, as a statement
of leadership, should not be
shunned or done on the cheap.
Democratic and Republican lead-
ers should pass another refugee
bill to aid Ukrainians and others
escaping authoritarian regimes.
Such a bill though should focus
on rebuilding our entire refugee
resettlement apparatus, which
has been devastated by COVID-
19 and the prior anti-immigrant
administration. The bill should
also include additional funding
and reforms for U.S. embassies
and consulates abroad that too
have suffered from a financial
crisis of sorts due to the pandemic
and would be unable to assist
Ukrainians in other countries.
Finally, such a law would need
to reform the humanitarian
parole program and offer large
scale aid to countries hosting
displaced individuals abroad.
Economic sanctions, strength-
ening alliances and military aid to
beleaguered democratic govern-
ments are certainly important,
but so is immigration. It always
has been.
As America confronts the pros-
pect of a new Cold War with an
authoritarian regime, we should
take a page out of the playbooks
of policymakers of the past and
adopt big, bipartisan bills and
executive action centered around
immigration.
As Americans, we must always
stand on the side of all people
who struggle for democracy,
human rights and freedom. This
time should be no different.
Christopher Richardson is a
former U.S. diplomat and gen-
eral counsel and COO of BDV
Solutions, LLC an immigration
consulting firm.
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Weissberg, Tamar
Tamar Weissberg was born July 5, 1932 in British
Mandate Tel Aviv and for 70
years was the beloved wife
Cemeteries/Crematories/ and partner of Rabbi Victor
H. Weissberg—rabbi emeri-
Mausoleum tus of Temple Beth El—and
matriarch of the Weissberg
family.

Cemetery Plot for Sale She was a loving daughter

Ukrainian soldiers help an elderly woman get to safety Sunday in Irpin, near Kyiv. LYNSEY
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Ukraine
from Page 1
Gerashchenko said on Tele-
gram.
Ukrainian President
Voldymyr Zelenskyy rallied
his people to remain defi-
ant, especially those in cities
occupied by Russians.
“You should take to the
streets! You should fight!” he
said Saturday on Ukrainian
television. “It is necessary to
go out and drive this evil out
of our cities, from our land.”
Zelenskyy also asked the
United States and NATO
countries to send more
warplanes to Ukraine,
though that idea is compli-
cated by questions about
which countries would
provide the aircraft and
how those countries would
replace the planes.
He later urged the West
to tighten its sanctions on
Russia, saying that “the
audacity of the aggressor is
a clear signal” that existing
sanctions are not enough.
The war, now in its 11th
day, has caused 1.5 million
people to flee the country.
The head of the U.N. refu-
gee agency called the exodus
“the fastest-growing refugee
crisis in Europe since World
War II.”
The U.S. assesses that
about 95% of the Russian
forces that had been arrayed
around Ukraine are now in
the country, a senior U.S.
defense official said Sunday.
The official said Russian
forces continue to advance
and attempt to isolate Kyiv,
Kharkhiv and Chernihiv,
and are being met with
Ukrainian resistance.
The official, who spoke
on condition of anonymity,
said the convoy outside Kyiv
continues to be stalled.
As he has often done,
Putin blamed Ukraine for
the war, telling Turkish
President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan on Sunday that
Kyiv needed to stop all
hostilities and fulfill “the
well-known demands of
Russia.”
Putin launched his inva-
sion with a string of false
accusations against Kyiv,
including that it is led by
neo-Nazis intent on under-
mining Russia with the
development of nuclear
weapons.
The Russian Defense
Ministry on Sunday
announced that its forces
intend to strike Ukraine’s
military-industrial complex
with what it said were preci-
sion weapons. A ministry
spokesman, Igor Konashen-
kov, claimed in a statement
carried by the state news
agency Tass that Ukrainian
personnel were being forced
to repair damaged military
equipment so that it could be
sent back into action.
Zelenskyy criticized
Western leaders for not
responding to Russia’s latest
threat.
“I didn’t hear even a single
world leader react to this,”
Zelenskyy said Sunday
evening.
Putin and French Pres-
ident Emmanuel Macron
spoke about the nuclear situ-
ation in Ukraine, which has
15 nuclear reactors at four
power plants and was the
scene of the 1986 Chernobyl
nuclear disaster.
The men agreed in prin-
ciple to a “dialogue” involv-
ing Russia, Ukraine and the
U.N.’s atomic watchdog,
according to a French offi-
cial who spoke on condition
of anonymity, in line with
the presidency’s practices.
Potential talks on the issue
are to be organized in the
coming days, he said.
Putin also blamed the
fire last week at the Zapor-
izhzhia nuclear plant, which
Ukrainian officials said was
caused by Russian attackers,
on a “provocation organized
by Ukrainian radicals.”
Meanwhile, credit card
and social media companies
continued to make moves
Sunday.
American Express said it
would suspend operations
in Russia and in Russian-al-
lied Belarus. Mastercard and
Visa did the same Saturday.
TikTok also said Russian
users would not be able
to post new videos or see
videos shared from else-
where in the world. The
company blamed Moscow’s
new “fake news” law, which
makes it illegal, among other
things, to describe the fight-
ing as an invasion.
Netflix also cut its service
to Russia.
Facebook and Twitter
have already been blocked
in Russia, along with access
to the websites of a number
of international media
outlets.
One gravesite at Acacia Park in Norridge. $1400. to pioneers Michael and
847-858-9873 Leah Libovsky who arrived
in Palestine in 1910 and 1914, respec-
tively and a devoted sister to Moshe,
Dr. Ephraim, and Bat Ami z”l. Eema to
Amyra (Kenneth) Henry, Ariel (Hava)
Weissberg, and Alona Anspach and the
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(Ezra Hilton) Henry, Talia (Joshua) Block, Dr. Micah (Dr.
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Helton, Deb L Ronit (Dr. Jonathan) Nattiv. She was “Super Savta”
to Jonathan, Aaron, and Miriam Sussman; Jaden
See Deb Lee Misiewicz notice.
and Gideon Block; Margalit and Jonah Henry Hilton;
Maya and Levi Henry Rak; and Lior Nattiv.
Misiewicz, Deborah L. Tamar was an officer in the Jerusalem Police
Deborah Lee Misiewicz (nee Duda),70 suddenly. force, an honor student at Mundelein College, a
Beloved wife of Arthur H. Misiewicz. Loving Mother Distinguished Jewish Educator as principal of Beth
of Ciara (Nicholas) Risicato. Cherished Grammy El Religious School. She was a staunch supporter
to Kaylee, Corey, Kayden, and Cameron. Dearest of political action for Israel. She was a life member
of Hadassah and lover of the arts: painting, music,
Daughter of the late Theodore and Barbara Jean
opera, and dance—especially Israeli. A superb cook
(nee Gorski) Duda. Dear sister of Jacqueline
and hostess, she made every Shabbat and holiday
Davlantis, Corey Duda, Bradford (Donna) Duda,
and the late Theodore Duda. Fond Auntie Tee Tee memorable through song, laughter, and spirituality,
to Dina, Dane, Malorie, and Mathew. St. Hyacinth as well as familial devotion.
1966 and Schurz H.S. 1970. Memorial prayers for
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A.M. at Casey & Rios Funeral Home 4540 W. Diversey Ezra Habonim the Niles Township Jewish
Ave., Chicago, IL 60639 proceeding to St. Hyacinth Congregation, 4500 W. Dempster Street, Skokie.
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In 1849 horticulturist
Luther Burbank was born
in Lancaster, Mass.
In 1850, in a three-hour
speech to the U.S. Senate,
Daniel Webster endorsed
the Compromise of 1850 as
a means of preserving the
Union.
In 1854 Charles Miller of
St. Louis patented a sewing
machine that could stitch
buttonholes.
In 1875 composer Maurice
Ravel was born in Cibourne,
France.
In 1876 Alexander Graham
Bell received a patent for his
telephone.
In 1901 the bluebonnet was
adopted as the state flower
of Texas.
In 1911 the United States sent
In 1936 Adolf Hitler ordered
his troops to march into the
Rhineland, thereby breaking
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the Locarno Pact.
In 1945, during World
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damaged Ludendorff
Bridge.
In 1965 a march by civil-
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state troopers and a sheriff’s
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In 1974 East Germany and
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In 1975 the Senate revised
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Beach, Fla.; he was 81. Also
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In 1991 Baseball Hall of
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permanent orders assigning
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In 1995 New York Gov.
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Concern, that on December 29, 2021, a
petition was filed under the Juvenile Court
Act by KIM FOXX in this court and that in
the courtroom of Judge Diane Pezanoski
in the Cook County Juvenile Court Building,
1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois,
ON March 28, 2022,at 11:00 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
March 7, 2022 7163853
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
Amen Chase
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Andrea Chase
(Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 21JA00484
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Any and All
Unknown (Fathers), respondents, and to
All Whom It May Concern, that on May
18, 2021, a petition was filed under the
Juvenile Court Act by KIM FOXX in this court
and that in the courtroom of Judge Diane
Pezanoski in the Cook County Juvenile
Court Building, 1100 So. Hamilton Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois, ON April 12, 2022,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
March 7, 2022 7163204
DATE ADVERTISED: MONDAY,
MARCH 7, 2022 COUNTY OF COOK
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT
OFFICER FOR COOK COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF FACILITIES
MANAGEMENT SWITCHGEAR,
PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE, REPAIR
AND REPLACEMENT OF ELECTRICAL
DISTRIBUTION EQUIPMENT BID NO.:
2102-18741
Bid Document: The Bid document is available
for download at: https://legacy.cookcountyil.
gov/purchasing/bids/listAllBids.php
Contact Person: If you are not able to
download the Bid or if you have other
questions, please contact Angelique Randle,
Senior Contract Negotiator, at (312) 603-
4478 or angelique.randle@cookcountyil.gov
Questions: Questions can be submitted in
writing to the contact person above until
1:00 PM Local Time - Chicago on March 11,
2022.
Bid Due Date, Time,
and Location:
Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 10:00 AM Local
Time - Chicago
All Bids must be submitted electronically and
uploaded to https://cookcountyil.bonfirehub.
com/portal/?tab=openOpportunities
following the instructions set forth in the Bid
Solicitation document.
Toni Preckwinkle
President, Cook County Board of
Commissioners
Raffi Sarrafian
Chief Procurement Officer
Late Proposals Will Not Be Accepted
3/7/22 7163201
The City of Chicago,
Department of Cultural Affairs and Special
Events seeks proposals from qualified firms to
provide an Audience & Arts Engagement Study
for the Chicago Cultural Center Programs. For
additional information or a copy of the Request
for Proposal document contact: Anne Davis at
anne.davis@cityofchicago.org. Proposals are
due no later than March 31, 2022.
Pub: 3/2-3/11/2022 7160514
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT –
MARCH 3, 2022
CPS BID FOR PORTABLE
SOLAR PANEL GENERATORS
DUE: MARCH 17, 2022 AT 2 P.M.
See:https://cps.bonfirehub.com/
portal/?tab=openOpportunities
3/7/22 7163243
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT - MARCH 7, 2022
CPS RFQ
SIXTH SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATIONAL
TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
DUE: APRIL 6, 2022 AT 11:00 a.m.
See: www.cps.edu/procurement
March 7, 2022 - 7164289
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
Ileana Resendiz
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Vanessa Velasco
(Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 2017JA00261
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Leonardo Resendiz
(Father), Unknown Father, respondents,
and to All Whom It May Concern, that on
April 8, 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 May 10, 2022, at 9:00
A.M. in CALENDAR 4 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
March 7, 2022 7163237
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
Imani Fenderson AKA Imani Wallace
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Charmain
Fenderson-Collins (Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 21JA00933
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Charmain
Fenderson-Collins (Mother), respondents,
and to All Whom It May Concern, that
on October 12, 2021, a petition was filed
under the Juvenile Court Act by KIM FOXX
in this court and that in the courtroom of
Judge Diane Pezanoski in the Cook County
Juvenile Court Building, 1100 So. Hamilton
Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, ON March 28,
2022,at 1:30 P.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
March 7, 2022 7163183
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
Janaya Love AKA Baby Girl Linson
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Jordan Linson
(Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 21JA00761
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Unknown (Father),
respondents, and to All Whom It May
Concern, that on August 16, 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
May 13, 2022,at 9:30 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
March 7, 2022 7163156
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
Kaleb Luna
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Leticia Luna
(Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 21JA01108
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Marco Levario
(Father) & Any and All Unknown Fathers,
respondents, and to All Whom It May
Concern, that on November 29, 2021, a
petition was filed under the Juvenile Court
Act by KIM FOXX in this court and that in
the courtroom of Judge Diane Pezanoski
in the Cook County Juvenile Court Building,
1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois,
ON March 28, 2022,at 11:30 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
March 7, 2022 7163861
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
AND CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT
JUVENILE JUSTICE DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
KAMAJ PHILLIPS
A MINOR
NO. 2022JD00120
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
Notice is given you, QUINCY PHILLIPS
(FATHER), respondents, and TO ALL WHOM
IT MAY CONCERN, that on January 25,
2022, 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 TERRENCE SHARKEY
in the Cook County Juvenile Court Building
located at 1100 South Hamilton, Chicago,
Illinois on March 21, 2022 at 9:00 A.M. IN
CALENDAR 63 COURTROOM 13 ,
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
March 7, 2022
ASSISTANT STATE’S ATTORNEY:
J. SALVI
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
March 7, 2022 7164276
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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
Lataya Converse
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Salina Justiniano
(Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 2022JA00138
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Salina Justiniano
(Mother), respondents, and to All Whom It
May Concern, that on February 24, 2022,
a petition was filed under the Juvenile Court
Act by KIM FOXX in this court and that in
the courtroom of Judge Andrea Buford in
the Cook County Juvenile Court Building,
1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois,
ON April 8, 2022,at 9:15 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
March 7, 2022 7163226
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
Matthew Moore
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Tealeatha Moore
(Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 20JA00352
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Jondale Echols
(Father), AKA Jodale Echols, AKA
Johndale Echols, respondents, and to All
Whom It May Concern, that on February
24, 2020, a petition was filed under the
Juvenile Court Act by KIM FOXX in this
court and that in the courtroom of Judge
O’Malley in the Cook County Juvenile Court
Building, 1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago,
Illinois, ON March 21, 2022,at 9:30 A.M. in
CALENDAR 6 COURTROOM F, 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
March 7, 2022 7163884
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
Miracle Daniels
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Cheyenne
Daniels (Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 21JA01065
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Huston Wilks AKA
Hueron Wilks (Father), Unknown (Father),
respondents, and to All Whom It May
Concern, that on November 15, 2021, a
petition was filed under the Juvenile Court
Act by KIM FOXX in this court and that
in the courtroom of Judge John Leonard
Huff. in the Cook County Juvenile Court
Building, 1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago,
Illinois, ON April 29, 2022,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
March 7, 2022 7162121
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
Alyssa Wilson Aziyah Wilson Gladys
Wilson King George AKA Baby Boy
George AKA King Steven Wilson
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Cynthia George
(Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 2017JA01065 2017JA01064
2018JA00107 2019JA01583
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Cynthia Georg
(Mother), Steven Wilson (Father),
Unknown Father, respondents, and
to All Whom It May Concern, that on
September 14, 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 May 10, 2022, at 11:30
A.M. in CALENDAR 13 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
March 7, 2022 7163865
LEGAL
NOTICES
Notice is hereby given in compliance with Illi-
nois General Assembly 605 ILCS 5/5-109, that
the Cook County Board of Commissioners will
consider by Resolution on March 17, 2022, va-
cating the following described real estate:
That part of lot 1 in Doolin and Kirk’s resubdi-
vision, being a resubdivision in the Southeast
Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 14,
Township 37 North, Range 11 East of the Third
Principal Meridian, according to the plat thereof,
recorded as document number 1149383, on Au-
gust 30th, 1889, in Cook County, Illinois.
Commencing at the intersection of the east
line of said southeast quarter of the southeast
quarter of Section 14 with the north line of the
south 198.9 feet of said Lot 1; thence north 88
degrees 34 minutes 12 seconds west, along
said north line, 33.00 feet to the westerly right
of way line of Illinois State Route 83, per docu-
ment number 12010930 and 12010923; thence
north 01 degree 38 minutes 23 seconds west,
along aid right of way line, 3.16 feet to a point
of curvature, said point being the point of begin-
ning; thence northerly along a tangent curve to
the to the left, on said right of way line, having a
radius of 249.70 feet, having a chord distance of
209.08 feet, a chord bearing of north 26 degrees
23 minutes 23 seconds west, for an arc distance
of 215.73 feet to a point of curvature; thence
south 51 degrees 08 minutes 23 seconds, along
the tangent line of said curve, 115.11 feet to
the point of intersection of said tangent; thence
south 01 degrees 38 minutes 23 seconds east,
along said tangent line, 115.11 feet to the point
of beginning.
Said parcel contains 0.040 acres, or 1762 square
feet, more or less.
The subject property is generally located in the
southwest corner of Illinois State Route 83 in-
tersection with Old Archer/Bell Road, in Lemont
Township, Illinois.
The County Board meeting will be held as a
virtual event and can be watched live here:
https://www.cookcountyil.gov/service/watch-
live-board-proceedings.
3/7/227163121
LEGAL NOTICE
Dr. Nam Kim, Is closing his medical practice
at Lakeshore Cancer Care located at 5020 N.
Ashland Ave. Chicago, IL. 60640 as of March
31, 2022 Dr. Nam Kim P: 312-209-3957
March 7, 2022 - 7163202
LEGAL
NOTICES
NOTICE TO VENDORS
Notice is hereby given that HPS will receive
sealed Request for Proposals on the items
listed below for the 2022-2023 school year,
with two possible one year extensions.
Digital Nutrition Programs
Proposals will be received at the HPS office
until the hour of 5:00 p.m. E.S.T., on April
8, 2022. All proposals will be opened and
read aloud at 4:00 p.m., E.S.T. on April 12,
2022, in the HPS office. Proposals will be
awarded on or before June 7, 2022 at the
May 2022 School Food Purchasing Advisory
Committee meetings.
School Food Purchasing Program –
Commercial & Commodity Products
Michigan, Indiana, Ohio/Pennsylvania,
West Virginia, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Florida, Georgia, Wisconsin, New England,
Mid Atlantic, North/South Carolina,
Massachusetts and Texas States.
Proposals will be received at the HPS office
until the hour of 5:00 p.m. E.S.T., on April
8, 2022. All proposals will be opened and
read aloud at 4:00 p.m., E.S.T. on April 12,
2022, in the HPS office. Proposals will be
awarded on or before June 7, 2022 at the
May 2022 School Food Purchasing Advisory
Committee meetings.
Specifications and Request for Proposal
forms may be obtained from the HPS office,
3275 N. M-37 Hwy., P.O. Box 247, Middleville,
MI 49333, phone number (269) 795-3308.
All proposals shall be on authorized forms.
E-mail your requests to Tori Mascho,
tmascho@hpsgpo.com
HPS reserves the right to reject any or all
proposals in part or in whole, and to waive
any informalities.
03072022 7156685

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
Londyn Manning
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Deja Graham
(Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 22JA00018
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Unknown (Father),
respondents, and to All Whom It May
Concern, that on January 13, 2022, 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 May 24, 2022,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
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
PROTECTION DIVISION
IN THE INTEREST OF
Michael Collins III Queen Collins, AKA,
Queenchina Collins
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Keshia Moon
(Mother)
JUVENILE NO.: 22JA00106 22JA00110
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Michael Collins
(Father) & Unknown (Fathers),
respondents, and to All Whom It May
Concern, that on February 16, 2022, a
petition was filed under the Juvenile Court
Act by KIM FOXX in this court and that in
the courtroom of Judge Diane Pezanoski
in the Cook County Juvenile Court Building,
1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois,
ON March 24, 2022,at 9:00 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
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD

YOUR
March 7, 2022 7163176
March 7, 2022 7163166 PROTECTION DIVISION

IN THE INTEREST OF
Trinity Hale

MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Adrianna Wigfall

PERFECT
(Mother)
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND JUVENILE NO.: 17JA00202
COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD
CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD PROTECTION DIVISION NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
PROTECTION DIVISION

HIRE
IN THE INTEREST OF NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Adriane Wigfall
IN THE INTEREST OF Milani Agee (Mother), respondents, and to All Whom It
Ma’Kiyah Bronson May Concern, that on January 14, 2022, a
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Choyce petition was filed under the Juvenile Court
MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Marquisha Richardson (Mother) Act by KIM FOXX in this court and that in
Hatchett (Mother) the courtroom of Judge Buford in the Cook
JUVENILE NO.: 2021JA01089 County Juvenile Court Building, 1100 So.
JUVENILE NO.: 14JA00774 Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, ON May
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION 20, 2022, at 10:00 A.M. in CALENDAR 4

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Mack Bronson
(Father), Unknown Father, respondents,
and to All Whom It May Concern, that on
November 19, 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 June 21, 2022, at 9:45
A.M. in CALENDAR 4 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.
NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Christopher Agee
(Father), Unknown (Father), respondents,
and to All Whom It May Concern, that on
November 19, 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 May 2, 2022,at 9:30
A.M. in CALENDAR 4 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.
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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
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PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF
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Concern, that on February 16, 2022, a
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS petition was filed under the Juvenile Court
COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY DIVISION Act by KIM FOXX in this court and that in
the courtroom of Judge Diane Pezanoski
IN THE MATTER OF THE REHABILITATION OF ) in the Cook County Juvenile Court Building,
No. 2021CH06141
ILLNOIS COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN ) 1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois,
NOTICE OF JUNE 30, 2022, AT 4:30 P.M. C.T. CLAIM FILING DEADLINE ON March 24, 2022,at 9:00 A.M. in
AND PROCEDURES CALENDAR 17 COURTROOM A, or as soon
thereafter as this case may be heard, an
Illinois Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan (“ICHIP”) was placed into rehabilitation effective adjudicatory hearing will be held upon the
December 31, 2021, at 11:59p.m., (the “Rehabilitation Date”) under Article XIII of the Illinois petition to have the minor declared to be a
Insurance Code (the “Code”) pursuant to an Agreed Order of Rehabilitation (the “Rehabilitation ward of the court and for other relief under
Order”) entered against ICHIP by the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois (the “Supervising Court”) the Act.
on December 27, 2021. Among other things, the Rehabilitation Order: (i) affirmed the Director of
the Illinois Department of Insurance, as ICHIP’s statutory Rehabilitator (the “Rehabilitator”); and THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS
(ii) directed that the Rehabilitator take immediate title, possession and control of the property, CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY
AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO
books, records, accounts, assets, business, and affairs of ICHIP and of the premises currently TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND
occupied, or thereafter occupied, by ICHIP for the transaction of business for the benefit of ICHIP’s TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO
creditors and of the public, and to take such actions that the nature of this cause and interests of CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL
ICHIP’s creditors or the public may require, subject to further orders of the Court. PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE
The Rehabilitation Order established deadlines and procedures for the filing of claims against PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF
ICHIP’s assets.All persons, companies, or entities who have, or may have, claims against ICHIP, its YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND APPOINTMENT
property or assets (collectively, “Claimants”), may present and file a proof of claim form (“POC”) OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT
with the Rehabilitator on or before the claim filing deadline of June 30, 2022 at 4:30 p.m. C.S.T. TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL
(the “Claim Filing Deadline” and a “Timely Filed POC”). RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.
Proof of claim filing information: UNLESS YOU appear, you will not be entitled
• Plan participants and providers: (i) who have previously asserted a claim with ICHIP, and to further written notices or publication
(ii) whose claim was still open on the books and records of ICHIP on the Rehabilitation Date, need notices of the proceedings in this case,
not file a POC. including the filing of an amended petition
• All other persons and entities who have not previously asserted or reported their claim to or a motion to terminate parental rights.
ICHIP must file a POC with the Rehabilitator on or before the Claim Filing Deadline of June 30,
2022 at 4:30 p.m. C.S.T. UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and
POC forms may be obtained from the Rehabilitator’s website, https://www.osdchi.com/ show cause against the petition, the
allegations of the petition may stand
select_proof_of_claim.htm, by mail addressed to ICHIP, c/o the Office of the Special Deputy admitted as against you and each of you,
Receiver, 222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, Suite 960, Chicago, Illinois 60654, or by telephone at and an order or judgment entered.
(312) 836-9500.
Additional information concerning filing procedures is available at www.osdchi.com. If you Iris Y. Martinez, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
have any questions or inquiries, you may contact our office at (312) 836-9500, or by email at COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
webmail@osdchi.com. March 7, 2022 7163196
16  Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Monday, March 7, 2022

CHICAGO WEATHER CENTER

chicagoweathercenter.com | BY TOM SKILLING AND

MONDAY, MARCH 7 NORMAL HIGH: 43° NORMAL LOW: 28° RECORD HIGH: 78° (2000) RECORD LOW: -2° (1943)

Winter Weather Advisory until noon Monday

LOCAL FORECAST NATIONAL FORECAST Accumulating snow
-10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 9900s 1100s
00s 110s spread over the area
overnight and will continue
20s during the forenoon across
Seattle Spokanne International Falls the area generally west and
HIGH LOW 50/41 50/3
32 27/14 north on Interstate 55.
40s 30s Bismarck 30s Accumulations of 2-4 inches
36 24
Concord
Steady or Billings 39/21
rising at night Portland 39/20
Albany 46/33 total makes for a good
57/39
Boise
20s Green Bay
35/19 Buff
ffalo
f
49/31
Boston
possibility of slow/hazardous
■ Winter Weather 50
0/31 Rapid City Minneapolis
41/
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40s 52/37 travel during the morning
Advisory for 2-4 inches 50s 37/20 29/17
Ch hic
Detro
oi t
cago 39/27 Cleveland New York commute. To the southeast
of accumulating wet
snow generally west and Reno
Cheyenne Des Moines 36/24 43/228 58/38 50s of Interstate 55 the wet snow
30/14 37/19 will transition over to rain.
north of Interstate 55. 50/28 Omaha Pittsburgh
Indianapolis
61/30
Low pressure moving up
■ Accumulating snow
San
Salt Lake City
37/25
30s 40/20 43/28 Washington the Ohio River Valley will
continues from overnight 78/41
Francisco Denver Kansas Citty 70s track off into Pennsylvania
generally north and west Las Vegas 31/16 St . Louis Louisville
of Interstate 55 with light
66/44 39/211
41/28 64/33
later Monday with the
rain likely SE. Los Angeles
59/39
Wichita Charlotte
60ss associated precipitation
■ Precipitation gradually 67/49
42/20 Litt
tle Rock Nashville 82/53 moving off to the east out of
ending from the west later San Diego
Phoenix
69/46 Albuquerque
40s Oklahoma City
54/336 70/34 our area. High pressure will
Atlanta follow and dominate our
in the day. 66/43 46/25 Birmingham 77/49
51/29
9
■ Highs in the mid-upper 75/43 weather Tuesday and
60s 50s Dallas Jackson Wednesday with near
30s.
El Paso
o 55/36 733/44 80s normal temps in the lower
■ Gradual clearing skies at 63/35 Hou
uston
night. NW winds 12-22 60/48 Orlando 40s during the day and the
New
mph. Orleans
88/68 middle to upper 20s at night.
83/57 More winter-like weather
(Precipitation at 6 a.m. CST)
Miami looms beginning Thursday
82/74
SNOW RAIN night with another rain
changing over to snow event.
TUESDAY, MARCH 8 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9 THURSDAY, MARCH 10 FRIDAY, MARCH 11 SATURDAY, MARCH 12 SUNDAY, MARCH 13

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

41 27 42 28 40 26 34 16 29 19 40 30
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
High pressure dominates Continued mostly sunny, Peeks of sun possible early, Partly cloudy, blustery and Partly cloudy and cold. Partly sunny and not as cold
Midwestern weather. though high clouds increase otherwise cloudy. Highs noticeably colder with snow Highs struggle to reach the – highs around the 40
Continued somewhat chilly. late. Temps peak in the low around 40 degrees. likely. Highs 30-35. Clouds 30 degree mark. Snow degree mark. Increasing
Temps struggle to reach the 40s midday before winds Precipitation starts as rain and chance of snow showers NW Indiana. clouds overnight. SW
low 40s despite abundant shift to the E-NE. Readings in the evening, changing to showers overnight. NW Clearing skies overnight. winds.
sunshine. SW winds 10-15 fall to the mid-upper 30s snow after midnight. winds 20-30 mph. NW winds gradually
mph. near the lake. Increasing Southerly winds shift north diminish at night.
clouds overnight. late.

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NOTE: Predicted high/low temps on Tribune weather page are chronological—the

i “high” refers to maximum reading expected during day and “low” is the minimum reading
d expected the following night.

ASK TOM CHICAGO DIGEST

Dear Tom,
What is the lowest recorded
Saturday severe weather recap—snow
p here Monday SUNDAY TEMPERATURES
LOCATION
Aurora
HI
58
LO
34
LOCATION
Midway
HI
61
LO
38
TORNADOES IN IOWA MONDAY Y’S SET-UP MONDAY’S SET-UP
temperature at which a Gary 62 39 O’Hare 59 36
Series of tornado touchdowns Chicagoo on leading edge e of cold air Winter Weather Advisory
tornado occurred in the U.S. Kankakee 63 39 Romeoville 59 35
late Saturday afternoon Strong jet stream 175 mph overhead at Chicago; with accumulating 2 to 4” Lakefront 60 36 Valparaiso 63 38
and in the Chicago area? Lansing 61 37 Waukegan 56 36
Tornado path warm air sits across Gulf Coast states as low of snow for Chicago
—Dave Pracz St. Joseph, Mich. CHICAGO PRECIPITATION
pressure moves NE up Ohio River Valley ■ Winter Weather Advisory with

COLD
PERIOD 2022 NORMAL
Dear Dave, Garrison Accumulating 2 to 4” of snow Sun. (through 6 p.m.) 0.00" 0.08"
110 m

Most tornadoes occur with 7:17 p.m. JET Chicago

north of low pressure track Month to date 0.12" 0.48"
temperatures and dew points Lambs Grove
ph

STREAM h ■ Severe storms - potential for

Year to date 3.55" 4.44"
Des Moines mp
at least in the 50s, but there 125
Winterset 6 P.M. flooding rains south of low CHICAGO SNOWFALL
are always exceptions. Dr. 4:35 p.m. MON. pressure track PERIOD O’HARE MIDWAY
Sun. (through 6 p.m.)
Harold Brooks of the National Cromwell Cluster of ph 6 A.M
M. WINTER WEATHER
0.0" 0.0"
4:06 p.m. tornadoes m Chicago Season to date 28.6" 38.1"
Severe Storms Laboratory near Chariton
15 0 MON.. ADVISORY 2-4” SNOW Normal to date 33.1" 33.8"
tells of a twister that struck at 6 P.M. POTENTIAL FOR SOURCE: Frank Wachowski
■ Touchdowns occurred in Iowa SUN..
Altus, Okla., on Feb. 22, 1975, FLOOD-PRODUCING

WARM
ahead of an eastward-moving cold LAKE MICHIGAN CONDITIONS
with the temperature near front that moved through the HEAVY RAINS MONDAY TUESDAY

freezing. The F-2 storm killed Chicago area later that evening SERIES OF TORNADO 6 P.M.
MON.
Wind
Waves
NE 12-26 kts.
2-4 feet
SW 10-22 kts.
2-4 feet
two and injured 12. Tornadoes between 10 PM and Midnight CST. SIGHTINGS/TOUCHDOWNS
Sun. shore/crib water temps 36°/36°
have also been reported in ■ There was extensive damage ■ 4:06PM—Cromwell ■ 6:41PM—Tama 6 A.M.
■ 4:35PM—Winterset ■ 7:15PM—Garrison (last MON. U.S. SNOW COVER
areas with snow cover nearby. along the entire path in Iowa with 6
■ 5:00PM tracked report of tornado) 6 P.M. MAR. 6 2022 2021
fatalities in Winterset and another
On April 10, 2011, an EF-3 south of Des Moines ■ 5:25 - 6:12PM—Cluster
SUN.
Area covered by snow 31.2% 20.5%
fatality in Chariton where a
twister hit near Merrill, Wis., separate cluster of tornadoes ■ 5:59PM—Lambs of damage reports/ SLIGHT RISK FOR Average snow depth 3.5" 3.5"

while area lakes were still touched down. Grove sightings around Chariton. SEVERE STORMS TRACKING THE COLD
frozen, and on Jan. 7, 2008, SOURCES: Frank Wachowski, National Weather Service archives PAUL DAILEY, THOMAS VALLE / WGN-TV
SINCE OCT. 1 O’HARE MIDWAY
Sub-32° highs 33 days 28 days
two twisters struck in Subzero lows 2 day 1 days
southeast Wisconsin along the
CHICAGO AIR QUALITY
south edge of the snowpack. MIDWEST CITIES OTHER U.S. CITIES WORLD CITIES
Sunday’s reading Good
Low-temperature tornadoes MON./TUES. FC HI LO FC HI LO MON./TUES.
Abilene
FC HI LO FC HI LO
pc 53 32 pc 56 31
MON./TUES. FC HI LO FC HI LO MON./TUES. FC HI LO FC HI LO MONDAY
Acapulco su
FC HI LO
86 72
MONDAY FC HI LO
Monday’s forecast Good
Illinois Fairbanks su 29 5 cl 28 13 Palm Beach pc 81 72 sh 82 73 Kyiv cl 35 26
are rare in Chicago, but on Carbondale cl 43 28 cl 48 33 Albany
Albuquerque pc
rn 49
51
31
29
pc
su
38
50
23
27
Fargo pc 25 18 w 25 3 Palm Springs su 71 48 su 75 51 Algiers
Amsterdam pc
sh 62
47
46
31
Lima cl 78 69 Critical pollutant Particulates
Champaign ts 37 23 su 44 29 Flagstaff cl 37 14 su 41 16 Philadelphia rn 78 40 pc 52 36 Lisbon pc 59 49
June 9, 1966, an F-2 tornado Decatur ss 37 24 su 45 30 Amarillo
Anchorage
su
cl
46
34
22
20
pc
cl
50
34
25
30
Fort Myers sh 85 67 pc 85 67 Phoenix su 69 46 su 69 45 Ankara
Athens
rn
pc
49
57
32
42
London pc 45 34 MONDAY’S RISE/SET TIMES
Moline ss 35 19 su 45 25 Fort Smith pc 50 32 cl 54 35 Pittsburgh rn 61 30 cl 42 31 Madrid sh 52 39
struck Arlington Heights at 6 Peoria ss 35 22 su 45 27 Asheville
Aspen
ts
ss
70
25
40
1
pc
su
63
30
45
15
Fresno su 65 41 su 69 42 Portland, ME rn 44 31 su 38 21 Auckland
Baghdad
pc
su
80
76
61
49
Manila pc 91 75 Sun 6:15 a.m. 5:47 p.m.
Quincy cl 35 22 su 45 28 Grand Junc. pc 39 21 su 42 30 Portland, OR pc 57 39 sh 49 38 Mexico City ts 79 52
am with temperatures only in Rockford sn 35 17 su 42 26 Atlanta ts
Atlantic City w
77
71
49
38
sh
pc
62
51
53
34
Great Falls sn 38 13 ss 17 2 Providence rn 57 37 su 46 28 Bangkok
Barbados
ts
w
92
83
77
75
Monterrey su 76 46
Moon 9:13 a.m. -- -- -- --
Springfield cl 37 22 su 47 27 Harrisburg ts 72 37 pc 49 32 Raleigh w 84 53 pc 64 45 Montreal sn 36 22
the middle 50s. Sterling ss 34 18 su 43 25 Austin
Baltimore
pc
rn
58
79
40
40
sh
pc
47
54
38
35
Hartford rn 56 35 su 43 26 Rapid City su 37 20 w 28 11 Barcelona
Beijing
pc
su
56
63
44
29
Moscow cl 33 19
Helena cl 40 20 ss 22 6 Reno su 50 28 su 57 31 Munich pc 37 22
Indiana Billings w 39 20 ss 23 9 Beirut su 63 54
Honolulu cl 81 68 pc 82 69 Richmond w 82 48 pc 60 42 Nairobi su 86 59
Bloomington sh 48 27 pc 47 32 Birmingham ts 75 43 rn 61 49 Berlin su 47 24
Write to: ASK TOM Evansville sh 48 28 cl 48 33 Bismarck su 39 21 w 26 5
Houston
Int'l Falls
cl
cl
60
27
48
14
rn
ss
50
28
45
3
Rochester
Sacramento su
pc 29
69
18
39
su
su
44
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World on cusp of tragic milestone
Official virus death
toll nearing 6M, but
count likely higher
By David Rising
Associated Press
BANGKOK — The offi-
cial global death toll from
COVID-19 is on the verge of
eclipsing 6 million — under-
scoring that the pandemic,
now entering its third year,
is far from over.
The milestone is the
latest tragic reminder of the
unrelenting nature of the
pandemic even as people
are shedding masks, travel is
resuming and businesses are
reopening around the globe.
The death toll, compiled by
Johns Hopkins University,
stood at 5,998,454 Sunday
night.
Remote Pacific islands,
whose isolation had
protected them for more
than two years, are just
now grappling with their
first outbreaks and deaths,
fueled by the highly conta-
gious omicron variant.
Hong Kong, which is
seeing deaths soar, is test-
ing its entire population of
7.5 million three times this
month as it clings to main-
land China’s “zero-COVID”
strategy.
As death rates remain
high in Hungary, Poland,
Romania and other Eastern
European countries, the
region has seen more than 1
million refugees arrive from
war-torn Ukraine, a country
with poor vaccination cover-
age and high rates of cases
and deaths.
Despite its wealth and
vaccine availability, the
United States is nearing 1
million reported deaths on
its own.
Death rates worldwide
are still highest among
Blinken vows US support
to West-leaning Moldova
Ex-Soviet republic
welcomes refugees,
keeps eye on Russia
By Matthew Lee
Associated Press
CHISINAU, Moldova
— U.S. Secretary of State
Antony Blinken on Sunday
pledged America’s support
to the small, Western-lean-
ing former Soviet republic of
Moldova that is coping with
an influx of refugees from
Ukraine and warily watch-
ing Russia’s intensifying war
with its neighbor.
Blinken met with senior
Moldovan officials who
are appealing for assis-
tance in dealing with more
than 120,000 refugees from
Ukraine that it is hosting
while also seeking security
reassurances against poten-
tial Russian aggression.
More than 230,000
people have fled into or
passed through Moldova
from Ukraine since the war
began Feb. 24.
Blinken said Moldova’s
welcoming of refugees is an
inspiration to the world.
“We admire the generos-
ity of hospitality, the willing-
ness to be such good friends
to people who are in distress,
Workers move an 18th-centry painting last week at the Andrey
Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv. The museum has been
closed since Russia’s invasion Feb. 24. BERNAT ARMANGUE/AP
NATION & WORLD
Nurses perform breathing exercises on a COVID-19 patient on a ventilator at a hospital in Marseille, France. DANIEL COLE/AP 2021
people unvaccinated
against the virus, said Tikki
Pang, a visiting professor at
the National University of
Singapore’s medical school
and co-chair of the Asia
Pacific Immunization Coali-
tion.
“This is a disease of the
unvaccinated — look what
is happening in Hong Kong
right now, the health system
is being overwhelmed,” said
Pang, the former director of
research policy and cooper-
ation with the World Health
Organization. “The large
majority of the deaths and
the severe cases are in the
unvaccinated, vulnerable
segment of the population.”
It took the world seven
months to record its first
million deaths from the virus
and, indeed, I want to do
everything we can to help
you deal with the burden
that this has imposed,” he
said before heading to Lith-
uania.
Moldova, a poor country
squeezed between Ukraine
and Romania, remains
vulnerable. Most problem-
atically, two decades before
Russian-speaking separat-
ists carved a chunk out of
Ukraine, they did the same
thing in Moldova.
In 1992, Moscow-backed
separatists took control
of a thin 250-mile sliver of
land, known as Transnistria,
that runs along much of the
eastern bank of the Dniester
River as well as parts of the
western bank.
Russia has troops in
Moldova, a country of 2.6
million, stationed in Trans-
nistria, and they are being
closely watched as Russian
President Vladimir Putin
presses ahead with the inva-
sion of Ukraine.
“This is a subject of high
vulnerability, and we watch
it carefully,” Moldovan Pres-
ident Maia Sandu said.
She said there had not
been any indication that
the roughly 1,500 Russian
soldiers based in Transn-
istria had changed posture
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after the pandemic began
in early 2020. Four months
later another million people
had died, and 1 million have
died every three months
since, until the death toll hit
5 million at the end of Octo-
ber. Now it has reached
nearly 6 million.
But despite the enor-
mity of the figure, the
world undoubtedly hit its 6
millionth death some time
ago. Poor record-keeping
and testing in many parts
of the world has led to an
undercount in coronavi-
rus deaths, in addition to
excess deaths related to
the pandemic but not from
actual COVID-19 infec-
tions, like people who died
from preventable causes but
could not receive treatment
but stressed that it was
a concern given what is
happening in Ukraine.
“In this region now there
is no possibility for us to feel
safe,” Sandu said.
If Ru s s i a n f o rc e s
advance to the Moldovan
border, some Moldovans
fear that Russia will soon
either recognize Transn-
istria, much as it did with
Ukraine’s self-declared
separatist republics — giving
Moscow a similar pretext to
officially occupy it — and
perhaps even later absorb
it into either a pro-Russian
Ukraine or Russia itself.
Although it is neutral
militarily and has no plans
to try to become a member
of NATO, Moldova formally
applied to join the Euro-
pean Union three days ago
in a fast-track bid to bolster
its ties with the West.
“While we are facing this
unprecedented circum-
stances, we are firmly
committed to our path for
European integration,”
Prime Minister Natalia
Gavrilita said. “We believe
that this is an agenda to
transform Moldova into a
modern, prosperous Euro-
pean state based on the
fundamental values of
human rights and the rule
Museum staffers scramble to save their heritage
By Bernat Armangue
Associated Press
LVIV, Ukraine — The
director of Ukraine’s largest
art museum walked its hall-
ways, supervising as staff
packed away its collections
to protect their national
heritage in case the Russian
invasion advances west.
In one partially empty
gallery of the Andrey Shep-
tytsky National Museum,
employees placed carefully
wrapped baroque pieces
into cardboard boxes.
because hospitals were full.
Edouard Mathieu, head
of data for the Our World
in Data portal, said that
— when countries’ excess
mortality figures are stud-
ied — as many as nearly four
times the reported death toll
have likely died because of
the pandemic.
An analysis of excess
deaths by a team at The
Economist estimates that
the number of COVID-19
deaths is between 14 million
and 23.5 million.
“Confirmed deaths repre-
sent a fraction of the true
number of deaths due to
COVID, mostly because of
limited testing, and chal-
lenges in the attribution of
the cause of death,” Mathieu
said. “In some, mostly rich,
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Moldovan President Maia Sandu greet each other
Sunday before a news conference following talks in Chisinau, Moldova. SERGEI GRITS/AP
of law.”
Within the Moldovan
government, senior officials
have discreetly discussed
concerns that Russia might
occupy Moldova entirely,
two Moldovan officials said
on condition of anonymity.
“People are scared, liter-
ally scared,” said Alexan-
dru Flenchea, an analyst
and former deputy prime
minister of Moldova, who
oversaw efforts to reinte-
grate Transnistria. “Many
are considering emigration,
before they might them-
selves become refugees.”
Blinken praised Moldo-
va’s European aspirations
and said Moldova could
A few yards away, a group
walked down the majestic
main staircase carrying a
giant piece of sacred art, the
18th-century Bohorodchany
iconostasis.
“Sometimes the tears
are coming because a lot of
labor has been put in here.
It takes time, energy. You
are doing something good,
you feel pleased. Today
you see empty walls, so it
feels bitter, sad. We didn’t
believe it till the last minute
that this could happen,”
museum General Director
Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Monday, March 7, 2022  1
countries that fraction is
high, and the official tally
can be considered to be
fairly accurate, but in others
it is highly underestimated.”
The United States has the
biggest official death toll in
the world, but the numbers
have been trending down-
ward over the last month.
Lonnie Bailey lost his
17-year-old nephew, Carlos
Nunez Jr., who contracted
COVID-19 last April — the
same month Kentucky
opened his age group to
vaccinations. The Louis-
ville resident said the family
is still suffering, including
Carlos’ younger sibling,
who had to be hospital-
ized himself and still has
lingering symptoms. The
aggressive reopening of the
count on U.S. support.
“Moldova has chosen
the path to democracy, a
more inclusive economy, a
closer relationship with the
countries and institutions
of Europe, and the United
States supports Moldova in
those efforts grounded in
our respect for the neutral-
ity that’s enshrined in the
constitution,” he said.
“Moldova is a powerful
example of a democracy
rising to the moment with
vision and with determina-
tion,” Blinken said.
The State Department
said Sunday that Blinken
will meet with Israel’s
foreign minister, Yair Lapid,
Ihor Kozhan said.
The doors of the museum
in the western city of Lviv
have been closed since
Russia’s war on Ukraine
began Feb. 24, and heritage
sites across the country
face danger as the fighting
continues.
Korzhan said he receives
daily calls from other Euro-
pean cultural institutions
offering to help.
Anna Naurobska, head of
the rare manuscripts and
books department, said she
still doesn’t know where to
country has been jarring for
them to witness.
“For us it is hard to let our
guard down; it’s going to
take a while for us to adjust,”
Bailey said.
The world has seen more
than 445 million confirmed
COVID-19 cases, and new
weekly cases have been
declining recently in all
regions except for the West-
ern Pacific, which includes
China, Japan and South
Korea, among others, the
World Health Organization
reported this week.
Although the overall
figures in the Pacific islands
seeing their first outbreaks
are small compared to
larger countries, they are
significant among their tiny
populations and threaten to
overwhelm fragile health
care systems.
“Given what we know
about COVID ... it’s likely to
hit them for the next year or
so at least,” said Katie Green-
wood, head of the Red Cross
Pacific delegation.
Tonga reported its first
outbreak after the virus
arrived with international
aid vessels following the
Jan. 15 eruption of a volcano,
followed by a tsunami. It
now has several hundred
cases, but — with 66% of its
population fully vaccinated
— it has reported people
suffering mostly mild symp-
toms.
The Solomon Islands saw
its first outbreak in January
and has thousands of cases
and more than 100 deaths.
Only 12% of Solomon Island-
ers are fully vaccinated.
Global vaccine disparity
continues, with only 6.95%
of people in low-income
countries fully vaccinated,
compared to more than
73% in high-income nations,
according to Our World in
Data.
in Riga, Latvia, on Monday
during the American’s tour
of Baltic nations.
Israeli Prime Minis-
ter Naftali Bennett was in
Moscow on Saturday for
talks with Putin on the war
in Ukraine and spoke again
with Putin by phone Sunday.
Bennett also has spoken on
the phone several times with
Ukraine’s president, Volo-
dymyr Zelenskyy — most
recently Sunday morning.
Blinken will meet with
French President Emman-
uel Macron in Paris on Tues-
day.
The New York Times con-
tributed.
safely store the collection
of more than 12,000 items
being packed into boxes.
The relocation process
and the fear that the collec-
tion is in danger in the event
of an attack on the city over-
whelms her.
“This is our story; this is
our life. It is very important
to us,” Naurobska said.
She walked into another
room and held up a massive
tome, tears forming in her
eyes. “It’s a Russian book,”
she said, putting it back on
the shelf. “I’m so angry.”
2  Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Monday, March 7, 2022
Finding ‘a second Kabul’ in the US
Resettled Afghans
struggle to acquire
affordable housing
By Matthew Barakat,
Amy Taxin,
Philip Marcelo
and Julie Watson
Associated Press
IRVINE, Calif. — After
fleeing her home in now-​
Taliban controlled Afghani-
stan, Mozhgan Entazari did
everything she could to find
a new one for her family in
the sunny, palm tree-lined
communities of Southern
California.
The 34-year-old mother
of two scoured options on
Zillow with her husband,
while the family lived at
a hotel near Los Angeles.
She spent $200 for an Uber
ride to see an apartment 90
minutes away only to find it
had been rented.
Entazari needed a place
not just for her immedi-
ate family but for seven
members of her extended
family.
In the end, it took four
months.
On Sunday, they moved
into a five-bedroom house
in Corona, 50 miles south-
east of LA, which is renting
for $4,000.
The family’s struggles are
emblematic of what tens of
thousands of Afghans are
finding since they moved off
U.S. military bases and into
American cities and towns
following last summer’s
airlift operation. Many
hope to settle in Southern
California and the Wash-
ington, D.C., area, where
Afghans previously estab-
lished vibrant communities
with halal grocery stores and
mosques.
But these communities
also are among the country’s
priciest housing markets,
and units, especially those
suitable for often larger
Afghan families, are in short
supply. Resettlement agen-
cies report it’s taking longer
to get refugees out of tempo-
rary housing like hotels,
Airbnbs and churches.
Vice President Kamala Harris, front center, marches Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in
Selma after speaking on the eve of the “Bloody Sunday” anniversary. BRYNN ANDERSON/AP
VP promotes voting rights
during ‘Bloody Sunday’ visit
By Kim Chandler
Associated Press
SELMA, Ala. — Vice
President Kamala Harris
visited Selma on Sunday
to commemorate a defin-
ing moment in the fight for
the right to vote, making
her trip as congressional
efforts to restore the land-
mark 1965 Voting Rights Act
have faltered.
Under a blazing blue sky,
Harris took the stage at the
foot of the bridge where in
1965 white state troopers
attacked Black voting rights
marchers attempting to
cross. Harris called the site
hallowed ground on which
people fought for the “most
fundamental right of Amer-
ica citizenship: the right to
vote.”
“Today, we stand on
this bridge at a different
time,” Harris said before
a cheering crowd of thou-
sands. “We again, however,
find ourselves caught in
between. Between injustice
and justice. Between disap-
pointment and determina-
tion. Still in a fight to form
a more perfect union. And
nowhere is that more clear
than when it comes to the
ongoing fight to secure the
freedom to vote.”
Afghan refugee Mozhgan Entazari, 34, talks about the challenge of finding housing for her family. DAMIAN DOVARGANES/AP
Entazari will share a roof
with her husband and kids,
along with her mother, teen
sister and her brother and
his family.
Without a job, credit
history or co-signer, she
said it was difficult to find
housing. And without an
address, she said she and her
husband couldn’t get jobs
and her kids couldn’t enroll
in school.
“All our life depends on
housing,” Entazari said in
Farsi through an interpreter.
They had to pay two
months of rent to move in,
and are getting help from an
organization that will fund a
portion of the monthly rent
until next year.
The search for housing
for Afghans comes amid a
tightening housing market
as the U.S. crawls out of the
pandemic. The nationwide
vacancy rate for rental units
dropped to 5.6% in the last
quarter of 2020, according
to recently released U.S.
Census data. The typical U.S.
The nation’s first female
vice president — as well as
the first African American
and Indian American in the
role — spoke of marchers
whose “peaceful protest
was met with crushing
violence.
They were kneeling
when the state troopers
charged. They were praying
when the billy clubs struck.”
On “Bloody Sunday,”
March 7, 1965, state troopers
beat and tear-gassed peace-
ful demonstrators, includ-
ing young activist John
Lewis, who later became a
longtime Georgia congress-
man.
The images of violence
at the Edmund Pettus
Bridge — originally named
for a Confederate general
— shocked the nation and
helped galvanize support
for passage of the Voting
Rights Act.
Fifty-seven years later,
Democrats are unsuccess-
fully trying to update the
landmark law and pass
additional measures to
make it more convenient for
people to vote. A key provi-
sion of the law was tossed
out by a U.S. Supreme Court
decision.
“In a moment of great
uncertainty, those marches
rent was up nearly 16% to
more than $1,850 in January
compared to January 2021,
according to the online real
estate marketplace Zillow,
which launched an effort in
November to help connect
landlords with newly
arrived Afghans.
In northern Virginia,
Ahmad Saeed Totakhail
was lucky to find perma-
nent housing in Dale City,
a suburb 25 miles south of
Washington.
His sister, who housed
him until he got a place of
his own, lives there. He was
hired to work in nearby
Arlington, by the same
nonprofit that employed
him in Kabul.
The area’s stunning
mosques and plentiful
Afghan eateries have soft-
ened the blow of leaving
his homeland. But he was
shocked by the high price
for his family’s safe haven —
$2,000 a month for rent.
“I have friends here. I
have my relatives here. But
pressed forward and they
crossed,” Harris said. “We
must do the same. We must
lock our arms and march
forward. We will not let
setbacks stop us. We know
that honoring the legacy of
those who marched then
demands that we continue
to push Congress to pass
federal voting rights legis-
lation.”
President Joe Biden on
Sunday renewed his call for
the passage of voting legis-
lation.
“The battle for the soul of
America has many fronts.
The right to vote is the most
fundamental,” Biden said in
a White House statement.
In Selma, a crowd gath-
ered hours before Harris
was scheduled to speak.
Rank-and-file activists of
the civil rights movement,
including women who
fled the beatings of Bloody
Sunday, were seated near
the stage.
The milestone of Harris
becoming the nation’s first
Black female vice president
seemed unimaginable in
1965, they said.
“ T h a t ’s w h y w e
marched,” Betty Boynton,
the daughter-in-law of
voting rights activist Amelia
Boynton, said.
we never discussed the
economics,” he said.
About half of all Afghan
immigrants to the United
States, many who came
decades ago, live in five
major metropolitan areas
— Los Angeles, New York,
San Francisco, Washington
and Sacramento, California,
according to the Migration
Policy Institute. As a result,
these areas are often attrac-
tive for Afghan newcomers,
and many list the names of
relatives or acquaintances
already living there as
contacts when resettlement
agencies are considering
where to send them.
But with some 76,000
Afghans arriving in the
United States since the Tali-
ban takeover of their country
last year, many of these cities
are reaching their saturation
point, said Krish O’Mara
Vignarajah, president and
CEO of the Lutheran Immi-
gration Refugee Service.
The resettlement agency
has teamed with Airbnb to
7 dead in Iowa after twisters
tear across state, officials say
By Scott Mcfetridge
and Josh Funk
Associated Press
WINTERSET, Iowa —
Seven people were killed
when several tornadoes
swept through central
Iowa, destroying homes and
knocking down trees and
power lines in the state’s
deadliest storm in more
than a decade, authorities
said.
Emergency management
officials in Madison County
said four were injured and
six people were killed
Saturday when one tornado
touched down in the area
southwest of Des Moines
near the town of Winterset
around 4:30 p.m. Among
those killed were two chil-
dren under the age of 5 and
four adults.
In Lucas County, about
54 miles southeast of Des
Moines, officials confirmed
one death and multiple
reported injuries when a
separate tornado struck less
than an hour later.
The state Department of
Natural Resources said that
person who died was in an
RV at a campground at Red
Haw State Park in Chariton,
Iowa.
The National Weather
Service in Des Moines
tweeted Sunday that there
were at least three thunder-
storms producing torna-
does, but it’s “unknown at
this time how many torna-
does occurred.”
Storms also caused
damage in the Des Moines
suburb of Norwalk, areas
just east of Des Moines and
other areas of eastern Iowa.
The storms were fueled by
warm, moist air from the
Gulf of Mexico.
Officials reported a
number of homes were
damaged, roads were
blocked by downed lines,
and tree branches were
shredded by the strong
winds. At one point, power
outages affected about
10,000 in the Des Moines
area.
The storms are the
provide temporary housing
while talking to property
management companies
to find a more permanent
solution. They’ve opened
offices in more affordable
markets to meet the hous-
ing demand. But the places
also must have a robust job
market and institutions and
businesses that support
Afghan families, such as
mosques and halal markets,
she said.
The U.S. State Depart-
ment says it doesn’t track
how many of the Afghans
are in temporary accom-
modations. The top states
for Afghans arriving follow-
ing the Taliban takeover are
Texas (nearly 10,500); Cali-
fornia (over 8,200), Virginia
(over 5,100) and Washing-
ton (over 2,800), according
to State Department data.
Near the nation’s capital,
Lutheran Social Services
has helped settle more
than 4,000 Afghans since
last summer. For many,
the benefits of a commu-
Cleanup goes on Sunday in Winterset, Iowa, after Saturday’s
tornado. BRYON HOULGRAVE/THE DES MOINES REGISTER
deadliest to occur in Iowa
since May 2008 when one
tornado destroyed nearly
300 homes and killed nine
people in the northern Iowa
city of Parkersburg. Another
tornado a month later killed
four boys at the Little Sioux
Boy Scout ranch in western
Iowa.
Northern Illinois Univer-
sity meteorology professor
Victor Gensini said there
have been plenty of exam-
ples of deadly storms in
March even though they
are more common in April
and May.
Saturday’s storms were
not nearly as unusual as the
mid-December tornado
outbreak that Iowa saw last
year, he said.
“The storms that produce
these tornadoes — these
supercell storms — they
don’t care what the calen-
dar says,” Gensini said. “It
doesn’t have to say June.
It doesn’t have to say May.
They form whenever the
ingredients are present.
And they were certainly
present yesterday.”
Scientists have said that
extreme weather events
and warmer temperatures
are more likely to occur
with human-caused climate
change. However, scientif-
ically attributing a storm
system to global warming
requires specific analysis
and computer simulations
nity that is like “a second
Kabul” outweigh the high
housing costs, said Zabi,
a housing coordinator for
LSS and relatively recent
refugee from Afghanistan
who asked to be identified
by his nickname because he
still has family who could
be targeted there because of
his prior work with the U.S.
military.
Zabi is working to
convince area landlords
and property owners that
Afghan refugees are worth
granting some leeway.
“They’re gonna pay their
rent, that’s for sure,” he said,
adding many find employ-
ment quickly, with help
from the agency and the
existing Afghan community.
In Newburyport, Massa-
chusetts, churches opened
their doors to temporarily
house four Afghan fami-
lies. The Rev. Jarred Mercer
said helping them set down
permanent roots is daunting
given the high cost of living
in the largely white, affluent
community near the New
Hampshire state line.
He and another pastor are
working with city officials
and hope to bring local prop-
erty owners and nonprofits
on board to help tackle the
housing question. In the
meantime, they’ve raised
funds and formed volunteer
committees to coordinate
everything from teaching
English classes to driving
the families around town.
“They’re getting more and
more entrenched in town,
especially the children, and
it would just be more trauma
to uproot them and start the
whole process over again,”
Mercer said.
That already happened
to several Afghan families
who were asked to try a
new location after search-
ing for months for a home
in Southern California, said
Sonik Sadozai, a volunteer
with Afghan Refugee Relief.
Sadozai, who came to the
country as a refugee four
decades ago from Afghan-
istan, said she’s been doing
this work for years and never
faced so many hurdles.
that take time, haven’t been
done and sometimes show
no clear connection.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reyn-
olds issued a disaster proc-
lamation for Madison
County, which allows state
resources to be used to assist
with response and recovery
efforts. Madison County
Emergency Management
Director Diogenes Ayala
said 25 to 30 homes were
badly damaged.
“This is the worst anyone
has seen in a very long time,”
Ayala said.
Homeowners and volun-
teers were picking up wood
debris and beginning to
clear it away Sunday in the
rolling hills south of Wint-
erset as chainsaws whirred
away in the background.
Amid the remnants of
destroyed houses blown off
their foundations, a white
car sat on its roof and debris
hung from the trees. The
foundation was all that was
left of several homes. The
tornado carved a narrow
path of destruction along a
ridge while several hundred
feet away other homes sit
undamaged.
Gensini said Saturday’s
storms likely caused more
than $1 billion in damages
over their entire track when
the severe damage in Iowa
is combined with wind
damage as far away as Illi-
nois.

NEWS BRIEFING
Disgraced former
Gov. Cuomo hints at
political comeback
From news services
NEW YORK — Just six
months after he resigned
from office in disgrace over
sexual harassment allega-
tions, former New York Gov.
Andrew Cuomo appeared
to be hinting at a politi-
cal comeback in remarks
Sunday at a church in Brook-
lyn.
The Democrat made
a campaign-like stop to
deliver a speech in which
he condemned “cancel
culture.” The public appear-
ance, his first since leaving
office, came after Cuomo’s
campaign launched a digi-
tal and TV ad campaign
pushing a similar message:
He was driven from office
unfairly.
Cuomo quoted the Bible
several times as he described
his travails, then went on the
offensive to attack the “polit-
ical sharks” in Albany who,
he said, “smelled blood” and
exploited the situation for
political gain.
“The actions against me
were prosecutorial miscon-
duct,” Cuomo said, repeat-
ing a theme he has pushed
from the outset. “They used
cancel culture to effectively
overturn an election.”
Cuomo resigned in
August, days after an inde-
pendent probe found he
sexually harassed nearly a
dozen women and that he
and aides worked to retali-
ate against an accuser.
On Sunday, Cuomo
acknowledged his behav-
ior wasn’t appropriate but
added that nothing he did
violated the law. “I didn’t
appreciate how fast the
perspectives changed.”
“I’ve learned a power-
ful lesson and paid a very
high price for learning that
lesson. God isn’t finished
with me yet.”
Cuomo hasn’t said he’s
running for office, but is
still sitting on a multimil-
lion-dollar campaign war
chest he could use to finance
another run.
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Several district attor-
neys in New York said they
found Cuomo’s accusers
“credible,” but said the avail-
able evidence wasn’t strong
enough to press criminal
charges against him. Last
month, a New York state
trooper sued him claiming
he caused her severe mental
anguish and emotional
distress by touching her
inappropriately and making
suggestive comments. A
Cuomo spokesperson called
the suit a “cheap cash extor-
tion.”
Cuomo used his platform
Sunday mostly to condemn a
social media-fueled climate
he said is growing and
dangerous.
Jolie visits Yemen: Film
actress Angelina Jolie on
Sunday visited war-wrecked
Yemen to show solidar-
ity with displaced fami-
lies to generate support for
an upcoming fundraising
conference, according to the
United Nations.
Jolie, who is special envoy
for the U.N. on refugee
issues, landed in the south-
ern coastal city of Aden to
meet with families and refu-
gees. Aden is the seat of the
internationally recognized
government.
The U.N. refugee agency
said it hopes that Jolie’s
visit would draw aware-
ness to humanitarian needs
in Yemen, the Arab World’s
poorest country, ahead of the
annual High Level Pledging
Conference for Yemen on
March 16.
“As we continue to
watch the horrors unfold-
ing in Ukraine and call for
an immediate end to the
conflict and humanitarian
access, I am here in Yemen
to support people who also
desperately need peace. The
situation here is one of the
worst humanitarian crises
in the world,” Jolie said in
a post on her Instagram
account.
Palestinian attacker: Police
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shot and killed a Palestin-
ian attacker Sunday after he
stabbed an officer in Jerusa-
lem’s Old City, Israeli police
said.
In a statement, police said
the attacker approached
officers who were stationed
in the Old City and stabbed
one of them, injuring him
slightly. The officers opened
fire and shot and killed the
man, identified as a 19-year-
old resident of east Jerusa-
lem. Israeli media reported
a second officer was also
slightly wounded as a result
of the gunfire.
Police released a photo of
a knife laying on a cobble-
stone alley in the ancient Old
City, with blood splattered
nearby.
Palestinians have carried
out dozens of stabbing,
shooting and car-ram-
ming attacks targeting
Israeli civilians and security
personnel in recent years.
Many of the attacks have
appeared to have had no
links to militant groups.
Palestinians and rights
Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Monday, March 7, 2022  3
groups have accused Israel troops. stani rule or as an indepen-
of using excessive force in dent country.
trying to subdue the attack- Attack in Kashmir: One
ers. person was killed and more China mine workers die:
than 20 others injured Fourteen workers who were
Syria attack: Militants Sunday when an assailant trapped when a coal mine in
attacked a military bus trav- lobbed a grenade at a busy southwest China collapsed
eling on a desert highway market in the main city in 10 days ago have died, media
in central Syria on Sunday, Indian-controlled Kashmir, reported Sunday.
killing 13 troops including police said. A rescue operation
several officers, state media According to local media finished Sunday after the
reported. reports, the target of the bodies of the miners were
State news agency SANA attack in Srinagar appeared retrieved, state-owned
said the militants used a to have been security Xinhua News Agency said.
variety of weapons in the personnel in the area. There The workers were
attack in the Palmyra region, was a huge crowd in the trapped after the roof of a
adding that 18 soldiers were market when the grenade shaft at Sanhe Shunxun coal
wounded. exploded. mine in Guizhou province
No further details were The injured were taken to collapsed Feb. 25.
available, and no one a hospital. The rescue operation was
claimed responsibility. In Police officer Sujit Kumar challenging because the roof
the past, Syrian authorities said that security forces caved in almost 2 miles from
have blamed such attacks were investigating, and that the entrance of the mine,
on Islamic State group mili- the attacker would be found and the collapsed area was
tants who have been active soon. large, media reported.
in southern and central Kashmir is divided Further investigation into
Syria, despite losing terri- between India and Pakistan, the cause of the accident was
torial control in the country which both claim the region underway.
since 2019. in its entirety. China’s coal mines are
In January, IS militants India accuses Pakistan among the world’s deadliest,
fired rockets and an anti-air- of supporting armed rebels regularly suffering explo-
craft gun at a bus traveling who want to unite the sions and gas leaks despite
in the same area, killing five region, either under Paki- repeated safety crackdowns.
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ARTS & LIVING

From left: John C. Reilly as Jerry Buss, Quincy Isaiah as Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Jason Clarke as Jerry West in “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.” WARRICK PAGE/HBO PHOTOS

HOOP DREAMS
‘WINNING TIME’ HHH

The Showtime Lakers and Magic Johnson

get an energetic TV treatment from Adam McKay
By Nina Metz | Chicago Tribune is in its buoyant enthusiasm for an

E
arly in the first episode of
HBO’s “Winning Time:
The Rise of the Lakers
Dynasty,” soon-to-be team
owner Jerry Buss, played in all his
tacky-huckster glory by John C.
Reilly, is reclining on a water bed
at the Playboy mansion. A female
companion is curled up asleep in
the crook of his arm, and he stares at
the TV in front of him, transfixed, as
he watches basketball: “Goddamn
basketball,” he says, almost breath-
less. “I mean, look at it, it’s like great
sex. It’s always moving. It’s rhyth-
mic. It’s up close and personal with
no pads or helmets for protection.
It’s just you and these other guys
out there, trying to get the ball into
the hoop. It’s a beautiful thing. And
every single one of those guys plays
that game with their own unique
pizazz and style. It’s sexy! Come on!
I mean, if there’s two things in this
world that make me believe in God,
it’s sex and basketball, ya know?”
He turns to the woman next to him.
“Hon?”
She groggily rolls over, breasts
exposed, and, blamo, we’re pulled
back to a time (1979 to be precise)
Adrien Brody portrays a scrappy Pat Riley in “Winning Time.”
when gratuitous female nudity was a
Hollywood staple. The show makes
an unconvincing visual argument for
its return; there are naked breasts
aplenty throughout this limited
series, which rarely knows what to
do with its handful of underwritten
female characters who get to remain
clothed, including Buss’ mother and
partner in obfuscating the team’s
finances, Jessie Buss (played by Sally
Field) and his daughter and current
Lakers owner and president, Jeanie
Buss (played by Hadley Robinson).
No, where “Winning Time”
succeeds — and it does succeed —
origin story.
A flashier, sassier image for the
Lakers — led by the charismatic
rookie Earvin “Magic” Johnson
and the serene veteran Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar (breakout perfor-
mances both by newcomers Quincy
Isaiah and Solomon Hughes, respec-
tively) — was just a twinkle in Buss’
eye back in that water bed.
But then we get to see him put his
plan in motion and it’s thrilling. He’s
a good-time Charlie with shrewd
instincts, part used-car salesman,
part shark, and Reilly is having the
time of his life playing the type of
guy who takes a hairbrush to his
chest fur before heading out into the
world, ready to flash a smile and get
something going.
These days, prestige TV based
on true events tends to be of the
anatomy-of-a-scandal variety, and
what feels so refreshing here is that
“Winning Time” is offering the
energetic opposite to that, rooted in
curiosity about how the ’80s Show-
time era of the Lakers was built. The
component parts that had to come
together? Over-the-top, but also
Turn to Lakers, Page 5

‘AFTER YANG’ ★★★ 1/2

Showtime’s exquisite bit of

futurism stars Colin Farrell
By Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
They’re known as
“techno-​sapiens.” In order
to raise their adopted
Chinese daughter, a
struggling Anglo tea shop
owner and a Black busi-
nesswoman — married
but growing ever-more-
faintly distant from each
other — go to a discount
retail outlet known as
Second Siblings and buy a
used techno, a companion
wired to the digital brim
with knowledge regarding
their daughter’s cultural
heritage.
That’s the premise of
“After Yang,” an exquisite
bit of futurism from the
filmmaker known as Kogo-
nada. His debut feature,
the Indiana-set romance
“Columbus,” signaled a
writer-director of unusual
patience and visual temper-
ament.
“After Yang” is just as
good, in a different direc-
tion. It opened at the
Landmark Century Centre
March 4, the same day
Kogonada’s film made its
streaming premiere on
Showtime.
Kogonada’s adaptation of
the 2016 Alexander Wein-
stein short story “Saying
Goodbye to Yang” begins
years after this family
of three has essentially
adopted the techno, who
happens to be an Asian-de-
signed adult, as a second
child. He, or it, is played by
Justin H. Min. Colin Farrell
and Jodie Turner-Smith
portray the parents; the
young girl, Mika, devoted
to her brotherly companion
Yang, is played by an effort-
less charmer named Malea
Emma Tjandrawidjaja.
I hesitate to go into too
much about the plot of
“After Yang,” not because
it’s spoiler-y but because
Kogonada’s interests aren’t
really about the plot at all.
Early on, Yang malfunc-
tions after the family’s
customary “monthly
dance-off” (a virtual reality
competition, wittily real-
ized). Mika is distraught.
The family isn’t sure what
to do next. Repair? Let the
techno decompose?
The father takes a tip
from a neighbor (Clifton
Collins Jr.) about a techno
repair expert (Ritchie
Coster), prone to surveil-
lance conspiracy theories
and racist views in what
appears to be a late 21st/
early 22nd-century Amer-
ica. What the repairman
discovers inside Yang’s
wires raises questions of
what it means to be human.
Haley Lu Richardson,
wonderful in “Columbus,”
“Support the Girls” and Colin Farrell, from left, Jodie Turner-Smith, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja and Justin H. Min in
everything else she has Kogonada’s second feature, “After Yang.” A24
done, enters the story as
a clone who had her own accesses Yang’s memory emotions and use their is sadly presumptive of
close friendship on the sly recordings. voices so each moment humans to ask?
with Yang. This is science There are moments in and each interaction (or
fiction with a fantastically the second half of “After evasion) registers, without Michael Phillips is a
light-fingered touch. Yang” when some of any actorly “indicating.” Tribune critic.
A child’s grief at the loss the narrative beats get a Do androids dream of mjphillips@chicagotribune.
of a loved one, matters little confusing. Kogona- electric sheep? Philip K. com
of privacy and the limits da’s steady, often still, but Dick posed that question. Twitter @phillipstribune
of artificial intelligence; never static compositions The question in “After
these and other topics may not be enough for Yang” is related, sort of, MPAA rating: PG
guide the storytelling. The some viewers. Whatever. but gracefully humane (language and some
visual effects are sparingly Clearly, actors respond and gently luminous in its thematic elements)
deployed and often truly to what he’s after. Farrell execution: Do androids Running time: 1:36
beautiful, when we see, for and Turner-Smith, besides wish they were human? How to watch: At Landmark
example, what Yang sees, being insanely photoge- Or is that a question, as Century Centre Cinema and
or how Farrell’s character nic subjects, contain their one character notes, that streaming on Showtime
 Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Monday, March 7, 2022  5

CELEBRITIES

Anderson to tell ‘real story’ in doc ASK AMY

From news services
“Baywatch” star Pamela
Anderson will get to tell
her own story in her own
way with a new Netflix
documentary.
The former Playboy
playmate-turned-actor —
who’s also the subject of a
much buzzed-about eight-
part Hulu series based on
the sex tape scandal with
ex-husband Motley Crue
drummer Tommy Lee —
recently announced the
news on social media.
“My life/ A thousand
imperfections/ A million
misperceptions/ Wicked,
wild and lost/ Nothing
to live up to/ I can only
surprise you/ Not a victim,
but a survivor/ And alive
to tell the real story,” reads
her handwritten note on
Netflix letterhead.
Her son, Brandon
Thomas Lee, who serves as
a producer on the project,
reposted the note on his
Instagram story under-
scoring the phrase, “The
real story.”
The film has report-
edly been in the works
for several years and will
include archival footage,
her personal journals and
exclusive access to the pop
culture icon.
Neither Lee nor Ander-
son was involved in
the making of “Pam &
Tommy,” a fictionalized
account providing back-
ground for one of the pair’s
most infamous episodes:
their stolen sex tape.
Hudson to host daytime
talk show: Two decades
after her “American Idol”
outing, Grammy and Oscar
winner Jennifer Hudson is
returning to television this
fall to host “The Jennifer
Hudson Show,” a one-hour,
syndicated daytime talk
show on Fox TV stations.
“People from around
the world have been a
part of my journey from
the beginning — 20 years
ago — and I’m so ready to
join their journey as we
sit down and talk about
Actor Pamela Anderson will be the subject of a new Netflix
documentary. ALBERTO PIZZOLI/GETTY-AFP 2019
the things that inspire and
move us all,” Hudson, 40,
said in a statement.
“The Jennifer Hudson
Show” will be produced
in Los Angeles by Warner
Bros. Unscripted Televi-
sion and Telepictures.
Universal acquires
Diamond’s catalog:
Universal Music Group
reached an agreement
with singer-songwriter
Neil Diamond to acquire
the rights to his entire
song catalog and handle
his future releases, the
company announced
recently. Universal didn’t
disclose the agreement’s
terms, but said the acquisi-
tion includes 110 previ-
ously unreleased songs
by Diamond, as well as a
never-before-heard album.
Diamond, 81, whose hits
include “Sweet Caroline,”
“Solitary Man” and “I’m
a Believer,” said he feels
confident the company
will “continue to represent
my catalogue, and future
releases with the same
passion and integrity that
have always fueled my
career.”
Costner to narrate series
on Yellowstone: Kevin
Costner, star of Para-
mount’s Western series
“Yellowstone,” has agreed
to narrate a four-part series
on the 150th anniversary
of Yellowstone National
Park for the Fox Nation
streaming service. Debut-
ing this fall, “Yellowstone:
One-Fifty” will focus on
the park’s history and wild-
life. Costner’s company,
Territory Films, is making
the four-hour series with
Warm Springs Produc-
tions.
March 7 birthdays: Actor
Daniel J. Travanti is 82.
Guitarist Ernie Isley is
70. Actor Bryan Cranston
is 66. Comedian Wanda
Sykes is 58. Actor Jona-
than Del Arco is 56. Actor
Rachel Weisz is 52. Actor
Peter Sarsgaard is 51. Actor
Jay Duplass is 49. Actor
Jenna Fischer is 48. Actor
Tobias Menzies is 48.
Actor Laura Prepon is 42.
Couple drop the ‘P-bomb’ on their parents
Dear Amy: Our son and
daughter-in-law, married
for about six years,
recently dropped a bomb
on my husband and me.
They told us they are
involved in polyamorous
relationships where each
has another partner, lover
or person they each spend
a lot of time with outside of
the marriage.
They tell us that this
lifestyle is becoming more
common. They are in their
mid-30s, and don’t have
children.
We are having a hard
time understanding this
choice and accepting what
this will mean for our rela-
tionship going forward,
and for our larger family.
We are the only family
members they have shared
this information with so
far, and we are sworn to
secrecy.
They may have eased
their consciences by tell-
ing us, but now we are left
with troubling and unset-
tling information and no
place to go with it.
What can we do to ease
our troubled minds?
— Bewildered Parents
Dear Bewildered: Let’s
start by talking about
divorce. Not that long
ago, divorce meant a total
severing of a relation-
ship. But then Gwyneth
Paltrow and Chris Martin
highlighted the concept of
“conscious uncoupling,”
where a couple ceases to
be married, but continues
to love one another, even as
they move onto other rela-
tionships.
You may define marriage
as monogamy until divorce
or death, but as people
explore their freedom to
redefine the boundar-
ies of what it means to be
married, they may choose
By Amy Dickinson
askamy@amydickinson.com Twitter@askingamy
“ethical non-monog-
amy,” which is where they
remain lovingly married,
but are free to engage in
other romantic relation-
ships in a way that they
believe is open and honest.
They don’t define this
as infidelity. It is about
consensual relationships.
The important question
is how these polyamorous
relationships will affect
children growing up in
families with three or four
adults who all identify as
parents and partners. If all
the adults are stable, loving
and committed to the chil-
dren, then I imagine the
kids will be fine.
Take a breath, do some
reading about polyamory,
and understand that you
define marriage one way,
while they define it differ-
ently.
Unless you and they are
religious, this doesn’t make
it “wrong.” It just makes it
“what is.”
This is their life and
their choice, and if they
want to remove the taboo
surrounding polyamory,
you should discourage
them from defining this as
a deep, dark family secret.
Dear Amy: About five years
ago, I met a married couple
at a local coffee shop. I
consider them acquain-
tances. They think we’re
friends.
I found the guy to be
really annoying and tried
not to run into them.
They moved to another
city. They had a going away
party, and I decided to go
because I figured I would
never see them again.
Suddenly, they moved
back because he now has
cancer and is getting treat-
ment here.
I now have had to feign
interest and concern.
I’ve run into them on the
street a few times and get
messages and calls from
them on a regular basis.
How do I get away from
them? Does this make me
a bad person because now
he has cancer? I just don’t
care about them!
— Nice Guy, Not
Heartless
Dear Heartless: Keep your
boundaries in place. It is
easy to let calls go to voice-
mail and to dodge texts, if
that’s what you want to do.
Think about the actual
amount of time spent
interacting with them, and
then determine to be nice
to them when you do.
They are human beings.
You are, too. Do you have
to care about someone to
express compassion? I
hope not.
Dear Amy: I’m a fan but
wanted to point out in your
response to “Distressed
Dad” that you focused
mainly on the age of his
unvaccinated daughter
being 20 and immature.
I’m fully vaccinated
and high risk, but there
are people I’ve met 60 and
older who aren’t vaccinated
and couldn’t care less about
my or anyone else’s health.
Age is irrelevant.
— Gia
Dear Gia: This 20-year-old
lied about her vaccina-
tion status and demon-
strated other behavior that
I believe was a function
of her immaturity. But I
do agree with you that
maturity does not always
accompany age.
Copyright 2022 by Amy
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Expo Chicago coming back in April

Navy Pier event
will feature art
from galleries
around the world
By Kayla Samoy
Chicago Tribune
Expo Chicago, the
international exposi-
tion of contemporary and
modern art on Navy Pier,
has released the full lineup
of participating artists
and speakers for its ninth
annual event, which is
taking place April 7-10 in
Festival Hall. The event,
returning for the first time
since the pandemic, will
include more than 140
galleries representing
25 countries around the
world.
“This April will be the
first time since 2019 that
the fair will be able to bring
its global community of
artists, curators, design-
ers and art world leaders
together in person, and the
incredible range and depth
of the core programs reflect
this built energy and enthu-
siasm,” Kate Sierzputowski,
director of programming,
said in a news release.
The expo includes the /
Dialogues panel program
with art world leaders;
interactive daily panel
discussions on the North-
ern Trust Exchange Stage;
installations of large-scale
sculpture, video, film and
works as part of IN/SITU;
and OVERRIDE | A Bill-
board Project that will use
digital billboards across the
city to display a selection of
contemporary artwork.
Some notable partic-
ipants include Jamillah
James, Manilow senior
curator at Museum
of Contemporary Art
Chicago; Koyo Kouoh,
executive director and
chief curator of the Zeitz
Museum of Contemporary
Art Africa in Cape Town;
and Hans Ulrich Obrist, the
artistic director of Serpen-
tine Galleries London.
Expo Chicago runs April
7-10 at Navy Pier’s Festi-
val Hall, 600 E. Grand Ave.;
tickets range from $25-$50 Tea pots by Roberto Lugo, presented by Wexler Gallery of
and are available at expoch- Philadelphia, at 2019’s Expo Chicago at Navy Pier.
icago.com E. JASON WAMBSGANS/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Lakers docuseries coming to Apple TV+

from Page 4
human and engrossing.
Adam McKay is the show’s
executive producer (he also
directs the pilot episode) and it is
easy to get pulled in — it’s too fun
not to.
I’m saying this as someone
who doesn’t follow the NBA at
all. I’m familiar with some of
these players only because their
pop-cultural reach extends
beyond basketball, and even I’m
in. I found the show absorbing
and highly entertaining for the
same reasons I found “The Last
Dance,” about the 1990s Chicago
Bulls, so compelling: Because
sports only become interesting
— for me, anyway — when you
get a sense of the personalities
involved. And, hoo-boy, are there
some personalities involved.
Based on reporter Jeff Pearl-
man’s nonfiction book, “Show-
time: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and
the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty
of the 1980s,” the series is a stylis-
tic pastiche, weaving in grainy
film stock as if we needed a
reminder this all took place in
the past, as well as the occasional
animated flourish.
It’s also a cornucopia of bad
wigs, with a fourth wall that
drops away entirely whenever
Jerry Buss turns to the camera
and takes us into his confidence.
There’s a winking sensibility
undergirding all of it (literally,
when point guard Norm Nixon
is introduced, played by his son
DeVaughn Nixon). The Show-
time Lakers were a phenomenon
of the 1980s, but it’s notable that
we begin in ’79, on the cusp of so
much change to come.
It was rough going early on between star players Earvin “Magic” Johnson (Quincy Isaiah) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Solomon Hughes). WARRICK PAGE/HBO
This isn’t the ’70s of the gas
shortage or anything else so
depressing; this is a remem-
brance of things past both glitzier
and hazier. Everything’s a little
sun-bleached and washed out. It
looks amazing.
The show can also feel glib and
self-congratulatory (as McKay’s
projects are wont), especially
about the mere fact that it carves
out moments to portray racism
within the ownership and execu-
tive ranks, as when the letters “W
H I T E” are spelled out across
the screen as NBA commissioner
Larry O’Brien spouts off about
his preference for Larry Bird over
Johnson.
Veteran writer and producer
Rodney Barnes is one of the few
Black people listed among the
show’s primary creative voices,
and there’s some irony that the
show itself, under showrunners
Max Borenstein and Jim Hecht,
mirrors the league’s power imbal-
ance, with the key decision-mak-
ers (and those who stand to
profit) almost exclusively white
and male.
The show’s title, too, deserves
endless mockery. “Winning
Time” is a clunky workaround
that ensures HBO doesn’t have
to name-check its competitor,
Showtime. I mean, this seems
like a silly thing to worry about,
but was “Winning Time” really
the next best option? “Winning
Time”?!
There’s so much gaudy poetry
in the Showtime moniker — it’s
not just a game, but a bombastic
show both on the court and off
— and “Winning Time” captures
none of that. It doesn’t even roll
off the tongue.
In the lead-up to the
premiere, there have been some
hand-wringing interviews
with the show’s creators about
whether it matters that no one
from the Lakers, past or pres-
ent, wants anything to do with
the series. I think it’s irrelevant.
(Johnson has his own authorized
next month.) In fact, I’d argue it is
preferable the writers were free
from contending with anyone’s
image management; unlike
Hulu’s “Pam & Tommy” (which
had to re-exploit Pamela Ander-
son in order to tell her story,
making her lack of involvement
so unseemly), “Winning Time”
isn’t pretending to recontextual-
ize anyone’s past so much as it’s
trying to understand how an era
came together, and why.
It was led by Jerry Buss, the
man with the elaborate comb-
over and an instinct for backslap-
ping, as well as the complicated
dynamic between Johnson and
Abdul-Jabbar, who are fleshed
out together and separately, as
two men struggling to figure out
what exactly they want from this
game, and what they can give to it.
There’s also the combus-
tible Jerry West, the star
player-turned-coach-turned-
front-office-man (Jason Clarke),
the dweeby-steely ingenuity
of head coach Jack McKinney
(Tracy Letts), and the shambling,
then slowly ambitious Slick-
back Man in making in Pat Riley
(Adrien Brody).
The team doesn’t even play
their first game until midway
through the 10-episode season
and like so many other shows,
there’s some drop off in momen-
tum after the first few episodes.
But this collection of egos is never
not interesting, forever colliding
in ways fascinating and strange,
comedic and fraught.
Game on.
Where to watch: HBO
Nina Metz is a Tribune critic.
nmetz@chicagotribune.com
6  Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Monday, March 7, 2022
NOW PLAYING
‘AFTER YANG’: In Kogo-
nada’s directorial debut,
“Columbus,” he explored
the “modernism of the
soul,” through the architec-
ture of Columbus, Indiana,
and the unique connec-
tion between two strang-
ers seeing each other, and
themselves, against the
backdrop of the environ-
ments they share. In his
second feature film, “After
Yang,” Kogonada once
again takes up the ques-
tion of the soul and its
existence in modern, even
postmodern, times. But
while “Columbus” was an
exploration of the soul in
a space, “After Yang” takes
up the question of the soul
throughout time. Kogonada
adapted “After Yang” from
the short story “Saying
Goodbye to Yang” from
the book “Children of the
New World” by Alexan-
der Weinstein, and the film
takes place in a near future
that looks a bit different,
but functions in the same
way. This sleekly modern
world is informed by East
Asian aesthetics, food and
culture, and the advanced
technologies are familiar:
FaceTime, self-driving cars,
video games, animated
photo snippets. It is a world
so close we might reach
out touch it, and with the
warm, comfortable produc-
tion design by Alexandra
Schaller and gauzy cine-
matography by Benjamin
Loeb, Kogonada makes
the film an almost tactile
experience. 1:36. 4 stars.
Streaming on Showtime.
— Katie Walsh, Tribune
News Service
‘THE BATMAN’: Just when
you’ve had it with Gotham
City, caped crusaders and
the whole franchise, along
comes a good Batman
movie — easily the best
since “The Dark Knight”
14 years and an entire film
industry ago. “The Batman”
features a solemnly effec-
tive new Bruce Wayne/
Batman courtesy of Robert
Pattinson. He has a superb
counterpoint/frenemy/
soul mate in Zoe Kravitz’s
Robert Pattinson and Zoe Kravitz in “The Batman.” JONATHAN OLLEY/WARNER BROS. PICTURES
Selina Kyle/Catwoman.
Selina works as a nightclub
hostess (vaguely defined on
purpose) in a mob hang-
out frequented by John
Turturro’s Falcone, who
is outfitted by sunglasses
handed down, appar-
ently, from Sam Giancana.
“Oz” Cobblepot, aka The
Penguin, reports to Falcone
but isn’t happy about the
arrangement. He’s played
by an unrecognizable Colin
Farrell. Meanwhile, Andy
Serkis as Wayne’s guard-
ian Alfred Pennyworth is
lovely, a naturally civilized
antidote to all the hellish-
ness swirling around him.
All it takes for Gotham,
aka America, to give into
pure chaos, is simple:
“fear, and a little focused
violence,” according to
Paul Dano’s Riddler. “The
Batman,” rated PG-13 but
barely, plays all the sides
of Gotham’s mean streets
more compellingly, and
without mainlining the
viciousness “Joker” style.
I don’t know if we needed
“The Batman,” but Matt
Reeves, the director and
co-writer, and company
certainly elevated it. 2:56.
3 stars. — Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune
‘CYRANO’: The new
“Cyrano” movie is an
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Reviews of movies showing
in theaters or streaming online
eyeful; but for the ear,
more like half-full. But you
always take your chances
with a musical adapta-
tion of the 1897 Edmond
Rostand play about the poet
warrior of the title who
embarks on an anguished
ghostwriting project to
help out his fellow soldier,
Christian, at the behest of
Roxanne, who has fallen
in love with Christian at
first sight. Peter Dinklage
originated his Cyrano at the
Goodspeed Opera House
in Connecticut in 2018,
then went off-Broadway in
2019. Erica Schmidt, who
is married to Dinklage,
directed and wrote the
book for that show. Direc-
tor Joe Wright enlisted her
to do the screenplay for the
new film, and here we have
it: a swank but errant enter-
prise, with many confi-
dent elements very nearly
making up for a movie that
doesn’t really benefit from
song or dance. 2:04. 2 1/2
stars. — Michael Phillips
‘LUCY AND DESI’: With
the premiere of the docu-
mentary “Lucy and Desi”
directed by Amy Poehler
on Amazon, the streaming
platform is home now to
three projects about Lucille
Ball and Desi Arnaz. It joins
the release this past fall of
L E B R AT I ON
C E
A F
the embarrassingly bad
biopic from Aaron Sorkin
(“Being the Ricardos” star-
ring Nicole Kidman and
Javier Bardem) and, on the
other end of the spectrum,
the wonderfully complex
and compelling 1993 docu-
mentary “Lucy and Desi:
A Home Movie,” made
by the couple’s daughter,
Lucie Arnaz. Of the three
films, Poehler’s effort falls
somewhere in the middle,
at once superfluous but
sincere in its efforts to cele-
brate and also understand
the duo who would change
television forever, but had a
famously difficult marriage
as well, which would end,
after two decades together,
in 1960. 1:43. 2 1/2 stars.
Streaming on Amazon
Prime. — Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune
‘NO EXIT’: On the one hand,
director Damien Power
— working from a screen-
play by Andrew Barrer and
Gabriel Ferrari, who have
adapted Taylor Adams’
2017 novel of the same
name — has crafted a movie
stress-inducing enough to
feel big screen-worthy. On
the other, the story is overly
simple, and the movie’s
cast — with one-time “24”
star and Allstate Insurance
pitchman Dennis Hays-
O
bert easily being the most
recognizable of the faces
— has a distinct TV-movie
feel. As you’d hope from
its title, where “No Exit”
succeeds is in its entrap-
ment of all its key players.
Be he or she a kidnapper
or merely a weary traveler,
the person has nowhere to
go. It’s not as if the woods
surrounding the rest stop
offer anything in the way
of safety given the weather
raging outside its walls, and
no one can call for help.
Instead, it features some
Tarantino-ian violence,
“No Exit” becoming some-
what unexpectedly grue-
some in its final stretch.
Be prepared to squirm on
your couch, at least a little.
1:35. 2 stars. Streaming on
Hulu. — Mark Meszoros,
Willoughby News-Herald
‘STRAWBERRY MANSION’:
The beguiling, low-fi
“Strawberry Mansion”
is the kind of movie they
don’t make anymore —
pure fantasy of consis-
tently sprightly invention,
special effects and anima-
tion elements with actual
charm, and a spirit I can
only describe as soulful. It’s
2035. The federal govern-
ment employs “dream
auditors” to make sure
people are paying their
taxes on their dream lives.
One such auditor, Preble,
visits the country home of
Bella. She’s living alone,
serenely, with her chickens
and a turtle, and an entire
roomful of antiquated VHS
tapes predating the 2035-
era’s “airstick” method of
recording dreams. What
Preble finds on this partic-
ular job is even trippier
than the previous sentence
indicates. 1:31. 3 1/2 stars.
— Michael Phillips
‘STUDIO 666’: Horror is
so hot right now, every-
one wants a bite. No longer
relegated to the midnight
movie, the often low-bud-
get, high-profit genre
isn’t just flourishing at the
box office in the linger-
ing pandemic market, it’s
practically saturated it.
So it’s no surprise that a
beloved rock band, espe-
cially one as affable as the
Foo Fighters might want
in on the action. What
they’ve come up with is a
goofy, gory horror comedy,
“Studio 666,” directed by
BJ McDonnell, written by
Jeff Buhler and Rebecca
Hughes, from a story by
Foo frontman Dave Grohl.
Neither funny nor scary,
“Studio 666” is lacking in
all tension and suspense.
Not even the presence of
the Horror Master himself,
John Carpenter, or 2022’s
newly minted Scream
Queen Jenna Ortega
(“Scream,” “X”), can offer
true horror bona fides to
this flick, while stand-up
comic Whitney Cummings
can’t make this thing
funny either. 1:46. 1 1/2 stars.
— Katie Walsh.
‘UNCHARTED’: It was
well into the third act of
“Uncharted,” during the
airborne pirate ship battle,
that I began to wonder:
Who on Earth are these
people? Of course, we
know their names, and
what they’re doing — Mark
Wahlberg is Victor “Sully”
Sullivan, Tom Holland his
young protege, Nathan
Drake, and they’re on a
globe-trotting adventure
to find a treasure trove of
gold stashed by Magel-
lan’s crew, and perhaps
Nathan’s long-lost brother,
but really, who are they?
What do they actually
want (aside from gold)?
How did Sully’s profession
become pillaging the pillag-
ers? “Uncharted” is fine,
and entertaining enough,
but while some moments
are inspired, others are
completely inert. It’s oddly
neutered and bloodless, the
stakes negligible. It feels
like a project with so much
potential that never fully
achieves liftoff. 1:56. 2 stars.
— Katie Walsh
RATINGS: The movies
listed are rated according
to the following key: 4 stars,
excellent; 3 stars, good; 2
stars, fair; 1 star, poor.
 Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Monday, March 7, 2022  7

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This year’s celebration honoring the
best in country music will be held live in
Las Vegas and available on Prime Video
only, marking the first time that a major
awards show has live-streamed exclusively.
The two-hour event will stream without
commercial interruption and will be hosted
by Dolly Parton, whose new album Run,
Rose, Run drops on March 4. The legend
will be joined by cohosts Gabby Barrett
and Jimmie Allen, who each have one
nomination this year. Parton will also team
with Kelsea Ballerini for a performance of
“Big Dreams and Faded Jeans” from Run,
Rose, Run. Other announced performers
include Chris Young, who leads this year’s
field with seven nominations; Walker
Hayes, who has received five nods in his
first time as a nominee; Chris Stapleton,
CATCH A CLASSIC
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TCM, Beginning at 4 a.m.
As part of its monthlong 31 Days of Oscar
celebration, Turner Classic Movies devotes
Mondays to daylong lineups of Academy
Award-winning films from the earliest days
of the Oscars, the 1920s and ’30s (some of
them winning in categories no longer used
by the Academy). Today’s initial lineup of
lauded movies from those decades features:
Coquette (1929) — won in its only nomi-
nated category: Best Actress (Mary Pick-
ford); Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) —
three nominations, one win: Best Dance Di-
rection; Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) — two
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who has five nominations; Jordan Davis
(four nominations) and Luke Bryan (three
nominations) performing their hit “Buy Dirt”;
Carrie Underwood, with four nominations;
and Carly Pearce, with four nods, among
others.
The Bachelor:
The Women Tell All
ABC, 7 p.m.
Ladies denying roses! TV-MA hookups!
Unexpected exits! If this reunion of his
exes is anything like this unhinged season,
Clayton Echard is in for an earful. We’ll bring
the popcorn.
The Gilded Age
HBO, 8 p.m.
Writer Peggy Scott (Denee Benton) won’t
be the only one whose jaw drops tonight!
As Julian Fellowes’ lush 1882-set drama
continues, Thomas Edison pops in to
illuminate the grand New York Times building
with his new electric lights. The stunning
Song (“Lullaby of Broadway” by Harry War-
ren and Al Dubin); A Midsummer Night’s
Dream (1935) — four nominations, two wins:
Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing;
Swing Time (1936) — two nominations, one
win: Best Music, Original Song (“The Way You
Look Tonight” by Jerome Kern and Dorothy
Fields); The Great Ziegfeld (1936) — seven
nominations, three wins: Best Picture, Best
Actress (Luise Rainer, the first of her back-
to-back wins) and Best Dance Direction; A
Star Is Born (1937) — seven nominations,
one win, for Best Original Screenplay, with
the film also receiving an honorary award
for W. Howard Greene’s color photography;
Wings (1927) — won in both of its nominated
categories: Best Picture (the first film to
earn that award) and Best Effect, Engi-
neering Effects; The Adventures of Robin
Hood (1938) — four nominations, three wins:
Best Music, Original Score (Erich Wolfgang
her horse carriage tailgate are coveted.
Naturally, old-money widow Agnes Van
Rhijn (Christine Baranski) isn’t interested
in jockeying for one. She’s busy suspecting
her niece Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson) is
only a stepping stone for beau Tom Raikes’
(Thomas Cocquerel) social ambitions; yet the
couple’s secret courtship heats up. And her ‘Wonder Woman’
closeted son Oscar’s (Blake Ritson) scheme CLAY ENOS
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been reinstated to the London police when Independence Day: Resurgence
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‘Cyberchase’ uses geopolitics, Crossword

math and Lloyd to save world
By Jevon Phillips
Los Angeles Times

In his roles, Christopher

Lloyd is known for driving
a taxi as “Taxi’s” Jim Igna-
towski and a DeLorean as
“Back to the Future’s” Doc
Brown. But as the Hacker
on PBS Kids’ “Cyberchase,”
he’s often driving his ship,
the Grim Wreaker, while
concocting one scheme or
another to take over the
(cyber)world.
Lloyd, 83, has voiced the
Hacker since the animated
show debuted 20 years
ago, and “Cyberchase”
recently kicked off its 13th
season on PBS Kids.
The Emmy-winning
series helps build chil-
dren’s math and cogni-
tive skills while adding
a healthy dose of envi-
ronmental literacy. The
new episodes spotlight
the series’ heroes —
Jackie (voiced by Novie
Edwards), Matt (Jacque-
line Pillon), Inez (Annick
Obonsawin) and Digit
(Gilbert Gottfried) — as
they tackle timely topics
such as pollution, invasive
species, sustainable design
and biodiversity by using
their problem-​solving and
math skills to save the day
and take down the Hacker.
This interview with
Lloyd has been edited for
clarity and length.
Q: As the Hacker, you’re
evil, or aspiring to be evil,
but there are moments of,
dare I say, good? Is that
something you push for?
A: It just comes out, in spite
of himself. I’m aspiring to
have everything under my
control (as the Hacker).
I get these ideas that are
just there to make me look
good and for me to be the
genius that makes all this
stuff happen. They’re evil,
they’re antisocial — but he
doesn’t care. Each episode,
I’m out to make another
conquest.
Q: What drew you to the
Christopher Lloyd, seen Oct. 3, is the voice of the Hacker on
PBS Kids’“Cyberchase.” LISA O’CONNOR/GETTY-AFP
show initially? offers for things. I was
A: I kind of just like the kind of won over. It’s my
premise of it. Every voice, but I have to feed
episode they pull the that with emotions and
rug out from under me. I choices whether my face
fail every time. And they is showing or not. I have
achieve that through to do the same homework.
the choices they make, The emotion’s gotta come
which involve mathemat- through with the voice to By Jacqueline E. Mathews. © 2022 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. All rights reserved.
3/7/22
ics. They’re learning how make it believable. After a
to apply mathematics to while, I got kind of hooked ACROSS 49 Lugs Solutions
1 Gigantic 51 Watch
real-life situations. And on it. Sometimes they’d 4 Sugar __; 54 Like a better
they had a mathemati- bring a camera to shoot me Vermont’s state choice
cian always (helping with while doing it, and I tend to tree 56 Boston __
the writing and teaching gesticulate a lot and move 9 Sheet music chowder
moments). It’s maybe a around. Sometimes the symbol 57 Polly, to Tom
little subtle, but it’s cool. character that I’m doing 13 Long bone Sawyer
hasn’t been drawn yet, and 14 As crazy as __ 58 Jane Curtin’s
Q: You’ve had so many they’d incorporate some 15 Make well sitcom role
roles that dealt with of my movements. So with 16 Swedish auto 59 Business review
17 Loathing; disgust website
relating to kids and young that aspect of it, it became 19 Top file drawer 60 NBA team
adults. Is that by choice, kind of cool. 20 Fatigued 61 Marshmallow
or just roles you gravitate 21 __ go; very active Easter chicks
toward? Q: What do you think is 22 Be “it” in hide- 62 JFK’s
A: I noted that the other the main issue right now and-seek predecessor
day. … I haven’t done that you’d want to impart 24 Journal
anything to get those roles, to the kids who watch 25 Head topper DOWN
but it’s true. I can’t really “Cyberchase”? 27 Tough fibrous 1 Tell another’s
tissues secret
altogether explain that, but A: I think to be aware of
30 Goods for sale 2 Wrong
I don’t regret a minute of it changes that have to be 31 Sits down 3 Chatter 23 Many a golf 42 Summer camp
because it’s made it possi- made because of climate ungracefully 4 Armed forces tournament activities
ble for me to work with change. Whether they can 33 Flock member member 24 Hot __; role on 43 Free-for-alls
some great people and hold it at a certain level or 35 As strong __ ox 5 Open-eyed “M*A*S*H” 45 Bulb flower
make some great films. not, it’s going to change 36 Shines 6 Leo XIII or Pius X 25 Poet’s contraction 46 Extend across
things. An awareness of 37 __ bargain; 7 Deafening 26 Fertile desert spot 47 Word of
defendant’s deal 8 Jamaica’s 27 Plants agreement
Q: What have you learned that. An awareness of 28 Rich 48 Monthly expense
38 Take a load off official lang.
about voice acting that what democracy is about 39 Twelve dozen 9 Coins in your 29 Word with pickle 49 Healthy
you didn’t know when you because it’s being chal- 40 “Dead men tell pocket or potato 50 Suffix for
started? lenged pretty strongly here no __” 10 Current church 31 Make secret plans consider or honor
A: I didn’t want to do and elsewhere. … I think 41 Deodorant brand season 32 __ Angeles 52 Ivy League
(voice-​over work). I that’s important, that they 43 Powerful 11 Every 34 Effortless school
thought, ‘I’m an actor,’ really learn the ideals of a 44 Unrefined 12 Get away 36 Expanded 53 Napoleon’s title:
you know? But it kept free state, democracy and 45 Traditional Sioux 13 Neighbor of Mex. 37 Book leaf abbr.
coming up, and I’d get how you maintain that. home 18 Midday mealtimes 39 Small fruit 55 Jay-Z’s music
46 Strip of leather 20 Part of every wk. 40 Parts of icebergs? 56 Actress Charisse
8  Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Monday, March 7, 2022

Horoscopes Dilbert By Scott Adams

Today’s birthday (March 7): Listen to your

heart this year. Steady backstage production
bears valuable fruit. Springtime creative
muses inspire works of beauty. Adapt
around changing conditions with summer
explorations. Educational investigations
reveal valuable pearls this autumn.
Aries (March 21-April 19): Today is a 9. Lucrative possibilities
arise in conversation. Develop practical inroads. Strengthen
basic structures. An epiphany awakens you to what’s most
important. Invest in your own success.
Taurus (April 20-May 20): 9. Imagine bagging the prize.
Provide leadership, initiative and energy. Take advantage of a
lucky break. Simplify and reinforce basic elements. Baby Blues By Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott
Gemini (May 21-June 20): 7. Schedule for peaceful produc-
tivity in private. Slow to reconsider plans, strategies and
options. Strengthen foundations. Aim for practical priorities
and possibilities. Listen to intuition.
Cancer (June 21-July 22): 8. Connect with your team to re-
solve a challenge. Gather support for your project. Patience
and humor help with misunderstandings.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): 7. Abandon a professional preconcep-
tion. Patiently unravel a tangled mess. Clarify communications.
Edit and refine. Respectfully repeat until you get through.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): 8. Review routes before embarking.
Have backup plans. Research to avoid traffic, risk or delay.
Old assumptions get challenged. Use your own good sense.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): 8. Handle administrative tasks with
shared accounts. Manage accounting, banking and finance, Zits By Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
legal or insurance matters. Plug any leaks.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): 8. The patience and empathy that
you share with your partner saves time and avoids upsets,
overall. Grab a spontaneous opportunity to advance a collab-
orative project.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): 9. Prioritize health and well-
ness. Slow around obstacles or limitations. Strengthen and
build support. Listen to experts, doctors and coaches.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): 8. Clean messes. Envision
positive outcomes. Romantic ideals can fade. Notice hidden
silver linings. Patiently listen and support beloved people.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): 8. Take care of domestic matters.
Stick to comfortable favorites. Make home upgrades and
improvements. Grab an exceptional bargain.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): 7. If creativity seems blocked or Mr. Boffo By Joe Martin
distracted, focus on solving obvious practical problems. Re-
inforce basic structures. Take spontaneous action to advance
a dreamy possibility.

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Bliss By Harry Bliss Classic Peanuts By Charles Schulz

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Bridge
Here are the answers to the weekly quiz:
Q.1—Neither vulnerable, as South, you hold:
♠ A J 5 4 ♥ 4 ♦ J 10 4 2 ♣ J 9 7 6 Dick Tracy By Joe Staton and Mike Curtis
North East South West
1♥ Pass 1♠ Pass
2♦ Pass ?
What call would you make?
A.1—A singleton opposite partner’s presumed strength is not
ideal. We think this is very close between pass and 3D. We like
3D, but just barely.
Q.2—North-South vulnerable, as South, you hold:
♠ A J 5 3 2 ♥ 7 5 ♦ K 9 ♣ Q 10 9 4
As dealer, what call would you make?
A.2—This hand is very close to being worth an opening bid,
perhaps just the 10 of spades away. It doesn’t get there,
however. Pass.
Animal Crackers By Mike Osbun
Q.3—East-West vulnerable, as South, you hold:
♠ 985 ♥ 754 ♦ K5 ♣ AK763
North East South West
1♣ Pass 2♣* Pass
2♥ Pass ?
*Forcing for one round with at least invitational values
What call would you make?
A.3—Partner is showing signs of life, but you have a minimum.
Show it by bidding 3C.
Q.4—Both vulnerable, as South, you hold:
♠ Q ♥ K 9 3 ♦ Q J 10 5 ♣ A Q 8 3 2
South West North East
1♣ 1♠ 1NT 2♠
? Prickly City By Scott Stantis
What call would you make?
A.4—This is why some players open 1D with this hand. We
think double is the best choice. Maybe partner can work out
what to do. He knows we are short in spades.

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Dustin By Steve Kelley and Jeff Parker

Sudoku 3/7

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.

Saturday’s
solutions
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Jumble
Unscramble the four Jumbles, one letter per square, to
form four words. Then arrange the circled letters to form
the surprise answer, as suggested by this cartoon.
Hägar the Horrible By Chris Browne

Mutts By Patrick McDonnell

Answer here

Saturday’s answers

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Sherman’s Lagoon By Jim Toomey

Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! By Tim Rickard

Across 41 Response to “Marco!” 11 *Do some stand-up

1 Book of maps in a pool game 12 Bowling venue
6 Pots’ cookware 42 “Ghostbusters” goo 13 Musical scale part
partners 44 Raggedy doll 21 Taxi alternatives
Broom-Hilda By Russell Myers 10 Read, as a bar code 45 Rubber-stamped 22 Let the cat out of the
14 Not dry, as a cake 46 Popular Campbell’s bag, so to speak
15 Rectangle calculation soup 26 Pre-tied tie, e.g.
16 “Alice’s Restaurant” 48 Window sections 27 Eurasian range
singer Guthrie 50 “You’ve got to be 28 *Debate tiny details
17 Word with bear or kidding” 29 Dad’s punting words
vortex 51 Ruby or emerald 30 Shorthand ace
18 Put in order 52 Airport safety org. 31 Work the bar
19 Single __ whisky 53 Kit Kat bar slogan ... 32 Core muscles
20 *“Come to your and hint to the starts of 34 “Never try to
senses!” the answers to starred outstubborn __”:
23 So-so grade clues Heinlein
24 Chicago Bulls’ org. 60 Corrosive stuff 36 World Cup cheers
25 Stallone’s boxer 62 Small-town parade 37 Wordless consent
Trivia Bits Jumble Crossword 27 Cellphone bill statistic street 40 Ultracompetitive
30 __ Artois: Belgian beer 63 “__ no choice” personality
Paul Dee “Daffy” 64 Farm building 43 Online periodical
Dean and his 32 Dadaist collection
33 Hourly charge, e.g. 65 Voting against 47 Zoo inhabitant
brother Jay Han- 66 Spooky 49 Sleep aid brand
na “Dizzy” Dean 35 Mustard named for a
French city 67 Bear in two 50 Hollywood award
were pitchers for constellation names 51 Fabled lamp occupant
what team, which 38 Pitcher’s goof
39 Hunting dog’s pickup 68 Dieter’s beer choice 52 “Forbidden” perfume
won the 1934 69 Stuffy-sounding 54 __-pedi
World Series? Saturday’s solution 55 Catcher’s glove
A) Detroit Tigers Down 56 Actress Seehorn
B) New York 1 Concert blasters 57 Corn units
Giants 2 Bart Simpson, e.g. 58 Reebok rival
C) Pittsburgh 3 Country singer 59 Boat backbone
Pirates McCann 61 Forensic evidence
D) St. Louis Car- 4 “I need it now!” letters
dinals 5 Stiff, as a drink
Saturday’s answer: 6 Ziti, for example
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“REEL” ESTATE
ACROSS 36 “White Men __ Jump”; movie for ARROW WORDS
1 Jennifer Morrison’s “Once Upon Woody Harrelson
a Time” role 37 Tatum’s dad
5 “A Nightmare on __ Street”; 38 Country singer Mel __
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9 “China __”; Dana Delany series 42 __-Na Wen
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13 Actor Robert __ Shagged Me”; Mike Myers film
14 Africa’s longest river 44 “The __ of Night”; old soap opera
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16 “__ Celebrity, Get Me Out of DOWN
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19 “America’s __ Wanted” 3 “Auntie __”; Rosalind Russell
20 __-friendly; easy to operate movie
21 __ Sher of “The Middle” 4 “__ Given Sunday”; Pacino film
23 Door; way in 5 “Siskel & __”
24 “__ Rider”; Clint Eastwood movie 6 Johnny Carson’s successor
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23 Italy’s currency
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ILLINOIS 74, IOWA 72
Illini earn share of 1st Big Ten title in 17 years
Win also secures top seed in conference tourney
By Gavin Good
Associated Press
CHAMPAIGN — No. 20 Illinois
locked up a share of the Big Ten
regular-season title as Kofi Cock-
burn had 21 points and 14 rebounds
to lead a 74-72 win over No. 24
CHICAGO SPORTS
Loyola’s Lucas Williamson celebrates during the first half against Drake in the Missouri Valley tournament title game Sunday in St. Louis. JEFF ROBERSON/AP
Loud and clear
MVC CHAMPIONSHIP LOYOLA 64, DRAKE 58
Loyola ready to ‘run it back’ in NCAA
tourney under 1st-year coach Valentine
There will be no sneaking up
on anyone this time for Loyola.
Under 30-year-old first-year
coach Drew Valentine, the
Ramblers earned their second
straight NCAA Tournament invi-
tation — and their third in five
years — with a 64-58 win over
Would Bears trade Mack
if it brings draft capital?
INDIANAPOLIS — Three
thoughts as the Bears get
going with a new regime after
four days at the NFL scouting
combine.
1. General manager Ryan Poles
called having only five picks
in the upcoming draft — and
no selections in the first and
fourth rounds — the “hand we
were dealt.”
At the same time, he said the
Bears will be “open-minded”
about ways to add draft picks,
creating two possibilities. The
simplest would be to trade down
once or twice during the draft
to acquire more capital. It’s
unknown how appealing that
prospect would be for Poles,
Iowa on Sunday night at the State
Farm Center.
The Illini’s hopes for a confer-
ence crown were kept alive when
Nebraska upset No. 10 Wisconsin
earlier Sunday. They didn’t let the
opportunity go to waste, claim-
ing at least a share of the Big Ten
Chicago’s best sports section, as judged by the Associated Press Sports Editors
Drake in the Missouri Valley
Conference title game Sunday in
St. Louis.
“This is what we came back
to do,” Valentine said. “We put
out a video in April that people
probably could’ve taken and used
as very motivational throughout
Brad Biggs
On the Bears
whose first pick isn’t until No.
39 in Round 2. Unless the Bears
see a big cluster of players in
that range with similar grades,
it might not be prudent and it’s
unlikely there would be a big
return.
Another avenue — and a more
impactful way to acquire picks
— would be to trade a player
Turn to Biggs, Page 4
 Chicago Tribune | Section 3 | Monday, March 7, 2022  1
championship for the first time
since winning it in 2004 and ‘05.
“Five years ago, I was wonder-
ing if we’d ever get out of the
Wednesday game (of the Big Ten
Tournament),” Illinois coach Brad
Underwood said. “We weren’t
even close. For Trent (Frazier) and
Da’Monte (Williams) to go out this
way, this is why I do this.”
Paul Sullivan
In the Wake of the News
the year that we’re going to run it
back, and we did.”
The Ramblers (25-7) over-
Islanders center Casey Cizikas
pushes against the Blackhawks’
Tyler Johnson (90) while fighting
for possession of the puck Oct. 19
at the United Center. ARMANDO L.
SANCHEZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Illinois (22-8, 15-5) erased a
15-point first-half deficit, with
Alfonso Plummer leading the
charge back en route to 15 points.
Coleman Hawkins added nine
points and 11 rebounds.
Iowa (22-9, 12-8) missed five of
its first six shots but eventually
went on a 13-0 scoring run. The
burst started with Kris Murray’s
came a horrid start to outlast the
Bulldogs, who were victimized
by poor shooting from the field
(35.6%) and the free-throw line
(11-for-18).
It wasn’t a masterpiece by any
means, but they’ll take it.
Lucas Williamson led Loyola
with 18 points and 10 rebounds,
while Aher Uguak added 16
points and 10 boards.
The Ramblers entered the
LIGHTNING 6, BLACKHAWKS 3
Johnson glad he opted
for a disc replacement
Blackhawks forward:
‘I don’t wake up with a
stiff neck anymore’
By Phil Thompson
Chicago Tribune
Blackhawks forward Tyler
Johnson faced the same choice
former No. 2 draft pick Jack
Eichel did about fixing a herni-
ated disc: Elect to undergo spinal
fusion surgery or have artificial
disc replacement (ADR).
It became such a point of
contention between Eichel and
the Buffalo Sabres that the Sabres
traded him to the Vegas Golden
3-pointer, the first of nine straight
made shots for the Hawkeyes.
Peyton Sandfort hit a 3 and another
jumper on the next possession
before Tony Perkins’ layup put
Iowa ahead 32-19.
Plummer revived Illinois’
offense with back-to-back 3s, and
Turn to Illini, Page 3
conference tournament seeded
fourth after finishing the regu-
lar season in a three-way tie for
second, then cruised to wins
over Bradley and regular-season
champion Northern Iowa before
holding off Drake.
“We came into this tourna-
ment as a 4 seed,” Valentine said.
“I don’t care if we were favored
Turn to Sullivan, Page 3
Knights on Nov. 4.
The Sabres preferred fusion
surgery; no NHL player had
undergone ADR before. Eichel
insisted on ADR, which he had
performed a week after the
trade with the Golden Knights’
approval.
Johnson chose ADR, too, and
all he needed to know he made
the right decision was to sleep
on it.
Literally.
“With the disc, they say that
normally you feel how you were
before, but to be honest, I feel
better,” Johnson said Sunday
Turn to Blackhawks, Page 2
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GIRLS BASKETBALL 3A STATE FINAL
CARMEL 43, NAZARETH 39 (LATE SATURDAY)

Schlabowske seals
Carmel’s first title
By Bobby Narang | For News-Sun

NORMAL — Carmel’s Ashley

Stevenson’s Simone Sawyer smiles as she watches the award ceremony on the big screen Schlabowske loves pressure situations.
following the Class 4A state championship game. ROB DICKER/NEWS-SUN She said close games “are the best games
you can be in, and they are just fun.”
GIRLS BASKETBALL 4A STATE FINAL So the sophomore guard will remember
STEVENSON 55, BARRINGTON 43 (LATE SATURDAY) this one.

Sawyer bounces back,

A first-year starter, Schlabowske made
three free throws in the final 28.1 seconds
of the Class 3A final Saturday night as the
Corsairs edged Nazareth 43-39 at Redbird

leads Stevenson to top

By Bobby Narang | For News-Sun
NORMAL — Stevenson’s Simone Sawyer
stayed focused amid all the chaos of the
Class 4A state championship game.
But that’s nothing new for the senior
guard.
With one minute left in regulation against
Barrington at Redbird Arena on Saturday
night, Sawyer stood a few feet from the
half-court line while teammate Kendell
Williams was shooting free throws.
Typically stoic senior point guard Ava
Bardic hugged two teammates and smiled.
But Sawyer remained expressionless.
“Simone is a stone. A stone,” Bardic said.
“I cried on the court, and I was trying to get
her to crack, but she won’t. She’s so strong-
minded.”
Sawyer finally broke into a smile while
holding her first-place state medal.
Sawyer, a Penn recruit, finished with 26
points, five rebounds and five steals to lead
top-ranked Stevenson to a 55-43 romp.
The 5-foot-10 Sawyer was fantastic on
both ends of the court, energizing the Patri-
ots (36-2) in their first state championship
victory since 1996.
Sawyer played one of her best all-around
games of the season. Just like when she
scored a career-high 34 points against
highly ranked Kenwood on Jan. 29, she
put her team on her back. Bardic, an Illi-
nois-Springfield recruit, added 13 points.
Sawyer said she was motivated to have
a strong game, noting she went 0-for-8
shooting, scored two points and fouled
out against Benet in the state semifinal on
Friday.
“I really did not play well, so I knew I had
to bounce back for this game,” Sawyer said.
“Going into the game, I knew I wasn’t going
to have a repeat of Friday, and for us to get
the win, I knew I had to play well. I had that
mindset going in whether I missed my first
shot or not.”
Arena to win their first state championship.
Schlabowske, who also sank three free
throws with 1.8 seconds left in Carmel’s
one-point win against Benet on Feb. 2,
struggled to explain her clutch shooting at
the line. But coach Ben Berg offered to step
in.
“She puts in a lot of time,” he said. “She
plays with so much joy and works at her
craft and game so hard. I have all the confi-
dence in the world when she steps to the
line that she is going to do it. She’s done it
thousands of times in practice. I’m so proud
of how she handled it.”
Senior center Grace Sullivan, a Bucknell
recruit, closed out a memorable four-year
career as a varsity starter for Carmel (28-7)
with 13 points and 13 rebounds. She also
altered several shots to stop the Roadrun-
ners (33-3) from building any momentum.
The Corsairs lost both regular-season
games against Nazareth, an East Suburban
Catholic Conference rival, by double digits.
“All the things we’ve been working on
paid off in this moment,” Sullivan said.
Junior guard Jordan Wood, a Michigan
State recruit, had 12 points, five rebounds
and three assists. The Waukegan resident
Carmel’s Ashley Schlabowske drives during
Saturday’s Class 3A state championship
game in Normal. ROB DICKER/NEWS-SUN
took a chance on the developing Carmel
program over other high-profile schools.
“I’m happy with my decision,” she said.
Junior forward Mia Gillis also was a big
key for Carmel. She had eight points and
seven rebounds against Nazareth.
The 5-foot-6 Schlabowske finished with
five points and played solid defense against
Nazareth sharpshooter Gracie Carstensen,
who was held to 11 points after hitting six
3-pointers against Morton in the semifinal.
Schlabowske hounded Carstensen by
fighting through screens and not straying
too far on help defense.
“We had played them two times before,
so I knew she was a really good 3-point
shooter,” Schlabowske said. “I knew I had to
have my hands up and chase her and watch
every step.”

Blackhawks His start to the game was a bit rough: He

from Page 1
before the Hawks’ 6-3 loss in his first game
against his old team, the Tampa Bay Light-
ning. “I haven’t been able to sleep on my
stomach in probably four years because of
this, and now I’m able to do that, so that’s
pretty cool.
“It’s honestly crazy. I don’t wake up in the
morning with a stiff neck anymore, so I’m
pretty happy about it.”
Johnson said the Hawks supported his
choice.
“The organization as a whole was unbe-
lievable,” he said. “They said right away, just
do whatever I felt like was in my best inter-
est.
“I spoke to a lot of doctors. The majority of
them thought it was a great procedure. I’m
very thankful that we did all our due dili-
gence. Jack Eichel helped out a lot, doing a
lot of that for me as well.
“Rehab, everything (has) just gone so
smoothly. I’m very, very fortunate for that.”
Make no mistake, it wasn’t a no-brainer
for Johnson.
Fusion surgery has a longer track record
than ADR. The U.S. Food and Drug Admin-
istration first approved spinal disc arthro-
plasty in the lumbar spine in 2004, according
to the National Center for Biotechnology
Information.
In fact, Johnson said the first doctor he
consulted him steered him to fusion; ADR
was “the last resort type of thing.”
“But as I started to ask more and more
doctors about it, got more and more infor-
mation on it — had some friends luckily in
Florida that are spine surgeons and I was
able to talk to them about it — that led me a
lot more to the ADR,” he said.
He said Eichel’s research on the topic
helped him too.
“He spent roughly a year learning about
it,” Johnson said. “It made me feel a little bit
better in that sense.”
There were other considerations for
Johnson.
“It’s something you have to live with for
the rest of your life,” he said of fusion surgery.
“The road to the recovery after that’s a lot
harder. I would have been done all this year
for sure, likely a lot into the summer as well.
And then who knows what I would have felt
like next year?
“Being as young as I am (31), you’re (also)
looking at another fusion, or even two
fusions (later in life). That was something
that stuck with me, that I didn’t want to keep
having that problem.”
Johnson also noted that even if he chose
ADR, he could opt for fusion later on, but
fusion would’ve been a permanent choice. It
also would’ve affected his flexibility.
“There’s definitely mobility limitations.
You don’t feel the same,” he said. “You lose,
I want to say, between 3 and 5 degrees as far
as your rotation.”
Before Sunday’s game against the Light-
ning, Johnson received his 2021 Stanley Cup
ring and celebrated with former teammates.
turned over the puck in his own zone — it
amounted to a centering pass to former
teammate Nikita Kucherov — but goalie
Marc-André Fleury averted disaster.
Dylan Strome opened the scoring in the
first period with his third goal in back-to-
back games. But the Lightning opened the
floodgates in the third period — and set a
couple of records in the process.
Patrick Kane and Alex DeBrincat assisted
on Strome’s goal, and Kane followed
up Lightning winger Taylor Raddysh’s
second-period goal with one of his own.
But Victor Hedman and Cal Foote scored
a minute and a half apart to give the Light-
ning their first lead at 3-2 to finish the period.
Bad went to worse in the third when the
Lightning scored three goals in 32 seconds
— beating a team record by 10 seconds that
they set on March 11, 2008, against the New
York Islanders.
It also made Hawks history: The previous
mark for quickest three goals allowed was 36
seconds by the Islanders on March 25, 2003.
“It started snowballing,” defenseman
Riley Stillman said. “We’ve got to do a better
job of parking things once they’re over. Once
one goes in or two goes in, you’ve got to find
a way to regroup and come back and do your
best to get the next one for the team.”
Johnson had dealt with neck problems
long enough. He said he first injured his
neck after getting hit during the 2017 or 2018
preseason.
If he had considered surgery back then, he
said, it would’ve been fusion, but he and the
Lightning didn’t choose that route.
“It was a lot of trying to rehab,” he said.
“At the time, we thought we could take care
of it.”
But it never completely felt right.
This season, Johnson sustained a hit
during an Oct. 29 game against the Caro-
lina Hurricanes that shelved him for four
months.
“I had numbness and tingling in my arm
for about a month without it going away,
so it felt like I needed to do something for
it,” he said. “My surgeon, Dr. (Robert) Bray,
did an unbelievable job, and when he went
in, he said it was way worse than they even
thought it was.
“It was not going to be able to come back
on its own. We had to do something.”
He had surgery on Dec. 3. During his
recovery, Johnson said, Eichel “was unbe-
lievable in the whole process, even post-op
explaining to me what he was doing recov-
ery-wise. ... It was nice having somebody else
that was going through it at the same time as
me to be able to lean on and say, ‘Hey, did you
have this? Or did you feel this? Or what can
you/can’t you do?’”
But missing the game was difficult, espe-
cially with the Hawks struggling without
him.
“Spending that much time away from the
game is tough mentally, trying to get back
into it as far as decision-making and things
like that,” Johnson said. “I’ve never spent
that much time away from the ice. … It’s the
longest I’ve ever been off.”
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL

NORTHWESTERN 75, MINNESOTA 62

Nance tops 1,000 points in final regular-season game

Associated Press
Pete Nance had 19 points, 12
rebounds and three blocks, and
Northwestern trailed for just 22
seconds in a 75-62 win over Minne-
sota on Sunday night at Welsh-
Ryan Arena in the regular-season
finale for both teams.
Robbie Beran scored 13 points
and Boo Buie had 10 points and
eight assists for Northwestern
(14-15, 7-13 Big Ten).
Nance had 13 points, Beran and
Ryan Young scored nine apiece and
Buie added six points, six assists
and two steals as Northwestern
took a 46-26 lead into halftime.
Nance and Beran each went 3 of 3
from 3-point range.
Jamison Battle led Minne-
sota (13-16, 4-16) with 20 points.
Payton Willis added 16 points,
eight rebounds and seven assists.
Willis and Battle scored six points
apiece in a 14-5 spurt to pull the
Golden Gophers within 11 midway
through the second half, and Willis,
Luke Loewe and Sutherlin each hit
a 3-pointer in a 98-second span to
make it 63-55 with 4:14 to go.
Minnesota missed its next four
field-goal attempts before the Wild-
cats made 8 of 10 from the free-throw
line in the last 2 minutes to seal it.
The Gophers have lost four in
a row and six of seven to fall into
a last-place tie with Nebraska in
the Big Ten. The Cornhuskers lost
their first 12 conference games
before beating Minnesota 78-65
on Feb. 9 in the teams’ lone meet-
ing, but Nebraska has won three in
a row — all on the road and the last
two over ranked opponents.
Nance — the son of three-time
NBA All-Star Larry Nance, who
was in attendance for senior night —
scored his 1,000th career point on a
layup with 2 minutes left. Buie came
up with a loose ball and drove to the
left block, where he dropped a slick
pass across the lane to Nance for a
left-hand finish that made it 67-55.
Northwestern earned the No. 12
seed in the Big Ten Tournament
and plays 13th-seeded Nebraska in
one of Wednesday’s two first-round
games. No. 14 seed Minnesota plays
11th-seeded Penn State in the other.
BIG TEN TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
At Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis
Wednesday (first round)
Game 1: #12 Northwestern vs. #13 Nebraska, 5 p.m., BTN
Game 2: #11 Penn State vs. #14 Minnesota, 7 :30 p.m., BTN
Thursday (second round)
Game 3: #8 Michigan vs. #9 Indiana, 10 :30 a.m., BTN
Game 4: #5 Iowa vs. Game 1 winner, 1 p.m., BTN
Game 5 : #7 Michigan State vs. #10 Maryland, 5 :30 p.m., BTN
Game 6: #6 Ohio State vs. Game 2 winner, 8 p.m., BTN
Friday (quarterfinals)
Game 7 : #1 Illinois vs. Game 3 winner, 10 :30 a.m., BTN
Game 8 : #4 Rutgers vs. Game 4 winner, 1 p.m., BTN
Game 9: #2 Wisconsin vs. Game 5 winner, 5 :30 p.m., BTN
Game 10 : #3 Purdue vs. Game 6 winner, 8 p.m., BTN
Saturday (semifinals)
Game 11: Game 7 vs. Game 8 winner, noon, CBS-2
Game 12: Game 9 vs. Game 10 winner, 2:30 p.m., CBS-2
Sunday (championship)
Game 13: Game 11 vs. Game 12 winner, 2:30 p.m., CBS-2

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to win it or not, for us to play the
way we did, for us to beat the
teams the way that we did, was
really fun for me to see.
“I love this group. I love them
forever. They know that. I’m
really excited, man. I don’t think
we played great, but I’m not
even going to worry about how
we played for probably a couple
days.”
Loyola advanced to the Final
Four in 2018 and went to the
Sweet 16 last year in the final
season under former coach
Porter Moser.
Valentine was emotional after-
ward when talking about his road
to the tournament.
“We’re blue-collar,” he said.
“Nobody probably expected me
to be here at 30. I did. Sorry.”
No need to apologize for believ-
ing in yourself.
“I’m so happy for (Valentine) to
get this opportunity as the young-
est coach in America, as a Black
coach in America,” Williamson
said. “For him to have this oppor-
tunity to win March Madness in
his first year ... that’s my guy right
here.”
Loyola wasn’t at its best
Sunday, committing 16 turnovers
and at one point having more
turnovers (eight) than field goals
(five). The Ramblers missed 14 of
their first 17 shots, but a remark-
able 19-0 run late in the first half
brought them back from the dead.
“We weren’t playing good at
all,” Uguak said. “We were turn-
ing the ball over. And then playing
defense and locking in helped us
get some easy baskets and get us
going.”
Williamson told his teammates
during a timeout they weren’t
playing like themselves.
“I just tried to keep telling guys:
‘Calm down, we’re playing in a
championship game. Emotions
might be a little high,’ ” he said.
The Ramblers led by nine with
4:27 remaining when the Bull-
dogs went on a late run, pulling
within two at 55-53 with 1:44 left.
Uguak made four big free
throws down the stretch, but two
misses by Marquise Kennedy
with 31 seconds remaining
kept Drake’s hopes alive. Ryan
Schwieger’s two free throws with
15 seconds left sealed it, and the
Ramblers danced off the floor
in their final MVC Tournament
game.
Loyola is leaving for the Atlan-
tic 10 Conference in July.
For Williamson and Uguak
— who both took advantage of
the NCAA’s COVID-19 waiver to
come back for an extra season —
it’s a chance to go out with a bang.
“This is why you play college
basketball,” Williamson said.
“This is something you grow
games like this. ... It means a lot to
me and a lot to the other seniors
on this team. This is what we
envisioned when we decided to
run it back, all the way back in
April.”
Williamson said he pondered
turning pro after graduating with
a degree in journalism, but he
decided to stay for one more year
under Valentine because of their
close relationship.
“He’s the standard,” Uguak said
of Williamson. “We talk about
it all the time. He just is. On the
court, off the court, his growth
and development. ... Should’ve
been (MVC) Player of the Year.
Whoops.”
Again, no need to apologize
for speaking the truth. William-
son was named MVC Defensive
Player of the Year, and he’s one of
the biggest reasons the program
went from virtual unknown in
his freshman year in 2017-18 to a
March Madness regular.
Now the Ramblers are back in
a place where everyone knows
their name.
“I can’t imagine coming here
and having the experience
I’ve had here without Lucas,”
said Valentine, who joined the
program as an assistant under
Moser in Williamson’s first year.
“From Day One, summers, he
wouldn’t leave me alone about,
‘Coach, when can we get in the
gym?’ From damn near his first
week. We just built up a bond,
a connection. More than just
basketball, (he’s) family for
real.”
Uguak said he didn’t know of
Loyola before he transferred from
New Mexico after his freshman
year in 2017, calling it the “great-
est decision I’ve made” in life.
Williamson, who went to
Young High School on the Near
West Side, cracked: “Aher’s from
Canada and he didn’t know
where Loyola was. I’m from
Chicago and I didn’t know what
Loyola was.”
Now they’re hoping to put
Sister Jean and the Rogers Park
school back in the limelight. The
Ramblers came into the week-
end with a NET Ranking of 25,
suggesting they’re better than
many power-conference teams
with lengthier resumes. ESPN
bracketologist Joe Lunardi
projected Loyola on Friday as
a No. 12 seed and one of the last
four teams in, though obviously
the automatic invite means
they’re no longer on the bubble
and won’t need a play-in game to
get to the Round of 64.
“We’re not just going to be
happy because we’re in it,” Valen-
tine said. “Today and tomorrow
and this week, we’re going to
be super happy that we’re in it,
but once that seed comes across,
then it’s going to be time to get to
work.”

Illinois fans storm the court at the conclusion of a game against Iowa on Sunday in Champaign. MICHAEL ALLIO/AP

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the Illini closed the half on a 9-0
run as Plummer drove and scored
with 4 seconds left to make it a
43-37 deficit.
Hawkins hit a 3 to put the Illini
in front 65-63 with 7:03 to go, and
they didn’t trail again.
“(Illinois) has got some guys
who are competitors that are
really good players on really
good teams,” Iowa coach Fran
McCaffery said. “Very impressed
with the job that Brad has done
with his crew, not only this year
but over the years since he got
here.”
Keegan Murray had 22
points and 11 rebounds for the
Hawkeyes, while Perkins had 17
points and 12 boards. Kris Murray
added 13 points.
Andre Curbelo had 14 points
Illinois.
Reflecting on his career at Illi-
nois, fifth-year senior Frazier was
grateful he stuck it out with the
program after two losing seasons
as an underclassman.
“To win games and champi-
onships, your culture has to be
set,” Frazier said. “It wasn’t set
yet (when we arrived). We were
still rebuilding and trying to figure
things out, but as time went on,
we continued to get culture guys,
better players and guys who
bought in to what Coach Under-
wood wanted.
“Sticking with it through the
ups and downs made it worth it.”
Big picture
Iowa: Despite missing out on a
double bye in the Big Ten Tour-
nament, the Hawkeyes are one
of the hottest teams in the coun-
try, winning nine of their last 11
games. With the Murray broth-
ers clicking and scoring support
from the likes of Perkins and
Sandfort, Iowa is a daunting
defensive assignment for any
team.
Illinois: No one will enter the
Big Ten Tournament in Indianap-
olis feeling as good as the Illini,
who have won three in a row and
will take the No. 1 seed after hold-
ing the tiebreaker over Wisconsin
thanks to an 80-67 win over the
Badgers on Feb. 2.
Up next
Iowa: The Hawkeyes open the
Big Ten Tournament on Thursday
as the No. 5 seed against North-
western or Nebraska.
Illinois: The Illini open the
Big Ten Tournament on Friday
as the No. 1 seed with a quarter- Members of Loyola celebrate after defeating Drake 64-58 to win the Missouri
final against Michigan or Indiana. Valley tournament championship on Sunday in St. Louis. JEFF ROBERSON/AP
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BEARS
Injured Bears running back Tarik Cohen watches warmups on Oct. 10 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
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NFL SCOUTING COMBINE WHAT WE LEARNED
Poles wants lighter and
quicker offensive line
By Colleen Kane
Chicago Tribune
INDIANAPOLIS — Bears
general manager Ryan Poles
touched on a wide range of topics
during his news conference at the
NFL scouting combine.
Along with supporting the
growth of quarterback Justin
Fields and valuing the second and
third waves of free agency, here
are four other things we learned
from Poles as he prepares to
rework the Bears roster.
1. Poles wants the Bears offen-
sive line to get quicker and
lighter. Poles has a long list of
decisions to make on the offensive
line, including what he envisions
for 2021 rookies Teven Jenkins
and Larry Borom and whether
the Bears will re-sign guard
James Daniels.
He didn’t get into specifics on
those players, declining to say
what position he expects Jenkins
to play. But when asked about his
evaluation of the unit, he indi-
cated changes are ahead.
“The message has been clear —
we’ve got to change body types a
little bit,” Poles said. “We’ve got
to get lighter, we’ve got to get
quicker. Through that, I think
there’s some young talent that just
needs to be pressed. That’s part of
our job is to create competition
and bring the best out of them.
We’ll do that, and we’ll see if the
cream rises to the top.
“Especially with the O-line play
a lot of times — and I don’t want
to speak for the coaches — but it’s
going to end up being the best five
to roll out there.”
A side note on those comments:
Poles, who hired Brent Salazar
to be the Bears director of high
performance, said he’s going to
take body fat and weight seriously
among all of his players.
Back to the line, Poles, who was
an offensive lineman at Boston
College, spoke strongly in January
of fortifying the unit after watch-
ing the Kansas City Chiefs do it
last year. Just how he does that
remains to be seen.
“It’s important to me to get the
line fixed,” Poles said then. “Just
because I’ve played it, I feel like
I’m a good evaluator of offensive
linemen. It also helped that we
did it in Kansas City last year. We
felt like we got embarrassed in
the Super Bowl. And we made the
decision. We sat down and said,
‘We can’t let that happen again.’
And we went to work and found
different ways.
“That’s a really good sample size
in terms of we used free agency.
We used trade. We used the draft.
We used an emergency waiver-
wire-type transaction to solidify
the front. So we’re going to use all
different areas to do that.”
2. Poles stressed the impor-
tance of assistant GM Ian
Cunningham. As Poles is
handling all of the work that
comes with being a new GM, he
said Cunningham has played “a
huge part” in helping him settle
into the job.
“Getting pulled in so many
different directions, that’s very
new to me,” Poles said. “Having
him out in front and working with
our staff if I get pulled out of a
meeting, he keeps the ball rolling,
keeps a list of players that I need
to get caught up on. All systems
are always moving, and we don’t
get stalled out for all of the things
that are going on.”
Cunningham joined the Bears
Bears offensive tackle Teven Jenkins, right, looks to make a block in a
game Dec. 20 at Soldier Field. CHRIS SWEDA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
on Jan. 29 after 14 years with the
Baltimore Ravens and Philadel-
phia Eagles, with whom he rose
to be director of player personnel.
Poles said in January that he
was a big admirer of how the
Ravens built their team under
Ozzie Newsome, under whom
Cunningham worked. And Poles
liked that Cunningham’s move to
the Eagles gave him a different
type of experience on an analyt-
ics-focused staff under Howie
Roseman.
“Bringing that in allows us to
grow where we can pair all of
our experiences together,” Poles
said. “That’s going to be power-
ful. … Every general manager I’ve
had gets pulled in so many differ-
ent directions. We’ll be meeting.
Something will pop up. ‘Hey, I’ve
got to go talk to the owner.’ They
pop out and everybody just sits
there.
“So part of Ian’s job — and we
talked about it — (is to) keep the
ball rolling. Make the list of guys
I missed. I’ll catch up on my own.
But keep the process going so
we’re not pausing.”
Roseman said this week that he
already misses Cunningham and
Brandon Brown, who left his post
as co-director of player personnel
to be the New York Giants assis-
tant GM.
“Those guys are people that
not only did we rely on profes-
sionally but personally,” Rose-
man said. “They’re just people I
really enjoyed being around and
are friends.
“It’s hard for me because you
see these guys and they have an
opportunity to help themselves
and their families. But at the same
time, it doesn’t really help the
Eagles. Especially the timing of
this, which I think it’s something
maybe that we have to talk about
going forward, about losing guys
during this draft process, espe-
cially in your conference, one in
your division. That’s not ideal.”
3. Poles said he was ‘very happy’
with the group of scouts he has.
Poles worked under three GMs
with the Chiefs, so he has watched
how different leaders approached
making changes with the person-
nel staff and scouts they inherit,
from adjusting grade scales and
values to implementing new
communication styles. He thinks
he adapts well to such change.
But he wasn’t exactly sure what
he was getting in the Bears hold-
overs.
He came away “pumped” about
the group and its process.
“The meetings were incredible,
and before we broke, I told them
all how proud I was,” Poles said.
“Because as a new GM you come
in, you’re like, ‘All right, you’re
evaluating them, you’re evaluat-
ing the evaluators.’ At the end of
it, the thing that stood out to me
is there’s a group of really, really
good people that worked really
hard this fall to gather the infor-
mation.
“Now my style was a little bit
different, our meeting structure
was different. It was a culture
of candor. It’s open. We have an
order in the way we watch the
tape. But after that everyone can
speak their mind. If I see some-
thing different than you, then I
bring it up to the room and we
work through it. You can tell me
where you saw it different and
we’ll go find it. That group effort I
think was refreshing to everyone.”
Bears coach Matt Eberflus said
they built profile tapes of what
they are looking for at each posi-
tion.
“Then we went in with Ryan
and the scouting staffs and we sat
there for hours and talked about
each position so everybody’s on
the same page in terms of what
we’re looking for in each posi-
tion,” Eberflus said. “We did the
same thing with free agency.
We’re doing the same thing with
the draft. It’s constantly working
together to make sure we’re on
the same page.”
4. Poles wouldn’t talk about
whether running back Tarik
Cohen is healthy. Cohen last
played a game on Sept. 27, 2020,
when he tore the ACL in his right
knee while playing against the
Atlanta Falcons.
Former Bears GM Ryan Pace
and former coach Matt Nagy
often avoided addressing his
recovery progress, and Poles
followed suit.
“I don’t really want to get into
the medical piece of individual
players, but we’ll just take it a day
at a time to figure out where he’s
at,” Poles said.
Cohen’s prolonged absence
raises questions about whether
his place on the Bears is in danger.
“(Head athletic trainer) Andre
Tucker’s one of the best in the
league,” Poles said, “and we’re
just going to have those conver-
sations to see where everything
stands and make the best decision
we can make at that time.”
Last month, Cohen won the
Bears’ Ed Block Courage Award,
which is voted on by teammates
and goes to a player who “displays
professionalism, strength, dedi-
cation and is a community role
model.”
In 51 games from 2017 until his
injury, Cohen totaled 1,101 rush-
ing yards and five touchdowns
and 1,575 receiving yards and
nine touchdowns and also was
an All-Pro returner.
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or players currently under
contract.
The name some folks are
wondering about is Khalil Mack,
the 31-year-old edge rusher who
had six sacks in seven games last
season before heading to injured
reserve.
As aggressive as former GM
Ryan Pace was in acquiring
Mack before the start of the 2018
season, would Poles be just as
active in seeing what he can get
in return for the six-time Pro
Bowler and former NFL defen-
sive player of the year? It’s at
least worth pondering.
It wouldn’t be an easy deci-
sion to shop a defensive player
whom new coach Matt Eberflus
can build the unit around, but
if the Bears aren’t certain how
long it will take to be in conten-
tion again, the time to deal Mack
is now. They’re installing a new
defense and if there are going to
be growing pains in the process,
why not see what you can get
for a player near the top of the
pay grade at his position who
has been banged up the last two
seasons?
What would the market
be for Mack? An NFC execu-
tive indicated at the end of last
season that the Bears could get a
second-round pick with another
late-round pick the teams could
haggle over. An AFC executive
suggested using the Von Miller
trade as a template. The Denver
Broncos traded Miller to the Los
Angeles Rams for second- and
third-round picks in 2022. The
Broncos also paid down Miller’s
contract, absorbing $9 million
of the remaining $9.7 million of
his 2021 salary, to facilitate the
trade.
Mack has a 2022 base salary of
$12.05 million and a $5.5 million
roster bonus due March 18. The
AFC executive said if the Bears
paid the bonus so an acquiring
team was on the hook for only
the base salary, it could make
dealing Mack easier and put the
Bears in a situation in which
they could get a return similar
to what the Broncos received
for Miller. Perhaps Mack could
bring a little more in return.
Let’s say the Bears traded
Mack and got picks in Rounds 2
and 3. That would give Poles two
picks in each of those rounds,
meaning four picks in the top
100. The Bears would shed an
excellent player when healthy,
but Mack is owed $22.9 million
in 2023. The Bears have so many
needs on offense and defense
that the picks could help them
build a younger core while free-
ing up cash to use for expendi-
tures such as an extension for
linebacker Roquan Smith.
It wouldn’t be an easy decision
to part with Mack, but there isn’t
an easy way for the Bears to add
draft picks before Day 3. If it’s
something they might consider
in the future, it’s better to do it
sooner rather than later. The
same discussion could be had
regarding edge rusher Robert
Quinn, who turns 32 in May and
is coming off a franchise-record
181/2-sack season. Quinn will be
entering his 12th season, and the
Bears probably could get a little
better return for Mack.
If Poles is open-minded
about ways to add draft picks,
he’s considering nearly every
scenario. But he might not have
one that would bring more draft
capital than dealing Mack.
2. Just before packing his bags
for Indianapolis, Poles wrapped
up pre-draft meetings the
Bears started just after the
Super Bowl.
Those meetings were a long
and detailed process that helped
get the team on the same page as
it enters the final stages of draft
preparation.
It’s a delicate time because
— with the exception of assis-
tant GM Ian Cunningham, who
was hired from the Philadelphia
Eagles — Poles is working with
a staff that has been in place and
was working under guidelines
and a system implemented by
Pace. There is an added layer to
the process when you’re trying
to study draft prospects while
also learning new co-workers.
“I’ve been through change
before in Kansas City,” Poles
said, “so I’ve been through
that process of adjusting grade
scales and values and how
people communicate and the
type of reports that have been
submitted and how they’ve gone
through all-star games. I feel
that I adapt really well.
“I will say this: I was very
happy with the group of scouts
we have right now. The meetings
were incredible and before we
broke, I told them all how proud
I was. Because as a new GM you
come in, you’re evaluating them,
you’re evaluating the evaluators.
At the end of it, the thing that
stood out to me is there’s a group
of really, really good people that
worked really hard this fall to
gather the information.
“My style was a little bit differ-
ent, our meeting structure was
different. As I said in the press
conference, it was a culture of
candor. It’s open. We watch tape.
We have an order in the way we
watch the tape. But after that
everyone can speak their mind.
If I see something different than
you, then I bring it up to the
room and we work through it.
You can tell me where you saw
it different and we’ll go find it.
That group effort I think was
refreshing to everyone.”
The culture of candor in
which the staff devours tape
as a large group and discusses
players one by one is something
Poles was initially exposed to by
former Kansas City Chiefs GM
John Dorsey. I asked a veteran
scout who has been in meet-
ings like that about the process
and pros or cons as a GM learns
about a staff he inherited. The
scout had some interesting
thoughts.
“It’s either a rigid process or
a complete free-for-all, depend-
ing on how you want to do it,”
the scout said. “(Poles) likes the
method of everyone watching
tape together. I can see it both
ways. If you are all watching
tape together, you cannot be as
thorough or as focused if you
watched it on your own, and
then the whole groupthink thing
can come into play occasionally.
“Loud voices in the room and
just the people that talk a lot or
talk loud and talk with convic-
tion, they dominate the discus-
sion. It doesn’t always mean
they know more and oftentimes
it means they know less. All of
this is more challenging in a
group you don’t know. You have
no idea who to listen to. When
(Poles) is walking into a room of
scouts he’s never worked with,
that’s hard.”
As the scout described — and
he has been through pretty
much the same situation — there
are multiple motivating factors
in play.
“What can happen in those
rooms, and it’s happened every
time I’ve (been through this
kind of change), you’re audition-
ing for a job,” the scout said. “It’s
easier to have these wide-open
group discussions when you
have a clear, trusting relation-
ship that has been established
with people. In order to have
candor, there needs to be trust.
That’s psychology 101, right? It’s
hard to speak with candor when
you’re effectively trying to keep
your job.”
This isn’t to doubt Poles’
assessment of the meeting and
his positive initial reaction to
the staff. It’s simply to recognize
that the dynamic of the get-to-
know-you phase makes all of it
more challenging. Ultimately in
the next year or two, Poles will
need to make decisions regard-
ing the future of some of the staff
members he inherited.
3. One thing that bodes well
for the Bears is some of the
strengths of this draft class
match up well with the team’s
needs.
That’s easy to say when the
Bears will be seeking help at a
lot of positions this offseason,
but it holds true in this case.
Poles didn’t get far into his
introductory news conference
before talking about improv-
ing the offensive line. The guess
here is that’s something he prob-
ably discussed with Chairman
George McCaskey in the hiring
process. There is a good enough
crop of linemen in this draft that
the Bears could get a solid player
in the second round if they don’t
knock out all of their needs in
free agency.
Cornerback also looks deep, at
least in the estimation of Balti-
more Ravens GM Eric DeCosta,
whose team has consistently
fared well in the draft. There
isn’t a consensus No. 1 pick and
the quarterback crop might
leave something to be desired,
but there is depth at key posi-
tions for the Bears. They abso-
lutely need help at cornerback
with Jaylon Johnson the only
established starter.
“This is an interesting draft
class,” DeCosta said. “Offen-
sive line is very, very strong this
year. We’ve had a chance to
meet with some guys already.
Impressed with the players that
we’ve met with. Outside line-
backer for us — which would be
the 4-3 defensive end but for us
the 3-4 outside linebacker-type
guys — is a strong class. And
then cornerback as well. It looks
pretty deep. It looks like you
can get a corner pretty much at
any point throughout the draft
process.”
The last comment by DeCosta
is especially meaningful for the
Bears because they are short
on draft picks. If they can get a
cornerback who has a shot to
contribute with a Day 3 pick,
that’s a bonus. Just a couple of
ideas to file away and consider
after we see how the Bears
handle needs in free agency.

SCOREBOARD
NBA
EASTERN CONFERENCE
ATLANTIC W L PCT GB
Philadelphia 39 24 .619 —
Boston 39 27 .591 1 1/2
Toronto 34 30 .531 5 1/2
Brooklyn 32 33 .492 8
New York 25 38 .397 14
SOUTHEAST W L PCT GB
Miami 43 22 .662 —
Atlanta 31 32 .492 11
Charlotte 32 33 .492 11
Washington 29 34 .460 13
Orlando 16 49 .246 27
CENTRAL W L PCT GB
Milwaukee 40 25 .615 —
Chicago 39 25 .609 1/2
Cleveland 37 27 .578 2 1/2
Indiana 22 44 .333 18 1/2
Detroit 17 47 .266 22 1/2
WESTERN CONFERENCE
SOUTHWEST W L PCT GB
Memphis 44 22 .667 —
Dallas 39 25 .609 4
New Orleans
San Antonio
27 37 .422
24 40 .375
16
19
Houston 16 48 .250 27
NORTHWEST W L PCT GB
Utah 40 23 .635 —
Denver 38 26 .594 21/2
Minnesota 36 29 .554 5
Portland 25 38 .397 15
Oklahoma City 20 44 .313 20 1/2
PACIFIC W L PCT GB
Phoenix 51 13 .797 —
Golden State 43 21 .672 8
L.A. Clippers 34 31 .523 17 1/2
L.A. Lakers
Sacramento
28 35 .444 22 1/2
24 42 .364 28
SUNDAY’S GAMES
Boston 126, Brooklyn 120
Milwaukee 132, Phoenix 122
Washington 133, Indiana 123
Houston 123, Memphis 112
Utah 116, Oklahoma City 103
Cleveland 104, Toronto 96
Denver 138, New Orleans 130 (OT)
New York at L.A. Clippers, late
MONDAY’S GAMES
Atlanta at Detroit, 6p.m.
Chicago at Philadelphia, 6p.m.
Houston at Miami, 6:30p.m.
Portland at Minnesota, 7p.m.
L.A. Lakers at San Antonio, 7:30p.m.
Utah at Dallas, 7:30p.m.
Golden State at Denver, 8p.m.
New York at Sacramento, 9:30p.m.
TUESDAY’S GAMES
Brooklyn at Charlotte, 6p.m.
Cleveland at Indiana, 6p.m.
Phoenix at Orlando, 6p.m.
New Orleans at Memphis, 6:30p.m.
Milwaukee at Oklahoma City, 7p.m.
L.A. Clippers at Golden State, 9p.m.
SATURDAY’S RESULTS
Dallas 114, Sacramento 113
Charlotte 123, San Antonio 117
Memphis 124, Orlando 96
Miami 99, Philadelphia 82
Minnesota 135, Portland 121
L.A. Lakers 124, Golden State 116
LEAGUE SCORING LEADERS
TEAM PTS FG% 3P% FT% PPG
Minnesota 7427 .453 .351 .766 114.3
Charlotte 7428 .458 .359 .733 114.3
Memphis 7407 .459 .342 .732 114.0
Milwaukee 7281 .461 .362 .774 113.8
Phoenix 7167 .482 .363 .794 113.8
Utah 7051 .473 .361 .778 113.7
San Ant. 7216 .468
Atlanta 7090 .468
.353 .743 112.8
.375 .805 112.5
Chicago 7202 .484 .376 .813 112.5
Golden St 7102 .468
LA Lakers 6969 .465
.362 .760 111.0
.348 .728 110.6
Brooklyn 7080 .465 .351 .802 110.6
Denver 6963 .474 .354 .792 110.5
Sacra. 7266 .458 .341 .765 110.1
Indiana 7142 .458 .338 .757 109.9
Miami 7117 .463 .376 .808 109.5
Boston 7107 .456
Houston 6829 .450
.345 .816 109.3
.344 .709 108.4
Toronto 6832 .443 .353 .752 108.4
Phila.
Wash.
6824 .464
6678 .467
.356 .819 108.3
.336 .782 107.7
Port. 6780 .446 .353 .763 107.6
New Orl. 6763 .452 .329 .791 107.3
LA Clippers 6967 .456 .366 .783 107.2
Dallas 6853 .458 .347 .764 107.1
Cleveland 6720 .467 .353 .758 106.7
New York 6629 .434
Orlando 6750 .434
.352 .745 105.2
.329 .788 103.8
Detroit 6617 .424 .322 .777 103.4
Okla. City 6433 .422
Through Saturday
.314 .762 102.1
AUTO RACING
NASCAR CUP PENNZOIL 400
Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Lap length: 1.50 miles
FP SP DRIVER M LAP PT
1 13 Alex Bowman C 274 50
2 2 Kyle Larson C 274 48
3 18 Ross Chastain
4 37 Kyle Busch
C 274 52
T 274 41
5 14 William Byron C 274 48
6 20 Aric Almirola
7 7 Tyler Reddick
F 274 31
C 274 30
8 12 Martin Truex Jr T 274 34
9 5 Chase Elliott C 274 43
10 1 Christopher Bell T 274 28
11 10 Austin Dillon C 274 26
12 25 Kevin Harvick F 274 28
13 31 Kurt Busch T 274 24
14 6 Joey Logano F 274 27
15 29 Corey Lajoie C 274 22
16 19 Harrison Burton F 274 21
17 28 Justin Haley C 274 20
18 27 Chris Buescher F 274 19
19 3 Austin Cindric F 274 18
20 32 Ty Dillon C 274 17
21 9 Ricky Stenhouse Jr C 274 16
22 16 Daniel Hemric C 274 0
23 30 Todd Gilliland F 274 14
24 15 Brad Keselowski F 273 13
25 17 Bubba Wallace T 273 13
26 33 Cody Ware F 273 11
27 22 Michael McDowell F 273 10
28 35 BJ McLeod F 272 9
29 34 Josh Bilicki C 271
30 36 Garrett Smithley F 267
0
7
31 23 Erik Jones C 264-a 6
32 8 Denny Hamlin T 219-g 14
33 24 Cole Custer
34 26 Greg Biffle
F 171-e 4
C 148-f 13
35 4 Chase Briscoe F 135-a 5.
36 11 Ryan Blaney
37 21 Daniel Suárez
F 104-a 5
C 92-a 1
a-accident; e-engine, f-fuel pump,
g-garage, C-Chevrolet; F-Ford; T-Toyota
Race Statistics
Winner’s average speed: 117.521 mph.
Time: 3 hours, 29 minutes, 50 seconds.
Margin of Victory: .178 seconds.
Caution Flags: 12 for 60 laps.
Lead Changes: 23 among 15 drivers.
Lap Leaders: C.Bell 0-32; R.Blaney
33-42; A.Bowman 43-49; D.Ham-
lin 50-65; Ku.Busch 66-69; W.Byron
70-77; A.Bowman 78-83; M.McDowell
84-87; B.Keselowski 88-90; D.Hamlin
91-105; Ky.Busch 106-112; R.Chastain
113-136; G.Biffle 137; K.Larson 138-159;
R.Chastain 160-217; K.Larson 218;
R.Stenhouse 219-222; T.Dillon 223;
Ky.Busch 224-225; R.Chastain 226;
Ky.Busch 227-266; M.Truex 267; K.Lar-
son 268-271; A.Bowman 272-274
Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led,
Laps Led): R.Chastain, 3 times for 83
laps; Ky.Busch, 3 times for 49 laps;
C.Bell, 1 time for 32 laps; D.Hamlin, 2
times for 31 laps; K.Larson, 3 times for
27 laps; A.Bowman, 3 times for 16 laps;
R.Blaney, 1 time for 10 laps; W.Byron,
1 time for 8 laps; Ku.Busch, 1 time for
4 laps; R.Stenhouse, 1 time for 4 laps;
M.McDowell, 1 time for 4 laps; B.Kesel-
owski, 1 time for 3 laps; M.Truex, 1 time
for 1 lap; T.Dillon, 1 time for 1 lap; G.Bif-
fle, 1 time for 1 lap.
Wins: A.Cindric, 1; K.Larson, 1.
Top 16 in Points: 1. A.Cindric, 85; 2. J.Lo-
gano, 77; 3. M.Truex, 73; 4. R.Blaney, 70;
5. C.Briscoe, 69; 6. E.Jones, 68; 7. A.Al-
mirola, 66; 8. K.Larson, 65; 9. B.Wallace,
65; 10. B.Keselowski, 64; 11. Ky.Busch,
61; 12. R.Stenhouse, 53; 13. Ku.Busch,
53; 14. A.Dillon, 52; 15. D.Suárez, 52; 16.
C.Custer, 48.
NHL
EASTERN CONFERENCE
ATLANTIC GP W L OT PTS GF GA
Tampa Bay 55 37 12 6 80 192 155
Florida 55 37 13 5 79 227 163
Toronto 55 35 16 4 74 202 163
Boston 56 34 18 4 72 171 152
Detroit 56 24 26 6 54 163 203
Buffalo 57 18 31 8 44 153 203
Ottawa 55 19 31 5 43 143 179
Montreal 56 15 34 7 37 137 212
METRO. GP W L OT PTS GF GA
Carolina 56 39 12 5 83 191 134
N.Y. Rangers 56 36 15 5 77 169 139
Pittsburgh 57 34 14 9 77 185 152
Washington 57 30 18 9 69 185 158
Columbus 56 28 25 3 59 186 205
N.Y. Islanders 52 21 23 8 50 133 147
New Jersey 56 20 31 5 45 171 202
Philadelphia 55 17 28 10 44 139 192
WESTERN CONFERENCE
CENTRAL GP W L OT PTS GF GA
Colorado 56 40 11 5 85 222 159
St. Louis 55 32 16 7 71 194 151
Minnesota 54 32 19 3 67 203 177
Dallas 55 32 20 3 67 165 160
Nashville 55 31 20 4 66 174 155
Winnipeg 56 24 22 10 58 167 174
Chicago 57 20 29 8 48 144 198
Arizona 55 16 35 4 36 132 201
PACIFIC GP W L OT PTS GF GA
Calgary 54 33 14 7 73 190 133
Los Angeles 57 31 19 7 69 169 160
Vegas 57 32 21 4 68 184 167
Edmonton 56 30 22 4 64 184 180
Anaheim 58 27 22 9 63 172 179
Vancouver 57 28 23 6 62 164 165
San Jose 56 24 25 7 55 145 179
Seattle 58 17 36 5 39 148 207
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point
for overtime loss. Top three teams in
each division and two wild cards per
conference advance to playoffs.
SUNDAY’S RESULTS
New Jersey 3, St. Louis 2 (OT)
Los Angeles 3, Buffalo 0
Dallas 6, Minnesota 3
N.Y. Rangers 4, Winnipeg 1
Tampa Bay 6, Chicago 3
Carolina 3, Seattle 2
Vegas 2, Ottawa 1
Anaheim 3, San Jose 2 (OT)
MONDAY’S GAMES
Florida at Buffalo, 6p.m.
Los Angeles at Boston, 6p.m.
Toronto at Columbus, 6p.m.
Colorado at N.Y. Islanders, 6:30p.m.
Edmonton at Calgary, 8:30p.m.
TUESDAY’S GAMES
Colorado at New Jersey, 6p.m.
Florida at Pittsburgh, 6p.m.
Vegas at Philadelphia, 6p.m.
Arizona at Detroit, 6:30p.m.
Seattle at Toronto, 6:30p.m.
Dallas at Nashville, 7p.m.
N.Y. Rangers at Minnesota, 7p.m.
Ottawa at St. Louis, 7p.m.
Tampa Bay at Winnipeg, 7p.m.
Anaheim at Chicago, 7:30p.m.
Washington at Calgary, 8p.m.
SATURDAY’S RESULTS
N.Y. Islanders 2, St. Louis 1
Philadelphia 4, Chicago 3
Arizona 8, Ottawa 5
Florida 6, Detroit 2
Washington 5, Seattle 2
Vancouver 6, Toronto 4
Montreal 5, Edmonton 2
Boston 5, Columbus 4 (SO)
Nashville 8, San Jose 0
Calgary 4, Colorado 3 (OT)
TENNIS
WTA LYON OPEN
At Palais des Sports Gerland, Lyon,
France, hardcourt outdoor
WOMEN’S SINGLES, CHAMPIONSHIP
#8 Zhang Shuai d.
Dayana Yastremsk, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.
WTA ABIERTO MONTERREY
At Club Sonoma, Monterrey, Mexico,
hardcourt outdoor
WOMEN’S SINGLES, CHAMPIONSHIP
#2Leylah Fernandez d.
#5Camila Osorio, 6-7(6), 6-4, 7-6(3).
SOCCER
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER
EASTERN W L T PT GF GA
New York 2 0 0 6 7 2
D.C. United
Columbus
2 0 0 6 4 0
1 0 1 4 7 3
New England 1 0 1 4 3 2
Philadelphia
Orlando City
1 0 1 4 3 2
1 0 1 3 2 0
Atlanta 1 1 0 3 3 4
Chicago
New York City FC
0 0 2 2 0 0
0 1 1 1 0 1
Toronto FC 0 1 1 1 2 5
Inter Miami CF 0 1 1 1 1 5
CF Montréal
Charlotte FC
0 2 0 0 1 4
0 2 0 0 0 4
Cincinnati 0 2 0 0 0 6
WESTERN W L T PT GF GA
Austin FC
LA Galaxy
2 0 0 6 10
2 0 0 6 2
1
0 Next: TBD.
Nashville 1 0 1 4 2 1
Real Salt Lake
Los Angeles FC
1 0 1 4 1
1 0 0 3 3
0
0
Colorado 1 1 0 3 3 3
Sporting KC 1 1 0 3 2 3
Minnesota United 0 0 2 2 2
Portland 0 0 1 1 2
2
2 Next: TBD.
FC Dallas 0 1 1 1 1 2
Houston 0 1 1 1 0 1
San Jose 0 1 1 1 4 6
Vancouver 0 1 1 1 0 4
Seattle 0 2 0 0 0
Three points for win, one point for tie.
2
SUNDAY’S RESULTS
Austin FC 5, Inter Miami CF 1
Portland at Los Angeles FC, late
SATURDAY’S MATCHES
CF Montréal at New York City FC, noon
Toronto FC at Columbus, 12:30p.m.
Los Angeles FC at Miami, 12:30p.m.
LA Galaxy at Seattle, 2:30p.m.
Vancouver at Houston, 5:30p.m.
Chicago at D.C. United, 6:30p.m.
Real Salt Lake at New England, 6:30 p.m.
Cincinnati at Orlando City, 6:30p.m.
San Jose at Philadelphia, 6:30p.m.
Nashville at FC Dallas, 7:30p.m.
Sporting Kansas City at Colorado, 8 p.m.
Austin FC at Portland, 9p.m.
SATURDAY’S RESULTS
New England 1, FC Dallas 0
New York 4, Toronto FC 1
Sporting KC 1, Houston 0
Philadelphia 2, CF Montréal 1
Columbus 3, San Jose 3
D.C. United 1, Cincinnati 0
Orlando City 0, Chicago 0
Colorado 3, Atlanta 0
New York City FC 0, Vancouver 0
Nashville 1, Minnesota 1
LA Galaxy 1, Charlotte FC 0
Real Salt Lake 1, Seattle 0
ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE
CLUB GP W D L GF GA PT
Man City
Liverpool
28 22 3 3 68 18 69
27 19 6 2 71 20 63
Chelsea 26 15 8 3 53 18 53
Arsenal 25 15 3 7 41 29 48
Man United 28 13 8 7 45 38 47
West Ham 28 13 6 9 46 35 45
Tottenham 25 13 3 9 35 32 42
Wolverhampton 27 12 4 11 24 23 40
Southampton 27 8 11 8 34 41 35
Crystal Palace 28 7 12 9 39 38 33
Aston Villa
Leicester
26 10 3 13 37 37 33
25 9 6 10 40 43 33
Brighton 27 7 12 8 26 32 33
Newcastle 26 6 10 10 30 46 28
Brentford 28 7 6 15 30 45 27
Leeds 27 5 8 14 29 61 23
Everton 24 6 4 14 28 41 22
Burnley 26 3 12 11 22 36 21
Watford 27 5 4 18 27 50 19
Norwich 27 4 5 18 16 58 17
SUNDAY’S RESULTS
Arsenal 3, Watford 2
Man City 4, Manchester United 1
MONDAY’S MATCH
Tottenham vs. Everton, 2p.m.
THURSDAY’S MATCHES
Norwich vs. Chelsea, 1:30p.m.
Wolverhampton vs. Watford, 1:30p.m.
Southampton vs. Newcastle, 1:30p.m.
Leeds vs. Aston Villa, 1:45p.m.
 Chicago Tribune | Section 3 | Monday, March 7, 2022  5
COLLEGE BASKETBALL GOLF
MEN’S AP TOP 25 FARED ARNOLD PALMER BAY HILL
No. 1 Gonzaga (24-3) did not play. INVITATIONAL
Next: vs. San Francisco, Monday. 4th of 4rounds; At Bay Hill Club,
No. 2 Arizona (28-3) did not play. Orlando, Fla., 7,466 yards; Par: 72
Next: Pac-12 Tournament, Thursday. 283(-5) $2,160,000
No. 3 Baylor (26-5) did not play. Scottie Scheffler (550) 70-73-68-72
Next: Big 12 Tournament, Thursday. 284 (-4) $908,000
No. 4 Duke (26-5) did not play. Tyrrell Hatton (218) 69-68-78-69
Next: ACC Tournament, Thursday. Billy Horschel (218) 67-71-71-75
No. 5 Auburn (27-4) did not play. Viktor Hovland (218) 69-66-75-74
Next: SEC Tournament, Friday. 285 (-3) $463,500
No. 6 Kansas (25-6) did not play. Chris Kirk (110) 69-76-68-7
Next: Big 12 Tournament, Thursday. Gary Woodland (110) 70-72-70-73
No. 7 Kentucky (25-6) did not play. 286 (-2) $390,000
Next: SEC Tournament, Friday. Talor Gooch (92) 69-68-72-77
No. 8 Purdue (25-6) did not play. Lucas Herbert (92) 73-71-74-68
Next: Big Ten Tournament, Friday. Sam Burns (81) 72-69-75-71—287
No. 9 Providence (24-4) did not play. 287 (-1) $302,400
Next: Big East Tournament, Thursday. Matt Fitzpatrick (81) 73-71-70-73
No. 10 Wisconsin (24-6) lost to 288 (even) $291,000
Nebraska 74-73. Next: Big Ten Tourna- Keegan Bradley (71) 71-75-70-72
ment, Friday. Corey Conners (71) 72-73-69-74
No. 11 Villanova (23-7) did not play. 289 (+1) $228,000
Next: Big East Tournament, Thursday. Russell Henley (61) 70-72-72-75 MLB Deputy Commissioner Dan Halem, left, Senior VP
No. 12 Texas Tech (23-8) did not play. Graeme McDowell (61) 68-76-69-76 Patrick Houlihan, center, and Executive VP Morgan Sword
Next: Big 12 Tournament, Thursday. Rory McIlroy (61) 65-72-76-76
Cameron Young (61) 70-71-76-72
arrive Sunday for labor negotiations. RONALD BLUM/AP
No. 13 Tennessee (23-7) did not play.
290 (+2) $183,000
Next: SEC Tournament, Friday.
No. 14 Houston (26-5) lost to Memphis Max Homa (53)
Jon Rahm (53)
69-74-73-74
72-70-74-74
BASEBALL
MLB on talks:
75-61. Next: AAC Tournament, Friday.
Aaron Wise (53) 69-73-74-74
No. 14 Arkansas (24-7) did not play.
Next: Next: SEC Tournament, Friday. 291 (+3) $131,400
Chris. Bezuidenhout (45) 73-74-69-75
No. 16 Southern Cal (25-6) did not play.
Tommy Fleetwood (45) 74-73-70-7
Next: Pac-12 Tournament, Thursday.
Beau Hossler (45) 67-74-75-75
No. 17 UCLA (23-6) did not play.
‘Deadlocked’
Next: Pac-12 Tournament, Thursday. Sungjae Im (45) 68-77-70-76
Hideki Matsuyama (45) 73-72-76-70
No. 18 UConn (22-8) did not play. Next:
Nick Watney (45) 74-72-69-76
Next: Big East Tournament, Thursday.
292 (+4) $87,600
No. 19 Saint Mary’s (Cal) (24-6) did not
Si Woo Kim (34) 69-76-73-74
play. Next: vs. Santa Clara, Monday.
Jason Kokrak (34) 73-74-71-74
No. 20 Illinois (22-8) beat No. 24 Iowa 74-72.
Next: Big Ten Tournament, Friday. David Lipsky (34) 71-71-78-72
No. 21 Texas (21-10) did not play. Sebastian Munoz (34) 72-74-71-75
Next: Big 12 Tournament, Thursday. Adam Scott (34) 68-76-74-74
No. 22 Murray St. (30-2) did not play. Brendan Steele (34) 70-73-77-72 By Ronald Blum first meeting since then,
Next: NCAA Tournament.
No. 23 Ohio St. (19-10) lost to Michigan
293 (+5)
Tom Hoge (25)
$67,000
78-69-69-77
Associated Press coming in the first season
75-69. Next: Big Ten Tournament, TBD. Charles Howell III (25) 68-73-74-78 delayed by labor strife
No. 24 Iowa (22-9) lost to No. 20 Illinois Patton Kizzire (25)
Adam Long (25)
69-72-76-76
69-78-72-74
NEW YORK — Major since 1995.
74-72. Next: Big Ten Tournament, TBD.
No. 25 Alabama (19-12) did not play. Nick Taylor (25) 70-77-72-74 League Baseball reacted Among the few areas
Next: SEC Tournament, Thursday. Thomas Pieters (0) 74-73-72-74 angrily to the latest offer with new proposals, play-
SUNDAY’S SCORES
294 (+6)
Sergio Garcia (19)
$53,400
75-70-75-74 by locked-out players ers said a fast-track compe-
EAST Patrick Rodgers (19) 72-75-74-73 when bargaining resumed tition committee should
Binghamton 72, New Hampshire 69
Colgate 81, Lehigh 61
Alex Smalley (19)
Will Zalatoris (19)
73-71-77-73
68-77-70-79
Sunday, accusing the union include four union appoin-
Delaware 66, Drexel 56 295 (+7) $37,464 of backtracking and show- tees, six management
Hartford 61, Albany (NY) 49 Dylan Frittelli (12) 70-76-76-73
Padraig Harrington (12) 73-74-75-73
ing no sign of a break- members and one umpire.
Navy 85, Boston U. 80, OT
Rutgers 59, Penn St. 58 Zach Johnson (12) 72-75-75-73 through to get the derailed The group would consider
Temple 75, South Florida 47 Kyoung-Hoon Lee (12) 70-76-72-77 season back on track. rules changes for no earlier
Towson 68, Northeastern 61
UMBC 93, Mass.-Lowell 85, OT
Taylor Moore (12)
Taylor Pendrith (12)
71-75-72-77
71-72-74-78 The squabbling sides than 2023 covering a pitch
Vermont 98, NJIT 59 Pat Perez (12) 71-75-76-73 talked for 95 minutes on clock, limiting defensive
SOUTH
Chattanooga 79, Wofford 56
Ian Poulter (12)
Adam Schenk (12)
68-75-75-77
70-74-76-75
the 95th day of the lockout, shifts and using larger
Furman 71, Samford 68 Davis Thompson (0) 73-71-75-76 largely restating their posi- bases, and it would be able
Longwood 79, Winthrop 58 296 (+8)
Rickie Fowler (7)
$28,170
70-73-76-77
tions to each other. to recommend changes
Louisiana-Lafayette 66, Troy 57
Memphis 75, Houston 61 Lanto Griffin (7) 70-73-76-77 “We were hoping to see during the offseason with
Queens (NC) 69, Carson-Newman 59 Stephan Jaeger (7) 70-73-75-78 movement in our direction 45 days’ notice.
UNC-Wilmington 75, Elon 58
MIDWEST
Matt Jones (7)
Martin Laird (7)
70-75-76-75
72-69-75-80 to give us additional flexi- MLB last week proposed
Loyola Chicago 64, Drake 58 J.J. Spaun (7) 67-75-75-79 bility and get a deal done that the committee include
Michigan 75, Ohio St. 69
Michigan St. 77, Maryland 67
Danny Willett (7)
John Pak (0)
73-71-75-77
74-73-75-74
quickly,” MLB spokesman six management officials,
Nebraska 74, Wisconsin 73 297(+9) $27,000 Glen Caplin said. “The two union representatives
SOUTHWEST Brendon Todd (6) 73-72-74-78 players’ association chose and one umpire. Currently,
SMU 74, Tulane 68 298 (+10) $26,040
Tulsa 73, UCF 72 Cameron Champ (5) 70-75-74-79 to come back to us with a management can only
WEST Danny Lee (5) 73-74-77-74 proposal that was worse change rules with union
Santa Clara 91, Portland 67
PGA PUERTO RICO OPEN than Monday night and consent or unilaterally
WOMEN’S AP TOP 25 FARED 4th of 4 rounds; At Grand Reserve CC, Rio was not designed to move with one year of notice.
x-must win today’s game to advance
No. 1 South Carolina (29-2) lost to
Grande, Puerto Rico, 7,506 yds; Par 72
Ryan Brehm 66-67-68-67—268 -20
the process forward. On Players said they will
Kentucky 64-62. Next: NCAA Tourna- Max McGreevy 70-64-71-69—274 -14 some issues, they went not allow the commit-
ment, TBD.
No. 2 Stanford (28-3) beat Utah 73-48.
Tommy Gainey 69-67-69-70—275 -13 backwards. ... We are dead- tee to consider one topic
Brandon Wu 69-69-68-69—275 -13
Next: NCAA Tournament, TBD. Chad Ramey 69-68-68-71—276 -12 locked. We will try to figure MLB asked to be included:
No. 3 NC State (29-3) beat Miami 60-47.
Next: NCAA Tournament.
Callum Tarren 70-65-71-70—276 -12 out how to respond, but robots to call balls and
No. 4 Louisville (25-4) did not play.
Brice Garnett 70-68-69-70—277 -11
Chris. Gotterup 68-68-70-71—277 -11 nothing in this proposal strikes.
Next: TBD. Mark Hensby 70-67-71-69—277 -11 makes it easy.” Following a four-day
No. 5 Baylor (25-5) beat Texas Tech
82-57. Next: Big 12 Tournament, Friday.
Jim Herman
Nate Lashley
76-66-66-69—277 -11
69-72-69-67—277 -11
Trying to resolve base- break in talks, the union
No. 6 LSU (25-5) did not play. Next: TBD. Cameron Percy 72-68-71-66—277 -11 ball’s second-longest labor gave a written response to
No. 7 UConn (24-5) beat DePaul 71-51.
Next: x-vs. Villanova or Seton Hall,
Matthias Schwab 70-66-72-69—277 -11 stoppage, the sides remain the owners’ latest proposal
Vaughn Taylor 68-72-69-68—277 -11
Monday. Kevin Yu 73-66-70-68—277 -11 far apart on luxury tax, that had led to a break-
No. 8 Iowa State (25-5) did not play.
Next: Big 12 Tournament, Friday.
Michael Kim 65-69-70-74—278 -10 minimum salaries and down on the ninth day of
No. 9 Texas (23-6) did not play. Next:
Chan Kim
Ben Kohles
70-70-69-69—278 -10
68-70-71-69—278 -10 the proposed bonus pool meetings in Florida.
Big 12 Tournament, Friday. David Lingmerth 72-69-70-67—278 -10 for pre-arbitration eligi- Players offered to
No. 10 Michigan (22-6) did not play.
Next: NCAA Tournament, TBD.
Spencer Ralston 71-68-68-71—278 -10
Kyle Stanley 71-69-69-69—278 -10
ble players. The union increase the postseason
No. 11 Maryland (21-8) did not play. lowered its starting point from 10 teams to 12 but said
Next: TBD.
No. 12 Iowa (23-7) beat No. 14 Indiana
HSBC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
4th of 4 rds, The New Tanjong,Sentosa
for the bonus pool by $5 they’re willing to discuss
74-67. Next: NCAA Tournament, TBD. Island, Singapore, 6,749 yards; Par 72 million to $80 million but management’s desire for
No. 13 Ohio State (23-6) did not play.
Next: TBD.
271 (-17)
Jin Young Ko
$255,000
69-67-69-66
left its proposals for the 14 if MLB would consider
No. 14 Arizona (20-7) did not play. 273 (-15) $138,747 luxury tax and minimum a “ghost win” first round,
Next: TBD. In Gee Chun 70-68-66-69 salary unchanged. which management isn’t
No. 14 Indiana (22-8) lost to Iowa 74-57. Minjee Lee 71-69-70-63
Next: TBD. 274 (-14) $81,447 After the main session, interested in.
No. 16 North Carolina (23-6) did not Jeongeun Lee6 70-70-65-69 Deputy Commissioner Players want to raise
play. Next: TBD.
No. 17 BYU (25-2) did not play. Next: vs.
Atthaya Thitikul
275 (-13)
69-68-70-67
$50,923
Dan Halem and union the luxury tax thresh-
Portland, Monday. Hannah Green 74-69-66-66 negotiator Bruce Meyer old from $210 last season
No. 18 Tennessee (23-8) did not play.
Next: TBD.
Brooke Henderson
Amy Yang
69-68-71-67
69-67-71-68
held a one-on-one session. to $238 million this year,
No. 19 Oklahoma (23-7) did not play. 277 (-11) $37,422 Players suggested the sides $244 million in 2023,
Next: Big 12 Tournament, Friday. Danielle Kang 68-71-68-70 meet again Monday. $250 million in 2024,
No. 20 Notre Dame (22-8) did not play. A Lim Kim 68-70-73-66
278 (-10) $31,918 Commissioner Rob $256 million in 2025 and
No. 21 Virginia Tech (23-9) did not play. Nasa Hataoka 72-71-67-68 Manfred on Tuesday $263 million in 2026. MLB
Next: TBD.
No. 22 Florida Gulf Coast (27-2) beat
Xiyu Lin
279 (-9)
69-72-71-66
$26,415
canceled the first two is at $220 million in each
North Florida 71-60. Next: vs. Stetson or Perrine Delacour 70-72-69-68 series of the season for of the next three seasons,
North Alabama, Wednesday.
No. 23 Florida (20-10) did not play.
Leona Maguire
Sarah Schmelzel
70-72-69-68
69-71-73-66
each team, a total of 91 $224 million in 2025 and
Momoko Ueda 71-71-73-64 games. This was the $230 million in 2026.
No. 24 Georgia (20-9) did not play. 280 (-8) $20,722
Next: TBD. Pajaree Anannarukarn 69-69-71-71
No. 25 Georgia Tech (21-10) did not Ariya Jutanugarn 72-68-71-69
play. Next: TBD. Megan Khang 69-68-73-70
SUNDAY’S SCORES
Nanna Koerstz Madsen
Yealimi Noh
69-73-71-67
75-64-71-70
IN BRIEF
Kentucky women top
EAST Inbee Park 68-71-73-68
Princeton 73, Harvard 53 281 (-7) $17,464
Villanova 64, Seton Hall 55 Ayaka Furue 72-70-71-68
SOUTH Lydia Ko 69-73-72-67
No. 1 South Carolina
Florida Gulf Coast 71, North Florida 60 Gaby Lopez 70-70-71-70
Jacksonville St. 70, Jacksonville 56 282 (-6) $14,428
Liberty 77, E. Kentucky 57 Carlota Ciganda 70-72-71-69
Mercer 73, Furman 54 Wei-Ling Hsu 70-71-74-67
NC State 60, Miami 47 Hyo Joo Kim 72-70-72-68
Stetson 64, North Alabama 53 Jeong Eun Lee 71-73-69-69
Troy 62, UALR 59 Su-Hyun Oh 69-70-71-72 News services for eagle from a green-
MIDWEST Madelene Sagstrom
Patty Tavatanakit
71-69-71-71
67-74-71-70
side bunker on the short
Iowa 74, Indiana 67
UMKC 81, N. Dakota St. 74 Dre’una Edwards hit a par-4 first hole, birdied
UMass 62, Dayton 56 PGA CHAMPIONS HOAG CLASSIC 3-pointer from the top of the next two and cruised to
SOUTHWEST
Oral Roberts 61, North Dakota 54
3rd of 3 rounds, Newport Beach (Calif.)
CC, 6,612 yards; Par 71
the key with 4.2 seconds an 8-under 63 and a four-
Texas-Arlington 75, La-Lafayette 65 198 (-15) $300,000 left, and Kentucky rallied stroke victory at the Hoag
WEST Retief Goosen (0) 68-67-63 from 15 points down to Classic in Newport Beach,
Hawaii 58, UC Santa Barbara 52 202 (-11) $176,000
Stanford 73, Utah 48 K.J. Choi (0) 69-67-66 upset top-ranked South Calif. It was the second
Utah St. 80, Fresno St. 75 204 (-9) $132,000 Carolina 64-62 on Sunday career PGA Tour Champi-
ODDS
Stephen Ames (0)
Lee Janzen (0)
68-69-67
69-66-69 in Nashville, Tennes- ons title for the 53-year-old
206 (-7) $88,000 see, to win their first South African.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL MONDAY Doug Barron (0)
Tim Petrovic (0)
70-69-67
71-68-67
SEC women’s tournament
FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG
Cleveland St. Pk Wright State 207 (-6) $72,000 championship since 1982. NBA: Bojan Bogdanovic
Northern Ky. 2 Purdue Ft. Wayne Ernie Els (0) 66-68-73 Kentucky hadn’t even made a franchise-record
208 (-5) $60,000
at Gonzaga
St. Mary’s, Cal.
12
4
San Francisco
Santa Clara Bernhard Langer (0) 65-73-70 reached this game since 11 3-pointers and scored
NCAA TOURNAMENT CHAMPION Rocco Mediate (0) 67-72-69 2014. These seventh- 35 points to help the Jazz
Gonzaga 7-2 Arizona 13-2 209 (-4)
Cameron Beckman (0)
$44,400
64-71-74 seeded Wildcats (19-11) beat the host Thunder
Kentucky
Baylor
7-1 Auburn
12-1 Duke
12-1
12-1 Tom Gillis (0) 68-72-69 won their 10th straight 116-103. Donovan Mitch-
Kansas 14-1 Purdue 14-1 Rod Pampling (0)
209 (-4)
69-70-70
$44,000
game with this the biggest ell had 24 points and
Texas Tech
UCLA
25-1 Villanova
30-1 Tennessee 35-1
25-1
Tom Pernice (0) 69-72-68 yet after knocking off 10 assists, and Jordan
Houston 40-1 Illinois 45-1 David Toms (0) 67-69-73 sixth-ranked LSU and No. Clarkson added 20 points.
210 (-3) $31,033
Arkansas
Alabama
50-1 Wisconsin
60-1 Texas
50-1
60-1 Steven Alker (0) 70-74-66 18 Tennessee to get to this
Connecticut 70-1 Ohio State 70-1 Paul Broadhurst (0) 68-74-68 championship. Soccer: U.S. and Juven-
Providence 70-1 Iowa 80/1 Darren Clarke (0)
Miguel Angel Jimenez (0)
66-72-72
73-67-70 South Carolina (28-2), tus midfielder Weston
LSU 80-1 Rutgers 80-1
Robert Karlsson (0) 71-69-70 which lost for the first time McKennie will miss the
NBA MONDAY
KENYA OPEN
in 19 games, should still be rest of the season with a
FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG
at Philadelphia 7 (229) Chicago 4th of 4 rds, Muthaiga GC,Nairobi, the No. 1 overall seed in the broken foot. McKennie
Atlanta 8 (2271/2) at Detroit Kenya, 7,184 yards; Par: 71 NCAA Tournament. suffered the injury in a
at Miami off (off) Houston
at Minnesota off (off) at Portland
268 (-16)
Wu Ashun
$325,138
69-68-66-65 Champions League match
Golf: World No. 1 Jin Young last month. He will miss
at San Antonio 7 (2341/2) LA Lakers 272 (-12) $142,168
at Dallas
at Denver
off (off) Utah
off (off) Golden State
Aaron Cockerill
Thriston Lawrence
70-68-67-67
69-66-71-66
Ko birdied the 18th hole to the last round of World
at Sacramento 3 (2291/2) New York Hurly Long 68-68-70-66 shoot 6-under 66 and win Cup qualifiers for the U.S.
NHL MONDAY
273 (-11)
David Horsey
$81,093
69-70-65-69
the LPGA Tour’s HSBC ... Kevin De Bruyne and
FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE 274 (-10) $62,159 Women’s World Cham- Riyad Mahrez each scored
at Boston off Los Angeles off Daniel Gavins 64-73-70-67 pionship in Singapore by twice to help defending
Matthieu Pavon 69-68-68-69
at Buffalo
Toronto
off Florida
-195 at Columbus +183
off
275 (-9) $39,399 two stroke. Ko, who had Premier League champ
Colorado -210 at NY Islanders +200 Adri Arnaus 69-69-71-66 returned from a three- Manchester City restore
at Calgary -117 Edmonton
For the latest odds, go to
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Ewen Ferguson
71-70-71-63
66-67-66-76
month break, has won six its season lead to six
FanDuel Sportsbook, Marcus Kinhult 71-68-64-72 times in her last 10 starts. points with a 4-1 win over
https://sportsbook.fanduel.com/ Stuart Manley 70-71-67-67 ... Retief Goosen holed out Manchester United.
6  Chicago Tribune | Section 3 | Monday, March 7, 2022

NATIONAL SPORTS REPORT

SHORTS

LeBron scores 56 points in victory
Despite ranking third in NBA history in
scoring and closing fast on Karl Malone
in second, LeBron James has somehow
never been thought of as a pure scorer.
On Saturday night, James showed he’s
still more than capable of piling up
the points in a variety of ways. James
scored a season-high 56 points and the
Lakers beat the visiting Warriors 124-116 to snap a four-
game skid. It was his third-most points in a regular-sea-
son game and 13th time he has had at least 50. “I felt pretty
good,” said James, who had a career-best 61 for the Heat
against the Hornets in 2014. While James downplayed his
19-of-31 shooting, including 6 of 11 from 3-point range with
three consecutive to put the Lakers up 100-97 in the fourth
quarter, others were more than willing to praise his perfor-
mance. “He was phenomenal tonight,” said Lakers forward
Carmelo Anthony, who had 14 points. “... He just put us on
his back tonight.” James wasn’t the only player to reach the
50-point mark over the weekend: Jayson Tatum scored a
season-high 54 points — 34 of them in the second half —
to lift the host Celtics over the Nets 126-120 on Sunday.
Coach K after loss: “It’s not over yet’
Mike Krzyzewski’s final home game at
Duke had just ended in an unexpected
defeat to the Blue Devils’ fiercest rival.
The time had come for the school to
hold its postgame on-court ceremony in
Krzyzewski’s honor. Only, the retiring
Hall of Famer was still thinking about
Saturday’s 94-81 loss to North Carolina.
“I’m sorry about this afternoon,” he began, then waved
off cheers from the fans. “It was unacceptable. Today was
unacceptable, but the season has been very acceptable.
And I’ll tell you: this season isn’t over, all right?” It was a
slightly awkward moment to start of the ceremony, yet
a sign that the 75-year-old coach was already thinking
and driven about what’s still to come: a maximum of nine
games left for the No. 4 Blue Devils with chances to win
the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament and a sixth
NCAA championship. “It’s not my last game — it’s my last
game in Cameron,” he told reporters afterward. “But it
seemed like it was your last game. ... So many people are
saying great things about you and whatever, and you say,
‘It’s not over yet.’ ”
Steady Scheffler wins at Bay Hill
Scottie Scheffler played the kind of golf
that wins a traditional U.S. Open, and
that’s what the Arnold Palmer Invita-
tional felt like Sunday at Bay Hill. In
another final round that featured some
of the toughest scoring conditions in
four decades, Scheffler made key putts
to save two unlikely pars, followed with
a pair of lag putts and closed with an even-par 72 for a
one-shot victory. Scheffler now has two PGA Tour titles
in the last month, having picked up his first victory at the
Phoenix Open. Only 10 players finished this tournament
under par. Billy Horschel was the last player with a shot
at catching Scheffler with a 30-foot birdie putt on the last
hole that never really had a chance. Horschel shot 75 and
tied for second along with Tyrrell Hatton (69) and Viktor
Hovland (74). The world’s fourth-ranked player was still
tied for the lead until catching a plugged lie in the front
bunker on the 17th and having to two-putt from 50 feet
on the fringe for bogey. Needing a birdie on the last hole to
catch Scheffler, with whom he was paired, the Norwegian
missed from 18 feet. —Associated Press

BASKETBALL EXPLAINER

High pay in Russia

lures WNBA’s best
By Doug Feinberg | Associated Press

Russia has been a popular destination for WNBA play-

ers like Brittney Griner over the last two decades because
of the money they can make playing there in the winter.
With top players earning more than $1 million — nearly
quadruple what they can make as a base salary in the
WNBA — Griner, Breanna Stewart, Diana Taurasi, Sue
Bird and Jonquel Jones have been willing to spend their
offseason playing far from home.
It’s tough for WNBA
players to turn down that
kind of money despite
safety concerns and poli-
tics in some of the countries
where they play.
The 31-year-old Griner,
a seven-time All-Star for
the Phoenix Mercury,
has played in Russia since
2014. She was returning
from a break for the FIBA
Women’s Basketball World WNBA star Brittney Griner
Cup qualifying tournaments still is under arrest in Russia
when she was arrested at after being detained last
an airport near Moscow month for possession of
last month after Russian vape cartidges allegedly
authorities said a search of containing oil derived from
her luggage revealed vape cannabis. AP FILE
cartridges.
On Saturday, the State Department issued a “do not
travel” advisory for Russia because of its invasion of
Ukraine and urged all U.S. citizens to depart immediately,
citing factors including “the potential for harassment
against U.S. citizens by Russian government security offi-
cials” and “the Embassy’s limited ability to assist” Amer-
icans in Russia.
Turkey, Australia, China and France also have strong
women’s basketball domestic leagues where some of the
WNBA’s best play in their offseason.

Why are Russian salaries so high?

Russian sports leagues have been able to pay top players
these high salaries because some of the teams are funded
by government municipalities while others are owned by
oligarchs who care more about winning championships
Alex Bowman celebrates after winning the NASCAR Cup race Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Bowman edged defending and trophies than being profitable.
Cup champion Kyle Larson in overtime to secure his first victory of the season and seventh of his career. JOHN LOCHER/AP There are stories of Russian owners putting up play-
ers in luxury accommodations and taking them on shop-
ping sprees and buying them expensive gifts in addition
NASCAR to paying their salaries.

Gamble works in Vegas

Bowman’s 2-tire change
difference in OT victory
By Jenna Fryer
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — Alex Bowman beat
NASCAR champion Kyle Larson in
a door-to-door overtime battle at
Las Vegas Motor Speedway that sent
Hendrick Motorsports to victory lane
for the second consecutive week.
The win Sunday was the first of the
year for Bowman and seventh of his
career. It was the second through three
NASCAR races this season for team
owner Rick Hendrick.
Bowman got his shot at the win
when a caution with three laps remain-
ing shifted the race from a pair of Joe
Gibbs Racing cars to the Hendrick
teammates. Las Vegas native Kyle
Busch and teammate Martin Truex Jr.
were in a lap-by-lap chess match for
the win until the 12th caution ended
the stirring duel.
Erik Jones lost control of his car
with three laps remaining and crashed
when he overcorrected. Bubba Wallace
had to swerve hard to avoid drill-
ing Jones’ disabled car and it caused
Wallace to slam hard into an interior
wall. NASCAR threw the caution to
send the race into overtime and the
leaders all headed to pit road for a tire
change.
The Hendrick trio of Bowman,
Larson and William Byron all changed
just two tires to get off pit road first
through third. Busch, who had gone
to the pits as the leader, took four tires
and came off pit road in fourth.
Larson, the defending Las Vegas
winner and winner last week in Cali-
fornia, chose the outside line for the
restart with Bowman on his inside.
The two were in a drag race over the
final two laps and Bowman only got
significant as he closed in on the check-
ered flag.
Bowman, who led three times for 16
laps, beat Larson to the finish line by
0.178 seconds.
“This thing was so fast all day. Never
had the track position we needed to
show it,” said Bowman, who credited
crew chief Greg Ives for the two-tire
call. “What a call by Greg Ives. Obvi-
ously, it paid off.”
Ross Chastain finished third for
TrackHouse Racing and a podium
sweep for Chevrolet. Chastain, who
had led just 75 laps over 117 previous
starts, led a race-high 83 laps.
Busch finished fourth in a backup
Toyota after crashing in Saturday
morning practice when his tire went
flat. The wreck destroyed his car and
because backups are in short supply
at the start of NASCAR’s rollout of the
Next Gen model, the only option JGR
had was a “parts car” not meant for
competition.
“True testament to everybody at
Joe Gibbs Racing,” said Busch after
the crews from all four teams helped
prepare his car. “Everybody had a hand
in being able to make us go.”
He said he felt like he’d cleared
Truex for the win when the caution
ended his bid.
“I don’t know what it was,” Busch
said. “But anyways, wasn’t meant to be.
Not our day. See you next week.”
Byron was fifth to give Hendrick
three drivers in the top five and Aric
Almirola was sixth and the high-
est-finishing Ford. Almirola is the
only driver to finish inside the top-10
through NASCAR’s first three races of
the season.
The win was a strong statement for
team owner Hendrick, who joined the
weekly competition meeting to outline
his expectations for his drivers after
Larson and Chase Elliott had an inci-
dent in California. Larson didn’t see
Elliott on his outside and squeezed
him into the wall as the two raced for
the lead.
Larson was apologetic and Elliott
was furious. Hendrick snuffed out
any drama, evidenced by the clean
overtime racing for the win between
Bowman and Larson.
“Racing Kyle is always fun,” Bowman
said. “Got to race him for a couple wins.
We’ve always raced each other super
clean and super respectfully.”
Support for Ukraine
Richard Childress Racing and
Hendrick Motorsports both raised
awareness for supporting Ukraine
during its invasion by Russia.
Richard Childress responded to
Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelenskyy’s plea, “I don’t need a ride,
I need more ammunition,” by donating
one million rounds of ammunition to
the country.
Childress is on the board of directors
for AMMO, Inc., and worked with the
company to secure the donation. He
was working with a private company
to arrange its delivery.
Rick Hendrick and sponsor
Hendrick Automotive Group pledged
$200,000 to Samaritan’s Purse to
support disaster assistance in Ukraine.
In 2015, Taurasi’s team, UMMC Ekaterinburg — the
same one Griner plays for — paid her to skip the WNBA
season and rest.
“We had to go to a communist country to get paid like
capitalists, which is so backward to everything that was
in the history books in sixth grade,” Taurasi said a few
years ago.
The Russian league has a completely different financial
structure from that of the WNBA, where there’s a salary
cap, players’ union and collective bargaining agreement.
The WNBA has made strides to increase player sala-
ries and find other ways to compensate players in the last
CBA, which was ratified in 2020. The contract, which runs
through 2027, pays players an average of $130,000, with
the top stars able to earn more than $500,000 through
salary, marketing agreements, an in-season tournament
and bonuses.
The CBA also provides full salaries while players are on
maternity leave, enhanced family benefits, travel standards
and other health and wellness improvements.
Who plays there?
More than a dozen WNBA players were playing in
Russia and Ukraine this winter, including league MVP
Jones and Courtney Vandersloot and Allie Quigley of the
champion Chicago Sky.
The WNBA confirmed Saturday that all players besides
Griner had left both countries.
Almost half of the WNBA’s 144 players were overseas
this offseason, although stars Candace Parker, Bird, Chiney
Ogwumike and Chelsea Gray opted to stay stateside.
Will this last?
From purely a basketball stand point, the CBA will make
it more difficult for WNBA players to compete overseas
in the future.
Beginning in 2023, there will be new WNBA prioritiza-
tion rules that will be enforced by the league. Any player
with more than three years of service who arrives late to
training camp will be fined at a rate of 1% of base salary per
day late. In addition, any player who does not arrive before
the first day of the regular season will be ineligible to play
at all that season. In 2024 and thereafter, any player who
does not arrive before the first day of training camp (or,
with respect to unsigned players, finish playing overseas)
will be ineligible to play for the entire season.
The WNBA typically begins training camp in late April
and the regular season starts in early May. Some foreign
leagues don’t end before those dates.