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Memphis releases video of beating

Violent assault of
Black motorist seen
in lengthy footage
By Adrian Sainz
Associated Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis
authorities released more than
an hour of footage Friday of the
violent beating of Tyre Nichols
in which officers held the Black
motorist down and struck him
repeatedly as he screamed for his
mother.
“I’m going to baton the (exple-
tive) out you,” one officer can be
The image from
video released
The video emerged one day heard saying. His body camera on Friday by the
after the officers, who are all shows him raise his baton while city of Memphis,
Black, were charged with murder at least one other officer holds shows Tyre
in Nichols’ death. Nichols. Nichols during
The footage shows police After the first officer roughly a brutal attack
savagely beating the 29-year-old pulls Nichols out of his car, Nich- by five Memphis
FedEx worker for three minutes ols can be heard saying, “I didn’t police officers
while screaming profanities at do anything,” as a group of offi- on Jan. 7 in
him throughout the attack. The cers begins to wrestle him to the Memphis, Tenn.
Nichols family legal team has ground. One officer is heard yell- Nichols died on
likened the assault to the infamous ing “Tase him! Tase him!” Jan. 10. CITY OF
1991 police beating of Los Angeles MEMPHIS
motorist Rodney King. Turn to Beating, Page 2

Chicago’s mild winter is coming to an end.

And now events like ice castles and ski jumping are back.

New Chicago Sky operating

chairman Nadia Rawlinson.
CHICAGO SKY

Chicago
Sky makes
addition
at the top
Nadia Rawlinson joins
team as operating
chairman, co-owner
By Julia Poe
Chicago Tribune

Amid the swirling uncertainty

of WNBA free agency, the Chicago
Sky made a major addition this
week — to their front office, not
their roster.
The Sky hired Nadia Rawlinson Beth Janczak, left, and Ashley Stanton leave the ski hill at Norge Ski Club in Fox River Grove on Wednesday. The two women are volunteer
for a newly created role of operat- content producers who were out taping for Norge’s upcoming ski jump competition. STACEY WESCOTT/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
ing chairman. Rawlinson aims to

Seizin’ the season

establish a stronger base for the
business aspects of the team as the
WNBA continues to grow on and
off the court.
“For so long, many WNBA teams
have been just trying to survive,”
Rawlinson said. “Especially from
an operational standpoint, they

were just trying to get through
and make it. And now it’s time to
thrive.”
Before Rawlinson’s hire, the
Sky’s executive branch consisted
of three people: CEO and President
Adam Fox, chief financial officer
Stephanie Hedrick and head of
strategy Watchen Nyanue.
Principal owner Michael Alter
and Fox began to discuss the
concept of creating the operating
chairman role in 2021. It wasn’t a
concrete position, and the fran-
chise never underwent an inter-
view process. But last year when
Alter met Rawlinson — who
initially was interested in simply
investing in the team — he quickly
began to feel the Sky had found
their new operating chairman.
Rawlinson brings a deep back-
Field scientist part of big meteorite discovery
ground in human resources, strat-
egy and business development — as
Turn to Rawlinson, Page 4
W
By Robert McCoppin | Chicago Tribune
inter should be white. At least, so
say the people who depend on snow
and cold for a living.
Warmth and rain earlier this
month forced the Norge Ski Club to
postpone its annual ski jump tour-
nament in Fox River Grove. The midwinter meltdown also
shut down skiing at Villa Olivia in Bartlett, canceled the
opening of Ice Castles in Lake Geneva, and turned Chica-
go’s Polar Adventure into a temperate play date.
But now, real winter is back. As snow falls and tempera-
tures drop, all those activities are resuming as soon as orga-
nizers can churn out enough flakes and ice to make them
happen.
At the Norge ski jump, which towers more than 150 feet
overlooking the Fox River, volunteers plan to use snow
guns to blast the hill with ample padding for skiers to land
on.
The club is one of the leading ski jump groups in the
nation, sending three members of the U.S. Olympics four-
man team to each of the past two Olympics.
Norge’s annual tournament is one of the biggest in the
Turn to Winter, Page 4
Her team made rare find
on Antarctica expedition
By Richard Requena
Chicago Tribune

The team of scientists had already

Georgis Catering
damaged by fire
A fire caused extensive damage
to a 77-year-old catering business
near Midway Airport that cooks
thousands of meals for the elderly
each day. Chicagoland, Page 3
Pelosi attack video
shows struggle
Video released publicly Friday
shows the husband of former
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
fighting with his assailant for
control of a hammer. Nation &
World, Page 3 in Business
combed over miles of Antarctic ice
field, ready to turn around at the very
end of an 11-day meteorite hunt. Then
they spotted something rare.
The international team knew what
they were looking at from 100 meters
away: a huge meteorite “the size of
a gourd,” recalled Field Museum
research scientist Maria Valdes, who
was part of the team.
“To put the meteorite’s size in
perspective, of the 45,000 meteorites
retrieved from Antarctica over the
last century, only 100 are this size or
larger,” the Field Museum said.
The Jan. 5 discovery was made
during a survey of terrain that
scientists had never before hunted
Maria Valdes, kneeling at center, was part of an international team of scientists that discovered a for meteorites. The lucky team of
large, rare meteorite “the size of a gourd” this month in Antarctica. With Valdes are, from left, Maria
Schönbächler, Ryoga Maeda and Vinciane Debaille, standing. MARIA VALDES/FIELD MUSEUM Turn to Meteorite, Page 2

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Blaze results in
extensive damage
at catering business
Location near Midway Airport cooks
thousands of meals daily for seniors
By Deanese Williams-Harris,
Richard Requena and Angie Leventis Lourgos
Chicago Tribune
A fire that broke out
during pre-dawn hours
Friday caused extensive
damage to a 77-year-old
catering business near
Midway Airport that cooks
thousands of meals for the
elderly each day, officials
said.
Since 1946, Georgis
Catering has provided the
Chicago area with “the
finest quality food with
creative presentation and
the best service possible,”
according to the company’s
website. The site claims
a lengthy list of famous
clients, including multiple
Fortune 500 companies;
music stars like the Beach
Boys and Frank Sinatra; the
White Sox, Blackhawks,
Cubs, Bulls and other
professional sports teams;
as well as former Presidents
Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter,
George Bush, Bill Clinton
and Donald Trump.
Shortly after midnight,
Tinley Park District program latest effort to boost civic involvement
By Bill Jones
For Daily Southtown
When the Tinley Park-
Park District is ready for
spring planting this year,
officials hope they will have
a small army of volunteers
ready to help fill the flower
boxes at most of their sites.
District officials
announced in December the
launch of an Adopt-A-Park
program in 2023, inviting
groups, businesses, families
and individuals to help beau-
tify and maintain some of its
26 parks.
Carol Bradtke, the
Park District’s marketing
manager, said the program is
designed to give people “the
opportunity to experience
what it takes to create the
park ambience and main-
tain it.”
“We have a lot of dedi-
cated park patrons,” Bradtke
said. “They love the parks,
they watch out for the parks.
They tell us when something
is wrong.”
The district will provide
flowers and guidance and
are counting on volunteers
to handle planting and
maintenance — weeding,
watering, litter removal and
spreading mulch. Signs are
planned for flower boxes
indicating who is helping
maintain them. Volunteers
also will be recognized in the
district’s publications and
social media.
Besides honoring volun-
teers and advertising the
program, that publicity
can also be an incentive
for participants to keep up
their work throughout the
summer.
“They don’t want to have
their name there and have
the plants die because they
ignore them,” she said,
though she does not expect
that to be much of an issue.
“I really believe that anyone
who signs up for it, they
have the intent of follow-
ing through and gaining the
experience.”
Bradtke, herself a
gardener, thinks that expe-
Volunteers participate in a garden project in Chicago’s
Pullman neighborhood in 2015. The Tinley Park-Park District is
starting an Adopt-A-Park program to supplement work done
by staff at its parks. ZBIGNIEW BZDAK/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
CHICAGOLAND
firefighters were called to
the blaze in the 6300 block
of South Central Avenue,
according to the Chicago
Fire Department Twit-
ter page. Fire Department
spokesman Larry Langford
said the business sustained
extensive damage.
Owner George “Buz”
Georgis could not be
reached for comment.
Becky Walowski, an
employee for the catering
business, said co-work-
ers had left the kitchen at
about 11:30 p.m. She said she
started getting calls around
3 a.m. that the building was
on fire.
She added that the cater-
ing company provides about
2,000 meals for seniors
daily in the suburbs from
Calumet City to Dolton
and in Melrose Park and
Maywood.
Lauren Doherty, chief
executive officer of the
Meals on Wheels Founda-
rience is valuable.
“There’s a great learning
experience for kids with this
in being outside, working
with plants,” Bradtke said.
“Kids grow up and they have
houses and gardens. I think
it’s just a great learning expe-
rience with younger people.
It’s a lifelong skill they will
take with them.”
Tinley Park has spent the
past year or two trying to
figure out the best way to
implement the program.
“We figured now is as
good a time as any,” Bradtke
said. “We’re really excited
about it.”
The Park District has
received a great response
since announcing the
program, she said, with
“quite a few phone calls”
looking for more infor-
mation and people down-
loading applications and
handbooks at tinleypark-
district.org. They’re looking
into specific projects such
as cleanup days, invasive
species removal or habitat
restoration.
T h e Ad o p t-A- Pa r k
program is a way to improve
parks beyond regular main-
tenance done by park staff,
she said.
“It really will be a partner-
ship with the Park District,”
Bradtke said.
The program and its
incentives echo the state’s
Adopt-A-Highway program,
which for years has recruited
volunteers to partner
with the Illinois Depart-
ment of Transportation to
keep roadsides clean. Civic
groups, clubs, organizations,
sororities and fraternities,
churches, and families are all
invited to take part by caring
for a 2-mile section of high-
way at least four times a year
for a two-year period.
Illinois’ Adopt-A-High-
way Act was passed in the
early 1990s, opening the
door for IDOT and local
jurisdictions to recruit
volunteers, according to
Maria Castaneda, IDOT
communications manager
and public information offi-
Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Saturday, January 28, 2023  3
Firefighters pack up after an early morning blaze Friday at Georgis Catering in the 6300 block of South Central Avenue near
Midway International Airport. BRIAN CASSELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
tion of Northern Illinois, other caterers, so that hot at Georgis Catering, has Walowski said the cater-
said those 2,000 seniors meals can resume next endured,” Doherty said in a ing business does plan to
didn’t receive hot meals week. written statement. “For over reopen, fast. She said the
Friday because of the fire. Ac c o rd i n g t o t h e a decade, Georgis Catering owner’s first words this
But before winter, the nonprofit, the fire impeded has provided nearly 10,000 morning were, “How fast
nonprofit had provided hot meal service at multi- meals per week to Cook can we get into another
those seniors with boxes of ple Cook County sites. County’s most vulnerable kitchen?”
five nonperishable meals to Programs in Will, Kendall seniors. Buz is a kind soul She also said they can’t
keep in case of emergencies, and Grundy counties were who has always shown up stop working because
“so that’s what we’re relying not affected. for our clients, and Georgis there’s too much busi-
on for today,” she said. “We are devastated at the Catering truly helped make ness going on, and “there’s
Doherty added that the loss that our catering part- a difference in our commu- too many people being
nonprofit is searching for ner, George ‘Buz’ Georgis nities.” affected.”
cer. Castaneda said it is still for the winter, she said. Gem and Juneteenth cele- so incredibly generous
going strong. “That’s really neat when bration are all resident-led with their time. Flossmoor
“Over the past three years, you see people coming events, and the village got residents always show up
IDOT has approved close to together who haven’t seen involved to figure out how when needed. They are just
300 applications,” she said, each other in a while,” they can make them happen so thoughtful and consci-
noting a website upgrade has Nelson said. together, Nelson said. entious. That’s one of the
made the process easier for Nelson added these collab- “It’s critically import- reasons I just love being here
potential volunteers. orations are a combination ant that we work together so much.”
IDOT provides volun- of village-led initiatives and with folks to help make
teers with safety vests and resident-driven projects. these incredible programs Bill Jones is a freelance
trash bags, and installs road The village’s Hidden Gem successful,” Nelson said. reporter for the Daily
signs that identify the help- Half Marathon, Bike the “Flossmoor residents are Southtown.
ers. It’s a way to give visitors
and tourists a better first
impression of the state and
make roadways safer with
less debris.
“Thanks to the help of the
volunteers providing supple-
mental roadside cleanup
activities, IDOT mainte-
nance workers are able to
focus on removing large
debris and other actions,
such as filling potholes,
fixing guardrails, storm
sewer cleaning and repairs,
and many other jobs that
keep the roadways safe,”
Castaneda said.
Permits are for two years,
giving volunteer groups an
out if they don’t want to
stick with it. But IDOT has
largely seen the program as
a great way to bring together
groups, friends and families
to make a difference she said.
That type of civic engage-
ment is something the
Village of Flossmoor has
utilized recently for a
massive Plant the Gem tree
planting, its annual Martin
Luther King Jr. Day of
Service activities and more.
Mayor Michelle Nelson said
that level of involvement
from residents is a hallmark
of the village.
“I think that’s always been
part of our community,”
Nelson said. “Flossmoor has
always been a community
of doers. I think the scale of
our projects lately has been
bigger and village-wide, but
our residents have always
been extremely activated
and connected in projects
that promote a greater good.”
Nelson said Flossmoor
residents also get involved
with the Homewood-Floss-
moor Park District’s Park
Pride Day, which similar to
Tinley Park’s planned initia-
tive asks volunteers for help
planting flowers and adding
mulch throughout the park
system. And in the spring,
Flossmoor also turns to resi-
dents for cleanup events.
“A lot of garbage does get
trapped under snow,” Nelson
said. “When the spring thaw
comes, it’s a real problem.
Residents come out every
spring to help.”
Nelson said that kind of
help from the community
is important, because public
works cannot get to every
nook and cranny around
town as quickly as they
might like. It is also a great
way for residents to recon-
nect after being cooped up
4  Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Saturday, January 28, 2023

Elgin residents offer input on North Grove Ave. land use

By Gloria Casas
For Courier-News
Robin Migalla sat at a
table Tuesday night watch-
ing a slideshow on how 38
acres of Elgin-owned prop-
erty on North Grove Avenue
might be redeveloped and
realized just what a big proj-
ect the city was undertaking.
“This could transform
Elgin,” said Migalla, who
has lived in city for 50 years.
Her opinion is it should
be a mixed-use develop-
ment, with residential and
retail on one side and open
space preserved for public
use along the portion facing
the Fox River.
“I like the concept of
mixed use where you have
a neighborhood grocery
store that meets your needs
so we don’t have to have
cars to live,” Migalla said.
“Let’s take the world back
to before fossil fuel and the
automotive industry had
control over our lives.”
The meeting held at the
Edward Schock Centre of
Elgin was the first in which
community input was solic-
ited for the North Grove
Avenue Redevelopment
Area.
Residents were asked to
share their opinions with
city leaders and consul-
tants from Lamar John-
son Collaborative, hired to
assist the city in the planning
process.
Interactive stations were
set up to show different
aspects of the property,
which includes several
properties north of Kimball
Street, and to obtain feed-
back on different ideas
for possible development.
Themes centered on things
like site anchors, hous-
ing, open space, connectiv-
ity, mixed uses and the Fox
River.
“It could be something no
one else has,” Ferhat Zerin,
of Ginkgo Planning and
Design, told attendees. She
was helping guide discus-
sions on a plan in which
It’s important to bring
residents together and give
them a way to voice their
concerns and ideas, which
they seemed to appreciate,
Bagde said.
Aaron Madrid said he was
intrigued by a note some-
one posted with the word
“badeschiff.” He learned it’s
a German word that means
bathing ship and refers to
the floating public swim-
ming pool set up in the River
Spree in Berlin.
An Elgin native, Madrid
said he thinks it’s important
the site include open land
because he doesn’t believe
there’s enough in the city.
Retail and dining should
Elgin resident Aaron Madrid writes down an idea Tuesday for remain in and around down-
how city-owned land along North Grove Avenue might be town, he said.
used at a community meeting to discuss redevelopment of There was a lot of interest,
the 38-acre site. GLORIA CASAS/THE COURIER-NEWS based on the informal votes,
in using some of the land for
conservation would be the Johnson urban designer, a new grocery store.
focus and uses could include was at another table where Shared Harvest, a
a park or some sort of desti- residents were directed to community-owned co-op,
nation for residents and visi- use stickers to “vote” on the is hoping it might be able
tors. uses they’d like to see be part to open a store within the
Prayag Bagde, a Lamar of the new development. North Avenue area and has
been urging supporters to
say they want a grocery
business there when they
fill out the city’s online
survey at www.surveymon-
key.com/r/FXMDRZV. The
survey deadline is Jan. 31.
Migalla supports the
idea, saying she want to
see the area developed “in
such a way it moves Elgin
toward more sustainability.
I’m hoping enough people
understand that we are in
an environmental crisis. We
can’t continue to ignore it. ...
Let us set the precedent. Let
us be leaders.”
Along the riverfront, she
said she’d like there to be a
locally owned kayak rental
business so the waterway
can be enjoyed for recre-
ation.
The area “needs to belong
to the people. I don’t want
this turned over to some
corporation,” Migalla said.
Gloria Casas is
a freelance reporter
for The Courier-News.

Winter “So we’re just

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nation, attracting jumpers
from around the country
and thousands of spectators
every year. A party atmo-
sphere reigns at the bottom,
with food, drinks and rock
music.
The event has never been
canceled in 118 years, but
had been postponed twice,
and was again this year,
getting pushed back to Feb.
11-12.
Volunteers already made
the ski jump run out of ice,
with refrigerated tubes
underneath to keep it from
melting, but the 300-foot-
long landing area needs a
foot deep of snow.
Because the club uses
well water that comes out at
about 50 degrees, it gener-
ally needs temperatures
to stay below 21 degrees to
make snow.
“So we’re just waiting for
it to get cold,” club Presi-
dent Scott Smith said. “If
the forecast sticks, it’ll be
top-notch.”
While Wisconsin ski
resorts report adequate
snow, the annual Ice Castles
event in Lake Geneva had
to be postponed from this
weekend and now will open
Feb. 3. The castle was almost
entirely built following a
cold snap a month ago, but
rains melted it almost to the
ground.
With temperatures drop-
ping, workers are busy
making icicles, placing them
on the castle, and spray-
ing them with a sprinkler
system to grow the struc-
ture, complete with slides,
tunnels and an icy throne.
“To say the least, it’s been
very challenging,” spokes-
woman Melissa Smuzynski
said. “We are very hope-
ful and confident they’ll be
able to create something
beautiful, and at least give
people two or three weeks
of winter magic this season.”
DJ Byrnes drives a snowcat down the tubing hill at Villa Olivia on Friday in Bartlett. After being closed for a week because of lack
of snow and cold-enough weather to make snow, employees were hoping to reopen Friday. STACEY WESCOTT/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
The site of the castle,
Geneva National Resort &
Club, also offers brunches
with Ice Princesses, dining
in outdoor “snow globes”
and candlelight sledding.
At Villa Olivia, a small ski
hill in northwest suburban
Bartlett, the lack of snow
prevented skiing, but work-
ers were out Friday making
snow to reopen half the
slopes this weekend for
skiing and tubing.
On Northerly Island, the
Chicago Park District held
its Polar Adventure Day Jan.
21. Planners are optimistic
there will be snow for the
next Polar Adventure Feb.
25.
“We make sure to have
a wide variety of activi-
ties that are going to be fun
regardless,” Park District
waiting for it to get
cold. If the forecast
sticks, it’ll be top-
notch.”
— Scott Smith,
Norge Ski Club president
program specialist Ted
Gross said.
Free Spirit Siberian
Rescue, for instance,
provides huskies pulling
dog sleds on wheels that
work with or without snow.
The event also features
snowshoeing, an indoor
birds of prey show and a
Jabberwocky Marionettes
puppet show.
The recent interruption
of winter was out of charac-
ter for Chicago. The city had
29 days in a row with above
normal temperature, the
National Weather Service
reported, but that streak
ended Thursday. The city
also has 8 fewer inches of
snow than normal by this
point.
The mild weather was
due partly to cold waters
in the Pacific, known as La
Nina, that affect patterns
in the continental United
States, meteorologist Matt
Friedlein said. The Chicago
area also got lucky, dodging
storms that dropped more
than 50 inches of snow in
Minneapolis and lake-effect
snows that dumped more
than 100 inches on Buffalo,
New York.
But now the jet stream
is buckling farther south,
and we’re entering a colder,
snowy pattern through
early February.
“Most winters aren’t
normal in the Midwest
— they kind of bounce
around,” Friedlein said.
Now that more typical
In 2019, workers build an ice castle in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. weather is here, he said,
BRIAN CASSELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE “Enjoy the winter.”

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former chief people officer
for Slack Technologies; as
the former chief human
resources officer for Live
Nation Entertainment; and
as a current consultant for
venture capital firm Google
Ventures. She serves on
the board of directors for J.
Crew, Vail Resorts and Save
the Children and sits on the
Stanford University Board
of Trustees and the Harvard
Business School Board of
Dean’s Advisors.
To Alter, the experience
paired with a deep love for
Chicago, basketball and the
empowerment of women’s
sports made Rawlinson the
correct fit.
“We thought, ‘If we find
the right person, it would
be great to do this,’ ” Alter
said. “We didn’t do any
formal search. It was really
just a thought that we had.
She’s absolutely the perfect
person to be in this role.”
Rawlinson will oversee
the development of the
Sky’s strategic business
initiatives, which includes
establishing and growing
corporate partnerships
and increasing the organi-
zation’s civic engagement
throughout the community.
Rawlinson and Alter
highlighted two areas for
immediate growth. The
Sky center Azurá Stevens waves to fans after a 98-91 overtime loss to the Sparks at Wintrust
Arena on May 6. JOHN J. KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
first is sports betting, which
recently became a viable
revenue outlet because of
laws enacted in March. The
second is the establishment
of a media rights deal in
2025, which Alter believes
is “way undervalued” under
the current agreement with
the WNBA.
Alter believes Rawlin-
son’s expertise from the
corporate sector will allow
the Sky to increase revenue
to compete more fervently
in future free-agent markets
while also providing bene-
fits such as charter flights,
which became a key topic
for players this offseason.
“The biggest objective we
all have is we need to grow
revenue,” Alter said. “That’s
how we pay players more
money, which they badly
deserve. And that’s how we
afford the charter flights,
which they also deserve. So
those are all things we want
to have. We need to be in a
position to do that.
“One of the ways we
do that is by bringing in
incredibly talented people
like Nadia, who could be
working, making a lot
more money somewhere
in the corporate world but
believes deeply in what
we’re trying to build here.”
Alongside her role
as operating chairman,
Sky as a co-owner, with
Alter remaining the prin-
cipal owner. It isn’t her
first venture into sports
investment — during the
pandemic, Rawlinson
and her husband started
a sports fund to invest
minority stakes in minor-
league baseball, lacrosse
and hockey teams.
Rawlinson said she
gained experience and
appreciation for how the
correct combination of
capital and strategic oper-
ational expertise can
improve the success of a
sports franchise.
Applying those same
practices to a WNBA
franchise will be a new
challenge, but Rawlin-
son embraces what she
described as a “crucible
moment” for the Sky and
the league.
“I believe in the future of
the team,” Rawlinson said.
“This isn’t just a passion
thing. This is a true finan-
cial asset for my family. You
just don’t randomly invest
in asset classes that you
don’t think are going to give
you returns, right? I believe
in the future focus on the
team. I think it’s a great bet.”
A Lake Forest native,
Rawlinson’s affinity for the
Sky derives from a lifetime
of Chicago basketball. She
grew up during the golden
days of the Bulls — trying
to trick-or-treat at Michael
Jordan’s house as a kid,
celebrating her 16th birth-
day in the rafter seats of a
game, sneaking out to take
the Metra downtown with
friends to celebrate the 1997
championship.
But Rawlinson also sees
her new role with the Sky
as an opportunity to invest
in the many intersectional
communities who are often
overlooked in sports devel-
opment, including women,
people of color and the
LGBTQ community.
As a Black woman,
Rawlinson said she’s spent
most of her professional
career feeling othered. In
the Sky, she saw a chance to
commit to a different type
of environment — a fran-
chise created “for women
by women, especially
women of color.”
“You have to really navi-
gate these spaces that
weren’t built for you,”
Rawlinson said. “I want to
be able to pay it forward
and make things better and
easier for the next genera-
tion, the next woman, the
next person of color, creat-
ing the future the way I
believe it should be.
“If I can do that within
institutions like sports,
within women’s sports,
within the W in particular
and then in Chicago — you
can’t get any better than
that. “

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How teachers can defeat ChatGPT-using students
By David McGrath
An administrator at the college where I
was teaching English called to say a lawsuit
had been filed against the school by a student
with hearing loss, alleging I violated his
rights under the Americans with Disabilities
Act.
It was the late 1990s, and the news was a
surprise. Through three decades of teach-
ing, the only complaints, by and large, were
from students who received failing grades.
Whereas, the plaintiff in the lawsuit, a man in
his late 20s who paid close attention during
lessons and whom I could always count on
for a smile when I told a joke, dropped the
class before grades were issued.
I puzzled over the basis for the legal
action. Granted, my seminars included a lot
of oral discussion. But the student had been
assigned a sign language interpreter who
conveyed everything said, whether by me
while writing on the whiteboard or by other
students participating in discussions.
There were no quizzes or tests, and the
final grade was based primarily on five essays
that students completed during the term.
But two of the essays had to be writ-
ten in class and turned in by the end of the
80-minute period. Those two assignments
were what the student objected to, alleging
that I did not make accommodations, under
the ADA, for his individual learning style and
needs.
Before he withdrew, he told me that he
required more time for the in-class essay. I
conceded that he could finish at home, as
long as he started it here and showed me the
unfinished work.
This he wouldn’t do, sitting at his desk,
signing with his interpreter.
My suggestion that he at least get a couple
of sentences down, or a brief introductory
Lawmakers’ big pay raise
Illinois legislators celebrated the new
year with a generous pay raise. A nice gift
to themselves bought with your money.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker was happy to approve,
signing it into law later that week.
Now, Illinois’ part-time legislators
receive a base salary of $85,000, making
them the fourth-highest paid in the
nation behind only New York, California
and Pennsylvania. Are you getting your
money’s worth?
Illinois’ legislators took the lead from
members of the New York General Assem-
bly, who treated themselves to a raise and
are now the highest paid in the nation at
$142,000. The irony escapes them. New
York has the highest-paid politicians in the
country while losing the most people out
of any other state last year, with more than
180,000 New Yorkers fleeing. New York
lawmakers are getting paid more to repre-
sent fewer people.
Same with Illinois. We lost more than
100,000 residents last year, marking the
state’s ninth consecutive year of popula-
tion loss. And how did legislators react to
this?
Legislators are enjoying an 18% pay
raise while families continue to experience
economic hardship. Inflation rates are still
close to 7%, grocery prices are racing even
higher, up more than 10%, and Illinois gas
prices continue to stay above the national
average.
These politicians had the opportunity
to deliver permanent relief for struggling
families but instead put themselves first
while ignoring the suffering of those they
are supposed to represent.
— Katie Clancy,
Illinois Opportunity Project, Chicago
Advice overseas
for Pritzker
Illinois residents should be proud Gov.
J.B. Pritzker is a “Davos Person” who has
traveled to Switzerland and met with
members of the World Economic Forum.
While Pritzker’s contribution to the
forum included talking about our state’s
clean energy law and condemning the
chaos Donald Trump has visited upon the
Republican Party, one wonders if interna-
tional global leaders might have had some
advice for Pritzker along the line of cures
for slow economic growth or perhaps state
labor force out-migration.
They might even have insights on how to
bring new electric vehicle manufacturing
to Illinois rather than making a tough sell
that our state is an electric vehicle market-
place.
— William O’Neill, Chicago
Is it still a free country?
When I was a kid and a playmate would
disagree with me or opposed what I
wanted to do, I would retort, “It’s a free
country!” Today, I’m not so sure, based on
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YOUR VOICE
paragraph that I might read before he left,
was also declined.
When I related all of this to the attorney
deposing me over the telephone, he asked
why I did not allow the student to do the
work at home. I explained that 40% of a
student’s grade must derive from writing
that I know is authentic and not plagiarized.
I told him that I hang on to the in-class essays
to use as a “control,” for judging the owner-
ship of the other three.
Later, I learned the lawsuit was unsuccess-
ful. The “W” remained on the student’s tran-
script, no refund was issued and he retook
the class with another teacher.
More importantly, a simple teaching prac-
tice for ensuring academic integrity was
affirmed. And this is the same method that
can be just as effectively employed today to
detect and deter cheating in college with
ChatGPT. The language-processing artifi-
cial intelligence bot generates competent,
focused writing, which many fear will be
used by college students to produce papers
for their professors.
the shutting down of gatherings and events
by those who disagree with what others
have to say.
A recent example is the cancellation
of a speakers panel hosted by Awake
Illinois at the Des Plaines Theatre, as
described in the Tribune (“Event canceled
at theater after online threats,” Jan. 21).
The venue operator said he canceled the
event because he was subject to attacks
and threats online and by phone, included
people threatening to mail him bullets and
asking his neighbors to fill his garbage can
with dog feces.
According to its website, Awake Illinois
is a grassroots organization that empowers
citizens “to elevate their voices on topics
of education, equality, legislation, civic
involvement, and social welfare causes.”
I am not a member of Awake Illinois, but
I do support the organization’s right to
express its views without hateful messages
and threats of violence.
After all, it’s a free country. Or is it?
— Jim Vlazny, Glenview
Lazy way to get votes
I just wish instead of being critical of
opponents and basically calling their oppo-
nents names like juveniles do, the people
running for office would put ads on TV
Include your full name, address and phone number.
Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Saturday, January 28, 2023  5
Phil Jurik, Amanda Kaschube,
Faculty at the
University of Florida
discuss how to deal
with ChatGPT on
Jan. 13 in Gainesville.
In response to the
increased student use
of ChatGPT, a chatbot
that generates
articulate and
nuanced text, colleges
and universities are
restructuring some
courses and taking
preventive measures.
TODD ANDERSON/THE
NEW YORK TIMES
It’s a free program invented by research
company OpenAI that can swiftly provide
cogent-sounding sentences and paragraphs
in response to a question or a prompt.
For example, a student doing a paper on
climate change might feed ChatGPT four
prompts that produce four 500-word blocks
of text explaining climate change and elab-
orating on its causes, possible solutions and
the potential consequences for not taking
action. Voilà! A 2,000-word term paper.
It works a bit like Google. But instead of
responding to a search prompt, as Google
does, by offering and excerpting articles,
blogs and websites, ChatGPT generates a
direct answer to the prompt in nearly flaw-
less text and at reading and vocabulary levels
as basic or as advanced as you want. Rather
like a robotic term-paper mill.
ChatGPT uses artificial intelligence to
“write” an article by cribbing from an enor-
mous amount of data it has been fed from
millions of sources — without citing those
sources.
This last fact alone makes it a lousy cheat
MIKE LUCKOVICH/ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
that tell us why we should vote for them.
What positive plans do they have for the
community if elected? Rather than tell us
why we shouldn’t vote for their opponents.
It’s easy to criticize and find fault with
anyone, but that is the lazy way to try to
get votes. Instead, tell us why we should
vote for you and what you will do for your
constituents.
It’s the grown-up and mature way to
go. Let’s keep electioneering positive for a
change.
— Tom Splayt, Tinley Park
Wrong focus for aldermen
Here’s a problem with politics today: I
am getting emails from aldermanic candi-
dates about abortion.
Now think about that. Aldermen have no
power or control over abortion. They don’t
control the U.S. Supreme Court or pick
its judges. They don’t have a vote in our
state legislature, which has made abortion
legal in Illinois. And if the goal is to feder-
alize abortion, aldermen have no vote in
Congress. Yet they share their views on a
topic they have no power over.
Aldermen do have great power and
influence over things that actually affect
people’s daily lives like crime in the ward,
garbage pickup, schools, traffic, zoning and
DIRECTORS OF CONTENT
Todd Panagopoulos
sheet, since college professors routinely
require documentation of sources used in
essays and term papers. And for informal
or personal essays requiring no research,
an in-class written essay or timed essay test
would thwart a cheater.
Of what practical use, then, is ChatGPT?
It may prove to be an effective time-saver
in situations in which plagiarism is accept-
able or forgiven. For example, a speech
writer might use ChatGPT to produce
a 15-minute stump speech for a politi-
cian, which can then be easily adapted for
each town they visit. A second draft can be
pumped up by directing ChatGPT to add
topical humor or an inspiring anecdote.
A teacher in a hurry can use ChatGPT
to craft a class lecture or discussion, with a
prompt such as: What were the four major
causes of the Civil War?
Anyone in need of a toast, instructions for
CPR, a letter of apology or a humorous set of
wedding vows might also benefit.
I would use it to generate a term paper
right before my students’ eyes and then
show them every sentence I would flag with
my red pen, for its obvious undocumented
appropriation from a published source.
If you’re a student, beware: 9 out of 10 who
cheat with ChatGPT would likely be caught,
earning an F for their trouble or outright
expulsion. (See the article “Cheating in
class at new level” published in the Jan. 19
Tribune.)
And the 10th student, smart enough to
evade detection, is probably smart enough
that they don’t need ChatGPT in the first
place.
David McGrath is an emeritus English
professor at the College of DuPage and
author of “South Siders.” He can be reached
at mcgrathd@dupage.edu.
a whole host of things.
Those are the things aldermen should be
focusing on, not abortion.
— William Choslovsky, Chicago
3 who pushed war in Iraq
The threat to democracy in America
comes from the power of the George W.
Bush, Dick Cheney and Joe Biden troika
that pushed the U.S. into the senseless Iraq
War over nonexistent weapons of mass
destruction.
Bush and Cheney identified the objec-
tive, and Biden as chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee pushed
authorization through the Senate. Cheney,
a Republican, publicly supported Biden, a
Democrat, for president.
The Iraq War cost the lives reportedly of
hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis
and thousands of Americans, and it cost
more than $1 trillion. Yes, other countries
were involved, but the U.S. pushed the war
internationally including in the United
Nations, using the honorable standing of
Secretary of State Colin Powell.
The deceit of this triumvirate has gone
unpunished. The fawning over Liz Cheney,
Dick Cheney’s daughter, and the focus on
the Jan. 6 committee are a feint.
— Jim Halas, Norridge
6  Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Saturday, January 28, 2023
DR. TRACY KOOGLER 1966-2023
Pediatrician worked with burn
victims and cancer patients
By Bob Goldsborough
For Chicago Tribune
Dr. Tracy K. Koogler was
a pediatrician at the Univer-
sity of Chicago Medical
Center’s Comer Children’s
Hospital who worked with
children suffering from
severe burns, while also
treating cancer patients and
maintaining an active inter-
est in medical ethics.
“Tracy was an exceptional
physician who was an inno-
vator in the care of children
with severe burn injuries,”
said John Cunningham,
chair of the department of
pediatrics at the U. of C.
Koogler, 56, died of
complications from a glio-
blastoma — a particularly
aggressive form of brain
cancer — on Dec. 28 at her
mother’s home in Virginia,
said her mother, Linda
Koogler. She had been a
South Loop resident.
Born in Richmond,
Virginia, Koogler received
a bachelor’s degree in
biomedical ethics — a major
that she had designed
herself, her mother said —
from Davidson College in
North Carolina, where she
also was an athletic trainer
for the university’s sports
department.
She got her medical
degree from the University
of Virginia School of Medi-
cine in 1992 and completed
a pediatric residency at
Cincinnati Children’s
Hospital Medical Center
and a pediatric critical care
fellowship at the Children’s
Hospital of Philadelphia.
In 1998, Koogler moved
to Chicago to take a job
at the U. of C. as a clini-
cian and professor. While
there, Koogler focused on
improving the care of pedi-
atric patients suffering from
severe burns.
Koogler was assistant
director of the U. of C.’s
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Dr. Tracy Koogler was a
pediatrician at the University
of Chicago Medical Center’s
Comer Children’s Hospital
who worked with children
suffering from severe burns,
while also treating cancer
patients and maintaining
an active interest in medical
ethics. UNIVERSITY OF
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MacLean Center for Clin-
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co-director of the medi-
cal center’s Clinical Ethics
Consultation Service. Since
2007, Koogler had been a
part of the U. of C.’s Institu-
tional Review Board (IRB),
which reviews protocols
to make sure that patients
participating in research
studies are informed and
protected. She became vice
chair of that board in 2011.
“Tracy was dependable,
smart and collegial,” said Dr.
Lainie Ross, who until Janu-
ary was the U. of C.’s Carolyn
and Matthew Bucksbaum
Professor of Clinical Ethics.
“She also loved her work on
the IRB, and she was incred-
ibly good at that.”
Dr. K. Sarah Hoehn, a
pediatric intensive care unit
physician at the U. of C., said
Koogler’s work ethic “was
second to none.”
“She was especially
In 1922 the Decatur Staleys
professional football fran-
chise was renamed the
Chicago Bears.
In 1936 actor Alan Alda was
born in New York.
In 1939 Irish poet-dramatist
William Butler Yeats died in
Menton, France.
In 1945, during World War II,
Allied supplies began reach-
ing China over the newly
reopened Burma Road.
In 1956 Elvis Presley made
his first national TV appear-
ance on “Stage Show,” a CBS
program hosted by Tommy
and Jimmy Dorsey.
In 1973 a cease-fire officially
went into effect in the Viet-
nam War.
In 1978 fireswept through
the historic downtown
Coates House hotel in
Kansas City, Missouri, kill-
ing 20 people.
In 1980 six U.S. diplomats
who had avoided being taken
hostage at their embassy in
Tehran were flown out of
Iran with the help of Cana-
dian diplomats.
In 1982 Italian anti-terrorism
forces rescued U.S. Brig. Gen.
James L. Dozier, 42 days
after he had been kidnapped
by the Red Brigades.
In 1986 the space shuttle
Challenger exploded 73
seconds after blastoff from
Cape Canaveral, killing
all seven crew members,
including schoolteacher
Christa McAuliffe.
In 1988 a 13-day standoff
in Marion, Utah, between
police and a polygamist clan
ended in gunfire that killed
a state corrections officer,
Fred House, and seriously
wounded the group’s leader,
Addam Swapp, who ended
up serving more than 25
years behind bars.
In 1991 football legend
Harold “Red” Grange, who
played for the University of
Illinois and Chicago Bears
in the 1920s and ’30s, died in
Lake Wales, Fla.; he was 87.
In 1993 the Israeli Supreme
Court unanimously upheld
the deportations of 400
Palestinians from the occu-
skilled at helping families
and health care teams navi-
gate very difficult circum-
stances,” Hoehn said. “And
she had compassion and
empathy for patients in
difficult situations. Her
lived experience as a cancer
patient gave her even more
empathy for her patients.”
In 2012, Koogler and Ross
co-authored an academic
paper that took issue
with labeling congenital
syndromes as lethal anom-
alies, when many such
syndromes no longer are
necessarily lethal. The paper
argued that use of such
language implied a medical
determination on what actu-
ally is more of a judgment
about a child’s quality of life.
They wrote that such
inaccurate language could
have a negative impact on
how clinicians chose to treat
such children.
Koogler was an advocate
of organ donation, and she
was on the advisory board
of the nonprofit Gift of
Hope Organ & Tissue Donor
Network, which coordinates
organ and tissue donations
in Illinois and northwest
Indiana.
Koogler had a rare hered-
itary cancer predisposi-
tion called Li-Fraumeni
syndrome, her mother said.
She was diagnosed with
lung cancer in 2016 and with
a glioblastoma in 2019, her
mother said. Through those
struggles, she never stepped
back from her work, her
mother said.
The U. of C. honored
Koogler in 2020 with its
Distinguished Clinician
Award.
Koogler is also survived
by a brother, William Todd;
and a special friend, Mark
Schimmelpfennig.
Services were held.
Goldsborough is
a freelance reporter.
pied territories to Lebanon.
In 1994, in Los Angeles,
Superior Court Judge Stan-
ley Weisberg declared a
mistrial in the case of Lyle
Menendez, just over two
weeks after a mistrial was
declared in the case of
Lyle’s brother, Erik; both
juries had deadlocked over
whether the brothers were
guilty of murder in the
shooting deaths of their
wealthy parents. (Lyle and
Erik Menendez were later
retried, convicted of murder
and sentenced to life in
prison without parole.)
In 1996 the Dallas Cowboys
captured their third Super
Bowl victory in four years,
beating the Pittsburgh Steel-
ers 27-17. Also in 1996 France
set off a sixth underground
nuclear blast in the South
Pacific, the last in a series of
atomic tests that generated
protests worldwide.
In 1999 Ford Motor Co.
announced it was buying the
Volvo car division in a $6.45
billion deal. (Ford ended
up selling the Volvo unit in
2010 to China’s Zhejiang
Geely Holding Group for
$1.8 billion.) Also in 1999
Missouri Gov. Mel Carna-
han honored a personal
request for mercy from Pope
John Paul II, sparing triple
murderer Darrell Mease
from being executed.
In 2001 the Baltimore
Ravens’ brazen defense
backed up its bragging, beat-
ing the New York Giants 34-7
in the Super Bowl.
In 2002 Hamid Karzai
became the first Afghan
leader to visit Washington in
39 years; President George
W. Bush promised a “lasting
partnership” with Afghan-
istan. Also in 2002 “Pippi
Longstocking ” creator
Astrid Lindgren died in
Stockholm; she was 84.
In 2003 President George W.
Bush, girding the nation for
war, said in his State of the
Union address that Saddam
Hussein had shown “utter
contempt” for the world
community and had to be
held to account. Also in 2003
John Philp Thompson, who
expanded his family’s busi-
ness into the nationwide
7-Eleven chain, died; he was
77.
Death Notices
Dwyer, Frances
Frances Dwyer of Mountain Home, Arkansas,
passed away January 23,
2023 at the age of 78. She
was born December 14,
1944, in Chicago, Illinois, the
daughter of George and Mary
Toomey. She married her
lifelong sweetheart, Dennis
Dwyer on March 9, 1963, in
Chicago. Fran was the proud
mother of Erin (Scott) Beebe,
Dennis (Katie), and Emmett. Fran was a cherished
and beaming grandmother to Marty, Kevin, Connie,
Emmett and Sarah; devoted sister, to Mary Prince,
Bunny Hamburg, Florence Ackerman, Janet (Jim)
Frain, George (Karla) Toomey, and BJ (Marian)
Toomey and preceded in death by her parents, hus-
band, and one sister, Antoinette Barr.
Fran and Den, lifelong Southsiders, moved to their
dream home in Mountain Home Arkansas in 1997.
After Fran’s professional career as a people person
with IRS Taxpayer Services ended, her devotion to
helping others inspired her to open a tax prepara-
tion business for many in Mountain Home. For many
years, both Fran and Den were active members of the
Oakland/Promise Land Volunteer Fire Department;
Fran was the tanker driver. After Den’s passing in
July of 2014, she became an honorary member of
the Twin Lakes Retired Police Association. Her devo-
tion to the community extended to being an active
member of St. Peter the Fisherman Catholic Church.
Fran spent a lifetime baking and sewing for both
family and friends. If you were lucky enough to
watch a Chicago Sport with her, whether in Chicago
(with her White Sox season tickets) or at home in the
living room, it was like you were there in the middle
of the action. Her sport enthusiasm extended to the
other Chicago teams (Bears and the Bulls).
Visitation will be Sunday, January 29, 2023, from 1:00
pm until 7:00 pm, at Kirby & Family Funeral Home
with a Vigil Service at 6:00 pm. A Funeral Mass for
Frances will be Monday, January 30, 2023, 10:00 am,
at St. Peter the Fisherman Catholic Church, with
Father Norbert Rappold, as Celebrant. Entombment
will be in the Kirby’s Tucker Memorial Mausoleum,
Mountain Home, Arkansas. The funeral mass will be
live streamed at www.spccmtnhome.org, click on
“Mass Videos” and then “Live”.
Arrangements are by Kirby and Family Funeral and
Cremation Services - Mountain Home, Arkansas.
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Hill, Ruth Ahlquist
Ruth Ahlquist Hill, age 100, of Seattle, Washington
died peacefully surrounded
by family December 11th,
2022. She was born April 11,
1922, to Swedish immigrants
Lilly and Elis Ahlquist. Ruth
and her sister, Betty were
raised in Chicago, Illinois,
and Ruth raised her four
children in Winnetka, Illinois.
A consummate homemaker
and lover of children and animals, Ruth was hap-
piest when surrounded by family. She moved to
Seattle, Washington at age 85 to be close to her
daughters and grandchildren. She was predeceased
by her son, Jesse and survived by daughters Holly
and Libby of Seattle, son Jim of The Villages, Florida,
five grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. A
memorial service will take place in August at the
Winnetka Congregational Church. In lieu of flow-
ers please send donations to the Juvenile Diabetes
Association.
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Klutznick, Linda
Linda Klutznick nee Edelman, devoted wife, mother,
grandmother, aunt, and friend passed
away peacefully at the age of 86 on
Friday, January 27, 2023. Linda lived
her long life to the fullest, finding hap-
piness in spending time with her family
and friends, serving the community as a volunteer
docent at Chicago History Museum, traveling, and
any form of water aerobics. Her wit, energy, dedica-
tion, and love will be dearly missed. She was prede-
ceased by her husband of 35 years, Arthur Klutznick.
She is survived by her loving children, Marianne
and Michael Brailov, Michael and Kelly Klutznick,
Rebecca and Kevin Crain, and Matthew Klutznick.
The pride and joy of her life, her grandchildren,
Rachel Brailov, Spencer Brailov, Aaron Brailov, Zoe
and Brandon Fields and Emma Crain. And, her
brother and family, Richard and Ruth Edelman. In lieu
of flowers memorials may be made to the Chicago
History Museum, chicagohistory.org or Shirley Ryan
Ability Lab, sralab.org. Graveside service, Sunday 10
AM at Shalom Memorial Park, 1700 W. Rand Road,
Arlington Heights. For shiva information or to leave
condolences: Shalom Memorial Funeral Home, www.
shalom2.com or (847) 255-3520.
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Lyons, Kenneth Robert ‘Ken’
Kenneth Robert Lyons, age 65, of Skokie, IL, peace-
fully passed away in West Valley City, Utah, at home
with his family, now home to Jesus, on January 12,
2023. He was born on April 28, 1957 in Skokie, IL,
to Rose M., nee Cattelino and Robert J. Lyons who
have since preceded him in death along with his
fond brother, Thomas L. He is survived by his lov-
ing daughter Melissa (Chris) Godfrey; precious
granddaughters Sicily and Tessa; nephew Richard
(Victoria) Lyons; darling great-niece Aria; dear great-
nephew Tommy; nephew Robert E. He will be greatly
missed by all those who knew him. A Celebration of
Life service will be held in Skokie, IL, on April 28,
2023. Details to follow.
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Mills, Vicki K.
Victoria K. Mills of Lake Forest, Illinois, passed
peacefully in her home on
January 23, 2023. In death as
in life, Vicki was dressed to
the nines for her swansong.
She orchestrated her exodus
from her opulent-meets-
over-the-top manse to the
Couture Closet in the sky
with the same grace, kind-
ness, and Southern charm
that she bestowed upon all who knew her.
Vicki’s happiness was infectious. Her friends
say she wouldn’t let them be sad or speak badly
of themselves or anyone else. Anytime they were
down they would say “Get on the Vicki Train!” Vicki
made every day of the week an off-the-rails fabu-
lous ride for friends, family, and anyone she picked
up along the way. Dinner and lunch plans were
in rollicking rotation. Life with Vicki was magical,
and every moment was celebrated with pomp and
circumstance. Her Fourth of July and New Year’s Eve
parties were the stuff of legend.
Vicki’s story began in Roanoke, Virginia with her
parents Adolph and Ruth Krisch. She was a wild
child with a taste for adventure – often sneaking
her parent’s car out for joy rides and corrupting her
younger cousin Freddie by having him put cocktails
in his mailbox before she hit the dances at Virginia
Military Institute. She was summarily sent to board-
ing school after these stunts, but never finished
high school or attended college. Vicki was too busy
schooling the world around her in how to live!
Cousins from Roanoke were an important part
of her life. Vicki had reunions with them for thirty-
some years at her Lake Forest home. She was the
glue-on glitter that held the family together.
Vicki’s story continued to bloom when she met
and married Jim Mills, the love of her life, in 1973.
Jim adored Vicki and told her each day she was
beautiful and hid a gift for her each day calling him-
self the “Good Fairy.”
Vicki had her own gift of collecting objet d’art
from the sublime to the self-described ridiculous.
From kitsch to couture, diamonds to dirt-cheap
baubles, furniture, accessories, art, and accoutre-
ment spanning the bridge from the iconic to the ab-
surd – Vicki’s procurements were not for the timid.
She never met a rhinestone she didn’t like, and
glitter was part of her DNA. For Vicki dressing was
fun and she created her own signature suits with
lace, crystals, embroidery and feathers.
Her extensive collection of Judith Leiber bejew-
eled bags led to a long friendship with Judith and
her husband Gus. Vicki’s closet was even the inspi-
ration for a fashion column called “Walk-In Closet”
that ran in a regional magazine for ten years.
Despite (or perhaps because of) these eccen-
tricities, Vicki devoted herself to Jim and helped him
grow his business, Medline Industries, into a suc-
cessful, nationally known medical supply company.
Vicki was always the belle of the ball, but never
failed to make her guests, employees, and peers
feel special and appreciated with gifts, tokens of
appreciation, and an inherent and genuine warmth.
Vicki loved to give. It filled her heart to give away
money – even to total strangers. She put her signa-
ture Vicki Heart on every gift.
Over the decades, Vicki and Jim entertained over
8,000 customers in their historic home – most of
them spending the night in the numerous themed
bedrooms. She made customers, friends, and every-
one she met feel special and looked after.
Vicki was part of an exceptional group of friends
that dubbed themselves “The Napkin Club” that
formed when Jim and Vicki moved to Lake Forest in
1978. They gathered formally and loosely over the
years and Vicki was chief instigator, and keeper of
those relationships – and the bar was always open.
Every night, Jimmy would tell Vicki to “Say good-
night, Vicki” and she would say “Goodnight, Vicki”
signaling that it was time to go.
So, Goodnight, Vicki – planet earth will be boring
as hell without you, but thanks for the ride of our
lives!
Vicki is survived by her children Margueritte
Jackson, Deidre Grubb, Charlie Mills, Donnie Mills,
and Peggy Baker (John) and her grandchildren
Joseph Jackson, Miriam Jackson, Davis Grubb,
Rosalie Grubb, Adam Mills, Tessa Mills, Julia Mills,
Blair Baker, Hayden Baker, and Wilson Baker.
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Rogers, Larry Robert
Larry Rogers, Sr., father, Trial Lawyer, and founding
partner of Power Rogers, LLP
dies at 75 y/o. Larry valued
his family most. He was a
wonderful father, grandfather
and human being. As the pa-
triarch of the Rogers’ family,
he was a strong advocate for
higher education. He was a
trailblazer in the legal com-
munity. He leaves his life
partner, Pamela Anderson; children, Larry (daughter-
in-love, Ralonda) Ann Marie, and Frederic; 4 siblings,
Gwendolyn, Riley, Brenda, and Anthony (Vanessa);
8 grandchildren, Trevor, Dominque, Jalen, Camryn,
Erin, Sydney, Jordan and Sterling, and 3 great grand-
children, Naomi, Aiden and Jayce and a host of
nieces, nephews, extended family and friends.
Services: 1/28/2023 Fellowship Baptist Church,
4543 S. Princeton Ave., Chicago, IL wake: 1:00-1:45
pm; funeral: 2:00-4:00pm
Burial: 1/30/2023 Leak & Sons Funeral Homes, 7838
S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL departure 11:30 am to
Oak Woods Cemetery, 1035 E. 67th Street, Chicago
IL
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Zdunek, Andrew S.
On December 30, 2022, Andrew S. Zdunek, passed
away at the Marshfield
Medical Center Hospital in
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. He
was 83.
He began his employment
history at a very young age as
a golf caddy in order to earn
the tuition for Weber High
School, a prestigious Catholic
Academy of that era. His
caddying once included assisting golf legend, Ben
Hogan, and that gave Andy a great appreciation for
a game he actively played the rest of his life. He
graduated from Weber in 1957 and took a job with
the Post Office in Edgebrook, Illinois. He also en-
listed in the Air Force Reserves, serving two years
as a medic stateside. Later, he continued his educa-
tion at Loyola University Chicago.
In his late 20s, Andy acquired a position at the
LaSalle Bank. It was there he met Joan Abruscato,
his future wife. They were married September 2,
1967. Andy then moved to the Evanston National
Bank which later merged with Mid-City Bank. By
the 1980s, he was a Vice President. He ended his
career at age 70 with MB Financial. Throughout his
career, he specialized in trust funds and all aspects
pertaining to their management.
In addition to his wife, Andy was preceded in
death by his sister, Joan (James) Leon.
He is survived by by his sister Claudia (Gerald)
Cygan, and a number of neices and nephews.
A celebration of Andy’s life is currently being
planned, tentatively in March. If you have an inter-
est in attending, please contact the family at (920)
887-2440.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
S.S. Kresge, store 480 63rd and Halstead,
Chicago 1970’s What wonderful memories
of my time in Chicago so many years ago at
Kresge store number 480. I still love to go
back and remember what I can, and I would
so love to hear from any of the other people
that worked with me. I remember some
names: Mary the personnel lady, Josephine
the office manager, Jean at checkout, young
Geneva in the office, Bea the cook, Barbara
in the basement Hardware department,
Assistant Barksdale, and was the fountain
manager Lillian?. This old mind can see
so many faces from my time there but not
enough names. About 100 people all told
worked with me during those memorable
two years. I would be so pleased if anyone
who reads this can let me know what
TO: Sidney Richardson 5527 W. Cortez St. Chi-
cago, IL 60651 Sidney Richardson 3417 Quin-
lan Blvd. Canal Winchester, OH 43110 Sidney
Richardson 3299 Everson Rd. E Columbus, OH
43232 Gladys Richardson 5527 W. Cortez St.
Chicago, IL 60651 Gladys Richardson 3417 Quin-
lan Blvd. Canal Winchester, OH 43110 Gladys
Richardson 3299 Everson Rd. E Columbus, OH
43232 Unknown Occupants 5527 W. Cortez St.
Chicago, IL 60651 Unknown Occupants 5525 W.
Cortez St. Chicago, IL 60651 Unknown heirs and
legatees of Sidney & Gladys Richardson 3417
Quinlan Blvd. Canal Winchester, OH 43110 Un-
known heirs and legatees of Sidney & Gladys
Richardson 3299 Everson Rd. E Columbus, OH
43232 Tavia Jordan 2101 S. Michigan Ave. Apt.
1901 Chicago, IL 60616 Tavia Jordan 10350 Rid-
geland Ave. Apt. 206 Chicago Ridge, IL 60415
Sylvia Perry 3336 Ridge Rd. Apt. 2 Lansing, IL
60438 Sylvia Perry 3701 173rd Ct. Apt. 11B Lan-
sing, IL 60438 Sylvia Perry 1203 E Joe Orr Rd.
Chicago Heights, IL 60411 Sylvia Richardson 9
Patrick Ct. Lynwood, IL 60411 Sylvia Richardson
18344 Locust St. Lansing, IL 60438 City of Chi-
cago c/o City Clerk 121 N. LaSalle Street Room
107 Chicago, IL 60602 City of Chicago c/o Cor-
porate Counsel 121 N. LaSalle Street Room 600
Chicago, IL 60602 Karen A. Yarbrough County
Clerk of Cook County, Illinois Unknown Occu-
pants; spouses, heirs at law, devisees, if any,
of the above mentioned persons, described as
Unknown Owners; claimants, decree creditors,
judgment creditors, if any, of the above, de-
scribed as Unknown Owners; Unknown Own-
ers or parties interested in said land or lots.
NOTICE TO OWNERS AND OCCUPANTS IN THE
CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
TAX DEED NO. 2022COTD001586 FILED: De-
cember 8, 2022 TAKE NOTICE County of Cook
Date Premises Sold February 25, 2022 Certifi-
cate No. 21S-0007017 Sold for General Taxes of
(year) 2012-2018 Sold for Special Assessment of
(Municipality) and special assessment number
Not Applicable Warrant No. None Installment
No. None THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR
DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at 5527 W
CORTEZ ST., CHICAGO, IL 60651 Legal Descrip-
tion or Property Index No. 16-04-310-022-0000,
Volume 544 This notice is to advise you that the
above property has been sold for delinquent
taxes and that the period of redemption from
the sale will expire on June 7, 2023. The amount
to redeem is subject to increase at 6 month in-
tervals from the date of sale and may be further
increased if the purchaser at the tax sale or his
or her assignee pays any subsequently accru-
ing taxes or special assessments to redeem
the property from subsequent forfeitures or
tax sales. Check with the county clerk as to the
exact amount you owe before redeeming. This
notice is also to advise you that a petition has
been filed for a tax deed which will transfer title
and the right to possession of this property if re-
demption is not made on or before June 7, 2023.
This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court
TO: Crystal Lynn Fielder 7314-16 S. Halsted St.
Chicago, IL 60621 Crystal Lynn Fielder 3235
Mead Dr. Stockton, CA 95219 Crystal Lynn
Fielder 17049 Oakwood Ave. Lansing, IL 60438
Crystal Lynn Fielder 7310 S. Halsted St. Chicago,
IL 60621 Crystal Lynn Fielder 7320 S. Halsted St.
Chicago, IL 60621 Crystal Lynn Fielder 2058 W.
83rd St. Chicago, IL 60620 Crystal Lynn Fielder
2800 Braden Ave. Apt 214 Modesto, CA 95356
Unknown Occupants 7314-16 S. Halsted St. Chi-
cago, IL 60621 Leonard Nelson Sr. 3535 El Portal
Dr. Apt H301 El Sobrante, CA 94803 Leonard
Nelson Sr. 21565 Pumice Ln Wildomar, CA 92595
Leonard Nelson Sr. 8009 S. Richmond St. Chica-
go, IL 60652 Olivia Nelson 8009 S. Richmond St.
Chicago, IL 60652 Olivia Nelson 10423 S 81st
Ave Palos Hills, IL 60465 Unknown Occupants
7320 S. Halsted St. Chicago, IL 60621 Gwendo-
lyn F. Davis 2058 W. 83rd St. Chicago, IL 60620
Goldman and Grant #36689 205 W. Randolph
St. - Ste. 1100 Chicago, IL 60606 City of Chica-
go c/o City Clerk 121 N. LaSalle Street - Room
107 Chicago, IL 60602 City of Chicago c/o Cor-
porate Counsel 121 N. LaSalle Street - Room
600 Chicago, IL 60602 United States of America
c/o Internal Revenue Service 230 S. Dearborn
St. Chicago, IL 60604 United States of America
c/o Internal Revenue Service 1111 Constitution
N.W. Washington, DC 20224 United States of
America c/o Attorney General 219 S. Dearborn
Chicago, IL 60603 United States of America
c/o Attorney General 10th & Constitution N.W.
Washington, DC 20530 State of Illinois Depart-
ment of Revenue P.O. Box 19035 Springfield, IL
62794-9035 State of Illinois Department of Rev-
enue 100 W. Randolph St. - 12th Floor Chicago, IL
60601 State of Illinois c/o Attorney General 100
W. Randolph St. – 7th Floor Chicago, IL 60601
Associates Finance, Inc. c/o CT Corporation
System 208 S. LaSalle St., Suite 814 Chicago,
IL 60604 Associates Finance, Inc. c/o T R Slone
250 Carpenter Frwy Irving, TX 75062 Karen A.
Yarbrough County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois
Unknown Occupants; spouses, heirs at law, de-
visees, if any, of the above mentioned persons,
described as Unknown Owners; claimants,
decree creditors, judgment creditors, if any, of
the above, described as Unknown Owners; Un-
known Owners or parties interested in said land
or lots. NOTICE TO OWNERS AND OCCUPANTS IN
THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
TAX DEED NO. 2022COTD001602 FILED: Decem-
ber 13, 2022 TAKE NOTICE County of Cook Date
Premises Sold February 24, 2022 Certificate No.
21S-0006205 and 21s-0006206 Sold for General
Taxes of (year) 2006-2018 Sold for Special As-
sessment of (Municipality) and special assess-
ment number Not Applicable Warrant No. None
Installment No. None THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN
SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property locat-
ed at 7314-16 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60621
Legal Description or Property Index No. 20-29-
223-028-0000 and 20-29-223-029-0000, Volume
435 This notice is to advise you that the above
property has been sold for delinquent taxes and
TO: Joseph Dienes Chicago Title Land Trust Com-
pany as successor trustee to Independent Trust
Corporation, as Trustee under trust agreement
dated 3/16/2987 and known as Trust No. 562,
RA: CT Corporation System Chicago Title Land
Trust Company as successor trustee to Inde-
pendent Trust Corporation, as Trustee under
trust agreement dated 3/16/2987 and known as
Trust No. 562 Occupant, 14433 California Ave.,
Posen, IL 60469 Property Manager / Rent Col-
lector, 14433-14435 S. California Ave., Posen, IL
60469 Unknown Owners, Occupants and Parties
Interested Generally in the Real Estate, Karen
A. Yarbrough, Cook County Clerk TAX DEED NO.
2023COTD000043 FILED January 17, 2023 TAKE
NOTICE County of Cook Date Premises Sold Feb-
ruary 15, 2022 Certificate No. 21S-0000944 Sold
for General Taxes of (year) 2008-2018 Sold for
Special Assessment of (Municipality) and spe-
cial assessment number…N/A Warrant No. N/A
Inst. No. N/A THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD
FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at the
south half of the building commonly known as
14433 South California (also known as 14435
South California) in Posen, Illinois. Legal De-
scription or Property Index No. 28-12-208-056-
0000 This notice is to advise you that the above
property has been sold for delinquent taxes and
that the period of redemption from the sale will
expire on June 16, 2023. The amount to redeem
is subject to increase at 6 month intervals from
the date of sale and may be further increased
if the purchaser at the tax sale or his or her
assignee pays any subsequently accruing taxes
or special assessments to redeem the property
from subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check
with the county clerk as to the exact amount
you owe before redeeming. This notice is also
to advise you that a petition has been filed for a
tax deed which will transfer title and the right to
possession of this property if redemption is not
made on or before June 16, 2023. This matter is
set for hearing in the Circuit Court of this county
in Chicago, Illinois on June 28, 2023 at 9:30 a.m.
in Room 1704, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West
Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602 You
may be present at this hearing but your right to
redeem will already have expired at that time.
YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO
PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption can
be made at any time on or before June 16, 2023
by applying to the County Clerk of Cook, County,
Illinois at the Office of the County Clerk in Chi-
cago, Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk ADDRESS: 118 North Clark Street,
Room 434, Chicago, Illinois 60602 TELEPHONE:
(312) 603-5645. Village of Posen Purchaser or
Assignee. Dated January 19, 2023. Reiter Law
Offices, Ltd. 208 W. Washington Street, Suite
2113 Chicago, Illinois 60606
1/26, 1/27, 1/28/20237367786
TO: MG Plus Construction Luis M. Gonzalez
and Oscar M. Gonzalez, as co-trustees of the
Zimny Real Estate Trust, under original trust
agreement dated 3/29/2013 Miguel Gonzalez,
president of MG-Plus Construction, Inc. MG-Plus
Construction, Inc., c/o Illinois Secretary of State
MG-Plus Construction, Inc., RA: Miguel Gonzalez
Property Manager / Rent Collector, 2342-2344
147th St., Posen, IL 60469 Unknown Owners,
Occupants and Parties Interested Generally in
the Real Estate, Karen A. Yarbrough, Cook Coun-
ty Clerk TAX DEED NO. 2023COTD000040 FILED
January 17, 2023 TAKE NOTICE County of Cook
Date Premises Sold February 17, 2022 Certifi-
cate No. 21S-0002020 Sold for General Taxes of
(year) 2011-2018 Sold for Special Assessment
of (Municipality) and special assessment num-
ber…N/A Warrant No. N/A Inst. No. N/A THIS
PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT
TAXES Property located at a vacant triangular
parcel located east and adjacent to the parcel
commonly known as 2407 Walter Zimny Drive,
Posen, Illinois. Legal Description or Property
Index No. 29-07-111-004-0000 This notice is to
advise you that the above property has been
sold for delinquent taxes and that the period
of redemption from the sale will expire on June
16, 2023. The amount to redeem is subject to
increase at 6 month intervals from the date of
sale and may be further increased if the pur-
chaser at the tax sale or his or her assignee
pays any subsequently accruing taxes or special
assessments to redeem the property from sub-
sequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check with the
county clerk as to the exact amount you owe
before redeeming. This notice is also to advise
you that a petition has been filed for a tax deed
which will transfer title and the right to posses-
sion of this property if redemption is not made
on or before June 16, 2023. This matter is set
for hearing in the Circuit Court of this county in
Chicago, Illinois on June 28, 2023 at 9:30 a.m.
in Room 1704, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West
Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602 You
may be present at this hearing but your right to
redeem will already have expired at that time.
YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO
PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption can
be made at any time on or before June 16, 2023
by applying to the County Clerk of Cook, County,
Illinois at the Office of the County Clerk in Chi-
cago, Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk ADDRESS: 118 North Clark Street,
Room 434, Chicago, Illinois 60602 TELEPHONE:
(312) 603-5645. Village of Posen Purchaser or
Assignee. Dated January 19, 2023. Reiter Law
Offices, Ltd. 208 W. Washington Street, Suite
2113 Chicago, Illinois 60606
1/26, 1/27, 1/28/20237367774

memory they have of that time! It would
definitely make my day! Please if this stirs
any memory of yours I would love to hear
from you!
Tony Seitz, 4631 Georgina Drive, Billings,
of Cook County, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W.
Washington St., Room 1704, in Chicago, Illinois
60602 on July 5, 2023 at 9:30 AM. You may be
present at this hearing but your right to redeem
that the period of redemption from the sale will
expire on June 7, 2023. The amount to redeem
is subject to increase at 6 month intervals from
the date of sale and may be further increased
YOUR
TO: S & FA LLC SCA Illinois LLC, 14727-14752
Kedzie Series SCA Illinois LLC, 14727-14752
Kedzie Series, RA : CT Corporation System SCA
Illinois LLC, 14727-14752 Kedzie Series Select

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Montana 59106. Email is seitzt44@gmail. will already have expired at that time. YOU ARE if the purchaser at the tax sale or his or her Commercial Assets, LLC Harrison Homes, Inc.,
com. (406) 850-5620 URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT assignee pays any subsequently accruing taxes c/o Illinois Secretary of State Select Commer-
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any time on or before June 7, 2023 by applying
to the County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois at
ASSUMED the office of the County Clerk in Chicago, Illi-
nois. For further information contact the County
NAMES Clerk ADDRESS: 118 North Clark Street, Room
434, Chicago, Illinois 60602 TELEPHONE: (312)
from subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check
with the county clerk as to the exact amount
you owe before redeeming. This notice is also
to advise you that a petition has been filed for
a tax deed which will transfer title and the right
to possession of this property if redemption
HIRE
Kedzie Series Property Manager, 14727-14735
Kedzie Ave., Posen, IL 60469 Eight 23 Barber-
shop Occupant, 14735 S. Kedzie Ave., Posen, IL
60469 Occupant, 14733 S. Kedzie Ave., Posen, IL
60469 Occupant, 14731 S. Kedzie Ave., Posen, IL

Notice is hereby given, Pursuant to “An
Act in relation To the use of an Assumed
Business Name in the conduct or transaction
of Business in The State” as amended, that
a Certification was filed by the Undersigned
with the County Clerk of Cook County File
No. Y23010063 on the
Date: January 17, 2023
Under the Assumed Name of: CASA FAVELA
with the business located at:
4928 W. ROSCOE ST.
CHICAGO, IL, 60641
The true name and residence Address of
the owner is: NOE FAVELA
4928 W. ROSCOE ST.
CHICAGO, IL, 60641
1/21, 1/28, & 2/4/23 7364410
Notice is hereby given, Pursuant to “An
Act in relation To the use of an Assumed
Business Name in the conduct or transaction
of Business in The State” as amended, that
a Certification was filed by the Undersigned
with the County Clerk of Cook County File
No. Y23010053 on the
Date: 1/12/2023
Under the Assumed Name of: Noelia Towers
Studio
with the business located at:
1851 w Iowa St 3E
Chicago, IL, 60622-8691
The true name and residence Address of
the owner is: Noelia Torres
1851 w Iowa st, Apt 3E
Chicago, IL, 60622-8691
1/14, 1/21, 1/28/2023 7361930
Notice is hereby given, Pursuant to “An
Act in relation To the use of an Assumed
Business Name in the conduct or transaction
of Business in The State” as amended, that
a Certification was filed by the Undersigned
with the County Clerk of Cook County File
No. Y23010064 on the
Date: January 17, 2023
Under the Assumed Name of: CC Fades
with the business located at:
4611 Davis St Apt 3B
Skokie, IL, 60076
The true name and residence Address of
the owner is: Stephen McKinney
4611 Davis St Apt 3B
Skokie , IL, 60076
1/21, 1/28, 2/4/2023 7365842
Notice is hereby given, Pursuant to “An
Act in relation To the use of an Assumed
Business Name in the conduct or transaction
of Business in The State” as amended, that
a Certification was filed by the Undersigned
with the County Clerk of Cook County File
No. Y23010100 on the
Date: January 25, 2023
Under the Assumed Name of: Cher Outreach
with the business located at:
16632 Leslie Drive
Orland Hils , IL, 60487
The true name and residence Address of
the owner is: Cherilynn Purciarello
16632 Leslie Drive
Orland Hils, IL, 60487
1/28, 2/4, 2/11/2023 7369647
LEGAL NOTICES
GOVERNMENT/EDUCATION
The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
of Greater Chicago will be accepting
applications for the following
classification(s):
Sheet Metal Worker (Original)
Application Filing Period: January 20,
2023 through February 3, 2023.
Examination Date: March 4, 2023.
Location: Chicago High School for
Agricultural Sciences (CHAS), 3857 West
111th Street, Chicago, IL. Scope of
Examination: Knowledge of Sheet Metal
Worker practices. Nature of Position and
Duties: Under supervision, performs skilled
work in connection with the fabrication,
erection, assembly, alteration and repair of
articles constructed of sheet metal, including
sheet metal pipes, flues, ducts, gutters, bins
and other items constructed of sheet metal.
Salary: $49.10 per hour
Applications can be submitted online only at
www.districtjobs.org.
Additional information may be found at
www.districtjobs.org or call 312-751-5100.
603-5645 JULIE I. REYES Purchaser or Assignee
Dated December 8, 2022
1/26, 1/27, 1/28/20237367689
TO: Mako Properties, Inc. c/o Alexander Nitchoff
6120 S. Archer Road Summit, IL 60501 Unknown
Occupants 7738 W 61st Place Summit, IL 60501
Mako Properties, Inc. 7738 W 61st Place Sum-
mit, IL 60501 Mako Properties, Inc. c/o Alex-
ander Nitchoff 7742 W. 61st Place Summit, IL
60501 Mako Properties, Inc. c/o Constantino
Nitchoff 7742 W. 61st Place Summit, IL 60501
Nitchoff 16568 Pasture Drive Lemont, IL 60439
Got Dumped, Inc. 7742 W. 61st Place Summit, IL
60501 Koral Enterprises 6120 S. Archer Rd. Sum-
mit, IL 60501 Fastenal 6120 S. Archer Rd. Sum-
mit, IL 60501 Unknown Occupant 6120 S. Archer
Rd. Summit, IL 60501 Unknown Occupant 7742
W. 61st Place Summit, IL 60501 MAKO PROPER-
TIES 7742 W 61st PL Summit, IL 60501 Karen A.
Yarbrough County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois
Unknown Occupants; spouses, heirs at law, de-
visees, if any, of the above mentioned persons,
described as Unknown Owners; claimants,
decree creditors, judgment creditors, if any, of
the above, described as Unknown Owners; Un-
known Owners or parties interested in said land
or lots. NOTICE TO OWNERS AND OCCUPANTS IN
THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
TAX DEED NO. 2022COTD001533 FILED: Novem-
ber 22, 2022 TAKE NOTICE County of Cook Date
Premises Sold February 16, 2022 Certificate No.
21S-0001323 Sold for General Taxes of (year)
2001-2018 Sold for Special Assessment of
(Municipality) and special assessment number
Not Applicable Warrant No. None Installment
No. None THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR
DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at 7738 W.
61st Place, Summit, IL 60501 Legal Description
or Property Index No. 18-13-303-005-0000, Vol-
ume 080 This notice is to advise you that the
above property has been sold for delinquent
taxes and that the period of redemption from
the sale will expire on May 8, 2023. The amount
to redeem is subject to increase at 6 month
intervals from the date of sale and may be fur-
ther increased if the purchaser at the tax sale
or his or her assignee pays any subsequently
accruing taxes or special assessments to re-
deem the property from subsequent forfeitures
or tax sales. Check with the county clerk as to
the exact amount you owe before redeeming.
This notice is also to advise you that a petition
has been filed for a tax deed which will transfer
title and the right to possession of this property
if redemption is not made on or before May 8,
2023. This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit
Court of Cook County, Richard J. Daley Center,
50 W. Washington St., Room 1704, in Chicago,
Illinois 60602 on May 31, 2023 at 9:30 AM. You
may be present at this hearing but your right to
redeem will already have expired at that time.
YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO
PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption can
be made at any time on or before May 8, 2023
by applying to the County Clerk of Cook County,
Illinois at the office of the County Clerk in Chica-
go, Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk ADDRESS: 118 North Clark Street,
Room 434, Chicago, Illinois 60602 TELEPHONE:
(312) 603-5645 SUMMIT PARKING MANAGE-
MENT LLC Purchaser or Assignee Dated Novem-
ber 22, 2022
1/26, 1/27, 1/28/20237367686
is not made on or before June 7, 2023. This
matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court
of Cook County, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W.
Washington St., Room 1704, in Chicago, Illinois
60602 on July 5, 2023 at 9:30 AM. You may be
present at this hearing but your right to redeem
will already have expired at that time. YOU ARE
URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT
LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at
any time on or before June 7, 2023 by applying
to the County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois at
the office of the County Clerk in Chicago, Illi-
nois. For further information contact the County
Clerk ADDRESS: 118 North Clark Street, Room
434, Chicago, Illinois 60602 TELEPHONE: (312)
603-5645 Dennis White Purchaser or Assignee
Dated December 13, 2022
1/26, 1/27, 1/28/20237367677
TO: Frank & Char Lombardo Heirs Charlotte
Lombardo Salvatore Peter Lombardo Teresa Ann
Lombardo Mary Nicole Sausville Joseph Lom-
bardo Terry Lombardo Mary Sausville Charlotte
Lombardo Property Manager / Rent Collector,
14100 Blaine Ave., Posen, IL 60469 Sam Lombar-
do Grace Essick Ann Gardner Unknown Owners,
Occupants and Parties Interested Generally in
the Real Estate, Karen A. Yarbrough, Cook Coun-
ty Clerk TAX DEED NO. 2023COTD000038 FILED
January 17, 2023 TAKE NOTICE County of Cook
Date Premises Sold February 15, 2022 Certifi-
cate No. 21S-0000676 Sold for General Taxes of
(year) 2006-2018 Sold for Special Assessment
of (Municipality) and special assessment num-
ber…N/A Warrant No. N/A Inst. No. N/A THIS
PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT
TAXES Property located at a vacant parcel ap-
proximately 596.75 feet by 266.94 feet located
approximately 561.88 feet east of the southeast
corner of Harrison Avenue and 141st Street
and further identified by the common address
of 14100 Blaine Ave. in Posen, Illinois. Legal De-
scription or Property Index No. 28-01-414-001-
0000 This notice is to advise you that the above
property has been sold for delinquent taxes and
that the period of redemption from the sale will
expire on June 16, 2023. The amount to redeem
is subject to increase at 6 month intervals from
the date of sale and may be further increased
if the purchaser at the tax sale or his or her
assignee pays any subsequently accruing taxes
or special assessments to redeem the property
from subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check
with the county clerk as to the exact amount
you owe before redeeming. This notice is also
to advise you that a petition has been filed for a
tax deed which will transfer title and the right to
possession of this property if redemption is not
made on or before June 16, 2023. This matter is
set for hearing in the Circuit Court of this county
in Chicago, Illinois on June 28, 2023 at 9:30 a.m.
in Room 1704, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West
Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602 You
may be present at this hearing but your right to
redeem will already have expired at that time.
YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO
PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption can
be made at any time on or before June 16, 2023
by applying to the County Clerk of Cook, County,
Illinois at the Office of the County Clerk in Chi-
cago, Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk ADDRESS: 118 North Clark Street,
Room 434, Chicago, Illinois 60602 TELEPHONE:
(312) 603-5645. Village of Posen Purchaser or
Assignee. Dated January 19, 2023 Reiter Law
Offices, Ltd. 208 W. Washington Street, Suite
2113 Chicago, Illinois 60606
1/26, 1/27, 1/28/20237367733
To: Taxpayer of 11640 S. Longwood Dr., Chicago,
IL. 60643-4843 Chicago Title Land Trust Com-
pany as successor trustee to Mid-City National
Bank of Chicago under trust agreement dated
6/17/1988 and known as Trust No. 2105, RA:
CT Corporation System Chicago Title Land Trust
Company as successor trustee to Mid-City Na-
tional Bank of Chicago under trust agreement
dated 6/17/1988 and known as Trust No. 2105
Occupant, 14213 Palmer Ave., Posen, IL 60469
Occupant, 11640 S. Longwood Dr., Chicago, IL
60643 Unknown Owners, Occupants and Parties
Interested Generally in the Real Estate, Karen
A. Yarbrough, Cook County Clerk TAX DEED NO.
2023COTD000039 FILED January 17, 2023 TAKE
NOTICE County of Cook Date Premises Sold Feb-
ruary 15, 2022 Certificate No. 21S-0000677 Sold
for General Taxes of (year) 2001-2018 Sold for
Special Assessment of (Municipality) and spe-
cial assessment number…N/A Warrant No. N/A
Inst. No. N/A THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD
FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at a
vacant parcel approximately 759.9 feet by 317
feet located approximately 200 feet to the north
of Memorial Park located at Campbell Avenue
and 143rd Street in Posen, Illinois. Legal De-
scription or Property Index No. 28-01-416-020-
0000 This notice is to advise you that the above
property has been sold for delinquent taxes and
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60469 Occupant, 14729 S. Kedzie Ave., Posen, IL
60469 Occupant, 14727 S. Kedzie Ave., Posen,
IL 60469 Rent Collector, 14727-14735 Kedzie
Ave., Posen, IL 60469 Sharks Fish and Chicken
Hawk-I’s BBQ Boost Mobile Harrison Homes,
Inc., RA: David L Anders American Management
Group, Inc., c/o Illinois Secretary of State Har-
rison Homes, Inc., Scott Vandenberg, President
American Management Group, Inc., RA & Presi-
dent: Nazih Nour Unknown Owners, Occupants Stop wasting time searching for talent.
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YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO
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be made at any time on or before June 16, 2023
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cago, Illinois. For further information contact the
County Clerk ADDRESS: 118 North Clark Street,
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(312) 603-5645. Village of Posen Purchaser or
Assignee. Dated January 19, 2023. Reiter Law
Offices, Ltd. 208 W. Washington Street, Suite
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1/26, 1/27, 1/28/20237367779
TO: Callahan Partners LLC, RA: Gerald T. Callahan
Callahan Partners, LLC, c/o Illinois Secretary of
State Occupant, 14150 Western Ave., Posen, IL.
60469 Chicago Title Land Trust Company a/t/u
Trust #6853 dated September 5, 1946, RA: CT
Corporation System Chicago Title Land Trust
Company a/t/u Trust #6853 dated September
5, 1946, John A. Wunderlich, President Calla-
han Partners LLC, Margaret K. Callahan, Man-
ager Occupant, 2100 W. 142nd St., Dixmoor, IL
60469 Callahan & Associates Unknown Owners,
Occupants and Parties Interested Generally
in the Real Estate, Karen A. Yarbrough, Cook
County Clerk TAX DEED NO. 2023COTD000042
FILED January 17, 2023 TAKE NOTICE County
of Cook Date Premises Sold February 17, 2022
Certificate No. 21S-0001971, 21S-0001972,
21S-0001973, 21S-0001974, 21S-0001975, 21S-
0001976, 21S-0001977 Sold for General Taxes
of (year) 2008-2018 Sold for Special Assessment
of (Municipality) and special assessment num-
ber…N/A Warrant No. N/A Inst. No. N/A THIS
PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT
TAXES Property located at 2100-2104 W. 142nd
Street and 14148-14132 Dixie Highway, Posen,
Illinois. Legal Description or Property Index
No. 29-06-304-013-0000, 29-06-304-014-0000,
29-06-304-015-0000, 29-06-304-016-0000, 29-
06-304-017-0000, 29-06-304-018-0000, 29-06-
304-019-0000 This notice is to advise you that
the above property has been sold for delin-
quent taxes and that the period of redemption
from the sale will expire on June 16, 2023. The
amount to redeem is subject to increase at 6
month intervals from the date of sale and may
be further increased if the purchaser at the tax
sale or his or her assignee pays any subsequent-
ly accruing taxes or special assessments to re-
deem the property from subsequent forfeitures
or tax sales. Check with the county clerk as to
the exact amount you owe before redeeming.
This notice is also to advise you that a petition
has been filed for a tax deed which will transfer
title and the right to possession of this property
if redemption is not made on or before June 16,
2023. This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit
Court of this county in Chicago, Illinois on June
28, 2023 at 9:30 a.m. in Room 1704, Richard J.
Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, Chi-
cago, Illinois 60602 You may be present at this
hearing but your right to redeem will already
have expired at that time. YOU ARE URGED TO

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Mailed, Emailed, Hand delivered or Faxed that the period of redemption from the sale will
REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF
Applications Will Not Be Accepted. PROPERTY Redemption can be made at any
expire on June 16, 2023. The amount to redeem
time on or before June 16, 2023 by applying to
Resumes Will Not Be Accepted In Place of is subject to increase at 6 month intervals from
the County Clerk of Cook, County, Illinois at the
Application Forms. the date of sale and may be further increased
Office of the County Clerk in Chicago, Illinois. For
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or special assessments to redeem the property
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from subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check
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you owe before redeeming. This notice is also
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possession of this property if redemption is not
made on or before June 16, 2023. This matter is
set for hearing in the Circuit Court of this county
in Chicago, Illinois on June 28, 2023 at 9:30 a.m.
in Room 1704, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West
Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602 You
may be present at this hearing but your right to
redeem will already have expired at that time.
YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO
PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption can
be made at any time on or before June 16, 2023
by applying to the County Clerk of Cook, County,
Illinois at the Office of the County Clerk in Chi-
cago, Illinois. For further information contact the
to place your ad, visit
County Clerk ADDRESS: 118 North Clark Street,
Room 434, Chicago, Illinois 60602 TELEPHONE:
(312) 603-5645. Village of Posen Purchaser or
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Assignee. Dated January 19, 2023. Reiter Law
Offices, Ltd. 208 W. Washington Street, Suite
2113 Chicago, Illinois 60606
or call 312 222 2222
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pected, with the High: 30 Low: 27 High: 27 Low: 11 High: 17 Low: 1 High: 19 Low: 11 High: 29 Low: 19 High: 28 Low: 17
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times with snow early the morning patchy clouds sunshine
Meteorologists Phil Schwarz, Wisconsin line.
Cheryl Scott, Jaisol Martinez, POP: 85% POP: 55% POP: 40% POP: 5% POP: 15% POP: 15%
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Saturday Conditions 28/22 Racine
8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 8 p.m. 21/10 28/23
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23/15 Lake Geneva Twin Lakes Kenosha
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8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 8 p.m.
26/19 28/21 than 2 miles in snow. Water temperature: of the year?
Belvidere 24/17 18/7 36.
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8-10 Very High, 11+ Extreme. The patented Hampshire 29/22 2
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Rochelle Elgin 36.
exclusive index of effective temperature based
26/16 16/-1 Evanston low,” runs from Jan. 23-Jan. 25
on eight weather factors. Outdoor Activities 28/20 30/27 Boating Index: 0-2: Poor; 3-4: Fair; 5-6: Good;
and Fishing Indexes: 0-2: Poor; 3-4: Fair; 5-6: 15/0 18/1 7-8: Very Good; 9-10: Excellent. at 17.9 degrees. Of course, this
Good; 7-8: Very Good; 9-10: Excellent. DeKalb Bartlett O’Hare 21/6
26/16 28/20 29/23 month, so far, has been anything
Aurora 18/4 22/9 Chicago-ddowntown BUT average. In fact, Thursday
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Naperville Michigan City evening (Jan. 26) was the first
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O’Hare through 4 p.m.
Plano 30/22 Midway time we even dropped into the
29/20 20/10 30/26 22/12
High 36 18/4 Gary teens this whole month! Get
Compton 22/112
Low 13 27/16 Joliet Hammond 32/28 ready, though! It looks like next
Normal high 31 15/-2 Yorkville 32/25 Orland Paark 47/29 25/14 week will be cold with some days
Normal low 18 Leland 29/21 24/15 30/25 37/22 Laa Porte
28/19 19/8 31/28 bringing HIGHS in the teens!
Record high 62 (1916) Mendota 17/2 21/12 211/15
Record low -10 (1955) 28/18 Chicago Heightss
17/0 31/27 Valparaiso
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Lansing 35 11 32 17 32/25 33/28 22/15
22/15 Kankakee 21/15 Demotte
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d low RealFeel Temperatures shown bellow.
Month to date 2.38” 0.77” 1.76”
Year to date 2.38” 0.77” 1.76”
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Carbondale 52/39/pc 44/24/sh
Seattle Montreal Champaign 44/28/c 32/15/sf
Air Quality Index 45/28 36/12 Decatur 47/28/c 32/16/sn
Friday’s reading Moline 28/16/sn 22/6/c
Good Billings Minneap
polis Toronto Peoria 40/20/sn 24/12/c
13/-9 7/-4 30/25 Quincy 48/18/c 23/9/c
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Detrooit Rockford 25/16/sn 19/5/c
Moderate Springfield 47/24/c 26/13/c
31/2
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8/49 Denver Bloomington 52/42/c 46/28/sh
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Sunrise 7:07 a.m. 7:06 a.m. Indianapolis 47/40/c 41/26/sn
Sunset 5:00 p.m. 5:01 p.m. Lafayette 44/34/sn 39/20/sf
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Moonrise 10:54 a.m. 11:20 a.m. South Bend 31/27/sn 30/15/sn
64/50 Atlanta
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Kenosha 28/21/sn 23/7/c
La Crosse 15/3/sn 11/-2/pc
Madison 17/12/sn 16/0/c
El Paso Milwaukee 27/20/sn 23/6/c
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Housston Detroit 31/29/sf 33/21/sn
Rise Set Grand Rapids 28/24/sn 26/14/sn
Chihuahua 70/63
Mercury 5:38 a.m. 2:59 p.m.
72/45 Miamii Marquette 13/6/sf 10/-4/sn
Venus 8:19 a.m. 6:57 p.m. Monteerrey 78/772 Sault Ste. Marie 19/6/sf 17/8/sn
Mars 12:11 p.m. 3:33 a.m. 73/57 Traverse City 24/19/sf 22/13/sn
Jupiter 9:34 a.m. 9:48 p.m.
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Asheville 53/33/s 52/42/sh Fresno 60/41/pc 50/39/sh Portland, ME 43/27/pc 40/29/c Auckland 80/69/sh 79/67/sh Manila 85/74/pc 86/76/c
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Atlantic City 51/40/pc 51/43/pc Harrisburg 53/35/pc 45/40/sh Raleigh 59/36/s 57/45/r Barbados 82/73/pc 82/73/pc Montreal 36/12/sn 17/7/sn
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Billings 13/-9/sn 5/-6/c Honolulu 77/67/r 75/68/r Richmond 58/36/s 55/42/c Beirut 71/56/c 68/55/pc Nairobi 83/59/s 82/59/s
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Charleston, WV 53/40/pc 45/39/sh Lincoln 31/4/sn 12/2/c San Juan 81/72/pc 82/72/c Cancun 82/74/pc 83/72/sh Riyadh 64/44/s 72/49/s
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Chattanooga 57/42/pc 52/47/sh Los Angeles 64/50/pc 56/44/r Savannah 60/40/s 70/57/r Casablanca 58/31/pc 58/32/s Santiago 92/56/s 90/57/s
Cheyenne 19/-4/sn 1/-12/sf Louisville 57/44/pc 47/35/r Seattle 45/28/r 40/25/s Copenhagen 39/36/c 42/39/c Seoul 33/15/pc 39/18/s
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Fed’s preferred inflation
gauge eased more in Dec.
Consumer spending also fell as central bank’s hikes continue to slow economy
By Christopher Rugaber
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve’s
preferred inflation gauge eased further in
December, and consumer spending fell —
the latest evidence that the Fed’s series of
interest rate hikes are slowing the economy.
Friday’s report from the Commerce
Department showed that prices rose 5%
last month from a year earlier, down from a
5.5% year-over-year increase in November.
It was the third straight drop.
Consumer spending fell 0.2% from
November to December and was revised
lower to show a drop of 0.1% from October
to November. Last year’s holiday sales were
sluggish for many retailers, and the overall
spending figures for the final two months of
2022 were the weakest in two years.
The pullback in consumer spending will
likely be welcomed by Fed officials, who
are seeking to cool the economy by making
lending increasingly expensive. A slower
pace of spending could boost their confi-
dence that inflation is steadily easing. Still,
These Mexican eggs were seized by officials at the U.S. border. Egg prices in Mexico are much lower. U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION
Scramble to stop smuggling
As US egg prices surge, officials
encounter more people trying
to bring them in from Mexico
By Amanda Holpuch
The New York Times
From California to Texas, border agents
are increasingly seizing a surprising type of
contraband from Mexico: eggs.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
agents had more than 2,000 encounters
with people trying to bring eggs into the
United States from Mexico between Nov. 1
and Jan. 17, an agency spokesperson said. In
the same 11-week period a year earlier, there
were about 460 such encounters.
The rise comes as the price of eggs in the
United States has surged, driven in part by
an outbreak of bird flu that was detected
last February.
Roger Maier, the Customs and Border
Protection spokesperson, said in an email
Tuesday that the agency had noted an
increase in people attempting to bring eggs
to the United States from Mexico, where
“they are significantly less expensive.”
The 2,002 recent encounters involving
eggs were reported by field offices in San
FDA calls on Congress to create CBD rules
By Jonel Aleccia
Associated Press
The Food and Drug Administration
said there are too many unknowns about
CBD products to regulate them as foods or
supplements under the agency’s current
structure and called on Congress to create
rules for the massive and growing market.
The marijuana-derived products have
become increasingly popular in lotions,
tinctures and foods, while their legal status
has been murky in the U.S.
There’s not enough evidence about CBD
to confirm that it’s safe for use in foods
or as a dietary supplement, FDA Deputy
Commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock said in
a statement Thursday.
BUSINESS
the decline in year-over-year inflation
matches the Fed’s outlook and isn’t likely
to alter expectations that it will raise its key
rate by a quarter-point next week.
On a monthly basis, inflation ticked up
just 0.1% from November to December for
a second straight month. Energy prices
plunged 5.1%, and the overall cost of goods
also fell.
“Core” prices, which exclude volatile
food and energy costs, rose 0.3% from
November to December and 4.4% from a
year earlier. The year-over-year figure was
down from 4.7% in November, though still
well above the Fed’s 2% target.
Falling prices for oil, gas, copper, lumber,
wheat and other commodities, along with
the unclogging of supply chains, have
helped slow the retail costs of cars, furni-
ture and clothes, among other items.
Price increases, though, have remained
persistently high for some goods and
services, including eggs, which skyrock-
eted 60% last month compared with a year
ago. Egg prices rose 11.1% just in Decem-
ber, inflated by an outbreak of avian flu that
Diego; Tucson, Arizona; Laredo, Texas;
and El Paso, Texas, and they do not repre-
sent the total number of eggs seized. The
biggest increase was in San Diego, where
the encounters jumped to 1,077 from 230,
a 368% jump.
Maier did not say how many eggs were
seized. In an email, he said that “this is not
necessarily smuggling but rather increased
encounters of people traveling with eggs.”
Customs and Border Protection officials
in San Diego and El Paso issued warnings
on Twitter last week to remind people that
they were not allowed to bring uncooked
eggs from Mexico into the United States.
The agency said in a news release that
there had been a “large increase” in the
volume of prohibited food items, includ-
ing eggs and raw poultry, brought in from
Mexico.
This increase in egg contraband coin-
cides with a sharp rise in egg prices in the
United States. The average price for a dozen
large Grade A eggs rose to $4.25 from $1.92
between January and December 2022,
according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
At grocery stores in Mexico last week,
the wholesale price for a 2.2 pounds of
eggs, which is more than a dozen jumbo
eggs, was between about $1.59 and $2.71,
“For example, we have not found
adequate evidence to determine how much
CBD can be consumed, and for how long,
before causing harm,” she said.
The FDA has oversight of CBD because
it is the active ingredient in an approved
prescription drug, Epidiolex, used to treat
two rare seizure disorders. Under FDA
regulations, a drug can’t be added to food
or sold as a dietary supplement if officials
haven’t determined if it’s safe or effective
for other conditions.
Questions remain about CBD’s effects
on the liver, the male reproductive system
and on pregnant women and children, the
statement said.
New rules could include clear labels,
regulations regarding contaminants and
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has led to a culling of herds and higher feed
costs.
Car rental prices have also soared nearly
27% from a year ago and rose 1.6% just in
December.
But for many other items, inflation is
easing. Coffee prices, though up nearly 14%
in the past year, rose just 0.2% last month.
And the cost of clothes and shoes rose just
3% in the past year and 0.3% last month.
Friday’s figures are separate from the
better-known inflation data that comes
from the consumer price index. The CPI,
which was released earlier this month, has
also shown a steady deceleration.
The Fed has been seeking to slow spend-
ing, growth and the surging prices that
have bedeviled the nation for nearly two
years. Its key rate, which affects many
consumer and business loans, is now in a
range of 4.25% to 4.5%, up from near zero
last March.
Though inflation has been decelerating,
most economists say they think the Fed’s
harsh medicine will tip the economy into a
recession sometime this year.
according to figures collected by the Mexi-
can government.
Bird flu, which has been cited as a factor
behind the sharp rise in egg prices, is a
highly contagious virus that is often fatal
to chickens. The outbreak has affected
more than 58 million birds in hundreds of
commercial and backyard flocks, accord-
ing to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
By the end of 2022, more than 43 million
egg-laying hens had died from the disease
or had been culled to prevent the virus from
spreading, according to the department.
Customs and Border Protection said in
a news release that the threat of bird flu
underscored the importance of laws that
bar people from bringing agricultural items
across the border. The laws are in place
because agricultural items, such as plants
and animals, can harbor pests and spread
diseases that harm the environment, crops
and livestock.
People entering the United States are
required to declare to officials if they
have items including meat, fruit, vegeta-
bles, animals and seeds in their luggage or
vehicle. If border officers find these types
of items, and they have not been declared,
travelers can face civil penalties up to
$1,000.
limits on CBD levels and requirements.
CBD often comes from a cannabis plant
known as hemp, which is defined by the
U.S. government as having less than 0.3%
THC, the compound that causes mari-
juana’s mind-altering effect. CBD doesn’t
cause that high, but fans of the products
claim benefits including relief for pain and
anxiety.
The FDA’s action comes after repeated
calls from lawmakers, advocates and
consumer groups for CBD to be allowed in
foods and supplements.
The FDA will continue to take action
against CBD and other cannabis products
to protect the public, the statement said.
The agency has sent warnings to some
companies making health claims for CBD.
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House GOP again
seeks oil reserve
restrictions
By Matthew Daly
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — For the second time
this month, House Republicans have
advanced a measure to restrict presiden-
tial use of the nation’s emergency oil stock-
pile — a proposal that has already drawn a
White House veto threat.
A GOP bill approved Friday would
require the government to offset any none-
mergency withdrawals from the Strate-
gic Petroleum Reserve with new drilling
on public lands and oceans. Republicans
accuse President Joe Biden of abusing the
reserve for political reasons to keep gas
prices low, while Biden says tapping the
reserve was needed last year in response
to a ban on Russian oil imports following
Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Biden withdrew 180 million barrels from
the strategic reserve over several months,
bringing the stockpile to its lowest level
since the 1980s. The administration said
last month it will start to replenish the
reserve now that oil prices have gone down.
The bill was approved, 221-205, on a near
party-line vote. The measure heads to the
Democratic-controlled Senate, where it is
expected to languish.
White House press secretary Karine
Jean-Pierre attacked the GOP proposal,
which follows a bill approved two weeks
ago that would prohibit the Energy Depart-
ment from selling oil from the strategic
reserve to companies owned or influenced
by the Chinese government.
“House Republicans will vote to raise
gas prices on American families ... and
help Putin’s war aims by interfering with
our ability to release oil,” Jean-Pierre said
Monday. “These extreme policies would
subject working families to immense finan-
cial pain and balloon our deficit, all just to
benefit the wealthiest taxpayers and big
corporations.”
BUSINESS BRIEFING
Ga. plans to raise
Savannah bridge
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Georgia officials
have signed off on a plan to raise Savannah’s
towering suspension bridge to make room
for larger cargo ships to reach the city’s busy
seaport.
The state Department of Transportation’s
board at its January meeting approved hiring
a contractor later this year to consult on the
project while it’s still in the design phase.
The Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge
opened in 1991 and spans the Savannah River
at the Georgia-South Carolina line. Cargo
ships passing Savannah’s downtown river-
front must sail under the bridge to reach the
Port of Savannah.
The plan is to raise the bridge while also
replacing its decades-old suspension cables
in the same project, the DOT said.
Inflation top UK
Treasury issue
LONDON — Britain’s Treasury chief said
Friday that taming inflation is more import-
ant than cutting taxes, resisting calls from
some in the governing Conservative Party
for immediate tax breaks for businesses and
voters.
At a speech in London, Chancellor of the
Exchequer Jeremy Hunt said “the best tax
cut right now is a cut in inflation.”
The U.K.’s annual inflation rate hit a four-​
decade high of 11.1% in October, fueling a
cost-of-living crisis and a wave of strikes
by workers seeking pay raises to keep pace
with rising food and energy prices. It has
since eased but still reached a painful 10.5%
in December. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
has promised to halve the inflation rate from
those levels by the end of the year.
Personal income
and spending
Percent change from preceding month
Income Spending
0.8
0.8
0.6
0.4 0.4
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.2
0.7 0.6 0.8
-0.2 -0.1
-0.4 -0.2
-0.6
-0.8
Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.
SOURCE: Bureau of Economic Analysis TNS
2  Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Saturday, January 28, 2023

UChicago medical Uber

school withdraws
from rankings
Following others, institution will
no longer submit data to U.S. News
By Lisa Schencker
Chicago Tribune
University of Chicago’s
Pritzker School of Medi-
cine will no longer partici-
pate in U.S. News & World
Report’s medical school
rankings, joining a growing
list of institutions rejecting
the rankings.
Leaders at the Chicago
medical school have decided
to no longer submit data to
U.S. News to help the publi-
cation rank the institution.
Typically, U.S. News asks
medical schools to fill out
surveys, and uses the results
of those surveys, along with
other information, to help
rank the schools.
Leaders said in a memo
sent to the medical school
community Thursday
evening that the decision
was based on a number of
factors, but “our overriding
concern is to help address
and reduce inequities in
medical school education.”
“This decision is based
on our judgment that the
current methodology raises
deep concerns about ineq-
uity perpetuated by the
misuse of metrics that fail
to capture the quality or
outcomes of medical educa-
tion for those who most
need these data: applicants
to medical school,” said Dr.
Mark Anderson, medical
school dean, and Dr. Vineet
Arora, dean for medical
education of the Biological
Sciences Division and Pritz-
ker School of Medicine, in
the memo.
They wrote that aspiring
medical students deserve
“transparent, meaningful,
and usable data that reflect
both the quality of their
educational experience and
graduation outcomes.” They
said the U.S. News rankings
don’t provide that, and the
medical school will share
“essential information” on
its admissions website.
They said they’ve written
a letter to U.S. News editors
Freight
lays off 150
employees
By Sarah Freishtat
Chicago Tribune
Uber Freight, which
seeking to convene stake- opened a sprawling new
holders to discuss how to headquarters in Chicago
better measure and report 15 months ago, has laid off
on medical schools. 150 people.
University of Chicago’s The layoffs amount to
decision follows similar 3% of the freight busi-
ones by medical schools ness’s workforce, the
across the country in recent company confirmed.
weeks, including at Harvard, Uber Freight joins a
Stanford and Columbia wave of tech companies
universities and University announcing layoffs in
of Pennsylvania. recent months. In some
Locally, other Illinois cases, the layoffs follow
medical schools are making hiring surges by tech
varied decisions amid the industry giants during
controversy. the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rush University’s medi- Microsoft said this
cal school will continue to month it was cutting
participate in the rankings, 10,000 people, or almost
for now, Rush said in a state- 5% of its workforce,
ment. Rush will, however, People walk by the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago on Aug. 18 in though that was fewer
“continue to assess their Chicago. The school will no longer participate in U.S. News & World Report’s medical school people than it added
process of evaluating and rankings, joining a growing list of institutions rejecting the rankings. during the COVID-19
ranking,” it said. ERIN HOOLEY/CHICAGO TRIBUNE pandemic. Amazon said
Meanwhile, the medical it would be cutting about
school at Chicago’s Rosa- Northwestern University’s table patient care that we sion of where to attend 18,000 workers, and Face-
lind Franklin University of Feinberg School of Medi- strive to foster in our medi- medical school. “The fact book parent Meta said in
Medicine and Science in cine 17th in the country for cal education programs.” is, millions of prospective November it would lay off
Chicago is backing away research, and University of “As unintended conse- students annually visit U.S. 11,000 employees, or 13%
from the ranking system. Chicago’s Pritzker School of quences, rankings create News medical school rank- of its workforce.
The school’s leaders decided Medicine 20th in the nation perverse incentives for insti- ings because we provide Uber opened new
in the fall to stop filling out for research. For research, tutions to report mislead- students with valuable data offices in the redeveloped
the U.S. News survey, said University of Illinois’ medi- ing or inaccurate data, set and solutions to help with Old Post Office in October
Dr. Archana Chatterjee, cal school ranked 56th and policies to boost rankings that process,” he said. 2021, intended to serve as
dean of the university’s Rush’s school ranked 68th. rather than nobler objec- The wave of dropouts the headquarters for the
Chicago Medical School. Loyola’s medical school was tives, or divert financial aid follows a similar revolt Uber Freight business
“I learned more about unranked. from students with finan- in recent months by law and Chicago operations.
how flawed their method- U.S. News also has a sepa- cial need to high-scoring schools across the coun- The new office was
ology is and became really rate ranking, in which medi- students with means in try against U.S. News’ law delayed and down-
concerned that this wasn’t cal schools are judged for order to maximize ranking school rankings. sized by the pandemic.
what we wanted to be a part their ability to train primary criteria,” Daley wrote. U.S. News said in a letter The company in 2019
of,” Chatterjee said. “We live care doctors. Univer- When Harvard to law school deans this announced it had signed a
in a competitive world, but sity of Chicago’s medical announced its decision month that it is making 10-year lease for 463,000
what we are trying to teach school ranked 30th on that earlier this month, U.S. changes to the way it ranks square feet, but when
our students is collabora- measure, Northwestern’s News & World Report Exec- law schools, “including a the office opened the
tion instead of competition. ranked 43rd, University utive Chairman and CEO reduced emphasis on the company was occupy-
… That is not fostered by this of Illinois ranked 61st and Eric Gertler said in a state- peer assessment surveys ing about 310,000 square
type of ranking system that Rush ranked 71st. ment: “Where students of academics, lawyers and feet of office space and
falsely makes one institution Harvard Medical School attend school and how judges, and an increased subleasing about 150,000
look better than another.” announced Jan. 17 that it they use their education weight on outcome square feet.
The medical school at was dropping out of the are among the most criti- measures,” such as bar exam When the Old Post
Loyola University has not rankings. Harvard was rated cal decisions of their life, passage and employment Office space opened,
submitted data for rankings the No. 1 medical school in and with admissions more outcomes. Uber had about 1,500
for several years, a spokes- the country for research by competitive and less trans- U.S. News has said that Chicago office work-
woman said. A spokes- U.S. News in 2022. parent, and tuition increas- it will continue to rank ers, about half employed
woman for Northwestern Harvard Medical School ingly expensive, we believe law schools, using publicly by Uber Freight. The
University’s medical school Dean George Daley said in a students deserve access to available data, regardless company planned to
declined to comment, and letter at the time that “rank- all the data and information of whether a law school expand to more than
University of Illinois did ings cannot meaningfully necessary to make the right responds to its annual 2,000 Chicago employ-
not respond to a request for reflect the high aspirations decision.” survey. But it will publish ees at that time.
comment. for educational excellence, Gertler said rankings more detailed information
Of medical schools in graduate preparedness, and should be just one compo- for schools that do respond sfreishtat@chicagotri-
Illinois, U.S. News ranked compassionate and equi- nent in a student’s deci- to the survey. bune.com

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Pelosi attack video shows struggle
Ex-speaker refuses
to view footage of
husband, assailant
By Stefanie Dazio
and Brian Melley
Associated Press
Video released publicly
Friday shows the husband
of former House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi fighting with
his assailant for control of a
hammer moments before he
was struck during a brutal
attack in the couple’s San
Francisco home last year.
The body-camera foot-
age shows suspect David
DePape wrest the tool from
82-year-old Paul Pelosi and
lunge toward him with the
hammer over his head. The
blow to Pelosi occurs out of
view of the camera and the
officers — one of them curs-
ing — rush into the house
and jump on DePape.
Pelosi, apparently uncon-
scious, can be seen lying
face down on the floor in his
pajama top and underwear.
Officials later said he woke
up in a pool of his own blood.
The release comes after a
coalition of news agencies,
including The Associated
Press, sought access to the
evidence that prosecutors
played in open court last
month. The San Francisco
District Attorney’s Office
had refused to make the
exhibits available to jour-
nalists.
A state court judge
Wednesday ruled there was
no reason to keep the video
secret.
The evidence includes
portions of Paul Pelosi’s 911
call on Oct. 28, as well as
video images from Capitol
police surveillance cameras,
a body camera worn by one
of the two police officers
who arrived at the house and
a nearly 18-minute audio
recording from DePape’s
WAR IN UKRAINE
Ukraine presidency says
Russian shelling kills 10
Moscow declares
time-zone change
for annexed areas
By Susie Blann
Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine — A new
barrage of Russian shelling
killed at least 10 Ukrainian
civilians and wounded 20
others in a day, the office of
Ukraine’s president said Fri-
day as the country worked to
recover from an earlier wave
of Russian missile strikes
and drone attacks.
Regional officials said
towns and villages in the
east and south that are
within reach of the Russian
artillery suffered most. Six
people died in the Donetsk
region, two in Kherson and
two in the Kharkiv region.
A day earlier, missiles and
self-propelled drones fired
by Russian forces had hit
deeper into Ukrainian terri-
tory, killing at least 11 people.
The bombardments fol-
lowed announcements by
the United States and Ger-
many of plans to ship pow-
erful tanks to help Ukraine
defend itself. Other West-
ern countries said they also
would share modern tanks
Pence: ‘I take full responsibility’ in handling of classified documents
By Adriana Gomez Licon
Associated Press
MIAMI — Former Vice
President Mike Pence said
Friday that he takes “full
responsibility” after classi-
fied documents were found
at his Indiana home.
In his first public com-
ments since the discovery,
Pence said he hadn’t been
aware that the documents
were in his residence but
also acknowledged his lack
of awareness wasn’t an ex-
cuse.
NATION & WORLD
This image from newly released police body-camera footage shows Paul Pelosi, right, fighting for control of a hammer with his
alleged assailant, David DePape, on Oct. 28 at Pelosi’s home in San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO POLICE DEPARTMENT 2022
interview with police.
The Capitol Police video
shows DePape walk up to a
glass-panel door, leave and
then return wearing a large
backpack and carrying two
other bags. He set all the
items down and pulled out
a hammer, pausing to put on
gloves, and used it to smash
the door glass so he could
step through an opening.
DePape has pleaded not
guilty in ongoing state and
federal cases. He is being
held in jail without bail.
He faces charges including
attempted murder, elder
abuse, and assaulting an
immediate family member
of a federal official.
San Francisco Deputy
Public Defender Adam
Lipson, who represents
DePape, called the video’s
from their stockpiles.
Moscow has bristled
at the move, and accused
Western nations of entering
a new level of confrontation
with Russia.
Donetsk Gov. Pavlo
Kyrylenko said the Russian
military used fierce-`burn-
ing phosphorus munitions
in its shelling of the village
of Zvanivka, about 12 miles
north of Bakhmut, a city that
has become the focus of a
grueling standoff in recent
months. The shelling also
damaged apartment build-
ings and two schools in the
nearby town of Vuhledar,
Kyrylenko said.
The governor of the
neighboring Luhansk re-
gion, Serhii Haidai, said
Ukrainian shelling hit two
Russian bases in the occu-
pied towns of Kreminna
and Rubizhne, killing and
wounding “dozens” of Rus-
sian soldiers. His claim
couldn’t be independently
verified.
Further south, Russian
troops resumed shelling
the town of Nikopol, across
the river Dnieper from the
Russia-held Zaporizhzhia
Nuclear Power Plant, dam-
aging apartment buildings,
gas pipelines, power lines
“Let me be clear: Those
classified documents
should not have been in my
personal residence,” Pence
said at Florida Interna-
tional University, where he
was talking about the econ-
omy and promoting his new
book, “So Help Me God.”
“Mistakes were made, and I
take full responsibility.”
The discovery made
public by Pence’s team this
week marked the latest in a
string of recoveries of sensi-
tive papers from the homes
of current and former top
release a “terrible mistake”
in a statement Friday.
“Releasing this footage is
disrespectful to Mr. Pelosi,
and serves no purpose
except to feed the public
desire for spectacle and
violence,” Lipson said. “The
footage is inflammatory and
could feed unfounded theo-
ries about this case, and we
are extremely concerned
about Mr. DePape’s ability
to get a fair trial.”
Members of Congress
have faced a sharp rise in
threats in the two years since
the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection
at the U.S. Capitol.
Paul Pelosi was asleep
at the couple’s home when
DePape — who was 42 at
the time, roughly half Pelo-
si’s age — allegedly broke in.
Nancy Pelosi was in Wash-
and a bakery, officials said.
Separately Friday, Russian
authorities took new steps
in their monthslong and
widely criticized effort to
graft four Ukrainian prov-
inces onto Russia’s already
vast territory. They said the
illegally annexed provinces
would change from the time
zone that covers Kyiv to the
one in Moscow.
The switch in the
Ukrainian southern and
eastern regions that Russia
declared part of its territory
four months ago — Donetsk,
Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and
Kherson — will take place
“in the near future,” Rus-
sia’s Ministry of Industry
and Trade said. The move
comes as part of what the
ministry called the “gradual
synchronization” of Russian
legislation after the “admis-
sion of the four subjects.”
Russian President Vlad-
imir Putin’s highly orches-
trated announcement of the
illegal annexations came
despite widespread inter-
national condemnation and
the fact that Russia didn’t
fully control the areas it
annexed. Russia claims to
control nearly all of Luhansk
and about half of Donetsk.
Less than 1 1/2 months af-
U.S. officials. The Depart-
ment of Justice was already
investigating the discovery
of classified documents in
former President Donald
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort
and at President Joe Biden’s
home in Delaware and his
former Washington office.
Pence’s acceptance of re-
sponsibility over his han-
dling of the documents
marks a departure from the
reactions of Trump, his for-
mer boss, and Biden in their
cases. Trump denounced
the search of Mar-a-Lago
ington at the time and under
the protection of her secu-
rity detail, which does not
extend to family members.
Her husband of nearly
60 years later underwent
surgery to repair a skull frac-
ture and serious injuries to
his right arm and hands. He
has since appeared in public
wearing a hat and a glove
that covered his wounds.
Speaking at the Capi-
tol after the release, Nancy
Pelosi said she had not
watched or listened to any
of it, and had no intention of
doing so.
Pelosi said her husband
“is making progress, but it
will take more time.”
San Francisco Officer
Kolby Wilmes’ body-camera
video begins with officers
approaching the brick home
Ukrainian soldiers fire a mortar Friday from their position not far from Bakhmut in Ukraine’s
Donetsk region, which Russia has claimed as its own territory. ANATOLII STEPANOV/GETTY-AFP
ter the annexations, Rus-
sia lost control of the city of
Kherson and broad swaths
of surrounding territory to a
Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Kherson was the only re-
gional capital Russia seized
since starting its invasion
last Feb. 24, and its loss dealt
a heavy blow to the Kremlin.
Planned Western trans-
fers of modern tanks to
Ukraine remained on many
minds Friday.
Polish Prime Minister
Mateusz Morawiecki told
Canada’s CTV that his coun-
try was ready to send 60
modern tanks — half of them
as “one of the most shock-
ing abuses of power by any
administration in American
history” and suggested with-
out evidence that investiga-
tors may have planted the
documents. Biden has said
he was surprised to learn
the documents had been
found but had “no regrets”
about how the public was
informed.
The discovery at Pence’s
home came five months
after he said he did not take
classified records with him
when he left the vice pres-
Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Saturday, January 28, 2023  3
and rapping on the door. It
takes about 20 seconds for
the door to open and during
that time, the officers discuss
whether they have the right
house.
When the door opens,
Paul Pelosi says, “Hi, guys,
how are you?”
Both men are facing the
officers at the door. Initially,
the hammer is in the shad-
ows and it takes about five
seconds before a flashlight
shows DePape holding the
handle of a hammer with
his right hand and clutching
Pelosi’s right hand, which is
gripping the hammer head,
with his left hand. The
struggle is not apparent in
the first few seconds.
“What’s going on, man?”
an officer asks.
“Everything’s good,” De-
the PT-91 model, which was
built in Poland from 1994
to 2001 as a modernized
version of the Soviet-era
T-72M1. He said those de-
liveries would come on top
of Poland’s plans to send 14
of its Leopard 2s, after Berlin
approved other allies send-
ing the German-made tanks
to Ukraine.
On Friday, Russian For-
eign Ministry spokeswoman
Maria Zakharova said the
supply of Western tanks to
Ukraine would not change
the situation in Kyiv’s favor,
but rather “bring the coun-
tries of the West to a new
idency.
The comment — which
would typically be unre-
markable for a former vice
president — was notable
at the time given that FBI
agents had seized classified
and top secret information
from Trump’s Florida estate
on Aug. 8 while investigating
potential violations of three
federal laws.
Pence said he decided to
undertake the search of his
home “out of an abundance
of caution” after recent dis-
closures about documents
Pape replies.
“Drop the hammer,” the
officer says.
DePape says no and
begins to pull it from Pelosi’s
grip. Pelosi says, “Hey, hey.”
DePape wins control of
the hammer and winds up
with his right hand, and de-
livers a vicious overhand
blow as Pelosi disappears
out of view and officers
rush in. The officers called
for backup as they struggled
with DePape and Pelosi was
lying on the ground.
In an interview with San
Francisco Police Lt. Carla
Hurley after he was taken
into custody, DePape said he
didn’t regret the attack even
though it was not on Nancy
Pelosi, his intended target.
DePape told Hurley he was
going after Nancy Pelosi
for lying to the American
public and that he planned
to hold her hostage for her
crimes. He said believed the
discredited conspiracy that
Democrats stole the 2020
election from former Pres-
ident Donald Trump.
DePape told Hurley he
planned to hold Nancy
Pelosi hostage and would
“break her kneecaps” if she
lied.
He said he was surprised
to find Paul Pelosi in the
house. DePape said he
planned to tie Paul Pelosi up
so he could get some sleep,
because carrying a heavy
backpack to the home had
tired him out.
When Hurley asked
why DePape did not leave
when he realized Nancy
Pelosi wasn’t home and the
police were on the way, he
compared himself to the
Founding Fathers.
“They fought the Brit-
ish, they fought the tyranny.
They didn’t just (expletive)
surrender to it. And when I
left my house, I went to go
fight tyranny. I did not leave
to go surrender,” he said.
level of confrontation with
our country and our people.”
German officials said the
country was targeted by
a series of cyberattacks of
apparent Russian origin this
week following the decision
to supply tanks to Ukraine.
A spokeswoman for the
Interior Ministry said the
so-called denial of service
attacks, in which websites
or entire networks are
bombarded with requests
in an attempt to make them
inaccessible, were observed
Wednesday and Thursday,
and “were largely fought off
or had no serious impact.”
by Biden’s team.
He said he had directed
his counsel to work with the
National Archives, Depart-
ment of Justice and Con-
gress and fully cooperate in
any investigation.
The former vice pres-
ident said national secu-
rity depends on the proper
handling of classified docu-
ments, but he hopes that
people realize that he acted
swiftly to correct the error.
“We acted above politics
and put national interests
first,” he said.
4  Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Saturday, January 28, 2023
Gangs reach into southern Mexico
Groups with links
to Central America
are making inroads
By Edgar H. Clemente
Associated Press
TAPACHULA, Mexico
— With threatening phone
calls, burned minibuses and
at least three drivers shot
to death, street gangs more
closely associated with
Central America are impos-
ing their brand of terror-
based extortion on public
transportation drivers in
southern Mexico.
Organized crime groups
including the rival Mara
Salvatrucha and Barrio 18
gangs have long maintained
a presence along the border
between Mexico and Guate-
mala, but Mexican authori-
ties say their numbers have
increased over the past year
as El Salvador cracks down
on gang members and their
criminal enterprises.
Drivers of the passen-
ger vans and taxis people
depend on for transporta-
tion in largely rural Chiapas
say they live in fear for their
livelihood, or their lives.
They have raised the alarm,
holding temporary work
stoppages to get authorities’
attention. The owner of one
transport company in Tapa-
chula has started moving
with bodyguards.
Some admit to paying the
extortion, having seen what
happens to those who didn’t.
“If we don’t do anything
we’re going to be a little (El)
Salvador,” said a leader of
drivers in the town of Huix-
tla, where a driver was shot
by two men on a motorcy-
cle last February. The man
requested anonymity, fear-
ing gang reprisals.
Drivers in Huixtla showed
The Associated Press vouch-
ers dating back a year, docu-
menting the payments.
Generally, it starts with
someone climbing aboard
the bus and handing a phone
to the driver, sometimes
while pointing a gun at the
driver’s head. The drivers
are told to give the phone
A rescue and recovery team removes a body after a deadly shooting attack Friday night near a
Jerusalem synagogue while the Jewish Sabbath was being celebrated. MAHMOUD ILLEAN/AP
Gunman kills 7 in Jerusalem
synagogue attack, officials say
By Josef Federman
and Isabel Debre
Associated Press
JERUSALEM — A Pales-
tinian gunman opened fire
outside an east Jerusalem
synagogue Friday night,
killing seven people, includ-
ing a 70-year-old woman,
and wounding three others
before police shot and killed
him, officials said.
It was the deadliest attack
on Israelis in years. It took
place as worshippers were
celebrating the Jewish
Sabbath and came a day
after an Israeli military raid
killed nine people in the
West Bank.
Friday’s attack set off
public celebrations in both
the occupied West Bank
and Gaza Strip, where
people fired guns into
the air, honked horns and
distributed sweets.
The burst of violence,
which also included a
rocket barrage from Gaza
and retaliatory Israeli
airstrikes, has posed an
early challenge for Israel’s
new ultranationalist-domi-
nated government and cast
a cloud over a visit by U.S.
Secretary of State Antony
Blinken to the region set
for Sunday.
White House press sec-
Migrants are seen Jan. 19 in a Tapachula, Mexico, bus station after crossing the border from Guatemala. A Mexican prosecutor
believes a crackdown on organized crime in El Salvador is helping fuel a rise in criminal activity in Mexico. MOISES CASTILLO/AP
to the owner of the bus, van
or taxi, establishing a direct
line of communication.
Then the threats begin.
Callers show the owners
that they know who they
are, where they live, their
routines and their liveli-
hoods, according to record-
ings reviewed by the AP.
Speaking with distinctive
Central American accents,
Salvadoran slang and vulgar-
ity, they ask for $50 initially
and then $50 per month for
each van or taxi, said a repre-
sentative of drivers in Tapa-
chula, who also requested
anonymity out of fear.
The latest attack came
Monday, when an unidenti-
fied man fired into the local
bus terminal in Cacahoatan.
No one was injured, but
bullets struck a parked van
and led drivers to suspend
service. The shooter fled
with another man on a
motorcycle. A van was set on
fire in the same municipality
this month.
Local authorities formed
retary Karine Jean-Pierre
said the U.S. strongly con-
demned the attack and was
“shocked and saddened by
the loss of life,” noting it
came on International Ho-
locaust Remembrance Day.
Israeli police said the
attack occurred in Neve
Yaakov, a Jewish area in
east Jerusalem with a large
ultra-Orthodox population.
Jerusalem police chief
Doron Turjeman confirmed
seven deaths, in addi-
tion to the shooter, and
said three people were
wounded. Police identified
the attacker as a 21-year-
old east Jerusalem resident
who apparently acted alone.
Defense Minister Yoav
Gallant huddled with Isra-
el’s military chief and other
top security officials and
instructed them to assist
police and strengthen
defenses near Jerusalem
and for Jewish settlements
in the occupied West Bank.
Israel’s MADA res-
cue service said the dead
included a 70-year-old
woman.
The bloodshed was the
deadliest on Israelis since a
2008 shooting killed eight
people in a Jewish seminary
in Jerusalem, according to
Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
Overnight Thursday,
an anti-gang task force
and posted police at trans-
port hubs, and last month
Mexico’s military deployed
an additional 350 soldiers
to communities along the
Guatemalan border.
“The intent is to support
the civilian population to
decrease the homicides tied
to organized crime and the
level of violence that has
been on the rise in recent
days,” said Angel Banda
Lozoya, commander of the
local army regiment.
But the drivers remain
exposed as they make
frequent stops on long
rural routes, and military
might can’t easily quash a
threat that arrives unseen,
through menacing calls and
messages.
Jose Mateo Martinez,
Chiapas state prosecutor
for migrant affairs, says El
Salvador’s crackdown on
organized crime is behind
the increase in criminal
activity in Mexico. “People
are coming to hide from
Gaza militants fired rock-
ets into southern Israel,
with all of them either inter-
cepted or landing in open
areas. Israel responded
with airstrikes on targets
in Gaza. No casualties were
reported.
There was no immediate
claim of responsibility for
Friday’s shooting. In Gaza,
Hamas spokesman Hazem
Qassem said the attack
was “a revenge and natural
response” to the killing of
nine Palestinians in Jenin
on Thursday. A 10th Pales-
tinian was killed in separate
fighting near Jerusalem.
Palestinians had marched
in anger earlier Friday as
they buried the last of those
killed a day earlier.
Scuffles between Israeli
forces and Palestinian
protesters erupted after
the funeral for a 22-year-old
north of Jerusalem and else-
where in the occupied West
Bank, but calm prevailed in
the contested capital and in
the blockaded Gaza Strip
for most of the day.
Israel’s opposition leader,
former Prime Minister Yair
Lapid, called Friday’s shoot-
ing “horrific and heart-
breaking.” There was no
immediate response from
Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu.
that, but there are also gang
leaders who come to create
a criminal group here,” he
said.
In March 2022, El Salva-
dor suspended some consti-
tutional rights in reaction
to an explosion of violence.
The state of exception
has continued since then,
despite wide criticism by
human rights organizations,
with more than 60,000
people arrested on suspicion
of gang ties.
Enforcement has been
less forceful among El
Salvador’s neighbors: From
2018 through Novem-
ber 2022, Mexico arrested
and deported 97 Salvador-
ans allegedly tied to gangs,
mostly in the last two years,
according to the Chiapas
state prosecutor’s office.
Neighboring Guatemala
deported 90 alleged Salva-
doran gang members last
year, National Civilian Police
spokesman Edwin Monroy
said.
The gangs are transna-
McDaniel reelected as chair
of RNC after fierce challenge
By Steve Peoples
Associated Press
DANA POINT, Calif.
— Republican National
Committee Chair Ronna
McDaniel won her bid
Friday to lead the GOP for
two more years, prevailing
in an election that high-
lighted fierce internal divi-
sions that threaten to plague
the party into the next pres-
idential season.
McDaniel, tapped by
Donald Trump as RNC
chair in 2016, won the se-
cret ballot vote 111-51. The
high-profile election played
out at a luxury resort on the
Southern California coast as
the RNC’s 168 voting mem-
bers — activists and elected
officials from all 50 states
— gathered for the commit-
tee’s annual winter meeting.
McDaniel now becomes
the longest-​serving RNC
chair since the Civil War.
Yet friends and foes alike
agree that she will not be
leading the RNC from a
position of strength.
While Trump privately
backed McDaniel, power-
ful forces from within his
“Make America Great
Again” movement lined
up behind McDaniel’s
chief rival, Trump attorney
Harmeet Dhillon.
Dhillon waged an aggres-
sive challenge against
McDaniel that featured
allegations of chronic
misspending, mismanage-
ment and even religious
bigotry against Dhillon’s
Sikh faith — all claims that
McDaniel denied. Above all,
the case against McDaniel
centered on deep dissatis-
faction with the direction
of the party after contin-
uous election losses since
Trump tapped her to lead
the committee following
his upset 2016 victory.
Ahead of the vote, Dhil-
lon cited the GOP base’s
desire for change and
threatened political retribu-
tion for RNC members who
dared support McDaniel’s
reelection.
“Ignoring the will of the
tional by nature, with tens
of thousands of members
in the United States as well
as Central America and
Mexico. El Salvador’s domi-
nant street gangs formed in
Los Angeles among commu-
nities of immigrants who
had fled armed conflicts
in the 1980s. Eventually
deported, they found fertile
ground for more violence,
committing crimes in one
country and then hiding out
in another, blending in with
the daily flow of migrants
across borders.
These gangs have long
operated along Mexico’s
borders, sometimes provid-
ing street muscle for Mexi-
co’s powerful drug cartels or
running their own criminal
enterprises, profiting from
the illicit traffic of drugs,
guns and migrants. And
some Mexican cartels extort
businesses in other parts of
the country.
But another Tapach-
ula transportation leader,
who requested anonymity
Ronna McDaniel overcame internal divisions and was easily
reelected as chair of the Republican National Committee on
Friday in Dana Point, Calif. PATRICK T. FALLON/GETTY-AFP
voters in your state is a
good way not to get elected
again,” Dhillon said.
Before the vote, McDan-
iel pleaded with RNC
members to put their differ-
ences aside after it was over.
“Coming together is the
beginning. Staying together
is progress. But working
together is success,” she
said. “We have to come
together after this meeting
and focus on what we have
ahead of us.”
Several high-profile
Trump allies publicly called
for McDaniel’s ouster. Kari
Lake, the failed Arizona gu-
bernatorial candidate who
has spread debunked claims
of voter fraud, courted RNC
members on Dhillon’s be-
half this week at the con-
ference hotel. And from
afar, Florida Gov. Ron De-
Santis, a likely 2024 presi-
dential contender, spoke out
against McDaniel on the eve
of the vote.
“I think we need a change.
I think we need to get some
new blood in the RNC,” De-
Santis said in an interview
with Florida’s Voice, citing
three “substandard election
cycles in a row” under Mc-
Daniel’s leadership.
Meanwhile, Trump
quietly supported McDan-
iel, a niece of Republican
Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah,
and dispatched a handful
of his lieutenants to South-
ern California this week to
because he feared reprisals,
insisted that these extor-
tionists are Central Ameri-
can gangsters, not Mexican
cartel members.
Extorting local transpor-
tation has been a key line of
their revenue in El Salva-
dor. Salvadoran President
Nayib Bukele said in August
that extortion of that sector
had fallen dramatically. His
transportation minister esti-
mated bus companies had
stopped paying some $50
million to gangs.
Other authorities have
announced some successes:
In August, Mexican police
took down a gang cell that
sold drugs and robbed
clients at a bar in Tapach-
ula. One of the five people
captured had a pending
arrest order from El Salva-
dor and was deported.
In November, Mexican
authorities arrested and
deported to El Salvador
a purported leader of the
Barrio 18 gang, suspected
in the killings of six people
in San Salvador in 2020.
Authorities in El Salvador
said he had fled to Mexico
with his family and other
gang members to avoid
capture under El Salvador’s
special emergency powers.
And on Jan. 3, Guatemala
captured and deported a
Salvadoran gang member
who had multiple arrest
warrants on charges ranging
from aggravated murder to
terrorism.
But people who depend
on transit in southern
Mexico remain dissatis-
fied. There’s a police vehi-
cle parked daily at the local
station in Tapachula where
vans arrive and depart
constantly, but their drivers
remain exposed.
Two of the killings
happened northwest of
Tapachula near the Pacific
coast. In September, a man
got out of a van driving the
route between Tonala and
Arriaga and shot the female
driver. In late October, a
driver was shot in Mapaste-
pec by two men on a motor-
cycle, not far from the local
terminal.
advocate on her behalf.
The former president
avoided making a public
endorsement at McDaniel’s
request, according to those
with direct knowledge of
the situation who spoke on
condition of anonymity to
describe private conversa-
tions.
According to its rules,
the RNC must remain
neutral in the presidential
primary. Trump is the only
announced GOP candidate
so far, but other high-profile
contenders are expected.
McDaniel is set to lead
the RNC through the 2024
election. Under her lead-
ership, the committee will
control much of the 2024
presidential nominating
process — including the
debates and voting calen-
dar — while directing the
sprawling nationwide in-
frastructure designed to
elect the next Republican
president.
Dhillon, whose law firm
earned more than $400,000
representing Trump and
his political organizations
in the 2022 midterms, had
promised to leave her law
practice if elected. The
California attorney also
vowed to remain indepen-
dent in the 2024 Republican
primary should she win.
Also in the race was
My­Pillow CEO Mike Lin-
dell, a pro-Trump conspir-
acy theorist.

MIDDLE EAST
Environmentalists or militant arm?
Organization draws
accusations of being
cover for Hezbollah
By Bassem Mroue
and Fay Abuelgasim
Associated Press
KFAR TIBNIT, Lebanon
— On the outskirts of this
southern Lebanese village,
workers in a pickup truck
parked at a nature reserve
named after a fallen fighter
of the militant Hezbollah
group. They took two large
eucalyptus tree seedlings
out of the truck and planted
them.
The men are from Green
Without Borders, a nongov-
ernmental organization that
says it aims to protect Leba-
non’s green areas and plant
trees.
But Israel, the United
States and some in Lebanon
accuse the nongovernmen-
tal organization of being an
arm of Hezbollah to hide
its military activities. They
say the organization has
been setting up outposts
for the militant group along
the border with Israel. In
December, residents in the
southern Christian village of
Rmaych near the border said
they encountered armed
men at an outpost of the
organization that was block-
ing them from farmlands.
Green Without Borders
denies any link to Hezbol-
lah, which also says it is not
connected to the environ-
mental group.
“We are not an arm for
anyone,” said Zouher Nahli,
the head of Green Without
Borders. “We, as an envi-
ronmental association,
work for all the people and
we are not politicized.” He
spoke at the Bassam Tabaja
Nature Reserve, named for
a Hezbollah fighter killed
in Syria in 2014, where the
NGO has planted hundreds
of trees.
Nahli said the organiza-
tion’s funding comes from
the ministries of environ-
ment and agriculture as well
as from wealthy Lebanese
Far-right Israeli group seeks donations in US
Fundraising helps
extremists convicted
in hate-crime cases
By Uri Blau
and Tia Goldenberg
Shomrim and Associated Press
JERUSALEM — An
Israeli group raising funds
for Jewish extremists
convicted in some of the
country’s most notorious
hate crimes is collecting
tax-exempt donations from
Americans, according to
findings by The Associated
Press and the Israeli inves-
tigative platform Shomrim.
The records in the case
suggest that Israel’s far right
is gaining a new foothold in
the United States.
The amount of money
raised through a U.S.
nonprofit is not known. But
the AP and Shomrim have
documented the money
trail from New Jersey to
imprisoned Israeli radicals,
who include Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin and
people convicted in deadly
attacks on Palestinians.
This overseas fundrais-
ing arrangement has made
it easier for the Israeli group,
Shlom Asiraich, to collect
money from Americans,
who can make their contri-
butions through the U.S.
nonprofit with a credit card
and claim a tax deduction.
Many Israeli causes, from
hospitals to universities
to charities, raise money
through U.S.-based arms.
But having the strategy
adopted by a group assisting
Jewish radicals raises legal
and moral questions.
It also comes against the
backdrop of a new, far-right
government in Israel led by
Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, where ultra-
nationalists and extrem-
ist lawmakers have gained
unprecedented power.
According to Shlom
Asiraich’s promotional
pamphlets, its beneficiaries
include Yigal Amir, who
assassinated Rabin in 1995;
Amiram Ben-Uliel, con-
victed in the 2015 murder
The wall on the Lebanon-Israel border, an area of security tensions, is seen Jan. 21 from the southeastern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila. MOHAMMED ZAATARI/AP
who care about the envi-
ronment and municipalities,
mainly in the eastern Bekaa
Valley and southern Leba-
non. He said he is an Agri-
culture Ministry employee.
Since it began opera-
tions in 2009, the group has
helped plant about 2 million
trees, Nahli said.
Israel and Hezbollah
are archenemies and have
fought several wars over
the past decades, the last
of which ended in August
2006. The 34-day conflict
killed 1,200 in Lebanon,
mostly civilians, and 160
Israelis, mostly soldiers.
The U.N. Security Coun-
cil resolution that ended
that war said the border
area should be free of “any
armed personnel, assets and
weapons,” other than those
of the government and U.N.
peacekeepers. After the
war, thousands of Lebanese
Yosef Haim Ben David, center, arrives at court in Jerusalem during his trial in the death of a Palestinian boy. An Israeli group
raising funds for convicted Jewish radicals, including Ben David, is collecting donations in the U.S. MAHMOUD ILLEAN/AP 2016
of a Palestinian baby and his
parents in an arson attack;
and Yosef Haim Ben David,
convicted of abducting and
killing a 16-year-old Pales-
tinian boy in Jerusalem in
2014. The group also assists
an extremist ultra-Ortho-
dox man who fatally stabbed
a 16-year-old Israeli girl
at Jerusalem’s gay pride
parade in 2015.
Shlom Asiraich, or “The
Well-Being of Your Prison-
ers,” has been raising money
in Israel since at least 2018,
and officially registered as a
nonprofit in 2020 by a group
mostly consisting of Israelis
from hard-line settlements
in the West Bank. At least
five of the group’s seven
founders have been ques-
tioned by Israeli authorities
for crimes related to their
activities against Palestin-
ians. Some have been ar-
rested and charged.
Recipients of its largesse
have hailed the group for
coming through in difficult
times.
troops were deployed in the
border zone and the U.N.
peacekeeping force, known
as UNIFIL, which has been
there since 1978, was beefed
up.
In a November report,
UNIFIL said shipping
containers and prefabri-
cated buildings, some of
them with visible Green
Without Borders markings,
had been set up at 16 sites
along the border. In several
instances, UNIFIL patrols
were prevented from near-
ing the locations, it said.
The Israeli military says
Green Without Borders
outposts on the border are
used by Hezbollah to gather
intelligence information.
At a Security Council
meeting in September, the
U.S. deputy U.N. ambas-
sador, Richard Mills, said
the proliferation of the
group’s outposts along the
“You have no idea how
much you help us,” the
family of Ben-Uliel, who is
serving three life sentences,
wrote in a handwritten
letter posted to the group’s
Facebook page.
Israeli nonprofits have
long sought funding abroad,
with the U.S. a major
source. According to figures
published by Noga Zivan, a
consultant for nonprofits in
Israel, between 2018 to 2020
Jewish American organi-
zations alone donated $2
billion to Israel each year.
Israeli right-wing groups
have long raised funds in the
U.S. But Dvir Kariv, a former
official in the department of
Israel’s domestic security
agency Shin Bet that deals
with Jewish violence, said
it is unusual for extremist
Jews such as the ones who
run Shlom Asiraich to do so.
He said the group appears
to have taken a cue from
other far-right Israeli
groups, particularly Kach,
an anti-Arab racist group
Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Saturday, January 28, 2023  5
border obstructs UNIFIL
access and “is heightening
tensions in the area, further
demonstrating that this so-​
called environmental group
is acting on Hezbollah’s
behalf.”
In December, an Irish
U.N. peacekeeper was killed
and several others were
wounded when attackers
opened fire on a UNIFIL
convoy in southern Leba-
non. Hezbollah denied any
connection to the attack.
Nahli argued that Green
Without Borders’ work is
sorely needed. In the past
few decades, Lebanon has
experienced one of the
world’s worst deforestation
rates, which he said has ac-
celerated since the economy
collapsed starting in 2019.
Residents in Shiite
border villages that support
Hezbollah praise the organi-
zation. It “is doing good for
that was once banned as a
terror organization in the
U.S. but which Kariv said
was adept at raising money
there decades ago.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, a senior
Cabinet minister in Israel’s
new far-right government, is
a disciple of Kach’s founder,
Rabbi Meir Kahane, who
was once barred from Israeli
politics.
It is not clear when Shlom
Asiraich began work-
ing with the New Jersey-
based World of Tzedaka, a
nonprofit that says it works
“to enable any individual or
organization to raise money
for their specific cause.”
Donors in the U.S. can
enter the Shlom Asiraich
site and click on a link that
takes them to a donation
page hosted by World of
Tzedaka. They can also
donate directly from World
of Tzedaka’s site.
According to an instruc-
tional video on the World
of Tzedaka site, fundraisers
must list a rabbi as a refer-
the environment and plant-
ing trees along the border.
We are very happy with their
work,” said Salah Rammal,
a shop owner in the border
village of Odaisseh.
Residents of the Christian
village Rmaych, however,
have complained for years
about a position set up by
Green Without Borders
on farmland belonging to
village families in a nearby
valley. They say the organi-
zation did not plant any trees
there and actually chopped
down trees and cut a mile-
long dirt road on their land.
“It is a cover for Hezbol-
lah to have positions. We
have no problems with
Hezbollah, but it should
be outside our lands,” said
Bassam al-Haj, a Rmaych
schoolteacher.
In December, al-Haj and
other residents went to the
outpost and confronted the
ence and receive approval
from a Lakewood reli-
gious committee. World
of Tzedaka charges $28 a
month and a 3% processing
fee for transferring funds to
an Israeli bank account, the
site says.
World of Tzedaka sup-
ports other charitable ven-
tures, most of them focused
on assisting Jewish families
in distress, according to its
website.
Ellen Aprill, an expert on
tax and charities at Loyola
Law School in Los Ange-
les, said convicted criminals
and their families could be
considered in need and qual-
ify as a permissible charita-
ble purpose.
Marcus Owens, a lawyer
who ran the IRS’ nonprofit
unit in the 1990s, took a
tougher stance.
“The U.S. Department of
Justice views assistance to
the families of terrorists as a
form of material support for
terrorism,” he said.
In order to become a
men there. Al-Haj said some
of the men at the site were
masked and armed. One res-
ident who was recording the
encounter was told by one of
the men, “We will crush you
if you don’t delete the photos
that you took,” al-Haj said.
Days after the confron-
tation, a Hezbollah official
and members of the orga-
nization visited the village
and met residents at the
mayor’s office, said Father
Najib al-Ameel, a priest from
Rmaych who attended the
talks.
The mayor and residents
asked that the post be re-
moved, he said. Al-Ameel
said he told the Hezbollah
official, “We will not accept
anyone but the Lebanese
army to protect us.” A few
days later, Green Without
Borders removed the post
and now residents can freely
access their land, he said.
tax-exempt group recog-
nized by the IRS, an orga-
nization must operate
exclusively for charitable,
religious or educational
purposes.
Repeated attempts to
reach representatives of
Shlom Asiraich were un-
successful. Moshe Orbach,
whose address in the hard-
line West Bank settlement
of Yitzhar is listed as the
group’s headquarters, de-
clined through a lawyer to
be interviewed.
A World of Tzedaka
representative hung up
when asked for comment.
The IRS refused to answer
questions about the group,
saying “federal law prohibits
the IRS from commenting.”
The State Department
on Tuesday referred ques-
tions to the Department
of Justice. “We condemn
extremist violence in all its
forms,” it said.
According to documents
obtained by the AP, Shlom
Asiraich was registered
as a nonprofit with Israeli
authorities by Chanamel
Dorfman, an attorney and a
top aide to Ben-Gvir, Israel’s
new national security minis-
ter.
Dorfman is also listed as
the group’s “lawyer/legal
adviser” on Guidestar, the
official nonprofit registry’s
site.
In a text message, Dorf-
man denied ever having
been the group’s legal
adviser and did not respond
to additional questions.
Dorfman recently told the
conservative daily Israel
Hayom he was simply
acting as a lawyer and that
“if I knew that this is what
this organization does, I
wouldn’t have registered it.”
In October, on the eve of
the Jewish New Year, Shlom
Asiraich tweeted a photo of
snacks it provided to Jewish
suspects under house arrest,
and to families of Israelis
convicted or charged with
crimes against Palestinians.
A note accompanying the
wine and other goods the
nonprofit provided called
the men “beloved heroes.”
6  Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Saturday, January 28, 2023
NEWS BRIEFING
US charges 3 in plot to
kill Iranian American
author in New York
From news services
WASHINGTON — The
Justice Department has
charged three men in an
alleged plot that originated
in Iran to kill an Iranian
American author and activ-
ist who has spoken out
against human rights abuses
there, officials said Friday.
Rafat Amirov, 43, of Iran;
Polad Omarov, 38, of the
Czech Republic and Slove-
nia; and Khalid Mehdiyev,
24, of Yonkers, New York,
were charged with money
laundering and murder-
for-hire in an indictment
unsealed in federal court in
New York. The three men
were in custody and one
was awaiting extradition to
the U.S.
Masih Alinejad, an Ira-
nian opposition activist,
journalist and writer in exile
in New York City, confirmed
to The Associated Press that
she was the intended target.
She said FBI officials
had read her the messages
that the plotters exchanged
between themselves, includ-
ing a final one: “It’s going to
be done today.”
While the man who
allegedly orchestrated the
plot lives in Iran, the indict-
ment does not directly
accuse the country’s theoc-
racy of being behind the
alleged murder-for-hire.
Still, the case “follows
a disturbing pattern of
Iranian government-spon-
sored efforts to kill, torture
and intimidate into silence
activists for speaking out for
the fundamental rights and
freedoms of Iranians around
the world,” White House
national security adviser
Jake Sullivan said.
Mehdiyev was arrested
in 2022 after he was found
driving around Alinejad’s
neighborhood in the Brook-
lyn borough with a loaded
“AK-47-style” rifle. Alinejad
said at the time that author-
ities told her the man was
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looking for her, and that a
home security video had
caught him skulking outside
her front door.
“The government of Iran
has previously targeted
dissidents around the world,
including the victim, who
oppose the regime’s viola-
tions of human rights,”
Attorney General Merrick
Garland said in announcing
the charges.
He said “individuals in
Iran” had tasked the defen-
dants with carrying out the
plot to kill the activist.
Santos campaign: Rep.
George Santos’ campaign
committee is facing new
questions from federal
regulators after submitting
paperwork listing a new
treasurer who says he never
took the job.
The Federal Election
Commission sent a letter
Thursday to the Devolder
Santos for Congress cam-
paign seeking clarity on the
switch. It’s the latest scru-
tiny for the New York con-
gressman who has been
caught fabricating many el-
ements of his life story.
The letter said the first-
year Republican’s campaign
“may have failed to include
the true, correct, or complete
treasurer information” on
paperwork Wednesday list-
ing Thomas Datwyler as its
new treasurer and custodian
of records.
Five other political fund-
raising committees linked
to Santos received the same
letters after they, too, filed
paperwork Wednesday list-
ing Datwyler as their new
treasurer.
Blood donor rules: The U.S.
is moving to further ease
restrictions on blood dona-
tions from gay and bisexual
men and other groups that
typically face higher risks of
HIV.
The Food and Drug Ad-
ministration on Friday an-
Bittersweet anniversary: Visitors walk through a gate Thursday at the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in
Oswiecim, Poland. More than 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were killed there. Camp survivors gathered Friday to mark the 78th
anniversary of its liberation, amid horror that yet another war has shattered peace in Europe. MICHAL DYJUK/AP
nounced draft guidelines
that would do away with
the current three-month
abstinence requirement for
donations from men who
have sex with men. Instead,
all potential donors would
be screened with a new
questionnaire that evalu-
ates their individual risks
for HIV based on sexual be-
havior, recent partners and
other factors.
If finalized, many gay and
bisexual men in monoga-
mous relationships would
be able to donate blood for
the first time in decades.
The U.S. and many other
countries started blocking
blood donations from gay
and bisexual men during the
early 1980s AIDS epidemic,
aiming to prevent the spread
of HIV through the blood
supply.
Embassy attack: A gunman
stormed the Azerbaijan
Embassy in Iran’s capital
Friday, killing its security
chief and wounding two
guards in an attack that
spiked long-simmering
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tensions between the two
neighboring countries.
Azerbaijan’s Foreign
Ministry said it would evac-
uate the diplomatic post,
accusing Iran of not taking
reported threats against it
seriously in the past.
Tehran’s police chief, Gen.
Hossein Rahimi, initially
blamed the attack on
“personal and family prob-
lems,” something quickly
repeated across Iranian
state media. But within
hours Rahimi would lose
his position as police chief
after footage emerged that
appeared to show a security
force member doing nothing
to stop the attack.
Azerbaijan borders Iran’s
northwest and ethnic Azeris
number over 12 million
people in Iran, representing
the Islamic Republic’s larg-
est minority group.
There have been tensions
between the two countries
as Azerbaijan and Arme-
nia have fought over the
Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Azerbaijan also maintains
close ties to Israel, which
Tehran views as its top
regional enemy.
Colo. shooting suspect: A in the home of a 74-year-old
man charged with killing 10
people at a Colorado super-
market nearly two years ago
remains mentally incompe-
tent to stand trial, a judge
said Friday.
Court proceedings against
Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 23,
have been paused for more
than a year after Judge
Ingrid Bakke found him
to be mentally incompe-
tent in December 2021 and
sent him to the state mental
hospital for treatment.
During a hearing Friday in
Boulder, Bakke said a report
from the hospital reached
the same conclusion.
Doctors added that they still
think Alissa has a “reason-
able likelihood” of reaching
competency, Bakke said.
Alissa is accused of open-
ing fire outside and inside
a King Soopers store in
Boulder, killing customers,
workers and a police offi-
cer. Investigators have not
revealed a possible motive.
Spain bomb workshop:
Police in Spain discovered
a bomb-making workshop
man charged with terror-
ism for sending six letters
containing explosives to
high-profile diplomatic and
government targets, the
Spanish Interior Ministry
said Friday.
Spain’s National Court
said earlier it had charged
the retiree for allegedly
sending letter bombs to
the country’s prime min-
ister and to the U.S. and
Ukrainian embassies in
Madrid. An employee at
the Ukrainian Embassy was
slightly injured while han-
dling one of the letters.
An Interior Ministry
statement issued as the sus-
pect appeared in court Fri-
day detailed items in the
home that indicated meticu-
lous planning had gone into
making the letter bombs.
The letter bombs were
sent in November and
December and required
the intervention of bomb-​
disposal experts.
 Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Saturday, January 28, 2023  7

ARTS & LIVING

Chuck Cooper as Deuteronomy, left, and Natasha Lyonne as Charlie Cale in “Poker Face.” SARA SHATZ/PEACOCK

REVIEW ‘POKER FACE’ ★★★★

Channeling that old ‘Columbo’ magic

By Nina Metz
Chicago Tribune
A cut above the best, the Peacock
murder mystery series “Poker
Face” scratches all my old-school
“Columbo” itches — and does it
without putting a police detective
at the center. Natasha Lyonne stars
as a cocktail waitress on the run
from a casino boss. She’s driving
cross country with no real desti-
nation in mind, stumbling upon
crimes at every pit stop.
Talkative and droll, she can clock
a bluff. A useful skill until heavies
in the gambling world catch on. But
once she’s on the lam, those quali-
ties plus a moral compass make her
a lively detective-stand in.
She’s nosey enough, and curious
enough, to unravel these various
crimes without even meaning to.
She’s just asking questions, see?
Because the party line doesn’t
make sense. The lies are every-
where. She’d much rather lay low,
take the occasional short-term
job and keep her head down. But
there’s a dead body. And suspi-
cious circumstances. She can’t help
herself. So there she is, sussing
things out with an offbeat quiz-
zicalness that’s not unlike her
aforementioned spiritual prede-
cessor. Both embody the antithe-
sis of glossy or sleek, but instead of
a cigar and rumpled raincoat, her
defining look is ’80s hairband chic:
Fried locks, cowboy boots and a
pair of skinny jeans.
The show comes from Rian
Johnson, the writer-director of
“Knives Out” and “Glass Onion,”
both of which I liked fine. I think
he’s found a stronger way into
the genre with “Poker Face.” The
movies, to me, spend too much
time winking at whodunit conven-
tions rather than unlocking what
makes them tick. The Peacock
series takes a smarter approach
by embracing the tropes while
slightly reworking them to land on
a scratchy-piquant humor all its
own. (Maya Rudolph is an execu-
tive producer here as well.)
I say “whodunit,” but that’s
wrong: As with “Columbo,” each
episode begins with the crime
itself. We already know whodunit,
leaving us with a wily game of
cat-and-mouse as Lyonne’s human
lie detector pieces together the
truth behind all these artful lies and
misdirections.
It’s a stacked list of guest stars:
Adrien Brody as a man looking to
fleece a high roller; Chloë Sevi-
gny as a one-hit wonder angling
for a rock star comeback; Lil Rel
Howery as a crooked BBQ entre-
preneur; S. Epatha Merkerson
and Judith Light as pot-smoking
ex-radicals; Benjamin Bratt as the
enigmatic casino muscle who’s
on her trail. Everyone’s playing it
just larger-than-life, which works
in terrific contrast to Lyonne’s
offhanded energy.
These are crimes borne of greed
or revenge or just an empty hole
in someone’s gut where their
soul used to be. The deep flaws of
humanity are on display, and yet
the show never slips into the grim.
Tonally, it is a sly mix of absurdist
humor and bad impulses.
You need a consistent and
entertaining center to keep things
grounded and Lyonne’s shrug-
ging-charismatic performance is
as deft as they come. How does she
managed to have chemistry with
everyone? I don’t know, but she
does. I’ll never tire of the way she
plays with dialogue, delivered with
that born-in-New York accent:
Peter Falk meets Penny Marshall.
Bring back regional accents to tele-
vision!
The character’s a drifter and a
solo artist who is constantly asked:
Married? Kids? (She’s not thinking
about it, why the hell is anybody
else?) Left unexamined is her worl-
dview, which I’m not sure I even
realized until an episode when she
teams up with the FBI. She embod-
ies a light cynicism that suggests
she might be skeptical of institu-
tions of power. Or not. The show is
surprisingly vague on this point.
For the most part, “Poker Face”
gingerly sidesteps around the
messiness of copaganda altogether.
If there’s unexpected playfulness in
the case-of-the-week format, it also
gives an otherwise aimless charac-
ter a sense of purpose.
Here’s something that might
seem positively radical: Sisters and
co-showrunners Nora and Lilla
Zuckerman embrace the throw-
back sensibility of the weekly
murder mystery and stick with the
traditional pacing and structure
that was once a staple of television.
I’ll never understand why execu-
tives nearly wiped these kinds of
shows off the programming slate in
favor of TV-as-neverending-movie.
With “Poker Face,” it’s as if
Hollywood never skipped a beat.
The format demands new charac-
ters and a new setting every time
and the challenge is always: Make
the unfamiliar compelling from
the jump. Sometimes I’ll watch
“Murder, She Wrote” just to remind
myself what that can look like —
and that it used to be the norm. I’ve
often wondered if this kind of TV
writing was lost art. It’s mostly been
relegated to cop shows these days,
where the emphasis is blunt force
over deductive reasoning.
But here’s a persuasive case for
what we knew all along: TV shows
like “Columbo” and “Murder, She
Wrote” (or any of the other oldies;
you name it, the Hallmark Chan-
nel has it) can and should fill what
is actually a not-so-niche corner of
the TV landscape.
Early on, someone asks Lyonne’s
character: What is it like, always
knowing the truth?
“Eh, yeah, no — I only know if
something is a lie. And outside of
poker it’s less useful than you’d
think. ’Cause everyone? They lie
constantly. It’s like birds chirping.”
It’s everywhere, all the time, and
usually about meaningless stuff.
“The real trick of it is to figure
out why.”
Where to watch: Peacock
Nina Metz is a Tribune critic.
nmetz@chicagotribune.com

THINGS TO DO AROUND CHICAGO

Inzo, National Geographic Live and Wynton Marsalis

Chicago Tribune
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
with Wynton Marsalis: “The Best
of Duke Ellington”: For one night
only at Symphony Center, Marsa-
lis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra present an all-Duke
Ellington program, including “It
Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t
Got That Swing,” “Sophisticated
Lady” and “Mood Indigo.” Plus a
preconcert talk 6:45 to 7:15 p.m.
on the stage by Seton Hawkins,
director of public programs for
Jazz at Lincoln Center. 8 p.m.
Saturday in Orchestra Hall at
Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan
Ave.; tickets $82-$399 at cso.org
“Disney On Ice presents Frozen
& Encanto”: The two Disney
animated family favorites are
brought to life, with music and
skating, in an ice show hosted by
Mickey and Minnie. Through Jan.
29 at the United Center, 1901 W.
Madison St., then Feb. 2-5 at the
Allstate Arena, 6920 N. Mannheim
Road, Rosemont; www.ticket
master.com
Inzo: The from-Chicago elec-
tronic music artist also known as
Michael Inzano is in the midst
of his first-ever headlining tour.
Catch the hometown concert of
his Earth Magic Tour at Concord
Music Hall this weekend. “Last
time I played this venue I was the
first opener,” he noted on Twitter.
“This is insane.” 10 p.m. Saturday
at Concord Music Hall, 2047 N.
Milwaukee Ave.; tickets $18 (ages
18+) at concordmusichall.com
“Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and
Grill”: Starring Alexis J. Roston
as Billie Holiday, this show is set
at a cabaret performance in 1956,
one of her last concerts before her
death in 1959. Through March 12
in the Venus Cabaret at Mercury
Theater Chicago, 3745 N. South-
port Ave.; www.mercury
theaterchicago.com
Kevin Nealon: He’s still best
known for his nine years on
“Saturday Night Live” where
his standout moments included
hosting the “Weekend Update”
desk and his character Mr.
Sublimina. He’s joined at City
Winery by Chicago comic and
Laugh Factory regular Kristen
Toomey. 5 and 8 p.m. Saturday
at City Winery Chicago, 1200 W.
Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis performs with the Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra at Symphony Center in 2019. FRANK STEWART
Randolph St.; citywinery.com
“Hansel and Gretel”: The opera
by Engelbert Humperdinck,
adapted from the story by the
Brothers Grimm, has been in
Chicago before, but the creepy
and arresting stage pictures never
get old. A highlight this time at
Lyric Opera is soprano Heidi
Stober, who plays Gretel oppo-
site Samantha Hankey’s earth-
ier Hansel, writes the Tribune’s
Chris Jones in his review. Stober
knows just how to play a lively
and inquisitive young girl.
Through Feb. 5 at Lyric Opera of
Chicago, 20 N. Wacker Drive; tick-
ets $40-$330 at 312-827-5600 and
lyricopera.org
Sleeping Village Five-Year Anni-
versary: The Avondale bar and
live music venue is marking its
fifth anniversary with a series of
shows. On Friday, catch DJ sets
from Sextile and Club Drippy.
Saturday’s shows feature Plaid
and Matchess. 8 p.m. Saturday at
Sleeping Village, 3734 W. Belmont
Ave.; tickets $12-$15 for Friday and
$21-$25 for Saturday sleeping-vil-
lage.com/events
National Geographic Live
— Greenwood: A Century of
Resilience: Alicia Odewale, an
archaeologist and Tulsa native,
comes to the Auditorium Theatre
to discuss her research on the
impacts of the Tulsa Race Massa-
cre. There will also be an audi-
ence Q&A session and discussion
with the Chicago History
Museum following her presenta-
tion. 2 p.m. Sunday at the Audito-
rium Theatre, 50 E. Ida B Wells Dr.;
tickets $25-$48 at auditorium
theatre.org
Leif Ove Andsnes: The Norwe-
gian pianist’s program includes
Beethoven’s Op. 110 sonata, as well
as pieces from Czech compos-
ers Dvořák and Janáček. 3 p.m.
Sunday at the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, 220 S. Michigan Ave.;
tickets $35-$250 at cso.org
8  Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Saturday, January 28, 2023

CELEBRITIES

Robinson to release new solo album ASK AMY

From news services
It has been nearly a
decade since Smokey
Robinson’s last album, but
new music from the King
of Motown is on the hori-
zon. Robinson will release
the nine-track album
“Gasms” on April 28, the
musician behind hits such
as “My Girl” and “The Way
You Do the Things You
Do” announced Friday.
“Gasms” features new
songs produced and
written by Robinson. He
released his last collabora-
tive album nine years ago,
“Smokey & Friends.”
The upcoming album’s
first single, “If We Don’t
Have Each Other,” is now
available on streaming
services.
Robinson is a music
producer, songwriter,
record label executive and
solo musician who has
penned over 4,000 songs
and been inducted into the
Rock ’n’ Roll and Songwrit-
ers halls of fame.
Leno breaks bones in
motorcycle wreck: Two
months after undergoing
surgery for serious burns,
Jay Leno is now contend-
ing with a number of
broken bones after being
knocked off a motorcycle.
On Thursday, the
former “Tonight Show”
host told the Las Vegas
Review-​Journal that he
broke his collarbone and
two ribs and cracked his
kneecaps in the Jan. 17
accident.
The November garage
fire and January wreck
both stemmed from
his passion for work-
ing on vintage vehicles.
In November, Leno, 72,
suffered burns on his face,
hands and chest in a gaso-
line fire while repairing the
fuel line on a vintage car.
He told the Review-​Jour-
nal he was testing a 1940
motorcycle earlier this
month when he noticed
the scent of leaking gas.
“So I turned down a side
street and cut through
a parking lot, and unbe-
Singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson will release a new solo
album, “Gasms,” on April 28. MICHAEL TRAN/GETTY-AFP 2020
knownst to me, some guy
had a wire strung across
the parking lot but with no
flag hanging from it,” Leno
said. “So, you know, I didn’t
see it until it was too late.”
Leno’s accident revela-
tion comes amid CNBC’s
decision not to renew
“Jay Leno’s Garage” for
another season as the cable
network doubles down
on its business news and
personal finance informa-
tion content. Meaning, the
longtime NBC star will be
ending his 30-year run at
NBCUniversal.
Actor Syms dies: Actor
Sylvia Syms, 89, who
starred in classic British
films including “Ice Cold
in Alex” and “Victim,”
has died, her family said.
Her children said Syms
“died peacefully” Friday in
London.
In a career stretching
over seven decades, Syms
appeared in many of the
best remembered Brit-
ish movies of the 1950s
and ’60s, as well as the
1974 Cold War drama
“The Tamarind Seed.”
Syms played British
Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher in the 1991 TV
film “Thatcher: The Final
Days,” and appeared as the
Queen Mother Elizabeth
in the 2006 Oscar-winning
film “The Queen.”
Pascal to host ‘SNL’:
Pedro Pascal will make
his “Saturday Night Live”
hosting debut next month.
NBC announced Thurs-
day that the actor will host
the sketch series Feb. 4. He
will be joined by musi-
cal guest Coldplay, which
will return for its seventh
“SNL” appearance.
Jan. 28 birthdays: Actor
Alan Alda is 87. Actor
Marthe Keller is 78. Direc-
tor Frank Darabont is 64.
Singer Marvin Sapp is 56.
Singer Sarah McLachlan
is 55. Rapper Rick Ross is
47. Singer Joey Fatone is
46. Singer Nick Carter is
43. Actor Vinny Chhibber
is 43. Actor Elijah Wood
is 42. Rapper J. Cole is 38.
Actor Ariel Winter is 25.
Stepchildren offer humiliation as their gift
Dear Amy: My husband
and I have been married
for 10 years. We each have
two grown children from
previous marriages.
My children love and
accept my husband as
family. My husband’s chil-
dren have never accepted
me. I met their father after
their parents divorced, so
I was in no way a cause of
their breakup.
An example of their
behavior toward me is
when they visit for Christ-
mas each year, they bring
their father a Christmas
gift and wish him a Merry
Christmas, while they
completely ignore me.
I’ve spoken to my
husband about my feel-
ings, but it doesn’t help.
He says his family is
dysfunctional. What
should I do?
— Simply Hurt
Dear Hurt: Your husband’s
astute observation is that
his family is dysfunctional.
I assume you’re thinking:
“That’s right, Einstein.”
But an accurate descrip-
tion is not a solution.
Your husband seems to
be passively standing by
while his children humili-
ate you in your own home.
You also seem to have lost
your own voice.
His children obviously
want to have a relationship
with him, so he should
convey to them that he
won’t tolerate this rude-
ness toward you. If he had
done this at the outset of
your relationship, they
might have been retrained
by now.
You’ve asked what you
should do. You have noth-
ing to lose, and so you
might take advantage of
this post-holiday period
to email them and say,
“I’ve been married to your
father for 10 years. I had no
By Amy Dickinson
askamy@amydickinson.com Twitter@askingamy
role in the breakup of your
parents’ marriage, which
happened before he and I
met. I regret that I’ve been
tolerating your rudeness
toward me for a decade.
I’d like to have a positive
relationship with you, but
at the very least I do expect
you to be polite toward me
when you’re a guest in our
home.”
Dear Amy: My 98-year-old
father died recently. At
the graveside service, our
longtime business asso-
ciate and family friend
of 45 years would not
shake hands with my son’s
boyfriend. My son had to
introduce his boyfriend
twice before our family
friend shook his hand.
I’ve always suspected
that he is homophobic,
though he has never said
anything out loud. I did not
witness the interaction,
but I know how disre-
spected my son felt. It was
an added anguish to an
already stressful day.
I am outraged and want
to contact the family
friend and question him
about this blatant bigotry.
He usually seems to
appear kind and thought-
ful in all other interac-
tions.
My question to you is
how should I respond/
deal with a close business
associate and family friend
who demonstrates behav-
ior that I believe needs to
be called out?
— Incensed Mother
Dear Incensed: I can
think of a couple of legiti-
mate reasons (aside from
homophobia) for why
someone might choose not
to shake someone else’s
hand, but your son inter-
preted this choice as stem-
ming from homophobia
— and you do, too.
If you continue to stew
on this, contact your
friend, tell him what your
son has told you, tell him
that this is upsetting to
you and ask for an expla-
nation.
He might tell you that
he didn’t hear your son’s
introduction, or that he is
reluctant to shake hands
these days for fear of
passing along or contract-
ing an illness. You should
accept whatever explana-
tion he has offered, with
the understanding that
you have already conveyed
your distress about this.
Dear Amy: Thank you for
the comic relief with all of
the questions about brides
forcing wedding guests to
dress a specific way.
Almost 59 years ago, I
walked down the aisle to
start a life with my hubby.
We were in our late teens.
Naysayers thought we
were doomed from the
start. Even my parents
disagreed with my choice
to marry. I paid for my own
modest church wedding.
Afterward, as I looked
at the amateur pictures,
I caught a glimpse of the
pastor’s wife in “curlers.”
She thought there would
be a need for a witness at
this “teen marriage.” (The
church was full.)
We’re still married, and
I still smile at that memory.
My advice is for guests to
“come as you are,” and to
be supportive.
— A Sweet Home Bride
Dear Bride: These goofy
questions would be flat-
out funny, if they weren’t
so oppressively sad.
Copyright 2023 by Amy
Dickinson
Distributed by Tribune
Content Agency

NATIONAL BESTSELLERS MUSIC REVIEWS

HARDCOVER FICTION 2. “Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus

1. “The Cabinet of Dr. Leng”
by Douglas Preston and Lincoln
Child (Grand Central)
Last week: —
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. “Spare” by Prince Harry
(Random House) Last week: 1
For the week ended Jan. 21, ​
compiled from data from
independent and chain
bookstores, book wholesalers
and independent distributors
nationwide.
— Publishers Weekly
Dylan release reveals new layers
(Doubleday) Last week: 3 When Bob Dylan
released “Time Out of
3. “The House of Wolves” by James Patterson Mind” in 1997, it was
and Mike Lupica (Little, Brown) Last week: 1 heralded as a late-career
masterpiece featuring
4. “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” songs such as “Make You
by Gabrielle Zevin (Knopf ) Last week: 5 Feel My Love,” “Love Sick”
and “Not Dark Yet.”
5. “How to Sell a Haunted House” by Grady Now, a quarter century
Hendrix (Berkley) Last week: — and several other seminal
Dylan records later, “Time
6. “The House in the Pines” by Ana Reyes Out of Mind” is still viewed
(Dutton) Last week: 4 as a masterpiece, just a
mid-career one.
7. “The Boys from Biloxi: A Legal Thriller” “Fragments — Time
by John Grisham (Doubleday) Last week: 6 Out of Mind Sessions
(1996-1997)” — the 17th
8. “Hell Bent” by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron) volume of Dylan’s Bootleg
Last week: 2 Series, an archival release
series — reveals even more
9. “Without a Trace” by Danielle Steel layers to the record that
(Delacorte) Last week: 7 reset the trajectory of
Dylan’s career. It proves,
10. “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver yet again, that Dylan’s
(Harper) Last week: 8 discards are as good or
better than most people’s
official catalogue.
The five-disc set is an
amalgamation of previ-
2. “The Creative Act: A Way of Being” by Rick ously unheard studio
Rubin (Penguin Press) Last week: — outtakes, a remixed
version of the original
3. “Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second record, live tracks and
Chances and First Takes” by Stephen A. Smith previously released alter-
(13A) Last week: — nate versions.
The remixed original
4. “The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain record allows listeners
Times” by Michelle Obama (Crown) Last week: 2 to experience “Time Out
of Mind” in a new way,
5. “The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill stripping away Daniel
Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill” by Brad Meltzer Lanois’ swampy produc-
and Josh Mensch (Flatiron) Last week: 7 tion to present the songs
closer to how they were
6. “I’m Glad My Mom Died” by Jennette McCurdy played in the studio. The
(Simon & Schuster) Last week: 5 live versions captured
between 1998 and 2001
7. “Saving Aziz: How the Mission to Help One crackle, with Dylan’s
Became a Calling to Rescue Thousands from the touring band flexing its
Taliban” by Chad Robichaux (Thomas Nelson) muscle.
Last week: — But the release’s heart
is the studio outtakes. It’s
8. “Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving through these that we hear
Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are” Dylan recrafting the songs,
by Lysa TerKeurst (Thomas Nelson) Last week: 8 taking discarded bits from
one and adding them to
9. “The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s another, dropping and
Longest Scientific Study of Happiness” by Robert adding lyrics seemingly at
Waldinger and Mark Schulz (Simon & Schuster) whim.
Last week: 4 A bonus treat: Dylan’s
heartfelt rendering early in
10. “Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim the recording sessions of
Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire” by Dan the Scottish folk song “The
Martell (Portfolio) Last week: — Water is Wide.” Rather
than a toss off, Dylan leans
into it and delivers a rendi-
tion that will raise the hairs
on the back of your neck.
— Scott Bauer, Associated
Press
‘Fragments —
Time Out of
Mind Sessions
(1996-1997)’
Bob Dylan (Columbia
Records/Legacy Recordings)
From the moment
they held the iconic glass
microphone at Eurovision
in 2021, the members of
Italian rock band Mane-
skin have catapulted to
worldwide fame. Their
third album “Rush!”
perfectly encapsulates the
four-piece band’s essence
and reveals insights into
the life-changing chapter
they’ve lived in the past
couple of years.
While most of the 17
tracks are in English,
Maneskin doesn’t forget
where it came from by
adding a few tracks in
Italian, including the
single “La Fine.” “Know
that it’s not the begin-
ning, it’s the end/ Even
the most beautiful rose
has thorns/ Maybe the
only answer is to leave or
to stay to rot,” the band
members sing.
“Rush!” can’t merely
be described as a rock
album, even though the
band keeps that fiery and
loud beat. The members
experiment with different
genres such as indie rock
and pop. But their grow-
ing popularity has not
changed their revolution-
ary spirit.
In the track “Gossip,”
featuring Tom Morello
from Rage Against the
Machine, Maneskin front-
man Damiano David sings:
“This place is a circus. You
just see the surface.”
The band members
show their vulnerabilities,
their anger and their joys,
and they take jabs at the
‘Rush!’
Maneskin (Arista/
Sony Music Latin)
American dream that does
not really represent them.
Maneskin’s impact
on the music industry
looks to be long-lasting
and anything but rushed.
— Martina Inchingolo,
Associated Press
On Whitehorse’s “I’m
Not Crying, You’re Crying,”
the singer-songwriter-​
husband-wife duo Luke
Doucet and Melissa
McClelland trade the lead
and share their love of clas-
sic country music.
Twang has always been
part of the Canadian pair’s
repertoire, and while writ-
ing during the pandemic,
the couple looked to the
country sounds of a half-​
century ago for inspi-
ration. The result is a
collection of tunes that
are by turns weepy, funny,
hooky, bouncy and lovely,
echoing 1970s Bakers-
field, Los Angeles, Austin
and Nashville. Along with
drinking, the coronavirus
lockdown is a recurring
topic, and the two also sing
about gambling on love,
the tug of home and toilet
paper.
The arrangements
are spare, wisely leaving
the focus on the beau-
tifully complementary
vocals. The harmonies of
McClelland and Doucet,
both fine lead singers,
can be savory or sweet.
The voices weave around
Burke Carroll’s pedal steel
and Doucet’s distinctive
electric guitar work. On
“I’m Not Crying, You’re
Crying,” retro becomes
modern. — Steven Wine,
Associated Press
 Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Saturday, January 28, 2023  9

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Peacock streaming flag-to-flag live coverage.
NBA Basketball
ABC, Beginning at 2 p.m. Live
A tripleheader of NBA action on ABC has the
Denver Nuggets at the Philadelphia 76ers,
the N.Y. Knicks at the Brooklyn Nets and the
L.A. Lakers at the Boston Celtics.
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Sparks fly when an avalanche forecaster
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from the director of Mountain Rescue
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Lifetime, 7 p.m.  Original Film
Jaime King stars as Sherri Papini, a young
mother of two who disappeared while
jogging near her home, leading to national
headlines as concerned citizens searched
for her whereabouts. When she reappeared
three weeks later on Thanksgiving Day,
Sherri claimed she was abducted by
two Hispanic women who chained and
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‘NCIS: Los Angeles’ to end in May

From news services Olsen, Medalion Rahimi, leaving the Valley in the
Caleb Castille and Gerald time and place we’ve
“NCIS: Los Angeles” cast McRaney. always imagined ... While
members flooded social “After 14 seasons, this this may be a bittersweet By Jacqueline E. Mathews. © 2023 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. All rights reserved.
1/28/23
media with farewells after is the perfect time to end day for the fandom, the
learning that this will be ‘NCIS: LA’ on top of our Miyagiverse has never been ACROSS 46 Word with Buren Solutions
the show’s last season. game!!!” LL Cool J wrote stronger ... As we all know, 1 Energy or Gogh
The CBS crime drama, on Instagram. Cobra Kai Never Dies.” 4 Febreze targets 47 Has to
which spun off from Olsen wrote a poignant The show will end with 9 Moreover 48 Entreaty
13 Baker’s need 51 Hugeness
“NCIS” in September 2009, farewell, too: “What a about 60 episodes.
15 Ike’s love 56 Highway
will end a 14-year run on spectacular journey we all 16 Vittles 57 “__ My Way”;
May 14, signing off with its shared.” Quaid joins cast of ‘1883:
17 At __; relaxed film for Bing
322nd episode, the network The Bass Reeves Story’:
18 Actress 58 Requirement
recently announced. ‘Cobra Kai’ to wrap with Taylor Sheridan’s upcom- Verdugo 60 Monster
“For 14 seasons, ‘NCIS: season six: “Cobra Kai,” ing Western drama, “1883: 19 Chimney 61 Massive crowd
Los Angeles’ has been a the continuation of “The The Bass Reeves Story,” channel 62 Equipment
stalwart of our lineup with Karate Kid” story, will get will feature Dennis Quaid, 20 Dark songbirds 63 Unite metals by
characters who were a a sixth and final season on who has joined the stream- 22 Troubles heating
joy to watch,” CBS Enter- Netflix. ing series as Sherrill Lynn, a 23 On one’s __; 64 Lock of hair
tainment President Amy The trio of men who deputy U.S. marshal. alert 65 Introverted
Reisenbach said in a state- brought Daniel LaRusso The six-part limited 24 Lincoln or Ford
ment. (Ralph Macchio) and his series stars David Oyelowo 26 Humble; DOWN
“It’s no surprise this universe back — Josh as Reeves, the real-life unassuming 1 “The Tell-Tale
show succeeded as a Heard, Jon Hurwitz and deputy U.S. marshal who 29 Child’s chum Heart” author
global franchise. From day Hayden Schlossberg — was born into slavery 34 Uneven 2 Perón & 14 Least messy 41 Swirling bath
one, the cast, producers recently released a farewell and later worked in the 35 Feel about Longoria 21 Jack’s love in 42 Complain
and crew were amazing letter. post-Reconstruction era blindly 3 Nuisance “Titanic” childishly
network/studios partners, “Reacquainting the as a federal peace officer in 36 1 and 2 and 3 4 Egg dish 25 Thumbs-up vote 44 Didn’t get caught
and their teamwork, talent world with ‘The Karate the Indian Territory. and 4 5 Pricey 26 Vegan no-nos by
and spirit vividly came Kid’ universe has been our The Paramount+ series 37 Lie alongside surrealistic 27 Encircle 45 Forward thrusts
through on the screen.” humble honor,” they wrote, is a spinoff of Sheridan’s 38 Wonderland paintings 28 Throw water on 47 Fixes
LL Cool J, Chris O’Don- noting that it has “enabled “Yellowstone” prequel, visitor 6 Foreboding sign 29 Is nosy 48 Ship’s bow
nell and Daniela Ruah us to play sensei, expanding “1883.” 39 Hair coloring 7 Piece of jewelry 30 Door securer 49 Theater box
play agents in the Office the original storylines and “I’m doing ‘Bass Reeves’ 40 Poet’s 8 Ocean resort 31 Like Pisa’s tower 50 Pres. Carter’s
of Special Projects, an birthing a new generation for Taylor Sheridan,” Quaid contraction artwork 32 Uptight middle name
NCIS division (which of underdogs. We’ve never recently told Fox News. 41 Like an afghan 9 Swear to 33 Go into 52 Secure a boat
stands for Naval Crimi- once taken this opportunity “Riding horses, shooting hound’s coat 10 Lounge about 35 Joyfulness 53 Marshy ground
nal Investigative Service). for granted.” guns — you know, making 42 Inaccurate 11 Aretha’s music 38 From dusk to 54 Golfing items
Other stars have included They are thrilled to end mayhem at 4 in the morn- 43 Church toppers 12 Some of Keats’ dawn 55 Slangy reply
45 Sheen works 39 Sampling 59 As __ as a bone
Linda Hunt, Eric Christian the show “on our terms, ing.”
10  Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Saturday, January 28, 2023

Dilbert By Scott Adams

Horoscopes
Today’s birthday (Jan. 28): Share, connect
and collaborate for expansion this year.
Organization and steady practices can
achieve personal dreams. Winter domestic
adjustments lead to blossoming springtime
communication, connection and creativity.
Resolve a professional challenge this summer, before au-
tumn adventures invite exploration.
Aries (March 21-April 19): Today is a 9. Do what you love and
the money follows. You’re exceptionally quick and charming.
Provide well for your family. Let others know what you’re
working for.
Taurus (April 20-May 20): 9. Your confidence is on the rise.
Important people are watching. Have meaningful conversa- Baby Blues By Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott (Baby Blues is on vacation until January 30. Please enjoy this strip from 2019.)
tions. Use your power wisely. What difference could you make?
Gemini (May 21-June 20): 7. Hide away in your own private
paradise. Reschedule public engagement. Decrease outside
obligations. Rest and recharge. Revise plans for new conditions.
Cancer (June 21-July 22): 9. A team dream lies within reach.
Listen to intuition and unspoken clues. Friends believe in
you. Pull together to score the winning goal.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): 7. Things may not go as planned at work.
Unexpected benefits could arise from a technical breakdown.
Build and strengthen professional relationships for resilience.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): 8. Learn by experience. Experiment
with a theory you’ve been developing. Things don’t go as
planned. Discoveries spark from accidental coincidences.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): 8. Creative work pays well. Avoid
potential clashes between love and money. Resolve differ- Zits By Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
ences and keep accounts in order.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): 8. Share a laugh. The longer you
collaborate, the deeper your partnership grows. Strengthen
your roots by weaving them together and digging deep.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): 9. Maintain healthy practices
to build strength and endurance. Exercise grows your energy
levels. Don’t break anything. Watch where you’re going.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): 8. Love is the game and the
prize. Have fun with someone interesting. Spontaneous
opportunities are worth pursuing. Why not? Enjoy a sweet
connection.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): 7. Beautify domestic spaces with
love and attention. Less is more. Repair something before it
breaks. Invest in comfort. Savor your favorite chair and tea.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): 8. Creative expression flowers. Mr. Boffo By Joe Martin
Inspiration could deviate attention from the schedule. Time
stops when you’re having fun. Develop an idea into sketches
and basic elements.

— Nancy Black, Tribune Content Agency

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Bliss By Harry Bliss Classic Peanuts By Charles Schulz

Pickles By Brian Crane

Bridge
Neither vulnerable, North deals
North
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What would you open with the North hand? It is
certainly not a clear-cut decision. In a recent team match
Animal Crackers By Mike Osbun
between a team from Ukraine and a team from the Faroe
Islands, both North players chose to pass. They wanted
to listen to a round of bidding in the hope that it would
help them judge the
hand later. Both heard
The bidding: their partner open the
North East South West bidding one diamond
Pass Pass 1♦ Pass and rebid two hearts.
1♠ Pass 2♥ Pass
Two hearts was a
reverse, promising at
4♣* Dbl Redbl Pass least 17 points.
4♥ All pass At this table, the
*Splinter bid, heart raise with Ukrainian North made
shortness in clubs a splinter bid of four
clubs. East doubled to
Opening lead: Six of ♣
show strength in clubs
and South redoubled to Prickly City By Scott Stantis
show a first-round club control. North might have bid four
diamonds to show his diamond control, but North felt he
had done enough and bid four hearts. South had a minimum
reverse with weak suits, so he also passed.
At the other table, the Faroe Islands’ North, knowing that
it often pays to be aggressive with freak hands, raised two
hearts to six hearts! We would love a peek at South’s face
when his passed-hand partner raised him to slam. It had to
be quite a surprise.
Six hearts would fail on a bad day, but both major suits
behaved and 12 tricks rolled home at both tables. It was a big
gain for the Faroe Islands, who went on to win the match.

— Bob Jones
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CHICAGO SPORTS
Bulls forward DeMar DeRozan smiles as he is acknowledged by fans in the first half against the Hawks on Monday at the United Center.
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BULLS
Answers lie within
Bulls emphasize internal improvement
ahead of looming NBA trade deadline
By Julia Poe
Chicago Tribune
ORLANDO, Fla. — Something
needs to change for the Bulls.
It’s clear wherever you look:
their 22-26 record, their haphaz-
ard second-half implosions, their
11th spot in the Eastern Confer-
ence standings.
BLACKHAWKS 5, FLAMES 1 LATE THURSDAY
Jax better: Sans Toews, Stauber backstops stellar effort
By Phil Thompson
Chicago Tribune
The Blackhawks gave new
meaning to “rolling lines” Thurs-
day because all four forward lines
were rolling during a 5-1 victory
against the Calgary Flames at
Scotiabank Saddledome.
“We had 20 guys going tonight,”
coach Luke Richardson said. “We
really skated from beginning to
the end. I thought we had some
great scoring chances and played
real hard defensively. It was a real
solid game.”
Jonathan Toews missed the
game with a non-COVID-19-re-
lated illness, so a lot of the usual
combinations were jumbled for
this matchup.
You couldn’t tell by looking.
The second line struck first.
Taylor Raddysh opened the scor-
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But if the Bulls are going to
make a change, it’s unlikely to
come from the outside, even as the
trade deadline draws closer. The
Bulls front office has not indicated
any intention of blowing up the
roster ahead of the Feb. 9 dead-
line. In fact, the Bulls have been
relatively quiet in trade rumors.
Coach Billy Donovan said he
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ing in the first period with his
first goal since Jan. 14 and was
assisted by Max Domi and Philipp
Kurashev.
The Flames’ Jonathan
Huberdeau tied the game with 28
seconds left in the period. But the
Hawks broke the game open with
three second-period goals.
Boris Katchouk continued a nice
run for the fourth line, scoring a
goal off a feed from Luke Philp —
the rookie’s first NHL point.
Jason Dickinson, centering the
top line in place of Toews, lifted
the puck past Jacob Markström
with help from Patrick Kane and
Andreas Athanasiou.
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hasn’t requested major trades
from executive vice president
of basketball operations Artūras
Karnišovas and the rest of the
front office. After the Bulls’ 111-96
road loss to the Charlotte Hornets
on Thursday, Donovan reiterated
his confidence that the current
Thirty seconds later, Sam
Lafferty one-timed a short-side
shot behind Markström, who
came out to defend Colin Black-
well before he dished to Lafferty.
MacKenzie Entwistle also was
credited with an assist. Connor
Murphy added an empty-netter
with 43 seconds left. Fourth-line
center Reese Johnson was the
only forward who didn’t register
a point.
Richardson said of Toews’
absence, “Sometimes when you
lose a big player that maybe you
rely on so much, everybody else
is a little bit sharper. I’m sure they
probably mentioned that to each
other. Just like when (Patrick)
Kane was out, guys just picked up
the slack.”
Jaxson Stauber made 34 saves
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Chicago Tribune | Section 3 | Saturday, January 28, 2023  1
group still can improve enough
to merit keeping the roster intact.
“The character in the group
and the chemistry and them as
people — it’s in there,” Donovan
said. “We’ve got to find ways as
coaches and players and all of us
to try to pull that out of each other.
But I’m not at a point to say, ‘OK,
this just can’t work.’ ”
A little more than halfway
through the season, time is
Turn to Bulls, Page 2
Blackhawks defenseman Jack Johnson battles for the puck with Flames
forward Mikael Backlund, left, as Blackhawks goalie Jaxson Stauber looks
on during third period Thursday. JEFF MCINTOSH/AP
BEARS
Payton
auction
planned
Memorabilia including
multiple awards will be
on block next month
By Colleen Kane
Chicago Tribune
Bears fans can bid on memo-
rabilia from the personal collec-
tion of Hall of Fame running back
Walter Payton during a Super
Bowl auction next month.
Among the items up for live
auction are a trio of presenta-
tional footballs that marked
Payton setting the NFL’s
all-time rushing record on Oct.
7, 1984, and a 1985 NFC offen-
sive player of the year award.
Some of Payton’s Pro Bowl
awards, including his first one
from 1977, his 1994 throwback
jersey, a collection of more than
25 presentational game footballs
and other items including cleats,
golf clubs and racing suits also
are available for bidding.
Hunt Auctions and NFL
Auction are holding the Feb.
11 event, which also includes
memorabilia from the collection
of Baltimore Colts Hall of Famer
Gino Marchetti. Hunt Auctions
estimates the items could be sold
from $1,000 for a presentational
game football to up to $15,000 for
one of the rushing record presen-
tational footballs.
A portion of the proceeds will
benefit the Walter and Connie
Payton Foundation, Jarrett Payton
Foundation and NFL Auction
charities.
“It has been 35 years since my
husband Walter left the play-
ing field, completing one of
most distinguished careers in
the history of the NFL,” Connie
Payton said in a statement.
“There are many items which
we continue to cherish along
with the countless memories
from Walter which we hold
dear with our family. We have
decided to share a portion of the
memorabilia from his career
with the fans who passionately
supported him during his time
playing in the NFL. Walter’s
legacy on the field and philan-
thropic efforts off of the field
continue to provide a guiding
light for our family.”
Online pre-bidding has begun
at huntauctions.com.
The Bears’ Walter Payton
acknowledges the cheers of the
crowd after his record-setting
afternoon in 1984. CHICAGO TRIBUNE
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Team
BULLS
BLACKHAWKS
Bulls forward Derrick Jones Jr. and coach Billy Donovan talk during the fourth quarter of a game against the Nets on Jan. 4 at the United Center. JOHN J. KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Bulls
from Page 1
running out for the Bulls to find
that answer. They are fifth-to-last
in the East and rank in the bottom
10 in the league in vital statis-
tics such as 3-point shooting and
rebounding. Their defensive rating
has tumbled from fourth to 12th in
a matter of weeks.
But veteran forward DeMar
DeRozan emphasized the impor-
tance of internal improvements
rather than acquisitions to reverse
the team’s pattern of losing to
Hawks
from Page 1
and faced three penalty kills, the
last a six-on-four Flames advan-
tage. He earned a second win in
just his second NHL game, having
beaten the St. Louis Blues on Satur-
day in his debut.
The Hawks snapped a two-game
losing streak to improve to 15-28-4.
They’re 7-5-0 in January.
The highs
„„Stauber became the third
Blackhawks goaltender to win in
each of his first two NHL appear-
ances, joining Gilles Meloche (on
March 16 and 19, 1971) and Hugh
Lehman (Nov. 17 and 20, 1926).
Stauber has been unflappable in
pressure situations in a way that
belies his experience.
“Looks really solid and calm in
there,” Richardson said. “They’re
a big team and they get to the net
and they were trying to get second-
ary chances there. He just makes
a save and even if there’s some
scrambling going on, he doesn’t
scramble.”
„„Should we call him “Trick Shot”
Raddysh? Raddysh took a seam
pass from Domi and looked to beat
Markström to his stick side, then
the puck banked off the goalie’s
side, hitting the netting and drib-
bling across the line.
„„Credit Philp for a pair of
heads-up plays. In the first period,
he was bracketed along the wall in
the neutral zone but he managed
to make a pass to Johnson to spring
him for a breakaway. Markström
denied Johnson but it doesn’t take
away from an artful move by Philp.
“That was a great pass by Phil-
per,” Johnson said postgame on
Saturday
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lower-ranked opponents.
“I don’t look at it like we need
this and that,” DeRozan said. “I just
try to figure out every single game,
every single day, how we can be
better. With what we got, I never
think about no trade deadline or
anything like that. I just try to go
out there and compete every time
we play.”
On this date last year, the
Bulls were second in the East-
ern Conference at 30-17. Matters
would quickly unravel in the wake
of injuries, but the Bulls seemed to
have struck a winning formula.
This season’s roster hardly
Blackhawks forward Colin Blackwell shoots against Flames goalie Jacob Markstrom during second-period action
on Thursday. JEFF MCINTOSH/AP
NBC Sports Chicago+. “Trying
going under Markström’s arm I
think caught his side of the belly
there. But great play.”
In the second period, Philp
centered a pass to Katchouk in the
high slot, and Katchouk one-timed
it.
„„Dickinson scored in the second
period, but what was more
eye-opening was him center-
ing the top line with Kane and
Andreas Athanasiou. Toews was
out sick, but the Hawks didn’t miss
a beat with Dickinson as a top-six
center.
“I wasn’t sure it would work,”
Sunday Monday
changed besides the additions
of Andre Drummond and Goran
Dragić, who have been improve-
ments over former bench players
such as Tristan Thompson.
So why are the results so differ-
ent? Donovan feels that part of it
could be a regression to the mean.
“Last year we probably struck
lightning in a bottle a little bit,”
Donovan said. “That season
could have looked a whole lot
different if DeMar had not been
so miraculous in a lot of different
ways.”
This group always had inher-
ent flaws — lackluster rim protec-
Richardson said. “But Dicky was
skating well tonight, making
plays.”
„„Lafferty scored his eighth goal
this season, with five coming this
month and three in the last four
games. As red-hot as Lafferty
has been, his third line has been
productive as well. Colin Blackwell
and MacKenzie Entwistle assisted
on his goal and Blackwell had
several scoring chances himself.
But what really impresses Rich-
ardson is that they take care of
business on defense and let that
generate offense.
“When they turn the puck over
Tuesday
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tion, a dearth of 3-point shooting.
The Bulls noted the weak points
yet did little to address them in
the offseason while the rest of the
Eastern Conference recalibrated
and reloaded.
Maybe the front office thought
the lightning Donovan described
would keep striking. Maybe the
Bulls believed a Lonzo Ball reap-
pearance would set things right.
Whatever the cause, the Bulls seem
set to repeat their inaction next
month as losses pile up.
If that’s the case, the current
roster will require a major over-
haul to reverse yet another skid —
they’re going right to the net,”
Richardson said. “They’re those
hard-nosed straight-line guys. Not
a lot of swooping on lines like that.
They go straight through you, play
the body defensively and glad to
see them get rewarded.”
The lows
„„Less of a low, more of agoniz-
ing missed opportunities for
Blackwell. In the second period
he had a dead-on shot that
Markström pad-saved. Blackwell
had another crack with the puck
sitting by the post but he couldn’t
Wednesday
a belief the veterans repeated after
Thursday’s loss.
“I think we definitely have
enough here,” center Nikola
Vučević said. “We just have to find
it within ourselves. We have the
talent. We’ve shown that we can
do it. It’s just we’re not doing it
consistently. So it’s not a question
of talent, it’s just a question of us
figuring out how to do 48 minutes
and doing it consistently. …
“It’s on us to figure it out, and we
can’t look for it anywhere outside
of here or anything else. The
answers are within ourselves and
we have to find it.”
lift it over Markström’s skate,
bowing his head on the goal post
in exasperation.
Blackwell had another golden
opportunity midway through the
third period when Jake McCabe
knocked Trevor Lewis off the puck
and the Hawks counterattacked.
Blackwell had Markström all to
himself but couldn’t get the wris-
ter to go. He just let his stick drop to
the ice and looked skyward.
“Blacky had three chances
tonight, and I think he was getting
frustrated,” Richardson said.
“And he made a really nice play to
Lafferty, so I was glad he got that.”
„„There was a stretch in the third
period in which the Hawks gave
up eight unanswered shots on goal.
After the first two shots, Lafferty
lost a defensive zone faceoff, and
the Flames rattled off six shots
within 50 seconds.
Injury report
Toews sat out of the game with
a non-COVID-19-related illness.
“He just said this afternoon he
wasn’t feeling good,” Richardson
said. “He just felt achy and not
great.”
Toews’ absence opened up the
lineup for Katchouk to see his first
action since Jan. 3.
Where they stand
The Hawks are 15-28-4 (.362),
just ahead of the last-place Colum-
bus Blue Jackets (.344), and are
7-3-0 in their last 10 games.
Up next
The Hawks didn’t practice
Friday and will wrap up their trip
against the Edmonton Oilers at 9
p.m. Saturday.

NFL
Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce scores a touchdown against the Jaguars on Saturday in Kansas City, Mo. ED ZURGA/AP
CHAMPIONSHIP SUNDAY
Good-hands guys
4 of NFL’s best TEs are on display in conference title games
By Dave Skretta
Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When
Chiefs quarterback Patrick
Mahomes headed up the tunnel
inside Arrowhead Stadium
to have X-rays taken on his
sprained right ankle and Chad
Henne trotted onto the field in
the second quarter of their divi-
sional playoff game against the
Jaguars, it was obvious who the
backup quarterback was going
to target.
Not that the Jaguars could do
anything about it.
Henne’s first throw went to
Travis Kelce. So did another.
And another. And by the time the
Chiefs were on the doorstep of
the end zone, it was the All-Pro
tight end whose short touchdown
grab finished off a 98-yard scor-
ing drive.
In that respect, Kelce was like
a big, comfy security blanket for
the Chiefs, who went on to win
27-20 and advance into a Sunday
night rematch with the Cincinnati
Bengals for the AFC title.
Kelce finished with 14 catches,
one off the NFL playoff record,
and along the way continued his
run on career statistical charts too
numerous to count.
“Every time I step up here,”
Chiefs coach Andy Reid said
afterward, “I feel like he breaks
another record.”
Kelce isn’t the only standout
tight end in the conference cham-
pionships, though. The Bengals
feature Hayden Hurst in their
high-flying attack, and the 49ers’
George Kittle and the Eagles’
Dallas Goedert will square off in
the NFC title game.
But over the past decade Kelce
has continued to revolutionize
the position.
He is athletic enough to beat
one-on-one coverage and crafty
enough to find holes in zones. And
while the 33-year-old is a little
older and perhaps a bit slower
these days, he’s also a lot wiser,
and his uncanny rapport with
Mahomes — and Henne, appar-
ently — makes him a matchup
nightmare for defensive coordi-
nators
“It’s like Travis knows exactly
where Patrick is, what he’s going
to do when he scrambles to his
right or his left,” said Chiefs
defensive coordinator Steve Spag-
nuolo, who sees enough of him in
training camp and practice.
“To me, that’s the most amaz-
ing thing. How they get that, I’ll
never know.”
Each of the tight ends playing
Sunday brings something unique
to his teams.
Hurst keeps defensive back-
fields from focusing entirely on
Ja’Marr Chase, Tee Higgins and
Tyler Boyd, thus taking some of
the pressure off one of the best
trios of wide receivers in the
game. He had four catches for
45 yards in the wild-card round
against the Ravens before catch-
ing five passes for 59 yards and
a score in the divisional round
against Buffalo.
Goedert brings a certain phys-
ical attitude to the potent Eagles
offense. Or, as quarterback Jalen
Hurts put it, when he’s on the
49ers tight end George Kittle catches a pass during a divisional-round
playoff game against the Cowboys on Sunday in Santa Clara, Calif.
SCOT TUCKER/AP
Eagles tight end Dallas Goedert celebrates during a divisional-round
playoff game against the Giants on Jan. 21 in Philadelphia. The Eagles won
38-7. MATT SLOCUM/AP
field “he’s trying to punish some-
body. He’s not trying to spare no
man.”
Take their divisional win over
the Giants. Hurts threw to his
6-foot-5, 256-pound tight end
on the game’s third play, and
Goedert proceeded to plant
Giants cornerback Adoree’ Jack-
son with a stiff arm, helping to set
the tone for the rest of the night.
Goedert finished the drive
with a touchdown catch to kick
off the 38-7 rout.
“He’s tough to tackle. He is
really tough to tackle,” Eagles
coach Nick Sirianni said. “I
wouldn’t want to tackle him.”
His counterpart in San Fran-
cisco is equally tough to tackle,
though not because Kittle bull-
dozes defenders so much as he
makes them miss. Kittle did that
on five catches for 95 yards in the
49ers’ divisional win over the
Cowboys.
The tone the ever-smiling
Kittle sets for his team? One of
loose, unbridled joy.
“Times we sort of feel uptight
and whatnot, Kittle is the guy to
put a smile on your face and say,
‘Hey, we’re good enough’ — that
kind of thing,” 49ers quarterback
Brock Purdy said. “He does bring
energy and good vibes to every-
one, and honestly I do feel like he
gets us back into the zone of play-
ing well.
“So that’s what he does, and
I think he’s the best in the NFL
with just his personality and
everything like that too.”
Kelce is playing in his fifth
consecutive AFC title game.
Hurst made the playoffs earlier in
his career in Baltimore. Goedert
is in the postseason for the fourth
time, while Kittle is playing in his
third conference title game in four
years.
That’s four of the game’s best
tight ends, all trying to reach the
Super Bowl this Sunday.
“It’s what you dreamt about
since you were a kid,” Kittle
said. “It’s what you dream about
when you’re in high school and
college. You dream about it
when you’re in the NFL.
“You dream about situations
like this. Whether it’s a hunger,
starvation or desperation, you
do everything you can to make
sure at the end of the game you
can win it.”
AP reporters Josh Dubow in San
Francisco and Dan Gelston in
Philadelphia contributed.
Chicago Tribune | Section 3 | Saturday, January 28, 2023  3
ASK THE REPORTER BRAD BIGGS
For the first time, the Halas/
McCaskey ownership has gone
outside the organization for a
president. As a fan, what indi-
cators should we be watching
for to see that the tide has really
turned? — @xsubco
The tide doesn’t change until
the team starts winning, right?
It’s natural to expect new Presi-
dent/CEO Kevin Warren to make
some personnel moves after he
settles into his position, but this
hiring is unlikely to affect foot-
ball operations in the immedi-
ate future. I envision we will see
folks from the outside added in
newly created roles and some
general turnover. But I don’t think
Warren will come in and shake
up the football side for the time
being. Everyone involved has
expressed confidence in general
manager Ryan Poles and coach
Matt Eberflus as they head into
their second year.
Warren made it clear the
stadium issue will require the
majority of his focus. I think the
Arlington Park possibility (prob-
ability?) excites a good portion
of the fan base. I also believe the
fan base cares more about seeing
a consistent winner on the field
than where that field actually is.
The Bears have not had consecu-
tive winning seasons since 2005-
06. Only four teams have longer
dry spells without such a modest
showing of consistent winning.
„„Panthers: No back-to-back
winning seasons since entering
the league in 1995.
„„Browns: Last consecutive
winning seasons were 1986
through 1989.
„„Raiders: Last consecutive
winning seasons were 2000
through 2002.
„„Jaguars: Last consecutive
winning seasons were 2004-05.
Everything Poles has said
indicates he’s attempting to lay
the groundwork for sustained
success. The Bears are in the early
stages of that process. Tearing
down the walls is the easy part.
Now begins the difficult rebuild.
Warren is more than qualified
for his role with more than two
decades of success in the league
with three franchises. He will
bring an abundance of energy and
likely fresh ideas to the building.
How it all comes together and
what it means for the football
side of things, we’ll have to wait
and find out. I know everyone
wants an immediate conclu-
sion, but these things take time.
Warren’s resume and track record
are impressive. The Bears got a
strong candidate. They have a
long way to go on the field.
Hopefully with added draft capi-
tal from trading down, do you
think it would be a good idea
for the Bears to draft a quarter-
back in maybe the fourth or fifth
round? Someone who can adapt
to the Bears’ system? — Amir
There have been a handful of
questions along these lines lately,
with some wondering if it’s a good
idea to get an athletic backup with
a skill set that somewhat mirrors
Justin Fields. They are all good
suggestions. I’m of the mindset
that the Bears need to make sure
they have their franchise quarter-
back first before they try to solve
the riddle of the No. 2.
What about a wide receiver
with intriguing traits in the
middle rounds? Those rounds
can be fertile for drafting a guard
who needs a year or so to figure
out the NFL and then becomes a
very good starter. How about the
host of needs on defense? The
Bears have way too many press-
ing needs to spend much in the
way of resources on a No. 2 quar-
terback.
As a season ticket holder at
Soldier Field, I am naturally curi-
ous what the transition process
to the new stadium is likely to be,
specifically for those with PSLs. I
understand it is way too early for
the Bears to have thought about
this, but I’d be curious to know
how the Vikings handled this
transition since Kevin Warren
was presumably involved in
that process and will undoubt-
edly be involved with this when
the Bears move to Arlington
Heights, which seems inevita-
ble. — Cliff H., East Lansing, Mich.
There’s a considerable differ-
ence between the Vikings’ move
from the Metrodome (with a brief
stay at TCF Bank Stadium on the
University of Minnesota campus)
to U.S. Bank Stadium and what
the Bears would undergo if they
move. The Vikings did not have
personal seat licenses at the
Metrodome, so that was a new
program.
The Bears sold about 26,000
PSLs at Soldier Field when it
was renovated and reopened in
2003. That’s less than half of the
seating capacity when including
club and suite seats. The team has
said it will take care of those folks,
whose PSLs will expire when
the Bears are finished playing at
Soldier Field. (Yes, we’re oper-
ating under that assumption to
answer this question.) I believe
that means current PSL holders
would have first crack at buying
PSLs at a new stadium, likely in
an area similar to where they
were at Soldier Field.
A new wave of PSLs would be
considerably more expensive.
I’d guess a new stadium would
have a much larger percentage of
seats that require PSLs. When the
Vikings rolled out their PSL plan
for U.S. Bank Stadium in 2014,
they announced 75% of the stadi-
um’s 65,400 seats would have
licenses. The cost ranged from
$500 to $9,500 each and the team
divided the seating into 16 zones,
giving season ticket holders at
the Metrodome an opportunity
to purchase a PSL based on their
current seats. That was 2014, so
figure the price would be higher
in Arlington Heights.
This is just speculation on
my part and I’m hardly a ticket
expert, but I think you can count
on three things: A significantly
higher percentage of PSL seats
in a new stadium, a significantly
higher price attached to them and
an opportunity for current PSL
holders to purchase first. I don’t
think current PSLs would have
any other value than putting folks
in line to purchase another PSL.
Since the Bears have so many
needs to fill over the next few
years, why not target a team
much lower in the draft to get a
larger quantity of picks in return
for the No. 1 pick? At this point,
one top-five pick won’t move the
needle, but several additional
picks might. — Matt B., Naperville
Good question and I have a
few reactions. First, I don’t think
the team holding the No. 1 pick
should be the one targeting, to
use your word, a trade partner.
Wait for the calls to come to you.
Start calling around to peddle the
pick and you’re going to invite
offers that are worth 75 cents
on the dollar. Ryan Poles should
field calls — assuming they come
— and consider the merit of any
offers. The lower the Bears go
into Round 1, the bigger the haul
of picks they would receive, and
that would be a boon for those
who believe a team needs as
much draft ammunition as possi-
ble.
The thing about staying at
No. 1 (or trading down only a
few picks), is that would put the
Bears in position to get an elite
player and the roster clearly
needs difference makers. Deal
down to the middle of Round 1
and there’s no guarantee a differ-
ence maker would be available.
The first round is full of hits and
misses, and coming off a three-
win season, I believe the Bears
need to come out of the draft with
a player they feel confident will
help tilt the field.
Doug Pederson considered and
rejected last year by the Bears.
Brian Daboll interviewed and
rejected. Matt Eberflus led the
Bears to last place. Thoughts?
— T. Johnson, Edgerton, Wis.
Pederson did a terrific job with
the Jaguars this season, keep-
ing them alive after a five-game
losing streak dropped them to 2-6
at the end of October. I’m not sure
the Bears wanted to go from one
member of the Andy Reid coach-
ing tree in Matt Nagy to another
in Pederson. Yes, Pederson distin-
guished himself with the Eagles,
and it’s easy to look at the success
other coaches have had else-
where and wonder what could
have been.
Some viewed Daboll as a bit of a
package deal with GM candidate
Joe Schoen, who interviewed for
the job that went to Ryan Poles
and was hired by the New York
Giants along with Daboll. The
difference between the Jaguars
and Giants and the Bears is the
Bears chose to rip their roster
apart in a clear rebuilding effort.
The Jaguars and Giants also got
better quarterback play than the
Bears did.
I’m not sure any coach would
have done a whole heck of a
lot better with the Bears roster
and the moves that were made
during the season, such as trad-
ing Roquan Smith. Let’s see what
Eberflus and his staff can accom-
plish with a better assembly of
players.
Was there any growth with Alex
Leatherwood’s play after miss-
ing a large chunk of time? He’s
a flier that could look like a steal
if he comes around at guard or
right tackle. — @shawbrian_
Leatherwood didn’t show
any real progress with the few
opportunities he had, and let’s be
accurate about who he was being
judged against — mostly a group
of players the Bears don’t want to
consider for starting roles in 2023.
Maybe a full offseason with the
team and then training camp will
lead to a breakthrough for Leath-
erwood, but nothing he did in
games this season would lead you
to believe that’s likely. What the
Bears got from Leatherwood was
pretty much what he put on tape
for the Raiders in 2021.
4  Chicago Tribune | Section 3 | Saturday, January 28, 2023
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Canadian siblings
Your Special Date courting success
Brother making presence felt
at Marquette, sister at ND
Associated Press
MONTREAL — For Olivier-Maxence
Prosper, the lessons are not just for himself
as he inches closer to a potential shot at his
NBA dream.
They are also for the 20-year-old Montreal
native to share with his 17-year-old sister,
Cassandre, who is embarking on a path she
hopes leads to the WNBA.
“Growing up, I was trying to be the best
role model I can be for her,” he told the
Canadian Press. “All the experiences I went
through, I just help her so that she could be
better, so that her experiences could be better
than mine.
“She’s my only sibling, and me and her are
really, really close. I just want to do every-
thing I can to help her basketball journey be
the best it can be and to guide her through
that.”
Olivier-Maxence is a 6-foot-8, 230-pound
junior forward for No. 16 Marquette.
Cassandre, meanwhile, is a 6-2 guard
for No. 7 Notre Dame. She signed as a 2023
five-star recruit out of the Ontario Scholas-
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to inspire,’ and he always did things right on
the court.”
Marquette coach Shaka Smart said that
has played a factor in Olivier-Maxence’s
breakout season. He is averaging a career-
best 14 points and 4.6 rebounds, both second-
best on the team.
“O-Max has really worked,” Smart said.
“Living in the gym, doing extra, spending
time with multiple members of our program,
getting better and being very, very intentional
about the areas where he needs to grow and
wants to grow.
“He’s done a terrific job utilizing the expe-
riences that he’s had over his first couple of
years of college. To be an older, more confi-
dent, more mature player this year, that
doesn’t just happen.”
Olivier-Maxence was a four-star recruit
from the NBA Academy Latin America in
Mexico, where he played his senior year
alongside Indiana Pacers rookie Benne-
dict Mathurin, also from Montreal. He
signed with Clemson before transferring to
Marquette for his sophomore season.
Before that, Olivier-Maxence moved to
Chicago at 16 and played at Lake Forest Acad-
emy. His high school in Blainville, Quebec,
did not have a basketball team. He played for
a local Amateur Athletic Union team, Brook-
wood Elite, before seeking a new challenge.
“That year was really great for me because
it helped me mature so much, not only as a
basketball player but also as a young man
leaving home early,” he said of Lake Forest
Academy. “Having to live on my own and
really start maturing and being disciplined
to do things on my own.”
Cassandre also left Montreal and moved to
Ottawa at 15 to play for Capital Courts.
There, she finished her career averaging
a league-best 25.1 points while grabbing 13.7
rebounds, 3.1 steals and 2.6 blocks and led the
team to its first OSBA championship in 2022.
For Notre Dame coach Niele Ivey, a former
WNBA player and mother of Detroit Pistons
rookie Jaden Ivey, Cassandre’s talent and
potential are immense.
“I think her talent is program changing,”
Ivey said. “The future is bright for us with
her here. She’s kind of getting herself accli-
mated to the collegiate game, but she makes
an immediate impact.
“She’s going to play a huge role in what we
do, and that’s exciting for me.”

SCOREBOARD
NBA
EASTERN CONFERENCE
ATLANTIC W L PCT GB
Boston 35 15 .700 —
Philadelphia 31 16 .660 2 1/2
Brooklyn 29 19 .604 5
New York 27 23 .540 8
Toronto 22 27 .449 12 1/2
SOUTHEAST W L PCT GB
Miami 27 22 .551 —
Atlanta 25 24 .510 2
Washington 22 26 .458 4 1/2
Orlando 19 29 .396 7 1/2
Charlotte 14 36 .280 13 1/2
CENTRAL W L PCT GB
Milwaukee 32 17 .653 —
Cleveland 30 20 .600 2 1/2
Indiana 24 27 .471 9
Chicago 22 26 .458 9 1/2
Detroit 13 37 .260 19 1/2
WESTERN CONFERENCE
SOUTHWEST W L PCT GB
Memphis 31 17 .646 —
New Orleans 26 23 .531 5 1/2
Dallas
San Antonio
26 24 .520 6
14 35 .286 17 1/2
Houston 11 38 .224 20 1/2
NORTHWEST W L PCT GB
Denver 34 15 .694 —
Minnesota 25 25 .500 9 1/2
Utah 25 26 .490 10
Oklahoma City 23 25 .479 10 1/2
Portland 23 25 .479 10 1/2
PACIFIC W L PCT GB
Sacramento 27 20 .574 —
L.A. Clippers 27 24 .529 2
Phoenix 25 25 .500 3 1/2
Golden State
L.A. Lakers
24 24 .500 3 1/2
23 26 .469 5
FRIDAY’S RESULTS
Milwaukee 141, Indiana 131
Memphis at Minnesota, late
Cleveland at Oklahoma City, late
Orlando at Miami, late
Toronto at Golden State, late
SATURDAY’S GAMES
Denver at Philadelphia, 2p.m.
New York at Brooklyn, 4:30p.m.
Chicago at Orlando, 6p.m.
Houston at Detroit, 6p.m.
L.A. Clippers at Atlanta, 6:30p.m.
Phoenix at San Antonio, 7p.m.
Sacramento at Minnesota, 7p.m.
Washington at New Orleans, 7p.m.
L.A. Lakers at Boston, 7:30p.m.
Dallas at Utah, 8p.m.
Toronto at Portland, 9p.m.
SUNDAY’S GAMES
Miami at Charlotte, noon
Indiana at Memphis, 5p.m.
L.A. Clippers at Cleveland, 6p.m.
New Orleans at Milwaukee, 7p.m.
THURSDAY’S RESULTS
Charlotte 111, Chicago 96
Detroit 130, Brooklyn 122
New York 120, Boston 117(OT)
Cleveland 113, Houston 95
Dallas at Phoenix, late
L.A. Clippers 138, San Antonio 100
ODDS
COLLEGE BASKETBALL SATURDAY
FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG
at West Virginia 31/2 Auburn
at Northwestern 121/2 Minnesota
at Virginia
at UCF
161/2 Boston College
81/2 Temple
at Delaware 61/2 Northeastern
at Notre Dame 101/2 Louisville
at Creighton 31/2 Xavier
Western Carolina 21/2 at VMI
at Citadel
at Wake Forest
1
11/2
Mercer
NC State
Iowa State 11/2 at Missouri
at Dartmouth 71/2 Columbia
at Indiana State 61/2 Northern Iowa
at Fordham 31/2 Geo. Washington
at Rhode Island 61/2 La Salle
at Akron 41/2 Ohio
Alabama 51/2 at Oklahoma
Marquette 10 at DePaul
at Cornell 81/2 Brown
at Pennsylvania 31/2 Harvard
Texas Tech 2 at LSU
at Toledo
at Murray State 1
12 Bowling Green
Missouri State
at N.C. A&T 121/2 Monmouth
at Houston
Illinois
141/2 Cincinnati
1/2 at Wisconsin
at Southern Miss 91/2 Texas State
at Tennessee State 7
UAB 31/2
Lindenwood
at Rice
South Dakota St. 11/2 at W. Illinois
at Morehead State 1 SIU-Edwardsville
Duke 61/2 at Georgia Tech
at Miami (Ohio) 61/2 Eastern Michigan
at E. Tennessee St. 1 Chattanooga
at Florida Atlantic 14 Western Kentucky
Louisiana Tech 51/2 at UTSA
at No. Kentucky 5
at UMass 1
Milwaukee
Duquesne
at Baylor 51/2 Arkansas
at James Madison 13 UL Monroe
Old Dominion 11/2 at Co. Carolina
Drexel 81/2 at Elon
TCU 21/2 at Mississippi St.
at Pittsburgh PK Miami
at Long Beach St. 31/2 UC Davis
Troy 1 at South Alabama
at Charleston
at Towson
61/2 Hofstra
111/2 William & Mary
at Hampton 1 Stony Brook
at Dayton
Ball State
8
31/2
Richmond
at No. Illinois
SE Missouri State 41/2 at Eastern Illinois
at Maryland
at UT Martin
91/2 Nebraska
2 Southern Indiana
at Santa Clara 12 Pacific
at Idaho 21/2 Idaho State
at E. Washington 61/2 Weber State
Clemson 41/2 at Florida State
Arizona
at SF Austin
7
11/2
at Washington
Seattle U
at North Texas 11 UTEP
at Tennessee 7 Texas
at VCU 101/2 Saint Bonaventure
at Cent. Michigan 2 Western Michigan
Middle Tennessee 31/2 at Fla. International
Utah State 51/2 at Fresno State
at Valparaiso 9 Evansville
at Virginia Tech 7 Syracuse
at Wright State 171/2 Green Bay
Gonzaga 11 at Portland
at Marshall 13 Georgia State
at Oregon
at Oklahoma State 9
21/2 Utah
Mississippi
Kansas 1/2 at Kentucky
at Louisiana
at Indiana
10 Georgia Southern
31/2 Ohio State
at Washington St. 21/2 Arizona State
at UMKC
at Oral Roberts 19
51/2 Denver
Omaha
at St. Thomas 8 South Dakota
at Boise State 101/2 Colorado State
at San Diego St. 121/2 San Jose State
at UC Irvine 15 CSU Northridge
at Portland State 1
Saint Mary’s 71/2
Montana
at BYU
at Stanford 11 California
at UNLV
San Francisco
PK
3
Nevada
at San Diego
Montana State 11/2 at Sacramento St.
Colorado 8 at Oregon State
at Loyola Mrymnt 91/2 Pepperdine
at Hawaii 13 CSU Bakersfield
NBA SATURDAY
FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG
at Philadelphia Off (Off) Denver
at Brooklyn
Chicago
PK (228) New York
2 (231) at Orlando
at Detroit 4 (Off) Houston
LA Clippers 1 (234) at Atlanta
Sacramento 31/2 (Off) at Minnesota
Phoenix 61/2 (2311/2) at San Ant.
at New Orleans 41/2 (232) Washington
at Boston 7 (237) LA Lakers
at Utah Off (Off) Dallas
at Portland 41/2 (Off) Toronto
NFL PLAYOFFS SUNDAY
FAVORITE NOW O/U UNDERDOG
at Philadelphia 21/2 (461/2) San Francisco
at Kansas City 1 (48) Cincinnati
NHL SATURDAY
FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG Line
at Colorado -245 St. Louis +198
Boston -150 at Florida
at Tampa Bay -212 Los Angeles
+125
+175
at Winnipeg -225 Philadelphia +184
at Pittsburgh -240 San Jose
at Ottawa -192 Montreal
+195
+158
at NY Islanders Off Vegas Off
at Minnesota -194 Buffalo
at Seattle -245 Columbus
+160
+198
at Edmonton -320 Chicago +255
at Anaheim -170 Arizona
For the latest odds, go to FanDuel
+140
Sportsbook, https://sportsbook.
fanduel.com/
NHL
EASTERN CONFERENCE
ATLANTIC GP W L OT PTS GF GA
Boston 48 38 6 4 80 183 101
Toronto 50 30 12 8 68 168 135
Tampa Bay 47 31 15 1 63 170 139
Buffalo 48 26 19 3 55 183 162
Florida 51 23 22 6 52 174 180
Detroit 48 21 19 8 50 145 160
Ottawa 48 22 23 3 47 141 155
Montreal 49 20 25 4 44 130 179
METRO. GP W L OT PTS GF GA
Carolina 48 31 9 8 70 159 130
New Jersey 48 31 13 4 66 168 129
N.Y. Rangers 49 27 14 8 62 157 129
Washington 51 26 19 6 58 161 144
Pittsburgh 48 24 15 9 57 157 147
N.Y. Islanders 51 24 22 5 53 146 143
Philadelphia 50 20 21 9 49 138 162
Columbus 48 15 30 3 33 125 186
WESTERN CONFERENCE
CENTRAL GP W L OT PTS GF GA
Dallas 50 28 13 9 65 171 130
Winnipeg 50 31 18 1 63 163 131
Minnesota 47 26 17 4 56 148 136
Colorado 47 26 18 3 55 147 131
Nashville 48 24 18 6 54 137 141
St. Louis 49 23 23 3 49 152 177
Arizona 49 16 28 5 37 130 175
Chicago 47 15 28 4 34 115 169
PACIFIC GP W L OT PTS GF GA
Los Angeles 51 28 17 6 62 167 173
Seattle 47 28 14 5 61 172 145
Vegas 50 29 18 3 61 159 146
Edmonton 49 27 18 4 58 180 160
Calgary 49 23 17 9 55 155 151
Vancouver 48 19 26 3 41 161 194
San Jose 50 14 25 11 39 151 192
Anaheim 49 15 29 5 35 123 204
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.
FRIDAY’S RESULTS
N.Y. Islanders 2, Detroit 0
N.Y. Rangers 4, Vegas 1
Carolina 5, San Jose 4(OT)
Los Angeles 4, Florida 3
Ottawa 6, Toronto 2
New Jersey at Dallas, late
Calgary at Seattle, late
Columbus at Vancouver, late
SATURDAY’S GAMES
St. Louis at Colorado, 2p.m.
Boston at Florida, 5p.m.
Los Angeles at Tampa Bay, 6p.m.
Montreal at Ottawa, 6p.m.
Philadelphia at Winnipeg, 6p.m.
San Jose at Pittsburgh, 6p.m.
Vegas at N.Y. Islanders, 6:30p.m.
Buffalo at Minnesota, 8p.m.
Chicago at Edmonton, 9p.m.
Columbus at Seattle, 9p.m.
Arizona at Anaheim, 9:30p.m.
SUNDAY’S GAMES
Boston at Carolina, 4p.m.
Washington at Toronto, 4p.m.
MONDAY’S GAME
St. Louis at Winnipeg, 7p.m.
THURSDAY’S RESULTS
Detroit 4, Montreal 3(OT)
Tampa Bay 3, Boston 2
Washington 3, Pittsburgh 2(SO)
Buffalo 3, Winnipeg 2
Nashville 6, New Jersey 4
Minnesota 3, Philadelphia 2(OT)
Chicago 5, Calgary 1
Arizona 5, St. Louis 0
Anaheim 5, Colorado 3
GOALS AGAINST RECORD
Through Thursday
Name Team GPI MINS GA AVG
Linus Ullmark Bos 31 1802 56 1.86
Ilya Samsonov Tor 22 1284 47 2.20
Jake Oettinger Dal 37 2143 80 2.24
J. Swayman Bos 20 1042 39 2.25
Filip Gustavsson Min 19 1113
Vitek Vanecek NJ 31 1695
42 2.26
65 2.30
C. Hellebuyck Wpg 38 2271 91 2.40
Ilya Sorokin NYIs 37 2111
Igor Shesterkin NYR 36 2175
86 2.44
89 2.46
Fr Andersen Car 13 745 31 2.50
Antti Raanta Car 17 1000 42 2.52
Andrei Vasilevskiy T 35 2094 88 2.52
Darcy Kuemper Was 33 1887 80 2.54
Pavel Francouz Col 14 836 36 2.58
TENNIS
111TH AUSTRALIAN OPEN
Friday at Melbourne Park, Melbourne,
Australia, hardcourt outdoors
MEN’S SINGLES, SEMIFINALS
#3Stefanos Tsitsipas d. #18Karen
Khachanov, 7-6(2), 6-4, 6-7(6), 6-3.
#4Novak Djokovic d.
Tommy Paul, 7-5, 6-1, 6-2.
SUN: MEN’S SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP
#3Stefanos Tsitsipas vs.
#4Novak Djokovic
HEAD-TO-HEAD: Djokovic leads 10-3.
2022 NITTO F: ND, 6-4, 7-6.
2022 Rolex SF: ND, 6-2, 3-6, 7-6.
2022Astana F: ND, 6-3, 6-4.
2022BNL D’Italia F: ND, 6-0, 7-6.
2021French Open F: ND, 6-7, 2-6,
6-3, 6-3, 6-4.
2021BNL D’Italia QF: ND, 4-6, 7-5, 7-5.
2020French Open SF: ND, 6-3, 6-2,
5-7, 4-6, 6-1.
2020Dubai F: ND, 6-3, 6-4.
2019Mubdala SF: ST, 3-6, 7-6, 6-4.
2019BNP Paribas QF: ND, 6-1, 6-2.
2019Shanghai Rolex QF: ST, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3.
2019Mutua Madrid F: ND, 6-3, 6-4.
2018Rogers Cup R3: ST, 6-3, 6-7, 6-3.
WOMEN’S SINGLES, CHAMPIONSHIP
#5Aryna Sabalenka vs.
#22Elena Rybakina, late
HEAD-TO-HEAD: Sarabenka leads 3-0.
2021Wimbledon R4: AS, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.
2021Abu Dhabi QF: AS, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.
2019Wuhan Open QF: AS, 6-3, 1-6, 6-1.
#4 NOVAK DJOKOVIC IN
AUSTRALIAN OPEN SEMIFINALS
2023: d. Tommy Paul, 7-5, 6-1, 6-2
2022: could not attend (restricted)
2021: d. Aslan Karatsev, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2.
2020: d. #3 Roger Federer,
7-6(1), 6-4, 6-3.
2019: d. #28 Lucas Pouille, 6-0, 6-2, 6-2.
2016: d. #3 Roger Federer,
6-1, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.
2015: d. #4 Stanislas Wawrinka,
7-6(1), 3-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-0.
2013: d. #4 David Ferrer, 6-2, 6-2, 6-1.
2012: d. #4 Andy Murray,
6-3, 3-6, 6-7(4), 6-1, 7-5.
2011: d. #2 Roger Federer,
7-6(3), 7-5, 6-4.
2008: d. #1 Roger Federer,
7-5, 6-3, 7-6(5).
ROAD TO MEN’S FINALS
#3 STEFANOS TSITSIPAS
R1: Quentin Halys, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (8-6)
R2: Rinky Hijikata, 6-3, 6-0, 6-2
R3: Tallon Griekspoor, 6-2, 7-6 (5), 6-3
R4: #15 Jannik Sinner, 6-4, 6-4, 3-6,
4-6, 6-3
QF: Jiri Lehecka, 6-3, 7-6 (2), 6-4.
SF: vs. #18 Karen Khachanov, 7-6 (2),
6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3.
#4 NOVAK DJOKOVIC
R1: Roberto Carballes Baena,
6-3, 6-4, 6-0
R2: Enzo Couacaud, 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-0
R3: #27 Grigor Dimitrov, 7-6 (9-7),
6-3, 6-4
R4: #22 Alex De Minaur, 6-2, 6-1, 6-2
QF: #5 Andrey Rublev, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4.
SF: vs. Tommy Paul, 7-5, 6-1, 6-2.
ROAD TO WOMEN’S FINALS
#5 ARYNA SABALENKA
R1: Tereza Martincova, 6-1, 6-4
R2: Shelby Rogers, 6-3, 6-1
R3: #26 Elise Mertens, 6-2, 6-3
R4: #12 Belinda Bencic, 7-5, 6-2
QF: Donna Vekic, 6-3, 6-2.
SF: Magda Linette, 7-6(1), 6-2.
F: vs. #22 Elena Rybakina
#22 ELENA RYBAKINA
R1: Elisabetta Cocciaretto, 7-5, 6-3
R2: Kaja Juvan, 6-2, 6-1
R3: #13 Danielle Collins, 6-2, 5-7, 6-2
R4: #1 Iga Swiatek, 6-4, 6-4
QF: #17 Jelena Ostapenko, 6-2, 6-4.
SF: #24 Victoria Azarenka, 7-6(4), 6-3.
F: vs. #5 Aryna Sarabenka
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
HOW MEN’S AP TOP 25 FARED
No. 1 Purdue (20-1) did not play. Next:
vs. Michigan St., Sunday.
No. 2 Alabama (17-2) did not play. Next:
at Oklahoma, Saturday.
No. 3 Houston (19-2) did not play. Next:
vs. Cincinnati, Saturday.
No. 4 Tennessee (17-3) did not play.
Next: vs. No. 10 Texas, Saturday.
No. 5 Kansas St. (17-3) did not play.
Next: vs. Florida, Saturday.
No. 6 Arizona (18-3) did not play. Next:
at Washington, Saturday.
No. 7 Virginia (15-3) did not play. Next:
vs. Boston College, Saturday.
No. 8 UCLA (17-4) did not play. Next: vs.
Washington, Thursday.
No. 9 Kansas (16-4) did not play. Next:
at Kentucky, Saturday.
No. 10 Texas (17-3) did not play. Next:
at No. 4 Tennessee, Saturday.
No. 11 TCU (16-4) did not play. Next: at
Mississippi St., Saturday.
No. 12 Iowa St. (15-4) did not play.
Next: at Missouri, Saturday.
No. 13 Xavier (17-4) did not play. Next:
at Creighton, Saturday.
No. 14 Gonzaga (17-4) did not play.
Next: at Portland, Saturday.
No. 15 Auburn (16-4) did not play. Next:
at West Virginia, Saturday.
No. 16 Marquette (16-5) did not play.
Next: at DePaul, Saturday.
No. 17 Baylor (15-5) did not play. Next:
vs. Arkansas, Saturday.
No. 18 Charleston (21-1) did not play.
Next: vs. Hofstra, Saturday.
No. 19 UConn (16-6) did not play. Next:
at DePaul, Tuesday.
No. 20 Miami (16-4) did not play. Next:
at Pittsburgh, Saturday.
No. 21 FAU (20-1) did not play. Next: vs.
W. Kentucky, Saturday.
No. 22 Saint Mary’s (Cal) (18-4) did not
play. Next: at BYU, Saturday.
No. 23 Providence (16-5) did not play.
Next: at Villanova, Sunday.
No. 24 Clemson (17-4) did not play.
Next: at Florida St., Saturday.
No. 25 New Mexico (18-3) vs. Air Force.
Next: at Utah St., Wednesday.
FRIDAY’S SCORES
EAST
Husson 80, Thomas (Maine) 72
Lehman 91, York College (NY) 85
Molloy 71, Daemen 62
Niagara 68, Manhattan 62
Penn St.-Berks 79, Gallaudet 67
Rider 68, Marist 52
Robert Morris 85, Detroit 77
Siena 70, Iona 53
SOUTH
Saint Louis 74, Davidson 70
MIDWEST
Bemidji St. 83, SW Minnesota 76
Cleveland St. 79, Fort Wayne 74
Concordia (St.P.) 86, Minot St. 85, OT
Mary 69, Minnesota St. 67
Northern St. 77, Winona St. 74
Sioux Falls 98, Minn.-Crookston 74
Upper Iowa 84, Minn. St. (Moorhead) 78
WEST
Biola 95, Chaminade 71
UC Santa Barbara 65, Hawaii 64
HOW WOMEN’S AP TOP 25 FARED
No. 1 South Carolina (20-0) did not play.
Next: at Alabama, Sunday.
No. 2 Ohio St. (19-2) did not play. Next:
vs. Purdue, Sunday.
No. 3 Stanford (19-2) vs. Oregon St.
Next: vs. Oregon, Sunday.
No. 4 LSU (20-0) did not play. Next: vs.
Tennessee, Monday.
No. 5 UConn (19-2) did not play. Next:
vs. No. 21 Villanova, Sunday.
No. 6 Indiana (19-1) did not play. Next:
vs. Rutgers, Sunday.
No. 7 Notre Dame (17-2) did not play.
Next: at No. 20 NC State, Sunday
No. 8 UCLA (17-3) at No. 25 Colorado.
Next: at No. 9 Utah, Sunday.
No. 9 Utah (16-2) vs. Southern Cal.
Next: vs. No. 8 UCLA, Sunday.
No. 10 Iowa (16-4) did not play. Next:
vs. Nebraska, Saturday.
No. 10 Maryland (17-4) did not play.
Next: vs. Penn St., Monday.
No. 12 Virginia Tech (16-4) did not play.
Next: at Virginia, Sunday.
No. 13 Michigan (16-5) did not play.
Next: at Minnesota, Sunday.
No. 14 Oklahoma (16-3) did not play.
Next: at No. 18 Iowa St., Saturday.
No. 15 North Carolina (15-5) did not
play. Next: at Clemson, Sunday.
No. 16 Duke (18-2) did not play. Next: at
No. 24 Florida St., Sunday.
No. 17 Gonzaga (20-2) did not play.
Next: vs. Pepperdine, Saturday.
No. 18 Iowa St. (14-4) did not play.
Next: vs. No. 14 Oklahoma, Saturday.
No. 19 Arizona (15-4) vs. Washington.
Next: vs. Washington St., Sunday.
No. 20 NC State (15-5) did not play.
Next: vs. No. 7 Notre Dame, Sunday.
No. 21 Villanova (18-3) did not play.
Next: at No. 5 UConn, Sunday.
No. 22 Illinois (16-5) did not play. Next:
vs. Michigan St., Sunday.
No. 23 Middle Tennessee (17-2) did not
play. Next: vs. FIU, Saturday.
No. 24 Florida St. (18-5) did not play.
Next: vs. No. 16 Duke, Sunday.
No. 25 Colorado (15-4) vs. No. 9 UCLA.
Next: vs. Southern Cal, Sunday.
AUTO RACING
NASCAR CUP SERIES SCHEDULE
Feb. 5: x-Heat Races 1-4, Los Angeles
Feb. 5: x-Last Chance Qualifying Race
1-2, Los Angeles
Feb. 5: Busch Light Clash at The Coli-
seum, Los Angeles
Feb. 16: x-Duels at Daytona, Daytona
Beach, Fla.
Feb. 19 : Daytona 500, Daytona Beach, Fla.
Feb. 26: Pala Casino 400, Fontana, Calif.
March 5: Pennzoil 400 presented by
Jiffy Lube, Las Vegas
March 12: Ruoff Mortgage 500, Avon-
dale, Ariz.
SOCCER
ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE
CLUB GP W D L GF GA PTS
Arsenal 19 16 2 1 45 16 50
Man City
Newcastle
20 14 3 3 53 20 45
20 10 9 1 33 11 39
Man United 20 12 3 5 32 25 39
Tottenham 21 11 3 7 40 31 36
Brighton 19 9 4 6 37 27 31
Fulham 21 9 4 8 32 30 31
Brentford 20 7 9 4 32 28 30
Liverpool
Chelsea
19 8 5 6 34 25 29
20 8 5 7 22 21 29
Aston Villa 20 8 4 8 23 27 28
Crystal Palace 20 6 6 8 18 27 24
Notting. Forest 20 5 6 9 16 35 21
Leicester 20 5 3 12 28 35 18
Leeds 19 4 6 9 26 33 18
West Ham 20 5 3 12 17 25 18
Wolverhampton 20 4 5 11 12 30 17
Bournemouth 20 4 5 11 19 42 17
Everton 20 3 6 11 15 28 15
Southampton 20 4 3 13 17 35 15
FRIDAY, FEB. 3
Chelsea vs. Fulham, 2p.m.
SATURDAY, FEB. 4
Everton vs. Arsenal, 6:30a.m.
Aston Villa vs. Leicester, 9a.m.
Brentford vs. Southampton, 9a.m.
Brighton vs. Bournemouth, 9a.m.
Wolverhampton vs. Liverpool, 9a.m.
Man United vs. Crystal Palace, 9a.m.
Newcastle vs. West Ham, 11:30a.m.
SUNDAY, FEB. 5
Notting. Forest vs. Leeds, 8a.m.
Tottenham vs. Man City, 10:30a.m.
U.S. MEN’S SCHEDULE (0-1-0)
Jan. 25: Serbia 2, U.S. 1
Sunday: vs. Colombia, 5:30 p.m. at
Dignity Health Sports Park, Carson, Calif.
n-March 24: at Grenada, 6:30 p.m.
n-March 27: vs. El Salvador, TBA
n-Nations League
U.S. WOMEN’S SCHEDULE
s-Feb. 16: vs. Canda at Exploria
Stadium, Orlando, Fla., 6 p.m.
s-Feb. 19: vs. Japan at GEODIS Park,
Nashville, Tnn., 2:30 p.m.
s-Feb. 22: vs. Brazil at Toyota Stadium,
Frisco, Texas, 6 p.m.
w-July 21: vs. TBD, 8 p.m.
w-July 26: vs. Netherlands, 8 p.m.
w-Aug.1: vs. TBD, 2 a.m.
s-SheBelieves Cup;
w-FIFA World Cup Australia
Chicago Tribune | Section 3 | Saturday, January 28, 2023  5
GOLF
PGA FARMERS INSURANCE OPEN
2nd of 4 rounds, La Jolla, Calif., a-Tor-
rey Pines - South (Host Course), 7,765
yards; Par 72; b-Torrey Pines - North
7,258 yards; Par 72
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Jon Rahm 73a-67b-66a—206 -10
Tony Finau 73a-71b-64a—208 -8
Max Homa 68b-70a-71a—209 -7
Sungjae Im 68a-74b-67a—209 -7
Collin Morikawa 67b-72a-70a—209 -7
Sahith Theegala 66b-72a-71a—209 -7
Seonghyeon Kim 67b-74a-69a—210 -6
Byeong Hun An 68b-72a-71a—211 -5
Keegan Bradley 70a-73b-68a—211 -5
Joseph Bramlett 69a-71b-71a—211 -5
Rickie Fowler 72a-72b-67a—211 -5
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Sam Stevens 66a-72b-73a—211 -5
Jason Day 68b-71a-73a—212 -4
Lanto Griffin 67b-75a-70a—212 -4
Hideki Matsuyama 70b-73a-69a—212 -4
Taylor Moore 72a-68b-72a—212 -4
Novak Djokovic celebrates after a victory over Tommy Paul
Ryan Palmer 71b-71a-70a—212 -4
Xander Schauffele 72b-71a-69a—212 -4 during Friday’s match in the Australian Open semifinals in
Adam Schenk 71a-73b-68a—212 -4 Melbourne. WILLIAM WEST/AFP
Callum Tarren 71a-69b-72a—212 -4
Jimmy Walker 69a-71b-72a—212 -4
Dean Burmester 71a-70b-72a—213 -3 AUSTRALIAN OPEN
Thomas Detry 68b-75a-70a—213 -3
Djokovic tops
Michael Kim 69b-74a-70a—213 -3
Taylor Montgomery 67a-71b-75a—213 -3
Justin Rose 73a-70b-70a—213 -3
Kevin Tway 72a-72b-69a—213 -3
Jhonattan Vegas 68b-75a-70a—213 -3
Paul in semis
Kevin Yu 73a-70b-70a—213 -3
Adam Hadwin 70a-74b-70a—214 -2
Garrick Higgo 66b-76a-72a—214 -2
Si Woo Kim 69a-73b-72a—214 -2
Maverick McNealy 69b-74a-71a—214 -2
Trey Mullinax 71a-73b-70a—214 -2
Scott Piercy 69a-75b-70a—214 -2
Justin Suh
Erik Barnes
68b-75a-71a—214 -2
72b-72a-71a—215 -1
By Howard Fendrich dates to 1968.
Cameron Champ 70a-72b-73a—215 -1 Associated Press There was a pause in
Zecheng Dou 70a-74b-71a—215 -1 that string of victories a
Brent Grant
Harry Higgs
64b-74a-77a—215 -1
66b-77a-72a—215 -1 MELBOURNE, Austra- year ago, of course, when
Luke List 67b-75a-73a—215 -1 lia — Of all of his consid- Djokovic was deported
Peter Malnati 69b-74a-72a—215 -1
Vincent Norrman 67a-71b-77a—215 -1
erable talents, Novak from Australia before
Alex Smalley 71a-73b-71a—215 -1 Djokovic’s ability to cast competition began
Justin Thomas 68a-74b-73a—215 -1
Dylan Frittelli 70a-74b-72a—216 E
aside whatever appears to because he was not vacci-
Tano Goya 70a-67b-79a—216 E stand in his way might be nated against COVID-19.
Ben Griffin 67a-72b-77a—216 E the most valuable. He still has not gotten the
Emiliano Grillo 72a-70b-74a—216 E
Augusto Nunez 72a-69b-75a—216 E So forget about the shots, but the strict border
Taylor Pendrith 69b-75a-72a—216 E potential distraction of controls established by
Aaron Rai 64b-78a-74a—216 E
his father’s decision to the country during the
HERO DUBAI DESERT CLASSIC At stay away from Rod Laver pandemic have been eased.
Completed 1st of 4 rounds, Emirates Arena for Djokovic’s semi- “Of course, it’s not pleas-
Golf Club, Dubai, United Arab Emirates,
7,428 yards, Par: 72 final against unseeded ant for me to go through
65 (-7) American Tommy Paul this with all the things that
Ian Poulter
Ludvig Aberg
32-33
32-33
at the Australian Open I had to deal with last year
66 (-6) on Friday after getting and this year in Australia.
Angel Hidalgo 31-35 caught up in a flap over It’s not something that I
Louis De Jager 34-32
Rory McIlroy 29-37 being seen with a group want or need,” Djokovic
Patrick Reed 32-34 waving banned Russian said. “I hope that people
67 (-5)
Richard Bland 34-33 flags at the tournament. will let it be, and we can
Adri Arnaus 32-35 Forget about the heavily focus on tennis.”
Victor Perez
Thomas Pieters
32-35
32-35
taped left hamstring that That is what the No.
68 (-4) was an issue for Djokovic 4-seeded Djokovic himself
Tommy Fleetwood 33-35 last week. Forget about will hope to do Sunday
Daniel Gavins 32-36
Matthew Jordan 34-34 just how physical the when he takes on No. 3
Connor Syme 34-34 points were against Paul. seed Stefanos Tsitsipas,
Matt Wallace
Jeunghun Wang
34-34
33-35 Forget about how Djokovic who eliminated Karen
Oliver Wilson 34-34 produced twice as many Khachanov 7-6 (2), 6-4,
Hennie Du Plessis
Oliver Bekker
33-35
34-34
unforced errors, 24, as 6-7 (6), 6-3 to reach his first
69 (-3) winners, 12, in the opening final at Melbourne Park
Lucas Herbert 36-33 set. Forget about the lull of and second at a Slam.
Adrian Otaegui 35-34
Marcus Armitage 33-36 four games in a row that Whoever wins the final
went to Paul. Forget about will rise to No. 1 in the ATP
NFL PLAYOFFS the brief back-and-forth rankings. For Djokovic,
CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS
with the chair umpire. that would mark a return
SUNDAY’S GAMES And remember this: to a spot he has occu-
NFC: San Francisco (15-4) at Djokovic simply does not pied for more weeks than
Philadelphia (15-3), 2:05p.m. (FOX)
AFC: Cincinnati (14-4) at lose semifinals or finals anyone; for Tsitsipas, if
Kansas City (15-3), 5:30 p.m. (CBS) at Melbourne Park. Does. would mark a debut there.
SUPER BOWL LVII Not. Lose. And so, not “I like that number. It’s
Sunday, Feb. 12, surprisingly, he overcame all about you. It’s singular.
State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Ariz.
Conference champions, 5:30p.m. (FOX)
some shaky play in the It’s ‘1,’” said Tsitsipas, who
early going and took over was 0-3 in Australian Open
PLAYOFFS TOP PERFORMERS
PASSING the match, beating Paul 7-5, semifinals before Friday.
352: Josh Allen, BUF vs. MIA 6-1, 6-2 to close in on a 10th “These are the moments
1/15 (23-39, 3 TD, 2 INT, 93.1 RAT)
351: Tom Brady, TB vs. DAL Australian Open champi- that I’ve been working
1/16 (35-66, 2 TD, 1 INT, 72.2 RAT) onship and 22nd Grand hard for.”
332: Brock Purdy, SF vs. SEA
1/14 (18-30, 3 TD, 0 INT, 131.5 RAT)
Slam title overall. Djokovic is now a
305: Dak Prescott, DAL at TB From 5-all in the first set, perfect 19-0 over the last
1/16 (25-33, 4 TD, 0 INT, 143.3 RAT) Djokovic claimed seven two rounds in Melbourne,
301: Daniel Jones, NYG at MIN
1/15 (24-35, 2 TD, 0 INT, 114.1 RAT) games in a row and 14 of and his nine triumphs
288: Trevor Lawrence, JAC vs. LAC the last 17. there already are a men’s
1/14 (28-47, 4 TD, 4 INT, 70.2 RAT)
273: Kirk Cousins, MIN vs. NYG “I’m really thankful that record. If he can add one
1/15 (31-39, 2 TD, 0 INT, 112.9 RAT) I still have enough gas in more to go alongside his
273: Justin Herbert, LAC at JAC
1/14 (25-43, 1 TD, 0 INT, 84.7 RAT)
my legs to able to play at seven titles at Wimbledon,
265: Josh Allen, BUF vs. CIN this level,” said Djokovic, three at the U.S. Open and
1/22 (25-42, 0 TD, 1 INT, 68.1 RAT) a 35-year-old from Serbia. two at the French Open,
253: Geno Smith, SEA at SF
1/14 (25-39, 2 TD, 1 INT, 98.9 RAT) He extended his Austra- Djokovic would equal
lian Open winning streak Nadal for the most Grand
RUSHING
119: Christian McCaffrey, SF vs. SEA to 27 matches, the longest Slam trophies earned by a
1/14 (15 att., 0 TD, 4 1st downs) in the Open era, which man.
112: Kenneth Gainwell, PHI vs. NYG
1/21 (12 att., 1 TD, 7 1st downs)
109: Travis Etienne Jr., JAC vs. LAC
1/14 (20 att., 0 TD, 5 1st downs)
105: Joe Mixon, CIN at BUF
1/22 (20 att., 1 TD, 8 1st downs) IN BRIEF
Chiefs QB Mahomes
95: Isiah Pacheco, KC vs. JAC
1/21 (12 att., 0 TD, 3 1st downs)
90: Miles Sanders, PHI vs. NYG
1/21 (17 att., 0 TD, 4 1st downs)
set for AFC title game
78: Daniel Jones, NYG at MIN
1/15 (17 att., 0 TD, 7 ist downs)
77: Tony Pollard, DAL at TB
1/16 (15 att., 0 TD, 3 1st downs)
63: Kenneth Walker III, SEA at SF
1/14 (15 att., 1 TD, 4 1st downs)
62: Travis Etienne Jr., JAC at KC News services a lot of things,” he said this
1/21 (10 att., 1 TD, 4 1st downs)
62: J.K. Dobbins, BAL at CIN week. “We’ll see as we get
1/15 (13 att., 0 TD, 3 1st downs) Patrick Mahomes closer and closer, and we’ll
61: Saquon Barkley, NYG at PHI
1/21 (9 att., 0 TD, 1 st downs)
finished a full week of see during the game.”
60: Dalvin Cook, MIN vs. NYG practice on his ailing „„Dolphins QB Tua
1/15 (15 att., 0 TD, 2 1st downs) right ankle Friday, and Tagovailoa remains in the
54: Tyler Huntley, BAL at CIN
1/15 (9 att., 0 TD, 3 1st downs) Chiefs coach Andy Reid NFL’s concussion protocol
53: Saquon Barkley, NYG at MIN pronounced his All-Pro and will not participate in
1/15 (9 att., 2 TD, 3 1st downs)
51: Elijah Mitchell, SF vs. DAL quarterback ready to go the 2023 Pro Bowl. ... The
1/22 (14 att., 0 TD, 3 1st downs) for the AFC championship Rams are hiring former
RECEIVING
game against the Bengals. Jets offensive coordinator
136: DK Metcalf, SEA at SF Mahomes sustained a Mike LaFleur.
1/14 (10 rec., 13 targets, 2 TD) high ankle sprain in the
133: Deebo Samuel, SF vs. SEA
1/14 (6 rec., 9 targets, 1 TD) first quarter of last week’s Golf: LIV Golf series play-
129: T.J. Hockenson, MIN vs. NYG divisional-round win over ers Richard Bland and Ian
1/15 (10 rec., 11 targets, 0 TD)
117: CeeDee Lamb, DAL at SF the Jaguars, returning Poulter were tied atop the
1/22 (10 rec., 13 targets, 0 TD) after halftime to polish off leaderboard at 8-under
114: Stefon Diggs, BUF vs. MIA
1/15 (7 rec., 9 targets, 0 TD)
the victory. That sent the overall when second-
113: Gabe Davis, BUF vs. MIA Chiefs to their fifth consec- round play was suspended
1/15 (6 rec., 9 targets, 1 TD) utive AFC championship Friday because of fading
109: Gerald Everett, LAC at JAC
1/14 (6 rec., 8 targets, 1 TD) game, where they will face light at the Dubai Desert
105: Isaiah Hodgins, NYG at MIN the AFC North champi- Classic.
1/15 (8 rec., 9 targets, 1 TD
98: Travis Kelce, KC vs. JAC ons on Sunday night in a
1/21 (14 rec., 17 targets, 2 TD) rematch of last year’s over- MLB: Braves manager
95: George Kittle, SF vs. DAL
1/22 (5 rec., 5 targets, 0 TD)
time loss to the Bengals. Brian Snitker, coming off
95: Dalton Schultz, DAL at TB “He looks good,” Reid the team’s fifth consecu-
1/16 (7 rec., 8 targets, 2 TD) said. “I mean, he’s moving tive NL East title, signed
93: Evan Engram, JAC vs. LAC
1/14 (7 rec., 11 targets, 1 TD) around good. He’s going to a contract extension on
88: Darius Slayton, NYG at MIN go out and play.” Friday that runs through
1/15 (4 rec., 8 targets, 0 TD)
85: Chris Godwin, TB vs. DAL Mahomes has had the 2025 season.
1/16 (10 rec., 13 targets, 0 TD) perhaps his best season,
84: Ja’Marr Chase, CIN vs. BAL
1/15 (9 rec., 12 targets, 1 TD)
throwing for a career- NBA: Mavericks star Luka
83: Zay Jones, JAC at KC high 5,250 yards with a Doncic will miss a game
1/21 (5 rec., 7 targets, 0 TD) league-leading 41 touch- at Utah on Saturday after
78: Christian Kirk, JAC vs. LAC
1/14 (8 rec., 14 targets, 1 TD) down passes, and garnered spraining his left ankle.
74: Mike Evans, TB vs. DAL 49 of 50 first-place votes in
1/16 (6 rec., 11 targets, 0 TD)
74: Julio Jones, TB vs. DAL All-Pro voting. He is also NHL: Maple Leafs center
1/16 97 rec., 11 targets, 1 TD) among five finalists for Auston Matthews will
74: Zay Jones, JAC vs. LAC
1/14 (8 rec., 13 targets, 1 TD)
league MVP. miss at least three weeks
“I feel like I can still do with a sprained knee.
6  Chicago Tribune | Section 3 | Saturday, January 28, 2023

NATIONAL SPORTS REPORT

SHORTS

Djokovic’s dad avoids semifinals
Novak Djokovic’s father stayed away
from the 21-time Grand Slam champi-
on’s semifinal victory on Friday after
getting embroiled in a flap involv-
ing spectators who brought banned
Russian flags to Melbourne Park. Srdjan
Djokovic released a statement saying
he would not be at Rod Laver Arena,
“so there is no disruption.” Novak Djokovic wound up
beating unseeded American Tommy Paul 7-5, 6-1, 6-2
to earn a berth in the men’s singles final. Afterward, the
younger Djokovic defended his father, saying there was
“absolutely no intention whatsoever to support any kind
of war initiatives or anything like that” and adding that he
was sorry the whole episode “escalated so much.” He also
said he wasn’t sure yet whether his father would attend
Sunday’s final against Stefanos Tsitsipas. “Throughout the
event, we’ve spoken with players and their teams about
the importance of not engaging in any activity that causes
distress or disruption,” Tennis Australia said. “We will
continue to strive for the safety of fans at the event and reit-
erate our position banning flags from Belarus and Russia.”
Broadcasting legend Packer dies
Billy Packer, an Emmy award-winning
college basketball broadcaster who
covered 34 Final Fours for NBC and
CBS, died Thursday. He was 82. Pack-
er’s son, Mark, said his father had been
hospitalized in Charlotte for the past
three weeks and had several medical
issues, and ultimately succumbed to
kidney failure. Packer’s broadcasting career coincided
with the growth of college basketball. He worked as
analyst or color commentator on every Final Four from
1975 to 2008. He received a Sports Emmy for Outstanding
Sports Personality, Studio and Sports Analyst in 1993. “He
really enjoyed doing the Final Fours,” Mark Packer said.
“He timed it right. Everything in life is about timing. The
ability to get involved in something that, frankly, he was
going to watch anyway, was a joy to him. And then college
basketball just sort of took off with Magic Johnson and
Larry Bird.” Packer played three seasons at Wake Forest,
and helped lead the Demon Deacons to the Final Four in
1962, but it was his work as an analyst that brought him
the most acclaim.
Wilks ‘disappointed, not defeated’
Former Panthers interim head coach
Steve Wilks is “disappointed, but
not defeated” that he didn’t land
the team’s full-time head coaching
position. The Panthers announced
on Thursday they’ve agreed to hire
Frank Reich as their new head coach.
“The sun rose this morning and by the
grace of God so did I,” Wilks said in Tweet Friday. “Many
people aren’t built for this but I know what it means
to persevere and see it through.” Wilks thanked play-
ers, coaches, and staff, saying he took pride in repre-
senting his hometown of Charlotte. Wilks added “I do
wish Frank Reich the best.” Wilks’ Tweet came less than
24 hours after his attorney Douglas Wigdor blasted
the Panthers for their decision. Wilks went 6-6 as the
Panthers’ interim coach after replacing the fired Matt
Rhule in Week 6. The Panthers interviewed Wilks, who
is Black, twice for the position before settling on Reich,
who is white. “There is a legitimate race problem in the
NFL, and we can assure you that we will have more to
say in the coming days,” Wigdor said in an email. —AP

NBA ANALYSIS

May be time
to re-think
ASG voting
By Tim Reynolds
Associated Press

It’s reasonable to think Chet Holmgren

will be an NBA All-Star one day. He was
a highly recruited high school player
whose one year at Gonzaga was stellar
enough for the Thunder to make him the
No. 2 pick in last year’s draft. He’s an obvi-
ous talent, an enormous talent.
And it’s terrible that Holmgren got hurt
last summer and will miss the entirety
of this season. But evidently, his rehab
has been going extremely well — since
four NBA players say he should start next
month’s All-Star Game.
That’s right. When NBA players were
asked in recent weeks who should start
their All-Star Game in Salt Lake City on
Feb. 19, four of them said that Holmgren
should, even though he has yet to make
his NBA debut. So, congratulations to
everyone involved. It’s a new record: 330
different NBA players got a vote — either
from themselves or their peers — saying
they should be an All-Star starter. That’s
20 more than the number of players who
got votes in 2021. Keep in mind only 10
people will start the All-Star Game. There
might be, at the most, 20 legitimate candi-
dates for those starting nods. OK, let’s say
it’s 30 players, even. That’s 300 less than
the number of people who received votes.
That means a ton of votes were wasted,
unserious, a joke.
This all started seven years ago, after
almost 800,000 people stuffed the ballot
boxes and nearly made Zaza Pachulia an
All-Star starter. So the NBA changed the
rules, going to a weighted formula — 50%
is determined by fan votes, 25% by media
votes, 25% by player votes.
The fans pretty much got who they
Brock Purdy gets picked as Mr. Irrelevant by the 49ers as the 262nd and last pick of the NFL Draft on April 30 in Las Vegas. With one more win for wanted, as should always be the case.
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A Purdy picture
The road from ‘Mr. Irrelevant’
to the brink of the Super Bowl
By Josh Dubow
Associated Press
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Brock Purdy’s
NFL career started with the moniker of
“Mr. Irrelevant” and the weeklong trip
to Newport Beach to celebrate the player
picked last in the draft.
With one more win, Purdy’s rookie season
in the NFL will end on the brightest stage
of all as a starting quarterback in the Super
Bowl for the 49ers.
It’s been an improbable nine-month jour-
ney from the trip to Disneyland, golf tour-
nament, and a roast where he received the
Lowsman Trophy as the last draft pick to the
NFC title game on Sunday when the 49ers
(15-4) visit the Eagles (15-3).
“Going to the NFC championship, it
means a lot to us and for myself,” Purdy said.
“When I take a step back, it’s pretty cool.
Very thankful.”
Purdy is set for perhaps his toughest test
yet on Sunday, when he faces an Eagles
defense that led the NFL with 70 sacks and
must deal with an imposing road environ-
ment.
Purdy handled the crowd noise well in
his first road start at Seattle last month, with
coach Kyle Shanahan telling him at the time
it was important to deal with that before the
postseason.
“He did say it was good preparation for
what we might have to play in terms of the
playoffs, going on the road for road games
and obviously Philadelphia,” Purdy said. “In
these kind of games, it’s all about communi-
cation. How can you operate smoothly, get
in and out of the huddle, get the play off the
right way, make sure everyone is on the same
page.
“So that’s definitely a big emphasis this
week.”
Purdy has aced every test he’s faced so far
and has already become perhaps one of the
most productive “Mr. Irrelevant” since the
title was first handed out in 1976.
He is the third rookie quarterback ever to
win two playoff starts, the fifth to reach the
conference title game as a starter and will
look to be the first to reach the Super Bowl.
Pretty impressive for the ninth QB taken
in the draft.
But not a complete surprise to the
supremely confident Purdy or the Niners,
who saw flashes during Purdy’s limited work
in training camp.
The 49ers cut Nate Sudfeld in order to
keep Purdy as the third QB and the team
didn’t lose any confidence when he was
forced to take over early in Week 13 after
Jimmy Garoppolo got hurt.
Purdy helped the 49ers win that game
against the Dolphins and has won all seven
starts since then, posting an NFL-best 111.4
passer rating in that span with 16 TDs and
only three interceptions.
A San Francisco offense filled with play-
makers such as Christian McCaffrey, Deebo
Samuel, George Kittle and Brandon Aiyuk
has gotten better instead of regressing with
a rookie running the show.
“We stopped looking at him as our rookie
quarterback when he took over and he
stopped looking at himself like that proba-
bly when he got drafted,” right tackle Mike
McGlinchey said. “He’s done a great job. I
can’t say enough good things about him.”
The history of rookie QBs making it this
far in the postseason is not very success-
ful with Shaun King (1999), Ben Roethlis-
berger (2004), Joe Flacoo (2008) and Mark
Sanchez (2009) all losing in that round.
The four combined for a 51.8 passer rating
in the title games with nine interceptions,
four TD passes and just 196.8 yards passing
per game.
But Purdy has already exceeded the
performances of almost all rookie QBs in
the postseason. He became the first rookie
to account for four TDs in a playoff game in
a wild-card win over the Seahawks when his
332 yards passing were the most for a rookie
in his first playoff start since Sammy Baugh
threw for 335 in the NFL title game in 1937
to lead Washington past Chicago.
Purdy wasn’t nearly as productive last
week against the Cowboys’ tougher defense,
throwing for 214 yards with no TDs. But he
once again protected the ball with no turn-
overs, giving him consecutive playoff games
with at least 200 yards and no turnovers. No
other rookie has done that even once.
“He’s been unbelievable with that,” Shana-
han said. “I think that’s the number one thing
he’s done and to be able to be as good with
the ball as he has while still making a number
of the plays that he has that’s definitely the
thing I’ve been most impressed with.”
Purdy has pulled off many impressive
feats since taking over with his ability to
extend plays adding a new element to a
dynamic 49ers offense.
That has helped the 49ers score an
NFL-best 32.6 points per game since he
stepped in after the first drive against the
Dolphins.
“I’m not shocked anymore,” McCaffrey
said. “It’s just who he is now.”
all were announced as starters when
the list was revealed Thursday night. So
did No. 9 Kyrie Irving, No. 10 Donovan
Mitchell and No. 12 Zion Williamson.
No. 7 Joel Embiid didn’t make the cut,
nor did No. 11 Anthony Davis. Player votes
were a big reason why Davis wasn’t a
starter. Only 30 players voted for Davis
among Western Conference frontcourt
players, while 80 voted for Williamson.
That made the difference.
But many of the 375 ballots returned by
players were puzzling.
The Bulls’ Lonzo Ball got four votes.
The Heat’s Omer Yurtseven got three
votes. Jae Crowder, who is still a member
of the Suns in name only, got two votes.
The Nuggets’ Collin Gillespie and the
Blazers’ Ibou Badji each got one vote.
None have played this season.
There were other interesting — a polite
way of saying odd — trends within the
data. Only Jokic (58.7%), Antetokounmpo
(58.7%) and James (51.5%) appeared on
more than half of the All-Star ballots cast
by NBA players this year.
The Bucks’ Grayson Allen got four
votes, which is one more than reigning
NBA defensive player of the year Marcus
Smart of the Celtics received. Yes, Allen
has been a contributor. He’s had his
moments. He’s hit big shots. But it’s
not a fine line between solid player and
All-Star starter — it’s more like a crater.
There certainly could be a year where
the irresponsible voting really costs
somebody a spot. It won’t be this year.
Arguments could be made for other
players — Embiid, Domantas Sabo-
nis, Ja Morant, Lauri Markkanen, Shai
Gilgeous-Alexander — as candidates to
start. They’ll all probably be All-Stars.
The coaches will now decide the
reserves; the votes for the starters no
longer count for anything. And if some-
one has to bow out of the game because
of injury, Commissioner Adam Silver
chooses a replacement.
But hopefully, there will soon come
a time when the players take the voting
more seriously. If not, maybe the NBA
needs to consider taking their vote away.