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Questions? Call 1-800-Tribune Sunday, May 5, 2024 Breaking news at chicagotribune.com Final Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting TODAY’S WEATHER High 64 Low 47 Complete Chicagoland forecast on Page 24 $5.75 city and suburbs and elsewhere 176th year No. 126 © Chicago Tribune COALITION CARRIES ON Black leaders weigh in on Rainbow/PUSH Coalition chief’s resignation less than three months into the role. Plans to find a replacement for the storied civil rights organization are now underway. Time is a thief, and a gift: My friends and I are turning 50. Now do we get to stop hating our looks? asks Heidi Stevens. LIFE+TRAVEL A stage resurrection “Death Becomes Her” gets a new life as a Broadway musical, opening in a world premiere in Chicago. A+E ‘Homelessness is a flex’ Gen Z couple create videos for TikTok, living a “minimal lifestyle” to avoid what they call the stresses of employment and costly housing. REAL ESTATE By Jake Sheridan Chicago Tribune Belmont Cragin residents were filing into the cafeteria at Prieto Math and Science Academy last month to weigh in on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s signature plan to overhaul Chicago’s mental health system when they got unexpected evidence that the bold, still largely theoretical plan remains a focus at City Hall. Into the school walked Johnson, an unannounced guest at the community forum, surrounded by a flock of leading administration officials. “It’s one of our top priorities,” he told attendees, before talking about his older brother, Leon, who dealt with untreated mental illness and died addicted and unhoused. “Our ultimate goal, our primary goal, is that we provide mental health services without barriers. That when, where and however individuals and families need these services, the city of Chicago shows up.” Despite the mayor’s words, however, the actual progress on his campaign promise to install the so-called Treatment Not Trauma plan remains difficult for Chicagoans to see. The City Council tasked a working group Treatment Not Trauma program developing slowly Mayor’s mental health overhaul plans inspire both optimism, doubts By Angie Leventis Lourgos Chicago Tribune Sleep-deprived and anxious about feeding their babies, tens of thousands of moms in Illinois and elsewhere recently turned to a variety of Facebook groups offering support for breastfeeding, pumping breast milk and postpartum care. Direct responses were often remarkably prompt from the creator and admin of these groups, a Facebook user named “Cathy Marie Chan,” whose profile featured a smiling picture of a woman purporting to be a board-certified lactation consultant and founder of Chan Lactation LLC. Via Facebook Messenger, “Cathy Marie Chan” would request photos and video recordings of the mothers’ naked breasts — and in some cases vaginal areas — for supposed health care purposes, according to multiple members of the groups and screenshots of private messages. Some of the images of breasts that women sent were bare, others were taken while expressing milk or feeding infants; some women received specific instructions to include their face in the shot, according to group members’ recollections and screenshots of messages. In one Facebook Messenger Mothers fear they got duped by scam Sent naked images to purported lactation consultant on Facebook Mayor Brandon Johnson pauses while speaking during a Treatment Not Trauma campaign summit at First Presbyterian Church in the Woodlawn neighborhood on July 22. JOHN J. KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE Progress reported in talks on Gaza Egyptian state media reported “noticable progress” on cease-fire talks, but a senior Israeli official downplayed prospects for a full end to the war. Nation & World INSIDE By Stacy St. Clair | Chicago Tribune After finishing second at the Olympic trials in 2021, Joe Rau took off his tattered shoes and left them on the wrestling mat as a stunned crowd watched. This is how Greco-Roman wrestlers announce their retirement. It’s how they tell the world that they have nothing more to give. It was a rash decision, spurred by controversial refereeing and a heartbreaking defeat that kept Rau off the U.S. Olympic team once again. At that moment — and for many months after — the idea of wrestling again sickened the Elmhurst College graduate. “I get a pit in my stomach like I’m going to throw up if I just think about wrestling,” the Union Ridge native told the Tribune a few weeks after the loss. “It’s devastating because wrestling has been the thing I’ve loved most since I was a kid. It’s what I do. It’s what I know.” Rau let the sadness and the bitterness envelop him. He had no job, no money and — for the first time since he joined a local wrestling club at age 6 — no real purpose. He spent several weeks camping with his wife in Alaska’s Denali National Park after the trials and tried to figure out his next move. The solitude — and the sheer distance from his former life — suited him so well he grew a beard, took a job in a coffee shop and planned to move north. At Northwestern University, where Rau had been training for the past several years, head wrestling coach Matt Storniolo came up with a competing offer: He asked Rau to join his staff as an assistant, to find a better way to deal with his disappointment. “It was like he had lost part of his soul,” Storniolo said. “I thought it might ease the pain if he was out there helping younger wrestlers. I thought maybe he could find a differ- ‘IT STILL DOESN’T FEEL REAL’ Chicago wrestler Joe Rau’s improbable journey leads him to the Olympics — at age 33 Above: Joe Rau, left, works out with Dirk Morley and the Northwestern wrestling team in Evanston on Tuesday. Rau qualified to compete for the U.S. Olympic team in the Paris Games after coming close in 2016 and 2021. BRIAN CASSELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE A closer look at stadium request Illinois politicians are faced with the Bears’ request to build a new stadium. What’s proposed, what else is at stake, and how will it play out? 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The people working to implement Treatment Not Trauma remain optimistic about the potentially sweeping policy’s future. But some of its proponents looking in from outside the bureaucratic process worry the long-awaited proposals are moving too slowly and will not live up to the bold vision championed by years of community organizing. Johnson quickly passed an ordinance to launch the city’s working group once in office, but to move forward, the policy needs “active leadership” from City Hall, not “infinite working groups, infinite consensus buildings and no movement,” said Eric Reinhart, a public health, law and psychiatry anthropologist and physician who co-drafted the “white paper” report published by the activist coalition that pushed for the policy. “I think it’s quite disappointing to all of us that a year into this administration, that even on the campaign stage held up Treatment Not Trauma as one of its core priorities, we still haven’t made any steps forward,” he said. “Everybody’s getting a working group, but where are we seeing implementation?” But Reinhart’s white paper co-author, Arturo Carrillo, expressed optimism after the Prieto Academy event. A member of the working group preparing the policy’s path forward, Carrillo is also a social worker who directs violence prevention and health initiatives for the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, part of the broad Treatment Not Trauma coalition. “It’s almost like we are playing catch up,” Carrillo said. “This should have been started four years ago. Under the last administration. We were constantly being told no, we were constantly seeing barriers put up. Complete resistance to any input. Now we absolutely see the wheels of government moving.” The plan took its first steps toward concrete action in November when Johnson’s 2024 budget included $15.9 million to double non-police emergency response and another $5.2 million to reopen two of the 14 city-run mental health centers closed by past mayors. Nearly six months later, the clinics have yet to reopen. Johnson’s policy chief Umi Grigsby and Deputy Mayor of Community Safety Garien Gatewood defended the slow progress as proof the city is carefully gathering input across the city and “going at the pace of community.” So far, the city has hosted 15 public feedbacks centered on the plan, which remains on track to follow the timeline set by the City Council. “This process has been very intentional,” Gatewood said. “We are trying to do things that folks have never done before. Instead of coming in and prescribing to folks, ‘This is what you need,’ we are building together in real time.” Grigsby and Gatewood declined to share specifics about the city’s Treatment Not Trauma plan in an interview last week, citing the need to wait for the working group to first share its report with the City Council. But the two administration leaders helping to steer the fledgling policy hinted at its scope. “Our goal is to expand mental health services. And so that means that we have to look at staffing, we have to look at career pipelines, we have to look at budgeting in the long term,” Grigsby said. Johnson’s administration plans to add the first two clinics by the end of the year and expects more clinics after this year, Grigsby said. The clinic reopenings are also a goal of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, a strong Johnson labor ally whose members lost jobs when Mayor Rahm Emanuel shuttered six city-run clinics in 2011. The AFSCME International Union PAC contributed $100,000 to Johnson’s mayoral campaign last year, according to state campaign finance records. And AFSCME Illinois Council 31’s PAC contributed $56,750 to Johnson in 2018 during his successful run for Cook County commissioner. Many activists claim cityrun centers are a better option than the private, nonprofit clinics that serve many Chicagoans because the city clinics have more oversight, focus on outcomes over cost and have a more substantial community connection. It is so far unclear where the clinics will reopen, though Johnson promised they will come “in neighborhoods with the highest unmet needs.” City leaders have also recently said they may expand mental health care by layering services into existing Chicago Department of Public Health clinics. Johnson also intends to continue building out the Crisis Assistance Response and Engagement, or CARE, program piloted by former Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Gatewood said. The program sends non-police first responders to 911 calls regarding mental health crises, substance use and homelessness issues, currently using a handful of teams operating in selected neighborhoods. Gatewood declined to say how common CARE responses could become across the city, but described expansion as a way to relieve pressure on overworked police. “There are areas and spaces that police shouldn’t be responding to, right? We know that, they know that, and a lot of community members know that too,” he said. The two leaders had little to say about a proposed third pillar of the Treatment Not Trauma plan: a new, expansive network of nonprofessional “community care workers” employed by the city to work in neighborhood-based teams. The so-called care corps would mark a dramatic shift away from clinic-based mental health services. Its workers would be tasked with finding ways to meet smaller needs through daily outreach in a bid to prevent mental health crises before they occur. The positions were not specifically discussed as a series of city leaders spoke at the Prieto Academy gathering, though speakers did reference a need for “extensive community outreach.” And Gatewood and Grigsby shared few thoughts when asked about the role care workers would play in the policy’s implementation, but flagged the need to build mental health outreach worker training pipelines alongside city colleges and schools. “It’s about growing and expanding not only the services, but the people who are able to provide those services,” Grigsby said. If the city does not implement a large-scale care corps as a part of Treatment Not Trauma, it will fall short of the standards set forth by activists who started to push for the policy after Emanuel closed the clinics, Reinhart said. The policy’s original vision was not “just creating a bunch of city-run mental health centers where people can see psychiatrists and therapists,” Reinhart said. Instead, it was to have a whole new model — one that uses traditional clinic-based care and the alternative emergency response aspect, but also relies heavily on care workers. “Simply expanding the existing model, that’s not TNT. That’s something else, and it’s already failed,” he said. “My biggest concern is that pieces of the vision will be closed off and touted as TNT without the whole vision. But you need the whole thing for it to work.” Ald. Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez, 33rd, the policy’s chief City Council proponent, tried unsuccessfully for years to move it forward under Lightfoot’s administration. The gradual process to “make it a reality” now allows for it to be “rooted in community,” she said. “There is a lot of work to do,” Rodriguez Sanchez said. “What we are trying to do does not exist anywhere in the country.” jsheridan@chicago tribune.com Health from Page 1 Ald. Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez speaks during a Sept. 26 news conference at City Hall on the Treatment Not Trauma ordinance. The committee later approved the measure that would send crisis responders on mental heath calls. ANTONIO PEREZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE By Alex Hulvalchick Chicago Tribune Northwestern University officials on Wednesday provided information on parking, seating capacity and other topics related to the temporary use of a lakeside athletic field for some home football games during the 2024 and 2025 seasons. Lanny and Sharon Martin Stadium, which hosts the university’s men’s and women’s soccer and lacrosse teams, will be able to host fewer than 15,000 people on temporary seating structures along the north, south and west sides of the field while Ryan Field is being rebuilt, officials said at a meeting of the Northwestern University/ City Committee meeting in Evanston. Northwestern’s vice president of operations and chief operating officer, Luke Figora, said the plan will give students and other attendees a unique experience unlike any other in college football. “Rather than having to go somewhere else to watch the team play they can do it here, on campus in a unique facility showing the beauty of the lakefront,” Figora said. “It’s something different that a handful of students that ever go through Northwestern will get to say that they experienced, and that’s something kind of cool.” Ryan Field is about a mile from the campus on the northern border between Evanston and Wilmette. Not all home games for the two seasons will be held at the temporary site. Deputy Director of Athletics for Operations & Capital Projects Deneé Barracato said games against opponents such as Ohio State that traditionally draw larger-than-average crowds will be played at larger venues. Those venues have not been announced but there have been reports the university has considered Wrigley Field, Guaranteed Rate Field and Soldier Field. A maximum of seven home games could be held at the temporary field per year. Public announcement systems are set to be directed eastward toward the lake and current plans call for use of existing lighting. If further lighting is needed, anything added would be for temporary use. The demolition of the 98-year-old Ryan Field is nearly complete and plans call for construction of the new $80 million stadium to be finished by the 2026 football season. Committee member David Schoenfeld expressed concern about parking at the temporary venue but was told the university plans to utilize two of its nearby parking garages, some of the parking areas at Ryan Field and downtown Evanston garages, and provide shuttle service if needed. Parking could even be shifted downtown to help bring further foot traffic into local businesses, according to Dave Davis, Northwestern’s senior executive director for neighborhood and community relations. “Part of this plan, if we work in partnership with the local business community, could be to spur economic development in that area,” Davis said. “We don’t have to try to park all the people on campus. We have the capacity to do that now but I think we have the opportunity to do more and share the wealth.” Game times are still unknown. Such decisions are dictated by the football conference and media companies broadcasting the games per the university’s media rights agreement. Barracato said they are informed of the upcoming game time around seven to 12 days ahead of time. Northwestern’s first game is scheduled for Aug. 31 against Miami (Ohio). NU officials outline temporary football parking, capacity plans “This process has been very intentional. We are trying to do things that folks have never done before. Instead of coming in and prescribing to folks, ‘This is what you need,’ we are building together in real time.” — Deputy Mayor of Community Safety Garien Gatewood 2 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Sunday, May 5, 2024

CHICAGOLAND By Robert McCoppin Chicago Tribune A billion here, a billion there — pretty soon you’re talking real money. The late Sen. Everett Dirksen may not have said exactly that, but he repeatedly raised that concern about spending tax dollars. For reference, $1 billion is more than the budgets of the Chicago Park District, Cook County Forest Preserves and Greater Chicago Food Depository combined. Annual spending for Chicago police is about $2 billion, while Chicago Public Schools’ budget exceeds $9 billion. Now, Illinois politicians are faced with the Chicago Bears’ request to build a new, publicly owned $3.2 billion enclosed stadium on Chicago’s lakefront. The state’s top leaders expressed reluctance, but Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is all in. So what exactly is proposed, what else is at stake, and how will this play out? Here are a few highlights. What is proposed: Bears President and CEO Kevin Warren envisions a stadium just south of the Bears’ current home at Soldier Field, on the site of what is now a parking lot. The facility would seat about 65,000 for football, with standing room up to 70,000, and a capacity of 77,000 for basketball. The structure would have a fixed, translucent roof, and a glass wall on the north end to take in the skyline. Unlike Soldier Field, it could hold events year-round, including concerts, soccer, college basketball playoffs, or, once in a great while, the Super Bowl. Soldier Field would be torn down, but its colonnades would be saved and 14 acres of athletic fields and open space added in between and to the north of the colonnades, for use by local sports teams, graduations and other events. If approved this year, the stadium would open in 2028. A little context: The stadium would be designed by Manica architects, which designed Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. That stadium, referenced by the Bears in their presentation, also has a translucent roof, and opened in 2020 at a cost of $1.9 billion, with $750 million from taxpayers. What it could cost: The Bears say they would pay $2 billion, a huge private investment, plus $300 million requested from the NFL. The rest of the $3.2 billion cost of the stadium alone would be paid with $900 million from the state. The team said another $325 million would be needed for infrastructure, including improved road access and utilities as part of up to $1.5 billion for full build-out with extras like a hotel. The public money would be borrowed through bonds issued by the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, or ISFA, which previously financed construction of Guaranteed Rate Field, where the White Sox play, and the 2003 renovation of Soldier Field. The bonds are to be repaid over 40 years by the city’s 2% hotel tax. Some context: The first problem is, the hotel tax has not been enough to repay even the past work on Sox park and Soldier Field. The state still owes about $430 million for that, which would have to be refinanced, with interest totaling $1.3 billion, ISFA calculates. Borrowing $900 million in new spending would add an additional $2.6 billion in interest, plus a $160 million reserve, which would earn interest, for a total stadium cost nearing $4.8 billion. That’s not counting the $1.5 billion in infrastructure costs, or the $1 billion already paid for both existing stadiums. The Bears say that’s an unfair way to look at it. Home mortgages often cost twice the value of a house, but nobody cites the interest cost as part of the sales price. To be consistent, the team’s investment, to be paid by equity and debt, would also have to be figured with interest. Unanswered: How the state would pay for the $1.5 billion in infrastructure. Officials proposed using federal and state grants, but how much they could get is unknown. What reaction the Bears are getting: State lawmakers would have to approve such a deal to make it happen, but the leadership is against it. Gov. J.B. Pritzker called the Bears’ proposal a “non-starter.” “I didn’t say that there’s not ever the possibility of having a domed stadium in Chicago, I’ve never said that,” the governor said recently. “I have said, however, that it’s not a high priority for the taxpayers and, very importantly, it’s got to be a good deal for taxpayers. So, there’s a lot of questions about whether the deal could get done.” House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch and state Senate President Don Harmon both said the chances of passage are low. In contrast, the state just announced that Rivian would make a $1.5 billion investment in its electric vehicle plant in Normal, with a 30-year $827 million incentive package from the state, mostly from tax credits. The not-for-profit Friends of the Parks issued a statement questioning the rush for a new stadium on the lake, saying it could be built elsewhere, and raising numerous issues, such as: “Does it seem reasonable that the Chicago Bears should get their wants satisfied immediately while poor neighborhoods suffer from benign neglect?” The group failed when it challenged the renovation of Soldier Field, but successfully fought off filmmaker George Lucas’ proposal for a museum on the same site. What are the economic impacts: Warren says the public money is not a donation, but an investment. The Bears project $8 billion in regional economic impacts during construction, with 43,000 job-years. Once operational, the team projects 4,000 permanent jobs, generating $450 million in annual regional impact, though only about 25% of that would be new. Economists often are skeptical of such estimates, saying that officials must consider how else they could spend money to promote public benefit and productivity. What’s unknown: The Bears have not specified what they would expect in return for their investment. Pritzker has said the Bears are asking for revenues from other events at the stadium, including from tickets, concessions and parking. That could cut into a major revenue source for the landlord, the Chicago Park District, which is budgeted to make $54 million from Soldier Field in 2024. What happens if this doesn’t fly? Just last year, the Bears paid $197 million to buy the former Arlington Park racecourse. Similar to its presentation for a Chicago stadium, the team proposed building a $2 billion domed stadium in Arlington Heights, while saying it would need unspecified public help for infrastructure. The major difference was that the suburban stadium would be surrounded by a $5 billion mixed-use development, with housing, hotels and entertainment, that would generate significant revenues and taxes. That project stalled after the team could not agree with local school districts on property taxes, though they were apart only a few million dollars — a pittance compared with the overall costs. Warren said that plan is now off the table while the team pursues Chicago, but noted that the Bears remain the largest property owner in Arlington Heights. Village officials are biding their time, saying they think the Bears will be back. Mayor Tom Hayes said “we are ready, willing and able,” if the Bears want to turn again to the suburbs. Dissecting Bears’ lakefront stadium proposal so far Renderings of a new state-of-the-art enclosed stadium with open space access to the lakefront were released by the Chicago Bears on April 24. 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By Olivia Stevens Chicago Tribune To close what some sexual abuse survivors and advocates see as a legal loophole, Illinois lawmakers are considering a bill that would criminalize sexual relations between school authority figures and students aged 18 to 23. In Illinois, where the age of consent is 17, educators and other school employees can be fired if they are found to be in a sexual relationship with a student of any age. But there is no avenue to press criminal charges if the student is 18 or older. Faith Colson, who was sexually abused by her physics teacher starting when she was a junior at Schaumburg High School, said this fails to protect students who are still young and vulnerable. Colson’s abuser was convicted of criminal sexual abuse in a case brought over a decade after the relationship between teacher and student ended. Colson was 17 at the time of the sexual relationship, which she said followed several months of grooming by the 37-year-old teacher. “My teacher started paying special attention to me because I was kind of at the top of the class, and I thought that it was kind of a mentor relationship,” Colson said. “I had two parents at home that I knew loved me, but I think every kid you know, appreciates extra adults that are kind of pouring into their life.” Colson said the relationship lasted into adulthood, and it wasn’t until years later that she fully realized her teacher abused his authority over her to begin an inappropriate relationship. She also realized that had the sexual relationship started a few months later, after she had turned 18, criminal charges would not have been possible. “I think most parents don’t realize that a teacher can have sex with their 18-year-old child — like, middle of your senior year,” Colson said. “I have a January birthday — if my teacher had waited till I was 18, he could have been having sex with me, telling everyone he knew about it … He would’ve lost his job, but there’s no criminal record.” Colson now lives in Texas, but her personal experience of sexual abuse in her home state has driven her to advocate for reforms in the Illinois General Assembly. In 2021, she worked with legislators to pass Faith’s Law, which made changes to the processes schools must follow in instances of sexual misconduct allegations. These include adding employment history reviews as part of the hiring and vetting process of school workers and requiring notices be provided to students’ parents or guardians when there’s an alleged act of sexual misconduct. The original version of that bill included a provision expanding the criteria for prosecuting sex offenses by educators and school authority figures to include students 18 or older, but the change failed to make it into the final version. Since then, Colson and the sponsor of the bill before the legislature this year, Alton Republican state Rep. Amy Elik, have worked to addresses concerns raised over the measure in committee hearings, one being that school employees should not be penalized for consensual relationships with students with whom they are close in age. A key but controversial requirement in the most recent version is that the school employee must be at least four years older than the student to be prosecuted. While Elik and Colson said they do not agree with this age difference requirement, they believe including it will help the bill get to the finish line this spring. “Let’s just say we have a 20-year-old, let’s say a coach, who comes back to work at his or her high school and has a dating relationship with a senior in high school — previous comments were, ‘well, that’s not really the same,’ ” Elik said in an interview. “I will readily admit, that’s not ideal. It doesn’t necessarily protect all students. But that was our attempt at trying to address the previous concerns in the Senate.” The idea for the compromise came from a law in Colorado that includes a similar four-year age difference requirement for charges, Elik said. Before the House voted last month, Democratic Rep. Joyce Mason of Gurnee said she was disappointed by the age-difference amendment. “It’s really important for everyone to know that someone who is a teacher or in a position of power with a student — that is a power and control relationship, and it doesn’t matter if they are the same age, or in some cases, the teacher is a year younger,” she said. “That should not be a consensual relationship.” The bill that passed the House last month without a no vote would qualify sexual abuse by an educator or authority figure involving a student 18 to 23 years old as a Class A misdemeanor for the first offense and a Class 4 felony for a subsequent offense or if there is more than one victim. Abuse involving sexual penetration would be a Class 4 felony for the first offense and a Class 3 felony for a subsequent offense or with more than one victim. Supporters of the bill, according to submitted witness slips, include the Illinois Principals Association, the Illinois Association of School Administrators and Illinois-based advocacy groups KIDS TOO and Unique Learners Unite, a nonprofit that works to improve school resources for students with disabilities. Dan Vosnos, executive director of Unique Learners Unite, said in an interview that students with disabilities are overrepresented among students ages 18 to 23 and thus would be particularly affected by the bill. “Faith’s Law was written, which was great, but it didn’t take into consideration this population,” Vosnos said. He said this bill helps bring students with disabilities into the conversation of school sexual abuse prevention. “And look, by no means are we done,” Vosnos added. “We want to get something in place now, and then we need to improve it.” Sexual assault allegations have been an ongoing issue for Chicago Public Schools, which has seen a 12% increase in complaints during the 2023-24 academic year compared with the year prior, according to data presented by the district at a February Chicago Board of Education meeting. CPS Deputy Inspector General Amber Nesbitt, who heads the district’s sexual allegations unit, told the board that in the first two months of the year, the unit had already received 92 complaints, averaging out to three cases per school day. In an email statement, CPS assistant press secretary Damen Alexander said the district supports the bill. “CPS prioritizes and takes seriously its responsibility to ensure the safety, security and well-being of all students,” the statement said, adding that Chicago Board of Education policy “already prohibits sexual misconduct.” The bill is now before the Senate, where it is sponsored by five Republicans and one Democrat. Colson said no matter the outcome of the bill this year, she will continue to advocate for improving policies for survivors of sexual abuse and equipping schools with the resources to prevent more students from becoming victims. “I would rather help the people who are teaching now do a better job than spend my life angry about what went wrong, because that’s not going to save anyone,” Colson said. “(Faith’s) Law passing has been super encouraging that I, as one person, can make a difference … It doesn’t undo the damage that was done to me, but I can know that having suffered what I did, I can help other kids not suffer that.” ostevens@chicago tribune.com Bill would criminalize sex between educators and older students Faith Colson, who survived sexual abuse by her teacher as a student at Schaumburg High School, stands near her home in Texas on March 1. 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By Caroline Kubzansky Chicago Tribune Two current leaders of a board meant to provide Chicago residents with oversight of the city’s embattled Police Department are poised to join its first permanent iteration alongside five other candidates, Mayor Brandon Johnson announced Tuesday. Anthony Driver Jr. and Remel Terry are president and vice president, respectively, of the interim Community Commission on Public Safety and Accountability, which helps select and remove the city’s police superintendent and Police Board members and sets goals for CPD, the Police Board and the Civilian Office of Police Accountability. Driver and Terry, along with Aaron Gottlieb, Abierre Minor, Angel Rubi Navarijo, Kelly Presley and Sandra Wortham, were part of a group of 15 nominees sent to Johnson in early March after a monthslong process of recruiting and interviewing candidates. If approved, they will make up the first permanent civilian oversight board for the Chicago Police Department, which officials tasked with bringing “police officers and Chicago residents together to plan, prioritize, and build mutual trust.” Under the 2021 ordinance that created the commission and 22 police district councils, Johnson had 30 days to make his selections. His announcement came about three weeks after that deadline. Per the ordinance, Johnson’s appointees will go before the City Council Committee on Police and Fire and, if they pass the committee, to the full council for approval. The seven appointees are: „ Current interim President Anthony Driver Jr. „ Interim Vice President Remel Terry „ Aaron Gottlieb, assistant professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work „ Angel Rubi Navarijo, director of constituent services for 48th Ward Ald. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth „ Kelly Presley, associate general counsel of Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Chicago „ Sandra Wortham, administrative law judge for the city of Chicago „ Abierre Minor, chief fiscal officer of Progressive Minds Show Mayor selects CPD oversight board’s president and VP Anthony Driver Jr., left, and Remel Terry listen at a public meeting for the search for a Chicago police superintendent on April 19. CHRIS SWEDA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE By Rebecca Johnson Chicago Tribune Chicago police arrested about 50 pro-Palestinian protesters Saturday afternoon in North Garden at the Art Institute of Chicago in the Loop as unrest on college campuses across the country continued into the weekend. Students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago set up a pro-Palestinian encampment in the garden around 11 a.m., filled with about a dozen tents, calling it “Hind’s Garden” in honor of a 6-year-old Palestinian girl allegedly killed by the Israeli military earlier this year. They want the school to disclose its investments and divest from companies and weapons manufacturers with ties to Israel. By 4:30 p.m., around 50 people were inside the garden distributing food and setting up tents, while dozens stood outside a gate on the sidewalk by North Michigan Avenue, waving Palestinian flags. Those outside linked arms, attempting to prevent police from entering, but were pushed back by cops. Shortly after, cops entered the garden, breaking up the encampment by arresting protesters who had locked arms. Some walked out of the garden with their hands up, while others were violently thrown to the ground, as people on the sidewalk chanted “Hands off our students.” In a statement, police said they responded to the encampment to “maintain the safety of those participating” and those in the surrounding area. They negotiated with demonstrators for two hours, police said, including offering an alternative protest site. At 3:30 p.m., the Art Institute told them to take “enforcement action” to remove those in the garden, police said. About an hour later, police said they arrested dozens of demonstrators for criminal trespass to property, clearing the area. The exact number of arrests wasn’t immediately available, a police spokesperson said. A spokesperson for the Art Institute estimated about 50 people were arrested. The spokesperson said the Art Institute “respects a group’s right to peacefully protest without harming staff and visitors,” but claimed it grew disruptive, and that protesters shoved a security officer and stole their keys, blocked emergency exits and barricaded gates. “Because our priority is the safety of our employees, our visitors, and our collection, protesters were offered an alternative location to continue their protest on campus that would be safer for all involved, and they did not accept that relocation offer,” the spokesperson said. “During multiple rounds of negotiations, SAIC student protesters were promised amnesty from academic sanction and trespassing charges if they agreed to relocate. The School also agreed to meet with a student group to discuss their demands. After approximately five hours, an agreement could not be reached,” the statement continued. A protester, who asked to go by his first initial J. for fear of retaliation, said the police response was unnecessary and made him “full of rage and disappointment,” especially after comments made Friday by Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling that reiterated support for free speech. “I really hope that some serious accountability will be had in the future for that disconnect between what the city’s office says and what us as constituents of the city are experiencing,” J. said. Mayor Brandon Johnson said Friday that protecting First Amendment rights is “paramount,” but that they will “assess all of these demonstrations.” Snelling said police would only go into encampments and remove people when necessary. “What we’ll do is rely on the universities and the campuses to determine what needs to be done,” Snelling said. As tent encampments have popped up at universities across the country, many schools, including Columbia University in New York City, have called in law enforcement to douse demonstrations, leading to more than 2,400 arrests at 47 campuses nationwide and, at times, violent confrontations with police. Meanwhile, in rarer instances, other schools — including Northwestern University — have struck agreements with protest leaders to restrict the disruption to campus life and upcoming commencement ceremonies. Meanwhile, at the University of Chicago, U.S. Rep. Jonathan Jackson and his father, the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., joined protesters at the encampment, urging the school to peacefully resolve the demonstration in a Saturday visit, according to the school’s student newspaper. The University of Chicago’s president, Paul Alivisatos, said Friday that the school was preparing to “intervene” to remove the pro-Palestinian encampment from the school’s Main Quadrangle,though it remained intact as of Saturday evening. This student movement, seen as unlike any other this century, started in the past few weeks amid the mounting death toll in Gaza. Over 34,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry. Israel launched its war in Gaza after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, where the group killed some 1,200 people and took 250 hostages. President Joe Biden on Thursday defended the right to protest but insisted that “order must prevail” at college campuses, as some in Chicago’s Jewish community demanded action at local universities to prevent hate speech. The Associated Press contributed. 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By Kate Armanini Chicago Tribune The group assembled in the church basement on a recent Friday night was awash with gray hair, flannels and trucker hats. They sat scattered between two rows of chairs, with bags of clinking glass in tow. Each held a personal treasure: antique bottles. Then, a newcomer walked in. He was 12 years old. John Panek, 82, bounded across the room, bursting with excitement. “We’re going to draft you, young man,” he told Bronson Welch, a middle schooler. It’s not often new visitors come to meetings of the 1st Chicago Bottle Club. Even rarer when they’re under 65. “All my friends in the hobby are dying out,” said Panek, the club’s president. “We need new blood.” The club, founded in 1969, is a fragment of a littleknown antique collector community across the U.S. Around a dozen bottle buffs attend the group’s monthly gatherings in the basement of a Hinsdale church. It’s not exactly a youthful endeavor — but the joy of discovery seems to keep the fading pastime alive. There are more than 70 bottle-collecting clubs across the country, with one in nearly every state, according to the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors. Every year, hundreds gather at the federation’s annual summer bottle show for auctions, exhibitions and contests. In Hinsdale, glass containers of nearly every shape and size dotted the room, from wine bottles to whiskey flasks to pickle jars. Most date back to the 19th and early 20th centuries. Their rich pigments created a rainbow of deep ambers and cobalt blues. “Color reigns supreme in the bottle world,” Panek declared, a notion he emphasized several times over the three-hour meeting. These days, it’s easy to scrounge for bottles on sites such as eBay or at antique stores. But the purists will insist upon unearthing their collection themselves. In the 1970s and ’80s, the club coordinated trips to dumps, construction sites and mudflats. Hours would pass digging at the abandoned Riverview Amusement Park, or the dredged banks of the Lincoln Park Lagoon. Hundreds of historic bottles emerged from the ground. It’s all in the club’s official motto: “We’re happiest when we’re down in the dumps” (and yes, they have T-shirts). “Just hunting them and digging through, there’s something special about it,” said member Frank Bradbury, 77. “I can’t really explain it.” It’s now difficult to dig at landfills due to increased security and liability concerns. Panek once donned a hard hat and neon vest to dig at a fenced-in lot below the Dan Ryan Expressway. “If someone came by, they would say, ‘Oh, there’s a worker there, but he’s got a hard hat on, so we’re not gonna bother him,’ ” he said with a laugh. Bronson, too, has become an amateur archaeologist. He was recently featured in the village’s weekly newspaper, The Hinsdalean, after he discovered dozens of historic bottles buried in Salt Creek. The club’s secretary, Craig Wright, invited him to join after reading the article. “I was just walking through the creek with my boots, and I saw this and thought it was cool,” Bronson said, holding a painted Hi-Q soda bottle. He listened eagerly during the club’s show-and-tell section before presenting his bottle, describing its faded painted label. “I had never seen anything like it,” Bronson told the club. Later, Tom Majewski lumbered to the folding table to present. He had adorned it with an assortment of oddities: A rusted wooden pistol. A painted ceramic doll head. A skullcarved pipe. And about a dozen weathered glass bottles. The 76-year-old picked up a slightly discolored, translucent bottle and held it up before the small crowd. Its slender neck was melted to one side. 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“I like this one because it doesn’t stand up straight,” Majewski said, slamming it back on the table to demonstrate. “Like me,” he added as it wobbled. Majewski is a privy digger. He scouts historic homes in Naperville, looking for large, sloping yards that may have been the site of outhouses. There, bottles and other trinkets were thrown into the ground hundreds of years ago. “I just love old stuff,” Majewski said. , He’s accumulated nearly 1,000 Chicago pharmacy bottles over the past four decades. “My house has exploded.” He has carefully excavated more than 320 Naperville privies, including one at a home once visited by President Abraham Lincoln. He usually finds more than just bottles, which is why he has a collection of ceramic doll heads. “When my dad asks permission to dig, people think that he charges for it,” said his son, Michael Majewski, 44. “But this is his day at the golf course.” Bottles are often the gateway to other collectibles. Bradbury scavenges for Civil War-era antiques with a metal detector. Panek has more than 100,000 postcards dating back to the 1850s. “I’m one of the oddballs who doesn’t collect anything else,” said member Roy Komorowski, 69. “I’m too old to have a collection like these guys have. They’re more like accumulators. So, I’ve narrowed it down to a few hundred bottles, and that’s it.” At the meeting’s auction, Bronson’s mom gave him $4 to buy another embossed container. Soon, he was clutching two cardboard boxes stuffed with bottles. Panek was elated. “You can imagine him in the river digging bottles, getting so excited,” the president said. “It’s what I did in the 70s.” Still, sometimes, it’s difficult for Panek to envision a future for his beloved club. Unlike bottles, its members won’t stand the test of time. Many are battling health issues and other side effects of aging. Panek’s own wife, who also sits on the club’s board, is set to begin kidney dialysis. He’s holding out hope. “We’ve had a renaissance of younger members,” Panek said, looking toward Bronson. “People will always love bottles.” Meanwhile, Tom Majewski chatted with his son and other members about the recent Chicago Bears stadium proposal. “When they build that new stadium, we get all that virgin ground,” he said, a gleam in his eyes. It was probably a joke. Probably. Bottles from Page 8 Tom Majewski, right, sets up his bottle display during a meeting of the 1st Chicago Bottle Club at Hinsdale Covenant Church on April 19. TRENT SPRAGUE/FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE “I’m one of the oddballs who doesn’t collect anything else. I’m too old to have a collection like these guys have. They’re more like accumulators. So, I’ve narrowed it down to a few hundred bottles, and that’s it.” — Roy Komorowski, 69 MORE FOR NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIBERS Already getting the Tribune in print? Your subscription comes with Unlimited Digital Access to chicagotribune.com and the eNewspaper. 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Fassbender and other parents and students pushed back on the decision because of the church’s statements in opposition to same-sex marriage. On Victory Apostolic Church’s website, it states “the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin,” and that the church does not “condone the homosexual lifestyle.” The college announced in April that while graduation will still be held at the church on May 18, it will find a new venue for future ceremonies. In 2022, the college sent the church $1,000 as a down payment a month before the May graduation. A $3,275 event services fee and a $4,575 facility fee followed. In 2023, the down payment stayed the same but the event services and facility fee jumped to $4,100 and $4,830. The records confirmed the school plans the 2023 rates to hold steady in 2024. 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In celebration of National Fitness Day, Faces of Fitness Chicago, a fitness and wellness summer festival, holds a mass workout Friday at Daley Plaza. Fitness for the masses ANTONIO PEREZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE By Mike Danahey Former Bartlett High School principal Michael Demovsky will be paid through June 30 and receive a $50,000 severance payment from School District U-46 rather than fight his demotion or take a teaching position. The settlement deal was approved at a special U-46 School Board meeting Monday night at which Demovsky had been scheduled to counter accusations that he wrongly changed students’ grades, which led to his removal as principal, a job he held for 16 years. Demovsky’s lawyer has said he followed district policies when he allowed students to have their grades amended by doing additional work. “This agreement includes a release of all claims in connection with Michael Demovsky’s employment,” U-46 Chief Legal Officer Trisha Olson said. Demovsky will remain on administrative leave until the last day of the 2023-24 school year, with his resignation effective that day. Demovsky and his attorney, Steven Glink, did not attend the meeting. However, after the agreement was approved, Glink said in a phone call that the principal continues to maintain he did nothing that violated standing district practice. “We still believe he didn’t do anything illegal or inappropriate,” he said. “He was not the first person in the district to do this.” Glink also said he believed the resolution was in the best interest of both his client and the school district. Were it to advance to legal action, it could take years to come to a conclusion and would require many witnesses to be called, including students and staff, he said. “There would be risk on both sides,” Glink said. School Board President Sue Kerr said the agreement precluded the need to hold a public hearing on the matter. “The settlement came after considerable deliberation. All decisions leading up to the settlement were not taken lightly by the board of education,” Kerr said. Dawn Martin, a Bartlett resident, was the only board member to vote against the agreement. While respecting the majority’s opinion, she said, she would have preferred moving ahead with the original decision to return Demovsky to a teaching position. Demovsky was placed on leave in March while an investigation was conducted into some of his “administrative practices.” He was officially discharged from his job and reclassified as a teacher at the April 8 School Board meeting. As for Demovsky’s future, Glink said the educator will most likely will wait until the end of the school year to assess what he might do next. Mike Danahey is a freelance reporter for The CourierNews. Former Bartlett principal accepts settlement deal 10 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 Sixty unique suburbs have united in a quest to give you and your family days, nights and weekends of pure joy, laughter and memories. Whether it’s museum hopping, trainspotting, go-karting, giant sculpture viewing, favorite team cheering, trail hiking or corn dog selfie taking, it’s going down as one of the best family outings ever. So, check out this nearby family fun mecca, just 30 minutes south of Chicago — where boring doesn’t exist. Download our visitors guide. visitchicagosouthland.com

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He thrived there, becoming a four-time conference champion, three-time All-American and the Division III champion in the 184-pound weight class his senior year. Conventional wisdom would have suggested his athletic career would have ended there. “Not many D-III wrestlers go on to make the world team,” said Bryan Medlin, director of operations for the University of Illinois wrestling program. “But most wrestlers aren’t Joe Rau.” Shortly before graduating college in 2013, Rau told his parents he wanted to compete on the international level. He laid out a plan, detailing how he would be a Greco-Roman wrestler — a style different from the one he competed in throughout high school and college — and sharpen his skills at one of USA Wrestling’s regional training centers. If all went well, he told his parents, he could make the 2016 Olympic team. And he came so close to executing his plan. So very, very close. In 2016, Rau won the U.S. Olympic trials but he did not compete in the Rio Games because no American wrestler in his weight class had finished high enough in international competition to secure a spot in the tournament. He went instead as a training partner for one of his teammates, watching from the stands as other people realized his dream. He decided to keep training for another four years, a quadrennial in which every decision was made with the 2020 Olympics in mind. He was in the best shape of his life heading into the trials, having won the U.S. Open and the Pan-Am Championships. In early March 2020, he won the Pan Am Olympic Qualifier in Canada, securing the United States a spot in the 87-kg weight class in Tokyo. If he won the trials, he’d punch his own ticket to the Olympics. Less than three weeks later, however, a pandemic brought his training to an abrupt halt and the Tokyo Games were postponed until 2021. With Northwestern’s training facilities closed, Rau passed the time by jogging in his neighborhood and practicing wrestling moves with his then-girlfriend (and now-wife) Astrid De Leeuw, who was a fraction of his size but not subject to social distancing rules. “I’ve been thrown around by life and wrestling,” he told the Tribune at the time. “I know how fragile everything is. Nothing is given easily and nothing is guaranteed.” His words proved prophetic a year later at the 2021 trials. Before the finals began, Rau and his team asked for another referee to oversee the bestof-three series because the assigned ref had ties to his opponent’s wrestling club. The request was denied, and Rau dropped the first match after a series of controversial decisions. The loss sent Rau into a spiral in which he convinced himself he had no chance at the Olympics and his dream had been stolen. Medlin, his primary coach at the time, tried to comfort Rau, agreeing with him that what happened was unfair but encouraging him to get back out there and win the next match. “I have spent the past three years replaying that moment in my mind and wishing I had handled it differently,” Medlin recently told the Tribune, as his voice choked with emotion. “I should not have tried to comfort him. I should have been tougher.” Unable to get his emotions in check, Rau lost 2-1 in the second match and watched his opponent claim the Olympic spot that Rau secured for the United States. “It was heartbreaking for not just him, but for all of us,” De Leeuw said. “We all knew how hard he worked and how much he wanted it. Everything just went awry.” Rau appealed the result, but lost. With the Olympics fully out of reach, he headed toward Alaska and a future without wrestling. He reluctantly changed his mind when the Northwestern job came along because it came with solid benefits. As part of his duties, he worked with two-time All-American Lucas Davison. “I literally had to get in good shape just to be a good training partner for him because he’s a beast,” Rau said. “And then it was like, well, I’m doing the hard part by getting in shape. Competing is the fun part. I might as well show up and see what happens.” In May 2022, Rau competed in freestyle at the U.S. Open and surprised everyone by finishing second. It didn’t take too long for Team USA’s Greco-Roman coaches to reach out and ask him to come back. “I told them no about three times, I think,” Rau said. “Then I just really did some soul searching and I talked to my wife. She said, if you really want to, I’m not stopping you.” Rau won the 2023 U.S. Open in the Greco-Roman division and then took the Senior Pan Am Championships at 97 kg. His comeback solidified, he left Northwestern and moved to the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado, where he could focus full time on the sport, receive daily treatments on his aging body and work with a sports psychologist. De Leeuw, a native of Belgium, had just received her green card and remained in the Chicago area to work. In December 2023, Rau finished second at the national championships to Alan Vera, a Cuban-born wrestler who defected to the United States in 2016. Vera later earned an Olympic berth for the U.S. with his placement at the 2024 Pan American Olympic Games Qualifier. Rau responded to the loss by flying to Europe and training with Greco-Roman wrestlers across the continent. “My coaches thought I was crazy. They kept telling me ‘no,’ ” Rau said. “But I really wanted to do it and so, finally, they agreed.” Rau, who receives a $1,100 monthly stipend from USA Wrestling, paid for the three-month trip with help from his wife, a betterthan-expected tax return, a small amount of money his parents inherited after his grandmother’s death and credit cards. He traveled as cheaply as possible, staying with a French wrestler’s family in France, receiving discounted training camp fees from the German and Norwegian teams and bartering reduced room rates from the Bulgarian Wrestling Federation. He says he became so skilled at finding discounted airfares he began wondering if he missed his calling as a travel agent. “I’ve always been the kind of guy that didn’t want to let money get in the way of my dream, even if I had to go into a crazy amount of debt,” he said. “I’ve had a history of sleeping on couches and doing whatever it takes to get out to the right places and with the right people. I feel like that has paid dividends.” Rau returned from Europe with a swagger and a sense of optimism he hadn’t felt in years. He was feeling so good, in fact, he selected “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King” from the “Lion King” as his walk-in music at the Olympic trials. The peppy Disney tune stood in stark contrast to the hard rock and rap songs the other wrestlers use, but his wife found comfort in the selection. “That was a very Joe thing to do,” De Leeuw said. “He had done so much work mentally since 2021 and I knew no matter what happened, he would be OK.” Rau’s confidence waned, however, when he met Vera — whom he had never beaten — in the finals. He lost to Vera in the first match and found himself nearly paralyzed by self-doubt. “To be honest, I felt like I was cursed,” Rau said. “It felt like ‘here we go again.’ I was in a negative loop.” Medlin, who was serving as Rau’s secondary coach at the trials and had known him since he was 18, immediately recognized the tailspin. He was not going to let history repeat itself. He didn’t try to comfort Rau like he did in 2021. Instead, Medlin spoke firmly about their strategy and reinforced his belief that whoever won the second match would win the series. Rau, at first, wouldn’t listen. He hung his head and refused to make eye contact. Desperate to reach Rau, Medlin grabbed him by the trapezoid muscle and squeezed so hard the wrestler looked up at him. Medlin told him to pull himself together because they knew how to beat Vera. “I said what I should have said three years ago,” Medlin said. “His face just completely changed, and I knew I had broken through to him. I could tell he was listening.” That turning point is etched in Rau’s memory, as well. “I was caught in a negative loop and he couldn’t break through to me,” he recalled. “But then I told myself, ‘no, he’s right. Be open to the positive stuff he’s saying.’ ” Rau won the second match 6-0. He scored a technical fall — Greco-Roman wrestling’s version of the slaughter rule — in the third, clinching his spot on the U.S. Olympic team. He had waited years for this moment, but Rau did not celebrate on the mat. He crouched down next to Vera, hugged him and said, “I’m sorry.” “He qualified that Olympic spot for the United States, and I took it,” Rau said. “I know how that feels.” It has been two weeks since Rau qualified for the Olympics. It has been a heady time, filled with media interviews, Team USA swag and fundraising efforts to pay for his family’s trip to Paris. He also found time to post photos of his celebratory meals on his food-centric Instagram account, @ChowwithRau, which chronicles the gastronomic adventures of a wrestler who seemingly never worries about cutting weight. In between the trials and his national team duties, Rau flew home to Chicago and spent a recent afternoon training with the Northwestern wrestling team. He was greeted with bear hugs and back slaps, embraced once again by the program that helped him heal and put him on a path toward Paris. Having made the Olympic team, Rau has two goals for the upcoming Games. One more important than the other. “The goal is to be a gold medalist,” he said. “But the main goal is to be happy. And, you know what? I’m pretty happy right now.” Wrestler from Page 1 Joe Rau, right, plays a warmup game while working out with the Northwestern wrestling team on campus in Evanston on Tuesday. Rau recently qualified to compete for the U.S. Olympic team in the Paris Games after coming close in 2016 and 2021. BRIAN CASSELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS Rau practices wrestling moves as his girlfriend, Astrid De Leeuw, times his increments while working out March 22, 2020, near his home in Des Plaines. Chicago native Rau, top center, celebrates April 10, 2016, as he’s honored with other winners of the U.S. Olympic wrestling trials at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa. Rau smiles while working out with the Northwestern wrestling team on campus in Evanston on Tuesday. Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 11

exchange captured in a screenshot, “Cathy Marie Chan” offered to perform “a quick assessment of your vagina with you” for a postpartum mother who was worried about a possible prolapse, a medical condition in which one or more of the pelvic organs slip down from their typical position. Multiple lactation experts said a lactation consultant would not be qualified to provide this type of assessment. Soon members of the Facebook groups — including at least two board-certified lactation consultants — began asking for more details about “Cathy Marie Chan’s” credentials. They also questioned the nature of some of her requests for videos and photos, which seemed unnecessarily sexual and had dubious clinical or therapeutic value, according to several lactation experts. Shortly after these questions surfaced, the “Cathy Marie Chan” Facebook profile suddenly vanished. The Facebook account was deactivated in early March and many of the various lactation and motherhood groups it created and ran — at least 17, by one group member’s count — were “archived” by Facebook because they lacked an admin, according to messages posted on some of the group sites. “You can only review posts but not react, create new posts or add members,” the archive messages stated. Now many of these new moms fear they were victims of what appears to be an elaborate and well-researched scam: They’re left wondering who was actually behind the now-defunct “Cathy Marie Chan” Facebook profile — and how all of the nude images and recordings they sent are being used. A few days after her Facebook profile disappeared, “Cathy Marie Chan” admitted she wasn’t actually a board-certified lactation consultant to one Facebook group member in an email, using an email address that has since been deactivated. “Cathy Marie Chan” is similar to the name of a real lactation consultant who is listed on the public International Board Certified Lactation Consultant Commission certification registry, though they have different middle names. Several Facebook group members told the Tribune they had assumed that the real credentialed lactation consultant was the same person they were communicating with on the social media platform. The Tribune reached the real lactation consultant, who said she was “aware of this situation,” adding that she was not affiliated with “Cathy Marie Chan.” “I was never a part of these Facebook groups, and I have no leads to who this person is, therefore I have no further information about what occurred,” she said. The Tribune searched all 50 states and could find no business named Chan Lactation LLC. The website once used by “Cathy Marie Chan” to accept payment for services shows an “error” message. “I felt hurt. Betrayed,” said Christina Gonzalez, 35, of northwest suburban Des Plaines, who was a member of several of these Facebook groups, including one for mothers of multiples. Gonzalez said she sent the “Cathy Marie Chan” Facebook account video of her breastfeeding her twins via Facebook Messenger; she said “Cathy Marie Chan” had insinuated doing so would help promote education and better lactation support for other moms. Many mothers describe feeling tremendous pressure to breastfeed their babies. The Chicago-based American Academy of Pediatrics recommends exclusive breastfeeding for approximately the first six months of an infant’s life, citing numerous health benefits for the mother and baby. Yet following those recommendations can often be difficult for a plethora of reasons. Some moms have a low milk supply. Babies can have trouble latching onto the breast. Breastfeeding moms can develop mastitis, an inflammation of breast tissue that often causes pain and swelling. “All of these women are coming together because they have similar problems and they want help,” Gonzalez said. “And you form like a connection with them because you’re all going through the same thing. Motherhood is tough. You want to know that you’re not alone.” Looking back, Gonzalez was just grateful the videos she sent were low-quality with poor lighting and didn’t show her face. Gonzalez still has no idea who was behind the Facebook profile. She never spoke with “Cathy Marie Chan” on the phone nor had she ever seen her in a video. “I think that’s the scariest part,” Gonzalez said. “She — and I say she, because that’s how I perceived her, everyone perceived her. That’s how she presented herself. Who knows? It could be — I would say they/them, because it might even be like a group of people. It might be a guy. It might be a girl. We don’t even know.” Gonzalez also fears for the fate of all of the sensitive videos and photos the “Cathy Marie Chan” Facebook account might have collected; one of the Facebook groups lists its creation as December 2022, though others appear to have been started more recently. “That’s the part that makes people question everything,” Gonzalez said. “Because she could have sold them. She could have put them on the dark web. … She could have done anything.” Magnitude of scale It’s unclear how many women were impacted by these Facebook groups. One that focused on breastfeeding and pumping support had more than 43,000 members, according to screenshots. There were groups designed for different populations: Young moms. Older moms. Asian moms. Another focused on postpartum sexual health and selfcare, with discussions about healing after childbirth. Since the “Cathy Marie Chan” profile was deactivated, some members started a new Facebook discussion group for those who feel they were victims, which has grown to more than a thousand members. The Tribune has interviewed eight women — three from Illinois and the rest from other parts of the United States — who said they sent naked photographs or videos of their breasts to the “Cathy Marie Chan” profile through Facebook Messenger. One lactation consultant said some of her clients had sent pictures of their breasts and vaginal areas to “Cathy Marie Chan” on Facebook. Another woman said she never sent images but recalled some of “Cathy Marie Chan’s” comments to her in private messages seemed oddly sexual and inappropriate for a supposed health care professional. Several of the women the Tribune interviewed said they filed complaints about the Facebook groups with the FBI. An FBI spokeswoman said in a written statement that the agency’s policies prevent “confirming the existence or nonexistence of any specific investigation that may be occurring.” “Scammers regularly target society’s most vulnerable citizens during times of increased stress, and lactation scams certainly follow this established pattern,” the statement said. “As with any business transaction, anyone seeking lactation assistance should be wary of services offered online by unknown individuals. Many hospitals and non-profit organizations maintain lists of locally based, vetted providers who can provide feeding assistance to new parents.” The statement also encouraged “anyone who believes they have been a victim of an online lactation service scam” to file a complaint through the FBI’s Internet Complaint Crime Center. A spokesperson for Facebook parent company Meta said in a statement, “We have strict rules against soliciting, sharing or threatening to share someone’s intimate images.” The statement also said the company has worked with experts to develop online tools such as StopNCII.org, which was designed to help people take back control of their intimate images and try to prevent them from being shared online. The spokesperson added that “we work with law enforcement to investigate criminal activity.” The Illinois attorney general’s office has not received any complaints about the Facebook groups or a user named “Cathy Marie Chan,” but recommends anyone impacted contact local law enforcement, a spokesperson said. Some lactation experts say part of the problem is a lack of state licensing of lactation consultants across much of the nation, including in Illinois. While most health care professionals are licensed by state agencies, only three states — New Mexico, Oregon and Rhode Island — license lactation consultants. Proponents of licensure believe that having this layer of government oversight in more states could help prevent problems, as well as offer another avenue to report lactation support practices that seem inappropriate or suspected fraudulent behavior. “If a (state) board gets information that someone is impersonating and it’s in their auspices of authority … they have the authority to investigate and to send cease and desist letters, and perhaps even initiate court proceedings,” said Merrilee Gober, board member of the National Lactation Consultant Alliance. “Clinical patient care needs to be delivered by licensed practitioners.” As for Gonzalez, the new mother of twins, she said “Cathy Marie Chan” contacted her on Facebook Messenger in November asking about how she breastfeeds her son and daughter at the same time, ostensibly to learn more about tandem feeding. “If you could just record that first like minute or so as you get them onto the breasts and then the minute or so of you getting them off,” one message said. “I think I’d love to learn from you on how to easily get them on and off.” “I really wanna (sic) help mommas with twins and tandem feeders but I can’t have tons of exposure to them,” reads another message. At one point, “Cathy Marie Chan” asked about the size of her breasts, Gonzalez recalled. She said she gave that information because she believed she was communicating with a health care professional. ‘Just trying to feed my child’ After giving birth in October, 24-year-old Sophie Harpster of central Illinois found breastfeeding to be a struggle. Her baby wanted to feed frequently and for long stretches, so the first-time mom decided to supplement with pumped breast milk in bottles. To get advice, Harpster said, she joined three Facebook groups with 30,000 to 40,000 members each that focused on breastfeeding and pumping. She recalled the admin of the groups, “Cathy Marie Chan,” was offering help with sizing for breast pump flanges, the plastic or silicone shield that goes on the breast when pumping milk. So Harpster sent the admin a message on Facebook Messenger requesting that service, which cost $25 for priority sizing — paid through “Cathy Marie Chan’s” website — or free for those willing to wait a few days. Harpster opted for free sizing but was surprised that “she actually got back to me super-fast anyway.” Via Facebook Messenger, “Cathy Marie Chan” sent a list of instructions: Harpster recalled she was told to send photos of her bare breasts to compare nipple symmetry, images of the breasts alongside a coin for sizing comparison and recordings of each nipple while pumping. She said she didn’t send any recordings or photos with her face included. Several other group members described receiving similar instructions for flange sizing from “Cathy Marie Chan,” and some sent the Tribune screenshots of the list. “Based on her credentials and how many women were in the group, I trusted what she said and sent the photos and videos,” Harpster said. “Cathy Marie Chan” responded with a recommendation for a specific flange size and that was their last message exchange, Harpster recalled. She said she was never asked to sign any patient consent forms or other paperwork. Harpster said she didn’t think about the photos and recordings again until a few months later when the “Cathy Marie Chan” Facebook account was suddenly Christina Gonzalez buckles her twin infants into their stroller as they prepare for a walk to a nearby park Tuesday in Des Plaines. STACEY WESCOTT/CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS Consultant from Page 1 Gonzalez takes her twin infants to a park Tuesday in Des Plaines. 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deactivated and the Facebook groups were archived. Then Harpster saw posts on Facebook from other moms warning that “Cathy Marie Chan’s” credentials couldn’t be verified. “My heart just sank and my stomach turned. I felt … extremely violated,” recalled Harpster, who added that she had previously survived sexual assault. “So having something like this happen where I was vulnerable and trusted someone with something … it just felt awful.” She describes herself as typically very careful with whom she trusts and what she puts on the internet. “As a new mom who just wants to feed her baby, also being in a postpartum fog, it’s really hard to have the best sense of judgment,” she said. “You’re so tired. You don’t think clearly. You’re emotional. You have lots of hormones going on.” New moms are an “extremely vulnerable population,” Harpster added. “In retrospect, I’m just trying to give myself grace,” she said. “Because I was really just trying to feed my child.” These kind of requests for nude images and recordings via private message on a public social media site were red flags, which would constitute inappropriate behavior for a real board-certified lactation consultant or any type of health care professional, according to several lactation experts. The “Cathy Marie Chan” Facebook profile used the credential IBCLC, or International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, which requires 95 hours of lactation-specific education, 300 to 1,000 hours of lactation-specific clinical practice, health sciences education courses and passage of an exam. An IBCLC should require patients to sign consent forms before providing any kind of care, said Katie Cohen, professional development coordinator for the United States Lactation Consultant Association. Cohen said IBCLCs in the United States must also comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, national standards that protect sensitive patient health information. They should only be providing care online using secure, encrypted platforms, she added. An IBCLC failing to provide care in this manner would risk being stripped of their credential, Cohen said. “We have a pretty strict code of ethics. …. We’re allied health professionals,” said Cohen, an IBCLC and registered nurse. “So an IBCLC would never — and really no legitimate health care provider — would ask somebody to send, not even photos or videos, but even just discussing in any way protected health information on Facebook. Or anything like that that’s not secure.” ‘Still conflicting’ Each IBCLC has a credential number that’s available on the public certification registry, where names and credentials can be verified. But there was the IBCLC listed on the registry with a name that’s similar to “Cathy Marie Chan,” and several Facebook group members said they had just assumed that this was the same person as the Facebook admin they were interacting with. Nicole Santana, a registered nurse and IBCLC in Rockford, was a member of some of these Facebook groups. She said she emailed “Cathy Marie Chan” asking her to verify her credentials after her Facebook profile disappeared in March. In response, “Cathy Marie Chan” said she was not a credentialed IBCLC but had started training to become one and never finished, adding that she had “inflated in some places,” according to the email. The Gmail account “Cathy Marie Chan” used included the acronym “IBCLC” in its username. “Cathy Marie Chan” went on to claim in the email that she “had become an RN” but stopped practicing after having her son, though no documentation of her having been a registered nurse was provided in the email. She also said in the email that she had “a certificate in lactation” from an online program but added that she “would rather not say which” program and offered no proof; someone with this kind of certificate would not qualify to use the credential IBCLC, which requires much more education and training. “Cathy Marie Chan” also claimed she had deleted all the photos and videos and “made sure to wipe down my computer,” according to the email to Santana. “First of all, I apologize. What I did was wrong,” the email said. “In an attempt to feel better about myself and feel helpful, I created this so I could stop being a stay at home and feel like I was actually working and helping others. My husband won’t let me work so I needed some outlet.” Another Facebook group member said she had used the same email address to contact “Cathy Marie Chan” and sent the Tribune screenshots of her own email exchanges with the same account from March. When the Tribune sent an email in April to the address to try and seek comment from “Cathy Marie Chan,” the email bounced back with the message “the address couldn’t be found, or is unable to receive mail.” Santana said she didn’t find any of “Cathy Marie Chan’s” explanations or promises in the email exchange reassuring, since nothing could be proven. “Her story was still conflicting,” said Santana, owner of Soak Lactation. “I just want moms to find qualified, appropriate care.” About 83% of infants born in 2020 were breastfed at some point and roughly 45% were breastfed exclusively through three months; by six months, only about a quarter of babies exclusively received breast milk, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. Roughly 21% of breastfed infants received formula supplementation within the first two days of life, CDC data showed. International Board Certified Lactation Consultants can be a critical source of support for breastfeeding moms, according to the 2011 U.S. Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding. “Research shows that rates of exclusive breastfeeding and of any breastfeeding are higher among women who have had babies in hospitals with IBCLCs on staff than in those without these professionals,” the report stated. Yet data indicates there aren’t enough IBCLCs to keep up with potential demand. The report cited the need for 8.6 IBCLCs for every 1,000 live births nationwide. As of February, there were 19,930 IBCLCs in the United States, according to the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners; that’s about 5 IBCLCs for every 1,000 live births, based on the roughly 3.6 million births in 2023, according to the CDC. Several women the Tribune interviewed cited various barriers to accessing a lactation consultant including poor internet service, cost in cases where their insurance wouldn’t cover lactation care, a lack of nearby providers in more rural areas and the challenge of leaving the house to seek in-person care while parenting. One Facebook group member, a 28-year-old mother from New Jersey who wanted to remain anonymous, commented that “Cathy Marie Chan’s” services had been easy and accessible. “She seemed like a good person that was there to help,” the mom recalled. “I thought, ‘She’s so busy, how nice of her to follow up with me. She’s nice.’ ” Unknown identity, dubious tests After a traumatic cesarean section in September, 23-year-old Rose Baxter of Kalamazoo County, Michigan, had lost so much blood she didn’t have the strength to hold her newborn daughter right away, let alone breastfeed. Following a blood transfusion and a little time to get her energy back, Baxter tried to nurse but her daughter wouldn’t latch, she said. So the new mom began exclusively pumping but developed milk blisters, mastitis and clogged milk ducts, which she attributed to poor flange size fitting in the hospital. She had joined several Facebook groups created by “Cathy Marie Chan” to get “help and support through this new, beautiful, exhausting journey of motherhood.” “Everyone had recommended ‘Cathy’ for flange sizing. I was very, very on the fence and was very hesitant to go to her,” Baxter said. “I went back and forth on it for about a month but decided I needed to do this so I can feed my precious baby girl.” Baxter said she checked online and found a LinkedIn profile for a lactation consultant with a similar name to “Cathy Marie Chan.” “I again hesitated, but I knew my baby needed me to get sized so she can have my breast milk,” Baxter said. “I went ahead and sent ‘Cathy’ pictures and videos of my breasts and while pumping.” Baxter said she believes “Cathy Marie Chan” did size her correctly. Afterward, her problems with pumping went away. But ever since the Facebook profile was deactivated, Baxter has been wondering who gave her this advice and what would happen to her photos and videos. “She seemed genuine, but I still had this weird (gut) feeling that I pushed aside in order to get help,” Baxter said, adding that she filed a complaint with the FBI. “Unfortunately, in the situation I’m in, it’s hard for me to be able to get out and go to a lactation consultant in person, and I don’t have the greatest internet connection for an online consultant.” Baxter cautioned others to “be wary of who you trust, even if they come with hundreds of recommendations.” “This ‘Cathy’ person now has pictures and videos of my breasts and I have no control over what they do with it,” she said. “I feel helpless, embarrassed, and full of shame. This isn’t something I would wish upon anyone.” Jessica Anderson, an IBCLC in Hawaii and owner of Genuine Lactation, said she first encountered “Cathy Marie Chan’s” Facebook groups close to 18 months ago; Anderson said women had come to her in the past trying to figure out if the admin was a legitimate provider. Then, after the profile was deactivated, more women began sharing strange or off-putting encounters with “Cathy Marie Chan,” Anderson recalled. Screenshots of messages show “Cathy Marie Chan” giving a mom instructions for what she refers to as an “emptiness and pain test,” which specifically request the woman show her face in the video recording. “Record yourself hand expressing on each side for 45 seconds. Prop the phone up in front of you so that you can use two hands,” the message said. “One to express and one to catch the milk. Also include your face in the frame so I can look for any pain cues as you are expressing. Talk aloud about how it feels and if there is any pain. This way I can understand how the milk is flowing as well as understand if you are giving any pain signs.” Anderson and Santana said there would be no clinical reason to request this kind of recording. In another message, “Cathy Marie Chan” asked someone to record herself topless with no bra on and to trace her fingers over her breasts. “Keep your full face in frame so I can watch your reaction as you do it,” the message said, according to screenshots. Anderson, who reviewed the screenshots, called these requests “sexual exploitation.” “There was nothing clinical about some of these photos or videos that were obtained,” she said. “There would be no therapeutic value in it. It is strictly stuff that would be of a sexual nature.” Lack of state licensing Anderson said 40 to 50 clients have contacted her about their encounters with the “Cathy Marie Chan” Facebook profile. Roughly 10 of them told her they sent images of their breasts or vaginas to the Facebook account via Messenger; Anderson said those clients have also sent the images to her via a secure patient portal, because they wanted to know if this was appropriate care. “That’s why I can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt, this is not lactation care,” she said. One client who Anderson had recommended see a physician about a medical condition turned to “Cathy Marie Chan” for help, but “Cathy Marie Chan” was actually “exploiting her for weeks and weeks on end,” Anderson recalled. “She’s like ‘I thought about telling you, but then thought that if there was something wrong you’d think that I was stupid. So I just kept my mouth shut.’ And I feel awful for her,” Anderson added. “This person was supposedly meeting with (the client) nightly via Facebook chat to get these videos, for weeks on end. Which is not the behavior of a professional.” To Anderson, part of the problem is that very few states license lactation consultants, a landscape she believes makes it easier for someone to pose as a lactation professional. Most health care professionals are licensed by state agencies, which means the public can typically search a government site for their name, address, when the license expires and whether they’ve been disciplined. The National Lactation Consultant Alliance says this kind of state regulation is needed to protect the public and profession. “Licensure validates a minimum standard for education, training, and expertise, upholds the integrity of a profession, and helps assure the provision of competent care,” states the organization’s position paper on licensure. Measures to license lactation consultants are pending in Connecticut and New Jersey. Illinois does not license lactation consultants, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Yet licensing can be controversial. Georgia in 2016 passed a law requiring providers of lactation care and services be licensed by the state and that only International Board Certified Lactation Consultants were eligible to receive a license. But in May 2023, the Georgia Supreme Court determined the law was unconstitutional because it violated the due process rights of other types of lactation care providers to practice their profession. “Thus, it may well be true that regulations promoting quality care are desirable as a policy matter, but that is not a sufficient interest to justify an unreasonable burden on the ability to pursue a lawful occupation,” the ruling states. ‘Critical, emotional situation’ Thirty-three-year-old Hala Hardy of Virginia, another member of some of the Facebook groups, said she was never asked for images or recordings. But she recalled that “Cathy Marie Chan’s” conversations with her on Messenger became “really, really unprofessional … just very sexual.” “Conversations started turning into a lot of talk about masturbation and sexual things,” Hardy said. Hardy said “Cathy Marie Chan” began sending her direct messages in the middle of the night. “She would talk about how she has a fetish for Black women. And I am Black,” Hardy said. One 25-year-old firsttime mom from Tennessee who asked that her name be withheld said she was embarrassed that she sent photos and video recordings of her naked breasts to “Cathy Marie Chan.” “Now someone out there has photos and videos of me,” she said. “And who knows what they’re doing with them?” Yet she’s still puzzled by how knowledgeable “Cathy Marie Chan” seemed, at times. “What’s crazy is … a bunch of people say they got good advice. And I feel I got kind of good advice from this person,” she said. “It’s almost like they did their research to know, this is what I need to know in order to get these pictures and videos sent to me.” Nick Nikiforakis, associate professor of computer science at Stony Brook University in New York and a cybersecurity expert, said these Facebook groups “have all of the earmarks” of a social engineering scam, where an online actor uses deception and manipulation to get another individual “to act in a way that’s not in their best interest.” After the truth comes to light, the online profile is often deleted, he said. “They can just delete it and create a new one with a new identity,” he said. “And then again, ultimately, the problem is they can claim to be whoever they want to be or whatever they want to be.” This becomes “kind of a whack-a-mole game,” he added, because there are so many versions of the same scam. “The onus unfortunately, for better or for worse, is on users, on members of the Facebook platform to kind of cautiously use the site in a way that makes sense,” he said. “I don’t foresee a world where it makes sense to send pictures of your naked breasts lactating to a stranger. … I think people fall for this because they are in this critical, emotional situation, where probably they feel they need urgently to give milk to their babies. And then they do things they wouldn’t normally do.” eleventis@chicago tribune.com Consultant from Page 12 Christina Gonzalez pushes her twin infants on the swings Tuesday at a park in Des Plaines. STACEY WESCOTT/CHICAGO TRIBUNE “My heart just sank and my stomach turned. I felt … extremely violated. So having something like this happen where I was vulnerable and trusted someone with something … it just felt awful.” — Sophie Harpster, who joined three Facebook groups with 30,000 to 40,000 members each that focused on breastfeeding and pumping Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 13

By Ron Grossman Chicago Tribune On May 21, 1924, Bobby Franks hesitated when a car pulled alongside him and he was offered him a ride home from school. He was a 14-year-old student at the Harvard School for Boys at 4731 S. Ellis Ave., in the posh Kenwood neighborhood. Franks lived at 5052 S. Ellis. “He said, no, he would just as soon walk, so I told him I would like to talk to him about a tennis racket, so he got in the car,” Richard Loeb said in his subsequent confession. Franks had reason to believe it was OK to accept the offer. He was a second cousin of Loeb and lived just across the street. They often played tennis on the Loeb estate’s court. Nathan Leopold would be questioned when Franks’ corpse was found, released, and then called back for a second interview. At that point, someone else would demand a lawyer. But Leopold was convinced he could outsmart the cops and had reason to think so. He was 19 and had studied 15 languages, claiming to be fluent in five. The previous October, in Boston, he presented a paper on the Kirtland’s Warbler, and showed footage he shot of the elusive songbird at the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union. But his encore performance for the Cook County state’s attorney was disastrous. He inadvertently put himself at the scene of the crime. It was the fatal error in Leopold and Loeb’s blueprint for a perfect crime. When Franks got into the car, Loeb subsequently recalled: “Leopold reached his arm around young Franks, grabbed his mouth and hit him with a chisel. He began to bleed and wasn’t entirely unconscious. He was moaning.” That evening, Franks’ father got a ransom demand as part of what newspapers quickly ballyhooed as “The Crime of the Century.” Among the reporters was Maurine Watkins, who wrote a play that inspired the smash-hit musical “Chicago.” “ ‘Loeb’ as the name of a murderer falls strangely on Chicago ears,” Watkins wrote in the Tribune when Loeb and Leopold were arrested. “For the people of that name are written in the book of Chicago history as builders, and leaders in philanthropy, charity and educational movements.” Loeb’s father was a lawyer by trade, Watkins noted. “His personal fortune has been estimated as high $10,000,000,” she wrote. He was vice president of Sears Roebuck & Co. His son was the youngest student ever to graduate from the University of Michigan. “When he came home last June, his father proud of the boy’s brilliant scholastic record built a nine hole golf course in the ‘back yard’ of 5017 Ellis Ave.,” Watkins noted. “ ‘Why these boys could have had all the money in the world!” Watkins quoted Loeb’s best friend as saying. “Why would they do that?’ ” Their motivation was purportedly philosophical. Leopold had read Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” and was mesmerized by his conception of the “ubermensch,” a higher order of mankind. “The true man wants two things: Danger and play,” Nietzsche wrote. From that, Leopold concluded that committing an unsolvable crime would somehow make him an ubermensch. He tutored Loeb in that theory. “A superman,” Leopold, wrote to Loeb “is, on account of certain superior qualities inherent in him, exempted from the ordinary laws which govern men. He is not liable for anything he may do.” According to a psychiatrist who examined Loeb after his arrest: “It seemed necessary in his fantasies that he be the ‘master criminal mind’ and have a small group, possibly one associate, who looked up to him.” Loeb suggested they practice on his former fraternity house. Loeb told the psychiatrist that the he and Leopold went to Ann Arbor armed with revolvers in case they were discovered in the Zeta Beta Tau house. “But the door was unlocked and nobody paid any attention to them. They went through the clothes on the second floor as planned. They picked up about $74, several watches, many knives, a typewriter, many fountain pens, several Eversharp pencils, but no stick pins. They got nervous hearing sounds in the house.” On their ride back to Chicago, they decided to go for a big-time exploit. After killing Franks, Leopold thought the performance so perfect he helped the cops hoping to find him. But he and Loeb had driven Franks’ body to the Edgar Woods Forest Preserve near 118th Street and adjacent to Wolf Lake. En route they stopped at a restaurant and bought a pair of hot dogs and root beers. After dark, they pulled off the road near the Pennsylvania Railroad’s tracks and a culvert. “We dragged the body out of the car, put the body in the road and carried it over to the culvert,” Loeb recalled in his confession. “Leopold carried the feet, I carried the head. We deposited the body near the culvert, and undressed the body completely.” The day after Franks’ murder, Tony Minke, a pump operator at the nearby American Maize Co., discovered a body. His incoherent screaming attracted railroad workers on a passing handcar. Because his Polish was better than his English, Minke was questioned via an interpreter at the trial. The railroad workers called the police, and the body was taken to a funeral parlor at 13300 S. Houston Ave. A pair of eyeglasses found at the scene, thought to belong to the victim, were put on the body by a police officer, Anthony Stepaniak. The Franks’ family was asked to see if the body might be the young Franks. Bobby Franks’ uncle drove the boy’s father, and told him to wait in the car. But Joseph Franks followed Edward Gresham into the funeral parlor “Bobby never wore glasses,” he exclaimed. Three days later, Leopold was summoned to the 18th District police station because its commander knew Leopold gave bird-watching classes in the forest preserve. Leopold gave Chicago police Capt. Thomas Wolf his class lists, said the glasses weren’t his, and was sent on his way. Meanwhile, the cops learned that the glasses found in the forest preserve had a unique hinge. Almer Coe Optical found a bill of sale showing Leopold had bought a pair. The state’s attorney summoned Leopold and asked what he did on the day of the murder. The psychiatrist who later examined him said: “He had the most brilliant mind I ever came in contact with.” During one of their sessions, Dr Hall happened to mention “brain localization.” “Darned if Leopold didn’t roll it off his tongue as if he, not I had crammed on it,” Dr Hall said. So Leopold replied that he and Loeb had gone for a ride in Leopold’s car. Leopold was also asked about a portable typewriter that he and four other students had used when studying for final exams. One produced his notes, which matched the typeface instructions the Franks received for paying a $10,000 ransom. Leopold said he’d gotten rid of the Underwood typewriter, and cops went to his home to check it out. The Underwood typewriter wasn’t there, but the family’s chauffeur, Sven Englund, was. Englund said Leopold’s car was in the family’s garage until at least 10:30 that night. The next morning, he saw Loeb and Leopold washing the interior of a WillysKnight rented car outside the garage and offered to help. “They said ‘No, we have merely spilled some red wine on here last night.’ ” They were wiping Bobby Franks’ blood off the rental car. Loeb was told what the chauffeur said. “My God! Is that right?” he exclaimed. “Yes, that’s right,” the Cook County state’s attorney replied. “Let me see you alone,” Loeb said. He asked for a phone and said: “Yes, mother it’s true. It’s true.” Loeb and Leopold gave signed confessions. Each was asked who hit Franks with the chisel. “Nathan Leopold Jr.,” Loeb said. “Richard Loeb,” Leopold said. Cook County State’s Attorney Richard Crowe made his intentions clear: “We have a hanging case and are ready to go to the jury today.” Next week: Clarence Darrow fights to save Loeb and Leopold from the gallows. Have an idea for Vintage Chicago Tribune? Share it with Ron Grossman and Marianne Mather at [email protected] and mmather@chicagotribune. com. The ‘Crime of the Century’ VINTAGE CHICAGO TRIBUNE Breaking history since 1847 A fatal error helped crack thrill killing by Leopold and Loeb in Chicago in 1924 Richard Loeb, center left, and Nathan Leopold Jr., center right, stand after they gave separate confessions to killing Bobby Franks on May 21, 1924, in Chicago. The confessions were given May 31 after a pair of glasses, found next to Franks’ body, were connected to Leopold. CHICAGO HERALD-AMERICAN Jacob Franks looks at a photo of his murdered son, with Horace Wade, in 1924. CHICAGO TRIBUNE HISTORICAL PHOTO Eight of Bobby Franks friends from school act as pallbearers at the 14 year-old’s funeral on May 25, 1924. The funeral service was held at the Franks home and the casket, guarded by six motorcycle police, was taken to Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago. At the time of the funeral, the killers were still at large. CHICAGO TRIBUNE HISTORICAL PHOTO A ransom letter instructs the father of the victim where to leave the money. It was established that these and other such notes were written on a typewriter belonging to Leopold, which he threw into the Jackson Park Lagoon. CHICAGO TRIBUNE HISTORICAL PHOTO PART 1 OF 2 14 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Sunday, May 5, 2024

OPINION By Mac LeBuhn Less than a month ago, Mayor Brandon Johnson presented voters with the Bring Chicago Home referendum. He asked voters to approve hundreds of millions of dollars in new public spending to support his homelessness initiatives. Voters said no. Last week, Johnson was before the public again with another request for billions, to support a new Chicago Bears stadium. Given the public reaction to date, the proposed stadium looks to be heading for the same fate as Bring Chicago Home. After the public rejects these initiatives, Johnson has been quick to blame the rejection on MAGA Republicans and other boogeymen. But that excuse ignores a much more obvious explanation: The public doesn’t trust Chicago’s politicians to carry out big goals. The track record among our elected officials doesn’t inspire confidence. Former Ald. Ed Burke was convicted on multiple federal charges and faces sentencing soon. The former Illinois House speaker, Michael Madigan, stands trial on federal bribery charges later this year. In another federal investigation, housing regulators announced that the City Council itself likely violates civil rights laws by letting aldermen issue unilateral vetoes over affordable housing developments, a practice known as aldermanic prerogative. While federal prosecutors are trying to clean up government, elected leaders haven’t shown the same initiative. Past mayors have carried the torch of ethics reform, but Johnson wants nothing to do with it. Then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel entered a 2011 executive order that barred lobbyists from making political donations to the mayor. Johnson ignored the order and accepted contributions from lobbyists. He only stopped when called out by the Chicago Board of Ethics. Lori Lightfoot as mayor also strengthened city government in ways that the Johnson administration has since abandoned. I had worked for Lightfoot on ethics issues, including efforts to roll back aldermanic prerogative. These efforts appear all but dead. Johnson’s office has even confirmed that he will not implement her final attempts to rein in aldermanic prerogative or to increase transparency. And this Bears stadium proposal marks another step backward in good governance. The deal was negotiated behind closed doors with zero transparency, and it would saddle generations with as much as $6 billion in debt — all for poorly defined public benefit. Before Johnson tries to pitch the public on another ambitious new project, he might first show Chicagoans why they should trust the city to carry out any ambitious new project. He can take three steps that would go a long way. First, Johnson should fully adopt, and the City Council should codify, the good government executive orders of his predecessors. These orders restrict campaign donations from lobbyists, limit aldermanic prerogative and reform zoning practices. The orders prevent conflicts of interest and abuses of power, but they currently lack the full force of law until entered by the City Council. He should change course on this immediately. Second, the city must reform the way it uses its zoning powers. Zoning laws regulate the types and sizes of buildings on a parcel of land. Burke and other elected officials used the leverage of zoning laws as a tool to extort donations from businesses and to exclude low-income and minority residents. These abuses drive up the cost of development, exacerbate segregation and give rise to extortion and corruption — and they must stop. Finally, reformers should take a hard look at how we elect the people who lead our city. Our electoral system is not set up to promote the public interest but instead to advance the interests of elected incumbents. City Council ward boundaries are drawn behind closed doors. Elections occur in low-turnout, off-cycle dates. And Chicago’s elections are funded through donations from well-connected insiders and contractors, rather than through public funding such as in New York City or Seattle. Until the public trusts its elected officials, big-ticket efforts such as the Bears stadium will probably suffer the same fate as the Bring Chicago Home initiative. No matter your views on the merits of those proposals, the fact that the public doesn’t trust its leaders to execute on big initiatives is a problem for us all. Mac LeBuhn formerly was an adviser and counsel in the Chicago mayor’s office. The views expressed here are his own. How Mayor Johnson can improve trust in city government Mayor Brandon Johnson discusses the fatal shooting of Dexter Reed during a news conference at City Hall on April 9. ANTONIO PEREZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE By Raja Krishnamoorthi and Robert Weissman “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds” is a phrase long associated with the U.S. Postal Service. Unfortunately, it does not characterize today’s poor and misguided USPS leadership. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s January decision to raise prices for popular postal products for the fifth time since August 2021, coupled with continual service cuts, threatens the Postal Service’s future. We can’t allow that to happen. Collapse of the Postal Service would be devastating for millions of Americans, especially seniors, those living in rural and tribal communities, and small business proprietors. Inexplicably, DeJoy has unapologetically proposed to raise postage prices to “uncomfortable rates.” DeJoy is supposed to bring the skills of a successful businessperson to the job, but can you imagine a corporate CEO offending their customers by promising to make prices uncomfortable? With the postmaster general driving the Postal Service in the wrong direction, we need the Postal Service’s board of governors to impose accountability. Unfortunately, it has instead thrown up its hands at the problem and sat idly as the Postal Service threatens to fade into irrelevance. But it’s not too late to revive the Postal Service and make it again a vital community center and service hub for Americans in every corner of our nation. President Joe Biden must appoint people to the board of governors committed to revitalizing the Postal Service and holding DeJoy accountable. DeJoy’s ill-considered plans don’t end with price increases. Under DeJoy’s “Delivering for America” plan, mail and packages are arriving at homes and businesses with severe delays due to a dramatic increase in post office consolidations, a move that could lead to post office closures. Under the plan, as many as 10,000 post offices and branches that handle mail delivery are threatened, including a post office in Bensenville. DeJoy was recently met with protests from postal workers, as well as local and state leaders, in nearby Downers Grove, who understand best that further consolidations will lead to longer delivery times and longer routes for packages and mail carriers to travel. During DeJoy’s tenure, service has deteriorated, hurting customers and the USPS itself. Month after month, Americans have watched the Postal Service decline in service levels through no fault of the thousands of dedicated postal workers who work to deliver mail every day, but instead because of DeJoy’s misguided vision for the USPS. DeJoy’s mismanagement is gutting the Postal Service. Equally disturbing is his vision of running it as a private enterprise rather than as a public service that ensures mailing and voting services for areas of the country that private delivery companies have forgotten. The unique and vital role of the Postal Service has always been its ability to knit the country together, but this is at risk under DeJoy’s failed leadership. We each hear every day from people who rely on the Postal Service for their Social Security checks, to pay bills, receive medications and to vote — especially in rural and underserved areas of the country. This only reinforces our belief that the USPS is an essential part of the backbone of American democracy, and it’s unacceptable that many are struggling with higher prices for slower, less reliable service under DeJoy’s “Delivering for America” plan. DeJoy and the Postal Service might be delivering packages and mail, but he certainly is not delivering better services or lower costs for Americans. What’s the solution? Nominating effective candidates to the board of governors who will reinvigorate the Postal Service’s leadership as a public service, not a business. While Biden recently nominated former Labor Secretary Marty Walsh to fill one of the two current vacancies on the board, now is the time for the president to nominate an additional second candidate who is ready to hold DeJoy accountable. Upon passage of the historic Postal Service Reform Act, Biden said, “The Postal Service is fundamental to our economy, to our democracy, to our health, and the very sense of who we are as a nation.” Those words still ring true today, which is why we support a swift nomination and confirmation procedure for the two vacant seats to help reverse the damage the postmaster general has done. The challenges facing the Postal Service are urgent and severe, but DeJoy has only added to them by slowing and reducing services for the millions of Americans who depend on them. New leadership on the board of governors is an essential first step for saving one of our nation’s most trusted institutions. U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat from Schaumburg, represents Illinois’ 8th Congressional District. Robert Weissman is president of the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen. It’s not too late to revive the US Postal Service Postmaster General Louis DeJoy speaks during the stamp unveiling ceremony in honor of Rep. John Lewis on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 21. JOSE LUIS MAGANA/AP Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 15

EDITORIALS By the end of the decade, new cars and trucks in the United States will be required to have automatic emergency braking systems that can save hundreds of lives each year. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which announced the requirement Monday, called it the most significant safety rule in two decades. This is an important milestone. But why did it take so long? This technology has been available for years, though often sold as a luxury feature. Most automakers voluntarily include some form of automatic braking in new models, but the capabilities can vary. The regulation makes the technology mandatory by 2029 and sets a minimum standard that all cars must be able stop and avoid contact with the vehicle in front of them when traveling up to 62 miles per hour. Carmakers have been slower to install automatic braking designed specifically to detect and avoid pedestrians, a problem because pedestrian fatalities have been increasing in recent years. The regulation will require that vehicles be able to avoid hitting pedestrians when traveling up to 40 mph and detect pedestrians in the dark, which is when more than three-quarters of such fatalities occur. Automatic braking is projected to save about 360 deaths a year, a small but necessary drop. There were 41,000 vehicle fatalities in 2023. While humans deserve the blame for dangerous driving, there is growing recognition that engineering and technology, from cars to roads, can prevent crashes and reduce the likelihood of serious injury and death when they occur. Automatic braking is great, but it’s just one safety feature. The federal government should be far more aggressive in promoting and requiring others; limiting heavier, taller trucks and SUVs that take longer to stop and strike with more force; and reducing reliance on dashboard touch screens that require drivers to take their eyes off the road. … There is no reason for Americans to tolerate 41,000 traffic deaths a year. Most are preventable, and there are tools and design features available to make vehicles safer for everyone on the road. We just have to demand them. Los Angeles Times editorial board ABOUT AUTOMATIC BRAKING SAVING LIVES Par Ridder General Manager Mitch Pugh Executive Editor DIRECTORS OF CONTENT Chris Jones, Editorial Page Editor Amanda Kaschube, Sports and Audience Todd Panagopoulos, Visuals Founded June 10, 1847 Phil Jurik, Managing Editor SCOTT STANTIS/FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE Are professional sports stadiums cost-effective drivers of economic growth? Mayor Brandon Johnson sure thinks so, at least as it pertains to the Chicago Bears’ proposal for a domed stadium on the city’s lakefront. In cheerleading for the project, which would couple about $2 billion in investment from the team with more than $1 billion in upfront taxpayer assistance (far more over time as bonds floated to finance that amount are serviced), Johnson has touted 24,000 jobs for the city of Chicago, including 2,300 permanent ones. So why have the flashy visuals of a football palace accompanied by ballfields and other public amenities been met with overwhelming negativity not just from the governor and his senior staff but also state lawmakers, lakefront protection advocates and even sports talk-show radio hosts? First, of course, there’s the distasteful optic of yet another uber-wealthy sports franchise groveling for taxpayer subsidies. But not to be overlooked is the skepticism over whether sports stadiums generally — and this one in particular — are economic game changers. The revealing, narrative-driving report released nearly a year ago by Johnson allies, titled “First We Get the Money,” truly has turned out to be one of the few consistent philosophies Johnson has followed in his chaotic first year. His revenue-raising efforts generally have sputtered, most notably voters’ rejection of a referendum to quadruple the tax on sales of residential and commercial property over $1.5 million in order to fund homelessness programs. But he shows no signs of shifting course. So given that Chicago taxpayer rejection, it surely was appealing to Johnson that one of the benefits of the Bears’ proposal was the dearth of city tax subsidies — at least direct ones — needed to make it happen. The city would “get the money” not from its own taxpayers but from bonds floated by a state agency. Likewise, Chicago government tills wouldn’t furnish the $1.2 billion needed for those playing fields and other amenities depicted in the beautiful renderings. State and federal grants, or other funding to be named later, would cover the public benefits. Of course, Chicagoans also happen to be Illinoisans and pay plenty of state taxes as well as local ones, so ultimately they are on the hook for a good chunk of this largesse. But that wasn’t part of the Johnson sales pitch. As in other past situations, such as the migrant crisis confronting the city and state in the fall and winter, the Bears’ stadium plan has required Gov. J.B. Pritzker to overrule Johnson, in this case like a parent at the grocery store telling their kid to put the candy back on the shelf. Pritzker administration officials told Bears’ execs last week that their plan was a “nonstarter.” Merriam-Webster defines nonstarter as “someone or something that is not productive or effective.” In essence, the governor instructed the Bears team, and by proxy Johnson since he is on board with this exact plan, to try again. With something completely different. The Bears aren’t politicians. They have to win games, not popularity contests. For Johnson, on the other hand, the public thumbs-down to a project he touted as transformational for the city of Chicago marks another humiliating rebuke. Not only have Illinois’ powers-that-be declared this plan dead on arrival, portions of Johnson’s progressive base have recoiled as well, wondering why the mayor they thought was going to make the well-to-do pay more to finance benefits programs of all sorts now is beating the drum for taxpayer cash to make the wealthy — NFL owners — even wealthier. The political fumbles we’ve seen in the stadium rollout aren’t even what’s most disappointing to us. The revelation, unsurprising as it is, of a mayor who thinks a thriving city economy relies on the public sector — or in this case a public-private partnership, to put it euphemistically — to make multibillion-dollar investments in return for a few thousand permanent jobs (if that’s even the correct number) puts on display a lack of understanding of what generates genuinely productive business activity. Johnson has shown little interest, with one notable exception, in making Chicago’s business environment more favorable for private-sector investment. That exception, and the mayor deserves praise for it, is an effort to cut city-government red tape for housing developers. Chicago’s permitting system is byzantine, and streamlining it is a worthy goal. Other mayors have tried it and largely failed. We’re rooting for Johnson to succeed where they didn’t. But public works — particularly those favoring well-heeled business interests in no need of subsidy — often aren’t a significant driver of economic growth. To be sure, some can be crucial linchpins. For example, transit stations are reliable hubs around which businesses and household formation can take root and expand. But, without additional private-sector investment, the stations are merely modest job generators. This Bears stadium strikes us as a particularly costly version of that dynamic. How will a massive replacement structure set apart on parkland on which no one else can build and removed from the rest of the city by DuSable Lake Shore Drive promote economic growth beyond its operation? (And, no, we’re not counting a Super Bowl coming once every two or three decades.) Numerous studies have demonstrated that massive public investments in professional sports stadiums don’t yield commensurate benefits. That’s what Pritzker, a business owner before he became a politician, understands in a way that Johnson clearly does not. Thankfully for all Illinois taxpayers, Pritzker will require any team’s stadium plan relying on public cash, whether that notion comes from the Bears or the White Sox or the Red Stars or whomever, to demonstrate a public benefit at least equal to the investment being made. Given the likelihood of cost overruns and future negative tax surprises, the standard really ought to be an independently appraised public and economic benefit significantly greater than what taxpayers provide. Since the mayor already is on board with this DOA plan, he’s unlikely to be a major part of any real future stadium deal-cutting. He’d be better served developing more initiatives to make Chicago an easier city in which to do business, create well-paying jobs and attract visitors and diverse, talented young graduates. That’s by far the best way to “get the money.” Brandon Johnson’s Bears stadium flub tells us much about his economic philosophy 16 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Sunday, May 5, 2024

Assigning pension blame In David Greising’s recent column (“Illinois Tier 2 pension promise needs to be fixed,” April 26) on the proposed changes for Tier 2 state employees, he fails to talk about how those employees are second-class workers. Compared with their Tier I colleagues, their retirement future can simply be described as: “We work longer, we pay in more and we get less in retirement.” While indirectly blaming the state employees as being the cause of the pension debt situation in the state, Greising fails to acknowledge that if the state of Illinois had lived up to its promise to fund state pensions, we would not be in this situation. For years now, various politicians and others found it very convenient to blame the victims for officials’ actions. During both Democratic and Republican administrations, the pension systems were regularly shortchanged through a variety of means. The most infamous of these were the “pension holidays,” initiated by multiple governors, with the never-fulfilled promise of putting the pension funds back into the system. During Gov. James Thompson’s administration, the state agreed to restore full funding to the pensions. Unfortunately for the victims, the state used a creative calculation system, which failed to take into account the full needs of the pensions. Greising, while talking about one group’s recent successful negotiations, describes the pay raises in a disingenuous way. He calls it an 18% pay raise and then states it is over four years. The accurate way of describing it would be an average 4.5% yearly pay raise for four years. Greising’s comment might lead many people to assume that these employees are getting a flat 18% pay raise. If the pension debt is “out of control,” it is not the victims’ fault; it is the fault of all the taxpaying citizens of Illinois for allowing it to get this way. Thankfully, the current administration has begun to make payments into the systems to help alleviate the debt problem, but it will take time and commitment from governors and legislatures into the future. Greising is right on one point: The Illinois Supreme Court found that the promise of pensions was a contract and that a contract is a contract. — Paul Breit, Tinley Park How police can regain trust What do the police and priests have in common? Self-inflicted public distrust. Repeatedly, a story surfaces of a priest accused of molesting youngsters in his care in past decades, but you don’t even have to wait a week to see some multimillion-dollar judgement awarded to a victim of police misconduct — or a distressing example of questionable police behavior. Those who have the thin-blue-line signs in their yards seem convinced police are the last line of defense against the dregs of humanity. Without an ounce of humility, they are sure police can decide who deserves their care and who does not. Matthew 25:40 has Jesus saying, “Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” I imagine those below their thin blue line would fall into that category. The Roman Catholic Church has done better — reaching out to victims and listening to stories of those abused, but with so much pain inflicted for so long on so many, it’s no wonder few are entering the priesthood. In the same way, with such low respect for police, it’s hard to believe that good men and women are still entering the force. Both professions caused their own slide into infamy. They both forgot who they were supposed to serve and protect. Protecting fellow officers and clergy from the consequences of their own actions rather than their innocent victims was detrimental to all concerned. Every time the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara opens his mouth, I’m sure public opinion dips another 10 points. Protecting bad actors simply affirms a lack of respect and care for the people police are supposed to protect. The police should take a lesson from the Catholic Church, stop defending overzealous officers and totally get rid of the small percentage of officers who make everyone look bad. Most police officers, just like most priests, are decent humans doing their best, but it’s hard to remember when all you hear about is the bad apples. — The Rev. Pamela Rumancik, Bull Valley, Illinois Board belittles free expression The Tribune Editorial Board’s cheerleading for the arrest and prosecution of protesters during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago (“For the DNC, Foxx is scrapping do-not-prosecute rules for ‘peaceful’ protesters. She should do so permanently.,” April 28) belittles free expression in our democracy. Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx appropriately prioritized prosecution of serious crime over technical violations of city ordinances during protests, and she should continue to do so during the DNC. Protests can be controversial, unpopular and offensive. The First Amendment provides special protection for protest against government and other matters of public concern and for protests in public forums. Government cannot limit protest on public property because of the viewpoint of the speakers. And while conduct, as opposed to speech, does not receive the same legal protection, the line between protected and unprotected conduct often is contextual and warrants the exercise of prosecutorial discretion. For example, government must not arrest peaceful protesters who happen to be near those committing acts of violence (unprotected conduct), and it must not arrest peaceful protestors without giving them a chance to disperse. Indeed, the federal courts found that it was unlawful to arrest 900 people in 2003 who had gathered in Chicago to protest the Iraq War because police had not given a clear order to disperse or face arrest. The editorial board’s argument that a “prosecute them all” strategy will ensure that protesters know they’ll be held accountable if they violate the rules might be more persuasive if it were clear what the rules are. The city has so far refused to grant any parade permits during the DNC or work with demonstrators to find adequate alternative routes. The city also has not designated any approved protest zones near the convention sites. The City Council adopted a “security zone” plan that fails to even identify the “security zone” or a date when it will be announced. By failing to sufficiently plan for orderly demonstrations, the city is fomenting the very type of chaos it desires to avoid. — Khadine Bennett, advocacy and intergovernmental affairs director, American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois Facts matter in Trump case I am a 40-year subscriber to the Tribune. While I have been tempted to write to Voice of the People, it took Neil Gaffney’s May 1 letter (“Article misconstrues court’s role”) to get my ire up enough to write. Gaffney castigates an article published in the Tribune for how it explains the role of the Supreme Court during oral arguments for Donald Trump’s claim of presidential immunity. While he is correct that the Supreme Court is not reviewing an adjudicated case, he misses the point. It was disingenuous for Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas and, to a lesser extent, John Roberts to act as though the facts have no bearing on the issue at hand. As pointed out by the other justices, most, if not all, of the actions that led to the alleged crimes were not remotely close to official acts that should warrant consideration for some type of fictional presidential immunity. Facts matter. Truth matters. Alito was the most egregiously flawed in his questioning. First, the self-proclaimed originalist/textualist — the justice who was aghast that the court in Roe v. Wade found an implicit right to an abortion in the privacy protections granted in the 14th Amendment — is now seemingly willing to find “presidential immunity” implicit in the Constitution absent any explicit reference to the term and in light of our Founders’ efforts to make sure that a president was not a king. Second, Alito cringed at any reference to the underlying facts, suggesting that the actual actions of Trump — while president — are a mere afterthought to the issue at hand. But third, Alito effectively acknowledged that the facts mattered as he had the audacity to express concern that, by not providing a president who loses a closely contested election the security of knowing that he/she will be able to live without fear of criminal prosecution after they leave office, future presidents will be encouraged to try to stay in power. Circuitous logic is beneath even Alito. This is exactly what Trump did, which is why he should be held accountable via criminal prosecution and why any claim of presidential immunity based on the facts should be dismissed. Alito seems to forget that our nation has survived many close contested elections without the loser trying to stay in power by illegal means. That is until Trump. — W. Dean Bruno, Sugar Grove VOICE OF THE PEOPLE The Illinois Capitol on April 11 in Springfield. BRIAN CASSELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE For online-exclusive letters, go to www.chicagotribune. com/letters. Email your letter submissions, 400 words or less, to [email protected]. Include your full name, address and phone number. OPINION Who would oppose legislation to outlaw antisemitism? More people than you might think. First, there is the thorny question of definitions. Consider: How do you define ”antisemitism”? As with some attempts to define racism, you may find yourself settling on a version of the late Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s famous definition of obscenity: “I know it when I see it.” But, as with “racism” and other words that draw legal limits on inhuman acts or beliefs, there is no moral off-ramp called “it depends.” That’s why I found it ironic that the debate over a bill that passed Wednesday in the Republican-controlled House to curb antisemitism began with heated discussion over definitions. Eager to do something in response to a nationwide wave of pro-Palestinian protests at colleges, the Republican-controlled House passed a bill aimed at addressing reports of rising antisemitism on campuses. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, blamed “woke” policies by college leaders for failing to confront the spread and backed a bill to push back. In contrast to the partisan gridlock that has plagued so much other major legislation, this bill easily passed, although not without some important objections. The House passed the Antisemitism Awareness Act in a refreshing display of bipartisanship in these fractious times with a 320-91 vote, with a majority of Democrats — 133 — joining Republicans. New York Republican Rep. Mike Lawler, who introduced the bill, was predictably delighted to thank the supporters of the bill “from a wide range of Jewish organizations that are standing up, endorsing this legislation, and saying enough is enough.” But is that enough? The American Civil Liberties Union was not impressed by the bill and opposed the legislation — which still must be approved by the Democratic-controlled Senate and signed by President Joe Biden to become law — as infringing on rights of free speech. Besides, as the ACLU pointed out in a statement, “Federal law already prohibits antisemitic discrimination and harassment by federally funded entities.” Instead of protecting against antisemitic discrimination, the ACLU letter said, the proposed law “would likely chill free speech of students on college campuses by incorrectly equating criticism of the Israeli government with antisemitism.” Thank you, ACLU, for adding to the body of material I call up every time somebody suggests muzzling political speech — even obnoxious and toxic speech — that the First Amendment was written and enacted to protect. That’s why Rep. Jerry Nadler, top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee and one of the longest-serving Jewish members of the House, opposed the bill as “misguided.” While he agrees with some of its provisions, he said, “its core provision would put a thumb on the scale in favor of one particular definition of antisemitism — to the exclusion of all the others.” Controversially for many Democrats, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition includes “claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor” and “drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.” That sounds like material for a separate debate, at least. Can they work it out? House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, in a recent letter to Johnson, wrote that “there is nothing scheduled on the floor this week that would accomplish the concrete, thoughtful strategies outlined by the Biden administration” to accomplish the goal of combatting antisemitism. But it could lead to a lot more debate. That, too, is supposed to be what education should be about. Congress enters thorny debate over how to define antisemitism U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., speaks at a news conference during a visit to Columbia University in New York on April 24. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., faced boos at Columbia as he criticized protesters after meeting with Jewish students. BING GUAN/THE NEW YORK TIMES Clarence Page Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 17

ON MAY 5 ... In 1494, during his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus first sighted Jamaica. In 1818 political theorist Karl Marx was born in Treves, Prussia. In 1821 Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the island of St. Helena. In 1862 Mexican forces loyal to Benito Juarez defeated French troops sent by Napoleon III in the Battle of Puebla. In 1891 Carnegie Hall (then named Music Hall) opened in New York. In 1892 Congress passed the Geary Chinese Exclusion Act, which required Chinese in the United States to be registered or face deportation. In 1893 panic hit the New York Stock Exchange; by year’s end, the country was in the throes of a severe depression. In 1903 cookbook writer, chef and food critic James Beard was born in Portland, Ore. In 1904 Cy Young pitched the American League’s first perfect game as the Boston Red Sox defeated the Athletics 3-0 in Philadelphia. In 1925 John Scopes, a biology teacher in Dayton, Tenn., was arrested for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution in violation of a state statute. (He would be found guilty in the famous “monkey trial.”) In 1955 West Germany became a sovereign state. Also in 1955 the baseball musical “Damn Yankees” opened on Broadway. In 1961 astronaut Alan Shepard Jr. became America’s first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. In 1985 President Ronald Reagan kept a promise to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl by leading a wreath-laying ceremony at the military cemetery in Bitburg. In 1994 Singapore caned American teenager Michael Fay for vandalism, a day after the sentence was reduced from six lashes to four in response to an appeal by President Bill Clinton, who thought the punishment was too harsh. In 2001 Pope John Paul II became the first pope to visit Syria, where President Bashar Assad asked him to take the Arabs’ side in their dispute with Israel, referring to what Assad described as Jewish persecution of Jesus Christ. In 2003 Walter Sisulu, the quiet giant of South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle for five decades, died in Johannesburg; he was 90. In 2004, seeking to calm international outrage, President George W. Bush acknowledged mistakes but stopped short of an apology as he condemned the abuse and deaths of Iraqi prisoners at the hands of U.S. soldiers during appearances on two Arabic-language television networks. In 2005 Tony Blair won a historic third term as Britain’s prime minister, but his Labor Party suffered a sharply reduced parliamentary majority. In 2006 CIA Director Porter Goss resigned in a secondterm shake-up of President George W. Bush’s team. In 2008 Irvine Robbins, c o -f o u n d e r o f t h e Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain, died in Rancho Mirage, Calif.; he was 90. In 2014 the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in a Greece, N.Y., case that local officials can open public meetings with prayers, even if it favors a specific religion. Also in the 2014 Indiana reported a health care worker who had been working in Saudi Arabia contracted MERS, the first U.S. case of the often fatal Middle East respiratory virus. In 2016 Cook County’s lame duck State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez dropped her opposition to a special prosecutor in the killing of Laquan McDonald and said her office would withdraw from the bombshell case. By Carrie Napoleon Post-Tribune A Gary firefighter who was arrested April 26 following a confrontation with police as they worked to impound his car said he does not know why police would think his vehicle was involved in a crime. In a Wednesday interview with the Post-Tribune, Marlon Northern Jr., 27, said he was arrested after the confrontation with police, who were attempting to impound his vehicle which they told Northern was wanted as evidence in a police investigation. At the time, police told him the vehicle was seen during a suspected vandalism incident at City Hall and they had orders to impound it. The probable cause affidavit confirms the account. “I was very mad. This car was not involved in no vandalism,” he said. Northern was charged on April 27 with misdemeanor counts of intimidation, resisting law enforcement and disorderly conduct. Northern said he left his apartment Friday to get his mail when he saw two men looking into and underneath his car and immediately approached the vehicle to confront the men and defend his property. Northern carries a legal handgun and Indiana is an open carry state. “I thought they were strangers and was instantly ready to protect my property,” Northern said. Northern’s interaction with police was captured on video and shared to social media, where it had hundreds of shares and comments as of Friday. In the video, an increasingly defensive Northern can be seen and heard yelling as he questioned police why they were there. Northern is heard shouting, “Who sent you? Who sent you?” and questions whether the responding officers had a warrant. Police can impound a vehicle without a warrant but cannot search it without one. He said he now understands there were other things he could have asked police to possibly handle things differently, like asking for a supervisor to respond to the scene. “If I had my (fire department) badge on, I would have been treated differently,” Northern said. Northern said he did not understand why police did not tell him beforehand they would be impounding his vehicle, so he did not think his car was being stolen. He also disputes the police account in the probable cause affidavit, saying he never had his hand on his weapon and voluntarily walked to the back of the police car to be restrained. Ultimately, he said, police used a stun gun on him multiple times. “That day nobody came to knock on my door,” Northern said. Northern spent the weekend in jail, getting out Monday morning on a $1,500 bond. He is also required to wear a home detention ankle monitor. While incarcerated, Northern said he was moved multiple times from the Gary Police Department holding cell to the Lake County Jail, where he said he was put in the maximum-security wing and then in solitary confinement. He said at times he was unable to communicate with his wife. The couple were able to retrieve the vehicle from the impound lot Tuesday after police obtained a warrant Monday to search it. Police Chief Derrick Cannon Thursday said there was no additional information to report on the case. Northern said he and his family had just returned from traveling to the West Coast where they visited states where he said the family’s Native American ancestors called home. He recently learned his heritage was Native American and not Black after a DNA test and research providing a paper trail of birth announcements, marriage licenses and death certificates. Northern said he has worked as a firefighter for three years and loves the city. “I’m not thinking about vandalizing my town. They are trying to say my vehicle was involved…I just got back in town,” Northern said. He discounted the possibility one of the city’s license plate readers or security cameras could have captured his plate number. Northern’s tenure with the fire department has not been without issues. He confirmed he was put on paid administrative leave in December after a female co-worker accused him of sexual harassment. Northern said the pair worked together and he helped show her the ins and outs of the city when she was new. During that time, he said he noticed improper patient care. He said the harassment accusations were made after he reported the co-worker for not performing her job properly. “I did not harass no one,” Northern said. The employee also filed for an order of protection in Porter County. In the document, the individual alleges between October and November 2023 Northern began sexually harassing her at work by sending texts and images despite her tell him ‘no’. On Jan. 10 the Gary Fire Department served him with a verified complaint and “Told many coworkers including our Fire Chief ‘I’ll kill that ….. I know where she lives,” according to the document. The order of protection lists Fire Chief Larry Tillman as a witness. The order bars Northern from contact with the woman and prevents him from going near her home or the fire department. A hearing on the matter has been set before the Fire Commission on May 16. Northern said he got notice of the hearing via email as soon as he and his wife returned to town, but said the city told him they had tried to notify him twice before. Northern said he still has not retrieved the hard copy of the notice from his mailbox. Erika Blackwell, chief communications officer for the city, said the vandalism at City Hall is under investigation by the Gary Police Department. At this time, no arrests have been made and no charges have been filed, she said. Blackwell said the city is unable to comment on any matters which are currently under investigation. She said Northern is on paid administrative leave from the fire department relating to the existing complaint before the fire commission. Northern said the ordeal has left him and his family traumatized. “This was very, very traumatizing,” Northern said. “They made me feel like less than the person I am. They are trying to destroy my character.” cnapoleon@chicago tribune.com Gary firefighter: Vehicle was not involved in vandalism He was arrested after police came to impound car 18 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 LAND SEA AIR START PLANNING YOUR NEXT GETAWAY In Print. Online. Look For The Travel Section In Your Sunday Publication

Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 19 Donald Howard Baumruck, 73, of North Riverside. Beloved husband of Sandra. Loving brother of Patricia (late Richard) Dolejs, Keith (Christine), Kenneth (Julie) Baumruck and the late Darlene (William) Ankenbauer. Dear uncle of many. Cherished son-in-law of Shirley (late Kenneth) Phillips. Loving son of the late Howard and Martha Baumruck. Visitation 3 to 9pm Friday, May 10, 2024 at Hallowell & James Funeral Home, 1025 W. 55th St., Countryside. Will lie in state from 10am until Funeral Service 11am Saturday, May 11, 2024 at Trinity Lutheran Church, 11500 German Church Rd., Burr Ridge, IL 60527. Interment Trinity Lutheran Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions to the church (address above) or PAWS Chicago appreciated. Don was owner of Howard Press Printing (formerly also a Bridal & Gift Shop) for over 50 years and a member of Maywood Sportsman’s Club. He enjoyed NASCAR, bull riding and golf. His friendship and goofy sense of humor will be greatly missed. Funeral home phone 708/352-6500 or www.hjfunerals.com Baumruck, Donald Howard Dr. Mary K. Baukert, née Tenczar, age 72, of Glenview, retired veterinarian. Beloved wife of Dr. Emil E. Baukert; dear mother of Lindsay Kay (James Gaynor) Baukert, Hannah K. (fiancé, Derek Freeh) Baukert, and the late Emil Baukert Jr.; loving grandmother of Wyatt James and Sebastian Emil Gaynor; fond sister of Frank (Christi) and Sue Tenczar and Georgiann Cooley. Memorial Gathering, Saturday, May 11, 2024, from 1:30 p.m. until time of Memorial Service, 3:30 p.m., at HABEN Funeral Home & Crematory, 8057 Niles Center Rd., Skokie. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Brain Tumor Association, 8550 W. Bryn Mawr Ave., Suite 550, Chicago, IL, 60631 (abta.org). Funeral info: 847.673.6111 or to leave a condolence message, go to habenfuneral.com, click on Mary’s obituary, and post a message under “Tributes.” Baukert, Dr. Mary K. Lester S. Barritt (“Les”), 90, loving and caring husband of the late Elizabeth “Betsy” (Lewis), devoted father of David Barritt (Joan), Deborah Barritt Lyons (Jeffrey), and the late Peter Barritt, cherished grandfather of Richard Barritt (Angela), William Barritt (Dana), Katherine Lyons Sullivan (Patrick), Kimberly Lyons Baker (Brennan), Michael Lyons, Rebecca Barritt, and Megan Barritt, and great-grandfather of Harper, Carter and Briar Barritt, passed away peacefully on April 20, 2024. Les was also preceded in death by his parents Lester M. and Sibyl Barritt and his brother Ronald. Les grew up and spent most of his childhood and adult life in Western Springs, Illinois. He wasa1951 graduate of Lyons Township High School. He graduated from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana in 1955, where he ran cross country and was a member of Delta Upsilon and the Air Force ROTC. Les served three years with the Air Force as a pilot and intelligence officer, achieving the rank of Captain. Les and Betsy met early in their college years and married weeks after graduation. They were married for 59 happy years before Betsy passed away in 2014. They thoroughly enjoyed their family, a wide network of friends, summers at Silver Lake, WI, vacations to Hilton Head and Sanibel, cruises and trips off the beaten path. Les received his MBA from The University of Chicago and had a successful career managing office buildings and other commercial properties in the Chicago area, along with various entrepreneurial ventures. Wellregarded in his field, Les served as a long-time member and President of the Building Owners and Managers Association of Chicago. He retired at the age of 83. Les was an avid tennis player and golfer and enjoyed all sports, especially his beloved Cubs who won the World Series on his 82nd birthday. Les will be fondly remembered by his family, friends and business colleagues for his wit, ready smile and laugh. He was a cherished and loyal friend to many and legendary as “Bubba” to his grandchildren and great-grandchildren, who adored him and brought him so much joy. His memory lives on in all of us. A Memorial Service will be held on May 15, 2024 at 3:30 pm at First Congregational Church of Western Springs. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to First Congregational Church of Western Springs, 1106 Chestnut St., Western Springs, Illinois 60558. Arrangements entrusted to Hallowell & James Funeral Home. Funeral info: 708-352-6500 ( Barritt, Lester S. Michael Jacob Adams passed away on April 27, 2024, at the age of 52. Jacob was the beloved husband of Heather, son of Leonard and Phyllis Adams, brother to David (Marci) and Bruce (Eve), brotherin-law to Stefanie (Sharon), and uncle to two nephews, Simon and Freddy, and three nieces, Hannah, Sasha, and Edie. Jacob was born in Chicago, raised in Deerfield, IL, and lived in Rochester, NY. Jacob will be remembered most especially for his smile, quick wit, and enduring optimism and empathy. An avid railfan, Jacob loved being trackside and taking train trips around the globe. A childhood cancer survivor, Jacob devoted his research career to advancing knowledge about cardiovascular health effects of childhood cancer treatments. Jacob graduated from Washington University (1993) and obtained an MD from Johns Hopkins Medical School (1997) and MPH from University of Rochester. He was actively involved as a Fellow in the American College of Preventive Medicine and served on the board of directors for C.U.R.E. Childhood Cancer Association. Donations in Jacob’s memory may be directed to the American College of Preventive Medicine Jacob and Heather Adams Resident Scholarship Fund (acpm.org), C.U.R.E. Childhood Cancer Association-Rochester (curekidscancer. com), or Temple B’rith Kodesh (tbk.org). Adams, Jacob Death Notices It has been 10 years since you went to be with the Lord. I miss you and think about you every day and look forward to being with you again in the future. Your husband, Jim Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries Nancy E. Skarecky In Memoriam Barbara Bennett Carson, age 96, of Flossmoor, IL, passed away at her home on Saturday, April 20, 2024, surrounded by her loving daughters. Barbara “Bobby” was born in Frankfort, IL to Clark W. and Christina Bennett (nee Guether). She married Mac A. Carson on April 22, 1950 and they had two daughters, Jennifer (Bruce) Underwood, and Suzanne Minor. Bobby was a grandmother of 4, a great-grandmother of 8, and a great-great-grandmother of 5. Bobby was also a loving sister and aunt. Preceded in death by her parents and husband. There will be a private burial service for the family at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Frankfort, IL. In lieu of flowers, send donations to a cause close to Bobby’s heart, the Alzheimer’s Association, www. alz.org. Services entrusted to Cremation Society of Illinois. For information, 708-206-2000 or www. cremation-society.com/obituaries Carson, Barbara Bennett ‘’Bobby’’ Marie Ann Campbell, nee Butler, age 87, of Villa Park. Beloved wife of the late Arthur Clarke Campbell; loving mother of William (Barbara), Michael (Susan), Donna (Donald) Cooper, Vivian (Kenneth) Pasek; devoted grandmother of Melissa (Paul) Metzinger, Matthew (Katie) Campbell, Andrew (Kendra) Pasek, Aubrey (Matthew) Wentz, Michael (Susie) Campbell, Christianna (Aaron) Lammers, Michael Cooper, Kathryn (Isaac) Groenendyk, Emily (Jake) Stachowiak, Kimberly Cooper, Rachel (Patrick) Bishop, and Sarah Campbell; great-grandmother of 20; dear aunt of Mark (Karen) Senn and Lanni Senn. Visitation Tuesday, May 07, 2024, from 3:00 PM- 8:00 PM at Knollcrest Funeral Home, 1500 S. Meyers Road Lombard, Illinois. Funeral Wednesday, beginning from the funeral home with prayers at 9:15 AM, to St. Pius X Catholic Church, 1025 E Madison St, Lombard, IL, Mass 10:00 AM. Interment Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials to Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (4550 Montgomery Ave. Suite 1100 N Bethesda, MD 20814) or St. Vincent De Paul Society (C/O St. Pius X 1025 E. Madison St. Lombard, IL 60148) are appreciated. Funeral info: knollcrest.net or (630) 932-1500. Campbell, Marie Barbara J. Burman, of Inverness, passed away, Friday, April 26, 2024. She was 84 years old, born in Chicago, IL to Earl and Esther (Albrecht) Fuller. Barbara was a proud homemaker and loved her family dearly. Barbara and her husband Ronald Burman, Sr. moved from Orland Park, IL, to Florida in 1995. Those left to cherish her memory are her loving husband of 65 years, Ronald Burman, Sr.; children Ronald Jr and Angela (Bach), and Donna (Burman) and Michael Carone; grandchildren Joshua (Elizabeth) Burman, Samuel (Jessica) Burman, and Nicolina Carone; great-grandchild Bodie Burman; brother Robert (Anne) Fuller, and sister Nancy (Fuller) Blood, and many nieces and nephews. Family wishes are that we all celebrate and reflect on our relationship and time with Barbara in our own way. There will be no memorial at this time. Burman, Barbara J. ‘Barb’ Bayla “Bunny” Bulwa, nee Rosin, age 90, of Northbrook, formerly of Wilmette; beloved wife and best friend for 70 years of Sheldon Bulwa, DDS; loving mother of David (fiancée Karen Lieb) Bulwa and Robin (Phillip) Donenberg; adored Grammy of Sari (Josh), Zachary (Alison), Erin (Adin), and Jonathan (Emma) proud great grandmother of Austin, Russell, Romi, Cooper, Audrey, Olive, and Miles; devoted daughter of the late Albert and the late Ethel Rosin; treasured friend to many. Bunny epitomized elegance, exuding a refined grace that was matched only by her infectious laughter and radiant smile. She was the embodiment of domestic perfection, effortlessly blending style with warmth in her role as a homemaker. Her love for her husband and children, grandchildren, and greatgrandchildren was boundless, and her affection extended generously to her circle of friends. Graveside service Monday, 11:00 a.m. CT at Shalom Memorial Park, Rand & Wilke Rds., Arlington Heights. The service will be livestreamed on Bunny’s webpage at www.goldmanfuneralgroup.com. In lieu of flowers, contributions would be appreciated to a charity of your choice. Info: The Goldman Funeral Group (847) 478-1600. Bulwa, Bayla ‘Bunny’ Barbara Ann Bowne, 81, of Northbrook, IL, passed away peacefully on February 14, 2024. Barbara was the daughter of Harry and Margaret Edwards and cherished older sister of Rosemary Weiland. After her 1960 graduation from Mallinckrodt High School, Barbara met and married George W. Bowne who preceded her in death in 2016 after 54 years of marriage. Barbara was the mother of Robert (Katie), the late Thomas, and Betsy (Rob); grandmother of Matthew (Lauren), Jenna (Jake), Nicole (Niko), Justin, Sarah and Rori; great grandmother of Jamison and Jillian. She was the loving aunt to Danny, Laura (Jon), and Maggie (Tim). Barbara loved spending time in northern Wisconsin especially during the fall when the leaves started changing colors. An 11 am memorial celebration of life will be held on Saturday, May 18, 2024 at N.H. Scott & Hanekamp Funeral Home, 1240 Waukegan Road in Glenview, IL. Memorials may be made to Orphans of the Storm, 2200 Riverwoods Road, Riverwoods, IL 60015 www. orphansofthestorm.org or Misericordia Heart of Mercy Attn: Sister Rosemary Connelly, 6300 North Ridge Avenue Chicago, IL 60660 www.misericordia. com. Funeral information 847-998-1020. Bowne, Barbara Ann John R. Berry, II, age 84, of Evanston, IL. Loving father of Emily Berry (John) and Jill Newsham (Michael). Adoring former husband of Carol Berry née McFadden. Proud grandfather of Noah DeMar, Quinn DeMar, Emma Newsham, and Madison Newsham. Dear brother of Susan Reynolds (George). Wonderful son of John Russell Berry and Dorothy Ayres Berry. Loving friend of the Quern family. Funeral Service Saturday, May 18, 2024, 2:00 p.m. at Kenilworth Union Church, 211 Kenilworth Avenue, Kenilworth, IL 60043. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to:The Kenilworth Union Church Racial Justice Committee, 211 Kenilworth Avenue, Kenilworth, IL 60043 (https://kuc.org/give) or The Infant Welfare Society of Evanston (https://www.iwse.org/giving) Info: donnellanfuneral.com or 847-675-1990. y g Berry, II, John R. Visit: chicagotribune.com/deathnotice Honor a Loved One with a Death Notice in Chicago Tribune It’s a fi nal farewell; a sign of love and respect; an homage to a loved one’s life. Placing a Death Notice shows you care. The Death Notice Package includes: • Print listing in the Chicago Tribune • Online notice with guestbook on chicagotribune.com Our website walks you through the simple process to commemorate your loved one’s legacy. Mary Ann “Maisie” Cross, age 92, Native of Limerick, Ireland, past resident of Berkeley, Beloved wife of the late Joseph P.Devoted Mother of John, Joseph (Elizabeth), Mary Ann and Brian (Bridget) Proud Grandmother of Jack, Michael, Juliana and Kennedy, Preceded in Death by her Husband Joseph and Daughter in Law Sandra. Fond Aunt to many Nieces and Nephews. Friend to Many. Family and friends will be received at the Conboy-Westchester Funeral Home, 10501 W. Cermak Rd., Westchester on Monday, May 6, 2024 from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Funeral Tuesday 9:15 a.m. from the funeral home to St. Domitilla Church for a 10:00 a.m. Mass. Interment Queen of Heaven Cemetery. Please omit flowers. For funeral info 708-F-U-N-E-R-A-L. y Cross, Mary Ann ‘Maisie’ James H. Corcoran, age 94, of Chicago passed away on April 30, 2024. Cherished husband of 55 years and best friend of Dorothy, nee Carney. Proud and loving father of James (Erica), Jeanne Marie (Matthew) McKenna and Kathleen (William) Ziemer. Devoted Papa to Finn and Evan Corcoran, Thomas, Matthew and Charlie McKenna, Elizabeth, Madeline and Billy Ziemer. Son of the late Dr. Wilfred C and Agnes Corcoran. Brother of the late Cletus (Norma) Corcoran and fond uncle to many nieces and nephews. Former CPS principal who loved the young people in his care and their parents whose names he never forgot. Jim’s happiest moments in retirement were spent enjoying his eight grandchildren, working in his garden which he loved and travelling. Jim was always ready to packabag, throw his camera over his shoulder and enjoy near and faraway places. A beautiful Irish tenor voice is no longer with us but has joined the voices of the angels’ choir. On Friday, May 10th a visitation will be held at Queen of All Saints Basilica, 6280 N Sauganash Ave, Chicago, IL 60646, from 9:30am until the time of the funeral mass at 10am. Interment All Saints Cemetery. More info 773-736-3833 or www.smithcorcoran.com. Corcoran, James H. John B. Conlon, age 81, passed away on April 15, 2024, in Port Charlotte, Florida. Son of Michael and Sally Conlon, nee Cregan, born and raised in Chicago, graduate of St. Laurence grammar school and Chicago Vocational high school. Fond brother of James, William (Patsy Habicht), and the late Mary Alice. Beloved Uncle to many nieces and nephews. Decorated Marine veteran (1966-1968); served in Vietnam. Longtime employee of IDOT (35th and Normal garage). Friend to many and enjoyed spending time with his many friends and family in Florida, Chicago and wherever he was. John cherished his life-long friendship with the Sullivans, Tevaults, McGowans, Quinlans, Chans, and Fr. Gene Smith, among many other valued friends. Never lacked an opinion on Cubs, Sox, Notre Dame football and occasionally, politics. In accordance with his wishes, John was cremated and his ashes will be interred at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois. A mass commemorating John’s life will be celebrated at 10:00 AM, Saturday, May 11, 2024, at Saint John Fisher Catholic Church, 10235 S. Fairfield Avenue, Chicago. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to Fisher Falcon Education Foundation c/o St. John Fisher School, 10200 S. Washtenaw, Chicago, IL 60655. Conlon, John B. OBITUARY SERVICE A NEW WAY TO HOyour NOloved ones R. OUR ENHANCED OBITUARY SERVICE A NEW WAY TO HONOR your loved ones. Robert Fine, age 96, beloved husband of the late Beryl, nee Lichtenstein. Loving father of Larry and Marla Fine. Dear brother of Phillip (the late Myrna) Fine and the late Florence (the late David) Rubin. Fond “uncle Bob” to many nieces and nephews. He will be dearly missed by many other extended family and friends. He loved tennis and was an avid player into his 80’s. Service Tuesday, 10 AM at Chicago Jewish Funerals, 8851 Skokie Blvd. (at Niles Center Road), Skokie. Interment Westlawn Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the charity of your choice. To attend the funeral live stream, please visit our website. Arrangements by Chicago Jewish Funerals - Skokie Chapel, 847.229.8822, www.cjfinfo.com. Fine, Robert Anthony Ampelio Enrietti, age 67, of Western Springs, formerly of Roseland. Beloved husband of Denise Enrietti (nee Dawson) for a wonderful 42 years. Loving father of Anthony, Francesca and Dominic Enrietti. Dear brother of Corinne (Bill) Aalto and John (Dagmar) Enrietti. Cherished uncle of Brian (Sarah) Aalto, Jeffrey (Spring) Aalto and Ginalle Enrietti; Zachary and Kyle Dawson; Randy, Rory, Rhett and Robin Yzaguirre & Christopher Kubiak. Fond brother-in-law of Doreen (Mark Kubiak) Dawson, Timm (Karen) Dawson and Carrie (Ron) Yzaguirre. Anthony was preceded in death by his parents, John and Eleanor (nee Dal Santo) Enrietti. Anthony was a retired attorney and former policeman for the Village of Evergreen Park. He loved his family and enjoyed cooking, going on road trips, and traveling with his family and friends, and was known as “Cruise Director” for these events. Memorial Visitation 3 to 8pm Thursday, May 9th at Hallowell & James Funeral Home, 1025 W. 55th St., Countryside. Family and friends are invited to meet at St. John of the Cross Church, 5005 Wolf Rd., Western Springs for 11am Memorial Mass on Friday, May 10th. Interment private. Service Info: 708-352-6500 or HJFunerals.com Enrietti, Anthony Ampelio Christ A. Dangles, son of the late Avangelos Dangles and Georgia Chipianitas, brother to the late: Catherine Panos, Tom Dangles, John Dangles, Tim Dangles, Demetra Mannos, and Sophia Skoubis; beloved husband to the late Mary Dangles, and the “fun” uncle to many nieces and nephews, passed away on April 29, 2024, six months shy of his 100th birthday. Born in Chicago, Illinois on November 18, 1924, he was raised in the Bridgeport neighborhood where he worked at an early age in the family business, Dangles and Sons Food Shop, located at 32nd and Halsted. He graduated from Gage Park High School in 1942. During World War II, he was drafted into the U.S. Navy and served from 1943 to 1945 aboard the light cruiser USS Birmingham. He was decorated with a Purple Heart after enduring a devastating explosion. According to his information in recent years, he was the last remaining survivor. Christ began working at Automatic Electric, where mastered the electrician trade. Self-taught, he soon became a skillful, productive, and respected electrician. He eventually became a foreman with Brown Electric where he worked from 1951-1990. Married to his cherished wife, Mary, from 1972 until her passing in 2015. Together they lived a charmed life, traveling the world, making lifelong friendships along the way, and sharing their joy with everyone they met. A true hero, an inspiration, and a blessing to us all! He will be terribly missed. May his memory be eternal and may he rest in peace together again with his beloved Mary. Sail on, Sailor. Visitation Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 10:00–10:30am at Holy Apostles Greek Orthodox Church (2501 S Wolf Road, Westchester, IL) Funeral Service: 10:30– 11:30am at Holy Apostles Greek Orthodox Church Interment following funeral service: Garden of Ascension at Chapel Hills West Cemetery (17W201 Roosevelt Rd. Oakbrook Terrace, IL) The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Holy Apostles Greek Orthodox Church (Westchester, IL) in memory of Christ Dangles. g Dangles, Christ A Providing the Jewish community with the mitzvah of compassion. Olivia Varo • William Goodman • Ari Nikich-Fowler An Affordable Choice Graveside • Chapel • Synagogue • Advanced Planning 847.504.7336 www.NerTamidFunerals.com 707 Skokie Blvd., Suite 600, Northbrook IL, 60062

20 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 OUR ENHANCED OBITUARY SERVICE A NEW WAY TO HONOR your loved ones. Steven F. Graver, age 72, of Lake Bluff, IL passed away peacefully on April 27, 2024, surrounded by family. Steve was the beloved husband of Mary Bridget Graver nee Houlihan; loving father of Charles D. Graver and Margaret (Michael) LeFevour; dear “Gramps” of Gretta Graver and Finn and Colin LeFevour; beloved son of the late Marie and Dick Clay; dear brother of twin Pamela (Patrick) Mayers and Robert (Akiko) Graver; uncle to many nieces and nephews. Steve was born on September 18, 1951, on the South Side of Chicago. He attended Campion Jesuit High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin where he made lifelong friends, including William Burfisher. After receiving an undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland and an MBA from Northwestern University, Steve began his career as a financial advisor at Northern Trust and ended his career as the owner of Graver Capital Management, LLC. He was passionate about his business and his clients. He was a consummate entrepreneur. Steve’s life was marked by an unbridled curiosity and energy that led to him being involved inawide array of business ranging from daycare centers on corporate campuses to involvement in Indycar racing teams. Never one to sit still, Steve continued his education late in life obtaining a Masters in Entrepreneurship from Cambridge University at the age of 68. He loved spending time with his family, fishing with his friends, Indycar racing and the Chicago Bears. Visitation Friday, May 10, 2024, 10:00 am until time of the Funeral Mass 11:00 am at Saints Joseph & Francis Xavier Parish, (Saint Francis Xavier Church), 912 Linden Street, Wilmette, IL 60091. Interment private. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to: Misericordia, 6300 Ridge Avenue, Chicago, IL 60660. Info: donnellanfuneral.com or 847-675-1990. Graver, Steven F. Thomas (Tom) W. Gill Jr. passed away on May 1, 2024, leaving behind a legacy that will be cherished by all who knew him. Born on July 4, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois, he grew up surrounded by his loving family, including his devoted parents, who preceded him in death, Thomas and LaVerne Gill. Tom is survived by his adoring elder sister, Eileen McMahon (Tom), aunt, Elizabeth (Gill) Dvorak (late Charles), and many loving cousins. After graduating from DeLaSalle High School, Tom served in the US Army and was honorably discharged. He then began working with the CPD as a civilian member and as a diesel mechanic for Cummin’s; he continued to work both jobs until he retired. With his late wife, Starr Gill, they raised Paso Fino horses and enjoyed living on their farmette. Tom was a simple, hardworking man who enjoyed yearly fishing trips to Canada, his animals, and good company. He passed peacefully in his sleep, with his companion, Charlene Collins, by his side. Services will not be held at this time. The family will celebrate his legacy with a memorial at a later date. Gill Jr., Thomas William George P. Higgins, Jr., age 90, U.S. Army veteran 1953-1955, a resident of Monarch Landing in Naperville, IL, former 49-year resident of Downers Grove, IL, passed away on Saturday, April 27, 2024, at The Springs at Monarch Landing. He was born on February 10, 1934, in Philadelphia, PA. Arrangements by Friedrich-Jones Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Naperville, IL. For a complete obituary, please visit www. friedrich-jones.com or call (630) 355-0213 for more information. Higgins, Jr., George P. Thomas P. Hayes, age 83, of LaGrange Highlands; beloved husband of the late Nancy L. Hayes; devoted stepfather of Scott Madden, Patrick Madden, Kelley (Terry) Meyer, and Daniel Madden; cherished grandfather of Gretchen (Frank) Krugler, Douglas (Ashley) Madden, Blake (Teri) Madden, & Katey (Tom) Evans; great-grandfather, uncle and friend of many. Visitation 3pm until time of Funeral Service, 7pm on Friday, May 10 at Hallowell & James Funeral Home, 1025 W. 55th St., Countryside. Interment private. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Tom’s name to the Alzheimer’s Association (https://www.alz. org/) are appreciated. Funeral information: (708) 352-6500 or hjfunerals.com Hayes, Thomas P. Bronson Rumsey Hall died peacefully on April 27, 2024, at age 83 in Highland Park, Illinois from complications of Parkinson’s disease. The son of Frances Ferris Hall and J. Parker Hall, Jr., Bronson was born on May 22, 1940, in New York, New York. He moved with his family to Highland Park after his father was appointed Treasurer of the University of Chicago in 1946. Bronson hadacareer in commercial banking, eventually retiring from the Northern Trust in Chicago where he worked for three decades. Bronson is survived by his beloved wife of 53 years, Michèle Michel Hall, and their son, Christopher Michel Hall, and two grandsons, Adrian Michael Hall and Justin Alexander Hall. He is also survived by his brother Ferris Minor Hall and sister-in-law Nancy Klauder Hall, sister-in-law Annie Hernvann, numerous nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews, and cousins. Bronson was predeceased by his parents, his oldest brother J. Parker Hall III, and sister-inlaw Julia Lange Hall. A private memorial service will be held at a later date. For a more detailed obituary go to www.kelleyspaldingfuneralhome.com. In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory may be made to the Parkinson’s Foundation or The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. Hall, Bronson Rumsey Lita Grier, a revered composer with a wide-ranging career in the world of classical music, died in Chicago on March 17, 2024, soon after her 87th birthday. The cause was multiple malignancies, according to her son, Jonathan Dubman. Lita was born in the Bronx, New York, on March 14, 1937 to European immigrants. Her father, Morris Lipschutz, wasaprofessional violinist for the Erie Philharmonic who had studied in St. Petersburg and lived in Berlin in the 1930s. He left at an opportune time; nine siblings perished in the Holocaust. Lita’s mother, born Vera Cohen in the city she knew as Vilna, sang folk songs at home from her own childhood. Lita, a musical prodigy with perfect pitch, started by accompanying her father on the piano at home. This piano was tuned exactly a quarter tone off, and for the remainder of her life she could sing a quarter-tone scale. She attended the High School of Music and Art, now LaGuardia Arts, forming lifelong friendships with other artists and musicians, composing the exquisite “3x2 for Flute and Clarinet” in 1953. She had her stage debut inasummer stock production of “Gigi”. She was admitted to Juilliard at the age of sixteen, studying composition with Peter Mennin. As a first year student in 1954, she was awarded First Prize in the New York Philharmonic Young Composers Contest for “Three Episodes for Piano”, performed at Carnegie Hall and published by Carl Fisher. This work remains in performance today in its original version, 3x2, along with most her other early music, including her Sonata for Flute and Piano, composed at age nineteen, which the late flute virtuoso Julius Baker described as “…a new classic in the standard flute repertory.” Following her graduation from Juilliard, she spent a summer at Tanglewood, attending master classes with Aaron Copland. Lita arrived with her own distinctive style fully formed, sometimes recalling French impressionism, but a common strain of a celebratory and uniquely American sound, characteristic of that period, seems to thread through their works. Fellow composer Leo Smit, who was close with Aaron Copland and, like Lita, set many Emily Dickinson poems to music, became one of her closest friends. At 21, she married mathematician Morton Dubman, who was hired to work on the Apollo project, and they relocated from Cambridge, MA to spend over a decade, the entire 1960s, in Los Angeles, where she thrived inadynamic social milieu of artists and scientists, crossing paths with Stravinsky. Lita held the Beatles in the highest regard, while the classical music world was preoccupied with twelve-tone music, serial music and atonality that never resonated with her. She earned a Masters degree and an Atwater Kent Prize from UCLA, where her son was born in 1968, and studied under Lukas Foss and Roy Harris. She continued to compose art songs and even a film score, but was rejected as a PhD candidate while being told flat out, “Women are not composers”, which she later spent decades proving wrong. She found work, playing piano for dance, teaching, and working at Columbia Artists Management. She fondly recalled racing comedian Jack Benny through Hollywood in her Mustang when he was running late forashow. In 1970, Lita relocated to Chicago, focusing her creative energies on raising her young son, to whom she dedicated the 1972 work “Sneezles” in the middle of what was otherwise an extended hiatus from composition. She explored a side gig writing commercial jingles, writing the uplifting song “We are Chicago” that presaged some of her later work in musical theater, and worked in public relations at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, for which she also authored program notes for many years. Her forties were a tumultuous time, starting in the late 1970s, with her composition career on the back burner, a divorce and remarriage, and life-threatening bouts with cancer (both husbands were heavy smokers.) She survived and thrived, calling herselfamiracle of modern medicine. During this period, the world of classical music evolved to be less rigidly atonal, and, slowly, more gender-inclusive. Approaching sixty, with increasing demand for her early works, Lita returned triumphantly to composition, starting with the fittingly named “Renascence” Concertino for full orchestra. Without a background in business, she was thrust into running the business she co-founded in 1987 with her second husband, Dean Grier, when he passed away suddenly in 1997. Inter-Continental Media, Inc. (ICM) had developed into a leading independent producer of classical music programming, serving over 400 public radio stations and some 40 commercial stations. ICM imported musical programming from Austria, France, Italy and the Netherlands to the US. Lita authored scripts and helped produce, working with actors Jeremy Irons, Tony Randall and Werner Klemperer in the studio. ICM introduced the Salzburg Festival, L’Orchestre de Paris, Royal Concertgebouw and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestras to American audiences. ICM also exported American programming, bringing “Great American Orchestras” to an overseas audience of over 50 million. In 1998, under Lita’s sole leadership, ICM presented the first-ever American broadcast series by the Vienna Philharmonic. Lita’s reputation as a composer continued to grow, with an ever increasing count of performances, recordings and commissions, including four from the Ravinia Festival, whose President Welz Kaufmann wrote: “Of all the many joys of my two decades at Ravinia, there is no question that my time with Lita Grier was a highlight. Asacomposer, a coach, and a friend she opened my ears to new ways of listening to, and understanding, music. And all with a joy of life that was irrepressible. Our connection began when I asked her to look at Spoon River Anthology to determine whether she thought some of Edgar Lee Masters 1915 classic (especially the poem Anne Rutledge) would be suitable for song. This idea came out of planning for the Lincoln Bicentennial... Lita jumped at the chance and quickly chose what she wanted to set. She introduced me to the incandescent soprano Michelle Areyzaga and we three – Lita, Michelle and I – began a fruitful artistic collaboration including the Cedille recording of Spoon. This project – and especially the recording process which Lita led with kindness, encouragement and steely determination – set us off on a fantastic musical journey.” Her music has also been heard at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, New York’s Lincoln Center, Chicago’s Symphony Center, Indiana U. in Bloomington, Northwestern, Northern Illinois University, De Paul University, Roosevelt University, and the Chicago Music Institute. Her Flute Sonata, performed worldwide, is taught at major music schools in the US and Europe. Her music, published by Theodore Presser, has been recorded on several labels, most prominently Cedille Records, which has issued five albums featuring her music, including an album entirely devoted to her vocal works: “Songs From Spoon River, Reflections of a Peacemaker and Other Vocal Music by Lita Grier”. Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a fan. Lita Grier has also composed five works for Music Theater, all of which have been produced. She recruited Bob Keeshan, aka Captain Kangaroo, to MCachildren’s concert. She wrote “Elegy for Flute, Viola and Harp”, premiered by flutist Mathieu Dufour, for her friend the former dancer Fredda Hyman, who for years hosted Chicago’s Music in the Loft series. She wrote “Winter Songs” for the William Ferris Chorale, conducted by Paul French. Lita composed “Requiem Missa Brevis” for the children lost to gun violence in Newtown for the project “Healing the Brokenhearted”, performed under the direction of Doreen Rao and broadcast nationwide. Inspired by reading the brilliant work of a young poet who died at 14 from a rare neuromuscular disease, Mattie Stepanek, she put his poetry to music, “Reflections of a Peacemaker”, performed at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park. Lita identified strongly with Chicago, starting the day she first rodeabike along the lakefront while visiting, and was named a Chicagoan of the Year in 2005 by the Chicago Tribune. In her seventies, she felt called to civic activism, helping to lead a group working to protect children’s health and equal public access in Lincoln Park, taking on the private school her own son had attended, while speaking out to the press under the pseudonym of “Greta Lear”. Foradecade, she moonlighted in public relations for classical music station WNIB, growing the audience for classical music in the region. Her sublime work “Sonata for Double Bass and Piano” composed in 2013 reveals her at the pinnacle of her game in her final decade. She lived independently until her last few months, frequently attending Lyric Opera, symphony and chamber music concerts with friends, and passed away peacefully, with her son at her side. Lita is survived by her dear brother, Leonard Lipschutz of Jersey City, NJ, and son, Jonathan Dubman, of Seattle, WA. A graveside service will be held at 10:00am on Friday, May 10, 2024 at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. A memorial concert in her hometown of Chicago will be scheduled at a future date and publicized on her website. Grier, Lita Pat LaPointe, 74, of Prospect Heights. Beloved wife of Martin LaPointe; loving mother of Susan (Kirk Kline) Troester, Carrie (Eric) Bryn, and JoAnna (Stuart) Miller, and the late Jennifer (Jerry) Brunning; cherished grandmother of Graham, Olivia, Max, Henry, Louie, Eddie, Charlie, Harrison and Sammi; fond sister of Mike (Jan) Romito, JoAnn (Tom) McCormack, and the late Nick (Mary) Romito Jr.; devoted cousin of Grace (Dan) Burdelik; dear aunt of many nieces and nephews. Visitation Wednesday May 8, 2024 at Glueckert Funeral Home Ltd., 1520 N. Arlington Heights Road, Arlington Heights from 3:00 PM until 8:00 PM. Funeral service 10:30 AM, Thursday, May 9, 2024 at Park Ridge Community Church, 100 Courtland Avenue, Park Ridge, IL 60068. Interment private. LaPointe, Pat Kearney, Joanne Marie “Joan” 89, formerly of Arlington Heights, beloved wife of the late John, loving mother of Anne (Paul) Tague, Jeanna (Douglas) Claussen, John (Patricia) Kearney, and Kathy (Tom) Neumeyer; loved grandmother of 12 and great grandmother of six; dear sister of Jeanne (the late Jack) Wilson and Patricia Keehan and the late Richard (Mary Lou) Keehan. Visitation 10:00 am until time of Funeral Mass at 11:00 am, Saturday at Our Lady of the Wayside, 440 S. Mitchell Ave., Arlington Hts., IL 60005. Interment private. Memorials to Alzheimer’s Association of Greater Chicago, www.alz.org/illinois, appreciated. Funeral Information and condolences can be given at www. GlueckertFuneralHome.com or (847) 253-0168. y Kearney, Joanne M. John R. Joyce (Ret CFD), age 81, passed away April 27th. Beloved husband of Maria. Loving father of Susan and Kevin Joyce. Dear brother of Patrick (the late Judy), Maureen (the late William “Ken”) Baker, Michael - Ret CPD (Joann), Daniel - Ret CPD (Susan - Ret CPD), Jeannette Kelly, Lenore Joyce-O’Hare (the late Thomas O’Hare- Ret CFD), and Pierce- Ret Local 150 (Doreen) Joyce. Fond uncle of many nieces and nephews. Member of CFD Local 2 (B.o.B.), Gaelic Fire Brigade. Memorial Visitation Monday, May 6 from 3:00 to 8:00 pm with a 7:00 pm Chapel Service at Donnellan Funeral Home, 10525 S. Western Ave., Chicago. For info (773) 238-0075 or sign guestbook at www.donnellanfuneralhome.com. Joyce, John R. Visit: chicagotribune.com/deathnotice Honor a Loved One with a Death Notice in Chicago Tribune It’s a fi nal farewell; a sign of love and respect; an homage to a loved one’s life. Placing a Death Notice shows you care, and is now more effi cient than ever before with our NEW Self Service tool. Includes print listing in the Death Notice section of the Chicago Tribune, an online notice with guestbook on chicagotribune.com. • Instant notice creation and review • Real-time pricing • Pre-designed templates • Enhance your notice by uploading photos and graphics • Immediate, printable proof of notice Features of Self-Service Yvonne “Bonnie” Martin, nee Grunewald, age 95, of Chicago passed away on May 3, 2024. She was the daughter of the late Alfred and Ann Grunewald, mother to the late Greg (Cyndy) Martin and the late Ann Martin. Sister to the late Allan (Rosemary) Grunewald, the late Glenn (Marty) Grunewald, and Kent Grunewald. Aunt to many well loved nieces and nephews, especially Kim Grunewald with whom she resided with for the last 12 years. She was the matriarch of the Joseph Winandy family of Chicago. Her body was donated to science, by her choice, there will be no wake, funeral or interment. If you wish to honor her, be kind to the earth and it’s creatures which she treasured withadonation to PAWSChicago at www.pawschicago.org or the Chicago Anti-Cruelty Society at www.anticruelty.org. More info www.smithcorcoran.com or 773-736-3833. Martin, Yvonne ‘Bonnie’ Audrey Lewis | September 6, 1927-April 21, 2024 Our beloved mother, Audrey Lewis, died peacefully on Sunday, April 21, 2024 in Seattle, Washington. She was 96 years old. Born and raised on Chicago’s South Side, she married Norman Lewis in 1948. She was a devoted wife and mother, committed to sharing her love of music, theater, ballet and art with her children. Our parents’ marriage was a 70-year love affair until Norman’s death at the age of 100. Audrey was a committed volunteer. She was instrumental in creating the Francis W. Parker School’s resale shop, “Parker’s Bazaar.” She worked as a Teacher’s Assistant at Chicago State Hospital for Crippled Children and as a Nursing Assistant at The Children’s Memorial Hospital where she became a valued team member assisting severely ill children and their families. The letters attesting to her generosity, collegiality and expertise are profoundly moving. She perfected her organizational skills as the Head of Women in Illinois on behalf of Senator Eugene McCarthy’s presidential campaign in 1968 and brought those skills to other charitable causes. Audrey was determined to finish college and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Human Services in Child and Family Development at the age of 54. The graduation party thrown for her at Three Happiness in Chicago’s Chinatown was legendary. Audrey’s creativity found expression in expert needlepoint work and her passion for collecting Japanese and Chinese textiles, antiques and American pottery. After retiring to Florida’s Gulf Coast, Audrey devoted herself to the Give Kids the World Village, UNIFEM— the UN Development Fund for Women—and Women for Women International. There was never a “Walka-Thon” for a worthy cause that Audrey didn’t show up for. Audrey is survived by her three children, James, Peter and Ellen, Peter’s wife Johnna, Jim’s partner Griet, five grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the Lewis family requests that you send donations in Audrey’s memory to Open Heart Magic, Feeding America, or the charity of your choice. Lewis, Audrey Norman Marshall Levine, 81, of Wilmette, IL. Norman was born in Chicago to Helen and Abe Levine. Norman earned his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from IIT and his Masters in Finance from Marquette University. Norman is survived by his beloved spouse Shelly. Loving father of oldest child Alan (Jennifer) Levine and youngest child Mark (Deirdre) Levine. Adoring grandfather of three grandchildren Alex Levine, Samantha Levine, and Carter Levine. Treasured sibling of Laura Sims. Caring uncle of Howard Gimpel and Toby Adamson and cousins Bill and Susan Edelman. Norman will be missed by his family and friends. Norman was a three-time survivor of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, thanks in large part to Doctor Leo Gordon and Sarah Miata who gave him more than 20 extra years with his family and friends. Funeral service Tuesday, May 7, 11AM at Weinstein & Piser Funeral Home, 111 Skokie Blvd,Wilmette, IL, 60091. Interment Memorial Park Cemetery. Shiva will immediately follow interment until 8PM at Max and Benny’s, 461 Waukegan Rd, Northbrook, IL 60062. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Cancer Wellness Center (www.cancerwellness.org). For info: 847-256-5700 Levine, Norman Marshall Janet L. Leifel neé Parsons beloved wife of James S. Leifel; loving stepmother of Erick (Stephanie) Leifel; dear grandmother of Tori, Lexi and Hayden; sister of the late Jacquline Holub; dear aunt of Susan (John) Sands, great aunt of Michelle (Elliott) Stepusin, and great great aunt of Raymond Stepusin. Visitation Friday, May 10, 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at AdamsWinterfield & Sullivan Funeral Home, 4343 Main Street (1 Blk. So. of Ogden Ave.), Downers Grove, IL 60515. Family and friends to meet for 10:00 a.m. mass Saturday, May 11, at St. Scholastica Church, 7800 Janes Avenue,Woodridge, IL. Interment private. In lieu of flowers, memorials to Tunnel to Towers Foundation https://t2t.org, or Feed My Starving Children https://www.fmsc.org, appreciated. Arrangements by Adams-Winterfield & Sullivan Funeral Home. Information 630-968-1000 or www. adamswinterfieldsullivan.com. Leifel, Janet L.

Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 21 Every life story deserves to be told. Share your loved one's story at placeanad.chicagotribune.com Kenneth Lee Oostman Sr., age 84, entered God’s kingdom on May 3rd, 2024 after a 14 year battle with Mesothelioma. He passed peacefully at home surrounded by family. A lifelong Chicago native, Ken was born November 28th, 1939, the oldest of seven brothers. Among his many accomplishments, Ken served 6 years in the National Guard and, upon his retirement, 50 years with the Pipefitters Union. He adored hunting and fishing as well as gardening. Ken, a loving and devoted husband, father, grandfather, and brother, is survived by his wife, Dolores; son, Kenneth Jr. (Jaclyn); four grandchildren, Katherine, Kelly, Kenneth III and Athena; and his brothers, Wayne (Rose), Donald (Lindy), Gary (Emily), Norman (Roseanne) and the late Stanley and Stephen. For those seeking to honor his memory, please consider a donation to Samaritan’s Purse P.O. Box 3000, Boone, NC 28607 or Faith Comes By Hearing, 2421 Aztec Road NE, Albuquerque, NM 87107. Visitation Tuesday, May 7, 2024 from 3-8 p.m. Funeral Service Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. at Colonial Chapel, 15525 S. 73rd Ave. (155th/ Wheeler Dr. & Harlem) Orland Park, IL. Interment private at Orland Memorial Park Cemetery, Orland Park, IL. Express your thoughts and condolences at colonialchapel.com 708-532-5400 Oostman, Sr., Kenneth Lee Rose Joanna Musielak (nee Stahulak), age 97, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on April 27th, 2024. Loving wife of 57 years to the late Stanley J. Musielak. Beloved mother to Mary Theresa, Karen Rose (Peter) Lindquist and Gail Marie (Todd) Faber; Cherished Grandmother to Amanda Rose (Robert) Sievert, Michael, Peter and Rachael; Adoring Great Grandmother to Arianna, Octavian, Thorsten, Odin, Anneke, and Astrea. Special thanks to Rose’s Angel Caretakers, Cora and Elena. Rose was preceded in death by her parents, Ignatius “James” and Josephine Stahulak, and late brothers James (the late Lottie), Joseph (the late Ann), Emil (the late Caroline), Edward (Mary), and Thomas (the late Marie). Fond aunt to many nieces and nephews. Musielak, Rose Joanna Richard T. Murphy, age 72, Native of Chicago, currently of Westchester, retired Hearings Officer with the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board; dear brother of Daniel (Connie) and Frank Murphy; loving son of the late Frank and the late Henrietta (Kennedy) Murphy; cherished friend of Deborah Starzec, Dan and Dorothy Plovanich, Leonard and Ann Leffner. Visitation Saturday, May 11, 2024, 9:00 a.m. until time of Mass of Christian Burial 10:00 a.m. at Divine Providence Catholic Church, 2500 Mayfair Avenue, Westchester. Interment Woodlawn Cemetery, Forest Park. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the charity of your choice. Arrangements handled by Gibbons Funeral Home, Elmhurst. 630-832-0018 or www.gibbonsfuneralhome.com Murphy, Richard T. Michael J. Murphy, affectionately nicknamed “Bobo” by his only grandchild, passed away on April 18, 2024, after a lengthy health struggle. For 54 years, he was the attentive and loving husband of Jo Ann Murphy, nee Demas, who survives him, as does his son Michael C. Murphy, a labor lawyer, and his granddaughter, Alexandra “Alex” Murphy, a rising freshman at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. The younger of two brothers, Michael was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1932 to Harry and Louise Murphy. After receiving his honorable discharge from the Military Police Corps US Army Reserve in 1956, Murphy briefly attended Reed College before earning a BA from the University of Maryland in 1960. He began his career in journalism and public relations as a “Copyboy” with the now-defunct Washington Star evening paper in Washington, DC in 1960 before working as a reporter and correspondent for Life Magazine, and then as a Reporter, Editor, and Producer for NBC News. He was known for his abhorrence of the Oxford comma. After ten years in journalism, Michael joined the Public Relations Department of Playboy Enterprises, Inc. occupying several roles over the following ten years including Vice President and Director of the Circulation Promotion Department. In 1981, he left Playboy to start his own Public Relations practice with devoted wife JoAnn. Murphy, Michael J. ‘Bobo’ Lynn Hellyer Mathias, 81, of Winnetka, IL, passed away peacefully on April 25, 2024, with gratitude for a long and happy life. Lynn is survived by her beloved spouse of 53 years, Richard Mathias, her children Robert (Lisa), David (Amy) and Emily (Thomas Filippini), and her nine grandchildren: Molly, Chloe and Matthew Mathias, Mackenzie, Hayden and Sam Mathias, and Annabel, Lucy and Olivia Filippini, as well as her cherished nieces and nephews. She was born in Riverside, IL, in 1942 to Thomas and Emily Hellyer. She was predeceased by her siblings Thomas Hellyer and Walter “Corky” Hellyer. “Gummy” as she was known to her adoring grandchildren and many members of the community, had a sincere love for her family and friends. She enjoyed needlepointing (17 Christmas Stockings for her family!), gardening (Member of the Garden Guild of Winnetka), reading and spending summers at her beloved home on High Lake in Northern Wisconsin. Lynn was an avid volunteer, and her primary passion was service to JourneyCare Hospice, where she had a long and meaningful relationship. Lynn attended Ferry Hall a.k.a. Lake Forest Academy, Michigan State University, and graduated from National College of Education. Lynn’s loving heart and mischievous spirit will be missed by scores of friends and family. A service celebrating Lynn’s life will be held at Kenilworth Union Church at 3PM, Tuesday, May 7th. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial gifts be made to NorthShore Hospitals Foundation, The Janardan D. Khandekar, MD Personalized Medicine Innovation Fund, 1001 University Place, Suite 248, Evanston, IL 60201, or give online at give.northshore.org. Lynn credits Dr. Khandekar with “saving her life” during her battle with breast cancer 30 years ago. For info: 847-251-8200 Mathias, Lynn Hellyer OUR ENHANCED OBITUARY SERVICE A NEW WAY TO HONOR your loved ones. Helen Pitou Pottage, age 94, passed away peacefully on April 27, 2024 following a brief illness. Born in New York City in 1930 to the late Helen and late John Pitou, Helen relocated with her family including her brother the late John Pitou to the Chicago area where she spent the rest of her long and happy life. In 1951 she married the late John C. Pottage Sr. and they raised their four children in Wilmette, IL. After John retired they moved back to the city of Chicago. They took great pleasure in traveling throughout the world and especially delighted in cruising to scenic locations. Theirs was a 50 year long marriage filled with love, laughter, and lots of fun. Helen volunteered her time with the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Service League serving as President from 1994 to 1996. A life long cat-lover, she adopted several special needs cats and enjoyed the companionship of a number of pampered felines throughout her life. She had many interests, loved reading and creating artworks in needlepoint. Helen was beloved by her children, grandchildren, and greatgrandchildren. She is survived by her children: John (Marian) Pottage Jr. of Paoli, PA, Barbara Pottage of Chicago, and Nancy Parker of Prairie Village, KS; her grandchildren: John (Linda) Pottage III, Kimberly (Brad Allen) Pottage, Jennifer Pottage, John (Carrie) Parker, Matthew (Maggie) Parker, Daniel (Jordan) Parker, Christopher Parker, and Hannah Pottage, and her great-grandchildren: Elizabeth Pottage, George Allen, Blair Parker,Ward Parker, Margot Parker, Henry Parker, and Harrison Parker. She was pre-deceased by her youngest son the late Mark Pottage. Helen will be missed forever by her family and everyone whose lives she touched. Services will be private. Memorial donations may be made to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, P.O. Box 5014, Hagerstown, MD 21741, 800-708-7644, www. michaeljfox.org. For further information please call 312-421-0936 or www.michalikfuneralhome.com. Pottage, Helen Pitou Andrew Louis Pagorek, born May 5, 1948, passed away on April 1, 2024. Andy was predeceased by his parents, Chester and Mary (Gniewek) Pagorek and his brothers, Gerald and Fred Pagorek. Andy grew up in Chicago and attended St. Salomea Grade School, Mendel Catholic High School and the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. He pursued a career in computers, eventually starting his own computer consulting firm, Pagorek Systems in 1980. Andy was a Vietnam Army Veteran, on active duty from 1969 to 1970. He was involved with the Polish Legion of American Veterans, Post #30 in Crestwood, IL where he held many positions over the years including Post Commander from 1994-96 and Illinois State Commander from 1990-91. He volunteered at Hines Veterans Hospital and received a pin for 750 hours of service. Andy volunteered his computer programming services to Misericordia Home and received a “True Friend” award from the Parents Association. He was a York Center Park District Commissioner in the 1980’s. He was a Girl Scout Adult with the DuPage County Council for 19 years, working with girls as a Troop Co-Leader and as a Camp Greene Wood Ranger. He is the recipient of the Honor Pin and the Thanks Badge from the Girl Scout Council. Andy was quite involved in investing and liked to share that knowledge with anyone who was interested. He belonged to Noah’s Ark, an investment club for 25 years. His interests were varied and he took lessons to be a clown, cooking Chinese food and learning to fly a small aircraft. He liked playing Santa for DCFS foster children and at several Ronald McDonald Houses. He enjoyed his Corvettes, Pepper (the Campa’s dog) cruising, golfing, gardening and woodworking. Andy is survived by his wife of 48 years, Jean (nee Jasutis) and his sister, Virginia (Michael) Campa, his nieces Jennifer (David) Ochenrider and Julie (Mark) Kevan, and his nephew Louis Pagorek. He loved his great nieces and nephews, Catherine, Anna, Andrew and Joshua. Other favorites of his are his goddaughters, Jennifer Ochenrider, Candi Serena Butzow and Sharon Pagorek, as well as his foster daughter Danylle Peardon. He leaves behind many cousins of which he was fond. Andy was cremated and will be buried at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery at a later date. If desired, donations in his name can be made to Misericordia Association in Chicago. Please visit www.neptunesociety.com/obituaries for interment details. Pagorek, Andrew L. Honor a Loved One with a Death Notice in Chicago Tribune Visit: chicagotribune.com/deathnotice It’s a fi nal farewell; a sign of love and respect; an homage to a loved one’s life. Placing a Death Notice shows you care, and is now more effi cient than ever before with our NEW Self-Service tool. 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22 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 Every life story deserves to be told. Share your loved one's story at placeanad.chicagotribune.com Raymond “Ray” Veselik, age 84, of Hinsdale. Beloved husband of 53 years to the late Judy Veselik (nee LeFevour). Loving father of eight children:Keith (Mary Rose), Scott (Anne), Jennifer Bourjaily (John), Craig (Leslie Butler), Randy, David (Anne), Jill, and Jamie Walker (Mark); 27 grandchildren: Kevin (Teresa), Meaghan Klump (Kyle), Mary Kate Taulman (Jason), Claire (John Richardson), Michael (Samantha Booth), Jack (Elle), Brent (Crystal), Tim (Danielle Raviele), Dan, Anna Reed (Rob), Katie Bourjaily, Caroline Bourjaily, Janelle, Andrew, Ashley, Trey, Corey, Bella, Gabi, Sydney, Avery, Raymond, Eleanor, Thomas, Marudith, Charles Walker, Collins Walker; and 16 great-grandchildren: Henry, Charlie, Ollie, Teddy, Liam, Emma, Jack, Luke, Thomas, Andrew, Daisy, Jolene, Mack, Lola, Tabitha, and Patrick; and favorite uncle to many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by his parents Emil and Lillian, and siblings Charlotte (Tom), Frank and Shirley. Visitation from 3-8 pm on Tuesday, May 7 at Hallowell & James Funeral Home, 1025 W. 55th St., Countryside. Funeral Mass at 10 am on Wednesday, May 8 at St. Isaac Jogues Catholic Church, 306 W 4th St., Hinsdale. Interment to follow at Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside. In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made in Ray’s name to Benet Academy, 2200 Maple Ave, Lisle, IL 60532, or to the Medical Education Scholarship at Almost Home Kids, 7S721 Route 53, Naperville, IL 60540. Funeral Info: 708-352-6500. Please see the full obituary at HJFunerals.com. Veselik, Raymond 09-12-1947 to 05-01-2024 Born to Ramon and Teresa Vazquez. Father of Tino and Lisa Vazquez. Brother to Teresa, Ramon/Gloria, Jose/Donna, William/Maria, Margarita/Julio, Irma/Reina, Fernando/Janet & Jorge. Visitation: 05-07-2024 & Funeral: 05-08-2024 Cayey Memorial, Jose De Diego 209 Oeste Cayey, Puerto Rico 00736. Vazquez, Francisco Marlene J. Urbain age 88 of Sun City West, AZ ,formerly of Chicago, IL. Marlene was born in Chicago March 12, 1936 and passed away in Surprise, AZ April 28, 2024. Mother of Edward Urbain, Daniel Urbain, the late Robert C. Urbain and the late Kenneth Urbain; grandmother of Irena Urbain; sister of the late Charles Corrado. Marlene will be remembered as an accomplished entrepreneur. From Comar Creations to Comar Cuisines to Urbain’s Flowers where she was nationally renowned by FTD.. Her dedication to her artwork is only surpassed by the beauty of the art itself. Graveside service Saturday May 11, 12:00 p.m. at All Saints Cemetery, 700 N. River Rd., Des Plaines, IL 60016. Funeral information (847) 255-7800 or www.friedrichsfh.com. Urbain, Marlene John C. Spence, III, age 67, formerly of Naperville, IL, Brea, CA and Racine, WI, passed away on Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at AccentCare Hospice in Naperville. He was born December 13, 1956, in Fort Meade, MD. Arrangements by Friedrich-Jones Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Naperville, IL. For service times and a complete obituary, please visit www.friedrich-jones.com or call (630) 355-0213 for more information. Spence III, John C. Mary Fenton Rushing passed away on April 29th, 2024 at her home in Wheeling, IL. Mary was born in New York in 1936 and spent the majority of her life in the Chicago area. Mary was a homemaker and raised five children in Northbrook, IL. When not busy with home and children, she had a love for books, puzzles, plants, and sewing. Mary was extremely creative. For example, she collected Time Magazine covers and pasted them up as unique mosaic wallpaper. She crafted special Christmas ornaments. She made beautiful needlepoint designs for grandkid clothing, wall hangings, footstools, and more. She was an expert seamstress. She sewed and crafted amazing and fun Halloween costumes. She devoted her later years to beautiful quilt making. You are a lucky person if you have a quilt made by Mary. The many family heirlooms Mary crafted are treasured and part of her legacy. Mary had a plant business with her friend Pam Nellis called The Plant People. She had a special touch with her plants which always seemed to burst with life: her cactus was 9 ft tall, her jade plant was bigger than any you’ve ever seen, her Christmas cactus was a super bloomer. She went on to work for many years at the Book Bin in Northbrook IL and then at Borders in Deerfield IL where she was the first employee when it opened and the last employee when it closed. Mary relied on a unique depth of fortitude, strength, and toughness throughout her life right up to the end. She was also a private person and dealt as gracefully as she could with challenges she faced over the years. No matter what, she always garnered joy through her family. And of note, watching Jeopardy became an important daily activity of Mary’s. She was a quick and sharp participant right up to her final months. She was peerless as our family’s Jeopardy champion. Mary was preceded in death by her parents Violet and Jack Fenton. She is survived by her children Karen (Tim) Brown, Scott Rushing, Tom (Kathleen) Rushing, Steve (Vanessa) Rushing and Kate (Jim) Mutchnik, her brother Tom Fenton and her brother Mike Fenton. She was the loving Nana to 10 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. Given that Mary was an avid reader, please kindly consider making a donation to the Foundation for the Indian Trails Library District, 355 Schoenbeck Rd., Wheeling, IL 60090, https:// www.indiantrailslibrary.org/about-us/foundation Rushing, Mary Fenton Tony Zaugh passed away on March 23, 2024 after a long battle with emphysema. Tony was predeceased by his mother Millie and his father Tony Sr. of Mount Prospect, Illinois. Tony is survived by his wife Sherry of Escondido, California, sisters in law Patricia O’Neill of Richmond, Illinois and Bonnie O’Neill of Euclid, Ohio and brothers in law Thomas O’Neill III of Eustis, Florida and Michael O’Neill of Willoughby, Ohio. Tony was born to Millie (Huss) and Tony Zaugh Sr. on January 6, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Northwestern University and received a Bachelors degree in 1964. He was President of the Chi Phi Fraternity. His career was spent working at Nuclear Chicago Corporation and Northrop Corporation in Illinois where he managed the Information Technology Division. He opened the ERA North County Homes real estate office in Escondido in 2005 and designed the entire computer operations system for the office. A special thank you to Denise Trejo RN and Ana Diaz for their care and compassion. A private memorial service will be held in Illinois to honor Tony’s life. He was a friend to all and always helped those around him who needed assistance. Zaugh, Anthony ‘Tony’ Grace LaVerne Wenzel, a beacon of loving-kindness and passionate joy, passed away peacefully on April 27, 2024, at the age of 71, in her hometown of Chicago, IL, after bravely battling pancreatic cancer for over a year. Born on April 1, 1953, to the late Marcus and the late LaVerne (nee Kuhn) Kaberline, Grace’s life was one of unwavering dedication to her family and an embodiment of the purest form of love. Grace’s journey through life was shared with her beloved husband of 46 years, Wayne Wenzel Sr., with whom she built a legacy of warmth and compassion. Together, they raised two children, Nicole (Ryan) Burns and Wayne (Meghan) Wenzel Jr., who further blessed Grace with the joy of being a grandmother to Olivia, Veronica, Marcus, Alexandria, and Audrey. She was also a source of love and support to many nieces and nephews. Affectionately known as, “Nana”, her role as a grandmother was one she cherished above all, always being her grandchildren’s number one fan, whether in life’s big moments or quiet everyday triumphs. Grace is predeceased by her parents and her siblings Gary, Dawn, and Mark. Her presence as a sister was as profound as it was as a mother and grandmother, and the memories of her kindness and warmth will remain a comforting legacy for all who knew her. Grace’s story is one of love, family, and the quiet strength that inspires others to carry on her legacy of kindness. Grace’s memory will continue to light the way for her family and friends, whose lives are forever enriched by her enduring spirit. Visitation for Grace to be held Thursday, May 9, 2024, 3 p.m. –8p.m. at Muzyka & Son Funeral Home, 5776 W. Lawrence Ave., Chicago. Funeral Service Friday, May 10, 2024, 10 a.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 4939 W. Montrose Ave., Chicago. Interment Concordia Cemetery, Forest Park, IL. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Grace’s name to the American Cancer Society, https:// donate.cancer.org/ or P.O. Box 6704, Hagerstown, MD 21741 or to JDRF, https://www2.jdrf.org/, or PO Box 5021, Hagerstown, MD, 21741. For more info, call (773)545-3800. Wenzel, Grace LaVerne Sister Mary Lou (Mary Paul) Wcislo died at age 90 on Friday, May 3, 2024 at Saint Patrick’s Residence in Naperville after 72 years in religious life. Preceded in death by her parents, John and Eleanor Wcislo, brother, Gordon, and Aunts, Loretta Miller and Jean Fagan. Survived by nieces, Mary Lou Voitik (Patrick), Ellen Wcislo, Michelle Drehobl (Rick), and Jeanne Lemow (Kurt); Cousins Lilly (Miller) Lewinger and Joseph Miller. Sister Mary Lou served in Chicago at St. Brides, St. Adrian, St. Mary’s Riverside, Unity High School, St. Gregory’s (Arizona) and Loretto Catholic (Michigan). Sister Mary Lou served on the IBVM General Council in Toronto. Sister Mary Lou’s life will be celebrated on Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at the Franciscan Our Lady of the Angels Chapel, 26W171 Roosevelt Rd, Wheaton IL 60187. Visitation/Remembrance 9:15-9:45 a.m. and Mass following at 10:00 a.m., followed by burial at St. Michael’s Cemetery, 1109 Warrenville Rd, Wheaton IL 60187. Memorials may be made to the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary Development Office, PO Box 508, Wheaton IL 60187. Arrangements by Williams-Kampp Funeral Home in Wheaton. For information: (630) 668-0016 or www. williams-kampp.com. Wcislo, IBVM., Sister Mary Lou Jerome E. Wayne, longtime resident of Glenview, passed away April 27, 2024. He was the loving husband of the late Joan C. Wayne nee Ziska. He was preceded in death by his siblings, Harriet (Albert) Burroughs, Agnes (William) Blohm, Stanley (Leona) Wisniewski, Chester (Genevieve) Wayne, and Leonard (Rachelle) Wayne and is survived by many nieces and nephews. He will also be greatly missed by his loving caregiver Godfrida Hudson. Jerry worked for Kraft Foods for many years. A memorial visitation will be held Wednesday, May 8, 2024, from 9 am until time of the Mass at 10 am at St. Catherine Laboure Church, 3535 Thornwood Ave., Glenview. Interment All Saints Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Catherine Laboure School, 3535 Thornwood, Glenview, IL 60026. Funeral information 847-998-1020. Wayne, Jerome E. Elsie Wawrzyniak nee Brendal, age 104, of Chicago, passed away with a smile on her face and with her loving family, along with Hazel, her grand dog by her side, on April 30, 2024. Beloved wife of the late Raymond L.; loving mother of Patricia Sweeney, the late Michael (Mary), Raymond J. (Susan) and Dianne Wawrzyniak; cherished grandma of Ryan, Jamie and Lindsay (Michael) Kane and the late Keith Sweeney; proud great grandma of Mackenzie, Connor, Quinn Kane and Michael Fligiel; dear aunt and friend of many. Elsie was preceded in death by her parents and 8 siblings. She was a member of the Haute Couture Club of Chicago and the last living member of the Chi Rose Club. Elsie retired as a teacher from St. Richard Catholic School. Funeral Tuesday, May 7, 2024 at 9:15 AM from Ridge Funeral Home, 6620 W. Archer Ave., Chicago to St. Daniel the Prophet Church, 54th & Nashville Ave., Chicago for Mass at 10:00 AM. Visitation Monday 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM at Ridge Funeral Home. Interment Resurrection Cemetery, Justice. IL. In lieu of flowers, donations are appreciated in Elsie’s name to Catholic Charities www.catholiccharities.net. Funeral info 773-586-7900 Wawrzyniak, Elsie Every life story deserves to be told. Share your loved one’s story at placeanad.chicagotribune.com

Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 23 ALZ.org/TimeToTalk If you’re noticing changes, it could be Alzheimer’s. Talk about visiting a doctor together. “Early detection gave us more time to find information and support together.”

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Showers T-storms Rain Flurries Snow Ice Cold front Warm front Stationary front -10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s NATIONAL CITIES WORLD CITIES REGIONAL CITIES City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W CHICAGO ALMANAC Air Quality Index Sunday’s Planet Watch Sun and Moon CHICAGO FORECAST 8 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 8 p.m. 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 8 p.m. 10 a.m. Chicago-downtown Evanston Highland Park Aurora Yorkville Plano Leland Ottawa Streator DeKalb Hampshire Compton Mendota Joliet Kankakee Braidwood Momence Dwight St. Anne Gary Valparaiso La Porte La Crosse Francesville Demotte Michigan City Crown Point Chicago Heights Peotone Hammond Bartlett Arlington Heights O’Hare Midway Orland Park Elgin Naperville La Salle Morris Rockford Beloit Rochelle Belvidere Janesville Lake Geneva Waukegan Antioch Twin Lakes Union Grove Libertyville Woodstock Marengo Kenosha Racine Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. 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Boating Index 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 8 p.m. LAKE MICHIGAN Fishing Index 1 4 8 8 4 2 0 POP: 5% POP: 10% POP: 95% POP: 25% POP: 25% POP: 60% 53 59 66 69 64 60 60 5 6666 5 5 57/48 56/48 60/46 69/43 69/44 70/44 70/45 72/47 71/47 69/45 68/44 69/46 71/47 69/45 66/43 69/45 65/43 70/45 66/43 56/43 60/41 58/40 62/42 65/43 63/42 52/47 60/42 63/44 65/43 60/44 67/44 65/46 64/47 64/49 65/46 68/44 68/45 72/49 70/46 71/44 71/44 70/44 70/44 71/44 67/42 60/45 66/42 67/42 66/42 63/44 67/42 69/44 65/45 59/43 60/45 58/45 64/44 75/41 75/42 75/41 75/42 76/44 75/43 74/42 73/42 74/42 75/44 74/42 69/39 74/42 69/39 74/42 69/40 57/40 63/38 60/38 63/38 66/39 65/38 50/44 61/39 65/41 68/39 62/41 72/42 69/44 70/44 68/46 69/43 73/41 73/42 76/45 76/44 75/43 75/42 74/42 75/42 74/43 73/41 64/42 71/41 73/41 71/42 68/42 73/40 74/41 69/43 63/41 Saturday Temperatures Sunday Conditions Sunday Activities Local Temperatures Normal high 66 Low 47 High 81 Moderate Moderate Normal low 47 Record high 92 (1952) Record low 32 (1954) NNE 8-16 mph E 7-14 mph S 8-16 mph WSW 8-16 mph NE 8-16 mph NNW 7-14 mph SUNDAY Sunny and near average. Highs in the mid- to upper 60s inland and in the low 60s along the lake. Breezy along the lake. MONDAY Pleasant with times of clouds and sun Cooler with sun and clouds Meteorologists Larry Mowry, Cheryl Scott, Jaisol Martinez, Tracy Butler and Greg Dutra TUESDAY Cloudy with showers and a heavier t-storm WEDNESDAY Warm with clouds and sun; rain at night THURSDAY Mostly cloudy and cooler FRIDAY Cloudy, then clouds and sun with a shower Sun. Mon. Sun. Mon. Sun. Mon. Sun. Mon. Sun. Mon. Sun. Mon. 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Mon. Shown is Sunday’s weather. Temperatures are Sunday’s highs and Sunday night’s lows with high and low RealFeel Temperatures shown below. Forecasts and graphics, except for the WLS-TV/ABC7 Chicago content, provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2024 Saturday Precipitation 64 47 71 60 77 59 77 52 64 48 59 46 6666666 7 7 8 9 8 8 6 Sunday Monday Wind from the north at 8-16 knots. Seas 1-3 feet. Visibility clear to the horizon. Water temperature: 47. Wind from the east-northeast at 6-12 knots. Seas 2 feet or less. Visibility generally clear. Water temperature: 47. Golfing Index ABC7 Outlook: QUESTION: How are rain and snow measured? I can’t imagine measuring tape or a ruler is used. Stephen Verhaeren-Palos Park ANSWER: Great question, Stephen. Rain is measured with a rain gauge. A rain gauge is also used to measure the water content of snow. You’re not too far off on how we measure snow. A yardstick is typically used to measure snow. Most of the reports we receive are from trained spotters that go through a class to learn how to record this data. They use a snow board, which is just a flat board that is typically 16x16 and painted white. It has to be on a flat and level area. Snow is measured to the nearest tenth. Jaisol Martinez Do you haveaweather question for the ABC 7 team? Submit them at abc7chicago.com/weather or send them to: Ask ABC 7 Weather Team 190 N. State Street Chicago, IL 60601 The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low, 3-5 Moderate, 6-7 High, 8-10 Very High, 11+ Extreme. The patented AccuWeather.com RealFeel Temperature is an exclusive index of effective temperature based on eight weather factors. Golf and Fishing Indexes: 0-2: Poor; 3-4: Fair; 5-6: Good; 7-8: Very Good; 9-10: Excellent. 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INSIDE SUCCESS Your guide to managing money, work and the business of life, plus Classified listings NATION & WORLD By Mari Yamaguchi Associated Press TOKYO — Japan and India on Saturday decried remarks by U.S. President Joe Biden describing them as “xenophobic” countries that do not welcome immigrants, which the president said during a campaign fundraising event earlier last week. Japan said Biden’s judgment was not based on an accurate understanding of its policy, while India rebutted the comment, defending itself as the world’s most open society. Biden grouped Japan and India as “xenophobic” countries, along with Russia and China, as he tried to explain their struggling economies, contrasting the four with the strength of the U.S. as a nation of immigrants. Japan is a key U.S. ally, and both Japan and India are part of the Quad, a U.S.- led informal partnership that also includes Australia in countering China in the Indo-Pacific. Just weeks ago, Biden hosted Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on an official visit, as the two leaders agreed to reinforce their security ties. Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi also made a state visit to Washington last year, when he was welcomed by business and political leaders. The White House said Biden meant no offense and was merely stressing that the U.S. was a nation of immigrants, saying he had no intention of undermining the relationship with Japan. Japan is aware of Biden’s remark as well as the subsequent clarification, a Japanese government official said Saturday, declining to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue. The official said it was unfortunate that part of Biden’s speech was not based on an accurate understanding of Japanese policies. In New Delhi, India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Saturday also rebutted Biden’s comment. ‘’I haven’t seen such an open, pluralistic and diverse society anywhere in the world. We are actually not just not xenophobic, we are the most open, most pluralistic and in many ways the most understanding society in the world,” Jaishankar said at a roundtable organized by the Economic Times newspaper. Japan has been known for a strict stance on immigration. But in recent years, it has eased its policies to make it easier for foreign workers to come and stay in Japan as a way to mitigate its declining births and rapidly shrinking population. India enacted a new citizenship law earlier this year by setting religious criteria that allows fast-tracking naturalization for Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who fled to India from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, while excluding Muslims. Japan, India reject Biden’s description of them as xenophobic nations By Sam Mednick and Jack Jeffery Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel — A Hamas delegation was in Cairo on Saturday as Egyptian state media reported “noticeable progress” in cease-fire talks for Gaza. But Israel hasn’t sent a delegation and a senior Israeli official downplayed prospects for a full end to the war while emphasizing the commitment to invading Rafah. Pressure has mounted to reach a deal halting the nearly 7-month war. A top U.N. official says there is now a “full-blown famine” in northern Gaza, while the United States has repeatedly warned close ally Israel about its planned offensive into Rafah, the southernmost city on the border with Egypt, where more than 1 million Palestinians are sheltering. Egyptian and U.S. mediators have reported signs of compromise in recent days, but chances for a cease-fire deal remain entangled with the key question of whether Israel will accept an end to the war without reaching its stated goal of destroying the militant group Hamas. Egypt’s state-owned Al-Qahera News TV channel said a consensus had been reached over many disputed points but did not elaborate. Hamas has called for a complete end to the war and withdrawal of all Israeli forces from Gaza. A senior Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss negotiations, played down the prospects for a full end to the war. The official said Israel was committed to the Rafah invasion and would not agree in any circumstance to end the war as part of a deal to release hostages. Israeli media said that statement had been dictated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose government could be threatened if he agrees to a deal because hard-line Cabinet members demand an attack on Rafah. The proposal that Egyptian mediators had put to Hamas sets out a three-stage process that would bring an immediate, six-week cease-fire and partial release of Israeli hostages, and would include some sort of Israeli pullout. The initial stage would last for 40 days. Hamas would start by releasing female civilian hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Some families of hostages accused Netanyahu of prolonging the war for his political interests. Daniel Elgert, whose brother Itzhak is held by Hamas, addressed Netanyahu at the latest rally in Tel Aviv: “Bibi, we call on you from here to announce the end of the war in exchange for the return of all the hostages. The war is effectively over, we know it’s over, you can’t fool us.” The war has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s local health officials, caused widespread destruction and plunged the territory into an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. The conflict erupted Oct. 7, when Hamas attacked southern Israel, abducting about 250 people and killing around 1,200, mostly civilians. Israel says militants still hold around 100 hostages and the remains of more than 30 others. Israeli strikes Saturday on Gaza killed at least six people. Three bodies were recovered from the rubble of a building in Rafah and taken to Yousef Al Najjar hospital. A strike in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza killed three people, according to hospital officials. In the previous 24 hours, the bodies of 32 people killed by Israeli strikes had been brought to local hospitals, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Saturday. The ministry does not distinguish between fighters and civilians in its tallies but says women and children make up two-thirds of those killed. The Israeli military says it has killed 13,000 militants, without providing evidence to back up the claim. It has also conducted mass arrests during its raids inside Gaza. The territory’s Health Ministry urged the International Criminal Court to investigate the death in Israeli custody of a Gaza surgeon. Adnan al-Borsh, 50, was working at al-Awda Hospital when Israeli troops stormed it in December, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club. The United Nations has warned that hundreds of thousands would be “at imminent risk of death” if Israel’s military moves forward into densely packed Rafah, which is also a critical entry point for humanitarian aid. Israel has briefed U.S. officials on its plan to evacuate civilians. The director of the U.N. World Food Program, Cindy McCain, said Friday that trapped civilians in the north, the most cut-off part of Gaza, have plunged into famine. McCain said a ceasefire and a greatly increased flow of aid through land and sea routes are essential. A Israeli humanitarian official on Saturday called McCain’s assertion incorrect and said Israel has been facilitating the delivery of more aid. Israel recently opened new crossings for aid into northern Gaza, but Wednesday, Israeli settlers blocked the first convoy before it crossed into the besieged enclave. Once inside Gaza, the convoy was commandeered by Hamas militants, then reclaimed by U.N. officials. Some displaced residents of northern Gaza said they had been skipping meals and hadn’t seen vegetables for weeks. In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where tensions have been high since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, the Israeli military said it and Shin Bet had killed five fighters in Tulkarem, asserting that the fighters had opened fire. Palestinian authorities said five people were killed by Israeli fire in the town of Deir al-Ghusun, about 4 miles northeast of Tulkarem. Progress reported in talks on Gaza Displaced Palestinian children attend a recently opened class Saturday in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. The school had been used as a temporary shelter amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas. The city is near the border with Israel. GETTY-AFP But Israel sticking to Rafah invasion, no plans to end war By Juan A. Lozano and Lekan Oyekanmi Associated Press HOUSTON — High waters flooded neighborhoods around Houston on Saturday following heavy rains that have already resulted in crews rescuing more than 400 people from homes, rooftops and roads engulfed in murky water. Others prepared to evacuate their property. Floodwaters inundated a wide region Saturday, from Houston to rural East Texas, where game wardens rode airboats through waisthigh waters, rescuing both people and pets who did not evacuate in time. One crew brought a family and three dogs aboard as rising waters surrounded their cars and home. A flood watch remained in effect through Sunday afternoon as forecasters predicted additional rainfall Saturday night to the soaked region and the likelihood of major flooding. “It’s going to keep rising this way,” said Miguel Flores Jr. of the northeast Houston neighborhood of Kingwood. “We don’t know how much more. We’re just preparing for the worst.” Aron Brown, 45, and his wife, Jamie Brown, 41, were two of the many residents who drove or walked to watch the rising waters near a flooded intersection close to the San Jacinto River in Kingwood. The floodwaters had risen several feet and had begun to flood nearby restaurants and a gas station. The water could be seen flowing into parts of the couple’s subdivision. But Aron Brown said he wasn’t worried as his home was at a higher elevation than other ones in their subdivision. Brown, who had driven from his home in a golf cart, said the flooding wasn’t as bad as Hurricane Harvey in 2017. He pointed to nearby power lines and said that flooding during Harvey had reached the top of the lines. Friday’s fierce storms forced numerous highwater rescues, including some from the rooftops of flooded homes. Officials redoubled urgent instructions for residents in low-lying areas to evacuate, warning the worst was still to come. The National Weather Service forecast a lull in heavy rain through Saturday evening, with the next round of heavy rainfall expected late Saturday into Sunday. Up to 3 inches of additional rain is expected with up to 5 inches more possible in isolated areas. Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said Saturday that the area is expecting more rain Sunday and if it’s a lot, it could be problematic. Hidalgo is the top elected official in the nation’s thirdlargest county. Most weekends, Miguel Flores Sr. is mowing his huge backyard on a 2 1/2-acre lot behind his home in Kingwood. But Saturday, he and his family were loading several vehicles with clothes, small appliances and other items before flood waters inundated his home. Waters from the nearby San Jacinto River had swallowed his backyard and continued to rise Saturday. Flores said the water in his backyard was only about 1 foot high on Friday. On Saturday, the water level measured about 4 feet. “It’s sad, but what can I do?” Flores said. He added that he has flood insurance. For weeks, drenching rains in Texas and parts of Louisiana have filled reservoirs and saturated the ground. Floodwaters partially submerged cars and roads last week across parts of southeastern Texas, north of Houston, where high waters reached the roofs of some homes. More than 21 inches of rain fell during the five-day period that ended Friday in Liberty County near the city of Splendora, about 30 miles northeast of Houston, according to the National Weather Service. Hidalgo said Saturday that 178 people and 122 pets have been rescued so far in the county. Scores of rescues took place in neighboring Montgomery County. In Polk County, located about 100 miles northeast of Houston, officials said they have made more than 100 water rescues in the past few days. Authorities in Houston had not reported any deaths or injuries. The city of more than 2 million people is one of the most flood-prone metro areas in the country and has long experience dealing with devastating weather. Hurricane Harvey in 2017 dumped historic rainfall on the area, flooding thousands of homes and resulting in more than 60,000 rescues by government rescue personnel across Harris County. Of particular concern was an area along the San Jacinto River in the northeastern part of Harris County, which was expected to continue rising as more rain falls and officials release extra water from an already full reservoir. Hidalgo on Thursday issued a mandatory evacuation order for those living along portions of the river. Most areas within Houston’s city limits were not heavily affected by the weather. Officials said the area had seen about four months of rain in about a week’s time. Houston region braces for worse flooding conditions Tim McCanon sits on a roadside with his dogs Friday in New Caney, Texas, after they were rescued by firefighters during severe flooding. RAQUEL NATALICCHIO/HOUSTON CHRONICLE More rain forecast after four months’ worth falls in week Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 1

From news services MEXICO CITY — Three bodies recovered in an area of Mexico’s Baja California state are likely to be those of the two Australians and an American who went missing last weekend during a camping and surfing trip, the state prosecutor’s office said Saturday. While there has not yet been confirmation based on forensic examination, physical characteristics — including hair and clothing — means there is a high likelihood that the bodies are those of the three tourists, local TV network Milenio reported, citing chief state prosecutor María Elena Andrade Ramírez. The bodies were found in a well where investigators found another body “not related to the three foreigners” that authorities said would be investigated. The site where the bodies were discovered near the township of Santo Tomás is near the remote seaside area where the men’s tents and truck were found Thursday along the coast. The men — identified by family members as brothers Jake and Callum Robinson from Australia and American Jack Carter Rhoad — went missing Saturday. They did not show up at their planned accommodations over the weekend. The U.S. State Department said: “We are aware of those reports (of bodies) and are closely monitoring the situation. At this time we have no further comment.” Andrade Ramírez, the chief state prosecutor, said evidence found with the abandoned tents was linked to three people who had been arrested on charges of a crime equivalent to kidnapping. It was unclear if they might face more charges. Milenio reported that she said the suspects appeared to have stolen the surfers’ truck and some of its parts were found in another truck belonging to one of the suspects. Ga. election indictment: A California man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Atlanta for sending death threats to District Attorney Fani Willis, who is overseeing the prosecution of former President Donald Trump and 18 others on charges of illegally trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Marc Shultz, 66, of Chula Vista, is facing charges of transmitting interstate threats to injure Willis. Prosecutors said Shultz posted comments to YouTube livestream videos in October 2023 that threatened Willis, including that the prosecutor “will be killed like a dog.” “Sending death threats to a public official is a criminal offense that will not be tolerated,” Ryan Buchanan, the U.S. attorney in Atlanta, said in a statement Friday. The April 24 indictment was unsealed Thursday. A federal public defender listed as representing Shultz didn’t immediately return emails seeking comment. Records show that Shultz appeared before a judge Thursday in San Diego and was released on bail. Buchanan said Shultz would be formally arraigned in June in Atlanta. Germany political violence: A candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s centerleft party in next month’s election for the European Parliament was beaten and seriously injured while campaigning in an eastern city, the party said Saturday. The incident raised political tension in Germany ahead of the polls and came as Europe’s center left urged the center right to not cooperate with far-right parties expected to win more seats in the European Parliament. Matthias Ecke, a candidate for the Social Democrats, was attacked Friday while putting up posters in Dresden. The party said he was taken to a hospital and required surgery for his injuries. Police said the 41-yearold was beaten by four men, and the same group had apparently attacked a Green Party worker minutes before on the same street. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, also a Social Democrat, said that if it’s proven that the assault on Ecke was politically motivated, it would represent “a serious attack on democracy.” Government and opposition parties say their members and supporters have faced a wave of physical and verbal attacks in recent months, and have called on police to step up protection for politicians and election rallies. Many of the incidents have taken place in the formerly communist east of the country, where Scholz’s government is deeply unpopular. Fatal Wis. shooting: A student who was killed by police outside a Wisconsin school pointed a pellet rifle at officers and had refused to drop the weapon, authorities said Saturday. The state Department of Justice released few other details, three days after the shooting at Mount Horeb Middle School in Mount Horeb, 25 miles west of Madison, the state capital. The student, whose name and age have not been officially released, did not get into the school. No one else was physically injured, but the school was on lockdown for hours Wednesday. “Officers directed the subject to drop the weapon,” described as a Ruger .177-caliber pellet rifle, “but the subject did not comply,” the Department of Justice said Saturday. “The subject pointed the weapon at the officers, after which law enforcement discharged their firearms, striking the subject. Lifesaving measures were deployed but the subject died on scene.” New Spacey allegations: Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey has denied new allegations of inappropriate behavior from men who will feature in a documentary on British television and stream on Max in the U.S. In an online interview with journalist Dan Wootton, Spacey said he has never done anything illegal and admitted that he has struggled to get back to work after being acquitted last year of criminal charges in a London court. “I can’t go through this again, allowing myself to be baselessly attacked without defending myself,” he said in the interview, “Kevin Spacey: Right of Reply,” which aired late Friday on Wootton’s YouTube channel. A London jury acquitted Spacey in July on sexual assault charges stemming from allegations by four men dating back 20 years. The documentary “Spacey Unmasked” is said to feature testimony from men regarding events between 1976 and 2013, the actor said during the interview. South Sudan food aid: An appeal last week from the United Nations has prompted South Sudan to remove recently imposed taxes and fees that triggered suspension of U.N. food airdrops. The taxes, introduced in February, were charges for electronic cargo tracking, security escort fees and fuel. The U.N. said the new taxes would have increased the mission’s monthly operational costs to $399,000. In its announcement Friday, the government said it was keeping charges on services rendered by firms contracted by the U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan. There was no comment from the U.N. on when the airdrops, which feed more than 16,300 people every month, would resume. NEWS BRIEFING Mexico says 3 bodies recovered from well likely missing surfers May the Fourth be with you: Costumed fans line up for a parade Saturday as they take part in Star Wars Day in Manila. The unofficial holiday, celebrated annually May 4, commemorates filmmaker George Lucas’ sci-fi creation. 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By Christina A. Cassidy Associated Press ATLANTA — It was Election Day last November, and one of Georgia’s top election officials saw that reports of a voting machine problem in an eastern Pennsylvania county were gaining traction online. So Gabriel Sterling, a Republican who had defended the 2020 election in Georgia amid an onslaught of threats, posted a message to his nearly 71,000 followers on X, formerly Twitter, explaining what had happened and saying that all votes would be counted correctly. He faced immediate criticism from one commenter about why he was weighing in on another state’s election; other responses reiterated false claims about widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election. “It’s still the right thing to do,” Sterling told a gathering the next day, stressing the importance of Republican officials speaking up to defend elections. “We have to be prepared to say over and over again, ‘Other states are doing it different than us, but they are not cheating.’  ” Sterling, the chief operating officer for the Georgia secretary of state’s office, is part of an effort begun after the last presidential election that seeks to bring together Republican officials who are willing to defend the country’s election systems and the people who run them. They want officials to reinforce the message that elections are secure and accurate, an approach they say is especially important as the country heads toward another divisive presidential contest. The group has held meetings in several states, with more planned before the Nov. 5 election. With six months to go before the likely rematch between Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican former President Donald Trump, concerns are running high among election officials that public distrust of voting and ballot counting persists, particularly among Republicans. Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, continues to sow doubts about the 2020 presidential election and is warning his followers — without citing any evidence — that Democrats will try to cheat in this one. Last month during a campaign rally in Michigan, Trump repeated his false claim that Democrats rigged the 2020 election. “But we’re not going to allow them to rig the presidential election,” he said. Just 22% of Republicans expressed high confidence that votes will be counted accurately in November, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll last year. “It’s an obligation on Republicans’ part to stand up for the defense of our system because our party — there’s some blame for where we stand right now,” said Kentucky’s secretary of state, Michael Adams, who is part of the group and won reelection last year. “But it’s also strategically wise for Republicans to say, ‘Hey Republicans, you can trust this. Don’t stay at home.’ ” The effort, which began about 18 months ago, is coordinated by the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and the centerright think tank R Street Institute. The goal has been to start conversations about trust in elections, primarily among conservative officials, and to develop a set of principles to accomplish that. “This has never been and will never be about Trump specifically,” said Matt Germer, director of governance for R Street Institute and a lead organizer of the effort. “It’s about democratic principles at a higher level — what does it mean to be a conservative who believes in democracy, the rule of law?” He said an aim is to have a structure in place to support election officials who might find themselves in situations like that of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in 2020, when he supported Trump but rejected false claims that the election was stolen. Prosecutors in Georgia have since charged Trump and others, alleging a plot to overturn the results. Trump has pleaded not guilty. “You can be a Republican and you can believe in all the Republican ideas without having to say the election was stolen,” Germer said. A guiding principle for the group is that Republican officials should “publicly affirm the security and integrity of elections across the U.S. and avoid actively fueling doubt about elections in other jurisdictions.” Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Republican who has raised questions about the way elections are run in other states, criticized what he called “activist lawsuits” and state officials who seek to change voting rules previously set by legislators. “The things that happen in other states that go wrong are not the result of some cloak-and-dagger, secretive cabal conspiracy,” he said. “That’s the far-fetched stuff that makes for great YouTube videos and what have you. But the real things that go wrong in other states are out in the open, are in full public view.” Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, a Republican who is the state’s top election official and has been participating in the group’s discussions, said avoiding criticism of other states and vouching for the legitimacy of election procedures is important for another reason: It can help reduce the threats and harassment directed toward election workers. A recent survey by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s Law School found that nearly 40% of local election officials had experienced such abuse. It’s caused many to leave their jobs. Of 29 clerks in Utah, Henderson said 20 are new since 2020 and nine have never overseen an election. GOP group defends US elections ‘Obligation’ to push back on conspiracy theories and lies Georgia elections official Gabriel Sterling, right, and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger prepare to testify June 21, 2022, at a congressional hearing in Washington on the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. TOM WILLIAMS/CQ-ROLL CALL Associated Press Russia has put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on its wanted list, Russian state media reported Saturday, citing the interior ministry’s database. As of Saturday afternoon, both Zelenskyy and his predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, featured on the ministry’s list of people wanted on unspecified criminal charges. The commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, Gen. Oleksandr Pavlyuk, was also on the list. Russian officials did not immediately clarify the allegations against any of the men. Mediazona, an independent Russian news outlet, claimed Saturday that both Zelenskyy and Poroshenko had been listed since at least late February. In an online statement published that same day, Ukraine’s foreign ministry dismissed the reports of Zelenskyy’s inclusion as evidence of “the desperation of the Russian state machine and propaganda.” Russia’s wanted list also includes scores of officials and lawmakers from Ukraine and NATO countries. Among them is Kaja Kallas, the prime minister of NATO and EU member Estonia, who has fiercely advocated for increased military aid to Kyiv and stronger sanctions against Moscow. Russian officials in February said that Kallas is wanted because of Tallinn’s efforts to remove Soviet-era monuments to Red Army soldiers in the Baltic nation, in a belated purge of what many consider symbols of past oppression. Fellow NATO members Latvia, Lithuania and Poland have also pulled down monuments widely seen as an unwanted legacy of the Soviet occupation of those countries. Russia has laws criminalizing the “rehabilitation of Nazism” that include punishing the “desecration” of war memorials. Also on Russia’s list are cabinet ministers from Estonia and Lithuania, as well as the International Criminal Court prosecutor who last year prepared a warrant for President Vladimir Putin on war crimes charges. Moscow has also charged the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, with what it deems “terrorist” activities, including Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian infrastructure. The Kremlin has repeatedly sought to link Ukraine’s leaders to Nazism, even though the country has a democratically elected Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust, and despite the aim of many Ukrainians to strengthen the country’s democracy, reduce corruption and move closer to the West. Moscow named “deNazification, de-militarization and a neutral status” of Ukraine as the key goals of what it insists on calling a “special military operation” against its southern neighbor. The Holocaust, World War II and Nazism have been important tools for Putin in his bid to legitimize Russia’s war in Ukraine. World War II, in which the Soviet Union lost an estimated 27 million people, is a linchpin of Russia’s national identity, and officials bristle at any questioning of the USSR’s role. WAR IN UKRAINE Ukrainian leader Zelenskyy put on Russia’s ‘wanted’ list Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, now charged by Russia with unspecified crimes, inspects fortifications April 9 in the Kharkiv region. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS OFFICE By Pan Pylas Associated Press LONDON — Sadiq Khan, the Labour Party’s mayor of London, romped to victory Saturday, securing a record third straight term at City Hall on another hugely disappointing day for the U.K.’s governing Conservatives ahead of a looming general election. Khan won a little over a million votes, or nearly 44% of the vote, more than 11 percentage points ahead of his main challenger, the Conservative Party’s Susan Hall. His is the biggest individual mandate of any politician in the U.K. There had been frenzied speculation Friday that the result would be closer than previously thought, but Khan’s victory showed a swing from Conservative to Labour when compared with the previous mayoral election in 2021, even though that was conducted under a different electoral system. Khan, who succeeded Boris Johnson as London mayor in 2016 and has widespread policing and budget powers, has been an increasingly divisive figure in the past few years regardless of the facts for or against, particularly in the suburbs, where he fared worse than in the inner city. His supporters say he has multiple achievements to his name, such as expanding housebuilding, free school meals for young children, keeping transport costs in check and generally backing London’s minority groups. His critics say he has overseen a crime surge, been anti- car and has unnecessarily allowed pro-Palestinian marches to become a regular weekend feature. “We faced a campaign of nonstop negativity, but I couldn’t be more proud that we answered the fear-mongering with facts, hate with hope, and attempts to divide with efforts to unite,” Khan said at the declaration of the final result. Among the candidates standing behind him was Count Binface, his head covered by a garbage can, a regular colorful presence in British elections. “We ran a campaign that was in keeping with the spirit and values of this great city, a city that regards our diversity not as a weakness, but as an almighty strength, and one that rejects right hard-wing populism and looks forward, not back,” Khan said. The Labour mayors in Liverpool, Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire were reelected. For Labour, arguably the best result was in the West Midlands, widely regarded as the U.K.’s key bellwether region, where the Conservative incumbent lost. The latest successes come a day after Labour seized control of councils across England that it hasn’t held for decades. The party was also successful in a special election for a seat in Parliament, that if translated to a general election would lead to one of the Conservatives’ biggest defeats. Although the Conservatives suffered a drubbing in the local elections, it looks as though Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will not face a further rebellion from within his ranks. Sunak was able to breathe a sigh of relief when the Conservative mayor of Tees Valley in the northeast of England was reelected, albeit with a depressed share of the vote. One negative for Labour was that its vote in strongly Muslim areas in England was depressed by opposition to the party leadership’s strongly pro-Israel stance over the war in Gaza. Labour leader Keir Starmer conceded that the party has had issues with Muslim voters, but the results in general were positive for the man who is favorite to become prime minister at the next general election. Sunak has the power to decide the date of the next election and has indicated that it will be in the second half of 2024. Starmer urged him not to wait. “We’re fed up with your division, with your chaos, with your failure,” he said Saturday. “If you leave your country in a worse state than when you found it, 14 years later, you do not deserve to be in government a moment longer.” Other parties, such as the centrist Liberal Democrats and the Greens, also made gains. Reform U.K., which is trying to usurp the Conservatives from the right, had some successes, notably in the special parliamentary election in Blackpool South. More pain for Conservatives in London mayor’s reelection The Labour Party’s Sadiq Khan makes a speech Saturday at London City Hall after votes were counted, giving him a record third straight term as mayor. ALASTAIR GRANT/AP Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 3

By Allen G. Breed and Jocelyn Gecker Associated Press In a way, the black-andwhite Palestinian scarf draped over Hannah Sattler’s shoulders last week and the tie-dyed T-shirts of 1968 are woven from a common thread. Like so many college students across the country protesting the Israel-Hamas war, Sattler feels the historic weight of the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations of the 1960s and ’70s. “They always talked about the ’68 protest as sort of a North Star,” said Sattler, 27, a graduate student of international human rights policy at Columbia University in New York. “Even the choice to take over Hamilton Hall was always the plan from the start of the encampment,” she said. “Not only because it just made a lot of sense logistically, but it also has that ... strong historical connection with the ’60s protests.” Still, although it might be tempting to compare the nationwide campus protests to the anti-Vietnam War movement, Robert Cohen says that would be an overreaction. “I would say that this is the biggest, in the United States, in the 21st century,” said Cohen, a professor of history and social studies at New York University. “But you could say, ‘Well, that’s like being the tallest building in Wichita, Kansas.’ ” There have been no bombings, like the one in August 1970 at the University of Wisconsin that killed a postdoctoral researcher and did $6 million worth of damage. There has been no repeat of the infamous Kent State massacre of May 1970, when National Guard troops opened fire on protesters at the Ohio campus, killing four. Police have cleared encampments and made more than 2,300 arrests, and some, like the crackdown Thursday at UCLA, have involved clashes. A police officer involved in clearing Columbia’s Hamilton Hall of protesters Tuesday discharged his gun inside the building. But demonstrations elsewhere have been peaceful and even led to agreements with administrators to address students’ demands. Yet, to some, there is a feeling that the situation is just a hair-trigger moment away from tragedy, says Mark Naison, who took part in the sometimes-violent protests at Columbia in 1968. “People are terrified,” said Naison, a professor of history and African & African American Studies at nearby Fordham University. In many ways, this does feel like the America of what Cohen calls “the long ’60s.” In September 1970, barely five months after the Kent State tragedy, the President’s Commission on Campus Unrest delivered to President Richard Nixon a “Letter to the American People.” “This crisis has roots in divisions of American society as deep as any since the Civil War,” the panel wrote. “The divisions are reflected in violent acts and harsh rhetoric and in the enmity of those Americans who see themselves as occupying opposing camps.” Watching the gyre of emotions on campuses from Connecticut to California, those words feel as if they could have been written this past week. But Cohen says emotions — and sheer numbers — are nowhere near the levels they reached at the height of the Vietnam era. “Look. NYU was one of the first campuses to mobilize,” he said. “Maybe there’s 200 students — maybe. There are 30,000 (undergraduate) students at NYU, right?” Another difference that has struck observers is the quick crackdown by campus authorities. In 1968, students occupied Columbia’s Hamilton Hall for nearly a week before authorities moved in. The bust — when it finally came — saw more than 700 arrested. “It’s funny because Columbia is very proud of ... Columbia students’ history of activism,” said Ilana Gut, a senior at the university’s sister school, Barnard College. “So their attitudes toward the modern-day activists, at least in the eyes of protesters, is very ironic.” Robert Korstad, who protested in the 1960s and is now a professor emeritus of public policy at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, does see comparisons. Then, as now, they were protesting a war. And now, in addition, students have felt pervasive conflict, said Korstad, with the country’s rash of mass shootings and the killing of George Floyd by Minnesota police in 2020. “I’m really thinking about what’s motivating these young people and what they’ve grown up with and thinking about over their short lifetime,” he said. Another difference between then and now, says Jack Radey, is the lack of respect on campuses for differing views. Radey was a 17-year-old activist during the original Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley. He says today’s students have succeeded in amplifying the Palestinian cause, but, in some cases, at the cost of civility. “We did not look on those students who had not joined the free-speech movement as idiots or traitors, but as people we needed to convince,” said Radey, president of the movement’s archives. “You don’t do that by violence or with superheated rhetoric.” With such widespread support for Israel, Cohen says, major changes at most campuses are unlikely. “This is not an American war, except the Americans are, their firepower is being used by the Israelis,” he said. “It’s different when you have American troops there and you might be drafted.” Protests not on scale of past unrest Pro-Palestinian protesters block the entrance to a building Wednesday at UCLA. More than 2,300 activists have been arrested nationwide. ETHAN SWOPE/AP College experts say comparisons to ’60s, ’70s an overreaction By Jenna Russell The New York Times LITTLETON, N.H. — Few were present at the select board meeting in Littleton, New Hampshire, in August when Carrie Gendreau, one of its members, began to talk about a mural that had recently been painted on the side of a building downtown. Until that moment, it had not attracted much attention. Its subject matter — a blooming iris, dandelions, birch trees — did not seem controversial. But for Gendreau, 62, who was also a state senator representing northern New Hampshire, the mural had set off alarms. She was certain there were subversive messages in its imagery, planted there by the nonprofit group that had planned and paid for it. The group was North Country Pride, founded four years ago to build more visible support for LGBTQ+ people in the rural region. “We need to be very careful,” Gendreau said at the meeting. She urged residents to “research” what the mural “really means,” and called for closer oversight of other public art. “I don’t want that to be in our town,” she said. Long before Gendreau raised her concerns, igniting an uprising against her, people in Littleton knew they did not all think alike. Half had voted for Joe Biden in 2020; half supported then-President Donald Trump. Still, they thought they had an understanding: that they would do their best to get along, often by keeping their politics or religious beliefs to themselves. As word spread about Gendreau’s comments, many in the town of 6,000 saw them as a jarring break in protocol. “I was friends with Carrie,” said Kerri Harrington, an acupuncturist who had followed local government and respected Gendreau’s diligent work on the board. “I knew our politics were different, I knew she was religious, but there are a lot of religious people here.” “This was the first time I realized she had that agenda,” Harrington said. Gendreau, an evangelical Christian who said she got calls from as far away as Australia denouncing her in profane language after news outlets reported on her comments, clung to her convictions. “I told them, ‘I hope God opens your vision,’ ” she said of her detractors. “I told them, ‘I love you, and I don’t want to fight back.’ ” Harrington, 52, had helped start North Country Pride and served as one of its leaders. The group had built on the area’s long-standing reputation as a welcoming destination for gay travelers. Her first instinct was to reach out to Gendreau. When they met to talk about the mural, she said, Gendreau urged her to read a book, “The Return of the Gods,” by doomsday evangelist Jonathan Cahn. It warns of America’s descent into evil, citing gay rights as an example of moral decay. The book helped her see why Gendreau was upset, Harrington said. And it left her deeply worried about what might come next. As in other small towns across the country, the people of Littleton had found a way to coexist despite their differences — at times by avoiding topics likely to divide them. Now, the divide was front and center. Before she made the comments that plunged Littleton into tumult, Gendreau had occasionally injected her religious faith into municipal business. When the board hired Jim Gleason as town manager in 2021, he was startled by the words she used to offer him the job. “God wants you in Littleton,” he recalled her saying. Not long after that, Gendreau began starting select board meetings with a prayer. It had not been easy for Gleason to leave his home in Florida. His wife of 44 years, a teacher nearing retirement, had stayed behind. They were still grieving the loss of their oldest son, Patrick, who died of pancreatitis at age 35 in 2016. Gleason had embraced his son when he came out as gay at 16. He had never expected open homophobia from elected leaders in New Hampshire. Soon after Gendreau’s remarks about the mural, residents began flooding the local paper with angry letters. A local bank asked her to resign from its board of directors, she said, pointing to the “hurt” she had caused; she complied. Encouraged by North Country Pride to raise their voices, hundreds of people showed up to condemn Gendreau’s views at select board meetings in September and October. Many hoped she might apologize, or step down from the select board — or that the other two board members would publicly reject her views. Instead, they said little, and Gendreau doubled down. In October, in an interview with The Boston Globe, Gendreau called homosexuality an “abomination.” She also spoke out against a well-known musical about a gay couple, “La Cage aux Folles,” being staged at the Littleton Opera House by a local theater group. When a woman walked into Littleton’s town hall in October, echoing Gendreau’s concerns about the production and asking what would be done to stop it, Gleason did not mince words. Nothing, he replied — the play was protected by the First Amendment. “She said, ‘What about my free speech?’ ” Gleason recalled. “And I said, ‘The way you protest is, don’t buy a ticket.’ ” Gendreau said she knew, when she first criticized the mural, that most people would not understand — that the iris was a dangerous symbol because Iris was the Greek goddess of the rainbow; that children needed protection from demonic forces threatening to lead them astray. Jordan Applewhite, a transgender 40-year-old, had moved to the area four years ago and transformed a former oil change shop on the edge of downtown Littleton into a lively, LGBTQ+-friendly dive bar, forging ties with a diverse community that seemed to easily set aside differences. “What was at stake was who we are as a town,” Applewhite said of what had happened. By January, after weeks of reflection, Harrington decided to run for Gendreau’s seat on the select board. Applewhite signed on as her campaign adviser. Together, they made a plan to emphasize unity and a commitment to represent everyone in the community. (Gleason, the town manager, resigned the same month.) The deadline for Gendreau to file for reelection came and went. After prayer and reflection, she said in an interview, she had concluded that God did not want her to remain on the select board. On Election Day, in midMarch, Harrington easily won the open seat. The townspeople also voted to expand the select board from three seats to five next year, a change sought to add diversity, and limit individual influence, in the aftermath of the discord. Gendreau said she has no regrets: “I would rather speak out and risk persecution than say nothing and see people end up in hell.” How one reaction to a mural tore town apart Carrie Gendreau, a New Hampshire state senator and former select board member in Littleton, New Hampshire, made comments about a mural last year that has set off a conflagration in the town. JOHN TULLY/THE NEW YORK TIMES PHOTOS LGBTQ nonprofit’s art exposes divisions among its residents One of the three murals in Littleton commissioned by North Country Pride. 4 Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Sunday, May 5, 2024

By Tom Krisher Associated Press On a three-lane test track in Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River, an 18- wheel tractor-trailer rounded a curve. No one was on board. A quarter-mile ahead, the truck’s sensors spotted a trash can blocking one lane and a tire in another. In less than a second it signaled, then moved into the unobstructed lane and rumbled past the obstacles. The self-driving semi, outfitted with 25 laser, radar and camera sensors, is owned by Pittsburgh-based Aurora Innovation. Late this year, Aurora plans to start hauling freight on Interstate 45 between the Dallas and Houston areas with 20 driverless trucks. Within three or four years, Aurora and its competitors expect to put thousands such self-driving trucks on America’s freeways. The goal is for the trucks, which can run nearly around the clock without any breaks, to speed the flow of goods, accelerating delivery times and perhaps lowering costs. They’ll travel short distances on secondary roads, too. The companies say the autonomous trucks will save on fuel, too, because they will drive at more consistent speeds. Also, Aurora says its testing has shown that if a maintenance issue arises while one of its trucks is traveling on a freeway, the vehicle will automatically pull to the side of the road and remotely call for assistance. The image of a fully loaded, 80,000-pound driverless truck weaving around cars on a busy highway at 65 mph or more may strike a note of terror. A poll conducted in January by AAA found that a majority of American drivers — 66% — said they would fear riding in an autonomous vehicle. But in less than nine months, a seven-year science experiment by Aurora will end, and driverless trucks will start carrying loads between terminals for FedEx, Uber Freight, Werner and other partners. Aurora and most of its rivals plan to start running freight routes in Texas, where snow and ice are generally rare. Real-life situations For years, it seemed as though the initial venture for autonomous vehicles would be ride-hailing in large cities. But General Motors’ Cruise robotaxi unit is struggling in the aftermath of a serious crash. And Alphabet’s Waymo faces opposition to expanding its autonomous ride service in California. The result is that self-driving trucks are poised to become the first computer-controlled vehicles deployed in widespread numbers on public roads. The vehicles have drawn skepticism from safety advocates, who warn that with almost no federal regulation, it will be mainly up to the companies themselves to determine when the semis are safe enough to operate without humans on board. The critics complain that federal agencies, including the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, take a generally passive approach to safety, typically acting only after crashes occur. And most states provide scant regulation. But Aurora and other companies that are developing the systems argue that years of testing show that their trucks will be safer than human-driven ones. They note that the vehicles’ laser and radar sensors can “see” farther than human eyes can. The trucks never tire, as human drivers do. They never become distracted or impaired by alcohol or drugs. “We want to be out there with thousands or tens of thousands of trucks on the road,” said Chris Urmson, Aurora’s CEO and formerly head of Google’s autonomous-vehicle operations. “And to do that, we have to be safe. It’s the only way that the public will accept it. Frankly, it’s the only way our customers will accept it.” Phil Koopman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who studies vehicle automation safety, said he agreed that self-driving trucks can theoretically be safer than human-driven ones — for the very reason that they lack drivers who might become distracted or impaired. But he cautioned that the vehicles’ computers inevitably will make errors. And just how the trucks will fare in real-world situations, he said, will depend on the quality of their safety engineering. With billions of dollars in investments at stake, Koopman said, he wonders how the companies will balance safety decisions against cost concerns. “Everything I see indicates they’re trying to do the right thing,” he said. “But the devil is in the details.” 3 minor crashes On the test track, reporters saw Aurora’s semis avoid simulations of road obstacles, including pedestrians, a blown tire, even a horse. But the trucks were running at only 35 mph in a controlled environment with nothing unexpected happening. (The trucks are being tested with human safety drivers on Texas freeways at speeds of 65 mph or higher.) On the track, the trucks spotted obstacles more than a quarter-mile away and acted immediately to avoid them. Urmson said the trucks’ laser sensors can detect people walking on a highway at night, far beyond the distance of headlights. Since 2021, Aurora trucks have autonomously hauled freight over 1 million miles on public highways — but with human safety drivers in the cabs. There have been only three crashes, Urmson said, all of them caused by mistakes by human drivers in other vehicles. The crashes were minor, with no injuries. In each case, the company said, the Aurora truck was able to safely pull to the side of the road. A federal database that started in June 2021 shows at least 13 crashes with other vehicles involving autonomous semis, including three involving Aurora. In all the cases, the crashes were caused by other vehicles changing lanes or rear-ending the trucks. Sometimes, human safety drivers took over just before the crash. Aurora won’t compromise safety, Urmson said, even if ensuring it might delay the timetable for achieving a profit. “If we put a vehicle on the road that isn’t sufficiently safe — that we aren’t confident in the safety of — then it kills everything else,” he said. In March, when Urmson displayed the trucks to Wall Street analysts in Pittsburgh, he said the publicly held company expects to turn a profit by late 2027 or early 2028. To meet that goal, Aurora must succeed in putting thousands of the trucks on the roads, hauling freight from terminal to terminal and collecting a per-mile charge from customers. The company’s competitors — Plus.ai, Gatik, Kodiak Robotics and others — also aim to soon put driverless trucks on the roads hauling freight for customers. Gatik expects it to happen this year or next; the others haven’t set timetables. Don Burnette, CEO of Kodiak, said freeways are a better environment for autonomous vehicles than congested cities where ride-hailing robotaxis have been running. There are fewer pedestrians, and fewer unexpected things happen. Still, there are higher speeds and longer braking distances. In testing on highways with human backup drivers, Burnette said, Kodiak has never experienced a crash in which its trucks were at fault. “At the end of the day,” he said, “these trucks should be much safer than human drivers.” Public still skeptical Almost every year in the United States, a tractor-trailer plows into traffic that is stopped because of road construction, often causing deaths and injuries. By contrast, Burnette said, autonomous trucks pay attention all the time and are always watching 360 degrees. But at a Buc-ee’s mega convenience store and gas station along I-45 about 35 miles south of Dallas, the prospect of driverless semis struck a note of fear. “It sounds like a disaster waiting to happen,” said Kent Franz, a high school basketball coach in Chandler, Oklahoma, who was traveling to Houston for a wedding. “I’ve heard of the driverless cars — Tesla, what have you — and the accidents they’ve been having. Eighteen-wheelers? Something that heavy, relying on technology that has proven it can be faulty? Doesn’t sound very comfortable to me.” Patti Pierce, a retired accountant from Plano, Texas, said she would be OK with the technology — in about a decade. “I don’t want to be on the road with them right now,” she said. “I like the gadgets in my car, but I’m not sure the technology is good enough right now to have a truck that drives itself.” No federal regulations cover autonomous vehicles, Koopman noted. Most states have no such regulations, either. Koopman said the automatedvehicle industry has persuaded many states to bar local governments from enacting such regulations. The result, he said, is that the public must trust the companies that are deploying autonomous semis. The NHTSA and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, both part of the federal Department of Transportation, lack authority to stop autonomous vehicles from going on the roads. If something goes wrong, though, they can require recalls or order trucks out of service. “You can’t expect the government to protect you here,” Koopman said. “The company’s going to decide when they think they’re safe, and the only thing the regulator is going to do is judge them after the fact.” For the past five years, the motor carrier administration has been preparing safety rules for trucks with automated driving systems. The standards will govern inspections, maintenance and the remote monitoring of the trucks. But it’s unclear when the rules will emerge from the regulatory process. In the meantime, the autonomous-semi companies say they can help address a driver shortage, estimated by the industry to amount to 64,000 people. Yet there also are worries that autonomous trucks eventually will supplant human drivers and cost them their livelihoods. The Teamsters union, which represents about 600,000 drivers, most of them truckers, is pushing state legislatures to require human drivers to monitor the self- driving systems, contending that they are unsafe. A 2021 Transportation Department study concluded that the nationwide use of fully automated semis was years away, giving drivers time to transition to other transportation and logistics jobs. Urmson said he thinks driverless semis will complement the work done by human drivers because many more goods will have to be moved for a growing population. “If you’re driving a truck today,” he said, “my expectation is, you’re going to be able to retire driving a truck.” Coming to a road near you The inside of an Aurora self-driving big rig cab is outfitted with 25 laser, radar and camera sensors. A self-driving tractor-trailer maneuvers around a test track March 14 in Pittsburgh. Aurora Innovation Inc. plans to roll out 20 driverless semis on Interstate 45 in Texas. GENE J. PUSKAR/AP PHOTOS 20 driverless trucks to roll onto an interstate soon — and that’s just the beginning. Thousands of semis might be around the corner TRANSPORTATION Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 5

Your guide tomanagingmoney,work and the business oflife SUCCESS Jill Schlesinger Jill on Money What will it take for you to retire comfortably? For years, people would contact me to help them figure out their “number,” as if there were one, magic number that anybody could use. A recent oft-quoted survey from Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance tried to boil the results down to one number and (drum roll, please) it is $1.46 million, up “a whopping 53% from the $951,000 target Americans reported in 2020.” Obviously, the survey result number is much higher than the median ($86,900) or mean ($333,940) amount of money held in a retirement account, according to the Federal Reserve. It is unclear how respondents determined their numbers. My guess is that they had $1 million in their heads and then tried to factor in inflation and longer life expectancy to come up with some number that vaguely resembled their specific number. To help remove the guesswork, here are the steps you should use to help crunch your retirement numbers. You can do this on your own, in consultation with one of the many retirement calculators provided by financial institutions. If you are not a do-it-yourselfer, then work with a certified financial planner. But either way, you are going to have to do some of the work. The hardest part is the simplest: Calculate how much money you spend on a monthly basis. There, I said it. Regardless of how much money you earn or have saved, all financial planning starts at the same place: determining your monthly income needs in the future. The way to get there is to start with where you are today. Include the basics like housing, food, utilities, insurance, health care. Then tally up the fun stuff, like gym or club memberships, dining out, vacations. Don’t forget to add in any expenses related to ongoing obligations you have toward others, like aging parents, adult kids or helping out with grandchildren. The monthly need will be reduced by any income you anticipate receiving in retirement, including pensions, passive income from rental property or a trust, the income generated from your nest egg (savings, investments, retirement accounts) and, of course, the all-important Social Security benefit that you will claim. Before you ask me whether Social Security will be there for you, the answer is yes, I believe it will. Social Security is the most popular government program and despite political rhetoric about cutting it, what is more likely is that the system will change to bolster its finances. That could mean higher FICA taxes or perhaps a larger share of taxable earned income, in order to restore benefits to 100 percent of what has been promised, instead of the current numbers, which show that after 2033, the government will only be able to pay 77% of scheduled benefits. Back to your retirement calculations: For many of you, the output may be unnerving. You might find that living to 100 means that you are going to have to save more money. Or you may have to work longer, though not necessarily at the same thing. Many folks in their 40s find that they can transition to a different career or job in their 50s and 60s, one that will allow them to reach their goals with a little less stress. I call this an “offramp,” a way to slow down, without screeching to a dead halt. But you can only find that offramp if you put in some of the work up front. In other words: you can actually influence your “magic number,” but only if you stop guessing and start planning. Jill Schlesinger, CFP, is a CBS News business analyst. A former options trader and CIO of an investment advisory firm, she welcomes comments and questions at askjill@ jillonmoney.com. Check her website at www. jillonmoney.com. Each retirement has a number — so what’s yours? I asked what kind of family Amina wanted. She said, ‘A family like yours.’ That’s when I knew I had to adopt her. Denise, adopted 17-year-old Amina LEARN ABOUT ADOPTING A TEEN YOU CAN’T IMAGINE THE REWARD A D O P T U s k I D s . O R G DREAMSTIME By Sarah Lynch | Inc. I f you’re still struggling to hack hybrid and remote work, you’re not alone. Since millions of workers started working from home during the pandemic, companies have encountered noteworthy challenges, despite the apparent advantages of increased flexibility. A handful of studies show productivity declines in some work-from-home cases. Remote workers can feel more disconnected from work, and their ability to innovate and learn on the job can also suffer, according to other reports. “I think remote work is harder than in-person work,” says Rob Sadow, co-founder and CEO of the San Francisco-based hybrid work platform Scoop. “We’ve been operating where work is located in a place for all of history. … Hybrid work and remote work are relatively new.” But with more employers embracing remote work from the get-go and offering work location flexibility, leaders will need to confront the possible drawbacks. And the results are “sensitive to how well managed it is,” says Stanford economist and work-from-home expert Nick Bloom. Here are two key ways to constructively manage issues that could arise from leading a remote or hybrid team. Clarify connections to the mission, culture When workers are physically distant from their workplace, there’s a risk that they may grow mentally distant as well, says Jim Harter, chief workplace scientist at Gallup. This is evident in Gallup’s recent data: Employee engagement hit an 11-year low in the first quarter of this year, with fully remote workers driving a large part of that decline. Meanwhile, in 2023, only 28% of exclusively remote workers said they felt connected to their organization’s mission and purpose — the lowest share since 2011. Therefore, teams in a remote environment need to see and understand more clearly “the impact of their work on the goals of the organization and on the strategy,” says Jen Priem, senior principal in the HR practice at Gartner. RentRedi, a fully remote, Latham, New York-based property management software company, has instituted a virtual all-hands Monday meeting to help the entire team connect regularly, says Ryan Barone, co-founder and CEO. The approximately 50 team members incorporate unique Zoom backgrounds on a different theme every few weeks so they can all learn something new about each other. For instance, the latest theme was “something you’re looking forward to in spring or summer.” They also each share what they’re working on, which helps clarify how each person’s work fits into the “mission and vision of what we’re trying to achieve as a team,” Barone says. At UEGroup, the San Jose, Californiabased consulting company, the team tried numerous remote get-togethers and games in an attempt to “maintain the company’s culture and connection” during the pandemic, founder and CEO Tony Fernandes says. But people quickly got tired of them. Eventually, though, they landed on a winner: a biweekly “news show.” This team meeting mimics the structure of a typical newscast, Fernandes says, including weather reports from the different locations where the 20 or so UEGroup team members are based, a “weekly wisdom” segment where team members can share about a random topic of their choice (once it was about how to breed hamsters), and a “project spotlight.” In the latter segment, an individual or team describes in-depth a project they are working on. “Especially in a remote context, when you’re not running into people, you don’t happen to walk by their monitor and see something really cool and say, ‘Wow!’ ” Fernandes says, so this “acts as a surrogate for that kind of experience.” He says the news show been a “morale enhancer” for the company. Emphasize intentionality Remote work allows for more autonomy, but without the proper practices and “intentionality” in place, this approach can get a bit “chaotic,” Harter says. Indeed, some reports indicate that remote work can challenge communication as well as collaboration and innovation. Bloom notes that shortcomings are still particularly clear in hybrid meetings, even as technology has evolved: “People complain that ‘Look, if I’m remote, I’m getting left out.’ ” But the organizations that most successfully manage remote work “make a plan for how they work together most effectively,” Harter says. That might look like investing in better modes for asynchronous collaboration, Priem says — strengthening ways of remote working, specifically, instead of trying to apply practices from in-person work to remote environments. Collaboration was already a natural part of operations for Small Girls PR, a New York City-based communications firm, before the pandemic. But when the company went remote, and then ultimately hybrid, the team of 70-plus needed to embrace remote modes of collaboration “more wholeheartedly,” says Erica Mayyasi, managing director at the company. Thus, they formalized their Slack brainstorming process into “Slack storms” in a dedicated channel on the platform and instituted the use of new, asynchronous brainstorming documents over brainstorming meetings. For instance, in 2023, Taco Bell’s fight to free the “Taco Tuesday” trademark inspired a “Slack storm” as team members weighed in on how they could join the conversation with regard to one of their clients: Jack in the Box, a West Coast fastfood chain. This conversation then transitioned to a Google doc brainstorm, which produced a crystallized idea: filing for the trademark “Taco Tuesnights.” Within days, the team filed for the trademark, ultimately leading to 19 media placements, 448 million media impressions and a new discount series, according to a representative from Small Girls PR. “Not only did this result in significant press coverage — which, of course, for us as a PR agency is our KPI — but more importantly had actual business impact for the client,” Mayyasi says. But fostering intentional remote work can also involve empowering managers and training them on how to approach this kind of work with their team, Sadow says. And yet, Gallup data shows that 70% of managers say they don’t have formal training to lead a hybrid team. “That’s a conversation that managers didn’t really used to have to have,” Sadow says, and it involves figuring out how their team will check in, establish goals and collaborate while working remotely. “Managers have to now own that conversation and the culture of their team.” Get the most out of remote work teams Counter new paradigm’s distance, autonomy with management approaches 6 Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Sunday, May 5, 2024

SUCCESS In a recent column for InvestmentNews, IRA expert Ed Slott highlighted the potential problems of holding alternative assets in IRA accounts. He explained that in a recent case involving the estate of the late actor James Caan, several mistakes were made, resulting in approximately $1 million lost in taxes and penalties. The primary issue stemmed from the nature of assets within the IRA account. Caan had multiple IRA accounts, one of which contained hedge funds. Custodians must report the year-end valuation for all IRA accounts. However, valuing illiquid alternative assets within these accounts poses challenges. This is particularly problematic when a required minimum distribution (RMD) necessitates a yearend value. In Caan’s case, the custodian was unable to report to the IRS the year-end value of the IRA account with hedge fund assets. In addition, the financial adviser Caan was using left the firm that was holding Caan’s IRAs and convinced Caan to transfer some of his holdings to a new financial institution. However, because of the valuation problem, that account was not transferred to the new financial firm. Because the original custodian had not been able to obtain a year-end valuation of the IRA with hedge fund assets, the custodian made an “in-kind” distribution of the funds in the IRA to Caan and subsequently issued a 2015 1099-R listing its year-end 2013 value. Caan did not report the distribution as taxable income. In December 2016, long after the 60-day rollover deadline had passed, Caan requested the hedge fund liquidate his holding and rolled over the proceeds to the new custodian recommended by his adviser. The IRS notified Caan that he had an income tax deficiency for 2015 of approximately $780,000 because the hedge fund distribution was taxable, and assessed a penalty of approximately $156,000 for substantially underestimating his 2015 taxes. Caan asked the IRS in a private letter ruling to waive the penalty associated with the rollover, but the IRS did not waive the penalty, and an appeal to the tax court also failed. Caan died in 2022; his estate also tried to obtain a favorable tax appeal and failed. The tax court ruled that Caan’s attempted rollover did not work because it violated the “same property” rule that requires that the property distributed from the IRA must be the same property that is rolled over. Caan received a distribution from a hedge fund and rolled over cash. The judge also found that the rollover was not completed within the required 60-day time frame. Bottom line: It is ill-advised to hold illiquid alternative assets, such as real estate, in your IRA due to the challenges in obtaining a year-end valuation. Moreover, when transferring assets from one IRA into another, you must adhere to the same-property rule and finalize the transfer within 60 days. Noncompliance with these rules can result in taxation and penalties from the IRS, and tax courts are unlikely to be sympathetic in any appeals. For investments in illiquid alternatives, it is generally safer to invest through non-IRA accounts. Elliot Raphaelson welcomes your questions and comments at [email protected]. Holding alternative assets in IRAs is inviting trouble DREAMSTIME Elliot Raphaelson The Savings Game Terry Savage The Savage Truth What do you do if your IRS tax refund still hasn’t arrived? Now that the IRS has received most 2023 filings and should have sent your refund, it’s worth investigating. How to proceed depends on how you filed, who filed for you (such as an accounting firm, online tax prep service or tax preparer) and how you expected your refund to arrive. First, if you’re expecting an online refund deposit, carefully check your tax return to make sure you listed your banking information correctly. And check your bank statement online, which you’ve probably been doing regularly. If you used a tax preparation service, contact them first. Many services designate your refund to come back to THEIR account — and you might not have noticed that. Often, they say they will take their tax prep fees out of your refund — and this is their way of making sure they have access to the money. You might need to contact them to get your remaining refund. Check your return to see if the person who prepared it gave instructions that your anticipated refund instead be applied to next year’s taxes. Perhaps you missed that in the discussions. If, at this point, you’re still frustrated and have tried to call the IRS but can’t get through, here are some suggestions. Do them in this order. Where’s my refund?: Go to www.IRS. gov and in the search box put the term “where’s my refund.” That will take you to a page that explains that your refund information should be posted 24 hours after you e-file a current-year return, three or four days after you e-file a prior-year return, or four weeks after you file a paper return. Or go directly to www.IRS.gov/refunds. Click on the “search” button and you’ll be asked to input your Social Security number, tax year, filing status and the exact whole dollar refund amount shown on your tax return. When you click “submit,” you’ll get the latest status on your refund. If the refund is for the current (2023) filing, you can also call their specific tollfree number: 800-829-1954. If you see that your refund has been issued but you haven’t received it, you can start a “trace” to track it down. Office of Taxpayer Assistance: If you’ve followed the above steps and still can’t find your refund, it’s time to turn to the Office of Taxpayer Assistance. Go to www.IRS. gov and in the search box put in “taxpayer assistance.” That will lead you to the appropriately named Form 911. Taxpayer Advocate Service: The Taxpayer Advocate Service is a separate, independent organization within the IRS. It offers free help to guide you through the process of resolving tax problems. To reach the closest office (each state has at least one), enter “taxpayer advocate” in the www.IRS. gov search box. That leads you to a page explaining how the Taxpayer Advocate Service works and a search box that will give you the closest office. You can also call the service toll-free at 877-777-4778. Create an IRS.gov account: This littleknown process allows you to see exactly what’s going on in your “account” with the IRS. It’s what the IRS telephone reps turn to when answering your questions. To create your own IRS.gov account, go to www.IRS.gov/Account. The first thing you’ll see is a “Sign-In” box, which will be confusing since you don’t already have an account. Click anyway, and the next page will allow you the option to create an ID.me account via a secure service provider to the IRS. You’ll need your Social Security number as well as a government-issued picture ID. It’s worth the time to go through this process. The IRS may seem impenetrable. But if you use the technology correctly, you can get answers and help. And that’s the Savage Truth. Terry Savage is a registered investment adviser and the author of four bestselling books, including “The Savage Truth on Money.” Terry responds to questions on her blog at TerrySavage.com. Where’s my IRS refund? Here’s how to find it By Sandra Block Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Millions of Americans have little or no emergency savings, which leaves them without a cushion if their car breaks down, they fall ill or someone in their household is laid off. Now, though, a growing number of companies are making it easier for workers to set aside funds that will help them weather a financial crisis. The trend reflects an effort to address a major source of anxiety in the workforce that can affect productivity, absenteeism, turnover and other issues that influence a company’s bottom line. A survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute found that 47% of employees said not having enough money to cover emergencies was one of their top sources of financial stress. Only 40% of employees said they could handle an unexpected expense of $500, and just 20% said they could handle an unexpected expense of $5,000. Employers are adopting different approaches to help employees set up emergency accounts, typically through payroll deduction into a dedicated account. Fidelity Investments, a major provider of 401(k) plans, recently rolled out Goal Booster, which enables workers to deposit a small amount of money — $20 a week, for example — directly from their paychecks into an emergency account. The tool also allows employers to offer matching funds or other incentives that will encourage employees to save. Delta Air Lines employees who set up a Goal Booster account and complete a two- to three-hour financial education program will receive $750 to kick-start their savings. Delta will then match up to $250 of employees’ contributions to the account. Fidelity has signed up 10 large employers, including Starbucks and Whole Foods, and plans to add 24 more by the end of the year. Separately, the Consumer Federation of America is offering employers Split to Save (splittosave.org), a free resource they can use to set up automated savings accounts for their workers. SECURE Act 2.0, enacted in 2022, included a provision allowing employers that offer retirement plans to provide workers a special Roth account that can be tapped for emergencies. Eligible employees will be permitted to contribute up to $2,500 a year and take up to four tax- and penalty-free withdrawals a year. The IRS has provided guidance to employers on how to implement the accounts, but it likely will be a while before employers offer them because of the rules and recordkeeping involved. How much do you need? Whether you create an emergency savings account through your employer or on your own, you should endeavor to have enough money to cover several months’ worth of living expenses. If you’re the sole wage earner, you should have six to 12 months’ worth of expenses set aside. Dual-income households may be able to get away with three to six months of emergency reserves, although if both partners work in a sector that’s sensitive to economic downturns, you may need to save more. Your emergency fund should be invested in a low-risk account that’s immediately accessible because you never know when you’ll need the money. Employee benefits may help in emergencies DREAMSTIME How r SOURCE: Rashelle Isip, Inc. eframing your approach can help you be more productive Confidence breeds productivity. These thoughtful approaches will help you get things done and feel more confident in your work. Knowthyself This is one of the most underrated tips in the world of productivity. You can learn all the productivity tips, tools, tricks, and techniques in the world, but if you abhor planning with color-coded stickers and bristle at the thought of task batching, you won’t get very far in your work. Rather than choose productivity techniques at random, start at the beginning. What are your personal preferences when it comes to how you work? Do you work well in a noisy or quiet office? Are you partial to physical notebooks or note-taking apps? Do you like jumping from task to task or diving deep into a project? Respecting and honoring what you know to be true of yourself will be more useful to you in the long run than simply followingaproductivity approach on a whim. Expandanareaofexcellence We all have strengths and weaknesses in our professional and personal lives. While we tend to lean on our strengths, much can be gained by effectively shoring up our weaknesses. Why not expand that sense of confidence and competence in one area of your professional life to another? Make a brief inventory of your top strengths in your business. Next, identify your top weaknesses. How can you bridge the gap between the two and use your strengths to support your weaknesses in your daily routine? Consider all the ways you communicate, process information, relate to other people, generate ideas, and respond to emergencies. Which specific skills can be applied to creating your to-do list, creating a project management document, or running an effective meeting? Chances are you’ll uncover some interesting skills you can use. Transferhabits from yourhobbies What do you love to do in your spare time? Do you woodwork, dance, paint, run, read, or scrapbook? What activities do you enjoy working on for hours and hours at a time? You’re already confident in this area of your life, so why not use it to your advantage? There’sagood chance there’s some sort of system or method you use effortlessly in your hobbies that could be transferred to your work life. At a basic level, think about how you organize, manage, structure, or plan your hobbies. Which of these approaches could be transferred to your business in one way or another? How can you extract the essence of these habits into your daily workflow? Keep an open mind and see what you transfer to your business, courtesy of your time off. How r SOURCE: Rashelle Isip, Inc. eframing your approach can help you be more productive Confidence breeds productivity. These thoughtful approaches will help you get things done and feel more confident in your work. Knowthyself This is one of the most underrated tips in the world of productivity. You can learn all the productivity tips, tools, tricks, and techniques in the world, but if you abhor planning with color-coded stickers and bristle at the thought of task batching, you won’t get very far in your work. Rather than choose productivity techniques at random, start at the beginning. What are your personal preferences when it comes to how you work? Do you work well in a noisy or quiet office? Are you partial to physical notebooks or note-taking apps? Do you like jumping from task to task or diving deep into a project? Respecting and honoring what you know to be true of yourself will be more useful to you in the long run than simply followingaproductivity approach on a whim. Expandanareaofexcellence We all have strengths and weaknesses in our professional and personal lives. While we tend to lean on our strengths, much can be gained by effectively shoring up our weaknesses. Why not expand that sense of confidence and competence in one area of your professional life to another? Make a brief inventory of your top strengths in your business. Next, identify your top weaknesses. How can you bridge the gap between the two and use your strengths to support your weaknesses in your daily routine? Consider all the ways you communicate, process information, relate to other people, generate ideas, and respond to emergencies. Which specific skills can be applied to creating your to-do list, creating a project management document, or running an effective meeting? Chances are you’ll uncover some interesting skills you can use. Transferhabits from yourhobbies What do you love to do in your spare time? Do you woodwork, dance, paint, run, read, or scrapbook? What activities do you enjoy working on for hours and hours at a time? You’re already confident in this area of your life, so why not use it to your advantage? There’sagood chance there’s some sort of system or method you use effortlessly in your hobbies that could be transferred to your work life. At a basic level, think about how you organize, manage, structure, or plan your hobbies. Which of these approaches could be transferred to your business in one way or another? How can you extract the essence of these habits into your daily workflow? Keep an open mind and see what you transfer to your business, courtesy of your time off. Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 7

SUCCESS By Dawn Fallik Kiplinger’s Personal Finance To be a man in the 21st century is to live in a time of social changes and challenges — from medical issues to social connections to divorce rates — that deeply affect life in retirement or even the ability to retire. Older men today can experience a kind of psychic bifurcation. They came of age amid the social upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s, but their formative years were deeply planted in the traditional, patriarchal world of suburbs, segregation and sexual stereotyping. And as they aged, their roles in the family and society became less obvious. Retired, they no longer had jobs to define themselves. Their health deteriorated. Relationships outside the home frayed, and their positions in the family eroded as wives and grown children assumed greater responsibilities. The result: Men, who tend to die earlier than women, spend their time in retirement grappling with intensifying mental health issues and often find themselves with few friends or relationships outside their immediate families. “Men are basically stuck in the 1950s model of masculinity,” says Ronald Levant, 81, who has been studying the psychology of men for more than 40 years. For many years, he directed the Fatherhood Project at Boston University, helping men to become better fathers — something he learned when he retained partial custody of his daughter after his divorce. Men, particularly those in their 70s and 80s, spent a childhood with “Leave It to Beaver” and “Father Knows Best” as role models. Now that they are retired, they are seeing a life where women went through major social change — from single-digit employment in the 1950s to 50% of the labor force by 1985 — but for many men, their social world stood still. “For the first time, there were intergenerational conversations between mothers and aunts and daughters about changing roles and how to navigate gender in this new world,” Levant says. “Nothing like that occurred for men.” It has been a challenge, particularly for older men, to find new role models. While Ted Lasso may be a good fit for the younger generation of men, it’s challenging to find a role model for male retirement in 2024. In his books, such as “The Secrets Men Keep” and “Courageous Aging,” Ken Druck addresses the unwillingness of many men to discuss their struggles, from mental health to medical challenges to the social changes that happen with aging. But he thinks that things are starting to improve. Many men, he says, are learning to shed their expectations of “what it means to be a man” that they learned when they were children. “There are some men who did the work, worked on their relationships with women, and became aware of their own insecurities and what a ‘masculine’ behavior was, men who were interested in diversifying their portfolio of their identity and their sense of meaning and purpose,” he says. Why so many men are bad at retirement DREAMSTIME Here’s some data that may give parents pause before writing a fat check to cover the college tuition tab this fall. A survey by Sallie Mae, the educational financial services company, and its Ipsos research partner found that 1 in 4 current undergraduate students has seriously considered leaving college or has been at risk of dismissal. The report, based on a survey of about 1,500 students, reflects the ongoing financial toll being placed on students and parents from year after year of rising tuition costs, especially hurting students who are the first generation in their family to attend college. It’s hard to overstate the stakes. Financial pressures are causing more mental health issues among students, according to Sallie Mae’s “How America Completes College 2024.” Mental health challenges The survey found that nearly half of the respondents reported having mental health challenges, with 18% going as far as saying their mental health “was a primary barrier to college completion.” One other contributing factor to the dropout rate reflected changes in motivation toward choosing a career or field of study. That often means tacking on another year or two to graduate. “The research highlights that college can be a challenging experience for all students as they are learning to balance school, social and all their other responsibilities,” Jennifer Berg, vice president of Ipsos, said in a statement. “While facing these challenges, unfortunately mental health is taking a back seat for many students, particularly those who may not have the same support systems to help guide them through the new phase of their academic careers.” The good news: 64% of students surveyed said they were on a successful path toward earning a degree and had never considered leaving school, and 12% who had considered leaving but not seriously. Returning to college In addition, nearly half of those who drop out said they were planning to return to college in the next five years, while a third said they plan to “definitely” return to campus next year — perhaps older, wiser and more financially prepared. Other data points: „ About 60% of students at risk of not completing college come from low-income households. Adding to the stress, more than half of these at-risk students hold down a job and work more than 20 hours a week. „ At-risk students are nearly three times as likely to transfer schools and are more likely to come from diverse backgrounds. „ 62% of the students surveyed expect to graduate in a six-year time frame. „ 73% started college with an exact major or career path they want to pursue. Whatever your situation, endeavor to take as many courses in high school that offer dual college credits. This can save thousands of dollars in tuition, room and board. In addition, remember to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid to gain access to billions of dollars in loans, plus scholarships and grants that don’t need to be repaid. In addition, seeking opportunities to explore careers while in high school, utilizing career services and mentor networks available through the college, or taking advantage of early internship opportunities can motivate students to finish their degree, Sallie Mae said. Questions, comments, column ideas? Send an email to [email protected]. Many barriers to completion of college, so be well prepared Steve Rosen Kids & Money DREAMSTIME By Donna LeValley Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Q: What is auto liability insurance? A: Basically, liability coverage is the part of your auto insurance policy that pays for the other driver’s expenses if you cause a car accident. It does not, however, cover your own. There are two types of liability coverage: bodily injury and property damage. In some states, a third type of liability coverage called uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage is also required. Don’t forget that your property damage liability insurance won’t cover the cost of repairing your car if you’re in an accident. Also, your bodily injury liability insurance doesn’t cover your own medical bills if you’re injured in a collision. Instead, it covers the injuries or damage that you cause to another person in an accident. Liability coverage protects your financial well-being, not your body or your property. Q: What is covered by bodily injury liability insurance? A: Bodily injury liability coverage helps pay the costs for anyone who is injured in a car accident where you’re found liable. This may include a driver or passengers in another car, pedestrians or unrelated passengers in your own car. It covers medical expenses, compensation for lost wages and income, and legal fees. For instance, you run a red light, strike another car and injure the driver. Your liability coverage obliges the company to defend you — in court, if necessary — and pay claims to the other driver for vehicle damage and bodily injuries, including medical and hospital costs, rehabilitation, nursing care, and possibly lost income and money for pain and suffering. Q: What is covered by property damage liability insurance? A: Property damage liability coverage helps pay for damage you cause to another person’s vehicle or property. If you hit someone else’s car, front porch or mailbox with your car, property damage liability coverage may help pay to repair their property. Fewer states require uninsured/underinsured motorist insurance but it’s in your and your passengers’ best interests to think seriously about buying this coverage. Unlike liability insurance, this coverage can help pay your expenses. It covers your injuries, your passengers’ injuries and damage to your vehicle if you’re hit by a driver who doesn’t have enough or has no auto insurance coverage. It may also cover hit-and-run accidents. So if a driver hits your vehicle and flees, you can file a claim against your policy’s uninsured motorist coverage. Q: What are minimum car insurance requirements from state to state? A: Minimum car insurance requirements vary from state to state. But state requirements are generally modest — typically $20,000 to $30,000 for bodily injury suffered by one person in an accident, $50,000 for all people hurt in the same accident, and up to $25,000 for property damage resulting from that accident. A state’s required minimum merely keeps you in compliance with state law. Most drivers need more than the minimum to avoid paying out of pocket to make up the difference between the damages and your coverage. Auto insurance basics: Coverage, liability, minimum requirements By James K. Glassman Kiplinger’s Personal Finance With wars raging in Ukraine and the Middle East, a former president on trial, federal deficits running into the trillions and just general tumult all ’round, wouldn’t it be nice to be bored? Stocks can provide the respite you need. Well, certain kinds of stocks. Not Tesla certainly, or AMC, the movie chain that has gone from over $500 a share to under $5 in less than three years. I’m talking about shares of companies in boring businesses that just keep making money doing quotidian things. Consider Littelfuse, a 97-year-old manufacturer based in Chicago. Littelfuse makes little fuses or, more elegantly, circuit-protection devices used in cars, trucks and industrial products. Littelfuse traded at $41 a share in May 2004, but reached $231 a share by mid-April 2024. I’m using 20-year figures because if you want to own boring stocks, you need to have a time horizon of 10 years or more. It can take a decade or two for investors to wake up to the value of these companies. My favorite boring stock of all time is RPM International, which makes coatings for waterproofing and rustproofing. Based in Medina, Ohio, RPM has risen from $17 to $109 in the past 20 years. Its dividend payout has increased every year for the past half-century. A consistently rising dividend is a sign that a boring stock has a true moat, or protection against competitors. Companies with a strong niche — through patents, a brand or just reputation with customers — can increase their profits and dividends regularly, even in tough times. Here are tips to find the best mundane stocks. They are largely self-funding: In other words, firms that tend to make capital investments out of their own profits rather than through outside borrowing. You won’t find many businesses that have no debt, but you should favor companies that have little. Few analysts follow them: When a company’s shares are covered by lots of financial experts, the company is unlikely to be a hidden gem. It has been priced by an efficient market. But some stocks are so boring that their prices may be inefficient — that is, lower (or, in some cases, higher) than they ought to be. Insiders are on board: You want founders, directors and managers with skin in the game and interests that align with those of their investors. They stick mostly to the United States: This keeps things simple, and you don’t have to worry so much about currency fluctuations or geopolitical threats. Stock valuations are reasonable: Cheap is a bonus. Integrity counts: It’s hard to gauge the integrity of most CEOs, but when you find one who acts erratically or has shown little regard for the humanity of employees, shareholders or customers, sell the stock. The Dow Jones industrial average in the past was dominated by firms in mundane businesses. Now it includes a few sexy stocks, such as Salesforce and Nike, but the components remain boring: Walmart, McDonald’s, Verizon and the like. The best way to buy the Dow is through SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average, an exchange-traded fund also known as Diamonds. With tumult all around, boring stocks can provide the respite you need 8 Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Sunday, May 5, 2024

By Stephanie Vozza Fast Company Wednesday, affectionately known as “hump day,” seems like a positive milestone during the week. You’re halfway to the weekend, right? But could this seemingly innocuous day be more stressful than a Monday? Yes, according to the meditation app Balance. Wednesday is the most popular day of the week for its users to search for and complete stress and anxiety meditations. “We don’t think it’s just by chance,” says Leah Santa Cruz, one of Balance’s co-heads of meditation. “By Wednesday, everyone’s knee-deep in their week’s to-dos, whether it’s work responsibilities or personal tasks. It’s like you’re at the halfway mark, staring down deadlines, but the weekend’s still too far off to feel any relief.” Santa Cruz says one big reason folks hit a stress wall by Wednesday is that they bite off more than they can chew. “Trying to juggle too many things without figuring out what really needs to be on top of the list just cranks up the pressure,” she says. “Just as detrimental though, is channeling all your attention on achieving your goals, at the cost of skipping breaks and ignoring self-care, a huge contributing factor to ‘Wednesday worries.’ ” If you’re feeling stressed midweek, here are five tactics for tackling your “case of the Wednesdays.” Identify the root cause The first and most important thing is to identify the root cause of your stress, says Friederike Fabritius, a neuroscientist and author of “The BrainFriendly Workplace: Why Talented People Quit.” “Many people jump directly to things like mindfulness training and breath work,” she says. Those are very effective, but if you’re married to the wrong person, you need a divorce, not an eight-week course and mindfulness-based stress reduction.” Analyze the situation and understand why you’re stressed. For example, if your workday is too long, consider incorporating breaks to make it feel shorter. If you’re receiving too many emails, look for ways to decrease them, such as sending fewer emails or unsubscribing to newsletters. Or, if the cause is that you have a toxic boss, you may want to create a plan to change departments or companies. Use body-calming techniques Sometimes, stress and worries come from a sudden feeling of being overwhelmed. It’s possible to address these feelings in the moment, Fabritius says. “Neuroscience shows us that the body and brain are connected and intertwined. If you manage to calm your body, you can calm your brain.” Body-based techniques like exercising, practicing breath work, changing your posture, getting more sleep or going for a massage will calm your body and, therefore, have a positive impact on your brain. “It is impossible for your brain to be stressed when your body is relaxed,” Fabritius says. “You get all those endorphins, dopamine and serotonin, and they help to also ease anxiety and stress.” Have clear priorities Another way to deal with stress is to take a few moments each day to be strategic with your time and narrow down your top three priorities, Santa Cruz says. “What’s most important and will make the most impact in your life right now?” she asks. “It might be spending time with your kids, completing a big presentation at work or preparing for an upcoming trip.” Once you understand what’s important, carve out specific times to focus only on the tasks and activities that move the needle forward on those goals, instead of getting bogged down with minor tasks that seem urgent but don’t contribute much. “Working smarter, not harder, should be your motto for shedding midweek burnout and anxiety,” Santa Cruz says. Start a humor habit Laughter is the best medicine, and Paul Osincup, a corporate trainer and author of “The Humor Habit: Rewire Your Brain to Stress Less, Laugh More, and Achieve More’er,” recommends doing a funny-things intervention. “Each day for one week, write down three things you found funny or amusing,” he says. “Research shows just one week of this can increase happiness and decrease depressive symptoms for up to six months. Plus, you’re rewiring your brain to actively look for the funny moments throughout your day.” Taking a funny break can also help. Taking a break can improve your productivity, but research published in the Journal of Business and Psychology found that people who watched a funny video on their break were even more productive when they returned. “The key is that you’re choosing to seek out and watch something funny,” Osincup says. “People who made an autonomous choice of what to do on their breaks recover better from work-related stress.” Celebrate instead of ruminating Finally, combat midweek anxiety by looking for ways to use a celebratory mindset for the day. Flipping your mindset to see the positive you’ve done can take the edge off stress and anxiety, Santa Cruz says. For example, practice gratitude, taking three minutes to write down a few things you can appreciate right now. Instead of negatively dwelling on what’s in your way, try to see every challenge or hurdle as a chance for growth. In every breakdown, we can find an opportunity to learn, grow or innovate a better solution. “Mix a bit of mindfulness and positive action into your daily routine,” Santa Cruz says. “It makes a world of difference in keeping those Wednesday worries under control.” Wednesday might be most stressful workday DREAMSTIME INVESTING SUCCESS Most active Largest mutual funds Largest Companies How the region’s Top 100 companies fared STOCK CLOSE CHANGE CHG 1-YR FUND NAV IN $ %RTN CHG 1-YR FUND NAV IN $ %RTN STOCK CLOSE CHANGE RANK/COMPANY CAP CLOSE WEEK 1-YR STOCK CLOSE CHANGE STOCK CLOSE CHANGE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Based on Total assets Based on market capitalization NASDAQ STOCK MARKET EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS Ginkgo Bioworks Hldg .96 +.10 Pfizer Inc 27.81 +2.41 Ford Motor 12.43 -.36 Snap Inc A 16.25 +1.70 NY Cmty Bcp 3.53 +.56 Palantir Technol 23.33 +.81 Emergent Biosolution 3.89 +1.97 AT&T Inc 16.85 +.10 Bank of America 37.25 -.58 CVS Health Corp 55.90 -11.28 Transocean Ltd 5.57 -.30 Virgin Galactic Hldg .95 +.06 Exxon Mobil Corp 116.00 -1.96 AB LgCpGrAdv 102.01 +.71 +32.1 American Century UltraInv 81.80 +.99 +35.5 American Funds AMCpA m 40.80 +.07 +27.7 American Funds AmrcnBalA m 33.12 ... +14.9 American Funds AmrcnMutA m 52.98 +.11 +13.0 American Funds BdfAmrcA m 11.10 +.12 -1.1 American Funds CptWldGrIncA m63.75+.12 +20.7 American Funds CptlIncBldrA m67.12 +.41 +8.6 American Funds EuroPacGrA m 58.02 +.32 +11.8 American Funds FdmtlInvsA m 77.59 -.19 +29.1 American Funds GrfAmrcA m 69.29 +.15 +36.3 American Funds IncAmrcA m 23.79 ... +8.9 American Funds InvCAmrcA m 54.48 ... +30.3 American Funds NewWldA m 79.04 +.84 +13.9 American Funds NwPrspctvA m 59.49 +.28 +20.1 American Funds SmCpWldA m 65.92 +.76 +11.4 American Funds TheNewEcoA m58.08 +.06 +27.6 American Funds WAMtInvsA m 60.16 -.42 +22.1 Artisan IntlValueInstl 48.44 +1.20 +16.3 Baird AggrgateBdInstl 9.58 +.11 +.4 Baird CorPlusBdInstl 9.91 +.11 +1.1 BlackRock StrIncOpIns 9.31 +.06 +5.3 Calamos MktNetrlIncIns 14.45 +.03 +7.7 Columbia DivIncIns 31.81 -.17 +17.1 DFA EMktCorEqI 23.70 +.56 +17.0 DFA IntlCorEqIns 15.90 +.21 +12.1 DFA IntlSmCoInstl 19.83 +.36 +9.6 DFA USCorEq1Instl 38.60 +.19 +26.4 DFA USCorEqIIInstl 34.60 +.20 +25.5 DFA USLgCpValInstl 47.35 -.26 +20.6 DFA USSmCpInstl 44.94 +.55 +20.7 DFA USSmCpValInstl 45.49 +.38 +27.0 DFA USTrgtedValIns 32.10 +.29 +25.8 Dodge & Cox BalI 102.49 +.13 +14.8 Dodge & Cox IncI 12.30 +.14 +2.0 Dodge & Cox IntlStkI 51.01 +.55 +13.6 Dodge & Cox StkI 251.01 -1.43 +23.7 DoubleLine TtlRetBdI 8.58 +.07 -.7 Edgewood GrInstl 47.04 -.34 +32.2 Fidelity 500IdxInsPrm 178.15 +.99 +27.3 Fidelity BCGrowth 199.63 +2.85 +50.8 Fidelity Balanced 28.27 +.23 +18.6 Fidelity Cap&Inc 9.85 +.07 +12.7 Fidelity Contrafund 18.56 +.14 +41.9 Fidelity EmergMketsOpps 18.50 +.49 +17.3 Fidelity ExMktIdxInPr 80.25 +.94 +26.6 Fidelity Frdm 2030 17.16 +.19 +12.5 Fidelity GlobalexUSIdx 14.50 +.24 +12.0 Fidelity GroCo 36.28 +.52 +43.2 Fidelity GroCo 22.19 +.32 +44.2 Fidelity IntlGr 17.97 +.12 +13.9 Fidelity IntlIdxInstlPrm 49.41 +.72 +11.7 Fidelity IntlVal 12.55 +.19 +21.4 Fidelity InvmGradeBd 9.79 +.11 +.5 Fidelity LowPrStk 46.81 +.28 +20.9 Fidelity Magellan 13.93 -.08 +36.4 Fidelity NasdCmpIdx 205.04 +2.91 +35.8 Fidelity OTCPortfolio 20.60 +.21 +39.2 Fidelity Puritan 24.87 +.14 +21.2 Fidelity TotalBond 9.33 +.10 +1.5 Fidelity TtlMktIdxInsPrm 141.05 +.91 +27.2 Fidelity USBdIdxInsPrm 10.11 +.11 -.6 Fidelity Select Semicon 30.34 +.18 +74.2 Fidelity Select Technology 31.66 +.50 +45.0 First Eagle GlbA m 66.92 +.42 +11.7 Franklin Templeton IncA1 m 2.31 +.01 +6.8 Franklin Templeton IncAdv 2.29 +.01 +7.5 Franklin Templeton RisingDivsA m91.23-.39 +11.2 Harbor CptlApprecInstl 106.45 +.57 +40.2 JPMorgan CPBondR6 7.07 +.09 +.4 JPMorgan CoreBondI 10.02 +.11 -.5 JPMorgan CoreBondR6 10.04 +.12 -.2 JPMorgan EqIncI 23.85 -.05 +13.2 JPMorgan LCapGrI 67.94 +.40 +41.0 John Hancock BdR6 13.24 +.16 +.9 John Hancock DiscpValMCI 28.59 +.08 +21.8 Lord Abbett ShrtDurIncI 3.84 +.02 +4.3 MFS GrI 195.93 +.68 +39.4 MFS IntlEqR6 34.12 +.51 +8.7 MFS ValI 49.88 -.04 +15.9 Metropolitan West TtlRetBdI 8.85 +.12 -1.1 Metropolitan West TtlRetBdPlan 8.30 +.11 -1.0 Northern StkIdx 52.72 +.29 +27.3 Nuveen EqIdxIns 36.10 +.22 +27.0 Nuveen IntlEqIdxIns 22.91 +.34 +11.8 Old Westbury LgCpStrats 18.75 +.09 +20.1 PGIM Investments TtlRetBdZ 11.72 +.12 +1.9 PIMCO IncA m 10.51 +.12 +6.3 PIMCO IncI2 10.51 +.12 +6.6 PIMCO IncInstl 10.51 +.12 +6.7 PIMCO TtlRetIns 8.43 +.10 +1.0 Parnassus CorEqInv 58.44 -.13 +23.1 Schwab SP500Idx 78.93 +.45 +24.8 Schwab Schwab1000Idx 110.26 +.63 +25.3 Schwab TtlStkMktIdx 86.84 +.55 +24.9 T. 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81.99 t -1.89 +55.0 GATX 4,556 127.98 s +.47 +15.7 Stericycle Inc 4,284 46.18 t -.13 +1.1 Kemper Corp 3,796 58.98 s +1.55 +31.3 Envestnet Inc 3,449 62.96 s +.81 +3.1 John Bean Technol 2,900 91.14 s +.34 -14.9 Hub Group Inc 2,672 42.54 s +2.61 +12.6 AAR Corp 2,477 69.92 s +1.65 +30.0 MYR Group 2,412 143.92 t -24.24 +17.5 Adtalem Global Educ 2,354 60.08 s+10.40 +36.7 Equity Commonwlth 2,021 18.85 s +.25 -6.9 TreeHouse Foods 2,006 37.26 s +1.42 -29.2 Coeur Mining 1,948 4.88 t -.06 +41.3 Stepan Co 1,925 85.70 s +1.72 -3.2 US Cellular 1,782 34.10 t -2.68 +87.6 Enova Intl Inc 1,748 62.01 t -1.22 +41.8 Distribution Solu Gr 1,641 34.49 s +1.47 +50.7 Addus HomeCare 1,607 98.20 s +3.66 +13.8 Century Aluminum 1,558 16.81 t -1.16 +96.6 Huron Consulting Gp 1,554 86.32 t -7.31 +.6 Horace Mann 1,535 37.52 s +.78 +26.6 Teleph Data 1,522 14.36 t -1.42 +79.8 Knowles Corp 1,487 16.57 s +.54 -1.1 ANI Pharma 1,410 67.25 s +1.89 +76.6 First Busey Corp 1,311 23.72 s +.92 +39.1 Tootsie Roll 1,177 29.43 t -.39 -19.7 Gogo Inc 1,155 9.02 t -.12 -30.6 SP Plus Corp 1,019 51.51 s +.36 +51.9 QCR Holdings Inc 962 57.29 s +1.08 +47.4 Sanfilipo John 882 97.98 t -1.28 -1.3 SunCoke Energy Inc 866 10.31 t -.26 +38.7 Ryerson Holding 784 22.84 t -7.82 -37.6 Fst Mid Bancshares 770 32.26 s +.75 +35.6 Titan Intl 730 10.02 t -1.53 +6.0 Old Second Bcp 643 14.36 s +.33 +24.1 Heidrick & Struggles 602 29.83 t -.43 +19.3 Oil-Dri Corp 549 76.82 s +8.07 +75.0 Veradigm Inc 540 6.81 r ... -35.8 Consolidated Commun 511 4.32 s +.05 +11.3 OneSpan Inc 468 12.39 s +1.60 -22.8 Acco Brands Corp 466 4.88 s +.05 +18.4 Great Lakes Dredge 464 6.96 t -.18 +20.0 Groupon Inc 438 11.22 t -.45 +236.7 Methode Electronics 436 12.34 s +.12 -68.8 Lifeway Foods 357 24.35 t -.52 +294.4 Potbelly Corp 293 9.90 t -.73 -6.5 PCTEL Inc 135 6.99 r ... 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10 Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 Rejection hurts, but you’ll never know unless you try. Chicago, IL Apply by Email DevOps Engineer INTERSHOP COMMUNICATIONS, INC. - Make e-commerce system performance improvements through coding infrastructure, deployment automation, and observability. Integrate platform technologies into software architecture. Use monitoring and APM tools to identify and execute improvements to applications and database. Create repeatable patterns in coding infrastructure to automate production and no-production software infrastructure. Evaluate new software tools and technologies while automating infrastructure as code and administering cloud services and database with CI/CD tools – using Jenkins, Bamboo, and Azure DevOps. Develop software in Java and SQL, and use and integrate cloud services with PowerShell, Python, or batch. Req: BS in CS/ Comp. Eng/CIS + 6 mo. exp. Job Sites: Chicago, IL & Tustin, CA. Telecommuting permitted. Various unanticipated worksites. Salary: $94,000.00 per year. Medical/Dental/Vision/Life/ Disability/401K/PTO/Commuter Reimbursement/Employee Assistance Program. Send resumes to Intershop Communications, Inc. 231 S LaSalle St, Ste 2100, Chicago, IL 60604 or [email protected]. West Chicago, IL Apply by Email Associate Engineer, R&D SIMPSON STRONG-TIE CO., INC. - Manage prod. perf. test progs. 10% dom./int’l travel. Send resume to [email protected] & incl ref #AERD in subj. line. ENGINEERING >> Chicago, IL Apply Online Teachers (Bilingual) CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS - Provide instructional plans to secondary school level students. Must hold bachelor degree in field that prepares for career in teaching or equiv. & IL PEL or ELS w/ Spanish endorsement (grades K-12). Must speak, read & write fluently in Spanish. Apply cps.edu/careers ID: 240000LB. Chicago, IL Apply Online School Psychologists CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS - Provide screen’g for early intervention & identifica’n. Must hold master’s degree in psych. & ISBE PEL w/ school psych. endorsement. Must be able to travel to schools w/in CPS district up to 5x/week. Apply cps.edu/careers ID: 240000LC. EDUCATION >> Chicago, IL [email protected] Fifth Third Bank - Various Positions FIFTH THIRD BANK - Various positions for Fifth Third Bank in Chicago, IL w/ remote work permissible: LOB Reporting & Analytics Manager- data mining & analytics using Python, SQL, Power BI & Tableau Director, Credit Risk- work w/ modeling techniques in SQL, SAS, SPSS & VBA Send resume to: 6111 North River Road, Rosemont, IL 60018, MD GRSMA3 ATTN: Doria Koros BANKING >> Chicago, IL Apply Online Sr. Accountant, Accounting REVANTAGE CORPORATE SERVICES LLC - seeks Sr. Accountant, Accounting Chicago, IL. Perform monthly/quarterly account analysis and roll-forwards of selected general ledger accounts to ensure accounts properly reflect the company’s financial position in accordance with company policy and GAAP. REQS: Bchlrs dgr in Finance, Accounting, or clsly rltd fld, pls 3 yrs of exprnc as an Accountant or othr occptn/pstn/jb tte invlvg accounting or financial analysis. Hybrd Schdl: 3 dys in the offc, 2 dys wfh. Visit https://www.revantage.com/americas/careers/ for a complete job description, requirements and to apply. Please reference ID: 2024-6510 ACCOUNTING >> Climb that job ladder. Make your way to the top. Westmont, IL Apply Online Sr. Engineers GAMMA TECHNOLOGIES LLC - seeks Sr. Engineers for various & unanticipated worksites throughout the U.S. (HQ: Westmont, IL) location to be responsible for the functionality of mech elements of the GT-SUITE sw to model engine, powertrain, & vehicle sys. Master’s in Mech Eng/Automotive Sys Eng/related field+2 yrs exp req’d. Req’d skills: vehicle powertrain modeling; fuel economy analysis; powertrain electrification of light and heavy-duty trucks; vehicle energy analysis and root-cause analysis; vehicle performance testing; machine learning, MATLAB/SIMULINK. Some telecommuting permitted. Apply online: https://www.gtisoft.com/about-gt/ careers/, REQ ID: 203287 Vernon Hills, IL Apply Online Senior Process Engineer TETRA PAK, INC. - seeks a Senior Process Engineer in Vernon Hills, IL. Collect project info from respective salesperson, market companies, group entities, or client, & confirm & include them in project design. Support sale activities & process for both US & Canada. Telecommuting permitted 2 days per/wk. Domestic & international travel 1 wk/month. Reqs: Bachelor’s in Chmcl. Eng, Food or Agronomic Eng, Mchncl Eng, or rltd & 5yrs exp. in food manufacturing industry or Master’s in same & 3yrs exp. in food manufacturing industry. Submit resume via www.jobs.tetrapak.com. Req#88288 Kankakee, IL [email protected] Senior Control Systems Engineer MESCADA - Senior Control Systems Engineer (Kankakee, IL). FT. DCS/PLC/SCADA/MES Systems design, configuration & commissioning using Siemens PCS7, keeping in mind FDA compliance. Design, implement networks, firewalls that link clients’ networks to control systems. Fault-finding of control systems, including commissioning Installation Qualification, Operational Qualification & Process Qualification for pharma manufacturing facilities. Req: Bach degree (or foreign equiv) in Mech. Engg, Automation Engg, Mechatronics Engg or closely rltd Engg field w/ 5 yrs of exp as a Control Systems Engineer, Automation Engineer, Commissioning Engineer and/or any rltd position. Must be Siemens Certified SIMATIC PCS 7 Engineer. Certification can be substituted w/ 5 yrs of work exp w/ Siemens PCS 7 technology. Must travel to unanticipated client sites throughout the U.S. 3-4 times per year (15%). Res. to: W. Sierra, Mescada LLC, 1045 S East Ave, Kankakee, IL 60901 or [email protected] Des Plaines, IL Apply Online R&D Engr/Scientist II UOP, LLC - Wrk w/ occsnl sprvsn to build, maintain & instll analytcl instrmntatn in pilot plnt areas. Reqs Bach’s dgree or forgn equiv in Chmstry/Chem Eng, Mthmtcs or rel physcl sci fld + 2 yrs of exp in Chem Eng. Full trm of exp mst inclde: resrch exp w/ instrmntl analytcl chmstry prcdres, incldng quntittve analysis & appld sttstcl analysis to cmplx data sets; undrstndng of gas chrmtgrphy prncples as well as exp w/ the use, repair & calbrtn of onlne gas chrmtgrphs; dsgnng exprmnts & cndctng applied rsearch; cmptr ltrcy incldng the ablty to use a variety of SW sch as Excl and MS Offce; exp w/ one of the fllwng sftwres: ChemStation OR Empwr OR Chrmeleon OR Atlas; & wrkng in an intnsve HS&E envrnmnt. If offd emplymnt mst hve lgl rght to wrk in U.S. EOE. To apply for this role visit: https://careers.honeywell.com/us/en. Reference code: req 436899. Rolling Meadows, IL Apply by Email Principal Engineer VERIZON - Principal Engineer needed by Verizon in Rolling Meadows, IL (hybrid role, may work from home) to lead SAP solutions analysis, deployment, testing, and integration. To apply, email resume to [email protected]. Ref. Job #SHNARC-N. Chicago, IL Apply by Email IT & Lead IT Professionals ZENSAR TECHNOLOGIES INC. - IT & Lead IT Professionals sought by Zensar Technologies Inc., incl. IT & Tech Project Mgrs and Lead & Non-Lead: Test Engineers; Comp. Programmers; Comp. Sys. Analysts; Sys. Admins; Comp. Sys. Engineer/ Architects; Software Devs/Engineers, Apps; & Software Qual. Assurance Engineers. IT Project Mgrs & all Leads req. Master’s or equiv. in Comp. Sci., Engg. (any), IT, Mgmt. Info. Sys. or related & 1 yr. relevant indus exp. Alternatively, will accept a Bach. in the above fields & 5 yrs’ progressive relevant indus exp. Non-Leads req. Bach. or equiv. in the above fields & 5 yrs‘ relevant indus exp.. Comp. Sys. Analyst roles also accept Bus. degree. Tech. Project Mgrs req. Bach. or equiv. in Comp Sci., Engg (any), Info Sys., Bus. or related & 2 yrs’ relevant indus exp. incl. collaborating w/ software engs and managing project timelines & stakeholder concerns. (In lieu of degree & exp., will accept 4 yrs’ relevant indus exp.) Scrum Master Certification reqd. Positions are based out of our HQ in Chicago, IL & subj. to relocation to unanticipated US worksites. Qualified applicants send resumes to [email protected] or Zensar Technologies Inc. 55 W. Monroe St, Ste 1200, Chicago, IL 60603 Attn: HR Manager. Rejection hurts, but you’ll never know unless you try. Chicago, IL Apply by Email Vice President DAIWA CORPORATE ADVISORY LLC DBA DC ADVISORY - (Chicago, IL) seeks Vice President to supprt the orgnatn & excutn of invstmnt bankng trnsctn mandates for public & private companies, which involves helpng them achieve their stratgic objctvs thrgh M&A or raisng captl to meet busnss needs thrgh debt or equity offrngs. Reqs MS (US or frgn equiv) in Busnss Admin, Finance, Economics, Accntng or a rltd field & 4yrs of exp in pos offrd or as an Invstmnt Bankng Associate OR BS (US or frgn equiv) in Busnss Admin, Finance, Economics, Accntng, or a rltd field & 6yrs of exp in pos offrd or as an Invstmnt Bankng Associate. All of reqd exp must have incl’d exp w/ invstmnt bankng trnsctns incl M&A & captl raise thrgh debt or equity offrngs; excutng M&A trnsctns for public & private companies; draftng offrng memrndms; givng corp prsntatns; dvlpng finc’l valtn modls; rvwng the finc’l statemnts & rprts of a company & dvlpng finc’l forecasts; utlzng knwldge of industry estblshd valuatn methdlgs incl Levrgd Buy Out (LBO) anlys, Discounted Cash Flow (DCF), accretn & dilutn, compratve company anlys & sum of parts anlys to detrmne the purchase price of a company; all phases of prjct mgmt as it relates to invstmnt bankng trnsctns inclu M&A & captl raise thrgh equity or debt offrngs; & Excel & PP. FINRA Series 63, 79, & SIE Licenses reqd. Role entails hybrd wrk, w/ time split btwn wrkng in Chicago, IL offce & flexblty to telecmmte from anothr US locatn. Email res to: [email protected]. Chicago, IL Apply by email or online Senior Financial Analyst RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER - Senior Financial Analyst sought by Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL to dvlp solutions to fin’l problems & assess fin’l impact of transactions for charge capture, reconciliations, analysis, & notifying revenue cycle of new services. Telecommuting from anywhere in the US permitted up to 5 days/wk. Position reqs Bach deg in Business Admin, Risk Mgmt, Acctg, Finance or a rltd field + 4 yrs of exp as a fin’l analyst. 4 yrs of exp must incl 1 yr w/ each of the following: working in healthcare finance or healthcare operations; Axiom; electronic medical record system, incl Epic or Axxess, & its reporting functionality; dvlpg ad-hoc reports on productivity, fin’l variances, & operational metrics; preparation of budgets & reviewing actual vs. budget performance; & analyzing new opportunities for ROI projections. Email resume to [email protected] or apply online at https://www.rush.edu/careers. Cite job number “00181” in the response. Chicago, IL Apply by Email Quantitative Risk Manager (Multiple Positions) CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE INC. - Mentor a team of Quant Analysts in rsrch & dvlpmnt of rsk mgmt model coverng varis asset classes, incl models rel to Value-at-Risk, strss tst & liquidity rsk. Ld prjcts in fincl drvtvs prcng, dta clnsing & anlytcs, incl. senstvty anlyss (sch as optn Greeks, rsk fctr & parmter anlyss), scnrio anlyss, & othr relvnt dta anlyss. Master’s deg or foreign equiv deg in Fin, Math, Econ, Stats, Engg, Bus Admin, or rel fld, and 3 yrs of rel work exp. Up to 5% dmstc &/or intl trvl req. To apply, please email resume to: [email protected] & reference: IL0130. FINANCE >> Westmont, IL Apply Online Sr. Engineers GAMMA TECHNOLOGIES LLC - seeks Strategic Accounts Managers for various & unanticipated worksites throughout the U.S. (HQ: Westmont, IL) responsible for growing GT’s footprint within our strategic accounts & targets by identifying CAE challenges that can be addressed w/ GT solutions. Bachelor’s in mechanical/aerospace eng/any eng field+5 yrs exp req’d. Req’d skills: business-to-business sales of eng sw; CAE sw; Salesforce CRM; building customer relationships; track record of consistent attainment of sales quota. Some telecommuting permitted. Some travel to client sites req’d. Apply online: https://www.gtisoft.com/about-gt/careers/, REQ ID: 203289 Westmont, IL Apply Online Sr. Engineers GAMMA TECHNOLOGIES LLC - seeks Sr. Engineers for Westmont, IL location to engage w/ customers to identify & prioritize UI/UX dev opportunities to deliver best-in-class eng sw for automotive industry clients. 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Work Site: Wood Dale, IL 60191 Mail Resume: ALLSTATE INT’L FREIGHT USA INC, 1250 W Artesia Blvd., Compton, CA 90220 Riverwoods, IL Apply Online Lead Inventory Specialist(s) DISCOVER PRODUCTS INC - has openings for Lead Inventory Specialist(s) $88,500.00 to $149,300.00 in Riverwoods, IL. Conduct regular forecasts to ensure appropriate stock levels are secured and place purchases orders in a timely manner. Meet regularly with internal business partners and suppliers to communicate forecast, production schedule changes and performance. Telecommuting and/or working from home may be permissible pursuant to company policies. Position requires 10% domestic travel. To be considered, search by title and apply online at http://jobs.discover.com. Equal Opportunity Employer/disability/vet. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position. We also over a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. Learn more at MyDiscoverBenefits.com Sycamore, IL Apply by Email Landscape Architect WINTERS NURSERIES & LANDSCAPE - Analyze landscape archt. draw’gs & constr’n FS’s. Must have bachelor’s degree in Archt., Landscape Archt., equiv./rl’td & 2 yrs exp. w/ landscape constr’n & design & us’g Autodesk S/W incl’g AutoCAD, Revit & Navisworks S/W for 2D, 3D & 4D model design & analy. Must have valid US DL, Irrig. Design Cert. & Fman. & Crew Leader Wksh. Class Cert. Must visit unanticipated worksites w/in Chicagoland area, incl’g WI & IN, on avg. 5 days/month. CV to Winters Nurseries & Landscape, [email protected]. GENERAL >> SUNDAY, mAY 5, 2024 tribune publishing recruitment services Jobs&Work As the outside world blooms into color, the American workplace, often oblivious to the changing seasons, may remain layered in tones of gray. But in many ways, work settings across the country settle into spring in good – and sometimes not-so-good – ways. While it’s a cliche to say that spring is the perfect time to take a fresh approach to work, warmer weather can impact mood, productivity, collaboration and more. “Just starting with the commute, the days are so much better,” says Lance Gladd, a Buffalo, New York-based database analyst. “Something about natural sunlight that makes even the worst days at work seem more bearable.” Most mornings, Gladd says he’s able to take his sunny morning mood into work with him. “I work with some really great people but by nature, a lot of us are introverts, so when someone comes in smiling and making conversation, it’s a real hype,” he says. “I like being that person, even if it’s as simple as talking to as many people as possible before I get to my desk.” Crediting sunlight for Gladd’s improved mood isn’t just a feel-good sentiment; it’s a change that’s based on science. Research on the correlation between better moods and sunshine explains that exposure to sunlight helps the brain release serotonin – known as the “happy hormone” in some circles – which plays an important role in regulating mood and promoting positive feelings. Sunlight also stimulates the production of vitamin D in the skin, which is often linked to decreased depression and improved moods. So go ahead and bask in the sunlight – there’s real, tangible evidence that sunlight has a profound impact on one’s emotional wellbeing. For remote employees, warmer days can bring an increase in activity, which alone helps them feel better and often work more efficiently. “I have to take my dog out two or three times a day and when it’s cold, we’re in and out. But in the spring, it’s so great because we can take longer walks in the morning, at lunch and at some point in the afternoon,” says Janet Tempo, a market research analyst in Boulder, Colorado. “And working with the windows open or even outside when I can sit somewhere that doesn’t cause a huge glare on my screen, is the best.” Not all displays of spring fever are positive. “We have an increase in complaints each spring from employees who say they’ve been mistreated by others,” says Sara, an HR professional in Chicago who doesn’t want her last name used. “I think people feel a little less inhibited when the weather warms up and sometimes can say or do things they wouldn’t at other times of the year. I joke with my coworkers that it’s the workplace of the inside voice and the outside voice you try to teach your kids. People feel so good some days that they can’t help but bring their outside voices into work with them.” Tempo says she occasionally works with people who “clearly resent that I get to enjoy the weather more than they do.” Although she says she tries to be more aware of how it must make other people who are “stuck in crappy cubicles” feel when they see her working in front of her backyard garden, she’s not always successful. “If someone pings me and I have to get on a Teams call right away, I jump on from wherever I’m working,” she says. “Sometimes, you can see the mountains if I’m in certain locations working outside and sometimes, it’s just me on my front porch with my dog in my lap. Tempo says when that happens, she’s usually greeted with the same expression. “They say ‘must be nice, Janet.’ I say something like ‘it is very nice and I’m very lucky’ and try to move on,” she says. “But some people in pretty bland offices, plus the majority of the team works in two offices in Maine, so they get spring a little later than me. It will be 70 degrees here and it’s still in the 40s or 50s there.” While it’s usually a treat working outside – give or take a few barking dogs and some unexpected gusts of wind – it’s not an option for many. So that just means they have to bring the outdoors inside by maximizing exposure to natural light. “Any sunlight is going to improve moods,” says Sheila Hansford, a social worker in Miami, Florida, who specializes in corporate team-building. “It’s just so much more pleasant to be working somewhere you can actually see the sunlight, whether it’s through a window or a skylight.” Hansford recommends positioning workstations near windows when possible and incorporating skylights. But her biggest suggestion? “Open the blinds,” she says. “I walk into places sometimes and I’m amazed at how dark and dreary their workspace is because they keep the blinds closed tight.” – Marco Buscaglia Spring fever: Warm weather can shift moods, dynamics at workplace Dreamstime

Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 11 Scan the list, see who’s hiring, then go online for more details or to apply. Riverwoods, IL Apply Online Application Engineer(s) DFS CORPORATE SERVICES LLC - has openings for Application Engineer(s) $102,690 to $146,100 in Riverwoods, IL. Analyze, design, code, test, and deploy new user stories and product features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production. Understands the software development lifecycle and leverages critical thinking skills to properly evaluate features and functionality. Telecommuting and/or working from home may be permissible pursuant to company policies. Up to 10% domestic travel required. To be considered, search by title and apply online at http://jobs.discover.com. Equal Opportunity Employer/disability/vet. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position. We also over a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. Learn more at MyDiscoverBenefits.com Chicago , IL Apply Online API Application Developer OLD NATIONAL BANK - seeks API Application Developers at its facilities in the Chicago and Naperville, Illinois, Metropolitan Areas. These Developers are needed to expand the use of APIs both internally and externally to better integrate core and LOB (Lines of Business) systems. In addition, the API Developers analyze, design, and develop functional and secure codes that provide value-added functionality to both the bank and its clientele. Other specific duties of the API Application Developer include: • Work with DevOps and Network Security teams to address security concerns, identify weaknesses/opportunities, and secure APIs; • Work with strategic partners to co-author applications when needed; • Participate in code peer reviews to ensure that delivered codes fit best practices; • Collaborate with API Support teams, vendors, IT partners and business lines to troubleshoot, test and plan both new API applications and updates to existing codes; • Identify trends within APIs, cloud solutions and microservices, specifically as they apply to banking; and • Provide feedback and guidance to Digital Solutions Director, DevOps team, security, and Business Analysts on effective and efficient ways to solve problems. Candidates must have a Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems (MIS), Computer Science, or a related technical field, plus twenty-four (24) months of experience in computer or software engineering, or as an integrations developer or related occupation. To apply, please go to oldnational.jobs. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY >> Lincolnshire, IL Apply by Email Health Client Manager 1 ALIGHT SOLUTIONS LLC - is seeking Health Client Manager 1 in Lincolnshire, IL. Duties incl but are not limited to assessing situations w/ broad view, dvlp & implement strategic approach. Must have Bachelor’s or equiv in HR, or rel field. Employer will accept 2 yrs exp in HR, Bnfts Admin or rel exp as meeting Bachelor’s req’mt & 6 yrs exp in outsourcing, consulting, bnfts, project mgmt. or rel exp. Must have: Exp translating concepts to client req’mts that drive technological & process solutions to meet client needs. Exp leading communication w/ internal & external clients. Exp managing indirect parties to accomplish client objectives. Knowl of admin & sys standards & articulating how they will be used in ongoing environ. Exp ensuring that provision req’mts match technl specs in ongoing deliveries. Exp managing client relationships. Exp consulting w/ clients regarding healthcare admin. Demonstrated knowl of total bnfts admin sys. Health care domain knowl & compliance/legislation adherence. Employer will accept any amount of exp w/ req’d skills. Telecommuting / work from home permissible. Pay Transparency Statement in compliance w/ CO Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the NYCy pay transparency ordinance, & any other similar laws or ordinances: Alight takes into consideration candidate’s exp, edu, cert/credentials, mkt data, & internal equity when determining offer for successful employment candidate, & Alight does so on indiv, non-discriminatory basis. Therefore, offered base sal for role is $120,328.00/yar (for FT employees). Alight also offers comprehensive bnfts pkg; for specific details on our bnfts pkg, please visit: https://bit.ly/Alight-Benefits-US22. To apply for position, send resume to [email protected] & ref Job # R-28350. HUMAN RESOURCES >> A welcome dose of sunshine is often enough to bring a smile to the face of even the most hardened employee but springtime isn’t always the anecdote for the workplace blahs. Here are a few ways the warmer weather can haveanegative impact on employees: Mood swings: As the weather warms up and sunny days increase, employees may experience shifts in mood and energy levels. Many may feel more optimistic and motivated; others may struggle with mood swings and irritability, especially if they feel like they’re being cooped up indoors or overwhelmed by work responsibilities. Seasonal allergies: Springtime allergies caused by pollen, dust and other environmental allergens can affect our physical health and comfort. Allergy symptoms such as sneezing, congestion and itchy eyes can be distracting and debilitating, making it challenging for employees to focus and function effectively at work. It’s never a bad idea to remind employees to wash their hands, cover their mouths when coughing and work from home or take a sick day when they’re sneezing all over the office. Decreased productivity: Are your coworkers staring out the window when you’re making a presentation? Get used to it. Employees often find it challenging to stay focused and productive at work when distracted by thoughts of enjoying the weather outside. Spring fever can lead to daydreaming, procrastination and difficulty concentrating on tasks, which may decrease productivity and performance. Increased absenteeism: Some employees may be more inclined to call in sick or take unplanned time off from work during the spring months. They may cite allergies, seasonal illnesses or personal reasons for their absences, but spring fever-related distractions and a desire to enjoy the outdoors can also increase absenteeism rates. We’re not saying employees are dishonest but a couple of tickets to an afternoon Cubs game are often the cause of some springtime aches and pains. Sleeping issues: Changes in daylight patterns and circadian rhythms during the spring can disrupt sleep patterns, leading to difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep at night. And of course, a lack of sleep can haveanegative impact on employees’ cognitive function, energy levels and mood throughout the day. Increased stress: Spring feverrelated distractions and the usual work responsibilities and deadlines can contribute to higher stress levels. The pressure to balance work commitments with personal desires to enjoy the spring season – and getting the kids to baseball on time after work – can lead to feelings of overwhelm, anxiety and burnout. So how do employers combat the springtime maladies? Sheila Hansford, a social worker in Miami, Florida, who specializes in corporate work strategies, says the first thing managers need to do is acknowledge the potential changes in their employees’ state of mind. “Bosses should consider outdoor team-building, some flexibility with work schedules and if possible, more remote work options,” Hansford says. “Even suggesting short breaks so your people can enjoy the sunshine can be a great way to build some positive vibes at work, which can lead to a much more productive work environment.” – Marco Buscaglia Seasonal shift: Spring fever disruptive, depressing forsome Dreamstime Discover your potential. Exploreanew position. Chicago, IL +1 (312) 765-3362 Database Engineer HOOLI HOMES ILLINOIS INC. - Database Engineer Analyze data errors, Manage database security, Mail resume to job site: Hooli Homes Illinois Inc. 1 S Dearborn St, Suite 2000, Chicago, IL 60603, No calls Chicago, IL Apply by Email Database Administrator TRADELINK LLC - seeks Database Administrator (Chicago, IL) to collaborate with the team on the design of optimal DB schema configurations for a clustered, highly available database environment in MySQL. REQS: This position requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Com Sci or rltd fld + 5 Yrsof exp as a Database Administrator or a rltd occ. 100% Telecommuting. Applicants should submit a complete resume in English to [email protected] , search [Database Administrator / DA-IND. EOE.]. Chicago, IL Apply by Email Data Scientist II LESSEN LLC - has an opening for Data Scientist II in Chicago, IL. to Develop and implement a set of techniques to transform raw data into meaningful information using data-oriented programming languages and visualization software. Telecommuting is permitted, but applicants must live within reasonable commuting distance. Position requires a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Operations Research, or related field and 1 year of experience in a related occupation. To apply, send resumes to Jennifer Gordon at [email protected], Must reference job 20851.60.7. Chicago, IL Apply Online Data Scientist DECISION SPOT - Data Scientist @ Decision Spot, Chicago, IL (remote allowed). Find creative solutions to complex business problems in supply chain and operations. Min req: master’s or foreign equiv in data science, analytics, comp sci, closely related. To apply, see Join Our Team section of https://www.decisionspot.com/about-us & upload resume w/ reference to Data Scientist role. Chicago, IL Apply by Email Consultant IT SOFT USA, INC. DBA: ENGINEERING USA - Consultant for IT Soft USA, Inc. DBA: Engineering USA in Chicago, IL to install SAP MII and PCo software on various software and database platforms. Requires: Bachelor’s degree in management information systems, engineering or a closely related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) plus five (5) years of experience as a software developer (or closely related occupation) performing SAP MII based development. This is a telecommute position. Position reports to IT Soft USA, Inc. headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. May work from a home office anywhere in the United States. Submit resume to IT Soft USA, Inc. DBA: Engineering USA, Katie Mazuc, [email protected]. Salary: $120,328.00/year. Reference Position Number: 000023. Chicago, IL Apply Online Business Consulting, Risk - Technology Risk (FAIT) (Manager) ERNST & YOUNG U.S. LLP - Business Consulting, Risk - Technology Risk (FAIT) (Manager) (Multiple Positions) (1502292), Ernst & Young U.S. LLP, Chicago, IL. Plan and perform IT-related external and internal audit and attestation procedures for private and public companies. Requires travel up to 50%, of which 15% may be international, to serve client needs. Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience. $120,050.00 per year. For complete job description, list of requirements, and to apply online, go to: ey.com/en_us/careers and click on “Careers - Job Search”, then “Search Jobs” (Job Number - 1502292). Chicago, IL Apply Online Business Analyst JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. - Telecommuting permitted up to 40% of the week. Create Epics and Jiras to capture requirements and groom them for sprint planning. For reqs & to apply, visit https://careers.jpmorgan.com & apply to job #:210511826. EOE, AAE, M/F/D/V. JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. www.jpmorganchase.com. Chicago, IL Apply Online Associate, Application Development MORGAN STANLEY SERVICES GROUP INC. - hiring for following role in Chicago, IL: Associate, Application Development to analyze & design integrated sys’s for electronic document delivery. Positn req’s rel degree &/or exp &/or skills. For more info & to apply, visit https://ms.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobsearch.ftl?lang=en Scroll down & enter 3240941 as “Job Number” & click “Search jobs.” No calls pls. EOE Riverwoods, IL Apply Online Multiple Openings DFS CORPORATE SERVICES LLC - has the following openings in its Riverwoods, IL location (telecommuting and/or working from home may be permissible pursuant to company policy): Application Engineer(s) $102,690 to $146,100. Analyze, design, code, test, and deploy new user stories and product features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production. Understands the software development lifecycle and leverages critical thinking skills to properly evaluate features and functionality. Principal Application Engineer(s) $144,560 to $175,600. Creates technology solutions addressing high impact business priorities. Demonstrates the ability to analyze, design, code, test and deploy solutions and product features with high quality to production. Level of technical expertise enables solutions with high complexity and depth. Application Architect(s) $144,560.00 to $175,500.00. Partners with Product Owner(s) to shape product vision and strategy and align product vision with technology strategy. Partners with product team engineers to develop product quality strategy including nonfunctional requirements, such as reliability, availability, and security. Senior Associate Data Engineer(s) $87,027.00 to $121,100.00. Design, develop, maintain and test data solutions for the product using the enterprise framework. Contribute opinions to design decisions and actively participate in agile ceremonies. To be considered, search by title and apply online at http://jobs.discover.com. Equal Opportunity Employer/disability/vet. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position. We also over a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. Learn more at MyDiscoverBenefits.com Chicago, IL Apply Online Lead Software Engineer JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. - Telecommuting permitted up to 40% of the week. Facilitate discussions with project managers, business analysts, & other software engineers to analyze business requirements & lead proposed IT solutions to develop software applications. For reqs & to apply, visit https://careers.jpmorgan.com & apply to job #: 210510002. EOE, AAE, M/F/D/V. JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. www.jpmorganchase.com. Riverwoods, IL Apply Online Lead Data Science Analyst(s) DISCOVER PRODUCTS INC - has openings for Lead Data Science Analyst(s) $110,594.00 to $153,500.00 in Riverwoods, IL. Work closely with management to execute analytical initiatives. Solve business problems by leveraging techniques such as segmentation, optimization, advanced analytics, and machine learning. Telecommuting and/or working from home may be permissible pursuant to company policies. To be considered, search by title and apply online at http://jobs.discover.com. Equal Opportunity Employer/disability/vet. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position. We also over a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. Learn more at MyDiscoverBenefits.com Riverwoods, IL Apply Online Lead Data Science Analyst(s) DISCOVER PRODUCTS INC - has openings for Lead Data Science Analyst(s) $110,594 to $146,100 in Riverwoods, IL. Lead the development and implementation of advanced analytics including customer segmentation, optimization, prescriptive analytics to solve business problems. Operate as a subject matter expert on statistical analysis, test and design of experiment, analysis methodology, and financial impact analysis. Telecommuting and/or working from home may be permissible pursuant to company policies. To be considered, search by title and apply online at http://jobs.discover.com. Equal Opportunity Employer/disability/vet. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position. We also over a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. Learn more at MyDiscoverBenefits.com Oak Brook, IL Apply Online IT Product Owner HUB GROUP INC. - seeks IT Product Owner in Oak Brook, IL to lead scrum teams. BS in Comp Sci, Info Systs, or rltd field or frgn eqvlnt & 5 yrs of rlvnt exp in Product Mngr or rltd position or MS in Comp Sci, Info Systs, or rltd field or frgn eqvlnt & 2 yrs of rlvnt exp in Product Mngr or rltd position req’d. Will accpt any stble cmbntn of ed, trning, & exp. For position details & to apply, visit: https://www.hubgroup.com/careers/ job ID# 5149. Chicago, IL Apply Online IT Advisor ERNST & YOUNG U.S. LLP - IT Advisor – Technology Consulting – SAP – Manufacturing (Manager) (Multiple Positions) (1500537), Ernst & Young U.S. LLP, Chicago, IL. Provide clients with a unique business perspective on how to leverage SAP technology to improve their operations with a focus on helping clients improve performance and increase productivity in the digital era. Requires travel up to 80%, which 10% may be international, to serve client needs. Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience. $177,340.00 per year. For complete job description, list of requirements, and to apply online, go to: ey.com/en_us/careers and click on “Careers - Job Search”, then “Search Jobs” (Job Number - 1500537). Chicago, IL Apply Online IT Advisor ERNST & YOUNG U.S. LLP - IT Advisor, Technology Consulting - Microsoft (M365) Modern Workplace (Manager) (Multiple Positions) (1500719), Ernst & Young U.S. LLP, Chicago, IL. Design, customization and optimization of digital workplace solutions, with Microsoft 365 and Azure. Requires domestic and international travel up to 50% to serve client needs. Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience. $195,400.00 per year. For complete job description, list of requirements, and to apply online, go to: ey.com/en_us/careers and click on “Careers - Job Search”, then “Search Jobs” (Job Number - 1500719). Rockville, MD Apply by Email IBM iSeries Programmer/Analysts COMPUTER PACKAGES INC - Computer Packages Inc, an international business specializing in Intellectual Property management solutions is seeking programmers with strong knowledge of COBOL and/or RPG. Experience with Java, DB2, iSeries/AS400 application development a plus. Excellent salary and benefits including health insurance, tuition reimbursement and opportunity for growth. Job responsibilities include: - Analyze, design, code, test, and maintain applications on the IBM AS/400 iSeries platform. This includes programming for data entry, update/file maintenance, reports generations, and auto-generations of emails for clients, agents, and patent office using COBOL, Control Language, DB2, and RPG. - Meet with Data Analysts to discuss program designs to automate processes and problem resolution to enhance productivity of existing computer application systems. - Evaluate codes for efficiency, debugging and quality assurance by reviewing programs on a frequent basis and making adjustment when they are necessary to ensure that the system is working properly. - Develop and maintain technical documentation, guidelines, and procedures. - Create job schedulers which will automatically execute batch application programs hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly as needed. - Generate ad-hoc or query reports using SQL. - Learn new technical concepts and programming languages as needed. - Provide technical support to end-users Please send resume to: [email protected] Chicago, IL Apply by Email Host Application Team Lead I JOHN BEAN TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (JBT) - Develop application code to control a fleet of automated vehicles using object-oriented concepts and C# languages; build and execute database queries using SQL; Perform Root Cause Analysis on Project Budget overrun and Schedule delays. Position is eligible to work remotely up to 75% of the time. 25% of travel required. Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science or closely related field. 5 years as Software Developer or similar occupation that provides the required experience. 5 years of experience of Software Design and Development to capture project requirements and create software flow diagrams, 3 years of experience developing code using object-oriented language, such as Jscript or C#, 3 years of experience building and executing database queries using SQL. Email resume to [email protected] Bannockburn, IL Apply by Email DevOps Engineer THE HERTZ CORPORATION - seeks a DevOps Engineer in Bannockburn, IL to define and build DevSecOps reqs & capabilities. Reqs bach degree (or foreign edu equiv) in Comp Sci, Software Eng, or closely related field & 5 yrs as a DevOps Engineer (or closely related occupation) performing software engineering and DevOps using GIT, Jenkins, Docker, and Java. Or, Master’s degree (or foreign edu equiv) in prev stated fields & 3 yrs of prev stated exp. Reqs up to 10% domestic travel. To apply, email resume to [email protected] w/ GC400330 in subj line. Chicago, IL Apply by Email Developer Operations Team Lead NATIONAL COLLEGIATE SCOUTING ASSOCIATION LLC - Bach or forgn equiv in CS, comp engg or rel; + 3 yrs exp. Use exp. w/ Windows + Unix/Linux OS, Python/Bash/Groovy/similar langs, Docker/Kubernetes, distrb’d vers ctrl w/ Git, cloud arch. w/ AWS, autom’n w/ Ansible, infrastructure as code w/ Terraform, container orchestr’n, continuous integr’n w/ Jenkins/GitHub actions/Datadog/Sentry/similar; + an incident command sys to manage sw apps + IT microsvcs. National Collegiate Scouting Association LLC. May telecommute to Chicago IL from any US loc. F/T. $124K/yr-$137K/yr. Benefits: https://tinyurl.com/yc2drau6. Send resume to [email protected] re: job 6004. No calls/agents/visa sponsorship. Maximize yourjob search with the ChicagoTribune. Chicago, IL Apply by Email Senior Solution Consultant IT SOFT USA, INC. DBA: ENGINEERING USA - Senior Solution Consultant for IT Soft USA, Inc. DBA: Engineering USA in Chicago, IL to maintain effective relationships with internal customers and technical peers to support effective delivery. Requires: Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering, or a closely related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) plus five (5) years of experience as a Solution Consultant (or a closely related occupation) performing engineering and manufacturing processes for design and development of software products. This is a telecommute position. Position reports to ENG USA headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. May work from a home office anywhere in the United States. Submit resume to IT Soft USA, Inc. DBA: Engineering USA, Katie Mazuc, [email protected]. Salary: $122,990.00/year. Reference Position Number: 000019. Chicago, IL Apply by Email Senior PLM Consultant IT SOFT USA, INC. DBA: ENGINEERING USA - Senior PLM Consultant for IT Soft USA, Inc. DBA: Engineering USA in Chicago, IL to be part of the professional solution team to provide support and advanced technical expertise for projects throughout the project lifecycle (including implementation/ installation, configuration, testing, training delivery, deployment, and production support). Requires: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) plus five (5) years of experience in utilizing Siemens Teamcenter in a manufacturing environment. This is a telecommute position. Position reports to IT Soft USA, Inc. headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. May work from a home office anywhere in the United States. Submit resume to IT Soft USA, Inc. DBA: Engineering USA, Katie Mazuc, [email protected]. Salary: $144,560.00/year. Reference Position Number: 000036. Chicago, IL Apply by Email Senior Manager, Solutions Architect (Mult Pos) PWC PRODUCT SALES LLC - Prvd strtgc directn for process automtn archtctre in spprt of the ovrll entrprse automtn initiatv. Req Bach’s deg or foreign equiv in Comp Sci, IT, MIS, Engg or rel + 6 yrs (of whch 5 mst be post-bach’s, prgrssv) rel wrk exp; OR Master’s deg or foreign equiv in Comp Sci, IT, MIS, Engg or rel + 4 yrs rel wrk exp. 80% telecommtng prmttd. Mst be able to commute to designated local office. Domestic &/or int. travel up to 80% req. Please apply by sending your resume to [email protected], specifying Job Code IL4161 in the subject line. Naperville, IL Apply by Mail or Email SAP Technical Consultant (MDG) (MYGO CONSULTING INC. HAS MULTIPLE OPENINGS IN NAPERVILLE, IL) - SAP Technical Consultant (MDG): Follow agile S/W development methodologies (SCRUM) S/W development to plan & prioritize the sprint scope. Will work in various unanticipated locations throughout the U.S. Mail resume to Mygo Consulting, Inc. 1700 Park St., Suite 207, Naperville, IL 60563 or email to [email protected]. Refer to job title. Naperville, IL Apply by Email Principal Software Specialist (Mult. Pos.) NOKIA OF AMERICA CORP - Perform sw design for call processing dev. supporting 4G/5G MME/AMF call processing arch. Req. Bach’s deg. or foreign equiv, & 6 yrs. of exp. with 5 yrs. of post-bach’s, prog. exp. or Mast’s deg. or foreign equiv, & 4 yrs. of related exp. Salary: $145,463 - $226,673 yr. Telecommuting from a loc. within commuting distance of Naperville, IL may be permitted up to 60%.Interested applicants email their CV to [email protected] & specify Req.# IL24- 2303253 in subj. line. Chicago, IL Apply by Email Principal Engineers (Multiple Openings) IMANAGE LLC - seeks in Chicago, IL: Principal Engineers (Multiple Openings) w/ BS or for. equiv. degree in Comp Eng’g, Comp Sci or Applied Comp Sci plus 5 yrs exp as SW Eng. or sub. sim. pos. 100% telecommuting permitted from anywhere in US except HI. Send resume to [email protected] (Ref. no. L1122). Riverwoods, IL Apply Online Principal Data Science (Multiple openings) DISCOVER BANK - has openings for Principal Data Science (Multiple openings) $131,498 to $177,300 in Riverwoods, IL. Provides thought leadership & strategic thinking to translate business problem into analytical framework(s), and independently recommend actions and provide business insights. Operates as a subject matter expert on statistical analysis, test and design of experiment, analysis methodology, modeling & application, and financial impact analysis. Telecommuting and/or working from home may be permissible pursuant company policies. To be considered, search by title and apply online at http://jobs.discover.com. Equal Opportunity Employer/ disability/vet. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position. We also over a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. Learn more at MyDiscoverBenefits.com Chicago, IL Apply by Email Principal Consultant IT SOFT USA, INC. DBA: ENG USA - Principal Consultant for IT Soft USA, Inc. DBA: ENG USA in Chicago, IL to act as part of a Services team, working productively with Consultants, Engineers, Project Managers, and other internal and external interfaces to ensure that the customer succeeds in their objectives. Requires: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) plus five (5) years of experience as Associate Consultant (or closely related occupation) performing implementation of Serialization and Track & Trace projects. This is a telecommute position. Position reports to IT Soft USA, Inc. headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. May work from a home office anywhere in the United States. Submit resume to IT Soft USA, Inc. DBA: ENG USA, Katie Mazuc, [email protected]. Salary: $160,000.08/year. Reference Position Number: 000033. Riverwoods, IL Apply Online Principal Application Engineer(s) DFS CORPORATE SERVICES LLC - has openings for Principal Application Engineer(s) $144,560.00 to $175,600.00 in Riverwoods, Illinois. Creates solutions addressing high impact technology and business priorities. Competent in multiple contexts, including programming languages, security, automation, testing, and business domains. Telecommuting and/or working from home may be permissible pursuant to company policies. To be considered, search by title and apply online at http://jobs.discover.com. Equal Opportunity Employer/disability/vet. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position. We also over a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. Learn more at MyDiscoverBenefits.com Chicago, IL Apply by Email Network Engineer II NEXTGEN GLOBAL RESOURCES, LLC - Network Engineer II sought by NextGen Global Resources, LLC in Chicago, IL. Freq travel to unantic loc throu U.S. Background check req. BS in Comp Sci, Comp Eng, Elct Eng, Communic Eng, Comp IT or rel + 3 yrs exp + special skills. To apply send resumes to Erica Skibicki at 300 S Wacker Dr., STE 1313 Chicago, IL 60606, or [email protected]. Chicago, IL Apply Online Multiple Positions META PLATFORMS, INC. (F/K/A FACEBOOK, INC.) - has the following positions in Chicago, IL: Business Planning & Operations Lead: Business Insights: primarily focus on business insights modeling and operational excellence to enable Sales and BPO leadership to make effective, data-driven, strategic operating decisions in an effort to optimize sales performance. (ref. code REQ-2404-135677: $182,194/year to $205,700/year). Data Engineer: Design, build, and launch data pipelines to move data across systems and build the next generation of data tools that generate business insights for a product. (ref. code REQ-2404-136167: $162,706/year to $196,900/year). Individual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus or equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base salary, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta at this link: https://www.metacareers.com/facebook-life/benefits. For full information & to apply online, visit us at the following website http://www.metacareers.com/jobs & search using the ref code(s) above. Riverwoods, IL Apply Online Multiple Openings DISCOVER PRODUCTS INC - has the following openings in its Riverwoods, IL location (telecommuting and/or working from home may be permissible pursuant to company policy): Lead Data Science Analyst(s) $110,594 to $143,300. Leads the development and implementation of advanced analytics including customer segmentation, optimization, prescriptive analytics and machine learning algorithm & recommendation to solve business problems. Operates as a subject matter expert on statistical analysis, test and design of experiment, analysis methodology, modeling & application, and financial impact analysis. Senior Data Science Analyst(s) $85,500.00 to $119,500.00. Develops advanced analytics solutions including customer segmentation, optimization, test & design of experiments and prescriptive analytics to solve business problems. Operates as a subject matter expert on statistical analysis, test and design of experiment, analysis methodology, modeling & application, and financial impact analysis. To be considered, search by title and apply online at http://jobs.discover. com. Equal Opportunity Employer/disability/vet. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position. We also over a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. Learn more at MyDiscoverBenefits.com

12 Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 Scan the list, see who’s hiring, then go online for more details or to apply. The ChicagoTribune has allthe resources you need to startanew career. Chicago, IL Apply Online Technology Risk Advisor ERNST & YOUNG U.S. LLP - Technology Risk Advisor - Technology Risk (Audit) - Financial Services Office (Manager) (Multiple Positions), Ernst & Young U.S. LLP, Chicago, IL. Analyze business, financial, and information systems and other data processing problems to implement and improve computer systems. Requires domestic and regional travel up to 80% to serve client needs. Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience. $120,328.00 per year. For complete job description, list of requirements, and to apply online, go to: ey.com/en_us/careers and click on “Careers - Job Search”, then “Search Jobs” (Job Number - 1501163). Lincolnshire, IL Apply Online Team Lead, Software Development OMEDA HOLDINGS, LLC - seeks Team Lead, Software Development for its Lincolnshire, IL (and various unanticipated locations throughout the U.S.) location to participate in off hour Maintenance, Patch Releases and Support. Participate, as needed, in the performance review process twice a year for team members in order to provide feedback related to projects worked on. 100% Telecommuting/working from home permitted CONTACT: Apply online at: https://www.omeda.com/careers/. Please refer to Job #req21144.4.1 Chicago, IL Apply by email or mail Support Engineer 4 NEXTGEN GLOBAL RESOURCES, LLC - Support Engineer 4 sought by NextGen Global Resources, LLC in Chicago, IL. Freq travel to unantic loc throu US. Some work from home available. BS Electrical Engr, Electronics Engr or Electronics + 4 yr exp + special skills. To apply send resumes to Erica Skibicki at [email protected] or at 300 S Wacker Dr, Ste. 1313, Chicago, IL 60606. 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As provided in Section 16-108.25 of the Act, ComEd was required to file a tariff that sets forth the processes and procedures by which an electric utility will transition from its formula ratemaking mechanism to either a Multi-Year Rate Plan or a general rate case under Article IX of the Act. ComEd’s transition tariff, Rider DSPR – Delivery Service Pricing Reconciliation (Rider DSPR), was approved by the ICC. ComEd’s 2023 actual costs, which are now known, are reconciled with the corresponding costs used as part of the prior formula rate update filing. Based upon actual costs incurred during 2023, including interest and adjustments, the distribution revenue requirement is $627,389,000 higher than the revenue requirement in effect in 2023 of $2,794,886,000. Of this amount, $2,860,265,000 was approved by the Commission (See Commonwealth Edison Co., ICC Docket No. 22-0302, Final Order (November 17, 2022) at Appendix A, Attachment 1 – Summary, Line 1, Col h), and ($65,379,000) was an adjustment related to Rider EDITA – Excess Deferred Income Tax Adjustment. For residential customers receiving bundled fixed-price electric service from ComEd, the delivery service charges are only a portion of the total bill. The remaining portion includes the cost of the electricity supply and other services, which are subject to the procurement process established by Section 1-75 of the Illinois Power Agency Act and the provisions of Section 16-111.5 of the Act and/or to regulation by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Using supply rates, delivery charges, and other charges applicable to the April 2024 billing period, the estimated total bill impacts related to changes in reconciliation costs under Rider DSPR are provided herein. Increases are denoted by a + sign, and decreases are denoted by a – sign. When keeping electricity supply and other charges constant, the updated rates for the delivery portion with respect to Rider DSPR result in an overall change in the total residential bills, on average, of approximately +$4.54 per month or an estimated increase of +4.3% of the total bill. Total bill impacts for residential customers vary by delivery class and electric usage. For example, on average, the estimated total bill impact for multifamily residential customers without electric space heat utilizing 345 kilowatt-hours (“kWhs”) per month is +$2.74 per month or +4.5%. Likewise, on average, the estimated total bill impact for single-family residential customers without electric space heat utilizing, on average, 719 kWhs per month is +$5.54 per month or +4.5%. 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INSIDE RIDES Automotive news and reviews, plus Motormouth Bob Weber answers drivers’ questions CHICAGO SPORTS In the context of the 2024 NFL draft, Thomas Dimitroff’s words last week were a timely reminder of what to look for in two or three years. “If you fail on the quarterback and everything else goes awry in the next two years, yes, you’re out and you’re never back in,” Dimitroff, the former Atlanta Falcons general manager, said in an appearance on the “Ross Tucker Football Podcast.” That sentiment had to be part of Ryan Poles’ thinking and impetus a year ago, when the Chicago Bears traded out of the No. 1 pick with the Carolina Panthers, passing on the opportunity to select Bryce Young or C.J. Stroud. How this year’s top pick, Caleb Williams, fares in comparison with Stroud — the reigning offensive rookie of the year — is a storyline to track closely the next few seasons. Poles knew the Bears infrastructure coming out of a miserable 2022 season with a poor cast of skill-position talent and an underwhelming offensive line (to say nothing of a bad defense with all sorts of needs) didn’t offer much support for a rookie quarterback. But there was risk involved in trading back with the Panthers and staying the course with Justin Fields. The Bears had no way of knowing if Fields would make enough improvements — he did not — or what kind of pick they would receive from the Panthers, who had a respected offensive coach in Frank Reich to tutor Young. There was no way of telling the Panthers and Young would experience a complete meltdown, just as it was impossible to forecast Stroud would thrive from the start for the Houston Texans, who had one of the worst rosters in the league coming out of the 2022 season. That brings us back to the recently completed draft, in which six quarterbacks were chosen in the first round for the first time since 1983. The NFL arms race has never been more intense as QBs went 1-2-3 and the six came off the board in the first 12 picks, setting up a couple of teams for potential great success while odds tell us just as many will experience utter failure. Five quarterbacks were Locked and loaded No. 1 pick Caleb Williams, above, No. 2 Jayden Daniels, center, No. 3 Drake Maye, top left, No. 8 Michael Penix Jr., top right, No. 10 J.J. McCarthy, bottom right, and No. 12 Bo Nix, bottom left, were the six quarterbacks selected in the first round of the NFL draft. JEFF ROBERSON/AP ADAM HUNGER/AP JEFF ROBERSON/AP JOHN BAZEMORE/AP DAVID ZALUBOWSKI/AP ABBIE PARR/AP The NFL arms race — with 6 QBs drafted in Round 1 — has turned up the heat on GMs Sierra Leone, with jockey Tyler Gaffalione (2), Forever Young, with jockey Ryusei Sakai, and Mystik, Dan with jockey Brian Hernandez Jr., cross the finish line during the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. KIICHIRO SATO/AP By Claire Galofaro Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The 150th Kentucky Derby produced one of the most dramatic finishes in its storied history — three noses at the wire. Mystik Dan desperately fought to hang on with two challengers coming to him in the closing strides. He did, too, after a delay of several minutes while the closest three-horse photo finish since 1947 was sorted out. That year, Jet Pilot won by a head over Phalanx, who was another head in front of Faultless. This one was much tighter. Mystik Dan, an 18-1 shot, edged Sierra Leone by a nose, with Forever Young another nose back in third on Saturday. Sierra Leone was the most expensive horse in the race at $2.3 million. Long shots Track Phantom and Just Steel led the field through the early going, with 3-1 favorite Fierceness racing three-wide just off the leaders. At the top of the stretch, everything changed. Track Phantom drifted off the rail, opening a hole that Hernandez squeezed Mystik Dan through, and the bay colt suddenly found another gear. He quickly opened up a daylight advantage on the field. “When he shot through that spot, he was able to cut the corner and I asked him to go for it,” KENTUCKY DERBY By a nose: Mystik Dan wins Brad Biggs On the Bears Turn to Biggs, Page 2 Paul Sullivan In the Wake of the News UP NEXT Brewers at Cubs 1:20 p.m. Sunday Marquee Caleb Williams stole the show from Jameson Taillon on Saturday afternoon at Wrigley Field, earning his first standing ovation in Chicago after being shown on the video board during the top of the seventh inning of the Cubs’ 6-5 victory against the Milwaukee Brewers. Taillon allowed two hits over six shutout innings before being replaced in the seventh with a 5-0 lead. The mere sight of Williams, wearing a Cubs jersey and sitting with several Bears teammates in a right-field suite, was perfectly timed for a town thirsting for a winner. But moments after the standing-room-only crowd of 40,505 saluted the new Bears quarterback, the Cubs bullpen began to crumble, a recurring theme that changed the mood from celebratory to fidgety in a nanosecond. It was a vintage Chicago scene as fans endured a roller coaster of emotions on a warm spring afternoon that hinted at the coming of summer. In the end, the Cubs managed to hold on for a 6-5 win, giving Taillon his third victory and manager Craig Counsell first blood in his first head–to-head matchup against Brewers manager Pat Murphy, his longtime friend and former bench coach who was suspended for Friday’s series opener. Hector Neris survived a shaky ninth inning for his sixth save, helping panicky Cubs fans step off the ledge, at least for the time being. The Cubs bullpen will be suspect until further notice, making the rotation more important than ever. The cast of characters seems up to the challenge. Taillon’s ERA is 1.13 after four starts, while Shota Imanaga (5-0) leads the majors with an 0.78 ERA, the fourth-lowest mark after six starts by any pitcher since 1912. And Javier Assad, who starts the rubber game Sunday, has a 1.97 ERA. With ace Justin Steele returning from his hamstring injury Monday against the San Diego Padres and youngsters Hayden Wesneski and Ben Brown dealing, the starters have helped relieve the stress from all of the other issues. “We’re pretty solid,” Taillon CUBS 6, BREWERS 5 Bullpen keeps Wrigley anxious Cubs manage to escape Brewers with Bears’ Williams in attendance Turn to Sullivan, Page 2 DERBY RESULTS 1. Mystik Dan: Win $39.22 2. Sierra Leone: Place $6.54 3. Forever Young: Show $5.58 $1 Exacta 1-2: $129.28 $0.50 Trifecta 1-2-3: $556.92 $1 Superfecta 1-2-3-4: $8,254.07 Turn to Derby, Page 5 Chicago Tribune | Section 3 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 1

Team Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday CUBS MIL 1:20 p.m | Marquee SD 6:40 p.m. | Marquee SD 6:40 p.m. | Marquee SD 1:20 p.m. | Marquee WHITE SOX @STL 1:15 p.m. | NBCSCH @TB 5:50 p.m. | NBCSCH @TB 5:50 p.m. | NBCSCH @TB 5:50 p.m. | NBCSCH CLE 6:40 p.m. | NBCSCH SKY NY (exh.) 6 p.m. FIRE Next game Saturday @STL RED STARS @SJ 7 p.m. | Marquee Associated Press The WNBA debuts of Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso were widely watched on a social media livestream from a fan who stepped in when the league’s app couldn’t broadcast the game. Reese and Cardoso played their first preseason game for the Chicago Sky on Friday night in a 92-81 road loss to the Minnesota Lynx. The WNBA’s app had incorrectly listed the game as available to watch, leading to confusion from fans before the league clarified that only Caitlin Clark’s debut with the Indiana Fever was being broadcast. That’s when @heyheyitsalli stepped in on X, the social media site formerly called Twitter. “Would y’all want me to try and stream the game on here??” the X user asked. “No promises on the quality but i can try.” Viewership numbers on the livestream varied, but on Saturday the video showed about 434,000 total views. The X user previously posted a screenshot showing that the stream peaked at 173,381 live viewers. “Y’all these are some of THE WILDEST numbers WOW,” the user tweeted. Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve was asked about the stream after the game. She said @heyheyitsalli deserves “three bucks” per viewer. “Anybody that watched it should send three bucks to the person, I don’t even know who it is,” Reeve said. “What I would say is that the growth is happening so fast. It’s so accelerated. And I’ve been saying this in our own organization — that business as usual isn’t going to work anymore. You’re going to get left behind and this is an example.” Reeve said she understood why Clark’s game was broadcast and is “all for that.” “People want to see that, but they also want to see, you know, it’s not just about Caitlin,” Reeve said. “This isn’t Caitlin’s fault in any way. It’s more, you know, the recognition that there’s general excitement about the WNBA in ways that we haven’t seen before. And so we have to capitalize to really ensure that this is a movement.” Reese finished with 13 points and nine rebounds in 24 minutes. Cardoso had six points and four rebounds in 13 minutes. Sky coach Teresa Weatherspoon said she was pleased with the rookies’ debuts. “This is a learning process for all of us … and we’re going through that process in the right way,” she said. “We got our leaders leading them, pulling them along, keeping them confident. That’s what matters. So we’re in a great place and they’re in a hell of a great place.” SKY Preseason opener widely watched on livestream Sky players Angel Reese, from left, Marina Mabrey, Diamond DeShields and Isabelle Harrison watch from the sideline during training camp on Wednesday in Deerfield. STACEY WESCOTT/CHICAGO TRIBUNE drafted in the first round in 2021, and only the Jacksonville Jaguars’ Trevor Lawrence remains with his original team and entrenched as the starter. None of the others — Zach Wilson, Trey Lance, Fields and Mac Jones — projects to start for his new team in spring depth charts. The fallout for all four was fast and the drop was steep. The whiff rate on high picks at the game’s premium position is alarming, but teams stuck in purgatory — or worse — without an elite quarterback can’t find their way out of the conundrum without landing one. “You are judged by your big decisions as a general manager,” Dimitroff said. “Most important, obviously, is picking a quarterback.” By waiting a year, Poles appears to have the ideal landing spot for Williams when considering the talent he has been able to amass around the position in the last year-plus. There’s no such thing as a fail-safe roster for a quarterback, but Williams is positioned for early success when assessing the roster as a whole. While it’s not discussed a lot, front-office moves are often based on survival. Pick your spot to draft a quarterback because once you do, the clock starts ticking and the evaluation process speeds up for everyone. Usually when you draft a quarterback, you buy yourself a couple of seasons for that process to play out. Of course, that didn’t happen for former Bears GM Ryan Pace after Fields’ 2021 season was a disaster all the way around, not just for the rookie quarterback. It will be fascinating to see how the other rookie quarterbacks fare in comparison with Williams. New Washington Commanders GM Adam Peters selected Jayden Daniels at No. 2, and there isn’t a lot surrounding him. The Commanders aren’t built to withstand a miss the way the San Francisco 49ers — Peters’ previous team — were when Lance flopped and the team was able to pivot to a tremendous discovery in seventh-round pick Brock Purdy. The Falcons delivered the shocker of the draft. Most figured they would try to augment their defensive line, and GM Terry Fontenot instead went with Michael Penix at No. 8, five picks after the New England Patriots took Drake Maye. Fontenot explained he wants to avoid a QB quandary when Kirk Cousins, who turns 36 in August, is done. It’s longrange thinking after Cousins signed a four-year, $180 million contract that guarantees him $100 million. Penix likely won’t help the Falcons win on the field this season, though, and that’s where the move has been roundly criticized. Still, it reinforces the conviction in the building for the Washington product. In the NFC North, there’s also focus on LaGrange native J.J. McCarthy, whom the Minnesota Vikings traded up to choose at No. 10. GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah was in scramble mode to replace Cousins and is taking his chances with McCarthy after the Vikings had been strongly linked to Maye, with whom quarterbacks coach Josh McCown worked in high school. The Vikings were viewed as a desired landing spot (along with the Bears) for some agents of the top quarterbacks because of the infrastructure in place, including wide receivers Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison, tight end T.J. Hockenson, a solid offensive line and impressive young coach Kevin O’Connell. Whether it works out for McCarthy, who knows? “His talent, his traits are as high-end as anybody and mold him into that player we want to be,” Adofo-Mensah told Minnesota media. “We talked about a lot here. A lot of times when we go back over history and we say these quarterbacks have missed, there’s a lot of hands that are dirty in that regard. We’re going to make sure that our hands are clean and give him the best opportunity to be the best player he can be in this offense.” The Denver Broncos, pivoting from two disappointing seasons after a trade for Russell Wilson, refused to wait around for Bo Nix, grabbing him with the 12th pick in part because they were short on draft capital without a Round 2 selection. Broncos coach Sean Payton described Nix’s strengths in ways that evoked similarities to what Payton did with a high level of success in New Orleans with Drew Brees. But most expected if Nix was going to be a Day 1 pick, it would be at the back end of the round. The Broncos didn’t want to risk the Las Vegas Raiders, who were squeezed out of the QB market by the early run, or another team scooping up Nix. Now they set out with their own plan to bring along a rookie. “The two biggest allies to that, I believe strongly, are good defensive play and a running game,” Payton told Denver media. “In other words, if you are a quarterback and you’re having trouble running the ball — or let’s get worse — if you’re a quarterback and you’re having trouble running the ball or stopping people, your job description becomes very difficult. When you’re playing good defense and you have a running game, your job description is a little bit more palatable.” By the time the 2026 season rolls around, a couple of these quarterbacks could be entering the upper echelon of the league. In 2027, some of these teams could be plotting their next move to reboot the position — maybe with a new GM calling the shots. “You get two chances, I think, as a GM with your head coach,” Dimitroff said. “I don’t know if you do necessarily putting yourself on the line for that quarterback. If that fails, man, your owner is looking at you with sort of a wry eye.” That wry eye can lead to massive organizational overhaul. Biggs from Page 1 said. “Getting Steely back is huge. Everybody saw what he did last year and he was off to a scorching-hot start there in that opening-day start (in Texas). We’re all really excited, and then when you add someone like Steely back, that’s huge no matter who he is replacing or what’s going on. “The strength of our rotation is that we’re super deep. We’ve got six or seven really legit options, which is super exciting. And if you come in to play us for a series, it’s not like you can circle a guy and be like, ‘Man, I hope we can get him.’ Hopefully he comes in and goes, ‘Man, we’ve got three tough guys every series.’” A sagging offense, the ongoing bullpen saga surrounding Adbert Alzolay and some defensive lapses by usually reliable Gold Glove middle infielders Dansby Swanson and Nico Hoerner have made this spring difficult to decipher. The bullpen already has eight blown saves, and after ranking sixth in 2023 with 36 defensive runs saved, the Cubs entered Saturday ranked 24th with minus-6 DRS. Counsell doesn’t appear worried and said mistakes are part of the game. And the Cubs’ 20-14 record is good, especially considering outfielders Cody Bellinger and Seiya Suzuki joined Steele on the injured list last month. But the overall vibe at Wrigley on Saturday was that things could be much better. Bellinger and Suzuki should be back next week, according to Counsell. Suzuki likely will have a short minor-league rehab stint, while Bellinger figures to return without one. Looking for offense, Counsell said the Cubs will rotate at designated hitter after sending Matt Mervis back to Triple-A Iowa on Saturday and calling up Miles Mastrobuoni. Has the absence of Bellinger and Suzuki taken a toll on the rest of the lineup? “Look, I think we’ve got some hitters that aren’t on it right now, and it has coincided with some guys missing from the lineup,” Counsell said. “Is that stuff related? I’m not smart enough to tell you that. But certainly we’ve got a bunch of guys not swinging. “We’ve gone through phases where we’ve taken turns and had a guy really hot in the lineup, and (since) the last two days in Boston we really haven’t. Maybe Chris Morel is the exception with (four) home runs (in the last six games). It just led to some low run-scoring games, unfortunately.” Morel homered for the third straight day and Hoerner and Patrick Wisdom hit their first homers of the season to give Taillon a 5-0 lead. But the Brewers answered with four in the seventh off Keegan Thompson and Mark Leiter Jr. before Leiter shut the door. Wisdom’s RBI single in the eighth made it 6-4, and Neris performed his usual great escape act in the ninth after walking the leadoff man, botching a comebacker and yielding an RBI single to William Contreras. Neris struck out Tyler Black and induced Willy Adames to hit a grounder to short that stranded the tying run on second. “There’s definitely no panic (in Neris),” Taillon said. “I get nervous when I’m not in control of what’s going on out there. But he seems to not be nervous and he’s in control. Just glad we could pull it out.” Neris might not be nervous, but he certainly can make everyone in the ballpark nervous watching him. That appears to be the theme of this year’s Cubs, who can’t seem to do anything easy. But in a town that hasn’t seen a winner in quite a while, a little bit of anxiety beats apathy every time. Hopefully Williams and his Bears teammates were taking mental notes. Sullivan from Page 1 Ian Happ, left, and Héctor Neris celebrate the Cubs’ win over the Brewers on Saturday at Wrigley Field. The Cubs defeated the Brewers 6-5. NUCCIO DINUZZO/GETTY The Cubs’ Christopher Morel celebrates his two-run home run off Tobias Myers during the third inning Saturday. CHARLES REX ARBOGAST/AP 2 Chicago Tribune | Section 3 | Sunday, May 5, 2024

WHITE SOX By LaMond Pope Chicago Tribune ST. LOUIS — Bryan Ramos got pulled after the sixth inning of Double-A Birmingham’s game Friday against the Rocket City Trash Pandas. “They take me out and at the beginning I said, ‘What is this?’” Ramos said Saturday morning. “But you think about it and you know what was going on.” The No. 4 prospect in the White Sox system according to MLB.com, Ramos found out why a little later, when he was informed he was being promoted to the major leagues. “You don’t know until after the game,” he said. “They said in front of everybody and it was pretty cool. We won on a walk-off and after the game they gave the news. Everybody was fired up already and they jumped on me and gave congratulations. That was pretty fun.” The 22-year-old third baseman joined the Sox before Saturday’s game against the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium. “Every kid dreams of it when they are little,” Ramos said. “To be here now is kind of everything. I’m so happy right now.” While Ramos wasn’t in the starting lineup Saturday, manager Pedro Grifol said before the game “he’ll get a lot of playing time.” “He’s here to play,” Grifol said. “It’s a good opportunity for him to experience this and a good opportunity for us to evaluate where he is in his development.” Ramos entered in the ninth Saturday as a defensive replacement at third base. He was involved in a play in the 10th when Alec Burleson hit a grounder to third. The Cardinals had runners on the corners and no outs, and Paul Goldschmidt — who was on third — headed for home. Ramos immediately made a low throw to the plate, and Goldschmidt raced back to third safely to load the bases. Sox reliever John Brebbia struck out the next two batters. And after a 3-hour, 3-minute rain delay, Tanner Banks struck out Iván Herrera looking to complete a 6-5 Sox victory. It was the conclusion of 24 hours Ramos never will forget. The Sox signed the Cuban-born Ramos in 2018 when he was 16. He has a career .255/.342/.428 slash line with 67 doubles, 56 home runs, 230 RBIs, 160 walks and 230 runs in 391 games during four seasons in the Sox system. “Extremely talented, extremely young,” Grifol said. “He’s got really all the tools to play at this level.” Ramos was hitting .182 (16-for88) at Birmingham this season with five doubles, two homers, 11 RBIs, seven walks and nine runs in 24 games. He had turned it on lately, hitting safely in his last eight games and going 11-for-33 (.333) with five doubles, two homers, seven RBIs and seven runs during the stretch. “This sport is hard,” Ramos said. “I started the season kind of slow, but now I’m getting my rhythm. I just came to the ballpark with the same mentality. “At some point I know I’m going to get back to my rhythm. You’ve just got to keep playing and keep doing your thing and let’s go.” The Sox placed third baseman Danny Mendick on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to Thursday, with lower back tightness. “It was weird, just kind of picked up an object the wrong way and that night felt a little tweak and the next morning my back was just in a tough spot,” Mendick said. “But I feel good today. Hopefully (the) next few days (I) start to feel better and get back out there.” Ramos called up from Double-A Birmingham Young third baseman, team’s No. 4 prospect, will get playing time White Sox third baseman Bryan Ramos looks on during the ninth inning of his major league debut Saturday in St. Louis. JEFF LE/AP By LaMond Pope Chicago Tribune ST. LOUIS — It’s not every day you get the chance to close out a game in pouring rain. So White Sox reliever John Brebbia — literally and figuratively — soaked up the opportunity. What began as a light sprinkle turned into a downpour as Brebbia faced Masyn Winn. The Sox led by a run in the bottom of the 10th, but the St. Louis Cardinals had the bases loaded and one out. “I love the elements,” Brebbia said. “You don’t often get to play when it’s pouring rain because they stop the game. So I try to take every advantage of that as possible. “It’s just an absolute disaster when it’s coming down like that, so you never know what’s going to happen. It was kind of fun.” As fans scrambled for cover at Busch Stadium, Brebbia tried to keep his hand and the ball as dry as possible to execute his pitches. “The ball could not make it back to me from home plate to the pitcher’s mound without being soaking wet,” Brebbia said. “So I tried to close the gap and get it as quick as I could and just cover it. It was kind of soaked.” Brebbia struck out Winn, then got within two strikes of wrapping up the game when the next batter, Nolan Gorman, fouled off the first pitch. Brebbia approached plate umpire CB Bucknor for a ball as crew chief Dan Iassogna pulled everyone off the field, signaling the start of a rain delay. “I said: ‘Don’t you dare stop this game. Just keep it going,’” Brebbia said. “I don’t know what they said back to me. I know what they wanted to say is: ‘You are an idiot. We are going to stop it.’ “I did my best to try to keep it going so we didn’t have to wait around for hours to finally finish it. Plus, I was having a good time. It was pouring rain and you don’t get to do that often. They disagreed and the grounds crew disagreed, so we cleared the field and finished it later.” Much later, as it turned out. After a 3-hour, 3-minute delay, the Sox completed a 6-5 victory in 10 innings in front of a small portion of the announced crowd of 38,559. When play resumed, Tanner Banks entered in relief for the Sox. “It was funny,” Banks said, “after the rain started and John’s out there arguing with the umpire — ‘Let me finish, let me finish, let me finish’ — and we came inside and it’s, OK, I’m the last arm available in the bullpen — it’s going to be me. “Then it (dragged) out, (dragged) out and (dragged) out. I got to the point sitting here where I was like, OK, I have to relax, do something to take my mind away from the game because you can’t stay locked in for a couple hours. That’s kind of the mentality of the bullpen. I ended up taking a nap to reset and refocus. But it was good.” Banks faced pinch hitter Iván Herrera. “It was a coin toss, so we had an attack strategy for either of the potential hitters,” Banks said. “Just attack. I think the general focus as a pitcher is make your pitches and compete and battle. Fortunately I came in with one strike and (after) one pitch (it was) 0-2, and then you get to play that game a little bit, the chess game of pitching.” Banks threw four pitches and got a called third strike to collect the save and end the marathon afternoon. “I came into the game not really thinking about bases loaded, two outs,” Banks said. “Just me and (catcher) Korey (Lee) and make the pitch that he calls and trust him and trust myself. And when it called strike three, it was a big sigh of relief because, one, we’d been waiting forever but also because we’d won and that’s the goal. “Just to see a plan come together and finish and top to bottom, the pitchers were great, the hitters were great and everybody battled today. We stuck it out through the rain and we had enough time to dry our jerseys.” It took a while, but the Sox snapped a four-game losing streak while improving to to 2-14 on the road and 7-26 overall. “Wild day,” Sox starter Erick Fedde said. “Waiting around to lose would have stunk. I’m really glad we won this one and it was a good one for the team.” WHITE SOX 6, CARDINALS 5 (10) Waiting out a win After lengthy rain delay, Sox complete extra-inning victory The White Sox’s Tommy Pham hits an RBI single during the 10th inning against the Cardinals on Saturday in St. Louis. 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BASEBALL American League EAST W L PCT GB WCGB L10 STR HOME AWAY Baltimore 22 11 .667 — — 7-3 W-3 12-7 10-4 New York 22 13 .629 1 +1½ 5-5 W-2 10-5 12-8 Boston 18 16 .529 4½ 2 5-5 L-3 7-9 11-7 Toronto 16 18 .471 6½ 4 3-7 W-1 8-7 8-11 Tampa Bay 15 18 .455 7 4½ 3-7 W-1 9-9 6-9 CENTRAL W L PCT GB WCGB L10 STR HOME AWAY Cleveland 20 12 .625 — — 4-6 L-2 8-5 12-7 Kansas City 20 13 .606 ½ +½ 7-3 W-3 13-5 7-8 Minnesota 19 13 .594 1 — 10-0 W-12 8-6 11-7 Detroit 18 15 .545 2½ 1½ 5-5 L-2 8-9 10-6 Chicago 6 26 .188 14 13 3-7 L-4 5-12 1-14 WEST W L PCT GB WCGB L10 STR HOME AWAY Seattle 17 15 .531 — — 6-4 L-2 11-8 6-7 Texas 17 16 .515 ½ 2½ 5-5 L-1 10-9 7-7 Oakland 16 17 .485 1½ 3½ 7-3 W-5 8-9 8-8 Houston 12 20 .375 5 7 5-5 W-2 7-10 5-10 Los Angeles 12 20 .375 5 7 3-7 W-1 4-11 8-9 National League EAST W L PCT GB WCGB L10 STR HOME AWAY Philadelphia 22 11 .667 — — 7-3 W-3 11-6 11-5 Atlanta 20 10 .667 ½ +5 6-4 L-1 11-4 9-6 New York 16 16 .500 5½ — 4-6 L-1 9-10 7-6 Washington 16 17 .485 6 ½ ½ 6-4 L-1 5-9 11-8 Miami 9 25 .265 13½ 8 3-7 L-1 5-15 4-10 CENTRAL W L PCT GB WCGB L10 STR HOME AWAY Milwaukee 20 12 .625 — — 6-4 L-1 7-7 13-5 Chicago 20 14 .588 1 +3 5-5 W-1 11-4 9-10 Cincinnati 16 17 .485 4½ ½ 3-7 L-4 9-9 7-8 St. Louis 15 17 .469 5 1 6-4 W-1 6-7 9-10 Pittsburgh 15 19 .441 6 2 2-8 W-1 6-8 9-11 WEST W L PCT GB WCGB L10 STR HOME AWAY Los Angeles 21 13 .618 — — 8-2 W-2 10-8 11-5 San Diego 17 18 .486 4½ ½ 4-6 W-3 8-12 9-6 San Francisco 15 18 .455 5½ 1½ 5-5 L-1 9-7 6-11 Arizona 14 19 .424 6½ 2½ 3-7 L-2 8-9 6-10 Colorado 8 25 .242 12½ 8½ 3-7 L-1 5-10 3-15 BOX SCORES AROUND THE HORN „ Yankees: Aaron Judge was ejected for the first time in his career in the seventh inning, Anthony Rizzo hit a three-run homer to cap a four-run third and the Yankees beat the Tigers 5-3 on Saturday. Judge had two hits, including an RBI double to start the Yankees’ rally in the third before getting ejected by plate umpire Ryan Blakney for arguing a called third strike. „ Pirates: Pirates rookie pitcher Jared Jones is off to a dazzling start. The 22-yearold right-hander struck out 10 batters over seven near-perfect innings in a 1-0 victory over the Rockies. Jones now has 52 strikeouts against just five walks across his first seven starts in the majors. „ Twins: Pablo López struck out eight in six innings, Max Kepler homered and the Twins extended their winning streak to 12 with a 3-1 win over the Red Sox on Saturday. The Twins have the longest winning streak in the majors this season. The Twins’ run matches the team’s streak from the late 1980s, which is the second-longest in Twins history. The club record for consecutive wins is 15 in 1991, which is the last season the Twins won a title. „ Blue Jays: Kevin Gausman pitched 5 1/3 scoreless innings, Kevin Kiermaier hit a two-run homer in his return from the injured list and the Jays beat the Nationals 6-3 on Saturday to end a threegame losing streak. „ Rangers: Nathaniel Lowe had four hits and two RBIs, and the Rangers beat the Royals 15-4 on Saturday night. Lowe went 4 for 6 one night after going hitless in four at bats in the Rangers’ 7-1 loss on Friday. It was his first four-hit game since last July 14. Adolis García, Evan Carter and Travis Jankowski also drove in two runs each. „ Mariners: Logan Gilbert threw eight dominant innings, Luis Urías and Cal Raleigh homered and the Mariners beat the Astros 5-0 on Saturday night. Gilbert (3-0) allowed two hits and four walks and struck out six. „ Phillies: Ranger Suárez pitched six strong innings, Whit Merrifield homered and the streaking Phillies routed the Giants 14-3 on Saturday night. Kyle Schwarber, Johan Rojas and Bryson Stott each drove in two runs, and every starter had at least one hit for the Phillies. „ Athletics: Brent Rooker became the first Athletics player in nearly 30 years to homer twice in an inning, accomplishing the feat in the third inning to help the A’s pound the Marlins 20-4 on Saturday for their sixth consecutive victory. „ Orioles: John Means pitched seven shutout innings in his season debut and the Orioles beat the Reds 2-1 on Saturday night. Means (1-0) underwent season-ending Tommy John surgery on April 27, 2022. He returned to make four starts last September before landing back on the IL with a left forearm strain to begin this season. „ Rays: Pinch hitter Austin Shenton’s bases-loaded walk scored a tiebreaking run in the eighth inning and the Rays beat the Mets 3-1 on Saturday night. N.Y. YANKEES 5, DETROIT 3 Detroit AB R H BI SO AVG Greene lf 3 1 1 1 2 .276 Canha dh 4 0 0 0 2 .255 Perez cf 4 1 2 0 2 .302 Carpenter rf 2 0 0 0 1 .260 Vierling 3b 4 1 2 1 2 .289 Keith 2b 1 0 0 1 0 .155 a-Ibanez ph-2b 2 0 1 0 1 .333 Torkelson 1b 4 0 0 0 2 .205 McKinstry ss 4 0 1 0 1 .216 Kelly c 3 0 0 0 1 .176 TOTALS 31 3 7 3 14 New York AB R H BI SO AVG Volpe ss 3 1 0 0 1 .258 Soto rf 4 1 1 0 0 .318 Judge cf 4 2 2 1 2 .209 Grisham cf 0 0 0 0 0 .071 Verdugo lf 4 0 1 0 1 .270 Stanton dh 4 0 1 1 1 .225 Rizzo 1b 4 1 2 3 0 .263 Torres 2b 4 0 1 0 2 .221 Trevino c 3 0 1 0 0 .281 Cabrera 3b 3 0 0 0 1 .239 TOTALS 33 5 9 5 8 Detroit 100 200 000 3 7 0 New York 104 000 00x 5 9 0 a-struck out for Keith in the 6th. LOB: Detroit 5, New York 5. 2B: Judge (7). 3B: Vierling (2). HR: Greene (8), off Schmidt; Rizzo (6), off Mize. RBIs: Greene (16), Vierling (11), Keith (8), Stanton (18), Judge (19), Rizzo 3 (20). SF: Keith. Runners left in scoring position: Detroit 1 (Torkelson); New York 2 (Volpe, Rizzo). RISP: Detroit 0 for 2; New York 3 for 9. GIDP: Torkelson, Kelly. DP: New York 2 (Volpe, Torres, Rizzo; Volpe, Torres, Rizzo). DETROIT IP H R ER BB SO ERA Mize, L, 1-1 51/3 9 5 5 1 6 3.98 Holton 12/3 0 0 0 0 2 4.80 Vest 1 0 0 0 0 0 4.40 NEW YORK IP H R ER BB SO ERA Schmidt, W, 3-1 5 4 3 3 0 7 3.50 Ferguson, H, 6 1/3 1 0 0 1 1 4.15 Weaver, H, 3 21/3 1 0 0 0 4 2.86 Holmes, S, 11-12 11/3 1 0 0 0 2 0.00 First-pitch strikes/Batters Faced: Mize 20/26; Vest 3/3; Holton 4/5. Holmes 3/4; Weaver 6/8; Ferguson 1/3; Schmidt 13/20. Called strikes-Swinging strikes-Foul balls-In play strikes: Mize-13-15- 19-19; Vest-2-2-1-3; Holton-2-4-5-3. Holmes-5-2-2-2; Weaver-8-8-5-4; Ferguson-4-1-5-1; Schmidt-22-11-9-11. Ground Balls-Fly Balls: Mize 5-5; Vest 1-2; Holton 1-2. Holmes 1-0; Weaver 0-3; Schmidt 3-4. Inherited runners-scored: Holton 2-0, Weaver 2-0, Holmes 1-0. HBP: Schmidt 2 (Carpenter,Greene). Umpires: Home, Ryan Blakney; First, Edwin Jimenez; Second, Jim Wolf; Third, Alan Porter. T: 2:34. A: 45,017 (47,309). CHICAGO WHITE SOX 6, ST. LOUIS 5 (10) Chicago AB R H BI SO AVG Lopez 2b 5 1 1 0 3 .207 Pham cf-rf 4 1 1 1 0 .323 Sheets 1b 2 1 1 1 0 .260 a-Vaughn ph-1b2 0 0 0 1 .193 Jimenez dh 3 1 1 1 0 .230 Benintendi lf 5 1 1 0 1 .195 Grossman rf 4 0 0 0 1 .200 Ramos 3b 0 0 0 0 0 --- Lee c 4 0 2 2 0 .271 DeJong ss 4 0 1 0 1 .210 Shewmake 3b 3 0 0 0 1 .140 b-Ortega ph-cf 1 1 0 0 0 .000 TOTALS 37 6 8 5 8 St. Louis AB R H BI SO AVG Donovan lf 5 1 1 2 0 .214 Contreras c 2 1 0 0 1 .276 Goldschmidt 1b5 0 0 0 2 .215 Arenado 3b 3 1 3 3 0 .296 Burleson dh-rf 5 0 0 0 1 .244 Nootbaar rf-cf 5 0 0 0 1 .162 Winn ss 5 0 0 0 1 .264 Gorman 2b 2 1 0 0 1 .182 d-Herrera ph 1 0 0 0 1 .220 Siani cf 3 1 1 0 1 .191 c-Fermin ph 0 0 0 0 0 .333 Fernandez p 0 0 0 0 0 --- TOTALS 36 5 5 5 9 Chicago 200 102 000 1 6 8 0 St. Louis 000 050 000 0 5 5 1 a-struck out for Sheets in the 8th. b-grounded out for Shewmake in the 9th. c-hit by pitch for Siani in the 9th. dfor Gorman in the 10th. E: Gorman (2). LOB: Chicago 6, St. Louis 10. 2B: Sheets (8), Lee (3), Donovan (7). HR: Arenado (2), off Fedde. RBIs: Sheets (12), Jimenez (10), Lee 2 (8), Pham (3), Donovan 2 (18), Arenado 3 (19). SB: Fermin (1). CS: Lee (1). SF: Jimenez. Runners left in scoring position: Chicago 2 (Benintendi, Grossman); St. Louis 5 (Herrera 2, Winn, Goldschmidt, Burleson). RISP: Chicago 3 for 11; St. Louis 3 for 13. Runners moved up: Benintendi 2, Grossman, Lopez, Burleson. CHICAGO IP H R ER BB SO ERA Fedde 41/3 4 5 5 5 2 3.46 Hill 2 0 0 0 0 1 3.38 Wilson 2/3 0 0 0 0 2 3.21 Leone 0 0 0 0 1 0 6.75 Leasure 1 0 0 0 0 0 2.77 Kopech, W, 1-3 1 0 0 0 1 1 4.15 Brebbia, H, 2 2/3 1 0 0 0 2 4.50 Banks, S, 1-2 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 5.65 ST. LOUIS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Lynn 5 4 5 4 3 4 3.28 Kittredge, BS, 0-1 2 1 0 0 0 2 0.64 Romero 1 0 0 0 0 2 1.53 Helsley 1 1 0 0 0 0 1.50 Fernandez, L, 0-1 1 2 1 0 0 0 2.70 Leone pitched to 1 batters in the 8th. Inherited runners-scored: Leasure 1-0, Banks 3-0, Kittredge 2-2. HBP: Kopech (Fermin). WP: Fedde, Leasure. Umpires: Home, CB Bucknor; First, Alex MacKay; Second, Dan Iassogna; Third, Ben May. T: 3:12. A: 38,559 (44,494). MINNESOTA 3, BOSTON 1 Boston AB R H BI SO AVG Ja.Duran cf 2 0 0 0 0 .257 b-Refsnyder ph-rf 0 0 0 0 0 .343 Devers 3b 4 0 0 0 2 .286 O’Neill lf 4 1 1 0 3 .292 Abreu rf-cf 4 0 2 1 2 .307 Wong c 4 0 1 0 2 .346 Smith dh 4 0 2 0 0 .250 Cooper 1b 3 0 0 0 1 .077 Hamilton 2b 4 0 1 0 1 .214 Rafaela ss 3 0 1 0 1 .198 c-McGuire ph 1 0 0 0 0 .250 TOTALS 33 1 8 1 12 Minnesota AB R H BI SO AVG Jeffers dh 4 0 1 0 1 .296 Miranda 3b 3 1 1 0 0 .300 Farmer 3b 0 0 0 0 0 .136 Castro lf-cf 4 1 2 0 1 .290 Correa ss 3 0 0 2 1 .255 Kepler rf 4 1 2 1 1 .273 Santana 1b 4 0 0 0 1 .178 Vazquez c 4 0 1 0 1 .215 A.Martin cf 2 0 1 0 1 .231 a-Kirilloff ph 1 0 0 0 0 .244 Margot lf 0 0 0 0 0 .182 Julien 2b 2 0 0 0 1 .218 TOTALS 31 3 8 3 8 Boston 100 000 000 1 8 0 Minnesota 100 101 00x 3 8 0 a-grounded out for A.Martin in the 6th. b-walked for Ja.Duran in the 7th. c-lined out for Rafaela in the 9th. LOB: Boston 8, Minnesota 7. 2B: O’Neill (3), Jeffers (10). HR: Kepler (2), off Booser. RBIs: Abreu (13), Correa 2 (7), Kepler (11). SB: Hamilton (3), A.Martin (3), Castro (4). SF: Correa. Runners left in scoring position: Boston 4 (Smith, Devers 3); Minnesota 5 (Miranda, Kirilloff, Correa 2, Kepler). RISP: Boston 1 for 6; Minnesota 0 for 7. Runners moved up: Ja.Duran, Correa. GIDP: Devers. DP: Minnesota 1 (Santana, Correa, Santana). BOSTON IP H R ER BB SO ERA Bernardino 1 1 1 0 0 1 0.68 Weissert 2 1 0 0 0 3 1.20 Booser, L, 0-1 11/3 2 1 1 0 2 3.86 Slaten 12/3 3 1 1 0 1 0.95 Anderson 2 1 0 0 1 1 4.86 MINNESOTA IP H R ER BB SO ERA Lopez, W, 3-2 6 5 1 1 1 8 4.30 Alcala, H, 2 2/3 2 0 0 1 0 0.00 Okert, H, 2 1/3 0 0 0 1 1 3.38 Jh.Duran, H, 1 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.00 Sands, S, 2-3 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.93 Inherited runners-scored: Slaten 1-0, Okert 2-0. HBP: Bernardino (Miranda). WP: Slaten(2). PB: Wong (2). Umpires: Home, Lance Barksdale; First, Angel Hernandez; Second, Nic Lentz; Third, Emil Jimenez. T: 2:34. A: 23,587 (38,544). TAMPA BAY 3, N.Y. METS 1 New York AB R H BI SO AVG Nimmo lf 4 1 1 0 0 .218 Marte rf 3 0 2 1 1 .275 Lindor ss 4 0 0 0 1 .202 Alonso 1b 3 0 0 0 2 .214 Martinez dh 4 0 1 0 1 .267 McNeil 2b 3 0 0 0 1 .239 Bader cf 3 0 1 0 1 .283 Baty 3b 4 0 1 0 2 .270 Nido c 3 0 0 0 1 .200 b-Stewart ph 1 0 0 0 0 .196 TOTALS 32 1 6 1 10 Tampa Bay AB R H BI SO AVG Y.Diaz 1b 4 1 2 0 0 .227 Palacios 2b 3 1 1 0 0 .311 Paredes 3b 3 1 2 1 0 .293 Arozarena lf 4 0 0 0 2 .140 H.Ramirez dh 3 0 0 0 2 .263 a-Shenton ph-dh 0 0 0 1 0 .171 Caballero ss 3 0 0 1 1 .269 Rortvedt c 3 0 2 0 0 .351 1-Rosario pr 0 0 0 0 0 .309 Jackson c 1 0 0 0 1 .000 DeLuca rf 3 0 0 0 1 .143 Siri cf 3 0 0 0 2 .180 TOTALS 30 3 7 3 9 New York 100 000 000 1 6 2 Tampa Bay 100 000 02x 3 7 0 a-walked for H.Ramirez in the 8th. b-grounded out for Nido in the 9th. 1-ran for Rortvedt in the 7th. E: Nido 2 (2). LOB: New York 8, Tampa Bay 7. 2B: Nimmo (7), Palacios (3). RBIs: Marte (15), Paredes (18), Shenton (3), Caballero (13). SB: Bader (5), Marte (7). CS: Bader (2). Runners left in scoring position: New York 4 (Stewart, Martinez 3); Tampa Bay 4 (Siri, Jackson 2, DeLuca). RISP: New York 1 for 10; Tampa Bay 2 for 8. Runners moved up: Lindor 2. GIDP: H.Ramirez. DP: New York 1 (Baty, McNeil, Alonso); Tampa Bay 1 (Rortvedt, Caballero, Rortvedt). NEW YORK IP H R ER BB SO ERA Scott 62/3 5 1 1 1 6 1.35 Garrett 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 0.53 Ottavino, L, 1-1 2/3 2 2 2 2 1 2.92 Reid-Foley 1/3 0 0 0 1 1 0.00 TAMPA BAY IP H R ER BB SO ERA Littell 6 6 1 1 0 7 3.00 Cleavinger 1 0 0 0 1 3 2.19 Adam, W, 2-0 1 0 0 0 2 0 1.69 Maton, S, 1-3 1 0 0 0 1 0 6.39 Inherited runners-scored: Garrett 1-0, Reid-Foley 3-1. IBB: off Adam (Alonso). PB: Rortvedt (3). Umpires: Home, Tom Hanahan; First, Clint Vondrak; Second, Mark Wegner; Third, Bruce Dreckman. T: 2:51. A: 18,968 (25,025). OAKLAND 20, MIAMI 4 Miami AB R H BI SO AVG Chisholm cf 2 0 0 0 0 .226 a-Myers ph-cf 1 1 0 0 1 .400 De La Cruz lf 4 1 2 2 1 .262 Bell dh 2 0 1 0 0 .186 b-Bethancrt ph-dh 2 0 0 0 0 .026 Bride 1b 0 0 0 0 0 .143 J.Sanchez rf 4 0 1 0 0 .232 Gordon 2b 4 0 0 0 1 .167 Anderson ss 2 0 0 0 0 .219 Lopez 3b 1 1 1 0 0 .278 Brujan 3b-ss 4 0 1 1 0 .294 Rivera 1b-p 4 0 0 0 1 .205 Fortes c 3 1 1 1 0 .141 TOTALS 33 4 7 4 4 Oakland AB R H BI SO AVG Ruiz lf 3 1 1 1 0 .262 Brown lf 2 0 0 0 1 .180 Nevin rf-1b 3 1 0 0 1 .302 Toro 2b 5 3 2 2 0 .280 Rooker dh 4 2 3 5 0 .240 d-McCann ph-dh1 1 1 0 0 .381 Davis 1b 4 1 2 0 0 .207 c-Butler ph-rf 2 1 1 1 0 .193 Langeliers c 5 3 3 3 1 .186 Hernaiz ss 6 2 3 1 0 .190 Bleday cf 5 2 3 4 0 .252 Harris 3b 5 3 2 3 0 .250 TOTALS 45 20 21 20 3 Miami 000 001 021 4 7 1 Oakland 02(10) 102 14x 2021 1 E: Brujan (5), Gordon (0), Ruiz (1). LOB: Miami 4, Oakland 10. 2B: J.Sanchez (1), Lopez (1), Brujan (4), Bleday (8). 3B: Langeliers (1). HR: Fortes (1), off Blackburn; De La Cruz (6), off Jimenez; Rooker (7), off Rogers; Bleday (4), off Rogers; Rooker (8), off McCaughan; Harris 2 (2), off McCaughan; Langeliers (7), off Rivera. RBIs: Fortes (5), De La Cruz 2 (18), Brujan (4), Hernaiz (3), Ruiz (7), Rooker 5 (20), Bleday 4 (13), Toro 2 (13), Harris 3 (3), Butler (6), Langeliers 3 (16). Runners left in scoring position: Miami 2 (Rivera, Gordon); Oakland 3 (Bleday, Butler, Brown). DP: Miami 1 (Anderson, Gordon, Rivera); Oakland 1 (Harris, Hernaiz, Nevin). MIAMI IP H R ER BB SO ERA Rogers, L, 0-5 21/3 8 8 8 3 1 6.15 McCaughan 42/3 9 8 8 3 2 15.43 Rivera 1 4 4 4 0 0 36.00 OAKLAND IP H R ER BB SO ERA Blackburn, W, 3-1 7 4 1 1 1 3 3.00 Jimenez 1 1 2 2 1 1 3.95 Muller 1 2 1 1 0 0 2.61 Inherited runners-scored: McCaughan 1-1. HBP: McCaughan 2 (Ruiz,Langeliers), Rivera (Toro). Umpires: Home, Ryan Additon; First, Chris Guccione; Second, Gabe Morales; Third, Brian Knight. T: 2:43. A: 7,809 (46,847). THIS DATE IN BASEBALL MAY 5 1904: Cy Young of the Red Sox pitched a perfect game against the Philadelphia Athletics, beating Rube Waddell 3-0. Having pitched nine hitless innings in two previous efforts, he ran his string of hitless innings to 18. 1917: Ernie Koob of the St. Louis Browns pitched a no-hitter against the Chicago White Sox for a 1-0 win in St. Louis. 1925: Manager Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers hit three homers, a double and two singles against the St. Louis Browns. 1925: Shortstop Everett Scott of the New York Yankees was benched, ending his streak of 1,307 consecutive games played that started while playing for the Boston Red Sox. Scott, who gave way to Pee Wee Wanninger, had the longest playing streak before Lou Gehrig. 1933: Pepper Martin of the St. Louis Cardinals hit for the cycle and scored four runs in a 5-3 win over the Philadelphia Phillies. 1955: Brooklyn Dodgers rookie Tom Lasorda makes his first major league start as he he throws three wild pitches in one inning, tying a major league record. . 1962: Bo Belinsky of the Los Angeles Angels beat the Baltimore Orioles 2-0 with a no-hitter at Dodger Stadium. . 1975: The Oakland Athletics release pinch runner Herb Washington, ending his unusual major league career. Curiously, Washington played in 105 major league games without batting, pitching, or fielding. He collected 31 stolen bases and scored 33 runs. 1978: Pete Rose became the youngest and 14th player with 3,000 hits when he singled against Montreal’s Steve Rogers at Cincinnati’s Riverfront Stadium. CHICAGO CUBS 6, MILWAUKEE 5 Milwaukee AB R H BI SO AVG Frelick rf 4 0 2 0 1 .252 Contreras c 5 0 1 1 1 .336 Black dh 5 0 0 0 3 .200 Adames ss 5 0 0 0 2 .266 Turang 2b 3 0 0 0 0 .308 Hoskins 1b 3 1 1 0 1 .231 Dunn 3b 4 1 1 1 1 .232 Perkins cf 3 2 1 2 1 .267 Chourio lf 4 1 2 0 1 .223 TOTALS 36 5 8 4 11 Chicago AB R H BI SO AVG Hoerner 2b 4 1 2 1 0 .286 Tauchman rf 3 1 0 0 1 .267 Happ lf 3 1 2 0 1 .233 Morel 3b 3 1 1 2 2 .213 Madrigal 3b 0 0 0 0 0 .195 Busch 1b 4 1 1 1 0 .270 Swanson ss 3 0 0 0 1 .218 Wisdom dh 4 1 2 2 1 .250 Crow-Armstrong cf 4 0 0 0 2 .226 Amaya c 4 0 0 0 1 .197 TOTALS 32 6 8 6 9 Milwaukee 000 000 401 5 8 0 Chicago 202 001 01x 6 8 2 E: Hoerner (6), Tauchman (1). LOB: Milwaukee 8, Chicago 6. 2B: Frelick (4). 3B: Dunn (2), Busch (1). HR: Perkins (4), off Thompson; Hoerner (1), off Myers; Morel (7), off Myers; Wisdom (1), off Vieira. RBIs: Dunn (6), Perkins 2 (13), Contreras (27), Hoerner (8), Busch (18), Morel 2 (20), Wisdom 2 (6). SB: Wisdom (2). Runners left in scoring position: Milwaukee 3 (Adames 2, Perkins); Chicago 4 (Crow-Armstrong 2, Morel, Amaya). RISP: Milwaukee 2 for 9; Chicago 1 for 9. Runners moved up: Crow-Armstrong. MILWAUKEE IP H R ER BB SO ERA Myers, L, 0-2 3 3 4 4 4 2 6.23 Koenig 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.93 Milner 1 1 0 0 0 2 2.70 Vieira 1 2 1 1 0 2 5.17 Hudson 2 2 1 1 0 2 0.93 CHICAGO IP H R ER BB SO ERA Taillon, W, 3-0 6 2 0 0 2 7 1.12 Thompson 0 3 4 3 1 0 3.38 Leiter, H, 7 2 1 0 0 0 3 0.59 Neris, S, 6-7 1 2 1 1 1 1 3.46 Thompson pitched to 4 batters in the 7th. First-pitch strikes/Batters Faced: Vieira 2/5; Milner 3/4; Myers 9/16; Hudson 6/8; Koenig 1/3. Taillon 17/23; Neris 4/6; Leiter Jr. 5/7; Thompson 3/4. Called strikes-Swinging strikes-Foul balls-In play strikes: Vieira-5-2-2-3; Milner-3-2-5-2; Myers-10-3-12-10; Hudson-5-3-8-6; Koenig-2-1-2-2. Taillon-22-7-26-13; Neris-3-3-4-4; Leiter Jr.-4-7-2-4; Thompson-2-2-2-3. Ground Balls-Fly Balls: Vieira 0-1; Milner 1-0; Myers 2-5; Hudson 2-2; Koenig 1-1. Taillon 5-7; Neris 1-1; Leiter Jr. 2-1. Inherited runners-scored: Hudson 1-0, Leiter 1-1. Umpires: Home, Hunter Wendelstedt; First, John Tumpane; Second, Marvin Hudson; Third, Nick Mahrley. T: 2:30. A: 40,505 (41,363). TODAY’S PITCHING COMPARISON INTERLEAGUE 2024 2023 VS OPP LAST 3 STARTS TM PITCHERS TIME W-L ERA REC W-L IP ERA W-L IP ERA Tor TBD 0-0 0.00 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 0.00 Was Gore (L) 12:35p 2-3 3.19 2-4 1-0 5.0 1.80 0-3 15.0 3.60 NYM Severino (R) 2-2 2.31 2-4 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-1 20.0 1.80 TB Pepiot (R) 12:40p 3-2 3.12 3-3 0-0 0.0 0.00 2-0 18.0 1.00 ChW Crochet (L) 1-4 5.97 1-6 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-2 12.0 10.50 StL Gibson (R) 1:15p 2-2 3.79 3-3 0-1 9.2 10.24 1-0 19.0 1.42 Mia Sanchez (R) 0-1 8.36 1-1 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 6.2 10.80 Oak Boyle (R) 3:07p 2-4 6.08 2-4 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-2 14.0 6.43 Bal Kremer (R) 2-2 4.19 3-3 0-0 0.0 0.00 2-1 18.0 3.50 Cin Lodolo (L) 3:10p 3-0 1.88 4-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 2-0 18.1 2.45 AMERICAN LEAGUE 2024 2023 VS OPP LAST 3 STARTS TM PITCHERS TIME W-L ERA REC W-L IP ERA W-L IP ERA Det Skubal (L) 4-0 1.72 5-1 0-1 6.0 3.00 2-0 19.1 1.40 NYY Cortes (L) 12:35p 1-3 3.86 2-5 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-2 20.0 3.15 LAA Canning (R) 1-3 7.45 2-4 0-1 5.1 5.06 1-1 15.1 5.28 Cle Carrasco (R) 12:40p 1-2 6.58 2-4 0-1 1.2 27.00 1-1 14.2 9.20 Bos Criswell (R) 2-1 1.65 3-0 0-0 3.1 0.00 2-0 14.0 1.29 Min Ryan (R) 1:10p 1-1 3.38 4-2 2-0 15.0 1.80 1-0 17.1 4.15 Sea Miller (R) 3-2 2.04 4-2 2-1 16.1 2.20 1-1 17.0 2.12 Hou Brown (R) 1:10p 0-4 9.78 1-5 0-2 5.2 17.47 0-2 15.1 6.46 Tex Gray (R) 1-1 2.48 3-3 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-0 18.2 1.45 KC TBD 1:10p 0-0 0.00 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 0.00 NATIONAL LEAGUE 2024 2023 VS OPP LAST 3 STARTS TM PITCHERS TIME W-L ERA REC W-L IP ERA W-L IP ERA Col Feltner (R) 1-2 5.13 2-4 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-1 17.1 6.75 Pit Falter (L) 12:35p 2-2 4.22 4-2 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-2 17.0 4.24 Mil Peralta (R) 3-0 3.21 6-0 0-0 5.1 5.06 1-0 16.0 3.94 ChC Assad (R) 1:20p 2-0 1.97 3-3 0-1 3.0 9.00 0-0 15.1 1.76 Atl Fried (L) 2-0 4.02 5-1 1-0 7.0 0.00 1-0 20.0 1.35 LAD Paxton (L) 3:10p 3-0 3.51 4-1 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-0 14.2 4.91 SD Waldron (R) 1-3 4.36 1-5 0-1 5.0 9.00 1-2 16.2 5.40 Ari Nelson (R) 3:10p 1-2 4.60 1-3 0-1 13.0 9.69 1-1 13.0 2.77 SF Webb (R) 3-2 2.98 4-3 0-0 0.0 0.00 2-1 18.2 1.93 Phi Walker (R) 6:10p 1-0 8.53 1-0 0-0 5.2 9.53 1-1 19.1 5.59 TEAM REC: Team’s Record in games started by today’s pitcher. VS OPP: Pitcher’s record versus this opponent. BALTIMORE 2, CINCINNATI 1 Baltimore AB R H BI SO AVG Henderson ss 3 0 1 0 1 .280 Rutschman dh 4 1 3 1 0 .321 Mountcastle 1b4 0 1 0 0 .293 Santander rf 4 0 0 0 2 .200 Westburg 3b 4 0 0 0 3 .289 Mateo 2b 4 1 1 1 1 .265 Mullins cf 4 0 1 0 1 .206 McCann c 4 0 0 0 3 .218 McKenna lf 2 0 0 0 1 .400 a-Cowser ph-lf 1 0 0 0 1 .274 TOTALS 34 2 7 2 13 Cincinnati AB R H BI SO AVG India 2b 3 0 2 0 0 .225 1-Thompson pr 0 0 0 0 0 .111 De La Cruz ss 4 0 0 0 3 .278 Steer lf 4 0 1 1 0 .246 Stephenson c 3 0 0 0 1 .211 Encarnacion-Strand 1b 4 0 1 0 2 .193 Candelario dh 4 0 1 0 1 .190 Espinal 3b 3 0 0 0 1 .176 Benson rf 2 0 0 0 1 .200 b-Maile ph 1 0 0 0 0 .156 Martini rf 0 0 0 0 0 .184 Fairchild cf 2 0 0 0 1 .179 c-Fraley ph 1 1 1 0 0 .295 TOTALS 31 1 6 1 10 Baltimore 000 110 000 2 7 0 Cincinnati 000 000 001 1 6 0 a-struck out for McKenna in the 7th. b-lined out for Benson in the 8th. c-singled for Fairchild in the 9th. 1-ran for India in the 9th. LOB: Baltimore 6, Cincinnati 5. 2B: Mullins (3), India (3). HR: Mateo (2), off Abbott; Rutschman (5), off Abbott. RBIs: Mateo (4), Rutschman (20), Steer (23). SB: Steer (9). Runners left in scoring position: Baltimore 3 (McKenna, Westburg, Santander); Cincinnati 3 (De La Cruz, Candelario 2). RISP: Baltimore 0 for 6; Cincinnati 1 for 5. GIDP: Espinal. DP: Baltimore 1 (Henderson, Mountcastle). BALTIMORE IP H R ER BB SO ERA Means, W, 1-0 7 3 0 0 0 8 0.00 Perez, H, 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 6.00 Kimbrel, H, 1 1/3 2 1 1 1 1 3.55 Cano, S, 1-2 2/3 0 0 0 1 1 2.08 CINCINNATI IP H R ER BB SO ERA Abbott, L, 1-4 5 7 2 2 0 8 3.32 Martinez 2 0 0 0 1 2 5.10 Sims 1 0 0 0 0 2 6.10 Moll 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00 Inherited runners-scored: Cano 2-0. WP: Abbott. Umpires: Home, Jansen Visconti; First, Paul Clemons; Second, Andy Fletcher; Third, Mike Muchlinski. T: 2:22. A: 33,202 (43,891). RESULTS, SCHEDULE AMERICAN LEAGUE SATURDAY’S RESULTS N.Y. Yankees 5, Detroit 3 Minnesota 3, Boston 1 Toronto 6, Washington 3 Chicago White Sox 6, St. Louis 5 (10) Cleveland 7, L.A. Angels 1 Baltimore 2, Cincinnati 1 Seattle 5, Houston 0 Oakland 20, Miami 4 Texas 15, Kansas City 4 Tampa Bay 3, N.Y. Mets 1 MONDAY’S GAMES Detroit at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m. L.A. Angels at Pittsburgh, 5:40 p.m. Chi. White Sox at Tampa Bay, 5:50 p.m. Milwaukee at Kansas City, 6:40 p.m. Seattle at Minnesota, 6:40 p.m. Texas at Oakland, 8:40 p.m. FRIDAY’S RESULTS Baltimore 3, Cincinnati 0 Washington 9, Toronto 3 Tampa Bay 10, N.Y. Mets 8 N.Y. Yankees 2, Detroit 1 L.A. Angels 6, Cleveland 0 Kansas City 7, Texas 1 Minnesota 5, Boston 2 St. Louis 3, Chicago White Sox 0 Houston 5, Seattle 3 Oakland 3, Miami 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE SATURDAY’S RESULTS Chicago Cubs 6, Milwaukee 5 Pittsburgh 1, Colorado 0 Toronto 6, Washington 3 Chicago White Sox 6, St. Louis 5 (10) Oakland 20, Miami 4 Baltimore 2, Cincinnati 1 Philadelphia 14, San Francisco 3 Tampa Bay 3, N.Y. Mets 1 San Diego at Arizona, late Atlanta at L.A. Dodgers, late MONDAY’S GAMES San Francisco at Philadelphia, 3:05 p.m. L.A. Angels at Pittsburgh, 5:40 p.m. Milwaukee at Kansas City, 6:40 p.m. San Diego at Chicago Cubs, 6:40 p.m. N.Y. Mets at St. Louis, 6:45 p.m. Miami at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10 p.m. FRIDAY’S RESULTS Milwaukee 3, Chicago Cubs 1 Baltimore 3, Cincinnati 0 Colorado 3, Pittsburgh 2 Washington 9, Toronto 3 Tampa Bay 10, N.Y. Mets 8 Philadelphia 4, San Francisco 3 St. Louis 3, Chicago White Sox 0 Oakland 3, Miami 1 San Diego 7, Arizona 1 L.A. Dodgers 4, Atlanta 3 (11) LATE FRIDAY: ST. LOUIS 3, CHICAGO WHITE SOX 0 Chicago AB R H BI SO AVG Lopez 2b 4 0 1 0 0 .207 Pham cf 3 0 0 0 0 .333 Jimenez dh 4 0 0 0 0 .225 Sheets rf 4 0 0 0 2 .255 Vaughn 1b 3 0 1 0 0 .196 Benintendi lf 3 0 0 0 0 .195 DeJong ss 3 0 0 0 2 .208 Maldonado c 3 0 1 0 1 .113 Shewmake 3b 3 0 0 0 1 .149 TOTALS 30 0 3 0 6 St. Louis AB R H BI SO AVG Donovan lf 4 0 0 0 1 .215 Contreras c 3 2 3 0 0 .281 Goldschmidt 1b3 1 0 0 2 .224 Arenado 3b 4 0 2 3 1 .279 Burleson dh 3 0 0 0 0 .260 a-Fermin ph-dh0 0 0 0 0 .333 Winn ss 4 0 0 0 0 .279 Nootbaar rf 4 0 0 0 1 .174 Gorman 2b 3 0 0 0 1 .185 Siani cf 3 0 1 0 1 .182 TOTALS 31 3 6 3 7 Chicago 000 000 000 0 3 1 St. Louis 200 010 00x 3 6 0 a-walked for Burleson in the 8th. E: DeJong (4). LOB: Chicago 4, St. Louis 7. 2B: Vaughn (6), Contreras (9), Arenado 2 (8). RBIs: Arenado 3 (16). SB: Lopez (2), Winn (5), Contreras (2). Runners left in scoring position: Chicago 3 (Lopez, Jimenez, DeJong); St. Louis 4 (Siani, Winn, Goldschmidt, Burleson). RISP: Chicago 0 for 5; St. Louis 1 for 6. Runners moved up: Benintendi, Burleson. CHICAGO IP H R ER BB SO ERA Keller, L, 0-1 42/3 5 3 3 2 5 4.26 Shuster 31/3 1 0 0 1 2 0.93 ST. LOUIS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Gray, W, 4-1 7 3 0 0 1 6 0.89 Romero, H, 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.62 Helsley, S, 11-12 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.59 Inherited runners-scored: Shuster 1-0. WP: Keller, Gray. PB: Contreras (1). Umpires: Home, Ben May; First, CB Bucknor; Second, Alex MacKay; Third, Dan Iassogna. T: 2:21. A: 34,010 (44,494). AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS through Friday’s games BATTING AVERAGE G AB H R AVG Kwan Cle 31 132 47 28 .356 Perez KC 32 114 40 15 .351 Altuve Hou 32 132 46 24 .348 Peña Hou 32 123 40 19 .325 Soto NYY 35 132 42 23 .318 Witt KC 33 132 42 28 .318 Rosario TB 29 110 34 10 .309 Rutschman Bal 31 130 40 19 .308 J.Smith Tex 32 92 28 16 .304 Westburg Bal 30 110 33 17 .300 Home Runs: Trout, Los Angeles, 10; Henderson, Baltimore, 10; O’Neill, Boston, 9; Perez, Kansas City, 8; A.García, Texas, 8; K.Tucker, Houston, 8; Soto, New York, 8; 7 tied at 7. RBIs: Perez, Kansas City, 30; A.García, Texas, 25; J.Ramírez, Cleveland, 25; Soto, New York, 25; J.Naylor, Cleveland, 24; Henderson, Baltimore, 24; Ward, Los Angeles, 24; 4 tied at 21. Pitching: Lugo, Kansas City, 5-1; Skubal, Detroit, 4-0; Rodriguez, Baltimore, 4-1; Berríos, Toronto, 4-2; Marsh, Kansas City, 3-0; Bradford, Texas, 3-0; Schreiber, Kansas City, 3-0; Cleavinger, Tampa Bay, 3-0; 7 tied at 3-1. NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS through Friday’s games BATTING AVERAGE G AB H R AVG Betts LAD 34 135 49 29 .363 Bohm Phi 33 120 43 16 .358 W.Smith LAD 29 114 40 19 .351 Turner Phi 33 137 47 27 .343 Willi.Contreras Mil31123 42 29 .341 Ohtani LAD 33 134 45 26 .336 Profar SD 35 114 38 18 .333 Albies Atl 22 93 30 17 .323 McMahon Col 32 119 38 13 .319 Turang Mil 29 101 32 16 .317 Home Runs: Ozuna, Atlanta, 9; E.De La Cruz, Cincinnati, 8; Alonso, New York, 8; Schwarber, Philadelphia, 8; Abrams, Washington, 7; C.Walker, Arizona, 7; T.Hernández, Los Angeles, 7; Ohtani, Los Angeles, 7; Tatis, San Diego, 7. RBIs: Ozuna, Atlanta, 32; Bohm, Philadelphia, 31; Willi.Contreras, Milwaukee, 26; W.Smith, Los Angeles, 25; Cronenworth, San Diego, 25; Betts, Los Angeles, 25. Pitching: R.Suárez, Philadelphia, 5-0; Imanaga, Chicago, 5-0; Garrett, New York, 5-0; Glasnow, Los Angeles, 5-1; Minter, Atlanta, 5-2; Peguero, Milwaukee, 4-0; Nola, Philadelphia, 4-1; Sale, Atlanta, 4-1; S.Gray, St. Louis, 4-1. 4 Chicago Tribune | Section 3 | Sunday, May 5, 2024

By Brad Biggs Chicago Tribune Bob Avellini, who quarterbacked the Bears through some of the greatest seasons of Walter Payton’s career and helped the team make the playoffs in 1977, has died. He was 70. A team official confirmed Avellini’s death and said he had been battling cancer. The Bears selected Avellini, a native of Queens in New York City, in the sixth round out of Maryland in the 1975 NFL draft, the same class that produced Payton. Avellini started the final four games of his rookie season, passing for 268 yards and three touchdowns in a 42-17 victory over the New Orleans Saints to close the year. Avellini’s experience at the end of that season helped him earn the starting job in 1976, when the team went 7-7 with Avellini passing for 1,580 yards with eight touchdowns and 15 interceptions. He enjoyed his finest season in 1977, when the Bears tied the Minnesota Vikings atop the NFC Central with a 9-5 record. Avellini threw for a career-high 2,004 yards with 11 touchdowns and 18 interceptions, and Payton also had the best season of his career with 1,852 rushing yards, 14 touchdowns and a 5.5 per-carry average, all personal highs. But the Bears were blown out of the playoffs 37-7 by the Dallas Cowboys, and after a 4-8 start to begin the 1978 season, Avellini was replaced by Mike Phipps, whom the Bears had traded a first-round pick to acquire. Avellini remained with the Bears into the 1984 season, appearing in 24 more games but making only three more starts. He relieved the injured Jim McMahon in the second quarter of a Sept. 16, 1984, game at Lambeau Field, and the Bears hung on for a 9-7 win over the Green Bay Packers. Avellini started the next week and the Bears lost 38-9 in Seattle, leading the team to release him. There wasn’t a lot of love lost between the veteran quarterback and coach Mike Ditka. “It gets a little tiring hearing that he’s such a great competitor,” Avellini told reporters after he was released. “(Cowboys coach) Tom Landry is a great competitor, (Washington Redskins coach) Joe Gibbs is a great competitor and so are a lot of other coaches, but you don’t see any of them acting like Ditka does. “I wasn’t surprised I was cut. (Ditka) threatened me with that once a week. He thinks that’s going to make you play better. After the first pass I threw this year against Green Bay, he said he was going to cut me then, and I was the only quarterback who could play. He wanted to yank me out of there and put in someone that didn’t even know our snap count.” Ditka fired back. “In the long-range picture for the Bears, the quarterbacks we have here now are better than Bob,” he said. “He wanted to do too much. He tried to go outside of our offense and that’s something you just can’t do. You don’t go out and audible to throw a 5-yard pass (against the Seahawks) when we have a runner (Payton) who averages 5.7 yards per carry. “He did everything we asked of him, and there were a lot of things I liked about him. But on my radio shows, the No. 1 question was, ‘Why do you keep Avellini?’ I can’t play him here. The fans would boo him unmercifully. I don’t want to use that as an out, but it’s true. People have a tendency to blame the quarterback and to give him too much credit.” That predicament for the Bears — the quarterback getting too much credit or blame — continued long after Avellini’s playing days concluded. He had a brief stint with the New York Jets after the Bears released him and he spent time with the Cowboys in the 1986 preseason before retiring. In 2014, a DuPage County judge sentenced Avellini to 18 months in prison for aggravated drunken driving. It was his sixth arrest for DUI since 2002. BOB AVELLINI 1953-2024 Former Bears QB helped make playoffs in ’77 Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — More than three hours before Caitlin Clark made her WNBA debut with the Fever in a preseason game against the Wings on Friday night, some fans among the sellout crowd were lined up outside the arena dressed in No. 22 University of Iowa jerseys. And Clark put on a show. The two-time NCAA women’s basketball player of the year led all first-half scorers with 16 points in 16 minutes and finished with a team-high 21 points in the Fever’s 79-76 loss. She was 6 of 15 from the field including 5 of 13 from deep, and had three rebounds, two assists, four fouls and five turnovers. Her 21 points tied for the game high with Wings newcomer Jaelyn Brown. “My biggest goal coming into tonight was to continue to be myself, play aggressive,” Clark said. “I thought that’s what I did. I think there’s a lot to be proud of. “The crowd was great all night. That’s what you expect with a sellout. Those are going to be the same for the crowds all year long. So whether they’re cheering for you or cheering against you, you’d better get used to it.” She even had a chance to send the game into overtime. The Wings’ winning basket by Arike Ogunbowale came with three seconds left and Clark’s 3-point attempt from the right corner at the buzzer fell short. “You couldn’t ask for a better game,” Clark said. Clark’s first pro basket came on a 28-foot 3-pointer near the left sideline less than a minute into play when the defense lost her momentarily on a baseline inbounds play. “I was able to t a pretty clean look for my first shot,” she said. “It’s always nice to see your first shot go in when you’re a shooter.” She hit four 3-pointers in the half and added two of three free throws when fouled on a shot behind the arc. She was scoreless in the third period and sat for the final five minutes after collecting her fourth foul. Christina Edge, who lived in Iowa for 35 years before moving to the Dallas suburb of Rowlett three years ago, was one of the fans who showed up early. She said arriving that early at the University of Texas-Arlington’s College Park Center would increase her chances of landing a photo with the basketball phenomenon. “It’s my birthday,” said Edge, who said her son gave her the ticket as a birthday gift, “and I just want a picture with her!” She carried a bright yellow posterboard sign advertising that plea. Pailynn Amos, 9, was also outside the arena wearing a yellow Clark jersey with her own sign — “When I grow up I wanna be just like her.” Rebecca Amos, Pailynn’s mother, made the approximately hour-long drive from the town of Ennis. “I watched her (on TV) like crazy,” Rebecca said. “So, she (Pailynn) just kind of grew to her. Then we were like, ‘Wow, now she’s in Dallas.’ We could actually go see her!” Clark received a rousing ovation before tipoff when introduced with the Fever starters. While Clark had plenty of fans in attendance, Wings fans didn’t give her a pass. As she dribbled past her defender at midcourt during the first half, one woman shouted, “Get her! Get her!” The WNBA’s first preseason game was played the same night the NBA’s Mavericks hosted the Clippers in Game 6 of a first-round playoff series about 20 miles away. The exhibition game was the first of two for the Fever before Clark makes her regular-season debut on May 14 on the road against the Sun. The game sold out all 6,251 seats soon after it was announced on Dallas’ schedule, specifically requested by Wings president and CEO Greg Bibb after Clark declared in February she would leave college for the WNBA with one year of eligibility remaining. Indiana won the lottery for this year’s first pick last December. A local television crew recorded the Fever’s arrival at DFW International Airport on Thursday. During Clark’s media session on Friday morning, she addressed the request to sign a couple’s ultrasound picture. “That was definitely a first,” she said, with a laugh. Other WNBA players welcomed her. “It’s really great that Caitlin’s bringing all this attention to women’s basketball, so I’m really grateful for that,” Wings center Kalani Brown said. “This is what women’s basketball has deserved for quite some time now,” said Fever center Aliyah Boston, last season’s WNBA rookie of the year and college player of the year. “It’s better late than never. I’m really excited for what’s to come for this league.” The Wings last month said they had sold out their season-ticket allotment, which accounts for about 2,500 seats. The Fever will return to College Park Center to play twice during the regular season. The team plays July 17 in the last game before the WNBA’s nearly monthlong Olympic hiatus and one day after the MLB All-Star Game at the Rangers’ home stadium less than three miles away. The Fever also play there Sept. 1. WNBA The Clark era has begun Fever guard Caitlin Clark reacts after making a 3-point shot during Friday’s preseason game in Arlington, Texas. MICHAEL AINSWORTH/AP A sellout for a preseason game? Change is in the air. Hernandez said. “He shot off and I’m like, ‘Oh man, I’ve got a big chance to win the Kentucky Derby.’” To Mystik Dan’s outside, Sierra Leone and Forever Young took up the chase in the middle of the track. As Mystik Dan sped along the rail, Sierra Leone lugged in and bumped Forever Young three times in the stretch, but jockey Ryusei Sakai didn’t claim foul. Mystik Dan got so close to the rail that Hernandez’s boot struck it. “But I think we can buy another pair of boots,” he said. The winner’s share of the record $5 million purse was $3.1 million, with the jockey and trainer typically earning 10% each. “Just a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant jockey and ride,” McPeek said. “Brian is one of the most underrated jockeys, but not anymore, right?” Sierra Leone, the second choice at 9-2 odds, and Forever Young from Japan came up just short at the wire in front of 156,710 at Churchill Downs, the largest crowd since 2018. “You get beat a nose in the Kentucky Derby, it’s a tough one,” said Chad Brown, trainer of Sierra Leone. “But I’m so proud of the horse.” It was just the 10th Kentucky Derby decided by a nose — the closest margin in horse racing — and the first since Grindstone edged Cavonnier to wear the garland of red roses in 1996. The crowd waited several minutes in the heat and humidity as the result was reviewed by the stewards and declared official. “The longest few minutes of my life,” Hernandez said, after he and Mystik Dan walked in circles while the stunning result was settled. “To see your number flash up to win the Derby, I don’t think it will sink in for a while.” Fierceness finished 15th in the field of 20 3-year-olds. Owner Mike Repole is 0 for 8 in the derby. He had the favorite in 2011 with Uncle Mo, who was scratched the day before the race with an illness. Last year, Forte was scratched the morning of the race as the favorite with a bruised foot. Mystik Dan ran 1 1/4 miles over a fast track in 2:03.34 and paid $39.22, $16.32 and $10. Hernandez and trainer Kenny McPeek had teamed for a wire-to-wire win in the Kentucky Oaks for fillies on Friday with Thorpedo Anna. McPeek is the first trainer to sweep both races since Ben Jones in 1952. McPeek’s only other victory in a Triple Crown race was also a shocker: 70-1 Sarava won the 2002 Belmont Stakes — the biggest upset in that race’s history. The colt spoiled the Triple Crown bid of War Emblem. The winning owners are cousins Lance and Brent Gasaway and Daniel Hamby III, all from Arkansas. They bred Mystik Dan. “We’ve done it with what I call working-class horse,” McPeek said, explaining the colt’s sire and dam weren’t big names. Sharilyn Gasaway, Brent’s wife, said, “It is surreal for sure. We feel like we’re just ordinary people and we’ve got an amazing horse.” Sierra Leone returned $6.54 and $4.64. Forever Young was another nose back in third and paid $5.58 to show. Catching Freedom was fourth, followed by T O Password of Japan, Resilience, Stronghold, Honor Marie and Endlessly. Dornoch was 10th and then came Track Phantom, West Saratoga, Domestic Product, Epic Ride, Fierceness, Society Man, Just Steel, Grand Mo the First, Catalytic and Just a Touch. Derby from Page 1 Bob Avellini played in 73 games for the Bears from 1975 to 1984. CHICAGO TRIBUNE SPORTS Jockey Brian Hernandez Jr., on top of Mystik Dan, celebrates in the winner’s circle after winning the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky. MICHAEL REAVES/GETTY Chicago Tribune | Section 3 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 5

NBA PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE #1 Boston 4, #8 Miami 1 G1: April 21 at Boston 114-94 G2: April 24 Miami 111-101. G3: April 27 Boston 104-84. G4: April 29 Boston 102-88. G5: May 1 at Boston 118-84. #2 New York 4, #7 Philadelphia 2 G1: April 20 at New York, 114-104 G2: April 22 at New York 104-101. G3: April 25 at Philadelphia 125-114. G4: April 28 New York 97-92. G5: April 30 Philadelphia 112-106. G6: May 2 New York 118-115. #6 Indiana 4, #3 Milwaukee 2 G1: April 21 at Milwaukee 109-94. G2: April 23 Indiana 125-108. G3: Friday at Indiana, 121-118 (OT) G4: April 28 at Indiana 126-113. G5: April 30 at Milwaukee 115-92. G6: May 2 at Indiana 120-98. #4 Cleveland 3, #5 Orlando 3 G1: April 20 at Cleveland, 97-83 G2: April 22 at Cleveland 96-86. G3: April 25 at Orlando 121-83. G4: April 27 at Orlando 112-89 G5: April 30 at Cleveland 104-103. G6: May 3 at Orlando 103-96. G7: Sunday at Cleveland, noon WESTERN CONFERENCE #1 Oklahoma City 4, #7 New Orleans 0 G1: April 21 at Oklahoma City 94-92. G2: April 24 at Oklahoma City, 124-92. G3: April 27 Oklahoma City 106-85. G4: April 29 Oklahoma City 97-89. #2 Denver 4, #7 LA Lakers 1 G1: April 20 at Denver, 114-103 G2: April 22 at Denver 101-99. G3: April 25 Denver 112-105. G4: April 27 at LA Lakers 119-108. G5: April 29 at Denver 108-106. #3 Minnesota 4, #6 Phoenix 0 G1: April 20 at Minnesota, 120-95 G2: April 23 at Minnesota 105-93. G3: April 26 Minnesota 126-109. G4: April 28 Minnesota 122-116. #5 Dallas 4, #4 LA Clippers 2 G1: April 21 at LA Clippers, 109-97. G2: April 23 Dallas 96-93. G3: April 26 at Dallas 101-90. G4: April 28 L.A. Clippers 116-111. G5: May 1 Dallas 123-93. G6: May 3 at Dallas 114-101. CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS EASTERN CONFERENCE #1 Boston vs. #4 Cleveland/#5 Orlando G1: Tuesday at Boston, 6 p.m. G2: Thursday at Boston, 6 p.m. G3: Sat., May 11 at Cle/Orl, 7:30 p.m. G4: Mon., May 13 at Cle/Orl at, 6 p.m. x-G5: Wed., May 15 at Boston, TBD x-G6: Fri., May 17 at Cle/Orl at, TBD x-G7: Sun., May 19 at Boston, noon #2 New York vs. #6 Indiana G1: Monday at New York, 6:30 p.m. G2: Wednesday at New York, 7 p.m. G3: Friday, May 10 at Indiana, 6 p.m. G4: Sun., May 12 at Indiana, 2:30 p.m. x-G5: TBD at New York, TBD x-G6: TBD at Indiana, TBD x-G7: TBD at New York, TBD WESTERN CONFERENCE #1 Oklahoma City vs. #5 Dallas G1: Tuesday at Okla. City, 8:30 p.m. G2: Thursday at Okla. City, 8:30 p.m. G3: Sat., May 11 at Dallas, 2:30 p.m. G4: Mon., May 13 at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. x-G5: Wed., May 18 at Okla. City, TBD x-G6: Sat., May 18 at Dallas, TBD x-G7: at Oklahoma City, TBA #3 Minnesota 1, #2 Denver 0 G1: Saturday Minnesota 106-99 G2: Monday at Denver, 9 p.m. G3: Friday at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m. G4: Sun.,May 12 at Minnesota, 7 p.m. x-G5: Tue., May 14 at Denver, TBD x-G6: Thu., May 16 at Minnesota, TBD x-G7: Sun., May 19 at Denver, TBD NHL PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Florida 4, Tampa Bay 1 G1: April 21 at Florida, 3-2. G2: April 23 at Florida 3-2 (OT) G3: April 25 Florida 5-3. G4: April 27 at Tampa Bay 6-3. G5: April 29 at Florida 6-1. Boston 3, Toronto 3 G1: April 20 at Boston, 5-1 G2: April 22 Toronto 3-2. G3: April 24 Boston 4-2. G4: April 27 Boston 3-1. G5: April 30 Toronto 2-1 (OT). G6: Thursday at Toronto 2-1. x-G7: Saturday at Boston, late N.Y. Rangers 4, Washington 0 G1: April 21 at N.Y. Rangers 4-1. G2: April 23 at N.Y. Rangers 4-3. G3: April 26 N.Y. Rangers 3-1. G4: April 28 at N.Y. Rangers 4-2. Carolina 4, N.Y. Islanders 1 G1: April 20 at Carolina, 3-1 G2: April 22 at Carolina, 5-3. G3: April 25 Carolina 3-2. G4: April 25 at N.Y. Islanders 3-2 (2 OT). G5: April 30 at Carolina 6-3. WESTERN CONFERENCE Dallas 3, Vegas 3 G1: April 22 Vegas 4-3. G2: April 24 Vegas 3-1. G3: April 27 Dallas 3-2. G4: Monday Dallas 4-2. G5: May 1 at Dallas 3-2. G6: May 3 at Vegas 2-0. G7: Sunday at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Colorado 4, Winnipeg 1 G1: April 21 at Winnipeg 7-6. G2: April 23 Colorado 5-2. G3: April 26 at Colorado 6-2. G4: April 28 at Colorado 5-1. G5: April 30 Colorado 6-3. Vancouver 4, Nashville 2 G1: April 21 at Vancouver 4-2. G2: April 23 Nashville 4-1. G3: April 26 Vancouver 2-1. G4: April 28 at Nashville 4-3 (OT). G5: April 30 Nashville 2-1. x-G6: May 3 Vancouver 1-0. Edmonton 4, Los Angeles 1 G1: April 22 at Edmonton. 7-4. G2: April 24 Los Angeles 5-4 (OT) G3: April 26 Edmonton 6-1. G4: April 28 Edmonton 1-0. G5: May 1 at Edmonton 4-3. SECOND ROUND EASTERN CONFERENCE N.Y. Rangers vs. Carolina G1: at N.Y. Rangers, 3 p.m. G2: at N.Y. Rangers, TBA G3: at Carolina, TBA G4: at Carolina, TBA x-G5: at N.Y. Rangers, TBA x-G6: at Carolina, TBA x-G7: at N.Y. Rangers, TBA SOCCER MLS EASTERN W L T PT GF GA Inter Miami CF 7 2 3 24 32 18 Cincinnati 6 2 3 21 13 9 Toronto FC 6 4 1 19 14 14 New York 4 2 5 17 16 16 Columbus 3 1 6 15 12 9 New York City FC 4 4 2 14 11 10 Charlotte FC 4 5 2 14 12 13 Philadelphia 3 2 5 14 19 16 D.C. United 3 3 5 14 16 17 Atlanta 3 4 3 12 14 11 CF Montréal 3 4 3 12 13 20 Nashville 2 3 5 11 14 18 Chicago 2 4 4 10 11 18 Orlando City 2 5 3 9 11 18 New England 1 7 1 4 6 18 WESTERN W L T PT GF GA Minnesota United 6 2 2 20 17 11 Real Salt Lake 5 2 3 18 17 9 LA Galaxy 5 2 3 18 21 17 Vancouver 5 2 2 17 18 10 Colorado 4 3 3 15 16 15 Austin FC 4 3 3 15 14 13 Los Angeles FC 4 4 3 15 19 19 Houston 4 4 2 14 9 10 St Louis City 2 1 7 13 15 14 Sporting K C 2 3 5 11 18 18 Portland 2 5 4 10 20 23 Seattle 2 5 3 9 13 13 FC Dallas 2 6 2 8 10 15 San Jose 2 8 1 7 17 2 Three points for win, one point for tie. SATURDAY’S RESULTS Minnesota 2, Atlanta 1 Charlotte FC 2, Portland 0 Philadelphia 2, D.C. United 2 Miami 6, N.Y. Red Bulls 2 Cincinnati 1, Orlando City 0 San Jose 3, Los Angeles FC 1 Toronto FC 3, FC Dallas 1 St Louis City 0, Houston 0 Nashville 4, CF Montréal 1 New England at Chicago, late Sporting KC at Real Salt Lake, late Austin FC at Vancouver, late SUNDAY’S MATCHES Colorado at New York City FC, 3 p.m. LA Galaxy at Seattle, 5:30 p.m. SATURDAY, MAY 11 D.C. United at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. Nashville at Charlotte FC, 6:30 p.m. Cincinnati at Columbus, 6:30 p.m. Miami at CF Montréal, 6:30 p.m. New England at New York, 6:30 p.m. Orlando City at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m. New York City FC at Toronto FC, 6:30 p.m. Austin FC at FC Dallas, 7:30 p.m. Houston at Sporting KC, 7:30 p.m. Chicago at St Louis City, 7:30 p.m. San Jose at Colorado, 8:30 p.m. Real Salt Lake at LA Galaxy, 9:30 p.m. Vancouver at Los Angeles FC, 9:30 p.m. AUTO RACING NASCAR CUP SERIES ADVENTHEALTH 400 LINEUP After Saturday qualifying; race Sunday At Kansas Speedway; Kansas City, Kan. Lap length: 1.50 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (20) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 183.107 mph. 2. (1) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 182.704. 3. (10) Noah Gragson, Ford, 182.451. 4. (5) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 182.383. 5. (8) Kyle Busch, Chevrolet, 182.070. 6. (54) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 181.745. 7. (2) Austin Cindric, Ford, 181.318. 8. (34) Michael McDowell, Ford, 180.959. 9. (9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 180.012. 10. (14) Chase Briscoe, Ford, 175.919. 11. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 181.959. 12. (17) Chris Buescher, Ford, 180.325. 13. (19) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 181.904. 14. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 180.168. 15. (45) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 181.849. 16. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 179.856. 17. (4) Josh Berry, Ford, 181.733. 18. (48) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 179.695. 19. (84) Jimmie Johnson, Toyota, 181.147. 20. (43) Corey Heim, Toyota, 179.527. 21. (47) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, 180.929. 22. (77) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, 179.372. 23. (23) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 180.675. 24. (71) Zane Smith, Chevrolet, 178.654. 25. (38) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 180.650. 26. (12) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 178.424. 27. (99) Daniel Suárez, Chevrolet, 180.524. 28. (7) Corey LaJoie, Chevrolet, 178.418. 29. (42) John H. Nemechek, Toyota, 180.319. 30. (6) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 177.813. 31. (21) Harrison Burton, Ford, 180.216. 32. (41) Ryan Preece, Ford, 177.772. 33. (31) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet, 179.027. 34. (33) Austin Hill, Chevrolet, 177.678. 35. (51) Justin Haley, Ford, 179.021. 36. (24) William Byron, Chevrolet, 173.952. 37. (15) Riley Herbst, Ford, 178.932. 38. (16) Derek Kraus, Chevrolet, 172.712. FASTEST LAPS NASCAR Cup fastest laps with points standing positions, percentage and total fastest laps: DRIVER POS. PCT. LAPS 1. Denny Hamlin 4 8.9 249 2. Kyle Larson 1 8.8 247 3. Martin Truex Jr 2 7.6 213 4. Christopher Bell 17 6.1 169 5. Tyler Reddick 5 5.2 145 6. William Byron 6 4.5 125 7. Ty Gibbs 8 4.4 123 8. Ryan Blaney 7 4.4 122 9. Chase Elliott 3 3.5 99 10. Bubba Wallace 15 2.7 76 LAPS IN THE TOP 15 PCT. LAPS 1. Denny Hamlin 85.8 2826 2. Martin Truex Jr. 81.3 2678 3. Kyle Larson 78.5 2584 4. Chase Elliott 73.9 2435 5. Ryan Blaney 67.7 2228 6. Tyler Reddick 66 2173 7. Ty Gibbs 62.9 2070 8. Bubba Wallace 60.2 1981 9. William Byron 57.4 1891 10. Brad Keselowski 55.6 1832 TENNIS MUTUA MADRID OPEN Saturday at Caja Magica; Madrid; outdoors, Red clay WOMEN’S SINGLES, CHAMPIONSHIP #1 Iga Swiatek , d. #2 Aryna Sabalenka, 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 L’OPEN 35 AT SAINT MALO Saturday at Tennis Club JA Saint-Malo ; Saint-Malo, France; outdoors, Red clay WOMEN’S SINGLES, SEMIFINALS Lois Boisson d. #8 Alize Cornet, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4. Chloe Paquet d. Celine Naef, 6-3, 6-4. WTA CATALONIA OPEN Saturday at Club Tennis Lleida; Lleida, Spain; outdoors, hardcourt WOMEN’S SINGLES, SEMIFINALS #2 Katarina Siniakova d. #7 M. Serrano Osorio, 6-3, 6-4. Mayar Sherif d. Guiomar Maristany, 6-2, 6-3. NWSL CLUB W L T PT GF GA Kansas City 5 0 1 16 20 11 Washington 5 2 0 15 15 9 Orlando 4 0 3 15 13 7 North Carolina 4 4 0 12 12 10 Portland 3 3 1 10 15 13 Chicago 3 3 1 10 9 10 Angel City 3 3 1 10 9 11 Gotham FC 2 2 2 8 4 5 Louisville 1 0 5 8 10 6 San Diego 2 3 1 7 5 6 Seattle 2 5 0 6 7 10 Bay FC 2 5 0 6 12 17 Houston 1 3 2 5 6 14 Utah Royals FC 1 5 1 4 5 13 Three points for win, one point for tie. SATURDAY’S RESULTS Gotham FC 1, North Carolina 0 Washington at Portland, late SUNDAY’S MATCHES Kansas City at Houston, noon Louisville at Orlando, 5 p.m. Chicago at Bay FC, 7 p.m. WEDNESDAY, MAY 8 Gotham FC at Houston, 7 p.m. Utah Royals FC at San Diego, 9 p.m. Kansas City at Seattle, 9 p.m. FRIDAY, MAY 10 Washington at Louisville, 7 p.m. SATURDAY, MAY 11 Bay FC at Orlando, 6:30 p.m. Seattle at Portland, 9 p.m. LIV GOLF SINGAPORE 2nd of 3 rounds, Sentosa Golf Club, Singapore, 7.4-6 yards; Par: 71; a-amateur Teams Scores 1st Place $3 million; 2nd $1.5 million; 3rd $500,000 Smash GC (B.Koepka-c, T.Gooch, J.Kokrak, G.McDowell) -23 Ripper GC (C.Smith-c, M.Leishman, M.Jones, L.Herbert) -22 Rangegoats GC (B.Watson-c, T.Pieters, P.Uihlein, M.Wolff) -21 Cleeks GC (M.Kaymer-c, R. Bland, A.Meronk, K.Samooja) -20 Fireballs GC (S.Garcia-c, A.Ancer, E.Lopez-Chacarra, D.Puig) -20 Legion XIII (J.Rahm-c, T.Hatton, K.Vincent, C.Surratt) -17 Stinger GC (L.Oosthuizen-c, D.Burmester, C,Schwartzel, B.Grace) -14 Crushers GC (B.DeChambeau-c, C.Howell, A.Lahiri, P.Casey) -13 HyFlyers GC (P.Mickelson-c, B.Steele, A.Ogletree, C.Tringale) -13 Torque GC (J.Niemann-c, C.Ortiz, M.Pereira, S.Munoz) -13 4 Aces GC (D.Johnson-c, P.Uihlein, P.Perez, P.Reed) -12 Iron Heads GC (K.Na-c, S.Vincent, D.Lee, J.Kozuma) -10 Majesticks GC (I.Poulter-c, L.Westwood, H.Stenson, S.Horsfield) -7 Top Individuals Brooks Koepka 66-64—130 -12 Thomas Pieters 66-67—133 -9 Adrian Meronk 67-66—133 -9 Abraham Ancer 66-67—133 -9 Matthew Wolff 68-65—133 -9 Lucas Herbert 67-67—134 -8 Marc Leishman 67-67—134 -8 Talor Gooch 68-66—134 -8 Cameron Tringale 66-68—134 -8 Sebastian Munoz 65-70—135 -7 Martin Kaymer 66-69—135 -7 Cameron Smith 71-65—136 -6 Euginio Chacarra 67-69—136 -6 Louis Oosthuizen 67-69—136 -6 Kevin Na 66-70—136 -6 Joaquin Niemann 67-69—136 -6 Kieran Vincent 68-68—136 -6 Tyrrell Hatton 68-68—136 -6 Scott Vincent 70-66—136 -6 Dustin Johnson 67-70—137 -5 Dean Burmester 67-70—137 -5 Sergio Garcia 69-68—137 -5 Jon Rahm 69-68—137 -5 Ian Poulter 70-68—138 -4 Harold Varner III 71-67—138 -4 Richard Bland 70-68—138 -4 Patrick Reed 71-68—139 -3 Bryson Dechambeau 73-66—139 -3 Anirban Lahiri 70-69—139 -3 Peter Uihlein 69-70—139 -3 Phil Mickelson 72-68—140 -2 Paul Casey 69-71—140 -2 David Puig 70-70—140 -2 Jason Kokrak 69-71—140 -2 Charl Schwartzel 70-70—140 -2 Henrik Stenson 73-68—141 -1 Graeme McDowell 68-73—141 -1 Kalle Samooja 72-69—141 -1 Branden Grace 69-72—141 -1 Lee Westwood 71-71—142 E Charles Howell III 76-66—142 E Brendan Steele 68-74—142 E Carlos Ortiz 72-70—142 E Matthew Jones 74-68—142 E Caleb Surratt 72-70—142 E WNBA PRESEASON SATURDAY’S RESULTS Atlanta 87, Washington 84 Seattle at Los Angeles, late TUESDAY’S GAMES New York at Chicago, 7 p.m. Phoenix at Seattle, 9 p.m. WEDNESDAY’S GAME Minnesota at Washington, 11:30 a.m. THURSDAY’S GAME New York at Connecticut, 6 p.m. FRIDAY, MAY 10 Atlanta at Indiana, 6 p.m. Los Angeles at Phoenix, 9 p.m. FRIDAY’S RESULTS Dallas 79, Indiana 76 Minnesota 92, Chicago 81 REGULAR SEASON TUESDAY, MAY 14 New York at Washington, 6 p.m. Indiana at Connecticut, 6:30 p.m. Phoenix at Las Vegas, 9 p.m. Minnesota at Seattle, 9 p.m. ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE CLUB GP W D L GF GA PT Arsenal 36 26 5 5 88 28 83 Man City 35 25 7 3 87 33 82 Liverpool 35 22 9 4 77 36 75 Aston Villa 35 20 7 8 73 52 67 Tottenham 34 18 6 10 67 54 60 Newcastle 35 17 5 13 78 56 56 Man United 34 16 6 12 52 51 54 Chelsea 34 14 9 11 65 59 51 West Ham 35 1310 12 56 65 49 Bournemouth 36 13 9 14 52 63 48 Wolverhampton 36 13 7 16 49 60 46 Fulham 36 12 8 16 51 55 44 Brighton 34 1111 12 52 57 44 Crystal Palace 35 1010 15 45 57 40 Everton 36 12 9 15 38 49 37 Brentford 36 9 9 18 52 60 36 Notting. Forest 36 8 9 19 45 63 29 Luton Town 36 6 8 22 49 78 26 Burnley 36 5 9 22 39 74 24 Sheffield United 36 3 7 26 35 100 16 SATURDAY’S RESULTS Arsenal 3, Bournemouth 0 Brentford 0, Fulham 0 Newcastle 4, Burnley 1 Notting. Forest 3, Sheffield United 1 Man City 5, Wolverhampton 1 Crystal Palace vs. Man United, ppd SUNDAY’S MATCHES Brighton vs. Aston Villa, 8 a.m. Chelsea vs. West Ham, 8 a.m. Liverpool vs. Tottenham, 10:30 a.m. MONDAY’S MATCH Crystal Palace vs. Man United, 2 p.m. PGA CHAMPIONS INSPERITY INVITATIONAL 1st of 3 rounds, Tournament Course, The Woodlands, Texas, 7,002 yards; Par: 72 Scott Dunlap 32-33—65 -7 Y.E. Yang 35-30—65 -7 Thongchai Jaidee 34-32—66 -6 Timothy O’Neal 35-32—67 -5 Rod Pampling 35-32—67 -5 Mike Weir 35-33—68 -4 Joe Durant 33-35—68 -4 Steven Alker 34-34—68 -4 Miguel Angel Jimenez 34-34—68 -4 Jeff Maggert 35-33—68 -4 Stuart Appleby 35-34—69 -3 Darren Clarke 34-35—69 -3 Marco Dawson 35-34—69 -3 Bernhard Langer 37-32—69 -3 Dicky Pride 36-33—69 -3 Padraig Harrington 33-37—70 -2 Woody Austin 35-35—70 -2 Billy Mayfair 36-34—70 -2 Stephen Ames 36-34—70 -2 Mark Calcavecchia 35-35—70 -2 Chris DiMarco 35-35—70 -2 Scott McCarron 35-35—70 -2 Tom Pernice 36-34—70 -2 Charlie Wi 36-34—70 -2 Brian Gay 34-37—71 -1 Tim Herron 35-36—71 -1 Ken Tanigawa 36-35—71 -1 Billy Andrade 36-35—71 -1 Shane Bertsch 37-34—71 -1 Olin Browne 36-35—71 -1 K.J. Choi 36-35—71 -1 Clark Dennis 35-36—71 -1 Paul Goydos 37-34—71 -1 Jerry Kelly 35-36—71 -1 Jesper Parnevik 36-35—71 -1 John Senden 34-37—71 -1 Paul Broadhurst 36-36—72 E Bob Estes 35-37—72 E Corey Pavin 34-38—72 E Cameron Beckman 35-37—72 E Glen Day 36-36—72 E Lee Janzen 36-36—72 E Robert Karlsson 36-36—72 E Rob Labritz 37-35—72 E Larry Mize 37-35—72 E Gene Sauers 37-35—72 E Duffy Waldorf 37-35—72 E Ken Duke 36-36—72 E Ernie Els 36-36—72 E Richard Green 37-35—72 E Mark Hensby 35-37—72 E Colin Montgomerie 37-35—72 E Vijay Singh 37-35—72 E Retief Goosen 37-35—72 E Wes Short 37-35—72 E Justin Leonard 34-39—73 +1 Scott Parel 38-35—73 +1 HORSE RACING 150TH KENTUCKY DERBY 12th Race at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 4, 2024 1¼-Miles. Purse Paid $5,000,000 Open 3-Year-Olds The Kentucky Derby Grade I 150th Running Horse PP 1/4 1/2 3/4 1M Strch Fin Jockey Mystik Dan 3 8-1½ 6-½ 4-½ 1-1½ 1-2 1-no B.Hernandez Sierra Leone 2 18-½ 17-1½ 16-hd 8-1 3-1 2-no T. Gaffalione Forever Young 10 16-2½ 16-2½ 15-1 7-½ 2-hd 3-1¾ R.Sakai Catching Freedom 4 15-hd 13-hd 13-hd 6-½ 5-1½ 4-4¾ F.Prat T O Password 9 17-½ 18-1 18-hd 11-hd 7-1½ 5-1¼ K.Kimura Resilience 18 7-hd 8-½ 8-½ 2-hd 4-½ 6-5 J.Alvarado Stronghold 117 5-1 4-hd 6-hd 4-hd 6-2 7-¾ A. Fresu Honor Marie 7 19-1½ 20 20 10-hd 8-1½ 8-nk B. Curtis Endlessly 13 20 19-hd 19-115-1½ 15-½ 9-4¼ U. Rispoli Dornoch 1 13-½ 12-½ 14-1 13-hd 12-1 10-½ L. Saez Track Phantom 11 1-hd 1-hd 1-½ 3-hd 9-1½ 11-4 J. Rosario West Saratoga 12 6-½ 7-2 7-1 14-hd 14-1 12-hd J. Castanon Domestic Product 14 14-hd 14-2 12-hd 17-hd 17-2½ 13-1 K. Ortiz Jr. Epic Ride 20 4-2 5-½ 5-hd 9-½ 13-½ 14-¾ R. Beschizza Fierceness 16 3-½ 3-1½ 3-½ 5-1 10-1 15-8 J. Velazquez Society Man 19 9-½ 11-½ 11-hd 16-1½ 11-hd 16-1¼ R.Santana,Jr. Just Steel 6 2-hd 2-½ 2-hd 12-½16-1½ 17-3¾ J. Rosario Grand Mo the First 15 12-1 15-hd 17-1½ 19-1 18-1 18-3¾ E. Jaramillo Catalytic 5 10-hd 9-½ 10-½ 20 20 19-13¼ J. Ortiz Just a Touch 8 11-½ 10-½ 9-hd 18-2½ 19-½ 20 F. Geroux Time 22.97 46.63 1:11.31 1:37.46 2:03.34 Win Pl. Sh. Odds (3)Mystik Dan 39.22 16.32 10.00 18.61 (2)Sierra Leone 6.54 4.64 4.79 (11)Forever Young 5.58 7.03 $0.20 Pick 6 Jackpot (3-5-2-10-5-3) (6 correct) Correct Paid $345,073.62. $1.00 Daily Double (5-3) Correct Paid $139.27. $1.00 Daily Double OAKS/DERBY (5-3) Correct Paid $118.43. $2.00 Exacta (3-2) Correct Paid $258.56. $1.00 Superfecta 3-2-11-4 8,254.07 14,474,454. $1.00 Super High Five (3-2-11-4-10) paid $316,920.10. $0.50 Trifecta (3-2-11) paid $556.92. Trainer: Kenny McPeek Winner: Gasaway, Lance, 4 G Racing, LLC, Hamby III, Daniel and Valley View Farm LLC UFL FOOTBALL USFL W L T PCT PF PA Birmingham 6 0 0 1.000 171 89 Michigan 3 2 0 .600 109 93 Houston 1 5 0 .167 84 138 Memphis 1 5 0 .167 107 171 XFL W L T PCT PF PA St. Louis 5 1 0 .833 173 103 San Antonio 4 1 0 .800 115 86 DC 2 3 0 .400 94 138 Arlington 0 5 0 .000 90 125 WEEK 6 SATURDAY’S RESULTS Birmingham 39, Memphis 21 St. Louis 22, Houston 8 SUNDAY’S GAMES Arlington at Michigan, noon San Antonio at D.C., 3 p.m. ODDS NBA PLAYOFFS SUNDAY FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG at Cleveland 3½ (195) Orlando NHL PLAYOFFS SUNDAY FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE Carolina -114 at NY Rangers -105 at Dallas -156 Vegas +130 MLB SUNDAY American League FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE at NY Yankees -126 Detroit +108 at Cleveland -134 LA Angels +114 at Minnesota -162 Boston +136 at Houston -126 Seattle +108 at Kansas City off Texas off National League FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE at Pittsburgh -158 Colorado +134 at Chicago Cubs-132 Milwaukee +112 San Diego -116 at Arizona -102 Atlanta -124 at LA Dodgers+106 San Francisco -122 at Philadelphia+104 Interleague FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE Toronto -130 at Washington +110 at Tampa Bay -122 NY Mets +104 at St. Louis -180 Chi. White Sox +152 Miami -122 at Oakland +104 Baltimore -112 at Cincinnati -104 For the latest odds, go to BetMGM Sportsbook, https://sports.betmgm. com/en/sports SCOREBOARD Associated Press Anthony Edwards scored a playoff careerhigh 43 points, Naz Reid had 14 of his 16 points in the fourth quarter and the Timberwolves beat the defending NBA champion Nuggets 106-99 in Game 1 of the second-round series Saturday night. Edwards was unstoppable in the first half, scoring 25 points, and Reid took over in the fourth quarter. Karl-Anthony Towns had 20 points despite dealing with foul trouble. “The whole team, we trust each other,” said Edwards, who was 17 of 29 from the floor. “It doesn’t matter down the stretch who takes the shot. ... I trust my teammates.” Game 2 is Monday night in Denver. Three days after undergoing knee surgery, Timberwolves coach Chris Finch was on the bench in the second row, next to the scorer’s table and behind assistant coach Micah Nori, who did the instructing, roaming and switching. Finch ruptured the patellar tendon in his right knee last week when Wolves point guard Mike Conley collided with him late in the Timberwolves’ Round 1 clincher in Phoenix. “All the plays we scored on were my calls and the ones that we didn’t were his,” cracked Nori. “(Finch) was great. He was like, ‘We don’t want to make it clunky,’ is the term he used. We did a good job of that.” Two-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic had 32 points, eight rebounds and nine assists for the Nuggets, but also had seven turnovers. Jamal Murray scored 17 points after being held scoreless in the first half. Murray, the hero for the Nuggets in Round 1 with a pair of game-winners that allowed the Nuggets to eliminate the Lakers in five games, finished 6 of 14 from the floor. Tied at 84, the Timberwolves went on an 18-7 run to break it open. Reid had 10 straight points for the Timberwolves at one point during the pivotal stretch. Reid was the beneficiary of the Nuggets making sure Edwards was constantly covered. “When (Edwards) draws three people, he makes the right play all the time,” Reid said. “I’ve seen him grow from Day 1 to where he is — a superstar in the making, if he’s not now.” Mavericks’ Kleber is out indefinitely with a separated shoulder: Mavericks center Maxi Kleber has a separated shoulder that will sideline him indefinitely and raises doubts about his status for the rest of the playoffs. Kleber injured the right shoulder in the first half of the Mavericks’ clinching 114-101 victory over the Clippers on Friday night. The Mavs won the firstround series 4-2 and will face the top-seeded Thunder in the Western Conference semifinals starting Tuesday night. Kleber was driving toward the basket in transition, running near full speed, when he fell hard on his right side after getting upended in a collision with the Clippers’ Amir Coffey, who was called for a blocking foul. Kleber, whose 3-point shooting was a boost for the Mavs in the series, bent over in pain several times while going to the bench for a timeout. He returned to the game for the free throws, making one of two before leaving at the next dead ball. NBA PLAYOFFS Timberwolves shock Nuggets News services Maple Leafs star and NHL goal-scoring leader Auston Matthews is available for their Game 7 matchup with the Bruins on Saturday night. Matthews missed the last two games while dealing with an unspecified illness and had just four shots combined in Games 3 and 4. He had the Game 2 winner for the Maples Leafs, who are tied with the Bruins 3-3 in the firstround series. Matthews scored 69 goals during the season. T h e L e a f s a l s o announced that goalie Joseph Woll will not play in Game 7 due to an injury sustained in Game 6. Ilya Samsonov will get the nod between the pipes in his place. Samsonov started the first four games of the series when the Leafs fell into a 3-1 hole and was outscored 12-6. He was pulled by coach Sheldon Keefe in the second period of Game 4 after he surrendered three goals on just 17 shots. Auto racing: Max Verstappen inched closer to a third consecutive win at the Miami Grand Prix on Saturday by continuing his long domination of Formula 1 qualifying. The three-time reigning F1 champion won his seventh consecutive pole. The pole-winning run tied Verstappen with Alain Prost in opening the season with six consecutive poles. Prost did it in 1993. Golf: Taylor Pendrith has a one-shot lead going into the final round of the CJ Cup Byron Nelson. The Canadian is among several leaders seeking his first PGA Tour victory. MLB: Phillies star shortstop Trea Turner told reporters that he expects to miss six weeks with a left hamstring strain. Tennis: Iga Swiatek avenged her loss in last year’s final to Aryna Sabalenka and won the Madrid Open on Saturday after a third-set tiebreaker. The top-ranked Swiatek beat No. 2 Sabalenka 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (7) for her third title of the season. IN BRIEF Leafs star Matthews available for Game 7 GOLF PGA TOUR THE CJ CUP BYRON NELSON 3ed of 4 rounds, TPC Craig Ranch; McKinney, Texas; 7,410 yards, Par 71 Taylor Pendrith 64-67-63—194 -19 Jake Knapp 64-64-67—195 -18 Ben Kohles 65-66-65—196 -17 Matt Wallace 63-66-67—196 -17 Kelly Kraft 64-66-68—198 -15 Alex Noren 64-68-66—198 -15 Byeong Hun An 66-67-66—199 -14 Troy Merritt 67-62-70—199 -14 Kevin Tway 69-66-64—199 -14 Vince Whaley 70-63-66—199 -14 Nick Dunlap 66-67-67—200 -13 Ben Griffin 69-64-67—200 -13 Stephan Jaeger 66-68-66—200 -13 Zach Johnson 66-67-67—200 -13 Sung Kang 68-68-64—200 -13 Si Woo Kim 68-65-67—200 -13 Seonghyeon Kim 68-64-68—200 -13 Min Woo Lee 66-68-66—200 -13 Keith Mitchell 66-65-69—200 -13 Aaron Rai 67-65-68—200 -13 Daniel Berger 67-67-67—201 -12 Chris Gotterup 67-69-65—201 -12 Patton Kizzire 69-66-66—201 -12 Justin Lower 66-69-66—201 -12 Andrew Novak 68-67-66—201 -12 Adam Schenk 66-67-68—201 -12 Alex Smalley 65-69-67—201 -12 Aaron Baddeley 68-67-67—202 -11 Jorge Campillo 68-65-69—202 -11 Nicolas Echavarria 67-68-67—202 -11 Luke List 67-69-66—202 -11 Maverick McNealy 67-67-68—202 -11 Adam Scott 69-65-68—202 -11 Taiga Semikawa 64-68-70—202 -11 Rafael Campos 67-67-69—203 -10 Kevin Dougherty 66-68-69—203 -10 Adrien Dumont De Chassart 67-67-69—203 -10 Ryo Hisatsune 70-65-68—203 -10 Mark Hubbard 71-65-67—203 -10 Davis Riley 64-67-72—203 -10 Dylan Wu 67-69-67—203 -10 Austin Cook 67-67-70—204 -9 Harrison Endycott 67-66-71—204 -9 Tom Hoge 68-67-69—204 -9 Kyoung-Hoon Lee 66-67-71—204 -9 Ryan McCormick 67-69-68—204 -9 Max McGreevy 67-66-71—204 -9 Henrik Norlander 68-68-68—204 -9 David Skinns 65-69-70—204 -9 Carson Young 67-69-68—204 -9 Tyson Alexander 68-67-70—205 -8 Kris Kim 68-67-70—205 -8 Tom Kim 69-67-69—205 -8 Martin Laird 67-66-72—205 -8 Joel Dahmen 67-69-70—206 -7 Scott Piercy 68-67-71—206 -7 Sam Stevens 70-66-70—206 -7 The Nuggets’ Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, left, defends the Timberwolves’ Anthony Edwards during Game 1 on Saturday. 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By Alex Nishimoto Edmunds Genesis, the spinoff luxury automaker from Hyundai, launched its GV80 midsize SUV in 2021. Noting its high-quality interior, supple ride over bumps and generous complement of standard tech features, Edmunds immediately ranked it as one of the top models in its class. But how does the Genesis stack up against the latest competition? The popular Lexus RX was fully redesigned for 2023, bringing with it new powertrains and improved features. The auto experts at Edmunds compared the two SUVs to determine which one most deserves your money. Engines and fuel economy Two engines are available in the GV80: a 300-horsepower turbocharged four-cylinder or a 375-horsepower turbocharged V6. Lexus goes for a broader lineup that includes four available powertrains, three of which are hybrids: the gas-only RX 350, the RX 350h hybrid, RX 450h+ plug-in hybrid and the RX 500h performance hybrid. The base RX 350 packs a 275-horsepower turbocharged four-cylinder, while the top-line RX 500h has a hybrid powertrain good for 366 horsepower. Neither can quite match the power of the GV80, which Edmunds has found to be a little quicker in daily driving and for highway passing. But there’s a big difference in fuel economy. The RX 350h gets up to an EPA-estimated 36 mpg in combined driving. Going with the plug-in 450h+ could get you even better mpg. Meanwhile, fuel economy for the GV80 is lackluster. The four-cylinder model checks in at an EPA-estimated 22 mpg combined. Genesis doesn’t offer a hybrid GV80 at all. Winner: Lexus RX Comfort and utility The GV80 stays reasonably well controlled when driving around corners. The real magic, however, is in the GV80’s ride quality. The suspension does an excellent job of softening bumps both big and small. Part of the reason it does such a good job is it knows what’s coming thanks to an available forward-mounted camera that reads the road surface ahead and adjusts the suspension accordingly. Seat comfort is also exceptional, and the cabin is well isolated from road noise and vibrations. Lexus vehicles have a well-earned reputation for providing a smooth ride, and the latest RX lives up to it. Additionally, the seats are comfortable and supportive and the interior is one of the quietest you’ll find. But head-to-head, the GV80 is just a bit better. The GV80 also scores points for its roomier cargo area, higher maximum towing capacity and available third-row seat. That third row is small and only suitable for small children, but it can come in handy for those rare occasions when you need to take extra passengers along. Winner: GV80 Features and value Both SUVs come well stocked with technology features. The GV80 comes standard with a 14.5-inch touchscreen with onboard navigation and Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone integration. The RX has a 9.8-inch touchscreen standard with a 14-inch unit available on higher trims. One nice touch in the RX, however, is that you can connect your phone with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto wirelessly; in the GV80, you need to use a USB cable. RX pricing is also appealing. The least expensive RX in the lineup is the frontwheel-drive RX 350 that starts at about $50,000, including destination fees. Adding all-wheel drive is another $1,600. The GV80, which comes standard with all-wheel drive, starts at just over $59,000 for a four-cylinder 2.5T model. The RX’s lower starting price is a notable advantage, especially because both SUVs have a comparable set of initial standard features. The price gap narrows at the more expensive models, however. For example, step up to the GV80 3.5T with its V6 engine and you’re looking at slightly more than $66,000 to start. The similarly powered RX 500h is around $64,000. Genesis does offer the best warranty for a luxury brand, with five years/60,000 miles for basic coverage and a 10-year/100,000-mile powertrain warranty. The RX comes with a four-year/50,000-mile basic warranty and an eight-year/100,000-mile warranty for the RX’s available hybrid powertrains. Winner: tie Edmunds says The Lexus RX will easily please shoppers looking for comfort, reasonable pricing and reputable build quality. In many ways, the latest version continues to be a class benchmark. But it’s the GV80, with its superior comfort, utility and distinctive style, that Edmunds’ experts find slightly more appealing overall. Luxury SUVs face off Edmunds compares the Genesis GV80 and Lexus RX. Which one comes out on top? The Genesis GV80 midsize SUV stands out with its smooth ride, helpful technology features and available 375-horsepower V6 engine. It gets an estimated 22 mpg combined. GENESIS MOTOR The Lexus RX 350h gets up to an EPA-estimated 36 mpg combined with no compromises in overall luxury. LEXUS By Marc D. Grasso Boston Herald In Grasso’s Garage this week, we have a noisemaker on our hands with the 2024 Jaguar F-Pace SVR. This display of luxury and sport makes for an amazing ride but a rough one, filled with tons of power. Under the hood of our unbelievable Ultra Blue exterior paint is a 5.0-liter supercharged eight-cylinder engine, producing 550 horsepower and 516 pound-feet of torque. Paired with all-wheel drive and an eight-speed automatic transmission, the Jaguar F-Pace SVR is one fun ride, with a deep and raspy exhaust noise that is sure to keep you right on the pedal. Riding on 22-inch fivesplit spoke black wheels, the SVR is powerful and comfortable to your exhilarating driver who wants comfort, power and quick get-up-and-go when needed. The SVR body kit brings the overall stature of the F-Pace to another level. Its overall design brings the ever-popular F-Pace from luxury to luxury-sport easily and exceptionally. The 11.4-inch infotainment system, similar to other models in the fleet, is easy to use. A sliding panoramic sunroof was also standard on the SVR, while our tester included a heated windshield and head-up display. In this category, there are many other options, such as BMW X3 Competition and the Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio, to name a few, but the SVR really tops them all, as its warranty and maintenance coverage is significantly better. Jaguar EliteCare includes a fiveyear/60,000-mile warranty included in the purchase, and Jaguar includes complimentary maintenance for five years and 24-hour roadside assistance, bringing back Jaguar’s dedication to its consumers. Jaguar has always been a struggle for Grasso’s Garage, since the days of Ford Motor Co. being a part of the design and production. Since its transition with Land Rover, we have seen an uptick in consumer complaints around electrical issues and endless recalls. As the owner of a 2011 Jaguar XJL, I find the automaker’s display of luxury truly commendable. And with the SVR now available to consumers in an SUV, the F-Pace just moved up on the list in Grasso’s Garage. This is one fun, powerful and comfortable SUV, priced right for this category. Great work, Jaguar! Grasso’s Garage is here for you! Are you in the market for a new car? I would be happy to provide my honest input. All you have to do is email me: marc.grasso@ bostonherald.com. GRASSO’S GARAGE 2024 Jaguar F-Pace SVR is one raspy, amazing ride The 2024 Jaguar F-Pace SVR is one fun ride, with a deep and raspy exhaust noise that is sure to keep you right on the pedal. MARC D. GRASSO/BOSTON HERALD 2024 JAGUAR F-PACE SVR MSRP: $91,900/ $96,523 as tested MPG: 15 city/21 highway/ 18.1 as tested RIDES Chicago Tribune | Section 3 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 7

Dear Motormouth: I have come across motorists whose brake lights come on hundreds of feet before a stoplight. Brake lights come on, the vehicle immediately slows and it eventually comes to a complete stop at the light. Strictly in terms of brake wear, does a gentle stop over a long distance and time wear out the brakes less than a firmer stop (no skid marks) at a light? Figure initial speed is 40 to 45 mph. — D.D., Palos Hills, Illinois Dear D.D.: Energy can be neither created nor destroyed. While braking, friction converts kinetic energy to heat energy. The wear would be about the same — all other things being equal. However, intense heat from hard braking affects the brake pads and rotors. I have seen rotors glowing at night during 24-hour races. I have no intention, though, of applying a formula for the transfer of energy for your 40 to 45 mph. Yeah, I expect to get mail from physicists. Dear Motormouth: I own a 2018 Subaru Crosstrek with 44,000 miles without any issues. Recently the engine has gotten much louder. I took it to a Subaru dealer who couldn’t find any problems and told us that it’s normal and that this engine gets louder as the car gets older. Your take? — M.E., Woodridge, Illinois Dear M.E.: I would check out the engine’s air intake system. There may be a leak from a loose duct. Check the air filter and its housing and replace the filter. Finally make sure no items are rubbing or vibrating. Look for shiny marks. Dear Motormouth: Many decades ago, I worked part time at a Clark gas station. I remember one of the drivers who delivered our product cautioning me not to ever fill up whenever a fuel tanker was off-loading its gas. He said the fuel being poured into the underground tanks would kick up water or sediment sitting at the bottom, and if you were pumping gas at the same time, you could end up fouling your own fuel system. Is that still an issue? — M.P., Palatine, Illinois Dear M.P.: It is unlikely that any junk will reach your car’s gas tank. First of all, there is a lip and spillage bucket in the access hole where the fuel is delivered to prevent stuff from getting into the underground tank. Second, the pickup for the dispenser (“gas pump”) is well above the bottom of the tank. Third, there is a filter between the tank and the dispenser. Additionally, station attendants use a long measuring stick to inventory the fuel level in the underground tank. They may also apply water-detecting goo to the end of the stick. Dear Motormouth: Enjoy your column, even though I don’t know much about cars. One thing I do know however, is that I love my 2010 VW Beetle. The oversized dashboard — and its ample distance from the steering wheel — give me a panoramic view of the road. I have a great mechanic who told me that this car actually has half of a Lamborghini engine. It does have great pickup. Why did VW halt production of the Beetle? — A.G., Chicago Dear A.G.: Weak sales. The last Beetle rolled off the assembly line in July 2019. But rumor has it that it may be reincarnated as an electric car. Bob Weber is a writer and mechanic who became an ASE-certified Master Automobile Technician in 1976. He maintains this status by seeking certification every five years. Weber’s work appears in professional trade magazines and other consumer publications. Send questions along with name and town to motormouth. [email protected]. No big benefit from gentle stop Intense heat from hard braking affects your vehicle’s brake pads and the rotors. DREAMSTIME Bob Weber Motormouth By Henry Payne The Detroit News My Chevy Malibu is roomy, techy and easy on the eyes. And, most importantly, it’s a used bargain at under 20 grand. Let’s go used car reviewing. I’m a big fan of affordable cars whether new or used, but it’s a tough hoe for consumers these days in a market buffeted by a perfect storm of electric vehicle mandates, low post-pandemic inventories and high manufacturing costs. The average price paid for a new vehicle has ballooned from $37,577 in 2019 to $47,338 now. Worse, the number of new cars under $20,000 has shrunk as manufacturers buffeted by rising regulation, labor costs and electronic tech find it hard to make margin on entry-level cars — driving customers into the used market, where inventories have been hammered by the lack of production during the pandemic. “We need more used cars,” Roger Penske lamented to me in a recent interview as he listed the challenges to his dealer network. The average price of a used vehicle — $27,297 as of March — is up even more than new cars (33% vs. 26%) from $20,398 in 2019. Ouch. Most of the new cars I test these days are pricey electrics, like the $50K Chevy Blazer EV. To make up for big losses on EVs — Ford lost $4.7 billion in its EV division last year — brands are making higher-trim models to capture profit. Meanwhile, customers want gas-powered Swiss Army knives — affordable vehicles that can do it all, from road trips to urban parking to loading in a family of four. As I travel the country, I try to report on good finds from time to time. The Chevy Malibu is one. Sneak up behind my Malibu 1LT tester in a parking lot and you might mistake its sleek lines for a luxury chariot. Coupelike roof, scalloped side panels, fashionably spoked wheels. Walk around to the front and the mood is ruined by a dog’s breakfast of twin grilles and competing surfaces. Give me a simple, European grille any day. I have a friend who is a big Lexus fan but recoils at their Darth Vader grilles. So she just parks the car head-first into her garage or downtown parking spot so she never has to look at it. Happily, when you’re behind the wheel of the Malibu, you never have to look it in the face. Instead, you get a handsome, ergonomically superior interior. Easy-to-read tablet screen, well-organized, bezeled climate controls, fat knobs for controlling climate and sound, and an intuitive automotive shifter. Alas, the steering wheel of my 2023 tester didn’t have Chevy’s newer roller button for volume and cruise control — but I could still find the raised control buttons with my fingers so I never had to take my eyes off the road. Better yet, Malibu allowed me to control the radio from the back of the steering wheel. Volume buttons on the wheel’s right backside. Station controls on the left. Navigating in the Malibu is also easy thanks to wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto — a significant upgrade to the Chevy since its 2016 debut — which mirrors your phone’s navi system for seamless, familiar operation. I gave voice commands without ever taking my phone out of my pocket. Add to this convenience a lack of range anxiety. I love electric vehicles, but you need to be conscious of range at all times. Recharging takes time and could make you late for an appointment — or take you out of your way, especially in unfamiliar territory (to me) like South Florida. Gas power = peace of mind. AUTO REVIEW Go used, go Chevy Malibu The 2023 Chevy Malibu 1LT is easy to use and park with high quality ratings from JD Power. HENRY PAYNE/DETROIT NEWS 2023 CHEVY MALIBU Price: $27,895 when new (under $20,000 used 1LT) Powerplant: 1.5-liter turbocharged inline-4 cylinder Horsepower/Torque: 160/184 pound-feet Transmission: Continuously variable automatic Performance: Zero to 60 mph in 7.8 seconds Est. fuel economy (city/ highway/combined): 29/36/32 8 Chicago Tribune | Section 3 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 It's Her Day Celebrate the Mom in your life with front page prints from a special day in her life. 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By Chris Jones | New York Daily News NEW YORK — “So it must have been about 11 years ago and I was doing this interview,” says actress Megan Hilty, “and someone asked me, ‘If there was one movie you could turn into a musical, what would it be?’ ‘Death Becomes Her.’ Duh! That is the only movie I can think of that truly has the heightened experiences that warrant breaking into song.” Hilty grins. “And it’s fabulous and everyone loves it.” Breathless from rehearsing a big number, Hilty (bombshell star of the TV show “Smash”) sits with her co-star, Jennifer Simard, in a rehearsal studio at New York’s New 42nd Street studios, where musicals like “Death Becomes Her” are birthed — the show opens May 19 at Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre following two weeks of previews. It’s a musical of modest scale (but that’s still a ton of money these days) and will be on a short list of doublefemale-lead Broadway musicals; the two stars can recite most of the others with pride: “Wicked” (Hilty was a longtime Glinda), “City of Angels,” “Sideshow,” “War Paint” (which also tried out in Chicago). At the end of the show, the two stars will come out together for the final bow in glam attire, one wearing red, one in blue. Death appears in the title of many movies (“Death on the Nile,” “Death in Venice,” Sudden Death,” “Murder by Death,” yadda, yadda) but, to refresh your memory, “Death Becomes Her” is a 1992 black comedy, the early ’90s being halcyon days for the genre, that was directed by Robert Zemeckis and starred no less than Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, a hard-to-recognize Bruce Willis and Isabella Rossellini. The movie begins with a truly awful Broadway production number, seemingly modeled on something starring Ann-Margret, wherein Streep’s actress character, Madeline Ashton (“whose popularity is falling along with her face,” as the Washington Post reviewer said at the time) gets tossed around the stage by male dancers. After her performance, if that’s the word, she gets a visit from her bookish old pal Helen Sharp (Hawn), an aspiring writer with a fiancee (Willis), a notably hairy Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, who A stage resurrection To write a few words in remembrance of Jay Robert Nash seems insufficient, for this was a man for whom a few words were never enough. During his life, which ended on April 22 of lung cancer after 86 active years, he once estimated that he had written something in the neighborhood of 50 million words. Most of those came in non-fiction books, firmly focused on crimes and killers (movies too), but he also wrote poetry and plays. Here is but a sampling of his 80-or-so book titles: “Bloodletters and Badmen”; “Darkest Hours”; “Hustlers and Con Men”; “Among the Missing”; “The Dillinger Dossier”; a multi-volume “The Motion Picture Guide”; “Encyclopedia Of Western Lawmen & Outlaws”; “Zanies: The World’s Greatest Eccentrics” and on and on. Most of these books were created in the pre-internet age, when research was done the dusty old-fashioned way, plowing through archives and fading newspapers. Sometimes aided by a series of assistants such as Chicago researcher Jim Agnew, Nash was tireless. Late in life, he told me that his reference archives included nearly 500,000 books, three million text files and more than six million historical illustrations and photos. Some of his books were big bestsellers and some were not. He made a lot of money. He lost a lot of money and borrowed plenty from friends. He won awards. He was Remembering tireless and prolific writer Jay Robert Nash A+E Director and choreographer Christopher Gattelli sits on the rehearsal set of the new musical “Death Becomes Her” in New York in March. BRIAN CASSELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE ‘Death Becomes Her’ gets a new life as a Broadway musical, opening in a world premiere in Chicago Top: Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard in “Death Becomes Her” at the Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago. Above: Christopher Sieber in “Death Becomes Her” at the Cadillac Palace Theatre. MATTHEW MURPHY AND EVAN ZIMMERMAN PHOTOS Author Jay Robert Nash in 1981. CHARLES OSGOOD/CHICAGO TRIBUNE Unique, old-school Chicago character had huge personality Rick Kogan Turn to Kogan, Page 2 Turn to ‘Death’, Page 4 Chicago Tribune | Section 4 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 1

always ready to file a lawsuit, as he did against CBS. He was sued by others. As prolific as he was in print, he was equally loquacious in person, his personality and imagination cutting a story-packed path across the places where writers and journalists once gathered. Some of his stories were real, some were not but most all were unforgettable. As writer Clarence Petersen put it in a Tribune story in 1981, “(Nash’s) most intriguing creation is himself. Pugnacious, diminutive, and dapper in the attire of a 1920s gangster, his heroic fantasies have made him a Chicago legend — especially among the patrons of his favorite saloons.” In that same story, Roger Ebert said, “(Nash is) a legend builder. He lives in greatness, real or imagined, you never quite know. … When he’s out drinking, it’s as if Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe were at war for the possession of his soul.” Jay Robert Nash III was born on Nov. 26, 1937 in Indianapolis, the son of Jay Robert Nash II and Jerrie Lynne (Kosur). His father was a newspaperman who went off to war and died in the Pacific in World War II. His mother, a cabaret singer in her youth, raised her son in Green Bay, Wisconsin. After a couple of years of college at Marquette University, Nash then served with the Army Intelligence Corps of the United States Army in Paris for a couple of mid-1950s years and then attended — maybe — the University of Paris, graduating — maybe — with a bachelor’s degree in literature. It was there he said he “met” Hemingway, a writer he so admired that Papa became a frequent star in his many stories which included a wild one about how he helped bury the writer after his 1961 suicide in Ketchum, Idaho. He started his career working for publications in Milwaukee, arriving in Chicago in about 1962 with the intention of “setting this town on fire,” as he then told my father, writer/ newspaperman Herman Kogan, one of the first people he met here. He revived for a year or so the Literary Times magazine started in the 1920s by one of his heroes, newspaperman Ben Hecht, and began wandering his way into the oases frequented by the city’s writers and journalists such as Mike Royko, Nelson Algren and Studs Terkel. Occasionally fists would fly, giving Nash a reputation as a barroom brawler. “We were all jerks,” Tribune columnist and novelist Bill Granger told Petersen. “Jay was pugnacious but, in retrospect, we were all obnoxious.” I first met Nash through my father and a few years later, when I was old enough to frequent taverns, each of our encounters would begin with him shouting, “Kogan? Rick Kogan? You’re not half the man your father is.” But we hit it off, minus fists. Forty-one years ago, he married a charming and smart attorney named Judy Anetsberger, now retired. “We met five years before we married,” she told me. “A lot of his so-called reputation was unfair. I have never known a smarter, kinder man nor one who worked harder.” They married in 1983 and soon had a son. His name is Jay Robert Nash IV, now 39 and a marketing executive living in North Carolina, with 2-year-old Jay Robert Nash V. “He was such a great father,” said Judy. “He loved going to baseball games with our son. It was a calmer life than the one he had known but he relished it.” Marriage and fatherhood curtailed some of Nash’s nocturnal adventures as did the fact that some of his favorite haunts — Riccardo’s and O’Rourke’s — shuttered and some of his old pals retired, moved away or died. Jeff Magill tended bar at the Billy Goat on Hubbard Street for three decades until retiring late in 2015. He remembers Nash fondly: “A bartender can only do so much to enliven the milieu. When Jay was in the room it was never a concern. He was self invented to such a degree that it came full circle, so unique as to secure a singular authenticity. Suffice it to say, I liked him very much.” One person who knew Nash better and longer than most anyone is Bruce Elliott, the artist, writer, raconteur and proprietor of the venerable Old Town Alehouse, another of Nash’s favorite spots and the place he and Judy first laid eyes on one another. “Nobody in their right mind could ever accuse Jay of being boring,” he wrote in an online posting. Though he tells me that he had not seen Nash for 20-some years, his memories remain fresh. In 2011 he wrote a series of stories about Nash on his lively blog, some of those stories making it into his own books. Elliott and I talked earlier this week about Nash and I told him that Jay and I had been in touch last year, about his “new project” called “Secrets of the Cinema,” a series of print and radio pieces about “insider film information from and about international icons.” We shared stories Nash had told us about his interviewing John Dillinger at an Arizona retirement home in the early 1970s and having fist fights on the streets of Paris with Hemingway. We laughed, even as we realized that we are part of a shrinking crowd of people who knew Jay Robert Nash, a fine writer, decent man and an authentic Chicago character. rkogan@chicagotribune. com Kogan from Page 1 From left to right: “Among the Missing: An Anecdotal History of Missing Persons from 1800 to the Present,” “Bloodletters and Badmen: A Narrative Encyclopedia of American Criminals from the Pilgrims to the Present” and “The Dillinger Dossier.” SIMON & SCHUSTER; M. EVANS & COMPANY; DECEMBER PRESS Know that phrase “the numbers don’t lie”? It’s a lie. The numbers lie constantly. With the movies, as with every creative medium in which visionaries must cross the six-way intersection of greed, exploitation, risk, reward, art and commerce, it’s a mug’s game to lie about numbers not telling the whole story about anything. This spring, a century ago, Buster Keaton’s “Sherlock, Jr.” opened in theaters. Keaton, a huge success in vaudeville and one of a handful of silent film pioneers touched by the gods of inspiration, already had built an eager audience for his fearless, outlandish stunt work, bone-dry wit, pinpoint comic timing and peculiarly American melancholy. He directed “Sherlock, Jr.” as well as starred in it, as well as breaking his neck, literally, for it. Keaton took his time filming — four months on this project — and was injured filming a scene with a railway water spout. Some chilly preview screenings garnered few laughs, so Keaton cut his comedy down to 45 minutes, ruthlessly. Still, business was mild; 1924 audiences preferred Harold Lloyd’s comedies “Girl Shy” and “Hot Water.” While “Sherlock, Jr.” didn’t cost enough to be an omen of creative independence doom, the way Keaton’s “The General” was two years later, Keaton biographer Marion Meade called it the star’s first conspicuous disappointment in 25 years of show business. He was 28. This is the thing about money: Enough time goes by, and very few money matters matter anymore. A century later “Sherlock Jr.” has ascended to the pantheon. It’s a dreamy masterpiece, connecting the world of dreams to the expressive realms of cinema. There are moments in it that defy gravity, bamboozle the eye, invent and perfect new ways of seeing and getting a laugh, all in the same second. The trade publication Variety called it “as funny as a hospital operating room.” More recently, two different children in my life attended Facets summer camp, and watching “Sherlock, Jr.” for the first time, they came to the same conclusion on different days in different summers: It’s great. Magic. Sometimes the audience simply is not in the mood. Post-World War II America in 1946 was not in the mood for “It’s a Wonderful Life.” That movie lost money and felt like Frank Capra’s fade-out. He made more pictures, but not many, decades after his astonishing string of shrewd, heart-massaging hits in the late silent era and 1930s Hollywood. But endless reruns in the 1950s, thanks to the newer-fangled medium of television, bred familiarity with “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Now it sells out the Music Box Theatre every Christmas. The roster of economic failures considered by many to be classics of their genre, or genredefying singularities, has only gotten longer with pandemic-accelerated viewing habits and a desperate industry hellbent on making theatrical exhibition as short-lived as possible. The older titles are easiest to call out: “Duck Soup.” Too mordant for the Depression, reborn on college campuses in the ’60s and rep houses in the ’70s. “Bringing Up Baby.” “The Rules of the Game.” Audiences didn’t like the meticulous artifice of the former, and Jean Renoir’s latter seemed merely cryptic in its tone. Now it is a key film, period. Newer stuff: So many tough, sour, mud-in-youreye examinations of dark American forces, especially in the media, couldn’t get arrested in the 1950s. “Ace in the Hole.” “A Face in the Crowd.” “Sweet Smell of Success.” Now they look like bulletins from the very near future, not the past. Time will tell on the newer new stack of great or near-great economic disappointments. “Tár.” “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Half of the movies made by Paul Thomas Anderson, at least half of which are plainly the stuff of eccentric, rewardingly slippery classics. So much conspires against any kind of greatness in movies, especially the ones that seem extraordinarily populist today. At the time few in Hollywood thought there wasn’t any money to be made with 1946’s “The Best Years of Our Lives.” Was this what postwar audiences craved? No, they said, whoever the “theys” were. Too depressing. Too topical. Too skeptical about the challenges facing millions of servicemen coming home, mirrored by the characters in director William Wyler’s powerful drama. It was the biggest hit, as it turned out, since “Gone with the Wind.” And as many have pointed out, including Glenn Frankel in his fine book “High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic,” a movie even mildly questioning Main Street America’s treatment of returning veterans would likely never have been made a few short years later, in the early 1950s Red Menace heyday. Sometimes it’s timing; sometimes a classic is just too something, the way Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane” and “The Magnificent Ambersons” and so tragically many more from Welles, fought to simply get made, and weren’t Hollywood movies anyway, most of them. And now we revisit them and find them endlessly what they always were: marvels of instability and loss and, yes, genius. Consider this an ode to failures in name only. And a reminder of the triumph of time, in perpetuity. Michael Phillips is a Tribune critic. An ode to failure The final scene from “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946), a financial disappointment in its day. Now, it’s a classic. RKO RADIO PICTURES Michael Phillips On Further Review Some classic movies were flops when they first came out 2 Chicago Tribune | Section 4 | Sunday, May 5, 2024

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By Hannah Edgar For the Chicago Tribune When Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office announced in February it would replace Erin Harkey, the commissioner of the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) since 2021, it came as a surprise to many in Chicago’s cultural world. Compared to his predecessors, Johnson has been slow to make cabinet appointments, leaving city departments reportedly reeling from late-stage shakeups. The timing was a factor. Harkey’s ouster came just a few months before the start of summer festival season, DCASE’s most visible public offering. (This year, that includes a 20th anniversary celebration for Millennium Park July 18-21.) But some of the department’s most essential work happens behind the scenes, conferring $24 million in artist and organization grants in 2023; that amount stands to increase this year, with DCASE securing its largest budget to date at more than $87 million. In March, Johnson announced former art appraiser and curator Clinée Hedspeth as Harkey’s successor. Hedspeth has known Johnson for 20 years; they both got their start in politics working together in the offices of Oak Park representatives Don Harmon and Deborah L. Graham. She later worked for Johnson as his legislative director from 2018 to 2021, when he was Cook County commissioner. Hedspeth, 43, grew up in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood in a family that was both politically and artistically engaged: her mother was a Black Panther and theater lover, and her grandmother participated in early efforts to start the Northwest African American Museum. She first moved to Chicago to attend Dominican University, in River Forest, but put her degree on hold to work. After returning and graduating in 2013, Hedspeth started her own fine art appraising company and joined the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center as its director of curatorial services in 2015. Most recently, Hedspeth worked as an associate specialist in 20th century and contemporary art for Phillips, the prestigious British auction house. Hedspeth lives in Hyde Park, where she remains board chair of the Hyde Park Historical Society. She is also the board president of Edgar Miller Legacy, a nonprofit supporting preservation of the late artist-designer’s work, and chair of the Literature and Arts Committee at the University Club of Chicago, where Hedspeth made something of a public debut interviewing Johnson on April 8. Hedspeth spent much of her own half-hour interview with the Tribune giving a detailed tour of the art in her corner office at the Chicago Cultural Center, including pieces pulled from the city’s own art holdings: sketches by Alison Saar, a vibrant textile by Nick Cave and a small sculpture by the late Richard Hunt. But when it came to her specific plans for DCASE — and its $87 million operating budget this year, its largest ever — Hedspeth had less to say. A condensed and edited version of that conversation, on April 25, follows. Q: Your predecessor Erin Harkey presented five goals to City Council during 2024 budget negotiations: prioritizing the ongoing COVID recovery for the art sector; streamlining the process to apply for and produce special events; developing more large-scale events; celebrating the 20th anniversary of Millennium Park with new commissions and programming; and self-evaluating DCASE’s own functions for efficacy and efficiency. I’m wondering what your goals are. Do you share those goals? Are there any you want to augment or redirect? A: I have goals. And you know, it’s so funny, because we were just like, what’s the vision? And I said, “Well, there’s visions.” There shouldn’t be just one vision. I have goals, but I’ve hit 30 days now. I think it would be foolish to share some of those. I want to work with my team a little bit more to make sure those are communicated accurately and to demonstrate that they’re not bumping against what has been done before. So, the answer is: I have them and I plan on sharing them soon. Q: But not at this time? A: Not at this time. Q: We also just mentioned the budget — A: — which is important. I mean, you know, that is key. That is a major document, guiding those healthy boundaries, right? So, I just wanted to make sure that I was first well-versed and understanding of that. Q: So, you can take some questions about the budget? A: I’ll wait. (In a follow-up email, a department spokesperson stated that DCASE’s “festivals and events, public art, cultural grants, and other programs will be similar to (2023)” and that the department “will continue to prioritize direct support to artists and arts organizations.”) Q: OK. So far, Mayor Johnson has followed through on his campaign promises to increase DCASE funding. But there are also stressors that he couldn’t have predicted, like the ongoing migrant crisis. We also know that COVID relief funds, which are currently a third of the (DCASE) budget, are finite and must be spent by 2026. When the going gets tough, what’s your pitch for retaining or increasing funding to the arts? A: My philosophy is, I have to get out there. We (DCASE) need to maintain some of these services that we’re offering, and we bring our own networks to the table. That’s a key part of my responsibility and job: to knock on some of those doors. With people celebrating Chicago internationally, we need to look at ways to encourage people to support what they enjoy (about Chicago’s arts scene) outside of here, too. Funds are changing, but the need isn’t. You can’t just have a grants department — I have to be part of that, and be hands-on. What I can say is that my team and I are anticipating changes and trying to get ahead of them. (We’re) going to institutions, organizations, foundations that have not participated, and revisiting organizations that aren’t necessarily being responsible with their funding practices, either. Q: You took office a couple months before summer festival season. What did you find in terms of festival planning when you came in? A: I mean, the team is good. It runs well. It’s just making sure that I’m caught up. People will not notice the difference between who’s sitting here right now. If anything, they’ll walk away with additional support that enhances what we’ve been doing well and what the department has been doing well in the city. Hannah Edgar is a freelance writer. Who is DCASE’s new commissioner? A few questions for Clinée Hedspeth Clinée Hedspeth is the new appointee for the commissioner of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. TERRENCE ANTONIO JAMES/CHICAGO TRIBUNE Madeline promptly steals, sending Helen into a long, downward, depressive spiral that involves many cats and a major weight gain, only for her to turn things around by dedicating her life to revenge. She returns in newly svelte and glamorized form, determined to get her guy back and persuade him to kill Madeline. That sends Madeline into her own jealous rage, just as a mysterious rich lady played by Rossellini shows up with a potion for eternal life. Madeline drinks from the Faustian cup and, well, things comedic spiral from there. In essence, the woman morph from bitter rivals into all-too-mortal partners trying to stay young. “Death Becomes Her” was no critical favorite on its cinematic release and, as will be clear from the summary above, hardly is a movie that would get made today. Nonetheless, the film ended up grossing more than $150 million and, perhaps more significantly for this new musical, it was later embraced for its campy special effects, many turned into TikTok clips. Over time, it came to be seen not as a film exploiting female anxieties over looks, weight, aging and the need for men, but as a meta parody, satirizing those obsessions. “In the 25 years since its initial release, the film has become a touchstone of the queer community,” Kristy Puchko wrote in a gushing tribute to the movie in Vanity Fair in 1997. “Madeline and Helen’s looks have inspired cosplay and untold drag performances. The film is screened during Pride month, where bar rooms and theaters full of fans mouth along with every line. ‘Death Becomes Her’ even inspired a runway challenge on the groundbreaking reality competition series ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race,’ where sickening queen Violet Chachki won for her breathless look and dangerously cinched waist.” “Death Becomes Her” was a Universal movie and that studio’s theatrical arm, Universal Theatrical Group, is run by vice president Chris Herzberger, a former actor who cut his teeth on musicals in the suburban Chicago area and knows the city’s scene well. Herzberger, in an earlier interview in a New York bar, said that the movie had come up many times as a candidate for a musical transfer and that he’d been working on this idea for years. The musical is directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli with a book by Marco Pennette. Among those like Herzberger who greenlight these film-to-stage projects, there is a received wisdom that blockbuster auteur movies (like, say, Zemeckis’ megahit “Back to the Future” or his “Forest Gump”) are trickier to turn into musicals than somewhat less successful films without such an immutable imprint on audience’s minds. Titles like “Death Becomes Her” offer the current artists more leeway while still exploiting the crucial audience pre-awareness that pays dividends at the box office. That said, assuming “Back to the Future” lasts long enough to coincide with the expected Broadway debut of “Death Becomes Her” next season, Broadway will have two Robert Zemeckis movies-into-musicals running at the same time. “Death Becomes Her” won’t have a DeLorean on stage but at one point during rehearsal, Gattelli leans over to say, of the character played by Simard, “Helen’s going to be parachuting into that scene.” “I’ve never done a show before with this level of illusions and special effects,” the director says. There are some expectations there, even though “Death Becomes Here” dates from an era when digital effects in Hollywood movies were in embryonic form. In the film, you see Streep’s head famously positioned backward on her walking body (two separate live shots were put together) and, at another moment, Hawn with a big round hole allowing you to see through the middle of her belly. Some audience members will be waiting. Hilty is done with “Smash,” the NBC show that brought the Broadway star a whole new level of fame. “Smash,” too, is becoming a stage musical on Broadway next season, albeit with significant changes, “Smash” being another property with issues but a big recognition factor and fervent fans. “It didn’t make any sense for me to part of it, the way that it has been written now,” Hilty said, when asked. “But how great that those fantastic songs will have another life on stage.” Both Hilty and Simard (recently on Broadway in the very unserious Britney Spears musical “Once Upon a One More Time”) say that “Death Becomes Her” has serious themes. ‘It hits very close to home, this constant striving for perfection and asking yourself how far you are willing to go, although I, of course, have not had to deal with aging at all,” Hilty says. “And who sets that standard and why do we do that? That is something that we’ve navigated through this process because these are things real people deal with.” “That is the overall lesson of our show,” Simard says, dryly, clearly enjoying playing the bookish beta to a full-blown Hilty alpha. “Let Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard serve as a warning to all women.” (For the record, Simard is not wearing a fat suit, which was famously the case with Hawn in the movie. “I made clear that I did not think that was appropriate today,” she says.) For the mostly unknown songwriters, Julia Mattison and Noel Carey, “Death Becomes Her” is not so much a warning as a massive opportunity. The two met as musical theater undergraduates at Emerson College and have been writing, separately and together, for close to 13 years. Mattison was an actor on Broadway in “Godspell,” but both are making their presumptive Broadway debuts here as co-lyricists and co-composers, a risky rarity on a musical like this one, coming as it does out a big movie studio. “We’ve been writing for ourselves a lot, making each other laugh,” Mattison said. “We’ve done musical commercials and productions, very ‘Bathtubs on Broadway,’ improv and sketch stuff. So far, everyone has let us stay weird. We both are huge musical theater fans and we love to write at the top of our intelligence, but we’re actors and we also both like to be silly.” “The score is doing that 1950s over-that drama where someone faints and it’s scored,” Carey said. “We have winks and nods to that. It certainly can’t be ignored.” “We are leaning into that original cinematic score,” says Mattison (although this is an all-new take). Clearly “Death Becomes Her,” which (based on the models sitting in the rehearsal room) will have a lush scenic design and that Gattelli says will have an 18-piece orchestra, will sound like old-school Broadway, as distinct from 1990s pop. The aesthetic of the movie demands such. The duo — who are professional rather than personal partners — composed the long-in-gestation show during the pandemic via the voice memo app on their respective iPhones: Mattison, who lives in New York City, mostly comes up with the melody and most lyrics, Carey, who lives upstate, does the chords, motifs, more lyrics and all the rest. Both say they like to improvise. Both say they are relishing the time-honored Chicago tryout process of trial, discovery and change. And, aptly for a show with two stars, they also finish each other’s sentences. “We wrote a new finale” Carey says. “Last week,” adds Mattison. Now in previews and opens May 19 at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph St.; www.broadwayinchicago.com Chris Jones is a Tribune critic. cjones5@chicagotribune. com ‘Death’ from Page 1 Michelle Williams and Taurean Everett in “Death Becomes Her” at the Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago. MATTHEW MURPHY AND EVAN ZIMMERMAN 4 Chicago Tribune | Section 4 | Sunday, May 5, 2024

By Hannah Edgar For the Chicago Tribune Chicago Opera Theater announced a scaled-back 2024-25 season on Tuesday, its first programmed by new general director Lawrence Edelson. The company will oversee just two staged productions in its 51st season, both of which will receive three performances rather than the two that have long been COT’s standard. Edelson makes his company directorial debut with the North American premiere of Ferdinando Paër’s 1804 opera “Leonora.” Paër’s work adapts the same story as Beethoven’s only opera, “Fidelio,” onstage at Lyric Opera at the same time as “Leonora.” The COT season closes with “She Who Dared,” a world premiere by composer Jasmine Barnes and librettist Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton about the women behind Browder v. Gayle. The 1956 court case, which was eventually heard by the Supreme Court, legally desegregated the Montgomery, Alabama, bus system. The director will be Timothy Douglas, whose opera credits include “Blue” at New Orleans Opera and “Champion” at Boston Lyric Opera. COT is partnering with the Kehrein Center for the Arts in Austin for additional programming, including a free concert at the center on Feb. 22, 2025. Between the operas are two nonstaged programs: “Bohème and Beyond,” a concert highlighting “how Puccini’s work impacted the evolution of opera and musical theater” and timed to the 100th anniversary of that composer’s death (Dec. 7), and “Remedios Varios Para las Aflicciones del Cuerpo y el Espíritu” (“Various Remedies for the Afflictions of the Body and Spirit”), the annual Vanguard Initiative opera by composer Carlos R. Carrillo and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann (April 5, 2025). Guest conductors Dame Jane Glover (“Leonora”), Eli Chen (“Remedios Varios”), and Michael Ellis Ingram (“She Who Dared”) will lead these productions, with the cast for “Bohème and Beyond” to be announced this summer. Lidiya Yankovskaya, who steps down as music director of the company this season, remains involved with the organization as a mentor for the Vanguard Initiative, which she established in 2018. A leaner COT season comes as no surprise, given industry trends and recent developments at the company. Last year, COT cut its production of Rameau’s “Platée,” originally slated for March, due to budget constraints. The company’s exclusive partnership with the Chicago College of Performing Arts’ professional opera diploma program, whose students made up its Young Artists Program, also ends this season. Edelson said in an email to the Tribune that the company is “taking this opportunity to restructure COT’s young artist program independent of CCPA,” with details forthcoming in the fall. “Leonora,” 7:30 p.m. Oct. 1 and 4, 3 p.m. Oct. 6, Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Michigan Ave. “Bohème and Beyond: The Legacy of Puccini,” 3 p.m. Dec. 7, Gannon Concert Hall at DePaul University, 2330 N. Halsted St. “Remedios Varios Para las Aflicciones del Cuerpo y el Espíritu,” 7:30 p.m. April 5, 2025, Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture, 2936 N. Southport Ave. “She Who Dared,” 7:30 p.m. June 3 and 6, 3 p.m. June 8, 2025, Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Michigan Ave. Single tickets ($50-$150) go on sale July 15; chicagooperatheater.org SYMPHONY CENTER PRESENTS JAZZ The nonclassical arm of the Chicago Symphony has announced its Symphony Center Presents Jazz lineup for the 2024-25 season. The season begins with a double bill celebrating two great saxophonists, past and present: Charles Lloyd, playing with his quartet, and the late Wayne Shorter, honored here by the three remaining members of his own great quartet. Later in the fall, pianist Jason Moran leads tight, rhythmonly multimedia tribute to James Reese Europe, a composer and bandleader whose musical innovations bridged ragtime and jazz. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra returns early next year for its annual residency with two programs: “Bebop Revolution” and “Cool School & Hard Bop.” Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant, also a SCP Jazz regular, returns in a program mixing standards and originals. For its concerts, the Bill Charlap Trio teams up with vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater and trumpeter Nicholas Payton. Two artists make their series debut on April 4, 2025: pianist/bandleader Hiromi and her funky Sonicwonder quartet, which released a self-titled debut last year, and harpist Brandee Younger and her trio. Jazz harp fans rejoice: that performance is followed a month later by Colombian harpist Edmar Castañeda, also making his SCP Jazz debut on a bill with Brazilian singerpianist Eliane Elias. The SCP Jazz season concludes with a rare performance of Oscar Peterson’s full “Africa” suite, revived here by composer, arranger and bandleader John Clayton. His all-star band includes bassist Christian McBride, guitarist Russell Malone, drummer Lewis Nash and pianist Benny Green. The organization also announced two non-jazz programs: qawwali (Sufi devotional music) performers Rizwan and Muazzam Mujahid Ali Khan, in a co-presentation with the South Asia Insititute, and an evening of boleros with Tres Souls and Trío Remembranza. “Charles Lloyd Quartet / Legacy of Wayne Shorter,” 8 p.m. Oct. 25, tickets $45-$129. “Jason Moran and the Harlem Hellfighters: |James Reese Europe and the Absence of Ruin,” 8 p.m. Nov. 22, tickets $35-$99. “Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: Bebop Revolution,” 8 p.m. Jan. 24, 2025, tickets $59-$199. “Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: Cool School & Hard Bop,” 7:30 p.m. Jan. 25,2025, tickets $55-$149. Cécile McLorin Salvant, 8 p.m. Feb. 21, 2025, tickets $39-$115. “Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali,” 8 p.m. March 14, 2025, tickets $29-$99. “Bill Charlap Trio with special guests Dee Dee Bridgewater & Nicholas Payton,” 8 p.m. March 21, 2025, tickets $39-$115. “Hiromi’s Sonicwonder / Brandee Younger Trio,” 8 p.m. April 4, 2025, tickets $39-$115. “Boleros de Noche featuring Tres Souls & Trío Remembranza,” 7:30 p.m. April 12, 2025, tickets $35-$125. “Eliane Elias / Edmar Castañeda: Family,” 8 p.m. May 9, 2025, tickets $39-$115. “Oscar Peterson’s Africa Suite,” 8 p.m. June 13, 2025, tickets $45-$129. All concerts at Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave. Single tickets on sale in August, more information at cso.org Chicago Opera Theater, Symphony Center Jazz announce seasons By Doug George Chicago Tribune Summer Smash has announced its lineup for summer, with headliners including Travis Scott, Playboi Carti and Chief Keef. Lyrical Lemonade Sumer Smash will be June 14-16, again at SeatGeek Stadium, 7000 S. Harlem Ave., Bridgeview. Tickets for the three-day hip-hop music festival, presented by SPKRBX, are on sale at 10 a.m. Friday with 3-day general admission $385; 3-day VIP $655; 3-Day Diamond $1,575. More information at www. thesummersmash.com. Travis Scott’s opening night concert will be a first-time collaboration with his Cactus Jack record label including Don Tolliver and Sheck Wes. Friday: Cactus Jack, Big Sean, Destroy Lonely, Flo Milli, That Mexican OT, Bktherula, Black Kray, BLP Kosher, Famous Dex, Clip, Lazer Dim 700, Osamason, VonOff1700, BOSSFTR, Elijah Wallace, Kami. Saturday: Playboi Carti, Kodak Black, Lil Tecca, Lucki, Ski Mask the Slump God, Bia, Lil Skies, Mick Jenkins performing “The Water(s),” Paris Texas, Rich Amiri, Baby Kia, Cash Cobain, Nettspend, Tiacorine, Xaviersobased, 2Rare, Freddy Got Magic, Uneek, $am. Sunday: Chief Keef, Denzel Curry, JID, Ken Carson, Lil Yachty, Waka Flocka Flame, YG Marley, Anycia, Babytron, BashForTheWorld, Homixide Gang, Lil B, Hardrock, Icytwat, Joeyy, Laundry Day, Lil Gnar, Robb Bank$, Fukyurpain, Shed Theory. SUMMER SMASH 2024 Travis Scott, Playboi Carti and Chief Keef are headliners Lawrence Edelson is Chicago Opera Theater’s new general director. MIA ISABELLA Chief Keef performs in New York City in 2018. JOHNNY NUNEZ/WIREIMAGE By Doug George Chicago Tribune The rest of the summer season has been announced for Millennium Park, including more music and the Summer Film Series. A few of the boldface names include Corinne Bailey Rae and GZA in the Summer Music Series and “American Fiction,” “Barbie” and a double feature of “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” and “Jurassic Park” for the outdoor movie series. The lineups of free events, plus Millennium Park Summer Workouts, were announced Thursday by the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events as part of Millennium Park’s 20th anniversary season, adding to calendars for the big music fests and Taste of Chicago out early this year. MILLENNIUM PARK SUMMER FILM SERIES (JULY 16 TO AUG. 20) Movies are 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays unless otherwise noted, shown on a 40-foot LED screen from the Pritzker stage with the audience in seats or on the Great Lawn. In partnership with the Chicago Alliance of Film Festivals, each screening will also showcase a Chicago independent film festival. July 16: Opening night is a 6 p.m. double feature with “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” (114 minutes, PG) and “Jurassic Park” (127 minutes, PG-13) July 23: “Coco” (105 minutes, PG) July 30: “Barbie” (104 minutes, PG-13) Aug. 6: “American Fiction” (117 minutes, R) Aug. 13: “Wonka” (116 minutes, PG) Aug. 20: “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” (103 minutes, PG-13) MILLENNIUM PARK SUMMER MUSIC SERIES (JULY 1 TO AUG. 8) At Jay Pritzker Pavilion with weekday concerts beginning 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 1: Charlie Musselwhite and Ivan Singh Thursday, July 11: Buscabulla and French Police Monday, July 15: Seun Kuti Monday, July 22: Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer and Zakir Hussain with Rakesh Chaurasia, and Arooj Aftab. Monday, July 29: GZA and Yaya Bey Monday, Aug. 5: Protoje and Madison McFerrin Thursday, Aug. 8: Corinne Bailey Rae, Terrace Martin with James Fauntleroy MILLENNIUM PARK SUMMER WORKOUTS (MAY 18 TO AUG. 31): On the Great Lawn from 8 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. most Saturdays. The mornings are filled with 45-minute classes accompanied by live music. 8 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.: Pilates 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.: Yoga 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.: Cardio kickboxing 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.: Zumba Summer movies, concerts announced for Millennium Park Elliott, played by Henry Thomas, in Steven Spielberg’s 1982 movie “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.” AMBLIN ENTERTAINMENT Chicago Tribune | Section 4 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 5

By Jake Coyle Associated Press There are two things to keep in mind while being burned alive for a movie scene. The first, says stunt performer Ben Jenkin, is not to breathe in a flame. That would be bad. Jenkin was reminded of that over and over before doing his first fire burn (and then seven more) in David Leitch’s “The Fall Guy,” an action extravaganza that affectionately celebrates the rough-and-tumble lives of stunt performers. The other thing: Keep moving. “Moving forward and keeping the fire behind you allows you to breathe and to control the fire,” Jenkin says. “Movement is your friend.” That would make a decent slogan for stunt performers who have, since the early days of Hollywood, fueled the mayhem of movies. Since at least when the facade of a house fell around Buster Keaton in “Steamboat Bill, Jr.” (stillness can also be your friend when it comes to stunts), stunt performers have played a vital role in sustaining the illusion of countless car chases, bar fights, rooftop leaps and, yes, guys on fire. By its nature, it’s nearly anonymous work, with stunt performers doubling for daintier stars. But Leitch, a longtime stuntman before he became a director, and “The Fall Guy,” in theaters now, hope to redefine the role of stunt work in Hollywood. “The Fall Guy,” which features nearly every kind of stunt imaginable, arrives as a growing chorus is calling for a new Oscar category for stunt performance. “It was never really about: The individual stunt performer needs to be recognized,” says Leitch, who spent years as Brad Pitt’s double before transitioning to directing with “John Wick.” “It was more about the contribution of the department. We create these sequences, whether it’s for Paul Thomas Anderson or Adam Sandler or James Cameron.” The most eye-catching stunts come in big-budget action movies like “The Fall Guy,” but nearly every studio movie involves some stunt work. Take Chris O’Hara, head of Stunts Unlimited and the stunt designer on “The Fall Guy.” He’s not only a veteran of innovative, stunt-heavy films like “The Matrix” and the Jason Bourne series, but he was also the guy who caught Saoirse Ronan when she leapt out of a (seemingly) moving car in Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird.” With “The Fall Guy,” O’Hara is the first person to be credited as a “stunt designer,” a designation approved by SAG-AFTRA and the Directors Guild. To O’Hara, that credit better represents what’s usually called stunt coordination. Conceptualizing and crafting elaborate sequences requires more than making sure everyone stays safe. “To be seen by the film community as stunt designers hopefully brings more light to what we really do,” says O’Hara. “Back in the day, stunt guys were the cowboys. Now we are creative. We create amazing things, just like a production designer does or a costume designer does.” When they were starting out in Los Angeles, Leitch and O’Hara lived together. Their garage was stuffed with mats and air bags. They dug a hole in the backyard and put a trampoline in it. “The landlord never caught us,” says Leitch, grinning. They, along with four other stuntmen including Chad Stahelski, set out with big ambitions to make their mark on Hollywood. While cutting their teeth on TV shows like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” they trained. Some were gymnasts, some drivers, some martial arts experts. “It was a nonstop circus of skills you need, but it’s fun to learn them,” says Leitch. “Hard on your body, but fun.” They became masters of their craft — or at least mostly. Leitch never got driving down. On “The Mexican,” he crashed an El Camino into its only back-up, another El Camino. But eventually, filmmaking seemed like one more skill to hone. Leitch had become adept at previsualizing sequences as a moving storyboard to show directors how an action scene would move and fit together. Plus, he was accustomed to keeping a cool head in extreme circumstances. How scary could directing be compared to standing on a ledge as a production raced to get a high fall in before the day’s light went? “When you’ve had life and death stakes, what’s the worst that can happen in a scene?” says Leitch. “I have to cut it differently?” Leitch has since become a sought-after action director, helming films like “Atomic Blonde,” “Deadpool 2” and “Bullet Train,” in which Pitt starred. That was a full circle moment for the former star-stuntman tandem but “The Fall Guy” might be more so. Based on the 1980s Lee Majors TV series, it’s a comic, behindthe-scenes ode to the nature of stunt work and on-set life. Ryan Gosling stars as Colt Seavers, a veteran stuntman and double for star Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) whose romance with a fellow crew member, Jody Moreno (Emily Blunt), is severed after an accident on set only to fitfully resume years later. By then Jody is directing her first feature and Colt is brought in as a stuntman, including for that fire-burn scene. For Leitch and Kelly McCormick, his wife and production partner, the stunts and the love story of “The Fall Guy” have a touch of autobiography. After a yearslong working relationship, McCormick and Leitch were married in 2014 and together run their production company 87North. “Maybe I am a little bit like Jody,” says McCormick. “I’m definitely the one that would set you on fire eight times.” “Would you?” replies Leitch. “Only if it was safe,” says McCormick, laughing. At the SXSW premiere of “The Fall Guy,” Gosling announced what few actors do: He did not do his own stunts. The movie required five stuntmen to double as Gosling, including Jenkin and Logan Holladay. In the film, Holladay sets a record for cannon rolls of a vehicle, rolling a Jeep Grand Cherokee eight and a half times down a Australian beach. In one of the movie’s many ironic moments, you can see Holladay strapping Gosling into the car just before the scene. Before working in film, Jenkin was accomplished in parkour. “I feel right into stunts,” he puns. His gift for contorting himself through the air and landing on the designated spot has made him one of the most sought-after stuntmen. Still, “The Fall Guy” was the busiest he has ever been on a movie. “I can’t remember how many times I went through a pane of glass,” says Jenkin. Some moves were new for Jenkin, like getting hit by a car. “Hips over hood,” Leitch advised him. “When you’re a kid and you watch Jackie Chan running down the street and he’s chasing a bus and then he hooks onto the bus with an umbrella, you’re like, ‘That’s so cool,’ ” Jenkin says. “Now we get to live that. Me and Ryan were surfing a door across the Harbour Bridge holding onto the back of a bin truck with a shovel. When do you get to do things like that?” Stunt performers fuel mayhem of movies ‘Fall Guy’ director hopes to redefine role of work in film Stuntman Ben Jenkin performs a fire stunt on the set of “The Fall Guy.” UNIVERSAL PICTURES Leitch 6 Chicago Tribune | Section 4 | Sunday, May 5, 2024 Mozart & Stravinsky CSO MAY 13 CHAMBER CSO MAY 14 MAY 16-21 Artists, prices and programs subject to change. Cody Fry with the CSO CSO Brass Quintet Plays Bach & More MAY 9-11 CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SYMPHONY CENTER | 220 S. MICHIGAN AVE. CSO.ORG | 312-294-3000 The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council. 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