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Man pleads Mayor Lori Lightfoot, with Chicago first lady Amy Eshleman, smiles as she is greeted by cheering supporters before filing her nominating petitions for
guilty her 2023 mayoral reelection bid Monday in downtown Chicago. MICHAEL BLACKSHIRE/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
in Buffalo
attack Crowded field positioned
in race for Chicago mayor
Shooter killed 10
in racist massacre at Lightfoot files for reelection,
supermarket in May while García, Sawyer turn in
petitions for Feb. 28 ballot
By Carolyn Thompson
U.S. Rep. Jesús“Chuy”García delivers his nominating petitions for the 2023 mayoral election By Alice Yin, A.D. Quig and Gregory Pratt
Associated Press at the Board of Elections in Chicago on Monday. ARMANDO L. SANCHEZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Chicago Tribune
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The white Facing indictment, Burke will end
gunman who massacred 10 Black record-setting run on City Council Calling herself an agent of change and “the
shoppers and workers at a Buffalo only rational choice” for Chicago voters, Mayor
supermarket pleaded guilty By John Byrne, Alice Yin, A.D. Quig for more than a half-century declined to file Lori Lightfoot filed her paperwork Monday for a
Monday to murder and hate-mo- and Jason Meisner nominating petitions by Monday’s deadline, reelection run.
tivated terrorism charges, guar- meaning his current 13th term on the City
anteeing he will spend the rest of Chicago Tribune Council will be his last. But the end of the weeklong filing period only
his life in prison. further highlighted the difficult race ahead of her,
Ald. Edward Burke will end his run as Earlier in September, his wife, Illinois with the last of eight remaining major challengers
Payton Gendron, 19, entered the longest-serving alderman in Chicago Supreme Court Chief Justice Anne Burke, — U.S. Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García and Ald. Roder-
the plea Monday in a courthouse history. said she would be stepping down from the ick Sawyer — also petitioning to get onto the Feb.
roughly 2 miles from the grocery bench at the end of November. 28 ballot.
store where he used a semiau- Fighting a wide-ranging federal corrup-
tomatic rifle and body armor to tion indictment, the alderman who has Turn to Burke, Page 5 “With the filing today, one chapter in the
carry out an assault he hoped represented the Southwest Side’s 14th Ward campaign ends and another opens,” she said after
would help preserve white power submitting a stack of nominating papers that,
in the U.S. sitting on the Board of Elections table, almost
reached her shoulders.
Gendron, who was handcuffed,
occasionally licked and clenched Surrounded by supporters and Chicago first
his lips as he pleaded guilty to all lady Amy Eshleman, Lightfoot quipped that her
of the most serious charges in the pile of more than 40,000 signatures “looks like
grand jury indictment, including enough to me” before expressing that the next
murder, murder as a hate crime focus is on telling voters “why the only rational
and hate-motivated domes- choice is to return me to office.”
tic terrorism, which carries an
automatic sentence of life with- She touted her record, asserting she’s run the
out parole. country’s “most equitable” vaccine program, made
progress toward transforming Chicago into the
He answered “yes” and “guilty” “safest big city in the nation” and protected “work-
as Judge Susan Eagan referred ers and workers’ rights.” She also tried to evoke
to each victim by name and the energy of her first campaign in 2019 as one of
asked whether he killed them insurgency and change — though this time she
because of their race. Gendron runs as the incumbent.
also pleaded guilty to wounding
three people who survived the “What’s on the ballot is, do we return to the
May attack.
Turn to Mayor, Page 4
Many of the relatives of those
victims sat and watched, some Even with legislation, some uniform confusion
dabbing their eyes and sniffling.
Inclusive Athletic Attire
Speaking to reporters later, Act passed in Illinois was
several said the plea left them the first of its kind in US
cold. It didn’t address the bigger
problem, which they said is By Shanzeh Ahmad
racism in America.
Chicago Tribune
“His voice made me feel sick,
but it showed me I was right,” Fatima Saiyada arrived at the gym Sadia Hussain, left, and Fatima Saiyada, student athletes at Northside College Preparatory High School in
said Zeneta Everhart, whose on a mid-September Saturday during Chicago, stand in the school gym on Nov. 18. TERRENCE ANTONIO JAMES/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
20-year-old son was shot in the her freshman volleyball season, ready
neck but survived. “This coun- to compete. Every Saturday, her
try has a problem. This country Northside College Prep team partic-
is inherently violent. It is racist. ipated in volleyball tournaments at
And his voice showed that to me.” Von Steuben High School. Her coach
was planning to have her start. She
After the roughly 45-minute was excited.
proceeding ended, Gendron’s
Then she was benched.
Turn to Buffalo, Page 9 A referee said Saiyada could not
compete because the long-sleeve
Pence denounces shirt she was wearing underneath
Trump dinner her jersey to respect her Islamic iden-
tity was white and did not match the
In Chicago, former Vice President team’s black jersey. Saiyada said she’d
Mike Pence denounces former worn the white undershirt at the
President Donald Trump for dining tournament the previous week and
last week with a pair of antisemitic
purveyors, Kanye West and Nick Turn to Attire, Page 4
Fuentes. Chicagoland, Page 3

Protests spread
to Hong Kong

Students in Hong Kong chant
“oppose dictatorship”in a protest
of China’s COVID-19 rules after
demonstrators on the mainland
issued a call for President Xi
Jinping to resign. Nation & World

José Abreu signing
with Astros

José Abreu, longtime White Sox
first baseman and the 2020
American League MVP, is on
the move to Houston, sources
confirmed to the Tribune.
Chicago Sports

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CHICAGOLAND

In Chicago, Pence decries Trump’s West, Fuentes dinner

Former VP says Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, center, speaks with fans and signs copies of his autobiography,“So Help Me Trump’s actions in the days leading
ex-president owes God,”at the Union League Club in Chicago on Monday. STACEY WESCOTT/CHICAGO TRIBUNE up to Jan. 6. Pence said he repeat-
apology for meeting edly told Trump he did not have
But when asked where he would history.” sial, combative former president the unilateral power to throw out
By Rick Pearson have sat at the dinner table in He also said the Trump campaign while promoting the policies the states’ electoral votes under the
Mar-a-Lago with West, who goes administration enacted. Repub- Constitution as the former presi-
Chicago Tribune by the name Ye, and Fuentes, a and the administration’s single lican leaders also are questioning dent had maintained.
young purveyor of antisemitic and term was subjected to “a seedy Trump’s hold over the party base
Former Vice President Mike racist white supremacist thought, assault … of attacks by the Demo- and his focus on repeating baseless On Jan. 6, after he, his wife and
Pence on Monday denounced Pence paused for several seconds crats and by many in the main- claims of widespread fraud in the daughter were moved into a secure
former President Donald Trump before responding. West was raised stream media that would assume 2020 election against a desire to location in the underground park-
for dining last week with a pair of in Chicago and Fuentes is from the the worst in every situation.” move the party beyond the former ing after rioters broke into the
antisemitic purveyors, Kanye West western suburbs. president. Capitol building, Pence saw a
and Nick Fuentes, but stopped Pence has refused in previous tweet from Trump: “Mike Pence
short of saying whether he thought “Let me say, I think no presi- book tour interviews to answer Pence, an evangelical Chris- didn’t have the courage to do what
it should disqualify Trump’s bid to dent, no former president, no one directly if he believes Trump’s tian, said before he makes a deci- should have been done to protect
recapture the White House. aspiring to be president should ever integrity and character are disqual- sion about running for the GOP our Country and our Constitution,
associate with antisemites, Holo- ifying factors for the former pres- presidential nomination he and giving States a chance to certify a
Pence, the former one-term caust deniers or white nationalists ident to again seek the White his family will “take some time to corrected set of facts, not the fraud-
Indiana governor before joining under any circumstances. Now, House. He did so again Monday reflect and pray and hear our kids ulent or inaccurate ones which
Trump’s Republican ticket in 2016, that being said, the president was when asked if he believed the West out and then (wife) Karen and I will they were asked to previously
is eyeing his own bid for the GOP wrong to give those two people and Fuentes meeting should keep do like we’ve always done and that certify. USA demands the truth!”
nomination for president. But he a seat at his table and I think he Trump out of the presidency. is we’ll just try and respond in our
said a decision won’t come before should apologize,” Pence said. hearts to what our calling is.” Pence said he “was angry but I
the holidays. “I trust the American people will didn’t have time for it. I felt in that
Trump has not offered any apol- sort all of this out. They will, and “Whatever the calling is, we’ll moment, I felt I had to put it aside
He also said he hasn’t made a ogy. ultimately, the presidency belongs follow that calling because we love and work the problem. It was clear
decision to cooperate with the U.S. to the American people and they this country and I believe the best to me, the president had decided to
Justice Department on its criminal Despite Trump’s actions, Pence will decide. No one individual, no days for America are ahead,” he be a part of the problem,” he said of
investigation into Trump’s actions said he still did not think Trump one in the media, will decide who said. the efforts to end the rioting.
surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, insur- was antisemetic, noting his daugh- has the opportunity to lead this
rection at the U.S. Capitol and ter Ivanka converted to Judaism country,” he said. Of his time in Washington, Pence “In the days to follow, I really
Trump’s storing of classified docu- in marrying Jared Kushner and said he was proud to be part of “one prayed for grace. The Bible says,
ments at his Mar-a-Lago estate his grandchildren are being raised In contemplating a run for the of the most consequential and ‘Be quick to listen, slow to speak,
after leaving the White House. But Jewish. Pence also said the Trump presidency, Pence finds himself impactful Republican administra- slow to become angry.’ But that is
he restated his position not to coop- White House was the most “pro-Is- walking a fine line of not seek- tions in American history.” easier said than done,” he said. “In
erate with the U.S. House select rael administration in American ing to alienate a Republican base my Christian faith, forgiveness is
panel reviewing Trump’s role in still supportive of the controver- But Pence also discussed not an option.”
fomenting the Capitol riots.
Pence said in the days that
Pence appeared before about followed he spoke to Trump and
300 people at the Union League was “candid with him” about
Club of Chicago as part of a national putting his life and that of his fami-
tour to promote his autobiography, ly’s in jeopardy. Trump “reflected
“So Help Me God.” a genuine remorse about what had
happened, a genuine concern about
The book covers his life in poli- my wife and daughter in the first
tics, including his six terms as an instance. It made it possible for us
Indiana congressman, the one term to part amicably.”
as governor, actions in the Trump
administration and the day of Jan. “Now I will say in the months
6 when protesters — some threat- since we left office, when the
ening his life — sought to stop his (former) president had returned
role overseeing the counting of to the same rhetoric in the run-up
Electoral College votes that offi- to that tragic day, I just decided that
cially made Democrat Joe Biden it’s best that we had gone our sepa-
president, despite Trump’s intense rate ways,” Pence said of Trump’s
public and private pressure on rehashing of false claims of a stolen
Pence to keep him president. 2020 election.

In his book, released earlier “But as I said to him and say in
this month, Pence flatly declared: the pages of the book, ‘I’ll never
“Donald Trump is not anti-semtic. stop praying for you’ and I continue
He’s not a racist or a bigot. I would to pray for the president and pray
not have been his vice president if for the grace to live out my faith in
he was.” a real way,” Pence said.
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Mayor

from Page 1

status quo that left huge Ald. Roderick Sawyer, 6th, delivers his candidate nomination petitions for the 2023 mayoral election at the Board of Elections in Chicago on Monday.
swaths of our city, of our ARMANDO L. SANCHEZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
residents out of the equa-
tion, out of the future of Mayor Lori Lightfoot files her nominating petitions for her … with a strong and effective been a frequent presence at times the threshold.
Chicago? Or do we keep 2023 mayoral reelection bid on Monday at the Board of but responsible police force Chicago City Hall, and U.S. García said challenging
forging ahead on the path Elections in downtown Chicago. … being engaged with busi- Rep. Danny Davis, a long-
that we’ve been on?” Light- nesses in the community, time member of the city’s other candidates’ signatures
foot said. “And the path MICHAEL BLACKSHIRE/CHICAGO TRIBUNE making sure that we grow.” Black political establish- is “not a priority for us.”
that we’ve been on, folks, ment who recently fended
unapologetically, it’s about listener,” a “collaborator” into Monday was Sawyer. Lightfoot’s decision not off a progressive primary “We think everyone
equity. It’s about inclusion. and “inclusive.” Sawyer would not say to file on the first day drew challenger to win a 14th should have access to the
It’s about making sure that scorn from rivals, who said term in Congress. ballot,” he said, adding that
no part of our city is forgot- Asked if he could galva- how many signatures he’d it reflected organizational his own signatures were
ten, that every part gets nize progressive voters, collected but told reporters challenges as the mayor With Monday’s deadline “challenge-proof.”
resources and gets dealt in Garcia said his 40 years he had “a sufficient number,” fights an uphill battle to win to file nominating signa-
to the prosperity of our city.” of public service were a and “threw out a lot more reelection. But Lightfoot has tures, Chicago’s election If no candidate gets more
“testament” to his values. than we do on a normal shrugged off the criticism. cycle now enters a bare- than 50% of the vote Feb.
Chicago’s nominating “I don’t change with the basis” to ensure they were knuckle period where 28, a runoff is scheduled for
petition process is one of seasons, that is the record all high quality. She also went against candidates for local office April 4.
the most prominent hold- I will share and take to the conventional wisdom try to knock each other off
overs of the old-school people of Chicago. … The Sawyer, son of former Monday by submitting her the ballot. Candidates will The six candidates who
political machine. To run filing today demonstrates Mayor Eugene Sawyer, petitions first thing on the have until Dec. 5 to chal- filed first thing on Nov. 21
for mayor, a candidate must that in a very short amount touted his status as a Chica- last day of filing rather than lenge their rivals’ signatures. will be in a lottery to deter-
submit 12,500 signatures of time, we connected with goan, “born and bred,” who at the end of the day. That mine who’s first on the
from voters, which can Chicagoans all over this city. will focus on “resetting what means she’s also forgo- In the 2019 election for ballot.
be disqualified on narrow And that’s what will lead us government really looks like ing the chance to be last on mayor, Cook County Board
technical grounds. Before to victory.” to the average person” who the ballot, which is often President Toni Preckwin- Besides Lightfoot and her
Monday, six candidates had is not being served. “We preferred if a candidate kle — who ultimately lost eight major challengers, two
submitted signatures to Besides García and Light- want safe schools, we want doesn’t appear first. to Lightfoot in a runoff — other candidates filed for
run for mayor: Ald. Sophia foot, the only other major vibrant business districts, succeeded in getting former mayor Monday too: Fred-
King, activist Ja’Mal Green, announced mayoral candi- we want to be safe when we The incumbent mayor Cook County Circuit Court erick Collins and Johnny
Cook County Commissioner date who hadn’t filed going come and go from our homes said her lack of interest Clerk Dorothy Brown Logalbo.
Brandon Johnson, former in playing that game was kicked off the ballot. That
Chicago Public Schools because she isn’t worried year, Green also withdrew In closing remarks before
CEO Paul Vallas, business- about name recognition — while facing a stiff challenge walking out of the elec-
man Willie Wilson and state and because “I actually got from Wilson. tions board room, Lightfoot
Rep. Kam Buckner. a city to run as well.” sought to warn the media
Election lawyers often that though incumbents
García, a later entry into “The position on the encourage candidates to like her face a “tough envi-
the race as an announced ballot is if you are an collect roughly three times ronment,” her candidacy is
candidate, also submitted unknown, and people don’t the minimum number of not to be counted out.
his petitions late Monday. know you. They know who I signatures because challeng-
am,” Lightfoot said, to which ers can use charges of forg- “I know how to build
Flanked by supporters a supporter added to report- ery, fraud and more minor coalitions. I know how to
and rolling in what he said ers, “You better listen.” technicalities to invalidate bring people together,”
was nearly 50,000 signa- signatures and knock oppo- Lightfoot said. “Every single
tures wrapped in green The coalition of support- nents out of the race. Light- time there’s been a challenge
cellophane and bound with ers flanking Lightfoot foot on Monday said she and you all are speculating,
a printout of his trademark included the colorfully amassed more than 40,000 ‘She can’t get it done because
mustache logo, García was dressed activist Wallace signatures, more than three of this, that and the other
first in line to file at the 4 “Gator” Bradley, a pardoned and people don’t like her
p.m. lottery deadline. That ex-gang enforcer who has personality and whatnot,’ we
ensures he’ll be the last name deliver, every single time. So
Chicago voters would see on print that.”
the ballot, if he survives any
petition challenges.

At García’s side Monday
evening was labor fixture
Clem Balanoff. In the crowd
behind him were Ald. Mike
Rodriguez, who holds
García’s old 22nd Ward seat
on the City Council, and
Commissioner Alma Anaya,
who replaced García on the
Cook County Board.

“This is a demonstration
of the type of power and
grassroots campaign that I
will engage in,” García said,
noting he had only officially
been in the race for three
weeks and had already
raised substantial funds.
“We plan to deliver a sharp
message to Chicagoans
about how we get Chicago
back on track, make it work
for everyone, make Chicago
a safe city, a clean city, a pros-
perous city that ensures that
everyone has the ability to
achieve their full potential.”

Though he did not name
Lightfoot, García said
Chicagoans were ready for
a change, and that he would
focus on being a “good

Attire knew they would don long- every year by retaking the sit out after “she gave up her process we didn’t want alto- Hussain also said schools
sleeve shirts under their rules exam. They are also Saturday” to be at the game gether,” Mozaffar said. “It’s should have the funding to be
from Page 1 short-sleeve team jerseys required to view an online was “very frustrating” for not really helped student-ath- able to provide long-sleeve
and leggings or sweatpants rules presentation for the just Saiyada, but Curry and letes, and what we’re very and long-pants options to
was allowed to compete, but instead of shorts because of sports every year, according the team as well, he said. excited about is to see so their athletes because having
this referee didn’t budge and their religion. to the IHSA website. many student-athletes from to play in layers was also
Saiyada had to sit out. Anderson said that some- so many diverse communi- “really tough” for them.
Hussain recalled an Anderson said the times referee officials are ties now be able to partic-
“I don’t understand why instance during the season “long-standing” NFHS rules forced to make judgment ipate, be part of the school “We should get the accom-
I wasn’t allowed to (play) where she forget to bring a are reviewed annually, and calls. identity, and also Illinois gets modations needed for us to
because I’ve done it before black hijab and was wearing each state association also to enjoy athletes that they play by the rules so we can
during the same year,” a gray one. She said she felt a has permission to submit “There’s always a black- didn’t know existed before.” perform to our best,” Saiyada
Saiyada recalled to the “sense of panic because I was potential rule changes and-white rule, and then of said. “We had to take care of
Tribune. “It was a different terrified that I’m not going to course, some gray area they Anderson said the organi- these certain criteria that
ref, of course, but I was still be able to play because I had “I know uniform rules have to officiate,” he said. zation had been approving they give us, but it’s a little
allowed to play and I feel a gray hijab on.” across all sports have been “When it comes to uniforms, “nearly every accommo- annoying that it’s all finan-
like if I was allowed to play, I reviewed and modified over it’s generally pretty black and dation request” in the area cially our responsibility.”
would have done really well.” She said Saiyada ended up history, but I think the foun- white, but there could always before the law took effect.
lending her an extra black dation is to try to create some be some discretion of an offi- Anderson said there are
A little over a year after hijab. While it’s not clear she guidance for our schools so cial to determine how close “I believe the new law has schools that offer more
Illinois passed the Inclusive would have been in violation that there’s a general basis in proximity the color of the helped better educate our options to their athletes, so
Athletic Attire Act, some of the color code, she said for how students will look sleeves is to the jersey and schools on the allowances it’s “definitely possible” for
athletes say there is still having to change her hijab when they go participate and offer a little grace.” their student-athletes are any school to do so, but it’s
confusion on the courts and because was worried about it’s not people showing up in provided,” Anderson said. up to the school. The Inclu-
playing fields when it comes it was “a little frustrating.” whatever they want,” Ander- The state’s Inclusive “It’s been a good thing for sive Athletic Attire Act also
down to the details and how son said. “I think it’s also just Athletic Attire Act was the students to just know that includes language saying the
far rules should go. But Saiyada’s situation to protect the integrity of first of its kind in the coun- there’s a comfort level for school modifications are at
isn’t so black and white, competition. The uniform try, Mozaffar said, when them to participate in the the expense of the student,
The law, which was the according to Craig Ander- rules do have context to it was enacted in Septem- athletic attire that they’re but the school can provide if
first of its kind when passed son, executive director of the create fairness in the level ber 2021, but other states most comfortable and it’s they choose.
in September 2021, allows Illinois High School Associ- of play and give guidance so have passed similar legisla- just been fortunate, I think,
student-athletes in Illinois ation. there’s no confusion.” tion since. Earlier this year, that we’ve been able to navi- Curry said his expectation
to modify their uniform to Ohio signed into law its own gate this for our students is that referees are all trained
match any cultural, religious A rule from the National Freshman volleyball version, which gives students to really have that comfort to be “culturally aware and
or personal preferences they Federation of State High coach Jason Curry, 29, said the right to wear religious when they go compete and sensitive” to young athletes’
may have without facing any School volleyball uniform that although the team jersey apparel without needing to represent their schools.” preferences and comfortabil-
penalties or disqualifica- rule book says that “any visi- is black, it has white letter- get a waiver or permission in ity.
tions during competitions, ble garment worn under- ing, so in his opinion, a white advance. Maryland followed Mozaffar said the coalition
like wearing longer sleeves, neath the uniform top shall shirt underneath should not suit shortly after with its own was holding meetings with “I am a socially conscious
full-length pants or playing be unadorned and of a single, have been a problem. He also law allowing student-ath- local organizations within person and someone who
in hijab, said Maaria Mozaf- solid color that is similar in expressed confusion over letes to modify uniforms to the Muslim community to watches sports, so when
far, director of advocacy and color to the predominant why one referee let Saiyada fit their individual require- create a legislative agenda things like white shirts are a
policy at the Illinois Muslim color of the uniform top.” compete with a white ments or preferences. when the issue of sports problem, that is very weird
Civic Coalition, which The rule helps prevent undershirt on one week but uniforms arose. The team to me,” Curry said. “Maybe I
helped draft the legislation. athletes on opposing teams another referee told him she Before the law, a then learned the problem need to do better as a coach
from wearing similar colors, was “out of uniform” the student-athlete would have wasn’t unique to the Muslim to educate myself on all the
“We believe that this is a he said, which could make it next. to get a waiver to achieve the community but extended to rules, but I also think it’s a
process of providing dignity difficult for a referee to make same result and go through other faiths and communi- commonsense thing that
back to the athletes where accurate calls. “As a coach, it really upset a process of talking to their ties that wanted to change people have to make.”
it’s much more about their me that you put this child coach, writing a letter and the “pressure of having to fit
skill and not about what they The language for the through a very traumatic more, which Mozaffar into a strict uniform code.” Once Saiyada learned that
wear,” Mozaffar said about state’s Inclusive Athletic experience,” Curry said. “I described as a “cumber- wearing white underneath
creating the law. Attire Act does not include felt that, you know, the color some” ordeal. The topic made it onto the jersey was against the
whether the modification was not distracting from the coalition’s 2021 legisla- rules, she said she stopped
Saiyada and her team- has to be a specific color. the game at all. Culturally, “We had actually seen tive agenda, and they worked wearing white so she could
mate Sadia Hussain, both According to the act, any religiously, she has to be cases where people were with legislators, the key play every other game.
15, finished their first modification “must not covered, right, and a white disqualified because they player being state Rep. Will
season playing volleyball interfere with the movement undershirt was completely were not meeting the Guzzardi, a Democrat from “It was disappointing for
in early October. Both girls of the student or pose a safety appropriate.” process of waivers properly Chicago, Mozaffar said. The her and for me,” her team-
are Muslim, they said, and hazard to the students or to like there was a miscommu- law was passed unanimously mate Hussain said, “because
have worn hijab for nearly other athletes or players.” He said Saiyada would nication with the coach or through both committee and I think she definitely had
10 years. When they signed have started on the court for there’s a miscommunication the General Assembly. the capability to perform
up to play volleyball, they Referees have to renew the team that day. Having her with the team, which is just a her best, and the color of her
their license in each sport sleeves was a barrier.”

Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Tuesday, November 29, 2022  5

Burke Ald. Ed Burke, 14th, appears at City Hall in Chicago at a special meeting about Mayor Lori fested in (mayoral candi- they going now. The issue
Lightfoot’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for city workers on March 16. dates Susana) Mendoza, is why have they stayed
from Page 1 (Toni) Preckwinkle, (Bill) around so long? … Burke
TERRENCE ANTONIO JAMES/CHICAGO TRIBUNE Daley and (Gery) Chico and was good at what he did.
Burke’s reign as alderman others who don’t want to That allowed him to buck
since 1969 over his ward not against him, which include ington in the mid-1980s, a former federal prosecu- rock the boat because they demographic trends that
far from Midway Airport has racketeering, federal often blocking the initia- tor, announced that Burke’s are very much wedded to were working against him,”
seen its demographics shift program bribery, attempted tives of Chicago’s first Black committee had rebuffed his the status quo,” Lightfoot a reference to the increas-
from a mix of working class extortion, conspiracy to mayor in a yearslong fight attempts to obtain many of told the Tribune days after ingly Latino district Burke
Irish and Eastern Europe- commit extortion and using that earned the City Coun- the same records. the federal raids on Burke’s represented.
ans to an overwhelmingly interstate commerce to facil- cil national notoriety. offices. “It’s telling that they
Latino constituency. Those itate an unlawful activity. Burke stepped down aren’t willing to step up and But both longtime pols
changes and the specter of But his political strength in early 2019 as Finance say, ‘Look, this guy has been decided to exit public service
the high-profile charges Burke and two co-defen- outlived that era. Committee chair after the in office way too long, he’s under a cloud of indictment
alleging he abused his dants, longtime aide Peter FBI raids that led to the been allowed to amass way for the transactional politics
considerable power made Andrews and real estate Former mayors Richard current indictment against too much power.’ ” that had helped them amass
it far from certain he would developer Charles Cui, are M. Daley and Rahm Eman- him. Still, Burke went on to power and money because
have won had he decided to scheduled to go to trial Nov. uel mostly maintained an win a 13th term as alderman Chicagoans’ anger at of their positions in govern-
run again. 6, 2023, at the Dirksen U.S. uneasy detente with Burke, despite the federal case and Burke’s alleged wrongdo- ment. “The city has changed,
Courthouse. allowing him to serve as the fact that Southwest Side ing and long reach through- politics has changed, the law
But it would have been Finance Committee chair- progressive power U.S. Rep. out the city’s halls of power has changed,” Mooney said.
unwise to count him out. In a status report filed man. Each mayor came to Jesús “Chuy” García backed helped propel Lightfoot to “Really, that’s what trips
Monday, federal prosecutors rely on the alderman to help one of the two Latino oppo- a resounding election win. them up.”
Burke, 78, long stood at the said they have turned over push his agenda by finess- nents Burke faced in the
peak of a historic machine- nearly 9,000 recorded calls ing the council process majority-Latino ward. The years since Light- Lightfoot has referred to
era type of Chicago politics, from the wiretap on Burke’s and cajoling or threatening foot’s victory have taken on some of her antagonists on
practiced with handshakes phones between May 2017 colleagues to get them in One of his most import- a different role for Burke, the council as “Ed Burke’s
and twisting arms in ward and February 2018, “consist- line. ant political contributions who was long used to being puppets,” itself a testament
offices and downtown ing of hundreds of hours of to Chicago may have come one of the most influential to his enduring reputation as
restaurants. He lorded over recorded conversations,” a In the Finance Commit- with the federal raids on his people in the state and a an astute behind-the-scenes
his ward and held signifi- much larger trove than has tee role, Burke oversaw the offices. Lori Lightfoot was nexus of power in the City operator, as well as the fact
cant sway over the entire previously been revealed. city’s workers’ compensa- struggling to make headway Council. As mayor, Lightfoot one of the main architects
city’s purse strings by head- tion program. He kept the in a crowded field featuring has openly clashed with an of Council Wars in the
ing the Chicago City Coun- More recently, prosecu- program under tight wraps several better funded, better alderman whose diminished 1980s and a council tactician
cil’s Finance Committee for tors gave Burke’s attorneys during his more than three known mayoral hopefuls on power has taken much of the renowned for his ability to
decades. material that could be used decades of nearly continu- the November 2018 morning danger out of crossing him. use the body’s arcane rules
to try to impeach or discredit ous control of the commit- when FBI agents papered to stymie his opponents has
A longtime successful real the star witness for the pros- tee, resisting efforts by the over Burke’s office windows Burke’s regular City Coun- done little to try to publicly
estate tax appeals lawyer, ecution, former Ald. Daniel city inspector general to and carried out computers cil speeches on Chicago challenge her himself.
Burke for years maintained Solis, according to the filing. investigate the program’s and boxes of records. history have become rarities.
a lucrative outside business That production included operations. He mostly sits quietly in the The mayor used her anti-
of filing property tax appeals 90 video-recorded meet- But in subsequent months, 14th Ward seat at the edge of Burke campaign rhetoric
for businesses, Chicago’s ings of Solis totaling about In 2012, a federal grand Lightfoot hammered other the floor rather than in the and the charges he faces
wealthy and other political 108 hours, as well as 34,000 jury demanded that Burke’s candidates for their politi- central position near the as a springboard to push
insiders that often conflicted recorded phone calls and Finance Committee turn cal, financial and personal mayor reserved for the chair to remove zoning requests
with his City Council duties. 20,000 text messages. over records related to a connections to Burke, prom- of the Finance Committee, for businesses from the
The dual roles forced him to “duty disability” program ising to “bring in the light” to where he long welcomed hands of local aldermen.
file long economic interest Before his indictment, that in 2011 alone paid out city government. colleagues to come quietly Her efforts have led to some
disclosure lists each year, Burke was perhaps best $115 million to disabled city chat with him, many asking modest changes, and played
including detailing which known as one of the main workers, according to docu- “It seems all these other him for favors while the a central role in her rancor-
firms his law firm did busi- architects of the racially ments the Chicago Tribune folks are running for cover council meeting proceeded. ous relationship with some
ness for and also had busi- charged Council Wars, in obtained at the time. and don’t want to talk about other members of the coun-
ness before city government. which a bloc of white alder- him, but frankly, that under- Despite his diminished cil who contend they should
men led by him and then- The 2012 subpoenas scores the fact that we’ve stature on the council, his retain the authority to make
Burke often abstained Ald. Edward Vrdolyak were issued about one got different factions of the departure will mark the end such decisions in the neigh-
from committee and council feuded with Harold Wash- week after city Inspector political machine mani- of another era of Chicago borhoods they represent.
votes because his firm repre- General Joseph Ferguson, politics.
sented businesses that could A year before he won his
be affected by the outcome “It’s another one of those first aldermanic election,
of City Council votes — even milestones, (former Illinois Burke in 1968 was elected
after presiding over commit- House Speaker Michael) Democratic committeeman
tee hearings at which the Madigan’s gone, Burke’s for the 14th Ward after his
issues were discussed. gone,” and with him, the father, Ald. Joseph P. Burke,
last vestiges of “probably died of lung cancer while in
The dual roles, docu- the most well-organized office. The younger Burke
mented by news organi- machine in the country,” has held that Democratic
zations and criticized by said Christopher Mooney, Party post ever since.
reformers for years, became political science professor
the focus of federal investi- emeritus at the University A status hearing in the
gators. And in 2019, Burke of Illinois at Chicago. criminal charges against
was indicted on corruption Burke is set for Wednesday
charges that allege he used While the lore of the before U.S. District Judge
his City Hall clout to extort Chicago political machine Virginia Kendall. She took
work for his law firm and is sometimes more myth over the case two months
other favors from compa- than fact, Burke and Madi- ago after U.S. District Judge
nies and individuals doing gan held onto power for so Robert Dow announced he
business with the city. long, in part, because they was leaving to take a staff
continued to deliver for their job with the U.S. Supreme
Burke has pleaded not constituents, Mooney said. Court.
guilty to the 14 counts filed “The issue is not why are

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6  Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Tuesday, November 29, 2022 DIRECTORS OF CONTENT

Par Ridder Phil Jurik, Amanda Kaschube,
General Manager Todd Panagopoulos,
Rochell Bishop Sleets
Mitch Pugh
Executive Editor Founded June 10, 1847
Chris Jones, Editorial Page Editor

EDITORIALS

Let the imperfect mayoral race begin

Met anyone who believes the mayoral race is chock-full aside from all the unavoidable crit- willing to pursue a tough job and
of stellar candidates offering Chicagoans the chance to icism, of which we deliver more serve a city of palpable need and
choose from a broad array of expertise, decades of expe- than our share, even when the possibility.
rience in public office, and fiercely divergent and richly problems flow from the mistakes of
articulated political viewpoints? others. Others may have talked a good
Thought not. We haven’t either. game, but these announced candi-
The slate of announced candidates for mayor is less than thrilling and A tribal City Council has to be dates appear to be the brave folks
certainly lacking in obvious choices for the beleaguered Chicago business appeased. Department of Streets actually following through for their
community, which has been positively begging for better representation. and Sanitation workers have to be city.
told to take instant care of the snow
For pragmatists who want the city to focus on economic growth, compet- and ice, as inevitable as an alder- Up next is the spectacle of candi-
itiveness, tourism, reignited retail on Michigan Avenue, reduced taxation manic rebellion. Then there is the dates trying to get rivals knocked off
wherever possible, improved public safety, efficient transit and international unappetizing prospect of waking the ballot by questioning the verac-
reputation, no candidate is a clear front-runner. up in the morning to the news that ity of their signatures, a bizarre and
more kids have been shot, followed messy process so vividly captured
If you believe that government’s experienced candidate from the by the inevitable questions as to last time around by filmmaker Steve
first job is to get out of the way of past who was no fan of the obliga- what you, Mayor, plan to do about James in the documentary “City So
entrepreneurs who can redefine tory Chicago rituals of campaign- an issue that clearly is rooted in Real,” a film that revealed so much
Chicago in the 21st century, cutting ing. Already, many in the Chicago causes that extend far beyond the about how Chicago does its polit-
regulation and red tape to the mini- business community are prepar- borders of Chicago. ical business that you wondered
mum and setting the marketplace of ing to hold their noses and vote for why anyone would ever willingly
innovation free to spur growth for the least damaging candidate to Plenty of ambitious A-listers submit themselves to such a poten-
the benefit of all citizens, then you their interests. Their focus now is have pondered all this over Italian tially humiliating and demoralizing
are likely scratching your head at on whether or not that will be the beef sandwiches and decided their process.
the slate of candidates. incumbent, Lori Lightfoot. ambitions lie elsewhere. The job
of mayor in major cities lacks the No wonder Lightfoot entered the
And in a city that declares itself At this juncture, it is a genuinely political glamour and opportunity race with a preventive stack of some
to be a place of no small plans, a fascinating question. of governor posts and assignments 40,000 signatures, more than three
city that wants to compete with the in Washington, D.C. They are retail times the obligatory number. She is
leading metropolises of the world, it But the reality here is that in a positions with all the attendant no fool.
is striking how few of the declared democracy, candidates are free to problems of the duty manager.
candidates come with any kind of run or not, as they so choose. The None of those upcoming elec-
meaningful international experi- likes of Arne Duncan, and even So a tip of our collective hat, toral theatrics, of course, will solve
ence, or even demonstrated inter- former Gov. Pat Quinn, apparently then, to Lightfoot, Ald. Sophia Chicago’s many problems, all of
est, on their resumes. checked their bellies and found the King, community activist Ja’Mal which await the next mayor. Nor
political fire therein to be insuffi- Green, Cook County Commissioner will the much-discussed order of
There is no new or improved cient. Brandon Johnson, former Chicago the candidates on the ballot. If that
model of former Mayor Rahm Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas, matters to you, please allow us to
Emanuel or even Bill Daley, a highly The job of Chicago mayor is by businessman and philanthropist suggest that you pay more attention.
any standards a difficult job, even Willie Wilson, state Rep. Kam
Buckner, Ald. Roderick Sawyer and We’ll be shifting through all of
U.S. Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García, all these candidacies in coming weeks,
declared candidates in the race, all of course, and letting you know
what we think and who we endorse.

One of the above, no doubt.

ABOVE: Clouds float above Chicago’s skyline in July. An assortment of candidates have joined the 2023 Chicago mayor race. JOHN J. KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

ABOUT TICKETMASTER EDITORIAL CARTOON
AND ANTITRUST
MIKE LUCKOVITCH/THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
For much of the 20th century, regulators empowered
by landmark legislation like the Sherman Antitrust Act of
1890 struck real trepidation into the hearts of corporate
would-be consolidators who used their market position to
crush competition and take advantage of consumers. Even
juggernauts like the monopolistic Bell System could not
outmaneuver the regulators, who broke up the company
in 1983 in what was then decried as an overboard measure
but is now widely viewed as a necessary intervention that
laid the groundwork for the modern tech industry.

Now, increasingly dominant tech companies often
treat antitrust as an afterthought. That’s been painfully
demonstrated by the Taylor Swift Ticketmaster debacle
this month. … Ticketmaster has said the root of the prob-
lem is demand for Swift’s upcoming tour, which could fill
“900 stadiums.” Perhaps, but when the company is just
about the only game in town for ticket sales, we are forced
to just take their word for it. In a parallel universe, after a
supposed system error caused Ticketmaster’s offerings
to skyrocket to exceed $20,000, a competitor might have
swooped in to offer more reasonable prices. Instead, the
company’s hammerlock on the process meant the whole
sale had to be scrapped.

It was the latest stain on a company that, especially
since its merger with event promoter and operator Live
Nation, has infuriated countless consumers with high
and hidden fees, with many sales dominated by bots who
then buy up tickets in batches, then jack up prices on the
secondary resale market, and more. A law that went into
effect in New York this year, penned by state Sen. James
Skoufis, aims to require transparency in ticket sales. It’s a
good start but only a start. The dates and times for the U.S.
Senate antitrust hearings on Ticketmaster have yet to be
announced. Watch carefully. This live event is free.

New York Daily News Editorial Board

Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Tuesday, November 29, 2022  7

OPINION

Syrian Kurds attend a funeral of people killed in Turkish airstrikes in the village of Al-Malikiyah, northern Syria, on Nov. 21. The airstrikes also struck several Syrian army positions
along the border with Turkey. BADERKHAN AHMAD/AP

Turkey has put the US in a tough spot
by threatening another Syria incursion

By Daniel Depetris newsworthy, but last week’s came Turkey to cease and desist, it isn’t clear watching the Islamic State’s territorial
Syria’s civil war, which entered its dangerously close to U.S. positions. Erdogan would listen, particularly on caliphate come back.
According to the Pentagon, Turkish a matter as core to the Turkish secu-
11th year this March, may at first look strikes came as close as 300 meters to rity elite’s as subduing any form of It’s difficult to see how those
like a clear-cut case of good versus where U.S. forces were based. Kurdish opposition. threats are credible. For one, the U.S.
evil, in which a bloodthirsty dictator, isn’t the only player that wants to
Bashar Assad, tries to snuff out any This isn’t the first time U.S. troops Even worse for Washington, Turkey prevent such a scenario from unfold-
semblance of opposition to his rule. in the area have come under fire and the Syrian Kurds aren’t with- ing. Whether it’s Assad, the U.S., Iran,
Yet, the conflict is far more compli- by Turkey. In October 2019, during out leverage of their own. Erdogan Iranian-backed militias, Russia or
cated than that. Far from being a game another Turkish military campaign in recognizes the U.S. wants Sweden Turkey, it’s in nobody’s interest to see
of checkers, Syria best resembles an northern Syria, U.S. forces in Kobani, and Finland to officially join NATO. a resurrected Islamic State territorial
unsolvable Rubik’s Cube, in which the a city along the Turkey-Syria border, That can only occur with unanimous caliphate.
different sides are rarely in alignment. endured Turkish artillery attacks. consent of the entire alliance, which
Fortunately, no Americans lost their means Turkey has de facto veto power This is especially true with the
While the Syrian government has lives, but the attack caused significant over which country can become a Kurds, who saw their community
recaptured approximately two-thirds blowback to the U.S.-Turkey relation- member. While Ankara hasn’t specifi- pillaged in 2014 when IS fighters
of Syrian territory with the help of ship as a whole and only reiterated cally connected Finland and Sweden’s were rampaging across Syria and
its Iranian and Russian partners, the a belief in the minds of U.S. officials accession with operations in Syria, Iraq. While the Kurds proved to be
territory outside Damascus’ control that Erdogan was willing to put rela- it wouldn’t be surprising if Turkey an indispensable partner for the U.S.,
is divided among a jihadist faction in tions with Washington in jeopardy decided to deliberately stonewall it’s important to note that Kurdish
the northwest of Idlib, Turkish-sup- if it meant neutralizing an enemy he confirmation of their applications units weren’t fighting the Islamic
ported militias in the north, the Syrian regards as a direct threat to Turkish until a hypothetical Turkish mili- State group to do the U.S. any favors —
Kurds in the northeast and a smatter- security interests. tary incursion is complete. (Turkey they had a strong, unique incentive to
ing of Islamic State cells in the east and Hungary are the only two NATO defend their people from the nihilism
and center. Whether the Turks intend to carry countries whose legislatures have yet the /militant organization repre-
out a ground incursion across the to approve those applications.) sented. To believe the Kurds would
Those forces often clash as they border, only time will tell. But the last simply stop fighting the Islamic State
did last week, when Turkey, a NATO week of airstrikes has placed the U.S. The Syrian Kurds also possess group if the U.S. failed to persuade
ally, conducted airstrikes against the in an unenviable position. A NATO some leverage, and they are hoping Erdogan to refrain from a ground
Kurdish-dominated Syrian Demo- ally warring against a critical partner to use it to press the Biden adminis- incursion is to believe the Kurds them-
cratic Forces, or SDF, in retaliation for in the anti-Islamic State campaign tration to pressure the Turks to stand selves are incapable of doing what it’s
what Ankara says was a Nov. 13 Kurd- isn’t a situation Washington is eager to down. The SDF guards the network in their own best interests.
ish terrorist attack in Istanbul that deal with. The Biden administration of camps holding IS fighters and their
killed six people. Turkish President has been walking on eggshells, stress- families, including the massive al-Hol This entire affair obscures the key
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threat- ing the need for all parties to de-esca- camp with a population of more than questions U.S. policymakers should be
ened another ground offensive against late so everybody’s focus can remain 60,000 people. The SDF provides the asking. Why, more than 31/2 years after
Syrian Kurdish positions in what on the Islamic State group. Yet, the most of the ground troops against IS the Islamic State group lost its terri-
would be the fourth major Turkish Turks aren’t afraid to ruffle feathers holdouts in the east, and Mazloum torial caliphate, are nearly 1,000 U.S.
military operation in Syria since 2016. in Washington; Erdogan is a notori- Abdi, commander of that force, has troops still in Syria to begin with? And
ously prickly individual whose polit- stated that anti-IS operations have if the answer is “to keep a lid on the
In the middle of this mess are ical brand is that of a nationalist who already stopped so Kurdish fighters Islamic State,” then at what point can
hundreds of U.S. troops who remain strongly believes foreign powers have can prepare for what he believes is the U.S. military pack up and leave?
stationed in Syria, ostensibly to no right to dictate what is and isn’t in in imminent Turkish invasion. The Daniel DePetris is a fellow at Defense
support the SDF’s anti-Islamic State Turkey’s national interest. Even if the not-so-subtle implication to the White Priorities and a foreign affairs colum-
operations. Turkish operations in Biden administration strongly warned House: Get the Turks in line or risk nist for the Chicago Tribune.
Syria wouldn’t ordinarily be that

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

Accept only total victory these plants. We grow trees and flowers to beautify gardens sometime after guests have finally made it down the front
and landscapes — and hopefully to help the bees. We need porch stairs, I will yell out if it’s OK to turn off the porch
The recent letter (“Western support for Ukraine,” Oct. to help balance all this and not think one or the other can do lights. That cuts down on all the curbside chatter.
26) addressing the need to support Ukraine until the war it all.
is won by Ukraine is right on target. This is a war being One tip I’d offer is not to put your hat and coat on until the
fought between a totalitarian government and a democratic And then I thought about how thankful we should be that group has reached step 12. Otherwise, you’ll be sweating like
government; it is a challenge to the strength of NATO and Russian rockets have not set our fields on fire or destroyed crazy sitting on the living room couch until conversation
will determine the fate of similar actions in the future if our power stations and electric grid. finally subsides.
Russia gains even an inch of Ukrainian territory.
Maybe it is time we in the Land of Lincoln and all the — Russ Haak, Park Ridge
The United States and the rest of the free world need to other well-to-do lands stop bickering about little things and
support Ukraine until Russian troops withdraw and return get together about how we can do the big things, without Why celebrate cannibals?
the territory they have seized; anything less would be a destroying it all.
victory for Russia and a defeat for the free world. I love it — cannibalism as just another lifestyle choice for
Thoughts from the field. a couple of crazy kids. When I read Katie Walsh’s review of
Also, it was reported earlier that Gen. Mark Milley, chair- — Peter Orum, nursery farmer, St. Charles “Bones and All” (Nov. 28), I checked the calendar to see if it
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, suggested that Ukraine was indeed April 1, but no.
should try to cement its recent gains and bargain with Shopping at charity shops
Russia, thus giving up some parts of Ukraine and securing a Calling a movie that features a couple of cannibals “one
victory for Russia. This is defeatist thinking and is a disgrace For those of us whose budgets are limited and would like of the most moving and authentically beautiful love stories”
to the uniform that he wears. I think Milley has softened to be part of Giving Tuesday, how about this? Buy Christmas had me wondering if we can actually draw the line on
over the years and forgotten what victory and defeat look presents at charity resale shops. There is a convenient row anything?
like. He should be replaced with someone who will accept of them on Rand Road in Arlington Heights. There is Wings,
only total victory in Ukraine. which provides services for domestic abuse victims; the — Patrick F. Cannon, Forest Park
Salvation Army, which helps everybody; Goodwill, which
The future of the free world depends on it! offers job training; Lucille’s, which supports youths on Redirecting outrage
— Gregory Johnson, Palos Heights Chicago’s West Side; and the ReStore, which helps Habitat
for Humanity’s affordable housing mission. Nothing at all against Taylor Swift or Swifties, but imag-
Thankful in Land of Lincoln ine if the collective fury over the Ticketmaster fiasco were
Giving and getting are a nice way to have a merry Christ- directed toward lawmakers who perpetuate the ability of
The other day, a couple of days before Thanksgiving, I mas. civilians to arm themselves with Army-caliber weapons.
drove through our Land of Lincoln out west as the sun was
setting. The fields were harvested except for a few leftover — Lynn Rogge, Mount Prospect Our streets, schools, places of worship, etc., might actually
cornfields. be safe once again.
‘Midwest goodbye’ steps
I could not help thinking about how thankful we should — Lauren Krause, Chicago
be for all the food those fields were producing, for the I laughed out loud along with the rest of our Thanksgiv-
farmers who planted and harvested those fields, for the ing guests while reading Christopher Borrelli’s “12 Stages For online-exclusive letters, go to www.chicagotribune.
millers who turned the crops into cornflakes and flour for of the Midwest Goodbye” in Thursday’s Tribune. There are com/letters. Email your letter submissions, 400 words or
bread, and for so many other workers of the fields, as well two steps that need to be added, however. less, to [email protected]. Include your full name,
as animals. We need bees and other insects to pollinate all address and phone number.
Prior to step one, the oldster host (me) makes obvious
glances at his wristwatch. That gets the ball rolling. Then,

8  Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Tuesday, November 29, 2022

OPINION

Republican Jim Durkin
is an endangered species

By Celeste Fisher Illinois state Rep. Jim Durkin delivers a speech during a rally on Republican Day at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield on Aug. 18.
TERRENCE ANTONIO JAMES/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
State Rep. Jim
Durkin is an where we attended parades otherwise. manly and without lies and our dear, mutual friend, the
endangered as a family and waved Amer- I think about our dear mudslinging because that is honorable statesman and
species — a socially ican flags. what you call good sports- war hero whose service was
moderate, fiscally friend John McCain, and the manship. Remember that? mocked by our former pres-
conservative gentleman who Jim’s mission has always town hall where he defended They distinguished them- ident.
plays well with others. Now, been to grow the Republi- his opponent, Barack Obama, selves by focusing on facts
the reasonable dad of the can Party, not diminish it. against a woman’s racist and policy — with emphasis Our government is based
Illinois Republican Party has He took a stand and voted remarks. I think about Jim on the word “distinguished.” on a two-party system with
had enough, post-election. for the Equal Rights Amend- stopping his car in front of To this day, we’re proud to checks and balances, and
He picked up his keys, and ment supporting gender a stay-at-home protest and call the senator from the it applauds healthy, even
he is going for a drive. As his equality. These are the posi- admonishing a demonstrator, other side of the aisle our spirited debate. But, Illinois
wife, I am happy for him and tions that earned him the telling her to put down her friend because he’s a good Republican Party, you are in
beyond proud. As a constitu- title of RINO — Republican horribly offensive sign that man, even though his and my big trouble. I just can’t look at
ent, I’m at a loss. in name only — from the far compared our Democratic husband’s political philoso- you right now. And while you
right, a pejorative that he is and Jewish governor to Adolf phies are not at all aligned. sit up in your room, while
The mom in me wants proud of. During this cycle, Hitler. I think of former We rode with Durbin to your dad cools off, I really
to fold my arms, give the Jim just could not support President Ronald Reagan McCain’s funeral and toasted hope you think about what
“Mom look” to those who candidates who were disci- and former Democratic you’ve done.
have made this mess and say, ples of the former president. House Speaker Tip O’Neill
“Now look what you’ve done. Knowing where that could who were great friends and Celeste Fisher is part of the Stanford University novel writ-
What do you have to say for likely lead, he still stuck to political opposites. ing program. Her husband, state Rep. Jim Durkin of Western
yourself, young man, young his principles. That’s how Springs, stepped down as Illinois House minority leader earlier
lady?” But I won’t because I you set a good example for I think about Jim’s U.S. this month.
know what will happen if I your family, political and Senate race against Sen. Dick
do. While our nation watched Durbin that was gentle-
in horror as the Capitol was
stormed on Jan. 6, 2021, Jim
publicly condemned the
insurrectionists, earning us
death threats.

As a former Cook County
prosecutor and father, Jim
just wants to keep everyone
safe. That has consistently
earned Jim a low grade from
the National Rifle Associa-
tion — a grade that could not
make me love him more. This
Republican soldiered on like
a one-man army and voted
for the 2018 assault weapons
ban, and he worked hard to
close gun show loopholes,
understanding the Second
Amendment is a complex
issue. It is not for the simple-
minded. Yes, he believes
people have the right to hunt
and defend themselves and
their families, but that does
not give them the right to
bear arms that eviscerate
schoolchildren or paradego-
ers on a corner in Highland
Park, where I once lived,

US News rankings spur revolt — and a desire for meaningful lists

By Jonathan Zimmerman The Low Memorial Library on the Columbia University campus in New York on March 11, 2020. web, its lists provided a sense of
In the beginning, God created HIROKO MASUIKE/THE NEW YORK TIMES comfort in a sea of anxiety.

the heavens, the earth and Amer- appeared. Prefiguring U.S. News, by French philosopher Alexis by a vague fear of not having The problem wasn’t that its
ican higher education. We lived in which surveys professors and de Tocqueville, who visited the chosen the shortest route that can rankings were “wrong”; instead,
a bucolic state of nature until an administrators about schools, the United States in 1831. America, lead to it.” it ranked the wrong things. You
evil serpent, U.S. News & World Chicago Tribune in April 1957 Tocqueville observed, was the got points for accepting lots of
Report, tempted us to partake of began publishing a series of articles world’s most democratic and egal- Call it buyer’s remorse, on an rich kids who go on to make lots
the Tree of Knowledge: namely, on the top 10 colleges and univer- itarian society. Dispensing with existential scale: There’s always of money (and to donate some of
college rankings. A fall from grace sities as measured by what educa- hereditary titles, it offered unparal- something or someone better that money to their colleges). But
ensued. tors, scholars and college officials, leled opportunity to a wide array of out there that you could have as Tocqueville pointed out, Amer-
among others, said about them. white people. (Black people were purchased or pursued. The only icans will always want to know
That’s what you might think another story altogether.) But the way you can determine what’s how their schools stack up next to
when reading about the recent And in America, we love rank- freest country was also the most “best” in America is to figure out others. What we need are rankings
spate of attacks on U.S. News. ings — of everything. Just Google conformist one: Precisely because what your fellow Americans think that compare them in more mean-
Six elite law schools — including “top 10” and see for yourself. You’ll we Americans lacked fixed is best. ingful ways.
Harvard and Yale — announced find endless lists of the best cars, social standards, we were always
that they would no longer partici- the best movies and the best hotels. comparing ourselves to each other. Higher education is no differ- In fact, we already have them.
pate in its rankings, which reward There’s even a website, The Top ent in that regard. As more and One useful ranking comes from
schools whose graduates earn high Tens, that catalogs more than “It is a strange thing to see with more people went to college, they Washington Monthly magazine,
salaries. Critics say that penalizes 200,000 top 10 lists — yes, you read what sort of feverish ardor Amer- also wanted to know where their which lists colleges based on
institutions that prepare students that right — “for everything under icans pursue well-being,” Tocque- schools stood. The genius of U.S. the social mobility they provide:
for less lucrative jobs in the (and including) the sun.” ville wrote, “and how they show News was harnessing that impulse Schools that help less privileged
nonprofit world. themselves constantly tormented in an attractive, easy-to-use pack- students move up the economic
This obsession was foreseen age. First in print and then on the ladder get a higher score. The list
They’re right. I hope this news also rewards schools whose alumni
spells the death knell for the U.S. work in AmeriCorps, the military
News system, which has like- and other forms of public service.
wise encouraged undergraduate
colleges to favor wealthy appli- Full disclosure: I write periodi-
cants. But there were rankings cally for the Washington Monthly
before U.S. News, and there will be and count several of its editors as
rankings after it. What we need are friends. Its ranking system is one
lists that compare schools along of many alternatives to U.S. News,
different lines, including how well including lists compiled by the
they promote public service. magazines Money, which unsur-
prisingly emphasizes college costs,
In 1911, the Association of and Times Higher Education.
American Colleges and Univer-
sities asked the federal Bureau of My point isn’t to pump up one
Education — a precursor to today’s evaluation system or another.
Department of Education — to It’s to remind us that rankings of
produce an “objective” measure colleges will always be with us, no
of colleges. The bureau created a matter what happens to U.S. News
list of 344 institutions, divided into & World Report. The real question
four levels of quality. When the list is how we will rank the rankings
was inadvertently released to the and what that will say about us.
public, it caused so much outrage Jonathan Zimmerman teaches
among educators that President education and history at the Uni-
William Howard Taft ordered a versity of Pennsylvania. He is the
halt to its distribution. Nobody author of ”Whose America? Cul-
ever likes to be told that they’re in ture Wars in the Public Schools,”
the lower ranks. which was published in a revised
20th-anniversary edition this fall
As higher education grew, by the University of Chicago Press.
other classifications of colleges

Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Tuesday, November 29, 2022  9

2 CPD officers are relieved of powers
following charge of fleeing fellow officers

By William Lee Officers Jonathan Mehrhoff, Cruz was arrested by In Memoriam Crawley, Matthew Manthey
32, and Luis Cruz, 34, were police in the 700 block of
Chicago Tribune stripped of their police South Clark Street just after Kathy McNair Matthew Manthey Crawley, 41, of Frankfort, IL
powers. 7 a.m. Sunday. Mehrhoff sadly left us on November
Two Chicago police offi- was arrested hours later at Kathleen Dale McNair, resident of Glenview, IL, 18, 2022. Grateful for having
cers were arrested Sunday Mehrhoff, a four-year the Harrison District police died peacefully of natural causes on November shared his life are his wife;
and stripped of their powers veteran, was charged with station on the West Side. 12, 2022, at the age of 70. She was born on July Jamie; parents William and
following an incident where two misdemeanors, fleeing Donna Crawley; brothers Bill
they allegedly fled from or attempting to elude an Neither officer could 9, 1952, in Cincinnati, Ohio to Kathleen (Kay) and Sean (Krischel) Crawley;
fellow officers. officer and reckless driv- be reached for comment. and Francis (Frank) Dale. She studied at Vassar nephew and niece, Brooks
ing, along with traffic cita- Chicago Fraternal Order College and completed her Bachelor of Science and Autumn Crawley; father
Chicago police did not tions for disobeying a steady of Police Lodge 7, which in Communication with an emphasis on media in-law Richard (Cindy) Torpy;
release details about the signal stop. represents most of the production at Northwestern University in 1975. mother in-law, Debbie Torpy;
circumstances, citing an department’s ranking offi- She married William (Bill) McNair in New York City
ongoing internal investiga- Cruz, a six-year veteran, cers, declined to comment in 1981. They lived in Winnetka, IL where they brother in-law, Brian Torpy. Celebration of life for
tion, but a police spokesman was charged with one count Monday. raised their three children: Franklin Scott McNair, Matt will be held on Saturday December 3, 2022,
on Monday confirmed that of battery. Mark Stuart McNair, and Meredith Kathleen Lewis from 1:00 P.M. until 4:00 P.M. with Eulogy Service at
(McNair). Kathy and Bill enjoyed a happy 41-year 3:00 P.M. at Lawn Funeral Home 17909 S 94th Ave,
Tinley Park Il 60487. (708) 532-3100
marriage.
Kathy was a media producer for United Methodist Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries
Communications and other educational companies
for 15 years before going to McCormick Theological D’Isa, Judith A.
Seminary where she graduated with a Master of
Divinity degree in 1996. She was ordained in 2000 Judith A. D’Isa, 83, of LaGrange Park; beloved wife
in the Presbyterian Church. She pursued her call to of the late Michael D’Isa; loving mother of Michael
Media Ministry by working for “30 Good Minutes” (Laura) D’Isa, Kathleen D’Isa, Maureen (Edward)
Carlson, and the late Brian; proud grandmother of
as a field producer for 10 years. She produced Maggie, Michael, Ben, Nora & Bryan; dear sister of
three-minute video segments called “Spiritual Janet (James) Joyce and the late Gerald (the late
Carol) Brown; dear aunt of many. Visitation 4 to 8pm
Journeys.” on Wed., Nov. 30 at Hallowell & James Funeral Home,
Kathy was the founder of a nonprofit organization 1025 W. 55th St., Countryside. Guests to gather for
called Faith, Hope, & Good Mental Health which is an 11:00am Mass on Thurs., Dec. 1 at St. Francis
dedicated to providing resources, training, and sup- Xavier Church, 124 N. Spring Ave., La Grange, IL.
port to individuals and congregations. She was the Service Info: 708-352-6500
author of “Restoring Wholeness: Spiritual Support
Family members take a moment as victims’ names are read at a news conference Monday for Mental Health,” a small group curriculum that Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries
in Buffalo, N.Y. JOSHUA BESSEX/AP addresses mental health challenges from a faith
perspective. Kathy’s work invited people to explore Fredricks, Edward T.
Buffalo and used a legally purchased home in Conklin, New York, challenging times in their lives and look for where
AR-15 style rifle in his attack because it was in a predomi- Edward T. Fredricks, husband of his late beloved
from Page 1 on the Tops Friendly Market nantly Black neighborhood. elements of faith could be supportive during wife Virginia Fredricks for 72
in Buffalo. Those killed He said he was motivated by mental health challenges. years, passed away peace-
lawyers suggested that he ranged in age from 32 to 86 a belief in a massive conspir- fully on November 26, 2022
now regrets his crimes, but and included an armed secu- acy to dilute the power of She served on the National Alliance on Mental in Glenview, IL. He was a
they didn’t elaborate or take rity guard who died trying to white people by “replacing” Illness (NAMI) FaithNet board, a division of NAMI loving father of daughter
questions. protect customers, a church them in the U.S. with people that encourages faith communities to welcome Randi E. Fredricks and son
deacon and the mother of a of color. Kurt E. Fredricks (Peggy);
“This critical step former Buffalo fire commis- those struggling with mental health chal- has a surviving brother, Don
represents a condemnation sioner. “Swift justice,” is how lenges. She was also a specialized minister of the Fredricks; is a beloved grand-
of the racist ideology that Erie County District Attor- Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) and a member father of Vanessa, Erica and
fueled his horrific actions Gendron surrendered ney John Flynn described of “Comfort My People,” the national mental health Daniel; and great grandfather
on May 14,” said Gendron’s when police confronted him Monday’s result, noting that
lawyer, Brian Parker. “It is as he emerged from the store. it’s the first time anyone initiative of the PCUSA. Kathy became a parish of Violet, Leona, Ellis, and Mae. Often
our hope that a final reso- in the state of New York association at Winnetka Presbyterian Church in called Fredricks, Ed was born on March
lution of the state charges Buffalo Mayor Byron has been convicted of the 25, 1923 in Chicago, IL and lived a cheer-
will help in some small way Brown, who was in the court- hate-motivated terrorism February 2011. ful 99 years and 9 months. Even in his
to keep the focus on the room for Gendron’s guilty charge. His sentencing is Kathy was a passionate, thoughtful, and devoted last days he enjoyed his gin on the rocks
needs of the victims and the plea, told reporters after- scheduled for Feb. 15. woman. She enjoyed travel, performing arts, and with a twist and unfiltered Camel cigarettes. He was
community.” ward that “it was important loved by and loved people of all generations. Ed was
to hear why these precious Attorney Benjamin nature. She cultivated many deep and lasting drafted for WW2 at the age of 19 and served in a
Gendron has pleaded not lives were snatched from us Crump, who represents friendships during her life and cherished time with Troop Carrier Regiment in the Army. He participated
guilty to separate federal for no other reason than the several of the victims’ fami- in the D-Day invasion in a glider plane. Ed earned
hate crime charges that color of their skin.” lies, said they remain baffled those she loved. a BS, in Mechanical Engineering (ME) at Illinois
could result in a death that the gunman survived. She was preceded in death by her siblings Mitchell Institute of Technology in Chicago. After graduation,
sentence if he is convicted. The mayor, a Democrat, They want harsh punish- W. Dale, Myron L. Dale, and Holly Dale Howard, as he worked at Neiler, Rich & Bladen in Chicago. He
The U.S. Justice Depart- called for a ban on assault ment, he said: “We want him well as her father Francis (Frank) Dale and mother designed the HVAC for the Old Chicago Main Post
ment has not said whether weapons, as did Police to be treated as the heinous, Office that goes over Congress Expressway and
it will seek capital punish- Commissioner Joseph cold-blooded vicious Kathleen (Kay) Dale Foreman. Lutheran General Hospital. In 1971, Ed made the
ment. Acknowledgment of Gramaglia. murderer that he was for kill- A memorial service will be held on December 3rd, plans for Shedd Aquarium’s popular attraction, a
guilt and a claim of repen- ing all these innocent Black 2022 at Winnetka Presbyterian Church, 1255 Willow 90,000 gallon exhibit reproducing a Caribbean coral
tance could potentially help Relatives of the victims people. It is emotional, and Road, Winnetka, IL 60093 at 11 a.m. 847-446-7777. reef. Ed was the ME for the Drake Hotel renovation
Gendron in a penalty phase reiterated their calls for we are angry.” The service will also be livestreamed for those who program in 1998 when the hotel was purchased
of a death penalty trial. Congress and the FBI to are unable to attend in person. The streaming link by Hilton International. During the same period,
address white supremacy Mark Talley, the son of will be available on the church website on the day he started his own Engineering firm, Gritkzke and
In recent weeks, there and gun violence. Geraldine Talley, who was Cloke. He was a Life Member of ASHRAE, a HVAC
have been deadly mass killed, called on authorities of Kathy’s Celebration: organization for professionals. He enjoyed rec-
shooting attacks at a Walmart “We are literally begging to incarcerate him in Erie reational and competitive pistol shooting, black
in Virginia, at a gay club in for those in power to do County, in the same commu- https://www.winnpres.org powder shooting in Friendship Indiana and restor-
Colorado and at the Univer- something about it,” said nity where he caused so Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries ing Corvettes. He never passed up a good meal
sity of Virginia. Garnell Whitfield, whose much pain, so that he might with close friends and family. Visitation will be held
86-year-old mother, Ruth face the same horror experi- Death Notices Friday, December 2, at 9:15AM followed by Funeral
Just days after Gendron’s Whitfield, was killed.” enced by his victims. Mass at 10AM at St. Norbert Church, 1809 Walters
rampage in Buffalo, a Bielik, Elaine Ave., Northbrook. Please do not send flowers. Send
gunman killed 19 children White supremacy was “I want that pain to eat at honorary donations to the National Rifle Association
and two teachers at a school Gendron’s motive. He said him every second of every Elaine Bielik, 76, passed away at home with family by (NRA) or the American Cancer Society. Funeral infor-
in Uvalde, Texas. in documents posted online day for the rest of his life,” her side on November 25th, 2022. Elaine was born mation 847-998-1020.
just before the attack that Talley said. on the South Side of Chicago to the late Frances
Gendron wore body armor he’d picked the store, about and Stephen Bielik. She was a loving sister to the Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries
a three-hour drive from his late Robert (Nancy) Bielik, Collette (George) Vojtech;
dedicated mother of Cheryl (Michael) Brody, Darlene Gleitsman, Donna Jean
ON NOV. 29 ... In1961a chimpanzee named ing a battle with cancer; he (Robert) Gallagher, and Celeste Fikejs (Scott); proud
In 1832, “Little Women” Enos was launched from was 58. grandma of Isaac, Miryam, Aaron, Henry (Kaitlin), Donna Jean Gleitsman of Allen, Texas, formerly
author Louisa May Alcott Cape Canaveral aboard the In 2005 the Vatican issued Joe, Liam, and Peter; fond aunt of Don Bielik, Kathie of Hinsdale, passed away
was born in Germantown, Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, a document defending a Johnson, and Steve Bielik; dear cousin to Lynnette November 14, 2022, at the
Pa. which orbited the Earth policy designed to keep men (Michael) Palmisano. With her dedication and or- age of 81. Daughter of the
In 1864 a Colorado militia twice before returning. with “deep-seated” homo- ganizational strengths, Elaine worked as executive late Frank and Ruth (Stoker)
killed at least 150 peaceful In 1963 President Lyndon sexual tendencies from administrative assistant to the State’s Attorney’s Domark, Donna was a
Cheyenne Indians in what Johnson named a commis- becoming priests but said Office for over 30 years. She retired following her graduate of Proviso East
became known as the Sand sion headed by Chief Justice there would be no crack- legal work at Ungaretti and Harris. Elaine’s happi- High School. She was a gifted
Creek Massacre. Earl Warren to investigate down on gay men who were ness was surrounded by her grandchildren, being artist, a devoted Christian, a
In 1890, at West Point, N.Y., the assassination of Presi- already ordained. the cruise director of many vacations and reading lover of dogs—and choco-
the first Army-Navy football dent John F. Kennedy. In 2008 Joern Utzon, the mystery novels. Visitation Wednesday 3-9 pm. late—and a beloved mother,
game was played; Navy won In 1964 the U.S. Roman Danish architect who Funeral Thursday 9:30 am from the Becvar & Son
24-0. Catholic Church instituted designed Australia’s iconic Funeral Home, 5539 W. 127th St, Crestwood, to grandmother, sister, aunt and friend. She is survived
In 1928 Paul Simon, who sweeping changes in the Sydney Opera House, died. St. Francis of Assisi Church for a 10:30 am Mass. by her sons, Mark (Rina) Petersen of McKinney,
became a longtime Demo- liturgy, including the use of He was 90. Interment Good Shepherd Cemetery. In lieu of Texas, Michael Petersen of Palm Springs, California
cratic senator from Illinois, English instead of Latin. In 2012 the U.N. General flowers, memorial donations in her memory may be and Matthew (Catherine) Gleitsman of Hinsdale; her
was born in Eugene, Ore. In 1972 the coin-operated Assembly voted over U.S. made to Pancreatic Cancer Action Network or the grandchildren, Reilly, Bailey and Brody Gleitsman,
In1929Navy Lt. Cmdr. Rich- video arcade game Pong, and Israeli objections American Cancer Society. (708)824-9000 or www. and her two siblings, Cathy O’Rourke of River Forest
ard Byrd radioed that he had created by Atari, made its to upgrade the Palestin- becvarfuneralhome.com and Martin Domark of California; and a host of other
made the first airplane flight debut at Andy Capp’s Tavern ians’ status to “nonmem- loving family and friends.
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Arabs and Jews. by North Korean agents of Chicago teenager Laquan Services will be held at CENTRAL CHAPEL, 6158 S. Joan Glickman, nee Jasper, 92. Beloved wife of the
with the loss of all 115 people McDonald by a Chicago Central Ave., Chicago, IL, where family and friends late Irving; devoted mother of Carol
Lottery numbers aboard. police officer blocked the will gather on Wednesday, November 30, 2022 from (Anthony) Gardner and Ellen (Matthew)
In 1989, in response to a entrances to dozens of high- 3 to 8 p.m. Funeral December 1, 2022, with chapel Weigl; cherished grandmother of
For yesterday’s numbers growing pro-democracy end stores on Chicago’s prayers at 9:45 a.m. to St. Symphorosa Church, Alexander (Crissy Luquette) Lazar and
and recent drawings, go to movement in Czechoslo- Magnificent Mile, disrupt- 6135 S. Austin Ave, Chicago for a 10:30 a.m. Mass Marley Gardner; loving sister of Audrey
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did not withdraw its troops strike to protest low wages, For Celebration of Life information call Weinstein &
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Lane, Gerald K. ‘Gerry’ O’Donohue, Diane Shannon, Helen Ainsworth Wasz, Madonna Irene

Gerald “Gerry” K. Lane, age 77, of Deerfield Illinois, Diane O’Donohue passed away peacefully on Helen Ainsworth Shannon, born December 19, Madonna Irene Wasz, 59 passed Sun., Nov. 27, 2022.
formerly of Brooklyn New November 22, 2022, sur- 1957, died peacefully on Born Aug. 10, 1963, Oak Park, IL the daughter of
York passed away on rounded by loved ones at November 23, 2022 in the the late Howard and Loretta (Lendabarker) Wasz.
November 28, 2022, sur- her home in Lisle, Illinois. She arms of her loving husband, Madonna was a member of St. Patrick Catholic
rounded by his beloved wife, was born on May 16, 1946 to Michael David Shannon. Church, Yorkville, IL. She was employed as a Surgical
Mara, nee Feldman, daughter, her parents Nell and Charlie Helen was preceded in death Technician. Madonna was a loving mother, grand-
Hillary Lane (Avi) Glandon and Urso. Diane and her beloved by her parents, Albert and mother, sister and aunt who will be deeply missed
son, Charles (Megan) Lane. siblings Charlene O’Keefe Lydia Ainsworth, to whom by her family and many friends. Madonna is survived
Gerry’s love for basketball, and Chuck Urso were raised she was a devoted daughter. by her sons, Michael (Tristyn) Staal, CA and Gregory
baseball (Brooklyn Dodgers) in Berwyn, Illinois, where Beloved niece, sister-in law, Staal, Yorkville, IL; her grandchildren, Anna, Declan
and lemons was only ex- she graduated from Morton aunt, great-aunt, friend, and and Trace Staal; her siblings, Larry (Mary) Wasz,
ceeded by his love for his MN, Mary (Ken) Plunkett, MO, Therese (Tom) Follin,
West High School. Diane was an exceptionally kind, colleague. She graduated from Saint Mary’s College AZ, Linda (Paul) Rehor, IL, Ed (Lisa) Wasz, MN, Paula
family. His children were the apple of warm, and generous person. These traits enriched in Indiana and spent her career as a successful (Brian) Johnson, IL and Jeannine Schumaucher, AZ;
his eye and there was never a concert, the different organizations where she worked businesswoman. Helen resided in both New Buffalo, also numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral Mass
ball game or swim meet that he missed. throughout her career as a receptionist and early MI and Chicago, IL. A lover of fashion, the Kentucky 10:00 AM, Thur. Dec. 1, 2022, St. Patrick Catholic
His pride in the people that they have childhood educator. Derby, animals, Mackinac Island, and Notre Dame. Church, 406 Walnut St., Yorkville, IL. Visitation 3:00
grown into, was evident to all. He was She will be missed by all who knew her. In the words til 8:00 PM, Wed., Nov. 30, 2022, Nelson Funeral
the most fun-loving Grandpa Wedgie to Isabelle Diane’s love and care for her family were at the of her love, Mike, “it was an enchanting walk through Home, 1617 N. Bridge St., Yorkville, IL. Arrangements
and Nate who loved watching basketball with him, center of all she did in her life. She is survived by life with this beautiful woman”. Visitation will be by Nelson Funeral Homes & Crematory, www.
playing in Grandpa’s woods, swinging in the park, her husband of 52 years, Tom O’Donohue, who did a held Wednesday, November 30 from 9-10:45am with NelsonFuneralHomes.com or (630) 553-7611.
reading One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and heroic job caring for her throughout her battle with funeral mass following at 11am (Eastern time) at St
sitting on the steps when Isabelle decided he de- Alzheimer’s Disease. Her children Daniel, David, Mary of the Lake Church, 718 W Buffalo St., New Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries
served a time out. and Erin O’Donohue were the lucky recipients of Buffalo, MI. Internment at Pine Grove Cemetery,
Gerry was a sports enthusiast who enjoyed playing her constant affection and unwavering support, 36 S Clinton St., New Buffalo, MI. In lieu of flow- Wilson, Richard
basketball and tennis, jogging, and walking miles and Diane was an adoring mother-in-law to their ers, donations can be made to Old Friends (home
and miles daily. Additionally, he was a music lover; spouses Erin Roehrig O’Donohue, Erin O’Malley for retired thoroughbreds), 1841 Paynes Depot Rd., Richard Wilson--Native of Rathdrum, County
there wasn’t a Motown song he couldn’t sing along O’Donohue, and Philippe Sion. Above all, Diane Georgetown, KY 40324 and New Buffalo Public Wicklow, Ireland. Beloved uncle of many, espe-
to, credit the artists, name the record label and the doted on her five grandchildren: Malley, Leo, Dylan, Library, 33 N Thompson St New Buffalo, MI 49117. cially Peter (Angie) Wilson and Nancy (Dennis)
year it was produced. Hannah, and Aidan. Arrangements have been entrusted to Sommerfeld McNaughton; cherished granduncle of Robert, Leo,
Gerry loved working with kids and started his career Chapel, www.sommerfeldchapel.com. and Thomas McNaughton; Andrew, Allison, and
as a teacher of business subjects in the New York Diane’s family is profoundly grateful to everyone Jack Wilson; loving brother of Josephine (Gerard)
City School system and transitioned to the corpo- who supported her during the last years of her life, Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries Comerford, Bernadette (Paul) Parker, Leo (Bridget),
rate world and eventually treasury management, especially Kim O’Keefe Lucas, Orlena Guzman, and Delores Wilson, Peter (Raewynn) and Thomas
stock transfer and cash management services with Maureen Cannon. Spisak, Genevieve V. (Audrey). Proud Laborer of Chicago Local 4..
various financial institutions. Of late, Gerry worked Visitation at Cooney Funeral Home, 625 Busse Hwy.,
in business development in the ethnic media field A visitation will be held at Blake-Lamb Funeral Home Genevieve V. “Jean” Spisak (nee Gurdak) beloved Park Ridge, Il on Tuesday from 3 to 8 p.m. Funeral
with Svet and as an Inspector of Elections. (5015 Lincoln Ave/Route 53, Lisle) on Tuesday, wife of the late Joseph. Loving mother of Barbara Wednesday, prayers at 9:15 a.m. to St. Tarcissus
In addition to being involved in social action activi- November 29 from 3 to 7PM. The funeral mass at St. (Richard) Morris, David, Christine (the late Gary) Church for Mass at 10:00 a.m. Interment Maryhill
ties at Temple Jeremiah, serving as past president Mary of Celle (1428 Wesley Ave, Berwyn) will take Wascher, and Joseph (Anita). Proud grandmother of Cemetery. For info 847-685-1002 - cooneyfuner-
of the Temple Jeremiah Brotherhood, Gerry also place on Wednesday, November 30 at 9:30AM. 13 and great grandmother of 26. Funeral services alhome.com
enjoyed volunteering at the Greater Chicago Food Saturday 8:45 AM from The Jaeger Funeral Home
Depository. In lieu of flowers, please consider making a do- 3526 N. Cicero Ave. To St. Bartholomew Church Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries
His kindness, love for people, gentle nature and pa- nation to the Illinois Chapter of the Alzheimer’s 9:30 AM mass. Interment St. Adalbert Cemetery.
tience will live on in those that remember him. May Association, www.alz.org. Visitation Friday 3:00-9:00 PM. Info. (773) 545-1320 Zagorski, Bruno A.
his memory be for a blessing.
Service Wednesday 2:00 p.m. CT at Temple Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries Bruno A. Zagorski, 87, of Arlington Heights, formerly
Jeremiah, 937 N. Happ Rd., Northfield. Condolences of Naperville. Beloved hus-
will immediately follow in the Social Hall until 8:00 Pasakarnis, John S. Van Spankeren, Kenneth R. band of 66 years to Eleanor
p.m.. The service will be livestreamed on Gerry’s site (nee Mazur) Zagorski; loving
at www.goldmanfuneralgroup.com. John S. Pasakarnis, age 84, of Downers Grove, IL. Kenneth R. Van Spankeren, PhD, age 91, U.S. Navy father of Thomas (Monika),
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Gerry’s Retired from United Airlines and served with the U.S. Veteran of the Korean War, Matthew (Mary), Christine,
memory to the Special Kids Foundation, www. Army Military Police. Beloved husband of Ladena passed away peacefully at and Michael (Dawn); cher-
specialkidsfoundation.org, Greater Chicago Food K. Pasakarnis, née Hebblethwaite; dear brother of his home surrounded by his ished grandfather of Zachary,
Depository, www.chicagosfoodbank.org, or Pace the late Joseph (Shirley) Pasakarnis; dear uncle of loving family on November Carter, Andrew, Max, Audrey
University, www.pace.edu. Info: The Goldman Stephen (Kathy), John (Nancy), Chuck (Nancy), Patti 26, 2022. Ken is the be- and Katie; fond brother of
Funeral Group (847) 478-1600. (Bill) Greenaberg, Jeff (Donna) Pasakarnis, and the loved husband of Eleanore late Rita (late Al) Milash, late
late Larry and David Pasakarnis; fond great-uncle C., nee Gembica, for 63
Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries of 19 nieces and nephews. Visitation Thursday wonderful years; loving fa- Edward (late Rosemary), and late Paul. Visitation
December 1st, 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Adams- ther of Kenneth R. II (Judy Thursday, December 1, 2022 at Glueckert Funeral
Winterfield & Sullivan Funeral Home, 4343 Main St. (1 Brennan), Steven J. (Kathleen) Home Ltd., from 3:00 PM until 8:00 PM. Prayers 9:30
Blk. So. of Ogden Ave.), Downers Grove. Interment and Jeffrey S. (Linda) Van AM, Friday, December 2, 2022 at Glueckert Funeral
Private. Information: 630-968-1000 or www.adam- Home to St. Raphael Catholic Church, 1215 Modaff
swinterfieldsullivan.com. Spankeren, Karen A. (Chad) Osborne and Road, Naperville, IL 60540, Funeral Mass 11:00 AM.
the late Mary Van Spankeren; dearest Interment private.Funeral Information and condo-
son of the late Marie and Herman; cher- lences can be given at www.GlueckertFH.com or
ished grandfather of Allison, Brennan, (847) 253-0168.
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Evelyn Lascio, nee Cleary, 105, of Mount Prospect, Poskozim, Joyce A. great grandfather of Jack and Charlie; dear brother Honor a Loved One
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Donna Maggard and the late Judy Alberti. Cherished November 26, 2022. Beloved 30 years with the Chicago Public Schools and in par- Chicago Tribune
grandmother of Dawn Alberti, Tom Alberti, the late wife of Paul Poskozim, Sr.; ticular he was a Principal with John James Audubon
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Funeral information call 847-255-7800 or ished grandmother of Blake in Chicago for Mass at 11:00 a.m. The interment will
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In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be Scherer, Louise
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formerly of Bellwood, Grayslake, and Naperville, IL.
Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries Beloved wife of the late Edward D. Scherer for 65
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Flosi, Susie (Brian) Erber, Krissy (Jason) O’Hara and
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of Arthur. Loving mother McNabb, Colson Flosi, Ben Erber, Addison McNabb,
of Jennifer (Jonah Geller) Gannon Flosi, Hannah Erber, and Jane O’Hara; fond
Noparstak and Melissa sister of Arlene Block, and Donna Munger; aunt of
(Steve) Williams. Proud many nieces and nephews. Visitation Wednesday
grandmother of Zella, Febe, November 30th, from 3-8PM at Steuerle Chapel,
Ari, Ezra and Lea. Cherished 350 S. Ardmore Ave, Villa Park, IL 60181. Funeral
daughter of the late Seymour Thursday December 1st, at 11AM at the funeral
and the late Florence Zlotnik. home. Interment Private. In lieu of flowers donations
Dear sister of Robin (Alan) to Our Savior Lutheran Church (1244 W. Army Trail
Cohn and sister-in-law of Rd. Carol Stream, IL 60188) are appreciated. Funeral
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Eileen Kandel. Service Tuesday 10AM
at Congregation Or Shalom, 21 West Donald Selle of Chicago died November 16, 2022.
Hawthorn Parkway, Vernon Hills, Illinois 60061. He was 81 years old. Son
Interment Shalom. In lieu of flowers, memorial con- of the late William and
tributions may be made to the Jewish United Fund, Amy Selle he is survived by
30 S. Wells Street, Chicago, IL 60606, www.juf.org, a sister Sharon Walter of
or ORT America, 4411 N. Ravenswood, Suite 300, Okatie, South Carolina and
Chicago, IL 60640, www.ortamerica.org, or MAZON: nieces Gayle(Roger) Stech,
A Jewish Response to Hunger, 10850 Wilshire Blvd., Christine Walter and nephew
Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90024, www.mazon.org, Brian(Dana) Walter and
or to Congregation Or Shalom, www.orshalomlc.org. many great nieces, nephews
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website. Arrangements by Chicago Jewish Funerals
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SERVICES URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT Chicago, Illinois 60602. TELEPHONE: (312) 603-
LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at 5645. Pine Valley One Real Estate LLC, Purchaser
The Bidder must complete and submit an any time on or before April 21, 2023 by applying or Assignee. Dated: November 23, 2022.
Electronic Bid prior to the bid due date. An to the County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois, at 12/29, 12/30, 12/1/20227333612
electronic bid must be submitted through the the Office of the County Clerk in Chicago, Illi-
City of Chicago’s website at nois. For further information contact the County TO: Shirely Shaifer, Therofore Shaifer, Unknown
www.cityofchicago.org/eprocurement, on or Clerk. Address: 118 N. Clark Street, Room 434, Heirs and Legatees of Shirley Shaifer, Terry
before the due date and time stated below. Chicago, IL 60602 Telephone: (312) 603-5645 Shaifer, Terry Ramon Shaifer, Stephane Tanner;
The City’s system will not accept electronic Judd M. Harris #55136 933 West Van Buren St. Occupant, 6950 S. Cregier Ave Unit B, Chicago
bids after the due date and time. Bidders Suite 304 Chicago, IL 60607 312-795-9600 harri- , IL; Parties in occupancy and possession; any
must register for a log-in account to submit [email protected] Kevin G. Esquivel, purchas- unknown owners and occupants. TAX DEED NO.
an electronic bid. Please allow up to three er or assignee Dated: November 21, 2022 2022COTD001455. FILED: November 14, 2022.
business days for creation of your log-in 11/29, 11/30, 12/1/20227332091 TAKE NOTICE. County of Cook. Date Premises
account. Paper bids will not be accepted. All Sold 3/9/2020. Certificate No. F56787. Sold for
Bids will be opened and publicly read aloud TO: Community Bank of Willowbrook, successor General Taxes of (year) 2017 (including 2013
for the following: trustee to Hinsbrook Bank & Trust Co., u/t/a 96- 2nd through 2016). Sold for Special Assess-
DESCRIPTION: RFQ for On-Call Noise 017 dated 5- 16-96; Maison De Ritz Cleaners / ment of (Municipality) and special assessment
Management Consulting Services De Ritz Leathers; Achilles G. Markos; Village of number N/A Warrant No. N/A Inst. No. N/A. THIS
Maywood; Judgment Creditors, And Decree PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT
ELECTRONIC BID DOCUMENTS CAN Creditors, If Any Of The Above Described As TAXES. Property located at. 6950 S. Cregier
BE DOWNLOADED AND RESPONDED “Unknown Owners”; Karen A. Yarbrough, Cook Ave Unit B, Chicago , Illinois. Legal Description
TO FROM THIS URL ADDRESS: County Clerk; Parties In Occupancy Or Actual or Property Index No. 20-24-318-050-0000. This
www.cityofchicago.org/eprocurement Possession Of Said Property; Unknown Owners notice is to advise you that the above proper-
Or Persons Interested In Said Land Or Lot. TAX ty has been sold for delinquent taxes and that
SPECIFICATION NO: 1208208, DATE: DEED NO. 2022 COTD 001409 FILED: October the period of redemption from the sale will
RFQ NO: 9166 28, 2022 TAKE NOTICE County of Cook, State of expire on 3/8/2023. The amount to redeem is
BID/PROPOSAL OPENING Illinois Date Premises Sold: February 16, 2022 subject to increase at 6 month intervals from
Certificate Nos. 21S-0001423 and 21S-0001424 the date of sale and may be further increased
January 10, 2023 Sold for General Taxes of: 2021 Scavenger if the purchaser at the tax sale or his or her
TIME: 4:00 p.m., Central Time Sale (2008-2018) Sold For Special Assessment assignee pays any subsequently accruing taxes
of (Municipality) Not Applicable. And Special or special assessments to redeem the property
PRE-PROPOSAL CONFERENCE: Assessment No. Not Applicable. Warrant No. from subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check
Not Applicable. Inst. No. Not Applicable. THIS with the county clerk as to the exact amount
December 8, 2022 at 10:00 a.m., O’Hare PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT you owe before redeeming. This notice is also
TAXES Property located at: 20 S. 19TH AVENUE, to advise you that a petition has been filed for
Airport Central Field Office – 2nd Floor, MAYWOOD, IL Legal Description or Property a tax deed which will transfer title and the right
Index Nos. 15-10-118-021-0000 and 15-10-118- to possession of this property if redemption is
10510 W. Zemke Road, Chicago, IL 60666 022-0000 Vol. 160 This notice is to advise you not made on or before 3/8/2023. This matter is
that the above property has been sold for delin- set for hearing in the Circuit Court of this county
QUESTIONS DUE DATE: quent taxes and that the period of redemption in the Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W. Washing-
from the sale will expire on April 28, 2023. The ton St., Chicago, IL 60602, on 3/22/2023 at 9:30
December 15, 2022 amount to redeem is subject to increase at 6 AM in room 1704. YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM
month intervals from the date of sale and may IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY.
CONTACT: Tom Magno, be further increased if the purchaser at the tax Redemption can be made at any time on or be-
Senior Procurement Specialist sale or his or her assignee pays any subsequent- fore 3/8/2023 by applying to the County Clerk of
Email: [email protected] ly accruing taxes or special assessments to re- Cook County, Illinois at the Office of the County
Pub: 11/29/2022 7333188 deem the property from subsequent forfeitures Clerk in Chicago, Illinois. For further information
or tax sales. Check with the County Clerk as to contact the County Clerk. ADDRESS: 118 North
EMBROIDERY BIDS WANTED the exact amount you owe before redeeming. Clark Street, Room 434, Chicago, Illinois 60602.
Cicero School District 99 (“School District”) This notice is also to advise you that a petition TELEPHONE: (312) 603-5645. Pine Valley One
is requesting sealed bids for embroidered has been filed for a tax deed which will transfer Real Estate LLC, Purchaser or Assignee. Dated:
student and employee uniforms. title and the right to possession of this property November 23, 2022.
Specifications will be available on our district if redemption is not made on or before April 28, 12/29, 12/30, 12/1/20227333619
website, www.cicd99.edu (click on “public 2023. This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit
bidding”) beginning Tuesday, November 29, Court of this County in Room 1704, Richard J. TO: Tisa Thomas, Archie Thomas; City of Chicago
2022 until bid opening day. Sealed bids must Daley Center, 50 W. Washington Street, Chicago, c/o City Clerk, City of Chicago Dept. of Water,
be received by the Administration Building, Illinois on May 5, 2023 at 9:30 a.m. You may be NHSRC Initiatives, Inc., NHS Redevelopment Cor-
5110 West 24th Street, Cicero, Illinois 60804, present at this hearing but your right to redeem poration, CRC - IL, LLC, IRS, U.S. Attorney Gener-
on or before 8:30 am on Thursday, December will already have expired at that time. YOU ARE al, U.S. Attorney, Northern District of Illinois, Illi-
29, 2022. Bids will be publicly opened and URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT nois Attorney General, Illinois Dept. of Revenue,
read at that time. Indicate on the face of LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at Ralph Schrader, Roger Brejcha, Lorenzo Larry
the sealed envelope: “SEALED BID FOR any time on or before April 28, 2023 by applying Nelson, Curtis Abrams; Occupant, 2445 E. 74th
EMBROIDERED SCHOOL AND EMPLOYEE to the County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois, at Pl, Chicago , IL; Parties in occupancy and pos-
UNIFORMS”. Unsigned or late bids will not the Office of the County Clerk in Chicago, Illi- session; any unknown owners and occupants.
be considered. The bidder assumes the risk nois. For further information contact the County TAX DEED NO. 2022COTD001457. FILED: No-
of any delay in handling or delivery of the Clerk. Address: 118 N. Clark Street, Room 434, vember 14, 2022. TAKE NOTICE. County of Cook.
mail. Cicero School District 99 reserves the Chicago, IL 60602 Telephone: (312) 603-5645 Date Premises Sold 3/9/2020. Certificate No.
right to accept or reject any or all bids when Judd M. Harris #55136 933 West Van Buren St. F56788. Sold for General Taxes of (year) 2017.
there are sound documented reasons to Suite 304 Chicago, IL 60607 312-795-9600 harri- Sold for Special Assessment of (Municipality)
do so and to waive informalities and minor [email protected] Kevin G. Esquivel, purchas- and special assessment number N/A Warrant
irregularities in bids received. Questions er or assignee Dated: November 21, 2022 No. N/A Inst. No. N/A. THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN
should be directed to [email protected]. 11/29, 11/30, 12/1/20227332064 SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES. Property located
11/29/22 7331860 at. 2445 E. 74th Pl, Chicago , Illinois. Legal De-
TO: Raymond P. Gunter; City of Chicago, c/o City scription or Property Index No. 21-30-117-001-
TO: Chicago Title Land Trust Co., successor Clerk; Pine Valley One Real Estate, LLC; Judg- 0000. This notice is to advise you that the above
trustee to North Star Trust Co., Trust #002579 ment Creditors, And Decree Creditors, If Any Of property has been sold for delinquent taxes and
dated 5-23-2000; Warren Park Condominium The Above Described As “Unknown Owners”; that the period of redemption from the sale will
Association c/o Secretary of State - Dissolved Karen A. Yarbrough, Cook County Clerk; Par- expire on 3/8/2023. The amount to redeem is
Corporations; User of Parking Space P4; Edward ties In Occupancy Or Actual Possession Of Said subject to increase at 6 month intervals from
Suda (re: Warren Park Condominium Assn.); Property; Unknown Owners Or Persons Inter- the date of sale and may be further increased
Labe Bank Mortgage Company c/o Secretary ested In Said Land Or Lot. TAX DEED NO. 2022 if the purchaser at the tax sale or his or her
of State - Dissolved Corporations; Labe Bank COTD 001406 FILED: October 28, 2022 TAKE assignee pays any subsequently accruing taxes
Mortgage Company (Dissolved Corporation) c/o NOTICE County of Cook, State of Illinois Date or special assessments to redeem the property
John Eck; J. Chris Alstrin (on behalf of Dissolved Premises Sold: February 25, 2022 Certificate No. from subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check
Labe Bank Mortgage Co.); Roger Daniel, Presi- 21S-0007048 Sold for General Taxes of: 2021 with the county clerk as to the exact amount
dent and Reg. Agent of dissolved Warren Park Scavenger Sale (2011-2018) Sold For Special As- you owe before redeeming. This notice is also
Condominium Assn.; Judgment Creditors, And sessment of (Municipality) Not Applicable. And to advise you that a petition has been filed for
Decree Creditors, If Any Of The Above Described Special Assessment No. Not Applicable. Warrant a tax deed which will transfer title and the right
As “Unknown Owners”; Karen A. Yarbrough, No. Not Applicable. Inst. No. Not Applicable. THIS to possession of this property if redemption is
Cook County Clerk; Parties In Occupancy Or PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT not made on or before 3/8/2023. This matter is
Actual Possession Of Said Property; Unknown TAXES Property located at: 214 N. MAYFIELD set for hearing in the Circuit Court of this county
Owners Or Persons Interested In Said Land Or AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL Legal Description or Prop- in the Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W. Washing-
Lot. TAX DEED NO. 2022 COTD 001416 FILED: erty Index No. 16-08-407-018-0000 Vol. 548 This ton St., Chicago, IL 60602, on 3/22/2023 at 9:30
October 28, 2022 TAKE NOTICE County of Cook, notice is to advise you that the above property AM in room 1704. YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM
State of Illinois Date Premises Sold: February 25, has been sold for delinquent taxes and that the IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY.
2022 Certificate No. 21S-0006927 Sold for Gen- period of redemption from the sale will expire Redemption can be made at any time on or be-
eral Taxes of: 2021 Scavenger Sale (2006-2018) on April 28, 2023. The amount to redeem is sub- fore 3/8/2023 by applying to the County Clerk of
Sold For Special Assessment of (Municipality) ject to increase at 6 month intervals from the Cook County, Illinois at the Office of the County
Not Applicable. And Special Assessment No. Not date of sale and may be further increased if the Clerk in Chicago, Illinois. For further information
Applicable. Warrant No. Not Applicable. Inst. No. purchaser at the tax sale or his or her assignee contact the County Clerk. ADDRESS: 118 North
Not Applicable. THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD pays any subsequently accruing taxes or special Clark Street, Room 434, Chicago, Illinois 60602.
FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at: assessments to redeem the property from sub- TELEPHONE: (312) 603-5645. Pine Valley One
2217 W. FARWELL AVENUE UNIT P4, CHICAGO, sequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check with the Real Estate LLC, Purchaser or Assignee. Dated:
IL Legal Description or Property Index No. 11-31- County Clerk as to the exact amount you owe November 23, 2022.
122-032-1021 Vol. 506 This notice is to advise before redeeming. This notice is also to advise 12/29, 12/30, 12/1/20227333601
you that the above property has been sold for you that a petition has been filed for a tax deed
delinquent taxes and that the period of redemp- which will transfer title and the right to posses- TO: Chicago Title Land Trust Co., as successor
tion from the sale will expire on April 28, 2023. sion of this property if redemption is not made trustee to LaSalle National Bank u/t/a 121721
The amount to redeem is subject to increase at on or before April 28, 2023. This matter is set dated 4-21-1998; C A Development, Inc. c/o
6 month intervals from the date of sale and may for hearing in the Circuit Court of this County in Secretary of State - Dissolved Corporations; C
be further increased if the purchaser at the tax Room 1704, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W. Wash- A Development, Inc. (Dissolved corporation)
sale or his or her assignee pays any subsequent- ington Street, Chicago, Illinois on May 5, 2023 at c/o J. Paul Bertsche; C A Development, Inc.
ly accruing taxes or special assessments to re- 9:30 a.m. You may be present at this hearing but (Dissolved Corporation) c/o Wendy Goldsmith
deem the property from subsequent forfeitures your right to redeem will already have expired Andrews; GTZ Concrete, LLC; Fifth Third Bank;
or tax sales. Check with the County Clerk as to at that time. YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IM- Grove Park L.L.C. (dissolved 2003) c/o J. Paul
the exact amount you owe before redeeming. MEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY Re- Bertsche; Judgment Creditors, And Decree
This notice is also to advise you that a petition demption can be made at any time on or before Creditors, If Any Of The Above Described As
has been filed for a tax deed which will transfer April 28, 2023 by applying to the County Clerk of “Unknown Owners”; Karen A. Yarbrough, Cook
title and the right to possession of this property Cook County, Illinois, at the Office of the County County Clerk; Parties In Occupancy Or Actual
if redemption is not made on or before April 28, Clerk in Chicago, Illinois. For further information Possession Of Said Property; Unknown Owners
2023. This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit contact the County Clerk. Address: 118 N. Clark Or Persons Interested In Said Land Or Lot. TAX
Court of this County in Room 1704, Richard J. Street, Room 434, Chicago, IL 60602 Telephone: DEED NO. 2022 COTD 001394 FILED: October
Daley Center, 50 W. Washington Street, Chicago, (312) 603-5645 Judd M. Harris #55136933 West 21, 2022 TAKE NOTICE County of Cook, State of
Illinois on May 10, 2023 at 9:30 a.m. You may be Van Buren St. Suite 304 Chicago, IL 60607 312- Illinois Date Premises Sold: February 23, 2022
present at this hearing but your right to redeem 795-9600 [email protected] Pashupati Certificate Nos. 21S-0004845, 21S-0004846,
will already have expired at that time. YOU ARE Nath, purchaser or assignee Dated: November 21S-0004847, 21S-0004848, 21S-0004849, 21S-
URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT 21, 2022 0004850 and Sold for General Taxes of: 2021
LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at 11/29, 11/30, 12/1/20227332086 Scavenger Sale (2008-2018) Sold For Special As-
any time on or before April 28, 2023 by applying sessment of (Municipality) Not Applicable. And
to the County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois, at TO: Charles White, Zelane White; Occupant, Special Assessment No. Not Applicable. Warrant
the Office of the County Clerk in Chicago, Illi- 1307 S. Troy St, Chicago, IL; Parties in occupan- No. Not Applicable. Inst. No. Not Applicable. THIS
nois. For further information contact the County cy and possession; any unknown owners and PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT
Clerk. Address: 118 N. Clark Street, Room 434, occupants. TAX DEED NO. 2022COTD001458. TAXES Properties located at: 9812, 9814, 9816,
Chicago, IL 60602 Telephone: (312) 603-5645 FILED: November 14, 2022. TAKE NOTICE. 9820, 9822 and 9824 S. HOUSTON AVENUE, CHI-
Judd M. Harris #55136 933 West Van Buren St. County of Cook. Date Premises Sold 3/9/2020. CAGO, IL Legal Description or Property Index
Suite 304 Chicago, IL 60607 312-795-9600 harri- Certificate No. F56795. Sold for General Taxes Nos. 26-07-143-024-0000, 26-07-143-025-0000,
[email protected] MKZ Management LLC, pur- of (year) 2017 including 2016. Sold for Special 26-07-143-026-0000, 26-07-143-027-0000, 26-
chaser or assignee Dated: November 21, 2022 Assessment of (Municipality) and special as- 07-143-028-0000 and 26-07-143-029-0000 Vol.
11/29, 11/30, 12/1/20227332060 sessment number N/A Warrant No. N/A Inst. 297 This notice is to advise you that the above
No. N/A. THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR properties have been sold for delinquent taxes
DELINQUENT TAXES. Property located at. 1307 and that the period of redemption from the sale
S. Troy St, Chicago, Illinois. Legal Description or will expire on April 21, 2023. The amount to re-
Property Index No. 16-24-103-003-0000. This deem is subject to increase at 6 month inter-
notice is to advise you that the above proper- vals from the date of sale and may be further
ty has been sold for delinquent taxes and that increased if the purchaser at the tax sale or his
the period of redemption from the sale will or her assignee pays any subsequently accruing
expire on 3/8/2023. The amount to redeem is taxes or special assessments to redeem the
subject to increase at 6 month intervals from properties from subsequent forfeitures or tax
the date of sale and may be further increased sales. Check with the County Clerk as to the
if the purchaser at the tax sale or his or her exact amount you owe before redeeming. This
assignee pays any subsequently accruing taxes notice is also to advise you that a petition has
or special assessments to redeem the property been filed for a tax deed which will transfer title
from subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check and the right to possession of these properties
with the county clerk as to the exact amount if redemption is not made on or before April 21,
you owe before redeeming. This notice is also 2023. This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit
to advise you that a petition has been filed for Court of this County in Room 1704, Richard J.
a tax deed which will transfer title and the right Daley Center, 50 W. Washington Street, Chicago,
to possession of this property if redemption is Illinois on May 5, 2023 at 9:30 a.m. You may be
not made on or before 3/8/2023. This matter is present at this hearing but your right to redeem
set for hearing in the Circuit Court of this county will already have expired at that time. YOU ARE
in the Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W. Washing- URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT
ton St., Chicago, IL 60602, on 3/22/2023 at 9:30 LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at
AM in room 1704. YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM any time on or before April 21, 2023 by applying
IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY. to the County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois, at
Redemption can be made at any time on or be- the Office of the County Clerk in Chicago, Illi-
fore 3/8/2023 by applying to the County Clerk of nois. For further information contact the County
Cook County, Illinois at the Office of the County Clerk. Address: 118 N. Clark Street, Room 434,
Clerk in Chicago, Illinois. For further information Chicago, IL 60602 Telephone: (312) 603-5645
contact the County Clerk. ADDRESS: 118 North Judd M. Harris #55136 933 West Van Buren St.
Clark Street, Room 434, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Suite 304 Chicago, IL 60607 312-795-9600 harri-
TELEPHONE: (312) 603-5645. Pine Valley One [email protected] Jose Mendez, purchaser or
Real Estate LLC, Purchaser or Assignee. Dated: assignee Dated: November 21, 2022
November 23, 2022. 11/29, 11/30, 12/1/20227332094
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12  Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Tuesday, November 29, 2022

ABC7 Outlook: TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY
Mostly cloudy,
breezy and warm- Day Night Day Night Day Night Day Night Day Night Day Night
er Tuesday. Showers
possible by evening High: 55 Low: 27 High: 32 Low: 21 High: 35 Low: 30 High: 47 Low: 33 High: 37 Low: 25 High: 38 Low: 33
with a better chance
of rain and a thun- Cloudy; windy, mild, a Partly sunny, windy and Plenty of sunshine, but Cloudy, breezy and milder Colder; breezy in the Mostly cloudy
derstorm at night. shower in the p.m. much colder chilly morning
Colder for Wednes- POP: 40% POP: 10% POP: 25%
Meteorologists Phil Schwarz, day. POP: 20% POP: 0% Winds: SSW 12-25 mph POP: 10% Winds: S 6-12 mph
Cheryl Scott, Tracy Butler, Winds: S 12-25 mph Winds: NW 15-25 mph Winds: SW 7-14 mph Winds: WSW 8-16 mph
Larry Mowry and Greg Dutra

CHICAGO FORECAST 54R55LJ45M5454Ro96a07a6486co75/e//n/SC54//3kc//2/n29/e159fa22ho65d21s2olB45me11/ol/v1re8l9e5dt2ilpleall//1ote52oit45Bn1O556e4S55l07t//4L5vt2t79/H452/iear86d21//el614aw1/ae0/22am/1045D/2rnat92e02doe555P14p54L1rKs/0l7/a94a8ha2//kn//i2l1e1M55r1bo21e4M5200G75W41o65/a/er54D55/21/orrn5Y59/ie/22o2w93seo918n2d154A/vr//B55i55Eg1/1kgs1a2u790r8ol2028vt2hgar/3/o/i//o2t/ii2l51cndl12r2e32a4kw33oU45o4T5B45d7n555Jw64/oi8a61/84L5o/i7/lr/n2//1iin792/t9be1212l5N42/L/1ee2tG23179a4art55K4A5r5tt4k/p/o0a8ny542e1evnvt//1s/5O55P5/r3eii1k1v22ole45O0077r1la1i55Aecl3ol25S5//a//8’k6lhH0re228t11en1t8/l/o1355Mi./a/4e3d/12nH/45n11Ar1228g2i6ee5P3i79/dn54W4gt/K5494/aw/no2h6521er7845Raen4EC554lak/54/n/au4/7a57vyh57962H2o9nk/caH55//i///31sed4cein2211n229a1hgais51Pg45em/a3a/gM55th1a2nooC45m068tron5ksh75H/m/o/i12/ecn13e2ia74dgn7g45ChWBL27W2tBaTW8ceo-fo--otr86ae8tmii3ua-A44ose:nn.aemt//dVrpwdd54Giteffn1n2de.ieoeeKffgno9181arsnreerr4wy0noagoorItt/d/nntEGya4P..mm1neud2I5D5.VVoamns0oertsoii4tteh0e7xdssoiyM.dhh:no:diim/eNw/;bbee40wt291xoii-a5ws5llo-2neIo4ii14ott:.yrnteC0yy.uPts:Wtolge2tEehHo4V5expsaar6cna.a;stt56meete3Il1lt/r-/rp.l1M54Gh2ea412254Lt4a:anl-5e51l-iFtnp2ayr4A79mc5.2a/a./5mc/3i/hC51pr2il21N;sF55.ke2iemrkg556nao6r5or18n-aioraa6pls/.ot0et:/nn.Wu1tssms45LG2src6.eoC.aeia.76Sne4o:St8/ie/dePs4atepa21;r3vny5ao.sm57is.rl.ltee QUESTION: What Phil Schwarz
month is usually our
Tuesday Conditions Shown is Tuesday’s weather. Temperatures are Tuesday’s highs and Tuesday night’s lows with high and low RealFeel Temperatures shown below.
snowiest?
8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 8 p.m.
AccuWeather.com UV Index™ ANSWER: The month with
the highest average snowfall is
0111000 January with 11.3” and the second
snowiest is February with an
RealFeel Temperature® average of 10.7”. December is the
32 38 42 45 47 46 46 third snowiest month with 7.6”. In
recent years, snowfall in Decem-
Tuesday Activities ber has been way below normal.
The last time we has a snowier
8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 8 p.m. than normal December was back
Outdoor Activities Index in 2016 when an impressive 17.7”
fell. There are no big snows in our
3445430 foreseeable future, but a more
favorable snowy pattern could
Fishing Index develop by the middle of next
4634630 month.

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. Outdoor Activities
and Fishing Indexes: 0-2: Poor; 3-4: Fair; 5-6:
Good; 7-8: Very Good; 9-10: Excellent.

CHICAGO ALMANAC

Monday Temperatures 46

O’Hare through 6 p.m.

High

Low 29

Normal high 43

Normal low 29

Record high 69 (1905)

Record low 0 (1887)

Local Temperatures
through 6 p.m. Monday
Normal
Location Hi Lo Hi Lo
21 42 25
Aurora 44 28 44 30
Gary 46 30 44 27
Kankakee 42 28 43 29
Lansing 45 31 44 30
Midway 46 28 43 27
Romeoville 45 32 45 30 Do you have a weather question for the
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Monday* 2022 2021 Normal 190 N. State Street
Month to date 0.00” 0.00” 0.08” Chicago, IL 60601
Year to date 0.83” 0.71” 2.26”
29.80” 27.85” 35.59”

Snowfall 0.0” Trace 0.2” NATIONAL FORECAST REGIONAL CITIES
Monday* 1.1” Trace 1.5”
Month to date 1.1” Trace 1.7” Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. Tue. Wed.
Season to date
City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Illinois
*24-hour period ending 6 p.m. Monday Seattle Winnipeg Carbondale 62/30/t 42/22/s
38/34 26/8 Champaign 58/23/c 34/19/pc
Air Quality Index Decatur 59/25/pc 34/19/pc
San Francisco Montreal Moline 61/21/r 35/17/pc
Monday’s reading 57/42 34/28 Peoria 60/22/r 34/17/pc
Quincy 64/21/pc 36/17/s
Moderate Minneapolis Toronto New York Rockford 56/21/r 32/16/pc
31/18 44/42 46/42 Springfield 61/24/c 36/17/s
Tuesday’s forecast Billings Sterling 54/22/r 33/16/pc
16/6 Kansas City Detroit
Moderate 56/21 53/39
Denver
Primary pollutant Particulates 21/5

Source: AirNow.gov Indiana 64/30/t 40/20/pc
Bloomington 65/31/t 41/21/s
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INSIDE BUSINESS • ARTS &LIVING PlusTV,comicsandpuzzles

NATION & WORLD

Virus protests spread to Hong Kong

Chinese government A protester lights candles Monday on the campus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. PETER PARKS/GETTY-AFP “I want to show my
says it will ease some support,” said a 24-year-
zero-COVID policies which is under China’s fire in the northwestern city Daguang, a city official in aims to isolate every infected old mainland student who
control but has a separate of Urumqi. Some have ques- charge of epidemic control, person, has helped to keep would identify herself only
By Kanis Leung legal system from the main- tioned whether firefighters according to the official China’s case numbers lower as G for fear of retaliation.
and Zen Soo land. or victims trying to escape China News Service. than those of the United “I care about things that I
were blocked by locked States and other major couldn’t get to know in the
Associated Press “I’ve wanted to speak up doors or other anti-virus Guangzhou, a manufac- countries. But tolerance for past.”
for a long time, but I did not controls. turing and trade center that the measures has flagged as
HONG KONG — Students get the chance to,” said James is the biggest hot spot in people in some areas have University security guards
in Hong Kong chanted Cai, a 29-year-old from Without mentioning the China’s latest wave of infec- been confined at home for up videotaped the event, but
“oppose dictatorship” in a Shanghai who attended a protests, the criticism of tions, announced some to four months and say they there was no sign of police.
protest of China’s COVID-19 Hong Kong protest and held Xi or the fire, some local residents will no longer be lack reliable access to food
rules Monday after demon- up a piece of white paper, a authorities eased restrictions required to undergo mass and medical supplies. At an event in Central, a
strators on the mainland symbol of defiance against Monday. testing. business district, about four
issued an unprecedented the ruling party’s pervasive In Hong Kong, protest- dozen protesters held up
call for President Xi Jinping censorship. “If people in The city government of Urumqi, where the fire ers at Chinese University blank sheets of paper and
to resign in the biggest show the mainland can’t tolerate Beijing announced it would occurred, and another city put up posters that said, “Do flowers in what they said was
of opposition to the ruling it anymore, then I cannot as no longer set up gates to in the Xinjiang region in Not Fear. Do Not Forget. Do mourning for the fire victims
Communist Party in decades. well.” block access to apartment the northwest announced Not Forgive,” and sang songs in Urumqi and others who
compounds where infections markets and other busi- including “Do You Hear the have died as a result of “zero
Rallies against China’s It wasn’t clear how many are found. nesses in areas deemed at People Sing?” from the musi- COVID” policies.
unusually strict anti-virus people have been detained low risk of infection would cal “Les Miserables.” Most
measures spread to several since the protests began “Passages must remain reopen this week and public hid their faces behind blank Police cordoned off an area
cities over the weekend, and Friday, sparked by anger over clear for medical transpor- bus service would resume. white sheets of paper. around protesters who stood
authorities eased some regu- the deaths of 10 people in a tation, emergency escapes in small, separate groups to
lations, apparently to try to and rescues,” said Wang “Zero COVID,” which avoid violating pandemic
quell that public anger. But rules that bar gatherings of
the government showed no more than 12 people. Police
sign of backing down on its took identity details of partic-
larger coronavirus strategy, ipants, but there were no
and analysts expect author- arrests.
ities to quickly silence the
dissent. Hong Kong has tight-
ened security controls and
With police out in force rolled back Western-style
Monday, there was no civil liberties since China
word of protests in Beijing launched a campaign in 2019
or Shanghai. But about 50 to crush a pro-democracy
students sang at the Chinese movement. The territory
University of Hong Kong, has its own anti-virus strat-
and some lit candles in a egy that is separate from the
show of support for those in mainland.
mainland cities who demon-
strated against restrictions On the mainland, the
that have confined millions ruling party promised last
to their homes. Hiding their month to reduce disrup-
faces to avoid official retali- tion by changing quarantine
ation, the students chanted, and other rules. But a spike
“No PCR tests but freedom!” in infections has prompted
and “Oppose dictatorship, cities to tighten controls.
don’t be slaves!”
On Monday, the number of
The gathering and a simi- new daily cases rose to more
lar one elsewhere in Hong than 40,000, including more
Kong were the biggest than 36,000 with no symp-
protests there in more than toms.
a year under rules imposed
to crush a pro-democracy The ruling party newspa-
movement in the territory, per People’s Daily called for
its anti-virus strategy to be
carried out effectively, indi-
cating Xi’s government has
no plans to change course.

Arizona county refuses
to certify election results

GOP-run board in sue if the county misses the cial vote tallies to the state, People wait in line to attend the general election canvass meeting for the Maricopa County
Cochise demands deadline. effectively preventing their Board of Supervisors on Monday in Phoenix. MATT YORK/AP
details on tabulators certification of the results.
“The Board of Supervi- last week that the secretary races — a U.S. House seat and Lines backed up amid the
By Jonathan J. Cooper sors had all of the informa- Arizona was long a GOP of state prove vote-count- state schools chief — from a confusion, and Lake says
tion they needed to certify stronghold, but this month ing machines were legally Republican to a Democrat. an unknown number of her
Associated Press this election and failed to Democrats won most of the certified before they would supporters may have been
uphold their responsibility highest profile races over approve the election results. There are two compa- dissuaded from voting as a
PHOENIX — Republican for Cochise voters,” Sophia Republicans who aggres- nies that are accredited by result.
officials in a rural Arizona Solis, a spokeswoman for sively promoted Trump’s State Elections Direc- the U.S. Election Assistance
county refused on Monday Hobbs, said in an email. 2020 election lies. Kari tor Kori Lorick has said the Commission to conduct She filed a public records
to certify the 2022 elec- Lake, the GOP candidate machines are properly certi- testing and certification of lawsuit last week, demand-
tion, despite no evidence Elsewhere, Republi- for governor who lost to fied for use in elections. She voting equipment, such as ing the county produce
of anything wrong with can supervisors in Mohave Hobbs, and Mark Finchem, wrote in a letter last week the electronic tabulators documents shedding light
the count, amid pressure County postponed a certi- the candidate for secre- that the state would sue to used in Arizona to read and on the issue before voting
from prominent Republi- fication vote until later tary of state, have refused force Cochise County super- count ballots. to certify the election on
cans to reject results show- Monday after hearing to acknowledge their visors to certify, and if they Monday. Republican Attor-
ing Democrats winning top comments from residents losses. They blame Repub- don’t do so by the deadline Lake has pointed to prob- ney General Mark Brnovich
races. angry about problems with lican election officials in for the statewide canvass lems on Election Day in has also demanded an expla-
ballot printers in Maricopa Maricopa County for a prob- on Dec. 5, the county’s votes Maricopa County, where nation.
State election offi- County. Officials in lem with some ballot print- would be excluded. That printers at some vote centers
cials have said they will Maricopa County, the state’s ers. move threatens to flip the produced ballots with mark- The county responded on
sue Cochise County if the largest, containing Phoenix, victor in at least two close ings that were too light to be Sunday, saying nobody was
board of supervisors misses said everyone had a chance Navajo, a rural Repub- read by on-site tabulators. prevented from voting.
Monday’s deadline to to vote and all legal ballots lican-leaning county,
approve the official tally of were counted. and Coconino, which is
votes, known as the canvass. staunchly Democratic,
The two Republican county Election results have voted to certify on Monday.
supervisors delayed the largely been certified with- In conservative Yavapai
canvass vote until hearing out issue in jurisdictions County, supervisors unan-
once more about concerns across the country. That’s imously voted to canvass
over the certification of not been the case in Arizona, the results despite their
ballot tabulators, though which was a focal point for own misgivings and several
election officials have efforts by former President dozen speakers urging them
repeatedly said the equip- Donald Trump and his allies not to.
ment is properly approved. to overturn the 2020 elec-
tion and push false narra- Republican supervisors
Democratic election tives of fraud. in Mohave County said last
attorney Marc Elias pledged week that they would sign
on Twitter to sue the county. Officials in a northeastern off Monday but wanted to
Democratic Secretary of Pennsylvania county where register a protest against
State Katie Hobbs’s office paper shortages caused voting issues in Maricopa
has previously said it would Election Day ballot prob- County. In Cochise County,
lems deadlocked Monday GOP supervisors demanded
on whether to report offi-

Iranian general: More than 300 dead in unrest

Farideh Moradkhani, niece of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Associated Press since they erupted after the deh, commander of the The niece of Iran’s
Khamenei, speaks in a video posted on YouTube. GETTY-AFP Sept. 16 death of a 22-year- aerospace division of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah
DUBAI, United Arab old woman being held by the paramilitary Revolution- Ali Khamenei has called
Emirates — An Iranian country’s morality police. ary Guard, was quoted by a on people to pressure their
general Monday acknowl- website close to the Guard governments to cut ties with
edged that more than 300 The activist group says as saying more than 300 Tehran over its suppression
people have been killed 451 protesters and 60 secu- have been killed, includ- of the demonstrations.
in the unrest surrounding rity forces have been killed ing “martyrs,” an apparent
nationwide protests, giving since the start of the unrest reference to security forces. In a video posted online by
the first official word on and that more than 18,000 her France-based brother,
casualties in two months. people have been detained. He suggested many killed Farideh Moradkhani urged
were ordinary Iranians not “conscientious people of the
That estimate is consid- The protests were sparked involved in the protests. world” to support Iranian
erably lower than the toll by the death of 22-year-old protesters. The video was
reported by Human Rights Mahsa Amini, who was The protests have spread shared online this week
Activists in Iran, a U.S.- detained for allegedly violat- across the country and after Moradkhani’s reported
based group that has been ing the Islamic Republic’s drawn support from artists, arrest Nov. 23, according to
closely tracking the protests strict dress code. athletes and other public the activist group.
figures.
Gen. Amir Ali Hajiza-

2  Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Tuesday, November 29, 2022

WAR IN UKRAINE

9 months of war thin NATO arsenals
Ukraine’s allies rush egist who is now a senior
to refill or substitute A mechanic works on a Gepard mobile anti-aircraft system April 27 at a factory in Munich. FELIX SCHMITT/THE NEW YORK TIMES adviser at Washington’s
depleted stockpiles Center for Strategic and
The amount of artil- to find increasingly scarce largely Soviet-era artillery Given the Russian annex- International Studies.
By Steven Erlanger lery being used is stagger- Soviet-era equipment and armory. ation of Crimea in 2014
and Lara Jakes ing, NATO officials say. In ammunition that Ukraine and the war in the Donbas The ATACMS, with a
Afghanistan, NATO forces can use now, including But the obstacles are as region, NATO’s new military range of about 118 miles,
The New York Times might have fired even 300 S-300 air defense missiles, myriad as the solutions spending goals — 2% of gross will not be given for fear
artillery rounds a day and T-72 tanks and especially being pursued. domestic product by 2024, they could hit Russia; the
BRUSSELS — When the had no real worries about air Soviet-caliber artillery with 20% of that on equip- tanks and fighter jets are
Soviet Union collapsed, defense. But Ukraine can fire shells. NATO countries have ment instead of salaries and just too complicated, requir-
European nations grabbed thousands of rounds daily provided Ukraine some pensions — seem modest. ing a year or more to train in
the “peace dividend,” drasti- and remains desperate for The West is also trying advanced Western artillery, But even those were largely how to use and maintain.
cally shrinking their defense air defense against Russian to come up with alterna- which uses NATO-standard ignored by key member As for air defense, Cancian
budgets, their armies and missiles and Iranian-made tive systems, even if they 155 mm shells. But NATO countries. said, NATO and the U.S. de-
their arsenals. drones. are older, to substitute for systems are rarely certified activated most short-range
shrinking stocks of expen- to use rounds produced In February, when the war air defense after the Cold
With the rise of al-​Qaida “A day in Ukraine is a sive air-defense missiles and by other NATO countries, in Ukraine began, stockpiles War, and there is little to go
nearly a decade later, terror- month or more in Afghani- anti-tank Javelins. It is send- which often make the shells for many nations were only around. Producing more can
ism became the target, stan,” said Camille Grand, a ing strong signals to West- differently. (That is a way about half of what they were take up to two years.
requiring different military defense expert at the Euro- ern defense industries that for arms manufacturers to supposed to be, the NATO
investments and lighter, pean Council on Foreign longer-term contracts are in ensure that they can sell official said, and there had Maintenance is key, but
more expeditionary forces. Relations, who until recently the offing — and that more ammunition for their guns, been little progress in creat- there are clever answers
Even NATO’s long engage- was NATO’s assistant secre- shifts of workers should be the way printer manufactur- ing weapons that could be for relatively simple equip-
ment in Afghanistan bore tary-general for defense employed and older factory ers make their money on ink used interchangeably by ment, like the M777 howit-
little resemblance to a land investment. lines should be refurbished. cartridges.) NATO countries. zer given to Ukraine. With
war in Europe, heavy on It is trying to purchase the right parts, a Ukrainian
artillery and tanks, that In the summer in the ammunition from coun- The Russians, too, are The Ukrainians want at engineer can link up to a U.S.
nearly all defense minis- Donbas region, the Ukrai- tries such as South Korea to having resupply problems least four systems that the artillery officer in Fort Sill,
tries thought would never nians were firing 6,000 to “backfill” stocks being sent of their own. They are now West has not provided and Oklahoma, and get talked
reoccur. 7,000 artillery rounds each to Ukraine. using fewer artillery rounds, is unlikely to: long-range through maintenance over
day, a senior NATO official but they have a lot of them, surface-to-surface missiles Zoom.
But it has. said. The Russians were There are even discus- even if some are old and known as ATACMS that
In Ukraine, the kind of firing 40,000 to 50,000 sions about NATO invest- less reliable. Facing a simi- could hit Russia and Crimea; Washington is also look-
European war thought rounds per day. ing in old factories in the lar scramble, Moscow is also Western fighter jets; West- ing at older, cheaper alter-
inconceivable is chewing Czech Republic, Slovakia trying to ramp up military ern tanks; and a lot more natives like giving Ukraine
up the modest stockpiles of By comparison, the and Bulgaria to restart the production and is report- advanced air defense, said more plentiful TOW anti-
artillery, ammunition and United States produces manufacturing of Soviet-cal- edly seeking to buy missiles Mark Cancian, a former tank missiles instead of
air defenses of what some 15,000 rounds each month. iber shells for Ukraine’s still from North Korea and more White House weapons strat- Javelins, and Hawk surface-
in NATO call Europe’s cheap drones from Iran. to-air missiles instead of
“bonsai armies,” after the So the West is scrambling newer versions. But offi-
tiny Japanese trees. Even cials are increasingly push-
the mighty United States ing Ukraine to be more
has only limited stocks of prudent and not, for exam-
the weapons the Ukrai- ple, fire a missile that costs
nians want and need, and $150,000 at a drone that
Washington is unwilling to costs $20,000.
divert key weapons from
delicate regions like Taiwan Already, some weapons
and South Korea, where are running low.
China and North Korea are
constantly testing the limits. As of September, the
Now, nine months into U.S. military had limited
the war, the West’s funda- numbers of 155 mm artil-
mental unpreparedness has lery rounds, guided rockets,
set off a mad scramble to rocket launchers, howit-
supply Ukraine with what zers, Javelins and Stingers,
it needs while also replen- according to an analysis by
ishing NATO stockpiles. Cancian.
As both sides burn through
weaponry and ammuni- The shortage of 155 mm
tion at a pace not seen since artillery shells “is probably
World War II, the competi- the big one that has the plan-
tion to keep arsenals flush ners most concerned,” Can-
has become a critical front cian said.
that could prove decisive to
Ukraine’s effort. “If you want to increase
production capability of 155
shells,” he said, “it’s going to
be probably four to five years
before you start seeing them
come out the other end.”

14 years later, NATO poised
to renew its vow to Ukraine

By Lorne Cook
and Stephen McGrath

Associated Press

People line up to get food Monday in Chernihiv, Ukraine, which was on the front line of Russia’s BUCHAREST — NATO In April 2008, Russian President Vladimir Putin called NATO’s
invasion in February, when Moscow’s forces tried to seize Kyiv. JEFFJ MITCHELL/GETTY returns Tuesday to the move to open its doors to Georgia and Ukraine“a direct
scene of one of its most threat”to Russia’s security. VADIM GHIRDA/AP
Kremlin: Russian forces have controversial decisions,
no plans to flee nuclear plant intent on repeating its vow In a news conference ment for Ukraine — chiefly
that Ukraine — now suffer- Monday in Bucharest after the air defense systems that
By Marc Santora setback for Russian forces the Institute for the Study of ing through more than a meeting with Romania’s Kyiv so desperately seeks to
and Maria Varenikova in a region that Putin has War, a research group that 9 months of war against President Klaus Iohannis, protect its skies.
sought to annex illegally. tracks the conflict, wrote in Russia — will join the NATO Secretary-General
The New York Times its daily analysis Sunday. world’s biggest military alli- Jens Stoltenberg high- But the ministers, along
On Sunday, Petro Kotin, ance one day. lighted the importance of with their Ukrainian coun-
KYIV, Ukraine — Follow- president of the Ukrainian The nuclear plant — investing in defense “as we terpart Dmytro Kuleba, will
ing a string of Ukrainian state nuclear energy which provided 20% of NATO foreign ministers face our greatest security also look further afield.
military successes in the company, Energoatom, said Ukraine’s electricity before will gather for two days at crisis in a generation.”
south, the Kremlin sought that there were signs that the war — has careened the Palace of the Parliament “Over the longer term we
Monday to tamp down Russian troops were “pack- from one crisis to another in the Romanian capital “We cannot let Putin will help Ukraine transition
speculation that Russian ing and stealing whatever since Russian forces seized Bucharest. It was there in win,” he said. from Soviet-era equipment
forces would withdraw they can find” at the Zapor- the facility March 4. April 2008 that President to modern NATO stan-
from the Zaporizhzhia izhzhia complex, although George W. Bush persuaded Stoltenberg noted dards, doctrine and train-
nuclear complex, with he emphasized that there Shelled repeatedly, it has his allies to open NATO’s Russia’s recent bombard- ing,” Stoltenberg said last
President Vladimir Putin’s was no evidence that the cycled down all of its reac- door to Ukraine and Geor- ment of Ukraine’s energy week. This will not only
spokesman saying that troops had actually begun tors as a safety measure and gia, over Russian objections. infrastructure, saying Putin improve Ukraine’s armed
Moscow has no plans to to pull out. has been disconnected from “is trying to use winter as forces and help them to
end its military occupation the power grid multiple “NATO welcomes a weapon of war against better integrate, it will also
of Europe’s largest nuclear Ukrainian forces in times, forcing it to use diesel Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Ukraine” and that “we need meet some of the conditions
power plant. recent weeks have scored generators to perform criti- Euro-Atlantic aspirations to be prepared for more for membership.
a series of victories in cal cooling functions. for membership in NATO. attacks.”
“One should not look for southern Ukraine, includ- We agreed today that these That said, Ukraine will
signs where there are none ing retaking the key city The Ukrainian staff countries will become North Macedonia and not join NATO anytime
and cannot be any,” said the of Kherson on Nov. 11. But members operating the members of NATO,” the Montenegro have joined the soon.
spokesman, Dmitri Peskov. military analysts said that plant, whose numbers have leaders said in a statement. U.S.-led alliance in recent
there was no immediate more than halved, have years. With the Crimean Penin-
Peskov’s comments indication that they were reported being detained Russian President Vlad- sula annexed, and Russian
came after some pro-Rus- threatening Russia’s grip and abused by Russian imir Putin, who was at the With this, Stoltenberg troops and pro-Moscow
sian military bloggers on the plant, which lies soldiers. Witnesses also summit, described this as said last week before trav- separatists holding parts
wrote posts suggesting that on the eastern bank of the have accused the Russian “a direct threat” to Russia’s eling to Bucharest, “we have of the south and east, it’s
Moscow’s forces would Dnieper River, about 100 forces of laying mines in and security. demonstrated that NATO’s not clear what Ukraine’s
withdraw from the area, miles northeast of Kherson. around the plant. door is open and that it is borders would even look
and after Ukrainian officials About four months later, for NATO allies and aspi- like.
said there were indications Instead, the reports from Repeated waves of Russian forces invaded rant countries to decide on
that Russia was taking steps Russian military bloggers — Russian missile assaults on Georgia. membership. This is also Many of the 30 allies
to leave the facility. a hawkish and pro-invasion Ukraine’s energy grid infra- the message to Ukraine.” believe the focus now must
group — suggest concerns structure have resulted in Some experts describe be uniquely on defeating
Russian forces seized about Moscow’s ability to prolonged and widespread the decision in Bucharest This gathering in Bucha- Russia.
the Zaporizhzhia plant hold the plant and could power outages in all regions as a massive error that left rest is likely to see NATO
after invading Ukraine in be an attempt to “prepare of the country. Millions Russia feeling cornered by make fresh pledges of “What we have seen
late February, stationing the information space for now live with sweeping a seemingly ever-expanding non-lethal support to in the last months is that
troops and military equip- an eventual Russian with- but controlled blackouts NATO. Ukraine: fuel, electric- President Putin made a big
ment there. A withdrawal drawal” from Zaporizhzhia, for long stretches of the day ity generators, medical strategic mistake,” Stol-
from would mark another and night. NATO counters that it supplies, winter equipment tenberg said. “He under-
doesn’t press-gang coun- and drone jamming devices. estimated the strength of
tries into joining, and that the Ukrainian people, the
some requested member- Individual allies are also Ukrainian armed forces and
ship to seek protection likely to announce fresh the Ukrainian political lead-
from Russia — as Finland supplies of military equip- ership.”
and Sweden are doing now.

More than 14 years on,
NATO will pledge this
week to support Ukraine
long term as it defends
itself against Russian aerial,
missile and ground attacks
— many of which have
struck power grids and
other civilian infrastruc-
ture, depriving millions of
people of electricity and
heating.

Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Tuesday, November 29, 2022  3

Water wars in France boiling over

Reservoirs watched
by police as climate
change gets worse

By Catherine Porter

The New York Times

MAUZE-SUR-LE-​MIG­ Farmer Francois Petorin’s drip irrigation system will be connected to a reservoir in Saint-Saturnin-du-Bois, France. ANDREA MANTOVANI/THE NEW YORK TIMES
NON, France — Wearing
bulletproof vests and car- officers in the middle of aquifers during increasing out of 10, there’s a risk that The French geologi- of the Marais Poitevin.
rying guns, the gendarmes fields of rapeseed and the summer droughts. we won’t fill the reservoirs cal survey released a study “Instead of the groundwa-
appear suddenly in the mid- dried-up remains of wheat. 100%. But today, 10 years out in June concluding that ter replenishing the marsh,
dle of farm fields misted by There is no official count of 10, we risk not being able the project would have a the marsh will replenish the
morning rain. They stand That normally pictur- of how many megareser- to water our fields.” “limited impact” on aqui- groundwater.”
behind two fences equipped esque countryside was voirs exist, but activists es- fer levels in the winter, and
with security cameras and transformed into a scene timate there are about 50, That is the definition of in the spring and summer, it Le Guet, 45, has been a
overhead lights, looking like from a dystopian novel — clustered in the west of the privatizing water, critics say. could even increase water- boat guide here for 14 years.
prison guards. But there is police officers wearing riot country. The scene of the Worse, they add, it is being shed levels. He speaks lyrically about
no prison for miles. gear, armored trucks shoot- latest battle is in the re- done with public funds: winter rains and despair-
ing tear gas, smoke billow- gion of Deux-Sevres, where Seventy percent of the But hydroclimatologists ingly about the recent drops
Instead, they guard a pit ing and helicopters roaring plans to build 16 were un- budget of about $62 million such as Florence Habets in water levels. His love for
intended to serve as a gigan- overhead. veiled in 2017. To sweeten to build the Deux-Sevres point out that the survey the place propelled him to
tic reservoir. the deal, the newly formed reservoirs is being covered used old data and did not create a major oppositional
Protesters later paraded water cooperative repre- by the French government. take into account multi- group called Bassines Non
Welcome to the front line with two sections of water senting about 230 farmers year droughts heralded by Merci, which is French for
of France’s water wars. pipes they had dug up and later signed an agreement Rather than forcing farm- climate change. And the Reservoirs, No Thanks.
dismantled so they could to green their practices by ers to find less water-inten- official study on how much
World leaders gathered not later feed the reservoir — reducing their use of pesti- sive forms of agriculture, the water can be taken from the But the government’s
recently at the U.N. climate the latest sabotage of many, cides, building hedges and reservoirs will increase their Deux-Sevres region’s rivers response has been to charge
conference in Egypt, debat- which they consider civil bolstering the biodiversity water use largely to irrigate and aquifers, without nega- forward.
ing ways to mitigate the disobedience. on their lands. cornfields, opponents argue. tively affecting the environ-
effects of climate change and ment, is being done only A recent survey of coop-
the conflicts it engenders. In theory, the reservoirs The cooperative, Water To complicate the issue, now. erative farmers revealed
But although the compe- suck up water during the wet Co-op 79, considers the most of the large reser- that only 10% had reduced
tition for scarce water is winter months and hold it planned megabasins a life- voirs in France are being “The groundwater is their pesticide use. As a
associated more with arid for farmers to use during the line. “The idea is to secure built close to the country’s the tap of the wetland,” result, a handful of environ-
regions in the Middle East critical spring and summer water to keep agriculture second-largest wetland, says Julien Le Guet, using mental groups that initially
and Africa, Europe is not growing seasons. That way, in the territory,” says Fran- the Marais Poitevin — a a wooden pole called a supported the project have
immune. they will ensure the coun- cois Petorin, a grain farmer. huge marsh interlaced with pigouille to paddle a boat since denounced it as an
try’s food production, and “We know that two years canals that locals call the through the thin canals “irrigation development
After a summer that also reduce the strain on the “Green Venice.” program.”
climatologists called a
harrowing postcard from
the future, with record
heat waves, wildfires and
droughts that dried up
rivers, France is embroiled
in a widening battle over
who should get priority to
use its water and how.

The French government
has embarked on a plan to
build reservoirs around the
country to serve farmers
during the increasingly arid
spring and summer months.
But what the government
calls an adaptation, oppo-
nents deem an aberra-
tion — what they consider
the privatization of water
to benefit a few, outdated
industrial farmers.

Thousands of activ-
ists opposed to the latest
reservoir under construc-
tion, in the western region
of Nouvelle-Aquitaine,
recently faced off against
about 1,600 military police

Christmas, energy crunch collide in Europe

Holiday lights have Lights illuminate the traditional Christmas Market and its merry-go-round Nov. 21 in Frankfurt, Germany. MICHAEL PROBST/AP Germany.
some aglow; others In Spain, the northwest-
take dimmer view district hopes to cut energy of energy,’’ said Budapest’s day lighting will be put up spots.
consumption by two-thirds deputy mayor, Ambrus Kiss. elsewhere in town to raise “We can do without ern port city of Vigo is not
By Colleen Barry by limiting the illumination awareness about energy letting the energy crisis get
of its lights to 3-11 p.m. and He doesn’t think econ- conservation, officials said. the lights. There are the in the way of its tradition of
Associated Press installing LED bulbs. omizing on lighting Christmas stalls, and shop staging the country’s most
will dissuade tourists In Italy, many cities tradi- windows are decked for the extravagant Christmas
VERONA, Italy — Merry- “Ecologically speaking, from coming to the city, tionally light Christmas holidays,” Peschiera said. light display. Ahead of other
makers sipping mulled it’s the only real solution,’’ which holds two Christ- trees in public squares Dec. cities, Vigo switched on the
wine and shopping for holi- said Paris resident Marie mas markets that attract 8, the Immaculate Concep- After two Christmases light show Nov. 19 in what
day decorations packed the Breguet, 26, as she strolled hundreds of thousands of tion holiday, still allowing under COVID-19 restric- has become a significant
Verona Christmas market the Champs-Elysees, which visitors each year. time to come up with plans tions, some are calling “bah tourist attraction.
for its inaugural weekend. is being lit up only until 11:45 for festive street displays. humbug” on conservation
But beyond the wooden p.m., instead of 2 a.m. as in “I think it’s an overblown Officials in the northern efforts. Despite the central gov-
market stalls, the Italian Christmases past. “The war debate,” he said. city of Verona are discuss- ernment urging cities to
city still has not decked and energy squeeze is a real- ing limiting lighting to just “It’s not Christmas all reduce illuminations, this
out its granite-clad pedes- ity. No one will be hurt with Festive lights, composed a few key shopping streets year round,’’ said Parisian year’s installation is made
trian streets with twinkling a little less of the illumina- of LEDs this year, also will and using the savings to help Alice Betout, 39. “Why can’t up of 11 million LED lights
holiday lights as officials tions this year.” be dimmed from 1 a.m. to 6 needy families. we just enjoy the festive across more than 400 streets
debate how bright to make a.m. in the old city center of season as normal, and do the — 30 more than last year
the season during an energy It’s lights out along Buda- Brasov in central Romania “In Verona, the atmo- (energy) savings the rest of and far more than any other
crisis. pest’s Andrassy Avenue, and switched off elsewhere, sphere is there anyway,’’ said the year?” Spanish city. In a small con-
often referred to as Hunga- officials said. Giancarlo Peschiera, whose tribution to energy savings,
In cities across Europe, ry’s Champs-Elysees, which shop selling fur coats over- The holiday will shine they will remain on for one
officials are wrestling with officials decided would not The crisis, largely spurred looks Verona’s Piazza Bra, brightly in Germany, where hour less each day.
a choice as energy prices be bathed in more than 1.5 by Russia cutting off most where officials on Satur- the year-end season is a
have gone up because of miles of white lights as in natural gas to Europe, is day lit a huge shooting star major boost to retailers and The lights are Mayor
Russia’s war in Ukraine: years past. Lighting also is sparking innovation. In arching from the Roman- restaurants. Emergency Abel Caballero’s pet proj-
Dim Christmas lighting to being cut back on city land- the Italian mountain town era amphitheater into the cutbacks announced this fall ect. “If we didn’t celebrate
send a message of energy marks, including bridges of Borno, in Lombardy, square. exempted religious lighting, Christmas, (Russian Presi-
conservation and solidar- over the Danube River. cyclists on stationary bikes “in particular Christmas,’’ dent Vladimir) Putin would
ity with citizens squeezed will provide power to the The city also will put up a even as environmental activ- win,” he said.
by higher utility bills and “Saving on decorative town’s Christmas tree by Christmas tree in the main ists called for restraint.
inflation, while protecting lighting is about the fact fueling batteries with kinetic piazza and a holiday cake Caballero says the eco-
public coffers. Or let the that we are living in times energy. Anyone can hop on, maker has erected light-fes- “Many yards look like nomic return is vital, both
lights blaze in a message when we need every drop and the faster they pedal, the tooned trees in three other something out of an Amer- for commerce and for busi-
of defiance after two years brighter the lights. No holi- ican Christmas film,’’ grum- nesses in Vigo. Hotels in the
of pandemic-suppressed bled Environmental Action city and the surrounding
Christmas seasons, illumi- area were completely full
nating cities with holiday for the launch of the lighting
cheer that retailers hope and are expected to be near
will loosen people’s purse capacity every week.
strings.
Germany’s Christmas
“If they take away the markets have crunched
lights, they might as well numbers that could make
turn off Christmas,” said any lighting Grinch’s heart
Estrella Puerto, who sells grow at least three sizes.
traditional Spanish mantil-
las, or women’s veils, in The market exhibitor’s
a small store in Granada, association said a family
Spain, and says Christmas Christmas market visit
decorations draw business. consumes less energy than
staying home. A family of
Fewer lights are spar- four spending an hour to
kling from the centerpiece cook dinner on an elec-
tree at the famed Strasbourg tric stove, streaming a
Christmas market, which at- two-hour film, running a
tracts 2 million people every video console and lighting
year, as the French city seeks the kids’ rooms would use
to reduce public energy con- 0.711 kilowatt-hours per
sumption by 10% this year. person versus 0.1 to 0.2 kilo-
watt-hours per person to
From Paris to London, city stroll a Christmas market.
officials are limiting hours
of holiday illumination, “If people stay at home,
and many have switched they don’t sit in the corner in
to more energy-efficient the dark,’’ said Frank Hakel-
LED lights or renewable berg, managing director of
energy sources. London’s the German Showmen’s
Oxford Street shopping Association. “The couch
potatoes use more energy
than when they are out at a
Christmas market.”

4  Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Tuesday, November 29, 2022

NEWS BRIEFING

WHO, in renaming
monkeypox to mpox,
points to bias, racism

From news services summer. Sprucing up: The media previewed holiday decorations Monday at the White House, where more than 150 volunteers spent
In Africa, the disease the weekend decorating Cross Hall, above, and the White House. Some 50,000 visitors are expected to pass through the White
LONDON — The World House for the holidays. The decorations include a menorah. This year’s theme is“We the People.” PATRICK SEMANSKY/AP
Health Organization has mainly affects people in
renamed monkeypox as contact with infected Houstonwater: More than 2 ISD officials said in a state- Island that an eruption “can Word of the year: “Gaslight-
mpox, citing concerns animals such as rodents and million people in the Hous- ment. be very dynamic, and the ing” — behavior that’s
the original name of the squirrels. The majority of ton area were urged to boil location and advance of lava mind manipulating,
decades-old animal disease monkeypox-related deaths their tap water Monday after The notice was issued flows can change rapidly.” grossly misleading, down-
could be construed as have been in Africa, where a power outage at a purifi- Sunday, hours after two Somali hotel: Somali forces right deceitful — is Merri-
discriminatory and racist. there have been almost no cation plant prompted the transformers failed, caus- on Monday stormed a hotel am-Webster’s word of the
vaccines available. mayor to initiate a review of ing power outages at the in the capital, Mogadishu, year.
The U.N. health agency what went wrong. water plant, Houston Mayor where Islamic extremists
said in a statement U.S. health officials have Sylvester Turner said at a had been holed up for more Lookups for the word
Monday that mpox was its warned it may be impossi- The boil order notice tells news conference Monday. than 18 hours after killing on merriam-webster.com
new preferred name for ble to eliminate the disease customers in the nation’s eight civilians and trapping increased 1,740% in 2022
monkeypox, saying that there, warning it could be fourth-largest city to boil There was no indication dozens in the building, offi- over the year before.
both monkeypox and mpox a continuing threat mainly water before it’s used for the water system had been cials said.
would be used for the next for gay and bisexual men for cooking, bathing or drink- contaminated. Water quality “It’s a word that has risen
year while the old name is years to come. ing. Multiple Houston-area testing was underway. Police spokesperson Sadik so quickly in the English
phased out. public and private schools, as Hawaii volcano: Waves of Dodishe said all six extrem- language, and especially in
Mpox was first named well as some local colleges, orange, glowing lava and ists died during the opera- the last four years, that it
WHO said it was monkeypox in 1958 when were closed Monday as a smoky ash erupted Monday tion at the Villa Rosa hotel, actually came as a surprise
concerned by the “racist research monkeys in result of the notice, while from the world’s largest and one member of the secu- to me and to many of us,”
and stigmatizing language” Denmark were observed to others made adjustments to active volcano, and people rity forces was also killed. said Peter Sokolowski,
that arose after monkeypox have a “pox-like” disease, provide affected campuses living on Hawaii’s Big Island Merriam-Webster’s editor
spread to more than 100 although they are not with bottled water and sani- were warned to be ready Dodishe said about at large.
countries. It said numerous thought to be the disease’s tizer. should debris threaten 60 people who had been
individuals and countries animal reservoir. communities. trapped in the hotel were Merriam-Webster’s top
asked the organization “to Houston Independent freed, and none of them definition for gaslighting is
propose a way forward to No Trump in Georgia: School District officials said The eruption of Mauna were injured. the psychological manipu-
change the name.” in a Monday afternoon state- Loa wasn’t immediately lation of a person, usually
Donald Trump will not ment that closures would endangering any towns, but It was not immediately over an extended period of
In August, WHO began cross the Florida state line continue through Tuesday officials told residents to be clear whether others were time, that “causes the victim
consulting experts about to campaign with Herschel due to “the logistical chal- ready for the worse. missing. to question the validity of
renaming the disease, Walker during the final lenges caused by the notice.” their own thoughts, percep-
shortly after the U.N. agency week of the Georgia Senate Many now living in the According to Dodishe, five tion of reality, or memories
declared monkeypox’s runoff election, after both “Those challenges area weren’t around when of the attackers were killed and typically leads to confu-
spread to be a global emer- camps decided the former prevent the district from Mauna Loa last erupted 38 by security forces, and one sion, loss of confidence and
gency. president’s appearance being able to provide meals years ago. blew himself up. self-esteem, uncertainty of
carried more political risks for its students and ensure one’s emotional or mental
To date, there have been than rewards, officials for safe water is available for The U.S. Geological Islamic extremist group stability, and a dependency
more than 80,000 cases the two Republicans said students and staff,” Houston Survey warned the roughly al-Shabab claimed respon- on the perpetrator.”
identified in dozens of coun- Monday. 200,000 people on the Big sibility for the attack.
tries that had not previously
reported the smallpox-re- Instead of holding one
lated disease. Until May, of his signature campaign
monkeypox, a disease that rallies, Trump is planning a
is thought to originate in call with supporters in the
animals, was not known state and will continue send-
to trigger large outbreaks ing online fundraising pleas
beyond central and west for Walker, two people with
Africa. knowledge of the planning
said.
Outside of Africa, nearly
all cases have been in gay, The decision to keep
bisexual or other men who Trump out of the spot-
have sex with men. light was a response largely
to the former president’s
Scientists believe political style and image,
monkeypox triggered which can energize his core
outbreaks in Western coun- supporters but also motivate
tries after spreading via Democratic voters and turn
sex at two raves in Belgium off significant segments of
and Spain. Vaccination moderate Republicans.
efforts in rich countries,
along with targeted control Sen. Raphael Warnock,
interventions, have mostly the incumbent, finished
brought the disease under with less than 50% of the
control after it peaked in the vote, forcing a runoff Dec. 6
under Georgia law.

Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Tuesday, November 29, 2022  5

BUSINESS

Business groups urge Congress to block potential rail strike

Stoppage would cause supply a tremendous impact and the economic pain the coming days. process of getting back pay for their workers
shortages and higher prices, would start to be felt even before the Dec. 9 Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., said on Fox for the 24% raises that are retroactive to 2020.
the coalition writes in a letter strike deadline because the railroads would
stop hauling hazardous chemicals, fertilizers News Sunday that Congressional interven- “It certainly could end up in Congress’
By Josh Funk and perishable goods up to a week beforehand tion is a last resort, but lawmakers will have lap, which is why we are headed to D.C.
to keep those products from being stranded to be ready to act. this week to meet with lawmakers on The
Associated Press somewhere along the tracks. Hill from both parties,” said Clark Ballew, a
“Congress will not let this strike happen. spokesman for the Brotherhood of Mainte-
OMAHA, Neb. — Business groups are “A potential rail strike only adds to the head- That’s for sure,” said Fitzpatrick who helps nance of Way Employes Division union that
increasing the pressure on lawmakers to winds facing the U.S. economy,” the businesses lead a bipartisan group of 58 lawmakers. “It represents track maintenance workers. “We
intervene and block a railroad strike before wrote. “A rail stoppage would immediately would be devastating to our economy. So, we’ll have instructed our members to contact their
next month’s deadline in the stalled contract lead to supply shortages and higher prices. get to a resolution one way or another.” federal lawmakers in the House and Senate
talks. The cessation of Amtrak and commuter rail for several weeks now.”
services would disrupt up to 7 million trav- A White House spokeswoman has said that
A coalition of more than 400 business elers a day. Many businesses would see their a rail strike would be “unacceptable.” The unions have asked the railroads to
groups sent a letter to Congressional leaders sales disrupted right in the middle of the crit- consider adding paid sick time to what they
Monday urging them to step into the stalled ical holiday shopping season.” Congress has the power to impose contract already offered to address some of workers’
talks because of fears about the devastating terms on the workers, but it’s not clear what quality of life concerns. But so far, the rail-
potential impact of a strike that could force A similar group of businesses sent another they might include if they do that. They could roads, which include Union Pacific, BNSF,
many businesses to shut down if they can’t letter to President Joe Biden last month also force the negotiations to continue into Norfolk Southern, CSX and Kansas City
get the rail deliveries they need. Commuter urging him to play a more active role in resolv- the new year. Southern, have refused to consider that.
railroads and Amtrak would also be affected ing the contract dispute.
in a strike because many of them use tracks Both the unions and railroads have been The railroads want any deal to closely
owned by the freight railroads. Congressional leaders and the White lobbying Congress while contract talks follow the recommendations a special board
House have said they are monitoring the continue. Four rail unions that represent of arbitrators that Biden appointed made this
The business groups led by the U.S. Cham- contract talks closely but haven’t indicated more than half of the 115,000 workers in the summer that called for the 24% raises and
ber of Commerce, National Association of when they might act or what they will do. industry have rejected the deals that President $5,000 in bonuses but didn’t resolve work-
Manufacturers and National Retail Federa- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., Joe Biden helped broker before the original ers’ concerns about demanding schedules that
tion said even a short-term strike would have said leaders are aware of the situation with the strike deadline in September and are back at make it hard to take a day off and other work-
rail negotiations and will monitor the talks in the table trying to work out new agreements. ing conditions.
Eight other unions have approved their five-
year deals with the railroads and are in the

Baird & Warner Donesha Owens shops Saturday at Macy’s at Orland Square. FRANCINE KNOWLES/DAILY SOUTHTOWN
to complete
new offices Some suburban shoppers cut back
next year holiday spending, others stay course

15,000-square-foot building Francine Knowles “I think that’s something that COVID November and December will grow
in Naperville could house has taught us,” she said. “The experiences between 6% and 8% from 2021 to between
475 real estate agents After dealing with higher prices for food, are more important and what we missed $942.6 billion and $960.4 billion. Last year,
gas and other necessities this year, do you when we were caged inside.” holiday sales grew 13.5% over 2020 and
By Suzanne Baker plan to cut back on spending on Christmas totaled $889.3 billion, the federation said.
gifts and other holiday expenses? Family member and Burbank resident
Naperville Sun Anna Blum said due to inflation she’s being An estimated 166.3 million people
I posed that question to shoppers at more cautious with her spending. planned to shop from Thanksgiving Day
Baird & Warner will consolidate its Orland Square mall in Orland Park this through Cyber Monday this year, nearly 8
area operations and add 200 real estate past weekend as the holiday shopping “I definitely have to be more aware of million more than last year, according to
agents next year when it completes season kicked into high gear and in the what I’m buying,” she said. “Normally I an annual survey released by the feder-
construction on a new 15,000-square- face of retailers’ anticipation of increased will just be like I want to get this for some- ation and Prosper Insights & Analytics
foot building on Aurora Avenue in Naper- sales. The response from shoppers was one, and I’ll just get it, but now it’s how earlier this month.
ville. mixed. much is this thing. I have to be more mind-
ful of how much I’m spending.” Oak Lawn resident Lionel Haro, among
The new office at 1528 Aurora Ave. will Donesha Owens who was looking at those out shopping with his family at
be nestled between the medical office holiday pajamas at Macy’s Saturday, plans She’s far from alone. Overall, consumer Orland Square mall, plans to spend
building that was once the Standard to sharply cut her holiday gift list. Last prices rose 7.7% in the Chicago metropol- roughly the same on Christmas gifts as he
Market store and a Speedway gas station, year, the 28-year-old social worker bought itan area in October from a year earlier, did last year. But the 41-year-old commer-
said Bill Gill, the company’s Naperville roughly 15 gifts. This year she’s buying one, according to the latest report from the cial plumber won’t use credit cards. The
vice president and designated managing she said. Labor Department. Energy prices jumped family got out of debt about 18 months
broker. 21.4%, largely due to a 44.3% spike in ago and Haro is thankful they did given
“We’re actually doing a grab bag with utility gas service costs and a 24.1% jump that interest rates have increased. To stay
A groundbreaking ceremony for the my family where we each just purchase a in gasoline prices. Transportation costs on budget, they save ahead of time for
building is scheduled for Wednesday. It gift for one person in our family,” she said. rose 13.1%, food prices increased 9.3% and purchases and pay with cash, he said.
will be similar in appearance to the medi- apparel prices rose 5.8%.
cal facility to the east. But Worth resident Kristen Blum, 35, For others looking to stay on budget, if
said the Christmas holiday season typi- Besides dealing with inflation, Anna using credit, they should do so wisely, said
“There looks like there’s some consis- cally isn’t a time that she looks to scale Blum said she has faced another challenge. Randle El, who authored a self-published
tency there so it’s not sticking out like a back. This year will be no different, even book, “What She Didn’t Learn in School:
sore thumb,” Gill said. though she has felt the squeeze due to “I was out of work for about a month, so The Ultimate Financial Planning Guide for
inflation. I’m still trying to build my savings back up Women of Color.” Consumers can benefit
The site will place all three aspects after that, so that really also has been a big from taking advantage of credit card travel
of Illinois’ largest family-owned, inde- “Everything has been so negative with factor in how much I’m able to spend,” she or other rewards and cash back offers, but
pendent real estate services company — COVID,” said Blum, a pharmacist techni- said. if you charge any items, make sure you pay
brokerage, mortgage and title — under cian. “I feel like now that we’re starting to off the card balance when billed to avoid
one roof. get back to normal, I don’t want to change Willie Mae, 65, who was shopping with paying any interest, she said.
my holiday giving plans.” her daughter, said she has no plans to cut
It’s “one-stop shopping” to make the back on her holiday gifts this year. The Personal finance expert Kimberly
process easier for clients, Gill said. She bought roughly 20 gifts last year and Monee resident said due to being shut Palmer at personal finance website Nerd-
plans to do likewise this year, she said. in for so many months because of the Wallet offers these tips on how to save this
Most buyers, he said, are looking for COVID-19 pandemic, she spent less and season:
a mortgage, and the company’s agents Blum was shopping with her cousins, her savings benefited. „„Shop early and spread purchases
can help by directing them to a Baird & among them Amanda Coniceak, 35, who throughout the holiday season. This can
Warner real estate attorney and the title lives in Hometown with her husband and “We just want to enjoy this year,” she ease the impact on your budget and help
company in order to complete the trans- two children. said. you land the best deals. Also hold on to
action. your receipts in case the price drops and
“The people I’m around the most are the She typically gives cash as gifts to her you can exchange your purchase for the
While many real estate offices are ones I’m buying for, not everybody,” said family so they can buy what they want, lower price.
downsizing, Gill said, “we’re go bigger Coniceak, a nursing assistant. she said, noting “I’m giving them the same „„Leverage shopping tools. Apps and
or go home.” amount as I always do.” browser extensions such as ShopSavvy,
She and her husband decided to mini- Coupon Cabin and PayPal Honey make it
At just under 10,000 square feet of mize giving even for their children, But her daughter, Chevette Randle El, easy to apply all available coupon codes to
space, the company’s existing office Coniceak said. also of Monee, said she is cutting back make sure you’re getting the lowest price.
at 836 W. 75th St. location became too “because the price of so many other essen- „„Take advantage of additional savings.
small to accommodate all its employees, “With inflation, we’ve just decided that tials are extremely high right now. It’s a Besides coupon codes, you can earn cash
he said. money can be spent more wisely,” she said. matter of prioritizing and putting things in back on purchases through tools like
perspective.” Rakuten or Ibotta.
A larger building also means they can Their priority has been on spending for Francine Knowles is
increase their agent count from 270 to activities and experiences that allow them Last year, the insurance broker and a freelance columnist
about 475, he said. to share time together as a family instead financial adviser bought roughly 40 to 45 for the Daily Southtown
of spending money on material items, gifts for family, friends and co-workers.
Baird & Warner will be targeting top Coniceak shared.
agents and teams that currently are “This year I will probably be down to
paying to lease offices, he said. maybe six or seven, and it will be pretty
much close family, immediate family,” said
“We will have the ability to give them Randle El, 46.
office space without charging them for
(it),” he said. The National Retail Federation earlier
this month forecast holiday sales during
Another 25 employees would work as
support for the agents and in the mort-
gage and title departments.

The goal is to have everyone moved in
and settled by the end of next year, Gill
said.

Parking shouldn’t be a problem
because all 475 agents won’t in the office
at the same time, he said. And even when
there are company meetings, not all
employees can attend, he said.

Baird & Warner was established in
1855, and Naperville is now an estab-
lished hub for real estate sales through-
out northern Illinois, Gill said.

Many of those who are based out of the
Naperville location actually live and sell
in downtown Chicago, he said.

“We’ve gone as far west as Earlville.
We’ve sold properties up to the Wiscon-
sin line and then as far south as Kanka-
kee,” Gill said.

“It’s funny because everyone who lives
in all those areas thinks it’s a really good
idea to list with the Naperville office,”
he said.

And clients and employees won’t have
to go too far to grab a cup of coffee or
shop for caffeine when there either.

A freestanding Starbucks is planned
for a spot between the Baird & Warner
building and the gas station, Gill said.

It’s a perk they’re already used to, he
said.

“Ironically, there’s a Starbucks, just to
the west of us now in our current loca-
tion,” he said.

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6  Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Experts forecast record BlockFi in
$11.6B on Cyber Monday bankruptcy
weeks after
Online holiday deals lure in budget-conscious shoppers amid high inflation fall of FTX

By Haleluya Hadero scious consumers and clear out their In the first three weeks of November, By Michelle Chapman
bloated inventories. online sales were essentially flat compared
Associated Press with last year, according to Adobe. It said Associated Press
Shoppers spent a record $9.12 billion the modest uptick shows consumers have
NEW YORK — Days after flocking to online on Black Friday, up 2.3% from last a strong appetite for holiday shopping amid Cryptocurrency lender BlockFi filed for
stores on Black Friday, consumers turned year, according to Adobe. E-commerce uncertainty about the economy. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the fall-
online for Cyber Monday to score more activity continued to be strong over the out from the collapse of crypto exchange
discounts on gifts and other items that have weekend, with $9.55 billion in online sales. Still, some major retailers are feeling a FTX spreads outward.
ballooned in price because of high inflation. shift.
Salesforce, which also tracks spending, In a Monday filing for bankruptcy protec-
Cyber Monday was expected to remain said their estimates showed online sales Target, Macy’s and Kohl’s said this month tion in New Jersey, where it is based, BlockFi
the year’s biggest online shopping day and in the U.S. hit $15 billion Friday and $17.2 they’ve seen a slowdown in consumer claimed more than 100,000 creditors, with
rake in up to $11.6 billion in sales, according billion over the weekend, with an average spending in the past few weeks. The excep- liabilities of $1 billion to $10 billion.
to Adobe Analytics, which tracks transac- discount rate of 30% on products. Electron- tion was Walmart, which reported higher
tions at over 85 of the top 100 U.S. online ics, active wear, toys and health and beauty sales in its third quarter and raised its earn- “Chapter 11 is a transparent process and
stores. That record forecast represents items were among those that provided a big ings outlook. we will continue to communicate with our
a jump from the $10.7 billion consumers boost, the two groups said. clients to ensure they hear directly from us,”
spent last year. “We’re seeing that inflation is starting to BlockFi said in a tweet.
Meanwhile, consumers who feared leav- really hit the wallet and that consumers are
Adobe’s numbers are not adjusted for ing their homes and embraced e-commerce starting to amass more debt at this point,” Cryptocurrencies were in retreat Monday
inflation, but the company says demand is during the pandemic are heading back to said Guru Hariharan, founder and CEO in what has already been a disastrous year.
growing even when inflation is factored in. physical stores in greater numbers this year of retail e-commerce management firm
Some analysts have said top-line numbers as normalcy returns. The National Retail CommerceIQ, adding there’s more pres- Bitcoin, among the most widely traded
will be boosted by higher prices and the Federation said its recent survey showed sure on consumers to purchase cheaper cryptocurrencies, has plunged almost 70%
amount of items consumers purchase a 3% uptick in the number of Black Friday alternatives. in 2022 to below $16,000 apiece.
could remain unchanged — or even fall — shoppers planning to go to stores. It expects
compared to prior years. Profit margins are 63.9 million consumers to shop online This year’s Cyber Monday also comes BlockFi Inc., which was founded in 2017,
also expected to be tight for retailers offer- during Cyber Monday, compared to 77 amid a wider e-commerce slowdown said bankruptcy protection will allow it
ing deeper discounts to attract budget-con- million last year. affecting online retailers that saw a boom to stabilize the company and restructure.
in sales during most of the pandemic. That restructuring will include an attempt
to recover all obligations that it is owed by
its counterparties, including FTX and asso-
ciated corporate entities. BlockFi, which was
bailed out by Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX
early last summer, said it anticipates recov-
eries from FTX will be delayed.

FTX filed for bankruptcy protection
earlier this month.

At the time, BlockFi announced on Twit-
ter that it wasn’t able to do business as usual
and was pausing client withdrawals as a
result of FTX’s implosion.

“With the collapse of FTX, the BlockFi
management team and board of directors
immediately took action to protect clients
and the company,” Mark Renzi of Berkeley
Research Group, BlockFi’s financial adviser,
said in a statement Monday.

The implosion of FTX is still being sorted
out, and it is unknown how much collateral
damage it could inflict.

A Beyond Meat chicken dish is served up earlier this month at a Panda Express restaurant in New York. JEENAH MOON/THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS BRIEFING

What sizzled is now slumping Moldova to get
Gazprom supply
Beyond Meat’s struggles have In late October, the company said it sive animal meat. But others wonder if the
spurred worries about future was laying off 200 people, or 19% of its companies have simply reached the maxi- BUCHAREST, Romania — Russian
of the plant-based industry workforce. And four top executives have mum number of consumers willing to try energy giant Gazprom announced Monday
departed in recent months, including the or repeatedly purchase faux burgers and that it will not further reduce natural gas
By Julie Creswell chief financial officer, chief supply chain sausages. to Moldova as it had threatened to do after
officer and chief operating officer, whom claiming that bills went unpaid and that
The New York Times Beyond Meat had suspended after his arrest Analysts at Deloitte, who conducted a flows crossing through Ukraine were not
on allegations that he bit another man’s survey of consumers this year, questioned making it to Moldova.
For a while, it seemed Beyond Meat was nose in a parking garage altercation. whether the 53% who were not buying
taking over the world. plant-based meats could be turned into Gazprom tweeted that Moldovagaz has
What investors and others are debating customers. “eliminated the violation of payment” for
Its faux burgers and sausages were land- now is whether Beyond Meat’s struggles November supplies and that “funds for the
ing on dinner plates in homes throughout are specific to the company or a harbinger While inflation played a role, so did a gas deposited on the territory of Ukraine,
the United States and on the menu boards of deeper issues in the plant-based meat decline in the perception that plant-based intended for consumers in Moldova, have
of chains like Subway, Carl’s Jr. and Star- industry. meats are healthier than animal proteins. been received.”
bucks. When the company went public in But the Deloitte analysts said another prob-
2019, its shares skyrocketed as investors “At the category level, we’re seeing lem might be resistance to a product that Russia has cut off most natural gas to
bet that the meatless movement was finally volumes for plant-based meats down some segment of customers see as “woke” Europe amid the war in Ukraine, which
having its moment. During the pandemic, 22 consecutive months now,” said John and linked to politically left-leaning ideas. European leaders have called energy black-
Beyond Meat’s grocery store sales surged as Baumgartner, a consumer food analyst at mail. Gazprom’s threats to further reduce
curious consumers tried its vegan options. the financial institution Mizuho Americas. The data from the category are mixed. flows raised concerns about rising prices.
Over the past year, volume sales of refriger-
But these days, Beyond Meat has lost A few years ago, investors expected the ated plant-based meats slid 11.6%, accord- Zimbabwe hit by
some of its sizzle. category to explode with growth year after ing to IRI, a market research firm. But hydropower cut
year, Baumgartner said. Now, he said, those volume sales of frozen plant-based meats,
Its stock has slumped nearly 83% in the expectations are being reconsidered. which are typically less expensive than the HARARE, Zimbabwe — Electricity short-
past year. Sales, which the company had refrigerated products, fell only slightly. ages that have been plaguing Zimbabwe are
expected to rise as much as 33% this year, “We’re positive on the future for plant- Volume sales of faux chicken nuggets and set to worsen after an authority that manages
are now likely to show only minor growth. based meat, but this is a 20- to 25-year patties rose sharply. the country’s biggest dam said water levels
McDonald’s concluded a pilot this year of story,” he said. “It’s not going to happen in are now too low to continue power genera-
the McPlant burger, made with a Beyond three to five to 10 years.” Moreover, some plant-based meat manu- tion activities.
Meat patty, with no plans to put it on the facturers are seeing rising sales. Privately
menu permanently. Some say the slowdown in sales is a prod- held Impossible Foods said demand for its The Zambezi River Authority, which runs
uct of food inflation, as consumers trade products grew tremendously last year. the Kariba Dam jointly owned by Zimba-
pricier plant-based meat for less-expen- bwe and neighboring Zambia, said in a letter
dated Nov. 25 that water levels are at a record
low because of droughts and electricity
generation must stop.

The Kariba South Hydro Power Station
provides Zimbabwe with about 70% of its
electricity and has been producing signifi-
cantly less than its capacity of 1,050 mega-
watts in recent years, generating 572
megawatts produced in the country.

Meta fined $275 million over EU data leak Producer price index

By Adam Satariano Meta, which was previously called Face- as Meta, Google and Twitter all locating Index of prices U.S. producers receive for
book, $235 million for violations related to their EU headquarters in Ireland. TikTok, goods and services, percent
The New York Times its messaging service WhatsApp. which also set up a EU hub in Ireland, is change from previous month
the subject of another investigation there.
LONDON — In the latest penalty against The accumulating penalties will be a 2.0
Meta for violating European privacy rules, welcome sign to privacy groups that want The fine issued Monday stems from
the tech giant was fined roughly $275 to see European Union regulators more an investigation started last year by Irish 1.5
million Monday for a data leak discovered aggressively enforce the General Data regulators into reports that Facebook had
last year that led to the personal informa- Protection Regulation, or GDPR. not safeguarded its platform against being 1.0
tion of more than 500 million Facebook “scraped” for information, leading to the
users being published online. The law was hailed as a landmark publication on an online hacker forum of 0.5 0.2
moment in the regulation of technology data that included users’ names, locations
The penalty, imposed by Ireland’s Data companies when it took effect in 2018, but and birth dates. 0.7 OCT.
Protection Commission, brings the total regulators have since faced criticism for not 2022
fines to more than $900 million the regu- applying the rules strongly enough. Meta said in a statement that “unautho- -0.5 TNS
lator has imposed on Meta since last year. rized data scraping is unacceptable and
Ireland has been under pressure because against our rules.” OCT.
In September, the same regulator fined of the key role it plays in enforcing EU data 2021
the company roughly $400 million for its protection rules. The country is tasked with The company said it had changed its poli- SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics
mistreatment of children’s data. policing tech companies’ compliance with cies to prevent such practices. Meta did not
the 2018 law as a result of companies such say whether it would appeal the decision.
In October 2021, Irish authorities fined

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Small businesses, shoppers
returning to holiday markets

By Mae Anderson

Associated Press

Leaders at the publicly owned Greenwood Leflore Hospital in Greenwood, Miss., say they will NEW YORK — On a A shopper browses Bryant Park’s Winter Village on Nov. 15 in
be out of business before the end of the year without a cash infusion. ROGELIO V. SOLIS/AP recent evening in early New York. Small businesses say it is beginning to feel a lot like
November, shoppers at Christmas, emotionally and financially. JULIA NIKHINSON/AP
More than half of hospitals the Bryant Park holiday
in rural Miss. facing closure market in New York City
were in the holiday spirit
By Michael Goldberg hospitals around the state Family Foundation. well before Black Friday. space has one in the Brook­ nue to plunge 80% in 2020.
have reached some unsus­ A rising number of health The scent of pine wafted lyn borough that opened Ryan is a founding mem­
Associated Press tainable levels given what from candle sellers’ booths, this week. Vendors apply
we face.” care deserts are emerg­ people snapped up ginger­ for pop-up spaces and pay ber of the Union Square
JACKSON, Miss. — Over ing in the Delta, but finan­ bread cookies and hot weekly or monthly rent to Greenmarket and a long­
half of Mississippi’s rural The crux of the problem cial pressures are bearing apple cider and ice skaters Urbanspace. time staple at the Manhat­
hospitals are at risk of clos­ facing Mississippi’s hospi­ down on hospitals in more swirled figure eights around tan holiday markets, where
ing immediately or in the tals is that revenues have prosperous areas of the the rink in the center of the “We’ve received more she sells cider, doughnuts
near future, according to the not kept pace with rising state as well, experts at the market. applications than ever and gingerbread cookies.
state’s leading public health costs, Christensen said. hearing said. But hospitals before, that tells us vendors She said her orchard has
official. in poor communities often After two years of are excited to be back in the mainly recovered, with
The strain is most acute treat patients who don’t pandemic holidays when pop-up game,” said Evan the help of a good apple
Dr. Daniel Edney, the in Mississippi’s Delta have insurance and can’t people spent more online, Shelton, Director of Pop-Up crop this year. But holiday
state health officer, spoke to region, an agricultural flat­ afford to pay for care out shoppers are back in force Markets at Urbanspace. markets give her a much-
state senators at a hearing land where poverty remains of pocket. An expansion of in stores and at holiday needed revenue boost.
last week about the finan­ entrenched. Greenwood Medicaid coverage would markets. Small businesses So far, foot traffic is up
cial pressure on Mississippi Leflore Hospital has been reduce costs that result say it is beginning to feel slightly from last year as “We love working for
hospitals. Edney said 54% of cutting costs by reducing from uncompensated care. a lot like Christmas, both tourism continues to im­ the holiday markets, it
the state’s rural hospitals — services and shrinking its emotionally and financially. prove, Shelton said. While has helped us a lot to get
38 — could close. workforce for months. But Gov. Tate Reeves and the number of tourists re­ through various and sundry
the medical facility hasn’t other Republican leaders “It’s definitely been mains below 2019 levels, the problems,” she said.
Rural hospitals were un­ been able to stave off the have killed proposals to busier than last year,” said tourism trade group NYC &
der economic strain before risk of imminent closure. expand Medicaid, which Sallie Austin Gonzales, CEO Company expects 56.4 mil­ Preparing for holiday
the COVID-19 pandemic, Hospital leaders say they primarily covers low-in­ of soap company Sallye­ lion domestic and interna­ markets is labor intensive,
and the problems have will be out of business come workers whose jobs Ander based in Beacon, tional visitors by the end of because many small busi­
worsened as costs to pro­ before the end of the year don’t provide private health New York. This is her 2022, up 30% from a year nesses have to haul their
vide care have increased. without a cash infusion. insurance. Opponents of second year at the Bryant ago. That bodes well for goods from miles away and
Mississippi’s high number expansion say they don’t Park market — officially small businesses as the hol­ spend long hours staffing
of low-income uninsured At Greenwood Leflore want to encourage reliance called the Holiday Shops iday shopping season can their booths. Ryan’s farm is
people means hospitals and other hospitals across on government help for by Urbanspace at Bank of account for 20% of annual 100 miles north of the city
are on the hook for more the state, maternity care people who don’t need it. America Winter Village at sales. and Ryan drives in almost
uncompensated care. At units have been on the Bryant Park. every day. But being at the
the same time, labor costs chopping block. Mississippi As a near-term solution, For some small busi­ market and watching New
weigh on hospitals as they already has the nation’s the Mississippi Hospital “People are taking advan­ nesses, the markets are a York City recover from the
struggle to pay competitive highest fetal mortality rate, Association has suggested tage of being a part of soci­ welcome respite after a pandemic are worth the
wages to retain staff. highest infant mortality rate the state’s Division of ety again and walking punishing couple of years. hassle.
and highest preterm birth Medicaid work with federal around.” Elizabeth Ryan, who owns
“The costs on an income rate, and is among the worst officials to raise the Medic­ and operates Breezy Hill “Reopening of the shops
statement for a hospital states for maternal mortal­ aid reimbursement rate Christmas markets have Orchard in Staatsburg, New and the return of Christmas
have skyrocketed,” said ity. cap. The move would lower been popular in Germany, York, said the initial onset of last year was very exuberant
Scott Christensen, chair the cost of providing care Austria and other parts COVID-19 caused her reve­ and joyful. I hope this year is
of the Mississippi Hospi­ About 60% of births in for people who are already of Europe for centuries. the same,” she said.
tal Association Board of Mississippi in 2020 were covered under the state’s They’ve become more
Governors. “The liabilities financed by Medicaid, current Medicaid plan. popular in the U.S. over the
on the balance sheets of according to the Kaiser past few decades.

Urbanspace now oper­
ates three holiday markets
in New York: Bryant Park,
Union Square and Colum­
bus Circle. The pandemic
put a damper on festivities
in 2020, when only a scaled-
back Bryant Park opened.
Last year, Bryant Park was
open at full capacity, but
Union Square was at 80%
capacity and Columbus
Circle at 50%. This year, not
only are all three markets
at full capacity, Urban­

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Gloria Imseih Petrelli, Omer Abbas Salem and Jorden Dell Harris in“Mosque4Mosque”by About Face Theatre at the Den Theatre. JENN UDONI PHOTOS

REVIEW ‘MOSQUE4MOSQUE’ ★★★

A complicated comedy

Syrian American family Gloria Imseih Petrelli, Rula Gardenier and Omer Abbas Salem in“Mosque4Mosque.” happened to travelers from Syria,
navigates fraught themes including green card holders like
in the shadow of 2016 For many years, Sara and Ibra- Sara and Lena overhear Ibrahim and Sara, who tried to reenter the U.S. in
him have co-parented the youngest his boyfriend, James (Jordan Dell January 2017?
By Emily McClanathan member of the family, 18-year-old Harris), having sex offstage.
Lena (Gloria Imseih Petrelli), who Salem is not the first playwright
For Chicago Tribune has a scandalous secret of her own: Darker themes surface as the play to address the effects of the Trump
she has joined the cheerleading goes on, however. Given its setting administration’s policies on immi-
It is a truth universally acknowl- team at her suburban Chicago high in the aftermath of the 2016 presi- grant families. American Blues
edged that mothers must school. Billed as a family comedy, the dential election, it’s not hard to pick Theater recently premiered Benja-
meddle in their children’s play has sharp dialogue and plenty up on the foreshadowing when Sara min Benne’s “Alma,” which focuses
love lives, and the Syrian Ameri- of situational humor, including a talks of returning to Damascus to on an undocumented Mexican
can family in Omer Abbas Salem’s hilariously awkward scene in which defend her legal claim to her late American woman and her U.S.-born
new play, “Mosque4Mosque,” is no mother’s house. Remember what daughter. It’s tempting to heave an
different. In About Face Theatre’s exhausted sigh at the prospect of
production, directed by Sophiyaa revisiting 2016, but such stories take
Nayar, widowed matriarch Sara on new urgency now that Trump has
(Rula Gardenier) tries to find a suit- announced a third presidential run.
able husband for her 32-year-old Though fictional, these plays repre-
son, Ibrahim (Salem), going so far as sent the harrowing experiences of
to build him a profile on a dating site real American families.
for queer Muslim men. However,
Ibrahim is secretly dating a white Themes of sexuality and race
man from the Christian college intersect as we get to know Ibra-
where he works as a therapist — and him and James better. Rejected by
trying not to let his self-destructive his father when he came out before
tendencies ruin this promising rela- the older man died of cancer, Ibra-
tionship. him feels like a late bloomer and has
never been in a long-term relation-
ship before James. Yet he has trouble
committing to monogamy; we learn
that he regularly cheated during the
couple’s first six months together.

James, a lawyer, comes off as

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APPRECIATION

Looking back at the 95 years of Michael Butler

Chicago-born, he produced ‘Hair,’ dated
Audrey Hepburn and was pals with JFK, Jagger

Rick Kogan He attended various high A portrait of Michael Butler from Sept. 7, 1977. Butler produced the musical“Hair.” JAMES MAYO/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
schools and colleges, toying with
The 95-year-long life of becoming an architect but was
Michael Butler, which ended on easily distracted by less academic
Nov. 7 at a nursing home in Cali- pursuits. He eventually came
fornia, was the stuff of legend and home and entered the family busi-
adjectives. ness. As a 22-year-old trainee, he
set a company sales record before
Among those that attached to transferring to the European divi-
him over the decades were indus- sion.
trialist, athlete, millionaire hippie,
politician and playboy. The one Handsome and dashing, he
most likely to stick for keeps is would have three wives, one
that of producer, for it was he who child, a boy named Adam, and
helped mold and nurture “Hair” an incalculable number of flashy
into one of the most successful romances, with such beauties as
and era-defining musicals of the Audrey Hepburn and Candice
20th century. Bergen. He had hundreds of
friends — once getting high with
He was born in Chicago on Mick Jagger and playing polo
Nov. 26, 1926, the son of prom- with who would later become
inent socialites Paul Butler and King Charles — and among them
Marjorie von Stresenreuter Chil- was Arnie Morton, with whom he
dress. His father was the heir to played tennis in the mid-1990s.
a paper company fortune and an
active real estate developer and “He’s a pretty good player,”
polo enthusiast. Michael and his Morton said in 1996. “We just
siblings grew up in rural opulence started playing together about
on a farm called Natoma in what two years ago. We pretty much
would later become Oak Brook. break even, though I’m a lot older
He often talked dreamily of a than he is.” The then 74-year-
childhood spent horse jumping, old Morton, whose colorful life
fox hunting and playing polo. “It included running the Playboy
was Camelot,” he would say. Club empire and creating his own
restaurants and clubs, paused to
laugh. “He’s a sweet guy. He’s just
a plain, sweet, nice guy. There’s
nothing about him that would give

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Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Tuesday, November 29, 2022  9

CELEBRITIES ASK AMY

Batiste to sing at Biden state dinner By Amy Dickinson

From news services [email protected] Twitter@askingamy

Musician Jon Batiste Older parents mull full financial disclosure
is on tap to perform at
President Joe Biden’s first Jon Batiste, seen June 8, will perform at a White House dinner DearAmy: Neither my wife will inherit equally. I don’t — Tired of Knowing
White House state dinner honoring the French president. EVAN AGOSTINI/INVISION nor I came from money. think it’s necessary for DearTired: If you believe
on Thursday that will But thanks to a lot of hard them to see your wills. political divisiveness is
highlight long-standing Sunday. His daughter told sales in its first five days in work, our children will ruining positive human
ties between the U.S. and Deadline that he suffered a North American theaters, come into money. In my opinion, you interactions, then you
France and honor Presi- heart attack that morning. according to studio esti- should consider ways to should rethink your own
dent Emmanuel Macron. mates Sunday, landing in Both of our kids are disperse some of your behavior. You used to be
Roman made his name second place. grown, married to terrific estate before you die, friendly to everyone, and
“An artist who tran- performing at hotels and partners and on good perhaps through purchas- now if you know or suspect
scends generations, Jon resorts in the Catskill The top spot for the holi- career paths. My wife and ing or helping them to they’ve voted differently
Batiste’s music inspires Mountains, and later day corridor, which runs I are in our late 60s and purchase homes, and than you, you avoid them.
and brings people performed at Caesars from Wednesday through in good health, and we’re establishing college funds
together,” said Vanessa Palace in Las Vegas and Sunday, instead went to thinking about giving them for their children. I’m suggesting that you
Valdivia, a spokesperson Bally’s Grand in Atlan- another Disney movie, a full picture of the extent have your own part to
for first lady Jill Biden, tic City, and he roasted Marvel’s “Black Panther: of the potential estate If you do decide to play (we all do) in terms of
whose office is overseeing the likes of Rob Reiner, Wakanda Forever,” which when we’re all together at disclose the particulars, maintaining the peaceful,
dinner preparations. Chevy Chase, Jerry Stiller raked in $64 million over the holidays. do not share your bank pluralistic society citizens
and Hugh Hefner. He also five days. The superhero and investment account want to enjoy.
Batiste, 36, will be appeared in various televi- sequel has reigned over Is there any reason not numbers with them. These
adding White House sion shows and films over the charts for three week- to do that? If so, how much should be kept private. Casting your vote, advo-
entertainer to an already the years, including “Red ends now and has grossed information should we cating for your favorite
long list of roles, including Oaks” on Amazon Prime $675.6 million worldwide. give? Should we give dollar Let your children and candidates or causes and
recording artist, band- Video. Nov. 29 birthdays: Musi- amounts for each account? executor know where your greeting others with an
leader, musical direc- cian John Mayall is 89. Provide account numbers? documents are located attitude of openness and
tor, film composer and ‘Strange World’falls short Actor Diane Ladd is 87. Should we provide copies (keep these updated with curiosity — or at least toler-
museum creative direc- Comedian Howie Mandel of our wills? all passwords included) ance — are all ways you
tor. He won five Grammy at box office: Thanks- is 67. Actor Cathy Moriarty and make sure they can can stake your own claim.
Awards this year, including giving often serves up is 62. Actor Kim Delaney is There’s no mystery to contact your lawyer and These behaviors are more
for album of the year for a feast for new family 61. Actor Andrew McC­ ar- our wills. My wife and I investment adviser. powerful and long-lasting
“We Are.” movies at the box office, thy is 60. Actor Don each leave our estate to the than a yard sign.
but the Walt Disney Co.’s Cheadle is 58. Singer Jona- other upon either of our Medical directives and DearAmy: I respected your
Lopez announces new animated offering “Strange than Knight is 54. Actor deaths, and the remain- power-of-attorney deci- thoughtful response to
World” fizzled with audi- Brian Baumgartner is 50. der equally to each child sions are also important “Sad Grandma,” who was
album: Jennifer Lopez ences out of the gates. Actor Anna Faris is 46. once the surviving spouse parts of this discussion. concerned that her son-in-
announced a new album The production, which Actor Diego Boneta is 32. dies. The amount is quite DearAmy: As I drove law was “mean” and belit-
inspired by husband Ben carried a reported $180 Actor Lovie Simone is 24. substantial now and likely around my area this tling to her grandchildren.
Affleck on Friday — exactly million budget, grossed to be more as time goes on. Election Day, I had a few
20 years after releasing her just $18.6 million in ticket thoughts. How about if I think you should have
first album dedicated to I’d like to make it simple we all took down every advised her to call Child
the actor. for them to sort things out single sign and personal Protective Services. Verbal
when the time comes. Plus, political flag, no matter the abuse is abuse.
The singer, 53, will it would help in their own outcome of elections?
release “This is Me… Now” financial planning. — Concerned
next year, she announced If we all did not know Dear Concerned: “Sad
in an Instagram video that What do you think? how others voted, I think Grandma’s” primary
shows the cover of her — Doting Dad we’d all get along better, question was whether she
2002 album “This Is Me… Dear Doting: My opinion and we wouldn’t feel bad should advise the family to
Then” transforming into is that you should keep about people every time move in with her.
the cover of the new one. your specific financial we saw the hat he/she
affairs private until you wore, the flag hanging on I agree that whenever
Lopez’s announcement have the qualified counsel their garage or the huge an adult suspects a child
promises a musical jour- of your financial planner sign on their truck. is being abused, they
ney through her reconcil- and choose an executor should contact CPS. This is
iation with Affleck, whom (possibly one or both of I used to be friendly to another choice this grand-
she married in July in Las your children, or perhaps everyone I’d meet, and mother will have to make.
Vegas after getting back a younger friend, niece or now I avoid those people Copyright 2022 by Amy
together last year. nephew). who advertise views which Dickinson
I do think it is important are different from mine. Distributed by Tribune
Comedian Roman dies: for you to let your chil- Content Agency
dren know that you and Political divisiveness is
Comedian Freddie Roman, your wife are doing well ruining everything. Let’s
the former dean of the financially, that your wills go back to only advertising
Friars Club and a staple are drawn up and that they our politics for a few weeks
of the Catskills comedy before each election — that
scene, has died at age 85. is more than enough!

Roman died Satur-
day at a Florida hospital,
his booking agent and
friend Alison Chaplin said

Kogan Producer Michael Butler is pictured in his Oak Brook home on Oct. 12, 1988. JOSE MORÉ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE lifestyle that isn’t one-tenth
what it once was. But I
from Page 8 zation For the Economic bring the show to Illinois, foot in silver and wearing soccer team, rock bands learned how many really
Development of Illinois. He but he wasn’t into that.” an Indian headdress, and — did not. He thought he good friends I had.”
you any hint about how rich was also a founding chan- a couple of times he joined had another “Hair” on
he was or the life he lived.” cellor of the Lincoln Acad- But Papp was into form- the San Francisco cast for his hands with a show His son Adam, who had
emy and the commissioner ing a partnership with the show’s nude scene. “It called “Reggae,” which he once been a professional
But some hints were to of the Port of Chicago. Butler. After their copro- was no big deal, the nude described at the time as polo player and manager of
be found where Butler then duction at a New York disco scene in San Francisco,” he a “Caribbean version of polo clubs, was in the early
lived, in a small loft apart- Butler made an unsuc- called the Cheetah bombed, told me. “I was living with ‘South Pacific’ with reli- 1990s selling insurance.
ment in a building on the cessful run for the Illi- Butler bought Papp out, two of the cast members.” gious overtones,” but it He previously told me, “I
banks of the Chicago River. nois Senate and was later reworked the show’s book, opened on Broadway in don’t feel Dad let me down.
It had been six years since contemplating a run against added the famous nude Flush with “Hair” 1980 and closed after a brief Maybe he didn’t discuss
a life-altering bankruptcy Illinois’ gravel-voiced scene and wrote a more cash — it’s estimated that run. That, coupled with financial details as fully as
and the subsequent auction senator, Everett Dirksen. upbeat ending. Butler made more than $10 the savage reception of the I might have liked ... but I
and garage sale that ended But while in New York on million from the show — release of the long-delayed love and respect my dad.
his live-in relationship business, he was thumb- “Hair” opened at the Bilt- he careened through the movie version of “Hair,” He always treated me like a
with Oak Brook, which was ing through a newspaper more Theater on Broadway 1970s. There were parties compelled Butler to retreat human being. He was very
created and developed by when his eye fell on an in April 1968, and it blew a and more parties; polo and to Oak Brook. open with me. In a family
his father, and of which he advertisement for a play lot of people away. It would more polo; private planes with this sort of stature, it
was the most famous and being presented by Joseph eventually run for 1,742 and a chauffeur-driven But his father died in would be easy to lose inti-
flamboyant resident. Papp’s New York Shake- performances, spawning Rolls-Royce. He spent most 1981 and all manner of macy. We never did. He’s a
speare Festival: “Hair (The dozens of other produc- of his time living and enter- legal battles ensued, some great man to me.”
His apartment was clut- American Tribal Love Rock tions in cities across the taining in a mansion on 150 of them between Michael
tered with artifacts, photos Musical).” world. Butler was an atten- acres outside of London. Butler and his siblings and Michael Butler managed
and art. Out the windows, tive and involved producer, other parties. It was an for many years the Oak
which faced west, was a “I thought it was about visiting and helping oversee He donated hundreds emotionally and financially Brook Polo Club and into
gritty cityscape of gray American Indians,” he told almost every city’s produc- of thousands of dollars to exhausting time and there the 1990s and beyond spent
buildings and a quilt of rail- me. “I went to see the play tion. “I felt responsible for liberal causes and backed all was very little left when it much of his time as what he
road tracks. “It’s like having and was blown away. It was each tribe,” he said. sorts of ventures. Some, like was over. “From a financial called a “rainmaker,” setting
a toy train set,” he said. the strongest anti-war state- the play “Lenny,” worked. viewpoint it was tough,” up deals among his world-
ment I had ever seen. I met A few times he appeared Many others — discos, he told me. “I moved to a wide network of friends.
There were dozens of with Papp and asked him to on stage, once in Los Ange- roller rinks, a professional He produced a musical,
photos in the apartment, les painted from head to “Pope Joan,” at the Mercury
one prominently placed was Theater. He was involved
of his friend President John with the Amsterdam-based
F. Kennedy, taken during DogTroep theater. He was
a 1958 sailing trip on the constantly reading scripts
French Riviera. “Jack was a and talking deals.
marvelous man and I loved
Jackie, though she hated me And always there was
at first, thinking that I was “Hair.” He had produced
leading Jack astray,” Butler a flashy revival at The Vic
told me. “Later we became theater in 1988 and told me
very close, once she realized at the time, “I am as happy
it was Jack who was leading and free as I’ve ever been.
me astray.” I have learned a lot about
myself and other people in
He would serve as an the last few years. What do
informal adviser to JFK I want? I want one of these
on Middle Eastern and days to spend some time in
Indian matters and Bobby the Himalayas. I’ve never
Kennedy asked him to been there. I think I might
help Gov. Otto Kerner’s like it.”
1964 reelection campaign. rkogan@chicagotribune
Kerner won and gave Butler .com
posts on the Illinois Sports
Council and the Organi-

Review relationship to colleagues far-fetched that Ibrahim school. Lena makes it her 4Mosque” often make Sara’s kitchen table where
and friends, although the would land a job there in own personal challenge to choices that hurt them- they can all laugh together
from Page 8 reason for this becomes the first place. As a queer become one of the popu- selves or their loved ones, again.
clear in the second act. Muslim man, Ibrahim may lar girls and succeeds, they also make sacrifices
earnest, smitten and eager not have been hired unless even getting elected to for each other and band Emily McClanathan is a
to please, though his enti- Frankly, I was shocked he lied about his personal the homecoming court — together in the toughest of freelance critic.
tled streak shows on occa- when James appeared in a life throughout the appli- although she fears wearing circumstances. The play
sion. A well-meaning white Wheaton College T-shirt, cation process — a scenario her hijab to school after offers a picture of resil- When: Through Dec. 17
liberal, he sometimes fails revealing the identity of that’s possible but begs the the 2016 election. Ibrahim ience, but not in a roman- Where: About Face at
to understand microaggres- his and Ibrahim’s previ- question, “Why Wheaton?” navigates straight, white ticized sense — it’s honest the Den Theatre, 1331 N.
sions and is overconfident ously unnamed employer. spaces in his own quieter about human flaws and Milwaukee Ave.
in his ability to help when As a Wheaton graduate, I Although it’s unclear way, frequenting the “cruis- ends on a somber, uncer- Running time: 2 hours
the Muslim ban shatters his am painfully aware of the how he got there, Ibra- ing bathroom” and, of tain note that belies the Tickets: $5-$35 (pay
boyfriend’s family. He also evangelical institution’s him’s minority status in course, dating James. label of comedy. One can what you can) at
feels hurt by Ibrahim’s cagi- fraught relationship with his workplace mirrors his only hope that this family aboutfacetheatre.com or
ness about disclosing their both Muslim and LGBTQ little sister’s experiences While the complicated will find their way back to thedentheatre.com
communities, so it seemed at a mostly white high characters of “Mosque-

10  Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Survivors come together again to tell stories

‘She Said’ creators Samantha Morton as Zelda Perkins, left, and Zoe Kazan as Jodi Kantor in“She Said.”Perkins was an assistant at first moment I met her. She’s an
invited women to Miramax’s London offices in the late 1990s. UNIVERSAL PICTURES incredible, impressive person.”
lend voices to film The moment Judd decides, after
the perspective of Laura Madden with a dignity and respect they (Braier) and I always tried to stay much discussion, to go on the
By Meredith Blake (played in a flashback by Lola were never given the first time away from illustration.” record with her allegations marks
Petticrew and in the present day around.” the emotional climax of the film.
Los Angeles Times by Jennifer Ehle) as she stum- In the film’s final act, as The
bles onto a seemingly magical Kantor and Twohey facilitated New York Times prepares to Hollywood is notorious for
When director Maria Schrader film set in Ireland. But the spell is introductions to these sources, publish the investigation, we taking generous liberties with
and screenwriter Rebecca quickly broken: Seconds later, we and as she began writing the hear Weinstein’s real voice on the anything “based on a true story”
Lenkiewicz began developing see her running, in a panic, down script, Lenkiewicz spent time phone with Kantor, Twohey and — rea­ rra­ nging timelines, chang-
“She Said” as a film, they quickly city streets. Later, we learn how with Perkins, Madden and Chiu. their editors. (Seen from behind, ing characters’ names and invent-
established a few ground rules. Weinstein lured her to a hotel “I wanted them to feel safe in the actor Mike Houston appears as ing conversations out of whole
room, asked her for a massage space of the film, (to know) that the producer in a scene in a Times cloth. The sensitive nature of the
Their dramatization of The and pressured her into unwanted we weren’t just hijacking their conference room.) material in “She Said” demanded
New York Times investigation sexual contact — a decisive lives, that we absolutely respected a more cautious approach.
that toppled Hollywood producer pattern that would emerge in the them and admired them for being Actors Gwyneth Paltrow and
Harvey Weinstein and trig- accounts of many survivors. part of the project,” she said. Judith Godreche, who both Lenkiewicz estimates that
gered a global reckoning would eventually went on the record about 95% of the story is accurate,
not include visual depictions of Along with Madden, two other Whenever they could, the film- to accuse Weinstein of harass- though she took “tiny liberties”
sexual assault or harassment. women become crucial sources makers incorporated real survi- ment, also lend their voices to for the sake of dramatic impact.
Instead, the survivors — some in the investigation — and char- vors and their accounts, giving “She Said.” Former Weinstein After all, “hearing a phone call
even playing themselves — would acters in the film. Zelda Perkins “She Said” an almost documen- Company employee Lauren is more exciting than reading an
recall the incidents using their (Samantha Morton) and Rowena tary feel at times. We hear the O’Connor reads the scathing email,” she said. “It’s the truth,
own words. Chiu (Angela Yeoh) were both actual audio recording of Wein- memo she wrote in 2015, which just a bit more animated.”
assistants in Miramax’s London stein harassing model Ambra became a key piece of evidence
There would be no female offices in the late ’90s when Chiu Battilana Gutierrez and acknowl- in Kantor and Twohey’s initial To enhance the film’s female
nudity and no brutalized victims told Perkins that Weinstein had edging a prior assault because, investigation. perspective, Lenkiewicz incor-
at the crime scene. Survivors attempted to rape her at the Lenkiewicz said, “It was very porated aspects of Twohey and
would be fully rounded humans, Venice Film Festival. Perkins important to understand how “Everyone was invited to be Kantor’s personal lives that were
defined more by their bravery reported Weinstein’s alleged Weinstein worked — that it was involved,” Lenkiewicz said. largely left out of the book. “I
and resilience than their encoun- behavior but was, along with very hard to negotiate or navigate “There was also a conscious cast- wanted to put in as many aspects
ters with an abusive Hollywood Chiu, pushed to sign a compre- against the force of his will.” ing of survivors in different roles.” of being female as possible,” she
power player. hensive nondisclosure agree- said. “Megan and Jodi both have
ment. Both women ultimately left But the tape is accompanied by Ashley Judd, the most daughters, and I didn’t think
And, in arguably the most radi- the film business, as did Madden. shots of empty hotel corridors, high-profile celebrity to go on that working mothers had been
cal departure — given the outsize not actors doing a re-creation. the record in the initial report, depicted often, or very well.”
influence he wielded in the busi- “Famous actresses got much of appears as herself, recalling how
ness and the industry’s enduring the attention during the #MeToo “(As) you listen to something Weinstein lured her to a suite at Both reporters are constantly
fascination with violent predators explosion, but these little-known which is very physical, you almost the Peninsula Hotel 30 years ago juggling calls that come at inop-
— Weinstein himself would exist women were in many ways the have a fantasy of these two bodies and badgered her to give him a portune moments — at the
at the edges of the story. In fact, heart of what happened,” Kantor as one tries to escape, but we massage or watch him shower. doctor’s office or during family
the audience would never even wrote in an email. “To me, this chose the opposite: to have a very outings. In one of the film’s most
see his face. film returns them to Hollywood steady camera moving through Judd reviewed the script and relatable moments, Kantor jots
the corridors,” Schrader said. gave feedback about the word- down her Netflix password and
“The film is not about Wein- “(Cinematographer) Natasha ing of her account, Schrader hands it to her daughter while
stein, it’s about a collective of said. “Ashley was in from the she’s on the phone. She later has
women who break down decades a heartfelt conversation with her
of silence through their brav- daughter about rape, over video
ery,” said Lenkiewicz, who began chat, while she’s out of town
adapting the investigation by chasing down sources.
Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
even before it was published as Twohey, meanwhile, is thrust
a book in 2019. “We all felt that into the Weinstein investigation
Weinstein had taken up enough immediately after returning from
oxygen for several lifetimes, and I maternity leave, while recovering
couldn’t envisage writing a script from postpartum depression.
with him in it.”
“I will confess that I felt a bit
A propulsive procedural that, vulnerable making this leap,
like the Oscar-​winning “Spot- especially with one of the more
light,” shows the persistence, painful chapters of my life,” said
institutional support and good, Twohey. “But the more we talked
old-fashioned reporting it takes to with the filmmakers, the more we
break decades of silence and coer- came to see this as a real opportu-
cion, “She Said” is a celebration of nity. Our hope is that other work-
the determined journalists who ing mothers will identify with
managed to crack the case and, these characters and feel seen by
especially, the unsung women the film.”
who came forward to share their
stories after their Hollywood And that, said Lenkiewicz, is
careers were sidelined. the ultimate goal of the film: “If
it opens up conversation and if it
Tellingly, the film opens from makes anyone feel solidarity with
other women, then we’ve done
our work.”

‘Walking Dead’ changed course of TV revolution

AMC drama proved
prestige didn’t have
to mean boutique

By Mary McNamara

Los Angeles Times

“The Walking Dead” recently Melissa McBride as Carol Peletier in“The Walking Dead,”which recently came to an end after 11 seasons. JACE DOWNS/AMC
came to an end. Though I, like
many viewers, stopped watch- disgusting. A two-hour movie? “Terriers.” “Pretty Little Liars” 17 million viewers, a tremen- ingly difficult to keep track of new
ing several seasons ago, attention Fine. An entire series? Who arrived on ABC Family and dous number for the time even by shows as they debut, never mind
must be paid. would watch that? became the first show to truly broadcast standards. focus the cultural conversation or
leverage the power of Twitter. even an engaged fandom on a few
If not to the actual finale — Way more people than ever By comparison, “Downton shows.
honestly, can it really be consid- watched “Mad Men” — and they “Adventure Time,” “Parent- Abbey,” which debuted just a few
ered a finale when there are so engaged with it just as fanatically. hood,” “Louie” and “The Great months after “TWD,” peaked at The ability to watch what you
many spinoffs in the works? — British Bake Off” — a slew of just above 13 million. “Downton” want to watch when you want
then to what it means. As a critic, I had watched the groundbreaking television became one of the few prestige to watch it means you are often
convergence of television and debuted in 2010 along with a shows that had both high ratings watching it alone, which makes
“The Walking Dead” is the fandom — all those recapping bunch of other great, not so great and multiple Emmy nomina- talking about television much
last founding member of the 21st blogs — with interest and antici- and really bad shows. It was a tions; the television academy has more difficult. Fandoms still exist,
century’s television revolution. pation. The enormous popular- giddy time for anyone writing ignored “The Walking Dead” but they are more diffuse.
It leaves a popular culture and ity of films like “Iron Man” and about television because every- throughout its 11-season run.
industry so different from the one “Twilight” proved the power of a one was talking about television. After 11 seasons, it is not
it entered that it’s all but unrecog- deeply connected audience. Tele- Even without the awards surprising that the audience for
nizable. vision was thriving on the unex- Into all this rode Andrew season press that proved vital “The Walking Dead” has dropped
pected, and a zombie epic was Lincoln’s Rick Grimes and the to so many shows and emerging precipitously — this season’s
AMC debuted its adaptation of certainly unexpected. iconic image of a lone man on a platforms, “The Walking Dead” average of 2.2 million might
Robert Kirkman’s graphic-novel horse moving down the middle quickly became one of the most have been OK for “Mad Men,” or
vision of a zombie apocalypse in And pretty good, right out of of a highway littered with aban- talked-about shows on televi- even “Better Call Saul,” a critic’s
2010 at Comic-Con, back when the box. Yes, there were zombies, doned cars toward a silent city sion. So much so that in 2011, darling that drew 1.8 million for
the geek fest was still new to the and wild-eyed encounters with swarming with the dead — while AMC launched “Talking Dead,” its series finale. But for “TWD” it
TV publicity game. The chan- survivors, but it quickly became millions cheered. And gasped, a live after-show series in which means, sadly, ending with more a
nel known as American Movie clear that the series was just more yelped, laughed and wept. host Chris Hardwick inter- whimper than a bang.
Classics was new to the game too, world-building character study Zombies were gross, but they, like viewed fans, actors and creators
having launched original scripted than monster mash. vampires, were also us — as were about the episode that had just Though as previously
content just three years earlier, the diverse array of survivors. aired. mentioned, it is hardly an ending.
but it had done it decisively. The box it came out of was an With “Fear the Walking Dead”
“Mad Men,” an award-winning impressive one too. On AMC, Most important, “TWD” The popularity — and only entering its eighth season, “Tales
series, quickly left such a deep — “Mad Men” was holding strong proved that in this brave new slightly cynical genius — of the of the Walking Dead” having
and deeply fanatical — cultural and “Breaking Bad” was gaining world, where virtually every plan set a template for virtually debuted in August and at least
footprint that its infinitesimal steam. HBO, which already had television platform including every big show to create second-​ three more spinoffs in the works,
viewership (its first season aver- “Big Love” and “In Treatment,” the History Channel was or platform products, be they after- the show that many feared would
aged 1.6 million viewers) seemed debuted “Boardwalk Empire” soon would be airing scripted shows, streaming bonus features tarnish AMC’s revolutionary
almost unimportant. and “Treme.” Showtime, mid-​ content, prestige didn’t have to or in-house podcasts. legacy has come to define it.
“Dexter” and “Nurse Jackie,” mean boutique. Debuting with a
Ratings! Almost unimport- brought Laura Linney back to the respectable-for-c​ able average of But the world of television Franchise fever has come to
ant! Suddenly HBO and other small screen with “The Big C”; 5.6 million, “The Walking Dead” has changed since 2010. Netflix, the small screen. We have “The
non-ratings-r​ eliant premium FX, in the final season of “Nip/ at its height drew more than Amazon, Hulu and other stream- Walking Dead” to thank for that
channels had competition; the Tuck,” debuted “Justified” and ing services have made it increas- too.
age of basic cable prestige televi-
sion had begun.

On its (often moldering and
putrefying) face, “The Walking
Dead” did not fit the prestige
model. True, HBO had success-
fully dipped its toe in the swampy
waters of the genre with Alan
Ball’s “True Blood,” but that
was vampires, and vampires
have always been, as Stephe-
nie Meyer’s “Twilight” novels
proved, at least a little sexy.

Zombies, not so much. Which,
in the months leading up to the
debut, struck many people as a
problem. A zombie series did
not seem like the appropriate
follow-up to “Mad Men” and
“Breaking Bad.” Zombies are

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Why does actor who plays Maggie

on ‘Chicago Med’ look different?

By Rich Heldenfels

Tribune News Service

Q: What happened to ​ Marlyne Barrett, left, has played Maggie Lockwood since the
Maggie on“Chicago Med”? first episode of the medical drama“Chicago Med.” NBC
Someone else is playing
her who looks quite a bit was similar to the device was killed off; her husband, By Jacqueline E. Mathews. © 2022 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. All rights reserved. 11/29/22
like her but isn’t. used on “The People’s Luke, was said to be wid- 42 __ Springs, CA
Choice” (1955-58, NBC), owed. Did Nolan actually ACROSS 51 “I do” undoer Solutions 44 Paralyzing blow
A: While the medical where the basset hound die? Or was there a dispute 1 GPS display 56 First of zillions 45 Not as harsh
drama has undergone a lot Cleo was commenting. that led to her being writ- 4 Fuming 57 Circular 27 Uber user’s 47 Sudden forward
of cast changes during its ten off the show? 9 Hugger’s need 58 Housetop need
run, that is still Marlyne Q: My wife and I were 13 Past one’s 60 Accepted rush
Barrett playing Maggie wondering if“The United A: Nolan, known in more 28 Summoned with 48 Get the __ of;
Lockwood, as she has since States of Al”got picked up recent years as Kathleen, prime standard a beeper
the first episode. But her by anyone. is 89 years old and still 15 Bewail 61 Steer clear of learn to do
appearance has changed with us as I write this. 16 Paper shredder? 62 Post-WWII 29 Dwells 49 Smell
noticeably, and the actor is A: CBS canceled the She has had a success- 17 Apple discard 30 Pub orders 50 Seldom seen
being treated for a tumor comedy about an inter- ful acting career that also 18 Window features alliance 31 Shows courage 52 Midday
on her uterus and left ovary. preter from Afghanistan included her presidency 19 Competent 63 Earl __ tea 32 Word with oil or 53 Indecent
There has been specula- moving to Ohio earlier this of the Screen Actors Guild 20 Warranty 64 Look of 54 Webster or
tion about plot develop- year. The series encoun- from 1975 to 1979, the first 22 Be abundant Oyl
ments suggesting Maggie tered controversy over woman in that post. She left 23 Lane of the contempt 33 Solemn services Wyle
was leaving the show. On its character portrayal “The Real McCoys” in 1962 65 That girl 35 Transmit 55 Carry
the other hand, Barrett and struggled against the after five seasons. Although comic strips 38 Wild felines 59 In favor of
signed a new contract flow of current events. her time there included a 24 Speedometer DOWN 39 “Gunsmoke” or
not long ago and said in a The second season severe fall from a horse that 1 Apple computer
September interview with premiere, for example, was left her hospitalized for letters 2 Very eager “Wagon Train”
People magazine that she completely rewritten after months in 1961, one source 26 Come into view 3 Where most 41 Moo __ gai pan
has continued working: “I the U.S. withdrawal from said she decided to leave 29 __ retriever
start an hour earlier to get Afghanistan and the Tali- the series because she was 34 Charisma alpacas live
my bearings before I start ban takeover. A top CBS on a career high. It was also 35 Absurd 4 Weaken; make
my day,” as well as taking executive said at the time at a time that “McCoys” 36 Actress Larter
naps and occasional days that the creative team was was facing uncertain- 37 Clothing worse
off. As for her appearance, “working hard to find the ties including a change in 38 Water barrier 5 Reddish
she told People, “because appropriate tone as the networks and time slots. 39 Judge’s order
of the mass, my mid-range show moves forward.” But With her departure, the 40 Bill animals
is a different size, so the after two seasons, there series killed off her charac- 6 Dad’s sister
costume department does was no moving forward for ter — but Nolan went on to denomination 7 “A __ Grows in
an incredible job.” Having the show, nor have I seen plenty of other work. 41 Siskel &
shaved her head since the any news about it coming Brooklyn”
cancer diagnosis, she noted back somewhere. Do you have a question Rayburn 8 Musical group
“my character on the show or comment about 42 Irritate 9 Writer Christie
already wears a wig!” Q: I have watched“The entertainment past, present 43 CA’s state trees 10 After-bath attire
Real McCoys”with Walter and future? Write to Rich 45 Tumors 11 Beard wearer
Q: I vaguely recall a show Brennan, Richard Crenna Heldenfels, P.O. Box 417, 46 Sock __; 1950s 12 Flower stalk
called“Happy”about a and Kathy Nolan. It seems Mogadore, OH 44260, 14 Casino
baby whose thoughts were not long into the show, or [email protected]. dance
heard by viewers, sort of Nolan’s character, Kate, Letters may be edited. 47 Cheerful tune employees
like Cleo on“The People’s 48 Wedding dance 21 Wander
Choice.”Am I dreaming? 25 Use a lever
26 Thespian
A: You are not dreaming.
“Happy” aired on NBC for
a single season in 1960-61.
Ronnie Burns and Yvonne
Lime played a young couple
running a motel and dealing
with their infant son Happy
(played by twins David
and Steven Born). Happy’s
observations were shown
“through facial expres-
sions and an off-screen
voice,” says “The Complete
Directory to Prime Time
Network and Cable TV
Shows.” This, as you noted,

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lead to valuable discoveries.
Aries (March 21-April 19): Today is an 8. Find inspiration and
motivation from others, especially young people. Collaborate
for common gain. Listen and learn from another vantage.
Share resources, data and teamwork.
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competition. Discover hidden opportunities. Follow advice
from experienced elders. Expand upon their advances.
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vance allows for smooth sailing. Finesse works better than
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heart. Contribute to grow shared resources. Words and ac-
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Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): 7. Coordination with your partner pro-
vides ease and freedom. Rely on each other. Share the load
and pull together. A shared dream inspires action.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): 8. Your disciplined efforts are paying
off. Maintain healthy practices for growing strength, energy
and endurance. Start easy and build up. Feed yourself well.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): 8. Practice your game to advance
skills. Learn new techniques, modalities or songs. Disciplined
efforts build the framework for your passions to play upon.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): 7. Suggestions lead to fruitful
actions. Coordinate to share the load. Domestic preparation,
cooking or crafting produces delightful results. Share some-
thing delicious with family.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): 8. Enjoy an intellectual chal-
lenge. Solve a puzzle, clue by clue. Note your observations.
Discover new threads to pull. Do the backstage detective work.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): 8. Develop lucrative projects.
Invest time and talents to grow seeds to fruition. Gently tend
shoots and roots. What you nurture now feeds you later.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): 8. Take charge for the results you
want. If you can’t do something, find out who can and collab-
orate. Advance a personal passion project.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): 7. Consider plans and revise for
current conditions. Fantasy and reality clash. Follow through
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Bridge

Both vulnerable, North deals

West North East Dick Tracy By Joe Staton and Mike Curtis
Animal Crackers By Mike Osbun
♠ A832 ♠ J975 ♠ 64 Prickly City By Scott Stantis
♥ A962 ♥ KJ85 ♥ 10 7 4
♦ Q64 ♦A ♦ K953
♣83 ♣AQJ4 ♣K952

South

♠ K Q 10
♥ Q3
♦ J 10 8 7 2
♣ 10 7 6

An important principle in defensive signaling is this:
“Don’t tell partner what to do. Tell him what you have and
let him figure out what to do.” This is a sound approach,
as good players will usually defend accurately when they
know what partner has. Usually, but not always. Sometimes
you have to mislead
partner and direct
The bidding: the defense in a way

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Opening lead: Ace of ♠

North-South bid
aggressively to a game that could be defeated, but it was
up to East-West to find the solution. Not knowing which
major to lead, West led the ace of spades to get a look at
dummy. East discouraged spades and West shifted to a low
diamond at trick two. Dummy’s ace won as East signaled
encouragement with the nine. Declarer led a low heart to his
queen. West grabbed his ace and continued with the queen
and another diamond, hoping partner had both the king and
jack of diamonds. South claimed nine tricks.
It would have been better for East to discourage
diamonds at trick two. Now West, when in with the ace of
hearts, would surely have found the club shift. East will win
with the king and cash the king of diamonds. He will have to
decide whether West started with the queen of diamonds or
the king of spades, but that should not be hard. South would
not have accepted the invitation without the king of spades.

— Bob Jones
[email protected]

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WHITE SOX

A big chip
to champs

Abreu, a consistent
force and AL MVP
in ’20, getting 3-year
deal with Astros

By LaMond Pope

Chicago Tribune

José Abreu doubled on the first
pitch of his first at-bat with the
White Sox on March 31, 2014,
against the Minnesota Twins.

“That pitch was right there, so I
have to take advantage of it,” Abreu
told reporters through an inter-
preter after the game.

The first baseman has been a
consistent offensive force ever
since.

The 2020 American League
MVP and three-time All-Star
is on the move to the Houston
Astros, who announced Monday
they signed Abreu to a three-year
contract. Financial terms were not
disclosed.

Abreu, 35, left quite a mark in
nine seasons with the Sox, rank-
ing third on the team’s all-time
list with 243 home runs. He has
a .292/.354/.506 career slash
line in 1,270 games. He slashed
.304/.378/.446 with 15 home runs
and 75 RBIs in 2022.

Abreu’s departure puts Andrew

Turn to Abreu, Page 2

Paul Sullivan

In the Wake of the News

Fans and team will
miss Abreu, but his
exit was necessary
for the White Sox

José Abreu surely knew he was
gone on the final day of the 2022
season when he opted to sit and
watch the last game of his White
Sox career from the dugout.

Abreu issued a statement
through White Sox public rela-
tions that morning, explaining he
asked interim manager Miguel
Cairo for the day off “to enjoy
this game with him and have the
manager’s perspective.” He then
sat at the opposite end of the
dugout from Cairo during a 10-1
loss to the Twins.

Abreu didn’t want a long

Turn to Sullivan, Page 2

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Subtraction through BEARS
attrition stings Bears
Mooney likely needs
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. season-ending surgery
— Four thoughts after the Bears
hung in there with the New York Brad Biggs Bears safety Eddie Jackson reacts Injury leaves the Bears confirm his next steps.
Jets through a rain-soaked first to missing a potential interception without one of their Mooney was blocking on a David
half Sunday at MetLife Stadium, On the Bears in the second quarter Sunday most important players
then got blown out as injuries on Dr. Matt Provencher’s BUS — at MetLife Stadium in East Montgomery run in the third quar-
and miscues piled up in a 31-10 Banged Up Score. Provencher is Rutherford, N.J. BRIAN CASSELLA / By Colleen Kane ter at MetLife Stadium when Jets
defeat. It was the Bears’ fifth the former New England Patri- safety Jordan Whitehead landed
consecutive loss and eighth in ots team doctor, and while there CHICAGO TRIBUNE Chicago Tribune on Mooney’s left leg, causing it to
nine games. are subjective ways to view the bend awkwardly. Bears staff had
health of rosters, the Bears were UP NEXT Packers at Bears The Bears will be without wide to help Mooney off the field and to
1. Attrition has become a real mostly fortunate for the first 2 1/2 Noon Sunday, receiver Darnell Mooney for the the tunnel because he couldn’t put
months. FOX-32 rest of the season after he suffered weight on his leg.
thing for the Bears. And it has a left ankle injury Sunday against
happened quickly for a team Missing quarterback Justin the Jets. The injury leaves the Bears with-
that entered last week as one of Fields (left shoulder) and half of out one of their most important
the healthiest in the league. Yes, the secondary — strong safety Coach Matt Eberflus said players as they try to make strides
the Bears have had some guys Monday that Mooney — the Bears’ in their still-quiet passing game.
out here and there and offensive Turn to Biggs, Page 4 leading receiver in 2021 and 2022 Mooney was one of second-year
lineman Lucas Patrick will wind — likely will need surgery on quarterback Justin Fields’ favor-
up missing most of the season, his ankle and will go on injured ite targets the last two years and
but they were the fourth-health- reserve. Eberflus said Mooney did extra work with Fields during
iest team through Week 11 based will meet with his doctor again to
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Abreu

from Page 1

Vaughn in line to play first base for the Sox. A fan holds up a sign in support of White
The Sox open the 2023 season in Hous- Sox first baseman José Abreu during the
season finale against the Twins on Oct.
ton. In Abreu, the reigning World Series 5 at Guaranteed Rate Field. JOHN J. KIM/
champion Astros are signing someone CHICAGO TRIBUNE
known for his durability and run produc-
tion. to battle, battle to drive in the runs and do
the best,” Abreu said in 2021. “That has to
If there was a game, Abreu more than be the mindset in the middle of the lineup.
likely found his way into the lineup. His You need to drive in a run. In those situa-
528 games played since 2019 ranks second tions you have to battle to do it.”
in the AL.
Abreu is 10th on the team’s all-time list
In 2019, Abreu played in the first 102 with 1,445 hits, fifth with 561 extra-base
games, becoming the first Sox player to do hits and sixth with 304 doubles.
so since Alexei Ramírez in 2013.
He led the AL during his MVP season
When he finally took a day off, in hits (76), RBIs (60), slugging percent-
then-manager Rick Renteria said: “He age (.617), extra-base hits (34) and total
said he was going to have to call his mom bases (148). He was second with 19 home
(Sunday) to make sure she doesn’t get too runs and 167 weighted runs created-plus
upset because she sees him as a grinder and (wRC+).
he’s got to get out there. And he talks to her,
and she’s probably going to be upset he’s It was the fifth time a Sox player earned
not in the lineup. So I said: ‘That’s OK. If the MVP honor, joining Nellie Fox (1959),
you need me to, I’ll talk to her.’ ” Allen (1972) and Frank Thomas (1993-94).

Abreu matched a career high by playing “It was a good thing because you feel like
in 159 games that season. you did something special, not just for you
but for the people who are around you, for
He played at least 152 games in six of his all those guys,” Abreu said the day after
nine seasons. He played 145 games during winning the award.
his AL Rookie of the Year season in 2014
and 128 in 2018 because of two injuries He felt that support from fans, a point he
in the second half. Abreu played in all 60 drove home before his final game in 2022.
games during the pandemic-shortened
2020 season and led the Sox with 157 “Up to now it’s been very special,” Abreu
games in 2022. said on Oct. 4, “and I’m going to be forever
grateful for them.”
When he was in the lineup, he produced.
Abreu is fifth on the team’s all-time list
with 863 RBIs.

He became the second Sox player to
lead the AL in RBIs in a season, finishing
with 123 in 2019. Dick Allen was the first to
accomplish the feat with 113 in 1972.

Abreu again led the league in 2020 with
60 RBIs, becoming the first player to lead
the AL in consecutive seasons since David
Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox in 2005-06.
He was also the first qualifying player to
record as many RBIs as games played since
the Cubs’ Sammy Sosa (160) and Cleve-
land’s Juan González (140) in 2001.

“My approach in the (RBI) situation is

White Sox first baseman José Abreu greets players in the visitors dugout in the first inning
against the Tigers on Aug. 12 at Guaranteed Rate Field. JOHN J. KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

PERSONALIZE ME Sullivan one has to leave the nest at some point, and
FOR THE PERFECT all three have been around long enough to
from Page 1 get by without Abreu. Maybe they could
HOLIDAY GIFT! use some growing up.
goodbye, so he left without any send-off
from the Sox organization or the team’s In a perfect world, Abreu probably
fans. No standing ovations. Not even so would’ve been on the Sox for life, waiting
much as a wave. for his No. 79 jersey to be retired on his day.
He certainly talked like a man who wanted
What he was thinking that day was to stay forever.
anyone’s guess, and he didn’t speak after-
ward. Even though he went through the agony
of the Sox rebuild, Abreu said before his
The low-key departure was a little odd free-agent season in 2019 that he would do
for a player of Abreu’s stature on the South anything possible to re-sign.
Side.
“If I was the owner, I’d sign myself,” he
And the decision to avoid unwanted said.
attention was made even more glaring by
the nonstop goodbyes Willson Contreras Despite finishing second in the majors
received in his final three months as a Cub. that year with 123 RBIs, he negotiated
exclusively with the Sox, re-signing for a
But that truly was the end, as we learned team-friendly three-year, $50 million deal.
Monday.
“I don’t care about money,” he told me in
Confirming reports from earlier in the English during spring training 2020. It was
day, the World Series champion Houston a family decision, he added.
Astros announced they signed Abreu to
a three-year contract, which was neither “We feel comfortable in Chicago,”
surprising nor worthy of teeth-gnashing he said, reverting to Spanish. “For us, it
from upset Sox fans. didn’t make sense to look around to other
places.”
Everyone seemed to agree it was time
to go, except perhaps for Abreu. He soon Abreu won the American League MVP
will find there’s life outside the South Side award that year in the pandemic-short-
and no doubt will get his “welcome back” ened season, helping lead the Sox to their
salute next year at Sox Park. first postseason appearance in 12 years.
He also was a voice of reason in the club-
General manager Rick Hahn, who house, admitting the players “relaxed a
drafted Andrew Vaughn in 2019 to eventu- little bit” and got “caught in the moment”
ally take Abreu’s place, had no choice but after clinching a postseason spot. The Sox
to move on from the veteran with Vaughn fell from the top AL seed to No. 7 in the
so miscast in the outfield. Another year of expanded playoffs, and after they lost to
watching Vaughn attempt to play left or the Athletics in the first round, Renteria
right field would’ve been a disaster for a was fired.
team that desperately needs to improve
defensively to become a legitimate Abreu turns 36 in January, though
contender. many have speculated he’s older. Either
way, a three-year deal could be risky for
Vaughn remains an unproven hitter the Astros. Abreu’s power was down last
in spite of what was considered a break- season, when he hit only 15 home runs. But
through season. After a hot first half in his exit velocity remained high, suggesting
which he hit .301 with an .819 OPS, he he isn’t close to losing it, as many sluggers
dropped to .234 in the second half with a do in their late 30s.
.666 OPS. If that’s what the Sox get in 2023,
they’re in trouble. Abreu posted an .860 Hitting in the middle of a loaded Astros
OPS over nine seasons. Those are big shoes lineup and playing for a players’ manager
to fill. in Dusty Baker, he should blend in well in
his new home, making things more diffi-
The designated hitter spot also wasn’t cult for the Sox.
suited for Abreu, who prefers to be in the
field and started only 199 games at DH, But life goes on. Hahn, who began the
about 22 per season. Even that was too offseason by signing underrated free-agent
many for him, and three Sox managers — starter Mike Clevinger to fill a gap in the
Robin Ventura, Rick Renteria and Tony rotation, has much more work to do to
La Russa — appeased Abreu by refusing to get Sox fans excited about a rebound in
make him even a part-time DH. 2023. New manager Pedro Grifol won’t sell
tickets, and with Abreu gone the only real
Of course the Sox still have a surplus drawing card is shortstop Tim Anderson.
of DH types, including Eloy Jiménez,
Yasmani Grandal and Gavin Sheets, so even The winter meetings, which begin
if Abreu had been ready for such a tran- Monday in San Diego, will be important
sition, there were too many cooks in the for Hahn, especially after what the fan
kitchen to accommodate another. base went through this year. He’s walking
a tightrope without a safety net — no room
The loss of Abreu, the Sox’s most consis- for missteps.
tent hitter over the last decade, will be felt
in the clubhouse, especially in the corner Hahn doesn’t have to “win” the meet-
where he was a father figure to Jimenez, ings, but he has to win back Sox fans.
Yoán Moncada and Luis Robert. But every- Trusting the process won’t be enough this
time.

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BLACKHAWKS TAKEAWAYS from Page 1

Hawks search for positives the offseason in Atlanta and after
practices.
in skid after 7-2 blowout loss
The 2020 fifth-round pick out
By Phil Thompson 1. The Hawks aren’t getting the and find ways mentally to keep harder, forcing defenders to hook of Tulane had 81 catches for 1,055
“jump” on opponents — but our energy. or interfere. yards and four touchdowns last
Chicago Tribune season. He had 40 catches for 493
that’s nothing new.Sunday’s loss “Ultimately, we’re kind of in a “We have to earn those,” he said. yards and two touchdowns this
Before Sunday’s game against represented the eighth straight situation here where we’ve lost year.
the Winnipeg Jets, Max Domi game in which an opponent quite a few games, and it’s not a 4. Tyler Johnson needs more
talked about “tiny little mistakes” scored the opening goal — all in good feeling. It’s easy, when you time, but Alex Stalock looks “Once we got going into the
making the difference between the first period. The Hawks have don’t get those bounces, to let it offense, he really started to shine,”
winning and losing during the allowed the opening goal in all but deflate you. Collectively, we’ve close. There’s still no timetable Eberflus said. “Outstanding at
Blackhawks’ six-game skid. four of their 21 games. just got to be a little bit more for Johnson to return from a left blocking the perimeter. He had a
mentally strong and know that ankle sprain. He last played Oct. really nice connection with Justin
The Hawks made a bushel The Jets also took a two-goal we’re in this situation and we’ve 25 against the Florida Panthers, throughout that stretch. He is our
of them during a 7-2 loss at the lead — a common theme this got to work ourselves out of it and his recovery hasn’t gone as leading receiver.
United Center to extend their season for the Hawks. and we’ve got to work for those smoothly as hoped.
winless streak to seven (0-6-1). bounces.” “But more importantly, he is a
“We have to worry about our “Those high ankle sprains are great teammate. He’s a great leader.
Domi’s offside penalty wiped complete game, not just scoring Richardson said the way to tough, and he just felt soreness No one puts more yards in than
away a would-be goal to open the first,” Richardson said. ensure the Hawks don’t spiral is in the boot, so the training staff is Darnell Mooney, I’ll promise you
game by Andreas Athanasiou. The to remain steady. going to keep him out of the boot that. He laps people. He doubles
Jones brothers, Seth and Caleb, The Hawks have been down for a few days,” Richardson said. them up.”
committed back-to-back penal- at least two goals in six of the “I have to be consistent,” he
ties, and the Jets capitalized on a last eight games and 11 times said. “We show video. We show Meanwhile, Roos replaced Mooney had at least one catch
five-on-three advantage. this season. In fact, they’ve faced corrections and we show the good defenseman Jarred Tinordi (out in 44 straight regular-season
two-goal holes in the first period stuff. We have to stay on that. I’m with an undisclosed “chronic” games before Sunday. He sat out
Filip Roos knocked in the Jets’ five times this season, though they not going to yell and scream and injury), and forward Sam Lafferty the Bears’ playoff game in the 2020
sixth goal off his stick into his own rallied to win four of those (but this and that.” is likely out for four to five days season with an ankle injury, the
net. And Mark Scheifele poked in not since Nov. 12 at the Anaheim with an upper-body injury. only game he has missed.
a power-play goal — the Jets’ final Ducks). 3. The night didn’t go Andreas
score — after Reese Johnson was But there was better news He has become known as a quiet
called for roughing, a penalty that “The energy and the jump’s not Athanasiou’s way. Athanasiou on the injury front: Goalie Alex leader at Halas Hall, respected by
Johnson has been warned about there,” captain Jonathan Toews appeared to score the opening Stalock (concussion) returned for coaches and teammates for the
and that cost the Hawks a goal in said. “But even if it’s not, we’ve got goal six minutes in, but it was the morning skate. way he works.
a previous game. to find ways to play together as a overturned after a coach’s chal-
team and make things more diffi- lenge because Domi was ruled “(Stalock) just being healthy “His attitude, you feel it in the
“There are little mistakes and cult on the other team.” offside. again and around the guys, it’s a building,” tight end Cole Kmet
some of them are from overtry- huge boost for this team,” Rich- said. “He brings light in the room,
ing,” coach Luke Richardson Richardson said the answer “It’s frustrating,” Philipp ardson said. “He’s a character and a great leader, a dude that every-
said. “You just have to make them isn’t getting into track meets with Kurashev said. “We worked so well-liked in the dressing room. one seems to gravitate toward. So
aware of it and make sure we get the likes of the Jets or Edmonton hard and we score and then it gets First day on the ice, we’ll see how whenever you lose a guy like that
better. We can’t just say, ‘Oh, yeah, Oilers. called back and they score right he feels with shots and everybody in the huddle, it’s definitely tough
I should’ve done better.’ We have after that. You can’t get down on out there.” for the team.
to act better. Otherwise, in the “I don’t think that’s going to yourself so fast.”
NHL, your time doesn’t last long.” end very well, going up and down 5. For Max Domi, it’s almost “Obviously he’s a great play-
the ice,” he said. “We have to play Later in the first period, Atha- maker, but just his attitude and
None of those miscues individ- a little harder physically. Every- nasiou took an elbow to the face time to stash the ‘stache. Domi how he approaches his day to day
ually lost the game for the Hawks. thing’s frustrating right now, but I from Adam Lowry, just before let his lip sweater loose during is really special.”
But after a four-game winning said last game, no one gets you out Michael Eyssimont slammed into National Diabetes Awareness
streak, the losses are coming in of this except for yourself.” him. There was no interference Month in November, but its days As the offense has gone through
bunches (2-9-4 since that streak) call, and Athanasiou threw a glove are numbered with the calendar the running game this year behind
as they struggle to recapture the 2. Is this what a tailspin looks in anger before stalking off. Then turning the page. Fields, Montgomery and now-in-
little things that helped them find he threw a towel before heading jured Khalil Herbert, the Bears
ways to win. like? Before the game, Richard- into the locker room at intermis- “I’m actually looking forward to don’t have another wide receiver
son was certain a six-game slump sion. getting rid of this thing,” he said. with more than 14 catches. Kmet
“We didn’t have a great energy wasn’t an indication things were “Couple more days.” has 29 and Montgomery 21.
level last game (a 3-2 loss to the starting to snowball, with the “I think it was Lowry holding
Montreal Canadiens),” Richard- mounting losses starting to seep him off, it wasn’t really a hard Domi has Type 1 diabetes, The Bears’ next-best wide
son said. “You have to clear your into players’ psyches. elbow,” Richardson said. “(Eyssi- and each year he grows out his receivers are Equanimeous St.
head and be professional and mont) stepped in front of him and mustache and/or beard, then Brown (14 catches, 195 yards),
play 82 games and realize that But after a 7-2 loss, it’s hard to … that’s a pick. That’s interference shaves it as part of his #FundRa- Dante Pettis (13 catches, 188
one night, if you’re not going, you buy that narrative. and he ran into him. That’s prob- zor to support the Juvenile Diabe- yards) and Chase Claypool (seven
have to do the little details that ably not a high-sticking or elbow- tes Research Foundation. catches, 83 yards).
maybe Max is talking about to get “It’s not a fun feeling through- ing penalty, but it’s definitely
through that game.” out a performance like that in your interference.” “It’s got its own little life there,” The Bears are last in the NFL
own building,” Toews said. “Are Domi said. “I know it’s for a good with 131.2 passing yards per game.
Here are five takeaways from there positives? I think there’s Richardson said the Hawks can cause and I’ve done it every year,
the loss. moments where if we work for the create more penalties by skating so I’m going to enjoy the last few Mooney’s injury could make
bounces offensively, there’s ways days. I can’t wait to get it off my it more challenging for Fields to
that we can keep that game close face. Girlfriend’s excited too.” improve in the passing game when
he returns from the separated left
BULLS 114, JAZZ 107 shoulder that kept him out Sunday.
Claypool at least has seen his play-
Caruso able to play in win despite ankle woes ing time steadily rise as he gets
more comfortable in the offense
By Julia Poe final two minutes of overtime. series of ailments, including a energy, my defense and how I after arriving via trade earlier this
The request was a rarity from broken wrist, back spasms and bring other guys along.” month, though he was banged up
Chicago Tribune Caruso — who often plays through injuries to his hamstring, ankle in Sunday’s game too.
injury — and garnered immediate and foot. Donovan said the Bulls have
SALT LAKE CITY — Bulls concern from the Bulls coaching no desire to see Caruso curtail When asked Sunday what the
guard Alex Caruso was able to and medical staffs. Second-year After mostly coming off his physicality to protect himself Bears would miss without Mooney,
play in Monday night’s 114-107 guard Ayo Dosunmu closed the the bench with the Los Ange- from injuries. But Donovan said quarterback Trevor Siemian was
victory against the Utah Jazz after game in Caruso’s place. les Lakers, Caruso partially he will need to balance Caruso’s concise: “Speed, explosive plays,
leaving the team’s overtime loss to attributed the rise in injuries to minutes to ensure he isn’t over- leadership.”
the Oklahoma City Thunder on “It was very mild,” Dono- his increased playing time for exerting himself and leaving his
Friday with a right ankle sprain. van said before Monday’s game. the Bulls, which doesn’t always body vulnerable to injury. Eberflus and Kmet said they
“It just got to a point where he mesh with his all-out approach spoke with Mooney after the
Caruso had five points and six couldn’t move very well.” to defense. But Caruso said he “He’s going to play hard, and I injury. Eberflus told Mooney the
rebounds in 27 minutes as the doesn’t want to back off that style want him to be who he is,” Dono- Bears still want him around the
Bulls rallied from a seven-point Caruso was listed as question- just because he’s getting more van said. “The biggest thing we’re building to provide leadership.
halftime deficit. DeMar DeRozan able Monday after sitting out all minutes in Chicago. trying to do is to be conscientious Kmet offered a TV recommen-
led the Bulls with 26 points, while contact activity over the week- of his minutes. He does play so dation for Mooney’s downtime —
ex-Bull Lauri Markkanen scored a end. However, Donovan said he “It’s really important for me hard, so if there’s a loose ball, he’s “Yellowstone” — and said Monday
game-high 32 for the Jazz, includ- was confident in Caruso’s avail- to be out there playing,” Caruso going to go hard, you know. his teammate was in good spirits.
ing 7-of-11 3-point shooting. ability against the Jazz and for the said in October. “I don’t think
remainder of the West Coast trip. I change the way I play — that’s “But from my perspective, I’m “He’s going to have a great atti-
Coach Billy Donovan said what got me here. That’s why the just trying to manage how hard he tude toward this,” Kmet said.
Caruso asked to be removed Caruso spent the offseason Bulls want me on the team. That’s does play and compete in relation- “He’s going to take this head on,
from Friday’s game after planting focused on injury prevention after why Billy loves what I do with my ship to the number of minutes he’s and he’s going to work his tail off.
his foot awkwardly twice in the missing half of last season with a getting.” And I know he’s going to have a big
comeback for sure.”

Eberflus didn’t have an update
on safety Eddie Jackson, who
suffered a foot injury Sunday. He
said the Bears didn’t know yet
whether it was season-ending.

“We’re going to find out with
Eddie where it is,” Eberflus said.
“He has to see the doctor, and
we’ll get more information as we
go from there.”

The Bears have several other
injuries to monitor this week lead-
ing up to Sunday’s game against
the Packers, most notably Fields’
shoulder. Eberflus again empha-
sized Fields is “day to day.”

“He’s got 48 hours here to heal
up until Wednesday (practice)
and then we’ll see where it is from
there,” Eberflus said.

Right tackles Riley Reiff (shoul-
der) and Larry Borom (ankle) also
left the game Sunday. Eberflus
said Michael Schofield and Alex
Leatherwood would be right tackle
options if the injuries keep both
Reiff and Borom out. The Bears
also could move right guard Teven
Jenkins back to tackle, but Eber-
flus said, “We’re pretty comfort-
able with him playing guard.”

Eberflus called Claypool and St.
Brown “day to day” after they had
undisclosed issues Sunday.

Bears wide receiver Darnell Mooney
comes down with a touchdown
reception against Dolphins
cornerback Xavien Howard on Nov. 6.
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BEARS

Biggs

from Page 1

Jaquan Brisker and cornerback Kyler
Gordon were sidelined by concussions —
put the Bears in a tough spot Sunday. Then
players started dropping.

Right tackle Riley Reiff went out with a
shoulder injury and didn’t return. Defen-
sive back Dane Cruikshank, who was
playing on special teams and in the dime
package because of injuries in the second-
ary, was lost to a hamstring injury that has
plagued him off and on for most of the
season.

Free safety Eddie Jackson was lost to a
left foot injury in the second quarter. He
hobbled to the medical tent before being
taken by cart to the locker room. Jackson
went to the turf on a 54-yard touchdown
pass to Garrett Wilson. It appeared to be a
non-contact injury, and he wore a walking
boot to the team buses after the game.

Wide receiver Darnell Mooney was
rolled up from behind by safety Jordan
Whitehead as Mooney was blocking in the
third quarter. He couldn’t put any weight
on his left leg as he was helped to the locker
room, and coach Matt Eberflus confirmed
Monday that Mooney likely will require
season-ending ankle surgery.

Finally, Larry Borom, who replaced
Reiff, went out in the fourth quarter with
what Eberflus said Monday was an ankle
injury. Borom was sidelined previously this
season with a concussion.

You can say “next man up” all you want
— or listen to the coach say it — but the
process of getting to that next man takes a
real toll on the roster.

“Tough to see guys like that go down,”
center Sam Mustipher said. “We under-
stand it’s a violent sport we play. Things
happen. Guys get rolled up on, take cleats,
soft-tissue injuries, freak accidents. We
know every time we’re on the field and we
strap the helmet on, we don’t know who’s
going to be walking off. You never want to
see that type of stuff happen.”

It has been a while since I have seen inju-
ries pile up like this in a game for the Bears,
and this poses challenges on both sides
of the ball and special teams for a team
already using young, inexperienced players
in so many spots.

“It’s part of football, man,” defensive
tackle Justin Jones said. “That’s why we’ve
got guys who are backups. As the next man
up, you’ve got to make sure you are in your
playbook and make sure you know what is
going on (because) you never know when
your number will be called. That is like the
realest statement in the NFL right now.
You’ve got to be ready. If you’re not, who
knows what is going to happen.”

2. Eddie Jackson has proved his value to Bears head coach Matt Eberflus and quarterback Justin Fields talk Sunday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. The Jets defeated the
a front office that didn’t draft or extend Bears 31-10. BRIAN CASSELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS
him and a coaching staff that inherited
you’ve got to throw it from the pocket.’
him. He leads the team in tackles (81), pass There’s others who will say, ‘Hey, there are
breakups (six), interceptions (four) and different ways to play quarterback and this
forced fumbles (two). He’s one of the few is the way he plays quarterback.’
players on defense putting the “T” in Eber-
flus’ “H.I.T.S.” system. The “T” stands for “The bottom line is they are scoring
takeaways — and on offense for not turning a lot of points and one could easily say,
the ball over. and there is absolutely no argument in
response to this, ‘If they are going to score
It has been a real bounce-back season for 30 points a game, then what’s the prob-
the sixth-year free safety. Jackson nearly lem?’ ”
intercepted Mike White in the second
quarter. That was a few plays before he The problem right now is Fields is
bounced off wide receiver Elijah Moore, injured, and it’s the third time in a little
failing to wrap up and turning what should more than 1 1/2 seasons that an injury has
have been about a 20-yard gain into a forced him to the sideline. We know
42-yard gain. It happens in the open field, how dynamic he is as a runner, and every
but it has happened considerably less often chance he gets to play is a chance for
to Jackson this season after a couple of growth because game experience is expo-
years of sloppy tackling. nentially more important than anything
that happens in the offseason.
Seeing him get injured hit the locker
room hard because, for a bunch of younger Bears cornerback Dane Cruikshank, from left, safety DeAndre Houston-Carson and cornerback 4.The Bears have lost five consecutive
guys, Jackson has proved his value in meet- Kindle Vildor walk away after allowing a Jets touchdown in the first quarter Sunday. games for the third consecutive season
ings, as a teammate on the sideline and in and now own the second-worst record
more ways than you can imagine. Last week, Eberflus laid out three boxes of 30,000-feet questions now that’s going
that had to be checked for Fields to play: to be talked about by teams,” Cosell said, in the league at 3-9.They trail only the
“He’s helped in the biggest way,” said „„He needed clearance from the medical “particularly when it comes to the draft hapless Houston Texans, who are 1-9-1. That
rookie cornerback Jaylon Jones, who staff — and there’s a difference between because there will be more college quar- means if the draft were based on the current
played Sunday with Gordon out. “He’s getting the OK to participate in non-con- terbacks that come out that have move- standings, general manager Ryan Poles
definitely the vet on the team. He also has tact practice and to play in a game. ment ability and that are not necessarily would own the No. 2 pick. That’s rare terri-
an aura about him that is contagious. He „„He needed to express confidence to precision pocket players but can provide tory for the Bears, who have picked second
has this confidence about him that just coaches he was good to go and could this kind of explosive movement outside of only three times. Former GM Ryan Pace
wears off on all of us. He’s gone out of the protect himself. structure or by design in the run game. traded up one slot to that position in 2017
way to take that leadership role. „„The coaches had to sign off. to get Mitch Trubisky. The Bears selected
“So I had this conversation actually with Notre Dame quarterback Bob Williams with
“I’ve got a lot of respect for that man. I “He was 0-for-3,” Eberflus said. someone this week. What have we learned the No. 2 pick in 1951, one of the first shots
can’t speak highly of him enough.” What are the chances Fields bats 1.000 this year about Justin Fields? And it’s a very they took at replacing Sid Luckman, whom
this week? I don’t know. I do know the legitimate question, by the way, and I’m not they got with the second pick in 1939.
Brisker detailed before the season how Bears have an open date after hosting taking sides. I’ve been going back and forth
Jackson had him over to his house to help the Packers, so they could give him three in my brain about this for the last number Three other teams have only three
Brisker study, prepare and learn. Jackson weeks off and have him miss only two of weeks because I have watched every wins. The Pittsburgh Steelers (3-7) visited
opened his home on Thanksgiving to team- games. Eberflus has said Fields will be back one of Fields’ games this year because it’s a the Indianapolis Colts on Monday night.
mates who didn’t have family in the area when he’s ready, but you have to imagine fascinating case study. Then there are the Los Angeles Rams and
and had his personal chef cook for every- the Bears will entertain the idea of an extra Denver Broncos, who are both 3-8 and
one. week if they feel like he’s close but maybe “By NFL standards — and what I am already traded their first-round pick. The
not all the way there. about to say is based purely on tape — Rams’ selection belongs to the Detroit
“There were too many teammates there It’s important for Fields to play as much their pass game is remedial and elemen- Lions and the Broncos’ pick is owned
to count,” Jones told me. “Not just DBs. possible in the final five games without tary. They run the ball with Fields both by by the Seattle Seahawks, part of expen-
Offense and defense. (Darnell) Mooney, exposing him to a more serious injury. The design and he makes special out-of-struc- sive quarterback trades. Nine teams have
Justin (Fields), lots and lots of guys. Eddie offense took a major jump forward in a ture plays. So can you play quarterback in only four wins, so plenty can change with
is just a good dude. The food was amaz- span of four games starting in late October. the NFL like that? In other words, are we six weeks and, for the Bears, five games
ing, and since a lot of us, we’re not from Who’s to say what can be done in three or going to say that, ‘Hey, some quarterbacks remaining.
Chicago, so if you didn’t have family, ‘Bo’ four more games? You want to see Fields are just different than what you know (as)
just invited us over.” throwing downfield to Chase Claypool the conventional’ … in other words, I’m just The crowd that’s all for the Bears losing
and hitting Byron Pringle on in-breaking an old guy who is thinking about quarter- every week to maximize draft position
Said rookie safety Elijah Hicks, who routes. You want to see him throwing more back 20 years ago and that, ‘Hey, running forgets one thing. Poles has to build a roster
came in when Jackson was injured: “He’s to Cole Kmet. is just as important or more important as for 2023 largely based off the current team.
been doing that all year. I’ve been over A ton of growth needs to happen for passing for an NFL quarterback if that is Probably about 30 players from the 2022
there to his place a couple other times to the Bears passing game. I referenced NFL what your skill set is.’ team will make the roster to start next
get haircuts, all kinds of stuff. That’s what Films’ Greg Cosell earlier this season season. You know what kind of nucleus
he does for us. I was just praying for Eddie because he’s about the most measured “That comes back to my question: What you’re likely to get from a team that wins
because he’s a baller, for sure, and I hope analyst you’re going to find. Cosell shares have we learned about Justin Fields this only three or four games? A pretty bad one.
he’s straight.” what he sees on film, and he discussed year? They don’t really run an NFL passing The Bears have some players who, when
Fields when he made his regular appear- game in the strict sense, and we know he surrounded by better talent, will raise the
Jackson was the player who broke the ance on the “Ross Tucker Football is a dynamic, explosive runner who is 230 level of their play. But they don’t have the
team down after pregame warmups. Podcast.” pounds. It’s a philosophical question with- kind of difference makers needed to swing
“This is one of the most fascinating sort out, I think, a defined answer. I am sure ballgames.
“His speech was, ‘Get a win by any there are coaches who will say, ‘Hey, we’ve
means,’ ” Jones said. “We didn’t do it, but learned nothing because at some point One factor that would make the team’s
you can see the type of guy he is. All he current downward trajectory palatable
wants to do is win. He puts his body on the is if it creates a situation where Poles can
line. Just respect a guy like that.” auction off that draft pick for a huge bounty
of picks to a team seeking to move up for
3. There are plenty of questions for the a quarterback. Even then, you’d probably
week ahead, none bigger than whether be talking about some picks in 2024 and
Fields will play against the Green Bay maybe even 2025. A lot of work is needed
to rebuild this roster, and the beating the
Packers on Sunday at Soldier Field. That’s Bears took Sunday is a reminder.
a good question,” Eberflus said after the
game. “We think that he’s getting better
every single day. He felt better every single
day. At game time today, he wasn’t ready to
go perform and protect himself. I suspect
we’ll see how it goes. We’re going to leave
it day to day and we’ll decide one day at a
time. If he keeps progressing, then he’s got
an opportunity to do so.”

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SCOREBOARD

NBA NHL COLLEGE BASKETBALL SOCCER

EASTERN CONFERENCE EASTERN CONFERENCE HOW MEN’S AP TOP 25 FARED FIFA WORLD CUP QATAR
ATLANTIC W L PCT GB ATLANTIC GP W L OT PTS GF GA No. 1 Houston (6-0) did not play. Next: x-advanced to second round
vs. Norfolk State, Tuesday. FIRST ROUND
Boston 17 4 .810 — Boston 21 18 3 0 36 85 47 No. 2 Texas (5-0) did not play. Next: No. GROUP A W L T GF GA PTS
Philadelphia 12 9 .571 5 Toronto 24 14 5 5 33 73 61 7 Creighton, Thursday.
Toronto 11 9 .550 5 1/2 Tampa Bay 21 13 7 1 27 75 68 No. 3 Virginia (5-0) did not play. Next: Netherlands 1 0 1 3 1 4
Brooklyn 11 11 .500 6 1/2 Detroit 21 11 6 4 26 68 65 at Michigan, Tuesday. Ecuador 1 0 1 3 1 4
New York Florida 21 10 8 3 23 74 71 No. 4 Arizona (6-1) did not play. Next: Senegal 1 1 0 3 1 3
9 11 .450 7 1/2 Montreal 21 11 9 1 23 65 73 at Utah, Thursday. Qatar 0 2 0 1 5 0
Buffalo 22 9 12 1 19 81 79 No. 5 Purdue (6-0) did not play. Next: at
SOUTHEAST W L PCT GB Ottawa 21 8 12 1 17 66 71 Florida State, Wednesday. TUESDAY’S MATCHES
Washington METRO. GP W L OT PTS GF GA No. 6 Baylor (5-1) did not play. Next: at Netherlands vs. Qatar, 10 a.m.
Atlanta 11 10 .524 — Marquette, Tuesday. Ecuador vs. Senegal, 10 a.m.
Miami 11 10 .524 — No. 7 Creighton (6-1) did not play. Next:
Charlotte 10 11 .476 1 New Jersey 23 19 4 0 38 87 51 at No. 2 Texas, Thursday. GROUP B W L T GF GA PTS
Orlando 5 N.Y. Islanders 23 15 8 0 30 77 59 No. 8 UConn (8-0) did not play. Next: vs.
6 15 .286 6 Carolina 22 11 6 5 27 61 61 Oklahoma State, Thursday. England 1 0 1 6 2 4
5 16 .238 Pittsburgh 22 11 8 3 25 77 70 No. 9 Kansas (7-1) beat Texas Southern Iran 1 1 0 4 6 3
N.Y. Rangers 23 10 9 4 24 69 67 87-55. Next: vs. Seton Hall, Thursday. 1 2
CENTRAL W L PCT GB Washington 23 9 11 3 21 62 74 No. 10 Indiana (6-0) did not play. Next: United States 0 0 2 1 3 1
Milwaukee 14 5 .737 — Philadelphia 22 7 10 5 19 53 74 vs. No. 18 North Carolina, Wednesday. Wales 0 1 1 1
Cleveland 13 8 .619 2 Columbus 21 7 12 2 16 62 89 No. 11 Alabama (6-1) did not play. Next: TUESDAY’S MATCHES
Indiana 11 8 .579 3 vs. South Dakota State, Saturday. Wales vs. England, 2 p.m.
Chicago No. 11 Arkansas (6-1) beat Troy 74-61. Iran vs. United States, 2 p.m.
Detroit 8 11 .421 6 WESTERN CONFERENCE Next: vs. San Jose State, Saturday.
5 17 .227 10 1/2 CENTRAL GP W L OT PTS GF GA No. 13 Tennessee (5-1) did not play. GROUP C W L T GF GA PTS Coach Doug Pederson had the Jaguars go for a two-point
Next: vs. McNeese St., Wednesday. conversion and the victory in the final seconds against the
WESTERN CONFERENCE Dallas 23 13 6 4 30 89 66 No. 14 Gonzaga (5-2) did not play Next: Poland 1 0 1 2 0 4 Ravens on Sunday. The Jags won 28-27. JOHN RAOUX/AP
SOUTHWEST W L PCT GB Winnipeg 20 13 6 1 27 63 53 at No. 6 Baylor, Friday. 3
Colorado 19 12 6 1 25 68 47 No. 15 Auburn (7-0) did not play. Next: Argentina 1 1 0 3 2 3 ON THE NFL
vs. Colgate, Friday. Saudi Arabia 1 1 0 2 2 1
New Orleans 12 8 .600 — Minnesota 21 10 9 2 22 62 62 No. 16 Illinois (5-1) did not play. Next: Mexico 0 1 1 0 2 Fortune favors
Memphis 12 8 .600 — St. Louis 22 11 11 0 22 63 79 vs Syracuse, Tuesday. bold coaches
Dallas Nashville 20 9 9 2 20 53 65 No. 17 Duke (6-2) did not play. Next: vs. WEDNESDAY’S MATCHES
San Antonio 9 10 .474 2 1/2 No. 25 Ohio State, Wednesday. At Al Rayyan, Qatar (Education City)
Houston 6 15 .286 6 1/2 Arizona 20 7 10 3 17 54 70 No. 18 North Carolina (5-2) did not play Poland vs. Argentina, 2p.m.
5 14 .263 6 1/2 Chicago 21 6 11 4 16 52 78 Next: at No. 10 Indiana, Wednesday.
No. 19 Kentucky (4-2) did not play. Saudi Arabia vs. Mexico, 2p.m.
PACIFIC GP W L OT PTS GF GA Next: vs. Bellarmine, Tuesday.
NORTHWEST W L PCT GB No. 20 Michigan State (5-2) did not
Denver 12 7 .632 — Vegas 24 17 6 1 35 85 65 play. Next: at Notre Dame, Wednesday. GROUP D W L T GF GA PTS
Portland 11 9 .550 1 1/2 No. 21 UCLA (5-2) did not play. Next: at
Utah 12 10 .545 1 1/2 Seattle 21 13 5 3 29 75 60 Stanford, Thursday. x-France 2 0 0 6 2 6
Minnesota 10 11 .476 3 Los Angeles 24 12 9 3 27 77 81 No. 22 Maryland (6-0) did not play. 3
Oklahoma City Edmonton 21 11 10 0 22 70 76 Next: at Louisville, Tuesday. Australia 1 1 0 2 4 1
8 13 .381 5 No. 23 Iowa State (5-1) did not play. Denmark 0 1 1 1 2 1
Calgary 21 9 9 3 21 61 68 Next: vs. North Dakota, Wednesday. Tunisia 0 1 1 0 1
Vancouver 22 9 10 3 21 79 83 No. 24 San Diego St. (4-2) did not play.
San Jose 24 7 13 4 18 72 89 Next: vs. UC Irvine, Tuesday. WEDNESDAY’S MATCHES
No. 25 Ohio State (5-1) did not play. At Al Rayyan, Qatar (Education City)
PACIFIC W L PCT GB Anaheim 22 6 15 1 13 58 94 next: at No. 17 Duke, Wednesday. Tunisia vs. France, 10a.m.
Phoenix 13 6 .684 — NOTE: Two points for a win, one point
L.A. Clippers 12 9 .571 2 for overtime loss. Top three teams in At Al Wakrah, Qatar
Sacramento 10 8 .556 2 1/2 Australia vs. Denmark, 10a.m.
Golden State 11 10 .524 3 each division and two wild cards per
L.A. Lakers conference advance to playoffs.
7 11 .389 5 1/2 GROUP E W L T GF GA PTS By Rob Maadi Brady on the field isn’t
considered a gamble. It’s
MONDAY’S RESULTS Spain 1 0 1 8 1 4 Associated Press standard procedure when
Toronto 4, Detroit 2 Japan 1 1 0 2 2 3 the seven-time Super Bowl
MONDAY’S RESULTS New Jersey 5, N.Y. Rangers 3 Costa Rica 1 1 0 1 7 3 With the ball in Tom champion is under center.
Washington 142, Minnesota 127 Tampa Bay 6, Buffalo 5, OT Germany 0 1 1 2 3 1 Brady’s hands, Todd
Philadelphia 104, Atlanta 101 Vegas 3, Columbus 2, SO THURSDAY’S MATCHES Bowles played it safe and The Bucs had three
Boston 140, Charlotte 105 Dallas 4, St. Louis 1 At Al Rayyan (Khalifa) lost. Doug Pederson and timeouts and the ball at
Toronto 100, Cleveland 88 Florida at Edmonton, late Japan vs. Spain, 2p.m. Brandon Staley went for their 25 with 32 seconds
Brooklyn 109, Orlando 102 MONDAY’S SCORES At Al Khor, Qatar broke and celebrated wins. to go in the fourth quarter
New Orleans 105, Oklahoma City 101 EAST Costa Rica vs. Germany, 2p.m. after the Browns tied the
Chicago at Utah, late TUESDAY’S GAMES Amherst 94, No. Vermont-Johnson 64 Aggressive coaching game at 17-17.
Houston at Denver, late Carolina at Pittsburgh, 6p.m. Assumption 60, Molloy 57 GROUP F W L T GF GA PTS paid off Sunday.
Phoenix at Sacramento, late San Jose at Montreal, 6p.m. Brandeis 76, Emerson 70 In Week 9, Brady needed
Indiana at L.A. Lakers, late Tampa Bay at Boston, 6p.m. Bryant 98, Framingham St. 44 Croatia 1 0 1 4 1 4 The Buccaneers lost just 35 seconds with all of
N.Y. Islanders at Philadelphia, 6:30p.m. Marist 52, Columbia 39 23-17 against the Browns his timeouts to drive his
TUESDAY’S GAMES Anaheim at Nashville, 7p.m. Neumann 75, Penn St.-Harrisburg 66 Morocco 1 0 1 2 0 4 in overtime in a game that team 60 yards for a come-
New York at Detroit, 6p.m. Colorado at Winnipeg, 7p.m. Ramapo 84, City College (NY) 54 Belgium 1 1 0 1 2 3 Brady had a chance to win back win against the Rams.
Golden State at Dallas, 6:30p.m. Florida at Calgary, 8p.m. Roberts Wesleyan 78, Nyack 61 Canada 0 2 0 1 5 0 in regulation with another He has led a winning drive
L.A. Clippers at Portland, 9p.m. Washington at Vancouver, 9p.m. Sacred Heart 100, W. New England 59 THURSDAY’S MATCHES one of his vintage drives in in fourth quarter/overtime
Seattle at Los Angeles, 9:30p.m.. Shippensburg 70, Bowie St. 58 At Al Rayyan, Qatar (Ahmad bin Ali) the final minute. His coach an NFL-record 55 times in
Trinity (Conn.) 73, Elms 55 Croatia vs. Belgium, 10 a.m.At Doha, didn’t trust the GOAT to the regular season and 14
SUNDAY’S RESULTS UC Davis 81, Boston U. 70, OT Qatar (Al Thumama) make it happen. more in the playoffs.
Brooklyn 111, Portland 97 SUNDAY’S RESULTS Utica 87, Cazenovia 67 Canada vs. Morocco, 10a.m.
Golden State 137, Minnesota 114 Minnesota 4, Arizona 3 West Chester 86, Georgian Court 59 Bowles didn’t call a This time, the Bucs
L.A. Clippers 114, Indiana 100 Winnipeg 7, Chicago 2 Wilmington (DC) 75, Kutztown 67 GROUP G W L T GF GA PTS timeout and chose to play needed 43 yards to give
Miami 106, Atlanta 98 Vancouver 4, San Jose 3, OT SOUTH for overtime. It backfired. Ryan Succop an attempt at
Boston 130, Washington 121 Seattle 5, Anaheim 4 Alabama A&M 71, Fisk 55 x-Brazil 2 0 0 3 0 6 a 50-yard field goal to win.
Philadelphia 133, Orlando 103 Ottawa 3, Los Angeles 2, OT Grambling St. 73, Dartmouth 49 Switzerland 1 1 0 1 1 3 Pederson and Staley
Cleveland 102, Detroit 94 Miles 70, Morehouse 62 Cameroon 0 1 1 3 4 1 avoided OT and went for Brady tossed a 1-yard
Memphis 127, New York 123 Mississippi St. 74, Omaha 54 Serbia 0 1 1 3 5 1 two-point conversions. It pass to Rachaad White on
Milwaukee 124, Dallas 115 Southern U. 112, Champion Christian 52 MONDAY’S RESULTS worked. first down and the Bucs
COLLEGE FOOTBALL Tulane 75, Louisiana-Monroe 60 At Al Wakrah, Qatar could’ve stopped the clock
FBS SCHEDULE UT Martin 86, McNeese St. 83 Cameroon 3, Serbia 3 The Jaguars upset the with about 26 seconds left.
NFL FRIDAY’S GAMES Virginia Tech 67, Minnesota 57 At Doha, Qatar (974) Ravens when Peder-
Akron (2-9) at Buffalo (5-6), noon MIDWEST son decided to go for a Instead, Bowles let it
AMERICAN CONFERENCE Conference USA Championship Central St. (Ohio) 70, Savannah St. 66 Brazil 1, Switzerland 0 two-pointer after Trevor tick, tick, tick.
San Antonio, Tex. Milwaukee 84, SE Missouri 68 FRIDAY’S MATCHES Lawrence tossed a 10-yard
EAST W L T PCT PF PA UTSA (10-2) vs. North Texas (7-5), 6:30 p.m. South Dakota 97, Mount Marty 58 At Lusail, Qatar touchdown pass to Marvin After Brady fired a
Pacific-12 Championship, Las Vegas Winona St. 83, Viterbo 68 Jones with 14 seconds left 26-yard completion to
Buffalo 8 3 0 .727 309 199 Southern Cal (11-1) vs. Utah (9-3), 7 p.m. SOUTHWEST Cameroon vs. Brazil, 2p.m. to pull within a point. Julio Jones on the next
SATURDAY’S GAMES SW Oklahoma 122, Randall 81 At Doha, Qatar (974) Lawrence connected with play to reach the the
Miami 8 3 0 .727 282 256 Big 12 Championships, Arlington, Texas Texas-Arlington 99, Howard Payne 41 Serbia vs. Switzerland, 2p.m. Zay Jones on the conver- Browns 48, only 8 seconds
N.Y. Jets 7 4 0 .636 230 196 TCU (12-0) vs. Kansas State (9-3), 11 a.m. UTSA 68, Incarnate Word 62 sion and the Jaguars beat remained when the Bucs
New England 6 5 0 .545 239 202 Mid-American Championship, Detroit HOW WOMEN’S AP TOP 25 FARED the Ravens 28-27. finally used their first time-
SOUTH W L T PCT PF PA Ohio (9-3) vs. Toledo (7-5), 11a.m. No. 1 South Carolina (6-0) did not play. GROUP H W L T GF GA PTS out. Following an incom-
Sun Belt Championship, Troy, Ala. Next: vs. No. 15 UCLA, Tuesday. The same scenario plete pass, Brady could
Tennessee 7 4 0 .636 209 205 Troy (10-2) vs. Coastal Carolina (9-2), No. 2 Stanford (8-1) did not play. Next: x-Portugal 2 0 0 5 2 6 unfolded later for the only try a Hail Mary on the
vs. Santa Clara, Wednesday. Ghana 1 1 0 5 5 3 Chargers against the final play before OT.
Indianapolis 4 7 1 .375 190 244 2:30p.m. No. 3 UConn (5-0) did not play. Next: at South Korea 0 1 1 2 3 1 Cardinals when Justin
Jacksonville 4 7 0 .364 244 232 SWAC Championship, Jackson, Miss. Providence, Friday. Herbert threw a 1-yard Fox analyst Jonathan
Houston 1 9 1 .136 174 260 Jackson State (11-0) vs. No. 4 Ohio State (6-0) did not play. Uruguay 0 1 1 0 2 1 TD pass to Austin Ekeler Vilma called Bowles’ deci-
Next: at No. 18 Louisville, Wednesday. MONDAY’S RESULTS with 15 seconds remaining sion to not use a timeout
NORTH W L T PCT PF PA Southern U. (7-4), 3p.m. No. 5 Indiana (7-0) did not play. Next: At Al Rayyan, Qatar (Education City) to get the visitors within a after the first play of the
Mountain West Championship, vs. No. 6 North Carolina, Thursday. point. Herbert then hit series “inexplicable.”
Baltimore 7 4 0 .636 275 227 Boise, Idaho No. 6 North Carolina (6-0) did not play. South Korea 2, Ghana 3 Gerald Everett for the
Cincinnati 7 4 0 .636 285 231 Boise St. (9-3) vs. Fresno St. (8-4), 3p.m. Next: at No. 5 Indiana, Thursday. At Lusail, Qatar two-pointer to give the Bowles coached scared
Cleveland 4 7 0 .364 263 286 SEC Championship, Atlanta No. 7 Notre Dame (6-0) did not play. Portugal 2, Uruguay 0 Chargers a 25-24 victory. to lose. The Bucs are fortu-
Pittsburgh 4 7 0 .364 193 261 Georgia (12-0) vs. LSU (9-3), 3p.m. Next: vs. No. 20 Maryland, Thursday. FRIDAY’S MATCHES nate they’re in the weak
WEST W L T PCT PF PA American Atlantic Championships, No. 8 Iowa State (5-1) did not play. At Al Rayyan, Qatar (Education City) Pederson and Staley are NFC South where 5-6 is
New Orleans Next: Southern Illinois, Tuesday. known for making bold good enough for first place.
Kansas City 9 2 0 .818 326 243 Tulane (10-2) vs. UCF (9-3), 3p.m. No. 9 Virginia Tech (6-0) did not play. South Korea vs. Portugal, 10a.m. decisions. In the Jaguars’
L.A. Chargers 6 5 0 .545 252 282 ACC Championship, Charlotte, N.C. Next: vs. Nebraska, Thursday. At Al Wakrah, Qatar case, Pederson had noth- When Pederson was
Las Vegas 4 7 0 .364 265 276 North Carolina (9-3) vs. Clemson (10-2), No. 10 Iowa (5-2) did not play. Next: vs. Ghana vs. Uruguay, 10a.m. ing to lose because his asked about going for the
Denver 3 8 0 .273 157 194 No. 12 NC State, Thursday. team is 4-7 and headed win, he said: “We’ve got
7p.m. No. 11 LSU (7-0) did not play. Next: vs. WORLD CUP SCORING LEADERS nowhere this season. The to think players, not plays,
Big Ten Championship, Indianapolis SE Louisiana, Tuesday. Kylian Mbappe France 3 Chargers (6-5) are in the and trust our guys.”
NATIONAL CONFERENCE Michigan (12-0) vs. Purdue (8-4), 7p.m. No. 12 NC State (6-1) did not play. Next: Enner Valencia Ecuador 3 playoff chase, so Staley’s
EAST W L T PCT PF PA FCS PLAYOFFS at No. 10 Iowa, Thursday. call was more risky. Staley also trusted his
SATURDAY’S SECOND ROUND No. 13 Creighton (6-0) did not play. Lionel Messi Argentina 3 team.
Philadelphia 9 1 0 .900 263 183 New Hampshire at Holy Cross, 11a.m. Next: at No. 25 Villanova, Friday. Gue-Sung Cho S. Korea 2 Bowles didn’t even try.
Dallas 8 3 0 .727 279 187 Gardner-Webb at William & Mary, 1p.m. No. 14 Arizona (6-0) did not play. Next: Calling a timeout with “We wanted to finish the
N.Y. Giants 7 4 0 .636 225 232 Furman at Incarnate Word, 1p.m. at New Mexico, Sunday. Bruno Fernandes Portugal 2 game on our terms,” Staley
Delaware at South Dakota St., 2p.m. No. 15 UCLA (7-0) did not play. Next: at Cody Gakpo Netherlands 2 said.
Washington 7 5 0 .583 233 236 SE Louisiana at Samford, 2p.m. No. 1 South Carolina, Tuesday. Olivier Giroud France 2
SOUTH W L T PCT PF PA Weber St. at Montana St., 2p.m. No. 16 Utah (6-0) beat did not play.
Montana at North Dakota St., 2:30p.m. Next: at MVSU, Thursday. Andrej Kramaric Croatia 2
Richmond at Sacramento St., 4p.m. No. 17 Michigan (7-0) did not play. Mohammed Kudus Ghana 2
Tampa Bay 5 6 0 .455 200 203 Next: at Miami, Thursday. Alvaro Morata Spain 2
Atlanta 5 7 0 .417 272 293 No. 18 Louisville (5-2) did not play.
Carolina 4 8 0 .333 230 266 Next: vs. No. 4 Ohio State, Wednesday. Richarlison Brazil 2
No. 19 Oregon (5-1) did not play. Next: Bukayo Saka England 2
New Orleans 4 8 0 .333 249 280 at Portland, Saturday. Mehdi Taremi Iran 2
NORTH W L T PCT PF PA No. 20 Maryland (6-2) did not play.
Next: at No. 7 Notre Dame, Thursday. Ferran Torres Spain 2
Minnesota 9 2 0 .818 262 257 No. 21 Baylor (5-2) did not play. Next:
Detroit 4 7 0 .364 275 310 vs. Houston Baptist, Sunday. TENNIS
Green Bay 4 7 0 .364 202 243 No. 22 Texas (3-3) did not play. Next: WTA ANDOORA OPEN
Chicago 3 9 0 .250 251 305 vs. South Florida, Friday. Monday at Poliesportiu d’Andorra,
WEST W L T PCT PF PA No. 23 Gonzaga (6-1) beat Maine 62-43. Andorra la Vella, Andorra, indoor-hard
Next: at Stephen F. Austin, Thursday. WOMEn’S SINGLES, ROUND OF 32
San Francisco 7 4 0 .636 249 173 MLB No. 24 Marquette (6-1) did not play. Sabine Lisicki d. #6 Sara Errani,
Seattle 6 5 0 .545 291 281 Next: at Georgetown, Friday.
Arizona 4 8 0 .333 264 321 No. 25 Villanova (6-1) did not play. 7-5, 6-3.
L.A. Rams 3 8 0 .273 178 253 6P0L0A+YEDROSUWBILTEHS3, ,500000++ HCAORMEEERRHUINTSS, Next: vs. No. 13 Creighton, Friday. Oceane Dodin d. Anastasia Zakharova,

WEEK 12 SLUGGER H HR 2B AVG 6-3, 6-7(6), 6-2.
MONDAY’S RESULT Katrina Scott d. Jessika Ponchet,
Pittsburgh at Indianapolis, late Albert Pujols 3384 703 686 .296
SUNDAY’S RESULTS Miguel Cabrera 3088 507 607 .308 7-6(4), 6-7(7), 7-6(6).
Carolina 23, Denver 10 Henry Aaron 3771 755 624 .305 Rebecca Peterson d. Arantxa Rus,
Cincinnati 20, Tennessee 16
Cleveland 23, Tampa Bay 17, OT EDGAR MARTINEZ OUTSTANDING 6-4, 7-5.
Jacksonville 28, Baltimore 27 DESIGNATED HITTER AWARD
Miami 30, Houston 15 2o22 Winner: Shohei Ohtani, LA Angels ODDS
N.Y. Jets 31, Chicago 10 AVG HR RBI H R 2B OPS WAR
Washington 19, Atlanta 13 .273 34 95 160 90 30 .875 9.6 NBA TUESDAY
L.A. Chargers 25, Arizona 24
Las Vegas 40, Seattle 34, OT RECENT EDGAR MARTINEZ DH WINNERS FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG
Kansas City 26, L.A. Rams 10 New York 4 (2241/2) at Detroit
San Francisco 13, New Orleans 0 YEAR PLAYER TEAM at Dallas PK (2261/2) Golden State
Green Bay at Philadelphia, 8:20 p.m.
2021 Shohei Ohtani LA Angels at Portland 2 (217) LA Clippers IN BRIEF

2020 Marcell Ozuna Atlanta THE MEN’S AP TOP 25 POLL NHL TUESDAY Houston tops AP poll
2019 Nelson Cruz Minnesota for 1st time since 1983
2018 Khris Davis Oakland RK. SCHOOL W-L PTS LW CP FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE
WEEK 13 at Boston -164 Tampa Bay +136
THURSDAY’S GAME 2017 Nelson Cruz Seattle 1. Houston (45) 6-0 1,534 2 1 at Montreal -118 San Jose -102
Buffalo at New England, 8:15p.m. 2016 David Ortiz Boston
SUNDAY, DEC. 4 2015 Kendrys Morales Kansas City 2. Texas (8) 5-0 1,467 4 2 at Pittsburgh -118 Carolina -102
Cleveland at Houston, 1p.m. 3. Virginia (2) 5-0 1,408 5 3 New York -182 at Philadelphia +150
Denver at Baltimore, 1p.m. 2014 Victor Martinez Detroit 4. Arizona 6-0 1,341 14 4 at Nashville -230 Anaheim +188
Green Bay at Chicago, 1p.m. 2013 David Ortiz Boston Colorado -134 at Winnipeg +112
Jacksonville at Detroit, 1p.m. 5. Purdue (8) 6-0 1,307 24 5 at Calgary -140 Florida +116
N.Y. Jets at Minnesota, 1p.m. 2012 Billy Butler Kansas City 6. Baylor 5-1 1,111 7 10
Pittsburgh at Atlanta, 1p.m. 2011 David Ortiz Boston at Vancouver -125 Washington +104
Tennessee at Philadelphia, 1p.m. 7. Creighton 6-1 1,100 10 7 at Los Angeles -118 Seattle -102
Washington at N.Y. Giants, 1p.m. 2010 Vladimir Guerrero Texas 8. UConn 8-0 1,099 20 6
Miami at San Francisco, 4:05p.m. 2009 Adam Lind Toronto entered the transfer portal
Seattle at L.A. Rams, 4:05p.m. 2008 Aubrey Huff Baltimore 9. Kansas 6-1 990 3 9 COLLEGE BASKETBALL TUESDAY News services as a graduate student. Last
Kansas City at Cincinnati, 4:25p.m. 10. Indiana 6-0 938 11 8 season, McNamara led the
L.A. Chargers at Las Vegas, 4:25p.m. 2007 David Ortiz Boston 11. Arkansas 5-1 860 9 11 FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG Make some room, Phi Wolverines to their first
Indianapolis at Dallas, 8:20p.m. Furman 71/2 at Appalachian St. Slama Jama. Another Big Ten title under Jim
Open: Arizona, Carolina 2006 David Ortiz Boston 11. Alabama 6-1 860 18 14 at St. John’s (NY) 291/2 LIU Brooklyn Houston team has reached Harbaugh and a berth in
MONDAY, DEC. 5 2005 David Ortiz Boston the top of men’s college the College Football Play-
New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 8:15p.m. 2004 David Ortiz Boston 13. Tennessee 5-1 848 22 13 UMass 11/2 at South Florida basketball. off. He lost the starting job
14. Gonzaga 5-2 845 6 12 after the opening game this
2003 David Ortiz Boston 15. Auburn 7-0 733 13 19 Maryland 111/2 at Louisville Nearly four decades season.
at Charleston (SC)6 1/2 Old Dominion after Clyde Drexler and NBA: All-Star big man
2002 Ellis Burks Cleveland 16. Illinois 5-1 643 16 17 at Clemson 1/2 Penn State Akeem Olajuwon took Karl-Anthony Towns left
2001 Edgar Martinez Seattle the Cougars to No. 1 in the Timberwolves’ 142-127
2000 Edgar Martinez Seattle 17. Duke 6-2 614 8 16 at Davidson 61/2 Charlotte 1983, the latest bunch loss to the Wizards with a
18. North Carolina 5-2 541 1 15 led by Marcus Sasser right calf injury. Towns
LATE SUNDAY: 1999 Rafael Palmiero Texas 19. Kentucky 4-2 472 15 18 at NC State 191/2 William & Mary and star freshman Jarace will undergo an MRI
PHILADELPHIA 40, GREEN BAY 33 at Duquesne 21/2 UCSB Walker took over the top on Tuesday, but ESPN
Green Bay 14 6 3 10 — 33 1998 Edgar Martinez Seattle 20. Michigan State 5-2 469 12 20 at Illinois 111/2 Syracuse spot in the AP Top 25 on reported that the team
Philadelphia 13 14 7 6 — 40 1997 Edgar Martinez Seattle Monday. They received is optimistic he avoided
First Quarter 1996 Paul Molitor Minnesota 21. UCLA 5-2 346 19 21 Missouri 11/2 at Wichita State 45 of 63 first-place votes a serious injury. ... The
Phi: Gainwell 4run (Elliott kick), 11:19. 22. Maryland 6-0 282 23 22 from the national media Mavericks were close to
Phi: Sanders 15run (kick failed), 9:03. 1995 Edgar Martinez Seattle 23. Iowa State 5-1 198 -- 23 at Southern Miss 51/2 Montana panel, easily outdistanc- signing four-time All-Star
GB: Dillon 20run (Crosby kick), 6:45. at UMKC 51/2 Idaho State ing second-place Texas G Kemba Walker. The
GB: Cobb 11 pass from Rodgers (Crosby 1994 Not awarded 24. San Diego State 4-2 189 17 24 at Tarleton State 81/2 Weber State and third-place Virginia. career of the 32-year-old
kick), 3:12. 1993 Paul Molitor Toronto Walker has been on hold
Second Quarter 1992 Dave Winfield Toronto 25. Ohio State 5-1 108 -- 25 Baylor 41/2 at Marquette Houston is coming off a because of knee issues. He
Phi: Sanders 2run (Elliott kick), 14:54. Others: TCU 45, Iowa 31, Charleston Final Four and Elite Eight was limited 37 games last
GB: A.Jones 23pass from Rodgers (kick 1991 Chili Davis Minnesota 20, West Virginia 14, Mississippi State at Iowa 141/2 Georgia Tech trip the last two seasons. season, the only one for his
failed), 7:41. at Wisconsin 61/2 Wake Forest Baseball: The World hometown Knicks.
Phi: Q.Watkins 30pass from Hurts 1990 Dave Parker Milwaukee 12, Texas Tech 11, Michigan 8, UNLV 6, at Boise State 191/2 CSU Northridge Series champion Astros NFL: The Chiefs signed
(Elliott kick), :13. 1989 Dave Parker Oakland and former AL MVP José two-time Pro Bowl RB
Third Quarter 1988 Harold Baines Chi White Sox Arizona State 6, Wisconsin 6, Miami Virginia 31/2 at MICHIGAN Abreu agreed to a three- Melvin Gordon, recently
Phi: Brown 6pass from Hurts (Elliott (FL) 5, Oklahoma 2, Missouri 2, New year contract, according released by the Broncos
kick), 7:14. 1987 Harold Baines Chi White Sox Mexico 1, Kansas State 1, Virginia Tech at San Diego St. 131/2 UC Irvine to reports. Financial details after a rash of fumbles,
GB: FG Crosby 29, 2:03. weren’t available. Abreu, to their practice squad.
Fourth Quarter 1986 Don Baylor Boston 1, St. John’s 1. COLLEGE FOOTBALL FRIDAY who turns 36 in January, Gordon, 29, has 318 rush-
Phi: FG Elliott 31, 11:11. 1985 Don Baylor NY Yankees has played all nine of his ing yards and 25 catches in
GB: Watson 63 pass from Love (Crosby 1984 Dave Kingman Oakland FAVORITE NOW O/U UNDERDOG big league seasons after 10 games this season.
kick), 9:00. at Buffalo 121/2 (551/2) Akron defecting from Cuba.
Phi: FG Elliott 54, 2:16. 1983 Greg Luzinski Chi White sox THE WOMEN’S AP TOP 25 POLL at UTSA 81/2 (671/2) North Texas College football: Michi-
GB: FG Crosby 33, 1:08. RK. SCHOOL W-L PTS LW gan QB Cade McNamara
1982 Hal McRae Kansas City at USC 21/2 (661/2) Utah
1981 Greg Luzinski Chi White Sox
1980 Hal McRae Kansas City 1. South Carolina (29) 6-0 725 1 SATURDAY
2. Stanford 8-1 687 2
1979 Willie Horton Seattle 3. UConn 5-0 676 3 at TCU 21/2 (621/2) Kansas State
Toledo 21/2 (551/2) at Ohio
1978 Rusty Staub Detroit 4. Ohio State 6-0 605 4 at Troy 101/2 (481/2) Coast. Carolina
1977 Jim Rice Boston
1976 Hal McRae Kansas City 5. Indiana 7-0 587 6 at Tulane 31/2 (561/2) UCF
6. North Carolina 6-0 577 8
TEAM STATS GB PHI 1975 Willie Horton Detroit 7. Notre Dame 6-0 565 7 at Georgia 171/2 (501/2) LSU
First downs 19 29 at Boise State 31/2 (531/2) Fresno State
Total net yards 342 500 1974 Tommy Davis Baltimore 8. Iowa State 5-1 492 5 at Michigan 161/2 (511/2) Purdue
Rushes-yards 21-106 49-363 1973 Orlando Cepeda Boston
Passing 236 137 9. Virginia Tech 6-0 457 11 Clemson 71/2 (631/2) at N. Carolina
Kickoff returns 5-172 4-91 10. Iowa 5-2 435 9
Interceptions ret. 0-0 2-4 11. LSU 7-0 412 12 NFL WEEK 13 THURSDAY
Comp-att-int 17-25-2 16-28-0 GOLF FAVORITE NOW O/U UNDERDOG
Sacked-yards lost 3-17 2-16 12. N.C. State 6-1 408 13
Punts 2-41.5 1-52.0 13. Creighton 6-0 351 16 Buffalo 41/2 (431/2) atNewEngland
Fumbles-lost 0-0 2-1 WORLD GOLF RANKINGS SUNDAY
Penalties-yards 4-35 3-25 RK. GOLFER COUNTRY AVG 14. Arizona 6-0 350 15
Time of possession 24:26 35:34 15. UCLA 7-0 281 20 at Detroit 11/2 (511/2) Jacksonville
at Atlanta 11/2 (42) Pittsburgh
1. Rory McIlroy N. Ireland 9.19 16. Utah 6-0 280 17 at Philadelphia 51/2 (441/2) Tennessee
2. Scottie Scheffler U.S. 8.82
3. Cameron Smith Australia 8.10 17. Michigan 7-0 265 22 Cleveland 7 (471/2) at Houston
4. Patrick Cantlay 18. Louisville 5-2 262 10 at Minnesota 3 (451/2) NY Jets
5. Jon Rahm U.S. 7.81 Green Bay 21/2 (411/2) at Chicago
6. Xander Schauffele Spain 7.11 19. Oregon 5-1 198 18 Washington 11/2 (401/2) at NY Giants
RUSHING: Green Bay, Dillon 8-64, 7. Will Zalatoris 20. Maryland 6-2 166 14
A.Jones 12-43, Rodgers 1-(minus 1). 8. Justin Thomas U.S. 6.63 21. Baylor 5-2 127 21 at Baltimore 81/2 (381/2) Denver
Philadelphia, Hurts 17-157, Sanders 9. Matt Fitzpatrick Seattle 41/2 (401/2) at LA Rams
21-143, Gainwell 8-39, B.Scott 3-24. 10. Collin Morikawa U.S. 6.09 22. Texas 3-3 126 19 at San Francisco3 1/2 (461/2) Miami
PASSING: GB, Rodgers 11-16-2-140, 11. Tony Finau U.S. 5.71
Love 6-9-0-113. Phi, Hurts 16-28-0-153. 12. Viktor Hovland England 5.58 23. Gonzaga 5-1 85 -- LA Chargers 11/2 (501/2) at Las Vegas
RECEIVING: Green Bay, Watson 4-110, 13. Sam Burns 24. Marquette 6-1 64 -- Kansas City 21/2 (521/2) at Cincinnati
A.Jones 3-56, Dillon 3-24, Tonyan 3-20, 14. Jordan Spieth U.S. 5.31 at Dallas 91/2 (431/2) Indianapolis
Lazard 2-24, Cobb 2-19. Philadelphia, Smith 15. Joohyung Kim U.S. 5.08 25. Villanova 6-1 61 23 MONDAY
4-50, Brown 4-46, Watkins 3-35, Sanders Others : Oklahoma 50, South Dakota
3-17, Gainwell 1-7, Calcaterra 1-(-2). Norway 5.07 State 37, Arkansas 36, Kansas State 25, at Tampa Bay 31/2 (40) New Orleans
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NATIONAL SPORTS REPORT

SHORTS Freeze returning to SEC at Auburn Woods withdraws from own tourney

Hurts, Eagles have them all chasing Auburn is hiring Liberty coach Tiger Woods was out before he was
Hugh Freeze to take over the foot- officially back, withdrawing Monday
Aaron Rodgers entered the Packers’ ball program, more than five years from his Hero World Challenge with
game against the Eagles as the reign- after his resignation from SEC West plantar fasciitis in his right foot. The
ing two-time NFL MVP. Jalen Hurts rival Mississippi amid both personal Hero World Challenge in the Baha-
showed in the head-to-head matchup and NCAA scandals. Auburn athletic mas was to be the start of a December
why he could be the one to take the director John Cohen, who was hired on in golf ruled by Woods, who also has a
award from Rodgers. Hurts cemented Oct. 31, announced the move Monday. made-for-television match next week-
his status as a top MVP candidate with Freeze replaces Bryan Harsin, who was fired Oct. 31 after end, followed by the PNC Championship with his 13-year-
a game that goes down as one of the going 9-12 in less than two seasons. Freeze, 53, is officially old son on Dec. 17-18. Two of those are still on his schedule.
greatest for a QB in Eagles’ history. Yes, even for a fran- 76-47 in 13 seasons as a head coach at Lambuth, Arkan- The foot injury was a surprise and is a big setback for those
chise that boasts Donovan McNabb, Michael Vick and sas State, Mississippi and Liberty. He had 27 wins at Ole who haven’t seen Woods play since July at St. Andrews.
Randall Cunningham, Hurts topped them all in the rush- Miss vacated. Freeze led the Rebels to a 39-25 record and The Hero World Challenge has network coverage on
ing department. Hurts ran for 157 yards in the 40-33 four bowl games and even beat Alabama in back-to-back NBC for the weekend. “In preparation and practice for
victory to set an Eagles record for a QB. He threw for seasons. But he resigned in the summer of 2017 after school this week’s Hero World Challenge, I’ve developed plan-
153 yards and two TDs and became the first player since at officials uncovered a “pattern of personal misconduct” tar fasciitis in my right foot, which is making it difficult
least 1950 with 150-plus yards rushing and 150-plus yards starting with a call to a number used by an escort service to walk,” Woods said on Twitter. “... I have decided to
passing with multiple passing TDs. How so dominant? Let from a university-issued cellphone. The NCAA found withdraw this week and focus on my hosting duties.” The
Jalen sum it up: “I ran,” he said, “and they couldn’t get me.” 21 violations of academic, booster and recruiting miscon- Match is Dec. 10 with Rory McIlroy as his partner compet-
The personal milestones are nice for the 24-year-old, but duct, most of which happened under Freeze’s watch. The ing against Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas. Woods, 46,
it’s team goals he’s chasing. Hurts helped the Eagles move rule-breaking landed Ole Miss on probation, including a has played only three tournaments this year because of a
to 10-1 for the fifth time. The Eagles won NFL champion- two-year postseason ban and recruiting restrictions. right leg weakened by a February 2021 car crash. —AP
ships after starting 10-1 in 1949 and 2017. The other times
they did it, they lost the Super Bowl (1980, 2004).

The United States will face Iran on Tuesday for a spot in the knockout stage at the World Cup in Qatar. TIM NWACHUKWU/GETTY WORLD CUP NOTES

WORLD CUP Portugal, Brazil
advance to last 16
Game of high stakes
Associated Press
In US vs. Iran group match, which prompted the governing body of win the game and one team that didn’t
it’s simple: Win or go home Iranian soccer to demand FIFA expel really want to win the game.” Cristiano Ronaldo wheeled away in celebration, acting
the U.S. from the tournament. He said as though he had scored once again at the World Cup.
By Ronald Blum he did not intend to use the contro- That match took place when memo-
versy as motivation. ries of the 1979 Islamic Revolution Not this time.
Associated Press were still fresh for both countries. Instead, it was Bruno Fernandes eventually credited
“If after 42 years in this game as a with the goal that set up Portugal’s 2-0 win over Uruguay
DOHA, Qatar — The task is clear for coach I still believe that I could win Even the White House was on Monday, advancing the team into the last 16.
the United States: beat Iran in a polit- games with those mental games, I talking about the group-play match Fernandes curled in a cross from the left that barely
ically charged World Cup match or go think I did not learn nothing about the as then-President Bill Clinton and went over the head of the leaping Ronaldo and bounced
home. game,” he said. Secretary of State Madeline Albright into the far corner of the net in the 54th minute to give
used the match to discuss the possi- Portugal a 1-0 lead.
“We have to get out of our group by “We have solidarity with the human- ble resumption of diplomatic relations A grinning Ronaldo threw his arms in the air, suggest-
all means,” U.S. captain Tyler Adams itarian causes all over the world, with Iran, which had been cut off since ing he got the final touch, and was embracing Fernandes
said Monday. “It would feel like a whatever they are or who they are,” the 1979-81 hostage crisis. as multiple close-up replays were being shown on the big
success for us when we make it out of he added. “If you talk about human screens in Lusail Stadium.
the group and then continue on in the rights, racism, kids that die in schools The State Department a month Alas for Ronaldo, the goal wound up being awarded to
tournament.” with shootings, we have solidarity to before that game called Iran the Fernandes, who added a second from the penalty spot in
all those causes, but here our mission is world’s “most active” sponsor of stoppage time after a handball by Jose Maria Gimenez as
A draw or a loss Tuesday night bring the smiles for the people at least terrorism, so nerves were frayed for he slid in to challenge the Manchester United playmaker.
would eliminate the Americans, for 90 minutes.” both nations. “I don’t really think it matters who scored,” Fernandes
who tied Wales 1-1 and England 0-0. said about the first goal. “The feeling at the time was that
England leads Group B with four Adams, who’s Black and grew At this World Cup, Iran rebounded he (Ronaldo) touched the ball — I was crossing it to him —
points, followed by Iran with three, up in a white family, was told by a from a 6-2 opening match loss to but what’s important was we moved into the next round
the U.S. with two and Wales with one. reporter from Iran’s Press TV about England with a 2-0 upset of Wales. It and beat a very big opponent.”
the pronounciation of Iran, then asked: put the team in position to advance for Fernandes was denied a hat trick with virtually the last
During unusual pre-match news “Are you OK to be representing a coun- the first time in six World Cups. kick of the game, his shot from outside the area hitting the
conferences, Adams was asked to try that has so much discrimination post and bouncing wide.
defend the U.S.’s treatment of Black against Black people?” Queiroz praised growth in the U.S. Portugal opened with a 3-2 win over Ghana.
people and chastized for pronoucing team, saying this World Cup showed Uruguay has one point from two matches and needs
the opponent “Eye-ran” instead of “My apologies on the mispro- “they jumped from soccer to football.” to beat Ghana, which edged South Korea 3-2 earlier, on
“E-ran.” nunciation of your country,” Adams Friday to stand a chance of advancing. The 2010 semifinal-
responded. “That being said, there’s He coached Major League Soccer’s ists have yet to score a goal at this tournament, with coach
American coach Gregg Berhalter discrimination everywhere you go. MetroStars in 1996 and served as a Diego Alonso even putting 35-year-old striker Luis Suarez
was questioned about U.S. immigration One thing that I’ve learned, espe- USSF adviser in 1998, writing a player on the bench in search of the right combination up front.
and Naval policy and apologized for cially from living abroad in the past development blueprint aimed at Portugal has no such worries. The team has scored five
the U.S. Soccer Federation’s decision to years and having to fit in in different winning a World Cup by 2010. goals in two games and Fernandes has had a hand in four
strip the emblem of the Islamic Repub- cultures and kind of assimilating to of them as he dictates play in his role as the team’s No. 10.
lic from Iran’s flag on social media. different cultures, is that in the U.S. “When it was time to dress, (there) Ronaldo was unable to add to the penalty he scored
we’re continuing to make progress was a box of in front of us, (Roberto) against Ghana, which took his World Cup tally to eight
The USSF’s flag decision was meant every single day.” Donadoni and Tab Ramos, we need to goals from five tournaments and his men’s record of inter-
to support women protestors in Iran. jump on the boxes to choose the best national goals to 118.
Iran famously beat the U.S. 2-1 in a socks and the best trousers and the A draw against South Korea in its final Group H match
“We had no idea about what U.S. 1998 World Cup match in France that best shirt because everything was in will secure first place for Portugal.
Soccer put out,” Berhalter said. eliminated the Americans. one pile,” Queiroz said. Missing Neymar, Brazil still moves on: Struggling and
unconvincing without Neymar on the field, Brazil still
“All we can do on our behalf is apol- “That game just sticks in my mind. “I’m sure that these Americans that played well enough to secure a spot in the next round of
ogize on behalf of the players and the It burns in my mind,” Berhalter said. play tomorrow, they don’t know noth- the World Cup.
staff.” “What I saw from the opening whis- ing about that.” The five-time champions overcame the absence of their
tle is one team that really wanted to AP writer Jenna Fryer contributed to injured star to beat Switzerland 1-0 with a late goal and
Iran coach Carlos Queiroz was this report. make it to the round of 16 with a match to spare in Group G.
queried about Sunday’s flag flap, “Of course we miss Neymar,” Brazil coach Tite said.
“The team loses a lot without him. But we also have other
players who can get the job done, as we saw it today.”
Casemiro got the only goal in the 83rd minute of a game
in which Brazil had difficulties creating scoring chances
without its main playmaker. The defensive midfielder
scored with a one-timer into the far corner, using the
outside of his right foot for a shot that deflected slightly
off defender Manuel Akanji.
“We knew that it wasn’t going to be easy,” Casemiro said.
“Out first objective was to advance and we achieved that.”
Neymar stayed at the team’s hotel to treat a right ankle
injury sustained in the opener in Qatar. He posted an Insta-
gram story showing him watching the match on television
while undergoing treatment on his foot.
Team doctors have not yet given a timetable for
Neymar’s return — or said if he will return at all. Vinícius
Júnior said Neymar also had a fever, though the team
hadn’t officially said anything about it.
The win in Stadium 974 gave Brazil six points from
two matches, leaving Switzerland with three. Serbia and
Cameroon, which drew 3-3 earlier, have one point each.
Switzerland needs a win in the last match against Serbia
to guarantee its spot in the next stage. A draw may be
enough depending on the Brazil-Cameroon match.
Ecuador’s top scorer ailing: Enner Valencia has scored
Ecuador’s last six World Cup goals, so there’s no under-
stating how worried his country is after he was carried off
the field on a stretcher against the Netherlands.
Ecuador hopes that the 33-year-old striker’s trouble-
some knees are OK for a decisive final Group A match
against Senegal on Tuesday. He hurt his right knee against
the Netherlands after spraining his left knee in the first
game against Qatar.
He was up and walking a little while after that stretcher
ride with an ice pack strapped to his right leg and coach
Gustavo Alfaro said Monday that Valencia might be ready
to start against Senegal, although he could have to come
off the bench.
“He has a big heart and he wants to be in every battle
with our national team,” Alfaro said. “... He’s an extraor-
dinary player and we’ll try and get him ready.”
Ecuador’s captain has three goals in two games in Qatar
and is clearly key to its chances of reaching the knockout
stage for only the second time. He scored three in three
games in Ecuador’s last World Cup appearance in 2014,
but that wasn’t enough to advance in Brazil.
La Tri have a slight advantage this time by needing a win
or a draw to be certain of going through. Senegal has to win
to be sure of advancing.