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“No one will ever be able to replace him, and that corner in Little Village
Fed bill
will never be the same without him.” — Elizeth Arguelles, niece of Guadalupe Perez, who died Sunday targets
student
restraint
Legislation comes
year after probe by
Tribune/ProPublica
By Jodi S. Cohen
and Jennifer Smith
Richards
Congressional Democrats
introduced legislation Thurs-
day that would make it illegal
to put students in seclusion and
would limit the use of physical
restraint in schools that receive
federal funds.
The bill, called the Keeping
All Students Safe Act, would
enact a national ban on re-
straints that can restrict
breathing, including prone re-
straint where students are held
face down on the floor. Other
restraints in the standing or
BRIAN CASSELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE seated positions could be used
Joshua Perez, 16, and Jason Perez, 17, push the raspados cart of their grandfather, Guadalupe Perez, 61, down 26th Street in a only when there is an immedi-
procession from his memorial service Wednesday in Little Village. ate risk of serious physical
harm.
Under the bill, physical re-

LITTLE VILLAGE
straints could not be included
as an option in written behav-
ior and education plans for
students with disabilities. That
would further emphasize that

MOURNS VENDOR
restraints are to be used only in
an emergency and when other
efforts to work with children in
crisis have failed.
Seclusion, or confining stu-
dents alone in a room or area
they can’t leave, would be
Dies of COVID-19; ‘summers will never be the same without his raspados’ banned entirely on the grounds
that it can be traumatic and
isn’t helpful for a student in
By Laura Rodríguez Presa crisis.
The legislation was motivat-
For nearly 20 years, Guadalupe Perez sold raspados — shaved ed by differences among rules
ice — every summer outside of a grocery store on 26th Street in at the state level, with some
Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood. states placing few if any restric-
tions on seclusion and restraint
Lupillo, as his customer and friends called him, was known for
and many providing no over-
using fresh fruit to make the juice to flavor his raspados. sight, said Rep. Don Beyer,
D-Va., one of the bill’s sponsors
But he won’t be selling guelles, still in disbelief about in the House.
raspados next summer. Perez her uncle’s death. “A lot of the states do a
was pronounced dead Sunday Wednesday afternoon his terrible job of that. It’s been
at St. Anthony Hospital, ac- grandchildren pushed his cart, such a huge problem, it de-
cording to the Cook County covered in flowers, from the mands national standards,”
medical examiner. His family funeral home where they paid Beyer said in an interview
said he had been diagnosed their last respects to the corner Thursday.
with COVID-19 and died on of Central Park Avenue and “The primary thing is there
the way to the hospital. 26th, where he used to set up are other techniques that work
“Summers will never be the shop. HEATHER CHARLES/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
just fine,” he added. “You don’t
same without his raspados,” Guadalupe Perez shaves ice at his raspados cart on 26th Street have to isolate them.”
said his niece Elizeth Ar- Turn to Vendor, Page 4 in Little Village in 2011. Perez died Sunday, a victim of COVID-19.
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Video: Friend told police Kenosha

shooter predicted life behind bars
By Stacy St. Clair,
Christy Gutowski
and Dan Hinkel
Kyle Rittenhouse predicted he
would spend the rest of his life in
prison after shooting three peo-
ple during chaotic demon-
strations in Kenosha over the
summer, a close friend told police
hours after the gunfire.
Dominick Black, now 19, told
SUSAN WALSH/AP investigators that Rittenhouse
During a White House announcement on drug pricing Friday, Presi- fled to the back room of a local
dent Donald Trump again claimed that he had won the election. business after Kenosha police
rebuffed his attempt to turn
calm him down after he fatally
shot two men and wounded
another.
“The dude’s sweating like a
pig. He’s just freaking out. His
face is white,” Black said in a
recorded interview obtained by
the Tribune. “He’s like, ‘I’m going
to jail for the rest of my life. I’m
done.’ (He’s) just scared.”
The interview was recorded
Aug. 26 at the Antioch police
station, where Rittenhouse
turned himself in shortly after
the shooting. Rittenhouse, his
mother and two sisters also sat
■ Kyle Rittenhouse released
from jail in Wisconsin on Friday
afternoon after his attorneys
post $2 million bail. Page 4
Prosecutors have since
charged Black with two felony
counts of illegally providing Rit-
tenhouse, 17, with the rifle — one
count for each man who died.
Kenosha County Court Com-
missioner Loren Keating found
at a hearing Thursday that there
was probable cause to go ahead
with Black’s prosecution, rebuff-

Trump tries to leverage himself in. Black said he met

Rittenhouse there and tried to
for interviews with Kenosha de-
tectives that night. Turn to Kenosha, Page 4

office to undo Biden win

After Oval meeting,
Mich. lawmakers say
they’re unmoved
By Zeke Miller, Colleen
Long and David Eggert
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President
Donald Trump sought to lever-
age the power of the Oval Office
on Friday in an attempt to block
President-elect Joe Biden’s vic-
tory as criticism mounted that
his futile efforts to subvert the
results of the 2020 election
could do long-lasting damage to
democratic traditions.
Trump summoned a dele-
gation of Republican lawmakers
from Michigan, including the
state’s Senate majority leader
and House speaker, in an appar-
ent extension of his efforts to
persuade judges and election
officials in the state to set aside
Biden’s 154,000-vote margin of
victory and grant him the state’s
electors.
Rick Hasen, an election law
expert and professor, wrote that
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Bill
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The legislation comes

one year to the day after
ProPublica Illinois and the
Tribune published an inves-
tigation, “The Quiet
Rooms,” that found public
schools throughout Illinois
had put students in seclu-
sion, isolated from their
peers, every day for reasons
that violated state law.
The investigation, cited
by the lawmakers who in-
troduced the legislation,
also found that school em-
ployees sometimes phys-
ically restrained children
not because there was an
emergency but out of frus-
tration or as punishment.
Similar legislation has been
passed in the House before STEFANI REYNOLDS/GETTY

but failed to gain support in U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Ct., right, leaves the Capitol on Oct. 21 in Washington. He is the
the Senate. the Senate sponsor of the seclusion ban legislation.
New federal data, re-
leased last month, con- “No parent should have natives into practice.” promote attention to task.”
firmed widespread use of to send their child to school In Illinois, after publica- The cooperative, known as
seclusion and restraint in knowing that his or her tion of “The Quiet Rooms,” NSSEO, denied to ISBE that
Illinois and across the coun- child could be pinned down the State Board of Educa- it used lap belts to punish
try in 2017-18, the most or locked in a closet by tion banned locking stu- students or out of conven-
recent year for which data school staff,” said Annie dents in seclusion rooms ience, contending they
was collected. In Illinois, Acosta, director of fiscal and began requiring public were used to help students
school employees reported and family support policy and private schools to alert sit with therapeutic sup-
using seclusion or restraint for The Arc, which advo- the state when they use the port, according to ISBE’s
at least 23,530 times on at cates for people with intel- interventions. Illinois rules report.
least 5,197 students. Nation- lectual and developmental do not ban prone restraint, The district superintend-
NEW CHICAGO BEARS BOOK ally, more than 100,000 disabilities. but the General Assembly ent did not immediately
students were subjected to “A federal ban is needed plans to take up legislation respond to a request for
“The Chicago Tribune the practices. to ensure that all students in January that would pro- comment. NSSEO used
Book of the Chicago Other Midwestern states are protected, not just those hibit it. physical restraint more
Bears: A Decade-By- — Wisconsin, Iowa, Michi- who live in states that have The federal legislation often — 1,170 times — than
Decade History, 2nd gan, Minnesota and Indiana some degree of protection. also would prohibit the use any other district in Illinois
ed.” The Chicago Trib- — also stood out among the This is a civil rights issue of mechanical and chemical during the 2017-18 school
une’s new expanded most frequent users of these that should not have any restraints. Both already are year, according to the new
second edition Bears interventions, according to geographic boundaries.” outlawed in Illinois, but federal data.
book includes photog- an analysis of the federal The legislation would re- records obtained this week Congressional efforts to
raphy, original box data by the Tribune and quire states to have enough by ProPublica Illinois and ban seclusion have repeat-
scores, essays from Hall ProPublica Illinois. Wis- school workers who are the Tribune revealed how edly stalled since 2009. Leg-
of Fame reporters and consin secluded more stu- trained in state-approved one suburban special edu- islation was last introduced
Tribune coverage from dents at school than any programs that teach better cation program still used in 2018.
the last 100 seasons. other state and was second ways to address crisis situa- mechanical restraints in a But “The Quiet Rooms”
It’s a decade-by-dec- only to Texas in the number tions. It also would require program for students with and the swift action Gov.
CHICAGO TRIBUNE ade look at the team, of students restrained in the that parents be notified the disabilities. J.B. Pritzker took to ban
from George Halas 2017-18 school year, the same day their child is The Mount Prospect- isolated, locked seclusion in
moving the team to Chicago in 1921 to multiple NFL analysis shows. restrained, followed by based Northwest Suburban Illinois the day after the
championships to their 1985 Super Bowl win that trans- Most of the children who more detailed written noti- Special Education Organi- story published put the is-
formed the city’s passion that continues today. This were restrained or secluded fication and then a meeting zation, which operates sev- sue in the national spotlight
keepsake second edition also includes special reporting nationwide had disabilities. within five days. States also eral schools and programs again, Beyer said.
and photographs of the Bears’ 100th season from the The data shows a dispro- would be required to report for about 400 students, Beyer said he believes
Chicago Tribune staff. Available at chicagotribune portionate number of af- annually on their use of used lap belts to restrain this effort to ban seclusion
.com/bearsbook2 and wherever books are sold. fected students were identi- restraint. students and restrict them will gain broad bipartisan
fied as Black and as boys. The law would allow from taking part in class- support, both because of
Seclusion rooms are typi- students who are subjected room activities, according greater public awareness of
cally small and empty to seclusion or restraint in a to an Illinois State Board of the issue and because legis-
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State daily death toll again tops 100
Travelers protecting themselves with face masks make their way through Terminal 1 on Friday at O’Hare International Airport.
City airports expected to see
fewer travelers over holiday
There still will be crowds to deal with and precautions to take for those going to O’Hare or Midway
By Kelli Smith,
Laura Rodríguez Presa
and Robert Channick
Dayanara Reyes arrived at
O’Hare International Airport on
Friday, ready to brave the crowds
and the pandemic.
She wore a double mask,
wiped everything she touched
and tried to keep her distance
from people as the airport en-
tered one of its busiest times of
the year.
“Knowing that, in the plane, I
have to sit next to someone
makes me uncomfortable,” said
Reyes, 27, who was headed back
to Tampa, Florida, after under-
going dialysis care training here.
“But I do my best to make no
contact, have my mask on all the
time and keep my hands to
myself … If I didn’t have to travel
for work, I wouldn’t do it at all.
Don’t travel for fun, this is not the
season to travel for fun.”
Easter Coleman couldn’t even
get aboard her international
flight on United Airlines. She was
Silver Cross implements surge plan as Will coroner seeks help
By Alicia Fabbre
Hospitals in Will and Kankakee
counties continue to feel the
pinch of increasing COVID-19
cases, and the Will County coro-
ner’s office is seeking to hire
temporary deputy coroners to
help deal with the virus’ impact.
Coroner Laurie Summers said
Thursday three deputy coroners
were self-isolating due to possible
COVID-19 exposure. Two deputy
coroners, one who was self isolat-
ing and another who has been on
vacation, are expected to return to
work next week, but Summers
says she needs additional help to
cover illnesses and the office’s
increasing caseload due to the
pandemic.
Region 7, which includes Will
and Kankakee counties, Thursday
reported a test positivity rate of
20.7%, the highest in the state, and
the lowest percentage of intensive
care unit and hospital beds avail-
able at 10.9% and 14.9%, respec-
tively.
“We certainly hope that every-
one is going to wake up and
realize what’s at stake here,” said
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CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK
told she could not get on the
plane unless she had a negative
COVID-19 test within seven days
of her flight. She plans to re-
schedule but was frantic because
“I can’t find a place (to be tested),
so now I’m stuck here. This is
crazy.”
Earlier in the day, lines formed
at security checkpoints, some
people standing close to one
another without masks, despite
signs urging people to wear them
and practice social distancing.
Chicago Department of Avia-
tion spokesman Matt McGrath
said pre-Thanksgiving traffic at
the airport was about 50% of
normal, but with reductions in
the number of flights, there have
been brief logjams. “There will
be flashes where it looks extraor-
dinarily crowded,” he said. “And
then for the next two, three, four
hours, there’s nobody there.”
The crowds of passengers
moving through O’Hare and
Midway next week are expected
to be 60%-70% smaller than last
year, and flight operations down
Steve Brandy, spokesman for the
Will County Department of
Health.
The state target is to have at
least 20% of ICU beds and
medical/surgical beds available in
a region’s hospitals. On Thursday,
only one other region in the state,
Metro East near St. Louis, had
numbers below the 20% thresh-
old. While the Metro-East region
had 24.4% of ICU beds available,
it reported only 15.5% availability
for medical/surgical beds.
Officials at Silver Cross Hospi-
tal in New Lenox have had to
implement the hospital’s surge
plan to deal with the influx of
patients. As of Thursday, the
hospital was treating 126
COVID-19 patients. Of those pa-
tients, 123 had tested positive for
the virus and three others were
patients under investigation
awaiting test results. Seventeen of
those patients were in the inten-
sive care unit, and of those eight
were on ventilators.
About four weeks ago, Oct. 22,
the hospital was only treating 45
COVID-19 patients, with six in the
ICU, said Debra Robbins, director
35%-45%.
McGrath said there are floor
decals and public address an-
nouncements made throughout
the day at the airport reminding
travelers to wear required masks
and maintain social distancing.
Also, more than 50 workers at the
two airports have volunteered as
“social distancing ambassadors”
to urge compliance with pan-
demic precautions.
“We take this very seriously,”
he said. “We make every effort to
encourage social distancing.”
Experts say the number of
Americans traveling this year for
Thanksgiving will be the small-
est in four years. AAA predicts
about 50.6 million Americans
plan to travel for Thanksgiving
between next Wednesday and
the following Sunday, a decrease
of 5.5 million from 2019 esti-
mates.
In Illinois, about 2.5 million
residents are projected to travel
for the holiday, according to
estimates by AAA. That’s the
lowest since 2014, when models
of marketing and community re-
lations. Nov. 5, the hospital had 91
COVID-19 patients, with 10 of
those patients in the ICU, she said.
“Our emergency room has been
extremely full night after night,”
Silver Cross President and CEO
Ruth Colby said during a Monday
news conference with Gov. J.B.
Pritzker.
She said hospital workers were
“weary” and that the “pandemic
has taken it’s toll.” On Monday,
she said more than 60 hospital
workers were not able to report
for work due to COVID-19 expo-
sure outside of the hospital and
urged residents to help keep
health care workers safe.
“Please help stem the growth of
this disease; especially over the
holidays,” Colby said.
Though admissions are up,
Colby said the hospital continues
to serve patients. On Thursday,
Robbins said the hospital has not
had to turn away any patients and
that the hospital remains safe for
patients.
“If you’re having a medical
emergency of some kind, don’t
wait to seek medical care,” Rob-
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showed about 2.4 million people
in the state were expected to
travel.
“With everything changing —
if not daily, possibly hourly — we
are projecting the numbers will
be lower than what we did
report, especially here in Illinois
with shelter in and other states
doing the same thing,” said Molly
Hart, a spokesperson for AAA.
The organization projects only
about 122,000 Illinois residents
plan to travel by plane, meaning
about 95% of travelers are ex-
pected to hit the road. The same
goes for the nation, with fore-
casts showing about 2.4 million
Americans traveling by plane.
“Many, many people are doing
the wait-and-see approach to
travel instead of thinking about it
three weeks or a month or more
out in advance,” Hart said. “With
Thanksgiving, and COVID-19
cases on the rise, people are
definitely thinking twice.”
kelsmith@chicagotribune.com
Twitter @KelliSmithNews
bins said.
“We’re here and we’re safe, and
we’ll take care of you.”
She said hospital staff contin-
ues to use personal protective
equipment and patients are
screened for COVID-19 symp-
toms upon admission.
Summers, who was elected
coroner in November, said she is
applying for an $8,000 grant
through the county’s share of
CARES Act funding to help cover
the cost of having two temporary
deputy coroners on hand through
the end of the year. The deputies,
who work in coroner’s offices in
Lake and Iroquois counties,
would be available on their days
off to assist in Will County.
Summers said during the cam-
paign the coroner’s office was
understaffed and expressed her
hope to bring two full-time depu-
ties on staff. But she said this
request was sparked by the recent
COVID-19 exposures among dep-
uty coroners and the increasing
case load.
Alicia Fabbre is a freelance report-
er for the Daily Southtown.
3
7-day average rises to
115; total fatalities for
pandemic at 11,304
By Jamie Munks
The seven-day average for
deaths of people with
COVID-19 in Illinois has risen
to 115, more than double where
it stood two weeks ago, as the
entire state moves into another
phase of tightened restrictions
meant to stem the pandemic’s
strong fall resurgence.
State public health officials
reported 126 additional deaths
on Friday, a triple-digit death
toll for the third consecutive
day. The latest fatalities raise
the statewide death toll to
11,304.
“If we all stay home as much
as possible, if we all avoid the
trips outside the house that we
don’t need to take right now, we
can fight this recent surge and
turn things around for our
health care workers and hospi-
tal systems who are facing an
increasingly dangerous situa-
tion across the state,” Gov. J.B.
Pritzker said at his daily co-
ronavirus briefing in Chicago.
“And we can potentially pull
back on these mitigations for
everyone before the December
holidays.”
New restrictions taking ef-
fect Friday include reduced
crowd limits at most retail
stores and the shutdown of
many public places including
casinos and museums.
More than 6,000 people were
hospitalized with COVID-19
across the state for the second
straight day, which is up more
than 60% from a month earlier
when 2,261 people were hospi-
talized with COVID-19. As of
Thursday night, 6,111 people
were reported to be in the
hospital with the illness, well
above the spring high of 5,037,
recorded on April 28.
Nearly 1,200 of the hospital-
ized patients were in intensive
care units as of Thursday, and
604 were on ventilators.
State officials continue to
sound the alarm about the
potential for the fall coronavirus
resurgence to overwhelm hos-
pitals. Illinois Department of
Public Health Director Dr.
Ngozi Ezike said some hospitals
in the state over the past month
have reported full emergency
rooms or bed availability issues
and the state agency is helping
to coordinate “so that an ambu-
lance is not taken to that
hospital where there are al-
ready issues with beds.”
“There have been situations
where the (emergency depart-
ment) was full and they haven’t
been able to move the patients
from the E.D. to a bed because
there’s not an available bed,”
Ezike said, without providing
the names of hospitals where
this has occurred.
“So those requests have been
made in many an occasion in
the last month or so, so I think
we have had to grant that in
some situations. I can’t tell you
the names now but I think many
requests have been made and
then we’ve tried to figure out
when we just really had to,
because that obviously in-
creases transport time for am-
bulances.”
When hospitals are nearing
reaching capacity, “what they’re
looking to do is find out is there
a way to take people who are in
a less acute condition and per-
haps move them to another
facility, to another hospital, or to
divert folks who might other-
wise come to that hospital
before they ever enter a hospital
to go to another hospital,”
Pritzker said.
The state on Friday also
reported 13,012 newly con-
firmed and probable cases, rais-
ing the tally to 634,395 known
and probable cases over the
course of the pandemic.
The state also logged another
daily testing high, with 116,024
tests reported Friday from the
previous 24 hours. Nearly 9.6
million tests have been con-
ducted in the state to date.
The seven-day statewide
positivity rate for cases as a
share of total tests conducted
was 11.5% for the period that
ended Thursday, which has
leveled out over the past week
after weeks of steady growth.
jmunks@chicagotribune.com
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Kenosha
Continued from Page 1
ing defense lawyers’ efforts
to have the case thrown
out. Black is due for an
arraignment Jan. 13.
Rittenhouse was re-
leased from the Kenosha
County jail Friday after-
noon after his lawyers
posted $2 million bail.
In response to a Free-
dom of Information Act
request, Antioch police re-
leased recorded interviews
with Black and with Rit-
tenhouse’s older sister,
Faith, late Thursday. The
videos give the first
glimpse at how the investi-
gation unfolded in the
hours after Rittenhouse
shot the men amid unrest
in southeast Wisconsin.
Joseph Rosenbaum, 36,
and Anthony Huber, 26,
died from the injuries they
sustained that night, while
Gaige Grosskreutz, 26, suf-
fered a gunshot wound to
his arm.
Rittenhouse currently
faces murder and gun
charges in Kenosha
County. Rittenhouse’s at-
torneys have argued he
shot the men in self-de-
fense. Family members
and representatives of the
men shot have rejected the
idea that Rittenhouse was
justified in firing.
Violent protests erupted
Aug. 25 in Kenosha after
police Officer Rusten
Sheskey, who is white, shot
Jacob Blake, who is Black,
several times in the back at
close range. The demon-
strations — fueled by video
of the shooting — turned
destructive at points, leav-
ing parts of the city dam-
aged.
The video shows Keno-
sha police Detective Ben-
jamin Antaramian leading
Black through a cordial
interview that lasted
roughly an hour. Black did
not show visible signs of
distress, unlike Ritten-
house, who police reports
indicate cried and vomited
when speaking with au-
thorities.
After Antaramian told
Black he was not in cus-
tody, the teen gave his
account of events sur-
rounding the shootings,
which echoed previously
released police reports.
Black — who said he dated
Rittenhouse’s younger sis-
ter and had known the
family for about a year —
told the officer that the two
went to Kenosha to protect
several properties owned
by the same person. Black
said they brought assault-
Vendor
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“We want the community
to remember him and see
his cart, one last time,”
Arguelles said.
Perez. 62, had put his cart
away at the end of Septem-
ber, afraid because of the
spike in COVID-19 cases,
said Alejandro Perez, one of
his five children.
But despite taking pre-
cautions and staying home,
he suddenly fell ill at the
beginning of November.
Still, neither son nor father
thought it was the co-
ronavirus until they were
tested and received a pos-
itive result, said Alejandro
Perez.
“We thought we were
both going to make it,”
Alejandro Perez said. “I’m
just grateful that I was able
to care for him the last days
of his life, care for him and
tell him that I love him.”
The two shared an apart-
ment in Little Village for
nine years. They were in-
separable and Perez was
“the most hardworking fa-
ther and sweetest grand-
father,” Alejandro Perez
said. His four other siblings
and their mother live in
Puebla, Mexico.
When he called his sib-
lings to break the news of
Perez’s death, they broke
down. They had called their
father almost every day to
check up on him. Every time
he would tell them that he
was feeling better, Alejandro
Perez said.
“But that’s because he
wanted to be strong and
because he was terrified to
go to the hospital,” he added.
On Dec. 12, he would have
celebrated his 63rd birthday.
Even though he had a
hard time breathing, Perez
refused to go to the hospital
and relied on home reme-
dies because he did not want
to get intubated, according
“He’s like, ‘I’m
going to jail for
the rest of my
life. I’m done. ’ ”
—Dominick Black,
on Kyle Rittenhouse
style rifles “just in case
they shoot at us … just in
case we have to defend
ourselves.”
While taking the state-
ment, the detective told
Black that the protests had
been “anarchy.”
Black said he spent
much of his time on the
roof of one business while
Rittenhouse walked
around below with a medi-
cal kit and an AR-15.
Black said he had pur-
chased the gun in his name
at a hardware store in
northern Wisconsin, but
Rittenhouse paid for it. At
age 17, Rittenhouse could
not legally purchase the
firearm on his own.
“I don’t know why … the
whole time I’m thinking,
‘he’s not 18,’ ” he told po-
lice. “In my head, like, I
could have stopped it. But I
know if I would have told
him ‘no,’ he would have
threw a fit.”
Black said he heard
shots and then Ritten-
house called him to say
he’d shot someone. Black’s
statements about what his
friend later told him about
the shootings largely mir-
ror Rittenhouse’s lawyers’
contention that the teen
fired because people were
attacking him and he
feared for his life.
Black said he watched
from the roof as Ritten-
house seemingly tried to
turn himself in to police,
but the officers did not
arrest him. Black said Rit-
tenhouse told him an offi-
cer had threatened to pep-
per-spray him during that
exchange.
Black said that after the
shootings, he and Ritten-
house met in a building
and decided to leave Keno-
sha.
“It was like, ‘you know
what, we’re gonna get in
my car, we’re gonna drive
out of here before anything
bad else happens to you,
and we’re just gonna go
back home and you’re
gonna go to the police
station,’ ” Black said.
At one point, Black sug-
gested he could eventually
be held responsible for the
shootings, even though
Antaramian repeatedly
stated he was not investi-
gating the gun’s prov-
enance and kept the tone
Alejandro Alarcon gets a hug outside a memorial service for his father, Guadalupe Perez Alarcon, 61, at Martinez Funeral
Home in Little Village on Wednesday.
to his sister, Claudia Perez.
Her brother told her multi-
ple times that he feared
contracting the virus be-
cause he had diabetes and
knew he might not live.
On Sunday, Alejandro
Perez and another family
member found Perez un-
conscious in his bedroom.
They called 911 and, though
he still had vital signs when
he was taken by paramedics,
his lungs collapsed on the
way, said his son.
“This virus has no mercy
and it’s taking so many of us.
It’s hard to believe he is
gone, but I worry that it
could get me next,” added
Claudia Perez.
Like her brother, she also
works as a street vendor and
has diabetes. She used to sell
tamales every day on a
corner on 26th Street.
In the first few months of
the pandemic, more than 15
of his questions amiable.
“Dude, I think I’m
gonna be in more trouble
than you because you de-
fended yourself,” Black
said he told Rittenhouse.
“In all reality, you are not
supposed to have that gun.
That gun was in my name.”
Black’s attorney de-
clined comment late
Thursday night.
In a recent phone inter-
view with the Washington
Post, Rittenhouse said he
paid for the gun with a
mixture of stimulus and
unemployment money af-
ter losing his part-time job
at the start of the pan-
demic. Rittenhouse had
been furloughed from his
job as a lifeguard at the
Lindenhurst YMCA.
Black said is not aware
of any formal gun training
Rittenhouse received and
that his friend did not
hunt. Before the Kenosha
unrest, Black said, the two
teens had only shot targets
and clay pigeons together.
He did not have a lot of
praise for Rittenhouse’s
abilities.
“He’s horrible at shoot-
ing clay pigeons,” Black
said.
After the shooting,
Black drove Rittenhouse
back to his mother’s apart-
ment in Antioch. They met
up with Rittenhouse’s
mother and two sisters
there, he said.
“What does his mom
say?” the detective asked.
Black gave a small laugh.
“At first she was like …
you got a choice: You gotta
get out of town or you can
turn yourself into the po-
lice office right now.”
Rittenhouse’s sister con-
firmed the family dis-
cussed the possibility of
going into hiding, but Rit-
tenhouse wanted to turn
himself in.
Much of Faith Ritten-
house’s 35-minute inter-
view is inaudible as she
speaks in a soft voice while
describing how she first
learned about the shooting
on social media. The 20-
year-old allowed a Keno-
sha detective to review text
messages and other media
from her phone that night
and became tearful when
he appears to watch video
of the chaos that night.
“We asked what hap-
pened and he said, ‘I was
getting attacked and so I
had to shoot,’ ” she told the
detective.
At the end of her inter-
view, Kenosha police in-
formed her that Kyle Rit-
tenhouse would remain in
custody and likely face
criminal charges in Wis-
consin.
of her clients died from the
virus, she said. Her daugh-
ter-in-law and her daughter
now take out the cart to
make sure that she doesn’t
come in contact with some-
one with the coronavirus.
“By now there must be
dozens of clients who have
passed from coronavirus,
loyal customers that I’ll ne-
ver see again,” she said.
As the family tries to deal
with Perez’s death, they are
urging others to take care of
their elders and those with
other chronic illnesses that
could make them vulnera-
ble.
Black and Latino com-
munities continue to be
disproportionately affected
by the pandemic. Little Vil-
lage, part of ZIP code 60623,
has been one the areas
hardest-hit by COVID-19.
More than 6,000 have tested
positive and 167 have died,
Teen shooter released from Kenosha
jail after attorneys post $2 million bail
By Dan Hinkel
Kyle Rittenhouse was
released from jail in Wis-
consin on Friday afternoon
after his attorneys posted
$2 million bail, setting the
teenager free as he awaits
trial for fatally shooting
two men and wounding a
third during summer pro-
tests in Kenosha, police
said.
His release came over
the objections of family
members and lawyers for
two of the men he shot.
They had asked for higher
bail and voiced concerns
Rittenhouse would flee,
which his lawyers have
said he would not.
The 17-year-old’s release
was funded by donations
sought by his attorneys,
who appealed to the politi-
cal right, where Ritten-
house is popular. Those
lawyers also are seeking to
overturn Democratic Pres-
ident-elect Joe Biden’s vic-
tory.
An attorney set up the
payment and then a private
security detail transported
him from the jail about 2
p.m. Friday, according to
Sgt. David Wright of the
Kenosha County sheriff’s
department.
One of Rittenhouse’s
lawyers, John M. Pierce,
said previously that the bail
money would come en-
tirely from funds raised by
a nonprofit that champions
conservative causes led by
another of the teen’s attor-
neys, L. Lin Wood. In a
tweet Friday celebrating
Rittenhouse’s release,
Wood thanked actor Ricky
Schroder and a Minnesota
businessman allied with
President Donald Trump
for “putting us over the
top.”
Pierce could not be
reached for comment Fri-
day afternoon.
Rittenhouse spent the
last 2 1⁄2 months in custody
on a murder charge and
other counts stemming
from his shooting of three
men with an AR-15-style
rifle during protests Aug.
25. The chaotic demon-
strations followed white
police Officer Rusten
Sheskey’s shooting of Ja-
cob Blake, a Black man,
days earlier.
Rittenhouse fatally shot
Joseph Rosenbaum, 36,
and Anthony Huber, 26. A
third man, Gaige
Grosskreutz, who prose-
cutors have said was armed
with a handgun, survived
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according to data from the
city.
Arguelles, who has
helped her mother sell ta-
males since she was 9 and is
now a community organizer
advocating for street vendor
rights in Chicago, said she is
heartbroken at their loss,
but she is also angry.
“I’m furious because
again and again, our society
doesn’t recognize that these
essential workers, many
who keep our economy run-
ning, are immigrants, many
undocumented like my un-
cle,” she said. “I think about
who killed them, and it
wasn’t just COVID-19; it was
poverty and the system of
disinvestment, of oppres-
sion.”
“They come here for an
American dream, work non-
stop every single day, save
money and they don’t even
get to enjoy it. They won’t
being shot in the arm.
Rittenhouse’s attorneys
have argued he shot all the
men in self-defense.
Grosskreutz’s lawyer,
Kimberley Motley, said she
was disappointed that Rit-
tenhouse bailed out, and
she cited the seriousness of
the charges and her belief
that he might flee. She had
argued at a recent online
court hearing that his bail
should have been $4 mil-
lion.
“Two people died. My
client nearly died and
nearly lost his arm due to
Rittenhouse’s reckless be-
havior,” she said. “I do
believe that (Rittenhouse)
is a danger to the public.”
Anthony Huber’s father,
John Huber, attended the
hearing earlier this month
and suggested a bail
amount as high as $10
million. He called Ritten-
house’s self-defense argu-
ment “impossible” and de-
scribed his son as a “hero”
who tried to stop the teen.
He argued Rittenhouse
might flee if released; the
teen’s attorneys have said
he will not and denied he
poses any threat to the
public.
Prosecutors asked for a
bail figure of $2 million —
matching the amount a
judge previously had set —
while one of Rittenhouse’s
attorneys asked for a bail of
$750,000.
Court Commissioner
Loren Keating cited the
“incredibly serious
charges” as he found Rit-
tenhouse would be a flight
risk and set bail at $2
million. In Illinois, detain-
ees generally need to pay
10% of their bail amount to
be released, but the rules
are different in Wisconsin
and Rittenhouse’s allies
had to pay the full sum.
Prosecutors also have
charged Rittenhouse’s
friend Dominick Black
with illegally providing the
rifle to the teen. Videos
released Thursday showed
that Rittenhouse’s older
sister, Faith, and Black told
police that the family dis-
cussed the possibility of the
teen fleeing or hiding after
the shooting but he wanted
to turn himself in to Anti-
och police, which he did.
It is unclear where the
teen will live pending trial.
He previously lived with
his mother, Wendy Ritten-
house, in Antioch, but she
moved to an undisclosed
location after the shootings
and has cited threats to her
even be able to go back to
their native land alive.”
Though he was born in
Veracruz, Mexico, her uncle
moved to Puebla, Mexico
and in the late 1990s mi-
grated to Chicago and set-
tled in Little Village. While
some of his family is here,
most live in Mexico. That’s
where he wanted to rest
when he died, his sister said.
Hundreds of community
members and customers
have donated money to help
send Perez’s body to be
buried in Mexico.
“That’s our only comfort,
knowing that we may be
able to see him one last
time,” said his oldest son,
Misael Perez, in a phone call
from Puebla.
Javier Maupomé, the
consul for protections and
legal affairs at the Mexican
Consulate in Chicago, con-
firmed that the consulate is
safety.
The next hearing is
scheduled for Dec. 3.
Rittenhouse’s case has
been a popular cause on the
political right, and his law-
yers have been seeking do-
nations for his legal de-
fense since shortly after he
was charged.
Wendy Rittenhouse has
made media appearances
in recent weeks and asked
for donations for bail.
Meanwhile, attorneys
Pierce and Wood have used
their Twitter accounts to
call for donations for Rit-
tenhouse’s bail while also
touting other conservative
messages, including the
false claim that President
Donald Trump won reelec-
tion. Pierce, for example,
tweeted, “This was a com-
pletely rigged election. So
obvious it blows the mind.”
For his part, Wood — the
chairman of the nonprofit
that has led the fundraising
effort for Rittenhouse — on
Friday tweeted, “President
Trump will NEVER con-
cede to Joey ‘Bribes’ Biden.
President Trump won re-
election by a landslide. Bid-
en cheated. Biden is a
traitor.”
Wood also has filed a
federal lawsuit seeking to
prevent the certification of
the 2020 election results in
Georgia, where he lives. A
judge on Thursday rejected
Wood’s motion to stop cer-
tification, saying the out-
come the lawyer sought
“has no basis in fact or law.”
Wood vowed to appeal. On
Friday, Georgia certified
Biden’s victory in the state.
Wood’s Twitter biogra-
phy contains a hashtag
popular with followers of
QAnon, a right-wing con-
spiracy theory positing that
top Democrats, among oth-
ers, are Satan-worshiping
pedophiles. He tweeted in
late August that despite his
use of the hashtag he is not
a conspiracy theorist.
Last weekend, a chant of
“break out Kyle” erupted at
pro -Trump demon-
strations in Washington
that involved extremist
groups including the Proud
Boys.
Beyond the main legal
defense fund, two other
organizations — one that
supports gun rights and
another that backs militias
— have given Wendy Rit-
tenhouse about $100,000
total, Pierce has said. She’s
using the money to pay bills
while on leave from her job,
he said.
helping the family with the
process.
Since May, at least 332
Mexican nationals in the
Chicago area are known to
have died from COVID-19,
but there may be more,
because in many instances,
neither the family, nor the
hospital nor the funeral
home report to the consul-
ate. At least 240 bodies have
been repatriated to be bur-
ied in their native towns.
That’s almost 30% of the
total number of repatria-
tions processed by the con-
sulate this year, which has
surpassed the number of
repatriations in all of 2019.
Misael Perez said that the
family is overwhelmed with
all the appreciation that
people have shown for his
father.
“I never realized how
loved he was, but he de-
serves it because he was a
good man who was kind and
always helped others even if
that meant that he will have
nothing to himself,” he add-
ed.
His father began selling
raspados to be able to help
bring all of his children to
the United States. He was a
“happy man,” who always
helped others and listened
to norteñas, a genre of music
from northern Mexico, his
children said.
He often had a line of
people when selling his ras-
pados. Some of the popular
ones were tamarindo and
guava.
Omar Ramos, a radio and
TV personality in Chicago,
would drive his daughter to
Little Village to buy raspa-
dos from “Don Lupillo.” Her
favorite was coconut and he
knew that he could always
find Perez at his usual spot.
“No one will ever be able
to replace him and that
corner in Little Village will
never be the same without
him,” Arguelles said.
larodriguez@chicago
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NATION & WORLD
Biden pushing for COVID-19 relief
President-elect
vows to work with
GOP on an aid bill
By Steve Peoples
Associated Press
WILMINGTON, Del. —
President-elect Joe Biden is
calling on Congress to enact
billions of dollars in emer-
gency COVID-19 assistance
before the year’s end, ac-
cording to a senior adviser
who warned Friday that
“there’s no more room for
delay.”
Biden transition aide Jen
Psaki delivered the remarks
before Biden’s first in-per-
son meeting since winning
the election with House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-
Calif., and Senate minority
leader Chuck Schumer, D-
N.Y. The incoming Demo-
cratic president hosted
them at his makeshift tran-
sition headquarters in a
downtown Wilmington,
Delaware, theater.
Biden, who turned 78
Friday, sat with Schumer,
Pelosi and Vice President-
elect Kamala Harris, all
wearing masks and spaced
out around a bank of tables.
“In my Oval Office, mi
casa, you casa,” Biden said
during the brief portion of
the meeting that journalists
were allowed to witness. “I
hope we’re going to spend a
lot of time together.”
Pelosi said at an earlier
news conference that she
and Schumer would be talk-
ing with Biden about “the
urgency of crushing the
virus,” as well as how to use
the lame-duck session of
Congress, legislation on
keeping the government
funded and COVID-19 re-
lief.
But prospects for new
virus aid this year remain
Pfizer seeking emergency
use of its vaccine in US
If FDA approves
shots, some could
arrive next month
By Lauran Neergaard
Associated Press
Pfizer said Friday it is
asking U.S. regulators to
allow emergency use of its
COVID-19 vaccine, starting
the clock on a process that
could bring limited first
shots as early as next month
and eventually an end to the
pandemic — but not until
after a long, hard winter.
The action comes days
after Pfizer Inc. and its
German partner BioNTech
announced that its vaccine
appears 95% effective at
preventing mild to severe
COVID-19 disease in a large,
ongoing study.
The companies said that
protection plus a good safe-
ty record means the vaccine
should qualify for emer-
gency use authorization,
something the Food and
Drug Administration can
grant before the final testing
is fully complete. In addi-
tion to Friday’s FDA sub-
mission, they have already
started “rolling” applica-
tions in Europe and the U.K.
and intend to submit similar
information soon.
“Our work to deliver a
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Ex-U.S. Navy analyst Jona-
than Pollard gave classified
documents to Israel.
President-elect Joe Biden meets with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del.
uncertain. Pelosi said talks
with Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell
and GOP leadership on
Thursday did not produce
any consensus on a new
virus aid package.
“That didn’t happen, but
hopefully it will,” she said.
Also Friday, McConnell, a
Kentucky Republican, pro-
posed that Congress shift
$455 billion of unspent
small-business lending
funds toward a new
COVID-19 aid package. His
offer came after a meeting
with Treasury Secretary
Steven Mnuchin and White
House chief of staff Mark
Meadows.
Biden’s new governing
team is facing intense pres-
sure to approve another
COVID-19 relief bill and
come up with a clear plan to
distribute millions of doses
of a prospective vaccine,
safe and effective vaccine
has never been more ur-
gent,” Pfizer CEO Albert
Bourla said in a statement.
Friday’s filing would set
off a chain of events as the
FDA and its independent
advisers debate if the shots
are ready. If so, still another
government group will have
to decide how the initial
limited supplies are ra-
tioned out to anxiously
awaiting Americans.
How much vaccine is
available and when is a
moving target, but initial
supplies will be scarce and
rationed. Globally, Pfizer
has estimated it could have
50 million doses available
by year’s end.
About 25 million may
become available for U.S.
use in December, 30 million
in January and 35 million
more in February and
March, according to infor-
mation presented to the
National Academy of Medi-
cine this week. Recipients
will need two doses, three
weeks apart. The U.S. gov-
ernment has a contract to
buy millions of Pfizer-BioN-
Tech doses, as well as other
candidates that pan out, and
has promised shots will be
free.
Not far behind is com-
petitor Moderna Inc.’s
COVID-19 vaccine. Its early
American who spied for Israel in ’80s completes parole
By Julian E. Barnes
The New York Times
WASHINGTON — Jona-
than Pollard, the American
convicted of spying for Isra-
el in one of the most notori-
ous espionage cases of the
late Cold War, completed
his parole Friday, the Jus-
tice Department said, free-
ing him to go to Israel as he
has said he intends to do.
The Justice Depart-
ment’s decision to let his
parole restrictions expire
may be one of the final gifts
from the Trump adminis-
even as Biden is just days
away from unveiling the
first of his Cabinet picks,
which are subject to Senate
confirmation.
Psaki said that Biden,
Pelosi and Schumer are
already working together to
push for a pandemic relief
bill before Congress ad-
journs for the year.
“They’re in lockstep
agreement that there needs
to be emergency assistance
and aid during the lame-
duck session to help fam-
ilies, to help small busi-
nesses,” Psaki said. “There’s
no more room for delay, and
we need to move forward as
quickly as possible.”
The president-elect has
also promised to work
closely with Republicans in
Congress to execute his
governing agenda, but so
far, he has focused his con-
gressional outreach on his
data suggests the shots are
as strong as Pfizer’s, and
that company expects to
also seek emergency autho-
rization within weeks.
The public’s first chance
to see how strong the evi-
dence really is will come in
early December at a public
meeting of the FDA’s scien-
tific advisers.
So far, what’s known is
based only on statements
from Pfizer and BioNTech.
Of 170 infections detected
to date, only eight were
among people who’d re-
ceived the actual vaccine
and the rest had gotten a
dummy shot. On the safety
side, the companies cite
results from 38,000 study
participants who’ve been
tracked for two months
after their second dose.
That’s a milestone FDA set
because historically, vac-
cine side effects don’t crop
up later than that.
“We’ll drill down on
these data,” said FDA ad-
viser Dr. Paul Offit of the
Children’s Hospital of Phil-
adelphia.
A few days before the
meeting, the FDA will re-
lease its own internal analy-
sis. That sets the stage for
the advisers’ daylong debate
about any signs of safety
concerns and how the new
vaccine technology works
tration to Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu of Is-
rael. Pollard’s case had long
been an irritant in the rela-
tions between the two
countries, and both sides at
times had used him as a
diplomatic bargaining chip.
A former U.S. Navy intel-
ligence analyst, Pollard gave
classified documents to Is-
rael starting in 1984. Some
of the material ended up in
the Soviet Union, including
information that could help
identify and evade Ameri-
can spying techniques and
material identifying inform-
ANNA MONEYMAKER/THE NEW YORK TIMES
leading Democratic allies.
The meeting came two
days after House Demo-
crats nominated Pelosi to be
the speaker who guides
them again next year as
Biden becomes president,
though she seemed to sug-
gest these would be her
final two years in the leader-
ship post.
President Donald Trump
continues to block a smooth
transition of power to the
next president, refusing to
allow his administration to
cooperate with Biden’s
transition team. Specif-
ically, the Trump adminis-
tration is denying Biden
access to detailed briefings
on national security and
pandemic planning that
leaders in both parties say
are important for preparing
Biden to govern immedi-
ately after his Jan. 20 inau-
guration.
Pfizer keeps its COVID-19 vaccine in this storage facility in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
before rendering a verdict.
They’ll recommend not
just whether FDA should
allow broader use of the
vaccine generally but if so,
for whom. For example, is
there enough proof the vac-
cine works as well for older,
sicker adults as for younger,
healthier people?
There’s still no guaran-
tee. “We don’t know what
that vote’s going to be,” said
former FDA vaccine chief
Norman Baylor.
If there’s an emergency
green light, “that vaccine is
still deemed investigational.
It’s not approved yet,” Dr.
Marion Gruber, chief of
FDA’s vaccine office, told
the National Academy of
Medicine this week.
ants for the United States.
He was arrested in 1985,
convicted and served 30
years in prison before being
released in 2015.
U.S. national security offi-
cials had long objected to
any easing of Pollard’s puni-
shment, highlighting the
damage Pollard did to U.S.
intelligence collection. But
objections from intelligence
officers have largely become
muted, with some acknowl-
edging that Pollard has both
served his time and fulfilled
his parole obligations.
The U.S. Parole Commis-
Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Saturday, November 21, 2020
Trying to bypass the
Trump administration alto-
gether, Biden on Thursday
met virtually with a collec-
tion of leading Republican
and Democratic governors.
“Unfortunately, my ad-
ministration hasn’t been
able to get everything we
need,” Biden told the Na-
tional Governors Associa-
tion’s leadership team as he
vowed to rise above politics
in a unified front against the
virus. “There’s a real desire
for real partnership be-
tween the states and the
federal government.”
Current Health and Hu-
man Services Secretary Al-
ex Azar said Friday on “CBS
This Morning” that Biden’s
charge that the transition
delays would cost American
lives is “absolutely incor-
rect.”
“Every aspect of what we
do is completely transpar-
That means anyone of-
fered an emergency vacci-
nation must get a “fact
sheet” describing potential
benefits and risks before
going through with the
shot, she said.
There will be a lot of
unknowns. For example,
the 95% protection rate is
based on people who devel-
oped symptoms and then
were tested for the virus.
Can the vaccinated get in-
fected but have no symp-
toms, able to spread the
virus? How long does pro-
tection last?
That’s why the 44,000-
person study needs to keep
running — something diffi-
cult considering ethically,
participants given dummy
sion, the arm of the Justice
Department that supervises
the releases of federal pris-
oners, decided Friday not to
extend the travel restric-
tions it had placed on Pol-
lard when he was released
from a federal prison five
years ago.
“After a review of Mr.
Pollard’s case, the U.S. Par-
ole Commission has found
that there is no evidence to
conclude that he is likely to
violate the law,” said Nicole
Navas Oxman, a spokes-
person for the Justice De-
partment. “Thus, in accord-
5
ent — no secret data or
knowledge,” Azar said.
Trump, meanwhile, is in-
tensifying his attempts to
sow doubt on the election
results. The outgoing presi-
dent’s unprecedented cam-
paign to spread misinfor-
mation now includes pres-
suring Michigan officials to
block the certification of
their state’s election results.
Biden won Michigan by
more than 150,000 votes, a
margin 15 times larger than
Trump’s victory in the state
four years ago.
Election law experts see
Trump’s push as the last,
dying gasps of his campaign
and say Biden is certain to
walk into the Oval Office
come January. But there is
great concern that Trump’s
effort is doing real damage
to public faith in the integri-
ty of U.S. elections.
Also Friday, Georgia’s
governor and top elections
official certified results
showing Biden won the
presidential race over
Trump.
The certification brings
the state one step closer to
wrapping up an election
that has been fraught with
unfounded accusations of
fraud by Trump and his
supporters.
Secretary of State Brad
Raffensperger certified re-
sults reported by the state’s
159 counties following a
hand count of the 5 million
ballots cast in the race. The
results show Biden with
2.47 million votes, Trump
with 2.46 million votes and
Libertarian Jo Jorgensen
with 62,138. That leaves
Biden leading by a margin of
12,670 votes or 0.25%.
Later in the day, Republi-
can Gov. Brian Kemp certi-
fied the state’s slate of 16
presidential electors, his
spokesman Cody Hall said.
JERICA PITTS/PFIZER
shots at some point must be
offered real vaccine, com-
plicating the search for an-
swers.
“I’m curious,” said Barry
Colvin, 52, of White Plains,
New York, who is taking
part in that study at NYU
Langone Health.
But he’s not in a great
hurry to find out which
group he’s in. “You need to
hang in there for a while to
understand and answer a
lot of the other questions
that remain unknown.”
Additionally at least for
now, pregnant women
won’t qualify because they
weren’t studied. Pfizer only
recently began testing the
vaccine in children as young
as 12.
ance with the statute, the
commission has ordered
that, as of today, his parole
supervision is terminated
and he is no longer subject
to the conditions of parole.”
Pollard, 66, was given
Israeli citizenship in 1995
and has said he would move
there if allowed. It was not
clear when Pollard, who is
in ill health, would depart
for Israel, but he wants to
live out his life there, said
Alan Dershowitz, a profes-
sor emeritus at Harvard
Law School who has advo-
cated on behalf of Pollard.
6 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Saturday, November 21, 2020
In 1995, shortly before the Dayton Accords were endorsed, Bosnian government soldiers
load a howitzer at their artillery position near the Serb-held town of Sanski Most.
Bosnia marks 25 years since
US-brokered peace accords
By Sabina Niksic
Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-
Herzegovina — As their
ethnic leaders gathered
around a table outside Day-
ton, Ohio, to initial a U.S.-
brokered peace deal a quar-
ter-century ago, Edisa Se-
hic and Janko Samoukovic
still were enemies in a war
in Bosnia that killed over
100,000 people.
But the two, one an
ethnic Bosniak woman and
the other an ethnic Serb
man, have often come to-
gether in recent years to
visit schools and town halls
where they talk about the
futility of war from their
firsthand experiences.
In many ways, Bosnia
today is a country at peace,
a testament to the success
of the Dayton Accords,
which ended more than
31⁄2 years of bloodshed
when they were endorsed
25 years ago on Saturday.
But more than a genera-
tion after the shooting and
shelling stopped, full peace
still feels elusive in Bosnia,
where the April 1992-De-
cember 1995 war gave rise
to an ethnic cleansing cam-
paign and Europe’s first
genocide since World War
II.
The country’s three eth-
nic groups — Muslim
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From news services
New Delhi hospitals
under strain as India
virus cases pass 9M
NEW DELHI — Inten-
sive care wards in New
Delhi’s hospitals are nearly
at capacity, and the city’s
main crematorium is
packed, as the coronavirus
has surged in the Indian
capital and the country hit a
grim milestone Friday, re-
cording 9 million infections.
While the pace of record-
ed new cases overall in the
country of 1.3 billion ap-
pears to be slowing, experts
have cautioned that official
figures may be offering false
hope, since many infections
may be going undetected. In
New Delhi, meanwhile, the
disease is on the rise, and
health officials found this
week that the prevalence of
infections in markets was
much higher than expected,
and the city has added an
average of 6,700 new cases
each day in recent weeks.
Despite that, markets are
still full there and in other
major cities, as fatigue with
wearing masks and main-
taining a safe distance from
others set in during the
recent festival season, in-
cluding celebrations for the
Diwali holiday. Experts
worry that get-togethers for
the festival of light will yield
yet another surge in cases in
the coming weeks.
“The next four weeks are
crucial. The road is very
bumpy,” said Dr. S.K. Sarin,
director of New Delhi’s In-
stitute of Liver and Biliary
Sciences.
The capital’s health sys-
tem is under tremendous
strain: Government figures
showed 90% of the critical
care beds with ventilators
designated for virus pa-
tients and 86% of critical
care beds without ventila-
tors were full as of Thurs-
day.
Trump Jr. has virus: A
spokesman says President
Bosniaks, Orthodox Serbs
and Catholic Croats — live
in fear of renewed conflict
as their nationalist leaders
continue to stoke ethnic
animosities for political
gain.
Some Bosnians hope the
election of Joe Biden as the
next U.S. president will
bolster change by renewing
Western interest in the
country, one of Europe’s
poorest.
Biden visited Bosnia in
2009 as vice president, be-
coming the last key U.S.
leader to do so.
When the Dayton peace
agreement was reached in
1995, Sehic was a soldier
with the Bosnian govern-
ment army and
Samoukovic was fighting
with Bosnian Serb troops
seeking to dismember the
country and unite the terri-
tory they claimed for their
own with neighboring Ser-
bia.
The war was sparked by
the breakup of Yugoslavia,
which led Bosnia to declare
its independence despite
opposition from ethnic
Serbs, who made up about
one-third of its ethnically
and religiously mixed
population.
Armed and backed by
neighboring Serbia, Bosni-
an Serbs conquered 60% of
Bosnia’s territory in less
Donald Trump’s eldest son,
Donald Trump Jr., has been
infected with the co-
ronavirus.
The spokesman says the
younger Trump learned his
diagnosis earlier this week,
has no symptoms and has
been quarantining.
Trump Jr. is the latest
member of the president’s
family to become infected
with the virus.
The president, the first
lady and their son, Barron,
have recovered from the
virus.
Fleeing Ethiopia: The
United Nations refugee
agency says about 32,000
people have fled Ethiopia’s
embattled Tigray region
into neighboring Sudan,
and it is preparing for up to
200,000 in the next six
months if necessary.
Axel Bisschop, the agen-
cy’s representative in Su-
dan, told reporters Friday
that “nobody at this stage
can say exactly how many
will come,” as fighting con-
tinues between Ethiopian
government and Tigray re-
gional government forces.
Another crisis is growing
inside the sealed-off Tigray
region as food and other
supplies run desperately
low. U.N. Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres called for
the opening of humanitari-
an corridors “and the truces
that might be necessary for
humanitarian aid to be de-
livered.”
Protests over death in
Brazil: A Black man died
after being beaten by super-
market security guards in
the Brazilian city of Porto
Alegre on the eve of Friday’s
Black Consciousness Day
observations, sparking out-
rage as videos of the inci-
dent circulated on social
media.
DARKO BANDIC/AP
than two months, commit-
ting atrocities against their
Bosniak and Croat compa-
triots.
Before the war was over,
some 100,000 people had
been killed and upward of 2
million, or over a half of the
country’s population, driv-
en from their homes.
“When the (peace)
agreement was reached, I
was happy that there will
be no more blood and death
around us, hopeful that
together we can start build-
ing a better future,” Sehic
said. “But as time went by, I
realized that the shooting
had stopped, but little else
had changed.”
While it brought an end
to the fighting, the Dayton
Accords formalized the
ethnic divisions, establish-
ing a complicated and frag-
mented state structure
with two semi-autono-
mous entities, Serb-run Re-
publika Srpska and a fed-
eration shared by Bosniaks
and Croats, linked by weak
joint institutions.
The deal “was essen-
tially an armistice struck
between a collection of
warlords who are still pre-
sent in the country, but had
refashioned themselves as
political leaders,” said Jas-
min Mujanovic, a U.S.-
based political scientist of
Bosnian origin.
Mexico’s past and present: Actors wearing face coverings march Friday in a commemoration of the 110th anniversary
of the Mexican Revolution at the Monument to the Revolution in Mexico City. Mexico has passed the 100,000 mark
in confirmed COVID-19 deaths, becoming the fourth country to do so, behind the United States, Brazil and India.
A short clip showed one
guard restraining Joao Al-
berto Silveira Freitas just
outside the doors of a
Carrefour supermarket
while the other pummeled
him with repeated blows to
the face. A store employee
stood to the side filming.
Other clips, shot afterward,
showed a guard kneeling
atop Freitas’ back.
Dozens of protesters en-
tered a Carrefour in Brazil’s
capital, Brasilia, on Friday
morning, chanting “Black
lives matter!” One held a
sign reading: “Don’t shop at
Carrefour. You could die.”
Inside another Carrefour in
Rio de Janeiro, protesters
shouted “Carrefour Killer!”
as a Black man lay still atop
the conveyor belt of a check-
out.
Deadly Ugandan unrest:
The death toll from protests
over the arrest of Ugandan
opposition presidential
hopeful and musician Bobi
Wine has risen to 37, police
said Friday. This is the
country’s worst unrest in a
decade, and more is ex-
pected ahead of the election
early next year.
Iran’s allies on high alert in
Trump’s final weeks in office
By Qassim
Abdul-Zahra
and Samya Kullab
Associated Press
BAGHDAD — Iran has
instructed allies across the
Middle East to be on high
alert and avoid provoking
tensions with the U.S. that
could give an outgoing
Trump administration
cause to launch attacks in
the U.S. president’s final
weeks in office, Iraqi offi-
cials have said.
The request — delivered
by a senior Iranian general
to allies in Baghdad this
week — reflects the grow-
ing regional anxiety over
President Donald Trump’s
unpredictable behavior and
the uncertainty in the cha-
otic transition period until
President-elect Joe Biden
takes over Jan. 20.
Iran’s allies have collec-
tively welcomed Trump’s
election defeat. Under his
presidency, tensions with
Iran escalated, reaching fe-
ver pitch at the beginning
of the year with the U.S.
airstrike that killed Iran’s
top general, Qassim
Soleimani. Iran launched a
ballistic missile attack in
response to the fatal drone
strike, targeting U.S. sol-
diers in Iraq and wounding
dozens.
Trump also unilaterally
withdrew America in 2018
from Iran’s nuclear deal
with world powers, meant
to prevent it from devel-
oping nuclear weapons,
and reimposed punishing
sanctions on Iran, crippling
its economy.
Iran has since aban-
doned all limits on its
uranium enrichment pro-
gram, even as the deal’s
other international part-
ners have tried unsuccess-
fully to salvage it. The
incoming Biden adminis-
tration has stated plans to
rejoin or renegotiate the
2015 nuclear accord.
But there is growing con-
cern over what Trump,
who is refusing to concede
the election, might do in
the last days of his presi-
dency — including a poten-
tial strike on America’s ene-
A weary-looking Wine
was granted bail in the
eastern town of Iganga after
being arrested Wednesday
and accused of flouting
COVID-19 guidelines that
require presidential candi-
dates to address fewer than
200 people.
“Let (President Yoweri)
Museveni know that we are
not slaves and we shall not
accept to be slaves,” Wine
said. “We shall be free.”
The 38-year-old opposi-
tion figure, who has been
arrested many times in re-
cent years, has captured the
imagination of many Ugan-
dans with his persistent
calls for Museveni to retire
after 36 years in power.
Royal anniversary: Brit-
ain’s Queen Elizabeth II
and Prince Philip cele-
brated their 73rd wedding
anniversary Friday, and for
the occasion the royal cou-
ple released a photograph of
themselves opening a card
from three of their great-
grandchildren.
The photo made public
late Thursday shows Brit-
ain’s longest-reigning mon-
arch and her husband
OFFICE OF THE IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER
Gen. Esmail Ghaani, head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’s
Quds Force, weeps as he prays over the coffin of Gen.
Qassem Soleimani on Jan. 6 in Tehran, Iran.
mies abroad.
The concern does not
appear to be rooted in
anything concrete —
Trump has ordered a draw-
down in U.S. troops in Iraq
and Afghanistan to be com-
pleted by mid-January —
but rather in general ner-
vousness about the unpre-
dictability of Trump’s ac-
tions. His firing of Defense
Secretary Mark Esper two
days after the election trig-
gered a flurry of specu-
lation about whether it was
related to a broader plan to
strike abroad.
Iraq, where the U.S.-Iran
rivalry has chiefly played
out, is seen as a potential
arena. Frequent attacks
against the U.S. Embassy in
Baghdad in recent months
led a frustrated Trump ad-
ministration to threaten to
close the mission, a move
that sparked a diplomatic
crisis and diplomatic back
channel messaging that led
to an informal truce a few
weeks ahead of the U.S.
election.
Two months before the
Biden administration takes
over, Iranian Gen. Esmail
Ghaani, head of the Guard’s
expeditionary Quds Force,
delivered Tehran’s request
during a meeting with Ira-
nian-backed Iraqi militia
factions and Shiite politi-
cians in Baghdad this week,
according to two senior
Iraqi Shiite politicians who
seated on a sofa at Windsor
Castle, examining the card
made by the children of
their grandson Prince
William and his wife, the
Duchess of Cambridge.
Elizabeth was only 21
when she married Royal
Navy Lt. Philip Mountbat-
ten at Westminster Abbey
on Nov. 20, 1947.
Mueller investigation:
The U.S. Supreme Court is
putting off upcoming argu-
ments about whether Con-
gress should have access to
secret grand jury testimony
from special counsel Robert
Mueller’s Russia investiga-
tion.
The Democratic-con-
trolled House of Repre-
sentatives had asked the
court to put off arguments
scheduled for Dec. 2, and
the court on Friday agreed,
removing the case from its
calendar.
Douglas Letter, the top
lawyer for the House, had
told the court in a written
filing that the House Judici-
ary Committee that takes
office in January “will have
to determine whether it
wishes to continue pursu-
attended the meetings.
The message: Stand
down to avoid giving
Trump the opportunity to
initiate a fresh tit-for-tat
round of violence. And to
Iraqi Shiite paramilitaries:
Be calm and cease attacks
for now against American
presence in Iraq.
However, if there was a
U.S. aggression by the
Trump administration,
Iran’s response would “be
in line with the type of
strike,” one of the Iraqi
politicians cited Ghaani as
saying.
Meanwhile, in Lebanon,
the leader of the Iran-
backed militant Hezbollah
group, Hasan Nasrallah,
warned followers to be
vigilant during Trump’s re-
maining weeks in office.
“All of us should be on
high alert in these next two
months so that it passes
peacefully,” Nasrallah said
in televised remarks this
month even as he urged
followers to “be prepared
to face any danger, aggres-
sion or harm” and to re-
spond in kind “if the US or
Israel’s follies go that far.”
But only hours after
Ghaani delivered Iran’s
message in Baghdad, a bar-
rage of Katyusha rockets
were fired at the Iraqi
capital’s heavily fortified
Green Zone, landing a few
hundred yards from the
U.S. Embassy.
CLAUDIO CRUZ/GETTY-AFP
ing the application for the
grand-jury materials that
gave rise to this case.”
The filing noted that
President Donald Trump’s
defeat in his bid for reelec-
tion could affect the com-
mittee’s decision.
Fe de ra l i n ma te ex-
ecuted: The U.S. Justice
Department executed Or-
lando Cordia Hall late
Thursday for his role in the
1994 kidnapping and killing
of a 16-year-old girl, after
the Supreme Court cleared
the way earlier in the night.
His execution, by lethal
injection at the penitentiary
in Terre Haute, Indiana,
was the eighth by the
Trump administration
since summer, when it re-
sumed the use of capital
punishment by the federal
government after a 17-year
hiatus.
Hall, 49, was the first of
three federal prisoners
scheduled for execution
during the presidential
transition. President-elect
Joe Biden has said he will
work to end the use of
capital punishment by the
federal government.
 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Saturday, November 21, 2020 7

BUSINESS
Wall Street slips amid
worries of surging virus
Associated Press
Stocks closed broadly
lower on Wall Street on
Friday following another
choppy day of trading as
worries about the wors-
ening pandemic undercut
growing optimism about a
coming coronavirus vac-
cine.
The S&P 500 fell 0.7%,
erasing its gains from a day
earlier. The benchmark in-
dex, which climbed to an
all-time high on Monday,
posted its first weekly de-
cline after two weeks of
gains. The index is still up
8.8% so far this month.
Technology, financial and
industrial companies drove
much of the selling, which
turned volatile in the final
hour of regular trading.
Treasury yields were mostly
TAYLOR GLASCOCK/THE NEW YORK TIMES
lower, a sign of caution in
A survey found about 40% of firms with 1,001 to 5,000 workers test for COVID-19. Above, a test is administered to a worker. the market. Stock indexes
around the world made
modest moves.
the economic impact of new
restrictions being put in
place across the U.S. on
people and businesses to
limit the spread.
“It’s a market concerned
about growth,” said Quincy
Krosby, chief market strate-
gist at Prudential Financial.
“That’s the big uncertainty.”
The S&P 500 fell 24.33
points to 3,557.54. The Dow
Jones Industrial Average
slid 219.75 points, or 0.8%, to
29,263.48. The Nasdaq com-
posite dropped gave up an
early gain and dropped
49.74 points, or 0.4%, to
11,854.97.
Small company stocks
held up better than the rest
of the market. The Russell
2000 small-cap index rose
1.21 points, or 0.1%, to
1,785.34.
Wall Street suddenly be-
gan to teeter-totter this
week after a big November
rally swept both the S&P
500 and Dow to record

Little value seen in screening Traders are balancing

cautious optimism that a
working coronavirus vac-
cine will be widely distrib-
highs. Evidence is piling up
for investors both for hope
about the economy’s pro-
spects next year and for fear
Survey: Employers avoid they absorb the expense. In many
cases, however, employers have indi-
confusion and uncertainty as to how
tests work” in the absence of a national
uted next year against jitters about the damage accruing
over surging virus cases and in the shorter term.
COVID-19 testing due cated that they feel the benefits do not testing strategy, and the potential
outweigh the costs. expense loomed large as well.
to cost and complexity Overall, 17% of the facilities sur- Aspinall, who is also an adviser to
veyed worldwide said they were the Rockefeller Foundation, said she
By Noam Scheiber testing workers. At least half of those thought workplace testing would be- Southwest adding flights from
The New York Times facilities were doing so even for
workers without symptoms, and
come far more widespread next year
as employers seek to bring more Midway Airport in the spring
A surge of COVID-19 cases this fall roughly half were testing workers at people back to work.
has brought reports of new challenges least once a week. Dr. Raj Behal, chief quality officer of By Lauren Zumbach during the coronavirus pan-
in getting coronavirus tests. But for At facilities that were not testing, One Medical, which provides primary demic, with passenger
employers, testing availability and only 15% said availability was an issue, health care services to large employers Southwest Airlines is numbers down 63% during
turnaround times do not appear to be while 28% cited cost, 22% cited like Google, agreed that the lack of adding flights to Sarasota, the past week compared
the main obstacles. complexity and 16% said it would take cheap tests had played a major role in Florida, and Savannah, with last year. Southwest
A survey by Arizona State Uni- too long to receive the results. Those limiting uptake. Georgia, from cities includ- said it is shifting planes and
versity and the World Economic surveyed could select more than one “In our experience, companies that ing Chicago next spring. employees to places where
Forum, with funding from the Rocke- reason. need to bring their employees in Up to twice-daily flights it sees demand for winter
feller Foundation, has found that The numbers for the United States, because they are essential or critical between Midway Airport and spring break travel.
companies most frequently cited cost where more than 700 of the facilities workers are regularly screening and and Sarasota Bradenton In- While Midway remains
and complexity as the biggest deter- were located, were similar to the testing employees for COVID,” Behal ternational Airport are the Dallas-based carrier’s
rents to testing their workers. overall results. said. scheduled to start Feb. 14, main hub in Chicago,
The findings, based on responses Mara Aspinall, a professor at Arizo- PCR tests, which are generally Southwest said in a news Southwest announced last
from 1,141 facilities at over 1,100 na State’s College of Health Solutions considered the most accurate but release Thursday. Daily month it will begin flying 20
companies worldwide from Septem- who helped oversee the study, said the typically require laboratory proc- flights between Midway flights a day next year from
ber through late October, are consis- results indicated that companies were essing, cost roughly $100 in the United and Savannah/Hilton Head O’Hare International Air-
tent with earlier reports suggesting figuring out how to get testing done if States. Medicare typically covers International Airport will port to Nashville, Tennes-
that many employers have been able it was essential. For the others, she COVID-19 tests, but many private start March 11. see; Denver; Dallas; Balti-
to obtain testing relatively quickly if said, there was simply “a lot of insurance plans do not. Air travel remains down more; and Phoenix.

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8 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Saturday, November 21, 2020
Par Ridder
General Manager
Colin McMahon
Editor-in-Chief
Kristen McQueary, Editorial Page Editor
Margaret Holt, Standards Editor
I’ll let my kids play football, despite my injury
By Jesse Reising
Ten years ago on this day — the annual
college football game between Harvard and
Yale — a photographer snapped a picture of
my body, face down on the football field,
that The New York Times published to
illustrate the dangers of college football.
As a linebacker for Yale, I had just tack-
led Harvard’s star running back at the per-
fectly wrong angle while we were both
running full speed. We then collapsed on
the field. I was motionless. Harvard’s run-
ning back was OK, fortunately. But the
impact tore two nerves in my neck, causing
searing chronic pain and permanently
paralyzing parts of my right shoulder and
arm. Making it especially difficult to cope, I
soon learned that I’d never regain enough
use of my arm to realize my dream of serv-
ing my country in the United States Marine
Corps.
Pumped full of pain medication, in a
matter of days I shrank from a 230-pound
college linebacker and budding Marine to a
170-pound shell of the man I once was. My
entire sense of purpose and identity crum-
bled along with my body on that field.
Having experienced this pain and loss,
I’m often asked whether I would let my
kids play football. My answer is an un-
equivocal “yes.” Football cultivates a codes-
of-honor worldview that our country des-
perately needs right now. Football team-
mates accept risks, endure hardship and
make sacrifices for one another in pursuit
of their shared goal of winning football
games.
These circumstances lead them to form
What Congress
doesn’t understand
Partisanship in the U.S. continues to
spiral out of control. Republicans and
Democrats in Congress are blindsided by
their own biases, resulting in their inability
to work together to protect Americans
from the devastating effects of COVID-19.
I’m a student at the University of St. Fran-
cis studying social psychology, and it has
occurred to me that members of Congress
would benefit from knowing about social
traps, simplistic thinking and superordi-
nate goals. Knowledge on these topics
would help partisanship to decrease, allow-
ing members to keep Americans’ best inter-
ests in mind when making decisions during
this growing pandemic.
Social traps occur when conflicting
groups pursue their own interests, which
causes both parties to demonstrate de-
structive behavior. With COVID-19 cases
on the rise and many countries entering
into their second round of lockdowns,
Congress must realize that this is not a
Democrat vs. Republican situation. This is
a situation where the American people are
trying to survive a pandemic. In some way,
shape or form, every American has been
affected by this spreading virus that does
not discriminate and has no political affilia-
tion.
Simplistic thinking occurs when ten-
sions are high. Rational thinking becomes
difficult and conflict can be the result of
avoiding ongoing problems. Congress
would benefit in reaching decisions during
this crisis by avoiding simplistic thinking
and shifting perceptions. To save Ameri-
cans from all unforeseen effects of
COVID-19, Congress must think outside
the box to get creative to reach a consensus
on what bills should be passed to help the
people of the United States regardless of
race, gender or class.
Once Congress works together to avoid
social traps and simplistic thinking, it will
be on the path to reaching its superordi-
nate goal and aiding Americans during this
difficult time. COVID-19 is not going away
any time soon and we need Congress to
figure out a way to help all Americans; not
just some.
— Dana Jennings, Chicago
When partisanship
disappeared
A few months ago, in early May and
again in mid-August, we observed the 75th
anniversary of the end of World War II.
During the two-plus years before Pearl
Harbor, war already raged in the Eastern
Hemisphere.
During those two years, partisan politics
dictated what the United States did and did
not do on behalf of our eventual allies. But
once we were attacked, partisanship virtu-
ally disappeared. This should have set the
example for dealing with COVID-19. Yet,
the initial response was and remains parti-
san at the national level and has been pre-
sent on-and-off at the state and local level.
There is hope this will end on Jan. 20,
2021.
— Bob Manewith, Chicago
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Yale linebacker Jesse Reising lies on the turf with Harvard running back Gino Gordon, back-
ground, moments after a helmet-to-helmet collision during a game in 2010 in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Gordon walked off the field, but Reising was wheeled off on a stretcher.
and internalize a code of honor that re-
quires putting the team’s interests ahead of
their own. Under this code, they put every-
thing on the line for the team. Challenges
are viewed not as occasions to feel self-pity
but rather as opportunities to demonstrate
the depth of their commitment by over-
coming those challenges.
Individual pain, blood, sweat and tears
become collective. The bonds forged tran-
scend race, class and ideology. Living up to
their code of honor imbues them with such
a profound sense of purpose and camarade-
rie that after they’re done playing, they
forever seek to replace it with new teams —
Time for a change
In John Kass’ column (“Abolish Elector-
al College?” Nov. 18), he implies that the
idea of abolishing the Electoral College is
some radical new thing. In fact this is not a
new idea. Abolishing the Electoral College
or reforming it in some way has been ar-
gued for decades and was close to being
legally abolished in 1970. We should con-
tinue to question its relevance in today’s
America for many reasons, not the least of
which is that the Electoral College was
based on the value the South put on slaves.
Kass eschews the idea of abandoning the
Electoral College in favor of majority rule.
“Why not put the Bill of Rights up for
popular vote” and “let majority rule on the
First Amendment” he states. Sorry, Mr.
Kass, basic human rights are not up for
majority rule but maybe the way we elect
our president should be. Twice in the five
presidential elections between 2000 and
2016, the presidential candidate who won
the popular vote lost the election in the
Electoral College. It is time for this to
change. We need to seriously consider
abolishing or at least reforming the Elec-
toral College.
— Judy Weik, Oak Park
The need for public Wi-Fi
I feel we should have free public Wi-Fi
in low-income communities. There are a
ton of cafes and Starbucks in middle-class
and upper-class neighborhoods. These
Christine W. Taylor, Managing Editor
Jonathon Berlin, Amy Carr,
Phil Jurik, Amanda Kaschube,
Michelle G. Lopez, Todd Panagopoulos,
Mary Ellen Podmolik,
Rochell Bishop Sleets
GREG M. COOPER/AP
new honor groups.
They take that worldview with them off
the field. It provides a much-needed anti-
dote to modern society’s solipsistic culture
of individualism, which favors self-preser-
vation and pushes us away from communi-
ties of true meaning.
Society’s individualistic advice ini-
tially worsened the sense of alienation I
felt after losing the Marine Corps. Accord-
ing to this advice, I should have been con-
tent simply knowing that I wanted to be a
Marine: “Stop caring what others think.”
This advice urged me to search within the
places can be found everywhere. They are
also within walking distance of each other
as well. That cannot be said for low-income
neighborhoods. Not only do they lack
places for youth to study, it is dangerous for
them as well. Some youth can’t study at
home. They can’t concentrate at home or
there’s a situation going on at home that
prevents youth from studying.
It would be great if the youth could go
anywhere else, where they would feel
comfortable studying. In these low-income
neighborhoods the gap between rich and
poor is much wider than it seems. In Sep-
tember in California, as the school year was
starting up again, a photo went viral online
showing two elementary school-age chil-
dren outside a Taco Bell. The children
were using the fast food establishment’s
free Wi-Fi for virtual online class. This
story does have a happy ending, though.
The school connected them with resources
that they needed. A GoFundMe page also
raised more than $140,000 for girls and
their family.
— Christian De Leon, Chicago
Tired of proclamations
In reference to Steve Chapman’s column
(“The COVID-19 pandemic is spawning
false claims about freedom,” Nov. 19) sup-
porting Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s unlawful miti-
gations, please note that I’m tired. I’m tired
of the governor’s lack of respect for our
state Constitution and democratic institu-
tions. I’m tired of his rule by decree and the
directors of content
solitude of my own conscience for answers
about what to do next: “Just ask what you
want out of life.”
But my worldview instead demanded
that I reengage with my community to
discern how to continue to be useful: “Ask
what life wants out of you.” It allowed me to
see that serving in the Marine Corps was
not my ultimate goal but rather one way to
live up to my code of honor of serving my
country.
I recovered psychologically only when I
was able to live up to that high bar by serv-
ing alongside new honor groups as a federal
prosecutor in Chicago, as a civilian in Af-
ghanistan, and as a co-founder of the War-
rior-Scholar Project, which helps military
veterans rediscover their sense of meaning
in a similar way.
For many military service members and
football players, being part of a tight-knit
group formed around a shared set of values
is like oxygen. They don’t even notice how
critical it is to their sense of well-being until
they no longer have it. The identity-ob-
sessed lifestyle that society pushes on us
doesn’t provide oxygen in the same way.
So yes, despite my injury, when I have
children someday I will let them play foot-
ball. It will help instill in them a yearning to
find their honor groups, providing them
with a sense of meaning and purpose that
transcends the tragic divisions in our coun-
try. As it did for me, it will empower them
not to become victims of circumstance.
Jesse Reising is a Chicago-based lawyer at
Kirkland & Ellis and former federal prose-
cutor, a former Yale linebacker and co-found-
er of the Warrior-Scholar Project.
WALT HANDELSMAN/NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE
arrogance that accompanies each new
proclamation of so-called mitigations.
Additionally, I’m tired of the lack of trans-
parency that goes into the unlawful restric-
tions he imposes on the good people of our
state. I’m tired of his tyrannical despotism
and his failure to call the legislature back
into session. I’m tired of being ignored by
my two state legislative representatives.
They, like many other members of the
governor’s party, have abandoned their
responsibilities as an elected representa-
tive of the constituents they serve to be
nothing more than paid apparatchiks on
the level of those who once sat in the
Supreme Soviet in Moscow.
— David L. Blatt, Chicago
Opposing views?
Letter-writer Brian Hiatt opined that
Gov. J.B. Pritzker used “heavy-handed
executive orders” and has governed by
“executive fiat” during the recent COVID
surge. Gov. Bruce Rauner, in December
2015 and January 2016, also governed
without consulting the legislature by issu-
ing proclamations that designated five and
23 counties, respectively, disaster zones
due to flooding in downstate Illinois. I see
no difference in governing style. Perhaps
the writer from Kankakee welcomed
Rauner’s “bold action” due to agreement
but objects to Prizker’s actions because the
writer holds an opposing opinion.
— Mark Erickson, Skokie

Don’t call it
a comeback
Chicago’s Vince Vaughn eyes a
career resurgence with ‘Freaky’
By Josh Rottenberg
Los Angeles Times
Vince Vaughn has been
starring in movies for a
quarter of a century, ever
since his breakout as a
swaggering wannabe actor
in the 1996 indie comedy
“Swingers.” But in these
strange and stressful times
in which we find ourselves,
his life is perhaps not as
different from yours as you
might imagine.
His days are punctuated
by Zoom meetings. With
his family largely confined
to their home in Southern
California, the 50-year-old
actor frets over keeping his
two kids, who are in the
second and fourth grade,
from falling behind where
they should be academi-
cally and socially. Like most
of us, he is looking for new
ways to occupy his time;
over the last few months,
he’s been playing the occa-
sional Friday-night game of
Dungeons & Dragons on-
line with a group of friends
led by Rage Against the
Machine guitarist Tom
Morello.
“I used to play as a kid,”
Vaughn said over Zoom
from his home in late Octo-
ber, just eight days before a
presidential election that
would further test every-
one’s sanity. Outside his
window, his children were
spending the afternoon
with six school friends and
Who will be Grammy contenders?
By Mesfin Fekadu
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Rappers
and R&B singers tend to be
the most-nominated acts
at the Grammys thanks
to producing their own
hits and collaborating
with others, giving them a
chance to qualify for more
nominations than a pop or
country singer who worked
alone during the eligibility
period.
In a normal year, Megan
Thee Stallion would be
that rapper who leads in
nominations thanks to her
hits “Savage” with Beyoncé
and “WAP” with Cardi B,
along with her successful
EP “Suga.”
But “WAP” wasn’t
submitted for nominations
this year, and when the
Grammy nominations are
announced, Megan Thee
Stallion will be honored,
but not like she could
have been. Her nomina-
tions will likely include
record of the year, best rap
song and best rap perfor-
mance for “Savage,” and
she’s a shoo-in for best
new artist. Had “WAP” —
which became an instant-
hit and was praised for its
sex positive message —
been included, she could
have earned nominations
for song and record of the
year, best rap song, best rap
performance and even best
music video.
Here’s a look at what to
expect when The Record-
ing Academy announces
the 2021 nominees Tues-
day.
Ricch boy
Roddy Ricch would
easily be a nominee for
best new artist, but he
can’t since he won a
Grammy this year for
best rap performance for
Nipsey Hussle’s “Racks
in the Middle,” where he
appeared as a guest artist.
But Ricch, who topped
the pop charts with “The
Box” this year and has
reached double plati-
num status with his debut
two teachers who have
joined together in a learn-
ing pod. “I have to tell you,
man, it’s a blast. It’s just so
fun and nerdy.”
In his career as well,
Vaughn has come some-
what down to earth. Since
the mid-2000s, when a
string of hits including “Old
School,” “Wedding Crash-
ers” and “Dodgeball” made
him one of the most bank-
able stars in town, Holly-
wood has largely backed
away from the type of R-
rated, male-oriented come-
dies that were once his
bread and butter. Following
a series of box office duds
including 2013’s “Delivery
Man” and 2015’s “Unfin-
ished Business,” Vaughn
has recently pivoted more
toward drama, starring in
the second season of HBO’s
“True Detective” and the
gritty indie crime thrillers
“Brawl in Cell Block 99”
and “Dragged Across Con-
crete.”
Now, in the midst of a
pandemic that has brought
the movie business to its
knees, the native of Buffalo
Grove and Lake Forest finds
himself looking for laughs
again in his highest-profile
film in years: the Blum-
house horror-comedy
“Freaky.” .In director Chris-
topher Landon’s new twist
on the tried-and-true
“Freaky Friday” formula,
Vaughn plays a serial killer
called the Blissfield Butcher
The Weeknd, from left, Harry Styles, Roddy Ricch and Megan Thee Stallion are likely to be named Grammy nominees. AP PHOTOS
album “Please Excuse Me
for Being Antisocial,” will
likely earn nominations like
album of the year, record
of the year, song of the
year, best rap song, best rap
performance and best rap
album.
Ricch should also earn
nominations for his guest
appearance on DaBaby’s
international hit “Rock
Star,” helping him become
the show’s overall top
nominee.
Folks love ‘Folklore’
Taylor Swift’s “Folklore”
is likely to compete for the
top prize, and gives the
singer a chance to be the
first act to win album of the
year three times after doing
so with “1989” and “Fear-
less.”
Swift will likely earn a
song of the year nod for
“Cardigan” and could even
compete in other genre
categories outside of pop
since her album has sounds
from folk to alternative.
Weeknd at Harry’s
Harry Styles will become
the first One Direction
member to compete at the
Grammys, thanks to the
success of his second solo
album and the smash hit,
“Watermelon Sugar.”
Styles is expected to earn
nominations like album of
the year and best pop vocal
album for “Fine Line,”
while his No. 1 hit will earn
nods for record of the year,
song of the year and best
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Vince Vaughn stars in “Freaky,” which marks a return to the comedy genre for the Chicago
actor after he devoted time to more serious movie and television roles in recent years.
who switches bodies with
an insecure high school girl
named Millie (played by
Kathryn Newton) after
stabbing her with a super-
naturally cursed dagger.
With 24 hours to figure
out how to reverse the
curse, Vaughn — playing
Millie inside of the Butcher
in a Russian nesting doll of
a performance — awk-
wardly struggles to adjust
to a suddenly oversized
body, performs cheerlead-
ing moves to persuade
Millie’s friends of her true
identity and, in one unex-
pectedly touching scene,
reveals a secret crush on a
jock named Booker.
Signing onto the film,
Vaughn was well aware
that such a gender-swap-
ping role had the potential
to go off the rails. For every
“Mrs. Doubtfire,” after all,
there is a “Jack and Jill.” “It
pop solo performance.
The Weeknd will score
nominations for album of
the year with “After Hours”
as well as song and record
of the year for “Blinding
Lights.” The Weeknd could
compete with Ricch for
the top nominee title since
he will also vie for pop and
R&B awards, and maybe
even best music video.
Other top album nominees
Others who may score
nominations for album of
the year are Fiona Apple’s
“Fetch the Bolt Cutters,”
Tame Impala’s “The Slow
Rush” and Luke Combs’
“What You See Is What
You Get.” Since there are
eight slots, Lady Gaga’s
“Chromatica” and “Future
Nostalgia” by Dua Lipa
could join the club of nomi-
nees.
New kids on the block
Though Megan Thee
Stallion is the front-run-
ner in the best new artist
category, she’ll have some
stiff competition. Others
who may earn nominations
include Lewis Capaldi,
Summer Walker, Morgan
Wallen, Doja Cat, Black-
pink, Ingrid Andress, Snoh
Aalegra, Skip Marley,
Mickey Guyton and CNCO.
Grande’s Grammys
While Ariana Grande’s
“Positions” album and
single will compete at the
2022 Grammys, she could
earn nominations for her
scared me a little at first,”
he says. “But I felt like,
‘Well, that’s probably good.’
I’d sort of been wanting to
do stuff where I feel a little
like your feet can’t touch
the bottom.”
While it may have been
tempting to lean into slap-
stick, Vaughn worked to get
into the emotional
headspace of a vulnerable
teenager, drawing inspira-
tion in part from his own
nieces. “The very first time
I met Vince, we both ar-
rived on the same page in
terms of not wanting him to
play a caricature of a girl,”
says “Freaky” director and
co-writer Christopher
Landon. “I felt like the
movie would only succeed
if we really invested in this
character and were rooting
for her. I wanted him to
take it seriously.”
Where some may see a
collaborations with Lady
Gaga (“Rain on Me”) and
Justin Bieber (“Stuck With
U”). The duets will likely
compete for best pop duo/
group performance but
could even earn nomina-
tions for record or song of
the year.
Saying no to ‘Say So’?
Though she’s a contro-
versial figure in music, it’s
hard to deny rapper-singer
Doja Cat’s successful year.
She topped the charts
with “Say So,” launched
another platinum success
with “Like That” and has
been the go-to performer to
guest star on songs.
“Say So” will likely earn
a nomination for best pop
solo performance, but
nominations for song and
record of the year may be
tricky. If “Say So” is nomi-
nated in the top categories,
it would give a nomination
to Dr. Luke, who co-wrote
and produced the song and
has been in a yearslong
legal battle with Kesha,
who accused him of sexual
assault during their partner-
ship. Dr. Luke has vigor-
ously denied the allegations,
and he was last nominated
at the 2014 Grammys.
Dr. Luke’s return to
the top of the charts this
year would make him a
candidate for non-classi-
cal producer of the year,
though the academy may
block that from happening.
Apart from producing Doja
Cat’s hits, he produced
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stab at a commercial come-
back in a genre with a
steady box office track
record, Vaughn insists he
has simply been moving in
the direction of what inter-
ests him. Those edgy studio
comedies that had once
been his forte had started to
grow increasingly safe and
bland, he says, pointing to
2013’s underwhelming
“The Internship,” which
the studio watered down
from a planned R rating to a
PG-13.
“When anything be-
comes so much by commit-
tee or you’re walking in
playing defense, it’s not as
rewarding a journey to go
on,” says Vaughn, who
popped up recently in a
small role in the latest
season of HBO’s “Curb
Your Enthusiasm.” “What I
liked about the R comedies
at the time is it felt like they
Ricch, Styles, The Weeknd,
Megan Thee Stallion top
list of potential nominees
major hits for Juice WRLD
(“Wishing Well”) and
Saweetie (“Tap In”) and
also worked on DaBaby and
Lil Wayne’s recent albums.
K-pop kings
BTS could finally earn
their first Grammy nomina-
tion this year.
The seven-member
group’s hit “Dynamite”
could snag a nomination for
best pop duo/group perfor-
mance, and their latest
album could compete for
best global music album.
Blackpink, who released
its successful debut album
during Grammy voting,
could earn a best new artist
nomination.
Award-winning Blue Ivy
Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s
daughter has already won
honors at the BET Awards,
Soul Train Music Awards
and NAACP Image Awards,
but she could earn her first
Grammy nomination this
year.
Blue Ivy appears on
Beyoncé’s hit “Brown Skin
Girl” on the album “The
Lion King: The Gift,” which
competed at the 2020
Grammys. But this year,
the song’s music video was
released as part of Beyon-
cé’s “Black Is King” special
on Disney+, and it could
earn a nomination for best
music video.
Posthumous players
Juice WRLD died before
his “Legends Never Die”
9
were like these defiant rock
albums. It felt like you were
part of a band. I will go
back and do comedies
again.”
In the era of social me-
dia, navigating those sorts
of career vicissitudes has
only become more chal-
lenging. In January, Vaughn
found himself being
slammed on Twitter and
Facebook when a video
showing him chatting and
shaking hands with Presi-
dent Donald Trump at a
college football game in
New Orleans went viral.
Some on the left called for
Vaughn — a self-identified
libertarian who has drawn
fire in the past for his com-
ments on hot-button issues
like gun rights — to be
canceled.
Vaughn insists the epi-
sode was overblown. “In
my career I’ve met a lot of
politicians who I’ve always
been cordial to; I’ve met
Nancy Pelosi and was cor-
dial to her as well,” he says,
noting that at that same
football game he also
greeted Democratic strate-
gist James Carville, who
had a cameo in “Old
School.” “It was the only
time I’ve ever met him. We
said hello. He was very
personable.” He laughs. “I
didn’t get into policies.”
While some jumped to
the conclusion that he was
a backer of the president,
Vaughn says, “The only
candidate I ever supported
is (former Libertarian
presidential nominee) Ron
Paul. … I don’t have a party
that I support and endorse.
In fact, for me sometimes
it’s difficult to find a candi-
date that you feel is philo-
sophically consistent and
not just going along with
whoever is funding their
particular party. That’s as
much as I’ll get into it at
this point.”
album was released, but
it has dominated the pop
charts and could earn the
rapper Grammy nomina-
tions. Pop Smoke, who died
this year, has also had major
success on the charts and
streaming services with his
debut “Shoot for the Stars,
Aim for the Moon.”
R&Beast
In just two short years,
Summer Walker has
launched 13 Top 10 hits
on the Billboard R&B
songs chart. And she’ll be
honored at the Grammys
for her breakthrough.
She should dominate
with multiple nomina-
tions in the R&B categories
thanks to the success of her
debut album “Over It.” She
should compete for best
new artist, and she should
get bids for album of the
year as well as song and
record of the year.
Others sure to garner
R&B nominations — and
major ones — include
Teyana Taylor, Jhene Aiko,
Chloe x Halle, Brandy and
JoJo.
Combs’ country
Combs dominated the
country music charts and
streaming services, and he
should score nominations
in the top three catego-
ries as well as bids for best
country song, best coun-
try performance and best
country album, where
competition may include
the Chicks, Lucinda
Williams and Andress.
Maren Morris should
also fare well in the coun-
try categories with “The
Bones,” which will likely
compete for song and
record of the year. Gabby
Barrett, whose country hit
“I Hope” is currently No. 3
on pop charts, should earn
a nomination for best coun-
try performance and best
country song.
Dan + Shay are likely to
earn nominations, too, and
could help Bieber earn his
first nod in the country
genre thanks to their smash
duet “10,000 Hours.”
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HARDCOVER FICTION
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we can check tempera-
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this way. How would you
navigate this?
— Anxious Annie
DearAnxious: Here’s
how I am navigating this
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he is gone, but isolation
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By Amy Dickinson
askamy@amydickinson.com Twitter @askingamy
who is at the end of her
life. She may die within a
couple of weeks.
I live in a different prov-
ince, and due to COVID-19
I won’t be able to say good-
bye in person or attend the
funeral, but I do want to
send flowers and donate to
a charity.
Does the etiquette
surrounding flowers/
donations change at all?
Should anything be sent
to the dying person in
advance, or should it be
treated like a regular pass-
ing and flowers be sent to
the family after?
— Confused in BC
Dear Confused: Do not
send your aunt a funeral
spray. But if you think that
a beautiful bouquet of her
favorite flowers would
make her happy, then send
them to her.
The most important
thing for you to do for your
aunt in advance of her
death is to let her know
how much you love and
appreciate her. Whether
that is through a card,
letter, a video — you have
the opportunity to tell her
that you love her and that
she means a lot to you.
After her death, you
could send a bouquet or a
food basket to her family
members, as well as donate
to a charity in her memory.
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ter graduated from college
two years ago, with a biol-
ogy degree and an desire to
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tant program.
She did not get in
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Last month, she took a
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same town as us. The new
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and she is doing well.
The week before she
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Now she has been
accepted into that PA
program. She will have to
move across the country
and be in place 10 months
from now.
When should she notify
her new employer that she
will be leaving?
— Dad
Dear Dad: Congratu-
lations to your daughter!
Her (and your) persistence
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She should not feel any
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Depending on the culture
at the office and her rela-
tionship with her employ-
ers, I think six weeks’
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her to potentially help to
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Judge Simon Lycett inspects an arrangement during an episode of “Full Bloom.” HBO MAX

Florists do more than play with

flowers in new HBO Max series
Mariah Carey performs during a 2019 concert. “Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special”is
By Brooke Lefferts not understand,” judge always agree, Lycett said. coming Dec. 4 to Apple TV+. KAMRAN JEBREILI/AP

Mariah Carey is giving us the

Associated Press Elizabeth Cronin said. “It was purely the fact
While it may appear that there is this incred-
NEW YORK — They that florists just “play with ible energy and synergy

gift of a Christmas TV special

designed epic floral state-
ments in limited time with
some very intense judges,
but the contestants on the
new reality competition
series “Full Bloom” did not
wilt under pressure.
Ten budding florists
from around the United
States compete in wildly
creative floral design chal-
lenges on the eight-epi-
sode HBO Max series now
available on the streaming
service.
Contestants accept two
themed challenges per
episode — with the luxury
of choosing from the best
blooms — and spin flowers
into art. The show lifts the
curtain on the high-pres-
sure world of floral design
and what it takes to be
successful. It’s not as easy
as it may seem.
“It’s not just about
who’s making the most
beautiful bouquet. That
is part of it. We all have
to make beautiful things
for our clients. But it is so
much about the journey of
being in the floral industry,
which people just do
flowers,” she said, the work
can and does lead to inju-
ries, and the show reveals
“the real deal of what it is
to be a florist.”
Cronin is one of the
show’s three judges, along
with Simon Lycett and
Maurice Harris, all well-
known in the floral design
world and with some
famous clients.
Lycett has arranged
flowers for England’s
Queen Elizabeth II on
occasions including
weddings and parties;
Cronin has created flow-
ers for Lady Gaga and the
Obamas; and Harris has
worked with Beyoncé.
The judges support and
scrutinize the contestants’
creations, and their big
personalities and chemis-
try contribute to the show.
“What was extraor-
dinary was the fact that
virtually every single time
we had to make some judg-
ment calls and rank our
fabulous florists, we would
do that on our own, away
from one another onto
a sheet,” and yet nearly
between the three of us.”
Challenges include
replicating works of art,
and managing the flowers
at events and weddings.
The judges also provide
tips on styling and caring
for flowers at home.
“Whenever I’m over-
thinking anything, it’s just
like, ‘Girl, calm down, keep
it simple!’” Harris said,
laughing. “Even if you
don’t have a lot of money,
just like buy the prettiest
thing ... and just put it in a
simple, small opening vase,
and it looks great.”
Alternatively, get a
“massive amount of some-
thing cheap, like baby’s
breath or mums ... when
you see it in mass, and
it’s loose and it’s easy, it’s
really pretty,” he said.
The end products don’t
last long, but the show
committed to giving parts
of all the floral designs to
people who might need a
lift.
In the first episode,
producers surprised work-
ers at a hospital with two
large flower arrangements.
By Christi Carras
Los Angeles Times
On the (not quite) first
day of Christmas, Mariah
gave to me: A special on
Apple TV.
That’s right: “Mariah
Carey’s Magical Christ-
mas Special” is coming
Dec. 4 to Apple TV+,
the streaming platform
announced recently.
Also set to appear in the
star-studded program are
Ariana Grande, Tiffany
Haddish, Billy Eichner,
Jennifer Hudson, Snoop
Dogg, Jermaine Dupri,
Mykal-Michelle Harris,
Misty Copeland and a
partridge in a pear tree.
Executive produced by
the Queen of Christmas
herself, the holiday extrav-
aganza will feature a merry
mix of musical perfor-
mances, dance numbers
and animated displays.
“Let’s get festive!” Carey
tweeted, along with a spar-
kly promotional poster
featuring the Grammy
winner smiling in the
center of a giant evergreen
wreath.
In tandem with the
special, Apple will debut
“Oh Santa!,” a new single
and music video featur-
ing Carey, Grande and
Hudson. The pop power
collab will lead a compan-
ion soundtrack includ-
ing tracks from Dogg and
Dupri, as well as a reimag-
ined version of the Yule-
tide classic “Sleigh Ride.”
“Mariah Carey’s Magical
Christmas Special” is one
of multiple holiday shows
the “All I Want for Christ-
mas Is You” hitmaker has
staged over the years. Past
winter TV celebrations
starring Carey include
YouTube Red’s “The Keys
of Christmas,” Funny or
Die’s “Mariah Carey’s
Holiday Sketchtacular,”
the Hallmark Channel’s
“Mariah Carey’s Merriest
Christmas” and more.
As usual, Carey wasted
no time ringing in the
Christmas season this year
by uploading a post-Hal-
loween video of herself
wearing a red flannel
onesie and cheering to
the tune of “All I Want
for Christmas Is You” in
her own personal winter
wonderland, complete
with fake snow and frosted
evergreens.
“It’s time!,” a title
card reads. “But let’s get
through Thanksgiving
first.”
And after the election,
the songstress shared a
viral clip of a euphoric
crowd dancing to her No. 1
holiday hit at a gas station
in Los Angeles after former
Vice President Joe Biden
and California Sen. Kamala
Harris defeated President
Trump and Vice President
Pence earlier this month.
“Wish come truuueee!”
Carey tweeted in approval.
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Crossword

By Jacqueline E. Mathews. © 2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. All rights reserved.
11/21/20
ACROSS 42 Pretty woman at Solutions
1 Yakety-__; the ball
chatter 43 Etched
4 “Yabba __ Doo!” 45 Helps with the
9 Life __; duration dishes
of existence 46 Do drugs
13 Word attached 47 Melody
to pull or pop 48 Injure with a
15 “Doe, __, a dagger
female deer…” 51 Well-known &
16 Crossword long-remembered
definition 56 Fling forcefully
17 Dig for ore 57 Indian or Arctic
18 Wisdom tooth, 58 Voting day: abbr.
for one 60 “You’re only
19 Monthly expense young __”
20 Postgraduate 61 __ out; eliminate
degree gradually
22 __ away at; 62 Make well
erodes 63 Football
23 Philosopher maneuver
Descartes 64 More painful
24 Madrid Mrs. 65 Timid around 14 Draftee 39 Under
26 Rainbow __; others 21 Head of France? 41 Faux __; blunder
freshwater 25 Ruby or burgundy 42 Wrap tightly
fishes DOWN 26 “__ Were the 44 Russia’s dollars
29 Tries 1 __ Kippur; Day Days”; 1968 song 45 Marathon
34 “Deal or No of Atonement 27 Julius Caesar or participant
Deal” host 2 Passionate Sophia Loren 47 Razz
35 Bawled 3 Casino game 28 Being in debt 48 Small store
36 Mr. Potato Head 4 Wayans & others 29 Ready for battle 49 Fish in a
piece 5 Venerate 30 Bleachers level casserole
37 Delete 6 Bartók or Lugosi 31 Hartman & 50 Curved bands of
38 Like capitol roofs 7 Outscore Collins sparks
39 Swedish actress 8 Took into custody 32 Dining room 52 Reverberate
Andersson 9 Cry out in terror necessity 53 Equipment
40 __ Antonio, TX 10 Tearful request 33 Animal pens 54 Kicks oneself for
41 One of the 12 11 Dad’s sister 35 Sheep shelter 55 Slangy affirmative
Apostles 12 Trawling items 38 Evolves 59 Underhanded
12 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Saturday, November 21, 2020

Dilbert By Scott Adams

Horoscopes
Today’s birthday (Nov. 21): This year could
get especially lucrative. Disciplined efforts
pay in silver and gold. Winter redirects a
collaborative effort, leading to a growth and
development phase for a passion project.
Make a personal change next summer,
inspiring blossoming romance and partnership.
Aries (March 21-April 19): Today is an 8. For a month, with
the sun in Sagittarius, exploration calls. Shift your attention
toward educational, cultural or philosophical matters.
Taurus (April 20-May 20): 7. Focus on managing shared re-
sources this month. Focus on financial growth under the Sagit-
tarius sun. Collaborate for common cause. Support the team.
Gemini (May 21-June 20): 8. Prioritize health and fitness. Baby Blues By Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott
Put your heart into your work and it flowers. Collaboration
comes naturally, with the sun in Sagittarius this month.
Cancer (June 21-July 22): 8. Explore limited options. The
sun in Sagittarius this month favors your health and fitness.
Your workload could get intense. Balance activity with relax-
ation and fun.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): 7. Feather your love nest. You’re lucky
in love under the Sagittarius sun this month. Romance, fun
and games are favored. Follow your heart.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): 8. Work together with your partner.
Make domestic changes over the next month, with the sun
in Sagittarius. Adjust for family circumstances.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): 7. Maintain healthy practices. Begin
a creative month-long phase with the Sagittarius sun. Study
and research. Write, film and broadcast your ideas. Zits By Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): 9. Follow your heart. it’s easier to
make money this month under the Sagittarius sun. You’re
especially charismatic and charming. Put profitable projects
together.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): 9. You have an advantage, with
the sun in your sign for a month. Use your power and confi-
dence for good. Consider a higher purpose.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): 7. Write and edit your vision
statement. Get into a contemplative month-long phase.
Complete projects, with the sun in Sagittarius, to prepare for
what’s next.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): 8. Maintain your profitable
momentum. You’re especially popular. Connect and share
support for community efforts. Benefits flow through social
channels with the Sagittarius sun. Mr. Boffo By Joe Martin
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): 9. Consider personal priorities.
Your career flowers over the next month, with the sun in
Sagittarius. Your influence is on the rise. Refine your focus.

— Nancy Black, Tribune Content Agency

The Argyle Sweater By Scott Hilburn

Frazz By Jef Mallett

Bliss By Harry Bliss Classic Peanuts By Charles Schulz

Pickles By Brian Crane

Bridge
Both vulnerable, South deals
North
♠ 876
♥ K974 Dick Tracy By Joe Staton and Mike Curtis
♦ A763
♣74
West East
♠ Q 10 3 ♠ KJ
♥ A2 ♥ J865
♦ Q 10 8 ♦ KJ954
♣ J 10 9 8 2 ♣53
South
♠ A9542
♥ Q 10 3
♦2
♣AKQ6
North bid four hearts when accepting South’s game try
in case South had a four-card heart suit. South correctly
went back to spades. The game was a little pushy, needing Animal Crackers By Mike Osbun
a 3-2 split of the missing spades and a successful guess for
the jack of hearts. South also had to ruff a club in dummy
at some point, but
The bidding: it was important to
wait a while for that.
South West North East Should declarer try to
1♠ Pass 2♠ Pass ruff a club too soon,
3♥ Pass 4♥ Pass a defender with a
4♠ All pass
doubleton club and a
doubleton spade might
Opening lead: Jack of ♣ overruff, leaving South
with three, or possibly
even four, trump losers. The same defender might be able to
get a second club ruff.
The correct technique is to win the opening club lead and
then play a low spade from both hands. Declarer will reclaim Prickly City By Scott Stantis
the lead, say with a club continuation, and bang down the
ace of spades. leaving one trump outstanding. Then it will
be safe to ruff a club in dummy. A side benefit of using the
correct technique is that declarer will discover, on this deal
at least, that East started with only two clubs. That will
give South good reason to infer that East was likely to have
started with the greater heart length.
Should East have started with four hearts, he was twice
as likely to hold any missing heart, as West would only have
started with two hearts. Accordingly, declarer should finesse
East for the jack of hearts and bring his contract home.
Nicely played!

— Bob Jones
tcaeditors@tribpub.com
 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Saturday, November 21, 2020 13
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Complete the grid

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and 3-by-3 box in
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Friday’s
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Unscramble the four Jumbles, one letter per square, to
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Mutts By Patrick McDonnell (Mutts is on vacation until November 23. Please enjoy this strip from 2007.)

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musical drama Jungle Cat” pupils?
7 Toyota sedans 40 Duck soup 12 “Fat chance”
Broom-Hilda By Russell Myers 14 Outer organ layer 41 Exmoor heroine 13 Disingenuous
15 Email staple 42 Part of the 56-Across 15 Way away from danger
16 Pooh-pooh, with “at” 45 Tucker of country 20 Start of a request for
17 Michelangelo’s 46 Warblers’ warbles advice
“David,” for one 47 Law school beginners 23 Hindu deity
18 Do something to hide? 49 High-__: upscale 25 Clerical assemblies
19 Devoted 51 __ Sea: Arctic Ocean 27 Royal commands
21 Name on the 1949 arm 29 Warhorse
“Death of a Salesman” 52 Cut with light 30 Org. studying
playbill 53 It was delayed three epidemics
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acter created by author Margret 63 “The Mets have 42 Big favors, in slang
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tie? response to lose than I even 44 “__ Mucho”: 1944 #1
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Beresford 64 First arrival 48 Conned
B) C. Auguste Friday’s solution 50 “__ avec les stars”
Dupin Down 53 Pointed part
C) Jane Marple 1 Stoked 54 Indigo dye
D) Hercule Poirot 2 16th-century 55 Wail
Thursday’s masterpiece 58 Travel __
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CHICAGO SPORTS
Defense! Defense!
Northwestern and Wisconsin should be a low-scoring battle. For Pat Fitzgerald,
this latest Big Ten showdown is par for the course: ‘It’s the Midwest way.’
By Shannon Ryan
Northwestern coach Pat
Fitzgerald’s gravelly voice esca-
lated as he talked about defense.
The way a judge might discuss
the constitution or an artist might
describe Picasso, his delivery
became filled with passion and
adoration as he mentioned the
side of the ball on which he once
played.
Fitzgerald nearly scoffed men-
tioning the flashy offense of
today’s youngsters as he made a
point about the importance of
stone-cold knockout defense.
“You look at grade school and
high school football now,” he
said.
“There’s a lot of seven-on-
seven (teams), the guys who go
play in those and get their SPARQ
rating up and get all the free gear
for playing seven on seven …”
Fitzgerald’s voice almost rose
to a shout.
“Eventually they get hit in the
mouth,” he said, blasting out the
words like a hit he used to deliver
in the 1990s.
“That’s called playing defense,”
he said, a little more composed
but still possessing the get-off-
my-lawn edge of an old-timer.
“That’s why I don’t like that other
stuff.
“I love watching our league. I
love watching people get
punched in the face. I love people
CUIBS
Not everybody loses with Epstein’s departure
By Mark Gonzales
Theo Epstein’s resignation as
Chicago Cubs president of base-
ball operations stunned more
than the baseball world.
Epstein’s departure Friday
with one year remaining on his
contract affected the entire Chi-
cago sports landscape this week.
Here’s a look at the winners and
losers from Epstein’s decision,
which was announced Tuesday.
Chicago’s best sports section, as judged by the Associated Press Sports Editors
Northwestern linebacker Chris Bergin tackles Nebraska running back Dedrick Mills on Nov. 7.
responding to it.”
Anyone watching Saturday’s
game in Evanston will appreciate
what he means.
Turn to NU, Page 2
Winner: Theo Epstein
The future Hall of
Famer leaves his position
after ending a 107-year
World Series drought,
and the championship
brought joy and relief to
generations of fans
throughout the country. Epstein
It can be debated that
Epstein should have stayed to could lead to another executive
complete the formidable task of role with part ownership of a
determining the futures of Javier team.
SATURDAY GAMES
Illinois at Nebraska, 11 a.m., BTN
No. 9 Indiana at No. 3 Ohio State, 11 a.m., Fox-32
No. 10 Wisconsin at No. 19 Northwestern, 2:30 p.m., ABC-7
Iowa at Penn State, 2:30 p.m., BTN
Michigan at Rutgers, 6:30 p.m., BTN
Baez, Kris Bryant, An-
thony Rizzo and Kyle
Schwarber.
But Epstein, 46, leaves
behind that stress while
taking time to relax with
his family, spending
more time on his charity
work and evaluate evalu-
ating his options that
Saturday, November 21, 2020 | Section 2
JOHN J. KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
NAM Y. HUH/AP
Loser: The media
Epstein wasn’t as accessible
before games as affable prede-
cessor Jim Hendry, but Epstein
138
often would provide one or two
kernel-sized crystal ball moves
during his sessions. His end-of-
season news conferences were as
candid as an executive could be
without burying a player and
diminishing his trade value.
Turn to Epstein, Page 5
WHEN SPORTS
CAME BACK
Keeping an eye on the world of
sports during the pandemic:
NATHAN DENETTE/AP
Raptors are
headed to
Tampa Bay
The Raptors will start the
NBA season next month in
Tampa, Florida, because of
travel restrictions by the Cana-
dian government stemming
from the pandemic.
The Raptors had been look-
ing at other sites for several
weeks, including Sunrise,
Florida, the home of the
NHL’s Panthers. But with
NBA training camp less than
two weeks away and a season
starting Dec. 22, the Raptors
were pressed to make a final
decision.
Instead, they will play home
games at Amalie Arena, home
of the Stanley Cup champion
Lightning.
“Ultimately, the current
public health situation facing
Canadians, combined with the
urgent need to determine
where we will play means that
we will begin our 2020-21
season in Tampa, Florida,”
Raptors President Masai Ujiri
said in a statement Friday.
An official familiar with the
Canadian government’s deci-
sion told The Associated Press
there is too much COVID-19
circulating in the United
States to allow for cross-bor-
der travel that is not essential.
The official, speaking on
condition of anonymity and
not authorized to talk publicly
about the matter, said there’s a
chance that the decision could
be reviewed next year.
The Raptors, the NBA’s lone
Canadian team, and the league
needed an exemption to a
requirement that anyone en-
tering Canada for nonessential
reasons must isolate for 14
days. The U.S.-Canada border
remains closed to nonessential
travel.
Dr. Andrew Morris, a pro-
fessor of infectious diseases at
the University of Toronto and
the medical director of the
Antimicrobial Stewardship
Program at Sinai-University
Health Network, said the Ca-
nadian government made the
right decision.
“With the current situation
it is almost impossible for the
government to reasonably
sanction travel back and forth
travel outside a bubble,” Mor-
ris said.
So, for the Raptors, it’s now
time for Florida to be home
away from home again.
— Associated Press
THE QUOTE
“We’ll do what’s best
relative to how we
play the quarterbacks
and the situations
and what we’re trying
to accomplish to win
this game.”
— Saints coach Sean Payton
in response to reports
Taysom Hill will start for
the injured Drew Brees and
not Jameis Winston
THE NUMBER
Points scored by Grinnell’s
Jack Taylor on Nov. 20, 2012,
setting the NCAA record for
points in a game, in a
Division III matchup against
Faith Baptist Bible. On 108
shots, Taylor made 52 en
route to his 138 points.
Friday was the eight-year
anniversary of Taylor’s
remarkable night.
2 Chicago Tribune | Chicago Sports | Section 2 | Saturday, November 21, 2020
Team
BEARS
Ayo Dosunmu and Illinois open their season against North Carolina A&T on Wednesday.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Coronavirus running
rampant on hoops
Illinois loses foe while MVC
adopts new schedule format
By Shannon Ryan
The Illinois men’s basketball team
already has encountered COVID-19 issues
less than a week before its season opener.
Wright State, the Illini’s second oppo-
nent in a multiteam event next week at the
State Farm Center in Champaign, has
opted out of Thursday’s game because of
positive tests. The Raiders do not have
enough athletes to compete with the
amount of individuals who tested positive
and those quarantining because of contact
tracing as well as players with unrelated
injuries.
Illinois, ranked No. 8 in the Associated
Press preseason poll, is seeking a replace-
ment opponent, according to a team
release Friday.
The Illini open their season Wednesday
against North Carolina A&T in Cham-
paign and are scheduled to play host to
Ohio on Friday.
“As we have seen this summer and fall
with professional sports and college
football, disruption is likely while compet-
ing in a pandemic,” Wright State athletic
director Bob Grant said in a statement.
“We must continue to hold the health,
safety and wellness of our student-
athletes, coaches and staff as our top
Saturday Sunday
TOP OF THE SECOND
ARMANDO L. SANCHEZ/TRIBUNE
priority as we navigate through this
current athletic landscape.”
Loyola and DePaul announced this
week they were delaying the starts to their
seasons because of COVID-19 outbreaks.
The Ramblers announced Monday that
they paused team activities after positive
tests among team personnel.
The Blue Demons on Thursday called
off their first three games because of
positive tests.
Meanwhile, the Missouri Valley an-
nounced Friday a new scheduling format
to try to reduce the spread of COVID-19
while still competing in an 18-game
conference slate.
Most MVC teams will face each anoth-
er in a two-game series on back-to-back
days at the same site. Each team will play
four road series and four home series.
Teams will face their designated “travel
partner” in a single-game, home-and-
home series with all conference play
beginning after Dec. 25.
The conference’s presidents council
also agreed to using Kinexon SafeZone
technology to help with contact tracing in
men’s and women’s basketball. The tech-
nology uses “lightweight, wearable devic-
es, called SafeTags,” which calculate
proximity between individuals by dis-
tance and length of time.
Players, coaches, select staff and offi-
cials will use the devices during all
conference basketball games.
Monday Tuesday
COLLEGE FOOTBALL PREDICTIONS
Ohio State should pull rank
By Ralph D. Russo
Associated Press
Indiana will play at Ohio State on
Saturday and Clemson will visit Florida
State.
One of these games is a matchup of
top-10 teams that will go a long way toward
deciding a division title. The other carries a
35-point spread.
As three-time national champion Florida
State limps toward its worst season in 45
years, No. 9 Indiana will try to pull off the
biggest upset of the season against No. 3
Ohio State.
The Hoosiers are in the midst of what
could be their best season since 1967, the last
time they went to the Rose Bowl. That 1968
New Year’s Day game against No. 1 USC was
also the only other time Indiana has played
in a game matching two top-10 teams.
Meanwhile, Florida State’s fall has
turned what for years was the Atlantic
Coast Conference’s biggest game into a
mismatch.
For six straight seasons (2011-16), Clem-
son and Florida State played with both in
the top 25. Each time, the winner went on to
win the Atlantic Division and the confer-
ence championship. The last three seasons,
the Seminoles haven’t stood a chance,
losing by an average of 32 points. The good
news for Florida State is basketball season
starts next week, and the Seminoles, who
finished No. 4 in the tournament-less last
season, are No. 21 in the preseason poll.
Indiana basketball is unranked. Strange
year.
NU
Continued from Page 1
In a showdown for control of the Big Ten
West Division, No. 10 Wisconsin (2-0) and
No. 19 Northwestern (4-0) will feature the
top two defenses in the conference and
among the two best nationally. The winner
will be a favorite to play in the Big Ten
championship game.
The Badgers rank tops in the league with
Northwestern second in scoring defense (9
points per game for Wisconsin to 14 points
for Northwestern), total yards (218.5 yards
to 301.8 yards) and rushing defense (89
yards to 91.8 yards).
Both are stout on third down and in the
red zone.
Wisconsin has let an opponent into the
red zone only once — and it didn’t result in a
score. Northwestern didn’t give up any
second-half points through its first three
games, only allowing 10 second-half points
to Purdue last weekend.
“There’s been consistency in most of the
major categories,” Fitzgerald said. “We’ve
worked diligently to improve our funda-
mental teaching. Our fund coaching, build-
ing relationships, adding competitive
depth. I think that’s what you’re seeing
now.”
Don’t get it twisted, though. Wisconsin
and Northwestern are efficient offensively
too.
The Badgers blew out Illinois 45-7 in
their Oct. 23 opener behind 248 passing
yards and five touchdowns from freshman
Graham Mertz. (Mertz then tested positive
for COVID-19, and with an outbreak on the
team, the Badgers missed two games.)
Against Michigan, the Badgers’ running
game met its traditional standards with 341
rushing yards and five touchdowns.
“They’re both threats,” Northwestern
linebacker Chris Bergin said. “They’re
tough to stop. You have to read your keys and
trust yourself to decide if it’s run or pass.”
The Wildcats were limp on offense last
season, ranking 126th among FBS programs.
They’ve bounced back this season behind
new quarterback Peyton Ramsey and new
offensive coordinator Mike Bajakian.
Northwestern is proving last season’s 3-9
overall record and 1-8 Big Ten mark were
flukes.
Yet even last season, the Wildcats
Wednesday
Next game
Nov. 29 at GB
No. 9 Indiana (plus 20½) at No. 3 Ohio
State: The Hoosiers have already snapped
a 24-game losing streak to Michigan. They
have lost 25 in a row to the Buckeyes. Ohio
State 45-21.
No. 4 Clemson (minus 35) at Florida
State: Trevor Lawrence is back for the
Tigers, trying to make up for lost time in the
Heisman race. Clemson 49-12.
No. 6 Florida (minus 31½) at Vanderbilt:
Seems like a game for Gators quarterback
Kyle Trask to pad his stats, but aren’t they all
these days? Florida 56-21.
No. 7 Cincinnati (minus 6½) at UCF: It’s
the biggest test yet for the Bearcats’ stingy
defense. The Knights are averaging 619
yards per game. Cincinnati 38-35.
North Alabama (plus 47½) at No. 8 BYU:
Bad timing: If the Cougars had this date
open, they might have been able to get a
game against idle Colorado of the Pac-12.
BYU 63-10.
No. 10 Wisconsin (minus 7½) at No. 19
Northwestern: The Wildcats tend to give
the Badgers fits — or is it Fitz? Wisconsin
24-20.
UCLA (plus 13½) at No. 11 Oregon: Coach
Chip Kelly’s second visit to Eugene to face
his old team. The first was a 21-point loss.
Oregon 45-24.
Mississippi State (plus 25) at No. 13
Georgia: There have been hints quarter-
back JT Daniels is ready to make his
Georgia debut. Georgia 31-7.
No. 14 Oklahoma State (plus 7) at No. 18
Oklahoma: They call it Bedlam, but the
result tends to be predictable. The Sooners
have won 15 of 17. Oklahoma 34-29.
defense wasn’t atrocious. It ranked in the
top 50 nationally — as it has since 2014.
“The carryover (will be there) any time
you’re able to keep staff together and the
amount of players coming back and young-
er talent pushing our experienced players,”
said Fitzgerald, a former All-American
linebacker with the Wildcats in the
mid-1990s.
Year to year, Northwestern’s defense has
been a hallmark of the program.
Fitzgerald credits defensive coordinator
Mike Hankwitz for much of that. Hankwitz
has been with the Wildcats since 2008 and
has coached as an assistant or coordinator
for 51 years.
Defensive line coach Marty Long also has
been with Northwestern since 2008.
“We’ve had great consistency on our
defensive staff,” Fitzgerald said. “But it
starts and ends with Mike Hankwitz. Hank
is as good of a coach as there is in the
country regardless of position. He’s tireless
in trying to do everything he can to get our
guys the best plan possible. He’s collabora-
tive in the (meeting) room. He takes input
from all of our staff members including our
(graduate assistants). The humility he
demonstrates permeates through our de-
fensive staff and players and program.”
The linebacking trio of Bergin (36
tackles), Blake Gallagher (34) and Paddy
Fisher (33) leads the Wildcats.
The “pick club” has eight interceptions
to rank tied for second in the Big Ten with
six players snagging interceptions. Fresh-
man Brandon Joseph leads the way with
three.
“It’s a big-play mindset,” defensive backs
coach Matt MacPherson said. “It’s some-
thing that’s been building since the begin-
ning of spring ball. If we want to go from
good to great, good to championship level,
we have to be in the mindset that just being
in the right spot isn’t good enough.”
Northwestern and Wisconsin lead the
West and happen to be the two top
defensive teams. In the East, Ohio State and
Indiana lead — and they also happen to rank
in the Big Ten’s top-five defenses.
This is the way Fitzgerald likes it.
Saturday’s game is expected to be chilly,
physical, hard-hitting — and perhaps a
classic.
“I’ve been in this league now 25 years,”
Fitzgerald said. “We’ve always had pretty
damn good defenses in the Big Ten. It’s kind
of the Midwest way.”
 Chicago Tribune | Chicago Sports | Section 2 | Saturday, November 21, 2020 3

NATIONAL SPORTS REPORT

PERSPECTIVE
SPORTS SHORTS

Garrett out with COVID
Myles Garrett has been slowed down
just when the Browns need him
most. Cleveland’s dynamic star de-
fensive end and the NFL’s leader in
sacks will miss Sunday’s game
against the Eagles — and maybe
more — after testing positive for
COVID-19, dealing the Browns a
major blow as they try to end an 18-year playoff
drought. “He is a good player,” Browns coach Kevin
Stefanski said Friday. “We know that. We do not want to
be without him, but we are.” The Browns (6-3) won’t
have Garrett against the Eagles and there’s no
predicting when he’ll be back. According to league
rules, a player who tests positive for coronavirus can’t
return to the team until at least 10 days after the onset of
symptoms, plus at least 24 hours after symptoms have
passed. Garrett stayed home from practice on Wednes-
day and Thursday because he was showing symptoms.
After facing the Eagles (3-5-1), the Browns will visit
Jacksonville on Nov. 29. Stefanski said he wasn’t sure
exactly when Garrett first began experiencing co-
ronavirus symptoms.
Shiffrin to start 1st in return
Ending her 10-month break from
racing, Mikaela Shiffrin is set to go
first in the World Cup slalom on
Saturday, while the Sweden team has
gone into quarantine and will miss
both races this weekend. According
to the official start list released by
FIS on Friday, Shiffrin was given No.
1 during the bib draw for the slalom season opener.
Another women’s slalom on the Black Levi course is
scheduled for Sunday. Shiffrin, a double Olympic and
three-time overall World Cup champion, hasn’t raced
since January. The American’s season was cut short in
February as she took a five-week break from racing
following the death of her father, Jeff Shiffrin, when the
remainder of the season was canceled amid the
coronavirus outbreak. A notable absentee from this
weekend’s races is Swedish slalom specialist Anna
Swenn Larsson, who finished in the top five of the
discipline standings in the past two seasons. Sweden
quarantined after one of its coaches tested positive for
COVID-19 upon arrival in Levi, though other coaches
and all eight skiers on the team tested negative.
NASCAR has a new team
NASCAR will have another new
team in 2021 — bringing the total to
three new ownership groups in the
Cup Series — with the formation of
Live Fast Motorsports. The team formally announced
Friday is owned by drivers Matt Tifft and B.J. McLeod.
McLeod will drive the No. 78 Ford next season. Tifft’s
one season as a Cup Series driver ended late in 2019
when he suffered a seizure at Martinsville Speedway.
He’s not raced since. At 24, Tifft becomes the youngest
owner in the series. The Live Fast entry joins 23XI
Racing, owned by Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan,
and Trackhouse Racing, owned by former driver Justin
Marks, as new teams next season. “This is as big of a
deal to me as being a driver in the Cup Series,” Tifft said.
Live Fast will be based in Mooresville and operate with
a partnership with Stewart-Haas Racing. Tifft and
McLeod bought out Archie St. Hilaire’s ownership
interest of a charter used in 2020 by Go Fas Racing. Joe
Falk, part of the Go Fas Racing group, will work with
Live Fast. Go Fas Racing is cutting back to a limited
schedule.. — AP

COLLEGE FOOTBALL STORYLINES

Big Ten title could

be Indiana vs. NU
By C.J. Doon | The Baltimore Sun

The spotlight on the Big Ten this weekend, as two

crucial matchups could help decide who meets in the
conference title game in December.
Here’s what to watch in college football for Week 12:

Hope for the Hoosiers?

No matter what happens next, this is already one of
the best Indiana football seasons ever. There was
Michael Penix Jr.’s unforgettable stretch across the goal
line to topple No. 8 Penn State in overtime. A 17-point
beatdown of Michigan to end a 24-game losing streak
to the Wolverines. A shutout of Michigan State to move
to 4-0 in the Big Ten for
the first time since 1987.
Now, with its highest
ranking in the Associ-
ated Press poll since
1967, the No. 9 Hoosiers
have a chance to do
something nobody ever
thought was possible at
the basketball school:
Win a Big Ten title. CARLOS OSORIO/AP

Don’t laugh. Sure, No. Indiana coach Tom Allen

3 Ohio State looms on has his team ranked No. 9.
Saturday, with the Buck-
eyes looking like one of the best teams in the country
behind future top draft pick Justin Fields. And sure,
those wins over Penn State, Michigan and Michigan
State don’t look so great now that those teams a
combined 2-10. But by virtue of his recruiting
connections at his old high school coaching days in
Florida, Tom Allen has built a program that proved it
can hang in one of the nation’s toughest divisions.

Big Ten bonafides

Ohio State’s recent dominance in the Big Ten East is
rivaled only by Wisconsin’s in the West. Both schools
JUSTIN BERL/GETTY have won four division titles since the league moved to
its current division format in 2014 and have met in the

Pitt, Va. Tech players

conference title game two of the past three seasons.
That just might change this season.
If it does, it’s going to take a heroic effort from
Northwestern. Wisconsin has played just two games
this season, but it has outscored those opponents 94-18.
The Badgers rank third nationally in efficiency,

to wear masks on field
By John McGonigal and
Jerry DiPaola
Tribune News Service
PITTSBURGH — Pitt and Virginia
Tech players will wear face coverings
both on the field and on the sidelines
in Saturday’s game at Heinz Field.
Pitt officials Friday issued the
following statement in regards to
protocols for the Panthers’ final home
game of the season.
“In alignment with the recent
guidance from state officials regard-
ing the current health climate, Pitt’s
football team will be appropriately
outfitted for Saturday’s game with
face coverings to use on the field and
sideline. This is being communicated
to Virginia Tech’s sports medicine
staff as well.”
Face shields on helmets, which
many players wear already, will not
suffice. The Panthers and Hokies will
be “appropriately outfitted” with ei-
ther masks or neck gaiters to be worn
whether they’re on the field playing
or not.
“Pitt’s medical personnel have
been in touch with our medical team
and advised us of the appropriate
procedures for Saturday,” said Pete
Moris, associate athletic director for
strategic communications at Virginia
Tech. “We will follow Pitt’s direction
on appropriate measures.”
The news comes three days after
Pennsylvania Secretary of Health
Rachel Levine released stricter mask
requirements for state residents in
attempt to curb the spread of
COVID-19. One of the orders required
that people wear masks outdoors
when “unable to maintain sustained
physical distance.”
According to an FAQ on the state
Pitt players, shown above taking the field before a game against NC State will
wear masks on the field Saturday like Virginia Tech coach Justin Fuente, above.
health department’s website, the re-
quirement applies to athletes. But
Section 3 of Levine’s order states that
there’s an exemption for those that
“wearing a face covering would either
cause a medical condition, or exacer-
bate an existing one, including respi-
ratory issues that impede breathing, a
mental health condition or a disability.”
ESPN’s Adam Schefter tweeted
Friday afternoon that Section 3 does
apply to players, so those playing
would not be required to wear face
coverings. Steelers spokesman Burt
Lauten said Wednesday the team
received guidance from the gover-
nor’s office that “our players are
exempt from wearing masks during
an NFL game.”
Pitt, it seems, is interpreting those
recommendations differently, though
MATT GENTRY/AP
it will affect only one game for the
Panthers. Their final two regular-
season contests are at Clemson next
Saturday and at Georgia Tech on Dec. 10.
Pitt players were tested three times
this week in compliance with proto-
cols followed over the course of the
entire season. Pitt practiced this week
without interruption while receiving
favorable results from testing Sunday
and Wednesday. While officials await
results from Friday testing, the game
remains on schedule.
Pitt still plans on playing host to a
reduced capacity crowd of 5,500 for
this weekend’s Senior Day game.
According to a statement from a Pitt
spokesperson: “Our ability to host
fans has not changed from the Notre
Dame contest. The same limitations
apply for this Saturday.”
according to ESPN’s SP+, with a crushing defense and a
powerful rushing attack. Quarterback Graham Mertz
wasn’t asked to do much against Michigan, but he
showed in a nearly perfect debut against Illinois that
he’s capable of handling plenty.
So what chance do the Wildcats have? It starts with
the defense, which ranks fifth nationally in efficiency
after holding its first four opponents to 20 points or
fewer and forcing 10 turnovers. This weekend could
end with Northwestern and Indiana on track to meet
for the Big Ten title in December. What a weird year.
Can anyone stop Cincinnati?
Cincinnati’s quest for an undefeated season and a
spot in the College Football Playoff fittingly faces its
toughest test against a Central Florida team that has
come the closest to cracking the field.
The Knights went 12-0 in 2017, but that wasn’t
enough to sway the committee. So why do the Bearcats
have a chance? Not only have they been winning, but
are doing so in dominant fashion. The average score of
their seven straight victories has been 42-12. Style
points matter for potential playoff teams, and more so
for a Group of Five team trying to prove it belongs.
That dominance needs to continue Saturday. UCF is
5-2, and boasts one of the nation’s best offenses led by
one of the nation’s best quarterbacks, Dillon Gabriel. If
quarterback Desmond Ridder and Co. can beat a solid
Knights team as soundly as they’ve handled the rest of
the American Athletic Conference, the committee will
have to take notice.
Bedlam bragging rights
There’s a running joke among the college football
community that there are only three possible results for
the annual rivalry game called “Bedlam”: Oklahoma
wins close, Oklahoma wins in a rout or Oklahoma wins
by a medium amount.
The 81-18-7 series lead for Oklahoma speaks to that
dominance, especially recently. The Cowboys have won
just two meetings since 2003.
This year might be different. Oklahoma State has a
legitimate top-10 defense, allowing just 13.2 points per
game in its five wins. If running back Chuba Hubbard
and receiver Tylan Wallace are healthy and the good
version of Spencer Sanders shows up, they should have
the firepower to keep up.
Stopping Oklahoma’s offense will be the key.
Quarterback Spencer Rattler stumbled early in the
season, but he’s thrown eight TD passes and just two
picks during the Sooners’ four-game winning streak.
4 Chicago Tribune | Chicago Sports | Section 2 | Saturday, November 21, 2020

SCOREBOARD

NFL COLLEGE FOOTBALL GOLF

NFC NORTH W L T PCT PF PA FRIDAY’S RESULTS PGA TOUR RSM CLASSIC

Green Bay 7 2 0 .778 277 224 SOUTH 2nd of 4 rds; Seaside Island Resort: Sea-
Chicago 5 5 0 .500 191 209 FAU 24, UMass 2 side Island, Ga.; 7,005 yds; Par 70
Detroit 4 5 0 .444 227 267 Louisville 30, Syracuse 0 128 (-14)
Minnesota 4 5 0 .444 236 247 MIDWEST Robert Streb 65-63
NFC EAST W L T PCT PF PA Minnesota 34, Purdue 31 130 (-12)
Philadelphia 3 5 1 .389 203 232 SOUTHWEST Camilo Villegas 64-66
N.Y. Giants 3 7 0 .300 195 236 UAB (4-3) at UTEP (3-4), ppd. 131 (-11)
Dallas 2 7 0 .222 204 290 Bronson Burgoon 68-63
Washington 2 7 0 .222 180 218 WEST
Patton Kizzire 65-66
Air Force 28, N. Mexico 0
NFC SOUTH W L T PCT PF PA 132 (-10)
SATURDAY’S GAMES *-a.m. Harris English 66-66
New Orleans 7 2 0 .778 271 213
EAST Kyle Stanley 67-65
Tampa Bay 7 3 0 .700 296 226
Atlanta 3 6 0 .333 243 251 Georgia S. (6-2) at Army (6-2), 11* 133 (-9)
Carolina 3 7 0 .300 233 272 E. Carolina (1-6) at Temple (1-5), 11* Zach Johnson 66-67
Iowa (2-2) at Penn St. (0-4), 2:30 p.m. 134 (-8)
NFC WEST W L T PCT PF PA
Va. Tech (4-4) at Pittsburgh (4-4), 3 p.m. Bernd Wiesberger 66-68
Seattle 7 3 0 .700 318 287 Michigan (1-3) at Rutgers (1-3), 6:30 p.m.
L.A. Rams 6 3 0 .667 216 168 Emiliano Grillo 66-68
Michigan St. (1-3) at Maryland (2-1), ppd. Kevin Kisner 68-66
Arizona 6 4 0 .600 287 238
San Francisco 4 6 0 .400 238 234 SOUTH 135 (-7)
AFC NORTH W L T PCT PF PA S.F. Austin (6-3) at Memphis (4-2), 11* Matthew NeSmith 72-63
Clemson (7-1) at Florida St. (2-6), 11* Keegan Bradley 67-68
Pittsburgh 9 0 0 1.000 271 171 Wake Forest (4-3) at Duke (2-6), 11* Keith Mitchell 69-66
Baltimore 6 3 0 .667 244 165 Jim Herman 68-67
Florida (5-1) at Vanderbilt (0-6), 11*
Cleveland 6 3 0 .667 216 244
Cincinnati 2 6 1 .278 204 250 App. St. (6-1) at C. Carolina (7-0), 11* Peter Malnati 65-70
C. Ark. (5-4) at La.-Lafayette (7-1), 1 p.m. Cameron Tringale 67-68
AFC EAST W L T PCT PF PA Joel Dahmen 74-61
FIU (0-4) at W. Kentucky (3-6), 1 p.m.
Buffalo 7 3 0 .700 272 265 UTSA (5-4) at S. Miss. (2-6), 2 p.m. Adam Long 67-68
Miami 6 3 0 .667 251 182 W. Carolina (0-1) at E. Kentucky (2-6), 2 p.m. Nate Lashley 68-67
New England 4 5 0 .444 189 211 Cincinnati (7-0) at UCF (5-2), 2:30 p.m. Charles Howell III 68-67
N.Y. Jets 0 9 0 .000 121 268 Matt Wallace 64-71
Middle Tenn. (2-6) at Troy (4-3), 2:30 p.m.
AFC SOUTH W L T PCT PF PA Georgia St. (3-4) at S. Alabama (3-5), 3 p.m. 136 (-6)
Indianapolis 6 3 0 .667 242 177 Abilene Chr. (1-4) at Virginia (3-4), 3 p.m. Vaughn Taylor 70-66
Tennessee 6 3 0 .667 249 235 Kentucky (3-4) at Alabama (6-0), 3 p.m. Scott Piercy 70-66
Houston 2 7 0 .222 200 252 Tennessee (2-4) at Auburn (4-2), 6 p.m. Jason Day 69-67
Jacksonville 1 8 0 .111 199 271 Missouri (2-3) at S. Carolina (2-5), 6:30 p.m. Wyndham Clark 70-66
AFC WEST W L T PCT PF PA Liberty (8-0) at NC St. (5-3), 6:30 p.m. Andrew Landry 68-68
Kansas City 8 1 0 .889 286 183 Miss. St. (2-4) at Georgia (4-2), 6:30 p.m. Matt Kuchar 70-66
Las Vegas 6 3 0 .667 255 241 Georgia Tech (2-5) at Miami (7-1), ppd. Sepp Straka 71-65
Denver 3 6 0 .333 186 254 Navy (3-4) at S. Florida (1-7), 7 p.m. Roger Sloan 67-69
L.A. Chargers 2 7 0 .222 226 245 MIDWEST 137 (-5)
Indiana (4-0) at Ohio St. (3-0), 11* Brian Stuard 74-63
WEEK 11 FRANK AUGSTEIN/AP
Illinois (1-3) at Nebraska (1-2), 11* Scott Stallings 69-68
SUNDAY’S GAMES Wisconsin (2-0) John Huh 69-68 Novak Djokovic plays a return to Alexander Zverev during their singles match Friday.
Atlanta at New Orleans, noon at Northwestern (4-0), 2:30 p.m. Alex Noren 66-71
Cincinnati at Washington, noon Texas (5-2) at Kansas (0-7), 2:30 p.m. J.J. Spaun 68-69
Charley Hoffman 68-69
Detroit at Carolina, noon
New England at Houston, noon
Kansas St. (4-3) at Iowa St. (5-2), 3 p.m.
Chris Kirk 70-67 TENNIS
SOUTHWEST Rory Sabbatini 65-72
Philadelphia at Cleveland, noon

Djokovic heads to
Houston (3-3) at SMU (7-2), 11* Aaron Baddeley 68-69
Pittsburgh at Jacksonville, noon
LSU (2-3) at Arkansas (3-4), 11* Henrik Stenson 69-68
Tennessee at Baltimore, noon
Rice (1-1) at N. Texas (2-3), 1 p.m. Tyrrell Hatton 69-68
Miami at Denver, 3:05 p.m.
Arkansas St. (3-5) at Texas St. (1-9), 2 p.m. Corey Conners 67-70
N.Y. Jets at L.A. Chargers, 3:05 p.m.
Mississippi (3-4) at Texas A&M (5-1), ppd. 138 (-4)
Dallas at Minnesota, 3:25 p.m.
Okla. St. (5-1) at Oklahoma (5-2), 6:30 p.m. Kevin Streelman 71-67
Green Bay at Indianapolis, 3:25 p.m.

semis at ATP Finals

Kansas City at Las Vegas, 7:20 p.m. WEST Graeme McDowell 70-68
BYE: Buffalo, Chicago, UCLA (1-1) at Oregon (2-0), TBA Kevin Chappell 71-67
N.Y. Giants, San Francisco N. Alabama (0-3) at BYU (8-0), 2 p.m. Brendon Todd 68-70
California (0-1) at Oregon St. (0-2), 2:30 p.m. Doug Ghim 67-71
MONDAY’S GAME
San Diego St. (3-1) Branden Grace 70-68
L.A. Rams at Tampa Bay, 7:15 p.m.
at Nevada (4-0), 2:30 p.m. Chesson Hadley 73-65
UNLV (0-4) at Colo. St. (1-2), 4:30 p.m. Ryan Brehm 72-66
San Jose St. (4-0) at Fresno St. (3-1), 6 p.m. Sean O’Hair 70-68 No. 2 Nadal, No. 3 Thiem and early advantage in the tiebreaker by
Arizona (0-1) at Washington (1-0), 7 p.m. Shane Lowry 67-71 reaching a drop shot before hitting an
LATE THURSDAY:
SEATTLE 28, ARIZONA 21
USC (2-0) at Utah, 9:30 p.m.
Boise St. (3-1) at Hawaii (2-2), 10 p.m.
Ian Poulter 69-69 No. 4 Medvedev in semifinals unreturnable smash to lead 2-0.
Matt Jones 67-71
Arizona 0 7 7 7 — 21 Wash. St. (1-1) at Stanford (0-2), ppd. 139 (-3) Djokovic then won five of the next six
Seattle 7 9 7 5 — 28 Lucas Glover 71-68
THURSDAY’S RESULT
Tulsa 30, Tulane 24 (2 OT) Josh Teater 73-66
Associated Press points and, on his first match point, found
First quarter A: 0.
Sea: Metcalf 25 pass from Wilson (My- Joaquin Niemann 73-66 the baseline with a penetrating forehand
ers kick), 8:45. Tommy Fleetwood
Webb Simpson
67-72
68-71
LONDON — Novak Djokovic ensured which Zverev could slice only into the net
Second quarter
Ari: Drake 2 run (Gonzalez kick), 13:51. SOCCER Andrew Putnam 71-68 the world’s top four players reached the on the stretch.
Sea: Lockett 11 pass from Wilson (kick Russell Henley 70-69 semifinals of the ATP Finals for the first “In the tiebreaker, again I served well
MLS PLAYOFFS Rafa Cabrera Bello 71-68
failed), 8:27.
Sea: FG Myers 27, :00. Adam Schenk 73-66 time since 2004 by eliminating Alexander when I needed to close out the match,”
EASTERN CONFERENCE PLAY-IN Bo Hoag 68-71 Zverev 6-3, 7-6 (4) on Friday. Djokovic said.
Third quarter
FRIDAY’S RESULTS Rob Oppenheim 73-66
Ari: Arnold 4 pass from K.Murray (Gon-
#8 New England 2, #9 Montreal 1 Sebastian Cappelen 68-71
The top-ranked Djokovic lined up Dom- Thiem, the U.S. Open champion, won a
zalez kick), 10:07.
Sea: Hyde 2 run (Myers kick), 5:20. #7 Nashville 3, #10 Inter Miami 0 LPGA PELICAN CHAMPIONSHIP inic Thiem on Saturday as he goes for a third-set tiebreaker to beat Djokovic in
Fourth quarter FIRST ROUND 2nd of 4 rds; Pelican GC; Belleair, Fla. ; record-tying sixth title at the season- group play last year, helping to eliminate
Ari: Edmonds 3 pass from K.Murray EASTERN CONFERENCE
(Gonzalez kick), 13:19. SATURDAY’S MATCHES *-a.m.
6,353 yds; Par 70 ending tournament, and a first since 2015. the Serb before the semifinals.
132 (-8)
Sea: safety, 9:12. Orlando City vs. New York City FC, 11* Sei Young Kim 67-65 No. 2-ranked Rafael Nadal will take on “It was really a thrilling match,”
Sea: FG Myers 41, 2:19. Columbus vs. New York, 2 p.m. 133 (-7) No. 4 Daniil Medvedev in the second Djokovic said, “so hopefully we can have
TEAM STATS ARI SEA Ally McDonald 67-66
First downs 24 22
TUESDAY’S MATCHES
Toronto vs. Nashville, 5 p.m. 134 (-6)
semifinal. Nadal is trying for the 10th time another great match, this time with a
Total net yards 314 347 Philadelphia vs. New England, 7 p.m. Stephanie Meadow 69-65 to win his first ATP Finals crown. different outcome.”
Rushes-yards 18-57 31-165
Passing 257 182 WESTERN CONFERENCE Sophia Popov
135 (-5)
64-70 Medvedev warmed up by blowing away Medvedev hit 31 winners against
Punt returns 2-8 1-11
Kickoff returns 5-100 2-45
SATURDAY’S MATCHES Elizabeth Szokol 69-66 Diego Schwartzman 6-3, 6-3 late Friday in Schwartzman and broke the Argentine
Sporting Kansas City vs. San Jose, 3 p.m.
Int. returns
Comp-att-int
0-0
29-42-0
0-0
23-28-0 Minnesota United vs. Colorado, 6:30 p.m.
137 (-3) the empty O2 Arena, topping their group three times.
Lydia Ko 70-67
Sacked-yds lost 3-12 3-15 Portland vs. Dallas, 9 p.m. Lindsey Weaver 69-68 with three wins in six sets. The Russian has gone 3-0 in group play
Punts 4-45.5 4-43.5
Fumbles-lost 0-0 2-0 TUESDAY’S MATCH Minjee Lee 68-69 Djokovic pulled out his own big serves in after going 0-3 on debut last year.
Penalties-yards 10-115 8-79 Seattle vs. Los Angeles FC, 9:30 p.m. 138 (-2)
Possession time 24:53 35:07 Angela Stanford 70-68
the important moments to reach the “I was playing great in previous matches
Rushing: Ari, Drake 11-29, K.Murray 5-15, ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Robynn Ree 69-69 semifinals for the ninth time, notably in the and it’s always good to stay undefeated for
Edmonds 2-13. Sea, Hyde 14-79, Wilson CLUB W T L GF GA PTS Jennifer Song 68-70 tiebreaker when he recovered from a 2-0 the confidence,” Medvedev said.
10-42, Scarbrough 6-31, Dallas 1-13. Leicester 6 0 2 18 9 18 Brooke M. Henderson 68-70
Passing: Ari, K.Murray 29-42-0-269. Sea, Tottenham 5 2 1 19 9 17 Ashleigh Buhai 66-72 deficit. Nadal has a 3-0 record against him but
Wilson 23-28-0-197. Liverpool 5 2 1 18 16 17 139 (-1) “Contrary to the last match against the last two matches were battles: Nadal
Receiving: Ari, Fitzgerald 8-62, Hopkins Southampton 5 1 2 16 12 16 Austin Ernst 71-68
5-51, Kirk 4-50, Edmonds 4-36, Drake 4- Chelsea 4 3 1 20 10 15 Mi Jung Hur 70-69 Daniil,” said Djokovic, referring to a won their 2019 U.S. Open final in five sets,
31, Williams 2-29, Isabella 1-6, Arnold Aston Villa
Everton
5
4
0
1
2
3
18
16
9 15
14 13
Caroline Masson 69-70 straight-set loss to Medvedev on Wednes- and came from 5-1 down in the last set of
1-4. Sea, Lockett 9-67, Metcalf 3-46, Alena Sharp 68-71
Olsen 2-20, Dallas 2-19, Hyde 2-16, Hollis-
Crystal Palace 4 1 3 12 12 13
Jodi Ewart Shadoff 68-71
day, “I managed to find the right shots at their ATP Finals group match a year ago.
Wolverhampton 4 1 3 8 9 13
ter 2-14, Moore 2-5, Dissly 1-10. Man City 3 3 1 10 9 12 140 (E) the right time.” “I’m looking forward to tomorrow,”
Punt returns: Ari, Kirk 2-8. Sea, Moore 1- Arsenal 4 0 4 9 10 12 In Gee Chun
Megan Khang
71-69
70-70
Djokovic broke for 2-0 lead when Medvedev said.
11. West Ham 3 2 3 14 10 11
Kickoff returns: Ari, Edmonds 5-100. Newcastle 3 2 3 10 13 11 Lexi Thompson 70-70 Zverev double-faulted on the second break “It was really a thrilling match,”
Sea, D.Reed 2-45. Man United
Leeds
3
3
1
1
3
4
12
14
14 10
17 10
Eun-Hee Ji 70-70 point. He saved two break points at 4-2 Djokovic said, “so hopefully we can have
Tackles-assists-sacks: Ari, Simmons 9- Cheyenne Knight 70-70
1-1, Kirkpatrick 6-1-0, Hicks 4-2-0, Mur- Brighton 1 3 4 11 14 6 Maria Fernanda Torres 69-71 before clinching the set with a backhand another great match, this time with a
Fulham 1 1 6 7 15 4 141 (+1) down the line as he closed in on the net different outcome.”
phy 4-0-0, Baker 3-2-0, Peterson 3-2-0,
West Brom 0 3 5 6 17 3
Reddick 3-2-0, Banjo 2-2-0, Mauro 2-2-0, Cristie Kerr 72-69
J.Thompson 2-1-0, Coley 2-0-0, Blackson
Burnley 0 2 5 3 12 2
Lindy Duncan 71-70
following a serve out wide. Medvedev will be going for a third
Sheffield United 0 1 7 4 14 1
1-2-1. Sea, D.Reed 9-2-0, Wagner 6-3-0, Andrea Lee 71-70 Zverev’s groundstrokes and powerful straight group victory when he plays
SATURDAY’S MATCHES
Wright 4-2-0, Amadi 4-1-0, Flowers 3-0-0,
Newcastle vs. Chelsea, 6:30 a.m.
Jeong Eun Lee
Amy Olson
71-70
70-71
serve posed more problems for Djokovic in already-eliminated Diego Schwartzman in
Dunlap 2-2-2, Brooks 2-0-0, Adams 1-2-0,
Collier 1-0-1, Diggs 1-0-0, Green 1-0-0, Aston Villa vs. Brighton, 9 a.m. Tiffany Joh 70-71 the second set, and the German gained an the late match.
Shaque.Griffin 1-0-0, Harrison 1-0-0. Burnley vs. Crystal Palace, 9 a.m. Perrine Delacour 70-71
Interceptions: Ari, None. Sea, None. Fulham vs. Everton, 9 a.m. Kristen Gillman 70-71
Liverpool vs. Leicester, 9 a.m. Sarah Jane Smith 69-72
Man United vs. West Brom, 9 a.m. Brittany Lincicome 69-72
Wolverhampton vs. Southampton, 9 a.m. Haeji Kang 68-73 IN BRIEF
Tottenham vs. Man City, 11:30 a.m. Hee Young Park 68-73
ODDS SUNDAY’S MATCHES 142 (+2)

COLLEGE FOOTBALL
SP OU SATURDAY
Fulham vs. Everton, 6 a.m.
Sheffield United vs. West Ham, 8 a.m.
Leeds vs. Arsenal, 10:30 a.m.
Nicole Broch Larsen
Daniela Darquea
Bianca Pagdanganan
73-69
73-69
73-69
Tennessee AD isolating for COVID
at Oregon 17 64 UCLA Liverpool vs. Leicester, 1:15 p.m. Jeongeun Lee6 73-69
Iowa 2 46 ⁄2
1
at Penn St. MONDAY’S MATCHES Annie Park 73-69 News services Chun says the school has nine football
Nanna Koerstz Madsen 72-70
Virginia Tech 3 54 ⁄2 at Pittsburgh
1
Burnley vs. Crystal Palace, 11:30 a.m.
Brittany Altomare 72-70
players in COVID-19 protocols and four
East Carolina 31⁄2 571⁄2 at Temple Wolverhampton vs. Southampton, 2 p.
Cincinnati 6 651⁄2 at UCF Mina Harigae 72-70 Tennessee athletic director and former players had to be put into the protocol
at Georgia 25 44 ⁄2
1
Miss. State Nasa Hataoka
Jessica Korda
71-71
69-73
Volunteers football coach Phillip Fulmer Friday morning leading to the cancellation
at Coast. Carol. 5 48 Appalach. St
Clemson 351⁄2 64 at Florida St. Jaye Marie Green 68-74 said Friday he is in isolation after testing of the Cougars’ game at Stanford. Chun
Navy 21⁄2 551⁄2 at S. Florida 143 (+3) positive for COVID-19. said as of last weekend, the Cougars had
Mel Reid 73-70
Missouri
at Maryland
61⁄2
6
57 at S. Carolina
54 ⁄2
1
Michigan St TENNIS Maria Fassi 73-70 Fulmer, 70, posted on Twitter that he is zero players in their COVID protocols and
at Ohio State 201⁄2 661⁄2 Indiana Madelene Sagstrom 72-71 “feeling fine” and was deemed not to have the first positive test came early in the
ATP WORLD TOUR FINALS Jin Young Ko 72-71
at NC State 41⁄2 65 Liberty
Angel Yin 72-71
been in close contact with any Tennessee week. The four positives Friday kept the
Michigan 12 52 at Rutgers At The O2 Arena; London; indoors-hard
at Army 3 40 Ga. Southern Men’s Singles, group 1
Su Oh 71-72 athletes or “sport-specific staff members.” Cougars from reaching the Pac-12 mandate
USC 21⁄2 571⁄2 at Utah Novak Djokovic d.
Yealimi Noh
Sarah Schmelzel
71-72
70-73
Tennessee plays at No. 23 Auburn on of 53 scholarship players available.
at W Kentucky 7 431⁄2 FIU
at North Texas 21⁄2 64 ⁄2
1
Rice
Alexander Zverev, 6-3, 7-6 (4).
Jenny Shin 70-73 Saturday.
Daniil Medvedev d.
at Washington 111⁄2 53 Arizona Diego Schwartzman, 6-3, 6-3.
144 (+4) Fulmer is a College Football Hall of College basketball: The Bellarmine
Sung Hyun Park 74-70
California
Utsa
21⁄2
10
47 at Oregon St.
52 at So. Miss.
Men’s Doubles, group 1 Morgan Pressel 73-71 Famer who coached the Vols for 17 years men’s basketball program has paused team
San Diego St 11⁄2 461⁄2 at Nevada
Bruno Soares and Mate Pavic d. Jackie Stoelting 73-71 and won a national championship 1998. He activities amid the pandemic, delaying the
Michael Venus and John Peers, Leona Maguire 72-72
at Nebraska 16 59 Illinois
6-7 (2), 6-3, 10-8. Mi Hyang Lee 71-73
has been Tennessee’s AD since 2017. school’s Division I debut until Dec. 4 at No.
LSU 1 631⁄2 at Arkansas
Wisconsin 71⁄2 441⁄2 at Northwestern
Jurgen Melzer and Edouard Roger-Vasselin 145 (+5) This came as University of Miami 9 Duke. The Knights were scheduled to
d. Marcel Granollers and
at Alabama 30 58 Kentucky
Horacio Zeballos, 6-6, ret.
Sarah Burnham
Gerina Piller
77-68
76-69
football coach Manny Diaz became the open Wednesday at Chattanooga and make
Florida 311⁄2 68 at Vanderbilt
at Oklahoma 7 60 Oklahoma St Stacy Lewis 76-69 latest active coach to announce he has their home debut against Transylvania on
at Iowa St 101⁄2 47 Kansas St
ATP RECENT SCHEDULE, WINNERS Jennifer Kupcho 75-70 contracted the virus. Diaz made a similar Nov. 28 at Freedom Hall.
Aug. 19-29: Western & Southern Open, HO Pernilla Lindberg 74-71
Georgia St
at Troy
31⁄2
12
581⁄2 at S. Alabama
59 ⁄2
1
Mid. Tenn. (Novak Djokovic) a-Sierra L Brooks 74-71 social media post earlier to announce he
at Auburn 101⁄2 501⁄2 Tennessee Sept. 6-13: Generali Open, CO Hannah Green 73-72 tested positive for COVID-19 and is Golf: Robert Streb birdied his last two
(Miomir Kecmanovic) Tiffany Chan 73-72
Arkansas St 6 68 at Texas St
Aug. 30-Sept. 12: US Open, HO Xiyu Lin 71-74
isolating. Miami is not scheduled to play holes on the Plantation course at Seal
Boise St 14 56 at Hawaii
(Dominic Thiem) again until Dec. 5 at Wake Forest. The Island and matched his career low with a
NFL
WEEK 11 SP OU SUNDAY
Sept. 11-20:
NBA
Hurricanes this week were forced to 9-under 63, giving him a two-shot lead over
Mutua Madrid Open, CO
at Cleveland 3 471⁄2 Philadelphia
Sept. 11-21: Internazionali BNL postpone games scheduled for Saturday Camilo Villegas on Friday in the RSM
at New Orl. 31⁄2 49 Atlanta
at Carolina Off Off Detroit
d’Italia, CO (Novak Djokovic) 2020-21 KEY DATES and Nov. 28 because of coronavirus issues. Classic.
Sept. 18-27: German Tennis
New Eng. 11⁄2 48 ⁄2
1
at Houston
Championships, CO (Andrey Rublev)
Friday: Free agent negotiations begins
Sunday: Players can sign contracts with
Diaz was the second coach from a Power
Pittsburgh 101⁄2 46 at Jacksonville
at Indianapolis
11⁄2 51 Green Bay
Sept. 18-27: Moselle Open, HO teams beginning at 12:01 p.m. ET Five school to publicly acknowledge test- NBA: On the first night of free agency,
Sept. 25-Oct. 3: Chengdu Open, HO Dec. 11: NBA preseason games begin ing positive this week, along with Mary- De’Aaron Fox was the first huge winner.
at Washington11⁄2 47 Cincinnati
Sept. 25-Oct. 3: Zhuhai Open, HO Dec. 22: Opening Night & first half of
at Baltimore
at Minnesota
51⁄2
7
49 ⁄2
1

47 ⁄2
1
Tennessee
Dallas
Oct. 2-11: China Open, HO regular season land’s Mike Locksley. Locksley’s team, like Fox and the Kings agreed on a max deal
Kansas City Off Off at Las Vegas
Oct. 2-11: Rakuten Japan Open March 5-10: All-Star Break Diaz’s, had its Saturday game called off Friday night. It’s a five-year pact that will
Tennis Championships, HO March 11: Second half of regular season
Miami 31⁄2 451⁄2 at Denver
Sept. 20-Oct. 10: French Open, May 18-21: Play-In tournament
because of COVID-19 issues within the pay Fox $163 million, and that figure could
at LA Chargers
91⁄2 461⁄2 NY Jets
SP OU MONDAY
CO (Rafael Nadal) May 22: 2021 NBA Playoffs begin program. As of Friday afternoon, 16 of the rise to nearly $200 million if Fox makes an
Oct. 9-18: Cologne, Germany, HO
at Tampa Bay 4 48 LA Rams
(Alexander Zverev)
July 22: 2021 NBA Playoffs end 62 games across major college football had All-NBA team or receives other league
pregame.com Oct. 9-18: Sardinia, Italy, CO NO. 1 DRAFT PICKS been postponed or canceled. That’s the honors.
ODDS TO WIN (Laslo Djere) most disrupted games in any week of this
2020: Anthony Edwards, Minnesota
NBA CHAMPIONSHIP Oct. 9-18:
Shanghai Rolex Masters, HO
2019: Zion Williamson, New Orleans season, one more than last week. NFL: Three Bengals assistant coaches will
L.A. Lakers +350 2018: Deandre Ayton, Phoenix
L.A. Clippers +500
Oct. 9-18: St. Petersburg Open, HO
2017: Markelle Fultz, Philadelphia Among the other active coaches to have not be available for Sunday’s game at
(Andrey Rublev)
Brooklyn +600 Oct. 17-25: European Open, HO
2016: Ben Simmons, Philadelphia said they tested positive for COVID-19 are: Washington due to COVID-19 protocols.
Milwaukee +750 2015: Karl-Anthony Towns, Minnesota
Denver +1,500
(Ugo Humbert)
2014: Andrew Wiggins, Cleveland Florida’s Dan Mullen, Florida State’s Mike The Bengals said wide receivers coach Bob
Oct. 16-25: Cologne II, Germany, HO
Miami +2,000 (Alexander Zverev)
2013: Anthony Bennett, Cleveland Norvell, Purdue’s Jeff Brohm, Arizona’s Bicknell, secondary/cornerbacks coach
2012: Anthony Davis, New Orleans
Boston +2,500 Oct. 16-25: VTB Kremlin Cup, HO
2011: Kyrie Irving, Cleveland
Kevin Sumlin, Kansas’ Les Miles, and Steve Jackson and secondary/safeties
Dallas +3,000 Oct. 16-25: IF Stockholm Open, HO
Philadelphia +3,000 Oct. 23-Oct. 31: Swiss Indoors Basel, HO
2010: John Wall, Washington Troy’s Chip Lindsey, who will not be with coach Robert Livingston will be unable to
Toronto +3,000 Oct. 24-Oct. 31: Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan,
2009: Blake Griffin, LA Clippers
2008: Derrick Rose, Chicago
his team when the Trojans play Middle attend the game. ... The Saints placed
Phoenix +3,500
Portland +3,500
HO (John Millman)
2007: Greg Oden, Portland Tennessee on Saturday. quarterback Drew Brees on injured re-
Oct. 23-Oct. 31: Erste Bank Open 500, HO
Utah +4,000 (Andrey Rublev)
2006: Andrea Bargnani, Toronto Alabama coach Nick Saban also tested serve, meaning he’ll miss at least three
Golden State +5,500 2005: Andrew Bogut, Milwaukee
Houston +6,000
Oct. 30-Nov. 7: Tennis Paris Masters, HO
2004: Dwight Howard, Orlando positive, but did not miss a game after that games with rib injuries. Brees left Sunday’s
(Daniil Medvedev)
New Orleans +7,000 Nov. 6-14: Garanti Koza Sofia Open,
2003: LeBron James, Cleveland result was later deemed false. game after a heavy hit on a sack attempt by
sportsbook.ag HO (Jannik Sinner)
2002: Yao Ming, Houston
■ Washington State athletic director Pat 49ers defensive tackle Kentavius Street.

BASEBALL
WHITE SOX
2017 top pick Burger
added to 40-man roster
By LaMond Pope
Jake Burger missed the 2018 and 2019
seasons because of injuries.
The third baseman’s 2020 included time
with a local league in Missouri before
joining the White Sox training facility in
Schaumburg in mid-August.
The Sox on Friday announced they had
purchased the contracts Burger, first base-
man Gavin Sheets and pitcher Tyler
Johnson and claimed pitcher Emilio Vargas
off waivers from the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The Sox selected Burger with the No. 11
pick in the 2017 draft. He missed all of 2018
because of a ruptured left Achilles tendon
suffered in spring training, then missed all
of 2019 because of a bruised left heel.
Burger, 24, addressed his road to recov-
ery during an Aug. 24 conference call.
“You just have the mindset of ‘never give
up,’ ” he said. “And I feel like I learned that.
There was definitely some time over the
last two years where you’re like, ‘Why am I
even doing this?’ My parents always tell
me, ‘Whatever you do, never give up and
just keep pushing forward,’ and I feel like I
have that mentality now.
“From a competitive standpoint, that’s
super important. ‘OK, I’m 0-for-2 with two
CUBS
Team protects 3 from Rule 5 draft
By Mark Gonzales
The Cubs added pitchers Cory Abbott
and Keegan Thompson and infielder
Christopher Morel to their 40-man roster,
thus protecting them from the Rule 5 draft
on Dec. 10.
Abbott, 25, led the Southern League
with 166 strikeouts and 1462⁄3 innings for
Double-A Tennessee in 2019. Baseball
America ranked Abbott 11th among Cubs
prospects last summer. The right-hander,
who spent the summer at the Cubs’
alternate site in South Bend, Ind., was a
second-round pick out of Loyola Mary-
mount in the 2017 draft.
Thompson, 25, spent the summer at the
Cubs’ alternate site as well. He missed most
Theo Epstein, left, believes he has left the Cubs in good hands with Jed Hoyer.
Epstein
Continued from Page 1
Epstein also would administer timely,
lighthearted jabs at reporters for their
questionable wardrobe, subtly poke a
writer for an incorrect story or sniff out a
reporter’s question originating from an
agent. But he understood their roles and
deadline pressure.
Winner: Jed Hoyer
The former general manager faces
tough decisions immediately. But he
wouldn’t have stayed with the Cubs for
nine seasons had he not had some inkling
of moving to the top baseball seat with
security.
That security will be essential as Hoyer,
46, decides which players to keep and
which to trade.
But not many executives receive an
opportunity to put a firm stamp on a
franchise as the opportunity Epstein has
presented to Hoyer.
Loser: Males 35-50
Epstein’s Ivy League background, casual
attire and love for music and refreshments
fueled a scary man crush for the demo-
graphic that idolized him.
A brief introduction at Wrigley Field, a
school function or charity event often
snowballed into a embellished long-
standing friendship, according to the secret
admirer.
Some media members were just as
guilty, marveling relentlessly over their
participation in the annual Hot Stove Cool
Music concert Epstein and Hall of Fame
writer Peter Gammons held and ignoring it
was a charity event that has raised more
than $1 million for 150 underfunded
students headed to college.
Ks, but never give up, you never know if
this guy’s going to make a mistake,’ and
having that mindset of ’I’m going to do
everything I can to beat this guy.’ And I did
everything I could to beat my Achilles
injury. So that translates really well to
competitive sports.”
Burger is the No. 14 prospect in the
organization, according to MLB.com.
Sheets, 24, was a second-round pick in
2017. He had a .267 average with 16 home
runs and 83 RBIs with Double-A Birming-
ham in 2019. Sheets is the No. 10 prospect
in the organization.
The Sox selected Johnson in the fifth
round in 2017. The right-hander went a
combined 2-1 with a 2.59 ERA in 22 starts
between the Arizona League, Class A
Winston-Salem and Birmingham in 2019.
Johnson, 25, is the No. 24 prospect in the
organization.
Vargas, 24, went 5-5 with a 3.84 ERA in
20 starts between Double-A Jackson and
the Arizona Rookie League in 2019. The
right-hander had 82 strikeouts.
Friday marked the deadline for teams to
add players to their 40-man rosters and
protect eligible players from the upcoming
Rule 5 draft. With the moves, the Sox
40-man roster is at 40.
of 2019 because of right elbow soreness,
according to reports. Thompson struck out
26 in 251⁄3 innings for the Mesa Silver Sox
of the Arizona Fall League in 2019. He was
a third-round pick out of Auburn in 2017.
Morel, 21, was placed on the 60-man
roster and spent the summer at the South
Bend alternate site. Morel, who signed out
of the Dominican Republic for $800,000 in
2015, has a .243 average in four minor-
league seasons and hit .284 with Class A
South Bend in 2019.
Morel was ranked 22nd among Cubs
prospects by Baseball America.
The Cubs 40-man roster stands at 37,
leaving them three spots in the event of
signing free agents or acquiring players
through trades.
BRIAN CASSELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Winner: White Sox
The relentless furor over the hiring of
manager Tony La Russa and his DUI
charge was doused temporarily when
Epstein announced his resignation.
After an impressive season that saw the
Sox reach the playoffs for the first time in
12 seasons and Jose Abreu winning the
American League Most Valuable Player
Award, no news was good news this week
for the Sox. Now they wait the resolution of
the charges against La Russa while trying
to heal fresh wounds in the front office
over the hiring of the 76-year-old Hall of
Famer after a nine-year absence from the
dugout and not expanding the search to
other candidates.
Loser: The community
Epstein and his family quickly embraced
the Wrigley Field environment and were
engaged with their sons’ activities and never
distanced themselves from other parents.
A local bicycle ride last spring allowed
Epstein to witness a peaceful demon-
stration that sparked his desire to raise
awareness for the Black Lives Matter
movement in Major League Baseball and
pursue a demographic change in the Cubs
organization that is more reflective of the
community.
Winner: Chicago Bears
Had Epstein not resigned, think of all
the time that would have been devoted
exclusively to the Bears’ woeful offense
and their four-game losing streak?
And maybe Bears general manager Ryan
Pace should be thankful that Epstein
doesn’t write a football column.
As the sports editor of the Yale Daily
News, Epstein wrote on the eve of a game
against Harvard that Yale coach Carm
Cozza should resign after 29 seasons.
Cozza directed an upset over Harvard and
lasted three more years before retiring.
Chicago Tribune | Chicago Sports | Section 2 | Saturday, November 21, 2020 5
HONOR THE
Death Notices
Gustafson, Margaret Rose ‘Margie’
Margaret Rose (Dahlberg) Gustafson was pro-
life
&
moted to glory on November
memories
14, 2020 at the age of
98. Margaret was born
on December 12, 1921 to
the late William and Rose
Dahlberg. She met the love
of her life, Walter Gustafson,
when she was 16. They
were married on July 3,
1941 and were blessed with
64 years together. Margaret and Wally welcomed OF YOUR LOVED ONE
4 children into their family; Janet (Dwight) Britton,
Karen (James) Queen, Lynn (Robert) Hill and Charles
(Kathy). Margaret loved her 13 grandchildren and
27 great grandchildren. Margaret’s passions in life
were her family, Edgewater Baptist Church where
she was a member of the choir and women’s
ministries, volunteering at the Covenant Home in
Chicago, serving on the mail team at Willow Creek
in Barrington and the Chicago Cubs. Many family
members and friend’s preceded Margaret in death,
her parents, her husband Walter, her daughter Lynn,
her baby son Chipper, her twin sister Melba Stark,
sister Flora Larson, brother Fred Dahlberg and a
host of loved ones. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic,
there will be a memorial service planned and an-
nounced when we can safely gather. In lieu of flow-
ers, memorial gifts can be made to the Edgewater
Baptist Church in Chicago.
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Hurban, Mary ‘Nani’
Mary Hurban née Saban age 88 of Springfield, MO.,
formerly of Warrenville, passed away on November
14, 2020. She is survived by her beloved husband
and best friend of 67 years, Bob. She is also survived
by her sons Bob (Rachel), Randy (Missy) daughter
Tammy (John) in addition to her grandchildren
Amanda (Tim), Randall (Rebecca), Nadine (Mike),
Piper (Jarrod), Parker and Peyton and her great-
grandchildren, Renner, Ramey, Abbey, John Robert
and Ethan. A celebration of life service will be held
in Springfield for immediate family. Thoughts and
prayers only.
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Schmidt, Gladys E. ‘Gladdie’
Gladys Schmidt, born in Latrobe, PA 8-31-30 to
August and Katharine Skuba,
died 11-19-20 in Northbrook,
IL at the age of 90. She married
Gunther Schmidt (d. 2013) on
May 31, 1952 in Chicago, IL.
They were a good pair! She
loved her work as an X-ray
technician at Ravenswood
Hospital, then excelled as
a full-time homemaker and
later had a business, Skuba Products, with her
mother. Gladdie was a great woman, beloved by all
who were blessed to know her. She was a woman
of faith. By nature cheerful and giving, she loved
to cook for and feed people. A clean and orderly
house brought her joy. She was devoted to and de-
lighted in her family. She is survived by her daughter
Carol (Mark) Mazur, grandchildren Kevin (Loubna)
Mazur and Mandy (Joe) Schoenfeldt, great grand-
children Safi Amine-Mazur and Sylvie and Ondine
Schoenfeldt, and sister Kathleen (Irwin) Kossack.
Her brother Keith (Joan) Skuba predeceased her.
A celebration of her life is planned for the Spring.
Her cremated remains will be scattered in Latrobe,
PA as she wished. Memorial contributions may be
made to By the Hand Club at bythehand.org/give.
Perhaps honor Gladdie by performing a random act
of kindness to leave the world a better place. GIVE THEM
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THE MEMORIAL
Truska, Avis Marie
Avis (nee Hope) age 89 of Scottsdale, AZ formerly
AN EXCEPTIONAL
of Winnetka, IL passed away peacefully at home on
November 11, 2020. She fought a hard battle but in PERSON
the end cancer prevailed. Beloved wife of 50 years
to William (Bill) Truska Jr.; loving Mother of William
Truska III (Kemi), John Truska, Avis (Mark) Jason, DESERVES WITH
Robert (Francesca) Truska; proud grandmother
of Stephen (Erin) Truska, Kelly and Marie Truska,
Avis and Wyatt Jason, Talia Truska; proud great-
LIFE TRIBUTES
grandmother of Bennett and Roan Truska. Avis had
a vivacious passion for life. A Deacon for many years
at Pinnacle Peak Presbyterian Church. Avis enjoyed Our professional
many hobbies including bridge, mahjong and golf.
But, her most cherished moments were with fam- writers will assist
ily and friends. A memorial service will be held at
10am on December 19, 2020 at Pinnacle Peak you to showcase and
Presbyterian Church.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Avis’ memory made
to:
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25150 N Pima Road
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GOVERNMENT/EDUCATION
LEGAL NOTICE
Toni Preckwinkle, President of the Board
of Commissioners of Cook County, has
directed me to call a Special Meeting of the
Board of Commissioners of Cook County on
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at the hour
of 10:00 A.M. As a result of COVID-19 and
in accordance with the Cook County Board
Rules, the Special Meeting will be by remote
means only and will be able to be viewed
by the public at cookcountyil.gov/service/
watch-live-boardproceedings.
At said meeting, the following Items will be
considered:
Item 20-5643 a Proposed Amendment to the
COVID-19 PROPERTY TAX RELIEF
ORDINANCE;
and
Committee Items Requiring Board Action
Finance Committee Item regarding the
Cook County Budget Resolution and Annual
Appropriation Bill for Fiscal Year 2021
as amended Item 20-4595 - EXECUTIVE
BUDGET RECOMMENDATION – Cook County
Budget Resolution and Annual Appropriation
Bill for Fiscal Year 2021
Instructions for how to attend this meeting
and participate in written public comment
will be provided on the Cook County
webpage at https://www.surveymonkey.
com/r/HZD9NPF.
The proceedings will be able to be viewed
at cookcountyil.gov/service/watch-live-
boardproceedings on November 24,
2020 starting at 10:00 a.m. Written public
comment on any of the items listed on
the Agenda will be accepted at https://
www.surveymonkey.com/r/HZD9NPF or
cookcounty.board@cookcountyil.gov.
Written comments provided prior to the
start of the Special Board meeting will be
posted at https://tinyurl.com/y2o47vrp and
may be read aloud or summarized at the
meeting. Three (3) minutes per comment will
be allowed for any written comments read
into the record
Copies of the Agenda for the November 24,
2020 Special Board Meeting of the Cook
County Board of Commissioners and items
to be considered at this meeting will be
made available electronically on the Cook
County website on or before November 20,
2020 at https://tinyurl.com/y2o47vrp
NOTE: The Cook County Board of
Commissioner Board Room located in the
Cook County Building, 118 N. Clark Street,
Room 567, Chicago, IL 60602 remains closed
to the public, until a date to be determined,
due to the current circumstances
concerning COVID-19.
NOTICES
LEGAL NOTICE
Kiewit Infrastructure Co. invites all firms who
are certified as a DBE in the Illinois Unified
Certification Program to submit proposals,
along with the Letter of Certification, for the
following project: CTA JOC MC-030 O’Hare
Line - Irving Park Station Escalator and
Canopy Replacement in Chicago, IL. Bids Due
to Kiewit Infrastructure Co. by December
18th, 2020 4:00 PM (CST). In order to assist
certified DBE Enterprises, Contractors and
Suppliers, we will divide total requirements
into smaller activities or quantities and
establish delivery and construction
schedules which will permit maximum
participation of DBE businesses where
feasible. Kiewit utilizes BuildingConnected
for vendor communications regarding plans/
specs/addenda distribution. Please contact
our office for project information at Kiewit
Infrastructure Co., Two Pierce Place, Suite
1600, Itasca, IL 60143 Phone: 773-458-
1250 Fax: 773-458-1342. Kiewit is an Equal
Opportunity Employer.
11/21/2020 6821202
COOK COUNTY – NAME CHANGE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY,
ILLINOIS, COUNTY DEPARTMENT, COUNTY
DIVISION IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION
OF TAYLER DIANDRA DANIEL FOR CHANGE
OF NAME TO TAYLER DIONDRA SMITH
PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO:
2020 CONC 742
HEARING DATE: November 18, 2020 at 9:30
AM, 50 W Washington Chicago Cook County
in Courtroom # 1706
I/We, TAYLER DIANDRA DANIEL, request the
entry of an order by this Honorable Court in
compliance with the provisions of 735 ILCS
5/21 - 101 et. seq. for a change of name
and in support of this petition and under
penalties of perjury as provided by Section
1-109 of the Code of Civil Procedure (735
ILCS 5/1-109) state:
Under penalties of perjury as provided is
Section I-109 of the Code of Civil Procedure
(735 ILCS 5/1-109) I certify that I have read
the Peition for Change of Name filed by
TAYLER DIANDRA DANIEL and state all of the
facts contained therein are true.
/s/ TAYLER DIANDRA DANIEL
11/21, 11/28, 12/5/2020 6821013

/s/ KAREN A. YARBROUGH,

Cook County Clerk and
Clerk of the Board of the Commissioners
of Cook County, Illinois
11/21-11/24/2020 6819474
Cars/Wheels

Lincoln Town Car 2007 Signature. Black,

low miles, 1 owner, Barrington, IL. $7,995.
708-819-4444.

ASSUMED FINAL NOTICE AND PUBLIC

NAMES
Notice is hereby given, Pursuant to “An Act
in relation To the use of an Assumed Business
Name in the conduct or transaction of
Business in The State” as amended, that a
Certification was filed by the Undersigned
with the County Clerk of Cook County
File No.
Y20005074 on the
Date: November 4,2020
Under the Assumed Name of: Poshed
Boutique
with the business located at:
3001 S. Michigan Avenue Unit 2003
Chicago, IL, 60616
The true name and residence Address of
the owner is: Marsha Cooper
3001 S. Michigan Avenue Unit 2003
Chicago, IL, 60616
11/7, 11/14, 11/21/20 6809929
EXPLANATION OF A PROPOSED ACTIVITY
IN THE 100-YEAR FLOODPLAIN AND
WETLAND
November 21, 2020
To: All interested Agencies, Groups and
Individuals
This is to give notice that Cook County
has conducted an evaluation as required
by Executive Order 11988 and/or 11990,
in accordance with HUD regulations at 24
CFR 55.20 Subpart C Procedures for making
Determinations on Floodplain Management
and Wetlands Protection. The activity is
funded under the CDBG-DR under 2013-DR-
IN-R4-09
The Cook County Department of Planning
and Development has determined that
there is no practicable alternative for project
activities in the floodplain and wetland for
the following projects:

Town Center Stormwater Project 2013-DR-

Notice is hereby given, Pursuant to “An Act
in relation To the use of an Assumed Business
Name in the conduct or transaction of
Business in The State” as amended, that a
Certification was filed by the Undersigned
with the County Clerk of Cook County
File No.
Y20005203 on the
Date: November 13, 2020
Under the Assumed Name of: MITCH IT
CONSULTING SERVICES
with the business located at:
4941 N NAGLE AVE.
CHICAGO, IL, 60630
The true name and residence Address of
the owner is: DEMETRIOS PAPAIOANNOU
4941 N NAGLE AVE.
CHICAGO, IL, 60630
11/21, 11/28, 12/5/2020 6820707
IN-R4-09. The proposed project location
is the Village of Richton Park, Illinois. The
project will entail the widening and grading
of approximately 4,245 linear feet of
Butterfield Creek along Governors Highway
from approximately 219th Street to the
north to the Village limits on the south. The
replacement of two culverts on Butterfield
Creek, one on Sauk Trail Avenue and one
site is on Poplar Avenue. The construction of
an approximate 100 acre foot storage basin
facility on 19 acres of vacant land south and
west of the of the intersection of Sauk Trail
Avenue and Governors Highway. The site
is 1,100 to 2,000 feet south of Sauk Trail
Avenue, east of the Butterfield Creek East
Branch and north of Governors Highway.
Compliance with state and local floodplain/
wetland protection procedures will be
followed, including but not limited to

Every
acquiring all the necessary permits if
applicable.

Environmental files that document

compliance are available for public
inspection, review and copying upon request
at the times and location delineated in the
last paragraph of this notice for receipt of
comments.

There are three primary purposes for this

life story
notice. First, people who may be affected
by activities in floodplains/wetlands and
those who have an interest in the protection
of the natural environment should be given
an opportunity to express their concerns
and provide information about these areas.
Commenters are encouraged to offer
alternative sites outside of the floodplain/
wetland, alternative methods to serve the
same project purpose, and methods to

deserves
minimize and mitigate impacts. Second,
an adequate public notice program can be
an important public educational tool. The
dissemination of information and request for
public comment about floodplains/wetlands
can facilitate and enhance Federal efforts
to reduce the risks and impacts associated
with the occupancy and modification of
these special areas. Third, as a matter of
fairness, when the Federal government
determines it will participate in actions

to be told.
taking place in floodplains/wetlands it must
inform those who may be put at greater or
continued risk.

Written comments must be received by

Cook County at the following address on
or before December 7, 2020: Cook County
Department of Planning and Development,
69 W. Washington Street, Suite 2900,
Chicago, IL 60602 and 312-603-1000,
Attention: Dominic Tocci, Deputy Director. A
full description of the project may reviewed
upon request either electronically or
through US mail. Requests and comments
may be submitted via email at dominic.
tocci@cookcountyil.gov.

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