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From death row to model inmate, Renaldo Hudson set free after 37 years
Renaldo Hudson stands outside his apartment after saying goodbye to Evan Griffith, whom he met while they were on death row.
‘I WAS PREPARING
TO DIE.FOR THIS MOMENT. ’
I WASN’T PREPARING
By Christy Gutowski
Nearly four decades ago, 19-
year-old Renaldo Hudson
talked his way into the South
Side apartment of a retired
carpenter under the guise of
fixing a broken light fixture.
Instead, in a drug-fueled rob-
bery plot, Hudson stabbed the
elderly man dozens of times,
then set his apartment ablaze to
Restaurants,
bars eye the
end of warm
weather
Pandemic winter could
include patios, igloos
By Josh Noel
As bad as things have been for
Chicago bars and restaurants dur-
ing the COVID-19 pandemic,
they’re about to get worse.
Winter is coming.
The late-summer transition
from sun-dappled patios to indoor
tables and booths rarely occupies
a second thought across Chicago
and its suburbs. But amid shifting
attitudes about health and safety
during a persisting coronavirus
pandemic, the change is likely to
be far less intuitive than in years
past.
“We’re in terror of it,” said
Michael Roper, owner of the
Hopleaf Bar. “The patio repre-
sents most of our business right
now.”
Though establishments with
food licenses — that is, all restau-
rants and some bars — have been
able to seat diners indoors at 25%
capacity since June, several op-
erators, including Roper, said
most customers prefer outdoor
seating, where there is a lower risk
for virus transmission. Patios have
helped many bars and restaurants
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Can Trubisky turn confidence into wins?
Dan Wiederer: Two days after being told he had won the Bears’ closely
scrutinized quarterback competition, Mitch Trubisky sat on a Zoom
call with reporters oozing gratitude, expressing eagerness and appear-
ing every bit like a confident franchise quarterback with big intentions
for the 2020 season. The next step: turning self-belief into wins.
Tom Skilling’s forecast
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hide what he had done. He was
convicted of murder and sen-
tenced to die, a punishment
later commuted to life without
the possibility of parole.
As time passed, the violent,
angry teenager grew into a
model prisoner and mentor to
other inmates. A grade school
dropout unable to read or write
when he entered prison, Hud-
son created a statewide essay
Schaumburg High School applied technology teacher Jay Sullivan gives lessons in auto mechanics.
Teaching to empty classrooms
Giving lessons from school to students at home can bolster sense of normalcy
By Karen Ann Cullotta
When the abrupt closing of
schools last spring turned his
living room into his classroom,
MacArthur Middle School
teacher Joe Behun staged the
space by tidying up his coffee
table and aiming the camera at a
potted plant in the background.
Still, he said, “it just felt
wrong doing my job here, even
though I was very mindful
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contest that resulted in a book,
started a prison newspaper and
helped develop other rehabili-
tative programs. Three years
ago, he earned a bachelor’s
degree in Christian studies.
His road to redemption be-
gan when he still was on death
row and culminated last
Wednesday when, at 56, he
walked out of a medium-securi-
ty prison in downstate Illinois
about what it looked like for my
students.”
Now Behun is excited to be
back at the Prospect Heights
school, where he delivers his
English, language arts and social
studies lessons from an empty
classroom, with his students
restricted to the laptop in front
of him.
“For my students, being able
to see their classroom, and
having a snapshot of school,
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and became a free man for the
first time since 1983. Gov. J.B.
Pritzker commuted Hudson’s
life sentence to time served in
the latest round of executive
clemency decisions since the
COVID-19 public health crisis
began.
“When my transformation
started, you have to understand,
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rather than their teacher’s
kitchen or laundry room, helps
it look and feel more normal for
the kids,” Behun said. “Our
classrooms are decorated, and
we’re ready to welcome our
students back, whenever the
pandemic metrics allow us to.”
When school districts across
the Chicago area scuttled plans
to reopen school buildings, offi-
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What’s changed after months of protests?
The three-month stretch between the symbolic kickoff and close of
America’s summer has both galvanized broad public support for the
racial justice movement and exposed the obstacles to turning that
support into concrete political and policy changes. It has also clari-
fied the choice for voters between President Trump and Joe Biden.
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remarks about fallen
By Jeffrey Collins
and David Crary
Associated Press
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — In
this soldier’s city and across the
country, veterans and military
families are divided about reports
that President Donald Trump
made disparaging comments
toward the military, with some
service members bristling at the
remarks and others questioning
whether they happened.
Thomas Richardson, a retired
member of the Army’s 82nd Air-
borne, did not like what he heard.
Richardson was trained to re-
spect the office of commander in
chief, but he was rankled by
allegations in The Atlantic, many
of them independently confirmed
by other outlets, including The
Associated Press, that Trump had
referred to fallen and captured
U.S. service members as “losers”
and “suckers.”
“Usually, you don’t choose
those kinds of missions. You agree
to serve and you agree to go where
your assignment is,” said Rich-
ardson, who did not vote for
Trump in 2016.
Fayetteville, home to more than
200,000 people, is bordered by
Fort Bragg on its northern limits.
Katie Constandse, 37, is married
to a soldier stationed at Fort Bragg.
She is skeptical about the reports
of Trump’s remarks and is pre-
pared to stick by him even if they
are true.
“If you twist his words or just
take one thing out of context,
you’ll always find a way to hate
him,” Constandse said. “He’s a
human being. He takes a lot of
stuff. I don’t see how he has
survived for almost four years —
the constant barrage of anger
toward him.”
Constandse said Trump’s presi-
dency has been good for service
members and their families.
At North Carolina Veterans
Park, Ben Henderson — a soldier
stationed at Fort Bragg — was
showing his father around the
gardens and memorials over the
weekend.
Henderson voted for Trump in
2016 and plans to do it again Nov.
3, partly in appreciation for a
recent military pay raise. As for
the reports about Trump, Hender-
son said he had given them little
thought. “I don’t get involved with
all that politics stuff. I’m concen-
trating on my job,” he said.
Trump and his allies have
dismissed The Atlantic report as
false and depicted the president —
who did not serve in the military
— as a staunch supporter of
service members and veterans.
Military families were broadly
supportive of Trump in the 2016
election, and a Pew Research
Center survey of veterans con-
ducted in June 2019 found overall
that veterans were more support-
ive of Trump than the general
public.
Among that group is retired
Green Beret Joe Kent.
At his home near Portland,
Oregon, Kent clicked on The
Atlantic article as soon as he
scrolled across the explosive story
on his Twitter feed Thursday. He
does not overlook headlines re-
garding fallen service members
because his wife was one of them.
Shannon Kent, a 36-year-old
senior chief petty officer with the
Navy, was killed in January 2019 in
a suicide bombing in Syria.
Her husband, now working for
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an information technology
company, does not believe
Trump made the disparag-
ing remarks.
“I have a really hard time
believing anonymous
sources,” Kent said. “The
new accusations just seem
so sensational to me.”
Kent, 40, speaks from his
own personal experiences
with the president. When
his family gathered at Dover
Air Force Base last January
to receive his wife’s re-
mains, Trump was there.
“I didn’t get any kind of
disrespect,” said Kent, who
is now on the advisory
board of Military Families
for Trump. “He seemed to
me to be a leader who was
deeply conflicted about
sending people off to die.”
John Doolittle of St. Pe-
tersburg, Florida — who
retired from the Navy
SEALS three years ago — is
another Trump admirer
unswayed by the reports.
Trump “has gone out of
his way to make sure veter-
ans get a fair share,” said
Doolittle, 50, who now
works for a firm offering
fitness and rehabilitation
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soldiers, with some service members bristling and others questioning if they happened.
programs. “I think morale
in the services and the
veteran community is very
positive.”
Other veterans, however,
have been disenchanted
with Trump for much of his
presidency. He mocked Re-
publican Sen. John McCain
of Arizona, who died in
2018, for being captured by
the enemy while serving in
the Vietnam War.
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Atlantic reported is prob-
ably painful for the presi-
dent to hear,” said retired
we get through this pan-
demic and are all back
together again.”
While school districts in-
cluding Prospect Heights
School District 23 and
Township High School Dis-
trict 211 are asking teachers
to return to the classrooms
to deliver remote lessons to
students, some officials, in-
cluding those at New Trier
High School, are letting
their teachers decide.
At New Trier — where
officials have begun the new
school year with remote
learning, with plans to grad-
ually bring students back on
campus — less than 10% of
the high school’s more than
400 teachers opted to begin
the first day of school last
month in their classrooms
in Winnetka and North-
field.
“The first day of school,
there were some teachers
on campus, but it was a
teacher’s choice, and at
their professional discre-
tion,” said Peter Tragos,
New Trier’s assistant super-
intendent for curriculum
and instruction.
The high school plans to
a hybrid model later this
fall, with a phased-in return
for both students and teach-
ers, Tragos said.
“In order for teachers to
connect with kids, they
need to build relationships,
which is really first and
foremost,” said Tragos, who
said teachers will begin
returning to the high school
in the coming weeks, setting
up their new classrooms
prior to the arrival of their
students..
Still, some teachers say
that even without the stu-
dents present, having teach-
ers and support staff mem-
bers return to school build-
ings defeats the purpose of
remote learning.
When Pam Kramer was
told she would be delivering
remote lessons this fall, the
longtime educator said the
gnawing fear and anxiety
that had haunted her all
summer was replaced with
excitement about starting
the new school year.
But Kramer, 64, who said
she has underlying health
issues, was dismayed when
she learned her remote in-
struction duties will require
her to teach her dual lan-
guage and gifted students
half of the day in her empty
classroom at Red Oak Ele-
mentary School in High-
Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton. “But
it’s not a surprise to anyone
in uniform after watching
how he behaved toward
Sen. McCain.”
Eaton, who lives on Fox
Island in Washington state’s
Puget Sound, retired from
the Army in 2006 after
stints as a commander in
Iraq and elsewhere. For
several years, he’s been an
advisor to VoteVets, which
describes itself as the largest
progressive veterans’ or-
ganization in the U.S.
Eaton’s father was an Air
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“No part of my job teach-
ing remote lessons requires
me to be in a school build-
ing,” said Kramer, who said
her request for a health-
related accommodation to
teach the remote lessons
from her home was denied
by officials with North
Shore School District 112.
Kramer said demanding
that teachers deliver in-
struction from classrooms,
even without students, will
bring school employees into
buildings where they are
sharing common spaces,
such as bathrooms and
lunchrooms, where the
virus can easily spread.
“They didn’t give a rea-
son, they just refused my
request, which is really in-
sulting,” Kramer said. “It
makes me want to ask them,
‘Do you not trust your
teachers?’”
But, school district ad-
ministrators who have
asked teachers to deliver
remote lessons from the
classroom say such deci-
sions were made after care-
ful consideration, and
underscore the need to pro-
vide a sense of normalcy
and security for students,
whose lives have been up-
ended since schools were
abruptly shut last March.
“We have a hybrid learn-
ing, all-hands-on-deck phi-
losophy, and that includes
students, teachers and ad-
ministrators coming back
into the buildings, because
we all need to be there
safely as a collective school
district family,” North Shore
District 112 Superintendent
Mike Lubelfeld said.
After a district survey
found that about 87% of
parents wanted their chil-
dren back in school for at
least part of the day, officials
crafted a hybrid learning
plan that brings in groups of
students during morning
and afternoon sessions for
lessons in math and reading,
while limiting the number
of children in a school
building at any given time.
The plan also incorpo-
rates a remote learning
component, where children
learn online from home,
while teachers deliver the
lessons from their class-
rooms.
While school district offi-
cials can’t comment on per-
sonnel issues involving spe-
cific employees, Lubelfeld
said teacher accommoda-
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Force pilot who was shot
down over Laos in 1969 and
his remains were recovered
many years later. His wife is
a former Army captain and
daughter of a Marine Corps
colonel.
“I’m not surprised that
the president cannot grasp
the nature and quality of
selfless service,” Eaton said.
“It’s all transactional for
him it’s beyond comprehen-
sion that we would have to
tolerate a commander in
chief who behaves the way
this president does.”
tion requests are handled
on a case-by-case basis and
include a careful review of
whether a claim falls under
Americans with Disabilities
Act guidelines, the Family
and Medical Leave Act or
new regulations prompted
by the coronavirus.
The district also plans to
spend roughly $3.4 million
on what Lubelfeld de-
scribed as coronavirus “risk
mitigation,” such as pur-
chasing personal protective
equipment and making up-
grades to buildings, includ-
ing $850,000 in recent im-
provements to the HVAC
systems at the district’s
school buildings.
“We want our staff to feel
as comfortable and safe as
possible by mitigating risks,
which we can continue to
do while also fulfilling our
moral obligations to our
students,” Lubelfeld said.
“One of the greatest risks
facing the community in
Highland Park and High-
wood began last March,
when schools were closed,
and students lost the struc-
ture, routine and predic-
table routine of school.”
Of course, students are
not the only members of
school communities who
are struggling during the
pandemic.
Schaumburg High
School applied technology
teacher Jay Sullivan said
that when the campus
abruptly closed last spring,
he felt bereft over the lack of
closure, especially with his
graduating seniors.
“I felt almost despair, that
this was their last semester,
and not being able to come
to a resolution with all of
these students I had re-
lationships with was very
difficult for me,” he said.
Now, with the start of the
new school year, Sullivan is
back teaching remote
lessons from the high
school’s auto lab, as well as
enjoying masked and so-
cially distanced chats with
his colleagues between
classes.
“I was not worried about
teaching from my class-
room, and I’m just thankful
to be back in the building,”
Sullivan said. “We have new
software, and I’m teaching
my students in real time,
which feels pretty remarka-
ble.”
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On Labor Day, supporters optimistic about completing Pullman National Monument work
By Morgan Greene
A Labor Day celebration is
planned Monday to commemo-
rate another stop along the
journey of the Pullman National
Monument to full-fledged attrac-
tion.
State and local officials, as well
as project stakeholders, were
expected to speak near the clock
tower building and sprawling
factory grounds, a fitting location
for a holiday spurred by the labor
movement.
Monday’s small gathering,
more than a century after the
1894 strike and landmark union-
ization and labor victory of the
African American Pullman
porters, marks the groundbreak-
ing of more site work under the
Illinois Department of Natural
Resources, which owns sur-
rounding grounds and buildings.
“This is going to set the stage
for the visitors who come to
Pullman,” said the monument’s
superintendent, Teri Gage.
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Elections officials ramp up recruitment
Chicago-area counties
boost election judges’
pay amid shortage
By Kelli Smith
Some Illinois counties are fac-
ing dire shortages of election
workers ahead of early voting,
prompting increased pay for poll
workers and ramped-up recruit-
ment of volunteers during the
COVID-19 pandemic.
With early voting beginning
Oct. 19, election officials antici-
pate many poll workers dropping
out if there’s a coronavirus resur-
gence in the fall. In addition to
implementing higher wages and
new virtual outreach methods,
city and suburban authorities
have shifted from enrolling older
voters as judges to trying to
recruit younger populations who
are less vulnerable to the virus.
But even with new initiatives,
success has varied from county to
county.
“Response has been a little
weak, frankly, and that seems to
be consistent among my peers as
well,” said Joseph Tirio, the
McHenry County clerk. “Even if
you’re not part of the most
susceptible group (for
COVID-19), people are still con-
cerned.”
The concern has been felt on a
national level as well. On Tues-
day, the DuPage County clerk’s
office doubled election judge pay
in light of “a critical shortage” in
the United States because of
COVID-19, according to a county
news release. Now, DuPage poll
workers should receive $260 on
Election Day and $20 an hour
during early voting. The extra pay
will come from funds from the
federal government ’s co-
ronavirus relief package.
Chicago and Cook County also
have increased poll worker wages
In February, supporters gath-
ered at Hotel Florence five years
after then-President Barack
Obama designated the historic
neighborhood a national monu-
ment. More than $34 million in
public and private funds had
been raised for the renovation of
the clock tower building, once
nearly destroyed by arson, and
the factory grounds. A $5.8 mil-
lion contract was awarded to
minority-owned Griggs Mitchell
& Alma of Illinois to stabilize the
tower building and develop the
visitors center, the National Park
Service announced.
That work is now well under-
way, Gage said, and she’s “cau-
tiously optimistic” about a target
grand opening set for late August
2021.
The site has continued to
operate through the summer and
is still open and accessible to
visitors, Gage said. Tours of the
Arcade Park area have been
shortened and group sizes are
limited.
Ray Wojtkowski, 90, right, works as an election judge at a polling place
at Byrne School in the 23rd Ward of Chicago on March 17.
this year. Chicago increased its
Election Day flat rate from $170
to $230, and the county plans to
pay election judges $200 for
Election Day and $150 a day
during the early voting period.
Cook County has done more
than normal to recruit election
workers and it’s paying off, said
John Mirkovic, a clerk’s office
spokesperson. The county has
more than 5,000 workers signed
up toward its 8,000 goal and has
been getting “a lot of interest”
from high schoolers who don’t
have school on Election Day.
Last-minute dropouts remain
a prevalent concern, especially
during the pandemic.
During the state primary in
March, city and suburban elec-
tion officials had to scramble to
find new poll workers after
COVID-19 began spreading in the
area. The primary has served as a
cautionary tale for officials lead-
ing up to Election Day.
“We had a lot of judges drop off
in the weeks before the primary,”
Construction has been moving
along, said David Doig, president
of developer Chicago Neighbor-
hood Initiatives.
“What we always try to put in
perspective is, as the National
Park Service says — we’re in the
forever business,” Doig said. “So
this is going to have to stand the
test of time. And so even though
it’s taken a while, I think the
long-term benefits of that will
play out over the next century
and beyond.”
And, Doig said, “The real
celebration will be next year
when we cut the ribbon.”
George Pullman’s namesake
neighborhood, once an indus-
trial hub and model town, was
long prioritized by supporters
who pushed for its revitalization.
But even after the site was
named a national monument,
progress was slow. Industrial
waste needed to be cleaned up,
more funding was needed and
work was delayed after several
federal government shutdowns
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said Adam Johnson, chief deputy
of the DuPage County clerk’s
office. “We had to make a last-
minute increase to judge pay just
to stop the bleeding. We antici-
pate that it’s going to be a
challenge, especially if the virus
does flare back up going into the
fall.”
Many counties are aiming to
have reserve poll workers in place
to prevent last-minute disarray.
After “aggressive recruitment,”
Will County has already filled its
election judge slots and doesn’t
have plans in place to increase
pay, according to Charles Pelkie,
chief of staff for the county clerk’s
office. But despite the county’s
recent success, officials remain
wary heading into the fall and
plan to keep recruiting.
“I don’t think anybody wants
to appear in any way, shape or
form boastful about this because
we recognize that things can turn
on the drop of a dime,” Pelkie
said. “We recognize there are
going to be cancellations, there
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and a state budget standoff.
The February event brought
supporters closer to completing
the monument’s renovations on
high-priority historic buildings,
which are estimated to bring
300,000 visitors annually once
they’re open to the public.
Ald. Anthony Beale, 9th, said
the chance to highlight the
monument’s progress on Labor
Day was “extremely satisfying
and gratifying.”
“The community is growing,
but to actually have something of
this magnitude happen is really
going to be a game changer for
our community,” Beale said. “I
think people don’t want to be left
out of the success story that
Pullman has to offer.”
There are always financial
challenges, Beale said, but he
hopes funding continues to come
through on the state and federal
levels. But, he said, “It’s not
‘hopefully.’ We’re going to open it
next year.”
Colleen Callahan, director of
are always cancellations, and if
the pandemic worsens we could
be in a different situation.”
Lake County officials also
deemed the retention of workers
their main concern. The county,
like others in the Chicago area,
implemented virtual classes to
prevent contact during election
training, though volunteers are
still required to come in to certain
locations to learn about the
equipment in person.
“That is really the only concern
right now is making sure that we
do have enough judges to staff all
of the Election Day voting sites,”
said Todd Govain, chief deputy
for the Lake County clerk’s office.
“Most of them are seniors and
they are in that bracket consid-
ered most vulnerable (to
COVID-19).”
City and suburban election
officials said they’re buying per-
sonal protective equipment and
other safety supplies to keep
polling places clean and staffers
healthy. Counties have also en-
couraged mail-in voting, which is
expected to reach record highs, to
prevent long lines or confusion
on Election Day.
County officials are urging
voters to contact their local elec-
tion authority to volunteer as
election judges. Mirkovic said
Cook County is optimistic and
the community might see a
“surge of people” who recognize
the need for more workers in the
weeks to come.
“The ones that were in place in
March were real stalwarts,” add-
ed Tirio, of McHenry County. “I
mean, they see this as a need for
their community and a responsi-
bility for their community, almost
a religious crusade. But my fear is
that when the day comes, there’s
going to be too few of them.”
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The clock tower building in
Chicago’s Pullman neighborhood.
IDNR, said the groundbreaking
presents an opportunity to re-
flect on history and look for-
ward.
“Here we are 126 years later,”
Callahan said. “The Pullman car
workers walked off the job, went
on strike, and that influenced and
really foreshadowed our nation’s
labor and civil rights movements,
as well as the creation of Labor
Day itself as a national holiday.”
The progress at the monu-
ment feels personal, Callahan
said, because her grandpa
worked on the Illinois Central
Railroad, repairing hotboxes. “It
was dirty, greasy work,” she said.
“But he kept the trains running.”
And, Callahan said, “He al-
ways wore union-made cover-
alls, or bibs, and he would point
out to me the union label.”
When the visitors center at the
clock tower opens, it will include
historical exhibits recounting
Pullman’s history, Callahan said.
“Not only as a model town, but
as that labor mecca.”
Man accused
of killing
girlfriend’s
3-year-old
By Sophie Sherry
A judge on Sunday ordered a
man accused of killing his girl-
friend’s 3-year-old daughter held
on a $1 million bond.
Lehlani Edwards died of multi-
ple injuries from child abuse,
including a lacerated liver, hemor-
rhaging to the adrenal gland and
other internal injuries, according
to prosecutors.
Terrance Space, who had been
dating Lehlani’s mother since
February, has been charged with
first-degree murder in the child’s
killing. Space was allegedly the
only person watching the child at
his home in the Austin neighbor-
hood from 6 p.m. to midnight
Friday when the injuries were
inflicted, prosecutors said.
Around midnight Friday, Space
called Lehlani’s mother and told
her the child would not wake up.
The mother came over from her
building, where surveillance video
shows she had been all night, and
called 911.
Space told his girlfriend he
could not be there when the cops
arrived, according to prosecutors,
and left the home.
Lehlani was transported to
West Suburban Medical Center in
Oak Park and pronounced dead at
1:21 a.m. In addition to the internal
injuries, Lehlani had bruises and
scratches on her face, arms and
torso, according to the state.
Prosecutors said Space admit-
ted to being alone with the child
that night but did not admit to
causing the injuries.
Space was unable to appear in
bond court Sunday as he was
being treated in St. Anthony Hos-
pital for Stevens-Johnson syn-
drome, a severe skin condition.
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Ex-ComEd
VP charged
with bribery
conspiracy
Accused in scheme to sway
House Speaker Madigan
By Jason Meisner
A former vice president for ComEd was
charged Friday with bribery conspiracy
alleging he helped orchestrate a scheme to
pay political allies of powerful Democratic
House Speaker Michael Madigan to influ-
ence legislation in Springfield that would
benefit the utility.
Fidel Marquez, a longtime lobbyist and
former senior vice president of governmen-
tal affairs at ComEd, was charged in a
one-count criminal information made pub-
lic late Friday.
Marquez was the first person to be
charged in the ongoing investigation of an
elaborate bribery scheme aimed at influ-
encing legislation in Springfield by making
payments to Madigan associates and ap-
proved lobbyists, some of whom did little or
no actual work for the company.
ComEd was charged with bribery in July
and has entered into a deferred prosecution
agreement with the government, agreeing
to pay a record $200 million fine and
cooperate with investigators in exchange
for the charges being dropped in three
years.
Defendants who are charged via criminal
information — as opposed to grand jury
indictment — likely intend to plead guilty.
Neither Marquez nor his attorney could
immediately be reached for comment.
Madigan, the nation’s longest-serving
speaker and Illinois Democratic Party
chairman, has denied any wrongdoing and
has not been charged.
The four-page information against
Marquez alleged that from 2011 to 2019, he
conspired with others to corruptly solicit
jobs, contracts and monetary payments for
the benefit of Madigan — identified as
Public Official A — and his associates with
the intent of influencing legislation benefi-
cial to ComEd.
Specifically, on July 30, 2018, Marquez
directed a $37,500 payment to Company 1,
“a substantial portion of which was in-
tended for associates of (Madigan),” the
information stated.
The Chicago Tribune reported last year
that Marquez was a focus of the federal
investigation, as is former ComEd CEO
Anne Pramaggiore, who abruptly retired
last year. Pramaggiore has not been charged.
A Pramaggiore spokesman has said that she
“has done nothing wrong and any inference
to the contrary is misguided and false.”
Prosecutors have said ComEd’s scheme
began around 2011 — when key regulatory
matters were before the Illinois House that
Madigan controls — and continued through
last year.
Many of the illegal payments allegedly
were arranged by downstate lobbyist
Michael McClain, a key confidant and
adviser at the center of the probe, according
to court records. McClain also has not been
charged.
One example cited in ComEd’s deferred
prosecution agreement involved a man
identified as “Consultant 1,” who allegedly
was speaking to a ComEd executive identi-
fied by the Tribune as Marquez. The
consultant said he believed McClain had
spoken to Madigan about the payments,
saying the money was “to keep (Public
Official A) happy (and) I think it’s worth it,
because you’d hear otherwise,” prosecutors
alleged.
Records show ComEd tried to clean up
its lobbying operation in the midst of the
investigation last year. One of those depart-
ing was Marquez. ComEd officially an-
nounced it on Sept. 23, saying only that
Marquez was “retiring after 39 years of
service.”
Marquez, who has homes in Chicago and
Arizona, has not responded to repeated
attempts by the Tribune to reach him.
When a Tribune reporter went to his condo
building in the South Loop in August 2019, a
manager at the security desk said he hadn’t
seen Marquez in weeks. A reporter visited
Marquez’s lobbying office in the financial
district that same day, but was told by an
employee that Marquez was “on leave.”
In all, prosecutors put a value of at least
$150 million on the legislative benefits
ComEd received. The federal court docu-
ments specifically noted the 2011 passage of
the Energy Infrastructure and Moderniza-
tion Act, which “helped improve ComEd’s
financial stability” by establishing rate
guidelines and a smart grid overhaul.
A spokeswoman for Madigan, mean-
while, has said the speaker “has never made
a legislative decision with improper mo-
tives and has engaged in no wrongdoing
here.”
ComEd has publicly apologized for its
actions, but the company also has denied
the scheme meant customers were unfairly
charged.
Meanwhile, the investigation appears to
go well beyond ComEd. In a subpoena sent
to Madigan’s office on the day the ComEd
charges were announced, authorities
sought records related to AT&T, Walgreens
and Rush University Medical Center. The
subpoena also sought records related to
Madigan’s political organization and law
firm, as well as former state lawmakers and
current or former Chicago aldermen.
The Tribune reported in July that AT&T
had also been subpoenaed by federal
prosecutors in relation to its Springfield
lobbying. Records show that AT&T used
several of the same former Madigan staffers
and ex-Democratic state representatives as
ComEd did for its lobbying.
jmeisner@chicagotribune.com
Woman stabbed to death while
working at Wicker Park Walgreens
By Jessica Villagomez and
Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas
A woman who was working at a Wicker
Park Walgreens early Sunday was attacked
by a knife-wielding man and stabbed to
death inside the business, according to
Chicago police.
Just after 9:30 a.m., authorities were
called to a Walgreens store, 1372 N.
Milwaukee Ave., to investigate a homicide,
according to police. The 32-year-old wom-
an had been working in the store when she
was approached by a man who “stabbed
the female victim multiple times and fled
the scene,” police said.
The woman, who has not yet been
identified, was pronounced dead at the
location, authorities said. Police do not
confirm business names, but the parking
lot for the Walgreens remained blocked off
by yellow police tape Sunday afternoon. A
spokeswoman for the Cook County medi-
cal examiner’s office also confirmed the
woman was pronounced dead at that
address.
Standing near the store Sunday after-
noon, Officer Jose Jara said the assailant
“walked into the store, identified (the)
victim, who is an employee of the store,
and stabbed her.”
Detectives are searching the area in
hopes of identifying any additional surveil-
lance video that might show the suspect
before or after he went into the store.
Police also taped off portions of the block
at North Wicker Park and North Wolcott
Avenue into the afternoon.
Officials said nothing was stolen from
the store. It wasn’t clear whether the
assailant knew or specifically targeted the
woman.
“We cannot provide any further com-
ment (as) this remains an open investiga-
tion,” Officer Roberto Garduno, a police
spokesman, said in an email.
No arrests had been made.
After pressure to clear languishing DNA
evidence, state reduces backlog by 31%
By Alison Bowen
After years of pressure to clear a large
backlog of DNA evidence awaiting analy-
sis, state officials have reduced it by 31%.
According to the most recent data from
the Illinois State Police, which runs state
laboratories that process evidence from
crime scenes, as of July 31, 5,811 assign-
ments were waiting to be processed in the
biology section, which includes DNA
evidence. At the same time last year, 8,403
such assignments awaited analysis.
Still, this is a hefty amount of DNA
evidence in a backlog many say should be
much smaller. But it shows that improve-
ments taken to streamline analysis are
working, said Brenda Danosky, biology
program manager at Illinois State Police
Forensic Sciences Command.
“This was exciting,” she said, “to see
those numbers.”
Key to reducing the backlog have been a
new computer system, using robots to
extract DNA and outsourcing cases to be
processed elsewhere.
Danosky said they also are working to
reduce turnaround times. In March, the
average processing time for DNA evidence
was 247 days; as of the agency’s August
data, the average turnaround time was 210
days.
“We’re always looking at pursuing
various avenues to reduce our backlog,”
she said, while noting, “we never want
quality to suffer in any way, shape or form,
for completing our cases.”
A robot used at the three largest labs,
which are in Chicago, Joliet and Spring-
field, now assists by extracting DNA.
Forensic scientists still do the work of
finding, for example, a bloodstain, but the
robot can extract DNA from it. Scientists
then evaluate the data.
“This is more of a tool that helps work
more samples, because a forensic scientist
only has so many hands,” Danosky said.
COVID-19 has shifted some of their
schedules, she said, and some employees
Chicago police officers work at the scene where a female employee was fatally stabbed
by a knife-wielding man at the Walgreens in Wicker Park on Sunday.
In an emailed statement, Jim Cohn, a
spokesman for Deerfield-based Wal-
greens, said the company is cooperating
with the police investigation and employ-
ees were “saddened to learn of this tragic
incident.”
“We are also making counseling and
other resources available to our other store
team members at this location,” he said.
It was at least the second homicide at a
Chicago Walgreens location in a little more
than a year. On June 12, 2019, Chicago
police began investigating the fatal shoot-
ing of another woman, 46-year-old cus-
tomer Sircie Varnardo.
A store manager allegedly contacted a
former security guard he knew who lived
in the area, and that man is accused of
showing up, confronting 100-pound Var-
BRIAN CASSELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE 2019
A rape kit in the emergency department
at Mount Sinai Hospital.
now work remotely. But forensic scientists
are coming in and working socially distant
from each other to process evidence.
Throughout the past few years, state
Sen. Patricia Van Pelt, D-Chicago, has
convened hearings on the backlog, urging
officials to clear it and inviting families to
speak about lingering grief as they wait.
Van Pelt noted “great progress” but said
the decrease must continue.
“Every kit unsolved represents one
family awaiting justice,” she said.
For decades, Illinois has had a large
backlog of cases awaiting analysis. Prose-
cutors say such delays add trauma as
victims wait for justice. This can also
imperil prosecutions as memories fade or
people simply want to move on. As the
Illinois State Police noted in a report
relaying statistics, it also means criminals
remain on the street.
“High backlogs equate to an increased
risk to public safety, as criminals remain
unidentified and able to commit additional
crimes, and innocent individuals remain
incarcerated as they await forensic results,
which could clear them,” the report noted.
The Tribune has talked to sexual assault
survivors who had been waiting more than
a year for rape kit evidence to be analyzed.
Carrie Ward, executive director of the
Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault,
said she was pleased to see the reduction.
“We know every kit processed marks
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nado who was suspected of shoplifting,
pinning her down and shooting her in the
face as he knelt on top of her during a
violent struggle at 11:30 p.m. at the bustling
Northwest Side store.
Louis Hicks, 33, was charged in connec-
tion with that homicide at the Walgreens
location at 4817 W. Fullerton Ave. Hicks
once worked for Monterrey Security and
had a record of arrests on drug, assault and
impersonating a federal employee charges
prior to the 2019 shooting. He was denied
bail in that case.
Chicago Tribune’s Rosemary Sobol contrib-
uted.
jvillagomez@chicagotribune.com
kdouglas@chicagotribune.com
another step in a rape survivor’s journey to
healing,” she said.
Officials who have testified to the state
Senate in recent years explain challenges
like a lack of staffing, a system where
certain cases can gain priority and more
funding needed for equipment, salaries
and outsourcing.
Analyzing evidence is more complex
than what people see on shows like
“NCIS,” Danosky said. For example, one
case might have multiple assignments to
analyze, and scientists sometimes return to
evidence multiple times as they help law
enforcement with a case.
The state police report notes the agency
needs 90 scientists analyzing DNA evi-
dence, but now has 61, compared with 63
last year. It can take up to nine months to
hire someone who analyzes DNA evidence
and up to two years to train. And even after
training, some leave; out of five forensic
scientists who began training in 2018, two
have resigned.
Meanwhile, lack of staffing in other jobs
means scientists are sometimes perform-
ing clerical duties such as answering
phones instead of analyzing cases.
Last year, Gov. J.B. Pritzker established
a Forensic Science Task Force, which has
met during the pandemic and issued a
report in July with suggestions like
improving communication between labs
and courts, and exploring ways to have
forensic scientists provide remote testi-
mony, allowing them more time in the lab
and less commuting and sitting in court-
rooms.
The state police report noted that if its
budget is reduced, cases may go unworked.
Donasky said this is why the state police
pursues grants, which can offset budget
reductions and help with costs like out-
sourcing and equipment.
She said she is confident the trend will
stay in the right direction.
“I absolutely feel we will continue to
improve, and continue to reduce the
backlog,” she said.
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In Illinois, there’s nothing
stopping you.
COVID-19 testing has come a
long way since May. You don’t
need symptoms — or a doctor’s
OK — to find out if you’re in-
fected with the highly conta-
gious virus. Drive-thru testing
is common, and the wait can be
short or nonexistent.
Hospitals, individual doctors
and the state of Illinois are
offering multiple options —
including, in some cases, a less
invasive testing method, in
which the swab doesn’t go far
up your nose or goes in your
mouth.
“For our patients, we’ve made
it pretty convenient and easy to
get tested,” said Dr. Jeffrey
Kopin, chief medical officer at
Northwestern Medicine Lake
Forest Hospital.
We asked Kopin, Illinois
Department of Public Health
spokesperson Melaney Arnold
and the Cook County Depart-
ment of Public Health what you
need to know to navigate the
new testing landscape. Here are
their answers, supplemented by
information from the Centers
for Disease Control and Preven-
tion.
Do I need to make an appoint-
ment for COVID-19 testing in
Illinois?
State-operated COVID-19
testing sites do not require
appointments. You will need to
make an appointment if you get
tested at a doctor’s office or at a
testing site run by a hospital or
clinic.
Do I have to have COVID-19
symptoms?
No, state testing sites offer
testing on demand — without
symptoms or a doctor’s order.
Other testing sites may have
different requirements, such as
symptoms, exposure to some-
one with COVID-19 or a referral
from a doctor.
What should I bring?
Bring your ID and insurance
information.
Do I have to do that test
where they put the swab way
up your nose?
No. The state testing sites
actually use a technique in
which the swab is not inserted
deeply, and City of Chicago
tests sites use shallow mouth
swabs. Many doctors’ offices
use shallow nose insertion,
Kopin said. But some medical
professionals prefer the deeper
nasal test: “At Northwestern
Medicine, that’s the one we
have the most trust in cur-
rently,” Kopin said.
How is the sample taken in
each case?
The deeper method, known
as the nasopharyngeal swab,
requires that a 6-inch swab be
inserted up the nose to the back
of the throat. For the shallower
anterior nasal swab, the swab is
inserted less than half an inch.
City of Chicago tests sites offer
a comfortable shallow mouth
swab.
Is one more accurate?
A deep nasal swab is the gold
standard of COVID testing, but
the CDC accepts the shallow
nasal swab. The shallow mouth
swab used at City of Chicago
test sites has emergency use
authorization from the FDA.
How long will it take to get
results?
Most testing locations get
results back in 48 to 72 hours,
Kopin said.
How do I find my closest test-
ing site?
The Illinois Department of
Public Health offers locations at
its website; you can also contact
your doctor or health clinic.
How do I find a site that offers
drive-thru testing?
The state locations offer
drive-thru testing.
What does testing cost with
insurance? Without?
COVID-19 testing is free at
the state locations. If you have
insurance, your insurance com-
pany will be billed. At other
sites, insurance has to cover the
full cost of the test, but only if
the test is deemed “medically
appropriate.” Translation: Your
insurance company may require
that you have symptoms and a
referral from a doctor.
R. Kelly asks again to be released
Inmate says he
beat the R&B singer
in Chicago jail
By Jason Meisner
and Megan Crepeau
Lawyers for indicted singer R.
Kelly filed a motion Friday seek-
ing to question under oath a
reputed gang member who said
he violently attacked Kelly at the
federal lockup in Chicago be-
cause he wanted to expose gov-
ernment corruption.
Jeremiah Shane Farmer, a con-
victed member of the Latin
Kings, outed himself as Kelly’s
attacker in a court filing earlier
this week in Hammond, where
he’s facing a mandatory life
sentence for racketeering con-
spiracy involving a 1999 double
murder.
Farmer, 39, claimed he at-
tacked Kelly “in hopes of getting
spotlight attention and world
news notice to shed light on”
wrongdoing by the government.
According to a U.S. Bureau of
Prisons report attached to his
filing, Farmer was able to slip
away from an employee at the
Metropolitan Correctional Cen-
ter on Aug. 26, enter Kelly’s cell
and beat him repeatedly in the
head while Kelly was in the lower
bunk. The attack stopped only
after a jail security officer pep-
per-sprayed Farmer, the report
states.
In the Friday court filing,
Kelly’s attorneys asked U.S. Dis-
trict Judge Harry Leinenweber
for an evidentiary hearing giving
them and the judge the opportu-
nity to question Farmer under
DEMONSTRATORS FACE OFF
Pro-police protesters
outnumber activists
calling for defunding
By Bill Jones
A weekend march to demand
the abolition of police, prisons
and immigration enforcement in
Chicago Ridge drew just a hand-
ful of demonstrators and faced off
with counter protesters who
showed up to speak in support of
the police.
Dump trucks barricaded en-
trances to the Chicago Ridge Mall
on the 95th Street side while
Chicago Ridge and Oak Lawn
police set up a mobile command
center in the parking lot after a
flyer circulated online promoted
a 3 p.m. march Saturday in the
parking lot of the vacant Sears
property. It was expected to move
through Oak Lawn, Hometown,
Burbank, Chicago Ridge and Chi-
cago’s Ashburn neighborhood.
Chicago Ridge Police Chief
Robert Pyznarski said the heavy
law enforcement presence was
needed because officials thought
there would be a larger crowd
and some situations have esca-
lated around the nation. While
Oak Lawn police were informed
of the expected route, Pyznarski
said Chicago Ridge only learned
about the march online.
“We didn’t know what to
expect,” he said. “If they’re peace-
ful, no big deal.”
Roughly an hour after the
planned start, only five protesters
— including organizer Stephany
Ochoa — were on site. A few
minutes later, one person left and
the other four tried to enter the
mall to share their message. A line
of security officers met them at
the door and turned them away.
“We have to have some alliance
in the south suburban towns in
the Chicagoland,” Ochoa said.
“There have been protests but no
action.” The posts promoting the
event called for “police, prison &
ICE abolition”and “reallocation
of police funds for justice to be
served to those who have been
wronged by the system.”
The group moved along the
perimeter of the building along
the Ridgeland side, before head-
ing out to one of the entrances
and along the sidewalk. Ochoa
primarily chanted “Black Lives
Matter” on a megaphone, with
others reciting it in response.
They were met along Ridge-
land Avenue by Pete Thompson,
of Bridgeview, wearing a MAGA
2020 T-shirt with a blue line in
support of police. He and another
counter-protester pointed at the
group and shouted “all lives
matter” in response to their
chants.
Thompson said he came to the
mall because — despite the group
largely speaking a Black Lives
Matter message — the event
originally called for a reallocation
of police funds.
“We love our police,” Thomp-
son said. “They risk their (ex-
pletive) lives every day. They’re
going to spit on them? You have to
say something. I’m not going to
just let them walk.”
After the group rounded the
oath about the alleged beating,
“including, but not limited to the
role that any MCC personnel
played in that attack.”
“It appears that MCC person-
nel simply followed Mr. Farmer,
allowed him to carry out the
attack, and then only intervened
after Mr. Kelly had already sus-
tained serious injuries,” Kelly’s
attorney Michael Leonard wrote.
In his handwritten motion
filed Monday, Farmer claimed he
committed the attack “due to the
most blatant corruption in Far-
mer’s case and being (on) lock-
down for Robert Kelly protest.”
Kelly’s lawyers have said that
when the singer’s supporters
previously demonstrated in front
of the MCC, the facility went on
lockdown — making Kelly’s fel-
low inmates angry at him.
The allegations are the latest
twist in an ongoing effort to free
Kelly on bond pending trial on
sexual abuse-related charges.
The Farmer incident was also
mentioned during oral argu-
ments Friday in the 2nd U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals in New
York, where Kelly’s attorneys are
trying to reverse the trial judge’s
decision there that Kelly is a
danger and should be locked up
pending trial.
“Mr. Kelly was the victim of an
unprovoked attack while incar-
cerated at the MCC because of
who he is,” attorney Thomas
Farinella argued. “It’s clear the
Bureau of Prisons cannot ad-
equately accommodate the need
to keep him safe.”
Farmer, of Hammond, was
convicted last year in the June 25,
1999, slayings of Marion Lowry,
74, and Harvey Siegers, 67, who
Stephany Ochoa and Pete Thompson exchange words Saturday in front of Chicago Ridge Mall.
Rick Meskauskas, of Oak Lawn, raises a flag in support of police on
95th Street in front of Chicago Ridge Mall.
corner to head west on 95th
Street, they were met by more
counter-protesters. All told,
Ochoa’s group was outnumbered
by counter-protesters. Among
those counter-protesters were
Rick Meskauskas, of Oak Lawn,
and Joe Amado, of Chicago
Ridge.
“I always support the police,”
Meskauskas said.
Amado said he similarly was
there to “back the blue” close to
his neighborhood. “Defunding
the police is ridiculous, asinine,”
Amado said. “You can quote me
on that. I came out here to
support police who put their lives
on the line.”
were beaten with a small sledge-
hammer at their business, Calu-
met Auto Rebuilders. He’s facing
a mandatory life sentence and is
housed at the MCC in Chicago
while his appeal is pending.
Court records show Farmer,
who is representing himself, has
a history of mental issues. In 2017,
prosecutors requested that Far-
mer undergo a psychiatric or
psychological examination after
he made filings on his own behalf
and discussed “suffering from a
variety of mental illnesses,” ac-
cording to a motion.
Farmer was later found com-
petent to stand trial, however,
according to court records.
The indictment against Far-
mer alleged that sometime be-
tween 1999 and 2001, he “tat-
tooed his own face with two
teardrops, to commemorate hav-
ing killed” Lowry and Siegers. A
recent mug shot shows Farmer’s
face festooned with tattoos, in-
cluding teardrops, crowns and
other gang insignia.
In a motion earlier this week,
Kelly’s attorneys said Farmer has
since gotten a new face tattoo
that reads “f—- the feds.” They
said he was able to enter Kelly’s
cell while the singer was sleeping
and stomped on his head repeat-
edly.
The general population is not
safe for Kelly, his attorneys argue,
and there is little chance he will
go to trial anytime soon because
of the COVID-19 pandemic.
During arguments in New
York on Friday, the three-judge
appellate panel sounded skepti-
cal that Kelly deserved bond,
given the seriousness of the
charges.
The groups exchanged a bit of
shouting for a few minutes near
one of the mall’s entrances, with
oscillating “Black Lives Matter”
and “Back the Blue” chants.
Then, the protesters moved east
again down 95th Street before
moving into Oak Lawn with just
three members.
Anthony William Abrams, of
Oak Lawn, was not part of the
group protesting. But he pulled
into the parking lot , stopped his
car in a stall along 95th Street,
climbed onto his roof wearing a
shirt in support of Black Lives
Matter and raised a fist — jawing
a bit with the nearby counter-
protesters.
“It seems to be a blunderbuss
approach to just release him,”
one judge said. “If we didn’t have
coronavirus, I don’t think you’d
be here.”
Kelly, 53, faces two federal
indictments in two states on
charges related to sexual abuse.
He has been held without bond
since his arrest in July 2019.
Federal prosecutors in Chi-
cago accuse him of conspiring to
rig his 2008 child pornography
trial in Cook County by paying off
witnesses and victims to change
their stories. The indictment also
alleged Kelly and his co-defend-
ants paid hundreds of thousands
of dollars to recover child sex
tapes before they fell into the
hands of prosecutors.
The longtime R&B superstar
faces racketeering conspiracy
charges in U.S. District Court in
New York alleging he identified
underage girls attending his con-
certs and groomed them for
sexual abuse.
Kelly’s attorneys have repeat-
edly argued for his release on
bond and have been repeatedly
rejected. Even if a judge in
Chicago granted the most recent
request, Kelly has also been
ordered held without bond on
the charges in New York, so he
would still remain in custody
pending the appeal before the
2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Kelly also faces charges of
sexual abuse and sexual assault in
Cook County, and charges in
Minnesota related to solicitation.
He has denied all the accusa-
tions against him.
jmeisner@chicagotribune.com
mcrepeau@chicagotribune.com
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“I just passed this,” Abrams
said of what prompted the show
of solidarity. “There is an undeni-
able divide between races, and it
disgusts me as someone who
loves everyone.
What better to do on a Sat-
urday? Plus, I got to piss some old
white people off.”
Ochoa, who organized another
rally back in June in Ashburn,
said the demonstration was de-
signed to create an alliance with
her south suburban neighbors in
an effort to get justice for those
who have been wronged by the
system. The intention was always
to do so peacefully.
“We just want to get the
conversation going. A lot of peo-
ple don’t think this is a problem.
To get the discussion going would
be a good start,” she said. “[Abol-
ishing police] sounds very radi-
cal, but it’s not impossible.”
Nick Alonzo, of Chicago’s
Bridgeport neighborhood, joined
her in trying to share that mes-
sage. As someone who is both
Puerto Rican and Black, Alonzo
said he grew up in Roseland
recognizing early in life the seg-
regation that exists in Chicago.
He thought the message of the
group was one the south suburbs
needed to hear.
“The towns like this don’t care
or want to pay attention because
it doesn’t happen here as much,”
he said. “It’s a whole different
vibe when you’re not in the city
and experiencing it.”
He said the turnout was a
disappointment. While other
protest events were taking place
around the city that may have
split numbers, Alonzo said he
thinks some people also might
have been scared away by the
backlash they saw online.
“You’re fighting for a message,
to put awareness out there,”
Alonzo said. “It’s sad things had
to be a bust, especially when I
support the message.”
Bill Jones is a freelance reporter for
the Daily Southtown.

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survive this summer’s in-
dustrywide, pandemic-fu-
eled downturn.
Falling Midwestern tem-
peratures, however, will up-
end the equation. As the end
of summer looms, bar and
restaurant owners are ex-
ploring how to prolong out-
door service into fall, or
even winter, while also try-
ing to mitigate potentially
catastrophic financial fall-
out. For customers, the re-
sult is likely to be one of the
strangest winters in recent
memory for eating and
drinking out.
“If the rules are the same
as they are now, I don’t
know how any full-service
restaurant generates
enough revenue to be sus-
tainable,” said Greg Shuff,
who owns four restaurants,
three of which have stayed
afloat during the pandemic
with the help of sidewalk
cafes. (He’s planning to
open one at the fourth by
the end of the week.)
Shuff said he hopes to
install outdoor heaters at all
four patios — at DryHop
Brewers, Roebuck, Corridor
Brewery & Provisions and
Crushed by Giants — “to
extend it a few more weeks.”
Beyond that, he’s left to
hope people will return
indoors once cold weather
arrives — while also bracing
for a revenue dip.
“I think we’re all idling,
seeing this as a singular
event and battening down
the hatches until we get
through it,” he said. “But I
don’t see the light at the end
of the tunnel.”
In recent weeks, the
alarm has been sounded.
Sam Toia, president and
CEO of the Illinois Restau-
rant Association, urged local
government officials to be
creative in extending out-
door dining by expanding
street closures and using
tents, heaters, blankets and
plastic domes to give restau-
rants more cool-weather
seating capacity. He men-
tioned northern European
cities and Colorado ski
towns, where outdoor seat-
ing remains common even
as the weather turns cold.
“We need to start think-
ing outside the box right
now,” Toia said during a
virtual speech to the City
Club of Chicago in mid-
August.
Last week, the city of
Chicago took steps in that
direction, announcing the
Winter Design Challenge,
which will award $5,000
each to three winners that
come up with creative solu-
tions for winter outdoor
dining.
Without a way forward,
the looming problem will be
twofold, said Terry Alexan-
der, a partner in the One Off
Hospitality group, which
operates bars and restau-
rants that include Avec, The
Publican, Violet Hour and
Big Star.
One issue, Alexander
said, is that winter business
will inevitably be down due
both to the 25% restriction
and customers that may be
wary of venturing into in-
door public spaces. The
other issue: a rough winter
would come on the heels of
a rough summer.
Winter bills, rent and
salaries are often paid on the
back of robust summer
business — yet this summer
has been anything but ro-
bust. The loss of private
events alone has cost Big
Star as much as 15% of its
usual revenue, Alexander
said. One Off has already
announced the permanent
closure of two well-re-
garded restaurants: Cafe
Cancale and the group’s
defining, foundational
Blackbird.
“This year, when usually
you make all your money,
you’re going to break even,”
Alexander said. “So where
do you get your money in
Q4 and Q1 this winter?”
The answer, if there is
one, remains elusive.
“We don’t know,” he said.
“We meet every day and
trust me, we’re not the only
group. I’m sure every group
is having the same discus-
sion.”
Like many restaurant op-
erators, One Off quickly
clamped down on cash out-
flow when the pandemic
began. That included paus-
ing several projects: a Big
Star location inside Half
Acre Beer Co.’s Balmoral
Avenue brewery, another
new Big Star location in
River North, and a new
project Alexander said was
“in a completely new loca-
tion for us.”
The Delta winterized its patio with a canopy and heat lamps before reopening in August for the first time since March.
Patrons dine at the outdoor sidewalk patio Wednesday at DryHop on North Broadway in East Lakeview.
“It’s no time to take a big
financial chance,” Alexan-
der said.
Instead, Alexander said,
One Off is preparing for a
winter where “guests won’t
be all that comfortable sit-
ting inside,” and is investi-
gating the feasibility of fire
pits, tents, igloos and winter
beer gardens. It is also
investing in the kinds of
businesses that can thrive
during a pandemic, includ-
ing takeout and delivery
service and canned Big Star
margaritas, which were in-
troduced in June.
“We don’t have a con-
crete direction at this cur-
rent time, other than
praying for this weather to
hang around Chicago as
long as possible,” he said.
Short of a miraculously
mild winter, restaurants in
all directions are game plan-
ning for cold weather.
The Delta, a Mississippi-
themed, chef-driven cock-
tail bar, winterized its patio
with a canopy and heat
lamps before reopening last
week for the first time since
March. Co-owner Eldridge
Williams said he had long
thought about doing so, but
was finally pushed by the
pandemic.
“The main objective will
be to keep warm, but we’re
treating it like the inside
dining room,” Williams said.
“With the canopy and natu-
ral light and greenery, it still
has that patio vibe.”
Without the extra seat-
ing, there is almost no way
The Delta will survive the
winter, Williams said. Even
with the patio, it’ll be a
challenge; but the extra
seats at least give them a
chance, he said.
“We’re trying to keep
costs down as much as
possible and keep staff safe
and guests safe and do what
we can do,” he said. “This
pandemic doesn’t seem to
be going anywhere, and
we’re going to have these
restrictions for awhile. We’ll
continue to do our best.”
Roper, who said he is
enduring his most challeng-
ing time as a bar owner
since launching Hopleaf in
1992, traditionally shuts
down his patio in mid-
October, but will keep it
open as long as people are
willing to use it.
In recent days, Roper
said, he looked up last year’s
fall weather and was en-
couraged by what he saw:
about 20 days in October
that could be “patio
weather” — dry and sunny,
with highs between 50 and
“If the rules are the same as they are now, I don’t know how any full-service restaurant
generates enough revenue to be sustainable,” said DryHop Brewers owner Greg Shuff.
80 degrees.
In the current climate, he
wonders if tolerance for
being outdoors might even
rise as temperatures drop —
maybe even all the way into
the bitter cold. By Decem-
ber, Roper envisions in-
stalling a fire pit surrounded
by chairs to create some-
thing “like a campfire expe-
rience.”
“It might be that some
people want to keep their
coat on and hang out out-
side with a beer,” he said. “I
think that has a little bit of
potential.”
But to keep costs and
losses down, he expects to
open Hopleaf with limited
hours through winter, per-
haps only Friday through
Sunday. He would also likely
furlough some of the staff he
brought back during sum-
mer.
“Everybody I meet who
has a patio is perplexed
about the best solution,”
Roper said. “Everyone is
talking about it every single
day. We’re wondering with-
out patios, will customers
stay away, or rethink their
reticence and say, ‘I’m not
staying home another six
months.’ ”
He expects some busi-
nesses to decide to board up
for the winter, as is common
in resort towns. January,
February and early March
are already difficult enough
in Chicago, he said.
“I think you’ll see some
places, at least in January
and February, say ‘We’ll lose
less by mothballing the
place and setting the ther-
mostat to 45 degrees,’ ”
Roper said. “This will truly
be an offseason.”
Pat Berger is weighing
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doing just that at Paddy shutting it down,” he said.
Long’s, a Lakeview bar he However, the tables will
has co-owned since 2007. stay out front into the win-
The two outdoor tables at ter, and he’s hopeful they
Paddy Long’s, which can stay busy. If not, closing up
seat a total of eight people, for the winter remains a
have done steady business possibility.
through summer, Berger “We’ll be gauging cus-
said. Inside hasn’t been tomers’ tolerance for sitting
much of a draw, and he’s not outside — which I think will
optimistic that will change be much higher than in the
during the winter. past — and whether people
“Without those two ta- are comfortable sitting so-
bles out front, I’ll probably cially distant inside, which,
lose less money by just right now, they’re not,” Ber-
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ger said. “It will be very
apparent by our sales how
that is going.”
He’s planning to keep his
other bar, Kaiser Tiger in
West Town, operating
through much of the winter,
thanks to heated, open-air
patios that seat nearly 150
people. He envisions serv-
ing customers as tempera-
tures drop as low as the 20s,
closing as needed for days or
weeks for the inevitable
frigid dips, then reopening
when it warms again to a
more tolerable version of
cold. With limited options
for entertainment this win-
ter, he’s optimistic the bar
will do decent business.
“People will be looking
for things to do,” Berger
said. “It’s going to be a
dreary winter.”
Berger counts himself
lucky to own both his prop-
erties, which he said offers
more flexibility when mak-
ing such decisions.
“People leasing are in a
very tough position,” he
said. “I don’t know what
kind of plan I’d have if I was
leasing. I’d be looking at an
exit plan, probably.”
Dovetail Brewery, which
launched a temporary patio
this summer, plans to use it
until the city’s temporary
patio licenses expire Dec. 31.
(Whether the city will ex-
tend the licenses for emer-
gency outdoor pandemic
seating is unclear.)
“We don’t know how
we’ll pull it off, but there will
be outdoor service,” brew-
ery co-founder Hagen Dost
said.
There is precedent, he
noted: He lived in Switzer-
land for three years, where
he said “people tough it out
to be able to enjoy a little
more outdoor time; they
don’t really let (cold
weather) affect them.”
The patio will be difficult
to surrender, he said. With
business down as much as
80% during the summer, it
not only helped Dovetail
survive with draft beer sales
directly to consumers, but it
boosted the brewery’s to-go
business.
“We’re surviving, not
thriving. But the danger
before was not surviving,”
Dost said. “It feels like we’re
out of the woods, but it’s
hard to know for sure.”
Fall and winter usually
bring strong business for
Dovetail; cooler weather
usually pushes people into
its cozy taproom. That
won’t happen this year, even
at 25% capacity; no food
license means Dovetail
won’t be able to serve cus-
tomers inside for the fore-
seeable future.
What’s left is the patio,
where Dovetail plans to
embrace the strangeness of
the situation, perhaps incor-
porating its glühkriek, a
warm, spiced cherry beer
made with cinnamon, or-
ange peel, cardamom,
cloves and simple syrup.
“You might not want to
hang out for the two hours
you might on a nice summer
day, but we’re open to any-
thing,” he said.
Dovetail’s winter patio is
unlikely to include tents and
heaters, both of which are
already in high demand,
Dost said. Instead, it is likely
to involve customers dress-
ing warmly and being game
for an adventure, Dost said.
The brewery will also
encourage a new kind of
BYOB: Bring your own blan-
ket.
jbnoel@chicagotribune.com
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Inmate
Continued from Page 1
I was preparing to die,”
Hudson said in a Tribune
interview shortly after he
arrived at the Chicago min-
istry where he will begin his
new life. “I wasn’t preparing
for this moment … for a
chance to be set free. And,
so, my transformation was
for me. My transformation
was that I didn’t want to die
being good for nothing. I
didn’t want to die knowing
that no one cared.”
Since March, the gover-
nor has commuted the sen-
tences or pardoned about
50 men and women con-
victed of crimes that date to
1978 and range from canna-
bis possession to murder,
state records show. The
Illinois Department of Cor-
rections also has granted
the early release of about
2,200 inmates through vari-
ous means in the past six
months.
Pritzker has faced pres-
sure and lawsuits from pris-
on reform advocates urging
the release of elderly or ill
inmates during the
COVID-19 outbreak, which
has led to the deaths of 14
inmates. But the governor
also has taken heat from
Illinois House Republicans,
who criticized his adminis-
tration for releasing some
prisoners with violent
crimes and for not being
more transparent.
Hudson’s attorney with
the Illinois Prison Project,
Jennifer Soble, cited the
pandemic as reason for the
emergency clemency re-
quest. He has heart disease,
high blood pressure, tuber-
culosis, sciatic nerve dam-
age and vision issues, ac-
cording to the petition.
Soble also argued Hudson’s
decades of incarceration
and record of achievement
merit his release.
Cook County State’s At-
torney Kim Foxx did not
object, her office confirmed.
And state prison officials
have long lauded Hudson’s
accomplishments.
Hudson, who admits his
guilt and makes no excuses
for his crime, said he wants
to continue to support pris-
oners, build more rehabili-
tation opportunities and
show the public many are
not a lost cause.
“It would be shameful for
me to forget the fact that
there’s a lot of good people
in prison without a voice,”
he said. “I want to use
whatever platform I have to
say to people, ‘Give us a
chance.’”
Turbulent
childhood
Hudson had a troubled
upbringing, the details of
which “puts even the most
hyperbolic Dickensian nar-
rative to shame,” his petition
said.
His mother left when he
was about 1. Hudson and his
siblings grew up in squalor,
often without food or super-
vision. The children were
shuffled between relatives’
overcrowded homes on the
city’s South Side and the
Kankakee area and suffered
abuse, including being beat-
en with planks of wood,
belts and electrical cords,
according to the petition
and trial testimony.
A twin brother, Ronald,
fell to his death down a
flight of stairs when Hudson
was 7. At 15, an older teen
brother wounded Hudson
during a shooting rampage
in which several family
members were shot, two of
them fatally. William Hud-
son Jr., 57, is serving a life
sentence for the murders,
state records show.
Renaldo Hudson
dropped out of school after
the sixth grade after attend-
ing a half-dozen elementary
schools. He could not spell
simple words, like “apple,”
he said.
“I functioned through
memorizing things,” he said.
“When I went to the store, I
would remember the little
girl in yellow with the um-
brella (to) identify the kind
of salt my father wanted me
to buy or the different sym-
bols on the rice box. Those
are the types of things I used
to navigate through life.”
He was homeless by 16,
with frequent run-ins with
the law, and used alcohol
and drugs like PCP and
cocaine. Despite his lot in
life, Hudson said there is no
explanation for what he did
next.
‘A horrible death’
In June 1983, Hudson
said he occasionally slept at
A DMV employee tells Renaldo Hudson, 56, that he needs his original birth certificate in order to get a state ID on Friday in Joliet.
Renaldo Hudson gives a peer lesson inside Danville Correctional Center earlier this year.
Renaldo Hudson, right, meets Minister Louis Farrakhan, center, at the Stateville Correctional Center in 2004.
his father’s studio apart-
ment, where his step-
mother and an aunt also
lived.
His father, who did odd
jobs in the complex to pay
rent, had mentioned an
elderly neighbor one floor
below whose light fixture
needed repair. Hudson,
convinced the man had a
million dollars stashed in
his mattress, said he
hatched a plan to rob him.
On the evening of June 6,
after finishing half a pint of
brandy and smoking mari-
juana laced with cocaine,
the 19-year-old Hudson
posed as a repairman and
attacked Folke Peterson af-
ter the 72-year-old World
War II Army veteran let him
inside his South Shore
apartment.
The retired, immigrant
carpenter lived alone, pub-
lic record show. He suffered
some 60 stab wounds,
which Hudson inflicted
over several hours before
igniting a fire and going
back to his father’s apart-
ment with a few blood-
soaked dollar bills and some
old watches, silver and
other items, according to
court records.
Hudson confessed that
morning after his aunt dis-
covered some of the stolen
property and alerted au-
thorities. His attorneys
raised an insanity defense,
citing the effects of child-
hood traumas, psychotropic
drugs and untreated mental
health problems.
Hudson’s first trial in
1985 ended in a hung jury.
He was convicted and sen-
tenced to death after his
second trial. He went to
prison in 1990, spending
nearly 13 years on death row
until 2003, when then-Gov.
George Ryan commuted all
death sentences to life with-
out the possibility of parole.
Illinois abolished the death
penalty in 2011.
Now, Hudson said he
remains awash with regret
and remorse when thinking
about the pain he inflicted.
“I will not attempt to
make excuses,” Hudson
said. “It was a horrible,
horrible thing. My intent
was to rob him and to run
away and be happy in my
warped mindset at that
time. But I can’t excuse my
brokenness for a horrible
decision that I made.”
He continued, “That’s a
difficult thing to realize that
you’re the person com-
pletely responsible for the
death of someone and then
such a horrible death.”
A light bulb
moment
Hudson said he started to
change his mindset in 1994,
about four years after arriv-
ing on death row.
He was in solitary con-
finement after throwing
scalding water in a correc-
tional officer’s face that
September. A conversation
with the warden, who
called him out for blaming
his violent choices on his
past, challenging him to do
better, resonated with him.
After getting out of the
segregation unit, Hudson
said another inmate shared
a tape of Nation of Islam
leader Louis Farrakhan,
who posed questions like,
“Who are you good for and
are you good for nothing?”
and asked if anyone would
care if he died, Hudson said.
“It was a light bulb going
off in my head and almost
like a bomb just exploded in
my heart,” he recalled.
“From that moment to this
moment, I’ve been striving
to say I want someone to
care when I close my eyes
for the last time.”
He began a religious con-
version, first practicing the
tenets of Islam, and eventu-
ally Christianity. He taught
himself to read and write
and learned to paint.
He long ago was moved
from a maximum-security
prison to a medium-level
facility and has not had a
disciplinary ticket in more
than 20 years, state records
show. His clemency peti-
tion packet is filled with
diplomas, certificates and
proof of the leadership roles
he held behind bars, includ-
RENALDO HUDSON
RENALDO HUDSON
ing as a chaplain specialist.
Hudson earned a high
school equivalency degree
in 2006 and a college associ-
ate degree in 2008, graduat-
ing from a community col-
lege program in substance-
abuse counseling in 2012
and becoming certified as a
literacy tutor.
He was behind a 2003
essay contest that asked
prisoners to answer the
question, “Who am I and
what can I do better?” It
was made into a book of
essays, proceeds from
which were donated to the
families of murder victims.
He next created “Stateville
Speaks,” a quarterly news-
paper written and pub-
lished by inmates. And, in
2018, he co-founded a peer
mentorship program called
Building Block, now with
nearly 500 participants.
One year earlier, in May
2017, he received his bach-
elor’s degree.
This past March, in a
speech to graduating cadets
becoming correctional offi-
cers, IDOC chief of staff
Camile Lindsay praised
Hudson’s achievements,
saying, in part, “He came to
IDOC and could not read or
write and yet he now has a
college degree and has
transformed his life and the
lives of others.”
Hudson gained a wide
circle of supporters, includ-
ing Bill Ryan, a well-known
ABEL URIBE/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
criminal justice advocate
and death penalty abolition-
ist. In a letter to Pritzker in
the clemency petition
packet, Ryan said Hudson
has served his debt to soci-
ety and is “a beacon of hope
for many.”
Hudson found an un-
likely ally in Jennifer
Bishop-Jenkins. She be-
came an outspoken victims’
rights advocate following
the 1990 slaying of her
pregnant sister and brother-
in-law in their Winnetka
home. Though she also is
anti-death penalty, Bishop-
Jenkins often opposes early
releases and has never sup-
ported a clemency request,
until Renaldo Hudson.
Both she and Ryan not
only wrote letters of sup-
port to the governor, they
offered Hudson a place to
live inside their homes. It
was Bishop-Jenkins who
drove him from the down-
state prison back home to
Chicago on Sept. 2.
Second chances
Hudson is living at the
Precious Blood Ministry of
Reconciliation in the Back
of the Yards neighborhood.
The nonprofit has a mission
focused on restorative jus-
tice and helping those af-
fected by violence. He must
serve three years of manda-
tory supervised release.
The Tribune could not
locate members of
Peterson’s family for com-
ment. None ever objected in
Hudson’s appeals and clem-
ency requests, according to
court records. Peterson is
buried in Iowa, where an
older brother lived at the
time of the murder. He died
in 1997.
Hudson knows he can-
not fully atone for his
crime. He is thankful to the
governor, his supporters
and the Illinois Prison
Project, which Soble said
is responsibility for 16 of
the recent clemency and
pardon orders. He’s espe-
cially grateful to her.
Hudson said he is excited
to do what may seem to
others simple acts, includ-
ing voting in the upcoming
presidential election. He
has kept up with the news,
especially the civil unrest of
recent months. He hopes to
reconnect with family, in-
cluding the imprisoned
brother who shot him in
1979. Hudson said he began
writing to him long ago and
offered his forgiveness.
Looking back, Hudson
said he initially wanted to
change simply to be at
peace when he was ex-
ecuted. As the decades
passed, he allowed himself
to feel hope for a future.
Asked if he thinks he is
deserving of a second
chance, Hudson stopped
short of answering, not
wanting to disrespect his
victim’s memory.
Hudson said he will not
squander this opportunity.
His goals center around
helping other prisoners win
release and changing the
public’s perception that few
are redeemable. He is most
proud of the young men he
mentored to ensure they
don’t repeat the mistakes of
his youth, and wants to
continue sharing an anti-
violence message.
“I don’t think I’m more
deserving than anyone
else,” he said, “and I’m
humbled that I have been
chosen.”
cmgutowski@
chicagotribune.com

NATION & WORLD
Struggling states facing budget cuts
With Congress set to
return, need for aid
in pandemic critical
By David A. Lieb
Associated Press
Spending cuts to schools,
childhood vaccinations and
job-training programs. New
taxes on millionaires, ciga-
rettes and legalized mari-
juana. Borrowing, drawing
from rainy day funds and
reducing government work-
ers’ pay.
These are some actions
states are considering to
shore up their finances amid
a sharp drop in tax revenue
caused by the economic
fallout from the COVID-19
pandemic.
With Congress dead-
locked for months on a new
coronavirus relief package,
many states haven’t had the
luxury of waiting to see
whether more money is on
the way. Some that have
delayed budget decisions
are growing frustrated by
the uncertainty.
As the U.S. Senate returns
to session Tuesday, some
governors and state law-
makers are again urging
action on proposals that
could provide hundreds of
billions of additional dollars
to states and local govern-
ments.
“There is a lot at stake in
the next federal stimulus
package and, if it’s done
wrong, I think it could be
catastrophic for California,”
said Assemblyman Phil
Ting, a Democrat from San
Francisco and chairman of
the Assembly Budget Com-
mittee.
The budget Democratic
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed
in June includes $11.1 billion
in automatic spending cuts
and deferrals that will kick
in Oct. 15, unless Congress
Summer of protest exposes
difficulty to effect change
Public support for
racial justice exists,
but obstacles remain
By Colleen Long, Kat
Stafford and R.J. Rico
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Me-
morial Day brought the
death of George Floyd at the
hands of Minneapolis police,
prompting hundreds of
thousands of Americans to
take to the streets in protest.
President Donald Trump
called Floyd’s death a “dis-
grace” and momentum built
around policing reform.
But by Labor Day, the
prospects for federal legisla-
tion have evaporated. And
Trump is seeking to leverage
the violence that has
erupted around some of the
protests to scare white, sub-
urban voters and encourage
them to back his reelection
campaign.
The three-month stretch
between the symbolic kick-
off and close of America’s
summer has both galvanized
broad public support for the
racial justice movement and
exposed the obstacles to
turning that support into
concrete political and policy
changes. It has also clarified
the choice for voters in the
presidential race between
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Jacob Blake, 29, was shot in
the back seven times by a
white police officer Aug. 23.
The budget signed in June by California Gov. Gavin Newsom includes billions in cuts that go into effect in October.
sends the state $14 billion in
additional aid. California’s
public schools, colleges, uni-
versities and state workers’
salaries all stand to be hit.
In Michigan, schools are
grappling with uncertainty
as they begin classes be-
cause the state lacks a
budget for the fiscal year
that starts Oct. 1.
Ryan McLeod, superin-
tendent of the Eastpointe
school district near Detroit,
said it is trying to reopen
with in-person instruction,
“but the costs are tremen-
dous” to provide a safe
environment for students.
“The only answer, really,
is to have federal assist-
ance,” McLeod said.
Congress approved $150
billion for states and local
governments in March.
That money was targeted to
cover coronavirus-related
costs — not to offset declin-
ing revenue resulting from
Trump, who rarely men-
tions Floyd or other Black
Americans killed by police
anymore, and Democrat Joe
Biden, who argues that the
summer of protest can be-
come a catalyst for tackling
systemic racism.
Polls show Biden has an
advantage among Ameri-
cans when it comes to which
candidate can manage the
country better through the
protests. An ABC News/
Ipsos poll out Friday showed
that 55% of Americans be-
lieve Trump is aggravating
the situation. When it comes
to reducing violence, Ameri-
cans favor Biden to Trump,
59% to 39%.
Yet Trump’s campaign
also sees an opportunity to
appeal to some voters who
may be turned off by scenes
of violence cropping up
around some of the protests,
including in Kenosha, Wis-
consin, where police shot
Jacob Blake, a Black man,
seven times last month. The
president has directed his
appeals at the “suburban
housewives of America” —
especially white housewives
— casting his reelection as
the only thing preventing
violence in cities from
spilling into their neighbor-
hoods.
“I think that there was a
lot of optimism surrounding
‘It hurts to breathe,’ Blake says from Wis. hospital bed
Associated Press
MILWAUKEE — Jacob
Blake has spoken publicly
for the first time since a
Kenosha, Wisconsin, police
officer shot him seven times
in the back, saying he’s in
constant pain from the
shooting, which doctors
fear will leave him para-
lyzed from the waist down.
In a video posted Sat-
urday night on Twitter by
his family’s lawyer, Ben
Crump, Blake said from his
hospital bed that, “Twenty-
four hours, every 24 hours
the recession.
Some state officials, such
as Republican Gov. Eric
Holcomb of Indiana, are
pushing for greater flexibil-
ity in spending the money
they already received. Oth-
ers, such as Republican Gov.
Mike DeWine of Ohio, say
more federal aid is needed,
especially to help small
businesses and emergency
responders working for mu-
nicipalities with strained
budgets.
In mid-May, the Demo-
cratic-led U.S. House voted
to provide nearly $1 trillion
of additional aid to states
and local governments as
part of a broad relief bill. But
the legislation has stalled
amid disagreements among
President Donald Trump’s
administration, Republican
Senate leaders and Demo-
crats over the size, scope
and necessity of another
relief package.
the protests this summer in
the wake of George Floyd
because for the first time, we
were starting to see all of
these white people in the
United States pay a great
deal of attention to police
brutality and racial injus-
tice,” said Ashley Jardina,
assistant professor of politi-
cal science at Duke Uni-
versity, and author of the
book “White Identity Poli-
tics.”
“But white Americans
have always had a low toler-
ance for protests and unrest
around race in the U.S., and
that’s particularly true when
they think that protests be-
come violent or involve the
destruction of property,” Jar-
dina added.
The majority of racial
justice protests have been
peaceful. But some saw van-
dalism and violence. A
Trump supporter is charged
with homicide in the shoot-
ing deaths of two protesters
in Kenosha, and an anti-
fascist shot and killed a
right-wing protester in Port-
land, Oregon, and was later
killed during his arrest by
law enforcement.
Dan Cooper, a white 51-
year-old software engineer
in Portland, remains sup-
portive of the protests and
the Black Lives Matter
movement but fears the van-
it’s pain, nothing but pain. It
hurts to breathe, it hurts to
sleep, it hurts to move from
side-to-side, it hurts to eat.”
Blake, a 29-year-old fa-
ther of six, also said he has
staples in his back and
stomach.
“Your life, and not only
just your life, your legs,
something you need to
move around and forward
in life, can be taken from
you like this,” Blake said,
snapping his fingers.
He added: “Stick to-
gether, make some money,
make everything easier for
The prospects for a pre-
election COVID-19 relief
measure appear to be dim-
ming, with aid to states and
local governments one of
the key areas of conflict.
The bipartisan National
Governors Association and
Moody’s Analytics have
cited a need for about $500
billion in additional aid to
states and local govern-
ments to avoid major dam-
age to the economy. At least
three-quarters of states
have lowered their 2021
revenue projections, ac-
cording to the National
Conference of State Legisla-
tures.
While Congress has been
at loggerheads, many states
have pressed forward with
budget cuts.
Wyoming Gov. Mark
Gordon, a Republican, re-
cently announced $250 mil-
lion of “agonizing” cuts that
he described as “just the tip
In one of many protests in the summer of 2020, people gather June 3 in Washington to
speak out against the May 25 killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.
dalism is “playing into the
right’s hands.”
“A few months ago they
started off in a more BLM-
focused way. It does seem
like they’ve lost their way a
little bit,” Cooper said of the
protests.
National Black Lives Mat-
ter organizers have never
asked for, encouraged or
condoned looting or fighting
with law enforcement or
police supporters on the
streets, because they are
protesting the violent harm
done to their communities.
Thenjiwe McHarris, a
strategist with the Move-
ment for Black Lives, a
coalition of more than 150
organizations, said Trump’s
our people out there, man,
because there’s so much
time that’s been wasted.”
Blake, who is Black, was
shot in the back by a white
police officer on Aug. 23
after walking away from the
officer and two others who
were trying to arrest him.
The officer, Rusten
Sheskey, opened fire after
Blake opened his own
SUV’s driver-side door and
leaned into the vehicle. The
shooting was captured on
video and posted online,
sparking several nights of
protests and unrest in Ke-
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RICH PEDRONCELLI/AP
of the iceberg” in addressing
a $1 billion budget shortfall
caused by the coronavirus
and declining revenue from
coal and other natural re-
sources. The cuts will re-
duce funding for childhood
vaccinations and eliminate a
program to help adults learn
new job skills, among other
things.
“It is not likely that these
trends are going to turn
around rapidly or as signifi-
cantly as we would like,”
Gordon said.
In some states, however,
the financial outlook is not
as dire as some had feared
earlier this year.
Previous federal legisla-
tion pumped money into the
economy through business
subsidies, larger unemploy-
ment benefits and $1,200
direct payments to individu-
als. The resulting consumer
spending led to a rebound in
sales tax revenue in some
effort was a “desperate tactic
to paint our movement a
particular kind of way to
stoke fear in communities
across the country and to try
to steal this election.”
Federal police reform
stalled on Capitol Hill after
an initial burst of movement.
Nationwide, since late May,
there have been at least 450
pieces of policing reform
proposals introduced in 31
states, according to a count
by the National Conference
of State Legislatures. Many
states had finished their
normal legislative session at
the time of Floyd’s death and
are planning to address po-
lice accountability next year.
Breanna Wright, 24, of
nosha, a city of about
100,000 between Milwau-
kee and Chicago.
Sheskey and the other
officers who were at the
scene were placed on ad-
ministrative leave pending
the outcome of an investiga-
tion by the Wisconsin De-
partment of Justice. None of
them have been charged.
Blake, who had an out-
standing arrest warrant
when he was shot, pleaded
not guilty Friday to charges
accusing him of sexually
assaulting a woman in May
and waived his right to a
9
states. Many states also de-
layed their individual in-
come tax deadlines from
April to July, which led to a
larger than usual influx of
summer revenue from tax-
payers’ 2019 earnings.
In Vermont, where law-
makers are expected to
work on a budget next week,
a deficit that some had
feared could reach $400
million now is pegged
around $55 million. A pre-
dicted $518 million shortfall
in Arizona for the current
fiscal year has been revised
to $62 million.
Local governments in
New Mexico said revenue
has been propped up by
surprisingly strong sales
taxes. But “that sugar high
from the federal stimulus
will fall off, and our commu-
nities will be affected,” said
A.J. Forte, executive direc-
tor of the New Mexico
Municipal League.
New Mexico Gov.
Michelle Lujan Grisham, a
Democrat, is urging the Leg-
islature to legalize and tax
recreational marijuana as a
way to shore up state reve-
nue. Democratic Pennsylva-
nia Gov. Tom Wolf also
wants the Legislature to
legalize marijuana, with the
tax revenue going toward
grants for small businesses
and criminal justice re-
forms.
State tax revenue often
lags economic trends be-
cause individuals’ income
losses aren’t reflected on tax
returns until months later.
As a result, experts warn
that states might experience
the lagging effects of the
recession well into their
2021 and 2022 budget years.
“The worst is still yet to
come,” said Brian Sigritz,
director of state fiscal stud-
ies at the National Associ-
ation of State Budget Offi-
cers.
ALEX BRANDON/AP
Louisville, Kentucky, partic-
ipated in more than 20
demonstrations in her
hometown, where Breonna
Taylor, a Black woman, was
killed by police in March.
Wright says she remains
focused on turning the pro-
tests into action.
“Everyone is putting
Black Lives Matter on the
street, Black Lives Matter in
their windows,” she said.
“That changes nothing for
me because next week
they’ll murder me on your
Black Lives Matter deco-
rated street. I mean, it’s cute,
you’ve tried — thank you! It’s
touching that you’ve done
that! — but the system has to
change.”
preliminary hearing. Blake
appeared remotely via vi-
deo conference from his
Milwaukee hospital bed.
The state Justice Depart-
ment has said a knife was
recovered from Blake’s ve-
hicle.
The man who made the
cellphone video of the
shooting, Raysean White,
22, said he saw Blake scuf-
fling with three officers and
heard them yell, “Drop the
knife! Drop the knife!” be-
fore gunfire erupted. White
said he didn’t see a knife in
Blake’s hands.
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Rescuers airlift 207 from Calif.
wildfire amid major heat wave
By Marcio Sanchez
and Christopher
Weber
Associated Press
SHAVER LAKE, Calif. —
Rescuers airlifted 207 peo-
ple to safety after an explo-
sive wildfire trapped them
in a popular camping area
in California’s Sierra Na-
tional Forest, one of dozens
of fires burning Sunday
amid record-breaking tem-
peratures that strained the
state’s electrical grid and
could lead to planned
power outages.
The California Office of
Emergency Services said
Black Hawk and Chinook
military helicopters were
used for the rescues that
began late Saturday and
continued overnight. At
least two people were se-
verely injured and 10 more
suffered moderate injuries.
Two campers refused res-
cue and stayed behind, the
Madera County Sheriff’s
Office said.
A photo tweeted by the
California National Guard
showed at least 20 evacuees
crammed inside one heli-
copter, crouched on the
floor clutching their be-
longings. In another photo
taken on the ground from a
helicopter cockpit, the
densely wooded hills sur-
rounding the aircraft were
in flames.
Others made a white-
knuckled drive to safety.
Juliana Park recorded video
of flames on both sides of
her car as she and others
fled down a mountain road.
“A backpacking trip cut
short by unforeseen thun-
der, ash rain, and having to
drive through literal fire to
evacuate #SierraNational-
Forest in time,” Park
tweeted. “Grateful to the
SNF ranger who led us
down wish we got her
name.”
The wildfire, named the
Creek Fire, started Friday
and by Saturday afternoon
exploded in size, jumped
the San Joaquin River and
cut off the only road into
the Mammoth Pool Camp-
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thorities’ attempt to extra-
dite him on spying charges
over the site’s publication
of secret U.S. military docu-
ments.
Lawyers for Assange and
the U.S. government are
scheduled to face off Mon-
day in London at an extra-
dition hearing that was
delayed by the coronavirus
pandemic.
American prosecutors
have indicted the 49-year-
old Australian on 18 espio-
nage and computer misuse
charges adding up to a
maximum sentence of 175
years. His lawyers say the
prosecution is a politically
motivated abuse of power
that will stifle press free-
dom and put journalists at
risk.
Assange attorney Jenni-
fer Robinson said the case
“is fundamentally about ba-
sic human rights and free-
dom of speech.”
“Journalists and whistle-
blowers who reveal illegal
activity by companies or
governments and war
crimes — such as the publi-
cations Julian has been
charged for — should be
protected from prose-
cution,” she said.
American prosecutors
allege that Assange con-
spired with U.S. army intel-
ligence analyst Chelsea
Manning to hack into a
Pentagon computer and re-
lease hundreds of thou-
sands of secret diplomatic
cables and military files on
the wars in Iraq and Af-
ghanistan.
sThey also say he con-
spired with members of
hacking organizations and
sought to recruit hackers to
Evacuees sit in a helicopter after being rescued Sunday
from a wildfire in the Sierra National Forest in California.
ground, national forest
spokesman Dan Tune said.
At least 2,000 structures
were threatened in the area
about 290 miles north of
Los Angeles.
The fire had charred
more than 71 square miles
of timber with no contain-
ment. Temperatures in the
area topped 100 degrees.
The heat wave was ex-
pected to spread triple-digit
temperatures over much of
California through Monday.
Temperatures in the San
Fernando Valley area of Los
Angeles reached 116 de-
grees for the second day in a
row, forecasters said.
The exceptionally high
temperatures were driving
the highest power use of the
year and transmission
losses due to wildfires have
cut into supplies.
Eric Schmitt of the Cali-
fornia Independent System
Operator that manages the
state’s power grid said up to
3 million customers could
lose power for up to four
hours Sunday night. He said
where those outages occur
are up to local utilities.
The Creek Fire forced
the closure of a 915-
megawatt hydropower sta-
tion in Madera County and
a wildfire in Southern Cali-
fornia nicked out transmis-
sion lines carrying hun-
dreds of additional kilo-
watts.
provide WikiLeaks with
classified information.
“By disseminating the
materials in an unredacted
form, he likely put people —
human rights activists,
journalists, advocates, reli-
gious leaders, dissidents
and their families — at risk
of serious harm, torture or
even death,” James Lewis, a
British lawyer acting for
the U.S. government, told a
hearing in February.
Assange argues he is a
journalist entitled to First
Amendment protection,
and says the leaked docu-
ments exposed U.S. military
wrongdoing. Among the
files released by WikiLeaks
was video of a 2007 Apache
helicopter attack by Ameri-
can forces in Baghdad that
killed 11 people, including
two Reuters journalists.
Journalism organiza-
tions and human rights
groups have called on Brit-
ain to refuse the extradition
request.
Typhoon warning: Japa-
nese authorities Sunday or-
dered more than 1 million
residents of western Japan
to seek shelter as a major
storm lashed the coast with
high winds and threatened
record-breaking flooding.
Typhoon Haishen sat off
the coast of the western
island of Kyushu gathering
power and creating chaos
in the region, where it
knocked down power lines
and disrupted flights and
trains.
Local officials ordered
1.8 million people to evacu-
ate seven prefectures
across the region and rec-
ommended that 5.6 million
others across 10 prefec-
tures seek shelter before
the storm, which was ex-
pected to pass by Japan
without making landfall
and head toward South
CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GUARD
Cal ISO was projecting a
4,000-megawatt shortfall
and urged people to con-
serve electricity by not us-
ing appliances and keeping
air conditioners at 78 de-
grees or above.
“I think it’s fair to say that
without significant conser-
vation and help from cus-
tomers today we’ll have to
have some rolling outages,”
Cal ISO Vice President Eric
Schmitt said.
Pacific Gas & Electric,
the state’s largest utility,
warned customers that it
might cut power starting
Tuesday because of ex-
pected high winds and heat
that could create even
greater fire danger. Some of
the state’s largest and dead-
liest fires in recent years
have been sparked by
downed power lines and
other utility equipment.
Cal Fire said nearly
12,500 firefighters were
battling 22 major fires in the
state. Despite the heat, fire-
fighters were able to con-
tain two major fires in
coastal Monterey County.
California has seen 900
wildfires since Aug. 15,
many of them started by an
intense series of thousands
of lightning strikes. The
blazes have burned more
than 1.5 million acres.
There have been eight fire
deaths and nearly 3,300
structures destroyed.
A man wearing a “Voting Is A Right” costume and police exchange words during a protest Sunday in Hong Kong. Police
arrested 289 people opposed to the government's decision to postpone elections for Hong Kong's legislature. The elec-
tions were to have taken place Sunday, but were postponed for a year due to COVID-19 and a new national security law.
Korea.
The Japan Meteorolog-
ical Agency issued its high-
est-level warning for the
storm, cautioning that it
would bring record-high
tides and that residents
should be prepared for
“large-scale flooding.”
Hurricane deaths: Two
additional deaths tied to
Hurricane Laura were re-
ported by the Louisiana
Department of Health,
bringing the storm’s total
death toll in the state to 25.
The Health Department
said a 52-year-old Grant
Parish man who died of a
heat-related illness while
removing storm debris and
a 25-year-old man in
Natchitoches Parish died of
electrocution after coming
into direct contact with a
power line.
The coroner has con-
firmed this death is storm-
related.
The Category 4 storm
roared ashore in southwest
Louisiana on Aug. 27. Five
deaths in Texas were also
attributed to the storm.
Hurricane Laura also
killed nearly two dozen
Judge temporarily halts census
plan at ending count Sept. 30
By Mike Schneider
Associated Press
ORLANDO, Fla. — The
U.S. Census Bureau for now
must stop following a plan
that would have it winding
down operations in order
to finish the 2020 census at
the end of September, ac-
cording to a federal judge’s
order.
U.S. District Judge Lucy
Koh in San Jose, California,
issued a temporary re-
straining order late Sat-
urday against the Census
Bureau and the Commerce
Department, which over-
sees the agency. The order
stops the Census Bureau
from winding down opera-
tions until a Sept. 17 court
hearing.
The once-a-decade head
count of every U.S. resident
helps determine how $1.5
trillion in federal funding is
distributed and how many
congressional seats each
state gets in a process
known as apportionment.
The temporary restrain-
ing order was requested by
a coalition of cities, coun-
ties and civil rights groups
that had sued the Census
Bureau, demanding it re-
store its previous plan for
finishing the census at the
end of October, instead of
using a revised plan to end
operations at the end of
September. The coalition
had argued the earlier
deadline would cause the
Census Bureau to overlook
minority communities in
the census, leading to an
inaccurate count.
Because of the pan-
demic, the Census Bureau
pushed back ending the
count from the end of July
to the end of October and
asked Congress to extend
the deadline for turning in
the apportionment num-
bers from December, as
required by law, into next
spring. When the Republi-
can-controlled Senate
failed to take up the re-
quest, the bureau was
forced to create a revised
schedule that had the cen-
sus ending in September,
people in Haiti and the
Dominican Republic en
route to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Prote st i n Hu n gary:
Thousands of students, fac-
ulty and supporters of
Hungary’s University of
Theater and Film Arts
formed a human chain Sun-
day between their institu-
tion and parliament to pro-
test government steps seen
diminishing its autonomy.
Those at the protest
passed from hand to hand a
document declaring the
school’s principles and
goals, which was to be
presented to lawmakers in
Budapest. Organizers asked
participants to wear masks
and gloves because of the
coronavirus pandemic.
In the past few years,
Prime Minister Viktor Or-
ban’s nationalist, conserva-
tive government has trans-
ferred several key universi-
ties to private foundations
ruled by boards of directors
loyal to the government.
While the government
says the new structure will
increase educational qual-
ity and make the institu-
tions financially independ-
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh ordered the bureau to stop
winding down operations until a hearing is held Sept. 17.
according to the statistical
agency.
The lawsuit contends
the Census Bureau
changed the schedule to
accommodate a directive
from President Donald
Trump to exclude people in
the country illegally from
the numbers used in re-
drawing congressional dis-
tricts. The revised plan
would have the Census
Bureau handing in the ap-
portionment numbers at
the end of December,
under the control of the
Trump administration, no
matter who wins the Nov. 3
election.
More than a half-dozen
other lawsuits have been
filed in tandem across the
country, challenging
Trump’s memorandum as
unconstitutional and an at-
tempt to limit the power of
Latinos and immigrants of
color during apportion-
ment.
“The court rightfully
recognized the Trump ad-
ministration’s attempted
short-circuiting of our na-
tion’s census as an immi-
nent threat to the comple-
tion of a fair and accurate
process,” said Kristen
Clarke, president and exe-
cutive director of the Law-
yers’ Committee for Civil
Rights Under Law, one of
the groups that brought the
San Jose lawsuit.
In her order, Koh wrote
that previous court cases
had concluded that it’s in
ent, critics see the reforms
as efforts to limit the
schools’ autonomy and
bring them ideologically
closer to the nationalist
government.
Students at the Uni-
versity of Theater and Film
Arts have barricaded them-
selves inside the building
since Tuesday. A school
official said Sunday that the
start of classes would be
postponed by a week.
Manhunt in England:
British police were hunting
a male suspect Sunday after
one man was killed and
seven people injured in
late-night stabbings in a
busy nightlife district in the
central English city of
Birmingham.
Police said the victims
seemed to have been cho-
sen at random in attacks
that took place over a two-
hour period.
Chief Superintendent
Steve Graham of West Mid-
lands Police said detectives
were investigating the mo-
tive but “there is absolutely
no suggestion at all that this
is terror-related.”
West Midlands Police
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the public interest that
Congress be fairly appor-
tioned and that the federal
funds be distributed using
an accurate census.
“Thus, the balance of the
hardships and public inter-
est tip sharply in Plaintiffs’
favor,” Koh said.
Neither the White
House nor the Commerce
Department had immedi-
ate comment.
In a message emailed to
regional offices and head-
quarters late Saturday, the
Census Bureau said the
statistical agency and the
Commerce Department
“are obligated to comply
with the Court’s Order and
are taking immediate steps
to do so.”
Further guidance would
be provided later, the bu-
reau said.
A top Census Bureau
official said in court papers
filed late Friday that the
bureau wouldn’t be able to
meet its deadline to turn in
apportionment numbers at
the end of December if the
head count were extended
an extra month.
As of Saturday, more
than 86% of households
have been counted. More
than 65% of households
were counted from self-
reponses online, by mail or
by telephone, and 21% of
households were counted
by census takers who went
to households that hadn’t
yet answered the question-
naire.
ANTHONY KWAN/GETTY
said officers were called to
reports of a stabbing shortly
after midnight. That was
soon followed by reports of
other stabbings across the
city center.
Graham said two of the
seven injured people, a man
and a woman, were in
critical condition in hospi-
tals. Five others received
“relatively minor” injuries.
Birmingham is England’s
second-largest city, 120
miles northwest of London.
Fort Hood deaths: The
Navajo Nation has joined
calls for an accounting of
the deaths at Fort Hood
after one of its members
became the latest soldier
from the U.S. Army post to
die this year.
Pvt. Corlton L. Chee, 25,
of Pinehill, New Mexico,
died Wednesday after he
collapsed following a phys-
ical fitness training exercise
five days earlier, according
to officials at the central
Texas post.
He was the 28th soldier
from Fort Hood to die this
year, according to data ob-
tained by The Associated
Press.

CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK
Food insecurity in US has new face
Once stable, many
families forced to
turn to food banks
By Tim Arango
The New York Times
LAKESIDE, Calif. — This
is America: a family
crammed in a minivan driv-
ing mile after mile across
San Diego County, first to
one food giveaway and then
to another and then to
more.
To Mary’s Donuts, in
rustic downtown Lakeside,
for day-old chocolate
frosted, maple-and-bacon
glazed and pastries.
Sixteen miles west to
Jewish Family Service for
mangoes, boxes of hard-
boiled eggs, cheese and
lamb stew. Another 20 min-
utes south to the Ocean
Discovery Institute for dia-
pers and school supplies. To
the Salvation Army for bot-
tled water, oatmeal, a cake.
All of it piled high into the
back.
Since the coronavirus
pandemic upended her life
and so many others’, Alexis
Frost Cazimero has spent
most days this way, gather-
ing food for her four chil-
dren as well as neighbors in
need. She pulls her packed
silver Volkswagen van
alongside the BMWs and
Mercedeses as they edge
their way through the long,
snaking food lines. Where
else but America can luxury
and poverty get so close
together that, in essence,
they become one?
“I want people to under-
stand, the face of the needy
is different now,” said Caz-
imero, who has joined a
new class of Americans
who never imagined they
would have to take a spot in
a modern-day bread line.
“Just because I have a car
doesn’t mean I have enough
money to buy food.”
The pandemic has ex-
posed the fragile nature of
success for millions of
Americans: material mark-
ers of outward stability, if
not prosperity, but next to
Child care crisis forcing moms out of work
By Alexandra Olson
and Cathy Bussewitz
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Angela
Wynn had just launched
her own project manage-
ment business, hitting a
career stride after years of
struggle that began with
earning an undergraduate
degree as a single mother.
Then the coronavirus
pandemic hit, forcing many
schools to shift online. The
now-married mother of five
saw little choice but to give
up her business to help
three of her children cope
with remote learning while
her husband, the primary
breadwinner, kept his job at
a senior living center.
“To see all that come to
fruition, I did it, but now it’s
gone,” said Wynn, who has
always been the main car-
etaker for her children, ages
1, 5, 11, 12 and 18. “But my
priority is my kids and their
education is everything.”
Wynn’s story is becoming
common. Research is in-
creasingly pointing to a re-
treat of working mothers
from the U.S. labor force as
the pandemic leaves par-
ents with few child care
options and the added bur-
den of navigating distance
learning.
The trend threatens the
financial stability of families
in the near term. In the long
term, the crisis could stall —
if not reverse — decades of
hard-fought gains by work-
ing women who are still far
from achieving labor force
parity with men.
Thousands of school dis-
tricts are starting the school
year with remote instruc-
tion, including most of the
largest ones. At least half the
country’s child care pro-
viders are closed and may
not survive the crisis with-
out financial help to cope
with implementing safety
standards and reduced
enrollment. Negotiations
for a bailout of the industry
have stalled in Congress.
In August, the federal
jobs reports showed that
women in their prime-
earning years — 25 to 54 —
Utah Food Bank volunteers bring food to cars waiting in line at the food bank’s mobile food pantry Aug. 12 in Salt Lake City.
nothing to fall back on
when times get tough.
Cazimero, 40, faced her
new financial circum-
stances with as much equa-
nimity as determination,
even as it shook her sense of
what it meant to have made
it. Before the pandemic, she
was a hair stylist at a salon
owned by her mother-in-
law that would shut down
in accordance with Cali-
fornia’s coronavirus rules.
She also ran her own events
business, which had been
“rocking and rolling” after a
lucrative holiday season
decking out car dealerships
for Christmas. Her hus-
band, Adam, saw far fewer
people come into the local
Ford dealership where he
works, and his commissions
have plummeted.
“Before, I always helped
out,” she said. “But I wasn’t
the one who needed it. Now
I need it.”
Anna Hamilton, center, with sons, Henry, 6, left, and Adrian, 7, in their home Aug. 24 in
Decatur, Georgia. Hamilton is taking leave from her job to help her kids with online classes.
were dropping out of the
work force more than other
age groups. About 77% of
women in that age group
were working or looking for
work in February, compared
to 74.9% in August. The
decline is most pronounced
among Black women of that
age range, whose participa-
tion rate is down 5 percent-
age points since February,
compared to 4 percentage
points for Hispanic women
and 2 percentage points for
white women.
Overall, the drop trans-
lates into 1.3 million women
exiting the labor force since
February.
“We think this reflects the
growing child care crisis,”
BNP Paribas economists
Daniel Ahn and Steven
Weinberg wrote in recent
report. “It is hard to see this
abating soon, and if anything
could become worse as we
move into fall.”
Few families can afford
for mothers not to work
indefinitely: Mothers are
When historians look
back on our pandemic-
stricken times, there will
perhaps be one indelible
image that captures the
attention of future genera-
tions: the endless lines of
cars across the country
filled with hungry Ameri-
cans.
“I call it the Great De-
pression with minivans,”
said Terry McNamara, who
on a recent morning was
behind the wheel in a line of
cars, their trunks opened as
they wound through the
parking lot of Parma Senior
High School in a working-
class suburb of Cleveland.
With his daughter, Laura
Horsburgh, and five grand-
children along for the ride,
McNamara, 74, drove his
car through the procession
as it moved along with
military precision.
At each station a coach or
a teacher or even the princi-
now are the equal, primary,
or sole earners in 40% of
U.S. families, up from 11% in
1960, according to federal
labor figures. Women also
comprise nearly half the
U.S. labor force, making
their inability to work a
significant drag on the
economy and hindering any
recovery from the pan-
demic’s impact.
Despite the leaps over
the past decades, working
women still entered the
pandemic at a disadvantage.
They are typically paid 82
cents for every dollar men
earn, according to research
by the National Women’s
Law Center.
Among working mothers
and fathers, the wage gap is
even higher at 70 cents. The
median household earnings
for mothers in the U.S. is
$42,000, compared to
$60,000 for fathers. When
left with no choice but to
give up one income as child
care options collapse, that
wage gap incentivizes fa-
pal loaded up the trunk
with milk, or fresh produce
from local farms. How
much food one got de-
pended on how many chil-
dren were in the car.
The numbers of Ameri-
cans seeking help from food
banks have swelled despite
an unprecedented expan-
sion of the federal govern-
ment’s food stamp program
in the midst of the pan-
demic.
Just one food bank in
Memphis, Tennessee,
served more than 18,000
people between March and
August, 10 times as many as
over the same period last
year.
“Folks who had really
good jobs and were able to
pay their bills and never
knew how to find us,” said
Ephie Johnson, the presi-
dent and chief executive of
Neighborhood Christian
Centers. “A lot of people had
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thers to stay in the work-
force and mothers to leave,
or at least scale back.
“There is already a moth-
erhood wage gap. In times
of uncertainty and reces-
sion, you protect the pri-
mary earner,” said Liana
Christin Landivar, a sociol-
ogist at the Maryland Popu-
lation Research Center and
author of the book, “Moth-
ers at Work: Who Opts
Out?”
That is bearing out in the
numbers. More mothers
than fathers have exited the
labor force since the pan-
demic began, according to
research published in Au-
gust by Sage Journals,
which analyzed data from
the Current Population Sur-
vey. Between February and
April, labor force participa-
tion fell 3.2% among moth-
ers with children younger
than 6, and 4.3% for those
with children 6 to 12. Fa-
thers of children under 12
also left the workforce, but
at lower rates, said Landi-
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finally landed that job, were
helping their family and
able to do a little better, and
then this takes you out.” In
her 30 years of charitable
work in Memphis, she said,
“I have not seen it quite like
this.”
In one week in late July
nearly 30 million Ameri-
cans reported they did not
have enough to eat, accord-
ing to a government survey.
Among households with
children, 1 in 3 reported
insufficient food, the high-
est level in the nearly two
decades the government
has tracked hunger in
America, said Lauren
Bauer, who studies food
insecurity at the Brookings
Institution.
“What’s happening with
children right now is un-
precedented in modern
times,” Bauer said.
As difficult as it became
for so many families to
var, who co-authored the
report.
In a separate study, the
same researchers found
mothers are cutting back on
working hours more than
fathers. Mothers of children
under 12 were working
more than six fewer hours a
week than fathers in April,
compared to less than five
fewer hours in February,
according to the study,
which looked at subsample
of heterosexual married
men and women from the
CPS, a monthly survey of
60,000 households spon-
sored by the U.S. Census
Bureau and the Bureau of
Labor Statistics.
“We already knew there
was a large gender inequal-
ity in the labor force, and
the pandemic just makes
this worse,” Landivar said.
For Anna Hamilton and
her husband, juggling two
careers while raising two
children was always a bit of
house of cards. The pan-
demic knocked it down, at
least for now.
Hamilton, who lives in
the Atlanta area, is taking
indefinite leave from her job
at a small investment firm, a
job she stuck with for 12
years in part because it
allowed her family to move
twice so her husband could
pursue his career as a can-
cer surgeon.
She has mixed feelings
but one thing she knows is
that working full-time
while handling remote
schooling last spring was
unbearable.
“There was a lot of
yelling. I thought, ‘Let’s just
admit what’s happening
and maybe everyone will be
happier,’ ” said Hamilton,
43, whose sons are 6 and 7.
Concerned about attri-
tion and loss of productivity,
some companies are now
rolling out generous ben-
efits to help working par-
ents cope with school and
day care closures because of
the pandemic. Microsoft is
offering an extra 12 weeks of
paid family leave for em-
ployees struggling with
child care issues. Google
added 14 more weeks.
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afford decent food, the situ-
ation could get worse, espe-
cially with unemployment
benefits drying up for many
people and Washington un-
able to agree on a new
stimulus package. Then
there is the virus itself: It
could surge back in the fall
and shutter businesses
again, putting more people
out of work and into the
food lines.
Feeding America, which
oversees the country’s larg-
est network of food banks
and pantries, has projected
that up to 54 million Ameri-
cans could be food insecure
before the end of the year, a
46% increase since the pan-
demic began.
What the numbers do not
capture is the powerful
emotions of shame or em-
barrassment that many say
they feel, having fallen so
suddenly into the lines of
the desperate.
Duolingo, the foreign lan-
guage-learning app, is al-
lowing parents to request
reduced working hours
with full pay and benefits.
“Our CEO has talked to
other tech CEOs who said
they’re starting to see attri-
tion tick up, especially with
female employees. They
thought it had to do with
the parenting load,” said
Christine Rogers-Raetsch,
vice president of people at
Duolingo. “We set a direc-
tional goal for ourselves:
Let’s not lose any parents
during this.”
But most women don’t
work for tech companies,
and instead make up a
majority of the country’s
teachers, nurses, child care
workers, social workers, li-
brarians, bookkeepers, serv-
ers, cashiers and house-
keepers, according to fed-
eral labor figures.
Mothers in particular are
the majority of the country’s
teachers, nurses and child
care workers. Despite the
progress over the past two
years, 80% of U.S. private
sector workers have no ac-
cess to paid family leave,
which is not mandated by
federal law.
The pandemic has par-
ticularly affected women
who put their careers on the
back burner with the expec-
tation of ramping back up
once their children reached
school age.
With the youngest of her
three children now 6 years
old, Kate Albrecht Fidler
had begun studying for cer-
tification as a human re-
sources professional, hop-
ing to jump-start a career
she had largely put on hold.
But in April, the 49-year-
old was furloughed from
her part-time job at a hospi-
tal. Now, she’s looking for
any flexible job she can get
because she’ll have to shep-
herd her children through
remote schooling in her
rural town of Adams, New
York.
“For women in their
prime earning years, this is a
complete disaster,” Al-
brecht Fidler said. “There’s
no way to catch up.”
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On this Labor Day, our front-line
and essential workers are heroes
Dahleen Glanton
Americans often take Labor
Day for granted. It is one of those
ambiguous holidays that we know
has something to do with workers
but in modern times has come to
symbolize the end of summer.
We use the holiday as a marker
for moving from one season to the
next, often regrettably. By the time
the first Monday in September
arrives, it is too late to take that
great summer vacation we’ve
dreamed about or surprise the
kids with a trip to Disney World.
Labor Day puts us on notice
that it is time to get back into the
mindset required for nine months
of school and work ahead. In
other words, it signals the return
to normal.
But not this year. COVID-19
destroyed our sense of normalcy.
The pandemic stole our summer
and much of our spring. The
lockdowns and restrictions caused
our days to flow one into the other
with no real sense of distinction.
Though summer does not
officially end until Sept. 22, Labor
Day reminds us that winter is on
the horizon. And COVID-19
threatens to hit us just as hard or
worse than before.
We tried to make the best of
summer with the few opportuni-
ties we had, but there is little
about it to cherish. There will be
fewer backyard cookouts on Mon-
day, and parades and festivals are
canceled.
Businesses, crippled by the
shutdown and again by looting,
are cautiously creeping toward
reopening. But thousands of jobs
remain in jeopardy. Many are
gone for good. The American
workplace is unstable and high
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Luke Magana, a cashier at Mariano’s in Oak Lawn, checks out customers March 20.
unemployment has left families at
risk.
So this year we should return to
observing the holiday’s original
purpose — recognizing the Ameri-
can worker. We can start with
those who toiled under the most
difficult circumstances to help us
through the pandemic, often with
low wages and little time off.
Our front-line and essential
workers are the heroes of this
crisis. These unselfish doctors,
nurses and other health care
workers, grocery store clerks,
public transit workers, mail
carriers, grocery, meal and pack-
age deliverers deserve to be hon-
ored Monday.
Even if we just take a moment
to say thank you when we’re at
the grocery store checkout, it
would be a thoughtful acknowl-
edgment.
Of course, these modern-day
employees were not the intended
beneficiaries of Labor Day when it
became an official federal holiday
in 1894. It recognized the factory
employees, miners, railroad work-
ers who were the essential work-
ers in America’s Industrial Revo-
lution.
It was one of the many ugly
periods of our nation’s history, but
industrialization also helped
America thrive.
In the 18th century, workers
had no rights and they were often
abused. The average unskilled
American worked 12 hours a day,
seven days a week just to earn a
decent living. It was common-
place to see children as young or 4
or 5 toiling away in the textile
mills. Employers actually pre-
ferred children because they were
easier to manage, and they could
pay them very little and in many
cases, no wages at all.
The period gave rise to unions
and thankfully, those days are
behind us. But when it comes to
providing decent wages for many
of the people who keep our coun-
try up and running in times of
crisis, America still lags behind.
Many of the essential workers
during the pandemic earn min-
imum wage, which in some states
isn’t enough to keep them out of
poverty. That is shameful in a
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country as prosperous as ours.
Still, over the past few months,
these workers rose to the occa-
sion. We could not have filled our
pantries without the people who
worked overnight stocking gro-
cery store aisles so that when we
arrived in the morning, there
would be an array of fresh vegeta-
bles from which to choose.
For the elderly and those with
chronic illnesses who could not
risk leaving home, grocery shop-
pers did all the work, sorting
through piles of tomatoes or ba-
nanas to choose the perfect ones
just as we would have done our-
selves. When items were out of
stock, they texted photos of pos-
sible substitutions and allowed us
to choose.
Doctors, nurses and aides left
their families behind to attend to
the sick in hospitals, clinics and
nursing homes, even when there
were insufficient masks, gowns,
gloves and other protective gear to
shield them from the virus.
As the COVID-19 numbers
spiked, they worked around the
clock. Some stayed in hotels so as
nking
not to expose vulnerable relatives
at home. Many of them got sick.
Some of them died.
Many essential workers depend
on public transportation. So bus
drivers, train conductors, taxi
drivers and ride-share drivers
donned their masks and took
them wherever they needed to go.
Through it all, mail carriers
delivered our letters every day.
Amazon, UPS and FedEx brought
the packages we ordered online
and left them at our door.
Because of these workers, life
was a little bit easier for the rest of
us during the pandemic. We were
able to stay healthy because they
put their own health at risk. We
can’t forget their sacrifices.
It is easy to get testy these days,
given the strain of the pandemic.
We sometimes forget that we owe
so much to these workers who
often go unnoticed. Sometimes
we’re rude.
I have a confession. At the
grocery store one day, I snapped at
a clerk who summoned me from a
long checkout line with a cashier
to the self-checkout station. I
followed her, thinking she was
going to open a new register. But
she left me on my own.
Fearing exposure to the virus
by touching keypads and other
surfaces, I told her that she should
have allowed me to stay where I
was. She explained that she was
just trying to be helpful and move
the line along. I wasn’t rude, but I
wasn’t kind either.
I plan to return to the store on
Monday to look for her, though
I’m sure she won’t remember me.
But I will apologize anyway and
thank her for her service.
This Labor Day shouldn’t be
spent brooding over how awful
life has been. It should be about
letting people like her know that
we never could have made it
without them.
dglanton@chicagotribune.com
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A conductor works the platform as a Union Pacific Northwest line train arrives at the Barrington Metra Station on March 16 in Barrington.

All aboard! Freeloaders

on Metra hurt agency
There’s no such thing as a free ride?
You haven’t been on Metra lately.
On Metra commuter rail lines op-
erated by Union Pacific, passengers
pretty much have been riding for free
since the coronavirus pandemic dra-
matically reduced ridership. Union
Pacific refuses to put its conductors on
train cars for health safety reasons. No
conductors to sell tickets or validate
fares means no money coming into
Metra’s cash-starved coffers, even
though riders are still using the service.
And now with Chicago Public
Schools revving back up, mostly re-
motely, and with workers headed back
to offices slowly post-Labor Day, those
coffers need replenishment.
About the lost revenue
Union Pacific’s decision is costing
Metra about a million dollars a month,
the commuter rail agency says. The
railroad company owns and operates
the UP North, Northwest and West
lines under a purchase of service
agreement with Metra. The commuter
rail agency runs 11 lines across six
Chicago area counties. Union Pacific’s
lines connect commuters in Lake,
McHenry, DuPage, Kane, and north-
west and west suburban Cook counties
to downtown.
Metra’s already hurting — bad.
Because of COVID-19, the agency is
trying to survive on just 10% of its
normal ridership. Projected lost reve-
nue through the end of 2021 is shaping
up to reach $682 million. Stay-home
orders from Gov. J.B. Pritzker forced
companies to rethink their office ar-
rangements, and thousands of com-
muters who would be packing trains,
buying monthly passes and stopping at
the Metra station popcorn vendor on
the way home aren’t leaving their
homes at all. The hits have been devas-
tating.
Union Pacific says it’s playing it safe,
choosing to not create the opportunity
for the coronavirus to spread among its
workers and commuters. “We are
following CDC guidelines as we decide
when it is safe to place employees back
in public-facing positions, the same
guidance helping businesses nation-
wide,” Raquel Espinoza, a UP spokes-
person, told the Tribune.
Union Pacific can play it safe, and
still collect fares for Metra, by having
conductors wear masks and ensure
passengers are doing the same while
maintaining a social distance. Wearing
masks and social distancing already
are mandated on Metra trains, but
that’s hard to enforce without a con-
ductor on board.
Metra on the brink
Metra can’t teeter on the precipice
much longer. Even before the pan-
demic, the agency was struggling fi-
nancially. In January, Metra placed
signs throughout train cars warning
customers conductors would be crack-
ing down on freeloading. Caught with-
out a ticket meant you could be kicked
off at the next stop. But now, on at least
three lines, no one’s checking.
Ridership has bumped up slightly
from May when the agency was at just
4% of its normal level. But more pas-
sengers won’t matter if they get to ride
for free.
In the long run, a healthy, well-
functioning commuter rail agency is
vital to the Chicago region. It’s a cru-
cial conduit for suburbanites to get to
their city jobs. More people riding
Metra means fewer cars log-jammed
on the region’s expressways and roads,
and less pollution clouding the air.
A heads-up for Union Pacific: Let-
ting commuters ride for free doesn’t
help Metra or the region. You know
what does? Getting conductors —with
masks — back on trains and collecting
fares.

ABOUT BOOZY ICE CREAM

While you’ve seen infused ice creams and boozy

desserts before, the concept of ice cream and alcohol
together in a cocktail is a rare pairing in most parts of
the country. Which is a shame. The meeting of those
worlds is actually part of a long-running tradition —
credit to Wisconsin — now with several modern adher-
ents. And while it’s not always an easy mix (tempera-
ture is a big issue), the disparate ideas work deliciously
in tandem.
“Ice cream is a great addition to a cocktail because it
adds a texture you don’t normally experience when
having a drink,” says Michael Toscano, brand ambas-
sador for Woodford Reserve. “Admittedly, it can get a
little messy.”
We trace the history of the ice cream cocktail, talk to
a few modern practitioners and offer up several recipes
and suggestions. And you want to skip ahead to the ice
cream cocktail recipes, head to www.insidehook.com.
The beginning: Wisconsin.
“There are several factors why ice cream cocktails
are popular in Wisconsin,” says food and spirits writer
Jeanette Hurt. “One of the big ones is that it’s the dairy
state, and ice cream — particularly in its more decadent
form, frozen custard — is big here year-round.”
Hurt is the drinking culture columnist for Forbes and
the author of the upcoming drinks tome “Wisconsin
Cocktails,” which focuses on the state’s obsession with
brandy, beer chasers and most importantly, ice cream-
based drinks, which date back to before the Second
World War.
Kirk Miller, InsideHook DANA SUMMERS/TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY
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PERSPECTIVE
The Lake Superior shoreline is below Sugarloaf Mountain, near Marquette, Michigan.
NO ESCAPE FROM COVID-19
— EVEN UP IN THE U.P.
By James McCommons
Last winter, I felt pressure and spasms
beneath my breastbone and went in for a
cardiac stress test. Two days later, I left the
hospital with a stent in the circumflex
coronary artery and a plastic pill organizer
packed with statins, blood thinners and
beta blockers. I had been a hale 63-year-old
who hiked miles each day, lifted weights
and ate and drank sensibly — most of the
time, anyway. Now I’m a high-risk senior
with a preexisting condition, a baby
boomer presenting a bull’s-eye to
COVID-19.
Now I’m almost grateful for heart dis-
ease because it inoculates me from teach-
ing in a classroom this fall. Letters from my
physicians to Northern Michigan Uni-
versity, where I teach journalism, allowed
me to obtain a medical deferral, to opt out
of face-to-face instruction and deliver my
lessons virtually. I’m close to retirement,
and this pandemic is far from over. I sus-
pect I will never return to a classroom.
I came into the academy for the final
third of my career after having been a mag-
azine editor at a Pennsylvania publishing
company. Teaching has been a splendid
profession — a nine-month schedule, fund-
ing for travel and professional devel-
opment, time to research and write, young
people to mentor and summers to spend
with my three sons.
I arrived in the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan, a remote, sparsely populated and
largely forgotten part of America, in 2001.
Residents here scrutinize maps of the
United States on television, in newspapers
and on products to find if the U.P. is missing
or perhaps drawn in as part of Wisconsin or
Canada. Often it is. When the 9/11 attacks
occurred, my then-8-year-old son asked if
terrorists would come to the U.P. I shook
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
Bill would aid democracy
Along with everything else that 2020
has brought our way, we are also in an
election year. We often forget that we ar-
en’t just voting for the leader of our coun-
try; we are also voting for the fate of major
bills that are often years in the making. One
of these bills is H.R.1.
The bill, also known as the For the Peo-
ple Act, is a sweeping anti-corruption bill
that was passed in the Democratic House
in 2019 but has stalled in the Senate. This
piece of legislation has three main goals.
The first is to protect and expand voting
rights and increase the safety of our elec-
tions. To this end, some of the changes the
bill pushes for are automatic voter regis-
tration, making Election Day a national
holiday, eliminating voter purges, restoring
voting rights to those with prior felony
convictions and ending partisan gerryman-
dering.
The second goal is to reduce the influ-
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my head, “Not a chance. Don’t worry.”
Not so with disease. In March, the virus,
carried by a worker, infected a nursing
home a few blocks from my house and
killed several residents. A well-known
township official who got infected did a
phone interview on local TV, advised lis-
teners to obey the quarantine and died two
days later.
In this small college town, most people
mask up. But when I venture into the hin-
terlands and national forests and stop into
little grocery stores for supplies and fishing
bait, my mask and I get stares. What are
you afraid of? Gradually attitudes are
changing, but it’s taken far too long.
This summer, the virus put the kibosh
on all the beer, music, food, blues, lumber-
jack, art, fishing and folk music festivals, as
well as the Upper Peninsula State Fair. Yet
tourists from “down below” — what we call
the rest of Michigan and the Midwest —
flood across the Mackinac Bridge, hauling
campers and boats, disgorging kids and
dogs, renting cottages and jamming the
campgrounds. Going up north is what
Michiganders do in summer, and after the
lockdowns and the COVID carnage down-
state, the U.P., with fewer than 1,000 lab-
tested cases and just 18 deaths as of late
August, probably seems safe.
Thousands of miles of shoreline rim this
peninsula — lots of beach for physical
distance — but several times this summer
young people collected on public bathing
areas and grooved like there was no co-
ronavirus. It was akin to the super-
spreader scenes we’ve gawked at on televi-
sion, and a portent of the conduct occur-
ring as undergrads return to the university,
swelling the population of Marquette by
one-third. Students fuel the economy and
provide labor in restaurants, coffee shops
and bars, but do we really want them back?
ence of big money in government. To
achieve this, H.R.1 aims to create a small-
donor-centered public-financing matching
system, ensure stricter campaign finance
oversight rules, focus on the Federal Elec-
tion Commission to strengthen campaign
finance law and increase transparency in
donor disclosure and ads.
The third goal of H.R.1 is to provide an
ethical government. This would involve
slowing the revolving door between public
servants and corporate lobbyists, creating
robust tax disclosure law, expanding con-
flict of interest law and banning members
of Congress from serving on corporate
boards.
To have a government that serves the
people, we need systems of ethical stand-
ards and overall accountability. We have a
chance to pass this major bill, which would
strengthen our democracy.
— Zoe Rebollo Baum, Chicago
Great experiences
with health care
In Ken Kramer’s letter (”Inhumane
nature of health care,” Sept. 2) regarding
our nation’s health care system, he de-
scribes a system that is quite foreign to my
family and me. I am 67, and my experiences
with doctors, hospitals and insurance
And do their parents want to pack them
into those petri-dish dorms?
I’m a parent too. My youngest son, about
to turn 21, has asthma, and is moving into a
house with three other students at Michi-
gan Tech. Another son, living at home,
works a summer parks-and-rec job and
encounters maskless knuckleheads in park
pavilions. My oldest son, in Colorado, op-
erates video production for the Profes-
sional Bull Riders. Flying on airplanes and
working in partially filled arenas in Las
Vegas, Sioux Falls and Tulsa, he plays lab
rat for the “let’s bring back sports” experi-
ment. Cowboy up, they tell him.
I am not sanguine about any of it.
In all the back-to-school rhetoric, it has
been gratifying to hear students pine for
personal interaction with professors.
When I first came to campus 20 years ago,
students routinely knocked at my office
unsolicited to chat about writing and get
extra help. As technology advanced, later
generations preferred to text, email or call
rather than talk in person. Personal confer-
ences now typically require messages like
“you better come see me because you are
flunking this class.”
Once upon a summer session, Northern
Michigan University held in-person
classes. It was a lovely time to teach. No icy
sidewalks. We led our classes outside,
where students sat cross-legged beneath
shade trees and chattered about books. We
studied nature writing and trekked into the
national forests on field trips. The school’s
motto was “Northern Naturally.” Over the
last 10 years, the majority of summer
classes have moved online. Teach English
in summer and you’re tethered to a com-
puter checking emails and monitoring
discussion forums.
Virtual instruction has its place, espe-
cially in a pandemic. I volunteered early on
companies have been great. I thank God for
them every day.
I have had surgeries from my head to my
toes. Two of the surgeries were lifesaving. I
have had health insurance with several
different companies over the past 40-plus
years that covered a total of 15 surgeries,
and I paid affordable out-of-pocket ex-
penses.
Kramer states: “If you have insurance,
you are billed thousands of dollars for the
least little stay in the emergency room or
hospital. You are required to pay these bills
regardless of whether you get better.” So if
an emergency team takes in a patient that
was in a car crash and the medical team did
everything possible to save that person’s
life and the patient still died, the doctors,
nurses and hospital shouldn’t be paid?
He also writes: “After you are released,
does the hospital, emergency room, doctor,
medical technician, insurance company,
follow up to ensure the patient is well,
healthy and satisfied?” I can go only by my
experience and say that between my family
and me, we have had nothing but great care
that included follow-up visits, calls and
physical therapy.
Kramer has to be naive to believe that
the system in Cuba is better than ours.
There are really three health systems in
Cuba. One is for the medical tourists, one is
for the country’s elite and the other is for
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to remote learning — synchronous and
asynchronous, the Moodle platform, audio
conferencing — and then after a few classes
decided it wasn’t my cup of pedagogy. The
experience served me well, however, when
the shutdowns came in March. My home
office now resembles a recording studio,
with cameras and microphones to produce
instructional videos and narrate Power-
Point presentations for my classes.
My colleagues in the English depart-
ment were supposed to begin face-to-face
teaching last week, but now have to wait; a
Chicago laboratory could not process all
the COVID-19 test results from thousands
of incoming students and faculty in time.
My own test took six days to come back —
useless for contact tracing. As I write this,
some 40 students have tested positive and
are quarantined.
The county health departments are
underfunded and understaffed for testing
and contact tracing. Michigan’s governor
issues public health orders only to be sued
by the legislature. The federal Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention weakens
recommendations for school openings.
Arrogance, incompetency and sheer lunacy
reign at the national level. There’s no plan.
We are on our own.
I won’t go back to the classroom — not
until there’s a vaccine, an antiviral treat-
ment, a coordinated national policy and
some end to the selfish behavior I see in
the streets. Until then, I just don’t have the
heart for it.
Zocalo Public Square
James McCommons is a professor at North-
ern Michigan University where he teaches
journalism. His latest book is “Camera
Hunter: George Shiras III and the Birth of
Wildlife Photography.”
the regular folk. Ask any church group or
volunteers who have gone there and have
seen what it’s like behind the facade pre-
sented by the country’s leaders, and you’ll
discover that the people can’t even get
basic items. I am grateful to live in a coun-
try that has such a great system.
— John C. Fawcett, Burr Ridge
Will South/West
projects pay off?
Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Invest South/
West plan is reminiscent of the baseball
field built in an Iowa cornfield featured in
the movie “Field of Dreams.” Both were
aspirational, but we knew the function of
the baseball field.
As a city taxpayer, I would like to see
more detail for these proposed projects.
There is no shortage of contractors and
developers who are willing to take taxpay-
er money, but what’s the endgame? Has
there been a swell of interest from large
corporations looking to locate in Engle-
wood or Austin? I can’t imagine that any
retailers would be interested in those areas
after what has transpired over that last
several months.
The question is: “If they build it, will
they come?”
— Patrick Holden, Chicago

Kyle Rittenhouse, left, walks along Sheridan Road in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Aug. 25, with another armed civilian. Prosecutors charged Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from
Antioch, Illinois, in the fatal shooting of two protesters and the wounding of a third.
Don’t call Rittenhouse a hero
Leonard Pitts
Kyle Rittenhouse is not a hero.
Granted, many on the right are
working overtime to paint him as
such. “He’s a good kid,” his attorney,
John Pierce, told Fox News recently.
“He’s a patriot,” a man who declined to
give his name told Politico. “He’s a
hero,” a man named Alan Endries said.
But he’s not.
And the concocted tale of how the
17-year-old boy came to be on the
streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, during
a civil disturbance, how he shot three
people, killing two, simply doesn’t pass
the smell test. Who arms themselves
with an AR-15-style rifle, leaves home
and drives to another state to defend a
business belonging to somebody else, a
stranger to whom he has no connec-
tion? We’re asked to believe Ritten-
Labor unions and our
workplace transformation
By Sean Higgins
The Labor Day holiday dates back to the
early 20th century and was envisioned as a
public celebration of “the strength and
esprit de corps of the trade and labor or-
ganizations” of the community.
This year’s commemoration may seem
strained with social distancing and much
uncertainty about the future of jobs and
opportunity, but the situation is less dire
than feared at the start of the COVID-19
crisis. Americans are resilient and are
finding ways to cope. We should all take
pride in that. It’s also possible the disrup-
tion will have some positive side effects,
like shaking up the status quo regarding
labor unions.
It is unlikely work life will revert to the
way it was before the COVID-19 crisis.
Many workers have learned to clock in
from home — and found they prefer it. Big
companies are rethinking large offices now
that they know workers can do things
remotely. Service-oriented businesses like
restaurants have switched over to delivery
as the primary means of reaching custom-
ers. City populations will thin if offices go
empty, and the ancillary businesses that
relied on the white-collar workers — like
dry cleaners, delis and parking lots — will
thin out, as well.
Parents who hadn’t considered home
schooling have been forced to try it or
other alternate education models. Some
parents will prefer the alternatives, mean-
ing smaller classes and fewer teachers at
traditional schools. Doctors learned how to
practice telemedicine, when possible,
limiting their need for offices and support
staff. And so on, across the economy.
That’s “creative destruction” happening,
PERSPECTIVE
house and other members of a right-
wing street gang styling itself a “mili-
tia” gathered in Kenosha from a sense
of public spiritedness? Please. For a
bigger load of equine ordure, you’d
have to visit a stable. No, their purpose
was clear as an angel’s conscience.
They took to the streets looking for
trouble. And Rittenhouse found it.
Here’s what happened, according to
timelines pieced together by ABC
News and The New York Times from
court documents and bystander video:
Protesters angered by the Aug. 23
shooting of a Black man named Jacob
Blake seven times in the back by a
police officer took to the streets the
night of Aug. 25. Rittenhouse and the
“militia” were assembled at a car
dealer where video shows they were
quite chummy with police, who of-
fered water and gratitude. “We appre-
ciate you guys,” says one officer. “We
really do.”
Shortly before midnight, someone,
for some reason, fires a gun. Ritten-
house is seen running across a parking
lot, chased by a shirtless man, whom
and it’s a necessary, if sometimes painful,
sort of change. We must cope and adjust.
Instead of being clustered together in a
workplace, more of us will be independent
actors, providing valuable services from
home. One of the great banes of workers —
commuting — will decline as a concern.
Fewer people will need to leave their
home, and those who must will find streets
less crowded. Parents who once saw their
children for only a few hours a day will
now be present more often.
What will all this change mean for labor
unions, a prominent workforce influencer
for more than a century? The shift away
from a traditional workplace eliminates
one of the main ways organizing was ac-
complished: employees talking to one
another. Workers will be less inclined to
see themselves as members of a collective
if they don’t actually see fellow workers on
a daily basis. Individual workers will feel
more empowered to make demands of
their employers, if they can more easily
switch to another job. In schools, even a
modest decline in class size will likely have
a huge effect on teachers unions, since this
will cut down the number of teachers.
Union leaders already were struggling to
maintain their numbers in the pre-
COVID-19 workplace.
The growth in the so-called gig econo-
my, now accelerated, will be a particular
problem for unions. Gig workers are typi-
cally hired as contractors and, therefore,
not legally organizable by unions. That’s
why unions have been fighting a rearguard
effort to force companies to classify those
workers as employees, most notably
through California’s Assembly Bill 5 law.
Unfortunately, cracking down on com-
panies such as Uber and Lyft simulta-
Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Monday, September 7, 2020
he apparently shoots. He runs, returns,
then walks away talking on a cell-
phone. “I just killed somebody,” he
says. Moments later, he is fleeing down
the street, chased by bystanders who
seem to be trying to apprehend him.
He stumbles and falls and while on the
ground shoots two more people, one
of whom reportedly had a handgun.
He walks toward police vehicles,
hands up, rifle slung across his torso,
as behind him, witnesses shout to the
cops that he just shot people. The cops
ignore him and he goes home, where
he is arrested the following morning.
Apparently, this armed white boy was
judged to be no threat, despite all the
people yelling that he was. Tucker
Carlson would later rationalize all this:
“How shocked are we that 17-year-olds
with rifles decided they had to main-
tain order when no one else would?”
To recap: Before the shooting, po-
lice gave him water and attaboys. After
the shooting, they let him walk right
by. And Tucker Carlson is making
excuses for him.
The imagination grinds like an
Alex Santana, from left, Jim Soldate and Donna Blair rally outside the Clark County Com-
mission Building in Las Vegas on Aug. 18.
neously curtailed the work of other free-
lance professions, too, causing consider-
able blowback against Assembly Bill 5.
Uber and Lyft have threatened to stop
operating in California altogether if the law
survives coming battles in court and at the
ballot box. It is hoped California’s misfor-
tunes will deter other states from imposing
such a draconian law.
Either way, the road ahead will be diffi-
cult for many people. The unemployment
rate stands at 8.4%, nearly twice what it
was when President Donald Trump took
office and more than double what it was at
this point last year. There are 8.4 million
people who are working only part time,
more than twice what it was in February.
More than 7 million cite “lack work or
business conditions” as the reason they are
part-timers. Businesses large and small
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ADAM ROGAN/THE JOURNAL TIMES
18-wheeler going uphill trying to con-
ceive of an armed 17-year-old Black
boy being treated with similar defer-
ence. Or even an unarmed one, like
Trayvon Martin. Take it as an induce-
ment to reconsider how we construct
our narratives of innocence — and
guilt. Or not.
After all, just days later, Donald
Trump’s personal lawyer, William
Barr (in his day job, he doubles as U.S.
attorney general), opined how there
“appears” to be a phenomenon where
Black people “feel” they’re mistreated
by police. “I don’t think that necessari-
ly reflects some deep-seated racism,”
he sniffed.
And so it goes. We live a double
standard some people call justice.
Examples of its unfairness are abun-
dant, yet abundantly denied. So beg
pardon, but no, this vigilante is not a
hero.
He’s just another example.
Tribune Content Agency
Leonard Pitts Jr. is a columnist for the
Miami Herald.
BIZUAYEHU TESFAYE/LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
alike have closed, taking jobs with them.
Meanwhile, the government has been
paying large unemployment stipends for
the better part of the year, with the main
debate in Congress over just how large
those benefits should be. At least the ben-
efits don’t appear to have eroded Ameri-
cans’ work ethic: Employment numbers
have jumped every time people have been
given the opportunity to work. Right now,
allowing Americans to get back to work is
still the best thing we can do for them,
particularly in this altered world we find
ourselves, where work as we knew it is
changing rapidly.
Tribune Content Agency
Sean Higgins is a research fellow with the
Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free
market public policy organization.
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BUSINESS
SUCCESS
Your guide to managing money, work and the business of life
SUCCESS
Your Monday guide to managing money, work and the business of life

Jill Schlesinger
Jill on Money

Answering your
tax questions
Although 2019 tax returns were due on
July 15, many of you have followed up with
a myriad of tax questions. Here are some of
the most common ones.

Should I be concerned that I haven’t

received my tax refund yet?
I was inundated with this question in the
spring, when the answer was a little easier
to understand. If you filed electronically, sit
tight — the money is on its way. But if you
filed with a paper return, get ready to wait
for a long time, as the IRS was operating
with minimal staff and there were simply
not enough hands available to process
paper returns.
Yet, this question has persisted through
AMERICAN SPIRIT/DREAMSTIME
the summer, after much of the IRS staff
finally returned to work, which is terribly COMMENTARY
frustrating. The agency itself notes, “There

Work-from-home
is no secret way to find out when a refund
will be issued.” The IRS continues to warn
that those who filed paper returns would
face processing and refund delays. The best
and easiest way to check on a refund is the
“Where’s My Refund?” tool on IRS.gov. If
you filed a paper return and are due a re-

towns on the rise?

fund, the IRS is actually paying interest on
those refunds, which you may receive as a
separate payment from the refund.

I have been getting emails about

stimulus payments. Are they legit?
No, these are likely “phishing” expedi-
tions — fake messages with links to web- By Justin Fox | Bloomberg New York City doesn’t (4.2%), but the

sites, which seek to steal your personal
information. When the IRS announced its
annual “Dirty Dozen” list of tax scams
earlier this summer, there was a special
emphasis on aggressive and evolving
schemes related to coronavirus tax relief,
including Economic Impact Payments. As
usual, the scammers actively play on the
fear and unknown of the virus and the
stimulus payments. Remember, the IRS will
never initiate contact with you via email
about a tax bill, refund or Economic Impact
Payments. Do not click on any links claim-
ing to be from the IRS.
Can I deduct work-from-home
expenses?
In the COVID-19 era, millions of people
are working from home. Does that mean
you can now deduct some of the cost of
your mortgage or rent? What about inter-
net and utility fees? The IRS does allow
qualifying taxpayers to deduct certain
home expenses on their tax return. What
qualifies you? Unfortunately, if you are an
employee, you are not eligible to claim the
home office deduction. If you are self-
employed, you can potentially deduct cer-
tain expenses, like mortgage interest, insur-
ance, utilities, repairs, maintenance, depre-
ciation and rent. The IRS notes, “Even
then, the deductible amount of these types
of expenses may be limited.”
I negotiated a lower debt pay-off for a
credit card. Do I need to do something
for tax purposes?
In general, if you are able to pay less than
you owe, the amount that is forgiven is
considered “canceled” and is usually tax-
able to you, which means you would have
to report it on your tax return for the year
the cancellation occurs. In this case, the
creditor will likely send you a Form 1099-C,
Cancellation of Debt showing the amount
of cancellation of debt and the date of can-
cellation, among other things. However,
there are a lot of exclusions to this rule, like
bankruptcy (debts discharged through
bankruptcy are not considered taxable
income), so be sure to check with the IRS.
Jill Schlesinger, CFP, is a CBS News business
analyst. A former options trader and CIO
of an investment advisory firm, she wel-
comes questions at askjill@jillonmoney.com.
T
he coronavirus pandemic,
and the accompanying mass
shift to doing white-collar
work from home, has led to
reports of real estate fren-
zies in scenic places. The Kingston, New
York, metropolitan area — aka Ulster
County — which stretches from the
Hudson River into the Catskill Moun-
tains, had the fastest-rising home prices
of any metro area in the country in the
second quarter. In Lake Tahoe and
neighboring Truckee, California, brokers
complain that they are “running out of
homes for sale.” In western Montana,
out-of-staters have been buying houses
sight-unseen, in cash.
One thing these places have in com-
mon, other than mountains, is that even
before the pandemic they had lots of
residents who usually did their jobs from
home.
Census Bureau estimates for 2014
through 2018 reveal some not-all-that-
surprising havens for work-from-ho-
mers, such as Clearlake, California
(13.4%), Summit Park, Utah (which in-
cludes Park City; 13.1%), Taos, New
Mexico (12.3%) and Vineyard Haven,
Massachusetts (11.9%). Also near the top
of the rankings is Fairfield, Iowa (12.5%),
which I had never heard of before but is
apparently a creative-class hotbed burst-
ing with startups and transcendental
meditators trained at its Maharishi Inter-
national University.
So this is the future, right? Everybody
with a good white-collar job is going to
move to some adorable small city, prefer-
ably with mountains nearby but corn-
fields will apparently do, where they’ll
drink locally roasted coffee and micro-
brewed beer and go on hikes and bike
rides when they’re not stuck in intermi-
nable Zoom meetings, leaving the na-
tion’s big cities to wither.
Or not. These places tend to be pretty
small and not really prepared to handle a
large influx of big-city refugees. Some
already tightly restrict development,
meaning that new demand will simply
mean higher real estate prices that will
curtail the inflow. Those like Bend, Ore-
gon, that have been willing to build tons
of new housing, are beginning to struggle
with the consequences of all that growth.
Plus, big cities have many attractions,
even if some of them have been off limits
since March.
People have fled cities during pan-
demics throughout history and generally
returned afterward, so their current
seeming unattractiveness probably isn’t a
reliable guide to the future.
On the other hand, the current trend
toward working from home, or more
generally working remotely, has been
gaining strength ever since broadband
internet began to become widely avail-
able two decades ago. The huge boost
given by COVID-19 has got to have some
lasting consequences.
Since 1960, the Census Bureau has
been asking Americans questions about
how they get to work. The record 5.3%
national work-at-home percentage for
2018 misses out on a lot of people who
Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys indi-
cate worked from home some of the
time, and is way below what the percent-
age will probably be for 2020.
But because the Census numbers are
available down to the level of counties,
cities and beyond, they can shed a lot of
light on where working remotely was
already becoming commonplace before
the pandemic. And one thing that they
indicate is that while places like Truckee
and Kingston are certainly part of the
work-at-home story, most of the Ameri-
cans working at home have been doing
so in the large metropolitan areas where
most Americans live.
The large metropolitan areas (those
with 500,000 employed people or more)
with the highest work-at-home percent-
ages in 2018 are the kinds of places
where big corporations locate back-
office operations (and, increasingly,
not-so-back-office ones) to save on real
estate and labor costs, or secondary tech
industry hubs where similar consider-
ations are at work. Lots of individuals
appear to be making equivalent calcula-
tions about cost and quality of life.
Some pretty big cities had high work-
at-home percentages: Portland (8.2%),
Austin (8.1%), Denver (8%), Atlanta
(7.8%), Seattle (7.2%), San Diego (7.1%),
San Francisco and Oakland (6.6% each).
borough of Manhattan does (6.9%).
Working at home isn’t solely a small
town or suburban thing.
Work-from-home percentages in the
double digits are found almost exclu-
sively in small towns and suburbs,
though, and many of the places above
that threshold are in California and
especially Northern California. By my
count, about 8% of the U.S. cities, towns
and places with more than 1,000 work-
ers and a work-at-home share of 10% or
more from 2014 through 2018 are in or
right on the edges of the San Jose-San
Francisco-Oakland combined statistical
area, aka the Bay Area, which is home to
3% of the nation’s population.
These places include a lot of scenic
enclaves nestled in the area’s mountains
or along the coast. But there’s also the
city of Berkeley (10.1%), plus a lot of
affluent suburbs in Marin County and
the East Bay, including the one where I
grew up, Lafayette (11.5%).
Working from home in a Bay Area
suburb or mountain enclave may of
course lose its attractiveness if the gigan-
tic wildfires continue to persist. But I
don’t think such arrangements are just a
way station on the path to a new normal,
in which agglomeration effects no longer
matter and knowledge industries cease
to cluster in specific places because
nobody ever goes to the office anyway.
The advantages of frequent if not
necessarily daily in-person contact with
colleagues and peers, of living near mul-
tiple employers in your field, with career
opportunities for both members of a
two-income couple — not to mention all
the cultural and other attractions of
metropolitan life — will, I think, contin-
ue to weigh heavily in favor of large
metropolitan areas.
In fact, more people working from
home may make such places more liv-
able both for the remote workers who no
longer have to commute every day and
the commuters who still do.
Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion col-
umnist covering business. He was the
editorial director of Harvard Business
Review and wrote for Time, Fortune and
American Banker. He is the author of
“The Myth of the Rational Market.”

Work intentionally to get more done

By Entrepreneurs’ Organization
Inc.
Shawn Johal, an Entrepreneurs’ Organi-
zation member and former chapter president
in Montreal, is a business growth coach,
author and leadership speaker. We asked
Johal how he coaches clients to set them-
selves up for success by implementing habits
of intentionality. Here’s what he shared:
“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the
problem. We all have 24 hours in a day.” —
Zig Ziglar
Have you ever found yourself completely
overwhelmed? Running at 200 miles per
hour without a clear focus or direction?
Working harder than ever without accom-
ILKERCELIK/DREAMSTIME plishing much of anything? It is a counter-
productive state of mind, but it’s common
— and it happens to the best of us.
As a business growth coach, I help cli-
ents find happiness and success by growing
their companies in a profitable way. It is
truly fulfilling work, and I love the chal-
lenges it brings. But when the pandemic hit,
the world flipped upside down — revealing
new, unexpected challenges. I found myself
helping clients for free because many of
them couldn’t afford to pay. Those who
were doing well got so busy that they didn’t
have time for coaching.
I ended up working double the hours for
a fraction of the paycheck. I became “busy
being busy,” which is not the good kind of
busy. If I wasn’t working, I felt as if my
world would crumble beneath my feet. I
had a fear of stopping, as if taking even a
moment to think through my plans would
cause further despair and destruction.
Through meditation and introspection,
and with the help of amazing peers and
mentors, I set a goal of changing strategies.
Within weeks, I pivoted my coaching mod-
el and found different ways to bring in
revenue. Most importantly, I set myself up
for long-term success by incorporating four
new habits of intentionality:
1. Brain release: My friend Hugo taught
me a fantastic trick: the brain release. Once
per week, I make a long list of every single
thing I need to accomplish. The list in-
cludes sending specific emails, making
calls, paying bills, writing an article, com-
Turn to Intentionality, Page 3
2 Chicago Tribune | Business | Section 2 | Monday, September 7, 2020
How remote work
could save the economy
By Dave Nevogt
Fast Company
Six months into the coronavirus pan-
demic, the U.S. economy is still gripped
by the outbreak. Any semblance of re-
covery has been painfully slow, and
there are some indications it could wors-
en before it gets better.
With so much pressure to survive,
businesses are searching for ways to
adapt to the new normal. But there’s one
key change many companies could make
that might just get the economy back on
track (and perhaps stronger than ever):
having a permanent remote workforce.
Until there is a widely distributed
vaccine, most people won’t be returning
to the office. But, should they even re-
turn when things get back to normal?
I believe companies that can work
remotely should do so permanently.
Not only does a remote setup en-
sure workers’ health and safety, it also
is good for business.
At Hubstaff, we recently surveyed
400 business owners and managers to
determine what insights they gained
from the pandemic. The data showed
that remote work helped prevent layoffs
for 66% of companies, and 44.25% of
companies expect remote work to in-
crease profits. That means the more
companies that can work remotely, the
better off our economy will be as a
whole. There are several reasons why
remote work is the key.
Companies save money
The bottom line: Having a physical
office costs money. You’re paying for
rent, utilities and office supplies. By
having an entirely remote team, those
expenses disappear. That now gives the
company cost savings, which they can
reinvest in a variety of ways — and that
leads to growth. They can even move
their headquarters to lower cost-of-
living locations if they are not wholly
reliant on local talent. All of this allows
for the capability of hiring more employ-
ees, which ultimately drives down that
unemployment rate and injects capital
into the economy.
Workers are more productive
Our study found 45% of companies
expect remote work to increase produc-
tivity. Why? With team members in
different time zones, you naturally ex-
tend the work day and allow people the
flexibility to work when they are most
productive. It also cuts out daily com-
mute time, giving employees back sev-
eral hours a week.
And maybe most importantly, it
How to fix a bad retirement plan
By Sandra Block
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
Like gauze on a camera lens, a bull
market can hide a lot of blemishes in
retirement savings plans. But when the
market heads in the other direction, the
plan’s flaws become glaringly apparent.
That’s particularly the case with some
403(b) savings plans. Typically offered to
public school teachers, 403(b)s have the
same tax benefits and contribution
thresholds as 401(k)plans, but they’re
often vastly inferior to their private-
sector counterparts. Many school dis-
tricts turn the job of offering retirement
plans over to sales agents who promote
investments with high-cost equity-in-
dexed and variable annuities.
If you find yourself stuck with a poor-
performing 403(b) plan, you have a few
options, says Scott Dauenhauer, a certi-
fied financial planner with Meridian
Wealth Management in Murrieta, Cali-
fornia, and founder of the Teacher’s
Advocate blog.
First, get the name of the plan’s com-
pliance administrator from your school
district and ask the administrator for its
approved provider list. You may be able
to find a low-cost provider, such as Fidel-
ity, Vanguard or Aspire Financial Serv-
ices. If you can find such a hidden gem,
he says, add it to your plan and direct
future contributions to its suite of funds.
If you already have equity-indexed or
Women: working from home is hurting my career. Men: I am thriving
A new study of over 1,000 working adults conducted by Qualtrics and theBoardlist reveals that working from home
during the coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately impacted the careers of women, parents, and people of color.
Productive work and children?
77% of men said that they’ve been more
productive working from home with kids.
46% of women said that they’ve been more
productive working from home with kids.
SUCCESS
means that employees are more in con-
trol of their time and can choose to block
out interruptions and distractions from
coworkers. In an office environment, it
is all too easy to run over and interrupt
someone with a question, and it’s the No.
1 reason offices are so unproductive.
The talent pool expands
Removing the restrictions of having to
hire locally based on an office location
means workers can come from any-
where and allows employees to live
where they want. Usually, this drives
talent to smaller markets and enables
the employee to live in areas where rent
and homeownership costs are lower.
The employees can now reinvest this
extra capital into those local economies
or savings and investments. Plus, compa-
nies can help lower unemployment rates
in local economies that would have a
harder time bouncing back.
DREAMSTIME
variable annuities in your 403(b), trans-
ferring that money to a new provider
could trigger surrender charges of 5% or
more. But if your new funds come with
very low fees, you’ll probably recover
those costs in a couple of years, Dauen-
hauer says.
If your research reveals only bad op-
tions, consider lobbying your employer
for better choices. You can find informa-
tion about how to approach your em-
ployer at www.403bwise.org, a nonprofit
organization that advocates for teachers.
Finally, if your plan is unsalvageable
and your employer unresponsive, you
may be able to take advantage of a penal-
ty-free withdrawal to switch to a better
plan. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and
Positive effect on their careers?
57% of men actually believe that working from
home has had a positive effect on their careers.
29% of women believe that working from home
has had a positive effect on their careers.
ELENA KREYS/DREAMSTIME
Employees have more disposable
income
Just like a company saves money by
not having brick-and-mortar related
expenses, so too does the employee. The
typical worker in the U.S. travels 16 miles
from home to work — that’s around
$2,000 per year in gas expenses alone.
And workers commonly pay to go out to
lunch daily, costing an average of $5 a
day. With 250 working days in a year,
that’s another $1,250 a year. Add in the
car repairs and drive-through coffee,
and the savings quickly amount to thou-
sands. All of that extra cash can now go
back into savings, investments or sup-
porting the local economy with a nice
dinner.
The possibilities are endless, but they
all benefit the economy as a whole.
Dave Nevogt is the CEO and co-founder
of Hubstaff.
Economic Security (CARES) Act allows
individuals who have been affected by
the coronavirus to withdraw up to
$100,000 from any retirement plan —
including a 403(b) — without paying a
10% early withdrawal penalty.
If you repay the money in three years,
you won’t have to pay taxes on the with-
drawal.
The key here is that you can return the
money to any eligible retirement plan —
which means instead of putting it back in
your 403(b), you could invest it in a
low-cost IRA. For this strategy to work,
your employer must permit coronavirus
withdrawals, and you must be eligible to
take one. You qualify for a coronavirus
withdrawal if you, your spouse or one of
your dependents has been diagnosed
with COVID-19. You’re also eligible if you
or your spouse have suffered adverse
financial consequences as a result of the
pandemic, which include layoffs, a re-
duction in hours or inability to work
because of childcare obligations.
As is the case with rolling your money
into another provider’s funds, this strate-
gy could trigger surrender charges. Your
best bet: Find a financial adviser who is
knowledgeable about 403(b) plans to
help you navigate the process.
Sandra Block is a senior editor at Kip-
linger’s Personal Finance magazine. For
more on this and similar money topics,
visit Kiplinger.com.
Received a promotion?
34% of men with children at home got one
9% of women with children at home got one
Received a pay raise?
26% of men with children at home
13% of women with children at home
Terry Savage
The Savage Truth
Look forward
with perspective
In mid-March, with the markets falling
sharply and the Dow Jones Industrial Aver-
age hitting a low of 18,213, many investors
would have been amazed to think they
would recoup their losses and break even in
their lifetime. Well, here we are less than six
months later, with the markets reaching new
all-time highs.
The rebound has been impressive. Ac-
cording to Barron’s, it took only 126 trading
days for the S&P 500 to reclaim its February
peak — 10 times faster than the index’s aver-
age historical rebound period of 1,542 trad-
ing days. Yet economist Jack Ablin of Cresset
Capital notes that 20% of S&P 500 compa-
nies remain more than 50% below their
all-time highs. And 62% of stocks in this
index remain below their Feb. 19 highs.
Ablin points out that the top five compa-
nies of the S&P 500 — Facebook, Amazon,
Apple, Microsoft and Google (FAAMG) —
account for more than one-quarter of the
rally since March, and each has reached new
highs this month. Their combined market
capitalization (price x shares outstanding) of
$7.3 trillion represents 38% of the U.S. econ-
omy, yet collectively these companies em-
ploy fewer than 1% of the U.S. workforce.
Ablin calls it a “K-shaped recovery,” with a
“technology wedge” creating a stark diver-
gence in economic prospects. Those who
can work remotely benefit from an upswing,
while those who are in the service economy
and still threatened by the pandemic have a
diminishing outlook.
Given those realities, here are some key
things to keep in mind as your make your
investment and financial planning decisions:
1. Take a close look at your investment
statements and your options inside
your 40l(k) plan and IRA. This is not the
time to suddenly become a speculator de-
spite current boasts of big winnings. Stick to
the plan. An entire generation of Robinhood
traders is going to get a painful lesson. Histo-
rians agree that Robin Hood died from a
pandemic.
2. Remember that the stock market is
fueled by money and hope. The Fed is
firmly behind the markets, vowing to focus
primarily on job growth. Fed Chairman
Jerome Powell again promised to “do what it
takes” to keep the economy afloat — without
worrying about future inflation.
In his recent speech, it was clear that
Powell feared the United States could fall
into the malaise that has afflicted Japan for
decades: low growth, low interest rates, low
inflation expectations and a stagnant econ-
omy. The Fed will continue to inject re-
serves into the system to keep that from
happening.
3. The Fed can’t lift the economy and
the job market by itself. Congress must
act. The latest estimates from the respected
Oxford Economics show that in August, the
suspension of $600 federal unemployment
payments cost the economy $50 billion.
Oxford estimates that the 50% extension of
unemployment benefits from FEMA funds
will cover unemployment benefits for only
about five weeks.
Even worse, Oxford estimates that as
many as 15 million American households are
vulnerable to rental eviction in the coming
months.
It is unthinkable that under these circum-
stances — and especially in an election year
— Congress won’t suddenly jump into action
upon its return from recess. That should
mean more money on the way.
Your financial planning and investment
choices must be based on these realities.
Interest rates will remain low as long as the
Fed remains in control. Stocks will continue
to rise as long as there is money — and hope
not only for a vaccine, but for a return to a
more normal life. And risk is everywhere —
even in the safety of bonds just in case infla-
tion does return, forcing the Fed to act.
Don’t try to pick tops or bottoms or turn-
ing points or individual stocks based on
“stories.” Remember, when everyone
“knows” where the market is going, every-
one is about to be wrong. And that’s The
Savage Truth.
Terry Savage is a registered investment ad-
viser and the author of four best-selling books,
including “The Savage Truth on Money.”
Terry responds to questions on her blog at
TerrySavage.com.
SOURCE: Fast Company

By Emma Patch
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
Emergency funds typically fall into one of
two broad categories. One is set up to han-
dle unexpected expenses — say, when your
car breaks down or your water heater
springs a leak. The other is there to provide
income if you lose your job.
You should have both types, but when it
comes to keeping a roof over your head, the
second is the most important.
Your personal circumstances will dictate
how much money you’ll need if you lose
your job. If you’re the sole wage earner, you
should have six to 12 months’ worth of
monthly expenses set aside, whereas dual-
income households can normally get away
with three to six months of emergency
reserves, says Jamie Lima, a certified finan-
cial planner in San Diego.
However, if one or both members of a
dual-income household work in a sector
sensitive to changes in the economy, you
may need to save more.
For example, if you’re employed in the
travel-and-leisure sector, which experi-
ences a lot of ups and downs (lately, mostly
downs), you may need to cover more than
six to nine months of expenses. But if you
work in an industry that’s less sensitive to
Millions
earned interest
on delayed
tax refunds
By Rocky Mengle
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
Q: I heard the IRS is paying interest on
delayed tax refunds. How much interest
can taxpayers expect to receive if their
refunds were late?
A: Not a windfall. The average payment
will be about $18.
You can expect a payment if you filed a
2019 return before this year’s July 15 dead-
line and either received a refund in the past
three months or will receive a refund. Most
interest payments will be sent separately
from tax refund payments.
Normally, the IRS only adds interest to
refunds issued more than 45 days after the
return due date. The typical tax return due
date is April 15.
However, because of the coronavirus
pandemic, this year’s filing deadline was
pushed back to July 15. The change is con-
sidered a disaster-related postponement,
which means the IRS is required by law to
pay interest calculated from the original
April 15 filing deadline for anyone who files
their return by the postponed deadline.
This refund interest requirement only ap-
Intentionality
Continued from Page 1
pleting a small project, etc. Literally, any-
thing that I need to accomplish in the next
seven days.
Next, I classify each item into one of the
four Covey Quadrants, categorizing what is
important versus what is urgent. It’s incred-
ibly important to identify which tasks fall
above the line, into the “important” catego-
ry. Anything that isn’t meaningful should be
delegated or erased from the list. At first, I
found myself struggling with that — and
learned to step outside of the “stories” that
we often tell ourselves. Be brutally honest
with yourself: Is x task really that impor-
tant? Is it truly urgent? Does it even matter
at all? Getting the tasks in the correct quad-
rants is a crucial step toward gaining back
SUCCESS
FAMILY FINANCES
How much
should you
save for an
emergency?
If you work in an industry
that’s less sensitive to
economic swings, such as
a public sector job, two to
four months of expenses
may be enough.
economic swings, such as a public sector
job, two to four months of expenses may be
enough.
Spouses who work in the same industry
may need to save at least six months of
expenses in an emergency fund because
both could be laid off at the same time.
When calculating your monthly ex-
penses, focus on the basics, including hous-
ing, transportation, food and health insur-
ance, along with any other insurance you
may need, such as homeowners and car
insurance, says Eliot Pepper, a CFP and
cofounder of Northbrook Financial, in
Baltimore.
Paying off credit card debt and building
plies to individual income tax filers — busi-
nesses are not eligible.
The IRS issued interest payments to
about 13.9 million taxpayers in mid-August.
For about 12 million people, the interest
payment was directly deposited into the
same bank account that their tax refund
was deposited. Everyone else received a
paper check. A notation on the check saying
“INT Amount” identifies it as a refund
interest payment and indicates the interest
amount.
Interest is paid at rates set by law. The
rate for the second quarter ending June 30
was 5%. The rate for the third quarter start-
ing July 1 dropped to 3%. Interest is com-
pounded daily.
your time.
2. Deep work bursts: Cal Newport pro-
vides an excellent blueprint for success in
his book, “Deep Work.” He explains how
we must set time aside — ideally in 90-
minute bursts — to work on substantial
projects. The secret is to avoid all distrac-
tions during this timeframe. Easier said
than done, but entirely possible. Turn off
electronics, shut down notifications, lock
your door and hide from energy vampires.
That’s the only way to succeed.
According to a recent study by UC Irvine
in California, it takes an average of 23 min-
utes and 15 seconds to regain focus after
becoming distracted from a state of deep
work. Imagine how much valuable time
you lose to distraction. If 90-minute bursts
seem excessive to you, start with 20-minute
focused bursts and increase that amount
over time.
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EDWIN CORREA/DREAMSTIME
an emergency fund are both important, but
if you must choose between the two, build-
ing an emergency fund should come first,
says Brandon Renfro, a CFP in Hallsville,
Texas.
Because you don’t know when you’ll
need it, the money in your emergency fund
should be immediately accessible.
Pepper recommends a high-yield savings
account that has no fees, requires low (or
no) minimums and is federally insured. You
can link it to your regular checking account
so that you can transfer money easily.
One drawback: Rates on high-yield sav-
ings accounts could drop.
One way to lock in a rate for at least a few
months is to invest in a “ladder” of short-
term certificates of deposit. Stagger them so
that each month, one matures with enough
to cover that month’s living expenses. If you
don’t need the cash that month, reinvest it
in another CD that matures at the end of
your current series.
Emma Patch is a staff writer at Kiplinger’s
Personal Finance magazine. For more on this
and similar money topics, visit Kiplinger.com.
DREAMSTIME
Where the calculation period spans more
than one quarter, a blended rate consisting
of the number of days falling in each calen-
dar quarter applies. No interest will be
added to any refund issued before the origi-
nal April 15 deadline.
If you received one of the IRS interest
payments, you must report the interest as
taxable income on your 2020 federal in-
come tax return that you’ll file next year. In
January 2021, the IRS will send a Form
1099-INT to anyone who received interest
totaling at least $10.
Rocky Mengle is tax editor at Kiplinger.com.
For more on this and similar money topics,
visit Kiplinger.com.
3. Mindfulness breaks: Sounds counter-
intuitive: How can you get more done by
taking more breaks? In reality, you abso-
lutely must take breaks to regain your ener-
gy. Try it, and you will likely become a
believer. But don’t spend that break on your
phone. Take a walk, find a break buddy,
stretch, eat (away from your desk) or take
deep breaths. It will provide clarity and a
fresh perspective.
4. Peer power: We all know interesting
people: friends, mentors or even family
members. Don’t underestimate the power
of tapping into the energy of these special
human beings.
Think of an invigorating conversation
that yielded a nugget of wisdom. Now,
imagine having such discussions regularly.
You can. But you must be intentional about
it. Dig deep to make a list of 16 people in
your circle who provide exceptional guid-
3
Steve Rosen
Kids & Money
Building credit
from scratch
not as hard
as you think
This question comes from a
reader: How can my son build his
credit history if no one will give
him credit in the first place?
It’s an excellent question, and
one I receive frequently. Fortu-
nately, building credit from
scratch is not as daunting as it
seems, though it’s prudent to be
prepared for some bumps along
the way.
Getting started on building an
early credit history as a teen or
young 20-something is absolutely
worth doing. A longer history of
good credit decisions can mean
the difference between a low or
high interest rate on a car loan, a
starter home, and can even make a
difference on whether a deposit is
required for connecting utilities.
There’s one caveat: Make sure
your son or daughter is doing a
responsible job managing a debit
card or cold, hard cash before
they’re turned loose into true
plastic adulthood.
Moreover, make sure they
understand what a credit score
consists of and why it’s hard to
build it if you don’t have any bills
in your name. A credit score esti-
mates your creditworthiness with
a three-digit numerical value. A
perfect credit score is 850.
The most widely used credit
scoring system on the market is
the FICO system, which was cre-
ated by the Fair Isaac Corporation.
If you’re building your credit
worthiness from the ground up,
one of the best ways to do so is
with a secured credit card, which
is backed by a cash deposit you
make upfront. The deposit
amount is usually the same as
your credit limit. You’ll get back
the deposit when you close the
account.
“This is scary territory but a
good learning opportunity,” said
Jamie Bosse, a financial planner
with Aspyre Wealth Partners in
the Kansas City area.
Many financial institutions
offer secured credit cards for
building up credit. Choose one
with a low annual fee and make
sure it reports your bill-paying
history to the three main credit
bureaus — Equifax, Experian and
TransUnion.
Another approach is being
added as an authorized user to a
parent’s card. Doing so adds the
card’s payment history to your
credit file. “You don’t have to use
the credit card in order to benefit
from being an authorized user,”
according to a Nerdwallet report.
Several other strategies can
help your child jumpstart a credit
history, such as student loans or
car loans in the child’s name.
If your child is living in an
apartment, have the bills set up in
their name for rent, utilities and
insurance. The same with a cell
phone.
Services like RentTrack (rent-
track.com), an online rent pay-
ment program, allow you to build
credit by making payments on
time. Check with your apartment
property manager if they offer this
payment service.
Experian Boost offers a way to
have a cell phone and utility bills
reflected in your credit report, but
only with Experian. (For details,
visit www.experian.com.)
Of course, you won’t build a
good credit history if you don’t pay
your bills in full and on time. So
make sure your teens develop
good spending habits as they learn
to use and manage credit.
Questions, comments, column
ideas? Send an email to
sbrosen1030@gmail.com.
ance or energy. Then, intentionally call one
per week to spark inspiring conversations.
Why 16? Because that means you’ll speak to
each person three times per year, systemat-
ically.
It isn’t a big time commitment for a col-
league or mentor to have three conversa-
tions with you per year. Don’t be intimi-
dated.
Above all, work to reframe your ideas
around the definition of productivity. The
only true way to move the needle forward is
to clarify your goals.
Once your goals are crystal-clear, you can
strategize the best way to accomplish them.
It means cutting out the fat by eliminating
distractions and also tasks that aren’t help-
ing achieve your vision.
Remember, you always have a choice.
Choose intentionality over all else. By being
intentional, you will succeed in whatever
you’re trying to accomplish.
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Constance Gray-Policky, nee Beveridge, of Fox Lake Linda’s proudest achievements were seeing her
and formerly of Arlington Heights passed away children and grandchildren graduate from high
August 28, 2020 at the age of 85. She was born school and college and subsequent marriages and
November 25, 1934 in Kalamazoo, Mi to the late children. Linda was a very proud Illini supporter and
Robert and Winifred (Ingersoll) Beveridge. She had attended many U of I sporting events.
three sisters the late Joan Duncan, Janet Poulston Linda’s lifelong passion was the Cubs. Never missed
and Barbara Cline. She was married to the late Earl watching or listening to a game, loved Spring Training
T Gray Jr. from 1954 to 1994. They had five children. and was blessed with a World Series Championship
Earl T Gray III, Terrence (Sandra) Gray, Timothy in her lifetime.
(Maria) Gray, Tracy (Kurt) Pressney and Todd (Carol) Linda was a very supportive Grandma and was hap-
Gray. Eleven grandchildren Tyler, Trevor, Katherine, piest in her kitchen baking. Her trays of Christmas
Susan, Tim Jr., Kenneth, Claire, Samantha, Shawn, cookies were legendary.
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She remarried in 2004 to Joseph G. Policky. Father of
Debbie Selep, Penny Policky, Patty Policky, the late
Sandy Jaglarski, Tamera Cook and Rebecca (Justin)
Norris. She will be dearly missed by all her family
and friends.
Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries Mankowski S.J., Fr. Paul V.
Fr. Paul Vincent Mankowski, S.J. of South Bend, In
and Chicago, IL died on September 3,
Hoffman, Ina Ruth 2020 at Evanston Hospital in Evanston,
Ina Ruth Hoffman nee Palman. Beloved wife of the Illinois. He was 66 years old, and died af-
late Bernard Hoffman. Loving mother ter suffering a brain hemorrhage caused
of Jill Tracy, Valerie Hoffman and Eric by a ruptured brain aneurysm. May he
Hoffman. Proud grandmother of Maia rest in peace.
(Brett) Singer, Heather (Michael) King,
Jason Fleming and Brian Hoffman. Paul was born on November 15, 1953, in South
Cherished great grandmother of Elie, Joshua, Bend, Indiana to the late James L. and Alice (nee
Connor, Gabriel and Seth. Dear sister of Charlene Otorepec) Mankowski. He was the beloved brother
(the late Honorable Richard) Salzman. To keep ev- of Mark (Mary Jo) Mankowski, Dr. Joan Mankowski,
eryone safe and healthy, the interment service will Ellen (David) Tuchler, and Mary (Robert) Korajczyk
be private. Memorials in her memory to Lieberman and uncle to three nieces, five nephews, a great-
Center, 9700 Gross Point Road, Skokie, IL 60076, niece and two great-nephews.
www.cje.net would be appreciated. Arrangements Following graduation from the University of Chicago
by Chicago Jewish Funerals - Skokie Chapel, in 1976, Paul entered the Society of Jesus in Berkely,
847.229.8822, www.cjfinfo.com MI. In 1987 he was ordained to the priesthood
and in 2012 professed his final religious vows. He
earned an MA in classics at University of Oxford in
1983, a Master of Divinity and a Licentiate of Sacred
Theology from Weston Jesuit School of Theology
Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries in 1987, and he completed a PhD in comparative
Semitic philology in 1997 from Harvard University.
From 1994 to 2009, Fr. Paul was professor of Old
Johnston, Elizabeth J. Testament languages at the Pontifical Biblical
Elizabeth Josey Johnston died in Hinsdale, IL on Institute in Rome, then served as acting pastor of
August 30, 2020 at the age of 95. She was preceded Sacred Heart Church in Amman, Jordan. Following
in death by her beloved husband of 62 years, Logan his return to the U.S. in 2009, he became a scholar
Truax Johnston, Jr., her parents Dr. Charles C. Josey in residence at Lumen Christi Institute, University
and Miller Jeannette Josey, and her brother Charles of Chicago. Paul was always knowledgeable
C. Josey, Jr. about contemporary events in church, politics, and
culture, and ready to offer his perspective when
Mrs. Johnston was born in Florence, South Carolina engaged on these subjects, always rooted in his
and grew up in Vermillion, South Dakota. The family devotion to tradition and orthodoxy. He was very
moved to Indianapolis, Indiana where she graduated devoted to his family and was beloved as a visiting
from Butler University. She was a lifelong and enthu- priest by several parishes and many communities
siastic member of the Thetas. of women religious. Paul was deeply loved and
respected by the community of scholars involved in
Mrs. Johnston and her husband Logan lived in the Lumen Christi Institute, and his death will leave
Hinsdale and Burr Ridge, IL for over 50 years. She a huge void. Paul’s deep love of the church, the
was the President of AAUW, the Hinsdale Assembly, Society of Jesus, and his Jesuit vocation was the
her DAR Chapter and the Garden Club of Hinsdale, bedrock of his life.A visitation will be held Tuesday,
among others. She was a member of the Society of Sept. 8 from 9:30 am to 11:30 am at St. Thomas the
Colonial Dames. Apostle Church, in Hyde Park, Chicago. A private
funeral Mass will be held following visitation, and
Her family and many friends know she had extraor- the parish will offer live stream of the service on
dinary gifts: intelligence, kindness, determined en- the parish facebookpage:tps://www.facebook.com/
ergy for solving problems, boundless enthusiasm for St.ThomastheApostleHydePark/live/
travel and adventures and a glowing presence. She Burial will be at the Jesuit site at All Saints Catholic
loved creating memories for her family with beau- Cemetery in Des Plains, IL. Inquiries regarding the
tiful holidays, dinners and vacations. She enjoyed funeral should be directed to the Lumen Christi
taking long, brisk walks with her bulldogs. There Institute. In lieu of flowers, memorials or contribu-
was always time for family and friends. She was gra- tions may be made to The Paul V. Mankowski, S.J.
cious, elegant and beautiful; she was the epitome of Memorial Fund for Jesuit Scholarship at Lumen
love and comfort. She brought out and believed in Christi Institute, 1220 East 58th Street,Chicago,
the best in everyone. She took care of us all. Illinois 60637 www.lumenchristi.org or to the
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Ricciuti, Joseph ‘Joe’
Joseph ‘Joe’ Ricciuti, age 92, U.S. Army Veteran,
beloved husband of Joan (nee Salzman)
of 63 years; loving father of Nancy
(Richard) Nethercott, James, Patricia
‘Tricia’ (Pete) Gehrke and Laura ‘Laurie’
(John) Zawadzki; caring grandfather of
Eric, Emily and Lee Nethercott and Nicole ‘Coli’ and
Dan Zawadzki; cherished son of the late Costantino
‘Gus’ and Letizia Ricciuti; dear brother of the late
Antonette and Maria. Visitation Wednesday 4-8 P.M.
Phase 4 Covid-19 regulations, visitators must wear
masks when attending the visitation, loitering is
not permitted to accommodate all guests. Funeral
Thursday 9:00 A.M. from Lawn Funeral Home, 17909
S. 94th Ave. Tinley Park to St. Stephen Deacon and
Martyr Church Mass 9:30 A.M. Interment Good
Shepherd Cemetery. Joe was born and raised in the
Clearing neighborhood of Chicago and graduated
from Lindblom High School. He was a 32 year U.P.S.
employee and was retired for 35 years. Joe and Joan
enjoyed traveling, visiting 49 States (missing North
Dakota), they took 49 cruises, 20 trips to Europe, 23
trips to Hawaii and 10 trips to Alaska. Together they
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Laverne “Lolly” Rosengarten nee Gerber, 87. She
was born and raised on the Great West
side of Chicago. She was married 67
wonderful years to her husband, Cy.
Theater, music, and the arts were an
important part of her life, and she sup-
ported the arts through donations and regularly
attending venues. Her extreme love of ballet started
upon taking ballet lessons in childhood and contin-
ued throughout her life into her 80’s. In her later
days, she would sit, listen to, and enjoy the music
that she loved, danced and sang to throughout her
life. Tennis also was an important part her life, as
she was an avid tennis player, in fact, she could call
a ball out from anywhere on the tennis court! She
was able to combine her love for the tennis with
special time with friends and fund-raising. She loved
to travel and enjoyed visiting synagogues in other
countries. She was dedicated to helping those in
need. She was very involved in the Lambs Farm
where her daughter Wynn resides, teaching sign
language to residents at the Lambs while also re-
sponsible for raising over 2 million dollars with the
annual Tennis Ball Fund Raiser. She devoted her
life to her family. Her priority in life was caring for
family, especially caring for Wynn and made cer-
tain she was home with family regularly. Beloved
wife of Cyril “Cy” Rosengarten. Loving mother of
Wynn Rosengarten, Paul (Amy) Rosengarten, Gary
Rosengarten and the late Laura Rosengarten. Proud
grandmother of Emma, Gavin, Ayden and Ethan.
Dear sister of Selma (the late Warren) Erhardt, the
late Morris (the late Muriel) Gerber, late Robert (the
late Shirley) Gerber, the late Lillian (the late William)
Levin and the late Bernard (the late Ruth) Gerber. To
keep everyone safe and healthy, due to the current
pandemic, the chapel service and interment are
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Libertyville, IL 60048, www.lambsfarm.org. To attend
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Marie A. Schmid nee Johncola, age 96 of Crystal
Lake, formerly of Arlington Heights.
Beloved wife of the late Cyril Schmid
for 67 years. Loving mother of Leonice
(Bill) Nowack. Adored grandmother
of Christopher (Kaelyn) and Stephen.
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of many. Visitation Tuesday 3 to 8 PM. Funeral
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CHICAGO SPORTS
WHITE SOX 8, ROYALS 2
Keuchel leaves with an
injury, Sox finish sweep
By LaMond Pope
Dallas Keuchel fielded a
grounder back to the mound for
the final out of the fifth inning
against the Royals.
He knew at that point some-
thing wasn’t right with his back.
“It grabbed and it wasn’t a very
comfortable feeling by any
means,” Keuchel said.
The White Sox starter pitched
five shutout innings in Sunday’s
8-2 victory but left after warming
up for the sixth because of lower
back stiffness.
The Sox said Keuchel’s status is
day to day.
Chicago’s best sports section, as judged by the Associated Press Sports Editors
“It’s disappointing just because
of the pace I was at and how
comfortable I had been up to that
point,” Keuchel said. “I’m always
going to go for plays that I can
make, and that was no different. It
just kind of grabbed on me.
“(It) didn’t really warm back up,
so in between innings, I kind of
gave a notice: ‘Hey, might have
somebody warming up just in
case.’ Then I tried to throw a
warm-up pitch and it wasn’t
having it. So just decided to shut it
down.”
He allowed two hits, struck out
Turn to White Sox, Page 6
Monday, September 7, 2020 | Section 3
WHEN SPORTS
CAME BACK
Good
Keeping an eye on the world of
sports during the pandemic:
head Djokovic
kicked out
SETH WENIG/AP
start
of US Open
Novak Djokovic was ejected
from he U.S. Open for acciden-
tally hitting a line judge in the
throat with a tennis ball after
dropping a game in his fourth-
round match Sunday, a stun-
ning end to his 29-match
winning streak and bid for an
18th Grand Slam title.
As he walked to the Arthur
Ashe Stadium sideline for a
changeover, trailing Pablo Car-
reno Busta 6-5 in the first set,
Djokovic — who was seeded
and ranked No. 1 and an
overwhelming favorite for the
championship — angrily
smacked a ball behind him.
The ball flew right at the line
judge, who dropped to her
knees at the back of the court
and reached for her neck.
During a discussion of
Mitch Trubisky has the starting about 10 minutes near the net
involving chair umpire Aurelie
job and is in a good place mentally. Tourte, tournament referee
Soeren Friemel and Grand
But how much will that mean? Slam supervisor Andreas Egli,
Djokovic appeared to be
Man, the signs were sure there Sun- pleading his case.
day afternoon, those qualities within Tourte went on to an-
Mitch Trubisky’s personality and ap- nounce that Djokovic was de-
proach that are easy to believe in. faulted, the tennis equivalent
Two days after being told he had won of an ejection.
the Bears’ closely scrutinized quarter- “I was a little bit in shock,
Dan back competition, Trubisky sat on a no?” Carreno Busta said later
Wiederer Zoom call with reporters oozing grati- at a news conference done via
On the Bears tude, expressing eagerness and appear- video conference.
ing every bit like a confident franchise Djokovic left the tourna-
quarterback with big intentions for the ment grounds without speak-
2020 season. At the very least, this was a ing to the media.
26-year-old veteran with his career on The USTA issued a state-
the line who seems to have found his ment saying that Friemel de-
SEASON way to a really good place mentally. faulted Djokovic “in accord-
OPENER “It’s exciting,” Trubisky said. “I know ance with the Grand Slam
Bears at Lions we’re all eager to get ready for this year rulebook, following his actions
Noon Sunday and play this weekend. So it’s time to of intentionally hitting a ball
TV: Fox-32 roll.” dangerously or recklessly
Seven weeks ago, when Trubisky within the court or hitting a
ducked into a trailer outside Halas Hall ball with negligent disregard
for his COVID-19 arrival test for train- of the consequences.”
ing camp, there was zero guarantee he would enter the Djokovic began the day
season with control of his career. The Bears had traded for 26-0 this season and with an
Nick Foles in March, declined the 2021 option on Tru- 29-0 unbeaten run. He had
bisky’s rookie contract in May and set up a mano-a-mano won five of the last seven
duel for the QB1 job. Slams to raise his total to 17,
For many, it felt like a series of jabs and uppercuts that closing in on rivals Roger
could floor Trubisky for good. Federer, who has a men’s-
Now Trubisky heads into Week 1 with the keys to the record 20, and Rafael Nadal,
Bears offense, with the opportunity he worked his butt off who has 19.
to earn, with another chance to steer his journey where he With reigning U.S. Open
believes it can go. Best of all for coach Matt Nagy and the champion Nadal, who cited
Bears, Trubisky seems at ease and full of self-belief. concerns over the coronavirus
“I control my own destiny,” he said. “And I’m definitely pandemic, and Federer, side-
not going to take this opportunity for granted. I feel like I lined after two knee opera-
got a fresh, new, clean slate.” tions, not in the field, Djokovic
was expected to claim a fourth
Turn to Wiederer, Page 2 trophy in New York.
— Associated Press
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THE QUOTE
“He was perhaps
the happiest Hall
of Famer I’ve ever
encountered. I think
he led a life that will
never be duplicated.”
— Dick Zitzmann, the
longtime agent and friend
of Cardinals great Lou Brock,
in confirming Sunday that the
legendary leadoff hitter died.
Brock was 81.
THE NUMBER
41
Age of Josh McCown, the
oldest practice squad player
in NFL history after the
Eagles signed him as their
emergency QB in case one or
more of the team’s QBs tests
positive for COVID-19. Mc-
Cown, played in three games
ED ZURGA/GETTY for the Eagles in 2019, will
White Sox pitcher Dallas Keuchel throws in the first inning against the remain in Texas and partici-
Royals on Sunday at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. pate in virtual team meetings.
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Team
CUBS
SOX
SKY
Bradenton, Fla.
FIRE
BEARS
Quarterback Nick Foles did not have the benefit of a full offseason after signing with the Bears.
What-ifs for Foles
More time could have benefited the QB,
who now has to embrace his backup role
By Colleen Kane
The winner of the Bears
quarterback competition was am-
biguous enough that neither
Mitch Trubisky nor Nick Foles
knew what coach Matt Nagy was
going to say when he called each
one into his office.
Foles said he thought their
performances throughout the
month of training camp were even
enough that he had “no idea”
which direction the conversation
would take before Nagy told him
he would be backing up Trubisky
in Week 1.
Trubisky waited anxiously
through Nagy’s lengthy explana-
tion of his growth before he finally
could celebrate that he would be
starting Sunday against the Lions
in Detroit.
“I guess I took too long to get to
the point,” Nagy said. “Because
when I told him that he was going
to be the starter, he was waiting,
like: ‘Man, are you going to say
‘but’? I mean, the way you’re
dragging this out …’ ”
The fact Nagy said last week
there was no “clear-cut” winner
makes it easy to play the what-if
game. And one of the first ques-
tions that comes to mind is what if
Foles — for whom the Bears
traded a fourth-round draft pick
and guaranteed $21 million — had
a couple more weeks of in-person
preparation time? Would Nagy
have been delivering different
messages?
In the oddest of offseasons and
training camps because of the
COVID-19 pandemic, Foles had a
little more than a month of
on-field work with his new
coaches and teammates. In that
time, he didn’t demonstrate
enough comfort in Nagy’s offense
and with his receivers to overtake
Trubisky and the strides he has
made this offseason.
Nagy said in the spring he didn’t
think Foles would be affected by
going through organized team
activities entirely on Zoom. But he
Bears expected to add Edwards for depth on defensive line
By Brad Biggs
and Colleen Kane
The Bears are expected to sign
veteran defensive lineman Mario
Edwards Jr., whom the Saints cut
Saturday, NFL Network reported
Sunday morning.
It’s not surprising the Bears
were on the lookout for defensive
line help. Depth was at least
somewhat of a question since
Eddie Goldman opted out before
training camp.
Edwards isn’t a nose tackle
like Goldman, but at 6-foot-3,
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changed his tune Sunday.
“Now that I look back, that
probably affected some things,
and then you have a short summer
with training camp as well, with
reps,” Nagy said, noting he wasn’t
trying to take anything away from
the job Trubisky did in camp.
“With some time I think he could
have been in situations where he
performed, and really it could
have went one way or the other.
“But it didn’t. That’s where
we’re at. He understands that. He
knows that. And he’s a true pro.”
Foles echoed that the time
crunch didn’t help him to perform
as he wanted.
He noted challenges on and off
the field. His wife gave birth to
their second child this summer,
and he moved his family to the
Chicago area during the pan-
demic.
“Was I myself, like where I
want to be?” Foles said. “No, I
wasn’t, but that’s not based on
footwork or anything else. That’s
based on the other circumstances
that are out of your control, where
you are moving your family, you’re
with a new offense and you’re
with new players.
“You (usually) get a great time
in the spring to go through OTA
practices and get those cobwebs
out. That’s not an excuse, that’s
just a reality of it all. But I embrace
that every single day.”
Foles now must embrace a
different question: How can he
help in the oh-so-familiar backup
role?
Earlier in his career, before
signing a four-year, $88 million
deal with the Jacksonville Jaguars
last year, Foles was the ultimate
backup. He stepped in when
Carson Wentz was injured in 2017
to lead the Philadelphia Eagles
through the playoffs to a Super
Bowl victory. The Eagles called on
him again in 2018 when Wentz
was injured, and he led a second
playoff team.
It’s too soon to tell whether the
Bears similarly will need him to
280 pounds, he has versatility
and experience. He appeared in
14 games for the Saints last
season, totaling eight tackles
and three sacks in 293 snaps. He
has appeared in 14 games or
more in four of his previous five
seasons, so he has proved to be
durable.
The Saints cut Edwards in a
cost-saving move, and the 26-
year-old will join his fourth team
in four seasons. He entered the
NFL as a second-round pick of the
Raiders in 2015 out of Florida
State.
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fill in — or if they simply will want
him to if he continues to grow in
his confidence and connection
with the offense and teammates.
Nagy sidestepped a question
about how much patience he
would show Trubisky if he hits
bumps this season, saying instead
he wants to focus on positivity.
“There’s just an excitement of
let’s look at the glass half-full,”
Nagy said. “Let’s be optimistic.
Let’s just worry about that. If we
do that, then you have way less
distractions, way less things to
think about.
“In the offseason, that’s when
you have all your time to try to put
together scenarios that could hap-
pen and would happen. But right
now, there’s just a really good vibe
in our building.”
Foles doesn’t seem like one to
ruin those vibes.
His experiences have helped
him to understand both how to
keep himself prepared to step in
and how to treat the starter he is
backing up. He called Trubisky to
congratulate him upon leaving
Nagy’s office with the news.
“I don’t think many people
would do that,” Trubisky said. “So
that just speaks volumes about
him and his character and what he
wants to bring to this team.”
Foles said he tries to be the
same person whether he is the
starter or the backup and will try
to relay whatever wisdom he can
to Trubisky.
“What I’ve learned throughout
my time in the NFL is the label is
not important,” Foles said. “What
is important is that I’m genuine,
that I’m myself and that I bring
that to the facility every single day
because ultimately it’s about the
Chicago Bears and helping the
Chicago Bears in whatever role.
“And right now my role is to
help Mitch to prepare for games.
To also be prepared for that game.
To give the defense a good look on
scout team. It’s definitely the
different role from being the guy
on the field playing the games, but
that’s the role I’m in right now and
I’m going to do it to the best of my
ability and in the most genuine
way possible.”
The Bears carried five defen-
sive linemen on their initial 53-
man roster and will have to make a
move to create space for Edwards.
Offensive line is a position to keep
an eye on as the Bears might not
want to carry nine on the 53-man
roster.
It’s possible Edwards will not
be the only newcomer. The Bears
have five cornerbacks on the
roster and two are rookies: Jaylon
Johnson and Kindle Vildor. And
second-year pro Duke Shelley
played only eight snaps on defense
last year.
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‘We need to win
games, right?’
Let’s pause here to make a
few things crystal clear. While
confidence on Labor Day week-
end is one of a hundred pre-
requisites to success in the NFL,
it is far from a forecaster of
greatness or even a reliable
predictor of average perform-
ance.
Trubisky and the Bears are as
aware of that as anyone. A year
ago, he stood on a dais at Halas
Hall and told Chicago that he
and the Bears were prepared
and confident to begin the fran-
chise’s 100th season.
“We’re all excited and it feels
good,” Trubisky said on Sept. 1,
2019. “We’re ready to roll.”
Four nights later, the Bears
scored three points in 12 pos-
sessions in a brutal opening-
night loss to the Green Bay
Packers. And a discombobu-
lated, disappointing, dishearten-
ing season for Trubisky and the
offense stayed mostly on that
path. For four months.
Throughout a deflating 8-8
season. On a frustrating detour
that eventually sent Nagy and
general manager Ryan Pace to
find quarterback contingency
plans during the offseason.
Thus any of the aplomb and
verve Trubisky is currently
demonstrating needs to be kept
within proper context. At least
until he proves he can consis-
tently read defenses and make
accurate throws and be the
reason the Bears succeed far
more frequently than he ever
has.
“Ultimately we need to win
games, right?” Nagy said.
To that end, Nagy is pointing
to a list of improvements he says
he has noticed from Trubisky
over the past month. Nagy ex-
plained Sunday that Trubisky
was his choice over Foles in big
part because Trubisky has
shown improved footwork,
more reliable decision-making
and better presence and poise
inside the pocket. All of those
assessments and conclusions
stem from 3½ weeks of training
camp practices, a small body of
work during which Trubisky’s
on-field performance did little
to convince the media horde
that he was a markedly different
quarterback from a year ago.
Thus, naturally and justifi-
ably, Trubisky’s retention of the
starting job comes with great
outside skepticism, with fair
warnings that he could very
well falter again in 2020, with
curiosity as to how much pa-
tience Nagy can afford to have
when his offense and his
quarterback struggle.
Nagy acknowledged the
“short leash” chatter will inevi-
tably circle in the outside world.
But he also insisted the Bears
must enter the season focusing
on success rather than concen-
trating on how to clean up a
potential mess.
“Let’s look at the glass half-
full,” Nagy said. “Let’s be opti-
mistic. … We can’t live in that
drama world right now.”
From a psychological stand-
point, that approach makes
perfect sense as Nagy tries to
convince Trubisky he now holds
the pen to write one of football’s
great redemption stories.
“He has worked his tail off to
try to win this job and have an
opportunity to prove a lot of
The Bears also finalized their
16-man practice squad Sunday,
and it includes kicker Cairo San-
tos.
The Bears cut Santos on Sat-
urday, keeping kicker Eddy Pi-
neiro on the 53-man roster. But
coach Matt Nagy has said the
Bears want to keep two kickers at
Halas Hall this season because of
the COVID-19 pandemic. Pineiro
has been battling a groin injury, so
having Santos on board made
sense.
The other players joining the
practice squad are quarterback
Friday
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people right,” Nagy said. “Now
he has the ball and he’s able to
do what he wants with this. And
we’re going to all support him
and surround him and give him
every opportunity to have a very
happy ending.”
Mind games
A year ago, as the offense
regressed and the Bears stum-
bled backward into the quick-
sand of mediocrity, much of
Chicago was left in a chicken-
or-the-egg shouting match.
Were Trubisky’s pronounced
struggles a result of his fragile
and fractured psyche? Or had
his repeated failures — bad
reads, wild throws, poor deci-
sions — eroded his confidence
like high tide licking away at a
sand castle? Either way, Tru-
bisky’s confidence dip left the
entire building frustrated.
Now Trubisky seems to be
embodying the “juice” that
quarterbacks coach John DeFil-
ippo demands, operating with
that DeFilippo-endorsed com-
bination of confidence, energy
and swagger. Nagy, too, has
sensed increased natural com-
mand from Trubisky in ways it
hasn’t been present previously.
Throughout the past month,
Nagy said, Trubisky’s command
proved contagious.
“It was just very organic,”
Nagy said. “And you can tell
when guys are natural with that.
… You could just feel it — that
he’s ready to get out there and
really play hard for his team-
mates.”
Trubisky was asked Sunday
how he boosted himself men-
tally when so many offseason
developments could have sent
him into a funk.
“I truly believe it was just a
part of my journey and some-
thing I had to deal with in order
to get better,” he said. “I believe
the way you deal with things is
going to determine how it builds
you up.”
He also was asked what he
would point to that could con-
vince the outside world the
2020 Bears offense is capable of
having more pop and scoring
more points.
Without hesitation, he noted
the added firepower in the tight
ends group and the revisions to
the running game. He believes
the Bears have added a needed
element of speed to the receiv-
ing corps and that, as a whole,
the offense is “locked in” with a
sharp attention to detail.
“I just feel like we’re running
what suits our personnel right
now,” Trubisky said. “I feel like
we’re doing a really great job of
feeling that out and putting guys
in positions to go make plays.”
Trubisky sounded like a con-
fident leader more than a sales-
man. He came across as relaxed
and excited. He seemed to be
raring to go.
There’s no doubt that mind-
set will be helpful as the Bears
head into a pivotal season. But
it’s also important to remember
that, even with all of the positive
energy in the world, Trubisky
and the Bears are just now be-
ginning a steep and difficult
climb with no guarantees they
won’t tumble to the bottom of
the mountain once again.
“It’s been a rewarding jour-
ney,” Trubisky said. “But it’s just
one of the first steps.”
The next test comes quickly:
Sunday in Detroit. The test of
how Trubisky’s newfound con-
fidence might translate into
on-field results will be fascinat-
ing to watch.
Tyler Bray, wide receivers Rodney
Adams, Reggie Davis and Thomas
Ives, tight end Jesper Horsted,
running back Artavis Pierce, of-
fensive linemen Lachavious Sim-
mons, Badara Traore, Sam Musti-
pher and Jamon Brown, defensive
linemen Abdullah Anderson and
LaCale London, defensive backs
Stephen Denmark and Xavier
Crawford and linebacker Rashad
Smith. Cornerback Kevin Toliver,
who played two seasons for the
Bears before they cut him Sat-
urday, will join the Broncos prac-
tice squad.
 Chicago Tribune | Chicago Sports | Section 3 | Monday, September 7, 2020 3

BEARS

History Bears repeating

From McMahon-Tomczak-Harbaugh to Matthews-McNown-Miller, there’s lessons from past QB battles
By Colleen Kane

A
fter months of speculation about
whether Nick Foles or Mitch Tru-
bisky would be the Chicago Bears
quarterback in 2020, coach Matt Nagy
picked Trubisky to be the starter.
Nagy and the coaching staff sat down
Thursday and Friday to pore over film of
every practice snap the two quarterbacks
took. The competition that was shortened
and squeezed into about a month of on-field
practice time finally has its victor, and the
Bears finally have their quarterback to lead
them back to the playoffs.
Right? … Right?
Well, maybe not if history is to be
consulted.

The Trubisky-Foles quarterback compe-

tition was one in a long list of such battles in
Bears annals.
Among the more recent were Kyle
Orton-Rex Grossman in 2008, Shane
Matthews-Cade McNown-Jim Miller from
1999 to 2001, Erik Kramer-Rick Mirer in
1997, Kramer-Steve Walsh in 1995 and Jim
McMahon-Mike Tomczak-Jim Harbaugh
in 1989.
Even in seasons that weren’t played
through a pandemic that could sideline
players at any time, not many of the victors
of previous Bears quarterback competitions
played full seasons because of either injury
or underperformance. Kramer did in 1995,
and Orton came close with 15 starts in 2008.
Few found the type of success during the
season their coaches hoped the battle
would draw out. Only one of the seven
aforementioned teams — the Jim Miller-led
2001 Bears — made the playoffs, and just STEPHEN J. CARRERA/AP
three had winning records. And, as we all
Bears quarterback Cade McNown, left, talks with Shane Matthews, center, as coach Dick Jauron, right, watches the activity on the field
well know, no quarterback emerged from
during the morning practice on Aug. 14, 2001, at Halas Hall.
the competitions to become a long-term
success, setting up the Bears for a decades-
Pierson recalled the pushback in 1986
long search to find their next great
when the Bears brought in fourth quarter-
quarterback after Sid Luckman’s career
back Doug Flutie because of injuries, and
ended in 1950.
McMahon, Tomczak and Steve Fuller all
Former longtime Tribune writer and
expressed disappointment to the media.
Bears historian Don Pierson was up close
McMahon responded by asking the Trib-
for several of the battles, and he doesn’t see
une, “Where’s the loyalty?”
history as a good sign for the current
The 5-foot-10 Flutie was presented with
situation.
a bag of miniature footballs at one point,
“I don’t think any quarterback competi-
Pierson said. And Rick Telander wrote in a
tion or controversy is desirable,” he said. “I
1987 Sports Illustrated article that a photo
think it just reflects a weakness. I can’t
of a fawn hung in the Bears’ training camp
remember a time that it has ever turned out
weight room in Platteville, Wis., that year.
to be in any way beneficial for any length of
The caption: “Doug Flutie resting in the
time for the Bears. You know that old
cool shade.”
saying, ‘You think you have two quarter-
“It’s almost impossible for the team, in a
backs, that means you really have none.’
competition or controversy, not to take
That’s been their history, and I can’t help
sides,” Pierson said. “As reporters, we’ve
but think that’s sort of the situation now.”
always tried to get the players to say which
Nagy, however, insists that while picking
quarterback (they wanted). We always tried
Trubisky wasn’t the clear-cut answer com-
to stoke the controversy. And I have to say
ing out of camp, the result still can work out.
the players were always very good about
“Sometimes people say, ‘Well if you have
being careful about what they said on the
two quarterbacks, that means you don’t
record, but inevitably in the locker room or
have any. If you have three tight ends, that
when there weren’t any reporters around,
means you don’t have any,’ ” Nagy said. “But
it’s hard to avoid. I would think the same
we know what we have in these guys. We
thing would happen now.”
feel really good about both of them. Being as
Bears players have been diplomatic when
brutally honest as I could be, it’s difficult (to
asked about the quarterback competition
pick).”
this season. And Nagy said he thinks they
So what have we learned from past Bears NANCY STONE AATBA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE believe in both Foles and Trubisky, so he
competitions?
Bears quarterback Jim Harbaugh looks on during a game against the Packers on Dec. 5, said he wasn’t worried about pushback
1993, at Soldier Field. when he announced the decision.
Lesson No. 1: Matt Nagy needs to be
“In this life, we all have our own opinions
ready to admit he was wrong.
He came to Chicago with a quarterback winner. and we all express it in different ways,”
When Don Pierson was asked to pick the
competition in Pittsburgh already under his As Nagy has said several times this Nagy said. “I understand that. You’re 100%
most successful quarterback competition in
belt. He won that one against Mike preseason, 2020 is the “year of the backup not going to satisfy everybody. That’s not
Bears history, he instead pointed to a
Tomczak and Kordell Stewart but lasted plan,” and Foles doesn’t know when he going to happen. But that’s why they put me
Bears-adjacent example that started with a
only three quarters because of injuries that might be needed. in a role to make decisions, and I put others
wild solution to the controversy.
prompted Bill Cowher to go with the more “Whoever that is that’s the starter better in roles to help me make decisions. It’s
In 1971, Dallas Cowboys coach Tom
experienced Tomczak. be ready to go, and whoever that is as the about trust.”
Landry moved back and forth between
That experience set up Miller for the backup better be ready as well,” Nagy said.
Craig Morton and Roger Staubach for the
turbulent three-year stretch after the Bears “It cannot be a time where there’s a setback Lesson No. 4: Don’t let a mildly suc-
first seven weeks of the season, culminating
drafted Cade McNown with the No. 12 pick mentally because you’re the backup.” cessful season or former bad invest-
with a plan to shuffle the quarterbacks
in 1999. The ’99 season started with coach ments cloud judgement.
every other play against the Bears on Oct. 31.
Dick Jauron making the unorthodox deci- Lesson No. 3: Things could get con- After Bob Avellini beat Mike Phipps in a
“The players were saying, ‘What in the
sion to start Shane Matthews but also play tentious. 1977 competition, Avellini led the Bears to a
world? This is ridiculous. This is such a
McNown. Over the next two seasons Matt Nagy complimented Nick Foles and 9-5 record and a playoff berth while starting
stupid thing to do,’ ” Pierson said.
because of injuries and underperformance, Mitch Trubisky on Wednesday for how all 14 games. However, the 1978 season —
The Bears won 23-19 after the Cowboys
McNown started 15 games, Matthews they handled the competition, noting, when the Bears used both Avellini and
threw four interceptions and lost three
started 12 and Miller started five. The Bears “There’s not malicious activity between Phipps during an eight-game losing streak
fumbles, and Landry finally turned to
finished 6-10 and 5-11 in those years. them where it’s just fake.” — ended in a 7-9 record.
Staubach as his full-time starter. The
In some ways, Miller identified with So camp has seemingly lacked the drama That follow-up failure wasn’t enough to
Cowboys won the final seven games of the
Mitch Trubisky in that he had to compete of, say, the 1989 competition, after which persuade Bears general manager Jim Finks
regular season on the way to a Super Bowl
with a player who came in on a significant Jim Harbaugh accused Mike Tomczak of to draft Joe Montana when he was available
victory over the Miami Dolphins.
recent investment from the team. conspiring with Jim McMahon to sabotage in the third round in 1979. Finks later said
Staubach went on to a Hall of Fame
“For Mitch, he’s just got to make the best him during a preseason game. that with three quarterbacks, including
career over 11 seasons — the dream result of
of it,” Miller said of having Nick Foles The Bears traded the oft-injured McMa- Vince Evans, he “didn’t want to confuse the
a quarterback controversy.
around with the Bears. “He’s got to wipe out hon to the Chargers in the 1989 preseason, issue.”
The lesson here? No, it’s not that Mitch
the noise and just focus on what he’s got to leaving Harbaugh, the Bears’ first-round The Bears quarterback carousel contin-
Trubisky or Nick Foles could be a Hall of
do, and that’s to get better every single day pick in 1987, and Tomczak in competition. ued.
Famer in the making.
— to be better at quarterback tomorrow The following day the Bears played the The lesson is … don’t pass on Joe
It’s that Matt Nagy needs to be ready to
than what you are today. And that’s really all Chargers in an exhibition game. But it Montana. Duh.
admit it if his plan to go with Trubisky isn’t
you can do.” wasn’t until two years later that Harbaugh And also, maybe, if the Bears have mild
working. He understands that.
The Bears realized McNown wasn’t their launched the accusation that while he was success this season, they need to make sure
“When you name that starter, you
answer after two seasons and traded him to playing, Tomczak used a hand signal to they approach their quarterback evaluation
obviously want that starter in a perfect
the Miami Dolphins in 2001. Matthews relay a play to McMahon on the Chargers moving forward with clear heads.
world to be able to go win a Super Bowl,”
won the job in training camp again, only to sideline. Tomczak threatened to sue Har- There’s a scale of outcomes from good to
Nagy said. “But there are so many different
get injured in the second game. Miller baugh for slander, and McMahon scoffed at bad that could come from this competition,
things that can happen, especially this
stayed healthy enough to start 13 games, the accusation. with the peak being a Super Bowl season led
season. So at the forefront of us being open
seizing the opportunity behind one of the “That guy needs attention,” McMahon by the Bears’ future franchise quarterback.
and honest with them is we explain that,
league’s best defenses and rookie running said in December 1991. “He just wants The worst might not be a losing season but a
hey, if you’re a real professional in this thing
back Anthony Thomas. The Bears finished everybody to like him.” flash-in-the-pan year for a quarterback
— both as a player and for us as coaches —
13-3 and went to the playoffs. (The Bears finished 6-10 in 1989, though whose shortcomings are masked by a
you better be prepared for every situation.
Miller credited having the right mental- Harbaugh led two teams the following two staunch defense.
How do you prepare mentally? That’s a big
ity over those three years, noting teams seasons, missing the first of those playoffs As the Bears wait to see how it plays out
part of this.”
valued his ability to step in when needed. with a separated shoulder.) with Trubisky as the starter, we’ll let Lovie
“I felt I had a really strong training camp,” But beyond potential bad blood between Smith close out this discussion with his
Lesson No. 2: Nick Foles better be
Miller said. “I felt I won the job, but that the quarterbacks, teammates sometimes comments after he went with his “gut
prepared as the backup.
wasn’t the case. But I didn’t cry about it. I take sides. feeling” and named Kyle Orton the starter
The Bears don’t have an example like
didn’t moan. I just went about my business, The most famous example came after the over Rex Grossman in 2008. That 9-7
Roger Staubach, but there have been
and then when your number is called, Bears’ 1963 NFL championship season. Bill season, which didn’t result in a playoff
limited successes.
you’ve got to be ready and you’ve got to take Wade led the Bears to the title, but the berth, was both quarterbacks’ final one with
Jim Miller experienced one of the
advantage of that opportunity. And I felt I following year Mike Ditka and Johnny the team.
payoffs — except he didn’t win the job out of
did. I think the team responded.” Morris said at a banquet attended by the “Is it over? Nothing is ever over at any
training camp, and it took two-plus years of
If there’s a lesson in Miller’s wild Chicago Daily News’ Ray Sons that they position,” Smith said. “We don’t name any
a quarterback carousel for him to take the
three-year run, it’s that the backup of such preferred Rudy Bukich at quarterback, guys starters for a lifetime.”
reins and lead the Bears to the playoffs.
competitions can be just as valuable as the infuriating George Halas. At least not in Chicago.
4 Chicago Tribune | Chicago Sports | Section 3 | Monday, September 7, 2020

SCOREBOARD

NBA PLAYOFFS NHL PLAYOFFS TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP

EAST SEMIFINALS
#5 Miami 3, #1 Milwaukee 1
Aug. 31: Miami 115, Milwaukee 104
Sept. 2: Miami 116, Milwaukee 114
Johnson
EAST FINALS
#2 Tampa Bay vs. #6 NY Islanders
All games played in Toronoto
Monday: Islanders vs. Tampa Bay, 8 p.m.

Sept. 4: Miami 115, Milwaukee 100
Sunday: Milw. 118, Miami 115, OT
Tues.: Miami vs. Milwaukee, 5:30 p.m.
x-Thursday: Milwaukee vs. Miami, TBD
in good spot
Wed.y: Islanders vs. Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.
Friday: Tampa Bay vs. Islanders, 7 p.m.
Sept. 13: Tampa Bay vs. Islanders, 2 p.m.
x-TSept. 15: Islanders vs. Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.

x-Saturday: Miami vs. Milwaukee, TBD
#3 Boston 2, #2 Toronto 2
Aug. 29: Boston 112, Toronto 94
Sept. 1: Boston 102, Toronto 99
Sept. 2: Toronto 104, Boston 103
Sept. 5: Toronto 100, Boston 93
Monday: Boston vs. Toronto, 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday: Toronto vs. Boston, TBD
x-Friday: Boston vs. Toronto, TBD
WEST SEMIFINALS
#1 L.A. Lakers 1, #4 Houston 1
Friday: Houston 112, L.A. Lakers 97
Sun.: L.A. Lakers 117, Houston 109
Tue.: L.A. Lakers, vs. Houston, 8 p.m.
Thur: L.A. Lakers vs. Houston, TBD
Sat.: Houston vs. L.A. Lakers, TBD
x-Sept. 14: L.A. Lakers vs. Houston, TBD
x-Sept. 16: Houston vs. L.A. Lakers, TBD
#2 L.A. Clippers 1, #3 Denver 1
Sept. 3: L.A. Clippers 120, Denver 97
Sept. 5: Denver 110, L.A. Clippers 101
Monday: L.A. Clippers vs. Denver, 8 p.m.
Wed.: L.A. Clippers vs. Denver, 8 p.m.
x-Friday: Denver vs. L.A. Clippers, TBD
x-Sept. 13: L.A. Clippers vs. Denver, TBD
x-Sept. 15: Denver vs. L.A. Clippers, TBD
Best-of-7; x-if necessary
WNBA
EASTERN W L PCT
x-Chicago 11 9 .550
Connecticut 9 10 .474
at East Lake
x-Sept. 17: Tampa Bay vs. Islanders, 7 p.m.
x-S19: Islanders vs. Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.
WEST FINALS
#1 Vegas vs. #3 Dallas
All games played in Edmonton By Doug Ferguson
Sunday,: Dallas vs. Vegas, late Associated Press
Tuesday: Dallas vs. Vegas, 7 p.m.
Thursday: Vegas vs. Dallas, 7 p.m.
Sept. 12: Vegas vs. Dallas, 7 p.m. ATLANTA — Dustin Johnson
x-Sept. 14: Dallas vs. Vegas, 7 p.m.
x-Sept. 16: Vegas vs. Dallas, 7 p.m. started with the lead, matched the
x-Sept. 18: Dallas vs. Vegas, 8 p.m. low round Sunday at the Tour
Best-of-7; x-if necessary
Championship with a 6-under 64
and now is one round away from
capturing the FedEx Cup and its $15
TENNIS
million prize.
U.S. OPEN Johnson missed only three fair-
Results Sunday at USTA Billie Jean King ways and putted for birdie on all but
National Tennis Center:=
three holes. It led to a five-shot lead
Men’s Singles, Fourth Round
#5 Alexander Zverev d.
over Justin Thomas and Xander
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, 6-2, 6-2, Schauffele going into the Labor Day
6-1.
#20 Pablo Carreno Busta d.
finish at East Lake.
#1 Novak Djokovic, 6-5. “He’s showcased what he can do,”
#27 Borna Coric d. DOUGLAS P. DEFELICE/GETTY Schauffele said. “If he does what he
Jordan Thompson, 7-5, 6-1, 6-3.
#12 Denis Shapovalov d. Khris Middleton, left, celebrates with Eric Bledsoe during the Bucks’ victory normally does, it’s going to be almost
#7 David Goffin, 6-7 (0), 6-3, 6-4, 6-3. Sunday. Middleton scored 36 points and hit a big 3-pointer late in OT. impossible to catch him.”
GB Women’s Singles, Fourth Round No one was playing better going
_
#28 Jennifer Brady d.
#17 Angelique Kerber, 6-1, 6-4.
NBA PLAYOFFS into the FedEx Cup finale and
11⁄2
Johnson has shown no signs of

Bucks battle back

Washington 5 13 .278 5 #23 Yulia Putintseva d.
#8 Petra Martic, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4.
Atlanta
Indiana
5 14 .263
5 14 .263
51⁄2
51⁄2 Shelby Rogers d.
slowing. He was at 19-under par, his
New York 2 16 .111 8 #6 Petra Kvitova, 7-6 (5), 3-6, 7-6 (6). fourth consecutive event holding at
WESTERN W L PCT GB Men’s Doubles, Quarterfinals least a share of the 54-hole lead.
#3 Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury d.
x-Seattle 16 3 .842 _ He converted one of those into an

without Giannis
x-Las Vegas 14 4 .778 11⁄2 Mackenzie McDonald and Christopher
x-Los Angeles 14 5 .737 2 Eubanks, 6-2, 7-6 (5). 11-shot victory two weeks ago at the
x-Minnesota 13 6 .684 3
x-Phoenix 12 7 .632 4
#8 Nikola Mektic and Wesley Koolhof d.
Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen, 7-6 (6),
TPC Boston. He lost to a 65 by Collin
Dallas 7 12 .368 9 6-3. Morikawa in the PGA Champi-
x-clinched playoff spot=
Women’s Doubles, Third Round onship and to a 65-foot putt in a
SUNDAY’S RESULTS
Dallas 101, Washington 94, OT
Alison Riske and Gabriela Dabrowski d.
#1 Kristina Mladenovic and Timea Ba-
Reigning MVP exits, Tuesday to try to finish the series off. playoff by Jon Rahm last week at
Seattle 103, Minnesota 88
bos, walkover. but No. 1 seed stays alive Antetokounmpo scored 19 points Olympia Fields.
Los Angeles 86, Chicago 80
MONDAY’S GAME Women’s Doubles, Quarterfinals for the Bucks in only 11 minutes, Now only four players have a
Connecticut at Phoenix, 5 p.m. Veronika Kudermetova and Anna
Blinkova d.
while Brook Lopez and Eric Bledsoe reasonable chance of catching him.
TUESDAY’S GAMES
Los Angeles at New York, 6 p.m. #4 Kveta Peschke and Demi Schuurs, Associated Press each had 14 in the victory. George Schauffele, a big-game player who
Minnesota at Washington, 7 p.m. 6-4, 6-2. Hill added 12. won the Tour Championship three
Indiana at Las Vegas, 9 p.m Giannis Antetokounmpo was The Heat managed only two years ago, dropped only one shot on
waiting in the locker room for his points in the first 4:30 of OT, got the front nine and finished with a
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
teammates Sunday, standing on his within one on a 3-pointer from Tyler 10-foot birdie putt for a 67 that puts
SOCCER bad right ankle to greet every one of Herro, but Middleton delivered the him in the final group with Johnson.
MLS MONDAY’S GAME them. biggest shot of the night to make it Thomas missed a 16-inch par putt
BYU at Navy, 7 p.m.
Eastern W L T PT GF GA THURSDAY’S GAME His day ended early. 116-112. on the 10th hole that he careless
Columbus 7 1 2 23 16 2 UAB at Miami , 6 p.m. His season isn’t over yet. Antetokounmpo had 19 of the went ot tap in, bounced back with a
Philadelphia 5 2 3 18 15 9 FRIDAY’S GAME
Toronto FC 5 2 3 18 16 11 SMU at TCU , ppd.
Khris Middleton scored 36 points, Bucks’ first 30 points, shooting 8- 25-foot birdie putt on the toughest
Orlando City 4 2 4 16 17 12 including a big 3-pointer with 6.4 for-10 from the floor. But then par 3 at East Lake and make two
New England 3 2 5 14 9 9
Montreal 4 3 1 13 11 9
GOLF
seconds left in overtime, and the everything changed for the Bucks. more birdies coming for a 66.
N.Y. City FC
Atlanta
4 5 1 13 8
3 4 2 11 8
8
9
Bucks avoided a sweep by beating the Antetokounmpo aggravated his They were at 14 under.
N.Y. Red Bulls 3 5 2 11 7 13 TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP Heat 118-115 in overtime of Game 4 of sprained right ankle with 10:18 left in “DJ is clearly playing well,”
D.C. United
Cincinnati
2 4 4 10 9
2 5 3 9 6
13
15
3nd round; at East Lake GC, Atlanta
Yardage 7,346; Par: 70
the teams’ Eastern Conference semi- the second quarter, rolling it inward Thomas said. “... It’s still East Lake.
Nashville SC 2 4 2 8 5 9 Purse: $60 million final series Sunday at Walt Disney — just as he did in Game 3 on Friday. But anything can happen around this
Chicago 2 6 2 8 9 16
Inter Miami CF 1 6 1 4 6 11
(starting position in parentheses) World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. He tumbled to the court, grabbing course. You can shoot 63 or 64 and
-19
Western W L T PT GF GA Dustin Johnson (-10) 67-70-64_201 The eighth-seeded Heat still lead the ankle and screaming in pain. you can shoot 73 or 74 very easily.”
Sporting KC 5 3 2 17 20 15 (-14) 3-1, but the top-seeded Bucks — the He took the free throws. But at Jon Rahm played bogey-free, but
Seattle 4 1 3 15 15 7 Xander Schauffele (-3) 67-65-67_1
Minnesota 4 3 2 14 18 14 Justin Thomas (-7) 66-71-66_203
best team in the regular season — are halftime, the Bucks delivered the only a pair of birdies at the end made
Houston 3 2 4 13 16 14 (-13) still alive, even after Antetokounmpo word that he wouldn’t be back. it feel like a better day with his 66. He
Los Angeles FC 3 2 3 12 21 16
LA Galaxy 3 3 2 11 13 15
Jon Rahm (-8)
(-12)
65-74-66_205 left early in the second quarter with The Bucks said Antetokounmpo was six shots behind, while
Portland 3 3 2 11 14 17
Collin Morikawa (-5) 71-65-67_203 an aggravation of his sprained right would get plenty of treatment before Morikawa rallied with five birdies on
Real Salt Lake 2 2 5 11 13 14
FC Dallas 2 1 4 10 8 5 (-10) ankle. a decision is made about his availabil- the back nine to salvage a rough start
Daniel Berger (-4) 69-71-64_204
Vancouver
Colorado
3 6 0 9 10
2 3 3 9 11
18
15 Sungjae Im (-4) 68-64-72_204 “Khris is very unique,” Bucks ity for Tuesday. for a 67. He was seven behind.
San Jose 2 3 3 9 14 19 (-9) coach Mike Budenholzer said. “He’s
Scottie Scheffler (-2) 71-66-66_203
3 points for victory, 1 point for tie.
(-8)
got a way about him. He wanted to Lakers even series: LeBron James
SUNDAY’S RESULTS
N.Y. City FC 0, D.C. United 0, tie Rory McIlroy (-3) 64-71-70_205 play. He asked to stay in the game.” had 28 points, 11 rebounds and nine
Philadelphia 3, N.Y. Red Bulls 0 Brendon Todd (-3) 67-68-70_205 As if there was any other option. assists, Anthony Davis added 34
Columbus 3, Cincinnati 0 Tyrrell Hatton (-2)
(-7)
67-66-71_204
Middleton’s season-high before Sun- points and 10 rebounds and the NASCAR
New England 2, Chicago 1
Tony Finau (-2) 68-71-66_205 day was 40 minutes; he logged 48 in Lakers evened their Western Confer-
Playoff race
Minnesota 4, Real Salt Lake 0
Hideki Matsuyama (-4) 70-70-67_207
Nashville at Miami, late
Portland at Seattle, late Webb Simpson (-6) 70-71-68_209 Game 4, taking over with An- ence semifinal series with a 117-109
Los Angeles FC at LA Galaxy, late Abraham Ancer (-1) 64-71-69_204 tetokounmpo watching from the victory over the Rockets.
Lanto Griffin (-2) 67-69-69_205
locker room. Markieff Morris scored 16 points
breaks late
Sebastian Munoz (-3) 71-65-70_206
CYCLING
(-6) “Just keep fighting,” said Middle- for the top-seeded Lakers. They
Harris English (-4)
Patrick Reed (-3)
70-69-69_208
71-66-70_207
ton, who also had eight rebounds and opened a 21-point lead in the first
TOUR DE FRANCE eight assists. half, gave up 41 points in the third
for Harvick
(-5)
Stage 9; 153-kilometer (95-mile) ride Mackenzie Hughes (E) 70-69-66_205 Bam Adebayo had 26 points, 12 quarter to fall behind, and then
from Pau to Laruns (-4)
1. Tadej Pogacar, Slovenia, UAE:03:55:17. Viktor Hovland (E) 69-69-68_206 rebounds and eight assists for the regrouped behind some high-flying
2. Primoz Roglic, Slovenia :same Bryson DeChambeau (-4) 72-69-69_210 Heat. Duncan Robinson scored 20 plays by James to pull away again.
3. Marc Hirschi, Switzerland :same (-2)
points, Jae Crowder had 18 and James Harden scored 27 points By Pete Iacobelli
Egan Arley Gomez, Colombia :same Kevin Kisner (-1) 72-68-69_209
5. Mikel Meana, Spain, Bahrain :same Goran Dragic and Jimmy Butler each and Eric Gordon made six 3s and Associated Press
(-1)
Overall Standings Joaquin Niemann (-2) 72-72-67_211 finished with 17 for the Heat. added 24 for the fourth-seeded
1. Primoz Roglic, Slovenia, 38:40:01. Cameron Champ (E) 68-71-70_209
The Heat had an eight-point lead Rockets, who made 22 3s. Russell DARLINGTON, S.C. — Another
2. Egan Bernal Gomez, Colombia, :21. Kevin Na (-1) 69-70-71_210
3. Guillaume Martin, France :28. Cameron Smith (E) 68-68-73_209 in the fourth quarter, promptly Westbrook finished only 4-for-15 race, another win for Kevin Harvick.
4. Romain Bardet, France, : :30. (+3)
allowed the Bucks to score the next while scoring 10 points and grabbing Again at Darlington Raceway and
5. Nairo Quintana, Colombia, ::32. Ryan Palmer (-1) 72-72-70_214
6. Rigoberto Uran, Colombia ::32. Marc Leishman (-1) 66-75-73_214 12, and now needs to come back 13 rebounds. this time to open the playoffs and his
(+4) march toward the NASCAR champi-
Billy Horschel (E) 70-73-71_214 onship.
ODDS Only difference? Harvick didn’t
IN BRIEF dominate the Southern 500 in his
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
NATIONAL LEAGUE MONDAY
series-best eighth victory of the
at Atlanta -190
at New York -111
at Chicago -165
Miami +175
Philadelphia +101
St. Louis +155
AUTO RACING Klingberg, Khudobin key Stars season. The regular-season champi-
on and top seed in the playoffs
inherited the lead Sunday night
at San Diego -210 Colorado +190
NASCAR CUP SERIES
Arizona -126 at San Fran. +116
THE COOKOUT SOUTHERN 500
News services appeared on course for a comfortable when Martin Truex Jr. and Chase
AMERICANLEAGUE MONDAY
at Minnesota -195 Detroit +180 Sunday at Darlington Raceway; Darling- victory from pole position but he was Elliott bumped then brushed the
at Seattle -135 Texas +125 ton, S.C.; Lap length: 1.366 miles John Klingberg scored on the given the stop-go penalty for enter- wall as they raced for the victory.
at Cleveland -200 Kansas City +180 FN St Driver M Laps Pts Stars’ first shot, Anton Khudobin ing the pit lane when closed. The Elliott dropped off the pace and
at Toronto -140 New York +130 1 8 Kevin Harvick F 367 49
at Oakland -141 Houston +131 2 12 Austin Dillon C 367 38 stopped all 25 the Golden Knights Mercedes driver finished seventh. Harvick passed him for second.
INTERLEAGUE MONDAY 3 13 Joey Logano F 367 38 put on net and the third-seeded Stars Truex — who led a race-high 196 laps
at Washington Off Tampa Bay Off 4 30 Erik Jones T 367 37
5 3 William Byron C 367 35 beat the top-seeded Knights 1-0 on Colleges: Tom Jernstedt, a member — had to pit for repairs on his
NBA PLAYOFFS 6 4 Alex Bowman
7 15 Kyle Busch
C 367
T 367
43
37
Sunday night in a hard-hitting, de- of the Naismith Hall of Fame for his damaged car, and Harvick was sud-
SP MONDAY
Miami 1 Milwaukee 8 16 Kurt Busch C 367 36 fensive Game 1 of the Western contributions to college basketball denly out front.
9 10 Aric Almirola F 367 28
LA Lakers 51⁄2 Houston
10 9 Clint Bowyer F 367 29 Conference final in Edmonton, Al- and the NCAA Tournament, died “The leaders got tangled up there
NHL PLAYOFFS
11 5 Brad Keselowski F 367 26 berta. during the weekend. He was 75. and the next thing you know we
12 14 Cole Custer F 367 25
MONDAY 13 2 Denny Hamlin T 367 40 Khudobin had his first NHL Nicknamed “Father of the Final were racing for the win,” Harvick
Tampa Bay -153 NY Islanders +143 14 26 Matt Kenseth
15 31 Ryan Newman
C 367
F 367
23
22
playoff shutout in the Stars’ first 1-0 Four,” Jernstedt has been credited said. “This is one of the most
COLLEGE FOOTBALL 16 19 Michael McDowell F 367 21 playoff win in regulation since 2000. with transforming the NCAA Tour- prestigious races in our sport and
SP O/U MONDAY 17 35 Ryan Preece C 367 20
BYU 1 481⁄2 at Navy 18 22 Jimmie Johnson C 367 34
In true lockdown Stars fashion, nament into the billion-dollar March obviously everybody in our sport
SP O/U THURSDAY 19 29 R. Stenhouse, Jr. C 367 18 the game had almost double the Madness it has become today. A knows the history that Darlington
20 1 Chase Elliott C 367 25
at Miami 14
SP
511⁄2
OU SATURDAY
UAB
21 11 Matt DiBenedetto F 366 16 amount of total hits (96) than shots former back-up QB at Oregon, Jern- has for our sport, so anytime you can
at N. Carolina 201⁄2 63 Syracuse
22 6 Martin Truex, Jr. T 366 35 on goal (50). Two days after each stedt worked his first Final Four in win here is pretty special.”
23 24 Tyler Reddick C 366 14
at App.. St 17 601⁄2 Charlotte 24 7 Ryan Blaney F 366 3 team won a Game 7 in the second 1973 and helped push the growth of Harvick has won twice this season
at Florida St 12 541⁄2 Georgia Tech
at Kansas 31⁄2 55 ⁄2 Coast. Carol.
1
25 28 Daniel Suarez
26 20 Chris Buescher
T 364
F 364
12
11
round to move on, the Stars had more the NCAA Tournament from 25 at Darlington, including the May 17
at Louisville 111⁄2 56 W Kentucky 27 25 Ty Dillon C 363 10 jump from the drop of the puck and teams to the 68 and increase the return to competition for NASCAR
Clemson 33 60 at Wake Foest 28 23 Brennan Poole C 362 9
at Notre Dame 191⁄2 531⁄2 Duke 29 34 Ross Chastain C 360 0 carried that to a series lead. event’s TV contract from just over $1 after a 10-week pause at the start of
at Army 15 57 La-Monroe 30 37 J.J. Yeley F 360 0 ■ Lightning captain Steven Stamkos million to more than $10 billion the pandemic. When he won that
31 32 Quin Houff C 357 6
at Iowa St
at Texas
101⁄2
43
561⁄2
611⁄2
LA-Laf.
UTEP
32 38 Josh Bilicki C 356 0 will not be available for the team’s when he left in 2011. He served as race — held without spectators — he
at Baylor 181⁄2 541⁄2 La Tech
33 39 Joey Gase
34 21 Christopher Bell
F 351
T 349
0
3
Eastern Conference final against the president of USA Basketball and was pointed into the TV camera and told
at Texas St 61⁄2 55 Utsa 35 33 Timmy Hill T 296-o 0 Islanders. Ther series starts Monday. a member of the College Football the fans how much they were
at Okla. St 21 651⁄2 Tulsa 36 18 John H. Nemechek F 245-a 1
at Kansas St 12 551⁄2 Arkansas St 37 27 Corey LaJoie F 234-a 1
Stamkos has yet to play in the Selection committee. missed.
Tulane 101⁄2 531⁄2 at S. Alabama 38 17 Bubba Wallace C 217-t 1 playoffs as he rehabs from an undis- South Carolina allowed Darling-
39 36 James Davison C 162-e 1
NFL closed lower-body injury. The 30- Cycling: Primoz Roglic seized yel- ton to admit up to 8,000 for this race
a-accident; e-engine; 0-overheating; C-
WEEK 1 SP O/U THURSDAY
Chevrolet; F-Ford; T-Toyota year-old center recorded 29 goals low jersey after Stage 9 of the Tour de — the third Cup race this season for
at Kansas City 91⁄2 54 Houston
SP O/U SUNDAY
Winners’ average speed 132.25 mph. and 37 assists but hasn’t played since France. Tadej Pogacar won the 95- the track — and Harvick immedi-
Time: a3:47:26. Margin: 0.343 seconds.
at New Eng. 6 43 Miami
Caution Flags: 7 for 34 laps.
Feb. 25 and underwent core muscle mile mountain stage.. ately noted their presence.
at Baltimore
at Buffalo
81⁄2
61⁄2
481⁄2
39 ⁄2
1
Cleveland
NY Jets
Lead Changes: 18 among 6 drivers. surgery March 2. “The first thing I want to say is
Las Vegas 3 471⁄2 at Carolina
Lap Leaders: C.Elliott 0-71; D.Hamlin 72; NFL: The Titans agreed to terms ‘Welcome back fans! This is a hell of
Ku.Busch 73-74; C.Elliott 75-83;
Seattle 11⁄2 49 at Atlanta
Ku.Busch 84-85; M.Truex 86-117; C.Elliott Auto racing: AlphaTauri driver Pi- with three-time Pro Bowl LB Jade- a lot more fun with you guys up
Philadelphia 6 43 at Wash.
at Detroit 3 44 Chicago
118; M.Truex 119-172; Ku.Busch 173; erre Gasly claimed an unlikely vic- veon Clowney on a one-year contract there,’ ” he told the crowd. He also
K.Harvick 174-181; A.Bowman 182;
Indianapolis 71⁄2 45 at Jacksnvlle
M.Truex 183-231; D.Hamlin 232-247; tory at the Italian Grand Prix after a worth up to $15 million, ESPN gave the checkered flag to a young
at Minnesota 21⁄2 461⁄2 Green Bay
LA Chargers 3 44 at Cincinnati
M.Truex 248-306; D.Hamlin 307-308; thrilling race which saw three-time reported. The No. 1 overall pick of fan wearing one of his shirts.
K.Harvick 309-319; C.Elliott 320-352;
at San Fran. 7 47 Arizona
M.Truex 353-354; K.Harvick 355-367
defending F1 world champ and 2014, Clowney, 27, spent last season The victory fell into Harvick’s lap
at New Orl.
Dallas
31⁄2
3
491⁄2
52
Tampa Bay
at LA Rams
current points leader Lewis Hamil- with the Seahawks. ... The Bucca- with 14 laps remaining when Truex
SP O/U SEPT. 14 ton given a 10-second penalty. Gasly, neers signed free agent QB Josh attempted to pass Elliott. As Truex
Pittsburgh 5 471⁄2 at NY Giantsa 24, finished 0.415 seconds ahead of Rosen to their practice squad, ac- went to complete the move, he
at Denver 11⁄2 41 Tennessee
McLaren driver Carlos Sainz for his cording to reports. Rosen, 23, was clipped Elliott’s front side and both
pregame.com
first career series win. Hamilton released by the Dolphins on Friday. touched the wall.
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BASEBALL

AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE

EAST W L PCT L10 STR HOME AWAY EAST W L PCT L10 STR HOME AWAY
Tampa Bay 28 13 .683 8-2 W-1 14-6 14-7 Atlanta 24 16 .600 6-4 W-1 14-6 10-10
Toronto 22 18 .550 6-4 W-1 8-8 14-10 Philadelphia 19 17 .528 7-3 L-2 13-9 6-8
New York 21 19 .525 4-6 L-3 13-7 8-12 Miami 17 18 .486 3-7 L-1 6-9 11-9
Baltimore 19 21 .475 5-5 W-3 10-13 9-8 New York 19 22 .463 4-6 W-2 10-11 9-11
Boston 14 28 .333 4-6 L-1 7-17 7-11 Washington 14 25 .359 2-8 L-1 4-12 10-13

CENTRAL W L PCT L10 STR HOME AWAY CENTRAL W L PCT L10 STR HOME AWAY
Chicago 26 15 .634 7-3 W-4 11-9 15-6 Chicago 23 18 .561 5-5 L-3 11-10 12-8
Cleveland 25 15 .625 7-3 W-2 11-8 14-7 St. Louis 17 15 .531 6-4 W-3 9-9 8-6
Minnesota 25 17 .595 5-5 L-1 16-5 9-12 Milwaukee 18 21 .462 5-5 L-2 8-10 10-11
Detroit 18 20 .474 6-4 W-1 9-11 9-9 Cincinnati 18 23 .439 4-6 L-1 8-12 10-11
Kansas City 14 27 .341 2-8 L-6 7-13 7-14 Pittsburgh 13 26 .333 4-6 W-1 7-13 6-13

WEST W L PCT L10 STR HOME AWAY WEST W L PCT L10 STR HOME AWAY
Oakland 23 14 .622 4-6 L-1 14-6 9-8 Los Angeles 30 11 .732 8-2 L-1 15-6 15-5
Houston 21 19 .525 4-6 L-4 16-7 5-12 San Diego 25 17 .595 6-4 W-1 12-6 13-11
Seattle 18 22 .450 7-3 W-5 10-8 8-14 San Francisco 20 21 .488 5-5 W-2 11-9 9-12
Los Angeles 17 25 .405 7-3 W-5 11-12 6-13 Colorado 19 20 .487 5-5 W-1 9-12 10-8
Texas 13 26 .333 2-8 L-5 9-10 4-16 Arizona 15 26 .366 2-8 L-2 9-9 6-17
Late games noted below Postseason qualification this season is determined by winning percentage (Top 2 teams in each division plus 2 wild cards per league)

MONDAY’S PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUPS AROUND THE HORN

INTERLEAGUE 2020 TEAM 2020 VS. OPP. LAST 3 STARTS ■ Indians: Shane Bieber
TEAM PITCHER TIME W-L ERA TR W-L IP ERA W-L IP ERA
TB Morton (R) 1-1 4.82 3-2 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-0 9.2 1.86
struck out 10 in five innings
Was Scherzer (R) 5:05p 3-2 3.95 5-3 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-1 16.2 4.32 to remain unbeaten in
2020, Carlos Santana had
AMERICAN LEAGUE 2020 TEAM 2020 VS. OPP. LAST 3 STARTS
TEAM PITCHER TIME W-L ERA TR W-L IP ERA W-L IP ERA two RBIs and 3B Jose
Det Fulmer (R) 0-0 7.27 4-2 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 9.0 7.00 Ramirez made a jaw-drop-
Min Pineda (R) 1:10p 0-0 3.00 1-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-0 18.0 2.50 ping defensive play to lead
Tex Allard (L) 0-4 5.40 2-4 0-1 0.2 54.00 0-3 13.0 5.54
Sea Gonzales (L) 3:10p 4-2 3.09 4-3 0-1 5.0 7.20 2-0 21.0 2.14
the Indians to a 4-1 win
KC Keller (R) 3-1 1.93 4-1 0-0 6.1 1.42 1-1 17.0 3.18 over the visiting Brewers
Cle Plesac (R) 5:10p 2-1 1.33 2-2 1-0 6.0 1.50 2-1 19.0 1.89 on Sunday. Bieber (7-0)
NY Montgomery 2-2 5.76 3-3 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-1 9.1 6.75
(L)
only allowed one run and
Tor Ryu (L) 5:37p 3-1 2.51 6-2 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-0 17.0 1.06 five singles, but the Brew-
Hou Javier (R) 4-1 3.34 5-2 0-1 3.0 15.00 2-0 16.0 3.94 ers were patient at the plate
Oak Montas (R) 8:10p 2-3 6.06 4-3 1-1 10.1 4.35 0-2 9.2 16.76
and made the RHP run up
NATIONAL LEAGUE 2020 TEAM 2020 VS. OPP. LAST 3 STARTS his pitch count. Bieber
TEAM PITCHER TIME W-L ERA TR W-L IP ERA W-L IP ERA
came in leading the majors
Mia Ureña (R) 0-0 0.00 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 2-1 16.0 6.19
Atl Anderson (R) 12:10p 2-0 2.25 2-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 2-0 12.0 2.25 in strikeouts and added to
Phi Wheeler (R) 4-0 2.20 5-2 1-0 7.0 2.57 1-0 19.1 1.40 JEFF ROBERSON/AP his total by reaching dou-
NY Peterson (L) 12:10p 4-1 3.03 4-1 0-0 0.0 0.00 2-0 14.0 3.21
Hall of Famer Lou Brock won two World Series titles as leadoff hitter for the Cardinals. ble-digits for the sixth time
StL Oviedo (R) 0-1 4.30 0-3 0-0 5.0 3.60 0-1 14.2 4.30
Chi Hendricks (R) 3:10p 4-4 3.78 4-4 0-1 6.1 4.26 1-2 17.1 4.67 this season.
Ari Gallen (R) 1-0 1.80 5-3 1-0 13.0 1.38 1-0 20.0 0.90 LOU BROCK 1939-2020 ■ White Sox: Edwin En-
SF Gausman (R) 7:05p 2-2 4.43 2-5 0-0 0.0 0.00 2-1 15.0 4.80
carnacion hit a three-run

Cardinals great dies at age 81

Col Freeland (L) 2-1 4.09 5-3 1-0 10.1 3.48 0-0 12.1 8.03
SD Lamet (R) 8:10p 2-1 2.62 6-2 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 16.1 4.41 HR, Dallas Keuchel threw
NOTE: Only games with one or both pitchers designated are listed below five scoreless innings and
TR: Team’s record in games started by today’s pitcher.
Vs. Opp: Pitcher’s record versus this opponent.
the AL Central-leading
By Hillel Italie fore their game at Wrigley one of baseball’s most lop- White Sox beat the Royals
Associated Press Field. sided trades. 8-2 to complete a four-
Brock lost a leg from Brock stole 938 bases in game sweep. Keuchel (6-2)
NEW YORK — Hall of diabetes in recent years his career, including 118 in left the game with lower
RESULTS, SCHEDULE
Famer Lou Brock, one of and was diagnosed with 1974 — both of those were back stiffness after throw-
baseball’s signature leadoff cancer in 2017. big league records until ing a few warmup pitches
AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE hitters and base stealers “Over my 25-plus years they were broken by before the sixth and is
SUNDAY’S RESULTS
Baltimore 5, N.Y. Yankees 1
SUNDAY’S RESULTS
N.Y. Mets 14, Philadelphia 1
who helped the Cardinals of being his agent, he was Rickey Henderson. considered day to day. He
Cleveland 4, Milwaukee 1 Atlanta 10, Washington 3 win three pennants and perhaps the happiest Hall Along with starter Bob threw 49 pitches, allowed
TamChipa Bay 5, Miami 4, (10) Pittsburgh 3, Cincinnati 2 two World Series titles in of Famer I’ve ever encoun- Gibson and center fielder two hits and struck out two.
Chicago White Sox 8, Kansas City 2 San Francisco 4, Arizona 2
Detroit 10, Minnesota 8 St. Louis 7, Chi Cubs 3 the 1960s, has died. tered,” Zitzmann said. Curt Flood, Brock was an Jose Abreu singled in the
Toronto 10, Boston 8 Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, late He was 81. “I think he led a life that anchor for the Cardinals as road victory to extend his
Seattle 4, Texas 3 TUESDAY’S GAMES
San Diego 5, Oakland 3 G1: Minnesota at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.
Dick Zitzmann, Brock’s will never be duplicated,” their combination of hitting streak to 20 games.
L.A. Angels 9, Houston 5 G1: Boston at Philadelphia, 3:05 p.m. longtime agent and friend, he said. speed, defense and pitch- ■ Angels: Anthony Ren-
TUESDAY’S GAMES
Kansas City at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Washington, 5:05 p.m.
G2: Minnesota at St. Louis, 5:45 p.m.
confirmed Brock’s death The man later nick- ing made the club a top don homered, Jared Walsh
G1: Oakland at Houston, 5:10 p.m., Chi White Sox at Pittsburgh, 6:05 p.m. Sunday, but he said he named the Running Red- team in the ’60s. and Justin Upton delivered
N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 5:37 p.m. Miami at Atlanta, 6:10 p.m. couldn’t provide any de- bird and the Base Burglar A .293 hitter, Brock led key hits during a four-run
Chi White Sox at Pittsburgh, 6:05 p.m. G2: Boston at Philadelphia, 6:35 p.m.
Baltimore at N.Y. Mets, 6:10 p.m. Cincinnati at Chi Cubs, 7:15 p.m. tails. The Cardinals and arrived in St. Louis in June the league in steals eight eighth and the host Angels
Milwaukee at Detroit, 6:10 p.m. Colorado at San Diego, 8:10 p.m. Cubs also observed a mo- 1964, swapped from the times, scored 100 or more beat the Astros 9-5 to
L.A. Angels at Texas, 7:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 8:40 p.m.
G2: Houston at Oakland, 8:40 p.m., Seattle at San Francisco, 8:45 p.m.
ment of silence in the Cubs for pitcher Ernie runs seven times and sweep the series. The An-
outfielder’s memory be- Broglio in what became amassed 3,023 hits. gels have a won a season-
high five straight and
posted their first four-game
BOX SCORES sweep since 2017. Rendon
homered for the second
TAMPA BAY 5, MIAMI 4 (10) TORONTO 10, BOSTON 8 ATLANTA 10, WASHINGTON 3 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 8, KANSAS CITY 2 N.Y. METS 14, PHILADELPHIA 1
MIAMI AB R H BI SO AVG TORONTO AB R H BI SO AVG WASHINGTON AB R H BI SO AVG CHICAGO AB R H BI SO AVG PHILADELPHIA AB R H BI SO AVG
straight game. The Astros
Dickerson lf 4 2 1 0 0 .225 Biggio cf 5 0 1 2 2 .252 Robles cf 4 0 0 0 2 .256 Anderson ss 6 0 1 0 2 .351 McCutchen lf 4 0 0 0 1 .248 have dropped four straight
Brinson rf
Marte cf
0
5
1
1
0
2
0 0
2 1
.245
.235
Villar ss
Guerrero Jr. 1b
3 0 1 0 1
5 1 0 0 3
.208
.250
Eaton rf
Turner ss
4
4
1
1
1
1
0
1
0
0
.221
.365
Grandal c
Abreu 1b
4
4
2 2
1 1
2
0
0
1
.257
.315
Hoskins 1b
Harper rf
4
2
0
0
0
1
0 2
0 0
.256
.275
after winning 15 of 21. It
Aguilar dh
Joyce rf-lf
5
4
0
0
1
1
1 1
1 2
.275
.279
Tellez dh
Shaw 3b
6 2 3 1 1
5 2 1 0 0
.295
.239
Cabrera dh
Holt lf
4
4
0
1
1
3
1
0
2
0
.223
.364
Encarnacion dh
1-Dyson pr-dh
5
0
1 2
1 0
4
0
2
0
.179
.000
Gosselin ph
Gregorius ss
1
4
0
0
0
0
0 1
0 1
.310
.266
was 106 degrees at first
B.Anderson 3b 4 0 1 0 2 .226 Gurriel Jr. lf 6 2 4 1 0 .290 Gomes c 4 0 0 0 1 .273 Jimenez lf 5 0 1 1 1 .281 Segura 2b 3 0 0 0 2 .237 pitch, making it the eighth
Diaz 1b 4 0 1 0 2 .143 Panik 2b 3 1 2 2 0 .270 Thames 1b 4 0 1 1 2 .211 Robert cf 2 1 0 0 2 .266 Garlick ph 1 0 1 0 0 .167
Berti pr-2b 0 0 0 0 0 .247 Joseph c 5 1 1 2 1 .200 Kieboom 3b 4 0 1 0 0 .207 Mazara rf 5 0 2 1 0 .250 Bohm 3b 4 0 0 0 4 .280 game to start with triple-
Chisholm ss 4 0 1 0 1 .000 Jansen c 0 0 0 0 0 .148 Garcia 2b 2 0 0 0 0 .293 Mendick 2b 5 0 2 0 0 .245 Knapp c 2 1 1 1 0 .462
Alvarez 2b 3 0 0 0 3 .206 Fisher rf 4 1 2 2 2 .250 Harrison 2b 1 0 0 0 1 .297 Sanchez 3b 3 2 2 0 0 .333 Walker dh 3 0 1 0 2 .250 digit temperatures since
Cooper ph
Alfaro c
1
0
0
0
0
0
0 0
0 0
.278
.163
TOTALS 42 10 15 10 10 TOTALS 35 3 8 3 8 TOTALS 39 8 13 8 8 Haseley cf
TOTALS
2
30
0
1
0
4
0 1
1 14
.258
the Anaheim, Calif, ball-
BOSTON AB R H BI SO AVG ATLANTA AB R H BI SO AVG KANSAS CITY AB R H BI SO AVG
Wallach c
Rojas ph-1b
2
0
0
0
0
0
0 0
0 0
.167
.333 Munoz rf 1 0 1 0 0 .476 Acuna Jr. cf-rf 2 2 1 0 0 .286 Merrifield lf 4 0 0 0 0 .248
NEW YORK AB R H BI SO AVG park opened in 1966.
TOTALS 36 4 8 4 12 Arauz pr-2b 1 2 0 0 1 .240 Swanson ss 3 2 2 0 0 .294 Dozier 1b 4 0 1 0 2 .241 Nimmo cf 6 2 3 1 2 .256 ■ Padres,: Fernando Tatis
Vazquez dh-c 5 0 0 0 2 .256 Freeman 1b 4 2 1 4 1 .314 Franco 3b 4 0 1 0 1 .255 Conforto rf 4 3 3 0 0 .342
TAMPA BAY AB R H BI SO AVG
Bogaerts ss 5 2 2 2 0 .281 Ozuna lf 5 1 3 4 0 .320 McBroom dh 4 0 0 0 2 .260 Davis 3b 4 0 0 0 2 .276 Jr. matched Angels slugger
Margot cf 2 0 0 0 0 .271 Martinez lf-rf 5 0 0 0 1 .227 Inciarte cf 0 0 0 0 0 .193 Starling cf 4 1 2 0 0 .278 Rosario ss 0 1 0 0 0 .229
B.Lowe ph-lf 1 0 0 1 0 .250 Plawecki c 3 1 2 3 1 .354 d’Arnaud dh 4 0 0 0 3 .320 Olivares rf 4 1 1 2 2 .357 Smith 1b 5 2 4 3 1 .327 Mike Trout for the majors’
Arozarena lf-cf
Meadows dh
4
4
2
0
3
0
2 0
0 3
.364
.229
Brasier p
Verdugo ph
0
1
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
—
.311
Riley 3b
Duvall rf-lf
3 1 1 0
5 1 1 0
0
1
.244
.259
Mondesi ss
Gallagher c
4
3
0
0
1
1
0 1
0 1
.199
.250
Cano 2b
Guillorme 2b
4 1 0 0 0
1 1 1 2 0
.333
.405 HR lead with his 15th, a
Brosseau 3b
Adames ss
4
4
0
0
1
0
0 2
0 3
.321
.311
Walden p
Chavis 1b
0
3
0 0
1 2
0 0
0 0
—
.234
Flowers c
Hechavarria 2b
4 0 2 2
5 1 2 0
2
0
.293
.235
Lopez 2b
TOTALS
3
34
0
2
1
8
0 1
2 10
.214 Alonso dh
McNeil lf
5 2 3 3 2
3 1 1 1 0
.224
.291
two-run drive in the sev-
Wendle 2b
Renfroe rf
4
3
1
1
0
1
0 2
1 0
.257
.149
Bradley Jr. cf
Dalbec 3b
5
4
0 1
1 1
0 2
1 2
.254
.192
TOTALS 35 10 13 10 7
Chicago 001 001 330 — 8 13 2
Ramos c
Gimenez ss-3b
5 1 1 1 4
5 0 1 2 3
.226
.282
enth of the Padres’ back-
e-Choi ph 1 0 1 1 0 .224 Peraza 2b-lf 2 1 1 2 1 .231 Washington 010 000 002 — 3 8 0 Kansas City 000 000 200 — 2 8 0 TOTALS 42 14 17 13 14 and-forth 5-3 win over the
Phillips pr 0 1 0 0 0 .000 TOTALS 35 8 10 8 10 Atlanta 000 214 30x — 10 13 0
K.Smith c 2 0 0 0 2 .333 1-ran for Encarnacion in the 8th. E: Anderson Philadelphia 010 000 000 — 1 4 2 A’s. Sean Murphy homered
LOB: Washington 5, Atlanta 11. 2B: Eaton (9), (5), Mendick (1). LOB: Chicago 11, Kansas City
Tsutsugo ph
Perez c
1
1
0
0
0
0
0 1
0 0
.204
.214
Toronto
Boston
001 063 000 — 10 15 1
300 101 030 — 8 10 0 Duvall (6), Flowers 2 (5), Ozuna (10). 3B: Turn- 6. 2B: Sanchez 2 (2), Mazara (4), Grandal (5),
New York 110 212 07x — 14 17 0
on another scorching-hot
N.Lowe 1b
f-Kiermaier ph
3
0
0
0
0
0
0 2
0 0
.000
.224 a-grounded out for Brasier in the 8th. 1-ran for
er (3). HR: Ozuna (13), off Corbin; Freeman
(7), off Finnegan. RBIs: Thames (10), Turner
Jimenez (8), Mondesi (6). HR: Encarnacion
(8), off Staumont; Olivares (1), off Cishek.
a-struck out for Harper in the 9th. b-singled
for Segura in the 9th. E: Bohm (4), Hoskins (4).
September day in the Bay
TOTALS 34 5 6 5 15 Munoz in the 1st. E: Joseph (2). LOB: Toronto
14, Boston 9. 2B: Biggio (10), Panik (5). HR: Jo-
(23), Cabrera (20), Flowers 2 (5), Ozuna 4 (36),
Freeman 4 (30). Runners left in scoring posi-
RBIs: Grandal 2 (18), Mazara (8), Encarnacion
4 (15), Jimenez (30), Olivares 2 (4). SB: Ander-
LOB: Philadelphia 5, New York 8. 2B: Walker
(3), Conforto 2 (11), Smith 3 (15), Alonso (4),
Area and Matt Olson hit a
Miami 201 000 000 1 — 4 8 0 seph (1), off Triggs; Tellez (8), off Leyer;
Plawecki (1), off Ray; Dalbec (3), off Ray;
tion: Washington 1 (Kieboom); Atlanta 6
(Ozuna, Freeman, Duvall, d’Arnaud,
son (5), Robert 2 (6). CS: Robert (2). S: Galla-
gher.
Guillorme (4). HR: Knapp (1), off deGrom;
Alonso (9), off Nola; McNeil (1), off Nola;
pair of RBI singles for the
Tampa Bay 100 011 000 2 — 5 6 1
Peraza (1), off Cole; Bogaerts (10), off Cole. Hechavarria). RISP: Washington 2 for 5; At- CHICAGO IP H R ER BB SO ERA Nimmo (6), off Hembree; Alonso (10), off A’s, who lost two of three to
th. E: Brosseau (1). LOB: Miami 8, Tampa Bay TORONTO lanta 4 for 13. GIDP: Hechavarria, Freeman. Parker; Ramos (3), off Parker. RBIs: Knapp
4. 2B: Diaz (1), Choi (10). 3B: Dickerson (1). HR:
Ray
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
4 6 4 4 3 5 6.14
DP: Washington 2 (Kieboom, Turner, Thames; Keuchel, W, 6-2
Cordero, H, 8
5
1
2
3
0
1
0
1
0
0
2
2
2.19
6.23
(6), Smith 3 (31), Alonso 3 (25), Gimenez 2 (8), the Padres and have
Marte (1), off Glasnow; Arozarena 2 (1), off
Rogers; Renfroe (5), off Rogers.
Font 11⁄3 2 1 1 2 1 8.78
Harrison, Turner, Thames).
WASHINGTON IP H R ER BB SO ERA Cishek 2
⁄3 2 1 1 0 2 5.87
McNeil (12), Nimmo (11), Guillorme 2 (9),
Ramos (9). SB: Harper 2 (7). dropped four of five overall.
Hatch W,3-1 12⁄3 0 0 0 1 2 1.33 Marshall, H, 8 11⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 1.96
MIAMI IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Cole 2
⁄3 2 3 3 1 0 2.45 Corbin L,2-4 51⁄3 9 5 5 4 6 4.34 McRae 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.00
PHILADELPHIA IP H R ER BB SO ERA Garrett Richards (2-2)
Finnegan ⁄3 1 2 2 2 0 4.70 Nola L,4-3 51⁄3 8 6 3 1 10 2.74
struck out nine and didn’t
1
Rogers 6 4 3 3 1 10 2.00 Borucki H,3 1
⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 2.53 KANSAS CITY IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Boxberger 1 0 0 0 0 1 1.64 Dolis S,2-2 1 0 0 0 0 2 1.86 Bacus 1 2 3 3 3 0 7.94 Hembree 2
⁄3 1 1 1 0 1 9.00
Garcia
Kintzler, L, 1-2, 2
2
⁄3
1
1
0
2
0
1
0 4
1 0
0.00
2.45
BOSTON IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Harper 11⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 6.06 Harvey, L, 0-3
Zuber
21⁄3 4 1 1 0 2 11.70
2
⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 5.06
Llovera
Parker
1
1
5
3
4
3
4
3
1 1 36.00
0 2 2.53
walk a batter over seven
ATLANTA IP H R ER BB SO ERA
TAMPA BAY IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Triggs
Hall L,0-2
3 3 1 1 2 4
12⁄3 4 6 6 4 2
6.00
19.89 Tomlin W,2-2 6 3 1 1 0 2 3.77
Hernandez
Holland
22⁄3 3 1 1 1 2 1.42
1
⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 2.66
NEW YORK IP H R ER BB SO ERA sharp innings to end a
Glasnow 51⁄3 4 3 3 3 9 4.24 Leyer 1
⁄3 4 3 3 1 0 13.50 Martin 1 1 0 0 0 3 0.82 Staumont 1
⁄3 2 3 3 2 0 2.12 deGrom W,3-1 7 3 1 1 2 12 1.69 four-start winless stretch.
Loup 11⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 3.18 Springs 1 1 0 0 2 1 7.36 O’Day 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.71 Adams 11⁄3 4 3 3 0 2 15.19 Brach 1 0 0 0 1 0 1.69
Fairbanks 11⁄3 1 0 0 1 1 2.60 Brice 1 2 0 0 0 1 6.38 Wilson 1 4 2 2 0 1 13.50 Newberry 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 4.40
1 Shreve 1 1 0 0 0 2 1.93 He allowed three runs on
Castillo
Curtiss, W, 2-0
1 1 0 0 1 0 2.30
1 1 1 0 0 1 1.98
Brasier
Walden
1 1 0 0 0 2
1 0 0 0 0 0
4.32
10.13
Inherited runners-scored: Finnegan 2-2, Ba-
cus 2-0, Harper 1-0. IBB: off Corbin (Acuna Jr.).
Inherited runners-scored: Cishek 1-1, Mar-
shall 1-0, Zuber 1-0, Holland 2-0, Adams 1-0,
Inherited runners-scored: Parker 2-2. IBB: off
Nola (McNeil). HBP: Hembree (Conforto),
three hits.
Inherited runners-scored: Loup 1-0. Time: Inherited runners-scored: Hatch 3-0, Leyer HBP: Finnegan (d’Arnaud). Newberry 1-0. HBP: Hernandez (Robert). WP: Llovera (McNeil). Time: 3:18. ■ Extra innings: Freddie
3:18. 2-2, Springs 2-2. Time: 4:23. Adams. Time: 3:34.
Freeman hit his second
career grand slam — and
CLEVELAND 4, MILWAUKEE 1 BALTIMORE 5, N.Y. YANKEES 1 DETROIT 10, MINNESOTA 8 ST. LOUIS 7, CHICAGO CUBS 3 AL LEADERS
MILWAUKEE AB R H BI SO AVG NEW YORK AB R H BI SO AVG DETROIT AB R H BI SO AVG ST. LOUIS AB R H BI SO AVG BATTING G AB R H BA
second of the series —
Gamel rf 3 0 1 0 1 .242 LeMahieu 2b 4 0 0 0 1 .363 Reyes cf 4 1 2 0 1 .318 Wong 2b 5 1 2 1 1 .257 Anderson, CHI 31 131 34 46 .351 leading the Braves to a 10-3
Hiura 2b
Yelich lf
4
3
0
0
0
0
0 1
0 3
.232
.201
Voit dh
Gardner cf-lf
3
4
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
1
.269
.180
Schoop 2b
Cabrera dh
5 2 2 1 1
5 1 2 1 1
.305
.255
Edman 3b
Goldschmidt 1b
5
5
2 1
1 1
1 1
3 2
.263
.317
Cruz, MIN
Reyes, DET
40 140 28 46 .329
37 129 24 41 .318
win over Patrick Corbin
Vogelbach dh
Arcia ss
3
4
0
0
1
0
0 0
0 1
.444
.243
Frazier rf
Ford 1b
3
4
1
0
0
0
0
0
2
1
.275
.141
Candelario 1b
Castro ss
5 1 3 1 2
5 1 2 3 0
.305
.350
DeJong ss
O’Neill lf
4
5
0 2
1 1
1 2
0 1
.311
.190
Alberto, BAL 36 151 27 48 .318 and the visiting Nationals.
Lewis, SEA 39 143 30 45 .315
Urias 3b 4 1 1 0 2 .267 Andujar 3b 4 0 3 0 0 .220 Bonifacio lf 5 2 2 0 2 .216 Ravelo dh 5 0 1 1 1 .143 Reyes, CLE 39 143 24 45 .315 Josh Tomlin allowed one
Peterson 1b 3 0 2 0 1 .238 Tauchman lf 1 0 0 0 0 .244 Demeritte rf 4 0 1 1 2 .200 Molina c 3 0 0 0 1 .282
a-Braun ph 1 0 1 0 0 .205 a-Hicks ph-cf 2 0 1 0 1 .206 Greiner c 5 1 2 2 0 .143 Thomas rf 4 1 1 0 2 .143
Abreu, CHI
Fletcher, LA
41 168 28 53 .315
35 144 24 45 .313 run in six innings as the
Taylor cf
Nottingham c
4
4
0
0
0
1
0 2
1 2
.143
.214
Kratz c
Wade ss
4
2
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
.296
.158
Alcantara 3b
Stewart ph
3 1 1 1 2
1 0 0 0 0
.333
.182
Bader cf
TOTALS
3
39
1 3
7 12
0 0
7 11
.240 Verdugo, BOS
Hernández, TOR
40 148 27 46 .311
39 146 27 45 .308
Braves split the four-game
TOTALS 33 1 7 1 13 b-Torres ph
Estrada ss
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
.232
.194
Paredes 3b
TOTALS
0 0 0 0 0
42 10 17 10 11
.186 CHICAGO AB R H BI SO AVG HOME RUNS series. Marcell Ozuna
CLEVELAND AB R H BI SO AVG Trout, Los Angeles 15; Hernandez, Toronto 14;
Hernandez 2b 4 0 0 0 0 .270
TOTALS 32 1 4 1 9 MINNESOTA AB R H BI SO AVG
Happ cf
Bryant dh
4
4
0
0
0
2
0 1
0 2
.301
.188
Voit, New York 13; Cruz, Minnesota 13; Abreu, drove in four runs with
Ramirez 3b 2 2 1 0 1 .253
BALTIMORE AB R H BI SO AVG
Polanco ss 5 1 2 0 0 .285 Rizzo 1b 4 1 1 1 1 .223
Chicago 13
RBI three hits, including a HR
Lindor ss 3 2 2 0 0 .280 Alberto 2b 4 1 1 0 1 .318 Arraez 2b 5 2 2 1 0 .277 Baez ss 3 0 0 0 1 .191
Santana 1b 3 0 2 2 0 .203 Stewart rf 4 2 2 2 1 .174 Sano 1b 3 1 0 0 2 .240 Schwarber lf 4 0 0 0 2 .222
Abreu, Chicago 40; Trout, Los Angeles 38;
Tucker, Houston 37; Santander, Baltimore 32
and a three-run triple. Nats
Reyes dh
Luplow lf
4
3
0
0
0
2
0
1
0
0
.315
.143
Severino dh
Mountcastle lf
4
2
1
0
2
0
0 0
1 1
.315
.333
Rosario lf
Rooker dh
4
5
1 2
1 1
2
2
0
2
.240
.273
Contreras c
Heyward rf
3
2
1
0
1
0
0 1
0 1
.240
.300
ERA
Bieber, Cleveland 1.25; Keuchel, Chicago 2.19;
GM Mike Rizzo was tossed
R.Perez c
Naquin rf
4
4
0
0
1
0
0
0
2
1
.173
.260
Ruiz 3b
Valaika 1b
4
4
1
0
2
1
0 2
0 1
.218
.274
Wade Jr. rf
Cave cf
4
4
0 1
1 2
0
1
2
0
.250
.228
Maybin rf
Bote 3b
2
3
0
0
0
1
0 0
0 1
.200
.218
Bundy, Los Angeles 2.49; Ryu, Toronto 2.51; in the seventh for yelling at
Lynn, Texas 2.67; Maeda, Minnesota 2.77.
Mercado cf
TOTALS
3
30
0
4
0
8
0
3
1
5
.137 Williams cf
Holaday c
4
3
0
0
0
0
0 3
1 1
.111
.227
Adrianza 3b
Astudillo c
4
3
1 2
0 1
0
2
0
0
.190
.250
Caratini ph
Kipnis 2b
1
3
0
1
0
1
0 1
2 1
.247
.253
PITCHING umpires from a luxury
Bieber, Cleveland 7-0; Dobnak, Minnesota
Velazquez ss 3 0 1 1 0 .179 Donaldson ph 1 0 0 0 1 .219 TOTALS 33 3 6 3 12 6-2; Keuchel, Chicago 6-2; Hernandez, Texas suite. ... Paul Goldschmidt
Milwaukee 000 010 000 — 1 7 0 TOTALS 32 5 9 5 10 Jeffers c 1 0 0 0 0 .226
Cleveland 100 102 00x — 4 8 0 TOTALS 39 8 13 8 7 St. Louis 104 002 000 — 7 12 0
5-1; Cease, Chicago 5-2; Foster, Chicago 4-0.
through Sunday
hit a three-run HR and the
a-singled for Peterson in the 9th. LOB: Mil-
New York
Baltimore
010 000 000 — 1 4 2
200 002 10x — 5 9 1 Detroit 011 003 230 — 10 17 0
Chicago 120 000 000 — 3 6 1
NL LEADERS
Cardinals gained ground in
waukee 8, Cleveland 7. 2B: Santana (3), Lin-
dor (10). RBIs: Nottingham (3), Santana 2 (19), a-singled for Tauchman in the 7th. b-
Minnesota 002 041 010 — 8 13 2 a-struck out for Bote in the 9th. E: Baez (4).
LOB: St. Louis 8, Chicago 5. 2B: Wong (4), Rav- BATTING G AB R H BA the NL Central race by
Luplow (4). CS: Ramirez (1). Runners left in
scoring position: Milwaukee 4 (Arcia, Yelich,
grounded out for Wade in the 7th. E: Andujar
(4), Ford (1), Ruiz (4). LOB: New York 7, Balti-
a-struck out for Astudillo in the 7th. b-lined
out for Alcantara in the 8th. E: R.Hill (1), Wade
elo (1), Bader 2 (6), Bryant (5). HR: Edman (2),
off Lester; Goldschmidt (4), off Lester; Rizzo
Turner, WAS 39 159 33 58 .365 beating the host Cubs 7-3.
Blackmon, COL 38 147 25 51 .347
Taylor); Cleveland 4 (Reyes, Naquin 2). RISP:
Milwaukee 2 for 7; Cleveland 4 for 11. Runners
more 6. 3B: Andujar (1). HR: Stewart (3), off
Tanaka. RBIs: Kratz (4), Stewart 2 (4), Hola-
Jr. (1). LOB: Detroit 7, Minnesota 10. 2B: Boni-
facio (2), Candelario (7), Schoop (4), Adrianza
(9), off Hudson; Kipnis (3), off Hudson. RBIs:
Edman (14), Goldschmidt 3 (14), Ravelo (1),
Conforto, NY 41 149 27 51 .342 The Cards pulled within
moved up: Lindor, Santana, Reyes 2. GIDP: day (4), Velazquez (3), Mountcastle (11). SF: (4), Polanco (6), Arraez (5), Rooker (1). 3B: Wong (8), DeJong (16), Rizzo (18), Kipnis 2
Solano, SF
Smith, NY
35 125 17 41 .328
34 113 18 37 .327 11⁄2 games of the Cubs with
Nottingham, Reyes. DP: Milwaukee 1 (Arcia, Mountcastle. Runners left in scoring position: Schoop (2). HR: Alcantara (1), off R.Hill; Cas- (13). Runners left in scoring position: St. Louis
Hiura, Peterson); Cleveland 1 (Lindor, Her- New York 3 (Wade, Torres, Kratz); Baltimore 2 tro (3), off May; Greiner (3), off Romo; Rosario 4 (Thomas, Goldschmidt 2, O’Neill); Chicago 3
Seager, LA
Goldschmidt, STL
34 138 24 45 .326
31 96 20 31 .323
their third consecutive win
nandez, Santana).
MILWAUKEE IP H R ER BB SO ERA
(Williams, Alberto). RISP: New York 0 for 6;
Baltimore 2 for 7. Runners moved up: Kratz,
(9), off Funkhouser. RBIs: Demeritte (4), Al-
cantara (1), Castro 3 (11), Greiner 2 (8), Can-
(Kipnis, Baez, Schwarber). RISP: St. Louis 3
for 12; Chicago 1 for 7. Ozuna, ATL 40 147 26 47 .320 over the division leaders,
Betts, LA 39 152 32 48 .316
Anderson, L, 2-3 5 6 4 4 2 1 4.64
Severino.
NEW YORK IP H R ER BB SO ERA
delario (19), Schoop (22), Cabrera (22), As-
tudillo 2 (2), Arraez (9), Rooker 2 (3), Cave
ST. LOUIS IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Freeman, ATL 40 140 33 44 .314 sweeping a doubleheader
Yardley 1 1 0 0 1 1 1.69 Hudson W,2-2 5 5 3 3 2 4 3.19
Lindblom 1 0 0 0 0 2 6.25 Tanaka, L, 1-2 51⁄3 6 4 2 1 5 3.38
(12), Rosario 2 (27). SB: Reyes (6), Adrianza
(1). Reyes 12⁄3 0 0 0 0 3 3.18
HOME RUNS
Tatis Jr., San Diego 14; Ozuna, Atlanta 13;
Saturday after the Cubs
Rasmussen
Claudio
2
1
⁄3
⁄3
1
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
1
0
3.38
4.61
Cessa
Nelson
2
⁄3
2
2
1
0
1
0
0
1
0
1
4
3.14
5.27
DETROIT IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Cabrera
Gallegos
11⁄3
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
1
2.92
0.90
Betts, Los Angeles 13.
RBI
won the series opener Fri-
CLEVELAND IP H R ER BB SO ERA BALTIMORE IP H R ER BB SO ERA Mize
Garcia 2
4
⁄3
5
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
3
0
6.75
7.07
CHICAGO IP H R ER BB SO ERA Tatis Jr., San Diego 37; Ozuna, Atlanta 36;
Machado, San Diego 34.
day. The rivals have one
Bieber, W, 7-0
Maton, H, 3
5 5 1 1 1 10 1.25
1 1 0 0 1 1 2.63
Kremer, W, 1-0
Scott, H, 5 2
6 1 1 1 3 7 1.50
⁄3 2 0 0 0 0 1.62
Schreiber 11⁄3 3 1 1 1 2 6.08 Lester L,2-2
Winkler
31⁄3 6 5 5 2 4
12⁄3 1 0 0 0 1
5.80
2.63
ERA game left in their season
Funkhouser W,1-1 2 1 1 1 1 2 6.06 Darvish, Chicago 1.44; deGrom, New York
Leone, H, 3 1 0 0 0 1 2 6.23 Harvey, H, 2 11⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 2.25 Garcia S,1-2 1 1 0 0 0 0 1.69 Osich 1
⁄3 3 2 2 0 1 13.50 1.69; Gallen, Arizona 1.80; Fried, Atlanta 1.98; series Monday. ... 3B Matt
Wittgren, H, 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 2.04 Sulser 1 1 0 0 0 2 5.60 Wick 2
⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 3.65
Hand, S, 11-11 1 1 0 0 0 0 2.63 Inherited runners-scored: Cessa 2-2, Harvey
MINNESOTA IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Kimbrel 1 0 0 0 0 2 8.10
Bauer, Cincinnati 2.05
PITCHING Chapman exited the Ath-
Inherited runners-scored: Yardley 2-1, Clau-
dio 3-0. Umpires: H, Jeremy Riggs; 1B, Jeremie
2-0. Umpires: H, CB Bucknor; 1B, Jeff Nelson;
2B, John Tumpane; 3B, Jose Navas. Time: 3:02.
R.Hill
May 2
5
⁄3
6
4
2
3
2
3
0
0
5
1
3.86
5.74
Underwood Jr.
Dermody
1 1 0 0 0 1
1 0 0 0 0 1
5.74
0.00
Darvish, Chicago 7-1; Fried, Atlanta 6-0;
Davies, San Diego 6-2; Kershaw, Los Angeles
letics’ loss to the Padres
Rehak; 2B, Jerry Meals; 3B, Jordan Baker. Duffey BS,0-1
Romo L,1-2
11⁄3
2
⁄3
3
1
2
1
1
1
0
0
3
1
2.16
3.77
Inherited runners-scored: Winkler 1-0, Wick 5-1; Gray, Cincinnati 5-2; Wainwright, St. Louis
4-0; Wheeler, Philadelphia 4-0
with a right hip strain. He
Time: 3:13. 2-1. Time: 3:17.
Smeltzer 1 ⁄3
1
3 2 2 1 1 6.75 through Saturday will get an MRI.
6 Chicago Tribune | Chicago Sports | Section 3 | Monday, September 7, 2020
SPORTS
Cardinals shortstop Paul DeJong (11) drives in Harrison Baderwith a hit in the sixth inning Sunday at Wrigley Field.
CARDINALS 7, CUBS 3
Cards rough up Lester
Jon Lester gave up five earned runs on six hits, two walks and a hit batter in 31⁄3 innings in the Cubs’ latest loss, a 7-3 decision against the Cardinals
that shrinks their lead to 1½ games in the NL Central. Lester is yielding a .367 batting average and has a 9.26 ERA over his last five starts. The
Cubs offense, meanwhile, scored only three runs, on home runs by Jason Kipnis and Anthony Rizzo, despite the wind blowing out at 17 mph at
Wrigley Field. One other area of potential concern: Jason Heyward exited in the fifth, with a team spokesman explaining Heyward was “not
feeling well.” David Ross said Heyward “had a shortness of breath and a little lightheadedness.” For more, go to chicagotribune.com/sports
Eyes on the prize?
Cubs aren’t scoreboard-watching, even during the last 3 weeks of a playoff race
By Teddy Greenstein
The Cubs are hunting a playoff
spot as they enter the second week
of September.
But manager David Ross said
the team is not scoreboard-watch-
ing. Throw it in the pile of 2020
weirdness.
“It’s September and the guys
are at 100 at-bats or so,” Ross said
before Sunday night’s game
against the Cardinals at Wrigley
Field. “You still feel like guys are
settling into their roles. It doesn’t
feel like September to me. The
postseason is not even on the
radar yet, where normally you’re
scoreboard-watching to see who
is chasing who.”
The rest of the National League
Central has been chasing the Cubs
since they opened 13-3. The Cardi-
nals closed the gap to 21⁄2 games
after their Saturday doubleheader
sweep and looked to shave anoth-
White Sox
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two and threw just 49 pitches.
“It was really clicking,” Keuchel
said. “I’ve got a good rapport with
(catcher Yasmani Grandal) back
there. (Grandal) got me going a
little bit with some back-door
cutters, which we’ve been work-
ing on. It was nice to see some new
pitches and do some things I don’t
normally do right off the bat
during a game.
“I felt like I had the chance to go
nine (innings), but my body said
different. We’re just going to have
to ride the wave. Hopefully (Mon-
day) I wake up and I’ll be all right.
That’ll be the best-case scenario. I
do have a couple days. I’m not too
worried at this point.”
Sox manager Rick Renteria said
Keuchel has been managing the
back issues all season.
“It just didn’t make any sense to
force him to try to pitch through
it,” Renteria said.
Keuchel was one of the Sox’s
key free-agent additions in the
offseason.
Another addition, designated
hitter Edwin Encarnacion, hit a
three-run homer as the Sox (26-
er game Sunday night as Jon
Lester faced Dakota Hudson.
Asked to evaluate his team at
23-17, two-thirds into the season,
Ross said: “I think it’s better to be
in first than second, for sure. The
way I approach this season is
we’ve just got to get better every
day. In this playoff format, it
doesn’t really matter if you win the
division. Just get in the playoffs
and try to be best version of
yourself to win a championship.
“The goal is to play champi-
onship-caliber baseball every day,
and we haven’t really done that
lately. We’ve seen spurts, but the
consistency hasn’t been there. We
can get better in the bullpen and
on defense and on the bases and
continue to hit better.”
Ian Happ led the majors enter-
ing Sunday with a 1.093 OPS, but
the next-highest Cub among qual-
ifiers was Kyle Schwarber, who
ranked 60th at .824. (Jason Hey-
Sox’s Edwin Encarnacion (23) celebrates with Yasmani Grandal after
his homer Sunday.
15) completed a four-game sweep
at Kauffman Stadium. They main-
tained their half-game lead over
the Cleveland Indians in the
American League Central.
Encarnacion went 2-for-5 with
four RBIs.
“He’s a professional,” Renteria
said. “I don’t have to worry about
Edwin. If I felt he didn’t have the
quick twitch anymore, it would be
more of a concern. It’s just falling
into rhythm and timing.”
Yolmer Sanchez doubled twice
D
ward had a .973 mark with 98
plate appearances.)
Anthony Rizzo was 79th at .787
— down 137 points from last year’s
.924 mark.
“This is uncharted water for
everyone,” Rizzo said. “There are
20 games left and you don’t see the
numbers you’re accustomed to.
Your mind could start racing.
We’re all human and used to
certain things being a certain way
this time of the year.
“You can have three or four
games and look like the MVP or
have three or four bad games and
look terrible. We have to remind
each other this is all about win-
ning and it doesn’t matter how you
win. It’s not about individual
numbers.”
Roster moves
■ The Cubs returned Adbert Al-
zolay to South Bend, but he will be
ORLIN WAGNER/AP
and scored two runs, and Grandal
had two hits and two RBIs. Jose
Abreu extended his hitting streak
to 20 games with a single in the
seventh. He scored on Encarna-
cion’s eighth homer.
Encarnacion’s final RBI came
on a single during a three-run
eighth as the Sox completed the
season series against the Royals
with a 9-1 record.
Keuchel (6-2) lowered his ERA
to 2.19, which ranks second in the
AL. The Sox will continue to
BRIAN CASSELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
back to start Thursday’s game
against the Reds. The 25-year-old
right-hander walked five in 22⁄3
innings Saturday in a loss to the
Cardinals, but has allowed just
two earned runs in 82⁄3 innings
this season.
■ The Cubs selected the contract
of lefty reliever Matt Dermody,
whose last major-league stint
came with the Blue Jays in 2017.
The 6-foot-5 Dermody, 30, is from
Iowa and pitched for the
Hawkeyes in college.
■ David Ross said it was “awful”
having to tell veteran outfielder
Steven Souza Jr. he was being
designated for assignment be-
tween doubleheader games Sat-
urday.
Anthony Rizzo called Souza “a
big personality and a big guy on
the bench. We will have to make
up for that over the next three or
four weeks … the next two
months, actually.”
monitor his progress in the com-
ing days.
“It’s just one of those things,”
Keuchel said. “I don’t really like to
talk about nagging injuries or this
or that, just because I don’t want
anyone to feel sorry for me or … to
make excuses or anything like
that. Just talking about it in
general kind of frustrates me. It
pops up every once in a while.
“I’m going around the field more
than other pitchers, so it kind of
hinders my ability to stop and just
be a pitcher and not let my athletic
ability take over and make some
plays that I normally should.”
It was his second straight start
cut short for unforeseen circum-
stances. He exited Tuesday’s start
in Minnesota after five innings
because of stomach issues.
“Up to (Sunday), up to that
point where it kind of grabbed, I
had felt really good in the four
days leading up to my stomach
thing,” Keuchel said. “I don’t
know if I had felt better in a long,
long time.
“It’s kind of weird how these
things work out. Hopefully (Mon-
day) I can wake up and maybe be a
little sore, but knowing that I have
an off day (Monday) and not pitch
until Saturday will hopefully work
out.”
REVOLUTION 2, FIRE 1
Unable to
capitalize
in tough
home loss
Fire outplayed the
Revolution in every
spot but scoreboard
By Jeremy Mikula
The Fire created the better
scoring chances, had the lion’s
share of possession and looked
like the team most likely to
walk out of Soldier Field with a
victory Sunday night.
It just wasn’t their night.
The Fire lost 2-1 to the
Revolution, who did just
enough behind two goals from
midfielder Teal Bunbury to
take all three points.
The result was a particularly
frustrating one for the Fire
(2-6-2, 8 points), who failed to
capitalize on their chances and
again got burned when they
conceded what coach Raphael
Wicky called “easy goals.”
“I’m sitting here again and I
have to say the same thing,”
Wicky said during a video
conference call. “If we
wouldn’t create, if we wouldn’t
have a plan, if I wouldn’t see
that the guys are trying and
actually are playing well, I
would have to doubt and I
would have to question things.
“That’s not the case in my
eyes, so I will have to say the
same thing over: We have to
keep working and keep believ-
ing in what we do. We are
creating chances. We are a
good team and we have to keep
doing that. But as well, of
course, we have to be more
demanding of ourselves and
not give up such easy goals.
And when we have chances, we
have to finish them. But I’m not
going to start questioning
everything if I see a perform-
ance like tonight.”
After a strong start to the
second half from the Fire,
Bunbury scored in the 54th
minute when his intended
cross to the back post looped
over goalkeeper Bobby Shut-
tleworth and into the goal.
Bunbury’s second goal came
against the run of play, with the
Fire creating several chances to
start the second half.
Elliot Collier, who started at
forward in place of designated
player Robert Beric, had two of
those opportunities, while de-
fenders Boris Sekulic and
Francisco Calvo each had
headers that were simply off
target.
“It’s unexplainable at this
point,” midfielder Fabian Her-
bers said. “You keep pushing
the whole game and have the
majority of possession, try to
create some chances, but if you
concede a goal like that, it’s
always hard to come back
well.”
SPARKS 86, SKY 80
Sky fade in
4th quarter
Associated Press
BRADENTON, Fla. – Can-
dace Parker scored 24 points
with 15 rebounds and Chelsea
Gray added 20 points with
seven assists to help the Los
Angeles Sparks beat the Sky
86-80 on Sunday night.
The Sparks (14-5) are a
half-game behind Las Vegas for
the second spot in the stand-
ings. The teams meet Saturday.
The Sky jumped out with a
30-point opening quarter and
led by eight. Los Angeles tight-
ened its defense from there and
largely seized control. The Sky
(11-9) managed just 10 points in
the fourth quarter.
Back-to-back 3-pointers by
Parker and Tierra Ruffin-Pratt
and a tip-in by Gray constituted
an 8-0 run for a 69-65 lead late
in the third quarter, and Los
Angeles led the rest of the way.
Cheyenne Parker led the Sky
with 24 points and 10 re-
bounds, Allie Quigley scored
22, Kahleah Copper 14 and
Courtney Vandersloot distrib-
uted 15 assists against just two
turnovers.
Brittney Sykes scored 11 for
the Sparks before getting hurt
in the third quarter. She didn’t
return. Sydney Wiese injured
her ankle in the first quarter
and also didn’t return. Nneka
Ogwumike scored nine points
and grabbed four rebounds in
29 minutes.

“We designed all of our lessons to work around using common household objects, like butter knives
and forks, things folks will have lying around. Luckily with clay, hands are the biggest tool you need.”
Sip and Paint in Jefferson Park is hosting small, in-person events, but owner Lily Miteva says there’s nothing like the creative energy of a full house.
‘It’s a shared process’
By Milan Polk
Within hours of closing for
the pandemic, the staff at
Hyde Park Art Center switch-
ed their focus to creating
online content.
When the pandemic closed
community spaces in March,
art classes had to scramble to
ensure students had quality
instruction, now without
hands-on teaching.
Mike Nourse, the director
of education at Hyde Park Art
Center, said its digital transi-
tion was a success. “When we
Watching
reruns
of favorite
shows?
You’re not alone as
reaching for something
familiar is a natural
response to COVID-19
By Megan Burbank
The Seattle Times
One weeknight in July, at the
end of a particularly exhausting
workday, I sat down on my
couch with a glass of wine,
turned on the first episode of the
Netflix reboot of “The Baby-
Sitters Club” and felt, for the first
time in weeks, instantly soothed.
I wasn’t alone. Though we are
objectively too old for this, I have
since heard from many of my
friends and acquaintances, all
professional women in their 30s,
that nothing took the pain of life
inside a communal trauma away
quite like this new version of
“The Baby-Sitters Club,” with its
wholesome depiction of children
discovering the benefits of or-
ganized labor; its sensitive, nu-
anced representation of blended
families and chronic illness; and
— Chris Busse, co-owner of Penguin Foot Pottery in Wicker Park
Chicago art classes adapt for virtual learning
started the virtual classes, it
was a way to keep our current
student base engaged. I think
we were surprised at how
many more students we’ve
had join who have never used
clay,” he said.
Using Google Meet, the
Hyde Park Art Center hosts
courses on drawing, ceramics
and more. Nourse said in-
structors faced a learning
curve. The staff hosted work-
shops to bridge the technical
Shay Rudolph, from left, Momona Tamada, Sophie Grace and Malia
Baker star in the reboot of “The Baby-Sitters Club.”
Claudia’s hidden candy stash,
itself a rare pop-cultural portray-
al of girls eating for pleasure
rather than punishment.
Originally launched in 1986 as
a book series by author Ann M.
Martin, the newest “Baby-Sitters
Club” is sort of a reboot of a
reboot — the books were adapted
into a TV series in 1990 and a
1995 film starring teen-movie
icons Larisa Oleynik and Rachael
Leigh Cook, before the latest
version landed at the apex of
pandemic TV: It’s a comforting
return to well-trod narrative
territory, with enough new up-
dates to keep things interesting
and relevant.
And it’s what a lot of pan-
AE
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gap, and the staff learned
from the workshops, too.
“It was a curveball for
people who relied their
whole careers on in-person
teaching,” Nourse said. “We
told our teachers early on,
none of our staff has done this
before. We’ve been very open
with our communication. It’s
a shared process.”
At Lillstreet Art Center,
Jessie LaMacchia, director of
marketing and outreach, said
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demic viewing looks like. While
upcoming reboots of “The Fresh
Prince of Bel-Air” and “A League
of Their Own” promise to capi-
talize on nostalgia, we’re already
steeped in it, from Netflix’s re-
cent addition of ’90s shows like
“Moesha” and “Sister, Sister” to
virtual cast reunions from mov-
ies and television of the ’90s and
early 2000s.
Some of these have been pol-
ished and official — like the
immensely comforting, all-video
chat episode of “Parks and Rec-
reation,” Josh Gad’s reconvening
of “The Fellowship of the Ring,”
and John Krasinski’s employ-
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its teachers have an overhead
camera so students can learn
techniques. The center
teaches drawing, ceramics
and other art forms. LaMac-
chia said the classes are still
better than a recorded ses-
sion.
“Just like in a regular class,
if students are struggling or
have any questions, teachers
are able to provide one-on-
one help,” LaMacchia said.
“That’s the benefit of live
Why it’s OK to reinvent
classics such as Holst’s
‘The Planets’ via jazz
Howard Reich
Tribune arts critic
Amazing things happen
when the worlds of jazz and
classical music align.
Think of how Duke Ellington
and Billy Strayhorn re-invented
Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker”
Suite, its “Dance of the Sugar
Plum Fairy” drenched in blue as
it becomes “Sugar Rum Cherry,”
its “Russian Dance” swung hard
as it becomes “Volga Vouty.”
Or Michel Legrand’s sublime
score for “The Umbrellas of
Cherbourg,” a film that amounts
to nothing less than a through-
composed opera steeped in jazz
melody.
Or George Gershwin’s “Rhap-
sody in Blue” and “Porgy and
Bess,” works that proved beyond
doubt that jazz syntax could
flourish in the concert hall and
the opera house.
The latest experiment in
merging the two musical worlds
comes in the form of “The Plan-
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E. JASON WAMBSGANS/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
instruction versus watching a
video tutorial online.”
Chris Busse, co-owner of
Penguin Foot Pottery in
Wicker Park, said instructing
people online has been an
adjustment.
Because clay is so mallea-
ble, it’s easier for a teacher to
help fix any issues in person.
Penguin Foot instructors ask
people to hold their clay close
to the camera to show how
they’re doing.
Penguin Pottery, Lillstreet
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MICHAEL STEVER
Jeremy Levy’s “The Planets:
Reimagined”is an idiosyncratic
response to Gustav Holst’s epic.
ets: Reimagined” (OA2 Re-
cords), in which bandleader
Jeremy Levy leads his jazz
orchestra in an idiosyncratic
response to Gustav Holst’s epic.
Even if you’ve never heard
Holst’s “The Planets,” a concert
work that delights connoisseurs
and neophytes 100 years after its
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‘Tenet’ has $20M holiday weekend
In a litmus test for
American moviegoing in
the pandemic, Christopher
Nolan’s “Tenet” brought in
an estimated $20.2 million
through the holiday week-
end in U.S. and Canadian
theaters.
The result could be
greeted as either the reju-
venation of U.S. cinemas —
more Americans went to
the movies this weekend
than they have in nearly six
months — or a reflection of
drastically lowered stand-
ards for Hollywood’s top
blockbusters given the
circumstances.
About 70% of U.S. movie
theaters are open; those in
the country’s top markets,
Los Angeles and New York,
remain closed. Those that
are operating are limiting
audiences to a maximum of
50% capacity to distance
moviegoers from one an-
other. “Tenet” played in
2,810 North American
locations, about three-
fourths of what most major
releases typically launch in.
Warner Bros. declined to
split up U.S. and Canadian
box-office receipts. Thea-
ters in Canada,
where COVID-19
cases are much
lower than in the
U.S., began show-
ing “Tenet” a
week earlier.
The film de-
buted stateside
with nightly
preview screen- Elwes
ings Monday
through Wednesday, and
the official opening on
Thursday. Warner Bros.
included all of the above in
its estimated gross Sunday,
along with expected re-
turns for Monday’s Labor
Day.
Internationally, “Tenet”
has exceeded expectations.
In two weeks of release, its
overseas total is $126 mil-
lion, with a global tally so
far of $146.2 million.
Political royalty: The cast
of Rob Reiner’s 1987 film
“The Princess Bride” is
MUSIC REVIEWS
Olsen displays raw brilliance
If you’re looking for
something completely new
from Angel Olsen, “Whole
New Mess” isn’t it. But if
you’re looking for some-
thing raw, vulnerable and
piercing, this album deliv-
ers.
“Whole New Mess” sees
Olsen stripped down,
processing the pain before
the songs would become
glossier versions of them-
selves. Nine of the 11 tracks
on this newest album are
featured on her 2019 re-
lease, “All Mirrors,” but she
plays the songs in their
original form, recorded
before her “All Mirrors”
sessions.
If “All Mirrors” is a
concert with an orchestra,
“Whole New Mess” is a
bedroom performance.
Reverb and the occasional
organ accompaniment are
the only reminders that
Olsen is performing for an
audience at all. Left on
their own, without strings
Considering Conor
Oberst’s history as a
poetically gifted sad boy
and the sorrowful circum-
stances surrounding the
first Bright Eyes album in
nine years, it’s a wonder
“Down in the Weeds,
Where the World Once
Was” is as upbeat as it is.
“Chopped the celery
and made the soup, didn’t
have much else to do,”
Oberst sings on “Hot Car
in the Sun.” “I was dream-
ing of my ex-wife’s face.”
In addition to divorce,
the new songs by the sing-
er, who has once again
teamed with Bright Eyes
collaborators Mike Mogis
and Nate Walcott, are
haunted by the loss of his
brother Matt, who died in
his sleep in 2016.
“Pageturner’s Rag,” the
album opener, features
Oberst’s mother speaking
truths relevant to the
times: “People need right
now to feel they have
something to look forward
to. We have to hold on.”
Oberst follows that with
MELINDA SUE GORDON/WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT
John David Washington stars in the thriller “Tenet.”
reuniting for a virtual
script reading and fund-
raiser benefiting the Wis-
consin Democratic Party.
Reiner, Cary Elwes,
Robin Wright, Carol Kane,
Chris Sarandon, Mandy
Patinkin, Wallace Shawn
and Billy Crystal will read
the script on Sept. 13, fol-
lowed by a Q&A
with the cast
hosted by come-
dian Patton Os-
walt.
Elwes, who
portrayed West-
ley in the film,
tweeted out the
event on Friday
along with the
hashtag #Dump
Trumperdinck, comparing
President Trump to the
movie’s villain, Prince
Humperdinck.
A plea from Venice:
Spanish director Pedro
Almodovar has joined a
chorus of voices at the
Venice Film Festival urging
the reopening of movie
theaters and a return to
cinema normality after
coronavirus lockdowns,
saying films are meant to
be seen on the big screen,
not at home.
Venice organizers went
‘Whole New
Mess’
Angel Olsen (Jagjaguwar)
and embellishment, the
songs stand and remind
audiences of the genius
behind her writing.
“And all those people I
thought knew me well/
After all that time they
couldn’t tell/ How I lost
my soul was just a shell,”
she sings in “Summer
Song.” The lines hold the
same power even without
WALKER PICKERING
/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Conor Oberst has released
the first Bright Eyes album
in nine years.
“Dance and Sing,” which,
by his standards, is a party
tune. “I’ll grieve what I
have lost, forgive the firing
squad/ How imperfect life
can be, now all I can do is
dance on through.”
“Down in the Weeds”
mixes private reflection
and societal concern. It’s
about battling depression
and impending apocalypse.
But the music never gets
too downcast: Producer
Mogis makes the songs
swoon with orchestral
strings and embellishes the
sturdy folk rock with deco-
ahead with the first major
COVID-era film festival
convinced they needed to
chart a path forward for a
film industry hard-hit by
the lockdowns.
Almodovar, who pre-
miered his short film “The
Human Voice” on Thurs-
day, said streaming plat-
forms had played an “es-
sential role” in keeping
people entertained during
months of virus-required
confinement at home.
But he said they had also
contributed to the “danger-
ous” phenomenon of peo-
ple growing increasingly
comfortable living, work-
ing and eating at home — a
type of “imprisonment”
that he said must be re-
sisted.
“And the antidote is the
cinema,” he said, describ-
ing going out, sitting next
to strangers in a movie
theater where “you find
yourself crying or rejoicing
with other people.”
Sept. 7 birthdays: Jazz
saxophonist Sonny Rollins
is 90. Singer Gloria Gaynor
is 77. Singer Chrissie
Hynde is 69. Comedian
Leslie Jones is 53. Actor
Oliver Hudson is 44. Actor
Evan Rachel Wood is 33.
the full production that
accompanied “Summer”
on “All Mirrors.”
The two songs not
featured on “All Mirrors”
— “Whole New Mess” and
“Waving, Smiling” — fit
the scope and theme of
the work as a whole. The
album may revisit songs
she has already released,
but there’s a recognition
in the title track that mov-
ing forward sometimes
means finding pain anew.
The album may not
feature much in the way
of new material, but it
brings a new moment, one
that’s appropriately
matched to the current
state of the world. As 2020
brought people into the
quiet of their homes,
Olsen brought listeners
into the quiet of her songs,
brought down from their
cinematic glory to display
their intimate brilliance.
— Ragan Clark, Associ-
ated Press
‘Down in the
Weeds, Where
the World
Once Was’
Bright Eyes (Dead Oceans)
rative touches.
Back in the early 2000s,
when he was already a
decade into a prolific re-
cording career, the
now-40-year-old Oberst
was saddled with a New
Dylan burden he couldn’t
possibly live up to.
In the years since, he has
continued to make worth-
while records. (Check out
2016’s solo acoustic “Rumi-
nation” and his 2019 col-
laboration with Phoebe
Bridgers as Better Oblivion
Community Center.)
“Down in the Weeds”
shows a resiliency and
optimism that marks him
as one former wunderkind
who still has a bright future.
— Dan DeLuca, The
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mom’s addiction and abuse frightening
Dear Amy: My mom
drinks. When my brothers
and I were young (we are
all in our 20s now), her
drinking wasn’t too bad. It
got much worse after her
mother died 15 years ago,
and steadily worse with
COVID-19. She is also a
heavy cigarette smoker.
When she is drunk, she
becomes very verbally
abusive and sometimes
physically abusive. She tells
me that I am a worthless
person, stupid, and that no
one will ever love me. I tell
her that this hurts me —
and she laughs. I try to
walk away, but she will
corner me. She goes after
my brother and dad as well
(our younger brother lives
in another state).
My dad does nothing
about this, which is under-
standable. My older
brother lives with them full
time. He just laughs it off
and does not confront the
problem.
I don’t know what to do.
I moved back home a few
months ago to help out.
I am at my wit’s end. She
is making me dislike her,
and now I am also afraid of
her. I don’t want to feel this
way about her. She is my
mom. I want to help her.
— Scared of Mom
Dear Scared: You might
assume that your father is
doing his best to keep his
head down and stay out of
the line of fire, but you
deserve 1. not to be abused
and 2. to have a parent try
to protect you. I assume
that you are absorbing
some of the drunken abuse
that your father and
brother endured before
your arrival.
Realistically, you cannot
force your mother toward
recovery, but you can at-
tempt to confront her with
‘Polarizing’ new medical drama
awaits reaction in the States
By Ashley Lee
Los Angeles Times
The first surgery on
“Transplant” takes place
amid debris. A truck has
just crashed into a restau-
rant, and an injured diner
is suffering from a poten-
tially fatal brain bleed. A
man then makes a quick
decision: With his flash-
light firmly in his mouth,
he makes a hole in the
head of the “patient” —
using, of all things, a power
drill.
Thankfully, that man is
actually Bashir “Bash”
Hamed, a Syrian doctor of
emergency medicine who
fled his war-torn home-
land for Toronto, where he
is attempting to redo his
residency. And since even
the most diversely cast
medical dramas are built
around white protagonists,
“Transplant” — which
premiered Aug. 25 on NBC
— is as unconventional as
the aforementioned pro-
cedure it depicts: It puts an
immigrant, and his largely
underrepresented perspec-
tive as a person of color,
front and center.
“Bash is the character
who has been in every
single show that we’ve ever
seen in any genre, but this
time he is the one who’s in
the spotlight,” said Hamza
Haq, the 29-year-old actor
who stars in “Transplant.”
The series, acquired by
NBC as many American
TV series remain in limbo
because of COVID-related
filming interruptions, first
aired last spring in Canada,
where it became the most-
watched new Canadian
series of the 2019-20 sea-
son. Said Haq, “We’re
hoping for a similar reac-
tion in the States — if not in
numbers, then at least in
emotion.”
“Transplant’s” unique
perspective allows for it to
tackle a number of plot-
lines that haven’t been
seen before in the venera-
ble medical drama genre,
at least not in this way —
including what Haq called
ASK AMY
By Amy Dickinson
askamy@amydickinson.com Twitter @askingamy
the grave impact her drink-
ing has on you.
Write down your
thoughts. Be specific and
honest in describing the
impact on you (“I want to
try to help you, but I’m
afraid of you. I’m losing
confidence in you and in
myself. I need to protect
myself from your rages.”)
Some people report
success by recording or
filming the other person’s
behavior and then con-
fronting them with the
evidence. However, you
should not set out to shame
your mother, but to allow
her to simply see herself. A
12-step recovery program
might work for her; she
should also see her physi-
cian for medical treatment
options. You should also
look for other housing. You
have a duty to take care of
yourself and to protect
yourself. Al-Anon or anoth-
er “friends and family”
support group would be a
game changer for you and
your family.
Dear Amy: I met a man
nearly two years ago. We
have been living together
for over a year (in his
house). I just found out
that he has an STD and has
been using multiple dating
websites since the begin-
ning of our relationship.
He asks me to move out
of his house every time we
argue. But then he insists
that he loves me. He always
says he is sorry afterward.
I used to love and trust
him, but now I am not so
sure this relationship can
be saved. Do you have any
suggestions — before I
move out and leave him
once and for all? Can this
relationship be saved?
— Wondering
Dear Wondering: Nope —
Hamza Haq stars in “Transplant,” a unique medical drama
airing on NBC.
“a polarizing political
aspect” that may register
differently with viewers in
the U.S. Bash’s analog
approach clashes with that
of his colleagues, for in-
stance, who routinely rely
on computer imaging and
other technology. Microag-
gressions on the medical
floor are a regular part of
his shift. And the thought
of anyone being against
vaccines — the most cov-
eted of supplies in his
home country — is a com-
pletely baffling concept.
“The fact that there’s
people who don’t want
them when other people
are dying and need them is
just an earth-shattering
piece of information for
him,” writer and showrun-
ner Joseph Kay said of the
episode in question, which
sees a child admitted to the
hospital with diphtheria, a
disease that has been
nearly eradicated, after his
parents fail to have him
vaccinated against the
illness. “This experiential
point of view gives us
details we wouldn’t have
otherwise, and that lets us
tell a new story about
things we might already be
familiar with.”
The subject of who
should tell which stories
on TV remains fraught in
the U.S. and in Canada.
Asked about representa-
tion in the “Transplant”
you’re good. Pack your stuff,
make sure you get tested,
and enjoy your new life.
Dear Amy: As a man, I
have always been intrigued
by how women’s emotions
and reactions differ from
men’s. I believe the psy-
chologies of both sexes play
equal roles in the wonderful
dynamism that makes the
world go ’round.
In the context of the
women’s movement that
has been occurring over the
last several decades, I often
wonder how contemporary
women respond to so-
called stereotypical female
behavior as often portrayed
in movies and TV dramas.
When a woman bursts into
tears, can’t make up her
mind, succumbs to a sweet-
talking man, etc., does a
contemporary woman say,
“Come on, girl, buck up!
Get a hold of yourself!” Or
does she say, “Gee, I can see
why she feels that way. I’d
probably react the same
way.”
—R
Dear R: It is important to
remember that most earlier
media was created by men,
and so the distance be-
tween “Alice” on “The
Honeymooners” and the
female characters realized
by Shonda Rhimes or Phoe-
be Waller-Bridge shows
what a long way depictions
of the female experience
have come.
So, yes, I’m more in the
“buck up!” category, but I
believe that most of us
(women and men) experi-
ence our emotional lives
along a wide spectrum.
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writers room, a representa-
tive for NBC confirmed
there are no Syrian writers
on staff — though consult-
ant Ahmad Meree, an
established Arabic-lan-
guage playwright, and the
series’s story coordinator
are both Syrian.
Meanwhile, Haq im-
mersed himself in books
and documentaries about
Syria, and spoke with
numerous Syrian refugees
about their experiences.
“My biggest concern
was trying to do justice to
the trauma that everybody
who comes from that part
of the world is experi-
encing, as well as anybody
who has been forced to flee
their country and find their
own footing,” said Haq,
who was born to Pakistani
parents in Saudi Arabia,
and worked with Syrian
dialect coaches to nail
Bash’s specific accent and
native language of Arabic.
Some of the show’s
religion-related storylines
come from Haq himself —
a departure for the actor,
who previously rebuffed
praying on-screen.
“I’m Muslim, I’m prac-
ticing but I’m not the best
at it; I try to pray a couple
times a day,” he said. “But
religion is such a personal
thing, and the writers
allowed me to speak to my
personal connection with
my religion.”

Reich
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premiere, you’ve heard its
musical language. For with-
out “The Planets,” John
Williams’ ubiquitous scores
for the “Star Wars” movies
could not exist, the com-
poser having borrowed
extravagantly from Holst’s
innovations in texture,
tone, harmony and orches-
tration. When listening to
Holst’s “The Planets” these
days, in fact, it’s difficult not
to envision Luke Skywalker
and Han Solo, so thor-
oughly did Williams incor-
porate Holst’s esthetic.
In “The Planets: Re-
imagined,” arranger-band-
leader Levy has done some-
thing much more worthy
than simply borrow Holst’s
language or swing his
rhythms. Like all major jazz
transformations of classical
masterworks — such as the
Ellington-Strayhorn “Peer
Gynt” Suite (based on
Grieg’s original) or Wynton
Marsalis’ “The Fiddler’s
Tale” (from Stravinsky’s
“L’Histoire du Soldat”) —
Levy has made something
new and invigorating of the
original.
From the opening pas-
sages of “Mars, The Bringer
of War,” Levy establishes
that we’re not in Holst’s
universe anymore. The low
brass’s inexorably rising
lines, the orchestra’s joyous
swing rhythms, trombonist
Andy Martin’s expansive
solo and the movement’s
exuberant finale make this
Classes
Continued from Page 1
Art Center and Sip and
Paint Chicago in Jefferson
Park have created kits for
their classes — small pack-
ages containing essential
materials — and contact-
less pickup. And whatever
studios can’t provide,
teachers attempt to work
around.
“We designed all of our
lessons to work around
using common household
objects, like butter knives
and forks, things folks will
have lying around,” Busse
said. “Luckily with clay,
hands are the biggest tool
you need.”
Although Sip and Paint
is hosting small, in-person
events, owner Lily Miteva
said there’s nothing like a
full house. “The instructor
and I worked off the peo-
ple’s energy,” she said. “We
miss walking around in the
studio, giving tips or offer-
ing advice.”
LaMacchia said al-
though she wishes it was
safe for customers to come
in, online classes have
taught the studio a lot.
“I think the biggest
take-away from online
classes is just to be flexible
in thinking about how and
what you teach,” LaMac-
chia said. “How can we
utilize everyday tools that
Reruns
Continued from Page 1
ment of “The Office” cast in
celebration of a fan’s wed-
ding on his now CBS-offi-
cial YouTube show “Some
Good News.”
Others have been charm-
ing in their casual, relatively
unmediated presentation,
reflective of a new and
altered access to celebrities
we have now that our lives
exist largely online and
Hollywood’s machinations
have been at least partially
disrupted.
In April, “Twin Peaks”
stars Kyle MacLachlan and
Madchen Amick raised
their coffee cups to the
show’s first episode over
Instagram Live (it pre-
miered in 1990), telling
jokes and swapping stories
about their time working
with David Lynch.
The same month, “Scan-
dal” star Kerry Washington
chatted with former co-star
Tony Goldwyn, “the pre-
tend love of my life,” also on
Instagram Live, as Wash-
ington filled out the census
online.
By the time I started
reading the tweets of actor
Mara Wilson — herself a
nostalgic figure to ’90s kids
who grew up with “Ma-
tilda” — describing her
experience watching all of
“Sex and the City” for the
first time, it occurred to me
JOHN DURICKA/AP
Duke Ellington was at the
forefront of merging jazz
and classical music, as in
“The Nutcracker Suite.”
“Mars” a work that can
stand on its own, apart
from Holst’s original,
though built upon it.
Shades of Ellington
emerge at the outset of
“Venus, The Bringer of
Peace,” thanks to its im-
mensely appealing me-
dium-swing sensibility. The
cascading horns, gorgeous
reed section voicing and
radiant finish indeed sug-
gest peace and content-
ment, at least as jazz listen-
ers tend to define it.
But the heart of this
reworking of “The Planets”
can be found in “Jupiter,
The Bringer of Jollity,” and
“Saturn, The Bringer of Old
Age,” each movement
transformed by Levy and
friends into an expansive
jazz tone poem.
Sip and Paint owner Lily Miteva packs art kits for online classes. “The instructor and I worked off the people’s energy,” she said of in-person classes.
students have in their
home so they don’t have to
sink a fortune into supplies
to participate in our
classes? What new tech-
Martin Sheen, from left, Richard Schiff and Rob Lowe in a scene from “The West Wing.”
that we’d entered a new
stage of crisis television,
choosing shows for their
ability to provide comfort
or distraction rather than
quality.
According to Kelsey
Miller’s book “I’ll Be There
For You: The One About
‘Friends,’ ” this isn’t a new
phenomenon. After 9/11,
viewers flocked to
“Friends” in Super Bowl
numbers, bringing new
interest and vitality to a
series that had been on its
last legs.
Marcus Roberts performs George Gershwin’s Concerto in F with the Chicago Philharmonic.
Rather than settle into
any rhythmic pattern for
very long, “Jupiter” contin-
uously switches tempo and
meter, giving the listener a
palpable lift with each shift.
After all this acoustic mu-
sic-making, Andrew Syn-
owiec’s electric guitar
sounds positively space age,
the score bounding from
one surging climax to the
next.
“Saturn” represents the
introspective counterpart
to Levy’s take on “Jupiter,”
Andrew Langham’s open-
ing piano solo establishing
a mood of stillness and
reverie. The shimmering
colors and orchestral haze
that follow attest to the
movement’s otherworldly,
mystical qualities.
Elsewhere in “The Plan-
ets: Reimagined,” we hear
layers of rhythmic energy
in “Mercury, The Winged
niques can we add that are
more appropriate for in-
home work?”
At Hyde Park, Nourse
said some courses like
“Friends” isn’t exactly
high art — or even particu-
larly good television — but
it soothed viewers, and its
resurgence showed that in a
crisis, we don’t want pres-
tige dramas. We want
Stonybrook, Connecticut.
We want prefinancial crisis
Manhattan. We want Mid-
dle-earth. We want Presi-
dent Bartlet. Like a reverse
“Cheers,” we want to go
where we know everybody
else’s name.
There’s a reason for this,
and it’s one Stephen Groen-
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ERIN HOOLEY/CHICAGO TRIBUNE 2019
Messenger,” constantly
changing colors in “Uranus,
The Magician” and a poetic
summation of it all in “Nep-
tune, The Mystic.”
Levy doesn’t use the
offstage wordless choir that
concludes Holst’s “Nep-
tune,” instead turning to
pianist Langham to play the
final, pianissimo passages
that eventually fade away
into the ether. Once again,
an imaginative jazz alterna-
tive to a classical sound.
So in the course of seven
movements, Levy has
evoked Holst’s original
while taking its themes and
gestures in new directions.
We hear echoes of Holst’s
“The Planets” but also the
vividness of Levy’s concep-
tion and the dexterity of his
orchestration.
Some classical purists
probably will object to this,
considering it a sacrilege to
ceramics and printmaking
classes have in-person
sessions in small groups
now that the center has
reopened.
STEVE SHAPIRO/NBC 2000
ing, associate professor of
cinema and media studies
at the University of Wash-
ington, knows well. Groen-
ing is the author of “Cinema
Beyond Territory: Inflight
Entertainment and Atmos-
pheres of Globalization,”
and if you’ve read any cov-
erage on the phenomenon
of people crying while
watching objectively unsad
movies on airplanes, it
likely draws on Groening’s
scholarship on the subject.
In many ways, says
Groening, our current ex-
recast a symphonic land-
mark in jazz terms. I know,
because whenever I write
about such ventures, some
listeners protest. Even jazz
pianist Marcus Roberts’
brilliant reconceptions of
concert works by Gersh-
win, himself an improvising
pianist, inspire detractors,
as in Roberts’ versions of
Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in
Blue” and Concerto in F for
jazz trio and orchestra.
How dare Roberts tamp-
er with such acknowledged
masterpieces, the naysayers
say. Why doesn’t he just go
and write his own con-
certo?
In fact, Roberts has. But
his partly improvised,
partly composed revisions
of Gershwin’s concert
works enrich — rather than
diminish — the experience
of encountering them. To
hear Roberts’ trio take
E. JASON WAMBSGANS/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Other classes will stay
virtual for the time being,
and possibly even after the
pandemic.
“This isn’t a quick fix,”
perience under the condi-
tions of a pandemic is not
unlike that of being stuck
on an airplane, a place
where light action, roman-
tic comedies and family-
friendly fare rule the day.
“I think people have
low-grade fear of flying,
that’s why they tend to
drink on planes and take
sleeping pills — plus it’s just
plain irritating,” he said.
There’s also a sense of
uncertainty and a loss of
control: When you’re flying,
said Groening, “you’re
suspended in midair, and
you don’t know what’s
going to happen, and so
you’re always in this space
of waiting, and I feel like
we’re in that now.”
With so much outside
our control, said Groening,
who himself had recently
begun rewatching “The
West Wing,” “reaching for
something that’s familiar
and safe and predictable is
actually a reasonable re-
sponse.”
And when the abun-
dance of options afforded
by streaming services like
Netflix or Hulu (or HBO
Max, or Disney+ ) collides
with pandemic-induced
decision fatigue, returning
to something familiar is one
way of making a decision
and exercising some mea-
sure of control. It also
means you know what’s
going to happen.
“Having that distraction
that is also safe and predic-
3
flight in certain sections of
the Concerto in F, to hear
Roberts’ blues themes
interwoven with Gersh-
win’s “Rhapsody in Blue” is
to realize new possibilities
in Gershwin’s work. If
Gershwin himself impro-
vised during the premiere
of “Rhapsody in Blue” and
elsewhere, why can’t sub-
sequent musicians?
In truth, reconceiving
the classics reflects what
jazz is all about: invention.
This is a deeply autobio-
graphical music that re-
makes old themes and
creates new ones, accord-
ing to the performer’s
wishes. Miles Davis and Gil
Evans did that with
Joaquin Rodrigo’s
“Concierto de Aranjuez” in
the landmark “Sketches of
Spain” album. Jelly Roll
Morton routinely did it at
the piano, playing his ver-
sions of music from Verdi’s
“Il Trovatore” and other
operas in New Orleans’
bordellos at the turn of the
previous century.
For those who blanch at
such transformations, fear
not. The originals remain
unscathed, still available for
all to savor exactly as writ-
ten. The new versions
simply illuminate them
through the wizardry of
jazz technique.
Which is why recordings
such as “The Planets: Re-
imagined” are to be treas-
ured, especially in the cen-
tenary of Holst’s piece.
Howard Reich is a Tribune
critic.
hreich@chicagotribune.com
Nourse said. “This will stay
with us for the long haul.”
@milan_polk
mpolk@chiacgotribune.com
table, I think is really what
people are looking for,” says
Groening.
That couldn’t be truer of
“The Baby-Sitters Club,”
whose characters don’t age,
and whose storylines and
character names can feel
ingrained into your brain
like old phone numbers if
you grew up reading the
books.
The July day I started
watching “The Baby-Sitters
Club,” COVID-19 cases
seemed to be spiking again.
The wholesome world of
Stonybrook, Connecticut,
with its manageable con-
flict, felt like a different
world, one I had forgotten
existed and didn’t want to
leave.
While I was watching, a
friend sent me a message,
gushing about the show.
She was excited for the girls
to go to Camp Moosehead
in a storyline she remem-
bered from childhood, she
said. Like Groening’s nerv-
ous flyers, we didn’t really
know even what the next
hours would have in store,
but we knew we could
count on fictional baby-
sitters attending fictional
camp.
When everything else
feels chaotic, those small
certainties matter. “(P)art of
taking control, I think, is
saying, ‘This is what I’m
going to watch,’ ” says
Groening. “ ‘I know it. I
know how it’s going to
end.’ ”
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Horoscopes Dilbert By Scott Adams

Today’s birthday (Sept. 7): Love feeds your

spirit this year. Steady practice grows your
passion projects. Adapt to new study and
travel conditions. Overcome professional
obstacles this winter, before home and fam-
ily blossom. Next summer brings a domestic
change, before your career gains momentum.
Aries (March 21-April 19): Today is an 8. Do the research
before committing funding. Rest and review. Take advantage
of a lucky break. Make an important connection.
Taurus (April 20-May 20): 9. Your influence is spreading.
You can get what you need. Relax and enjoy the ride. Keep
momentum in motion. Provide leadership to realize a dream.
Gemini (May 21-June 20): 7. Relax and take advantage of Baby Blues By Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott
a lucky moment. Private productivity generates satisfying
results. Clean, sort and organize to prepare for what’s ahead.
Cancer (June 21-July 22): 8. Good fortune flows through
your friends and connections. Let people know what you’re
up to. Share stories and adventures. Share resources. Discov-
er a fascinating opportunity.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): 9. Optimism plus effort launches your
work. Make a brilliant move to outsmart the competition.
Anticipate changes and forge ahead. Catch a lucky profes-
sional break.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): 8. Good news comes from far away.
You may find an answer in a dream. Draw upon hidden
assets. Get expert feedback. Make a bold discovery.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): 8. Lucrative opportunities arise.
Take advantage of a profitable opportunity. Monitor expens- Zits By Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
es and get what’s needed. Invest in good quality for durabili-
ty and value.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): 9. Put in extra effort with your part-
ner. Your quick action draws praise. Conversation can lead to
romance; discuss dreams, possibilities and love. Stay receptive.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): 8. Remain open to shifting
circumstances. Stretch your mind with a new game or chal-
lenge. Efficient routines save time and money.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): 8. Relax and enjoy sweet family
time. Enjoy games and diversions with your inner circle.
Discover new ways to have fun with what you have.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): 7. Adjust to changes with family.
Provide what’s needed to keep systems flowing. Clean and
organize spaces. Make upgrades and repairs. Prepare some-
thing delicious to share. Mr. Boffo By Joe Martin
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): 9. Let a curiosity spark into cre-
ative expression. Research your subject and illustrate. Listen
to your heart’s song and harmonize.

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Pickles By Brian Crane

Bridge
Here are the answers to the weekly quiz:
Q.1—Neither vulnerable, as South, you hold:
♠ Q74 ♥ AK3 ♦ Q972 ♣ J73 Dick Tracy By Joe Staton and Mike Curtis
As dealer, what call would you make?
A.1—Many would open with this hand, but we think hands
with 4-3-3-3 distribution, with scattered honors and poor
intermediates, are not worth an opening bid. Pass.
Q.2—North-South vulnerable, as South, you hold:
♠ 6 ♥ K J 10 9 7 6 ♦ K 8 7 5 3 ♣ J
South West North East
2♥ 2♠ 2NT 3♠
?
What call would you make?
A.2—Partner’s bid, despite the interference, carries the
same meaning — are you minimum or maximum? You are
maximum, so bid 4D in case there is more bidding. Animal Crackers By Mike Osbun
Q.3—East-West vulnerable, as South, you hold:
♠ J 10 7 5 ♥ Q J 7 ♦ A K Q ♣ 8 6 5
South West North East
1♦ Pass 2♣ Pass
?
What call would you make?
A.3—When partner responds to your opening bid with two of
a minor, it is usually a poor idea to raise with only three trumps
and a balanced minimum. Bid 2NT.
Q.4—Both vulnerable, as South, you hold:
♠ Q86 ♥ KJ4 ♦ A964 ♣ A92
South West North East
1♦ 1NT Dbl Pass
Prickly City By Scott Stantis
?
What call would you make?
A.4—Partner’s double is purely for penalties. This should be
fun. Pass.

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Sudoku 9/7

For Better or for Worse By Lynn Johnston

Complete the grid

so each row, column
and 3-by-3 box in
bold borders contains
Blondie By Dean Young and John Marshall every digit 1 to 9.

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

Mutts By Patrick McDonnell

Answer here

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Across 39 Manner of behavior 22 Wildebeest

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4 Divide according to 45 Friend 27 Three-time PGA
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Broom-Hilda By Russell Myers 8 Pleasant vocal cadence Mills crackers Vijay __
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constellation Lyra created from cut-and- 37 Broadcast
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D) Heineken 4 Fitting birdhouses
Saturday’s 5 Hoping to score a run 54 AOL rival
answer: Martin 6 Olympic miler Jim 56 New Deal prog.
Luther King 7 Barber’s powder 57 Sworn promise
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“Letter from 9 “Couldn’t be happier!” 61 Rowboat mover
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resistance to 14 Scottish denial
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CHICAGO WEATHER CENTER chicagoweathercenter.com By Tom Skilling and

MONDAY, SEPT. 7 NORMAL HIGH: 78° NORMAL LOW: 58° RECORD HIGH: 100° (1960) RECORD LOW: 42° (1986)

Dry Labor Day then rain makes return at night

LOCAL FORECAST NATIONAL FORECAST Although an isolated
-10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s shower is not out of the
question, mainly dry condi-
tions during the day should
Spokane International Falls
allow Labor Day plans to
HIGH LOW
Seattle
84/57 68/45 50s 54/32 70s proceed. Rain and isolated
thunderstorms arrive Mon-
Concord
day with localized heavy
74 58 Steady or
rising at night Portland
91/60
Boise
70s Billings
52/34
Minneapolis
Green Bay
67/50
Bismarck
54/35
Albany 82/58
80/62
Boston
rainfall possible. Showers
and widely scattered
■ Mostly sunny for Labor Sunday’s lowest: 27° at Rapid City 59/46 80/63 thunderstorms will remain
86/44 Buffalo
Day before rain returns 90s
for nighttime hours. An
4NW Grand Lake, Colo. 55/34 Chicago Detroit 75/59 New York 50s a possibility through the
74/58 79/58 82/68 workweek and may contin-
Des Moines
isolated daytime shower Reno 80s Pittsburgh
ue into Saturday. The next
possible but mainly dry. 80s 98/55
Cheyenne Omaha 75/50 Cleveland 86/65 70s
85/27 79/49 77/69 several days will see tem-
Cooler with a high in the
mid 70s.
Salt Lake City
Kansas City
St. Louis Indianapolis
Washington peratures in the upper 60s
San 92/50 89/71 81/66 and low 70s, below the
Denver 89/64 86/69
■ Breezy NW winds 10-20 Francisco
74/56 Las Vegas 93/34 Wichita Louisville 80s normal high which is in the
mph turn NE in the 114/80
98/70 88/66 upper 70s. Oppressive heat
Charlotte
afternoon.
Los Angeles 87/63 continues in the southwest
■ Clouds increase in the 94/68 100s
Albuquerque Little Rock Nashville for Labor Day. Excessive
evening. Rain likely Phoenix 96/63 93/68 91/65
111/84 90s heat warnings remain in
overnight with isolated Oklahoma City Atlanta
96/74 Birmingham 86/65 place for the majority of
thunderstorms possible. San Diego 88/67 California and portions of
■ Heavy localized 80/69 Dallas Jackson Arizona and Nevada. Tem-
nighttime rainfall possible, Sunday’s highest: 123° El Paso 94/76 94/69 peratures are cooling
especially under at Death Valley, Calif. 100/74 Houston 90s quickly in and just east of
92/78 Orlando
thunderstorms. New the Rockies where some
88/76
■ ENE winds increase to Orleans areas have had winter
93/76
15-25 mph after sunset.
Miami storm watches. A freeze
(Precipitation at 7 a.m. CDT)
■ Low near the normal of 87/79 watch has been issued for
58 degrees. SNOW RAIN western North Dakota.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 8 WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9 THURSDAY, SEPT. 10 FRIDAY, SEPT. 11 SATURDAY, SEPT. 12 SUNDAY, SEPT. 13

HIGH LOW
Steady or
68 59
rising at night
Cloudy, breezy and a little
cooler with showers which
may be heavy at times.
Scattered thunderstorms
become more likely in the
afternoon. High in the upper
60s. NE winds 15-25 mph.
Showers continue overnight.
HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW
Steady or Steady or Steady or Steady or Steady or
70 57
rising at night 68 56
rising at night 70 57
rising at night 71 56
rising at night 75 60
rising at night
Mostly cloudy with widely Cool, damp and showery Some peeks of sun. Widely scattered showers. Southwest winds help
scattered morning showers conditions continue. Cooler Scattered showers with an An isolated afternoon temperatures warm to the
which continue into the with a high in the upper 60s. isolated t-storm possible. thunderstorm possible. mid 70s before a cold front
afternoon and evening hours. NNE winds 10-18 mph. Winds High near 70. E winds 10-15 Breaks in the clouds provide passes. An isolated shower
Warmer with a high near 70. diminish overnight. Evening mph. Mostly cloudy and cool brief sunlight. High near 70. possible but mostly dry.
NE winds 10-20 mph. An showers become less likely overnight with light SE winds. Light S winds. Mostly cloudy Winds become NW 10-15
overnight shower possible. late. Low in the mid 50s, near Scattered nighttime showers. overnight. A stray shower. mph late. Showers
Low in the mid to upper 50s. the normal ofo 57. Low in the mid 50s. Low in the mid 50s. overnight. Low near 60.

Chicago Chicago Chicago

Chicago
Chicago Chicago

ASK TOM CHICAGO DIGEST

Dear Tom, Cooler, drier pattern taking shape for mid-September SUNDAY TEMPERATURES
LOCATION HI LO LOCATION HI LO

I remember that Chi- PRECIPITATION UPDATE MID-SEPTEMBER TEMPERATURE U.S. OUTLOOK METEOROLOGICAL SUMMER Aurora 81 57 Midway 82 59
Gary 81 54 O’Hare 83 59
cago had multiple 90s in Sunday morning totals West remains hot while temps in Central U.S. cool 2020 (JUNE-JULY-AUGUST) Kankakee 79 55 Romeoville 81 57
late September two or three St. Charles Sept. 12-16, 2020 forecast Warmest on record for Chicago Lakefront 81 59 Valparaiso 80 51
1.60"
years ago. Was it record- Lansing 81 56 Waukegan 82 55
W. Chicago 1.33" Warmest Chicago meteorological
breaking? Chicago CHICAGO PRECIPITATION
Bob Shay, Joliet 0.80" summers and the following fall
0.77"
MUCH (SEPT. OCT. NOV..) conditions
PERIOD 2020 NORMAL
Pontiac Rockford Sunday 0.60” 0.12”
Downers Grv. 0.74" ABOVE WHAT OCCURRED AFTER THESE HOT SUMMERS? Month to date 0.84” 0.70”
BELOW
Dear Bob, Midway 0.74" NORMAL MEAN AVERAGE MEAN AVERAGE
SUMMER TEMP FALL TEMP
TOTAL FALL
PRECIPITATION
Year to date 28.96” 25.83”

It was September 2017 O'Hare 0.60" NORMAL MONDAY SUNBURN FORECAST

when the city logged sev- Oak Forest 0.58" ABOVE ABOVE 2020 76.7° ? ? TIME OF EXPOSURE BEFORE SUNBURN BEGINS

en consecutive 90s from 1955 76.4° ABOVE Normal ABOVE Normal 7 a.m. 2 hours, 52 minutes
Lansing 0.34"
NORMAL NORMAL 1995 76.3° 1 p.m.* 28 minutes
Sept. 20-26. While two Wheeling 0.33"
BELOW Normal BELOW Normal
4 p.m. 1 hour, 10 minutes
Septembers, 1959 and 1971, 2012 76.1° NEAR Normal BELOW Normal SOURCE: Clear Skin Dermatology; Dr. Bryan Schultz
Waukegan 0.16"
have logged eight 90s, and 1921 75.9° ABOVE Normal BELOW Normal *Peak intensity
LAKE MICHIGAN CONDITIONS
two others, 1939 and 1960, ■ 0.60 inches of rain was MID-SEPTEMBER 1959 75.5° BELOW Normal ABOVE Normal
Chicago MONDAY TUESDAY
also recorded seven, in recorded at O'Hare 1949 75.5° NEAR Normal BELOW Normal
PRECIPITATION Wind NW/NE 15-20 kts. NE 20-30 kts.
those years the 90s were Airport through 11 a.m. 1973 75.3° ABOVE Normal BELOWNormal Waves 3-5 feet 6-10 feet
not consecutive or as late OUTLOOK Sun. shore/crib water temps 76°/72°
on Sunday, Sept. 6. The 1953 75.3° ABOVE Normal ABOVE Normal
in the month, so the 2017 last date that at least Wet work week BELOW
ABOVE 2010 75.2° ABOVE Normal ABOVE Normal LAST WEEK’S PEAK POLLEN LEVEL
late-season heatwave was 0.60" of precipitation ahead for Chicago NORMAL
NORMAL 1988 75.1° ABOVE Normal ABOVE Normal
POLLEN LEVEL
record-setting. In 2017, fell at O'Hare was July 9, but drier conditions Tree 0
there had only been nine 1954 75.1° BELOW Normal BELOW Normal Grass 0
2020 when 0.63" of rain are expected for the
90-degree days through fell." Sept. 12-16 period
Mold Very High
Ragweed High
Sept. 19. On Sept. 20, the SOURCES: Frank Wachowski, National Weather Service archives MARK CARROLL, THOMAS VALLE / WGN-TV Weed High
mercury reached 92, and SOURCE: Loyola Medicine Allergy Count
that was followed by a pair Dr. Rachna Shah

of 94s, 95 and 93 on Sept. MIDWEST CITIES OTHER U.S. CITIES WORLD CITIES ILLINOIS AIR QUALITY
23-24, and a pair of 92s on MON./TUES. FC HI LO FC HI LO MON./TUES. FC HI LO FC HI LO MON./TUES. FC HI LO FC HI LO MON./TUES. FC HI LO FC HI LO MONDAY FC HI LO MONDAY FC HI LO Sunday's reading Good
Sept. 25-26. September Illinois Abilene su 97 73 ts 93 53 Fairbanks sh 65 47 sh 58 45 Palm Beach ts 87 77 ts 86 78 Acapulco ts 84 75 Kyiv su 85 54 Monday's forecast Good
2017, closed nearly five Carbondale
Champaign
su
ts
89
79
67
63
su
ts
90
86
65
63
Albany pc 80
Albuquerque su 96
62
63
pc
pc
84
81
62
41
Fargo
Flagstaff
sh 54
pc 88
38
52
cl 53
su 71
33
31
Palm Springs pc119
Philadelphia su 85
84
66
su 106
pc 88
71
67
Algiers su 86
Amsterdam pc 69
66
59
Lima
Lisbon
pc 64
su 93
58
70
Critical pollutant Particulates
degrees above normal and Decatur
Moline
ts
pc
81
77
66
57
pc
rn
87
60
63
53
Amarillo
Anchorage
su 97
cl 61
64
51
sh
sh
69
59
35
49
Fort Myers
Fort Smith
ts 90
su 92
73
72
ts 89
ts 90
75
69
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
su111
pc 86
84
65
su 105
su 91
71
65
Ankara
Athens
su 88
su 93
56
72
London
Madrid
cl 70
pc 83
59
53
MONDAY RISE/SET TIMES
ranks as the city’s 15th Peoria pc 78 59 ts 77 60 Asheville su 84 58 su 84 65 Fresno su111 74 su 103 71 Portland, ME pc 75 61 pc 79 63 Auckland su 57 44 Manila ts 91 78 Sun 6:22 a.m. 7:12 p.m.
Quincy pc 83 63 ts 76 57 Aspen pc 80 39 rs 46 24 Grand Junc. pc 95 49 sh 54 38 Portland, OR pc 91 60 pc 84 62 Baghdad su 116 79 Mexico City ts 75 58
warmest September, tied Rockford pc 73 57 rn 61 55 Atlanta su 86 65 su 87 69 Great Falls rn 48 31 pc 57 38 Providence su 79 63 pc 85 62 Bangkok cl 92 79 Monterrey ts 84 70 Moon 10:00 p.m. 11:27 a.m.
with 2019 and 2005. Springfield
Sterling
ts
pc
81
74
64
56
ts
rn
86
61
62
54
Atlantic City su 79
Austin pc 94
69
75
pc
ts
80
92
71
72
Harrisburg
Hartford
su 86
su 81
65
64
pc 89
pc 88
66
64
Raleigh
Rapid City
pc 86
rn 55
67
34
ts 87
pc 48
71
28
Barbados
Barcelona
sh 87
sh 75
79
63
Montreal
Moscow
sh 75
sh 78
60
60
Baltimore su 85 69 pc 88 69 Helena rn 53 31 su 58 36 Reno su 98 55 su 74 47 Beijing pc 88 63 Munich pc 67 48
Indiana
Billings rn 52 34 pc 52 35 Honolulu pc 88 76 pc 89 76 Richmond su 86 67 pc 87 70 Beirut su 88 80 Nairobi ts 65 56
Bloomington cl 85 67 pc 90 64
Birmingham su 88 67 pc 88 70 Houston ts 92 78 ts 88 78 Rochester ts 77 58 sh 74 61 Berlin pc 68 52 Nassau ts 86 79
Write to: ASK TOM Evansville
Fort Wayne
pc
ts
88
76
67
61
su
pc
90
83
66
61
Bismarck sh 54 35 pc 56 31 Int'l Falls cl 54 32 cl 53 31 Sacramento su109 73 pc 101 66 Bermuda ts 85 80 New Delhi pc 91 79
Boise pc 86 44 su 69 46 Jackson su 94 69 pc 92 72 Salem, Ore. pc 92 57 pc 89 55 Bogota ts 67 49 Oslo cl 62 49
2501 W. Bradley Place Indianapolis ts 81 66 pc 89 64
Boston su 80 63 pc 83 64 Jacksonville ts 85 77 ts 84 76 Salt Lake City su 92 50 pc 59 40 Brussels pc 71 55 Ottawa ts 75 49
Sept 10 Sept 17 Sept 23 Oct 1
Lafayette ts 79 64 pc 86 64
Chicago, IL 60618 South Bend pc 74 58 ts 74 60
Brownsville sh 91
Buffalo ts 75
77
59
pc
sh
93
70
79
63
Juneau
Kansas City
rn 55
pc 89
52
64
sh 59
ts 66
53
51
San Antonio pc 91
San Diego pc 80
73
69
pc 92
pc 77
72
68
Bucharest
Budapest
su 88
pc 80
61
53
Panama City ts 83
Paris su 74
75
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asktomwhy@wgntv.com Wisconsin Burlington pc 82 65 cl 79 61 Las Vegas su114 80 pc 85 64 San Francisco pc 74 56 pc 76 56 Buenos Aires pc 62 46 Prague pc 69 47 PLANET RISE SET
Green Bay cl 67 50 rn 54 47 Charlotte su 87 63 pc 87 70 Lexington pc 86 62 su 89 64 San Juan pc 89 77 sh 88 78 Cairo su 100 77 Rio de Janeiro su 84 68
WGN-TV meteorologists Mark Kenosha pc 68 58 rn 63 56 Charlstn SC ts 85 73 ts 83 75 Lincoln pc 79 47 rn 49 42 Santa Fe pc 90 58 pc 73 33 Cancun ts 86 76 Riyadh su 105 76 Mercury 7:53 a.m. 7:52 p.m.
La Crosse cl 65 51 rn 52 47 Charlstn WV pc 89 62 su 91 66 Little Rock su 93 68 su 91 70 Savannah ts 87 73 ts 85 73 Caracas pc 80 64 Rome su 87 68
Carroll, Steve Kahn, Richard Madison cl 67 52 rn 54 48 Chattanooga su 90 65 su 91 67 Los Angeles su 94 68 pc 86 68 Seattle pc 84 57 su 81 57 Casablanca pc 85 68 Santiago pc 71 46 Venus 2:42 a.m. 5:08 p.m.
Koeneman, Paul Merzlock and Milwaukee pc 68 55 rn 59 53 Cheyenne pc 85 27 sn 31 22 Louisville pc 88 66 su 91 65 Shreveport su 95 72 pc 92 73 Copenhagen pc 64 58 Seoul pc 79 67 Mars 9:03 p.m. 10:00 a.m.
Paul Dailey, plus Bill Snyder, Wausau cl 63 47 rn 50 43 Cincinnati pc 86 66 su 90 64 Macon su 89 67 pc 91 69 Sioux Falls sh 59 43 sh 53 41 Dublin sh 66 60 Singapore ts 86 79
Cleveland ts 77 69 ts 84 67 Memphis su 92 69 su 92 71 Spokane pc 68 45 su 72 44 Edmonton pc 55 39 Sofia su 86 58 Jupiter 4:21 p.m. 1:35 a.m.
contribute to this page. Michigan
Colo. Spgs pc 91 36 rs 40 27 Miami ts 87 79 ts 86 80 St. Louis pc 89 71 pc 91 66 Frankfurt pc 67 50 Stockholm pc 65 49
Detroit cl 79 58 rn 69 59 Saturn 4:50 p.m. 2:16 a.m.
Columbia MO pc 89 69 ts 82 58 Minneapolis sh 59 46 sh 54 43 Syracuse cl 83 63 cl 82 64 Geneva pc 72 52 Sydney pc 72 59
Grand Rapids pc 72 55 rn 61 54
Columbia SC su 89 65 pc 90 72 Mobile su 92 75 ts 90 76 Tallahassee ts 90 73 ts 90 74 Guadalajara ts 80 62 Taipei sh 92 78 BEST VIEWING TIME DIRECTION
Marquette cl 59 45 sh 52 44
Hear St. Ste. Marie pc 58 45 sh 55 46
Columbus ts 85 66 pc 89 65 Montgomery su 90 69 pc 91 72 Tampa ts 90 74 ts 90 75 Havana ts 89 73 Tehran su 95 73
Mercury Not visible
Concord pc 82 58 pc 86 60 Nashville su 91 65 su 91 67 Topeka pc 92 60 ts 62 48 Helsinki sh 62 50 Tokyo pc 89 79
Demetrius Traverse City pc 64 51 rn 56 49
Crps Christi sh 90 79 sh 91 80 New Orleans su 93 76 ts 89 78 Tucson su106 77 pc 101 71 Hong Kong sh 87 81 Toronto ts 76 53 Venus 5:00 a.m. 24° E
Iowa Dallas su 94 76 ts 91 65 New York su 82 68 pc 86 70 Tulsa su 97 77 ts 89 64 Istanbul su 85 70 Trinidad pc 89 75
Ivory’s Ames pc 72 47 rn 50 43 Daytona Bch. ts 85 75 ts 85 75 Norfolk pc 84 72 cl 84 73 Washington su 86 69 pc 88 70 Jerusalem su 95 68 Vancouver pc 83 57 Mars 3:30 a.m. 55° S
weather updates week- Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
pc
pc
71
75
50
50
rn
rn
53
53
46
46
Denver
Duluth
pc 93
cl 61
34
45
sn
cl
38
55
29
43
Okla. City
Omaha
su 96
pc 79
74
49
ts 87
rn 52
56
45
Wichita pc 98
Wilkes Barre pc 77
70
58
ts 73
pc 81
48
59
Johannesburg su 77
Kabul su 87
51
55
Vienna
Warsaw
pc 70
pc 66
49
47
Jupiter 9:00 p.m. 25.5° S
days 3 to 6 p.m. on WGN- Dubuque pc 70 52 rn 54 48 El Paso su100 74 pc 99 56 Orlando ts 88 76 ts 87 76 Yuma su113 82 pc 106 75 Kingston ts 86 80 Winnipeg pc 53 38 Saturn 9:30 p.m. 27° S
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