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Aldermen
delay vote
on paid
leave plan
Johnson’s effort drew
pushback from city
council, businesses
By A.D. Quig and Talia Soglin
Chicago Tribune

Facing pushback from Black

aldermen and business interests,
a key city panel pressed pause on
a vote Monday to expand Chica-
go’s paid leave policies beyond
other big cities such as New York
and Los Angeles.
It’s likely some version of the
paid leave legislation will eventu-
ally pass. It’s a key plank of Mayor
Brandon Johnson’s pro-worker
agenda and supporters Monday
said they had the votes necessary
to pass it.
The delay signaled substan-
tive disagreement over the ordi-
nance, however. It presents a test Israeli soldier Ori Megidish’s grandmother, Emma Megidish, center, celebrates on Monday Ori’s extraction from Gaza in Kiryat Gat, Israel.
of whether Johnson, with the The Israeli military and the Shin Bet internal security agency said in a joint statement Monday that Israeli forces had rescued Megidish, who was
help of progressive allies, can live

Israeli troops push

abducted Oct. 7 by Hamas militants. TAMIR KALIFA/THE NEW YORK TIMES
up to the reputation he’s tried to
burnish as the city’s unifier.
Backers of the paid leave
package expected a vote at the
committee meeting. Instead,
after brief testimony from the

deeper into Gaza

public and administration offi-
cials, Workforce Development
Chair Mike Rodriguez, 22nd,
called for a recess. When he
returned, he said consideration
would be postponed until Thurs-
day morning.
“A number of council members
came to me. It’s a meaty ordi-
nance and they want to sink their
teeth in to understand it more, Soldier rescued; Netanyahu rejects calls for cease-fire outlets. “Calls for a cease-fire are
calls for Israel to surrender to
and are committed to coming Hamas, to surrender to terror-
back Thursday to vote on this,” By Najib Jobain, landed near hospitals where Netanyahu welcomed her ism. That will not happen.”
Rodriguez told reporters after the Samy Magdy and Lee Keath thousands of Palestinians are home, saying the “achievement” Netanyahu, who faces mount-
meeting. “The biggest issue: not Associated Press sheltering beside the wounded. by Israel’s security forces ing anger over Israel’s failure to
enough time.” The military said a female “illustrates our commitment to prevent the worst surprise attack
Rodriguez did not say whether KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip soldier captured during Hamas’ free all the hostages.” on the country in a half century,
the ordinance might be tweaked — Israeli ground forces pushed brutal Oct. 7 incursion was He also rejected calls for a also said he had no plans to resign.
more. deeper into Gaza on Monday, rescued in Gaza — the first rescue cease-fire to facilitate the release Hamas and other militias are
“We’ll see where things go,” advancing in tanks and other since the weekslong war began. of captives or end the war, which believed to be holding some
he said. “We have an opportu- armored vehicles on the territo- Military officials provided few he has said will be long and 240 captives, including men,
nity here to make it even better ry’s main city and freeing a soldier details but said in a statement difficult. “Israel is fighting the women and children. Netanyahu
over the next couple of days, and held captive by Hamas. The that Pvt. Ori Megidish was “doing enemies of civilization itself,” has faced mounting pressure to
at the end of the day, we’re going Israeli prime minister rejected well” and had met with her family. Netanyahu said at a news confer-
to pass a great piece of legislation calls for a cease-fire as airstrikes Prime Minister Benjamin ence Monday with foreign news Turn to Gaza, Page 5
... working class people shouldn’t
have to pick between taking care
of their children or their loved
ones and potentially losing their
job.”
In an emailed statement, Alleged
parade
mayoral spokesman Ronnie
Reese said Johnson wants to keep
working to find a compromise.
“Our administration is
committed to true collabora-
tion and co-governance with all
shooter will
stakeholders and looks forward
to continued conversation this not testify in
week around supporting workers
and working families, and using
the full force of government to
father’s trial
sustain economic vitality in our By Clifford Ward
For News-Sun
Turn to Leave, Page 4
Alleged Highland Park parade
shooter Robert Crimo III won’t
be a witness at his father’s upcom-
ing trial for reckless conduct,
but video of his police interview
Report shows made in the hours after the shoot-
students rebounding ing will be publicly shown for
the first time, it was revealed at a
The 2023 Illinois Report Card Monday hearing.
released by the Illinois State Board At the Lake County Court
of Education showed a continu- hearing, Crimo III’s attorneys
ation of growth post-pandemic. Old oak trees are cut down on Sept. 12 at the site of a proposed warehouse near Illinois Route 38 in said their client, if called, would
Chicagoland, Page 3 Geneva Township. TRENT SPRAGUE/CHICAGO TRIBUNE plead the Fifth Amendment
in the bench trial of his father,

Plea of not guilty

Environmental activists, experts Robert Crimo Jr. The father’s trial
is scheduled to start Nov 6.
The father was charged in late

seeking to protect region’s trees

in fatal stabbing
The Plainfield man accused
of stabbing 6-year-old Wadea
al-Fayoume to death pleaded not
guilty to all eight charges related
to the alleged assault. Page 2
Ford Chicago
workers back
The nearly century-old Chicago
Assembly Plant on the city’s
Southeast Side hummed back to
life Saturday morning as thou-
sands of Ford workers returned to
their jobs. Business
Bur oak removal
in Kane County
prompts action
By Rebecca Johnson
Chicago Tribune
Standing before the Geneva
City Council, June Maher held
up an edited version of the
city’s logo. Instead of one with
a prominent tree in the middle,
it contained a stump.
She called the west suburb,
“Stump City USA,” saying that
city and county leaders allowed
trees that are hundreds of years
old to be cut down through
inaction.
“In my heart of hearts, I do
feel that leadership could have
prevented this,” she said at the
September meeting. “I’m very
disappointed in the City Coun-
cil and administration for not
stepping up and doing the
things that they claim to honor
in their Arbor Day proclama-
tions and their Tree City USA
and all that ... hypocrisy.”
For years, Maher and a group
of activists have tried to stop
the removal of bur oak trees
at a proposed industrial park
development in Kane County
near Geneva, contacting local
elected officials, starting a
petition and even climbing on
machinery. They say almost all
of the historic trees were cut
down in the two weeks after
Labor Day, calling it a “colossal
failure” for the “Tree City USA”
community.
While Geneva and Kane
County officials say they had
no legal authority to intervene,
activists hope their efforts
Turn to Trees, Page 5
2022 with reckless conduct for
vouching on state forms in 2019
that allowed his then-underage
son to purchase firearms, author-
ities said. Prosecutors say that
Crimo Jr. should have known that
his son was troubled, making him
a poor candidate for gun owner-
ship.
Crimo III has been subpoe-
naed to testify in his father’s trial.
However, his attorneys from
the Lake County public defend-
er’s office told Judge George
Strickland that Crimo III would
invoke his right to not potentially
incriminate himself.
The judge said he would accept
the attorneys’ representation, and
Turn to Crimo, Page 4

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simple, dishes on the table through her Dinner at Home The Plainfield man As prosecutor Michael according to typical pretrial further discuss the case
column for the Tribune. Her book includes everything you accused of stabbing 6-year- Fitzgerald argued for Czuba risk assessments, Czuba’s after the arraignment. The
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Amy Dickinson has been the Tribune’s signature general his arraignment at the Will rented to them for two two days after his killing. another woman killed
advice columnist, helping readers with questions both County Courthouse. years, Fitzgerald said. The boy enjoyed play- because she was a Muslim,”
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Illinois report card: Students rebounding from pandemic
Graduation rate reported for 2022-23
school year the highest in 13 years
By Shanzeh Ahmad,
Sarah Macaraeg
and Steve Sadin
For News-Sun
The 2023 Illinois Report
Card released Monday by
the Illinois State Board of
Education showed a contin-
uation of growth post-pan-
demic with increased
proficiency rates, though
still below pre-pandemic
levels.
The highest gradua-
tion rate in 13 years, driven
by Black and Hispanic
students, was also reported.
The state report card,
which is released annually
to give an overview of infor-
mation on Illinois schools,
also showed record-high
teacher retention as well
as more students taking
advanced coursework.
Results of individual
schools can be found online
at www.illinoisreportcard.
com/.
While chronic absentee-
ism is still “alarmingly high,”
according to the report card,
data showed a “promising
decrease.” Still, making a full
recovery from the pandemic
remains a constant goal,
and State Superintendent
of Education Tony Sanders
said educators and fami-
lies should be “proud of
the remarkable progress”
evident in this year’s report
card.
“We are moving fast
toward recovery, but we still
have a significant distance
to travel,” Sanders said in
a news release about the
report card. “Even once
we exceed pre-pandemic
achievement, we are not
done until we have a system
that graduates each and
every student ready for
success.”
The highest graduation
rate in 13 years at 87.6%
CHICAGOLAND
was achieved by the class
of 2023, according to the
report card, and was mostly
driven by the increase in
four-year graduation rates
for Black and Hispanic
students at 4.7% and 4%,
respectively.
The rate of ninth graders
in Illinois on track to grad-
uate is also increasing and
higher than even pre-pan-
demic levels at more
than 87%, the report card
showed.
Statewide, both English
and math proficiency rates
increased but are still less
than what they were before
the COVID-19 pandemic.
Proficiency rates can
show the percentage of
students who have hit the
given target, according
to the ISBE, but growth
is the way to show “prog-
ress toward and even past
the target.” On average,
students grew more in the
last school year than before
the pandemic, according to
the report card.
Black students had the
greatest accelerated rate of
growth in both English and
math compared to the 2018-
2019 school year, but their
growth and proficiency
rates overall are still behind
other students.
In the 2022-2023 school
year teacher retention
reached an “all-time high”
exceeding 90%, according
to the data. The retention
rate for Black and Hispanic
teachers increased the
most by nearly 5% and 6%,
respectively.
Even with high retention
rates and more teachers
recruited, “severe teacher
shortages still exist,”
according to the report card,
especially in underfunded
and disadvantaged schools
and in the special educa-
tion and bilingual education
Tony Sanders, state superintendent of education, at Rich
Township High School STEM Campus on May 19 in Olympia
Fields. ANTONIO PEREZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
“We are moving fast toward recovery,
but we still have a significant distance to
travel. Even once we exceed pre-pandemic
achievement, we are not done until we
have a system that graduates each and
every student ready for success.”
— State Superintendent of Education Tony Sanders
sectors. This was also found
to be a prevalent issue in the
state in a recent report from
Advance Illinois on educa-
tor shortages.
There were more English
language learners and
Hispanic, Asian and multi-
racial students enrolled in
the 2022-2023 school year
than the school year before,
suggesting more diversity in
Illinois schools, according
to the report card.
A spokesperson for Illi-
nois’ largest school district,
Chicago Public Schools, said
CPS will host an event Tues-
day at 10 a.m. at Dyett High
School to discuss its high
school data. CPS released
elementary students’ test
scores, showing partial
gains — and disparities —
in September. The spokes-
person did not address
whether Black and Hispanic
students’ graduation rates
grew in CPS as they did at
the state level, on average.
Schools around the state
have been assessing the
data. But the report cards
don’t reflect the goals and
challenges unique to each
district.
With a graduation rate
improving for North
Chicago Community High
School to 87.7% for the
class of 2023 from 84%
from the year before, North
Chicago District 187 Super-
intendent John Price said
part of the focus is now
putting more emphasis
on the graduates’ future.
The school maintained its
“commendable” rating.
“We want to make sure
100 percent of our seniors
have a strong postsecondary
plan,” Price said. “We want
them to enroll (in college),
enlist (in the military) or
earn in a career which will
make a family sustainable.”
While all Illinois schools
are dealing with the linger-
ing impact of COVID-19, in
Highland Park, Deerfield
and Highwood, admin-
istrators are also dealing
with the impact on many
students of the 2022 Fourth
of July parade mass shoot-
ing and the current Isra-
el-Hamas war.
Mike Lubelfeld, super-
intendent of North Shore
District 112 serving
preschool through eighth
grade in Highland Park and
Highwood, said in an email
students are doing well
despite the added stress.
“We are proud of the
students, staff, administra-
tors and parents for their
continued resiliency in the
face of trauma, tragedy,
stress and recovery over
the past few years in High-
land Park and Highwood,”
he said in the email.
Wayne Thomas Elemen-
tary School received an
“exemplary” rating for the
second year in a row, while
all other schools were
“commendable.” Lubelfeld
said the designations are a
“snapshot” but do not cover
all “data points” used when
measuring student prog-
ress.
“We are engaged in
continuous improvement
all the time,” he said. “We
have areas for growth and
improvement in areas
like attendance, academic
proficiency and growth.
We serve our communities
because we are committed
to growth and improvement
each and every day.”
Michael Lach, assis-
tant superintendent for
curriculum, assessment
and instruction for Town-
ship High School District
113, which operates Deer-
field and Highland Park
high schools, said in an
email students earned the
best possible “marks for the
core academic measures —
mathematics, English and
science” — despite outside
issues.
Deerfield repeated its
“exemplary” rating, while
Highland Park remained
“commendable.” Lach said
supports are now added
for student groups, such as
multilingual students who
enter the district perform-
ing lower than others.
“We’ve put new systems
and processes in place like
MTSS (multitiered system
of supports) and deleveling
and expect those efforts to
bear fruit over time,” Lach
said in the email.
In central Illinois, 95% of
ninth-grade students in the
Williamsfield Community
Unit School District were
on track to graduate in the
2022-23 school year, accord-
ing to the Illinois Report
Card.
Superintendent Tim
Farquer credits small
student-to-teacher ratios in
the rural district, with help-
ing Williamsfield’s approx-
imately 300 students catch
up on some of the learn-
ing loss resulting from the
pandemic.
“With our size and
resources, we’re able to,
I think, find those gaps
quicker,” he said earlier this
month. “Logically, we’d like
to think we’d be able to close
those gaps sooner.
But, like many districts,
Williamsfield hasn’t seen
test scores fully rebound.
“We’re not back to where
we were,” Farquer said.
More data and informa-
tion about the state report
card can be found online
at isbe.net/Pages/Illinois-
State-Report-Card-Data.
aspx.

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Crimo “It’s an important a high school freshman.

The leader was concerned
from Page 1 interview to show enough to call the father,

accept the attorneys’ repre-

sentation, and not make
Crimo III appear in court
to invoke his Fifth Amend-
ment right.
Ho w e v e r, l aw y e r s
acknowledged that portions
of the video of the police
interrogation of Crimo
III will be admitted into
evidence in the case against
the father and shown in
court.
Authorities say Crimo
III killed seven people and
wounded dozens of others
on July 4, 2022, when he
opened fire from a down-
town Highland Park roof-
top on spectators gathered
to see the village’s Indepen-
dence Day parade.
He escaped in the ensu-
the father is in
absolute denial
about the safety
of other people.”
— State’s Attorney
Eric Rinehart
ing chaos, but was arrested
that evening, officials said.
Police questioned Crimo III
for more than seven hours
that night and into the early
hours of July 5.
In another ruling
Monday the judge said he
would allow testimony
from a youth group leader
who said Crimo III talked
about school shootings at a
meeting when Crimo was
who came to the meeting
and attempted to “mini-
mize” the boy’s comment,
prosecutors said.
The youth leader will
testify that Crimo III put
a cap pistol against the
leader’s neck and pulled
the trigger, State’s Attor-
ney Eric Rinehart told the
judge.
Crimo Jr.’s lawyers asked
the judge to bar the testi-
mony.
Rinehart argued that it
was relevant.
“It’s an important inter-
view to show the father is
in absolute denial about the
safety of other people,” he
said.
The judge set a Friday Robert E. Crimo Jr., left, looks at his attorney George Gomez, center, and Lake County State’s
hearing to resolve final Attorney Eric Rinehart during an appearance at the Lake County Courthouse on Monday in
pretrial issues. Waukegan. NAM Y. HUH/AP

Leave is a rush job and we needed to

from Page 1
city,” Reese said.
The version the commit-
tee considered Monday was
itself an attempt by Johnson
to find common ground with
business owners and skepti-
cal aldermen.
It would require employ-
ers to let workers accrue up
to 12 days of time off annually:
six days for sick time and six
days for paid time off. Labor
groups who supported the
change said it would cement
Chicago as a national leader
in workers’ rights and exceed
the state’s new paid leave
requirements.
The ongoing debate
demonstrates Johnson has
work to do to assuage busi-
ness community concerns.
While business groups
begrudgingly accepted elim-
ination of the city’s tipped
wage after negotiations
stretched out the imple-
mentation date, they came
out in force late last week
against the expansion of sick
leave policy, arguing the new
rules were too much to bear
on top of rising wages, the
cost of inflation and existing
mandates for advance notice
of worker schedules.
Johnson’s council allies
could probably have pushed
the ordinance through
the committee in spite of
the expected misgivings
Ald. Anthony Beale, 9th, speaks during the City Council
meeting on Oct. 4 at City Hall. “I think this is a rush job and we
needed to put the brakes on it,” he said Monday.
EILEEN T. MESLAR/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
from business leaders. But
Black aldermen also balked
Monday at the new rules.
Several Black Caucus
members on the workforce
committee could be seen
huddling in the cloak room
behind council chambers
during the recess.
After the meeting ended
for the day with no vote,
Black Caucus Chair Ald.
Stephanie Coleman said she
and her colleagues “wanted
some additional time to have
African American business
owners, by way of hospitality,
retail, professional services,
goods and services, at the
table ... some Black represen-
tation at the table and just say
‘Hey, let’s pump the brakes a
little bit. Let’s reconvene after
Council on Wednesday so we
have some time to breathe,
lock everyone in the room
and see what we can (do).’ ”
Coleman, 16th, said Rodri-
guez was adamant about
having a vote Monday, but
the Black Caucus “stood
up to say” Black businesses
needed to be part of negotia-
tions. Chief among the their
concerns, she said, was that
smaller businesses won’t
be able to afford payouts of
accrued time off to exiting
employees.
Ald. Anthony Beale, 9th,
joined with business groups
at Monday’s news confer-
ence, and after the delay,
echoed concerns of some
border aldermen who
worried businesses would
flee to the suburbs under the
weight of the city’s regula-
tions. “I don’t think we need
to be doing anything that’s
different from the state on
this,” Beale said. “I think this
put the brakes on it.”
A coalition of labor orga-
nizations pushing the ordi-
nance — a group that includes
SEIU Healthcare, AFSCME
Council 31, the Chicago
Federation of Labor and Arise
Chicago — were also confi-
dent about a vote Monday,
in part because they made
several tweaks to respond to
industry concerns.
Compared to when the
ordinance was initially
introduced, labor advocates
cut down on the number of
leave days workers would be
entitled to from 15 days down
to 12.
The group also instituted
caps on how many days
workers could take sick
leave and dropped a require-
ment that employers pay out
unused sick days, though
kept in a requirement that
businesses pay out a maxi-
mum of nine days of unused
PTO.
The latest proposal also
reduces city fines for viola-
tions from $2,500 for each
offense to between $500
and $3,000, depending on
the offense. Failure to notify
employees about their time
off benefits, for example
would garner a smaller fine.
Those changes were not
enough for business groups.
Hours before the vote,
roughly 40 business owners
and representatives from
the Chicagoland Chamber
of Commerce, Illinois Hotel
and Lodging Association,
Illinois Retail Merchants
Association, Illinois Restau-
rant Association, grocers
and restaurant owners gath-
ered for a news conference to
decry a breakdown in negoti-
ations and said this proposal
was an added straw to the
camel’s back of the city’s
onerous employer require-
ments.
They said they reached a
deal with state lawmakers
to mandate five days of paid
leave after “years” of negoti-
ations. While business lead-
ers Monday said they were
resigned to the fact that
Chicago’s mandate would
likely go further, they said
they were dismayed negoti-
ations with Chicago officials
only started in earnest three
weeks ago.
During public testimony
before the vote, however,
Bob Reiter, head of the
Chicago Federation of Labor,
disagreed and said labor
groups started reaching out
in the spring to find common
ground on a deal.
Business groups were also
concerned about the right of
private action — or the abil-
ity for workers to sue for
damages — if they did not
receive their full wages. The
current proposal would bar
workers’ ability to sue until
July 1.
In a release sent Friday,
business groups said the
proposal is the latest piece
in an “onslaught of anti-busi-
ness proposals recently
passed or expected to be
passed by City Council,”
including elimination of the
tipped wage, fair workweek
legislation and the ongo-
ing debate over the Bring
Chicago Home proposal.
That’s “on top of continued
supply chain and labor chal-
lenges, persistent crime and
skyrocketing property taxes
that leave businesses across
every neighborhood strug-
gling to make ends meet,” the
business group coalition said
in a release.
The labor coalition
disputed the characterization
almost immediately. “Since
discussions began, worker
advocates have made multi-
ple and significant compro-
mises on the number of
paid time off and sick days,
the structure of those days,
notice and documentation
requirements, necessary
approvals for time off, the
accrual rates for time off,
the amount of time on a job
necessary before time can be
used, and much more,” their
Friday release said.
“At each step of this
process, worker advocates
have attempted to find
reasonable common ground
with the business community
to produce a deal benefiting
all sides.”
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Trees
from Page 1
will prompt counties and
towns in the Chicago area
to enact strong tree preser-
vation ordinances, some-
thing experts believe can
help protect the region’s
trees and the resources they
provide.
Standoff
in Geneva
Brian Maher, June
Maher’s husband, said he
first heard about proposed
development near his home
in 2018 from Midwest
Industrial Funds, a real
estate investment company
based in Oak Brook. After
meeting with city staff, the
65-year-old West Chicago
resident said he thought
the development wouldn’t
impact the bur oak trees.
MIF wants to annex 211
acres between the intersec-
tion of Route 38 and Kautz
Road in unincorporated
Kane County, according to
the city of Geneva’s website.
The developer plans to
build about eight buildings
with associated stormwater
facilities, roads and wetland
areas on the vacant land.
MIF said the project
would provide “long-term
benefits” for Geneva, includ-
ing improvements for the
extension of Kautz and dedi-
cating about one acre for the
construction of an electric
substation.
However, this spring,
Maher said he overlaid an
aerial view of the planned
development with a satel-
lite image, noticing that
one of the buildings would
sit on a southern portion of
the woods. For Maher, this
finding was cause for alarm,
starting his and his wife’s
public outcry. They helped
create a petition that has
more than 4,500 signatures
and frequently spoke at city
and county government
meetings.
Even though the site is
being considered for annex-
ation — the process of bring-
ing a property within a city
— it’s currently in unincor-
porated Kane County, not
Geneva. While Geneva has a
tree preservation ordinance,
which requires tree removal
permits on private parcels
of land that are more than
1.5 acres in most instances,
Kane County does not.
On Sept. 5, Maher said he
woke up to the sounds of
machinery, and headed out
to MIF’s property where he
saw employees cutting down
the trees, which he alleged
violated their permit. Maher
sat on the cutting machin-
ery before the Kane County
sheriff’s office ordered him
and other protesters to leave.
Maher said dozens of
trees were “destroyed” in
a wooded area of the prop-
erty, including some of the
bur oaks, which are large,
deciduous trees native to
the Midwest with massive
trunks. In a permit applica-
tion to the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers, obtained
through a records request,
MIF also identified red oak,
American basswood, honey-
Gaza
from Page 1
secure their release even as
Israel acts to crush Hamas
and end its 16-year rule over
the territory.
Hamas, which has
released four hostages, has
said it would let the others
go in return for thousands
of Palestinian prisoners
held by Israel, including
many implicated in deadly
attacks on Israelis. Israel
has dismissed the offer,
and Netanyahu said the
ground invasion “creates
the possibility” of getting
the hostages out, adding that
Hamas will “only do it under
pressure.”
Hamas released a short
video Monday purporting
to show three other female
captives. One of the women
delivers a brief statement
criticizing Israel’s response
to the hostage crisis.
It was not clear when the
Hamas video was made. The
Associated Press usually
refrains from reporting
details of hostage videos
because they show individ-
uals speaking under duress
and are often used for propa-
ganda purposes.
Amos Aloni, whose
daughter Danielle appeared
in the video, told reporters
that he and his wife were
shocked when she appeared
on TV but also felt “relief
Oak trees are cut down on Sept. 12 at the site of a proposed warehouse near Illinois Route 38 in Geneva Township. TRENT SPRAGUE/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
suckle, wild black cherry
and other species.
“I never thought I was
going to be an activist,
but you know what, I just
climbed up on the machine,”
Maher said. “It only stopped
the cutting for a couple of
hours ... but it just felt like
the right thing for us to do.”
The Arny Corps issued
a permit for the project in
June 2020, allowing for
work that impacts wetlands
and soil erosion. MIF is only
able to clear trees greater
than 3 inches in diameter
between Oct. 1 and March
31 to avoid damaging the
homes of endangered north-
ern long-eared bats, accord-
ing to one of the permit’s
special conditions in an
authorization letter.
The permit expired after
three years, although MIF
was allowed to finish the
project without further
authorization as long as it
complied with the terms,
according to the letter.
MIF did not respond
to multiple requests for
comment.
Geneva Mayor Kevin
Burns said the city has “no
authority, no jurisdiction
and no leverage” to inter-
vene in a project on private
property. He said when MIF
applies for annexation, the
city’s Planning & Zoning
Commission will consider
the request, and can advance
it to the City Council for
consideration. Until then,
Burns said the council is
“prohibited from expressing
our own opinions for risk of
violating the due diligence
policies.”
“Despite demands by
some folks that the city
abandon its principles of
good governance and insert
A Palestinian woman stands on the roof of her home the day after the Israeli bombardment
of the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip on Monday amid the ongoing battles
between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. MOHAMMED ABED/AFP
from her being alive and
seeing her.”
The military has been
vague about its operations
inside Gaza, including the
location and number of
troops. Israel has declared a
new “phase” in the war but
stopped short of declaring
an all-out ground invasion
while it deployed tens of
thousands of troops to the
border.
Larger ground operations
itself, we have been crystal
clear that the city of Geneva
has absolutely no jurisdic-
tion and no authority in this
matter as the land in ques-
tion is located in unincorpo-
rated Kane County,” Burns
said.
Corinne Pierog, chair of
the Kane County Board, told
the Tribune that the county
doesn’t “interfere” with the
annexation process. At the
end of September, she said
she visited the development,
and saw that many trees
were clear cut but that some
bur oaks remained. She said
there will be a conservation
area toward the north end of
the property.
Neither Pierog nor Burns
said they’ve had contact
with MIF about the project.
“I do hope that this
company as well as other
future companies that
come into Kane County, we
encourage them to be good
corporate citizens,” she
said. “We’ve got a delicate
balance here in Kane County
that we’re fighting very hard
to preserve the organic part
of Kane County — the farms,
the open space, the forest
preserves — blended in
with new opportunities for
industry.”
Finding no recourse with
city or county governments,
Rachael Kay Albers felt she
had no other choice than
to eulogize the trees, wait-
ing nearly six hours at a
September Kane County
Board meeting for a chance
to speak.
“I’m here today to honor
the memory of our 300-plus-
year-old trees here in Kane
County that were felled last
week by Midwest Industrial
Funds,” she said dressed in a
mourning veil and all-black
have been launched both
north and east of Gaza
City. Israel says many of
Hamas’ forces and much of
its militant infrastructure,
including hundreds of
miles of tunnels, are in Gaza
City, which before the war
was home to over 650,000
people, a population
comparable to that of
Washington, D.C.
Though Israel ordered
Palestinians to flee the
ensemble.
“These majestic oaks,
once the guardians of this
land, have fallen victim to
the relentless march of bull-
dozers and concrete and
trucks and warehouses,”
she said. “Their branches
provided shade to gener-
ations of children. Their
leaves whispered stories of
seasons past and their roots
carved deep into the earth,
anchoring them firmly to
this place.”
Enacting tree
preservation
policies
The situation in Kane
County isn’t uncommon,
according to Lydia Scott,
director of the Chicago
Region Trees Initiative, a
group established in 2014
by the Morton Arbore-
tum and Openlands. She
said one of the challenges
with tree preservation and
development ordinances
is determining whether a
city or county has jurisdic-
tion when a project is in an
unincorporated area. Most
counties in the Chicago
region don’t have preserva-
tion ordinances, she said.
“So that’s why it’s this
constant vigilance on the
part of residents to keep
track of what’s going on in
their community so that
they can express their opin-
ions on those activities that
are taking place, and make
sure that those policies that
are in place reflect their
goals and their visions for
their community,” Scott said.
After what happened with
the bur oaks, Pierog said
Kane County is in the early
stages of developing a tree
north, where Gaza City is
located, and move south,
hundreds of thousands
remain, in part because
Israel has also bombarded
targets in safe zones. Around
117,000 displaced people
hoping to stay safe from
strikes are staying in hospi-
tals in northern Gaza, along-
side thousands of patients
and staff, according to U.N.
figures.
The U.N. agency for Pales-
Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Tuesday, October 31, 2023 5
protection policy, anticipat-
ing it will take about a year
to enact. She said it might
contain items such as corpo-
rations planting two or three
trees for each one they cut
down, and special consider-
ation for historic trees.
“A 300-, 200-year-old
tree is an incredible monu-
ment to history, and one that
really should be honored,”
she said.
Mavis Bates, chair of Kane
County Board’s Energy and
Environmental Committee,
said the board is looking at
policies in other counties
and municipalities, and
trying to “take the best from
all of those other protec-
tions for the trees.” She
said it’s “critical” that trees
remain standing and that an
ordinance is passed so the
county has legal standing in
the future. Bates attended
the Sept. 5 protest.
The level of regulation
within tree preservation
ordinances can vary widely,
according to Scott. Some
are more minor, she said,
such as if someone damages
a publicly owned tree they
have to pay a fine up to regu-
lating the removal of trees
on private property, what
she calls the “gold standard.”
For example, she said
Chicago has an ordinance
regulating tree removal on
public property whereas
Evanston is more restric-
tive. Evanston’s City Council
voted last month to amend
the tree preservation ordi-
nance, requiring residents to
pay a fee and obtain a permit
before removing certain
sized trees on their property.
Many North Shore
communities enacted
private property ordinances,
she said, after the actor
Israeli soldier Pvt. Ori Megidish, center, is shown with relatives
in this undated photo. The army said Monday that Megidish
was freed from Hamas captivity during Israel’s ground
offensive in the Gaza Strip. ISRAELI SECURITY AGENCY VIA AP
tinian refugees, known
as UNRWA, says nearly
672,000 Palestinians are
sheltering in its schools and
other facilities across Gaza,
which have reached four
times their capacity.
UNRWA head Philippe
Lazzarini accused Israel of
“collective punishment” of
the Palestinians, and of forc-
ing their displacement from
northern Gaza to the south,
where they are still not safe.
The death toll among
Palestinians passed 8,300,
mostly women and children,
the Gaza Health Ministry
said Monday. The figure
is without precedent in
decades of Israeli-Palestin-
ian violence. More than 1.4
million people in Gaza have
fled their homes.
Over 1,400 people have
died on the Israeli side,
known as Mr. T cut down
more than 100 trees at his
Lake Forest estate in 1987.
Scott said trees provide
important resources that
people are becoming
“increasingly dependent on”
as temperatures skyrocket
during the summer months
due to climate change. A
Tribune investigation found
that the city planted more
trees, which can help cool
neighborhoods, in wealthier,
whiter areas during the past
decade. She said trees can
also help mitigate air pollu-
tion and benefit people’s
mental and physical health.
It’s important to preserve
oak ecosystems in particu-
lar, Scott said, because only
about 17% of the region’s
original ecosystems are left,
and it takes generations for
them to grow.
“As we become increas-
ingly more impacted
by climate change, and
increased temperatures and
increased air quality prob-
lems, we’re going to rely
more on these nature based
solutions to help correct and
offset those impacts,” Scott
said.
For Albers, one of the
Geneva activists, protect-
ing trees boils down to the
song “Big Yellow Taxi” by
Joni Mitchell. She said she
doesn’t want paradise to be
paved to put up a parking lot
— or a warehouse.
“We’re not talking about
quote-unquote politics here,”
she said. “We’re talking about
our lives. We’re talking about
the air that our children
breathe. We’re talking about
the trees that blow on a hot
summer day.”
rjohnson@chicagotribune.
com
mainly civilians killed
during Hamas’ initial attack,
also an unprecedented
figure.
Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari,
an Israeli military spokes-
man, declined to comment
on where Israeli forces are
deployed. He said additional
infantry and armored, engi-
neering and artillery units
had entered Gaza and the
operations would continue
to “expand and intensify.”
The military said troops
have killed dozens of fight-
ers who attacked from inside
buildings and tunnels. Pales-
tinian militias have contin-
ued firing rockets into Israel.
Hamas said its fighters
clashed with Israeli troops
who entered the northwest.
It was not possible to inde-
pendently confirm claims
made by either side.
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EDITORIALS
We must get the Americans out of Gaza
It’s a fundamental responsibility
of government to come to the aid of
American citizens in peril overseas.
That’s why the U.S. traded the
release from prison of the notorious
Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer, for
the release from Russia of U.S. basket-
ball star Brittney Griner, who then
revised her opinion about standing on
the court for the U.S. national anthem.
So far, Michigan native Paul
Whelan, who has languished in a
Russian jail since 2018, has not been
so fortunate, although his family and
friends continue to campaign for his
release. So do The Wall Street Journal
and its journalists for their colleague
Evan Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen
who just spent his 32nd birthday in a
Russian prison and for whose release
we continue to call.
The U.S. citizens currently trapped
in the Gaza Strip, where Israel is
waging war with Hamas and condi-
tions are deteriorating, certainly are
not high-profile athletes, and they
lack high-profile media campaigns
for their release. But be they hostages
held by Hamas or ordinary resi-
dents of, or visitors to, the Gaza Strip,
their passports give them the right to Smoke and dust rise following an Israeli air strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Monday amid the ongoing battles
expect timely U.S. help. between Israel and Hamas. SAID KHATIB/GETTY-AFP
Given the conditions in Gaza, we
urge the Biden administration to amp “making demands,” which implies the U.S. concern about the Hamas ing its citizens.
up its efforts to get U.S. citizens out. they want to use the internationals as tactics. Obviously, this is all a matter of
We don’t doubt such efforts are a bargaining chip. Some 600 Amer- On Monday, Robert Halfon, a Brit- negotiation that must be pursued
being made. But national security icans are said to be seeking an exit ish government minister, told Sky with an eye to avoiding potentially
adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday from Gaza, as are some 200 British News that if foreign citizens are not catastrophic escalation. But whether
that, while both Israel and Egypt were citizens, as well as a number of French being allowed to travel out of Gaza, by land, sea or air, on their own feet or
ready to let the international citizens and German citizens and those of then “that is a form of hostage taking.” with the direct intervention of their
out, Hamas was blocking the exit of other nations. The Daily Telegraph He is right. Hamas cannot be government, U.S. citizens in Gaza
all foreign citizens from Gaza and reported Sunday that the U.K. shares allowed to block the U.S. from remov- must be allowed to leave.

Mayor Brandon Johnson has an easy chance

to show he’s not anti-business. But will he take it?
An ordinance dramatically increas-
ing minimum paid time off for all
workers at Chicago businesses would
seem an ideal candidate for much-
needed compromise between busi-
ness and Mayor Brandon Johnson and
his progressive City Council allies. But
organized labor and its aldermanic
pals won’t accept real concessions
offered by business representatives
and declare victory, as skilled politi-
cians do.
Instead, they’re demanding that
businesses of all shapes and sizes in
Chicago acquiesce to 12 paid days
off annually (six sick days and six
vacation days) and — this is key — a
requirement that workers leaving
their jobs be paid for any vacation days
they didn’t take during their tenures.
Lawsuits seeking to enforce such
payments — the ordinance requires
payouts of three times the amount
owed plus attorneys fees if employers
are found not to comply — no doubt
will proliferate if this passes, saddling
businesses not only with higher
compensation costs but more legal
fees as well.
Business interests, led by the
Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce,
have offered 10 paid days off — double
the existing city mandate — but with
no payout for unused days off when
workers leave.
What business has put on the table
would mean a time-off policy that’s by
far the most generous in any American
big city.
New York requires five days off, Los
Angeles six. Neither forces businesses
to pay workers for unused time off
when they quit.
Given the actions of some peer
cities, citywide minimum time-off
standards are reasonable, although
we’d argue the tight labor market is
already improving workers’ vacation
benefits. As with much of the poli-
cymaking emanating from City Hall
these days, this latest bit of govern-
ment interference isn’t well thought
out.
First, not all businesses are the
same. Small businesses and startups
have far smaller staffs and don’t have
the same flexibility as larger, more
well-established corporations. A
one-size-fits-all policy in this case is
all but guaranteed to result in unin-
tended consequences.
The hardest-hit businesses will be
those with tissue-thin profit margins,
and many of those are in underserved
communities. Chicago needs lots
more of those as it focuses, rightly, on
encouraging investment in neigh-
borhoods neglected for decades.
This mandate won’t just discourage
growth; it could mean shrinkage.
The last thing we need to do is
discourage risk-taking and entre-
preneurship on the South and West
sides. And existing businesses in those
neighborhoods, which struggle to
pass higher costs onto their custom-
ers, don’t need yet another reason to
throw in the towel.
Cry me a river, say supporters of
the ordinance. Commercial interests
always claim the sky is falling when
they’re required to make workers’
lives better. There’s a kernel of truth
in that.
But this policy change isn’t happen-
ing in a vacuum. The City Council
will vote soon in the face of fierce
business opposition on a proposal
to quadruple the transfer tax on
any property sales of $1.5 million or
more — effectively a tax mainly on
commercial real estate and apartment
buildings. A yes vote would mean a
voter referendum next year.
The city also just raised the mini-
mum wage for tipped workers in what
will be a hit to restaurants still strug-
gling following the massive pandemic
blow to that industry.
And these are just a start. The mayor
wants the business community to
chip in far more in the future. He has
tasked aldermen on his newly created
subcommittee on revenue with
producing new tax ideas to generate
hundreds of millions for future equi-
ty-related programs and policies.
On the paid-time-off issue, the
council’s Workforce Development
Committee delayed a vote scheduled
for Monday until Thursday, so there’s
more time now for City Hall to recon-
sider its approach.
We see an obvious way for this
mayor, whose policies give many
businesspeople good reason to worry,
to offer them a fair compromise. We
believe he understands that Chicago
has to compete with innumerable
cities with no such requirement and
that his agenda will go nowhere with-
out a thriving local economy.
It’s already past time for Johnson to
demonstrate that.

ABOUT HALLOWEEN WEBS EDITORIAL CARTOON

AND WILDLIFE
Imagine you are a hummingbird, flitting around
a lovely native-plant-filled yard sipping nectar and
gobbling up insects. You stop on a tree branch to rest
your tiny wings, but the branches are festooned with
sticky white fibers that don’t occur in nature. Your
little feet get tangled in the durable threads — and you
are stuck as surely as a fly in an orb weaver’s web. But
instead of becoming a meal to some supersized arach-
nid, you die from starvation or constriction injuries
sustained during your desperate struggle to get free.
Talk about a real horror show!
Sadly, wildlife rescuers report that this is a common
occurrence during October, when unwitting humans
stretch fake spider webbing along bushes, fences and
trees. They may be man-made, but these pseudo-webs
are strong and sticky, trapping critters as well as — or
even better — than the spider-spun versions. Alison
Hermance at WildCare, a wildlife hospital and educa-
tional organization in the Bay Area, says that her group
sees animals coming in tangled in fake spiderwebs this
time of year and that a variety of animals are at risk,
mostly birds but also possums, squirrels and even deer.
“Any time you’re putting something that is plastic
and not a natural fiber in any shape or form ... into the
environment, you are going to get animals tangled up in
it,” Hermance said, noting that of all the holiday deco-
rations, fake webs and string lights are the most peril-
ous to wildlife. This is particularly likely if the webs or
lights are suspended across places that animals — wild-
life and pets — regularly traverse.
So consider this a public service announcement:
Use fake Halloween spiderwebs with extreme caution.
Don’t stretch them across animal pathways, and check
them to make sure no critters are stuck.
Los Angeles Times editorial board
SCOTT STANTIS

T
By Kenneth Seeskin
he rise in antise-
mitic incidents
in the U.S. should
concern all of
us because it is
rarely an isolated
phenomenon. According to a
recent report from the Anti-Def-
amation League, the number of
antisemitic incidents in the U.S.
increased by 36% from 2021 to
2022, when it reached the stagger-
ing total of 3,697. The war in the
Middle East is certain to make the
numbers this year even worse.
What causes this? Why do a
people who constitute 0.2% of the
world’s population elicit so much
hatred? Why does a country that
occupies 0.1% of the land mass in
the Middle East get blamed for
most of its problems?
I have long asked myself these
questions. As a Jewish kid grow-
ing up in the Chicago suburbs in
the aftermath of World War II,
my experience of antisemitism
was limited. I remember being
called a “dirty Jew” on the play-
ground and knew that there were
neighborhoods where Jews were
not welcome. Although I learned
from books about the massa-
cres, expulsions and pogroms the
Jewish people had suffered, and
had images of Nazi death camps
etched in my memory, I was
convinced that the future held out
greater promise.
In 1947, the United Nations
voted to establish a Jewish home-
land. A rabbi gave the benediction
at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration
in 1961. The Civil Rights Act of
1964 put an end to restrictive real
estate clauses and discrimination
at restaurants and hotels. North-
western University, where I stud-
ied as an undergraduate, ended its
quota on Jewish students.
It was not until I visited the
great synagogue in Rome and saw
soldiers guarding the entrances
with submachine guns that I
confronted antisemitism in its raw
form. The soldiers were there to
guard against people who wanted
to kill me not for anything I had
said or done but simply for what
I was. Today, my own synagogue
in Chicago hires armed guards for
the same reason.
As things stand, hatred of the
Jewish people is one of the few
things the radical right and the
radical left can agree on. If Adolf
Hitler thought Jews were the
epitome of communism, Karl
Marx, who was of Jewish ancestry,
thought they were the epitome of
capitalism. Following the barba-
rism and ferocity of Hamas’ inva-
sion of Israel on Oct. 7, 34 student
organizations at Harvard Univer-
sity signed a letter holding Israel
The US and China try to get on the same page
By Daniel Depetris
Chicago Tribune
With all eyes on Gaza, a series of
meetings in Washington between
senior U.S. and Chinese officials
late last week was slightly over-
looked by the news cycle. Those
sessions, however, have the poten-
tial to bring President Joe Biden
and Chinese President Xi Jinping
into the same room as soon as
mid-November, when the U.S. is
due to host an economic confer-
ence in San Francisco.
The last time Biden and Xi met
for in-person talks was during
the November 2022 G20 leaders’
summit in Bali, Indonesia. Those
discussions were a seminal event,
not because of anything the two
agreed to but rather because the
meeting happened at all. The
previous month, the U.S. slapped
strict export controls on advanced
technology to China, which
Chinese officials up and down
the Communist Party bureau-
cracy strongly condemned as a
transparent attempt to stifle the
Chinese economy and undermine
Beijing’s rise as a great power.
Several months before that, in
August 2022, U.S. Rep. Nancy
Pelosi, then the speaker of the
House, decided to fly to Taiwan
despite the Biden administra-
tion’s objections, prompting the
Chinese People’s Liberation Army
to retaliate with the largest mili-
tary drills around the self-ruled
island in history.
Biden and Xi’s meeting a year
ago was meant to reset the U.S.-
China relationship in the hope
of moving past the acrimony. As
the White House said at the time,
Biden “reiterated that this compe-
tition should not veer into conflict
and underscored that the United
States and China must manage
the competition responsibly and
maintain open lines of communi-
cation.”
Intentions, of course, mean
nothing if they’re not imple-
mented. The cautious goodwill
established at the Bali summit
OPINION
People wave flags during a community solidarity gathering for Israel hosted by the Jewish United Fund of Chicago on Oct. 10 outside North Shore
Congregation Israel in Glencoe. BRIAN CASSELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Why do Jewish people
elicit so much hatred?
“entirely responsible” for the
violence. Alternatively, the leader
of a far-right group praised Hamas
with the words, “Come on, guys,
it’s time to dance! Get those Jews!”
Antisemitism is of course a
complex phenomenon. The
simple answer for what lies
behind it is that Jews are a reli-
gious and cultural minority who
insist on maintaining their own
identity. Given the possibil-
ity of converting to Christianity
or Islam, they chose to remain
Jewish. Given the possibility of
assimilating into a modern, secu-
lar culture, they chose to retain
their ancient customs. To some,
their stubbornness is profoundly
insulting: “How dare they not
believe what I believe, eat what I
President Joe Biden, left, arrives with Chinese President Xi Jinping for a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit
on Nov. 14, 2022, in Bali, Indonesia. ALEX BRANDON/AP
evaporated almost instantly as
2022 transitioned into 2023. The
infamous Chinese spy balloon
episode, in which a blimplike
structure with high-tech cameras
slowly meandered across the
continental United States, domi-
nated headlines for what seemed
like an eternity. Secretary of State
Antony Blinken, who had a trip to
Beijing in the works, postponed
it in protest of the intrusion. A
U.S. fighter jet eventually shot
the balloon down off the Caro-
lina coast, but the entire incident
took the form of a giant skunk at
the garden party. The balloon cast
a shadow over the most import-
ant bilateral relationship on the
planet, with politicians on both
sides embarking on overheated
rhetoric and policymakers reluc-
tant to step forward lest they be
castigated by the hard-liners as
wimps afraid of a fight.
Despite Washington’s plead-
ings in the months that followed,
eat or celebrate what I do? They
must think they are better than I
am, and therefore I hate them.”
The sad truth is that when
hatred becomes part of a person’s
worldview, it tends to dominate
everything else. While Jews were
the primary victims of the Nazi
atrocities, we should not forget
that the Roma people, politi-
cal dissidents, members of the
LGBTQ community, and those
with mental illness and physical
disabilities were also targeted.
In our own time, when you see
groups calling for the complete
destruction of Israel or proudly
displaying Nazi insignia, you can
be pretty sure that Jews are the tip
of an iceberg of resentment.
It is also worth mentioning
Beijing remained opposed to
reopening the military commu-
nication channels it shut down
after Pelosi’s sojourn in Taiwan.
During the Shangri-La Dialogue
Asian security summit in June, all
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
got from his Chinese counter-
part, Li Shangfu, was a stiff hand-
shake; Li has since been pushed
out of his post. Chinese fighter
planes are getting bolder in chal-
lenging U.S. patrols in the South
China Sea, and midair intercepts
are becoming more frequent as
well. Just last week, a Chinese
fighter flew within 10 feet of a
U.S. B-52 bomber over the South
China Sea in what U.S. Indo-Pa-
cific Command called an “unsafe
and unprofessional matter” that
increased the possibility of a colli-
sion.
Not all dialogue has stopped
between the two sides. In fact,
conversations picked up over the
summer. Blinken, Treasury Secre-
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that if you find the mere fact of
Jewish existence insulting, the
chances are that you are trying
to cover up your own limitations.
A person who is secure in their
religious convictions should not
have to worry that someone else
does not share them. A govern-
ment that cares for its own people,
abides by the rule of law and does
its best to eliminate corruption
does not need to look for scape-
goats. I submit that if you do need
to look for scapegoats to maintain
your position, your position is not
worth maintaining to begin with.
As I write this, the situation in
the Middle East is volatile and
unpredictable.
Hamas has introduced a new
round of violence and recrimina-
tary Janet Yellen and Commerce
Secretary Gina Raimondo all
traveled to China to meet with
their Chinese counterparts. Xi
gave Blinken an audience, some-
thing he probably wouldn’t have
done if he wasn’t at least inter-
ested in finding a way to stabilize
the relationship. The fact that the
Chinese foreign minister returned
the favor with a trip of his own to
Washington, where he also met
with Biden, strengthens the case.
Indeed, China’s top diplomat
Wang Yi was almost magnani-
mous before he began his itiner-
ary: “China and the United States
need to have dialogue. Not only
should we resume dialogue, the
dialogue should be in-depth and
comprehensive.” Blinken was
inclined to agree, stating in a
State Department readout that
the U.S. and China “both have
a responsibility to manage our
differences and to work together
on issues that matter to our
tion to a region that has seen much
too much of both. I don’t know
what a “proportionate” response
to its savagery would be or how an
army seeking to respond to it can
avoid killing innocent people used
as human shields.
What I do know is that innocent
people on both sides of the conflict
have died as a result and that more
deaths and dislocation are bound
to come. Although antisemitism is
hatred directed at Jews, the simple
fact is that when hatred carries the
day, everyone loses.
Kenneth Seeskin is an emeritus
professor of philosophy and the
Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick
professor of Jewish civilization at
Northwestern University.
people and the world.”
What are those issues? There
are too many to list, but the
biggest among them include
macroeconomic stability, counter-
narcotics, climate change initia-
tives and war prevention. The last
item on that list is by far the most
important, and it’s getting more
important by the day as the U.S.
and Chinese militaries continue
to shadow one another in the seas
and skies of Asia. This is why the
Biden administration views the
resumption of regular commu-
nication channels as so vital and
worth pursuing, no matter how
frustrating it may be. If some-
thing terrible were to happen,
either deliberately or by accident,
it would be extremely helpful for
the world’s two largest powers to
have some mechanism to defuse it
before skirmishes snowball into a
regional conflagration.
Up till now, Xi hasn’t been
amenable to the idea, viewing
regularized military-to-military
communication with U.S. forces
in the Indo-Pacific as de facto
acceptance of U.S. activities there.
Ultimately, Xi’s reassessment
of his current position won’t be
based on anything the U.S. says
or wants but rather on whether
he believes more dialogue with
the U.S. is in China’s own security
interests.
The U.S. and China will
continue to see each other as
intense competitors. The diplo-
mats will do their best in public
to put lipstick on a pig, but some
core issues are just impossible
to reconcile. At times, the term
“competitor” will occasionally
turn into “adversary.”
But even adversaries talk. If
President Richard Nixon could
talk to Soviet Union leader Leonid
Brezhnev during the height of the
Cold War, there’s no reason why
Biden can’t speak with Xi.
Daniel DePetris is a fellow at
Defense Priorities and a foreign
affairs columnist for the Chicago
Tribune.
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OPINION

Girl dinner can be a simple plate of small bites or leftovers. ENN LI PHOTOGRAPHY/GETTY

Is ‘girl dinner’ a feminist movement? Not yet.

By Carly Drake and Allison Grady
Since the term “girl dinner” started
circulating in May, it has become embed-
ded in our online vocabularies. This term is
persistent, potent and political, with some
rallying for its place in feminist history.
However, as body image researchers, we
argue girl dinner is not emblematic of social
progress. Rather, in many ways, girl dinner
has exposed how only certain women, and
certain ideas, are invited to the table.
To recap five months’ worth of memes:
Girl dinner is what women eat when
they’re home alone. A scroll through the
hashtag on TikTok reveals easy-to-make,
often nutritionally dubious meals. They’re
infinitely shareable precisely because
they’re relatable. Who wants to cook a full
meal for one person? On a hot summer day?
After a full day of work? In this context,
an assortment of cheese, crackers and
hummus holds a certain appeal.
While the tone of girl dinner discourse
has been humorous since the start, that
humor got darker once women began
publicizing meals that featured childlike
portion sizes and “diet” foods. Such dinners
were paired with the now-iconic girl
dinner song, framing them as “funny” and
“normal.” They blended into the conversa-
tion. Then, just as some started calling out
girl dinner as a cover for disordered eating,
others maintained that the point is joy, not
deprivation.
Adopting a wider lens, TikTok creator
Madison Wild observes that as we continue
to “girl” things like dinner, math, walks
and jobs, the word is redefining femi-
nine as “messy and disheveled and a little
out of sorts” rather than the familiar
polished-to-perfection standard. In this
way, Wild says, the “girl-ing” phenomenon
belongs to a long history of women reject-
ing patriarchal products such as the corset,
domestic labor and nuclear family. Girl is an
identity. Girl is feminine connection.
Yet, research shows women’s online
connection is complicated and not as
liberating as we’d hope. Girl dinners and
the women who share them are bound by
what sociologist Arlie Hochschild calls
“feeling rules,” or implicit guidelines for
conversations with others. Feeling rules
are gendered, which means they take on
certain qualities in women-dominated
spaces, including digital ones.
Online “girlfriendships” feature
emotions, yes, but only the upbeat,
self-deprecating or “relatable” ones. These
connections can be refreshing, but only if
you’re conforming to a particular vision of
femininity: white, young, slim, able-bodied
and conventionally attractive. Girlfriend-
ship can be empowering, but only on an
individual, rather than collective, level. If
girl dinner is logged in feminist history, we
can’t forget these nuances.
Social media’s girl-dinner girlfriend-
ship provides a clear demonstration of
how women should think and behave.
The goal is to blend in, not stand out, so
in this environment, eating disorders are
on full display as a humorous “feminine”
experience. However, child-size or “diet”
girl dinners can be a triggering experi-
ence that stirs uncomfortable emotions in
some viewers. For women battling chronic
illness, women struggling with body image
disturbances and many other groups, they
may feel a sense of alienation or loneli-
ness. Since these are not socially acceptable
(read: shareable) experiences, they may go
unacknowledged and unexamined.
We know that social media usage is
linked to poor body image and disordered
eating. We know that, without community
moderation, virtually anyone can create
and post mental health content on social
media that makes even spaces that support
recovery from eating disorders danger-
ous. We also know that young people with
eating disorder symptoms may be more
likely to engage with content that will
adversely affect their mental health.
This is why it’s concerning that what
started as women bonding over their meals
of cold pizza has morphed into what we
interpret as a glorification of the femi-
nine nature of disordered eating and food
restriction. While, in this context, humor
may be a coping mechanism women are
using to bond over the shared stress of
maintaining a healthy relationship with
food, there’s nothing “funny,” “normal,” or
feminist about disordered eating.
For girl dinner to stand a chance at
dismantling the patriarchy, it needs to push
beyond girlfriendship to solidarity. This
is the task of individual women and allies
at local, national and international scales.
Women need access to mental health care,
including eating disorder treatment. They
need comprehensive nutrition educa-
tion and affordable food. They need social
media policies that will protect them from
harmful content. They need the kind of
connection that goes beyond momentary
laughs to ongoing, tangible support with
daily ups and downs. They need a vision of
womanhood that includes all bodies.
Girl dinner isn’t inherently “good” or
“bad,” but it’s not (yet) a feminist move-
ment. What we know for certain is this:
We’re going to keep a seat at our table open
for all women and encourage dinnertime
discussion that challenges the patriarchal
pressures that discipline our bodies and
minds.
Carly Drake, Ph.D., is an assistant professor
of marketing at North Central College in
Naperville. Allison Grady, B.A., is a research
coordinator in the Eating Anxiety Treatment
(EAT) Lab and the Louisville Center for
Eating Disorders at the University of
Louisville. In 2021, Drake and Grady co-
founded the Body Collective, a community
of athletes helping sportswomen honor their
bodies for all they can do.

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

Anti-Jewish rhetoric
Asked if he feared speaking out against Columbia
University’s silence following a student group’s celebra-
tion of Hamas’ rampage, Israeli American business profes-
sor Shai Davidai responded, “You got it all wrong. I am not
afraid to speak up. I’m speaking up because I’m afraid.”
That’s how many Jews are feeling today. It seems our
universities have had a change of heart. Rather than stop
controversial conversations that risk injuring the feel-
ings of a particular student group, a philosophy they’ve
embraced in recent years, they’ve suddenly decided to let
the rhetoric flow, no matter how violent.
I guess the good news is that our universities have
chosen to return to supporting free speech. The bad news
is that it took the prospect of having to defend their Jewish
students to reverse themselves.
To be clear, I believe students and professors have a
right to voice views that others don’t share. We send our
children to college to engage with different perspectives,
even uncomfortable ones. That’s how we learn. I’ve seen
debates between Palestinians and Israelis where anger is
palpable, but the conversation is constructive. I’ve spent
time in Jerusalem with Muslims and Jews whose different
experiences, though profoundly painful, also left room for
hope. These encounters led me to get involved in different
Chicago communities.
I also know the tragedy and anger are not Israel’s alone.
Thousands of innocent lives continue to be taken in Gaza
by Israel’s bombing. Every innocent life matters equally.
All of us have a right to protest.
Yet, something this time is different. What I’ve never
experienced before is the hatred and willingness to
defend, even glorify, the barbaric acts of a known terrorist
organization such as Hamas, whose own stated goal is to
kill every Jew on the planet. Hamas’ words, not mine.
Within days of Hamas slaughtering 1,400 civilians
and raping, burning and kidnapping people, Black Lives
Matter Chicago posted an image of a paraglider in refer-
ence to Hamas and in the name of being pro-Palestin-
ian. College students have held antisemitic signs and
ripped down posters of hostages held by Hamas. Recently,
protesting students cornered Jewish students at a library
in New York.
Davidai declared, “It does not matter if you are Jewish
or Christian or Muslim or Hindu or Buddhist or an atheist
like myself. Rape is never OK. Not as an act of resistance.
Not as an act of revenge.” I agree.
When we allow the celebration of any acts of terror, we
embolden all hate.
— Alana G. Baum, Chicago
With children in the way
Israel is going after bad guys. Very bad guys. They’re
holding hostages to ward off attacks. Israel blows up build-
ings anyway. If hostages, often including children, die, it’s
the bad guys’ fault. They were using them as shields.
Would you do the same thing if your child were in the
building? Israelis need to ask themselves that question.
Think about it. The nation needs to know what it’s doing
is not just plain vengeance. Not just “he hit me, I hit him
back,” a la the schoolyard.
War is hell. Bad things happen. Sometimes, bad things
are really good things, such as the atomic bombing of
Japan to end World War II. The war ended. Without the
bombing, many more thousands of lives would have been
lost. The bloody war would have gone on for who knows
how long. That was the plan.
With Israel’s continued bombing, a land invasion and
killing of all Hamas adherents, and yes, those innocent
others, will it have peace? How long before Hezbollah or
others attack? Israel needs a plan for protection now, and
then long-term protection and eventually peace. Good
luck.
I hope smart people figure it out. I for one do not know
the answer. I do know, though, that I wouldn’t haphaz-
ardly bomb if my child were in the way.
— Bill Burns, South Elgin
A simplistic stance
Word choice has consequences. Standing with Israel, as
President Joe Biden and the U.S. House have done, intensi-
fies emotions on both sides. Unconditional support of one
people over another reduces the terrorist attack by Hamas
to a simplistic good versus evil occurrence in a vacuum.
In principle, any act that involves the slaughter of inno-
cent civilians is wrong. A horrific act can be condemned
without condemning a people. Inflammatory partisan
rhetoric creates a climate of anger and hatred that incites
violence, ending with an individual standing with a knife.
Instead, our officials should stand for the principle of
balanced reason over partiality. Think Robert F. Kennedy,
whose extemporaneous speech and choice of words made
a difference in Indianapolis one evening in April 1968 after
the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. His
choice of words made a difference. That choice is now
ours — resolution or revenge.
My admiration and respect are extended to Ald. Rossana
Rodriguez-Sanchez and Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa for
having the courage to choose principle over partiality.
— Roberta Motanky, Chicago
Our common humanity
I was touched by op-ed writer Kyra Miller’s experience
living in West Rogers Park in a loving, supportive environ-
ment with Jewish and Muslim neighbors (“I love my West
Rogers Park neighbors of all faiths,” Oct. 26).
Why can’t every neighborhood and country live in
peace, support one another and share in our rich traditions
and experiences? It’s due to fear of people and customs
that we don’t understand.
We are all the same.
— Flora MacLean, Chicago
Mingling of multitudes
Kyra Miller’s op-ed about the love of neighbors in West
Rogers Park was right on.
The heart of that neighborhood is Devon Avenue. A
1-mile stretch of that street from Kedzie Avenue to West-
ern Avenue is like the United Nations, in that it caters to all
nationalities, Even the honorary street names honor them.
From Kedzie to California Avenue, which is a Jewish area,
the honorary name is Golda Meir Way. From California to
Western, the name is Gandhi Marg in honor of the Indian
population. Western is King Sargon Boulevard to honor
the Persian community.
When traveling on Devon, you see the mingling of all
groups of individuals walking among each other mostly
without fear or hate. They know that this is their neigh-
borhood and that they live among others who have dissim-
ilar religious beliefs but one common goal: the good of the
neighborhood.
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MARILYN KATZ
Activist, PR exec opposed
wars, fought for fair housing
By Bob Goldsborough
For Chicago Tribune
Marilyn Katz was an
activist and publicist whose
involvement in both the local
and national political scene
extended from the late 1960s
until today.
Katz was involved in
organizing efforts against
the Vietnam War at the
1968 Democratic National
Convention in Chicago and
against the Iraq War in the
early 2000s. However, Katz’s
bread and butter was repre-
senting clients in government
and in the nonprofit world
through her public relations
firm, MK Communications,
which she formed in 1984.
“Marilyn always called us
to our best selves. She stood
up for what she believed,
and she never compromised
over all these years,” said the
Rev. Michael Pfleger of St.
Sabina Catholic Church on
the South Side. “For as long as
I’ve known her, she has been
consistent and trying to be a
force to make things better in
the world.”
Katz, 78, died of lung fail-
ure Oct. 26, said her daugh-
ter, Halley Chambers, and
her son, Grady Chambers. She
had been a longtime Lincoln
Park resident.
Born in Chicago, Katz grew
up in Lakeview and graduated
from Lake View High School.
She attended both Tulane
University and Northwest-
ern University before leav-
ing college in 1966 to devote
herself to activism centered
around protesting the war in
Vietnam.
Katz joined the Students
for a Democratic Society
group in spring 1966, and
soon became a local SDS
leader. The group organized
a coalition of anti-war groups
that planned protests at the
DNC in Chicago in 1968. The
primary focus was objecting
to the Vietnam War while
also bringing attention to civil
rights issues.
“Our mom got very active
in the planning process for
that,” Katz’s daughter said.
“She worked a lot on messag-
ing … it was her first major
(communications role), and
she worked on security for
the convention as well. Her
title … was security chief for
the National Mobilization
Committee to End the War
in Vietnam at the 1968 DNC.”
“She was a wonderful orga-
nizer (who had) a capacity
for getting different kinds of
groups together,” said veteran
journalist, political activist
and political consultant Don
Rose. “She had great commu-
nication skills obviously, but
her ability to put groups
together was tremendous.”
The convention is remem-
bered for its many clashes
between protesters and
police.
In a 1996 Tribune article,
Katz called the convention
a time of “terror and exhila-
ration.” She was close to the
Chicago Seven defendants
who were charged with a
variety of alleged federal
crimes tied to the convention
protests. During their trial, a
police officer who had been
working undercover testified
that he had seen Katz show-
ing sharpened nails, which
could be used as weapons
against police, to one of the
defendants.
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In 1517, Martin Luther posted
the 95 Theses on the door
of the Wittenberg Palace
church, marking the start of
the Protestant Reformation
in Germany.
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Marilyn Katz leads a discussion of anti-war demonstrators as
they plan a protest of the President George W. Bush’s possible
war against Iraq during a meeting at MK Communications on
Oct. 21, 2002. ERIK UNGER
“She would often say
it should be (called) the
‘Chicago Eight’ but (author-
ities) didn’t want to arrest a
woman,” said Brian Berg, a
longtime communications
and public affairs colleague.
Katz was active on a
number of fronts. She was
arrested and placed on proba-
tion in 1968 for refusing to
leave a West Side public aid
office after she had been
distributing pamphlets list-
ing the rights of welfare
recipients. As a member of a
women’s rights group called
Women’s Liberation, Katz
faced off in a confrontation
against Playboy founder
Hugh Hefner and a group
of Playboy Bunnies stand-
ing outside the Gold Coast’s
onetime Playboy mansion.
“Don’t you think the bunny
image locks women into the
traditional servant role?” Katz
asked the group as they stood
outside the mansion, accord-
ing to a 1969 Tribune article.
Katz moved to Los Ange-
les in 1970 and took a job
making educational films
aimed at helping patients
understand what to expect
in a given surgery. Required
to explain medical concepts
in lay terms, Katz found the
work useful and transferable
for her later public relations
and communications roles,
her family said.
In 1978, Katz returned
to Chicago, and from 1979
until late 1982 was a director
and producer for Goldsholl
Design & Film Associates.
Katz then became a press
aide to Harold Washington
for his first mayoral campaign
in 1983.
“After the Washington
campaign, she felt integrated
into, and integral to, Demo-
cratic politics in the city,”
Katz’s daughter said. “She
worked for Mayor Washing-
ton on his communications
and press team, and formed
relationships with everyone
in Chicago media.”
After Washington’s victory,
Katz remained with his
administration briefly, and
in April 1984, she started MK
Communications.
“Marilyn was the ultimate
disrupter, but always for the
best causes. (She was) a trou-
blemaker’s trouble maker,”
said Tribune columnist and
WLS-Ch. 7 political analyst
Laura Washington. “During
the Harold Washington era,
political combat reigned. She
managed to get a seat at every
important table and get heard,
no matter how many big shots
were in the room. And she
was usually right.”
Katz worked on Harold
In 1912 Dale Evans, the
actress-singer who married
and performed with cowboy
star Roy Rogers, was born in
Uvalde, Texas.
In 1926 magician Harry
Houdini died in Detroit of
gangrene and peritonitis
resulting from a ruptured
appendix; he was 52.
In 1941 the U.S. Navy
destroyer Reuben James
was torpedoed by a German
U-boat off Iceland with the
loss of 115 lives, even though
the United States had not yet
entered World War II.
In 1955 Britain’s Princess
Margaret ended weeks of
speculation by announcing
she would not marry Royal
Air Force Captain Peter
Townsend.
In 1968 President Lyndon
Johnson ordered a halt to all
U.S. bombing of North Viet-
nam, saying he hoped for
Washington’s second mayoral
campaign in 1987 while also
handling a diverse client list
that over the years included
the Morton Arboretum, the
Chicago Park District, the
Chicago Children’s Museum,
Park National Bank, the
National Railway Equipment
Co. and the city of Chicago, for
which she hyped the city’s
controversial blue bag recy-
cling program.
Representing Oak Park’s
park district, Katz played a
role in finding a solution to
remove toxic waste from
Barrie Park in Oak Park,
which once was the site of
a manufactured gas plant
owned by utilities, Berg said.
Eventually, the CSX railroad,
whose tracks adjoined the
park, agreed to remove the
contaminated dirt from the
park by rail.
“That had to be the larg-
est environmental reme-
diation project in the state
of a former manufactured
gas plant,” Berg said. “Mari-
lyn was looking out for the
community and looking out
for doing right.”
Katz also commitment to
fair and affordable housing
dated to the 1960s, when she
marched in Chicago with the
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to
protest housing segregation.
She worked with many clients
on housing issues, including
the city of Chicago, Preser-
vation for Affordable Hous-
ing and the Historic Chicago
Bungalow Association.
“She’d say the bunga-
low association was Mayor
Daley’s idea, but really it was
Marilyn and MK Communi-
cations that gave it its birth,”
Berg said. “One third of the
single-family housing stock
in Chicago is bungalows and
it’s something that certainly
distinguishes Chicago’s
housing style and stock.”
Laura Washington said
Katz did not hesitate to lobby
both friends and enemies for
causes that mattered to her.
That included working with
Republicans when politically
expedient, she said.
“She wasn’t by any means
a big fan of President Reagan
but she would always give
him his due for the low-in-
come housing tax credit,”
Berg said. “On his watch,
thousands of affordable hous-
ing developments across the
country became a reality and
a tool which continues today
to catalyze blighted and
neglected neighborhoods.”
A public memorial is being
planned.
Goldsborough is a freelance
reporter.
fruitful peace negotiations.
In 1980 Reza Pahlavi, eldest
son of the late shah of Iran,
proclaimed himself the
rightful successor to the
Peacock Throne.
In 1983 Bears founder and
owner George Halas died in
Chicago; he was 88.
In 1984 Indian Prime Minis-
ter Indira Gandhi was assas-
sinated by two Sikh security
guards.
In 1993 Italian film direc-
tor Federico Fellini died in
Rome; he was 73. Also in
1993 actor River Phoenix
died of a drug overdose in
Los Angeles; he was 23.
In 1994 an American Eagle
turboprop commuter plane
en route from Indianapo-
lis to O’Hare International
Airport crashed in a rain-
storm south of Roselawn,
Ind., killing 64 passengers.
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Death Notices
Beck, Jimmie E.
Jimmie E. Beck 87 of Hebron, IL Oct 27. Loving
husband of Eugenia (Hund);
greatest dad to Sandy
Degner, Cyndie (Arthur)
Eckfritz, Gary (Sara) Stephan,
Dan (Judi) Beck, Jim (Kari)
Beck, Jeff (Theresa) Beck, Tim
(Angela) Beck; grandfather
of 17, great grandfather of
25. Lifelong friend of Paul
Haufe, Dick Antonson and
George Aigner. Visitation 4 to 8 pm Wed
at Ehorn-Adams chapel 10011 Main
St, Richmond, IL, funeral 11 a.m. Thurs
with interment in Alden Cemetery with
military honors.
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Brown, Karen M.
Karen M. Brown, nee Gaffney, age 85, at rest
October 28, 2023. Beloved wife of 65 years to James
Brown, Ret. C.P.D.. Loving mom to Kathleen (Mike)
Spedale, Patricia (John McGivney) Brown, James
(Colleen O’Donnell) Brown and Daniel (Magdalena)
Brown. Cherished “Nan” to Peter, Daniel (Brenda),
Mary Patricia, Kathleen, Anne, Jayce, Matthew, John
and Caroline. Dear sister of Daniel Gaffney and the
late Kathleen Magnuson. Preceded in death by her
parents Kieran and Johanna Gaffney of Bloomhill,
Co. Offaly, and Listowel, Co. Kerry, Ireland, respec-
tively. Fond aunt of many nieces and nephews.
She was a beloved cousin, a loyal friend and a
devoted neighbor. She was also a proud graduate
of St. Columbanus, Mercy High School, and the
University of Illinois at Chicago. Visitation Thursday,
November 2, 2023 from 10:00 a.m. until time of
Mass 11:00 a.m. at Christ the King Church, 9235
S. Hamilton Ave, Chicago; Interment Mount Olivet
Cemetery; In lieu of flowers please donate to the
Misericordia Home in Betsy Capraro’s name MFA
# 1717A, www.misericordia.com or to the Christ
the King School Foundation, 9235 S. Hamilton Ave.,
Chicago, Il 60643. Arrangements entrusted to Curley
Funeral Home, Chicago Ridge. For funeral info (708)
422-2700, or www.curleyfuneralhome.com.
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Grimes, Joan
Joan Grimes of Melrose Park, age 88. Beloved
daughter of the late George and Josephine Grimes;
preceded in death by her siblings George Jr. (Mary
Jane), Jim (Nancy) and Bob (Peggy); fond aunt and
great-aunt to many. Joan had many friends and
neighbors at Riverwoods. She was an avid snow
skier and traveler and taught at Chicago Public
Schools for over 40 years. All to meet Thursday,
November 2, 2023 at St. Luke Church, 7600 Lake
St., River Forest for Visitation from 10:00 a.m. until
time of Funeral Mass 11:00 a.m. Interment Queen
of Heaven Cemetery. Arrangements entrusted
to Conboy-Westchester Funeral Home. For info
708-F-U-N-E-R-A-L.
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Hammersley, Marshall
Marshall Hammersley passed away peacefully on
October 27th at the age of 88. He was
born on April 16, 1935 (too close to
tax day for him) on the south side of
Chicago. As a child of the depression
era, he started working at a young age
and continued to work until his late 70’s. Marshall
went to Hyde Park High School and left two years
early to go to college. He graduated with a degree in
Accounting from the University of Illinois and later
received his MBA from the University of Chicago.
Marshall loved numbers. He became a CPA and a
member of Mensa. He held executive positions in
consulting and manufacturing, and then at the age
of 50, Marshall pivoted and became a financial advi-
sor. He truly enjoyed the stock market and working
with people. His favorite job ever, though, came
in his youth delivering salami for his grandfather,
who was a butcher, in the 1940’s. Marshall mar-
ried Shirley Rosenthal in November of 1960 at the
South Shore Temple. They lived in Wilmette until
Marshall’s retirement brought them to The Mather
in Evanston. Marshall and Shirley relished traveling,
especially on cruises, all around the globe. Marshall
also enjoyed playing tennis for decades. Shirley and
Marshall also loved going to the symphony, musi-
cals, theater, and great restaurants. Marshall was
also an avid Chicago sports fan and went to a 1959
White Sox World Series game. Shirley passed away
six years ago. Marshall is survived by his children,
Howard (Tami), Bruce (Carol), and Susan, as well as
six grandchildren: Michael, Scott (Hannah), Lauren,
Paige, Jessica, and Evan. The Hammersley family
would like to thank Rommie and Ola for the terrific
care he received over the last few years. A memo-
rial service will be held on Friday, November 3rd,
12PM at The Mather, 450 Davis St, Evanston, with
shiva to follow. In lieu of flowers, please consider a
donation in Marshall’s name to your favorite charity.
For info: 847-256-5700
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Hammond, Marcia Lynn
Visitation for Marcia Lynn Hammond, 78, of Kildeer
for 30 years, will be held on
Thursday, November 2, 2023,
from 3:00 pm until the time of
the funeral service at 7:00 pm
at the Ahlgrim Family Funeral
Home, 415 S. Buesching Rd,
Lake Zurich. The interment
will be private. Marcia was
born September 3, 1945 in
Rhinelander, Wisconsin, to
Harry and Marjorie (nee Little) Coffman. She passed
away Saturday, October 28, 2023 surrounded by her
family. Marcia grew up in Chicago and attended
Chicago Public Schools graduating from Schurz High
School in 1963. She earned her Bachelor’s degree at
Michigan State University and Masters’ at Northern
Illinois University and spent her entire teaching ca-
reer teaching science in Illinois High School District
214; first at Arlington High School and then Wheeling
High School, retiring in 2001. In her “spare time”
she earned an accounting certificate at College of
Lake County. She was also involved in many activi-
ties during retirement including golf, traveling (par-
ticularly cruising), Disney World, Maj Jongg with her
many friends, and doing crossword puzzles while
listening to WGN radio. Marcia is survived by her
husband, Darrell, whom she married in 1969; daugh-
ters, Dr. Melissa June Rangel of Woodstock and Dr.
Michelle Anne Hammond of Crystal Lake; grand-
children, Calista Rose and Emma Geneveve Rangel;
brother-in-laws, Gregory Havrilcsak of Frankenmuth,
Michigan and Kenneth Eglaston of Hoffman Estates;
along with many nieces and nephews and grand
nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by
her sisters, Heather (Coffman) Eglaston and Candi
(Coffman) Bone; and her parents. In lieu of flow-
ers, the family is requesting donations to a favorite
charity. For information, contact the Ahlgrim Family
Funeral Home, Lake Zurich, at 847-540-8871, or visit
www.ahlgrimffs.com.
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Harzich, Dolores P.
(nee Kocjancich), age 86. On the one-year anniver-
sary of her death, we want
to honor the life of Dolores
and all the love and joy she
brought to this world. She
will always be remembered
and be in our hearts.
Thank you to all that have
been there for our family. We
are grateful for your support.
Beloved wife of 63 years to John J. Harzich. Devoted
mother of Valerie Mineiko, Sharon Harzich, and
John (Kathy) Harzich. Proud grandmother of Kanton,
Taylor, John, Andrew and Lindsay. Adored great-
grandmother of Weston. Loving sister of the late
Bill, Eddie, Steve and Dorothy. Adored aunt of many
nieces and nephews.
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McGlew, Winifred J. ‘Una’
Winifred “Una” J. McGlew, 89, of Huntley at rest
October 26, 2023. Beloved wife of Patrick, lov-
ing mother to Sandy (Gene) Cebrij, Mark (Sue)
McGlew and the late Denise McGlew. Cherished
grandmother of Claire, Laura, John and Matthew.
Visitation will be on Thursday, November 2, 2023,
at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Huntley from 9:00
AM until the Mass of Christian Burial at 10:00 AM.
Burial will follow at Queen of Heaven Cemetery in
Hillside. For more information, please contact James
A. O’Connor Funeral Home at (847)-669-5111 or visit
www.jamesaoconnorfuneralhome.com
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Perlin, Lila A.
Lila A. Perlin, nee Ames, age 96, of Wilmette, be-
loved wife of the late Jack L. Perlin; lov-
ing mother of Lauren (Jerry) Mayeroff,
Robert Ames (late Jon) Mortensen-
Perlin, Dr. Michael (Deirdre) Perlin, and
late Gary Perlin; adored grandmother of
Bill (Jessica Johnson) Mayeroff, Debbie (Tanner Buel)
Mayeroff, and Sarah and Rachel Perlin; devoted
daughter of the late William and the late Frieda
Ames; cherished sister of late Charlotte (Sidney)
Projansky and the late Jean Alter; dear sister-in-
law of the late Allan (late Anita) Perlin and the late
Corinne (late Leon) Hirsch; treasured aunt and friend
of many. As a Chicago Public School teacher for 40
years, Lila made a significant difference in many
young lives. Graveside service Wednesday, 3:00 p.m.
CT at Memorial Park Cemetery, 9900 Gross Point
Rd., Skokie. In lieu of flowers, contributions would
be appreciated to the charity of your choice. Info:
The Goldman Funeral Group, www.goldmanfuneral-
group.com (847) 478-1600.
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Pietrkowski, Frieda
Frieda Pietrkowski, nee Beker, age 84, a child
Holocaust survivor. Beloved wife of
the late Morris; loving mother of John
Pietrkowski, Felicia (Michael) Zieff, and
Henry (Tanya) Pietrkowski; cherished
grandmother of Malkie (Nachi) Cohen,
Fivel Zieff, and Sophia Pietrkowski and great-
grandmother of Max Cohen; fond sister of Rosa
Berger. Funeral service Thursday, Nov. 2, 10:30 AM
at Weinstein & Piser Funeral Home, 111 Skokie Blvd,
Wilmette. Interment Westlawn Cemetery. In lieu of
flowers, memorial contributions can be made to the
Illinois Holocaust Museum (ilholocaustmuseum.org)
or American Diabetes Association (diabetes.org/).
For info: 847-256-5700
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Slonina, Maria Alwine
Maria Alwine Slonina (née Ficzko) passed at the age
of 72 due to complications from Multiple Sclerosis.
Maria immigrated to Chicago with her family from
Germany. Maria was a loving wife to her late hus-
band, Antoni Slonina, a mother, grandmother, aunt,
and friend. Maria is survived by her daughters
Rebecca Schultz (Matthew Schultz),Victoria Slonina
(Jacob Potter), her granddaughter Vada Potter,
and many siblings, nieces, and nephews. The fam-
ily wishes to grieve privately. In lieu of flowers, the
family requests you make a donation to the National
MS Society.
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Stern, Frank I.
Frank I. Stern, 93, beloved husband for 70 years
of Ruth nee’ Sender; loving father of
Debbie (Howard Freidin) Stern, Naomi
Davenport, and Charlotte (Dr. Steven
Witzel) Stern; cherished grandfather of
eight. Funeral service Tuesday, October
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IL, died on Monday, October
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contributions may be made to Illinois Holocaust
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CITY OF CHICAGO Under supervision, performs skilled manual work
DEPARTMENT OF PROCUREMENT in connection with the construction, alteration
SERVICES and repair of structures or articles of wood or

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COUNTY OF COOK OFFICE OF THE CHIEF
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ABC7 Outlook: TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY

A blustery and cold Day Night Day Night Day Night Day Night Day Night Day Night
Halloween is ahead.
Expect snow show-
ers through the day,
too.
High: 38 Low: 28 High: 43 Low: 34 High: 52 Low: 38 High: 57 Low: 47 High: 58 Low: 43 High: 58 Low: 43
Cold with snow showers; Chilly with plenty of Partly sunny Mostly cloudy A morning shower; A thick cloud cover
breezy in the p.m. sunshine otherwise, cloudy
Meteorologists Larry Mowry,
Cheryl Scott, Jaisol Martinez, POP: 85% POP: 5% POP: 5% POP: 10% POP: 40% POP: 25%
Tracy Butler and Greg Dutra Winds: W 8-16 mph Winds: SW 7-14 mph Winds: SW 7-14 mph Winds: S 7-14 mph Winds: W 8-16 mph Winds: S 6-12 mph

CHICAGO FORECAST Union Grove

Tuesday Conditions 36/21 Racine
8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 8 p.m. 26/16 38/27
AccuWeather.com UV Index™ Janesville 23/19
34/21 Lake Geneva Twin Lakes Kenosha
0 0 1 1 0 0 0
20/20 34/20 35/19 LAKE MICHIGAN 37/23 QUESTION: How is Tracy Butler
RealFeel Temperature® 21/16 Tuesday
20 24 25 24 25 24 24 Beloit 23/16 27/18 the weather there
Wind from the west at 12-25 knots.
35/22 Antioch Waukegan Seas 1-3 feet. Visibility less than 4 in Chicago during the first week of
Tuesday Activities 22/20 Woodstock
8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 8 p.m.
36/20 39/25 miles in afternoon snow and rain. Water December? I’m coming there for
Belvidere 34/20 27/17 temperature: 52.
Outdoor Activities Index 21/16 30/21 my son’s boot camp graduation
0 0 1 0 0 1 1 34/21 Libertyville Highland Park Boating Index
8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 8 p.m. from the Navy and would like to
18/18 37/24
Fishing Index Marengo 26/21 37//28 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 know how to pack.
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rockford 34/21 27//22
35/21 Wednesday Yia Lee - Merced, CA
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index 19/18
number, the greater the need for eye and skin 20/18 Arlingtoon Heights Wind from the west-southwest at 7-14
protection. 0-2 Low, 3-5 Moderate, 6-7 High, knots. Seas 1-3 feet. Visibility generally ANSWER: Yia, first of all, thank
8-10 Very High, 11+ Extreme. The patented Hampshire 37/26
AccuWeather.com RealFeel Temperature is an 33/21 25/22 unrestricted. Water temperature: 52. you to your son for his commit-
Rochelle Elgin
exclusive index of effective temperature based
34/20 17/16 Evanston ment of service to our country.
on eight weather factors. Outdoor Activities 35/22 38/32 Boating Index: 0-2: Poor; 3-4: Fair; 5-6: Good;
and Fishing Indexes: 0-2: Poor; 3-4: Fair; 5-6: 18/18 22/19 Bartlett O’Hare 24/19 7-8: Very Good; 9-10: Excellent. In addition, thank YOU also, as
Good; 7-8: Very Good; 9-10: Excellent. DeKalb I know enlisting in the military
33/21 35/22 38/28
Aurora 21/19 26/22 Chicago-ddowntown is a family commitment. So, I
CHICAGO ALMANAC 17/16 34/20 37/30
Naperville Michigan City will share with you the averages
Monday Temperatures 17/15 23/19 38/35
O’Hare through 4 p.m.
Plano 36/24 Midway for Chicago during that time of
35/21 23/20 38/27 23/14
High 44 21/18 Gary year. Our average highs that time
Compton 25/220
Low 33 34/21 Joliet Hammond 37/28 of year are around 40 degrees
Normal high 56 17/17 Yorkville 37/24 36/27 26/16 and the average lows are in the
Leland 35/21 Orland Paa rk Laa Porte
Normal low 40 27/21 36/26 24/20 upper 20s. Record highs that
34/22 22/19 35/29
Record high 85 (1950) Mendota 18/17 24/20 233/17 week have hit 70, but that is rare.
Record low 21 (1988) 35/23 Chicago Heightss
20/18 35/24 Valparaiso Occasionally, we have had actual
Local Temperatures 23/20 Crown Point 37/30 temperatures below zero (that
through 6 p.m. Monday Normal Morris 35//24 26/15
Location Hi Lo Hi Lo 36/23 too is rare). As for snow, yes it can
Ottawa Peotone 22/ / 18
Aurora 41 26 56 35 La Salle 23/21 36/23 La Crossee snow here, so bring boots. Have a
Gary 43 34 56 37 36/23 37/23 22/18 Momence 36/28 safe trip.
Kankakee 42 31 58 38 21/20 22/20 Braidwood
Lansing 42 32 56 38 36/25 36/24 24/15
24/22 Kankakee 23/18 Demotte
Midway 43 33 57 41 37/26
Romeoville 41 31 56 37 36/24 Franccesville Do you have a weather question for the
Streator 24/19 25/17
Valparaiso 43 33 57 37
37/22 Dwight 37/26 ABC 7 team? Submit them at
Waukegan 42 30 55 38 St. Ann n e 27/15 5 abc7chicago.com/weather
23/19 37/23 or send them to:
Monday Precipitation 21/18 36/24 4 Ask ABC 7 Weather Team
2023 2022 Normal 24/18 190 N. State Street
Monday* Trace 0.05” 0.10” Chicago, IL 60601
Shown is Tuesday’s weather. Temperatures are Tuesday’s highs and Tuesday night’s lows with high and low RealFeel Temperatures shown belo
ow.
Month to date 2.25” 1.64” 3.33”
Year to date 29.87” 28.98” 33.23”
Snowfall NATIONAL FORECAST REGIONAL CITIES
Monday* 0.0” 0.0” 0.0” Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. Tue. Wed.
Month to date 0.0” Trace 0.2”
Season to date 0.0” Trace 0.2” City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Illinois
*24-hour period ending 4 p.m. Monday Seattle Winnipeg Carbondale 44/22/s 47/28/s
54/43 23/14 Champaign 38/23/sf 44/30/s
Air Quality Index Montreal Decatur 39/24/sf 45/31/s
Monday’s reading 40/30 Moline 39/22/sf 44/31/s
Good Billings Minneaapolis Peoria 38/24/sf 43/30/s
Tuesday’s forecast
45/25 37/24 Quincy 38/21/pc 44/33/s
Toronto New York Rockford 35/21/sf 42/30/s
Good 42/30 Springfield 40/22/pc 44/32/s
0/42
50
Primary pollutant Ozone Sterling 37/21/sf 42/29/s
Source: AirNow.gov Chicago Dettroit Washhington Indiana
Sun and Moon San Francisco 41/28 55/42 Bloomington 43/25/pc 46/27/s
78/51 Evansville 47/27/s 46/27/s
Tue. Wed. Kansas City Fort Wayne 41/25/sf 42/28/pc
Sunrise 7:21 a.m. 7:22 a.m. Denver 39/21 Indianapolis 41/26/sf 43/28/s
Sunset 5:46 p.m. 5:45 p.m. 45/29 Lafayette 38/25/sf 44/30/s
Moonrise 7:30 p.m. 8:20 p.m. South Bend 37/25/sn 43/30/pc
Los Angelles
Moonset 10:43 a.m. 11:49 a.m. Wisconsin
85/53 Atlanta
Last New First Full Green Bay 39/21/sn 41/29/s
60/34 Kenosha 37/23/sf 44/31/s
La Crosse 40/22/sn 42/28/s
El Paso Madison 36/21/sn 39/28/s
60/37 Milwaukee 39/28/sn 42/33/s
Nov 5 Nov 13 Nov 20 Nov 27 Wausau 38/19/sn 36/26/s
Tuesday’s Planet Watch Hou
usto
on Michigan
Chihuahua 60/38 Detroit 41/28/sf 44/28/s
Rise Set 53/40 Grand Rapids 37/25/sn 39/30/pc
Mercury 8:02 a.m. 6:02 p.m. Miamii Marquette 33/21/sf 36/25/c
Venus 3:26 a.m. 3:59 p.m. Monte
errey 89/773 Sault Ste. Marie 37/26/sf 37/29/sn
Mars 7:51 a.m. 6:00 p.m. 55/46 Traverse City 39/31/sf 41/31/sn
Jupiter 5:55 p.m. 7:43 a.m.
Iowa
Saturn 3:11 p.m. 1:43 a.m. Showers T-storms Rain Flurries Snow Ice Cold front Warm front Stationary front
Ames 35/19/c 47/27/s
Best viewing times today: Venus: 6:50 Cedar Rapids 36/19/sf 43/27/s
a.m. Mars: not visible Jupiter: 10:15 p.m. Des Moines 34/21/c 45/30/s
Saturn: 10:15 p.m. Mercury: not visible -10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s Dubuque 36/21/sf 40/27/s

NATIONAL CITIES WORLD CITIES

Tue. Wed. Tue. Wed. Tue. Wed. Tue. Wed. Tue. Wed.
City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Abilene 57/31/s 60/38/s Fairbanks 29/24/c 29/22/pc Palm Beach 88/69/pc 83/70/pc Acapulco 86/76/c 87/76/pc Kyiv 67/54/pc 59/40/sh
Albany, NY 50/33/s 47/29/c Fargo 32/22/s 39/22/pc Palm Springs 82/58/s 83/59/s Algiers 76/65/c 75/53/sh Lima 72/65/pc 72/64/c
Albuquerque 56/32/s 58/36/s Flagstaff 54/21/s 63/24/s Philadelphia 56/41/pc 51/35/pc Amsterdam 56/48/sh 57/47/r Lisbon 64/59/pc 69/63/sh
Amarillo 52/28/s 63/34/s Fort Myers 88/67/pc 81/63/s Phoenix 84/58/s 84/55/s Ankara 75/48/pc 70/44/pc London 58/52/sh 57/49/sh
Anchorage 39/32/c 40/31/c Fort Smith 51/24/s 54/30/s Pittsburgh 45/30/pc 42/26/sn Athens 76/64/s 79/65/c Madrid 58/46/c 59/55/sh
Asheville 53/25/r 46/22/pc Fresno 74/44/pc 75/46/s Portland, ME 46/31/s 44/26/c Auckland 70/59/r 69/56/c Manila 88/78/c 84/77/c
Aspen 43/17/s 50/19/pc Grand Junction 52/30/s 57/30/s Portland, OR 59/47/pc 56/52/r Baghdad 89/65/pc 86/69/pc Mexico City 77/48/c 74/46/c
Atlanta 60/34/c 53/35/s Great Falls 47/25/pc 47/33/pc Providence 51/38/pc 48/30/r Bangkok 91/79/t 91/79/t Monterrey 55/46/sh 64/45/s
Atlantic City 52/44/c 53/37/pc Harrisburg 53/36/pc 49/33/c Raleigh 56/39/r 51/30/s Barbados 88/79/t 87/77/sh Montreal 40/30/s 40/30/c
Austin 59/34/s 60/33/s Hartford 52/32/s 49/28/pc Rapid City 41/23/s 51/25/c Barcelona 68/57/pc 70/61/c Moscow 46/44/c 55/45/c
Baltimore 56/39/c 52/32/pc Helena, MT 41/23/pc 44/32/c Reno 63/34/s 70/39/pc Beijing 74/47/pc 78/49/pc Munich 53/39/r 58/40/pc
Billings 45/25/pc 49/31/c Honolulu 85/70/pc 85/70/pc Richmond 50/40/r 52/32/pc Beirut 84/73/c 84/71/pc Nairobi 78/61/sh 78/61/c
Birmingham 58/31/c 55/32/s Houston 60/38/c 61/35/s Rochester 44/28/sn 44/28/sn Berlin 56/45/r 57/48/c Nassau 86/76/pc 85/76/pc
Bismarck 26/17/s 32/10/c Int’l Falls 29/16/pc 34/22/c Sacramento 72/37/pc 75/40/pc Bermuda 79/73/pc 81/73/r New Delhi 88/69/pc 87/68/pc
Boise 53/33/pc 57/44/pc Jackson, MS 56/33/c 52/30/s St. Louis 42/26/s 48/36/s Bogota 68/51/sh 68/50/r Oslo 35/22/c 34/27/pc
Boston 49/41/pc 46/34/r Jacksonville 83/50/s 62/44/s Salem, OR 56/43/c 55/51/r Brussels 55/51/pc 58/50/r Ottawa 39/28/c 37/27/c
Brownsville 57/47/pc 71/53/pc Juneau 46/36/c 47/34/c Salt Lake City 53/34/s 58/39/pc Bucharest 77/53/c 72/46/c Panama City 85/74/t 86/74/t
Buffalo 42/31/sn 44/33/sn Kansas City 39/21/s 48/36/s San Antonio 60/38/pc 60/37/s Budapest 66/46/sh 61/47/s Paris 59/51/sh 58/51/r
Burlington, VT 43/34/pc 40/32/sn Las Vegas 70/48/s 73/50/s San Diego 84/49/s 82/50/s Bueno Aires 63/54/pc 62/57/c Prague 54/47/c 57/41/pc
Charleston, SC 76/48/pc 55/37/pc Lexington 48/28/s 46/28/s San Francisco 78/51/pc 76/52/pc Cairo 88/72/pc 87/70/s Rio de Janeiro 85/75/pc 78/72/sh
Charleston, WV 50/29/c 45/26/pc Lincoln 37/17/s 55/27/s San Juan 89/78/sh 90/78/pc Cancun 87/73/sh 84/75/r Riyadh 87/68/s 89/69/s
Charlotte 57/35/r 52/30/s Little Rock 56/29/s 51/31/s Santa Fe 53/25/s 59/29/s Caracas 90/73/r 88/74/t Rome 73/55/pc 67/56/r
Chattanooga 58/32/c 53/31/s Los Angeles 85/53/s 85/56/s Savannah 80/50/s 58/38/s Casablanca 78/63/c 77/56/pc Santiago 71/44/pc 61/45/sh
Cheyenne 45/32/s 57/34/pc Louisville 47/31/s 47/32/s Seattle 54/43/pc 57/48/r Copenhagen 51/37/r 49/45/pc Seoul 70/56/pc 75/60/pc
Cincinnati 44/28/pc 45/28/s Macon 64/37/pc 58/27/s Shreveport 59/33/s 56/33/s Dublin 54/49/c 51/44/sh Singapore 89/77/t 89/78/t
Cleveland 43/33/pc 42/32/sh Memphis 51/30/s 50/32/s Sioux Falls 35/21/pc 44/25/pc Edmonton 41/24/c 39/22/c Sofia 73/47/pc 67/46/pc
Colorado Spgs 46/24/s 62/31/s Miami 89/73/pc 85/73/pc Spokane 48/30/c 48/36/c Frankfurt 58/48/pc 59/45/c Stockholm 42/32/r 35/25/pc
Columbia, MO 40/20/s 47/33/s Minneapolis 37/24/c 39/27/pc Syracuse 46/35/sh 44/32/c Geneva 55/41/sh 57/46/sh Sydney 80/58/s 67/57/pc
Columbia, SC 65/39/r 55/31/s Mobile 58/36/c 59/34/s Tallahassee 79/43/s 61/37/s Guadalajara 77/51/pc 76/49/s Taipei 81/69/sh 83/70/s
Columbus, OH 46/28/pc 43/28/pc Montgomery 61/35/c 57/30/s Tampa 86/63/s 74/53/s Havana 86/73/sh 83/72/pc Tehran 72/62/c 71/60/pc
Concord 48/32/s 45/25/c Nashville 52/30/s 50/28/s Topeka 42/20/s 51/34/s Helsinki 44/34/r 37/28/r Tokyo 70/58/pc 72/59/s
Corpus Christi 59/40/c 66/47/s New Orleans 59/45/c 59/46/s Tucson 76/51/s 80/51/pc Hong Kong 86/75/pc 86/75/s Toronto 42/30/pc 44/30/pc
Dallas 58/32/s 54/36/s New York City 50/42/pc 49/37/pc Tulsa 44/23/s 52/35/s Istanbul 70/63/pc 74/62/pc Trinidad 90/80/s 89/80/sh
Daytona Beach 82/61/pc 69/57/pc Norfolk 54/45/r 53/43/pc Washington, DC 55/42/c 51/35/pc Jerusalem 79/64/pc 78/62/s Vancouver 49/38/c 51/45/c
Denver 45/29/s 57/35/pc Oklahoma City 46/23/s 54/34/s Wichita 41/22/s 54/34/s Johannesburg 50/42/r 66/47/pc Vienna 59/47/r 62/48/c
Duluth 34/20/pc 36/24/pc Omaha 37/19/pc 50/28/s Wilkes-Barre 49/33/pc 47/26/c Kabul 73/50/s 69/48/pc Warsaw 63/47/sh 52/42/pc
El Paso 60/37/s 64/40/s Orlando 87/64/s 73/58/s Yuma 83/58/s 84/53/s Kingston 90/81/r 90/80/t Winnipeg 23/14/c 34/17/pc
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. POP: Probability of Precipitation. Forecasts and graphics, except for the WLS-TV/ABC7 Chicago content, provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2023

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With raises, benefits in deal, Ford Chicago workers back
As part of agreement,
$400M in investments
coming to facility itself
By Robert Channick
Chicago Tribune
The nearly century-old Chicago
Assembly Plant on the city’s South-
east Side hummed back to life
Saturday morning, as thousands of
Ford workers returned to their jobs
after nearly a month on the picket
line in the United Auto Workers
strike against the Big Three auto-
makers.
Ford reached a tentative agree-
ment with the UAW on Wednes-
day, followed by Stellantis on
Saturday and General Motors on
Monday morning.
In addition to substantial pay
raises and other benefits for work-
ers, the Ford deal also includes
a commitment to invest $400
million in the Chicago Assembly
Plant itself as part of $8.1 billion to
be spent across all of its facilities
by the end of the new four-year
agreement.
The Chicago Stamping Plant in
Chicago Heights, which supplies
parts to the assembly plant, is set
to get $30 million as part of the
agreement.
US decides
Southwest’s
customer
service failed
Airline could face fines
for failure to give help
to stranded passengers
Associated Press
Federal regulators have told
Southwest Airlines that the
carrier failed to provide enough
help to travelers who were
stranded during massive cancel-
lations last December, and the
airline could be subject to a fine.
Southwest said in a regula-
tory filing Monday that it can’t
estimate the cost of a fine and
damages from lawsuits stem-
ming from nearly 17,000 canceled
flights last December. Scores of
travelers were stranded at Chica-
go’s Midway Airport and other
airports across the country as
Dallas-based Southwest strug-
gled to recover from cancella-
tions and delays in the wake of
winter storms over the Christ-
mas holiday.
Southwest said the U.S. Depart-
ment of Transportation told the
airline Friday that “it has deter-
mined the company had failed
to provide adequate customer
service assistance, prompt flight
status notifications, and proper
and prompt refunds and that the
assessment of a civil penalty is
warranted.”
The government indicated in
January that it was investigat-
ing Southwest over the service
collapse, which stranded more
than 2 million travelers and cost
the airline at least $1.1 billion in
lost sales and extra costs includ-
ing refunds.
Southwest said in a quar-
terly financial filing Monday
that it could also face costs from
lawsuits filed by customers and
shareholders.
The filing followed South-
west’s report that its profit slid
30% in the July-through-Sep-
tember quarter and it will scale
back growth plans early next
year.
BUSINESS
The Chicago Assembly Plant
makes the Ford Explorer, Lincoln
Aviator and Police Interceptor
SUVs. Chris Pena, president of
UAW Local 551, which represents
4,613 employees at the plant, said
the return-to-work timing was not
a coincidence.
“It had the effect (the union)
wanted on GM and Stellantis to
come up with a deal,” Pena said
Monday. “That happened really
quick once Ford went back to
work.”
The tentative agreements
with the Big Three share simi-
lar gains for workers including a
25% increase in base wages, cost
of living adjustments and the right
to strike over plant closures. In
addition to Ford investing in the
Chicago Assembly Plant, Stellan-
tis is committing to restarting the
idled Belvidere Assembly Plant
near Rockford, which could bring
back thousands of jobs at the once
booming facility.
The Chicago Assembly Plant has
a storied history that began in 1924
with production of the Model T. In
2019, Ford spent $1 billion to trans-
form the Torrence Avenue facility,
which phased out production of
the once top-selling Taurus sedan
to focus on building SUVs. The
Ford Explorer is one of the auto-
A Jelly Belly display is seen at the Sweets & Snacks Expo at McCormick Place in Chicago on May 24, 2022. TERRENCE ANTONIO JAMES/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Sweet times to continue
for Jelly Belly after sale
Charles Selle
For the heirs of candy-maker
Gustav Goelitz, it was a sweet
ride while it lasted. But like other
journeys, it eventually had to
end.
Which is what happened Oct.
18 when it was announced the
family-owned Jelly Belly Candy
Co., a fixture in North Chicago
since 1913, was being sold to
UAW Local 551 President Chris Pena speaks during a rally for striking
workers and supporters at UAW Local 551 on Oct. 7 in Chicago.
JOHN J. KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
maker’s best-selling vehicles.
The UAW said the $400 million
investment will go toward contin-
ued production of the current
SUV lineup at Chicago Assembly
Plant. A Ford spokesperson did not
respond to a request for comment
Monday on how and when the
$400 million would be put to work.
As part of the agreement,
Chicago Ford workers, who
Chicago-based Ferrara Candy
Co. There’s nothing sour about
the sale.
Terms were not announced
and the sale is expected to be
completed by the end of the year.
Ferrara is owned by the Europe-
based Ferrero Rocher candy
company.
Herman Rowland Sr.,
great-grandson of Gustav
Goelitz, and Jelly Belly chairman
of the board of directors, said
in a statement that Ferrara is a
“like-minded” candy company
that will grow the brand. Ferrara,
one of the nation’s largest candy
companies, has a broad product
Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Tuesday, October 31, 2023 1
Plus TV, comics and puzzles
walked off the job Sept. 29, are
also in line to get back pay for the
27 days they’ve been on strike, in
addition to a lump sum $5,000 per
member ratification bonus.
Chicago Ford workers are
expected to hold a ratification vote
on the agreement next Monday
and Tuesday, Pena said.
“I think there’s a lot of excite-
ment, but there’s a lot of animos-
portfolio and makes a number of
popular candy brands, including
Butterfinger and Baby Ruth.
Anyone driving along the
Tri-State Tollway south of the
Bensenville Bridge curve has
smelled the chocolate goodness,
when the wind is right, emanat-
ing from the former Curtiss
Candy Co. plant, with its iconic
signage, in Franklin Park. The
wafting aromas can make one
forget about a bad commute.
The Goelitz Confectionery
Co., first known for its Hallow-
een favorite and legacy product,
candy corn, and its white-cen-
tered caramel creams, left Down-
ity for legacy employees, because
they gave up too much during the
recession,” Pena said. “But that’s not
going to stop it from being ratified.”
The UAW, which represents
146,000 members across the U.S.,
launched a strike against all three
automakers for the first time in
the Detroit-based union’s 88-year
history after the previous four-year
agreement expired Sept. 15. The
strike expanded to nearly 45,000
UAW members at eight assembly
plants and 38 parts distribution
centers in 22 states before Ford
reached its tentative agreement.
Ford’s return-to-work call
includes more than 16,600 strik-
ing employees at three Ford plants
and 3,617 workers temporarily laid
off because of the production shut-
down. The automaker said it may
take up to four weeks to get the
factories back up to full speed.
The Stellantis tentative agree-
ment with the UAW includes
bringing thousands of workers
back to the Belvidere Assembly
Plant near Rockford, with plans for
a new truck product and an adja-
cent EV battery facility.
The massive auto plant has
been the economic engine of
Belvidere for nearly six decades,
Turn to Workers, Page 3
state Belleville, where Gustav and
his brother, Albert, sold candies
from a storefront and then horse-
drawn cart, for North Chicago
— the firm’s longest-operating
factory — as its candy fortunes
grew in the early 20th century.
German immigrant Goelitz
founded the company in 1869
after learning the hand-poured,
candy-making trade a generation
earlier.
Trademarked Jelly Belly jelly
beans began production at the
North Chicago site on Morrow
Avenue in 1978.
Turn to Selle, Page 3
2 Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Tuesday, October 31, 2023
GM, UAW have tentative
deal after 6-week strike
Last of Big 3 automakers OKs terms similar to Ford, Stellantis contract offers
By Tom Krisher
Associated Press
DETROIT — Facing the loss of another
$200 million this week to a lengthy strike,
General Motors CEO Mary Barra wrapped
up her weekend by going to the United Auto
Workers’ Detroit headquarters intent on
getting a new contract.
Joined by manufacturing chief Gerald
Johnson at the meeting that started late
Sunday, they were able to close a deal with
UAW President Shawn Fain and other
bargainers early Monday that should end a
contentious six-week work stoppage, three
people briefed on the matter said Monday.
The tentative deal capped a furious few
days of agreements that still need to be rati-
fied by 146,000 UAW members at GM, Ford
and Jeep-maker Stellantis. Ford agreed to
a new contract last week and was followed
by Stellantis on Saturday, which raised the
pressure on GM to settle for essentially the
same terms.
Members could still vote down the
contracts, but it’s likely they would bring
A video shows a Welcome store employee fighting a shoplifter in September in Southampton, England. ANDREW TESTA/THE NEW YORK TIMES
UK shoplifting an epidemic
‘Perfect storm of different
issues’ have coalesced where
level of theft is astronomical
By Stephen Castle
The New York Times
SOUTHHAMPTON, England — Stash-
ing six bottles of wine into a bag, a man
wearing a dark jacket and beanie heads
straight to the store exit without paying,
barging by a female shop worker who
blocks his way and only stopping when her
colleague overpowers him just outside the
doorway.
For the supermarket’s owner, Richard
Inglis, the early morning fracas — captured
on CCTV — was the day’s first attempted
theft but was unlikely to be the last.
“I’ll probably have another three or four
today,” Inglis said, adding that, while trying
to stop shoplifters, he and his staff members
had been punched, kicked, bitten, spat at,
threatened with needles, racially abused
and attacked with bottles. “It’s like the Wild
West out there at the moment.”
Britain is seeing a surge in theft from its
stores at the hands, stores say, of opportu-
nistic shoplifters, marauding teenagers,
Biden signs executive order to guide AI safety
By Josh Boak and Matt O’Brien
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden
on Monday signed a sweeping executive
order to guide the development of artificial
intelligence — requiring industry to develop
safety and security standards, introduc-
ing new consumer protections and giving
federal agencies an extensive to-do list to
oversee the rapidly progressing technology.
The order reflects the government’s
effort to shape how AI evolves in a way that
can maximize its possibilities and contain
its perils.
AI has been a source of deep personal
interest for Biden, with its potential to
affect the economy and national security.
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labor peace to the domestic auto industry,
at least until they expire on April 30, 2028.
All three companies agreed to raise
general wages by 25% for top assembly
plant workers and add cost of living adjust-
ments that would bring their pay increases
to over 30% by the time the contracts end,
said the people, who asked not to be iden-
tified because they weren’t authorized to
talk publicly about the deal. Workers would
get an immediate 11% pay raise upon rati-
fication.
Most industry analysts say contracts with
the Detroit Three are victories for the UAW,
which had sought big gains to make up for
concessions it made to help the companies
get through the Great Recession of late-
2007 to 2009. Initially, Fain wanted 40%
raises and even asked for a 32-hour work
week for 40 hours of pay, but he didn’t get
all of his demands.
During the talks, which began last
summer, the companies said they were
reluctant to agree to the union’s terms,
fearing they would force them to raise vehi-
cle prices higher than competitors with
people stealing to finance drug use and
organized gangs intent on looting.
According to official figures, shoplift-
ing incidents recorded by the police rose
by 25% in the year ending June 2023, and
Co-op, a British supermarket chain with
about 2,400 stores, recorded its highest ever
levels of theft and aggressive behavior, with
almost 1,000 incidents each day in the six
months to June, a 35% spike from the previ-
ous year.
One of its stores was “looted” three times
in one day, it said in a news release.
Some statistical comparisons reflect
increases after the pandemic, when crime
rates fell, but a survey by the British Retail
Consortium, a trade body, concluded that
incidents including racial and sexual abuse,
physical assault and threats with weapons
rose from the pre-COVID high of more
than 450 per day in 2019-20, to more than
850 per day in 2021-22. Theft exceeded
pre-COVID levels with about 8 million
thefts costing retailers about $1.2 billion,
it added.
With growing evidence of the cost of
theft, the government announced a plan last
week to tackle shoplifting in partnership
with retailers, who have become increas-
ingly vocal.
White House chief of staff Jeff Zients
recalled Biden giving his staff a directive
to move with urgency on the issue, having
considered the technology a top priority.
In Biden’s view, the government was
late to address the risks of social media and
now U.S. youth are grappling with related
mental health issues. AI has the posi-
tive ability to accelerate cancer research,
model the impacts of climate change, boost
economic output and improve government
services, among other benefits.
But it also could warp basic notions of
truth with false images, deepen racial and
social inequalities, and provide a tool to
scammers and criminals.
The order builds on voluntary
commitments already made by technology
nonunion factories in the U.S., including
Toyota and Tesla.
Mike Huerta, president of UAW Local
602, which was on strike in Lansing, Mich-
igan, was hesitant to celebrate the deal
before seeing more information, saying that
“the devil’s in the details.”
“Our bargainers did their job. They’re
going to present us with something and
then we get to tell them it was good enough
or it wasn’t,” Huerta said.
GM was the last company to reach a
deal, and it came after nearly 4,000 union
workers walked out of GM’s largest North
American plant, in Spring Hill, Tennessee,
by surprise on Saturday night.
President Joe Biden was asked about
the deal Monday, as he boarded Air Force
One back to the White House. He gave a
thumbs-up and said: “I think it’s great.”
The UAW began targeted strikes against
all three automakers on Sept. 15 after its
contracts with the companies expired. At
the peak, about 46,000 UAW workers were
on strike — about one-third of the union’s
146,000 members at all three companies.
The chair of the Asda supermarket chain,
Stuart Rose, said shoplifting had effec-
tively been “decriminalized” by lack of
police enforcement. James Lowman, CEO
of the Association of Convenience Stores,
which represents smaller retailers, said that
“repeat offenders and organized criminals
are targeting local shops to steal goods to
resell.”
Some supermarket bosses believe theft
has been legitimized in the minds of some
by accusations that supermarkets have
profiteered from food price increases.
Others think that self-service checkouts
offer too much temptation to steal.
“I would say there is a perfect storm of
different issues that have now coalesced
to a point where the level of shop theft that
we are seeing is astronomical,” said Emme-
line Taylor, professor of criminology at City,
University of London. “It’s an epidemic.
We used to think about a theft being a daily
occurrence, maybe weekly; this is every
minute of every day in city-center stores.”
Taylor said that years of cuts to drug
rehabilitation projects, mental health
support and other programs had left super-
markets on the front line of a growing social
crisis, with inadequate support from law
enforcement.
companies. It’s part of a broader strategy
that administration officials say also
includes congressional legislation and
international diplomacy.
Using the Defense Production Act, the
order will require leading AI developers
to share safety test results and other infor-
mation with the government. The National
Institute of Standards and Technology is to
create standards to ensure AI tools are safe
and secure before public release.
The Commerce Department is to issue
guidance to label and watermark AI-gener-
ated content to help differentiate between
authentic interactions and those generated
by software. The order touches on matters
of privacy, civil rights, consumer protec-
tions, scientific research and worker rights.
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Great Lakes
shipping to
restart after
labor pact
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — A deal was reached
Sunday to end a weeklong strike that had
shut down a major shipping artery in the
Great Lakes, halting the flow of grain and
other goods from the U.S. and Canada.
Around 360 workers in Ontario and
Quebec with Unifor, Canada’s largest
private-sector union, walked out Oct. 22 in
a dispute over wages with the St. Lawrence
Seaway Management Corp.
Seaway Management said ships would
start moving again when employees
returned to work Monday morning.
“We have in hand an agreement that’s fair
for workers and secures a strong and stable
future for the Seaway,” CEO Terence Bowles
said in a statement Sunday.
Unifor said a vote to ratify the deal will be
scheduled in the coming days.
“Details of the tentative agreement will
first be shared with members and will be
made public once an agreement is ratified,”
a union statement said.
The strike shut down 13 locks on the
seaway between Lake Erie and Montreal,
bottling up ships in the Great Lakes and
preventing ships from coming in.
The St. Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes
are part of a system of locks, canals, rivers
and lakes that stretches more than 2,300
miles from the Atlantic Ocean to the west-
ern tip of Lake Superior in Minnesota and
Wisconsin. It carried over $12 billion worth
of cargo last year.
It’s the first time that a strike has shut
down the vital shipping artery since 1968.
The Chamber of Marine Commerce esti-
mated that the strike, which took place
during one of the busiest times of the year
for the seaway, caused the loss of up to $100
million per day in economic activity across
Canada and the U.S.
BUSINESS BRIEFING
Meta in EU has
fee, ad-free apps
LONDON — Facebook and Instagram
users in Europe are getting the option to
pay for ad-free versions of the social media
platforms as a way to comply with the
continent’s strict data privacy rules, parent
company Meta said Monday.
Starting in November, users on desktop
browsers can pay about 10 euros ($10.50) a
month while iOS or Android users will pay
roughly 13 euros ($13.80). The higher prices
reflect commissions charged by the Apple
and Google app stores on in-app payments,
the company said in a blog post.
The fee will cover all linked Facebook and
Instagram accounts until March, when Meta
will start charging 6 euros ($6.37) for each
additional account. The Wall Street Journal
reported on the plan earlier this month.
FDA: Halt use of
some eyedrops
WASHINGTON — U.S. health regulators
are warning consumers not to use more than
two dozen varieties of over-the-counter
eyedrops because of the risk of infections
that could lead to blindness.
The Food and Drug Administration advi-
sory applies to lubricating drops sold by six
companies, including CVS Health, Target,
Rite Aid and Cardinal Health. Consumers
should stop using the drops immediately and
avoid purchasing any that remain on phar-
macy and store shelves, the FDA said Friday.
The agency asked the companies to recall
their products last week because FDA
inspectors found unsanitary conditions and
bacteria at the facility producing the drops.
The FDA did not disclose the location of the
factory or when it was inspected.
Pending home sales
The Pending Home Sales Index, measur-
ing housing contract activity, increased 1.1
percent from August to September 2023
100
81.6
72.6
80
60
40
20
SEPT. SEPT.
2022 2023
SOURCE: National Association of Realtors TNS
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factory also produced and
shipped Chocolate Malt
Balls. Overall, the company
manufactures dozens of
candy products.
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ny’s history, the U.S. Navy
was months away from
turning the North Chicago
plant into a military produc-
tion facility during World
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to the company. Headquar-
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’80s, along with much of the
company’s candy produc-
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The company opened a
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the growing Asian candy
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Lake and Kenosha counties.
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Colo. trial to sideline Trump opens
Insurrection clause
in Constitution at
issue in voters’ case
By Nicholas Riccardi
Associated Press
DENVER — Lawyers for
a group of Colorado voters
Monday focused on the
Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the
U.S. Capitol and former
President Donald Trump’s
role, opening a trial that
could determine whether
the Constitution’s insurrec-
tion clause bars Trump from
running again for the White
House.
Attorney Eric Olson
recounted Trump’s violent
rhetoric preceding the Jan. 6
attack and his encouraging
a crowd that came within
“40 feet” of the vice pres-
ident when they stormed
the Capitol. He said Trump
“summoned and organized
the mob.”
“We are here because
Trump claims, after all that,
that he has the right to be
president again,” Olson said.
“But our Constitution, the
shared charter of our nation,
says he cannot do so.”
Trump’s legal team and
presidential campaign
assailed the lawsuit as little
more than an attempt by
Democrats to derail his
attempt to reclaim his old
job. Trump is so far domi-
nating the Republican pres-
idential primary.
Before the trial on the
lawsuit began, his lawyers
filed a motion to have
the judge recuse herself
because she had donated in
the past to a liberal group in
the state. She said no. The
campaign also noted the
current lawsuit was filed by
a liberal nonprofit in a state
that voted for Democrat Joe
Biden in 2020.
“They send money to
these dark money groups
Maine mass shooter had
run-ins with authorities
Warning signs seen
long before killings,
officials now report
By David Sharp,
Robert F. Bukaty
and Jake Bleiberg
Associated Press
LEWISTON, Maine —
Authorities in Maine spent
Monday piecing together
the events that led to the
worst mass shooting in the
state’s history — with the
suspect’s record of interac-
tion with police and warn-
ing signs involving mental
illness and violent threats
emerging as key threads.
Those same authorities
are facing growing scrutiny
over how the shooter was
able to keep his guns and
remain on the street despite
exhibiting signs that he
might commit violent acts.
Robert Card — the
suspected shooter who
was found dead Friday of
a self-inflicted gunshot
wound — underwent a
mental health evaluation
last summer after he began
acting erratically at an Army
training facility in New York,
officials said. A bulletin sent
to police shortly after last
week’s attack said Card had
been committed to a mental
Limited gag order reimposed in Trump’s election interference case
By Alanna Durkin Richer
and Eric Tucker
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The
federal judge overseeing
Donald Trump’s 2020 elec-
tion interference case in
Washington has reimposed
a narrow gag order barring
him from making public
comments targeting prose-
cutors, court staff and poten-
tial witnesses.
U.S. District Judge Tanya
Chutkan is presiding over
the federal case charging
NATION & WORLD
Officer Daniel Hodges, of the Washington, D.C., police force, is sworn in Monday in Denver to testify. JACK DEMPSEY/AP
— they go to a Democratic
jurisdiction and a Demo-
cratic judge,” Trump spokes-
man Jason Miller said.
Monday’s hearing in
Colorado state court is the
first of two lawsuits that
could end up reaching the
U.S. Supreme Court.
On Thursday, the Minne-
sota Supreme Court hears
oral arguments in a similar
case.
Ultimately, either the
Colorado or Minnesota
case is expected to land at
the U.S. Supreme Court,
which has never ruled on
the Civil War-era provi-
sion. Section Three of the
14th Amendment prohibits
those who swore an oath to
uphold the Constitution and
health facility for two weeks
after “hearing voices and
threats to shoot up” a mili-
tary base.
Authorities have not said
whether they believe the
40-year-old Card planned
his shooting rampage. But
nearly three months ago, he
tried and failed to acquire
a device used to quiet
gunshots, according to a gun
shop owner in Auburn.
Rick LaChapelle, owner
of Coast Defense Fire-
arms, said Card purchased
a suppressor, also called a
silencer, online and arranged
to pick it up at his shop.
Card already had submit-
ted information to the
federal government to
purchase it, and federal
authorities had approved
the sale to that point, he said.
On Aug. 5, when Card
filled out the form at LaCha-
pelle’s gun shop to pick up
the silencer, he answered
“yes” to the question: “Have
you ever been adjudicated as
a mental defective OR have
you ever been committed to
a mental institution?”
“As soon as he answered
that ‘yes,’ we know automat-
ically that this is disqual-
ifying, he’s not getting a
silencer today,” LaChapelle
said.
Silencers are more heavily
Trump with plotting to
overturn his 2020 election
loss. She had temporarily
lifted the gag order as she
considered the Republican
former president’s request
to keep it on hold while he
challenges the restrictions
on his speech in higher
courts.
But Chutkan on Sunday
agreed to reinstate the
order after prosecutors cited
Trump’s recent social media
comments about his former
chief of staff Mark Meadows
that they said represented
then “engaged in insurrec-
tion” against it from holding
higher office.
The Colorado testimony
began with details about
the Jan. 6 assault that was
intended to stop Congress
from certifying Biden’s
election win. Witnesses
included some who were
there.
Officer Daniel Hodges of
Washington’s Metropolitan
Police Department recalled
being beaten and someone
trying to gouge out his eye
as he defended the Capi-
tol from the rioters. Images
from the body camera he
was wearing that day was
shown in court.
“I was afraid for my life
and my colleagues,” Hodges
regulated under federal law
than most firearms. Federal
law requires buyers to apply
with the Bureau of Alco-
hol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives and be approved.
The typical wait time is six
to eight months, said Mark
Collins, federal policy
director at the gun-violence
prevention group Brady.
After the ATF approves
the application, the silencer
is sent to a licensed firearm
dealer, where the buyer
must fill out another form
required for any firearm
purchase. The dealer then
has to run a background
check. That form asks ques-
tions similar to the paper-
work required to buy a gun.
In Card’s case, he likely
would have completed
the original federal paper-
work months before he was
committed to the mental
health facility in July.
He said Card was polite
when notified of the denial,
mentioned something
about the military and said
he would “come right back”
after consulting his lawyer.
Investigators are still
searching for a motive
for the massacre but have
increasingly focused on
Card’s mental health history.
State Department of
Public Safety Commissioner
an attempt to influence and
intimidate a likely witness in
the case.
“This statement would
almost certainly violate the
Order under any reasonable
definition of ‘targeting,’ ”
Chutkan wrote.
The order is a fresh
reminder that Trump’s
penchant for incendiary
and bitter rants about the
legal troubles he’s facing,
though politically benefi-
cial in rallying his support-
ers as he seeks to reclaim the
White House, carry practical
said. “I was afraid for the
people in the U.S. Capitol
building — congressmen,
the vice president and what
these people would do to
them and how it would
affect our democracy.”
Democratic Rep. Eric
Swalwell testified that
members of the House
watched the attack on their
phones with mounting
alarm as they grabbed gas
masks and contemplated
how to defend themselves.
He said they all followed
Trump’s messages on Twit-
ter carefully.
“We connected the
president’s tweets to our
own safety in the chamber
and also the integrity of the
proceedings,” said Swalwell,
People sign “I love you” Sunday at a vigil in Lewiston, Maine, for the victims of Wednesday’s
mass shootings. Victims at one shooting site were hard of hearing. MATT ROURKE/AP
Michael Sauschuck has said
Card believed “people were
talking about him and there
may even have been some
voices at play.”
Family members of
Card told federal investi-
gators that he had recently
discussed hearing voices and
became more focused on the
bowling alley and bar where
the shootings took place,
according to law enforce-
ment officials who spoke
to The Associated Press on
condition of anonymity in
order to discuss details of
the investigation. Card’s
rampage Wednesday killed
consequences in court. Two
judges have now imposed
orders mandating that he
rein in his speech, with the
jurist presiding over a civil
fraud trial in New York issu-
ing two monetary fines this
month.
A request for comment
was sent Sunday to a Trump
attorney, Todd Blanche.
Trump in a social media
post late Sunday acknowl-
edged that the gag order was
back in place, calling it “NOT
CONSITUTIONAL!”
Trump’s lawyers have
who was manager of the
House’s impeachment of
Trump for the attack and
also filed a federal lawsuit
against him for inciting the
riot.
The trial is unfolding
in stages, starting with a
description of the attack and
Trump’s words and actions,
followed by arguments over
whether the assault actually
constituted an insurrection.
Later in the week, lawyers
are expected to call constitu-
tional experts to delve into
the meaning of the amend-
ment’s insurrection clause.
Trump’s lawyers contend
the former president never
“engaged in insurrection”
and was simply exercising
his free speech rights to
18 and injured 13, shocking
the nation and a community
where guns are prevalent,
but gun violence is rare.
Police across Maine were
alerted just last month to
the “veiled threats” by the
Army reservist. Two local
law enforcement chiefs
told the AP that a statewide
awareness alert was sent
in mid-September to be on
the lookout for Card after
he made threats against his
base and fellow soldiers. But
after a visit to Card’s home,
police moved on.
Authorities recovered
a multitude of weapons
said they will seek an emer-
gency stay of the order from
the U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
The defense has said Trump
is entitled to criticize pros-
ecutors and “speak truth to
oppression.”
Trump has denied any
wrongdoing in the case.
Special counsel Jack
Smith’s team said Trump
took advantage of the
recent lifting of the gag
order to “send an unmis-
takable and threatening
message” to Meadows, who
warn about election results
he did not believe were
legitimate.
They noted cases where
the congressional authors
of Section Three declined
to use it more than a century
ago against people who
only rhetorically backed the
Confederacy.
His lawyers said none of
the issues are simple in a
provision of the Constitu-
tion that hasn’t been used in
150 years.
In court filings, they said
the insurrection clause was
never meant to apply to the
office of president, which is
not mentioned in the text,
unlike “Senator or Repre-
sentative in Congress” and
“elector of President and
Vice President.”
At the start of Monday’s
hearing — held in a large
downtown Denver court-
room filled with attorneys,
journalists and several
armed sheriff ’s deputies
— the judge rejected the
motion by Trump’s attor-
neys that asked her to step
aside because she once
contributed money to a
liberal group.
Trump’s campaign said
it had filed a motion for
Judge Sarah Wallace, to
recuse herself because she
had made a $100 dona-
tion in October 2022 to the
Colorado Turnout Project,
a group whose website says
it was formed to “prevent
violent insurrections” such
as the Jan. 6 attack.
She was appointed to
the bench in August of that
year by Gov. Jared Polis, a
Democrat.
Wallace denied the
motion, saying she didn’t
recall the donation until the
motion was filed and has no
preconceptions about the
legal issues in the case.
“I will not allow this legal
proceeding to turn into a
circus,” she said.
while searching for Card
and believe he had legally
purchased his guns, includ-
ing those recovered in his
car and near his body, said
Jim Ferguson, the special
agent in charge of the Boston
office of the Bureau of Alco-
hol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives. He declined to
discuss any specifics.
Three of the injured
remained in critical condi-
tion, and a fourth was
stable, hospital officials said.
Another was transported
to Massachusetts General
Hospital, and the rest were
discharged.
was reported by ABC News
to have received immunity
to testify before a grand jury.
Trump mused on social
media about the possibil-
ity that Meadows would
give testimony to Smith in
exchange for immunity.
One part of the post said:
“Some people would make
that deal, but they are weak-
lings and cowards, and so
bad for the future our Fail-
ing Nation. I don’t think
that Mark Meadows is one
of them but who really
knows?”

World growing to be more African
Continent’s youths
add to its changing
status, global reach
By Declan Walsh
The New York Times
As the world grays, Africa
blooms with youth.
By 2050, 1 in 4 people
on the planet will be Afri-
can, a seismic change that’s
already starting to register.
You can hear it in the
music the world listens to.
You can see it in movies,
fashion and politics.
You can sense it in the
entrepreneurial drive of
young Africans — and the
urgent scramble for jobs.
You can see it in the waves
of youth who risk all to
migrate — and in the dilem-
mas of those who remain.
Astonishing change is
underway in Africa, where
the population is projected
to nearly double to 2.5 billion
over the next quarter-cen-
tury — an era that will not
only transform many Afri-
can countries, experts say,
but also radically reshape
their relationship with the
rest of the world.
Birthrates are tumbling
in richer nations, creating
anxiety about how to care
for, and pay for, their aging
societies. But Africa’s baby
boom continues apace,
fueling the youngest, fastest
growing population on
earth.
In 1950, Africans made
up 8% of the world’s people.
A century later, they will
account for one-quarter
of humanity and at least
one-third of all young people
ages 15 to 24, according to
United Nations forecasts.
The median age on the
African continent is 19. In
India, the world’s most
populous country, it is 28. In
China and the United States,
it is 38.
The implications of this
“youthquake,” as some call
it, are immense yet uncer-
tain and likely to vary greatly
across Africa, a continent of
myriad cultures and some 54
countries that covers an area
World War II veterans Harry Moyer, right, gestures next to compatriot Mel McMullen at a
ceremony Monday in honor of Flying Tigers at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. ANDY WONG/AP
China lauds US veterans of
WWII known as Flying Tigers
By Ken Moritsugu
Associated Press
BEIJING — China on
Monday honored two
American veterans of World
War II as Washington and
Beijing look to past collab-
oration for inspiration on
improving today’s strained
ties.
Mel McMullen, who is
in his late 90s, and Harry
Moyer, who turned 103 on
Monday, are among the
few surviving members of a
U.S. military command that
helped China battle Japan
and became popularly
known as the Flying Tigers.
Their visit, which was
reported in China’s main
evening news broad-
cast, is the latest in a small
but expanding series of
exchanges ahead of a possi-
ble meeting between Pres-
idents Joe Biden and Xi
Jinping next month, as the
United States and China try
to repair a relationship that
has deteriorated sharply
over differences on trade,
technology, security and
human rights.
McMullen recounted
how Chinese farmers
saved the lives of downed
American pilots, hiding
them by day and moving
them from village to village
Young Kenyans work March 29 at iHub, a tech space in Nairobi, Kenya. HANNAH REYES MORALES/THE NEW YORK TIMES
larger than China, Europe,
India and the United States
combined. But its first signs
are already here.
It reverberates in the
bustle and thrum of the
continent’s ballooning cities.
It pulses in the packed stadi-
ums of London or New York,
where African musicians are
storming the world of pop.
Africa’s political reach is
growing too. Its leaders are
courted at flashy summits
by foreign powers that
covet their huge reserves
of the minerals needed to
make electric cars and solar
panels.
With a growing choice
of eager allies, including
Russia, China, the United
States, Turkey and Gulf
petrostates, African lead-
ers are spurning the image
of victim and demanding a
bigger say. In September,
the African Union joined
the Group of 20, the premier
forum for international
economic cooperation.
In many countries,
historically low birthrates
are creating older, smaller
by night, despite the risk of
severe punishment by the
Japanese.
“I think that’s something
we should all understand,”
he said at a ceremony at the
U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
“People are the same.
Their governments may
be different, but the people
actually always have one
desire, and that is to live
and to raise their families
in peace, and in the customs
of their predecessors. And I
needed to say that and I’m
sorry I took so much time,”
he said to loud applause.
The 7 p.m. news on
Chinese state broadcaster
CCTV showed the veterans
meeting Vice President Han
Zheng, who told them that
China and the U.S. need to
work together to address
major global challenges
and that he hopes the spirit
of the Flying Tigers could be
passed down from genera-
tion to generation.
Their entourage included
Nell Calloway, the grand-
daughter of their former
commander, Maj. Gen.
Claire Chennault. Chen-
nault founded the Flying
Tigers as a group of Ameri-
can pilots flying for China’s
air force. They were later
absorbed by the U.S. mili-
tary when it expanded its
populations. Africa’s chal-
lenge is to manage unbridled
growth. Within the next
decade, Africa will have the
world’s largest workforce,
surpassing China and India.
By the 2040s, it will account
for 2 out of every 5 children
born on the planet.
Experts say this
approaching tide of human-
ity will push Africa to the
fore of the most pressing
concerns of our age, like
climate change, the energy
transition and migration.
But it has also exposed the
continent’s gaping vulnera-
bilities.
Africa’s soaring popu-
lation is partly a result of
remarkable progress. Afri-
cans eat better and live
longer than ever, on average.
Infant mortality has been
halved since 2000; calorie
intake has soared.
But while a handful of
African countries are poised
to ride the demographic
wave, others risk being
swamped by it.
Nigeria, Africa’s most
populous nation, is already
operations in China.
The U.S. and China have
been slowly restoring
contacts that were broken
off over the past four years,
both by the coronavirus
pandemic that restricted
travel and the growing
animosity between
the world’s two largest
economies.
Six U.S. senators visited
earlier this month, the first
congressional delegation to
China since 2019, and Cali-
fornia Gov. Gavin Newsom’s
visit last week was the first
by a state leader.
In a revival of cultural
exchange, the American
Ballet Theatre is perform-
ing in Shanghai this week,
followed by members of
the Philadelphia Orchestra
who will begin a tour next
week, marking the 50th
anniversary of the orches-
tra’s historic visit to China
in 1973.
Both countries want
more people-to-people
exchange, said U.S. Ambas-
sador to China Nicho-
las Burns, who hosted the
Flying Tigers ceremony in a
small embassy gymnasium.
“We are in many ways
rivals, strategically. ... But
the two peoples of the
countries have always been
together,” Burns said.
deeply stressed. Nearly
two-thirds of its 213 million
people live on less than $2 a
day; extremist violence and
banditry are rife; and life
expectancy is just 53, nine
years below Africa’s average.
Yet Nigeria adds another
5 million people every year
and by 2050 is expected to
overtake the United States as
the world’s third most popu-
lous country.
Young Africans are
better educated and more
connected than ever: 44%
graduated from high school
in 2020, up from 27% in
2000, and about 570 million
people use the internet. But
finding a good job, or any job,
is another matter.
Up to 1 million Africans
enter the labor market every
month, but fewer than 1 in 4
get a formal job, the World
Bank says. Unemployment
in South Africa, the conti-
nent’s most industrialized
nation, is a crushing 35%.
In countries like Soma-
lia, Mozambique and Mali,
opportunity-starved youths
pick up guns to fight for
Riot over Israel plane reveals
ethnic strife threat in Russia
By Ivan Nechepurenko,
Marc Santora and
Isabel Kershner
The New York Times
An uprising in south-
ern Russia, where riot-
ers stormed an airport
tarmac apparently search-
ing for Jewish passengers
on a flight from Israel, has
shocked Jews in Russia and
beyond, drawn condemna-
tion from the Israeli govern-
ment and prompted the
Kremlin to call a meeting to
address the clashes.
Hundreds of young men
stormed the main airport in
the predominantly Muslim
republic of Dagestan on
Sunday night, searching for
a commercial flight from
Tel Aviv, Israel.
Videos and some images
on social media showed
some of the rioters holding
Palestinian flags and carry-
ing signs opposing the war
in the Gaza Strip, possibly
spurred on by a Telegram
messaging channel that
urged them to “catch” the
passengers of the incoming
flight from Israel.
The government in Tel
Aviv, in a statement, said
Monday that it expected
Russian authorities to
protect all Israeli citizens
and Jews and to act firmly
against the rioters, describ-
ing the episode as “wild
incitement directed at Jews
and Israelis.”
At least 20 people were
injured in the riot, and
dozens of people were
arrested.
The government in the
predominantly Muslim
republic said Monday that
the outburst had been
calmed and vowed to
prevent further clashes.
Russian aviation author-
ities said the airport, in
Makhachkala, the repub-
lic’s capital, would reopen
Tuesday.
The uprising highlighted
the challenges the Kremlin
faces in managing the vari-
ous parts of its vast multi-
ethnic and multireligious
country.
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jihad or for money. In Gabon
and Niger, youngsters fed up
with sham politics crowd
streets to yell slogans in
favor of military coups.
On the high seas, smug-
glers’ boats make perilous
journeys to Europe and
the Middle East, carrying
desperate young Africans
and their dreams of a better
future. At least 28,000 have
died on the Mediterra-
nean since 2014, the United
Nations says.
The climate crisis is an
especially urgent concern.
Floods, droughts and storms
have battered African coun-
tries. Concern about climate
change is shaping plans
for the future and stoking
worries about its impact.
The economic rise of
China and India were the
first great shocks of this
century. Africa’s youthful
tide will most likely drive
the next seismic shift.
African artists seemed
to be on red carpets every-
where this year — at the
Grammy Awards, which
added a new category for
People shout antisemitic slogans Monday on an airfield at
the airport in Makhachkala, Russia. Russian news agencies
and social media say hundreds stormed the facility. AP
It also underscored how
the Kremlin’s decision to
distance itself from Israel
and from Israel’s mission
to drive out Hamas terror-
ists can cause instability at
home.
Dmitry Peskov, the Krem-
lin’s spokesperson, said
Monday that President
Vladimir Putin had been
receiving reports about the
uprising. Peskov blamed
“outside interference”
for the riots but cited no
evidence.
Speaking at a regularly
scheduled news briefing,
Peskov added that Putin
would host a large meeting
Monday night to address
the clashes and to discuss
“Western attempts to use
the events in the Middle
East to sow discord in the
Russian society.”
Putin has listed inter-
ethnic and interreligious
accord in Russia as a policy
priority. Anti-Israel and
antisemitic protests in the
region that includes Dages-
tan, North Caucasus, where
Putin fought his first war as
Russian leader, could jeop-
ardize that at a time when
the Kremlin is also waging
a long and bloody war in
Ukraine.
The Dagestan govern-
ment blamed pro-Ukrainian
conspirators for the clashes
at the airport, saying they
had inflamed the public to
Best African Music; at the
Met Gala, where Nigerian
singer Tems came fringed in
ostrich feathers; and at the
Cannes Film Festival, where
a young French-Senegalese
director, Ramata-Toulaye Sy,
was a breakout star.
African fashion had its
own shows in Paris and
Milan. In Venice, Africa
is the focus of this year’s
Architectural Biennale. Last
year, Diébédo Francis Kéré,
an architect from Burkina
Faso, won the prestigious
Pritzker Prize. In 2021,
Tanzania-born Abdulrazak
Gurnah won the Nobel Prize
in literature.
Not long ago, technology
was the big idea for enabling
Africa to leapfrog its way out
of poverty. But while tech-
nology brought billions in
investment, it failed dismally
on one crucial front: creat-
ing jobs.
Chronic unemployment,
an old problem, is now a
major crisis.
Elsewhere, the answer
was industrialization, but
Africa is poorly positioned
to repeat that feat. Most of
the continent has failed to
industrialize. In fact, it is
losing ground: Africa’s share
of global manufacturing is
smaller today than in 1980.
For legions of jobless and
frustrated young Africans,
that leaves only one good
option: Get out. Every year,
tens of thousands of doctors,
nurses, academics and other
skilled migrants flee the
continent.
The new big idea to invig-
orate African economies
is the transition to green
energy. Africa has 60% of the
world’s solar energy poten-
tial and 70% of its cobalt,
a key mineral for making
electric vehicles. Its tropical
rainforests pull more carbon
from the atmosphere than
the Amazon.
But youthful continent is
run by old men. Most young
Africans desire democracy,
numerous polls have found.
But disillusionment with
politicians’ empty promises
is giving rise to a new age of
protest and unrest.
fuel unrest in Russia.
In one video verified by
The New York Times, a
group of dozens of men,
some carrying Palestin-
ian flags, swarms a parked
airplane from the carrier
Red Wings, apparently after
the passengers had disem-
barked.
“There are no passen-
gers here anymore,” a man
in a yellow safety vest tells
the rioters, pointing at
the plane. He adds, “I am
Muslim.”
In another video veri-
fied by the Times, filmed
from inside an airplane on
the tarmac, a crew member
can be heard announcing:
“Please stay seated and
don’t try to open the plane’s
door. There is an angry mob
outside.”
Some of the protests
were supported by a
Telegram channel that
discussed plans to “catch”
the passengers of the flight,
and screenshots of the
flight schedule were shared
on the channel over the
weekend.
The regional police said
in a statement that they
had identified 150 people
as having taken part in the
riot and that 60 had been
arrested.
Nine police officers were
injured in the clashes, two
of whom were hospitalized,
according to the statement.
6 Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Tuesday, October 31, 2023
‘Spiderweb’ of tunnels raises ground-war risk
Hamas has claimed
to have excavated
310 miles of them
By Jon Gambrell
and Isabel Debre
Associated Press
JERUSALEM — As an
Israeli ground offensive in
the Gaza Strip gears up in
its most devastating war
yet with Hamas, one of the
greatest threats to both its
troops and the 2.3 million
Palestinians trapped inside
the seaside enclave is buried
deep underground.
An extensive labyrinth of
tunnels built by the Hamas
militant group stretches
across the densely popu-
lated strip, hiding fighters,
their rocket arsenal and over
200 hostages they now hold
after an unprecedented Oct.
7 attack on Israel.
Clearing and collapsing
those tunnels will be crucial
if Israel seeks to disman-
tle Hamas, which has been
designated a terrorist group
by the U.S., Canada and the
European Union. But fight-
ing in densely populated
urban areas and moving
underground could strip
the Israeli military of some
of its technological advan-
tages while giving an edge
to Hamas, above and below
ground.
“I usually say it’s like
walking down the street
waiting to get punched in the
face,” said John Spencer, a
retired U.S. Army major and
the chair of Urban Warfare
Studies at the Modern War
Institute at West Point.
Urban defenders, he
added, “had time to think
about where they are going
to be, and there’s millions of
hidden locations they can be
in. They get to choose the
time of the engagement —
you can’t see them, but they
can see you.”
Tunnels have been a fea-
ture of warfare through his-
tory, from the Roman siege
of the ancient Greek city
of Ambracia to Ukrainian
fighters holding off Rus-
sian forces in 15 miles of
NEWS BRIEFING
Haiti cuts off flights to
Nicaragua as migrants
headed to US border
From news services
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti
— Haiti’s government has
banned all charter flights
to Nicaragua that migrants
fleeing poverty and violence
had been increasingly using
in their quest to reach the
United States, according to
a bulletin issued Monday
that The Associated Press
obtained.
Haiti’s government did
not provide an explanation
for the decision in its bulle-
tin, first reported by The
Miami Herald. Civil aviation
authorities in Haiti did not
respond to a message seek-
ing comment.
The move left a couple of
thousand angry and bewil-
dered travelers stranded in
a parking lot facing Haiti’s
main international airport in
the capital of Port-au-Prince
surrounded by their luggage,
with some holding babies.
“I have to seek a better
life elsewhere because Haiti
doesn’t offer my generation
anything,” said 29-year-old
Jean-Marc Antoine. “It’s
either hold a gun and be
involved with a gang, be
killed, or leave the country.”
His brother in Chile had
loaned him $4,000 for the
plane ticket, and like many
of the stranded passengers,
he fretted about whether he
would get his money back.
Nearby, Marie-Ange Solo-
mon, 58, said she had been
calling the charter company
repeatedly on Monday to no
avail. She had paid $7,000
total to leave Haiti with her
28-year-old son.
“After gathering money
to get me and my son out
this fragile country, now all
of a sudden they stop every-
thing,” she said. “I thought I
was going to be freed today.”
More than 260 flights
departing Haiti and believed
to have carried up to 31,000
migrants have landed in the
Central American coun-
try of Nicaragua since early
An Israeli army officer leads a tour of a tunnel allegedly used by Palestinian fighters for cross-border attacks into Israel. An
extensive labyrinth of tunnels built by Hamas stretches across the dense neighborhoods of the Gaza Strip. JACK GUEZ/AP 2014
Soviet-era tunnels beneath
Mariupol’s Azovstal Iron
and Steel Works for some
80 days in 2022.
The reason is simple:
Tunnel battles are consid-
ered some of the most diffi-
cult for armies to fight. A
determined enemy in a
tunnel or cave system can
pick where the fight will
start, and often determine
how it will end, given the
many chances for ambush.
That’s especially true
in Gaza, home to Hamas’
tunnel system that Israel has
named “the Metro.”
When Israel and Egypt
imposed a punishing block-
ade on Gaza after Hamas
seized control of the
territory in 2007, Hamas
expanded construction of
its tunnel network to smug-
gle in weapons and other
contraband from Egypt.
While Egypt later shut down
most of those cross-​border
tunnels, Hamas is now
believed to have a massive
underground network
stretching throughout
August as Haiti’s crisis deep-
ens, with gangs estimated
to now control up to 80% of
Port-au-Prince.
The number of migrants
represent nearly 60% of all
U.S.-Mexico border Haitian
arrivals, said Manuel
Orozco, director of the
migration, remittances and
development program at the
Inter-American Dialogue.
Orozco questioned
whether the suspension
of the charter flights was
prompted by outside pres-
sure, adding that he did not
know if the U.S. government
was involved.
Hurricane Otis update:
Three foreign residents
were among at least 45
people killed when Hurri-
cane Otis hit Mexico’s
resort city of Acapulco last
week, officials said Monday,
as the continuing search
for the missing focused on
submerged boats.
The confirmed dead
included one American, one
Canadian and one person
from England, all of whom
had been living in Acapulco
for some time and were not
considered tourists, local
prosecutors said.
The Navy said search
efforts would now focus
on finding possible bodies
among the 29 boats known
to have sunk in Acapulco Bay
the night the hurricane hit.
There have been continu-
ing reports that some crews
were aboard boats during
the storm.
Otis roared ashore last
Wednesday with devas-
tating 165 mph winds after
strengthening so rapidly
that people had little time
to prepare.
Holloway case: A Dutch
citizen who recently admit-
ted to killing U.S. student
Natalee Holloway in Aruba
in 2005 is being sent back
this week from the United
States to Peru where he will
Gaza, allowing it to trans-
port weapons, supplies and
fighters out of the sight of
Israeli drones.
Yehia Sinwar, Hamas’
political leader, claimed in
2021 that the group had 310
miles of tunnels.
The Gaza Strip itself is
only some 140 square miles,
roughly twice the size of
Washington, D.C.
The Israeli military has
known of the threat since
at least 2001, when Hamas
used a tunnel to detonate
explosives under an Israeli
border post. Since 2004,
the Israeli military’s Samur,
or “Weasels,” detachment
has focused on locating
and destroying tunnels,
sometimes with remote-​
controlled robots. Those
going inside carry oxygen,
masks and other gear.
Israel has bombed from
the air and used explosives
on the ground to destroy
tunnels in the past. But
fully dislodging Hamas
will require clearing those
tunnels, where militants
A real scream: A boy dressed in a mask from the movie “Scream” kneels to pose with a spooky scene of jack-o’-lanterns and
scary clowns Monday at a Halloween celebration in Vilnius, Lithuanian. MINDAUGAS KULBIS/AP
serve out a sentence for kill-
ing a Peruvian woman.
Joran van der Sloot will be
transferred to Peru’s custody
on Tuesday, the head of
Interpol for the Andean
country, Col. Aldo Avila,
told AP.
Van der Sloot had been
temporarily extradited
to the U.S. to face charges
linked to Holloway’s disap-
pearance, a case that has
drawn international atten-
tion over two decades.
A few days ago, he admit-
ted that he killed Holloway
and disposed of her remains.
The disclosure came as he
pleaded guilty to charges of
trying to extort money from
Holloway’s mother in return
for information about the
location of the body.
U.S. authorities do not
have jurisdiction to pros-
ecute van der Sloot for the
2005 killing in Aruba, where
the statute of limitations for
murder has expired.
But the revelations have
given long-sought answers
to Holloway’s next-of-kin.
The Dutch citizen was
can pop up behind advanc-
ing Israeli troops.
During a 2014 war, Hamas
fighters killed at least 11
Israeli soldiers after infil-
trating into Israel through
tunnels.
In another incident, an
Israeli officer, Lt. Hadar Gol-
din, was dragged into a tun-
nel inside Gaza and killed.
Hamas has been holding
Goldin’s remains since then.
Israeli Defense Minis-
ter Yoav Gallant said last
week that he expected a
difficult ground offensive,
warning it “will take a long
time” to dismantle Hamas’
vast network of tunnels. As
part of the strategy, Israel
has blocked all fuel ship-
ments into Gaza since the
war erupted. Gallant said
that Hamas would confis-
cate fuel for generators that
pump air into the tunnel
network.
Ty p i c a l l y, m o d e r n
militaries have relied on
punishing airstrikes to
collapse tunnels. U.S. forces
fighting in the Vietnam
sentenced to 20 years in
prison in the U.S. for extor-
tion and wire fraud, but
as part of his plea agree-
ment, that sentence will run
concurrently with another
one in Peru, where he’s
serving a 28-year prison
sentence for killing Steph-
any Flores in 2010.
Venezuela vote targeted:
Venezuela’s high court on
Monday suspended the
opposition’s entire primary
election process, includ-
ing its result, and ordered
organizers to hand in docu-
ments identifying millions
of voters, in the latest chal-
lenge by the government of
President Nicolás Maduro to
its adversaries ahead of the
2024 presidential vote.
The court ruled the oppo-
sition’s Oct. 22 contest may
be in violation of the law. It
was not immediately clear
whether the suspension
would effectively result
in the nullification of the
primary vote.
Maduro and his allies have
ridiculed and minimized
War struggled to clear the
75-mile network known as
the Cu Chi tunnels, in which
American soldiers faced
tight corners, booby traps
and sometimes pitch-dark
conditions in the outskirts of
what was then Saigon, South
Vietnam. Even relentless
B -52 bombing never
destroyed the tunnels. Nor
did Russian strikes on the
Ukrainian steel mill in 2022.
Underlining how tough
tunnels can be to destroy,
America used a massive
explosive against an Islamic
State group tunnel system in
Afghanistan in 2017 called
“the mother of all bombs,”
the largest non-nuclear
weapon ever used in combat
by the U.S. military.
Yet in all those cases,
advancing militaries did not
face the challenge that Israel
does now with Hamas’
tunnel system. The group
holds some 200 hostages
that it captured in the Oct. 7
assault, which killed more
than 1,400 people in Israel.
Hamas’ release last
the primary all year, but
they escalated their attacks
after the election exceeded
participation expectations.
More than 2.4 million
Venezuelans in the country
and abroad voted, including
in areas once considered
strongholds of the ruling
party.
The court also ratified the
bans imposed by Maduro’s
government on three candi-
dates, including winner
María Corina Machado, on
running for office.
Nigeria boat deaths: More
than 70 people were miss-
ing on Monday after a boat
capsized in northern Nige-
ria, according to authorities
who deplored the frequent
deadly boat accidents in
Africa’s most populous
country.
The boat was carrying
traders returning from a fish
market late Saturday when it
capsized on the Benue River,
the national emergency
services said.
More than 100 passen-
gers were aboard and 14
week of hostage Yocheved
Lifshitz, 85, confirmed
suspicions that the group
had put hostages in the
tunnels. Lifshitz described
Hamas spiriting her into a
tunnel system that she said
“looked like a spider web.”
Clearing the tunnels with
hostages trapped inside
likely will be a “slow, me-
thodical process,” with the
Israelis relying on robots
and other intelligence to
map tunnels and their po-
tential traps, according to
the Soufan Center, a New
York security think tank.
“Given the methodical
planning involved in the
attack, it seems likely that
Hamas will have devoted
significant time planning
for the next phase, conduct-
ing extensive preparation
of the battlefield in Gaza,”
the Soufan Center wrote
in a briefing. “The use of
hostages as human shields
will add an additional layer
of complexity to the fight.”
The fighting that Israeli
soldiers potentially face also
will be claustrophobic and
terrifying.
Many of the Israeli mili-
tary’s technological advan-
tages will collapse, giving
militants the edge, warned
Daphné Richemond-Barak,
a professor at Israel’s Reich-
man University who wrote
a book on underground
warfare.
“When you enter a tunnel,
it’s very narrow, and it’s dark
and it’s moist, and you very
quickly lose a sense of space
and time,” Richemond-​
Barak said. “You have this
fear of the unknown.”
The battlefield could
force the Israeli military into
firefights in which hostages
may be accidentally killed.
Explosive traps also could
detonate, burying alive both
soldiers and the hostages,
Richemond-Barak said.
Even with those risks,
she said the tunnels must
be destroyed for Israel
to achieve its military
objectives.
“There’s a job that needs
to get done and it will be
done now,” she said.
were rescued, while 17
bodies have been recovered
and 73 people are missing,
Ladan Ayuba, head of Nige-
ria’s National Emergency
Management Agency, told
AP.
NKorea held responsible:
A Japanese high court on
Monday said the North
Korean government was
responsible for the human
rights abuses of plaintiffs
who said they were lured to
the North by Pyongyang’s
false promise of living in
“paradise on Earth,” a deci-
sion praised as a victory by
survivors and supporters.
The four plaintiffs —
including ethnic Koreans
and Japanese — moved to
North Korea with thou-
sands of others under a 1959-
84 program in which North
Korea promised free health
care, education, jobs and
other benefits.
But they said none of that
was available, and they were
mostly assigned manual
work and forced to live in
harsh conditions.
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ARTS & LIVING

Film critics Gene Siskel, left, and Roger Ebert are shown in the documentary “Life Itself.” KEVIN HORAN/MAGNOLIA PICTURES

Would new book get thumbs-up

from venerable film critics?
Rick Kogan
I do not know Matt Singer, the
author of “Opposable Thumbs:
How Siskel & Ebert Changed
Movies Forever,” which was
published Oct. 24 and which the
Tribune’s Michael Phillips recently
praised, calling it “a good story, told
adroitly and often movingly.”
To a point, that assessment is
true. But I wanted more. And that’s
my problem.
Again, I do not know Singer, but I
knew Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert
(and worked and socialized with
both), as well as many of the other
people who played parts, both
prominent and minor, in the lives
of this remarkable pair and who
pepper the 352 pages of this book.
Singer told Phillips that as
he was preparing to present his
literary agent with a proposal, he
“looked back at Ebert’s memoir
and thought: That’s a great book.
But there are only three chapters
on Siskel and Ebert. So maybe
there’s room for a book like mine
to exist.”
That “maybe” convinced Sing-
er’s agent and G.P. Putnam’s Sons,
which published the book. It has 12
chapters, in addition to an intro-
duction and epilogue. It is filled
with many of the details of the
television phenomenon that paired
Ebert of the Sun-Times and Siskel
of the Chicago Tribune on TV
shows reviewing movies.
Under a number of different
titles (the first being “Opening
Siskel and Ebert with Joe Antelo, center, “At the Movies” executive producer, at
a show taping on July 11, 1985. BILL HOGAN/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Soon at a Theater Near You”),
the show was hugely influen-
tial, making the unlikely pair rich
and famous. Singer energetically
attempts to get behind the myths,
suppositions and theories in trying
to explain how this happened. He
interviews scores of people, the
majority of whom were involved
with the productions of the shows.
And so we get this, as Singer
writes, “Disagreements over the
pronunciation of foreign filmmak-
ers’ names were not uncommon on
the set … but they typically esca-
lated into all-out fights. Among
the show’s crew, Gene and Roger’s
dispute over the pronunciation
of the word gauntlet is legendary
— even though, to this author’s
knowledge, there is only one
correct pronunciation of ‘gaunt-
let’.”
There is, I fear, no way to fully
explain what made Ebert and
Siskel work, though there is much
to be gained in Ebert’s “Life Itself:
A Memoir,” published in 2011. It is
a wonderful book, a masterpiece of
the self-reflective kind, much of it
mined from the blog he had started
years before.
As he writes, “I didn’t intend
for (my blog) to drift into autobi-
ography, but in blogging there is a
tidal drift that pushes you that way.
Some of these words, since rewrit-
ten and expanded, first appeared
in blog form. Most are here for the
first time. They come pouring forth
in a flood of relief.”
Ebert has been gone since his
death in 2013; Siskel died in 1999.
So neither of them is available to
offer his famous thumb in refer-
ence to Singer’s book.
I remember that Time maga-
zine film critic Richard Corliss
once described their show as “a
sitcom about two guys who lived in
‘OPPOSABLE THUMBS:
HOW SISKEL & EBERT
CHANGED MOVIES
FOREVER’
by Matt Singer
a movie theater.” And Singer does
offer an interesting story, told to
him by Ebert’s widow Chaz, about
some TV executives having actu-
ally floated the notion of a sitcom
based on fictional versions of the
two critics or a show on which they
would “play” themselves. Either of
these thank-god-they-never-were-
made efforts would have been
titled “Best Enemies.”
Chaz Ebert is a valuable source
for the book, as is Siskel’s widow
Marlene Iglitzen. I know and like
both women and wish they had
been prodded to say more about
the nature and character of the
men they loved.
Turn to Kogan, Page 8

REVIEW ‘SEAGULLS’ ★★§

Adaptation turns over Chekhov’s play to a young indie band

By Emily McClanathan
For the Chicago Tribune
Playwright and composer Beth
Hyland’s “Seagulls” is Chekhov
set on a modern college campus
in Ohio, where the older charac-
ters are banished offstage and it’s
all about the angsty young artists
trying to find their way in the
world. Hyland’s indie rock adap-
tation of the 1896 Russian play
reaches for the emotional depth
and artistic sensibility of “Rent”
or “Once,” and although the writ-
ing is not on par with these cele-
brated musicals, it is sprinkled
with sharply insightful lines and
lyrics. In director Rebecca Will-
ingham’s production at Oak Park
Festival Theatre, the youthful
cast members — several of whom
are making their Chicago theater
debuts — give some winning
performances despite the wobbly
Aurora Penepacker and Ryan Kirby in “Seagulls” by Oak Park Festival character development in the
Theatre. JOSH DARR script.
The foursome at the center
of Hyland’s version are band-
mates in their sophomore year
of college who get their first
break when they win a battle of
the bands, earning the opportu-
nity to open for a professional
show. Ryan Kirby plays Con, the
lead singer and guitarist who is
hungry to achieve success beyond
the shadow of his mother, a pop
star who is past the prime of her
career. Aurora Penepacker is
Nina, Con’s girlfriend and backup
vocalist who longs to be more
than his muse and write music
herself. Their friends Masha
(Veronique Le) and Simon (Julio
Cesar Gutierrez) round out the
band, which goes by Seagulls (no
“the,” they insist).
The love triangles of Chekhov’s
play loom large in the musical
adaptation. Masha and Simon
are a couple, but Masha has long
harbored feelings for Con, who
is in turn dumped by Nina when
Ben Trigorin — a famous singer
who is old enough to be her father
and is dating Con’s mother —
takes a suspicious interest in her,
um, career.
Penepacker has a clear, strong
voice and is charming as Nina,
but her character arc is slightly
confusing. In one sense, this
Nina is more empowered than
Chekhov’s ingénue; when Con
fails to take her seriously as a
songwriter, she embarrasses him
onstage with the surprise debut
of a defiant ballad protesting her
objectification. However, not
long afterward she recedes into
the role of backup singer for an
experimental new song by Con
— a hilariously cringeworthy
scene that features a dramatic
reading of David Foster Wallace,
interpretive movement and a
cacophony of instrumentals. Why
would she set herself up for such
Turn to ‘Seagulls’, Page 8
8 Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Tuesday, October 31, 2023
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Psaki to publish two
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Psaki has a two-book deal
with Scribner, starting
with a book in which she
will reflect on her years
in government and offer
advice on both public and
private communication.
Scribner announced
Monday that Psaki’s “Say
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the White House, and
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Kogan
from Page 7
Longtime media critic
Robert Feder has some
incisive observations here,
as does Richard Roeper,
who had a lengthy televi-
sion seat next to Ebert.
Phillips too has some
good words and thoughts
to share. After Roger lost
his voice after surgeries,
my voice was used to read
Ebert’s words in televised
reviews, as was that of his
friend, Bill Kurtis. We were
both honored to do so.
We are minor players to
be sure, but lots of memo-
ries poured forth after
reading Singer’s book,
which compelled me to
rewatch Steve James’ inti-
mate documentary based
on Ebert’s memoir and
with heart-wrenching
‘Seagulls’
from Page 7
humiliation when she feels
that Con is using her?
A development that
seems more plausible is
Nina’s being duped by the
predatory Trigorin. As
she rockets to fame, Nina
has to deal with modern
problems like toxic celeb-
rity culture, cyberbullying
and being infantilized and
controlled by her record
label. However, some
things haven’t changed
since 1896; powerful men
still take advantage of
ambitious young women
and destroy them like the
seagull for which the play
is named.
As the other protago-
nist, Con is the epitome of
a moody artist with all the
insecurity and jealousy of
someone who doesn’t want
to be seen as a nepo baby
but feels that he’s already
behind the game at age 20.
Kirby brings vulnerabil-
ity and sensitivity to the
role, especially during his
breakdown in the second
act. While the other two
characters offer less mate-
rial for the actors to work
with, Le’s Masha is down-
to-earth, sincere and relat-
able as she struggles with
her feelings for Con and the
future of her relationship
Taylor Swift, seen Oct. 11, now has a net worth of $1.1 billion,
according to Bloomberg News. MATT WINKELMEYER/GETTY
to the empathetic Joe
Biden, walking readers
through the most diffi-
cult conversations and
those where humor saves
the day — whether with
preschoolers, partners or
presidents.”
Psaki also plans an illus-
trated children’s book,
which does not yet have a
release date.
‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’
slays box office: It hardly
mattered that “Five Nights
at Freddy’s” was released
simultaneously in theaters
and on streaming this
weekend. Fans flocked to
movie theaters across the
country to see the scary
video game adaptation
on the big screen, which
made $78 million to top the
North American box office,
according to studio esti-
mates Sunday.
Universal Pictures bet
on a day-and-date release
on the weekend before
Halloween, sending it to
3,675 theaters in the U.S.
access to some of Ebert’s
final days.
I also reread my obit-
uaries of both men, and
another about Tim Weigel,
who had been Siskel’s
roommate freshman year
at Yale and who also, in
one of the most haunting
coincidences I have ever
encountered, died of a
brain malady in 2001.
I suppose in doing all of
this I was attempting to do
what Singer set out to do:
to explain the magic that
was Siskel and Ebert. As
does he, I failed, realizing
that perhaps some myster-
ies have no explanation.
Perhaps some mysteries are
miracles.
Something Ebert had to
say when I called him for
comment for the obituary
I was writing about Siskel
in the wake of his death, so
untimely at age 53, came
Veronique Le and Ryan Kirby in “Seagulls” by Oak Park Festival Theatre. JOSH DARR
with Simon.
Both Trigorin and
Arkadina (Con’s, or
Konstantin’s, mother) are
significant characters in
and Canada, while also
making it available on
Peacock. The movie also
opened in 64 markets
internationally, where
it’s expected to gross
$52.6 million, giving the
film a $130.6 million global
launch — the biggest of any
horror release this year.
“It was an extraordi-
nary debut,” said Jim Orr,
the president of domestic
distribution for Universal.
The movie was directed
by Emma Tammi and stars
Josh Hutcherson, Mary
Stuart Masterson and
Matthew Lillard.
Oct. 31 birthdays: Actor
Lee Grant is 98. Anchor-
man Dan Rather is 92.
Actor Sally Kirkland is
82. Actor Deidre Hall is
76. Director Peter Jack-
son is 62. Actor Dermot
Mulroney is 60. Musician
Rob Van Winkle is 56.
Singer Linn Berggren is 53.
Singer Smokie Norful is 50.
Actor Piper Perabo is 47.
Singer Willow Smith is 23.
back to me: “I remem-
ber after we first started
out and we were on a talk
show, and this old actor,
Buddy Rogers, said to us,
‘The trouble with you guys
is that you have a sibling
rivalry.’ We did. He was like
a brother, and I loved him
that way.”
Ebert also said, “How
meaningless was the hate,
how deep was the love.”
And that’ll have to be
good enough for me.
After leaving “Sneak Previews”
in 1982, Gene Siskel, right,
and Roger Ebert moved to
Tribune Entertainment where
they starred in “At the Movies.”
The duo left the show in 1986
amid a contract dispute,
and the series continued
for several more years with
film critics Rex Reed and Bill
Harris. COURTESY
the original play, but they
only appear offstage in
Hyland’s adaptation. By
filtering them through the
eyes of Con and Nina, they
‘Unfollowed’ ex-partner wants to reconnect
Dear Amy: My ex-boy-
friend, “Chet,” was my first
boyfriend. Chet recently
“unfollowed” me on Insta-
gram — my main social
media tool.
We had an amicable
ending, and it’s been about
three years since we broke
up. I have been working
as an exotic dancer, so I
am wondering if that is
the reason he decided to
unfriend me? This hurt,
because he was so special
in my life, even if we were
now just online friends.
I recently found out that
his brother has cancer. I
want to reach out to his
family to see if they are OK.
I haven’t spoken to them
since our breakup, so I am
not trying to get back into
their lives, but I do want to
see if they need anything,
as they are very sweet
people. How can I help?
— Bittersweet Breakup
Dear Bittersweet: I don’t
know why your ex unfol-
lowed you on Instagram,
but if you post photos of
yourself dancing, he might
not have wanted to see
them.
He might also be in a
new relationship with
someone who doesn’t
want (or doesn’t want him)
to see your photos. Or he
might be ready to really
move on, and for now,
anyway, this will involve
more distance from you.
Your concern about
“Chet’s” brother, which I
assume is genuine, seems
also to be about you and
your sadness over losing
this connection with Chet.
You haven’t been in
touch with these family
members for three years.
It is appropriate now to
respect Chet’s boundary.
If you know his brother
or any other family
become one-dimensional
— no great loss, since this is
a show about the kids, but
it is somewhat odd that we
never meet their antago-
ASK AMY
By Amy Dickinson
askamy@amydickinson.com Twitter@askingamy
members — or see their
postings on social media
— you could send a private
message (or an old-​fash-
ioned card) to let them
know that you’ve been
thinking about them.
Dear Amy: I grew up in a
fractious household. It was
loud and disorganized, but
my parents (first-genera-
tion Americans) worked
hard and my four siblings
and I all went to college
and are happy people. We
are a very close, loving and
loyal family.
I have been married
now for five years to a man
I met in graduate school.
His upbringing was just
about the opposite of mine;
his parents are quiet, soft-​
spoken people.
My parents love one
another very much, but
they tend to squabble and
pick at one another, no
matter where they are. In
our household, this was
just normal. We’d pick on
each other, have argu-
ments (sometimes loudly),
and then forgive one
another and move on.
My folks will be visit-
ing us for Thanksgiving
dinner, along with my
husband’s parents (and
other family members).
My husband character-
izes my parents’ dynamic
as “fighting,” and this
makes him uncomfort-
able. I assume it makes my
in-laws uncomfortable,
too.
I’m wondering if you
have suggestions for
how to manage this. I’m
nervous. I want everyone
to have a good time.
— Nervous Newlywed
Dear Nervous: My main
suggestion is that you
should take care to design
this day so that your folks
nists.
Hyland’s indie rock score
works best when the songs
function as expressions of
characters’ emotions rather
and in-laws get to know
one another as individuals.
Split up the couples
by giving them differ-
ent roles before dinner.
Your husband might want
to take his dad and your
father on a short outing,
while you do the same
with the elder women.
Try to seat your guests
next to others you believe
might bring out their
better qualities (don’t
seat couples next to one
another). Do what many
families do at Thanksgiv-
ing and ask your guests not
to discuss politics.
Ask your guests if they’d
each like to give a short
before-dinner toast, going
around the table and
outlining something they
are thankful for. If your
folks start to squabble,
interrupt the dynamic by
asking one to help you with
a task in another room.
I hope that with time
your husband grows to
understand your folks’
relationship style as “living
loudly” versus “fighting.”
Dear Amy: “Not His
Mother” wrote about her
husband’s terrible kitchen
hygiene, which was now
attracting mice. She should
call a pest control service
to do an inspection and
service call. Without tell-
ing him.
Hand him the receipt
and tell him that’s what it’s
going to cost for them to
keep out the vermin he is
inviting into the house. His
messiness has a price!
— A Reader
Dear Reader: Great advice!
Copyright 2023 by Amy
Dickinson
Distributed by Tribune
Content Agency
than delivering major plot
points. In my view, the
scene when Nina recounts
her traumatic experiences
with Trigorin through
song would work better
as dialogue. But when the
young people are singing
their hearts out, there are
some lovely moments —
especially when Con and
Nina sing in duet.
Chekhov’s themes about
the cost of fame and the
tension between artistic
fulfillment and commer-
cial success translate well to
our own time, when artists
such as Britney Spears and
Taylor Swift are prompting
a re-examination of how the
music industry and broader
society treat women in the
spotlight. The open-ended
conclusion of “Seagulls”
leaves room for the opti-
mists in the audience to
imagine a future when the
once-vivacious singer finds
her voice again and records
Nina’s Version of her music.
I’d listen.
Emily McClanathan is a
freelance critic.
When: Through Nov. 19
Where: Oak Park Festival
Theatre at Pleasant Home,
217 Home Ave., Oak Park
Running time: 1 hour,
40 minutes
Tickets: $45 at
oakparkfestival.com
 Chicago Tribune | Section 2 | Tuesday, October 31, 2023 9

What MOVIES
to watch YOU’LL LOVE

TUESDAY
October 31, 2023
All times Central. Start times can vary based
on cable/satellite provider. Confirm times on
your on-screen guide.
Samantha’s
‘Witch-o-Ween’ Halloween
‘Bewitched’ Marathon
Antenna TV, beginning at 4 a.m.
Enjoy 23 hours of episodes from the beloved
1964-72 fantasy sitcom Bewitched, starring
Elizabeth Montgomery as witch Samantha,
and costarring Dick York as her husband,
Darrin, in Seasons 1-5, Dick Sargent as Darrin
in Seasons 6-8 and Agnes Moorehead as
Samantha’s mother, Endora. There will be a
short break this evening when the network
airs an hourlong episode of Johnny Carson in
its usual time slot, with the Bewitched mara-
thon picking up again for several more hours
after that.
FBI True
CBS, 8 p.m.
This true-crime series from Paramount+ con-
tinues on CBS with two new episodes tonight.
In “Horror in Yosemite,” when three women
went missing in Yosemite National Park in
1999, it launched the largest search and res-
cue operation in California history. Then in
“The Beltway Snipers,” citizens of the Wash-
ington, D.C., area are terrorized for three
weeks in 2002 when an unknown sniper
seems to choose victims at random.
The Swarm
The CW, 8 p.m.  Season Finale
Mifune (Takuya Kimura) is flown in by heli-
copter to see for himself the research results
onboard the Thorvaldson in the last episode
of the season.
Native America
PBS, 8 p.m. (WTTW Chicago, 8 p.m.)
Across Native America, warrior traditions
support incredible athletes and connect peo-
ple to combat, games and glory. The episode
“Warrior Spirit” celebrates and honors the
men and women who live and breathe this
legacy today, including teen boxer Mariah
Bahe (Navajo), ultra-runner Christian Gering
(Katishtya) and Indian Horse Relay riders
from the Flathead National Reservation in
‘Return to Halloweentown’
FRED HAYES, DISNEY CHANNEL
Get Out (2017, Horror) Daniel
Kaluuya, Allison Williams FX,
4 p.m.
‘The Swarm’ Deadly Mom Retreat (2021, Sus-
pense) Lara Amersey, Christina Cox
FABIO LOVINO LMN, 5 p.m.
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Montana.
(1998, Horror) Jamie Lee Curtis,
The Voice Adam Arkin AMC, 5 p.m.
NBC, 8 p.m. Monster High 2 (2023, Musi-
The battle rounds continue as Niall Horan, cal comedy) Miia Harris, Nayah
Damasen NICK, 6 p.m.
John Legend, Reba McEntire and Gwen
Stefani prepare their artists to go head-to- Halloween (1978, Horror) Donald
head in hopes of advancing to the three-way Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis AMC,
knockout rounds. Each coach has two steals. 7 p.m.
A recap of last night’s fourth round of battles Murder at Blackthorne Manor
airs an hour before this episode. (2023, Mystery) Christie Leverette,
Bobby Slaski LMN, 7 p.m.
Found Time for You to Come Home for
NBC, 9 p.m. Christmas (2019, Romance) Alison
In “Missing While Undocumented,” the Sweeney, Lucas Bryant Hallmark
M&A team mobilizes to trace the last steps Movies & Mysteries, 7 p.m.
of 21-year-old Satcha Moncado (Yanelisa)
before she disappeared, knowing her undoc- Checkin’ It Twice (2023, Ro-
mance-comedy) Kim Matula, Kevin
umented status makes her more vulnerable.
McGarry Hallmark, 9 p.m.
Their search uncovers a greater threat that
nearly claims the life of one of their own. Halloween II (1981, Horror) Jamie
Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence AMC,
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TCM, beginning at 5:30 a.m.
Happy Halloween! Turner Classic Movies and
MOVIES! continue their horror movie mara-
thons all day today.
Today’s MOVIES! lineup features The Re-
turn of Doctor X (1939), Them! (1954), The
Curse of Frankenstein (1957), The Thing
Damned (1960), The Tingler (1959), The
Blob (1958), Curse of the Demon (1957),
Horror of Dracula (1958), 1953’s House of
Wax (pictured), The House That Dripped
Blood (1971), The Mummy (1959) and Trick
or Treat (1986).
TCM is airing Rasputin, the Mad Monk
(1966), Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970),
The Mummy (1959), Creature From the
Black Lagoon (1954), The Invisible Man
(1933), The Black Cat (1934), Frankenstein
(1931), The Bride of Frankenstein (1935),
The Wolf Man (1941), Sorry, Wrong Num-
ber (1948), When a Stranger Calls (1979),
Love You Like Christmas (2016,
Drama) Bonnie Somerville, Bren-
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Mysteries, 9 p.m.
Return to Halloweentown (2006,
Children) Sara Paxton, Lucas Gra-
beel Disney, 9 p.m.
Secrets at the Inn (2022, Sus-
pense) Tamara Almeida, Spencer
WARNER BROS. MacPherson LMN, 9 p.m.
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TV Q&A

Is Hanks producing WWII show? Crossword

By Rich Heldenfels
Tribune News Service

Q: I thought Tom Hanks

was producing a World War
II series about the Allied
air forces, similar to “Band
of Brothers” and “The
Pacific.” Did this fall by the
wayside?
A: It’s coming. “Masters of
the Air,” a nine-part drama,
will arrive Jan. 26 on Apple
TV+ with two episodes
followed by weekly
episodes through March 15.
Coming from Hanks,
Steven Spielberg and Gary
Goetzman — who also
produced “Band of Broth-
ers” and “The Pacific” —
the series “follows the men
of the 100th Bomb Group
(the ‘Bloody Hundredth’)
as they conduct perilous
bombing raids over Nazi
Germany and grapple with
the frigid conditions, lack
of oxygen and sheer terror
of combat conducted at
25,000 feet in the air.”
It’s based on the book by
Donald L. Miller.
Q: I was watching, and im-
mensely enjoying, the “Yel-
lowstone” prequel “1923.”
There looked to be eight
episodes in the series. As
I watched Episode 8, the
end seemed premature,
as there was no resolution
to several stories. Any idea
how I might be able to see
the conclusion?
A: The eight episodes of
“1923” constituted a first
season, with the sort of
cliffhanger viewers often
encounter. A second season
of eight episodes has been
ordered. Stars Harrison
Ford and Helen Mirren
are expected back, and
those episodes will report-
edly end the series. Right
now, there’s no air date for
Season 2, which has been
delayed by the writers and
actors strikes.
The “Yellowstone”
universe’s mastermind
Taylor Sheridan told Dead-
line.com that the second
season of “1923” is “really
the second half of the (first)
season.” Instead of doing
one 10-episode season, as
he did with “1883,” Sher-
Tom Hanks is producing “Masters of the Air” for Apple TV+.
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make more episodes to Cat. (Trivia fans will note
finish this story. I need to that Loggia had previously
do this in two blocks. An starred as a character nick-
eight-​episode block and a named El Gato, or The Cat,
second eight-episode block in the Disney series “The
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Grand Avenue By Mike Thompson

Horoscopes
Today’s birthday (Oct. 31): Partnership blos-
soms this year. Maintain regular practices
for family, romance and passion. Share pro-
found connections this autumn, before nav-
igating winter changes with your partner. A
springtime change of plans reorients you for
summer exercise to build health, strength and endurance.
Deepen a delightful collaboration.
Aries (March 21-April 19): Today is an 8. Solve an intellectual
puzzle with an unusual idea. Connect and share solutions and
possibilities. You can find what’s needed in your networks.
Taurus (April 20-May 20): 9. Keep financial gears in motion.
You’re making a good impression. Find another source of
revenue. You have what others want. Wheel and deal. Baby Blues By Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott
Gemini (May 21-June 20): 9. You’ve got this. Use your charm
to gain cooperation. You’re making a good impression. Invest
in success. Others provide what you need. Express yourself.
Cancer (June 21-July 22): 6. Stay close to home and find in-
spiration. Lay low. Avoid travel. Make a spiritual connection.
Practices, traditions and rituals soothe and satisfy. Recharge.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): 9. Socialize and reconnect. Enjoy
parties with your special people. Have fun with friends and
family. Catch up and celebrate together. Share the love.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): 7. Advance a professional project to
the next level. Reinforce structural elements. Social connec-
tions can benefit your career. Grab a lucky break and grow.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): 8. Plot your next adventures. An
investigation could take an unexpected twist. The truth gets
revealed. Expand your territory. in new directions. Develop Zits By Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
enticing possibilities.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): 8. Invest for growth and gain more
than expected. New technology helps you advance. Don’t
rely on luck. Together you can rake in a bundle.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): 8. Support each other to navi-
gate changes. Get your partner on board with your plan. Give
in to spontaneous romance. Express your love and gratitude.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): 9. Physical action gets beautiful
results. You’re growing stronger. Keep doing what’s work-
ing. Focus on health. Maintain for long-term gain. Nourish
yourself. Indulge playfulness.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): 9. Passion feeds the fun. Romance
inspires your imagination. Collaborate with someone attrac-
tive. Dress to express your creativity. Love comes knocking
on your door. Mr. Boffo By Joe Martin
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): 8. Get into family fun. Decorate
the house and make extra popcorn. Come up with creative
ideas. Include homemade treats. Share clever ideas.

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The Argyle Sweater By Scott Hilburn

Frazz By Jef Mallett

Bliss By Harry Bliss Classic Peanuts By Charles Schulz

Pickles By Brian Crane

Bridge
East-West vulnerable, South deals
North
♠ Q8765 Dick Tracy By Shelley Pleger and Mike Curtis
♥ 10 4 2
♦ A9
♣A74
West East
♠ K 10 3 ♠ A942
♥ A875 ♥ QJ6
♦ 10 4 2 ♦ Q763
♣ 10 9 3 ♣85
South
♠J
♥ K93
♦ KJ85
♣KQJ62
Today’s deal is from the recent international competition
for players who are under 26 years old. North-South played Animal Crackers By Mike Osbun
in no trump 12 times, not always in game, and 11 declarers
took nine or more tricks. West typically led a heart, won by
declarer with the king. There were now eight tricks and the
only chance for a ninth trick was the diamond finesse. When
East proved to hold
The bidding: the queen, nine tricks
sailed home. It seems
South West North East that three no trump
1♣ Pass 1♠ Pass might be defeated after
2♣ Pass 3♣ Pass a neutral club lead, but
3NT All pass
the run of five clubs
puts too much pressure
Opening lead: ? on East. East cannot
afford to discard more
than one spade and one heart or declarer will have other
ways to take nine tricks. Most East players, not realizing that Prickly City By Scott Stantis
South had four diamonds, parted with a diamond and now
the diamond suit produced four tricks after the necessary
finesse.
At this table, West was young American expert Benjamin
Kristensen. He reasoned that South had to have stoppers in
both red suits for his three no trump bid and was likely to be
very short in spades. He tried the effect of leading the king
of spades. Brilliant! The fall of the jack from South made the
spade position an open book. Kristensen continued with the
10 of spades to the queen and ace, and East had no problem
finding a shift to the queen of hearts. The defense took the
first five tricks. Well done!

— Bob Jones
Tribune Content Agency
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Dustin By Steve Kelley and Jeff Parker

Sudoku 10/31

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.

Monday’s
solutions
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form four words. Then arrange the circled letters to form
the surprise answer, as suggested by this cartoon.
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Mutts By Patrick McDonnell

Answer here

Monday’s answers

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ACROSS 36 Singer Campbell ARROW WORDS
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1 Leoni and her namesakes 37 “An American __”; film about
5 “__ Miserables” Fievel
8 “Queen of Jazz” 38 “Avengers: Age of __”; Robert Fill in the grid using the clues provided in the direction of the arrows. When complete, unscramble
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12 Actor Savalas 41 __ Haskell; role on “Leave It to
13 Emily of “Ten Days in the Valley” Beaver”
14 Mayberry’s jailbird 42 “The __-Up Artist”; movie for
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16 Actor Ayres 43 Sesame and Easy: abbr.
18 “__ Do You Think You Are?” 44 Pale-faced
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23 “Perry __” 4 “You Don’t __”; old game show
24 Cruise and Hanks 5 Telling fibs
25 Rogers and Clark 6 Very long periods of time
26 “Las __”; James Caan series 7 “3rd Rock from the __”
28 Lioness in “Born Free” 10 “The Big Bang Theory” actress
29 As strong as __ 11 See __ eye; agree
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17 Obi-__ Kenobi
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20 Charles and Romano
22 Trick
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26 Actor Kilmer
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Another horror show

After some signs of progress,
Bears take a big step backward
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — The Bears
projected confidence in the days lead-
ing up to Sunday’s 30-13 loss to the
Chargers.
Blowout wins over the Command-
ers and Raiders stood as evidence they
Brad Biggs had started to play more consistently
On the Bears in the last month, but the next step —
the elusive one — is putting together
consecutive wins. They call it stacking wins, but if you
have only two of them, is it really a stack?
The Bears haven’t won two straight since Weeks 16-17 of
the 2021 season, a Nick Foles start in Seattle and an Andy
Dalton start at Soldier Field against the New York Giants
a week before the previous regime was fired.
Imagine that: Foles and Dalton, a couple of footnotes in
the Bears’ quarterback issues over the past few decades.
Sunday’s game started as well as the Bears (2-6) could
have hoped. The Chargers — and anyone else who spent
time digesting Tyson Bagent’s first career start in Week 7
— were surely wondering if the rookie quarterback could
cut it loose.
Go deep, kid.
It looked like the Bears had tight end Cole Kmet running
the seam to occupy a safety, and with Darnell Mooney
streaking deep outside the numbers against cornerback
Asante Samuel Jr., the throw was there.
When did Mooney learn offensive coordinator Luke
The Bears’ Tyson Bagent tries to throw over the Chargers’
Khalil Mack on Sunday. CHRIS SWEDA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
When will NFL, networks stop
putting the Bears in prime time?
A bad case of Collinsworth fatigue
set in late Sunday during the fourth
quarter of the Bears’ 30-13 loss to the
Chargers.
A weekend of listening to NBC
“Sunday Night Football” analyst Cris
Collinsworth and his soundalike son, Paul Sullivan
Jac, will do that. Both are compe- In the Wake
tent announcers but are best used in of the News
limited doses. Jac’s ascension to play-
by-play man for Notre Dame home games on NBC makes
a Collinsworth family weekend inevitable for some of us,
and too much Collinsworth is seldom a good thing.
Missed tackles. Bad penalties.
Costly turnovers. Bears fall flat.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Over the
next several days, the Bears will
spend significant time looking for
answers, trying to better explain
and interpret all that went haywire
Sunday at SoFi Stadium. They will
study film, engage in meetings and Dan
seek as many corrections and fixes as Wiederer
possible. On the Bears
In the process, they also will look
in the mirror and see what the rest of the football world
witnessed on the “Sunday Night Football” stage in Week
8, which is an inconsistent and error-prone team that
couldn’t stay competitive and was throttled from start to
finish by the Chargers.
The score was 30-13, but it really wasn’t that close.
The Chargers took the lead for good midway through
the first quarter, extended their advantage to 17 points
by halftime and coasted through the second half.
Inside a glum visitors locker room, the Bears were
again left to process their disappointment. It wasn’t
just that they suffered their sixth loss in eight games
this season and haven’t won consecutive games in the
Ryan Poles-Matt Eberflus era. And it’s not just that the
embarrassment was way too familiar — the Bears have
now lost seven consecutive Sunday night games by an
average score of 31-15.
More than anything, it’s that the entire night was a

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INDIANAPOLIS — Andre
Drummond is looking to forge a
more consistent role with the Bulls
this season.
Last season was unpredictable
for Drummond. When he was
on the court, he gave the Bulls a
presence around the rim, finish-
ing second on the team with 6.6
rebounds per game despite aver-
aging less than 13 minutes. But his
playing time was rarely consistent.
Drummond would go weeks
without getting more than six
Bulls’ Andre Drummond looks back after missing a dunk against the Raptors minutes in a game — even sitting
on Oct. 17 at the United Center. ARMANDO L. SANCHEZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE out as a healthy scratch for five
of seven games in mid-January
— then would turn around to log
more than 15 minutes the follow-
ing week.
When Drummond exercised
his $3.36 million player option
for 2023-24 in June, he sat down
with coach Billy Donovan to define
more specific expectations for this
season.
“We really took a deep dive into
what I can do to help this team on
both ends of the court,” Drum-
mond said. “My passing ability,
being able to get our guys open
when I do have the ball, (being
able) to set screens and duck in
and be able to pass the ball and
post — those are some of the things
I’ve been good at throughout my
career.”
The stop-and-start rhythm of
Drummond’s playing time was a
symptom of greater issues for the
Bulls. The offense leaned more and
more heavily on DeMar DeRozan
as the season progressed. As a
result, every other player’s role
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL PREVIEW WISCONSIN BLACKHAWKS

Badgers bring back

plenty of firepower
Wisconsin believes
experience and depth
should help it contend
By Steve Megargee
Associated Press
MADISON, WIS. — Wisconsin’s
magic touch in close games started
to wear off late last season and led
to a rare absence from the NCAA
Tournament.
The Badgers are confident
improved depth will help them
recapture that winning formula.
Wisconsin tied for the Big Ten
regular-season title in 2021-22
thanks in part to its phenomenal
15-4 record in games that reached
overtime or were decided by six
points or fewer. The Badgers raced
to a 6-2 start in those games last
season but went just 7-8 the rest
of the way while ending up in the
NIT.
The Badgers return just about
everyone from that team and
brought in some reinforcements,
headed by St. John’s transfer AJ
Storr. That gives them confidence
they’ll be fresher and more likely
to thrive down the stretch of close
games.
“The depth is the biggest thing
that jumps out with this team,”
coach Greg Gard said. “We’re
deeper, bigger and more athletic
than we’ve been in a while.”
Wisconsin returns 92% of its
scoring — the highest percentage
for any Power Five team — from
the squad that went 20-15 last
season. The Badgers bring back
their top five scorers in point guard
Chucky Hepburn (12.2 points per
game), 7-footer Steven Crowl (12.1),
Connor Essegian (11.7), Tyler Wahl
(11.3) and Max Klesmit (8.4).
Wahl, who has made 85 career
starts, returned for a fifth year even
after Wisconsin paid tribute to him
in a ceremony before its 2022-23
regular-season home finale.
“Once the season really ended,
it was an easy decision,” Wahl said.
Momentum from postseason:
Last year marked just the second
time in the last 24 NCAA Tourna-
ments that Wisconsin was left out
of the field, but the Badgers believe
they benefited from their deep NIT
run. They beat Bradley, Liberty
and Oregon before falling 56-54 to
eventual champion North Texas in
the semifinals in Las Vegas.
“Just playing in the NIT was
good for us all around, to get that
bad, sour taste out of our mouth
and kind of give us a head start
going into this year,” Crowl said.
“Even though we didn’t win it, we
made it deep in the NIT and every-
body played well.”
Storr’s star power: Storr’s arrival
from St. John’s gives Wisconsin
the athleticism it traditionally has
lacked. The 6-foot-7 guard made
the Big East’s all-freshman team
last season and averaged 8.8 points,
including 10.5 points in Big East
competition. He shot 40.4% from
3-point range.
Hepburn runs the show: Hepburn
is back for a third season as
Wisconsin’s starting point guard.
As a freshman, Hepburn made
the 3-pointer against Purdue that
enabled the Badgers to clinch
a share of the Big Ten title. He
followed that up by averaging 12.2
points and 2.8 assists while shoot-
ing just over 40% from 3-point
range last season.
Emerging Essegian: Essegian is
back after becoming just the fifth
Wisconsin player over the last 25
seasons to post a double-figure
scoring average as a freshman. The
others are Devin Harris (2001-02),
Alando Tucker (2002-03), Ethan
Happ (2015-16) and Brad Davison
(2017-18). His 69 3-pointers last
season were the most by a Wiscon-
sin freshman.
The schedule: Wisconsin opens
Nov. 6 by hosting Arkansas State. The Lightning’s Vladislav Namestnikov and the Blackhawks’ Isaak Phillips battle for control of the puck at the
The Badgers’ nonconference United Center on Jan. 3, 2023. Phillips was called up from Rockford on Sunday. MICHAEL REAVES/GETTY

“All my buddies are here.”
And with so many of them still
around, Wahl agrees with Gard’s
assessment that the Badgers have
the depth they lacked last season.
“It’s a huge difference,” he said.
“It’s night and day.”
COLLEGE BASKETBALL PREVIEW MARYLAND
He’s movin’ on up
schedule includes home games
Nov. 9 against No. 9 Tennessee and
Dec. 2 against No. 5 Marquette, plus
road matchups Nov. 14 at Provi-
dence and Dec. 9 at No. 12 Arizona.
The Big Ten opener is Dec. 5 at No.
4 Michigan State.
Phillips recalled from talking to reporters after practice much defending.”
at Mountain America Community Phillips, 22, has shown a bit of
Rockford to replace Iceplex in Tempe. offense too.
injured Vlasic “Feels good to be around the He had a goal and two assists in

Terps hoping to find

guys,” he said. “Obviously you’re five games for Rockford, leading
By Phil Thompson not rooting for an injury, but an IceHogs defensemen with three
Chicago Tribune opportunity’s an opportunity, so points. Last season for the Hawks
(I’m) just excited to play (and) he had a goal and four assists in 16

road to improvement TEMPE, Ariz. — The Black-

While solid on their
home floor, away mark
last season unsightly
By Noah Trister
Associated Press
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — In
Kevin Willard’s first season as
Maryland coach, the Terrapins
made it to the NCAA Tourna-
ment and won a first-round
game.
They also had one obvious area
for improvement.
“I always respected the Big Ten
looking at it from the outside,”
Willard said. “Going through the
league was really eye-opening. I
learned a lot about how we have
to play at home to win, how you
have to play on the road to win —
which we didn’t do a good job of,
obviously, last year.”
The Terps went 16-1 at home,
2-9 on the road and 4-3 at neutral
sites in 2022-23. That wasn’t such
a bad tradeoff for a new coach —
if you’re trying to win over a fan
base, playing well at home is an
important first step. Still, if Mary-
land is going to compete for Big
Ten titles, the Terrapins need
more success on opposing courts.
Maryland returns three of its
top four scorers from last season
in Jahmir Young, Donta Scott and
Julian Reese. Young averaged 15.8
points in his first season with the
Terps after transferring from
Charlotte.
Scott is entering his fifth
season at Maryland and has
scored 1,320 points in his career.
“Practices have been unbe-
lievable. We can’t go that long
because they’re so competitive,
they’re so physical,” Willard said.
“We look like a Big Ten team,
where last year we had to really
fight to be a Big Ten team. This
year we look like a Big Ten team,
and I think we can compete at a
little bit higher level because of
that.”
From the portal: The Terps
welcome 6-foot-6 transfer
Jordan Geronimo, who played
three seasons at Indiana. He
averaged 4.2 points last season
with the Hoosiers.
Willard said Maryland’s 73-51
loss to top-seeded Alabama in the
NCAA Tournament last season
made his team’s shortcomings
clear.
“We really needed to change
our athleticism,” he said. “Again,
I had a great team last year. They
were so fun to coach, but there
was some limits on what we
could do physically and athlet-
ically.”
Mady Traore, a transfer from
New Mexico State, brings size to
the roster at 6-11.
Solid class: Maryland has the
nation’s No. 19 recruiting class
arriving this season, according
to 247 Sports. Guards DeShawn
Harris-Smith and Jaime Kaiser
were four-star recruits.
“Our freshman class is the best
freshman class I’ve ever had,”
said Willard, who previously
coached at Seton Hall. “DeShawn
Harris-Smith is by far the most
talented player, probably the
most physically gifted basket-
ball player I’ve ever been able to
coach so far. Jamie Kaiser was a
former quarterback and played
football. So they’ve been able to
come in with Jordan and really
embrace how we want to play.”
Schedule: The Terps open the
season against an in-state oppo-
nent when they face Mount St.
Mary’s on Nov. 7. Nonconference
highlights include trips to play
Villanova and UCLA. The Bruins
were the one visiting team to win
in College Park last season, rout-
ing Maryland 87-60.
hawks placed defenseman Alex
Vlasic in concussion protocol and
called up Isaak Phillips on Sunday,
the first call-up from the Rockford
IceHogs this season.
Vlasic hobbled off the ice Friday
after Golden Knights forward Brett
Howden leveled him with a blind-
side hit. Vlasic was sent to Chicago
for further evaluation.
Meanwhile Phillips — whom
Hawks coach Luke Richardson
characterized as the last player
cut during training camp — was set
to play Monday night against the
Phoenix Coyotes at Mullett Arena.
“We liked his camp, so the
message to him is to keep playing
aggressive and simple and moving
the puck up,” Richardson said.
“That’s what he does when he’s
playing his best.”
Phillips wore a big grin while
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flattened out.
Drummond always will have
shifting responsibilities. He’s less
effective against small-ball rota-
tions but can pummel teams that
rely on stretch forwards. But last
season it wasn’t always clear what
the Bulls wanted from the veteran
center.
“For Andre, some of that role for
him changed,” Donovan said. “It
went from one thing to another.”
Drummond has seen a slight
uptick in court time so far this
season, playing more than 12
minutes in all three games and
averaging 14.3 entering Monday
night’s 112-105 victory over the
Indiana Pacers at Gainbridge
Fieldhouse. He also hopes to
factor as more of a playmaker this
season, utilizing his passing out of
the paint as an option to spread the
floor and feed perimeter shooting.
Drummond acknowledged that
the Bulls rely heavily on isolation
show that I can be here.”
As happy as he was, Phillips
admitted he didn’t expect to be cut.
“I was definitely disappointed,”
he said. “I was happy with my
camp. It’s just one of those things
that you can choose to take it as
an insult or take it as a positive
and kind of have that chip on your
shoulder.”
The 2020 fifth-round pick by
the Hawks paired with Connor
Murphy during practice.
“He looked like one of our best
defensemen in training camp,”
Murphy said, “so it’s really cool to
see he’s coming back right away.
“I feel like his confidence has
built so much, and he’s always been
a really good athlete and seems to
skate so well.
“He’s really physically strong,
stronger than a lot of other guys
he plays against, so that helps so
plays to fuel the offense, partic-
ularly when Zach LaVine or
DeRozan is on the court. That can
make it tough for posts to assert
themselves, but Drummond and
starting center Nikola Vučević
have to find ways to create move-
ment away from the ball.
Playmaking would require
improved decision-making from
Drummond, who had 75 turn-
overs to 33 assists last season. But
Donovan believes Drummond
and Vučević can operate as an
axis to move the ball through the
paint.
“From a spacing perspective,
we’re putting him in positions
where he knows exactly what he’s
supposed to be doing,” Donovan
said. “We need him to have a clear
head and a clear understanding of
what he’s got to do.”
That clear understanding
includes areas for growth, even for
a 12-year veteran. Donovan chal-
lenged Drummond, 30, to clean up
specific details of his game.
Drummond’s calling card is his
ability to overpower defenders
games.
Phillips said coaches on both
levels have told him to keep “using
my strengths, my skating, my size,
my speed, winning those battles
down low. And then just being
smart with the puck, making good
puck plays, moving it quick, not
overhand.”
Richardson said Phillips
improved from last season.
“That’s just reps,” the coach said.
“He’s feeling more comfortable. He
definitely is a great athlete, good
skater, so just fine-tuning” how he
handles the puck.
“It’s simplifying things. Some-
times not even stickhandling; it’s
good body position for a (defense-
man) to get it and just move it to
the forwards.
It’s very efficient, and that’s what
we want him to be: more efficient
than anything else.”
in the paint, drawing fouls as he
muscles his way to the basket. But
he didn’t always take advantage of
those opportunities, making only
53.6% of his free throws and 66%
of his shots at the rim last season.
Donovan also hopes to utilize
Drummond more effectively in
transition.
Despite being 6-foot-11 and 279
pounds, Drummond can be nimble
for his size in the open court —
just ask Oklahoma City Thunder
center Chet Holmgren, whom
Drummond dropped to the hard-
wood with a transition crossover
in the season opener.
Donovan wants Drummond
to establish post-ups quicker in
transition to create opportunities
to seal and score on mismatches
before defenses can get set — a
tactic that relies on Drummond’s
shot-making around the rim to
prove effective.
If Drummond can improve in
these areas, the shift in his role this
season would be natural — not just
a menace around the rim but a full-
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Fields will miss
game vs. Saints
By Colleen Kane
Chicago Tribune
Bears coach Matt Eberflus met with
reporters Monday at Halas Hall to recap
Sunday’s 30-13 loss to the Los Angeles
Chargers. Here are three things Eber-
flus said about key injuries.
Tyson Bagent will make a 3rd consec-
utive start against the New Orleans
Saints: Eberflus said quarterback Justin
Fields will miss a third straight game
Sunday as he continues his recover from
a dislocated right thumb. Eberflus clas-
sified Fields as “week to week” with the
injury he suffered Oct. 15 against the
Minnesota Vikings.
Eberflus said Fields is “improving”
but wouldn’t say whether he has tried
throwing as he works to regain his grip
strength.
“I’m not going to get into particulars,
but he is progressing,” Eberflus said.
“We like where he is right now.”
Fields traveled with the Bears to SoFi
Stadium and was on the sideline for the
Chargers game.
Undrafted rookie Tyson Bagent
completed 25 of 37 passes for 232
yards with no touchdown passes, two
interceptions and a 62 passer rating in
place of Fields. He led two touchdown
drives, including one he capped with
a 1-yard run, but the Bears fell behind
early and couldn’t catch up amid a host
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Mistakes doom offense and
Bagent in loss. Will he get
another chance to start?
By Colleen Kane
Chicago Tribune
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — The Chicago
Bears offense reached its high point on
its first play of Sunday’s game against the
Los Angeles Chargers at SoFi Stadium.
Rookie quarterback Tyson Bagent
launched a pass down the right sideline,
and Darnell Mooney reeled it in as he
dived to the ground. Mooney said when
the Bears went into their walk-through
Sunday morning, they knew they would
take a deep shot to open the game, and
they converted it for a 41-yard gain.
The rest of the night didn’t live up to
that promise in a 30-13 Chargers victory.
Three plays after Mooney’s catch, on
third-and-11, Chargers defensive end
Joey Bosa sacked Bagent for a loss of
10 yards and the Bears punted. On the
next drive, the Bears got behind because
of Lucas Patrick’s illegal use of hands
penalty — one of seven Bears penalties
— and went three-and-out. On the next
drive, Bagent threw an interception.
On the next possession, Velus Jones Jr.
dropped a touchdown pass before the
Bears eventually got into the end zone.
While the Chargers offense thrived
with quarterback Justin Herbert, the
Bears couldn’t keep pace behind the
litany of mistakes and trailed 24-7 by
halftime.
After notching a win in his first career
start last week, Bagent, the undrafted
rookie from Division II Shepherd, strug-
gled to dig the Bears out of the hole. He
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of mistakes.
Bagent’s next test Sunday in New
Orleans might not be any easier. The
Saints rank fifth in the NFL with 296.4
yards allowed per game, fifth with a
3.3% interception rate and ninth with
19.3 points allowed per game.
Safety Jaquan Brisker is in concus-
sion protocol after feeling ill last week:
Brisker went into concussion protocol
after the Las Vegas Raiders game on Oct.
22, but Eberflus said he was cleared by
the team and an independent neurol-
ogist. Brisker then reported feeling ill
with a fever Tuesday, Eberflus said. He
missed all of the practices leading up to
the Chargers game, and the Bears ruled
him out Saturday.
When he reported he still was feeling
off Sunday, the Bears reevaluated him
for a concussion Monday.
Eberflus said Brisker is back in
concussion protocol.
Brisker missed two games last year
with a concussion in late November and
early December, and he was open this
summer about how he struggled to get
back to his old energetic self in the wake
of the injury.
“We were working with Jaquan the
whole way, talking to him, making sure
he was squared away,” Eberflus said.
“The most important thing is our play-
ers’ safety and health.”
The Bears played Sunday without
completed 25 of 37 passes for 232 yards
with no touchdown passes and two inter-
ceptions.
“Penalties are never good,” Bagent
said. “You want to play clean as much as
possible. And besides that, I can’t make
it worse. I have to do a better job taking
care of the ball.”
Bagent will have another shot to get a
second victory when the Bears travel to
New Orleans to face the Saints on Sunday.
Coach Matt Eberflus said Monday that
Fields will miss a third game while recov-
ering from a dislocated right thumb.
“That’s out of my control, so I’m going
to attack the week the same way I always
do,” Bagent said Sunday night. “Every-
thing stays the same.”
Bagent led a 14-play, 75-yard touch-
down drive in the second quarter that
was capped by Darrynton Evans’ 11-yard
run, one of four third downs the Bears
converted on that drive. Bagent scored on
a 1-yard touchdown run late in the fourth
quarter on a drive that started with the
defense’s only takeaway.
But Bagent also turned the ball over
twice, the first on a second-quarter
pass to DJ Moore that Bagent called a
miscommunication. Mooney said Moore
ran the correct route based on the cover-
age, but Bagent expected him to run
something different.
“He was expecting him to run a hitch,
but based on the coverage DJ has to
continue to go,” Mooney said.
Ja’Sir Taylor jumped on the pass that
was well in front of Moore, and the Char-
gers turned the takeaway into a field goal
that put them ahead 17-0.
Bagent was nearly intercepted to
open the fourth quarter, but the fourth-
down pass was ruled incomplete. The
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Quarterback Justin Fields, left, and wide
receiver Darnell Mooney walk off the
field Sunday night.
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Brisker and fellow starting safety Eddie
Jackson, who was active but didn’t play
as he recovers from a foot injury.
The Bears have to ‘really evaluate’
Tremaine Edmunds’ knee over the next
couple of days: Edmunds left the Char-
gers game early in the third quarter
after having his right knee evaluated.
He walked slowly off the field and into
the medical tent but soon began running
on the sideline to test it out. He returned
to the game but then left again.
Edmunds said after the game the
injury was painful and initially scared
him.
“It could definitely be worse than
what it is now,” he said. “I’ll know
(Monday) as far as what it looks like
inside. I’m blessed definitely to be walk-
ing right now for sure.”
Along with Edmunds, the Bears will
monitor left tackle Braxton Jones’
status this week. Jones, who is recov-
ering from a neck injury, is in his 21-day
practice window to return from injured
reserve.
Chargers got the pick on the next drive
when Bagent sent a pass to Mooney in
the middle of the field. Mooney was hit
hard, and the ball bounced off him and
into the hands of safety Derwin James.
“There were a lot of plays where I’m
getting through my reads and making
the correct throws, and then there are a
couple where I did maybe force the issue
a little bit,” Bagent said. “So I’ve got to do
a better job of that moving forward.”
Besides the mistakes, it didn’t help
the Bears that the run game wasn’t up to
their recent standards.
The Bears had totaled at least 162 rush-
ing yards in each of their last four games.
They had been held to fewer than 100
yards on the ground in only one other
game, Week 2 against the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers.
So putting up only 73 rushing yards —
on 2.9 yards per carry — was out of char-
acter. Yes, they trailed almost the entire
game, and that played into the total. But
tight end Cole Kmet said he thought the
Bears also lacked physicality in the run
game, especially compared with a week
earlier against the Las Vegas Raiders.
“It just didn’t come with us from
Chicago, which is too bad because that’s
our identity and that’s what we need to
play into,” Kmet said. “That edge we’ve
usually got in the run game, I didn’t feel
like it was there this week.”
That the performance came on
“Sunday Night Football” made it all the
more disappointing.
“As a kid, these are the games you
dream about playing in, nationally tele-
vised and all that stuff,” Kmet said. “So
when you have that type of performance
out there, you’re definitely not too happy
about it.”
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blooper reel of sloppy penalties and dropped passes
and missed tackles and costly turnovers.
Spin the wheel. Where would you like to start?
With Tyson Bagent’s second-quarter interception
on a pass to the left that sailed over Darnell Mooney’s
head but never made it anywhere close to intended
receiver DJ Moore? It turns out Moore had an option
on his route based on the coverage the Chargers
showed and made the correct decision to take his
pattern deeper up the sideline while his quarterback
expected he would run a hitch.
“A little miscommunication,” Bagent said. “But
that was completely on me. I just have to get off that
(route) and continue to go through my progressions.”
Stuff happens, right? And on some nights, the stuff
is everywhere.
Should we go next to the Chargers’ third and final
touchdown of an explosive first half, the one that
came with 4 seconds remaining when quarterback
Justin Herbert found tight end Donald Parham Jr.
underneath? The Bears were in position to stifle that
play, to take Parham down and force the Chargers
to settle for a field goal. Instead, rookie cornerback
Tyrique Stevenson missed a tackle and veteran line-
backer T.J. Edwards did the same.
Just like that, the Chargers finished off a 75-yard
touchdown drive and a first half in which they scored
on all four possessions.
“I’ve got to get back out there this week and work
on tackling to get better,” Stevenson said. “That one
definitely bothered me.”
Added linebacker Tremaine Edmunds: “That one
hurt. Especially knowing they were about to get the
ball again coming out in the second half with the abil-
ity to double-dip. That was a worst-case scenario.”
Maybe we veer next to the 40-yard touchdown
catch Velus Jones Jr. should have made, only to lose
his footing, fall, then juggle and drop the football in
the end zone.
Explanation?
“I looked back for the ball,” Jones said. “(It was) a
little bit underthrown. So I started working back to
the ball as I was running, trying to track it, and I lost
my footing — because I was running back to it at an
angle and I almost ran past it. So I tried to stop and I
slipped.”
Jones shook his head in disbelief.
“It’s not an excuse,” he added. “It was a catchable
ball. And I had it. It’s really devastating. When you
prepare all week in practice and put in all the extra
work that’s needed and you catch a ball like that 100
times after practice, and it’s in that small window of
opportunity to show what you can do and it doesn’t
happen for you.”
Sure, the Bears still squeezed a touchdown out
of that possession. But that was another example of
the sloppiness that plagued this team in yet another
discouraging defeat, another moment the Bears
failed to meet.
Bagent’s second interception wasn’t nearly as
egregious, a fourth-and-3 shot to Mooney over the
middle in the fourth quarter. That pass hit Mooney’s
hands but squirted into the air when he was imme-
diately popped by Chargers safety Alohi Gilman.
Derwin James was there to collect that Bears turn-
over, and Mooney was left after the game to collect
his thoughts on the sequence.
“Did you guys feel like I dropped that one?” he
asked a group of reporters at his locker. “I saw the
safety coming down and I felt like I grabbed it. But it
was just a bang-bang play.”
Mooney vowed to give a more thorough review
after he studies the video.
“I’m looking for the answers,” he said. “So if it
looked like I dropped it, then … I felt like I had it and
immediately when I got it, boom.”
These are the last-place Bears right now, still
shaky, still reeling and still bothered by this entire
experience. So much for the momentum that seemed
to build during a Week 7 blowout of the Las Vegas
Raiders at Soldier Field. That team sure didn’t seem
like the one that played Sunday night.
The Bears struggled to establish a running game
and finished with only 73 yards on 25 attempts, with
tight end Cole Kmet wondering why there wasn’t a
winning level of nastiness in that department.
“I just didn’t feel it like I did last week against the
Raiders,” Kmet said. “I know that one was a really
good performance. But that edge we usually have
in the run game? I didn’t feel like it was there this
week.”
The Bears defense, meanwhile, had no answers for
Herbert, who spread 31 completions around to eight
receivers on his way to 298 yards and three touch-
downs. He never was sacked and was hit only two
times. And his first incompletion didn’t come until
8:55 remained in the first half, after he had hit his
first 15 attempts.
By that point the Chargers were in range to turn
the first of three Cameron Dicker field goals into a
dominant 17-0 lead.
“(Herbert) made a lot of plays today,” Stevenson
said. “It’s just his arm strength, man. He’s an excel-
lent quarterback making all the throws he should.”
Added Edwards: “That’s a guy who has been a
really good player in this league for a while now. This
was nothing too surprising. He makes all the right
reads. He’s a really strong dude. And we have to find a
better way to make plays when they come to us.”
That didn’t happen Sunday, with the Chargers
taking their first two drives for touchdowns while
facing only two third downs.
As if all that wasn’t enough, the Bears played with-
out starting safeties Jaquan Brisker and Eddie Jack-
son, leaving Elijah Hicks and Duron Harmon to man
the back end of the defense. Brisker was left home in
Chicago with what the team has labeled an illness.
And while Jackson was active Sunday, he suited up
only in case of an emergency because of his nagging
left foot injury.
Adding to the woe, Edmunds suffered a right
knee injury early in the second half that will require
additional medical testing and could sideline him
for multiple games. If that turns out to be the case, it
would be another key subtraction from a team that
continues to be followed by a cloud of misfortune.
The Bears, now 2-6 and again staring into the abyss
of irrelevance, will play two more games over the next
11 days. They will continue to search for answers and
consistency and some kind of winning formula.
But with Sunday night’s fizzle a sobering reminder,
there’s no guarantee they will find any of those
things.
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Sullivan
from Page 1
It was almost a given that Cris
Collinsworth would spend most of
Sunday night talking about quarterback
Tyson Bagent, the only Bears player
remotely worth discussing. This was a
dog game on the “SNF” schedule, one
of those unfortunate occurrences that
happens whenever some TV executive
thinks the Bears have turned a corner.
You would think they have learned
their lesson by now. According to
Tribune reporter Dan Wiederer, the
Bears have lost seven straight Sunday
night games by an average score of 31-15.
This is not a Ryan Poles problem but a
McCaskey thing.
To hammer home the dog matchup,
NBC even used a double box in the fourth
quarter with an actual dog food commer-
cial on one half of the screen and Bears
coach Matt Eberflus walking up and
down the sideline trying to fire up his
players on the other half. It was almost
as if NBC had a sense of humor about
the Bears’ plight, though the network
certainly hoped you wouldn’t notice
it showing the same ad during every
commercial break about an absent-
minded dad forgetting to lock his car.
I wasn’t among those offended by
the “needle in a haystack” narrative
surrounding Bagent, the undrafted
rookie from Division II Shepherd who
was now on the big stage of “Sunday
Night Football.” It’s a story we’re all
familiar with in Chicago, but not every-
one watching around the world follows
a team that recently ended a 14-game
losing streak.
And I anxiously awaited the
meme-worthy graphic showing the
number of Bears starting quarterbacks
over the last such-and-such years versus
the opponent’s much smaller number of
quarterbacks over the same time period.
It’s exactly what you get when you put
a team like the Bears in a prime-time slot
they don’t deserve. This is a team made
for rubberneckers only.
No matter the network stuck with
them, the general idea for handling a bad
Bears team is to stick to the same basic
theme — their elusive search for a quar-
terback — and then speculate that the
current one could finally be the answer.
When the “SNF” schedule came out,
this game was supposed to be all about
Justin Fields and his chances of being
The One. But due to circumstances
beyond NBC’s control, its first Sunday
night Bears game landed after Bagent
won his first start following Fields’ right
thumb injury.
It would’ve been silly not to highlight
Bagent’s story, the only interesting thing
about a 2-5 Bears team facing a 2-4 Char-
gers team. The problem was that after the
first play, the Bears looked so inept the
network wasn’t able to pivot in time to a
new narrative.
So Collinsworth kept talking about
Bagent’s promise instead of the possibil-
ity the Bears could be awful enough to
make another coaching change inevita-
ble.
At one point Mike Tirico and
Collinsworth brought up the Bears’
search for a new stadium, and the camera
quickly cut to President/CEO Kevin
Warren. We were reminded of the great
job Warren did getting the Minnesota
Vikings’ new stadium built.
Since everyone loves the Vikings
stadium, surely that means a new Bears
stadium would be just as acclaimed.
Apparently. Collinsworth seemed almost
giddy over the prospect of a bidding war
between local communities, though he
didn’t specifically mention scenic Coun-
try Club Hills, the latest suburb with a
grand plan to host the Bears.
It was almost as if the Bears handed
the NBC announcers some extra talking
points, knowing the game would quickly
get out of hand. But there was no mention
of the previous $690 million renova-
tion of Soldier Field, the Crash-Landing
Spaceship by the Lake design that has
been widely mocked in Chicago as an
architectural blunder.
They also didn’t show the “reimag-
ined” domed Soldier Field, the “Hail
Mary” play from former Chicago Mayor
Lori Lightfoot, or the renderings of the
proposed Arlington Park plan, which
features a domed stadium that resembles
anything from a bar of soap to a lid to a
deodorant stick. Of course, the Bears told
us at the time of its release in September
2022 that it was “just a placeholder and
not an actual design.” Rest assured there’s
plenty of time to come up with some-
thing more ridiculous-looking.
Perhaps the highlight of NBC’s telecast
was Eberflus throwing the red challenge
flag after the Bears scored a meaningless
touchdown late in the game. “The Bears
almost negating their own touchdown
with a challenge flag is the perfect meta-
phor for this season,” one fan wrote on
social media.
Eberflus naturally meant to throw the
flag before the play. But reaction time has
never been a strength of his, as evidenced
by the Chase Claypool saga. Fortunately
there was no video review of the touch-
down, so Eberflus escaped viral embar-
rassment.
The Bears’ next prime-time game
is Nov. 9 at home against the Carolina
Panthers, a “Thursday Night Football”
game on Prime Video that no doubt will
discuss the possibility of the Bears getting
the Nos. 1 and 2 picks in the 2024 draft. Al
Michaels already feels a cold coming on.
Their only other remaining night
game is scheduled for Nov. 27 at Minne-
sota, a “Monday Night Football” affair.
Hopefully ESPN already has found a flex
game to relieve America of prime-time,
post-Thanksgiving-weekend Beardom.
For the sake of Bears fans, it’s the only
compassionate thing to do.
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Getsy was dialing up the long ball on the first
snap?
“When we went over the walk-through
this morning,” he said. “We knew the first
play of the game we were going to take a
shot.”
With a shove from Samuel at the end,
Mooney made a terrific grab as he went to
the turf for a 41-yard gain. Officials called
Samuel for pass interference, which the
Bears obviously declined.
Some wondered if Mooney was touched
down — including Mooney.
“Didn’t think I was down,” he said. “I
thought I could have scored on that play.
Would have been a big play for the first play
of the game.”
I thought Mooney hesitated a little in
getting off the turf.
“I told Mooney he has to get up and be
convincing,” coach Matt Eberflus said. “He
just needs to get up and go house the thing
and then let them make the decision. Made a
heck of a catch for sure and really good play.”
Did the contact Samuel made with
Mooney just before the ball arrived lead to
the officials’ judgment about Mooney being
down? No matter what, let’s be real clear:
The Bears didn’t play well enough to win
this game.
The deep ball to Mooney, something that
has been missing from the offense, was the
only play over 18 yards against a defense that
entered last in the league by a wide margin
in passing yardage allowed.
A 1-yard run by D’Onta Foreman was
followed by an attempt to get wide receiver
Trent Taylor around left end on a run play
that lost 2 yards. That put the Bears in a posi-
tion they largely avoided against the Raiders
— behind the sticks.
It looked like the Chargers ran a game
up front, and defensive end Joey Bosa was
the triumphant one as he overpowered left
guard Cody Whitehair for a sack and an
11-yard loss. The Bears went from a dynamic
opening play to the fringe of field-goal range
to punting just like that.
From there, it was a compilation of issues
far too many to overcome as the Chargers
(3-5) scored on their first five possessions.
Quarterback Justin Herbert was super
efficient, completing 31 of 40 passes for 298
yards and three touchdowns, and hot from
the start, leading scoring drives of 10, nine,
eight, nine and 10 plays with the Bears rarely
forcing the Chargers into third down.
Tackling was poor. Weak-side linebacker
T.J. Edwards wasn’t able to settle his feet
in time to stop running back Austin Ekeler
from scoring on a 39-yard screen pass. If
Edwards had been under control, the play
might have gone for a loss; instead, it was the
first touchdown of the game.
“It’s been good the last three weeks, our
tackling has been really good,” Eberflus said.
“Today wasn’t what I wanted to be.”
The defense did a nice job against the run
again: The Chargers had 25 rushes for 54
yards with a long of 7.
“The run wasn’t working,” cornerback
Jaylon Johnson said. “They used our aggres-
siveness against us, started running screens,
throw-back screens. They just found differ-
ent ways to get their running back the ball.”
Eberflus pointed out penalties were an
issue too. There were five that cost the Bears
43 yards in the first half. Take out a 15-yard
call against Velus Jones Jr. for fair-catch
interference — I couldn’t tell if he was possi-
bly pushed on the play — and you’re talking
about four calls for 28 yards.
The Bears had seven penalties for 53 yards
for the game. Not ideal and not crippling for
a good team, but the Bears really struggle to
overcome self-inflicted wounds.
Where they really lost a grip on the game
was at the end of the first half. The Bears
Bears quarterback Tyson Bagent throws an
interception Sunday against the Chargers.
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trailed 17-0 midway through the second
quarter before mounting a 14-play, 75-yard
drive, converting four third downs along the
way.
Bagent completed passes on three of the
third downs, connecting twice with wide
receiver DJ Moore and once with Kmet, and
then running back Darrynton Evans took a
pitch on third-and-4 from the 11 and made
it to the end zone with right tackle Darnell
Wright leading the way.
With 1:47 remaining in the half, the Bears
had gathered themselves. Once again, the
defense couldn’t get off the field. Herbert
hit another big screen to Ekeler (seven
catches, 94 yards for the game), this one
for 23 yards.
From the 11-yard line with 10 seconds
remaining, Herbert dumped off a pass to
tight end Donald Parham Jr., who bruised
his way through cornerback Tyrique Steven-
son, Edwards and safety Duron Harmon. It
was another example of how the tackling
wasn’t on point.
When the Chargers drove for a field goal
on the opening possession of the third quar-
ter, the rout was on. The Bears weren’t going
to experience any magic with the rookie
Bagent in his second career start. Not with
the Chargers able to play soft coverage and
keep everything underneath.
“I don’t even know, man,” defensive tackle
Justin Jones said when asked to explain
where things went wrong. “I’m not even
going to lie to you. I don’t even know what
to tell you right now.”
Jones is usually pretty measured after
games — wins or losses — but seemed pained
by this one, which came against his former
team.
“We’ve got a long season left,” he said.
“We’ve got to go in there and just have thick
skin and look ourselves in the mirror and say,
‘What am I doing wrong? What am I doing
bad that I can fix?’ Player to player, man to
man, coach to coach, everybody. They were
better than us today.”
More problematic than the penalties was
the Bears’ inability to run the ball like they
had lately. Foreman finished with 34 yards
on nine carries, and Roschon Johnson had
21 yards on six carries.
The offense totaled only 73 rushing yards
on 25 attempts a week after physically
controlling the Raiders up front. Bosa stuffed
Johnson for no gain on fourth-and-1 in the
third quarter.
“We could have done a much better job
in the run game with our physicality,” Kmet
said. “That’s our identity and that’s what we
need to play into. I just didn’t feel like I did
last week with the Raiders.”
Add it all up and not much felt like it did
last week. Now the Bears are back in a famil-
iar position: at least two weeks away from
their next two-game winning streak.
Tyson Bagent played OK in his second career
start.
Not good enough to win, but he battled
and showed poise in the second half by not
forcing the ball into zone coverage. But the
results — 25 of 37 for 232 yards with the one
sack and two interceptions — was short of
what was needed with the defense having
no answers for Justin Herbert’s short pass-
ing game. There was a communication error
on the first interception between Bagent and
Moore that resulted in an easy pick for Ja’Sir
Taylor.
“That’s completely on me,” Bagent said.
“Just got to get off it and go through my
progressions.”
Bagent admitted there were sloppy
elements to the offense.
“I can’t make it worse,” he said. “No bad
plays, just neutral plays or good plays.”
The second interception came on a dig
route to Mooney over the middle. The ball
was on Mooney — and probably could have
been caught — but he was hit hard by safety
Alohi Gilman, sending the ball into the air for
safety Derwin James to intercept.
“Did you guys feel like I dropped that
one?” Mooney asked. “I seen (Gilman)
coming down and I felt like I grabbed it, but
it was just a bang-bang play, kind of smashed
me. I’m looking for answers.”
Bagent said he was a little late on a quick
hitch to Evans on a fourth-down play that
fell incomplete. Eberflus said Evans could
have made a better effort coming back for the
ball. There were small things and plenty to
learn from before Bagent starts again Sunday
in New Orleans. The Bears said Monday that
Justin Fields will miss a third straight game
as he recovers from a dislocated right thumb.
“I try to take things from every game that
I play in,” Bagent said. “This is all still new. I
took a lot from last week. I’ll take a lot from
this week and I’ll take a lot from next week
and the week after that, whether I’m start-
ing or not.”
Eddie Jackson had a look of pain on his face
at his locker after the game.
The veteran free safety was in uniform
after being held out the previous week and
limited to 14 snaps in a Week 6 start against
the Vikings. He has a left foot injury that
cropped up in the Week 2 loss at Tampa Bay
and has been limited to three games, playing
extensively in only the opener.
“It’s a frustrating thing,” he said. “Feel like
I haven’t had to do this since I’ve been in the
league. It’s just (hard), especially on top of
the losing. Then not being out there and
seeing plays that you know you can make,
that’s the devastating part.”
Jackson’s issue isn’t the Lisfranc injury
in the same foot that cost him the final five
games of the 2022 season. He was healthy in
training camp and the Bears were optimistic
about him. He’d been durable, missing only
five games through his first five seasons, and
he rediscovered his knack for being a play-
maker in the current scheme last year. The
Bears had 15 takeaways in their first 12 games
in 2022, and Jackson had four interceptions
and two forced fumbles.
Although he was active after being desig-
nated as a full participant in practice Friday,
the Bears were going to use him only in
an emergency Sunday with Elijah Hicks
and Duron Harmon starting while Jaquan
Brisker (illness) was out.
“Next week,” Jackson vowed. “That was
the plan. It was always another week. Last
time — the Minnesota game (when he had to
leave early) — we didn’t want to have another
setback like that, especially when you are so
close. I’m right there. Just a few more days,
but it’s so hard watching.”
When Jackson gets out there against the
Saints, he hopes to make a difference.
“Lead by example with your play,” he said.
“That’s the standard. Go out there and ball.
“Guys see me ... it’s contagious. That’s
really it.”
  Chicago Tribune | Section 3 | Tuesday, October 31, 2023 5

SCOREBOARD
NFL NBA MLB PLAYOFFS

AMERICAN CONFERENCE EASTERN CONFERENCE TODAY’S PITCHING COMPARISON

EAST W L T PCT PF PA ATLANTIC W L PCT GB WORLD SERIES 2023 2022 VS OPP LAST 3 STARTS
Miami 6 2 0 .750 271 204 Boston 2 0 1.000 — TM PITCHERS TIME W-L ERA REC W-L IP ERA W-L IP ERA
Buffalo 5 3 0 .625 222 136 Philadelphia 2 1 .667 ½ Tex TBD Game 4 0-0 0.00 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 0.00
N.Y. Jets 4 3 0 .571 126 129 New York 1 2 .333 1½ Ari TBD 8:03p 0-0 0.00 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 0.00
New England 2 6 0 .250 118 208 Toronto 1 2 .333 1½ TEAM REC: Team’s Record in games started by today’s pitcher.
SOUTH W L T PCT PF PA Brooklyn 0 2 .000 2 VS OPP: Pitcher’s record versus this opponent.
Jacksonville 6 2 0 .750 193 156
Houston 3 4 0 .429 148 128 SOUTHEAST W L PCT GB WORLD SERIES SERIES COMPOSITE
Tennessee 3 4 0 .429 132 140 Orlando 2 0 1.000 — (Best-of-7; if necessary; all games on FOX) Series tied 1-1
Indianapolis 3 5 0 .375 205 229 Charlotte 1 1 .500 1 Texas 2, Arizona 1 ARIZONA AB R H SO BA
NORTH W L T PCT PF PA Washington 1 1 .500 1 Friday, Oct. 27: G1 at Texas, 6-5 (11). Corbin Carroll 10 1 3 1 .300
Miami 1 2 .333 1½ Saturday, Oct. 28: G2 Arizona, 9-1.
Baltimore 6 2 0 .750 202 121 Lourdes Gurriel Jr. 8 1 3 2 .375
Atlanta 1 2 .333 1½ Monday: G3, Texas 3-1.
Cincinnati 4 3 0 .571 131 144 Merrill Kelly 0 0 0 0
Tuesday: G4 at Arizona, 8:03 p.m.
Cleveland 4 3 0 .571 154 139 Evan Longoria 6 2 2 2 .333
CENTRAL W L PCT GB Wednesday: G5 at Arizona, 8:03 p.m.
Pittsburgh 4 3 0 .571 113 147 Ketel Marte 10 0 2 0 .200
x-Friday: G6 at Texas, 8:03 p.m.
WEST W L T PCT PF PA Indiana 2 0 1.000 — Gabriel Moreno 9 1 1 4 .111
x-Saturday: G7 at Texas, 8:03 p.m.
Detroit 2 1 .667 ½ Geraldo Perdomo 5 2 2 0 .400
Kansas City 6 2 0 .750 187 129 Jace Peterson 1 1 0 0 .000
Milwaukee 1 1 .500 1
L.A. Chargers 3 4 0 .429 174 168 Tommy Pham 9 3 5 2 .556
Denver 3 5 0 .375 172 226 Cleveland 1 2 .333 1½ SOCCER
Chicago 1 2 .333 1½ Emmanuel Rivera 1 1 1 0 1.000
Las Vegas 3 5 0 .375 126 187 Alek Thomas 10 2 4 2 .400
WESTERN CONFERENCE
MLS CUP PLAYOFFS Christian Walker 9 0 1 3 .111 Corey Seager hits a home run during the Rangers’ 3-1 win
NATIONAL CONFERENCE (x-if necessary; best-of-3) Totals 78 14 24 16 .308 over the Diamondbacks in Game 3 of the World Series on
SOUTHWEST W L PCT GB EASTERN FIRST ROUND
EAST W L T PCT PF PA
Philadelphia 7 1 0 .875 224 172 New Orleans 2 0 1.000 — #1 FC Cincinnati 1, N.Y. Red Bulls 0 TEXAS AB R H SO BA Monday. The Rangers lead the series 2-1. HARRY HOW/GETTY
Dallas 2 0 1.000 — G1: Sunday, Oct. 29 in Cincinnati 3-0.
Dallas 5 2 0 .714 197 120 Evan Carter 9 1 3 4 .333
San Antonio 1 2 .333 1½ G2: Saturday vs. N.Y. Red Bulls, 5 p.m.
Washington 3 5 0 .375 171 228
Memphis 0 3 .000 2½ x-G3: Sat., Nov. 11 in Cincinnati, noon Adolis García 7 1 3 1 .429 WORLD SERIES
N.Y. Giants 2 6 0 .250 95 187

Seager powers
Houston 0 3 .000 2½ Mitch Garver 7 1 1 1 .143
SOUTH W L T PCT PF PA Robbie Grossman 1 0 0 1 .000
#2 Orlando City SC 1, #7 Nashville SC 0
Atlanta 4 4 0 .500 138 161 NORTHWEST W L PCT GB G1: Monday in Orlando City 1-0. Austin Hedges 1 0 0 1 .000
New Orleans 4 4 0 .500 171 154 Ge 2: Tue., Nov. 7 in Nashiville, 7 p.m. Jonah Heim 5 0 0 1 .000
Denver 3 0 1.000 — Josh Jung 8 0 3 1 .375
Tampa Bay 3 4 0 .429 121 128 x-G3: Sun., Nov. 12 in Orlando, 3 p.m.
Oklahoma City 2 1 .667 1

Rangers to win
Carolina 1 6 0 .143 127 199 Nathaniel Lowe 7 0 0 1 .000
Minnesota 1 1 .500 1½ Corey Seager 8 3 1 2 .125
NORTH W L T PCT PF PA #3 Columbus vs. #6 Atlanta United
Utah 1 2 .333 2 Marcus Semien 10 0 2 4 .200
Detroit 6 2 0 .750 200 165 G1: Wednesday in Columbus 5:30 p.m.
Portland 0 3 .000 3 Leody Taveras 6 1 0 3 .000
Minnesota 4 4 0 .500 175 162 G2: Tue., Nov. 7 in Atlanta, 5 p.m.
x-G3: Su., Nov. 12 in Columbus, 5 p.m. Totals 69 7 13 20 .188
Green Bay 2 5 0 .286 140 156 PACIFIC W L PCT GB
Chicago 2 6 0 .250 171 218
Phoenix 2 1 .667 — #4 Philadelphia 1, #5 New England 0 D’BACKS ERA IP H R BB SO
WEST W L T PCT PF PA
Golden State 2 1 .667 — G1: Sat., Oct. 28 Philadelphia, 3-1. Miguel Castro -- 0.0 1 1 0 0
Seattle
San Francisco
5
5
2
3
0
0
.714
.625
168
218
138
140
Sacramento 2 1 .667 — G2: Nov. 8 in Foxbourough, Mass., 5 p.m. Luis Frías 0.00 0.2 0 0 1 1 By David Brandt off with a double against
L.A. Rams 3 5 0 .375 175 184
L.A. Clippers
L.A. Lakers
2
1
1
2
.667
.333
—
1
x-G3: Sun., Nov. 12 in Philadelphia, 1 p.m. Zac Gallen 5.40 5.0 4 3 4 5 Associated Press Chapman. Geraldo
Kevin Ginkel 0.00 1.0 1 0 1 1
Arizona 1 7 0 .125 151 213 WESTERN FIRST ROUND Merrill Kelly 1.29 7.0 3 1 0 9 Perdomo followed with
WEEK 8
MONDAY’S RESULTS
Boston at Washington, late
Sporting KC 1, #1 St. Louis CITY SC 0
G1: Sunday, Oct. 29, Spring KC 4-1.
Joe Mantiply 0.00 1.0 0 0 0 1 PHOENIX — Corey an RBI single, making it 3-1.
MONDAY’S RESULT Brooklyn at Charlotte, late G2: Sun., Nov. 5 vs. Kansas City, 3 p.m.
Kyle Nelson 0.00 1.1 1
Andrew Saalfrank0.001.1 1
0 2 0
0 0 0 Seager launched a But then Chapman worked
Detroit 26, Las Vegas 14
SUNDAY’S RESULTS
Chicago at Indiana, late
Minnesota at Atlanta, late
G3: Sat., Nov. 11 in St. Louis, 4 p.m. Paul Sewald 18.00 1.0 1 2 2 3 two-run homer and made out of the jam — striking
Carolina 15, Houston 13 Portland at Toronto, late #2 Seattle FC vs. #7 FC Dallas
Ryan Thompson0.00 1.0 1
Totals 3.2619.1 13
0 1 0
7 11 20
a slick defensive play in out Corbin Carroll before
Dallas 43, L.A. Rams 20
Jacksonville 20, Pittsburgh 10
Dallas at Memphis, late G1: Monday in Seattle, late the eighth inning to start Seager started a double
Miami 31, New England 17
Detroit at Oklahoma City, late
Golden State at New Orleans, late
G2: Saturday in Dallas, 7 p.m.
x-G3: Fri., Nov. 10 in Seattle, 8 p.m.
RANGERS ERA IP H R BB SO a crucial double play, Max play, sliding on his knees
Minnesota 24, Green Bay 10
N.Y. Jets 13, N.Y. Giants 10(OT)
Miami at Milwaukee, late Cody Bradford 0.00 1.0 0 0 0 0 Scherzer combined with to field a hot smash from
Dane Dunning 0.00 1.1 1 0 1 0
New Orleans 38, Indianapolis 27
Utah at Denver, late
Orlando at L.A. Lakers, late
#3 LAFC 1, #6 Vancouver FC 0
G1: Sat, Oct. 28 Los Angeles, 5-2. Nathan Eovaldi 9.64 4.2 6 5 1 8 four relievers for a gem on Ketel Marte before flip-
Philadelphia 38, Washington 31 G2: Sun., Nov. 5 in Vancouver, 5:30 p.m. Jon Gray 0.00 1.2 1 0 0 4 the mound and the Rang- ping to Marcus Semien at
Tennessee 28, Atlanta 23
Seattle 24, Cleveland 20
TUESDAY’S GAMES
New York at Cleveland, 6:30p.m.
x-G3: Thu., Nov. 9 in Los Angeles, 8 p.m. Andrew Heaney0.00 0.2
José Leclerc 0.00 2.0
1 0
0 0
0 0
0 2 ers beat the Diamondbacks second, who threw to first.
Baltimore 31, Arizona 24 San Antonio at Phoenix, 9p.m. #4 Houston FC 1, #5 Real Salt Lake 0 J. Montgomery 6.00 6.0 9 4 1 0 3-1 to take a 2-1 lead in the After García threw
Cincinnati 31, San Francisco 17
Denver 24, Kansas City 9
Orlando at L.A. Clippers, 9:30p.m. G1: Sun., Oct. 29 in Houston 2-1. Martín Pérez 27.00 1.1
Will Smith 0.00 0.2
5 4
0 0
2 1
0 0
World Series on Monday out Walker, the Rangers
L.A. Chargers 30, Chicago 13 SUNDAY’S RESULTS
G2: Mon., Nov. 6, Salt Lake City, 7 p.m.
x-G3: Sat., Nov. 11 in Houston, 2 p.m. Chris Stratton 13.50 0.2 1 1 0 1 night. used a three-run third to
WEEK 9
Denver 128, Oklahoma City 95 Totals 6.3020.0 24 14 5 16 The Rangers overcame take the early advantage.
THURSDAY, NOV. 2
Atlanta 127, Milwaukee 110
Golden State 106, Houston 95 SCORE BY INNINGS injuries to Scherzer and Semien’s two-out single
NWSL PLAYOFFS
Tennessee at Pittsburgh, 7:15p.m.
SUNDAY, NOV. 5
Philadelphia 126, Portland 98 SEMIFINALS Texas 201 010 002 01— 7 13 0 slugger Adolis García in into left center made it 1-0
Miami vs Kansas City in
L.A. Clippers 123, San Antonio 83
Sacramento 132, L.A. Lakers 127(OT)
SUNDAY NOV. 5 Arizona 003 310 232 00—14 24 0 improving to 9-0 on the and then Seager smashed
Frankfurt, Germany, 8:30a.m. #6Gotham FC vs. #2Portland, 7p.m.
#4OL Reign vs. #1San Diego, 9:30p.m. road this postseason. his no-doubt homer deep
Arizona at Cleveland, noon
Chicago at New Orleans, noon NHL
LOB:Texas 24, Arizona 17. 2B:Carter 2, The 29-year-old Seager into the right-field seats. It
Pham 2, Marte, Thomas. 3B: Carroll.
L.A. Rams at Green Bay, noon CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH
SATURDAY, NOV. 11 HR: García, Garver, Seager, Moreno, — in the second year of a was Semien’s first RBI in
Minnesota at Atlanta, noon
Seattle at Baltimore, noon
EASTERN CONFERENCE
ATLANTIC GP W L OT PTS GF GA
Semifinal winners, 8p.m. Pham. RBIs: Carroll 4, Garcia 2, Garver $325 million contract — 10 games.
Tampa Bay at Houston, noon
Boston 8 7 0 1 15 26 12 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE
2, Marte 4, Rivera 2, Seager, Carter,
Gurriel Jr, Longoria, Moreno, Pham. once again showed he was The Rangers are 9-0 this
Washington at New England, noon
Indianapolis at Carolina, 3:05p.m. Toronto 8 5 2 1 11 29 24 CLUB GP W D L GF GA PT SB: García, Thomas, Perdomo 2, Marte, worth every penny on the postseason when scoring
Dallas at Philadelphia, 3:25p.m. Montreal 8 5 2 1 11 26 27 Tottenham 10 8 2 0 22 9 26
Walker.
Game 1at Texas Time: 4:02. A: 42472.
game’s biggest stage. first.
N.Y. Giants at Las Vegas, 3:25p.m. Detroit
Tampa Bay
9
8
5
4
3
2
1
2
11
10
36
29
28
24
Arsenal 10 7 3 0 23 8 24 Game 2at Texas: Time:2:59. A: 42,500. The shortstop smoked It was Seager’s fifth
Man City 10 8 0 2 22 7 24
Buffalo at Cincinnati, 7:20p.m.
MONDAY, NOV. 6 Florida 7 4 3 0 8 20 20 Liverpool 10 7 2 1 23 9 23 a two-run homer into the homer this postseason.
L.A. Chargers at N.Y. Jets, 7:15p.m. Ottawa
Buffalo
8
9
4
4
4
5
0
0
8
8
32
27
26
27
Aston Villa 10 7 1 2 26 14 22 right-field seats as part The shortstop also was one
Off: Denver, Jacksonville, Detroit,
San Francisco
Newcastle
Brighton
10
10
5
5
2
2
3
3
26
23
11
19
17
17
ODDS of a three-run third after of the heroes of Game 1 in
METRO. GP W L OT PTS GF GA Man United 10 5 0 5 11 16 15 NBA TUESDAY Diamondbacks starter this Fall Classic, belting a
LATE SUNDAY:
L.A. CHARGERS 30, CHICAGO 13
N.Y. Rangers
New Jersey
8
8
6
5
2
2
0 12
1 11
25
33
16
30
West Ham
Brentford
10
10
4
3
2
4
4
3
16
16
17
12
14
13
FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG Brandon Pfaadt left a tying homer in the ninth
Chicago 0 7 0 6 — 13 Carolina 9 5 4 0 10 34 35 Chelsea 10 3 3 4 13 11 12
at Cleveland
at Phoenix
1 (216) New York
7½ (232) San Antonio first-pitch changeup high that helped rally the Rang-
L.A. Chargers 14 10 6 0 — 30
First Quarter
N.Y. Islanders 7 4 2 1 9 18 19 Wolverhampton 10 3 3 4 13 17 12 at LA Clippers 7½ (220½) Orlando in the zone. The ball left ers to a 6-5 victory in 11
Crystal Palace 10 3 3 4 8 13 12
LAC: Ekeler 39pass from J.Herbert
Philadelphia
Washington
8
8
4
4
3
3
1 9
1 9
28
19
25
26 Fulham 10 3 3 4 9 16 12 MLB PLAYOFFS TUESDAY Seager’s bat at 114.5 mph, innings on García’s homer.
(Dicker kick), 7:08. Columbus 8 3 3 2 8 20 25 Everton 10 3 1 6 10 14 10 World Series Game 4 which was the hardest-hit The 25-year-old Pfaadt
LAC: Fehoko 9pass from J.Herbert
(Dicker kick), :43.
Pittsburgh 8 3 5 0 6 23 25 Notting. Forest
Bournemouth
10
10
2
1
4
3
4
6
10
8
15
21
10
6
FAVORITE
at Arizona
LINE UNDERDOG
off Texas
LINE
off
Fall Classic homer in the had been a revelation in
Second Quarter WESTERN CONFERENCE Luton Town 10 1 2 7 9 20 5 Statcast era, dating back the postseason with a 2.70
LAC: FG Dicker 43, 8:50.
Chi: Evans 11run (Santos kick), 1:47.
CENTRAL GP W L OT PTS GF GA Burnley
Sheffield United
10
10
1
0
1
1
8
9
8
7
25
29
4
1
NHL
FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE
TUESDAY to 2015. ERA through four October
LAC: Parham 11pass from J.Herbert
Colorado
Dallas
8
6
6
4
2
1
0 12
1 9
28
17
20
15 at Toronto -154 Los Angeles +128 García cut down Chris- starts, despite a 5.72 ERA
(Dicker kick), :04.
Third Quarter
Winnipeg 8 4 3 1 9 27 28 SATURDAY’S MATCHES at Vancouver -144 Nashville +120 tian Walker at the plate during the regular season.
Fulham vs. Man United, 7:30a.m.
LAC: FG Dicker 53, 8:51.
Nashville
Minnesota
8
9
4
3
4
4
0 8
2 8
23
32
21
38 Brentford vs. West Ham, 10a.m. COLLEGE FOOTBALL TUESDAY with a stellar throw He wasn’t quite as good
LAC: FG Dicker 46, 3:00.
St. Louis 7 3 3 1 7 14 20 Burnley vs. Crystal Palace, 10a.m. FAVORITE NOW O/U UNDERDOG
Northern Illinois5½ (44½) at C. Michigan
from right field in the Monday — giving up three
Fourth Quarter
Chi: Bagent 1run (pass failed), 2:12.
Arizona 7 3 4 0 6 20 20 Everton vs. Brighton, 10a.m.
Man City vs. Bournemouth, 10a.m. at Toledo 15½ (52½) Buffalo second, stifling some early runs on four hits and two
Chicago 8 3 5 0 6 18 24
Sheffield United vs. Wolverhampton, 10 a.m. WEDNESDAY Diamondbacks momen- walks over 5 1/3 innings,
TEAM STATS CHI LAC
First downs 17 20 PACIFIC GP W L OT PTS GF GA Newcastle vs. Arsenal, 12:30p.m. FAVORITE NOW O/U
at Bowling Green5½ (39½)
UNDERDOG
Ball State tum. García exited in the striking out four.
Total Net Yards
Rushes-yards
295
25-73
352
25-54
Vegas 9 8 0 1 17 35 20 SUNDAY, NOV. 5 at Akron 3½ (38½) Kent State eighth after appearing The D -backs lost
Passing 222 298 Vancouver 8 5 2 1 11 31 19
Los Angeles 8 4 2 2 10 35 30
Notting. Forest vs. Aston Villa, 8a.m.
FAVORITE NOW O/U
THURSDAY
UNDERDOG
to hurt his left side on a Monday for the first time
Punt Returns 1-14 1-6 Luton Town vs. Liverpool, 10:30a.m.
Kickoff Returns 2-24 0-0 Anaheim 8 4 4 0 8 25 24 at Texas Tech 2½ (58½) TCU swing. in the World Series at
Interceptions Ret.
Comp-Att-Int
0-0 2-14
25-37-2 31-40-0
Seattle
Edmonton
9 2 5 2 6 20 31
8 2 5 1 5 25 33
MONDAY, NOV. 6 at Troy
at Duke
6½ (45½) S. Alabama
12½ (45½) Wake Forest
Scherzer threw three Chase Field. They were
Sacked-Yards Lost 1-10 0-0 Calgary 9 2 6 1 5 20 37
Tottenham vs. Chelsea, 2p.m.
FRIDAY solid innings before leav- 4-0 at home during the
Punts 3-42.0 2-44.0 RECENT BALLON D’OR WINNERS
Fumbles-Lost 1-0 1-1 San Jose 9 0 8 1 1 9 35
MEN’S RECIPIENTS
FAVORITE NOW O/U UNDERDOG ing with back tightness, 2001 series, which is the
Penalties-Yards
Time of Possession
7-53
28:32
2-15
31:28
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point
for overtime loss. Top three teams in
1980Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Bayern
at Syracuse
at Wyoming
2½ (51½) Boston Coll.
7 (42½) Colorado St. and Jon Gray, Josh Sborz, only other time they’ve
each division and two wild cards per
Munich
1981Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Bayern
SATURDAY Aroldis Chapman and José been to the sport’s biggest
RUSHING: Chicago, Foreman 9-34,
R.Johnson 6-21, Evans 4-18, Mooney
conference advance to playoffs.
Munich
FAVORITE
Ohio State
NOW O/U UNDERDOG
18½ (42½) at Rutgers
Leclerc combined to keep showcase.
1-3, Bagent 4-(-1), Taylor 1-(-2). L.A. MONDAY’S RESULTS
1982Paolo Rossi, Juventus
1983Michel Platini, Juventus
at Tennessee 34½ (52½) UConn the host’s offense quiet There have been 62
Chargers, Ekeler 15-29, Kelley 6-21,
Spiller 3-3, Herbert 1-1.
Anaheim at Pittsburgh, late
Carolina at Philadelphia, late
1984Michel Platini, Juventus
Nebraska
at Florida
3 (34½)at Michigan St.
6½ (49½) Arkansas
most of the evening. previous instances in
PASSING: Chicago, Bagent 25-37-2-232. Florida at Boston, late
1985Michel Platini, Juventus
at Texas 4½ (51½) Kansas State Game 4 in the best-of- World Series history when
1986Igor Belanov, Dynamo Kiev
L.A. Chargers, Herbert 31-40-0-298. Seattle at Tampa Bay, late
1987Ruud Gullit, AC Milan
Notre Dame 3 (45½) at Clemson seven Series is Tuesday at the series was tied at 1-1
RECEIVING: Chicago, Kmet 10-79,
Moore 4-55, Evans 3-22, R.Johnson 3-10,
Detroit at N.Y. Islanders, late
N.Y. Rangers at Winnipeg, late
1988Marco van Basten, AC Milan
Wisconsin 9½ (45½) at Indiana
at Mississippi 3 (53½) Texas A&M Chase Field. after Game 2.
Mooney 1-41, Scott 1-11, Tonyan 1-8, Columbus at Dallas, late
1989Marco van Basten, AC Milan
1990Lothar Matthaeus, Inter Milan
at S. Carolina 15½ (54½) Jcksnvlle St. The D-backs rallied in The Game 3 winner
V.Jones 1-4, Foreman 1-2. L.A. Chargers,
K.Allen 8-69, Ekeler 7-94, Johnston 5-50,
Chicago at Arizona, late
Montreal at Vegas, late
1991Jean-Pierre Papin, Marseille
at Utah
at Virginia
11½ (41½) Arizona St.
2½ (54½) Georgia Tech
the eighth when pinch-hit- went on to win 41 of 62 of
Parham 4-43, Palmer 3-24, D.Davis 2-4,
1992Marco van Basten, AC Milan
1993Roberto Baggio, Juventus
Navy 6½ (42½) at Temple ter Emmanuel Rivera led those Fall Classics.
Fehoko 1-9, Spiller 1-5. TUESDAY’S GAMES at Air FOrce 18½ (32½) Army
1994Hristo Stoichkov, Barcelona
INT:: LA Chargers, Taylor 1-8, James 1-6. Los Angeles at Toronto, 7p.m. UTSA 7½ (70½) at North Texas
1995George Weah, AC Milan
TACKLES-ASSISTS-SACKS: Chi, Steven- Nashville at Vancouver, 9p.m. at Memphis 13½ (68½) South Florida
1996Matthias Sammer, Borussia Dortmund
son 10-2-0, Edwards 9-4-0. LAC, Kend- Fla. Atlantic 1½ (60½) at UAB
1997Ronaldo, Inter Milan
ricks 9-1-0, Bosa 2-2-1, Mack 1-0-0. WEDNESDAY’S GAMES
Buffalo at Philadelphia, 6p.m.
1998Zinedine Zidane, Juventus
La Lafayette 9½ (60½) at Arkansas St.
James Madison 5½ (54½) at Georgia St.
IN BRIEF
AUTO RACING 1999Rivaldo, Barcelona

Messi adds to record

Dallas at Calgary, 7:30p.m. at Old Dominion1½ (50½) C. Carolina
2000Luis Figo, Real Madrid
St. Louis at Colorado, 8:30p.m. at Minnesota 2½ (41½) Illinois
LATE SUNDAY: NASCAR CUP 2001Michael Owen, Liverpool
Arizona at Anaheim, 9p.m. Oklahoma 6½ (62½) atOklahomaSt.
SERIES XFINITY 500 2002Ronaldo, Real Madrid
Florida State 21½ (50½) at Pittsburgh

with 8th Ballon d’Or

Martinsville Speedway, Ridgeway, Va.
Lap length: 0.53 miles
FN ST DRIVER M LAPS PT
1 11 Ryan Blaney
2 12 Aric Almirola
3 4 Denny Hamlin
4 3 Chase Briscoe
5 15 Joey Logano
6 5 Kyle Larson
7 7 Christopher Bell
8 18 Chris Buescher
9 21 Austin Cindric
10 17 Todd Gilliland
11 6 Bubba Wallace
12 1 Martin Truex Jr
13 16 William Byron
14 13 Ross Chastain
15 28 Harrison Burton
16 8 Kevin Harvick
17 14 Chase Elliott
18 2 Ty Gibbs
19 20 Ricky Stenhouse Jr C 499
20 9 Ryan Preece
21 29 Erik Jones
22 30 Corey LaJoie
23 26 Austin Dillon
24 34 Ty Dillon
25 23 Michael McDowell F 499
26 19 Tyler Reddick
27 31 Kyle Busch
28 25 AJ Allmendinger
29 33 Ryan Newman
30 24 Justin Haley
31 32 Carson Hocevar
32 22 Alex Bowman
33 10 Brad Keselowski
34 27 Daniel Suárez
35 35 JJ Yeley
36 36 BJ McLeod
a-accident; d-dvp; o-overheating;
C-Chevrolet; F-Ford; T-Toyota
Winner’s average speed: 75.244 mph.
Time: 3 hours, 29 minutes, 43 seconds.
Margin of Victory: 0.899 seconds.
Caution Flags: 7 for 61 laps.
Lead Changes: 12 among 6 drivers.
Lap Leaders: M.Truex 0-47; D.Hamlin
48-193; R.Blaney 194-218; D.Hamlin
219-226; R.Blaney 227-228; D.Hamlin
229; R.Blaney 230-324; D.Hamlin 325;
C.Elliott 326-331; C.LaJoie 332-334;
C.Elliott 335-411; A.Almirola 412-477;
R.Blaney 478-500
Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led,
Laps Led): D.Hamlin, 4 times for 156
laps; R.Blaney, 4 times for 145 laps;
C.Elliott, 2 times for 83 laps; A.Almirola,
1 time for 66 laps; M.Truex, 1 time for 47
laps; C.LaJoie, 1 time for 3 laps.
Wins: W.Byron, 6; K.Larson, 4;
D.Hamlin, 3; M.Truex, 3; C.Buescher,
3; K.Busch, 3; C.Bell, 2; R.Blaney, 2;
T.Reddick, 2; R.Chastain, 1; J.Logano,
1; M.McDowell, 1; R.Stenhouse, 1;
A.Allmendinger, 1.
Top 16 in Points: 1. W.Byron, 4126;
2003Pavel Nedved, Juventus
SUNDAY’S RESULTS at Louisville 9½ (48½) Virginia Tech
2004Andriy Shevchenko, AC Milan
Buffalo 4, Colorado 0 at Baylor 3½ (56½) Houston
2005Ronaldinho, Barcelona
New Jersey 4, Minnesota 3 at Georgia 15½ (55½) Missouri
2006Fabio Cannavaro, Juventus-Real Madrid
F 500 59 Washington 3, San Jose 1 Tulane 16½ (47½) at East Carolina
2007Kaka, AC Milan
F 500 35 Edmonton 5, Calgary 2 UCF 4½ (59½) at Cincinnati
2008Cristiano Ronaldo, Man United
T 500 53 Penn State 11½ (50½) at Maryland
F 500 48
2009Lionel Messi, Barcelona
2010Lionel Messi, Barcelona
Iowa 4½ (30½) at N’thwestern News services year. The model includes
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2011Lionel Messi, Barcelona
at Tulsa
at Nevada
3½ (49½)
3½ (50½)
Charlotte
Hawaii
those schools facing each
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2012Lionel Messi, Barcelona
2013Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid
at Southern Miss 2½ (55½) UL Monroe Lionel Messi won the other as annual oppo-
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Monday at Plaza Quintana Roo;
Cancun; outdoors, hardcourt;
2014Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid
Auburn
at Oregon
12½ (49½) at Vanderbilt
23½ (57½) California
men’s Ballon d’Or for a nents while staying with
F 500 30 WOMEN’S SINGLES, GROUP 2
2015Lionel Messi, Barcelona
at N. Mexico St. 3½ (56½) Middle Tenn. record-extending eighth a no-division format. The
2016Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid
T 500 26 #2Iga Swiatek d.
2017Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid
at Liberty 16½ (56½) La. Tech time on Monday after league has all 17 foot-
#7Marketa Vondrousova, 7-6(3), 6-0.
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2018Luka Modric, Real Madrid
UNLV 9½ (60½) at N. Mexico
at Appalach. S.t 3½ (55½) Marshall fulfilling his life’s ambi- ball-playing members
C 499 23 #6Ons Jabeur, 6-0, 6-1.
2019Lionel Messi, Barcelona
2020Canceled
Utah State 2½ (56½) at S. Diego St. tion by leading Argentina playing each other at least
F 499
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24 ATP ROLEX PARIS MASTERS 2021Lionel Messi, Barcelona-Paris
Ga. Southern 2½ (70½) at Texas State
at West Virginia 10 (51½) BYU
to the World Cup title in twice over a seven-sea-
C 499 20 Monday at Palais Omnisports de Paris- Saint-Germain
2022Karim Benzema, Real Madrid
at Iiowa State 2½ (53½) Kansas Qatar last year. son stretch through 2030.
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Bercy; Paris; indoors, hardcourt
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Washington
SMU
3½ (75½)
11½ (58)
at USC
at Rice
Adding to his silverware The model also protects 16
F 499 24 #9 Taylor Fritz d. Sebastian Baez, 6-1, 6-4. at Michigan 32½ (48½) Purdue the one major trophy that annual matchups, includ-
WOMEN’S RECIPIENTS
C 499 16 #12Tommy Paul d. Richard Gasquet,
0-6, 6-2, 7-6(6). 2018Ada Hegerberg, Lyon
Kentucky 3½ (45½) at Miss. St. eluded him in his storied ing long-standing league
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14 #13Alex de Minaur d. Andy Murray, 2019Megan Rapinoe, Reign
at Alabama
Miami
3 (59½)
4½ (45½) at NC State
LSU
career was the decisive matchups such as Flor-
C 499 13 7-6(5), 4-6, 7-5. 2020Canceled
2021Alexia Putellas, Barcelona
W. Kentucky 8½ (54½) at UTEP factor in an otherwise ida State-Clemson or
Alexander Bublik d. #14Frances Tiafoe,
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11 6-3, 6-4. 2022Alexia Putellas, Barcelona
at Wash. St. 13½ (60½) Stanford
Oregon State 13½ (62½) at Colorado
quite mundane season — North Carolina-Duke. ...
C 498 10 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina d. 2023Aitana Bonmati, Barcelona
NOTE: Awarded by France Football
at Fresno State 3 (54½) Boise State for his standards — at Paris Iowa offensive coordina-
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#15Ben Shelton, 7-6(4), 5-7, 6-3.
#16Karen Khachanov d. Max Purcell, magazine to European player of the
UCLA 3 (52½) at Arizona
CFP Naitonal Championship
Saint-Germain. tor Brian Ferentz, the son
C 497 7 6-4, 6-4. year from 1956-2006. Global player of
Michigan +275 Georgia +300 Messi, 36, won ahead of of longtime head football
the year from 2007. Combined with
C 496 0 Roberto Bautista Agut d. Jiri Lehecka,
6-4, 6-2. FIFA player of the year from 2010-15.
Florida State+600 Ohio State +700 Manchester City forward coach Kirk Ferentz, whose
C 496
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16 Nicolas Jarry d. Alexei Popyrin, 7-5, 7-6 (6).
Alabama +1000
Oregon +1400
Washington +1200
Texas +1600 Erling Haaland and PSG’s unit’s 232.2 yards per game
C 274-d 3 Tallon Griekspoor d. LSU +3300 Oklahoma +4000 Kylian Mbappé. ranks last in FBS, will not
Christopher Eubanks, 6-7(2), 6-3, 6-4.
F 271-a 0
C 147-o 0 Roman Safiullin d. Alexandre Muller, COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Penn State +6600
Ole Miss +20000
Notre Dame +20000
Missouri +40000
Spain’s Aitana Bonmati return next season.
7-6(4), 6-3. (Subject to change) won the women’s award.
Botic Van de Zandschulp d.
Adrian Mannarino, 6-4, 7-5. WEEK 10 SCHEDULE
NFL WEEK 9
FAVORITE NOW O/U
THURSDAY
UNDERDOG
NBA: Stephen Curry
Laslo Djere d. Luca van Assche, TUESDAY’S GAMES at Pittsburgh 3 (36½) Tennessee Baseball: Frank Howard, made seven 3-pointers
6-7(6), 6-4, 6-4.
Yoshihito Nishioka d. Jordan Thompson,
N. Illinois (4-4) at C. Michigan (4-4), 6 p.m.
Buffalo (3-5) at Toledo (7-1), 6:30p.m.
FAVORITE NOW O/U
SUNDAY
UNDERDOG
a four-time All-Star and and scored 42 points in
7-6(5), 4-6, 6-2. at Kansas City 2½ (50½) Miami former NL rookie of the 30 minutes as the Warriors
Grigor Dimitrov d. Lorenzo Musetti, WEDNESDAY’S GAMES
Ball State (2-6) at Bowl. Green (4-4), 6 p.m.
at New Orleans 7 (41½) Chicago year who slugged 382 HRs improved to 3-0 on the
6-2, 6-7(4), 6-3.
Dominic Thiem d. Stan Wawrinka, Kent St. (1-7) at Akron (1-7), 6:30p.m.
at Baltimore 5½ (42½) Seattle
at New England 3 (39½) Washington during a lengthy major road with a 130-102 victory
3-6, 6-3, 7-5. at Cleveland 7 (38½) Arizona league career that included over the Pelicans. Chris
WTA DOW TENNIS CLASSIC
THURSDAY’S GAMES
TCU (4-4) at Texas Tech (3-5), 6p.m.
at Atlanta
at Green Bay
4½ (37½) Minnesota
3 (39½) LA Rams
a World Series title with Paul added 13 points off
Monday at Midland Community Tennis S. Alabama (4-4) at Troy (6-2), 6:30p.m. at Houston 3 (40) Tampa Bay the Dodgers in 1963, died. the bench.
Center; Midland; indoors, hardcourt
WOMEN’S SINGLES, ROUND OF 32
Miss. Valley State (1-7) at
Bethune-Cookman (1-7), 6:30p.m.
Indianapolis
at Las Vegas
3 (44½) at Carolina
3 (39) NY Giants
He was 87.
#2Peyton Stearns d. Wake Forest (4-4) at Duke (5-3), 6:30 p.m. at Philadelphia 3 (46½) Dallas NFL: The Giants traded DL
Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva, 6-0, 6-0.
#3Alycia Parks d. Ann Li, 6-2, 6-1. FRIDAY’S GAMES
at Cincinnati 3 (48½) Buffalo Colleges: The ACC Leonard Williams, 29, to
Carole Monnet d. Iryna Shymanovich, Princeton (4-3) at Dartmouth (3-4), 6 p.m.
FAVORITE NOW O/U
MONDAY
UNDERDOG unveiled a new schedul- the Seahawks in exchange
6-4, retired. Boston College (5-3) at Syracuse (4-4), LA Chargers 3 (41½) at NY Jets ing model to incorporate for a 2024 second-round
Yulia Starodubtsewa d. Sophie Chang,
3-6, 6-1, 6-0.
6:30 p.m.
Colo. St. (3-5) at Wyoming (5-3), 7p.m.
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6 Chicago Tribune | Section 3 | Tuesday, October 31, 2023

NATIONAL SPORTS REPORT

SHORTS

No. 1 hoops recruit chooses Duke
Cooper Flagg, the nation’s consensus top player in the
2024 recruiting class, announced Monday that he will play
his college basketball at Duke. The 6-foot-9 small forward
from Maine, who plays at Montverde Academy in Flor-
ida, had also been considering defending national cham-
pion UConn. His decision, announced on social media in
conjunction with Slam Magazine, comes just ahead of the
NCAA’s early signing period, which begins Nov. 8. Flagg’s
commitment continues Jon Scheyer’s hot recruiting to
start his coaching tenure. Duke was No. 1 in the 247sports
rankings for the Class of 2022 as Scheyer took the lead on
putting together the incoming class for his first season
as Hall of Famer Mike Krzyzewski’s designated succes-
sor. The Blue Devils had this year’s No. 2-ranked class
with four top-25 recruits, and entered Wednesday ranked
No. 4 before Flagg’s decision. Duke already has commit-
ments from five-star forwards Isaiah Evans and Jon
Knueppel, as well as four-star forward Darren Harris in
the 2024 class. Flagg had called Duke his dream school, but
added the Huskies to the mix after a visit there in Septem-
ber. He was expected to announce his decision last week,
but postponed it after the fatal shootings in his home state.
FIFA hits Rubiales with 3-year ban
The Spanish soccer official who
provoked a players’ rebellion and reck-
oning on gender when he kissed an
unwilling star player on the lips at the
Women’s World Cup final trophy cere-
mony was banned for three years on
Monday by the sport’s global govern-
ing body. Luis Rubiales’ conduct at the
Aug. 20 final in Australia — and his defiant refusal to resign
as Spanish soccer federation president for three weeks
— distracted many people from the women’s career-de-
fining title win. Rubiales, 46, is now barred from working
in soccer until after the men’s 2026 World Cup. His ban
will expire before the next women’s tournament in 2027.
Spanish authorities have launched a criminal investiga-
tion against Rubiales for kissing Jenni Hermoso on the lips
after the team’s 1-0 victory over England in Sydney, and
his conduct in the fallout from the scandal. Spanish pros-
ecutors have formally accused Rubiales of sexual assault
and coercion. Hermoso said that Rubiales pressured her
to speak out in his defense amid the global furor. Rubiales
can choose to appeal his three-year ban.
Chargers: Finally a ‘complete game’
Leading up to Sunday night, Brandon Staley was look-
ing for his Chargers to have a game where they could
put all three phases together. Justin Herbert was hoping
for a performance where he didn’t spend five minutes
discussing the broken middle finger on his non-throwing
hand. Both can say they reached their goals as the Char-
gers routed the visiting Bears 30-13 in front of a prime-
time audience. “I think so,” Staley said when asked if this
was his team’s most complete performance of the season.
“I thought that’s we were in search of was to feel that
complete game where you’re feeding off each other and
the levels are high the whole way.” Herbert — who passed
for 298 yards and three touchdowns — directed the Char-
gers (3-4) to points on their first five drives, marking the
first time in six seasons they have accomplished that feat.
Herbert, who had struggled with accuracy the last two
games after breaking the middle finger of his left hand
four weeks ago, completed his first 15 passes and was 31 of
40. It was the first time in two years that Herbert passed
for three TDs in the first half, finding Austin Ekeler, Simi
Fehoko and Donald Parham to help stake the Chargers to
a 24-7 lead at the break. —Associated Press

ON THE NFL

Injuries start
to add up for
league’s QBs
By Rob Maaddi
Associated Press

The NFL has done everything in its

power to protect quarterbacks short of
putting a flag on them.
Can’t hit them high. Can’t hit them low.
Can’t touch them too late.
But the two most devastating QB inju-
ries this season didn’t involve a violent
hit. Kirk Cousins wasn’t even touched
before he went down Sunday.
Aaron Rodgers was barely hit on a sack
when he suffered a torn Achilles tendon
on the fourth play of his first game with
the Jets in September.
The Vikings announced Monday that,
as expected, Cousins has a torn Achilles
tendon. He will miss the rest of the season
after suffering the non-contact injury on
a freak play.
“Three-man rush and he kind of
Oklahoma’s 38-33 loss to then-unranked Kansas on Saturday dropped the Sooners four spots to No. 10 in the latest AP poll. That left them three stepped up in the pocket. That is all I saw,”
behind Texas, which they beat 34-30 in the Red River Rivalry on Oct. 7 in Dallas. Both Oklahoma and Texas have just one loss. COLIN E. BRALEY/AP Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell said after
Sunday’s victory over the Packers. “I just
know in some of my dialogue with Kirk
COLLEGE FOOTBALL TOP 25 REALITY CHECK it seems like maybe his cleat might have
gotten stuck in the ground or whatever

Head-to-head head scratcher

Does OU deserve to be ranked
lower than Texas? Tough call
By Ralph D. Russo
Associated Press
At this time of the season, those head-to-
head results can become challenging for
voters in The Associated Press college foot-
ball poll.
There was no movement among the top
five in the rankings Sunday, with Georgia
strengthening its grip on No. 1.
Oklahoma slipped four spots to No. 10
after losing to Kansas, which jumped into
the rankings at No. 22.
That put Oklahoma behind Texas, which
landed at No. 7. Just a few weeks ago, the
Sooners knocked off the Longhorns in a
Red River Rivalry thriller. That’s Texas’ only
loss of the season.
Reasonable? Maybe. The Sooners didn’t
play a Power Five team in the nonconfer-
ence, though SMU has been one of the better
teams out of the Group of Five. Texas won at
Alabama out of conference.
Within the Big 12 so far, Texas at home
routed the same Kansas team that OU lost
to on the road.
Still, head-to-head?
Choosing between Washington at No. 5
and Oregon at No. 6 seems a clearer choice.
The Huskies won the head-to-head and
still have an unbeaten record. But again, the
Ducks probably have a better overall resume
with a nonconference road victory at Texas
Tech and Saturday’s romp at now-No. 18
Utah.
While the Huskies have played close games
against bottom-tier Pac-12 teams Arizona
State and Stanford the last two weeks, the
Ducks have crushed their lesser opponents.
Reality Check believes the AP poll voters
did OK with the head-to-head results this
week, but had a few complaints.
NO. 1 GEORGIA (8-0)
Next: vs. No. 14 Missouri, Saturday.
Reality check: With TE Brock Bowers out, WR
Ladd McConkey, now healthy after missing
the first four games, broke out against Florida
with six catches for 135 yards and a score.
Ranked: Just right.
NO. 2 MICHIGAN (8-0)
Next: vs. Purdue, Saturday.
Reality check: Sign of success: Michigan’s
defense hasn’t faced a goal-to-go situation
this season.
Ranked: Straight resume, you could bump
the Wolverines down a spot.
NO. 3 OHIO STATE (8-0)
Next: at Rutgers, Saturday.
Reality check: RB TreVeyon Henderson has
missed most of the season with injuries, but he’s
an important piece of the Buckeyes offense.
Ranked: Good chance to be the CFP No. 1.
NO. 4 FLORIDA STATE (8-0)
Next: at Pittsburgh, Saturday.
Reality check: RB Trey Benson is the only
player in the country with a run and a
reception of at least 80 yards.
Ranked: Just right.
NO. 5 WASHINGTON (8-0)
Next: at No. 24 Southern California, Saturday.
Reality check: Huskies’ issues on offense
the last few weeks have been fairly simple to
diagnose: six turnovers.
Ranked: Honor the head-to-head, but do so
with some skepticism.
NO. 6 OREGON (7-1)
Next: vs. California, Saturday.
Reality check: QB Bo Nix has completed at
least 72% of his passes in every game and has
been above 84% three times.
Ranked: Just right.
NO. 7 TEXAS (7-1)
Next: vs. No. 25 Kansas State, Saturday.
Reality check: QB Maalik Murphy’s first start
was solid against an overmatched opponent,
but 6.8 yards per attempt is going to be a
difficult way to beat teams the Longhorns
defense can’t smother.
Ranked: Could make a case for No. 5.
No. 8 Alabama (7-1)
Next: vs. No. 13 LSU, Saturday.
Reality check: Time to find out how far the
Crimson Tide have come in their work-in-
progress season.
Ranked: Just right.
NO. 9 PENN STATE (7-1)
Next: at Maryland, Saturday.
Reality check: The running game hasn’t
averaged more than 4.2 yards per carry
against Power Five opponents.
Ranked: Too high.
NO. 10 OKLAHOMA (7-1)
Next: at Oklahoma State, Saturday.
Reality check: Four straight games in which
the Sooners have allowed at least 5.5 yards
per play.
Ranked: Little low.
NO. 11 MISSISSIPPI (7-1)
Next: vs. Texas A&M, Saturday.
Reality check: Rebels have held three
straight SEC opponents below 300 yards of
offense.
Ranked: Little low.
NO. 12 NOTRE DAME (7-2)
Next: at Clemson, Saturday.
Reality check: Fighting Irish pass defense
has been nasty.
Ranked: Too high.
NO. 13 LSU (6-2)
Next: at No. 8 Alabama, Saturday.
Reality check: Beating Alabama and Georgia
is the road to becoming the first two-loss
team to make the CFP.
Ranked: Little low.
NO. 14 MISSOURI (7-1)
Next: at No. 1 Georgia, Saturday.
Reality check: Welcome to Mizzou’s
potential November to remember.
Ranked: About right.
NO. 15 LOUISVILLE (7-1)
Next: vs Virginia Tech, Saturday.
Reality check: Under-the-radar great job
by the Cardinals defense, which has held
four straight opponents under 300 yards
and 5.0 yards per play. Edge rusher Ashton
Gillotte leads the charge with 8 1/2 sacks.
Ranked: Probably should still be ahead of
Notre Dame.
NO. 16 OREGON STATE (6-2)
Next: at Colorado, Saturday.
Reality check: Even with last week’s loss to
Arizona, the Beavers still have a chance to
reach the Pac-12 title game.
Ranked: About right.
NO. 17 AIR FORCE (8-0)
Next: vs. Army, Saturday.
Reality check: Falcons lead the nation in
time of possession at 34 1/2 minutes per
game. Not surprising, but impressive
nonetheless.
Ranked: Just right.
NO. 18 UTAH (6-2)
Next: vs. Arizona State, Saturday.
Reality check: Time to recalibrate
expectations after a serious reality check
against Oregon.
Ranked: Too high.
NO. 19 TENNESSEE (6-2)
Next: vs. UConn, Saturday.
Reality check: Vols have six 200-yard rushing
games his season, just one fewer than they
had in 13 games last season.
Ranked: About right.
NO. 20 UCLA (6-2)
Next: at Arizona, Saturday.
Reality check: Bruins’ pass rush made life
miserable for Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders.
Ranked: Little high.
NO. 21 TULANE (7-1)
Next: at East Carolina, Saturday.
Reality check: Pass defense is the Green
Wave’s potential undoing.
Ranked: Too high.
NO. 22 KANSAS (6-2)
Next: at Iowa State, Saturday.
Reality check: Will we see QB Jalon Daniels
play for Kansas again? As well as Jason Bean
has played, Jayhawks could run the table with
Daniels.
Ranked: Little high.
NO. 23 JAMES MADISON (8-0)
Next: at Georgia State, Saturday.
Reality check: Dukes have won five one-
possession games.
Ranked: Little high.
NO. 24 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (7-2)
Next: vs. No. 5 Washington, Saturday.
Reality check: Trojans have a strange
relationship with the running game.
Ranked: Too high.
NO. 25 KANSAS STATE (6-2)
Next: at No. 7 Texas, Saturday.
Reality check: Wildcats defense has allowed
three points and 508 yards combined in its
last two games.
Ranked: Too low.
it was. I just know that it was incredibly,
incredibly unfortunate in that moment.”
Rodgers was spun around by the Bills’
Leonard Floyd on a seemingly inno-
cent play when he got hurt. His injury
occurred on a turf field at MetLife
Stadium, leading the NFL Players Asso-
ciation to call for all teams to switch to
a high-quality natural grass. Half the
league’s stadiums have turf. Cousins got
hurt on a grass surface at Lambeau Field.
Injuries are piling up for quarterbacks
across the league.
Matthew Stafford, Tyrod Taylor, Kenny
Pickett and Desmond Ridder couldn’t
finish their games Sunday. Deshaun
Watson, Daniel Jones, Anthony Rich-
ardson, Justin Fields and Ryan Tannehill
were among the other starting QBs who
didn’t play in Week 8 because of injuries.
Taylor got hurt when he took a crush-
ing shot and was tackled on turf. He was
running to the right sideline when Quin-
ton Jefferson wrapped up his legs and C.J.
Mosley hit him from behind, landing on
his back and driving Taylor’s chest into
the ground.
Taylor was hospitalized with an injury
to his rib cage.
“You never know what play it is, what
time it is, if it’s going to happen, if it’s not
going to happen so there’s a tough part
about staying ready, being ready for that
role, which is what makes that position
so difficult,” said Giants third-string QB
Tommy DeVito, who replaced Taylor. “So,
I thought Tyrod did a good job helping
me throughout these last couple months
being here, and just when he went down,
everybody just looked at me and we were
all good and we were going to go through
with (what) our game plan was.”
DeVito was an undrafted rookie who
played at Illinois last season after trans-
ferring from Syracuse. He threw the ball
just once in regulation before the game
went to overtime. DeVito finished 2 of 7
for minus-1 yard in a 13-10 loss to the Jets.
The good news for the Giants on
Monday: regular starter Daniel Jones
was cleared to return to the lineup after
missing three games with a neck injury.
Except for the Vikings, who were up
24-10 and won by that score when Cous-
ins went out, every team that lost its quar-
terback on Sunday lost.
Stafford injured his thumb in the first
half of the Rams’ 43-20 road loss to the
Cowboys. Pickett injured his ribs in
the Steelers’ 20-10 loss to the Jaguars.
Ridder was evaluated for a concussion
and cleared to return but didn’t come
back into the Falcons’ 28-23 road loss to
the Titans
Several other QBs played through pain.
Jalen Hurts threw four TD passes on a
banged-up knee in the Eagles’ 38-31 road
win against the Commanders. Patrick
Mahomes struggled with flu-like symp-
toms and suffered cuts on his non-throw-
ing hand in the visiting Chiefs’ 24-9 loss
to the lowly Broncos.