chicagotribune--2020-01-20--Jean Banchet Awards give top honors to Anna and David Posey, Smyth restaurant, Oriole group

Other winners included Otto Phan ’ s Kyoten , for Best New Restaurant , Craig Harzewski of Brindille for Pastry @ @ @ @ @ Jess Galli of Middle Brow Bungalow for Rising Chef of the Year , Tatum Sinclair @ @ @ @ @ Pastry Chef of the Year and Kevin Beary of Three Dots and a Dash for @ @ @

Anna and David Posey of Elske, pictured in their restaurant Jan. 18, 2017, shared Chef of the Year honors at the Jean Banchet Awards on Sunday. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
The annual Jean Banchet Awards, held Sunday night at Venue Six10, heaped praise on more than a dozen chefs, restaurants and beverage professionals.
It was a good night for husband-wife teams. Top honors went to Anna and David Posey of Elske, who shared the Chef of the Year award. Restaurant of the Year went to Smyth, headed by John B. Shields and Karen Urie Shields.
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Kumiko chef Mariya Russell, pictured July 9, 2019, was honored as Best Chef-de-Cuisine at the Jean Banchet Awards on Sunday. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)
It also was a big night for Noah Sandoval’s Oriole group. Aaron McManus of Oriole was named Best Sommelier, sister property Kumiko was named Best Bar and Mariya Russell, chef at Kumiko, was honored as Best Chef-de-Cuisine.
As had been announced previously, the Jean Banchet Culinary Achievement Award went to Ina Pinkney, the chef whose long career redefined the breakfast experience in Chicago.
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Other winners included Otto Phan’s Kyoten, for Best New Restaurant, Craig Harzewski of Brindille for Pastry Chef of the Year, Jess Galli of Middle Brow Bungalow for Rising Chef of the Year, Tatum Sinclair of S.K.Y. for Rising Pastry Chef of the Year and Kevin Beary of Three Dots and a Dash for Best Bartender.
Other winners:
Best Neighborhood Restaurant: Passerotto
Best Restaurant Service: S.K.Y.
Best Heritage Restaurant: Cafe Istanbul
Best Counter Service: Publican Quality Meats
Best Restaurant Design: Tzuco


chicagotribune--2020-01-20--Column: Four is enough. Derek Jeter, Omar Vizquel, Jeff Kent and Billy Wagner get my Hall of Fame vo

Column: Four is enough. Derek Jeter, Omar Vizquel, Jeff Kent and Billy Wagner get my Hall of Fame vote

Kent finished his career with 377 home runs , the most by a second baseman .
It didn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ when he joined the Giants in 1997 and started hitting behind Barry Bonds .
But @ @ @ @ @ his opportunities and carried that production to the Astros in 2003-04 .

The Baseball Hall of Fame is a shrine for the sport’s elite, and the preference to keep it confined to an exclusive group is reflected on my ballot.
Derek Jeter’s high performance for nearly all of 20 seasons in baseball’s largest market — New York — cinched his selection. Jeter played at least 145 games in all but four seasons at the physically demanding position of shortstop.
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Jeter’s occasional penchant for bunting in the first inning could be maddening, and he lacked range at shortstop, but his strong arm and instincts compensated for that.
He earned five Gold Glove awards in addition to compiling 3,465 hits — sixth on the all-time list and tops among shortstops — and he scored 100-plus runs in 13 seasons.
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To characterize Omar Vizquel as a defensive specialist isn’t fair to the 11-time Gold Glove winner.
Vizquel finished with 2,877 hits in his 24-year career, making him one of only 11 shortstops to collect at least 2,500 hits.
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His production at the plate declined during his final six seasons, but his defense never dropped off dramatically. He won his final Gold Glove in 2008 with the Giants at 39 — when he hit .295 in 153 games.
I didn’t vote for Paul Konerko, but he receives honorable mention for his toughness, which is reminiscent of Jeff Kent, who got my vote.
Kent played the second half of the 1998 season with torn knee ligaments but still hit 24 home runs and drove in 79 runs after being clipped by Alex Rodriguez.
Kent finished his career with 377 home runs, the most by a second baseman. It didn’t hurt Kent’s production when he joined the Giants in 1997 and started hitting behind Barry Bonds. But Kent made the most of his opportunities and carried that production to the Astros in 2003-04.
Kent, like Jeter, positioned himself deep and properly in the field to compensate for a lack of range.
Billy Wagner pitched only 903 innings, but most of those innings were marked by sheer dominance. His 11.9 strikeouts per nine innings are tops among pitchers with at least 750 innings, and his 2.31 ERA is second only to Hall of Fame closer Mariano Rivera (750-inning minimum).
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Wagner limited opponents to a .187 batting average.


chicagotribune--2020-01-20--Joel Quenneville’s return to the United Center sends Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane down memory lan

Joel Quenneville’s return to the United Center sends Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane down memory lane: ‘You just didn’t think things would ever change’

“ Obviously want to beat him because they ’ re two big points for our team and we ’ re @ @ @ @ @ on that game for a bunch of days ( because of the All-Star break ) @ @ @ @ @ to have to prepare with all the detail and excitement that we can muster , @ @ @ @ @ sure there will be a lot of energy in the building and we ’ ve @ @ @ @ @ the right way .
”

Patrick Kane came within 5 minutes, 34 seconds of turning Tuesday night’s Blackhawks-Panthers game into even more of a spectacle.
Joel Quenneville’s return to the United Center with the Panthers has been the most anticipated regular-season game since the schedule was released in June. The game would have reached white-hot status if Kane hadn’t recorded his 1,000th career point with an assist late in the third period of Sunday’s 5-2 win over the Jets.
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Now Kane can start working on his next 1,000 points, and the evening — at least the pregame portion when Quenneville is introduced — can be about fans, former players and the organization expressing gratitude to the coach who won 452 games and three Stanley Cups during a remarkable 11-year run with the Hawks.
“Another great night,” Kane said Sunday. “I’m sure he’ll get a warm reception. He’s like an icon in Chicago, whether it’s him winning three Stanley Cups, coming in and helping us become better players. What he’s done here in his career is amazing. ... It will be good to see him.”
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Expand Autoplay Image 1 of 91 Blackhawks head coach Joel Quenneville listens to questions during their end-of-season media availability at the United Center on April 22, 2017. (Jim Young / Chicago Tribune)
Kane, Jonathan Toews, Patrick Sharp, Duncan Keith and Brent Seabrook were already in the organization and the Hawks had moved on from their bumbling ways of the previous decade when they hired Quenneville on Oct. 16, 2008, to replace Denis Savard as head coach three games into the season.
With an intensity and drive second to none — as well as a mustache that spawned its own hilarious Twitter account — Quenneville helped the Hawks become one of the NHL’s premier franchises. They have sold out 523 consecutive games, including playoffs, and have led the NHL in attendance every year since Quenneville’s first season.
But nothing stays the same forever, and with Sharp, Niklas Hjalmarsson and Marian Hossa gone, the Hawks didn’t make the playoffs in 2017-18. Quenneville was fired 15 games into last season and replaced by Jeremy Colliton.
“There’s some guys you think you’re going to be surrounded by forever,” Toews said. “And all of a sudden things change. It will definitely be weird to see him on the other bench because all those years playing for him, you just didn’t think things would ever change.
“Things were really great with him behind the bench. Had a great relationship that grew stronger and stronger as time went on when he was in Chicago. It’ll definitely be different seeing him on the other side.”
Tuesday.
Tues. Day.
I’m coming home. — Coach Q's mustache (@CoachQsMustache) January 19, 2020
Quenneville, 61, is starting to work his magic with the Panthers, who haven’t made the playoffs since 2015-16 and have qualified only twice this century. Entering their game Monday against the Wild in Minnesota, they held one of the Atlantic Division’s three playoff spots.
The Hawks are trying to recover from a slow start, but with five straight wins they have pulled within three points of the Western Conference’s final wild-card spot.
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“I’m sure they’ll be ready to play,” Kane said. “They’ll want to win that one, too, so we’ll have to have our best.”
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The Hawks couldn’t have found somebody more different to replace Quenneville. Colliton, 35, is more than 25 years younger and never had coached in the NHL, even as an assistant. Where Quenneville can be fiery and explosive, Colliton is almost always calm and resembles an accountant as much as a coach.
Colliton has shown a lot of grace whenever he has been asked about Quenneville, acknowledging the debt the organization owes him and calling him a “great man” when Colliton was introduced as Hawks coach last season.
“It’s a chance to honor Joel,” Colliton said. “It’s a big night for the organization, and he was great to me, so I want to honor him too. Because a big part of the reason I came here to begin with is because he was here.
“Obviously want to beat him because they’re two big points for our team and we’re going to have to sit on that game for a bunch of days (because of the All-Star break). We’re going to have to prepare with all the detail and excitement that we can muster, and then I’m sure there will be a lot of energy in the building and we’ve got to use it in the right way.”
Will it be a little strange for fans and Quenneville’s former players to see him on the visitors bench?
“I don’t know, could be,” Colliton said. “But once they drop the puck, it’s a game and it’s big points for us.”


chicagotribune--2020-01-20--Column: Outside of Derek Jeter and the PED cheaters, the 2020 Hall of Fame ballot is thin

Walker could make it in this year , or he might miss by a vote or two .
His support @ @ @ @ @ last few years , like Tim Raines ’ before he got in .
I voted @ @ @ @ @ and watched other voters slowly change their minds about his worthiness .
Perhaps it ’ @ @ @ @ @ mind on Walker and admit he ’ s a Hall of Famer .

With cheating back in the headlines thanks to the Astros sign-stealing scandal, it’s only appropriate Derek Jeter, the cleanest of squeaky-clean superstars, gets welcomed Tuesday into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Over the years Jeter evolved into the Tom Hanks of baseball, admired and respected by all fans whether they were genetically predisposed to hate the Yankees or not. He won championships, performed at a consistently high level and came through in enough big postseason moments to be regarded as one of the most clutch performers in any sport.
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Jeter figures to be a unanimous pick by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America and could be the only entrant from the BBWAA ballot, joining catcher Ted Simmons and the late union chief Marvin Miller, who were chosen in December by a veterans committee.
Writers are allowed as many as 10 picks from the 32-player ballot, and many insist on using every vote. That’s fine. But I don’t believe in voting for admitted or suspected users of performance-enhancing drugs, so a half-dozen or so were automatically eliminated.
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Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens will get a fair share of votes before falling just short of the necessary 75%, even from some writers currently wagging their fingers at the cheatin’ Astros.
Cheating is cheating, no matter what methodology you employ.
Another dozen or so names are seemingly just filling out the ballot, including Brad Penny and Chone Figgins, who didn’t even deserve the perfunctory trip to baseball-reference.com to check out their career stats. And others, such as Scott Rolen, had some really great seasons but an overall resume that was lacking.
I wound up settling on three non-Jeter selections: Omar Vizquel, Larry Walker and Todd Helton.
Vizquel was the best fielding shortstop I’ve seen, period. I’ve always believed there’s room in the Hall for brilliant defensive players whose offense was a bonus, especially because there are so many hitters in Cooperstown whose subpar defense was overlooked. We’re told pitching and defense win games, but stellar defense somehow doesn’t translate to the Hall.
Walker and Helton are new picks on my ballot. I didn’t believe Helton was a first-ballot kind of player last year, so I left him off. But he was a doubles machine and had a career .953 OPS, which makes him much more than just a Coors Field creation.
I’ve always hedged on Walker because injuries often kept him out of the lineup, even though it’s hard to argue against his combination of slugging and defense. And like Helton, he had the “Coors thing” hanging over his head: Was it the high elevation in Denver that made Walker such a great hitter?
Recently a bartender chastised me for that way of thinking, arguing that if baseball writers can penalize Rockies players for playing most of their careers at Coors Field, they also should’ve penalized homer-happy sluggers who played most of their careers in the bandbox ballparks from the pre-1960s that eventually were all replaced, except for Wrigley Field and Fenway Park.
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Chicago bartenders always make good points, so I listened.
Walker could make it in this year, or he might miss by a vote or two. His support has risen substantially over the last few years, like Tim Raines’ before he got in. I voted for Raines from the outset and watched other voters slowly change their minds about his worthiness. Perhaps it’s time to change my mind on Walker and admit he’s a Hall of Famer.
As for the local candidates, I did enjoy hearing that Sammy Sosa called a Hall of Fame voter to thank him for supporting him, though Sosa’s unique campaigning methods have yet to sway me on his overall merits.
Voting for always professional White Sox star Paul Konerko was a brief thought, but as much as I wanted to do it, I don’t think he cleared the bar.
Adam Dunn? Uh, no chance.
Alfonso Soriano? Sorry, babe.
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J.J. Putz? Are you serious?
Cleaning up the ballot from the zero-percenters should be a goal of the Hall of Fame committee in 2021.


chicagotribune--2020-01-20--Breaking down Patrick Kane’s milestone points, from No. 1 to No. 1,000

Even though the Hawks haven ’ t been to the postseason since 2017 , Kane has another 50 goals and @ @ @ @ @ games .
He trails the same three players — Stan Mikita , Denis Savard and @ @ @ @ @ points as he does in regular-season points , although the order is slightly different .
@ @ @ @ @ ’ all-time playoff points leader with 150 ( 59 goals , 91 assists ) while @ @ @ @ @ , 84 ) and Hull has 129 ( 62 , 67 ) .

Over the Blackhawks’ long and storied history, only Stan Mikita, Bobby Hull and Denis Savard had scored 1,000 points for the franchise.
On Sunday night, Patrick Kane’s name was added to that hallowed list.
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Scoring 1,000 points is such a rare accomplishment in the franchise’s history it had been nearly 30 years since it last happened. Kane, 31, was not quite 16 months old when Savard, the last to do it, assisted on a goal by Al Secord to record his 1,000th point at the Chicago Stadium on March 11, 1990.
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Now Kane will continue his ascension on the Hawks’ all-time scoring list with 468 points to go before he would surpass Mikita’s 1,467 points and end up on the top of it.
1,000 points in four charts
Patrick Kane’s milestone points
1st point: Oct. 6, 2007, vs. Red Wings
An assist on a goal by Tuomo Ruutu, the Hawks’ first-round pick in the 2001 draft. Kane also had his first career penalty in this game ... and the Hawks’ James Wisniewski scored a shorthanded goal on it.
100th point: Nov. 29, 2008, vs. Kings
Kane celebrates a power play goal on a pass from teammate Patrick Sharp against Los Angeles Kings, Nov. 29, 2008, in Los Angeles. (Danny Moloshok/Associated Press)
Scored a power-play goal with assists from Patrick Sharp and Brian Campbell. One of 106 power-play goals Kane has scored in his career.
It took 103 games to go from 0 points to 100
200th point: Jan. 26, 2010, at Oilers
Patrick Kane celebrates a Jonathan Toews goal with Andrew Ladd and Duncan Keith on the road against the Edmonton Oilers, Jan. 26, 2010. (John Ulan/Associated Press)
Assisted on a Jonathan Toews goal 44 seconds into the game. The earliest point he ever scored was on April 9, 2016, when he had a goal nine seconds into a game against the Blue Jackets.
It took 111 games to go from 101 points to 200
300th point: April 5, 2011, at Canadiens
Patrick Kane celebrates after scoring in the second period against the Montreal Canadiens in Montreal, April 5, 2011. (Francois Lacasse/NHLI via Getty Images)
A goal. It was the only goal in a 2-1 loss, one of 17 times Kane has scored the only goal for the Hawks during his career. On March 3, 2013, against the Red Wings he had the only Hawks goal and their only successful shootout attempt in a 2-1 win.
It took 99 games to go from 201 points to 300
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400th point: March 14, 2013, at Blue Jackets
Patrick Kane assisted on a goal by Johnny Oduya in the second period against the Columbus Blue Jackets on the road March 14, 2013. (Kirk Irwin/Getty Images)
The primary assist on Johnny Oduya’s goal in a 2-1 shootout victory. Kane also scored the clinching shootout goal.
It took 112 games to go from 301 points to 400
500th point: Oct. 26, 2014, vs. Senators
Jonathan Toews celebrates after scoring the game winner — along with a Patrick Kane assist — late in the 3rd period against the Ottawa Senators, Oct. 26, 2014. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune)
Secondary assist on Jonathan Toews’ goal, Duncan Keith with the primary assist. It took Kane 523 games to reach 500 points. It took him 430 games to get the next 500 points of his career.
It took 97 games to go from 401 points to 500
600th point: Dec. 8, 2015, vs. Predators
Patrick Kane scored in the third period at home against the Nashville Predators, Dec. 8, 2015. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)
An empty-net goal in a 4-1 win. Forty-one of Kane’s career points have come on empty-netters, including 24 goals and 17 assists.
It took 81 games to go from 501 points to 600
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700th point: Dec. 29, 2016, at Predators
Patrick Kane celebrates after scoring the winning goal against the Nashville Predators on the road, Dec. 29, 2016. (Mark Humphrey/AP)
He scored an unassisted game-winner with 5:12 remaining in the third period, one of 62 game-winning goals he has been credited with over his career.
It took 92 games to go from 601 points to 700
800th point: Jan. 20, 2018, vs. Islanders
Patrick Kane celebrates after scoring in the first period of a game against the New York Islanders, January 20, 2018. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)
Another unassisted goal became a milestone point, this time in a 7-3 loss. It’s one of just 16 unassisted goals Kane has scored in his career.
It took 90 games to go from 701 points to 800
900th point: Feb. 1, 2019, at Sabres
Patrick Kane scored in the third period against the Buffalo Sabres at the United Center, Nov. 17, 2019. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)
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He scored a breakaway goal, one of four points he had against his hometown team. Kane has 24 points in 18 games against the Sabres, among his highest points-per-game against any team but trails the 1.61 PPG he has against the Maple Leafs (29 points, 18 games). The most points he has against any team is the Blues (63 points, 64 games).
It took 87 games to go from 801 to 900
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1,000th point: Jan. 19, 2020, vs. Jets
Patrick Kane is mobbed by teammates after notching his 1,000th point with an assist on a goal by Brandon Saad against the Winnipeg Jets at the United Center, Jan. 19, 2020. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)
Skating behind the Jets net, Kane slipped a pass to Ryan Carpenter, who sent the puck over to Brandon Saad, who slid it into an open net. And with that assist late in the third period of a 5-2 win over the Jets, Kane became the 90th player in NHL history to record 1,000 points.
It took 81 games to go from 901 to 1,000
123 postseason points
Patrick Kane celebrates his third period goal in the Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)
Patrick Kane’s 1,000-point mark is for the regular season.
Even though the Hawks haven’t been to the postseason since 2017, Kane has another 50 goals and 73 assists in 127 playoff games. He trails the same three players — Stan Mikita, Denis Savard and Bobby Hull — in playoff points as he does in regular-season points, although the order is slightly different. Mikita is also the Hawks’ all-time playoff points leader with 150 (59 goals, 91 assists) while Savard has 145 (61, 84) and Hull has 129 (62, 67).


chicagotribune--2020-01-20--Ask Anna: Requesting that a partner get rid of pubic hair

I recently became “ official ” with my guy — it ’ s been about six weeks that we ’ @ @ @ @ @ was rosy until the other day when he asked me to get rid of all @ @ @ @ @ .
I already trim , so it ’ s not a yeti situation or anything @ @ @ @ @ be offended ?
He also has a full beard , and I would never ask @ @ @ @ @ of ” that — or wax his junk .
I ’ m angry and don @ @ @ @ @ to do about this .
Thank you .
— How Am I , Really ?

Ask Anna is a sex column. Because of the nature of the topic, some columns contain language some readers may find graphic.
Dear Anna,
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I recently became “official” with my guy — it’s been about six weeks that we’ve been dating. All was rosy until the other day when he asked me to get rid of all the hair … down there. I already trim, so it’s not a yeti situation or anything. Am I wrong to be offended? He also has a full beard, and I would never ask him to “get rid of” that — or wax his junk. I’m angry and don’t really know what to do about this. Thank you. — How Am I, Really?
Dear HAIR,
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Before we get to this, can someone please start an ’80s hair cover band called Yeti Situation? Please and thank you.
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OK. You have every right to be offended. Men have been policing women’s bodies for centuries — and other women police other women’s bodies too! We’ve been told basically since the womb that our lady parts are shameful and gross and smell weird — the Latin word for our genitals, pudenda, literally means “shameful parts.” It can feel especially awful when a partner says, “Change this thing about your body that I don’t like, so sex can be better for me and not you.”
It’s especially especially not fun when said request is costly, painful and time-consuming. Does he plan on footing the bill? Holding your hand as you get joint Brazilians? I thought not. If you haven’t already, you might say what you did to me and point out his hypocrisy — from what I know of men with beards, they tend to feel pretty intensely about them. He probably would not react kindly to you asking him to “get rid” of that.
You might also tell him that it’s your body, and you’ll do with it what you please — not what pleases him.
But Anna, I hear you (men) whisper-screaming, “Aren’t I entitled to my preferences?” You certainly are. But you’re not entitled to ask people to make alterations to their body that they don’t want for your sexual gratification alone. Particularly when the person asking would never return the favor.
Less aggressively, yes, you are allowed to have preferences. You can say something along the lines of, “I respect your bodily autonomy and think you’re sexy af no matter what you decide to do, and I also enjoy a bald beaver.” Then leave it at that.
Sex is already so fraught with insecurities. Telling a woman to “get rid of” her pubic hair when she doesn’t want to is not going to make her ripple with lust and sexual confidence. The opposite will happen. Men: Your own sex life will suffer.
Anyway, HAIR, hopefully you have some jumping off points to talk with your boyfriend about this. Keep an eye on things, though. If this is a symptom of a larger pattern of controlling behavior, then you’d do well to “get rid of” him.


chicagotribune--2020-01-20--Singer David Olney dies during performance in Florida

He had just completed a new album .
Brett Ryan Stewart wrote on his Facebook page : `` Yesterday , @ @ @ @ @ had spent the day making final revisions to the album we made with David Olney @ @ @ @ @ moment that we hit the save button , collectively yelling 'We did it ! '
@ @ @ @ @ David , who was in Florida performing , had passed away , on stage .
@ @ @ @ @ .
...
I am so grateful for our time together .
I recognized a kindred @ @ @ @ @ one .
His stories , his encouragement , his wisdom .
Hands down was of @ @ @ @ @ most thoughtful and charming curmudgeons to have graced the earth .
Was￼ really looking forward @ @ @ @

Nashville singer-songwriter David Olney died Saturday after collapsing onstage at the 30A Songwriters Festival in Santa Rosa Beach, Fla. He was 71. (Beth Gwinn/Getty Images)
Singer-songwriter David Olney has died at age 71, after falling silent and dropping his head in the midst of a performance at the 30A Songwriters Festival in Florida Saturday night.
Some news reports said he "collapsed" on stage, but that isn't quite true: Olney simply became still on his stool, leading some audience members and even the musicians beside him to think he was simply taking a pause, before they realized what had happened and lowered him to the stage.
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Olney was giving his second festival performance of the day as part of an "in the round" song-swap show with Amy Rigby, who was sitting next to him and described his last moments.
"Olney was in the middle of his third song when he stopped, apologized, and shut his eyes," Rigby wrote on Facebook. "He was very still, sitting upright with his guitar on, wearing the coolest hat and a beautiful rust suede jacket we laughed about because it was raining like hell outside the boathouse where we were playing -- I just want the picture to be as graceful and dignified as it was, because it at first looked like he was just taking a moment."
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Added Rigby, “Scott Miller had the presence of mind to say we needed to revive him. Doctors in the audience and 30A folks were all working so hard to get him to come to … We all lost someone important last night.”
Miller described the scene similarly in his own post: "David was playing a song when he paused, said 'I'm sorry' and put his chin to his chest. He never dropped his guitar or fell of his stool. It was as easy and gentle as he was. We got him down and tried our best to revive him until the EMTs arrived. ... The world lost a good one last night. But we still have his work. And it still inspires. And always will. RIP."
A half-hour performance Olney gave earlier in the day on his own was captured on video and posted to YouTube.
Olney was a revered figure in the folk-rock and Americana communities who had recorded 20 albums of his own as well as having his songs covered by Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Del McCoury and his former roommate Steve Earle.
The late Townes Van Zandt famously said of Olney: "Any time anyone asks me who my favorite music writers are… I say Mozart, Lightnin Hopkins, Bob Dylan and Dave Olney. Dave Olney is one of the best songwriters I've ever heard -- and that's true. I mean that from my heart."
Harris, in particular, brought attention to Olney as a songwriter with her covers of "Jerusalem Tomorrow" in 1993 and "Deeper Well" on her essential 1995 album "Wrecking Ball."
Olney first became known as a member of the X-Rays, a more raucous band that was signed to the Rounder label in the early 1980s and opened for acts like Elvis Costello. He also recorded for Rounder later in his prolific career as a solo artist, along with other labels like Philco.
He had just completed a new album. Brett Ryan Stewart wrote on his Facebook page: "Yesterday, myself, Anana and Irakli had spent the day making final revisions to the album we made with David Olney. In the very same moment that we hit the save button, collectively yelling 'We did it!' we got the news that David, who was in Florida performing, had passed away, on stage. It's all very surreal. ... I am so grateful for our time together. I recognized a kindred spirit in him from day one. His stories, his encouragement, his wisdom. Hands down was of the funniest, gentlest, most thoughtful and charming curmudgeons to have graced the earth. Was￼ really looking forward to more."
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The 30A Songwriters Festival takes place in 32 venues along coastal Florida's scenic Hwy 30A. The acoustic nature of many of the shows attracts folk, Americana and roots performers, although, with Brian Wilson as one of the headliners this year, it spotlights other genres as well.
Olney was doing his third performance of the fest when he passed away, having performed the previous night in-the-round with Amelia White and Mary Bragg before his solo show Saturday afternoon. He was also scheduled to appear this week at the Folk Alliance
gathering in New Orleans.
Born in 1948, the musician moved to Nashville in 1973 after and became part of what some would describe as a seminal alternative-country scene that included Earle, Van Zandt, Guy Clark and Rodney Crowell. Outside of performing his own material, Olney appeared at the Nashville Shakespeare Festival in shows like a contemporary updating of “As You Like It,” and he was known to write his own sonnets. Said Emmylou Harris, “David Olney tells marvelous stories, with characters who cling to the hope of enduring love, all the while crossing the deep divide into that long, dark night of the soul.”
Olney is survived by his wife, Regine, daughter, Lillian, and son, Redding. Services have not yet been set.
In the wake of his passing, some fans and friends posted videos that shared his lighter side, like his cover of the Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazlewood classic "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'," which revived the go-go choreography of the original.
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Others naturally opted for his more elegiac numbers, like "The Moment I Tell You Goodbye," with these lyrics:
The ceiling will fall to the floor
The windows will walk out the door
The old clock will run out of time
And reason will run out of rhyme
The sea will no longer be blue The truth will no lo longer be true
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And ev’rything left is a lie
The moment I tell you goodbye
Tomorrow will never begin Forever will come to an end
The sun will fall from the sky The moment I tell you goodbye


chicagotribune--2020-01-20--Winners and losers from the AFC and NFC championship games, including Rob Lowe’s hat, Ryan Tannehill

Winners and losers from the AFC and NFC championship games, including Rob Lowe’s hat, Ryan Tannehill’s nose and Andy Reid’s Miami diet plan

The next time the former Cowboys quarterback calls an NFL game , he looks to be making a lot more @ @ @ @ @ Romo ’ s contract with CBS has lapsed , and CBS and ESPN will vie @ @ @ @ @ the meantime , he doesn ’ t have to say a word , which should @ @ @ @ @ some reason — a cold , perhaps — his voice Sunday was unusually raspy .

For football fans, it’s tough to beat conference championship Sunday.
The Super Bowl is weighed down by pomp, ceremony and too-expensive ads that try too hard. The pregame show and halftime drag, bloated with music and hype.
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The AFC and NFC title games are simply football, not some unofficial holiday that caps two weeks of promotion, wearing everyone out.
The Chiefs and 49ers weren’t the only winners, and the Titans and Packers were hardly the only losers for those of us who spent Sunday in front of a screen.
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Loser: Bears fans
Whom do you root for in the Super Bowl?
Is it the team coached by Matt Nagy’s mentor with the quarterback the Bears didn’t draft? Or do you go for the one that fleeced Bears general manager Ryan Pace out of two third-round picks and a fourth-round pick in the 2017 draft to move up a spot and not select Patrick Mahomes or Deshaun Watson? Tough call.
Winner: Jim Nantz
CBS’ gold-standard announcer didn’t just plug the Super Bowl after the Chiefs’ victory — as if it needed a plug — he tied loose ends of history in a lovely bow.
“The game will be broadcast on Fox,” Nantz said. “When the Chiefs won Super Bowl IV, the game was called by Jack Buck. And how cool is it that his son, Joe, will be calling the Chiefs’ appearance 50 years later in this 100th season of the NFL?”
This is easily the nicest thing a college has ever done for my family and me on tv. What a great moment for my mom and sister as well. Thank you Jim Nantz. A classy, great broadcaster and friend. Congrats KC and SF. Should be a hell of a game. #SB54 pic.twitter.com/O92O0uVfQL — Joe Buck (@Buck) January 20, 2020
Loser: Joe Buck
Buck gets a lot of undeserved criticism, but he was all but egging on the trolls when he alluded to Kyle Shanahan being the son of longtime NFL coach Mike Shanahan and spoke of how those who get into their dad’s business have a lot to overcome.
No doubt it’s a burden in some respects. Buck certainly gets slammed for it despite continuing to earn his role at Fox. But even he knows it’s far harder getting into the business without a famous name for a calling card.
Joe Buck trying to convince the nation that Kyle Shanahan actually had a harder time getting a leg up in the industry because of his dad's success...no wonder there's barely any minority coaches 🙃 — benz_vettes_hummers_jets (@JetsBenz) January 20, 2020
Winner: Richard Sherman
Former NFL cornerback Darrelle Revis criticized Sherman on Twitter during the game for the 49ers cornerback’s style of play.
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The Stanford-educated Sherman responded as one might expect, tweeting that Revis is a has-been with only “the view from the couch” while Sherman will be busy preparing for the title game.
I would go in on this has been but I have a Super Bowl to prepare for. Enjoy the view from the couch. Your ninth year looked a lot different than this. Lmao https://t.co/jj3pwWYhVa — Richard Sherman (@RSherman_25) January 20, 2020
But then Sherman took a moment to fully consider what Revis had written and pointed out Revis’ use of “except” in place of “accept” — “Thought I would give you a lesson while I was here” — showing a knack for playing offense too.
And it’s “Accept”. Thought I would give you a lesson while I was here https://t.co/jj3pwWYhVa — Richard Sherman (@RSherman_25) January 20, 2020
Loser: Rob Lowe
Lowe is a genuine sports fan, and the hat with an NFL logo he wore at the Packers-49ers game looked pretty cool. But it seemed to upset some viewers with its neutral, “I’m not here to cheer” vibe.
At least Lowe didn’t drop into the booth for a visit with Buck and Troy Aikman to plug his new Fox series, “911: Lone Star,” which followed the game telecast.
Rob Lowe loves all 32 teams equally pic.twitter.com/RF9asBb2tA — Curtis Rogers (@AKidFromKent) January 20, 2020
Winner: Kansas City barbecue
Remember the Bears fan who sneaked a pumpkin pie and can of whipped cream into Soldier Field this season? The Chiefs can boast a fan who brought some eats with him worthy of a conference title game.
Video posted to social media showed a guy in the upper deck of Arrowhead Stadium wearing a Chiefs jersey and reaching under his jacket for a spare rib to munch. Nicely played, sir, and who wouldn’t want to smell like barbecue sauce all game?
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Loser: Travis Kelce
The Chiefs tight end caught three passes against the Titans but dropped an F-bomb when expressing his affection for Mahomes in the middle of Mahomes’ postgame interview with CBS’ Tracy Wolfson.
Winner: Andy Reid
While the Chiefs coach said he “was fired up to go to Miami” for the Super Bowl, he also observed, “I need to go on a diet so I can fit into my clothes.” Guess that makes him also a loser, but only in a good way.
Andy Reid getting that body ready for Miami 😂 pic.twitter.com/98wJNcQv6j — BBQ Chiefs (@BBQChiefs) January 20, 2020
Loser: Slofies
If the best new Apple phone feature is it enables people to make selfies in slow motion, then it’s a safe bet this isn’t an upgrade anyone needs. Would you even want to hang out with the people for whom this is a big selling point?
Winner: Jimmy Garoppolo
Sure hope Nagy saw that a team can win with a running game, even if the 49ers pushed it to an extreme.
Garoppolo, the 49ers quarterback and Rolling Meadows High School alumnus, threw only eight passes against the Packers, completing six for 77 yards, while the Niners rushed for 285 yards on 42 carries.
Raheem Mostert did the bulk of the work on the ground with 220 yards and four touchdowns on 29 runs. So Garoppolo’s arm should be more than rested against the Chiefs, assuming it’s even needed.
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Jimmy Garoppolo should call a play where he hands off and then just pulls out a folding chair and reads a newspaper or something — Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur) January 20, 2020
Loser: Ryan Tannehill
It’s one thing to have your nose to the grindstone, but CBS caught the Titans quarterback on the bench using his schnoz to swipe pages on his tablet. At least Tannehill didn’t make viewers see any picks.
It's so cold in KC that Ryan Tannehill is advancing the screen on his tablet WITH HIS NOSE! pic.twitter.com/hj0rANPf2y — NFLonCBS (@NFLonCBS) January 19, 2020
Winner: Tony Romo
The next time the former Cowboys quarterback calls an NFL game, he looks to be making a lot more money for the trouble. Romo’s contract with CBS has lapsed, and CBS and ESPN will vie for his services. In the meantime, he doesn’t have to say a word, which should be a relief because for some reason — a cold, perhaps — his voice Sunday was unusually raspy.


chicagotribune--2020-01-20--Changes are coming to the Cubs’ core. Nico Hoerner could lead the next wave — potentially from the l

Changes are coming to the Cubs’ core. Nico Hoerner could lead the next wave — potentially from the leadoff spot.

“ I look at the skill set , ” Dorey said Sunday as the Cubs Convention concluded .
“ This @ @ @ @ @ evaluated him in the draft and knowing that he has the requisite skills to hit @ @ @ @ @ lineup — get on base , disrupt the flow of the game with his legs @

While the Cubs face pressure to field a championship contender, there’s a possibility that their core could change considerably over the next two years as Kris Bryant, Javier Baez and Anthony Rizzo could depart via trade or free agency.
But that also means the team’s top prospects will have opportunities to move up.
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“The last couple years they probably thought it was unattainable for them to be a part of,” said Matt Dorey, the Cubs’ senior director of player development. “Now it’s a reality again. They can be a member of the next core.
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“I hope that we can continue to add to our current and existing (core) and win this year. I really feel they have the talent to do that. But I’m excited about the opportunity, especially about the 2018 and (2019) drafts.”
To prove his point, Dorey, who spent the last six seasons as director of amateur scouting, mentioned Nico Hoerner, the Cubs’ first-round pick in the 2018 draft, as a future candidate for the leadoff spot.
Expand Autoplay Image 1 of 74 Kris Bryant is introduced. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)
Hoerner, 22, played impressively during a three-week stint with the Cubs in September after he was promoted because of injuries to Baez and the since-departed Addison Russell.
The Cubs still could add a leadoff hitter before opening day, but Dorey cited many of Hoerner’s skills that could eventually give the Cubs their first bona fide leadoff hitter since Dexter Fowler in 2015-16.
“I look at the skill set,” Dorey said Sunday as the Cubs Convention concluded. “This is really from how we evaluated him in the draft and knowing that he has the requisite skills to hit at the top of the lineup — get on base, disrupt the flow of the game with his legs.
“He has a chance to develop into that player. Whether that happens, this year, next year or (he) ends up hitting in the two (spot), he has the skill set to do that.”
Hoerner had only 375 minor-league plate appearances (none at Triple A) before his major-league debut. He held his own with a .282 batting average in 78 at-bats, but his on-base percentage slipped from .365 during his two minor-league seasons to .305 in the majors.
“He knew the league didn’t know him, and he wanted to get off his A swing as early as he could in the at-bat as the league was trying to figure him out, maybe trying to steal a strike early,” Dorey said.
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“A big part of his development plan moving forward will be more plate discipline, making better decisions and having the ability and comfort to grind more at-bats and hitting with two strikes. That’s what we’ll evaluate in spring training, and Nico is aware of that. We’ll see how it plays out.”
Nco Hoerner celebrates in the Cubs dugout after hitting a 3-run home run in the sixth inning against the Pirates at Wrigley Field on Sept. 14, 2019. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)
Hoerner began the 2018 season as Stanford’s leadoff hitter before moving down into run-producing spots in the batting order.
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Hoerner could lead a wave of players from the last two drafts who could ascend quickly, depending on how the Cubs fare.
The overhaul of the player development department, with Craig Breslow and Justin Stone serving as directors of pitching and hitting, was designed in part to maximize the skills of the minor-league players.
“It’s more making sure we’re the leader and not the follower,” Dorey said.
Brailyn Marquez, the organization’s top pitching prospect, is likely to start 2020 at Double-A Tennessee.
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Marquez struck out 48 and walked eight in his final 38⅓ innings at Class A South Bend and Myrtle Beach last year after walking 42 in his first 65⅓ innings. He will be examined closely by several new instructors and their pitching lab in Mesa, Ariz., to ensure his mechanics are sound before they send him to an affiliate.
“This next really long season is such a big year for him,” Dorey said. “But it would be foolish to put any cap on what he can do this year. We just want to have him stay healthy and get to know a lot of our new pitching coaches, which will be important.”
Especially because Yu Darvish and Kyle Hendricks are the only starters signed past 2020.


chicagotribune--2020-01-20--Daywatch: A new leader for the Illinois Senate, a long weed shortage and a spike in robberies in the

Daywatch: A new leader for the Illinois Senate, a long weed shortage and a spike in robberies in the swanky Gold Coast neighborhood

Robberies have more than doubled in the last five years in this swath of Chicago ’ s central business district @ @ @ @ @ ’ s most affluent neighborhoods , including Gold Coast , Streeterville , Magnificent Mile and @ @ @ @ @ numbers pale in comparison to the violence that plagues some Chicago neighborhoods on the South @ @ @ @ @ as well as tourists expect better for an area boasting the highest real estate values @ @ @ @

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Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, takes the oath of office to become the next Illinois Senate President on Jan. 19, 2020. (Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register)
Oak Park Democrat Don Harmon was chosen as Illinois Senate president on Sunday, taking the helm of the General Assembly’s upper chamber at a critical time in Springfield.
Harmon, who has had ambitions to lead the chamber since at least 2009 when retiring Senate President John Cullerton took over from Emil Jones Jr., assumes the top leadership post in the Senate at a time when Democrats hold a supermajority in both General Assembly chambers but as the shadow of an ongoing federal corruption investigation has ensnared multiple lawmakers and left the Capitol on edge.
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Nicholas Thomas, left, and Joe Wright, right, prepare school safety signs as part of the AmeriCorps Urban Safety Program at Wayne State University's Center for Urban Studies. (Corey Williams / AP)
As the nation marks the holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, the mood surrounding it is overshadowed by deteriorating race relations in an election season that has seen one candidate of color after another quit the 2020 presidential race.
People have the right to be — and should be — concerned about the state of race relations and the way people of color, in particular, are being treated, said Jill Savitt, president of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, who said many people “are showing their hatred openly.”
Officers patrol along North Michigan Avenue on Jan. 13, 2020 in downtown Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
Seven robberies between Christmas Eve and Jan. 7 – most of them within a block of one another near Water Tower Place – continued a worrisome trend for those living in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood, one of the city’s most affluent areas.
Robberies have more than doubled in the last five years in this swath of Chicago’s central business district and some of the city’s most affluent neighborhoods, including Gold Coast, Streeterville, Magnificent Mile and River North. While the numbers pale in comparison to the violence that plagues some Chicago neighborhoods on the South and West sides, residents as well as tourists expect better for an area boasting the highest real estate values in the city.
Customers wait to enter the store after long lines on the second day of recreational cannabis sales on Jan. 2, 2020, outside Sunnyside in Lakeview. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
The long lines, product shortages and store closures seen since the state authorized legal sales starting on New Year’s Day are not unusual for newly legal markets. But the tight market is expected to continue longer than in other states in part because Illinois has only 21 cultivation warehouses, far fewer than in many other states with legal cannabis.
The limit on growers is because existing medical marijuana growers insisted they could supply the market without any new cultivation licenses, despite studies showing the opposite.
Students at Shepard High School want this former Dominick's site to be transformed into something useful for the community. (Jeff Vazzana)
A group of high school students working on an assignment on how to make the world a better place decided to try to revive the site of a former Dominick’s grocery store, now a depressing vacant storefront. They wanted to bring the site back to life, possibly with an arcade or skating joint.
Instead they got a lesson in how well-intentioned ideas can get swept aside by corporate policy.
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Metra commuters ride on a BNSF train from Chicago Union Station on Sept. 27, 2017. (Zbigniew Bzdak / Chicago Tribune)
Metra put leaflets on trains Friday morning to remind customers to pay their fare, or risk being booted off the train. Leaflets placed on seats on the commuter railroad told riders that there would be “stepped-up efforts by Metra staff this year to make sure everyone is paying what they should be paying.”
Jaspreet Singh, who works on United Airline's in-flight entertainment systems, said posting work-related photos on Instagram came naturally to a lifelong “aviation geek.” (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)
Most major companies already have a presence on social media. Many partner with professional influencers hired for their audience. But some are now trying to add their own employees to the mix, whether they’re trying to attract customers, recruit new hires or just boost a brand’s image.
A water tower in Bourbonnais, Ill., that touts the village as the summer home of the Chicago Bears is seen June 26, 2019. The Bears' summer training will now be in Lake Forest. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago / Chicago Tribune)
For nearly two decades, Bears fans flocked to Bourbonnais each summer, giving a financial boost to the once-obscure Kankakee County village’s economy. Now that the team is moving its training camp to expanded facilities in Lake Forest, the village is suddenly facing a loss of revenue, a potential identity crisis and a much quieter summer for bars, restaurants and other businesses.
“Everyone is just devastated,” said Tina Vasilakis, manager of the family-owned Brickstone Brewery, a trendy Bourbonnais brewpub that drew Bears players and fans during training camp. “We definitely saw a boost. We’ll miss that.”


chicagotribune--2020-01-19--4 takeaways from the Blackhawks’ 5-2 win over the Jets, including the bench-clearing celebration for

4 takeaways from the Blackhawks’ 5-2 win over the Jets, including the bench-clearing celebration for Patrick Kane’s 1,000th career point

“ It ’ s a chance to honor Joel , ” Colliton said .
`` It ’ s a big @ @ @ @ @ and he was great to me so I want to honor him too because it @ @ @ @ @ of the reason why I came here to begin with is because he was here @ @ @ @ @ beat him because they ’ re two big points for our team , and we @ @ @ @ @ to sit on that game for a bunch of days ( because the All-Star break @ @ @

Blackhawks right wing Patrick Kane acknowledges the crowd after a win over the Jets. Kane scored his 1,000th career point in the third period. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
The inevitably of Patrick Kane’s 1,000th career point has been clear for years even if the anticipation of the milestone began to build in earnest over the last few days.
Every time Kane touched the puck Sunday, a wave of excitement surged through the crowd of 21,487 at the United Center, so in that sense it was like every other game over the last 13 seasons.
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But this was a chance to witness history, and as he has done so often through his brilliant career, Kane delivered.
His pass from behind the Jets’ net to Ryan Carpenter was sent over to Brandon Saad, who slid it into an open net. And with that assist late in the third period of a 5-2 win over the Jets, Kane became the 90th player in NHL history to record 1,000 points.
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The fans erupted, his teammates jumped the bench in an orchestrated response to mob Kane, and a few minutes later Kane was back in the Hawks locker room talking about the memorable moment.
Patrick Kane becomes the youngest American-born player to reach 1,000 points 🙌#PK1K pic.twitter.com/Tc1h0WgX5R — BlackhaWWWWWks Talk (@NBCSBlackhawks) January 20, 2020
“I knew I had two games here where I had a chance to get it,” he said. "I was hoping to get it done here at home before we went on a long break. The team is rolling right now, too, so there’s a lot of good things happening. We’re playing well. It’s nice to get it here at home in front of the crowd, get a win in front of the crowd and to have it come in a win.
"It’s a pretty special day."
Here are four takeaways from Kane’s 1,000th career point and an important victory for the Hawks:
1. The bench-clearing lovefest was a Jonathan Toews production.
Moments after it was clear that Kane had registered his 1,000th point, he was mobbed by the four linemates on the ice with him: Saad, Carpenter, Erik Gustafsson and Connor Murphy.
But in something that Kane never saw coming — and which coach Jeremy Colliton later revealed was planned by team captain Jonathan Toews — every player on the bench jumped the boards to in a show of friendship, joy and appreciation for their teammate.
“I don’t know who orchestrated that or what that was about, but I’m sure ‘Tazer’ probably had something to do with that,” Kane said. “That’s a special moment. Obviously, there’s great leadership in this room.”
Blackhawks right wing Patrick Kane, No. 88, celebrates with teammates after scoring his 1,000th career point on an assist against the Jets on Jan. 19, 2020, at the United Center. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
This wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment decision by Toews. He had cleared it with the referees during Saturday’s game against the Maple Leafs, and also cleared it with the officials on Sunday. He wanted to make sure Kane had his moment without the team getting an unsportsmanlike penalty.
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“What a moment, obviously, with everyone coming onto the ice and sharing that moment with me,” Kane said. “You see some faces in that pile that have been a big part of a lot of those points, whether it’s been Tazer or ‘Duncs’ (Duncan Keith) or (Alex) DeBrincat recently, ‘Saader’ (Brandon Saad) to finish it off I think was pretty cool.”
2. Kane’s parents weren’t able to be at the United Center.
Patrick Kane Sr. famously tries to make it to all of his son’s games at the United Center. Last season, he made it to all 41 home games.
But in a cruel twist of fate, neither of Kane’s parents were able to get to Chicago after their hometown of Buffalo, N.Y., was socked by snowstorms and they couldn’t get out.
Patrick Kane Sr. doesn’t like to fly, his son said, and they weren’t able to make the drive to Chicago. The weather was bad enough that they weren’t able to make the roughly two-hour drive from Buffalo to Toronto on Saturday to see their son score his 999th point against the Maple Leafs.
"It’s tough not having them here," Kane said. "They’ve been a big part of my career. I’m sure I’ll talk to them after this and hopefully there will be some better moments in the future that they’ll be here for."
3. Well, that didn’t take long.
It took 952 games for Kane to reach 999 points. It took him 103 minutes, 12 seconds of playing time to go from there to 1,000.
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Kane scored the 999th point of his career with eight minutes, 58 seconds left in the first period of Saturday's 6-2 win over the Maple Leafs. He picked up his 1,000th point with 5:46 left in the third period against the Jets.
Asked if it was nice to get the 1,000th point over with, he was unequivocal that it was. Not because it was a drain on him but because the Hawks have more important things to think about.
“I think I’ve been playing OK lately, but I think I can play a little bit better,” Kane said. "It’s nice to have it out of the way. Now I can just kind of focus on my game and where I can improve and help this team out.
“Our team has been playing great. We have a lot of timely depth scoring right now and that’s been helping us get these wins and kind of get on a roll here, so we’re in a good spot. We have one more game here before the (NHL All-Star) break, so it would be nice to get a win and enjoy the time off.”
4. In other news, the Blackhawks won a huge game.
If the Hawks were distracted by Kane going for his 1,000th point, they sure didn't play like it.
Their season-high fifth straight win was similar to the previous four in that they were in control most of the way, played with a confidence that hadn’t been seen earlier in the season and came really close to playing a complete game.
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There were some blemishes. Drake Caggiula taking four minor penalties, including one for unsportsmanlike conduct, was a noticeable one. But other than that they stuck to a familiar script.
The penalty kill was perfect, the offensive production was spread around and goalie Robin Lehner was nearly impenetrable with 36 saves, including all 13 shots he saw on the power play. Alex Nylander had a goal and an assist, Kirby Dach picked up his second point in his last 29 games and David Kampf had his sixth goal of the season.
Blackhawks left wing Alex Nylander, left, celebrates with teammate Matthew Highmore after scoring a goal against the Jets during the first period Jan. 19, 2020, at the United Center. Nylander had a goal and an assist in the Hawks' 5-2 win. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
One game remains before the All-Star break — Tuesday’s game against the Panthers and Joel Quenneville in what should be an emotional reunion — and Jeremy Colliton wants to keep this streak going.
“We’ve had trouble in a couple of these situations early in the year where we started playing better and then we take a step back,” Colliton said. “And there will be a step back at some point, but the best teams they find a way to ride the wave when they’re playing well and build momentum, and then when you do take that inevitable step back, turn it on as quick as you can.”
The timing of Quenneville’s return should make for an exciting game and another memorable evening. The Panthers have won four straight — they play at the Wild on Monday — and are also in need of every point they can get as they try to nail down a playoff berth.
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For Colliton, it can't hurt that he has the Hawks firing on all cylinders right now and may not have to hear boos from the same crowd that is likely to give Quenneville a standing ovation.
“It’s a chance to honor Joel,” Colliton said. "It’s a big night for the organization, and he was great to me so I want to honor him too because it’s a big part of the reason why I came here to begin with is because he was here. Obviously we want to beat him because they’re two big points for our team, and we’re going to have to sit on that game for a bunch of days (because the All-Star break follows).
“We’re going to have to prepare with all the detail and excitement that we can muster, and then I’m sure there will be a lot of energy in the building and we’ve got to use it in the right way.”
Here is coverage from Sunday’s win:
Patrick Kane became the fourth player to score 1,000 points in a Blackhawks uniform when he hit the milestone in the third period of the Blackhawks’ 5-2 victory — their fifth straight — over the Jets on Sunday night at the United Center.
Kane, 31, had an assist on Brandon Saad’s goal to join Hall of Famers Stan Mikita, Bobby Hull and Denis Savard.
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Kane, who is the 90th player in NHL history to hit the 1,000-point mark, did it in the 953rd game of his career. He is the seventh active player to reach 1,000 points along with Joe Thornton, Alex Ovechkin, Sidney Crosby, Patrick Marleau, Evgeni Malkin and Eric Staal.
According to the NHL, Kane is the youngest U.S. player to reach the milestone. Kane, 31 years, 61 days old, eclipsed former Blackhawk Jeremy Roenick, who was 32 years, 13 days old when he did it.
The Hawks improved to 24-20-6 and pulled to within three points of the Coyotes for the final Western Conference wild-card spot. Robin Lehner had 36 saves for his sixth win in his last seven starts.
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The Blackhawks took a 1-0 lead less than three minutes into the game on Alex Nylander’s sixth goal of the season and first in his last 11 games.
Nylander took a pass from Erik Gustafsson as he was skating through the slot and moved around goalie Connor Hellebuyck before deftly putting a backhander just inside the far goal post.
Gustafsson scored his sixth of the season and the first in his last 10 games on a wrist shot from near the top of the left faceoff circle to make it 2-0.
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Drake Caggiula took four minor penalties in the first two periods, including a double-minor that gave the Jets a four-minute power play, but Lehner stopped 13 shots while the Hawks were down a man to keep the Jets off the scoreboard. The Hawks penalty kill has allowed just three goals in the last 39 opportunities over their last 16 games.
The Jets finally beat Lehner with 1:55 left in the second on Mark Scheifele’s rebound goal to pull within 2-1.
David Kampf scored his seventh goal of the season midway through the period to restore the Hawks’ two-goal lead. Kirby Dach picked up his second point and first assist in his last 29 games.
Dominik Kubalik sealed the victory with an empty-net goal, his 21st of the season.


chicagotribune--2020-01-21--Piles of bones, a deadly fire, an animal cruelty arrest: Unraveling what went wrong at a former Illi

Piles of bones, a deadly fire, an animal cruelty arrest: Unraveling what went wrong at a former Illinois animal sanctuary

“ I don ’ t think we had been alerted to anything concerning , ” she said .
“ We @ @ @ @ @ up our processes , in terms of evaluating what rescue partners we will transfer animals @ @ @ @ @ see something like this , it makes you look at your own processes to see @ @ @ @ @ .
This was disappointing to see that this had happened .
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An animal sanctuary was operated on this property in Thawville, Illinois, where former board members say they found remains of hundreds of animals. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)
THAWVILLE, Ill. — A tangle of rusting animal cages and the piled wreckage of a burned-down barn sit behind an old house, left to gray as paint peels and wood siding rots in tiny Thawville, Illinois.
This was once a sanctuary for abandoned animals, many placed there by Chicago-area rescue groups. Small sheds and barns housed pigs and goats, ducks and doves, turtles, lizards, chinchillas, peacocks, and cats and dogs.
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Now the sanctuary has itself been abandoned. The woman who ran it, Corinne Dilorenzo, has been indicted on a felony charge of aggravated animal cruelty, and the Illinois attorney general’s division that oversees charitable groups is also investigating. And two former board members of the now-defunct nonprofit sanctuary say they found the remains of at least 200 animals there.
The remains were discovered last summer, in various states of decomposition, after the board members of EARTH Animal Sanctuary — located at the edge of Thawville, a town of about 240 people 100 miles south of Chicago — said they went to check out the property after losing contact with Dilorenzo.
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“There are so many people … who told us about animals they surrendered to her in good faith that she promised to care for and protect and allow them to live out their life in peace," said Jodie Wiederkehr, executive director for Chicago Alliance for Animals.
Authorities declined to discuss the specifics of their case against Dilorenzo, and there is no indication in the court records of how the animals died. But in November, a grand jury indicted Dilorenzo under seal, and a warrant was issued for her arrest. She was taken into custody on Christmas Eve in Will County, where she posted $1,000 bail. She made her first appearance in Iroquois County court on the charges last week. Neither Dilorenzo nor her attorney could be reached for comment.
A former EARTH Animal Sanctuary board member finds animal remains inside a black plastic bag last summer on the sanctuary property in Thawville. Two former board members and an archaeologist scoured the site after a losing contact with the sanctuary's director. (Photo provided by Brian Duda)
A pig named Oswald
Dilorenzo was the type of person who would never refuse an animal a home if it needed one, according to people who knew or had worked with her.
Acquaintances would later tell Iroquois County authorities that she “was very well-known in the ‘animal rescue community’ and started helping animals when she was a student in Bloomington, IL, or before," a police report states. She would eventually take in hundreds of animals, placed there by private citizens, rescues and public animal control agencies, including DuPage County’s.
That passion led her to start the nonprofit sanctuary in 2014, purchasing property for the operation in the nonprofit’s name next to her home in Thawville. Dilorenzo fostered ties with Chicago-area animal rights advocates and rescue groups, who would come to place rescued animals with her.
But problems in Thawville appear to have started the same year, with local resident Bob Lange and a pig named Oswald.
“I’m the animal catcher in town,” Lange told the Tribune. “Some neighbors called and said there’s a pig running loose, a block away, maybe further. I put it in the back of my truck."
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Lange is a town board member and a hog farmer. He mows the grass road adjacent to the sanctuary.
Corinne Dilorenzo was taken into custody in Will County on Christmas Eve and charged with animal cruelty. (Will County sheriff's office)
Dilorenzo accused Lange of stealing Oswald. Posts on the sanctuary’s Facebook page at the time referred to Oswald as a family pet and said a search party had been organized.
Lange would later tell authorities that he brought the pig to Dilorenzo’s property but, finding no one home, “unloaded it inside of the front gate," according to a police report.
But Lange said the animal was among many that escaped from the sanctuary. Moreover, as a local official, he said he was troubled that she was “openly" advertising her animal sanctuary, despite local ordinances that prohibit most farm animals, including pigs, from being kept within the village limits.
Tensions between the neighbors continued to escalate. Lange said that, at one point, Dilorenzo and another person showed up on his farm and starting digging a hole, looking for the pig they believed was missing. He said they left after he told them he was going to call the police.
Dilorenzo, in turn, complained that Lange was “harassing” her by taking photos of her property, was “attempting to spy and snoop on my family," and had “loitered in front of my home on at least five occasions,” according to a court petition she filed in 2015 seeking an order of protection against Lange.
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A judge granted an emergency protective order against Lange, but quashed it soon after when Lange responded that his actions were an attempt to document that she “maintaining illegally” the animal sanctuary, court records show.
Years later, in May 2019, the village of Thawville would cite Dilorenzo for keeping prohibited animals, keeping animals in an unsanitary condition and creating a public nuisance affecting health, according to court documents. That was months after a fire broke out on the property in which dozens of animals were killed.
Hog farmer Bob Lange said he was trying to document problems at the nearby sanctuary, resulting in the operator seeking an order of protection against him. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)
A ‘suspicious’ fire
By the time of the fire in September 2018, there were other indications of problems, according to public records and people familiar with the operation.
The state of Illinois had dissolved EARTH Animal Sanctuary’s nonprofit corporation in 2016 for “failure to submit the proper yearly documentation,” according to an Iroquois County sheriff’s report. And Dilorenzo had started cutting contact with Chicago-area animal rights activists, Brian Duda, a former sanctuary board member, said in an interview.
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Duda said he was in a romantic relationship with Dilorenzo during much of the time she was taking in animals in Thawville. He would commute to see her and her son from his home in suburban Lisle, helping take care of the animals.
The couple got engaged in September 2017, but Duda said the relationship was rocky and the pair broke up months later. Around the same time, he would later tell sheriff’s investigators, “'the animals just started dying off’ for unknown reasons,” according to a police report.
“In mid-2018, several people advised that Corinne would not return calls, texts or e mails to donors or other people in the animal rescue community,” a sheriff’s department report states.
Then on the night of Sept. 2, 2018, Dilorenzo’s son woke her up after noticing lights coming from outside their home, police records state. Several area fire departments responded, and by the time the fire was struck out, a barn and a smaller outbuilding were destroyed, the report states.
Dilorenzo told investigators she lost 40 animals in the fire: eight pigs, six ducks, six geese and 20 chickens, the report states.
The sheriff’s department classified the fire as suspicious, the report shows, and noted that “it appeared that an accelerant had been used to start the fire in the duck pen and identified what (an investigator) identified as a pour pattern leading from the structure to the gate in the location where the wooden matches were located.”
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Dilorenzo reported to authorities the following day that she “had noticed several suspicious circumstances on and near her property," such as the discovery of wooden matches outside of her duck pen and a gas can found on an adjacent property.
A January 2019 sheriff’s report said several people who knew Dilorenzo “had commented that that they were unaware of the fire in September of 2018 and were very surprised and concerned that she had not reached out to them for help as she had done in the past.”
Former members of EARTH’s board said they found out about the fire after seeing an online fundraiser in which Dilorenzo was seeking donations to recover from it.
No one has been charged in connection with the fire, according to the state’s attorney.
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The property in tiny Thawville, Illinois, that used to house an animal sanctuary is now abandoned. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)
Animal waste in the house, a dead pig outside
In January 2019, after someone called the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services hotline about the “deplorable conditions of the residence,” officials obtained a search warrant to check on the condition of the home and of Dilorenzo’s teenage son, according to a sheriff’s department report.
The son appeared in good health, but officials found so much filth in the home that investigators forbade him from residing there, according to the report.
“Animal feces, hair and unknown other excrements were present in several locations on the bare wood floors,” said the sheriff’s report, which also states that authorities found a dozen live animals in the house and a dead pig outside that Dilorenzo said she couldn’t bury because the ground was frozen. It appeared other animals had been feasting on the remains, the report noted.
During this visit, Dilorenzo confirmed one of the pigs had recently escaped and was found on Illinois Route 54 on the edge of town. The pigs she had “appeared to be thin and neither had food or water at the time that they were checked,” the report stated.
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Former EARTH Animal Sanctuary board members say they searched the sanctuary site in Thawville last summer and found the remains of hundreds of dead animals on the property. (Photo provided by Brian Duda)
Iroquois County State’s Attorney James Devine said the county investigation into Dilorenzo’s sanctuary was opened after that visit to the property in January 2019. Chicago-area activists also began pushing him to pursue the case, he said.
The report also notes a previous fire that occurred before Dilorenzo moved to Thawville, while she was living in a mobile home on the property of Wedrose Acres, another animal sanctuary near Gridley, Illinois, about 45 miles west of Thawville.
She moved into that mobile home and, though the operator of the sanctuary told her she couldn’t house her own animals at the property, she built a chicken coop that burned down, killing the chickens, according to the sheriff’s report. That fire, the operator told police, was caused by electric wiring run to the coop to power space heaters.
“You wouldn’t even believe it,” Tobein Tegard, operator of Wedrose Acres, told the Tribune. “It was a terrible situation. I saw this awful fire and called her to ask what was burning, and she said she wasn’t home. It’s heartbreaking. It was so much (fire) that you couldn’t get in to rescue any of them.”
A dig turns up skulls, teeth
Last June, after months of not being able to get definitive answers from Dilorenzo or authorities about the status of the animals at the sanctuary, Melissa Pena, a former EARTH Animal Sanctuary board member, said she and two others drove to Thawville to check things out themselves.
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Dilorenzo was not at the property, Pena said, but they found a shallow ditch in a pasture with animals in bags and on blankets, layered on top of one another.
“There were bones everywhere. It was like a nightmare,” Pena said. “It was horrible. Skulls, teeth. Crushed skulls, pieces, it was horrible.”
Pena and the others present told the state’s attorney and sheriff what they found but said they were told by the rural county's officials that they didn’t have the resources to undertake a thorough dig.
So Pena, Duda and others went to the property to try and inventory the animals they found, later bringing in an archaeologist and students from Illinois State University to help. The archaeologist produced a report, submitted to county authorities, indicating 190 separate sets of animals remains were found. Board members said additional remains were later discovered in other parts of the property. Devine said their findings will be included in the case against Dilorenzo.
It’s not clear when Dilorenzo moved away or whether any live animals remained at the sanctuary at that time.
One of the public agencies that had associated with EARTH Animal Sanctuary was DuPage County Animal Services, which had placed more than 70 animals there since 2014, in part because the sanctuary accepted barn animals, said Laura Flamion, operations manager for the agency. But those placements had tapered off in the last few years.
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“I don’t think we had been alerted to anything concerning,” she said. “We are always trying to tighten up our processes, in terms of evaluating what rescue partners we will transfer animals to. … When you see something like this, it makes you look at your own processes to see if anything need to update. This was disappointing to see that this had happened.”
Lange, the Thawville pig farmer, said the town has been watching the drama unfold on Facebook since the dig.
As shocking as the discovery of the bones was, Duda said that, in hindsight, there were red flags that things might have been amiss.
"We all feel duped and suckered and it hurts,” Duda said. “It stings the whole community. It’s affecting animal rights communities, shelters, rescues. Rescues and shelters after this, they don’t know what to do anymore. They look bad because of this. They trusted her ... and all those lives are gone.”
This story has been updated to reflect that Dilorenzo made an initial appearance in court last week on the animal cruelty charge.
pnickeas@chicagotribune.com


chicagotribune--2020-01-20--Ask Amy: Long-ago abuse brings on questions now

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Dear Amy: About 15 years ago (in high school), a close friend of mine was sexually assaulted at my house during a party I hosted while my parents were away.
It happened overnight in the guest room by a then-trusted boy (a platonic friend) from another school.
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I remember her calmly waking me up that night asking if she could sleep in my room. The next day the boy was gone, and she told me what had happened. Our assessment at that time was: "Ugh, what a creep!" She told me she'd gone home after the party and had to take several showers. A few weeks later he dropped by our school and she ran to the bathroom and vomited into the toilet.
Despite all of this, I never asked her about it, and I now feel terrible.
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We've remained close over the years. We were bridesmaids in each other's weddings and had our children in the same year. Although we visit each other several times a year, our communication between visits tends to be limited to brief texts to plan the next visit.
About a year ago, my family and I were at her home when I noticed that she had a book on overcoming trauma.
I immediately thought of that night in high school. Now I think about it all the time. I'm wracked with guilt that it happened in my house, that I didn't do more, and that I never asked her about it.
Should I ask her about it, and if so, how? I don't want to bring up painful memories for her in order to alleviate my own guilt.
— Bad Friend
Dear Bad Friend: Your plaintive question is yet another example of how the impact of sexual assault ripples outward. Sexual assault has been much in the news lately, not because it is happening more often, but because we are finally talking about it!
Yes, you should talk to your friend. When you don't know how to say something, you can start with: "I'm not really sure how to say this..." You do not want to offload all of your feelings of guilt. You DO want to create a safe space for her to say whatever she wants to say, including, possibly, "I really don't want to talk about this."
Because you two do not maintain regular verbal contact, send a text: "Hey, I have something I want to talk to you about. Can you set aside some time so we can have a private call?"
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Tolerate some silence. Tell your friend, "I love you; you are important to me. I hate the fact that you were hurt." If she says, "Oh, I never think about it," then you can respond, "Well, I've felt bad about this for a long time, and I hope you're OK."
Dear Amy: I am a 57-year-old woman. I want to encourage those interested in meeting a potential partner online not to give up.
Four years ago, after a breakup, I posted profiles on a couple of free dating sites. I met different gentlemen for coffee two or three times a week for a year. This was not a date. It was a meeting in a public place to discover whether we had any interest in scheduling a date.
I never felt unsafe or threatened. During that year, I met 103 different men. Eleven of those encounters ended with us making plans. (Ninety percent of the time I realized that I was not interested.)
Ten of the men and I went on to have a range of experiences -- from one dinner, to dating for several weeks or months.
Fortunately, regardless of what else I was doing, I continued my coffee meetings. Number 103 turned out to be the love of my life, and we have been happily married for three years now.
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My philosophy was, "It's a half-hour of my life, a cup of coffee ... what do I have to lose?"
By the way, I had 103 meetings, but my husband only had one: me!
I am so grateful that I didn't give up.
— Happy With #103
Dear Happy: This is impressive. Thank you for the useful primer. Here's to #103!
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Dear Amy: I appreciated your advice for "Clueless," the hopelessly shy guy who wanted to meet potential friends and perhaps a romantic partner.
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He might also have success if he volunteers for a cause he believes in.
— Been There
Dear Been There: Absolutely. Conversation is easier when you are working alongside other people.
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chicagotribune--2020-01-20--A familiar story plays out again as the Bulls fade in the 2nd half of a 111-98 loss to the Bucks

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MILWAUKEE — One of the most confusing parts about these games, the ones in which Lauri Markkanen fades down the stretch, is that they usually begin with so much promise.
The Bulls start out looking to get Markkanen involved, like they did Saturday night against the Cavaliers and briefly during Monday’s 111-98 loss to the Bucks. He’ll even put together a strong first half, like his eight points and seven rebounds before the break in Milwaukee.
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What follows is perplexing.
Sometimes Markkanen sits on the bench for an extended period. Sometimes he follows up with a performance like Monday’s second half, when he was scoreless with one rebound. Usually he ends up standing around beyond the 3-point arc, not spending much time shooting the ball or attacking the rim.
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This was the second time in three games Markkanen failed to score in the second half in what is quickly becoming a disappointing season in which his usage is a nightly issue. That’s the first of three takeaways from the Bulls’ loss to the Bucks.
1. Lauri Markkanen’s perplexing season continues.
More than half of Markkanen’s field-goal attempts this season are from beyond the arc.
He had opportunities to shoot Monday, and both he and coach Jim Boylen will admit Markkanen missed some clean attempts in going 2-for-11 from the field and 0-for-7 from 3-point range. It further emphasized another point, that Markkanen shoots almost exclusively from beyond the arc now, rarely getting a chance to score around the basket.
“If you shoot the ball like that, you don’t deserve touches,” Markkanen said. “So you can’t really complain.”
Maybe he has a point, but the Bulls need to find someone to score alongside Zach LaVine. They hoped Markkanen, their second-most talented offensive player, would be ready to take that step forward in his third season. Could a chance at more shots near the basket help him contribute on nights when his outside shot is not falling?
“I think I can do a lot of good things besides just shoot 3s but obviously haven’t been able to do that lately,” Markkanen said. “So just got to figure out the ways that I can attack the rim more and get to the free-throw line.”
Lauri Markkanen drives past a leaping Bucks' Ersan Ilyasova during the first half. (Aaron Gash/AP)
Some of the blame goes on Markkanen, who needs to be more aggressive on offense most nights. Some of the blame falls on Boylen, who is searching for ways to maximize Markkanen’s talent within his system. And maybe some of the blame goes to an injured ankle Markkanen has acknowledged is better but still not 100%.
If this Bulls season is going to continue going nowhere, they need to figure out what’s going on with Markkanen, whose development is perhaps most essential to the team’s success going forward. Without him, the foundation of this rebuild begins to get flimsy.
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2. The Bucks look like the best team in the NBA.
The Bucks are going to flirt with 70 wins this season. They have the reigning NBA Most Valuable Player in Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is playing like the favorite to win the award again. The Bucks, winners of seven straight, are rolling and might be the best team in the league.
Monday’s game — and the entire season series for that matter — offered a glimpse of the wide margin between the two teams: The Bulls quickly heading nowhere while the Bucks look poised to play into June.
“They’ve got a star player,” Boylen said. “They can beat you from the 3-point line. They can beat you from the free-throw line. And they can beat you defensively when they don’t have a night when they’re scoring. That’s what championship-caliber teams look like.
“And they have depth. (Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer is) doing a heck of a job too. He’s got his guys to buy in to guard, and they guard.”
The Bucks overwhelmed the Bulls offense, holding it to 37% shooting and 29% percent from 3-point range, though the Bulls matched a franchise record by attempting 48 3s.
Meanwhile, the Bucks knocked down shots with plenty of confidence and space, shooting a season-high 57.7%. The Bulls have only one victory against a winning team this season and ran into a juggernaut that has lost only six times.
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Imagine if the Bulls were able to pull off a drastic turnaround to steal the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference. It would earn them a brief two-day stay in Milwaukee.
“They’ve got a great team,” LaVine said. “They’ve got the reigning MVP. They’ve got a great supporting cast. They’ve got two twin towers down there in Brook (Lopez) and (Robin Lopez) and professionals, people that aren’t scared of the moment.
“They have a starting point guard coming off the bench in George Hill. They’ve got an all-time 3-point shooter in Kyle Korver. They’ve got a lot of dudes. … I can go on. They’ve got a lot of guys. And they know their role and they accept it.”
3. The Bulls continue to go small.
The lineup did not have as much as success as it did leading the comeback Saturday night against the Cavaliers. But the Bulls went small again against the Bucks with Markkanen playing the five and Chandler Hutchison the four.
They even used a version of that lineup with Thaddeus Young — who, with 14 points, 4-of-8 3-point shooting and six rebounds, had probably the best game of any Bull — at the four instead of Hutchison.
These lineups are worth a look, especially when the team is short-handed in the frontcourt with Daniel Gafford and Wendell Carter Jr. sidelined by injuries.
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Tomas Satoransky drives to the basket between the Bucks' Brook Lopez and Wesley Matthews during the first half. (Aaron Gash/AP)
“Depending on time, score situation, that’s a lineup that we’ve talked about,” Boylen said before the game. “We thought the opportunity presented itself to do it, and we did it. There were some circumstances going into that (Saturday night). We were low-energy. We were struggling. We fought through it and guys competed. We were able to change our defensive scheme, which helped that run we made.”
Here’s more coverage from Monday’s game:
In each of their previous meetings this season, the Bulls have entered halftime within striking distance of the Bucks — even leading by a point during their first matchup — only to watch the game slip away quickly in the second half.
That familiar story unfolded again Monday in Milwaukee as the sizable talent gap between the teams eventually prevailed. The Bulls went to halftime trailing by a point before the league’s best team turned it on and overwhelmed them in the second half for a 111-98 victory.
Reigning league MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo posted a triple-double with 28 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists and became the seventh player in team history with 10,000 career points. Khris Middleton added 24 points on 10-of-13 shooting as the Bucks, winners of seven consecutive games, swept the series for the second straight season.
“All year, we can play with anybody, it’s just learning how to win,” said Bulls guard Zach LaVine, who finished with 24 points, his 11th straight game with at least 20 points. “Those good teams know how to make their run at the right time and hold on to the game. We haven’t gotten there yet.”
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Instead, the Bulls are still struggling badly against teams with winning records, falling to 1-18 in such games this season.
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On Monday, they were overmatched on both ends of the floor. They threw several defenders at Antetokounmpo, but neither Thaddeus Young or Chandler Hutchison had any answer for him or any of the Bucks. Milwaukee shot a season-high 57.7% from the field.
And the Bulls’ game plan offensively centered around shooting from the perimeter to counter the Bucks’ size advantage inside, which led to 48 3-point attempts, matching a franchise record. They shot just 29.2% from beyond the arc, highlighted by another rough shooting night from forward Lauri Markkanen, who missed all seven of his shots from beyond the arc.
“I think our game plan ... was solid,” coach Jim Boylen said. “We needed to make a few more of those open shots we had.”
Markkanen went scoreless in the second half, the most recent occasion of him fading down the stretch. He finished with eight points on 2-of-11 shooting and eight rebounds, continuing what has been a concerning trend toward regression in his third season.
“I thought he had some really good looks, looks that we’ll take him shooting all the time,” Boylen said. “I thought he was moving well, he had a couple great cuts to the basket, opportunities at the rim, that’s what we want from him. Inside, outside. He plays hard. You’d like your guys to play great all the time, that doesn’t happen, but our guys played hard.”
Playing hard carried the Bulls for about a half before the Bucks’ talent and star power took over once again.


chicagotribune--2020-01-20--Chicago attorney ‘a little nervous’ about dressing in lingerie on ‘The Bachelor’

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Chicago attorney Kelley Flanagan (center, holding pillow) participates in a pillow fight group date on the episode of "The Bachelor" that aired on Monday. (John Fleenor/ABC)
Warning: Spoilers ahead
Chicago attorney Kelley Flanagan engaged in a fight far from a courtroom on Monday’s episode of “The Bachelor.”
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Flanagan and seven other contestants participated in a group date that involved them dressing in lingerie and pillow fighting for pilot Peter Weber’s heart at a saloon. Flanagan — who works for her dad’s property tax law firm, Flanagan, Bilton, in the Loop — seemed embarrassed by the task or at least by her fight nickname, “Kelley the Prosecutie.”
“I’m a little nervous. I mean, who wants to see their attorney dressed in lingerie on a TV show?” Flanagan said. She took a beating from New York real estate agent Tammy Ly, who wrestled in high school.
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After the pillow fight, Flanagan and Weber discussed their relationship and kissed. “I am so out of my comfort zone. I honestly think I would have gone home by now if it wasn’t worth it,” Flanagan told Weber. The two met by chance before the season began taping, and that encounter is what convinced Flanagan to join the cast.
Said Weber: “She’s an attorney. She’s very, very smart, and a lot of the qualities I’m looking for that I’m really attracted to she has.”
Flanagan was safe at the rose ceremony, and she is the final contestant from the Chicago area left in the ABC network competition. Weber sent Lakeview esthetician Alexa Caves home on Monday’s episode.
Fifteen women remain on Season 24 of “The Bachelor,” which airs at 7 p.m. Mondays on WLS-Ch. 7.
tswartz@tribpub.com


chicagotribune--2020-01-20--Oakbrook Terrace mayor resigns amid federal corruption investigation tied to red-light cameras

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Oakbrook Terrace Mayor Tony Ragucci has resigned his office amid an ongoing federal corruption probe, according to a news release from his suburb.
Ragucci submitted his resignation Friday, the same day the Tribune reported that he’d recently paid $30,000 from his campaign fund to a lawyer representing him.
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Oakbrook Terrace Mayor Tony Ragucci was first elected to the office in 2009. (City of Oakbrook Terrace)
The Tribune reported that he was among several elected officials and politically connected contractors embroiled in a federal investigation involving SafeSpeed LLC, a controversial company that operates lucrative red-light cameras at intersections in dozens of Chicago-area suburbs.
In a news release issued Monday and provided to the Tribune, the small western suburb announced that it “has received the resignation” of Ragucci, effective at 11:59 p.m. Jan. 17. By Monday evening, his name and picture had been removed from the homepage of the suburb’s website.
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The resignation abruptly ends the third term for the former police officer who was first elected mayor in April 2009.
Ragucci’s interest to federal investigators comes amid a broader series of public corruption probes from Chicago City Hall to Springfield over the past 14 months, beginning with the raid of Chicago Ald. Edward Burke’s offices in November 2018.
The investigation of SafeSpeed first came to light in September when the FBI and IRS agents raided the offices of then-state Sen. Martin Sandoval, Lyons Mayor Christopher Getty and Jeffrey Tobolski, the mayor of nearby McCook who doubles as a Cook County commissioner.
After those raids, Ragucci told the Tribune that he had not been questioned by agents and the city had not received any requests for information from federal authorities on the red-light camera controversy.
The mayor has since avoided all inquiries from the Tribune, including last week. His lawyer, Thomas Crooks, has declined to comment on the investigation.
On Tuesday evening, Ragucci was a no-show at the monthly City Council meeting that he typically presides over. A clerk told a Tribune reporter that the mayor had been at City Hall earlier in the day but was not feeling well.
SafeSpeed and its owners and officers have been among Ragucci’s heaviest political donors over the years, election records show, while Ragucci’s relationship with SafeSpeed has long been controversial.
A 2017 Chicago Tribune investigation documented how, as chairman of the powerful Senate Transportation Committee, Sandoval intervened on SafeSpeed’s behalf to push state transportation officials to change their stance and allow the company’s cameras to be installed at the relatively safe intersection of Illinois 83 at 22nd Street in Oakbrook Terrace.
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The push came even though IDOT’s policies required that cameras target dangerous corners to improve safety.
Oakbrook Terrace’s 2020 budget projects the two red-light cameras in operation there — both provided by SafeSpeed — will bring in $5 million in revenue over the current fiscal year.
SafeSpeed in turn charges Oakbrook Terrace about $2.3 million to operate the cameras, plus an additional $2,000 a month in “service fees,” according to the budget posted on the city’s website.
SafeSpeed’s owner, Nikki Zollar, has said the company does “not tolerate wrongdoing or public corruption and we support efforts to root it out.”
No one involved in the SafeSpeed investigation has been charged with any wrongdoing.
Ragucci, 64, was a police officer in Oakbrook Terrace for 25 years before being elected mayor, and he touted his quarter century with a badge as prepping him for life as an Illinois mayor.
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Earlier this month, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that the FBI seized $60,000 from a safe in Ragucci’s home in October, although the reason for the seizure was not disclosed.
A month later, Ragucci’s campaign fund made the $30,000 payment to Crooks, according to campaign finance records.
Chicago Tribune’s Jason Meisner and David Heinzmann contributed.


chicagotribune--2020-01-20--Police: Two men charged in armed robbery, attempted murder related to Glenview shooting

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Two men were charged last week with attempted murder and armed robbery in connection with a shooting in Glenview in early December, according to Glenview police.
On Dec. 7, a 23-year-old man was shot in the abdomen outside of a Glenview residence in the 1900 block of Palmgren Drive. He had gone outside the home to meet someone, but then ran back inside, asking another person to call 911 because he had been shot, Glenview police said in December.
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Syre L. Perry, 23, of Naperville, was arrested on a warrant Thursday in Chicago and charged with attempted murder and armed robbery after an investigation of the shooting, Glenview police said in a Monday news release. On Friday, Adam S. Wolf, 23, of Buffalo Grove, was arrested at the Glenview Police Department on the same charges, police said in the release.
Adam S. Wolf, of Buffalo Grove, was charged Jan. 18 with attempted murder and armed robbery in connection with a Glenview shooting in December 2019. (Glenview Police Department)
The 23-year-old man was released in stable condition from Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge three days after he was shot, authorities said. In December, police said he wasn’t cooperating with investigators and wouldn’t allow police to access his cell phone. The wounded man told police in December that three men may have been involved, and that they drove away in a light-colored vehicle, according to police.
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Perry attended a bond hearing Monday and Wolf is scheduled to attend a bond hearing Tuesday.
Syre L. Perry, of Naperville, was charged Jan. 17 with attempted murder and armed robbery in connection with a Glenview shooting in December 2019. (Glenview Police Department / HANDOUT)
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