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"I'm an outdoors guy, being outside all day and driving tractors and being in the dirt. That's just kind of who I am. So if I can come to church and do the same thing, getting in my own element, outside and not in a building, it's just good."

ANDY GUSTAFSON, who says he feels at home at the Ogle County Cowboy Church

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Illinois 'cowboy church' blends worship, Western themes and equestrian culture

By Angie Laventis Leurgos | CHICAGO TRIBUNE

On horseback, under a nearly cloudless blue sky, the pastor removed his cowboy hat and bowed his head, speaking to the Lord during an unconventional Sunday worship service hosted by a nascent Christian ministry in northwest Illinois.

"I pray that this time may be blessed," he said, closing his eyes and holding the room in one hand. "I pray that you wish every everybody here. And I just thank you that we get to do this. This is insane. I just ask that your message would come forth."

After the blessing concluded, the crowd of around 310 responded "sense!" From the wooden brochures of the horse arena at the Ogle County Fairgrounds in Oregon, roughly two hours west of Chicago.

The pastor, Kerry Hughes, led the service in jeans and cowboy

boots, no clerical collar or vestments.

Many of the worshippers were similarly dressed, some donning sneakers, shorts, riding boots or their work clothes.

A church advertisement for this event had instructed them to forego their "Sunday best" in

favor of something a little more comfortable.

This is cowboy church -- a unique form of worship using Western culture and rural lifestyle to share the Bible, part of a broader movement of similarly country-dismad congregations and ministries scattered across

the United States, primarily in the South.

Founded by Hughes and a small group of like-minded worshippers, the Ogle County Cowboy Church held its first service in late September 2025.

Most insiders, they meet inside a historic college chapel in Mount Morris, a nearby rural town of just under 3,000 residents.

But the 55-year-old pastor said he prefers to preach and pray in more nurse-special teams. Machine sheds, Horse arenas.

His favorite sanctuary for worship is outdoors, among "Guel's creations."

"I'm not much into brick and stained glass," he added.

So during favorable seasons of weather, worshippers gather

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Totana Fields, From left, Nathaniel Davis and Malachi Wright have their heads in prayer during Ogle County Cowboy Church's "Church in the Dirt" at the Ogle County Fairgrounds in downstate Oregon on July 12. ELERY, WEILAR CHICAGO TRIBUNE

A failure to close funeral home

Missed opportunities preceded discovery of bodies at facility

By Gregory Royal Pratt, Olivia Glancier,

Caroline Kubzansky, Talia Sughn, Sam Charles, Dan Petrella and

Madeline Buckley CHICAGO TRIBUNE

After city and state officials discovered 16 decomposing bodies in a Chicago funeral home, Gen. JB Pritzker defended the state's response to complaints against the husband and wife in charge of the facility.

Pritzker's message, delivered during a downstate event, was simple: State government did its job.

The comptroller's office, he said, "did what they should do?" in shutting down a notorious crematorium run by the same family in the south suburbs where mishandled bodies and hundreds of unreturned remains were discovered in 2025.

The licensing board, he said, "did what it is supposed to do" about the pair who also were running South Chicago Chapel, where the most recent discovery was made.

The people who didn't do what's right, Pritzker said, were the couple, Clark and Johanna Morgan.

"We're talking about some really bad actors," Pritzker said. "The process was followed, the process that's on the law now, and obviously there was no report that came in that would lead anybody to discover this" until late last month, he added at another recent news conference.

A Tribune investigation, however, found regulatory shortcomings that allowed those apparently bad actors to persist, with the state failing to fully shut down Clark and Johanna Morgan's businesses or take their licenses even after they were found to have mishandled human remains at

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■ South Chicago Chapel families may never know the truth about the recruited remains of some time, anyway. Lvy. ChicagoJews, Page A8

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Learning on the job

Rookies and huckups carried the load on both sides of the ball. Selected at the Bears' preseason opener, a 56.50 domination of the Browns at a directly Soldier Field. Coverage in Sports

DEATH OF HORSE RACING

Now that Chicago's economy has been pronounced dead, the autopsy reveals trouble. (Surfs) if with poor decisions made decades ago. Page A12

WET ENOUGH FOR YOU?

ChicagoJews's wild, wet and severe, current has left plenty of destruction. But none of this year's months side among the wettest in history. Page B6

As pesticides drift onto state schools, parks, residents urge better tracking.

By Christians Freitag FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

TIREMONT, Ill. -- On her 43 acres of woods and reclaimed native prairie in rural Tazewell County, Katie Vandenberg walked the edge of her property, inspecting cities of sale herdered by rules of costs and soybean fields.

The oak leaves are curled and stunted -- damage she believes is tied to pesticide applications on nearby farms.

Since buying the kind three years ago, Vandenberg, whose family has lived in Tazewell County for seven generations, said she has "gone down a celiot hole" trying to understand how drifting chemicals are affecting her trees.

Then, this spring, that threat reached her 10-year-old daughter, Genevieve.

Handrails of children had gathered outside Bethel Lutheran School in nearby Morton for a

Oak leaves that border a nearby farm field can with repeated exposure to pesticides on property belonging to Katie Vandenberg, back, on Aug. 3 in Tremont. STAGEY.WEEDDYCHICAGO TRIBUNE

jump-rope fundraiser when a chemical odor swept across the parking lot. Across the street, according to Illinois Department of Agriculture records, farmer

Mark Kight was spraying pesticides on his soybean fields as wind gusts tapped 10 miles per hour.

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Over six years, Prairie Rivers Network researchers detected herbicides in more than 90% of 10 plant tissue samples they collected from a variety of sites. And during a stretch in 2025, pesticides were found more than 200 times in 10 public Illinois locations.

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Who's driving the train at Metra?

Directors coming, going amid reforms

By Marel Pyle DAILY HERALD

Multiple Metra directors signed off at their final meeting last week at turnover effective in and in their high-latent service materializing. Six new owners will set up the 10-person board in September.

However, Pyle, Maren Red Craig joined Metra in 2014 at the agency repurposed after a patronage scandal and from office turnover.

"The land's own have been unfavorable, and I'm proud of having served," the outgoing director said.

Other existing directors on this issue of Business, Ron Kozlowski of Crystal Lake, Stephen Palmer-CL, Grange, and suburban Cook County residents, Mark Redman and

Paul Raffle. The 2023 Northern Illinois Transit Authority Act eliminates the Regional Transportation Authority effective Sept. 1-8 replaces the RTA with a NITA board that will would move authority over Metro, Pace and the CTA, and receive millions more for buses and trains as a result of gas and other tax increases.

"While I am not looking at the state's state and public transportation, I am very grateful for the work all done," have put forth, "Chris Joseph McMahon said.

"Change your difficult and there's there a lot of uncertainty about the legislation (and what's going to happen to Metro?" plus the recent assumptions and rules, McMahon said. "This board has really been a should, been providing guidance and continuity."

The legislation shuffled who gets to select directors

for the transit board, adding the Illinois governor to the NITA, Pace and Metro voters, including the Chicago mayor's all-terrorist, and replacing suburban Cook County Board commissioners as appointing authorities in three of the county board president.

The five collar county board leaders disopak representative to NITA, Metro and Pace.

According to the election, the two two Federal Railroad Administration chief Joe Seabe of Chicago, economic development Seabe Dean, and former of World Park RTA Director for DuPage and union executive John Entondo, Chicago RTA Director and director Dennis Rhodes, and former Woodstock Motor Truckinger, who attended the first meeting Wednesday.

Gov. (R) Puyler has not yet announced his pick for the commons' initials board.

Remaining directors include McMahon, former Chief Resource Brown of Dalton, Chicagoan Christian Diaz, Gov Gordon-Clancoban and Brian Shanahan of Malone.

Palmer said one defining moment for him was wrong in favor of purchasing new railcar. "It was game changing... and it's going to make such a difference to our customers."

The agency and only 2023 railcars from Alstom in 2023. The expectation was the delivery in 2024, but to the end and design issues have caused delays. The first rate should at the time this year, and Metro expects full-scale delivery from 2027 through 2028.

"I would accept that that had I to disappointed because we don't have those cars yet. We doing respect at leaving Metra would be - please invite me back when those cars got put into service," Palmer said, talking.

Malachi Wright, Lamar Hawkins and Marguerite Wright remove tape from the news; completed "Wall of Therapy" on the side of Harvey City Hall on Monday, αλλά भुगतान लंबित एक गैस को छोड़ देगा।

Mural adds optimism to downtown Harvey

By Jesse Wright

FUR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Over the past month a group of artists has added color to the sumful side of the Harvey City Hall on Broad way features.

After a rain delay last year, the 2024 Chicago Tribune since the last of the painters' tape and paper Monday evening and added the final touches to the "Harvey Wall of Therapy."

The water fell deep box in on the same side of the building, and more than a few people stopped by so slain a loud voice. "I guess I'm poised. I think like my needs it! And Adder-Williams, who was walking through the area. Williams said she was born and raised in Harvey.

More than a point job, the "Harvey Wall of Therapy" is a bright burst of optimism in a downtown that is frown by mighty two, crumbling wide and a mixed spot. The mural is intended, though, for the future and for the residents of them. It's committed that there's life left终共存共荣. The wall features a swirl of color and more body ground topped with painted local characters. The world's homes, wildlife and sunflowers, and with a large space of golden rocks in the middle

The "Harvey Wall of Therapy" features homes and families.

The overall effect on suggest that Harvey is where it comes are made. It suggests, buried within the world's business, the community, there is some thing public, something new. "I feel great and pride for the community," Williams said, looking at the painting.

The project was paid for by an area grant and a money transfer of color to a local Street LLC. The group is a family project, started by brother Amos. Malachi said his Wright, and feature the work of their mother, fellow artist Marguerite. Wright said, "I am a familiar of what artists brought in to us and the come began painting in July and, from the area, Marguerite said the project sparked joy.

"People do break," she said. "I don't already want building and we are driving past." For Amos, she said, but his first public mural at the city. He's also one of the artists responsible for the "Harvey Wall of Play". A second to street on the side of the Harvey Boxing Club. That mural was paid for by "Chicago FZ" and a director for other, who is from Harvey. His brother, Lamar Hawkins, is one of the painters who worked on the "Harvey Wall of Therapy".

In both projects, he's mounted local color and color for "fans" including some of his family, but also of some well-known books. Marguerite also husband the brother's fellow, a memorialized inside the Fz in the word

Harvey.

"If you live around here, somebody might stand out to you for sure," said Lamar Hawkins, one of the painters.

Amos said the design is also partly inspired for area young people. Last year, he is something art in the "Harvey Wall of Play." That is, when he got the commission, the asked his students for about five the design.

"I asked some of the painters and the vagans and we put something on there that's oftenest colorful, and welcome people to Harvey," he explained.

But if the design came soon, the cameer wasn't. The wall is moved! But he'd, but once the bottom center, there is about a few stoppes of rock, some scroppes. What, instead of certain that interrupts the whole horrors of the wall, it could have been a stumbling block.

When the underspring, spread gold, serves as a sort of golden treasure chest, "I seat of riches in the heart of Harvey.

"Somebody could have thought of it as a dead end, that's a starting point," Amos said.

Jesse Wright is a freelance agency in the Daily Sunbrows.

Grubhub drivers, customers to get settlement payouts

By Talia Sagin CHICAGO TRIBUNE

More than 4,000,000 delivery drivers and customers across the country will soon receive payments under a settlement agreement over deceptive business practices allegation of cheap-based delivery gain Grubhub.

All in all, settlement of systems will receive partnerships ending about $24 million, the Illinois attorney general's office said in a news release Thursday. The state worked with the Federal Trade Commission to obtain the settlement.

"I am proud that customers and drivers will soon see relief for the harm caused by Grubhub's unlikable actions, and I remain committed to holding businesses like Grubhub accountable for

unfair and deceptive business practices," Illinois Attorney General Roxane Read said in a statement.

In a news release, the attorney general's office said it started investing in Grubhub after receiving consumer complaints about the delivery company. The attorney general had alleged Grubhub's annual complaints about the cost of food delivery and medical drivers about how much money they could make on the platform, and were often disguised, the attorney general's office said.

Grubhub which has found the allegations against it, agreed to get the settlement back in 2024, and the terms of the settlement, the company was also organized to make changes to its business practices, including by regulating restaurants on pla-

form with their consent and "honorful" and legalization pay, the attorney general's office said Thursday.

Grubhub said in 2023 that it denied the allegations but believed nothing was the company's best option.

In a statement Thursday, a spokesperson for Grubhub said the company was not to be able to pay any money to that every single day above, restaurants and drivers can make well-informed choices in its business with us. "While we categorize it, there the allegations made by the FTC - major of which are wrong, misleading or no longer right, like how far we have to obtain a settling the matter via a Grubhub's direct interest and, (how can) more forward," the spokesperson said.

Customers eligible for

payouts are those who were unable to redeem a Grubhub gift card, FTC spokesperson Nicole Deyron said in an article that he said that "if they cannot live than promised while delivering, the Grubhub between June 2020 and March 2024, Peacock amounts will vary and are not public, Deyron said."

The FTC will send checks or PayPal payments to eligible customers. In its news release, the attorney general's office said the FTC had begun waiting settlement checks this week. Consumers who have questions about their premium should call the settlement administrator, Palmetto Consulting LLC, at 888-444-4992, the state said. They can also refer to FTCs on the FTC's website.

Grubhub was founded in Chicago in 2004.

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Pritzker: Feds turned their back on past storms

By Olivia Olander CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Following a spurs of war, windy weather and turnaround in the Chicago area last week, Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday contended that the federal government had "turned their back" on Illinois land in where it denied the state's request for relief from damaging storms last year.

"When disaster strikes, people should not have to wonder whether their ZIP code or their party affiliates will determine their best for the get-big. A flood-felt hammer doesn't save whether you're a Democrat or Republican," Pritzker said.

The governor made his comments while signing a letter to the state's law enforcement. Side that will eventually allow new release for some residents affected by flooding, and before making their damage more the Indiana border in south-salt-wheat mining.

And Pritzker's remarks came as Illinois has virtualized the state's state of disaster relief under the Trump administration. He said

Gov. J.B. Pritzker, right, meets with homeowners Mark and John Valens while leaving storm damage on his way to an area. ARTINON NAGOMI, LA. CHICAGO TRIBUNE

has previously reported. An analysis by Politico/SAB News earlier this year found that Trump approved just 23% of disaster funding requests from solidly blue states—those with both a Democratic governor and two Democratic U.S. senators. By comparison, Trump

approved requests from solidly red states 89% of the time.

Last year, a July storm dumped 3.15 inches of rain on Midwest Airport, near where Pritzker spoke Friday, and also hit the south shoreline and other parts of Illinois.

Trump denied Illinois'

request for disaster relief for that storm and others that summer.

This March, Pritzker chose not to pursue a presidential disaster decision after a tornado hit the Kankakee area and damaged about 100 structures, even though he had previously signaled lie-crimsters to seek

"federal resources."

State and county officials ultimately concluded the damage had a "low likelihood of meeting (Federal Emergency Management Agency) thresholds as we've previously understood here," according to a Pritzker spokesperson, and the state instead sought Small Business Administration loans for affected residents.

FEMA, which oversees the federal disaster response, didn't immediately respond to a request for comment Friday afternoon but has previously disputed that politics played a role in its fight.

"Any suggestion that disaster decisions are politically motivated does not reflect how this process worked on," the FEMA carried out its mission. "A spokesman said in an earlier emailed statement: 'FEMA continues to present federal declaration requests and deliver assistance promptly, suggesting, state and local governments to invest in they own resilience before disaster strikes.'"

Pritzker on Friday said he still believes it's possible for

FEMA to provide funds to Illinois, despite the state's previous disagreement with the Trump administration.

"I don't think there's any reason we should just say they're never going to do it. They have, and I believe they will," Pritzker said.

Darren Bailey, the Republican senator, looking to unseat Pritzker in November, last week suggested the governor work more closely with Trump to deliver storm relief.

Pritzker acknowledged the storm damage but framed a formal disaster declaration as "really part of a paperwork process."

"I'd most 't need to happen on day one," Pritzker said. He didn't confirm whether he would do so following the storm that past week.

The law Pritzker signed Friday, which takes effect next year, will allow the Southwest Home Equity Assurance Program and Northwest Home Equity Assurance Program—which such serve residents in those parts of Chicago—to provide homeowners with up to $1,000 in direct reimbursement for flood-related com-

Digital access to Obama library across nation was mistake, CBI says

By Finnegan Balraun CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Sabrius Mendes-Escobar was on TikTok last week and saw a creator talking about what some online referred to in "Digital library cards" for the Obama Presidents' Center.

The Forest Glen resident tried adding it on e-book and audiobook application. Likely before even finishing the TikTok post, only to be greeted with an error message.

"Since it started getting on social media, we're all probably trying to get the best," said Escobar, who turns 63.3 months.

People around the country smidely tried to access what they said to a country's interest online as "free library cards" in the same time, Chicago, one hunted for physical library cards with rendering of the Obama center.

However, the Chicago Public Library did not intend for people to register across state lines on Likely Part of Media, the entry of government and publication of the Chicago Public Library, wrote in an email to the Tribune. He also wrote there wasn't actually a dig-

ial library card, and people were referring to a small collection of e-book and audiobooks.

Former President Barack Obama's museum in Jackson Park opened June 19, found it is a branch of the Chicago Public Library featuring spaces for children and book collections reflecting the Obama family's reading preferences.

On social media, printers from as far away as Mainland, North Carolina and Georgia said they tried to sign up for what they thought was the digital library card for the Obama center.

Some said they were successful, while others reported error messages.

But access was never intended to go beyond visitors to the Obama center. Molloy said in the email:

"Through social media, access to the collection was shared beyond the intended use on visitor model," Molloy wrote. "Chicago Public Library is a novel, a thing for best way to sustain the collection as a way that is consistent with its original purpose."

Molloy and other Chicago Public Library spokespeople

Sabrius Mendes-Escobar, left, and reagent her existing Chicago Public Library card for an Obama Presidential Center library branch used in the South Side of Chicago on Aug. 3, library employee from left (shallow, right, helped) her with the process. TERRENCE ANTHONY JAMES CHICAGO TRIBUNE

did not respond to further questions about how many people unintentionally received the collection and what would happen to their access.

A spokesperson for the Obama Presidents referred questions to the Chicago Public Library.

The entire billing includes several books by Barack Obama, a museum by former first lady Michelle Obama and both fiction and nonfiction offerings from other

authors, according to screenshots on social media.

While the Likely collection wasn't a digital card, the presidential branch closed the physical library for Public Library cards. The design displays books leaning against a blue rendering of the Obama Center.

Escobar worked one of the physical cards too: She said she learned about them, while visiting the branch earlier this summer.

"When we went to the

library, I was like, 'Why is everybody making this line for the library card?'" Escobar said. "Then I realized it was a commentator, physical resource."

She said the Chicago Public Library branch is "for the people" due to how accessible it is. Escobar also said the paperwork center, as Obama was the first U.S. president she could vote for, and she appreciates a lot of his politics.

Last week, Escobar visited

the Obama center's library again. She was able to walk sightings like library's display and exchange her card for a new one with the Obama center branding.

"I appreciated how the Obama center library is a public library," Escobar said. "I'm in education, so I'm always telling my students. 'Support the library.' I take my own daughter. So it was really cool to have that, and it's something local to Chicago."

Former assessor's office employee who wired up for FBI gets probation

By Jason Meisner CHICAGO TRIBUNE

When Cook County assessor's office supervisor Ladmin Memisovski was approached by the FBI more than eight years ago about accepting benefits in exchange for funds to the office. The office's business, its net sale agreed to. Big lawyers, insider who on a target of the investigation later that same day.

Over the next several years, Memisovski operated undercover, recently recording nearly 100 in-person meetings with assessors—including some who claimed he knew that to copy, print or make a copy of the phone calls, his lawyers said in a recent court filing. His cooperation helped the kids charge better of charges in the assessor's office, provided developers and even his own needs.

Memisovski also cooperated against "various individuals who have not yet been charged with criminal offenses," his lawyers say.

On Thursday, Memisovski saw the benefit of his eight years of assistance to the government, as debriefing his sentiment him to a year and a half of probation.

Memisovski, a business who joined the assessor's office in 2008 and was suing about $125,000 a year as commercial group leader, pleaded guilty in 2022 to one count of bribery conspiracy with accepting home improvement services, jewelry, meals and spurious event tickets from the owner and an employee of Oakh Construction.

An project manager at Oakh, John Bodenderfer, overuse the work and materials put in at Memisovski's private company, including a concrete pad, including match, dumpster usage, food and coffee, a fence, a gas line, heads for a sprinkler system,

till and windows, according to court records.

Bodenderfer's boss, Alex Nicholl, separable showered Memisovski with jewelry, meals, tickets to sporting events and other items, according to court records.

In return, Memisovski made sure that appeals of property assessments related to Nicholoff and his business associates, including two trial to Bodenderfer, were routed to him on he could extend deadlines for the filing of appeals and makes assessed property values, court records show.

As part of the investigation, the FBI's approach to a company, the office was led by Joseph Berries, the then boss of the Cook County Democratic Party. Berries lost his hold for a third term as assessor in the 2010 Democratic primary.

The results of Memisovski's cooperation were mixed. Prosecutions secured conviction of his ownness of legal, at the assessor's office, Baalke Chasom, as well as a former high-ranking director in the office, Francisco Perez, who pleaded guilty resulting to him from a lawyer to fix property tax assessments.

Nicholoff pleaded guilty and was sentenced in 2014 to five years in prison. Bodenderfer also pleaded guilty and received a sentence of probation earlier this year.

Memisovski's cooperation was part of a lengthy investigation into widespread corruption in the assessor's office, which has long been seen as a den of clout and patronage.

At the time Memisovski agreed to go undercover, the office was led by Joseph Berries, the then boss of the Cook County Democratic Party. Berries lost his hold for a third term as assessor in the 2010 Democratic primary.

But charges against Memisovski's cousin Ladmin Likovik, also an assessor's office employee, were dropped by the U.S. attorney's office before trial. Another defendant, who then contractor Robert Mittage, was acquitted by a jury of charges in charge of a large golf outrage for Memisovski at an exclusive club in Bridgeham, Michigan.

Meanwhile, the investigation launched out into other assessor's public corruption. The probe of Nicholoff's business sparked an FBI riad on the office of the Chicago Ald. Carrie Austin to June 2010 the original drawchecker seat while facing bribery charges but was almost undecided to unfit for trial. Her former chief of staff, Chas or Wilson, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge unrelated to Oakh Construction and was given probation.

Memisovski had also been prepared to testify against

former Summit police Chief John Kosmosvaki, who was convicted by a jury last year of taking o'clock from a local bar owner who needed a liquor license transfer, though pre-entered in the case ultimately decided not to call him, court records show.

In an amusing memo recommending two years of probation, Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Rothblatt wrote that Memisovski's corruption "erodes confidence in a system on which the city depends", noting that "sticker shock" Cook County residents should not interfere get their tax bills.

"(Memisovski's) scheme gave honest taxpayers good reason to doubt the system, the well-off and connected, who could help fund debriefed clients, get an inside and let the assessor's office," Rothblatt said.

jmeisner@chicagotribune.com

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Former Mark Eight's soybean fields, bottom, are across the street from Bethel Lutheran School in Morton on Aug. 3. Over 200 people, including children, were exposed to the pesticide drift after flight stopped the fields. STACKY WEIGHT/FLING AND TOBACCO PHOTOS

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These kinds of conditions are known to increase the risk of drift – when chemicals move beyond their intended targets.

That evening, parents received an unusual message from the school principal: “Flowers for All Feights”.

For Vandenberg the essay was immediately alarming.

“Well, hold on. This is more than just showers for everybody,” she said. “This is a big deal. That is not OK.”

Commercial pesticides are being detected in public spaces like schools and parks, according to recently released research by Prairie Rivers Network, an Illinois-based nonprofit that advocates for water health. In addition, environmental advocates say Illinois doesn’t have an established method to track agricultural pesticide drift and lack the regulations to prevent exposure like other occurred in Morton.

One of the main problems with determining the extent and dangers of pesticide drift in Illinois, advocates say, is a system that largely responds with other human responses.

“People have a right to know because these chemicals don’t stop you,” said Amy Doll, executive director of Friends of the Illinois Nature Preserves. “This isn’t a former issue. This is a chemical industry issue.”

So far behind After receiving the email, Yandine Berg rushed her daughter into the shower, sealed her clothing for writing and filed a complaint with the state Agriculture Department that same right. Eight others filed complaints, according to the agency’s records obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests.

The day after the incident, state inspectors collected samples from the site, including Genevieve's clothing, Testing detected traces of the herbicides Glory 41, and Trifluridin 482, classified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a possible human carcinogen.

In the days that followed, students and staff reported, headaches, sore throats, skin irritation and red eyes, according to state Agriculture Department interviews. Investigators later concluded that more than 200 children and staff were exposed.

While her daughter has not experienced lasting health effects, Vandenberg worries about what remains unknown.

“She’s a 10-year-old girl and someday she wants to be a mom,” she said. “You can’t know how those things affect people’s body even health.”

The American Academy of Pediatrics has warned that children must be especially vulnerable to pesticide exposure, citing links between early-life exposure and

Katie Vandenberg (says her 10-year-old daughter, Genevieve, next to a soybean field across from her school on Aug. 3 in Morton, in April, Genevieve's schoolfield an outdoor hardware as a farmer across the street began spraying pesticides, which drifted that way.

developmental and behavioral issues. But researchers say major gaps remain in understanding the long term impacts of both acute and chronic exposure.

“That’s the big question for a lot of families,” Vandenberg said. “What are the long-term effects of kids literally getting drilled on?”

Last month, the state Agriculture Department fined Eight $200,000 and revoked his pesticide applicator license, citing violations of the Illinois Pesticide Act, including spraying in excessive wind.

Eight appealed the penalty at an Aug. shooting and have follow-up appearance scheduled for Sept. 1. He did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

Under Illinois law, none of the $250,000 fine will go to affected families. The money is instead directed to the state's Pesticide Control Fund, which supports public education on proper pesticide use and covers enforcement and inspection costs. Some environmental advocates say those funds should pay for research into exposure risks.

“We're just so far behind on researching the impacts,” said Lindsay Kersey, chief programs officer for agricultural conservation at the Illinois Environmental Council, a nonprofit advocacy group focused on environmental legislation. “What are our children being exposed to?”

A lack of routine pesticide air monitoring leaves Illinois without a clear picture of how frequently agriculturalists move through numerous use, said Kate Erraft-Pitcher, director of ecological health for Prairie Rivers Network. “If the Department of Agriculture and EPA are not looking for it and no one a

documenting it, how can you say it really exists?” said Erraft-Pitcher. “We're documenting it, and we're saying it does.”

The nonprofit began receiving increased reports of damaged trees and gardens around 2021, the same year soybeans resistant to the two-dilution decanbs were introduced in Illinois. Decanbs has been linked to coles and liver cancers, according to reports from the National Institutes of Health.

It was banned twice by federal courts, once in 2020 and again in 2024 for damaging neighboring crops and ecosystems. In February, the Trump administration's EPA approved the use of over-the-counter decanbs for soybeans and cotton for the next two growing seasons.

Though designed to crap, engineered to tolerate it, decanbs is widely considered a volatile herbicide because of introductory to drift.

“Decanbs is a notorious bad actor, but so are a lot of the pesticides we're using,” Erraft-Pitcher said. “They're traveling (further) that most people think.”

After finding little state-wide monitoring data, Prairie Rivers Network launched its own monitoring effort. Over six years, researchers detected herbicides in more than 90% of 127 plant tissue samples they collected from a variety of sites.

These findings were published in a 2024 report. An addendum was released earlier this year focused on parks and schools to determine whether pesticides were reaching public spaces between May and September 2020, prairie network researchers tested 20 locations across the state, from Winnebago County in the

north to Union County in the south. They detected pesticides over 200 times and found 28 different kinds of pesticides at the sites.

“We're seeing all of these sites everywhere we go around and seeing one different that's to having multiple drift events,” Erraft-Pitcher said. “There's really not much difference between exposure at a site that's 100 feet away and one that's 3,000 feet away.”

The study found that distance from agricultural fields was not a reliable predictor of exposure at parks and schoolyards both near and far from agricultural fields experienced repeated exposure events, with the farthest drifting more than three-quarters of a mile.

High-risk, volatile chemicals like dicamba, 2,4-D and atrazine were detected almost off the sites. While the U.S. EPA does not classify those chemicals as carcinogens, international health organizations list 2,4-D on possible carcinogens; and atrazine as a probable carcinogen.

Doll said these findings demonstrate that pesticide drift is not synthetic in agricultural fields and preventive more awareness and regulations are necessary to curb their disposal process of pesticides in public spaces across the state.

“It's not just happening or even in the middle of a nature-preserve,” she said. “These chemicals are showing up to places where we as a community and our children play and go to school.”

A COMPLIANT-DRIVEN SYSTEM

The Morton case of undamoxoas a key limitation of Illinois’ everyday system. Without air monitoring or

notice requirements, most pesticide use investigations hoppically after a complaint is filed.

The Agriculture Department process requires residents to recognize exponential pesticide exposure, know how to report it and gather enough information for regulations to act.

“Katie Vandenberg knew what to do,” Erraft-Pitcher said. “But how many times are people at a park, they smell something, and they just don't know what to do?”

Advocates say that volume likely leaves many incidents unreported – especially when residents can identify the source or aren't sure the exposure poses a risk. Pesticides can travel miles under windy conditions, complicating enforcement.

“It's very hard to trace where that came from or put down which farmer it was,” Kersey said.

Social dynamics in tight-knit rural communities can also discourage reporting.

Vandenberg said complaints can feel deeply personal – she went to Morton High School with Eight – and some parents have hesitated to come forward.

“They're too scared to stand up for something,” she said. “They might know the farmer, and they don't want to upset him. Well, he shouldn't have sprayed all of our children.”

Although more than 200 people were exposed in Morton, only inter-complaints were filed.

“For the number of fans has affected, I was surprised how many didn't,” Vandenberg said. “They didn't want to rock the boat.”

Erraft-Pitcher said the system effectively shifts

responsibility unto those exposed.

“It puts the (onus) on the outlay that was getting impauced,” she said.

Advocates argue the approach can strain relationships between neighbors.

“It creates a system of conflict where my neighbor does something, and I have to go and tell on them to the big deal government in order to be an independent one,” Doll said. “That is hard.”

GOOD NICKERHOF BILL

The Morton incident has become a critical part for lawmakers pushing for preventive measures.

For two years, legislators and advocacy groups have proposed amending the Illinois Pesticide Act to require advance notification before spraying near schools and parks.

“This (Morton case) is literally the point of the bill,” said state Rep. Laura Fiore Daca, a Director from Oprychids and the insurance's chief sponsor. “To make sure school leaders are informed of where pesticide spraying happens so they can be empowered to make decisions for their school.”

The proposal would require applications to provide at least 72 hours' notice before spraying within a full mile of those areas. Supportive call is a 'good neighbor' bill.

Vandenberg said she believes a simple warning could have prevented the exposure – and the penalty flight now faces.

“If he had just sent an email so used a 10-second phone call, it would have saved him all this grief and stress and money,” she said.

Gov. Dr. Pritchett's administration has taken steps to protect children from pesticide exposure. In 2023, he signed the Pesticide Application at School's Act, which prohibits K-8 schools from scheduling pesticide treatments on school grounds while students are present. The state has also restricted the use of dicamba.

“Governor Pritchett is proud to have everyone the establishment of the most stringent pesticide rules in the nation starting in his first year's 3 spokesperson for the person's office and in a statement. 'He looks forward to continuing to develop thoughtful policy that protects the health and wellbeing of all illiterators and prevent pesticide drift in our state.'

But those protections largely address pesticide applications – the school grounds, not drift from nearby farmlines. The proposal notificates bill would go a step further, requiring agricultural applications to warn schools and parks before spraying nearby fields.

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The bill has been introduced three times but has not advanced. Agricultural groups, including the Illinois Farm Bureau and the Illinois Fertilizer and Chemical Association, oppose it, arguing that spraying decisions depend on rapidly changing weather conditions.

"Pesticide application decisions in Illinois are made based on field conditions on the day of application, not days in advance," said Jenny Webb, president of the fertilizer and chemical association.

He said residual weather are too unpredictable to re-able forecast even 24 hours ahead, making always aware impractical. Supporters say the proposal already accounts for these constraints.

"We tried to make the bill at least anyway as possible," Favor Diaz said. "It seems to me that if we're requiring the bill, we will be able to get some protection equipment, then we need to make sure children are protected as well."

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ity programs could help fill that gap and shift the road from reacting to incidents to measuring them in real time.

That lack of data, advocates say, has made it harder to build urgency around the issue - something Prairie Rivers Network's research is beginning to change. From Diaz said.

"The drift is real, even a lot more perfect conditions," she said. "Morton was a case of essentially right across the street, but we know it drifts much better than that."

LEADING THE PACK

Vanderberg said she's never imagined having Toxic well, putting roots down with her two kids and husband on the juggle, a variety of jobs, like a divorce coach, a real estate owner and nose as art gallery in Marion. In her spare time, she focuses on what she calls her hobby: avoiding acres of reclaimed furniture.

Though no one in her family ever formed, a deep connection to the land is what pushed her to learn what she

could show pesticide drift. "It affects so much other land, not just the land that the farmers are spraying," Vanderberg said. "It really is upsetting for me."

After the Morton incident, Vanderberg stepped into another role - helping parents understand how to respond to pesticide issues.

She began guiding people who are trying to make it better, making an filling complaint, turning her own experience into a road map for others. In the days after the incident, she

called Favor Diaz to stress her a pesticide notification bill in her life.

"When I first read about pesticide drift, I thought, 'What can I do?'" she said. "This is a very small thing that I can do. Kate Vanderberg in Morton, Illinois, isn't going to be making too many big changes with this, but hopefully to understanding it. I ask deep issues on things, and that's kind of how I went

down through here."

Advocates say her problems have made it difference.

"Few people would have had to do that in the 'January' said. "She does not all the accidents for being alive up through all of these steps and ensure that there were some concerns."

Months after the incident, Vanderberg still doesn't know whether that April afternoon will have lasting consequences for her daughter.

"They're that in the end of," she said.

But Vanderberg said she believes the incident has already shifted dynamics in Toxicwell County, Illinois City, a neighboring farmer called her husband before spraying nearly 6,000 - a country she said they've never received before.

"The fact that he made that phone call, I thought, was huge," she said.

Still, she argues communities shouldn't have to rely on personal relationships or individual knowledge of how to do a complaint to our sale.

Vanderberg said she hopes the incident will push more residents to recognize pesticide drift as something they can challenge - not just accept as part of trial life.

"It's an unfortunate event, but we kind of needed some intangible ideas to happen," she said. "This stuff is laypening all over the state, and the only problem is that nobody else knows what to do."

Christmas Prelog is a freshman.

Elder brother convicted in 1994 slaying of boy dies

By Texe Kersey and William Lee

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Craig Hardaway, who was convicted alongside his younger brother nearly three and more in the 1994 slaying of 15 year-old Robert "Yummy" Sandler, declared a Friday morning, a day before his wife her family, according to the family and the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Hardaway was found at his Registered home on the 69th block of South Peoria Street and pronounced dead at 7 of a.m. according to the medical examiner's office. He was 47.

Katrine Hardaway, the oldest sister of the Hardaway brothers, confirmed Craig Hardaway's death as a brief statement to the Tribune Friday night. "All I can say right now is the family is devastated and we're so irritating, but not the next message 'Hast(m) brother."

Following his autopsy Saturday, his official cause of death revealed possibly that couldn't be released for several more weeks. Hardaway's family believes he died of natural causes, as he had suffered from heart trouble.

Thirty-two years ago, Yummy Sandler's story shocked the country.

He flared at just 6-foot-5, and owed his nickname to his

In 1995, a graffiti memorial marked a wall in the South Side contact where Robert "Yummy" Sandler's body was found. ONE CAPTER/CONZARD TRIBUNE

loss of cookies and Stuckers bars.

Data before his death, is late August 1994, Yummy had fired rounds from a 2 mm pistol into two groups of youths on the Far South Side. He wounded two for one killed 16-year-old Sharon Dean, who had been sent a friend home. Yummy's gnaplar was interned to improve his older wife in the Black Discipline street gang.

With Chicago at an upward 6th pressure to get Yummy off the street we're intense.

When police found him, about 12.50 a.m. on Sept. 1, Yummy was lying on the and him offs when glass in the mouth of a pedestrian underpass emblazoned with gun graffiti. He had been found in a tunnel, short twice in the back of the head, execution style.

Craig Hardaway and his brother, Dorvick, were arrested shortly after Sandler's body was found.

Dorvick Hardaway was convicted of murder after witnesses testified they saw him late. Yummy from the porch of a home near the tunnel. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Craig Hardaway was sentenced to 60 years in prison on first-degree murder charges on April 1997. Just 10 of the time, Hardaway stood silently with his arms folded behind his back at the Cook County Criminal Court Judge inquest of the sentence.

"I didn't kill Yummy, I can tell you that much," Hardaway had said the judge. "I didn't let 15a(4) do," he said, referring to his gang and drug-selling activity. "but I wasn't a

murderer."

His words, however, did not sway the judge when he sentenced the youth charged with being the judge's trigger man in Yummy's death.

According to subsequent workwork, Craig Hardaway murder of the Black Disci. He had pique first for three brothers, then 16 and 18, on the afternoon of Aug. 15, 1994. Dorvick Hardaway later said the scene felt identified only as "Kummy" told Craig Hardaway that "he had to get rid of Yummy. He had to kill him."

"Yummy knew too much about the gang," Dorvick told a Cook County prosecutor. "And if he would get caught by the gang, he would have to would have told and had all the high authority members locked up."

In August 2010, 21 years after the slaying, Craig Hardaway had been at Dare City, a 1.5-year-old Center. He was in a mornings program designed to help keep insures from returning to criminal lives. Earlier that summer, he spent inpatient and after suffering a heart attack.

Craig Hardaway was released from the Illinois Department of Health and Development 2020, according to media reports of following the release, he went to work with US DHCRs age, a community service organization.

LISLE

Data center faces scrutiny over diesel generators

By Adria Fabbre

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A Lisle data center is once again made a scrutiny for ongoing construction work.

Neighborhood residents raised questions last week after receiving several diesel generators coming at the Chippen facility.

In an email blender, a Chippen executive said the company currently is open to the diesel generator, which the company says is allowed for the village under a temporary permit.

The facility, which has been in operation since the 1970s, also has nine permanent backup generators, which are permitted and have been on site for one time,且现场布置. Chippen is working with the village on permitting for their older temporary generators on site and needed to power critical conditions.

The company started reaching out to the residents' office, which has been in close to door campaign and a flyer outlining what is happening, at the facility.

"The ongoing work at the Lisle site became on modern

ization," Catherine Smith, chief administrator officer, general counsel and corporate secretary for Chippen said in an email. "This includes updating electrical, cooling and mechanical systems to continue to meet safety and building standards and minimize any environmental impact.

"These updates keep operations safe and reliable for existing customers, and the risk of outages or equipment problems and comply with the Village of Lisle's codes," Smith added.

Earlier this year, residents complained about continues too for a fact of liberalization that would have added 1994 magnitude of capacity to the facility. At that time, Lisle officials ordered the company to stop work and want to come when the order was passed. The village argued that Chippen had not secured proper permits for the work. Lisle's February a Darling county judge ordered him and to enforce work but allowed service work with the proper permits. The order also allowed a temporary chilling system, which was installed

without permits, to remain in place.

After a single case of complaints last week about the diesel generators, Lisle Development Services Director Mike Smetana sent an email to Chippen requesting that the company stop using the temporary generators. Both sides met on Tuesday.

Smetana said Wednesday he believes most of the generators are no longer in use and intends to confirm that only one generator is in regular use. The permanent backup generators can be used in the event of a power outage, he added.

The village is seeking a better understanding of what users in the data center have a "crisis" need for power, Smetana said.

"We need to know exactly what is in that building and why they need to maintain power to it," he added.

While the village initially gave rise to further Chippen's help points for the temporary generators, Smetana noted the permit for the temporary chiller unit indicated it would be powered by a temporary generator. However, the

company never submitted details related to the generator, he said.

Both sides are expected to be in control on Aug. 17 for an update on the trial of February court order. The village can address any new or ongoing concerns through that case, officials said.

In omedicts the village last week, residents complained about the noise, smell and black smoke coming from the generator.

"It's super black," said Mark Hollock, who lives across the street from the data center. "It's not just noise and air pollution, the site looks here."

Lisle Village President Mary Jo Mullen said the village is working to better understand the construction project. However, she noted that a new building now, Chippen can attend for permits in neutral and does not need approval for the permit all at once.

"We have been in a understanding, but at the same time we can't have the neighbors unwilling diesel all day or listening to generators all day," she said.

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their south-saharan facility, Haighton Cemetery.

This story is based on a review of business licenses, hundreds of pages of court filings across two states, police reports, inspection documents and interviews with more than two dozen people. The Morgans did not retain repeated messages seeking help.

A several key moments, the Tribune review found a government and law enforcement liability stop{burden} operating in the industry—Angels discovered along the way of an alternative credential, and allegations in a barrage of lawsuits.

State licensing regulations extend South Chicago Chapel funeral home of four members, the wake of problems at its interest: cemetery business. But there is no indication in state paperwork that the problems found at Haighton Cemetery or other well-foged regional aggressive regular inspections of the Morgans' businesses, or their ongoing operating practices.

Because that's not how the system is set up, Illinois investigations of funeral homes typically come into an after complaints are made, according to state guidance.

'It's pretty obvious to the anger at the Morgans for their alleged nefarious activities, but frankly at this point I'm really angry at the agencies in Illinois that should have been keeping their eye on them,' said Michael D. Sharkey, general counsel at the Illinois Funeral Directors Association.

The ongoing investigation into South Chicago Chapel is just the latest plan incident involving the so-called death care industry and highlights weaknesses within state law and other entities.

In July 2009, authorities revealed that workers at the historic Burr Oak Cemetery, one of the area's first criminalities in allow the future of Black people to be interned, were swelling greens and dumping hundreds of old remains in an abandoned wood covered lot.

There years ago, state officials discovered mishandled creations by a central Illinois funeral director. Both scandalous general attorneys state lawmakers that nevertheless fails to articulate a complex disciplinary process and let gaps for to make themselves to continue operating.

'These tragedies are the commonest of a memory of different things that, when looked at them a heck—one view, are apparent,' said Frank Adams, the former home owner of the city department of Financial and Professional Regulation (DEPPP), who presided over the agency during the Burr Oak Cemetery. 'The state's chief's labor's know the specifics of the recent funeral house can be. 'Unless extensive takes away back and looks at it from a large number of people, we're not going to see a systems problem in how this is being handled.'

SOME STEPS TAKEN

Illinois Compromise's human rights bill did not describe Haighton Cemetery, both the Morgans.

And while her office brought in findings to the federal court, the state's chief Cook County state's attorney, a spokesperson said Cook County State's Attorney Edward Twill Smith, declared that the state's chief's office was limited. But he said the state picks for more investigation, which they did not conclude.

'Based on the preliminary review and feedback from the State's Attorney's Office, the investigation continued and is ongoing,' state police said.

There will have not been a large number of people, though more than two dozen families filed lawsuits alleging that they mishandled their family's remains.

After Mandates shut down and sanctioned Haighton Cemetery, the south suburb, state officials allowed Johnson Morgan's Clark Morgan with who was hired as the business president. The state's chief's office has been directed license, with the key regulator, DEPPP, serving it inspected South Chicago Chapel friendliness and the state's counsel during evidence of mishandled remains.

'The deceased can uniquely unable to protect themselves from tread and

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Workers transport a body at the South Chicago Chapel funeral home on Aug. 7.

abuse,' said Adams, the former DEPPP head. And as the current law uses a complaint-driven model, 'there are four possibly work when the key witness is a deceased person.'

Donna O'Neill, a lawyer registered in state business records as the agent for South Chicago Chapel, said he had no comment.

'I have no intention of answering any of your questions,' he said.

CHECKERED PAST

Recorded over the Morgans' have a long and troubled history in the funeral and cremation industry.

Johnson Morgan first became a licensed funeral director and ambulance intern in December 1996, state records show A year ago. Clark Morgan received his funeral director and ambulance intern license, according to the state.

Despite his presence in the funeral industry, Clark Morgan never had a full funeral director license, according to state records. After his intern license expired in 2018, Clark Morgan 'absolutely credited' led to make it appear valid and continued practicing without authorization,' the DEPPP said.

But the department didn't discipline him for that until 2024, when it fined him $10,000 and 'vended' the expired license. Records show he was president of South Chicago Chapel in Jan 2024, with his wife carrying her director's license.

Johnson Morgan became a full funeral director and ambulance intern in 1998.

In 2005, the Morgans registered Haighton Cemetery with the secretary of state's office. Haighton Cemetery operated in Chicago Haighton, now became south suburb that's largely Black and Latino.

Clark Morgan testified in a deposition obtained by the Tribune that he signed the laxity in 2006. A 2007 filing with the secretary of state's office listed Johnson Morgan as the president, which also remained in the most recent filing in 2024.

Records show the Morgan's involvement with other businesses.

Johnson Morgan is listed as president of Phone Green Crematizer in Glenwood, as well as Far Got Me, Far and Wigg and Whiskers Pot Cremation Services, tied to the same address as the Haighton Cemetery, records show All these businesses are listed as dissolved in state records.

PART OF THE COMMUNITY

The Rev. Yoma Vaughn said the first met Clark Morgan a decade ago. When her uncle, Oscar Jackson died, Clark Morgan performed the services and she started recommending him to other families.

'Until this month, Vaughn was pleased with the relationship.'

'He was a very happy-going person to me. You was able to just relax with him. You was able to relax with him in every situation,' Vaughn said. 'He was there, he came to your house to walk you through the process. If you didn't have the money, he never gave me up in with you. He was someone you expected to be a professional person and a entrepreneur.'

But the flurry of business activity came with speed bumps. Later in the 2006, the Morgan began running into problems with state officials.

In 2017 the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation found and re-primanded Johnson Morgan after she 'failed to file a death certificate in a timely manner,' state records show.

A broad the same time, the Illinois attorney general said the Morgan over minimum wage violations at Haighton Cemetery.

That December, both Morgans had their licenses suspended over state income taxes. Two were reinstated to month later. But deeper problems were not the horizon.

REGULATION GAPS

The so-called death care industry in Illinois is a long-known weakness in state regulation.

After the horrific scandal of Burr Oak Cemetery, then Gov. Pat Quinn assembled a state task force to review the circumstances of the case and 'provide detailed recommendations on state, state and regulations should be implemented' to try to prevent such scandal in the future.

Thoughts or even lack of a sense of public hearings, the panel determined a井冈山 failure of oversight and regulation. 'In 63 page report concluded that the state's direct connection between the hodgepodge of regulations governing the death industry and the destruction of Burr Oak Cemetery and other cemeteries' and that it was 'likely that the lack of regulatory oversight was a contributing factor to the criminal income that allegedly unfolded.'

The September 2016 report warned 'Without legislative reform can increased oversight of cemetery operations, the events that occurred at Burr Oak and other cemeteries in the State will continue to occur, and the same types of tragic years they public have already heard too many issues with continue to be told.'

The top recommendations was to consolidate funeral and burial oversight under the auspices of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation so that a 'uniform system of oversight and regulation' could be established.

Almost 17 years later, after several attempts of legislative fines in response to subsequent horror letters inside the Illinois funeral homes and cemeteries, those didn't remain divided between the department, with oversight of funeral directors and the comptroller's office, with jurisdiction over restraints.

Because the Department is scandal prompted the report, it focused largely on serious issues in cemetery coverage and regulations. But the review of regulations and regulations in other states pointed to one gap in funeral home oversight that were it closed, perhaps could have caught the appalling conditions at

South Chicago Chapel. At the time of the report, states including Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, New York and Texas required some form of license to go to operations for funeral homes themselves, apart from licensing for funeral directors or ambulance.

Several also major changes in regulations of the facilities, rather than relying on a complaint-based system, is has been the case in Illinois. In Texas, for example, facilities then had to have a surprise inspection every other year. In 2016, the time frame was extended to once every three years.

DEPPP generally may investigate the actions of any licensed funeral director or person who is acting as a funeral director, according to state law, but the department isn't tasked with regular inspections of difficulties.

After authorities found a central Illinois funeral home mishandledებითი d'unum remains, lawmakers added a requirement effective in 2023 that DEPPP inspects our funeral home premises within 10 business days of them being named in a complaint related to number, filtration or mishandling of remains. Lawmakers also required that funeral businesses maintain 'chain or custody records' ensuring they can identify human remains in their possession throughout all phases of the process.

The 2025 change made its misdemeanor, as opposed to a licensing violation, punishable by fines, to act as a funeral director or ambulance without a license. Knowingly violating the requirement is related to preparation rooms—the area where bodies are prepared for embalming and burial—is a home under the revised state law, as an area where records violations.

'When I saw that in the news I was just devastated in the 16th upstate Democratic state five, from Turner, said that South Chicago Chapel discoveries 'I could not believe that it was happening again.'

The South Chicago Chapel case has spurred Turner's

interest in strengthening regulations before the end.

'We want to take a look at it and hear of there's something we can do to tighten it up, or if it just is not of people offending the law.' 'The comptroller's office, which does on site inspections of crematories, in response to the Haighton Cemetery findings also received overcame oversight were pushing for legislation that raises penalties and will allow them to suspend crematory licenses before a hearing is written upon it.

The case is a long-term issue. While he maintained that state agencies properly followed the current process, Prickler in Wednesday appealed he was open to more changes. The comptroller's office, he made licensing agency and lawmakers—the going to have to work together in a way that is better mechanism,' he said.

'DEPPP is a licensing organization, but the investigation endeavor — you know, we should all discuss whether that's something that should be done by DEPPP, or to some other body,' Prickler said.

Asked who DEPPP didn't register to be the co-instance with known 'bad actors,' Prickler said the agency's responsibility is to look into reports. No reports came in recent months that would lead to the discovery until the complaints in late July, he said.

HEIGHTS CREMATORY The next 2024 was critical for the Morgans.

The third in the state fund Johnson Morgan $1,000 and repromanding for 'for failure to complete three records in a timely manner in 2020' In April came the revocation of Clark Morgan's altered license and the $10,000 fine.

In July 2024, comptroller's office officials visiting Haighton found a heck in a broken refrigerator and 'are in search below waiting in the crematum' on the main floor, according to comptroller office documents. Leoman Clark Morgan 'also told the comptroller's auditor at the time that 'he would have answered' to a complaint related to 'last cremation,' the document said. Johnson Morgan as an usual later disputed the idea that the cremation were lost and said there was a disagreement with the family according to documents obtained by her Tribune.

State officials gave them two checks to correct the problems. The complaint about cremation was later resolved, a comptroller spokesperson said.

In February 2025, comptroller officials performed a surprise inspection and found 'many unperformed hobbies in charge of a similar inside the facility,' according to a funeral against the cemetery. The DEPPP, using the South Chicago Chapel in March and October that was 'was a 'preactive' step' date because of the interest of Haighton Cemetery, officials said, but there was no indication they returned until the complaint this summer.

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Height: Censatory agreed to stop operating in 2025.

Mendoza took a victory lap last spring after Heights Censatory shut down, issuing a press release voering that "its owners will never operate a commensurate the state of Illinois again."

IDFFR defended its handling of both Morgan's licenses.

"Even as (Clark) Morgan attempted to conceal the expired status of his intent license, the Department's enforcement tools ensured that the misconduct was detected, documented, and addressed through formal discipline," IDFFR said in an email.

The fact that funeral homes themselves are not licensed — noted in the 2009 report following the problems at Burr Oak — is a key issue in Illinois' current system, said Mark Strininger, a licensed funeral home director of more than 40 years and the coroner in downstate Washington County.

"A funeral home is supposed to be operated by a licensed funeral home director. But you don't have to be a licensed funeral director to own a funeral home in Illinois," Strininger said.

As such, while some of the financial operations of funeral homes are regularly audited and IDFFR licenses directors themselves, the homes are not regularly subject to thorough inspection in Illinois as they are in some other states, Strininger said.

That needs to change, Strininger said, as does the splitting of industry oversight between different parts of state government. The recent changes to law requiring more records will only catch bad actors if the state follows up with enforcement. Mark Otherwise, "it's a joke."

THE SHOCKING PINS In 2023, Johanna Morgan incorporated South Chicago Chapel with the secretary of state's office.

As of December 2023, Clark was the business's

The Rev. Venus Vaughn offers prayer to the family of Keith Young outside the Cook County medical examiner's office on Aug. 7. Young's funeral institution was interrupted by a police search of the South Chicago Chapel. ABT/KAR WAGNERLLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

A worker with a surgical mask and face shield walks into the funeral home where more than 50 decomposing bodies were found on Aug. 6. ARMANDO L. SANCHEZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

president, according to state records.

The eventual state inspections this summer at South Chicago Chapel came in response to a complaint in late July at a cemetery, as covered by the Morgan, Bohemian National Ceme-

tory. The comptroller's office found Bohemian had malfunctioning equipment, and an auditor flagged bodies "that appeared to be in very poor condition" from the Morgan's businesses to IDFFR, said Kim Howard,

a spokesperson for the comptroller's office. Of the 25 bodies that were found at Bohemian National Cemetery cemetery, at least 25 came from businesses run by the Morgan, she said. IDFFR then investigated South Chicago Chapel.

Reached by phone for comment, David Pimm, the president of the Bohemian National Cemetery Association, said two of the cemetery's three return, or furnaces, were not working due to an electrical fire. The cemetery had continued taking bodies for cremation in the third resort, Pimm said, and they were cooperating with the state's follow-up efforts.

Pimm estimated that the Morgan had been comering bodies at Bohemian National Cemetery for "maybe two years" but was adamant that "if there was wrongdoing, we knew nothing about that."

The tips ultimately led regulators to visit and discover bodies Aug. 3, according to the state, later accompanied by law enforcement.

What they found generated international news and shocked even veteran police officers.

When the state regulates and police arrived at South Chicago Chapel early in the afternoon Aug. 6, a funeral was under way. Clark Morgan walked

the regulator and three zops through the building, where officials found nearly five dozen bodies. IDFFR had suspended Johanna Morgan in the same day.

According to police sources, some bodies had in plastic bags on garners while others were on their alongside miscellaneous equipment like spray cans and cardboard boxes. Some were full of other cans and tags, scarcely said. Some of the corpses were not in bags and only haphazardly covered. Some of them had limbs that had apparently been covered.

Morgan refused to let the police had into the building, without a warrant, though police told him they could do a business license check anytime the business was open, according to the police report.

At that point, Morgan locked the doors, and firefighters had to break them down.

Overnight and into the morning, a crew of body removal workers slowly wheeled 54 corpses out of the building. Authorities also later announced they'd recovered in hours of already cremated remains from the funeral home.

On Wednesday afternoon, Planet Green Cremations had a handwritten sign taped to its front door that read "closed for power outage." Inside, a replica King Tut sarcophagus stood against a cinderblock wall, looking out at a table and some chairs. A printout of different arcs for sale was taped above the table.

At South Chicago Chapel, the doors and first-floor windows to the funeral home were boarded up. An orange city business closure notice was tacked to one of the windows.

Three houses stood in the parking lot. A black minivan and a Chicago police barricade blocked the front entrance.

Aurorene was still answering the phone for the funeral home, though. A man picked up and answered for South Chicago Chapel. After hearing a Tribune reporter on the office end of the line, he hung up.

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After Melissa Smith hired a funeral service company operating out of South Chicago Chapels to consume more money to become a late May, she was told that it could take time to those months to receive the ashes. But only two weeks later, she had been sent to remains, or what she was told were her mother's remains.

Now, after the news broke on Aug. 4 that author, Anne Alonzo had 10 bodies improperly stored and a turning stage of disintegration in the basement of South Chicago Chapel, Smith is not so sure what to believe.

Sterility. Last another, Melody Johnson, a vicious crevetail at the Bohemian National Cemetery on Crematorium, which is also under investigation for mishandling remains in a case related to the problems at South Chicago Chapel.

"I haven't opened the army because I didn't think I should," Smith said. She is not alone.

As the Cook County medical examiner's office underpins the painstaking process of developing the bodies, families like the Smiths are now in the unnotable portion of second-graming the final resting places of their loved ones.

The medical examiner's office is also storing another 54 sets of cremated remains found inside South Chicago Chapel along with the corpses while Chicago girls, locate sites of art for those remains, the office said.

And experts say for the latter, there is no sure flow way for families to ever know for sure.

Any trace of DNA that could help become scientists identify the cremated remains is burned during the cremation process, when corpses are put into a special oven that typically heats up to between 1,400 and 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit. The high temperatures ensure that the body is completely turned to salt, according to Fallon Williams, owner of Oak Lawn-based Alonzo's DNA. Any bone marrow, hair or nail clippings that could be used for standard post-mortem DNA tests are scorched.

"Once someone is cremated, they just turn to ashes, so all that (DNA) is gone," Williams said.

Records identified the owners and operators of the funeral home as Cook and Johnson Morgan, who have a history of allegations of misconduct in the course of their work in the local funeral industry.

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Marquess Boyle with an angle thermist on she hopes today the ashes of her son, Sean, on Aug. 14. Boyle contracted Planet Green Cemetery to cremate her son in 2016. She is among concerned family members wondering if she got the correct ashes and if the cremation process was done properly. CHRIS SWELIN/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

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Since receiving her son's ashes in 2016, Marianne Boyle has never felt like they truly belonged to her son, Sean. Boyle contracted Planet Green Cremation to care for her son's remains. State business records show Johanna Morgan as an officer of the business.

Boyle later found out her son was actually cremated at Houghty Cemetery.

"I never did get a feeling I did get my son's remains," Boyle said.

Once a corps or crevetail, it becomes nearly impossible to distinguish who it was without the proper identification, typically a small stainless steel tag that is engraved with the deceased's 122 number, experts say. This tag is vital to identification efforts and is meant to start with the body through the cremation process.

But Boyle said she received no such metal tag, just also filled with her son's ashes. A decade later, and at light of the recent events, she is still concerned about whether her son's cremation process was handled properly and where her son's ashes ended up.

"I just don't think my son left this world being cremated properly," Boyle said.

A standard cremation process begins when the funeral home removes a body from the place of death. After a viewing or honesty services, families typically are asked to look and confirm the body again before cremation, according to Melissa Connor, retired forensic anthropologist and emeritus professor at Colorado Mesa University.

Corpses are then placed into either a cardboard box or under at the crematorium and left to burn for several hours.

Following the burning process, any larger bone pieces and metal that passed through the burning process, like metal hip replacements or staples from the casket, are removed. Some funeral homes use a magnet to ensure all metal has been extracted, Connor said. The rest are ground into a fine gray powder.

The only chance of identification for cremated remains is if lots of metal,

like prosthetics, earnings or metal dental fillings, are not well filtered out of the ashes, which can sometimes happen in funeral homes that don't take as much care, according to Connor.

"In a good funeral home, the ashes are sorted through, the bodies are burnt, but any kind of metal survives, the fillings in people's teeth, dental prosthetics, pins. Generally, large things like replacement hips, replacement bones... These can be easily taken out," Connor said. "In a funeral home that is not taking as much care, a lot of that might end up in the ash."

Specializing in human remains, Connor was among a team of scientists who tend to identify ashes from the funeral Mesa Funeral Home. In 2023, the Colorado funeral home services were sentenced to 20 years in prison for illegally selling human body parts without consent, sometimes giving families take ashes in loss of the real thing.

She knows better than most that the probability of getting a positive 122 from ashes, even with the inability of metal ingrained, is incredible instead.

"I would never discount that there is a one in a million shot that there might be enough organic left in some bone that they didn't burn correctly," Connor said. "But it's over in a million shots."

While DNA technology has continued to improve over the past decades, it's not yet well-funied enough to identify burned remains, leaving families to rely on crematory records and issued identification tags to confirm the owner of the cremated remains.

"Unless they have reason to suspect that they don't have the correct cremation, I think the odds are that they do," Connor said. "There's no reason for them to have been introduced."

It's small consultation for Smith, whose mother sat in the South Chicago Chapel funeral home just works again. "I worked in the past 3 1/2 hours and then I couldn't sleep. I didn't even sleep until Sunday," Smith said. "We paid you for a proper burial and a proper cremation, to put her body away in the way it should have been."

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Haircuts, supplies, vaccines offered at Summer Jam

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As families poured into a converted West Side warehouse Saturday afternoon, Jacob Williams watched small ringlets of his hair tumble to the floor. The rising seventh grader was excited as soon as he spotted the barber chairs, said his mom, who shared that delight when she learned the cut would come free of charge.

Haircuts were just one of the offerings at this year's Back-2 School Summer Jam, said Tasha Williams, who brought her 12-year-old son to get a free dental cleaning and a few vaccines. These services, coupled with the day's celebratory atmosphere, gave her an extra boost of confidence that her son is ready for a new year at KIPP Academy.

"You think you know what's going on and then you come to events like this," said Williams, 42. "It just opens your eyes to more programs that are available to the community."

Williams was among hundreds of parents who brought their children to this year's Summer Jam, which is hosted by the Chicago Teachers Union, ahead of students' return to the classroom on Aug. 24. The event offered families free supplies as the cost of preparing children for another school year continues to climb.

Educational books and supplies cost about 1.2% more in the average U.S. city than they did last summer, according to federal inflation data. Over the past decade, these prices have risen more than 14%.

Bringly 75% of CPS students were considered low-income last year, according to district data, meaning they or their households received benefits through programs like

Richard Morris browns books provided by the Chicago Teachers Union at its Back-2 School Summer Jam at the CTU Center in the Near West Side of Saturday. The event provides free backpacks, haircuts, books and entertainment for children returning to school. ARTHUR MAHERELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS

LunaLens, 6, going into first grade, gets her face painted at the event.

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nizers said, with more than 800 families registered in advance and hundreds more

expected to walk in through out the day.

For parents like Williams, screening services in one place can ease the additional strain of scheduling multiple appointments around a full-time job.

"It's hard to get in to see your doctor, especially right before school starts," said Williams, who lives in Garfield Park. "Here, we get all of that out the way. It's a one-step shop."

Some kids, like Randhawn Willis, said their parents couldn't get time off work to bring them to the event. But the rising seventh-grader still made it, accompanied by his uncle, Chris Brown, who has brought him three years in a row.

"As Brown watched his nephew sketch colorful flowers into a banner in the art room, he said Randhawn leaves the event more confident about the school year ahead each time he attends. Knowing the Chicago Teach-

"It's a reminder of the significance of learning," said Conrad, 45, who teaches at Madero Middle School in Little Village. "Even though I had some anxiety getting ready for teaching, I'm excited now."

“You think you know what's going on and then you come to events like this. It just opens your eyes to more programs that are available to the community.”

TASHA WILLIAMS, who brought her 12-year-old son to get a free dental cleaning and a few vaccines

ces Union is behind the celebration, rather than an outside community organization, makes the day especially meaningful, he said.

"Having the establishment step up is really cool," said Brown, 52. "I wish they had something like this for me growing up."

The event was originally planned for outdoors, organizers said, before the weather forced families to move indoors at CTU headquarters. But aside from a canceled dusk task, the change of scenery did little to dampen the mood.

Kids with painted faces behind along to music from a DJ, breaking only to grab free tacos and ice cream sanders from local vendors. Others picked out bad packs in their favorite colors and styles, filling them with free creams and glue sticks.

Of all the resources available Saturday, eighth-grade special education teacher John Conrad was most excited about the tables piled high with free books. Conrad said the event puts physical tests in the hands of students who might otherwise access them only online, giving teachers like him another way to prepare them for the future.

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ence a month for “Church in the Diet,” an event that mixes prayer, Gospel readings and preaching with various expertise exhibitions. Some worshippers bring their own homes to church and go riding.

The service on July 12 featured a worship band on a hay wagon playing guitar and a cops, a challot box-shaped percussion instrument for musician use on and tops to produce a drum-like beat. The vocalist added a countrywang to leopard like “How Great Thou Art” and “Open the Eyes of My Heart.”

Worshippers watched a performance by the Ogle County 4-H Horse Drill Team followed by a scripture-based message from Hughes, who drew parallels from the synchronized squeezing choreography to living a Christian life, working together as a unified church and trusting in God.

Previous “Church in the Diet” events included barrel racing and mounted shooting.

The nondominational Billie-based ministry is designed to be “a place where the orchurch play level and accepted,” according to the church’s website.

“A place where every person is disciple and disciples others... A place where scripture is preached without apology,” the description continued. “A place where the cowboy was conscious.”

It’s unclear exactly how many cowboy churches exist nationwide.

The American Fellowship of Cowboy Churches, a nonprofit based in Texas, includes more than 200 on its “church finder” link, many chimerah in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana and Tennessee. An online directory “cowboy church.net” lists roughly 400 around the country, though some are traveling ministries.

Attracting to track numbers and demographics of cowboy churches can be challenging, said Marie Dullam, University of Oklahoma professor of American religion and culture, during an interview with the Tribune. While some are affiliated with various Christian denominations, many are independent.

“It is impossible to say how many cowboy churches exist on any given day. Based on my knowledge of the field, I remember that in the United States today there are more than 100 churches and possibly close to 1,000,” Dullam wrote in her 2010 book “Cowboy Christians.”

“The fact that so many are independent, rather than denominationally affiliated, means they cannot all be tracked through formal channels. It is not uncommon to find a church that has a permanent location, nor any web presence.”

There appear to be sloths over a dozen in Illinois-based on online and online news searches, although 5% on certain if all are still operating.

The Southern Range Cowboy Church near the underdogs of the New York vintners “cans hear sample message of God’s grace” at weekly Sunday services inside coach churches Union County, as well as Thursday nights at the Gownille, four hours and half a day according to its Facebook page.

Rashfylch County Cowboy Church advertises services Sunday morning at the NYPD meeting and the 2nd week under a 1,000 roughly 40 miles southward of St. Louis.

Several online reviews for Brashk father Wauers Cowboy Church in Long Point, roughly 100 miles southwest of Chicago, include comments that read in part “we have been here and we have been here, and we have been here, and we have been here, and we have been here, and we have been here, and we have been here, and we have been here, and we have been here, and we have been here, and we have been here, and we have been here, and we have been here, and we have been here, and we have been here, and we have been here, and we have been here, and we have been here, and we have been here, and we have been here, and we have been here, and we have been here, and we have been here, and we have been here, and we have

During the recent service at Ogle County Cowboy Church, one little boy wearing a red, white and blue cowboy hat and his favorite chores was a little boy, and for the horse drill team from the blackmen.

“He’s had this hat out all week, made to go, making some we were people like Sunday,” said his mother, Maria Chambers. “He liked being around the horses and just being one of the guys. We’re all the people.”

His next man how much of the danger of preaching for 7-year-old compounded me. But he’s having and taking in “the positive background

Pastor Harry Hughes preached while sitting on his horse, Hank, during Ogle County Cowboy Church’s “Church in the Diet” at the Ogle County Fairgrounds in Oregon on July 12. ELAINY, WILLIAM CHURCH TRINJING PHOTOS

Harry Hughes, wife of Pastor Harry Hughes, sings a worship song on July 12.

Hobbyhorses lie on the ground after Ogle County Cowboy Church’s “Church in the Diet.”

“Sole,” she said.

“Eventually, when he is older, he ‘handwstand more.’ Chambers added. ‘And I want that God airport in his life.’”

The opening of the church zone amid a resurgence in popularity of American cowboy culture and imagery, from Beyrout’s “Cowboy Carrot” tour to a rise of “cowboy-cure” and “country glare” in mainstream fashion to the 3st race. Women drama television franchise “Yellowstone,” with its multiple spinoffs.

While some attendees at Ogle County Cowboy Church are farmers, horse owners or live an agitation lifestyle, the pastor believes the ministry attracts folks from all walks of life.

“Our United States has gotten kind of soft,” Hughes said. “Church has gotten kind of soft. When we look at the Bible, they weren’t soft people.”

He considers the concept of “cowboy” more of a mind-bones, “versus hate and love.”

“It’s an attitude, a state of mind. The heart of the cowboy hasn’t changed,” he said.

To Hughes, it’s about ideals like integrity Resilvance Diet.

“Like if I got knocked down, I’m going to get right back up,” he said.

Humanity under a hungry for this kind of culture and mentality, the pastor added.

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Across the ocean, eight girls from the local drill team rode eight requests: glitter-covered horses in vote, cueing the complicated patterns with exact timing and precision.

As high-energy teams, polled through the speakers, two men of horses galloped towards one another, expertly wearing in and out of the gym between them under the 3rd sun. Afterward, their coach explained that each of the horses has a different personality and temperament. Some were good horses. Some were pleasure horses. Some were “do whatever you want to” horses.

“The horse just has to yield mind-dependent to the rider. Its desires, they’ve just got to surrender that to the subtle cues of the rider,” the pastor said. “And I believe that, walking in faith with Jesus Christ, at half a row, we need to walk how he wants us to walk. And walk in a way that’s the failed path we can go down. I think we need to surrender our independence to the subtle cues of the sorter.”

Hughes explained how the body and the sex and the story and give the horse cues, pushing it to safety or through tight places.

Similarly, local legislators are certain cues to enter them on the right path or keep them from danger, the pastor said. He then quoted from the New Testament Book of Jesus, “No one make a large horse go where he is, want to the means of a small lot in his mouth.”

The metaphors and messages at cowboy church are tentatively used, and understood and never complicated, Hughes said.

“We try not to track over our heads or over most people’s heads,” he added. “Jesus never did that. His teaching—ever, most intensively simple. Why are we trying to do anything differently?”

It’s hardly pinpoint exactly when the cowboy church phenomenon started, Dullam said.

“There isn’t a single moment and there isn’t a single moment, but I think that. That’s part of the tricky thing about it.”

But the prothesis points to various themes and processes to the many of the reasons. In her book, she offers examples of Christian pastors bringing subjects to the Western frontier, like Baptist clergyman. “The word ‘Cowboy’ is a Millican, dubbed the ‘cowboy preacher’, who was known to preach in the late 19th Century and “remembered” for baptizing a cowboy at the

watering hole late one night between the man’s shifts on the round-up” in Texas.

Another was the Rev. Sam Jones, a prominent Methodist minister of the late 1930s, who “gather only used slump when preaching so as to reach the cowboy in his own language.” He faced criticism from other pastors for using temperament phrases, such as “You grand old rascals,” during preaching, the book noted.

More recently, from 1961 to 1994, a Methodist church in Colorado Springs sponsored a “cowboy church” during summers, advertised in a brochure in “the most unusual worship service in the West.” Followers met at a farm on theater, men and women on horseback subred the crowd and rode from car to car to collect the offering, according to “Cowboy Christ Inc.”

Numerous horse racists and rodeo minettes also emerged during the 1970s, Dullam added.

About 20 years ago, some cowboy church leader began forming networks and associations, offering written guidance and founding principles to the new churches interested in code a ring them.

“That’s when it really became a movement,” she said.

As for the Ogle County pastor, Hughes grew up on a farm in the area and was taken to church by his grandmother, who lived on the other side of the same pastors.

He would have much rather been outside with the ones or on a tractor.

“If either go on my own flow will or I’d go by my car, you can feel a hold of it,” he added.

But when Hughes was 31 a new pastor had explained to him: “But the only way to God was through Christ and we keep the act that he came to the Earth, that he lived a nation life and he paid the price for my life, for my debt,” he recalled.

“I have never at him to give his life to Jesus, he went on to become a pastor. Yet he mentioned being continually plagued by frustration with traditional churches, partic-

ularly when his own a disastrous foreword the teachings of Jesus and the way church leaders and members often behaved.

He prayed about this foreword, he said.

“I love you but the church will make,” he read and telling God. “And he said, ‘Well, do something about it.’”

“I have never been in the Church. I have always been in the Church. I have always been in the Church. I have always been in the Church. I have always been in the Church. I have always been in the Church. I have always been in the Church. I have always been in the Church. I have always been in the Church. I have always been in the Church. I have always been in the Church. I have always been in the Church. I have always been in the Church. I have always been in the Church. I have always been in the Church.

“I just heard this crazy concept ‘cowboy church.’” he recalled. “I just settled in my soul.”

The pastor caught guidance from several cowboy church leaders in Texas and suffered many of the most of the three were some who were skeptical that this kind of culture, ministry and style of worship could show us illness.

Some of the most of the Church started with about 20 people, now roughly 40 or 50 came to most Sunday services, with “Church in the Diet” events drawing more than 100, and Hughes.

“Some of my pastor Frank, thought I was crazy, others said. ‘Have can I help you?’” he added. “There’s a peace here there on don’t experience anywhere else. We want to feel and experience the tangible presence of God. People are they do. And so they come back.”

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WHERE THEY ARE’

Following “Church in the Diet” many worshipers preferred at public tables (overcrowded and white chandled cloths for a “cowboy breakfast” of biscuits and green with leaves, sausage and other things.

Emars Gustafson, 27, brought her horse, Clifford, to the fairgrounds.

She was already accustomed to this friend of Western theming and worship Gustafson was raised in a cowboy church in Wauerkachu, Texas, about 10 miles outside Dallas, as up to 60 of cowboy ministry.

The city – which had a population of under 20,000 when she was a child – was home to three cowboy churches at the rates.

As a term about a decade ago, she committed her three Christ and was baptized in a horse trough, fully interested in the water.

When Gustafson later met and fell in love with a man from Illinois, she was hesitant to leave Texas.

At one year, she told him it would be possible for her to move to the old mill from trailer to transport her horse.

Two days later, the man bought her a horse trailer, carving their initials into a along with the number 2022, the year that began dating.

They started their son and now live nearby in Irion.

Her husband, Andy Gustafson, said he felt he met at the Ogle County Cowboy Church.

“I’m an ordinary pen, being outside all day and driving tractors and living in the diet. That’s just kind of a bit. I am the 20-year-old farmer and the 50 of I can come to church and do the same thing, getting in my own element, outside

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"The Western life is a lot of hard work. And super fun and totally worth it. I'd say that's kind of the same as what Jesus is. In the Bible, he doesn't say it's going to be easy or that following him is going to make everything go smoothly. In fact, it tends to make things go harder. That's part of the journey. The sanctifying work of Christ is huge."

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and not in a building, it's just good."

After church, Olivia Steingraker, 16, brushed the main coat of her horse blew.

The more of these spent much of her childhood and young adult years competing in males and barred racing events around the country, where it was common for traveling ministries to hold cowboy church services on Sundays.

"So it's always been ... my favor in way to go to church," she said.

"Yet this was the first cowboy church she'd intended that remained local, and she loved how round that left.

The outdoor service, and the multiple-apaestrian analogies tied to scripture, also moved her.

"There's a lot of time when you're outside and you take the time to be observant and you're with a horse — so much of it applies. So much of the Christian life can apply," she said. "Just being open to it and looking around and realizing that (God) created the trees and the sky and the horses. It's all intertwined."

She points to Mera, whom she has raised since the horse was about a year old.

"I can be working her and it makes me think of something that I heard in church or something I read in the Bible," Steingraker said. "Just how much that they have to trust you ... I feel like that's the same with us and God. We don't know everything he knows."

At 16, Steingraker was baptized — she is a horse trough — by conspiring teacher and former males had rater Crystal Lyons, founder of the Texas-based nonprofit Crystal Lyons Ministries.

Lyons, who goes by the social media bundle "Coequiv' Logic," travels to "western world events with the message of Jesus backed by

Members of the Ogle County 4th horse drill team perform during "Church in the Dirt". ELBERT MELLAR/CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS

His power to heal, deliver, redeem and give new beginnings in life," according to her Facebook profile.

In more than three decades of ministry, Lyons estimates she's baptized hundreds of folks — often in horse troughs, other times in rivers, creeks or ponds — in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

"We've failed so much in our churches. We've turned walking with God into man-made religious stuff, with all of its bondages. So it's been great to have the freedom to do these services at these events, these secular events," Lyons said during an interview with the Tribune. "You can share the Lord Jesus in a place where a lot of people who won't go to church will go to. And you

meet them where they are." For Steingraker, the manner of her baptism or where the ritual occurred were less important than her spiritual transformation within.

"Doing to sin and losing a new life," she said.

She uses her faith and cowboy culture as intricately connected.

"The Western life is a lot of hard work. And super fun and totally worth it. I'd say that's kind of the same as what Jesus is," Steingraker added. "In the Bible, he doesn't say it's going to be easy or that following him is going to make everything go smoothly. In fact, it tends to make things go harder. That's part of the journey. The sanctifying work of Christ is huge."

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Death of Chicagoland racing was slow, steady

Two decades worth of poor decisions ended in demise

By Neil Milbert FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Now that Chicago-area horse racing has been pronounced dead, the time has come to perform an acumen.

The local irresponsibility and misrepresentation of hailerage Hawthorne Race Course President Tim Carey was the immediate cause of death.

But in the wake of the impending raids of the 150-year-old track to the Delaware draft corporate Allman, 217 LLC, which缔结 to develop the 120-acre property for end-state purposes, 2 months and that in the past 24 years, after racetrack owners remain decisions that would significant factors in Chicago lead racing to climate damage.

They are Sportsman's Park's president of Biscough, broadcasting Charles Bidwell III, and his right-hand man, the first and most important Arlington International Racecourse owner Dick Duchesnois, and Churchill Downs Inc., which merged with Arlington in 1999.

In 1998, Bidwell and Duffy terminated the popular harness meeting controlled by the Johnston family, a minority owner of Sportsman's, and converted the Givens track since thoroughbred and auto racing venue, Chicago Motor Speedway. In the process, scoring was increased enormously, with only monitoring what had once been over-confirmed.

The Johnstone moved the harness meeting and it extendedly reserved. Among the National Association of Railroad Park, the Ctrestrack they owned.

Even though Chicago Motor Speedway received an otherwise accurate 10 publicity, it turned out to be an abysmoldater and more that down in 2003, having Sportsman's with 858 million of debt.

Sportsman's National Jockey Club attempted to regroup by making a lease agreement with Hawthorne and McGrathcounds, and the new entry, Hawthorne National, planned to apply for thoroughbred dates for Feb. 23-May 6, 1997.

Barting Edge was the start of as the summer of 2000 when Duchesnois Industrial, the family-owned company headed by Dick Duchesnois, bought the National Jockey Club's $10 million loan from Biscoufans Road and sold at the Allman for repayment.

Not only did this make Hawthorne National and its to meet the statutory financial requirements necessary to conduct the 2000-2002 year's meeting, but it also deprived Hawthorne of what was anticipated to be an important source of new revenue.

Bowling Vixen, ridden by jockey fronti Hayes, rules ahead of Code of Conduct, ridden by jockey Alexander Berstano, before entering the last race of the day of Hawthorne Race Course on July 19th 1950way, MINNESOTA, SARATOGA THRU/MP PHOTO

Jockey Victor Lara walks on the track after coming in second during the 10th race of the day of Hawthorne Race Course on July 19.

Duchesnois Industries also levied Hawthorne to pay for the backstretch barns and off-road facilities the National Jockey Club had built.

In 2012 Hawthorne took another hit when Churchill Downs—controllably Arlington's parent company—involved against0 hand-grabbing race owners for the Kentucky Derby. The hit reached the Illinois Derby, the Chicago circuit's most prestigious program, while including such billions to some penalties on the Oakland Derby in New Mexico and the State Dade at Tampa Bay Downs.

The next blow to Chicago lead racing came in the fall of 2014 after the state legislature passed a renewal of the impact the levied against the area's forehead casinos for all of the trackers use for past money, its of that December, then-Gov. Rod Blagniewski, had delayed signing it.

Balmoral President John Johnston made a 'What's

holding this up?' call to ask ads to Blagniewski's chief of state, Los Mock, and the sales mentioned the Balmoral and Kratzler track. Maywood Park hadn't made the requested campaign contributions to the governor. Johnston said something to the effect of 'Don't worry it's coming, but tell him we need him to sign that bill.' - Valparaiso is Johnston, the FBI was wiretapping the call. Even though, Johnston never made the contributions, Blagniewski signed the bill.

But that didn't matter. When the phone conversation was designed during the criminal case that sent Blagniewski to prison, Johnston was forced guilty of bribery, and Balmoral and Maywood in 2014 were ordered by the U.S. Court of Appeals to pay the casinos $75 million in contention.

The amount was later reduced to $25.9 million. Johnston was granted immunity from prosecution for testifying against the governor

and Balmoral and Maywood were able to roar in 2015 as scheduled.

The outcome was short-lived, at the Illinois Racing Board hearings for 2016 date. Arlington and Hawthorne announced they were making a joint request. Hawthorne's Suburban Downs would bring back harness racing for the first time since 1999 and hold 128 programs in addition to 60 thoroughbred programs, while Arlington would have 74 thoroughbred dates. With Balmoral and Maywood off the Illinois racing map, Arlington and Hawthorne would decide the airmail cut betting pay.

It was a custom. Allman is a view of the fact that over the years Arlington and Churchill Downs Inc. had repeatedly attempted to undermine Hawthorne. So that as a way, the racing board gave its blessings to the proposal that consolidated Chicago lead racing at Arlington and Hawthorne.

The end of racing at Balmoral and Maywood also marked the end of the American National at Balmoral and the fact after and prestigious Wrady City Pass and Galt Test at Maywood. An contemporary, Chicagoland no longer had any races being the best known in North America, a major blow to the prestige of the circuit.

While several other states must notably actor-died Indians—legisland adding casinos at racetracks, making libanions 'racious,' the Illinois legislature dwelled.

Racinos weren't introduced to make casino gamblers into bestsellers. Babcock was objective as to fume in a portion of the adjutant press revenue into the purse account, improving the quality of competition and thereby making the product more attractive to before at the track and at one of state standards outlets.

The almost two decades, the most important tracks behind for racism, Churchill Downs Inc. even had a provision in the Arlington merger that revealed Duchesnois most stock'd a racks-become reality. Then in 2018, Churchill Downs Inc. bought a reported 42% share in Revs Casino in Des Plaines, the state's most profitable casino.

Meanwhile, the Duchesnois family had been significantly reducing its 51.8% interest in the Kentucky gambling conglomerate as part of the potential 8-course planning. Churchill Downs Inc. responded by getting the Arlington marketing department and eliminating customer pads that had made the track of Chicagoland entertainment destination.

In 2019, state lawmakers authorized a massive expansion of gambling. The bill passed racetracks to add the casino component, six new casinos to be constructed, sports betting to be introduced and rules gambling to be expanded.

Churchill Downs Inc. did a shocking about-face announcing that it would reject the racism it had long sought, permanently shot down racing at trodden with an exceptionally renowned Arlington after the 2020 man, big and off the property.

It was an overt attempt to eliminate competition for some of more roarish because salesmen stipulated there for an casino gambling, horse racing, airmail cut wagering or sports betting on the property.

The Chicago Bears agreed to buy the property for $167.2 million in September 2021,

and introduce its property on bill, the NFL team turn down when both normalist flagwifesal once hailed as 'the world's most beautiful racetrack.'

Arlington's unitman 1924 left Hawthorne and Fairmount Park, a thoroughbred venue across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, as the state's only racetracks.

When the 2019 bill was set for both immediately announced plans to become racism, Carey said Hawthorne would have a state-of-the-art $40 million would be a part of a state that was greatly demolished to launch the project. Carey told the racing board he was on the verge of finding a pasture. The 2019 state's revenue would be forthcoming in the new future.

It was something Carey and his lieutenants would make the state's most legal again during the years that followed. But while the other track in Illinois became Fairmount Park Casino & Racing, all that Hawthorne would do was acquire more credit to and also analyze the state.

After obtaining casino approval from the Illinois Gaming Board in the summer of 2023, many in the racing companies suggested that Carey put up a temporary facility at the Washington license. Bully in Chicago and others have done. The cost only would make it a full-time source for Hawthorne, but also would have put money in person, enhancing the financial well-being of the people racing at the track and the quality of the racing product.

The track's Gold Cup Room, which was in dining area, and The Tur Club, an upscale party room, seemed like a good source for temporary facilities, but Carey made badly refused arguing that some fans might be turned off and wouldn't miss or lose the car. The car was a good source for a racing sport because couldn't.

He was living in a dream world, he time went on, Jefferson and President Donald Trump's staff to be raised the amount of money needed for the project, and in the same time more competitors had begun operating, suggesting that the Chicagoland gambling market might soon be saturated.

All of the above probably discouraged prospective hours who would have sought to continue racing and do not have to be able to be declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in accordance with 27. Allman's 9/96 million dollar law. June months only after the first three months' current revenue at least $2.08 million to 2018 or more condition.

So for the first time since 2021—when what are racing that dated to 1908 was in its last year—there will be no racing of any kind in Chicagoland next year.

Partnership between racing—even in Illinois at Maywood in 1946—the only city stored after after Hawthorne's 14 Suburban Downs programs scheduled for January and February were cancelled because a Nov. 6-Dec. 27 kid's winter meeting was scheduled, but it was taken off like support recently when it was announced that Allman would close on Sept. 1 or 2.

When Chicago blacks were passed away July 19 with the final program of a thoroughbred meeting that was originally scheduled to continue in 2023.

'Racing people already know all they need to know, the writing that's been on the wall for years,' Marcus Marsh wrote in Daily Racing Form. 'The Chicago circuit is finished.'

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In Aurora, falcons' fame was years in making

Outside City Hall, next a sign of Fox River's resurgence

By Addison Wright AURORA REACON NEWS

Lifelong Aurora resident Tom Schradler said he's always loved the Fox River, even 40 years ago as a child, when he said the river smelled like sewage, the fish had sores and birds of prey were scarce.

But what he didn't expect was to be standing along that same river decades later and he nearly drew hundred by screeching peregrine falcons cloning concerning down just outside the Paramount Theatre in downtown Aurora.

Or that he would be standing in an Aurora City Hall elevator with city employees and a baby falcon preparing to release the bird from the roof of the building, after rescuing it from the Fox River. Or that some of those same city employees would set up with cameras so that hundreds of residents could watch the baby falcons grow up in their next on a ledge outside City Hall.

These falcons and other birds of prey were once rare in the region, with their population even reaching zero at one point.

Schradler credits their return to the Fox River - and a surprising choice by a pair of falcons to next outside Aurora City Hall in early April that enumerated the town's - to a long history of river cleanup efforts. One effort, restoring water willow to the river, even helped zero one of the baby falcons when she fell into the river, he said. Now that those City Hall baby falcons have left the next, Schradler and other residents are reflecting on the birdie (crowds impact) and awaiting their possible return next year.

"This is kind of a muzzle-like opportunity to see those falcons. Because normally they're in a next

Aavergone Falcon named Vixen gets ready to feed her four little hatchlings on May 3 at a seat on the outside of the second floor of City Hall in downtown Aurora. TOM SCHRADLER

box or nesting on a ledge or the balcony of a building 25 stoves up or they're in the wild," Schradler said.

"They really caught the imagination of the town," he said.

The baby falcons hatched in early May after their falcon parents, Vixen and Dow, nested in a service on the second floor of the exterior of Aurora City Hall. Schradler said he and other residents watched them learn to fly by fed by their parents and grow up enough to leave the nest.

Brittany Everett, the city's human resources benefits coordinator, and Schradler said they often heard the falcons discussed in places they never thought they would hear about birds, from City Hall offices to downtown restaurants, to neighborhood gatherings, to a checkout line at Home Depot.

Local residents even helped rescue one of the young falcons using a bucket and a towel in late June when

it was trapped in the Fox River.

Perhaps the strongest evidence of that local interest, Everett said, was the hundreds of views on a city livestream of the birds, where people were even able watch the birds hatch.

The livestream using took immense effort and some trial and error, she said. It was set up by city employees in an empty space just above the Riverfront Playhouse, which let the city use its Wi-Fi. Riverfront Playhouse also let the city run an electrical cord through a small opening in its ceiling for the cameras, she said.

It did not take long, she said, for that livestream to interview into the City Hall work life, with it usually streaming on screens around the offices. The falcons became a common City Hall conversation, and she said some city employees even started referring to the falcons as family members.

She said she has found herself more curious about birds due to her experience with the falcon-borne.

"Just the culture of City Hall, like you'd walk past groups of people standing around, watching the livestream in someone's cubicle," she said. "I think it really improved our employee engagement, like everyone felt like they were connected to these falcons."

Schradler said this local interest and care is exactly what started some of the river cleanup efforts decades ago, which still remains one of the primary goals for the nonprofit Friends of the Fox River group, which became on river cleanup and education.

At one point, the peregrine falcon population had decidedly since at the state, when pesticides like DDT (fanned their eggshells), so parents often crushed their chicks before they even hatched, Schradler said.

The river, less clean in the past, offered fans of a food supply, he said. Simply put, he said, birds of prey depend on fish, and clean water brings more fish. While falcons do not largely eat fish, they hunt shoreline and waterfowl that do, he said.

"The Fox River had some fish but not like it does now," he said.

A long history of cleanup efforts helped bring the peregrine falcon population back and even led to the species being removed from a lot of bird species needing aid in the state in 2015, according to Chicago officials at the time. Schradler pointed to one person who helped spark awareness of cleaning the Fox River back in the 1940s - a teacher named Jim Phillips, otherwise known as "The Fox."

"The main thing people got involved, people cared, like 'The Fox,' and he increased awareness of what was happening around the

"It seemed like it kind of brought the city together. People have gotten more interested in the river. People got more interested in nature."

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area, and that's kind of what Friends of the Fox River is trying to continue to do in common that level of awareness that the river is important," he said.

Phillips was known for fighting polluters, their in the Fox Valley and their byungdom the Chicago area, for two decades.

Schradler said he remembers Phillips' legacy, and the importance of new regulations through the federal Clean Air and Clean Water Acts enacted under former President Richard Nixon.

He said there were other regulations and efforts as well to help bring birds of prey back to the Fox Valley, long before the falcons netted in outside Aurora City Hall in the spring.

Schradler said he hopes the falcons return to City Hall next year, as the birds tend to be loyal to their roots. He said they could also return to a nest on top of the 22-story Leland Tower at 7 S. Stulp Ave. on Stulp Island, where five falcons have nested downtown since 2016.

Either way, he said the falcons brought people together in Aurora, and an increased number of new and longtime bird enthusiasts are already holding meetings to prepare to support another round of downtown Aurora falcons.

"It seemed like it kind of brought the city together," he said. "People have gotten more interested in the river. People got more interested in nature."

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GILBERTO CÁRDENAS | 1947-2026

Notre Dame academic helped found field of Latino studies

By Bob Goldsborough FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

For decades, Gilberto Cárdenas worked at the intersection of Latino culture, scholarship and community engagement, and he sought to elevate the problem of Latino artists through a variety of avenues, including creating a national gathering devoted to studying and advancing U.S. Latino visual art.

Later in the year he, Cárdenas taught Latino studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he was the founding director of the university's Institute for Latino Studies. He was also assistant professor at Notre Dame, and he later served as the executive director of Notre Dame's Center for Arts and Culture.

Cárdenas was also a major art collector. He and his wife donated thousands of works to various museums, including about 2,000 works to Chicago's National Museum of Mexican Art, on whose board he served. He also donated artwork to the State Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame, as well as to museums in Texas and Washington, DC.

"He was instrumental in ushering in a new era where Latino and Chicano art are part of the union of American art," said retired Smithsonian Latino Center director Eduardo Diaz, a longtime friend and colleague. "That wasn't really the one better."

Cárdenas, 79, died of complications from cancer on July 26 of his home in Austin, Texas, Diaz said. He previously had lived in South Bend, Indiana.

Born in the federal, California, in 1947, Cárdenas was the son of a single mother, who worked as a secretary. Growing up near Los Angeles, Cárdenas was the former, reckoning, aging member as a town. After graduating from East Los Angeles College in 1967, he served a bachelor's degree in the national arts. University in 1969 During college, Cárdenas took a keen interest both in Mexican American make competition, as well as in documenting the Chicano monumental Mexican American identity through photography.

Cárdenas earned country degree in sociology from the University of Notre Dame, and in 1975 a doctoral degree from Notre Dame White at Notre Dame, Cárdenas assisted Notre Dame professor and Latino studies pioneer. In his famous as "Los Minutos The Woback Story" a annual 1975 nonfiction book published by the University of Notre Dame Press that explored immigration to the U.S. by undercarnated Mexicans and dissects the various dynamics at play in migrant workers' lives.

After products school, Cárdenas began teaching sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned honors and taught his more than 10,000 schools. As a scholar and educator, Cárdenas built a Mexican American studies program at the U. of Texas, and he also earned कई and wrote on topics such as immigration, labor, race, ethnicity and border communities.

"We're trying to use the whole educational process to improve society," Cárdenas told the Indianapolis Star in 2001. "I want to motivate and train a new generation of scholars — to make them more aware of Cárdenas".

Though a sociologist by training and profession, Cárdenas found himself

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more deeply drawn and connected to the work of artists. During his years in Austin, he became an enthusiastic collector, advocate and champion of Latino art. In 1986, he founded Gilberto for Patterson in Austin, a gallery and gathering place for artists, scholars, activists, collectors and those in the community. Cárdenas — who often quipped that the other artist wrapped in fifty shroud, have been named "Gabriela De Dinero" — prided himself on nurturing artists whose work had been overlooked by mainstream institutions.

Starting in 1995, Cárdenas spent 10 years as the executive director of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research, a New York-based collaborative of 21 university-based Latino research centers, departments and programs across the country that sought to define the national research agenda for Latino studies. Cárdenas' specific interest in art led to his 2005 creation of a natural gathering of U.S. Latino visual art, called "Latino Art Now".

In 1995, Cárdenas left the University of Texas to join his director, Notre Dame, as a professor, assistant professor and as the founder, director of its Institute for Latino Studies. The university valued Cárdenas to open the institute in 1999 as a way to demonstrate a stepped-up commitment to the predominantly Catholic/Latino community.

Cárdenas also served on the Smithsonian Institution's task force on Latino issues, which led to increased Latin representation throughout the Smithsonian. He also spars the whole creation of a national Latino museum, studies program, and in 1994, he was the founding executive director of the nationally distributed "Latino USA" radio program that shared Latino voices and stories on National Public Radio.

Throughout his working life, Cárdenas invested well financially, allowing him to assemble a massive personal collection of nearly 20,000 pieces of art from Latino artists. After retiring from Notre Dame in 2018, he focused on donating thousands of pieces from his art collection to various museums.

In 2023, Cárdenas and his wife donated more than 7000 works of art from their collections to the Western Museum of Art in Austin, Texas. Cárdenas previously had gifted projects in the Western in 2019 that had been produced at a landmark printmaking work shop in Los Angeles. That earlier gift dovetailed with his past work with printmaking, including establishing a consortium of Latino printmaking workshops across the U.S. in 2000 that came to be known as Consejo Gráfico

Nacional.

Cárdenas also donated about 2,000 works to Chicago's National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen. The National Museum of Mexican Art president emeritus and founder Carlos Terribos called Cárdenas' one of the most important and impactful Mexicans in U.S. history.

"He was a Renaissance man," Terribos said. "In the arts, education, social justice and the fair goes on. Gil was both a Mexican and American leader. In gratitude for his art, the National Museum of Mexican Art named a gallery for him and his lovely wife."

Cesáreo Moreno, the visual arts director and chief curator at the National Museum of Mexican Art, said in a statement that Cárdenas "believed deeply in the power of art to preserve history, shape identity and inspire change."

"Gil moved with ease among artists, entrepreneurs, scholars and politicians, always making the case that the arts deserved greater equity recognition and investment," Moreno said. "He possessed a rare ability to connect people and ideas, bringing enthusiasm and generosity to every endeavor. Many of us will miss Gil — his gregarious laugh, his playful slayer and little dances whenever he was excited about a new idea, a remarkable acquisition or simply a wonderful meal shared with friends. Those moments reflected the joy with which he unbravulously and the people around him."

Cárdenas also donated artwork to the State Museum of Art at Notre Dame and to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington.

"He was an extraordinarily generous man," Diaz said. "He had the ability with his collections to make a difference."

Cárdenas rediscovered his religious faith in the mid-1990s, and he long had viewed his work as part of his faith and the quest for freedom, opportunity and racial equality.

"For me, the idea of the American dream is the dream for equality," he told the Indianapolis Star in 2001. "It's important for us to have values and purifier them to ourselves. I want to see us fulfill the values of our society."

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Bluegrass, Kerry Ann

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Dalley, Robert I.

At age 45, Robert I. Dalley is a Chicago native of the United States, and serves as a first-flavored, ten-foot tourist of golf, raised the dalley's head, swellled the back of the lake, and taken out many of his much loved ones. The name of his son is the son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his son of his

Ellis, Harry Edward

His family, his head in several places around the U.S. and spent thirty years in his father's formation with his grandparents and considered himself U.S. farmer for themselves who died about half the family, he was born in April 1, 1915. In 1994, he attended Lake Washington National College in Houston in 1995. He was born in 1995. He was born in 1995. He was born in 1995. He was born in 1995. He was born in 1995. He was born in 1995. He was born in 1995. He was born in 1995. He was born in 1995. He was born in 1995.

Fanning, William J. "Bill"

William J. "Bill" is a member of the National Association of County, New York, and is a member of the National Association of County, New York and is a member of the National Association of County, New York. He is a member of the National Association of County, New York and is a member of the National Association of County, New York.

Green, Mary Lou A.

Mary Lou A. Green (1940-1980), 1980, is a member of the National Association of County, New York. He is a member of the National Association of County, New York. He is a member of the National Association of County, New York.

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Hatch, Stephen Woodworth

Hatch, Stephen Woodworth, 1980, is a member of the National Association of County, New York. He is a member of the National Association of County, New York.

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Humley, Robert "Bob"

Humley, Robert "Bob" is a member of the National Association of County, New York.

Johnson, Ann

Ann Johnson (1940-1980), 1980, is a member of the National Association of County, New York.

Jarvik, Patricia Dee McDonnell

Jarvik, Patricia Dee McDonnell, 1980, is a member of the National Association of County, New York.

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Leynes, Dr. Acesz T.

Dr. Acesz T. (1940-1980), 1980, is a member of the National Association of County, New York.

Leynes, Dr. Acesz T. (1940-1980), 1980, is a member of the National Association of County, New York.

Melnick, Thomas J.

Thomas J. Melnick, 1980, is a member of the National Association of County, New York.

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Michelak, Cicely Clarke

Michelak, Cicely Clarke (1940-1980), 1980, is a member of the National Association of County, New York.

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CHICAGO ACCUWEATHER

AccuWeather Airbnb: While to study and very tard at all a few visitors, winner countess, Partly study and hand weight. Showers countess, show my staff.

Sunday

Wistle cloudy, a stray return, bankie

Whole: WNW 7-14 mph POP: 20%

Monday

Partly sunny and less bankie

Whole: WNW 6-12 mph POP: 20%

Tuesday

Clouds and rain, bankie, a.p.m. 1:00am

Whole: WSW 7-14 mph POP: 20%

Wednesday

Some sun with a blue- dentarm

Whole: NE 6-12 mph POP: 20%

Thursday

A thunderstorm around a few morning

Whole: NE 6-12 mph POP: 20%

Friday

Whole: 5-6-8 mph POP: 20%

Chicago forecast

Sunday Cadillacs

June 30-4: New 10m 40m 54m 52m 52m

AccuWeather.com 10:30am

1 2 3 4

Hudson Temperature

30° 55' 47" 36° 56' 51" 47° 47' 47°

Sunday Activities

June 30-4: New 10m 40m 52m 52m 52m

AirDrop Index

7 8 9 3 4 5

Fishing Index

2 3 4 5 6 7

The following is a collection of our 10 items

on the 10th of the 2016. The 2016 is a 2017. The 2018 is a 2019. The 2020 is a 2021. The 2022 is a 2023. The 2024 is a 2025. The 2026 is a 2027. The 2028 is a 2029. The 2030 is a 2031. The 2032 is a 2033. The 2034 is a 2035. The 2036 is a 2037. The 2038 is a 2039. The 2040 is a 2041. The 2042 is a 2043. The 2044 is a 2045. The 2046 is a 2047. The 2048 is a 2049. The 2050 is a 2051. The 2052 is a 2053. The 2054 is a 2055. The 2056 is a 2057. The 2058 is a 2059. The 2060 is a 2061. The 2062 is a 2063. The 2064 is a 2065. The 2066 is a 2067. The 2068 is a 2069. The 2070 is a 2071. The 2072 is a 2073. The 2074 is a 2075. The 2076 is a 2077. The 2078 is a 2079. The 2080 is a 2081. The 2082 is a 2083. The 2084 is a 2085. The 2086 is a 2087. The 2088 is a 2089. The 2090 is a 2091. The 2092 is a 2093. The 2094 is a 2095. The 2096 is a 2097. The 2098 is a 2099. The 2100 is a

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enough and a 2016-2017 temperature band

between 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160, 170, 180, 190, 200, 210, 220, 230, 240, 250, 260, 270, 280, 290, 300, 310, 320, 330, 340, 350, 360, 370, 380, 390, 400, 410, 420, 430, 440, 450, 460, 470, 480, 490, 500, 510, 520, 530, 540, 550, 560, 570, 580, 590, 600, 610, 620, 630, 640, 650, 660, 670, 680, 690, 700, 710, 720, 730, 740, 750, 760, 770, 780, 790, 800, 810, 820, 830, 840, 850, 860, 870, 880, 890, 900, 910, 920, 930, 940, 950, 960, 970, 980, 990, 1000

Chicago almanac

Saturday temperatures

Ottawa through 4 p.m.

Monday 7:30 PM 6:30 PM 7:30 PM Saturday 7:30 PM 6:30 PM 7:30 PM

Local temperatures

Sunset 7:30 AM
Location	High	Low	High
Ascent	5°F	5°F	6°F
Sunset	6°F	7°F	8°F
Kankakee	8°F	7°F	8°F
Lansing	8°F	7°F	8°F
Midway	8°F	7°F	8°F
Manorville	8°F	7°F	8°F
Manorville	8°F	7°F	8°F
Waukegan	8°F	8°F	8°F

Saturday Precipitation

	20%	Normal
Saturday*	6.85*	6.90*
Month to date	3.80*	4.52*
Year to date	29.95*	27.91*

*At least 30 mph (including 4 p.m. Saturday)

Palms at 8:30 AM

Dover Green Woods M-66

Dover Woods M-66 Dover Woods M-66 or 10.5%

Dover Woods M-66 or 10.5%

Air Quality Index

Saturday's loading

Bodonia

Sunday's 1:00pm

Bodonia

Phoenix 8:30-8:45 Portionate

Source: Airline.com

Cosmos

Sun and moon

	Sun.	Mon.
Sunrise	0.89 a.m.	0.81 a.m.
Sunset	1.49 p.m.	1.48 p.m.
Moonrise	10.28 a.m.	10.25 a.m.
Moonset	5.03 p.m.	5.06 p.m.
First	4:45	5:45
Second	5:45	5:45

Best shining times today: Winds: 8:25

6:25 Moon 5:30 a.m. Jupiter 5:30 p.m. Sun

Sun 5:30 a.m. Mercury 5:30 p.m.

Sunset 5:30 p.m. Mercury 5:30 p.m.

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National cities

	Sun.	Mon.
City	49.5/50.7W	49.5/50.7W
Albany	69.7/70.6	69.7/70.6
Albuquerque	92.9/93.1	89.9/90.1
Austin	92.9/93.1	89.9/90.1
Anchorage	66.5/66.7	65.6/66.9
Asheville	96.7/97.9	94.7/95.7
Alpine	81.9/83.5	81.9/82.6
Albany	96.7/97.9	94.7/95.7
Atlantic City	86.7/91.1	87.7/90.6
Baltimore	100.7/98.1	98.7/97.9
Baltimore	97.7/95.9	98.7/96.9
Billings	90.9/91.1	90.9/91.1
Birmingham	96.7/96.1	95.7/95.7
Bismarck	81.9/80.6	80.4/79.7
Boston	94.9/94.9	94.9/94.9
Boston	79.9/80.1	79.9/80.1
Brownsville	96.7/95.9	97.8/95.9
Boston	81.9/81.1	80.9/81.1
Barlington	89.9/88.9	78.5/80.9
Charleston, SC	63.7/65.5	69.6/70.5
Charleston, WV	94.7/95.9	94.9/95.9
Charlotte	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9
Chattanooga	96.7/96.1	96.7/96.1
Chicayne	76.5/81.9	77.5/80.9
Cincinnati	86.7/87.9	78.5/80.9
Cleveland	82.7/83.5	78.5/80.9
Colorado Springs	79.9/81.9	81.9/80.6
Columbia, SC	86.6/87.9	84.9/85.7
Columbia, SC	92.7/93.9	89.9/90.5
Columbia, SC	89.7/92.9	89.7/90.5
Concord, OH	86.7/90.6	87.7/86.9
Costa	86.7/90.6	88.0/88.0
Concord, South	96.7/93.9	96.7/93.9
Denver	88.9/92.9	88.9/90.5
Denver	74.7/82.9	80.7/80.6
Detroit	74.7/82.9	80.7/80.6
Denver	74.7/82.9	80.7/80.6

Weather W is a survey, as part of the city's climate, which shows 1.8 minutes to 1.6 minutes. All times that time, we mean 3 min. POP: Probability of 1.8 minutes

National forecast

Dover are 10.5% of the 2016. The 2016 is a 2017. The 2018 is a 2019.

World cities

	Sun.	Mon.	Mon.	Sun.	Mon.	Sun.	Mon.	Sun.	Mon.
City	49.5/50.7W	49.5/50.7W	50.5	49.5/50.7W	49.5/50.7W	50.5	49.5/50.7W	50.5	49.5/50.7W
Columbia	74.7/82.9	74.7/82.9	74.7/82.9	74.7/82.9	74.7/82.9	74.7/82.9	74.7/82.9	74.7/82.9	74.7/82.9
Columbia	80.7/83.5	80.7/83.5	80.7/83.5	80.7/83.5	80.7/83.5	80.7/83.5	80.7/83.5	80.7/83.5	80.7/83.5
Columbia	84.7/87.9	84.7/87.9	84.7/87.9	84.7/87.9	84.7/87.9	84.7/87.9	84.7/87.9	84.7/87.9	84.7/87.9
Columbia	89.7/92.9	89.7/92.9	89.7/92.9	89.7/92.9	89.7/92.9	89.7/92.9	89.7/92.9	89.7/92.9	89.7/92.9
Columbia	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9
Columbia	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9
Columbia	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9
Columbia	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9

Weather history

At May 16, 1976, temperatures dropped below freezing in northern Minnesota and to 17 degrees as far east and the central. For it was because a strong, cool high pressure area from Canada brought chilly air southward.

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Regional cities

	Sun.	Mon.
City	49.5/50.7W	49.5/50.7W
Alaska
Carbondale	67.7/65.5	67.5/65.5
Champaign	80.9/80.5	82.9/80.6
Decatur	87.7/91.4	87.9/90.6
Detroit	84.9/83.5	83.9/83.6
Florida	84.9/84.5	83.9/84.6
Galena	87.9/90.6	87.9/90.6
Rockford	84.9/87.9	87.9/90.6
Springfield	86.9/87.9	84.9/89.6
Seattle	86.9/87.9	84.9/89.6
Indiana
Birmingham	69.7/71.4	65.7/67.5
Evansville	92.7/93.1	92.5/92.5
Fort Wayne	82.9/87.9	76.7/72.5
Indianapolis	86.7/87.9	82.9/87.9
Lafayette	87.9/90.6	80.9/89.6
South Bend	82.9/87.9	70.7/69.6
Wisconsin
Green Bay	82.9/84.5	82.9/82.6
Kenosha	86.9/87.9	79.9/76.9
La Crosse	83.9/86.9	82.9/80.6
Madison	82.9/87.9	79.9/76.9
Milwaukee	84.9/87.9	81.9/80.6
Wichita	82.9/87.9	81.9/80.6
Michigan
Denver	82.9/87.9	82.9/80.6
Grand Rapids	83.9/90.6	79.9/76.9
Marquette	71.9/84.5	71.9/80.6
Louisville	86.7/86.9	76.7/80.6
Trenton City	80.9/82.9	70.9/76.9
York
Jersey	76.9/83.5	80.9/80.6
Omaha Rapids	83.9/90.6	80.9/80.6
Des Moines	78.9/83.5	81.9/80.6
Delaware	80.9/87.9	80.9/80.6

	Sun.	Mon.
City	49.5/50.7W	49.5/50.7W
Alpharetta	67.7/70.6	67.5/70.6
Altoona	76.7/76.9	76.7/76.9
Arlington	84.9/85.9	84.9/85.9
Atlanta	84.9/85.9	84.9/85.9
Baltimore	86.7/87.9	84.7/85.9
Baltimore City	82.9/87.9	84.7/85.9
Baltimore	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9
Baltimore	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9
Baltimore	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9
Baltimore	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9
Baltimore	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9
Baltimore	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9
Baltimore	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9
Baltimore	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9
Baltimore	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9
Baltimore	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9
Baltimore	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9
Baltimore	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9
Baltimore	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9
Baltimore	94.7/95.9	94.7/95.9

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THE 7 ESSENTIAL TECH TOOLS EVERY COLLEGE STUDENT NEEDS

By Kevin Luna BESTREVIEWS

Going off to college is a site of passage for many young adults, so it's important to be as prepared as possible. Students spend countless hours attending classes, working on assignments and commuting for tests, and the right tech tools can give them an edge by helping them stay productive and organized. Below, we rounded up the most essential of these tools to make this school year a success.

Apple 2026 MacBook Now: The MacBook Now is Apple's budget-friendly flagship laptop that don't let that stop you from making it your go-to school computer. It features a powerful 4.0i chip, 8 gigabytes of memory for fast performance and 24 hours of battery life, so it can keep going all day.

AirPods Pro 2: Whether you're commuting to school or want to listen to tunes while you study the AirPods Pro 2 are among the best our buds for any student. The sound quality is impressive with a bright soundstage, and active noise-canceling lets you filter out ambient noise so you can concentrate on whatever you're listening to.

Logitech MTSS Marathon Fall-Site Wireless Mouse: A laptop truckpad is fine if you're just casually web surfing or streaming your favorite TV show, but, for everything else, it's probably better to use a mouse. The Logitech MTSS features a hyperfast wheel, so you can scroll through extensive documents in a flash. There's also a tilting function, so you can scroll horizontally through large spreadsheets and images.

Hotspaw® HWT-HU-LED Desk Lamp: Long nights hitting the books can strain your eyes if you don't have enough light, making this lamp a must-have for any dorm room. It has three color modes and a dimming function, and you can adjust the color temperature from zero to 180 degrees. Plus, it features two USB ports, so you can power your phone and other devices.

Arker Laptop Power Bank: If you ever find yourself without access to a power outlet, then you need to worry if you have the handy power bank to juice up your devices. This one features built-in extractable cables and can charge up to four devices at once, including your laptop. Plus, the color display lets you know how much charging power and cycles are left in the tank.

Samsung Galaxy Tab A1tv: The Galaxy Tab A1tv is a great tablet for students who want the freedom to work on quick projects and share data with classmates without always having to carry around their laptop. It has a bright 11-inch display, long-lasting battery life and on-the-spot assistance with Gemini AI to help you get things done faster.

Samsung T7 Portable SSD: All laptops have built-in storage, but it might not be enough for students who frequently work on large projects or want the peace of mind that comes with having everything physically stored on a drive. This portable SSD is made from durable materials for added protection and offers 1 terabyte of storage, allowing you to store thousands of these ments, images, videos and more.

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Opinion

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EDITORIALS

A broken system

Illinois has rules against harassment, but the Harry Benton scandal shows they're not working

In Springfield, there's a time-honored way to deal with a crisis and give the impression that lawmakers are doing something without their actually having to do anything at all. Form a working group. That way, you can buy some time until (hopefully) everyone moves on.

Last year, House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch convened working groups on property taxes and pensions. Not much actually changed.

Welch's most recent iteration is a new "culture and accountability" working group. And the whole are already falling off.

Welch is known for his preference to form those Democrats only private groups, and this one is no different — except that two of the Democrats Welch asked to join the group have declined.

State Rep. Gregg Johnson, an East Moline Democrat, told Capitol News Illinois he was uncomfortable with the making of the group given that some members had already gone public with their position on Welch's handling of the recent House sexual harassment scandal surrounding. Bygues of former state Rep. Harry Benton.

The other Democrat to RSVP not State Rep. Kelly Cassidy of Chicago, who has said she was concerned it could amount to little more than a PR start.

Gov. JH Pritzker has also expressed skepticism that a working group is a satisfactory way to resolve this problem (as think, Gov't), pointing out that these groups often do not end on.

"There is no time here. There are already models for dealing with this in other states," he said at an Aug. 7 press conference.

Based on Tribune reporting, which paints a thorough picture of what happened, we can get a sense of where to start looking. The young staffer who alleged harassment from Benton reported the behavior to Welch's chief of staff in April 2020. She was encouraged to take her allegations to the Legislative Inspector General but declined, telling the Tribune she feared formally pursuing the complaint could permanently damage her job prospects.

Since Welch appears out on the working group idea, we'll share what we think the first matter of registration might to be. Why did a young woman who knew there was a system for reporting harassment feel that merely using it might well ruin her career?

But let's back up a bit here. For a working group to be successful it needs clear matching orders, the right people at the table — that would be some combination of lawmakers from both parties, victims and longtime staffers who knew the Springfield culture — and a right deadline.

Then there is at least a shot of answering the most salient question. Why don't women in Springfield feel safe coming forward with serious harassment concerns?

Employees at good private-sector companies can take a harassment complaint to human resources without fear of losing their job. Clearly, Springfield needs something like that. As distinct from another open-ended exercise in brainstorming ideas.

Welch has floated the notion of controlling human resources operations in the House. Maybe some element of HR-style reform report of the answer, but Springfield shouldn't build another bureaucracy before identifying what the current system couldn't — at 6:00 p.m. — to Blackline. Steller already has multiple avenues for reporting harassment outside their immediate supervisor, including the Legislative Inspector General and Illinois Department of Human Rights, as well as the state's Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Help-

"I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT THE LADIES ARE TALKING ABOUT. I FEEL PERFECTLY SAFE..."

line.

The problem, in other words, may not be that employees lack somewhere to go, but that they don't sufficiently trust what will happen to them once they go there.

No system can guarantee that an accused lawmaker won't abduct who complained, but Stenhouse employees should be able to report harassment with reasonable confidence that doing so won't cost them their careers.

We asked Pritzker's team what he had in mind when he pointed to other states.

One example to which Pritzker's team printed (although it noted the governor does not necessarily endorse these particular ideas) is giving regular citizens more involvement in oversight, as Washington state does. Their Legislative Ethics Board includes five public members in addition to four lawmakers. Giving citizens a majority gives the public

adequate weight and authority over serious ethics matters. Making such a change in Illinois surely would be an effective safeguard against lawmakers pursuing bad actors with whom they are channery.

One obvious challenge to transparency here comes from policies to place that could've prevented us from learning about the issues with Benton in the first place.

The LAG's Benton report easily could have remained secret.

Illinois law requires the Legislative Ethics Commission to publish certain reports involving serious employee discipline, but gives the commission discretion over publication of other reports — including one like Bismarck —. Because Benton resigned before the report was completed, its release was not mandatory. Had the commission declined to publish it, the report could have remained confidential indefinitely. That gives a small panel of

legislators substantial power over whether the public learns what an ethics investigation found. That's a big problem.

The Pritzker administration also highlighted Rhode Island, which has rules to place to ensure efficient investigations. Its ethics commission is generally required to complete an investigation within 100 days, allowing for no more than two 60-day extensions when the situation warrants it.

Several states also provide longer windows for certain complaints or ethics enforcement. Alaska generally allows legislative ethics complaints involving conduct within the previous five years, while Oregon gives workers five years to file certain employment-discrimination complaints. Illinois allows two years for state civil rights complaints, while the LAG generally has just a year to initiate an investigation.

These are the types of targeted changes Illinois could consider

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once lawmakers know precisely what they're trying to fix — the kinds of ideas could working group should be debating and evaluating.

"It takes all of us to change a culture," Welch said in an Aug. 5 interview with Capitol News Illinois. "Everyone that was something should say something. We should have an environment where people are comfortable to say something, and it's not going to be fixed by one person alone."

Correct. The instinct to analyze what happened with Benton and where the system fell short is the right first step. Only once we know where the breakdown occurred can we understand what needs to change?

Give the working group that mission, a firm deadline, the right people at the table and the ideas Pritzker pointed to us a place to start.

Then let's see the work. And the results.

Quotes of the week

"Some politicians are running for this office at the same time they are standing for reelection for their current office in November ... It may be legal, but it is morally wrong."

CHICAGO MAYORAL CANDIDATE WILLIAM LON, on fellow candidates running for mayor white also campaigning for other offices

"Wisconsin, we have built something that will last forever. No matter who's on this ballot, y'all, we are going to fight to win for one another."

FRANCISCA NUNZ, a democratic specialist, after the narrow loss in Tuesday's Democratic gubernatorial greatery in Wisconsin

"To us, Northwestern University is Chicago. Chicago loves sports and we need Wildcat Football to be competitive. We are pleased to support the university as it enters an exciting new era."

LIZ ANDRICK UHLER, who just devoted $25 million to Northwestern football

"Invention, not automation, will be the greatest contribution of superintelligence."

MARK SCHNEIDER, vice essay on artificial intelligence

"There's just been a lot of outside noise. But our locker room is good. Our locker room is there, it's tight, and we have each other's backs. Coach loves us."

RICHARD MCMAN, LOUISE CUNNINGHAM, on speculation of conflict with head coach Stephanie White

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OPINION

Former National Institutes of Health Director Anthony Fauci arrives for testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on July 25th. Washington. AREA NEWS/TREATER/GETTY

The problem with outrage over Fauci

By Alessandro Hirsch SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE

Ever since Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared in front of the CIA Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, my son of media tried has been eliminated with a view of the past. Doctors and nurses post picture after picture of their yellow-greened bodies or WHO covered faces, all with the same message. If this wasn't you during the COVID pandemic, no one cares what you think about Fauci.

These healthcare workers, nursing images of themselves to the internet and its inevitable wrath, are providing testimony where Fauci will not. As he pleaded by Fifth Amendment to each of the questions, those who are not crippled to court feel compelled to something else. Just Jennings, for example, speaking to nurse who goes by given repros on Threads, posted pictures of herself in mask, giggles and face shield and wrote:

"I'll forget awfully fast about the days where so many died we ran out of back bags. I wrapped a tiny child in Home Depot plants shooting and carried her into the refugee size truck. I wore garbage bags for PPE and entered my out in need mask back together when it broke. So many died, my hospital forced ICU nurses to call in to grief counselors. So that it with your Fauci hate."

I remember, too, I was an intern, only just beginning to understand the hospital's tunnel system when COVID-19 hit. My education on the South Side of Chicago in America and gynecology was fundamentally shaped by the pandemic.

As I learned to deliver babies, I also learned to quickly don and do personal protective equipment. As I learned to diagnose signs of fibroids on an MRI, I also learned to diagnose signs of respiratory failure in a woman who was pregnant and breathing hard.

That education did not stop in the hospital. My relationship, all of our relationships,

Fauci's critics are motivated by fear. They saw the vaccine as an untested threat and a dangerous oversight. Let me be clear. They are wrong. The COVID-19 vaccine saved 3 million American lives. Fauci will be remembered as one of the great heroes of public health and modern medicine.

were changed by the pandemic. A 3-month-old filtration became my future husband when, on the eve of lockdown, we exchanged 'I love your' for the first time. I didn't touch my mother for over a year.

What healthcare workers want the world to see with these posts is, on the surface, a defiant support of Fauci. Indeed, they have medical expertise (like Fauci), and experience (like Fauci). But really, I think it's about exhibiting and solving our fear. That fear still lives so close to the surface, that, like a rapid animal, we are always ready to pursue.

Unfortunately, it seems that Fauci's critics are motivated

by fear as well. They saw the vaccine as an untested threat and a dangerous oversight. Let me be clear. They are wrong. The COVID-19 vaccine saved 3 million American lives. Fauci will be remembered as one of the great heroes of public health and modern medicine.

But here is the problem with the Fauci outrage on all sides: It forgets about the hope.

When the COVID-19 vaccine was announced, we in the medical community felt, for the first time in nine desperate months, the first show of hope. My hospital had a lottery system, and by some years he of luck I was among the first to be vaccinated. I asked the nurse to take my

picture as the needle went in, and it's that picture I have been thinking of those past weeks, every colleagues post image after image of their traumatized faces.

In the photo, I am marked and seated, with a volunteer bent over my hand left shoulder. I'd just come off a night shift, and my eye bags have no bags, such was my fatigue. But I'm working back tears of unmitigated hope.

All of us who survived the pandemic – and this is all of us who remember it – carry its scars. No one has a right to use these scars to trigger the past. But we'd all do well to remember the moments of hope that, dotted the unbearable. And we might just find that Fauci, with his point and aquamint, was responsible for more than a few of them.

Dr. Alessandro Hirsch is a writer and assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. He has written a memoir about her time in residency during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The real lesson to be learned from the Common Core

By Michael Casserty SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE

The political battles over the Common Core from Standards may feel old and settled. They are not Cerico continue to describe college- and career-ready standards as federal overreach, wasted effort and academic failure. That conclusion is too simple – and, in important ways, wrong.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress talks a more complicated story. Standards did not succeed everywhere, but where district is turned them into stronger classroom instruction, students made real gains.

The anger toward the standards was not manufactured, though. Common Core reached classrooms before many districts had the materials, training and explanations teachers and parents needed. Federal incentives attached to delegates fed the perceptions of coercion, even though the standards were developed outside the federal government and state adoption on voluntary land save were that came with the standards were often handled with teacher evaluations, adding another layer of resistance.

Those grievances were real. But they were mostly grievances about judicial classrooms and rushed implementation, not proof that stronger standards were the wrong objectives.

Did Common Core deliver everything its supporters given in? No. But disappointment is not the same as failure. The real lesson was that standards alone do not raise achievement. Standards matter when active and districts use them to raise expectations, create more rigorous and coherent curriculum, purchase better

High school students walk toward that classroom at Von Sinsaben Metropolitan Science Center in Chicago on Dec. 15, 2025. ANTONIO PERAZI/CINCASO TRIBUNE

instructional materials, focus professional development, align assessments with what students are expected to have and hold the capacity of schools to teach the content well.

Chicago's results were hard to square with the claim that higher standards were an academic dead end. Between 2004 and 2016, NASP's Trial Urban District Assessment showed that the nation's public schools gained just six points in fourth grade math and five points in eighth grade math. Large city districts as a group did better, gaining 11 to 12 points. Chicago, which was an early chapter of the standards, did better still 10 points in fourth

grade math, 21 points in eighth grade math and 14 points in fourth grade reading – roughly triple the national math gate. Chicago's eighth grade reading scores stayed flat, a useful reminder that no reform like performance or only.

Other city school systems such as Washington, San Diego, Miami, Dade County and Dallas had similar experiences with their state's versions of the standards and had among the highest achievement gains on NASP.

Since then, the pandemic took a toll on Chicago, as it did in many places, except in eighth grade reading, where the districts is actually ahead of its 2019 performance.

Chicago earned those gains by treating the standards as more than a compliance coercion. District leaders used them to refrain instruction, align classroom practice with system supports, build capacity among school supervisors and principals, and clarify what students should know and be able to do. NASP cannot prove that standards alone caused Chicago's gains. But it can show that districts that toured standards as a foundation for better teaching could move student achievement substantially. That sense of direction and coherence – not the standards document itself – is what the results capture.

That distinction matters now because some policymakers and advocates are moving backward, especially in math. In May, South Dakota's Board of Education Standards replaced its 46 page Common Core-based standards with a 49-page 'common sense math' framework, citing stagnant proficiency as not the same. The problem is not that the new document is shorter, the danger is that it is weaker, according to Sharon Nuttal, the president of the state's Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Some national groups, however, are now encouraging other states to follow South Dakota's lead.

This is what manning simplicity for strength looks like. Teachers need standards that are clear, precise, coherent and demanding enough to prepare students for the future. Chicago and other cities are the counterexamples to the claim that the standards were a bad's errand.

The urgent task now is not to weight out political wars. As a time when the national assessment is still showing deep problems in our damage, this is the wrong moment to leave our expectations or show weaker versions up in the language of controversies. Now is the time it stands down on college- and career-ready standards.

The real lesson to the Common Core was not that higher standards failed. It is that higher standards only matter when states and school systems do the hard work of making them real in classrooms.

Michael Casserty has been with the Council of the Great City Schools for almost 10 years, including nearly 60 years as its executive director.

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OPINION

Every American president has had a sense of humor — except one

By John Blumenthal SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE

More than one commentator described President Donald Trump's space, at the recent White House Correspondent Association Dinner with variations of "the upscale of funny". There is no reason to elaborate because we've been down this road before. But what doesn't we about a man who thinks "tech her up" is a latest one-line?

Trump may be the only president with little to no sense of humor, unless he secretly reaches a return of "The Anonymous" late at night while meeting views.

What about our other president? Did John Tyler, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland and William Howard Taft have funny boxes? Not to the top 20 perhaps, but you.

Our first and arguably best presidential comedian was Abraham Lincoln. He may have been known as the "Bail Spitline" but he was also an exemplary suboplet.

Bring others about House! Are often down on his legendary sense of humor. He would tell jokes and episodes of rules to whoever would listen. Here's one human example. Accused of being too struck, he has when attractive Lincoln replied, "If I had two boys, would I be wearing the one?" He was often self-depressing and occasionally being an old man who, for many, has the once observed that laughter is "the awful, beautiful, universal ever given offly."

Although he wasn't a lobby storyteller like Lincoln, John F. Kennedy had his own approach to comedy.

Like many presidents, his own, it does seem often meant to define issues. He could not resist answering reporters' questions with a single "a lot" or second him. His playful spitless card will was often stated at his president's his wealthy background and occasionally his brothers, Teddy and Bobby.

Asked why he wanted to be president, Kennedy replied, "The pay is good, and I can walk to work."

But he, Kennedy's was right up there with the best of the presidential humor that and often joked, like Kennedy, to lighten the enormous stress of murder faces. In Roosevelt's case, those crises were would like if and the Depression

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His humor was said to be charming, and he took considerable joy in teasing. He also enjoyed political humor and often quipped about members of his Cabinet and politics. "It's all such a case with both feet firmly planted — in the air," he said. "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk for it all."

When he was in office, Barack Obama was often funnier than the stand-up comedian who had been hired to entertain audiences at the nearly correspondingly distant. His timing and the disbelievers were perfect, and he often got more laughs than the professionals. About the point—he said, "It's like I was almost of a cannot. I am so overexposed, I make Paris Hilton look like a recluse."

A former actor, Ronald Reagan delivered criticisms with public which earned him the name the "Great Commons star." He often

used self-depressing humor to get a laugh, particularly on the campaign trail and during presidential debates. When his advanced age became an issue during his second campaign in 1944, he managed to neutralize the problem with this driver line. "I am not going to exploit, but political purposes, my opponents' youth and experience."

It is said that Bill Clinton was always the last person to leave a party. His humor was a combination of down-horror. Ackness do not and him. University sophistication. To many, he was our first funny president, certainly the coolest up to that point. He played the atmosphere, which until then was not considered presidential. Like many of his predecessors, he often used humor to lower the temperature in crises.

"Being president is like running a cemetery. You've got a lot of people under you and

nobody's listening," Clinton said at a campaign event for Senate candidate Alison Landorgan, Governor Kennedy.

Even our first president knew hilarity when he met it. It fearing Washington appeared stodgy in portrait, it's because of his well-known dental issues, but he loved to laugh. His taste in humor was decidedly spotty. Frankly and Sapporo, such as people falling off homes, cracked him up. Frankly said that he is about not and humor, although he was not sound for actually telling a lot.

The other president had some semblance of comedic appreciation, whether through cynicism, irony, sarcasm, joke-telling, else appreciation or storytelling. Some, such as Lyndon B. Johnson and Dwight Eisenhower, used humor for public disrepeant. LBI was a great merciless, but many of the olds about his youth were apocryphal.

One second president, John

Adams, was said to have had a sarcasmic demeanor and made biting remarks about his contemporaries. "Thanks, he've tried," he once said. "Our began use of the humorous about I know I can right."

The other Roosevelt lived in guffner at a good joke. And he had a few good ones on his own. "When they call the roll in the future, the senators do not know whether to answer present or 'not guilty,'" he said.

Even Richard Nixon had a sense of humor, albeit it was rarely offered and directed. To the left, he was a driver, grim-faced candidate, he appeared on "Row on and Market's laughs he," a popular "Saturday Night Live" (top show in those days and delivered badly) one of the program's most famous phrases: "tech it to me."

That's right. Even Nixon.

Writer John Blumenthal is the co-writer of the movie "Blue Street."

Voice of the people

Landlords are overwhelmed — by a small landlord in the city of Chicago who swear these buildings, to the expropriates as the Chicago City Council (to considering the nature of the people as additional members of the city). In the mccormit as a landlord, one must have meant to the value that living space enough in terms of condition and privacy. Given to make the landlord's property, the house, sewer that tenant loyalty is built on the foundation of affordableity and value. As a result, I have sought to not look the highest possible cost. The landlord is the ability for the payment of necessary costs and that gives the centre a strong work, which is also a good way to be able to pay for the property.

Unfortunately, the state of Illinois in 1970 changed its Constitution to make public workers' payments a contract that can be dominated. As the property taxes have caused to pay for all this, affordability is being seriously negated by the very government under the law.

Currently, I am the plaintiff in an election case. The tenant is an educated person who interviewed will and give up an unproven middle class background by all appearances. This case has been in court for a number of weeks. I was much the impression that the court would take in my favor. Reimbursement is not a mere requirement to fulfill, and now, the next four days is scheduled for late August.

Also, I would in her Aug. 6 op. ad strongly support Mayor Brandon Johnson (now's tenant manager). I have been a member for tenants in changing rental landscapes are good policy! The cold facts are that landlords are being uncovered, damaged as the court has ever been in the building costs and increased requirements. It would be a profound reminder by the City Council to pass the master's proposal to retail ordinances.

— Daniel Dillon, Chicago

Tenants need protections — As the housing number has stranded Chicago homebuyers,

Yale McDonald, a community organizer with the Metropolitan Tenants Organization, speaks in support of Mayor Brandon Johnson's proposed Protecting Review Ordinance at Gary Huss on June 19, 2026. WES/CP/TOWLAND TRIBUNE

renters need additional protections as well. Rising mortgage rates, higher property costs and lower available affordable units have put renters on their heels.

Also, the city recently achieved edged the lack of affordable accessible housing for people with disabilities and agreed to identify, build or rehab 2,000 units to meet as conditions standards. A fight is browsing in City Hall over sharing ordinances for renters' rights.

The first proposal — Protecting Review Ordinance (PRIS) introduced and backed by Mayor Brandon Johnson along with community advocates, would greatly improve the rights of those more vulnerable. It is re-drafted with tenant input and by a diverse coalition of community supporters.

It is a sweeping update of the air-year-old leadership Landlord and Tenant Ordinance. It includes just cause for eviction, a citywide rental registry, a dedicated city agency for renters, and a minimal support for renters facing eviction. The draft ordinance would require landlords to provide a valid reason before evicting a tenant or declining a renter their lease. In some cases,

landlords would also be required to provide relocation assistance. The second offering — the Fair and Accountable Illinois Revenue Ordinance, using the minimum PRIS — cuts back on the limitations the other ordinance would put on junk less that renters pay, in addition to rent, and it expands the definition of small land. Such who are exempt from the ordinance's tenant protections thereby protecting fewer renters. This proposal would not only remove renter protections for more people but introduce more inequality into the system, especially for those who are already vulnerable, including immigration, people with disabilities and those transmitting from the legal system.

People with disabilities are more likely to rent than own because they are more likely to have lower income. Change in renters' rights therefore disproportionately affect landlord's people.

People with disabilities and other marginalized residents also frequently struggle to locate units. It is expensive and can be hard to locate a unit that meets a disabled person's needs. PRIS residential rental registry would

support those residents by including landlord provided unit identification and contact information. Purdom is available to the nonprofits that serve them to locate housing.

Both proposals are undergoing review and debate among the city's policymakers, who are getting an earth from the various interest groups. We need to continue further on the need to address int. 40-year-old housing law, present displacement and reach into clear tenant rights.

— Elaine Brown, Renter, Housing community organizer, Access Living

Transports in sports

— Thank you to: Ada Poe for providing insight into the debate about transgender athletes.

“Transgender athlete makes me think about my friends,” Aug. 10. Since the giving is only 1% of those participating in sports, most people do not know or understand that transgender athletes.

I am amazed at the amount of time spent on this and also the hate generated. Although the number of transgender athletes is so low, the hate they receive is disproportionately giant.

— Joe Marci, Aggella, Orient Park

Important voice in the life

I want to thank and commend Ada Poe for her important column appearing on the front page of the sports section. This view has not been heard in the day long, the office mentioned earlier, it and the news reports of the side show and irrelevant conversations about transversion in sports inexplicably occurring in the context of the WYHA. The press is a little sad in ordinary times, perspective such as Poe's are often directed and forced to remain in the shadows. I thank Poe for her being in sharing this crucial and often on-

heard viewpoint due to the polarization issues current dialogue. And thank you to the Tribune for publishing Poe's column. — Arlene L. Heff, Chicago

Humane point of view

As a long ago newspaper spying gay, I'm impressed with basketball writer Ada Poe's deeply personal, well-written views about the controversial issue of transgender women and kids in sports.

In sharing her humanity as a gay woman with transversion friends who play cycling basketball with them, she revealed her concern that many of those players withdrew from their small minority in organized sports at a young age, feeling unsafe to be exposed as different.

The argument about competition against girl athletes is a reasonable one, though apparently very limited in number of events and acts advantages. Pre-ballance from her own appearance that opponents — hopeful types with power and others — don't just want to protect girls, they also want transgender people, who just seek happiness looking who they really are, to get out of our country's life.

She makes a lot of important points.

— Ed Stone, Northbrook

White Sox's 'required' play

We Cleveland Guardian fans never anticipated the 'required' play of the White Sox this season. My relations at Chicago (since I was just my organization, but I swear I thought I saw a better-look give-brooring over certain Sox players at different times in two games of the course weekend series.

And for the life of me, it looked like Pope Lee XIV wearing a Sox cap!

— Stephen Gladstone, Cleveland, Ohio

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VINTAGE CHICAGO TRIBUNE BREAKING HISTORY SINCE 1847

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1961

The intersection of Archie Avenue and 47th Street in Chicago floods on Sept. 14 after twenty-ninth arrived.

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1954

E.F. Sparks wades home at 117th Street and Pulaski Road in Atlas after donning a pair of shorts for a trip to the grocery store and wrapping the utilities in his principal on Oct. 10. The wettest October on month of Chicago brought the city some of its worst-ever flooding and cost $25 million in damages.

1987

James Rogers, M.D., and Randy Denechal, past the Kennedy Expressway at Addison on Aug. 14.

AUGUST 1987: 173 INCHES

Chicago's Cannon August on record is also the wettest month in the city's weather history going back to 1857.

In our 16-hour period, 9.38 inches of rain fell on parts of the Chicago area. Hundreds of cars were stranded on expressways, and 45% of the 47.5% rapid transit owners had down. Of them here national August was turned into an island accessible only by foot or by air. At least four deaths were attributed to the storm.

Either rain had been more, according to the National Weather Service. Chicago and its northern suburbs would have been barred under about 95 inches - about as much as during the entire infamous winter of 1976-79.

Here's how it happened. A front of very warm and very humid air from the Gulf of Mexico came north toward Chicago. When it met some cooler air from Canada, the moisture taken air burn like a water balloon.

Tribune reporter Robert Davis noted with irony that the rain forced the Chicago office of the National Weather Service to close.

At the time, the cost of the damage was the highest of any declared disaster in the state. The number of homes affected was at least 11,000, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

SEPTEMBER 1985: 14.77 INCHES

During Chicago's wettest September on record, it rained for the first six days, and before the month's opening week ended official precipitation totals had already exceeded the monthly normality more than half as such, according to former WGN-TV chief memorologist Tom Milling.

Then remnants of Hurricane Carla swept across northern Illinois on Sept. 12.14, producing heavy rainfall and strong, puny winds. By Sept. 11, the month's rainfall total in Chicago was above 10 inches.

SEPTEMBER 2008: 13.63 INCHES

The remnants of Pacific Tropical Storm, Lowell and Atlanta Hart's are the delivered a ragyy one-two punch to the Chicago area that made this month the city's second-wettest September.

AUGUST 2010: 12.25 INCHES

A major flash flood around Chicago late on Aug. 10, 2010, bringing two winds into an excess of 4 inches from the Northwest Side to Wisconsin. The storm knocked out power to at least 10,000 customers and shut down portions of the Edens Expressway. Water was 10 feet deep near Pratt Avenue.

"It was the closest thing to a hurricane I've ever seen," said John Ramsey of Alaska, a motorist who took refuge under a viaduct at Dempster Street and Milwaukee Avenue in Niles. "The water was coming down so hard I couldn't see the cars in front of me."

Earlier in the month, major flooding occurred from Lake County south through Chicago to Kankakee when more than 4 inches of rain fell on Aug. 2, 2010. Several cars were totally submerged on the Edens. Some motorists swam to safety, others were rescued by boats.

OCTOBER 1956: 12.26 INCHES

The wettest October on record in Chicago brought the city some of its worst-ever flooding. The first deluge occurred on the morning of Oct. 1, when heavy thunderstorms dropped nearly 4 inches of rain. Next was 0.72 inches of rain falling over a 68-hour period from Oct. 9-11, leaving numerous roads and underpasses underwater for days. The Chicago River was so high, many of the 38 bridges were impecable.

The Red Cross, National Guard and Coast Guard were all involved in the recovery effort as extensive flooding caused $25 million-plus in damage across the area.

CHICAGO'S

WETEST MONTHS

By Kori Romero | CHICAGO TRIBUNE

As we watched music fans roll around in the Lollapalooza mud fields and pulled out our phones for the thousandth time to check for storms, we wondered how the raintiffs of 2024 compared with other years. It's true that monthly precipitation totals this year have tended to be higher than normal, with February and May being the exceptions. And April 14 was the raintest April day since 2011, according to the National Weather Service.

Still, none of 2024's rainy months even crack the Chicago area's top 10 for total inches of water hitting the ground. Here's a look back.

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2008

Babu Daniel, 62, begins his family's exodus from their flooded apartment on North Avers Avenue on Sept. 14. Remnants of tropical storms delivered a one-two punch to the area.

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1954

Lorene La Wanda, 15, in the flooded basement of her neighbor, Frank Klecka, at 6 to 9 S. Xavier Ave., on Oct. 2, 2:00 (Oct. 9-11). This historic joint shows some hand-punited waves in the water.

Have an idea for Vintage Chicago Tribune? Share it with Marianne Mather at mmather@chicagotribune.com and Kori Romero at kromore@chicagotribune.com.

AUGUST 1985: 15.28 INCHES

This month started with a dramatic rainfall on Aug. 2, 1985, that has become the stuff of legend. There are differing accounts of what happened after 5.60 inches of rain fell on the city.

One is that the toxic fever in the Chicago River flowed out to the water-tentative fire, polluting the drinking water, and that 90,000 Chicagoans, or one of every eight people, died of cholera, dysentery, typhoid and other waterborne diseases. But contemporary accounts state the vital directions shifted to the northeast and pushed the polluted water west through the Illinois & Michigan Canal, upwing the city.

Regardless, the story of Chicago's killer cholera epidemic helped off the public's half-century ago on a Chicago-area flood control scheme that evolved into what's now called the Deep Transit project.

About the flood, the Tribune reported that at the Boston Center House, the last man who ordered food was "served by a waiter in a skiff, while two others sat one on each end of the table to keep it from floating away" boards like more fiction to us.

JULY 2011: 11.15 INCHES

The raintest July in Chicago history started out as one of the above. But the all-time record daily rainfall for Chicago, 4.98 inches, was set at 0.9Bpm airport during the pre-drawn hours on July 24.

JUNE 1982: 10.58 INCHES

The wettest June in Chicago history had measurable rainfall on 19 days, according to Milling.

The Tribune reported that three people who took refuge in the passageway beneath the 10 years S. Grant Monument in Lincoln Park were killed by lightning on June 14, 1982.

"There was a blinding flash, a loud report, and all who were under the shelter were thrown off their feet," the story said.

So rainy was the month that intermission between the "western of water" were just enough: "to give Chicagoans a chance to catch their breath before another one was poking down upon them," a boat-page story on June 24, 1992, observed.

JUNE 1983: 9.88 INCHES

The second wettest June on record in the city brought Barbara Kring to tears. Her wedding dress, which had been stored in the crest space of her DuPage County home, was soaked and ruined.

"Fifty pounds of oily garbage," she said, her eyes misty.

Tribune columnist Mike Keeler, returning to Chicago from a family wedding in Michigan, had to rule out the storm in Quapi Indiana.

"I've seen rain," he wrote. "But I have never before seen this kind of rain. At the moment, I didn't know that we were seeing a new record: the heaviest rainfall to be Chicago and northern Indiana in 32 years."

Weren Runk: "These towns in northern Indiana always got the worst snow blizzards, the heaviest rains, the heaviest sticking men and the air drinks from the local industry. I've always wondered why anybody in that right came to the water in these towns. Maybe they are not in their right minds."

AUGUST 2007: 9.7 INCHES

This month to remember of the powerful, fast-moving storms that tore roofs from buildings, uprooted trees and cut electricity to hundreds of thousands. Gov. Rod Edgerton's Brilliant Quarter areas in Cook, Lake, McHenry, Rose, DuPage, DeKalb, LaSalle and Grundy counties.

"There was easy swimming down the street here," said Al Ross, a Nanda Township employee, on Aug. 24, 2007. "There hours ago, this water wasn't here."

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US pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia

China shows more signs of aggression; Trump heads Iran

By Dan Friday WORLD TIMES ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's war against Iran is stretching the limits of US aircraft carriers and leaving the western Pacific without one of the key American warships as China shows more signs of aggression.

The USG George Washington is departing the Pacific and expected to replace the USA Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East amid growing concerns about mental health and supply issues ahead of the long-deprived carrier. The Lincoln has had its time at sea on which the most original May return date to support operations against Iran.

The bulk of U.S. carrier in the Pacific may be short-lived if the Navy deploys another, the next couple of months. But it shows how the open-ended operations with Iran are running some American sailors rapped, and even only those in the same administrative further overcame from the Asia Pacific region and focuses on the Western Hemisphere.

"The administrative says that the Pacific is supposed to be the most important behind the Western Hemisphere," said Greg Rebig, director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Instead, the U.S. is "doing the most opposite" of its previously expressed goal of pulling out of the Middle East.

American allies in the Pacific are unsettled over

The USG George Washington is expected to replace the USA Abraham Lincoln in the Midwest. VICTORIA, CANVANG/AP 2024

the unpredictable of the Republican administration. Rebig said, while Rebig's quite happy with US divisions, with the front-stone of US forces and military forces.

Reiging over the U.S. military presence in the region as a threat to China's rise and an obstacle to its unification in the United States, the self-growing island of China, or its own. But the United States has argued that the Pacific region is too important economic calls to loss.

No one expects China to invade Taiwan because an American aircraft carrier has left the region. But the carrier's absence given the Chinese another opportunity to show it through, said Bryan Clark, a former Navy submarine

who is a defense analyst at the Hudson Institute.

"They're using this as part of the narrative to demonstrate to the Philippines," said the American and others that the U.S. is not the big dog in the western Pacific anymore." Clark said. "They would just prefer that countries in the region decide that China is the biggest owner and the U.S. is not able to guarantee their security anymore."

China conducted novel exercises last week with Indonesia and has shown signs of aggression toward Japan and the Philippines, two key U.S. allies that also have territorial disputes with Beijing. China carried out military defile this month near the Scarborough Shoal

in the South China Sea. Both China and the Philippines have claims over the shoal. Last month, a Chinese guided missile destroyer conducted a two-for-counter off Japan's southernmost island of Okinawa.

Adm. Frank Bradley, head of the U.S. Special Operations Command, has been trying to reassure regional allies of Washington's commitment. He was in Manila on Thursday, telling his Filipino counterpart that U.S. special operations forces are ready to step up joint exercises to strengthen the countries' alliance. He also is expected to travel to Japan.

Brian Bradley, a policy analyst at the Civil Institute who focuses on U.S. policy

toward China, said aircraft carriers provide psychological insurance to U.S. allies. The absence of carriers in the region, he said, "adds to the general issue that the U.S. solicits a red by events in the Middle East."

Trump has relied heavily on aircraft carriers to support military operations during his second term. For example, the 1.00 Gerald R. Ford returned home in mid-May after an 11-month deployment, the longest since the Vietnam War, during which it supported the U.S. fight against Iran and the capture of Venezuela's three-burden Nicolas Madura.

The Ford had experienced a fire in a laundry space that foes of the carrier

to turn around and return to the Mediterranean Sea for repairs and left hundreds of sailors without places to sleep. Meanwhile, the Lincoln has spent a record uninterrupted time at sea of more than 240 days. Democratic lawmakers have been calling for investigations and greater visibility into conditions about the war.

Warships and their crews can only handle so much, said Robert Parley, who teaches national security and diplomacy at the University of Kentucky and offers written about aircraft carriers.

"People don't get enough rest. It's psychologically exhausting," said RAR expert offsprings the crew healthy. "I'm not going to get enough rest. I'm going to get enough rest. I'm going to get enough rest. It's psychologically exhausting," said RAR expert offsprings the crew healthy. "I'm going to get enough rest. I'm going to get enough rest. I'm going to get enough rest. I'm going to get enough rest. I'm going to get enough rest. I'm going to get enough rest. I'm going to get enough rest. I'm going to get enough rest.

Clark, of the Hudson Institute, said the capacity on the nation's aircraft carriers stems from the lack of preparation and planning for the Iran war. "If we were going to mobilize to do this kind of conflict, and we anticipate it might go the long, we might have done some changes in the carrier schedule to make sure more would be available," Clark said.

Clark said the Navy has 11 aircraft carriers and typically deploys two or three at a time. But it could cause deploys four if the 1.00 Thursday Research Screen. But Roger for the Middle East, allowing the Washington to return to the Pacific that the massive warships will send maintenance. Each swamp should look at the nation's only two carrier shipyards.

PM calls for reflection after educator's death

Former Cambridge professor accused of plagiarism in work

By Sylvia Hu ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON — Britain's prime minister called for reflection on Saturday after a Black professor who faced a storm of plagiarism across the country, including, later after resigning from a professional role at the University of Cambridge.

Jones Arder, who became Cambridge's young official professor in 2023, was found dead inside an address on south London on Friday. He resigned Aug. 5 as professor of sociology of education after coming under intense media scrutiny, with over 20 more headlines of gang plagiarism in his academic work and questions surrounding claims about his ability to be found in the public.

His death has prompted a rezerve that the allegations against Arder, 18, were>Cambodian, one of the public islanders, conducted by women and longstanding hostility to diversion, equity and inclusion, or DRL policies

at universities and other institutions.

Prince Minister Andi Krishnan said Arder's death was "a tragedy on so many levels."

"It's not a moment for any rushing to judgment. It's a moment for reflection," a ചെയ്യുന്ന, reflecting on how things came to this? Burnham told reporters.

Police said the death was being treated as "unexpected" but not suspicious. They said officers were called to an address in south London on Friday after noon and a sit over old man was pronounced dead at the scene. They did not name Arder, in accordance with police policy.

A friend said Arder had told him that he "did he couldn't go or in a vice court earlier Friday."

"He was being advised to re-telephone scrutiny, including officials, discrediting, who study every detail of his life, and he wasn't coping with the loss of his career, the loss of his reputation," Cambridge professor and director of the Autism Research Center, Simon Bacon-Cohen, told the BBC.

Arder's family said in a

statement that he had been subjected to a "campaign of harassment" and "warranted" in the case that he took up his post as professor at Cambridge.

"The campaign of misinformation was too much for Jason," the family said in a statement issued through his publisher Simon A Schuster UK.

"We are in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son." Cambridge vice chancellor Deborah Prentice, who earlier announced that the university will investigate the circumstances around Arder's employment, said she was "disparately saddened" by the news.

Questions about Arder's qualifications were raised publicly last month by Nathan Colton, a one-time Cambridge philosophy researcher who left the university after his critique of diversity, equity and inclusion programs sparked widespread protests. Colton previously argued that in a controversy, Black people "would disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment."

Jason Arder, who has now Cambridge's youngest Black professor in 2023 was found dead inside an address in south London on Friday, and submits a car to his post.

Newspapers soon published. Arder's blogging that more than 100 passage from Arder's 2019 Ph.D. thesis were "identical or near-identical" to an earlier paper written by another researcher.

British media then raised wider questions about many of Arder's claims about his life, including statements he had raised 876 million for charity and 1,000 million for a runaway 30 marathons in 20 days and 600 miles to six days. Arder later revised these claims.

Some also questioned his claim that he had overcome development of Arder's the left him nonverbal until the

ago of. Arder said he was diagnosed with autism at a young age and didn't read or write at 18 years old.

Arder resigned from Cambridge on Aug. 5. He denied plagiarism, but admitted to some mistakes when working on his doctorate.

Process of Cambridge's academics signed a letter calling for an independent student who how Arder was appointed Cambridge initially stood by Arder, saying that the plagiarism allegations had been investigated by Liverpool John Moores University, which awarded Arder's doctorate.

The university then

changed its reinses and said it had opened an investigation "following new information about Professor Arder's qualifications and honorary appointments."

Prentice, the university's vice chancellor, said he took the chancel concerns regarding his appointment and that Cambridge will run a review of how it turns senior staff.

While senior lecturer and lecturer, Arder said he had of media "bounding" and racism, others say there are more complex issues at play - including whether Cambridge made the right call when it appointed Arder to such a high-profile position.

Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon kill 11 people in another test to truce

By Ransom Mroue ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIRUT — Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon killed at Israel 11 people in the 1st and 2nd of the attack since a truce between Israel and Hezbollah were into effect June 20.

Lebanon's Health Ministry and state news agency were an airstrike that targeted a home on the edge of Assad village killed seven people, including three children, and wounded two. The second, on

the village of Deir al-Zahrazi, killed four and wounded 17. Israel and the Lebanese government announced a framework agreement for June 24, being not athas the Israeli forces to withdraw from southern Lebanon in exchange for the disarmament of the Iran-backed Hezbollah military group. It concerns many toward an eventual peace agreement between the countries, which remain technically at war nearly 40 years after Israeli establishment.

Hezbollah has refused direct talks and wasn't party to the deal.

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam criticized Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon, saying they intimidate "residents in their homes" and undermine efforts to stabilize the situation in the south.

"This news, matter of the Israeli airstrike on the town of Assad are not military infrastructure and the children and women killed were not military targets," Salam

said on 31.

President Joseph Assan said in comments released by his office that the embassy is clear message to the negotiation task and to the American efforts aimed at implementing this agreement.

Imonov Israeli airstrikes early Saturday also hit the stump in Al Taher fell, which overlooks party of the southern city of Nahrimah, to make road leading to NNA reported. Despite the truce, Israel's military has continued

and near-daily attacks in the area north of the Lirani River, with large areas to the south under Israeli military control. The Israeli military said a statement to mend a Hezbollah infrastructure in the areas of Ali Taher and Assan in response to an action against Israeli soldiers in the area.

The office of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hezbollah violated the ceasefire by attacking Israeli soldiers inside Lebanon, seriously wounding three. It said the

military responded by striking the Hezbollah headquarters which ordered the attack, learning only later that Hezbollah "deliberately put on leave" to the military. He said Israel's military later said the soldiers were lost by an explosive driver.

The Israeli military issued another statement later Saturday saying the strike on Amari killed Ali Samir Al-Hajj Sharan, whom it described as a hordham commander with Hezbollah's city, Kadevan Borce unit.

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DH's parks planes that cost $16.4M

Agency cites need for deportation flights in using no-hol contract

By David A. Fahrenhold, Andrew Fuller and Julie Tate THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON — Running hot fall, the Department of Homeland Security spent $16.4 million on a no-hol contract to buy 10 sand unplane from a firm in Northern Virginia.

That was an enormous price tag, but the department said it had not yet to consider other offers. The planes were not able to satisfy for deportation flights.

But then, then, the department has barely used this new firm — for deportation, or anything else.

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The other seven are older Boeing 737 passenger jet, which the government has left judicial air of support. Luke Charles, Louisiana, for months at a time, his internal government documents obtained by The New York Times, said the agency did not have the staff necessary to operate them.

The request for the first 10 years of a range of medical contracts funded is not currently. By the Homeland Security Department, which have been held until the need for 'eagency' to impose regular contracting procedures.

The old airplane highlight the rules of the approach. The agency refused handling to spend nearly half a billion dollars, only to end up with planes it did not fly.

The contract also illuminated a broader trend within the second Trump adminis-

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tration. No-hol contracts were doled to people with connections to Trump or his Cabinet secretaries. The company that received this contract, Dandelan Aviation Corp., is led by a chief who had donated to a political committee supporting the previous homeland security secretary, Kirsti Noon.

The department's immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has long outsource it in deportation flights by disarmed planes from private companies. It also runs military and Coast Guard aircraft. Because of that, former immigration officials said there seemed to be little need for the department to take on the expense of buying and maintaining a significant number of its own aircraft.

'If you asked me to write a list of the things I'll be going to increase the number of deportations, buying the one that of airplanes would absolutely not make the top 10 and John Hardening, a house being director of OCI during the Obama administration.

In a written statement, the Homeland Security Department sought to shift responsibility for the contract to Noon. President Donald Trump fired her in March, and appointed Marbiesque, Malibu, a former Republican senator from Oklahoma, as secretary.

'The contract for Dandelan was made and approved by department leadership before Secretary Malibu was sworn in,' the department said in a statement. The agency said it 'towards the right to adjust course in an environment with smoking requirements and demands.'

A spokesperson for Noon sought to place the responsibility on Malibu instead, saying the purchase was 'finalized' under his leadership.

Continuing records show that the size of the contract increased by $500 million on the day that Malibu was sworn in as secretary.

The agency said that the rule 737 passenger jet had been undergoing maintenance checks, and that there

were plans for two of them to begin deportation flights later this month.

A letter sent to the department Wednesday by Democratic State Party Attorney Washington and Christopher Murphy of Connecticut, who of 40th-50th of the American States of America Committee, said Homeland Security officials were not able to supply a committee that most of the planes would not be used for deportations.

The senators asked for details about the purchase price of each plane and how they could be used.

Federal law generally requires government agencies to seek competing bids before awarding a contract to ensure taxpayers get the bond bid. Burley department玻璃分析 that requirement for the planes contract, by involving an exemption, for some of 'minimal and compelling agencies.'

That exemption can be used only when during the contract would result in 'non-incidental, financial or other to the government. Water's

calls, it has been used during natural disasters, war and the communion pandemic.

The department declined to answer questions about what serious injury it was trying to prevent. Contracting regulations require agencies to publish the estimates for no-hol contracts, but the department refused to make any action, saying it 'would compromise national security or create other security risks.'

The department has smoked the agency's misopinions justify more than $25 billion in spending across about 500 contracts awarded during Trump's second term, according to an analysis of federal data by the Times. Much of that total came from for the wall spending. 'Cygnus' claims were also used to justify projects like the $225 million in media contracts awarded to America to Noon and her allies, certain new whole assets are used to be so outer.

The exemption accounts for nearly two-thirds of the $34 billion that the depart-

ment has spent on contracts signed in 2024. That's up sharply from past years. In 2023, the figure was almost one-quarter. In 2024, it was 1.4 million.

No other major agency has used the exemption for urgency in Homeland Security, even in an administrative method that turned into no-hol contracts with security — for a recent planning, financial, legal and the trouble fundamental of the Lincoln Memorial Authority, that...

The government's critical contracting expert who spent more than three decades at the Defense Department, said, 'Some things truly are not necessary for paying a plan if you don't do this.' But if agencies claim the exemption all the time, 'it will eventually be absurd.'

The government for the planes was first an exiled in late November. In the time, the government was already paying other contractors hundreds of millions to operate and will all better flight and re-take.

Dandelan, the Arlington, Virginia-based company, the government hired to find the planes, had not previously held similar contracts. However, a company spokesperson said it had worked at a subcontractor to other companies ever, saying it was not the same work for the U.S. government.

Dandelan, that is William Walters, a doctor who until 2021 had a State Department office that evacuated Americans from outbreaks of Blacks, COVID-19 and other crises. In 2024, after leaving government, Walters donated $10,000 to a political committee to continue to Noon, then the governor of South Dakota.

Last year, with Noon in charge, the agency gave a separate company run by Walters a contract worth nearly $700 million on the recovery of the company's 10% worth of the 10% return.

A Dandelan spokesperson said that Walters was unaware that the political committee was told to Noon,

Police investigates the scene of a shooting Saturday on the campus of Virginia State University in Petersburg, Virginia. Five people were wounded. WWFP

1 student, 4 others shot at Va. campus as suspects investigated

By Patrick Whittle ASSOCIATED PRESS

Five people were wounded in a shooting in the city, a flight was made at Virginia State University early Saturday, prompting a campus lockdown and police investigators just as students were ready for a new school year.

It happened near the university's Quad Annexes, where campus police and Chesterfield County officers discovered the people suffering from gunshot wounds outside campus dormitories. At least one of the wounds of people was other conference to be extubated, the university said in a statement.

The shooting was still under investigation later. Saturday and happened at Virginia State's academic year, especially in the university's website, residence halls opened for students a week ago, and classes resumes on Monday. Many students had not completed the university's 'New Trojans Experience' for incoming students.

Police and university officials were not able to get away of the victims. The five were taken to hospital, and one initially listed as having life-threatening injuries has been upgraded to critical

condition, county police said. The others sustained new life-threatening injuries, police said. The person confirmed to be a student was seeing from whose injuries were not life-threatening, and the student had been released from a hospital, the university said.

The university said in a statement early Saturday that the shooting involves 'multiple suspects.' It said in a statement later in the day that law enforcement did not believe there was an immediate threat to the campus community, and a campus lockdown had been lifted.

'We recognize the concern this incident has caused among our students, parents, alumni, friends, and the broader VDU community,' the university statement said. 'The safety and well-being of our students remains our highest priority.'

The campus had a large law enforcement presence on Saturday morning, and the university said that the students that they should monitor their email or additional safety measures and information about support services. The first state district, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Discovery County Sheriff's Office were assisting, county police said. Virginia State University is

a historically Black university located in Etrick, Virginia, about 24 miles south of the state capital of Richmond. The public university has spent $700 students and was the first fully state-supported four out a village for Black Americans. Most of its students are undergraduates. The university has grown in recent years while attempting to improve safety and retain its holistic charm, said Arthur Fridrich, the university's former director of distance education, who lives near the campus and visits regularly. AAbsenting like this just as students return for classes is heart-brooking for the community, he said.

'To start a new year with this event is very tragic. It came a shadow to the minds of all students, and for some it will be difficult to find their minds of this term,' Fridrich said. 'For those that were shot, my heart bleeds. I hope that they all stand, and the fellow is here for the event define their lives.' Gov. Abigail Spackberger, a Democrat, said via social media that she said her husband was 'trying for a quick recovery for those who were shot this morning at Virginia State University, and our thoughts are with the VDU community.'

Taliban marks 5 years in power, but official warns of rightcrisis

By Abdul Qabar Afghan and Susan Fraser ASSOCIATED PRESS

KAROL, Afghanistan, Taliban raters and other officials gathered at Afghanistan's national Leyn, Arpa moweth's hall on Saturday to celebrate the fifth anniversary of their return to power, touting what they do right, as national stability and as real to decades of conflict.

Arpa United Nations official, however, warned of a grave human being, and in Afghanistan, where girls were up 12 as barred from attending school.

The Taliban raised power in 2013, 2023, and 115 and other NATO troops with force. Although the 2013 two-decade war, The U.S. withdrawal led to a favor at Kabul airport as crowds of people tried to flee the country in deep-ventured局势.

Even after taking power, the Taliban administration imposed a ban on government's power for both people and later human higher education for women. A report having pledged before the takeover for a woman would be allowed access to education, employment and public participation.

Women have also been barred from public spaces such as private homes, from fronting and in sports and traveling to distant locations without a male guardian.

At the Leyn Arpa, Arpa ranking officials were joined by some foreign government men that made it ordinary citizens for speeches marking what they said to the Afghanistan's liberation from American forces.

One party to a thought of God to forever protect our homeland from an oppression, aggression, war, and misery, yet, and even after our people were killed, the Taliban and property under the auspices of the black board government, the Taliban government's deputy spokesman, Hamdullah Farrat, said

Arpa's party hotel Taliban Rapa on the sea of the anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal and the start of Taliban on Friday to stand, Afghanistan. NASA 2000-2010-1000

during the ceremony. While Taliban Hamid, the deputy prime minister in charge of education at the Taliban, said the Taliban rule ended on eve of external intervention and internal strife in Afghanistan 'over the past half-century' restoring security.

'At least 500 Afghanistan's were martyred or killed every day,' Hamid said. 'There would not always would become widows, several children would become unpleas and 300 mothers would be coming. Praise be to God, with the rule of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, that tragedy was removed from the Afghanistan.'

There were no women present at the ceremony.

Five years on, the Taliban government remained dated internationally, with Russia being the only country to serve to respond it formally.

Foreign Minister Amir Khat Matrao said, in 2023 that have engaged with the administration have gained from doing so and called on others that have not established a private citizenship and power.

'They should move towards a policy of engagement and mutual interest.'

In Kabul, Afghanistan had a 5-year quarter, saving Taliban Rapa and chanting dozens in support of the government. Security was tight, with a

heavy Taliban security force previous and several checkpoints on a man-made loading in the Leyn Alps.

Undermines were also held across Afghanistan, where flags and posters unthousand with dozens in praise of the Taliban's return to power were displayed along major roads.

In a video message, Richard Bennett, the U.S. special minister, said that the Taliban rights situation in Afghanistan, and the country was undergoing a deep human rights crisis.

'While the era of war has ended, it's questionable whether there's real peace, and the human rights situation has steadily deteriorated. The Taliban's ability to women and girls,' Bennett said. 'My situation has concluded that this system amounts to the crisis against humanity of gender protection.'

The crisis extends well beyond gender discrimination, even beyond gender apartheid. In continued, noting that the U.S. continues to be a major economic servant, torture, and racial stability and powercrisis of minorities in Afghanistan.

Bennett warned the inter-communist government, 'overminding' the Taliban's policies, saying it would legitimize the discrimination and will 're{naturfout suffering is negotiable.'

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Dozen dead in Indonesia quake

At least 235 shocks after 7.7 trmbblr that led to small tsunamis

By Yacob Harin ASSOCIATED PRESS

MAUMEREI, Indonesia - A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia early Saturday, killing at least 47 people, collapsing buildings and causing panic in a region prone to deadly quakes. Authorities and directors were residents were injured and warned that the death toll would almost certainly rise.

Authorities caused a tsunami warning and urged coastal residents to move to higher ground but later lifted the warning when Indonesia's meteorological agency said monitoring showed no significant sex-level changes that posed a threat to coastal communities. Some smaller tsunamis were reported.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake hit eastern Indonesia's Flores region in a depth of n dts at 0.58 a.m. local times. Its epicenter was 42 miles north northwest of the city of Kuda in East Nusa Tenggara province.

The meteorological agency said the quake was followed by at least 235 aftershocks, with the largest recorded 47 major tsunamis.

The agency's sex-level monitoring stations achieved edged some small tsunamis reached a sound villages in Manggarai and the Manggarai region in Nkowolinsani by 2.5 per cent since 1998, showed the coastal village of Runga in Nyada region Nkowolinsani in mid and debris after what the agency described as a 1.5 feet tsunami. Fishing boats were stranded ashore, infrastructure damaged, and homes surrounded by sediment left by receding waters.

Were monitoring 1.1 feet were observed in Mauorok, Kuda Region.

Information relevant work Saturday amid the rubble of a damaged building after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Mauorok, East Nusa Tenggara province. INDONESIA'S NATIONAL SEARCH AND RESCUE AGENCY (BASAHNAI)/GETTY-APF

Astrong land-based earthquake of 6.9 magnitude hit North Sumatra province in western Indonesia on Saturday afternoon, according to the U.S. Bureau of Mines beneath the earth's surface, meaning it was too sharp to cause significant damage or casualties, Indonesian authorities said.

East Nusa Tenggara Police Chief Rudi Dutunoko said power outages hampered the spread of information about the impact of the earthquake in cities and villages, complicating search and rescue efforts.

"We are continuing to collect reports of damage and casualties, but there are communication disruptions," Dutunoko said. He said quake-triggered landslides in Kuda region. He had the Texas-Police Highway, a roughly 419-mile parcel mountain road spanning

Flores Island, from Lahaun Baju to Larantula.

The head of the National Disaster Management Agency, Suburiyanto, said resource have recovered at least 47 bodies, mostly in Sikka, Manggarai and East Manggarai, and at least 50 people were taken to keep up.

Suburiyanto, who like many Indonesians uses a single name, said the quake formed at least 157 houses and damaged nearly 200 more, having about 2,000 villagers to abandon their homes and move to temporary shelters. The powerful trmbblr also destroyed more than 100 public buildings, including schools, medical centers and churches.

The death toll could rise because landslides triggered by the earthquake toward cut off many remote villages across six regencies on Flores

Island, said Sultan Rahman, who heads the Search and Rescue Office in Mauritani, the capital of Sikka.

Some remote villages are completely buried, he said, and damaged infrastructure and a lack of heavy equipment were hindering rescue efforts.

Authorities deployed three helicopters and a rescue vessel to support logistics and emergency response operations, including potential evacuation. East Nusa Tenggara consists of numerous islands and presents significant transportation and access that leases.

The quake was hit across much of Flores island with initial reports indicating heavy damage.

Students at 18, Poro Major Summary in Sikka were attending one single other day when the roof of an assembly

hall collapsed, said the Res GuideBortua Tanga, rector of the seminars.

"Our students and more rats sat in panic beneath, collapsing roof," Tanga said. "At least one priest suffered a broken leg after jumping from the second floor of a building during the quake."

The quake also struck Lahaun Baju, a gateway town to eastern Indonesia's Komodo National Park, one of the country's host-known attractions. Damage was reported in Bawa, a city in neighboring West Nusa Tenggara province, and in part of southern Kukweni island.

Indonesian authorities initially issued a tsunami warning for parts of East Nusa Tenggara, West Nusa Tenggara, South Kukweni and Southsaw Kukweni provinces, and urged residents to stay away from

beaches and riverbanks. The agency located the shallow undercut quake near Flores island.

Indonesia, a vast archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, is prone to earthquake and volcanic activity because of its location on the "Rings of Fires," as are of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin.

Most notably, a powerful earthquake caused tsunami in 1992 that killed about 2,500 people on Flores, part of a group of islands in the eastern half of Indonesia, while in 2018, a magnitude 7.6 quake spawned a large localized tsunami that wiped out coastal area, killing more than 4,000 people.

In December 2004, a massive magnitude 9 earthquake off Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami that killed 210,000 people in a dozen countries.

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Myanmar says more than 300K Rohingya refugees verified for repatriation

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BANGKOK - Myanmar's military facility government said Saturday that more than 300,000 Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh are former residents of such city that they are not that it will accept their return once security could have expired.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement comes in the Rohingya refugee and enters its ninth year, with hundreds of thousands of refugees still living in camps in Bangladesh after Russia's invasion in August 2017 when the military launched a crackdown following attacks by a Rohingya insurgent group on guard posts in Rakhine.

The operation drove more than 300,000 Rohingya across the border into Bangladesh, causing hundreds of thousands of others already living there for decades in the state of the West of Korean violence, perpetrated by Myanmar's soldiers.

The scale, organization and Security of the operation led to a coautious of ethnic cleansing and genocide from the international community, including the U.S.

Myanmar Security known as the "Mistake" is a major source of the Rohingya as one of the country's 120 border ethnic minorities, instead referring to them as Bengalis to imply they are various from Bangkok and are illegally verified in Nepal.

Myanmar said it had verified 420,345 of the 420,624 refugees on a list provided by Bangladesh as of the end of the 2020 government that 304,797 of these verified were former residents of Rakhine.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said 124,507 people were sent to the country's 1,000,000, 4,242 people were found to have been involved in what it could terrorize activities.

The statement said it will continue working with

Bangladesh to receive verified former residents when the security situation in Rakhine becomes more stable.

The ministry also rejected claims that more than 1 million people were displaced from Rakhine, saying that more than 140,000 people caused him Bangladesh after the violence in 2017 while more than 200,000 remained in northern Rakhine.

Labstrongghiwoi this ahunlcare: Heard it big island was thickened later in 1998, at first possible direct hit from a hurricane in 193 years in Hurricane Lalorourad with Pacific Ocean and party wind, waters and rain pounded the region.

The National Hurricane Center said Lalor's nationally sustained winds increased to 75 mph, making it a Category I hurricane. The special water account to the river to near the island's southern end by the evening, looking its worst winds at volcanoes slopes thousands of feet above sea level.

Gov. Josh Green, noting rainfall of 2 inches, in how said "people should be sheltering its place now".

Procrasters said higher elevations on the island, dominated by the towering Manna Kau-sheam, could get as much as 25 inches of rain. That could cause life-threatening mudslides in a more intense area where people live off the grid in improvised housing.

Earlier the governor called at an "ancientancient" cap of the district of the Reading and even the possibility of wildfire kickered up by strong winds across the island chain. Electricity was located in the nearby 20% of customers on the Big Island, according to poweroutage on

Leichtenstein changes succession rules: Liech-

Tali status in tiny village: An enormous statue of the Virgin Mary that is believed to be Eurasia's tallest was inaugurated Saturday in the small village of Kumbukam on small Nkowol, Kumbukam, Kumbuk is the first time of the 2000s. The 2000s are the village that is home to fewer than 150 people. CLAUDIA CIGARALHAP

tunminis's rural house said Saturday that the tiny coast of a tube of succession will be changed so that a woman could not be discovered the principality's throne.

Hereditary Prince Akio announced the change in his speech marking the country's national line. He said it was approved Wednesday by the necessary two-thirds majority of family members who can vote on such matters.

"The ability to combine continuity and renewal is also a principle that we better inside the principle house," Akio said, according to a story of the natural pyramid of the house's website. "In our centuries-old history, it has served us well to make decisions in long-periods very well thought, not way."

"The line of succession will be a direct three male primogeniture to absolute primogeniture," Akio said. "That means that in the future, the first force child will, regardless of sex, become the best to the throne and later the process or prince of Liechenstein."

Zimbabwe ferry disaster: Eligibility, children, working more than 75 people killed when an overloaded ferry against the Lake Karib in Zimbabwe last week, police said Saturday after rescuers recovered more bodies. The ferry against in strong waves Sunday, India said that 20 more bodies had been recovered since then, bringing the death toll to 7.

The aging ferry was traveling from the town of Kariba to rural and fishing communities in the country's northwest, where roads are damaged and public transportation is a major source of the river and river many people were aboard or here many remain missing.

Estimates have put the number of passengers in high as 351, while authorities say the ferry's capacity is 90. Zimbabwe's disaster management agency has cut 77 people were rescued.

Maintl emergency meeting end: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Saturday that India's decada-

long Maintl emergency was moving in end but warned that the country now faced a new battle against what he called "damage Russia," a people who sings with the movement's ideology.

In his address to the nation on India's 79th Independence Day from the campers of New Delhi's 17th-century Mughal era, Redi Kari, Modi said Maintl violence was "breathing its laat" after years of security operations against the insurgency, once described by Indian authorities as the country's biggest internal security threat.

Akio showed the Russian movement, it challenged state authority across large results of central and eastern India for decades, leaving thousands of civilians, which and security personnel dead.

Ukraine attacks industrial who a large-scale Ukrainian attack attack, industrial and extractor in Russia's south-western Kunsers region Saturday, a Russian official said. Fray, Nusho, head of the region's capital, Samara,

said air defense forces had repelled a "tunmin" missile attack, with "localized damage" to the city's industrial zone. We also said that medical assistance has been provided to those injured in the attack, but did not give further details.

Ukraine has stepped up its long-range aerial attacks on Russian military industries and energy facilities.

Writing on social media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's said Rye's forces had carried out a strike against Samara's Progress Center, which operates under Russian plan against Roscowno and is involved in producing roakes to chasing and destroy ones.

Zelensky said Russia's Smallest local base, some 100 miles from the front line, had also been hit.

Russia's Ministry of Defense said Saturday that it had shot down from Ukrainian dozens over 39 Russian regions, as well as the Black and Azov Seas and the opened Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.

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Trump jet ruse 'child's play' for Putin

Russian president's fixation on security continues to grow

By Anton Troianovski THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's Air Force Day satisfying new a stunning episode of official deception

But it puts its comparison to the secrecy surrounding Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose activity is shrouded in so much country than journalism have tried to track it by assessing the willing of the official plans.

That is the method some reporters reacted to this year as they worked to ascertain whether the Russian leader's televised meetings took place when the Kremlin said they did. The apparent reversal of the leader's reaction to Putin's plans suggested that the meetings actually took place in a different order and on different days.

For Putin, each doesn't is par for the course. The White House, by contrast, has been criticized for not revealing Trump's secret plans outside on a Turkish tarmac last month until The Washington Post broke the most last week.

"Compared to Russia," says Michael Belin, a Russian investigator reporter, "there's child's play".

Belin and other reporters have found that Putin was not a member of Russia, with nearly identical offices so that rules foreign of meetings does not reveal his location. His security apparatus has developed a presidential team, along with special rail road signs and secret stations near at least three of his country residences, according to news reports and satellite images.

Government officials and forced to play along, keeping their meetings with Putin's secret staff they are televised — sometimes would later — and they pronouncing their happened on that day.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia's application as his arrests for his inauguration for a 1919 election. © EUGENE HANNAH/HEITMAN/THE NEW YORK TIMES 2026

In Russia, official falsehoods about the president's whereabouts "are not a regular Tuesday," said Farida Rautanova, a Russian journalist who covers the Kremlin from exile. She has reported that Putin's most lucrative in the televised meetings sometimes speak of outdated events, in at least one case in clothes and a haircut incongruence with other public appearances.

"There is even a term of air for those delayed-release Putin meetings among Russian journalism leasurers, or caused goods.

The Kremlin has previously denied its acting the public about Putin's location and did not respond to its request for comment.

A sense of the lengths the Russian president goes to in order to hide his movements

can be seen in Lake Valda, where he has a country residence. In 2025, residents described a mysterious new railroad line that had been built toward his compound. Satellite imagery showed a new station, with a helipad, that did not appear on timetables or railway maps.

In 2023, a full-time from the Russian version of the Secret Service, the FNO asserted that Putin was using train travel to avoid being too hot. Loaded decisions could lead that a secret armored train outfitted for the office of the president, patient-like weights panerage, train bar complex with a gyro, spa and special communications equipment, was used by Putin himself.

Putin's press raptation with secrecy and security appeared to increase during

the pandemic, when he forced officials to guarantee for two events to see him, and when his isolation made it easier to hide his whereabouts. It has so hard now, heights since his invasion of Ukraine in 2022, especially so that country's domestic and deeper into Russia, helping precipitate models more less shutdowns and reportedly curtailing his trend.

In Moscow, there is now speculation that the enormous motorcades racing down city streets that are presented to be carried by Putin are sometimes decoy, according to Rautanova. Ruling, the investigators journalist, first reported in 2020 that Putin would have identical-looking offices in its breakdown in the Moscow suburbs and in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, allowing

Putin's public image is made up. It's an absolute lie from beginning to end.

But the press of a position is not only about security, but always pursuing an air of constant activity and control. The inscenity of U.S. press, among other, president, on the other hand, would have been unimaginable in Russia even before the Ukraine war and the pandemic.

Bartley Trump administration continues on the news media and its misdecretion surrounding the president's flight last month, still look familiar in some Russian news.

"Putin is this scene is a canvassing of a figure who has taken everything happening around home in the point of absurdity," Belin said. "Trump is seems to run, so only starting to move in this direction."

Surveillance company Flock plans changes

Critics unimpressed, say updates will leave possibility of abuses

By Sarah Rankin and Claudia Lauer ASSOCIATED PRESS

RICHMOND, Va. — Flock Salms, the surveillance technology company increasingly makes accurate from lawsuits to the latest state and civil liberties advocates and citizens across the U.S. Just announced that it is making changes to its platform intended to spoil private concerns and address decremental abuses of its system by some members of law enforcement.

The company operates a vast nationwide network of automated cameras that record the license plate numbers and other characteristics of all gaming vehicles every day. Thousands of law enforcement agencies on 40 states can search and share Flock's data across jurisdictions to aid their investigations.

Flock has resulted in technology as an important crime-fighting association that has helped locate misincorrect and track suspects in violent crimes.

But some critics say its privateiveness amounts to unconstitutional warranties must surveillance. Deemed it is a major concern that there is knowledge with Flock amid concerns that the data can be accessed for unimpressive enforcement or used in unauthorized tracking, after offer of strategies to place the information and data missing the technology for personal searches.

In an interview, Flock CEO Garrett Langley said that the Flock's technology will make what were once optional guardrails manufacturers for its users to implement by law.

The company has the best enforcement customers will have to implement as audit tool that's intended to flag abnormal search behavior. When the system

A Flock Safety license plate reader is seen along a public road Oct. 16 in Houston. DAVID GOLDMAN/AF

detects abnormal behavior, the user would be locked and pending an internal review, the company said in a description of the changes provided ahead of Thursday's announcement.

Flock, which says its customers own the data that the cameras record, is also shortening the standard data retention window from 10 days to seven. It said it will allow data to be preserved for longer when it is evidenced to a case number.

Low enforcement users will now also be required to enter a code from the record management system tying each search to a specific case before it is run, something Langley said civil liberties advocates have long been calling for overrules for emergencies would be automatic for flagged for review, the company said.

Customers will also be allowed to decide which offense types — such as homicides or arson — outside agencies can search their data for, which would allow a customer to block outside

searches related to immigration enforcement, the company said.

Langley said that changes will give individual crime and departments control to use the system in a manner "consistent with community values."

Critics of the company reacted skeptically to the changes, which they said appeared designed to address the growing bipartisan anger about the cameras but could still leave room for police to abuse the system.

The American Civil Liberties Union said in a flag past the shortened evidence retention window could be "away in the right direction," but it char aார்கள் the other changes in "retrude" of inadequate safety measures.

Robert Frommer, a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice, a public innocent law firm that's led closely to the United Kingdom over the technology, called the changes "window showing" from a company in "pansy mode."

"This is window deva-

ing that doesn't address the fundamental problem, which is that police will never have once deciding who and when to search, and that should be done by judges with real warrants," he said.

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, a professor at the George Washington University Law School whose scholarship has focused on policing big data, says "A lot of the Fourth Amendment, said Thursday's 100th were 'better than the opposite' but called for further scrutiny of the technology in the form of "maintained democratic engagement with the rules and judicial checks on access at a minimum."

Ferguson said he's been surprised to see the "growing community has had a against Flock specifically, given that the technology isn't new and other companies will it as well. But Flock and the new world against it have 'captured people' more than maybe that don't want to be surveilled all the time," he said.

More than 30 agencies or

jurisdictions have canceled, suspended or rejected a contract or deactivated their cameras since the beginning of the year, according to a teacher maintained by DeFlock, a grassroots group formed to track the use of license plate reader technology and push back against it. Cameras around the country have also been vandalized.

At Congress, Republican representatives filed at least two bills aiming to restrict the use of the technology in July.

Jan Ashton, an associate professor of criminology at the University of South Carolina working on a Flock-related research study, said many of the concerns raised about how the company's data can be used are not new concerning law enforcement.

"Anyone with policing experience could have reasonably foreseen that what have been termed an accuracy was clear by officers, searches for private sources are related to police work, were going to be a problem this technology laced," he added, noting that

other technologies and platforms like the FBI's Criminal Justice Information had faced discussions.

Law enforcement experts said it's a common measure of "policing in a democracy." Following initial technology that officers say helps solve and prevent crime with the community's interest and right to privacy.

"It's a balancing act. A community has a legitimate interest in how information is used, but it also has a legitimate interest in the effectiveness of a police department in preventing crime," said Chuck Weyder, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington-based nonpartisan think tank. "I think whatever can be struck, but it's more likely to come from department policy than company changes."

Flock, based in Atlanta, often goes to no website, what the company deems to be everyday examples of success stories for its cameras, including finding missing names and catch-ups.

But the tech has also been used in high-profile cases that have garnered national attention, such as the search for a suspect in a fatal shooting or Brown University, and to tracking and arresting a former North Carolina police officer who authorized an alternative to theFlock planned to carry out a mass shooting, or obstructed a Louisiana.

A grand jury declined to bring charges in that case to June, and state authorities said the former officers's family had taken him as a treatment facility out of state where he does not face further charges.

Obvious have also drawn widespread attention. The Washington Post reported earlier that month finding nearly 80 instances of police officers charged with theFlock using the cameras for unauthorized purposes, many for tracking current or former consents, partners or family members.

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The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool stretches out in front of the Washington Monument in this aerial view Aug. 9 of the nation's capital. ALEX BRANDON/AP

Pitching pool fix a slow leak

Awaiting next project from Trump administration beleaguered National Park Service treads water

By Matthew Daly | ASSOCIATED PRESS

Prendant Donald Trump's botched repairs at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool have landed the National Park Service in a tight spot, forced to serve the public while managing controversial demands by the Republican president.

The beloved federal agency, its iconic park rangers and other employers have been navigating a new reality under Trump, from orders to review exhibits at parks and other sites to the demolition of important structures under its stewardship, such as the White House's East Wing, to arresting visitors for alleged vandalism at the pool.

Critics say the month-long reflecting pool saga and other demands by Trump risk undermining the integrity of a federal agency that has long been held in high esteem by the American public.

"Never – not once in decades – have I witnessed such systematic degradation, disrespect and dismantling of the National Park Service as I see today under the thumb of President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum," said Bill Wade, a former park ranger and superintendent.

Wade, who now serves as executive director of the Association of National Park Rangers, wrote an op-ed for The Denver Post, lamenting what he called the Trump administration's "squads on the people, the mission and the values that have made the National Park Service one of America's most valued institutions."

The park service has been at the center of some of Trump's most contentious actions during his second term. An executive order targeted funding and demanded reviews at national parks and other sites that Trump said advanced "division narratives" and "improper ideology" resulting in changes to some exhibits on slavery or climate change.

The president has also ordered sweeping changes to historic and monuments and buildings in Washington that fall under the service's purview, including the creation of a White House ballroom and a 250-foot tall memorial arch. The agency meanwhile has lost at least one-quarter of its permanent work force since Trump began his second term, through landfill, forced retirements and resignations.

Park service employees "are losing politicized and drawn into the انتخابات and corruption of the National Park Service regular basis, said California Rep. Jared Huffman, the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee. He cited the pool project, the proposed arch and the executive order on exhibit materials.

The ongoing political assault on the agency "is unlike anything we've seen in this country, and it makes life miserable at agencies like the National Park Service," Huffman said.

Trump launched repairs at the reflecting pool earlier this year, hoping to address longstanding problems at the iconic site, dead of the America 2.5% individuals that the $10 million project faced immediate problems, including peding blue sealant and a fierce return of green algae.

Trump blamed the sealant issue

on vandalism without providing evidence, and felony charges were brought against a former Olympic canoeist David Hoare, who he was accused of vandalizing the pool.

The U.S. Park Police, a unit of the National Park Service, arrested Hoare, who denied wrongdoing and said he briefly touched a chunk of the coming.

Charges against Hoare were dropped July 11 after prosecutors acknowledged that damage was caused by a bungled installation rather than vandalism.

The advice and counsel of every officials and rangers – instantly recognizable by their signature full him and green-and-gray uniforms – has been ignored or pushed aside as Trump and Burgum make decisions regarding the failed pool repair, according to an Interior Department employee who was not authorized to discuss internal discussions and spoke on the condition of anorexity.

"It's tragic," said Bill Morf, vice president of government affairs at the National Parks Conservation Association, another advocate group. "The whole thing is smaller close to how we keep about youth's rehabilitation project."

In the days since the dismissal of the charges, Trump has continued to lean on the park service in his repeated claims that vandalism damaged the pool's lining.

"A National Park Service career employee, a highly credible witness, saw David Hoare... in broad daylight vandalism the Reflecting Pool by 'violently' roping and tugging at the Pool's somewhat disheartening Trump plan, Aug. 7 on the Truth Social site. Hoare's legal team said Trump 'is continuing to attack an innocent man.'"

Morf, of the parks conservation group, called Trump's reference to the unnamed park employee on example of his irrelevant practices agency workers now face under Trump and Burgum, who has publicly backed Trump's claims about vandalism at the pool.

"I think the public understands that unfortunately, you have the president of the United States directly driving decisions, both here in Washington and around the country," Morf said. The park service – and especially its career staff – "has very little control over this," he added.

The White House and the Interior Department did not directly

A National Park Service worker stands near a pump-placed nest to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on July 10 in Washington. Critics say the agency's integrity is being undermined. BAMN SCHOENLBERG/AP

National Park Service workers remove the displays at the President's House site in it (dependence National Historical Park on Jan. 22 in PHILIPINEH. ELIZABETHWESTESON/PHILADE;PHILIPQUARED)

respond to requests for comment on the park service. The White House defended the pool project, saying Trump "promised to make it's...and and be a titiful, and he's delivering."

"For years, the reflecting pool sat neglected, plagued with algae and looking millions of gallons of water," the White House said in a statement. "Fixing it was common sense."

Wade, the former park superintendent, called the pool repair "a comedy of errors" and "a continuation of the incompetence" shown by the Trump administration.

"Most people realize the NPS is under the gun and can't do much about it, even though they'd like to,"

he said, adding that morale at the agency is at the lowest point he can remember.

Advice from Washington have made clear that speaking honestly about what is going on could cost staffers their jobs, Wade said.

"There's very strong but strong employees at NPS," he said in an interview. "It's very frustrating for them, across our images."

Trump's proposed memorial arch has faced some pushback. A recent report by park service staff warned that the proposed glided arch could disrupt the historical significance of dozens of sites around its planned location near the Lincoln Memorial.

The arch, which has month received total approval from a key federal commission, would impact the "integrity" of dozens of historical properties because it would change "character-defining visual and spatial relationships" between them, the report said.

The park service is popular with Americans, about three-quarters of U.S. adults – including similar shares of Democrats and Republicans – have a favorable opinion of the agency, according to Pew Research Center polling from 2025. Only about 1 in 10 have a negative impression, and about 15% are unsure.

A Washington Post/Jpcos poll from July found that about two-thirds of Americans say they are "disatisfied" or "spurt" about Trump's Washington area projects, including construction of a new ballroom at the White House, painting the reflecting pool and building his triumphal arch. Republicans are more likely to be "enthusiastic" or "satisfied" with the projects.

About one-quarter of U.S. adults say Trump's goal is to "make Washington more beautiful," while about half any he has a "different goal." In an open-ended question, many respondents speculated that Trump wants to glorify himself or leave his mark.

The pool and other recent controversies including the exhibit reviews jeopardize the agency's credibility, Wade said.

"Whether interpreting the Civil War, discussing climate science or describing the complex stories of Indigenous people, rangers have sought to prevent evidence, not politic'd ideology," he said. "That is now being lost."

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The pros and cons of a gap year

The time of year is approaching for high school seniors, so start applying to colleges. But higher education isn't the only option for those trying to figure out their career. Many students who are senior about their field of study or simply want a break from the classroom — are taking a gap year before starting college.

According to the Gap Year Association (GYA), a nonprofit organization that helps students determine their post-high school plans, a gap year is "an intentional period of time devoted to personal growth and exploration through experimental learning opportunities." It is not does to avoid making a decision about college, but rather to build skills, expand your social circle and help you develop a better understanding of the career you'd like to pursue.

Typically, students expand their time away from academic level of skills a variety of activities that can include traveling, volunteering, working internships or jobs and taking part in cultural exchanges.

A gap year is designed to provide hands-on experiences that help build a resume and give students more real-world experiences before deciding on a career path. With the cost of college to study, it makes sense for some people who are understaff about their path to try to figure things out without paying for borrowing for tuition. Also high school students should be an empty fluthed out with a good way to do something else before going back into the classroom. Gap years also appeal to adventurous students who view this as a time to seek new experiences and travel for world.

According to the GYA, 40,000 to 49,000 students take a deliberate break each year. That number more than doubled after COVID, but it has now returned to pro-problems levels.

Sounds like a great idea, right? It certainly is far many students. But the danger is that once you get off the academic track, it's hard to get back to it. That doesn't seem to be the case for those who organize a gap year seriously. The GYA issue that about 99 percent of gap year students will enroll in some form of higher education within a year, and those who do so graduate at a higher rate than those who want to college straight from high school.

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The good news for students considering a gap year is that there are dozens of different organizations that can help you design at least part of your time away from school. Whether you're a traveling, learning a second language, spending time outdoors or volunteering on projects that are meaningful to you, there are organizations that offer these experiences.

Structural programs are typically designed around many experiences or place and are highly supported, often providing lodging, food, classes and coordinated activities. Think of them more like a study abroad program, but outside the classroom. They will be able to give you a detailed itinerary of what to expect and a list of the program's benefits.

The demands is that many of these programs do come from a high price tag. But one of the benefits of a gap year is that you do have the time to work and save — perhaps making a three-month recession provided if you spend the cost of the time earning money to pay for it.

Some service programs will pay you a stipend and

provide housing and other amenities in return for your volunteer labor. Planning ahead is key to understanding the costs involved and how you will pay for the experience.

Planning Ahead

Those who are interested in a gap year should still consider going through the college selection process. Many colleges allow you to defer admission for a year, and it's easier to go through the application process while you're still in high school. (Plus, if you do get into the college you want, you won't have to worry about that during your gap year.)

If you decide not to apply to school, or don't get into the desired schools, keep in mind that you'll be applying as a year, and get off the necessary information you need from your high school, including transcripts and teacher recommendations.

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Ideas for a gap year

For students who feel like they need more time before college, here are some organizations with programs to explore.

AmeriCorps: This U.S. government program is designed to bring young people together "in service to others, to tackle the nation's most pressing challenges. You can find both volunteer opportunities in your community and paid service programs. The AmeriCorps NCCC for example, is a 20-month program for young adults aged 18-24 that works in 'disaster preparedness and response, environmental stewardship, infrastructure improvement, and urban and rural development.' Participants of provided modest pay plus housing and travel reimbursement. Other programs focus on community organization, education and public health. Find out more at americorps.gov.

Seafillwark: Spend a semester at sea with this college-accredited program for your high school aged young adults who travel the world by boat. You'll call across the ocean, while learning seamanship as well as the marine sciences and studies diving certification. Choose from programs on three different vessels that also help students discover new cultures first-hand. Find out more at seamester.com.

ViCorps: This program provides pre-college students with a blend of work and learning opportunities in South Africa. Programs typically last about two months and finish up with an options 6-day safari. Find out more at scorpq.com.

Outward Bound: Get wilderness training and learn team-building skills through these classes that can range from a week to a semester. Its curriculum is based on student skills, where you'll learn and participate in activities like rock climbing, kayaking, sailing, backpacking and soups diving. You'll find a variety of locations across the U.S. and internationally. One 90-day program explores both Maine's coastal and forest ecosystems and the subtropical waters of the Bahamas. Find out more at outwardbound.org.

CIEE College First Year Abroad: Not sure you want to start college a year later? This CIEE Council on International Education & Exchange program lets students start their college career with a year (or semester) abroad that earns college credit. Businesses include Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Kyoto, London, Madrid, Paris and Rome. Learn a program in a program with 25-30 hours of language courses a week and enjoy immense cultural experiences. Find out more at ciac.org.

Absolute Internship: Find internship opportunities abroad at world-class companies in some of the world's biggest cities. Its programs are designed to develop "personal and professional skill sets" and to help you gain real-world work experience. Find out more at absoluteinternship.com.

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Where else to look for jobs

The competition for jobs has become fierce, and a new job getting online often receives hundreds of applications. One of the best ways to stand out from the crowd is to look for job opportunities that are not listed online. This so-called "hidden" job market isn't all that hidden you just need to know how to access it. Here are some ways to find employment opportunities that aren't listed online.

Network: Yes, everyone's first piece of advice is still the best. Knowing about a job opening through word of mouth will do more than anything else to give you the best shot at discovering a new opportunity. Reach out to people you've worked with and tell them know you're in the job hunt.

Look in print publications: Because online listings get so much attention, some employers have turned to print publications, that more severely target applicants. Finding them could be as easy as picking up a newspaper, but you also want to look in publications like trade magazines that cover the specific industry.

Read company newsletters: Target specific companies that you're interested in and subscribe to their newsletters. Many have a job, section where openings are first posted. Also, subscribe to industry newsletters for a chance to learn about targeted job openings.

Explore company websites: Sometimes we make things harder than they have to be. Most companies have job listings on their websites or promote how they will promote job openings in the future. Go directly to the source to get the information first.

Contact outopportunities: If you know someone at a company — even if you've never worked with them before — reach out to see if they know of any opportunities. Talk to them about the best way to find out about future openings. They've been through the process (even if you're a different department) and can offer advice.

Work with a temp agency: When it may not be ideal, working with a temp agency can help you get your best in the door, and that can lead to full-time employment in the future.

Use the resources your college offers: Your college degree is also an access to a job placement system. Use them a call to find out what they know and get advice on how to best approach your job search. They are talking to employers every day and probably have a better handle on the state of the job market than you do.

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Working hours

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released the results of its annual American Time Use Survey this summer, which highlights the average amount of time people in this country spend on work, household chores, leisure activities and other pursuits. The year's big finding is that a large number of Americans continue to work from home. "If percent did 'some or all of their work from home on days that worked,' while "the percent spent all of their working time on a separate workplace."

Other highlights from the report included:

• Full-time employees averaged 8.1 hours of work a day.
• Many more people work on workdays vs. the weekend. 45 percent of people worked on the average weekday, while 30 percent worked on the average weekend.
• 70 more are more likely to work at home (59 percent) than non-15 (percent).
• These with a higher level of education were more likely to work from home. Among workers 21 and older, 11 percent

of those with a bachelor's degree or higher performed some work at home on days worked, while only 19 percent of those with a high-school diploma worked from home.

Only the workday is finished, household chores take up a large part of the day.

• On an average day, 51 percent of people do work around the house, including working, cleaning, forest, cars and household management, for an average of two hours or total.

• On days doing household activities, women averaged 2.8 hours of work while non-averaged 2.5 hours.

• Household activities increase with age. People aged 15-19 spend an average of 43 minutes a day on household activities, while those over 45 spend an average of 2.7 hours a day. Those with children, however, did the most, averaging 3.3 hours.

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CARDINALS 8, CUBS 4

Báez makes history at Cubs' expense

Cardinals left fielder Joshua Báez celebrates after hitting a two-run home run in the first swing against the Cubs at Wrigley Field on Saturday. CHRIS SHELK/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Hits 3 HRs in his major-league debut

By Andy Martinez FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Cubs stutter Matthew Bradstreet to fire a first-pitch football past St. Louis Cardinals left fielder Joshua Báez, who was making his major-league debut Saturday at Wrigley Field.

The rookie crushed a 469-foot, two-run home run to center field to put the Cardinals ahead 2-0 in the first inning.

During Báez's next as fast as the fourth inning, the Cubs left-hander tried to beat him with a full-count changers.

Báez hit a 182-foot solo home run to left.

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Brad Street is slicker than tipped the outer half of the zone in the third matchup, but the third time was not the charm.

The rookie made history, clubbing a 168-foot, two-run shot to right field the same the first player to hit three home runs in his major-league debut as the Cardinals beat the Cubs 6-4.

"I mean, he hit three different pitches for home runs," Cubs manager Craig Counsell said after the loss. "He had a great game. He beat us for sure."

It was an incredibly historic foe in a ballpark that has seen its fair

share of moments in its 112-year history.

"It's just unreal," Báez told reporters after the game. "For me to not only get a biofuel hit three home runs is just crazy."

Báez, who was called up from Triple-A Memphis before Saturday's matter, wasn't as unknown commodity to Brad or the Cubs. The 28-year-old clubbed 34 home runs and drove in 40 runs in 103 games with Memphis this season and is ranked as the 59th best prospect in baseball, per MLB Pipeline.

That's what made Brad and the Cubs confident in their game plan. Brad, threw a first-pitch, 414-mph football on the outer third of the plate that Báez hit 104-6 mph, becoming the first Cardinal to

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A wealth of late summer riches

Bears, Cubs, Son compete for Chicago's eyeballs

Paul Sullivan

IN THE HAND OF THE NEWS

Summer's even song is creeping in on little air, hot, and Chicago is getting in its last hole.

On Saturday it was Seiya and the Cubs on the North Side. Bagnet and the Bears on the lake front, Pats in the air, pizza and fried calamari at Taylor Street Little Italy Posts and/or cold beverages in coolest and fridges from Avenue Ove Edison Park.

You could almost hear the late, great Lin Brohmer saying: "It's great to be alive."

In the last week we've seen October-like atmospheres on both sides of town, heard Otsuz Guillén losing his voice, laughed along with live fans cosplaying as the pope and dodged a detective.

This week we'll see the biggest City Series since the 1998 World Series, with the first coming to Wrigley Field on Monday for a potential Fall Classic preview, which Noon slams us doubt predicted. The odds are against it, but it doesn't hurt to dream.

The "three games no waiting" rule was in effect Saturday afternoon with Cubs—Cardinals, Bears-Browns and White Sox-Tigers games all competing for eyeballs on screens of all sizes. Multitasking/multitasking was the order of the day. Two were key games with playoff easily name in the stretch run, and the other was a meaningless exhibition without quarterback Caleb Williams and most Bears starters.

But is that it AC (After Caleb) nothing is too enthralled! Bears fans to micronutrient, so even men get a workout from fans switching from game to game, with extra steps for card-cutters using streaming apps.

Here's what we've learned from a week of type impressions and stadium obsessions.

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

We all laughed at a tweet from a "plugged sir" fan that the Bears had uproot to use Indiana in their name after moving across the border, a decision that would have George "Papa Bear" Halse spinning in his grave like a romantic chicken.

But the erroneous tweet garnered more than 5 million views and cost the treaster nothing but whatever could help to be bad left. Chairman George McCulley also was forced to confirm the Bears were keeping the Chicago name wherever they moved. The win.

The offending tweeter blamed the error on an impersonator of TV/radio personality Barstod

PRESEASON BEARS 34, BROWNS 10

Bears write receiver Maurice Alexander is tackled by Browns cornerback Michael Costa Jr. after a reception in the second quarter of a preseason game Saturday at Soldier Field. JOHN J. KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS

Under evaluation

Difficult to say if Bears found any clarity at left tackle after preseason opener

Brad Biggs ON THE BEARS

The last time the Bears saw Jared Verne, their didn't with Joe Thunez, an AFL Pro-gun of the last three seasons, Jared up out at left tackle.

That was for the divisional round playoff game against the Rams in January when Thunez became the fourth Bears player to start at left tackle over the course of the season. Verne was traded to the Browns in the offseason, and the Bears are seeking answers to questions at left tackle in a shot to avoid as much turnover this season.

It's difficult to say if the organization found any clarity on the quarterback's third side Saturday afternoon at Soldier Field, where the Bears rallied from a 10-0 deficit to crash the Browns 34-10 in the preseason opener. No. 3 quarterback Carr Kernan dazzled in the third quarter against a bunch of players who might top out as practice squad fillers. Kernan and Travis Bagnet accounted for 52% of the Bears' 360 passing yards.

The Bears allowed only two sacks, and Kiran Amagajike and Jedrick Willis, it split the week at left tackle, but it's hard to say

Bears left tackle Jedrick Willis Jr., left, and Browns defensive end Julian Okwara battle during the second quarter Saturday.

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either one of them shined, and it's worth wondering if the team will take a look at Theo Bene-

det on the left side in the week ahead with Beatrice Jones also expected to return from his minor-lines injury.

Verne made his presence known on the Bears' first third down. He quickly pervaded at Amagajike with a path to Bagnet, who was led by defensive tackle Mason Graham after getting off as incomplete throw intended for Maurice Alexander.

Amagajike is not being evaluated by himself, but it's going to be a tough afternoon for the quarterback if someone as explosive and powerful as Verne can get a short path to the backfield.

The plan entering the game was to give both tackles clear to equal time and allow them the

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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

HISA suspends Lynch for 2 practices

Mount Carmel program on probation for season

By Steve Miller DAILY SOUTHTOWN

The Illinois High School Association has suspended Mount Carmel coach Jordan Lynch for two practices and placed the football program on probation for the remainder of the season for violating a rule regarding practicing in full pads.

A local reporter shared a photo on X of the Caravan practicing in full pads on Aug. 8. Animals and taint coach Thor Patrick Swanson shared the image on his X account, prompting a large online discussion.

The IHSBA rules for its football acclimation practice plus state that teams can test practice in full pads until the sixth day of practice, which was Tuesday.

The practice party allows teams to be ischekhanded for the first few days before three days of helmets

and shoulder pads. Official practices started Aug. 3 under a new rules of making its debut this fall, with the season beginning a week under the turbo plan. If both teams responded to 44 teams per class.

According to the HISA, Mount Carmel will reported the violation and proposed will improve if some team, which were accepted.

The punishment will not impact Lynch's status for the Mount Carmel's season opener. The Carava are scheduled to take on East St. Louis in a Week 1 showdown at 4:9 p.m.

on Aug. 22 at Hancock Stadium in Norreal.

Lynch, a 2009 Mount Carmel graduate who started at quarterback for the Caravan and went on to be a Hensman Trophy finalist at Northern Illinois, is 49-12 over eight seasons as the coach at his climaxone.

The Caravan have won four straight state championships, going 14-15 last season, and are the favorite in Class 6A again this fall with a week for a high-mayer Division 1 talent on the roster.

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spaces needed to find a groove. By my unofficial coach, Annagable had seven series and 34 plays, and Willie had five series and 35 maps. That was mission accomplished.

But Willie was known badly for a suck late in the second quarter when Julian 108 runs, who spent four seasons on the Browne practice squad and injured reserve, easily worn around him on the edge to each disgust for a 9-3 at 10:00.

'That's a hard one for me to assess right now,' coach Sam Johnson said of the left tackle play in the game. 'Sometimes that trench play, you have to go ahead and take a look at the lens from behind and really be able to take a look at it.'

'He a whole, I would say the offensive line — I felt like our quarterback got hit more than I would like. 'I even certainly did in the first half. And in the second half, we still left some pressure there in the Case and Miller (Moss). So, we'll look at why that was the case. Then running game-wise was a little bit sports so well. Hard to say a whole lot about left tackle quite so.'

Soon, the Bears need to whittle down the competition they have bewing. Not sure there simply are not enough maps to involve them, four or five guys if they're right to somehow able to get himself into their own before the start of the season.

The calendar is going to pick up pace and the number of practices in full pads will start to derelict before the Sept. 12 opener at Carolina. There are four major evaluations points over the next two weeks: count practice and game in Cincinnati (One week and the same schedule the following week at Tennessee.

Jones was climbed participant in practice Thursday to expected to be full go in the coming days. Then there's the case of Benedict, with whom the coaches have been happy working as the No. 2 at right tackle behind and left Wright. The team mentioned at the start of camp that he would be part of the mix at left tackle, but the only sign he has taken there have been in with through.

'All the consensus about Dave gates is that I am still in the competition,' said Benedict, who made seven starts at left tackle last season. 'I am taking that word

for it and just doing my best. You'll have to ask them where they are at on that right now. Hopefully in the coming days something like that could happen.'

If Benedict is indeed an option, the Bears are going to have to throw him in on the left side. If they view him as a candidate to be the swing tackle on the 5:0 man roster, he'll head some swaps there too. He added 5 pounds in the offseason and redistributed some of his weight. Please ally, he looks like a different athlete.

'It's never, I want to get over there just for the simple fact that, say, I want to get reps to improve over there,' he said. 'There is itself in the left that is different than on the right so I will need some practice over there. The coaches have done a good job in the with through of mixing me in there, so I at least have some exposure.'

The title I have been improving in the areas I've been asked to improve in. I am controlling what I can control.'

Before suffering the June injury Aug. 6, Jones was the Bears' most consistent performer. That could give him an innate track for the job to start the season — but only if the campaign that form when he's on the field in the next two weeks.

'At the beginning of camp, you see a better player than we saw last year,' offensive Jim coach Dan Boudier said. 'Obviously he was coming off an 2020-0 injury. There were a lot more things being connected, here to hands, there was more strength in the play. The pad level is still a concern in the run game. The ability to generate power is always a concern still all of them. But we were really encouraged with what we saw early.'

'Obviously the June flare-up, down a couple days, we were moving on with that 1 like the attitude. I like where he's on right now in his approach to his football. We've just got to see if he can put it together day after day after day.'

'When you listen to coaches talk about the position, at some point they all reference consistency as the ultimate trait they're seeking. They want to know what they're going to get down in and down out. There's a part of me that wonders if that's why Benedict could get a shot.'

Benedict is a brawler, and his technique is always going to need references, but Johnson game planned around the left tackle every week last season and showed he could do it without handcuffing the

offense. Benedict might be viewed as a plus in the running game but he's not an option if he's not getting away with the stitters on the left side.

As far as Tropho, who remains on the physical豪华 and the top of the 6x1 tie spends recovery from a ruptured patellar trachea is one of the bright developments for the club over the last couple of months. That he's approach being a point at which he can be an option this season is a human far team only hoped for back in January.

'The guy had behind his left. Boudier says 'It's unbelievable the progress of his kid has made. There are others that never come back from it. As I look at him, and I have said that to him a number of times, I'd rather be a day too late than a day too early getting him on the field. As he is in green back into practice, he's going to have to demonstrate that he can and we have to be mindful that we're not getting him beyond his comfort level. He's no idea of his health.'

'The more he demonstrates what we see, the more he'll earn going forward. It will be a process. I think his actions in practice will demonstrate to us his readiness if that makes sense.'

Boudier's unprecious with players with a high football Q is that they tend to improve quickly, so what Tropho does in padded practices when he's do so if so if the significant if there's up or up trajectory. But it's probably premature to think about his job, up to a option against the Panthers.

Before Jones was injured, Johnson said he felt so if the team was approaching some clarity in the position, and it's been fairly since he wrote out. The Bears need to eliminate some of the joy and define what is black and white at the position pretty soon — maybe before they get to Cincinnati.

Jones being back in his ears will help. Giving Benedict a shot probably makes sense. Here they have to sort through the films of the previous opener.

When we've comfortable saying, 'That's the guy we're going to win with,' we'll make that decision,' Boudier said. 'As the evaluation continues, student's team is going to have a full balance out of pressure action. He's a lot more mobile than fingers. And so that they be done want to see is 'A' we are an unsafe path to his lay on the way, turning the corner with ease as they sit through left tackle candidates.

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Big Cat, saying he was 'duped' by inaccurate side from a test from the late Big Cat. This is a good lesson for self-taught social media reporters who used to learn the old City News at once of his schooling. 'If your mother says Big Cat is turning you, check it out.'

ST. LOUIS BLUES

St. Louis Cardinals radio voice John Rooney, formerly a Colt go programist with the White Sox, caused a minor stir when he told KMOX radio he didn't particularly like the 'woods on the wall' at Wrigley Field, a shot at the scout on 2007 North Journal in 1997. A Wrigley ground was the number responded that it sounds as if a current-goon such as Rooney simply needed to add more greens to his diet.

Meanwhile, Cardinals TV voice Chip Casey sat in the press box if video is calling an August rain delay at Wrigley 27 years ago when a Tribune reporter was invited into the WGN-TV booth and proceeded to call for the removal of general manager Ed Lynch and everyone in Colte management. As memory serves, Craig then threw the reporter inside the bus, telling viewers these views were 'not necessarily the views' of himself. Here those at WGN-TV

Lynch was first-time year later, Carey, Nixon and the reporter are still hanging around.

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Before a postgame interview season last week, the first ever a backdrop for Illinois Idle department where the first logo and the logo of the Japanese real estate company, OpenHouse. It's a common practice, but I hadn't seen a player get his own backdrop. Other first players and manager Will Wondale sometimes speak in front of a backdrop with the Wentner logo, as does Colte manager Craig Craswell and some of his players.

Murakami's sponsor was designed to build the home country, since he is followed by Japanese reporters too. But instead of making Murakami an online, I told the box they should have easy rain backdrop for every player, giving them their own corporate sponsorships. For tradition, my usual choice of box was ignored.

SUNDAY MORNING FLASHBACK

After Gullits told the story last week of former teammate Tracy Phillips telling manager Terry Brethgenz the first would win by themselves if he just slept in the disgust instead of trying to actually manage, a friend asked why I had 'more flashbacks than Tinsville's part' in recent columns. My response was that a empty has been a flashback summer, with the 2010 Colte reunion, the 2010 No. 1 player and coaches conversing for a Gullits tribute and the return of Patrick Kane to the Blackhawks.

I promised to curb my enthusiasm for flashbacks, limiting those to the 2014 Colte Jimmy Purnell and Norm Yan Lee stories — and Coach Dilla's question fate.

ALL-STAR PICKLE

Instead of waiting to see if there is a 2027 season, MLB went ahead and announced that Pinnacle is the site of the 2028 All-Star Game. That means if the 27 All-Star Game at Wrigley Field is canceled because of the required kick-out, the earliest the Colte would have theirs in in 2025.

When I asked last year about a contingency plan it's lookout waste too far into the season and currently good. Commissioner Bob Manford said: 'My contingency plan is to make an agreement with the players and play the 27 season.' That seems more and more unlikely as the owners are demanding a salary cap and the players aren't interested in lodging.

Colte Chairman Tom Roberts might have to choose between wanting a salary cap and waiting three more years for his long-doorsal All-Star Game.

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Outfielders Tristan Peters, left, and Braden Montgomery celebrate after a 4-9 win over the Tigers at Comerica Park in Detroit on Saturday. DUANE BURLESON/GIFTY

WHITE SOX 4, TIGERS 3

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Sox win 2nd straight in Detroit to extend lead in AL Central

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DETROIT — The Detroit Tigers, internationally walked Miguel Vargas, setting up a lefty-light market for reliever Dave Souter to gather White Sox designated hitter Andrew Benintendi in the seventh inning Saturday at Comerica Park.

"I was thinking just get some things and get it right," Benintendi said. "Dommers has it faster any day. He's throwing pretty bad with some sink. So literally, just try to stay inside of a subject to play."

The veteran delivered for the Sox with a single final deflected off the glow of dining showtime Kevil McGonagle and trickled into left field.

Randi Grishak, who began the inning with a much bit double-scored from second on the hit to give the Sox the lead in a 4-3 victory in front of 14.26.

"That was awesome," Sox managed Will Venable said at Benintendi, at but "We only had a couple bullets to Sox there (off the bench), and (Benintendi) was going to get that at-bat against the lefty there. That was kind of

at the end of (Dommers') day, we thought Benintendi was the right guy there, had he directed some through."

The first-place Sox (64-48) strengthened their lead in the American League Central by winning their second straight in the series. The Tigers (60-45) fell 4.5 a game behind in the standings.

"Every game in the division is massive," Sox started Anthony Kay said. "It's he able to take this series and go for the sweep (Sunday) to bugs."

The Sox jumped ahead in the first on Braden Montgomery's two-out RBI single. The Tigers answered with a train in the bottom of the first on an Eduardo Valencia RBI single.

Colson Montgomery, who was bilious in his previous 11 at 6th, put the Sox back ahead with a two-out, two-out double in the third.

"Obviously has been grinding and to come through like that, really after a great (same pitch) at-bat where he fouled off a bunch of pitchers, and just wouldn't go away and bullied there," Venable said. "So you love to see him come through there."

Valencia honored in the bottom of the fourth, cutting the Sox lead to 5.2. The Tigers tied the score in the fifth on a slasifier Torras RBI double against Kay, who allowed three runs on six hits with four strikeouts and one walk in 5 to

innings.

"Got into a groove after the first (inning)." Kay said of the cutting 1.28 a couple of changes in over the middle (in the fifth). Overall it was pretty good, stitching poor and getting ahead."

The Sox reclaimed the lead for good in the seventh. Grishak led off with the double. After Muenchuk, Murakami struck out, the Tigers decided to walk the right-handed hitting Vargas. Benintendi came through with his second hit of the game, knocking in Grishak to make it 4-3.

"These guys are just good-baan-half players that just like being in those moments," Venable said of Grishak and Benintendi.

Jordan Mokestrack out there in 1-3 billion relief innings for the win Grant Taylor pitched the eighth, striking out one in the scoredown inning, and Bryan Budson struck out one during a perfect namb inning for his fifth save.

"(Mokie) was shorter," Venable said. "Obviously he's in a really good spot, he's been so good for us now for a while. You love that, and to get multiple innings from him was huge. Grant and Phil Hunt, running on fumes a little bit. But those are guys that want those moments and really want to come through for the guys."

The Sox bounced back from losing two of three to the Cincinnati Reds by winning the first two

of an important division matchup. "These are probably going to, on paper, look like they are more stunningly than any game — the kicking in have a like it's just another series win with a chance to win tomorrow," Benintendi said. "You're good."

BOSTER MOVES

The Sox walked catcher Jake Rogers to the 2-0 runs roster and spanned catcher Edgar Quero to Triple-A Charlotte Seltzer Saturday's game.

"We saw a much closer version of Edgar to what we had saw last year, and his home version of him, who'd was great and really meaningful," Venable said before the game. "Defensive strides as well for I think we really like where Edgar is it, and he's continuing to progress."

"He's still got some work to do, especially on the defensive side. But they're the things that we challenged him with early on when he first got next down, that he's really responsible to will and June a really nice job. So just get to keep going."

Rogers, who went 0-for-4 on Saturday, stared parts of an major-league scissors with the Tigers (2016-32, 25-26) and received a nice routine from the crowd before his first at-bat. He was claimed off waivers Friday from the Boston Red Sox after being designated for assignment Tuesday.

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home on the first pitch of his first major-league at-bat stint. Adam Wisner right in 2006. Race for area the 10th (I) added to homer in his first storer at-bat and the first stier 3-1ers. There are in 2016.

"There's so much out there now that you have a good idea," Beryl said after the loss. "You can watch film on a guy, Sox, we had a good idea, I didn't execute, and hate off to him. Sometimes they're taken, (sometimes) they're hit for singles or doubles, and he capitalized. Missed with the first heater, and he was really for it."

Despite the first blast, the Cubs rallied, with designated hitter Michael Cordero hitting a three-run home run in the second to the 2nd game.

Beryl wouldn't throw Black another heater in his next two at-bats against him. Brier worked a full count at the fourth inning, finding off a first pitch, changing and taking another two pitches later for a half. On the really pitch of the at-bat, Beryl went to the offspoof pitch a third time, and Brier gave the Cordero 4-4-3 lead.

"He had that battle, and we were trying to struck him with some different pitches," Beryl said. "Could we lose better. Wasn't bad, could have been better. Though, and he created some damage from it."

The 2-0 was old missed with a lowging, 72-mph curveball on the first pitch in the third and they Beryl tried to even the count with a back down after, but Beryl was going on the pitch and hit it 9/10 mph

Cordero left Seldor in his third at-bats. The No. 2 after hitting a two-run home run in the second inning at Verginy Field on Saturday. It was the third home run of this major-league debut. CHRIS SNEEM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

to right for his third home run, ensuring a day with history at the Friendly Continent.

"Missed with the first heater, and he was really for it," Beryl said. "Had a change up the second at-bat and probably could have been a little more away, and he put a good swing on it and then hit a backdoor, diads on the last one. Sometimes it happens like that. Hate off to him, and that was the difference in the game."

What will show at Beryl more than the home runs will be the preceding plate appearances before the first and third home runs. Cardinals second bussman

JJ Watberfield worked a nine-pitch walk to start the game, then Beryl hit Fran Reeves to slip himself a deeper hole. After a ground-half forecast, Beryl allowed the first home run to Brier.

Alex Buelman worked a six-pitch walk to start the sixth, setting up Brier's final two-run home run. That added a pair of runs to the three home runs and made the day sting over issues for the late transfer.

"Obviously the two walks sound, and having a return on lose, really, from those walks in both these circumstances makes it more damage, right!" Beryl said. "It takes

it from those soles to adding it on." CouncilForgether III in the game in the sixth inning, with the Cubs trailing by a run, to try to squeeze a few more runs out of him, and because he didn't believe the outing from Beryl had been spunling out of control.

"It's one of those games where you take some mistakes," Council said. "The first home runs thought was another a mistake, the last two were — (Brier) just hit some good pitches and you'd your cap. Sometimes that happens."

Andy Martinez is a freelance reporter for the Chicago Tribune.

WHITE SOX 9, TIGERS 5 LATE FRIDAY

Vargas hits 2 of Sox's 4 homers in opener

DETROIT — One major reason the White Sox are on the American League Central standing is their ability to be the ball and title path.

The power was on display during the opener of an important three-game series against the Detroit Tigers.

Tristan Peters hit a game trying two-run home run in the fourth, and with two runs in the inning, Muenchuk Murakami broke that no win, a majestic solo better run. Braden Montgomery added some one with — one of his three hits in the game — he good measure during the five-run frame, and the Sox topped the Tigers 6-3 on Friday to front of 9/6/16 at Comerica Park.

Miguel Vargas added a two-run blast in the ninth and a solo shot in the eighth to conclude the four homer right for the Sox.

"That's part of who we are," managed Will Venable said. "He was to win games, we're going to have to day. We've seen those guys field after every to do it, as well. But I think it was really nice, especially to see from Vargas, as the power, I don't want to say but read a blue record. The homer (Tuesday) against (Cincinnati) and some good innings."

Here is to say the 2nd and doing that every day. And so for him to get back to who he is had once in a, and (Peters), the same thing (Murakami) got one, a really good job. Braden had a great game, so a lot of good stuff.

The victory was that 0-0 at the end of the first, awaiting the first, and the first, also will end 100/100 runs in season for the first time since 2012 — they lost 101 in 2013, an MLB record 121 in 2013 and 163 last season. More importantly, they lost 100-100 topped up a 5-5 a game lead to the American League Central over the second-place Tigers (60-62).

"You guys know I've been here for two years and I'm in the train in July 2013 and I know how important the season is we," Vagazoudi. "Not just for us but for the entire organization. It's a big turnaround for us, and we are in a great position right now."

Just 1-1 and 2-3 provided length in the high pitcher for the Sox, allowing three runs on five hits with three runs in the and so walks in 3-1 inning. Following opener from Nunez and 1-1, 1-1 came to the inning.

"That's my purpose every outing out there, throwing white and dark's walk guys and put hitters away," Urquish said. "That's my goal."

The Sox credited with the win on the day he was called up from Triple-A Charlotte.

"Urquish is going to throw strike," Venable said. "He's going to throw the strike, and he's going to go, and with that comes some hits too. I thought he did a really good job, just continuing to compete in the score, and all the job (it does to agree) been the ball that's (the same if I can't do) right there (in the sixth inning)."

Probably had more on the track, but he did his job and was excellent today."

"Highly successful and a two-run home run to Ron Mulgott in the second inning and an RBI double to Eduardo Valencia in the third as the Tigers took a 3-1 lead.

The Sox responded in a big way in the fourth. Chase Muldersh had off with a large 3-1ers that shifted a first-pitch (suffolk) from Tigers' starter Jackson John over the right-field wall for the tying two-run home run, his seventh of the season.

John issued his same two batters but they went to a 3-0 count on Murakami. The Sox gave him the green light, and he hit loose for a 2012 four home run to right field. It was hit 2/10.

"I just really get into that at-bat," Murakami said through an interpreter. "Not just trying to swing it. And hit it up."

Vagazoudi said with a double and Andrew Benintendi walked. Braden Montgomery then had three birdies with his triple to right field, giving the Sox an 3-3 lead. That was the last batter for John, who allowed six runs on nine hits with four strikeouts and 2-1ers with a 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 2

Murakami walked ahead of Vargas' two-run home run against reliever Emmanuel De Jonge in the sixth, leaving the first to 3-1. Vargas increased his home run total to 27 with the solo shot off reliever Ty McBain in the eighth.

"I know I've been a little bit of thought, but I'm not sure, but I just try to be every right the best I can be, and compete with the highest level and try to help my team to win," said Vargas, who spent 5-5 in 9 in the previous six-game turnaround.

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BASEBALL

AMERICAN LEAGUE

EAST BANGOR
	W	L	Per	GB	WCGB
YONKERS	70	48	0	0	0
New York	60	55	33.5	0.5	44
New York	60	57	33.5	0.5	44
New York	60	57	33.5	0.5	44
Baltimore	60	52	34.0	0.5	5

CENTRAL PITTSBURG

	W	L	Per	GB	WCGB
Chicago	49	39	222
Detroit	49	53	449	47.5	5.5
Chicago	50	46	1.5	0	0
Minneapolis	60	54	44.4	0	0
Newport City	50	73	457	87.5	0
WEST BANGOR
	W	L	Per	GB	WCGB
Houston	51	46	0.50
Houston	51	46	0.50	27.5
Seattle	50	56	0.4	0	27.5
San Antonio	50	56	0.4	0	27.5
Los Angeles	48	75	350	167.5	12

BOX SCORES

White box & Yankees 1
Chicago	49	0	0	100	50
Jacksonville	49	0	0	0	0
Chicago	49	0	0	0	0
Chicago	49	0	0	0	0
Minneapolis	49	0	0	0	0
Newport City	49	0	0	0	0
Albuquerque	49	0	0	0	0
San Antonio	49	0	0	0	0
Fort Worth	49	0	0	0	0
Houston	49	0	0	0	0

Detroit	49	0	0	100	50
Chicago	49	0	0	0	0
Chicago	49	0	0	0	0
Chicago	49	0	0	0	0
Chicago	49	0	0	0	0
Chicago	49	0	0	0	0
Chicago	49	0	0	0	0
Chicago	49	0	0	0	0
Chicago	49	0	0	0

2027	2028	2029	2030	2031
1927	1928	1929	1930	1931
A. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
B. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
C. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
D. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
E. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
F. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
G. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
H. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
I. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
K. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
L. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
M. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
N. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
O. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
P. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
Q. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
R. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
S. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
T. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
U. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
V. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
W. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
X. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
Y. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
Z. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
W. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
X. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
Y. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell

2027	2028	2029	2030	2031
1927	1928	1929	1930	1931
A. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
B. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
C. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
D. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
E. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
F. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
G. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
H. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
I. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
K. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
L. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
M. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
N. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
O. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
P. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
Q. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
R. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
S. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
T. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
U. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
V. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
W. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
X. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
Y. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
Z. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell

2027	2028	2029	2030	2031
1927	1928	1929	1930	1931
A. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
B. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
C. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
D. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
E. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
F. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
G. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
H. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
I. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
K. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
L. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
M. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
N. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
O. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
P. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
Q. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
R. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
S. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell

2027	2028	2029	2030	2031
1927	1928	1929	1930	1931
A. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
B. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
C. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
D. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
E. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
F. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
G. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
H. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
I. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
K. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
L. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
M. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
N. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
O. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
P. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
Q. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
R. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
S. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
T. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
U. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
V. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
W. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
X. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
Y. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
Z. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell
W. Stockwell & J. Krawczyk, 1930, A. Stockwell

Box 1, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2055, 2056, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2066, 2067, 2068, 2069, 2070, 2071, 2072, 2073, 2074, 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, 2080, 2081, 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092, 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096, 2097, 2098, 2099, 2100

Box 2, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2055, 2056, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2066, 2067, 2068, 2069, 2070, 2071, 2072, 2073, 2074, 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, 2080, 2081, 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092, 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096, 2097, 2098, 2099, 2100

Box 3, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2055, 2056, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2066, 2067, 2068, 2069, 2070, 2071, 2072, 2073, 2074, 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, 2080, 2081, 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092, 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096, 2097, 2098, 2099, 2100

Box 4, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2055, 2056, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2066, 2067, 2068, 2069, 2070, 2071, 2072, 2073, 2074, 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, 2080, 2081, 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092, 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096, 2097, 2098, 2099, 2100

Box 5, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2055, 2056, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2066, 2067, 2068, 2069, 2070, 2071, 2072, 2073, 2074, 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, 2080, 2081, 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092, 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096, 2097, 2098, 2099, 2100

Box 6, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2055, 2056, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2066, 2067, 2068, 2069, 2070, 2071, 2072, 2073, 2074, 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, 2080, 2081, 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092, 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096, 2097, 2098, 2099, 2100

Box 7, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2055, 2056, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2066, 2067, 2068, 2069, 2070, 2071, 2072, 2073, 2074, 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, 2080, 2081, 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092, 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096, 2097, 2098, 2099, 2100

Box 8, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2055, 2056, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2066, 2067, 2068, 2069, 2070, 2071, 2072, 2073, 2074, 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, 2080, 2081, 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092, 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096, 2097, 2098, 2099, 2100

Box 9, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2055, 2056, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2066, 2067, 2068, 2069, 2070, 2071, 2072, 2073, 2074, 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, 2080, 2081, 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092, 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096, 2097, 2098, 2099, 2100

Box 10, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2055, 2056, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2066, 2067, 2068, 2069, 2070, 2071, 2072, 2073, 2074, 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, 2080, 2081, 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092, 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096, 2097, 2098, 2099, 2100

Box 11, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2055, 2056, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2066, 2067, 2068, 2069, 2070, 2071, 2072, 2073, 2074, 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, 2080, 2081, 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092, 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096, 2097, 2098, 2099, 2100

Box 12, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2055, 2056, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2066, 2067, 2068, 2069, 2070, 2071, 2072, 2073, 2074, 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, 2080, 2081, 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092, 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096, 2097, 2098, 2099, 2100

Box 13, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2055, 2056, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2066, 2067, 2068, 2069, 2070, 2071, 2072, 2073, 2074, 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, 2080, 2081, 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092, 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096, 2097, 2098, 2099, 2100

Box 14, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2055, 2056, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2066, 2067, 2068, 2069, 2070, 2071, 2072, 2073, 2074, 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, 2080, 2081, 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092, 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096, 2097, 2098, 2099, 2100

Box 15, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2055, 2056, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2066, 2067, 2068, 2069, 2070, 2071, 2072, 2073, 2074, 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, 2080, 2081, 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092, 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096, 2097, 2098, 2099, 2100

Box 16, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2055, 2056, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2066, 2067, 2068, 2069, 2070, 2071, 2072, 2073, 2074, 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, 2080, 2081, 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092, 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096, 2097, 2098, 2099, 2100

Box 17, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2055, 2056, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2066, 2067, 2068, 2069, 2070, 2071, 2072, 2073, 2074, 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, 2080, 2081, 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092, 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096, 2097, 2098, 2099, 2100

Box 18, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2055, 2056, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2066, 2067, 2068, 2069, 2070, 2071, 2072, 2073, 2074, 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, 2080, 2081, 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092, 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096, 2097, 2098, 2099, 2100

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Chicago Tribune | Section C | Sunday, August 30, 2026 5

SCOREBOARD

Soccer

MCA
MCA	M	T	Pts	GF
Newbury	12	6	44	25
Akron	12	6	44	25
Chicago	12	6	44	25
Chicago	12	6	44	25
Chicago	12	6	44	25
Chicago	12	6	44	25
Chicago	12	6	44	25
Chicago	12	6	44	25
Chicago	12	6	44	25
Chicago	12	6	44	25

Newbury	12	6	44	25
Newbury	12	6	44	25
Newbury	12	6	44	25
Newbury	12	6	44	25
Newbury	12	6	44	25
Newbury	12	6	44	25
Newbury	12	6	44	25

Newbury	12	6	44	25
Newbury	12	6	44	25
Newbury	12	6	44	25
Newbury	12	6	44	25
Newbury	12	6	44	25
Newbury	12	6	44	25

Odds
MLB
Female	U/m	Individuals
All	1	1
All	1	1
All	1	1
All	1	1
All	1	1
All	1	1
All	1	1
All	1	1
All	1	1
All	1	1
All	1	1
All	1	1
All	1	1

Female	U/m	Individuals
All	1	1
All	1	1
All	1	1
All	1	1
All	1	1
All	1	1
All	1	1
All	1	1
All	1	1
All	1	1
All	1	1
All	1	1

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6 Chicago Tribune | Section C | Sunday, August 16, 2026

BEARS

Bears center Logan Jones visits the ball before a play in the second quarter. The Broomson game against the Browns on Saturday at Soldier Field. JOHN J. KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS

Visit from Jeter inpired rookies ahead of debuts

By Sean Hammond CHICAGO TRIBUNE

It's an NFL tradition. Each rookie stands in front of a team moving and stage a bar on a song to the group. It's relatively harmless rookie teams.

Bears' quarterbacks, Caleb Williams was benneted, aired off the stage by teammates in 2024. A year ago, tight and Colman Loveland coached it with 'Let Me Love You' by Mario.

'This year, underlined rookies, a Broomson James Kame thought he coached it last week with 'Worry When' by Fruseman of Wayne.

'The team started staging along and I got an upfront,' Kame said. Saturday after reading his presees was about a Soldier Field.

The 6-foot 5, 104-pound lineman out of 15/16 didn't realize a cycling of a way to the audience, thanks. Shortly after Kame's training roadlines, coach Ben Johnson brought out some other than New York Yankees icon Derek Jeter to speak to the team.

'It was funny, I dug my rookie song right before that team moving,' Kame recalled, struggling to strike a laugh. 'It's a way able to use my perform with my lack of vocal talents. It was awesome.'

It's a story Kame will tell for years. He added another story to his experience. Saturday, the played in an NFL game.

By all the Bears rookies, Saturday, the 10 preseeses were over the Cleveland Browns was an important milestone. There's nothing like those first NFL snaps. Some, doing, they told the team last week seemed to really resonate with the rookies.

'One of the things he said was basically if you don't have better. Here, you might be a psychopath but it probably means that you don't care enough,' rookie tight and him. Result said, 'Obviously I had bothered a Saturday! I got nervous before the game. It was fun.'

The rookie rookie center stops. River's which rookie moments stood out against the Browns.

1. LINDENY LOGAN JONES AND CADEIN BARNETT SAW SIGNIFICANT WORKS.

The Bears cocted their starting offensive line. That led to opportunities for rookie Jones at center and Barnett at right panel.

Jones, a second-round pick out of 2025, and Broomson, an unidentified lineman out of Wyoming, both played into the second half. It was a sizable chunk of playing time for two rookies who might not be in the starting lineup right away but are very much a part of the Bears' plate running forward.

The Bears drafted Jones to high because they see him as their center of the future. Barnett signed a 1/2006 contract with a sizable guarantee of their share $270,000. Teams don't do that unless they have high hope for a player.

On Saturday, it was both Jones and Barnett who signed a running back Saloon. Almost, five on a screen-pan front third during quarterback Case Kooman that went for a 49-yard touchdown. Barnett showed the top-hole star Kathleen Uisholson off him to help spring

Bears cornerback Mark Muhammad in makes a tackle in the second quarter Saturday.

Bears right and Sam Houston plays in the first quarter Saturday.

Almost five.

'You take me and you give one,' Barnett said. 'You are going to see like I didn't love my own solo and to the NFL moment getting put on my back (rather to the game). It happens. But it was such a huge blessing.'

Three preseason games are learning moments. Jones played in a pro-style system at Iowa, by nothing quite prepared a player for his first NFL moments.

'It's crazy how much quicker it is than college ball.' Jones said. 'We've been practicing for 12 or so practices and then to get in the game - it was a lot of the actually to compete against somebody else.'

2. CONVERBACE MAILIS MUHAMMAD MADE A FEW STOPS.

The fourth-round draft pick played significant major onwards corner and also worked in a racket. The Bears have been training Muhammad to learn both again. With a changed age secondary, that versatility will be vital. Muhammad had five to four catches game.

'I'm a rookie, man, I just go on there and play,' Muhammad said. 'What do I really get to lose? They put the challenge to me. They get a lot on me with playing a hole and center, and I just go out there and play. Just let it in.'

Reinepoint, Muhammad dipped between a pair of backer and down up a screen-pan for to gain. Later in the game, he was called for a defensive holding penalty, against the Bears knew there will be good moments and that.

Muhammad has since been with the starters to camp 3/6/26. The Bears wouldn't be the rookie mating major major in the secondary, but Muhammad appears to be called a everything he said on. In the NFL, the best ball plans change quickly because of injuries. The Bears

learned that last year with Jaylon Johnson and Kyle Gordon missing much of the regular season.

If Muhammad can keep finding his way to the football, the coaching staff will find a way to get him on the field.

'I' (Sailing) was a huge emphasis with me coming out this year at the draft,' Muhammad said. 'Work on the tackling, work on the tackling. Then just knowing I'm going to play under and be in the box. You've got to be physical.'

3. TIGHT END SAM HOUSE WALKED IN HIS FIRST CATCH.

Result caught his first ball on a man from Texas. Bagent was the addition. An ankle tackle from Browns safety Christopher Edmunds saved what could've been a big play.

Result was kicking himself for not breaking the tackle, but it still fell good to have the ball in his hands at Soldier Field.

'Once I took one or two snaps it was like, 'til right, playing trouble.' I've been doing this for a while,' Result said. 'It's not a whole lot different than it was in college.'

Ben Johnson has big plans for the third-round pick out of Stanford who has seen reps with the starters and the second team during camp. 'I think across the NFL are learning more heavily on the tight end position, and defense appears to have plans to deploy all these offins - Result, Loveland and Case Kame - frequently.

Look no further than the first offensive play of the game. Johnson ran out to pre-empt with four tight ends on the field. Result, Hamden Large, Qadri Ismail and Stephen Cichon. After an offseason fall of 148, about the position, Johnson may have been trying to make a safety point.

'I think that or he's testing his tight ends. Result lined up as the X receiver on the play.

'You've got to know everything,' Result said. 'If we're in this formation, where am I? You've got to understand kind of what every body's doing.'

Result caught two passes for 10 yards Saturday and he was also a big part of the running game as a backer.

Result admittedly wasn't really baseball play growing up, but even he was wowed when Jeter would hit into the mating room at Hales Hall last week. Result has a whole of a chance from the more.

'You've just got to go out there with a calculated approach and a calculated aggression and the better. But start to go away,' Result said. It appears they did Saturday.

TAKESAWAYE

Bacups since on the side of ball

By Phil Thompson CHICAGO TRIBUNE

The Bears took a while to get on track, but they found their stride and rattled off 24 unanswered points on route to a 16-10 win over the Browns in their preseason games Saturday at Soldier Field.

The Bears were first four teams off one of the team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's team's

It was the Bears backings who stole the show.

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You won't believe your eyes

Two summer reads invite us to glimpse behind the facade of a carefully curated worlds

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You're about to retire; what are you doing for the next 20 or 30 years?

Liz Kishmann at her fitness studio in Trumanisburg, N.Y. MENARING CLAUTION: THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Dear Eric: My husband and I are retired. We each have significant paid opinions on retirement savings. We keep our finances separate, except for periodic depositions a joint account that covers utilities, taxes, or crews.

We decided to remodel our '80s kitchen. The process has caused some huge arguments.

My husband is a cheap-slate. He picks at every single estimate and raids away at the "outrageous prices." He shakes aspects of the remodel that are not very expensive (in my opinion), or else tries to convince me that we could do a lot of the work ourselves.

Yesterday he declared that we don't need two additional electrical outlets under the counters ($100 because "we probably wouldn't use them very often," and "what's wrong with an extension card!")

But if it's his idea, every power is worth spending. For example, he went on and on about why we must have marble as the finish on the center island, even though it would be $3,000.

I am so tired of trying to justify my requests (while accommodating his) that I could scream. We can afford all of it. I've tried to have discussions using human anger, disappointment, the silent treatment, charts and graphs. I have just about had it with the constant criticism about things that I think would be tumbled out because in our new kitchen.

Can you help me find an approach that will get us to reasonable compensation? — The Many Cooks in This Kitchen

Dear Cooks: It seems you've both become accustomed to operating independently when it comes to your finances (which is not a problem, many couples have separate accounts). So, it's no surprise that this group project is creating friction.

Your husband seems to have declared himself the last word on things, which is a problem when talking about shared funds and shared spaces.

It may be helpful for you both to retreat to your separate camps. Come up with a modified budget with a combined pool of shared funds for things about which you can both agree, and discretionary funds for things that one person wants and the other person isn't so keen on.

If he wants marble countertops, they can come out of his budget. If you want outlets, they can come out of years. And then agree that neither gets to complain about the cost of things for which they're not paying. Now, the caveat this does risk creating a Frankenstein's kitchen. But it doesn't sound like you're clashing over aesthetics, so much as finances.

You both may be happier for going making requests of each other or justifying your choices and instead contributing separately to your shared project.

Dear Eric: I am in my late 70s and need a tarsus surgery. One of my best friends is my ophthalmologist. He is almost 80. He operated on my left eye, some 10 years ago and did a great job. Now, I worry that at nearing 80 his hands might not be that steady.

I have hinted that he should retire, but he says he's not ready to retire.

We have been friends for many years, and I value his friendship. I know that if I share my careers with him, it will end our friendship. My wife says that he

operates on other patients, and they turn out less. But we don't know that. He only has three reviews on Telp, and I wonder about them. Please advise.

— Warned Friend

Dear Friend: While there's no way to guarantee a result in any medical procedure, your friend's age doesn't necessarily have a direct correlation to his skill level. So, what you're grappling with is anxiety — a natural occurrence, particularly around surgeries.

You should endeavor to feel as comfortable with your medical care as possible, if smoking not withstanding. It's your body, you can be as cautious as you want. Even though your anxiety can't predict what will happen in the future, you can take steps to address it. But doing so may require a delicate conversation.

Consider telling your friend that you're expert-sucing anxiety about the procedure and that you'd rather be upfront about that feeling than have it create conflict to your friendship.

You may ask him to help manage your fears, or you may choose to get a second opinion and tell him that it's not about anything that he's done, but rather something you need to do for yourself.

You don't need to bring up his age, because, again, that's only part of what prompted those thoughts for you. He may very well understand. You still run the risk of bruising his professional age, but if you keep the focus on what you need to feel comfortable rather than assessment of his skill that's based on evidence you don't have, you may be able to maintain your friendship.

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Books glimpse behind facade of curated world

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Sometimes when I'm casting around for some logical explanation of how we get here — here being a time when an on-clip-in-gun flash himself facing felony charges (eventually dropped over, short, but reflecting pool job he had nothing to do with, and the president of the United States posts AI-generated images of himself as Elvis, and flaming space debris is hitting Earth at a record pace, and robots are taking all the jobs — I turn to fiction.

Sure, fiction transports you to another place. Sure, it's an escape hatch. Sure, it casts a dreamy spell that you can clip into for as long as there's another page to turn, plot to solve, character to love.

But it also invites you to walk in someone else's shoes and inhabit someone else's mind and experience someone else's trick and triumphs. It chips away at your blind gyms. It takes someone else's world — shaped by their wounds, their wisdom, their wonder — and makes it yours for a while. It makes sense of things.

And now, did I just stumble upon a couple of master prizes.

Over the past two weeks, I read 'Majestic Hills,' former Chicago Tribune journalist Dawn Turner's fantastic new book, followed by 'Yesteryear,' Caro Claire Burke's trippy, unhinged novel released in April to huge acclaim — 'Good Morning America,' chose it to GMA Book Club Pa's, Anne Hathaway secured the film rights it immediately soared to the top off-nuts Bar and library holds lists, where it remains 20 weeks later.

Caro Claire Burke's 'Yesteryear' and Dawn Turner's 'Majestic Hills' invite readers to walk in someone else's shoes and inhabit their minds. HEID STEVENS

I read them back to back. 'Majestic Hills' tells the story of the Kliopas, a Black couple — Langdon is an emergency room doctor; Josephine is a lawyer — who more from their Chicago condor to a tight-knit, predominantly white suburb 60 miles away in search of the tranquility that Langdon crows but Josephine doesn't quite trust.

On its opening page, before the prodigies, before the gorgeous, layered, winding tale unfolds, sits a quote from James Holleran: 'The place in which IT/It will not exist until I make it.'

'Yesteryear' takes us into the world of Natalie Heller, Mills, an 81st-e-reach-dwelling trade with influencer who sells a pioneer chic fantasy (along with various hitch-creators) to her millions of social media followers — a mishmash of adoring

devotion who approach her with reverence during her very occasional Whole Foods trips and 'the Angry Women,' shorthand for her libret city-dwelling critics who work outside the home, ex-New God and Natalie in certain, sub-sat mostly on pesticides and rape.

Natalie wakes up one day in actual yesteryear, specifically 1955, and finds it not all what she cracked it up to be — in her mind or on her Instagram feed. The story bounces between the two year, both of which find Natalie leaning heavily on her mother's platitudes: 'Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith, sweetheart.' 'A man may work from sun to sun, but a woman's work is never done.' That kind of thing. The books, like their protagonists, have very little in common. Josephine's

compass is tuned to the truth and doing right by her marriage, her late father and her co-workers. Natalie is tuned to a distant, hierarchical afterlife where God's love is best of an all-cause-passing conception and more of an abusive, unrealistic prize. Like poem queen, Or president.

But both invite us to glimpse behind the facade of what we think we're witnessing. In 'Majestic Hills,' that means questioning the illusion of safety, interrogating who safety is reserved for, and spanning out to see how one community's privilege quietly and devastatingly compromises another community's well-being. Things you don't see on the marketing brochure. In 'Yesteryear,' it means bumping into what happens off camera and off script in some of the roles we've

grown accustomed to seeing performed online — another, wide, proodystical, populist. It means ranch hands and nannies and micro-veers and broken-hearted children and made fighting, all edited out of the frame.

In both, it means getting inside the head of a person you may relate to uncannily. Or not relate to even a smuggler. In both, it means better understanding what made them that way — the grief of the fear or the pride or the devotion or the fabrications played off as destroy. In both, it means watching what people do when the blunders come off. When their understanding broadens. When their world knows gets complicated by the truth. In both, it means confronting your own blunders and understanding and worldview. I can feel myself start-

ing to get vague with these descriptions. I'm cautious about giving away plot points.

But I'll say this. When you find yourself bewildered by the truth — or what's passing for it at the moment — the doft and brilliant hand of a fiction-writer can feel like a telescope, revealing which unproven that sharpen and explain the one you find ourselves being in.

Both authors, both stories, delivered. And when you unwrap a gift like that, you find yourself wanting to tell everyone you know. Here, Look at this. You won't believe your own.

Haldi Stevens is a Tribune Content Agency columnist. You can reach her at healthcareer@gmail.com, find her on X at @healthcareerX or join her Haldi Stevens' Balancing Act Facebook group.

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'It's about your life' your life

Instead of focusing solely on retirement savings balance, workers should figure out how they want to spend their time

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THE NEW YORK TIMES

Fow much time is 20 years? It's the same amount of time since the dawn of what was once called Twitter.

It's the same number of years since the premiere of 'The Da Vinci Code' and the debut of a promising newcomer named Taylor Swift.

And it's the number of years that many older Americans leaving work today will spend in retirement.

On average, 65-year-olds are living longer than ever, an estimated 24.5 years for men and 23 years for women, according to the Social Security Administration. That's five years longer than in 1970 for men, a gain of 43%, and nearly four years more for women, or 23%.

Retirees on good health with adequate financial resources may spend as many years in leisure and other nonwork activities as the total time their grandparents remained after after leaving 65. These 20 years – or more – can leave people who haven't planned their retirement with a lot of suddenly empty time to fill.

'More people have never been retired, so they can't return if their present reality with their future unknown reality,' said Michael Crews, author of the retirement book 'Saturday Every day' and CEO of North Texas Wealth Management in Allen, Texas.

'The biggest question that people miss is the goal-setting and lifestyle for retirement,' he said. 'In retirement, you will have to figure out what's really important to you. And people just aren't having these conversation.'

Like Crews, an increasing number of financial planners now say the most important retirement question to answer isn't your net worth, your marginal net rate, your gift-tax exclusion or expected longevity instead, it's this. How do you plan to spend your time?

DECADES AHEAD OF YOU

With more than a million baby boomers turning 10 years old this year and next, and with some people's retirements lasting 10 years, what retirees plan to do, where they plan to do it, and how that will define their post-work lives has become the key to the financial decisions. That's different from the traditional money-first approach.

'It's not necessarily about optimizing your finances, it's about optimizing your life,' Crews added. 'The real question is: How much can you do in your life and not run out of money?'

Figuring out how much do could do didn't prevent a challenge for Liz Kishmann, 64, of Trumanburg, New York, who spent 24 years with the parks, recreational and youth development programs for nearby Shiaza and surrounding Tompkins County, including her last 10 years as director. Kishmann was a competitive swimmer starting at age 5, returning to it around the time she turned 40, then added to millions and other physical activities. After injuring her back, she discovered Pilates and became certified to teach Pilates and yoga.

Liz Kishmann, foreground, leads a yoga class. July 12 at the Mid, her fitness studio in Trumanburg, New York. Kishmann developed 'a little a bit gig' after she was certified to teach Pilates and yoga. KISHMAN'S LIEVING THE NEW YORK TIMES

'It was my little side gig,' Kishmann said. About five years before she retired, she was working with a leadership coach as part of her job. 'He said, 'You ought to put together your Liz 23. What is it you want to do? I started thinking it would be really cool to have my own studio, to teach more yoga and Pilates. So that's what I did.'

After she and her husband met with a financial planner, Kishmann retired with a pension at 62. She found free consulting from the Binghamton Small Business Development Center to guide her through the startup process. After arranging her a website, business insurance, marketing materials and registration software, Kishmann control space at closed gym for a minimal fee, which she covered with earnings from her classes.

'Because I didn't require any equipment, I was able to get up and running for under $1,000,' she said.

Two years later, Kishmann and her husband, Neil, 67, turned control home they own into her fitness studio. Besides teaching her classes, she travels to Costa Rica and other locales to teach at rooms. Her husband, a retired pilot, is starting his own small boat charter business. He started receiving Social Security retirement benefits, Kishmann is building off.

'We looked at when we might take Social Security and potential inheritance,' Kishmann said. 'Our planner mapped it out and said, 'You can retire and do those things you want to do now.'

Other retirees may working entirely for a while and then return part-time or as consultants, aiming to balance the social and mental foundation with shorter hours and less stress than in a full-time job. An AARP study published this year found that of the 75 of retirees returning to work, 25% cited for others as the reason, with 14% saying they were motivated to help others. Still, nearly half said they needed the money.

'People unretire, I think, largely because it was part of their plan to do that all along,' said Geoffrey Samambacher, a research fellow at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, who said that academic literature finds that nearly a quarter of retirees unretire at some point. 'They're stressed, they're done, their retire, and at some point they're challenged, and they come back to work, especially the more educated group, where there's not a physical component to the job.'

Work that is physically demanding and low-wage jobs extend្រចេញly with the labor force to inequality in retirement, too, denying the benefits of a longtime retirement to many older Americans, Samsonhacker added. Black and Hispanic Americans, or people who live in intelligence – found Samsonhacker where they support parents or children and grandchildren, are among the groups most likely to keep working well past retirement age.

'The expectation of longer lives past retirement applies if you are a white, white-collar worker. That increase is very much seen in people with middle-class and better jobs,' said Ruth Finkelstein, executive director of the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging at Hunter College. 'Low-wage workers are facing exactly the same retirement they always have. They're likely to have their health doctor or before retirement age and continue to deteriorate.' And some of those retirees, she added, will have to keep working despite their declining health.

ENVISIONING A LONG RETIREMENT

A retirement of 20 years or longer can cover three phases. An active healthy phase right after leaving work, follows the survival of two activity, and a final period when retirees settle in to a lifestyle with little activity near the end of life.

Phase One: If they have the resources, this is when retirees should travel,

before illnesses or ailments show up. Conventional wisdom once held that spending dropped after you left work, but here, research found that spending actually increased as retirees took up new hobbies, traveled, relocated and pursued other long-delayed plans.

Phase Two: After 10 to 12 active years, physical reality can be top with 5% or 10-year-old retirees. Those who were working part time have typically finished but still have time for family, friends and social activities. Spending tapers off.

Phase Three: After an additional five to 10 years, retirees typically stay closer to home with less activity and may develop more serious health issues that can lead to large medical bills. As of 2023, the median cost for nonmedical caregiver services at home was $860,000 a year (assuming 4-6 hours a week), assisted living was just over $74,000 and a private nursing home room cost about $180,000.

Like all retirement decisions, though, lifestyle comes down to money. Check with a planner to see whether your finances will support your goals, and don't ignore inflation. At the Federal Reserve's target rate of 2% annual inflation, a retiree living on $5,000 a month in 2020 would spend more than $5,000 per month 20 years from now to cover their expenses. But inflation doesn't stick to the average – the rate for June was 3.5%, nearly twice as high as the Fed's target.

'Most people haven't thought through what their life will be like in retirement,' Crews said. 'They'll say, 'I'll figure it out. I'm going to go to Yellowstone, I'll go on cruises.' They need to consider the work benefits that don't involve a purchase – financing, selling problems and feeling like you give a significant role. The question is, 'Where are you going to find purpose?' And it's not going to be on a cruise ship.'

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Kids' bodies bear weight of back to school

Take steps to fight on lead before students express discomfort

By Cheyenne Mumpfrey ASSOCIATED PRESS

Backpacks can be fashionable and functional, but they can also be too heavy — weighed down by digital devices, manual maintenance, sports equipment and more. Some students carry home a laptop or tablet and toothpaste, too.

It's possible for prepared, but kids who walk to school or participate in extensive regular activities may be hopping more than their bodies can handle. Look at sex and classroom storage assets available everywhere — and a child carrying too much weight might not be ready to learn.

Here's how to know if your child is backpacks even heavy and how to tighten their head.

HOW HEAVY IS TOO HEAVY?

The modern school backpack has evolved, but it hasn't recovered its gotten lighter. Whether students have textbooks, digital devices or both, they often are accompanying to notebooks, water bottles, lunch containers and medical clothes. Individually those items may not seem heavy, but together they can add unnecessary strain to children's head.

According to this American Academy of Pediatrics, signs of backpacks may be too heavy in kids's child's hands, but for each to support its weight or having difficulty walking, they should not dig into should it?

Don't want for a child to express the comfort or pain to lighten the head, supports it?

Dr. Baillie Knoch, a physician who chairs the academy's major prevention efforts, says back injuries are uncommon but possible, particularly for a child falls while carrying a heavy

Students Claire Knoth, Brooklyn science and Joan Knoth work July 15 with their backpacks in Flagstaff, Arizona. CHEYENNE MUMPHREY/AP

backpack. "It's worse if, for example, they trip and fall, and they have a huge, heavy backpack on their back. Then that's just more weight that could increase the severity of an injury," she said.

Although 100 to 120 of a child's body weight is often cited as a backpack guideline, there isn't enough evidence to establish a one-size-fits-all approach, Knoch said.

Because children vary in size, strength, physical development and daily routines, caregivers should consider their child's individual needs and, in general, keep backpacks as light as possible.

TEACHERS SAY LEAVE THIS STUFF AT HOME

Families should take an audit of what a child really means may seem shy. Samantha Neos, a history teacher in Phoenix, said parents should focus on making sure children have

basic supplies rather than getting weight up to trends; should not be expensive more. Her students have access to classroom textbooks but are still expected to carry a laptop and charge a cash day. As technology becomes more central to schoolwork, some students have stopped bringing paper, the said. They rely instead on their devices, which can also become destructive.

"When considering the things going into their backpacks, how is it going to help them be successful in the classroom?" said Neos, who has been teaching for about 10 years.

In Fairfax County, Virginia, the school district is bringing back math textbooks after a low-Math against technology. That was a win for the group. But for County Parents for International Technology, but it also means hand-licensing about weight-to-backpacks. Parents should think

carefully about whether a child holds results to carry both hands and a laptop every day and mean, this Fitch, a spokesperson for the parents group.

For example, a student might not always need their laptop at home. Parents of the parents are not able to make their own home in Fairfax County can now opt out of having the device come home in backpacks. For older students, black scheduling means they don't need every textbook ever.

Fitch said her 7-year-old type did caress back, a water bottle and occasion after a failed child's movement or more from the teacher. Even that can lead burdensome, she said, particularly when students move between classroom for activities such as art or music. And the inside of the bag can still be meant.

"Kids are still kids. There's food in their backpack and water, and they're scratching up papers,"

Fitch said. As students get older, Neos said, backpacks can become more personal storage than school storage, carrying items such as making and public and had dryers. "They're using their backpacks more expensive and better than they are actually using them for school," she said.

HOW TO CARRY THE LOAD SAFELY

Experts recommend changing backpack that fits the child and has too broad, graded shoulder straps, a padded back compartment to distribute weight and a waist or chest strap to radiate from the food.

The American Academy of Pediatrics also even commands smoking children to pick up and carry backpacks safely, including handling at the lowest rather than the water when lifting buoyant bags or cold areas.

Backpacks with wheels

can be helpful, especially for children with injuries, but reports say they may be problematic to schools with signs or crowded walkways, where they can pose a tripping hazard.

Children should remove their backpack before schooling, and they should be Resch said, because wearing one can must have with bone a seat that works during a crash or sudden step. Instead, they should be able to get back to the child, even if training is not more more convenient during drop-off. "Don't want it in a car or any form of transportation while they are a moving," Resch said. "It's just incredibly dangerous."

Regards, it's trying out backpacks can also help reduce unnecessary weight and keep track of some permission to go and assign means. Some teachers recommend doing it weekly to catch missing work, spills from body water bottles and accumulating crumbs.

Pale face no gift conundrum

Fast-food worker refusing to share last name seen as rude

John Mankin

Ellen Winn ANDERSON ANGEL

Dear Answer Angel Fliers: I'm a faithful reader of your column over the years, but this is the first time I have asked for your help. My father said I would like to be a birthday celebration for a friend who is running 19th 18th's still vigorous, charming and infidly little computer.

Not easy enough, the invitation goes free. "No gifts, please. Your company is the best gift of all!"

Noon that we, we would love to give this something to reach his long and mums right. On the inside a note of appreciation and admiration, is there a gift that you can suggest for this man who would and to earn nothing. He is a friendship! — Anne E.

Dear Anne: My usual source is to "anything" for the number of friends, and I have granted a gift of relief and fellow directions. After a certain age, many birthday cohorts are don't want more stuff. And they mean it.

But that's not helpful if you are determined not to show up empty-handed. I just now question to say, certain names are also worth the first husband. Jerry, with this bounty idea, he is asked Ad and the time not for you days that were introduced in 2024 and came up with these items. I'm sure you're going to write a card explaining why.

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John Mankin

MISS MARRIEN

THE EARTH'S

This idea would work for any birth year, man or woman, and provide an inexpensive, creative, occasionally tasty and even useful gift.

Dear Answer Angel Fliers: I am 3 years old. I'm proud to have always been a very young man. My first name is Abash Iqubani and my name is J. Iqubani. I'm a very young man. My first name is Abash Iqubani and my name is J. Iqubani. I'm a very young man. My first name is Abash Iqubani and my name is J. Iqubani. I'm a very young man. My first name is Abash Iqubani and my name is J. Iqubani. I'm a very young man. My first name is Abash Iqubani and my name is J. Iqubani.

Dear Answer Angel Fliers: I am 3 years old. I'm proud to have always been a very young man. My first name is Abash Iqubani and my name is J. Iqubani. I'm a very young man. My first name is Abash Iqubani and my name is J. Iqubani. I'm a very young man. My first name is Abash Iqubani and my name is J. Iqubani.

Dear Answer Angel Fliers: I am 3 years old. I'm proud to have always been a very young man. My first name is Abash Iqubani and my name is J. Iqubani. I'm a very young man. My first name is Abash Iqubani and my name is J. Iqubani.

John Mankin

MISS MARRIEN

Dear Miss Marrene: I work in a class-based restaurant, to which we only go by our first names.

Often, when customers decide that I can the cause of whatever is our going, their way, their way and every way.

My first name is Abash Iqubani and my name is J. Iqubani. I'm a very young man. My first name is Abash Iqubani and my name is J. Iqubani.

goodly often, when it's my own, however, people often hang in without a word, getting away way.

I'm wondering what the idea we have. Should we wait for the person at the station to finish and know? Should we ask if we can share the station? And what, if anything, should we say if someone crowds us out when we were there?

But? Or, some this is no big deal, but I'd like to have some guidance to manage my annoyance and to avoid being an annoyance to others.

Goodly Reader: First, you must also up the situation, not only the amount of rooms at the station but also the pace of the coffee lover before you. If there is no hope of getting to your 9

year, rooms, etc. to my right, or more self-efficacy, the station is pretty small.

If someone is there, I should be able to make such a, "Would I be in your way if I reached for some sugar?" Other times I just wait for the person to leave, not wanting to

come to the station, but I can't be able to make such a, "Would I be in your way if I reached for some sugar?" Other times I just wait for the person to leave, not wanting to

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New fans draped in enduring aesthetic

Issue of Dozer pays homage to Official Preppy Handbook!

By Alexander Nazaryan THE NEW YORK TIMES

On a recent Friday night in lower Manhattan in New York City, a crowd of fashion journalists, photographers and industryers gather at at the 1980 boutique on Madison Street to celebrate Dozer magazine's new issue: "The New Prep." Scams were asked to dove in preppy attire to pay tribute to all things preppy — not the flagrantly misrepresented in women of 18-24, but the collegiate look and old-moneyed dimension of New England preps should end Dry League college.

Many would argue that the chinos, years' hadters and rumpled coiled button down shirts that epitomize preppy are timeless. Emery ang in the 1990s as Iry Style, and medically the main stream in the 1980s with the publication of Lou Nen-Back's "The Official Preppy Handbook," the attire has soon entered into and was over the years, always with a slight revok to the formula: "We've done with drawing the flake of Yoke," Antique Mason, the founder of Enfield and

For the Louis party, Mason, 30, were a mostly vintage ensemble that included an "Super Valley" of the 1980s, and also into Ralph Lauren, chinos, a tennis team that has been and lives in fisherman outside. The Dozer crowd insists it isn't engaging in couples: "I love history," Mason said. "But we can keep the essence and move it along without putting the same photos for 60 years." Mason, who grew up in a business, a black and initially over preppy clothes made by Vincent Vines and Ralph Lauren to 80 in at a private high school, whose children they was predominantly white.

Dozer Magazine founder Justinian Mason attends a launch party July 17 for "The New Prep" issue at the 1990 boutique in New York City. After some evolution, Mason returned to press with more style. ©DMA MICHELSON, 2024 THE NEW YORK TIMES

"I was dreaming to not really stand out as a black person. It was just thrown up on an outset and going out," he said. "But after some personal and public ad evolution, I returned to prep with more style." Mason initially launched Dozer as a website, after encountering a brand job market where he moved to the New York area in 2023. The firm in New Jersey, but not a preppy enclave like Princeton or Spring Label. The site didn't prove many readers, but rather than>Kellogg for play, Mason doubled down and turned Dozer into a glossy print magazine. Tipping a lifetime to his home state of Texas,

the first issue, "Woodwork," was about Black cowboys. Dozer's prep issue has two volumes on 60 page cold-weather edition and a 61-page summer edition. Both contain "The New Preppy Handbook" — Mason's take on "The Official Preppy Handbook" — made their pages, And both column feature Peter Rau, an milkcover known on social media as Preppy Pets, as the cover model. "The New Preppy Handbook" was unattached imitation of Bordoch's bestselling classic, down to its tartan-edged design and very cultural emblem-pronged format, with chapter names like "Things to

Message" and "Preppy Hot-Spyne." This approach was more novel in the '80s, when Bordoch's, a human-whimsical, and a modern like a Lacoste-attired Virgil, through the times on instead of America's privilege. Mason said his imitation was to pay homage to Bordoch's book: "We don't strive to imitate." The Official Preppy Handbook in our form is fashion, however, we recognize 30 years of an all-petitive understand our message when packaged alongside such cultural iconography. Rau, 61, is known on social media for his long time, a working piece of baseball caps and classic

prep wear. He arrived at the Dozer party as uproar cardigan, white coiled-press and blue striped in the white sheath. Most of which he'd doused at a theft state. It was the kind of outfit that would be de-opause at the Mindstone Club in East Hampton. He believes very even limited to the Upper East Side — it is also at home in the Willamahung neighborhood in Brooklyn, as well as the streets of Tokyo and London. "The thing is ours now," Rau said. "The past February Ryan Murphy regarded a fasci-amen with prep, thanks to the F.A. series 'Love Story,' about the complicated

romance between John F Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bennett. The show elected a nostalgic not just for 1999; New York lost for the prep aesthetic of their war-land especially with John John, biking around the West Village in a suit and tie. "The preppy style will never die," said Avery Trulchman, whose podcast, A City of the New Preps (revised preppy's history to the military, jazz clubs and college campuses: "It's one of the great pillars of the American preppy life. If I Love You from the first to my indication, Trulchman is right. Having that fact had to get a bit of the first time, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm not a man, I'm

MY PET WORLD

Cats' behavior changes after loss of family member

By Cathy M. Rosenthal THE NYLON STORY SURVEY

Dear Cathy: I read your column every week and hope you can find with me. I want to see that you are who has periods silly been armoring on rags to the house. We adapted her and her first-mute brother, George, when they were 6 months old. Both use the litter box regularly. About a year ago, Grace began retracting on a particular issue, and she was a rule of a citizen's tract infection and suggested adding another litter box and plug in the intercession. We all both, and the before we stopped.

A few days, he later, my husband died retrospectively. Both, in the because very unblanched several weeks. Since then, they had been a lot of people who attached to me and just one of our another, when I am giving attention. Grace sometimes blamed her. I was not there were no accidents. Then, about a month ago I came home after being out for a few hours. Grace greeted me at the door, then walked over and returned on a rug. She should decide

Animals notice when someone stopped turn to suddenly grow, series Cathy M. Rosenthal. ENGLAND TIMES

the spot as though she wanted me to see it. The following week, the same thing happened on another rug. This time, she unrated, then came to me pouring and watered the petted. I took her back to the veterinarian, who again ruled out a curiover tract infection. She also had it for physical exam and blood work. Other than inflammation by blood disease, which my veterinarian doesn't believe in related, every

thing we normal. Could the 16-attention-seeking behavior or separation answer? Both can have been such a comfort since my husband's passing, and I want to help Grace however I can — Joan, Wellesfield, Connecticut. Dear Joan: First, let me say how we're I am for the loss of your husband. I've glad Grace and George have been a source of comfort during such a difficult time.

One of the biggest misconceptions about cats is that they set into a number for litter box simply to get out attention or get back at us. Inappropriate urina tars is almost always a form of counterreception. Cats are trying to tell us some thing, whether it is physical discomfort, emotional stress or a change in their environment. The loss of your husband brings the emotional landscape of your home, not just for you, but for the real blood loss. He often think of grief as something only people experience, but animals notice when someone impertends a suddenly grow. Persuance become against, clinges more anxious or even change the way they interact with one another. Grief upfield over time, and as families adjust to a new normal, it is a good behaviors can emerge weeks or even months later. Grace's untrusting when you come home may be triggered by a person's fear, fear, and anger, excitement, and/or an uncertainty. Seeking your reason once afterward suggests she is turning to the person she treats most when those feelings become overwhelming.

I would continue providing multiple litter boxes to separate locations, scooping them daily, and keeping the disarmament different since they seemed to help before. Also, I would make time for individual play and attention with each cat so neither look the need to compete for your affection. I would also keep a litter box attractant to up to 60 in the box to see if that helps. Most importantly, if the behavior perveteran becomes more frequent, go back to your veterinarian. Conditions such as Kline Idiopathic cystitis, arthritis and other age-related problems can come and go. If Grace's behavior is ultimately linked to anxiety, your veterinarian may also suggest medication to help her feel more secure. Dear Cathy: I often wonder after giving me dog a trust, what I would do if she began, thinking "is the Hustle from nature a point. Why can a dog? Or would you ever have to look he helpful? What does one do in such a situation? — Pam, Oyster Bay, New York

are you curious for both dogs and cats. The importance of your home is that these techniques should only be used if your pet is truly choking — we simply emphasize jogging — and that the best way to serve is to entertain after-ward, even if the object is removed. Rather than trying to help the three lifts on the human in-patient, however, I encourage you to take a pet for at all (Jan. The American Red Cross and the American Red Cross and Dog First Aid course with triple way downstairs, plants, and videos covering the dog). Off and other things, I have been very several other reputable pet that aid course available online as well. Hopefully, you will never need any of these skills. But, learning pet best and before, I can't be happy to use ensure you are ready if it does. Cathy M. Rosenthal is an animal educator, author, columnist and pet expert, short over questions, stories and tips to unify/prepare for them. Please include your name, city and state. You can follow her if you're not sure.

EX-STUQUETTE

Ex-partner mulls calling other woman after secret family revealed

By Jane Blackstone THE NYLON STORY SERVICE

Q: Why did friend remain for work, or so she told me, but I just found out she has a whole other family, and I have been a lot of friends who are in the same way as I'm going about calling the other woman and calling her. What's good on etiquette? A: Before you pick up the other, I've been a lot of your question. Why, am I doing that? As you trying to prevent someone from being, do you tell the air you trying to make your ex-fed

the pain you're feeling? The answer matters. Discovering that someone you loved has been being a doubt is like a devourating, Anger, betrayal, humiliation and the desire to expose the truth are all normal reactions. But acting while you're emotionally flooded often creates more problems than it is. Take a breath and consider your plan of action. The first decision you need to make has nothing to do with the other woman. It has to do with you. End

the relationship. Some one who has maintained an entire second family has demonstrated a willing, sure to do over you over an extended period of time. Without children or other obligations funding you together, there's no reason to continue investing in a relationship built on deception and dishonesty. Then decide whether contracting the other woman serves a constructive purpose. Most people would agree she deserves to know the truth, particularly

if she is making important decisions based on their information. And before contracting her, make sure you have facts, not among them. Be prepared for the possibility that she should, however, doesn't believe you or may even blame you. Once you make that call, you can't take it back. Be warying you' first thing in the moment, but it rarely brings the peace you're looking for, and there is a child involved here. What you say and how you handle this could affect

that child's life for years to come. You may think that's not as a problem, she was the one who made the bed, literally. But the child is innocent and deserves your consideration. Conduct yourself in a way that minimizes unnecessary harm to innocent people. It, however, your man's time is to prevent someone else from continuing to live a lie, approach the situation with restraint and compassion. Stick to the facts. Don't exaggerate. Don't speculate. Don't recruit her to

become your silly against you're. Simply share what you're doing. You can decide what she wants to do with the information. Good to etiquette isn't about protecting someone who is a good friend. It's about enduring to let someone else's dishonesty determine your character or your choices. Do what's good for you, but don't forget to consider the innocent people life's little. In particular, when you're not sure, you're not sure.

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A tone lesson roams the sweeping grasslands of Bucklands National Park in South Dakota, a living relic of the herds that once thundered across the Great Plains. TRAVEL SOUTH DAKOTA

By Mary Ann Anderson TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

The open road called, and I answered. On a cool November morning, my husband and I climbed aboard a regional jet in Brunswick, a small city that anchors Georgia's light-sighted Golden Isles, bound for Atlanta for a change of planes, and then on to Spokane, Washington. We rented a car at the airport, and then, just like that, began driving outbound and drove back to Georgia on a cross-country journey across the very same terrain we had just flown.

My dream since I was a kid has always been to drive coast-to-coast, but life happens. In less than a year's time, I lost my beloved Brother to complications from a two-dioxide bottle with transverse myelitis, my two 10-year-old brother and some one, and my vanity from taking a direct hit from Patricious Mishnu, the storm that essentially flattened our town with Category 2 winds. My world had shifted to a place where nothing quite fit anymore, and I couldn't see very far down the road.

In retirement of clarity, one of now or never, with no financials to attend or sick folks or elderly cats to watch over, I chose to finally chase the sunrise. Come full of high water, I was going to achieve my teenage dream of driving across the country. I would find out just how far down the road I could go to for a cathartic getaway filled with adventurous, open roads, big skies, different cultures and new perspectives.

When I learned to drive at 14 years old, I instantly became a road warrior and love the sounds that come with it. Other road warriors know in the sounding white noise of motion, the whistling of the wind with the windows down, the rhythmic pursing of tire rubber on pavement and the deep rumbling of other vehicles passing by. My inner child could hardly wait for the epic journey.

Since Roy and I had been to Seattle and Washington State before, we chose Spokane as our starting point. I bought a big paper atlas—there would be no GPS on the trip—and marked our seven-day express state by state, town by town, highway by highway, hotel by hotel.

After our first overnight in Coeur d'Alene in scenic, idyllic Idaho, still full of bursts of fall color in vibrant yellows and reds, we lay the Montana interlance of grey, many morning. We soaked and ailed at the incredible forward mountains of the Bitterroot Range, now weathed in mist, and marveled at the pine forests that no matter how special else, just cast to compete with Georgia's stationary pipes.

For standing miles, we followed Interstate 90 and the CAAI FIRE RIVER, the clear water sparkling remainder cloudy skies. Somewhere along the way in the ranching community of Drummond, Montana, population maybe 350, we stopped at Parker's

Cathartic road trip from Washington state to Georgia winds past stunning landscapes and wildlife menagerie

Aquakers enjoy the Clifton's N.W. road in World War II, 1945-1946, Washington DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

A bronze statue of a cowboy on a horse stands guard over Best Hill Cemetery in Opalula, Nebraska. MARY ANN ANDERSON/THE

Restaurant for the most memorable meal of the trip.

Our server was incredibly enthusiastic and friendly, and the diner had a fun, cozy atmosphere. The restaurant offers, last I checked, some 150 unique burger variations, featuring ingredients like cod, lipers, pineapple, fritters, oatmeal, and even spinach. I spend for a simple chasselturper, but it was so good that I couldn't help but inhale it and wonder about how Montana gets its beef to stale.

From Bozeman to Billings, we climbed and then descended, the Continental Divide and left the jagged Rockies behind as the landscape unbelievable in the Great Plains. The rain had fled, and now the sky was enormous, a carton of scattered light and a blue ice Hold that it seemed more dream than reality. As we turned off the interstate onto ribbons of winding back roads, the magic of Big Sky Country unfolded before us. The earth and sky blurred into one seamless expanse, their edges of the ring until it was impossible to tell where the golden plains ended and the endless blue began.

From Montana, we crossed briefly into North Dakota, and then zigged to the South Dakota small town of Sturgis, with its population of about 1500 that somehow explodes every August to upward of 700,000 during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Driving through, it is unbelievable how so many people and their memory-class could even cram and fold into such a diminutive place.

In nearby Rapid City, we stopped to overnight and had dinner with Cal and Roboica, my nephew who is stationed there in the Air Force and his wife, and their handsome, sweet son, Owen. It wasn't a random or accidental visit, as I planned it that way, and we could have taken lots of roads elsewhere in South Dakota, but I'm pretty sure it would have been a sin to our visit family when you're that close.

From Rapid City, we passed through the other worldly sun and of the Redlands, a jumble of batten, pinnacles, and apiece striated in warm, nasty shades of red, brown, tan-and-pink. It is stunning in its desolateous, astragical and

At Parker's Restaurant in Drummond, Montana, drivers can order 100 varieties of the burger, including the flumes with crispy onion rings, cheddar cheese and a hearty, smoky barbecue sauce. VISIT SOUTHWEST MONTANA

zero-inspiring sample of Mother Nature's hand, and I couldn't help but wonder how many pioneers, settlers and cowboys rode into those canyons and ridges, only to vanish into the land's silent, timeless embrace.

We drove south, stopping to stand in the crisp November wind at Wounded Rose, where we read the historical marker describing the heartbreaking events of 1890 when the U.S. Army's attempt to disarm the Lakota Basin led to a devastating confrontation, claiming handwits of lives. I delivered in the swirling wind, a mix of solemnity, reverence and grief for the lives lost and the resilience of the Lakota people.

Down through Nebraska's mentorship, a vital sculpted ocean of sandbills we moved on. Just words before our trip, we had rewarded "Lonesome Diver," the original cowboy series with Robert Jowell and Jimmy Las Jones, as we made Opalula, a nice rough and humble cowboy town mentioned myriad times in the show, a must-see in western Nebraska.

Opalula stands as a seminal on the wide-open high plains and was once the end of the trail for the women's cattle driver. After lunch at the Front Street Bookhouse in the old economy part of town, we also visited Best Hill, a frontier era country rafting stop a road overlooking the South Platte River and where legend holds that cowboys were buried with their boots on.

The landscape stretched out from the west, which through Kansas to the Oklahoma border, a vast expanse of tabletop-flat prairie rising gently to an average elevation of 2,000 feet. Crossing the river line, I celebrated a personal milestone of having visited all 50 states, for as a farm girl raised on the no-money side of life, it was a dream that once seemed an impossibility.

In Oklahoma City, we finally named the nomal car from southward to eastward toward Georgia and home. Over the years, we have traveled to Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama extensively, so we didn't carry long in any of those states.

A long the seven-day, 1,000-mile journey, traveling about half of the time on back roads and the other half on interstates, we saw a thrilling and incredible menagerie of wildlife, build eggs, elk, coyote, turkey, lions, a lone wolf, prophecies and herds of male and white-tail deer. We talked to some wonderful folks along the way, and near Pine Ridge in South Dakota we heard Lakota spoken for the first time over.

We had a safe journey, though not without two near-misses, saved each time. I'm convinced, by the grace of Miss Daisy, my guardian angel.

The first came in Montana, where an 18-whacked pulled out of a side road and planted itself directly in our path. With Miss Daisy, obviously at the wheel and both my feet smashing the brake pedal to the metal, I never will like a maniac into the opposite lane where there was, thankfully, no incoming traffic. Instead we we missed the massive truck entirely, shaken but sound.

The second has breadth escape was in Kansas right at sunset. A whirred truck big and fully anchored, looped out of nowhere and landed in front of the car, his muscle just one second from smashing the front grill. Then, at the last possible moment before impact, he reaned back and stood straight up on his two head legs, and then in one lightning-fast movement joined on it. All 100 degrees, as provided in a fuller-up before leaping back into the field from where he had come. I'm certain Miss Daisy grabbed that door by the card with each and hailed it back into the field.

Our further-flung road trip was certainly one of adventure, of dodging trucks, summarizing deer and having a good day angel raised Miss Daisy. My entire road warrior had sprung back to life, ready to chase the next sunrise, the next chasselturper and the next highway with priceless of more unforgettable memories.

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Slow down in Portugal's tranquil Tomar

Rick Steves

With a rich culture-friendly people, affordable prices and a salty setting on the edge of Europe, Portugal undercrowdedly makes a rewarding destination for travelers. Boating Labeas and the sunny Algarve coast are well known to have another good moiety, but quieter places also offer tantalizing terms of Portuguese flavor.

About 40 miles northeast of Labeas, just east of the pilgrimage site of Patima, St Isch, green Tomar — a quaint town of about 20,000 residents, set under a historic fortunes. It's a place with lots of local ambience, not remarkably untraumous and well worth a step.

While there was a cattle-most here in Roman times, Tomar's importance started in the 12th century with the construction of a full-topping oath. Cosmetic de Cristo, Guallim Pais, a grand master of the Knights Templar religious order, put Tomar on the map by building the castle with Middle Eastern architecranial locks stigma just led up during Holy Land Crusades.

To get the lay of the land, stroll Tomar's triumful. The tiny Middle River, running north-north through the middle of town, is all Tomar's — it starts nearby and flows just a few miles before emptying into the Zizaco River outside of town. Mid-street, a peaceful island with a pleasant park and a stroll medieval water wheel shown off what must have been important technology in its day. Once you're the old Knight, from White, hand right, through the old town to the main square, Pragu de República. The town's easy-to-tar-ques grid are or places a reminder that Tomar was a geriatric town built to

Tomar's central Pragu de República is a tempting spot to slow down, notes a drink at a café and enjoy the relaxed tempo of local life. RICK STEVES

defend the castle. Pragu de República is attempting spot to slow down and nurse a drink at a café, enjoying the relaxed tempo of local life. Children on bikes wat their training wheels, pigeons strut and they own the place; old-times shaker their heads at today's fashion; and tak-trick drives hustle business (surprising short-term) nuts on motorized rickshaws. The neighborhood offers plenty of texty to open to grab a bike or a drink, such as the classic Café Paraiso, a time-away eatery retaining the humble ride of mind-country days. Since Tomar is inland, park and boat are regular on any menu here. All over town, you'll notice loaves

of bread stacked into a very tall 'storm', decorated with flowers. Women carry them on their heads in a festival every four years, incorporating paper and harvest rituals (not Catholic celebration during the Festival of the Troys in late June or early July (next up in 2017). Thanks to this tradition, expect fantastic bread with any meal here. My sellers off local Toys wise or try a Portuguese craft beer as you take in the warmth and history right beside you. Tows ring above Tomar is in castle, with archs-like or story built 850 years ago. This circular chapel is where knights would go to the Island before battle as they defeated Portugal against the Moors,

protected pilgrims heading for the 18th Land or decomposed Portugal in the Age of Discovery. The Knights Templar was a rich organization — both as a popular Christian charity and as originator of Europe's first great banking system. Pilgrims from western Europe would deposit their money with the Templars before leaving home, were given a 'check' trade than cash to travel with; and could trade with it on its along their pilgrimage as they ventured east. You could call the Templars the first multinational corporation. When pilgrims deal on their journey, which was all too common, the Templars kept their estate. (When banking, always read the

fine print!) The Cosmetic de Cristo's interior gives a glimpse of the medical complex of the Knights Templar. The original castle and century years built when such impressive architecture was new in Europe. The century was designed to borrow (important to the Templars' success on the battlefield) could be called on and followed. Later under Portuguese King Manuel I, a big conventional church was added. The century's wall was cut open to camera (the church and the nursery with a grand, triumful arch. The church's nave is decorated in the lacraddity intricate Romanian style — worth that pay tribute to the sea trade that made Portugal

ra). Ornamental shields and some of some are decorated with castles, crosses, lions, flags and crowns. There are even designs that display on ropes used on ships during Portugal's Age of Discovery. From though Portugal is increasingly on the interior map, it still has plenty of untrumped, authentic places like Tomar. That's good news — you can never exhaust Europe of its wonders. Rick Steves (www.ricksteves.com) writes European travel guidebooks and loans more! shows on public television and public radio. Brazil Tomar is today's famous.com and follows his blog on Facebook.

The K-pop group WHB recently released the mini-album 'Cherry Pie' (L&S) STUDIOS

CELEBRITY TRAVEL

K-pop artists have US sites in mind

By Jan-Ha Kim TRIBUNE, CURRENT AGENCY

Since its 2023 debut, The K-pop group, WHB, has won over intense tonal fans with its precise showmanship, selectively, and a significant international language, and sharp wit. Its second main album, 'Cherry Pie' continues to show our the menthol final blend of two's vocals with intense capping.

'Since our start, our music style has changed a little,' said Jadia. 'We've matured and grown in artists and performers, which is to be expected. But it will look huge to us.'

This interview was collected in October by English with the finest report and has been edited for clarity and length.

Q: What type of music are you listening to these elements?

Hassong: I like South America; Latin music: Babe East. And I love (quint) local music like Genius! Here's Jadia: I like to hear K-pop music, Life.

Jinhans: R&B music: Worden 2x2! R&B and R&B, hip-hop. Leapong: I love indie rock, Ujapon. I like pop-punk or band sounds.

Q: Have any of you been to

the United States yet? Jadia: The other girls' band. But I've been to Kansas, because my sister lives there. I don't remember all the cities I've been to, but I've been there.

Q: Jadia, how did you become fluent in English? Jadia: My mom, sister and I lived in Canada for a year when I was in second grade. My dad remained in Korea because he's job was there. My school was kind of like an international school, as there were other Koreans. Chinese people, Japanese people and lots of other people (from different backgrounds). So I didn't stick out.

Q: What are you looking forward to seeing when you get to visit the U.S.? Hassong: I want to go to In-N-Out Berger.

Jadia: The Chicago Theatre. I saw the place to care of movies and a lot of videos, and I want to go there.

Leapong: Our fans. And city views.

Q: When you are in other countries, do you try the local food? Jadia: Off course. But we also have to use Korean food eventually.

Q: Out of the seven of you, who is consistently the biggest over packer?

Jiaaha painting to Ujapon! I like. Leapong: He takes a lot of clothes. Jadia: We go away for maybe three days, and he packs for 12 days. He's prepared for everything!

Q: What are some memorable concerts you've attended? Jadia: Hassong and I went to the Deep Kids concert in Korean that was a big hit. Leapong: When I was a trance, I went to a Seventeen concert. Worden: I've never attended someone else's concert.

Kim Aeonin: I never went to one either.

Q: What was a memorable childhood trip? Worden: Mongolia. When I was young, I went there. The sky was so beautiful and blue, so I remember that.

Leapong: I went to Guam. Jadia: Yeah, like I mentioned. I went to Canada in my second grade.

Q: Which destinations are still on your travel/bucket list? Jinhans: Spain, Paris, Italy

Hassong: United States in general. Jadia: Now York and Chicago.

For more from the reporter, visit www.jaahaim.com.

TRAVEL TROUBLESHOOTER

Refund sent to wrong institution after Viva Aerobus cancels flights

By Christopher Elliott | KNO-TESTURES SYNDICATE

I hooked flights with Viva Aerobus from Tijuana to Metro-oillo. The air line canceled the flights, and I responded a refund. But Viva Aerobus wouldn't refund it in my Adود.com Express card.

Instead, it said that it had to win the money to my U.S. bank account. I sent the airline the details for an international transfer. My bank is Northrop Grumman Federal Credit Union. I found a SWIFT code for the bank airline and included it in the forms.

It turns out that my bank doesn't use a SWIFT code or an intermediary bank. To make matters worse, Viva Aerobus performed the transfer but used a different SWIFT code (that the one I provided). It sent the money to Navy Federal Credit Union. I'm not a member there, so this bank won't help me.

I'm sure several people to comment service and the CEO, but nobody will reply. I also liked a formal complaint with PROFECO. Mexico's consumer protection agency.

Can you help me get my $844 refund? — Carol Barrell, Carlsbad, California

A: When an airline cancels a flight, it's required under federal rules to refund you if you decide not to travel. But what we have here is a console (or maybe a trap-ride) offloading crown, and it's difficult to know who gets the blame.

Let's start with the refund itself. Viva Aerobus should have simply renewed the charge on your American Express card. It's unclear why the airline insisted on a new transfer, but this request was not the stage for the confusion that followed.

You admitted in your correspondence that you searched for your bank's SWIFT code online. This is dangerous. You should always contact your bank to verify wire instructions and your credit union doesn't use the SWIFT system.

However, Viva Aerobus made a significant error as well. You provided

a specific code that the airline records show that it sent the money to a different one. As you correctly point out, it directed your refund to Navy Federal instead of Northrop Grumman.

When a wire transfer has a bank where the beneficiary doesn't have an account, the funds are typically rejected and returned to the sender. This process can take time, and money often sits in little or little under the inside the drive.

You did the right thing by enclosing your complaint, you contacted the airline's executive. I'd let the names and numbers for Viva Aerobus executives on my consumer advocacy site, Elliott.org. You also filed a complaint with PROFECO in the National Bank. PROFECO is often the most effective route to a condition because it has regulatory authority over carriers like Viva Aerobus.

Since the airline stopped responding to you, it may have been ignoring you. When a consumer protection agency gets involved, your case may get transferred to a different department that handles government complaints. Unfortunately, this often focuses direct communication with the customer to internal handle the issue through the official legal channels.

I contacted Viva Aerobus several times on your behalf. Finally, Viva Aerobus responded to you via your PROFECO complaint. It presented a new refund for $844 — the full amount of your ticket.

Christopher Elliott is the chief advocacy officer of the National Bank. I respectfully respectfully thank you for your return to your refund for $844 — the full amount of your ticket. Christopher Elliott is the chief advocacy officer of the National Bank. I respectfully respectfully thank you for your return to your refund for $844 — the full amount of your ticket.

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New generation shakes up Vienna's cafe scene

Vibe, inspired dishes— contrast with grand coffee/heaven culture

By Anga von Bremer THE NEW YORK TIMES

Grand coffeehouse have faded the cultural life—and caffeine craving— of Vienna for nearly two centuries, offering plush nature where coffee is longer forever over news- papers and cups of fevity makeup delivered by tuse- deed waiters.

While Freemans faithful to excellent human such as Cafe Ryan's, Vienna's food and drink scene has also more welcome changes. A few more Carlyle's city's leading restaurant critic, part to one, "The sort of Viennese party never really resolved beyond the power of glory. But now we're a great generation is bringing back dissoluble coffee, generating micros concept and a revival of French-style potpourre- along with classic Austrian coffee—all with choice on food ingredients and an organic sensibility."

Rathering fresh takes on cafe culture, I found inspired dishes and a vibe that left both rooted and current, a counterbalance to the glossy, under those of Vienna's historic impec- tic cafe with their endless quenching and new cravings sticks. I was reminded, plan by delicious plans, that Vienna is also one of the most lip present capitals, a few of the 1800s, a propos and vegetables within its own location and the food market fares to table cuisine.

In I shipped the velvet bangestry where the glance of course: Riker and Highland Bread might still be out. What saved my sugar breakfast off such name eggs, coffee pulled from chocolate's source of butter, and the cheese baked from once extinct grains and pastries as pretty as they are personal. But first, my partner and I wanted a cat, where go and pannett and their home

Thomas Pipitira the chef at Mornking Hofheim. (MORE) RIVER TIMES OF YORK TIMES 2023

made recipes take center stage.

VICE-PENSON

At Vollgension, in the Forthaustertrol quarter a deeper septuagenarian in a bright yellow spoon intro- duced himself as Dye Bars, the cafe's suave mutton of this means Grandpa, and thus means Grandma, and at Vollgension they insist on using their first new foods we were devour- ing Bachnide, jam-filled brieche like brats with vanilla sauce, as a crowd of mostly young, Riker's bantered floppily with the Spa and Onus who made up more than half the stuff at this warehouse and smells great animal cafe. Kettle- nake chatty followed — a moose of mortages, springy cake, jam and coffee cream— and these cream-mudder wines choose to take tasting like the distilled essence of

Mimskusopa.

Many PVB, a social entire pressure, and his partners have had Vollgension as a pop-up in 2012, then turned fruits with cafe in 2015 because they couldn't find cakes in Vienna that tasted homemade. The deepest mission? To address old-age poverty and the social isolation that often comes with it? In providing the same with extra income and a chance to feel volu- alite, PVB said.

MEINKLANG HOPLADEN

Dress in Austria, where organic agriculture is practically a city's virtue. Mornklang is singular — I refer an Arschname: family between the Hungarian border, rais- ing broome, growing hectings grains and fruit, and producing some of the country's best-loved natural wines. When the

Michlin family opened it the District farm shop and bakery four years ago, then Ibin Resold in. Mornking mean himself with the pumpkin seed cotsquarts, china- man-spiked Agkletrout and from one-chested apple rins, and by the country, and by the mother's mother shed in French-sauce ground wheat. Thick alzes of that bread are chewed our breakfast, darkened with village butter and chives — a Viennese classic — and perfect for digging into suffly peachyflame eggs with Dey-Ole coffee raged by a light mountain-chasse foam.

We returned for dinner, where the room shifts into a café for home and natural wine bar. At the counter, humach from the cat food flowers, we dashed chewy chances into open-to-cake carpets and watched the Thomas Pipitira, an alum

of the Swedish restaurant Pavilan, planing roasted cabbage with lunche leaves blanc and Mange- litta pork with crackling fracked dumplings. His tight music bleeds New Worlds edge with Austrian comfort. To drink, Mörklä ng's skin-contact Weaver Melanchuk, a blend of Trumour and Wulschra ling that smells like peach sticks.

ORÈME DE LA CRÈME

The 5th District around Sundbergland is fast becom- ing a stragger for party plight. After breakfast at Strohling, we continued to Crome de la Crème-La Ponte. In pantry chef, Julia Eberle, 39, traded a legal job for an apprenticeship at Pierre Herzel, a French potpourre, and opened her four shop in 2017. Her 88rd was new patacchio-based sweet box, cafe with enga- me orchids, glazed ceramic made by her mother and sunt, and pastries to match. From the dense seasonal creation that gleamed in the case, we tried the moist- fearless pepper seed-torte- rigated with raspberry jam as small pistachio-graham- shed, opened "more flake" and a salty globe of ethereal gingerbread mousse-luding a plum core. Eberle's took over two shops previously onward for sure and now employs mostly women. "People see me and ask for the hens" she laughed, "expecting a man."

JOSEPH BROT

Vienna's artisanal sour- daugh-vengeance were much to Joseph Brot, the organic bakery food Weghaard founded in Zürbrücke, Wulchen- terregion and has one expanded across Austria. Ranch in hefty rye leaves that his grandmother haded in community seven. Weghaard found that three of her old bites were fading as sheared in the house. She had been in the house, she had had a large bite in the house, she had had a large bite in the house, she had had a large bite in the house, she had had a large bite in the house, she had had a large bite in the house, she had had a large bite in the house, she had had a large bite in the house, she had had a large bite in the house, she had had a large bite in the house, she had had a large bite in the house,

once near extinction. I turned the signature wheat rye leaf called Joseph — after, early and complex — at the bakery's Landsmower house, I know. There was also a fragrant Roggenbrennau in which a large Waldstaubern rye and tart apples, and an air-Vien- lière Kaiser cell baked six times, instead of the usual fire, for maximum of the time. I had been sending about the nongest and spread in his production crucis bread pudding down from left over, pastest, even as I was in the Briarghe in the Burkish sure but the Maerun.

MEIREE IM STADTPARK The farewell and was at Mieree, the casual deling to the three McIndole-star restaurant Bounou's Iran by Burg and Hesse Rothauer, said that she was a River's trik for in Stadypark. The maids' white, are spacer and exactly a cafe, but it's one to apply. Mieree is a blooded all-day mat- tous leaves for its potty- ment. The two are a calabite and as goodish, and for vegetable-licensed seasonal dishes, which is really included in a response adult of charred and fresh greens dotted with humpade. The Rothauer's salad where it's past as a dairy depot with a normal 6000-ton rattle, is flavors such as tonka bean, and more than 100 farm- house classes, about a third of them Austrian.

You can come for sour- dough widths or poppy seed-touches at breakfast, you can afternoon at the bar with hot chocolate or a 60-hour Politane, or have you Viennese lunch as we did. In honour of that beautiful salad, strong beef commensal with trady beautybreezings, and an ash-crackling-void Weaver cubated with oleobrine, and should be reading. For dessert, the Agkletro- duchade with four bear- loom apple varieties — each returning to even orchard than any — keeps tradition vital and easy.

Ranking analyze airline,

note programs' benefits

By Lacey Pfalt

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consumers identify the airlines, hotels and rewards programs that host to the war they travel.

The rankings are deter- mined by a comprehensive method evaluating every- thing from monitoring benefits and network extra- consumers to ease of use and quality.

BEST AIRLINE LOYALTY

REWARDS PROGRAMS

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BEST HOTEL LOYALTY

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Creative reuse centers

stock 'perfect amount' of supplies for crafters

By Adity Ramakrishnan AUGUST 23 1982

Charlene Catalano was looking for a full of groves and white parts to crochet this year's winter coat!

Instead of going to a hip- box retail store, she found what she needed at Brook- ley Creative Reuse in New York City, she was just used crochet kits, books, labels and other fees. It all cost just $6.

"Now did you anything?" All things are more expensive," Catalano said. "It's just the perfect amount of what I need."

The first day of the year, she will have a reuse center's across the United States and beyond that aim to keep art supplies out of itself. The very- cally sell donated arts and

crafts materials at steep discounts — like the 8 stores for crafting.

Art supplies typically come to bulk — like a pack of markers or a room of construction paper — and outlast the kids' project or at house craft they're intended for. When thrown away, they depend on land life, and certain items can release harmful chemicals and microplants onto the environment.

Reading art supplies is the small step to avoid that, with some centers saving thousands of pounds of materials from reaching landlife each month.

"Reading art is the first benefit. But also, you can be more creative when you're in a larger warehouse and looking at things that you could not source your-

Shoppers look through art supplies for sale July 29 at Brooklyn Creative Reuse in New York. AUREA ADVERTISING

self," said Judan Silverman, a material to scientist at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology.

Art is an expensive hobby so shopping secondhand can keep costs down. At reuse centers, crafters can collect a few ribbons and film's so pay instead of entire spools or rolls. Brooklyn Creative Reuse prices most supplies at $3 a pound. Some criteria also price items individually. Art supplies also require

water and energy to make pack and ship, so your- ing them helps reduce the reuse on second for sure area. For example, it takes about 10 gallons of water to make one gallon of paint, Allotresau said.

The supplies also tend to have a lot of packaging. As what said, it's too hard said, such as a quarter sold in a plastic package with cardboard backing. More packaging also is needed to encase light-sensitive prod-

ucts like paint. At Arlington's Creative Reuse, a network of two reuse centers and a pop-up shop in Atlanta, organizers collect nearly 1200 pounds of supplies every month and all them to teachers, parents, teenagers in sewing circles and college profes- sies.

"We use the value in that half bottle of paint or glue to make it it's still usable, there's someone who just needs that for their project," said Amalia Dawkins, exec- ette director of Inception's.

In landlife, synthetic builders are paid-for-sale on and on the basis of your own deprate, while their plants handicapped up to others sand eyes, Silverman said. Для iPhone, an extreme couple, a series of a Smart College, said artists should focus on environmental factors that are within their control, but also one for it helps protect their interests. She noted that paint used for art to handle a variety of pollution than what flakes off roads, buildings and boats.

The principle of sustain- able art include buying only sold you used and charging what you don't need of throwing it away.

Artists can also look into drop-off programs that recycle paints.

Creative crafters can further repurpose house- build material for art projects. Silverman, the memorals scientist, both designated and used from into colorful side that he may be for the property. He also recommends spicycling old building sets paints and inks.

"You don't need to spend the money to get written shelfs, for example, and plan with those," said Silverman.

Picking up paint supplies at Brookley Creative Reuse is popular after and teacher Ronnie Morello to fish through two sets of users and cabinets.

"What I'm most happy for is very small, it's more small nor few stuff," Morello said. "So that I can give it to other people that are going to be sophisticated out," instead of me just throwing it out!

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Katie Cline, seven July 1 uses her home in Bolton Landing, fixed term, as a vacation home. CELER KENNA/THE NEW YORK TIMES

BUYERS RESHAPING PATH TO HOMEOWNERSHIP

City dwellers priced out of market buy vacation homes first

By Heather Sanison THE NEW YORK TIMES

All Katie Cline and her husband, Joe Horton, wanted was a washer-dryer, a dishwasher and a room to sit down and eat.

"If you have space for a dining table in New York City, that's how you know you've made it," Cline said.

After some searching, they found the perfect 1,000-square-foot floor bed, three-bath chalet, with all of the above, plus a second-floor balcony, at a price they could afford. But it wasn't in their Astoria, Queens, neighborhood, where that could cost them more than $1 million. It was about three hours away, on 8 acres on a bond along Lake George in upstate New York.

The pair closed on the Bolton Landing home for $500,000 in February

2023 and enjoy it as their vacation spot with their 6-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son. Their monthly mortgage payment of $1,000 is more affordable than the $1,995 a month they pay for their 1,200-square-foot two-bed, two-bath rental with a shared patio in Queens, and they effect the cost by offering it as a short-term rental for part of the year.

They've since bought two more houses to rent out upstairs, while continuing to live primarily in Queens, down in their jabs. In the meantime, the Bolton Landing property's value has appreciated to $400,000 on Buffalo, Cline said, and the couple plans to eventually move to one of their second house full-time.

As home prices reach second highs and inventory remains historically tight – especially in cities – Cline and Horton are part of a growing group of buyers reshaping the path to homeownership.

In 50 of the nation's largest metro areas, renting is 50% cheaper than

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Tyler and Emily Moore on July 10 outside the home they bought in October 2019 in Pocono Pines, Pennsylvania. NOAH KALINA/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Former Chicago Bears linebacker Tremative Edmunds in July placed this four-bedroom, contemporary-style house in Northbrook for sale for just under $1.9 million. COOK COUNTY ASSESSOR

ELITE STREET

Bears ex-player Edmunds lists Northbrook home for nearly $2M

By Bob Goldborough FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Former Chicago Bears linebacker Tremative Edmunds placed his four-bedroom, custom-putary-style house in Northbrook for sale for just under $1.9 million in July.

A first-round draft pick by the Buffalo Bills in 2018, Edmunds, 28, joined the Bears in 2023 after signing a four-year, $72 million contract. He played for the team

for three years until the Bears decided to move on from him, releasing him this past winter as a way to manage its salary cap space. He now plays for the New York Giants.

In Northbrook, Edmunds paid $1.41 million in mid-2023 for the 4,600-square-foot house. Built in 2007, the house has 4-5-bath-rooms, walls of glass, high ceilings, a two-story floor, wide-plank white oak floors and a flooring glass staircase, as well as a kitchen

with quartz countertops, a full-height quartz backpack, Wolf and Sub-Zero appliances, and an oversized waterfall island.

The house also has a primary bedroom suite with a heated bathroom floor, along with a lower level that has 10-foot ceilings, a rear room and a built-in bar with a Sub-Zero wine refrigerator. Outside on the 0.28-acre property are a deck and a heated, three-car

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Condo declaration overrides rules set by board

Howard Daboff Condo, Colorado

Q: I am a unit owner in a condominium association. Our condominium declaration states that dogs are not allowed to accept it until, and a maximum of two cats are allowed per unit. However, successive boards have chosen out to enforce the restrictions prohibiting dogs. Two years ago, the board of directors approved rules and regulations regarding allowed dog boards and improving dog weight limits. How can the rules and regulations allow dogs when our decla-

ration prohibits dogs? A: Section 43 of the Condominium Act states in the event of a conflict between the provisions of the declaration and other condominium instruments, such as rules and regulations, the declaration prevails in order to the extent the declaration is inconsistent with the Condominium Act. T: The title, rules and regulations can be allowed when the declaration prohibits dogs in units. Board members would be trending their filth over their failing members in the provisions of the declaration and must confirm their intent to prospectively enforce the declaration by their cohabitants, and actually do so. The board will be capitalily precluded from enforcing the dog prob-**

bition against unit owners who discriminably relied on the board's temporary waiver of making intent of the dog prohibition during that time period, however, the board must enforce the declaration restriction prospectively on all units. B: The consensus in the community is to allow dogs in units, the declaration needs be amended to allow dogs, which requires the requisite unit owner approval so stated in the declaration amendment provision. Q:** The in a small condominium association and the unit is not an order damage from a leading common element water pipe. The damage to my unit was encountered by the board president who refused

to call a plumber to turn off water to the planning stack for many hours after the location of the common element water leak was discovered. Since the water leak incident, neither the board nor the management company will discuss with me addressing the damage caused to my unit from the common element pipe, is the association liable for damages to my unit? A:** Pursuant to section 12 of the Condominium Act, the association is liable to repair damages associated with a primer cut of paint. Most governing documents state and/or require an responsible for their personal property or decorating within their unit, which includes wall and floor coverings such as

paint and hardwood floors. Most governing documents also require unit owners to purchase home or their insurance for such casualty losses. D: Depending on possible facts of what occurred, damages aggravated due to intentional conduct of a board member refusing to call a plumber for many hours could expose the information to additional liability. **Q: I am a unit owner in a small condominium association. We have been working for many years soliciting unit owners to volunteer to serve on the board of directors. For several years a married couple that owns one unit has served on the board of directors as separate directors. I am

not sure this is allowed. Can two unit owners from the same unit serve on the board of directors as the same time? A: Section 30(a)(1) of the Condominium Act states that board members must be unit owners; however, section 30(a)(2) also states if there are multiple unit owners of a single unit, only one of the multiple owners is the same. There is no need to make a number of the board at any one time. Therefore, a married couple that only owns one unit jointly is the same. The number of two or more representatives to serve on the board of directors is the same time, not both. Q: As a part-time for the Condo Advisor's Email (to understand) chisagor@chisagor.com.

Blossom of snow grows in rocky soil

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HOME REMEDIES

Avoid higher costs by booking moving company at right time

By Angie Hicks AIA AND

T: This can be the busiest time of your for moving. Families often plan role-creates around school schedules, home buying activity made to peak and the warmer weather makes moving easier than during the riddle months. The downside is that increased demand can also mean higher prices and limited availability for money. Fortunately, a little preparation can go a long way toward keeping moving costs under control. One of the most effective ways of money is to book movers as early as possible. During peak season, reputable moving companies can bill their schedules via to eight weeks in advance.

A: Booking, each year only gives homeowners more choices, but it can also help make premiums to people that often comes with last-minute money.

B: Possible, consider scheduling your move on a weekday or in the middle of

the month, when demand is typically lower than weekends and month-end dates. Before packing a single day, take time to deliver it. Moving fewer belongings means less time spent packing, fewer bosses to transport and potentially smaller moving truck. Selling, donating or recycling items you no longer need can lower moving costs while making it easier to settle once your new home. B: Also pays to compare multiple estimates. Homeowners should request quotes from at least three licensed moving companies and make sure the reader must exactly write the item are included. An in-home or virtual estimate to often move accurate than one provided over the phone. Comparing estimates can help homeowners identify the best value rather than simply choosing the lowest price. N:** Not every move requires full-service movers. For those looking to reduce costs, debrief approach may make sense. Packing your own belongings while

B: Not having professional for loading, transportation or heavy furniture can significantly reduce labor costs while still making moving day much more manageable. N: Don't overlook the importance of processing your belongings. Ask movers about valuation coverage or insurance options before moving day, particularly for valuable or legal issues. N: A also a good idea to keep important documents made at once, jewelry and surplus able for quality with you rather than looking them over the truck. N: Moving can be one of life's biggest transitions, but it doesn't have to break the budget. By planning ahead, reducing what you move and comparing your options, homeowners can keep costs down while making the entire moving process less stressful. T: I w e r a r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r o r *o

ASK THE BUILDER

Pick materials as you plan project

By Tim Carter TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY

A: A few days ago I drove through Prossonia Honda on the west side of the White Mountain of New York, where I was on my way to do an in-person consultation for a normal gentleman.

T: The purpose of the consultation was twofold. The homeowner was concerned about cracks that had appeared in some of their old 4-to-a-crocks. I could ditch some. He was relieved when I shared that the cracks did not affect the structural integrity of the deck.

T: The point over just upscale off-horizon of the actual two-truck. Think of a two-truck as a mass of very tiny cracked stones packed tightly together. Imagine if the poet had been created by stacking four separate 2-by-a- short to one another. The strength would be identical even though the four 2-by-a- stones placed or screwed together. If these to be washed have horizontal stones supporting significant conventional loads, he would have had a serious structural issue.

T: The cracks were not made through cracks. I recommended that the lift from the ground have even the infiltration. Water entering the cracks would just make them worse over time. I suggested he lift them with a high-quality wood epoxy that I've used for years.

T: I also wanted to do the cracks now so into casts put into the wood and came the wood to-rod. Wood is hygroscopic and would be suitable to improve to its moisture content.

T: The homeowner then walked one back to a large garden shed. He wanted to get the house over a two-hold. Everything was perfect.

N: In fact would the dust. I built for round 12 years ago, it was the first one I've ever seen. All the training

This massive garage attic is going to be frustrated in a studio apartment, a client says. THE CARTES

members were studied on top of one another, and the carpenter had even installed metal connections to ensure the cost others would not get pulled up and off the walls in a wind-storm.

T: The man wanted my opinion because he was thinking about using this same contractor to finish off a large unfinished space above his master's yard. The finished space could be rented out, or a future employer could live on. I told the homeowner the contractor could be counted on to do a great job.

T: The fact that the homeowner did was found me a three-page proposal put together by the contractor. It described what he intended to do to finish the space. My job was to make the proposal and report to the homeowner if it was sale to sign it.

T: I said the proposal and felt there were too many things left to change. However, in the last moment I had any materials or products been done that do mentioned.

T: I had an overnight like this in what had to cost overrun, argument and misuse. I don't have. I understand there had yet to be a plan down to go into what the space would look like once complete.

T: I suggested to the homeowner that he start to take the time right now to select each and every finish item

that would be used in the project. T: For example, think of all the finish items in just the bathroom.

T: What kind of towel bar? How many? Where exactly will they be or what the things you've put in the walls? What kind of toilet would go on? What brand and model? Would it be a low-quality one from its supply, or, as a high-quality brand name you can expect on? What about the shower and water? How do? What type of shower would you do?

T: Your contractor needs shower all of those things, and most, so he can order them on time and feel the same. You can install them. Thus needs delays, possible change orders, and arguments.

N: Here's a story from my past to drive home why this is important.

T: Years ago, I built a room addition for a clean. I had on installing a standard tubular lockset in the center for door. This standard knob was the same at most stores. It could be installed in about 20 minutes. I sent the customer to a specialty hardware store to pick out the lockset.

T: The didn't come back soon. The internal purchased a special-order interior-type lockset. The location would take a month to arrive.

A: A member lockset requires hours of time to install 2-by-a- short own a special tool to create the days and prices to arrange the lockset in the edge of the door.

T: The homeowner refused to pay me for all the extra time it took to install it. I would like to have a helpful spreadsheet of most everything you need to select when you decide to. I built a house, a room addition, a new house, a kitchen or bath, and no continued others do the same. It blocks you to make all sales. I then early in the planning process.

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HOME OF THE WEEK

Old Town 4-bed home with wine cellar, shaker cabinets: $1.9M

Address: 313 W. Concord Place, Chicago

Price: $1,923,000

This four-bedroom home has three full bathrooms, one half bathroom, with plank hardwood flooring and an integrated sound system. The kitchen is appointed with white shaker cabinets, stainless steel appliances and granite countertops. The lower level offers a recreation room, a separate game area, a wet bar and a 400-bottle wine cellar. The property has a blastroom patio and a rooftop deck featuring a firepit, two heaters, a bin, seating, and a kitchen equipped with a baffles smoker, double keyerater, refrigerator and a stainless steel sink. A two-car garage with mounted storage units completes this home. Listing agent: Linda Hoagherem, Jameson Kofie's International Realty, 312-945-6212

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owning on average, according to a recent RealEstate study. Homeowner shop can feel especially out of reach in cities like New York, where the median listing price was $840,000 across the five boroughs as of May 31 and $1.37 million in Manhattan, according to Zillow.

In these buyers cost their primary residence in the city and buy their first home in second home markets — often with the hope of making those places their permanent home one day.

Noticing the phenomenon, Clive, who works in hospitality public relations, launched beyond Home Park, an online platform and hubbed it to connect others who became buyers backward, last summer, followed by a podcast in November. Clive has released 16 episodes and says she has around 75,000 listeners across all platforms.

"I thought I started it to teach people this unconventional path to homeowners, so they had it bigger than that," she said. "It's about making an unconventional choice that are right for you."

Among her podcast guests is Jared Gallucci, who bought her first home on Lake Tahoe in California in

April 2009 together with her new husband, Kevin Freeman, while renting in San Francisco.

"Living in San Francisco, we really wanted to buy something, but usually had four upper width on garage, no yard, and no room was like $1.2 million," Gallucci said.

Instead, they closed on their three-bed, two-bath with a hot tub in Hartline, Nevada, on the south-eastern shore of the lake, for $470,000.

The couple continued renting in San Francisco for several years, until the profit from short-term rentals at their Hartline house provided a down payment on a primary home nearby. They quit their full-time corporate jobs in the city in exchange for freelance consulting work and moved to Nevada in May 2011. The couple also bought two investment properties on the Gulf Coast in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

"I really felt that I had cracked the coke to life," Gallucci said. "We can rent this house all summer and all winter, and then we get a few vacation house in the spring, and fall."

But buying a second home, regardless of the timelines, can be to the particularly for those who enter the short-term rental business.

Buyers are often buoyed by a loophole that may allow them to put as little as

Jared Gallucci and her husband Kevin Freeman are almost July 6 in Stardette, Nevada. The couple moved to Lake Tahoe in Nevada full-time three years after buying property there. EMILY MADDIA/THE NEW YORK TIMES

30% down, compared with the minimum 10% typically required for mortgages on investment properties that are not for personal use, said Madora Cohn, regional vice president at William Rowin Mortgage, a real estate lender.

It can also reduce the feeling that the property is your home, others said. Tyler Moore, an Artesia schoolteacher who bought his first home near Lake Haven in the Province with his wife, Emily Moore, in October 2016, lamented being unable to store any possessions in the house,

to keep it empty for short-term rentals.

"We move in during the summer, and then we move back out," said Moore.

But the trade-off is owning a home to a lake community that's double the size of their rental. Moore said. They have ample amenities there, plus space to host family during visits from Kentucky.

Check Youate Park, a real estate agent with Quadwells in northwest Indiana, a second home market of lake communities 90 minutes outside Chicago, warned against buying in

homeowner associations, who has an bare strict code on short-term rentals and other restrictions.

Second home markets lose their values first in economic downturns, he added, so people pull back on making large discretionary purchases.

And while the Moore's home in the Pennsylvania mountains has risen in value, big city markets appreciate much faster than quarter vacation areas, said Leo Pond, an agent with Sotheby's International Realty among the all-shops in Killington, Vermont.

Houses in second-home markets are typically older and in need of work, too, he added.

"But New Yorkers view it as an investment," he said. "Their cost of getting into the house is already so cheap that even if they're flashing $10,000 into it, they can wrap that head around it."

Buyers may also encounter confusion among family members accustomed to the traditional buying timeline. "We got a lot of," but he still throwing your money away on cost. "Clive said, 'that my alternative was to pay $4,000 a month more than my rent and a six-figure down payment to become a homeowner.'"

For Alex Brown, buying a second home first allowed him to own a vacation home in Phoenix, an area he loves for its proximity to other destinations like Southern California and the Grand Canyon, while living primarily in an affordable rental in Tennessee, where he teaches financial literacy at a university.

He closed on a new build south of Scottsdale, Arizona, for $420,000 in February and has flown out for a few weeks at a time to explore the neighborhood.

"It goes back to the idea of diversification of location," Brown said. "It's nice to have that option as a getaway as opposed to investing in another house in the same ZIP code."

Former Chicago Blackhawks deferwoman Jake McCabe (shooter) has had more new home in Lincoln Park for $1.75 million. STEVE ZALEWSKI

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garage.

The house currently is listed in an agents-only network.

Listing agent Jeff Ghan did not respond to a request for comment.

The house had a $15,944 property tax bill in the 2024 tax year.

Former Blackhawks player Jake McCabe Sets Lincoln Park home for

$1.75M; Former Chicago Blackhawks deferwoman Jake McCabe on July 30 listed his four-bedroom,

3,200-square-foot contemporary style new home in Lincoln Park for sale for $1.75 million.

McCabe, 32, shared for the Blackhawks for years or two seasons and the team traded him to the Toronto Maple Leafs in 2023.

In Lincoln Park, McCabe paid $1.3 million in 2021 for the house, which was built in 2013. The house has four full bathrooms, two powder rooms, cytronic office, 10-foot ceilings, walls of glass, a dechlight, warehousing, designer granicelli wall coverings, hardwood floors and loophole designer lighting. The house is 60 feet has a 10-foot marble island, a

marble barbeplush, double seven, under cabinet lighting, stainless steel appliances and custom soft-close cabinetry.

Other features include a family room with a custom wet bar and a Sub-Zero wine refrigerator and a third-floor primary bedroom suite with a walk-in closet, a dedicated shoe closet and a marble bath with an oversized steam and rain shower and duct traction.

Outside on the property are front and rear blear-door terraces and a heated, 2.5-car garage.

In a statement provided to Eliza Street by McCabe's

listing agent, Steven Zaleski of Campus, McCabe said that "the location is what drew me to the area. It's close to the highway. Asland (Avenue) brings me right to the West Loop for the day's practice and games. (The) quiet little neighborhood first with Wrightwood Park right there along with a little yard and garage was perfect for our family. Love Lincoln Park and we certainly miss city living at times."

The house had a $25,167 property tax bill in the 2024 tax year.

Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.

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YOUR GUIDE TO MANAGING MONEY, WORK AND THE BUSINESS OF LIFE

Medicare explained, demystified

JIM KENNEDY ALL ON MONEY

Sixty-one years ago, Medicare was signed into law, establishing an essential program for Americans aged 40 or older who didn't have health insurance and medical care.

It is comprised of four parts. Part A (Insurance for hospitalization, home or skilled nursing, and hospice). Part B (medical insurance). Part C ("Medicare Advantage Plans") which are private options that bundle Part A, Part B, and usually Part D coverage into one plan). and Part D (prescription medications). If you are married, as it does, have to apply individually for Medicare.

When it comes to costs, the Medicare system can be confusing. Most people don't pay a Part A premium because they paid Medicare more while working. If you don't get premium five Part A, you pay up to $165 each month.

The cost of Medicare Part B starts at $202.40 per month, with an annual deductible of $181. However, if you have modified adjusted gross income over a certain amount ($100,000 for singles, $216,000 for married filing jointly), you could be subject to additional surcharges.

The extra amount, the Income-Related Monthly Adjustment Amount ("IRMAA"), has been in place since 2007, and affects roughly 8% of people with Medicare Part B. The government goes back two years to determine these charges, so for 2026, the reference year is 2024 and IRMAA applies to premiums for the entire year, even if you only go over by one dollar.

Medicare does not stop at Medicare. According to FSAH's Government annual Retiree Health Care Cost Estimate, a 40-year-old retiring this year can expect to spend an average of $10,000 in healthcare and medical expenses throughout retirement.

Medicare, Parts B and D premiums account for 45%, co-payments, co-insurance and deductible, and excluded benefits like vision and hearing exams are 48% and out-of-pocket prescription drug costs, 7%. You need to factor in about $100-$199 per month, per person (in today's dollars) for your future expenses, in order to cover 20 years of healthcare costs during retirement.

These numbers do not include the costs that someone would have to pay for long-term care, medical and nonmedical care for people who have a chronic illness or disability. Medicare does not cover long-term care expenses, but purchasing insurance to cover long-term care can be expensive.

Given that about 70% of people turning 60 years of some level of long-term care during their remaining years, some of the state aremäwing.

According to the most recent analysis by the government, the average duration of long-term care needed is 7 years for women and 2.2 years for men, though about 20% will need care for longer than 5 years. The national median cost for a full-time at home caregiver is over $15,000 per year, and opinions from an amazing facility will likely run well over six figures, depending on where to drive.

Many families shoulder the burden by chipping in to pay for home care, which costs about $100,000 according to AARP. One way to plan for your own future expenses is to use a Health Savings Account (HSA), if one is available through your workplace, could believe go into the account pre-tax, the earnings grow without taxes, and where you pull the money out later. For qualified medical, if a health care expenses, there is no tax due. If you leave your job, you can take your HSA with you—and even use it because in the future.

If you do not have access to an HSA, you'll have to do it the old-fashioned way — save more, starting now, for yourself and your aging relatives.

Jill Kensington, CFP, is a CBS News business analyst. A former options reader and CEO of an investment advisory firm, she welcomes comments and questions at a http://jillkennedy.com. Check her website at www.jillkennedy.com.

A German term, 'Freizeitstress,' describes why leaders can struggle to mentally leave work behind and truly rest while out of the office

By Bob Cross | FAST COMPANY

You have finally closed the laptop. Your out-of-office reply is on, your diary is empty and the break you have from looking forward to has begun.

So why can't you relax? Instead of relief, you feel restless. You check your phone. You begin planning activities. Perhaps yourself yourself that you are only monitoring an important project, yet within minutes you are back inside the world you intended to leave behind.

The German term 'Freizeitstress' describes the stress created by free time. When we become accustomed to relentless activity, an empty diary can feel less like freedom and more like a threat.

For leaders, this can be particularly acute. Work provides structure, status and comedic stream of problems to solve. It offers the essence of feeling useful. When those demands temporarily recede, you are left without the activity that normally tells you who you are and why you matter.

Buoyance then becomes more than a workload. It becomes a coping strategy.

WHEN REST BECOMES ANOTHER PERFORMANCE TARGET

Often influenced by an unconscious fear of free-time, many successful professionals approach their holidays exactly as they approach work.

Days are optimized. Experiences are scheduled. Restaurants are researched, exercise must produce measurable results, and every destination comes with a list of things that must be seen.

In this state, even rest becomes something to achieve.

You may be sitting beside a pool while mentally relearning your return-to-work priorities. You may be having dinner with your family while watching notifications appear on your phone. You are physically away, but psychologically still at work.

This matters because time-away does not automatically create recovery. If you remain alert, available and mentally occupied, your surroundings may have changed. You may internalized such the net. Leaders sometimes justify this by saying that their risk gives them no

choice. While there may be some truth in that, external demands are only part of the story. Performance, fear of falling behind and the need to feel indispensable can keep us connected long after anyone has asked us to be.

The result is that we return from vacation having stopped work, but never having truly rested.

USE YOUR DISCOMFORT RATHER THAN ESCAPING IT

The temptation is to treat this as another problem to solve by imposing a digital force, leveling a wellness retreat or constructing an open or slanting routine.

Those things may help. But they can also become far less attempts to control the space rather than understand what it is or nothing.

So if you're approaching time off, why not instead allow your summer break to create a pause? Within that pause, ask yourself three questions.

Who am I? La hardship rules easily become identified. Over time, the job title, responsibility, and recognition can become entangled with your sense of self.

When work is on line, notice what remains. Who are you when you are not making decisions, solving problems or meeting other people's expectations?

The does not require a dramatic identity crisis. Start by doing something you enjoy without needing to be good at it. Cook badly. Read something with no professional value. Walk without tracking the distance.

The key here is to reconnect with the parts of yourself that have been crowded out by your working life.

Who am I have? This question is about purpose, but it does not require a grand purpose statement.

Ask instead what pimmicks deserves your finite time and energy. Who matters to you? What contributions do you want to make? What has been repeatedly pushed aside because something more urgent approach?

A break gives you enough distance to see whether your working life supports what matters or merely consumes your attention.

Once you've identified what really matters, try focusing in on this. It could be as simple as focusing one person or activity that deserves more of you and give it your full presence.

Put the phone away. Stop trying to combine connection with productivity. For that period, let being there be enough.

How will I live? I might become useful only when it changes how you live.

Consider what you want to carry back from your break. Perhaps you want to be less reactive, create future boundaries, or stop meeting every request as equally important.

Make the change small and specific. Remove one recurring meeting. Protect as hour each week for uninterrupted thought. Establish an evening in which you no longer check email. Delegate something that has remained with you because being needed feels reassuring.

The goal is not to design a perfect life during a two-week vacation. It is to make one conscious choice about how you will see your time differently.

LEAVE SOME SPACE UNFALLED True not may initially feel uncomfortably. That does not mean you are doing it badly. It may simply mean that your mind is adjusting to the absence of stimulation, urgency and relaxation.

Resist the instinct to off every gap. Protect some unscheduled time and allow yourself to be bored. Notice the impulse to reach for your phone without automatically obeying it.

The most effective leaders do not simply manage their energy so they can return and produce more. They recognize that rest restores perspective, presence and the ability to choose consciously.

Your break is not another performance type, and free space is not something to fear. It is an opportunity to stop away from who work requires you to be and reconnect with the person you want to become.

The question is not whether you can stop being busy for a few days.

It is whether, in the space that follows, you are willing to have what your life is telling you.

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Negotiations can help collect, pay off massive consumer debt

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It is no secret that too many U.S. consumers have been using credit cards (subsequently) to the fact few years, and so a result are having difficulty paying off their debts.

Finance corporations, so many, have been using debt collectors more than ever before because too many need holders are unable to even make minimum payments. My aim in this column is to offer some advice to both financial controllers who are not receiving acceptable debt payments and debtors who are facing debt collectors.

ADVICE TO FINANCIAL CONTROLLERS

When you decide to sell the any an debt to a debt collector, you are submitting you are willing to make a significant loss on these accounts. When you sell these accounts to a debt collector for 5% of the outstanding balance, you are facing a significant loss.

Yet in many cases, you have other alternatives. You can contact the customer who has not been able to make even minimum payments and offer options that will minimize your loss. If you are considering selling the account to a debt collector for 5% of the debt, negotiate with the debtor for a “long-term” payment of more than 5%, the debtor opted to an offer to reduce the minimum payment amount as well as the interest rate. If the customer cannot accept either option, then a minimum some to sell the debt to a debt collector.

If your debtors is willing to accept either of the two options you will be minimizing your loss. Finding your loss later for only 5% of the outstanding amount, without considering other options to a poor decision, is significant. The balance of debtors do negotiate was roughly with debt collectors.

Why even if a debt collector always spent can negotiate an agreement that minimizes your loss? The collectors spent 5 times a year gain.

ADVICE TO DEBTORS FACING COLLECTION

The following advice is based on my 10th year retirement as you do not need all claims court. As a condition in the Orlando, Florida, you, the majority of my cases in small claims court were related to debt

collectors cases initially the debt collectors. Too many consumers who are needly debt collectors simply ignore the lawsuit, and don’t even come to court to negotiate with the debt collectors. That is a mistake.

When an individual is needly a debt collector and fails to appear, the individual faces the options to negotiate. The debt collectors immediately have the case and can then take actions to collect, such as gambling wages if the individual is worky up, or placing liens on any assets owned by the debtor.

If the debtor does come to court, he can then negotiate with the debt collector. I have participated in many cases in which the debtor and debt collector came to an agreement that benefits both parties. If the debtor has come assets, he can offer a settlement with the debt collector.

For example, people a debtor own $2,000. The debt collector has purchased the debt at a significant discount, let’s say for $100. Any settlement greater than $100 plus court costs would be a profit for the debt collector. As if the debtor offers to make a “one time” payment of more than 5% plus court costs within 20 or 60 days, the debt collector is likely to accept the

offer.

I have participated in many settlements that are close able to both the debtor and the debt collector. Even if the debtor has no immediate assets, he can make a settlement offer of a monthly payment lower than he would have been paying to the initial creditors, which could be a acceptable to the debt collector. These participants have not yet been able to pay for the debt.

After the deal is a result, the debtor is not a good thing. The debtor is not a good thing.

Homeowners shouldn’t skip this promotion for property

By Deborah Kasama KPL/NGD/5.1/1/2024AL/FRANCE

You found your dream home, the seller accepted your offer and won’t re-pay to close on the side. But as you finalize the paperwork, make sure you don’t ever look up the other customers—it valuable down the road—every 5 title issue once. Without it, you could lose your home and the money you’re put into it if someone else one day they can ownership claim to the other—you’t highlight to own the property.

Many housebuyers are parting the file this insurance their mortgage lender requires them to pay for at closing, property taxes, and they are not paid policy applies only to the lender’s investment. In how many people could pay for a 10% of the property.

Although purchasing an owner’s title insurance policy is optional for homebuyers, doing so is worthwhile because it can take part in your own money, including any financial losses or legal fees, says Sarah Prune, vice president of corporate underwriting with First America at Tate. “I would not buy any money without title insurance,” said Prune. “I’ve used the variety of things that can pay up after closing—sometimes you’re in decades after some one purchases their home.”

Leaders with a title search once a week or a week is going to answer them are so well being ownership claims so the title can pass them one server to the next. But title consumers don’t catch everything, and license Buyers Lawyers, one of whom can find 10% in Part Money, Florida.

If they miss as much should they wish a valid claim to the home, for example, that hair could take one to court to challenge ownership. Or if there’s a lien on the property he can, work that a contractor, completed his own way and by the previous owner, then the home could be found into a loan known of the contractor files a lawsuit.

If you don’t have an owner’s policy when there are any problems you, you’ll either have to pay the outstanding liens or defend yourself against title claim to court.

Other scenarios that can result in a dispute, says Prune, include buying and fraud (such as fair signatures, improvements or fraudulent offers), creating errors in county records, misspelled omissions on records & documents, and unknown statements that limit how property can be used.

While you can purchase owner’s title insurance at any time, it’s hard to do it during the closing process so you can protect yourself against title claims during the entirety of your ownership. Plus, purchasing it after closing can be more complex and expensive.

If you submit a property review the existing title policy to see whether the insurance covers you as an loss, says Prune. If it doesn’t, you’ll need to buy a new policy.

Title insurance premiums are regularly the end state. Expect to pay roughly $15 to $15 of the home’s purchase price for an owner’s policy. You’ll pay much less for the lender’s policy, which is found on the loan amount and typically with just a few hundred dollars to your closing costs. Buyers usually cover the cost of the lender’s property. Without the owner’s policy whether the buyer or seller pays — or the cost is up & down the middle — depends on local customs and laws, Prune says.

If you are the provider, discounts when you combine the purchase of an owner’s and a lender’s policy and is in the same way, you can buy a second among title insurance companies to compare costs and coverage levels.

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Take control of your retirement funds

Terry Savage THE SAVING WITH My recent column about stress-testing your retirement funds brought an interesting response from many of my readers. I learned something. While many are delighted to have kept balance in their retirement accounts, they have no idea how to reduce their risk exposure as they reach retirement age. So, that’s the focus of today’s column.

But that seems background. When 40103 plans first started replacing corporate pension plans about 40 years ago, the responsibility of the senior income shifted to individuals from the employer. At first, contributions to 40103 plans were voluntary, and few people contributed. But then companies started automatic all-round income from the income that they think contributions. And they added advisers to recommendations that they were growth and target retirement dates.

Your 40103 contributions participating in the 40103 plan, and they were the to years ago, the New Jones Industrial Average was below 1,000. Today it is well over 10,000? You didn’t have to be a genius to make money investing in the plan’s stock mutual funds with your regular paycheck deductions. The results a shape account balance today.

And now it’s time to take control. Consider the following steps.

GIVE YOURSELF PERMISSION AND KNOWLEDGE

The first step in taking control of your retirement funds is giving yourself permission to make decisions.

This is your money? What has worked over your years of accumulation is likely not the best strategy as you enter your retirement. You can trust your paycheck about how much risk you’re willing to take. Doesn’t be half-shelley a financial adviser who does not know you well.

You can trust your retirement fund, the tax rules. Many people are afraid to switch out of their retirement plan instead funds for fear of paying taxes. But there is no trouble even when you switch investments inside your plan. You don’t pay taxes until you actually take money out of your retirement plan. Then it is usual as ordinary income at the year you withdraw.

And you need to know that there are ways to invest your money inside your IRA to keep a portion of your money safe from market risk. You may lose out on some upside, but you won’t lose a penny of the money that you move to a money market mutual fund inside your IRA.

Now, that assumes your money is in an IRA with a major mutual fund company — you that offers both stock market funds and have conservative choices. With just one phone call or computer click, you are empowered to change your investments, or a portion of them, into something more conservative.

ROLL-YOUR YOUR OLD A景氛

If you’re already outwalking and have money to cover former company’s 40103 plan, you should consider doing a direct rollover of your old 40103 you want into an IRA rollover account.

The reasons in the rollover is simple. Most 40103 plans carry investment choices towards geared investments without who have a long, unintended, short pay-per-note.

Even those “target date” funds may have more exposure to the stock market than you’re willing to take at this stage of life.

Just be it inside the plan’s investment account, and the price change is held outside.

You can do the rollover on your own, with no tax consequences.

The money miss inside your new tax-deducted IRA account. And you do not need a financial adviser to help you (and charge you loss and commission).

Height—one or two of the major mutual fund companies (Fidelity, Vanguard, T. Brown Price) and will be their help doing a direct rollover. You’ll need your latest

account statement. They will make your old plan administrative and funds the transfer. You never touch the money!

Your entire account balance is transferred to all. When you make the transfer, ask them to put it all in their government securities money market fund. Then you can take your time, or get help, in making decisions about how to invest all that cash — very conservative. At this stage of life, it is no aim to leave a substantial amount in that money market fund, where you won’t lose a penny.

GET INDEPENDENT ADVICE

I want to ignore “helpful advice.” Well, Brown is coming from retirement account balances, offering a variety of services and hidden costs, recognizing that you are a service & may your lawyer know in making investments decisions.

But that advice comes with a cost — other sites have been a percentage of your account balance, or from free government by the mutual funds they suggest.

Very rarely do these “advisers” take the time to review your entire retirement income picture. It’s been levels and risk tolerances — as well as your tax situation, where you will liberate your tax.

So, that is the perfect time to consider a couple of sessions with a few only fiduciary advisers, who is not trying to sell you anything.

You can’t tell if you’ve the same you are dealing with as advisor you can trust is through the following costs — a monthly service for carefully vetted, too-only, fiduciary advisers.

It’s time to take control over your financial future — regardless of the direction of the stock market. If you want to make your money last your lifetime, you need to take control now. And that’s the Savage Truth.

Terry Savage is a registered investment adviser and the author of the bestselling books, including “The Savage Truth in Money,” Terry responds to questions on her blog at TerrySavage.com.

What causes poor leadership?

What if the August leadership problem is your company is not a shortage of talented people, but the way you select, promote and develop management. Extensive research points to four dimensions that separate strong leaders from managers who create unnecessary damage.

Relational quality Relational quality includes trust, fairness, support and development. Peer managers often trust relationships as secondary to results. They listen poorly, give favorites, trust defensively or down little interest in developing employees. People quickly move to manage around them. They reflect bad news, bad news, bad news, bad news, bad news. That allows can become expensive. Research found that psychological safety supports the learning behaviors to meet need, including asking questions, discussing errors and requesting help. People cannot learn together when honesty feels dangerous. Strong leaders make it safe to all the truth. They apply standard consistently, keep commitment, and respond to mistakes with curiosity.

Enabling work conditions Poor leaders often demand accountability but do not give their team enough authority. They may set new priorities without changing existing ones. They encourage employees to take initiative but require approval for every important decision. This approach can lead to business. The Job Executive Resources model highlights the overwhelming work demands and some voluminous, difficult, lack of resources can lead to disconnections from risks. However, resources such as autonomy—all-a-gun support—constructions feedback and positive relationships can significantly help employees navigate challenges. Great leaders take the time to spot what’s making work tougher than it should be.

Executive and coordination Executive and coordination requires clear priorities, defined responsibilities and effective feedback. Strong leaders define success, clarify ownership and achieve performance across promptly. Care and accountability must be exact, without accountability, one is unfair, and without care, accountability bends more compliance. Leadership more is likely involves handling power responsibly.

SOURCE: Marcel Schroeters, Inc.

Responsible use of power Leadership creates using authority responsibly, avoiding destruction behavior, remaining open to feedback, adopting and supporting the system to be genuinely suited to manage others. Exceptional leadership involves more than preventing obvious down. It requires the humility to recognize when your leadership is not working.

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SUCCESS

Financial moves necessary for happy marriage in retirement

By Jacob Schroeder KIRLINGER'S PERSONAL FINANCE

When Judy and Matt Bell got engaged, they found their first major argument: man-made in the 6 dinner wars? As a money-management writer, Matt notes that there would also mean often-reveal deeper differences you being into a marriage.

After decades of disagreements, you'd think couples would have mastered the art of congressman's retirement age. But that doesn't seem to be the case for many. Besides those that mean than one third of dinner on today's case between people fit and older – what's often called 'prejudice'.

The good news, financial experts say, is that the same means the chosen that strives a marriage can also strengthen it. While money may not buy a happy marriage in retirement, these financial moves can help keep partners aligned.

BULD PLAN YOU BOTH BELIEVE IN What works best to keep couples together might not be found in a therapist's office or in the bedroom. Rather, it sits on a person's page or screen.

"One of the biggest things that keeps couples together in retirement is having a financial plan that's with understand and believe in," says Nathan Roberts, CPP and founder of Access Wealth Strategies.

The confidence a plan provides in measure 60. According to Fidelity's 2026 State of Retirement Planning study, Americans with a financial plan are plans are more than twice as likely as their peers (60% versus 38%) to feel confident about their retirement prospects.

Bell agrees a plan is invaluable, especially when spouses disagree about how quickly to spend down their savings, and says it's often worth working with an adviser who can bring a business.

"The plan is to create a plan where your agreed upon lifestyle needs are met for the rest of your lives," he says.

GO ON MONEY SAFE

A plan only works if couples keep talking. And talking about money, specifically in something many couples avoid. In fact, the Fidelity Investments Couples & Money study found that 69% of couples must clear off financial conversations to head off arguments.

Bell's 51.1 is what he calls "money days." "Get out of the house and away from all the distractions. And then talk about money,"

he says. "What's working? What isn't working? What would you like to pursue and what will it take financially to get there? Establishing the habit of talking about money will be so good for your marriage. If I'll buy you aligned and working as a team."

TALK ABOUT WHAT MONEY MEANS, NOT LAST WHAT IT COSTS

As with the artistic design of dinner wars, what couples argue about is often deeper than the dollars.

Some of the largest materials couples make in retirement is assuming they've arguing about money when they've actually arguing about what money represents," says Laura Mattos, author, CPP and financial adviser of Wealth Enhancement. "One spouses' desire to spend may reflect a desire for experiences. It enliven or making the most of healthy years ahead. The other spouses's reluctance to spend is often rooted in a kind of security and fear of becoming financially vulnerable later in life."

The healthiest couples, Mattos says, don't start by asking, "Can we afford it?" They start by asking, "What are we each bringing a couple life?" Again, part 6! "The breakthrough happens when couples stop debating the money and start discussing the values and fears underneath it."

COMFIT TO FULL TRANSPARENCY

A potential relationship killer at any stage of marriage is financial infidelity. And many people take it seriously. A Bankers survey found 4.6% (15.1%) which believe keeping financial secure is at least as bad as physical, thriving. Yet one by Bell's couples admits they don't know everything about their partner's finances.

Attests advocate for complete transport, though he points out that the financial system themselves matter less than the operation. "You don't have to combine every account, but both spouses should know when a new things a, how the house hold financial work and what happens if something happens to the other," he says.

BUILD IN FINANCIAL MARGIN AND AGREE ON HOW TO SPEND IT DOWN

"How fast do we spend this down?" confers one a major market question in retirement. One spouse wants to enjoy the money now: the other fears outlining it. Even couples who've avoid allegedly can find themselves at odds over how to enjoy it. It follows in a Bankers Financial Group survey found just 43% of married Americans completely spend on what retirement would look like.

Bell's antidote is meagre, a gap between income and material expenses. Living primarily on one income early in his marriage created that cushion, and the same principle comes into retirement. "The answer planning for retirement: build meagre into the plan," he says. "That means creating a plan that doesn't require everything to pay me with. That'll keep stress low and flexibility high."

But he cautions against being so conservative that couples are not. "You don't want to run out of money, but you also don't want to die with no one. You know that you missed out on some things that would have mattered to you," he says. One approach Bell favors is "giving while you're living," such as helping adult children with a lower payment as a home to you get to enjoy watching the impact.

Mattos frames the balancing act as a shift in perspective. "Cummins ground emerges when couples stop treating retirement as a poorly financial transition and start treating it as a life transition," she says.

INVEST IN PURPOSE AND MARRIAGE IT RELY

Retirement can strip away a major source of identity and structure: work. One poor-reviewed study found that Kelly retired people reported a significantly lower sense of purpose than those still working on partially retired.

Bell calls last purpose "a huge factor" in late-life struggles. His advice is to decide, before retiring, how you'll continue to use your skills and passion. "Just because you're no longer drawing a good look down' means you're not needed," he says.

The same attentionally applies to the marriage itself. "If you want to be good at marriage, do the same," he says. "Go on a marriage retreat. Read books about marriage together." He points to research suggesting that couples can get the most joy per dollar from spending on shared experiences.

Catherine Valiga, CPP and adviser of Green Box Advisers suggests couples map out those experiences deliberately. Do the ambience travel while you have the energy, disc advice, and plan and budget for how you'll want to spend time with family as you age. "Think of retirement as a country, but not an outlaw," she says. "You could be spending 40 years in this phase of life."

In the end, it lasting marriage is built on navigating decision large and small, right down to the present on the plane. Where turn it is to watch these plans, on the other hand, is one problem money will never solve.

Read fine print when suurlemon shopping

Where it comes to increasing money to pay the college bills, books, collections, online lenders and other financial institutions have gained the reputation as the leader of last resort.

Because the interest rate, fees and payback terms can be expensive on private loans, don't go down this path until you have exhausted other cheaper options, such as scholarship, goods and federal loans.

Putting for college loan "never been a one-size-fits-all in{punice," said Caron Jackson, a spokesperson for Selle Mac, one of the nation's largest education lenders.

That said, about half of families plan to borrow to pay for college, according to Selle Mac, will invest to bring to private student loans. "If you can send loan can nondeductal education loans made by financial institutions. The leader rate the terms and eligibility for private loans, and the interest rate and loan are typically used on a small issue of the borrower or co-signer.

Co-signers, who are equally responsible for the debt, may help this student qualify for a lower interest rate because the loan's rate and loan are typically based on the higher score of the two borrowers. For example, for a student supported by a co-signer with excellent credit, the best rates are around 50%.

Bakers of any income-based loan, noted that many people don't research the loans. If you different than shopping for a car – do some big work.

First, this advice, has the issue the start of the school year is only words away. About twenty-two should give up hope of finding a choice of payback. In the 2nd student aid, work-study programs or funding a part time job. There's money available – even upgrading to your school for more fund-unaudly pays off. "Be they ought to your school?" says a large special attention to the "good" around terms of the loan, repayment terms, and socially should the student die or become disabled, and friends said, that's operating office or school earnings now.

Among the questions to ask the lender: Do you offer fraud and variable rates? Are there interest rate reductions for setting up automatic payments and other assistance? Can the parent co-sign on the loan in hopes of getting a better rate?

Apply for several loans to compare the interest rate and fees, said Mark Kantowski, author of "How to Appeal for More Financial Aid."

Here are other details to think about.

Consider both the monthly payment and the total payments over the life of the loan, said Kantowski. A lower monthly payment usually involves greater total payments while a higher monthly payment reduces the total cost of the loan.

Sign-up for automatic payments, if offered, which could lower the interest rate on the loan by 0.5 to 0.9 percentage points.

"More heavily, families should approach borrowing with even wide open," Jackson said. "Families should have honest and open conversations early about college costs, how those costs will be covered, and who will be responsible for repayment."

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ASKIEF

Social Security trust fund edges closer to tough time

By Sandra Block KIRLINGER'S PERSONAL FINANCE

Do you think that Social Security will still be around in the future? What could happen to help improve this program's finances?

A. The outlook for the trust fund that pays out Social Security benefits to retirees is getting more grim. Without intervention, the fund will be depleted at the end of 2032, according to projections in the 2026 annual report from the programs board of trustees. That's one quarter earlier than the 2025 report's estimate.

Social Security benefits would not disappear, because they will continue to be funded by payroll taxes. But if yield remains of a $1 within the next six years to enact retirement, in strengthen the program's economy, retiree benefits will be reduced by about 22%.

The trustees board, the worsening protection on lower fertility rates and a decline in immigration, which will decrease the number of women who are pregnant the program. A third contributing factor is the 2025 that big beautiful Bill Act, which made permanent the lower ordinary income tax rates enacted in 2017 and included a temporary additional deduction

for taxpayers off and older. As a result of these provisions, the amount of tax revenue the trust fund invests from taxation of Social Security benefits will decline, the trustees said.

Social Security is a viable, but sharing up the program could affect both workers and retirees. And every year that pays by without retirement, raises the cost of implementing the changes.

Here's a look at some of the steps: Congress could take to close the gap.

Increase the amount of earnings subject to Social Security report if taxes: By 2026, up to 50% of the earnings subject to the 6.2% payoff due. Eliminating the cap would decrease the shortfall by 75%, according to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. The measure has important support: Democratic, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Republican Sen. Bernie Stevens recently said they're working on legal dues to lift the cap. Other proposals would raise the cap – to $600,000, for example.

Raise the retirement age: Currently, the full retirement age is 67 for individuals born in 1949 or later, retirees born earlier reach PEA between six and six and 10 months. According to the Committee for a Response

able Federal Budget, raising the PEA to 68 would eliminate 12% of the shortfall. Sifting six off and then indicating to a life expectancy would reduce the shortfall by 36%.

Morbid the CEA Formula: Ordering the annual cost-of-living adjustment to the "clauses" 67% – a formula for calculating the cost of living that grows more slowly than the basis of a temporary year, which would detract from the 2025 17% of the CBER estimates. Capping the CEA for high income benefits takes small cut the shortfall by 25%.

Since none of these proposals will close the entire gap, a combination of reforms is

likely. Use the tool at soft way, social security reformer to test various reforms.

Pretrain about Social Security's solvency have led to an increase in the number of Americans who have died for benefits at age 65, even though that will permanently lower their monthly percent.

But while some retirees have compelling reasons to file early, concern about insolvency isn't one of them, financial planners say.

Even if Congress fails to close the gap, any reduction in benefits will be calculated on a larger amount of you want to file. And most analysts believe Congress will step in before benefits are reduced.

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GRASSO'S GARAGE

Every consumer wins with 2026 Kia K4 Hatchback

By Marc D. Grasso BOSTON HERALD

Chart-topping consumer vehicles are historically an easy plan for consumers in Ontario's Garage as the level of expectations are a lot lower than traditional consumers.

They serve a purpose, are relatively inexpensive, have limited skills and no thrills. But with Kia gaining tremendous traction in recent years with redesign, new model rollouts and expansive hybrid options, it continues to push Toyota and Honda to the limit with its new options, including its newly designed Kia K4 Hatchback.

This week, it's the Kia K4

The newly designed 2026 Kia K4 Hatchback is packed with tech and safety features. MARC D. GRASSO/BOSTON HERALD

Hatchback GT-Line turbo-F4 for every consumer, the hatchback gains the "downing-brake" exterior appearance (what is margin

the athletic, aggressive stance of a cage with the elongated, practical roofline of a nation-waged white keeping the base price

below $10,000.

This 68-gamdan-fore-seater is ready for the road and delivers into a comfort and power.

Powercraft's 1.6-8ter series charged four-cylinder engine and eight-speed automatic transmission, the K4 Hatchback has good acceleration from its 104-pound-foot of torque and 100 horsepower.

Standard features for the K4 Hatchback include 12.5-inch instrument display and a 12.5-inch touchscreen infotainment system that was easy to use and an upgrade over previous Kia infotainment systems. We also noticed power support, LED lighting, Hartman/Kardon stereo

and Highway Driving Assist.

Our upgraded GT-Line turbo tester included a red interior, and Turbo Tech package for only an additional $2,000.

As a wagon fan myself, the Kia K4 Hatchback is awesome. It has plenty of power and plenty of space for the average consumer while still achieving a 28-mgg combined 10-km on under $10,000 base price for the loaded version, which confirms Kia means business, and the K4 is going to be the main vehicle for 2026.

Pack of with plenty of tech and safety features, the standard options is what stands out for the K4, and it

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MIMP: $25,795 MPG: 35 city / 20 highway / $8.64 terrier As Tested: $32,770

doesn't nickel and drive the consumer who wants to add a bunch of extra for small dollars.

Kia needed this in its fleet, and it is such a win for consumers.

Ontario's Garage is here for your fan, you can be market for a new car? I would be happy to provide my honest input. All you have to do is install me—more graciely bottombraid cars.

POWERFUL PIGES

Experts test the Chevrolet Bolt and Nissan Leaf to find out which small EV is the best fit for you

By Dan Frin EDMUNDS

My new electric vehicles are prohibitively expensive for car shoppers. But there are a few relatively low-cost options that provide plenty of usable range and utility. One great example is the Nissan Leaf. Originally debuting for 2011, it's today's longest-tenured EV and remains among the most affordable ways to go electric. The 2026 Leaf has been fully redesigned and features slender styling and a maximum estimated range of more than 300 miles.

The Leaf also faces a familiar challenges. The Chevrolet Bolt is back for 2027 after a three-year hiatus. Its 2027 overhead adds updated technology features and more range. Both of these small EVs have starting prices around $90,000 and are compelling choices if you can't connect to prices' picks from Hyundai, Toda and Toyota. But which is best for you? Edmunds' auto experts noted them to find out.

RANGE, PERFORMANCE AND CHARGING

The 2027 Bolt is capable of going 2x2 miles on a single charge, according to the EFNS estimates. That's certainly enough for routine driving and to make

the occasional road trip feasible. The Leaf holds a potential edge with its EFN estimated maximum of 300 miles. However, there two EVs were more closely matched in Edmunds' standardized real-world range test. Here, the Bolt traveled 200 miles and the Leaf covered 100 miles.

Accelerations similar — both went from zero to 40 mph in about 7 seconds in Edmunds' testing — but the Bolt is the EV that Edmunds prefers to drive. The Chevy's sizable handling makes it ideal for threading light city streets, while the Leaf feels a little too harsh and bouncy over rough asphalt. If you're changing at public fast-charging stations, the Bolt will eventually get you back on the road. In Edmunds' testing, the Bolt was able to regain range more quickly than the Leaf. Winner: Bolt

TECHNOLOGY FEATURES

Gadget-minded drivers will probably prefer the Leaf. It comes with a 12.5-inch touchscreen, another 12.5-inch display for digital gauges, and an option to upgrade both screens to 16.3 inches. The Leaf also has wireless connectivity for Apple-CorPlay and Android Auto smartphone storage sites, allowing you to easily use many of your smartphone's

apps right on the touchscreen.

The Bolt has dual 16-inch displays but no options to upgrade in size. It also lacks Apple-CorPlay and Android Auto functionality and instead uses Google.

Both 16, an integrated Android-based operating system, Popular app was in a 9-star and Apple Music can be downloaded from the Google app store, but overall Edmunds prefers the convenience of having Android Auto and Apple-CorPlay.

The Bolt does have one potential advantage with its available Super Cruise feature. When active, Super Cruise enables hands-free driving on highways to help reduce driver fatigue during to-liners conditions, such as sudden and as early as 10,000 highway drivers. But overall, the Leaf maintains its edge here. Winner: Leaf

INTERIOR SPACE AND UTILITY

The Bolt and Leaf share crossover-style designs with tail吆喝, ample cabin space and similar headroom. Race and passengers can stretch out more in the first week or in addition to inches of legroom compared to the Leaf. That's also advantageous if you have small lids and need to install a bulky rear-faced, full-faulty seat. The Leaf compensates with more

cargo space behind its rear seats. It has 20 cubic feet behind the rear seat compared to the Bolt's in 2 cubic feet. Human also includes a handy underfloor storage system, so you can securely stow valuables or smaller items. Winner: Leaf

PRICE AND VALUE

The Chevy Bolt LT starts at $28,995, including the destination fee, making it today's most affordable new EV. Chevy includes the basic convenience

features plus plenty of standard advanced driver aids such as adaptive cruise control and black-oper warning and intervention. Go with the Bolt RS for a few thousand more and you get upgrades such as synthetic leather upholstery, a power-adjustable driver's seat and a heated steering wheel.

The Leaf F+ trim, starting at $35,555, is also a good deal. It has a similar collection of standard features and advanced driver aids. It also has a standard

sustained store camera system, which is helpful for parking in light spots. But typically you'll be paying more for a Leaf. A fully loaded Leaf Platinum+ will cost you around $40,000 while all-loaded Bolt RS will be around $37,000. Winner: Bolt

Edmunds says: The Bolt and the Leaf are both solid choices for an affordability. In fact, they make up with the same overall score in Edmunds' ratings. Choose the Leaf for its longer range, more useful tech and bigger cargo area, or go with the Bolt for its better value for the money and more agile handling.

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AUTO REVIEW

Honda Pilot built for predictable, practical use

By Larry Printz TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

The 2026 Honda Pilot looks like an AVN 8-standstill, wears rugged-looking tires, and projects the sort of square-breed confidence usually associated with people who own chainuses and know how to use them. But spend few minutes with one and you discover it's less the rugged outdoorsman, and more of an assistant vice principal. The Pilot isn't built for conquering the wilderness. It's built for conquering Tuesday. It also ties kids to soccer, hockey, dance lessons and birthday parties from the people whose names you can never remember. It's basically a rolling PTA meeting with cupbuilders.

Today, Pilots have become so common that they've practically invisible. You barely notice them until the moment you suddenly need one. Then, like sensible shoes or health insurance, they become the most important thing in the world, even if you'd rather not admit it.

And for 2026, Honda has thoughtfully decided not to move with success.

The TrailSport remains in the lineup, which is adorable. Honda would like you to imagine this Pilot splashing through streams, climbing rocks trails and disappearing into the back country. In reality, most TrailSports will not pursue adventure on roughly the same level as a substitute golden retriever. These are vehicles built for predictable, practical use, and that's exactly how most owners will use them.

What's new for 2026 is a solid exterior refresh. The Pilot receives a more upright, squared-off grille that gives you heart and a slightly tougher, more substantial appearance. Now wheel designs and subtle styling trends round out the upside. The changes are subtle but effective, allowing Pilot owners to live they've purchased something new without frightening them with innovation. Inside, the Pilot remains a triumph of practical engineering and crashing adulthood. There is room

The 2026 Honda Pilot features a 3.5-liter V-6 engine that produces 285 horsepower and 262 pound-feet of torque. HONDA PHOTOS

Technology updates include a 12.3-inch touchscreen and 10.2-inch digital gauge cluster that modernize the cabin.

everywhere. The first row is comfortable, the second row is spacious, and the third row can accommodate actual adults rather than the folded-up circus performers. Many competitors require Passenger volume totals 354 cubic feet, while cargo space measures 19 cubic feet with all rows in place. Fold the rear seats, and that expands to 87 cubic feet. In practical terms, that's enough room for the vague realization that

your sports car dreams died years ago.

Honda has also upgraded the interior materials and made heated second row seats standard. In Minnesota, that's a blessing. In Florida, it's a feature destined to remain untouched, like a gym membership purchased on Jan. 2.

Technology receives the most substantial update. A new 12.5-inch touchscreen

and 10.2-inch digital gauge cluster modernize the cabin. Wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto come standard, along with 80-Wi-Fi and a seven-speaker dual system. Buyers can upgrade to a 12-speaker Boss setup, ensuring that every member of the family can ignore one another with crystal-clear sound quality.

Under the hood, Honda wisely knows well enough alone. The familiar 3.4-liter

V-6 engine produces 285 horsepower and 262 pound-feet of torque. Towing capacity remains a respectable 5,000 pounds with all-wheel drive. A 10-speed automatic transmission is now standard and offers seven drive modes, because apparently modern vehicles must have enough settings to resemble a race/course oven.

Mechanically, the Honda Pilot delivers performance that's competent, predictable and completely devoid of drama. It accelerates braidly enough to merge onto highways without embarrassment. The steering is light, stability is excellent, and the suspension does a commendable job absorbing the crumbling deterioration of American infrastructure.

Honda claims improved steering feel and additional sound dualening. The steering improvements are noticeable. The sound dead string is harder to detect, particularly when these kids are arguing over a changing cabin in the second row. And that's really the

2026 HONDA PILOT Base price: $4,250 - $54,995 Engine: 3.5-liter V-6 Horsepower/Torque: 285-292 pounds/feet EPA rating (combined city/highway): 20-22 mag Towing capacity: 5,500 pounds (FWD); 5,000 pounds (AWD)

Pilot's secret. It doesn't aspire to be exciting. It doesn't pretend to be a luxury vehicle. It isn't trying to immerse transportation or save the planet. The 2026 Honda Pilot simply performs the grim, notorious logistics of family life with remarkable competence.

The 2026 Honda Pilot remains what it has always been: a handsome, capable, thoroughly sounded family leader. It's the automotive equivalent of a dependable accountant. You won't be go about it at parties, but when life becomes a simple mind and you need to transport six people, their luggage, a Labvalue retriever and a cooler hall of Capri hone, you'll be grateful it's there.

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"We decided to catalog and photograph it, one piece at a time. When we got past 5,000 — 'Houston, we have a problem.' When we got past 20,000, we stopped counting. There's more than you see here — we haven't even gotten to what's in storage."

— FRED RICHARDS, owner of the Chicago Brand Museum

Owners Fred Richards and Elisabeth Emery stand in front of a case filled with soda pop bottles from all over the world and cleaning products, left, at the Chicago Brand Museum.

The art of the self

New Chicago Brand Museum puts those Kellogg's boxes in a new light

By Christopher Borrell | CHICAGO TRIBUNE

The Chicago Brand Museum opened in the South Loop just after Memorial Day. You can find it on the second floor of a long-stitched Cadillac dealership, beside the former homes of the Chicago Defender newspaper and the Illinois Automobile Club, a short stroll from where Chess Records recorded Chuck Berry and Ritu James, on a strip of Michigan Avenue once synonymous with Buick Ford, Studebaker, Oldsmobile, Locomobile and Fiat and still nicknamed Motor Row. It's called from the collection of smarted couple, Fred Richards and Elisabeth Emery, who own BLACKLION, the luxury gift store on the ground floor that brands its own name closely across the facade.

It's a sleepy stretch of street now. The only major brands are blocks away, Starbucks and Papa Johns. And yet, inside, spread over 5,000 square feet of loft, is a dense, colorful and elegant exhibit of hundreds of years of everyday consumer packaging — logos, boxes, signs, bottles, jars, tins, tubs, grocery store displays, Mr. Peanut in far too many colors to note. The

flotrans of marketing, essentially Somerling like 15,000 to 20,000 pieces, Richards said, not certain himself. Somers, it seems more like 200,000. You know how you have acquired so many fridge magnets or convert ticket stubs or pairs of sneakers that someone inevitably jokes that you should open a museum? That's exactly

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Fred Richards, 1, considers past a display case filled with security detergent containers at the Chicago Brand Museum on July 21. Fitch is the daughter of the museum's owners Fred Richards and Elisabeth Emery. STACEY WESCOTT/CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS

Poetry Slam collection goes to Newberry Library

Early Poetry Slam ephemera from Marc Kelly Smith's collection, circa 1996, is now at the Newberry Library. E. JASON HANGSGANS/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Rick Kegan

There are poets everywhere, and if you don't believe that, you should have been at the Newberry Library on July 20 for a celebration in honor of Marc Kelly Smith, a poet who created and still learn what is known as the Uptown Poetry Slam. The event marked the 40th anniversary of the first slam, which was held and is still held at the Green Mill (1 p.m. this Sunday), and the Newberry's formal acceptance of materials that include photos, programs, publicity, audiovisual materials, artifacts and administrative files (physical and

digital) documenting the slam's history. There are also Smith's personal notes, details of shows and poets' performances, newsletters and marketing materials. Even a pair of boxing gloves given to Smith by the late poet and artist Tony Fitzpatrick. The Newberry's Alison Hinderliter, curator of modern manuscripts, formally said then, "The acquisition of the Marc Kelly Smith Poetry Slam Collection is an amazing gift to the Newberry, and to the city of Chicago. She later told me that she and the staff are working energetically to process, organize and catalogue all the materials. Some of this should be made available for public exploration and academic research before the year is done, but won't be finished for perhaps

three years. She also told me about another slam event scheduled for 2 p.m. on Sept. 26. That is World Poetry Slam Day, the first such event, and it will involve events in 50 cities in France and 25 countries such as the Ivory Coast, Mexico and other places that are home to slams. "It is really stunning how far the slam has grown," said Hinderliter. "It's a global phenomenon." There is no denying the slam's impact. You would have gotten a perfect example of you attempted to tackle the New York Times' crossword puzzle Monday. There you would have found this 42-acre slam, "Poetry competition," the four-letter solution to which was "slam." And if you Google "Who invented

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Dawn Turner investigates a sense of belonging

By Darcel Rockett CHICAGO TRIBUNE

For years, Chicago got to know Dawn Turner through her view of the city. With new eyes, devoted precommercial business and conceptions. For more than two decades, she called the Chicago Tribune home as a reporter and columnist, her byline play stories on race, class and gender, among others. Turner's South Side roots of family and community were the lone through which she queried existing members and the wiley behind actions.

That the english-crazer in her books too. Her first novel, "Only Peace I've Wished for Rosers," is a work of fiction that takes readers through growing up on the South Side of Chicago during the 1970s. (Turner composed the book on a Zenith laptop during her commun from the south suburbs to the Tribune Town.)

Her second novel, "An Eighth of August," tells the story of an Illinois town that celebrates the day of emancipation for unabreud America in Tennessee, a regional event that spread across the state of Texas. Turner's third book was a memoir: "Three Girls Even Brumaville. A Uniquely American Story of Race, Ever and America." A decade in the making, the book about second chances, who receives them, and who doesn't because on the other's upbringing in the historic area with her sister and best friend.

Turner's next novel is "Majestic Hills," told through the eyes of a young Chicago couple who seems to the suburbs for a change of pace. Their path in the "sibille environment" is not a straight one given the neighbors and the history and reasons we all carry with our life experiences. The story's premise is one Turner lived with her three husbands in 1919—trading their urban professional lifestyle for a country one in the pursuit of homeownership and a new type of freedom.

As a resident of the south suburbs, Turner's neighbors became family-like romances on the respect and had been they had for one another and how that civility strengthened their community in a recent

Author and journalist Dawn Turner greets attendees of a book talk to discuss her new novel "Majestic Hills" at Call & Response Books on Aug. 5. In Chicago.

Turner discusses "Majestic Hills" during a book talk with architecture critic and ethnographer Les Boy at Call & Response Books. JOHN J. KISH/CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS

commentary. More than 30 years have transpired since that move. Request and civility have been replaced by "walking and insiderates," according to Turner, who once again resides in the city.

"This country has never been perfect, but there's a difference between when you're heading in a direction that is more toward the ideals or goals that the country produces, and it's very different when you're heading in the opposite direction," Turner said.

"That is what I wanted the book to feel like: A moment of what are we doing?"

Themes of race and class exist in the insightful and emotionally engaging "Majestic Hills," along side lens and marriage, the quiet compromises couples make, and the cracks that can materialize in marriage. The concepts of mobility and belonging are central in the book, as both are integral to the American Dream. Whether it was by way of the Great Migration or immagantic coming

to the U.S., Turner's page contains how our makers take into consideration for the 21st Century. "It's not just moving to a communist, it's where it drops. It is this country, the national discourse with larger Turner and 'belonging speaks inherently to who I am. I don't have to be a part of a group to feel that I have no focus — that if I want to be there, I can be there."

Turner says she's never thought as much about her movement in the world until this current administration. She's more cautious, and that's thinking. But she refuses to let the current climate dictate her boundaries.

"I'm old enough to still feel that freedom, power, but when the world, the country felt boundaries," Turner said. "It never meant that anything was going to be easy, because no one has never gone away, but it meant I could dip my toe into something ... today when the leader of the free world has done everything to shore you are not a full citizen of this country, that limits the imagination. That

is a big indictment on what we have become because of that. There will always be people who hate and divide, but he's given these a place. But our notepad is our shield, our pen is our sword. This is how we fight. We tell our stories."

These metacross, lade telling the conflict of emotions surrounding the Fourth of July and the Black American population. In "Majestic Hills," Turner has access where characters are people destined to which which conjures an image of white supremacy. The reality reveals that the bodies are wrapped in books per se uniform.

"We, as Black people, are constantly seeing ghosts — haunted by the past and now the present," Turner said. "That is the point of the book — these characters do what my former husband and I did years ago — they move out of this city, believing they want to have a different experience. We wound up having neighbors who were books open; they were hateful."

When Turner's family had a health scare, her neighbors stepped up,

visited them in the hospital, and made sure their house and car were OK. Turner says the many she and her husband made in the day. "We would not be one she would do in today's America. When the couple in "Majestic Hills" were on deboths, we see how they navigate the new space. Some neighbors are wonderful, others carry an outsider who with something unmeaning beneath.

"There are more things that connect us than divide us, even in this crazy time, and that is what I'm hoping that 'Majestic Hills' shows," she said.

Turner points to characters at the beginning of the book who were a alive and remain in through the end.

"The challenge in today's America is that there was a time when we were trying to know people beyond the nation stuff. Now it's all our face," Turner said. "I think the more things change, the more we have to be change agents. The world is changing at a rapid pace, but we all play a role in trying to make sure that people aren't felt behind because of it."

Boxing ground, a screen showing the 2,000,000 people in 1969. The 2,000,000 people in 1969, and the 2,000,000 people in 1969, are also. Amy Fitzpatrick. Seen at right, Amy Poetry Staff-splinters circa 1985. Both are now in the collection of the Newberry Library. E. JASON WARBELLING/CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS

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the poetry slam," I won't make you guess whose name pop-up.

Still, I suppose there might be some of you who need to know what a slam is. And, as I once called a slam, I "need a nephew of organized class, a generation among poets of varying talent score of by three judges chosen at random from the crowd. And, once members voice their displeasure by finger snap-pressing, having no grunting, having no grunting. The winning post-pop 2025."

This "crowd please," as Smith, able to take place on pages, stories, and a laundromats, classrooms and other places, hold for and in front of all ages, sexes, religions.

I have been a great time here been so many meals, so many calls from all over," Hinderliter says. "In addition to all of this, other poets have been

sending in books, magazines and all sorts of related things, some of which we will display at the September event ... All of which are examples of Marc's influence and inspiration. All the praise is so deserved."

Few people on the city's cultural scene are more deserving of that praise, few who I like and admire more than family, and many written about him often, interviewed him plenty and read most everything he has written.

Other admirers were at the August 7th where I event One was Michelle Boone, president and CEO of The Poetry Foundation. She was with Adrian Matejka, the editor of venerable and vibrant Poetry magazine, which the foundation publishes.

"The celebrities was something else," he told me. "I remembered me if how much battle and ingenuity it takes to make up or for poetry in the world. I feel a little distaste of from that at the foundation, but it's

Marc Kelly Smith hosts the Uptown Poetry Slam at the Green Mill Lounge in Chicago in 2022. MARCH RANDERS/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

always there when I write poems."

So I asked him a logical question, "Why do you write poetry?"

"Poetry is the only way I know to make sense of what's happening around me," he told me. "There are many times, especially now, for too many reasons to law, when everyday language can't hold my frustrations, worries, or curiosities. Merely or and single help to give those feelings a more

tangible shape, which I hope might also bring to oldity to someone else. This is reflective, but I don't know another way to do it. poetry helps me find the language I need to survive due to day. This objective whether I'm writing my own poem or reading someone else's work."

Marrika is the author of the record "In East New and Selected Poems" (Lowright) and other fine poetry collections for which

he was a finalist for the National Book Award and Popular Prize, and a stunning graphic novel, "Last on the Past," which I called "a wonder of words and images... a masterpiece." A former poet laxirous of Indiana, he is a respected veteran of the poetry world.

For another perspective, I called by young Chicago poet Dylan West, whose quite good and honest first collection, "Public Illness," was recently published by The Illness Press.

"The canned answer is, I write to find out what I'm thinking. Which, at my given moment, is typically a memory to me," he told me. "In my book, there's a line, 'I was here like a child, with two must be on.' Anyone with young kids knows that stage where their need to capture themselves completely outpace their culture for language."

"I think I just never outpave that condition. I have a lot to say, but in daily conversation, I don't always get it right. Poetry gives

me the time and space to capture the things I often write on."

"The truth can't always be expressed in prose. Which is linear, logical, and often completely unlike the way I experience the world. Prose explains a place, feeling, or event, poetry racemism. It allows room for sound itself to have meaning. It makes sense, rhythm and fragmentation not a feature but an essential part of the expression."

Revealing what these two poets had to say reminds their at night many years ago, A handgun in front of me and Marc Kelly Smith on the Green Mill stage. He was talking. Nothing unusual there, but what he said, I'll work, has stined with me over since, and because ever leader with such passing year and each new poet I knew. He said, "Poetry is the start of the people and the people is everyone."

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Sooper Records, a wide-ranging, artist-owned and label celebrates its 10th birthday, with Steven Davud, from left, Jess Myers Rigoni, Glenn Curran, Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, Frances Farley and Sen Morimoto. © JASON WAMBELANS/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

HERE TO STAY

Sooper Records hits a decade of 'genre-combusting freak music'

By Hannah Edgar FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

To understand Sooper Records, the anything goes be of label, you have to understand the 2000s DIY world from whence it came. Pay-what you can in-letting, the collection plants plow with $1 bills. Boxes of Costco beer, sold for a buck. Apartments with mucky floors and landlords absentee enough not to notice, or care, it's living room because coined pit.

These days, the DIY kids are all right – but they're very, very different from Sooper's border. Label project coordinator Frances Farley recently attended a show shopping artisanal cartrash. At another, co-founder and musician Nnamdi Ogbonnaya foriled over his cover charge via top-to-pay.

'That was my first 'I'm the old guy' moment,' Ogbonnaya says, 'I was like, 'When's the fan left?'

Another marker of time? Sooper Records turns 10 this year. On Aug. 22, the label throws itself a birthday party at the Empire Bottle in Ukrainian Village. Ogbonnaya, who performs under his first name, will be on the hill, as well as in KPM, a line-musing series that Curran and Farley can with collaborators Enteron Medina, Dillon Kelley and Patrick Mitchell.

The book doubles as a release show for Eric Temple, a gooey ale R&B duo whose 'Gleons of the Patriot' was released on Sooper last month. The label also put out a compilation record earlier this year marking the milestone.

When co-founders Ogbonnaya, Glenn Curran and Steven Davud incorporated Sooper in 2016, it started an a-bys label – an a-nut art in the mid-2000s, but also the easiest way for a six-page spread label to amass physical products on the cheap.

'I would print out these giant sheets of digital video, then take them over to my wife's office. She'd cut them for me, and then we'd pack them into all the tapes,' remembers Davud.

Was a then, the music industry – with streaming trends moved by algorithms and artists striking gold overnight on TikTok – has changed dramatically. Sooper hasn't. Curran says the label is suddenly - usually the hype and the chase of what's cool.'

'We platform artists who we think are making challenging, ground-breaking work, and worry to create a space for it in independent music,' he says.

For that reason, Sooper achieves a genre focus. Instead, it builds its discography through an artist-led social web. Many of Sooper's earliest signs were part of the same DIY scene Ogbonnaya and Curran frequented. (The label's name derives from a number Ogbonnaya used for his solo endeavors, after years of being a sideman. Nnamdi's Sooper, Sooper, Racer, take Project.) 'It was just all the homies,' Curran says.

From there, Sooper extended its reach to collaborators of label artists, then collaborators of those collabo-

Co-operers: Sen Morimoto, from left, Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, and Glenn Curran (all) in the generation of The Hideout in Chicago in 2021. The artists-owned record label was formed in 2016. JOHN J. KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Morrinoto, from left, Curran, and Ogbonnaya pose for a photograph at The Hideout in 2021. JOHN J. KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

rators, and so on. Semi-stretch, who recently relocated to New York from Chicago, makes their label debut next month, they once opened an album release show by Kainz, a singer-songwriter who released her breakthrough debut on Sooper in 2019. Musician and label co-owner Sen Morimoto was one of the first artists brought on board by Ogbonnaya, he're cleaning his fourth album on the label later this year. Even the rare non-Chicago artist on the label is plugged into the Sooper network – like the Boston-based Pile, who were connected to another band on the label's roster.

An avid connector in the Chicago music world, Ogbonnaya tried to establish something like Sooper twice. He stoured the short-lived Swing Records in the early 2000s. Before that, he can a community Facebook page – itself a very fiddlesaid endeavor, in retrospect.

'It was called something very chosen, like, 'We're All In It Together,' he says.

When Curran – himself the guitarist of the band Longface, and a practicing attorney – reached out with the idea that would become Sooper, Ogbonnaya was reluctant at first.

'I was like, 'I don't know. I haven't had a good track record of doing it.' But then, the more we worked on stuff together and being out, I

thought, 'If I'm gonna do it with anybody, this is the man to do it,' he recalls.

Sooper's magnum spurs to date is a three-disc retrospective of the performable, composer, pianist, dancer and DIY stalwart Charles Joseph Smith, released in April. Smith describes his music as encompassing 'retro-classical, jazz, experimental, pop, ballroom, flamenco, Latin swing, and avant-sports' – the last of those represented on the release through 'War of the Martian Ghosts,' an evening length epic by feverishly composed during the pandemic.

'That's just Smith's recorded works.' There's so much more. He has hundreds and hundreds of compositions we haven't even touched.' Curran says.

Smith hopes the promotional muscle Sooper's parting one 'Collected Works and War of the Martian Ghosts' will what an appetite for future releases and being his work to audiences outside Chicago, where he's already a local tour, all the weeks around launch day, he says Curran acted as 'a sort of soul and tour manager, accountant, liaison and DJ.'

'He went several huts during the release. Several hats,' Smith stresses.

Smith's unmanned table music embodies Sooper's ethos. Much of the team's conversation with the Tribune at its any Humboldt Park

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HQ was spent noodling over how, exactly, to describe its average artist. Parlor landed on 'your suck brand' that works at the coffee shop, who made this killer album that you know to one will hear.'

'There are people that take risks and develop artists, still, and there are people who don't,' says Farley, who also works at a booking agency. Sooper, she says, 'is willing to take chances and help with artist development in a real way.'

'I know that this group is never gonna put out something that they just think is gonna go on it,' echoes label co-owner Jess Myers Rigoni.

Tomorrow's have nonetheless taken note. Ogbonnaya and Morimoto have long been critical darlings, the former getting a 2010 Chicagoan of the Year end in this paper. On a day undisclosed in label history, KM, a number of K-pop-magazines 85% shared a track off 'Some Things Take Time,' a 2022 collaboration between label stalwart Luke Titus and jazz, reg-artist Chris Novak.

'To this day, that might be the biggest watercled want to so anything we've ever released,' Curran says.

Though Sooper's roster has mostly some disorganized – the team is 'sging out of (DIY) a little bit,' Morimoto confesses – the label intends to spend its next decade much like it spent the first, chasing the new, exclusive 'the tide.'

'In our brand, Chicago-centric view, we remain, so we have always been a laboratory for new ideas that they are expected out to the country and the other commercial centers of the music business,' Curran says. 'I'll like to think it's this archive, and evergreen laboratory, of genre-combusting freak music happening in Chicago.'

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Anita Granados, pop vocalist who performs as Spackman, at Super Mall, on 5/22/25. Putara Hinds in Chicago, on June 20. TEMENCE ASTROBE JAMES/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Sparkmamir debut album pulls from her Chicago memories

Brint Julieus

Very rarely does one come across an artist so completely sure of themselves and their capabilities. Sparkmamir, the musician and visual artist born Aniella Granados, said it took her a while to become comfortable with the idea of releasing music – but again listen to her debut album, “So This Body,” challenges that notion. The album is easily formed record with heart, with songs and秧歌 and stakes that invite listeners to find along the deep, shamway please of her intuitive, improvisational, post-influited conquering. It’s a delightful hitter and a personal incarnation of memory as much as it is music.

World building is central to Sparkmamir’s music, and it always has been to Granados’ life. One man became a Chicago’s Super Mall.

“There was just something about it that left nape at easy and romanticism to me,” Granados said of the mall. Although not a Chicago native, Granados spent a great deal of time visiting family in the city as a child and has vivid memories of nape there. Seeing the influx of objects felt creative to her. “Going to the Super Mall, in a way, felt like entering a different world, and I think that feels similar to the world-building,” he doing in my music,” she said.

Granados grew up in the Pentecostal church, which she considers her formal introduction to music. There, she sang in the choir and joined in a band with her cousins, traveling to different churches on the worldwide under the direction of their youth pastor. “I didn’t always think of that as anything, but it was actually very formative for me, learning what it meant to share musical space with others, and the epic idioms of getting to do that with my cousins, people I grew up with. So that was the foundation of music in my life,”

Granados said. “Eventually, she left the church and stopped singing associating her voice – and music in general – with that religious space. She moved to Chicago at 17 to attend college while living with family. Even then, it took nearly 10 years for her to return to music.

Granados regularly attended Shawnee Dev’s opumous, though she never participated as a musician until a one-off session in the post-pandemic years, when she finally built up the courage to sing.

“It was fully singers. It was a jam,” she recalled. Dev called her up. “I said, ‘No, I’m scared.’ But she said, ‘Just do it.’ So I said, ‘Oh, (expletive), I’m gonna do it.’”

Although she was nervous, the audience was receptive, and those first sparks of inspiration eventually led her to meeting Eddie Burns, a collaborative who worked with Granados on early versions of the music. “The two quickly locked in and realized there was something special. One of those early tracks, titled

“quizzes,” eventually ended up on her debut.

Music became a more serious pursuit during an artist residence with Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. Granados often took people she was making an album, but no one really thought anything of it.

“I think I always knew I wanted to make music, even when I couldn’t fathom myself actually doing it,” she recalled. “Once we started to see that this was something, we had time to sit with them songs, play them live and then record them. That’s when it locked in. That’s when I know that is happening.”

It was her want in her intuition, her collaborators and spirit that led her to the new art medium.

“I was navigating being an artist, being the best artist in my family, being first gun, and having misunderstood or unseem-maybe because I don’t meet certain cultural norms,” she said. “I also think I was for the first time, actually having the space to give away lived experience and to

let go of what was no longer serving me.”

What one is wrong when they lack agency or independent, their take on what’s been given to them. (But not stress or cultural norms become the standard. It was through music, however, that Granados was able to release such energy and come back to herself, remembering who she is through her voice.

“I’m that doesn’t mean this was merely a shedding of the past. If anything, Sparkman’s album as a testament to the beauty of her legacy. Among the influences she cites are Mexican telescope, the Chismando show ‘Case Corrado’ (a source of inspiration for her “De Lanza”) character on the album), her family’s immigration history and their time in Chicago, from Blue Island Avenue to Whistler Elementary to, yes, the Super Mall.

“The world I’m building is informally my family. That’s a 1800’s true,” she said. “I think they’re also referencing my subconscious, probably whereas ships I’ve experienced with

other people, or just people in my life. But it feels freeing because it’s through a third perspective, in a way.

The result is an album that is quite easily met of the lives of the year, not just for Chicago artists, but in general, across the country, period. Sparkman, along with collaborators such as Burns, Williams Courtney, Alex Trickett, Josh Ames and Kenneth LaBralge Jr., has created a grounded record rooted in the past, moment and love the spirit of community helps shape and the people we were always meant to be.

As Granados looks toward the future, she intends to continue honoring spirit in the things she makes.

“I hope it brings people whatever it is they’re seeking, that it can bring people what it is brought me,” she said. “Making music has definitely served as a vehicle for leading to me. Things can be healing, and also sometimes deep and heavy, but it also gets to be fun.”

Brint Julieus is a freelance critic.

Carpenter turns his nightmares into dream project

By Krysta Fauris AUGUSTED PRESS

John Carpenter has often collated and with those closest to him through, and his story, bestselling, “Cathedral,” a graphic novel with an accompanying original album sat now, was truly a family affair.

The brand director of seminal horror films like “The Thing” and “Halloween” says the movie business is all “corporate” nowadays. So the 79-year-old portico to find alternative, less expensive ways to stay creatively fulfilled.

After a dream about an abandoned downtown Los Angeles church with an abrasion that goes to hell, Carpenter, who is also a prolific composer, enliven this project, Daniel Davies, and his son, Cody, to collaborate on the album. It’s comprised of quickly instrumental tracks executive of some office-cross classics, like the theme from “Halloween,” the first natural to do with, family King, who is a comic book publisher, for help with the graphic novel.

This interview with Carpenter, his son and

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Davies has been edited for clarity and length.

Q: Tell me where the idea for this project came from? John Carpenter: I thought, I’m a movie director by profession in the old days, and this album would be a great score for a movie. However, this movie would cost several hundred million dollars, so why not do a graphic novel? My

wife owns a comic book company, so let’s write the novel and filament it, and we can score that.

Q: Was that been your process in the past? To come up with the music first and then the film? John C.: No, the other way around. I don’t the movie, cut it together the way I want it, and then I look at it for music. So, the music

is simply functional. It supports the story and the characters and so forth. The movie business has changed since I was on it full-time. It’s all corporate now. I came from student filmmaking, where we didn’t have any money, so we couldn’t have a composer. I had to do it myself.

Q: The idea for this came to you in a dream. Do you

often draw inspiration from dreams? John C.: Never. This is the first time. Most of my dreams are pretty similar, and they’re not made for movies. They’re always about me being lost in a city and trying to find my way home, but the remote change on me, and I can’t find my way home. Or I’m looking for the movie theater district, and when I get there, they’re all closed.

Q: John, as someone who has worked with tow budgets and who likes to experiment, have you played around with it at all? John C.: Well, people tell me it’s dangerous. I don’t – what does that mean? Don’t that mean it’s a lot drug to learn on its own?

Q: I think it depends on who you talk to. Davies: We like to make music. I would like it to help do more task kind of things like product new tracks and know my workflow. But we like to make it that, so why would we use it?

Q: I think it depends on who you talk to.

Davies: We like to make music. I would like it to help do more task kind of things like product new tracks and know my workflow. But we like to make it that, so why would we use it?

Cody Carpenter: I don’t know. I know someone who does AI music stuff a lot, and he sends me all

this stuff that he does and, I mean, I think or some point we won’t have a job anymore. I really think it’s amazing, just how fast it’s progressing. But I don’t know. Nobody knows.

John C.: Music, I think, is the greatest art form. I hate to see it. But it doesn’t require anything. We can all listen to it in different countries. Great music moves us. And you’re telling me a machine can do that? I don’t believe it. That bothers me. This is a human thing. I want it to come from us. I really do.

Q: I recently watched “Weiva of Darkness” for the first time. I really liked it. It seems under-respondent. John C.: Why is it that you just saw it?

Q: You’re right. I wish I had wasn’t known. Are there films of yours that you feel like maybe have been under-respondent? John C.: I’m glad you liked it. I am happy with almost every movie I made.

Q: What are you not happy with? John C.: I’m not going to tell you.

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Waddingham has always been on pitch

Lassie' actor forged rare path to screen from musical theater

By Eleanor Stanford THE NEW YORK TIMES

Hamish Waddingham stopped his tracks when she heard a bunker singing "Kansas City" by Lofew and Jenner.

It was a busy summer afternoon on the south bank of the Thames River in London, and a country of interest and school children mostly streamed past without reading at the man streaming on a guitar.

But the actor agreed dancing to the rolling rhythm and singing along, "I'm going to Kansas City, Kansas City have I come."

"I just want to get involved," she laughed. "I'm like, 'Budge up on the mic, budge up!'"

Warding's 6-foot 2-in herds, Waddingham, 51, is used to turning heads. Cynthia Erivo, a friend for more than a decade, does check her as "Amuconian in stratum and an ayon and proud of it" adding, "It's a thrill to watch her in action."

Any powerless might have recognized her from TV shows like "Not Edmuntan" and "Ted Lasso," but Waddingham also has a time-series vocal stage and is a rare British screen star who started out in musical theater. "How funny, of all the songs he could have been playing," she said after giving the musician a up-and-down tempo waving the river.

Not only is the 1952 blues track ever of her favorite, the new season of "Ted Lasso," in which Waddingham joins the soccer club owner Rebecca Webster, opens in Kansas City. After three seasons coaching, John Richmond, Ted, Charles Sudeckel was back in his home state. That is, until Rebecca visits to توصable fans to return to London and return to a new training challenge. Richmond's

Hamish Waddingham, seen July 16 in New York, returns as Rebecca in "Ted Lasso" WONDER TULLIS' THE NEW YORK TIMES

women's team. "Rebecca's" be fun to write, according to Rene dan Hunt, a "Ted Lasso" co-creator. "See your shot at a house of pushouts and don't give a single-twin" that's just as the show's "bad guy." Rebecca was also "the biggest role to cast," he said. The third season of the great fashioned show, on an 2023's most-watched streaming original show, according to don from Naomi. Many thought it would be the show's last, but the fourth season - which brings new episodes Wednesday on Apple TV - is the 8th of a new team of characters' stories. The female players and especially their summer coach, Alice, also bring out something in Rebecca, Waddingham said. Alice, played by Tanya Reynolds, brought the main show inated soccer world with

much less glamour and charm than Rebecca, and initially "Alex is a first run and frontiness" between the pair. Waddingham explained. But as always on "Ted Lasso," she was also growth, and after being a "vast rope in heaven," Waddingham said. Rebecca continues streaming up in heaven. It was a "few years ago" she won an Emmy for the show in 2021, and she had loved the ruthless Rebecca since reading the pilot script, where her character images are turning her on husband with "a splintered cruiser bat." "I'm just," Waddingham remembered thinking, "you're delirious." The past two years have been busy. Her show "Ride at the," is totally action series with Octavia Spencer, that the two also stories - two produced, premiered recently. In 2020, Wadding-

ham filled what she called a "tender old school" that day stage special for Apple TV. And in Britain, she has had lived out moments hosting the Oliver Awards and the Starvision Song Contest. She grew up in South London, the daughter of a true police officer, who attended the Thames节 boat, and an opera singer Theater's "10% in my bloodstream," Waddingham said. As a child she would examine London Coliseum the home of the English National Opera, whom her mom performed. After drama school, she started and training, but her height was an issue. "I would constantly get, 'Well love to see her, but we've already cast the man," Waddingham said. "When can't a woman who's in feet, I rather have all the same colour abilities and mappings about herself, wobble

a much, as somebody who's there, I bother." Two (last) ghosts all giants of British theater didn't consider her height as issue. Trevor Nunn and Andrew Lloyd Webber, When Lured Webber first saw a 25-year-old Waddingham perform in 2000, he was immediately impressed by how she could "build the stage" and her "very nice" star quality, he said recently to phone. He soon cast her in "The Beautiful Game," a show her wrote with Ron Elton, and again in 2011 as the Wild and Winds of the West in a production of "The Wizard of Oz." Waddingham was nominated for films Olivier Awards, Britain's superstar of the Theatre. In 2021, when she performed alongside Erivo in a concert performance of the musical "How to become a full manner Without Health Trying," By email, Erivo called

Waddingham a "superstar. Not just because of her work, but because of the way she has constantly showing up for me and encouraging her." Waddingham fought hard to tell her success while also relaxing to compromise on who she is. Erivo added, "I think it's what makes her special. She is herself the same and the myth, and who she is a magnetic." Her pros, good determinations are also clear when, at 10, Waddingham became a "good" and "good" character. The figure of a theater run consider: Alge with the demands of parenthood, the outcome work, which is the most common, could provide more flexibility. Nine words after giving birth to a daughter, who was a "good" and showing. No one is a "good" character. But Waddingham has been a single parent for many years now - "I'm a moment first," she said - so she turned them out. A few after realizing that her daughter, now 11, wasn't ready for her to be so tied up with work. "Something has to give, and the thing that's had to give is the best," she said. But, "I will come back, and I will do it how I do it."

Johnson's way of life catches on with fans

Musician's philosophy, laid-back anthems power online meme

By John Hendrickson THE NEW YORK TIMES

As the house lights crept up, Jack Johnson and had done his move at any other speed! - down the center side of a New York City movie theater.

It was a nine night, and "SURFOLMUSIC," a documentary about the single-songer's story's acetoning low-cortical life, had just returned. At 10, Johnson hooves an inch or two below the cerebral air of human brain, where ridden, this catalog of unassuming beach pop is a single at many, a white-walled branch spot where drinks come in human jars. "Banana Paradise," his song about, "rising other things, the tyranny of getting out of bed, has more than 70 million streams on Spotify. He is the swastiked Eye of the World," a 2017 American hybrid vehicle, and, these days, his original decimase are, like him, surging the run of midlife. Surprise - high for soft, some of their kids have become Jack Johnson fans too.

Facing the crowd, he flashes a smile at his head, and he is a 2017 American fashions. A young guy raised his head. His wedding for war, approaching, he said, and he was curious if Jack and his wife, Ken, had any relationship about. Ken, he wanted to be a member of the family, but his character had picked one of Jack's songs for their first dance. Also that, Jack was around in their wedding. John, he told Jack long it for them!

"I'm happy, familiarly, a collapsing of distance, is nothing new for Johnson, but I'm not sure what he has come that includes a story of her, a character's platinum album in the 2000s. Johnson remains in the energy of an old buddy

who never moved away. He is not only sure is he given to provocative. Rather, he represents a challenge to the laws of time and phrase. What if everything please say just stayed the same forever."

This Johnsonian simplicity, or the performance of it, has lately become aspirational. "Jack Johnson summer" - the movie, a companion consults Jack a tour - is creating along with a rather simple philosophy. Count the ways you can touch it you.

Over the past couple of months on social media, a meme has bubbled up: "Before you try to split my cortisol, just know that I'm having a Jack Johnson summer."

The phrase accompanies all manner of the club images: waking up in a tent, biking with pub, sports, up up at a municipal park, course. Ancient Artman, a time 2 content in story - who leads biking expeditions and posts, uploaded his own "Jack Johnson summer" message (getting lungers, drinking a towel) as part of a larger effort to counter "age lost" with "supreme" values, which he has noticed have grown in popularity.

In a day encompassing a pub-bag of 26 that Johnson can soothe, a different user issued cooking proclaimers: "Let's Jackman or Let's do mainstream to some Jack's bun, Israel, Russia, North Korea, USA - sit in a circle, hands-on the beach, live in the sand, and manning. DNA spinal tap of Jack Of happiness."

Though (mostly) a joke, the viral video captures something real. Captures of people feel trapped in a composed of irons, activity, anger, declining mental health, diminishing attention space made worse by

the pandemic and, more recently, shading of being punished by id, dog.

Meanwhile, Johnson is off on three waves, needling tunes, teaching kids about sustainability and compost. If you're understood where he went, he has been here the whole time.

In one of the first scenes of the documentary, John was apparent in another chair. It's a jarring night, like seeing King Charles in a Pizza Hut. When pressed about it, he lightly scoffed at his perverted image. "Somebody told me about that time," Johnson said, referring to "Jackmanning," the racket, but made it clear he wasn't keen on being reduced in a comatose.

"This idea of what I am, the handover guy on the track," he began, "a lot of their irons, but I'm very much a guy who's raising enough kids on a handover world, and I totally understand the prow and cons of social media and the world that we're living in," he said.

Although Johnson himself is not a dare to the algorithm - his team handles his social accounts - he insists that he's also a good, profitable. He sees human amu Roots and memes to trust from his friends. He and Kim haven't set restrictions for their children and have instead given them a mantra. Try to produce more than you're consuming.

In the Box, Jack Johnson's "Jack Johnson summer" includes an aftermath of John's Park, New Jersey, a night on the water at New York's Jones Beach, and a step at the warehouse on some Savings Kettering Arts Center in Savings Springs, New York, where some counted in happy pains and earth-tone trees. For the bulk of Johnson's

Jack Johnson, seen June 28 at Jones Beach in New York, is the subject of a documentary that has a companion soundtrack and tour. PETER GUNNITMAN/THE NEW YORK TIMES

cancer, his wife and kids have accompanied him on tour. Kim left her too busy job to become one of the managers. Sitting hamburger in Saratoga, she emphasized that her husband was far from an deaf rock star. "I think he's one of the most grounded people I've known in my life, and he helps ground me so much," she said. "But I don't want to say he's totally like one on track from the world." "We're not for a starting accident at age 17 that left him with a head injury and broken front teeth. Kim said, he probably would have planned to be training cancer. During his recovery, he was briefing on the path of a "straight" life, and his dad wanted him to become an anxiety. At times my ex California, Santa Barbara, he studied south before eventually switching to film. But the end of a dollar also increased his interest in

respecting. "I've agreed much of his 20s, though, music was still a hobby, and Johnson saw the world through a camera lens. He developed a close relationship with filmmaker Eleanor Mallory, a diplomat in law, year of our first memoir, "Thacker Than Water" and "The hypnosis between" (Mallory also directed the new film). When Mallory became an in-dream music video director, he brought along Johnson as a secondary cameraman on sheets for bands such as Black Girl, Fox Highters and Long-Riskie. Where are they on the video for Long-Riskie's "Break Stuff" Mallory on all, - rep. rocker Fred Duerz expressed interest in signing up a film. In "SURFOLMUSIC," singer-songwriter Ben Harper, one of Johnson's mentors, a youthful writer - thing that many people

seem to miss when his friend: "It takes a great deal of intensity to actually sound simple and pure." Backstage in Saratoga Springs, Johnson and his bandmates warmed up in a rehearsal room. Each call, the piano player and old college friend, offered up hot toddlers. Johnson eventually took the stage in the scene along but I been wearing all day - smarted yellow tea. And it's not a bit like a song. "Fun-bopped and swayed and wiped their arms around each other. When Johnson arrived at his first "Sitting, Waiting, Working, be anxious along a few lines of You: Euncer's 'What's Love Got To Do With It?' The coveted Soldiers ofnugge, the authors' 'Bullfire,' and his guitar sounded, rather pleasingly, like liquid. A cool lesson: How through the Saratoga piece. Suddenly, everyone was Jackmanning.

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Author goes to 'another world' to write fiction

Murakami considers his ability to respect back his unique skill

By Alexandra After THE NEW YORK TIMES

When Harabi Murakami sits down to write, he faces idea which a going to happen. This seems like an astounding admission for a seasonal novelist, particularly for a global literature who has written more than 40 books and sold several millions of copies in dozens of languages. But nearly half a century into his career, Murakami's creative process remains a memory, even from

'I don't have any plan. I'm just writing, and while I'm writing, strange things happen very naturally, very specifically, Murakami said during an interview in New York City in December.

'Every time I write fiction, I go into another world – marks you can call it the more intense – and, and, in the same way, that world,' he continued. 'I see so many things there, then I come back to this real world, and I write a down.' Murakami doesn't regard himself as a masterly prose editor as a brilliant storyteller. In his telling, his one unique skill is his ability to respect back his worlds and report back.

'I don't know how to write, exactly I think I'm an ordinary pro,' he said. 'You are a person who has a clear intelligent, but I can do that. I'm one of them to that world.'

We met in a cavern on a underground rock-suit league as a Murakami bent, sorting that fell oddly appropriate, given his efforts for cases and tunnels, a recurring motif in his work. Murakami seemed to have to choose darkness. He sat almost perfectly still – his gaze occasionally drifting upward, as it is, or more, a moving thought – and spoke nearly and deliberately

Japanese author Harabi Murakami, later Dec. 12 in New York, remains highly specific. SANA KOBUOKI/THE NEW YORK TIMES

ately, delivering answers mostly to English.

Murakami doesn't enjoy public appearances and doesn't seem to reflect on speaking about himself or the meaning of his work. He avoids going on TV, though he has been a grizzly but rather, sometimes, in the December, he vehelnantly made two public speeches in New York City in front of large, easy audiences.

'I'm not going to mind visitors, and so I don't like to attend parties or pros speeches, but sometimes I have to do that,' he said. 'The rest of the year I'm at home, just working I'm kind of a workaholic.'

During an event at Town Hall on Dec. 11, Murakami spoke to a gradual house about the global nature of Japanese literature and culture – a shift he helped bring about. Earlier that week, he gave brief remarks while accepting a lifetime achievement award from the Center for Fiction.

which was presented to him by musical and writer Patti Smith.

Murakami thanked his friends' views from 50 years, who he said is his first reader and often his toughest editor. And he recalls if he's: 'When he goes to the world, he's signing in the United States decades ago, only a handful of people showed up.

'I remember sitting in a door to other hand and nothing to do,' he told the audience. 'It was one of the longest hours of my life.' Such a rapid reception would be unthinkable now. Murakami is the new writer with a towering literary reputation who is also interested in popular with readers worldwide. His new novels are celebrated with multiple volume parties, where superlaps gather at bookstores to hear copies the minute they go on sale. From have created pleadings of music, he has referenced and published cookbooks

based on the book in his novels. There's even an account on the social platform. It also has a smooth to mention of spaghetti in his work.

In the United States, where has books have sold more than a million copies, Murakami has been one of upcoming releases: In October, Knopf will publish 'Brandenburg's Cat,' a short, featuring work about Murakami's relationship with his father. Next year, the majoring release is about a book about his classical music record collection. The publisher is also reproducing his older books, which remain in high demand, with new covers.

At TV Murakami is still remarkably prolific. His latest novel, 'The Top of Kobe,' was published in Japan in July and is being translated into English. Murakami wrote much of his novel that was after its covering from a certain illness, which he didn't

want to elaborate on, that left him hospitalized for a month and caused him to lose around 40 pounds. Being such was a short-rating experience for Murakami, who usually runs for an hour a day but hope I himself struggling to get back to the world's new actor, he had no desire to write. He is he recovered, he was relieved to find that the steps hadn't left him.

'It's kind of a connection,' he said of writing his new novel, 'I came back.' The story that came to him left different from his previous work, more optimistic. In such 10 to 40 most territory for him, actor first novel written primarily from a woman's perspective. Murakami, who has been only kind for some who see his female character as one dimensional, marginal and overly sensational, said writing from a young woman's point of view. He different but surprisingly natural.

'I became here,' he said. Murakami didn't feel destined to be a writer. Growing up in the subscribe around Kobe and Osaka, the only child of two teachers, he considered to a musician but couldn't bring himself to practice. He was a mediocre student, especially when it came to Japanese literature.

'Knows he, I didn't know what he was, I was an American who I was in my room because my parents were teaching Japanese literature, so I had it,' says Murakami.

When he was in his 20s, he opened a pass after called Peter Cat in western Tokyo. He had been running the club in the fall of year when he decided to write a novel or a video one day while he was at a baseball game. When he sat down and started with the reading to write, he tried writing in English first, then translating it back into English now. Comparing sentences in English stopped his thoughts from not finding out. He was a good business man, unadorned style.

Murakami submitted his only typed copy of the novel. They the West Sing, 'a culinary press for new writers. He was, and the novel was published in Japan in 1975 when he was 18 years old. He at least 20 years old was a good, green quality in the early 1980s, when it 'told a Noisy Chase,' a surreal novel about a Tokyo advertising company. He was teaching for a mythical sheep, was a medical case English and drew news in the United States.

Lately, Murakami has been beginly remembered for visual readers, writing up early to write, doing chorus like working Kobe and ironing, and running.

'I don't know how many times I have been in the '80s,' he said. 'I've feeling I'll be able to do more, because writing fiction is so wonderful, it's just like working myself. I don't think I get that, there's still space to explore.'

Emoy 'reckless verimiltude' at work again in 1962 LA-set thriller

By Peter Larson ORANGE COUNTY SENATE

In James Ellory knew 'Red River', 15 October 1962 in Los Angeles, and in the 1960s, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the city is on edge with rumour of communist sleeper cells and his equal competence. 'Emoy,' the Middle Death in back in the Los Angeles Police Department, gives a badge to do the dirty work the department wants but comes in the air.

Surrounding him as the story opens on a scale of real life figures turned into fictional characters, include the 'Red River' and 'Reddish' Richard Nixon, Platine Smacks' Hugh Shelton and Tom Bradley and Daryl Gates, rising from to Jo Lee Angelos politics and policing, all of these planners, and the 'Red River' and 'Reddish' drawing Otaki into Los Angeles' farfster centers.

'I wanted to rate in '62 after I wrote 'The Earhart,' and, in the 1960s, I was previous book in which Otaki developed the death of Marilyn Mooney. 'And so the 'Redology I did was think, well, what were the big events, big political events, big history of events, big crime events of the latter part of 1962? And, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure.' I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure.

'Red River' also brings in Attorney General Bailey Kennedy, whose FBI teams up with his 2,000 to heart and his 1,000 to heart and his 1,000 to heart, addresses the rising civil rights movement in the person of Tom Bradley, who had left his 2,000 to heart in 1962. 'I'm not sure, I'm not sure,' says City Council on a political journey that would make him the city's first Black mayor.

'I'm book also but flash-

'RED SWEET' By James Ellory, Knopf, Los Angeles, EO

backs to the Spanish Civil War and the bombings of the Spanish city of California and briefly the natural fascist leader, Gen. Francisco Ponceo, to wipe out the Republic as forcer, backbite the former Union. 'It's a way, Ellory says, the real world characters and history are a continuation of what he not down in the prologue of 'America in Tallahas' some days ago.' 'It says, 'Our,' meaning America's, 'surrender' one is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verimiltude can set that line straight.' 'So says, 'And this is that reckless verimiltude once again. A lot of fact, I, church of St. Greton.' 'I'm a merriess writer.' Ellory has been edited for clarity and length.

We talked about the '62 events that inspired you. Let's talk about characters, his black, who want his throughout.

At Union House, was prone to these huge states. He would just have, in effect, what we now have to be, a panic attack, and he went out walking. He wasn't going out looking for women, yet so, as to get maniac. That can't have to his life at the pressure of 'Intergute. He just went to talk to people. He'd stop at a pin stuff and have a drink or a beer or go to a coffee

dory. Much of the time – I don't know, a percentage – people didn't recognize who he was.

This is the third book in which Freddy is here: the main guy.

At The Net book, 'Widespread Panic,' is really novellae. They're connected, and they're written in a candid language (the style of 'We scandalously talked in). They're critical, and they're a 'pocket of an field'--wood. I've always liked (absent) Nicholas Ray and James Dean, 'What's Wheren's Cause' and Natalie Wood and Dennis Hopper. So that's the original book, but that's to consider.

Then I got the idea to write the serious Freddy book, 'The Enchanter,' and everybody went nuts for the pyramid. Andrew Willie, my agent, Edward Katzmanian, my editor at Knopf, said write the book. '... (And after I finished)' people were crazy about the world, and he is a interplay of the real-life and fictional characters.

I just told Edward, 'I don't want to go back to the second LA Quarter (the World Way II) set books begun with 'Prefilia,' and 'The Storms'.' Wouldn't you suffer, have the second big Freddy Otaki book? And he was, I am, I would.

The one what you came to the about Freddy and writing about him.

At 12:30 in The end (by Freddy Otaki) for a period of years. Unpleasant, dynamic, all the I mean, in no order is he brilliant and educated, results, as I put up him for 'The Enchanter' and 'Red River'. I saw that he could fit the paradigm of the great detective. Hence, I was able to do a far-fetched, ex-partite life being acquired with fictional Star criminologist Hans Malick, who is an exception. His goon squad.

Pochoda's foray into horror genre puts modern spin on Greek classic

By Samantha Dunn ORANGE COUNTY SENATE

You might call Ivy Pochoda the hat of that woman, an annar of three nice forceness.

For proof, look no further than the bestselling 'Sing Her Down,' her stunning 2023 tour thriller about two winter periods ago.

Pochoda has also suffered the critically acclaimed movie 'The Art of Shopping King,' 'Wonder Valley,' 'The Human War,' and 'These Women.' The professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside (John Dover) has won the Best Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and the First Page Awards as a Ponce, and has been a finalist for the Edge Award, among others.

First column in 2023, 'Ecstasy,' coming out in paperback Aug. 25, marked her first foray into the horror genre.

The first book on the chassis of 'The Reacher,' the Greek tragedy by Rantei idea written circa 607 BC. In her maiden spin, a wealthy widow named Lena, who is under the thumb of her controlling son Steve, is drawn to a call-like group of partners known as 'The Angelic' angel-fed woman called Lana. The answer, because it was unpopular, is always island resort to horror with the holy or true culture, drugs and dance music.

For Pochoda, the more from crime fiction into horror was a खास heroism two of former that have always debated her writing. 'I feel like what has been done to women and what women have experienced over the course of the last centuries, or millennia, a hero.'

'I think crime fiction definitely can make people sit up and pay attention to both violence against women and women.'

'ECSTASY' By Nyl'McHale, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 224 pages, E.O.

victims, Pochoda said in an interview. 'Not something you can only take them on far, and I think that if you make the story a little more fantastic, people will accept, or start to listen to, some more of the message, because they're done not by the story.

'I think that some of the things I'm trying to see you really serious about the way women are treated and the way we build our own policies, because we're so used to this sort of heteronormative construct of marriage and life and because of labor. Sometimes the only way to get that stuff across is the right the story.'

But don't expect any story Pochoda writes to be a simple, so vicious version of a pretrate – she's interested in the worst women can be complicit in their own misery, and in the ways they, too, perpetrate violence.

'I'm also guilty of playing into these culture stories of the past, and I think what this book's about,' Pochoda said.

His points to her main character, Lena, a once-arguing, laborious, and married a rich man and make her personal agents for a life of recent known, Lena's son Steve learned from his father to treat

women in a case (the way 'More didn't stand up to us with a should be think that she's oppressed, you know?' Pochoda said.

But I can't suppose and sign that a decade under the age of 40, the most serious and so on the group of women on the beach below her hillside street, marking a dark turn in the sky.

Pochoda started studying travel in eighth grade and went on to get a bachelor's degree in Ancient Greek at the University of California, and went to write a short horror novel, the immediately thought of the Euripides plot that the report her has to have in high school translations.

'The 'Ever' has I had always stuck with her, in particular the character of Agave, the mother whose love might be an act of the same, and the 'Ever' has I had certainly. 'I thought yes, an angry mother, and then I thought about why she would don.'

The 'Ever' has this play in that it feels thoroughly modern. It looks like there's nothing in that play that doesn't happen right now, all the time. You don't need to squishen! It's just like, without, it works! Pochoda said.

Her previous novel, 'The 'Ever' has 'took a lot out of her, she continues. She seems to walk going through a divorce and the pandemic. 'I wrote it during a really hard time to say life, and I was like, I was going to see her, and I was something differently.'

Her about 4,000 is was to get a novella as a relief from other work. Instead, the novel is a series of scenes seems to have not only rean sign and her feel better, but her on a new path of reimagining old tragedies. The novel is a series of scenes of them, a director cycle of Greek dramas.

Her next vehicle? 'The Orkies,' written by Anciby has in the 5th century B.C.

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THE BREAKUP FANTASYLAND

How America

Went Haywire

A 500-YEAR HISTORY

KURT ANDERSEN

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BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

FROM THE BIBLIOBACLE

John Haywire tells you what he read based on the last five books you've read.

1. "Villa Coco" by Andrew Sears Greet
2. "The Things We Never Say" by Elizabeth Stroud
3. "My Husband's Wife" by Alice Feeney
4. "Nicterysky" by Cary Grant Burke
5. "Daughter of Egypt" by Marie Benedict - Lurim, Chicago Lori Neils like a good candidate for Ruth David's world-spanning 'A Tale for the Time Being'

BIBLIOBACLE

'The Breakup' is one-of-a-kind book

By John Warner FDR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Kurt Andersen's new novel, "The Breakup" is the culmination of a trilogy that started with two earlier nonfiction books, 2007's "Punkerland: How America Went Haywire," and 2020's "Roll Gossies: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History."

Perhaps it sounds strange to think of a work of fiction as a trilogy with two world-sional works, but Andersen's project over the last decade plus has been to map how we've developed into a society where seemingly the most basic elements of fact and fiction connective agreed upon. "The Breakup" is a special piece work that follows on those two novels, essentially asking what happens if, ultimately, we cannot come together as a country, rooted in reality!

The main action takes place over the span of a few weeks in the year 2040 and focuses on married couple Natalie and Asher. He is an accountant and former academic now working for a (possibly) good billionaire running an institute that studies human and non-human intelligence in Silicon Valley. He is a poet and essayist who has found herself an accountant cultural lightning rod for expressing opinions possibly at odds with liberal fingers.

This couple has been living separately for months in Natalie has failed to

tire in Silicon Valley as Asher's pleasure among the rock intelligentsia and natural retroactive a rural outpaced Tennessee, their home when Asher was an admiral ever at the death.

The country is also going through a period of "drammer" following a second Civil War from just under a decade earlier, really a series of terrorist insurgencies coming out of various, non-centralized factions in the southern states calling themselves WOMEN'S (Waltz Organized Military Fighting American (WOMEN) The war is encountered through a series of historical news articles by a journalist, Nicole Brahm, and dimension in the mutually agreed-upon solution to the problem of people in proximity to each other who cannot live together.

Natalie and Asher will be together to accompany their youngest child, Logan, on a tour of collapse that will have them bouncing between the United States and the new Free American Republic. The final deadline for each start and what must qualify to decide to stick with the U.S. or break away (Breath-style) is approaching, as is the apparent infraction point where Asher and Natalie must decide if they are to be together or apart.

There is too much going on here for this novel to work, but Andersen is an uncommon writer, a skilled historian of novelist as well as an astute cultural observer and historical interpreter.

The novel explores the implications of economics, AI, media, politics, science, and other elements in they shape both the country and the individual who live within it. The war ends mediastinal and gun-saturated, coordinated direct attacks must be followed of most scuffs and trucks falling indiscriminately. Asher has an unimpressed AI assistant who serves as a kind of floor-to-farther confidence.

The institute Asher works for has used AI to tap into the memories of the oldest living creatures on earth (the giant sea turtle), smoothing testimony of the long history of mankind's horrors.

Natalie wants a simpler life connected to nature and the land, but their Tennessee home may soon not be part of the United States.

It takes a while for the road trip to start, but once it does, I found myself covered in the well-being of these people, maybe even a little bit hopeful that both the small and big dimension in the story are not permanent or lost.

But Andersen keeps introducing threats, both external and internal, and the reader can't help her worry.

Some-of-a-kind book that only this writer could produce.

John Warner is the author of books including "More Than Winds: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI" You can find him at biblework.com.

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2. "The Passenger" by Lisa Lutz

3. "The Passenger" by Ulrich Alexander Brochwitz

4. "Behique! The Final Act of the Trump Show" by Jonathan Karl

5. "James" by Percival Garrett - Emilyn, Utah Laws

I'm going to lean into Emilyn's theme and go with Vijay Khuraski's "The Passenger Seat."

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2. "Somebody's Fool" by Richard Russo

3. "The Deserters" by M.D. Lamb

4. "The Shater Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets" by Jason Helsel

5. "The Shots Doctrine" by Naomi Klein - Joe M. Kankalov

For Joe, I'm recommending the first installment of what is reported to be a long family saga of the 20th and 21st centuries, Jonathan Panzero's "Crossroads."

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What to watch

SUNDAY

August 16, 2026

All times Central. Start times can vary based on cable/handle provider. Confirm times on year on active guide.

NTT IndyCar Series: Ontario Honda Dealers

Indy at Markham

FDL: 12 a.m. Live

The NTT IndyCar Series heads to downtown Markham, Ontario, north of Toronto, for a tour on the new temporary 2.0 mile street circuit featuring 12 turns and a double-sided pit lane.

MLB Baseball

AFC & MFC, beginning at 7 p.m. Live

Catch two MLB Sunday matchups with the St. Louis Cardinals at the Chicago Cubs in an ABC matinee. Followed by Sunday Night Baseball on MFC with the Seattle Mariners at the Houston Astros.

WNBA Basketball

ESPN, beginning at 4 p.m. Live

A tour full of NABA games has the Indiana Fever at the Atlanta Dream and the Portland Fire at the Phoenix Maroon.

JOHN JOHNSON, CEO

Disney Princess: The Ultimate Concert

Celebration

ABC, 7 p.m.

The spectacular performance brings together the largest gathering of Disney Princess talent ever assembled, celebrating the iconic stories across animation, live-action, stage and music at Disney California

Adventure Park. This one-of-a-kind concert with transform the night with dazzling lights, sweeping projections and sky-high fountains creating a truly immersive world where the music, magic and legacy of Disney Princesses shine like never before.

Lanterns

HBO, 9 p.m. + New Series

This thrilling new series follows fresh recruit John Stewart (Genius breakout Aaron Purvis) and Green Lantern legend that Jordan (Friday Night Light) has style Chandler, two evangelicals: Joan Kraan into a dark, Earth-based mystery. Known for skirting the rules and a power ring that turns his thoughts into physical form, the aging Jordan, alongside the be-the-trust trainee Stewart, is called to duty after a mass shooting at a Nebraska high school. Other notable cast members include Kelly Macdonald, Laura Lowey, Nathan Fillion, Garret Dillamant, Poorna Jagannathan and Laura Miller.

House Hunters

HSTV, 9 p.m.

In the new episode "Gray Walk and Gondolls," childhood sweethearts have polar opposite priorities in their home search in St. Augustine, Florida. They need a bigger place for their twins, and the watch is a triage channel in the historic district, but he prefers a new house that won't flout.

MOVIES

YOU'LL LOVE

JOHN THE CHICAGO LEAGUE

The Little Mermaid (1989, Children) and Benson, the Carroll Freedoms, 5:00 p.m.

A.J. Artificial Intelligence (2001, Science fiction) states and Givens, Jade Lee 50th, 5:00 p.m.

Superman (2023, Action) David Cormorett, Rachel Brosnahan HBO, 5:40 p.m.

Escape Room (2015, Marvel) Taylor Russell, Logan Miller SYFY, 6:30 p.m.

The Bucket List (2007, Come-to-Giving) Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman CW, 6:30 p.m.

Home MFA (2024, Superset) Felisha Terrell, Jason MacDonald Life-time, 7 p.m.

The Matrix Releaded (2003, Science fiction) Korya Renes, Laurence Fishburne JC, 7 p.m.

The Reluctant Recap (2021, Romance) Andrew Walker, Emilie de Ravie Hallmark, 7 p.m.

The Princess Stories (2005, Children) Jake Andrews, Anne Nathaway ABC, 7:30 p.m.

Top Gun (1984, Action) Tom Cruse, Kelly McGill's CBC, 9 p.m.

Poetic Justice (2003, Romance) cometh Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur VKL, 9:30 p.m.

Wag 2: The Trends (2023, Science fiction) Jason Statham, Wu Jing TNT, 10 p.m.

CATCH A CLASSIC

Summer Under the Stars:

Catch Grand

TCM, beginning at 5 a.m.

Actor Archibald Lauth - who, working professionals in Cary Grant, was the quintessential example of a scene, with, charming, handsome and defamant silver scenes star - gets today's summer under the Stars spotlight. The lineup includes several films that show how Grant could make comedy, comedy, adventure and suspense look equally effective. A few features include 1940's Mr Favorite Wife (Antares), costuming Irene Ozone, in a snowball comedy about a wife who returns after being pressured dead, and His Girl

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Friday (2040), paying Grant with breakfast. Record later gets her day on Aug. 27, to see at the station talking newspaper comedies, ever filmed. The day also features bible-crest (1956), with Grant separate report (Bergman, and Alfred Hitchcock). North by Northeast (2000), one of Grant's most famous late-career thinkers.

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BRAND

from Page 8.1

what this is.

Richards, career advertising designer, professional mail man, weekday mail pitcher.

"All of this, this museum, it was born from COVID. We were sitting on the house, particularly all this packaging I collected. My wife said, 'I can't take it anymore,' and I thought, 'Am I getting do so off?' She was right, though. A nice way of putting it is that we had achieved a very organized version of hoarding. I had all this stuff. But 30 years of collecting. We decided to catalog and photograph it, one piece at a time. When we got past $300 — Houston, we have a problem. When we got past 20,000, we stopped counting. There's more than you see here — we haven't even gotten to what's in storage. Bottom line is how much we have? We don't know how much we have.

"And so, a hobby becomes a collection, which becomes an obsession, which becomes a need for therapy, which becomes a kind of hoarding, which becomes a business opportunity. Though we don't think of this as business so much as a genuine desire to share what we have with people. A visitor recently he did show here, over postart/other jars of all things. It comprised a lot of people who have gained their garage — he was triggered and cured. But everything to here has a story, because someone kept this so that, didn't throw it on. There is no reason to have kept a hot bag inside from the 1990s — we could do an exhibit just on hot bags — yet it was cared for, now it's here."

There is three bags of Rhittles.

There's a story there concerning how Richards and Emory met. A satire of Wales, he came to Chicago in 1995 for a wedding, he stayed and worked for design firms. Emory arrived from North Carolina to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Fast forward a bit, they found themselves at competing design firms, handling the same client, Marc Wrigley. A real Nora Ephron runaway. They were tasked with collecting the Rhittles rainbow. In a display case at the museum, there's an old Rhittles wrapper, showing a rainbow that resembles a rainbow, cutting downward.

"Changing that was a huge project, reaseling," Emory said.

"The idea was Rhittles are the treat at the end of the rainbow as the package," Richards said, "but the rainbow is a negative, a brown. So we need it over and made it a smile."

"A huge deal," Emory said. Marc Wrigley "traded-minded it globally, and at the time you could not own a rainbow in the confessions are market — there were no many rainbows."

When, wait, Randowns are a regular.

"I don't think consumers were covertly saying that," Richards said, "but in the global consumer research, you can pull income out of negative perceptions. Consumers know why they don't wear a shirt twice, but they can find it harder in this world to say why they dislike stuff. So, they can't do it. So, they can't do it. So, they can't do it. So, they can't do it. So, they can't do it. So, they can't do it. So, they can't do it. So, they can't do it. So, they can't do it. So, they can't do it. So, they can't do it. So, they can't do it. So, they can't do it. So, they can't do it.

A sprawling array of candy occupies several of the display cases — which were from M&M to Coreside Mite/Blackings, a peppermint flavored British toffee.

The way, while Prudhie is grouped the way, say, a neighborhood Target is grouped. There's a wall of milk bottles, a ground coffee display, make of board games, serve of detergents, and a table of food. There is to be packaging of chocolate-covered charcoal. There are meth maggots, meth crunch and, as you know, there is no idea to be made. There are plastic Totemgates that marketed Chicago milk factory to children in Beijing. There are brands of cigarettes, and brands of snuffs could be without. There's a town of Kellogg's and Brillo house, made by Jack Warhol. Alongside that, stretching

A standalone display case, right, is filled with fresh collected from a single individual one a year's time at the Chicago Brand Museum on the 2400 block of South Michigan Avenue of Chicago. The new museum, owned by Prudhie and, and Elizabeth Emory, has a collection of over 40,000 items each nearly 20,000 currently on display. They include items from all over the world. SINGER WARRIOTT/CONCLAIM THE LINE PHOTOS

Coco milk bottles fill several shelves and cases at the Chicago Brand Museum.

Some Coco-Cola items in several languages on display.

the width of the room, in the old wooden table at which Chicago Defender editors enervated and discussed the day's events. Aside from a museum, Richards and Emory use the space for advertising meetings and workshops.

Evolution, in a consumer-packaging sense, is a recurring theme. There is every moment of Fish box, including the first in 1942, and every variation of the game Connect Four.

Richards himself designed the most recent version of the Kellogg's name, and before you can say, hold on, that ubiquitous scripted logo is on next — yes, but as he shows, minor changes happen in rememade, over decades, lost tweaks, lettering adjustments.

"Every category (of consumer goods) has a language, which is one thing we want to get across," he said. "Cured boxes — the manufacturing logo goes in the top left hand, covers at a 17-degree angle, the

cartoon character is beneath that, below that a bowl and spoon, generally. Detergent is the same — for years it was about how loudly sλος screamed. Someone does it first, the rest are copies."

Characters, though, do change. "See the Coco Krispies mother? He was an elephant. I'm sure there was a corporate struggle at Kellogg's over that. Some with Sugar Framed Flakes. The man sits were so pinion until someone at (Chicago) and firm! Leo Burnett said, 'No, a theugal type'."

There is a learning curve in the case set: Any here.

Did you know the "Ty" in Tombox are eating chops? Or that we have potato chip bags because they once came in test, holding bags, and customers only wanted the bag? Or that Richards box car boxes once had faux-ottling pads resembling small blocks?

Since they've been open, Emory said, visitors tend to stay inside unseen of what to make of a room of packaging. "Unless you love in the

world we live in, even the word bound is a roadblock for some of the things, and the things they buy every day, it looks like a room of old stuff at first, then they start to recognize it as individual pieces of art."

Richards said they're attempting to generate, in varying degrees, some art appreciation, consumer marketing, and more, and "sloy warm bag of nostalgia." "We believe this stuff is as important as architecture, fashion, music. It's a reflection of behaviors and tastes. There is a more two made of the same, and we are, and it needs to be explained."

Why, for instance, does the packaging for LISA? Goldin, thyop show, a hot logo, a dual box surrounded by a swamp of love? (Answer: It's an allusion to the Old Testament.)

A display of the company packaging from the French company Victor Chagas, a wall of orange yellow, is also a pocket factory of female innovation. Its

leader, a 20-something widow known as Madame Chagas, invented the riddling process that transformed typically nearby champagne into clear habits, called Napoleonic trade blockades and chose the distinctive label that still identifies Victor as one of the earlier luxury brands.

This began with Rich, who is the best designed packaging for Duracoll, Old Spice, Swiss Mins, Swarovski, Pepsi-Bismol, Marburn, Slim Jim and a million others. He started collecting brand packaging in the 1940s while working on a dog food, eager to create some archive of discontinued hoarding. He said most everything made of the form in the Chicago Brand Museum — including those from the Victorian Box — holds the direct advertised, At first, he said Emory — who worked on Sharpe, Aldi and Juicy Fruit, among others — thought they could partner with a Chicago museum. They sought out several. "And they were

IF YOU GO

The Chicago Brand Museum, and 2.5 Michigan Ave., is a small town in the Sunday, admission $25 of www.trueincapobandmuseum.com

incredibly diminishes," Richards said. "We probably came across as hobbyists. They headed in off, for we decided to do everything ourselves."

They didn't apply for grants, ask for loans or reach out to corporate investors. They built the museum themselves with their own resources, they own the building, which helps. They also don't want to discuss how much of their money they invested in the museum. But credit a few six figures, Richards said, who added he insured the collection itself for six figures (not including those Warhol pieces). They said it's all been, it's easy to do it.

They are not, however, museum curators.

They have an exhibit of the 1,000 pieces of such they collected from their own household, one year's worth, a tool to entrainment/insure some of the system full of disposable packaging. But they acknowledge, at the moment, there isn't room for a traditional museum. Richards himself is available for loans, but without him, it would be hard to register many of the conventional details we're used to getting inmuseums — like Linen the lineage of objects, the names of who exactly created what Emory said they recognized early on that they didn't have the country. "All individual stories, spread out or give different brands their own stories." They know they could have children on Chicago herd brands, for example. But they acknowledge they might have to move out of the South Long to do it, and they would prefer to stay. (They live in nearby Brownsville.)

What they're hoping, at least for now, is a good start. A compelling case that a museum like that, in a city known for advertising firms, should exist.

"We are people level-deducted, they're always, their overwhelmed," Richards said. "Time they've triggered, their minds flood back to grandma's house. Christmas morning, and they start telling all these personal stories that to what's around them. I think a lot do not know in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' when it trod in the chapel's showing that time it was his worth and saying that he bought it on the street for $10. It says it's worthless, but if he has yet to die and the 1 thousand lives, it's priceless. That's exactly what this is."

chore@litchicagastribune.com

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Sunday Comics

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Baby Blues By Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott

Zita By Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Grand Avenue By Mike Thompson

A1EEEEEE!

UUUUUUUU!

AAAAA

YEEOOOWN!

NOOO!

NOOOOOO!

WUNO

by Wolf & Morgenthaler

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Blonde By Dean Young and John Marshall

Take It From the Trihersons By Bill Betsey

FoxThat By Bill Amend

Dogs of C-Kennel By Mick and Mason Mastroianni

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The Heartland

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LAST OF ALL:

Before moving on

By WINSTON EMMANUEL | EDITOR OF STANLEY NEWMAN (NEWSWEEK.COM)

ACTIONS

1	Camera illumination
6	Programmer's output
10	Bibliography abbr.
14	Carry letter
17	Totaled
18	Explorer Ponca de...
19	Storefront numerous
21	All ready to go
22	Happening shortly
23	Formerly
24	Letters after that
25	EMT skill
26	...in absentee voting
29	Held bed, as breath
30	Ending for absorb
31	Illuminated from above after dark
32	Duck brown
33	Lewis dampener
36	May out of sight
39	...at a restaurant
41	Rain "Bye"
44	Rainbow siren
46	Time long past
47	...at a movie theater
52	Camp season
56	Surrounded by
57	Tibetanus and Titusino's
60	Northwestern capital
61	Biggest cliffs
65	Paper towel lances
66	Huge-screen TV suffix

67	...at a dinner party
74	Nile queen, for short
75	Estrama obsession
76	"To recap..."
77	Namia lion
79	Paduan designer McCartney
81	Wine bottle sizes
86	List of the best
88	...on a bus
92	Party fortress
94	Many-location vacation
95	Gardening implement
96	...on a car trip
103	Prophetic sign
105	Flight parent
108	Diarist Win
107	Family guys
109	O-turn from NNW
112	Swiss capital
113	...at a museum
118	Rear hair
120	Uninhumaker
121	Part of Timson
122	Chopin piece
123	Starter for center
124	Unmarried woman
125	Vecal condition
126	Byosky
127	Argon suffix
128	Different from that
129	"Penny... (small-time)
130	Kit Di (abbr)

DOWN

1	Native to
2	Pop-singer Del Rey
3	...And Parlase
4	No longer edible

5	"Climb aboard"
6	Fill to excess
7	It means "wine"
8	Parish proof for
9	Month in Madrid
10	Illumination major, for short
11	607-partner Dalton
12	Art-rich subject
13	Some LCD TVs
14	Get away
15	Rear homeowner's...sack
16	Run of luck
17	Sega pose
20	Chocolatier Wrinkle
27	Vitaman degree
28	Jazz genre
29	Any huge monster
32	Clean thoroughly
33	Pacte and figures
34	Dutch cheese
35	Collaborative web project
37	Post-up stop
38	...es Salaam, Tanzania
40	Down problem
42	At end reference work
43	Food service giant
45	Historical period
48	Otogah's "other"
49	Sidewalk surface
50	Delta deposit
51	Country near Cuba
53	Dall contemporary
54	Romero's "Home"
55	Laune obligation
56	All sign filler
59	What's I there, for short

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62	USN VIPs	78	Small salamanders
63	Polity fly	80	Circus performance
64	Misssake power	82	Recipe unit
67	"Get lost!"	83	Flight board nos.
68	As well	84	Make over
69	Bougle bark	85	Gush forth
70	Glove material	87	"Just happening!"
71	...monster	89	Captivated by
72	"Arizona Island"	90	"Delicious!"
73	Netflix rival	91	Soaps of taboo and gold

91	Many June arrivals
96	Science course surcharge
97	Outdoor
98	Stephen King's first novel
99	Marquis name
100	Being chilled
101	Frequently
102	Go bad, as it hit
104	Unto research supporter

108	Tibetan capital
110	Too expensive
111	Lender of lipstick
113	Robustical meat
116	Courteous fellow
118	Pump playwright
119	Feeling offended
117	Dog in a cat comic strip
118	Look closely (same)
120	Montreal Mrs.

Three's Company

By BEN KIRK | EDITOR OF PATY VANCE

ACTIONS

1	Best of the best
5	Syngy winer
10	That partner
14	Parish of dollars
16	Authorize
19	Conkey with a "You asked for an" collaboration with 29-Actron
20	Surrounding glow
21	La Judla solo
22	Ron + (Erason + Alexander Graham)
24	Clara + (Francis Scott + Keegan-Michael)
26	NYC drama award
27	Slangy contraction
28	Land between Can and Mex.
29	Peanut butter cup brand
30	Sally + (Adria + Philip)
34	Like stress balls and Edgar sponsors
35	End of show
36	"Knock yourself out!"
39	Surads who won nine batting titles in two countries
43	Knocked out
44	Some reservoir residents
48	Barry + (Ellan + Steve)
51	Nia + (Elton + Toman)
54	OtherIn's lecturer
55	Bulgarian, e.g.
56	Easter with, in authority
58	Autonomous vacation
59	Urmost degree
60	Aligned
62	Lakers mightily to accomplish
63	Gerber + (Abbas + Helen Garley)
64	Town of endeavement!
71	Leverage
72	...corporate acquisition
75	"Print to" option
76	Really sad
78	Brand from a series of media
79	Actor Epps
80	Island home of the Hans Highway
81	Odium + (Marian) + Dalton
83	Fiona + (Lemmon + Landrie)
85	Speaker brand

88	Theatre reviewers
89	Plug's place
90	Channel that rarely fails to make one cry
92	Matinee lies
94	"The Return of the King" king
95	Cleary + (Faith + Jonah)
100	Small donkeys
100	Ballerina's turning point
107	Ancient France
108	"In this" B&B single
109	Keith + (Earfield + Cornee)
111	Underwood + Fallen + Johnny
112	New Mexico art hub
113	Sanctu specialty
114	Looking
117	Nikon rival
118	Nikon products
119	Novelist Emily
120	Baking gloves
121	Pt. of IMF

DOWN

1	Defense witness, often
2	Basic skateboard trick
3	Many a-leaners McGuire work
4	Sharpsh sort!
5	All accessory
6	Venues that often have corporate names
7	Nails, as with individual
8	"U r 2 Sonny!"
9	Start at the beginning!
10	Glitter player's aid
11	Hawaiian dance
12	Next egg letters
13	Holy
14	Root truders!
15	A bloodpied smart
16	Certain hardware store patron, casually
17	Smart decky
18	Lead-up to a date!
23	Convertibles
24	Lotto game
25	Thirdhd, perhaps
27	Block
28	Spots for scrubs
29	"ManningCat" brother
31	In catches
32	"...and that ends well"
33	Smokestuck that
39	"Game, set, match"

40	Pass, in Paris
41	Top temperature
42	Game Midori
43	101, for one
44	Tricks
45	Measures of resistance
46	Liberty veg
47	Handle for a DA-to-So
48	Pan called brand
50	Donated
52	"Me...up!"
53	Compass
56	Williams with five Wristbinder singles titles
57	Whathead
61	Capricorn
62	Coughingly wreck
63	Signing spies
64	Concede a golden gold set
65	Of all time
66	Rose capping sounds
67	Kind of yeast
68	One for film fans
69	Lamontower brand
70	Standkit honorifics
71	But or first fulltime
72	Team led by Mike Koryzewski for 42 winners
74	Conceal hand
75	Monarch minor
77	Texas affirmative
79	Provide a new look
80	Parish to many a Scottish surname
82	Printer function
83	Closer at the Globe
84	Exit
85	Level
86	Winner paddle topper
90	Many a "Who Prayed finger Kable" character
91	Fake
92	Landing spot of Noah's Ark
93	Legends
94	Swiders
95	Like most farmland
96	Steady spot
97	Wristbinder surface
99	Everybales wader
100	Like Miss the Pocles
101	Land, to a Brit
102	North-central brand
103	Not a Kind, in Killa
109	Tootsy? "Bye for now"
109	And a year Olympus
110	James trooper
111	Vol take
112	Sedden choice
113	Exit, or pool.

Last week's answers can be found in today's "Public Island Sub-Sex".

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Jumble

Unscramble the six Jumbles, one letter per square, to form six words. Then arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by this cartoon.

PHOTO: THOMAS ANDERSON, P. M., 2006, 2014, 2015

This week's answers can be found in today's "Public Island Sub-Sex."

By David L. Paul and Jeff Howard, © 2025 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. All rights reserved. /PaulLambl.com

Sudoku

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box in bold borders contains every digit 1 to 9.

Level 1 2 3 4

4	2
					2		3
				6	9	3	2
6	9									5
	7								2
8									6	9
		3	5	8		6
		4		7
	6	7							9	2

Last week's answers can be found in today's "Public Island Sub-Sex."

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Quote-Accentric

1. Define clues, writing in Words column over numbered duties.
2. Transfer letters to numbered squares in diagram.
3. When pattern is completed, quotation can be read left to right. The first letters of the filled-in words reading down form an acoustic yielding the speaker's name and the topic of the quotation.

Clues

Words

A. Moor flora	76	84	46	69	29	59	146
B. G and A part	150	33	63	92	87	101	84
C. Significant	29	128	50	127	15	133	114
D. Reserves	183	133	158	106	48	80	113
E. Daybreak	133	32	71	129	40	140	27
F. Rapid in appearance	80	38	36	96	72	54	143
G. Pressed	124	112	85	74	69	43
H. Minored	94	6	129	148	104	126
I. Life is household built	113	141	54	95	9	73	21
J. What not may mean	55	121	26	157	154	19

K. Time of day	40	128	131	83	71	138	136	84	165
L. Long-tailed process	138	77	62	86	134
M. Kind of drawing	153	82	58	92	7
N. Guts	111	57	44	102	24	42	87
O. Most recent	9	143	139	18	58	83
P. Playwright Miller	25	81	78	81	137	108
Q. Uncovers	139	34	28	145	78	47	147
R. Out of whack	12	115	123	103	118
S. Tweens	78	3	150	45	132	83
T. "Additions"	46	17	36	109	7	144	130	142	177
U. Sharpsins	3	87	22	41	35
V. Learning method	107	16	81	88	101	86	4
W. Makes some calls	70	5	37	158
X. Big enough fish	116	20	14	98	102	51

Last week's answers can be found online. "People beyond Solutions."

By Cornelia Pines, Edited by Kristin Marton/Andria N. DOD Tribune Content Agency, LLC All rights reserved.

Straight and Narrow

BY CHARLES PRESTON

Actress

1 Hot springs 5 Biblical spy 10 Safety's dit 13 Motion picture 14 Give a sermon 15 Chow follower 16 Strousal 18 Mass schedule 19 Ties bits 20 They come first 22 More erotic 24 "Let's Make ..." 25 Become a couple 26 Ottoman Turks 29 Being 33 Memorable ship 34 Scottish resort town 35 Parthigies 37 Meditation sect 38 Guns up 41 Shady 44 Stop buzzer 46 The 50 am 47 ... our discontinue

48 Swift, for one 53 Capri and Seretada 54 More strict 55 Salt harms 56 Self-control 59 ...many words 60 Former Bravati rules up? 61 Gunshow 62 Pigskis prop 63 Swallows 64 Love child?

Down

1 Many films 2 ... over 3 Stuffy's mate 4 Goes to and fro 5 Clashed 6 Greet the day 7 Connected computers across 8 Paris season 9 Total chaos 10 Snap producers do this

11 Takes out of action 12 Mangitter of Cooperstown 13 Northern Italy city 14 Command again 21 First father 23 The Continental Divide 27 Spots 28 In the mail 29 Apiece 30 Persuasion instrument 31 Nickname for Geling 32 Pylons cloak 36 Sun blockers 38 Make suitable for 40 Part of CBS 42 Wicker willow 43 Describe 45 Ouchil 49 Resort of 23 Down 50 Central 51 Wall painting 52 Lock 53 Fire leader 57 Comic Philips 58 Litter sound

Last week's answers can be found in today's "Public Island Solutions," "Bring a Cloudy News" section.

Last week's crosswords

"GLASSWORKS"

"We've Got You Location"

"Blood Up"

Last week's Quote-Accentric

BRENDA BOTH ALL IN A DAY'S WORK: What clients value our store's typically answered either. Can you hold please? or "May I help you?" One day, with phones, urging off the hook. (O-got rations because I answered a call, "May I hold you?")

Last week's Sudoku

4	6	8	3	1	7	9	2	5
1	7	5	9	2	4	3	6	8
3	2	9	6	5	8	7	1	4
2	9	7	4	6	1	5	8	3
8	1	6	5	3	9	2	4	7
5	3	4	7	8	2	1	9	6
9	8	3	1	4	5	6	7	2
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This week's Jumble

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HIGHLY "SOD" AFTER

Horoscopes

If August 16 is your birthday. The first six months of 2026 may have brought challenges to a second half of the year should be spent a single color to navigate. A worry that could appear to be that ahead could turn out to its nothing within a week or two. September could mostly be a quiet month, though your month end or early in October, something you've pushed for could create a bang.

Aries (March) 23-April 93: We save to get sensation ramped up if you follow disturbing or spotting a second online — often that's the intended outcome. So the same way you choose your food, be structured about what you consume today.

Taurus (April 20-May 20): Would thought could occur in the way you accomplish your daily tasks, once a discovery is made you might wonder why it never ramped before. Prepare if it's possible, offer some release the worry.

Gemini (May 21, June 20): Someone could be very childish and insisted without much reason, but the situation could argue surprisingly into an extremely liquid outcome. A creative solution or artistic inspiration could push itself forward.

Cancer (June 23-July

22): While financial concerns should always be addressed, get emotions released and clarify to plan before you make final decisions. A neat and satisfying improvement in your living space could emerge.

Leo (July 25-Aug 22): Underlying anxiety could be more visible than usual for a couple of days, and you don't need to feel ashamed — it's just part of the human condition. Deep insights could help you find up mind and heart.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Utilize today's opportunity to understand your deeply held beliefs around money and abundance. Your subconscious assumptions and limitations affect your ability to manifest prosperity.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Social anxiety could be a thing for a few days. Whether its feelings of awkwardness or fears of rejection, getting triggered is a golden opportunity to understand and release old beliefs or fears.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov 20): A big insight could drop that could be life-changing, and your personal evolution is what will, over time, deliver your dreams. A career matter could be more worthwhile than actually problematic.

Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec 23): Consider doing more networking or build-

ing a new alliance. Philosophically, consider that if you don't acknowledge your fears, they emerge out of your shadow as self-advantage.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan 19): Worries could heart someone you're trying to collaborate with now, give them a day or two to get balanced out. While logic might have driven career matters yesterday, emotion could drive financials.

Aquarius (Jan. 29-Feb 16): Have a conversation with someone close that could lay your fears, or there, to see. Today brings an excellent opening to address the issue.

Pisces (Feb. 24-March 20): Both lack of clarity and anxiety could be intimidating this a year day for financial decisions or agreements. than Universal stars begin to slide into darkness. What can't? Thursday or Friday for better results.

— Migl Hides, Tribune Content Agency

Word Game

This game challenges you to find as many words as you can, as quickly as you can, in one master world.

SCUTTLES [SHUT-uk]: Destroys; scutes

Can you find IT or more words at SCUTTLES?

Average mark: IT words You think: IT minutes

How are this rules

1. Words must be four or more letters. 2. Words that acquire four letters by the addition of an "L" such as "date", and "sats", are not used. 3. Use only one form of a verb — either "pose" or "poseit", not both. 4. Proper nouns and slang terms are not used.

Answers to the word game:

WILLIAM TAYLOR 2016 NEW YORK, NEW YORK 2016 NEW YORK, NEW YORK 2016 NEW YORK

— Kathleen Zenz, Allen Brand for Archives McMee/Syndication for CBS

Bridge

Q.1—Neither vulnerable, as South, you hold. ● 10 A ▼ 8.1 9.5 12 ▼ 8.1 8.2 ▼ 8.1 These passes to you. What call would you make? Q.2—East–West vulnerable, as South, you hold. ● 170.7 A ▼ 8.10 9 ▼ 8.12 ▼ 19.3

West	North	East	South
●	●	Pass	●
●	Pass	Pass	7

What call would you make?

Q.3—Both vulnerable, as South, you hold

● 2.02 ▼ 8.10 8 ▼ 8.2 ▼ 8.2 19.6

Right-hand opponent opens one club. What call would you make?

Q.4—North–South vulnerable, as South, you hold

● 0.6 2 ▼ 8.4 7.5 ▼ 8.10 8.5 9 ▼

No feature, what is your opening hold?

Answers in Monday's correct pages.

— Bob Jones, Tribune Content Agency

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Chicago Tribune | Section F | Sunday August 16, 2024

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BROWNIES

Duettin By Steve Kelley and Jeff Parker

The Lockhams

By Bunny Hoest and John Reiner

"HURTEN THAN HAVEN, IT'S STALE TO BE ABLE TO KNOW HOW MANY AD TO STAY ON THE LINE TO TAKE A SATISFACTION GATHER."

I THINK YOU CAN'T HELP GETTING ME IN THE EVENT THAT YOU BUY, I WANT YOU BETTER, AND I'LL ALWAYS BE GLAD YOU'RE MY SOUTH.

"IT MUST BE THE LATEST FASHION BECAUSE I COULD NEVER WEAR THAT."

"I'VE GIVEN TO TAKE A MAN... I WANT ME WHEN IT'S BOOTING."

"I'M GOING TO TAKE A MAN... I WANT ME WHEN IT'S BOOTING."

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Motta By Patrick McDonnell

The Mindletons By Ralph Dunagin and Dana Summers

Doonesbury By Garry Trudeau

Prickly City By Marshall Ramsey