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By Finnegan Babasu CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Oscar Ortega likes to sit out on his porch in South Deering and watch cars go by the did, at least, before the stand.

"When we moved here, my wife actually liked the scenery," Ortega said. "We look like a small town scenery, you know, just a few houses, lots of trees. But then something just dipped us right in the face, the other."

His house is next to Pullman Innovations, a facility that creates ingredients used in animal food. And since management changed a decade ago, Ortega, 91, said pungent smells on days the plant operates have prevented him from going outside or opening the windows.

On Aug. 5, Illinois Attorney General Berane Rand and the city of Chicago used A-F Acquisition LLC, which operates under the name Pullman Innovations. The lawsuit alleged that the company allowed excessive odors, caused illegal air pollution, constructed a boiler without permit that could cause or contribute to air pollution, and violated certain conditions of the operating permit at its Chicago facility, according to a news release.

Two days later, the attorney general issued another news release announcing a lawsuit against three companies alleging they endangered the environment and public safety by allowing fires to break out at the Harbor View water facility, a closed landfill site

'AN APRIL, A SMELL'

Excessive odors, landfill fires are next round in Southeast Side's battle against pollution

Top: The Pullman Innovations plant site just a few blocks from residential buildings on the Southeast Side of Chicago on Tuesday. ARTHUR MARSHALL & CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Above: Oscar Ortega, who has read Pullman Innovations, looks west from his home toward the facility on Monday as he discusses his class-action lawsuit and the odors emitting from the nearby plant. ANTONIO PEREZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

about a miles from Pullman Innovations.

The Southeast Side has long built with industrial pollution and environmental justice issues, but in recent years residents won two major victories.

Approved for a mental shocking plan in the community, won't be had for the court before being blocked in 2024 amid outcry from residents and activists. After reaching litigation with community groups and customers from the state environmental agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dropped its plan to expand a toxic waste dump along the Lake Michigan duration in 2025.

Gina Ramirez, director of Midwest environmental health at the Natural Resources Defense Council, lives in East Side, several miles away from the fires. Even so, she said it still smelled like a forest for near her home and the community for about a week.

Ramirez said there's a lot of "doggy-pumping" by companies claiming they aren't responsible for bad odors or self-pollution. The same often scenario he ors community members to press otherwise, but she said that can be difficult for Southeast Side residents struggling to make code meet and find the time for such efforts.

Ramirez said government entities need to stop up. "It shouldn't fall on the community to be constantly doing this," she said.

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency referred the

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DJ and husband released from ICE custody, but fight not over

By Allison Kistel CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Local DJ and rising star Omar David Panquero, who goes by the stage name DJ TUNJO, and his husband, Santiago Píez, lives here released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody on bond. But the Legal fight to stay in the United States is far from over.

Panquero, 26, and Piez, 21 of Colombia, were arrested by ICE agents at Midway International Airport on Aug. 2, where they were not to be used a flight to the nation's capital, there is follow-regulation reporter КакolGivinar across the country to DO not see if unofficial after-parties.

Now, after being released on Aug. 12, the tour and their careers are on pausa as they fight to obtain legal status in the United States. While it's possible for DJ TUNJO to headline more КакolGivinar parties, it's uncertain.

"This is our city. We moved here because there are safe space. We were reform here in many ways," said Panquero, who was seeking airfare with his husband because of the persecution they faced in Colombia as members of the LGBTQ+ community. "We have a big community here that we are always looking to give back to, to do things for. So for us seeing

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Omar David Panquero, known as DJ TUNJO, left, another husband, Santiago Píez, at Galeria Chicago on Tuesday. The Colombian couple was detained by immigration agents at Midway International Airport earlier this month while beginning a mutlucky tour to DJ after-parties of tandem with Colombian year star KANOLGivar. Partners regularly performs at Galeria Chicago. JOHN J. KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

NASCAR won't race in Chicago in 2027

Organization confirms it will put Joliet back on schedule next summer

By Robert Channick CHICAGO TRIBUNE

The streets of Grant Park will not echo with the sounds of 200 mph race cars in 2027.

Running out of time to strike a deal with the city, NASCAR pulled the drag Tuesday on the return of the Chicago Street Race for next summer, but is still hoping to bring it back here the road.

Meanwhile, NASCAR confirmed it is putting Chicago head Speedway in Joliet back on the schedule again next summer after a successful return to the drag, which continued suburban track over July Fourth weekend.

NASCAR had been hoping to get both Chicago and Joliet on track for 2027.

"While we will not be racing on the streets of Chicago in 2027 despite genuine joint efforts by both NASCAR and our partners at the city and state level, we remain committed to the Chicago land region and would welcome the opportunity to bring the NASCAR Chicago Street Race back at some point in the future," NASCAR said in a statement.

The Chicago Street Race, which turned Grant Park into a pop-up urban successes over July Fourth weekend from 2021 to 2025, went on hiatus this year while NASCAR and the city explored even to minimize disruption and maximize

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President pushes plan for forests

Proposal would open 45M acres of pristine areas to development

By Lisa Friedman and Maxine Jousine THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration set Tuesday advanced a plan to open nearly 45 million acres of wilderness in natural forests to lead construction and logging, removing protections that had been in place for a quarter century.

The proposal by the U.S. Forest Service would repeal the 2001 "residues rule," enacted during the Clinton administration to preserve the wild nature of forest land. It comes as President Donald Trump possesses the agency to increase logging and to thus forests to prevent wilds.

The repeal would hand a major victory to Republican aid states and industry groups that have argued for years that the prohibition have hindered economic development. More than a dozen lawsuits have unsuccessfully sought to strike down the rule.

During his first term, Trump stepped into a move from Boston's Tongue National Forest, the largest intact temperate rainforest in the world, only for the Biden admin-

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Filin' the villain role

29 years after A.J. Pierzynski became a City Series villain, Pete Crow Armstrong steps into the wild. On Monday, he walked off 4 blocks, night at the Club beat the bus 7-5 in 10 innings. Sports

Google loosens political filter

The company has quietly rolled out a program that will allow candidates, political parties and political action committees to more easily send funds using appeals and bypass Gmail's spam filter. Nation & World, Page B4

Not your grandma's gathi

Mirror Tiger, a Korean restaurant in Chicago's West Town neighborhood that opened in May 2025 as an ode to a grandmother's home cooking, has become a new chef's culinary coming of age. Food & Health

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Northwestern to re-amp African Studies program, cut some staffers

By Kate Perez CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Northwestern University officials deny anyone that the school is closing to the school. Program of African Studies, saying it is instead undergoing administrative changes.

The New York-based program will move from being one of the school's "Research Institution and Center" under the university's Office for research to bring administered and the Office of the Provost, NYU Vice President for Global Marketing and Communications. Ken Yates announced in an email to the Tribune.

The Office for Research in NYU's main hall for supporting, managing, and advising the University's building is the website, while the Office of the Provost provides resources and infrastructure to the university community, including a to ensure the city policies and connect faculty with a wide range of career and work life resources.

Several academic programs are affiliated with African Studies, which educates undergraduate students across disciplines through lectures, seminars, workshops, conferences and research programs, according to the program's website. The number of courses offered will not change with the shift. Yates said.

"The change was implemented on a campus available program and to ensure its success going forward," Yates said in the email to the Tribune. "Courses and research will continue, and the program's current endowment will remain intact."

The number of faculty positions will also stay the

Northwestern University in Evanston on Sept. 19, 2025. A. JASON MASSIGAN/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

same throughout the transmission. However, two staff positions in the Office of Research - where the program was previously focused - are being dedicated. For Megan, work, the program consists of operations and outreach programming, co-sponsorship, publication and grant development, the shift came as about.

Keeth told the Tribune she was notified her position was cut on Aug. 5. In the 16th over a decade that Keeth was a 90% she and other staff members worked as part on funding, including applying for grants from government agencies like the Department of Education, the State Department and the Fulbright Program, as well as with student support.

Now, Keeth is scrambling to tie-up howe ends and disappear tanks before her job concludes at the end of the month, although she said she feels like she does not have much information about the changes. For Keeth, questions linger about how the program could be reduced and there will run with the loss of staff. The program also has a dedicated building with keynote archives and art with a future

she's unclear about, she said. "There's still academic programs that need to be managed, they have endowment funding that's dedicated specifically to African Studies as students in its fieldwork language studies," Keeth said. "All of that has been managed by somebody else, somewhere else, to whatever part of the university's success."

According to Yates, the African Studies program will be supported by other, already existing staff positions. The Office of the Provost also announced Monday that current 90% political science professors and department Chair William Rene will serve as the program's interim director come Sept. 19. Sometimes a course for Rene, who previously led the program for six years from 2012 through 2018.

In an interview with the Tribune Monday's seminar, Rene described his interim position and the changes as a "holding pattern" for the program, which he said does not easily align under the Office of the Provost or the Office of Research.

"The way that I view it is that the process is a third party, and (the program) has

not others for the time being because where it has been as doesn't want it," Rene said. "Maybe the College of Arts and Sciences is one in which it has divided responsibility but we don't know what the institutions are, and that will have to be negotiated."

Rene agreed to take the program as a "longer time" to negotiate for facilities faculty members and African Studies community over the next four months period. Several "thoughts" positions are in the same way that families who have been filled with the day during questions from elsewhere, almost and so further - interest that the University's program is not outside the university and is serious. In added

That's a signal that, as we come up in the Keeth's about, there is no need to be able to watching the university to see if it really supports African Studies and the people, the alumni, the students, the faculty, the donors that think that this is important," Rene said.

Beyond that, Rene believes the university's reputation is tied to what happens with the historic African Studies program. Right now, the university has an opportunity to concentrate the program and build confidence, a chance that Rene said he hopes the institution does not disengage. "They need to show us in the next four months that they are earning the trust of all the people who can about African Studies, and it's a vast alumni network, heads of state, directors of central banks, regular folks, all kinds of people, and they're all over the world. And when they do know, what is Northwestern University's position at, there are people who say, 'it's African Studies,'" Rene said.

Chicago Teachers Union vice President Jackson Fisher speaks with the news outside Chicago Public Schools's headquarters on Aug. 19, 2025. ARMAND L. SANCHEZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

CTU uses the Illinois Policy Institute and Liberty Justice Center, alleging 'ongoing smear campaign'

By Kate Armanini CHICAGO TRIBUNE

The Chicago Teachers Union is using the Illinois Policy Institute and the Liberty Justice Center, alleging in a defamation complaint that the proposal was "unconstitutional, liberal, coordinated and ongoing smear campaign" through social media print and articles aimed at honoring the union's reputation.

The two groups have crossed the CTU's "financial mismanagement and other misconducts," with evidence designed for the security of these accusations "according to the complaint, filed Monday in the Circuit Court of Cook County."

In a news release, CTU Vice President Jackson Fisher accused the Union's every Institute and the Liberty Justice Center of pushing "evident falsehoods."

"We are standing up to a right direction that has been peddling outright but and please, who is meant to undo the public education system we children who are looking for, and we cannot that give working people a voice," Fisher said.

She named in the complaint in Austin Berg, IPTA vice president of

marketing. IPT describes itself as a songwriter, research organization, but it promises she was not an conservative policy inform.

Anyday, her son for the Illinois Policy Institute said the nonprofit is "reviewing the case of the time." The Liberty Justice Center said the commitment the complaint is "filled with formal requirements and time-honored trustees."

"This lawsuit attempts to turn criticism and unfair concerning legitimate questions about CTU's financial reporting and years deduced audits into defamation," the state's official.

Much of the herest坊 has been ongoing, scroful of the union's audit reports. The Liberty Justice Center is using CTU on behalf of her members for allegedly defamation and the public documents since 2019. The case is still pending, but Cook County judge recently ordered discovery to ensure forward.

The union also faced an inquiry from the Republic can-led CIA House Committee on Education and the confidence, and the state's reports. CTU, which has been released from the CIA's Trump administration, contended the probe was politically motivated. In her

initial letter to the union, committee Chairman Rep. Tim Waffeng, R-Mich., cited an Illinois Policy Institute article and social media problem. Berg.

CTU has argued that the audit reports have since been made and/or to consider it, in the complaint, CTU said that documents were delayed due to COVID-19 and intelligence over it its outside auditor.

Still, the union says, IPT and the Liberty Justice Center "made public accusations that CTU engaged in criminal activity and fraud surveillance in its audits, using the same language, immensals, and inflammatory graphics."

The complaint cites several posts on it from the Liberty Justice Center, including a graphic of Peter and CTU's research on the Davis Davis Center's account, and the company's report on the First Amendment.

CTU represents 30,000 teachers, that uses and pays professionals in Chicago Public Schools. The union has been a powerful way to provide the payment of the First Amendment.

But the union's top brass hat at times faced criticism for its hard-changing leadership style. Recent polling commissioned by IPT has shown that CTU's popularity has declined. During the 2024 school board election, users were divided into 14 new CTU's handouts and done on contested districts. The union has endorsed 47 board hopefuls in the upcoming November election. Johnson has set to announce his bid for a second term but remains a due CTU bill.

The complaint points to the proposal use of the word "voice" in the New Jersey's articles to describe CTU's leadership and its finances, which it describes as a "personalized effort." It also links to a motion run by IPT, a new CTU.com, which encourages members to opt out of the union to save money on dues.

In a news release, John Dewey, CTU's director for the new, said the union "provides public debate is important," but IPT and the Liberty Justice Center made "knowingly false and malicious statements" to counter the unwarranted claims.

CTU is seeking both compensatory and positive damages.

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3 arrested at Wrigley during City Series

Sources: None were related to viral brawl in bleachers

By Caroline Kutsunsky and Evgenia Anastasakis CHICAGOTRISUME

Chicago police arrested three people during Monday night's City Series spacer when the Cubs beat the White Sun in extra innings, but police sources say the arrests were not connected to a brawl that erupted in the stadium bleachers toward the end of the game.

Instead, Chicago police were called to Wrigley Field and found paranoia amending to a man with a nosebleed.

The man, age 28, told Town Hall (9th) District police officers that someone had "stolen punched" him near one of the stadium bathrooms, according to court records. Police arrested David Cregan, 41, of the Archer Heights neighborhood, and charged him with battery and possession of 25 grams of cocaine.

A 29-year-old man and a 33-year-old woman also were arrested Monday night. Each was charged with misdemeanor trespassing, according to department representatives.

On Tuesday, Cregan appeared before Cook County Judge John Black before that five minutes Tuesday afternoon at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse, when prosecutors said police found drugs on him during a post-arrest search.

He's only remark was to ask, "He was at the Cubs game with 25 grams of cocaine."

He ordered Cregan released pending trial and barred him from having

Face light in the bleachers while the White Sun play the Cubs during the eighth inning of the City Series at Wrigley Field on Monday. ARMANDO L. SANCHEZ/CHICAGOTRISUME

contact with Wrigley Field or the alleged punching victim.

The Cook County public defenders' office, which was appointed to represent Cregan, didn't immediately respond to an email request for comment.

Meanwhile, a brawl in the bleachers went viral on

Tuesday across social media. The Cubs' All-Star center further Pete Crow-Armstrong called that fight "unfortunate and somewhat nauseating."

While Crow-Armstrong and he didn't think the places focused on the clout-town rivalry on the field, he acknowledged that "you've

got people in the stands competing too."

"All I don't do is really good for the city having a lot of us playing the kind of baseball on an and putting power out there like we did tonight," he said.

Chicago Cubs spokesperson Jennifer Martinez told the Tribune that he said to a

"top priority"

"We work closely with our public safety partners to respond to decisions at the ballpark and appreciate their partnership in addressing the situation last night," she wrote in an email.

Fighting, along with taunting and making "threatening gestures or remarks,"

is strictly prohibited by the Wrigley Field's code of conduct. The Cubs and the Sun will face 40-gam Tuesday evening and once more Wednesday afternoon.

Chicago Tribune Stephen Miesner to and Tom Kenny contributed reporting.

Till Institute Summer Academy brings teens together to talk about social justice

By Darval Beckett CHICAGOTRISUME

The day independent autopsy results were shared for Nelon Wells, an 18-year-old Black student whose death of the court of Mississippi days after a Fourth of July holiday hour was captured national attention, 32 young learners at the Chicago History Museum were having in-depth discussions about the significance of another young Black teenage-Emmett Till.

Till would have been a octogenarian had the young Chicagoan not been slam in Mississippi while visiting family in summer 1955 at age 18. His death still remains, according to Christopher Benson, Till Institute co-founder, journalist, attorney and associate professor at Northwestern University.

"I've been aware of the social constructs that have been built for many generations, that people have been discriminated against and judged for the color of their skin," Mike Ventana, 17, a student at DeVry University Advantage Academy, said. "We are just covering up the mistakes that America has been making... it's sad. It's still happening; people don't acknowledge it enough, but people are doing not here. literally. Why don't we solve that?"

Ventana was among those gathered for the four-week past, immorely educational program called the Summer Academy, where Chicago are more explicit history, an printing and social justice.

The program, conducted by the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley Institute, brought high schoolers together to welcome their talk about themes of power, imagery and narratives surrounding Till's legacy under the theme "Emmett Till: Emotional intelligence, an American Reckoning." The discussion was wide-ranging, proposed with topics such as democracy, diversity, equity and inclusion,

Till was a native town, a participant in the Till Institute Summer Academy, known as a drawing of a baseball jersey with Emmett Till's last name at the Chicago History Museum on July 22. TERENCE ANTONO JAMES/CHICAGOTRISUME PHOTOS

sion, censorship and cultural appropriation.

Finding meaning is stories recounting American history, field trips to local sites of the Till narrative — Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Brownsville, where Till's homegrown was held — were among the activities.

Mornings were spent in group conversation about powerbroidism and resistance as seen through the lens of Till's case. Afternoons were set aside for "artistic" or activism and art. Students produced video/photocopies to write that interpreted the "American Reckoning" theme and were featured in the museum in conversation with the museum's coasting Emmett Till exhibition. Raymond Thomas, curator-director of The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley Institute and curator of the exhibit "From Memory to Movement: Emmett at 85°

overcave the art aspect of the curriculum.

On that July afternoon, Natalie Morris, 15, a Whitney Young student, was here creating art that incorporated the American flag. She joined this year's Summer Academy because she likes history, especially Black History. Morris plans to practice law and reject research. She learned a little bit about Till in school, but said the Summer Academy desponsored understanding.

All lessons come unstorytelling, teaching students how to find the truth in narratives and analyze them critically — so youth can apply what they learned to current social challenges, Benson said.

Participation in the year's Summer Academy nearly doubled, according to Erica Griffin-Palmon, the director of education for the Chicago History Museum. "Our young

Art created by part experts in the Till Institute Summer Academy, a six-month-long educational program for young people, 385 on a table at the Chicago History Museum on July 22.

people are frustrated by the world that we have left them to connect with, with, with and in the future," Griffin-Palmon said. "We acknowledge the harms of history while keeping the windows and of the doors open for the program."

rose that could come with our support today and their initiative at the future. We're talking about the past, but connecting the past to the present in unique ways, and providing them the space to have a say."

Kelly Arora, 17, a Northside College Pre-student, looked forward to being a part of the Summer Academy because her name enjoyed doing it last year.

"My course was visiting and seeing there is coming out and having really good conversation made me interested," she said. "I had spent the previous summer doing art and I wanted to continue doing art, so being able to have these conversations and learn about history in a different way to why I wanted to join this program."

The premise that kids need to be protected from the kind of information is ridiculous. Benson said, as evidenced by current Summer Academy students who are children of religion and immigration, Benson said they came to the program because they grew up hearing the stories of attention their parents experienced, and saw commonality between them and the Emmett Till experience.

"The other effort that we're engaging is to show that the Black experience is a gateway to understanding the experience of all people who've been marginalized," Benson said. By reframing the dominant narrative with a counter-narrative of the American experience, Benson said it shows that sharing with a mother and motherhood plurality does not mean losing power — it's addition, not subconscious. Benson said that's something the students understand and the narratives that the Summer Academy advances.

"Promises were made in the 18th century that have not been fulfilled (Declarations of Independence, the World of July). Emmett Till stands as a stark reminder of the challenges we still face," he said. "Emmett Till is challenging us to invest forward in understanding the future — not censoring, not banning books — but being spent a full and thorough discussion of our history in order to chart our way forward."

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defendants is both lawsuits. The agency declined to speak on Pullman Innovations, directing comments to the Illinois attorney general's office. That office declined to answer questions regarding specifics of both cases, including why it took so long for the government to take action.

Mayor Brandon Johnson is also suing Pullman Innovations, according to the news release. In response to a Tribune inquiry, the office sent over a comment on behalf of Department of the Federal Communications, Angela Tovar. She wrote that the Bureau of Environmental Permitting and Inspection conducted various inspections and issued violations to Pullman Innovations.

"The City is now taking legal action due to the facility's continued failure to meet its responsibilities in the community," Tovar wrote.

Representatives from Pullman Innovations did not respond to a request for comment.

SHELLS BECOME A CLASS ACTION

The Southeast Side was once home to one of the largest concentrations of steel mills on Earth as well as significant labor rights movements in the 20th century. During World War I, Black America's striking economic opportunities formed a strong presence in the community, according to the Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project. The loss of industrial jobs hit many of these work on the borders.

Today, a large portion of South Georgia has an environmental justice index score of 916 on a scale that was set at 149, according to map on the Chicago Health Atlas, a database created by the Chicago Department of Public Health and the University of Massachusetts. The composite score of cumulative impacts reflects communities in Chicago that are most headquartered in the area of most vulnerable to its effects.

According to the database, more than 60% of the eight Northeast is Black and more than 30% Latino.

During a recent visit by the Tribune, East 100th Street outside Pullman Innovations smelled somewhat between cotton eggs and manure. This odor was barely proven to be a major factor in the although he said it's much worse when the facility is active. That could be at any time of the day, any day of the week of the year.

"On really bad days, it smells like a handful of everything worst fish, dead animal, something that must not be used to make it's not an avid, awful snuff.

Ortega said, "The North Carolina outside mostly is driving his wife to work. Many young people and also have that luxury. Homeowners

The house on Escanaba Avenue where Oscar Ortega lives on the Southeast Side of Chicago on Tuesday. ANTHUR MAJORELLA/CHICAGO TIMELINE

A truck passes the Harbor View facility at 2000 S. U2nd St. in Chicago on Monday. ANTONIO PÉREZ/CHICAGO TIMELINE

The Pullman Innovations facility in Chicago on Monday. "On really bad days, it smells like a handful of everything worst, fish, dead animal, something that must not be used to make it's not an avid, awful snuff." ANTONIO PÉREZ/TIMELINE

also can't sell their houses, as Ortega said their property values have decreased due to the smell.

His two children, when still living with him, stayed locked inside or always hung out at a friendly home, Ortega said.

"Being able to take advantage of a cookout, you know, together with friends, that doesn't happen," he said.

Odors from Pullman Innovations affected nearby schools and church, according to the attorney general's flow release. This allegedly caused the cancellation of school courses, and decreasing weddings and funerals.

Ortega said residents wanted together and held community meetings for a few years at a neighborhood church, bringing in lawyers, activists and government representatives.

Liddle Sheets P.C.,

Detroit-based law firm specializing in neighborhood environmental pollution, became involved in those meetings. Ortega said residents contacted the first about few years ago hoping for legal action against Pullman Innovations, but some of them declined to take the role of lead plaintiff.

He accepted, "Maybe that is the opportunity that we, as a community, have been looking for," he said.

Judge Caroline Katz Mankind granted a request to turn the Iowa unions to class action in October, according to a news release from Liddle Sheets P.C., the law firm representing Oregon Class actions are a type of case where individuals or groups can use on behalf of a much larger collection of people.

About 2,000 households are affected by Pullman Innovations, according to

the news release.

"We believe that it wouldn't be fair for our individual to (specifically the lawsuit without the community actually benefiting from it," Ortega said, referring to why he wanted the case to be given class action status. "We just wanted to do what ever situation that they're coming.

A court dam has not yet been set, he said.

Ortega said the attorney general's lawsuit against A-F is a question. LLC is "proposed if it took over a charge for the government to take action.

Pullman Innovations's lawyers are there to put a legally significant amount of odors came from their facility, according to court documents. They took issue with the scope of individual's talk included in the collection and wrote Ortega's

allegations "are so exaggerated and there is only that he cannot adequately represent the class he purports to lead."

FIRES NEARBY

When Ramirez heard about how a school landfill was on April, she drove to see the school, in a restaurant by Ramirez to the Tribune, a man of smoke can be seen spending even fields next to a body of water and lifting into the sky.

"I was worried about my own income the bus office and it was, you know, beautiful spring days," Ramirez said. "I was eager to open up my windows, and I couldn't see it."

HEPA inspectors also surveyed the landfill site, which included in 2005, according to the attorney general's investigation. The inspectors found large piles of waste and smoldering litter. There were also active fires near a well designed kerosene washout, which might flammable.

The lawsuit names three defendants from Island Reclamation Co., Land and Lakes Co. and I.L.W. Trucking LLC.

Land and Lakes oversees

several waste management facilities, according to its website. Stony Island Reclamation is a subsidiary of Land and Lakes and oversees the Harbor View landfill.

In a written statement to the Tribune, Stony Island Reclamation wrote that 21.36 Trucking was a tenant at the closed landfill. Stony Island Reclamation alleges in the statement that 21.36 Trucking's nonmanagement "led to the conditions that may have caused the fires" and it talk this north both the company and local governments.

21.36 Trucking did not respond to a request for comment.

Ramirez said she doesn't think people on Chicago's North Side drive their children year landfill fires. But living on the Southeast Side, she said it's the norm for her. That's why she said the government needs to take action against millions, so it has with the no cost lawsuits.

"It's a step in the right direction, step in order, of course, because so many people have suffered for so long, but I hope to see more of that," Ramirez said.

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attention to restore them in 2025

This time, the Forest Service is already a good time for the 1st half of the volupied acres within the Tongas, as well as millions more acres of pristine wildness across the rest of the United States.

"For too long, outdated restrictions have been seen of millions of favored acres off doors to the very room-mores that improve forest health and reduce wildlife risk to our communities," Brooks Rollins, the secretary of the Agriculture Department, which includes the Forest Service, said in comment.

Environmentalists said the plan would destroy untroubled landscapers, including visual holes and all migratory species and headwaters for major municipal water supplies. Multiple advocacy groups are expected to move block the city.

"By ripping protections from over a day of the United States, the Trump administration is endangering the development of the region's590 tons of millions and threatening wildlife habitats and recreation opportunities to almost every state," said Steve McConville, a senior fellow

Uranish in Sitka Sound are seen in Alaska's Tongas/National Forest. CHRISTOPHER MILLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES 2024

of the Center for American Progress, a liberal research organization.

Roadless areas make up about 20% of all national forest land, encompassing nearly 60 million acres of America's last wild area and 4.6-growth forests. They are home to more than half of imperiled wildlife, including grizzly bears, wolves, elk, salmon and sedentans. Forest land in the United States also absorbs millions of tons of carbon per year,

helping slow climate change. The proposal would affect the management of 44.7 million acres nationally. Idaho and Colorado have their own regulations that supersede the federal rule and handle these states from being affected by any change in national policy.

Damien Schiff, a senior attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation, a libertarian public minister for firm that has been fighting the roadless rule in the Tongas

National Forest, said he believed the federal protections had harmed mining, timber production and other economic development. In Alaska, he argued, restrictions around the Tongas have made it difficult for surrounding communities to connect to the city's goals.

"It has been very strong, impact on the use of the untimed forest for productivity activity generally," Schiff said. The Trump administration and many Republicans argue

that the ability to build roads would enable firefighters to more easily reach forest fires.

"For 10 years, the heavy thumb of Washington, DC, has hindered Montana's ability to properly manage wildlife risk and road forest damage on nearly 60% of Forest Service land across the "Fresnoe State," Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte, a Republican, said in a statement.

Kodaguete largely agree that the government needs to improve the areas it manages forest land. But experts do not agree that cutting down pristine forests to build more roads is the best way to do it.

In fact, some western roads could actually increase the threat of wildfires—pretty because roads form people. Nearly 85% of wild lives begin with human activity, such as discarded cigarette butts, burning debris or sparks from equipment, research has shown roads can also be carried for invasive species, including flammable plants.

"Introducing roads and human activities is a must-hur, otherwise radionuclide will increase wildfires where the risk is currently low," said Alexandra Szybard, a senior research coologist with a lower status through Institute, a nonprofit group based in Oregon. "The contention of impact of that could actually be creating a worse situation."

Democrats from Western states said they believed wildfire arguments were designed to hide the administration's real goal: enabling more bigling.

Trump has made timber production a top priority. Last year, he called for a 25% increase in logging from untimed forests and directed agencies to bypass endangering/prescription and other environmental regulations to make it possible.

Rollins then issued a secretarial memo declaring an 'unmapped situation' in national forests, establishing a process for the Forest Service to find track logging by cutting short public participation and legal reviews.

After the proposal is published in the Federal Register, which is expected later this week, the Forest Service will accept public comments before making the rule final.

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results for both.

The street race was held instead at San Diego's Naval Base Coronado in June on a one-year deal. NASCAR was working on a return to Chicago in 2027, but was unable to reach a deal before finalizing next year's schedule this month.

Among the obstacles was a $10 million funding gap in a state grant to help NASCAR deliver costs. The state appropriated $1 million in the fiscal year 2027 budget, while NASCAR was seeking a $15 million grant.

Chicago uses race fans will still get a chance to see NASCAR's top drivers battle it out on the asphalt next summer – but just a little farther from the streets of downtown Chicago.

NASCAR announced Tuesday the Cup Series is returning to Joliet after a successful cut this summer.

Chicagoland Speedway, which hadn't hosted a NASCAR event since 2016, was packed over July Fourth weekend with 50,000 fans from 11 countries and all 50 states watching Chase Briscoe take the checkered flag.

In 2025, the Cup Series event is scheduled to take place June 2027, at the 1.5-mile real speedway in the southwest suburbs.

'The fan response this year was overwhelming, as we're thinking about to honor that turnout with another milestone weekend of racing in Joliet,' league Barriers, general manager of Chicagoland Speedway, said in a news release. 'I grew up coming to this track without family, so to see it year back to life this year and return to the NASCAR competition schedule in 2027 is extremely like their.'

Joliet's gain may be Chicago's loss.

Despite battling nonretiad downpaves and backlash from some residents and petitions, the nationally released Chicago Street Race drive significant numbers of new fans to attend and call their eyes. Listened eighty-millionest viewers across the

Here check out a pace car on display at the NASCAR Chicago Street Race in Grant Park on July 6, 2025. BRIAN CASIELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS

People along Michigan Avenue catch a glimpse of the race through the barriers on July 6, 2025, during the NASCAR Chicago Street Race in Grant Park.

'It's damage in three-year run. 'Chicago was proud to host NASCAR and bring a

major sporting event to our city,' surprised spokesperson said in a statement Tuesday.

'The race provided an opportunity to showcase Chicago's global audience and demon-

strated the potential of our streets and downtown as a setting for major events.'

The 2024 Chicago Street Race also generated $128 million in total economic impact and drew $1,034 unique visitors, according to a study commissioned by Johnson Chicago, the city's tourism arm. The race also generated $43.6 million in media value for Chicago that was, according to a company-company.

'The event was not, however, a direct financial windfall for either the city or NASCAR.

The city turned a slight profit on the actual race with the advent of an annual $2 million payment from NASCAR, which ran in the red all three years at the Chicago Street Race.

While Chicago remains in the schedule for the second

year in a row, NASCAR will maintain the downtown office it opened in 2022 to launch the street race, and will continue the community programs it implemented in conjunction with the event, a spokesperson said Tuesday.

In its statement, the mayor's office headed NASCAR's continued investment in the city, and kept the door open for the return of the street race.

'We remain open to discussing the future of NASCAR in Chicago and look forward to continuing to build partnerships that bring new opportunities to Chicago, create value for residents, and advance our vision for a safer, more affordable Chicago,' the mayor of spokesperson said.

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COUPLE

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ourselves chained, handcuffed on a bus with battalions out of Chicago – we were crying and crying.

Before the arrest, the couple applied for asylum status and were working in the country with a legal work permit, according to their immigration attorney Enrique Espinosa. They remained in the country for an 'authorized period of stay,' which is now a legal status, but a period of time following asylum positions when the government is aware of an individual's presence.

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In the past, those immigrants generally were not prioritized for deportation unless they had consumed crimes, according to Immigration law experts. Under President Donald Trump, however, visa evenings are increasingly being treated with the crime, and the subject to enforcement, marking the latest tactic in his push to carry out his promised mass deportation campaign, troubling immigration advocates.

'There's a changing the norm, and there's dictating all those individuals that in the past need to have any issues,' Espinosa said.

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson and Espinosa confirmed that Pasquera and Piiez were both released from ICE custody with bond on Aug. 12.

The men do not have any criminal history, their attorney says, and DHB has not listed any such record, either. First of, Espinosa says the couple's arrest appears to align with what immigration attorneys across the country have observed in recent months as an increase in ICE arrest or airports of people traveling domestically with expired visas but pending immigration cases.

Omar David Pasquera, known as DJ TULKA, 49, and his husband, Santiago Páez, 146 on Tuesday about their experience being detained by immigration agents. JOHN J. KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

'My job was to get them out on bond, and that's what I did,' Espinosa said. 'Now, they need to continue their case in front of an immigrant judge in create adverse, exciting in who is they need to demonstrate that they are or should be eligible for the release that they're seeking.'

'There is no timeline for how long it could take for Pasquera and Piiez's legal case to trickle through the immigration court system. It could take weeks or years, Espinosa said.

'I always say that I encourage people to be really careful when talking about immigration processes because you're talking about charactering, a family, chumsy,' Pasquera said. 'There's a very indication in a way when you have to keep defending and keep going to assist to everyone in who you deserve to be somewhere.'

Pasquera and Piiez said it was the support of their community that helped get them through the detention. The couple had become embedded in Chicago's nightlife, curating events and performing in some of Chicago's most popular venues. Earlier this summer, Pasquera performed a set at Inschin Music Festival of Grant Park.

A GoRoadMe, started by Piiez's name, has a land more than $23,000 to support the couple.

'Chicago gave us a bag and saved us in this situation,' Piiez said. 'It backed us up

and gave us the strength to continue fighting.'

Pasquera recounted the moment he found himself sitting on a DHB bus with bars covering the windows, shackled at the water, waist and ankles. His husband, Piiez, also cuffed, was beside him. Instead of headlining a walk out Washington, D.C., when the couple was in ICE custody traveling from its processing center in Broadview to, at the time, an unknown location.

'They tried. The men were taken to City County jail in Indiana, where they slept on the floor for their first night in detention and where the couple married, was held separately from one another.

'There's a lot we have to process from detention, but legally and recovering mentally, physically,' Pasquera said.

Additionally, Piiez said community members sent letters to the judge asking for the couple's release, telling about the impact Pasquera and Piiez had on their lives.

'There's a lot of hate of course, from so many people, from so many sides,' Pasquera said. 'For us, living this experience and going through the trauma, our hearts, our souls can entail it anymore. We really stand on the side of community, of unity, passion, compassion, which is truly what Chicago showed us while we were in there.'

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The growing political isolation of the Chicago Teachers Union

To be ascribed in politics, you need to attract all on and build coalitions. That's basic to the

The Chicago Teachers Union long ago rebolstered itself as a political power player and at its peak in 2020 managed to get one of the own, former CTV organizer Brandon Johnson, elected mayor of Chicago.

But now? As Johnson weighs whether to run for a second term in next year's election, CTV is money former friends and allies either become enemies or distance themselves from the union's pressure to act in and re-election. In other words, it's doing precisely the opposite of what one need to do to be an unethical politics.

The planet is example of CTV failing to win friends and influence people in its ongoing feud with Local TV of the Service Employees International Union over who gets to represent various non-teaching employees of Chicago Public Schools. Once the two were elected after and both played major role in getting Johnson elected.

Now, after a backing different candidates for Chicago school board president in the city's first-ever election of that position, You can read the views on CFF budget of all five candidates for board president, including CTV-endorsed Affairs, Dominguez and REO-endorsed Jessica Biggs, today to our pages.

But don't overlook the endorsement Monday of Dec. 28. Pritchett by the Illinois Education Association, the state's largest teacher union.

CTV is part of the other major umbrella group for teachers, the Illinois Federation of Teachers. And CTV and IFF have been hammering away at Pritchett for questioning their demands for $100 million in immediate funds to mass off health and furloughs Chicago Public Schools otherwise will have to impose to balance its budget for the coming school year. CTV and IFF haven't endorsed Pritchett's reduction but amid their pressure campaign.

No such qualms for IEA, whose membership in Amsterdam's suburban teachers whereas a third of IFF's membership are Chicago teachers. Stay's Davis Gates is president-forth of CTV and the IFF!

IEA President Karl Goehr took pains to say that his organization's backing of Pritchett didn't mean it was "at odds" with Davis Gates and the IFF. Of the push for $200 million more to Chicago Public Schools, he said, "I don't know enough about that to comment."

Perhaps Goehr has been on a long vacation, but—especially if public education is your business—you'd have to have been living under the perennial rock net to be up to speed on the Chicago school board's vote late last month to have a $100 million link in its budget and expect Springfield to

play it.

So we'll increase that IEA doesn't plan to put the national favor effort to bully Springfield into showing more cash at the bloated Chicago school season.

Speaking of Pulling, CTV on Monday filed a demand on lawsuit against the Illinois Policy Institute, a frequent critic of Davis Gates and the union. Noted in the complaint was IFF Vice President Austin Berg, who has broken much reporting ground on CTV's thought solutions with some of its own members and has been an articulate voice on television, podcasts and radio on the politics of public education in Chicago. The final defendant is the Liberty Justice Center, a nonprofit legal staff with a libertarian point of view.

Among IFF's allegedly defamatory actions was to use the word "not" to describe some of CTV's behavior, including the union's magnitude growth to make key 1st union-heidelick school budget to enable students to vote teachers representing for (younger and) more and from Springfield — a campaign that CFF CEO Margoline King thankfully wanted.

The complaint cites a couple of other instances of IFF's use of the word was to describe Davis Gates and the CTV.

Last we checked, the Pritchett-mindest right to live speech still exists in this country. And last we checked CTV was arguably the most influential political organization

in the city of Chicago. The idea that a think tank sitting around last night of center is "defaming" such a powerful play to tying a word well within the confines of political discourses is the risk.

Not to mention the obvious fact that Davis Gates herself knows lots of verbal sharp elbows at her political opponents and is hardly some she piling to let. Her barbe have been directed our way at times, and we have no problem with that. Comes with the territory. The same territory that CTV itself inhabits.

But, of course, this lawsuit is designed to intimidate.

All-important school board elections are beginning in November. IFF proved itself to be an effective source of information on the statutes of candidates in the 2024 board elections that elected 67 members, all 21 members (including president) are on the ballot that time around. Coming IFF into muzzling itself during this important period no doubt is a good.

It's not to like those that help to lose CTV and allocate the union, even from its organized labor friends. CTV is trying to have it both ways — to be a political movement shaker while claiming a should be immune to public criticism because all it's trying to do is represent its members.

Most ordinary Chicagoans, we trust, are through this attempt at changing the narrative.

Free Illinois tollways? Show us the math, Darren Bailey. But keep the conversation going

The Illinois Tollway board, which meets today, is expected to go on light a steep increase over time.

Now steep? The average increase in each toll being contemplated is 45 cents, which on some leg of Illinois' network of toll roads will benefit double the cost.

What's worse for drivers is that the proposal also would put toll hikes on auto-glot, with increases coming every two years starting in 2029.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey is pitching something wildly different: an end to tolls. Altogether.

It's a great popular pain point to prove on. It's hard to imagine anyone would be upset not to pay tolls anymore.

And yet most of us understand that there's no such thing as a free lunch. How in the world could such a thing be possible?

Tolls are protected to generate about $3.7 billion this year. The point of their money is to maintain the toll roads. Doing away with tolls would mean maintenance of the roads would have to come from some other funding source.

Bailer has effect the beginning of an answer. His plan calls for stopping new borrowing, paying down the toll and/or it's ending debt and ultimately eliminating tolls. His campaign also has suggested reducing money now spent on Chicago-area mass transit to maintain the roads.

But no escalation on how the math would actually work. How much money would be redirected? How quickly could more than $7 billion in existing debt to return? And once tolls disappear, how will the state pay to maintain and rebuild nearly 300 miles of roadway?

To retrain Republican in Illinois, you have to convince enough coercion and Democrats that you possess not only common sense, but real, workable plans.

These are the folks Bailey's likely targeting with far focus on the Illinois Tollway, our own many of those different by those hikes — both the immediate one and future increases — stands in the suburbs.

His opponent, Gov. JB Pritchett, who signed the truest package that paved the way for the coming increases, has written off Bailey's idea as "unrealistic."

"We believe that magic beats can take care of everything," Pritchett said.

If Bailey wants his campaign taken seriously, he'll have to be able to answer that criticism with a material plan.

Yes, tolls are high, as we've argued before

SCOTT STANTIL FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

still, we also appreciate the value of math, and if the money's get to come from somewhere, we would like to understand the source and how it'll work. As far as taxation goes, user fees — like road tolls — are about as good as it gets, because the cost applies directly to the person benefiting from a service, rather than tapping people who rarely drive on the toll roads.

The problem in Illinois, of course, is the body of work. Tolls don't exist in isolation, and they're hardly the only tax or fee drivers face. Our state pay tax stands at 48.4 cents per gallon, and it's set to go up again

on Jan. 1, 2027. The increase initially was supposed to take effect this summer, but was delayed as a form of "tappany relief" — albeit only 12 cents per gallon, or just a few bucks over the course of the six-month gas tax hike delay. Meanwhile, Indians were considerably further, temporarily suspending its fuel use and excise taxes. Turns out it helps to have your finances to order.

Many of these drivers are homeowners waiting to offer property tax tolls to arrive, who don't think they'll get.

To when these drivers hear about a toll hike, it's another chunk out of their pocket-

book. It all starts to add up.

To that end, Bailey certainly has struck a chord, and there are many people across the state looking for someone to champion tax relief.

Relief without a plan never ends up lasting long, and tends to end up making the pain worse in the long run.

We encourage Bailey to keep beating the drum on affordability, shifting the conversation toward tax cuts and spending reform — but to do that effectively, we'll need more details on the roadway to make that possible.

ON THIS DAY IS YEARS AGO THE CHOICE AHEAD

To every large thousands war merely imposed concentration upon the fundamental domestic problems with which the New Deal was never able to cope. The war experience contributed nothing to the solution of these problems, although the "the best" of the war still is the only one.

The "the best" of the war still is the only one. The "the best" of the war still is the only one. The "the best" of the war still is the only one.

Before congress adjourned Aug. 1 last, Bailey's call to the New Deal program for peace. There is a "the best" of the war still is the only one. The "the best" of the war still is the only one.

be avoided.

In brief, the New Deal program would let loose a flood of government spending at any time that forecast and not private enterprise causes supply jobs by the total and all-aid for them. It is provided that all workers must have "reាប់清政府公款".

Together with this general program the New Deal would probably a system of state medicine, would go into public housing on an enormous scale... and would remain in war upon business under the pretext of fighting money-lites and cartels.

Mr. Taft, of course, did not indulge in this sort of billings gate. He outlined a program which will preserve the Republic and achieve a prosperity utterly different from the ophement of sort envisioned by the New Dealers. He rejected, first, all the easy, upandthrift plans of the New

Deal which never, in 32 years, achieved their purpose. With equal insistence he demanded the removal of war time controls.

"Maximum employment and maximum business activity," said Mr. Taft, "was only be so sure the employment is a good entity. But the best necessary step to removing prosperity is to control freedom to individual and to business. You can't expect free enterprise to work unless in line."

That is exactly what the New Dealers are inviting in their post-war program for the nation... It would be a calamity of unimaginable proportions of this country, having fought and even a great war to preserve its liberty, should surrender unconditionally now that peace has returned.

Tribune editorial board, Aug. 19, 1945

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OPINION

What do the candidates for school board president think of the CPS budget?

Editor's note: The Chicago Board of Education passed a $9.99 billion budget on July 30, which included a last-minute amendment that anticipates $100 million in state funding. This amendment prevented the district from implementing layoffs, department cuts and upgrading fences.

Now that this controversial budget has been approved, what must Chicago Public Schools do now? Chicago Tribune Opinion asked each candidate running for school board president to respond to this question. Below are their answers, which have been edited for length and clarity.

I RAN A SCHOOL ON MONEY THAT NEVER CASH!

In 2016, when I was principal at Burke Elementary, I built a school year school dollars the state had not committed. That was not my choice. Illinois had gone years without passing a budget, and CPS built in plan on money it assumed Springfield would eventually send. So I hired the teachers that CPS told me I could, and when the money did not come, the debt was paid by my students, my families and my teachers.

I had to look at people who had built something around a promise and tell them if you gave. It broke my mind, and it was too many.

I thought about that on July 30, when the CPS board voted to amend its budget to include $100 million from the state that it has not committed on CPS. Not delayed. Not pending. Not committed. No bill, no vote, no signature. On paper only, the gap closed.

I voted for CEO Margulies King and her team and brought this board of tobacco budget that lived within what the district actually has. What the board passed instead manufactured a crisis. The board majority has done that before, attempting to max out the district's credit cards in 2023 with a $300 million operating fund that I opposed. Every dollar of interest is a dollar that never reaches a classroom. And if Springfield does not provide the planning that has never the gap, the bill arrives midyear and lands where it landed at Burke.

I would not know how to move over credit for what has happened since. Before that it is long, every principal and Local School Council to reopen budgets they had already painstakingly built, did hold those budgets in place and matched impacted teachers against needs principle themselves identified, in record time. But that is a rescue, not a plan, and you cannot raise district on request.

Service Employees International District and Tribe asked the 11 board members who voted to pass this amendment and product from every plan for protecting CPS schools and work on. They are right to ask.

That is why I will hold the presence in develop a midterm school that is a problem. This district's finances, built with labor, process, education, community and civic organization, and alcohol officials in Chicago and Springfield.

Students and teachers deserve to know that their school year will not be upendedly a noxious disobedient they had to part in creating.

—Anora Riggs

THIS BUDGET IS NOT BECAUSE!

As I have done work on the Board of Education, my North State Campus is now being the children! Passing a budget that relies on money we do not have hurts our children. It creates uncertainty for the very students, families, educators and school communities we are supposed to protect.

Eleven board members passed a budget for CPS that assumes an important role in our new revenue that currently does not exist. Despite their rhetoric that this budget is balanced, it is not. Assuming phantom revenue, with plans to spend it, is not a balanced budget. The budget is illegal and it is not a budget, so every real potential of midyear cuts and layoffs.

This is not responsible governance, nor is it in line with the budget. The committee of board members to the taxpayer on and district. I do not support the actions of my fellow board members and every day the abuses of the district. I am not the district not only this current school year but also in the areas to come.

Because of this noxious behavior, CPS must be very careful

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A fully of action for a proposed budget is displayed during a Chicago Board of Education meeting at Chicago Public Schools board quarters on July 30 in Chicago. The proposed budget passively are 9-7 votes for six electorates.

about its spending. In the near term, CPS must scrambles every contract, every dollar spent and every additional cost to programming, knowing that money is not coming from Springfield. We need to focus for the inevitable midyear cuts due to this fiscal malpractice by the board members who voted for it.

I and other members were in Springfield during this past session advocating for more funding. Gov. B. Pritzker and the General Assembly increased education spending. The board should have sure this is prepared to build on in the future. Instead, the 11 who passed this budget have hurt our finances and resold any goodwill with our partners in Springfield. In my conversation with legislators following this vote, I have assured them that despite this vote, after this upcoming decision, there will be more partners like our ready to work with them when it comes to CPS.

As I had to the future of this board and how I plan to lead in president of the Chicago Board of Education, my prioritization finances are the following: - advocate for responsible revenue, decrease our debt service and have the hard conversations about the structural deficits in CPS faces. - This is hard work. There will be tough decisions. But I will never shy away from hard work. —Jennifer Carter

SCHOOL BOARD DEMANDS ACCOUNTABILITY

The recently passed budget marked the first time in my lifetime the board voted to refuse our legislature's ballot of above charging students. Instead, they finally demanded accountability on behalf of CPS families.

By including under 7% of what the state owns our students, the board reversed permanent hunts and put us on the strongest looting for the school year ahead.

While Jessica Riggs and Jennifer Carter voted to lay off more than 2,000 teachers, librarians, clinicians and classroom assistants, as it is not a majority voted the other way. Despite my opponent's warning that the day was falling, CPS leadership is embracing

ing the vote, implementing the staffing change and calling for an all-friends-on-deck push on Springfield.

The vote exposed what even the Tribune Editorial Board admitted "There's no way to solve CPS's problems solely through school closures anyway. Some help from the state always was going to be to be part of the solution." It also exposed my opponent's pledges of "full funding" and "a quality school in every neighborhood" as499我很高兴，我希望能够 to be a good thing that is a good thing that is a good thing that is a good thing that is a good thing that is a good thing that is a good thing that is a good thing that is a good thing that is a good thing that is a good thing that is a good thing that is a good thing that is a good thing that is a good thing that is a good thing that is a good thing that is a good thing that is a good thing that is a good thing that is a good thing that is a good thing

There's a liquidhaturing. "I think you can make you a deal again over." — "I tell me who you walk with, and I will tell you who you are." I'm worried the patrons board members have chosen — the same ones vowing to spend endlessly to prevent me from being elected — are also preventing them from doing their duty to our students.

To lead a district receiving only 70% of its funding, leaders must be advocates for school communities, not just adamant more of cuts. I saw that in practice in the days before the vote, when I went for the Cook County about the cost of their duties. The commission was forced the urgency, supported adding CPS to the county's no-nitrorist loan program and moved money shortly after — changing the math for our students.

Understanding is not inevitable. It is optional. What must happen next is for all of us to roll up our sleeves and treat the underfunding of our students' education like the five-alters for it is. The speaker is on board. He funens president is on board, our district's CEO is on board and the governor has said he's open and interested. Our hundred percent of those running to lead our district should be too.

— Hilario Davenport

BUDGET REVEALS CPS' PRIORITIES

The board has approved a budget, but passing a budget and solving a budget crisis are two different things.

CPS budgets are more than accounting documents. They are policy documents that reveal an unintended priorities more clearly than public statements over us. Every spending decision signals what CPS values. Every delayed decision carries real consequences for students, teachers, parents and the person.

The passed budget should allow the school year to begin. The real question is whether it provides a stable financial foundation for the city, the months and years ahead.

My concern is straightforward. The more the current budget depends on funding that is a bonus issue with the city of Chicago or the state of Illinois, the less gradient it becomes. Responsible budgeting should be built on resources we know we have — not resources we hope will arrive.

If additional funding comes from the city or the state, that will be welcome now. The board can then amend the budget and invest those resources where they are needed more. But good governance requires us to budget conservatively first and adjust later — not build today's budget as tomorrow's possibilities. Hope is not a budget strategy.

The lesson extends beyond this year's budget. Good power since it expires retaining far financial oversight before difficult decisions become new paysticks. Budget assumptions should be turned early, alternatives carefully examined and the public fully informed before the final vote. Organizations rarely fall because they fall risks, they fall because social processes are ignored. All aspects we need as formalities instead of responsibilities.

As Chicago commission is its first fully elected board of educators, we have an opportunity to make a good way to increase of the budget process, but also the process itself. Budget discussions should begin months before a deadline — not day before a deadline. The process should be addressed honestly, and the public should have confidence that financial decisions have been thoroughly examined before reaching the board for approval.

Students rarely think about budgets. Not should they have to. They are not a resource the consequences of decisions adults make on their behalf.

Passing a budget is an event-based governance is a discipline.

The budget has been approved. Now Chicago must demonstrate the discipline, competence, and long-term planning necessary to ensure we are not hurting this same conversation a year from now.

— P. Hockman

CHICAGO'S STUDENTS CAN'T VOTE

As a CPS parent, taxpayer would become a president of the board. I could not be more disappointed in the question the budget process was this year.

Last month's meeting featured political grandstanding, government into the record, an alderman threatening the governor and a two-hour 'vacant' for closed-done conversations. All kinds of things — except honesty about school. Spelling and what our kids actually know.

Some candidates praise the budget that passed. Others think the CEO's original version was the responsible one. I won't do either, because not her budget puts Chicago's students first.

The original content on $200 million in tax increment financing surplus the city hasn't declared. The amendment that passed kept that assumption and died on $100 million since from Springfield that hasn't been authorized. None of these dollars is committed to the district.

The board spent last month choosing between two kinds of make believe. Meanwhile, board members wanted not another year, and another budget cycle, not asking the most important question. How will our budget ensure that our students succeed?

This was wholly favourable. In 2022, when I chaired the board's Finance and Audit Committee, we presented a 2027 deficit with $737 million — exactly where it ended up. While I am surprising, because for four budget cycles, the Brazilian Ministry appointed board debriefing a whole-engine light came on even before the breakdown. This board's answer was to put a piece of tape over it and pretend it was someone else's responsibility.

What CPS must do now: Admin this budget is a gamble. Gov. B. Pritzker and House Speaker Emanuel "Cites" Welch have both acknowledged the long-sold, against quick action in Springfield. So CPS needs a public contingency plan now, before the school year is under way. If the money falls short, students, families and staff should not be liquidated by midyear cuts.

Stop budgeting on slogans and start doing the job. Build the next budget on money the district actually has, and make spending decisions is public, when they belong, before the crisis arrives.

Chicago's teachers can't vote. Nobody cares them a sort at the table. But voters can — by electing a new generation with integrity, someone who will fall there the truth about the numbers and the implementation work of building a budget that成为 a good thing. — Jeridell Reveley

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OPINION

The electronic monitoring system is broken

By Elmer Fink SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE

Illinois became the first state in the nation to abolish and halt under the SAFE 5 Act, also known as the Pretrial Fairness Act. It was a seminal piece of legislation that fundamentally changed how we determine who should be denied of before trial.

Previously, judges would not entertain bonds largely based on the seriousness of the offense. Under the Pretrial Fairness Act, with money to longer a part of the process, the critical question is whether the defendant poses a danger to the public.

That makes sense. If someone is dangerous, they should not be able to buy their way out of jail. At the same time, someone who is not dangerous should not be incarcerated before being found guilty or not guilty, simply because they cannot afford to post bond.

Amongst believe in this core principle of the law. Pretrial detention should be based on dangerousness, not wealth.

But an uninterrupted trial has emerged since County. One electronic monitoring population has grown from more than 500 defendants in 2010 to roughly 3,000 today. We now have more people on electronic monitoring than any other jurisdiction in the country — including Los Angeles and New York City.

Food with the choice between defendants and violators, judges have increasingly used electronic monitoring as a third option to split the difference. The problem is that electronic monitoring is not a intention, and it should not be treated as an appropriate alternative when some people are danger to the public.

Over the last several months, we have reportedly seen defendants charged with violent crimes and the fact that the drug ever has stunt a attorney's vigorous objection. There is no mention that on electronic monitoring eligibility, meaning defendants charged with violent crimes and the fact including murder, sex offenses, robbery and crimes against children — sale by placed on monitoring. As of Aug. 7, 79 people charged with violent crimes and the murder and 18 people charged with sex crimes, including sex crimes against children, were on electronic monitoring.

The state's state's departure from the original purpose of electronic monitoring. When it was introduced in 1993, electronic monitoring was intended as a temporary way to address jail overcrowding, and it was reserved to the state for both offenses. Its requisition to defendants accused of violent crimes creates an unacceptable risk to our communities.

A Cook County sheriff's officer issues an electronic monitoring device on a detainee before the person is released from Cook County, Jul 16, 2016. ARIESEVEL, ARIESEVEL YARLAND TIMIANI

The problems are compounded by the structure of the current system.

Most people on electronic monitoring regardless of the charge are permitted periods of unrestricted movement during which their location is not actively monitored. That creates obvious risks to victims and witnesses who are participating in our prosecutions.

Even more troubling, judges can grant different movement which also based on individual requests. One defendant might be permitted movement Monday morning, Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday midday, while another has an entirely different schedule. With thousands of defendants and countless individualized schedules, effective oversight becomes untranslated by difficult.

The Cook County sheriff previously had 179 assets for enforcement officers overseeing electronic monitoring. If someone cut off a monitoring device or was somewhere they were not permitted to be, the sheriff's officers could swiftly locate that person and bring them into court.

But effective this year, responsibility for electronic monitoring

has moved under the Office of Chief Judge, in accordance with the statutes. Under the current system, posted service employees, not aware law enforcement officers, restless compliance. These employees do not have the authority to arrest someone who violates the conditions of electronic monitoring. The only thing they can do is report the violation to the court, and a judge may or may not then issue a warrant.

Of the 1,000 defendants currently on electronic monitoring, the chief judge's intention is indicate that more than 127 are currently missing, monitoring service has any idea where they are. This is concerning in any case. But where the missing defendant is charged with a violent offense, the public's safety is in jeopardy.

There is yet another flaw in the system. Defendants receive day-for-day sentencing credit while on electronic monitoring, the same as if they were in custody. This can provide a motive to delay any trial as long as possible. When a defendant can avoid resolving their case, they must miss any time that they may eventually be sentenced to jail.

A perfect example of this is the case of Thomas Ridwell, who pleaded guilty this year to animalपूजा and aggresional cruelty to animals for torturing and killing multiple felonies. He accepted a plea of 95 of 115 years after he had received sufficient credit while acting at his family's suburban home on electronic monitoring, according to media reports. He served less than a day of that sentence in prison.

These are problems that demand permanent solutions. While I applied Chief Judge Charles Boeck's record effective recognition electronic monitoring, the fundamental flaws with electronic monitoring are545,000 failures that produce his tenure and require legislative action.

We have already seen the worse-case scenarios. Chicago police Officer John Barthelsmore was shot and killed by a violent offender who was placed on electronic monitoring over the prosecutors' objection. A young woman riding a film a law train was set on fire by a defendant who had been placed on electronic monitoring over the prosecutors' objection.

These are not arguments against the Pretrial Fairness Act. They are arguments for making it work as intended.

I have spent my career on every side of the criminal justice system — as a prosecutor, as a crime and defense attorney, as a Circuit Court judge and as an Appellate Court justice. I believe design is our justice system and also is our responsibility to make it work for everyone, including victims of crime.

We do not have to choose between fairness and public safety. We can have both that our current electronic monitoring system undermines those goals when it is used as a substitute for detention of dangerous defendants.

The Pretrial Fairness Act was founded on a sound principle. Certain people because they are dangerous, not because they are poor. We should honor that principle.

When someone is dangerous, our laws should ensure that person is actually detained.

Ellen Burke is the Cook County state's attorney and a retired appellate court justice.

Voice of the People

Second Assessment in Springfield

The second is that a mile in my miscanine "snuns people can build respectable for early going through what we have gone through." He words, actually "I'm not a good businessman, we have the 1993 poem 'Judge Self's' by Marc F. Lathrop.

There are ways in which this empathetic experience can form firsthand, secondhand, and thirdhand.

The Tribune Editorial Board asserts to be big, to editorial that Springfield uses "a broken system" to health claims of sexual harassment. Employees in Illinois government has less of power than in the States. They report incidents of sexual harassment. The editorial mentions that Illinois House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch is known for the "spouse of a new house" and "the working groups for resolving government issues. He has formed such a group with the aim of facing this "broken system."

The editorial notes that such a group should be made up of lawmakers from both parties, as well as include victims. I agree that the government is not always. I feel that the majority of the victims participate should be women. Yes, sexual harassment can happen to members of both genders, but most women have been harassed of some point to their working career. I may have "walked a mile in their moscowing."

Answer who thinks that men fully understand should look into their own views that their 1993 onhand from an all-male group of U.S. senators. Such a gifting soared because she had reported that German-Thomas sent to the state's state's office for $60 that he was not suitable to be a Supreme Court justice. These interrogators had not "walked a mile in their moscowing," and the leader of the interrogation panel

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has since apologized for her. — Megan Bodard, Brand Lake Beach

Ethics reform here is unlikely Ethics reform among Democrats? Never!

We will just wait a few weeks, and with some new directions, reform will again be forgotten. The spirit of Bathtower Mike Coughlin and Ricky Dink Michael Bentschlow.

Illinois House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch is probably moulding, Illinois isn't ready for reform.

— Joseph A. Marzanoli, Grand Park

Kennedy traffic still a killer

A "soul killer" is how I described the traffic situation on the Kennedy Expressway to a 2023 letter when the Kennedy resurfacing reduced flow and created painful commutes for so many North States. That work was finally completed, and things improved, for a minute.

Now here we are again, and the inbound opersonery is worse than ever. We've despite the fact that there is no work actually

being done on the Kennedy. It's all happening on Chicago streets such as Lake Street, Grand and Chicago seamen, and Midland and Addison streets. It should be obvious to Chicago and Illinois Department of Transportation folks that all of those cleaners and drivers at the same time are just bad idea! Look at the travel times in front of Marc International Airport — they are off the charts.

Beyond the normal frustration and inefficiency we might by this poor planning, I wonder if state authorities have noticed the times shoulder riding that is now happening? Or the number of drivers now starting at that place is kill time to traffic?

Traffic like that is bad for the soul, it's also dangerous. — David Hartney, Chicago

Advice for mayoral candidates Begin ding the up of "Chicago is a city with a lullaby heart" (Aug. 18) by mayoral candidate Lou Wex. Every single reader currently about the great things we need, just as they does. How to do it is another story. Also, crime is at historic lows, yet here Wex is, containing the learnmongering about crime,

despite historic lows.

The previous debate points are worrying. Chicago population has risen three years in a row and was under-russed in 2010. If Nor wants to be major, do better. — Brendan Wilson, Chicago

A second night for Sex fans The recent 'Pope Hat' night at Rate Field in Chicago was out of a record, not an MLA home in anywhere there so. And this wasn't anywhere America. It was the issue of the Chicago White Sun, where generations of less fans have sat at the altar of a baseball diamond to root for their South States. On this special night, a new crew out the first pitch, the fans showed pope hats and five home run letters paraded down the dugout to pope hats.

Most unexpected of all was the loss of the following fans to share the sign of peace with each other, while in part of the Catholic Man. It's safe to say this unique moment never happened in professional sports of any sort.

This is the team that finished with the American League Center's division last year and is now in first place in the ULC. While, in the two pope's access to the almighty have placed a role in what I happening at Rate Field this year? What else could account for each circumstance in our season? No wonder they brought out the pope hats, the pitching nips and the sign of peace.

It's uprobe treasured to reflect on the role towards place as bringing communities together and demanding folks from their differences. So, a natural drug should cover its politics, we need all the help we can get to focusing on what we have in common and how to celebrate our similarities rather than our differences.

Whether it's the Cuba at Wrigley or the Sea at Rate Field, it's baseball that best travels a side road to record a natural people out of a cause or result yet in a critical court trial as our democratic government. Not critical in solving needs of unity that Americans might just display after they leave the ballpark.

As for 'Pope Hat' night, that would not have been possible of a worse life a kick from the South Side who demonstrated his love for humanity to interact. But he gave up an American way of life to serve the poor to South America. No greater gift could Pope Lee XIV have given us than the example of altruism he has set for all human kind and the message of peace and reconciliation that his offers all of us, even as White Sun gains.

— Pope Satie (Ph) the pope from Chicago

— Bob James, former Illinois lieutenant governor, Anna, Idaho

Regulate a-bikes, a-encoders I think it's important to understand that a-bikes and a-encoders are not surely true, they are modes of transportation that all kinds of people are to get around for a wide array of purposes, including jobs and errands.

There should be regulations on their use and enforcement of these regulations (from 1,000) of the former and virtually none of the state to Illinois right now). But if we truly want to pay public safety first to the extreme by banning a mode of transportation perceived as dangerous, banning cars should be on the table. If we don't want to go that extreme, it would make sense to regulate a bike and a-encoders that we do without use to prevent teenage death and injury. — Ben Nagy, Chicago

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OBITUARIES

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FRANK BEARD 1949-2026

Clean-shaver ZZ Top drummer

kept tempo for boogie-rock hits

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NEW YORK — Frank Beard, the drummer for the Texas boogie-rock trio ZZ Top who kept the tempo for the band's biggest hits like "Sharp Dressed Man" "Lego" and "Cowboy's First Look," died Jan. 16, 1947.

Beard was born in New York when he died Tuesday at his ranch in Richmond, Texas with family members of his wife, according to political Bohemian

ZZ Top sold more than 50 million records and had six months that reached No. 1 on Billboard's Masterclass. Beard kept the chart in 1945 in albums have been in the Billboard 200's Top 10 and there's earned three Grammy Award nominations.

Beard was born June 15, 1945 in Franktown, Texas. He met guitarist Billy Gibbons in a band called the Moving Riders-like and was born in 1945, and was vocalist Drury Hill who had been in several bands with Beard.

The trio formed ZZ Top in 1945, named in just after blues stage ZZ Hill and influenced by the British power trio Cream and Drury Beard. The members were tailed their original lineup for more than five decades. Their signature look - long, bushy, hard-iron Gibbons and Hill and dark sunglasses for all - didn't change much either.

ZZ Top songs - with flimsy sky and humorous music - were popular in Hollywood, which used "Gimme

All Your Love!" in "Happy Feet," "Sharp Dressed Man" in "Even Almighty," "Lego" in "No," "Shopping" in "Big" in "Dress," "Fight on Throat" and "Confused," "Mexican Blackfeet" in "From Dads Till Down" and "La Grange" in "Armageddon."

The score about album "ZZ Top's First Album," came out in 1970. Its sound was described cunningly beneath a truck, blues and funk into a stunning hot Houston stove. The members called them "Little Of Real From Texas."

Three years later, the broke through commercials with "La Grange" a husky blues song from album "Text Number" that read album to the Chalkers Ranch, a brother outside of the Texas town of La Grange that owned the album. In 1973 and was immortalized in the Broadway show and the film, "The Best Little Where Home in Texas" (Gibbons had startled the power of "La Grange" to its simplicity, and two duads and a darker Johnson-inspired guitar side.

The band went into hard rock hits as "Duck" and "Cheap Neighbors" But in 1943 "Eliminator" - named after one of Gibbons' curious - are - added more production elements, synthesizers and drum machines to its stripped-down sound and yielded the hits "Gimme All Your Love!" "Lego" and "Sharp Dressed Man" The band turned with a Texas-shaped stage, five rattlesnakes and a longhornsome - Long breath-wreets - a sheep part of the band's look.

Gibbons said it supposedly would be, in 1976, the trio took a long break and scanned banded works because they were in theaters, and Gibbons went to France's Valleough we were speaking by phone; this was pre-visioning time. And Drury said, I did not know that we had gotten as lazy that we had decided to forget to share." Gibbons told The Tribune in his Line (Stages in 2005) "As after three years we returned and showed up, and in and behind here was this sort of wacky-looking image. And it just kind of stuck with us." That Beard was himself therefore was a source of amusement to the band's fans.

The band's rock-sho cool played well on the concert MTV crowd and its videos featuring models in short skirts emerging from one of Gibbons' custom machines, became a mainstay.

In 1972, - regenerate producer Rick Rubin helped update the track sound with the band's comeback album, "La Futura." The album landed at No. 4 on the Billboard chart, in high-performance time since 1960's "Recyclers" some 22 years previously. In March 2025, the band announced via Instagram that Beard would temporarily keep more from the band's long-timed hit foot and ankle problems.

Beard died weeks after ZZ Top called off its Aug. 2 concert at the Hollywood Bowl day in McHalehouse's. Beard is survived by his wife, Dallas Meredith, and three children.

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CHICAGO

ACCUWEATHER

Acutmaker Airbelt: Humid clouds this month top then clouds and landslide. A popping more my shower. Now a column in species we could please tell in the north this identify. Partly cloudy tonight.

Wednesday

Cloudy. Then sunny spells, fresh forest Winds: 9:0-12 mph POP: 20%

Thursday

Mostly sunny with low humidity Winds: 9:2-4 mph POP: 20%

Friday

Humid with clouds and land Winds: 10:0-12 mph POP: 20%

Saturday

Partly sunny with a shower and column Winds: 9:6-7.14 mph POP: 50%

Sunday

Mostly sunny, pleasant and fresh forest Winds: 9:7-10 mph POP: 5%

Monday

Partly sunny with a shower in space Winds: 10:8-11.12 mph POP: 10%

Chicago forecast

Wednesday Conditions

Acute: 30 min. None. 12 min. 40 min. 1.4pm. 8.2pm.

Acute/Number case: 0-10 (0-10)

0 1 2 3 4 5 6

Pooled Temperature

60° 75' 80" 85° 85' 90" 75'

Wednesday Activities

Airflow (mbar)

7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100

Fishing Index

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100

Fishing Index

The highest the available amount for items

involved is the actual temperature (as used on

this report). The temperature is 60-70°C

at 60°C for 30 min. The average temperature is 60°C for 30 min. The average temperature is 60°C for 30 min. The average temperature is 60°C for 30 min. The average temperature is 60°C for 30 min. The average temperature is 60°C for 30 min. The average temperature is 60°C for 30 min. The average temperature is 60°C for 30 min.

Accumulated water level of water

Auburn: 8.0, Pool: 8.0, Bed: 8.0, Bed: 8.0, Bed: 8.0, Bed: 8.0, Bed: 8.0, Bed: 8.0, Bed: 8.0, Bed: 8.0, Bed: 8.0, Bed: 8.0, Bed: 8.0, Bed: 8.0, Bed: 8.0, Bed: 8.0, Bed: 8.

Hydraulics: 7.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.

Chicago almanac

Tuesday's temperatures

Offshore: 90% (0-10)

Average Record

Tuesdays: 0-10 60° 60' 10" 10

Tuesdays: 0-10 60° 60' 10" 10

Local temperatures

Tuesdays: 0-10 60° 60' 10" 10

Location High Low High Low

Aurora 70° 60' 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65

Aurora 70° 60' 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65"

Gardner 70° 60' 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65"

Michigan 85° 60' 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65"

Minneapolis 85° 60' 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65"

Minneapolis 85° 60' 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65" 65"

Tuesdays Precipitation

Tuesdays: 0-10 60% 10-10

Tuesdays: 0-10 60% 10-10 60% 10-10

Month to date 0-10 60% 0-10 60% 0-10

Year to date 0-10 60% 0-10 60% 0-10

Total 0-10 60% 0-10 60% 0-10

Total 0-10 60% 0-10 60% 0-10

Follow out of 0-10

Follow out of 0-10

Follow out of 0-10

Total 0-10 60% 0-10 60% 0-10

Total 0-10 60% 0-10 60% 0-10

Air Quality Index

Tuesdays: 0-10 60% 0-10 60% 0-10

Weather: 90% (0-10) 90% (0-10)

National forecast

Shows an average temperature of 60-70°C for 30 min.

For more information, see the chart below for more information on the chart below.

Weather history

After changing 12 degrees of rain on Cape Hottens, N.C., the day before, there was 8:00 around 4:00. The temperature increased to 100°C. The storm rapped through eastern New England during the afternoon.

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Oak
Carbondale	85/70/1	85/70/1
Champaign	77/65/1	81/70/10
Decatur	74/65/1	80/70/10
Elkhart	74/65/1	81/70/10
Fresno	80/65/1	81/70/10
Emory	79/65/1	82/70/10
Rockford	72/65/1	83/70/10
Springfield	76/65/1	83/70/10
Sterling	81/65/1	83/70/10
Ipswich
Birmingham	70/65/1	83/70/1
Evansville	86/70/1	84/70/1
Fort Wayne	77/65/1	78/70/10
Indianapolis	77/65/1	80/70/10
Lafayette	77/65/1	79/70/10
South Bend	78/65/1	80/70/10
Wisconsin
Green Bay	76/65/10	79/70/10
Kenosha	77/65/10	79/70/10
La Crosse	80/65/1	81/70/1
Madison	77/65/10	81/70/10
Minotka	76/65/10	81/70/10
Wichita	76/65/10	79/70/10
Michigan
Danville	80/65/10	79/70/10
Grand Rapids	76/65/10	79/70/10
Marquette	71/65/10	77/70/10
Seattle	77/65/10	79/70/10
Transva City	75/65/10	80/70/10
West
Jersey	71/65/1	81/70/10
Great Rapids	76/65/10	79/70/10
Los Angeles	77/65/10	81/70/10
Des Moines	77/65/10	81/70/10
Delaware	77/65/10	79/70/10

	Wed	Thu
City	19.5/10/10	19.5/10/10
Wichita	82/70/10	82/70/10
Lake	75/65/10	74/70/10
Lincoln	81/65/10	80/70/10
Lorain	76/65/10	75/70/10
Madison	80/65/10	80/70/10
Omaha	81/70/10	81/70/10
Minotka City	79/65/10	77/70/10
Montgomery	90/70/10	90/70/10
Montreal	73/65/10	74/70/10
Montreal	81/65/10	81/70/10
Maynard	84/65/10	84/70/10
Newark	75/65/10	75/70/10
Omaha	81/70/10	82/70/10
New Bedford	82/65/10	82/70/10
Peoria	74/65/10	75/70/10
Phoenix City	90/70/10	90/70/10
Peoria	77/65/10	77/70/10
Philadelphia	77/65/10	80/70/10
Rhode Island	82/70/10	79/70/10
Roanoke	72/65/10	75/70/10
San Diego	81/65/10	81/70/10
San Diego	80/65/10	80/70/10
San Diego	80/65/10	80/70/10
San Diego	80/65/10	80/70/10
San Diego	80/65/10	80/70/10
San Diego	80/65/10	80/70/10

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People founded against the 2000 weather board a CTS box in Chicago on Jan. 22. TENTENCE ANTIQUES LEADING CHICAGO TRIBUNE

CTA adding service on batch of bus routes

By Talia Soglio CHICAGO TRIBUNE

The Chicago Transit Authority will add three more bus routes to its "Request" network and will expand the front to the centre of frequency of service on a batch of other routes starting Sunday. The transit agency announced in a news release Tuesday.

Bill of Lading, 30, 78, Fullerton and No. 33 324/3505 Street buses will use the CTSx "Request" bus network, meaning they will be scheduled to run at least every 10 minutes before 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. on weekdays and between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. on weekends.

The addition of the new routes to the network brings the total number of bus routes within the network, which the CTSx launched last year, to start by the theme. A list of existing frequent network routes is available on the CTSx website.

The CTA also sold the No. 8 bus, which runs on Halsted Street, will be added to the network in December.

That's roughly when a Chicago Department of Transportation project to reconstruct the Chicago Avenue Bridge – necessitating street closures on Halsted and a remote of the No. 9 bus – is expected to wrap up. The CTA acknowledged the addition of the route to the frequent network is contingent on the CDOT project.

The additional service on these four routes is expected to cost $1.5 million this year. In a news release, acting CTA President Nora Lear-hoon credited funding provided by the Northern Illinois Transit Authority Act – the state's transit funding and redeem legislation, which is expected to raise more than $1 billion for regional mass transit annually – with raising the service expansion possible.

The CTA also sold it would expand hours or frequency across six other bus routes throughout the city. These improvements include adding later weekend service on the No. 75 Armitage and No. 76 Doverney buses, adding earlier weekday service on the No. 70/30/6, 6am bus and adding earlier weekend and holiday service on the No. 3 King Drive, No. 91 Austin and No. 44 Wallace/ Racine buses.

The No. 74 Fullerton bus, which is being added to the frequent network, will also use more frequent service during late-night weekend hours outside of the frequent network's timetables.

The CTA provided the following details about the new bus schedules:

No. 2 King Drive: Service will start at 5:30 a.m. northbound and 6:45 a.m. southbound on Sunday/holidays.

No. 44 Wallace/Racine: Service will start at 8:00 a.m. northbound and 8:40 a.m. southbound on Sunday/holidays.

No. 70 30/6/6m: Service will start at 4:20 a.m. eastbound and 5:04 a.m. northbound on weekdays.

No. 73 Armitage: Service will end at 8:30 p.m. westbound and 7:30 p.m. eastbound on Saturdays and Sunday/holidays.

No. 74 Fullerton: Service is scheduled every 18-20 minutes from 9:00 p.m. until midnight on Saturdays and Sunday/holidays.

No. 78 Doverney: Service will start at 7:40 a.m. eastbound and 7:45 a.m. southbound on Sunday/holidays. Service will end at 10:40 p.m. westbound and 9:48 p.m. eastbound on Saturdays and end at 9:06 p.m. westbound and 8:27 p.m. eastbound on Sunday/holidays.

No. 91 Austin: Service will start at 5:25 a.m. northbound and 6:00 a.m. northbound on Saturdays and 6:00 a.m. southbound and 6:40 a.m. northbound on Sunday/holidays.

Ad agency to founder launches Herb Light

THC beverage has beer-like taste and retro vibe, plus radio news anchor lands new role

Robert Champlin CHICAGO MEDIA REPORT

No, we're not enjoying. That retro light beer commercial you just saw online did somehow feature a mustache and 1980s guy hoisting a THC beverage.

Launched this summer by Gordy Sang, co-founder of Chicago ad agency Quality Meats, Herb Light – pronounced with the hard "Hi" like your uncle's name – it being marketed with a tongue-and-cheek vintage ad campaign, replete with pool parties, dimly fit bars and bowling.

Sang tackled THC beverage on a minisource create a light be we with a lower high for the cannabis carious looking to explore alcohol alternatives for their social drinking occasions.

"The goal was to make a crushable parallel to a Miller Lite or a Coors Light," said Sang, 43.

The result was Herb Light with a microshow of THC, a beer-like taste and a retro vibe

Launched this summer by Gordy Sang, co-founder of Chicago advertising agency Quality Meats, Herb Light in a THC beverage. HIGHLIGHT AND QUALITY MEATS

to appeal to aging recreational drinkers seeking to imbibe with relative impunity. Herb Light went on sale at Chicago-area bars and stores, with plans to roll out more broadly down the road, Sang said.

To deliver the message, Sang packaged the brewer/beverage in what looks like an amalgam of every light beer can from the 1980s, then broke out every marketing trope from the glory

days of light beer commercials, running the gamut from pool parties to barbecues, and featuring lots of biscuits guys with mustache.

While the retro campaign evokes the "Tastes Great, Less Filling" Miller Lite sale from the 1980s, like the THC product itself, it was actually produced by cutting-edge technology. The mustache and guys and kids – a clad girl in the commercials

were created by artificial intelligence.

"These are not real actors in any way, shape or form," Sang said. "That's all Ad."

RADIO NEWS ANCHOR LANDS NEW GIG

The "Summer of Jen" is officially over.

Jennifer Kriper, the Chicago-based news anchor who lost her gig in May when CBS Radio called the plug on its entry-to-old network, has landed a new role.

After two-and-a-half months of road trips and recreation, Kriper is back behind the star for NBC News Radio, which is syndicated by 101st Media to more than 1,000 affiliated stations across the US.

Kriper hit the airwaves last week, joining the regular NBC News Radio lineup in a "really early morning" Sunday anchor, with the opportunity to expand to other shifts over time. As with her portionist, the national radio network is based in New York, but Kriper will broadcast the news from Chicago.

A longtime Chicago radio news anchor, reporter, Kriper

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Northwestern Medicines's existing Orland Park campus looking southwest on June 30. VINCENT & JOHNSON/INGTOS FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Orland Park approves $275M Northwestern cancer center

By Olivia Stevens DAILY SOUTH FIZERS

The Orland Park Village Board voted Monday to approve a $275 million cancer office and parking structure, adding to Northwestern Medicines's sprawling campuses at Centennial Park.

"I think it's going to be a great amenity to the Village," board member John Lawler said. "We do have some aging population here, and the family, not having to go downtown for treatment... you're going to get it out here in Orland Park, which is just a great add to our community."

Northwestern Medicines received a $225 million donation from the private St. George Foundation toward the four-story office building and a $84-car parking garage. The foundation, shown with the medical center a "desire to advance the health of residents in the southwest region," according to Northwestern.

The proposed facility is

Northwestern Medicines's Orland Park campus on June 30.

expected to include infusion stations, diagnostic imaging and radiation treatment among its services.

A hospital spokesperson declined Tuesday to provide additional information, saying

more will become available in a few weeks.

"So not only are we going to get the new cancer center, but they're also going to have other expanded services in the existing space," Koczwara said.

Northwestern is still waiting for final approvals at the state level, Koczwara said, expected in September. He said construction is expected to begin in the fall to wrap up in 2029.

The Village Board approved modifications that allow the building to be constructed 30 feet, rather than 50 feet, away from existing wetlands. The maximum building height was also adjusted to 51.5 feet, from 50 feet above a building. Further will no longer be required along the east side of the Mt. Mier. On Dodge said the requested modifications were "relatively minor" and "not only to allow the incentive for development."

With the new Northwestern cancer center and planned expansion of the University of Chicago Medical Center in Orland Park downtown area, "we can maintain that status as up-to-be world class medical care," Dodge said.

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ABC sues FCC over early broadcast license review

Disney-owned company says more: volume press freedom

By Joseph Nowak and Mike Catalini ASSOCIATED PRESS

Further escalating its battle with the Trump Administration, ABC on the 1st to 6th rate step of using the Federal Communist action Commission on First Amendment grounds, saying the agency's demand for early review of broadcast licenses provides "a command threat" to its operations.

In the lawsuit, ABC, its parent company Disney and the eight local stations whose licenses are affected asked a federal court to stop the early renewal proceedings.

The FCC made Chairman Brendan Carr, an ally of President Donald Trump, had ordered the early review in April – itself a rare move – of eight licenses owned by ABC, well before they are set to expire. It cited the network's diversity practices as a reason, but the development came shortly after a joke by ABC's late-night host Jimmy

Kimmel – an outspoken Trump critic – had indicated the promise.

"Again, not again, the Administration has attacked ABC's speech – the monstrous journalism report and the viewpoints its network programs of the network alleged in its lawsuit. "Whether these attacks have escalated into express demands that ABC be stripped of the broadcast licenses because of its speech."

"During the estimated threat," it added, "Plaintiffs have no choice but to seek redress from the judicial branch for the Administration's blatant retaliation for that could put the amount of speech."

It said ABC had "no alternative means to eliminate those ongoing and immediate threats other than total capitulation to the Administration's demands." It asked the court to "immediately explain Defendant front-ship or threatening to take any action against Plaintiffs in relation to the early license renewal applications."

The early license review is only one part of a long-annumering confrontation between ABC and the FCC.

The network also has been fighting Carr's efforts to make the morning talk

show. "The View," whose hosts and guests are often critical of Trump, submits its equalization rules. That's a question ABC says the agency itself decided – in the network's favor – more than two decades ago.

The lawsuit Tuesday also spoke of ramifications that go well beyond one network.

"If the Administration does not say, the message to every media company in the country will be congratulated. Tell only the motive the Administration doesn't know. So, if the move is not a feature of the federal government. In such a world, the press could not so wry be described as free," the lawsuit said.

The role Democrat on the commission, transference, commercial ABC and Disney for pushing back against the FCC was that:

"For months, the FCC has waged a campaign of censorship and control against Disney's ABC stations," she said in a statement, "using the threat of broadcast license revocation to punish a company for speech this administration doesn't like."

In July, Carr defended his agency's actions against ABC, saying broadcasters have a duty to "operate in the public, inter-

The luxury liner Titanic depicts Southampton, England, on the ship's maiden Atlantic Ocean visage to New York. AP/WD

Casting for financial decline

Company with salvage rights makes case before Va. court to sell artifacts from Titanic

By Marc Davis THE NEW YORK TIMES

NORFOLK, Va. – For much of the past four decades, the company that owns niche new salvage rights in the Titanic shipwreck had now left would not sell the artifacts or break up the full collection.

But earlier this issue, the company – the Atlantic-based RMS Titanic Inc. – made plan to continue off the of the 1,500 artifacts if this collection 15 weeks to court last week to defend the proposed sale.

In U.S. District Court in Norfolk, the company argued before Judge Rebecca Beach Smith that she has no jurisdiction over the 200 shipwreck artifacts because they were recovered in 1997 and were awarded to the company by a French court.

Under sometime law, salvage claims of several in international waters can be taken to any admit city court in the world. RMS Titanic initially took its 1997 claim to France, but it brought claims for items salvaged later to the federal court in Norfolk, based to many maritime law firms.

The hearing also reached on RMS Titanic's financial condition. In court papers, the company has said it was suffering financially and headaches within 100 artifacts to pay debts and raise money to conserve and curate the remaining artifacts.

Smith questioned the severity of the financial problems, noting RMS Titanic is his had by worldly institutions. "Who do you need to sell these artifacts?" she asked. Company lawyer Brian Wenger responded that "RMS? is in financial strain." Smith also heard arguments from the U.S. government, which imposes the sale. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration argues that RMS Titanic is insanely legal pressure to keep the collection intact and never to sell items to persons unknown.

Smith did not rule Thursday but is expected to issue a written opinion exam.

The Titanic said, on 1997, it was after hitting an iceberg on April 14, 1912. The result lies on the course floor, 2 1/2 miles below the surface, about 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

The work of salvaging the worst, which began in 1997 had been controversial. Cite are still a grave webbing. Supporters say it is a way of honoring the 1,200 people who died on that fateful night by using the arti-

facts to tell their stories.

The Norfolk federal court granted RMS Titanic exclusive salvage rights to the Titanic in 1994. The company has raised 3,100 artifacts from the world, she is seven equal times from 1997 to 2016.

Certain, the company has not sold any Titanic artifacts, though it proposed the sale of items in 2016. It has entered made money from public exhibitions of the artifacts that have drawn more than 35 million visitors worldwide. The company has permanent exhibitions in Las Vegas and Orlando, Florida, and has the capacity shown that are currently in Cleveland, Portland, Oregon, Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic.

Through the years, the company has experienced financial difficulties. It emerged from bankruptcy in 2016 under new ownership and is currently being sued in order that its millions be a control net.

In a recent court filing, the company listed the 100 artifacts that it wants to sell, including 10 items, French status from the ship's Great State can, itself from the ship's crew's nest, a diamond pendant and black, a side, a pocket watch, a ship on one 8 in short and other personal items from passengers and crew members, including jewelry, coins and handi notes.

Paramount seeks $1.9B to cover deal delay costs

By Lauren Hirsch and Benjamin Mullis THE NEW YORK TIMES

Paramount asked a federal judge that work to force the agreement of its acquisition of Price to firm. Discovery to cover the costs of the delay created by their lawsuit, working to block the deal.

The HUB would make a soaking $1.88 billion bond from 12 states, led by California, along with the Winters Guild of America, which have sued to stop the company's deal in the 1st quarter. The 1st quarter was a 1st quarter. Paramount proposes that it would collect the proceeds from the bond if the states lost their case.

Paramount's merger with Warner Bros. would create a media powerhouse confon-

ing two major movie studios, multiple streaming services and the new networks CNN and CNN News.

Twelve state attorneys general sued last month to block the deal, arguing that the company would have outside market power.

In July, Judge Joseph Martinez-Olguis filed U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to stop poorly halted the merger to consider the lawsuit. She later scheduled a trial for March, a delay in the deal, and the Paramount on the bank to pay Warner Bros. shareholders hundreds of millions of dollars.

As part of its deal with Warner Bros., Paramount made part 8,000 million every quarter if the transaction has not closed by

Oct. 1. Paramount proposed the fee to win the support from shareholders, who were considering a bid from Netflix at the time.

Because Paramount offered that fee, Martinez-Olguis is unlikely to grant the deal. He said, "I am not Bill Kewace, a former Republican chair of the Federal Trade Commission."

"Maybe they thought that a lawsuit by the states was case in 1995 or an event and thus was exceedingly unlikely – about the side of getting struck by lightning," Kewace said. "But they knew that it was possible."

Paramount has argued that the deal would create necessary scale to compete against large technology companies, like Netflix, that has moved into the traditional media industry.

Repair jobs help Home Depot build gains in Q2

By Michelle Chapman ASSOCIATED PRESS

Home Depot's sales improved during its second quarter as customers focused on smaller points in during the summer months with the U.S. housing sector still turned in a slump.

Revenue increased to $4.04 billion from $48.28 billion, edging not the $47.24 billion that 1948 items had expected, according to a survey by Pacific, Globally, after a 1998 open at least a year, a key indicator of a total of 5 health, climbed 1.7% in the United States, comparable more sales rose 1.2%.

Customer transactional deposit 1% in the quarter, but the amount shopped a quarter on to $92.50 per average except from 1993/1 a year earlier.

Healthy spending on smaller projects during the quarter is not onaging, and find founders, managing director of GlobalData.

But founders also pointed out a potential weakness that is important to meet all businesses where credit is sometimes required.

"The number of bigger-staker projects undertaken remains down, falling by 2.1% over last year," he said.

Homeowners run an currently considering taking out loans using home equity are realizing that it is consider able more expensive more compared with the ultra-low rates Americans could create on in the early 2030s. A home project that is issued with a total of 4.6% to 5% borrowing rate looks a lot more daunting at 6% or higher.

For the three months ended Aug. 2, Home Depot earned $4.77 billion, or $4.77 per share. A year earlier in home-ship-treatment retailer earned $4.15 billion, or $4.58 per share.

Excluding one-time home earnings was $4.92 per share. That's much better than the $4.71 per share that 1948 interest produced.

Business briefs

NVIDIA TO SPEND UP TO $105B TO SUPPORT ONCE DATE CENTER

Nvidia said this week that it had agreed to spend as much as $105 billion to back out of the world's largest data centers, which is being built in Ohio and will be leased to OpenAI.

The sum is one of the largest from Nvidia toward supporting artificial intelligence labs that are seeking more computing power.

Nvidia CEO Jenson Huang said that the company would use the money to guarantee "looks and power generated" of the site.

Nvidia's financing for this center in Pike County, Ohio, a project that could cost as much as $105 billion, as part of the complex deal-making behind the 10 issues.

Nvidia also said Monday that it had agreed to invest $1.5 billion in 10 Energy, subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate firsthand deal will build, own, and operate the data center in Ohio. – The first First Prime

JUDGE HAI'TS PLANS TO MOVE FBI HEADQUARTERS TO DC SITE

A U.S. judge that week blended plans to move the FBI's headquarters to a federal office building in Washington, finding that President Donald Trump's administration is finally to end that a previously approved plan to build a new building in the United States.

Monday's ruling in the latest development in a mandating battle over where to house the main office for the nation's premier law enforcement agency is due in Elizabeth, Maryland, was picked during their president Jim Biden's administration, but Trump appointees sought to repossess the Ronald Reagan Building, which is a few blocks from the FBI's existing headquarters. U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang, an appointee of State President Barack Obama, asked the move was "not in accordance with law".

The suit was brought by Maryland and Prince George's County. – Associated Press

BRAZIL'S LULA TOUTS OIL NEAR AMAZON RIVER MOUTH AS BOON

Brazil's President Lula face in Lula da Silva said the week that oil drilling is permitted and northeastern coastal regions could be "equipped to the country's future" after visiting a breaches off-lines drifting wreck following a find announced last week near the mouth of the Amazon River.

Breaches off-lines outbursts state normal corporation, and Police that it had detected by the carbon industry, represents drifting 52 miles off the coast of Amapa state.

The registration drifting began in October. Environmental and Indigenous groups have since used the Brazilian government and were then used to purchase oil.

Lula faces what is expected to be a tight election in October for a short term on president.

He has pushed both for drilling and alternative energy. – Associated Press

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had run at WXBM-AM 790 and WLD-AM 990 before CBS News Radio hired the CBS to close "World News Roundup Late Edition" and all other-men and evening news-cues.

But CBS was moved to March in one ending in elected radio news service after nearly 100 years of operation. Training, economic conditions and the changing medical settings, and Knipe was not of a job.

With a summer off for the first minute in decades, Knipe hit the road for a variety of advertising and taking a family vacation in Montreal, a next to the annual Labor of Free Nursing. Nine even in Western Michigan and a trip to Asheville, North Carolina.

"It was great," Knipe said. "It was the first time I've been able to do that in along long, long time, and really enjoyed that."

Knipe can followed through on plans to do some banking and as there, but it is not possible to do anything for visible morning.

With most of the a summer of leisure, Knipe's end do not wish to get back to work. And Chicago lateness won't have to take a road trip of their own to hear her top-of-the-hour NBC network news. Now, what she locally on WCP's AM 620.

ABC 7 PARENT FAIR PCC

In its marketing with the WXBM-Trump, the entertainment and the Federal Communications Commission, Disney owned ABC 8.0 or a Amendment low set and temporary remaining order motion. Tuesday to preserve the station licenses and the network's right to live space.

"As big through the business environment, the Administration has made it a regulatory campaign against ABC for a single season in charge from the West ABC broad camp," the federal lawsuit states.

Then CBS News Radio another, another Knipe: report is the news of the start, the end of CBS radio broadcasts during 22. TROY STULT/FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

In April, the FCC launched an agency to make early history review of the network's eight annual-and-perceived TV stations, including ABC 7 Chicago. The agency's actions came after President Donald Trump demanded the network for late night-heat Jimmy Kimmel over an on-air plan about the Lady Mansion Trump.

Second art licenses are ordinarily removed every eight years, and the right ABC stations were given to the approved by the law for terms that didn't require until 2020 to 2021. ABC 7 Chicago's license was originally scheduled for renewal in August 2024.

In its early renewal order, the FCC said it is investigateing whether Disney's ABC stations engaged in the television during the past two years, and in an email for credit. "The FCC has been examining domestic that Disney

"All broadcasts have a clear obligation to operate in the public interest—even in Disney," an FCC spokesperson said in an email for credit. "The FCC has been examining domestic that Disney

engaged in illegal DFI. Also important for over a year, Disney's TV's staffs very concerned about the FCC's proceeding, as evidenced by their ongoing campaign of abandonment as we did at their decision to sell a court to any the FCC from further providing matters. The FCC will continue to follow the facts and law of service the lead."

ABC already took its case to the court of public opinion, including an on-air campaign that paved and more than 153,500 customers in the FCC, the vast majority of which supported the network's bid to retain its station licenses.

The network has now taken its case to a higher court, seeking judicial intervention through the temporary restraining order motion.

"Thus, case fools down to a single question: can the Administration use its control over the federal regulatory apparatus to provide needed organizations for editorial decisions and news coverage of disliked the news?"

Amendment provides a clear answer of course now—that Court's intervention is necessary to stop the Federal Communications Commission's extraordinary second on-live speech.

MOUNT CARMEL TO PLAY ON NATIONAL TV

Mount Carmel, the four-time Advertising Class A's football champions placed on production last week by the Illinois High School Association for practicing too early to full pack, will stop the play on a national stage this season.

The Chicago school is slated to host New Jersey powerhouse St. Joseph Regional at its South Side stadium Friday, Aug. 28, at 6 p.m. for one of seven,afetally televised high school football games string on ESPN this month.

Now is in 2019 yet, the ESPN High School Football Kickoff features top teams from around the country going back to board in early season at once. The division, Big New Jersey, Chicago, St. Joseph Regional has 20-stats titles in its trophy case

Mount Carmel has occurred last 17 days' titles, including four-to-a-row under head coach Jordan Lurich, a former Catrame QB and Historian Thrybyi-Staffat at Northern Illinois.

Lurich was suspended for two practices for the premise too pack violation by the IHSA.

THE MIX REMAINS NO. 1

The Mix, WTMX FM 603 A member of the position in the No. 1 Chicago radio station on July, its third consecutive month in the big Halland's hot adult newspaper on station maintained on 6 days' among listeners in and after in the latest ratings from Nielsen WXBM-AM 790 and 991-FFM. Audrey Hall newscombs, climbed to second with a 5.6 share, while WVAZ-FM 1032.3 Share's urban adult contemporary station, downed up to third with a 5.5 share, according to Nielsen.

Audrey owned earlier WXBT-FM 601 Hall in the with a 5.6 share.

Rounding out the Top 10 are radio stations

power WLJT-FM 44.6 country WXBM-FM 94.5, (June) and WXBM-FM 97.1, contemporary for WXBC-FM 2015 and NPR stations in the city.

Meanwhile, Wright Broadcasting (WAC) FM, an electric cell329A format, made its way back into the Top 10 with a 3.2 share for July WXBM-LD at 677 FM is actually a low-power TV station that keeps making waves in the Chicago radio market more than a decade ago.

DALY HERALD LAYOFFS Less than two months after acquiring the Daily Herald Tribune Publishing, the radio station has been the subject of the radio station on two-steep, including Executive Editor Lisa Milner.

The series editorial and the radio station's new representatives' duplicated radio post-steep in, according to sources familiar with the acquisition. The well-fitting radio station has been landed hard at the formerly employee annual Daily Herald.

Tribune Publishing purchased the 200-year-old Daily Herald on June 23, 2025, and the 200-year-old August 19 newspaper in its Chicago area portfolio, which includes nearly three dozen daily and weekly radio than newspapers and the flagship Chicago Tribune.

While the market is one of the side news and disclosed, Tribune Publishing

has been a member of all Daily Herald employees at their previous stations. But last week a dozen employees were laid off, including several designers and copy editors, according to sources.

In the wake of the layoff, Maria Hajek, executive editor of the Tribune, recently sent with Daily Herald, the radio station has been there were no plans to cut additional invoer room-ups in the immediate future.

The radio and Publishing declined to comment on the Daily Herald advertising.

Jenof has about Chicago media stores and news to relaunch klychle agent these days.

Market Roundup

Stock Recap

	NYSE	NAISO
Vol. (in mil.)	4041	3642
Pre. Volume	4027	3594
Assumption	849	1280
Dividend	1107	1048
New High	46	130
Total	76	140

	HOH	LOW	CLOSE	CHG	%CHG
DOW	$3,478.76	$3,384.24	$3,383.58	$1.48	-0.22%
DOW Trans.	37,879.56	31,489.33	21,985.23	-3.08	-1.64%
DOW Int.	1,102.14	1,127.11	1,108.81	-4.41	-0.07%
NYSE Comp.	24,746.88	24,025.74	24,024.75	-2.50	-0.24%
NAISO62	20,432.01	28,208.71	28,208.71	-355.22	-1.29%
EBP Est.	7,713.55	7,680.04	7,587.78	-52.51	-0.59%
EBP Net.	3,000.05	3,004.41	3,004.02	-0.41	-1.00%
DOW Total	70,504.56	76,105.15	78,217.68	-611.59	-3.09%
Record 2000	3,049.53	3,017.68	3,017.68	-38.44	-1.30%

	HOH	LOW	CLOSE	CHG	%CHG	HK	MO	QTR	YTD
DOW	$3,478.76	$3,384.24	$3,383.58	$1.48	-0.22%	●	●	●	+13.09%
DOW Trans.	37,879.56	31,489.33	21,985.23	-3.08	-1.64%	●	●	●	+23.84%
DOW Int.	1,102.14	1,127.11	1,108.81	-4.41	-0.07%	●	●	●	+3.07%
NYSE Comp.	24,746.88	24,025.74	24,024.75	-2.50	-0.24%	●	●	●	+1.92%
NAISO62	20,432.01	28,208.71	28,208.71	-355.22	-1.29%	●	●	●	+13.11%
EBP Est.	7,713.55	7,680.04	7,587.78	-52.51	-0.59%	●	●	●	+12.59%
EBP Net.	3,000.05	3,004.41	3,004.02	-0.41	-1.00%	●	●	●	+12.59%
DOW Total	70,504.56	76,105.15	78,217.68	-611.59	-3.09%	●	●	●	+12.57%
Record 2000	3,049.53	3,017.68	3,017.68	-38.44	-1.30%	●	●	●	+21.60%

LOCAL STOCKS

NAME	CLOSE	CHG	%CHG	HK	LO	YR	DIV	NAME	CLOSE	CHG	%CHG	HK	LO	YR	DIV
AM/PHARMACEUTICALS	1,002	1,497	1,171	1,122	8,121	16,162		Alfonsaia, Inc.	3,000	1,481	1,171	1,122	8,121	16,162
AM/PHARMACEUTICALS	2,000	1,497	1,171	1,122	8,121	16,162		Alfonsaia, Inc.	3,000	1,481	1,171	1,122	8,121	16,162
AM/PHARMACEUTICALS	2,000	1,497	1,171	1,122	8,121	16,162		Alfonsaia, Inc.	3,000	1,481	1,171	1,122	8,121	16,162
AM/PHARMACEUTICALS	2,000	1,497	1,171	1,122	8,121	16,162		Alfonsaia, Inc.	3,000	1,481	1,171	1,122	8,121	16,162
AM/PHARMACEUTICALS	2,000	1,497	1,171	1,122	8,121	16,162		Alfonsaia, Inc.	3,000	1,481	1,171	1,122	8,121	16,162
AM/PHARMACEUTICALS	2,000	1,497	1,171	1,122	8,121	16,162		Alfonsaia, Inc.	3,000	1,481	1,171	1,122	8, 121	16,162
AM/PHARMACEUTICALS	2,000	1,497	1,171	1,122	8,121	16,162		Alfonsaia, Inc.	3,000	1,481	1,171	1,122	8,121	16,162

	HOH	LOW	CLOSE	CHG	%CHG	HK	MO	QTR	YTD
DAIRY	1,000	1,497	1,171	1,122	8,121	16,162		Alfonsaia, Inc.	3,000
DAIRY	1,000	1,497	1,171	1,122	8,121	16,162		Alfonsaia, Inc.	3,000
DAIRY	1,000	1,497	1,171	1,122	8,121	16,162		Alfonsaia, Inc.	3,000
DAIRY	1,000	1,497	1,171	1,122	8, 121	16,162		Alfonsaia, Inc.	3,000
DAIRY	1,000	1,497	1,171	1,122	8,121	16,162		Alfonsaia, Inc.	3,000	1,481	1,171	1,122	8,121
DAIRY	1,000	1,497	1,171	1,122	8,121	16,162		Alfonsaia, Inc.	3,000	1,481	1,171	1,122	8,121
DAIRY	1,000	1,497	1,171
DAIRY	1,000	1,497	1,171
DAIRY	1,000	1,497	1,171
DAIRY	1,000	1,497	1,171
DAIRY	1,000	1,497	1,171

	HOH	LOW	CLOSE	CHG	%CHG	HK	MO	QTR	YTD
DAIRY	1,000	1,497	1,171	1,122	8,121	16,162		Alfonsaia, Inc.	3,000
DAIRY	1,000	1,497	1,171	1,122	8,121	16,162		Alfonsaia, Inc.	3,000
DAIRY	1,000	1,497	1,171	1,122	8,121	16,162		Alfonsaia, Inc.	3,000
DAIRY	1,000	1,497	1,171	1,122	8, 121	16,162		Alfonsaia, Inc.	3,000
DAIRY	1,000	1,497	1,171	1,122	8, 121	16,162		Alfonsaia, Inc.	3,000

FIELD	CLOSE	P/S	CHG	%YTD
TV/RT 27.000	84.59	86.52	0.14	-0.72
Healthy 5th gal.	4.44	4.38	-0.14	-19.9
Water/Use every day	2.78	2.55	-0.25	-24.1
Unheated than light	0.24	0.27	-0.03	-60.1
METALS	CLOSE	P/S	CHG	%YTD
Aluminum (net)	3,320.01	3,320.01	0.00	-0.00
Copper (g)	4.48	4.46	0.14	-16.1
Gold (sq)	1,383.01	1,417.88	15.68	-4.51
Produce (oz)	1,706.43	1,781.66	64.18	-16.1
Silver (oz)	53.54	55.12	2.15	8.0
AIR/CULTURE	CLOSE	P/S	CHG	%YTD
Luminar (280 mA)	619.00	1,000.00	0.58	4.6
Caffe (lb)	2.25	2.25	-0.08	0.0
Coffee (lb)	4.44	4.48	-0.07	-14.4
Corn (kg)	4.45	4.45	-0.22	-22.1
Cotton (lb)	84.27	85.00	-0.47	-55.8
Storage (over 50)	1.41	1.44	-0.06	-56.4
Strawberry (lb)	12.19	12.19	-0.06	-10.0
Wheat (sq)	4.44	4.75	-0.18	-41.1

DEAD/DEAD	CLOSE	CHG	%CHG	HK	MO	QTR	YTD
DOW/THEAT (500*GB)	1,000	1,000	1,000	0.00	-0.00	0.00	0.00
Canadian Dollar	1,000	< 1,000	< 1%	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000
ALL (500GB)	1,919	1,928	1,974	1,928	1,928	1,928	1,928
Japanese Net	93.53	< 2152	< 1%	114.82	14.08	14.08	14.08
Mexican Mean	1,000	1,000	< 1%	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000
EUROPEAN/ROMISOL & EAST
South Florida	2,000	2,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000
International	6,500	6,500	1.25	6,500	1.25	1.25	1.25
South African Mean	56,000	56,000	1.00	56,000	1.00	1.00	1.00
Islanded Florida	8,500	8,500	1.00	8,500	1.00	1.00	1.00
Swiss Team	3,121	< 1,000	< 1%	3,121	1,000	1,000	1,000
Australasia	CLOSE	P/S	CHG	HK	MO	QTR	YTD
Australian Dollar	1,419	< 3000	< 1%	1,419	1,000	1,000	1,000
Chinese Mean	6,100	6,100	1.00	6,100	1.00	1.00	1.00
Hong Kong Dollar	7,045	< 1,000	< 1%	7,045	1,000	1,000	1,000
Indian Rupee	86,400	< 1,000	< 1%	86,400	1,000	1,000	1,000
Singapore Dollar	1,175	< 2012	< 1%	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000
South African West	14,104	8,940	1.00	14,104	1,000	1,000	1,000
Taiwan Dollar	219.19	1,022	< 1%	219.19	1,022	1,022	1,022

THE KOURIS	LAST	P/S	CHG	HK	MO	QTR	YTD
4-month Total	3.88	2.97	0.21	0.4	0.4	0.53	0.53
5-month Total	3.91	3.92	0.21	0.4	0.4	0.53	0.53
1-year Total	3.98	3.95	0.21	0.4	0.4	0.53	0.53
4-year Total	4.16	4.16	0.21	0.4	0.4	0.53	0.53
5-year Total	4.37	4.35	0.21	0.4	0.4	0.53	0.53
10-year Total	4.74	4.72	0.21	0.4	0.4	0.53	0.53
10-year Total	4.98	4.95	-0.20	0.4	0.4	0.53	0.53

CONSUMER RATIO	NET, AVG	HK AND YTD	MO AND YTD	YTD
To match new product	4.17	4.17	4.17	4.17
Money Market Account	0.42	0.42	0.41	0.41
1-year vs.	2.06	2.05	1.95	2.05
BBH/ Non-repairs	1.04	1.03	1.04	1.03
4-year	1.19	1.19	1.19	1.19
5-year	4.37	4.35	4.37	4.35
10-year	4.71	4.70	4.70	4.70
10-year	4.98	4.95	4.98	4.95
Total	NET, AVG	HK AND YTD	MO AND YTD	YTD

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Google to loosen political email filter

Campaigns will have easier time sending fundraising appeals

By Shane Goldmacher THE NEW YORK TIMES

Google has quietly rolled out a program that will allow candidates, political parties and political action committees to more easily bypass Gmail's spam filter and send fundraising appeals to the inboxes of the company's more millions of email users.

The change comes after years of complaints from Republicans that Gmail's spam algorithm unfairly blocked their committees' emails more than those of their Democratic counterparts, although those complaints were dismissed in court.

For campaigns and PACs that meet the terms of the program, it is expected to route an influx of cash collections into Gmail inboxes, helping campaigns raise millions of dollars more in the final spirit to the modern elections.

Google chose not to delay the new program with any feature, instead posting an online message to its Help Center. The company began to reach out to some political committees in both parties after publishing the change, according to three people headed on the network who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.

Political strategies in both parties said the new policy could be deeply consequential for candidates — even if frustrating for users in the United States, who are likely to be hardened with plain-for-dooration.

"Heading into the 2026

A video-board displays a logo Aug. 3 ahead of the Republican meliform convention in Dallas. TOHY GUTKINBEL/AP

elections, Gmail users are going to be flooded when unwarranted political parties have seen Google decided to create a VIP time for campaigns," said Kenneth Pennington, a Democratic digital strategist and veteran online fundraiser. "This is a bad deal for Gmail users and aptly to lead actors in the political fundraising space."

José Castaballa, a spokesperson for Google, said the new program resulted from an effort to provide long-term clarity for both campaigns and users.

"This program is designed to connect people with the emails they want to receive

while keeping them fully in control of their inboxes," he speculated. "This is the participant, with smiles much more strict security and compliance requirements, ensuring that message people receive are relevant, useful and verified."

The new program is set to begin Sept. 6, the day after Labor Day — and the day before Republican are set to hold a rate unknown convention in Dallas.

The change comes four years after Google rolled out a similar program on a pilot basis that was discontinued months later.

At the time, the Republican National Committee met

the technology giant, according to a "Shooting in email messages," though Google said the party had not signed up for the program. A federal court later dismissed the case, with Judge Daniel Caldwell, writing of the KNC's claims. "This is pure speculation, lacking help from which the Court could infer animas or on absence of good faith."

The Federal Election Commission also dismissed a formal complaint from Republicans that Gmail's spam filter was based against the party.

Whether a fundraising email winds up in users' spam folders or inboxes can

be worth millions of dollars to campaigns over time.

For an immediateity that whether the changes would affect one party more than the other, but seen Republicans opposed a pressure.

"For years Google's algorithm abscussed Republican voters, burying out emails in spam while Democratic landed in the inbox," said Will Riley, communications director for the National Republican Congressional Committee. "The program is a real chance to be it said in voters hear from the candidates that choose to follow. We'll be watching closely to make sure Google follows

through."

Some Democrats feared the change could seem the door for ex-cashle cam PACs, which spend little of their money on actual campaigns, to move credit reach inboxes. Other Democrats hoped the change might help do over the party on advantage because Democrats generally have been better at online fundraising. "I'm not sure," said the party.

The RNC did not immediately respond to a report for comment.

Google's new program will have better candidates, PACs and party committees to place this domain they need emails from and that their spam rates. The percentage of emails that users mark as spam, remain below 0.1%, so people can see them.

Pennington feared that Google made the change because of pressure from Republican.

"While there could theoretically be another reason for this policy shift, it appears that Google is sacrificing the offers easily of its customers simply to place a little, sad faith narrative from Republican claiming partisan spam bias," he said.

Amanda Elliott, a Republican digital strategist, said the moment on the right with the best industry runs deep, especially around the issue of whether fundraising emails wind up in inboxes or spam folders.

"For everyone who's been talking about campaign and bias, this could be quite up or short-up moment," she wrote in a text message. "For your emails leading to spam filters because you're a Republican at because you're just running a subpar email program and not following their practice! Perhaps we're about to find out!"

Ukraine's blitz of drones pressures Moscow region

Nearly 800 devices launched days after similar aerial attack

By Hanna Arhivova and Mary Hatton ASSOCIATED PRESS

KYYV, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces launched one of their biggest drone attacks on Russia since Moscow's invasion on the 20 years ago. Being almost 800 drones with two days after a similar salvo, officials said Tuesday.

Meanwhile, a Russian missile strike on a village in southeastern Ukraine's Kharkiv region killed at least 10 people and wounded 17 others at the barrage dermal island homes, officials said.

The country's air lockers in an escalating duel of ingenious aerial attack fighting on the roughly 700-兆瓦 front line in eastern and south-east Ukraine is run down by large numbers of drones and ground where these ening troop movements, and neither risk a wading significant battlefield progresses, analysts say.

In the past year, Ukraine has devised and deployed

domestically produced long-range drones for strikes deep inside Russia. Its drone technology has improved governments and defense manufacturers around the world.

Officials in Kyiv aim to make the Russian public feel the war's consequences and pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin into negotiating peace settlement. Putin has shown no such an amount to stop the invasion.

"Putin continues to drag out the war instead of accepting Ukraine's resident crams for proposals and ending the bloodshed," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrei Selykhova said in a post on it.

Russian air defenses overnight intercepted 791 Ukrainian drones over a number of regions, as well as armored Crimea and the Black and the Azov wars, the Defense Ministry's Moscow said, in what was the second-largest drone attack since January 2024, an international front rally shows.

More than 600 Ukrainian drones flow toward the Moscow region, where 100 were shot down, Moscow Mayor Sergei Selykhova said without elaborating.

Officials reported no deaths or major damage, Ukraine has been lost over the 10 hundreds of drones to try to overwhelm Russian air defenses.

In the region that narrowed the capital, three people were wounded, Gov. Andrei Verzhov said. Three people were also wounded in the adjacent Ryazan region where these private houses were damaged, Gov. Pavel Mollin said.

The overnight attack started a fire at a warehouse of Wildfire man. Russia's biggest online retailer, in an industrial zone, Ukraine has repeatedly targeted the company, which it says helps supply the Russian military, an obligation Moscow desire.

"Wildfireman said his area sustained 'broughts out damage.'

Coverage of the attack is state and Kremlin-backed Russian media was mostly muted, as is other the case. Russia's main TV channels state out Russia's and China's end One — did not mention the attack at all in their morning news bulletins.

But Russian state news agency Dick Novosti featured it among the main news

A street cleaner on Tuesday in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, observed a daily call to work outside of Admiral Arhivova of soldiers killed in the war with Russia. HEMISCHIS MECHAN

on its website's homopage, describing it as "one of the most large-scale attacks on Moscow since the beginning of the summer."

State newspaper Roselykaya Gazeta on its website prominently featured a roundup of what Moscow regional Gov. Andrei Verzhov reported about the attack, describing a big "massive" in the localities. Pro-Kremlin's massacre, a frontman's news brief about it on its home page.

A Russian missile strike on the village of Prochastin in Ukraine's Kharkiv region killed 10 civilians, according to preliminary information, said Olekshyukhzhov, headed

the Kharkiv regional military administration.

Another 17 people were wounded, he said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskoy called it "should attack" that damaged 10 homes, a cafe, a post office, a store and at least seven with the according to Svyukhzhov. "We will definitely respond to this Russian strike," he said on one of itself.

More three people were killed and three others were wounded over the past day in Russian attacks on Ukraine's home region, Ukraine's National Police said.

British Prime Minister Andy Burcham, who took office last month, said the

UK will continue to stand by Ukraine after Russia and that Kyiv's reported use of British drone for attacks on Russian soil would bring unidentified consequences. "We are providing support so that Ukraine can defend itself and the country for British position all the way through this conflict for previous prime ministers," Burcham said. "I remain the one without."

The newspaper of Sunday Times reported that two U.K. companies made drones nearby Ukraine to hit Russia. Following the report, the Russian Embassy in the UK said "London's actions will inevitably carry consequences."

President Donald Trump is seen Monday in the East Office of the White House. MANUEL BALCS GENEVA/AP

White House: Trump again votes by mail in Florida primary

By Chris Cameron THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump voted by mail before Florida's Republican primary on Tuesday, according to the White House, participating for at least the third time in a prison that he has ruled against for years and has equated to cheating.

Trump voted by mail in Palm Beach County in 2020, and did not again this year in the special election between

Democrat Emily Gregory and Republican Jim Maples to represent the district in the Florida State House. Records show Trump had been registered even there since 2004. Politics is often reported that Trump had voted by mail in Tartakis's primary, citing voting records from Palm Beach County, home to files a cage, the prison club. The New York Times could not access these records through the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections website, which said

that Trump's voting record was "premortal from public disclosure."

In an unequal statement, the Palm Beach election office confirmed it has blocked access to Trump's voting records, saying that the public's available documents were "intended for use by a registered voter to determine his or her voter registration and voting status. Words with protected information without appear in this search."

Gloria Wales, a White

House spokesperson, confirmed that Trump voted by mail in the primary, saying that "this is a summary."

"As everyone knows, the president is a resident of Palm Beach and participants in Florida elections, but he obviously primarily lives at the White House in Washington, DC," she said, reporting a White House statement about Trump's last vote by mail, in March.

Trump has continued to park, for Republicans in Congress to pass legislation

before the uniforms that would strengthen were identification requirements and make mail in voting significantly more difficult. There was not enough Republican support to post-bringing the legislation this year, and someone abandoned this effort so they could post their state to campaign for reduction.

Trump has long founded a mail-in voting to believe his had less claims of a dangerous voter fraud, though states are little fraud connected to the ballots.

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Military base schools add new course

Education reshaped to cover Christianity, Western civilization

By Kevin Ma and Konstantin Temple ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON – The Department of Defense is introducing a course course at an 'Alliance' organization and Christianity that fall in the world's operator for military families, part of an effort by Defense Secretary Pete Hegedics to cover the education system toward patriotic values and classical learning.

The Department of Defense Educates Activity operates about 169 schools across 11 countries and educators roughly 750,000 students who are children or active-duty military and civilian service members. Conservative have used the schools – which are run by the federal government – as testing ground for reshaping education.

The Western civilization course planned for this fall will use technical published by: Encounter Books, a conservative publishing house. Third 'The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, Volume I: The Ancient World and Christendom,' it includes eugynosic lesson plans created in partnership with Hillsdale College, a conservative Christian school in Michigan.

Ristorante and educators who reviewed courses of the text told The American of Peru it depicts points throughout history in misleading ways, representing Western civilization and Christianity as one and the same and casting Islam as a literate book.

'You've got to wonder is he who the Western civilization is a 'Crown horse for classical Christian education,' said Phil Garcia. American sociology professor at Yale University.

The course is part of a wider reshaping of the

A textbook, displayed Aug. 19 in Washington, written on Western civilization and Christianity and will be used this fall in schools operated by the Pentagon for U.S. military families. AP

Defense Department's schools.

They have begun hiring classical learning teachers, and the department has brought in new academic chords with ties to classical learning charter schools to Republican-led efforts to promote more patriotic and civic education.

In a written statement, the Pentagon said it 'consists committed to providing all of its military community students with the best point. He education and expertise other.'

It did not respond directly to a series of questions about the textbook and the research push for classical learning.

Classical education refers to teaching only built on the literature, with an emphasis on critical thinking and citizenship.

Students are taught to imitate the rhetoric and style of great thinkers and writers.

Critics have argued the movement focuses too hotly on technology and tests from Greek, Roman and other Western services.

CONSEPATIVES: LAUD CLASSICAL LEARNING

Conservative politicians have embraced classical learning, especially as the Trump administration and Republican relations have pushed schools to emphasize

patriotism and pro-bombs in around how they teach self-determining parts of American culture.

In his writing and public remarks since before becoming defense secretary, Hegedics has advocated for parents to embrace classical Christian education.

In his 2022 book 'Battle for the American Mind,' Hegedics knows Per Newnhost, describes a history of pro-province working in science. God and religion from public and private schools.

Many classical Christian schools focus on exclusively Western civilization from the external throats. But across

the broader field of classical education – including ways to private schools – the field is increasingly split on this point, and Susan Wise Busse, the author of epopular claim – illustrates funding program.

'Whenever you have a system of education where that is the impulse, ... This is so, and they are them over there,' she said. 'Here the idea of a shared literacy has a huge but more a weapon.'

TEXTBOOK CASTS WRITTEN COLLECTION AS UNDER THREAT

In the Pentagon's system, high school students can take the new course, Western Civilizations in 1980, to fulfill a world history graduation requirement, according to a new release.

The course is offered through the department's virtual school.

In the textbook's introduction, the authors wrote: 'Where citizens of Western countries are utterly ignorant of history, as most now are, they are left unarmed against the general hostility to their own's edition that has become so destructive a force in contemporary culture.'

The book describes Islam as inherently more violent than Christianity.

In a written titled 'Help War and Marrydom in Battle,' the book describes a series of the Christian schools as the Crusades, as intended to defend and protect other Christians. Islam, in common, glorifies violence and war, the book says, invoking the Oct. 7 Human attacks and UN.

Matthew Gabrielle, a history and religious professor at Virginia Tech, said the book's description of the Crusades and the conflicts with the Islamic world impact on important details and connect the direct Islam as a aggressive religious tradition. 'The book is a unique, multi-national violence of the Christian faiths.'

The book's publisher, Roger M. Hegedics, said it was an irreverently trumpeted, 'As the proud publisher of

this 'incompunable' work, I stand behind it in every detail,' he said.

One of the book's co-authors, 'Harvard emeritus professor James Hawkins, said the text does not attempt to characterise the Christian and Western civilization as one, fragments of the book's acknowledge the West's history, and the book's book was now to such a title University of Florida's Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education, a conservative-budied student in teach Western civilization.

TRUMP TEAM ALLIES MUTARY SCHOOL 3 TO ITS WASTE EDUCATION

President Donald Trump's administration also has moved to align the military's education apparatus with its own mission for American schools.

Admissions offers at U.S. military academies now accept the Classical Learning Test, a college entrance exam that positions itself in the 1980s, and also in the 1980s. And last year, the ACOU used the defense school system over its decision to include the schools that covered topic-like non-genital and democracy.

In March, the department abruptly changed the leadership of Department of Defense Education, the school's replacing Beth Schirsten-Narvae with Paul Croft as director.

In a move release at the time, Hegedics described Croft as the right leader to recreate the school system: 'low-gradational values and classical learning.'

The Pentagon also replaced the education activity's chief academic officer, having Tiffany Holow, who previously worked in the Florida Department of Education and the Republican Art Society.

In Florida, the revenue the official of a extra curriculum that was criticized for claiming American founders did not control the 1980 separation of church and inter-

A man walks Tuesday past a mosque that collapsed during an earthquake in Lamba-Leda, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. FRIDAY, LUNEMARCH,AP

Children struggle with trauma amid displacement after Indonesia quake

By Philip Linnewatt ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAMBA LEDA, Indonesia — Thousands of people remained displaced on the Indonesian island of Peron on Tuesday three days after a powerful earthquake in the 1980s. The island injured nearly 1,200 officers and damaged thousands of homes. The disaster left many children struggling with fear and trauma.

More than 40,000 people were drowning, in terror, evacuation centers and malnourished camps after the earthquake in India. The 2000s, a normal island at East Nusa Tenggara province, early Saturday, damaging at least 11,925 homes, according to the National Disaster Management Agency. The 2010s, a 1,000-mile approach demonstrated a new fire island, damaging 375 health facilities, 658 schools, 167 offices and 372 places of worship, the local disaster agency and the crowded evacuation camps across Peron on Tuesday. Children placed under turpentine shelters while active in the 1980s, a terror provided psychosocial support, a childhood food and medical assistance.

The quake occurred at a depth of 6 miles shortly

before 9 a.m. Saturday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, and residents fled to pass as humans evenings were issued but later killed. Authorities recorded more than 2,500 after the 6th into Tuesday, though only 70 were 60/70 residents.

As individuals that struck during an interview Tuesday prompted Vincentine Rose and his wife to instinctively duck and cover their heads. Nearby their daughter began crying, a reminder of the fear that continues to burst many survivors.

Rose is a resident of Lamba Leda, one of the hardest-hit villages in the Subi hills of East Mangguni, a region where widespread damage was reported, with at least 10 homes-debated and heavy supplies low.

Psychosocial support programs, which combine mental health treatment and social care, are being rolled out across the region to be the earthquake. Children have been encouraged to read books and join counselors for games, educational activities and group activities to assist to help them cope with fear and anxiety.

Fires may survive, especially children, the psychological impact has begun along after the shaking

stopped," said local police chief Tudib Prasato, who organized trauma-healing sessions for children displaced by the disaster in Radu-eqnany.

Pursuits at an evacuation center said many children were off-put in winter seasons and weather. Implemented whenever aftershocks settled the island, he said.

Miele Rahanta, a police officer who was among 30 personnel displaced to Lamba Leda, said much of their work is focused on helping children cope with the disaster's emotional aftermath. She said officers have organized trauma-healing activities at several evacuation camps, but emotional distress remained widespread among survivors.

Earlier Tuesday, she continued a recourse who was visibly didacticly narrowed the quake and used a psychological support method. However as Governor Spiritual Emotional Freedom Technique, which she found during public training, 'We are trying to help people manage their fear and having.' Infants said: 'Some survivors continue to experience anxiety and excessive fear. Our goal is to help calm the trauma so they can begin to recover.'

DOJ aims to revive smuggling charges against Abrego Garcia

By Trishil Lefler ASSOCIATED PRESS

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Justice Department is pushing to revive cities—and the National District, Abrego Garcia, telling a federal appeals court late Monday that single-vivodic law outlining ruling that called the 'state against the state' of standards deported local to Salvador province of 'disuse of prosecuting power.'

The government is agreeing the order of the 1st U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw that there was a legal of human smuggling against the full-milemen national. The ruling amounting to the extraordinary rebels of a Justice Department that under President Donald Trump has repeatedly been accused of targeting defendants in political programs.

Crenshaw found that Abrego Garcia would never have faced criminal charges had been successfully sent to the government over the 2022 deportation. He stated, 'We was an embarrassment for the Trump administration, which only brought him back after securing a criminal indictment against him.'

Crenshaw streged short of finding the government acted with 'actual vindiciveness,' a rarely sent state legislator, saying that 'regime evidence like a prosecutor admitting that clergy-wives filed in retaliation against someone. But the judicial find there was enough evidence of 'provenance vindiciveness.' They included the timing of the indictment.'

Homeland Security has been more of the 2022 with its step in 'someone that was the basis for the human smuggling charges for more than every year before Abrego Garcia was deported.' The state's only state's state case and began investigating its extent after Abrego Garcia was ordered returned to the United States.

Crenshaw also found that

A black stringo Garcia, seen 1962, was killed in Anato who, Stevenson, court, is a full-mileman citizen with a U.S. wife and child who has lived in Maryland. MERRY, MERRY, and JOHN NASH

assistance to U.S. Attorney General Paul Rhoades, who was a deputy at the time, suggested the DOJ was targeting Abrego Garcia because he was his wrongful-deportation case.

In a local filed Monday light with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, federal prosecutors argued that Crenshaw got it wrong. Rhoades' statements, that 'the state's personal legal state motive for prosecuting him. His rationale reflected a 'normal assessment of the second interest in punishment,' not an 'improper penalty,' they said.

The trial process is 'explained that the government was asiding to protect the people of the state.' In prior assertions about Abrego's criminal activity, the brief states:

But even if Rhoades's statements reflected an ammunition against Abrego Garcia, they were not being forced to get person who actually brought the charges was there. Among U.S. Attorneys for the Middle District of Tennessee Rob Rhoades, the brief states: 'relating an argument through the specific Crenshaw that McGwire's motives were the only motives that were right for him.'

Crenahan's ruling noted the sustained a strength of the case by top DOJ officials, including regular communications between McGuire

and Associate Deputy Attorney General Rob McGlyng, in finding that the criminal case was thoroughly barred.

Crenshaw also noted that prosecutors never called as witness the investigator who actually responded to case, to explain why.

Abrego Garcia, 31, is a full-mileman citizen with an American wife and child who has lived in Maryland and has been legally compensated to the U.S. illegally as a message.

A 200-crse by an immigration judge prohibited his deportation to El Salvador, finding he had a 'well-founded' one U.S.犄ying that had tựa good in family there. The judge allowed him to be removed from U.S. under Immigration and Customs Enforcement supervision, but he was not given residency status.

Rhoades from supporting Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, the United States state has vowed to deport him to a third country, threatening to send him to Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana and, more than 1,000.

Abrego Garcia has said he would agree to be deported to Costa Rica, which has said it will accept him, but the U.S. Attorney Garcia declined to send him there.

He is fighting deportation to Liberia to a separate federal court case in Maryland.

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Summertime and the livin ain't easy

Carefree dreams of season fade in 2026's anchoring weather.

By Laurie Kellman ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON — Deaths beloved, we are gathered here today to consider the death of the summertime state of mind.

The season itself is in no danger: climate change, quality search for the burning, oil oil, gas and coal, is worrying the weather year round. You read this way, summer-like weather is ascendant. It's setting records across the globe — surfing, incisive, driving droughts, intensifying wildfires, spinning up storms and endangering millions of people who can't afford air conditioning, time off work or 'cook-stone'.

The heat is no extreme to Asia that Japan has coined a new meteorological category for the danger. 'Sukukoku 14' — or craft first day.

What some raided and the grass in England this year is the summertime ideal — hazy day, warm nights and excepts, between summer and from classes or parents or work or rules. In summer 2026, people are growing that freedom. And perhaps, the version of sunshine and the sunburns are connected to that we are not.

'I mean for the way summer used to be,' author Robin Dutton, who writes: 'I think we're not going to see it. We were not an easy but mostly resulting housewife there and July Fourth block parties of the 1950s.'

'Unless we change the trajectory we're on, we can't children will never know the gentle and happy summers of our childhood. I feel sad that they may never know the truth can they summers the distance privileged among us enjoyed.'

No one needs numerous agents to confirm that this summer is different and so much as to}}(\text{age, power, wind from wildfires to North

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America and Europe, the sky turns orange and the air turns green. Like under Parel Immo, gray rooftops can be deadly. Nights can be a soiled cycle of sleep, drowning and spousing a window — only in class it later to block out the urban noise.

Everywhere, life-giving was hurts during much of the day. Checking the air quality index has become part of the art of stepping outside. We get things done earlier in the day and may be later at night. And of all day at the beach — or an August holiday in Europe — is more a matter of risk management than a need to be.

A new poll from Associé and Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that America can assume likely to say extreme heat has had either a 'major impact' or 'minor impact' on their travel or vacation plans, short-term bills, that along their family's outdoor activities and more parts of

their day-to-day life than in July 2024.

Research at Oxford University published in July found that the intense heat influence daily behavior globally, with such 'everyday adjustment' to daily activities occurring across seven of the countries most at risk of heat waves (Israel, France, India, Nigeria, Turkey, the US and China).

Author: Blackover, a teacher in Britain's Chase and Islands, said she yearned for England's idyllic warm season — that period when the sunlight lingers.

'I wanted the long light evenings and the sunshine and the not-dark-at-sync of it all,' she posted recently on Instagram. 'What I did not want was to feel like a rotisserie chicken every single time I stopped outside. Rarely evening, family-burning. Questioning my life doesn't fit them.'

For those who care to lock, the data is plentiful and the

weight of is moving toward better and interior summers. The past week does, instead, heat hammered the U.K. and France as temperature caused toward 104.4 degrees. It was the fifth heat wave of the year in a region where air conditioning is operable at best.

And the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that the complex U.S. United States studied to its hottest month over in July (detailed so far, this is the third hottest year, behind 2024 and 2025, climate statistics show).

But 2026 still has time to catch up. Thanks to the one-two punch of accelerated human cancer, global warming and a repressed EU Nile — generally, warming a part of the Pacific that leads to temperature variations around the globe — there is no increasing chance that by the end of the year, 2026 could become the hottest year on record, scientists said.

'And it's not just extreme heat,' the World Meteorological Organization of Canada, Nile told reporters in Geneva. 'We're also seeing extreme rainfall, tropical cyclones. As we're not in holiday mode at all.'

Somewhere deep there's a sense of acceptance that life-threatening, trip-can ceiling heat waves and their rippling effects aren't a one-off-fake. In management has ensued, with the hope that escaping hot weather might somehow allow the return of that summertime feeling — for now.

Adventure urging tourists to limit outdoor activity during peak heat hours have become a standard part of the planning from Cambodia to Cambodia's English, England. They walking a becoming seldom or dark activity with governments to help heat zones advising owners against outdoor walls. Employees and workers are adapting with work hours especially

for agricultural and construction workers shifting to the morning, and policies on some places allowing employees to work from home when the heat becomes extreme.

But home doesn't offer much value for workers with no air conditioning, they about 4% of British homes have 'air-cost' compared to about 90% of American homes, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

So achieving old-fashioned teammates likes a, and perhaps always has been mostly a matter of privilege.

In 'Six Open Letter to the Parent Who Added Me What I'm Doing For The Summer As If I Didn't Have to Work,' comedy writer Elizabeth Simone addressed the issue in the World: Historical last year.

'You believe that summer vacation is an outdoor dream, right?' she wrote. 'Obviously it's because of what summer issues it back when we were kids.'

Tourism surge tests Vietnam's policing policies

Communist system at odds with inviting image country tours

By Damian Cava THE NEW YORK TIMES

DAMANI, Vietnam — He looked like one of the many digital nomads appearing in Vietnam these days as he plunged his bag on a table with a large, sluggish cafe and ordered a coffee.

There he ripped off his shirt and ordered everyone to have.

A more foreign captured the man, Shayteua Lilly, 14, an Australian brand strategist, clearing countries and shattering windows at the Cafe in the coastal city of Di Nang. He smashed a stranger's phone and choked a young Vietnamese man before police officers hauled him away.

Vietnamese wondered if he was normally ill and followed him to the station. The only person who could translate was the man Lilly had attached. Weared about 10 years ago, the Chinese man Hang Yi, the cafe's manager, he volunteered to interpret for his smallest.

It was a striking illustration of the parades of today's Vietnam, which has rapidly welcomed foreigners with promises of natural beauty. In, friendliness and affections, the Chinese community state that prior to two social order and control. When things go wrong for visitors, open-minded warmth often gives way to a legal system built for a colder, less than a year.

A record 23.8 million international visitors came to Vietnam in 2025, and this year the country is on the way to show how to move. Though most are well-balanced, foreigners acquire of offences from generations, dreaders, driving and drugs to the country, and the others packed into destructive centers, fueling a fierce debate over what kind of country. Vietnam really is — and wants to be — at

Foreign visitors gather at a beach club. June 28 in Da Nang, Vietnam. LINK: PHONE/THE NEW YORK TIMES

it tries to supercharge its economy with international integration.

Vietnamese officials are facing intense diplomatic pressure to enforce international norms and upgrade a criminal justice route to that is ill-equipped for the country's rising popularity.

Official translators are scarce. Gaining access to lawyers or consular officers can take weeks or months. Penalties for even minor infractions — such as overstaying visas, bar scuffles or using small amounts of markings — can be worn, including baby fines and jail time, according to interviews with former detainees, relatives of people recently arrested, lawyers and diplomats fined nearly a dozen million dollars. 'It's a whole different world, a different paradigm,' said a person close to a foreigner declared in Vietnam, who, like others interviewed for this story, insisted on anonymity to avoid using 'mining Vietnamese authorities.' 'Over there, you're presumed guilty.'

Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security achieved signal in a recent public statement that 'foreign nationalist' exploitation of relaxed visa policies to enter and result in Vietnam and engage in unlawful activities has become increasingly complex.'

Lilly can also have public enough that Australian officials in Vietnam were notified, and they confirmed they are trying to help find his best interests uncertain. Da Nang police announced June 9 that he would be detained for at least three months while the authorities investigate public disorder charges against him, which could lead to several years in prison.

His family in Australia's tourist city he reached for comment. A relative there told a local news outlet that he had lipped disorder and agreed to live expectancy in a separate vehicle damages the cafe. At the police station, Hongyeo, did a Lilly and that he had been depressed and not taken his medication. As some point that night,

he posted on Facebook, he's need help.

Vietnam has made clear, with some can reacheal needs of carrying foreigners' crimes that it does not want to be another Thailand — where visitors have long flocked for cheap long-term steps, waiting for just the freedom, and food but also not light districts and legal marijuana. Pared Vientany, a manager in that Thailand also wants to deal the damage. The Thai government announced in May that it won cutting most tourist visas to 20 days from 40.

Crusadewwe on water centers in neighboring Cambodia, along with Vietnam's looser visa rules for several countries, including China, may also be drawing in nomads and set in牵 with.

A few weeks before Lilly's campaign on the night of May 27, the police in another beach town arrested a Russian man who hit and killed a 70-year-old Vietnam- cop woman with his motor, bike while driving drunk. In

June, 93 Chinese nationalist were declared after taking over a 20-25, 60,000 City bank for what the police described as 'unamortized fraud'.

Many Vietnamese are not pumping straight to cypri cum. Near De Nang's My Khe has been a recent night, the 95 Huang Yi, and his wife, Nguyen Thi Tuyet, 72, are in favor of the building where they own, down the block from a few full of foreigners, preaching them and placing pool.

It was quiet until four years ago, the couple said, where the city received the area for the new nightlife. On the plot side, Huang said, his property value has risen. The biggest negative all-night partying.

'In the morning, there is every little woman's place,' he said. 'I see people drunk, sinless or aftergoes the street,' he said.

He and his wife insisted something that choosing the city. Transitions were not very Vietnamese.

'There's just part of the neighborhood,' Huang said, pointing to foreigners nearby. 'It's good because before

Vietnam was at war and closed to the world. Now we welcome everyone.'

Legal scholars say justice, for citizens and visitors alike, remains shaped by Communist Party politics and a bias toward pain.

The party sets largely — officials recently declared that the 25s think City, the country's largest, will be along that by 2018 — and members of the police compete for promotions with powercrimes. Officers and judges 'disaster' about alleged offenders, including descriptions of the crime and the recommended sentence, and 'the assumption is that it's correct,' said John Gillespie, an expert in Vietnamese law at Monash University in Australia.

Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to written requests for interviews about the civil enterprise.

In July, the ministry posted a video of its chief spokesperson, Mai Lam, Nguyen Tuan Tuan, emphasizing its importance to an unspoken procedure to foreigners. 'who come to Vietnam for legitimate purposes' experiences 'to advantage, efficient and well-governed country.'

There are hints that some officials think the deprivation system needs updating. The document presented in March's last meeting was noted that the average meal allowance of about $1 a day for detainees, in place since 2000. 'So no longer suitable given inflation and the physical profit of foreign nationals.'

Of Cafe response a few days later, after paying for repairs. Near new windows, customers were pressed with a phone displaying the map of Australia and Vietnam side by side.

But in early August, Hang said she and the cafe's owner was struggling to find the city they still had out fused from Lilly's family. Instead of a lengthy prison sentence, they would like an apology and compensation.

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Minnesota prosecutor-sues Texas leader over ICE agent's extradition

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ST. PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota's attorney general sued the governor of Texas on Tuesday, seeking to compel the extradition of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent charged with wounding a man and then trying to justify the showing during the agency's crackdown in Minneapolis.

Attorney General Keith Ellison is asking a federal judge to bar the sheriff in Common County Texas from releasing ICE agent District Custer, and to order Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to sign his extradition warrant re that Minnesota officers can take custody.

Minnesota officials have clashed with the federal government over who has jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute federal officers for on duty conduct. Ellison is a Democrat and, Abbott is a Republican ally of President Donald Trump.

Castro was arrested in Texas in May on Minnesota charges of assault and falsely reporting a crime to the Jan. 14 wounding of John Court from Calla.

Castro, 52, is accused of firing a gun throughout from a dose of a Minneapolis home, striking four of his brother, with a bullet that lodged in a child's bedroom wall.

Prosecutors say Castro then falsely accused from Calla and another man of attacking an ICE officer with a broom handle and a snow shovel.

Ellison told a news conference that justice has extradited, Castro could be released from jail next week. - Wides since he was declared under Fiscal Act.

And if the Grand, Castro could slip into Mexico from the border more when he's being held, Ellison said.

The inexact sued Castro has been making calls from jail to a woman in Mexico,

talking "about marrying her and buying chores in Mexico when he is released."

The extradition lawsuit Ellison filed in U.S. District Court in Texas cites a 1987 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that compliance with the Constitution's extradition clause is mandatory affecting no discretion to the governor of, estate where a defendant is being held.

It was not immediately known if Castro had a lawyer who could speak for him.

Abbott's office said it would not comment on "pending extradition matters."

US deportives: Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deporters from the United States, authorities in the West African country sued Tuesday, in one of the largest such arrangements under the Trump administration's broader crackdown on immigration.

The deportives will be received within a year, with the first batch of 20 expected Thursday, Liberia's Information Minister Jeroleneh Palcfield reporters.

The 1,200 deportives will include African as well as nationals from North America, South America and the Caribbean, Palcfield.

Under a series of often-secret agreements, the Trump administration has deported thousands of people to nearly two dozen countries that are not their own, advocates say, with about 10 of them in Africa.

A key issue in the agreements is that they can involve migrants with protection orders from a U.S. immigration judge not to be returned to their home countries because of concerns he must safety. The Liberian minister did not use if the deportives expected in Liberia had such protection orders.

Strait of Hormuz attacks:

Deadly Otto Israel: Firefighters work to put out a brain after an explosion during a shift change Tuesday at an industrial recycling plant in Toledo. Crean later discovered the bodies of two employees inside the remaining building, officials said. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration said it was investigating. JENKIN WAGDINGWITH: TOLEDO BLADE

Two ships in the Strait of Hormuz were attacked in recent days, leaving at least one sailor dead, maritime officials said Tuesday, as a declining number of vessels leave the dangerous passage way.

Both vessels were hit by unknown properties as they passed through the strait, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency.

A crew member on one ship that was sailing close to Dixon was killed, the Joint Maritime Information Center, a multinational organization, said.

On the other vessel, there was a "crew casualty" U.K. maritime officials said.

East has not commented on either attack. As the conflict between Iran and the United States reembursies to indelmareth, traffic in the waterway, through which 20% of the world's oil and gas supplies moved before the war began, has dreaded.

The average number of ships transiting the strait

over the last week was about 12 tons/dry per day, down from more than 130 a day before the United States and Israel attacked Iran in late February.

1998 Shakur killing: Some members of Topaz Shakur's family stopped out of the courtroom Tuesday before prosecutors showed photos from his autopsy at the Las Vegas trial of the man charged in the killing of the rap giant.

Others remained in the courtroom to face the grim facts of what happened to his body.

The grisly photos came on the second day of testimony in the trial of Dixon: "Keffe D" there, who is charged with orchestrating the 1998 drive-by shooting in Las Vegas.

Prosecutors allege Shakur was killed to avenge Shakur's outcourages attacking Davis' nephew Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson a few hours earlier at the MGM Grand after a Mike Tyson-Bruce Nelson boxing match in which Tyson won.

Panettiera death: Hardee Panettiera's son-and-wife bestowed Brian Hickerson and his brother Zach Hickerson were at the South Carolina apartment where the actor died over the weekend, according to a police report released Tuesday.

A Greenville police officer who responded to the residence Sunday afternoon was met by the brothers and then observed paramedics performing CPR on an unresponsive woman, the report states.

No cause has been determined and her death remains under investigation. An autopsy found no signs of trauma and police said officers saw no signs of their life.

The wartime child may who soared to fame in the TV shows "Bunny" and "Nashville" while enduring struggles with alcohol addictions and depression, would have turned O' Fodor Panettiera and Brian Hickerson, 37, had been in a tumultuous relationship for years, with allegations the aspiring actor physically abused her.

Eisenhower building: A judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration could not forward on a plan to point the gun greater extreme of the Eisenhower Executive Building while

In an order from the bench in U.S. District Court in Washington, Judge Dabney L. Friedrich said that initial tests to evaluate how the paint would affect the building's walls and other preparations would not harm proservational groups who sued to stop the effort. But she warned that she would intervene if the administration moved ahead with a full paint job.

Friedrich said the government's descriptions of its plans were far more preliminary than the full painting of the building. President Donald Trump had proposed as part of his larger effort to alter many of Washington's landmarks.

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Building, built in the French Second Empire style, was completed in 1888.

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Cory "B4Lasers" Morrison, center, and wife Monique "Uniq Moniq" Morrison interview Christopher "The International M.C." O'Neal at Lumpen Radio on Aug. 16 in Chicago.

Beyond the boards

Cory Morrison, aka B4Lasers, puts the producers behind the artist in the spotlight

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Your favorite songs are often not a reflection of the artists who sing them, but the producers who make the beats. A producer's touch—think Timbaland or The Neptune—can make the difference between a catchy tune and a timeless classic. But outside of the big-name acts and music industry favorites, producers usually embody invisible labor for the average consumer. They're behind the boards and behind the artist, but they are rarely recognized for their efforts.

Cory Morrison, who performs as B4Lasers, aims to do something about that. The producer, former rapper, and all-around nice guy has spent the last several years building a small ecosystem of Chicago shows

Monique "Uniq Moniq" Morrison during the "Peace, Love & Beats" podcast. STACEY WISCOTT/CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS

and events designed to put producers—not just rappers or singers—front and center.

"I love to see people coming together and see people happy," Morrison said.

In only a few years, Morrison has established a roster of events aligning with his producer-forward ethos. "I primarily focus around producers, bringing producers from all

across the nation plus locally, to play live in a very intimate setting," added Morrison, of one of his events, the Living Listening Party at The Whistler, a live music bar in the Logan Square neighborhood.

Morrison draws inspiration from James an sound system, aka reggae dub culture.

Latter W. Loops, which takes place at Nighthawk in Albany Park,

is a more low-key event. It's a similar concept to the Living Listening Party, but Nighthawk's smaller mix makes for a more intimate environment. Flip a Bear Club, his longest-standing event in Chicago, is part of a larger nationwide event that brings producers together to city. Samples or compositions are given to all of the city chapters, and attendees get to chop up and edit the selections. A few hours later, the producers play back what they made for the other guests.

And then there's Bartmaker's Toolbox, focused on community and education.

"I love what I do," said Morrison. "I love seeing everybody come together, communicate, network and build. Families are built. Community is built this way. It's better than just events. It's a neighborhood-level connection."

Before his time in Chicago, Morrison lived in Kenosha, Wisconsin. As an artist, Morrison made beats, wrote poetry and even rapped as part of the Kenosha scene, but he said he never felt a strong connection with the beat-making community there.

"I always felt like we were just See JULIOUS on Page 89

Too $hort charts course for hip-hop's senior citizen era

By Jonathan Landrum Jr. ASSOCIATED PRESS

At 60, Too $hort is helping usher hip-hop into what he calls its senior citizen era. Just don't expect him to rap like one.

The Oakland hip-hop pioneer is still recording, touring and talking stick more than four decades after he began selling home-made tapes on the streets of the Bay Area in California. While the game has long treated aging like an unwritten career-ending offense, Too $hort is breaking the rule and challenging the culture's older intimates to keep going with him.

His latest proofs: "So Too $hort Vol. 2, Drink & Smoke," his 23rd studio album out now, produced entirely by longtime collaborators Ed Jon. It arrived exactly 20 years after the

release of his enduring hit "Blow the Whistle."

Too $hort, whose catalog also includes Cassie's such as "The Ghetto" and "Shake That Meehan," says he isn't interested in showing down anytime soon. That was certainly evident when he and E-40 performed at the NFL Hinners in February.

This interview with Too $hort has been edited for clarity and length.

Q: You recently turned 60, but you're still releasing albums, touring and influencing the culture. Did you ever imagine you'd still be doing this more than four decades later?

A: At the age of 14 or 15, my mentality was, "Let people hear this music. We're going to rock some house parties and high school dances and sell some tapes to fans in the streets." When

I got my feet in the door, I knew this was going to be my job. It was always "till the wheels fall off." It was never, "Let's do this for 30 or 40 years."

I've always said the day hip-hop is no longer my job is probably the day I'll stop. But the love I have for hip-hop won't allow me to stop recording. I've never taken a long break. I've continuously been in the studio, continuously doing shows. I just keep it going because it's my job.

Q: Why do you think you've remained relevant when so many careers have come and gone?

A: I truly love making music. It's never felt like work. I could have stopped after "Blow the Whistle" and been like, "Story told."

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Shakira makes surprise Colombia visit

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Colombian superstar Shakira announced Monday that she will help rebuild at least 30 schools and receive a local university in a remote and hard-hit region of her home country after it suffered a devastating earthquake last week. She has been sick and affected thousands of educational sites across western Colombia.

The "Blue Boot Lie" music is made the pledge during a surprise visit to Qubhili. He is part of the Colombian province of Chocó, where she toured through a historic, hauling students and taking photos with them.

"What worries me the more is that schools are not working," she is accompany in over. "Shakira told your wishes. 'Every day that children don't get to school is a day they miss out on their future.'"

She was accompanied by Epsomil Shaffett, son of billionaire philanthropist Wayne Shaffett and longtime diaper to Colombia. The Bonsa left, Shaffett and others will collaborate with Shakira's Fundación Plus Etnoclub (Baseline Foundation) as reconstructing the 10 schools.

Her singer also told reporters she planned to

dedicate her "personal efforts" to rebuilding a local technological university in Chocó and amounts of postage of $500,000 each from the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund and Live Nation and $250,000 from CGP Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean toward rebuilding schools.

The 15 magnitude quake Aug 10 struck western Colombia, killing at least 287 people and destroying more than 26,000 dwellings, authorities said.

Madonna, Swift lead MTV VMA.com: Madonna leads the 2026 MTV Video Music Award nominations, the network announced Tuesday. The pop superstar has been nominated in every decade of her musical career. She has 19 competitors MTV VMA wins and in 1996 became the first solo female artist to receive the Video Vanguard Award.

She is age for 21 records at this year's ceremony, including video, artist and song of the year. If she were to miss, she'd be the sonic and Taylor Swift for the title of most-wreched musician in VMA history. They have 30 each.

Swift follows Madonna with the second-most nominations. Her nine tools include video and artist of

the year. If she takes home over one award, she will become the most-awarded artist in VMA history.

Ariana Grande and Sabrina Carpenter each earned seven tools, while Benny Mars, PinkPax, Sherra and Zara Larsson received five spaces.

Swording out the artist of the year category alongside Madonna and Swift are Gracula, Mars, Carpenter and Morgan Welles.

The top prize of the night — video of the year — was Swift's "The Pies of Ophelia" — surgery against Madonna's "Confessions II." — The 'Pies,' Gracula's "Man That I Made You Love Me," Mars' "I Just Might," Carpenter's "Tear" and SmartPies's "Storm," starring Doug Leon.

The ceremony will air Sept. 27 on CBS and MTV and stream on Paramount+ Fan voting across 13 categories and a Sept. 25.

Aug. 10 birthday: Actor Debra Paper is 91. Actor All St. John is 90. Singer Ian Gillen is 95. Actor Jim Carter is 78. Bassist John Deacon is 75. Actor Jonathan Fielder is 74. Actor Peter Gallagher is 71. Actor John Stanton is 63. Actor Riya Sutgwick is 61. Singer Lee Ann Womack is 60. Rapper Pat Joe is 56. Rapper Romeo is 57.

Friend frets about longtime pal whose son remains unemployed

R. BOB THOMAS A.S.N.G. DIR.

Dear Bob: My longtime friend has a 59-year-old man who refuses to look for a pal.

His last job was seven years ago. His mother found the pal for him, but his mother passed away. He sleeled. Ideally, talented, good looking and in great shape.

His woman, to name a man, is a little old. All of you age, he has deep anxiety. Another is the career get to job at the original start time, general anxiety.

He is a small family, working and content need for financial support. He's mother is premiered by him to keep him hit and even get a roof over his head. She is quite more able with the previous year's activities. She has limited funds and is of restaurant age.

I have suggested that she needs to stop supporting him on, at most, supply him with a low months of rest and food with an ultimatum of an end date.

I think that there must be professionals that can help this man. This situation seems to have become a real problem.

Can you give my friends the irony friend also advice, as to how to find such a professional and the tools and steps for ward to solve this child being problems?

— Deeply Concerned Friend

Dear Friend: Your younger friend may believe that the barriers in his life are immensurable.

But this is likely not fine. The longer he stays stuck, the worse he'll make the situation for himself and his his mother.

He doesn't have to solve everything all at once, but

he should take one step in the direction of a solution. The first step might be therapy. There are remedies and accommodations for the season. A dismayor can help him process and can also help him work up alternatives that meet him where he is.

One solution, for instance, might be a concern job with flexible start times. Nothing will seem like a good fit in abstraction, he has to try.

A new counselor can point him to resources and options. He might also consider interviewing, seeking a nuance, volunteering, or before a discussion. He has to do things that prove to himself and others that he is open to growth.

As to his mother, a clear question is the answer. She doing herself is drawn to any putting her financial items in jeopardy. It is a fact of life that he needs an income or some sort, he has to accept that.

The danger is her to come up with a schedule of dates for who is certain aspects of her support will end or change. How has you ever it with her son.

She can discuss adjustments to it, if she wants, but they have to know the conversation with the counsel agreement that this situation isn't tenable as it is will not continue and that he is going to make strides to change.

Dear Ben: A friend of mine can say, but. He is a good person and a talented barber, but every time I sit down for a hurry, the conversation gets the same to religion. I respect his beliefs and have no good text with people discussing their faith.

However, it has reached a point where nearly every hurry becomes a religious discussion. For me, getting a hurry at is a hurry to relax, unwind, and take a break from the stresses of daily life.

I value our friendship and do not want to hurt his feelings, but I also wish he would understand that I am not always interested in discussing religious while getting his life out. Sometimes I would simply prefer a casual conversation or even a few moments of day.

I do not I respectfully communicate my feelings and self-miscellence with our damaging our friendship!

— Bear and Philtress

Dear Tom: That's the daring your observation and then show your request. "I have a good idea of how to operate the topic of religion often coming to respect your beliefs but I'd rather not talk about religion. I have a good idea of how to operate and I appreciate your skill. Would you be doing to talk about other things during hours now?"

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there to give support an opportunity to say something over a truck," added Morrison. He wanted to play, but there was nowhere for him to go.

Things remained that way for around six years, even after moving to the Chicago area in 2016, it wasn't until he attended Open Room at the back in Wicker Park and saw an entire club hall of production and something new sparked within him. Morrison did not order but set low on the spot, gaining his fellow producer's respect and an "air" with the local community.

"I realized everybody in the scene was separated," he recalled. "He was was really trying to build something like Boommaker's Toolbox in Flip a Beat Club, something that creams family. This is deeper than rap, deeper than beats. This is like, I want to know you. Should I even be around you? That's where all of it was really here, and I've just been tracking forward ever since."

The focus of Morrison's events lies in their community in the modernized city of the city. The events have no set limit or headliner slots. The order is randomised, so no one is the star. They also avoid cover charges, so there is no important barrier to entry. The order is not a single that goes to the hearts of everyone and assessed producers alike. Past events have seen the Steve of Thelmainee Martin, Philimore Green, and Pete Stacy Epps (MP DOOM and Madden's

Cory "BluLawry" Morrison talks about and plays music during his 'Peace, Love & Beauty' podcast. STACKY WISDOM TOOLKADO TRIBUNE

label man, producer, singer and encore), who flew into the city for and performed at the Living Listening Party for five.

When barriers are removed, community thrives.

But Morrison said he couldn't have done this without his wife. Monique Morrison, whom he described as the co-architect of these events. Monique suffers from kidney failure, an experience Morrison called a long journey and light

when coming up with the name and idea of the Living Listening Party.

"We didn't want it to just be another lo-fi marriage of thing," he said. "I wanted it to resonate with what she and I were going through. We are alive, we are living, we are born and we should pour into each other when we're in this space."

She also encouraged the child of Beat Maker's Toolbox from a party into more of a teaching, and potentially, a nonprofit vehicle.

After 15 years together, Morrison said that no matter how big, gets, or how far his ventures take him, he never wants it to be forgotten that she helped build this, too.

"I live every day having to my wife could do a day day, so I want her individual to do the things I try for as a person who was there. God Belied it does happen. She wasn't just here, she was everything," Morrison proclaimed.

This summer has been a busy one for Morrison.

IF YOU GO

March Aug 21 at Flip a Beat Club at Nighthawk Chicago, Ohio N. Kerrand Ave., righthawkichicago.com; noon Aug 10, at Good Waters Music Festival at the Salt Street, 1017 N. Elton Ave., uptownchicago.com; 8 am, Sept. 19 at 6:44 Days Morning, 15 War Anniversary Celebration at Bookclub Chicago, 2877 N. Lincoln Ave., tickets $17.50 at bookclubctls.com

From performances at the Logan Square Arts Park, Wicker Park Inn, the Silver Room Block Party and the Taste of Albany Park to his ongoing events, it doesn't appear that he'll be slowing down any time soon.

"The goal is just to keep

going, keep having new eyes, new people, new friends, new family join in, and keep having fun," he said. "I don't want to ruin it."

Britt. Julious is a freelance critic.

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But somebody's got to go out into these uncharted waters and follow the trail. The next day, the next day, Fat Joe and the other guys who keep going after the kids were grown and the grandfads were on the way.

Who had the ride down, that is the first two years ago, at 40' Every morning they said was old. First it was 10', then it was 40, then it was 30. Now we got senior citizens rappees, said this...a word. Fifty days entering the place where jazz, blues and R&B have older artists who are still performing and recording. We should, too.

Q: Twenty years after its release, "Give the Whistle" is still played everywhere from NIA arena to the Olympics. Why do you think that record has endured? A 2.5 feet 5-foot-2' you could give the 500 ingredients and tell me how to do it again. I don't think I could. It had to happen organically. I give 2.5 feet 3.0 of credit because he's made a lot of

songs we've loved since the day they came out. We may have become together, and that's why I'm excited for people to hear what we're still doing. My years after we first worked together.

Q: This album reunites you with 2.5 cm, but it also features some from his late son, Slade, who died

in February. What did that collaboration mean to you? At 10: any person who after we finished recording We had actually done about twice as many songs as ended up on this project. I saw how it did not 2m, and I had recently lost my brother, so I know that feeling of loss. The whole time, Slade was producing or co-producing a lot of the

tracks I was working on. The first thing that came to the world was I felt more than proud to be part of the next (legacy and joy something to the world that would help him live to ever). Inside the album, "Slade's legacy," and I'm just trying to be a part of that and show the world we lost another good, talented person.

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'Nimrods' takes rowdy, punk rock road trip

Fictional film nods to gritty beginnings, kore of Green Day

By August Brown LOS ANGELES TIMES

Green Day's new film, 'Nimrods,' believes in the enduring power of a black leader's leftist jacket.

In one program early scene, Arena Fischer's character pulls that well-worse garment out of a box to give to her teenagers on Tommy, a young punk rocker about to hit the road's Los Angeles to open the display for Green Day at the Hollywood Palladium The kid, badger. The jacket belongs to his home father, whom he remembers knowing over a record player, hearing songs from some chilling work! He does it like armor for the chaos to come.

'There is that thing about the leather jacket, where it can be so much more weight because he's a musicist, and like did it like the other, he's a lot of singer Rillie Joe Armstrong. 'We see that there's coming to Green Day shows new — two, three generations. It's amazing to see a young person that's it's sure old that gets me. Do what for the very first time, a record that's over 10 years old. I'm sure that the man made music that I've're able to play at the house. We were also an kind of old mode in that way.'

The first time, the summer film, written and directed with Lee Kink, is an old-soft road trip movie. 'Nimrods,' now in theaters, is a motion producer yet often moving anywhere of a young band smiling over on their own, drawn from Green Day's gritty beginning in the final Ray punk scene of the '80s and '90s.

In a time, when two lids is informed by alternating digital contentings and an understandable risk-aversion, 'Nimrods' takes the yearning of its young punk seriously.

Bible Joe Armstrong, from left, Tel Cool and Mike Dent attend a July 24 event for 'Nimrods' MATT WINNILMEYER/GITTY

'You have to be dehumorable in a band.' Armstrong said. 'It takes a certain kind of drummer I remember trying to get that the age. It was like, 'Oh, my God, if we could only get out of this living room and they play our first show at Gilman.'

'That was the thing we had that we could call our own,' added bassist Mike Dent. 'When people are playing music together at a young age, that may be all that they have, but that's their emotional result. That's their not.'

'Nimrods' is not a Green Day biopsy, though the rise of young actors playing the band Analog Deep (Moore Thames, Kyle Coffman and Ryan Boaz) do evoke the band's voice to go afield, and Green Day's Armstrong, Dent and drummer Tri Cool make a love knowing camera.

It's a narrative in one story indebted to the flummoor 'Rock 'n' Roll High School' and The Who's 'Quadruphrats.'

following the teen band to Lee Angeles as to members named before they've scored the go of a lifetime (actually, a pinch pulled by an older brother). 'The film has the worst vitality vibe of actually teen hungout flubs like 'Tianzi & Confused' and 'Kick Punk,' with narrow afar, striking your drama and the end of its recent film 'The Moment.'

Green Day's decade-spanning catalog of spit-fauched any punk forms both the soundtrack and the heart of the movie. 'They're the songs about as many different emotions, as it really leads itself when you're building a story,' Kink said.

'Some stuff like 'Basket Case' would be kind of obvious, but I was really surprised at how well the deep cuts upon us.' Armstrong said. 'At one scene, the car is driving down the highway, and you hear a song called 'Haushhals, which was once posted, but if it's a perfectly. We actually put that song

back into our set list.' 'In Kink's a return director who previously cast Armstrong in the 21st aging punk comedy 'thely says Would,' wrote the film as a story quite out late of a young band throwing cautious to the road while trying to heal a fractured blue collar inside in the native New York area.'

'The movie is as about a family going through a crisis, about this full trying to find the community and trying to end up with his family.' Kink said. 'He's resorted to 'For best best known from 'The Office,' who made a small but dirty fancy role here.' Armstrong's own wrote much of the original music for the movie, and Green Day's analog — very coldly resonant here after Armstrong's recent artwork at the behest of his family— binds the movie's rebellious and no one blatims.

'Where someone says they had a weight moment in their life, like a father-daughter situation

where the father was sick, and they were like, 'Your song was me and my dad's song it really got us through a lot of stuff if it's a great feeling.' Armstrong said. 'It's haunting. Music has still is not the fun part, but then something will come up and you go, OK, now that's why I do this.'

The story is sounded with nods to Green Day here, scripted over long someone riffing with the head over its rear of an atmosphere. Cool recalled the madness of a 1991 European winter tour when the band played 64 shows in three months.

'The run caught on fire, but that doesn't deter you from just wanting to jump in and get to the next town,' he said.

One scene as a mornings biker has was imposed by a vast break down in San Luis Obispo, California, where Green Day had to play two impromptu shows in three days to pay back the county punk medals to who found it another, had him to do so. Day's furiously mud-soaked

woodened," he said.

'People had been mixed a lot for this three days, stuck to the mud. Then it became like fun interaction with the crowd, throwing mud and buy back and forth. Then it became a motor. Then it became a giant brawlon stage.' Dent said. 'That was the point where I was like, OK, were, we're really big. I'm going to get a lot of things that put it over the edge.'

With its young band cutting demos on a four-knit cassette, recorders and recorders, they have been set in 2018, 1996 or 1976—photos and social media are practically non-existent in the plot. One pivotal age in the show was the McKenna Grocer's punk singer character Isaiah Tommy's charmingly furrowed Ben's a voice-louded, and it gives out her better number.

'This double-part way to make a movie for generations of Green Day fans, so I decided that a fan way to do that of Tommy is just a little bit of the world. I've recently seen a four-track, he's not on social media,' Kink said. 'I was trying to figure out how to get rid of the phones. It opened the door for us to know this film that is not in present. Let, but both like it's maybe 1992 and 2018. The film was to make a fun role that was not in modern, that's gay who's 10 can relish to us well as a 16-year-old kid.'

Hopefully the generation of fans it means can depicted in the film still last over the chance to try, even as a wrecked economy makes track-dragging hardest today while digital fame lockens instead.

'That's kind of the way a 1991 network is supposed to work — everybody's helping each other out.' Armstrong said. 'We would always add a new one on your own. Even anybody have a place that we could start.' And, after enough, somebody would stop up, every single time, first for one of a many new. Can we as far cheaper then.'

Loudier Than Fear chronicles journey of Blink-182 drummer

By Maria Sherman ASSOCIATED PRESS

The information on Green Day's own 'Truck Barker' Loudier Than Fear' (2008) has been age blind from a police car shown the blues. In 2008, and Barker has survived a phase crash in South Carolina, where a good

Aadhar, a cat. The documentary — which follows the Blink-182 drum met from 2011 to 2020 and is now a series of Blink's in a crible since of Barker's life before and after the life-altering accident, a central event on a corner and brittle, and a little began as a mirror of his moment. 2020's 'Can't See Living Large, Chasing Death, and Dream, Dream, Dream,' but became something else after a predator suggested it to be a 'Truck Barker, then still unable to fly due to past 9 seconds' stress disorder, walking towards plane.

The film was a series of 'where this thing still has power over me,' didn't yet well with him. Instead, he found a plane at the end, but the documentary's final images are a slide show of family photos including his wife, Secretary Keel Graham, and Bob.

From the 2nd, I'd say, 'I'm not a 'Truck Barker' and I'm not a 'Truck Barker'.

Barker's resume is long, and since and a half hour, documentary can only cover as much of it. The film is a series of 'where this thing still has power over me,' quickly establishing Barker as a rebellious kid with a supernatural drumming ability from age 6, and a 'Truck Barker' hit 1st, 1st, now, at age 50.

And that has with many projects in between. From the 3rd, I played a birdie, with a 'Truck Barker,' and working as a track collector, to his total to the dial band, the Aquahara and multiple shots, pay quick legend—Blink-182 — the band that

Truck Barker, stars 1,000. 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

sbyrordered Barker into superstardom.

But it all began with drumming, and Animal from 'The Magnum,' has first drumming here, until he discovered people like just legends Buddy Rich, Dennis Chambers and Elvis Jones as well as Mickey Critics Tommy Lee. 'Where drumming got really serious for me was after my mom passed, so I was therapy,' he said, reflecting on his childhood. 'It's like my life. It's like oxygen to me.'

Many events in life threatened that euphoric but some quite as physically as the plane's path.

'I was in a barn, corner for six months on my plane, and I had 30 surgeries,' he recounts. 'Sweeps you out of my body was lost out.'

At one point, he didn't only fear. She would be able to drum again — even while he was a question mark. 'From before the crash, Barker's life offered lessons to resiliency.

'Whether it was my mom passing away or my plane crash, I'm not sure,' I thought watching a wrecking friends of mine and just living life — I've seen traumatic experiences either. Intense memories or distant times he says, 'Every loss I had, or every everything I took to the chin, it made me stronger. At the time, I can't realize it, right? I can't like

really we may be real around it. But... that's why I went school, and I've so determined to play music and so determined to succeed.'

'The same tenacity can be applied to his whiteny and dedication to flying again — a journey with a friend by his family. 'I fly all the time now, and I had to be there, and I can't even tell you what's going on in my face. And I just look over and my wife is perfectly OK,' he says. 'My son loves airplanes and plays with airplanes, and it's so innocent. It's so beautiful.'

'They've been my greatest yet,' he says of his children, who grew up on across across the film's near-decade of filming.

As someone who has lost a lot and thought about what it would be like to lose even more, when it comes to the topic of legacy, Barker has a simple dream: 'I think it'll want to be remembered for my music and my drumming and living a great father, husband, and son and brother,' he says.

As for the 'Baker' 'Maybe be very fatly somebody,' he pauses. 'I don't love how everything happened. I don't like the issues that happened. But I like how hard it has to work. I like that I want! Now with a silver spoon is my mouth I liked that I had to navigate and find my way. And the journey was awesome.'

New compilation album, Barbie doll celebrate Houston's legacy

By Maria Sherman

ASSOCIATED PRESS

It was four decades ago next year that Whitney Houston released 'I Wanna Dance with their body (Who Loves Me)' a time-loss hit in a career made up of them. And it is just one of her 10 billboard the 100th best singles, all of which have been compiled into a new album, 'Whitney' sat next.

The record is part of inspiring birthday celebrations for Houston's world have turned 45 years afloat, Aug. 9. There was also the Whitney Houston Legacy of Love, plus that took place during the birthday weekend, and a Whitney Houston Barber — her first, courtesy of parent company Robert was recently released.

'It's a dream come true,' says Pat McClell, who is executive of Whitney Houston's entire and the entire in line. This interview with Pat Houston has been called for a later, and largely.

Q: Why a collection of her No. 1 hits and why now? A: Whitney always believed that 'The Ultimate Collection' represented the very best of her career. And now know, it brought together songs that defined, given the life of her mother. It was bad hearts around the world. And those kinds of him were not just chart buyers, they were the soundest to702 millions of lives and a treatment to work. But well never be duplicated. So, you know, celebrating her life, it is really a no-brainer.

Q: There's also the first Whitney Houston Barbie that's amazing but left? 'Wanna Dance with Some body' made video look. 'I'm a little bit of a lot of things, what made this journey just just like some Whitney and I had someone satsen about Barbie more than 20 years ago. And

A collection of Whitney Houston Barbie that's amazing but left. 'I'm a little bit of a lot of things, what made this journey just just like some Whitney and I had someone satsen about Barbie more than 20 years ago. And

to see this vision finally come to life. As a whole later in both emotional and very much inspiring, You know, it served as a冬闲 that reminded that some dreams like time, but when they're rooted in love and purpose, you can transcend generations, and that's what that Barbie is doing. 'I think the show room and working hand-in hand with Mabel's talented father was as honor to witness how much they care about the ceremony and the commitment they had to hand a colossal. Whitney's legacy to make this such a meaningful experience.'

Q: The legacy of Clive Davis, who died in June, is now the cable from Whitney's. How do you slow him?

A: You can't mention Whitney Houston and not mention Clive Davis, and you can't mention it. The two three times having Whitney Houston. Every conversation that Clive Davis has in music, health, manly speaks about Whitney Houston. He gets so a very, very important role in her life. And it went beyond the music. 'They truly loved one another. He was a part of me, and still is a part of her legacy.'

Q: The Michael Jackson Music was a beautiful film year. Would you want to

do something unique with Whitney?

A: Whitney's work is 'incredible and that voice is incredible. Of course there's plenty of things that can be done, but you don't want to do an overkill. You don't want someone as the industry without having purpose. It has to have purpose to order for us to put something out there or deliver something to us. And you don't want things come to the table all the time, but we're cautious and careful.

Q: Next year marks 15 years since her death, How do you hope people slow her legacy?

A: Never forgetting that she could what she represented to the music industry. People about everything else, it's what she brought to the children. Whitney's voice showcased a passion. 'Her artistry is too stifle.' 'I'm a little bit of a lot of things, and with no produce some of the Clive shows ... that have never been seen before, because it would have been a year that it is going to be. That's probably one of my ultimate goals. I guess. It's not just movies. But just others. And it's not just a lot of people in other parts of the world have seen, but North America's heart's seen, if you can understand what I'm saying.

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What to watch

WEDNESDAY

August 19, 2026

All times, Central. Start times can vary based on cable/natalite provider. Confirm times on your on-screen guide.

MasterChef

FOX, 7 p.m.

Separated to an eight-foot barrier. We home cooks that partner up and trip solely on communication to create identical dishes. Those who make a food match will face a double elimination of the new episode. The Wall...

Nation's Dumbest

FOX, 6 p.m.

Host Jack Mitchell puts the celebrity contestants in parts to give them a boost in the new episode "Study Buddy Day."

Lion

NoI Gen, 6 p.m. • Limited Series

What does it take to be king in the plains of East Africa at Nat San takes stewers on an emotional, awe-exposing journey following a loss call started this and his pride. Four years in the making, just in the first natural history series to follow aილს complete transformation from call to king.

SHERIFILL, NATION, 1ST/2ND, 1ST/3RD/4TH

Booked: First Day in

A&E, 6 p.m. • Season Five/6th

Every day in America, about 25,000 people are arrested and booked into jail. Each one-hour episode of this series follows the story of an armory with their permission to first most through the system and recruits what ultimately led them to their time in jail. Two, had no book episodes open the new season beginning with "Road Rages", which covers the stories of officers in Africa responding to

reports of someone acting inside, to traffic in Virginia Beach, where a repeat offender comes in shock along with new young females who are guilty to the 6 jail off their bucket top, and in kitchens, where a young male fights with his girlfriend over half after being arrested for a road rage incident, immediately following in "The Great Escape", which takes us to reproach Coats, Minnesota, Virginia Beach, and Flagler Sharks, Florida.

Resolve to Solve With Miles O'Brien

FOX, 9 p.m. • New Series

In the five-part series, journalist Miles O'Brien trusts the place searching for solutions to climate, water and health crises. From building sea curtains in Antarctica to restoring wildlife in Argentina, the answers are closer than we think. O'Brien learns how a seaweed additive cuts cattle methane by 40%, and how bearers fight drought and wildlife in the premiere episode "Wild Climate From From Cows and Beavers."

WNBA Basketball: Minnesota at Golden State USA Network, 7 p.m. Live

China Miles and the Minnesota Line head to the Bay Area to battle Gabby Williams and the Golden State Valhuries at San Francisco's Chase Center.

MOVIES YOU'LL LOVE

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Robody Bumps My Daughter (2024, Drama) Ana Ortiz, Jasmine Vega (NBA, 5 p.m.

Jamieji (1995, Family) Robin Williams, Jonathan Hoyle BBC America, 5:30 p.m.

The Proposal (2020, Romance comedy) Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds FX, 5:30 p.m.

Arrangedime (2018, Science fiction) Bruce Miller, Billy Bob Thornton BVV, 6 p.m.

Alaiden (1992, Children) Scott Morgan, Robin Williams Disney, 7 p.m.

Austin of Heart (2020, Romance) Williamson Fish, Daniel Leung Walmark, 7 p.m.

The Social Network (2020, Drama) Anne Feinberg, Andrew Garfield VNL, 7 p.m.

Normal (2020, Action) Beth Odenkirk, Henry Winkler NBD, 7:45 p.m.

Beast (2020, Action) Daniel MacPherson, Bren Foster Starz, 6 p.m.

The Princess Bride (2012, Children) Cary Owen, Robin Wright BBC America, 6 p.m.

Thor (2011, Action) Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman FX, 9 p.m.

Con Air (2017, Action) Nicolas Cage, John Crock AMC, 6:40 p.m.

The Secret Life of Boss (2020, Drama) Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning VNL, 10 p.m.

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Hattie McDaniel, the challenging performance who became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award, is honored with a full day of TCM programming. The centerpiece is Gone With the Wind (2020), with McDaniel as Mummy, the role that earned her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. The lineup places that landmark performance alongside a broader sampling of her film work, including the first film in the lineup.

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Linda Cardellini plays Carol, an unrevealed suburban mother, in "DTF St. Louis" HBO

COMMENTARY

As isolated character, Cardellini conjures another feat of illusion

By Glenn Whipp

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Are TV viewers clittle more judgmental when it comes to complicated women?

Could Cardellini would always know where someone was on their "DTF St. Louis" viewing journey based on their vibe when they approached her.

"If they were halfway through the show, they usually weren't watching up to Carol, and you could find that energy," Cardellini says, talking about the limited series. "But if they were through with the show, that energy changed. Sometimes you could tell they felt bad that they didn't like her in the first place."

Carol, as well as her 2-year-old, is a "DTF" - the women's best limited series - is an overworked suburban mother. According to the 2nd generation, she has been a lot of men, and her 2nd generation is a lot of men, and her 2nd generation is a lot of men, and her 2nd generation is a lot of men, and her 2nd generation is a lot of men, and her 2nd generation is a lot of men, and her 2nd generation is a lot of men, and her 2nd generation is a lot of men, and her 2nd generation is a lot of men, and her 2nd generation is a lot of men.

who possesses a vitality long absent in her husband. "DTF St. Louis" is essentially a murder mystery. Floyd dies in the first episode. Within director Steven Conrad employs a fair bit of madden him, pointing out suspiciously first to Clark and then to Carol. Since money is higher and Floyd had an insurance policy, Carol is a logical enough person of interest. We learn that she has a criminal record. And she was cheating.

"When I was reading the episodes, I thought, OK, OK, it's going to be Carol, even though there's so many clues telling you that it's not her," Cardellini says. "But we're conditioned to think that. Like, she had to be after the money. Even though she never accepts any gifts as she's struggling financially. Everyone just believed the worst in her." Granted, Carol could be a little because with service workers, and her passive-aggressive approach to yoke's questioning? "Can you speak up?" I was consider class in control and manipulation that I plan to use if I'm ever interrogated for some crime I'm sure I did not

do. Children it's somehow related to picking someone up at A&E. Then all from are off!

Reviews for "DTF" too often would sumi how it's a poignant look at male loneliness in the suburbs when, in fact, Carol is the most isolated character on the show.

"Carol is immensely lonely, but she's so burdened by the heavy demand of keeping this household effort that she doesn't have the luxury to notice that she doesn't have a friend," says Conrad. "The job of bulling minor is here alone."

In that respect, Carol brings to mind Skoler White on "Breaking Bad" and Carmela Krayman from "The Regresses." Reform women dealing with the more child than married and getting flak from viewers for being skilllier. By the end of "DTF," we find we should have been on Carol's side of along. "It's a beautiful magic trick," says co-star Bateman.

Just the latest feat of Illusion from the talented Cardellini, one that could not do in her first Emmy win in September.

Crossword

By Kevin Sanderson, 2022, Chicago Times Agency, 2:30, 3rd, 4th

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Horoscopes

If August 16 is your birthday: It could be deep breath time as soon as tomorrow, or something that's been weighing on your spirit could resolve just that quickly. While much of the year could have challenged you, the remainder of the year looks to be much more

helpful and supportive.

Arlen (March 21-April 19): By tomorrow, a lot should feel improved as both your agility stars and the Universal stars move upward. A great strategy is to tune into gratitude, holding that frequency brings even more blessings.

Taurus (April 28-May 20): Letting go can set you free, and gradual yet steady progress can inspire you to keep building. A partner or someone close could bring the answers or resources you've been seeking.

Gemini (May 21-Jun 20): Even within hours, low could weigh on your mind. Wait until tomorrow or after for initiating any significant communications.

Cancer (June 22-July 22): Hand-off finances or big purchases for another day please, if you want good results, even by tomorrow you could see things differently.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): You are enough, even if today that could feel a little doubtful. One day should see major improvement, a weak could find you in a much better place. Virgo (Aug. 28-Sept. 22): Today could give you the opportunity to create your thoughts and refine your message, best results for delivery of it would likely happen Friday.

Lilies (Sept. 29-Oct. 22): Tomorrow a friendship could feel lighter as a difficult pattern shifts into a better place. A money solution could appear almost spontaneously, whether tangible or just as data is run with.

Scorpio (Oct. 28-Nov. 20): You might pull more than one rabbit out of a hat today, or a nice windfall could lead. Share resources with these around you.

Sophianus (Nov. 22-Dec. 22): It's a polluting your heart or mind, start a boundary and uphold it, you can easily become what you allow in your field.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A friend could get lucky, you could get lucky through a friend, or you could be lucky in the quality of your friends.

Aquarius (Jan. 29-Feb. 18): A partnership or collaboration could be set to improve now and continue on an upward path. A career blessing could drop, or a new avenue could appear. Take note of key insights now.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Easter progress should now be possible in daily responsibilities and routines, even more improvement should arrive in a few more days.

• Meg Halene, Tribune Content Agency

The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn

Bites By Harry Bliss

"They actually believe we're from Nairstyle."

Bridge

Both vulnerable, South deals

Today we spent feature Australian expert Sarinj Hans, who was South in today's deal. Many players with the North bank would have bid free clubs at their first turn. East

ruffs. North, however, soldiered on to five clubs and the spotlight shifted to Bites.

East won the opening heart lead and shifted to the king of speaks, catering to a possible singleton queue in the South band. That seems a little dramatic to us. A trump shift would have been fine. More even in dummy, coined the sex of diamonds, and ruffled a spade. He ruffled a box of dummy and ruffled another spade. A trump to dummy's king was followed by another spade ruff, leaving this position:

Hans led a diamond. East had to win and lead a heart. Hans discarded his remaining diamond and ruffled in dummy. He ruffled a diamond, drove the last trump, and claimed. Very nicely done!

• Bob Jones, Tribune Content Agency

Grand Avenue By Mike Thompson

Baby Blues By Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott

Zita By Jerry Scott and Jim Bregman

Mr. Buffo By Joe Martin

Frees By Jeff Mullett

Classic Peanuts By Charles Schulz

Pickles By Brian Crane

Sick Tracy By Charles Ettinger and Mike Curtis

Animal Crackers By Mike Oshun

Prickly City By Marshall Ramsey

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Dustin By Steve Kelley and Jeff Parker

For Better or for Worse By Lynn Werdice

Rhonda By Dean Young and John Marshall

Viljoie Die Hardtke By Chris Browne

Margaret Pate By Vachan

Waldo By Mikael Wolff and Anders Morgenthaler

Sherman's Lagoon By Jim Torres

Brewster Health: Spouse Gag! By Tim Richard

Brown-Wilda By Russell Myers

Trivia Bits

Which is true about former U.S. President Millard Fillmore? A) Born outside the continental United States B) Last Philip Parry president

C) Only president to be a licensed physician D) Proposed the 20th Amendment, abolishing slavery in the U.S.

Tuesday's answer: The 1997 film "Dirty Dancing." A 2000, one-Group film by Dendros.com

Jumble Crossword

CLUE: This is home to Obizane Gorge, one of the world's most important poet/actor/ food/ video.

A. 2017, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 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,

ANSWER

RECTNA RAGNAR2 SRTAMCO CLAY NO

CLAY NO

CLAY NO

CLAY NO

CLAY NO

CLAY NO

CLAY NO

Sudoku 3 H2S

8/19

		1				4
	2		4	6	5
	8	2			6
	7	9	3		1
6						5
	9		7	4	3
	3			7	8
	6	5	1		4
7				8

3	1	4	6	9	2	5	7	8
6	5	7	1	8	3	9	2	3
9	8	2	7	4	5	6	1	3
1	9	5	8	3	4	2	6	7
2	6	8	5	7	1	3	4	9
7	4	3	9	2	6	8	5	1
5	7	9	4	6	6	1	3	2
4	3	6	2	1	9	7	8	5
8	2	1	3	5	7	4	9	6

Complete the grid so each row, column and 5 by 3 feet in half, confirm contains every digit 1 to 9.

Tuesday's

solutions By The American Group © 2026. Distributed by The Art Content Agency, LLC. All rights reserved.

Jumble

Unscramble the four Jumbles, one letter per square, to form four words. Then arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by this cartoon.

Answer here

Tuesday's answers

Jumbles: MUMMY COVER SUMMER WEDELY Answer: The former body/under still remembered his workout routine thanks to - MUSCO MEMORY

By David L. Hite and Jeff Brown. © 2026 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. All rights reserved. Page 2 of this, 2024

Crossword

8/19

Actress

1 Cherubic god 2 Spot for porn strips 3S Xumblad moor 4i Stunt show setting 5i Significant work 6i Syllabus for a stage magician 7i Social pariah 8i Social media epunness 9i Revitude 10 In flight 11 Union agreement 12 3d2 Eyes on Me 12

12 3d2 Eyes on Me 12 13 Film technique doctor from the French for "to assemble" 14 "The answering emu- 3d 15 Print 16 Capital canvas for 17 "The Apothec 18 Washington" 19 3d

Tuesday's solution

By Mike L. Hite, 1980, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 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,

10 Lengths during an "SNL" appearance, say 42 North, as a date 43 Vibe 44 "Punice Nostalgia" "Anger Lips 47 Some Bag, degrees 48 Truly Burdish 51 Drawing too that uses Aluminum powder 54 Openings for pitcher, typically 55 SAT prep subj. 56 "This with a line I like" have 58 Tirado to the Times, say 59 Pan-Goal chain that began as a fast dog cart, and what this punch's on the letters do! 64 Amber point 65 PA drama about New Kork City's full culture 66 Magazine release 67 Has a meal 68 Serve a meal to 69 Like a toddler mid- both

Down

1 Fun alternative 2 Link destination 3 Reveal cause of royal innominis 4 Weighs slowly 5 Actress Fanning 6 Postmark's words 7 "Fire Shut Up in My Bravo," e.g. 8 Litigate

9 Ability to see what others can't 10 "in...yqude" 11 Paperless reads 12 Pony 13 Bakery offering 14 Nooting costly 15 Now in Nicaragua 16 Coughlan's site 17 Cuckoo deck part 18 "I'll get this time" 19 Meadow's "Suttest spot north of Havana" GenBank 20 Like a gunsubnery 21 Pymum of some happy and sad smut 22 How to open up 23 Org. for Sarah Strong and Hannah Holiday 24 Shub... 25 Toa bath spots 26 Shadows found 27 Protein in some melts 28 Crusadine Ando 29 "Rejbach Drug..." 30 Dedicate, so time 31 Harmonious society 32 Brogue, for one 33 Arapod up 34 Pony 35 Great school hurdle 36 Disney villain with 37 Axe of the 38 Winding tool 39 Red...hurt 40 Chakia, e.g. 41 Deception need

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SUDOKU

5		3	1
	1		9		2
	4	2	6
2		7		3	5
	5				1
	8	3		9	2
			2	5	7
	6		7		8
		1	5		3

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Lead [1] [2] [3] [4]

Complains this and as much row, volume and/or value as distributions compare every digit from 1 to 6. For strategies including Studies, visit sudoku.org.uk.

5	4	6	9	8	1	6	2	7
1	2	2	3	9	7	3	4	6
6	7	5	2	9	2	4	1	3
1	8	3	5	4	7	9	2	1
6	5	4	2	3	9	7	1	8
2	2	2	8	1	6	3	5	4
2	2	2	6	5	1	8	6	2
3	1	6	7	9	4	8	2	5
5	2	8	4	9	2	1	6	5
9	6	6	3	2	1	4	6	5

1.2.2024

BOGGLE

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WordWheel

from the missing table to complete an alphabetic word reading (including a list of characters) WITUARUS

WORD SEARCH

Wordsearch: Luxury brands

Get you first of the world's bottom to the gold? Read backwards or forwards, up or down or
engraves. Use some word always for it or simply line. Check them off the right side of the line. Check them off the right side of the line. Check them off the right side of the line. Check them off the right side of the line. Check them off the right side of the line. Check them off the right side of the line. Check them off the right side of the line. Check them off the right side of the line. Check them off the right side of the line. Check them off the right side of the line. Check them off the right side of the line.
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DEGGEPECZERBQNOUEM
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UPRLGBZEDCOSEPSNNO
OMEGAOMONCLERRNDDQ
TAGHORDWKIBUGATTIS

BALENCAGA

BMW

BUDATTI

BURBERY

CARTIER

CHANEL

COACH

DOR

DOLCE & GABBANA

FENDI

GIORGIO ARMANI

GIVENCHY

QUICO

HERMES

HUGO BOSS

JIMMY CHOO

LAMBORGHINI

LOUIS VUTTON

MERCEDES BENZ

MICHAEL KORS

MULMUL

MONCLER

OMIGA

PORSCHE

PRADA

RALPH LAUREN

RCLEX

TAO HELIER

VALENTINO

VERSACE

TV CROSSWORD

by Jacqueline E. Mathews

Created by Jacqueline E. Mathews

5/14/01

ACROSS

1 View of Deluge

A Street of the

9 "Minden...Minden"

10 "Men...Women, Women 11 "Lodger"

14. Munch, 2-4 p

15. Munch, 2-4 p

16. Punch of the

17. Punch of the

18. Punch of the

19. Punch

18 "Where's ...?", 1991 animated

18. "The

19. The alternative

20. Ackless on "The Conners"

21. Engric of "Black Instinct"

22. Walk for gnarcy or gane

23. Breathed great like

24. "Manchester by the ...", Casey

25. "The Life in the

26. Auto on Chicago Med"

27. Deprednisolone Fresh

28. ... for the Midcogation: 21 best

play

40. Auto on a wanted poster

47. The 1980s

48. Not used to doing

49. 30 degrees from 1990

50. "...Wheeler"

51. Unusualed

52. Costs & Bonus

53. To win

54. Puts making tool

55. Cover good

DOWN

1 Use the meters

2 Invisible interactions

3. Puthers opening

4. Forster located

5.1. Not a form, 5. ... 0. ...

6. Absence of the military, 2016

7. Outdated up

8. Bunch

9. Antenna Susanna

10. Nite ... Aband

11. Blunders

12. Kishara & Cainis, 2016

13. Blackberry medium

14. Golden egg layer

15. Bury

16. Earny studio

17. ... full close both

18. T

19. "Up in the ...", George Cl

20. "What of Puthers" personality

21. Here on "The Love Ranger"

22. Book of "The Love Ranger"

23. Book of "The Love Ranger"

24. Book of the

25. Book of the

26. Book of the

27. Book of the

28. Book of the

29. Book of the

30. "Bragg"

31. ... 30 college

32. Head topper

33. Address adn

OBOVLOWS

ARROW WORDS

JUMBLE

JUMBLE

Ultra Black & Blue, 2000s 10s, 2000s, 2s, 2000s, 2s, 2000s 10s, 2000s, 2s, 2000s, 2s, 2000s

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CITY SERIES

Cubs center for the Pete Crow-Armstrong hits a walk-off, two-run home run to give the Cubs a 7.5-sec against the White Sox in the 10th inning at Wrigley Field on Monday. ARMANDO L. SANCHEZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE/PHOTOS

Fillin' the villain bill

20 years after Sox's Pierzynski, Cubs' PCA steps into the void

Paul Sullivan IN THE WAYS OF THE NEWS

Pete Crow-Armstrong's walk-off home run in the opener of the City Series was still the talk of the town heading into Game 2 Tuesday night at Wrigley Field.

When Joe manager Will Venable's decision to pitch to Crow-Armstrong in the 10th inning was debated all nauseam on talk radio and the internet, and Venable reiterated Tuesday that he was at peace with the news.

"PCA's a really special player, and yeah, he's scary, but so is

(twins) Suzuki, you know what I meant," he said.

Meanwhile, Cubs fans said the media debated whether the spin night sealed the National League Most Valuable Player award for PCA in his duel with Los Angeles Dodgers seasons 9 before 10th.

"That's for you guys," Crow-Armstrong said. "When you play a game like we did tonight, that's all the fun I need in my life ever."

It was only one moment in our game in a 162-game season. Players and managers always say no game is more important than any other.

But in a city that takes baseball seriously, with two teams competing for postseason spots and fans

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Crow-Armstrong celebrates after his walk-off home run at Wrigley Field on Monday.

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Crow-Armstrong walks off a historic night at Wrigley Field

By Meghan Montamaro CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Hours before first pitch Monday afternoon in a nearly empty Wrigley Field, Pete Crow-Armstrong started swinging off a tee at home plate.

He typically doesn't hit on the field. The Cubs' All-Star center fielder profers a more controlled setting in the betting cage where he can go through his progressions and have a perfect swing.

At one point during his on-field work, Crow-Armstrong started hitting Swar Bips from assistant hitting coach John Mullins just to watch the ball's flight. It didn't exactly have its intended effect.

"I was frustrated for most of it," Crow-Armstrong said later.

There haven't been many stretches this season when the Cubs'

National League MVP contender looked a little out of which at the plate. But he entered Monday's opener of the City Series against the White Sox hitting 139 with a 207 on-base percentage in his last nine games, including a 1-for-20 stretch with seven strikeouts.

Conversations over the last few days seemed so perspective — that really he was just having a week of "not so good stuff" which on Monday changed to a different mindset.

"Man, it's pedd to the trend, like, how some correction in the swings that you're taking," Crow-Armstrong said. "Don't be afraid to swing and miss things in that really."

Crow-Armstrong didn't miss much at the plate during a memorable, electric performance. He

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Sweat says, 'I want more' and Bears may need it

Brad Biggs ON THE BEARS

Every time Monterey Sweat's name comes up around Ron Johnson, the Chicago Bears coach reinforces his opinion that last season was the vote on defensive multi-boot to date.

For the Bears defense to make meaningful improvements in 2026, Sweat might have to take his game to another level in Year 6.

That's the position the Bears are in midway through it raising camp and a little less than

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a month from the start of the season. They're short on proven different craders on that side of the ball and hoping coordinator Dennis Allen and secondary coach Al Harris can cook up a breezy of takeaways once again.

To be clear, if the organization has shortenings the season, it probably would be unfair to pin them on the defense. The Bears built this roster around a powerful offense that appears to be a versatile as it is explosive. Johnson

has declared he wants to smash records with the offense, as if the Bears are winning 38-35, that would work.

The Bears had a consistent flair for the dramatic in 2025, when they pulled out games in which they appeared doomed in the final two minutes. They would love to close out games with a lead by finishing off opponents with their defense. To that end, they'll have to be better.

"We'll have to see," Sweat said Tuesday when asked how he expects the past raids to perform.

As you'll recall, the coaches talked about getting back to Rooklancetide this offensive and summer, with the idea being they

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Bears defensive end Monterey Sweat just to put on training camp at Hales Hall on Aug. 4 in Lake Forest. GILBERT MELLAN/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

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BEARS

Monangai is 'week to week' with knee injury

By Sean Hammond CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Bears running back Kyle Monangai will be "week to week" after injuring his right knee in practice Sunday, much Ben Johnson said before practice Tuesday morning in Lake Forest.

Monangai and many of the starters who didn't play in Saturday's preseason game participated in a one-hour practice Sunday. Players were not wearing full pads.

Monangai and veteran defensive tackle Grady Jurord got tangled up during a team session. Jurord supposed to try to pull up before tackling Monangai. Only that point his momentum had taken him too far and both players wound up on the ground.

The second ever running back was in obvious pain, and to assure success, he might knee for sometime. Monangai eventually walked off and at the overpower.

Johnson has maintained, and reiterated Thursday, that injuries are something "you can't control sometimes" during training camp. He said he used a medium to evoke at the physicality in practice.

"We turn the full every single day, we look at what we're doing, how we're doing it - and we always allow," Johnson said. "We're going to continue to do that. We have a method to evoke we're doing. We get better, but it, we believe in it, and I feel really good at the path that we're on."

The Bears can count themselves for more. Monangai's injury wasn't worse. ESPN reported it in a hyperextended knee. Johnson did not elaborate on the injury, other than to see Monangai be "week to week".

BIGGS

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were very achieve-focused in Year 1 in order to make an over-removal undermine the new team over the system. As part of the focus on final downtrodle, the Houston knee gone to four-point chances and went in pressure, a more emphasis got off at the soup.

"The fundamental side that we've been having is on it definitely is underlying to the film," Beard said.

Bears felt, "We've a control figure a year after he had the team with 10 ranks when of them coming in the final 12 games. He added a suck and four-pointchuck into in the same game. He said, 'I know, Johnson's was the rest not as much as the numbers that improve."

The 4 capable of allowing the quarterback," Johnson said. "I think he did that last year. It hasn't been a success that I thought he played in the season last year, run game and passing game, so I think he can juggle the on that with another really good year. That's what we're looking for from late."

Beard said, Johnson has expressed the same thing to him. "It was a cool year, but obviously I want more," he said.

The Bears are hearing around for a little help. They signed veteran Man on 10-remport to a one-year contract Monday, but he wasn't quoted during practice. Tuesday the back production early in his career playing for Alfonzo New Orleans but has been off-signed lately and looks like a no-risk flop.

Days olds might mingle have a role making the power from the second year, and packages, and he's probably still trying to build strength coming off, says A.M.B.S. tendon suffered last year. Austin Bender is a blackout candidate, and the Bears have high hopes for him.

The only player potentially capable of golvening the pace took into something down last year. He was a 2nd year with Green of manager Ryan Prier before all over at could be the last four of player - the Statistics of the front four - who else made the him on Oct. 15, 2021, and signed

Bears running back Kyle Monangai and in game to represent new activities, says 3 at Texas Hall, via a Forest. (BOBB SIBBBA) CHICAGO TRIBUNE

All things considered, it appears the Bears dodged a bulbs.

Johnson said there was no need to have a conversation with Jurord after the incident. The USh over veteran was a team captain last year. "He's eyes," Johnson said. "We're all good."

The Bears selected Monangai in the seventh round a year ago with the 2.04-0 pick. He turned out to be one of the most productive rookie running backs in the NFL, finishing with 749 yards and five touchdowns in 169 games and carding 16 passes for 144 yards. His rushing work ranked 1805 among rookie running for the first two of the 22nd running back in 2024.

Barter O'Malley held and Monangai emerged as a old one two-pinch in the league's third-3-foot running game. The Bears left the running back room largely the same heading into 2024 with Swift, Monangai and reserve Roachun Johnson.

him to a four-year, $98 million extension.

It's fair to wonder if there's more pressure on the out-zone than there was at the start of camp. What? The 10-might-in-five-game safety (A-10) and the 1,400-6,000-6,000-6,000-6,000-6,000-6,000-6,000-6,000-6,000-6,000-6,000-6,000-6,000-6,000-6,000-6,000-6,000-6,000-6,000-6

It has been quite a while since the Bears had a player post double-digit such in consecutive seasons. Dallas Peppers was the last team in 2021, and Mets in 2012. Bears, at 4-5-foot-4-tail, 270 pounds, has a double-frozen and length-to-the-thall-off tumor Peppers. He has to stock more full and productive seasons to play more like Peppers.

Sacks are in the only measure of pace defense, but there's a season the guys who do them up get paid. According to Sharp Football Analysis, over the last five years teams that did not allow a sack on a drive scored 41% of the time and scored a touchdown 24% of the time. Over the same period, teams that allowed one or more sacks on a drive scored 23% of the time with touchdowns on only 9% of those preseasons.

What Allen has in mind and how he evolves as the words go on with the Bears, is that the Bears and the Analysis had the Bears made in bitty percentage in 2021 at 28.2%. They were part of a 12-team chance between the Denver Broncos (third, 16.9%) and New England Patriots and New York Jets (tied for ORL, 27.2%).

If the Bears are struggling to get home with four rookies, would Allen consider taking up more pressure? He might have to, and the expected to play, take 1-0-0, good with his game plans when it comes to 10-1-0, and pressure. The thing is, no one wants to live that way on defense all-zones.

In a perfect world, Bears would redefine what Johnson considers his best season and have more body around him. If not, the Bears better hope the take away from is running again.

Bears quarterback Jason Bagent was the up for a preseason game against the Browns on Saturday at Soldier Field. (OWN & KNN CHICAGO TRIBUNE)

BEARS TRAINING CAMP REPORT

Bagent is latest absence; Johnson mixes it up at LT

By Sean Hammond and Phil Thompson CHICAGO TRIBUNE

A busy week bin ahead for the Bears, and they started it without second-string quarterback, Yvon Bagent.

A few days after throwing for 10+ yards with one touchdown and one interception in the first half of a preseason win over the Cleveland Browns, Bagent wasn't present when the Bears returned to practice Tuesday at Duke Hall.

His status for the rest of this week - including Thursday's joint practice and Saturday's preseason game against the Cincinnati Bengals - is up to the air.

The Bears hold a physical, two-foot practice in full path Tuesday. Bears's what stood out.

CALEB WILLIAMS WATCH

Coach Ben Johnson should things up at left tackle with Brandon Jones and Tibor Ronalds both taking step with the starters. Ronalds did more of the team work but that might be been to limit Jones' step a lot volume from a minor knee injury.

As Jack Wilk, 8, worked at left tackle with the second team, and Kirao Amegadler played right tackle with the two. Amegadler left midway through practice with an injury, after that, and both coaches Mason Murphy played right tackle with the two.

During a team session, safety Cam Levin had a big hit on tight end Colleen Loveland in the end zone in knock a Cobb Williams pass to the ground. Monsoon, later, right end Cole Knorr and defensive end Austin Bender found themselves in a driving match after the whistle to took little time for Bears to cool off.

During an end of half duration against the second team defense, Williams led the starters 70 yards down the field and rapped the third with a 25-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Shalka Walker. With comeback William Wright in overstops, Walker made clasping catch with both arms extended high over his head.

Earlier in the preseason, Williams completed passes to Walker. [A]sade Swift and Kelli Raymond. Some (Mason Swift) had a touchdown on second and 40 at the 25, but the ball flagged through his fingers on a tight window throw from Williams and Walker connected for the touchdown on the next play.

Later, in a move the ball period against the starting defense, Williams found the most-20 or about a 40-yard gain with rookie safety Dallas Theatman in a overstop, a few years later, Williams mustered with Loveland for a 5-yard touchdown down. He kept his eyes to the left before Loveland opened up on the right side for a wide-open touchdown.

PLATIN IN THE SPOTLIGHT:

HOME ODURE

Luther Borden III continues to miss camp with a groin injury, so

Odurea has been a solo act at the top uptime at wide receiver.

There are few doubts about the trajectory of Borden's 'weak' in Johnson path it, but the question is: Odurea is, what's the next end to his evolution?

While Borden had all qualified Odurea to return last season in target separation 14-16, Odurea ranked 10-0-2-15, per NFL Pro.

However, Johnson said that's not when Odurea's strength is.

"Some is looking to play fast, and he's looking to be great at the top of his roster," Johnson said. "He's a bigger body, and so part of what his supergroove is, is the command catches us well. So I'm not concerned."

"I think I'm looking plenty of separation as it right now, and I'm only pleased with what it makes for between Cobb and him, where the ball is being placed, and how I want you to keep going up for the middle of a team round. So he brings a different element to the offense than maybe what I've been around in the past, and I look forward to making into that."

Odurea considers 10-10-5-0-0-16 to his expertise.

"I love it," he said. "That's definitely something, especially on the outside, from opportunities, just to stress the defense."

Mik76 said he has watched other receivers while trying to free team his overall game.

"I'm made 10-14-4-0-16 better in the catch point that year, make a lot more consistent at that," Odurea said. "Mik76 seems tough catches over the middle as well as recent running."

"I'm like my team running very short, but I know, I live back in and knock it off Cam Lear up and make two better. You'll after each, but after each, in definitely something. So looking to improve on as well as to improve on to look at it really a receiver on that front. And in actual 2-1-0 with 3-10-1-0 after the catch, despite starting off on off the 15-point hat season.

"I'm watching Luther's tape, looking at how he's making defense in terms, trying to do some of that as well as Swift," Odurea said. "So all around, I feel that I am improved and have to do that for the larger

PLATIN 20-MATH

"There's nothing to add right now," Johnson said when asked again about injured comeback, Cobb Gordon.

Almond received several gains from about Gordon as the ticket owner's absence stretched 20% to another week. Gordon remains on the physicality and the top-4-footed with a calf injury and hasn't practiced at all during training camp after running much of the spring practice period.

Borden has been with the team to make a whole fan call and will prevent for Saturday's preseason win at Dallas Field.

"There's a plan and how working toward the plan," Johnson said when asked if he feels like Gordon

is progressing.

Gordon appeared to only throw 10-2-0-0-16 on the team injured before returning for the playoffs. That came after the 2022 second round draft pick signed a three-year, 840 million-connected extension before. Wide receiver.

With Gordon out, several players have taken his spot on a 6-1-0 corner Jaylon Jones did for a while before being a full-time 0-time 0-1-0 win in the 2021 season.

GEN AND HEARD

■ With Bagent declined, third-string quarterback Cuss Korman ended with the second-4-yard offense. With the two on the field, Korman's offense faced fourth and with Alfonz Ahmad and back drop. Five-agent addition and Nayawilla came the Mustepes that into the backfield and dropped Ahmed for a loss.

■ There were places of physical hits. On a pitch to Swift, right tackle Daniel Wright puts shoulder into Muhammad, drawing some 'soda' from the sideline.

■ One on one Sunday, drills got a little note - and the defense got the better of them. To do that I can be a defensive tackle. Jordan Loving tested center Logan Jones, a second round pick, and then knew beckoned his average. Loving was that one too. After the top, a showing match stopped and their team status surrounded them trying to break it up. The catcher ended the one-on-one drills after that. Loving and Jones did make up after road.

■ Rookie guard Cullen Burnett stood out in one-on-one drills, holding his own against veteran defensive tackle Neville Gallimore and fellow rookie Jordan van den Berg. Defensive and Daniel Hardy showed off his speed against both drills and Bender at left tackle. ■ In a special team at 81, Jeremiah Martin put rookie tight end Sam Roode flat on his back, hoping up his fellow defensive lineman.

INJURIES AND PARTICIPATION

Running back 8-5-0s Monangai is 'week to week' with a knee injury. Offensive linemen Gary Trogdon and Jordan McFadden participated in individual drills but not team work. Defensive and Marston Socar has been back pressure, after training time with an undisclosed injury, but he has remained somewhat limited in team work.

Wide receiver Zainas Thomas returned to practice for the first time since Aug 7.

Beside Bagent, Borden and Monangai, absence included centerback Trogdon Newman (underload). Bond Smith (underloaded) and Jarkin Ames (public) linebackers Tony Walsh II (underloaded) and Brigh Kiewell (concealed) and Brigh Kiewell (concealed). Newman (lost) and Wesley French (underloaded).

Defensive and Marston Dawson, where the Bears signed Monday, did not practice Tuesday.

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CITY SERIES

Breaking down ke sequences in clubs epie ex-a-innings win

By LaMont Pope CHICAGO TRIBUNE

One moment the Cubs were ahead. The next, it was the White Sea.

There was no new nine-innings would be enough to do the January's Cry Swiss game at Wrigley Field.

Cubs drummer Nico Martinez sent the game to extra-innings with an 888 single on the stand. And from the extra-innings wasn't in the 10th with a walk-off, two-run home run, giving the Cubs a 5-6 times in front of an electric crowd of 40,354 with four representing both signals.

"It was a good baseball game," Cubs manager Craig Connell said. "A lot of luck and faith, some huge hits on both sides, big home runs on both sides.

"There was great energy in the stadium, fine game, and obviously a good run to come out on the right side of."

Here's a breakdown of the momentum-shifting sequences throughout the evening:

THE CUBS DIDN'T WASTE ANY TIME

Crow-Arnstrong: hammered Luis Cantille's first pitch of the night for a home-run on right side. The pitches here, beto Natalie Isomwell, San Jose Sun, the Cubs had a 2-0 lead.

"Those first two holes in the first two seasons, Luis Isomwell are good and that's what happens when you do back, right?" Cantille said through an intry-eyes: "After that, I think the canker, Luis Regent and myself were on the same page, and from that moment on the outing, we're going to say, 'Hmmm!'

Cantille allowed four runs (three-turned) on right line with one strikeout and one walk in 4-7 innings.

RANDA, GRICHUN HURT THE CUBS, AGAIN

Cubs center Shota Imanaga allowed three runs across that with 10 strikeouts and three walks in six innings.

Imanaga's 15-10 walk with his splitter Monday tied his career high, which he had done twice both in 2016. The Sea swung a 10 of his splitters, resulting in the 10-10th, 1991-1992, his day-per-time called strikes on the pitch and recorded right of his 10 strikeouts with a splitter.

However, Imanaga's four blots on the 10th run splitter, A Minutaba Marakana walk and Miguel Vargas' single to open the fourth put Imanaga in a tough spot. Randall first took his crossing round the right of the outing, and the 10th came, entering the game with a 2001/2002 500 dash line and 10 home runs for at Wrigley.

And he did it again. Monday, donning at an 4-2 splitter to give the Sea a 3-0 lead.

THE CUBS TODE ADVANTAGE OF A MISCIP

Cubs center is the home-run in the corner with two outs in the fifth when Huetner hit a slow roller to third. Vargas fielded the ball closely, but his throw to first was

Cubs left fielder Iannaga scores on a 10-pound error after a single by shedding Nico Moore on during the fifth-ning against the White Sea at Wrigley Field in Monday. ANNONNA, SANCHEZ CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS

White Sea designated Hitler Andrew Beisheland runs the bases after hitting a two-run home run during the eighth-ning against the Cubs on Monday at Wrigley Field.

off the mark.

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Suzuki scored from this the 10-10th in the 10th in the 10th in the 10th in the 10th in the 10th in the 10th in the 10th in the 10th in the 10th in the 10th in the 10th in the 10th in the 10th in the 10th in the 10th in the 10th in the 10th in the 10th in the 10th in the 10th in the 10th in the 10th in the 10th

"Definitely that was a mistake by me," Vargas said. "It was the thing run on the front and I made the play. I rushed it a little bit and made a bad throw, but it's part of the game. We took the lead back."

ANDREN BIRMSTRED DELIVERS IN A PINCH

The Sea took the lead back in the eighth.

Marakana drew a knob of walk. Vargas struck out, and the Sea called on the left-handed-turning, Andrew Beisheland to hit for Grichun against right-hander Ryan Zichruble.

Butamendi lined a first-pitch, fastball put over the right center, held well to give the Sea a 3-0 lead. "It was special," Sea manager Will Vondilo said. "We didn't have

a run of late tonight (four), but the gym made them coax. Obviously a big swing by Girls (suki) behind Vargas and Odu (akemi) there (in the fourth), and then (Bismondi) coming off the bench doing what he does. It was awesome."

The Cubs threatened in the front of the seventh, playing runners on the corners with one out. Believer Trevor Richards struck out Pedro Ramirez. With Seinoi, 60-10-turn-turning, Huetner took off the second four. Regis's young Sabol and then threw to third, where he caught Alex Brogman on his way back in the bag for the final out.

"We've not throwing through there and really good jumping in him," Vondilo said. "And that's the play. If you jump this out you can't him stepping off a little two, for, you go ahead and for to third."

HEADING TO EXTRA'S

The Sea were two runs from securing the win when Brogman and Hopp drove back to back

walks. A close pitch on a 3-2 count to Hopp was a shot 3-0.6. The Sea were out of challenges.

Huetner then singled an ounce, scoring pinch runner Tyrone Taylor to his the game at 5.

The Cubs hooked the bases with one out in the ninth. But Jordan Hopp got a without and a key year, sending the game to extra innings.

WALKING IT OFF

Braden Brogman's challenged step, and Juan Isom, a full-stand strike and get it reversed, leading to a 3-2 count. The Sea right fielder walked on the next pitch, leading the bases with two runs in the 10th. The 10th run was get-tended four to first to end the threat.

Cross-Arnstrong is all off the bottom of the 10th, and the Sea also takes pinch to him.

"You think about all the options," Vondilo said. "But that's not one we're going to make there."

Crow-Arnstrong got ahead 2-1 in the count against left Hopp's fourth and Janel a slider over the right field and his the walk-off home run.

The head of Hopp's 10th run, 10-10-1, 10-10-1, 10-10-1, 10-10-1, 10-10-1, 10-10-1, 10-10-1, 10-10-1, 10-10-1, 10-10-1, 10-10-1, 10-10-1, 10-10-1, 10-10

The head of Hopp's 10th run, 10-10-1, 10-10-1, 10-10-1, 10-10-1, 10-10-1, 10-10-1, 10-10-1, 10-10-1, 10-10-1, 10-10-1, 10-10-1, 10-10

"This is just really good for the city," Crow-Arnstrong said, "when you've got a second place to win, you're really a few places to run to them — and the first time they've been really competitive in a while — and it's just really hooking out that we get to put that product out in the ball, and it's really unique."

"It's really good for the city. I'm going to do a playing the hand of baseball we are and putting games out there like we did tonight."

SULLIVAN FOOTAGE

looking for brogging nights, it was much more brogging than one game. Add in the backstory from the first round of the City Series, when Crow-Arnstrong had an insider with a scouting. When the first one was a 10-pound, it just adds another layer to the long running, from a three-run the North Side and South Side base ball name.

"What's made this year better playing like Sea's other? So I good-byein," Cubs manager Craig Connell said before Tuesday's game. "That's what made last week the first 10-pound, a difference, and you feel that difference year over year."

"And when you get in a stadium and there's an equal number of fans from both teams, which doesn't happen after, and it's not an average of 10-pound, a difference, or so much fun... And it makes people a million more than, and the players get an a great show for everybody."

The first 10-pound, a difference, is a fans in only for third full season, Crow-Arnstrong's dominant show will long be remembered as City Series history, even as he was the only number much of it afterward.

"I usually hit a 5-1 out during those types of things," he said of his home run. "I did get a good for Ryan, I know that."

It was reminiscent of a July afternoon in 2010, when A. J. Parzynski's two-out, three-run home run off Cubs closer Ryan Brogman to the top of the ninth, curated the Sea to a shocking 8-4 win at Wrigley Parzynski had been forced to every at 6-2 off. Weaned because of his fight with Michael Brown in the first round of the City Series at the Cub becoming public enemy No. 1 on the North Side.

Collier Crow-Arnstrong, Parzynski outweighsเริ่มต้น closing a villain to Cubs fans, and coming through against them in a clutch situation made the moment even resource.

"For all the stuff I've been through this weekend and everything that's going on, it's some thing," he said afterward, before asking a rhetorical question.

"Am I going to be Bertham from now on? ... But that's the way it is. Don't have to have a hero and an enemy, and I guess I'm the enemy."

There've been plenty of other memorable home runs since the two teams began during off-anna, after in 1991, including Mike Grichun's home run off Cubs closer Rick Aguilera after a 3-3 hour rain delay that capped a Sea sweep at Wrigley in 1994. Caron had only two home runs to the second that season, but he'll always be remembered for the one against the Cubs.

Only two years ago, Chris topper Mandi hit a three-run,

walk-off home run against closer Gregory Santos at Wrigley, spitting an epic cloth drive that seemed like the start of a long, cause in Chicago for the young Cubs infielder.

"It's my time," he said afterward.

Long story short — it wasn't. Like Caron, Mandi would soon be gone, though his home run would always be a part of Cubs Sea history.

The Sea tried to make Cubs shapier Sammy from into a villain in 2010 when shortstop, Jose Valentin Isomwell at Wrigley and included Soa's as Iain head top celebrations to the cameras when he gets to the dugout.

"Gaye want to do that. So' we showboat," Cubs manager Don Baylor said that day. "If they get drilled eventually, that's part of the game." But everyone liked Sammy back then, even more Sea fans.

One to circumstance beyond our control, there are no current players on the Sea who can be considered a true villain. It's a like after team that plays hard, and even defraud Cubs fans would be hard-pressed to pick out someone to boss. Cubs fans reserved their real authority for Sea fans, and can easily blamed them from huge level in the right center. Now here Monday night that quickly went viral.

Cubs spokesperson, better for Martinez told the Tribune

that fan safety is a 'top priority,' though the videos of the brand suggested security was somewhat lacking on Monday.

The scene was hard to ignore, no matter where side was over on.

Crow-Arnstrong said Monday it was 'sunswitting,' but joked that the Cubs and Sea fans were 'squashers,' and I should do Tuesday out for 'visitors is little shaky, but it looked serious,' I will say that. And then it's over and you move on."

Cubs pitcher David Peterson was coming out of the bullpen to pitch in the eighth innings after the fight took place, and the nippers were checking.

The two-turned game, laughing and I'm wondering, "What's so funny?" "he's hit me Tuesday," "That's like. Did you see the Cubs?" In 2026, "I'm singing in here to go down pit, man. Obviously, you don't want to see the Cubs go down. That's it's cool to see the Cubs have during the city and having the present they have."

When Isabel Cubs short — the Nico Moore on the start, he extended it was a 'shooter,' scene, but nothing out of the turns for the City Series.

"Hype it doesn't happen again," he said. "I have done happen, i.e. in these games over the years."

The players change over the years, but some things manage to stay the same.

It's just a Chicago thing.

CUBS

from Page C1

shaped Sea center Luis Cantille's first pitch for a home run down the right field line, which, e.g. a four-for eight, he teamed on left Hopp in fourth while he swalk off, and was home run in the 10th run on the Cubs a 7-5 victory.

Crow-Arnstrong became the first player with a knob of home run on the first pitch for a run down the walk-off home run on the last pitch hit from one nine the Kansas City Athletics' Vic Power on May 7, 1995, according to 'dyne' 2,875.

To make the head, like, I went up there and I didn't want to waive any chances," Crow-Arnstrong said after his first career walk-off home run. "Luis Cantille knows how to throw three-turns on the next inning as come to at 6 was. he would have eaten my lunch. And they've got some good arms, so any of those guys probably could have."

"I've got a good run, and I'm offending in mind that a week feels longer when he walks in and we're with sitting almost 20 games down. 500 and the world is still spinning."

The home runs are Crow-Arnstrong's 100 hours; 10-4 out season to put him on the top ground under tool players in big league history. He's the first Cub with his 6 to 6-6, 50-50 seasons, with only Sammy from 2,000 and 2,000, recording more than one. In major league history, Crow-Arnstrong has nine the 10th player to accomplish the 30-30 but during consecutive years.

"It's two-turned hit to watch," manager Will Vondilo said. "I don't think Peter was too happy with his performance this weekend, and you know when he's too happy about his performance. But to do what he did tonight, I think I can't have been incredible. This might be his best game in the big league right here. It was an amazing game."

Crow-Arnstrong's 3-1 out cut a complicatedly attitude beyond the Cubs, as he became the third player in 2024, and was out of the 30-30 seasons at 26 or younger and just the second to 26 if it had to back years, joining the Kansas City Royals (Kirk's 9/11).

Crow-Arnstrong's 3-1 out remains Monday — featuring two home runs a double, a single, a walk, a strikeout, a strike from, two runs scored and then fifth — added it 1978-08 to his score, and the 1978-08 is the 1978-08 hit from here produced a lower total (9/08) that season, including the Los Angeles Dodgers big offensive against the 1978-08. The 1978-08 is the 1978-08.

"With Pete, we've always kind of gone through a little bit of a week of history — when it's best, it's crazy, crazy fun — and this year he's done such a really good all-of an letting the loss of his to lose," hitting coach Duane Biffy told the Tribune of the home run. "But we have seen under a little bit more chaos, and that happens. Nothing must be inroads and there's more and more walk — I think the 1978-08 will not be the 1978-08. I'm going to be a 1978-08 — and I don't think he's putting more pressure on himself, but there's not like a cause of it."

"Heliest one definitely not willing to watch the other with him, and obviously has some to say to the same of others the sun in damage."

Despite first loss being open and the winning runs are scored to begin in the 1978-08, the 1978-08 is the 1978-08. Will Vondilo opted for the rookie finish and the 6th on 6-8 matchup against Crow-Arnstrong's rather than immediate walking loss and having a 1978-08. The 1978-08 is a 1978-08. He's been a very strong player, but he's been a very strong player, but he's been a very strong player.

"He's good at everything, covers all the play," Smith said. "He's pretty aggressive."

Cubs Brogman helped set up Cubs' first-turning 's walk-off' service with three line plus a walk in the bottom of the sixth, when Brogman came around to tie the game on Nico Moore's single to center — part of the shortstop's four-bit performance.

One of the harder three-turnings, best place this innings, two hits, including a three-run home run, and 10 strikeouts (one the Cubs offense a chance. Veterans right-hander Jacob Webb issued a scoreing top of the 10th to extend his com-ble-appointment streak to 22 games, the longest cut in the 10th run).

The '9-7-4' shams from the Cubs fans coming the right round of 40,104 at and Grichun's Crow-Arnstrong were some out of the dugout to lead off the 10th. That meant a last two one the only player to outfitted a 10-pound, a 10-pound, a 10-pound, a 10-pound, a 10-pound, a 10-pound, a 10-pound, a 10-pound, a 10-pound, a 10-pound, a 10-pound, a 10-pound, a 10-pound, a 10-pound, a 10-pound, a 10-pound, a 10-pound, a 10-pound

"With some time and the comes some pace and calm," Crow-Arnstrong said. "When you're playing a little bit of a week, I'm going to be a 1978-08, that is pretty calming. I was not going to be a 1978-08, that is pretty calming. I was not going to be a 1978-08, that is pretty calming. I was not going to be a 1978-08, that is pretty calming. I was not going to be a 1978-08, that is pretty calming. I was not going to be a 1978-08, that is pretty calming. I was not going to be a 1978-08, that is

I was going to go out there and put good swings on the baseball today, no matter what, I did it strike."

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4. Chicago Tribune | Section C | Wednesday, August 19, 2026

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BASEBALL

AMERICAN LEASER

EAST CHURCH

	W	L	Pct	HR	W/DR	CH	Dr	Room	Party
George Bay	76	60	100	4		4	6	W	W
New York	76	60	100	4	14	7	6	W	W
Buenos	67	58	100	9	14	7	6	W	W
Toronto	63	60	100	10		6	6	W	W
New York	63	60	100	10		6	6	W	W

CENTRAL CHURCH

	W	L	Pct	HR	W/DR	CH	Dr	Room	Party
Chicago	60	50	100	4		6	6	W	W
Minneapolis	62	50	100	4	4	6	6	W	W
Cincinnati	62	50	100	4	7	6	6	W	W
New York	62	50	100	4	7	6	6	W	W
Kansas City	52	34	423	18	9	6	6	W	W
WEST CHURCH
	W	L	Pct	HR	W/DR	CH	Dr	Room	Party
Houston	63	62	200	4		6	6	W	W
Texas	62	64	400	4		6	6	W	W
Chicago	62	64	400	4		6	6	W	W
Alabama	60	58	392	18	12	6	6	W	W
Los Angeles	60	58	392	18	12	6	6	W	W

NATIONAL LEASER

EAST CHURCH

	W	L	Pct	HR	W/DR	CH	Dr	Room	Party
Atlanta	62	62	100	4		6	6	W	W
Philadelphia	62	62	100	4	6	6	6	W	W
Miami	62	62	100	4	6	6	6	W	W
Washington	62	62	100	4	6	6	6	W	W
New York	62	62	100	4	6	6	6	W	W
CENTRAL CHURCH
	W	L	Pct	HR	W/DR	CH	Dr	Room	Party
Greensboro	77	70	400	4		6	6	W	W
Chicago	77	70	400	4		6	6	W	W
St. Louis	65	62	100	3		6	6	W	W
Chicago	65	62	100	3		6	6	W	W
Cincinnati	64	66	400	3		6	6	W	W

CENTRAL CHURCH

	W	L	Pct	HR	W/DR	CH	Dr	Room	Party
Greensboro	77	68	400	4		6	6	W	W
Chicago	77	68	400	4		6	6	W	W
St. Louis	65	62	100	3		6	6	W	W
Chicago	65	62	100	3		6	6	W	W
Cincinnati	64	66	400	3		6	6	W	W
WEST CHURCH
	W	L	Pct	HR	W/DR	CH	Dr	Room	Party
Los Angeles	77	68	400	4		6	6	W	W
Chicago	77	68	400	4		6	6	W	W
St. Louis	65	62	100	3		6	6	W	W
Chicago	65	62	100	3		6	6	W	W
Cincinnati	64	66	400	3		6	6	W	W

BOX SCORES

Phnltns & Tspers 1
Total:	1,000	0	0	0
1	1,000	0	0	0
2	1,000	0	0	0
3	1,000	0	0	0
4	1,000	0	0	0
5	1,000	0	0	0
6	1,000	0	0	0
7	1,000	0	0	0
8	1,000	0	0	0
9	1,000	0	0	0
10	1,000	0	0	0
11	1,000	0	0	0
12	1,000	0	0	0
13	1,000	0	0	0
14	1,000	0	0	0
15	1,000	0	0	0
16	1,000	0	0	0
17	1,000	0	0	0
18	1,000	0	0	0
19	1,000	0	0	0
20	1,000	0	0	0
21	1,000	0	0	0
22	1,000	0	0	0
23	1,000	0	0	0
24	1,000	0	0	0
25	1,000	0	0	0
26	1,000	0	0	0
27	1,000	0	0	0
28	1,000	0	0	0
29	1,000	0	0	0
30	1,000	0	0	0
31	1,000	0	0	0
32	1,000	0	0	0
33	1,000	0	0	0
34	1,000	0	0	0
35	1,000	0	0	0
36	1,000	0	0	0
37	1,000	0	0	0
38	1,000	0	0	0
39	1,000	0	0	0
40	1,000	0	0	0
41	1,000	0	0	0
42	1,000	0	0	0
43	1,000	0	0	0
44	1,000	0	0	0
45	1,000	0	0	0
46	1,000	0	0	0
47	1,000	0	0	0
48	1,000	0	0	0
49	1,000	0	0	0
50	1,000	0	0	0
51	1,000	0	0	0
52	1,000	0	0	0
53	1,000	0	0	0
54	1,000	0	0	0
55	1,000	0	0	0
56	1,000	0	0	0
57	1,000	0	0	0
58	1,000	0	0	0
59	1,000	0	0	0
60	1,000	0	0	0
61	1,000	0	0	0
62	1,000	0	0	0
63	1,000	0	0	0
64	1,000	0	0	0
65	1,000	0	0	0
66	1,000	0	0	0
67	1,000	0	0	0
68	1,000	0	0	0
69	1,000	0	0	0
70	1,000	0	0	0
71	1,000	0	0	0
72	1,000	0	0	0
73	1,000	0	0	0
74	1,000	0	0	0
75	1,000	0	0	0
76	1,000	0	0	0
77	1,000	0	0	0
78	1,000	0	0	0
79	1,000	0	0	0
80	1,000	0	0	0
81	1,000	0	0	0
82	1,000	0	0	0
83	1,000	0	0	0
84	1,000	0	0	0
85	1,000	0	0	0
86	1,000	0	0	0
87	1,000	0	0	0
88	1,000	0	0	0
89	1,000	0	0	0
90	1,000	0	0	0
91	1,000	0	0	0
92	1,000	0	0	0
93	1,000	0	0	0
94	1,000	0	0	0
95	1,000	0	0	0
96	1,000	0	0	0
97	1,000	0	0	0
98	1,000	0	0	0
99	1,000	0	0	0
100	1,000	0	0	0

EAST CHURCH	65	0	0	0
WEDDON	65	0	0	0
ALBANY	65	0	0	0
BRISTOL	65	0	0	0
CHICAGO	65	0	0	0
MINNESOTA	65	0	0	0
MINNESOTA	65	0	0	0
MINNESOTA	65	0	0	0
MINNESOTA	65	0	0	0
MINNESOTA	65	0	0	0
MINNESOTA	65	0	0	0
MINNESOTA	65	0	0	0
MINNESOTA	65	0	0	0

TOTAL	1,000	0	0	0
1	1,000	0	0	0
2	1,000	0	0	0
3	1,000	0	0	0
4	1,000	0	0	0
5	1,000	0	0	0
6	1,000	0	0	0
7	1,000	0	0	0
8	1,000	0	0	0
9	1,000	0	0	0
10	1,000	0	0	0
11	1,000	0	0	0
12	1,000	0	0	0
13	1,000	0	0	0
14	1,000	0	0	0
15	1,000	0	0	0
16	1,000	0	0	0
17	1,000	0	0	0
18	1,000	0	0	0
19	1,000	0	0	0
20	1,000	0	0	0
21	1,000	0	0	0
22	1,000	0	0	0
23	1,000	0	0	0
24	1,000	0	0	0
25	1,000	0	0	0
26	1,000	0	0	0
27	1,000	0	0	0
28	1,000	0	0	0
29	1,000	0	0	0
30	1,000	0	0	0
31	1,000	0	0	0
32	1,000	0	0	0
33	1,000	0	0	0
34	1,000	0	0	0
35	1,000	0	0	0
36	1,000	0	0	0
37	1,000	0	0	0
38	1,000	0	0	0
39	1,000	0	0	0
40	1,000	0	0	0
41	1,000	0	0	0
42	1,000	0	0	0
43	1,000	0	0	0
44	1,000	0	0	0
45	1,000	0	0	0
46	1,000	0	0	0
47	1,000	0	0	0
48	1,000	0	0	0
49	1,000	0	0	0
50	1,000	0	0	0
51	1,000	0	0	0
52	1,000	0	0	0
53	1,000	0	0	0
54	1,000	0	0	0
55	1,000	0	0	0
56	1,000	0	0	0
57	1,000	0	0	0
58	1,000	0	0	0
59	1,000	0	0	0
60	1,000	0	0	0
61	1,000	0	0	0
62	1,000	0	0	0
63	1,000	0	0	0
64	1,000	0	0	0
65	1,000	0	0	0
66	1,000	0	0	0
67	1,000	0	0	0
68	1,000	0	0	0
69	1,000	0	0	0
70	1,000	0	0	0
71	1,000	0	0	0
72	1,000	0	0	0
73	1,000	0	0	0
74	1,000	0	0	0
75	1,000	0	0	0
76	1,000	0	0	0
77	1,000	0	0	0
78	1,000	0	0	0
79	1,000	0	0	0
80	1,000	0	0	0
81	1,000	0	0	0
82	1,000	0	0	0
83	1,000	0	0	0
84	1,000	0	0	0
85	1,000	0	0	0
86	1,000	0	0	0
87	1,000	0	0	0
88	1,000	0	0	0
89	1,000	0	0	0
90	1,000	0	0	0
91	1,000	0	0	0
92	1,000	0	0	0
93	1,000	0	0	0
94	1,000	0	0	0
95	1,000	0	0	0
96	1,000	0	0	0
97	1,000	0	0	0
98	1,000	0	0	0
99	1,000	0	0	0
100	1,000	0	0	0

TOTAL	1,000	0	0	0
1	1,000	0	0	0
2	1,000	0	0	0
3	1,000	0	0	0
4	1,000	0	0	0
5	1,000	0	0	0
6	1,000	0	0	0
7	1,000	0	0	0
8	1,000	0	0	0
9	1,000	0	0	0
10	1,000	0	0	0
11	1,000	0	0	0
12	1,000	0	0	0
13	1,000	0	0	0
14	1,000	0	0	0
15	1,000	0	0	0
16	1,000	0	0	0
17	1,000	0	0	0
18	1,000	0	0	0
19	1,000	0	0	0
20	1,000	0	0	0
21	1,000	0	0	0
22	1,000	0	0	0
23	1,000	0	0	0
24	1,000	0	0	0
25	1,000	0	0	0
26	1,000	0	0	0
27	1,000	0	0	0
28	1,000	0	0	0
29	1,000	0	0	0
30	1,000	0	0	0
31	1,000	0	0	0
32	1,000	0	0	0
33	1,000	0	0	0
34	1,000	0	0	0
35	1,000	0	0	0
36	1,000	0	0	0
37	1,000	0	0	0
38	1,000	0	0	0
39	1,000	0	0	0
40	1,000	0	0	0
41	1,000	0	0	0
42	1,000	0	0	0
43	1,000	0	0	0
44	1,000	0	0	0
45	1,000	0	0	0
46	1,000	0	0	0
47	1,000	0	0	0
48	1,000	0	0	0
49	1,000	0	0	0
50	1,000	0	0	0

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SCOREBOARD

Soccer

MLB
BAKERS	W	L	P	PA
Searsville	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0

CABRIGUE
BAKERS	W	L	P	PA
Searsville	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0
Miami	12	6	0	0

CAB
BAKERS	W	L	P	PA
Chicago	12	6	0	0
Washington	12	6	0	0
Chicago	12	6	0	0
Chicago	12	6	0	0
Chicago	12	6	0	0
Chicago	12	6	0	0
Chicago	12	6	0	0
Chicago	12	6	0	0
Chicago	12	6	0	0
Chicago	12	6	0	0

CHILD FOR PEOPLE LEAGUE
WORLD CHILDREN
ATLANTIC	11/12/2012	11/12/2013
BAKERS	11/12/2012	11/12/2013
CHILDREN	11/12/2012	11/12/2013
CHILDREN	11/12/2012	11/12/2013
CHILDREN	11/12/2012	11/12/2013
CHILDREN	11/12/2012	11/12/2

CHILDREN
FAVOR	11/12/2012	11/12/2013
BAKERS	11/12/2012	11/12/2013
CHILDREN	11/12/2012	11/12/2013
CHILDREN	11/12/2012	11/12/2013
CHILDREN	11/12/2012	11/12/2
CHILDREN	11/12/2012	11/12/2013
CHILDREN	11/12/2012	11/12/2013
CHILDREN	11/12/2012	11/12/2013
CHILDREN	11/12/2	11/12/2013
CHILDREN	11/12/2012	11/12/2013
CHILDREN	11/12/2012	11/12/2013
CHILDREN	11/12/2012	11/12/2013

FAMILY
BAKERS	11/12/2012	11/12/2013
BAKERS	11/12/2012	11/12/2013
CHILDREN	11/12/2012	11/12/2013
CHILDREN	11/12/2012	11/12/2013
CHILDREN	11/12/2012	11/12/2013
CHILDREN	11/12/2
CHILDREN	11/12/2012	11/12/2013
CHILDREN	11/12/2012	11/12/2013
CHILDREN	11/12/2012	11/12/2013
CHILDREN	11/12/2012	11/12/2

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL BIG TEN PREVIEW

Challenge for the champions

After historic '25 season, Indiana faces big test in holding off OSU, Oregon

By Eric Olson ASSOCIATED PRESS

The 2025 Indiana Hoosiers won the Big Ten and national championship and were the first team in the modern era to go in 6. They have 10 starters back, the hottest coach in the game and a manageable schedule.

It's Ohio State and Oregon generating most of the preseason buzz though, with both perched 1-2 atop the preseason AP Top 20 poll and among eight ranked teams.

The consensus around the sport is that the Buckeyes and Ducks are loaded and the Hoosiers' roll is about to slow with TCU transfer Josh Heaver replacing Hammer Trophy winner and No. 1 NFL draft pod Fernando Mendoza.

Douh coach Curt Cignetti at your own peril. He's 27-2 with two College Football Playoff appearances at Indiana and has yet to write a shock his exam can't cash.

Ohio State plays the toughest conference schedule. The Buckeyes visit Indiana on Oct. 17 and host Oregon on Nov. 7.

These games will go a long way in deciding which teams under the Big Ten title game in Indianapolis, not to mention impact CFP seeding.

The Bucks are on hold for what awaits. Arsenals finish is the most productive receiver in the nation, quarterback Julian Snyts is one of the most accurate punners and the offensive line is slow. There are plenty of talented transfers waiting to emerge for a defense replacing eight starters, all of whom were drafted.

Oregon is one of the most seasoned teams in the nation with quarterback Dante Moore among six starters back on offense and tackle (Maus) Washington and edge Matayo Gtagalabi leading a defense that returns eight starters.

OTHERS IN THE MIX

Southern California coach Lincoln Riley goes into his fifth season with his best team on paper. The schedule is brand with home games against Oregon and

Indiana coach Curt Cignetti watches swamps before the College Football Playoff national championship game in January. The Hoosiers beat Miami 27-25 for its first national title, finishing the season a perfect tie-in. REBECCA BLACKWELL/AP

Ohio State and a trip to Indiana, QB Jordan Maura has made 17 straight starts.

Michigan is looking to improve on offense, QB Bryce Underwood, who didn't live up to lofty expectations as a freshman, should make progress with offensive coordinator Jason Beck coming with more coach Kyle Whittingham from Utah.

Penn State then year coach Matt Campbell brought 24 players with him from Iowa State, including QB Recos Becht.

The Nittany Lions don't have to play Ohio State, Oregon or Indiana.

TEAM ON THE RISE

Washington get back dynamic. QB Demand Williams Jr. after a kerkliffe with the school over pay. If the Munkies can rebuild what was one of the

Big Ten's best defenses, their ascert under Judd Flach can continue. The schedule is a bit tougher than in 2025.

AND THE REST

Icm chao ended off at least eight wins all but one non-pandemic season since 2013. Two inexpensive QBs are betting for the start of 5-ah and the defensive line must be rebuilt... Kevin Houser, who has a combined 26 starts at Michigan State and East Carolina, becomes Illinois' fourth transfer to start at QB in Best Refiners's six seasons.

Minnesota has become a ranked opponent three straight years and is 7-0 in bowls since 2019. The Gophers will be a tough set again with returning QB Drake Lindsey and a dominant edge in Anthony Smith...

Nebraska's Matt Rhole is 39-49 in three seasons, including 3-4 since he signed a two-year contract extension. No one plays a tougher. Outdoor-November schedule... Wisconsin is counting on transfers. Colleen Joseph (QB, Old Dominion) and Abu Isana III (RB, Iowa State) to recharge an offense plagued by injuries the last four years... QB Nois familiarity is back for UCLA, and 39 of the Bruins 45 transfers followed coach Bob Chesney from James Madison... Northwestern brought in Clay-Salle as offensive coordinator and Jerry Neubauer as QBs coach to spark an offense that's lost in Big Ten in yards per play (4-0) since 2022. Maryland's Malik Washington is one of the great young QB talents, but the Terrapins are of their defense to spend less time on the field.

... Michigan State, 9-27 in Big Ten play since 2022, hopes to become relevant again with new coach Pat Fitzgerald... Rutgers' 22 Big Ten wins are lowest among teams that have been in the conference since 2014. ... Purdue has lost 18 straight Big Ten games and beaten one FBS opponent (Ball State) the last two years.

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PAGE 1 | SECTION E | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2026 | CHICAGOTRIBUNE.COM

The dino rib woodse galbi with a snailb onion relish and roasted mushrooms served with a banchan set and white rice at Mister Tiger on Aug. 12. CHRIS EWISA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS

REVIEW MASTER TIGER ★★ | VERY GOOD TO EXCELLENT

Not your grandma's galbi

Korean home cooking in West Town

By Louisa Kung Liu Chu | CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Master Tiger, a Korean restaurant that opened as an ode to a grandmother's home cooking, has become a new chef's culinary coming of age.

Min Lee co-owns the business, which debated in West Town in May 2025, with her brother Charlie Park and her husband, Brian Lee.

Park, a product manager, also leads the bar program and front of the house. Brian Lee, an attorney, oversees operations. Chef Min Lee was previously a structural engineer.

"I grew up with my grandma, eating her food," she said of Bong Kim, who cooked and cared for the family after they emigrated from Busan, the middle city to South Korea. "I just wanted to bring that to Chicago."

The most dino rib is not her grandmother's galbi.

"We bring traditional food," said the chef. "But I also wanted to bring what's really hot right now in Korea."

Her interpretation of modern

woodse galbi balances grilled into size slices from beef short ribs along a dramatic dinosaur-size bone for a potentially perilous presentation.

The labor intensive homefilling dish begins by debating the rib meat that's then marinated overnight, before it's cooked sour vials and finally grilled.

Each carefully crisped and charred slice wombic tomato packed soy sweetener and an impressively tender center. A gentle, smooth onion relish and hearty roasted vegetable accompany a house-beaters of meat on the platter. I ordered the smaller boneless plate on my first visit, and while it's a nice option with the same impressive food, you can't deny the drama

"We want to share good food with good people," said chef-leaner Min Lee.

of the big bone that I had to have my second time around.

The lazy year women kimchi or chives with the tradition of women who've made the serery pancakes for generations.

"It's home style," said the chef. "Because when you make food at home, you're not cheap about using

ingredients."

Her grandmother made jeon often. She stood at the store turning out one but a filthy another, while the family begged her to sit down and eat with them. After returning to Busan, and nearly a decade with

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Southwest Michigan wine country is ready for its close-up

By Anna Lee Sjma FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Although less than two hours from Chicago, the small towns scattered along Lake Michigan's southeastern shore carried a world away. From New Buffalo and St. Joseph to Sangamah and Douglas, beaches give way to dunes, then farmland stretching so far as the eye can see. Traffic thins to almost nothing.

Yet across the Lake Michigan shore and Fennville 3016s, there's a palpable sense of momentum. Grape growing goes back generations here, but a new wave of winegrowers is testing what the region can do, experimenting with styles and farming practices while challenging expectations of Michigan wine.

For Chicagoans, there's a corner that Michigan is being embraced as their own local wine region — part of a broader shift in how people think about what

they drink, says Zack Eastman, co-owner of Chicago wine bar and bottle shop Eazy Dooch. Increasingly, we want our wine to have the same connection to place and farming that we've long valued in food.

"Knowing where these grapes are coming from and paying more attention to how things are farmed has become so much more important to end drinkers," he says.

A LOOK BACK

Southwest Michigan has long been known as the first belt of the Midwest, where proximity to Lake Michigan moderates the climate, cooling the air in the spring and summer, and tempering winter's extremes. The result is an especially favorable place for growing everything from cherries and peaches to blueberries and grapes.

In 1991, Fennville was designated Michigan's first American

Vincultural Area, and two years later, the broader Lake Michigan there-4016 was established around it. Together, they form the heart of Michigan's oldest commercial wine region.

DIVERSE YET DISTINCTLY MICHIGAN

Michigan wines are often reduced to a single idea, but the state encompasses a wide range of climates, terroir and wine styles. Southwest Michigan is markedly warmer than the state's northern wine regions, with a growing season that can stretch from budbreds in May through harvest in mid-November.

The comparison isn't perfect, says Andrew Bucklin, co-owner and head winemaker of Modales Wines in Fennville, but more established regions offer a useful shorthand. 35lbs Leofanau and Old Mission Peninsula — known

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A glass of Modales read wine is illuminated by the evening sun at Modales Winery in Fennville, Michigan, on Aug. 14. TERENCE ANTONIO JAMES/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

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Grilled pork chops with plum BBQ sauce is perfect for an impromptu gathering because the dish comes together so quickly.

GIRLLED PORK CHOPS WITH PLUM BBQ SAUCE

The bright, sweet, but flavor of ripe plum comes through in this crisp-wired pork chop-shine. Cooking this dry green into a simple barber, or sauce leads to fun. Puffy results. You could add your favorite spices, such as ground cumin, smoked paprika or Brown seeds, or let the slaked plum aroma shine on its own. This would be good, alongside with rice, roasted potatoes or a big green salad.

Makes: 6 to 8 servings. Total time: 30 minutes. 8 tablespoons of fresh chops (1/2 - 1/2 ounce thick). Pearlier salt and freshly ground black pepper

Cereals or other neutral oil Cereals, like salt from black or red plums, pitted and thinly sliced (see note)

1/2 cup salt. 1 tablespoon dark brown sugar, also more to taste

1/2 cup yellow onion, finely chopped 2 tablespoons (1/4) sauce (such as Hamz) or ketchup

1 teaspoon apple cider or rice vinegar

1. Pat the pork chops dry, then season with salt and pepper. Generously coat with oil.

2. In a bowl, toss the plums with 1 tablespoon brown sugar and a pinch of salt. Set aside to get jolly.

3. Heat a saucepan over medium-high. Add 1 tablespoon oil and the onion. Season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the onion is soft, 3 to 5 minutes. Reduce the heat to medium.

4. Add the thin sauce and stir constantly until slightly darker in color. 1 to 2 minutes. Stir in the vinegar and cook until reduced, just a few seconds. Add 1/2 cup water and the remaining 1/2 cup brown sugar and bring to a simmer. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the sauce is thick, 3 to 5 minutes.

5. Stir the plums and bring to a simmer. Cover and cook until the plums are tender and the sauce is thickened to your liking. 1 to 2 minutes. Taste and add more salt, pepper and brown sugar as needed. (The sauce can be refrigerated for up to 3 days. Instead before serving.)

6. Heat an outdoor grill to high (or heat a stovetop grill pan over medium-high). Grill the pork chops until browned at the edges and no longer pick in the middle. 1 to 3 minutes per side for 1/2-inch thick chops and 3 to 4 minutes for 1-inch-thick chops.

7. Let the pork rest for a few minutes. Pour cover with the warm water.

BLUEBERRY CRISP

Foggers with the sunshine of lemon peel, the crunchy almond roof of this summer in a dish descent gives way to caramel berries begging to be swirled with ice cream. To make this simple treat even easier, the crisp topping is simply stirred with a tattered ice cream. Bake together the dry ingredients while giving the mixture a bluebread that holds up against the jolly fruit. Sliced almonds soak on to chopping and add a delicate crunch, but chopped pecans would be delicious here. So, a great deal of fresh veggies, such as cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom or even black pepper. The potluck tip: Ask the food if you can use the oven, and if you can, bring the berry mixture in the baking dish and the chilled topping in a separate container. When you arrive, cut the the crunchs over the filling and bake to enjoy a warm dessert.

Makes: 6 to 8 servings Total time: 1 hour 20 minutes For the topping:

Vernon 1/2 cup sugar

Baked feta dip with spicy tomatoes and honey. To make the dip even easier, add a tablespoon or two of finely sliced fresh red or green chile to the tomatoes. ALEX LAUTHE NEW YORK TIMES PHOTOS

By Genevieve Ko | THE NEW YORK TIMES

The confusing spirit of August – the urge to relax while also making the most of hay days – extends to cooking for friends. There's a coming to casually have people over for a beautiful meal that takes nearly no effort. These special, suttany dishes are perfect for an impromptu gathering because they come together so quickly.

Coconut-oil salmon with green beans and corn – served warm or cold – is a great low-lift dish for a large party or a meal that can be prepped in advance.

The crisp topping can be refrigerated for up to 3 days ahead of time.

1 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 cup sliced almonds, toasted if you'd like 1/2 teaspoon fine salt 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled For the filling: 1/2 cup sugar 1/2-packed tablespoons cornstarch 2 to 2 1/2 pounds blueberries

together so quickly until the mixture forms a soaked crumbles with gravelly feta, short creams, the legumes and ready to use. The topping can be covered and refrigerated for up to 3 days. 4. Make the filling: While the sugar and cornstarch in a large bowl is fresh air, it plantly clumps. Add the blueberries and squawish 1 tablespoon lemon juice from the reserved stocky kitchen. Toss until evenly cooled, then scrape into a 1 1/2 - 1/2 ounce casserole (such as a 3-inch square dish or deep-dish pie plate). 2. Spread the berry filling in an even layer, then cover with the topping, leaving no gaps. Place the dish on a rimmed baking sheet to catch any ill-fan. 4. Make until the topping is golden brown and the filling is bubbling like lava, with a 10 minutes. You don't want to burn your mouth eating the crisp hot, so let it cool for at least 15 minutes and overeating at four or so because the filling forms up as it costs. If you're served warm or at room temperature, ideally with ice cream. – Recipe by Genevieve Ko

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The banana chocolate carroté hold chocolate ganache and allay custard made with the nostalgic Banana Flavored Milk from Korea at Mister Tiger on Aug. 13.

The sweet corn ice cream is a soybean paste custard sprinkled with caramel corn kernels.

TIGER

from August Alzheimer's disease, the family man can't die at 43 on June 7.

Loo's striking kimchi-joos, easily my favorite dish, activates the spicy house-farmured vegetables into an intensely thin and crispy pan bowl, personal statement. It's unlike the many I've had across the city and the area I disheal from Korea over as the sunflowers are adnyls.

"I put a lot of kimchi in my pins, die," said Lee. "And I always tell my check it's chive pancake, not butter pancake."

A lovely uni-rice upgrades allays the Korean Japanese to take over rice, with butters so a on-line row, along with colorful pinched grass and more kimchi heat, all loaded over a peat-lecent sailing bowl.

The handsome classic hot stone d'our biblin bag, which I ordered with ribbons of rolls, arranged with an assortment of vegetables under a pastry fluid gap, comes on a long oven bottle, creating a covered hidden crust of corn-fried rice.

The dessert-play with the connection between Mister Tiger and the single boss. Tough ropes or swine swaps over-see with extra marmalade to no sound the leafy fingers and orange powder drained man-or-cher that's bright and not too sweet. Brilliant banana chocolate carroté hold chocolate ganache and allay custard made with the smelly nostalgic Banana Flavored Milk from Korea.

But it's the seasonal sweet corn ice cream dessert that's most touching and simply stunning.

"We get corn gluten, but I wanted to add a different texture," said Lee, who created the dish with chef Esteban Nunez. "So we have soybean paste custard on top."

A few caramel corn kernels add to the sweet and salty flavors significant to the city that's home to Garrett Popcorn.

"I want to study simple with what we have been," said Lee. "So I do want to make sure that I show my respect to Chicago culture."

A zesty nonstoleistic Home Remedy drink mixes citrus-fat-ward-food. By Grove 42 with nuts, garnished with a delightful bit of candied ginger. The Faithful line cocktail with pizza, the strong foods American grape spirit, buns at a refreshing low-leat, the summery Korean fruit salad menu punch, but I missed any actual fruit.

Shared baby back ribs, satsalysply-nisley and spiced with gas-burings, come smothered with melting mozzarella for crazy long cheese pads on Chicago-style, falling off-the-home pork. Korean fried chicken-nuggets, tossed with chewy trouble-skin ice cakes or good that I wish they were available on their own, but their highly desirable crust in the sauce.

The spicy with oils-ones, served boiling hot-nuts, as one does with mandolin-plate, was on-flavored not only a bit bland. A kimchi-fried rice was uncured with butanol-fat enough.

The seasonal cold-biblin

The uni-rice with sea-ureter ice, along with colorful pickled gems, and more kimchi-heat, all loaded over a sizzling bowl.

Chef-Gower Milt Lee, center, is among a collage of family photos that adorn a seal at Mister Tiger in Chicago on Aug. 13. CHRIS SWIELD/SCHULSO TRISUNIS PHOTOS

noodles, though, were perfect and chilled, as bilons-galons should be.

This yet beautifully hoaxey buckwheat noodles are described in a house-made spicy sweet-smanic sauce. First-topped with pickled radish and cucumber, hard-boiled egg and an aromatic drizzle of sesame oil.

"We recommend that with our dino-rib," said the chef. "And a more platter to accompany any Korean barbecue dish we have."

I skipped the platter of dipping sauce and lettuce with the ongoing ex-keepers outbreak. But main platter refills are complimentary and unlimited upon request, as are white rice and four kinds of bunches not on the

menu, which can be confusing. No one offers the one, but when I asked, they were apologetically and enthusiastically served. I'm always amazed and appreciative of any side dishes with rising food costs and the deep-promises of low-beans.

"That's how Korean dining should be," said Lee. "Right now I have radish kimchi, cucumber kimchi, fats cake and potato salad."

They're all made in-house, as her grandmother and mother, Jean Park, and the chief d-broodful house.

"I'm not a trained chef," said Lee. "I don't know what industry culture is, but I know what we want to do. We want to share good food with good people, and that

includes our staff."

My serves, Simon Yun and Michael Richards, skillfully handled busy dining rooms from the first seating on a Friday evening to the last seating on a Tuesday night. A new side-screw sidewalk dog-friendly patio adds outdoor seating when weather permits. The dark minimalist interior features a zone on depicting the mythical Korean tiger wearing a traditional man's black hat.

It's carious why, with such powerful man-tar that energy, the restaurant's spirit animal has a muscular title.

"We had many, many, maybe too many ideas," said

MASTER TIGER

1102 W. Grand Ave. 202-255-5215 master@mastertagac.com Open Tuesday to Friday

from 5 p.m., Saturday from 4:30 p.m., daily until 9 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday. Prices: $32 (un-risco), $15 (unmich-pant), $16 (custisbore noodles), $13 (barnish chocolate carroté), $12 (sweet corn ice cream), $6 (Faithful box cocktail), $3 (romatizrish cheese formings, etc.). Sound: ON (7x to 7h 8B) volume.

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the chef "I wanted some things that a very Korean." The tiger is one of the most symbolic animals in Korean culture, but there's a more modern explanation too.

"We also just wanted to keep it cute and simple and can be."

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Anyone can make lemony dessert

By Kelli Foster

THEN TO NO ONE

I've developed a lot of no-baby delight recipes over the past few years. It started with strawberry delight, from there was pumpkin delight, chocolate delight,

a very tropical coconut delight and many more. But this dreamy lemon delight is me absolute favorite. I know it after the first time. This four-lane, no-baby dessert is light, creamy and bursting, with sunny lemon flavor.

There's lemon in just about every layer of this no-baby dessert. ALEX LIPEY/TNS

LEMON DELIGHT

Makes: 12 servings

8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature

2 (3.4-ounce) boxes instant lemon pudding mix

2 cups cold white milk

2 tablespoons granulated sugar 2 teaspoons finely grated lemon zest (from 1 medium lemon), plus more for garnet

1 (3-ounce) box vanilla water cookies, divided

4 cups 6 teaspoon isomer salt, divided 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted and cooled

1½ cups cold heavy cream

¼ cup powdered sugar, divided

2 tablespoons finely rapeseed lemon juice (from 1 medium lemon)

1 teaspoon lemon or vanilla extract

1 Line in 8-by-8-inch baking pan (about 2 inches high) with two sheets of parchment paper, positioning them perpendicular to each other so the parchment has got about 2 inches over all four sides of the pan to form a ding.

2 Whisk: 2 (3-4-ounce) packages instant lemon pudding mix and 3 cups cold

white milk together in a large bowl until dissolved and slightly thickened, about 2 minutes. Let sit to thicken while you prepare the crust and other layers.

3 Roll: 2 tablespoons granulated sugar and 2 teaspoons finely grated lemon zest together in a small bowl until fragrant. Transfer to a food processor.

4 Beaver: 5 cookies from 1 (3-ounce) box vanilla wafers for topping. Place the remaining cookies and ¼ teaspoon of the isomer salt in the food processor. Process until the cookies are the texture of sand, about ½ seconds. Add 1 stick melted, crushed butter and pulse until combined, 4 to 8 (1 second) pulses.

5 Transfer mixture to baking pan. Use bottom of a flat measuring cup or your fingers to press co-stitch into an even layer, making sure for each edges and fill corners. Refrigerate while you prepare the filling.

6 Beat: 1½ cups cold heavy cream and ¼ cup of the powdered sugar together in a stand mixer with the white attachment on high speed until stiff peaks form, 2 to 4 minutes. Transfer to another bowl.

7 Beat: 6 ounces room-temperature cream cheese, the remaining ¼ cup powdered sugar, 2 tablespoons lemon

juice, 1 teaspoon lemon extract and remaining ¼ teaspoon isomer salt together in the stand mixer (no need to clear) with the whisk attachment on medium speed until light off very fluffy, scraping down the sides of the bowl with a flexible spatula halfway through, about 3 minutes total.

8 Transfer: 1 cup of the whipped cream to the cream cheese mixture and gently fold together with a flexible spatula until just combined. Dollop the cream cheese mixture over the crust and spread into an even layer.

9 Dollop the lemon pudding over the cream cheese mixture and spread in an even layer. Dollop the remaining whipped cream over the lemon layer and spread into an even layer. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours or up to overnight.

10 When ready to serve, crush the man and 1-2 cookies and sprinkle over the top. Garnish with some finely grated lemon zest, if desired. Grasping the excess parchment. Transfer the side to a cutting board. Cut into 12 pieces, wiping the knife between each cut for cleaner cuts.

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Celebrate Labor Day with bright corn salad

By Katie Workman ASSOCIATED PRESS

Labor Day is almost here, but there's still a direct of summer lurk. And we should not waste these last days telling each other how quickly the season has flown by.

Let's spend the rest of summer and stay the day's day all of the ripe, crackers-faced produce that is spilling over at the farmer's markets and (if we're lucky) in our gardens.

Tomatoes, eggplants, zucchini, herbs, string beans and — so some folks' minds — the pick of the season think never overs.

Do you have an avid cork lover in your world? The kind of person who will cut there says of corn without thinking? A friend who will cut it out up to the full, caused ing pain died, to share the news that the corn salad has closed and the season is smart!

I have served such people in my life. And I made this potato salad for them.

This corn and potato salad is at once comfortably creamy and bracingly bright.

Tender chunks of potato mingle with sweet corn (at other times of year, you can use frozen or canned corn), crispy beans and crispy lemon-hammonds dressing.

It's the kind of crowd-pleasing summer side dish that works for cookouts, bucks and gatherings and a Labor Day party menu.

You can prep this salad ahead and serve on a room and kitchen. If you love corn, add an snack in you like. You could even snack it into a corn salad punctuated with potatoes.

A NEW TIPS

If you are a regular potato-salad maker, you know that potatoes can absorb steaming spots significantly. This might seem like quite a lot of drawing at first, but the salad will find less you on standing. And if you refrigerate it, even more.

If you are thinking of bringing this corn and potato salad to a person or other protein even remember to pack the extra crumbled bacon in a separate baggie or container and sprinkle it on at the end to preserve the crumbloses.

This corn and potato salad is at once comfortably creamy and bracingly bright. CHEYENNE COHEN

CORN AND POTATO SALAD

• Makes 6 servings
• 1½ pounds (sake) Gold or waxy (pantates), packed
• Koolier or coarse salt, to taste
• 2 cups Rock corn kernels

• ½ onion, finely minced

• ½ cup plain Greek yogurt

• ½ cup buttermilk
• ½ tablespoons milk, lemon juice
• ½ teaspoon finely grated lemon and ½ tablespoon (flavor-invulant)
• Freshly ground pepper, to taste

• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil leaves

• ½ cup crumbled cooked bacon

• 1. Gait the potatoes into ½-inch line, Bring a medium inch of salted water to a boil over high heat, add the potatoes, partially cover the pot and simmer for about 10 minutes until the potatoes are almost fork-tender. Add the corn and

• simmer for another 2 minutes, until the potatoes are tender and the corn kernels crisp and just cooked through. Drain the potatoes and the corn; let them cool for about 10 minutes in the colander.

• 2. Measurable, in a small bowl, mix together the onion, yogurt,

• buttermilk, lemon juice, lemon zest, mustard and salt and pepper.

• 2. Place the warm potatoes and corn, basil and half the bacon in a large bowl. Pour the dressing over it and mix to mix well. Turn into a servings bowl and top with the remainder of the crumbled bacon.

Andrew Bucklin, owner of Modules Winery in Fennville, Michigan, walks among some of his vines on Aug. 14. TERENCE ANTONIO JAMES/CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS

WINE

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especially for cool-climate greens like reading and gretelotromine smile somewhere like the Mood in Germany, south-west Michigan on cigars a season organic, close to Alvaco or the Juno in France, to says. That only is exactly wild-bogor season after for a much broader range of greens and stylus. Bowling thrives here too, but we do a slimmer from and close look, even until and after life.

"There's a little bit of food, but a lot of tension too," he says. It's cool enough to retain freshness, yet warm enough, he points out, that "we can even get stranded to ripen here."

THE NEXT GENERATION OF MICHIGAN WINE

At the heart of southwest Michigan's momentum is a new generation of wine-growers taking root. Alongside the multigenerational food feature who works linked the region's wine industry, an influx of transplants has arrived, based by affordable farmland and the promise of self-length ones placed on top. Meanwhile, a wine and viticulture technology program at nearby Lake Michigan College has become a defining home-grown-growing producing successive waves of skilled, enthusiastic winemakers.

Filkins Vineyards, established in Coloma in 2024 by Onofrey Jobs, guitarist Zach Filkins and his wife, Landsat, is one example. Long-time Chicagoland residents

who vacations of frequently in southwest Michigan, like Filkins were given by the Alvaco to design a long-spring wine region. They recruited Jason Johnson, a 26-year Napa veteran, at their winemakers.

—The Alvaco Architect, co-owner of Manager Wine Co. is Buchanan, what's taking shape is a vibrant, clear, and a community of people with "crazy pedigree." For his wife and co-owner, Valerie Finan, part of the appeal is precisely what hasn't yet been alluded.

"There's a lot of opportunity for us to invest our own services if they snuffed Southwest Michigan wines can be."

Aime Lue Zijlma is a freelance writer.

Where to go

FOR WINE LOVERS WHO WANT TO GO DEEP

Montane Winery: One of the region's benchmark schemes, Modales reflects the ambitions of Bucklin, who can't be held in California with various winemakers and Steals, of friendly Jackson Farms, as well as a 25-year-old in Napa Valley. Since 2024, the winery and his two not only vineyards have been certified organic, with biodynamic certification underway — a early in Michigan, making the winery's guided vineyard less especially worthwhile. At the tasting room, the mood is engaging, with the casual feel of a wine bar. The wines are classic in expression — a flood, peppery spirit that invites companymen to the Southern Philharmonic and sauvignon blanc packed with groundwry and lime. Positive is compelling too, spanning the spectrum from dry to bury off-ety and take-harvest styles.

■ 2538 Kirsti St., Fennville, Michigan, 269-722-7605, modaleswines.com

Stranger Wine Co.: Despite its limited production, Stranger Wine has become one of Michigan's most closely watched wines. Founded in 2021, the project maxims 8,000 equity background in winemaking and wine sales with Pinac's experience in organic farming. Regenerative viticulture is central to the past, with a whole system focus on reduced chemical inputs, biodiversity and soil health. Their downtown Buchanan tasting room, focused on historic bank building, has an intrinsic, small flow; they snacks their or bring your own food. Their eugene is topological for others, while the price's rise is intensely flagrant, spicy and minimal. ■ 203 E. Front St., Buchanan, Michigan, strangerwineco.com

Alex Fagan, center, has her bachelorette party at Modales Winery on Aug. 14.

Domaine Berrien: At Domaine Berrien, co-owner and winemaker Amy Birk is putting her stamp on one of southwest Michigan's sprawling estates. The winery's roots go back to 1902, when Tom and Abigail Fricke uprooted cherries to plant synth, original, manganese and muscovine. Birk, the longtime assistant and postage to winemaker Wally Maurer, took over in 2022. Among her standouts, are a stolen summer paper on franc that's strikingly peppery and a register that's party with peach and blossom notes. Yet, amid the vine, the winery is an ideal picnic spot. It is its and dogs welcome. For a deeper blue, book a special winemaker tour through the vineyard and radar, complete with barrel samplings of non-yet-velocated wines and a charcutene tasting on the deck.

■ 3990, Lemon Creek Road, Berrien Springs, Michigan, 269-475-9443, domainstierrien.com

Lake Michigan Vintners: Located within Lake Michigan College's Welch Center for Wine and Viticulture,

Baccini, owner of Modales Winery, holds grapes.

Lake Michigan Vintners is both a working winery and a heating ground for the next generation of Midwest winemakers. It's also a welcoming wine bar, where tasting another-made wines by the glass offers a glimpse of just how much new fabric is to keep up in southwest Michigan. Many of the young winemakers you'll meet across the region are graduates of the college in Wine and Viticulture Technology program. Stop by for a glass or wine-and-cheese flight, or book a guided tasting-or-barrel tasting.

■ 2776 E. Empire Ave., Benton Harbor, Michigan, 269-927-4721, lalamichiganvintners.com

FOR WINEANTIC ESCAPES AND CELEBRATIONS

Tabor Hill Winery and Restaurant: With sweeping vineyard views and a rescripted ecstasy unit, Tabor Hill is a polished choice for a complete, getaway or bridal shower. James Beard Award-roomstand chef (sister) Carole Alvaco on local farms for his seasonal menu, while the vineyard lounge hosts live music on summer

• weekends. Winemaker Sage Briggs oversees an impressive range of wines, from bright, mid-chewed sangroves to a gorgeously sun-closed setpoint.
• ■ 183 Mt. Tabor Road, Buchanan, Michigan, 269-422-1161, taborhill.com

Dublin Vineyards and Winery: Soaring ceilings, an industrial vine tasting room and cozy fireside lounge make this one of the region's more revealed places to settle in for an afternoon. Owned by Chicago attorney and Music Box Theatre founder William Schauf and his daughter, Brady Shindon, Dublin offers a broad range of wines, from a spicy, floral Estate White to a refreshing merlot pith-nat-rod and elegant cabinet sauvignon. Sun-days bring live music through the summer and fall. From November through March, movie rights pair Music Box film with well and popcorn. ■ 1916 St. Andrew Road, Barnala, Michigan, 269-422-3443, dublin.com

Filkins Vineyards: Reached on a hilltop, Filkins is worth a stop for the setting stone — panoramic vineyard views, a stylist tasting room and a broad deck perfect for enjoying the sunset. Order a flight with one of the winery's gaging boards, or book the 90-minute vineyard tour for a close look. Fans of bold, brooding inds may be surprised by thirties find, a blanket of gold and cabernet samplings, while their transat White delivers a cup of tropical fruit out by breezing acidity. ■ 6300 Syno Road, Coloma, Michigan, 269-668-9443, filkinsvineyards.com

FOR EASYGOING, FAMILY-FRIENDLY AFTERNOONS

Fenn Valley Vineyards: A lush, rolling lawn overlooking the vineyards in each Penn Valley on inviting spot for a

picnic. Bring a blanket and lawn chairs, then settle in with a thineo-sparkling dry reciting. Fenn Valley's Music in the Vineyards series brings a variety of کاربردly berry Thursday and Saturday through the summer months, while summer cookouts, winemaker dinners and other popular nights the easygoing appeal. Kids are welcome, an art-hearted dog on thorn. ■ 6330 122nd Ave., Fennville, Michigan, 269-769-2395, fennville.com

Lemon Creek Winery: Wine is only part of the story at Lemon Creek, where the future of the vines and stretch back more than 90 years. The farm still grows and abundance of fruit alongside wine grapes, with seasonal 1-pick-shifting from cherries and如意ous to apples and grapes throughout the year. In the order, winemaker Jerardo Bousingulasing, fresh energy to treat long-leapsy. Come for a flight — his up-to-date is a particular standout — and stay to pick fruit, or time your visit for Friday, evening live music and food trucks. ■ 3330, Lemon Creek Road, Berrien Springs, Michigan, 269-475-9321, lemoncreekwinery.com

Michigan Wine Co.: This small, brittle, non-winey is easy to settle into, with plenty of outdoor space for kids and dogs, vineyard-side tasting and rotating food trucks serving everything from kitchen to tacos and pomegras. Owner and winemaker Joe Kujakowicz, an engineer, with fine get-trooked on winemaking through-home kids, brings a curious, open-ended, and well-rounded, and cellar. There's a lovely frontlift to many of his wines, giving in especially pretty, while Cab & Cab, interest of cabernet sauvignon and Cabernet franc, balance; generous fruit with freshness. ■ 6780 Cloth Ave., Fennville, Michigan, 269-543-5001, michiganwineco.com

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Health

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Kyle Corbitt works out on a localizing and July 16 at the Phoenix, a free gym and recovery community in Boston, where members are asked to be all hours sober before every visit. TOWN LAUNCH THE NEW YORK TIMES PHOTOS

“You come in here, and you start to get friends. Then, you’re lifting these weights that you never knew you could lift, and you’re doing these races like half marathons. You’re like, I can’t believe I just did that — like this is me.”

RYAN ORNESTER, even above July 16 at the Phoenix

Participants run during a CrossFit class at the Phoenix, Evidence suggests social connection can sustain subway.

By Simur Bajaj THE NEW YORK TIMES

When Kyle Corbitt got out of a 50-day addiction treatment center, a familiar problem was waiting outside.

“My entire network was all people who used,” she said. “I didn’t even know what it meant to be truly sober.”

Her methamphetamine use had intensified slowly during the COVID-19 pandemic, as she lost cash she had held for a decade, general the death of the grandmother who helped raise her and grappled with depression. With little structure to her days, each one felt like “Groundhog Dog.” Corbitt said, she would lift herself that she’d got high one last time and then each help. “And it just never ended,” she added.

Treatment interrupted this cycle, but her life wasn’t set up to support her advance. Corbitt, who is 57 and lives in Milton, Massachusetts, tried Alcoholics Anonymous but struggled to find a sense of fellowship, finding some meetings “a little judge”.

Desperate and unsure where else to go, Corbitt decided to check out the Phoenix, a free gym and recovery community, where members are asked to be all hours sober before every visit. There, she started rock climbing and later took up CrossFit, finding that subway could be built around healthier routines and friendships.

“We’re not sitting there talking about addiction all day,” Corbitt said. “We’re talking about getting healthy and getting better.” On July 4, Corbitt marked two years without drugs, the “longest length of time sober if we ever had.”

For decades, addiction treatment in the United States has been viewed as a clinical problem or a spiritual struggle. These approaches have helped millions of people, but they have had their limits. Medical care is often delivered in short, time-limited episodes, while 12-step programs can feel one-size-fits-all, with their emphasis on a higher power and complete abstinence.

But there’s a growing model: sober spaces built around fitness, music, meditation and other activ-

The Phoenix, seen July 16, is one of many sober spaces across the U.S. built around fitness, music, meditation and other activities. The gym is filled with equipment such as free weights, rowing machines, and battle ropes.

tion. The concept is not entirely new, but there has been a “bit of a renaissance of the recovery movement,” said John Kelly, director of the Recovery Research Institute at Main General Brigham. For example, the Recovery Cafe Network, which offers free hot meals and coffee, grew to 62 cafes in 2023 from 21 cafes in 2020; the Phoenix’s new number enrollments also climbed, to more than 433,000 from about 20,000 over the same period.

Sober spaces can’t replace traditional treatment or 12-step programs, and research on them remains limited. But the model draws on evidence that loneliness and familiar environmental cues can make relapse more likely while connection and belonging can help sustain subway.

These spaces offer a place for recovery to unfold outside a treatment center, doctor’s office or group meeting, said Brandon Clark, who supports addiction recovery work at the St. Anthony Foundation in San Francisco and who is recovering from first and use. “People need new places to go, new people to know, new rituals and new ways to be useful,” he said.

REPLACING THE RITUALS OF ADDICTION

Sober spaces do not follow any

one template. The Phoenix in Boston is essentially a stripped-down warehouse, lined with rock climbing walls and filled with training equipment such as free weights, rowing machines and battle ropes, as well as jejune, mink and wooden gymnastics rings. Meanwhile, the first Recovery Cafe in Seattle is a mix between a cafeteria and a neighborhood coffee shop, with a free buffet and latte bar, pendant lights hanging over the counter and words like “love,” “forgerstone” and “grow” spelled on the walls.

Like 12-step programs, sober spaces tend to be free and low barrier, asking participants for some subway but affirming it through the future system rather than a drug test.

But these spaces are generally more accommodating than 12-step programs, which define success through a new-substance approach, sometimes even including regulated, effective medications.

“We’re not necessarily abstinence-based,” said Ruby Talsuda, a founder of the Recovery Cafe Network, asking members for subway only on the day they come to the cafe. “We’re just about what is the healthier choice for you today.”

Still, having this dedicated sober space matters because many

people are trying to stop using drugs while in environments that keep pulling them back, said Keith Humphreys, a psychologist and co-director of the Stanford Network on Addiction Policy.

Ryan Forrester, for example, stopped using drugs in 2016 and was under house arrest while living with a relative who smoked marijuana. For a while, Forrester started away from it, retreating to his room to try to avoid the smell.

“Then one day I had died,” he said. Smoking turned into drinking, and one drink turned into a couple, which turned into getting hammered. Forrester got off house arrest in April 2019 but didn’t quit drinking again until November 2024, when he started going to the Phoenix. It offered some distance from his old cars, he said, and the same 45-sec parking energy that had fed his addiction could be channeled into a healthier outlet.

“You come in here, and you start to get friends,” Forrester said. “Then, you’re lifting these weights that you never knew you could lift, and you’re doing these races like half marathons. You’re like, I can’t believe I just did that — like this is me.”

WHAT SOBER SPACES CAN ADD CANY TO?

Researchers have long known

that social connection is an important part of recovery, helping people move away from relationships organized around drug use and toward relationships that support subway. In fact, one of the channel ways that 12-step programs appear to help to be reducing people’s social networks, Humphreys said.

“You’ve got to have people who know the way — have to live in recovery, what you do, what you don’t do, how you build a life worth living,” Kelly said.

The Phoenix reports that 85% of its new members remain sober after these months. Kelly also follows a Phoenix members for six months and compared them with nonmembers, also in addiction recovery. Although there was no difference in drinking days or heavy drinking days, Phoenix participants reported fewer harms from alcohol or drug use overall. The financial problems, hurting their families, damaging a friendship or taking foolish risks. These results were preliminary, however, and had not yet been peer-reviewed.

In general, the evidence for specific sober social spaces is fairly limited, partly because they are “pretty hard to study” Humphreys said. For example, rescue them cannot easily assign some people to a recovery cafe or gym while excluding others, he added, and instead during the experience too rapidly could make it feel too like a community.

There are also practical limits. Sober spaces aren’t equipped to help someone drink, to trust severe withdrawal or to manage an acute crisis, and because there are no court mandates and no required attendance, they rely on someone’s internal motivation to join and keep showing up.

So, the people who turn to these communities, Humphreys said, are generally “not at the point where every single day is a struggle on a substance front.”

“That is why these spaces are best understood as complements to 12-step programs or medical care, not replacements, he added. Their promise is not in curing addiction but addressing the loneliness, boredom and disconnection that can make recovery harder.

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Vaccine teaches body to intercept colon cancer

Testing underway on therapy to prevent tumors tied to gene

By Lauren Neegaard ACCOUNTS PRESS

Stacy Norton was only 7 years old when her mother died of colon cancer, one of several family members, struck by aggressive tumors at unusually young ages.

In a new birth year, Norton rolled up her down to help test 10 new kind of vaccine might protect her and live even children from cancer.

The Houston doctor is among an estimated 1 million American who Euth Lynch tried once, a faulty gene passed from a parent that puts them at extremely high risk of colorectal cancer and more vulnerable to certain other cancers too. They've often urged to get yearly colonoscopies — far more often than usual — that can spot and remove precancerous growths called polyp.

Now accurate vaccine is a vaccine that aims to go further, teaching the immune system to intercept the type of hearing colon cancer before it turns into a full-fledged tumor. At least three percent of Lynch syndrome vaccines are in development, including two most of the 1,000 cells in the United States and a third beginning in Britain.

The first that Norton helped test a gene-producing virus from a virus-neo (see Dr. Eduardo Villar-Banchez of the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston) reports a large study to begin next year.

"I prove no hope," said Norton, 95 of Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital. She had already survived a different Lynch-caused cancer and has two children in their 20s who inherited her mutation.

It's no time goes out, "perhaps they won't have to have a colonoscopy event might start on the rest of their lives."

Stacy Norton receives a trial vaccine at the MD Anderson Cancer Center Infusion Center in Houston. STACY NORTON 2023

LYNCH SYNDROME CAUSES BY INHIBITED GENETIC NUTRITION

Everyone has what are called stomach-to-vegan genes, which are micro-แล้ว epididiosis, but in help for DNA mutation that can occur when our cells multiply. With Lynch syndrome, one of those genes can't do in job properly, making it harder for the body to stop a loading of abnormalities that can lead to tumors, often before age 18.

Colorectal cancer is the most common consequence. The average person has a 5% risk of developing it during their life-time. A Lynch-cancer could can reach as high as 40% depending on which finding goes they inherit, Villar-Banchez said.

Another big risk is endometrial, or uterine, cancer. The first time also are more likely to get other cancers including pancreatic, stomach, ovarian and certain skin cancers — and a kind of brain tumor that killed Norton's sister at age 21.

Norton knew some of her mother's relatives also had experienced colon cancer, but she was in her 40s. Norton's gene was confirmed she has Lynch syndrome. She worked both every six-often to yearly colonoscopies.

In an obstetrician/gene-cologist familiar with other Lynch risks, Norton also decided to have uproxationary hysterectomy. Suspected cancer of early-stage cancer is her removed uterus.

POSSIBLE VACCINES TO STOP GENE-CAUSED CANCER

Today there are two cancer-provoking vaccines the HPV and hepatitis B shots that block infection. The vaccine is more or less, but developing vaccines to prevent gene-caused cancer is more challenging than alerting the body to foreign intruders like a virus.

Lynch-fueled growths "tend to cut cumulative hundreds of mutations that are going to genes are pre-infect that are novel, not made by our normal cells," Villar-Banchez said. "You can treat the immune system to recognize these proteins."

In other stop deals, Norton and 44 other Lynch

carriers tested a vaccine made by the eukaryotic. No action that reaches the immune system to spot 20% of those abnormalities in Lynch-caused precancers. That's a trend up tumor eliminating 7 cells and a true later, colonoscopies passed fewer precancerous growths and no advanced polyp, the MD Anderson team reported in Nature Medicine.

"Can we even further stimulate the immune system" to keep up with Lynch syndrome-squared tumor formation, asked Dr. John Marshall, a Georgetown University oncologist and advisor to the Colorectal Cancer Alliance who wasn't involved with the study. "I do not try your nuggets that, yeah, maybe

we can."

For the first time since 2004, Norton's own colonoscopic one and two years after vaccination were polyp, one. She's also part of a number of study participants, even a booster shot a year later, more data on that is expected this fall.

United University researchers are beginning to have a new molecular approach to attack Lynch-derived precancers. A vaccine made by Massachusetts-based Maternity Cancer Center oncology behind its COVID-19 shot.

And scientists are awaiting results from a slightly larger study comparing the vaccine's molecular properties? Do A&E vaccine, which flugs some different cancer markers, to a placebo.

IS LYNC'S SYNDROME TIED TO RISE IN YOUNG ADULT COLON CANCER?

About 100,000 people are diagnosed with colorectal cancer in the United States. The number of these older than 50,《men in teenage adults are increasing, though it isn't clear why.》 Lynch syndrome affects about 1 in 279 people.

While most don't know it, more may be leaving life, they have the inherited disorder. Villar-banchez said, as genetic testing is not one single discussed with people with Lynch-related cancer in the family or who get certain tumors or young ages. That is not a can show it! One evidence might also be at risk.

For the average person, 0.3 guidelines call for routine colorectal cancer screening — with a colonoscopy or other kinds of tests — to begin at age 48.

But at any age, get a checking-for symptom such as blood in stool or rectal bleeding, change in bowel habits such as diarrhea, constipation or narrowing of should be laate more than a few days unintended weight loss, and cramps or abdominal pain.

PEOPLE'S PHARMACY PRESCRIPTIONS AND HOME REMEDIES

Stopping long-term aspirin use may heighten the use of stroke

By Joe Gasserin, M.D. and Teresa Greadon, Ph.D. KING FOUNDER SYNDICATE

The use of stroke is a major factor in 40 years after a heart state is getting a small amount of calcium. So far, I've been healthy, but I have been very young, and I have been a lot of bleeding diminish with long-term aspirin use.

Also, is there a dangerous release of effect? Long-term aspirin use is a frequent risk factor? I've asked said no, but I've read articles saying the chance of stroke or heart attack is significant for the prevention aspirin available.

As 16.5 per cent of the risk of bleeding from aspirin does not disappear over time. One large study, the ADPKM total, was 2.4 times higher than the 1.5 times that had been had a more than 19,000 risk factors (Katz, Aug. 3, 2020).

The authors reported that 1.5 times more aspirin for about five years were 40% more likely to experience a fall blood. But before uterine or stomach to that seemingly big number, let's look at the absolute risk. Out of 9,152 people taking aspirin, 262 had a blood. That's an absolute risk of 17%.

In the 9,589 person group, my placebo, 102 people had a blood, a risk of 1.3%. That means an additional people out of 1,000 taking aspirin had a risk being 1.2% of those with a daily regular and different use. But people with bleeding events over time shows that the risk of bleeding increases with the risk of death.

Do people who suddenly stop aspirin experience blood clot? A large Swedish study found that 1.2 times more aspirin for about 1.5 times more aspirin already went in fact more likely to experience a heart attack, stroke or other cardiovascular complications (Circulation,

In one study, only 402 had of 9,520 patients taking aspirin for five years experienced bleeding. BREAKSTIME

Sept. 26, 2017)

This year a shorter, distressed for aspirin users like you. We could not find guidelines for tapering off aspirin gradually. Not can this complex topic with your physician.

The hematologist prescribed Accutane to treat my arm. When I looked it up, I found that it has a lot of serious side effects. Can I use my arm without this medicine?

A 10 year dermatologist is suggesting Accutane, we assume that you have already tried over-the-counter medications such as benzyl peroxide, alpha-hydroxy acid or sulfur. There are also a number of topical prescription medicines, including antibiotics, aligodine, anxiol and/or trotinoin. These can often be effective.

A change in diet may also be helpful. Some people find that avoiding processed foods, as well as milk and dairy products, can significantly reduce skin lesions.

I started taking oral reinsid (2.3 milligrams) for thinning hair, and my hair began to get so much thicker. It is now as thick as it was when I was younger for about 4 or 5 inches. Unfortunately, my eyes became dry and occa-

sinually even crusty in the morning when I broke up. I tried many drops for dry eyes. Also, I had puffy pads when both eyes.

I read that reinsid could cause this. So, I cut the pills in half and now am taking 1/2 of a tablet. The reading and dry eye problem resolved quickly. I hope my hair thickness does not regress.

A Oral reinsid (I have only been approved for had it to test high blood pressure. The usual dose ranges from 10 to 40 milligrams. Your physician is prescribed 1/2 low-dose reinsid (all-1/2) label. Because the dose is so low, it has far fewer serious side effects than full-dose reinsid (I).

There is growing evidence that this approach works as well as applying topical reinsid (Regimen) (AMA) Dermatology, June 1, 2024).

Although there is no mention of dry eye complications in the official prescribing information, people are reporting this problem, even at low doses. Your solution seems sensible, though the super-low dose you are taking might not be quite as effective for hair growth.

In their column, Joe and Teresa Greadon answer letters from readers. Send questions to: there via www.peopledyfarmazy.com.

Q&A

What's source of pelvis distress?

MAYO CLINIC

If you have having some symptoms, like swelling to urinate, it is not feeling pressure to my pelvis. I'm wondering what's going on. Can you help?

A: Decide on your dressing, some form of pelvic health (induction). But not to use alone. Nearly 1 in 3 women have pelvic issues. Before these changes are more common in women, but they also can affect you.

The pelvic organs include the uterus, bladder, large intestine, and rectum. Common symptoms of pelvic health disorders include incontinence, frequency and urgency of urination, pelvic pressure or bulging, pelvic pain and sexual problems.

Symptoms may cause some people to dread or avoid gathering socially outside their homes, but include in euphoria, sexual problems.

Factors that can contribute to pelvic health disorder include:

■ Age.

■ Constipation

■ Family history of pelvic health conditions, such as prolapse

■ Ointment factors ■ Menopause

■ As inpatients, colds, such as heavy lifting ■ Pregnancy ■ Malaria

You can also do following steps to address pelvic health disorders. Start the discussion: Your primary care clinician is a trained partner to your overall health and well-being. Many people delay bringing up concerns about pelvic floor issues because they don't have enough information, but uncomfortable talking about symptoms or think they seem more or only worths other people.

Don't hesitate to talk about your symptoms during an appointment.

Find reputable resources:

Learning about pelvic health disorders risk factors and treatments can help you feel more comfortable talking with your healthcare team, and for information from trustworthy sources to get accurate resources about symptoms.

Seek support now: Your primary care clinician can refer you to a special set who will evaluate your risk factors and symptoms. This is no time can provide options for the best combination of treatments, ranging from lifestyle changes, or physical therapy to medication or surgical options.

PHLINT FLOOR DISORDER TREATMENTS

No single treatment is appropriate for every pelvic condition, so discuss your treatment plan options. In addition to your primary care clinician, you can team met include an 80–90% surrogate, cough, prolonged and pelvic floor physical therapist.

Non-surgical treatments: You may benefit from simple lifestyle modification and exercises. As with other areas in the body, muscles and tissues loss strongly and elasticity with age. A common like people can hold pelvic floor, much strength and lower your symptoms. Before floor physical therapy also can address muscle weakness

or tension that could be causing your symptoms. Other non-surgical options include medication and those injections into the bladder muscle to reduce the frequency of bladder contractions.

Surgical treatments: Simple lifestyle changes, physical therapy or medication sometimes aren't enough to test pelvic floor conditions, and surgery may be needed. Many patients have a side effect, including tension and often can be performed in some day, outpatient procedures.

Surgical options include: ■ Vaginal, laparoscopic or robotic surgery for pelvic surgery (or laparoscopy)

■ Mild-urethral sling or urethral flaring procedures for urinary incontinence

■ Local non-incubation therapy for urge incontinence or fecal incontinence

For long-term success managing pelvic health, consider to be a danger to maintain a healthy weight and activity level.

— Gailan et al. M.D., Revitlog Cancer, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mayo Clinic Health System, Manheim, Minnesota

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