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CHICAGO’S COP CRISIS

Top police brass defended Van Dyke IG report: ‘Everyone agreed’ shooting was justified By Jeremy Gorner, Dan Hinkel and Todd Lighty |

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Then a deputy chief, Eddie Johnson attended a meeting about the Laquan McDonald shooting 10 days afterward.

Days after Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke shot Laquan McDonald 16 times, top brass watched a video of the fatal shooting at a meeting in which “everyone agreed” the shooting was justified, a lieutenant who attended the meeting said in sworn testimony. Newly obtained documents of the city’s Office of Inspector General investigation into the fatal shoot-

ing show that the department, from beat cops to command-level officials, quickly came to Van Dyke’s defense, even after viewing dashboard camera video at the scene that contradicted officers’ accounts. Command-level officers raised few concerns and signed off on their reports, the inspector general’s investigation found. “There was never no

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question whether the shooting was justified,” Lt. Osvaldo Valdez told investigators with the city’s Office of Inspector General about the meeting of the top brass. “Everyone agreed that Officer Van Dyke used the force necessary to eliminate the threat, and that’s pretty much it.” Among those who huddled at police headquarters for the meeting, about 10

days after the shooting in October 2014, was thenDeputy Chief Eddie Johnson, who was promoted to superintendent after Garry McCarthy was fired in the fallout of the video’s release. Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi acknowledged that Johnson was at the meeting but said the superintendent “strongly disagrees” with Valdez’s characterization of the Turn to IG report, Page 10

Trump’s VA plans rattle vet groups

Players ask favors big, small in emails

His choice to lead it would alter much of medical system

Emanuel doc drop shows government and politics mixed

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By Rick Pearson, David Heinzmann and Jeff Coen

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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s flair for connecting with veterans won him an overwhelming share of their votes, but the durability of the alliance is already being tested as Trump’s search for a Veterans Affairs secretary veers in a direction that has alarmed some of America’s most influential retired soldiers. Under pressure from conservative activists, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and organizations funded by the Koch brothers, Trump is contemplating choosing an agency chief who would upend the veterans health care system. That would come over the protest of the country’s major veterans groups. An appointment like that could prove an early test of whether the voters who backed Trump in November will continue to stick with him when his agenda smacks into interest groups that have been crusading on their behalf for decades. And the selection process has set up the Veterans Affairs department to be a possible test case of the political impact of infusing the free-market approach championed by some conservative groups into a major government bureaucracy that serves millions of Trump’s most fervent supporters. Which way Trump will turn remains very much uncertain. More than a dozen names of potentially serious candidates have been floated, ranging from fairly traditional picks, including Turn to Veterans, Page 14

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the man found wandering had told a witness that Goodwin offered to find him a job if he avoided moving to a new group home managed by a different provider. That man also told the witness he feared being punished by Disability Services if he cooperated with caseworkers who had been searching for missing residents, attorneys for the state said. Thursday’s hearing

In April 2014, investment banker Byron Trott sent an email to Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s personal account in which he promised to co-host a political fundraiser, before making a series of requests that included asking that the mayor provide high-level access to a new executive at Trott’s firm. “Both Erskine and I are looking forward to hosting a fundraiser for you in June — our teams are working together on finding a date and a place for this as I write,” Trott wrote, apparently referring to former Clinton White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, whom Emanuel served with as a top Bill Clinton presidential adviser. Bowles is an adviser to Trott’s namesake investment bank, BDT Capital Partners. “Given your broad support base, the only challenge will be to find some who haven’t already maxed out!” wrote Trott, whose bank is housed in the Wrigley Building, which BDT also owns. A little more than an hour later, mayoral aide Jasmine Magana forwarded the email to both the mayor’s campaign fundraising coordinator, Anne Olaimey, and administration aides David Spielfogel and Abby Masters with the message: “The Mayor wanted me to pass on to you all.” Trott’s email and the reaction of the mayor’s office underscore the intermixing of politics and government, issues at the core of legal

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influenza spread in other ways. “The propaganda machine that Wilson set up that was trying to highlight the war effort and give short shrift to other problems in the country,” Troy said, “and that really undercut the ability to get out the message as to how bad the disease was and promote strategies for combating it.” If there’s one thing we know about disasters, whether acts of God or acts of man, it is that presidents must deal with them, and either make them worse, or better. Hurricane Katrina was one, the New York power blackouts of 1977 was another. The 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Great Depression following the stock market crash of 1929, the urban riots in the late 1960s — all these and more are examined by Troy, and he dissects the policy responses to each. Troy is an academic, historian, author and policy analyst who served in the Bush administration as a White House aide and deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Yet “Shall We Wake the President?” isn’t a memoir, or one of those selfcongratulatory collections of essays offered to make the author look good. Troy wouldn’t do that, and that’s part of the reason I recommend his book to you, and I don’t recommend many. His is a hard-eyed look at history, and what presidents — and citizens — may learn from it and how to best deal with what will certainly come our way. Because they always come our way, and presidents who don’t plan properly — like Wilson — often doom their people. So the reason to read “Shall We Wake the President?” isn’t about reliving old horrors. Instead, it should be read to examine decisions and indecision and bureaucratic traps inadvertently set by the most powerful being on the planet, the president of the United States. Bad planning and hubris can ripple out from the White House and compound disasters. “You can’t know what disasters you

might face on your watch, but you must think about how you might deal with them,” Troy said. “And you can build a team that is prepared to react to them.” In our talk, I mentioned Wilson’s role in causing the influenza epidemic to spread, President Jimmy Carter’s mishandling of the New York power blackout and President George W. Bush’s blunders — of organization and public relations — during the Katrina disaster that devastated New Orleans and his presidency. All these are covered in Troy’s book. To his credit, Troy did not shield Bush, and instead focused on tragic public relations, including that horrible photograph of the president flying over the Katrina devastation, above it all. “In all the cases you mentioned, the presidents seemed unprepared and kind of knocked off their game by the disasters that struck them, and the American people can sense it,” he said. “So in my book I talk about communication strategies to reassure the American people, learning about the different mechanisms of government so that you’re ready, and making sure that your staff is trained and drilled to deal with these things.” To illustrate his point, Troy often uses a story of bureaucrats at some disaster site passing out business cards to one another. “Then you know you’ve already failed,” Troy said. “And the response will be a failed response, because it means they have not prepared, that they don’t know the other people who are dealing with the disaster, they don’t know their capabilities or lines of responsibility. “So if you’re out there handing out business cards at the site of a disaster, it’s going to be an even bigger disaster.” Listen to “The Chicago Way” — with John Kass and Jeff Carlin —here: wgnradio.com/category/wgn-plus/ category/thechicagoway. jskass@chicagotribune.com

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CHICAGO INC. By Kim Janssen, Tracy Swartz and Phil Thompson

Emails voice political give and take Backroom bromance? ‘I love you a lot,’ mayor assured Rauner in 2011

N’DIGO publisher demanded Rahm tear up her parking tickets

Cast your mind back, way, way back into the murky past, to October 2011. Pat Quinn was the governor of Illinois, and Adele was just about to displace Maroon 5’s “Moves Like Jagger” from the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with “Someone Like You.” And somewhere in the city, Mayor Rahm Emanuel sat down at a computer and composed a note to a special friend. “I love you a lot,” Emanuel wrote in the Oct. 12, 2011, email to an upset Bruce Rauner. “I am giving a tax break to the hotel industry. Giving McCormick one million in new money... Thanks for all the help.” But the mayor’s assurances weren’t enough to placate Rauner, who was still running his private equity firm GTCR at the time and also was chairman of Choose Chicago, the not-for-profit that serves as the city’s convention and tourism bureau. “We’ve got to start communicating better than this,” Rauner wrote, sounding a little like a wounded spouse. “Not sure how you guys could hike hotel tax and not tell me — makes us all look bad.” The emails — sent to and from a private email account Emanuel acknowledges he used for city business — were released Wednesday as part of a settlement with the Better Government Association, which sued the mayor for access to the public records. They reinforce the impression that, behind their more recent public displays of enmity, the Democrat mayor and the Republican governor have a long-standing bond. The tiff over hotel taxes, after all, came just a year after Emanuel was famously photographed alongside Rauner on vacation in Montana, carrying a bottle of red from the wine club Rauner reportedly paid as much as $150,000 to join. And the quarrel appears to have been a brief interlude amid the dozens of emails the two exchanged, in which

last month to see Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich elevated to cardinal. Asked Thursday whether Emanuel still loves Rauner a lot, the mayor’s spokesman Adam Collins said, “The mayor’s feelings about the governor, his policies and his failure to lead the state have been well-documented.”

N’DIGO Publisher Hermene Hartman took a political risk when she became an early and prominent AfricanAmerican supporter of Rahm Emanuel’s first run for mayor in 2011. So she may have felt her bold rejection of “consensus” black candidate Carol Moseley Braun gave her clout. How else to explain her chutzpah in writing an email directly to Emanuel in December 2014, asking him personally to tear up $225 worth of parking tickets? An indignant Hartman, 69, wrote Emanuel to complain that “I feel like I have gifted the city with a donation or that I Hartman have been robbed” after she’d been given three tickets for parking with the wrong city sticker on her windshield on her South Loop block. “It is a DAMN shame that you cannot park your car in front of your house without being ticketed,” she continued, complaining that it had not been clear to her that she needed to buy a city sticker with her residential zone printed on it. “I am requesting that you consider waiving this fee and issue me a refund,” she added. The email was released by the mayor’s attorney Wednesday as part of a settlement of a lawsuit with the Better Government Association. No response from Emanuel, if there was any, was included, and his office did not immediately say what help, if any, the mayor gave Hartman. Hartman also did not respond to requests for comment. But she has not been shy in the past to call out politicians she thinks have failed to repay her loyalty. In 2011, she told Chicago magazine that her relationship with the Obamas “used to be superb before they got to the White House. I haven’t been invited, and I’m insulted.”

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Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, left, and Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel have been friends for years, though the two have clashed publicly over the budget crisis.

Rauner griped about the power of the Chicago Teachers Union and the unions at McCormick Place, and arranged private meetings with the mayor. Emanuel has during the last year publicly clashed with Rauner over the state budget crisis, declining to say last summer whether they were still friends, though the pair seemed comfortable in each other’s company on a trip to Rome

On Christmas morning, what celebs could find in stockings Chicago officials and celebrities may seem like they have it all, but Chicago Inc. has picked out a few stocking stuffers for this year’s newsmakers. ■ For Bulls guard/forward Jimmy Butler, a Taylor Swift “1989 World Tour” swag bag featuring a mini-calendar, flash drive and bracelet. Now he’ll have two. ■ For former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Cubs season tickets. She can use the offseason to find her “W” flag. ■ For reality star-turned-shoe designer Kristin Cavallari and Bears quarterback Jay Cutler, a one-way ticket out of Chicago with hopes that Cutler won’t throw it away. ■ For Ald. Willie Cochran, an iPad.

Cochran, 20th, seemed to have learned the details of his recent federal indictment on public corruption charges from news reports on Ald. Edward Burke’s iPad. Won’t someone spare him the indignity of a repeat by buying him his own Apple tablet? ■ For John Cusack, a worthwhile film role. The “Say Anything” actor, who grew up in Evanston and spends a lot of time in Chicago, seemed to garner screen time this year only when he was spotted at Cubs games. He’s set to star in the upcoming film “Arsenal,” which features Nicolas Cage as a crime boss with a fake mustache. ■ For Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a set of “Star Wars” dolls. Emanuel missed out on his

dream of bringing the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art to Chicago’s lakefront. But the “Star Wars” dolls might soothe the disappointment, and allow him to create his own miniature museum at his North Side home. ■ For House Speaker Michael Madigan and Gov. Bruce Rauner, tickets to Paul Marinaro’s shows Dec. 30 and 31 at Winter’s Jazz Club. If the great Chicago singer’s sublime music can’t put them in the mood to talk, nothing can. ■ For Oprah Winfrey, a side of fries with her next visit to Chicago. Harpo Studios on the Near West Side was demolished this year to make way for the new McDonald’s headquarters.

■ For Vince Vaughn, a mirror. The actor,

who grew up in Buffalo Grove and Lake Forest, sported some pretty terrible ’dos this year, which he said was for movie roles. Still, no role is worth wearing your hair like Justin Bieber circa 2010. ■ For Todd Ricketts, soon-tobe deputy U.S. commerce secretary, a Humvee. President-elect Donald Trump spent a good part of 2016 mocking Secretary of State John Kerry for falling off his bicycle and injuring himself. So while Ricketts probably doesn’t need to sell his $8,000 race bike, or his Wilmette bicycle shop, he might enjoy a Humvee as a mode of transport that’s more likely to conform to his new boss’ ideas about safety and masculinity.

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CHICAGOLAND O’Hare ‘fly quiet’ test set to end Permanent plan to spread out nighttime noise expected to be in place by spring By Mary Wisniewski

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It’s a shiny Christmas present for some residents near O’Hare International Airport, a lump of coal for others. The six-month “fly quiet” plan for rotating nighttime flights in and out of O’Hare, intended to spread out noise around the northwest suburbs and Chicago’s North Side, ends Dec. 25. That will mean some relief for suburbs like Des Plaines, which has heard more nighttime noise as a result of the plan, but a return to a despised status

quo for areas just west of the airport like Schiller Park or east in some Chicago neighborhoods. The test, which makes greater use of diagonal runways, was approved by the Federal Aviation Administration in July. “It’s not going to be the best Christmas gift for our residents,” said Bensenville Village Manager Evan Summers. “I don’t want to see it end,” agreed Schiller Park Mayor Barbara Piltaver. “We have some good nights. It’s nice to have a reprieve every now and then.” But Des Plaines Ald. Malcolm Chester said he has

received multiple complaints from residents about the test plan, which has meant more low-flying landings at night. “We also get landing lights, which can light up a house,” Chester said. “Some people have complained about vibrations in their houses. It’s hard for people to sleep.” Under the test, runways picked for nighttime air travel changed from week to week — for example, an east-west runway would be used one week, then a diagonal runway for the next, then back to east-west, with adjustments made depending on weather and other factors. The end of the test will be followed by an evaluation

by the Chicago Department of Aviation, to be submitted to the FAA, according to Mount Prospect Mayor Arlene Juracek, chair of the O’Hare Noise Compatibility Commission. The commission, made up of municipalities and school districts around the airport, approved a version of the test plan in May. “The whole intent for this was to do a test, evaluate it and then put into place whatever the results of the evaluation dictate, which we’d like to do as quickly as possible,” Juracek said. She said she had “no idea” when the plan, however it is modified, would resume. Summers said there would be two meetings with the noise commission

in January, then a meeting with an ad hoc committee on “fly quiet” on Feb. 8 to discuss the test. He hopes for a spring adoption of a permanent plan. Residents of communities around the airport have complained for decades about jet noise from O’Hare disrupting sleep and making it tough to talk in their backyards. Complaints shot up dramatically in recent years after the city began shifting traffic from the older diagonal runways to new parallel east-west runways, which concentrate more traffic over the North Side of the city and the western suburbs. The city got more than 4 million noise complaints in

2015 and is on track to have about 5 million in 2016, with nearly 4.4 million complaints through October. Even if the plan is adopted permanently, it will have to change once the 14R/32L diagonal runway, which runs northwest to southeast, is decommissioned in late 2018. The decommissioning of the runway means that planes won’t be able to use that runway to spread traffic northwest and southeast of the airport, putting more traffic on east-west runways. The airport will be adding another east-west runway, 9 Center, in 2020.

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Police-tied families divided at parole hearing

Son of slain officer, convict’s retired cop brother speak By Christy Gutowski Chicago Tribune

Nearly five decades ago, as Chicago police Officer Kenneth Kaner filled out a report about a missing boy while sitting alone in his squad car, an angry young man high on marijuana and primed with whiskey approached. “Hi, officer,” said the man, courtroom testimony later revealed, as he pointed the barrel of a sawed-off shotgun through the squad’s open passengerside window and pulled the trigger. Kaner, shot in the face after looking up from his paperwork, never had a chance. The violence that erupted that summer night in June 1970 forever altered the lives of two Chicago Police Department families. It was retold during a recent Illinois Prisoner Review Board hearing in which members were faced with the vexing question — how much punishment is enough? More than two dozen uniformed police officers attended the hearing, held last week in the state Capitol in Springfield. After emotional testimony, the panel voted overwhelmingly to deny parole to Bruce Sharp, who is now a 70-year-old with arthritis who has been in prison about two-thirds of his life. Sharp was described as a model inmate who is remorseful about the slaying and has continued his education and stayed out of trouble during decades of incarceration. Still, even if he is rehabilitated, some board members feared the impact their decision might have in Chicago if they granted him parole during a year of surging gun violence and homicides. The board also denied parole for a man convicted of killing another police officer in an unrelated 1976 shooting. “I would be very uncomfortable taking any action that may cause more violence,” Chairman Craig Findley said. Inmates are not allowed to attend their parole board hearing and, instead, are interviewed beforehand. Board member Tom Johnson said he found Sharp to be an articulate, genuine man who if freed wants to spend his remaining years in Florida with his family, which includes an older brother who is a retired Chicago police sergeant. Bruce Sharp long ago confessed and pleaded guilty in court to firing the

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Police Officer Darrin Bourret with department bulletins about fallen officers at a recent Prisoner Review Board hearing.

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Chicago police Officer Kurt Kaner at the parole hearing for Bruce Sharp, who was convicted in 1971 of killing his father.

bullet that killed Kaner, 33, a nine-year police officer with two children, ages 7 and 5. Authorities said Sharp, then 24, and four other men targeted Kaner simply because they wanted to kill a police officer. One of the defendants was acquitted, while the others served shorter prison terms. “It’s awful,” Johnson said in describing Kaner’s murder to his fellow board members, four of whom are retired police officers, “and Sharp recognizes that.” Both families have members in law enforcement. Tyrone Sharp, 78, traveled from his home in Florida to urge the panel to release his younger brother. The retired Chicago police sergeant recalled his disbelief in 1970 after learning his brother had killed a police officer. The two also had an uncle who was a cop. At the time, Bruce Sharp was college-educated with only a minor criminal record for theft of services. He had a good job working in a government public aid department. “I couldn’t even imagine my brother doing something like that,” Tyrone Sharp said. “I was devastated.” Sharp said he attended many parole board hear-

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An officer inspects the squad car in which Officer Kenneth Kaner, 33, was fatally shot on the South Side.

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Pauline Kaner, wife of Kenneth Kaner, at services for her husband with son Kurt, 5. Sharp was denied parole this month despite pleas from his brother, a retired Chicago cop.

ings over the years, but this marked the first time he spoke publicly. “He’s done all he can do,” the brother said. “He’s been remorseful for 46 years.” The slain officer’s son also spoke. Kurt Kaner was

5 when his dad was killed. He, too, grew up to become a Chicago police officer. The 22-year veteran is assigned to the department’s marine unit and, for a time, even worked on a boat named after his father. Kaner said he has read the

police report detailing his dad’s death. He also went to the intersection where his father was ambushed, while parked under a street light, on 74th Street near Union Avenue. Kurt Kaner said he still can picture his father com-

ing into his bedroom that final evening to say good night before leaving to begin an overnight shift patrolling the Englewood neighborhood. The son asked his dad not to go. Hours later, the boy awoke to the sound of the doorbell. It was a police chaplain. “I remember that night like it was yesterday,” Kaner told the parole board. “My mother began screaming before she opened the door.” Pauline Kaner, who had known her husband since they were children, became a 30-year-old widow that morning. Her son said she never remarried and, now 77 and living on the West Coast, spends most mornings riding horses, a passion she and her husband shared. Under 1970-era sentencing guidelines, Bruce Sharp was sentenced to serve between 30 and 125 years in prison. Sharp’s projected release date is summer 2022, according to state prison officials, but he became eligible for parole years ago. Kurt Kaner said he has appeared at similar proceedings dozens of times to ensure Sharp serves at least the mandated minimum. “He executed my father,” Kaner told the Tribune in a later interview. “He’s been given mercy. He is going to get out, and that’s something my family has to accept. I can empathize with (the Sharp family). “I understand, but they still have their brother or uncle to go visit and talk to. When I want to see my father, I have to go to the cemetery. I talk to a headstone. That’s my visit.” According to the nonprofit Officer Down Memorial Page Inc., the deadliest year for Chicago police came in 1928 when 15 officers were killed in the line of duty. In 1970, nine Chicago police officers were gunned down, including Kaner, and a 10th died of a heart attack during a physical altercation with a teenager. Kenneth Kaner grew up on the South Side, graduated from St. Rita High School and served two years in the Army, his son said. He also was a twotime Golden Gloves boxing champion before becoming a first-generation police officer. More than 300 mourners, including many uniformed police officers, attended his funeral, the Tribune reported at the time. Bruce Sharp told a judge in January 1971 after he pleaded guilty that he didn’t know what provoked him to ambush the officer. Maybe it was the influence of the drugs and alcohol, he said at the time. He is eligible again for parole in three years. “There is no expiration date on my father’s sacrifice,” Kurt Kaner said. cmgutowski@chicagotribune.com Twitter @christygutowsk1

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Players ask favors in mayor’s emails Emails, from Page 1

efforts to obtain Emanuel’s work product involving city business that took place on personal email accounts. Amid the thousands of emails released by Emanuel’s attorneys this week to settle a lawsuit with the Better Government Association are myriad requests sent to the mayor’s personal accounts from corporate heavyweights, campaign supporters and the politically connected aimed not only at helping their businesses but also their lifestyles. There’s a request seeking Emanuel’s help to get a business a state tax break. There’s a plea for the city to hold off on a major announcement for fear of alienating a business’s investors. There’s an ask for assistance to block a zoning change in a tony downtown neighborhood. And there’s a lifelong friend who wanted to keep a local business from being evicted, noting the mayor’s wife had been a patron. As for Trott’s email, after proposing the political fundraiser as Emanuel geared up for a re-election bid, the investment banker asked the mayor to appear at an annual summit his BDT bank organizes for the ultrawealthy and influential business leaders. “As we discussed, hopefully, you can play a role in our second ‘Global Summit for the Closely Held,’ ” wrote Trott, a former Goldman Sachs executive who ran the Wall Street firm’s Chicago office before starting his own company in 2009. Trott’s email then moved on to asking Emanuel to provide top-level access to his administration for a new executive, Elizabeth Baker Keffer. “As I mentioned, BDT has just hired our first Chief Network Officer … can you please connect her with your chief of staff or someone else who is seated as a similarly senior level with good access to you?” Trott wrote. BDT declined to comment. Emanuel spokesman Adam Collins said the mayor did not attend the global summit. Collins defended the instance of mayoral staff contacting campaign staff regarding a request for the mayor’s time, calling it “completely acceptable and within bounds.” It was unclear if Trott held the Emanuel fundraiser. Since 2010, Trott and his wife have given at least $97,100 to Emanuel’s campaign fund. The nearly 2,700 pages of emails revealed other instances where top corporate executives and their businesses had Emanuel’s ear.

United Airlines request

In an email exchange from Nov. 7, 2012, thenEmanuel staffer Tom Alexander let the mayor know that United Airlines had a request. United Continental Holdings, the airline’s parent, was giving back $5.6 million in city tax incentives

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel, center, converses with reporters at the Jane Addams Family Resource Center on South Loomis Street in Chicago on Thursday.

used when United moved its corporate headquarters to Wacker Drive along the river in 2007. By 2012, the airline was moving again, to the Willis Tower, and thought returning the TIF funds for the prior redevelopment was appropriate. “United has asked that we hold the story about their TIF return for a day or two,” Alexander wrote. “They are doing a monthly earnings report that will show significant loss due to Hurricane Sandy, and they are concerned that reporting they are giving back this money on the same day will cause problems for their investor relations department and will cause regulatory issues.” The news of the refunding could be replaced with an announcement about a city job fair, Alexander wrote. “Got it. Jobs fair is fine,” Emanuel replied a few minutes later. News of the giveback was released by the city a few days later. Executives from the airline, one of the city’s largest private employers, have contributed at least $137,000 to Emanuel’s campaign fund.

CME tax break Emanuel hadn’t even been in office a month when he exchanged emails in June 2011 with Terrence Duffy, executive chairman of the CME Group, which runs the Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange. At the time, CME was threatening to move at least some jobs to another state because of the tax burden they faced in Illinois due to federal and state tax changes. “Thanks for the talk this morning,” Emanuel wrote to Duffy. “Thank you,” Duffy responded. “I look forward with you and your staff as we try and build a better Chicago.” Three days later, Duffy wrote to Emanuel, giving him a “heads up” on an imminent press release announcing the sale of the CBOT building, which CME planned to lease back.

“This has no bearing on the recent talks over taxes,” Duffy wrote, adding that he wanted to meet with Emanuel again to discuss the matter. “We have many issues and we have always been a good citizen in Chicago, Illinois and the Country. We need your help on a host of things so we can remain relevant. We want no hand outs we just want to be treated fairly,” Duffy wrote. With Emanuel’s support, CME in December 2011 secured a major state tax break that cut its state income tax burden nearly in half. During Emanuel’s first mayoral run, CME Group had given Emanuel $200,000. Duffy also contributed $5,300 to Emanuel in 2013.

Zoning change The same state tax break that helped CME also helped CBOE Holdings, the parent of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, where longtime leader William Brodsky has been a fixture of the city’s corporate scene. But Brodsky wasn’t seeking corporate help in a May 4 email last year. When word surfaced of a potential zoning change in his Gold Coast neighborhood, he went straight to Emanuel. “My son, Jonathan…and I would like 10 minutes to see you in the two days about a zoning matter in our neighborhood. This is quite time sensitive and very important. We can meet you anywhere and early each day is best,” Brodsky wrote. Nine days later, Brodsky wrote back to Emanuel saying, “Thanks for seeing me on the zoning issue that is of much concern to our neighborhood,” adding, “Looking forward to being at your swearing in ceremony!” Ald. Brendan Reilly said in a neighborhood announcement that he opposed the zoning change, but warned that all previous vacation rental applications he had opposed in his 42nd Ward had won Zoning Board of Appeals approval. On May 15, however, the Emanuel-appointed Zoning

Board of Appeals reversed that trend, voting 4-0 to reject two applications for vacation rental housing units on Cedar Street, board minutes show. Brodsky, who is stepping away next year from his current role as executive chairman of the board CBOE Holdings, has contributed $6,300 to the mayor. Since 2010, the CBOE has given Emanuel $90,800, campaign finance records show. Brodsky said Thursday that his direct request to Emanuel was the result of “knowing the man for 25 years” and that the email address he used wasn’t relevant. “I would have done it on the front page of the newspaper,” Brodsky said of raising with Emanuel the issue of a lack of rules on vacation rental housing that has resulted in people “who buy these houses and rent them out as party houses on weekends” and hurt local neighborhoods. “This is, to me, what living in a neighborhood and being part of a city is about. The email address to me is coincidental,” Brodsky said.

DJ picnic One of the released emails showed some making requests of the mayor weren’t afraid to note their connections. “Hello Rahm,” began one email from May 21 of last year. “It’s Alan King, Barack’s buddy and Jesse Ruiz’s law partner over at Drinker Biddle. It was good seeing you in the suite at the Sox game on opening day.” King, a member of a cadre of disc jockeys who pioneered house music known as the Chosen Few, had planned to hold the group’s 25th anniversary “House Music Picnic” in Jackson Park on July 4. But despite obtaining a Chicago Park District permit, the event was being threatened “due to some construction” on the picnic site. “I apologize, but it is a very serious situation for me and my business partners, and I think you might

be able to help at least to broker a solution,” King wrote. Emanuel responded less than a half-hour later by asking if King had contacted Michael Kelly, the Park District’s superintendent and CEO. On June 6, King wrote back to tell Emanuel that in working with the Park District and others, “I think everything is going to work out.” “Please say hello to Amy from Sophia and me,” King wrote in reference to Emanuel’s wife, Amy Rule. Emanuel forwarded the message to Spielfogel, then Emanuel’s top adviser, who responded, “First I’m hearing. Will confirm with Mike.” King’s law partner, Ruiz, also was Emanuel’s appointed vice president of the Chicago Public Schools until being shifted in November of last year to serve as president of the Chicago Park District. In April, Emanuel appointed King’s wife, Sophia King, as 4th Ward alderman. Sophia King was involved in the Obama for America 2008 presidential campaign, according to her resume. She’s being challenged by five candidates in a special election next year.

Cycling center Having a lifelong friendship with the mayor was part of the motivation of an email request sent to Emanuel in late 2014. At the time, the owners of a well-known Bucktown cycling facility called Vision Quest were upset at being evicted by the city because of a nearby development. They turned to one of their members, Tony Davis, cyclist and president of Linden Capital Partners. “They are amazing cyclists and friends of mine,” Davis said, “I wanted to help them … and I have known Rahm Emanuel most of my life.” Davis said his family has known the Emanuel family since he was a child, and said his father is the doctor who treated Rahm’s severed finger following a fast-

food restaurant accident. So he fired off an email to Emanuel’s personal account dated Dec. 5, 2014. “I have a request re VisionQuest, the cycling and triathlon training center getting moved by the city due to project at Fullerton and Damon,” he wrote the mayor. “It needs a zoning change to move to a new location nearby.’’ Davis then added a personal note referring to Emanuel’s wife: “Rahm, this is the place at which Amy has trained.” Davis said the mayor promptly replied, referring him to a zoning expert on the mayor’s staff. Contacted Thursday, Davis chuckled when asked about the email exchange, pointing out that his company has no business with the city and no financial connection to the workout facility other than his membership fee. He also said he wasn’t seeking a zoning change, but rather to see whether Vision Quest might qualify for an exemption allowed under city ordinance. “My relationship to Rahm Emanuel is a personal one, we go all the way back to my childhood,” said Davis, who has contributed $15,000 to Emanuel’s mayoral campaign fund. Davis also said his only relationship to Amy Rule was that he knew she was a member too. “I don’t really know Amy.” “As a friend and member of the pre-eminent workout facility, I wanted to help them move due to their eminent domain issues and see whether their new facility would fit within a particular zoning exemption, so I contacted the mayor.” As it turned out, Vision Quest never got its zoning exemption, Davis said, because “the issue became moot. They decided to stay where they were in a temporary location.” Chicago Tribune’s David Kidwell and Hal Dardick contributed. rap30@aol.com dheinzmann@chicagotribune.com jcoen@chicagotribune.com

Rauner sends $50 million to campaign fund

Operatives call it ‘first installment’ in plan to win in 2018 By Kim Geiger and Monique Garcia Chicago Tribune

Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, nearly two years away from Election Day 2018, deposited $50 million into his campaign account this week in what party operatives billed as a “first installment” in the effort to win a second term for the wealthy former venture capitalist. The contribution — nearly double what Rauner spent personally on his entire 2014 campaign — is an early indication of the massive amount of money that’s expected to be spent on the 2018 election, even as it remains unclear who will emerge on the Democratic

side to challenge him. Made Tuesday and disclosed Thursday, the contribution comes as the Illinois Republican Party has already launched pre-emptive strikes against two Democrats considered potential contenders — J.B. Pritzker, an entrepreneur and investor from a wellknown Chicago family, and Chris Kennedy, a former owner of the Merchandise Mart and son of Robert F. Kennedy. Rauner spent a record $65.3 million in his 2014 campaign against then-Gov. Pat Quinn. Of that, nearly $28 million came from his own pocket. Since then, Rauner and his wife, Diana, have spent more than $32.5 million to support the Republican Party, GOP candidates and conservative groups in Illinois. Because the Tuesday donation was made more than

a year from the 2018 primary election, it will not lift limits on campaign contributions to candidates in the race for governor. State government, meanwhile, appears headed for another showdown over the budget when a temporary spending measure expires Jan. 1. Tension between Rauner and Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan has only intensified since the most recent election, in which Rauner spent heavily to hammer home to voters a message that Madigan is the problem at the statehouse. Rauner operatives would not publicly discuss the $50 million donation. A spokesman for Madigan said the contribution underscored that Rauner’s primary focus is politics, not running the state. “He’s never been focused on governing,” said spokes-

man Steve Brown, who added that the large amount of money raises questions about “whether he is running scared.” Also on Thursday, Rauner’s administration filed an unfair labor practice complaint against the state’s largest employee union, arguing it has taken improper steps to prevent the administration from implementing its final offer after the Illinois Labor Relations Board ruled the sides were at impasse during contract negotiations. The administration is asking the board to award the state $2 million a day in damages, the amount it says taxpayers are spending because of a delay in implementing the new terms. That’s a reduction from the “almost $3 million per day” estimate that Rauner floated earlier this month. At issue is a temporary

agreement both sides agreed to as negotiations continued that kept in place the terms of the old contract. Rauner’s office says that agreement has now expired with the labor board’s ruling. Rauner’s attorneys have taken issue with a temporary restraining order a St. Clair County judge issued earlier this month, after the union argued the administration took actions to impose its terms before the labor board’s ruling was put into writing. An appellate court has since directed that the restraining order be reconsidered, but the lower court has yet to act. “Continuing to stall, instead of working with us to implement our last, best and final offer that is substantially similar to the contracts agreed to by 18 other unions, only costs taxpayers more money – approxi-

mately $2 million every day this drags on,” Dennis Murashko, Rauner’s general counsel, said in a statement. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31 dismissed the move as a “disgraceful attempt to intimidate union members from exercising their legal rights” and said Rauner should return to the bargaining table. “The governor may wish to dictate not negotiate, but he is not above the law,” spokesman Anders Lindall said in a statement. “The real waste of taxpayer money is Governor Rauner’s stubborn refusal to negotiate with our union for nearly a year. All that time AFSCME members have been working hard to serve their communities.” kgeiger@chicagotribune.com mgarcia@chicagotribune.com

Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Friday, December 23, 2016

Mobster caught on tape, feds say

On the bench at 71 — and still active

Reputed Outfit soldier brags about robbery, according to complaint By Jason Meisner

33-year Cook County prosecutor now judge

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Michael Gerber has spent nearly 33 years as a prosecutor in Cook County, so Thursday, at age 71, he moved onto the next phase of his life. That’s not retirement. Gerber fulfilled what he called a lifelong dream of becoming a judge. Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke swore in Gerber to Cook County’s 13th judicial subcircuit, where he was appointed to fill a vacancy by the departure of Judge Jeffrey Lawrence. “Some people think that when you get older, you’ll be on a bench feeding pigeons in the park,” Gerber said. “That’s not the bench I had in mind.” For Gerber, said to be the longest-serving of all current Cook County prosecutors, the judgeship caps a legal career in which he has prosecuted street gang members, arsonists and murderers. A product of Chicago’s North Side, Gerber attended Mather High School, then Roosevelt University and graduated from DePaul University Law School in

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Michael Gerber smiles after being sworn in as a Cook County subcircuit court judge Thursday by state Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke.

1979, working in private practice with his uncle, Martin S. Gerber. In 1981, he joined the Cook County public defender’s office, but in 1984, he switched sides. Admired by colleagues and defense attorneys, Gerber is unusual in his talents, said Maria McCarthy, supervisor of the state’s attorney’s office at the Rolling Meadows courthouse, where Gerber worked for 25 years. “Mike’s a rarity in that he’s a great trial lawyer, and if you’ve ever seen him with the victims in his cases, you know he has great compassion for them,” McCarthy said. “We will miss him.” Jim Mullenix, a former Cook County assistant public defender, worked with Gerber in that office “way back in the Stone Age,” Mullenix said. Since then, the two “bumped heads in a number of tough trials,” Mullenix said, many of them death-penalty murder cases before Illinois did away with capital

punishment. “He’s a hardworking veteran who has practiced for almost 40 years,” Mullenix said. “The people of Cook County will be well-served.” Lawrence, whom Gerber replaces, had been retained by voters in the past despite a lack of recommendations from some bar groups. He resigned in July, according to a state Supreme Court news release. Gerber has previously run unsuccessfully for a judgeship in the 13th subcircuit. Gerber, who has taught business law at Northeastern Illinois University for many years, is known for his sense of humor and said he did a short stint with Second City performing improv before becoming a lawyer. Still, Mullenix said, “There will be no funny business in his courtroom.” George Houde is a freelance reporter.

Prosecutors: Man defrauded clients of savings By Dan Lambert

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A Vernon Hills man is charged in what federal prosecutors are calling a “Ponzi-type scheme” that defrauded more than a dozen clients out of retirement savings. Richard K. Booy, 48, was charged with mail fraud after he used promises of no-risk investments to collect about $1 million from at least 15 clients, many of them elderly, according to a news release from the U.S. attorney’s office. Starting in June 2014, Booy

began collecting investment funds from clients as he claimed to be affiliated with the wellknown Principal Financial Group, according to a federal complaint filed Wednesday. He was not affiliated with the group and instead of investing the money, he used it to pay off credit card debt and make purchases at Best Buy and DirecTV, the complaint states. Booy also used some money to pay earlier investors, according to the complaint. Many of the investors were elderly and included a Chicago pastor and a retired government worker.

In September, Principal Financial Group obtained a temporary restraining order against Booy but he continued to operate into December, according to the complaint. Mail fraud conviction carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Booy was released on a $50,000 bond Thursday, according to Joseph Fitzpatrick, spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office. Booy could not be reached for comment. dalambert@chicagotribune.com

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A reputed Chicago Outfit soldier was arrested on gun charges this week after he was caught on undercover recordings bragging about plans to break into the home of an elderly suburban lawyer and force him to open a safe filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars, federal prosecutors say. “Nothing gets my juices flowing like putting a gun to someone’s head, taking their stuff, and making it mine,” Charles “Chuckie” Russell was quoted in a court filing telling a government informant. “It will be a great Christmas, I’m telling you.” Russell, 67, was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly went to a South Loop deli to purchase eight guns from a person who turned out to be an undercover federal agent, according to a 26-page criminal complaint unsealed Thursday. He was charged with two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ordered held until a bond hearing in early January. An alleged member of the Chicago mob’s Grand Avenue crew, Russell was sentenced in 1992 to 35 years in prison for an aggravated criminal sexual assault conviction. He was acquitted of attempted murder in that case, records show. He was released on parole in March 2011. Last month, a confidential informant told agents with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that Russell had been bragging about being “a top ranking member of the mob,” according to the complaint. At a meeting at a coffeehouse on Taylor Street, Russell allegedly told the informant he was the head of a prolific gang of burglars called the “Bishop” boys that was responsible for hundreds of burglaries and home invasions over the past several years. On Dec. 16, Russell met the informant along with an undercover agent at the Boundary Tavern and Grille in Wicker Park, according to the complaint. Dur-

ing the conversation, which was secretly recorded, Russell talked about plans for an upcoming robbery of a man in his 70s Russell who was believed to have as much as $750,000 in cash in a safe in his home, the complaint said. Russell said he’d been casing the home for years and had an “ex-girl” who was on the inside and knew the location of the safe and other valuables. “If he doesn’t open it, we’re gonna make him open it,” Russell said, according to the complaint. “They always open for me, believe me. I bring my butane torch, put it on the bottom of their feet, they open it.” According to the complaint, Russell wanted help on the robbery. He told the informant and the undercover agent that his crew would be equipped with the proper tools to avoid detection, including police scanners, masks and a change of clothes. He also said their biggest worry would be if the victim had a heart attack, because if “he (expletive) drops dead, we got a (expletive) murder,” according to the complaint. Later in the conversation, Russell talked about buying firearms from the undercover agent. On Monday, the three men met again at the Gale Street Inn in Jefferson Park, where Russell gave the agent a list of guns he was looking for, including an Uzi submachine gun and an AK-47, according to the complaint. Russell’s arrest marked the latest blow for the Grand Avenue crew made famous by colorful and violent leaders such as Joey “The Clown” Lombardo and currently believed to be headed by Albert “Little Guy” Vena, who is Russell’s brother-in-law. In 2014, alleged crew members Robert Panozzo, Paul Koroluk and others were arrested on sweeping racketeering charges alleging an array of crimes going back to at least 2007, from home invasions and armed robberies to burglaries, arson, insurance fraud and prostitution. jmeisner@chicagotribune.com

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featured the latest twists in the frantic effort to ensure that the former residents of Goodwin’s homes were safe. Goodwin’s attorney, Michael Kelly, said the allegations about the job enticement weren’t true and that Goodwin has been cooperative with the search. Yet, the fact that a resident was found outside in the cold cast doubt on Goodwin’s assertion that state officials were overreacting to the situation; he has said each of his former residents had left with their families for the holidays and were not out on the streets. Other former residents told caseworkers last week that Disability Services employees said people were trying to kidnap them, told them to turn out the lights and hide when caseworkers came to the door of their group home and, at one point, spirited them away to a hotel in Indiana. On Thursday, Cook County Circuit Judge Kathleen Pantle ordered Disability Services to give state officials the money from Social Security disability benefit checks that it received this month for all of its former residents. Group homes use that income to offset some of the costs of providing services while setting aside $50 monthly for each resident. Goodwin’s business lost its license Nov. 28 over safety concerns, but Goodwin continued to collect the money. Attorneys for the state alleged that neither Goodwin nor his employees released the Social Security cards and other documents the former residents needed to transfer benefits to their new group home providers. Michael Kelly, attorney for Disability Services, protested. But Pantle said the December federal payments belonged to the residents and could not be used to offset whatever amount the group home provider feels the state still owes.

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State officials say Disability Services of Illinois CEO Reuben Goodwin Sr. has hurt the search for group home residents.

“You can’t hold their Social Security checks hostage,” Pantle said. The Tribune’s “Suffering in Secret” series, published in November, exposed problems at Goodwin’s group home network, which used to be known as Southwest Disabilities Services & Supports. After the Tribune shared findings with the head of Human Services, inspectors went to all of Goodwin’s group homes. Concluding that the 45 residents who lived there at the time were at “imminent risk,” the department

revoked the business’s license and began moving the individuals to new homes. Not all of those residents have been accounted for, leading to a series of court hearings and sharp questioning of Goodwin about where those people might be. Pantle had asked state attorneys to file missing persons reports last week, and Homewood police subsequently identified one of the residents as 35-year-old Latrice Charleston. She was last seen leaving her group home in the 18600 block of

Center Avenue on Dec. 1 with an “unidentified female.” Police said “it is unknown if Latrice has her medications with her.” Anyone with information on her whereabouts should call Homewood police at 708-206-3420. The other two residents went missing from group homes in Chicago, but a Chicago police spokesman declined to release their names or identifying details. Pantle on Thursday issued an order allowing police, state officials and caseworkers to access records that would allow them to track when and where the residents’ food-stamps debit cards were used. Last week, citing the possibility of “irreparable injury,” Pantle ordered Disability Services to turn over 18 residents to caseworkers who planned to move them to safer homes managed by different providers. Goodwin said six of those residents, who serve as their own guardians, left with family members, though he said he couldn’t give the names or phone numbers of those relatives or even verify the date the residents departed. He told the judge Dec. 16 that residents functioned independently and could come and go as they pleased. “When they leave, they say, ‘I’m going,’ ” he said in court. “When they’re back, they say, ‘I’m home.’ ” Attorneys for Human Services in legal filings Thursday said the missing individuals required more supervision than that. They asked the judge to review privately the confidential service plans for the residents because they detail the disabilities and needs of the missing people. Pantle agreed to review the plans; she also called for another hearing Friday morning and ordered that Goodwin and two of his employees be present. pcallahan@chicagotribune.com pmatuszak@chicagotribune.com Twitter @TribuneTrish Twitter @PeterMatuszak

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Students’ torture detailed in court 4 sentenced in case involving 2 Chicago-area men By Tony Briscoe

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Before four people were sentenced to prison this week for the kidnapping, torture and sexual assault of two college students from the Chicago area, testimony from the victims helped secure their convictions. The two male students at the University of Rochester in New York were reported missing by their roommates Dec. 5, 2015, hours after they were seen near campus. The search ended the next day, when a SWAT team stormed a house about 4 miles away and freed the pair after they had been held against their will for 40 hours, beaten and assaulted. “One of the victims ... described for the jury something I’ll never forget,” said Matthew Schwartz, chief of the Special Investigations Bureau at the Monroe County, N.Y., district attorney’s office. “He turned and told them, ‘This sounds like something that you would only ever see in a movie. But this is real, and happened in real life.’ “Something particularly horrible like this ... sometimes it’s worse than homicide. The torture that went on is almost indescribable,” Schwartz added. One of the victims is from Northbrook; the other is from the Naperville area. On Wednesday, the defendant believed to have orchestrated the kidnapping, Lydell Strickland, 27, was sentenced to 155 years to life. New York Supreme Court Justice Alex Renzi told Strickland that he could find no redeeming qualities in him, according to published reports. Another defendant, David Alcaraz-Ubiles, 25, received a 15-year sentence, which he will serve after he completes a 15-year term for an unrelated conviction. Two others — Inalia Rolldan and Ruth Lora — were each sentenced to seven years in prison in connection to the double abduction. Five other people charged for their roles in the abductions took plea deals, officials said. Schwartz said the perpetrators targeted one of the victims because they mistakenly believed he was the man involved in an earlier, drug-related robbery for which they were seeking retribution. The perpetrators arranged for a woman to flirt with the victim on Facebook, and she eventually invited him to what she said was an off-campus party, the prosecutor said. He asked to bring a friend along. “The second victim being involved was pure happenstance,” Schwartz said. Two other women picked up the men and drove them to a home in Rochester. When the college students walked into the kitchen, they were surrounded by men in masks, Schwartz said. Over the next 40 hours, the victims were “repeatedly assaulted,” both sexually and physically, Schwartz said. The assailants bound the victims with duct tape, forced them to urinate in bottles and, in one instance, fired a rifle next to one victim’s head. At one point, one of the men tried to make a break for the door and was shot in the leg, shattering his femur. “It’s incredible that he survived,” Schwartz said. Associated Press contributed. tbriscoe@chicagotribune.com Twitter @_tonybriscoe

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WASHINGTON — Ex.Rep. Aaron Schock, who stands accused of 24 felonies on allegations he misused campaign cash and taxpayer dollars, wants his criminal trial moved to July. The request is in a motion filed Wednesday in U.S.

District Court in Springfield. Schock’s lawyers cited the complexity of the case, saying prosecutors plan to call 100 witnesses at trial and beforehand. The government also plans to turn over about 10 terabytes of data that underpin the indictment, the motion said. Schock pleaded not guilty to the charges Dec. 12

and U.S. District Judge Sue Myerscough set a trial date of Feb. 7, though defense lawyers suggested a date in August because of the large volume of material to review. Schock The judge said then that she was open to delaying the trial as needed. Schock, 35, is a Peoria Republican who quit Congress in disgrace in 2015. He

was indicted by a federal grand jury in the state capital Nov. 10. Defense lawyers used the motion asking for a trial delay to criticize the indictment, saying it “alleges several schemes and makes novel use of several rules and statutes in support of its allegations.” Schock entered Con-

gress in 2009 and resigned amid a barrage of unflattering news reports about his questionable spending, farflung travel and the “Downton Abbey”-style makeover of his Washington office. He faces charges of wire fraud, mail fraud, theft of government funds, making false statements, filing false reports with federal election officials and filing false tax returns.

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5 officers have resigned or retired IG report, from Page 1

briefing. Guglielmi declined to elaborate, and Johnson referred questions to the spokesman. The details about the meeting are buried in thousands of pages of records obtained by the Chicago Tribune that document the inspector general’s investigation and its findings that numerous officers at the scene falsified police reports and sought to cover up the facts of McDonald’s killing. The documents also contain Van Dyke’s first-person account of why he shot McDonald. “I think he’s going to try and take my life away from me,” Van Dyke told an investigator two days later. When challenged in recent months about discrepancies between the video and their accounts, top officials as well as rank-and-file cops stood their ground, saying they had accurately described what happened the night McDonald was shot. The records raise questions about Johnson’s response to the inspector general’s findings against his command officers. The documents revealed that the inspector general recommended firing Chief of Detectives Eugene Roy and Deputy Chief David McNaughton in addition to nine lower-ranking officers. Inspector General Joseph Ferguson found that Roy, who had supervised the department’s investigation into McDonald’s shooting, was “incompetent in the performance of his duties.” While Johnson moved to fire several rank-and-file officers, the records show, he didn’t act on the recommendation to fire Roy or publicly disclose his role, instead letting him quietly step down as he neared the mandatory age for retirement. McNaughton, the highest-ranking officer at the scene of McDonald’s shooting, also retired. Roy declined to comment, while McNaughton could not be reached. Officers recommended for firing by the inspector general and their lawyers either could not be reached for comment or declined to talk, except for Van Dyke’s lawyer, Daniel Herbert, who said Van Dyke told the truth. Herbert said Johnson’s decisions about whom to seek to fire reflect an unwillingness to lay responsibility on command officers. He pointed to the meeting involving Johnson in which command staff purportedly agreed the shooting was justified. “Nothing has changed, other than the heat has been turned up in this case,” Herbert said.

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Chief of Detectives Eugene Roy, right, gives First Deputy Superintendent John Escalante a hug at Escalante’s retirement send-off Sept. 6.

however, remember there being pizza at the police station afterward. “It defies belief that Mondragon does not remember whether or not she had seen anyone shot, but has a clear recollection of pizza,” the inspector general’s report stated.

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For more than a year, Mayor Rahm Emanuel had fought the release of the video showing the white police officer repeatedly shooting the black teenager as he lay motionless in the street. The release of the video in November 2015 sparked widespread protests and exposed long-simmering grievances over policing in the city, particularly in minority communities. Hours before the video’s release, Cook County prosecutors made the rare move of charging a police officer in a shooting, announcing first-degree murder charges against Van Dyke. No other officers have been criminally charged in the matter, but a special grand jury is gathering evidence into whether officers orchestrated a cover-up. McDonald’s killing prompted an ongoing U.S. Justice Department investigation into whether the Chicago Police Department has systematically mistreated citizens. Emanuel has since pushed reforms in police training, departmental rules and discipline. After the mayor fired Superintendent McCarthy, he rejected the three finalists the Chicago Police Board had picked to succeed him. Instead, Emanuel chose Johnson, an African-American who joined the department in 1988 and had not even sought the superintendent’s post. As City Hall made changes in the department, Ferguson’s office was collecting evidence on the Police Department’s response to McDonald’s shooting. Ferguson concluded that police made false statements and found that at least one officer engaged in a “code of silence,” an unwritten rule that officers should lie to protect a colleague, investigation records show. He also found that the video contradicted official police accounts of McDonald’s shooting and that officers exaggerated the threat posed by McDonald. “The video footage of the shooting shows that, before Van Dyke shot McDonald, McDonald was walking away from Van Dyke,” according to one of the inspector general’s findings. “It shows that McDonald did not

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Deputy Chief David McNaughton was the on-call incident commander at the scene of the Laquan McDonald shooting. His duties included taking charge of the scene and interviewing Officer Jason Van Dyke.

raise the knife he was holding over his shoulder, did not swing the knife toward the officers in an ‘aggressive’ manner, nor did he raise his arm toward Van Dyke as if attacking Van Dyke.” Ferguson also found that — despite what officers wrote — the video shows that McDonald fell to the street after being shot and was not trying to get up. Ferguson’s office recommended that the department fire 11 officers in all. In August, Johnson moved to fire Van Dyke, as well as Officers Daphne Sebastian, Janet Mondragon, Ricardo Viramontes and Sgt. Stephen Franko. Johnson declined to move to fire Officer Dora Fontaine, saying the evidence against her was insufficient. The other officers — several of them higher-ranking — resigned or retired, including the lead detective on the case, David March. March told the inspector general that his investigation found that the actions of all the officers were “absolutely proper” and that Van Dyke was justified in killing McDonald, who had PCP in his system and damaged a police car while armed with a knife. March emphasized to the inspector general’s investigators that the department leadership’s stance on the shooting shifted after the video was released and that in the meantime several command officers involved in the McDonald case had been promoted.

“Now, they are promoted and I am under investigation for separation from the department?” March asked. “As I said, no one voiced any reservations or concerns to me regarding this incident or this investigation. I was informed the entire command staff concurred with the findings and conclusions of my investigation.”

In his own words Among the voluminous records is a transcript of Van Dyke — for the first time — offering his account of what happened in his own words. Van Dyke was interviewed two days after the shooting by an investigator from the Independent Police Review Authority, the beleaguered agency known for clearing police in nearly every shooting. IPRA investigator Brian Killen, who could not be reached for comment by the Tribune, told the inspector general’s office that he had not watched the video of the shooting before questioning Van Dyke for about 20 minutes. Van Dyke, according to a transcript of his account, said he and his partner that night, Joseph Walsh, responded to a call for assistance from other officers. Van Dyke saw McDonald as they pulled up to the scene near Pulaski Road and 41st Street on the Southwest Side. Van Dyke said McDonald was waving a knife and coming toward

him, according to a transcript of the interview. Van Dyke said he backpedaled. “He’s getting, he’s getting closer to me,” Van Dyke said. “I keep on ordering him: ‘Drop the knife! Drop the knife! Drop the knife!’ He doesn’t drop the knife. He’s still waving the knife at me. I’m thinking he’s, he’s going (to) do something to me.” Killen, according to the transcript, asked Van Dyke what he thought McDonald was going to do. “I think he’s going to try and take my life away from me,” Van Dyke replied. Van Dyke emptied all 16 rounds from his semiautomatic Smith & Wesson 9 mm pistol and reloaded before he determined “the threat was eliminated,” he said. In charging Van Dyke with McDonald’s killing, prosecutors said the officer opened fire seconds after exiting his squad car. The inspector general’s report casts doubt on the accounts given by Van Dyke and the other officers. In Officer Mondragon’s case, the inspector general highlighted her claim that she missed key parts of the shooting, in part because she was putting a police vehicle in park. Van Dyke took about 14 seconds to empty his pistol, officials said. Under questioning about the details of the shooting, Mondragon responded nearly 150 times that she did not recall, according to the report. Mondragon did,

Multiple witnesses told the inspector general that detectives investigating the shooting refused to accept their accounts of what happened and threatened them. None of the 11 officers named in disciplinary recommendations so far were found to have intimidated witnesses. Witness Alma Benitez, for example, said she saw McDonald walking up the street from a nearby Burger King restaurant. As Benitez was readying to film with her phone, she heard gunshots and looked up, she said. “I kept hearing gunshots, and then I yelled, ‘Stop shooting! He’s dead already!’ ” she said. Benitez is suing the department, alleging she was detained and pressured to change her story. Jose Torres, a motorist who said police shooed him away from the scene, told inspector general investigators he was talking to his wife on his cellphone when shots rang out. His wife heard the gunfire, he said. Torres told investigators that McDonald appeared to be turning away from officers when he was shot. Torres said he grew upset in his car when he saw the shooting continue after McDonald fell to the pavement. “I cussed in the car,” he said. “I’m like, ‘Why in the f--- are they still shooting him if he is on the ground?’ ” Torres said he contacted IPRA a few days after the shooting when police said McDonald had lunged at the officers. “I couldn’t live with myself,” he told inspector general investigators. “I have two kids, two boys and they’re about (McDonald’s) age. If something like that would happen to my kids, I would wish somebody would come forward and say something.” In March 2015, detectives completed reports that repeated the contentions of Van Dyke and the other officers. The police reports were prepared by Detective March, Sgt. Daniel Gallagher and Lt. Anthony Wojcik, records show. All three left the department earlier this year, according to department records. Earlier this month, the inspector general’s office went to court to try to force Wojcik to abide by a subpoena and testify in the office’s investigation. Court records show that Wojcik objected because he is no longer a city employee. His lawyer, Darren O’Brien, said Thursday that the inspector general’s office missed its chance to interview him before he retired in May. Turn to IG report, Next Page

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“If he’s so important, why didn’t they talk to him when he worked there?” O’Brien asked. “Essentially, they waited too long.”

Supervisors sign off on report

The inspector general’s investigation sought to hold command staff accountable in addition to the patrol officers. On the night of the shooting, McNaughton, a deputy chief of patrol, was in bed before he received a call from Johnson informing him that he needed to go to the scene as the department’s “on-call incident commander,” records show. As the highest-ranking officer there, McNaughton’s duties were to take charge of the scene, walk IPRA investigators through what had happened and interview Van Dyke. The next day, McNaughton wrote in a report that the shooting was justified, records show. “Officer Van Dyke fired his weapon in fear of his life when the offender while armed with a knife continued to approach and refused all verbal direction,” McNaughton wrote in a report. In recommending that McNaughton be fired, the inspector general alleged that he had approved false police reports submitted by Van Dyke, Walsh and a third officer and revised a police news release to falsely state that McDonald was shot after he “continued to approach” the officers. “I believed it that night and I believe it now, and if the definition of the word ‘approach’ is to come nearer to, then I don’t think I was imprecise in that language,” McNaughton told investigators. “I wish someone else could write statements. They could probably have crafted that better than I could, but it is there.” McNaughton, according to records, told investigators that he was fatigued that night after working long hours that day escorting President Barack Obama’s motorcade and that may have affected his decision-making. McNaughton retired last summer. Roy, who joined the department in 1977 and supervised the detectives on the case, drew withering criticism from the inspector general’s office. Roy went to the scene and watched video of the shooting early on, according to the reports. He later took part in briefings for top command officers at which the video was viewed, the records show. The inspector general placed blame for the detectives’ allegedly false narratives on Roy, though Roy told investigators that responsibility for the reports fell largely to his subordinates. Nonetheless, he viewed the video with inspector general’s investigators and said officers made accurate statements. He maintained that the video showed McDonald brandished the knife at officers and tried to get up after he was shot. The inspector general disagreed, finding that Roy “let stand reports that contained materially false statements and put forth a false narrative, which served to exaggerate the threat McDonald posed at the time of the shooting.” Roy, however, said the inspector general was wrong to depend so heavily on the video. “It’s been a great deal of concentration on the video; however, that concentration ignores the fact the video is from the back of Laquan McDonald,” Roy told the inspector general’s investigators. “The videotape that you displayed and that I reviewed with you gentlemen is much farther away from Laquan McDonald than Officer Van Dyke or Officer Walsh were. The video cannot account for the perceptions and view of those who were actually present.” The inspector general recommended on Aug. 17 that Johnson fire Roy, who was within months of the department’s mandatory retirement age of 63, records show. At the end of August, Johnson moved to fire the lower-ranking officers.

The Tribune, in late August, asked Johnson about Roy’s role in the McDonald investigation and whether the department planned to seek to punish him. The superintendent responded that “CPD doesn’t comment on open investigations.” Department records show Roy retired Sept. 15. Roy was among the command officers that Valdez reported attended the meeting about 10 days after the shooting. But there was an earlier meeting, two days after the shooting, that included then-Superintendent McCarthy, according to

Juan Rivera, who at the time was chief of the Bureau of Internal Affairs. At that meeting, Rivera said, top department officials watched the video. Rivera told the inspector general’s investigators that he was concerned by the number of shots, and he suggested to McCarthy after the meeting that Van Dyke should be stripped of his police powers. McCarthy brushed off the suggestion, Rivera told the inspector general’s investigators. Van Dyke was relieved of his police powers about 10 days after the shooting.

McCarthy could not be reached for comment. While the Tribune obtained a department document indicating that Johnson was supposed to attend the meeting with McCarthy, he did not, said department spokesman Guglielmi. Wayne Gulliford, then the department’s chief of patrol, missed that meeting, as well, so a second briefing was held to watch the video and discuss the shooting, McNaughton told the inspector general’s investigators. That is the meeting that Johnson attended, according to Valdez. Asked by

an inspector general’s investigator whether anyone at that meeting voiced questions about the shooting’s justification, Valdez replied, “Absolutely not.” Valdez and Gulliford declined to comment. After his appointment in March as superintendent, Johnson was interviewed by two Tribune reporters who asked about the McDonald shooting. Johnson acknowledged that he had viewed the video at the time of the shooting, but he demurred at explaining his reaction to the video.

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IG’s office recommended 11 officers be dismissed

Van Dyke and Walsh repeatedly order McDonald to drop the knife but that McDonald continued to wave the knife as he came closer and closer to the officers. She said she did not see which officer opened fire because she was putting the squad car in park — a claim that the inspector general scoffed at, noting it took McDonald about 14 seconds to unload his 16-shot gun. The IG also criticized Mondragon for remembering being served pizza later that night at Area Central headquarters but answering nearly 150 questions about the details of the shooting by saying she didn’t recall. Mondragon is fighting her dismissal before the Chicago Police Board.

The Office of Inspector General recommended that 11 Chicago police officers — from rank-and-file patrol officers to command-level personnel — be fired for making false statements exaggerating the threat posed by Laquan McDonald, 17, in the 2014 encounter. All the higher-ranking officers resigned or retired, leaving four officers and one patrol sergeant fighting for their jobs. Here is a look at all 11: Officer Joseph Walsh, on the force since

June 1998 and Jason Van Dyke’s partner for only the second time that night, gave much the same account as Van Dyke. The IG found Walsh made numerous false statements and material omissions in his interview with police and the Independent Police Review Authority. “Walsh’s actions embody the ‘code of silence’ that has no legitimate place in CPD,” the report concluded. Walsh resigned from the department after the IG recommended his dismissal. David McNaughton, with the department since December 1991 and the highestranking officer at the scene as a deputy chief, told IG investigators that his initial reaction to seeing the video at the scene was “Oh, my God, you know this is, you know, something to see.” But then he said he looked at it from “the perspective of a police officer” and concluded McDonald was the aggressor who approached Van Dyke and Walsh. The IG in particular faulted McNaughton for revising the department’s news release on the shooting to say McDonald “continued to approach” the two officers. “I do not believe it is a false statement in my heart of hearts,” he said in his IG interview. McNaughton retired after the IG recommended his dismissal. Eugene Roy, with the department since

1977 and the second-in-charge that night as commander of the Area Central detective division, attended a meeting two days after the shooting in which then-Superintendent Garry McCarthy raised concerns about the 16 shots fired by Van Dyke. Roy later told IG investigators he did not share those concerns. Despite what the video showed, Roy continued to maintain that the police reports on the shooting were truthful and accurate, but he disavowed any responsibility for their conclusions. Roy retired in September after the IG recommended his dismissal. Detective David March, the lead in-

vestigator into McDonald’s shooting who joined the department in June 1982, viewed the video several times on a monitor in the police car whose dashcam captured the shooting, according to the IG report. He told IG investigators he interviewed not only Van Dyke and Walsh but also the additional eight officers at the scene at the time of the shooting. The IG in

Officer Daphne Sebastian, Mondra-

gon’s partner that night and an officer since April 2007, gave a similar account. She had told police she heard Van Dyke and Walsh repeatedly order McDonald to drop the knife, but he continued to advance on the officers, waving the knife. Sebastian also said she didn’t see which officer fired multiple shots, but she reported McDonald continued to move after falling to the street — a key detail that could have justified Van Dyke’s continuing to fire at the prone teenager. Yet the video shows that McDonald’s lower body did not move at all, the IG found, and the small, intermittent movements to his upper body appear to be from the bullets striking his body. Sebastian is fighting her dismissal before the Chicago Police Board. NANCY STONE/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Officer Jason Van Dyke, an officer since June 2001, shot McDonald 16 times seconds

after exiting his squad car. He emptied his gun, firing most of the bullets after McDonald had fallen to the street. Van Dyke told police he opened fire after McDonald ignored his repeated commands to drop the knife and then raised the knife over his shoulder as he got within 10 to 12 feet of the officer. He said that McDonald appeared to be trying to get up after falling to the street. On the same day a judge ordered the video released, Van Dyke was indicted on first-degree murder charges. He refused to answer questions from the IG, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. He continues to fight the murder charges in court as well as his dismissal before the Chicago Police Board. particular faulted March for falsely telling the medical examiner’s office that McDonald had lunged at the officer with the knife. Under questioning by an IG investigator, March said he wouldn’t change how he wrote anything in a supplementary police report. March resigned in August after the IG recommended his dismissal. Sgt. Daniel Gallagher, who started with

the department in October 2000 and was March’s boss at the Area Central detective division, supervised the investigation into McDonald’s shooting. Under questioning by an IG investigator, Gallagher said McDonald had taken 10 to 12 steps toward Van Dyke and Walsh before Van Dyke opened fire. Asked if video backed up Van Dyke’s claim he continued firing as McDonald attempted to rise up from the street, Gallagher said, “Perception is reality in these cases. If that’s what an officer perceives ... there is nothing in the video to

refute that.” Gallagher resigned in August after the IG recommended his dismissal. Sgt. Stephen Franko, with the department since January 1994, supervised several of the first officers who responded to the incident. The IG alleged that several witnesses said Franko helped create the false police reports and approved another report that inaccurately said Van Dyke had been injured. In his interview with investigators, Franko said he had simply overlooked mention of the injury in the report and otherwise minimized his role at the scene. The IG also faulted him for failing to take appropriate action against officers under his supervision after learning none of the audio systems in their police cars worked. Franko is fighting his dismissal before the Chicago Police Board. Officer Janet Mondragon, an officer since April 2007, had told police she heard

Officer Ricardo Viramontes, an officer since October 2003, arrived on the scene as Van Dyke was shooting McDonald. He had told police Van Dyke opened fire after McDonald had ignored repeated commands to drop the knife and turned toward the officer and his partner. Viramontes also said he saw McDonald continue to move after falling to the street. He went even further, saying McDonald attempted to rise to his feet with the knife still in his hand. After being shown the video, Viramontes stood his ground, saying, “The video might show me differently, but I believe what I stated is what I thought I saw.” Viramontes is fighting his dismissal before the Chicago Police Board. Officer Dora Fontaine, an officer since

October 2001 and Viramontes’ longtime partner on the force, was the only officer to challenge any statements attributed to her in police reports. She denied telling a detective that night that she had seen the knife-wielding McDonald raise his right arm toward Van Dyke as if he were attacking the officer. Still, the inspector general recommended Fontaine be fired for saying she heard Van Dyke and Walsh repeatedly order McDonald to drop the knife after video showed her just arriving at the scene as Van Dyke opened fire. Superintendent Eddie Johnson, however, did not seek her firing, saying the evidence against her was insufficient. It was uncertain what, if any, discipline was sought.

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NATION &WORLD Trump initiatives could get benched Experts cite history of courts curtailing executive overreach By David G. Savage Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is moving into a White House that has seen presidential powers markedly expanded by its previous two occupants. George W. Bush used his power as commander-inchief to wage a global war on terror. Barack Obama used executive orders to combat climate change, extend deportation relief to immigrants in the U.S. illegally, require free contraceptive coverage for female employees and pressure schools to offer equal rights to transgender students. But both ran into stiff opposition in the courts and saw some of their plans blocked. Trump has promised to write a new chapter in presidential power as a strong executive who will get things done. “I alone can fix it,” he said at the Republican convention. Legal scholars say they are wary, even worried, by Trump and how he will use the powers of the president. But they also remain confident the courts will stand firm against serious abuses of power. “I am very concerned about the ability of our constitutional system to check Trump’s excesses,” UCLA law professor Adam Winkler said. “He has expressed unprecedented contempt for the rule of law, and one of the major checks on Trump — the Congress — may not play its constitu-

tional role because of oneparty rule.” But the courts, Winkler said, are “far more likely to maintain a commitment to the rule of law and to curtail Trump’s abuses.” Georgetown law professor David Cole, who in January will become the ACLU’s national legal director, said he is “optimistic the courts will stand up against abuses of power” in the Trump era, citing the courts’ moderating impact on “war on terror” following the 9/11 attacks. In his first days in office, Trump is expected to use his executive authority to undo policies set by Obama. Some can be reversed immediately, while others will take time. For example, Trump can revoke Obama’s 2014 executive action that would have extended deportation relief and work permits to as many as 5 million immigrant parents who had legal children in the United States, but were themselves here illegally. Similarly, the new president and his appointees can revoke a “guidance letter” from Obama’s Education Department on May 13 that said schools and colleges must treat transgender students in accord with “their gender identity instead of the sex they were assigned at birth.” Trump’s appointees at the Health and Human Services Department can revise or revoke regulations enforcing the Affordable Care Act that required employers to pay for a full

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range of contraceptives. Those regulations spawned a series of court battles. But the Trump administration soon may run into similar lawsuits, this time coming from blue states or from civil libertarians. States like California that have expanded their health insurance under Obama’s plans could fight cutbacks or changes ordered by the new administration. Other lawyers are watching in case the new administration attempts to punish or fire civil servants who disagree with its positions, or penalize individual companies for transferring jobs abroad. “Any of those could prompt a legal challenge,” said Jonathan Adler, a law

professor at Case Western. “If the Trump administration tries to exert broad executive authority, I’m guardedly optimistic the courts will stand behind the relevant precedents.” Those precedents include strong checks on federal power written by the late Justice Antonin Scalia and Chief Justice John Roberts. In 1997, the Supreme Court struck down part of the Brady Act that required police to conduct background checks on gun buyers because, Scalia said, the Constitution does not permit federal authorities to “commandeer” state or local officials, or to require them “to enforce a federal regulatory program.” That precedent, in Printz v.

United States, is sure to be cited in disputes over “sanctuary cities.” Still, legal scholars predict Trump will test those limits. “He is certainly going to stretch the boundaries of executive power,” said Neal Devins, a law professor at the College of William and Mary who has written about the history of presidential power. Once the new president appoints a new justice, the Supreme Court again will have a majority of justices who are Republican appointees. But even so, Trump could run into trouble if he pushes too far. In 1952, all nine justices were Democratic appointees, but the Supreme Court struck down

President Harry Truman’s seizure of the strike-bound steels mills during the Korean War. And in 1974, a unanimous court forced President Richard Nixon’s resignation when it ruled he must turn over his White House tapes to a special prosecutor. Adler, a libertarian, worked with conservatives to fight Obama’s executive orders. Now he expects to be joined by liberal lawyers sounding that theme. “Donald Trump has not had political or government experience, and he’s not demonstrated an understanding of what the chief executive can and cannot do,” he said. david.savage@latimes.com

Officials: Fingerprints tie Tunisian to attack By Geir Moulson and Frank Jordans Associated Press

BERLIN — German officials presented new evidence Thursday that Anis Amri was behind the wheel of a truck that smashed into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12, as authorities across Europe pressed ahead with their feverish manhunt for the 24-yearold Tunisian who has evaded capture since the attack. Police raided properties in Berlin and the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia where Amri is believed to have spent time. They also swooped on a bus in the southwestern city of Heilbronn after receiving a tip that turned up nothing. No arrests were made, said Frauke Koehler, a spokeswoman for federal prosecutors. Meanwhile, the newspaper Tagesspiegel reported that investigators believe Amri suffered facial cuts in the attack. Investigators were confident that Amri carried out the rampage after finding his fingerprints in the cab of the truck that had been hijacked shortly before Monday’s attack.

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Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said fingerprints were found on the truck.

“We can tell you today that there are additional indications that this suspect is with high probability really the perpetrator,” Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said after visiting the Federal Criminal Police Office along with Chancellor Angela Merkel. “Fingerprints were found in the cab, and there are other, additional indications that suggest this,” he told reporters. “It is all the more important that the search is successful as soon as possible.” German authorities have been on the defensive after it emerged that Amri had

been considered a potential threat for months, subjected to surveillance and put in pre-deportation detention in August only to be released again due to paperwork problems. The fact that the attack is alleged to have been carried out by a man who came to Germany seeking asylum last year also prompted fresh criticism of Merkel’s decision to allow hundreds of thousands of migrants into the country without thorough security checks. While police have noted that most migrants are lawabiding, a number of highprofile crimes, including the New Year’s Eve assaults in Cologne and several violent attacks over the summer have stoked anti-migrant feeling in Germany. Two attacks in July, along with the truck attack in Berlin, were claimed by the Islamic State group, also called ISIS. At the site of the bloodbath, Berliners made a show of defiance. Vendors reopened their stalls at the Christmas market next to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church even as police placed concrete blocks by the roadside to provide extra security. In tribute to the victims,

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Nour El Houda Hassani 65, holds a portrait of her son, Anis Amri, the suspect in the attack.

organizers decided to do without festive music and bright lights. Berliners and visitors placed candles and flowers at a makeshift shrine for the victims. Berlin’s state Health Ministry raised the number of injured in the attack to 56. The agency said 12 people were being treated for severe injuries, with some still in critical condition. An additional 14 people with less serious injuries remained hospitalized and 30 others had been discharged. A U.S. State Department official said two Americans were among the injured. German authorities have offered a reward of

$105,000 for information leading to Amri’s arrest, but they warned he could be “violent and armed.” In Tunisia, Amri’s brothers urged him to surrender to authorities. “Whether he did it or not, I ask him to report to the police. We are suffering because of him,” Abdelkader Amri said. Another brother, Walid, said Amri may have been radicalized in prison in Italy, where he went after leaving Tunisia in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. Italy’s Justice Ministry confirmed reports that Amri was repeatedly transferred among Sicilian pris-

ons for bad conduct, with prison records saying he bullied inmates and tried to spark insurrections. He served 31⁄2 years for setting a fire at a refugee center and making threats, among other things — but Italy apparently detected no signs that he was becoming radicalized. Amri’s mother, Nour El Houda Hassani, insisted he had shown no signs of radicalization and questioned whether he was the market attacker. Speaking in the central Tunisian town of Oueslatia, she said poverty drove Amri to steal and to travel illegally to Europe.

Clinton takes popular vote by nearly 2.9 million By Lisa Lerer

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton received nearly 2.9 million more votes than President-elect Donald Trump, giving her the largest popular vote margin of any losing presidential candidate. Certified results in all 50 states and the District of Columbia show Clinton winning nearly 65,844,610 million votes — 48 percent — to Trump’s 62,979,636

million votes — 46 percent — according to an analysis by The Associated Press. Clinton is the fifth presidential candidate in American history to win the popular vote and lose the Electoral College. Democrat Al Gore, the only other presidential candidate this century to come up short in the Electoral College but claim a popular vote victory, received 540,000 more votes than President George W. Bush. The vote total discrepan-

cy between Democratic nominee Clinton and Trump has fueled arguments by some Democrats that the election process is undemocratic and an intense lobbying push to convince electors to cast their votes against Trump. The effort failed: On Monday when electors met in state capitals, the Republican president-elect won all but two of the Electoral College votes he claimed on Election Day. With all states voting,

Trump finished with 304 votes and Clinton had 227. To be elected president, the winner must get at least 270 electoral votes. Most states give all their electoral votes to whichever candidate wins that state’s popular vote. Maine and Nebraska award them by congressional district. AP’s popular vote count does not include finalized results for third-party candidates and write-in votes.

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When 5th Ave. trumps Pa. Ave.

President-elect turning his namesake NYC tower into White House North By Paul Schwartzman The Washington Post

NEW YORK — The world’s power address du jour is a sheath of soaring black glass on Fifth Avenue, at the entrance to which an officer in combat armor — his fingers on an assault rifle — took a moment the other day to tell a tourist where to find the city’s best pizza. A parade of technology tycoons bounded by, on their way to meet with the building’s developer and best-known resident, President-elect Donald Trump, a procession monitored in the lobby by a swarm of Secret Service agents, reporters and spectators that included one Kit Regone of Maryland. “It’s befitting a king,” the retired production manager said, standing behind a velvet rope and taking in all the pink marble, golden mirrors, gleaming escalators and ever-tinkling, fourstory waterfall that define Trump Tower’s lobby. The White House may be the nation’s time-honored symbol of power, but Trump is establishing his 58-story colossus at 725 Fifth Avenue as a stage for his new role, potentially nipping at Washington’s reputation as the center of American authority and the stature of its most famous address, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. On most days, crowds of tourists, rank-and-file New Yorkers and candidates seeking jobs with the new administration endure a maze of checkpoints, barricades and police command posts on the traffic-choked streets that bound Trump Tower. Their soundtrack is less “Hail to the Chief” and more honking horns, wailing sirens and irritated pedestrians moaning, “Are you kidding me?”

Across the street from the president-elect’s entrance, behind more barricades between 56th and 57th streets, are a phalanx of television news cameras, all of them trained on the “T-R-U-M-P T-O-W-E-R” spelled out not once but twice above the revolving doors. On the afternoon of his Jan. 20 inauguration, Trump is expected to move into the White House. But he has said he still plans to spend time in New York, where his wife, Melania, and 10 year-old son, Barron, will remain at Trump Tower, at least until the end of the school year. How often Trump will be in New York is a looming question, but the presidentelect is as famous for defying convention as he is for adoring his gold- and diamond-laden triplex high above Manhattan. Protecting Trump during his transition is costing New York taxpayers upward of $500,000 a day, a price that has triggered no small amount of outrage from Mayor Bill de Blasio and prompted one city lawmaker to politely urge the president-elect to decamp to another one of his properties, perhaps in Florida. An overwhelming majority of New York City voters rejected Trump’s candidacy, and many grouse at the prospect of their city becoming his presidential backdrop. But Cindy Adams, a New York Post gossip columnist and longtime Trump friend, said she would understand if he preferred his home town to Washington, which she dismissed as overpopulated by fashion-challenged lawmakers who wear “plastic shoes with rubber soles.” “The White House is smaller than where he’s used to living,” Adams said. “He doesn’t even have a proper ballroom there. You

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An armed NYPD police officer stands guard outside the entrance to Trump Tower in New York City last week.

get 11 people into the Red Room and it’s crowded.” Trump’s choices in real estate could test whether Washington’s pre-eminence in the country’s political order depends on where the president spends his weekends — or weekdays for that matter. Yet the city’s stature is not defined only by the White House, but also by the Capitol, Supreme Court and the myriad federal agencies located there. “All the mechanics of government will remain in Washington,” said Tammy Haddad, a D.C.-based media consultant steeped in the city’s tribal customs. “And around the world, going to the White House is something every world leader wants. That’s not going to change.” Yet, Haddad acknowledged one immediate dif-

ference wrought by Trump’s New York-based transition. After previous elections, Cafe Milano in Georgetown was the place where Washington insiders could spy who was dining with whom and decode who was up for a Cabinet post. Now, she said, the terrain fomenting speculation is the lobby of Trump Tower, which in recent days has hosted an ungainly mass of visitors including Microsoft founder Bill Gates, musician Kanye West, British politician Nigel Farage and an unidentified man who performed a perfect back flip. As challenging as it may seem to imagine, the White House can feel like a studio apartment to its famous occupants, even with 18 acres, 132 rooms and 31 bathrooms. A “gilded cage”

is how President Ronald Reagan described the White House. Reagan liked to escape to his ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif., while President John F. Kennedy preferred Cape Cod in Massachusetts, and Richard Nixon retreated to Key Biscayne, Fla. Key West, Fla., was where Harry Truman spent the winters. George W. Bush’s getaway was a one-story ranch in Crawford, Texas. No president has made his weekend White House a Manhattan penthouse, a choice that may seem to challenge Trump’s everyman bona fides. Trump Tower includes a bar (Trump Bar), a restaurant (Trump Grill), and a store (Trump Gift Shop), which sells items such as Success by Trump, a fragrance “that captures the scent of the driven man,”

according to the Trump Organization website. Trump has lived in his tower since he built it in the early 1980s, a project that ruffled preservationists who regarded it as the architectural equivalent of a gaudy stretch limousine parked alongside the avenue’s more refined Bentleys and Rolls-Royces. If the bedlam accompanying Trump’s life as president threatens to make his building less attractive to buyers, one real estate agent recently tried a new pitch, touting the Secret Service presence as an amenity and calling the property Manhattan’s “most secure.” The four police officers in front of the tower’s entrance on Wednesday, each of them in helmets and swathed in body armor, seemed like sufficient evidence to back up that claim.

Once wooed, vet groups feeling slighted Veterans, from Page 1

some former military officers, to conservative activists. Sarah Palin’s name has been raised. Former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown has openly sought the job. Some in the transition team have touted Toby Cosgrove, the CEO of the Cleveland Clinic and a cardiac surgeon who served in Vietnam. Obama considered him for the job several years ago. Most alarming to some of the country’s main veterans groups is Pete Hegseth, the former executive director of Concerned Veterans for America, one of a network of nonprofit groups bankrolled by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch. The 36-year-old Hegseth, a Fox News contributor, has met with Trump more than once. The dispute within Trump’s circle about which way to go helps account for the fact that the VA is among the last Cabinet positions without a designee. The department, which provides health care to 9 million veterans at nearly 1,300 facilities, has long been a political flashpoint. It is a bureaucracy struggling to overcome highprofile problems, where overcrowding and mismanagement have resulted in long wait times and headline-grabbing horror stories about suffering patients. The troubles reached a crisis in 2014, leading President Obama to clean house and appoint Robert McDonald, the former CEO of Procter and Gamble, as the new secretary. Large veterans groups, including the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, have applauded the progress the department has made since then. In a recent letter to Trump, the veterans groups praised the department’s reduction in its backlog of claims, improved access to health care, and McDonald’s openness to working closely with them to right the mammoth agency. The groups, which represent a

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combined 5.5 million veterans, suggested they wanted to continue the current policies, and for a time, reports circulated that Trump might keep McDonald, a Republican, in the job. But Trump has since signaled more radical plans. During the campaign, Trump indicated support for the blueprint proposed by the Concerned Veterans group, which would offer all veterans the option of acquiring health care at the doctor of their choosing

through a Medicare-style system, instead of routing them automatically through VA facilities. The larger veterans groups warn that approach could cripple the current system through which veterans receive care and leave many with complex medical problems inadequate options for treatment. Concerned Veterans says it does not favor privatization of veterans health care. Its approach, however, would result in a significant

shifting of services to the private sector. Other veterans organizations warn that could leave VA facilities underfunded and at risk for closure. The idea, however, has gotten strong support among conservatives, including Gingrich, who allied with the Concerned Veterans to promote the idea and was an adviser to Trump during the campaign. “I am heartened to see President-elect Trump is

taking this seriously and that this will not just be a throwaway appointment,” said Dan Caldwell, director of policy for Concerned Veterans. “We think McDonald’s tenure has been a failure.” Concerned Veterans operates in a very different orbit from most of the major veterans organizations, which are heavily involved in guiding management decisions at the VA and helping their members gain access to services. It instead

works with Republican lawmakers to take aim at the department. “If Pete Hegseth is named secretary, it would be the Kochs’ most spectacular win ever,” said Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. “There is such stiff opposition to him.” “We don’t want to throw the baby out with the bath water,” Rieckhoff added. Rieckhoff’s group and other major organizations have urgently requested to meet with Trump. They have not been able to get a commitment. The transition team instead sent a delegation to talk with them which included Omarosa Manigault, a star of Trump’s reality TV show “The Apprentice.” “It is actually insulting,” said Rieckhoff. “The highest-ranking person the leading veterans services organizations have met with is Omarosa.” Transition officials did not respond to requests for comment. Gingrich is offering his own advice, lobbying Trump to pay no mind to the veterans groups. At an event last week sponsored by The Washington Post, Gingrich said that praise for McDonald by veterans service organizations reflected a preference for “access to Veterans Administration offices, rather than making sure that veterans are taken care of.” As Trump considers his options, among those advising him on the VA transition team is Darin Selnick, a senior adviser at Concerned Veterans. The more mainstream veterans groups, meanwhile, are still waiting for their meeting. “We think it is important for the president-elect to talk with us,” said Verna Jones, executive director of the American Legion. “We are there. We are around. We collectively represent 5.5 million veterans. He should let us tell him what we see, and talk to him about what we can do.”

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Trump team probes women programs Staffers seek details on State Department initiatives, some of which Clinton started By Tracy Wilkinson Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s transition team has asked the State Department for details on programs aimed at benefiting women around the world, including a list of positions that focused on reducing gender-based violence and promoting women in the workplace. In a brief request emailed to numerous State Department offices this week, the president-elect’s transition team asked for an urgent response to its inquiries about “gender-related staffing, programming and funding.” The request does not indicate a pending policy change. But it raised fears among some in the State Department of a possible purge aimed at opponents of the Trump administration agenda, and of plans to roll back one of Hillary Clinton’s signature diplomatic efforts. “People are freaked out,” said a senior department official who was not authorized to speak publicly. But other officials noted that Trump’s daughter

Ivanka has expressed interest in women’s issues, including child care programs, and that could explain the transition team’s request. Clinton, who served as secretary of state during Obama’s first term, started or championed many of the gender-equality programs covered under the transition team review. Her successor, John Kerry, has maintained the programs. The unusual request to the State Department follows a similar query to the Department of Energy. There the transition team asked for names of staff members who had worked on efforts to combat climate change or who had attended global climate talks run over the last five years. The Trump team withdrew that request after it was widely criticized. The latest request asked the State Department to deliver “issue papers from bureaus and offices (one paper max per bureau/office) outlining existing programs and activities to promote gender equality, such as ending gender-based violence, promoting women’s participation in economic

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Melanne Verveer, the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues, lights a Christmas tree. Donald Trump’s team wants details about women’s programs at State.

and political spheres, entrepreneurship, etc.” It said the issue papers should note jobs “whose primary functions are to promote such issues,” as well as money allocated for those activities and programs. It asked for a response by 5 p.m. Wednesday. John Kirby, the State

Department spokesman, sought to downplay concerns about the memo Thursday. “In my experience, it is normal, it’s expected, it’s not at all unusual for transition team members to want to have a handle on the way the organization is staffed, it’s manned, and it’s resourced, because this is a

big bureaucracy,” Kirby told reporters. Without commenting on the email, he said that if specific names were being requested “that would be of concern.” Asked if he could reassure State Department employees, Kirby said gender equality remains a priority and “like so many other issues of human rights, (is) paramount to American foreign policy.” Trump transition officials based both at the State Department and in his media office did not respond to requests to explain the motivation behind the request. While at State, Clinton made women’s issues a top priority, especially in countries with highly restrictive gender-based laws, such as Afghanistan. On her international travels, she frequently met with women’s groups to offer support. An office was created to deal exclusively with “global women’s issues,” and money was allocated for programs that promote education of girls, train women in marketable skills and offer micro-loans. She also created the position of ambassador at large for global women’s issues and changed State Department policies to give equal benefits and protections to

same-sex partners of American diplomats. “I can only hope that the transition team’s interest in this issue is motivated by a desire to continue and build upon the important work done … to promote the rights and opportunities of women and girls around the world,” Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., who has worked on women’s rights issues in Afghanistan, said in a statement. Sarah Margon, head of the Washington office of Human Rights Watch, gave a darker interpretation. “While the transition team has a right to seek this information, given the misogynist comments and statements that have come from President-elect Trump’s campaign, this request inevitably sends a very worrisome signal about possible intentions to eliminate important programs and policies that have supported women and girls around the world,” she said. The issue is likely to come up when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds confirmation hearings for Rex Tillerson, the Exxon Mobil chief executive Trump has picked to be secretary of state. tracy.wilkinson@latimes.com

Trump picks adviser for top West Wing role By Julie Pace

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WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has named close adviser Kellyanne Conway as his White House counselor, elevating the woman who led his campaign to victory to a senior West Wing position. Trump — who also announced his senior White House communications staff, including naming former Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer as press secretary — has a strong rapport with Conway, and she was seen as a positive influence on his often chaotic campaign. “She is a tireless and tenacious advocate of my agenda and has amazing insights on how to effectively communicate our message,” Trump said in a statement Thursday. He’s already named outgoing Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus as his chief of staff and conservative media executive Steve Bannon as a senior adviser. Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner will also be an influential adviser, though his role is to be determined. Internal rivalries have long been a hallmark of Trump’s businesses and campaign as well as his transition team. Conway and Priebus have been at odds over some major decisions, including who should serve as Trump’s secretary of state. Trump ultimately chose Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson. Conway irritated some Trump aides with her outspoken opposition to the prospect of the presidentelect picking Mitt Romney to head the State Department. She panned the idea in public, though she said she had also made her feelings known to Trump privately.

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Kellyanne Conway was seen as a positive influence on Trump’s often chaotic campaign.

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President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday called for the United States to expand its nuclear arsenal, after Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country’s nuclear potential needs fortifying, raising the specter of a new arms race that would reverse decades of efforts to reduce the number and size of the countries’ nuclear weapons. In a tweet that offered no details, Trump said, “The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.” During the campaign, Trump talked in one debate about the need to modernize the country’s infrastructure of nuclear weaponry. But it is not clear whether Trump is thinking of increasing the number of nuclear weapons the United States possesses, or updating the existing supply. Trump’s tweet came shortly after Putin, during a defense ministry meeting, talked tough on Russia’s stockpile of nuclear weapons. “We need to strengthen

NEW YORK — A New York man says he and his husband were removed from a JetBlue flight after his husband “expressed displeasure” about flying with Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner. Matthew Lasner said on Twitter that JetBlue staff kicked him and his husband off the flight from New York’s Kennedy airport to Florida on Thursday after overhearing his husband’s remarks. Lasner tweeted earlier that his husband was chasing the couple down in the terminal “to harass them.” JetBlue cited the possibility of “the risk of escalation during flight” in explaining the decision to remove the men. The airline says the couple was re-booked for the next available flight. Conway, a longtime Republican pollster, considered not joining the White House staff and turned down offers to serve in a

communications role. She also expressed a desire to help Trump set up an outside political organization to promote his agenda. Conway said Thursday that she was “humbled and honored to play a role in helping transform the movement he has led into a real agenda of action and results.” Spicer’s elevation was championed by Priebus, his longtime ally at the RNC. Additionally, the transition team announced that Jason Miller will be the director of communications. Campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks was appointed director of strategic communications while Dan Scavino will be director of social media. Meanwhile, a New Jersey township that’s home to one of Trump’s golf courses is asking the federal government to help cover security costs for the president-elect. Bedminster Township Mayor Steven Parker wrote to U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance last week saying they don’t want to disproportionately burden their taxpayers for Trump’s visits to Trump National Golf Club, NJ.com reported Thursday.

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the military potential of strategic nuclear forces, especially with missile complexes that can reliably penetrate any existing and prospective missile defense systems,” Putin said Thursday. Tensions between Russia and the West have been souring ever since Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and surreptitious support of separatists in eastern Ukraine. Relations dipped further after Russia last year launched an air offensive in Syria to support President Bashar Assad. Russia and the United States have worked for decades at first limiting, then reducing, the number and strength of nuclear arms they produced and maintained under a Cold War strategy of deterrence known as “mutually assured destruction.” Both Republican and Democratic presidents have pursued a policy of nuclear arms reduction, said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association. The United States has just under 5,000 warheads in its active arsenal and more than 1,550 deployed strategic warheads, a number that fluctuates, according to Kimball. In an October assess-

ment by the State Department Bureau of Arms Control Verification and Compliance, Russia has about 400 more nuclear warheads than the United States does. But the United States has about 170 more delivery systems than Russia. Under the New START Treaty, the main strategic arms treaty in place, both the U.S. and Russia must deploy no more than 1,550 strategic weapons by February of 2018. Kimball said both countries appear to be on track to meet that limit, which will remain in force until 2021. Since President George H.W. Bush’s administration, it has been U.S. policy not to build new nuclear warheads. Under President Barack Obama, the policy has been not to pursue warheads with new military capabilities. In its annual report on the global military balance, Britain’s International Institute for Strategic Studies noted that Russia’s use of new cruise missile designs in Syria and other recent military displays showed that it was catching up with the West on advanced weapons systems. Associated Press contributed.

Obama eliminates post-9/11 registry for foreigners By Brian Bennett

Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is taking apart a controversial, dormant national registry program that tracked visitors from countries with active terrorist groups for several years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. A final rule eliminating the program will be published in the federal register Friday. The move would make it

more difficult for Presidentelect Donald Trump to revive the registry, which hasn’t been used since 2011. The Department of Homeland Security determined it was ineffective and didn’t improve security. Civil rights advocates have long said the program was discriminatory. On the campaign trail, Trump promised to track Muslims coming to the U.S. and require them to register. He later changed his

stance to say he would bar people from countries with a record of Islamist extremism. Trump’s policy advisers have been looking closely at ways to jumpstart the registry, called the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, after he takes office at the end of January. With the program being officially dismantled Friday, Trump’s team would have to issue new federal rules to restart it, a process that could take several months

and would require a period for soliciting comments from the public, which likely would be contentious. The Trump transition team is preparing several executive actions for the incoming president, Trump spokesman Jason Miller told reporters Thursday when asked about President Barack Obama dismantling the registry. Stopping “radical Islamic terrorists” from entering the U.S. is of “paramount importance,” Miller said.

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He didn’t say whether Trump would rebuild the visitor registry. “The American people strongly support tough measures to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of our country,” he said. When asked Wednesday if he would set up a registry for Muslims or impose a ban on Muslim immigrants in the wake of the truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, Trump said simply: “You know my plans.”

Democratic lawmakers and civil liberties advocates have demanded in recent weeks that Obama dismantle the registry. They’ve cited a 2012 inspector general report that said Homeland Security databases collecting traveler fingerprints, flight manifests and intelligence information on foreigners are more effective at preventing terrorist attacks. brian.bennett@latimes.com

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Robots probe space in H2O search

Explorers have found evidence of vital liquid By Sarah Kaplan The Washington Post

Robotic explorers have found signs of long-lost water on Mars and extensive ice still present on the dwarf planet Ceres — evidence that water truly is almost everywhere we look. The results were announced at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union — the world’s largest gathering of Earth and space scientists. There, NASA scientists discussed the results from several of the dozen space probes exploring the universe beyond our planet. The rover Curiosity has been trundling across the Martian landscape for more than four years. But recently, the plucky robot rolled onto a patch of ground with veins of calcium sulfate, in the form of the mineral gypsum, running through it. Hiding within those veins was the element boron, which usually appears only in onceflooded sites where the water has evaporated away.

According to scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the discovery in Mars’ Gale Crater suggests that there was once liquid water on the Red Planet — and that the water was habitable. The calcium sulfate and boron could only precipitate out of water that was between 32 and 140 degrees Fahrenheit and was not too acidic. The boron was identified by a ChemCam built at Los Alamos. The camera works by shooting a laser at a rock, exciting the electrons of the atoms within it. Those electrons then emit distinctive wavelengths of light, depending on the element; by reading the spectrum that shines back, the instrument can figure out what elements the rock contains. This was the first discovery of boron on Mars, and the latest finding suggesting that Mars used to be much wetter, warmer and far less hostile than it is now. Gale crater — a 100-milewide canyon with Denalisized Mount Sharp at its center — is thought to be the site of a former lake. As Curiosity climbs the slopes of Mount Sharp, it has found varying levels of clay, boron and other types of rock. These variations

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The rover Curiosity has lived up to its name, hunting for water and ice on Mars and beaming back intriguing results.

could hint at the lake environment that may have existed billions of years ago. “There is so much variability in the composition at different elevations, we’ve hit a jackpot,” California Institute of Technology geologist John Grotzinger, Curiosity’s chief scientist, said in a statement. Scientists have been seeking evidence of past or present life on Mars for four decades, without success. But the boron finding adds to the evidence the planet may have had the kinds of dynamic environ-

ments that are known to support organisms on Earth. In the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, the space probe Dawn has been surveying the rocky, icy body known as Ceres. The dwarf planet is the largest thing in the asteroid belt, and it’s pocked with craters deep enough that their interiors are cast in permanent shadow. Dawn scientists announced at AGU that they have new evidence that some of Ceres’ craters act as cold traps that accumulate

pockets of permanent water ice. The protoplanet has huge amounts of ice below its rocky surface and may even have a slushy ocean of liquid water in its interior. This means that Ceres is less like fellow asteroid-belt inhabitant Vesta, a dry rocky world that Dawn visited before the current phase of its mission, than it is like the icy moons that exist in the outer part of the solar system. “It’s pointing toward Ceres being a really interesting object,” Carol Raymond, Dawn’s deputy principal investigator, said at a news conference. Europa and Enceladus, moons of Jupiter and Saturn, respectively, are thought to contain liquid water oceans in their interiors and are considered prime targets in the search for life beyond Earth. During its approach in early 2015, Dawn spotted two extremely bright spots inside craters that looked as if they could be highly reflective ice. But further investigation revealed that the bright patches contained salt, not water. But the dwarf planet does have about 600 other “persistently shadowed regions” — craters whose

interiors never see the sun. Astrobiologist Norbert Schorghofer called them “Ceres’ darkest secrets.” Once Dawn arrived in orbit, it was able to probe these secret spots — and found that they did have water ice hiding within them. Ice has been found in craters on other worlds, like Mercury and the moon, but that water was thought to have arrived via impacts from space. The origins of Ceres’ crater ice is more mysterious. One theory is that it comes from water frozen in Ceres’ crust. A second investigation by Dawn found that the dwarf planet has huge amounts of hydrogen in the form of frozen water. This ice is hiding just below the surface, filling pores in the planet’s rocky crust. The discovery of abundant ice supports the idea that Ceres once held liquid water that was heated by a radioactive core. As the body cooled, Ceres’ heavier rocks fell to the interior, while lighter water rose to the surface, then froze. Dawn scientists say that further investigation of this ice could reveal clues about Ceres’ past and the role of water in the early history of the solar system.

Pressured Egypt postpones Israeli settlements U.N. vote By Tia Goldenberg and Bradley Klapper

Associated Press

JERUSALEM — Under heavy Israeli pressure, Egypt on Thursday indefinitely postponed a planned U.N. vote on a proposed Security Council resolution that sought to condemn Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, diplomats and Western officials said, just a few hours before the vote was set to take place. The vote would have been one of the last opportunities for President Barack Obama to take a stand against Israeli settlement building after years of failed peace efforts, but doing so could re-ignite a dispute with a close ally in the waning days of his tenure. The delay also dealt a setback to repeated Palestinian efforts to censure Israel over its settlements. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had publicly urged the U.S. to veto the resolution, calling it bad for peace. “Peace will come not through U.N. resolutions, but only through direct negotiations between the parties,” he said. President-elect Donald Trump had also urged Obama to block the measure, issuing a statement nearly identical to Netanyahu’s. “As the United States has long maintained, peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians will only come through direct negotiations between the parties, and not through the imposition of terms by the United Nations,” he posted on Facebook. “This puts Israel in a very poor negotiating position and is extremely unfair to all Israelis.” The U.S., as a permanent member of the Security Council, has traditionally used its veto power to block resolutions condemning Israeli settlements, even

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The draft resolution, circulated by Egypt, demands that Israel stop settlement activities in Palestinian territories.

though it sees them as an obstacle to a peace settlement. But in recent weeks, the Obama administration had been especially secretive about its deliberations, which included what one official described as an unannounced meeting between Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry earlier this month. The U.S. had been considering a highly unusual abstention, potentially rocking U.S.-Israeli relations, officials said, though they wouldn’t say whether Obama had made a final decision. Egypt, the Arab representative to the Security Council, circulated the draft Wednesday. Several diplomats and Western officials said the Egyptians postponed the vote due to pressure from the Israelis. Egypt, the first Arab country to make peace with Israel, was meeting with Arab League diplomats to review the text. Diplomats said there was no time frame for when the vote may now occur and said it could be put off indefinitely. The diplomats and officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information. An Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the

matter, said Israeli diplomats had made the government’s views clear “in various channels.” The office of the U.N. spokesman later announced Thursday that the Security Council meeting has been postponed. The draft resolution, circulated by Egypt, demands that Israel stop settlement activities in the Palestinian territories and declares that all existing settlements “have no legal validity” and are “a flagrant violation” of international law. Ahmed Abu-Zeid, spokesman for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, told the SkyNewsArabia channel that “talks are still ongoing” on the draft resolution. He said the talks are taking place in New York and in Cairo at the Arab League headquarters and that an “appropriate” decision will be taken, without elaboration. He didn’t respond to phone calls. There was no immediate comment from the Palestinians. A Security Council resolution would be more than symbolic since it carries the weight of international law. Nearly 600,000 Jewish settlers now live in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, areas the Palestinians want as part of their future state, along with the Gaza Strip.

Syrians celebrate Thursday in Aleppo after the army said it had retaken full control.

After years of pain and siege, Aleppo reverts to Syria troops By Laura King and Nabih Bulos Washington Bureau

DAMASCUS, Syria — After so much suffering, Aleppo is officially back under Syrian government control. Syrian state TV announced Thursday that the evacuation of the city’s formerly rebel-controlled areas was complete, with the departure of the last opposition fighters and civilians from former strongholds in Aleppo’s eastern sector. Rebels had held parts of the ancient crossroads city — much of it now a pulverized shell of itself — for nearly four years. Its fall is a major turning point in Syria’s multisided war, though the conflict is far from over. The official end of the ferocious battle came via a Syrian army statement that was broadcast soon after the last four buses carrying fighters passed through the Ramousseh crossing amid bitter winter weather. State television showed scenes of an eruption of celebratory gunfire and shouts of rejoicing from government forces and civilians in Aleppo’s western sector. Aleppo’s humanitarian catastrophe was a paradox:

The outside world was electrified by stories of desperate daily struggles on the part of those living there, often delivered firsthand via social media. But at the same time, the drawn-out international hand-wringing — and repeated diplomatic demands for a lasting truce — did almost nothing to alleviate the carnage and hunger that stalked the city’s east amid months of intense Russian and Syrian bombardment. With the city’s fall, the rebels will struggle to regroup and continue their battle against Syrian President Bashar Assad. The end had long been in sight, with the final, painful denouement playing itself out over recent days. Rebels had agreed last week to a surrender of their last bastions, setting in motion a fitful and perilous evacuation. The United Nations said about 35,000 civilians and combatants had been part of the final exodus by foot, private vehicles and buses. More than 4,000 left in the past 24 hours, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Before the war, Aleppo was a thriving commercial center and Syria’s largest city, filled with architectur-

al landmarks that had endured for thousands of years. Retaking the city, parts of which had been in rebel hands since 2012, marked Assad’s most significant victory against the opposition. The Syrian leader, propped up for the past year by massive Russian firepower, has long characterized anyone opposed to his iron rule as a terrorist. Despite the government announcement, the United Nations estimated that thousands more people remained in the former rebel areas. U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq, speaking in New York, cited the “traumatic” process of evacuation, saying civilians endured crowding, cold and repeated delays. The devastation that became a watchword for the city will likely soon have a new backdrop: the northwestern city of Idlib, which U.N. envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura warned could be “the next Aleppo.” Thousands of people who fled Aleppo have taken refuge there. Laura King reported from Washington and special correspondent Nabih Bulos from Damascus. laura.king@latimes.com

Uganda’s newest snack craze has customers hopping Fried grasshoppers a delicacy. Just add salt, some onions. By Rodney Muhumuza Associated Press

KAMPALA, Uganda — Children scamper in the bush, jumping here and there to catch grasshoppers before they fly away. On a good day, many will walk away with plastic bags filled with the insects to fry and eat as a snack. Grasshoppers, known in the local Luganda language

as “nsenene,” are a delicacy among many in this East African country who look forward to this time of year, when millions of the bugs hatch with the seasonal rains. People say jokingly there will be damnation if the grasshopper season comes and goes without tasting the bugs. “These nsenene, I’m buying them because my wife has sent me to buy them for her,” said O.J. Gerald at a roadside seller in the capital, Kampala. “She really loves them. You fry with some onion and a little bit of salt

and it’s very tasty. Very crunchy in your mouth.” The grasshoppers, when fried, turn from green to golden brown and give off an earthy aroma beloved by enthusiasts. Grasshopper hunting has become a commercial activity in Uganda. Some rig bright lamps to attract the insects, which then crash into strategically placed sheets and slide into barrels where they are trapped overnight. Hundreds of grasshopper traps can be seen across Kampala, often in violation

of the city’s safety rules as the installations can lead to potentially dangerous short circuits. The insects are in season from November until January, when the country usually gets heavy rains, and again in April and May. Street vendors do brisk business, selling 1-pound plastic mugs of ready-to-eat grasshoppers for about $2.75. To prepare them, the wings, legs and antennae are plucked off while the insects are still alive. Cooked grasshoppers have high amounts of pro-

tein and fat, as well as significant amounts of dietary fiber, said Geoffrey Ssepuuya, a Ugandan nutritionist researching grasshoppers as part of his doctorate studies at the University of Leuven in Belgium. “Grasshoppers are very nutritious,” he said. At a busy market stall in Kampala, Sylvia Namwanje fries the insects with oil, onions and garlic, creating a distinctive scent that can be smelled yards away. Motorists park their SUVs and wait to be served. Ugandans from abroad who crave

grasshoppers are among her clients. “The nsenene are so delicious,” Namwanje said. “They are only in season at certain times of the year. People will eat them because they know that’s the only period they can eat the nsenene. It’s way more delicious than chicken, or any meat for that matter.” Namwanje said the seasonal trade in grasshoppers is a vital part of her yearly income. “With my earnings I have managed to educate my children, take care of my mother and family,” she said.

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Report says Snowden staying in contact with Russia spy services WASHINGTON — Edward Snowden remains in contact with Russian intelligence services, according to a bipartisan congressional report released at a time when Russia is considered a top national security concern. The two-year inquiry focused on Snowden’s 2013 leak of classified U.S. material about America’s surveillance programs. It concluded that Snowden compromised national security by these disclosures

and is avoiding prosecution while living in a country that is considered one of the top U.S. adversaries. In recent months, U.S. intelligence agencies have been outspoken about their beliefs that Russia actively interfered in the U.S. political process by hacking into private email accounts. The report sends a strong message to President Barack Obama during his final days in office to not pardon Snowden.

Trump suggests dumping F-35 for cheaper jet from Boeing President-elect Donald Trump piled on fresh criticism of the Pentagon’s most sophisticated aircraft on Thursday, suggesting that he might abandon the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in favor of a cheaper jet due to high costs. In a message on Twitter, Trump said that cost overruns in Lockheed Martin’s $400 billion program to develop the stealth jet had prompted him to ask Boeing to “price-out a compa-

rable F-18 Super Hornet.” Trump’s criticisms of Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed and Chicagobased Boeing — the latter over a planned Air Force One update — have roiled the defense industry. Lockheed shares fell 2 percent in after-hours trading, wiping out about $1.5 billion in shareholder value, while Boeing rose 0.67 percent immediately following the presidentelect’s tweet Thursday.

Feds sue Barclays Bank over mortgage-backed securities The Justice Department on Thursday sued Barclays Bank and several U.S. affiliates over the sale of risky mortgage-backed securities. The civil complaint, filed in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y., seeks to recover civil penalties for fraud from the British bank. It accuses the bank and its employees of misrepresenting the quality of the loans they sold between

2005 and 2007, in the run-up to the country’s financial meltdown. The investors, which included pension plans and university endowments, lost billions of dollars, the Justice Department said. The bank falsely assured investors that it had excluded “unacceptable” loans, and that it had conducted due diligence on the loan pools that it had securitized, according to the complaint.

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The mother and aunt of an Iraqi boy hurt in a car bomb attack comfort him Thursday.

Bombings near Iraq’s Mosul kill 23, including 15 civilians IRBIL, Iraq — Zaid Ahmed’s barber shop in the Gogjali district of Mosul was packed with customers Thursday when the first of three car bombs ripped through the outdoor food market outside. Ahmed was unharmed, but when he made a dash for safety, the second blast hit. The 25-year-old father of two was among dozens wounded in the attack that killed 23 people, including eight policemen, the deadliest bombing yet in the district since Iraqi forces wrested it away from the Islamic State group more than a month ago. Repeated attacks by Is-

lamic State militants in parts of Mosul “liberated” by Iraqi forces — including mortars, sniper fire, suicide car bombs and sneak attacks — are plaguing attempts by troops to advance in the city. Authorities slapped a 24-hour curfew on Gogjali soon after the bombings, two of which hit the market and its surroundings, while the third hit outside a mosque. Human Rights Watch said in a statement this week that Islamic State fighters are deliberately targeting civilians who refuse to join them as they retreat in the face of the advancing Iraqi forces.

Mosul residents who spoke to The Associated Press this week agree with the assessment of the New York-based rights group, saying the militants seem to be punishing them for not joining them as they pull back and over widely publicized scenes of public jubilation in Mosul over the end of Islamic State rule. On Thursday, the United Nations said two mortar attacks in eastern Mosul killed four aid workers and seven other civilians earlier this week. It said 40 other people were wounded in the attacks. It did not identify the aid workers.

Police in Texas investigate videotaped arrests DALLAS — A white Texas police officer was placed on restricted duty Thursday while an internal investigation looks into a videotaped incident showing the officer wrestling a black woman to the ground before arresting her and her two teenage daughters.

The Fort Worth officer, whose name hasn’t been released, responded to a call for service after Jacqueline Craig argued with a man who she said had physically confronted her 7-year-old son for littering. In the cellphone video of the Wednesday incident, Craig can be

heard telling the officer that the man had “grabbed and choked” her son. The officer asks why she hadn’t taught her son not to litter. Craig says regardless of whether the boy littered, the man did not have the right to “put his hands on him.” The officer says, “Why not?”

GENEVA — Test results confirm an experimental Ebola vaccine is highly effective, a milestone that could help prevent the spread of outbreaks such as one that killed thousands in West Africa. Scientists have struggled to develop an Ebola vaccine over the years, and this is the first one proven to work. Efforts were ramped up after the infectious disease caused a major outbreak, beginning in 2013 in Guinea and spreading to Liberia and Sierra Leone. About 11,300 people died. The World Health Organization, which acknowledged shortcomings in its response to the West Africa outbreak, led the study of the vaccine, which was developed by the Canadian government and is now licensed to the U.S.based Merck & Co. Merck is expected to seek approval in the U.S. and Europe next year.

Slender Man: The law-

yers for a 15-year-old Wisconsin girl accused of trying to kill a classmate to please a fictional horror character called Slender Man are challenging her confession. Anissa Weier’s lawyers say she was too young to understand her Miranda rights to remain silent and to have an attorney present.

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in Australia have detained five men suspected of planning a series of Christmas Day bomb attacks in the heart of the country’s second-largest city, officials said Friday. The suspects had been inspired by the Islamic State group, Victoria state Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton said.

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Follow FOIA to the letter, Mr. Mayor This email dump doesn’t resolve your transparency issues

The Illinois Freedom of Information Act says citizens “are entitled to full and complete information regarding the affairs of government and the official acts and policies of those who represent them as public officials and public employees.” It does not say, “unless those affairs are conducted on a personal email account.” So what to make of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s decision to release 2,700 pages of emails from his personal accounts to settle a lawsuit filed by the Better Government Association? The BGA had sued to obtain official emails sent or received by Emanuel on nongovernment accounts. We’re happy Emanuel has finally coughed up these records after stonewalling for more than a year. There is no question they should be open to public inspection. You can read them at chicago tribune.com/rahmemails. Are they complete? It’s impossible to say. Emanuel’s personal attorney — not a judge — determined which of the emails to release; the city’s lawyers redacted them. That’s a one-sided arrangement, with the public on the wrong side.

In other words, Emanuel is handing over his emails while refusing to acknowledge that the law compels him to do so. Another judge in another lawsuit — this one filed by the Tribune — also has ruled that public business conducted on private devices is not exempt from disclosure. The Tribune had asked for electronic communications on a number of subjects, including the city’s controversial red light camera program. Cook County Judge Kathleen Pantle has given the city and the mayor until Jan. 27 to produce an index of emails sent or received by Emanuel on private devices. Emanuel’s attorneys had argued that the Tribune’s request was an unprecedented breach of privacy, but Pantle rejected that too. To quote the law again: “The disclosure of information that bears on the public duties of public employees and officials shall not be considered an invasion of personal privacy.” Emanuel surrendered that trove of emails sought by the BGA because he

Reporters’ requests for Emanuel’s emails have typically turned up little com-

munication on his official government accounts. It’s clear from the content and the volume of the newly released emails that Emanuel relied extensively on personal accounts to do public business. Why? To hide those communications from the public, perhaps. A mayor who conducts the bulk of his official business on a personal account that he insists isn’t subject to the open records law invites that

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel, it’s time to acknowledge that the Freedom of Information Act requires you to conduct the city’s business in a transparent manner.

conclusion. Releasing these emails is a de facto concession by Emanuel that this correspondence is public. The judge in the case already had made such a ruling, in fact. Yet the settlement includes a sentence explic-

itly stating that the issue is still in dispute. “The parties disagree about whether emails stored on personal, non-city email accounts related to the transaction of public business are subject to disclosure under (the Freedom of Information Act),” it says.

knows the public has a right to see them, yet he still insists the law doesn’t require it. Here’s what that means: We’re giving up 2,700 pages of correspondence that was deliberately hidden from the public, but this action is voluntary, optional and not to be construed as assurance that we’ll acquiesce to future FOIA requests. That’s a terrible message, Mr. Mayor. Want the public to take seriously your constant boasts about government transparency? Then acknowledge that, yes, the Freedom of Information Act requires you to conduct official business in the open. And then do it.

Amazon and the twilight of the grocery line

No, this doesn’t have to be about cutting workers

checked out. Amazon calls it “Just walk out technology.”

Americans spend — waste — a year or two of their lives waiting in line, wishing it would move faster, staring daggers at any potential interlopers, fixing with disdain anyone who dawdles or delays the line’s steady clip. For those trying to avoid long queues, the grocery store is one of the most daunting challenges. You can pick the hours that you believe will be the least crowded, but then there’s only one clerk on duty. You can take your chances in the 15-item line only to be flummoxed by a shopper who unfurls a raft of coupons or one who decides to write a check for the groceries s-l-o-w-l-y. Now, thrilling news: Line-generated angst could soon vanish. In Seattle, Amazon is testing a grocery store known as Amazon Go that allows customers to waltz in, choose items and then ... leave. All without lining up to be

cellphones on a turnstile as they enter the store. That logs them into the store’s network. As they pick up items and plunk them in their carts, sensors and other technology track the items and display the tally on a virtual cart. When a shopper leaves (presumably bagging his or her own groceries), an Amazon app tallies the bill and charges the customer’s Amazon account. Amazon plans to open its store to the public early next year. Self-driving cars? A human landing on Mars? Another Cubs World Series win? Meh. A similarly anticipated milestone in human history — the Eradication of the Grocery Store Line — appears imminent. OK, two provisos: ■ We can already hear the plaintive cries of people (including President-elect Trump) who mourn the loss of all those checkout

Here’s how it works: Customers tap their

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING

We liberals are adept at pointing out the hypocrisies of Donald Trump, but we should also address our own hypocrisy in terrain we govern, such as most universities: Too often, we embrace diversity of all kinds except for ideological. Repeated studies have found that about 10 percent of professors in the social sciences or the humanities are Republicans. We champion tolerance, except for conservatives and evangelical Christians. We want to be inclusive of people who don’t look like us — so long as they think like us. ... By all means, stand up to the bigots. But do we really want to caricature half of Americans, some of whom voted for President Barack Obama twice, as racist bigots? Maybe if we knew more Trump voters, we’d be less inclined to stereotype them. ... Whatever some liberals think, “conservative” and “bigot” are not synonyms. ... I’m not arguing for affirmative action for conservatives — partly because conservative academics say they don’t want preferences. But I do think we can try harder to recruit job applicants who represent diverse views, to bring conservative speakers to campuses and to avoid a hostile work environment for conservatives and evangelicals. Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times If you are not already apoplectic that Russian hackers, according to the CIA, meddled in the recent presidential campaign to game the system in Donald Trump’s favor, then consider what impossibly steep recompense Vladimir Putin will demand for making Trump the most powerful person in the world. Of course, Trump thinks he’s all-powerful because his flimsy ego, which is more suited for poorly attended victory tour stops than daily intelligence briefings, simply can’t entertain an alternate narrative. He’s also busy stacking his Cabinet with Putin-approved appointees, like secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson, Exxon Mobil’s chief executive. Trump is too vain to recognize that he’s nothing more than a Kremlin chew toy, an easily manipulated means to Putin’s nefarious ends. Renee Graham, The Boston Globe

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clerk jobs. We don’t relish the idea of putting people, aside from certain politicians, out of work. But we assume the friendly produce guy would still be there, stocking the shelves. (Robots can’t do that yet, right?) And you’d still need people to monitor the premises to make sure everyone was playing by the rules or to check customers’ ID for alcohol purchases. And someone to keep all the tech running. Cashiers can be retrained for the new jobs this will create. ■ We’ve been disappointed before. Remember the self-service checkouts at groceries a few years back? Many of them were yanked out because of rampant technological glitches and increased losses from theft. Is a similar glitch waiting to happen here?

a question about a shirt or a skirt. We do, though, believe technology can be harnessed for the greater good — in this case to streamline the interface between the customer and ringing up the sale — to short-circuit infuriatingly long lines. We may soon have the power to eradicate this universally loathed instruction: Take a number. Wait your turn. Some lines, to be sure, are exciting shared experiences. The long queues that form around Apple stores in anticipation of a new iPhone. The line for tickets to a new “Star Wars” movie. The long wait for the latest trendy restaurant, which stokes the appetite and confers bragging rights. (We waited two hours for a table!)

Don’t get us wrong. We believe in ample

aspect of American life, not always for the better. Why not let it erase one scourge of modern life — the sludge-slow line? Imagine world peace? Sure. But first, imagine a more exciting prospect: a world without a grocery checkout line.

sales forces in stores to help customers navigate an often-dizzying array of choices. We don’t want to be waited on by robots. We don’t want to scan the department and find nary a human in sight who can answer

Technology has disrupted nearly every

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PERSPECTIVE New Year’s resolutions for Madigan and Rauner Eric Zorn Because our state’s top two political leaders clearly need to make some changes, Somebody Nobody Asked, America’s preeminent unsolicited advice columnist, suggests New Year’s resolutions. For Democratic Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan: Give Democrats something to say “yes” to. I was having breakfast the other day with a friend who hasn’t cast a vote for a Republican in the last 44 years when he suddenly asked, “Hey, why is Mike Madigan such a (vulgar word)?” Why would an otherwise loyal Democrat say such a thing? In part because he’s been influenced by relentless Republican attacks, backed up by censorious editorials and columns, that say you, as the House speaker for 31 of the last 33 years, are the main reason Illinois is facing crippling, worst-in-the-nation pension debt and experiencing weak economic growth. And in part because, frankly, you do come off as a (vulgar word). Icy, clipped, stubborn, repetitive, sour, inaccessible. Sure, this demeanor has so far served you well in Springfield, but big money has changed the political game in Illinois, and a party that’s headed by a man who is disliked and distrusted even by voters who are inclined to agree with him is a party that’s headed for trouble. Hey, I’m one of those voters who’s inclined to agree with you. I happen to think staunch Democratic leadership is all that’s preventing Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and his gang of ultrawealthy plutocrats from turning Illinois into Kansas. And I think you’re absolutely right to refuse to let him hold budget negotiations hostage to his union-busting, right-wing think

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Democratic Speaker of the House Michael Madigan should give the state some agenda items to rally around.

tank notions. Yet the status quo won’t do. Our state was in bad shape before Rauner beat incumbent Democrat Pat Quinn in 2014 on a promise to “turn around Illinois,” and it’s in far worse shape today. But I have no idea what your “turnaround” agenda is — how you propose to balance the budget, how you hope to rein in pension costs and help businesses create good jobs. “No” is a strategy, but it’s not a solution. In April, Democratic state Sen. Daniel Biss of Evanston created roadbackillinois.com, a website that laid out a series of action items for members of your party, proposals they

should promote in order to draw a sharp contrast to Rauner’s plans. But party big shots, like you, never got behind it, and there’s been no activity on roadbackillinois.com — not even a reader comment — for more than three months. We know what you stand against, Mr. Speaker. Now what do you stand for? Give the public some agenda items to rally around. Because if you think “vote for the Democrat because the Republican is bad” will be a winning strategy when Rauner runs for re-election in 2018, I have three words for you: “President Donald Trump.”

For Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner: Stop name-calling. Stop threatening. Start leading. Where did you ever get the idea that calling Mike Madigan and Illinois Senate President John Cullerton corrupt and sleazy would make them more likely to compromise with you? What made you think that threatening rank-and-file Democratic lawmakers with expensive smear campaigns would inspire them to abandon the party leaders who are the best source of funding to fight such campaigns? Maybe taunting and bullying those of lesser rank works in the world of equity investing whence you came. But by now

A legacy for the future: Parks in the reimagined Clybourn Corridor

By Michele Smith and Brian Hopkins

More than 125 years ago, A. Montgomery Ward faced bitter opposition as he fought to protect Grant Park in Chicago. It is not hard to imagine the taunts, head shakes and objections in the face of development pressures east of Michigan Avenue. His vision was labeled pure folly, but his legacy is one of Chicago’s unique features. The comparisons between the creation of Grant Park and a new public park in the Clybourn Planned Manufacturing District today are unmistakable. Both sites uniquely border timeless natural assets — Lake Michigan and the Chicago River, respectively. In 1890, the area we now call Grant Park was a ravaged site of squatters’ shacks, livery stables and mountains of unsightly cans and rotting garbage. The city wanted a convention center, railroad facilities and an armory there. The green carpet, stately trees, splendid gardens and playing fields were beyond everyone’s imagination — except for Ward. Today, the former Finkl Steel site and adjacent planned manufacturing district, or PMD, are also despoiled ghosts of a harsher era. Grant Park complements our downtown economic epicenter of tourism and business. A recreational park in the PMD will anchor families in the city and keep them on the tax rolls. The PMD touches at least four wards and is surrounded by approximately 88,000 people. That population is growing. In Lincoln Park alone, the number of children has doubled in the last five years compared to a decade ago. This is putting

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An 1890s view, facing north, of today’s Grant Park, then home to shacks, stables and mountains of trash.

intense pressure on recreational facilities. Soccer, baseball, and other youth and adult leagues are at a saturation point due to lack of space. The demand for year-round facilities is completely unaddressed. In 1998, the Chicago Park District called for 2 to 5 acres of public space per 1,000 people. We have stumbled badly since then. In the current study area for the PMD, there is only 0.65 of an acre of public space per 1,000 Chicagoans. City dwellers without yards need parks for team sports, individual exercise, recreation as well as relaxation and a general sense of well-being. Future neighborhoods will one day savor open green space just as our down-

town thrives, in part, because of it. As the recent sale of the former Finkl Steel site demonstrates, land valuations are increasing rapidly in anticipation of proposed zoning changes. A government “assist” on such a grand scale demands a return on investment for generations of Chicagoans. Designating public recreation space within the PMD balances short-term profit with civic responsibility. We have asked the Chicago Department of Planning and Development to establish development criteria for the Clybourn PMD that will ensure the priceless land along the river also includes a public park with

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recreational facilities. We must not miss this moment. We can create a public asset and still accommodate private interests on the last large tract of land to be developed in this part of the city. In this reflective season, let us be humbled and guided by our remarkable history. A. Montgomery Ward had vision to fight for our lakefront park. A reimagined riverfront deserves the same. A century from now Chicagoans will praise the lasting gift of green we had the foresight to bequeath. Ald. Michele Smith represents Chicago’s 43rd Ward, and Ald. Brian Hopkins represents the 2nd.

you ought to have figured out that it doesn’t work in government, particularly when the opposition party has strong control over both chambers of the legislature and holds every significant constitutional office except for the governorship. Have your digital goons and henchmen take down the boss madigan.com website, which is nothing more than a compilation of poorly veiled threats against Democrats to abandon the speaker or else be savaged by attack ads from now until 2018. First, this political thuggery serves only to unify the Democratic caucus and harden its members against you and your tactics. And second, by kicking off the next campaign cycle nearly two years before the general election, you all but guarantee the budget stalemate will last your entire first term. Sure, in the long run, you might prevail. If you spend enough money and throw enough mud, there’s an outside chance you could gain control of the General Assembly in two more election cycles. But Illinois doesn’t have four years to limp along without a budget while you see if your power play will work. Social service agencies and higher education are hurting under these jury-rigged appropriations plans now in place. Our debts are compounding. Our credit rating is falling. Set aside whichever of your original 44 nonbudgetary agenda items you’re now insisting on and negotiate a compromise tax and spending plan that Democrats and Republicans can, however grudgingly, vote for. Then take the millions you and your cronies were planning to spend slagging Democratic foot soldiers and spend them on campaigns promoting your pet ideas — explaining why, exactly, the working people of this state should embrace rather than fear them. If they see you as a leader, not just a stubborn ideologue, they’ll be much more inclined to listen. Follow Somebody Nobody Asked on Twitter @EricZorn

Tell us something good, puhleeze A new year brings a sense of renewal, rebirth. It’s a chance to brush off the slights and patch up the scrapes. But 2016 didn’t leave just a small scratch. Oh, no, this year cut deep — and it won’t be easy to put behind us. We slogged our way through a long, bitter election season; watched in horror as terrorist attacks unfolded in Brussels, Istanbul, Nice, Orlando, Berlin; felt powerless as the number of homicide victims in Chicago climbed heights not seen in 20 years. All of this, when taken together with personal failures, losses and setbacks, has left us wary and winded, searching for a glimmer of goodness in a year that seemed so determined to be bad. We could use a little uplifting news. So tell us, Chicago Tribune readers: What made 2016 a good — or wonderful, fantastic, marvelous, glorious — year for you? What were you proud of? What did you accomplish? We want to know by Dec. 26. Email a short letter about your year to ctccomment@chicagotribune.com. Include your name and city. We will publish a selection of responses in Perspective.

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How Comey and Lynch helped put Trump in the White House

By Paul Waldman

The Washington Post’s Sari Horwitz has what may be the most comprehensive account yet of what happened behind the scenes as FBI Director James Comey decided to essentially hand the presidential election to Donald Trump. It’s an extraordinary story, one that provides an important lesson that goes beyond this one election: Political events with sweeping consequences are determined by individual human beings and the decisions they make. That may not sound surprising, but it’s a profound truth that we often forget when we look for explanations in broad conditions and trends (which are still important) or theories about dark and complicated conspiracies that don’t exist. Let’s start with this summary of what happened when the FBI informed the Justice Department that Comey wanted to go public with the news that the bureau was looking into some emails found on a laptop belonging to Huma Abedin, Clinton’s close aide, which would end up happening nine days before Election Day: “The official in Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates’ office who received the FBI call immediately understood the explosive potential of Comey’s message, coming so close to the presidential election. Federal attorneys scrambled into offices on the fourth and fifth floors of Justice Department headquarters, where they huddled to figure out how to stop what they viewed as a ticking time bomb. “ ‘It was DEFCON 1,’ said an official familiar with the deliberations. ‘We were incredibly concerned this could have an impact on the election.’ “Aides at Justice and the FBI — located in offices directly across the street from each other on Pennsylvania Avenue — began exchanging increasingly tense and heated phone calls, nearly a half-dozen throughout the afternoon and evening of Oct. 27 and into the next morning. “Justice officials laid out a number of arguments against releasing the letter. It violated two long-standing policies. Never publicly discuss an ongoing investigation. And never take an action affecting a candidate for office close to Election Day. Besides, they said, the FBI did not know yet what was in the emails or if they had anything to do with the Clinton case. “Remarkably, the country’s two top law enforcement officials never spoke. As Comey’s boss, Attorney General Loretta Lynch could have given the FBI director an order to not send the letter. But Lynch and her advisers feared that Comey would not listen. He seemed to feel strongly about updating Congress on his sworn testimony about the Clinton investigation. Instead, they tried to relay their concerns through the Justice official whom the FBI had called. “Their efforts failed. Within 24 hours of the first FBI call, Comey’s letter was out.” One of the points that comes through in Horwitz’s account is that both Comey and Lynch were consumed with fear that they’d be criticized by the Republican outrage machine. Comey worried that if he didn’t immediately go public with the fact that the FBI was looking at these emails, then Republicans would say he was covering up an investigation in order

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FBI Director James Comey and Attorney General Loretta Lynch played crucial — and irresponsible — roles in the presidential election.

Even though Lynch deserves whatever criticism she’ll get, there’s no question that Comey’s misdeed was far worse. to help Clinton. And Lynch worried that if she ordered Comey to adhere to department policy and not go public, then Republicans would say she was covering up an investigation in order to help Clinton. So both of them failed to do their jobs, Comey with an act of commission and Lynch with an act of omission. You can sympathize with the pressure they were under and say that hindsight is always 20/20, but the fact is that they failed, and it was because they didn’t have the courage to do the right thing. The next time you shake your head at the sight of Republicans yelling into cameras or talk radio microphones about how terribly angry they are at whatever they’re supposed to be angry at today, remember how politically useful all that noise can be. Even though Lynch deserves whatever criticism she’ll get, there’s no question that Comey’s misdeed was far worse. Here’s the decision he was faced with: If I go public with this matter, I’ll be violating explicit, long-standing departmental policy and probably skew the results of a presidential election. On the other hand, if I wait for the investigation to be completed ... Republicans might say mean things about me. That’s the generous

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interpretation of his thinking; the less generous version would be that he was going to do everything in his power to make sure Trump won, which he certainly did in the end. And keep in mind that he had no idea what was in the emails on that laptop, because they hadn’t been examined. And that there was almost no reason to think there was anything problematic in them, which is exactly what the FBI found when it did examine them. As we think about this issue and about the election more generally, we shouldn’t fall into the trap of thinking that blame or responsibility is zero-sum. People have been saying things like, “Russia/Comey didn’t force Hillary Clinton not to spend more money in Wisconsin!” which is true but irrelevant. Clinton certainly made mistakes during the campaign, as every candidate does. But in a race that was decided by 77,000 votes spread across Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, there are many factors that can be said to have swung the election. Saying that things would have been different if one particular event hadn’t happened isn’t saying that nothing else mattered. Why can we say that Comey’s decision to go public made the difference? It came at the tail end of an endless media campaign to convince the public that there was literally no issue in the world more important than whether Clinton used the wrong email account — not the economy, not terrorism, not health care, not climate change, nothing. One analysis showed that network newscasts devoted three times as much attention to the email story as to all policy issues combined. By the time the campaign reached its end, the one word

Americans thought of when they heard the name Hillary Clinton was “email” (just look at these shocking word clouds from Gallup if you doubt). Most of them couldn’t tell you what the email story was actually about, but they knew it had something to do with some kind of corruption or other, as Trump kept saying. And any story that had the word “email” in it — like the Russian hacking of John Podesta’s emails, which had absolutely nothing to do with what email Clinton used at the State Department — got mashed in the public’s mind into one big amalgam. I’m not going to relitigate the email question here. But that was the context in which Comey and Lynch made their decisions. They knew full well that when Comey violated departmental policy to go public with this news, it would result in an explosion of “EMAAAAAIIILLLS!” coverage across every major news outlet in the United States, which it did. And copious evidence suggests that the race turned right then, as Comey’s message reinforced exactly the argument Trump was making about Clinton, late deciders swung toward him and wavering Republicans came home to their party’s nominee. And it happened because one person was determined to inject himself into the race, and the one other person who could have and should have stopped him didn’t have the guts to do it. Washington Post Paul Waldman is a senior writer for The American Prospect and a blogger for The Washington Post’s liberal Plum Line blog.

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“Overwhelmingly, people are leaving to go anywhere other than Illinois.”

— Michael Lucci, vice president of policy at the right-leaning Illinois Policy Institute, on Illinois losing more residents than any state for the third consecutive year

“I would say that I don’t play golf and I don’t have a mistress. So I have a lot of time that a lot of these other men don’t.”

— Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway on how she’ll juggle her new post as counselor to the president with what she calls her primary job as a mother of four

“It should be unthinkable for any functioning judicial system not to launch investigative and judicial proceedings when someone has openly admitted being a killer.”

— Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, on President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, bragging that he has personally killed people he suspected were criminals

“I just think you borrow trouble when you put your children in government meetings, whether it is legal or not.”

— Ari Fleischer, press secretary to President George W. Bush, on the Trump siblings sitting in on government meetings

WINNER: One, two, three, four ... I declare a sanctuary war! Mike Anderson, Oak Park RUNNERS-UP: I will win, unless you do. Then it was rigged. Larry Macari, Sugar Grove Just so we’re clear, Donald, if I win you agree to remove the “T” from the side of your tower here. Paul Lockwood, Woodstock They’re finally getting “thumb-where.” Pat Foley, Homer Glen The caption contest is taking the week off.

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PERSPECTIVE Beating BDS at its own game

By Jack Saltzberg

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Syrians who fled Aleppo arrive Thursday in the Khan al-Assal region, west of the embattled city.

Aleppo highlights Obama’s disastrous Mideast policy

WASHINGTON — The fall secretary of state chasing the of Aleppo just weeks before Russians to negotiate one humiliPresident Barack Obama ating pretend cease-fire after leaves office is a fitting stamp another. on his Middle East policy of Even now, however, the Syria retreat and withdrawal. The debate is not encouraging. The pitiable pictures from the tone is anguished and emotional, Charles devastated city showed the portrayed exclusively in moral Krauthammer true cost of Obama’s abdicaterms. Much less appreciated is tion. For which he seems to the cold strategic cost. have few regrets, however. In his end-of-year Syrian President Bashar Assad was never a news conference, Obama defended U.S. inaction friend. But today he’s not even a free agent. He’s with his familiar false choice: It was either been effectively restored to his throne, but as stand aside or order a massive Iraq-style ground the puppet of Iran and Russia. Syria is now a invasion. platform, a forward base, from which both This is a transparent fiction designed to stifle these revisionist regimes can project power in debate. Five years ago, the popular uprising was the region. ascendant. What kept a rough equilibrium was Iran will use Syria to advance its drive to regime control of the skies. At that point, the dominate the Arab Middle East. Russia will use U.S., at little risk and cost, could have declared its naval and air bases to bully the Sunni Arab Syria a no-fly zone, much as it did Iraqi Kurdistates, and to shut out American influence. stan for a dozen years after the Gulf War of 1991. It’s already happening. The foreign and deThe U.S. could easily have destroyed the fense ministers of Russia, Iran and Turkey conregime’s planes and helicopters on the ground vened in Moscow this week to begin settling the and so cratered its airfields as to make them fate of Syria. Notice who wasn’t there. For the unusable. That would have altered the strategic first time in four decades, the United States, the equation for the rest of the war. once dominant power in the region, is an irreleAnd it would have deterred the Russians vance. from injecting their own air force — they would With Aleppo gone and the rebels scattered, have had to challenge ours for air superiority. we have a long road ahead to rebuild the influFacing no U.S. deterrent, Russia stepped in and ence squandered over the past eight years. decisively altered the balance, pounding the President-elect Donald Trump is talking about rebels in Aleppo to oblivion. The Russians were creating safe zones. He should tread carefully. It particularly adept at hitting hospitals and other does no good to try to do now what we should civilian targets, leaving the rebels with the have done five years ago. Conditions are much choice between annihilation and surrender. worse. Russia and Iran rule. Maintaining the They surrendered. safety of safe zones will be expensive and danObama has never appreciated that the role of gerous. It will require extensive ground deploya superpower in a local conflict is not necessari- ments and risks military confrontation with ly to intervene on the ground, but to deter a Russia. rival global power from stepping in and altering And why? Guilty conscience is not a good the course of the war. That’s what we did durreason. Interventions that are purely humaniing the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when Moscow tarian — from Somalia to Libya — tend to end threatened to send troops to support Egypt and badly. We may proclaim a “responsibility to President Richard Nixon countered by raising protect,” but when no American interests are at America’s nuclear alert status to Defcon 3. Russtake, the engagement becomes impossible to sia stood down. sustain. At the first losses, we go home. Less dramatically but just as effectively, U.S. In Aleppo, the damage is done, the city dethreats of retaliation are what kept West Gerstroyed, the inhabitants ethnically cleansed. For many, South Korea and Taiwan free and indeus, there is no post facto option. If we are to pendent through half a century of Cold War. regain the honor lost in Aleppo, it will have to It’s called deterrence. Yet Obama never had be on a very different battlefield. the credibility to deter anything or anyone. In the end, the world’s greatest power was reduced Washington Post Writers Group to bitter speeches at the U.N. “Are you truly incapable of shame?” thundered U.S. AmbassaCharles Krauthammer is a Washington Post dor Samantha Power at the butchers of Aleppo. columnist. As if we don’t know the answer. Indeed the shame is on us for terminal naivete, sending our letters@charleskrauthammer.com

By the end of 2016, the United Nations will have adopted 20 resolutions against the state of Israel and four resolutions against all other countries combined. Since 2012, university students in the United States have been almost as aggressive, introducing roughly 100 boycott, divestment and sanctions resolutions — also known as BDS — against Israel, and at best a handful of resolutions against all other nations combined. Judging from this imbalance, it seems that U.S. students consider Israel the world’s foremost human rights violator — worse than Syria, China, Russia, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Sudan, Bangladesh, Libya, Yemen, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, North Korea, Brunei, Somalia and Saudi Arabia. Of course that’s ridiculous. Yet as a result of a sophisticated Palestinian nationalist campaign — plus a hefty dose of anti-Semitism — it’s modish for students to reserve their most extreme outrage for the United States’ chief ally in the Middle East. The pro-Israel side, meanwhile, has proved completely ineffective. We’re losing in part because most pro-Israel organizations have a long history of supporting Israel, not fighting for Israel. They operate on the assumption that the best way to battle BDS is through education — a long-term solution that won’t work in the campus battles so long as pro-Israel faculty and students remain in the minority. While almost all BDS strategies are offensive (both literally and figuratively), anti-BDS strategies are reactionary and defensive. When BDSers introduce anti-Israel resolutions, pro-Israel students protest them. When BDSers accuse Israel of apartheid, genocide, racism and colonialism, pro-Israel students (correctly) argue that none of these labels is accurate. The BDS movement is dictating the narrative and always striking the first blow. Even when we “defeat” BDS resolutions and pop the Champagne to celebrate, the BDS movement is already plotting its next attack. BDS’ only time frame is the destruction of Israel. For supporters, there are no defeats, just opportunities. When a BDS resolution fails, proponents will introduce another resolution within days, weeks or months, giving the movement more opportunity to spew propaganda against Israel and sway people to its cause. It’s time to try something different. Here is a simple solution that will help end BDS on university campuses: Turn BDS into a meaningless acronym. Pro-Israel students should take the offensive by introducing multiple divestment resolutions against companies that do business in human-rights-violating countries. Students should use the same BDS resolutions previously introduced against Israel and change the wording from Israel to (offending

nation), then list the grievances: state executions of homosexuals; burying alive or throwing LGBT people from buildings; female genital excision; governmentdirected gang rapes; mass child labor deaths; ethnic cleansing and hacking to death of children and pregnant women; political gulags for dissidents and journalists; public stonings of adulterers. If a university’s pension fund invests in McDonald’s, target McDonald’s for licensing restaurants in Saudi Arabia, where executions of homosexuals continue. If the fund prefers Starbucks stock, target Starbucks for operating coffee shops in Pakistan, or Brunei, or in China, which is occupying Tibet. Pro-Israel students need to flood the educational landscape with the acronym BDS until every school in the nation has so many resolutions pending that campuses revolt. And they should look beyond their obvious allies. They should reach out specifically to anti-Israel BDSers who supposedly care about human rights. If those students refuse, publicize their hypocrisy. Meanwhile, create web platforms and social media campaigns in the dramatic and successful BDS style. Produce short films that highlight the offending countries’ extensive and deplorable human rights violations. The more BDS resolutions are introduced, the sooner BDS will lose its meaning, power and relevancy, and the quicker the war against Israel will end on university campuses. Next, go after unions and professional associations, such as the American Studies Association, which thought that Israel — among all nations — was the only country worth boycotting in its 65-year history. Whenever I’ve shared my ideas with pro-Israel students, they’ve had similar reactions: “Two wrongs don’t make a right” or “We should promote Israel rather than attack other companies and countries.” The first response is inaccurate because the resolutions against Israel generally trade in falsehoods, while the new resolutions against other countries will be factual. As for the second response, maybe it’s time for pro-Israel supporters to get some chutzpah. University students have become pawns in a political and religious campaign against a democratic, fundamentally decent country. In the process, the BDS movement has shifted the spotlight away from unspeakable human rights violators and the intolerable suffering of their many victims. When we beat BDS at its own game, people who really need our help may well benefit the most. Tribune Content Agency Jack Saltzberg is the founder and executive director of the Israel Group, a nonprofit that protects Israel in the diaspora. He is working on a book about political warfare against Israel.

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

Clean deal

I thank Ken Griffin for his generous donation to improve the biking/running/walking conditions along the lakefront. As a former Chicagoan who visits the lakefront occasionally, it seems that everyone has his or her own agenda on the use of the lakefront path. I hope Mr. Griffin put some hooks into his donation — that the $12 million will all go to the improvement of the path and not into some politician’s and/or Chicago Park District crony’s pocket. If it is misused, that will probably be the last time we will see a donation of the that amount of money from the private sector. — Paul Gasiorowski, Palatine

Safe practices

As a practicing community pharmacist with a doctorate in pharmacy, I find your recent Tribune Watchdog reports on the overlooking of dangerous drug interactions alarming. But equally alarming to me is your publishing every week a column titled People’s Pharmacy: Prescriptions and Home Remedies. Neither of the two authors is a degreed or licensed pharmacist. By their own admission, one has a master’s in pharmacology and the

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other a degree in anthropology. If they limited their advice to just vitamins and other over-thecounter products, I wouldn’t be that concerned. However, they frequently give their opinions and advice on prescription medications including narcotics like Vicodin. They recently wrote that the increased regulation of this pain medication was hindering patients’ ability to obtain it. No matter, I guess, the skyrocketing abuse and its place as a leading cause of preventable death. This weekly column reaches many more people and has the potential to cause much greater harm than the errors you found in your Watchdog report.

For online exclusive letters go to www.chicagotribune.com/letters. Send letters by email to ctc-TribLetter@chicagotribune.com or to Voice of the People, Chicago Tribune, 435 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611. Include your name, address and phone number.

I appreciate you looking into dangerous drug interactions overlooked by pharmacists, but please, look in your own pages at the dangerous advice given in a pharmacy column. — Sharon L. Paloucek, Western Springs

A temporary fix

While there are some sentiments in Robert B. Hamilton’s Thursday letter “Times change” that I can agree with, I think his solution is short-sighted. I am a big believer in cultivating a skill and trade, and it is perfectly reasonable to expect that a person should diversify his or her skill set when the demand for work changes. But do most blue-collar workers have what it takes to make the leap from physical labor to the skills and trade of different STEM fields?

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Automation is indeed on the rise, and will probably continue to rise without end in sight. As robotic technologies become more sophisticated, they will replace more sophisticated and nuanced human jobs, while concurrently demanding an increasingly specialized skill set for their maintenance. While still far off in the future, I’d implore Mr. Hamilton to consider what he would do if a robot replaced him in his own job. Does he have what it takes to learn advanced computer programming or mechanical engineering simply to make ends meet? The solution of retraining and re-educating a workforce is shortsighted at best because it’s temporary, a band-aid solution. It will become harder to justify that point of view as technology advances and the chasm between automation-replaced jobs and STEM becomes ever greater. Radical and unorthodox solutions will be required in the distant future, but for now we need to be compassionate for marginalized workers who can’t make the leap to more skilled jobs, who just want to make ends meet. We need to keep pushing for that living wage. — Benjamin Nagy, Arlington Heights

Meaningful measures

During the past few years, a raw census statistic has been reported by the media. It seems

Illinois is losing population. Net out-migration is offered to suggest that the bigger the state gets, the better it is. John Kass reported in his Thursday column that a local fiscally conservative organization claims a net personal income reduction of between $3 billion and $4 billion a year, without citing its source. Having written a fair number of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission-required disclosure documents, I find the raw outmigration number begging for embellishment, or even replacement by meaningful data. For example, net variances in tax receipts, such as state, personal and business income, property, sales, gas, property transfer and permit fees for construction, should be reported to measure growth or constriction. These figures should be compared to those in other states with major metropolitan areas. Is Illinois losing valuable skilled laborers, tradespeople, medical support personnel, innovators and job creators? Or have those down on their luck thrown in the towel and moved on to seek better economic opportunities? If they have, isn’t it good they have this option? People come and go based upon a great number of factors. It is those factors that should be reported, measured and analyzed — and not the number of clicks on the turnstile. — Sheldon I. Saitlin, Chicago

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Friday, December 23, 2016 | Section 2

BUSINESS Hospital exemption on taxes upheld Not-for-profits get a ‘free ride,’ suit says By Lisa Schencker

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A 2012 law that exempts many hospitals from having to pay property taxes is constitutional, a state appellate court ruled Thursday. The ruling, which upheld a lower court’s decision, comes just weeks before the Illinois Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in a different case about the same issue. The law was meant to clarify what Illinois not-for-profit hospitals must do to get tax exemptions. For a not-for-profit hospital to be considered tax-exempt, the value of its charitable services must be equal to or greater than its estimated tax liability. It’s an issue that Illinois hospitals and municipalities — fighting over precious dollars — are watching closely. Some say many not-for-profit hospitals operate more like for-profit businesses and should have to pay taxes. Meanwhile, hospitals argue they need the exemptions to provide the best care possible. Danny Chun, a spokesman for the Illinois Health and Hospital Association, which was a defendant in the case, said the decision reaffirms the association’s “belief that the law is a clear, fair and constitutional approach to charitable property tax exemption for Illinois hospitals.” But Edward Joyce, an attorney for Constance Oswald, the Cook County property taxpayer who brought the suit, called the ruling “ridiculous.” Oswald said in a court filing that her property tax bills increased because of exemptions under the law. “The state of Illinois is bankrupt,” Joyce said. “The idea of giving rich hospitals a free ride on property taxes and sales taxes is total nonsense.” Joyce said Oswald will appeal the ruling. The Illinois Supreme Court case, which is scheduled for oral arguments Jan. 12, involves the city of Urbana and the Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. That case moved to the state Supreme Court after a state appeals court ruled the law unconstitutional last January. lschencker@chicagotribune.com Twitter @lschencker

Gabby Golub updates the growler chalkboard last week at DryHop Brewers in Chicago’s Lakeview East neighborhood. Golub does chalkboard art for bars and restaurants, drives for Lyft and works part time at her old high school. KRISTAN LIEB/FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Booming gig economy facing new challenges Obamacare rollback, new labor policies could affect freelancers By Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz |

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If you’re accustomed to traditional employment — a steady biweekly paycheck, reliable health benefits and a 401(k) with company match — Gabby Golub’s patchwork of jobs might send you into a panic. Golub cobbles together a living chauffeuring passengers through the ride-hailing app Lyft, working part time in the IT department at her old high school and sketching chalkboard art for restaurants and other businesses on a freelance basis. Sometimes one gig leads to another, such as when a conversation with a Lyft passenger got her a job doing illustrations for a children’s book. “I enjoy the hustle so much more than the grind of fulltime work,” said Golub, 24, who lives with a roommate in the Gold Coast neighborhood and is on her parents’ health insurance plan, thanks to an

Obamacare provision that extended the cutoff age to 26. Enjoy it or not, more people are hustling. A growing share of the U.S. workforce relies on alternative work arrangements, which in-

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel is just as bullish on Chicago business in private emails as he is in public. Under pressure from a pair of open records lawsuits, the mayor on Wednesday turned over about 2,700 pages of emails from his personal accounts that his attorney determined were government-related. Though many of the emails are short, and the mayor’s only involvement often was forwarding them to an aide, they show Emanuel using his personal accounts to pursue business deals benefiting Chicago. They also show that business leaders knew how to reach him outside of his government email address. The emails reveal Emanuel’s desire to bring a PayPal operations center to the city and his reluctance to “bash” one of the city’s largest private-sector employers. There are also emails with big asks from companies like Airbnb and H.J. Heinz.

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United Airlines Jonathan Tisch, co-chairman of the board of Loews, chairman and CEO of its Loews Hotel subsidiary and chairman emeritus of the U.S. Travel Association, emailed Emanuel in May, seeking to rebut airlines’ concerns about competition from Middle Eastern airlines allegedly receiving unfair subsidies. Emanuel responded that he was unlikely to square off against Chicago-based United Continental Holdings. “I dont (sic) plan on being like some mayors and bash my largest private sector employer,” Emanuel wrote in an email in May. “That said please send someone to brief us.”

United’s name popped up again in a July 1 exchange between the mayor and Kirkland & Ellis attorney William Singer, who sent Emanuel a copy of a letter to city Aviation Commissioner Ginger Evans. Singer said the letter explained a United proposal that reflects “short term, but significant growth for O’Hare” and that United is “fully committed to the city’s long term growth and expansion plans.” The email exchange doesn’t offer details on the proposal, but Emanuel appeared frustrated by the pace of progress and lack of specifics. “If you all expected yippie lets go you got the wrong Turn to Booster, Page 2

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Deere & Co., the giant Moline, Ill.-based equipment manufacturer, has agreed to pay a former employee $275,000 to settle a whistleblower lawsuit. The suit was brought last year by the U.S. Department of Labor on behalf of a pipe fitter who alleged he was fired in 2012 in retaliation for reporting unsafe working conditions at the Moline facility and filing a complaint with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Deere did not admit any wrongdoing but agreed to pay the pipe fitter $111,512 in back wages, $92,803 in compensation instead of rehiring him and $70,685 in damages. The agreement allows the company to pay the former employee in three installments through January 2018. “The settlement of this case represents a true win for an employee who was willing to

risk his job to ensure workplace safety for himself and his coworkers,” Kenneth Nishiyama Atha, regional administrator for OSHA in Chicago, said in a news release Thursday. The unnamed former employee reported unsafe working conditions on three occasions to OSHA. Subsequent investigations by OSHA cited hazards at the facility in April 2010, January 2012 and May 2012, before he was fired in June 2012. OSHA enforces whistleblower provisions that protect employees from retaliation for reporting safety violations. As part of the settlement, Deere is required to post OSHA’s “Job Safety and Health: It’s the Law” poster and OSHA’s “Your Rights as a Whistleblower” fact sheet at all its workplaces. Deere, which manufactures agricultural, construction and forestry equipment, generated nearly $27 billion in annual sales and a net income of more than $1.5 billion for fiscal 2016. A Deere spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment Thursday afternoon. rchannick@chicagotribune.com Twitter @RobertChannick

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Company founder portrays it as ‘Airbnb for parking’ By Amina Elahi Blue Sky Innovation

ParqEx, a Chicago-based company that lets people rent out their private parking spots, has raised more than $1 million, the company said. The 2-year-old company said investors in the round include Venture Management and Wisconsin Investment Partners, both based in Madison, Wis., where ParqEx formally expanded its service earlier this month. It also said it received funding from participating in two accelerators, $90,000 from Gener8tor in Milwaukee and $20,000 from Elmspring in Chicago. Founder Vivek Mehra, who serves as ParqEx’s CEO and chief technology officer, said he wants people to see his company as an “Airbnb for parking.” Unlike two other Chicagobased parking-booking services, ParkWhiz and SpotHero — which let people prepay for spots in commercial lots and garages, often at a discount — Mehra said his service focuses on private

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parking spaces. SpotHero moved into private spots in 2015 by acquiring ParkPlease, a San Francisco-based platform that let residents rent out their parking spots. It integrated ParkPlease’s sellers and customers onto its platform and shut ParkPlease down after the acqui-

mayor,” he said. Still, he said he told the aviation commissioner to give the proposal “her full attention,” signing off with “be bold.”

Kraft Heinz Before H.J. Heinz finished its purchase of Kraft Foods in 2015, an executive emailed then-Deputy Mayor Steve Koch to push the state and city to spell out what tax breaks they would be willing to offer to put some of the combined company’s jobs in Chicago. “If the state and Chicago are not going to offer a significant tax incentive program that will weight heavenly (sic) in our decision on how many jobs remain in Illinois given how aggressive Pennsylvania is being,” Michael Mullen, senior vice president of corporate and government affairs, wrote in a June 2015 email. The email was shared with Emanuel, whose reply to Koch was redacted. A few weeks after Kraft, then based in north suburban Northfield, and Pittsburgh-based Heinz combined to form the thirdlargest food and beverage company in the U.S., Kraft Heinz announced it would move the Northfield headquarters to downtown Chicago’s Aon Center. Kraft Heinz ended up not getting any tax incentives related to the move, Mullen said in an email to the Tribune on Thursday. “The Mayor and his staff were instrumental in our decision to move downtown and we appreciate their ongoing cooperation and partnership,” he said.

PayPal Emanuel reached out to PayPal Chief Operating Officer Bill Ready in October, to figure out why the San Jose, Calif.-based company passed over Chicago as a location for an operations center. Other cities offered better incentives, Ready explained in his lengthy response. He mentioned Illinois’ EDGE program, which provides tax breaks for companies that bring jobs to the state. “We are unable to monetize a majority of the credits being offered to the company before they expire.” The top contending city was offering cash grants and refundable tax credits, Ready wrote. That reasoning was news to Emanuel. “Somewhere there is a breakdown of information,” he replied. There is still time for Chicago, and the potential operations center is part of a bigger strategy, Ready said in an email Oct. 28. PayPal representatives did not respond to a request for comment.

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people who book spots monthly. Some parking spot owners list their spots only during work hours, when their spots sit empty, or nights and weekends. He said the app, which is available for free on iOS and Android, currently has 9,200 active users. A company spokeswoman said ParqEx currently has about 600 spots for rent. It’s free to list parking spots on ParqEx. The company takes a 20 percent commission on every booking, and the renter pays a $1 fee per transaction on top of the spot’s cost, Mehra said. ParqEx has eight full-time employees in Chicago and nine contractors in other cities, Mehra said. He said the funding will support hiring and further expansion. Andrea Dlugos, co-manager at Wisconsin Investment Partners, said her firm hasn’t previously invested in the parking market but that she thought Mehra presented an “exciting opportunity.” “A lot (of companies) do seem to be focused on existing commercial parking availability,” Dlugos said. But she said ParqEx is “uncovering other parking that wouldn’t otherwise exist.” aelahi@chicagotribune.com

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sition. Mehra said he started ParqEx to help drivers park closer to their destinations and to help people make money by renting out the parking spots they own. Many of these spots are in protected areas, such as the parking garage of a condo building.

“What we learned is that although that was a great idea, one of the biggest challenges we were facing was a lot of these parking spaces were locked up behind gates and garage doors,” he said. Earlier this year, ParqEx introduced technology that lets parking spot renters open the door to a parking garage using the app. Mehra said building ownership must approve installation of special hardware that lets the app control the garage door. He acknowledged that residents or building management may not like the idea of strangers parking in their lot. It’s a problem Airbnb has faced in some condo buildings as well. But Mehra said ParqEx validates the identity of its parkers, and can require them to provide information or to fill out a lease application, if the building requests it. Mehra said this makes using ParqEx more secure than other sites owners might use to list their parking spaces, including Craigslist. Mehra said ParqEx focuses more on long-term rentals, in part because it gives parkers access to private property, where owners may prefer to keep track of fewer strangers using the facility. He said more than 60 percent of ParqEx’s revenue comes from

Airbnb hosts was a hot topic in the mayor’s inbox. Investor Marc Andreessen emailed Emanuel in November 2015, asking him to meet with Chris Lehane, Airbnb’s head of global policy, to discuss Chicago’s regulatory plans. Airbnb representatives said they thought Emanuel wasn’t “fully aware of what the bureaucrats have been working on,” according to an email Andreessen forwarded to the mayor. Asking for the meeting seemed to be a drastic measure: In one of the emails, Andreessen’s people call it an “unusual ask” by Airbnb. Airbnb spokesman Ben Breit said in a statement that the home-sharing company works with cities worldwide on clear and progressive home-sharing rules. “Speaking with policymakers and community leaders is essential to crafting home-sharing rules that work for everyone,” he said. The implementation of the ordinance has since been delayed and tweaked after being challenged by a couple of lawsuits.

Talking up Chicago Occasionally, Emanuel sent emails to Chicago executives and other heavy hitters from his private account touting positive news about the city. On Sept. 1, he sent four dozen people, including United CEO Oscar Munoz, Ulta Beauty CEO Mary Dillon, Mondelez CEO Irene Rosenfeld and McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook the same email, with personalized salutations, highlighting improvements in Chicago Public Schools students’ test scores and Fitch Ratings agency’s decision to shift the city’s credit outlook from “negative” to “stable.” “There’s work to be done, but on both fronts these are positive indicators of the work we are doing,” Emanuel wrote. A second batch, including news of just-opened Whole Foods and Mariano’s stores in the Englewood and Bronzeville neighborhoods and another credit rating agency upgrade, went out Oct. 10 — the same day the Chicago Teachers Union and school board were coming to a tentative contract agreement and the Chicago Cubs were playing the San Francisco Giants in Game 3 of the National League Division Series. “You send this out DURING the game?” replied David Axelrod, one of the recipients. “First the game is not the high holidays (and) second still in the office,” Emanuel wrote. The rest of their conversation was redacted. amarotti@chicagotribune.com lzumbach@chicagotribune.com Twitter @AllyMarotti Twitter @laurenzumbach

Study: Online jobs often secondary Gig, from Page 1

workforce not covered by many labor protections or privy to the benefits that come with a traditional employer relationship. In the meantime, private research has shown significant growth in alterative arrangements that at best offer workers flexibility and at worst deprive them of economic security. Nearly 16 percent of workers were engaged in alternative work arrangements in 2015, a jump from 10 percent in 2005, according to research released this year by Harvard economist Lawrence Katz and Princeton economist Alan Krueger. The rise over the prior decade was comparatively tiny, up from 9.3 percent in 1995. All of the net employment growth from 2005 to 2015 occurred in alternative work arrangements, the researchers concluded, suggesting there was no net employment growth in traditional jobs. That research only counted work that was considered someone’s main job. If you include moonlighters who have traditional jobs and hustle on the side, the freelance population this year was estimated at a third of the workforce, or 55 million Americans, an increase of 2 million people since 2014, according to a survey released in October by the nonprofit Freelancers Union and Upwork, an online freelance work marketplace. “Many people expect that by 2020 to 2025 up to 50 percent of the workforce will get some income from independent labor,” said Kristin Sharp, executive director of the Shift Commission on Work, Workers and Technology, an initiative of New America, a public policy think tank. Whether policy will catch up to the labor shifts is a question experts will watch in 2017. A major conversation point has been how to develop portable benefits that give gig economy workers access to retirement plans, unemployment insurance and paid sick leave even as they move from job to job. “I think we’ll start to see concrete proposals this year,” Sharp said. The Affordable Care Act, which allows individuals to buy insurance on health care exchanges, has been credited with freeing people from the reliance on employers for health insurance. So the law’s fate under President-elect Donald Trump, who has vowed to repeal at least parts of it, could affect people’s willingness to work independ-

ently, said Brian Kropp, human resources practice leader at business advisory firm CEB. “If it is replaced, the gig economy will take a big hit,” Kropp said. With Trump’s selection of fast-food executive Andy Puzder as labor secretary, some worker advocates say there’s greater urgency to implement safeguards for contingent workers. Under President Barack Obama, the Labor Department has been aggressive on issues of worker misclassification — that is, companies classifying workers as independent contractors or using temporary staffing agencies in order to avoid paying benefits like overtime, unemployment insurance and workers’ compensation. The National Labor Relations Board, a separate independent agency, under Obama expanded the joint-employer definition that holds parent companies liable for infractions alongside franchisees. Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants, parent of the Hardees and Carl’s Jr. restaurant chains, is expected to be sympathetic to businesses wanting flexibility in their workforces, “so it places even more importance that social policy makes sure that nonprofits can offer ways for people to choose benefits,” said Sara Horowitz, founder and executive director of Freelancers Union, which provides advocacy and health insurance to its members. The potential reasons for the recent growth of the gig economy range from necessity, for those who lost their jobs during the Great Recession, to workers’ desire for flexibility and efforts by companies to cut costs. The rise in platforms such as Airbnb and Uber also have made it easier for people to transact with customers and turn their homes and cars into income streams, though they represent a minuscule fraction of the growing contingent workforce. And their growth, while still rapid, appears to be slowing. In Chicago, just 1.2 percent of adults earned income from the online sharing economy in June, most of them (0.8 percent) on labor platforms like Uber or Postmates and the rest (0.4 percent) on capital platforms like Airbnb and Etsy, where people rent their property and sell their products, according to a study by JPMorgan Chase. Use of online labor platforms grew 83 percent in Chicago since last year while growth of capital platforms was flat. That’s a big slowdown compared with peak growth in 2014, when use of labor

platforms nearly quintupled nationally over the year. Rather than represent the future of work, data suggest online platforms offer handy side gigs when things get tough. Chicagoans in June earned a monthly average of $991 from labor platforms, and established participants made just less than a quarter of their annual incomes on the platforms, according to JPMorgan Chase. National data showed a drop in monthly earnings since 2014, which could be because people were working fewer hours or because wages had been cut. Eduardo Izquierdo, 62, who lives in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, said he makes $600 to $800 a week driving Uber, not only transporting passengers but also delivering food and sometimes laundry. He gets frustrated by the meager pay of some of the newer services like Uber Pool, which sometimes nets him $1.25 on a ride, but the platform has been a savior after a tough financial period that included the loss of his convenience store business and several buildings he owned, which he returned to the bank during the housing bust. “Without Uber I might be in the line for food stamps,” Izquierdo said. About 48 percent of online labor platform users in Chicago dropped out within 12 months, and turnover is particularly high among employed, higher-income and younger participants, suggesting people opt out as the economy improves and they find other jobs. “It is a new and easily accessible form of work, but people are treating this as a secondary source of income,” said Fiona Greig, research director for the JPMorgan Chase Institute. The sharpest rise in alternative work arrangements was among people hired out through contract companies and among older workers, aged 55 to 75, according to the Harvard and Princeton report. That’s consistent with what Teresa Carroll is seeing in her role as senior vice president and general manager of global talent solutions at outsourcing group Kelly OCG. Companies experiencing a shortage of workers in the science, technology, engineering and math fields are bringing baby boomers back from retirement to be contingent employees, offering flexibility and time off for their expertise, Carroll said. aelejalderuiz@chicagotribune.com Twitter @alexiaer

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RV clinic brings eye exams to Chicago offices Workers save time, employers reduce absences for care By Lisa Schencker

Chicago Tribune

A group of savvy businesses is figuring out what cubicle dwellers already know: It can be tough to duck out of work for routine medical appointments. So providers are bringing the office to them. The latest to set its sights on the Chicago market is 2020 On-site, a Boston company that recently expanded into Chicago with a 34-foot RV tricked out to offer eye exams outside employers’ offices. The company tapped Chicago for expansion because the city has a lot of

midsize employers and many people have long commutes and are looking for ways to save time, said 2020 On-site founder and CEO Howard Bornstein. “So many things have gotten more simple in our life. There’s Uber, there’s iPhones, there’s Grubhub for food delivery,” said Bornstein, who started the company two years ago. “But for most people, health care and preventive health has actually gotten more complicated. If you’re a working parent, taking half a day on a Saturday to go to the eye doctor is not a fun activity.” Bornstein, a former growth and venture investor at Bain Capital Ventures, doesn’t have a background in optometry but started the company out of frustration

with what he saw as the inconveniences of eye exams. He launched the company with backing from investors including Lee Linden, formerly of Facebook, and several people from Bain, among others. Bornstein’s company is not the first organization to offer mobile eye exams, and other mobile providers offering services like mammography, dentistry and preventive care already target employers across the country, said Elizabeth Wallace, executive director of the Mobile Health Clinics Association. Such services are expanding as a way to improve morale, retain employees and keep them from missing work to attend appointments, she said. Here’s how 2020 On-site works: Companies schedule

a day for the RV to visit. Employees sign up for 15- to 20-minute appointments and fill out their patient forms online ahead of time. When it’s an employee’s turn, he or she walks into the RV — gleaming with sleek white laminate — for an eye exam, a prescription and potentially the purchase of glasses or contacts. So far, 2020 On-site has not been charging Chicagoarea employers for the RV visits, but eventually companies will have to pay about $520 to $4,020 for the service. Patients pay copay fees similar to what they’d expect at a traditional optometrist. Bornstein said 2020 Onsite already has about 300 corporate clients total in Atlanta, Chicago and the Boston area.

Flexera Software invited the RV to pull up to its office in Itasca earlier this year. About 25 of the company’s 150 employees in that location took part. “Employees don’t have time to go to the eye doctor, and they lose out on their benefits,” said Jennifer Johnson, a senior compensation and benefits analyst at Flexera. She said it was a good way to engage employees and raise awareness about their benefits — plus it might mean less time away from the office for workers who might otherwise schedule appointments for work hours. Still, Johnson said she’s not sure Flexera would use the service again if it had to pay. In that case, she said, it might just be better to let employees leave

early to go to their own eye doctors. Larry Boress, president and CEO of the Midwest Business Group on Health, said he can see how companies might want to turn to a mobile eye care service. Most Chicago-area employers, even those with their own on-site health clinics for employees, don’t typically offer vision services at work, he said. “Sometimes, (employees) don’t want to take the time at home or on weekends for their own health, but if they have something at their work they can get to within 15 to 20 minutes and there’s no cost barrier to them, they’re going to take advantage,” Boress said. lschencker@chicagotribune.com

Economy heats up, but cooling in forecast By Martin Crutsinger

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy grew at a 3.5 percent annual rate in the July-September quarter, the fastest pace in two years and more than the government had previously estimated. But the growth spurt isn’t expected to last. The gain in the gross domestic product — the economy’s total output of goods and services — came from added strength in consumer spending, business investment and the government sector, the Commerce Department said Thursday. The government had previously estimated last quarter’s annual growth rate at 3.2 percent. Thursday’s GDP report “paints a picture of a healthy consumer, likely fueled by ongoing gains in employment, modest increases in wages, and solid balance sheets,” said Michael Gapen of Barclays. The economy’s acceleration last quarter marked a sharp pickup from the tepid annual growth of 0.8 percent in the first quarter and 1.4 percent in the second. Still, growth is expected to slow to a roughly 1.5 percent annual rate in the October-December quarter, reflecting in part less consumer spending and less

business stockpiling. Growth for the entire year, economists say, is likely to be around 1.5 percent. That would be down from 2015 and would be the weakest performance since the economy shrank 2.8 percent in 2009 at the depths of the worst economic downturn since the 1930s. The recovery began in mid-2009, but growth has averaged just over 2 percent. President-elect Donald Trump had criticized the sluggish pace of growth during the campaign and said his economic policies would accelerate annual GDP growth to 4 percent or better. To do that, Trump said he would eliminate many government regulations, boost spending on the nation’s aging infrastructure and slash taxes. Most economists don’t think 4 percent growth is realistic, given a chronic slowdown in worker productivity and a slowergrowing U.S. workforce due in part to retiring baby boomers. Most forecasters expect growth of around 2.5 percent next year, though they say those estimates could rise if Trump wins congressional support for much of his economic program. Stock markets have surged since Trump’s election, partly a reflection of opti-

mism that his proposals would boost growth and corporate profits. Thursday’s report was the government’s third and final estimate of GDP growth for the July-September quarter. The upward revision mainly reflected stronger consumer spending, which grew at a 3 percent annual rate, more than the 2.8 percent pace that was estimated a month ago. Consumer spending is closely watched because it accounts for about 70 percent of economic activity. The government also upgraded its estimate for business investment: It showed an increase at a 1.4 percent annual rate, up from a much smaller 0.1 percent rate in the previous estimate. Government spending was also revised up to show growth at a 0.8 percent annual rate, an increase that reflected a smaller drag from cutbacks at the state and local level. The Federal Reserve last week boosted a key interest rate by a quarter-point, just the second increase in the past decade. Fed officials say they think they can begin to gradually raise interest rates as they near their goals for full employment, and inflation increases by about 2 percent a year.

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William Brodsky, longtime leader of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, will resign from the holding company’s board of directors after the acquisition of Bats Global Markets. Brodsky, 72, has served as chairman of the board for CBOE Holdings since May 2013 and was chairman and CEO of CBOE from 1997 to 2013. During those 16 years, the CBOE underwent significant change, including the overhaul of the exchange into a for-profit corporation and CBOE Holdings’ initial public offering in June 2010. Edward Tilly, already CEO of CBOE, will succeed Brodsky as chairman after the deal closes, according to a news release. “We owe (Brodsky) an

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incredible debt of gratitude. ... He successfully oversaw a number of major institutional transitions throughout his tenure, including increased competition, the proliferation of

electronic trading and the company’s transformation from a nonprofit membership organization to a highly successful publicly traded company. I will always be grateful for his leadership, guidance and generosity over these many years,” Tilly said in the release. Susan Phillips and R. Eden Martin, the two other longest-serving board members beside Brodsky, also will resign after the Bats acquisition, which was announced in September. At last year’s CBOE Holdings annual meeting, Brodsky said he would join Cedar Street Asset Management, an international portfolio management firm led by his son Jonathan Brodsky, after departing from CBOE’s board of directors, according to the release.

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T.J. Maxx stores, owned by TJX Cos., base business on the real-life retail experience.

Huge retailer bucks e-commerce trend

TJX’s 10 brands hauled in nearly $31B last year By Kim Bhasin and Lindsey Rupp Bloomberg News

When Kimberly Dulude steps into a T.J. Maxx store near her job at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she likes to begin perusing a clearance aisle in the back. Then she works her way up to shoes. Beauty is next, and so on until she gets to the front. The 29-year-old does buy stuff online all the time — just not from T.J. Maxx. The store, she says, provides the thrill of the hunt. “I kid you not, I could spend hours in there,” Dulude said. There’s been much talk this holiday season about the utter dominance of ecommerce. Cyber Monday set a record for online sales, racking up $3.45 billion, according to Adobe Digital Insights. The National Retail Federation said more people shopped online during the Black Friday weekend than in physical stores. And the clicks continued past the weekend: Retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores and Amazon turned what was once just a discount day for online sales into weeks of bargains. But there are some stores bucking the trend. Take T.J. Maxx and Marshalls, owned by parent company TJX Cos. They’re a rarity in the retail universe: stores that don’t care about online sales because their businesses are based

on the real-life retail experience. Inventory shifts regularly, so no visit is the same — the promise of discovering great items on the cheap is what draws shoppers inside. Companies like Framingham, Mass.-based TJX and competitors Ross Stores and Burlington Stores have a team of buyers that pick up excess items on the wholesale market — anything from cashmere sweaters to copper mugs. TJX alone works with more than 18,000 vendors, including manufacturers and retailers, to scoop up stylish stuff in bulk and resell it at a steal If you love retailers like HomeGoods or Marshalls but don’t live near one, you’re out of luck — online, they sell only gift cards. T.J. Maxx sells some clothing and accessories on its website, but the experience is very different from sifting through racks for a one-ofits-size item. “They’re not worried about it at all,” said Mickey Chadha, an analyst at Moody’s Investor Service who considers T.J. Maxx’s online penetration negligible. “The product is right at the right price. Online is only as good as the product.” A representative for TJX declined to comment on the company’s strategy. Executives repeatedly have stated on conference calls with analysts that they view e-commerce as a supplement to its shops, a way to drive real-life traffic. Though TJMaxx.com launched back in 2013, ecommerce sales remain at

only about 1 percent of total sales and had an “immaterial impact” on growth last year, according to a January filing. “While it’s a small part of our business, we see it as highly complementary to our physical stores,” TJX Chief Executive Officer Ernie Herrman said in May. “We are being methodical in how we grow this business.” It’s working. Shares have more than doubled over the past five years and revenue is up more than 30 percent during the same time period. TJX’s 10 brands hauled in nearly $31 billion in sales last year. When stores like T.J. Maxx do it right, they leave their shoppers filled with feelings of adventure and serendipity, said Jordan Rost, vice president of consumer insights at Nielsen, a research firm. Even an unsuccessful trip to a discount store can reinforce the thrill of the hunt. The instincts driving customers into parking lots are similar to those of online shoppers, Rost said. They’re searching for deals and the best item to fill some broad want or need without a target in mind. New York native Samantha Feldman, 55, shops at T.J. Maxx or Marshalls at least once or twice a week and says she’s never ordered a single thing from them online. She always finds something interesting in there — stuff she feels she’d never find on department store racks. “I know sometimes what they get is out of season,” Feldman said. “But if it’s new for me, it’s good.”

Weight Watchers gains on Winfrey weight loss By Craig Giammona

Bloomberg News

Weight Watchers International’s stock got another boost from the falling weight of Oprah Winfrey, the company’s backer and most famous customer. Shares rose as much as 19 percent after Winfrey announced she’d lost 40 pounds using the program. The diet company, whose shares had fallen 54 percent this year before Thursday’s surge, is unveiling new TV ads with Winfrey touting her weight loss. The media magnate and talk-show veteran became a centerpiece of Weight Watcher’s come-

back plan last year when she bought a stake in the firm and joined the board. In October 2015, when Weight Watchers first announced its deal with Winfrey, the shares more than doubled in a single day. Though the previous rally has faded, Winfrey’s subsequent endorsements of Weight Watchers have given the stock temporary jolts. The shares gained 27 percent over two days last December when Oprah tweeted a video about using the weight-loss program, and there was a 20 percent bump in January after Winfrey said she had lost 26 pounds while still eating

bread every day. The latest marketing push begins next week, just before New Year’s. The coming weeks are critical for Weight Watchers: The company typically adds about 40 percent of new customers in the first quarter, when resolutions push people to seek out diets. Weight Watchers has been hit by the rise of free fitness apps, and a move away from strict calorie counting among dieters. But Winfrey’s wide-ranging influence has brought new life to the brand, which has added subscribers for three straight quarters after years of declines.

Shares closed at $11.08 Thursday, up 56 cents. The New York-based company hopes that Winfrey’s new ads, which emphasize that she still enjoys pasta and tacos, will convince dieters that its updated program is an effective weight-loss tool. “It’s vitally important that Oprah is living the program and articulating it in a way that’s authentic,” said Maurice Herrera, the head of marketing at Weight Watchers. “It really connects with prospective members.” Despite the subscriber gains, it’s been a rocky year for Weight Watchers. The

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company has billions in debt, and its stock is heavily shorted. In September, Chief Executive Officer Jim Chambers announced he was leaving after about three years at the helm. That sent the shares plummeting to their lowest level in nearly a year. Chambers had been working to turn around the company, an effort that included revamping its nutrition program and adding a social-networking component to its app. Now, Weight Watchers is being run by a trio of executives who constitute the “interim office of the CEO.” The ads rolling out next

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week show Winfrey doing yoga and cooking pasta. As consumers have changed their perception of wellness, Weight Watchers has pivoted to emphasize that weight loss and indulgence aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive.

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OBITUARIES ROSALYN O’CHERONY 1922-2016

Teacher’s professional path altered by WWII By Graydon Megan Chicago Tribune

Rosalyn O’Cherony was a professor of Spanish at Northeastern Illinois University for more than 20 years whose path in life was altered by world events. She had planned to get a law degree, but many law schools closed during World War II, and instead she took a job with the U.S. State Department, which posted her to Cuba. She met and married a Cuban man, and the couple left the island for Chicago in 1956 to get away from growing political instability ahead of Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution. O’Cherony, 94, died of ovarian cancer Dec. 11 in Westminster Place in Evanston, according to her daughter Frances Archer. Archer said that for most of her life her mother lived within blocks of NEIU in the city’s North Park neighborhood. She was born Rosalyn Krantzler in the small Pennsylvania coal mining town of Beaverdale, where her daughter said she was president of her senior class in high school. She went on to Penn State in the town of State College, earning a bachelor’s degree in political science and Spanish. “She had to take a foreign language and chose Spanish,” said her daughter, of the choice that would become such an important part of O’Cherony’s life. She had hoped to go to law school but found many law schools were closed during World War II. Instead, in the fall of 1944, she took a secretarial position with the U.S. Department of State in Washington. Three months later she was offered the opportunity to go to Havana as the assistant to the cultural attache at the U.S. embassy there. O’Cherony later told family members the job might have gone to a man but for the wartime manpower shortage. Not long after arriving in Cuba, she was asked to fill in for the attache as the instructor in an evening English class for Cuban professionals. One of the students

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Rosalyn O’Cherony became a Spanish professor but at first wanted to study law.

was a Cuban pediatrician, Dr. Domingo O’Cherony. The two married in 1947. She later managed a scientific and educational exchange program fostering interaction between Cuba and the United States. Faced with a transfer to the U.S. embassy in Paris, Rosalyn O’Cherony quit and became a teacher and administrator with the CubanAmerican Cultural Institute in Havana and also helped provide guidance to young Cubans applying for admission to U.S. schools and camp programs. In 1956, O’Cherony and her husband moved to Chicago, planning to eventually return to Cuba, Archer said. “But the political situation was already unstable.” The couple chose Chicago, her daughter said, because the state had more amenable licensing laws for foreign physicians. While her husband began an internship at the now-closed Michael Reese O’Cherony Hospital, worked briefly in hospital administration before starting to teach Spanish, first for a year in a Chicago public school and then at what is now Northeastern Illinois University. O’Cherony began teaching there in 1961 and was head of the school’s department of foreign languages when she retired in 1984. While teaching, she received both a master’s degree and a doctorate in Spanish at Northwestern University, her daughter said. She was also awarded several fellowships and was

a co-recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for improving foreign language instruction in urban schools. Elaine Winer was taking a required language course in 1969 when she took a class with O’Cherony, whom she credits with launching her on a career in teaching. “I started my career in Spanish because of Dr. O’Cherony,” said Winer, who retired from Deerfield High School after 25 years of teaching Spanish. “She turned me on to Spanish.” Winer, who now teaches Spanish classes for adults, called O’Cherony a pioneer in making the language come alive for her students. That included bringing in props like sombreros to reinforce vocabulary and trips to the professor’s home to sample Spanish food and to speak Spanish with her Cuban-born husband. “She really mentored me throughout my career,” Winer said. Liesl Downey, Northeastern’s vice president of institutional advancement, said O’Cherony, who received the school’s presidential award for outstanding performance as a professor, stayed in touch after her retirement. “She came back a lot, swam at the pool (here) and attended concerts and lectures,” Downey said. Frances Archer said her mother swam three times a week until three months before she died. In retirement, she was also an avid theatergoer and enjoyed movies and travel. Winer called her former teacher warm and caring and said she gave Winer some simple advice. “Keep it light, keep it fun, keep it real.” Other survivors include another daughter, Diane; sisters Ruth Weinstein and Jeannette Krantzler; three grandchildren; and one great-grandson. Her husband died in 2009. A celebration of her life is planned for early next year. Graydon Megan is a freelance reporter.

In 1783, George Washing-

ton resigned as commander in chief of the Army and retired to his home at Mount Vernon, Va. In 1788 Maryland voted to

cede a 100-square-mile area for the seat of the national government; about twothirds of the area became the District of Columbia. In 1823 the poem “A Visit

from St. Nicholas” by Clement Moore was published in the Troy (N.Y.) Sentinel. In 1928 the National Broad-

casting Co. set up a permanent, coast-to-coast network.

In 1941 during World War II, American forces on Wake Island surrendered to the Japanese. In 1948 former Japanese

premier Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were executed in Tokyo.

In 1968 82 crew members of the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo were released by North Korea, 11 months after they had been captured.

In 1998 Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat freed Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin from house arrest, a move denounced by Israel.

In 1986 the experimental

In 2001 Israel barred Yas-

airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, completed the first nonstop, nonrefueled, roundthe-world flight as it landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California. In 1987 Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, serving a life sentence for the attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford in 1975, escaped from the Alderson Federal Prison for Women in West Virginia. (She was recaptured two days later.) In 1997 a jury in Denver

convicted Terry Nichols of involuntary manslaughter and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, declining to find him guilty of murder.

ser Arafat from making his annual Christmas Eve visit to Bethlehem, the traditional birthplace of Jesus.

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Annerino, Dorothy J.

Dorothy J. Annerino, from Berkeley, IL, September 3, 1923-December 17, 2016. Beloved wife of Anthony Annerino for 55 years. Proceeded in death by her parents, Oval and Otto Hartwick; brother, Curtis Harrison; sister, Marion Rende. Surviving: brother, Edward Hartwick (Mary), Lombard, IL; mother of Edward Daly (Claudette), St. Charles, MO, Jean Landgraf, Austin, TX, 7 grandchildren, twelve greatgrandchildren, many nieces and nephews. Services private. Memorial pending. Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries

Brown, Mary Ellen L.

Mary Ellen L. Brown, 77, of Lake Bluff, IL. and Dataw Island, SC, died on Sunday, December 18th. “Mel” Brown, daughter of the late Frank and Alnora Lathers, and loving wife of Jackson D. Brown, passed away at their home in Lake Bluff, IL after a long, brave battle with cancer. She is survived by her husband “Jack,” son Perry and daughter Alison. She is also survived by daughter-in-law Francisca and three grandchildren: Ford, Olivia and Felix. Mel was born and raised in Maple Bluff, WI and attended the University of Wisconsin; she was a member of the Delta Gamma Sorority and graduated with a major in Journalism. In the early 1960’s, she moved to Chicago and got her first job as a copywriter for Marshall Field & Company where she worked on fashion advertising and other retail efforts. Mel’s next job was at the iconic advertising agency, Leo Burnett, during the “Mad Men” days, where she was one of the first female copywriters hired by Leo himself. She did award-winning advertising for Brown Shoe; also worked on Campbell Soup and other major accounts; and, it was at Burnett where she fell in love with Jack, an account executive at the company. They married, later moved to Lake Bluff, IL and had two children (both of whom later took up careers in marketing and communications). After Burnett, Mel continued to work as a freelance copywriter for several companies including Chappell Lockhart and the Lake Forest Shop. She also volunteered for the United Way, AYSO, Lake Forest & Lake Bluff Open Lands Association, Lake Forest Garden Club, Women’s Board of the Lake Forest Hospital and was President of the Lake Forest Chapter of the Infant Welfare Society. Further, after the couple’s retirement in 1999, they built a second home in Dataw Island, SC where they spent the winter months and formed many new friendships. Mel added to her volunteer work by becoming a member of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution and the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America; and she and Jack were on the Council for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Even in retirement, Mel remained a very active person; either playing tennis, platform tennis or golf. She also loved to read, fish, travel and to do the New York Times crossword puzzle every day. She will be greatly missed by her family and friends. A Memorial Visitation will be held on Friday, January 6, from 5:30-8:00pm, at Wenban Funeral Home in Lake Forest, IL. A Memorial Mass will be held on Saturday, January 7 at 11:30am, at the Church of St. Mary in Lake Forest, IL. Info at Wenban Funeral Home 847234-0022 or www.wenbanfh.com.

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Bob Feie, of Chicago, IL, passed away on the winter solstice, Dec. 21, 2016, at the age of 66, surrounded by his loving family. Bob was born to Robert W. and Martha (nee Kirschner) on Feb. 11, 1950 in Cincinnati, OH. He was a loving brother to Deb, Terri, Gregg (Kathy), and Tom (Mike). Bob was a gifted graphic designer, and will live on forever in the work he created. Bob is survived by his adoring wife Margaret (nee Nagy), and beloved children: William, Robert G. (Jessica), Jon, and Vanessa (Kelsie). He is preceded in death by his father Robert W., and first wife Anne (nee Koester). Per Bob’s wishes, his remains will be cremated. A memorial celebrating Bob’s life will take place in 2017. Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries

In 2002 Senate Repub-

licans unanimously elected Bill Frist to succeed Trent Lott as their leader in the next Congress. In 2004 Democrat Chris-

tine Gregoire won the Washington governor’s race by 130 votes out of 2.9 million ballots cast, according to final recount results announced from Seattle’s King County.

In 2005 South Korean re-

searcher Hwang Woo-suk resigned from his university, which said he had fabricated his stem-cell research once hailed as a breakthrough.

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Thomas J. Flavin (age: 84) Korean War Veteran Beloved husband of the late Lorabelle Flavin nee: Pavlak; Loving father of Michael (Laura), Patrick (Bernadine), Thomas (late Lynn), Beth (Ricardo) Vargas and Joan (Kenneth) Fritsch; Proud grandfather of Shannon, Amy (Andy) Williams, Maureen (Eddy) Gronko, Jacqueline (Michael) Moyski, Katelynn, Brian, Kelsey, Lucas, Daniel, Lucia and Cobie; Cherished great grandfather of Liam, Madison, Brody, Harper and Kailani, Dear brother of the late William (Patricia), brother in law of Janet (late James) Pawlisz, and the late Betty (late Harry) Bocian; Adored uncle to many and treasured friend to all. Visitation: Monday, 10:00 AM until 12:00 AM Chapel Funeral Service at Chapel Hill Gardens South Funeral Home, 11333 S. Central Ave., Oak Lawn, IL 60453. Internment: Private at St. Mary Cemetery. Info: 708-636-1200. Memorials may be made to American House- Happy Hour Fund, 14804 S Van Dyke Rd, Plainfield, IL 60544-4449 in memory of Tom Flavin. Info visit: www.chapelhillgardenssouth.com or call 708-636-1200.

Baraboo, WI.- Mildred J. “Millie” Halla, 99, of Baraboo, formerly of Chicago, Illinois, died peacefully on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016 at Oak Park Place assisted living community in Baraboo. Millie was born on June 26, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois the daughter of Charles and Agnes (Zrna) Kral. She was the youngest of their seven children. Millie graduated from Austin High School in Chicago in 1935 and went to work as a bookkeeper for Montgomery Ward. She met her husband, Richard C. Halla, at a picnic and in 1945, when he returned home from four years of military service in the Pacific during World War II, they were united in marriage. Millie’s greatest joys in life were her faith, family, and friends. She stayed at home to raise her three children, participated in church groups and other clubs, and loved volunteering. She had a true gift for conversation. Those who loved her will remember her for her open heart, giving spirit, and gentle nature. She is survived by her daughters, Ruth (Stephen) Getsinger, of Baraboo, and Dorothy (Toby) Markowitz, of Roseville, Minnesota; grandchildren, Alison (Howie) Chan, of San Francisco, California, Annie (Andi) Getsinger, of DeForest, Adam (Christine) Halla, of New Orleans, Louisiana and Eric (Nicolle) Halla, of Peoria, Illinois; great-grandchildren, Cameron Miles Chan and James Richard Halla; and many other loved ones. Millie was preceded in death by her husband, Richard C. Halla, Sr.; her son, Richard C. Halla, Jr.; and many other family members and friends. Private family graveside services are being planned. In honor of Millie’s giving spirit, memorials can be made to the churches she attended; the United in Faith Lutheran Church in Chicago, Illinois, First United Methodist Church in Baraboo and the First Lutheran Church in Columbia Heights, Minnesota. Millie’s family would like to thank the wonderful caring people at Oak Park Place, her medical providers, Sandra Hayes APNP and Dr. Thomas Rex Flygt, the staff at St. Croix Hospice and Pastor Marianne Cotter for the support they have provided. The Rago-Baldwin Funeral Home is assisting the family. Rago-Baldwin Funeral Home, 520 East St., Baraboo, WI. 53913, (608) 356-4656 Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries

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Maria Hetke of Morton Grove, beloved wife of the late Richard Hetke and the late Ronald O’Halloran; loving companion of Robert Haselsteiner; dear mother of Charles (Sheila), Charlotte and Susan O’Halloran; cherished Oma of Caitlin, Kevin, Grace and Alex; beloved sister in law of Patricia Strumfeld; sister and aunt of an extended family in Germany. Retired employee of Carson’s at Edens Plaza, Wilmette. Funeral from Simkins Funeral Home 6251 Dempster St. Morton Grove Tuesday 10:30 a.m. to St. Martha Church 8523 Georgiana Ave. Morton Grove, Mass 11 a.m. Interment Memory Gardens Cemetery. Visitation Monday 4 to 8 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations to American Cancer Society 225 N. Michigan Ave. Suite 1200 Chicago, IL 60601 appreciated. Sign online guestbook at www.simkinsfh. com 847-965-2500

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Robert Leo Hulseman, 84, of Northfield, IL, and Scottsdale, AZ, died peacefully on Wednesday, December 21st, surrounded by his family. Devoted husband of nearly 60 years of the late Sheila Murphy Hulseman. Beloved father of Robert (Betty), Richard (Kelly), Paul (Patrice), Margaret Kovach (Joseph), Joseph (Frances), the late Jean Kloos (Robert), Thomas (Esteban Diaz), Lawrence (Amanda), Patricia (Brian Abrams), and William. Honored grandfather of Liam Hulseman; Zachary Lucas; Colin, Patrick, Conor, Michael, Sean, Molly, Brendan, Brian, Kathleen, Devitt, Delia, Emmett & Aidan Hulseman; Kaitlin, Elizabeth (Ryan Duggan), Greta & Joseph Kovach; Kathryn, Anna, Clare & Sheila Hulseman; David & Sarah Kloos; Lawrence & Charles Hulseman; and Erin & Michaela Abrams. Dear brother of John Hulseman (the late Georgia) of Vero Beach, FL, fond brother-in-law of Eileen Samuelson (Alan) of Park Ridge and Judith Murphy, OSB, of Chicago, and uncle to 11 nieces and nephews. Bob met his wife, Sheila, as a student at Marquette University, and together they were awarded honorary doctorates from the Catholic Theological Union in recognition of their lifelong commitment to service and principled leadership. At 18, Bob began working in the factory at Solo Cup Company, the business his father began. Over the course of nearly 60 years, he worked in a variety of roles and oversaw the company’s growth into one of the largest foodservice packaging companies in the world, ultimately serving as President and CEO before his retirement. He was known as an innovator, a handson manufacturing expert, and an industry pioneer; many of the products he developed are ubiquitous today, including the Red Solo Cup and the Traveller Lid. As philanthropists, Bob and Sheila were committed to supporting a variety of organizations and causes committed to Catholic education, anti-poverty initiatives, and religious communities. Throughout his life, Bob was a gentleman who demonstrated class at all turns and a great deal of trust in others. Bob to his friends and Papa to his grandchildren, he was known for his sense of humor, which manifested in many a bad joke, great wit, and his ability to spin a partner on the dance floor. He had a gift for music, which he inherited from his mother, and his family and friends remember fondly the times he sat down at the piano to entertain. As a young man, he was quite an athlete, picking up his father’s talent for polo, and throughout his life he was a competitive tennis player. He counted the late Joseph Cardinal Bernardin among his close friends. Robert’s gift for language gave voice to both strong sentiment and a deep spirituality, and he filled countless notebooks with poems that expressed his knowledge of God’s love, his devotion to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and the great love he shared with his wife, Sheila. Visitation on Monday, December 26th at Saints Faith, Hope, and Charity Church, 191 Linden Street, Winnetka, IL, from 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m., followed by a Funeral Mass at 5:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to The Benedictine Sisters of Chicago, 7430 N. Ridge Blvd., Chicago, IL60645 or Misericordia Heart of Mercy, 6300 N. Ridge Avenue, Chicago, IL 60660 or Presence St. Francis Hospital, c/o Presence Health Foundation, 200 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 1100, Chicago, IL 60606. Info 847-6751990 or www.donnellanfuneral.com.

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Iwaszkiewicz, LCpl. Mark

Lance Corporal Mark Iwaszkiewicz, age 23, United States Marine Corps, suddenly. Beloved son of Elaine Pounders and Titus (Kristie) Iwaszkiewicz. Devoted grandson of Eileen Popp and great grandson of Alice Petraitis. Dear nephew of Donna (Frank) Rinaldi and Terri Sikorski. Loving stepbrother of Zachary and Brad Woodward. Dearest cousin of Jordon, Jessica, Alexandrea (Kiernan), Victoria and Robbie. Cherished companion of Paige Allen. Visitation Tuesday and Wednesday 3-9 PM at the Palos-Gaidas Funeral Home, 11028 Southwest Hwy. (7700W) Palos Hills. Funeral Thursday 10:30 AM from the funeral home to Sacred Heart Church for 1130 AM Mass. Express your thoughts and memories in the online Guest Book at www.palosgaidasfh. com (708) 974-4410

Lavidge, Robert J. ‘Bob’

Robert James “Bob” Lavidge passed away on December 15th, just 12 days shy of his 95th birthday at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona. Born in 1921, Bob was raised on the south side of Chicago. After high school graduation, he attended DePauw University on a full academic scholarship. It was there where he met his wife, Margaret Zwigard. When Bob graduated from college, World War II was underway. Therefore, he immediately entered the Naval Midshipmen School at Notre Dame University where he led his class in seamanship. Due to his performance at Midshipmen School, he was ordered to remain as a member of the Notre Dame faculty for an additional eight months. Once that assignment was completed, he was assigned as an Executive Officer on a ship that fought the Japanese in the Pacific. After the war, Bob was accepted into Harvard law school. However, he instead decided to enter the University of Chicago Graduate Business School where he completed their two-year Master program in only 15 months with one of the highest GPAs ever recorded. He then entered the work world in Chicago as marketing researcher for the Pepsodent brand—a division of Unilever. After a few years, he entered into a business partnership with Robert Elrick. The two men founded Elrick & Lavidge which became one of the nation’s most respected marketing research firms. In 1978, Bob sold the firm to Equifax, but remained on as President until his retirement at age 65. He then became President Emeritus and continued to accept special assignments until he was 80. Bob was very active as a community, civic and industry volunteer. All of his service is too long to mention, but some notable volunteerism included serving as President (Mayor) of the Western Springs Town Council, Chairman of the Cook County Council of Governments, National President of the American Marketing Association (AMA) and on the Board of Trustees of the McCormick Theological Seminary. In the evenings, he also taught as an adjunct faculty member for 30 years at Northwestern University. Bob received numerous awards for his accomplishments. He was valedictorian of his high school class, President of his fraternity and a member of Phi Beta Kappa in college. In addition, he received the Parlin Innovation and Leadership Award from the AMA/Wharton Graduate School of Business. In his spare time, which was scarce, he enjoyed sailing and golf. Much of this was done at the family’s summer home on Klinger Lake, Michigan. In 2006, Bob’s wife of 60 years, Margaret, passed away from Alzheimer’s disease. Three years later he fell in love and married Virginia “Ginny” Lowery. Ginny and Bob enjoyed 7 years together. Although Bob accomplished so much during his time on earth, he was most proud of his family. He is preceded in death by his parents, Arthur and Mary, and his first wife, Margaret. He is survived by his second wife, Ginny, brother Arthur, daughters Margaret/ Twinkle Gosselink (husband Paul), Kathleen Lavidge (husband Ed McKinley), Lynn Rovelstad (husband Todd), son Bill (wife Julie), 7 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, please consider making donations in Bob’s honor to the Vi Scholarship Fund (7501 E. Thompson Peak Parkway, Scottsdale, AZ 85255) or the American Marketing Association Foundation (130 E. Randolph St., 22nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60601).

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Klein, Richard S.

Richard S. Klein, loving brother of Joyce (Bob) Young; dear uncle of Melissa (John) Wilkinson, Steve (Ellen Arnold) Young and the late Raymond (Carol) Young; great-uncle to Joey, Marley, Jessica, Kelsey and Alex; great-great uncle to Skylar. Private services to be held. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Gathering Place, 23300 Commerce Park, Beachwood, OH 44122. Arrangements by Weinstein & Piser Funeral Home, 847-256-5700. Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries

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Milio, Joseph Edward

Visitation Monday from 3:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. at Cumberland Chapels 8300 W. Lawrence Ave., Norridge, IL. Funeral services will begin at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, at the funeral home, and will then proceed to St. Robert Bellarmine Church for Mass at 10:00 a.m. Committal service to follow at Acacia Park Cemetery. info www.cumberlandchapels.com or 708-456-8300.

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Nesslar, Louis Casper

Louis Casper Nesslar, June 8, 1939-December 18, 2016. Survived by his loving wife of 53 years, Johanna Vaughan Nesslar; beloved children, Kristine (Yancey Hughes) Nesslar, Jennifer Nesslar, Colleen (Steven) Noth, Craig (Rebecca) Nesslar; dear grandchildren, Colleen, Lydia, Alech, Devin, Riley, Abigail, Quinn, Kiernan, Christian and Belaye; sister, Lynne (James) Newman; brother-in-laws Maurice (Ellen) Burns and Owen Burns and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Preceded in death by his parents, Louis & Florence Schneidereit Nesslar. Visitation: Thursday, December 29th, from 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM, at Leonard Funeral Home (630469-0032), 565 Duane Street, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137; Funeral Mass: Friday, December 30 at 10:00 AM at St. Petronille Church, 420 Glenwood Avenue, Glen Ellyn, IL, 60137; Interment 1:00 PM at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, 20953 West Hoff Road, Elwood, IL, 60421. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to a charity of your choice. Louis graduated from York High School in 1957 and was a member of the Army Security Agency. He studied, taught and was a Technical Director the Goodman School of Drama, Lighting Installation at Grand Stage Lighting and Studio Supervisor at WGN for 28 years. In retirement, he was a volunteer scuba diver and technical assistant at the Shedd Aquarium & was honored for 11,000 hours of volunteer service. He taught scuba diving for 52 years and was actively involved in many organizations including Our World Underwater, H2Ogers, AEG and ROV. Lou was most at home near or in the water and was an avid opera fan. Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries

O’Doherty, Meghan A.

Meghan was born August 13, 1975 in Oak Lawn. She passed away peacefully at her home December 20, 2016.Meghan is survived by her daughter Eileen, parents Kevin and Michele O’Doherty; and grandparents, Thomas and Rosemary O’Doherty. She was the loving sister of Kevin, Molly (Brandon) Johnson, and Ryan (Kate); fond aunt of Tommy, Paige, Tess, Ronan, Scotty, Gigi, and Finn; dear niece of Kathy O’Doherty, Maura (Patrick) Kohl, James (Mary) Murtaugh, and Dennis (Ann) Murtaugh; and great niece of Mary B. Murtaugh. She is also survived by many dear cousins and friends. She was preceded in death by her maternal grandparents, James and Jeanne Murtaugh. Memorial visitation will be 4-8pm, Friday, January 6, 2017 at Davenport Family Funeral Home, 149 W. Main St (Lake-Cook) Barrington. Mass will be 11am, Saturday, January 7 at St. Benedict Catholic Church, 2215 W. Irving Park Road, Chicago, where there will be visitation from 10:30am until the mass.In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Meghan’s daughter, Eileen, for her future education and care. Checks payable to: Eileen ODoherty Care and Education Fund, c/o Barrington Bank and Trust Company, 201 S Hough St, Barrington.. Please visit www.davenportfamily.com to send condolences. Call 847-381-3411 for information.

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Strening, Robert Roy

Robert Roy Strening, age 98. Formerly of Oak Park. Beloved husband of the Sarah Ellen nee, Vasser. Loving father of Linda (William) Ryan of Orlando, Fla., Susan (James) Doss, of Westchester,Il, Sally (Paul) Wirtz of Naperville,IL. and Thomas (Mary Jo) Strening of No. Riverside, IL.Fond grandfather of 12 and great grandfather of 10. Dear brother of Rosemary Rogers,Harriet Reedy and the late Carlisle “Mike” Strening and the late Joan Kipp. Proud WWII Army Veteran. In lieu of flowers contributions to Catholic Charities, www.catholiccharities.net, appreciated. Lying in state Friday Dec. 23rd at 10:15 a,m, until time of mass at 11:00 a.m at Ascension Church, 800 South East Avenue in Oak Park. Interment Queen of Heaven Cemetery. Info: PETERSON-BASSI CHAPELS/ GAMBONEY & SON DIRECTORS 708/848-6661. Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries

Swarthout, Edgar Milton

Edgar Milton Swarthout, age 76, of LaGrange; survived by his wife, Mary Grether, and nephew, Jon Ratzlaff of Cincinnati, OH. Edgar died from a prolonged illness of Mycobacterium avium-intracelluleare (MAI), a pulmonary disease, for 3 years. He attended Leo High School and the American Conservatory of Music. He held Bachelor’s Degrees in Piano Performance and Composition and a Master’s Degree in Music Theory. Among his teachers were William Browning, for piano, Stella Roberts for theory, and Leo Sowerby for composition. After retiring from his career in computer systems, he returned to his love of music and the piano. In 2005, Edgar and Andrew Remillard began playing two piano music and performed for audiences. They appeared in a number of venues in the western suburbs including the La Grange Public Library, and in La Porte, IN. Visitation will be held from 3 to 8pm on Tuesday, Dec. 27 at Hallowell & James Funeral Home, 1025 W. 55th St., Countryside. Funeral prayers 11am Wednesday, Dec. 28 from the funeral home to St. Cletus Church, LaGrange. Mass 11:30am. Interment Clarendon Hills Cemetery, Darien. In lieu of flowers, monetary gifts can be given in his name to The Residential Hospice Foundation, 5440 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Troy, MI 48098. Funeral info: 708-352-6500 or hjfunerals.com

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Terp, Earl Thomsen

Dr. Earl T. Terp DDS, a 19 year resident of Tucson Az, formerly of Arlington Hts and Palatine, IL passed away peacefully on Dec. 17 at the age of 89 in his home in Tucson. Dr. Terp’s dental practice served the community of Des Plaines, IL and surrounding suburbs from 1956 until he retired in 1988. An avid card player all of his life he was especially proud of becoming a Life Master of the game of Bridge. He was raised on the northside of Chicago near Irving Pk Rd and Western Ave, the youngest of 4 boys and graduated from Lane Tech High School in 1945. After graduating from Loyola Dental School in 1953 he enlisted in the Air Force for 2 years. He is preceded in death by his parents Anton and Marie Terp and his brothers Oscar, Norman and Roy Terp and 2 loving wives June and Gwen. He is survived by Joan his current wife of 6 years, and his children John (Linda) Terp, Karen (Kevin) Redig and Karl Terp and adoring grandchlidren Dr. Amanda Redig, Sam (Cassie) Redig and Cliff Redig, plus 3 great grandchildren. He will be greatly missed by many friends and relatives. A private memorial service will be planned in 2017. Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries

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James R. Sanford, Age 78 Beloved husband of LaVerne M. (nee Beening). Loving father of Theresa (Patrick) Reppen, Catherine (Ross) Sikyta, James Jr (Susan) Sanford and Mary (Richard) Okragly. Devoted son of the late Carl and Lorraine. Cherished grandfather of Shannon, Rebecca, Connor, Matthew, Ashley (Jonathon), Melanie, Joseph and Savannah. Fond uncle of Ann Marie, John, Michael, David and Elizabeth. U.S. Army, Sgt. Jim was a Lithographer for almost 40 years. He was a Deacon at St Emily Church in Mt Prospect since 1986 and Pastoral Associate, 1992. In lieu of flowers donations will be appreciated: alz. org Visitation Monday, Dec 26 at St Emily Catholic Church 1400 Central Rd, Mt Prospect from 3-8 p.m. Funeral mass Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. Interment All Saints Catholic Cemetery, Des Plaines. Funeral arrangements entrusted to River Woods Funeral Chapels, for info: 847-635-5900 or riverwoodsfc. com

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Morris Simon, beloved husband of Clarice, nee Lotsoff for 57 wonderful years; devoted father of Shelley Lance (Frank Shoichet), Jay (Carol) Simon and Marla (John) Kopke; proud and loving grandpa of Sara, Elyssa, Leah, Stephanie, Jennifer and Michael; dearest brother of the late Shirley (the late Sam) Mankoff; caring uncle, cousin and friend to many. Chapel service today, Friday Dec. 23, at 12:15 PM at Shalom Memorial Funeral Home, 1700 W. Rand Rd., Arlington Heights. Interment Shalom Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Cancer Research Institute at cancerresearch.org. For information and to leave condolences (847) 255-3520 or www.shalom2.com.

Terence “Terry” L. Thomas age 59 of Chicago, IL.; owner & coach of the Chicago Thunder Semi-Pro Football Team; Loving son of the late Daniel and Jean (nee Noga) Thomas; Dear brother of Kevin (Julie) Thomas; Loving uncle of Heather, Ryan and Brittany Thomas. Visitation Tuesday, 3:00-9:00 p.m. at Salerno’s Rosedale Chapels 450 W. Lake St. Roselle, IL. 60172 (3/4 mile west of Bloomingdale/ Roselle Rd.). Funeral Service will begin at 7:00 p.m. Interment Private. For info 630-889-1700 or www. salernofuneralhomes.com

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Ziron, Helmut

Helmut Ziron age 85, of Crown Point, IN. formerly of Frankfort IL. passed away on December 8, 2016. He was employed at Universal Power Piping in South Chicago for over 25 years. Later he was a part of the founding of Ziron Environmental with his son Brian in Chicago Heights, IL. In retirement, he later owned Canterbury Tails Horse Farm in Frankfort, IL. Helmut is survived by his loving wife of 54 years- Barbara; son – Brian (Katheryn) Ziron; daughter- Annemarie Ziron; 4 grandchildren. Funeral services will be private. Burns Funeral Home, Crown Point IN entrusted with arrangements. Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries

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It’s easy to rip Hoiberg, but team brass truly at fault with bad drafts, moves A year ago this week, Bulls star Jimmy Butler urged coach Fred Hoiberg to coach harder. On Wednesday night after another listless loss dropped the Bulls to .500, Bulls guard Dwyane Wade essentially asked Hoiberg to coach David smarter. Haugh ’Tis the season for giving the In the Wake young Bulls coach grief. of the News You wonder if all Hoiberg wants for Christmas is his old job back at Iowa State, where his strategy received far less scrutiny and players endorsed his message more than they ignored it. You suspect Hoiberg deserves better than to have the onus of another unsatisfying Bulls season fall mainly on his shoulders, which are slumping lately. Nobody expects the Bulls to call a Christmas Eve news conference, as they have done in the past, and fire their head coach. But the last week has underscored the challenges Hoiberg has faced since arriving for his first NBA head-coaching gig in June 2015 looking like an innocent from Ames, Iowa. Hoiberg’s easy smile has been replaced by a mask of tension. Turn to Haugh, Page 2

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Illinois-bred Happ big for Wisconsin By Shannon Ryan |

Sweet & sour

A star was born in Rio. The Blackhawks’ bid for a repeat ended early. The Bulls dealt a fading star. Oh, and the Cubs won the World Series. The biggest moments of the year in sports.

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Christmas get-togethers for the Happ family always included a trip to a gym for a pickup game or — depending on the weather — some hoops in the driveway. “Christmas was an interesting time,” said Wisconsin sophomore big man Ethan Happ, who grew up in Milan, Ill., and is a cousin of Blue Jays pitcher J.A. Happ. “All the Happ cousins on the Happ side are athletic. I was always one of the MORE youngest. To get any minutes, you INSIDE had to be the toughest on the floor Shannon Ryan and scrap for everything. ranks the 14 “I’ve taken it throughout the rest teams entering of my career to not be outworked by conference anyone.” play. Page 5 Happ was toughened early by an athletic family that included not only J.A. Happ, who pitched at Northwestern, but also father Randy, who played basketball at Division III North Central; older brother Eric, who played basketball at Carl Sandburg College; and cousin Mark Szott, who played football at Northwestern. Those lessons have translated to Happ’s college career. Turn to Happ, Page 4

Duke suspends Allen indefinitely By Jessika Morgan |

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Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said Thursday that Grayson Allen’s behavior was unacceptable and that the junior guard’s future, if he wants to go pro, will depend on how he responds. Krzyzewski suspended Allen indefinitely after he tripped an Elon player Wednesday night, Allen’s Allen third such incident in the last year. Allen was whistled for a technical foul for tripping Steven Santa Ana in the first half of the fifth-ranked Blue Devils’ 72-61 victory. He took a seat on the bench, slamming his hand on the empty seat next to him, then covered his reddened face with a towel as Santa Ana knocked down three of four free throws. Allen tripped players from Louisville and Florida State in February. “If we start counting up the mistakes of every player ... we’re going to find that a lot of players do something wrong,” Krzyzewski said Thursday. “He’s in a position where what he does is magnified because of our program, and what he did is unacceptable. “What does that do for his future? How he plays will determine what it does for his future. The fact that he did something last year that wasn’t good, that’s not good. When you get to the NBA, there’s going to be a lot of different pressures, too, and things can go wrong. Hopefully we use it as an opportunity to show that he can improve (and) won’t go back there.”

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Clockwise from top: Simone Biles won four gold medals at the Rio Olympics. Corey Crawford and the Blackhawks lost Game 7 of a firstIN REVIEW round playoff series against the Blues. Derrick Rose returned to Chicago as a Knick. And ace Jon Lester laid down a squeeze bunt to give the Cubs a walk-off win against the Mariners.

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Steve Rosenbloom: If the NFL had a heart, it would schedule the Bears to play Game 15 on Saturday against the Washington football team and then Game 16 on Sunday against the Vikings. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, no better gift than no more Bears games. More Rosenbloom, Page 2

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Just how slow can Bulls go? The. Bulls. Become. Slow. And. Bad. In. The. Fourth. Quarter. That. Happens. To. Old. And. Bad. Teams. One. Good. Game. Per. Week. Apparently. Is. The. Max. For. The. Easily. Tired. Bulls. The Wizards aren’t good, but the Bulls found a way to blow a double-digit lead at home to them Wednesday night. The. Slow. And. Old. Bulls. Choked. The. Same. Way. Against. The. Timberwolves. At. Home. Last. Week. The. Bulls. Apparently. Are. Slow. Learners. Too. Dwyane Wade should be better late. But he isn’t. Getting old stinks. Rajon Rondo should be better. But he isn’t. It’s. Part. Of. The. Slow. Fade. Jimmy Butler should have no excuse. But his shooting stunk Wednesday. The Wizards have no bench, but their subs outscored the Bulls’. Why aren’t the young players better? Why. Are. They. Slow. To. Learn. And. Improve? Gar. Forman. Built. An. Old. And. Slow. And. Bad. Team. He said it would be younger and more athletic. Uh, no. Where. Is. The. Hope. For. These. Slowto-learn. And. Slow-to-react. Bulls? I’ll hang up and listen for the eighth seed.

Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr. could not have come up with a better pair of cleats with which to pay tribute to Craig Sager. Like most of the clothes Sager was known for wearing, the shoes were bright, bold, gaudy and featured about five patterns. They also were subject to a big fine. Beckham shared the news that the NFL had fined him $18,000 in a reply to an Instagram post by Redskins receiver DeSean Jackson, who lamented being fined for his shoe choice Monday. Beckham replied: “Don’t worry I got fined 18k for Craig Sager cleats that were auction off the cleats to the highest bidder and donating the proceeds to his cancer research. 18k like it’s nothin to them, no warning to take them off or anything, noTHING!” Washington Post

completing the comeback, but those versatile Bears let the defense have honors on the tee against the Packers. I guess that’s John Fox’s idea of complementary football. The Bears placed Kyle Fuller on injured reserve, ending his season. Well, the Bears wanted a shut-down cornerback, and now they have one. Sorry to get maudlin at this time of year,

but I feel lucky to have grown up watching the NFL decades ago when everybody knew what a catch was.

If only Marcus Kruger had been awarded

Tuesday’s penalty shot in January because that’s the next month he’s likely to score a goal.

Please don’t tell me Jonathan Toews What’s up, Gus Frerotte?

Former Oklahoma and Cowboys coach Barry Switzer figured when he told reporters he was going to be Donald Trump’s Secretary of Offense, they would know he was joking about meeting with the president-elect. “I think they need to learn the cabinet positions,” Switzer told the Associated Press on Thursday. He was in New York last week when he dropped by Trump Tower to see all the action around the building. He stopped to speak with reporters and threw them off track by saying he had met with Trump, whom Switzer has known for more than 20 years. When he was leaving the building, it looked as if he were getting off the elevators after visiting someone. Actually, he had gone to a Starbucks. Switzer said he had a good laugh about the prank: “Got to watch out for fake news these days.” AP

Good deed goes punished

Usually, it’s the offense that chokes on

has become hockey for Jason Heyward.

Switzer pulls off the fake

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Dwyane Wade hasn’t provided many late-game answers for the Bulls thus far this season.

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Coaching not Bulls’ real issue

Haugh, from Page 1

As if awful efforts in back-to-back losses to the Bucks were not indicting enough, Wade’s comments after the Wizards game amplified doubts about Hoiberg, even if that wasn’t the savvy veteran’s tone or intent. Even if the issues at the core of Wade’s non-threatening critique extended well beyond his coach’s control. “It doesn’t matter if a guy knows who it’s going to,” Wade told reporters. “If the paint is packed because you’re running one action, it’s going to be tough. … Let’s call it what it is: We’re putting a lot of pressure on Jimmy in the fourth quarter to make a lot of plays because we’re running just one action. So (we have) to get more action, more body movement.” Put another way: More coaching, better coaching. “It has to come from us as players too,” added Wade, who also complimented the offensive sets early in the game. “Obviously, some of it is play-calling as well. Some of it is we have to get out the way, we have to move, we have to keep them honest.” Honestly, the Bulls’ biggest problems don’t start with Hoiberg. Though many will use what Wade said as another excuse to expose Hoiberg as an NBA novice, the words should be interpreted as a plea for help from the Bulls front office responsible for this mess more than criticism of the head coach. Perhaps nothing works in the fourth quarter besides Butler, and occasionally Wade, because too few options exist on the roster. Perhaps no designed plays work because the Bulls don’t have enough dynamic players to execute them. Lack of depth and offensive skill limit the Bulls down the stretch as much as Hoiberg’s imagination. It’s funny how the NBA teams with multiple explosive players on the floor in fourth quarters tend to have the most creative offensive sets. Imagine if Warriors coach Steve Kerr had to choose between Rajon Rondo and Doug McDermott in crunch time. The Bulls could replace their bench with a stool given how few reserves they now trust. That happens when five years of drafting and developing players has become a study in futility. Breaking: That isn’t Hoiberg’s fault. Since 2012, the last five first-round draft picks chosen or traded for by general manager Gar Forman have combined to start 77 NBA games for the Bulls. Point guard Marquis Teague now starts for BC Avtodor Saratov in Russia’s VTB United League. Guard Tony Snell, a model of inconsistency since going 20th overall in 2013, now lays bricks in for the Bucks after three seasons of meh in Chicago. Rotation player McDermott, a key cog because of his 3-point shooting, still can

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Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg is not the real reason for the Bulls’ many problems.

justify how much the Bulls gave up to acquire him in the 2014 NBA draft but comes with limitations. Forward Bobby Portis reveals his shortcomings the longer he is on the court. And Denzel Valentine, the latest first-rounder, keeps reminding everybody how much athleticism still matters in the NBA. Meanwhile, Nikola Mirotic has regressed from a guy once considered a core player to someone barely consistent enough to be trade bait. Missing on draft picks isn’t how an NBA team puts its coach in position to look smart; it’s how a team puts its coach in position to get fired. The Bulls fell into Wade signing with them as a free agent. They pulled off a good trade with the Knicks, getting productive center Robin Lopez and promising point guard Jerian Grant for Derrick Rose. They also signed Rondo, who is shooting 38 percent after hitting 1 of 10 Wednesday and has been suspended once. They likely will keep treading water in the murky Eastern Conference into April, when suspense will surround whether they have earned the right to make a firstround playoff exit. To change the season’s trajectory, the Bulls are in desperate need of a personnel move, or moves, that will give Hoiberg more appealing options than he has had while his team lost seven of its last 10 games after an 11-7 start. As Wade said, the Bulls need “more action” to get out of this rut. In an organization struggling to find its way, that isn’t limited to the coach. dhaugh@chicagotribune.com Twitter @DavidHaugh

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BLACKHAWKS

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Struggles in 4th start with defense

Rondo: Lack of stops hurts offensive rhythm By K.C. Johnson Chicago Tribune

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Defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson said the Blackhawks are “sacrificing ourselves more” on penalty kills.

Kill shows signs of life

Hawks’ unit vs. power play makes big strides recently after bad start By Chris Hine

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On Tuesday, Senators center Derick Brassard scored a goal just one second after a penalty expired on Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews. It was unfortunate for the Hawks in that they allowed a goal, but it did not go down as a power-play goal. That spared the team’s penalty kill another black mark on its resume. It is a unit that could stand to catch a break or two, especially with its horrendous start to the season. The Hawks allowed goals on 14 of their first 26 kill attempts over the first seven games, a kill rate of 46.2 percent that was the worst in NHL history according to the research company STATS, whose books date back to the 1987-88 season. As coach Joel Quenneville said, “It had to get better. There was no alternative. It was a ridiculous, negative stat that was impossible to sustain.” Quenneville was right. There was bound to be some course correction after such an unprecedented run. But the Hawks’ improvement of late has been more than just luck. They are playing noticeably better on the kill. The Hawks’ 86.4 percent pen-

AVALANCHE AT HAWKS

TV/radio: 7:30 p.m. Friday, CSN, WGN-AM 720. Storylines: The Hawks blanked the Avalanche 4-0 in the teams’ only meeting this season. Marian Hossa, who won’t play Friday because of an upper-body injury, had two goals in that game. Trending: The Avalanche had lost five of six before Thursday’s late game against the Maple Leafs, a stretch that included a 10-1 loss to the Canadiens on Dec. 10.

alty-kill rate entering Thursday was the league’s 10th-best during December and has lifted their kill rate out of last place for the season. They are now 29th (74.2 percent) as the Sabres occupy the basement (73.7). “It was pretty hard to get worse than that, but it seemed like everything went in,” defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson said. “We didn’t have a lot of confidence, but you just have to have a fresh start and start from scratch.” The good thing for the Hawks, Hjalmarsson said, was they were winning games. That made the problems easier to correct and kept the frustration level from boiling over as the Hawks worked through their issues. “That helped us not to panic and just keep working toward getting better,” Hjalmarsson said. To forward Dennis Rasmussen, the Hawks are playing more

as one after integrating new personnel like himself into their kill units, and there is a better collective effort across all areas during a penalty kill, whether pressuring the puck or blocking shots. “We know when we can pressure and when we can’t,” Rasmussen said. “Because we’re playing the system better we know when to go and when to back off. “We’re reading each other better and helping each other out. We are sacrificing ourselves more than we did in the beginning. I feel like we’re blocking more shots.” The numbers back up Rasmussen. In October, the Hawks were 28th in blocks, but they moved up to ninth in November. They are 11th in December. Hjalmarsson said one of the biggest improvements has been the kill’s ability to make it difficult for opponents to enter the Hawks’ zone. The Hawks have done a better job of making opponents dump the puck in as opposed to carrying it into the zone. And don’t discount the confidence factor. Kills breed confidence, which breeds more kills. “We just didn’t really click (in October),” Hjalmarsson said. “We were working more one-onone instead of together.” But that has changed everything for the better.

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Crawford’s return offset as Anisimov, Hossa out By Chris Hine

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This season the Blackhawks rarely have been fully healthy. When one player gets close to returning, almost always one or two others can’t play. The Hawks will get one key player back Friday against the Avalanche, but they will be without two important contributors. Corey Crawford will start in net for the first time since undergoing an appendectomy Dec. 3 but Artem Anisimov and Marian Hossa will miss the game because of upper-body injuries. It will be the third straight game Anisimov has missed and the first for Hossa, who was hurt Tuesday. Anisimov was placed on injured reserve retroactive to Sunday, meaning he is eligible to play Tuesday if healthy enough. “We (haven’t) had a big number of injuries, but they’ve been key, and it looks like as soon as you’re healthy something else pops up,” coach Joel Quenneville said. “I think everybody deals with it. With Anisimov and Hossa injured, the Hawks were down to

11 healthy forwards before recalling center Tanner Kero from Rockford. Kero will play Friday and skated on a line with Andrew Desjardins and Jordin Tootoo at practice Thursday. Kero leads the IceHogs with 20 points (seven goals, 13 assists) and played in 17 games with the Hawks last season. “I’ve been keeping track of them and watching the games,” Kero said. “They’ve been playing really well. You can tell their confidence is getting a lot higher and they’re getting more comfortable. That’s what you want to do. You want to play hard, play smart, but still try to play your game and be as comfortable as you can. “You try not to think too much about it. You just go out every shift and try to work hard and prove you earned that spot here and you belong.” Quenneville said there has been a silver lining amid all of the injuries. The Hawks’ depth has been able to help them keep getting points while players heal, and it has given an opportunity for the younger players on the team to step up in big minutes.

In the wake of the Derrick Rose trade in June, general manager Gar Forman said the Bulls “need to get younger and more athletic.” Like most things this season, that’s a work in progress. “We’re not going to be probably the most athletic team out there on the floor every night,” Rajon Rondo said after Thursday’s practice. “Out of 30 teams, we might be bottom three or four in athleticism. But we can make that up with intelligence. We can make that up with game-plan discipline. We have to do the little things, the intangibles to get back in transition in the fourth quarter.” Indeed, the Bulls got downright defensive about their fourth-quarter offensive woes. But not in the denial, not-answer-the-question way; no, they talked about defensive woes leading to offensive woes. “It starts with the defensive end. We’re not getting stops,” Rondo said. “It’s tough to get in a flow or rhythm in the fourth quarter when you’re taking the ball out of the net every time down.” The numbers don’t lie. The Bulls rank last in fourth-quarter scoring at 22.5 points and fourthquarter shooting at 37.2 percent. The attention surrounding this dynamic intensified when Dwyane Wade offered his assessment in the wake of Wednesday’s home loss to the Wizards, which featured a 30-20 fourthquarter deficit in the 10-point defeat. Wade said the play-calling has become too predictable, that teams are packing the paint and that Jimmy Butler has too much pressure on him because of this. This time, there may have been a touch of defensiveness — yes, that kind — in the answer. “I would look at our shot distribution in the fourth quarter (Wednesday night),” coach Fred Hoiberg said. “Dwyane had six shots. Jimmy had four and got to the free-throw line four times and made all four. Taj (Gibson) got (three) shots. Niko (Mirotic) had four shots, including a 3-pointer he hit. Doug (McDermott) had a couple of shots. So we did have a lot of guys out there getting looks. “We do need more movement. There’s no doubt about that. In the fourth quarter, we’re a lot more stagnant than we are in the other three.” That said, both Rondo and Hoiberg said the film showed mostly good fourth-quarter looks, shots the Bulls should make. They didn’t. And defenses continue to sag off the non-3-point threats, mostly Rondo. “Teams are packing the paint; there’s no doubt,” Hoiberg said. “We need to do a good job of screening, a good job with our movement. We executed a couple of plays (after timeouts) and got good shots. Just continue to work on our execution.” Rondo also correctly pointed

Recently, Vincent Hinostroza, Ryan Hartman and Tyler Motte have scored goals. The three skated on the same line at Thursday’s practice. “It was good to find out about some of the younger guys in some different situations with different players, and the lines were constantly in flux,” Quenneville said. “You learn a little bit about your players. You learn about your team as well. That has helped us out as we have gone through this, and some of the tests have been passed in a good way.”

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TV/radio: 6 p.m. Friday; WGN-Ch. 9, WLS-AM 890. Storylines: The Hornets are 9-6 at home and haven’t played since Tuesday, a home victory over the Lakers. The Bulls are 6-8 on the road and have lost three straight in Charlotte. Trending: Hornets’ leading scorer Kemba Walker has scored in double figures in every game in which he has played this season. The Bulls are 0-3 on the road this month.

out how the Bulls beat the Spurs with just four 3-pointers and then scored 105 points against the Heat with just one 3-pointer in another victory. “I dislike that when things go wrong, we can seem like a team of excuses. That’s not how you win,” Rondo said. “Personally, I don’t like pointing fingers. I don’t like making excuses. The players are on the court making plays. We have to man up, look ourselves in the mirror, make this team better. “Fred and I try to stay on the same page as much as possible. Point guards and coaches sometimes go off on different pages, but for the most part, I’m believing in what he’s calling and what he’s running. We have to run with a harder pace, we have to set better picks. It’s not the play-calling, it’s the execution.” And it’s the defensive transition. Rondo, whose fourth-quarter playing time surely doesn’t sound like it will drop, strongly believes that. “We have to take better pride in getting back regardless of what happens on the offensive end, whether the floor is balanced, whether it’s a turnover,” Rondo said. “It starts with me. I can’t crash as much because I have to get the defense back, get us set. So I’ll take a lot of the blame and figure it out and try to watch some more film, help guys get back and get this thing rolling.” kcjohnson@chicagotribune.com Twitter @kcjhoop

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BULLS AT HORNETS

BULLS BITS

By K.C. Johnson

Corey Crawford will start Friday after missing nearly three weeks with an appendectomy.

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Rajon Rondo, left, says the Bulls have “to man up, look ourselves in the mirror” to get better.

Last month, Jimmy Butler talked about the work ethic of such a young Bulls team, which features 10 players with three years of experience or less. Rajon Rondo reiterated the need for such a commitment Thursday. The veteran’s quote proved almost as colorfully specific as Butler’s, which mocked how short the practice commitment is and how extra work should take precedence over playing video games on phones. “This isn’t college,” Rondo said. “We don’t have to go to class. You don’t have to wake up at 6 in the morning and do other things. Our job is to play basketball. “I feel like certain individuals are different than others. We might need to spend a little more time learning the play-calling or learning defensive schemes, whatever we need to do. “This is our only job. Young, experienced or not, we have enough older guys. “We have enough coaches on the staff who do a great job on the scouting report to get us ready for the game plan. We just have to stay disciplined to do it.”

Cleared for contact: When Bulls’ practice ended Thursday, Michael Carter-Williams engaged in a contact session of 3-on-3, his first since injuring his left knee and left wrist Oct. 31. The guard, who projects to play a critical reserve role, has targeted the week after Christmas for his return. “He’ll do a little bit more (contact) with the (Friday) shootaround (in Charlotte) and then he’ll be evaluated after this trip to see where he is,” coach Fred Hoiberg said. “This is an important day for him to get some contact, get a game feel. We need to get him up and down (the court) a little bit and then we’ll make a determination on how much longer he’ll be before he’s cleared to play.” Layups: Jimmy Butler’s 20point night against the Wizards marked the 23rd time in 28 games he has scored that or more. … Taj Gibson, who sank 13 straight shots over the last two games, posted his team-leading ninth double-double. … The Bulls have a team holiday party scheduled for Saturday in San Antonio.

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Ingram giving lift to Loyola

Junior’s return big plus for team lacking depth By Mike Helfgot Chicago Tribune

Donte Ingram’s speedy recovery paid immediate dividends during Loyola’s final week of preparation for the Missouri Valley Conference schedule. The 6-foot-6 junior’s length and versatility have helped the surprising Ramblers mask their lack of size, but his ahead-of-schedule return from a sprained MCL did not address their biggest problem. Of the 151 points Loyola put up in an 81-75 overtime victory over Illinois-Chicago on Saturday and a 74-70 loss at Toledo on Tuesday, Ingram and fellow starters Milton Doyle, Clayton Cluster, Aundre Jackson and Ben Richardson scored 139 of them. “We need depth,” coach Porter Moser said. “I’ve been grinding five guys pretty good. You can’t win in this league with five guys.” What the Ramblers (10-3) can do as they open conference play Thursday at Drake is create and avoid mismatches because of Ingram’s expanded skill set. A perimeter player coming out of Simeon, Ingram is averaging a team-best 5.9 rebounds per game, and his offensive numbers (11.1 ppg, 53.2 percent from the field, 44.8 percent on 3s) are way up from last season (6.1, 41.6, 31.8 in 25.9 minutes per game). He hit a tough 3-pointer off the dribble to force overtime against UIC and totaled 34 points and 14 rebounds in his first two games after missing the previous three. Ingram hit another big 3 late in the second half against Toledo as the Ramblers cut a 16-point deficit to two. “I love Donte,” Moser said. “He is a mismatch guy. He can switch defensively on (positions) one through four, he can guard a big inside, we trap the post with him, he can knock down a 3, put it on the deck and you can post him up. That gives us a lot of options offensively and defensively.” But Ingram needs more help on the boards. Toledo outrebounded the Ramblers 36-25 and came up with three damaging offensive rebounds in a late sequence. “They got us on the boards,” Ingram said. “There were some key plays down the stretch that we didn’t come up with. Throughout the game we had foul trouble. Those are things we can fix.” Depth aside, Moser is pleased with his team’s direction heading into conference play despite a so-so week. “Watching the (Toledo) tape, we had a bunch of open looks,” Moser said. “We’ve been making those shots all year. To cut it to two on the road, this group has tremendous fight.” Praise for Odiase: Tai Odiase

shook off the disappointment of UIC’s loss to Loyola — he missed two potential clinching free throws with seven seconds left in regulation — to put up big numbers in the Flames’ next game. The 6-9 center from Homewood-Flossmoor had 24 points by going 8-for-10 from the field and 8-for-12 at the line in a 75-65 win Tuesday over Northern Arizona. Odiase was 0-for-5 at the line against Loyola and is shooting 49.2 percent overall. He’s shooting 58.9 percent from the field and averaging 12 points and 2.5 blocks. “That kid has improved so much,” Moser said. “I look at so many big guys over the years who did not improve. I look at Odiase, and he must really enjoy the game because he has improved his skill, his body, his post moves, his effort, his ability to block shots. “Coach (Rick) Majerus used to ask big posts he was recruiting whether they loved to play. If they love to play, they improve.” UIC (6-6) opens Horizon League play Dec. 30 at home against Valparaiso. Taylor takes to Toledo: Simeon alumnus Steve Taylor Jr., who played a key role in Toledo’s victory over Loyola, is having a big season for the Rockets. The 6-7 Taylor, who won two state championships alongside Jabari Parker, is averaging 16.2 points and 11.2 rebounds in his first season at Toledo. He spent three years at Marquette, averaging 5.9 points and 5.0 rebounds as a junior before sitting out last season as a transfer. Taylor had 10 points and 10 rebounds against Loyola, including a key late putback.

Mike Helfgot is a freelance reporter for the Chicago Tribune.

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Illinois native Ethan Happ dunks in Wisconsin’s 78-44 victory over Idaho State early this month.

Wisconsin star bred in Illinois

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Northwestern’s Vic Law, right, reaches out to block a shot by Houston Baptist guard Braxton Bonds.

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They’re on a roll

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Scottie Lindsey had 19 points, Isiah Brown added 12 and Northwestern overcame a sluggish first half for a 72-63 victory over Houston Baptist on Thursday night. Sanjay Lumpkin and Vic Law had 11 points apiece as the Wildcats (11-2) won their eighth straight game. Before Thursday, Houston Baptist had allowed opponents to shoot 48.7 percent from the field, but Northwestern made only 8 of 30 (26.7 percent) first-half shots. Lindsey, Law and Bryant McIntosh — the Wildcats’ top three scorers — were a combined 4-for-23 before the break. Houston Baptist, which led by as many as 12 points, took a 35-25 halftime lead. Lumpkin opened the secondhalf scoring with a 3-pointer and, roughly seven minutes later, his putback of a McIntosh miss gave the Wildcats a 45-44 lead — their first since early in the first half. Russell put the Huskies back on top with a fast-break dunk

with just over 12 minutes to play, but Lindsey gave Northwestern the lead for good with a 3pointer to make it 48-46 with 11:17 remaining.

11 assists, while fellow freshman Marcus Ottey also scored 13 on perfect 5-for-5 shooting for the Flames (7-6).

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Tre’Darius McCallum scored 18 points and Billy Garrett Jr. had 17, but the Blue Demons surrendered a 16-3 second-half run in the loss at the Las Vegas Classic. DePaul (7-5) forced 22 turnovers but had 10 less rebounds.

mon Jr. scored 24 points and Robert Johnson added 20 as the 16th-ranked Hoosiers routed Austin Peay 97-62. Indiana (10-2) extended its home-court winning streak to 26 games — the fifth-longest in school history. ... Moritz Wagner scored 13 of his 18 points in the first half and Zak Irvin finished with 16 points, helping Michigan hold off Furman for a 68-62 victory. The Wolverines (10-3) gave coach John Beilein his 750th victory, 492 as a Division I coach. … Peter Jok’s 17 points helped Iowa cruise to an 89-57 win over Delaware State. Ahmad Wagner added 12 points for the Hawkeyes (8-5). … Ohio State (10-3) trailed late but escaped with a 79-77 win over North Carolina-Asheville. UIC 91, Roosevelt 53: Tai

Odiase scored 18 points and freshman Godwin Boahen recorded a triple-double in routing Roosevelt, an NAIA team, at UIC Pavilion. Boahen scored 13 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and dished

Wyoming 72, DePaul 58:

Top 25 highlights: Josh Jackson’s 21 points helped No. 3 Kansas move to 11-1 with a 71-53 victory over UNLV. … Jock Landale had 20 points and 11 rebounds as No. 19 Saint Mary’s pulled away with a big second half to beat South Carolina State 74-47. … Troy Caupain rebounded his missed shot and made a short jumper with 0.7 seconds left in overtime, rallying No. 24 Cincinnati (10-2) to a 93-91 victory over Marshall. Also: Jared Brownridge’s 30

points helped Santa Clara top Valparaiso 87-80 in doubleovertime. … Chicago State snapped a five-game skid with a 74-65 victory over Southeast Missouri State at the Las Vegas Classic. … Armon Fletcher scored 22 points as host SIU beat Tennessee-Martin 78-70.

Duke gives Allen indefinite ban Allen, from Page 1

Krzyzewski announced Allen’s suspension in a statement earlier Thursday. The coaching staff had reviewed Wednesday’s incident in which Allen and Santa Ana got tangled up by the arms near the baseline. Allen stuck out his right foot, causing Santa Ana to fall backward. “As I stated last night, the incident was unacceptable and inexcusable,” Krzyzewski said in the statement. “He took an important step last night by apologizing in person to Steven Santa Ana and Coach Matt Matheny. “As a program, we needed to take further steps regarding his actions that do not meet the standards of Duke Basketball. To that end, we have determined that Grayson will be suspended from competition for an indefinite amount of time.” ACC Commissioner John

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Duke suspended guard Grayson Allen for tripping Elon’s Steven Santa Ana on Wednesday night.

Swofford supported the move, saying in a statement that sportsmanship is “one of the core values of our league” and that the suspension “demon-

strates adherence to this important principle.” Krzyzewski said he has not decided whether Allen — who’s averaging 16 points after scoring 21.6 per game last season — will practice during his suspension or how long it will last. Duke (10-1) next plays Dec. 31 at Virginia Tech in its ACC opener. After that are home games against Georgia Tech and Boston College before a trip to No. 21 Florida State on Jan. 10. “It’s not like you give a suspension and it’s all over,” Krzyzewski said on “The Dan Patrick Show.” “It’s a learning experience, and I’m going to use it as that. A teaching moment does not stop by giving one game. “Maybe it’s three (games), maybe it’s two weeks, but he won’t play until I feel good about the entire situation.” Associated Press contributed.

No. 14 Wisconsin (10-2), which opens Big Ten play Tuesday against Rutgers, figures to fight for the top spot in the conference this season, and the 6-foot-10 Happ — last season’s Big Ten freshman of the year — gives the Badgers a reliable inside force. Happ is averaging 13.3 points and 9.6 rebounds and connecting on 69.3 percent of his shots, which ranks fifth in the nation. His post presence is a vital complement to leading scorers Bronson Koenig (15.2 ppg) and Nigel Hayes (14.2). As a redshirt freshman last season, Happ averaged 12.4 points and 7.9 rebounds and helped the Badgers advance to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament. “It started at the end of last season, and definitely this season, they’re sending a double team whenever I catch the ball in the post,” said Happ, who also averages 2.8 assists. “They’ve tried to keep me from even touching the ball. “It’s trusting my teammates to make the good pass out of the post. We’ll set up not just good shots but great shots.” Despite being a two-time Associated Press all-state selection at Rockridge High School in Taylor Ridge, Ill., near the Quad Cities, Happ wasn’t heavily recruited. He picked Wisconsin in June 2012, before his junior year, over offers from Green Bay and Milwaukee. Illinois had been in touch before firing coach Bruce Weber and hiring John Groce in March 2012. The timing was apparently the Illini’s misfortune. “A lot of people said they’re mad Illinois didn’t recruit me,” said Happ, who said he grew up an Illini fan thanks to watching Dee Brown play. “It’s not really their fault. They didn’t have a coach at the time, and Wisconsin was the first to kind of jump on me and show a lot of interest.” Toby Whiteman, Happ’s high school coach, said that because Happ committed to Wisconsin before his junior year, a lot of teams didn’t have a chance. Happ was only 5-9 in eighth grade but sprouted to 6-6 as a sophomore. Whiteman said he never has seen a player as competitive as Happ. After a bad game, “the next morning he would be at my house to get the keys and head to the school,” Whiteman said. “He was skinny and guys were beating up on him, so he got in the weight room. There was a game he missed free throws. He said, ‘I’m not going to let that happen again,’ and he really worked on them for three or four months. He’s extremely driven.” Like his big-leaguer cousin, Happ’s first love was baseball. He played through high school, taking off only his junior year to focus on basketball. “I was in the fourth grade when my dad told me I (could) have the talent and athletic ability to be a Division I player,” Happ said. “That was the dream. That was unheard of where I’m from. He just said if you devote enough time to it, you’ll be able to do it. I teetered between putting a lot of time into baseball or basketball.” He knew basketball would give him a better chance at a scholarship. Now he’s giving Wisconsin a chance to go far this season. “We have to keep our expectations for the season inside our locker room, but I can tell you this: I like our chances as much as anyone in the country,” Happ said. “I like the guys that we have versus everyone else. “That type of confidence throughout our whole team is going to do us well. We haven’t played our best basketball yet.” sryan@chicagotribune.com Twitter @sryantribune

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL BIG TEN PREVIEW

On conference play

As schedule moves into the next phase, SHANNON RYAN opens with Wisconsin at the top

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POWER RANKINGS

Wisconsin (10-2)

■ Best win: 77-60 vs. Syracuse, Nov. 29. ■ Worst loss: 79-67 at Creighton, Nov. 15. ■ Big Ten opener: Tuesday vs. Rutgers.

Purdue (11-2)

REASON FOR OPTIMISM

CAUSE FOR CONCERN

The Badgers have three strong parts in Nigel Hayes, Ethan Happ and Bronson Koenig. And they are in a groove with a six-game winning streak heading into their ﬁnal game before conference play.

Creighton was able to limit Wisconsin’s post presence. The Badgers can’t let that happen in Big Ten play.

Big man Caleb Swanigan is a double-double machine, and the perimeter game is opening up.

Can’t fault the Boilermakers for losing to Villanova and Louisville, but can they beat the best of the Big Ten?

Tom Crean’s offense creates nightmare matchups for opponents with its versatile, athletic players.

The loss to Fort Wayne showed the Hoosiers can be suspect — and how important OG Anunoby is. He was limited in that game.

The Buckeyes played well — for a half — against No. 2 UCLA in an 86-73 loss. That shows they’re capable of sneaking up on the top of the Big Ten.

The Buckeyes have been inconsistent and sloppy at times. The loss to FAU showed they play at their opponent’s level.

With Derrick Walton Jr. and Zak Irvin leading the way, a more mature Michigan team should show improvement from last season.

The Wolverines lost to their marquee nonconference opponents. Why should we believe they’ll make waves in the Big Ten?

Point guard Melo Trimble seems to be having a resurgence, leading the Terrapins with 17.9 points per game.

Half of the Terps’ victories came against teams ranked below 200 in kenpom.com’s rankings. Not exactly heavy hitters.

The Wildcats have been able to come back from in-game scoring slumps, something they struggled to do in the past. And they played Notre Dame and Butler close. This is a more cohesive group. NCAA tournament, anyone?

The Wildcats need center Dererk Pardon to supply a post presence after a hand injury has sidelined him since Dec. 3.

The Illini have more ingredients for success than in past seasons: depth, a strong inside presence and a standout scorer in Malcolm Hill (18.4 ppg).

The Illini get too sloppy with the ball and need to cut down on their 14 turnovers per game if they want to have sustained success.

The Gophers defense has been solid in nonconference play, holding opponents to 36.2 percent shooting.

It’s hard to judge the Gophers when they’ve played only one true road game. They won’t be battle-tested for the Big Ten slate.

Coach Tom Izzo has a knack for getting the Spartans to ﬁnish strong. They’ll need his best coaching tactics to get out of this mess.

The loss to Northeastern may cost the Spartans an NCAA tournament spot if they can’t turn the season around.

Senior guard Peter Jok leads the Big Ten with 23.1 points per game.

There’s not much around Jok with a young, inexperienced roster that lost some key players from last season.

Senior guard Tai Webster will help the Cornhuskers win a few games singlehandedly. He averages 17 points, 5.1 rebounds and four assists.

The Huskers offense is hard to watch, shooting 41.4 percent and averaging 69.2 points during nonconference play.

The Nittany Lions topped 90 points in their last two victories against St. John’s and Morgan State.

Their best victory came against a team ranked 98th by kenpom.com. How bad will it be when they step up in class in the Big Ten?

The schedule has been easy, but give the Scarlet Knights some credit for winning. They’re off to their best start since 1975-76.

Big Ten play will be a big step up for Rutgers, which has the nation’s secondlowest strength of schedule at No. 350.

■ Best win: 86-81 vs. Notre Dame, Dec. 17. ■ Worst loss: 71-64 at Louisville, Nov. 30. ■ Big Ten opener: Wednesday vs. Iowa.

Indiana (10-2)

■ Best win: 103-99 (OT) vs. Kansas, Nov. 11. ■ Worst loss: 71-68 (OT) at Fort Wayne, Nov. 22. ■ Big Ten opener: Wednesday vs. Nebraska.

Ohio State (10-3)

■ Best win: 72-67 vs. Providence, Nov. 17. ■ Worst loss: 79-77 (OT) vs. Fla. Atlantic, Dec. 6. ■ Big Ten opener: Jan. 1 at Illinois.

Michigan (10-3)

■ Best win: 76-54 vs. SMU, Nov. 18. ■ Worst loss: 73-70 vs. Virginia Tech, Nov. 30. ■ Big Ten opener: Jan. 1 at Iowa.

Maryland (12-1)

■ Best win: 69-68 vs. Kansas State, Nov. 26. ■ Worst loss: 73-59 vs. Pittsburgh, Nov. 29. ■ Big Ten opener: Tuesday vs. Illinois.

Northwestern (11-2)

■ Best win: 67-64 vs. Dayton, Dec. 17. ■ Worst loss: 70-66 vs. Notre Dame, Nov. 22. ■ Big Ten opener: Tuesday at Penn State.

Illinois (10-3)

■ Best win: 64-46 vs. VCU, Dec. 3. ■ Worst loss: 84-80 (OT) vs. Winthrop, Nov. 21. ■ Big Ten opener: Tuesday at Maryland.

Minnesota (11-1)

■ Best win: 85-71 vs. Arkansas, Nov. 22. ■ Worst loss: 75-67 at Florida State, Nov. 28. ■ Big Ten opener: Tuesday vs. Michigan State.

Michigan State (8-5)

■ Best win: 77-72 vs. Wichita State, Nov. 25. ■ Worst loss: 81-73 vs. Northeastern, Dec. 18. ■ Big Ten opener: Tuesday at Minnesota.

Iowa (8-5)

■ Best win: 78-64 vs. Iowa State, Dec. 8. ■ Worst loss: 98-89 vs. Omaha, Dec. 3. ■ Big Ten opener: Wednesday at Purdue.

Nebraska (6-6)

■ Best win: 80-78 vs. Dayton, Nov. 24. ■ Worst loss: 70-62 vs. Gardner-Webb, Dec. 18. ■ Big Ten opener: Wednesday at Indiana.

Penn State

(8-5)

■ Best win: 92-76 at St. John’s, Dec. 18. ■ Worst loss: 87-81 vs. Albany, Nov. 11. ■ Big Ten opener: Tuesday vs. Northwestern.

Rutgers (11-1)

■ Best win: 66-59 at DePaul, Nov. 17. ■ Worst loss: 73-61 at Miami, Nov. 30. ■ Big Ten opener: Tuesday at Wisconsin.

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SCOREBOARD CALENDAR TEAM

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WESTERN CONFERENCE

WAS Noon FOX-32 AM-780 @CHA 6 WGN-9 AM-890

@SA 4 ABC-7 AM-890

IND 7 CSN AM-890

BRK 7 CSN AM-890

COL 7:30 CSN AM-720

WIN 7:30 CSN AM-720

FRIDAY ON TV/RADIO

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LATEST LINE

NBA Bulls at Hornets

WGN-9, WLS-AM 890

6:30 p.m. Thunder at Celtics

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9:30 p.m. Mavericks at Clippers

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL 1:30 p.m. Auburn at Connecticut

ESPN2

3 p.m.

ESPNU

Providence at Boston College

3:30 p.m. Diamond Head Classic semifinal

ESPN2

5:30 p.m. Rutgers at Seton Hall

FS1

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Arkansas St. at Minnesota

BTN

7 p.m.

Harvard at Houston

ESPN2

7:30 p.m. Teams TBA

FS1, WSCR-AM 670

8 p.m.

Florida A&M at Wisconsin

9 p.m.

Diamond Head Classic semifinal

10 p.m.

Teams TBA

FS1, WSCR-AM 670

11:30 p.m. Teams TBA

ESPNU

BTN ESPN2

FRIDAY BULLS LA Lakers at Detroit Brooklyn Oklahoma City Washington Miami at Memphis Sacramento Philadelphia Atlanta Toronto at Portland Dallas

31⁄2 41⁄2 6 Off 4 3 41⁄2 31⁄2 Off Off 4 1 21⁄2 Off

NHL FRIDAY Colorado +227 Minnesota Off New Jersey Off Buffalo +135 Montreal Off Tampa Bay Off Boston Off Detroit +134 Los Angeles +125 Vancouver +155 Toronto Off Edmonton +156

at HAWKS -257 at NY Rangers Off at Pittsburgh Off at Islanders -145 at Columbus Off at Washington Off at Carolina Off at Florida -144 at Dallas -135 at Calgary -165 at Arizona Off at San Jose -166

MONEY LINE: On left is wager to win $100 on favorite. At right, the return for $100 wager on underdog.

NFL

COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWLS Noon

Pregame.com at Charlotte at Orlando Golden State at Cleveland at Boston at Milwaukee at New Orleans Houston at Minnesota at Phoenix at Denver at Utah San Antonio at LA Clippers

Bahamas, Eastern Mich. vs. Old Dominion

ESPN

3:30 p.m. Armed Forces, Louisiana Tech vs. Navy

ESPN

7 p.m.

ESPN

Dollar General, Ohio vs. Troy

NHL 7:30 p.m. Avalanche at Blackhawks

CSN, WGN-AM 720

PREMIERSHIP RUGBY 1:30 p.m. Sale Sharks at Northampton Saints

NBCSN

SATURDAY ON TV/RADIO

Washington at Buffalo at New Orleans Atlanta at Green Bay at New England Tennessee San Diego at Oakland at Los Angeles at Seattle at Houston

SATURDAY at BEARS Miami Tampa Bay at Carolina Minnesota NY Jets at Jacksonville at Cleveland Indianapolis San Francisco Arizona Cincinnati SUNDAY Baltimore Denver MONDAY Detroit

3 41⁄2 3 3 61⁄2 161⁄2 41⁄2 51⁄2 31⁄2 4 71⁄2 Pk

at Pittsburgh at Kansas City

5 3

at Dallas

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FRIDAY Texas St. Auburn Northern Ky. at Boston Coll. Rutgers Arkansas St. at Oakland Harvard

at Tulane 2 ⁄2 at Connecticut 31⁄2 at West Virginia 24 Providence 8 at Seton Hall 111⁄2 at Minnesota 131⁄2 Georgia 2 at Houston 12 1

Noon

Redskins at Bears

3 p.m.

Colts at Raiders

FOX-32, WLS-AM 780 CBS-2

3:25 p.m. Buccaneers at Saints 7 p.m.

FOX-32

Bengals at Texans

NFLN, WSCR-AM 670

7 p.m.

Hawaii Bowl, Hawaii vs. Middle Tenn. St.

ESPN

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NBCSN

NFL NFC NORTH

Detroit Green Bay Minnesota BEARS NFC EAST

T PF PA

AFC NORTH

9 5 8 6 7 7 3 11 W L

0 0 0 0 T

301 363 264 248 PF

285 339 259 320 PA

Pittsburgh Baltimore Cincinnati Cleveland AFC EAST

9 5 8 6 5 8 0 14 W L

0 0 1 0 T

341 306 288 220 PF

276 263 293 408 PA

y-Dallas N.Y. Giants Washington Philadelphia NFC SOUTH

12 10 7 6 W

2 5 6 9 L

0 0 1 0 T

366 291 345 340 PF

258 274 343 318 PA

y-New England Miami Buffalo N.Y. Jets AFC SOUTH

12 2 9 5 7 7 4 10 W L

0 0 0 0 T

365 315 358 242 PF

233 314 314 358 PA

Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans Carolina NFC WEST

9 8 6 6 W

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0 0 0 0 T

469 313 406 337 PF

358 322 392 352 PA

Houston Tennessee Indianapolis Jacksonville AFC WEST

8 6 8 6 7 7 2 12 W L

0 0 0 0 T

250 340 362 260 PF

294 323 339 359 PA

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298 340 197 264

235 325 328 434

x-Oakland 11 3 0 377 Kansas City 10 4 0 319 Denver 8 6 0 299 San Diego 5 9 0 366 x-clinched playoff spot; y-division

336 274 258 366

y-Seattle Arizona Los Angeles San Francisco

EAGLES 24, GIANTS 19 N.Y. Giants Philadelphia

3 14

10 7

3 0

3—19 3—24

First quarter A: 69,596. Phi: Sproles 25 run (Sturgis kick), 9:48. Phi: M.Jenkins 34 interception return (Sturgis kick), 8:20. NYG: FG Gould 35, :10. Second quarter NYG: FG Gould 35, 7:28. Phi: Agholor 40 pass from Wentz (Sturgis kick), 4:59. NYG: Shepard 13 pass from Manning (Gould kick), :33. Third quarter NYG: FG Gould 29, 9:09. Fourth quarter Phi: FG Sturgis 41, 8:47. NYG: FG Gould 41, 5:17. Rushing: NYG 25-114, Perkins 15-68, Jennings 9-44, Shepard 1-2. Phi 30-118, Mathews 18-46, Sproles 7-40, Wentz 4-27, Agholor 1-5. Passing: NYG, Manning 38-63-3-356. Phi, Wentz 13-24-1-152, Daniel 1-1-0-16. Receiving: NYG, Beckham 11-150, Cruz 884, Shepard 7-61, Tye 5-23, Jennings 4-7, Rainey 1-13. Phi, Celek 3-27, Agholor 247, Ertz 2-33, Sproles 2-23, Matthews 212, Mathews 1-16.

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CALENDAR Jan. 1: Regular season ends. Jan. 7-8: Wild-card playoff games. Jan. 14-15: Division playoff games. Jan. 21-22: Conference championships. Jan. 29: Pro Bowl, Orlando, Florida. Feb. 5: Super Bowl, Houston.

MATCHUP

Thu Fri Fri Fri Sat Mon Mon Mon Tue Tue Tue Tue Wed Wed Wed Wed D29 D29 D29 D30 D30 D30 D30 D310 D31 D31 D31 D31 J2 J2 J2 J2 J7 J9

Idaho 61, Colorado State 50 I 9-3, C 7-6 Old Dominion (9-3) vs. E. Michigan (7-5) ODU 51⁄2 Navy (9-3) vs. Louisiana Tech (8-5) LT 7 Ohio (8-5) vs. Troy (9-3) Troy 41⁄2 Middle Tenn. (8-4) vs. Hawaii (6-7) MTSU 6 Miss. St. (5-7) vs. Miami, Ohio (6-6) MSt 131⁄2 Boston Coll. (6-6) vs. Maryland (6-6) Md 1 N.C. State (6-6) vs. Vanderbilt (6-6) NCSt 4 Army (6-5) vs. North Texas (5-7) Army 101⁄2 Wake Forest (6-6) vs. Temple (10-3) Tem 111⁄2 Minnesota (8-4) vs. Wash. St. (8-4) WSt 10 Baylor (6-6) vs. Boise State (10-2) BSt 7 Pitt. (8-4) vs. Northwestern (6-6) Pitt 51⁄2 Miami (8-4) vs. West Virginia (10-2) Mia 21⁄2 Utah (8-4) vs. Indiana (6-6) Utah 7 Kansas St. (8-4) vs. Texas A&M (8-4) TxAM 21⁄2 South Florida (10-2) vs. S. Carolina (6-6) USF 10 Virginia Tech (9-4) vs. Arkansas (7-5) VT 7 Okla. State (9-3) vs. Colorado (10-3) Col 3 TCU (6-6) vs. Georgia (7-5) Pk N. Carolina (8-4) vs. Stanford (9-3) Stan 3 Tennessee (8-4) vs. Nebraska (9-3) Ten 4 S. Alabama (6-6) vs. Air Force (9-3) AFA 131⁄2 Florida State (9-3) vs. Michigan (10-2) Mich 7 LSU (7-4) vs. Louisville (9-3) LSU 3 Kentucky (7-5) vs. Georgia Tech (8-4) GT 3 Alabama (13-0) vs. Washington (12-1) Ala 15 Clemson (12-1) vs. Ohio State (11-1) OSt 3 Iowa (8-4) vs. Florida (8-4) Fla 3 Wisconsin (10-3) vs. W. Michigan (13-0) Wis 71⁄2 Penn State (11-2) vs. USC (9-3) USC 61⁄2 Oklahoma (10-2) vs. Auburn (8-4) Okla 3 Youngstown St. (12-3) vs. James Madison (13-1) — Peach and Fiesta winners —

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MATCHUP

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New Mexico 23, Tex.-San Ant. 20 San Diego State 34, Houston 10 Arkansas State 31, UCF 13 Appalachian State 31, Toledo 28 Southern Miss. 28, La.-Lafayette 21 Tulsa 66, Central Michigan 10 Western Ky. 51, Memphis 31 BYU 24, Wyoming 21

New Mexico Las Vegas Cure Camellia New Orleans Miami Beach Boca Raton Poinsettia

RECORDS NM 9-4, UTSA 6-7 SDST 11-3, HOU 9-4 AST 8-5, UCF 6-7 APST 10-3, TOL 9-4 SOMISS 7-6, LL 6-7 TUL 10-3, CM 6-7 WKy 10-3, Mem 8-4 BYU 9-4, Wyo 8-6 lines by pregame.com

TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL Commissioner’s Office: Suspended RHP Mario Alcantara (free agent), Cleveland RHP Dakody Clemmer (AZL), Kansas City RHP Arnaldo Hernandez (Lexington-SAL), Houston RHP Brendan McCurry (Corpus Christi-TL), Boston C Jake Romanski (Pawtucket-IL) 50 games for violations of Minor League Drug Program. AMERICAN LEAGUE White Sox: Assigned LHP Matt Purke outright to Charlotte (IL). Minnesota: Agreed to terms with 1B Reynaldo Rodriguez and Matt Hague on minor-league contracts. NATIONAL LEAGUE Colorado: Named Tony Diaz 1B coach, Duane Espy hitting coach, Ron Gideon coach, Jeff Salazar assistant hitting coach.

FOOTBALL NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Washington: Waived WR Rashad Ross. Signed CB Dashaun Phillips from, LB Lynden Trail to practice squad.

HOCKEY NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE NHL: F David Legwand announced retirement. Blackhawks: Placed F Artem Anisimov on IR, retroactive to Sunday. Recalled F Tanner Kero from Rockford (AHL).

Grand Rapids Milwaukee Cleveland WOLVES Manitoba Iowa Rockford Charlotte

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L OT SO 7 7 11 11 12 14 13 16

1 2 1 3 2 2 2 2

PT PCT

2 1 2 2 2 1 3 0

39 37 33 33 28 29 23 24

.696 .685 .569 .550 .500 .483 .446 .414

2 pts for win; 1 for OT/SO loss THURSDAY’S RESULTS WOLVES 8, Milwaukee 4 CLEVELAND 3, Charlotte 2 Texas 5, SAN ANTONIO 4 MONDAY’S SCHEDULE Wolves at Milwaukee, 7 St. John’s at Toronto, 2 Providence at Albany, 6 Hartford at Bridgeport, 6 Hershey at Lehigh Valley, 6:05 Syracuse at Rochester, 6:05 Rockford at Iowa, 7 Stockton at San Jose, 7 Bakersfield at Ontario, 9 Tucson at San Diego, 9 Home team in CAPS

NBA DEVELOPMENT LGE CENTRAL

GB CON STK

Fort Wayne Raptors 905 Grand Rapids WINDY CITY Canton

10 10 8 6 6

3 4 8 8 8

— 1 ⁄2 31⁄2 41⁄2 41⁄2

7-3 W1 8-4 L2 7-5 L1 5-7 L4 4-7 L1

THURSDAY’S RESULTS LONG ISLAND 110, Grand Rapids 103 Los Angeles 99, GREENSBORO 92 Westchester 108, RAPTORS 905 106 Texas 114, SALT LAKE CITY 90 FRIDAY’S SCHEDULE Raptors 905 at Westchester, 6 Fort Wayne at Delaware, 6 Santa Cruz at Erie, 6 Windy City at Canton, 6 Maine at Grand Rapids, 6 Sioux Falls at Iowa, 7 Rio Grande at Austin, 7:30 Oklahoma City at Northern Arizona, 8 SUNDAY’S SCHEDULE Northern Arizona at Sioux Falls, 7 MONDAY’S SCHEDULE Westchester at Long Island, 12:30 Fort Wayne at Greensboro, 1 TUESDAY’S SCHEDULE Maine at Erie, 6 p.m. Delaware at Raptors 905, 6:30 Rio Grande at Iowa, 7 Sioux Falls at Santa Cruz, 9

SOCCER

FBS BOWL SCHEDULE, RESULTS

DATE TIME BOWL

Idaho Potato Bahamas Armed Forces Dollar General Hawaii St. Petersburg Quick Lane Independence Heart of Dallas Military Holiday Cactus Pinstripe Russell Athletic Foster Farms Texas Birmingham Belk Alamo Liberty Sun Music City Arizona Orange Citrus TaxSlayer Peach Fiesta Outback Cotton Rose Sugar FCS Champ. Nat’l Champ.

CENTRAL

EASTERN CONFERENCE

WEEK 16 THURSDAY’S RESULT PHILADELPHIA 24, N.Y. Giants 19 SATURDAY’S SCHEDULE Washington at Bears, noon Atlanta at Carolina, noon N.Y. Jets at New England, noon San Diego at Cleveland, noon Miami at Buffalo, noon Tennessee at Jacksonville, noon Minnesota at Green Bay, noon Indianapolis at Oakland, 3:05 Arizona at Seattle, 3:25 Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 3:25 San Francisco at Los Angeles, 3:25 Cincinnati at Houston, 7:25 SUNDAY’S SCHEDULE Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 3:30 Denver at Kansas City, 7:30 MONDAY’S SCHEDULE Detroit at Dallas, 7:30

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Final noon 3:30 7 7 10* 1:30 4 11* 2:30 6 9:15 1 4:30 7:30 8 1 4:30 8 11* 1 2:30 4:30 7 10* 10* 2 6 noon noon 4 7:30 11* 7:30

AHL WESTERN CONFERENCE

PREMIERSHIP RUGBY 8 a.m.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL Odds in bowl glance.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Dallas: Assigned G Philippe Desrosiers from Texas (AHL) to Idaho (ECHL). Montreal: Recalled G Zachary Fucale from Brampton (ECHL) to St. John’s (AHL). New Jersey: Placed F Jacob Josefson on IR, retroactive to Saturday. Recalled D Seth Helgeson from Albany (AHL). St. Louis: Placed F Paul Stastny on IR. Recalled F Wade Megan from Wolves (AHL). AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE Kalamazoo: Claimed G Keegan Asmundson off waivers from Indy.

SOCCER MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER Dallas: Signed D Reggie Cannon. Montreal: Traded M Harry Shipp to Seattle for general allocation money. Portland: Acquired M David Guzman from Deportivo Saprissa (Costa Rica).

COLLEGE Duke: Suspended men’s basketball G Grayson Allen indefinitely. Georgia: Fined assistant football coach Shane Beamer $25,000 for accepting leaked game plan information two years ago while at Virginia Tech. Michigan: Suspended WR Grant Perry from the football team. Seton Hall: Dismissed soph. F Myles Carter from men’s basketball team.

CENTRAL

ROW

HAWKS Minnesota St. Louis Nashville Dallas Winnipeg* Colorado

22 20 18 15 13 15 11

9 8 12 13 14 17 19

4 4 5 5 7 3 1

48 44 41 35 33 33 23

101 95 98 94 86 91 65

84 62 103 94 104 104 99

35 32 35 33 34 35 31

20 19 17 14 13 13 11

2-1 1-2 1-1 1-3 0-0 2-1 0-1

PACIFIC San Jose Edmonton Anaheim Los Angeles Calgary Vancouver* Arizona

20 18 17 17 17 14 11

12 12 12 13 16 16 17

1 5 6 3 2 3 5

41 41 40 37 36 31 27

84 103 96 85 90 84 74

73 94 99 81 102 101 104

33 35 35 33 35 33 33

18 16 16 16 15 11 8

2-0 2-2 1-1 1-3 2-1 3-1 3-1

EASTERN CONFERENCE

NBA

6 p.m.

NFL BITS

NHL

ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE MONDAY’S SCHEDULE Crystal Palace at Watford, 6:30 a.m. W. Bromwich at Arsenal, 9 a.m. Middlesbrough at Burnley, 9 a.m. Bournemouth at Chelsea, 9 a.m. Everton at Leicester City, 9 a.m. Sunderland at Man. U., 9 a.m. West Ham U. at Swansea City, 9 a.m. Man. City at Hull City 11:15 a.m. TUESDAY’S SCHEDULE Stoke City at Lieverpool, 11:15 a.m. WEDNESDAY’S SCHEDULE Tottenham at Southampton, 1:45

METROPOLITAN Columbus Pittsburgh N.Y. Rangers Philadelphia Washington Carolina New Jersey N.Y. Islanders

W 22 21 23 20 19 14 13 12

L OL 5 4 8 5 11 1 12 4 8 4 11 7 13 7 14 6

PT 48 47 47 44 42 35 33 30

GF 108 117 115 110 83 85 79 85

GA 64 99 82 108 69 88 98 101

GP 31 34 35 36 31 32 33 32

ROW 29 19 21 16 18 12 11 11

SO 2-1 2-1 2-1 4-3 1-3 2-4 2-2 1-2

21 20 18 17 15 12 14 12

8 11 14 14 14 12 15 12

46 43 39 37 35 32 32 31

103 88 83 100 82 70 79 87

74 89 84 94 93 86 93 94

33 34 35 34 34 32 33 31

20 17 16 15 12 11 10 12

1-1 3-1 2-1 2-2 3-3 1-5 4-0 0-5

ATLANTIC Montreal Ottawa Boston Tampa Bay Florida Buffalo Detroit Toronto

4 3 3 3 5 8 4 7

2 pts for win; 1 for OT/SO loss; ROW-regulation+OT wins *-late game not included

SCHEDULE, RESULTS THURSDAY’S SCHEDULE Carolina 3, BUFFALO 1 COLUMBUS 7, Pittsburgh 1 NEW JERSEY 4, Philadelphia 0 Minnesota 4, MONTREAL 2 OTTAWA 2, Anaheim 1(OT) TAMPA BAY, St. Louis 2 Boston 3, FLORIDA 1 Los Angeles 4, NASHVILLE 0 Toronto at Colorado, late Winnipeg at Vancouver, late FRIDAY’S SCHEDULE Buffalo at NY Islanders, 7 Minnesota at NY Rangers, 7 New Jersey at Pittsburgh, 7 Tampa Bay at Washington, 7 Montreal at Columbus, 7 Detroit at Florida, 7:30 Boston at Carolina, 7:30 Colorado at Chicago, 8:30 Los Angeles at Dallas, 8:30 Vancouver at Calgary, 9

Toronto at Arizona 9 Edmonton at San Jose, 10:30 No games scheduled Saturday-Monday TUESDAY’S SCHEDULE Pittsburgh at New Jersey, 7 Washington at NY Islanders, 7 Ottawa at NY Rangers, 7 Boston at Columbus, 7 Buffalo at Detroit, 7:30 Minnesota at Nashville, 8 Winnipeg at Chicago, 8:30 Calgary at Colorado, 9 Dallas at Arizona, 9 San Jose at Anaheim, 10 WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS PHILADELPHIA 3, Washington 2 (SO) Edmonton 3, ARIZONA 2 Home team in CAPS

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL

DIV

CON HOME

L10

STK

Cleveland BULLS Indiana Milwaukee Detroit ATLANTIC Toronto Boston New York Philadelphia Brooklyn SOUTHEAST Charlotte Atlanta Washington Orlando Miami

21 14 15 13 14

6 14 16 14 17

— 71⁄2 8 8 9

3-3 3-4 3-2 4-3 2-3

16-4 10-8 8-10 9-10 8-11

14-2 8-6 11-5 9-7 8-6

8-2 3-7 5-5 4-6 3-7

W-3 L-1 L-2 L-2 L-4

1-0 0-0 3-1 0-2 0-0

20 17 16 7 7

8 12 13 21 21

— 31⁄2 41⁄2 13 13

5-0 4-1 1-2 1-3 0-5

13-4 13-5 8-7 5-12 2-13

11-5 6-5 11-4 5-14 6-8

8-2 6-4 6-4 3-7 2-8

W-2 W-4 W-2 L-1 L-4

1-0 1-0 1-1 1-2 1-0

16 14 13 13 10

13 15 15 18 20

— 2 21⁄2 4 61⁄2

4-1 3-4 3-5 4-3 3-4

10-9 11-7 9-10 8-12 5-13

9-6 7-7 10-6 5-10 5-11

5-5 4-6 7-3 4-6 3-7

W-2 L-1 W-1 L-1 W-1

0-3 0-0 1-2 1-0 1-1

WESTERN CONFERENCE NORTHWEST

DIV

CON HOME

L10

STK

Utah Oklahoma City Portland Denver Minnesota PACIFIC Golden State L.A. Clippers* Sacramento L.A. Lakers Phoenix SOUTHWEST San Antonio* Houston Memphis New Orleans Dallas

18 17 13 12 9

12 12 18 17 19

— 1 ⁄2 51⁄2 51⁄2 8

4-2 2-2 4-1 3-5 0-3

13-9 9-7 9-13 7-10 4-12

10-6 11-6 8-5 6-7 4-10

7-3 6-4 2-8 5-5 4-6

L-2 W-1 L-4 L-1 W-2

0-0 3-1 2-1 0-3 1-1

26 21 12 11 8

4 8 17 21 21

— 41⁄2 131⁄2 16 171⁄2

6-1 2-1 2-2 3-4 1-6

18-4 14-3 9-9 6-13 3-17

12-2 10-4 6-6 6-7 4-9

9-1 7-3 5-5 1-9 2-8

W-6 W-1 W-2 L-3 L-4

0-1 0-1 0-3 0-0 3-2

23 22 19 10 8

5 8 12 21 21

— 2 51⁄2 141⁄2 151⁄2

6-1 5-2 3-0 0-6 1-6

13-3 16-5 11-5 4-18 5-13

8-4 10-3 11-7 6-10 6-8

9-1 9-1 6-4 3-7 4-6

W-5 W-1 W-1 L-1 W-1

0-0 2-0 4-0 2-3 1-1

STK—streak

*—late game

RESULTS, SCHEDULE THURSDAY’S RESULTS Boston 109, INDIANA 102 Golden State 117, BROOKLYN 101 NEW YORK 106, Orlando 95 MIAMI 115, LA Lakers 107 San Antonio at Clippers, late FRIDAY’S SCHEDULE Chicago at Charlotte, 7 LA Lakers at Orlando, 7 Brooklyn at Cleveland, 7:30 Oklahoma City at Boston, 7:30 Golden State at Detroit, 7:30 Washington at Milwaukee, 8 Houston at Memphis, 8 Miami at New Orleans, 8 Sacramento at Minnesota, 8 Atlanta at Denver, 9 Toronto at Utah, 9 Philadelphia at Phoenix, 9 San Antonio at Portland, 10 Dallas at LA Clippers , 10:30

WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS CLEVELAND 113, Mil 102 Minnesota 92, ATLANTA 84 Washington 107, CHICAGO 97 Memphis 98, DETROIT 86 Ok City 121, NEW ORLEANS 110 Sacramento 94, UTAH 93 Houston 125, PHOENIX 111 Dallas 96, PORTLAND 95 Home team in CAPS

CALENDAR Jan. 5: 10-day contracts can be signed. Jan. 10: All contracts guaranteed for the remainder of the season. Feb. 17-19: All-Star weekend, New Orleans. Feb. 23: Trade deadline, 3 EST. April 12: Regular season ends.

BULLS STATISTICS NAME

Butler Wade Gibson McDermott Lopez Mirotic Rondo Canaan Portis C.-Williams Grant Felicio Valentine Zipser Hunter BULLS OPPONENTS

FG-ATT PCT 3PT-ATT

FT-ATT

28 1013 209-462 .452 31-92 26 807 185-418 .443 25-76 28 785 155-277 .560 0-1 16 395 61-132 .462 14-43 28 799 124-259 .479 0-1 26 581 78-201 .388 37-121 24 743 81-211 .384 15-43 25 498 56-149 .376 21-82 21 258 36-77 .468 6-14 3 45 4-15 .267 1-2 20 257 30-86 .349 7-25 20 255 29-60 .483 0-0 20 230 17-63 .270 11-41 8 46 1-13 .077 0-4 3 9 0-1 .000 0-1 28 6720 1066-2424 .440 168-546 28 6720 1093-2438 .448 236-669

MIN

234-263 106-132 38-58 19-21 22-33 39-53 13-24 22-25 11-20 3-4 13-13 11-17 7-8 1-2 0-0 539-673 366-502

PCT PTS PPG RPG APG .890 .803 .655 .905 .667 .736 .542 .880 .550 .750 1.000 .647 .875 .500 .000 .801 .729

683 24.4 6.7 4.3 501 19.3 4.2 3.6 348 12.4 7.4 1.4 155 9.7 2.9 1.3 270 9.6 7.5 0.8 232 8.9 5.6 1.0 190 7.9 6.4 7.3 155 6.2 1.7 1.1 89 4.2 3.4 0.7 12 4.0 3.0 2.7 80 4.0 1.4 1.2 69 3.5 4.2 0.5 52 2.6 1.8 0.5 3 0.4 1.2 0.5 0 0.0 0.3 0.0 2839 101.4 48.0 21.2 2788 99.6 43.2 23.8

Steals (Bulls 211, Opponents 213): Butler 47, Wade 38, Rondo 33, Canaan 19, Mirotic 18. Turnovers (Bulls 382, Opponents 362): Rondo 68, Butler 58, Wade 57, Gibson 45. Blocks (Bulls 152, Opponents 138): Lopez 51, Gibson 32, Mirotic 20, Wade 18. through Wednesday

COLLEGE BASKETBALL AP MEN’S TOP 25 AT A GLANCE TEAM

REC

THURSDAY/NEXT GAME

1. Villanova 2. UCLA 3. Kansas 4. Baylor 5. Duke 6. Kentucky 7. Gonzaga 8. North Carolina 9. Creighton 10. Louisville 11. West Virginia 12. Virginia 13. Butler 14. Wisconsin 15. Purdue 16. Indiana 17. Xavier 18. Arizona 19. St. Mary’s 20. Oregon 21. Florida St. 22. South Carolina 24. Southern Cal 24. Cincinnati 25. Notre Dame

12-0 13-0 11-1 12-0 12-1 10-2 12-0 11-2 12-0 11-1 10-1 10-1 11-1 10-2 11-2 10-2 10-2 11-2 10-1 11-2 12-1 9-2 11-0 10-2 10-2

Wed vs. DePaul, 5:30 Wed at Oregon, 8 W 71-53 at UNLV D30 at Oklahoma, 6 D31 at Va. Tech, 11* D29 at Mississippi, 7 D29 vs. Pepperdine, 8 Wed vs. Monmouth, 6 Wed vs. Seton Hall, 7 Wed vs. #12 Virginia, 6 Fri vs. Northern Ky., 3 Wed at #10 Louisville, 6 D29 at St. John’s, 6 Fri vs. Florida A&M, 8 Wed vs. Iowa, 7:30 W 97-62 vs. Austin Peay Wed vs. Providence, 6 D30 at California, 10 W 74-47 vs. S.C. State Wed vs. #2 UCLA, 8 Wed vs. Wake Forest Tue vs. Lander, 6 vs. Missouri St., late W 93-91 OT vs. Marshall Wed vs. St. Peter’s, 6

BIG TEN MEN

*-A.M.

AP WOMEN’S TOP 25 AT A GLANCE TEAM

REC

THURSDAY/NEXT GAME

1. Connecticut 2. Notre Dame 3. Baylor 4. Maryland 5. Mississippi St. 6. South Carolina 7. Florida St. 8. Louisville 9. Washington 10. UCLA 11. Miami 12. Ohio State 13. W. Virginia 14. Stanford 15. Colorado 16. Texas 17. Duke 18. Kentucky 19. Syracuse 20. Oklahoma 21. S. Florida 21. Arizona St. 23. Va. Tech 24. Kansas State 25. Oregon State

11-0 11-1 11-1 12-0 13-0 10-1 12-1 12-2 12-1 9-2 11-1 10-4 12-0 9-2 10-1 6-4 11-1 9-3 9-4 9-3 10-1 9-2 12-0 10-2 10-1

D29 at #4 Maryland, 5 Tue at Chattanooga, 5:30 D29 vs. Kansas St., 7 D29 vs. #1 Connecticut, 5 Wed vs. Northwestern St., 7 Jan 1 vs. Alabama, 1 D29 at #11 Miami, 6 D29 vs. #19 Syracuse, 6 W 82-70 at BYU D30 vs. Utah, 9 D29 vs. #7 Florida St., 6 Wed vs. Minnesota, 6 D29 at TCU, 6:30 Wed vs. Yale, 4 D30 at USC, 8 D29 vs. Texas Tech, 7 D29 vs. #18 Kentucky, 6 D29 at #17 Duke D29 at #8 Louisville D29 at Kansas, 7 D30 vs. Stetson, 6 D30 vs. #14 Stanford, 5 D30 vs. Delaware St., 6 L 67-59 at Northern Iowa Tue vs. Ark.-Pine Bluff, 7

BIG TEN WOMEN

TEAM

REC

THURSDAY/NEXT GAME

Maryland Minnesota Rutgers Indiana Northwestern Purdue Wisconsin Illinois Michigan Ohio State Iowa Michigan St. Penn State Nebraska

12-1 11-1 11-1 11-2 11-2 11-2 10-2 10-3 10-3 10-3 8-5 8-5 8-5 6-6

Tue vs. Illinois, 4 Fri vs. Arkansas State, 6 Fri at Seton Hall, 5:30 W 97-62 vs. Austin Peay W 72-63 vs. Hou. Baptist Wed vs. Iowa, 7:30 Fri vs. Florida A&M, 8 Tue at Maryland, 4 W 68-62 vs. Furman W 79-77 vs. NC-Asheville W 89-57 vs. Delaware St. Tue at Minnesota, 8 Tue vs. Northwestern, 2 Wed at #16 Indiana, 5:30

AREA MEN’S TEAMS TEAM

REC

THURSDAY/NEXT GAME

Bradley Chicago St. DePaul Eastern Ill. Ill.-Chicago Illinois St. Loyola Marquette Northern Ill. Notre Dame Southern Ill. SIU-Ed’sville Valparaiso Western Ill.

5-8 4-9 7-5 8-6 7-6 6-3 10-3 9-3 7-5 10-2 7-6 4-9 9-3 3-8

D29 vs. Southern Ill., 7 W 74-65 vs. SE Mo. St. L 72-58 vs. Wyoming D31 vs. Jacksonville St., 3:15 W 91-53 vs. Roosevelt Fri at Hawaii, 12:30 a.m. D29 at Drake, 7:05 W 89-56 vs. SIU-Ed’sville D31 vs. Ill.-Springfield, 3:30 Wed vs. St. Peter’s, 6 W 78-70 vs. Tenn.-Martin Wed vs. Missouri S&T, 7 L 87-80 2OT vs. Santa Clara D29 at Fort Wayne, 6

TEAM

REC

THURSDAY/NEXT GAME

Maryland Northwestern Penn State Michigan Michigan St. Indiana Ohio State Iowa Minnesota Purdue Illinois Wisconsin Nebraska Rutgers

11-0 11-2 11-2 11-3 10-3 10-3 10-4 9-4 9-4 9-5 5-8 5-8 4-8 3-10

D29 vs. #1 Connecticut, 5 W 82-59 vs. UT-Martin Wed vs. Indiana, 6 W 82-33 vs. American J1 vs. Illinois, 2 Wed at Penn St., 6 Wed vs. Minnesota, 6 Wed at Illinois, 3 W 92-62 vs. Kent State D31 at Northwestern, 2 L 80-68 at Ohio J1 vs. Michigan, 2 D31 vs. Northwestern, 2 D28 at Michigan, 1

AREA WOMEN’S TEAMS TEAM

REC

THURSDAY/NEXT GAME

Bradley Chicago St. DePaul Eastern Ill. Ill.-Chicago Illinois St. Loyola Marquette Northern Ill. Notre Dame Southern Ill. SIU-Ed’sville Valparaiso Western Ill.

4-7 0-12 8-4 4-8 3-8 3-7 1-10 9-2 7-4 11-1 6-5 3-9 5-6 10-3

W 65-56 at UIC Wed vs. Western Mich., 7 Wed at Georgetown, 1 D29 vs. Belmont, 6 L 65-56 vs. Bradley Fri at SIU-Ed’sville, 1 D30 at Southern Illinois, 6 Wed at Villanova, 11* D31 vs. Eastern Mich., 1 Tue at Chattanooga, 5:30 D29 vs. Kansas St., 7 Fri vs. Illinois St., 1 D29 at Detroit, 4 D28 at Fort Wayne, 5

*-A.M.

Giants’ loss gives Cowboys crown News services

The Giants will have to wait a while to make the playoffs. Malcolm Jenkins had the second two-interception game of his eight-year career, returning one for a touchdown, and the Eagles snapped a five-game slide by beating the Giants 24-19 on Thursday night in Philadelphia. The loss handed the Cowboys the NFC East title and home-field advantage throughout the conference playoffs. It also put the Giants (10-5) in a more difficult spot for ending their four-season playoff drought. However, they still own the top wild-card position heading into their finale at Washington and can get in this weekend if the Lions, Packers, Buccaneers or Falcons lose. Carson Wentz threw a touchdown pass to Nelson Agholor, then returned from being examined for a concussion in the fourth quarter to guide a drive that ended with Caleb Sturgis’ 41-yard field goal. After the Giants’ Robbie Gould made his fourth field goal, the Eagles (5-9) held on downs with just under two minutes remaining. The Giants got the ball back with 1:31 left and Terrence Brooks intercepted an Eli Manning pass with five seconds to go. Spring league coming: A spring league run by

independent investors separately from the NFL to help develop players will launch in 2017, the NFL Management Council said in a notice to teams. The league will have four teams consisting of veteran free-agent players and experienced NFL coaches that will train from April 5 to 26. The four will play a total of six games. This won’t be a league in which teams can develop their own young players. NFL clubs are not allowed to allocate players to the league. Kuechly should sit: Quarterback Cam Newton

said it makes no sense for the Panthers to play three-time All-Pro middle linebacker Luke Kuechly the remainder of the season following his second concussion in two years. Kuechly has missed the last four games. With the Panthers’ playoff chances being “minimal,” Newton said Kuechly should rest and prepare for the future. Haden to have surgery: Browns two-time Pro

Bowl cornerback Joe Haden revealed he has been playing despite two groin injuries and will have offseason surgery. Haden said he will have the operations soon after the Jan. 1 finale at Pittsburgh. Matthews better: Packers linebacker Clay Mat-

thews said his left shoulder injury is improving and he hopes to get more snaps in Saturday’s game against the Vikings. Matthews suffered the injury Nov. 28 against the Eagles.

IN BRIEF BASEBALL

Encarnacion agrees to deal with Indians Tribune news services

Free-agent slugger Edwin Encarnacion agreed to a three-year, $60 million contract with the Indians, according to reports. He would take over first base from free agent Mike Napoli. The three-time All-Star has averaged 39 HRs and 110 RBIs over the last five years. ■ Todd Hollandsworth, Cubs studio analyst for Comcast SportsNet Chicago the last seven seasons, has a new job as the color analyst for Fox Sports Florida, working Marlins games. Hollandsworth played parts of two seasons with the Cubs (2004 and ’05) and was on the 2003 Marlins team that beat the Cubs in the NLCS and then won the World Series. ... RHP Ivan Nova and the Pirates agreed to a three-year, $26 million contract, according to reports. ... Phil Gagliano, who played for four teams including the Cubs in a 12-year career, died of cardiac arrest in Branson, Mo. He was 74. COLLEGES: Illinois landed a commitment from

Peoria DT Kendrick Green, the state’s No. 8 player in the 247Sports.com composite rankings. The 6-foot-4, 270-pound Green, who also plays offensive guard, is a consensus three-star prospect who was thought to be favoring Iowa. He’s the 15th member of coach Lovie Smith’s first recruiting class. ... Michigan suspended sophomore WR Grant Perry after he was charged in an October fracas outside a bar in East Lansing, Mich. Perry, 19, faces a felony count of assaulting a police officer, two counts of misdemeanor criminal sexual conduct and a misdemeanor count of a minor in possession of alcohol. ... Matt Linehan threw four touchdown passes and Isaiah Saunders ran for three scores as Idaho (9-4) beat Colorado State 61-50 in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in Boise. Olabisi Johnson caught seven passes for 265 yards and two TDs for the Rams (7-6). ... The NCAA revamped its allegations for a third time in North Carolina’s academic fraud case, leading university officials to question the fairness of the process. The NCAA now charges the school with providing improper extra benefits after withdrawing a similar charge last spring. Also restored is a reference to football and basketball players among that group, which had been removed. ... North Carolina junior TB Elijah Hood won’t play in the Sun Bowl against Stanford for unspecified medical reasons but will return in 2017. NBA: George Karl blasted Carmelo Anthony in

his new book, ripping the Knicks star’s attitude, leadership ability and addiction to the spotlight. Karl, who coached Anthony for six years with the Nuggets, called him a “true conundrum” and “a user of people.” Karl also took shots at J.R. Smith and Kenyon Martin. SOCCER: Toronto forward Jozy Altidore won the U.S. Player of the Year Award for the second time. Christian Pulisic was second and Michael Bradley third. ... English Premier League club Crystal Palace fired manager Alan Pardew.

Chicago Tribune | Chicago Sports | Section 3 | Friday, December 23, 2016

BEARS

Trending up from downs

Tireless LeBlanc strives 60 yards, one lesson to master versatility On Sunday night, LeBlanc deto secure job next year compressed by talking to his By Rich Campbell Chicago Tribune

About 6:30 p.m., as the sun would set on Halas Hall early this season, Ed Donatell’s phone would ring. The Bears defensive backs coach didn’t need to check the caller ID. It was always the same guy calling as the evening before. It had become routine for Cre’Von LeBlanc, part of his survival instinct. Joining the Bears on Sept. 4 after the Patriots cut him put him in catch-up mode. As an undrafted rookie from Florida Atlantic, his flickering pro career depended on how quickly he could learn the Bears defense. In those early days, LeBlanc would put in a full workday at team headquarters, participating in meetings and practice. He would go home about 4:30 p.m., nap for 90 minutes and then call Donatell in search of a path to improvement. “Are you free?” LeBlanc would ask his new position coach. “Let’s meet. Let’s watch film. Let’s watch practice.” So they would. LeBlanc would go back to Halas Hall and keep pushing — and the Bears quickly came to know him as a fast learner. It’s how he put himself in position for an interception return for a touchdown against the Lions two games ago, finally transferring his playmaking prowess in practice to a game situation. And it’s why the team has no doubt he will grow from what happened at the end of Sunday’s loss to the Packers. “This guy works and is so determined,” Donatell said. “He’s bright. “But he’s a harder worker than anything, so that pays dividends. A lot.”

teammates and to his mother Lawanda. “Venting,” he said. The NFL — more specifically, Aaron Rodgers — had thrown another lesson his way. Another valley after a peak, challenging his focus and his development. The Bears had scored 17 unanswered points to draw even 27-27. On third-and-11 from the Packers 26-yard line with 36 seconds left, LeBlanc was singled up against receiver Jordy Nelson. Nelson sprinted upfield at the snap, devouring LeBlanc’s 7-yard cushion and not stopping there. What LeBlanc figured might be a route near the line-to-gain ended up being a dead sprint to the post. Rodgers connected with Nelson, as Pro Bowlers do, for 60 yards, effectively breaking the Bears’ back. LeBlanc disregarded outside questions about the play call that left him in single coverage. He harped on his breakdown. He should have stayed closer to Nelson as Nelson pushed upfield. Sitting at his locker after practice Wednesday, some distance between himself and the play offered additional clarity about how he must learn from it. This Bears season, with its widespread failures en route to a 3-11 record, can’t be in vain, after all. If inexperienced players like him build on their struggles, maybe next season holds more promise. “Just boost my awareness,” LeBlanc said. “It was third-and-11; just to switch my mindset to, if we’re in that predicament again, play from the (receiver’s) top shoulder on down. With a quarterback like Aaron Rodgers, I’d rather take a 7-yard curl at the sticks versus the 60-yard post.” That’s the type of response the Bears have come to expect from him since those nighttime film

Week 16 picks

By Sam Farmer Los Angeles Times

BRIAN CASSELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Jordy Nelson makes a 60-yard catch over Cre’Von LeBlanc, setting up the Packers’ winning field goal Sunday.

sessions in September. “What I love about him are his intangibles,” general manager Ryan Pace said in an interview on WBBM-FM 105.9 that aired before Sunday’s game. “He’s here 24/7. He’s always watching tape. He’s always asking questions. He’s always bouncing around coaches’ and scouts’ offices. He’s just a guy who wants to max out his game.”

A high note Part of the Bears’ preparation for Sunday’s game including reviewing video from their 26-10 loss to the Packers on Oct. 20. That helped LeBlanc measure his progress from the days when he was determined to play full speed regardless of whether he knew where he was supposed to go. LeBlanc saw plays on which he was supposed to blitz but didn’t. He saw times he should have gone in motion with a receiver but didn’t. He looks back now with a tinge of embarrassment. “It cost us some plays,” defensive coordinator Vic Fangio said. “But that’s just the price of doing business when you play a guy that

early who hasn’t been with you. He has done well. For what we’ve gotten out of him under the circumstances, he has done a very good job.” Those circumstances include moving LeBlanc from the nickel position to cornerback on the outside because of injuries. He’s only 5-foot-9 and about 190 pounds. But his short-area quickness and competitiveness made him a good matchup against slot receivers. Attrition, however, forced him to learn cornerback as well. Two separate projects for which the study sessions amounted to “Cram City,” Fangio said. LeBlanc earned those opportunities because of what he did in practice. He put it all together in the fourth quarter against the Lions on Dec. 11. When veteran Anquan Boldin tried to run a quick out on third down, LeBlanc knew Boldin couldn’t outrun him and knew to expect a quick pass. He undercut the throw. Pregame preparation and execution on the field came together for a moment of validation, a 24-yard interception return for a

Last week: 12-4 (6-9-1 against the spread) Season: 148-74-2 (114-103-7 against the spread)

REDSKINS (7-6-1) AT BEARS (3-11)

Jordan Reed is banged up, but the Redskins still have a lot of offensive weapons. The Bears should keep this close, especially with the way Matt Barkley is playing, but the Redskins will pull away. Redskins 27, Bears 23

DOLPHINS (9-5) AT BILLS (7-7)

Matt Moore showed that he’s capable of getting the job done for the Dolphins. Miami can get after the passer too. The Bills aren’t giving up, but the Browns made them look better than they are.

Noon Saturday, FOX-32 Redskins by 3 (O/U 47)

Noon Saturday Bills by 41⁄2 (O/U 42) JETS (4-10) AT PATRIOTS (12-2)

Noon Saturday Patriots by 161⁄2 (O/U 44)

Dolphins 28, Bills 21

The Patriots have clinched a first-round bye, but they can still clinch the No. 1 seed. They’ll keep their foot on the gas. No matter who starts, the Jets are going to be hurting at quarterback.

Patriots 27, Jets 17

TITANS (8-6) AT JAGUARS (2-12)

The Titans are running on everyone with their 1-2 punch at running back, Marcus Mariota isn’t making mistakes, and they have an explosive receiver in Rishard Matthews and a solid defense. Titans 24, Jaguars 17

VIKINGS (7-7) AT PACKERS (8-6)

The Vikings are limping across the finish line and have a vastly different defense without safety Harrison Smith. The Packers had a hard time defensively closing the door on the Bears.

Noon Saturday Titans by 41⁄2 (O/U 44)

Noon Saturday Packers by 61⁄2 (O/U 43) CHARGERS (5-9) AT BROWNS (0-14)

Noon Saturday Chargers by 51⁄2 (O/U 431⁄2) FALCONS (9-5) AT PANTHERS (6-8)

Noon Saturday Falcons by 3 (O/U 52) COLTS (7-7) AT RAIDERS (11-3)

3:05 p.m. Saturday Raiders by 31⁄2 (O/U 53) BUCCANEERS (8-6) AT SAINTS (6-8)

3:25 p.m. Saturday Saints by 3 (O/U 521⁄2) CARDINALS (5-8-1) AT SEAHAWKS (9-4-1)

3:25 p.m. Saturday Seahawks by 71⁄2 (O/U 43) 49ERS (1-13) AT RAMS (4-10)

3:25 p.m. Saturday Rams by 4 (O/U 39)

Packers 24, Vikings 20

Some see this as the Browns’ last realistic chance to avoid an 0-16 season. But don’t bet against Philip Rivers, especially when he’s matched up against the Browns’ sad QB carousel.

Chargers 24, Browns 17

The Falcons typically play well in Charlotte, even when the Panthers are good. The Falcons offense is rolling, and they are getting healthier. Bad news for a suspect Panthers secondary.

Falcons 31, Panthers 20

This could be a shootout, with the way the Colts are picking up the pace, and with the vulnerabilities of the Raiders defense. Still, Khalil Mack is going to get to Andrew Luck a couple of times. Raiders 34, Colts 30

The Saints have a terrible defense — what else is new? — but their offense is rolling. The Buccaneers are capable of getting to Drew Brees, but the Saints still have the edge. Saints 30, Buccaneers 24

The Cardinals haven’t been able to put it together all season. Their offensive line is getting a bit healthier, but that won’t be enough against the eyes-on-the-bye Seahawks. Seahawks 27, Cardinals 20

This could be an offensive-breakthrough game for the Rams, because the 49ers defense is vulnerable. Colin Kaepernick can play decent, but the Rams still have a defensive pulse. Rams 20, 49ers 16

BENGALS (5-8-1) AT TEXANS (8-6)

The Texans are at home, where they’re 6-1, and they have the incentive of the playoffs. They also have a pass defense that can give the uninspired Bengals problems. Texans 24, Bengals 20

RAVENS (8-6) AT STEELERS (9-5)

The Ravens defense is tough, and they always play Ben Roethlisberger well. This likely will come down to less than a touchdown. Go with the Steelers in an (almost) prime-time game.

7:25 p.m. Saturday, NFLN Pick ’em (O/U 42)

3:30 p.m. Sunday, NFLN Steelers by 5 (O/U 441⁄2) BRONCOS (8-6) AT CHIEFS (10-4)

7:30 p.m. Sunday, NBC-5 Chiefs by 3 (O/U 37) LIONS (9-5) AT COWBOYS (12-2)

7:30 p.m. Monday, ESPN Cowboys by 71⁄2 (O/U 411⁄2)

Steelers 27, Ravens 23

This could be very similar to the last Chiefs-Broncos game, and that one was an overtime thriller. This could be bitter cold. Give the edge to the Chiefs as the Broncos offense is suspect.

Chiefs 17, Broncos 15

This isn’t a good matchup for the Lions. With their offensive line and top running back, the Cowboys can control the clock and keep Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford on the sideline. Cowboys 28, Lions 24

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score that gave the Bears the lead in a game they eventually lost. “For some guys, they understand the game,” Fangio said. “When they’re out there, they’re not operating like robots. They see and feel things and don’t panic when they’re at the stress point. He understands and has a good feel for the game, run and pass. When you talk to him and coach him on something, he understands.” Maybe in an ideal situation, then, LeBlanc can win a job next year as the nickel in a secondary the Bears are primed to invest in this offseason. While raising that talent bar will be one of the team’s priorities, he has proved he will study and compete to stay above it, using positive and negative experiences that are molding him just the same. “The more guys we can add like that who are passionate about football who love being around here and want to get better,” Pace said, “the better we’re going to be.” rcampbell@chicagotribune.com Twitter @Rich_Campbell

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Kwiatkoski’s arsenal includes self-belief By Dan Wiederer |

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The Bears are headed back to Soldier Field on Saturday for their home finale against the Redskins. Here’s our snapshot look at the game.

Player in the spotlight Moments before the Bears surrendered that devastating 60-yard Aaron Rodgers completion in the final minute of Sunday’s 30-27 loss to the Packers, rookie linebacker Nick Kwiatkoski made a potential gamewinning stop. On second-and-10 from the Packers 27, Kwiatkoski alertly diagnosed a shovel pass from Rodgers to Ty Montgomery, reacted quickly and knifed between two blockers to bury Montgomery for a 1-yard loss. “It was a split-second reaction,” Kwiatkoski said. “At that point of the game, I knew we had to be aggressive.” Kwiatkoski’s development should not go overlooked, particularly with so much uncertainty surrounding Danny Trevathan’s recovery timeline from his ruptured right patellar tendon. There’s no guarantee Trevathan will be ready for Week 1 of 2017, so the opening day starters at inside linebacker may be the same tandem as Saturday’s with Kwiatkoski beside Jerrell Freeman. Coach John Fox has praised Kwiatkoski’s range. Defensive coordinator Vic Fangio also has seen recently why the young linebacker entered the league with a reputation as a heady and instinctive playmaker. “I’ve seen more and more of that as he has played more,” Fangio said. “I like his progress. I like his future.”

Pressing question What’s still at stake for the Redskins? Even after Monday’s loss to the Panthers, Jay Gruden’s club is mathematically alive for the NFC’s final wild-card berth. But that likely will require two victories plus help. If the Redskins (7-6-1) defeat the Bears and Giants, they also will need the Buccaneers to lose once or the Falcons twice, plus either one Packers defeat or two Lions losses. It gives the Bears a chance to play spoiler.

Keep an eye on … Asked to assess his performance over his first four NFL starts, quarterback Matt Barkley zeroed in on one word: progress. Barkley has found himself growing increasingly comfortable within the offense. Last week’s loss had its ugly moments. Barkley’s four turnovers were costly, with the quarterback admitting a couple of his interceptions were “eating me up.” Still, coordinator Dowell Loggains took note of the resolve Barkley showed in pulling the Bears out of a 27-10 fourth-quarter hole to tie the game. “That shows a lot about character and perseverance and who the kid is,” Loggains said.

Injury update The Bears release the game status for their injured players Friday. Nose tackle Eddie Goldman seems like a long shot after he missed his sixth consecutive practice Thursday. Also out were guard Eric Kush (concussion) and cornerback Bryce Callahan (illness). dwiederer@chicagotribune.com

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Memorable moments From Wrigley Field to Rio and everywhere in between, year was filled with drama

A smile comes to mind: Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant smiling. Specifically, Bryant smiling as he fielded a slow bouncer to the left of the mound, smiling even as he lost his footing, smiling as he threw the ball to Anthony Rizzo for the third out of the 10th inning to end the 2016 World Series and a 107-year Cubs title drought. Close but … Defenseman Brent Seabrook nearly scored the tying goal in Game 7 of the Hawks’ playoff series against the Blues. Seabrook’s shot hit both posts but did not go in the net. The Hawks lost the game 3-2 and the series 4-3. Chris Sale is traded: A new era of White Sox baseball was ushered in when ace left-hander Chris Sale was traded to the Red Sox for four prospects Dec. 6 at baseball’s winter meetings in Maryland. General manager Rick Hahn called it “bittersweet” that the White Sox couldn’t win with Sale at the front of the rotation, forcing them to move into rebuilding mode without him. Derrick Rose is traded: What once would have been

unthinkable happened in the blink of an eye June 22: The Bulls traded Derrick Rose essentially for center Robin Lopez. This eventually led to something almost as unlikely: Dwyane Wade signing with the Bulls in free agency. Incredible hulk: An internet lark resulted in hockey’s most endearing story of 2015 when former Blackhawks enforcer John Scott was voted into the NHL All-Star Game and proceeded to be named MVP after scoring two goals. “You can’t write this stuff,” Scott said after helping the Pacific Division win the three-on-three tournament Jan. 31 in Nashville. “It’s unbelievable how it happened.” The Game, overtime version: The 113th edition of The

Game featured a series first: overtime. Quarterback J.T. Barrett kept Ohio State’s hopes alive with a fourth-and-1 rush in the second OT. After Curtis Samuel scooted home for a walk-off score, Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh railed on the officials, saying he was “bitterly disappointed.” Championship buzzer-beater: In a memorable

showdown that many believe was the best NCAA championship game ever played, Villanova won the title with a 77-74 victory over North Carolina. Villanova guard Kris Jenkins found himself open after inbounding the ball and got the attention of teammate Ryan Arcidiacono, who passed it back to Jenkins. He drained a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give the Wildcats their first title in 31 years. Robin Ventura announces departure: After a 6-3 loss

to the Twins on Oct. 2, the White Sox manager made his way to the media room at U.S. Cellular Field and announced he was stepping down after five seasons. Ventura said he recognized a “new voice” was needed after four straight losing seasons and that the decision to leave was his. One day later, bench coach Rick Renteria was hired to replace him. Schwarber time: After tearing two ligaments in his left knee April 7 and not expecting to return until spring training, Cubs slugger Kyle Schwarber received medical clearance to hit and run in time for the World Series. Golden moments: Michael Phelps ended his unparalleled

career with six medals in Rio, including five gold. If his retirement announcement sticks this time — he said he was hanging up his goggles after the London Games too — Phelps’ 28 medals give him bragging rights as the most decorated Olympian of all time. Draft drama: With the NFL draft in Chicago for the

second straight year, the Bears made a splash in the first round by trading up from No. 11 overall to ninth, leapfrogging the Giants to draft Georgia outside linebacker Leonard Floyd. The Bears were correct in assuming the Giants planned to take Floyd 10th, so the Bears sent their first-round pick and a fourth-round selection to the Buccaneers in order to draft the pass rusher they desperately needed. World’s fastest man X 3: At the Rio Games, Usain Bolt became the first man to win both the 100- and 200-meter sprints in three Olympics. And he won both in less time than it took to type this paragraph. What happened? The Bulls wore blank stares at their morning shootaround April 11 in New Orleans after being officially locked out of the playoffs the night before for the first time since 2008. “The first person I’m looking at in this whole situation is me,” coach Fred Hoiberg said. “I have to be better. I have to get our guys to play more consistent basketball. And I know I will do better.” Added Jimmy Butler: “I need to do more at both ends, be a much better player. It’s very humbling. You think you’re good enough and something like this happens.” A star is born: Simone Biles earned a spot among the

greatest gymnasts in history when she won four gold medals and a bronze during the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Coached by Chicago native Aimee Boorman, Biles’ haul included team gold and the coveted all-around crown. Martellus Bennett is traded: The Bears traded standout

tight end Martellus Bennett and a sixth-round pick to the Patriots in March, getting a fourth-round selection in return. Bennett’s mercurial personality and constant demands for a bigger contract were issues. Dancin’ fool? U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte caused an international incident after embellishing a story about a gas station robbery in Rio involving himself and three teammates. All four were later suspended by the U.S. and International Olympic committees. America forgave Lochte quickly, voting him through Week 7 on “Dancing with the Stars” despite a noticeable lack of rhythm.

Curie cures all: Curie won its first state championship in

boys basketball, defeating Benet 65-59 on March 19 in Peoria behind 23 points from Devin Gage. Walk-off bunt: After his team fell behind 6-0 to the

Mariners at home on July 31, pitcher Jon Lester, a career .064 hitter, completed an improbable comeback in the most improbable way: with a pinch-hit, two-strike squeeze bunt in the 12th inning that gave the Cubs a 7-6 victory. Cubbie blue blood: The late, great broadcaster Craig Sager talked for 45 minutes on the phone from his hospital room in Atlanta, where he was receiving a blood transfusion before flying to Chicago to fulfill a boyhood dream of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at Wrigley Field.

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■ Today: Memorable moments. ■ Sunday: Photos of the year (non-Cubs). ■ Monday: Reviews in review, plus the year in numbers. ■ Tuesday: Quotes of the year. ■ Wednesday: A month of fun days. ■ Thursday: Oddest stories. ■ Dec. 30: Those we lost. ■ Jan. 1: Cubs photos of the year, plus bold predictions. Contributing: Brad Biggs, Rich Campbell, Mark Gonzales, Teddy Greenstein, David Haugh, Chris Hine, K.C. Johnson, Colleen Kane, Chris Kuc, Will Larkin, Steve Rosenbloom, Shannon Ryan, Paul Skrbina, Stacy St. Clair, Paul Sullivan, Dan Wiederer. CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS BY NUCCIO DINUZZO (BRYANT, CURIE), BRIAN CASSELLA (BOLT)

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Julia Wittig recovers after the 1-kilometer race at the International Ice Swimming Association’s Ice Cup event in Burghausen, Germany, Dec. 3.

A CHALLENGE NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART ICE SWIMMERS RACE IN DANGEROUSLY COLD WATER

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URGHAUSEN, Germany — Burghausen Castle, perched on a hill high above this scenic Bavarian town, was still bathed in a white morning fog when the first swimmers of the day approached the Woehrsee, a sickle-shaped lake that curls along the medieval fortification’s western flank. It was 29 degrees outside, and as the seven women descended a set of ladders to touch the water, their clipped exhalations — “Whew, whew, whew!” — sliced through the quiet on the jetty. Moments later,

there was an electronic beep, then a collective splash, and with a spurt of cheers from a few dozen spectators, the first meet of the International Ice Swimming Association’s new season was underway. Out here, on the first Saturday of December, cold became a remarkably variable concept. Onlookers wore heavy coats and knit caps pulled low and clasped their palms around steaming drinks. Around them strolled the 50 or so swimmers, ages 12-65, wearing swimsuits and flip-flops. They would be plunging into water measured at 39 degrees. To an uninitiated observer, ice swimming, as it is called, can seem deeply peculiar. From afar, in the absence of snow or ice, it resembles

normal swimming in any lake. But lakeside, stooped and shivering in a parka, flexing your toes inside multiple layers of socks and witnessing groups of half-naked people splashing into the frigid water of their own accord, your mind naturally struggles to comprehend why. In the first event, the women’s 1,000-meter freestyle race, Julia Wittig, a 37-year-old schoolteacher, was positioned in the center lane in a black swimsuit and cap, earplugs and goggles — the only equipment allowed in competition. With refined, powerful strokes, Wittig skimmed across the water, finishing the race in 13 minutes 7.56 Please turn to Next Page

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seconds to set a new IISA world record. When she climbed out, her skin was bright red, as if she had fallen asleep on a beach. She slid off her goggles, exposing white circles around her eyes. She said nothing, her gaze fixed on the ground. Someone draped a towel over her shoulders. Sandals were slipped under her stiff feet. After about a minute, she cracked her first small smile. Five minutes after that, she began to shiver uncontrollably.

A DIP IN ANTARCTIC WATERS Ice swimming has deep roots in Europe, particularly in Eastern European and Nordic countries, where many believe it provides restorative health benefits. But only within the last decade have organizations like the IISA and the International Winter Swimming Association, which was established in 2006, begun formalizing these rituals, arranging them in competitive settings and, in some cases, taking them to new extremes. Ram Barkai, 59, of Cape Town, South Africa, founded the IISA in 2009 after partaking in a couple of revelatory swims: First was a 1-kilometer swim in 34-degree water in Antarctica, made in about 20 minutes. Then he completed a 1.4-mile swim in 39-degree water in Switzerland in 43 minutes. “As an extreme athlete, I was always attracted to the limits,” said Barkai, who was already an accomplished open-water swimmer. “I always found the center boring.” At official IISA events, like those in Burghausen, the longest swims are 1,000 meters. But the organization is also known for certifying “Ice Miles,” swims of a mile or more in temperatures of 41 degrees — the threshold to call it ice swimming — and below. As of this week, 243 people worldwide have done one. Barkai compares the feat to climbing Mount Everest. The swashbuckling attitude of Barkai and the IISA has attracted many critics, including the IWSA, which hosts considerably bigger and more inclusive events and does not allow swims longer than 450 meters

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A sign indicates the water temperature — 3.8 degrees Celsius, or 39 degrees Fahrenheit — at the International Ice Swimming Association’s meet in Burghausen, Germany, Dec. 3.

at those temperatures. “It’s way too dangerous for the average person,” John ConinghamRolls, the vice president of the IWSA, said of the long swims, noting that Barkai was a talented swimmer. “Even what we do is dangerous enough. So we have to say that we can’t condone this.” The risk to the body is real. Sudden contact with cold water can cause hyperventilation and sudden increases in blood pressure. Prolonged exposure can lead to hypothermia. Death can occur when the core body temperature drops below 82 degrees, though fatalities in cold water typically occur from heart attacks upon entering the water. In March 2014, at the IWSA’s world championship event in Finland, a Russian man competing in a 450-meter race in the 70-74-year-old group went into cardiac arrest in the snowy pool and later died in a hospital. Ice swimmers train rigorously in indoor pools to build endurance and carefully acclimate to cold water with progressively longer swims in rivers and lakes. Many of them have or develop an insulating layer of body fat. Gordon Giesbrecht, who studies cold-water survival at the University of Manitoba, said that the best coldwater swimmers often look “more like seals than eels.” “It’s the one time it’s great to be fat,” he said. Still, there is debate among ice

swimmers on how far to take the sport. Donal Buckley, a 50-year-old engineer and avid outdoor swimmer from Ireland, has written a series of critical posts on his swimming blog, LoneSwimmer.com, about his own Ice Mile experience (two years ago, in 37:46 in 38 degrees) and what he called the “ego-driven culture” of ice swimming. Buckley said in an interview that he went off a “mental cliff” in the final couple of hundred meters of that swim. He said he was hallucinating, thinking there was black rain falling from the sky. He said he would not have been able to recall his own address, and he did not remember leaving the water or the 20 minutes after the race. He wants people to be aware of the risks of hypothermia and long-term nerve damage. “One of the dilemmas that I find about talking about Ice Mile swimming, if I start talking about it being dangerous, that attracts people,” Buckley said. That has not stopped ice swimming enthusiasts from dreaming that one day the sport will be considered for Olympic competition, but today it remains a labor of love for the band of swimmers, mostly in Europe, who have acted as its main ambassadors and evangelists. The races, other than a stray few, offer no prize money and attract few sponsors. Please turn to Next Page

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The primary organizer in Germany has been Christof Wandratsch, 49, a lifelong competitive swimmer, who wants to make Burghausen the “hometown of ice swimming.” Under his insistence, and with funding from a local company, stadium lights and lanes were added to the swimming area at the Woehrsee three years ago. Today, the pool and sauna there are open to the public year round, and the local school, where Wandratsch teaches, offers ice swimming as an elective course. His schedule the day before the event provided a glimpse of the commitment and preparation required in the sport. He awoke at 4:45 a.m. for an hourand-a-half-long workout at a warm, indoor pool. After a break at home, he headed to a tributary of the Salzach River, which separates Germany from Austria, and swam loops for six minutes as a light rain pocked the 42-degree water. Then he toweled off, dressed and went to work. That night, he joined another swimmer at the lake for a quick workout, spending about 10 minutes in the 40-degree water. Under the guidance of his coach, Stefan Hetzer (who also coaches Wittig), Wandratsch begins the acclimatization process in September, swimming an hour and a half in 68-degree water. When the water temperature drops to 50 degrees, they reduce the workout to 45 minutes. These days, in water 40 degrees and below, they train for 20 minutes at most. Hetzer, who coached the East German swim team at the 1988 Olympics (a team widely suspected of doping), has encouraged his coldwater swimmers to try unusual conditioning methods. Whenever possible, for example, Wandratsch goes sockless in the winter. He takes frequent cold showers. His friends rib him about his reluctance to turn on the heat at his house. He did not, however, heed Hetzer’s suggestion to sleep outside in his garden.

WHERE SLOW TIMES MATTER In ice swimming, perhaps counterintuitively, slow swimmers

are often considered more “hard core” than speedy ones. It became clear why in the second race of the competition — a mixed men’s-women’s race with those on the slower end of the 1-kilometer spectrum — that was in some ways its most intense. After finishing the race in a brutal 29:00.06 — the single longest stretch in the water of anyone that afternoon — Mark Koitka, of Radolfzell, Germany, was puzzled that the pinkie finger on his right hand kept splaying rebelliously to the side, no matter how hard he tried to keep it still. But otherwise, he was oddly unruffled. He was lucid, cracking jokes in the rewarming tent with a thin towel draped over his knees. On the other side of the tent, though, Bernhard Hauser, 40, of Burghausen, was hunched over, eyes peeking out from a stack of blankets, offering monosyllabic utterances through clattering teeth as three paramedics kept close watch. The difference between the two men was remarkable. Hauser had finished 27:55.46, ahead of Koitka, but his body had a much stronger reaction to the cold. When asked how this could be, Koitka deadpanned that he produced his own natural neoprene, the synthetic rubber used in wet suits. “It’s beer-o-prene,” said Koitka, 38, slapping and jiggling the flab on the midsection of his 243-pound frame. Hauser, still shivering, eventually walked under his own power to the sauna. Later, he said he was surprised at the hubbub around him. He said he mostly felt fine — just cold. “I know my body and my physical constitution very well, and I am not a kamikaze swimmer,” he said, conceding that he could have used more training time. Officials must be extra careful at these swims. They pay close attention to swimmers’ split times, monitoring signs of fatigue. Paramedics do not hesitate to pull someone from the water. The observation does not stop back on land: Swimmers’ bodies continue to cool after emerging from water, and swimmers sometimes reach their coldest body temperatures 30 minutes to an hour after they are done. Swimmers have to monitor themselves vigilantly, too: their breathing,

physical and mental states, and skin tone. “Hot pink is good,” said Jaimie Monahan, a top marathon swimmer from New York, who has taken to ice water swimming in the past few years. “Light blue, pale, that’s not good.” Monahan, 37, completed an Ice Mile this past May in Reykjavík, Iceland, in 35 minutes in 37-degree water, entering a record book full of eye-popping figures. Last February, two men in Ireland, swimming in 40 degrees, lasted 2.05 miles in 57:45 and 2.06 miles in 54:49. In December 2012, a pair of men in Russia each spent over an hour in 32.5-degree water swimming more than 1.3 miles. The first question ice swimmers receive, then, is why. As in many extreme sports, participants embrace the opportunity to learn about themselves. You may catch a surprising glimpse of some unfamiliar corner of your psyche. For a fleeting moment, you may experience the intoxicating feeling of defying your fundamental instincts. The pleasure of doing it seems to pale in comparison to the feeling of having done it. “I’m being honest, when it’s over, the euphoria is incredible,” said Rena Demeo, who finished an Ice Mile two years ago in Boston. For others, it has everything to do with the joy of competition. On Saturday at the Woehrsee, in the shadow of Burghausen Castle (of some renown as one of the world’s longest castles), a DJ spun tunes — “Ice Ice Baby,” of course — as the events unfurled. Students selling baked goods behind a foldout table paused to swim short relays. The sauna at times seemed as packed as a rush-hour train car. Ten minutes after winning her first race, Wittig dunked herself in the wood-fire hot tub behind the pier. Her shivering was so pronounced that she struggled to raise a cup of tea steadily to her lips. But by then she was smiling and laughing. After racing in her youth, she had spent 15 years out of competition. Now here she was, thriving in a different, quirkier sport. She talked about breaking the 13-minute barrier in the 1,000-meter race next month. Wittig did four more races, four more plunges into the ice water, before the afternoon was done. +

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Jenni Van Winkle plays with her 3-year-old son, Will, last month. Will was a newborn when his father, Kyle, was beaten to death at a Chiefs game in December 2013.

FAMILY STILL COPING WITH SENSELESS LOSS A NEW DAD WENT TO AN NFL GAME AND NEVER MADE IT HOME By Kent Babb

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MITHVILLE, Mo. - She stops in the hallway and points at the photograph, hoping the boy at her side will remember. “Who’s that?” Jenni Van Winkle asks Will, her 3-year-old son. The gears turn in his little mind, same as they did the previous night and the one before that. Jenni waits, nervous he won’t recognize a face she wants him to know. “Daddy!” Will says, and the tension inside Jenni releases. Now it’s a

game. She moves her finger to another picture, this one of “Uncle B.,” then to one of “Nana,” then back to the photo of Will’s dad. She asks him again. He recognizes him again. Every night they do this, an important part of the bedtime routine: Will being taught to love a father he barely knew. Seven weeks after Will was born in October 2013, Kyle Van Winkle went with his own father to a Kansas City Chiefs game; following a mysterious confrontation with other fans, he was beaten to death in a parking lot outside Arrowhead Stadium. In the three years since, Kyle has become another symbol of an alarm-

ing problem for the NFL: how to rein in drunken behavior, rising arrest figures and occasional fan-on-fan violence at its stadiums. While incidents of extreme violence don’t happen often, they do happen: This season, a man suffered a brain injury after being attacked at a Baltimore Ravens game. Last year, a Dallas man was shot outside a Cowboys game and later died. The year before that, a California man was severely beaten in a restroom at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. The year before that, Kyle Van Winkle — a 30-year-old man with a Please turn to Next Page

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newborn son — went to Arrowhead Stadium and never came home. Now in this household in suburban Kansas City, a 32-year-old mother stands in the hallway and points at the photo of Kyle. She asks her son whether he can see himself in the picture: the blue eyes and reddish hair Will inherited from his dad. He says he can, and with the ritual complete, Jenni leads the boy toward bed. But Jenni, a middle school teacher and counselor, fears the day the reverberations reach him — when he’ll recognize the man in the photograph and ask a question with a painful and complicated answer: What happened? “I think about it a lot, but honestly…” she will say on another day, shaking her head. “I hate to think about it. I don’t know. It’s terrifying to me.” She pauses. “I feel like I have one shot to convey how good he was,” Jenni says. “But even if you convey that, will Will think: Well, why is he gone?”

THE RHYTHM OF SUNDAYS The police sergeant sits in the corner, ignoring the bread and waving away the waitress. He is in no mood to eat. This might be the worst part of this: He is the answer man, the longtime detective who found fulfillment in the pursuit of justice and purpose in bringing closure to those families, he says, “who could be mad at God.” But Dean Van Winkle has told himself closure is not in his future. His son is dead, beaten and left unresponsive in the Arrowhead Stadium parking lot, and Dean was a few hundred yards away when it happened. He is not mad at God, but if this is part of some plan, Dean wonders what his role is meant to be. Guiltridden father wondering whether he could have prevented Kyle’s death? Stoic ex-Navy reservist standing for the family at a stream of court appearances? Or restless detective determined to fill in the blanks? Instinct and muscle memory pushed him toward the latter. But

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Kyle Van Winkle was at a Chiefs game with his father when he was beaten to death in December 2013.

rather than start at the end and work backward, as he has done for three decades, Dean’s mind went to the beginning. It was in the early 1990s that Grandview Police Sgts. Engert, McKinstry and Van Winkle agreed to go in together on four Chiefs season tickets. Win or lose, the colleagues could suspend shop talk for the day, grill brats and watch the kids chase footballs. Dean enjoyed tailgating, Arrowhead known as one of pro football’s iconic game-day atmospheres, and watching the action from behind an end zone wasn’t bad either. But what Dean loved, what kept him coming back for almost two decades, was listening to Kyle talk about what he was seeing on the field. For years, Dean marked the passage of time by those seasons, and in a flash the boy sitting next to him had become a college student; then a man with a job at a credit union; then, finally, a husband and father himself. The rhythm of those Sundays had been so subtle, Dean could barely distinguish one season from the next, one game from the last. What, if anything, had been different about that December day in 2013? What, the old detective asked himself, had he missed? “You just try to make it all fit, but sometimes it just won’t fit,” says Joe McKinstry, a former Grandview detective who shared office hours and Sundays with Dean. “And that’s the worst thing: Sometimes it never fits.”

Kyle missed the exit on the way to the hospital, and the way he shook it off was so perfectly symbolic of him. Jenni was only in labor, shouting driving directions between breaths, and he’s … calm? It would’ve driven her crazy if she didn’t love it. She was organized and outgoing, the Type-A who had taught classes and coached softball the day before her water broke. He preferred to ride the breeze, come what may, smile about it anyway. Their relationship had always been about balance: She liked to plan and make lists; he was content to endlessly wander a golf course. She approached the stage at concerts and sang along; he would sit at the table, sip beer and watch her. They married in 2011, and in her vows Jenni called Kyle “the calm to my crazy,” and they stood together and smiled. Kyle wanted a child immediately, but when Jenni said she preferred to wait, he agreed. After she became pregnant early in 2013, he wanted to name the boy after baseball Hall of Famer George Brett or golfing icon Arnold Palmer; when Jenni said she preferred a family name, he said that was fine. He envisioned taking his son to Royals and Chiefs games, teaching him to swing a golf club and explaining how an offense beats the blitz. He talked about coaching youth baseball teams, as Kyle’s own dad had done, and watching his family grow. Jenni worried and prepared; Kyle assured her life was uncomplicated. Things would work out, because they always had. With his wife in labor, Kyle missed the exit near the hospital. But they made it there in time anyway. It took emergency surgery to bring William Allen Van Winkle into the world. But mother and baby were healthy anyway. As Kyle sat later gazing at a newborn version of himself, the same strawberry hair and blue eyes, Jenni awoke to see her perfect husband holding their perfect son to complete their perfect life. Those first weeks came and went quickly, blurry inside the pulse of Please turn to Next Page

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sleepless nights, and one Sunday morning they loaded Will into the back seat of their car. Kyle and his dad had been planning this day for months, and as Jenni dropped Kyle at a friend’s house to catch a ride to Arrowhead Stadium, the Type-A in her wanted to remind him to be careful. But she didn’t, reminding herself he was only going to a football game. What could go wrong? Kyle kissed his wife and said so long to his 7week-old son, and before he closed the door, he told Jenni he loved her.

NOTHING SEEMED UNUSUAL Dean and Kyle had agreed to meet that morning in Lot A of the Truman Sports Complex, the 220-acre home of Arrowhead and Kauffman stadiums. A few years earlier, Dean had given up his season tickets. He told friends it wasn’t feasible on a sergeant’s salary to afford the tickets and his daughter’s college tuition though that was only part of the truth. Dean had, over the years, noticed an increase in alcohol-fueled “drama,” as he calls it, fights or the potential for them making him feel like he was never off-duty. Then, in 2008, a wobbly man hauling beers pushed past Dean and Kyle, who by then was in his mid-20s. The man’s feet became tangled, sending his beers flying and his body over the next row. He accused Kyle of tripping him. Dean tried to calm the man, but when he wouldn’t let it go Dean wrangled him to the ground, holding him there until security arrived. Going to the games wasn’t as much fun after that. A season or two after Dean surrendered his tickets, he proposed a new tradition: one game each year, a few fathers and sons spending a Sunday together. Throughout Jenni’s pregnancy, Dean and Kyle conspired in the quiet, planning for a home game far enough past her October due date but before the cold chased away “football weather.” The settled on Dec. 1, with the Denver Broncos in town. Kyle arrived in his friend’s SUV,

and Dean greeted his son. They each had a few drinks, Dean would recall, but no one seemed drunk. When they reached their seats, nothing seemed unusual. Kyle announced shortly after kickoff that he was heading to the restroom, and Dean watched his son descend the stadium steps, nothing alarming about his gait. When the first quarter ended, Dean texted Kyle. He called him. Nothing. Dean would barely notice quarterbacks Peyton Manning and Alex Smith trading touchdown passes, the old sergeant’s gut tightening as the second quarter advanced. At halftime, Dean could no longer stand it. He left his seat and went looking for Kyle, and when he reached the concourse, he shifted into detective mode. He asked vendors near the restroom whether they had seen a 30-year-old redhead with short hair and stubble. He found medical officials to ask whether anyone had been taken away, security guards to learn whether anyone had been ejected. He tried calling Kyle again. For reasons Dean would later struggle to explain, he left the stadium and wandered into the parking lot. He approached Lot A and the SUV Kyle had arrived in, and farther down the same row Dean noticed police surrounding a similar SUV. Dean walked over, seeing yellow tape and investigators. His instincts were telling him someone was dead. “All I could do,” he says now, “was think of the worst.” He stopped at the barrier and waved over an investigator he recognized. Dean asked what had happened. The investigator told him he needed to sit down.

ANSWERS AND MORE QUESTIONS Jenni was watching with a friend when the banner spread across the television screen: ARROWHEAD DEATH A HOMICIDE. More out of curiosity at first, she texted Kyle: What’s going on? After a few minutes, she called and then texted again: Call me. She first felt anger when he didn’t respond, then worry. She called again, texted again. Call me.

Call me. Call me. Then she saw headlights turn into her driveway. It was her father’s car. She watched him climb the stairs and walk through the door, saying nothing. Then he fell to his knees and told her Dean had called. Kyle was dead. That was all they knew. Jenni doesn’t remember much after that. The following days and weeks were a blur; the initial reports suggested that Kyle — the mild-mannered soul who, court records show, had no criminal record — had broken into an SUV and was trying to steal it. Next came a theory that made more sense: After leaving his seat, he continued into the parking lots; Kyle reached Lot A and climbed into an unlocked SUV, which he apparently thought he had arrived in. Public records would later describe that the 10-year-old son of the SUV owner noticed Kyle asleep in the passenger seat and alerted his father. The owner roused Kyle, who stepped out. The 10-year-old went looking for help, and a group of nearby tailgaters responded to the commotion. Several of them approached Kyle and, though exactly why it escalated remains unclear, a fight broke out. Kyle fell, and a witness would tell police one of the tailgaters vowed Kyle wouldn’t “be doing that again.” At one point, public documents describe, a 25-year-old man named Joshua Bradley punched and kicked Kyle while he lay on the pavement; after Bradley retreated, someone in the group said something, and Bradley resumed beating Kyle until he was unconscious. Someone from the tailgating group propped Kyle up against a nearby bus, apparently unaware that the beating had caused blood to leak into his brain. Minutes later, someone discovered he had stopped breathing; by the time Kyle reached the hospital, he was already gone. His cellphone, filling with panicked texts and calls, would be found on the SUV’s floorboard. Four men would be arrested, and nearly three years later, Bradley would plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter. In June, a judge susPlease turn to Next Page

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pended Bradley’s seven-year sentence and handed him five years’ probation; shortly afterward, Jenni filed a wrongful death civil suit against the Chiefs. In the team’s response, filed in August, it denied responsibility. Jenni, meanwhile, attempted to make sense of what had happened. Two years after reciting her wedding vows, she was standing at his funeral and — because she believed Kyle would expect nothing less — reading her husband’s eulogy. She retreated to the home they had once shared, flipping down photos of Kyle because it was too painful to look at his face. She bargained with herself each morning to get out of bed and speak with coworkers and friends. She felt herself becoming withdrawn, a once-effervescent personality going flat, preferring now to sit alone in the silence and the dark. “You think of all the what-ifs and should-bes,” she would say later, “and how unfair life can be.” Then one morning, a couple months after Kyle died, Jenni was driving with Will in the back seat. She was thinking about the difficulty of going through life by herself. Then she glanced behind her, and seeing her son, she was reminded she wasn’t alone.

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Dean pored over documents, asked questions, revisited the scene in his mind. It’s what he had always done. Had Kyle felt sick after leaving his seat? Exhausted after seven weeks with a newborn? Was he drunk autopsy toxicology results have been sealed by a Kansas City judge - when he started toward the restroom? Dean wished his son had staggered or slurred; at least then he would’ve gone with him. But there was no way for Dean to know, and the deeper into the rabbit hole he dug, the farther he drifted from closure. “I’ve thought about it a million times: Why did it happen?” he says. “Why did he go out there? But there is no answer.” Months passed. Then years. Dean forced himself to watch Chiefs games on television, but he would

look away if the camera panned toward their old seats. He told himself he would someday return to the Truman Sports Complex, accompanying his grandchildren to the games seen as an important rite of passage, but never to Lot A. Dean continued elsewhere in his search for peace, visiting with his pastor and a therapist. There was no anger with God to chase away, and the therapist told Dean things he already knew: that it was OK to cry, that pain was normal. And so he settled into the fog, it seemed, for the long haul. Then one night a memory of Kyle flashed into his mind, and because these fragments of his son were disappearing, he logged into a computer to capture it. Dean began typing, and what emerged was a note to his grandson: “I figured I would leave you something,” he wrote to Will, “from my memory of your Daddy.” Dean described the feeling of watching Kyle, on his hands and knees, interacting with his new son. How every time he left the room — no matter the reason or for how long — Kyle kissed Will on the head. “I could see and feel how much he loves you,” Dean wrote. He saved the document to a thumb drive, and in time he started new files. He wrote about how Kyle had been small, but he had been a good athlete and smart teammate. About how he confronted bullies and befriended the unpopular. How he seemed to always be positive and calm. A collection formed: letters for Will to read in the future, and though this wasn’t the reason he started it, Dean felt a sense of purpose for the first time since that Sunday in 2013. It was to introduce his grandson to Kyle, a father he would otherwise never know. “He cared about people,” Dean wrote, “and how they felt and how they were treated. “This trait I find as one of the most I’m proud of in him. It is one that I’m sure he would wish for you to find in your own self.”

DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED? Jenni took Will on a car trip to Arkansas, walked with him into a

home improvement workshop, bought him a set of starter golf clubs. She talked about flying somewhere, the two of them experiencing the wonder and discomfort of someplace new, that feeling of being lost before rediscovering the way back. It was the life she and Kyle had planned, the days and experiences now unfolding anyway, Jenni willing herself to ride the breeze because that’s what her husband would’ve done. “I was always thinking of things that could happen or might happen,” she says, “and Kyle was like: ‘Just relax.’ ” And so she does, or at least she tries. The bad days come and go, often by surprise, and this is when she forces herself to confront the inevitable: the moment she tells Will how his father died. She dreads that conversation, afraid of a misstep jarring his little world, but she believes it’s necessary — better than him piecing it together himself. Will is a little boy now, his facial features almost identical to his dad’s at the same age, and he is outgoing and curious. He is old enough to have friends who are old enough to ask questions. She wonders when someone will ask where Will’s daddy is. Wonders whether the answer will change him. Whether it’s better to go ahead and tell him, or begin telling him, to condition him for the truth. Last month, Will and Jenni stopped in the hallway and looked at the pictures, the same as every night. “Who’s that?” she asked, and he recognized the face, same as always. She asked him about love and bravery, same as always. Then, almost without planning it, she altered the routine. Will climbed into bed, and she asked whether he knew where Daddy was. In heaven, he said, one of the stars in the sky. “Do you know what happened to Daddy?” she asked him. The boy looked at her. This time he said nothing. Jenni took a breath, a young and broken family still lost but searching for the way back, and with delicate words, she began. + Staff researcher Julie Tate contributed to this report.

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Fordham head coach Stephanie Gaitley looks on during the first half of Notre Dame’s 67-36 win Nov. 14 in South Bend, Ind.

HOW TO RECRUIT WITH ACADEMICS FORDHAM’S GAITLEY SELLS PLAYERS ON FAST TRACK By Juliet Macur

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hen coach Stephanie Gaitley is out recruiting for her Fordham women’s basketball team and sitting in the living rooms of potential players and their parents, she gives an unconventional spiel. Gaitley tries to sell the teenagers on taking extra classes when they arrive on campus, to go beyond the workload of even above-average college students. Classes, classes and more classes. In basketball season and out. In summer, when their peers had gone home. Even at times that might interfere with working

out. So many classes that the players can earn their undergraduate degrees in just three years — then come back for their fourth year and gorge on more classes, this time in graduate school, taking a drop step toward a master’s degree. “We use it as a recruiting tool,” Gaitley said. You can see why some players might find that tool to be more like a pitchfork. But Gaitley said she recruited athletes who find the prospect of being overworked appealing. “I kind of align myself with that type of kid because I overloaded my classes in college, too,” said Gaitley, who played at Villanova, graduated in 1982 and earned a master’s degree in education the next year. “I find

myself magnetized to the high achievers.” This year she has three especially high achievers who, for one reason or another, graduated from college early — and then kept going. Those players — Danielle Burns of Gainesville, Va., Hannah Missry of Manasquan, N.J. and Danielle Padovano of Dayton, N.J. — are in their fourth year at Fordham, in New York, and bound to get their master’s degrees in media management by the fall. Burns, a starter on the team, now has a bachelor’s degree in visual arts and urban studies. She has averaged 8.8 points over Fordham’s first 11 games. Missry, another starter (7.1 Please turn to Next Page

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points per game), and Padovano, a backup player, have degrees in communications and media studies. Each of the three players will get two free degrees on one athletic scholarship while playing for a team that is 8-4 after beating Manhattan College on Saturday and that won the Atlantic-10 championship in 2014. For a non-scholarship student, an undergraduate degree at Fordham costs about $191,000, and a master’s degree is worth $50,000-plus. Of the three, only Burns came to Fordham with the academic fast track as a goal. As a sophomore, after hearing that Burns was on schedule to graduate early, Padovano figured out that she, too, could have enough credits to finish early. “ ‘Hey, I took the same number of classes as you did,’ ” Padovano said, recalling the first conversation she had with Burns about the accelerated program. She had stayed on campus over the summer to train with the team and simultaneously piled up credits. She soon began aiming for a threeyear diploma. “I decided to do it on a little bit of a whim,” Padovano said. “It’s crazy, right?” Missry soon followed her teammates, loading up on summer classes at the end of her junior year to finish her bachelor’s degree. For all of them, it was a breathless run: squeezing schoolwork into schedules packed with practices and scrimmages and weight lifting and cardio and travel to away games. Missry didn’t believe she could handle the pace until she actually did. Her parents were thrilled to hear the good news that it was plausible, after all. “I will never forget the phone call I had with my dad when I told him I was graduating early and would go to graduate school, too,” Missry said. “He was so, so happy.” What an understatement. This would be like finding a $50,000 gift card under your Christmas tree. It’s a dream for parents, making their hearts, not their wallets, lighter. For the trio to graduate early, Gaitley said, she had to be flexible about their being late to practice, or having to leave early because of class

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Fordham’s Danielle Burns reverses around Notre Dame’s Arike Ogunbowale on Nov. 14 in South Bend, Ind.

or exams, or missing a team workout and having to make it up on their own. She said she couldn’t be a stickler for doing things her way every time, or else the whole program wouldn’t work. And she wanted it to work as much as her players did. “I’m a mom first, and my No. 1 thing is to prepare my kids for life first,” said Gaitley, who has three sons. One, Dutch, played basketball at Monmouth — and graduated early. Gaitley, who is in her sixth season at Fordham, said she had had one other player there finish a bachelor’s degree early. But, Gaitley said, that player didn’t face the same obstacles as the current three. She was injured and had more time to study. That player is still slacking off, but at Goldman Sachs. Graduate students on a Division I team roster aren’t that unusual, but they tend to be redshirted athletes using a fifth year of eligibility after sitting out a season of competition because of an injury, a transfer or an effort to gain more physical maturity. But to have three teammates who entered school together and didn’t hit pause before reaching this academic level? “This just doesn’t happen,” Gaitley said. She said the program is too grueling for most students. “It’s like saying you can run that six-minute mile and trying to do it

while eating bonbons,” Gaitley said. “It gets a lot harder when you’re actually eating the bonbons.” Now, believe it or not, all three seniors say they are basically loafing — at least compared with the last three years. They have found graduate school to be much easier than their accelerated undergraduate program. With practices in the morning and classes, held at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus, in the evenings, they have so much more free time. Missry finds herself exploring New York City, recently shopping at the Columbus Circle mall before or after her graduate classes, something she would have never done as an undergrad. “Ah, yes, H&M,” she said, with a laugh. Padovano, who graduated magna cum laude, has even more time to lead the Student-Athletes Advisory Council, a group on campus that does services projects, like mentoring, organizing food drives and volunteering in soup kitchens. This is her second year as president. “Sometimes I wonder how we did it for three years, running from class to practice, from practice to class,” Missry said. “But now our reward is graduate school. And without coach, I don’t think any of this could have happened.” +

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Chance the Rapper, above, and Jeremih dropped “Merry Christmas Lil’ Mama.”

RECORDINGS

Chance, Jeremih deliver a surprise

Holiday mixtape is legit, South Side By Kevin Williams

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Denzel Washington and Viola Davis star as a husband and wife in a screen adaptation of August Wilson’s “Fences,” directed by Washington.

‘FENCES’ ★★★ 1⁄2

Washington, Davis knock it out of park

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obust, delicate, sublimely acted and a close cinematic cousin to the theatrical original, director Denzel Washington’s film version of “Fences” makes up for a lot of overeager or undercooked stage-to-screen adaptations over the decades. The performances of Washington, Viola Davis and their colleagues offer something more than mere skill or easy familiarity with August Wilson’s 1987 drama. (Washington and Davis won Tony Awards for their work in the 2010 Broad-

way revival.) Even as Wilson’s 1957-set story, full of sidewinding grace notes and rhetorical flourishes, grows darker, sadder, more painful, the acting exhilarates. The people in charge, on screen and off, know what they have here, and they don’t get material like this very often in their careers. Wilson, who won the first of two Pulitzer Prizes for “Fences,” was a poet turned playwright, with one foot in realism and the other in what lies beyond. The story of the Maxson family owes little to the plot-driven likes of Arthur Miller; it’s dominated by long passages of unusu-

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“Got ’bout three hos in my sleigh” is probably not a lot of folks’ notion of holiday music, but “Merry Christmas Lil’ Mama,” just released by Jeremih and Chance the Rapper, is no ordinary mixtape. “Christmas. Oh, I love Christmas/ Being obligated to buy s--- for people at a certain time of the year” is part of a delightful midtrack spoken-word interlude by Hannibal Buress in the opener “All the Way,” that includes a bit of “singing.” “I swear to God, if you leave my raw vocals like that, we’re not friends anymore,” says the Chicago comedian, in keeping with the loose, improvisational mood that suffuses “Merry Christmas.” This project from two Chicago artists, singer Jeremih accompanied by the omnipresent Chance the Rapper, came flying over the transom like a Secret Santa surprise. It’s nine tracks that, rather than a typical trite holiday tossoff, is legit and Chicago — more specifically, South Side — through and through. It pulses with ambition and that peculiar restlessness that permeates music these days, like the artists had more ideas than time and tried to stuff everything in. “Merry Christmas” won’t find its Turn to Surprise, Page 2

‘HIDDEN FIGURES’ ★★ 1⁄2

High-quality cast fuels space-race tale’s liftoff By Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune

“Hidden Figures” is a fairly entertaining gloss of a docudrama elevated by its cast. It takes place mostly in 1961 and early 1962, three years into the life of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA. At this point “computers” were people, by and large, not machines. With Russia’s successful launch of Sputnik, America had to play catch-up in the space race. Based on Margot Lee Shetterly’s nonfiction account of the same name, “Hidden Figures” focuses on three African-American female mathematicians working behind the scenes, and behind a long wall of white colleagues, at a stub-

bornly segregated NASA in Jim Crow-ruled Hampton, Va. This was the site of the Langley Memorial Research Lab, and the collective mission of the fledgling NASA was simple and near-impossible: propel John Glenn into orbit and bring him home safely, thanks to the proper mathematical trajectories. Taraji P. Henson takes the lead here as Katherine G. Johnson, who worked in the group labeled “colored computers.” Her co-stars, playing friends and coworkers: Octavia Spencer as Dorothy Vaughan, the matriarch of the group; and Janelle Monae as Mary Jackson, the third lead mathematician. These three are such strong and easy screen company, the movie directed and co-

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written by Ted Melfi (“St. Vincent”) becomes a matter of tuning out the contrived, Hollywoody treatment of a great true story

and tuning into what the actors do to authenticate it as they go. Johnson is assigned to work with “space task group” head Al Harrison (Kevin Costner, effectively low-key), whose starchy, all-white staff is in no mood for integrating the ranks. Jim Parsons and Kirsten Dunst embody two shades of casual prejudice.

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Moment to moment, “Hidden Figures” feels half-true and half-phony. Did Harrison, for example, really have no idea that Johnson, his key numbers whiz, was required by law to use the “colored only” restrooms in another building? The character’s surprise and outrage seems engineered expressly for the benefit of 2016-era audiences with-

out much historical reference. The script by Allison Schroeder (“Mean Girls 2”) and director Melfi gathers steam as it goes, however. Henson activates every scene she’s in, and her byplay with “Moonlight” standout Mahershala Ali, who plays her dreamy suitor, is as sweet as pie. Do we believe the relationship as presented? Sort of, sort of not, but the actors find their own truth. Melfi favors storytelling and editing rhythms that work better with broad comedy than with earnest drama, and “Hidden Figures” offers a little of both and plenty in between. The bigotry and sexism these women endured cries out for a tougher-minded movie. But there’s no doubt that many will respond to this easygoing picture and be grateful for something that at least deals with subjects overdue for some of the space-race glory. Michael Phillips is a Tribune critic. mjphillips@chicagotribune.com Twitter @phillipstribune

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CELEBRITIES

ASK AMY

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Old times at “Today”:

Two of Matt Lauer’s former “Today” show cohosts — Katie Couric, above, and Meredith Vieira — are returning to the show for a week each in January with Savannah Guthrie on maternity leave. For Couric, who was “Today” host from 1989 to 2006, this will be her first time in the anchor’s role. In 2012, she spent a week as a fill-in co-host on the NBC show’s bitter rival, ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Vieira worked alongside Lauer from 2006 to 2011. Guthrie gave birth to a boy on Dec. 8. JASON MERRITT/GETTY

Justin Bieber allegedly sent his bodyguards to beat up a photographer and take his camera equipment outside a Buenos Aires nightclub three years ago.

Argentine court indicts Bieber A court in Argentina has indicted Justin Bieber for allegedly sending his bodyguards to beat up a photographer and take his camera equipment outside a Buenos Aires nightclub three years ago. Court clerk Soledad Nieto confirmed the decision to The Associated Press on Thursday. She said Judge Alberto Banos did not issue an arrest warrant, and the Canadian pop idol can appeal the court decision, which was signed Wednesday and surfaced late in the day. Argentine photographer Diego Pesoa alleges he was chased down and beaten on Nov. 9, 2013, by Bieber’s bodyguards outside the INK nightclub, where the singer and his entourage partied during his South American tour. Pesoa also said that the bodyguards took some of his camera equipment. Bieber apologized on the same trip for defiling the Argentine flag onstage and got into trouble with police elsewhere during the tour for allegedly spraying graffiti in Brazil and Colombia. In June, Bieber said on his Twitter account that he would like to play in Argentina on his “Purpose Tour,” but “until the legal conditions change there, I can’t.” Bieber has not returned to answer questions about the alleged attack. His tour goes to Latin America in 2017, but there are no dates published for Argentina. — Associated Press

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Detroit roadway has been renamed for Motown legend Stevie Wonder. The singer-songwriter attended a Wednesday ceremony to honor him, alongside hundreds of people, including Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan. Applause broke out when the sign for “Stevie Wonder Ave” was unveiled along Milwaukee Avenue, two blocks from the site of Wonder’s first home in the city. Bad taste: A restaurant in President-elect Donald Trump’s Washington hotel will remain “Parts Unknown” to celebrity chef and TV host Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain tells foodie-focused website Eater that he will never eat in restaurateur Alessandro Borgognone’s new sushi restaurant at Trump’s hotel, adding that he has “utter and complete contempt” for Borgognone. Dec. 23 birthdays: Actor

Frederic Forrest is 80. Actor-comedian Harry Shearer is 73. Actress Susan Lucci is 70. Singer Eddie Vedder is 52. Actor Spencer Daniels is 24.

Father climbs to dangerous heights Dear Amy: For many years, my 92-year-old father and I have been bitterly disagreeing about his climbing on ladders and high step stools to change light bulbs. His balance is poor, and I’ve seen him almost fall many times. Last week he fell backward at a restaurant, hit his head and had to go to the ER for stitches. Two days later I saw him walk down the hall with a tall step stool to check the fire alarm; I ended up climbing up and checking it for him. Months ago my husband saw my father about to get on a tall step stool to change a light fixture outside and suggested we have our contractor do it, but my father wouldn’t listen, so my father had my husband, who is prone to seizures, climb up to fix the light fixture — putting my husband’s life in danger. I was furious. His neighbor was so concerned about his getting on ladders she said that if she ever saw him on one, she would call the police. He is so stubborn. How would you suggest I get him to stop this extremely dangerous endeavor? I am so angry, and I don’t want him to die. — Angry in Sausalito Dear Angry: Here’s what

you need to know, and this is a certainty: Your father is going to die. You don’t want him to, but he will. To some extent, he is choosing how things will go — by stubbornly maintaining his independent wish to do as he pleases, regardless of the danger and likely consequences.

You have fought this bitter battle with him for years. You could try to convince him to make a list of household chores so that during your visits you can perform some of these tasks, but he doesn’t sound likely to comply. It’s important for you to realize that your father could trip on a rug in the kitchen, injure himself bathing or get hurt in countless other ways. Unless you would like to move in with him to try to protect him from his own impulses, I think you should try to let this go. Dear Amy: I am a 26-year-

old woman from Hong Kong living in London. I met this guy through a dating app. We were very compatible in every way. I was recovering from a fling. He left a six-year relationship just after they became engaged. We almost got to the point where we hung out like a couple, knowing each other’s friends and family. I asked him where this relationship was heading. (I know I shouldn’t have, but I couldn’t help it.) He replied that he really liked me. He was about to go to Burma for a short trip, so he said he would give me an answer after the trip. After the trip, he told me he is likely moving there to start a business with his friend. He said he doesn’t want a relationship with anyone right now. I believe him, but it’s still upsetting, I have never been with a guy with whom I can see a future. However, I also saw a lot of red flags. He didn’t pay for the first date. Since the third or fourth dates, I always initiated getting

together. I want to make him realize how uniquely compatible we are. Do you have any suggestions? —J Dear J: I wish I had sug-

gestions on ways to prove that you are compatible with this guy, but you’re not compatible with this guy. He is not that into you. If he were, he would be demonstrating his interest in exactly the same ways you are demonstrating yours: initiating getting together, for instance, and by not making plans to move to another country. You have done nothing wrong — you are simply at different points in your lives. I think it is great that you have had the experience of being with someone where you are feeling these wonderful feelings and where you realize that you want to have a relationship. Consider this realization his gift to you. Accept this gift, and move on. Dear Amy: I was shocked when you told “Heartbroken” that his wife’s choice to work out at the gym every day indicated that their marriage was in trouble. Maybe this woman just wants to get healthy! — Fit Wife Dear Fit: Along with other changes in this woman’s life, sudden frequent gym attendance and losing weight are indicators that the marriage might be in trouble.

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Chance the Rapper, shown performing during the lighting ceremony for the National Christmas Tree in Washington, collaborated on a Christmas mixtape with a flavor all its own.

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way into the holiday music pantheon alongside a classic such as “Christmas in Hollis,” but it’s almost always a hoot. Holiday music, in the hands of familiar performers, is supposed to be, above all, fun. It should also hew to fan expectation — it needs to sound like Jeremih and Chance the Rapper, which “Merry Christmas” does, even as each of the tracks is in a very different style. The spirit of the season is adapted, co-opted and turned into a shimmy. But rather than holiday classics reinterpreted, this is a ground-up project. No “Silent Night” or “Santa

Claus is Coming to Town.” Christmas isn’t the same for everyone, even as everyone is touched by the holiday. This is a compendium of styles, a pop music smorgasbord adapted for a single purpose — grins. And it works. It’s also really good music, rather than the typically awful holiday throwaways from pop stars. Chance the Rapper animates “I’m Your Santa” with lyrics such as, “Kick, kick, foot down kick, kick, don’t look down/ Take a step back, turn around/ Who taught you how to step/ Who taught you how to step.” The steppin’ reference places this mixtape in Chicago as firmly as the “pray for 79th” that comes

in a later track. “Stranger at the Table” borrows heavily from “I Want You Back” by the Jackson 5, adapting the lyrics to blissful effect with “Oh, baby, give me one more chance, to get my s--together,” a midtempo track typical of the rest of this mixtape. You’d better like Jeremih. And if you love Jeremih, you’d better be comfortable with the show being stolen from him by Chance the Rapper, whose style is one that dominates as it plays with the space between beats, syllables sliding in almost casually from oblique angles. “Joy” is a piano-driven ditty that drifts neatly into

‘Merry Christmas Lil’ Mama’

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social commentary, addressing police violence among other topics in a tune that takes this mixtape to church. “I’m Your Santa” visits the mature Michael Jackson style, a Chicago travelogue that could have easily have come from the late King of Pop’s “Off the Wall” era. “Santa” is also the best track on the mixtape, all falsetto trills and percolating midtempo beats.

“I Shoulda Left You” isn’t sure what it wants to be — drill homage, jam, beef — and succeeds at being not much of anything, even as its evident vexation with the year 2016 is a sentiment that is on-point. The cut ends with an homage to people such as David Bowie, Prince and Craig Sager. “Merry Christmas” will get more love than it will earn in retrospect, because of its surprise nature. Is it worth more than one listen? Absolutely, even as you probably won’t find yourself spending much time with it in, say, July. Even when it isn’t loads of fun, check out the audacity and ambition on display. “The

Tragedy,” an austere soundscape that is almost a chanson, wouldn’t be out of place in a modern homage to Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht. And that’s cool. “Chi Town Christmas” takes “Carol of the Bells” and adapts it for the here and now, doo-wop stylings laying out familiar spots for South Side folk, even giving a shoutout to Ford City shopping mall. The party ends with the title track, just the thing for those whose holiday just won’t be the same without some footwork, another made-in-Chicago art form, like this holiday bonbon. kmwilliams@chicagotribune.com Twitter @tribunekevin

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Dev Patel inspired by ‘Lion’ experience By Amy Kaufman

people’s preconceptions of Dev Patel,” the director explained. Meanwhile, Brierley was still reckoning with how he felt while watching his story be turned into a film. He largely stayed off-set but did travel to West Bengal to watch a scene being filmed on the Howrah Bridge — where he bathed in polluted water when he was lost as a boy in Kolkata. “Funny enough, I was OK,” Brierley said, referring to watching 8-year-old newcomer Sunny Pawar portray him. “I just wanted to make sure everyone else was all right.” The process of making “Lion” has been emotional for Patel too. After the success of “Slumdog” in 2008, the actor said he struggled to get “substantial work” as a young British Asian actor. “I feel like I’ve really grown in the process,” said Patel. “It’s allowed me to be in a space that no one’s seen me in — a performance place of stillness, of maturity, of pain.” He picked up a copy of Brierley’s memoir, “A Long Way Home,” and stared at the cover image of

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“I just wanted to shake people’s preconceptions of Dev Patel.” — Garth Davis, director of “Lion” Brierley agreed. “That a child can go through such trial and tribulations and come out of it not psychologically scarred.” Patel, 26, and Brierley, 35, had met in Hollywood a few weeks before a week of promotional activities for “Lion.” On his first night in town, Brierley went to the Hamilton Awards, an event honoring behind-thecamera artists, where he was seated next to Patel. It was only the second time the men had met. “It’s weird, because I feel like he’s still starting to get to know me because we haven’t spent that much time together,” Patel said.

“There’s so much to catch up on. I feel like I know him so intricately because I tried to live his life for a year. I don’t know how to explain it. But I feel like I know you, and I’ve known you, for a long time.” Patel became interested in playing Brierley before a script for “Lion” had even been written. The actor read about Brierley in the news a few years ago and immediately began “properly You-Tube stalking” him, watching some of the inspirational talks he’d delivered about his journey. So when word began circulating around town that Brierley’s story was being

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You’d never know from looking at him, all the things he’s seen. With his mall brand T-shirt and jeans, athletic build and perma-grin, Saroo Brierley seems like your average Australian dude — the kind who drives a sports car and loves watching cricket. But when he was 5 years old, Brierley’s life took a dramatic turn. He was born in a poverty-stricken Indian village, where he and his siblings spent their days begging for food and searching for fallen coins. One night, while scouring a train station for change, he became separated from his older brother and accidentally got on a train that took him from his hometown in Khandwa to the overpopulated Kolkata — a journey over 900 miles. After a harrowing few days alone in the slums of Kolkata, Brierley was picked up by authorities — but he was so young he didn’t even know where he’d come from. So he ended up in an orphanage, where he was soon adopted by a well-off Australian couple. That’s how he got to Hobart, the affluent seaside capital of Tasmania and the place he’s called home ever since he was 5. If his story had stopped there, it would have been miraculous enough. But as the new movie about his life, “Lion,” depicts, Brierley’s life continued along an even more astounding path. Because when he got to college, he decided to start looking for his longlost Indian family using satellite images on Google Earth — even though he had only the fuzzy, twodecade-old memories of a child to guide him. Dev Patel, the British actor, knows how it felt to question one’s identity. Growing up in London, he tried to play down his Indian roots for fear of being bullied. It was only when he traveled to India for the first time at age 17 to film “Slumdog Millionaire” that he started to connect with his ancestral homeland. “And I think that’s why I connected to Saroo’s story so much, because when you hear him talk — down to the cricket team he supports — he’s an Aussie through and through,” said Patel, who plays the adult version of Brierley in “Lion.” “But when you read the script, there’s two Saroos. There’s this Indian boy with the torn clothes, and then all of a sudden you see this guy going out and he’s dating girls and listening to London Grammar and driving his 350Z.” “It boggles my mind when I think about it,”

Brierley as a wide-eyed boy — a photo taken just after he’d met his adoptive parents. “When I’m in anxiety or stress about things, I always look toward little Saroo — that little lion that can conquer anything,” Brierley said. “Look what he’s been through. How would he feel? He would have been thick-skinned — no emotions can override him.” “Wow,” Patel said. “That’s beautiful. I mean, you sit here with Saroo, and I can say looking at him, he’s a genuine inspiration. Everyone goes through their small anxieties, and you look at small Saroo, and he is a feat of survival, adaptability — someone who just can follow their instincts. “And that’s beautiful. And I look at the adult Saroo, who I tried to live for over a year of my life, and I think: There’s a man who did the exact same thing. He had these feelings that were gestating in him for so long that he tried to suppress, and then one day he decided to face it.”

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Books are perennial favorites for award-season source material, but book authors — well, even when the relationship is cordial, they can sometimes get in the way of a screenwriter’s vision. So who gets the final say in what goes on the screen? As these screenwriters can attest, a lot of that answer depends on whether the author is living or dead. Here’s how they navigated that tricky territory — in both instances. In adapting the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “American Pastoral,” by Philip Roth, screenwriter John Romano says he and the author had an ideal relationship: none. “My contact with Philip Roth was just what I wanted it to be,” Romano says of the notoriously private author. “I did not invite him into the process. I didn’t really want in my mind to have America’s best writer hanging over my desk and being concerned that Philip Roth was unhappy with anything I was cutting.” Roth reportedly eventually approved of the movie. But Romano’s experience echoes the kind of relationship most screenwriters seem to want to have with sourcematerial originators. And when those pesky authors are not around (because of being dead) or simply absent (because of disinterest or privacy issues), screenwriters tend to feel far freer with adaptations. Once loosed from the specter of a looming author opinion (or worse, an author commenting negatively on the adaptation once it’s been filmed), screenwriters find a certain elasticity in the material. Tom Ford has directed only two movies, but he’s adapted books each time: “A Single Man” was based on the late Christopher Isherwood’s book of the same name, and his new “Nocturnal Animals” is based on the late Austin Wright’s “Tony and Susan.” “I had to learn that the book is the book; you read the book and find out what speaks to you and put it aside and write the movie with the same core message,” says Ford, who admits it is easier as a director not to have the author in the equation. Had Isherwood or Wright been around, though, he says he’d still have kept them at a distance. “I would have talked with them. But you want your movie to be a singular expression of what you’re trying to say, and the ultimate singular expression is one where no one else has any control over what you want to say.” For many filmmakers, finding a way to dovetail that singular expression with the book’s intent can be a challenge. Whit Stillman took an early epistolary novella by Jane Austen, “Lady Susan,” and turned it into “Love & Friendship.” While he did expand at least one character’s role, he also wanted to make sure the dialogue

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rang true for the period and for Austen. “We focused on the language,” he says. “I obsessively read her work, and I found experts and all sorts of tools to get the words and phrases right. But sometimes they would say, ‘This phrase is impossible in the 18th century,’ and I’d find it in Jane Austen’s text.” That’s apparently less true with films based on real events; “Sully” screenwriter Todd Komarnicki was unable to speak with the late Jeffrey Zaslow, who co-wrote “Highest Duty” with Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, but he did seek out the man himself. “He was a great partner, because he understood there was a great difference between a book and a movie, and he trusted us to surrender that,” Komarnicki says. And then there are folks like screenwriter Patrick Ness, who may actually

have had the dream setup for adapting “A Monster Calls.” For one thing, it’s his book — he wrote it based on notes and a partial chapter after original author Siobhan Dowd died. Then he did something almost unheard of. “I decided to write the script first to say, ‘This is what I value in the material and what can be changed, and I need to find a filmmaker who wants to make that,’ ” he says. The fact is that in the war between author and screenwriter, the screenwriter virtually always wins. As Stillman notes, “Living authors are a problem. It’s much better to have an author safely departed because they do cause trouble. What you have to remember is that you owe everything to the movie and nothing to the original.” Randee Dawn is a freelancer.

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‘WHY HIM?’ ★★

Franco, Cranston clash in Cali, but why not her?

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Every generation gets the “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” that speaks most trenchantly to the evolving cultural issues of our time. Apparently, ours is “Why Him?” where the young suitor isn’t racially other but is from a completely different planet when it comes to culture, values and social norms. That planet? Silicon Valley. In “Why Him?” directed by John Hamburg and written by Hamburg, Ian Helfer and Jonah Hill, Stanford University senior Stephanie (Zoey Deutch) invites her tight-knit Michigan family to spend Christmas with her boyfriend, Laird (James Franco). It’s only appropriate, seeing as their first introduction to the man was his unexpected naked rear on their video chat screen at dad Ned’s (Bryan Cranston) birthday celebration. And when the Flemings land in the Bay Area, they’re in for a cultural odyssey they could never have expected. “Why Him?” is probably the best sendup of contemporary California tech culture to date. There’s the yoga, the fussy food (Laird practices “lawn-to-table” cuisine with the help of “Top Chef” Richard Blais), the pretentious art (a moose suspended in its own urine), the celebrity, the wealth, the tank tops, for crying out loud. When we see these cultures clash, it’s clear that #Calexit has already happened — it might as well be a foreign country for all the toilet mishaps and communication misunderstandings that take place. There’s fun to be had in watching the Flemings go Cali, as mom Barb (Megan Mullally) learns about vaping and twerking, and

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tween son Scotty (Griffin Gluck) takes up code and a slouchy beanie. Cranston, ever the fuddy-duddy crank, as Ned, is more resistant. Threatened by Laird’s off-putting lack of filter and peculiar ways, he staunchly refuses to give his blessing. Franco is quite funny in his uniquely laid-back way as the computer nerd who never quite figured out how to interact with a family. While his initial forthrightness tends toward the TMI, he’s refreshingly honest and endearingly vulnerable. His tribe is made up of Gustav (Keegan-Michael Key), his combination concierge, trainer and best friend, whose German accent wavers into Jamaican territory at times. He’s also hired Kaley Cuoco — “the girl from ‘Big Bang Theory’!” he exclaims — to voice Justine, the all-seeing, all-knowing smart house entity whose help-

fulness verges on the intrusive. In that vein, there are opportunities to explore how technology goes wrong, but “Why Him?” is far more about how the culture of tech is wacky; in this world, tech is good, tech has the power and money to save Middle American manufacturing companies and keep jobs right here in the U.S. of A. If a little privatized surveillance comes along with it, so be it. The biggest problem with “Why Him?” though, isn’t him, it’s her. Stephanie is so underwritten that though these men are competing ruthlessly over her, she drops out of the story completely. She’s the center of attention, but she’s a void. That’s not the fault of the winsome Deutch. It’s that the writers haven’t fleshed out her character, and she only has two modes, either bratty or exasperated, in which to work. It’s difficult to empathize with her, so we latch on to the kooky Laird and stern Ned, whose rivalry the film revolves around. In true Hollywood fashion, they get hims right, but not her.

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ally rich, rolling dialogue and monologue. “Fences” deals with the contradictions and conflicts within Troy Maxson, an ex-convict whose life has, in Wilson’s phrase, “rubbed him raw.” The onetime Negro League baseball hopeful now hauls garbage for the city of Pittsburgh, and the play (and the film) stays close to his house and backyard, though there are a few shrewdly opened-up scenes on the truck, in a tavern and the like. This husband and father finds himself at a tipping point. Troy risks his wife’s trust and his domestic stability by stubbornly preventing his high schoolage son (Jovan Adepo, excellent), also an athlete, from having his heart broken by a sport he loves. Davis is spectacularly good as Rose, Troy’s wife, who takes an increasingly prominent role in the drama. Other sterling members of the 2010 revival ensemble reprise their roles for Washing-

ton’s third directorial feature. Stephen Henderson is Troy’s longtime friend and co-worker Bono, in thrall to Troy’s yarn-spinning but concerned about his fidelity; Russell Hornsby has a couple of juicy scenes as Lyons, Troy’s wastrel son from a previous marriage. Mykelti Williamson is Troy’s brother, Gabriel, badly injured in World War II (the settlement money paid for the Maxson’s house, a fact Troy cannot resolve without a head full of guilt). The glory of “Fences” cannot be separated from what makes it difficult to pull off. Troy’s a marvelously thorny protagonist, and there are moments in his downward spiral when Washington is reaching down into some very tough and personal places. (The line “I can’t taste nuthin’ ” is a brilliant moment.) When Rose must respond to the one thing she feared in her life with Troy, Davis lets him have it with everything she has as a truthful, fearless actress. Most times, a film adaptation of a traditionally

structured play takes dutiful, sideways steps to fix certain things, bringing offstage characters (the woman named Alberta, in this case) on screen. Not here; at least not much. Washington’s only real misstep as director, I think, comes in the eternally problematic epilogue, where we get a boatload of forgiveness for Troy that’s largely but not fully earned, capped by a heavenly reaction shot (literally, of the heavens) that feels pushy. If the camera had stayed on the faces of the characters, no problem. Small matters. With astute and uncredited cutting and tweaking by producer Tony Kushner, “Fences” works as a showcase for its towering lead performances and, just as crucially, as proof that the joyous cadence of Wilson’s best writing works in more than one medium. Michael Phillips is a Tribune critic.

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ON SCREEN Best in Town “Fences” ★★★ 1/2 PG-13, 2:17, drama Robust, delicate, sublimely acted and a close cinematic cousin to the theatrical original, director Denzel Washington’s film version of “Fences” makes up for a lot of overeager or undercooked stage-to-screen adaptations over the decades. The performances of Washington, Viola Davis and their colleagues offer something more than mere skill or easy familiarity with August Wilson’s 1987 drama. “Fences” works as a showcase for its towering lead performances and, just as crucially, as proof that the joyous cadence of Wilson’s best writing works in more than one medium. — Michael Phillips

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Dev Patel stars as an Indian man adopted by Australian parents who embarks on a search for his birth family in his native country.

‘LION’ ★★★ 1⁄2

True-life tale of an adoptee torn by bonds with 2 families By Katie Walsh Tribune News Service

The moving “Lion” is the incredible true story of two profoundly remarkable journeys that Saroo Brierley took in his life: one far away from home and his return trip back. Based on his memoir, “A Long Way Home,” the film is split into two halves that reflect his round trip. But the film, directed by Garth Davis, with a screenplay adapted by Luke Davies, covers far more than just distance, delving into the deep emotional journey required for such a voyage. The first half depicts the travels of young Saroo (Sunny Pawar), just 5 years old when he becomes separated from his brother at a train station in Khandwa, India, and ends up on a decommissioned passenger train that takes him 900 miles away to Kolkata. There he’s placed in an orphanage and adopted by an Australian couple who live on the island of Tasmania. The return journey, delayed over two decades, follows the emotional trip of adult Saroo (Dev Patel) as he uses modern technology to find his village and travel back across the ocean to find his family. The amazing newcomer Pawar is tasked with the far more action-packed portion of the story, as Saroo makes his

way through the predatory and hellish urban jungle of Kolkata, where children are snatched off the streets by hoodlums and traffickers. Pawar more than carries his weight in a role that’s physically and intellectually demanding, depicting the intelligent and intuitive Saroo. You can sense his highly developed self-preservation instincts and the decision-making processes that keep him safe. He actively decides to go to Tasmania to escape the prisonlike orphanage. Saroo carries this emotional intelligence into his new life with his adoptive parents, Sue (Nicole Kidman) and John (David Wenham), and grows into a young hospitality management student in Melbourne. Patel, given a leading man role, easily grows to fill the needs of this complex and conflicted character, a man caught between two worlds, two cultures and two families. He’s a jovial, athletic, beer-drinking Aussie, the product of his adoptive parents, but also much more. Patel is tasked with portraying the Saroo who is split in two. As much as he’s come to terms with his nationality and identity as an international adoptee, hanging with his new Indian friends triggers memories that send him down a rabbit hole of searching, scouring Google Earth for landmarks he might remember

MPAA rating: PG-13 for thematic material and some sensuality Running time: 2:00

from his youth. The strapping, confident Aussie goes from sharing sweet romantic moments with his American girlfriend, Lucy (Rooney Mara), into a brooding depression, haunted by visions of his mother and brother. The latter half of “Lion” dives into the emotional depths that Saroo sinks into while trying to hide his desire from his adoptive mother, with whom he shares a strong protective bond. It’s a brief but juicy role for Kidman, who is equally luminous and devastating as a woman who demonstrates her own boundless love in sharing a son with another mother. Saroo emerges from the darkest depths to find light. A lilting score by Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka evokes a sense of nostalgia that tugs at the heartstrings and underscores the film’s message about the essentially human need to always find and return home. But the beauty of “Lion” is that it explores and allows for the unique possibilities and power of multiple homes, multiple families and multiple selves.

‘NATIONAL PARKS ADVENTURE’ ★★ 1⁄2

Natural wonders offer scenic backdrops for cursory look at national park system By Nick Schager Variety

Taking Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” as its rallying-cry theme, “National Parks Adventure” pays tribute to the 400-plus sites across the country protected by the National Park Service. Narrated by Robert Redford and produced in association with Expedia and Subaru, Greg MacGillivray’s nonfiction film affords a touristy view of numerous American landmarks that benefit from the government support that began 100 years ago when, after a three-day visit with naturalist, philosopher and poet John Muir, “conservationist president” Theodore Roosevelt began the process of safeguarding the nation’s most hallowed grounds from development and destruction. Timed to the Park Service’s centennial, it’s a slender but stirring celebration of the nation’s true treasures. Shot at more than 30 parks, “National Parks Adventure” nominally charts the cross-country trek of climber Conrad Anker and his cohorts Max Lowe and Rachel Pohl, all of whom are seen scaling towering rock faces and imposing frozen waterfalls, as well as biking, rafting and driving against many expansive panoramas that contrast the wide-open land with their minuscule Subaru. However, they’re merely audience proxies, and their vacation only a flimsy pretext, for MacGillivray’s reverent snapshots of Yosemite, Yellowstone, Devils Tower (made famous by “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”), Niagara Falls and countless other locales, all of which are shot in breathtaking 35 mm and 70 mm Imax that does justice to their daunting scale and beauty. From a low-angled view of a river reflecting the overhead clouds, mountain ranges and glistening sun, to innumerable aerial flybys around scraggly spires and through ancient canyons, “National Parks Adventure” meticulously conveys its settings’ grandeur through striking aesthetics — which also include the

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“National Parks Adventure” was filmed with Imax cameras at more than 30 parks. No MPAA rating Running time: 43 minutes Ongoing at the Museum of Science & Industry Omnimax, www.msi chicago.org

diegetic sounds of wind rustling through trees, water cascading over ledges and prairie dogs chirping out unique warning calls to their mates. Like its uniformly gorgeous visuals, the aural design is so immersive and evocative that it’s a shame when the filmmakers strive to amplify their sweeping uplift with soaring songs (from Jason Mraz, Jeff Buckley and John Denver, among others), which are aggressively laid on top of action that needs no such intrusive embellishment. While Anker’s fondness for the untamed wilderness is repeatedly articulated, and passing mention is made of the Himalayan-climbing tragedy that helped forge Anker and Lowe’s bond, the film’s attempt to convey the healing power of nature proves as cursory as its national parks history lesson. Through dramatic re-creations as well as archival footage,

MacGillivray supplies a brief primer on how Roosevelt and Muir’s Yosemite getaway led to the inception of the national parks venture (referred to then and now as “America’s Best Idea”). While there’s little in the way of depth or specifics to those sequences, they get their primary points across clearly and quickly, allowing the material to serve as an intriguing introduction to a larger, more complex and fascinating story. If its main triumph is delivering a tantalizing, sightseeing-style overview that encourages greater post-viewing exploration on the part of its audience, “National Parks Adventure” also functions as a testament to celluloid, a media form that itself is in dire need of preservation in this digital day and age. One of the final works (if not the final work) to be produced with traditional Imax film cameras, MacGillivray’s documentary has a richness and clarity of image that suggests that, just as nothing quite compares to visiting America’s natural wonders in person, there’s no substitute for the peerless majesty of old-school movie techniques and technology.

“Jackie” ★★★ 1/2 R, 1:40, biopic The shock, grief and spotlight glare endured by Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, in the days following her husband’s 1963 assassination, was there for all to see. Yet who knows what she was truly thinking, feeling, screaming inside? Director Pablo Larrain’s “Jackie,” starring a brilliantly cast and compelling Natalie Portman, is an odd, hermetic and fascinating picture. Throughout her ordeal it was hard to say “what was real, and what was performance,” as Jackie says to confidant William Walton, played by Richard E. Grant. This is the guiding principle of Larrain’s picture. Even if it lacks full dimension, and a final imaginative leap past the biopic strictures, “Jackie” pulls you into its web, shot by shot, moment by moment. — M.P. “La La Land” ★★★★ PG-13, 2:08, musical comedy How to write about “La La Land,” the year’s most seriously pleasurable entertainment, without making it sound like nostalgic goo? At its best, “La La Land” hits three, four, five bells at once, reminding us of the multilayer satisfaction a musical can provide. Ryan Gosling stars as a stubbornly idealistic jazz pianist and aspiring club owner. More crucial to the film’s success, Emma Stone co-stars as a striving, occasionally employed Los Angeles actress. Stone is spectacular, and she’s reason enough to see “La La Land.” Damien Chazelle is a born filmmaker, and he doesn’t settle for rehashing familiar bits from musicals we already love. — M.P. “Long Way North” ★★★ PG, 1:20, animated “Long Way North” is a complete pleasure, a gorgeous piece of wide-screen animation that is as delightful as it is unexpected. The film marks the feature debut of French animator Remi Chaye, and it relates the adventurous journey made by Sacha, the 15-year-old daughter of a Russian aristocratic family. She is searching for her grandfather, the Arctic explorer Olukine, who has been missing for two years. The action takes place in late 19th-century Saint Petersburg and the far reaches of the polar north. Storms at sea make us gasp, enormous icebergs are appropriately majestic, and when fog rolls over the ice, we feel the chill. — Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times “Manchester by the Sea” ★★★★ R, 2:17, drama We meet Lee (Casey Affleck) in the present day, long after he has fled Manchester-by-the-Sea for a monkish existence working as a handyman for a string of apartment complexes. Then his brother dies, and Lee is forced to return home to take care of his 16-year-old nephew, Patrick, played by Lucas Hedges. Of course “Manchester by the Sea” is sorrowful; its events ensure as much. But random, fatal bad luck exists side by side with a bracing amount of humor, and the tones and colors ebb and flow throughout. As a protagonist Lee is stuck, boxed-in, and I love the way and the degree to which “Manchester” finds a measure of peace for this character. — M.P. “Moana” ★★★ PG, 1:53, animated Featuring songs by “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, the new animated musical adventure “Moana” is bright, busy, enjoyable and progressive without being insufferable. Moana, voiced by Hawaiian actress Auli’i Cravalho, is the daughter of a Pacific Islands chieftain. She must get in touch with her seafaring ancestry and leave her island, Motunui, on a long journey. After a brush with death, she washes ashore on a small island where she meets the Polynesian demigod Maui, voiced by Dwayne Johnson. The signature power ballad, “How Far I’ll Go,” may well take its rightful place alongside “Frozen’s” big hit, “Let It Go,” in the female-empowerment earworm department. — M.P. “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” ★★★ PG-13, 2:13, action/adventure The tale of a controversial Death Star and those who loathe it, operates as a prequel to the original 1977 movie. The new film is a little “Guardians of the Galaxy,” a little “Dirty Dozen” in its mass wartime slaughter, and a pretty good time once it gets going. “Rogue One” takes its name from the U-shaped spaceship whisking our Alliance fighters to the tropical planet Scarif for the big showdown. The movie’s pretty violent — certain shots evoke memories of wars in Vietnam and Iraq, by design. Several people exiting from the Chicago press screening expressed the same threeword sentiment — “not for kids” — though of course millions of preteens will prove that sentiment hapless. — M.P.

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“Last Man Standing” (7 p.m., ABC): Patricia Richardson, formerly Tim Allen’s “wife” on “Home Improvement,” reunites with him in “Tanks for the Memories.” Mike (Allen) wants the woman’s late husband’s collection of miniature tanks — and when he learns she’s sold it to a Gulf War veteran (guest star Robin Roberts, “Good Morning America”), he takes measures to make it his anyway. Kristin and Ed (Amanda Fuller, Hector Elizondo) are dismayed by a restaurant critic’s review.

prospect of his wife (Suzy Nakamura) working for the same firm when Pat (Dave Foley) offers her a job. Ken fears having too much closeness wth her, at virtually all hours. Molly (Krista Marie Yu) is concerned about her SAT scores, and Dave (Albert Tsai) conspires with her to keep their parents from learning those results. Tisha Campbell Martin also stars.

“Shark Tank” (8 p.m., ABC): Wally Amos — of Famous Amos cookie fame — tries

to sell the Sharks on his latest brand of edibles in this episode. Two Florida sisters relate their reason for developing swimsuits specifically designed for moms, prompting Barbara Corcoran to reveal something about herself. Two Colorado men give a demonstration of their technology-protection innovation.

“Married to Medicine Houston” (8 p.m., Bravo): Monica has a blinding epiph-

any about her romance with Imad while they’re on a double date with Erika and Derek in the new episode “Takes Two to Sparkle.” Meanwhile, a death in the family threatens to ruin Elly’s lavish birthday celebration, and Rachel’s patience is tested anew when she learns that Cindi Rose is talking trash about her again. “Blue Bloods” (9 p.m., CBS): The sudden flight of a frightened murder witness

puts Erin and Anthony (Bridget Moynahan, Steve Schirripa) on his trail, hoping they can convince him to return and take the stand, in “The Extra Mile.” Frank’s (Tom Selleck) resistance to attending a police union gathering worries Garrett (Gregory Jbara). The circumstances of a holdup at a convenience store keep Danny and Baez (Donnie Wahlberg, Marisa Ramirez) curious. TALK SHOWS

“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” (10:34 p.m., NBC): Actor Adam

Driver; internet comedy duo Rhett & Link; R. Kelly performs.*

“The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” (10:35 p.m., CBS): Actor Chris Pratt;

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actor Jason Bateman; Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog; Stevie Wonder performs.* “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (10:35 p.m., ABC): Actress Jennifer Aniston; director Tom Ford; FRENSHIP performs.*

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TV records a milestone as videotape turning 60

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Advice about films kids may want to see — whatever the rating — in theaters now or opening soon By Katie Walsh |

Tribune News Service

K‘SING’ PG

‘WHY HIM?’

What it’s about:

What it’s about: Cul-

Think of it as “Zootopia Idol,” an animated comedy about a city filled with walking, talking, singing animals who put on an “American Idol”-style singing competition. The kid attractor factor: Well, the

animated cuddly animals, and the soundtrack filled with pop hits.

Violence: A scene of peril in which a building is destroyed in a flood and crumbles, a robbery heist and getaway. Language: None. Sexuality: Do twerk-

ing bunnies count? Drugs: None. Parents advisory:

Appropriate musical fun for kids of all ages.

tures clash when a Michigan family travels to California to meet their daughter’s new boyfriend, a Silicon Valley tech mogul. The kid attractor factor: Star James Franco

will attract teen audiences.

Violence: There is one

massive, dangerous mishap with a moose sculpture. Language: Constant

swearing and use of the F-word, as well as explicit discussion about sexual activity. Sexuality: A view of a

naked rear; implied but not graphic sex scenes.

Drugs: Drinking and

marijuana use.

Parents advisory:

Definitely too sexually mature for kids; OK for older teens.

‘ASSASSIN’S CREED’

PG-13

What it’s about: A death

row prisoner regresses into his Spanish ancestor, a member of the Assassins, who have fought the Knights Templar for centuries in order to protect humanity’s free will. The kid attractor factor:

Based on a popular video game, this adaptation will attract teen audiences and fans of the game or action blockbusters. Violence: There is a lot of

violence, including hand-to-hand combat, martial arts, horse chases, stabbings, parkour around medieval cities, throat slitting. Language: A brief instance of swearing. Sexuality: None. Drugs: None.

Parents advisory: Too violent and dark for kids, but fine for older teens.

NEW YORK — The problem for Bob Barker wasn’t getting up early every day for his new TV gig. On the morning of Dec. 31, 1956, he had bowed as host of NBC’s weekday game show “Truth or Consequences.” And he was thrilled. But here was the hitch: Viewers in the Eastern U.S. tuned in for his show at 11:30 a.m. It aired live, which meant each zany, stunt-filled 30-minute telecast had to originate from its studio in Hollywood at what, for Barker and his fellow Californians, was a not-so-chipper three hours earlier than that. “I liked live television,” Barker says. What he didn’t like was trying to rouse sleepy-eyed contestants who were still digesting breakfast. “Can you imagine doing an audience-participation show at 8:30 in the morning?” Barker, 93, says with a laugh. Then a high-tech breakthrough came to his aid. The 33-year-old Barker, launching what would be a half-century run as a beloved star first on “Truth” and through 2007 as host of “The Price Is Right,” would notch a huge TV milestone after only three weeks: On Jan. 22, 1957, “Truth or Consequences,” with Barker presiding, became the first program to be prerecorded on videotape for subsequent airing in all time zones. As of that show, each “Truth” half-hour not only could be produced a day or more before its intended airdate, but, more important to Barker, could be staged at a more agreeable hour of the day. “We all rejoiced,” says Barker. “The bigger the studio audience and the wider-awake it was, the

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Bob Barker, then host of the game show “Truth or Consequences,” pioneered the use of videotape starting in 1957.

better for me!” This year, the television industry is observing the 60th anniversary of the introduction of Ampex’s quadruplex videotape machine, a radical breakthrough that spared television shows from either going live, with resulting inconvenience and potential screw-ups, or resorting to a fuzzy kinescope (a film copy of a broadcast captured directly off the TV screen) if re-airings were required. That first Ampex machine had the bulk of an industrial kitchen range, cost upward of $45,000 (about $200,000 in 2016 dollars) and recorded only in monochrome. Since it was incapable of electronic editing, it required laboriously cutting and splicing the tape. But beside the godsend of instant playback (by contrast, kinescopes had to be developed at a lab like any other film), a TV show preserved on videotape looked as good replayed as it looked aired live. “The sense of presence is extraordinary,” marveled the July 1957 edition of Television magazine. “It is difficult to believe that what you are seeing is not actually taking place then

and there.” At the time, no one could have foreseen how, a few decades hence, videotape would have supplanted most live broadcasts, or that, by then being far more affordable and user-friendly, it would gain a role with viewers for their own home recorders. And certainly no one could have dreamed that, by 2016, even videotape would be largely extinct, replaced by data-storage marvels like discs, flash drives and something called “the Cloud,” while crisp color video could be recorded and retrieved on devices as cheap and pocket-sized as a phone. Nonetheless, 60 years ago, this brown Mylar ribbon called videotape was causing quite a stir. By fall 1957, Ampex was swamped with a backlog of 100 orders for its red-hot VR-1000. Even so, a few naysayers were speaking out. “I don’t believe tape will revolutionize the TV industry,” declared ABC’s chief engineer. But history would side with Barker, who reigns supreme as a pioneer of videotape. “Now the whole world does it,” he sums up.

Chicago Tribune | Arts+Entertainment | Section 4 | Friday, December 23, 2016

Horoscopes

Dilbert By Scott Adams

Today’s birthday (Dec. 23): Career op-

portunities blossom this year. Complete old promises and invent new possibilities. Compromise and collaborate for shared commitments next spring, before your creative muses sing profitable magic. Changing financial circumstances next autumn lead to a boost in your family coffers. Focus on love. Aries (March 21-April 19): Today is a 9. This is a good time for a significant conversation. Go over your resources, plans and budgets. Determine priorities and action items. Taurus (April 20-May 20): 8. Grab your partner by the hand. Unexpected surprises could throw you off your stride. Collaborate over the next two days. Take action to support each other. Gemini (May 21-June 20): 9. Concentrate on a new assignment today and tomorrow. Imagine your desired result. Don’t push yourself too hard. A walk outside can clear your head. Cancer (June 21-July 22): 8. Today and tomorrow are reserved for fun with family and friends. Play with children and animals. Romp around. Get outside and roam. Practice your favorite game. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): 9. A surprise could impact your status at home with family. Align your logical and emotional thoughts. You’re creative and efficient. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): 8. Keep your focus, despite chaos and distraction. Don’t push yourself too hard; get comfortable and catch up on reading. Write, create and express your view. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): 9. You’re especially clever and quickwitted; divert energies to creative projects over the next few days. Study an obsession, and share your view. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): 8. Your focus is on work and making money, yet emotions may affect the workplace. Stay flexible regarding deadlines and scheduling. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): 9. You can get a lot done if you can avoid distraction and procrastination. Take decisive action for a personal dream. Learn and team simultaneously. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): 5. Slow down and clean up from recent whirlwinds. Put away papers and do laundry. Get contemplative, somewhere peaceful today and tomorrow. Completion leads to advancement. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): 7. Confer with allies today and tomorrow. Collaborate to face a challenge. Get advice, but make your own decisions. Relax and listen. Maintain discipline despite confusion. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): 8. You’re in exploration mode today and tomorrow. Travel or study. Find out something new about a place you thought you knew.

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Classic Peanuts By Charles Schulz

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♠ KQJ74 ♥A ♦ Q53 ♣ A K 10 9 Declarer won the opening heart lead in hand perforce. There were eleven top tricks, including a heart ruff in hand. A twelfth was not likely to come from diamonds, as West almost surely had the king for his overcall. It looked like South needed four club tricks to bring home his slam. That was all a mirage, The bidding: as South quickly demonstrated. South West North East Declarer cashed 1♠ 2♥ 3♥* Pass the king of spades 4♣ Pass 4♦ Pass and led a spade to dummy’s 10, drawing 4NT Pass 5♥ Pass trumps. Dummy’s 6♠ All pass last heart was ruffed, *Spade fit, at least 10-11 points simplifying the hand. Opening lead: King of ♥ Now the ace of clubs, a club to the queen, and a club back to the 10 picked up four club tricks and declarer had his slam. “Nice guess in clubs,” said West, treading carefully, “but wasn’t that a bit lucky?” “Not at all,” said South. “Had you won the third club with the jack, you would have had only red cards remaining. You would have been forced to lead away from the king of diamonds or yield a ruff-sluff. Had East shown out on the third club, I would have played the king and then the 10, end-playing you again. My line was foolproof as long as you held the king of diamonds.” We’re convinced. Well played! — Bob Jones tcaeditors@tribpub.com Want more COMICS? Go to chicagotribune.com/comics

Animal Crackers By Mike Osbun

Prickly City By Scott Stantis

Chicago Tribune | Arts+Entertainment | Section 4 | Friday, December 23, 2016

Sudoku

Dustin By Steve Kelley and Jeff Parker

12/23

For Better or for Worse By Lynn Johnston

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box in bold borders contains every digit 1 to 9.

Blondie By Dean Young and John Marshall

Jumble

Unscramble the four Jumbles, one letter per square, to form four words. Then arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by this cartoon.

Hägar the Horrible By Chris Browne

Mutts By Patrick McDonnell

Answer here

Thursday’s answers

WuMo By Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler (WuMo is on vacation.Please enjoy this strip from 2014.)

Crossword

12/23

Sherman’s Lagoon By Jim Toomey

Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! By Tim Rickard

Across

Broom-Hilda By Russell Myers

Trivia Bits

Jumble Crossword

Which corporation was founded in 1886 as the California Perfume Company? A) Avon Products B) Coca-Cola C) Maybelline D) Tupperware Thursday’s answer: Lady Bird Johnson was the inspiration for the Highway Beautification Act, signed into law in 1965. © 2016 Leslie Elman. Dist. by Creators.com

1 Clever stroke 5 Stage genre 10 Secured, in a way 14 Too 15 Actor Firth 16 Initial contribution 17 Illicit buzzing in the hive? 19 Surplus 20 Painful spots 21 Speak or creak 23 Altar promise 24 Slipshod building addition? 28 Zodiac animal 31 Aran Islands country: Abbr. 32 Chopping tool 33 Always 35 Parker’s rank in “McHale’s Navy”: Abbr. 37 Pincered insect 40 Beginning of a very thorough biography?

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11 Conforming to 12 Chopin work 13 Rehab process 18 Actor Morales 22 Religion founded in Persia 25 Gullible 26 Group including some Brat Pack members 27 Mazatlán-toChihuahua dirección 28 Monthly pmts. reducer 29 “Voulez-vous coucher __ moi?” 30 Falling stars that reach the ground 34 Many a reggae artist 36 Eponymous Belgian town 37 English county on the North Sea 38 Tiny bit 39 Airborne pest 41 OPEC member since 1962 42 High wind? 48 Lake makers, at times 50 Unwavering 51 Goody two shoes 52 End of a series Down 53 Vetoes 1 Uber competitors 54 They may deal with 2 Margarine freezes 3 Many a typist, nowadays 55 Fabled lost mittens 4 Fake punishment 5 Early 7th-century year 59 Cajole 6 Go bad 60 Residence 7 Still in play 61 Priestly garments 8 Like much ore 63 Shade provider 9 Hot 65 Poetic word of order 10 Identiﬁcation method 66 Part of CBS: Abbr.

Chicago Tribune | Arts+Entertainment | Section 4 | Friday, December 23, 2016

CHICAGOWEATHERCENTER By Tom Skilling and

chicagoweathercenter.com

FRIDAY, DEC. 23

NORMAL HIGH: 33°

NORMAL LOW: 19°

RECORD HIGH: 62° (1982)

RECORD LOW: -21° (1983)

Wet snow Friday, then rain likely on Christmas LOCAL FORECAST

-10s

-0s

10s

20s

30s

40s

50s

60s

70s

80s

90s

20s

HIGH

LOW

38 25

Steady or rising at night

■ Travel to west and north will be snowy. Low pressure moving NE out of plains. One to two inches of wet snow to fall north of I-88. ■ Less snow, cold rain farther south. Heaviest snowfall in excess of two inches is forecast across southern Wisconsin. ■ For Chicago, light snow spreading from the south and west, accumulating afternoon into evening. ■ Because temps are expected to be above-freezing, roads should be wet. ■ Snow ending at night from west. Freezing drizzle possible. SATURDAY, DEC. 24

Light to moderate snow will break out Friday ahead of a low-pressure system lifting northeast out of the central Plains. Wet snow will likely spread from the south and west into northern Illinois and northwest Indiana, accumulating 1 to 2 inches generally north of Interstate 88. Farther to the south, snow may change to rain with little or no accumulation. With temperatures above freezing much of the time, well-traveled roads should be mainly wet. Snowfall of 2 to 4 inches is likely from northern Iowa into southern and central Wisconsin. This will be the first and weaker weather system of a Christmas weekend one-two punch. Temperatures are expected to rise steadily Sunday, possibly reaching into the 50s later Sunday into Monday with periods of rain and scattered thunderstorms.

NATIONAL FORECAST 100s

110s

International Falls Thursday’s lowest: -22° Seattle 35/17 at West Yellowstone, Mont. 40/34 Spokane Bismarck Concord Billings 35/29 26/6 41/25 Portland 29/16 Albany Green Bay 41/31 42/30 35/27 Boston Boise Rapid City Minneapolis 44/35 34/31 Buffalo Detroit 38/18 34/25 Chicago 35/32 38/34 New York 38/25 47/39 Des Moines Cheyenne Pittsburgh Reno 36/26 45/26 Cleveland 42/37 48/28 Omaha 39/36 Washington 39/20 Salt Lake City Indianapolis St. Louis 49/40 Denver 44/38 38/36 San 40/38 51/28 Wichita Kansas City Francisco Louisville 46/28 51/42 41/31 47/41 Las Vegas Charlotte Los Angeles 55/45 Albuquerque 53/41 Little Rock Nashville 61/49 51/33 Phoenix 51/46 57/49 64/53 Oklahoma City Atlanta Birmingham 55/44 51/37 San Diego 61/50 63/54 Dallas Jackson 54/52 65/58 El Paso Houston 61/41 77/67 Orlando New 79/63 Orleans 72/60 Miami (Precipitation at 6 a.m. CST) 78/73 Thursday’s highest: 85°

30s

40s

20s

30s

40s

50s

40s

50s

60s

50s

60s

70s

SNOW

RAIN

at McAllen, Texas

SUNDAY, DEC. 25

MONDAY, DEC. 26

TUESDAY, DEC. 27

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 28

THURSDAY, DEC. 29

HIGH

LOW

HIGH

LOW

HIGH

LOW

HIGH

LOW

HIGH

LOW

HIGH

LOW

Steady or rising at night

Occasional sun but cloudy skies for the most part. High temps around 40. Cooler readings at the lakefront. Increasing and lowering clouds at night. W/NW winds.

Christmas Day. Mild with occasional showers. Upper 40s toward evening; in the 30s along the lakefront. Overnight showers and t-storms with temps in the 50s, possibly 60 degrees.

Chicago

ASK TOM

Dear Tom, Has Chicago ever experienced a thunderstorm with either rain or snow on Christmas Day? I can’t recall one. — Paul Crimo, Highwood Dear Paul, It’s never happened. A thorough scan of the city’s climate records that date to late 1870 by Chicago weather historian and climatologist Frank Wachowski confirmed your recollections. Wachowski reported that we’ve come close, missing a Christmas thunderstorm by less than three hours during Chicago’s record warm 1982 Christmas period. That year, thunderstorms raked the area on an unseasonably warm Christmas Eve. Rain fell most of the day with temperatures in the 50s, but by evening the mercury had climbed into the lower 60s and thunderstorms began at 7:47 p.m. and continued until 9:10 p.m. Rainfall was heavy with 1.65 inches during the evening, bringing the total precipitation for Dec. 24 to 1.71 inches. Write to: ASK TOM 2501 W. Bradley Place Chicago, IL 60618 asktomwhy@wgntv.com WGN-TV meteorologists Steve Kahn, Richard Koeneman, Paul Merzlock and Paul Dailey, plus Bill Snyder, contribute to this page.

Hear Tom Skilling’s weather updates weekdays 3 to 6 p.m. on WGN-AM 720 Chicago.

Clouds. Chance of showers early. Partly sunny in the afternoon. Turning cooler. Slowly fall into the 30s early. Scattered clouds. Chance of flurries overnight. Gusty northwest winds.

Chicago

Sun mixed with scattered stratocumulus clouds. High temps in the mid 30s. Increasing clouds overnight with a chance of rain or snow by morning. NW winds shift south at night.

Cloudy with rain or snow likely. High temperatures around 40 degrees – a little cooler at the lakefront. Precipitation ending from the west overnight. South winds shift west at night.

Chicago

CHICAGO DIGEST

Wet snow Friday, then spring-like 50s and possible t-storms UPCOMING HOLIDAY WEEKEND +20° Mildest in 4 weeks!

SLUSHY ACCUMULATIONS LIKELY TO BE HEAVIEST TO CHICAGO’S NORTH Forecast through 10 pm Friday

+16°

+7°

+6°

Some sticking on colder outdoor surfaces

SURFACE storm center

Threat of 18,000 foot BLIZZARD 18,000-foot JET STREAM conditions winds

80mph

110mph

MOIST GULF

Axis of strongest low-level winds

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6PM SUN

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Fairbanks Fargo Flagstaff Fort Myers Fort Smith Fresno Grand Junc. Great Falls Harrisburg Hartford Helena Honolulu Houston Int'l Falls Jackson Jacksonville Juneau Kansas City Las Vegas Lexington Lincoln Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Macon Memphis Miami Minneapolis Mobile Montgomery Nashville New Orleans New York Norfolk Okla. City Omaha Orlando

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SATURDAY

SUNDAY NIGHT

U.S. SNOW COVER

Potential T-STORMS Christmas Day and night

DEC. 22

2016

2015

Area covered by snow 38.3% 31.0% Average snow depth 3.4" 3.3" TRACKING THE COLD

FRI./SAT.

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MIDWAY

0.0" 17.7" 7.2"

Wind S 11-23 kts. W 4-13 kts. Waves 2-4 feet 1 foot Thu. shore/crib water temps 33°/33°

SINCE OCT. 15

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CHICAGO AIR QUALITY FRIDAY

Thursday's reading Friday's forecast Critical pollutant

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55 (Good) Moderate Particulates

FRIDAY RISE/SET TIMES Sun Moon

Dec. 29

7:16 a.m. 1:51 a.m.

Jan. 5

4:24 p.m. 1:16 p.m.

Jan. 12

Jan. 19

FRIDAY PLANET WATCH PLANET

RISE

SET

Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn

8:00 a.m. 10:06 a.m. 10:40 a.m. 1:19 a.m. 6:20 a.m.

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DIRECTION

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SOURCE: Dan Joyce, Triton College

FORECAST (FC) ABBREVIATIONS: su-sunny pc-partly cloudy cl-cloudy rn-rain ts-thunderstorm sn-snow ﬂ -ﬂurries fr-freezing rain sl-sleet sh-showers rs-rain/snow ss-snow showers w-windy na-unavailable

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SOURCE: Frank Wachowski

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Storm’s PROJECTED NOON track

SUNDAY

OTHER U.S. CITIES

Illinois Carbondale Champaign Decatur Moline Peoria Quincy Rockford Springfield Sterling

LOCATION

Midway O’Hare Romeoville Valparaiso Waukegan

CHICAGO SNOWFALL

6AM SUN

More than 1” evaporated moisture

SOURCES: Frank Wachowski, National Weather Service archives

FRI./SAT.

20 30 28 31 29

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Chicago

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60mph

10 to 12 midnight

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37 41 36 41 37

PERIOD

Most powerful upper winds

APPROXIMATE END TIME

MIDWEST CITIES

LOCATION

Aurora Gary Kankakee Lakefront Lansing

CHICAGO PRECIPITATION

Strongest lift— thundersnow

Occasional WET SNOW

FRI./SAT.

2”

4”

HERE’S HOW NATURE IS PUTTING THE CHRISTMAS STORM TOGETHER

FRIDAY PRECIPITATION TIMELINE 11 to 13 hours of precipitation Occasional wet snow mixed at times with rain/drizzle

9 to 11 AM

THURSDAY TEMPERATURES

PERIOD

38° 40° 48° 51°

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ONTHETOWN YEAR IN REVIEW

THE SOUNDS OF 2016

DO IT NOW

J.B. SPECTOR/MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY

By Adam Lukach Chicago Tribune

MAIN EVENT

Christmastime beyond borders

We know what Christmas looks like here: bright lights, big pine trees, a large dude in a red suit. But what about around the world? The Museum of Science and Industry’s longtime holiday tradition, its “Christmas Around the World” exhibit, provides a look at the ways people celebrate in other parts of the globe. Some are similar, some are much different, and you might even learn about something that has influenced your family’s traditions. Daily through Jan. 8, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, closed Sunday, Museum of Science and Industry, 5700 S. Lake Shore Drive; price included in admission; www.msichicago.org CHICAGO COMEDY

Jewish viewpoint on holiday season

KRISTEN NORMAN/FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Savages lead singer Jehnny Beth and her quartet packed a wallop at their Metro show in April. It was among the top acts of 2016.

What a year of sounds 2016 was in concert halls, sheds and open fields, from Lollapalooza to Pitchfork. Sir the Baptist issued a call to conscience. Chance the Rapper brought his “Coloring Book” album to life onstage. Vic Mensa took an uncaring society to task, while Savages just set about the task of battering eardrums and expectation. Greg Kot recaps the live music year that was, with 10 shows that made for a great year. In Turn It Up

Save the Seats is coming

Howard Reich Jazz Scene

Tammy McCann kicks off busy holiday slate Call it an emerging tradition: powerhouse Chicago singer Tammy McCann ushering in the holidays at the Jazz Showcase. As she has in the past, McCann will be in residence at the city’s most prominent jazz room with an engagement that runs through Christmas Eve. “This is a season of new beginnings,” says McCann. “So, I’ll be doing music that I’ve written and lyrics that I’ve created.” Specifically, McCann has penned words to music of Thelonious

CHRIS SWEDA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Tammy McCann has a holiday gig at the Jazz Showcase this weekend.

Monk, as well as original melodies and lyrics that join them. And, of course, she’ll be bringing to the engagement seasonal repertoire, which she’ll play with a first-rate Chicago ensemble staffed by pianist Tom Vaitsas, drummer Clif Wallace and bassist Junius Paul. As anyone who has followed the Jazz Showcase through the decades knows, sing9ers are not often invited to take the stage there. Last week, Jazz Showcase

founder Joe Segal helped explain why in the midst of introducing saxophonist Chris Potter. “For the holidays, we’ll feature singer Tammy McCann,” he told a capacity crowd. “We like to have her because she’s one of those people who sings in tune.” More than that, McCann commands an enormous instrument Turn to Jazz, Page 4

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New Year’s Eve is next weekend, and if you find yourself without plans for the big night, the Tribune has you covered. We’ve been busy scoring reservations at the hottest shows and restaurants, and on Wednesday, we’ll share them with you. Those include a table at Spiaggia and tickets for “Hamilton.” Our annual editions of Save the Seats in A+E — and over in Food & Dining, Phil Vettel’s Save the Table — will appear in print and online at 6 a.m. Wednesday. More at www.chicago tribune.com/savethe date.

Jewish Chicagoans looking for a way to occupy their time on Christmas eve, which also happens to be the eve of Hanukkah this year, can find a comedy production expressly catered for their situation with City Winery’s “Christmas Eve for the Jews.” The standup show features a trio of Jewish comedians — Joel Chasnoff, John Roy and Aaron Freeman, all of whom have Chicago ties — riffing on this time of year and the so-called “holiday spirit.” This is the show’s Chicago debut. 8 p.m. Saturday, City Winery, 1200 W. Randolph St.; $20; www.city winery.com CHICAGO FAMILY FUN

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Despite the cold, outdoor ice skating is one of the few Chicago holiday traditions that everyone seems to enjoy. That means it could be a good option to keep in your back pocket on Christmas weekend, since the McCormick Tribune Ice Rink will remain open. Ring in the holiday with one of the winter’s most definitive activities in one of the city’s most festive spots in the heart of downtown. Daily through March 5, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, McCormick Tribune Ice Rink, 201 E. Randolph St.; free admission, $12 skate rental; www.cityofchicago.org ROSEMONT FAMILY FUN

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Suburbanites who want to strap up their skates this weekend don’t have to brave the city commotion just to enjoy some time on the ice. Rosemont’s Frozemont celebration will hold holiday hours for its Skating in the Park event at the Chicago Wolves Ice Rink. With carolers on hand, you would be hardpressed to find a more festivefeeling way to enjoy the outdoors on Christmas weekend. 4-11 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, 4-11 p.m. Sunday, MB Financial Park, 5501 Park Place, Rosemont; free admission, $8 skate rental; www.rose mont.com adlukach@chicagotribune.com

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TURN IT UP By Greg Kot

TOP CONCERTS OF 2016

As we prepare to roll into a new concert season, here are my favorite shows from 2016:

at the Riviera: The Australian

singer makes her guitar sound like a double-barreled bazooka. She plays rhythm and lead simultaneously as the point person in a power trio that brings fresh conviction to her sharp, dryly observant and occasionally angry songs (her elegy for the Great Barrier Reef, “Kim’s Caravan,” is a peak moment). Walker’s narratives would work just fine if played at a coffee shop with an acoustic guitar, but it’s the way she attacks her guitar that make her a riveting performer and a roof-collapsing rocker.

1. Chance the Rapper’s Magnificent Coloring Day, Sept. 24 at U.S. Cellular Field: The hip-

hop artist has been doing a slow boil for years about the onedimensional media image painted of the South Side. Without turning a blind eye to the violence and despair that make daily life a struggle for many of his neighbors, Chance and his team stage a festival for the ages with highprofile friends such as Kanye West, Common and Alicia Keys. It drew a record racially diverse audience of 47,000 to the ballpark. Chance’s ambitious headlining set is a mix of theater and concert with social-activist message. “All we got is music,” Chance raps, and on this day he affirms just how powerful a force that can be.

2. Vic Mensa, July 30 at Lollapalooza in Grant Park: Against a

backdrop of accomplices dressed as riot police, Mensa opens with the unrelenting “16 Shots” — a dramatic protest song in the wake of the Laquan McDonald slaying. This is not the energetic, wideeyed party rapper of previous years. Mensa has turned a corner in his personal life, and his resolve is palpable, his presentation more focused than ever before — between songs, he folds his hands and bows, as if to compose himself for what he must say next. In “Shades of Blue,” he declares, “The people with the least gotta pay the most.” He speaks out in favor of lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender rights in “Free Love.” He is even more harsh when pointing the finger at himself in “There’s Alot Going On.” This is not your typical midsummer festival set. At the end, the audience stands in the darkness, as if too stunned to move.

8. John Prine, Nov. 4 at the Chicago Theatre: The king of

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Sir the Baptist emerges from a casket during this year’s Lollapalooza, in a set more about the here and now.

9. Sun Ra Arkestra and Kamsai Washington, July 17 at the Pitchfork Music Festival: It’s a

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Chance the Rapper and his friends staged a festival for the ages.

4. Savages, April 7 at Metro:

Singer Jehnny Beth spends a good portion of the show riding atop a sea of hands. In contrast to Savages’ first tour — a full frontal assault, all fury and no smiles —

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Iggy Pop deftly integrated three solo albums at an April show.

the kind of fiery protest song that wouldn’t have sounded out of place at a civil rights march in 1964 — or 2016.

3. Anderson .Paak, March 19 at the South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas: The longtime fringe artist

makes the most of the momentum generated by his appearance on a 2015 Dr. Dre album and produces a series of galvanizing concerts, including this appearance at SXSW and another at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago’s Union Park a few months later. He raps, he sings and he plays the drums as though each note carries the weight of a decade in which he confronted homelessness, poverty and music-industry indifference. The melodies flow through stories of personal resilience, punctuated by a timely tribute to the late David Bowie in a galvanizing cover of “Let’s Dance.”

Chicago wry has been living in Nashville for several decades, but there’s nothing quite like a Prine concert on the streets where he originally turned the heads of such luminaries as Roger Ebert, Kris Kristofferson, his old pal Steve Goodman and the mighty Bob Dylan. Preceded on stage and then joined for an encore by his brother, Billy Prine, the singer undercuts the pompous and the ridiculous and brings dignity to the quiet desperation of a housewife in a loveless marriage (“Angel from Montgomery”) and the rituals of a patriarch who spends his days covered in sawdust and then puts on a suit for family dinner (“Grandpa was a Carpenter”).

6. RP Boo and Jlin, July 16 at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park: The long, vibrant

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Courtney Barnett wields her guitar like a double-barreled bazooka.

the British quartet actually looks like it’s enjoying itself. But the music still packs a wallop, whether it’s the sheets-of-sound guitar in “The Answer” or the slow-build crescendo that tops the staggering “Adore.” 5. Sir the Baptist, July 31 at Lollapalooza: Sir the Baptist

(William James Stokes) takes his audience to church, complete with a pew, an organist and a

white-suited gospel vocalist, Donald Lawrence. The music is less about the afterlife than about the here and now, and the tragedies that daily descend on the South Side streets on which Sir grew up. He emerges from a casket and cries, “We gotta wake up,” and turns the phrase into vamp — a cry that morphs from mourning into defiant resolve. A furious, hand-clapping take on “Raise Hell” closes the set with

history of Chicago’s footwork scene gets a breathtaking workout in these two sets, representing different sides of the tradition. Jlin (Jerrilynn Patton) represents a more cerebral, psychedelic approach with mind-bending textures, while RP Boo epitomizes its raw, homemade ’90s origins. This music, a soundtrack for impromptu parties on street corners and in parks and basements, thrives just as well onstage. Whereas Jlin’s mixes have a life of their own when appreciated between headphones, RP Boo goes for pure visceral joy. Both sets present an array of dancers, whose impossible speed and daring make even the rhythmchallenged in the audience beam with pleasure and pride. 7. Courtney Barnett, April 28

rings-around-Saturn kind of day, its tone set by the intergalactic sound travelers in the Sun Ra Arkestra. The young lion Washington picks up where the veteran Afro-futurists leave off with a set of lushly arranged jazz that spans decades. The saxophonist’s band is a melody machine, even when it’s pushing into the unknown. The set peaks with a rapturous 13-minute version of the perennial “Cherokee,” with Washington’s father, Rickey, on lead sax. 10. Iggy Pop, April 6 at Chicago Theatre: Now that he’s

resurrected the Stooges and laid them to rest, the Ig cleans up one final bit of business. His twin 1977 solo albums, “The Idiot” and “Lust for Life,” find their late-life cousin in his recent “Post-Pop Depression,” and this show masterfully integrates the three, with a band led by Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme. Pop wears his scars proudly and demonstrates that his baritone voice has a poetry uniquely its own. If this is his final tour, as he’s hinted, then he’s going out on his terms. Greg Kot co-hosts “Sound Opinions” at 8 p.m. Friday and 2 and 11 p.m. Saturday on WBEZ-FM 91.5. Greg Kot is a Tribune critic.

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LOCAL SOUNDS

Bleach Party can turn on the energy at will

By Britt Julious

When: 7 p.m. Wednesday

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“We’re able to tap into this energy at any time,” said Meg MacDuff, lead singer of Bleach Party. “It’s like an on-off switch.” The surf-rock-meets-punkrock band has made a name for itself in the city for its short tracks that bounce between singsong melodies and upbeat, energetic rhythms. It released a new EP and first vinyl, “Endless Bender,” in November after years of cultivating a following eager to lap up its ferocious live sets. But it took a few years to reach this point. Bleach Party (MacDuff, Kaylee Preston, Bart Pappas and Richard Giraldi) formed around 2012, but it wasn’t until 2013 that the band found its drummer, Preston, and landed on its core lineup. Giraldi and MacDuff were in more hard-rock bands in the past and looking to play more melodic and pop-oriented music. “I grew up on hard rock. I was a grunge kid in high school — just your everyday, hard-rock junk,” Giraldi said. “But, you know, I went to college, and I went to grad school, and I moved to Chicago. So I got a little taste of other cultures and stuff. It would be cool to play that, to play stuff that’s a little more accessible and is not just riffs. Just something

Where: Beat Kitchen, 2100 W. Belmont Ave. Tickets: $8-$10 (17+); www.beatkitchen.com

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Bleach Party, which includes Kaylee Preston, from left, Meg MacDuff, Bart Pappas and Richard Giraldi, released an EP, “Endless Bender,” last month. The band formed around 2012.

that people could dance to and have a good time.” Bleach Party’s music is stripped down compared with past efforts. The quartet still has a flurry of guitar riffs and thick, percussive elements that traverse each song, but it’s not abrasive music that will overwhelm. It’s instantly familiar, even though it is all (relatively) new, reflective of the members’ musicianship and collaborative efforts. MacDuff’s songwriting is the

heart of the group. She comes to the table with an abundance of material that keeps the group moving forward. Some compositions, written years ago, still hold seeds of viability for Bleach Party. MacDuff has a whole iTunes folder full of her songs, edits, one-offs and other songwriting experiments. At one point, she was unemployed and living in Des Plaines, essentially cut off from the Chicago music scene. She had no means of get-

ting to the city to see friends. This time in the burbs, fueled by “a lot of loneliness and heartbreak,” cultivated her songwriting talents. “I’d rather use a fresh, new song, but if there’s ever a time when I’m lacking or have writer’s block, I’ll go to the bag of goodies and use it,” MacDuff said. “It can be a riff or a chord progression or vocal melody. I definitely grab from there and form it into something that’s a little more mature

and fits into our sound.” Other bands might feel less comfortable relying on one person so regularly, but this structure works in Bleach Party’s favor. “I’ve been in bands where you write so collaboratively that at some point, they have nothing,” Giraldi said. “No matter what, she always has a song in her back pocket.” And MacDuff emphasizes that despite her contributions, the band members are open and accessible to each other. “We’re not afraid to edit each other,” MacDuff said. Giraldi agreed. “I think the main thing, honestly, is that our music is more confident,” he said. “Now, I think we can make some really tight, cool stuff. I think we know each other better as musicians, which makes us play better.” Britt Julious is a freelancer. onthetown@chicagotribune.com Twitter @chitribent

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POP MUSIC PREVIEW

Umphrey’s McGee going on ‘New Year’s Run’ By Jessi Roti Chicago Tribune

Three shows in three days isn’t that crazy a touring schedule for a band that has to build recognition from the stage. For veteran jam band Umphrey’s McGee, its devoted horde of followers have propelled it to a level where its three shows can rival any plans for one of the biggest nights out — New Year’s Eve. The mini-residency, which has been dubbed Umphrey’s McGee’s “New Year’s Run,” finds the band from South Bend taking a break from its demanding annual tour schedule to play a number of shows closer to home. This was a tradition of sorts when Umphrey’s first started out in 1997. The seven-set weekend, which includes two official after-parties, marks the band’s return to playing NYE in Chicago, its first since 2010. “This year in particular has some really special meaning, not just because we’re coming back for a New Year’s show (for the first time) since 2010, but because a few of us in the band are really big Cubs fans,” says Umphrey’s keyboardist Joel Cummins. “It feels like a really great time to come back and be able to celebrate with Chicagoans and all of our fans in Chicago.” Cummins, who called Chicago home for over 10 years, went on to say there’s something special about a large group of people trekking through the city’s unpredictable winter weather to be together. “There’s a sense of accomplishment,” he jokes. “ ‘We all made it here, this is great.’ ” First up is the Riviera. In 2004 Umphrey’s McGee played two nights at this venue, including New Year’s Eve and an appearance by Huey Lewis. The show was released on DVD the next year. This year, the Riv date is Dec. 29. “Every show, we try to do something — whether it’s a surprise or just something unexpected,” Cummins says when asked if the band has anything up its sleeve for this year. “That’s one of the things we love doing the most. We have about 185 original tunes, so it really is a total toss-up, and that’s what a lot of our die-hard

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Umphrey’s McGee includes, from left, Brendan Bayliss, Ryan Stasik, Jake Cinninger, Andy Farag, Joel Cummins and Kris Myers. When: 8 p.m. Dec. 29, 30 and 31; Concord after-parties, 12:30 a.m. Dec. 30 and 1 a.m. Dec. 31 Where: Riviera, 4746 N. Racine Ave.; Aragon Ballroom, 1106 W. Lawrence Ave.; Concord Music Hall, 2047 N. Milwaukee Ave. Tickets: $39.50–$75; Concord after-parties $20; www.ticket fly.com and www.livenation .com

fans really like about us coming back time and time again.” The Aragon Ballroom houses the band on Dec. 30, with Denver, Colo., outfit The Motet opening. On New Year’s Eve Umphrey’s will play its traditional three sets through the night. “With the ‘New Year’s Run,’ we always work a little bit harder to come up with a few new things as far as original material and covers go,” Cummins says. Songs from Umphrey’s McGee’s most recent release, an album of mashups titled “Zonkey,” might make their way into

the set list. In September at the North Coast Music Festival, the group performed “Electric Avenue to Hell,” a combination of Eddy Grant’s “Electric Avenue” and AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell,” with trumpeter and vocalist Jennifer Hartswick, who is best known for her work with Trey Anastasio. “We always bring in a horn section for our New Year’s shows to add a little extra flair,” Cummins says. Umphrey’s current horn players include Hartswick and the Dave Matthews Band’s Jeff Coffin. “We try to treat it a little bit more like a party,” Cummins continues. “I think people are going to need that this year more than ever. It’s been a tough one with lots of our heroes and musicians who have passed, and there’s a lot of tension in the country. We really need to give people this show so they can have five hours of just fun with each other and friends and family while celebrating everything

that’s good about life.” The pair of after-parties will be held at Concord Music Hall on the 30th and 31st. On the 30th, the “FiyaWrapper Superjam” will feature the band’s keyboardist Cummins, along with Garrett Sayers and Dave Watts of The Motet, joining Robert Randolph of Robert Randolph & the Family Band, blues rocker Maurice Brown of the Tedeschi Trucks Band, Big Sam of Big Sam’s Funky Nation, and Nicholas Gerlach of Michal Menert Band for a latenight-into-early-morning jam session. “We’re going to make that show mostly improvisational,” Cummins says. “Those things always seem to turn out better when you actually plan less and let things happen in the moment.” While many members of Umphrey’s McGee will most likely opt to spend time with family and close friends instead of hitting the New Year’s Eve after-party — which includes locals Future Rock and Austin, Texas-based

DJ/producer Thibault — Cummins notes that the almost constant touring schedule is made possible because of the deeply rooted friendships among band members, forged over the 18 years since the group formed at the University of Notre Dame. “Everyone committed to putting in the work,” he says. “In the beginning, we said, ‘We’re going to do this. It’s not going to be easy. We’re not going to get a lot of sleep, we’ve got to move our own gear and drive through snowstorms — everything you could possibly imagine.’ Finally, little by little, Umphrey’s McGee has gathered steam. It feels a little easier, and it feels natural. We’ve remained friends, but we’ve always remained solid, creative partners. “Now that we’re this far along, it makes it that much sweeter after accomplishing something like a three-night run in Chicago.” jroti@chicagotribune.com Twitter @jessitaylorro

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and knows how to use it. The breadth of color, tone, texture and nuance she brings to a melody line is worth savoring. Meanwhile, her career continues its steady ascent. She’ll be appearing with trumpeter Jon Faddis in Norway in February, performing in the Chi-Town Jazz Festival in March and starring alongside Orbert Davis and the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble at Governors State University in April for “The Monk Meets the First Lady,” a centennial tribute to Thelonious Monk and Ella Fitzgerald. McCann also hopes to start a monthly master class at the Jazz Showcase, and it’s not hard to envision vocalists stopping by to learn from someone who has been studying the art for decades. In the meantime, she’s focusing on the holiday days. “We’re trying to create a tradition,” says McCann, who’s well on her way toward doing so. Tammy McCann performs at 8 and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Jazz Showcase, 806 S. Plymouth Court; $20-$35; 312-3600234 or www.jazzshowcase.com

Also worth hearing Carlos Vega with Victor Garcia: Saxophonist Vega

owns a long resume in Latin jazz and related genres. He’ll celebrate the release of his recording debut as leader, “Bird’s Ticket,” with the band heard on the album: trumpeter Garcia, pianist Stu Mindeman, bassist Josh Ramos and drummer Xavier Breaker. 9 p.m. Friday at the Green Mill Jazz Club, 4802 N. Broadway; 773-878-5552 or www.greenmilljazz.com Denise Thimes: Chicago’s

newest full-time jazz room — Winter’s Jazz Club —

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Trumpeter Victor Garcia will join saxophonist Carlos Vega at the Green Mill Jazz Club on Friday.

opened last month but has recalibrated its lineup, switching from two bands a night to one, and from seven nights a week to five. That makes sense for a venue trying to establish itself, and the place remains an uncommonly intimate one. Moreover, the room’s management encourages visitors to listen rather than converse. An emphasis on singers has been a Winter’s hallmark since the beginning, vocalist Thimes underscoring the point. 8, 9:30 and 11 p.m. Friday at Winter’s Jazz Club, 465 N. McClurg Court; $20; 312344-1270 or www.winters jazzclub.com Frank Catalano and Jimmy Chamberlin: The

two Chicago musicians have formed an intriguing and productive partnership, in concert and on recordings. Their album “Love Supreme Collective” represented a response to John Coltrane’s masterpiece “A Love Supreme” and attested to the deepening partnership between jazz saxophonist Catalano and rock drummer Chamberlin (best known for his work in Smashing Pumpkins). The collaboration continues. 9:30 and 11:30 p.m. Friday at Andy’s Jazz Club, 11 E. Hubbard St.; $15; 312-642-6805 or www.andysjazzclub .com Mud Morganfield: A son of Muddy Waters, Morganfield champions the repertoire and performance manner of his father, a

transformational figure in the history of Chicago blues. The heir doesn’t pretend to assume Muddy Waters’ mantle — an impossible task, anyway — but simply reminds listeners of an inextinguishable musical legacy. 8 p.m. Friday at Evanston SPACE, 1245 Chicago Ave., Evanston; $15-$27; 847-492-8860 or www.evanstonspace.com Green Mill Quartet: Late-

night revelers always have a place to go as Friday night slips into Saturday morning, veteran Chicago saxophonist Eric Schneider presiding over the music-making. As always, he’s joined by pianist Dennis Luxion, bassist Steve Hashimoto and drummer Rick Shandling — plus various Chicago and visiting musicians who swing by to join in. 1:30 a.m. to 4 a.m. Saturday at the Green Mill Jazz Club, 4802 N. Broadway; no cover; 773-878-5552 or www.green milljazz.com Winter Solstice Concerts: For those who rise at

the crack of dawn, the 26th anniversary event features percussionists Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang celebrating the turn of the season. 6 a.m. Friday at Constellation, 3111 N. Western Ave.; $25; www.constellation-chic ago.com Howard Reich is a Tribune critic. hreich@chicagotribune.com Twitter @howardreich

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POP MUSIC PREVIEW

Taylor Bennett looking to uphold his own truth

By Allison Stewart Chicago Tribune

In the past 12 months, rapper Taylor Bennett has dropped an official debut, “Broad Shoulders,” sold out shows all over the city, worked with local youth homelessness organization La Casa Norte and grown his record label, Tay Bennett Entertainment. He has also watched his older brother, Chance the Rapper, become a superstar. Chance’s success wasn’t surprising — everyone expected he would get famous sooner or later — but it has proved to be both gratifying and weird. “I have to work harder,” Bennett says in a recent phone interview. “It’s a double-edged sword. A lot of people find out about me because of who my brother is, but that’s even more of a reason for me to uphold my own truth. ... If they like the product, they like the product. And if they don’t, they don’t.” Bennett, who headlines a show Friday night at the Metro, grew up in West Chatham, where his father, Ken WilliamsBennett, worked as then-Sen. Barack Obama’s state director, and his mother, Lisa, worked for the Illinois attorney general. He loved melodic indie acts like Death Cab for Cutie and the Smiths, and dexterous rappers like Kanye West and Twista. Rap won out early. “I’ve been interested in being a rapper since I was 9, but I started putting music up on SoundCloud and YouTube around the age of 14,” he says. At 17 he sold out his first show, at Reggie’s Rock Club. “I saw the fans come out, and I thought, this is what I want to do. When you actually see the fans in person and see them singing the lyrics, it creates a whole different experience.” Bennett, who turns 21 next month, was granting interviews about his early mixtapes when he was still a senior at Urban Prep. By this point, Chance, who is three years older, was already blog famous; these things are probably related. Taylor, who has lived every day of his professional life as Chano’s younger brother, can never really know how much of the attention paid to the stellar “Broad Shoulders” would have happened without his family connection, which both brothers seem to downplay. Chance appears on the album

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Chicago rapper Taylor Bennett, shown backstage before a 2014 anti-violence event at Whitney Young High School, sold out his first show when he was just 17. The younger brother of Chance the Rapper said that seeing fans in person singing his lyrics made it clear, “This is what I want to do.” When: 7 p.m. Friday Where: Metro, 3730 N. Clark St. Tickets: $15-$18; 773-549-4140 or www.etix.com

but has otherwise maintained a supportive distance; Taylor, who rarely brings up his brother in conversation but will politely answer any question he’s asked, has mastered the art of the diplomatic, the-only-real-competition-is-yourself nonresponse. “We definitely share a chemistry of music, and we both push each other to be better artists, for sure,” Bennett says when asked if he thinks there’s a genetic component to the brothers’ rapping skills. “I don’t know if it’s in the DNA. It might be. I just like to

think of it as a God-given gift. Sometimes I ask myself, why does this sound so good?” The Bennetts’ father worked for the Obama administration (and, until recently, was Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s deputy chief of staff ), and the Obama and Bennett families have remained friendly. “They’re great people, a great family,” Bennett says. “I was just in Washington, D.C., last week for the Christmas tree lighting. We got to see Barack and Sasha; Michelle was there.” This summer, Bennett and Malia Obama were filmed hanging out at Lollapalooza together, as Obama smoked what looked like a joint. The video went viral. “I was smoking a cigarette,” Bennett says. “People are always

taking pictures, especially of the presidential family. People are always looking for something to talk about. They’re very close, they’re family. Malia is brilliant, she’s very smart. I couldn’t be more proud of the things she’s doing. I’m very proud of where she is right now. I hope they’re very proud of where we are.” That Bennett is on probation for a 2014 battery charge somehow made everything more awkward, but contrary to rumor, the Malia Incident did not prompt a visit from the Secret Service. “I didn’t get anybody yelling,” says Bennett, sounding amused. “We’re young people, we make mistakes, but we have to live and we have to learn from our experiences. That’s what it’s all

about, it’s growing up.” Bennett recently released a new song, “New York Nights,” a likely precursor to a 2017 album he’s still working on. He hasn’t yet made the album that will define him, that will, at least in theory, ensure that future Google search results for “Taylor Bennett” aren’t mostly articles about Malia Obama, or Chance. “Seeing what Chance is doing, that shows me the sky is the limit,” Bennett says. “You can reach for anything. No matter what anybody tells you, you can be the best if you believe it yourself.” Allison Stewart is a freelancer. onthetown@chicagotribune.com Twitter @chitribent

BLUES PREVIEW

Mud Morganfield’s big shoes, big sound By Steve Knopper

Chicago Tribune

The first time Larry Williams performed a classic Muddy Waters blues song, “I’m Ready,” he was 21 or 22. “I did it around the house with family,” he says, “and their mouths just fell open, and they couldn’t believe what they were hearing.” Williams’ family was aghast for three reasons: He sounded good; his timbre almost spookily resembled the late Chicago bluesman’s one-of-a-kind, rumbling drawl; and they knew, of course, he was Waters’ eldest son. “Here’s the thing, man, when you’re DNA-tagged, there’s no more to say or do. It’s a lifestyle. It’s something that you have to do,” says Williams, a professional singer who goes by Mud Morganfield, a homage to his father’s given name, McKinley Morganfield. “I ran from the blues a long time. I can’t fill Muddy Waters’ shoes. I played his stuff to help me relieve my blues.” Morganfield, 62, grew up in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side, which, like his father’s South Side home at the time, was not the most peaceful of locations. “It wasn’t a joy ride for either one of us,” he says. “When I came out of my house, there were gunshots. … I remember hearing ammo and police cars and sirens. I had to adjust to that environment, I had to get used to the people, I had to learn who were the good guys, who were the bad guys. After the shooting of Martin Luther King, it got worse.” Morganfield’s parents, Waters and Mildred Williams, divorced when he was 8. His mother dis-

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cerned his musical talent early on. “I’ve been scolded so many times by my mother for beating on stuff with tree branches, anything with sticks in my hand,” Morganfield recalls in a phone interview from his home in Chicago, where he still lives with his 85-year-old mother. “Finally, for Christmas, my mom, she got me some drums. I was so heavy-handed and bighanded, I tore them up within a couple weeks.” So every Christmas, after his relentless touring schedule wound down, Muddy Waters gave his son a drum kit. Father and son weren’t close, at first, but until his death in 1983 Waters began to spend more time with Larry. Soon, Williams shifted from drums to bass and took up songwriting. For a long time, though, he didn’t pursue the blues; he went to business school and worked for years as a truck driver. “I got tired of tapping on the dashboard of my truck,” he told an interviewer in 2012. “I had to answer the calling.” Morganfield, who bears a striking resemblance to his father, performed sporadically under the name Muddy Waters Jr.; in 2008, he finally put out an album, “Fall Waters Fall,” with a band of sympathetic bluesmen, including Rick Kreher, a longtime sideman with his father. Morganfield wrote most of the songs, although they

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Mud Morganfield, son of Muddy Waters, says he “ran from the blues a long time” before embracing who he is.

all have distinct echoes of Waters’ classic Chess Blues sound and its house songwriter Willie Dixon from the ’50s and ’60s. The closing track is a dead-on cover of his father’s “Same Thing.” “I tell you what I’m trying not to do; I’m trying not to sound like everybody else, except dad,” he says. “When you’re in this business, you have to look around and find who you are. And, well, listen, man, I got a lot of blues. I came up in the streets on the West Side.” The first of Waters’ sons to perform as a bluesman was Big Bill Morganfield, who barely knew his father when he was alive but took off in Atlanta nightclubs in the early ’90s; he has since put out several albums, including 1999’s fine “Rising Son.” Mud Morganfield has played with his stepbrother onstage, but they have no plans to record together.

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“But who knows what the future may hold?” Mud says. “Bill does him, and I do me. We both represent my dad, Muddy Waters. I love him, and that’s pretty much it.” Early on, as with Big Bill, Mud Morganfield emphasized his own compositions on his albums, although he took care to include a Waters cover every time. Then, Dave Earl, of Morganfield’s label, Severn Records, envisioned a Muddy tribute album co-starring Morganfield and Fabulous Thunderbirds harp player Kim Wilson; 2014’s “For Pops” includes familiar songs like “I Just Want to Make Love to You” and lesser-known gems like “My Dog Can’t Bark.” Morganfield had to postpone his own album project, which he says will start up again in a few months. But “For Pops” allowed him polish his song-

writing: “It gave me more time to concentrate on what I need to do for me.” During a half-hour discussion, there’s only one question left to ask, about “House” actor and blues pianist Hugh Laurie, who invited Morganfield to the stage during a 2012 Park West performance. Later, Laurie told a magazine that Mud “wore the thirdbest suit in the world and sang the paint off the walls.” Third best? “That was his opinion,” Morganfield says with a laugh. “I try to wear some nice stuff. I mean, people pay to come out to see you. I think it’s an honest responsibility to look and smell and feel the best we can.” Steve Knopper is a freelancer. onthetown@chicagotribune.com Twitter @chitribent

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WEEKEND DINING JUST OPENED

Davis reopens with Carbon Arc By Joseph Hernandez

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Before Lincoln Square’s Davis Theater closed in mid-January of this year, it was charmingly decrepit. Carpet was tearing in some spots, seats were uncomfortable and even the floor was wonky, but that was all OK, because it was from another era: 1918, to be precise, when it opened as the Pershing Theater. But the time finally came to restore the theater to its former grandeur — and add a beautiful bar and restaurant. After an extensive restoration, the Davis reopened Dec. 15, with Carbon Arc Bar & Board by its side. Carbon Arc, named after a film industry term for lights used in 19th-century film projectors, takes over the space of the former Bocca della Verita. The restaurant space and theater used to be separate and unaffiliated, but the former now opens into the latter, allowing guests a full dinner-and-show experience under one roof. No movie to see? Come on by anyway, says Tim Ryll, one of three partners involved in the restoration. “We’re aiming to be a great place to have a nice meal and drink, even if the Davis didn’t exist,” he says. (Ryll is also bar director for Four Corners Tavern Group, but Carbon Arc is not a Four Corners project.) The restaurant boasts handsome navy-blue banquettes, a gleaming white marble bar and modern, clean-lined furniture — fitting for the art deco-inspired space. Executive chef Gilbert Langlois (previously chefowner at Chalkboard) mans the kitchen, serving a menu with theater-friendly snacks, as well as standard entrees and plates. The front page of the menu directly addresses the needs of guests with movie reservations: a few shareable items like mac and cheese and avocado toast bites, plus tacos and flatbreads. For guests in a rush, Ryll points out caddies that fit into the theater seats’ cup holders, creating a tray large enough to hold food and drink, with secure

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Tesori offers a Feast of the Seven Fishes dinner through Friday.

DO MORE! Partake in the Italian tradition of Feast of the Seven Fishes — the Loop’s Tesori Trattoria & Bar is serving chef Carlos Ysaguirre’s seven-course, seafood-centric tasting menu through Friday. With modern takes on Italian staples, the menu will feature the likes of tuna conserva, scallop crudo and spaghetti with anchovy. $45. Through Friday at Tesori, 65 E. Adams St., 312-7869911, www.tesorichicago.com

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Fried chicken with biscuits and gravy is an entree at Carbon Arc Bar & Board at the Davis Theater.

The De Peche Mode cocktail.

nooks so nothing will spill. “(Tacos and flatbreads) are so easy to share in the theater, but we’ll take care of the knife-andfork crowd too,” says Ryll. Mix-and-match tacos (from $5) include the adobe barbecue pork with roasted corn, buttermilk and kale, and a Korean barbecue variation with charred scallion, daikon and beef on a

bao bun. Flatbreads include one with prosciutto, goat cheese, fig and thyme-brown butter. Steak with waffled potato ($23) and an impressive-looking fried chicken platter ($16), dripping with sausage gravy, are among the entrees. Drinks, too, are uncomplicated. Classics like the Sazerac and negroni get play, with a few updates and a few bartender creations called “original screenplays” ($12 each). The De Peche Mode falls under the latter category, with Combier peach liqueur, St. Germain and still rose wine, garnished with a peach “O” candy. The Popcorn Sutton is a caramel-corn-inspired take on the Old-Fashioned, with caramel syrup, Aztec chocolate bitters and a garnish of caramel corn. Settle up at Carbon Arc, and feel free to head into the Davis with any of these, or you can sidle up to the concession stand for a similar, quicker experience. “For speed, we added a bunch of ready-to-drink cocktails,” says Ryll. Expect bottled mules from Crafthouse, medicinalstyle vials of Old-Fashioneds,

plus canned beer and wine. Even the popcorn gets the gourmet treatment, with some kicked-up flavors in the works, like Buffalo wing and chili cheese. Ryll and partners Tom Fencl and Ben Munro also redid the theaters, bringing them back from the brink and cementing the Davis’ status on the National Register of Historic Places. The marquee theater, the largest of the three, seats close to 300; the other two now seat about 140 each, thanks to stadium seating. And Theater One has the added benefit of a bar pass window directly into Carbon Arc. “We want to use the space for more casual screenings, like ‘The Bachelor’ or ‘Game of Thrones,’ ” says Ryll. When the theater closed for renovation, the last movie screened was “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” When it opened again, the team came full circle, screening the latest Star Wars blockbuster, “Rogue One,” on all three screens. jbhernandez@chicagotribune.com Twitter @joeybear85

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Glogg at Simon’s Tavern is served with a cookie.

SPEND LESS! It’s glogg time at Simon’s Tavern in Andersonville. The Swedish drink, a wine mulled with winter spices and sweetened with sugar, is a holiday tradition, and Simon’s makes one of the city’s most beloved versions. Each warm mug is served with a gingery pepperkaker cookie. $6 at Simon’s Tavern, 5210 N. Clark St., 773-878-0894. — Joseph Hernandez

WHERE TO EAT NOW Recent restaurant reviews and profiles from Tribune food critic Phil Vettel, staff reporters and freelance writers. No stars indicates a restaurant has been profiled but not reviewed, and does not reflect on quality of dining. CITY Acadia ★★★★ Chef Ryan

McCaskey has quietly turned his South Loop restaurant into one of the finest in Chicago. The 5- and 10-course tasting menus include homages to McCaskey’s beloved Maine; in the front lounge, a bar menu includes oysters and a seriously good burger. Open: Dinner Tuesday-Sunday. Prices: Five-course menu $115, 10-course $175. 1639 S. Wabash Ave., 312360-9500. — Phil Vettel Animale Conceived by Italian-

trained chef Cameron Grant and owner Aldo Zaninotto (both of Logan Square’s Osteria Langhe), Animale traffics in meat. You’ll find so-called off cuts — sweetbreads, tripe and oxtail, for example — next to a smattering of lovely pastas and sandwiches. Open: Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Prices: Entrees $11-$44. 1904 N. Western Ave., 872-3153912. — Joseph Hernandez Arami ★★★ The reverence in which sushi chefs handle rice here is reason enough to visit, but this one of the rare Japanese restaurants in which the hot dishes are even better than the sushi. Pay attention to the cocktail list, and don’t skip the blacksesame shortbread and saltedmiso ice cream sandwich. Open: Dinner daily. Prices: Maki rolls and entrees $15-$17. 1829 W. Chicago Ave., 312-243-1535. — P.V. Beacon Tavern Surely the finest

restaurant ever carved from a former McDonald’s, this project by Billy Lawless (The Gage, Acanto, The Dawson) is tucked into a plaza just west of the Wrigley Building and east of Trump Hotel.

Seafood is a focus, with shrimp toast coated in truffle butter and a prawn salad that pops thanks to peppadew peppers, but there’s also a towering burger. Don’t skip the cheddar bay biscuits, a tongue-in-cheek homage to Red Lobster. Open: Lunch and dinner daily. Prices: $12-$40. 405 N. Wabash Ave., 312-955-4226. — P.V.

rendered, and pastry chef Aya Fukai offers some of the most beautiful (and delicious) desserts you’ve ever seen. Open: Dinner daily; downstairs bar open lunch and dinner daily. Prices: Entrees $18-$54. 8 W. Maple St., 312-9448888. — P.V. Oriole ★★★★ Oriole will dazzle

any diner who can find its gritty location. There’s a set menu of 15 to 20 courses each night, with optional drink pairings. Service is superb, but the focus belongs on Noah Sandoval’s simple-looking but complex plates. Extraordinary. Open: Dinner TuesdaySaturday. Prices: $175. 661 W. Walnut St., 312-877-5339. — P.V.

Blue Door Kitchen ★★ Art

Smith’s Table Fifty-Two has been transformed with a revamped decor and a remade menu under chef Rey Villalobos. You’ll still find such T52 staples as fried chicken and hummingbird cake, but new dishes, including an excellent Brussels-kale salad, reflect a Midwestern slant (and are a little more health-focused). Open: Lunch and dinner daily. Prices: Entrees $16-$44. 52 W. Elm St., 312-573-4000. — P.V. Dixie Go, now, to Dixie, a refined

neighborhood restaurant specializing in creative Southern cuisine. Instead of shrimp and grits, Dixie serves shrimp middlins, which swaps ground corn for rice enlivened with bright purple cauliflower and a swirl of gorgeously green cilantro chili verde. The buttermilk biscuits are at once flaky, crisp and light. Open: Dinner daily. Prices: Dishes $7-$23. 1952 N. Damen Ave., 773-6884466. — Nick Kindelsperger Ema ★★★ At this bright, sum-

mery spot, chef CJ Jacobson applies his veggie-focused California style to Mediterranean dishes. Use pieces of naan-like bread to scoop up hummus (especially the version with lamb ragu), then move on to such dishes as fried halloumi tossed with peppers and labneh. Large plates are less exciting but include a fine rotisserie chicken. Open: Dinner daily; lunch Monday-Friday. Prices: Entrees $17-$25. 74 W. Illinois St., 312-527-5586. — P.V. Giant ★★★ Jason Vincent (ex-

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Arbella The latest River North project from the team behind Peruvian powerhouse Tanta serves food, most of it good, but drinks reign supreme. The menu is divided by country or region; mezcal plays heavily into drinks in the Mexico section, while you’ll find pisco and rum in Cuba. The short list of food items playfully hops around the globe too. But beware: Cobbling together enough “shared plates” for a full meal can be deceivingly expensive. Open: Dinner and late night daily. Prices: $8-$15. 112 W. Grand Ave., 312-846-6654. — Nick Kindelsperger

Revival Food Hall ★★★ Featuring 14 impressive food stalls and a cocktail bar, Revival is easily the best place to eat lunch in the Loop. Try hot chicken sandwiches at The Budlong, poke bowls at Aloha and more. Open: Lunch and early dinner MondayFriday; bar until 9 p.m. MondayFriday. Prices: Entrees $8-$15. 125 S. Clark St., 773-999-9411. — N.K. Steadfast ★★ The most ambi-

tic 44-seater with co-chef Ben Lustbader and partner Josh Perlman (beverage honcho). The only common element in a menu that embraces liquefied sea urchin in fried pasta, sweet-and-sour eggplant and pecan-smoked ribs is that everything’s delicious. The dining room is cheerfully noisy and unpretentious. Open: Dinner Tuesday-Saturday. Prices: Main courses $16-$19. 3209 W. Armitage Ave., 773-252-0997. — P.V. Honey’s ★★★ Chicago’s run of

star-quality new restaurants continues with this Market District spot, helmed by chef Charles Welch and pastry chef Alison Cates (both ex-Sepia). Seafood dishes are particularly impressive, but then so is anything that comes off the wood-fired rotisser-

ie, from pork chops to cauliflower. Open: Dinner Monday-Saturday. Prices: Entrees $22-$38. 1111 W. Lake St., 312-877-5929. — P.V. The Loyalist ★★ One flight

below the acclaimed Smyth restaurant lurks John and Karen Shields’ more casual spot. It’s dark enough to work as a lounge and offers a menu deep enough to entertain serious diners. Start with biscuits with n’duja butter, and know that the cheeseburger might be the best of its kind in Chicago. Open: Dinner TuesdaySaturday. Prices: Entrees $16-$27. 177 N. Ada St., 773-913-3774. — P.V. Maple & Ash ★★★This steak-

house knows how to cook and how to have fun. Standards such as French onion soup are nicely

tious restaurant to hit the Loop in a long time is a small-plates American spot. There’s a lot to love: the complex cooking of chef Chris Davies, the superb bread and dessert from pastry chef Chris Teixeira, and impressive charcuterie. Open: Dinner Monday-Saturday, lunch MondayFriday. Entrees $24-$39. 120 W. Monroe St., 312-801-8899. — P.V. Taus Authentic ★★★ Michael Taus, the Charlie Trotter alum who was chef/owner of Zealous for 20 years, is back with a more casual spot. The fried chicken, a family recipe, is reason alone to visit. A new bar menu has everything from deviled eggs to grilled cheese with poblano jam. Open: Dinner Tuesday-Sunday, brunch Sunday. Prices: Entrees $16-$38; bar menu $6-$15. 1846 W. Division St., 312-561-4500. — P.V.

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THE THEATER LOOP By Chris Jones

Big shows, big stories in Chicago in 2016 This was the year in Chicago theater. In January, the New Colony and Definition Theatre Company scored a hit with “Byhalia, Mississippi,” a play about the rural underclass that seemed to anticipate the fall. For the first time, Marriott Theatre departed from its usual subscription-driven schedule and staged a short run of “Spring Awakening.” Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Shakespeare 400 celebration kicked off with a killer “Measure for Measure” with actors from the Pushkin Theatre of Moscow. The Belarus Free Theatre returned in February with an astonishing “King Lear.” Tracy Morgan returned to work at — of all places — the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond. Second City opened the Harold Ramis Film School, intending to focus on comedy moviemaking. Writers Theatre in Glencoe held an opening-night gala for its dazzling new home. “The Flick” flickered with beauty at Steppenwolf. Robert Falls and Seth Bockley collaborated on Roberto Bolano’s “2666,” a show that ran 5 1⁄2 hours. “The Humans,” a play that began at American Theater Company, opened on Broadway and became a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare, a new flexible theater with a capacity of 850, was announced in March. The tab? $35 million. Former United Airlines pilots and flight attendants paid tribute to fallen colleagues by attending “United Flight 232” at the House Theatre of Chicago. In April, the Drury Lane in Oakbrook Terrace ven-

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The Chicago production of the Broadway smash musical “Hamilton” opened in October at the PrivateBank Theatre.

tured into the risky world of Broadway tryout musicals with “Hazel.” Steppenwolf canned some real-life babies from the cast of “Mary Page Marlowe” after their crying unsettled actors and the audience. At the Goodman Theatre, Thomas Bradshaw explored black conservatism with “Carlyle.” Light Opera Works of Evanston announced it would change its name to Music Theater Works. At Second City in May, the politically charged and generally brilliant “A Red Line Runs Through It” opened at the e.t.c. Stage, but several cast members would leave in October. The

Goodman Theatre reminded us how Lorraine Hansberry saw so much more than anyone ever acknowledged, with Lorraine Hansberry Day on May 19. Carol Burnett came to town and was bathed in love and adoration. Steppenwolf officially opened its new bar and cafe, untheatrically named the Front Bar, but a cool spot nonetheless. Barbara Gaines opened the first part of her massive exploration of Shakespeare’s history plays, under the title “Tug of War.” The golden-voiced actor Dennis Kelly lost his tug of war with lung cancer. He died at the age of 72.

In June, the musical version of “SpongeBob SquarePants” premiered in Chicago. “Rent” and “London Wall” triumphed at the non-Equity Jeff Awards. Profiles Theatre closed down, following a Chicago Reader story that alleged physical assault and psychological abuse by its artistic director. And Strawdog Theatre Company lost its longtime home to the wrecking ball of gentrification; Mary-Arrchie Theatre would soon follow. Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole came to town in July to star in “War Paint” at the Goodman. In August, the young people of

the Albany Park Theater Project opened the remarkable “Learning Curve,” a show that sent audiences back to school — in a school. Musically Human announced plans for a new company in Highland Park, but it turned out to be an illusion. “Hamilton” held its first performances in Chicago in September. What more needs to be added to that? TimeLine Theatre fell out with the developer of the former Trumbull Elementary School and pulled out of a project that would have offered it a new Andersonville home. It went back to its drawing board.

Chris Jones recommends “Batsu!” ★★★

Batsu is the Japanese word for punishment or penalty. And in the raucous entertainment in Old Town, the audience is encouraged to chant it whenever one of the performers fails at some game or another. We’re a long way from Benihana. Open run at Kamehachi, 1531 N. Wells St.; $25.50-$40.50 at www. batsuchicago.com “Blue Man Group” ★★★★

In the latest version of the show at the Briar Street Theatre, three giant “GiPads” descend from above, one per Blue Man. Open run at the Briar Street Theatre, 3133 N. Halsted St.; $49-$69 at www.ticket master.com “The Christians” ★★★1⁄2

This 80-minute show is a sincere, complex, nuanced and thus highly unusual exploration of a crisis of leadership, and thus of faith, within a church. To some degree, Hnath has written a play about the same issues of love and judgment that have bedeviled Christian thinkers for generations. Through Jan. 29 at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, 1650 N. Halsted St.; $20-$89 at 312-335-1650 or www.steppenwolf.org “Crazy For You” ★★★

Director and choreographer Matt Crowle takes one of those retrofit musicals that was designed to exploit the songbook of major American songwriters — in this case, George and Ira Gershwin — and makes it a hugely enjoyable experience. Through Jan. 8 at Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace; $45-$60 at www. drurylanetheatre.com “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime” ★★★1⁄2

Christopher, the hero of this beautiful Broadway play, is an unusual teenager whose condition never is precisely defined. He’s a kid who struggles with what most of the world finds easy and excels at what

This Broadway show has given Chicago a Chicagostyle production. The heartland “Hamilton” is performed by players mostly younger and less experienced than the original New York cast and is less flashy. But it is more in touch with the fundamental scrappiness of the early years of a rebel colony turned into a spectacular democratic experiment. Open run at the PrivateBank Theatre, 18 W. Monroe St.; $65-$400 at 800-7752000 or www.broadwayinchicago.com “Honky Tonk Angels”

★★★ The book ain’t “Gone with the Wind,” but an excuse to trot out some 25 country numbers that work well for women, from “Sittin’ On the Front Porch Swing” to “Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad” to “Angels Among Us,” arranged here for three female voices, beautifully sung. The three women play three different archetypes. In Act 1, you get the back story of the women and their meeting at a Greyhound station. In Act 2 you get their Nashville concert, ending with a bittersweet parting. Through Jan. 29 at No Exit Cafe, 6970 N. Glenwood Ave.; $34-$39 at 800-5954849 or www.theo-u.com

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This still is a big show. Very big. The company is fullsized, the orchestra generous and the scenic elements rich. “Phantom” seems retro now, but if you’re taking a young person for their first visit, you can expect their eyes to widen. The theatricality that Phantom Derrick Davis brings to the role is a pleasure to watch. Through Jan. 8 at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph St.; $50-$140 at www.broad wayinchicago.com

“East Texas Hot Links”

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“The Phantom of the Opera” ★★★

most of the world finds hard. But the story of a braver soul never was told. Through Dec. 24 at the Oriental Theatre, 24 W. Randolph St.; $25-$98 at www.broadway inchicago.com

★★★1⁄2 Eugene Lee is one heck of a playwright, and if you head up to Writers Theatre, you’ll likely conclude that “East Texas Hot Links,” the story of a horrific night in a “colored only” bar in 1955, is an important American play. Through Jan. 22 at Writers Theatre, 325 Tudor Court, Glencoe; $35-$80 at 847-242-6000 or www.writerstheatre.org

October saw big management changes at Second City. Mike Daisey came to town to explain The Donald. Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s “The Tempest,” Porchlight Music Theatre’s “Dreamgirls” and the Paramount Theatre’s “West Side Story” all walked away with many Jeff Awards. Beloved casting director Jane Alderman died at 77. In November, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus rolled into town. Without its elephants. A seemingly inebriated audience member disrupted a performance of “Hamilton.” Alison C. Vesely, the widely adored founder of the First Folio Theatre, died of ovarian cancer at 59. Greg Allen, the founder of the Neo-Futurists, pulled his rights to “Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind,” fueling a firestorm of anger. Tiffany Tatreau, the star of “Ride the Cyclone,” got the call of many an actor’s dreams — we need you in New York, right now. Oracle Productions called it quits in December. And the Hypocrites canceled most of its season, citing the loss of contributed income and, yet more troubling, audience members. But Christopher Wheeldon’s “The Nutcracker” opened at the Auditorium Theatre, updating the grand tradition of the Joffrey Ballet, and heralding the season of goodwill and theatrical dreams. Happy holidays to all those who fuel this city’s creativity.

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Ben Ferguson and the cast of New-York-based PigPen Theatre Co.’s “The Hunter and the Bear” perform at Writers’ Theatre in Glencoe.

HOT TICKET ‘The Hunter and the Bear’ ★★★1⁄2

What does it take to tell a genuinely scary ghost story in the live theater setting, where the challenges are far greater than at the tech-heavy multiplex but the rewards can be far more human, more infinitely capable of burrowing deep into the soul? There is no question that the New York-based ensemble PigPen Theatre Co. has the requisite emotional investment in the game at Writers’ Theatre in Glencoe, where I suspect this show will scare the bejesus out of more than a few North Shore families and their out-of-town guests. PigPen seems less sure of itself, less precocious, and that has greatly deepened the work. The first clue that something is wrong comes when a stranger arrives at the camp and spins stories of ghosts, of dead children and animals haunting the woods. Then a man’s son goes missing. I’ll stop right there. You likely will find yourself surprised by most of what transpires as the strikingly intense story unfolds. Through Jan. 22 at Writers Theatre, 325 Tudor Court, Glencoe; $35-$80 at 847-242-6000 or www.writerstheatre.org

“King Charles III” ★★★★

Mike Bartlett’s formidably crafted play is one of those juicy dramas based on a big, outrageous idea: What if, following the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the ascendancy of the Prince of Wales, the new King Charles III decided that he wanted to meddle in the affairs of his own Parliament and refuse to sign a dodgy bill? Director Gary Griffin’s superbly staged production deserves to be a big holiday hit. Through Jan. 15 at Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier; $48-$88 at www. chicagoshakes.com “The Little Mermaid”

★★★1⁄2 If you’d told me that Disney’s most problematic musical would form the basis for one of the most innovative musical productions of the season, and that

the dude playing Sebastian the crab would compete as one of the finest Chicagoarea performances of the year, I would have said that was about as likely as Donald J. Trump hiring Ursula the Sea Witch as secretary of the Navy. But ... Through Jan. 15 at Paramount Theatre, 23 E. Galena Blvd., Aurora; $44-$59 at www. paramountaurora.com “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley” ★★★1⁄2

When Jane Austen wrote “Pride and Prejudice” in the early years of the 19th century, there was no heroic place for the unreconstructed nerd in the throbbing romantic novel. I suspect she would have been amazed to see her middle sister — a sibling so dull she disappears for broad stretches of the novel — at the center of her own holiday-themed show by

the gifted playwright Lauren Gunderson. Through Dec. 24 at Northlight Theatre, North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie; $30-$81 at 847-673-6300 or www.northlight.org “The Nutcracker”

★★★★ You might be surprised to learn that home — sweet home Chicago, you might say — is the dominant theme of Christopher Wheeldon’s extraordinarily rich, beautiful and emotionally potent new civic contribution. The power of this all-new work is in its dominant metaphor, the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, as fleshed out in a new story. Through Dec. 30 at the Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress Parkway; $35-$170 at 312-386-8905 or www.joffrey.org

“The Rosenkranz Mysteries” ★★★1⁄2

Ricardo Rosenkranz, a pediatrician who teaches at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, is a competent performer of illusions — no more, certainly no less. Through Jan. 22 at the Royal George Cabaret, 1641 N. Halsted St.; $50-$75 at www.ticketmaster.com “Singin’ in the Rain”

★★★ The Marriott is producing the musical (based on the film) set as the talkies kill off silent movies. Director William Brown, an incurable romantic of the Chicago stage, has given this show the fluidity and lightness of touch it needs. Through Dec. 31 at the Marriott Theatre, 10 Marriott Drive, Lincolnshire; $50-$55 at www.marriott theatre.com “Stomp” ★★★

This fusion of streetwise performance and percussion is back for a holiday run. Through Jan. 1 at Broadway Playhouse, 175 E. Chestnut St.; $39-$84 at www.broadway inchicago.com “Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding”

★★★ I actually had a blast at the version of the semiscripted affair that employs 23 actors to play members of the two feuding families joining in holy matrimony. Don’t judge without going. Open run at Resurrection Church, 3309 N. Seminary Ave.; $75-$85 at www.tony lovestina.com

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HOLIDAY MUSIC PREVIEW

Trans-Siberian Orchestra catchy, mind-blowing By Theoden Janes

When: 3:30 and 8 p.m. Friday

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Whoever is responsible for paying for the electricity at Charlotte’s Spectrum Center should probably consider sitting down before tearing open the next bill. That’s because the TransSiberian Orchestra came to town Thursday night. And when the world’s most popular progressive-rock band (and largest, at two dozen members) comes to town, it comes with four mixing boards, dozens of full-color lasers, 100-plus speaker boxes, flame modules and pyrotechnic effects out the wazoo, and enough lighting fixtures to fill up both your preferred home-improvement store and its competitor. Then TSO takes those things — plus, oh, only what appears to be the largest collection of video panels I’ve ever seen in my life — and turns them all up to 11 at the same time, dialing it back only a few times over two hours and 15 minutes of show. Of course, the band’s colorful, loud and very unsubtle efforts to overload your senses are nothing new to anyone who’s been to a TSO concert before. That’s part of what makes a Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert a Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert. But (full disclosure) they’re new to me. While I’ve appreciated TSO on iTunes and in You-

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Tube videos of private Christmaslight displays for years, this was my first time seeing the band live. And there’s no way around this but to say: The experience is just a little bit weird. Even the diehards — of which they are legion — would have to admit this. Right? I mean, I saw dragons. I saw tigers. I saw nutcrackers. Helicopters shooting and dodging missiles. Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Bill Gates. Young female dancers gyrating like

cheerleaders. It started fakesnowing at one point. At another, I could feel the heat from onstage blasts of fire. I kept looking at lead guitarist Joel Hoekstra and pseudo-frontman Chris Caffery and thinking, “Man, it seems like they’ve been ripped straight out of the pages of an ’80s hair-metal magazine.” So it came as almost no surprise that, when I looked them up, I discovered one (Hoekstra) has toured with Whitesnake and Night Ranger and the other (Caffery)

was an early member of Savatage. Anyway, the first half of the show — essentially a live runthrough of its long-running PBS special, “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve” — is arguably the weaker half, even though it’s fortunate to include two of the most creative and beloved tracks in the TSO oeuvre: “Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24” and “Christmas Canon.” The problem, for me, is that the flimsy storyline about the runaway girl who seeks shelter in an abandoned vaudeville theater on Christmas Eve, then gets back on the right track thanks to the building’s caretaker, is ... flimsy. Even the most ultra-dramatic narration by a quite-game Bryan Hicks can’t give it the weight it needs to warrant taking time away from the music. Shoot. I feel like it’s starting to sound like I didn’t like the show — but I did. For all of their cheeseball grinning and lip-biting and facescrunching, Caffery and Hoekstra really do have charisma to match their talents on the ax; violinist Roddy Chong absolutely crushed his solos, most notably on TSO’s

drop-the-hammer twist on Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” suite; and vocalist Kayla Reeves shined in the second half, both on stirring ballad “Someday” (which had many in the crowd holding up cellphone lights) and on headbanger “The Night Conceives.” It’s not for everybody. Only those with predispositions toward metal are likely to champion the use of a flood of electric guitars and rock violins on a cover of “Hall of the Mountain King,” or “Flight of the Bumblebee,” or “Beethoven’s Fifth,” or “Joy to the World,” or “O Holy Night.” But if you’re open-minded, this is creative, catchy, captivating stuff. And to be fair, it’s clear a good many people have that predisposition. On Thursday night, Spectrum Center was as close to sold out (for a concert) as I’ve seen in recent memory; TSO drew way, way more people than showed up for either Carrie Underwood or Dolly Parton, two of the biggest shows of the fall for Charlotte. So I say this to those two leading ladies, or to anyone else looking to put butts in seats at uptown’s big arena: If all else fails, try dragons, tigers, fake snow, a laser light show that would make Pink Floyd jealous and guys with cheeseball grins who can crush holiday tunes on electric guitars. It may not work, but apparently, it’s worth a shot.

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Lucinda Williams’ Buick 6 her ‘best band’ By Chrissie Dickinson

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As one of the reigning queens of Americana, Lucinda Williams has her choice of top-shelf collaborators. When it comes to her backing band on tour, she relies on the rocking, bluesy riffs of Buick 6. The trio consists of drummer Butch Norton, guitarist Stuart Mathis and bassist David Sutton. They will perform with Williams when she comes to town for a three-night stand at SPACE in Evanston on Dec. 29, 30 and 31. “There’s a whole amazing vibe with Lucinda,” says Norton, calling from his home in Los Angeles. “Every musician she’s ever had with her is there because they can play. She doesn’t tell you what to play. It’s very organic.” Williams is equally enamored of Buick 6. “The best band I’ve ever had, hands down,” she said to the applauding crowd last year during a gig at the Stone Fox in Nashville. It was Williams’ husband-manager, Tom Overby, who came up with the name for the band. The moniker was inspired by “From a Buick 6,” the Bob Dylan song featured on his album “Highway 61 Revisited.” Buick 6 initially grew out of a group of musicians who were backing Williams on the road and in the studio. The original lineup was a quartet with Norton, Sutton, Doug Pettibone and Chet Lyster. They released one self-titled album in 2009. Pettibone left the band around 2010 and Lyster around 2012, both to pursue other projects. Mathis joined on guitar 3 1⁄2 years ago. The retooled Buick 6 released “Plays Well With Others” in 2015 on Highway 20 Records, Williams’ imprint label. We caught up with Norton recently to talk about

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Buick 6 and the band’s work with Williams. This is an edited transcript. Q: When did you first meet Lucinda? A: I met her in April 2007. It was on the side of a stage in Minneapolis, five minutes before I was going to do my first-ever gig with her. I had done a sound check with the rest of the band, but Lucinda doesn’t do sound checks. She doesn’t rehearse. She said, “Hi, Butch. Nice to meet you. Good luck!” Q: How did you get hired for that initial gig? A: I had gotten a call the

week before that show saying the band’s (thendrummer) Don Heffington was quitting. The band had a week off and asked if I could fill in for him on the tour. I said, “Great, send me the soundboard tapes.” They sent me the tapes I’d asked for and was told, “Here are 35 songs to learn.” I charted them out. I learned them. Of course, only 10 of those songs were played at the gig.

the last year, she sounds stronger and more focused than when I started. It gets better and better. She’s creating and writing amazing stuff. It’s very exciting for us and great to be a part of it. It fuels us. We get to create with her. We have that back-and-forth. It’s a blessing as a musician. I’ve always wanted to contribute like that, and she lets you contribute. She doesn’t want it any other way.

Q: Did you click with her quickly as a player? A: I jumped onstage and felt comfortable right away. Afterward, she and her husband, Tom, were ecstatic and said, “You’re in.” That was it.

Q: What is your schedule on this tour with Lucinda? A: We open for her as Buick 6. We get a 35-minute set. We’ll do some songs from our new record. There’s a short break, and then we play with her. We kick right into Lucinda mania. It’s a great thing for her fans. They really love what we do. It’s a very unique and amazing situation that Lucinda and her husband, Tom, have afforded us to do this.

Q: As a singer-songwriter, Lucinda is only getting more accomplished with age. What has it been like watching her work up close? A: I’m coming up on 10 years playing with her. In

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a toy paper drum set that they got from Sears. They thought, “We know this phase will pass.” In third grade I asked for a drum set. They got me a snare drum. All my friends in the neighborhood had drums they never played, so I’d sneak into their garages and play their kits when they were on vacation. I finally got all my own pieces together by seventh grade. I was hooked. I knew this was what I was born to do. My parents had nothing to do with music, although my mother is artistically creative. They’re still wondering when this phase is going to pass. My family is all librarians, business people, doctors and lawyers. I came out of nowhere. I’ve been very stubborn and stuck with it. Q: When you first became a touring musician, was it a revelation to be out on the road? A: There’s no guidebook or lessons or college or schooling that tells you how to do this. It’s all trial by error. My family said, “Keep going. Don’t give up.” I strongly said that to myself, too. Chrissie Dickinson is a freelance writer. onthetown@chicagotribune.com Twitter @chitribent

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Notice is hereby given, Pursuant to “An Act in relation To the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct of transaction of Business in The State” as amended, that a Certification was filed by the Undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County File No. ## D16148974 on the Date: 12_08_2016 Under the Assumed Name of: MICHAEL GOSS PHOTOGRAPHY with the business located at: 8820 Skokie Blvd #144 Skokie, IL, 60077 The true name and residence Address of the owner is: Michael Goss 8820 Skokie Blvd #144 Skokie, IL, 60077

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Notice is hereby given, Pursuant to “An Act in relation To the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct of transaction of Business in The State” as amended, that a Certification was filed by the Undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County File No. D16148989 on the Date: Dec 8 2016 Under the Assumed Name of: DIEGO’S PAINT SERVICE with the business located at: 2500 N MONITOR CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60639 The true name and residence Address of the owner is: DIEGO RAFAEL RUIZ FONSECA 2500 N MONITOR CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60639

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Notice is hereby given, Pursuant to “An Act in relation To the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct of transaction of Business in The State” as amended, that a Certification was filed by the Undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County File No. D16148990 on the Date: Dec 8 2016 Under the Assumed Name of: CAMBRON’S PAINTING with the business located at: 2212 N LEAMINGTON AVE CHICAGO , ILLINOIS , 60639 The true name and residence Address of the owner is: SAUL CAMBRON GUTIERREZ 2212 N LEAMINGTON CHICAGO, ILLINOIS , 60639

Notice is hereby given, Pursuant to “An Act in relation To the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct of transaction of Business in The State” as amended, that a Certification was filed by the Undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County File No. D16149029 on the Date: 12-14-2016 Under the Assumed Name of: Oasis Studio with the business located at: 4705 W. Lawrence Avenue Chicago, IL, 60630 The true name and residence Address of the owner is: Jasmin Jahal 5351 N East River Rd 802 Chicago, Illinois, 60656

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ASSUMED NAMES Notice is hereby given, Pursuant to “An Act in relation To the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct of transaction of Business in The State” as amended, that a Certification was filed by the Undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County File No. D16148849 on the Date: November 28, 2016 Under the Assumed Name of: Chuck Senties Productions with the business located at: 2910 W Berwyn Avenue Suite 3 Chicago, IL, 60625 The true name and residence Address of the owner is: Charles Senties 2910 W Berwyn Avenue Suite 3 Chicago, IL, 60625 Notice is hereby given, Pursuant to “An Act in relation To the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct of transaction of Business in The State” as amended, that a Certification was filed by the Undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County File No. D16148966 on the Date: December 6, 2016 Under the Assumed Name of: Krystal Clean Pro with the business located at: 2298 W Nichols Rd Apt C Arlington Heights, IL, 60004 The true name and residence Address of the owner is: Roberto Adaya Cruz 2298 W Nichols Rd Apt C Arlington Heights, IL, 60004

Notice is hereby given, Pursuant to “An Act in relation To the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct of transaction of Business in The State” as amended, that a Certification was filed by the Undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County File No. D16148892 on the Date: December 9, 2016 Under the Assumed Name of: JD Eventz with the business located at: 505 Ambriance Burr Ridge, il, 60527 The true name and residence Address of the owner is: Zankhana Desai 505 Ambriance Burr Ridge , il, 60527

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Manitoba, Canada 204-957-8679 Notice to MBE’s, DBE’s and WBE’s A national OEM parts distributor is interested in identifying viable suppliers for ongoing competitive bid requirements. Product lines & qualifications can be directed to New Flyer Parts, 630 Kernaghan Ave., Door 76 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R2C 5G1. Attn: Robyn DeVisser

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The IFB Package may be downloaded by registering on our website which lists a complete list of all current bid opportunities with the HACC: www.thehacc.org/e-procurement-services Bids that are not properly submitted will be considered non-responsive and be disqualified from consideration. Bids submitted late will not be accepted. The Authority reserves the right to reject any or all Bids if deemed in the best interest of the Housing Authority of Cook County. Richard Monocchio, Executive Director

LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT HOUSING AUTHORITY OF COOK COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PROCUREMENT SERVICES Bids will be received by the Housing Authority of Cook County (HACC) on the date and time (Central Standard Time) stated for the specific Invitation For Bid (IFB) listed below at 175 West Jackson Boulevard, Suite 350, Chicago, Illinois, 60604: Project Name: Turlington West and Edward Brown Apartments Renovation Specification Number: 2016-100-062 Pre-Bid Meeting and Site Visits: January 13, 2017 Time: 10:30 A.M. Turlington West Apartments 15306 South Robey Street Harvey, IL 60426 Edward Brown Apartments (immediately afterwards) 3210 West 139th Street Robbins, IL 60472

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Questions Deadline: January 17, 2017 Time: 2:00 P.M. Bids Due Date: February 3, 2017 Time: 2:00 P.M. Contact Person: Deborah Elliott O’Donnell Telephone Number: (312) 542-4725 E-mail Address: do’donnell@thehacc.org The IFB Package may be downloaded by registering on our website which lists a complete list of all current bid opportunities with the HACC: www.thehacc.org/e-procurement-services Bids that are not properly submitted will be considered non-responsive and be disqualified from consideration. Bids submitted late will not be accepted. The Authority reserves the right to reject any or all Bids if deemed in the best interest of the Housing Authority of Cook County.

IN THE INTEREST OF ANTWONE HUTCHINS A MINOR NO. 2016JD02338 NOTICE OF PUBLICATION Notice is given you, ANTWONE HUTCHINS, SR. (FATHER) , respondents, and TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, that on October 20, 2016, a petition was filed under the Juvenile Court Act by ANITA ALVAREZ, STATE’S ATTORNEY OF COOK COUNTY through her assistant State’s Attorney in this court and that in the courtroom of Judge PATRICIA MENDOZA in the Cook County Juvenile Court Building located at 1100 South Hamilton, Chicago, Illinois, ON 01/17/2017 at 9:00 AM IN CALENDAR 53 COURTROOM 7, or as soon thereafter as this case may be heard, an adjudicatory hearing will be held upon the petition to have the minor declared to be a ward of the court and for other relief under the Act. The court has authority in this case to take from you the custody and guardianship of the minor. Unless you appear at the hearing and show cause to the contrary, an order or judgment by default may be entered against you for the relief asked in the petition. DOROTHY BROWN, CLERK OF COURT December 8, 2016 ASSISTANT STATE’S ATTORNEY: L. JANKOVIC, P. PALACHARLA ATTORNEY FOR: THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS ADDRESS: 1100 SOUTH HAMILTON CITY/STATE: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60612 TELEPHONE NUMBER: (312) 433-7000 ATTORNEY NO.: 33182 CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT, COOK COUNTY OF ILLINOIS

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD PROTECTION DIVISION IN THE INTEREST OF Lamirr Philpot MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Lashana Philpot (Mother) JUVENILE NO.: 16JA00510 NOTICE OF PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, William Murphy (Father), respondents, and to All Whom It May Concern, that on June 10, 2016, a petition was filed under the Juvenile Court Act by KIMBERLY M. FOXX in this court and that in the courtroom of Judge Peter Vilkelis in the Cook County Juvenile Court Building, 1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, on January 17, 2017, at 9:30 AM in CALENDAR 13 COURTROOM M, or as soon thereafter as this case may be heard, an adjudicatory hearing will be held upon the petition to have the minor declared to be a ward of the court and for other relief under the Act. THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND APPOINTMENT OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THE CHILD. UNLESS YOU appear, you will not be entitled to further written notices or publication notices of the proceedings in this case, including the filing of an amended petition or a motion to terminate parental rights. UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and show cause against the petition, the allegations of the petition may stand admitted as against you and each of you, and an order or judgment entered. DOROTHY BROWN, CLERK OF COURT December 5, 2016 DOROTHY BROWN, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE JUSTICE AND CHILD PROTECTION DEPARTMENT CHILD PROTECTION DIVISION IN THE INTEREST OF Mytrell Willis MINOR(S) CHILD(REN) OF Tiffany Willis (Mother) JUVENILE NO.: 16JA00676 NOTICE OF PUBLICATION

NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Leareaner Austin AKA Lorraine Richardson (Mother), respondents, and to All Whom It May Concern, that on October 26, 2016, a petition was filed under the Juvenile Court Act by ANITA ALVAREZ in this court and that in the courtroom of Judge Robert Balanoff in the Cook County Juvenile Court Building, 1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, ON 01/17/2017, at 9:30 AM in CALENDAR 12 COURTROOM L, or as soon thereafter as this case may be heard, a hearing will be held upon the petition to terminate your parental rights and appoint a guardian with power to consent to adoption.

NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Cartrell Brent (Father), respondents, and to All Whom It May Concern, that on August 10, 2016, a petition was filed under the Juvenile Court Act by ANITA ALVAREZ in this court and that in the courtroom of Judge Andrea Buford in the Cook County Juvenile Court Building, 1100 So. Hamilton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, ON 01/17/2017, at 10:30 AM in CALENDAR 4 COURTROOM D, or as soon thereafter as this case may be heard, an adjudicatory hearing will be held upon the petition to have the minor declared to be a ward of the court and for other relief under the Act.

THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND APPOINTMENT OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THE CHILD.

UNLESS YOU appear, you will not be entitled to further written notices or publication notices of the proceedings in this case, including the filing of an amended petition or a motion to terminate parental rights.

UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and show cause against the petition, the allegations of the petition may stand admitted as against you and each of you, and an order or judgment entered.

DOROTHY BROWN, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS November 22, 2016

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298

ORBUYFOR:$

#D1462, MSRP: $24,535†

PACIFICA LX

JOURNEY SE

NEW 2017 CHRYSLER

9,655

†

NEW 2016 DODGE

6,795

ORBUYFOR:$

PER MO.

SAVINGS FROM MSRP:

24% FF MSRP

O FF

SAVINGS FROM MSRP:

††

#C1278, MSRP: $39,645†

#D1446, MSRP: $29,785†

23% FF MSRP

PER MO.

155

130

ORBUYFOR:$

300 LTD AWD

SAVINGS FROM MSRP:

ORBUYFOR:$

†

NEW 2016 CHRYSLER

CHARGER SE

34,495 25,405

PER MO.

NEW 2016 DODGE

TER CONV. VAN

R.COM

†

15,990

SALE $ PRICE:

7,000

††

O FF

AVINGS MMSRP:

††

O FF

#J1930 MSRP: $24,980†

28% FF MSRP

26,990 $ 8,300 $ 262

179

ORBUYFOR: $

32% FF MSRP

SAVINGS FROM MSRP:

7,495

†

COMPASS SPORT

4,745 4

NEW 2016 JEEP

†

RBUYFOR:

200 LX

SAVINGS FROM MSRP:

19% FF MSRP

RICE:

#J2155 MSRP: $24 #J2155, $24,7735†

CHEROKEE SPORT

CARAVAN AVP

INGS MSRP:

NEW 2016 CHRYSLER

†

ORBUYFOR:

CE:

NEW 2017 JEEP

PER MO.

†

††

24,955

SALE $ PRICE:

1155 WEST DUNDEE ROAD

(888) 441-1609

are for illustration purposes only. All vehicles subject to prior sales. See dealer for details. *New car prices include applicable manufacturer incentives & dealer sponsored buydown rate and may affect the final selling price. With approved credit thru PNC Bank and subject to minimum 840 Beacon score on onths. ^^New car payments with approved credit thru PNC Bank and subject to minimum 840 Beacon score. Special financing available on select modfinancing and is a dealer sponsored buydown rate and may affect the final selling price. With $5000 down on Patriot, Journey, RAM 1500, & Cherokee, doc fee. †Off MSRP. MSRP may not be price at which vehicle is sold in trade area. Includes applicable manufacturer rebates & manufacturer incentives AM Promaster Conversion #R1097, MSRP=$59,900-($25,405 Dealer Discount)=$34,495.

www.ebook3000.com

5,000

17% FF MSRP

O FF

SAVINGS FROM MSRP:

238

ORBUYFOR:$

PER MO.

†

Chicago Tribune | Section 6 | Friday, December 23, 2016 | chicagotribune.com/classified C

FINAL YEAR-END

CLEARANCE SALE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23RD 9AM-9PM SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24TH 9AM-2PM

SPECIAL LOW APR MASSIVE INVENTORY WILL BE SOLD WITH FINANCING AND LEASING MAXIMUM DISCOUNTS NOW AVAILABLE Valley Honda Is Stocked With Our Largest Available Honda Inventory Ever! This massive inventory will be sold with maximum discounts to make room for incoming shipments. Valley Honda’s huge selection includes hundreds of models & equipment packages available for immediate delivery! NOW is one of the best times to save at Valley Honda, The Largest Volume Honda Dealer In Illinois!*

Valley Honda has just extended special low rate financing in order to move this massive Honda inventory during this Final Year-End Clearance Sale! This absolute final sale of Honda inventory gives all buyers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for incredible savings, low leases and low financing. Hurry, these massive savings only last while the inventory lasts. Shop early for the best selection!

DON’T MISS HUGE DISCOUNTS & CLEARANCE PRICING ON ALL NEW VEHICLES IN STOCK!

Massive Honda Inventory - 1771 New Hondas Available 501 CIVICS • 305 ACCORDS • 75 PILOTS • 414 CR-V’S • 137 HR-V’S 206 ODYSSEYS • 21 RIDGELINES • 112 FITS

PLUS A GIANT SELECTION OF CERTIFIED PRE-OWNED VEHICLES! MAXIMUM CASH PAID FOR ALL TRADE-INS

Valley Honda will pay the maximum cash value on all trade-in vehicles. We have buyers on site to pay you cash regardless of what is owed on your vehicle. Credit and finance experts are now accepting 100% of all applications. What are you waiting for?

The Largest Volume Honda Dealer In Illinois *

ROSELLE 290

ST. CHARLES

355

LISLE

Honda

AURORA

PLANO

290

294

88 N AV OGDE

OAK PARK

ELMHURST

WHEATON

Honda

OAK BROOK

NAPERVILLE

4173 Ogden Ave. (Rt.34) Naperville/Aurora

630-851-5700 One block West of Rt. 59 across from the Westfield Shoppingtown / Fox Valley Mall.

*2015 New Car Volume Sales as reported by American Honda Motors.

valleyhonda.com