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“Times change too. Listen, nobody likes get hit, right? So whether you did it on the first pitch or the last pitch, I don’t know that it ever feels good or everybody’s happy with it. I’m sure he has a take on it maybe, or maybe sometimes quotes that you read can be misleading, for me at least. So I don’t know what’s inside his brain. But, yeah, I’m sure he was upset about it.”

In 2018, a political reform group complained Wilson violated state election law when he gave away more than $200,000 at a South Side church, but he was cleared by state officials who found that he did not violate state law despite mistakenly broadcasting his charitable foundation’s money giveaway on a campaign Facebook page, among other issues.

State Rep. Delia Ramirez, 4th District, left, and Lillian Jimenez watch as volunteers teach how to canvass before heading out to Chicago’s Belmont Cragin neighborhood on April 2, 2022. Ramirez is running for the Illinois 3rd District for the U.S. House of Representatives and Jimenez is running for the Illinois House of Representatives 4th District. (Trent Sprague/for the Chicago Tribune)

The $4 billion reconstruction and widening of the Tri-State Tollway, or I-294, is continuing. The focus now will be on a stretch of the highway between Wolf and St. Charles roads, and, farther south, stretches between I-55 and 75th Street and between LaGrange Road and 95th Street, the Tollway said. Lanes and ramps will be closed in those areas at various times throughout the year.

“I mean, it sucks. It was not the outcome that I wanted. It’s always hard not to be available, whether you’re injured or whatnot. It’s hard to watch your guys go out there and fight without you but I believe in them without me just as much as I believe in them with me. I think we have as good of a chance as any to make a run to the championship, and I trust these guys to take care of it when I can’t be there on the court.”