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Fuel prices are displayed as motorists line up for free gas at the BP station at Pulaski Road and Montrose Avenue on Thursday, March 17, 2022 in Chicago. The Labor Department said Tuesday its consumer price index jumped 8.5% in March from 12 months earlier, with gas and food prices serving as drivers. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)

“For me, it’s just finishing the ball, finishing with the wrist at the very end and throwing it like a fastball instead of thinking changeup, which was a hard thing to get out of my head,” Kilian said. “Having a changeup is huge. A lot of hitters think that’s the best pitch in the game, so now that I actually have a decent one, I think it will make all my pitches better.”

“It’s a unique season based off of last year’s season, which was unique off of the 60-game season,” pitching coach Ethan Katz said Sunday. “Injuries are to be expected. Obviously you don’t want to deal with them or have them definitely impact the first game of the season, but our player development staff has done a great job getting guys ready to help us up here.”

Lack of size has been an obstacle for the Bulls all season, but they got by with smaller, quicker lineups when Ball was healthy. The Bulls finished 28th in rebounding (42.3 per game), while the Bucks were second (46.7). Having Brook Lopez back creates an even greater size disparity, so Donovan might have to pair Vučević and Thompson together, which doesn’t bode well for a team that’s better when the offense is in a flow instead of bogged down by two bigs.

But now she is 75, and she wonders what will become of the dollhouse that occupies a room in her Fredericksburg, Virginia, home. She has no children to whom she can leave it, her sister doesn’t have room for it, and though she believes it should be preserved as a piece of postwar suburban history, she’s found no takers among Illinois historical societies.

“If you want to buy a $700,000 to $800,000 to a million-dollar home, you can buy them anywhere, there’s plenty of listings out there. But if you try to get anything under $450,000 in a major metropolitan area, it’s a dog race,” he said. “As interest rates rise, it will take a chunk of buyers out of the market because they can no longer afford the homes that have appreciated so much. Interest rates will have to go up significantly in order for it to start to soften housing prices. It’s likely that’s not going to happen.”

“If you want to buy a $700,000 to $800,000 to a million-dollar home, you can buy them anywhere, there’s plenty of listings out there. But if you try to get anything under $450,000 in a major metropolitan area, it’s a dog race,” he said. “As interest rates rise, it will take a chunk of buyers out of the market because they can no longer afford the homes that have appreciated so much. Interest rates will have to go up significantly in order for it to start to soften housing prices. It’s likely that’s not going to happen.”

The report also highlighted the best 25 private, nonprofit hospital systems in the country for so-called “fair share spending” — those that spent more on charity care and in their communities than what they likely saved through tax exemptions. Illinois health system Memorial Health made that list, ranking 15th in the country for the highest amount spent on charity care and community investment over what the system likely saved from tax exemptions, at $31 million. Memorial has hospitals in Decatur, Jacksonville, Lincoln, Springfield and Taylorville.

Between his second and third errors — the Mets simply could not stop hitting the ball at him, giving him a whopping seven chances by the third inning — Bohm made a clean play. The notoriously patient Philly fans gave him a sarcastic Bronx cheer, and Bohm was caught on camera saying “I f—ing hate this place.”

“This is an unimaginable situation for BG to be in,” Engelbert said. “She continues to have our full support. Certainly we’re trying everything we can, every angle, working with her legal representation, her agent, elected leaders, the administration. Just everybody in our ecosystem to try and find ways to get her home safely and as quickly as we can.”