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“Sometimes when you’re not doing as great as you want to or not as bad as you think you are, you think that there’s more in the tank to produce, and that was the opposite of what I thought,” Keuchel said. “It was, ‘Hey, I’m good to go, let’s step on the gas pedal.’ And when I stepped on the gas pedal, it was like I hit the E-brake, and the body just kind of rejected what I was trying to do.

Batavia police responded to the crash shortly after 1:30 p.m. in the 1300 block of South Kirk Road after a vehicle flipped over onto its roof, killing two occupants inside the car, police officials said in a news release. Police are withholding the identification of the two who died until next of kin are notified.

Members of IBEW Local 1220 hold a strike event outside the WTTW studios in Chicago on March 21, 2022. WTTW union broadcast technicians went on strike last Wednesday after more than a year of negotiations failed to produce an acceptable labor agreement. The technicians are responsible for a number of productions at the local public TV station, including the nightly news show, “Chicago Tonight.” (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)

“These are the people who got swindled out of homeownership,” Lewis Johnson said. “Regardless of what solution we come up with, we have to remember that the value of these neighborhoods needs to increase in comparison to their white counterparts. Whatever solution we create for redress, it can’t make a specific population — in this case, Black people, vulnerable again because when you segregate Black people you make them vulnerable to people who are greedy, even if they’re not racist, there are institutions or businesses that view them as a market to financially take advantage of.”