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“I’m not the type of player to look too much into the future,” he said. “I want to be here, present now, because obviously that’s what’s most important. But we never know what the future holds, so I think I’m just going to continue to give my all every single day in training, making sure that I’m helping guys on and off the field to have the most successful season that we can for this club.”

During icy Midwest winters, a Chicagoan’s step onto the sidewalk is often met with a familiar crunch underfoot. But salt, used to keep roads safe for driving and sidewalks safe for walking, comes with an ecological price: It ends up in our water, and once it’s there, it’s almost impossible to remove. As levels of chlorides continue to rise in Lake Michigan and exceed state limits in Chicago-area waterways, municipalities across the region are grappling with the urgent need to reduce the use of road salt in winter.

John Kronenberger, outside of Major Hector P. Garcia M.D. High School, where Kronenberger had been mistakenly ticketed for speeding on Nov. 12. The city of Chicago sent out speeding tickets from cameras near the school on that date, even though school was not in session because of a citywide push to encourage students to get vaccinated. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)

“What we’ve done up to this point in time, in my opinion, is just not good enough,” Donovan said. “I’m not trying to be negative, it’s just we’ve got to get better. … We were dealing with a lot. I thought the guys did a really really good job settling the ship, so to speak, with a lot of turbulence. But the reality is what we’ve done up to this point in time in terms of going forward — where we want to be, the kind of team that we want to be — we’ve got to get better. It’s not good enough right now.”

“Last year during spring training, José Abreu approached me and he told me, ‘Whatever you need, just reach out to me and I’m here for you,’” Céspedes said. “That’s what I did. Every time that I needed something, I reached out to him and he gave me a lot of advice. That was great. That was really helpful for me.”

In Lake Forest, DeLeone paid $1.13 million for the nine-room house, which was built in 1910 and rehabbed down to the studs in 2014. The house has five full bathrooms, two half bathrooms, four en-suite bedrooms on the second floor with custom built-ins and a primary bedroom suite with a walk-in closet and a marble bathroom with a double vanity. Other features include a white kitchen with marble countertops, a first-floor laundry room and a mud room.

In Lake Forest, DeLeone paid $1.13 million for the nine-room house, which was built in 1910 and rehabbed down to the studs in 2014. The house has five full bathrooms, two half-bathrooms, four en-suite bedrooms on the second floor with custom built-ins and a primary bedroom suite with a walk-in closet and a marble bathroom with a double vanity. Other features include a white kitchen with marble countertops, a first-floor laundry room and a mud room.

Talking about the Helix 51 business incubator at Rosalind Franklin University are, clockwise from left, Catherine Phillips, the CEO of TargaCell; Robin McWherter, TargaCell’s president; Claire Zhou, the COO of Everyplace Labs (partially hidden); Iyad Ayoub, the COO of Resuscitation Therapeutics, Inc.; Michael Rosen, the incubator’s managing director; Peter Farmakis, the CEO of Covira Surgical; Yekaterina Galat, the COO and co-founder of Artec Biotech, Inc., Vasil Galat, the CEO and the other co-founder of Artec. (Steve Sadin / Lake County News-Sun)