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Marriott human resources recruiter Mariela Cuevas, left, talks to Lisbet Oliveros, during a job fair at Hard Rock Stadium, Sept. 3, 2021, in Miami Gardens, Fla. Jobless claims fell by 18,000 to 215,000 for the week ending February 26, from 233,000 the previous week, the Labor Department reported Thursday. (Marta Lavandier/AP)

All five people were in an apartment in the 2300 block of North Kedzie Avenue just after 1 a.m., when two of them began arguing and stabbing each other, police said. A 37-year-old man was stabbed in the abdomen and transported to Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition, the department said.

“The meetings were incredible, and before we broke, I told them all how proud I was,” Poles said. “Because as a new GM you come in, you’re like, ‘All right, you’re evaluating them, you’re evaluating the evaluators.’ At the end of it, the thing that stood out to me is there’s a group of really, really good people that worked really hard this fall to gather the information.

For much of his childhood in Edmonton, Alberta, though, Uguak preferred the gridiron to the hardwood, spending a lot of his time playing football. Sure, he would play pickup basketball games for fun with friends. But it was a growth spurt in his early teenage years that ultimately prompted him to give competitive basketball a try.

You can make a compelling case for a lot of positions if the Bears come out of the gates with an expensive signing or two when the new league year begins March 16. If I had to pick two, I would start with the offensive line and wide receiver. Poles talked about getting the O-line right from Day 1, and without a first-round draft pick, how else can he make an impactful move there? Sure, he could re-sign James Daniels, who is scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent, but if he wants to improve the line, he’ll be seeking to accomplish more. I mention wide receiver because the depth chart there is as bare as it gets. Poles needs to add to the receiver group in free agency and the draft, at minimum importing two players who can be productive for Fields.

Last February, the mayor’s commission on monuments flagged statues of Presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and William McKinley, as well as a Benjamin Franklin statue, a police memorial tied to the Haymarket Riot and a statue of Leif Erikson at Humboldt Park, as potentially problematic, but did not make final recommendations about what should happen.

De Zwaan, an authentic Dutch windmill, is seen among tulips on Windmill Island during “Tulip Time” in Holland, Michigan, on May 5, 2021. De Zwaan, which is Dutch for “the swan” or “graceful birds,” was built in the 1770s and was moved to Windmill Island from the Netherlands in 1964. (Joel Bissell/Tribune News Service)

Customers buy a bag of books at an Amazon Books store, Nov. 20, 2017, in New York. Amazon is confirming it’s closing all of its physical bookstores as well as its 4-star shops and pop up locations as the online behemoth reworks its physical footprint. (Mark Lennihan/AP)

“If he’s here on the last day of the season,” Davidson said of Fleury, “I’m fine with that because we have a lot of young players, we have a lot of players who are learning a heck of a lot from someone that’s one of the best people in the game and one of the best professionals in the game.

“This is a kind of case, if this is in fact true, of such incredible significance — somebody who has really shaped Illinois politics for 40 years, dominated almost every aspect of life, from a political standpoint, from a legislative standpoint — you better have a tight case because you’re going to take the shot, you’re not going to want to miss,” Lightfoot said.