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Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, left, and players association executive director Tony Clark speak before Game 1 of the World Series on Oct. 26, 2021, in Houston. Manfred and MLB locked out players on Dec. 2, a day after the five-year collective bargaining agreement ended. (Ron Blum/AP)
Joseph Cullen, assistant state’s attorney with Kane County, from left, Joseph McMahon, Kane County state’s attorney and special prosecutor in the Laquan McDonald case, Lynn McCarthy with the Cook County state’s attorney’s office, Attorney Daniel Herbert representing Jason Van Dyke and Jason Van Dyke stand before Judge Vincent Gaughan during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago in 2016. (Nancy Stone / Chicago Tribune)
After 15 years there, she moved to Chicago in 2019, having visited her former hometown for the Taste of Chicago and feeling drawn to the creative community and the architecture she loves. “That’s kind of where my eye would go,” she said. She loves, for example, the Wrigley Building’s ornate design. “It’s just really beautiful.”
Dear Amy: My fiance and I recently became engaged. He is originally from another country, and his family still lives there. Because of COVID-19 restrictions and the visa process, most are unable to travel to the U.S. for a wedding, so we decided to host (and pay for) a small U.S. ceremony and have a big wedding in his home country (where costs are much lower).
Oklahoma City Thunder guard Josh Giddey (3) is unable to stop Chicago Bulls forward Derrick Jones Jr. (5) from dunking the ball in the second half of a game at the United Center in Chicago on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune) (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)
“We knew it was going to be a challenge, but that’s not good enough,” Hawks coach Derek King said. “I’ve got to watch my words here, but we just can’t do that. We can’t put an effort out like that and hope to maybe steal a game from somebody. That’s not going to happen.”
In the final stretch of regulation, Durham fed Watson for a slam dunk that tied it at 60 with 1 minute, 34 seconds left. At the line with a chance to put his team up for the first time since the opening minutes, Watson drained a pair of free throws with 44.7 seconds left.
A firefighter looks at the scene of a house fire that injured at least seven firefighters, in the 200 block of West 112th Place in the Roseland neighborhood on Feb. 12, 2022, in Chicago. None of the firefighters’ injuries were considered life-threatening, according to fire department spokesperson Larry Langford. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)
“Kyle has been around the team for a while and knows the team, but they’re interviewing a bunch of candidates, so it could go either way,” Strome said. “Whoever the new GM is, or if it’s Kyle, it depends on what they want as a team or what they see fit because they’re going to have the majority of the say and report right to (CEO Danny Wirtz). … Whatever the new GM wants to do.”
Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred speaks during a news conference on Dec. 2, 2021, in Arlington, Texas. Owners locked out players at 12:01 a.m. that day following the expiration of the sport’s five-year collective bargaining agreement. (LM Otero/AP)