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Holocaust survivor Steen Metz speaks with Woodstock High School students via Zoom on Feb. 3, 2022, in Barrington. His book, “A Danish Boy in Theresienstadt, Reflections of a Holocaust Survivor,” is in the foreground with a photo of himself at the age of 7 in Odense, Denmark. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)

I suggest that you and your wife might want to “pitch” to each other in a scheduled and formalized setting (even if it is at your kitchen table), presenting your ideas, plans, and market research, followed by a frank discussion about the pros and cons of each business. She critiques your plan, you critique hers, and you both discuss – as a team.

“I feel like I’ve been able to really find my rhythm, finally able to find my role within the team and play off my teammates,” said Vučević, who matched his season high in points. “Sometimes as a big man, because you don’t have the ball as much you have to depend on others. It just took a little bit longer than I wanted to early on, but I felt like the last couple of weeks I’ve been playing much better. I just want to continue to build on that.”

Demonstrators get in a brief skirmish with police outside the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse on Feb. 3, 2022, in Chicago. Representatives of several organizations demonstrated after a letter was delivered to U.S. Attorney John Lausch asking him to file federal charges against former police Officer Jason Van Dyke, who was released from prison Wednesday after serving a sentence for the murder of Laquan McDonald in 2014. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)

“It would be a great honor to be able to do something like that,” Donovan said. “It speaks to the players and the team, it’s something we all share in because you’ve got to finish in first place in the East. It would be a great honor, but a lot of the credit when something like that happens needs to go to the players because they’re the ones out there performing and playing.”

“We are going to support and participate in the initiatives that come from the NHL, which will absolutely help our game progress, but we have also put our own programs, policies and trainings in place,” Danny Wirtz said. “For example, we have built a whole mental health department available to both players and employees, are currently in the process of launching an employee-led committee focused on aspects of culture and have implemented mechanisms to ensure any reports of noncompliance are investigated immediately.

“As an educational institution, we recognize mistakes happen to each one of us, and we make every effort, regardless of the popularity of such decisions, to embrace the opportunity to learn from such teachable moments. To embrace mistakes means we must learn not to repeat such behaviors, to demonstrate clear remorse and to be able to rebuild trust that has been lost,” the school said.

Irvin, a former local state’s attorney and defense attorney before becoming Aurora’s first Black mayor in 2017, stuck to a Republican playbook looking to paint Pritzker and Democrats as soft on crime amid violent outbreaks of gun violence, smash-and-grab retail thefts and carjackings in Illinois, something also occurring at the national level.

The Blackhawks have seen a decline in attendance this season, according to ESPN attendance records, likely in part due to COVID, though fans cite disappointing play as well. The team had been regularly averaging more than 21,000 per game between 2010 and 2018 in the wake of Stanley Cup wins in 2010, 2013 and 2015. But that average is down to about 17,900 so far this year.

The Blackhawks have seen a decline in attendance this season, according to ESPN attendance records, likely in part due to COVID, though fans cite disappointing play as well. The team had been regularly averaging more than 21,000 per game between 2010 and 2018 in the wake of Stanley Cup wins in 2010, 2013 and 2015. But that average is down to about 17,900 so far this year.