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Vince Patton, a new Tesla owner, demonstrates on Dec. 8, 2021, on a closed course in Portland, Ore., how he can play video games on the vehicle’s console while driving. Under pressure from U.S. auto safety regulators, Tesla has agreed to stop allowing video games to be played on center touch screens while its vehicles are moving. (Gillian Flaccus/AP)
“On the offensive line, we can get aggressive and do it the clean way,” Ifedi said. “In that moment, in any moment down 14 (points) and you’re trying to move the ball, (it hurts). We hadn’t been finishing drives at that point. Now you get behind the sticks and there are no plays in the playbook that can account for second-and-22. … I love the aggression. I love the passion he plays with. And I love the kid. But in the future, we don’t want to get those penalties.
F.T. Wetzel, 82, of 3641 N. Kedvale Ave., rides down a street in Chicago in his prized possession, a horse and sleigh more than 20 years old in February 1939. Cars had taken over the road from the days when horses and sleighs ruled the winter streets. Editor’s note: This historical print has some hand-painting on it. (Chicago Herald and Examiner)
Lightford, the Democratic senate majority leader and the second highest-ranking senator in the General Assembly, was in a vehicle with her husband, Eric McKennie, when they were carjacked at about 9:45 p.m. Tuesday. The couple was in the near west suburb to drop off a friend, police have said.
A sign is seen in the Begyle taproom in Chicago on Dec. 21, 2021. During a surge in COVID-19 cases, the Begyle taproom is temporarily closed until all staffers can be tested for the virus. Begyle is still selling orders to go. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
Built by homebuilder BGD&C in 2012, the mansion has seven bathrooms, two fireplaces, oversized windows, French doors, a walnut-paneled study, a butler’s pantry, a kitchen with a breakfast bar that seats five, and a primary bedroom suite with a his-and-hers walk-in closet area and a bathroom that features Calacatta marble. On the lower level are a guest suite, a recreation room, a fitness studio, a gift wrap room and an office.
FILE – A hiring sign is shown at a booth for Jameson’s Irish Pub during a job fair on Sept. 22, 2021, in the West Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Hiring in California slowed significantly in November 2021 even as the state’s unemployment rate dipped below 7% for the first time since March 2020, at the start of the pandemic, according to data made public Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File) (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)
Lisa Leon, a patient service coordinator, draws up a syringe full of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at the Esperanza Health Centers vaccination clinic on Tuesday, December 21, 2021 in Chicago. Today the vaccination clinic will give out nearly 450 vaccines. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)
Skokie, Evanston, Oak Park and Stickney Township are exempt from the order because they have their own health departments, but Skokie officials announced later Thursday that they will follow suit on Jan. 10, while Evanston, Oak Park and Stickney Township were still mulling the decision.
“There’s a certain type of lumber you have to use for an exterior project, and if you aren’t using rot-resistant lumber, the right nails, the right bolts, it will cost you more,” said Scott Savel, an Elgin carpenter who specializes in restoring vintage porches. “When you’re talking about anything that’s structural, you really need to assess your confidence.”