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If a deal was going to happen, the Bears were going to be the ones to do it, and by the beginning of March acquiring Wilson was the team’s top priority, according to multiple sources. It advanced to the point the teams met in Fargo, N.D., for Trey Lance’s pro day and kicked around possibilities. Exactly what the Bears offered for Wilson remains unknown, but suffice to say it was a package that included three first-round picks plus more.

“If you’re going to be an effective activist, organizer, spokesperson, leader, there’s a sequence of events you need to engage,” Sive said. “Imagine, what can I imagine I can create? Create, what does this look like? And organize, how am I going to get this done? Then it was: What’s the sequence of steps within each of those three, bearing in mind my own experience as an organizer, other women I’ve worked with? And what are the lessons of the past, and the lessons of the last few years?”

Alejandra Diaz helps resident Jean Pischke with her iPad at Elmhurst Extended Care Center, Dec. 22, 2021, in Elmhurst. Some nursing homes still have low COVID-19 vaccination rates for employees but this facility has all its staff members and all but one resident vaccinated, thanks in part to building relationships between staff and residents. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)

Foles, a 10th-year NFL veteran, hasn’t played in a regular-season game in 2021. He played in nine games with seven starts in 2020, his first season in Chicago after the Bears traded a fourth-round draft pick to the Jacksonville Jaguars to acquire him. He threw for 1,852 yards, 10 touchdowns and eight interceptions last season as the Bears moved back and forth between starting him and Mitch Trubisky.

“I asked that exact question two days ago to our medical people,” Donovan said Sunday before a game against the Los Angeles Lakers. “We’re around these guys. We’re all together. We’re in locker rooms, on planes. We’re in buses, we’re in huddles. And the response I got was, ‘Count yourself lucky.’ So I don’t think there’s anything as much as we’ve been very fortunate.”

“I asked that exact question two days ago to our medical people,” Donovan said Sunday before a game against the Los Angeles Lakers. “We’re around these guys. We’re all together. We’re in locker rooms, on planes. We’re in buses, we’re in huddles. And the response I got was, ‘Count yourself lucky.’ So I don’t think there’s anything as much as we’ve been very fortunate.”