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“It tells you, one, he’s working on his game,” Mavericks coach Jason Kidd said. “And two, it just shows that sometimes we just need time. Sometimes we want it to be instant. We have instant oatmeal, we have a lot of instant meals. But unfortunately, it just takes time. I played a long time ago, but when you look at what Ball has done, he works on his game, his craft, and sometimes we want it on Day 1.

“There’s never been anything wrong with Rodón’s shoulder,” Boras said. “All that, his time, effort, was about really sequencing the innings so he could get rest. And I thought (general manager) Rick Hahn and the White Sox did a great job with tapering him and lowering his innings. We have a lot of evidence, and we talked about this, about how we’re going to keep him off the mound, so he can provide something for them in the postseason (when) he had this dramatic innings jump.

Clyde Emrich, center, tours the weight room at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale on April, 24, 2001, when the Bears were scouting potential training camp sites. Emrich, the NFL’s first full-time strength coach who held that position for the Bears from 1971-91, died Wednesday at age 90. (STEVE NAGY / Associated Press)

“While we take great pride in our workforce, I know that we have failed too many of our staff and eroded trust with the community,” Escareño said at Wednesday’s meeting. “This will not be tolerated. This moment requires action, change, reform and vision.”

Marzena Przeszlo, a staff chaplain in pastoral care services at the University of Illinois Hospital leads daily music and prayer for healthcare workers and patients at the hospital. After years comforting patients, like many chaplains, she has found herself increasingly supporting exhausted and struggling staff during the pandemic, from dispensing communion to, on a recent weekday morning, strumming a rendition of Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling in Love” as nurses sang along and her Toms shoes tapped the hospital floor.

“We’re going to have experienced starters in Lucas (Giolito) and Lance (Lynn), Dallas (Keuchel) and (Dylan) Cease, guys who have already had full years under their belts,” Sox general manager Rick Hahn said Tuesday at the GM Meetings at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa. “So we’re not going to be looking at (Kopech) as coming in and giving us 200 (innings) next year. We’re going to try to get him as consistently strong as possible throughout the entire season, because he was a little stronger in the first half (of 2021) than the second.

Another 5,044 new confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases were reported by state health officials Wednesday, the most in a single day since Sept. 10. Over the past week, the state has averaged 3,122 cases per day, a 41% increase from the previous week and the highest level since late September, when the late-summer surge driven by the highly contagious delta variant was subsiding.

Agin and other residents have rushed through the moving process — finding movers, locating new apartments — in five days. The seven-story building, at 930 North Boulevard in the west suburb, was in the process of being renovated into apartments with higher rent. Agin was planning to leave when his lease was up in June, but not like this.

In its response to Griffin’s comments, Pritzker’s camp, as it did following the Economic Club event last month, referred to Griffin’s support of Rauner, whose unsuccessful anti-union agenda clashed with Democratic lawmakers, leading to a record-setting two-year budget standoff that helped decimate social services including funding for violence prevention.

Members of Fraternal Order of Police and supporters rally outside of City Hall Oct 25. After a judge’s ruling that the city must arbitrate the vaccine deadline for city workers with the FOP, nearly two dozen other unions have now filed their own legal challenge. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)