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Under City Council rules, any three aldermen can call a special meeting to discuss ordinance proposals or other issues. Southwest Side Ald. Silvana Tabares, 23rd, has been leading an effort to repeal Lightfoot’s vaccine mandate and give the City Council a vote on vaccination rules and consequences for breaking them. She signed the letter calling for the special meeting, along with mostly Northwest and Southwest Side aldermen whose wards include many city workers.

However, Jenner & Block’s report placed Quenneville, Bowman and Cheveldayoff at a May 23, 2010, meeting of senior managers — including then-President John McDonough, Al MacIsaac (removed Tuesday from his role as senior vice president of hockey operations), then-executive vice president Jay Blunk and mental skills coach James F. Gary — to discuss how to handle the allegation against Aldrich.

Thompson, 51, the 11th Ward alderman since 2015, was charged in April in a seven-count indictment with filing false tax returns and lying to Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. officials about $219,000 in loans and other payments he’d received from Washington Federal Bank for Savings before it was shuttered in 2017.

“This is what he wanted me to do, so if I would have stayed home longer, I would have been going against his wishes,” Giambrone said, “in the sense of, every day when things were still rolling, he kept telling me, ‘Just go back. I’ll be all right.’ And I’m like, ‘Dad, this is a tough situation.’ But that just shows how strong he was and how much he supported me.

You’re taking too much time to get to the point, and that is the Bears are 30th in the NFL in scoring. They have 101 points through seven games, matching where they were at the same point in 2000 and 1997. To find lower scoring outputs for the Bears through seven games, you have to go back to a different era of the NFL: 1980, 1970, 1974, 1979, 1966, 1982, 1967, 1969 and 1975. Nagy is in charge of developing Fields only for now. It’s becoming increasingly evident the team probably will reach a crossroads at the end of this season. There is a lot of football left to play — 10 games — but there aren’t any indications the Bears can dig out of this hole on offense. The line is struggling, particularly in pass blocking, and the skill-position players aren’t helping as much as they can. It’s a mess. But don’t lose sight of the target. This is about the lack of offensive production.