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“If he gets us to the American League championship, I’ll admit I was wrong,” Bridgeport native Jay Gonzalez said before Game 1, which the Sox lost 6-1. “But they made it this far last year, too, so how much credit does he deserve for the team’s performance? Prove me wrong, Tony, and I’ll take it back.”
“If he gets us to the American League championship, I’ll admit I was wrong,” Bridgeport native Jay Gonzalez said before Game 1, which the Sox lost 6-1. “But they made it this far last year, too, so how much credit does he deserve for the team’s performance? Prove me wrong, Tony, and I’ll take it back.”
After Morton (0-1) hit Avisaíl García with a 1-2 pitch to start the inning, Tellez ripped another 1-2 offering from Morton over the center-field wall to break a scoreless tie. The hefty, bearded slugger had gone 1-for-13 against the Braves this season until delivering that 411-foot drive.
Chicago was in the midst of a commercial real estate boom when Pritzker signed a bill in April 2019 authorizing the sale, but then came the coronavirus pandemic, which sharply drove down demand for downtown commercial space. The vacancy rate in the central business district now is at a record 19%, according CoStar Group, a real estate data firm.
Balloons, flowers and candles are left in the 6200 block of West Grand Avenue where Serenity Broughton, 7, was fatally shot and her little sister, Aubrey, 6, was wounded as they sat in a vehicle by their maternal grandmother’s house in the Belmont Central neighborhood of Chicago, Aug. 16, 2021. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)
Rick Larsen, left, his wife, Carol Villa, and son Max with cardboard cutouts of Larsen and his best friend Mike Koncel on Oct. 7, 2021, in Western Springs. The cutouts were placed in the stands at Guaranteed Rate Field during fanless games. Larsen is a lifelong White Sox fan who has been going to Sox opening day games for 50 years. He wrote a remembrance of best friend Koncel, who went to every game with him before dying of cancer at age 40. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)
Rick Larsen, left, his wife, Carol Villa, and son Max with cardboard cutouts of Larsen and his best friend Mike Koncel on Oct. 7, 2021, in Western Springs. The cutouts were placed in the stands at Guaranteed Rate Field during fanless games. Larsen is a lifelong White Sox fan who has been going to Sox opening day games for 50 years. He wrote a remembrance of best friend Koncel, who went to every game with him before dying of cancer at age 40. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)
“Over the past few months, at the commissioner’s direction,” he added of Roger Goodell, “senior NFL executives reviewed the content of more than 650,000 emails, including this email which was sent to a club employee. Earlier this week, the executives presented a summary of that review to the commissioner and are sharing with Raiders executives emails pertaining to coach Gruden.”
Harley Johnson, associate dean of research at Grainger College of Engineering, holds a tray of empty sample containers inside a mobile unit where up to 10,000 saliva samples per day will be processed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Urbana on Dec. 9, 2020. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
Several unions, including the Fraternal Order of Police and the Chicago Federation of Labor, have been opposed to a vaccination mandate and are likely to resist discipline. Whether the city will attempt to carry out discipline against workers who aren’t vaccinated on Jan. 1 or find some other compromise is unclear.