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Some are current and former Chicago pro athletes, such as the Bulls’ Zach LaVine, the Red Stars’ Julie Ertz and former Cubs and White Sox pitcher Edwin Jackson. Some are former Chicago-area high school stars, such as Niles West basketball player Jewell Loyd, Glenbrook South swimmer Olivia Smoliga and St. Francis volleyball player Kelsey Robinson. And others starred at Illinois universities, including former Illinois tennis player Rajeev Ram, Southern Illinois hammer thrower DeAnna Price and Loyola volleyball player Thomas Jaeschke.
Rick Klein prepares to play a vintage video tape in his home in Lisle on July 9, 2021. Klein’s YouTube channel, the Museum of Classic Chicago Television, catalogs news shows, cartoons, TV movies and commercials from the 1970s and ’80s, some of them captured on formats that stopped being made decades ago. (Vashon Jordan Jr. / Chicago Tribune)
Of the $267 million proposed for the coming school year, more than $27 million would be used to “ensure” all students are proficient readers by the end of second grade, with plans for teacher development and leadership training at 200 schools, library supplies and take-home textbook sets at 47 schools and “culturally responsive” programming for parents, grandparents and other caregivers to support literacy development for students at 75 schools. New computers, cameras, projectors and interactive displays would be added to the tune of $19 million.
The extra allotments can continue to be paid as long as the federal government has declared a public health emergency, which is likely to remain for at least the rest of the year. But the state administering the benefits must also have an emergency declaration in place, and at least six states — Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota and South Carolina — have either ended or will soon begin to pull back that extra amount, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Boston Red Sox first-base coach Tom Goodwin calms left fielder Alex Verdugo (99) after he was hit in the back by a baseball thrown by a fan during the sixth inning against the New York Yankees on Saturday, July 17, 2021, in New York. (Mary Altaffer/AP)
“Those are really tough because you feel like you see the pitch well,” Wisdom said. “I know I strike out (sometimes), but those pitches that you take, you’re like, yeah, that’s a ball, and then you go back and look and, yeah, it’s a ball, but he’s called a strike and then there’s nothing you can do. It’s not like you can talk him out of it and change it back. So it’s a tough pill to swallow.
People at the protest held up their hands to form an “L” with their fingers, which stands for libertad, or freedom, said participant Hillary Bruzon. The protests in Cuba have died down a bit since they started last week, Bruzon said, but in that time people have been incarcerated, gone missing, been tortured and been killed by the government.
“Just guys using the whole field, taking what the pitcher gives them and trying to get on base there when you’re down that many,” Cubs manager David Ross said. “Today we just weren’t very sharp. Too many free passes to be honest with you. Sometimes that could be the layoff for the bullpen guys.”
“The thing we all noticed, from the first pitch to the first hitter, he was coming at it with his best stuff, very aggressive,” Sox manager Tony La Russa said. “You could tell he had respect for that team because he was coming out there ready to pitch. He maintained it for seven. What he and (Giolito) did back-to-back is impressive, amazing, much-needed.”
Mustard and hot dogs just seem to go together — but which mustard? There are so many. The National Mustard Museum in Middleton, Wis., has 5,975 mustards in its collection — and sells more than 450 of them. But then there are a lot of dogs out there waiting to be slathered with mustard. Americans will eat 150 million hot dots on July Fourth alone, according to an estimate by the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, a Washington, D.C.-based industry group. Twelve mustards were put to a blind comparison, starting with yellow mustard, the traditional go-to for hot dogs. Then we added brown, Dijon and deli mustards because they represent popular varieties. This was a blind tasting, meaning those who took part didn’t know which mustard was which. Each taster was asked to sample and rate each mustard on its own, assessing appearance, aroma, texture and flavor. They were then asked to rate the mustards with a hot dog. We used a top-selling national brand, Oscar Mayer Classic Wieners, made with chicken, turkey and pork.