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Chicago-based Wilson Sporting Goods, better known for sports equipment, recently introduced a sportswear line and plans to open its first stores later this year. Meanwhile, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Kohl’s announced new private-label apparel brands in March: VRST, a men’s line at Dick’s Sporting Goods, and FLX, for both men and women, at Kohl’s.
Seskunas’ first design for Prism, which he sold directly from his website, launched in November and quickly sold out. The lightweight, portable fireplace was designed for small, kindling fires and made to be placed in your backyard or on a patio when you need a little extra warmth. This month, Seskunas is launching a larger version through retailer Design Within Reach that can handle a more substantial fire. “When I released it, I got a lot of questions about having larger fires and being able to use larger logs, so I spent the last six months developing a larger version,” Seskunas said. “I make this product all myself. I interact with everybody who buys it directly, so I get a lot of unique feedback from people about what they are interested in, and that’s what I integrated into the new version.”
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“I think the leadership — AK, Marc (Eversley), Pat (Connelly) — and then the coaching staff that they brought in, Billy (Donovan), has done a great job of starting to set a culture here,” Temple said. “Culture, it’s a cliché word, but it’s something that actually does happen if you want to become a good team.
A Canadian National Rail locomotive moves through the rail yard in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, on Thursday, March 29, 2018. Canadian National sweetened its offer to buy Kansas City Southern railroad Thursday, May 13, 2021, and derailed rival Canadian Pacific’s bid for the railroad that handles traffic in the United States and Mexico. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press via AP) (Andrew Vaughan/AP)
“He’s actually teaching me how to run,” Montgomery said. “I’m 23 years old, getting ready to turn 24 here soon in a couple days, and I’ve not been able to run properly the entirety of my life. Me just really not realizing how I didn’t know how to run, he’s definitely cleared that image up for me and he’s definitely helping me out a lot.”
Tammy Gibson on June 3, 2021, at the unmarked gravesite in Lincoln Cemetery of Eugene Williams, the Black teenager who drowned after a rock thrower attacked him for swimming at a white Lake Michigan beach, sparking the 1919 race riot in Chicago. Gibson is among the citizens who held a fundraiser to purchase a marker for the grave. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)
CPS graduate Arthur Wells spoke recently on a University of Chicago panel about his nontraditional college journey. “I’m not surrounded by college graduates in my family,” Wells said. “I kind of was in the dark, trying to figure it out on my own.” (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
The bow and arrows from Papua New Guinea were sent by Len Happ, a WWII fighter pilot, to his home in Park Ridge during the war while he was stationed there. His son, John Happ, is working with a museum in Papua New Guinea and the U.S. Embassy there to repatriate the artifacts. (John Happ)
“The governor ran as a reformer. He looked people in the eye and said, ‘Look, you can count on me to be different. I promise to stand up to the Democratic machine and I promise to do what’s right for the people,’” said Republican state Sen. Jason Barickman of Bloomington, who has said he’s mulling a run for governor. “The people of this state said very clearly that they want to be represented in our government. And for that, the Democrats have failed them.”