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White Sox pitching coach Ethan Katz, left, and starting pitcher Lucas Giolito Cardinals starting pitcher Jack Flaherty during the first inning May 25, 2021, at Guaranteed Rate Field. Giolito and Flaherty attended Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles; Giolito was a senior in 2012 when Flaherty was a sophomore. Their pitching coach was Ethan Katz, who is in his first season in the same role with the Sox. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
“Obviously the talent’s there, but their work ethic, they’re very close; they all want to one-up each other,” Katz said. “They might not talk about it, but we do have a competitive bullpen. One’s going to want to do better than the other. They’re very competitive. They want to be the best pitchers in baseball, each one of them. They work extremely hard to prepare to be that.”
“(When Contreras plays) you have a guy back there who has navigated through the (Pirates) lineup, seen what they’ve hit, seen the mistakes, where you want to go,” Ross said before the game. “There’s just so much feel involved, as well as the scouting report, that you miss when your starting guy is out. Not to mention on the offensive side for Willson.
One late amendment to the bill was to allow social equity applicants, meant to apply primarily to minority investors, to open a new shop within 1,500 feet of an existing shop. That change was meant to allow new businesses to compete with established stores that already locked in prime locations, such as Chicago’s River North and Wrigleyville areas. Sponsors said only one new store is allowed in a 1,500-foot radius, to prevent a cluster of such shops.
Law enforcement personnel were at a home in the 1400 block of Orchard Lane working in a rear corner of the yard by a shed Tuesday afternoon. The search is the result of a lead in the case of Linda Seymour, who was reported missing from Northbrook in December 1982, according to police.
The union has more than 150,000 Illinois members and its Local 73 represents 2,600 workers in the secretary of state’s office, more than half the office’s employees, he said. Tom Balanoff, president of SEIU Local 1, said Giannoulias “understands what critical issues are most important to the hardworking families across our state.” Full story here.
The teams finished with identical records this season, prompting a “coin flip” that didn’t go the Cavs’ way. The drawings were conducted by NBA executive vice president Kiki VanDeWeghe at the league office in Secaucus, New Jersey, and overseen by the accounting firm Ernst & Young.
“I hear from women working late hours in the hospitality industry, who can no longer afford a safe car trip home from work late at night,” he said. “Instead, they are forced to risk their personal safety using the CTA system. This wasn’t a problem before the obliteration of the taxicab industry.”
Editorial cartoonist Bill Mauldin, whose bedraggled “Willie and Joe” characters famously represented the lowly “dogface” foot soldiers of World War II, won two Pulitzer Prizes, the…
At the start of the 2019-2020 school year, 295 CPS school buildings, out of 642 total, were accessible to students and staff with mobility disabilities, according to an August 2020 report by Access Living, a disability rights advocacy group. The majority of accessible schools are high schools, Access Living found, and a significant number of CPS schools, mostly charter and option schools, are not rated for accessibility.