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With nursing homesnow on the front lines tocontain the coronaviruspandemic, federal inspec-tion records show Illinois’facilities have been amongthe worst in the nation foran important measure ofpatient protection: follow-ing rules to contain infec-tions.

An analysis by the Trib-une raises new concernsabout how well the homescan protect more than80,000 residents undertheir care. While the indus-try has stressed its beefed-

up response to screen forand contain any spread,advocates for residentsworry about an industrythat has sometimes strug-gled to properly care forresidents — even before theemergence of a pandemicthat particularly endangersolder, more frail residents.

“This is an extraordi-nary circumstance,” saidAARP Illinois StateDirector Bob Gallo. “Andjudging by the track recordwe’ve seen before, compli-ance needs to be ensured.”

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Expert recommenda-tions and previously vol-untary precautions hard-ened into law at 5 p.m.Saturday as Gov. J.B.Pritzker’s stay-at-home or-der took effect.

The directive, aimed atslowing the barreling mo-mentum of the co-ronavirus pandemic, barsgatherings of more than 10people. It closes play-grounds to children, just asspring arrives. With theexception of a broad arrayof workplaces deemed es-sential, it closes businessesand other institutions untilat least April 7.

As some Illinoisansspent a cold, gloomy Sat-urday stocking up on es-

sentials, Pritzker held anews conference at theThompson Center indowntown Chicago thatunderscored the reasonsfor his action. The state’stop physician, Dr. NgoziEzike, announced 168 newcases of COVID-19, andone more death. Thatbrought the state’s tally to753 known cases and sixdeaths.

“Stay home,” she said.“Yes, that means sacri-ficing getting together tocelebrate what should besome festive milestones.Let’s all stay home so thatwe can all celebrate downthe road.”

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Illinois hunkers down

President DonaldTrump touted the“tremendous response” tothe coronavirus crisis Sat-urday even as the nationaldeath toll continued toincrease and reportsclaimed he ignored earlyintelligence warningsabout the pandemic.

“We’ve had a tremen-dous response in the fed-eral government,” he saidfrom the White Housebriefing room. “We’reworking very hard.”

More than 26,000 caseshave been confirmed in theUnited States, including325 deaths, according to arunning tally Saturday byJohns Hopkins University.Fewer than 180 peoplehave recovered.

U.S. intelligence report-edly warned the presidentin January and Februarythat the pandemic wouldspread to the U.S., accord-ing to The WashingtonPost, but Trump repeat-edly downplayed the dan-ger.

Trump said lawmakerswere close to enacting amassive bipartisan co-ronavirus economic stimu-lus package. He praisedboth Republicans andDemocrats and lauded aspirit of “solidarity” in thecrisis-hit nation.

He also announced newmeasures, including sus-pending federal studentloan payments, a moratori-um on evictions and fore-closures and skippingstandardized testing for

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the people of this state were exposedto serve the personal ambitions of thepolitical elites. And it’s that kind ofelitist attitude, that erodes confidencein government when we need it most.

Standing next to him Friday wasChicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, wholooked absolutely exhausted. Shethrew a few unnecessary and ostenta-tiously gratuitous shots at the WhiteHouse just when she needs WhiteHouse support to help her city. Butthere was some poetry in her.

“This is not a lockdown or martiallaw,” Lightfoot said. “This is not atime for every man for himself. This isa time for every man, woman andchild to be united together.”

America was united after the Sept.11, 2001, terrorist attacks. We were sounited that we didn’t see the nationalsecurity state descending upon us, thecameras, the spymasters listening toour phone calls. Americans were sorattled they’d say ridiculous, stupidthings like, “Let the government lis-ten. What do I have to hide?”

And it was then that the Constitu-tion moaned in pain. But thoseAmericans welcoming government tosearch their cellphones without war-rants were oblivious.

The conservative in me instinctivelyrebels at government using a crisis toincrease its reach. What makes this oneworse is seeing the political operativesand their mouthpieces stoking andplaying a dangerous game with theirsharp toys of fear and tribal loathing, inorder to leverage power.

But the realist in me understandsthat Pritzker’s stay-at-home order isexactly what government is for.

Because if government is for any-thing, it’s about enforcing our borders.And protecting its citizens from apandemic like this, or at least attempt-ing to mitigate the absolute socialchaos that could follow as resourcesbecome scarce. One day, we’re fight-ing over toilet paper. How viciouslywill we fight over ventilators and

hospital beds?Those who can hold two opposing

views their heads at the same timeunderstand this. Government usescrisis and fear as a means to extendpower. It’s natural progression. It’smore about bureaucratic efficiency,than about some spy fantasy involvingclassically educated overlords sittingat a great mahogany conference table,one with a cat, laughing mercilessly.

That comes later, as James Clapper,the Obama administration’s directorof national intelligence proved in2013. He lied to Congress when askedby Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden ofOregon if the NSA was collecting “anytype of data at all” on millions ofAmericans. “No sir,” Clapper said. Healso said, “Not wittingly.”

Clapper was not punished. Clapperwas a made man. And now othermade men and women, United Statessenators, have been revealed to havedumped stock worth millions afterprivate briefings over the virus, andbefore the market tanked.

Among them is Sen. Richard Burr,the Republican of North Carolina andchairman of the Senate IntelligenceCommittee, considered to be theSenate’s expert on pandemics. Heshould be fully investigated, and iffound guilty of insider trading, heshould be sentenced to prison.

We each have our responsibility inthis war against the virus. We stayinside. And government has its job. Topreserve order.

But the last thing the republicneeds right now are pigs who mightfeel like proclaiming that all animalsare equal, but some animals are moreequal than others.

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So how much liberty do we want to give up?

When Gov. J.B. Pritzker announcedhis statewide stay-at-home orderFriday to help fight the coronavirus, Ifaced a conflict of interest:

I love that old American mottofrom our War of Independence fromEngland: Live free or die.

But here’s the conflict. When itcomes to the coronavirus, I’d rathernot die. In fact, I wouldn’t mind if Iwere able to remain very much alive.

I don’t like any government order-ing me to stay in my home, especiallyorders from the lips of this governor.

Pritzker clearly knew of the dan-gers of crowds spreading the infec-tion. He warned about the spread of itin bars and restaurants and sportingevents. So, he shut them down.

Yet he also stubbornly insisted thepolls be open last week for the Illinoisprimary, with thousands of voters andpoll workers put in close contact, andquite possibly contracting and spread-ing the illness.

But I’m also a late onset Type 1diabetic — a member of“immunocompromised community“at risk of the coronavirus. Othershave it worse, they have heart disease,they’re fighting cancer, or they haveother illnesses. But diabetes is on thelist, so if I catch it, well, let’s just sayI’d rather not.

And so, I’ve hunkered down, likemany of you. I told a concerned col-league that I was OK. I told him I’vegot beans and whiskey and we’regood.

I did think Pritzker did a fine job onFriday in announcing his order. Thegovernor was compassionate andreasonable. He said: “I am choosingbetween saving people’s lives andsaving people’s livelihoods. But ulti-mately you can’t have a livelihood ifyou don’t have your life.”

Such logic is impeccable. I onlywish he’d employed it to postpone theprimary elections of last Tuesday. Mywife tells me to let it go and “moveon.” But I can’t. It’s quite likely that

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It’s OK to be scared.It’s OK to be confused, anxious,

angry, lonely.Whatever emotion you’re feeling in

this coronavirus craziness, it’s OK.Try not to dwell in the worst of it, trynot to feed it, try not to take it out onother people. But don’t feel guilty forfeeling what you feel.

That’s some of the best advice I’veheard for this surreal moment inwhich a tiny virus has shut down theworld, a moment that arrived sogradually, it seems, and yet like anexplosion.

Think back to only a week ago.What were you doing?

I’m writing this on Friday, March20. Last Friday I went out to dinner. Idid it ambivalently but the friend I’dplanned to go with said we should goto support the waiters and so wewent.

By Saturday I’d put myself onhouse arrest except to go out forsolitary walks (keeping 6 feet awayfrom other humans) and I’ve taken tocalling that Friday dinner “The LastSupper.”

We look back now to a week ago asif it belongs to an ancient past, backwhen human beings went freely tothe gym, the bar, the sports arena.

A week ago we kept calendars.How pointless those calendars seemnow. The upcoming dinner date,doctor’s appointment, concert?They’re dreams that vanished likeclouds.

Now the future is erased. Theplanned future, at any rate. The future

is still out there but it’s as inscrutableas our calendars are blank. It’s theuncertainty, above all, that rattles us.

What next? What now? We wait.And while we wait, we search for

ways to stay safe and sane, for newroutines to serve as solid ground inthis shifting time. To help myself inthat regard, I’ve invented what I callthe “OK-Better” game. It allows youto feel what you feel while trying tofeel something better. It goes like this:

It’s OK that you feel claustropho-bic.

It’s better to remember, as myyoungest sister — who lives alone,with mental struggles and diabetes —said to me last week, “At least I have ahome.”

It’s OK that you forgot to showertoday. And yesterday. Two days?Really?

No shame. But it’s better to take ashower.

It’s OK to be eating weird stuffbecause when you got to the grocerystore, the only stuff left in the frozenfood aisles was okra and riced cauli-flower, and the only canned soup lefton the shelf was some gross currything that you bought anyway.

Rather than curse the shopperswho grabbed the items you prefer, it’sbetter to imagine you’re enjoyingculinary adventures in a foreign coun-try.

It’s OK to feel a pinch of alarm atthat vague sore throat.

It’s better not to assume you’redying the minute your throat feelsticklish.

It’s OK if you wake up in the mid-dle of the night worrying for thepeople you love and depend on. Iwoke up the other night afraid for mysisters; for a couple of my brotherswho are suddenly short on work; formy friends who are yoga teachers,musicians, waitresses, who now haveno work; for the doctors, nurses,

grocery clerks, cops, everyone whokeeps on working, at risk to them-selves, because we need them.

That fear is reasonable, but it feelsbetter to look for a way to help. Checkon a neighbor. Call a friend who maybe lonely. Send a check to a charitableorganization. Buy a gift card to a localbusiness. If you ordinarily pay ahousekeeper, a gardener, a dogwalker, keep paying them.

It’s OK to spend more time thannormal watching Netflix.

It’s better to get off the couch occa-sionally to take a walk, play an instru-ment, wipe down those doorknobsagain.

It’s OK to lack the focus to read abook.

But you’ll feel better if you order abook from an independent bookstore.One day you’ll want to read some-thing besides grim news again.

It’s OK to read the grim news.It’s better to read less of it.It’s OK to think of what you’re

losing during this hard time, what weall are, in different forms and mea-sures and with different capacities tocope.

You’ll feel better thinking of howmuch you still have. And of howmuch we’re learning. About diseaseand government. About our relianceon people we take for granted. Abouthow to wash our hands. And how towork on Zoom.

It’s OK to acknowledge that thiscrisis we’re living through is likely toget worse before it gets better.

But it will get better.In the meantime, I keep hearing

the words of the Tibetan Buddhistnun Pema Chodron, who begins herbook “When Things Fall Apart” withone of the most insightful sentencesever written: “This very moment isthe perfect teacher.”

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Donald Trump,our greatest presi-dent ever, is mak-ing arrangementsto combat theeconomic impactof the coronaviruspandemic by cut-ting a check toeach and every

citizen of the America he has made greatagain.

While it’s not clear how much thechecks will be for, rest assured they willbe perfect and fantastic and the bestchecks ever given out to the Americanpeople during a pandemic that is rapidlygetting worse but not because PresidentTrump did anything wrong.

The Treasury Department is propos-ing two waves of checks totaling $500billion. The first checks would startgoing out April 6 and the second setwould go out sometime in May.

I’ll leave the details to the Trumpadministration, which has clearly shownits expertise at handling everything thatcomes its way. But I will make one sug-gestion I hope President Trump willconsider.

In this time of great national unity, it’simportant for everyone to realize thatmany Americans are total jerks andlosers, mainly the liberals and Dem-oslimes who refuse to acknowledgewhat a perfect job Trump has donehandling the coronavirus.

In order to protect the president’sfeelings and reputation — which we allknow is the primary mission of thefederal government — I believe everyAmerican who receives a coronavirusstimulus check should have to sign anondisclosure agreement. It would bestraightforward and totally reasonableand would look something like this:

I, (write your name here, especially ifyou’re a stupid lib or you work for FakeNews CNN), accept this extremelygenerous and perfect coronavirus stimu-lus check and swear, under penalty ofbeing locked up like Crooked Hillaryshould be, that I will abide by the follow-ing rules.

1) I will always say President DonaldTrump has done an amazing job han-dling the coronavirus pandemic, prob-ably the most amazing job ever.

2) I will always praise Trump’s deci-sion to restrict travel from China inJanuary and call it brilliant and say itsaved many lives. And I will not bring upthe fact that the three major airlineswith service to China — American Air-lines, Delta and United — had alreadyhalted service to China, rendering thepresident’s travel restriction moot.

3) I will never make reference to thetimes in January when Trump said ofthe coronavirus: “It’s going to be justfine. We have it totally under control”;“It will all work out well”; and “We thinkwe have it very well under control.”

4) I will permanently forget the presi-dent’s Feb. 24 statement, “The Co-ronavirus is very much under control inthe USA.” I will also pretend his Feb. 26comment — “Because of all we’ve done,the risk to the American people remainsvery low” — was never made.

5) I will not, under any circumstances,suggest it was hypocritical for PresidentTrump to say on March 15 that the “verycontagious virus” is “something that wehave tremendous control over” andthen, the next day, say, “If you’re talkingabout the virus, no, that’s not undercontrol for any place in the world.”

6) I will repeat, with great frequency,President Trump’s 100% truthful state-ment of March 17: “I’ve felt that it was apandemic long before it was called apandemic.”

7) I will embrace the president’slabeling of the novel coronavirus thatcauses the disease known as COVID-19as “the Chinese virus” and will neversuggest the president is trying to use aracist label deemed unacceptable by theglobal scientific community to paperover his bungled response to a globalpandemic.

8) I will respond to anyone who sayssuch labeling is racist by calling thatperson a racist without providing anyfacts or logic to support that argument.

9) I will point out that people used theterm “Spanish Flu” and nobody thoughtit was racist, and I will refuse to ac-knowledge the fact that the Spanish Fludidn’t originate in Spain and the labelwas, in fact, highly xenophobic.

10) I will always remember and recitethis incredibly perfect 2018 quote fromPresident Trump: “What you’re seeingand what you’re reading is not what’shappening.” And I will never compare itto this incredibly irrelevant “1984” quotefrom George Orwell: “The party told youto reject the evidence of your eyes andears. It was their final, most essentialcommand.”

All folks have to do is sign the NDAand enjoy their absolutely perfect mon-ey. Fair’s fair.

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Last week, the Archdiocese of Chicagomade the unprecedented decision to sus-pend all religious services in response to theescalating coronavirus outbreak.

“This was not a decision made I madelightly,” Cardinal Blase Cupich said. “TheEucharist is the source and summit of ourlife as Catholics.”

As the government and health officialstry to manage the pandemic, the financialramifications are far-reaching for one of thenation’s largest religious institutions.

No ushers with collection baskets mov-ing up the aisles during Sunday Mass haseliminated one of the archdiocese’s largestrevenue streams, which could threaten thefinancial security of parishes across thearchdiocese.

“There’s no doubt about the financial riskwhen most of the revenue goes away — it’svery significant,” said Betsy Bohlen, thearchdiocese’s chief operating officer.

The mounting financial pressure comesat a time when the archdiocese is under-taking a sweeping reorganization of thechurch in response to fewer Catholics in thepews and fewer priests to minister to them.In recent years, dozens of Catholic schoolshave been shuttered, and a growing numberof parishes have merged. And just becauseMass services were canceled, churches andthe archdiocese still have operating costs.

Although 70% of parishes have someform of online giving, only 10% of totalcollections is donated electronically, churchofficials said.

So with Mass suspended and moved to

online streaming services, including duringHoly Week and Easter, when many Catho-lics who rarely attend Mass come back tochurch, the archdiocese and parishes areworking to communicate the importance ofdonating even if people can’t physicallyattend Mass.

“The first thing we’re working on istrying to stabilize revenue and our contrib-utions through some online and other(electronic) giving efforts,” Bohlen said.

The archdiocese Friday set up an emer-gency fund to help people affected by thecoronavirus and set up a program thatallows people to make an electronic dona-tion to their respective parish.

The Rev. Lou Tylka, pastor of St. JulieBilliart in Tinley Park, said about 20% of theparish’s donations come in electronically.“But that’s not enough to sustain us for thelong haul,” he said.

On March 8, before Cupich announcedthe suspension of all religious services, St.Julie Billiart collected $11,895 at SundayMass. The next week, with its church doorsclosed, the parish collected $2,479, accord-ing to the parish bulletin.

The scenario played out at many parishesacross the archdiocese, jeopardizing thelong-term future of parishes.

“It is a huge hit for us because, like manyfamilies who live paycheck-to-paycheck is asense, a lot of churches live collection-to-collection,” Tylka said.

The Rev. Robert Fedek, pastor at Immac-ulate Conception Parish, 7211 W. TalcottAve., in the Norwood Park West neighbor-hood, shared Watts’ concerns. Althoughpeople can drop off cash donations or mailchecks, parishes such as Immaculate Con-ception are trying to get any parishionerswho can to donate online. With only 25% ofthe church donating electronically, Fedek

said the parish has made a push toencourage electronic donations.

“It will have an impact on our ministry inthe weeks and months to come,” Fedek saidabout the sharp decline in donations.

“Hopefully, the generosity of our parish-ioners will be great, and we’ll be able to payour bills and continue our mission duringthis challenging period.”

Saints Joseph and Francis Xavier inWilmette has successfully increased itsmembers’ electronic giving. Today, roughly65% of the parish’s weekly donations comefrom electronic giving, the Rev. WayneWatts said.

Although the majority of the church’sdonations are received electronically, theparish still lost roughly $10,000 with noin-person Sunday Mass, Watts said.

But after notifying parishioners of thefinancial loss, Watts said two peoplereached out to him to cover what thechurch had lost in donations.

“I’ve been really blown away by people’sfaith and by their willingness to help in themidst of this dark time,” Watts said.

The archdiocese is cognizant of thefinancial threat some parishes face aschurch doors remain closed.

“We are thinking very hard about thatfact and that our parishes may run out theability to pay for bills,” Bohlen said.

With more than 300 parishes, thearchdiocese can’t afford to financially bailout every church that may need help,Bohlen said. But as part of its efforts to easethe pain for Chicago-area residents, parish-ioners and churches hit by the coronavirus,the archdiocese Friday announced a specialfund dedicated to those affected by co-ronavirus and its repercussions.

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Michael May records the Rev. Ramil Fajardo celebrating Mass on Friday at St. James Chapel. The services can be viewed online.

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Catholic churches fight dropin collections as doors closeFund for parishes, those inneed created by archdiocese

By Javonte Anderson

For Bell Elementary’s upcoming produc-tion of “James and the Giant Peach,” LisaMauch Miranda’s seventh grade daughterwas supposed to play the mysterious oldman who gives James the magic seeds.

At Lane Tech College Prep, editor-in-chief Maggie Nielsen was looking forwardto handing out April Fools’ Day copies of theschool’s newspaper, The Warrior.

All over Chicago, students are dealingwith canceled college admissions examsand high-stakes tests, halted sports seasonsand uncertainty about future milestonessuch as graduation ceremonies and prom.Schools statewide are now out through atleast April 7, according to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’sFriday “stay at home” order, but ChicagoPublic Schools will remain closed untilApril 21 at the earliest — extending evenlonger the complete disruption of daily life.

“It’s not just school that’s been canceled,it’s all of their routines,” Miranda said.Though the play the first week of Mayhasn’t been officially canceled yet, she said,“Even if we do go back on April 21 … I’massuming if they can’t rehearse, they can’tperform.”

Miranda’s two grade school children takeice-skating and dance lessons that have alsostopped amid the widespread efforts tocontain the coronavirus. A stay-at-homeorder issued Friday means that will be thecase for the foreseeable future, just like theJoffrey Ballet and Chicago Youth Sym-phony Orchestra programs beloved byKeith Powell’s twin teenagers.

Both twins, sophomores at Walter Pay-ton College Prep, turn to their creativeoutlets during times of trouble, but that’s

not as feasible now for Ally, who lovesballet, as for Koen, who loves the violin,Powell said.

“My son is playing violin downstairs,11:30 at night until 1 o’clock in the morning,”Powell said. “I don’t think he’d ever admit tobeing stressed out because of this, but theamount of practice has gone up so my guessis, yes.”

Ally, who’s used to dancing in a studio sixdays a week, is limited to the few warm-upexercises she can do at home. The twins’cousins play baseball at suburban schools,and have had their seasons upended, Powellsaid. Plus in baseball, he said, “you need theteam to play.”

At the helm of The Warrior, Nielsen, 18, isfiguring out how teamwork can still happenwith her staff of nearly 40 editors, reportersand contributors.

Their last print issue came out onValentine’s Day, and the next is traditionallythe April 1 issue. The annual satire edition“brings the community together,” Nielsensaid. “I was bummed we weren’t going to beable to do that in print, so I decided we weregoing to do it on our website, and post morecontent ongoing.”

The paper’s online coverage of thecoronavirus includes an editorial publishedWednesday: “Confused about Lane’sCOVID-19 closure grading policy? So arewe.”

She also wants to welcome students backto campus with a print issue — if she getsthe chance. “I’m feeling a little upset that apart of my senior year has been taken away,but I understand it’s for the good of thecommunity. It’s for the good of the world,”Nielsen said. “… It’s been a really rough yearfor the class of 2020, and it would be really

upsetting if we weren’t able to have ourprom or graduation, but I don’t want todwell on that because there’s so muchuncertainty.”

In a letter Friday to families and staff,CPS CEO Janice Jackson said officials “alsorecognize that there remain many issues toresolve such as grade promotions, admis-sions to selective schools, and high schoolgraduation. The district is working throughthese issues now and we are committed toupdating families as soon as possible.”

Though Nielsen already knows whereshe’s going in the fall — McGill University inMontreal to study international relations —she’s still supposed to take an AP psycholo-gy test in May, when the exams are typicallytaken in schools.

The College Board on Friday announcedit will offer AP exams online, so studentscan take them on computers or phones.

Other exams affected by the coronavirushave included the SAT, ACT and NWEAassessments.

For seventh graders planning to apply forselective enrollment high schools, theNWEA growth assessments are a big deal.

“That’s like a third of the basis for theselective process,” Powell said.

Miranda’s daughter has her hopes set onattending Payton College Prep. .

“There are so many things to worry aboutright now, it’s not like this doesn’t register,but at the same time I’m willing to take abreather and see how a lot of other thingsdevelop,” Miranda said. “I’m sure they havea lot of parents, administrators, teachersconcerned about it and they’ll get to it whenthey do.”

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Illinois’ hospital adminis-trators are recommendingthat Gov. J.B. Pritzker con-sider reopening at leastthree recently shutteredhospitals to ease the strainon Illinois’ medical systemas the number of COVID-19cases mounts.

Westlake Hospital inwest suburban MelrosePark, MetroSouth MedicalCenter in Blue Island andVibra Hospital in Spring-field all closed within thelast two years and are themost obvious choices toreopen, a spokesman for theIllinois Health and Hospi-tals Association said. Theorganization is urging thestate to look into using thefacilities to help relieve theburdens on the state’s hos-pital system.

Whether expanded fa-cilities come from reopenedhospitals, converted vacantspace or temporary con-struction carried out by theNational Guard, the newfacilities would take weeksto outfit for use, said IHAspokesman Danny Chun.

IHA recommended twoother facilities for consider-ation: St. James Hospital inChicago Heights, whichclosed in September 2018,and Sacred Heart in Chi-cago, which closed in 2013.

“It’s not going to beinstantaneous. You still haveto get equipment there, andthat takes time,” Chun said.

Illinois Department ofPublic Health DirectorNgozi Ezike said state offi-cials are looking into multi-ple possibilities, includingfour facilities no longer inbusiness. Health depart-ment officials declined toname the four.

“Hospital capacity is an-other area we are focusingon — identifying resourcesand ways to increase our

bed capacity in Illinois totreat those who contract thenovel coronavirus,” she saidFriday at Pritzker’s dailybriefing on the coronaviruspandemic. “The state hasbeen working with otherjurisdictions and businessesto reopen recently (closed)hospitals. We are currentlydoing assessments at differ-ent hospitals in Illinois todetermine the condition ofthe facility, the medical re-sources available, staffinglevels and what else mightbe needed to reopen thesefacilities in order to providemedical care for individualswith COVID-19.”

Area hospitals have beencautious about commentingon any plans to expand,mostly saying that for now

they are focused on work-ing with the resources theyhave.

At Stroger Hospital inChicago, which handles thestate’s largest number ofuninsured and underin-sured patients, officials saidthere are no immediateplans to build additionalcapacity but they are takingsteps to free up beds.

Hospital officials are dis-charging as many patients“as practical” and cancelingelective surgeries and pro-cedures. And they are work-ing to handle as many pa-tients as possible on thetelephone, said Caryn Stan-cik, spokeswoman for theCook County Health andHospitals System.

“This protects both ourpatients and staff from un-intentional exposure andhopefully preserves staffhealth, which is importantas we do not know how longthis will last,” she said.

Part of the caution infocusing too much publicattention on building outnew space, public healthexperts have said, is that themost crucial task remainsslowing the spread of thedisease through social dis-tancing. To that end, medi-cal facilities are also tryingto enhance their ability totreat people without seeingthem face to face. Numer-

ous health care providersare pushing regular patientstoward “telehealth” consul-tations for the time being.

Telehealth is being usedfor some intake assess-ments for possibleCOVID-19 cases as well,Ezike said.

“We have worked withour federal partners to de-velop guidance for hospi-tals, to adopt telehealth pro-tocols, so that individualswith mild respiratorysymptoms can talk to ahealth care provider beforeseeking medical care andpossibly infecting others inthe process,” Ezike said.“We ask again that everyonedo our part so that we canpreserve both testing capac-ity and medical care avail-ability, including ICU capa-bility for those who need itthe most.

“If you are a healthyindividual with only minorsymptoms, please stayhome and allow those whoare at highest risk of severeillness to receive the testingand the medical care thatthey need.”

Whether shuttered fa-cilities could be returned touse in time to meet theneeds of the current pan-demic remains unclear. Forinstance, in the case ofsouth suburban Met-roSouth Medical Center,

the 314-bed hospital, in-cluding its medical equip-ment, has already been soldto a developer. Blue IslandMayor Domingo Vargassaid Friday that the devel-oper plans to use much ofthe 700,000-square-foot fa-cility to provide services toveterans.

However, even if addedfacilities are not ready soon,they may still be of use.“Yeah, there’s going to be asurge over the next coupleof weeks, but this virus isgoing to be around formonths,” Chun said.“There’s still going to be aneed over the summer.”

Dr. Emily Landon, a Uni-versity of Chicago Medicineepidemiologist who spoke atPritzker’s briefing, empha-sized that Illinois residentsmust help protect one anoth-er by following the directiveto shelter in place. “Withouttaking drastic measures, thehealthy and the optimisticamong us will doom thevulnerable,” she said.

David Heinzmann and HalDardick are Chicago Tribunereporters. Mike Nolan is areporter for the Daily South-town.

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Hospital officials push opening closed sitesAs cases mount, so does burden on stressed systemBy David Heinzmann, Hal Dardick and Mike Nolan

Westlake Hospital in Melrose Park is one of three hospitals

that closed its doors over the last two years.

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Days after it began toramp up drive-thru testingfor patients who may beinfected with the novel co-ronavirus, the Advocate Au-rora Health hospital systemannounced Friday that ithas suspended that programbecause of a national short-age of test kits and proc-essing materials.

Advocate said in a newsrelease that state healthofficials and the IllinoisHealth and Hospital Associ-ation were seeking “to con-serve tests for those incritical need.”

“It’s an ongoing issue forall our hospitals in Illinoisand across the country,” saidDanny Chun, spokesman forthe Illinois Health and Hos-pital Association. “There arevery limited supplies of test-ing kits, nasal swabs andreagents — chemicals usedto test the specimens — inlarge part due to the verysmall rollout of test kits bythe federal government.”

The scarcity of testingmaterials is being exacer-bated by the rapid increasein the numbers of peopleinfected with the novel co-ronavirus, including high-risk groups such as theelderly, nursing home resi-dents and people with exist-ing medical conditions,Chun said.

“Every hospital in thisstate is working to set uptesting processes, but they’rehamstrung by the lack ofavailable testing kits andtesting supplies,” he said,adding that it’s impossible toquantify the shortage or givean accurate number of avail-able tests statewide.

Chun’s blunt assessmentstands in stark contrast tothe public statements ofPresident Donald Trump,who has repeatedly pledgeda dramatic increase in testkits for the new virus.

“It’s going very well,”Trump said at a news con-ference Friday, when askedabout labs across the coun-try reporting a lack of testingsupplies. “We inherited anobsolete deal and we’vemade a good thing of it.”

“More and more tests arebeing performed every day,”Vice President Mike Penceadded.

The new coronavirus hassickened around 15,000people nationwide andcaused five deaths in Illi-nois.

Allison Lanthrum, of

west suburban St. Charles,expressed frustration afterseveral attempts to get co-ronavirus testing for her2-year-old son, who exhib-ited symptoms of the dis-ease including sore throat,intense cough and a feverthat just broke after six days.Yet she’s been stymied eachtime because of the state’sstringent testing guidelines.

“It’s pretty terrifying,” shesaid. “I am so powerless,because at this point there isnothing we can do. We can’tget a test.”

Each health care providerhas asked if her son hasrecently traveled to ahigher-risk country or hadcontact with a confirmedcoronavirus patient, shesaid.

“They said specifically,has he been in contact with

a confirmed case, and Ilaughed because I don’tknow anyone who has beentested,” she said. “But Iknow a lot of people whoneed and want to get tested.How can we attempt tocontrol this virus if we don’tknow where it is? If we’renot testing everyone whohas the symptoms, at least.”

Lanthrum also expressedconcern about the lack oftesting on a national scale.

“It would affect the data,the essential data being col-lected in order to begin tocontrol the virus,” she said.“And without that, we havenothing. We shouldn’t haveto prioritize. We shouldhave had enough tests twomonths ago.”

John Collins, 57, of Crys-tal Lake said he also wasunsuccessful in getting

tested even though he suf-fered typical symptoms andhis medical provider ruledout other possible ailments.

“I realize there’s a testingshortage,” he said. “That’s aproblem. But how do youmanage this if you don’tknow the numbers that aresick? We’re taking all thenecessary steps across thecountry to flatten the curve.But if you don’t know whereit’s at, how do you directresources?”

As the number of co-ronavirus cases rises in Illi-nois each day, state healthofficials say they’re helpinghospitals and labs developtheir own testing ability.The state is also workingwith federal officials to setup drive-thru testing sites“in some of the hardest-hitareas of the state,” Dr. Ngozi

Ezike, director of the IllinoisDepartment of PublicHealth, said at a news con-ference Friday.

She said one of those siteswill be operated by the state,with federal support, whileseveral others are govern-ment partnerships with pri-vate retailers Walgreens andWalmart.

A coronavirus drive-uptesting site will be openingsoon in the parking lot of aWalmart in west suburbanNorthlake, according to cityofficials there. The companysaid the big-box retailer islooking at several other Chi-cago-area pilot sites butdidn’t give specific locationsor start dates.

Some local hospital offi-cials said Friday that theyhave no immediate plans toreduce COVID-19 testing. Aspokesman for Edward-Elmhurst Health said themedical provider intends tocontinue testing withoutchanges.

And while Rush Uni-versity Medical Center isn’tdecreasing its testing now,acting chief quality officerDr. Brian Stein said “testingkits, specifically test swabs,are in short supply and mayalso drive us to changetesting criteria.”

Last week, patients atAdvocate Lutheran GeneralHospital in northwest sub-urban Park Ridge were be-ing screened at a new drive-up coronavirus testing site,if they had physician ap-proval and an appointment.

But Friday’s news releasefrom Advocate said suchservices have been put onpause. “As a health careprovider and a member ofour communities, we have a

responsibility to prioritizetesting for the most vulnera-ble and save lives by takingdecisive action to help stopthe spread of COVID-19,”the release said.

The hospital system saidpatients with critical co-ronavirus symptoms will beevaluated and treated, butthose experiencing non-se-vere coronavirus symptomswill be told to quarantinethemselves at home.

“People who show up tothe emergency room butaren’t very sick won’t betested,” said an Advocatespokeswoman. “People whoare severely ill will gettesting.”

Chicago Tribune reportersHal Dardick and Peter Nick-eas contributed to this story.


Advocatehospitalspausingdrive-thruNational shortageof test kits forcesprogram stoppageBy Angie LeventisLourgos and DavidHeinzmann

Physician’s assistant Peter Schorr performs a nasal swab Friday on a patient at the Edward-Elmhurst Health drive-thru testing center in Warrenville.


Allison Lanthrum and her son, Ellis, 2, self-quarantine at home Friday in St. Charles. Lan-

thrum believes her son might have the new coronavirus but can’t get him tested.

MARK BLACK/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

“Every hospitalin this state isworking to setup testing proc-esses, but they’rehamstrung bythe lack of avail-able testing kitsand testing sup-plies.”— Danny Chun, spokesmanfor the Illinois Health andHospital Association



Cook County prose-cutors will be dropping allnew drug cases as thecoronavirus outbreak hasled the state crime lab toreduce its operations toonly urgent work involvingviolent crime.

The Illinois State Policelaboratory is cutting downdrastically on the numberof forensic tests it is per-forming, so routine testingto confirm whether anysuspected drugs are, in fact,narcotics, has been put onpause.

As a result, prosecutorshave been instructed todismiss all drug cases thathave not yet been indictedor had a preliminary hear-ing — the early proceduralhurdles a case must clearbefore it can continue totrial — if testing is notcomplete on those cases,according to documentsobtained by the Tribune.

Without proper testingon narcotics, prosecutorsdo not have a “good faith”basis to proceed withcharges, officials said.Cases that are dropped willbe reevaluated after the labbegins testing again, to de-termine if they are eligibleto be indicted by a grandjury.

“At the time the cases aredismissed, (prosecutors)are to ask the judge toinform the defendant thathe or she may be indicted ata later date and that theyshould not disregard a let-ter or notice informingthem they have been in-dicted and return to courtas directed,” according toan internal memo to prose-cutors.

A statement from theCook County state’s attor-ney’s office on Friday notedthat it is declining to prose-cute nonviolent low-leveldrug offenses during theepidemic, framing it as an“exercise of prosecutorialdiscretion … aimed at pro-tecting the health and safe-ty of police officers, firstresponders, medical pro-fessionals, and jail staff andthe Cook County commu-nity at large.”

“Out of an abundance ofcaution for the health oflaw enforcement and thecommunity at large, thestate’s attorney’s office willnot be pursuing caseswhich pose little to no riskto public safety at thistime,” State’s Attorney KimFoxx said in a statement.

The office is also review-ing whether to prosecuteother types of charges on acase-by-case basis in lightof drastically reducedcourtroom operations, ac-cording to the statement.

The Illinois State Policeconfirmed Friday that itscutting back on staffing atits forensic services facili-ties due to the pandemic.

“In an effort to facilitatesocial distancing to protectour community and ouremployees during the na-tional emergency sur-rounding the COVID-19outbreak, the ISP has lim-

ited the number of staffworking in office facilities,to include the forensic sci-ence laboratories,” state po-lice Sgt. Jacqueline Cepedasaid in an email. “At thistime, the laboratories re-main open and are accept-ing evidence for cases in-volving violent crimes;however, routine submis-sions are requested to beheld until further notice.”

Cepeda also said thestate police would be moni-toring the seriousness ofthe pandemic and theneeds of law enforcementthroughout Illinois to de-cide where staffing andpolicies should changewhen needed.

Anthony Guglielmi, aChicago police spokesman,said that while lab testingfor drug cases may nothappen right away at thestate police facilities, thatdoesn’t mean officers willstop making drug arrestsfor “large levels” of narcot-ics.

“It’s the drug trade, thegun trade, that fuels streetviolence and we are goingto have officers that moni-tor that,” he said.

Guglielmi also down-played the affect the lim-ited staff would have at thestate police crime lab be-cause CPD’s most seriousnarcotics investigations arealready long-term cases.He also said CPD can usefederal law enforcementcrime labs when necessary.

“We can make an arrest.An individual could be re-leased pending further in-vestigation. So just becausethe drugs aren’t beingtested right away, it doesn’tprohibit our ability to doour job,” Guglielmi alsosaid. “It will prolong it. Butwe can certainly conductnarcotics investigationsthat extend when the statelab reopens.”

But because of the pan-

demic, Guglielmi said, CPDwas trying to reduce thehealth risks for the publicand the officers who maycome in contact with oneanother. The departmenthas advised officers to issueordinance violations in re-sponse to low-level crimesas opposed to making phys-ical arrests.

The state police requeststo police agencies aroundIllinois that submissionsfor narcotics cases not in-volving violent crimes, orother nonviolent crimes, beheld until further notice,Cepeda said.

“Investigating agenciesand state’s attorney’s of-fices are encouraged tocontact the lab to discusswhat cases meet the crite-ria to be accepted duringthe COVID-19 emergency,”Cepeda said.


The Illinois State Police laboratory is cutting down on the number of forensic tests it is

performing, so routine drug testing has been put on pause.

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State crime lab will bescaling back operationsRoutine testing of drugs on holdduring pandemicBy Megan Crepeau and Jeremy Gorner

“We can make an arrest. An indi-vidual could be released pendingfurther investigation. So just be-cause the drugs aren’t being testedright away, it doesn’t prohibit ourability to do our job.”— Anthony Guglielmi, a Chicago police spokesman

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studied federal inspectiondata on infection control forfacilities certified by Medi-care and Medicaid, repre-senting the vast majority ofnursing homes. The analy-sis found that 89% of Illinoishomes — 642 of 723 — havebeen cited at least oncesince 2016 for violating in-fection control regulations.Only two states, Michiganand California, fared worse,and just barely.

The best-scoring statesstill had problems with in-fection control, but in thosestates just a third of theirhomes were cited for suchinfractions, the analysisfound.

Federal officials thismonth ordered stricter en-forcement of infection-con-trol rules at nursing homes,with the CDC releasing astudy Wednesday that em-phasized the importance ofkeeping the disease out offacilities and from spread-ing within them.

“Substantial morbidityand mortality might beaverted if all long-term carefacilities take steps now toprevent exposure of theirresidents to COVID-19,” thestudy noted.

The Illinois Departmentof Public Health did not sayhow it’s changing its inspec-tion process, beyond issuingnew guidance to homes, butit has said it’s working withhomes to limit visitors andscreen workers.

“Long-term care resi-dents are our most vulnera-ble population and at thegreatest risk of severe ill-ness,” the department’s di-rector, Ngozi Ezike, said at aWednesday briefing.

‘Like you’re a bunny’

The Tribune analysisfound that most Illinoislong-term care facilitieshave been cited at leasttwice since 2016 for eitherfailing to have a program orimplement one for prevent-ing infections and keepingthem from spreading.

The findings don’t sur-prise Francine Rico, whohas been a certified nursingassistant at a South Shorehome for 22 years and alsoserves on the executivecommittee of the union rep-resenting many Chicago-area workers, SEIU Health-care Illinois.

Rico said there’s simplytoo few employees.

“You feel like you’re abunny moving down a trackbecause you can’t take careof these residents properlybecause you’ve got so manyof them,” she said, addingthe pandemic could exacer-bate the problems.

“It’s devastating. It’sscary right now. We needthe people to hear us crying.We are crying. We are cry-ing for our residents. We arecrying for us.”

Among homes citedtwice since 2016 is theWillowbrook facility thathoused the first Illinoisnursing home resident totest positive for COVID-19.By Wednesday, the stateannounced, the home had32 additional residents test-ing positive, plus 13 mem-bers of the staff.

The home, ChateauNursing and RehabilitationCenter, was cited in 2017 formultiple infection-controlmistakes. Among them, re-cords show: The facility’sassistant director of nurses,also described as an infec-tion-control nurse, violatedfederal rules while trying toadminister medicine to apatient with a drug-resist-ant infection.

A year later, inspectorsreported that staff membersdidn’t wash their hands orchange gloves enough, andfound one resident’s bed-ding was wet with a“brownish liquid sub-stance.”

The staff told inspectorsit was from an hour-old spillfrom rectal-bag tubing. Theresident’s relative com-plained to inspectors offinding a similar spill 1 ½weeks earlier and “was veryconcerned about infectioncontrol.”

“She (the patient) hasbeen to the ICU (intensivecare unit) twice already forinfection,” the relative toldthe inspector, according tothe inspection report. “Idon’t see things sanitized,considering it is an infectioncontrol room. The beds are

not made, and there is dustall over the side tables.”

The home — rated “be-low average”’ for overallcare by federal regulators —is one of at least 18 in Illinoisand Indiana managed byExtended Care Consulting,according to state records.

Extended Care issued astatement that did not di-rectly address the citationsbut said it continues to workwith government health of-ficials and remains diligentabout infection control.

“Our staff continue towork diligently to ensure thehealth and welfare needs ofour residents are being met,”the statement said.

Longtimeproblem

Even before the pan-demic, infection control hadlong been a hot topic in thehealth care industry amid aseries of investigations andstudies linking widespreadfailures to more illness ordeath.

Among them was a 2002Tribune report on thedeadly spread of infectionsin hospitals, and a 2017report by Kaiser HealthNews on how nursinghomes repeatedly violatedinfection control rules withlittle punishment.

But the plight of nursinghome residents has becomea top concern of healthofficials amid the co-

ronavirus outbreak. Thedangers were shown in oneearly U.S. cluster spawned atthe Life Care Center ofKirkland, near Seattle. As ofWednesday, federal author-ities linked 23 deaths to thefacility. It noted the virushad infected 81 of roughly130 residents, along with 34health care workers and 14visitors to the facility.

Federal officials have tak-en the COVID-19 threat tonursing homes so seriouslythat on March 4 they di-rected inspectors to stopdoing “non-emergency” re-views of facilities and “turntheir focus on the mostserious health and safetythreats like infectious dis-eases and abuse” with aspecific focus on infection-control procedures.

Those procedures havebeen required since 2016 inan attempt to quickly iden-tify and contain the spreadof infections and communi-cable diseases to protectresidents, staff, volunteersand visitors. Rules forhomes include exactlywhere and when to take offgloves or put them on,where and for how long towash hands, and how tosanitize equipment.

At the Seattle-area homewhere COVID-19 spread,records show the facilitywas cited last year for sev-eral poor infection-controlpractices, including staffersnot wearing enough protec-

tive gear, a poorly ventilatedlaundry room that couldspread germs and a kitchenworker using the samegloves to handle residents’dirty dishes and then toclean dishes.

During that review, in-spectors noted the facilityhad two flu outbreaks in onemonth that sickened a com-bined 17 residents and sevenstaffers.

A Washington Post inves-tigation has since docu-mented how the home in-correctly assumed it washaving another flu outbreakas COVID-19 took holdthere.

Still, if that facility werein Illinois, its citation recordfor infection control wouldbe among the better places— with just one violationissued since 2016.

One home, seven citations

In the Chicago area, theTribune found 77 facilitieswith three or more citationssince 2016. Of those, ninehad five or more citations.

One had seven, the mostof any in the region. Regula-tors have given that facility,Aperion Care Forest Park,its worst overall care ratingof “much below average.”

Inspectors in 2017 sawworkers there repeatedlyfailing to wash hands asthey moved between pa-tients, according to an in-

spection report.Eight months later, in-

spectors returned to find ahousekeeper who didn’twear protective gear whenmopping a room where apatient was specially iso-lated to avoid diseasespread, then using the samemop and bucket solution toclean other rooms, recordsshow.

A month after that, thefacility’s nursing directorand a staffer were observedchanging a soiled inconti-nence pad of a patient iso-lated for infection control.

The staffer used the samegloves to wipe the patient,change the pad and touchdoorknobs, a curtain andside rails. The nursing di-rector also wiped the pa-tient with towels that hadbeen placed directly on thepatient’s dresser.

Another patient in isola-tion was found in herwheelchair with urine- andstool-stained pants. Twostaffers changed her andcleaned her, but didn’tchange gloves, touching notonly the patient’s body butbed controls, doorknobsand a bedside table, inspec-tion records show.

Three more times in2018, inspectors cited thefacility for employees notwashing hands or changinggloves and repeatedly notwearing protective gear forpatients being isolated tostop disease spread.

During the facility’s mostrecent review, Jan. 9, aninspector watched licensedpractical nurses take theblood pressure of six pa-tients without sanitizing thedevice between patients, oreven after one nursedropped the device on thefloor.

The facility is part of achain of nearly 50 facilitiesacross Illinois, Indiana andMissouri. When askedabout the citations, thechain’s spokeswoman,Heather Levine, did notdirectly respond but saidthe chain “completesmonthly handwashingcompetencies with ourstaff.”

In an email, she said thechain has an infection pre-ventionist who is helpingthe chain implement CDCrecommendations forhomes to battle the virus.The chain, she wrote, uses“strict handwashing pro-cedures,” requires that staffwear protective gear, barredvisitors and screens staffmembers for illness.

Her statement echoedone posted earlier online forresidents’ families: “We aretaking a proactive approachin protecting our residentsand your loved ones.”

An industryunder scrutiny

Pat Comstock, who leadsthe trade group Health CareCouncil of Illinois, told theTribune in a statement that,even amid the pandemic,the group’s 300-plus mem-ber facilities “have the high-est expectations and safe-guards in place, always fo-cused on providing the bestcare for elderly and infirmresidents.”

She said: “It is true the

coronavirus has put addi-tional stress on existingworkforce shortages, butthe same could be said for somany in the healthcare in-dustry today.”

Still, those who’ve longrailed against industry prac-tices — from a major work-ers union to advocates forthe elderly — question thecoronavirus-fighting capa-bility of Illinois nursinghomes.

Longtime attorneySteven Levin, who special-izes in nursing-home abuseand neglect, said the indus-try’s problems with control-ling infections comes downto a business model built onoverworked, low-paidworkers.

“The staff doesn’t havetime to wash their hands.The staff doesn’t have thetime to use realistic precau-tions when dealing withresidents in isolation. Thestaff may be coming to worksick because they’re receiv-ing such a small wage thatthey can’t afford to take timeoff from work,” he said.

“When you tax an alreadystrained system, and nowyou’re asking them to dosomething extraordinary indifficult situations. … Some-times those systems fail,” hesaid.

AARP Illinois is callingfor the state to ensurehomes keep minimumstaffing and immediatelytell the state when theycan’t. The group also wantsthe state to mandate paidleave so sick workers canstay home without fear ofmissing payment on bills orlosing jobs.

In addition, AARP Illi-nois is pushing the state towork with families andcaregivers to be able to stayin contact during the lock-downs and to mandate thatfacilities tell residents’ fam-ilies immediately if a resi-dent or staffer has testedpositive for the virus or beenput in quarantine because ofexposure.

“This is a time of crisis,”Gallo said. “Hopefully we allcome together to addressthe situation.”

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Francine Rico, center, talks Thursday to Gwen Williams outside Villa at Windsor Park nursing home in Chicago. They were circulating a SEIU petition.

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Homeless shelters in theChicago area are modifyingoperations to prevent infec-tion amid the new co-ronavirus outbreak.

But the efforts are com-plicated by costs, scarcity ofcleaning supplies and pro-tective gear, and staffingmodels that depend on vol-unteers who may them-selves be at risk of compli-cations from the co-ronavirus.

And as many publicspaces close, includingsome of the Chicago area’slibraries, agencies servingthe homeless say they’llneed space to house peopleday and night, with enoughroom to keep a distance.

The state has not con-firmed any cases of the virusamong shelter staffers orresidents, but organizationsserving the homeless popu-lation say are preparing forwhat seems inevitable.

Some agencies startedreaching into their reservesto buy motel vouchers. Oth-ers are reducing capacity inorder to implement federalguidelines of social distanc-ing, sometimes letting onlyfour people use facilities at atime. And yet others aresoliciting donations formoney to address the im-mediate and long-term im-plications of the pandemic.

“We have a society deal-ing with unknowns rightnow and a population facinga lot of unknowns already,”said Paul Hamann, presi-dent and CEO of the NightMinistry. “We haven’t re-ceived much guidance onhow to do this.”

The Night Ministry runsfive shelters for youths, in-cluding an emergency shel-ter for people between 18and 24 years old, and alsoconducts medical outreachto homeless individuals onthe street. While the shelter

is not requiring medicalevaluation to receive serv-ices, Hamann said, it isdeveloping internal proto-cols with how to deal with alarge number of sick resi-dents. “It’s the complexityand potential scale thatmakes this very, very differ-ent,” Hamann said.

Given those complex-ities, concern also is mount-ing for the viability of someprograms.

“We’re honestly worriedthat some agencies will beforced to cease their shelteroperations for the season,and we’re doing our best toavoid that,” said JenniferHill, executive director ofthe Alliance to End Home-lessness in Suburban CookCounty. “Our infrastructureis really taking a hit.”

The alliance is a nonprof-it that allocates about $12million for homelessnessassistance to more than 30programs in the suburbs.According to Hill, several of

its larger agencies have esti-mated they will spendaround $100,000 just toincrease staffing and movevulnerable families or indi-viduals with confirmed co-ronavirus cases to motels.

The alliance is exploringthe possibility of using addi-tional spaces to quarantinehomeless people who havebeen exposed, followingguidelines from the Centersfor Disease Control andPrevention.

Nia Tavoularis, directorof development for Connec-tions for the Homeless inEvanston, said its 18-personshelter is allowingovernight residents to staythroughout the day startingthis week. She expectseconomic hardship to leadto a greater need for serv-ices in the long term.

“We know that there aregoing to be more people onthe verge of homelessness,”Tavoularis said.

South Suburban PADS in

Cook County is starting toprioritize older residents tomove them into motels, saidDoug Kenshol, executivedirector.

“No matter how muchbleach we use, and howmany times people washtheir hands, if we can usesufficient resources, wewant to move everyone to ahotel, prioritizing thosewho are over 60 years old,”Kenshol said.

The agency has alreadyidentified a significantnumber of its leadershipstaff and volunteers as highrisk for contracting thevirus and has asked them towork from home.

The state Department ofHuman Services, which al-ready distributes some fed-eral funding to municipal-ities and nonprofits acrossthe state, has said it wouldevaluate the need for fund-ing on a case-by-case basis.

And Tuesday, a spokes-woman for the department

said: “Any increased re-sponsibility that they’re tak-ing on, even if they’re notincreasing the number ofpeople” could be eligible forreimbursement if theagency receives fundingthrough the state.

Kia Coleman, assistantsecretary for the depart-ment, said the state wasaware of issues of capacityin shelters and the need for“recuperative” housing forthose released from hospi-tal care or requiring isola-tion as a precaution.

“The very first thing wedid was to look at thecontracts that we alreadyhad” and grant those groupsa three-month advance-ment on funds, Colemansaid. “We let providersknow that we intend to helpthem through this period:We want you to maintainyour operations.”

Chicago’s Department ofFamily & Support Services,which manages over 100

sites geared toward housingstability and homelessnessprevention, is trying toidentify and monitor home-less people at the highestrisk of contracting the dis-ease by canvassing the city.Department employees arefocusing on unshelteredChicagoans who are elderlyor have a preexisting medi-cal condition, according tothe department website.

The city also is setting upportable hand-washing sta-tions near places wherehomeless congregate in thestreet.

There have been aggres-sive preventive measureselsewhere in the country.Last week, California’s gov-ernor announced the use ofhotels to house homelessindividuals. San FranciscoMayor London Breed saidthe city would dedicate $5million to clean shelters andsingle-room-occupancy fa-cilities.

Hamann of Chicago’sNight Ministry said no ef-fort will be sustainablewithout government sup-port. “I’m hoping that it willlet people know how fragilethe safety net is,” he said.“We’re winging this aloneand we’re doing the best wecan.”

The Chicago Coalitionfor the Homeless publishedguidelines urging state,county and local officials todesignate special housing inhotels or military facilities,both to contain the spreadof confirmed cases and in-crease capacity.

Not only is additionalfunding to allow people toself-quarantine criticalright now, said DougSchenkelberg, director ofthe coalition, but “longerterm, it’s necessary becausewe don’t want to see anoverall increase in the num-ber of homeless people.

“This moment hasopened people’s eyes to theimportance of a safety net,”Schenkelberg said. “Every-one’s at risk.”

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Homeless shelters prepare as outbreak spreadsOperation changesstart amid largerprevention efforts By Cecilia Reyes

Andrew Wojda, left, from the Night Ministry, gives food and sanitary products to Bobby Lopez on Tuesday.

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At ease, Chicago.The Illinois National

Guard says it is not comingto put you on lockdown.

With Gov. J.B. Pritzkerconfirming a “shelter-in-place order,” questionsarose about how it would beenforced.

As trains transportingmilitary tanks andHumvees traveled through

the Chicago area the pastfew days, rumors took rooton social media that theIllinois National Guardwould play a role in impos-ing the directive.

The Guard quickly shot itdown.

“Those (tanks andHumvees) are not ours,”said Lt. Col. BradfordLeighton of the IllinoisNational Guard. “The mili-tary moves equipment all

the time by train. If wewere to move, we wouldn’tbe doing it by train. Wewould drive.”

Though the governor ac-tivated the Illinois NationalGuard last week to helpcombat the virus, the serv-ice members don’t have arole in enforcing any lock-down order issued by thegovernment.

Instead, 60 service mem-bers will be deployed to

establish drive-up testingsites, help with food deliv-ery to disadvantaged fam-ilies impacted by schoolclosures and possibly pre-pare closed hospitals toreopen.

There are no plans tohave the troops help withthe shelter-in-place order,Leighton said.

The vast majority of cur-rently activated troops arehealth care professionals —

doctors, nurses, medicaltechnicians — who wouldnot be tapped for an law-enforcement assignment.

“We have never evendiscussed a quarantine mis-sion for the Illinois NationalGuard,” Leighton said. “It’snever come up.”

Leighton said he under-stands anxieties are highamid the pandemic, but theGuard is not the boogey-man.

“We are your friends,neighbors and coworkers,”he said. “We’re fellowworshippers at yourchurch, synagogue,mosque or wherever youworship. We are part of thecommunity. We are you.We are not going to invadeChicago. We are here tohelp.”

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Illinois National Guard says it’s not part of enforcing state lockdownBy Stacy St. Clair

Expanding efforts tobuild capacity for medicaltreatment, Pritzker calledon doctors, nurses and phy-sician’s assistants who haverecently left the field to“come back and join thefight.” He announced thestate will expedite licensingand waive fees, and headded that health careworkers whose licenses willsoon expire will be auto-matically extended throughSeptember.

“This is hero’s work,” hesaid. “All of you have ourdeepest gratitude for yourwillingness to serve.”

Asked whether state offi-cials were concerned aboutputting older, retired medi-cal professionals in closequarters with the disease,Pritzker spokeswoman Jor-dan Abudayyeh said in anemail, “Obviously we don’twant to put any vulnerablepeople … at further riskfrom undue exposure.”

“Retired professionalscan be used in various waysin other aspects of health-care that then relieves frontline workers or allowsworkers at lower risk tomove to the front lines,” shewrote.

Even as he defended hisown measures, Pritzkerlashed out at the federalgovernment over the lack ofcoronavirus tests available,echoing his past criticismsof President DonaldTrump’s efforts against thedisease.

“Are we seeing moretests? Yes, but not even atthe numbers that werepromised weeks ago,” hesaid. “I’m hopeful, in a way,that the commercial labora-tories and that the privatesector will help us figurethis out because so far thefederal government hasn’t.”

In the hours before theban took effect, parts ofChicago showed only subtlevisible differences from anyother dreary early springweekend. Grocery storesand other retailers on theNorth and Northwest sidesappeared busy but not de-bilitated by crowds, andpeople walked dogs andjogged on sidewalks.

But the new reality wasclear at nearly deserted re-tail plazas, and at restau-rants empty of diners,where employees passedcustomers pickup ordersthrough doors.

The order largely codifiesprior recommendationsand rules issued by stateofficials, and many werealready taking the mea-sures. Officials are mostlycounting on people self-policing, and Pritzker indi-cated that he did not expectcops to enforce the orderheavy-handedly. An egre-gious violation might drawa misdemeanor recklessconduct charge, he said.

Chicago police spokes-man Anthony Guglielmisaid as of about 8 p.m.,police had no arrests ordisturbances that were re-lated to the stay-at-homeorder.

“This is a public healthissue, and the last thing wewant to do is make it apolice issue,’’ Guglielmisaid.

Officers have been told tostep in if they see a crowdlarger than 10 people.

“If they don’t want todisperse, a supervisor iscalled,’’ Guglielmi said. “It’snot about locking people up.It’s about keeping peoplesafe so the disease doesn’tspread any further.’’

Pritzker and Mayor LoriLightfoot have tried tostrike a balance betweencommunicating the lethalseriousness of the diseaseand avoiding causing panic.To that end, Lightfoot onSaturday morning sought toreassure Chicagoans thatfood would remain avail-

able, including to the poor.Flanked by local charity

leaders at the Office ofEmergency Managementand Communications, shenoted the order would notshut down grocers orrestaurants that serve foodfor pickup.

She acknowledged the“unprecedented times” butasked people not to crashgrocery stores to hoardfood. She pointed out thatChicago Public Schools stu-dents can get free meals atschools, while Kate Maehr,executive director of theGreater Chicago Food De-pository, encouraged peo-ple in need to visit theorganization’s website tofind places to pick up suste-nance.

Nonetheless, some Chi-cagoans clearly were con-cerned about the impact ofthe order on the food sup-ply.

Brenda Smith and neigh-bor Amanda Harris of theSouth Side’s Chathamneighborhood saw a lineoutside the Food 4 Lessgrocery store on 87th Streetand decided to drive tosouthwest suburban Bur-bank to shop.

“Hopefully the socialproblems of living in fooddeserts will be brought tothe forefront during thistime,” Harris said.

Smith added, “In timeslike these, we have to en-

courage each other andremind each other that if wework together, things willbe all right.”

As some stocked up, par-ents worried about the con-sequences the order wouldhave for their children.

At Oz Park in the LincolnPark neighborhood, RayPelelas crouched downwith his arms around histwo sons, 3 and 5, as theytook a last chance to play ata city playground. Lightfoothas mandated they all close

as part of the stay-at-homeorder, though green spacein parks will remain open.

Pelelas said he under-stands the need for precau-tions, but added that he’srunning out of things to dowith his kids. It will bedifficult to explain to theboys why they can’t use theswings and the slides, hesaid.

“We can’t go to churchand pray. We can’t go to thepark and play,” Pelelas said.“We need fresh air.”

Soheil Zadeh canceledthe birthday parties for histwo sons, 14 and 11, in lightof Pritzker’s order. But theboys understand, Zadehsaid.

“They’re pretty reason-able kids,” he said.

Teri Odom and her 7-year-old son arrived at theLincoln Park branch of theChicago Public Library justas librarians were lockingup, leaving with plants andother personal belongingsaround 12:30 p.m. Lightfoot

ordered public librariesclosed.

Odom noted that her sonwill no longer be able tohave play dates, and shereminded him that he won’tbe able to play soccer.

“Oh, come on,” the boyresponded.

Adults, meanwhile,feared for their paychecks.

Along several blocks ofClark Street in Rogers Park,Mexican restaurants andhair salons were dark, withnotices on the windows inEnglish and Spanish an-nouncing closures or deliv-ery-only services. RocioGarcía works at a bakerythat had only reopenedMonday following repairs.She said she was just out ofwork for 12 weeks.

“The thing I’m mostafraid of is losing my job,”she said.

Other businesses werereaping the rewards of thecrisis.

Fred Lutger, owner of theTinley Park gun shop Fred-die Bear Sports, said, “We’realmost sold out of every-thing.”

Gun stores are one of thebusinesses deemed es-sential and allowed to stayopen. Lutger said there havebeen lines of people want-ing guns and ammunition.

As state officials an-nounced the growth in thenumber of cases, Lightfootlauded the germinatingcharity efforts designed toease the crisis.

She announced that theChicago CommunityCOVID-19 Response Fund,launched by the ChicagoCommunity Trust andUnited Way of Metro Chi-cago, had raised $13.5 mil-lion this week.

“As difficult as things arenow, we are seeing theresiliency that is part of thiscity’s DNA and our resolveto make sure that we doeverything that we can to beneighbors to each other toget us through this difficulttime and on the other side,”she said.

Despite the drastic, in-definite interruption of pro-fessional, social and familylives, the mayor counseledpeople to continue enjoyingsmall pleasures, such aswalks.

“My wife and I took awalk this morning. A littlebrisk, but good for the soul,”she said.

Frank Vaisvilas is a freelancereporter for the Daily South-town.

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Holy Name Cathedral sacristan Richard Laskowski wipes down pews with a disinfectant spray as Julie Brennan prays on Saturday in Chicago.

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Little Village residents wait in line to buy tortillas at El Milagro on 26th Street on Saturday morning.


Ray Pelelas blows warm air into the hands of sons George Pelelas, 3, left, and Teddy Pele-

las, 5, while in the playground at Oz Park on Saturday.




On the eve of her one-year anniversary in thePeace Corps, 23-year-oldKatie Bassett packed up thelast year of her life in thenortheastern Isan region ofThailand and prepared foremergency evacuation.

Her last two days werefilled with tearful goodbyesto teachers and students shehad built deep relationshipswith and to her Peace Corpscolleagues.

She gave her blender anda three-pound bag of SourPatch Kids to her neighbors— she had bought the candyduring a recent trip home toBourbonnais and was hop-ing to save it for a rainy day.Her nail polish, makeupbrushes and headbandswent to the girl across thestreet, and her game ofTwister that was a hit at aschool where she workedwent to a teacher there.

Bassett is one of morethan 7,000 Peace Corps vol-unteers in 60 countries whowere evacuated because ofCOVID-19. The governmentservice announced March15 that it would temporarilysuspend all operations, anunprecedented move thatthrew volunteers into astate of chaos as they triedto leave the countries theyconsidered their homes.

“It feels like a bad heart-break,” Bassett said. “It’s thesame kind of heavy feelingin your chest.”

After breakfast with herhost mom, she headed toBangkok on March 18 andflew back to the UnitedStates. For her and othervolunteers who talked tothe Tribune, the returnhome has been fitful. Notonly did they abruptly giveup a life they were dedi-cated to, they now must

worry about finding hous-ing and jobs — after they arequarantined for two weeksbecause of the coronavirusoutbreak.

“People who join thePeace Corps give up a lot,”said Mary Owen-Thomas,who served in the Phil-ippines in 2004-05 and is anactive member of the Chi-cago Peace Corps Associ-ation and a Midwest repre-sentative on the board ofdirectors for the NationalPeace Corps Association. “Alot of people sell all theirbelongings and get rid oftheir cars and homes whenthey decide that they wantto try something differentand integrate into a totallydifferent community, learna different language and livethe life of an expat.

To wake up one day andbe asked to leave is not onlyjarring, but terrifying, Ow-en-Thomas said. The lastbig evacuation of volunteerswas during the Ebola out-break, but that was just afew countries, not the entireworld. There’s no templatefor an evacuation of thismagnitude, she said.

“I think the first day ofleaving was really traumaticfor a lot of us, myselfincluded, because there wasso much uncertainty,” saidWhitney Wehrle, who wassupposed to end her two-year service in Armenia thisJune. “A lot of us didn’t haveclosure within our group,let alone within our com-munities and host familiesand students. I’ll never seethem again. That’s beenreally hard to come to termswith.”

Pedro Razo, 25, was avolunteer in Paraguay andhad to say his goodbyes overWhatsApp. He cried overtexts messages from theentrepreneurship and busi-ness class he was teaching.“It was honestly heart-breaking,” said Razo, of OakLawn. “This has been mylife for the past two years

and this is something I’vebeen so passionate about.”

He packed his bags Sun-day night and waited forinstructions. For the nextfew days, he lived hour byhour, everything he ownedin two suitcases. At times hewas scared he would getstranded with limited ac-cess to Wi-Fi and littlemoney. “It’s been a crazyjourney,” Razo said. “I reallylove my work and I reallylove my service and it’s beenheartbreaking that we hadto leave like this.”

Kyle Dunlap, 27, who justreturned to Kappa, Illinois,from Ecuador on Wednes-day, met his fiance while hewas in the service and hadto leave her behind. “We’reboth taking it pretty hardright now,” he said. “I’mtrying to figure out when I’llbe able to get back toEcuador.”

Dunlap said he feels like aforeigner in his home coun-try. “It’s hard not to let mymind race.”

Volunteers in Columbiaand Peru have been particu-larly stressed. Flights havebeen canceled and evacueeshave been stuck in a hotel.With borders scheduled toclose and the deadline toleave rapidly approaching,chartering a plane back tothe U.S. would be the easiestoption, but the Peace Corpshas yet to give their countrydirectors the green light.

Wehrle’s parents are bothin their 60s, making themamong the most vulnerableto the coronavirus. Wehrle,with nowhere else to go, hasbeen self-quarantining inher childhood bedroom,taking extra precautions tomitigate the risk of infectingher parents. She’s heardrumors that the PeaceCorps is considering revis-ing its instructions and pro-viding options for housing.Not everyone has access toisolated housing for themandated 14-day self-quar-antine like she did, Wehrle

said.Joshua Johnson, who

served in The Gambia withhis wife from 2009 through2011, created the ReturnedPeace Corps COVID-19Evacuation Support Face-book group this past weekwith his friend Jim Med-wick, whom Johnson met inThe Gambia. As of Fridaymorning, the group hadmore than 6,400 membersand hundreds of posts, of-fering advice and support.

“The Peace Corps hasbeen such a big part of mylife,” Johnson said. “Thiswas my opportunity to giveback in a small way.

Johnson said adjustingfrom living in a rural villageis hard enough when you’vehad months to prepare —coming back unexpectedlyaggravates the experience,both practically and emo-tionally. Like many otherevacuees, Wehrle feelsoverwhelmed by returningto a struggling economy andfinding a job. She plannedon attending graduateschool in the fall and willteach English online in theinterim, so her plans weremore flexible than others,she said. For Wehrle, theFacebook group has been asource of comfort duringher transition.

“That support group has

been mind-blowing interms of not feeling aloneand registering that thereare more than 7,000 of usdoing this all at once,”Wehrle said. “It just makesme feel like I’m not doingthis alone.”

Andrew Piotrowski,president of the ChicagoPeace Corps Association, alocal affiliate of the nationalnonprofit, recommendsevacuees get connectedwith the Facebook group,check in with the COVID-19page on the Peace Corpswebsite for updates andconnect with their localaffiliate groups. “Our role asan association is to be sup-portive and collaborativewith them and ensuringthat volunteers land ontheir feet and are able toovercome the initial shockin all of this and find theirway over the challenges andonto their next step in lifeand service,” said GlennBlumhorst, president of theNational Peace Corps Asso-ciation.

He believes the PeaceCorps has every intention ofreturning volunteers backto service as soon as condi-tions permit, but how andwhen that will happen isunknown. Volunteers aresupposed to receive updatesevery 30 days.

Blumhorst acknowl-edges that providing volun-teers with the support, ben-efits and entitlements hasbeen met with challenges,creating chaos and incon-sistencies. This is especiallyconcerning if a volunteer isinfected with coronavirusand doesn’t have access tohealth care. All returningvolunteers must undergo amedical evaluation, butwith doctors’ offices shut-tering because of the pan-demic, even that may provedifficult.

Returnees are supposedto receive a readjustmentallowance, a third of whichis supposed to come in thefirst week, plus an evacua-tion allowance of an un-known amount. But neitherof those allowances haveshown up for Bassett, Dun-lap, Wehrle or Razo. Servicemembers are typically givenhealth insurance for onemonth after returning andhave the option of payingfor an additional twomonths out. There’s a peti-tion among current andformer Peace Corps volun-teers to extend that cov-erage up to six monthsinstead, he said. There’sanother calling for federalassistance.

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While many people areworking from home andstocking up on food toprepare for a possibleCOVID-19 virus quarantine,life goes on for JoaquinaRivera, 50, a street vendor inthe Little Village neighbor-hood on Chicago’s WestSide.

Hours before PresidentDonald Trump declared astate of emergency to helplimit the spread of the co-ronavirus that has quicklyfound its way to Illinois,Rivera set her old cart on abusy intersection at 26thStreet and Pulaski Road tosell corn, churros and freshfruit. That cart has been herlivelihood for nearly 15years, the native from Vera-cruz, Mexico, said as shewiped her hands on herblack, soiled apron afterwashing them.

Though she’s concernedabout the new virus, shesaid she can’t stop working— even if she gets sick —because she can’t afford to.Rivera said she doesn’t havethe money to buy more thana week’s worth of groceries.

“If I don’t come out towork, how would I pay myrent?” she said. “We hearthat the government imple-mented a plan to help thoseaffected, but since we knowwe don’t qualify for any ofthat, we have no otherchoice than to risk it andcontinue our normal lives,we are used to that.”

Like Rivera, many ven-dors continued selling atdifferent intersections of thecity’s second-highest-gross-ing shopping district in thepredominantly Latino im-migrant neighborhood.

Contrasting the quiet andmostly deserted downtownarea, where many followedGov. J.B. Pritzker’s and May-or Lori Lightfoot’s recom-mendation to work fromhome, there was foot trafficon 26th Street. There alsowas toilet paper in the storesand no lines to pay.

A man carrying a largewooden stick with blue andpink cotton candy on hisback walked down thestreet. A few people waitedin a line to buy tamales froma lady, and a man offeredpassersby to try watermelonhe was selling from the backof a pickup truck.

All of them are precariousworkers, subject to unstableemployment, low wages andmore dangerous workingconditions. Most of themare immigrants living in theUnited States without legalpermission, and their soleway of making a living isthrough jobs that lack ben-efits, “even when in desper-ate situations,” said ShellyRuzicka, the communica-tions and operations direc-tor at Arise Chicago’sWorker Center, which ad-vocates for precarious work-ers, including those paidunder the table.

“The reality is that even ifhealth officials say paid sickleave is an effective treat-ment against coronavirus,many undocumented labor-ers don’t have that privilegeeven if it’s a policy,” saidDolores Castañeda, a re-

search assistant at the Uni-versity of Illinois at Chi-cago’s Center for HealthyWork. Castañeda is investi-gating the way precariouswork affects black andbrown communities andtheir health.

Since July 2017, the city ofChicago obliges employersto provide workers with upto 40 hours of yearly paidsick leave, however, Cas-tañeda said, due to someemployees’ immigrationstatus, they feel pressured tokeep working or are afraidto ask for days off when theyare sick because “they fearlosing their jobs or retribu-tion from their employers.”

Many of these workersare in the restaurant andmanufacturing industries,where groups of them tendto be inside the same roomand contact is inevitable, shesaid.

“Sadly, their vulnerableposition makes them evenmore vulnerable to the dis-ease,” Castañeda said. And ifthey can’t stay home whenthey are sick, that meansthey continue to be in con-tact with others, which canlead to spreading the virus.”

David Gaytan, 29, an ac-countant who works in adowntown office and wasencouraged by his employerto work from home, opted to

go into the office in solidari-ty with his mother, an ElkGrove Village factoryworker, who despite con-cerns of COVID-19, has notreceived any informationfrom her employer, she said,about safety measures thecompany is taking to avoidthe virus.

“My friends and I at workare very worried because itseems like people here arenot even concerned aboutour health,” said Gaytan’smother, who requested hername not be used due to fearof disciplinary action at herjob. “I feel like people thinkillegal workers can’t get sickor are not allowed to haveany type of problems.”

A Chicago Tribune re-porter tried contacting theElk Grove Village factory torequest information aboutits plan of action regardingthe coronavirus, but a callwas not returned.

Due to their low-wagejobs, immigration status andlack of health insurance,precarious workers are un-able to save money, ex-plained Leone Jose Bic-chieri, executive director ofWorking Family Solidarity,an organization that workswith working-class commu-nities to organize and en-courage policies for a justwork environment.

“When there’s a naturaldisaster — now it’s a virus —in times of catastrophe, ev-eryone realizes that theworkers who keep the econ-omy going are the poorpeople who are terribly dis-respected,” Bicchieri said.

Erik Garcia, 50, a daylaborer in Chicago sincearriving from Guatemalamore than a decade ago, saidhe is “extremely” concernedabout his health. If he getssick, he wouldn’t be able togo to the doctor because hedoesn’t have health insur-ance, he said. But what hefears most is not being ableto send money to his twosons in Guatemala if he can’twork. One of them is finallystarting college, so “we trynot to think about what’sgoing on and just focus onfinding a job for the day,”Garcia said.

“If any of us gets it, wedon’t even know because wecan’t go to the doctor,” headded. He is part of a groupthat has adopted the park-ing lot of Home Depot nearthe intersection of 31stStreet and Cicero Avenue asits staffing area. He said theyoften work without properequipment and are exposedto many other medical is-sues.

“Perhaps it’ll be good ifsomeone came out to ex-plain to us more aboutwhat’s going on, because Ididn’t even know that therewere so many coronaviruscases in Chicago,” Garciasaid when a Chicago Trib-une reporter told him howmany cases have been re-ported in Chicago. “We canlearn more about the pre-cautions we can take, but wewon’t stop working, wecan’t, even if we’re feelingsick,” he said. None of theworkers was experiencingcold or flu-like symptomswhen they were inter-viewed last week.

Maria Badillo, 37, amother of two who movedfrom Veracruz, Mexico, tothe Pilsen neighborhood in2007, lost her job when thestate and city recommendedevents of more than 250people be canceled.

Badillo was employedthrough a staffing agency aspart of a maintenance crewworking at United Centerfor sporting events. “Luck-ily, my husband is still work-ing,” Badillo laughed.

Neither Badillo nor Mar-tina Romano, 61, the womanBadillo buys elotes from,have the money to buy foodor household supplies formore than a week, they said.

Bicchieri said he con-tacted U.S. Rep. Jesus“Chuy” Garcia in Washing-ton D.C., to share informa-tion about the immigrantcommunity and its needs.

On a phone call fromWashington, D.C., last week,Garcia said he was aware ofthe specific way in which thecrisis was hitting the Latinoimmigrant community, andsaid he is working closelywith Lightfoot’s and Pritzk-er’s administrations to findways to better aid that com-munity, whose primary lan-guage is Spanish.

“We need the aid to beindiscriminate as the virusitself,” Garcia said. “Thevirus does not care aboutrace, age or class, and a sickperson is a threat to every-one.”

Garcia and other politicalleaders called for a morato-rium on deportations by U.S.Immigration and CustomsEnforcement (ICE) to en-courage those living in thecountry without legal per-mission to seek medicalhelp without fear of beingdetained or separated fromtheir families.

Garcia said he fully sup-ports the Families First Co-ronavirus Response Act, a

bipartisan coronavirus aidpackagepassed and signedby the president. He said heis working to ensure that it is“as inclusive as possible,”but says he recognizes that itwill be a challenge as thepandemic develops.

At a news conference lastweek, Lightfoot said heradministration has beenreaching out to communitypartners that work “specif-ically with the undocu-mented community.”

The mayor said her teamhas been talking to employ-ers, asking them to be flex-ible in accommodatingthose workers, and addedthat they’ve had a “goodresponse.”

“We’ll do everything thatwe can to advocate for theseworkers,” Lightfoot said.

Esther Sciammarella, di-rector of Chicago HispanicHealth Coalition, said therehas been a health crisiswithin the Latino commu-nity of those who enteredthe country without legalpermission long before thecoronavirus pandemic.

That community, shesaid, has a significant num-ber of elders who havechronic diseases that makethem more vulnerable to thevirus, but who must stillwork because they are un-able to retire.

For now, Rivera said, shewill keep praying for protec-tion like she always has. Shesays that the COVID-19 pan-demic does not alarm herbecause living in the coun-try illegally has taught her tolive day by day. And know-ing that the government will“most likely not care” abouther and her community,“leaves us no other optionthan to care for each otherand have faith in God,” shesaid.

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For many, time off is not an optionNo matter their health, Chicago’s precarious workers will remain on the job during pandemicBy Laura RodríguezPresa

Joaquina Rivera, 50, works at her food cart at the intersection of West 26th Street and South Pulaski Road in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood.

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Day laborers congregate around a vehicle in a parking lot

near the Home Depot on March 13 in Chicago.

The first grade classes atEugene Field ElementarySchool in Park Ridge spentThursday writing letters toresidents of an assistedliving facility a few blocksaway.

The students, 6 and 7years old, are learning tostring letters together tomake sentences, fill uppages and record theirobservations, stories andfeelings. They’re also learn-ing about empathy.

“Part of the social-emo-tional component of ourlessons deals with showingkindness,” teacher JulieChalberg told me. “How dowe show kindness andflexibility and patiencewith ourselves and withothers?”

When the coronaviruspandemic forced schools toclose, activities to be can-celed, and friends andfamily members to main-tain a responsible, butlonely, physical distance,Chalberg and her col-leagues started brainstorm-ing how to weave togetherwriting lessons with empa-thy lessons and use theresults for the greater good.

Chalberg’s 94-year-old-grandmother passed awayin January. She spent herfinal years in an assistedliving facility near Chal-berg’s Schaumburg home,and Chalberg and her fourchildren visited frequently.

“She would just light upwhen we got there,” Chal-berg said. “It was the high-light of her day, her week.”

Chalberg worries aboutthe residents in facilitieswhose visitors are nowlocked out. The isolation.The confusion. The strip-ping away of a trustedsource of joy and connec-tion.

“The last year was diffi-cult for my grandmother toremember things,” she said.“If she were still here,would she have to wonderevery day why we weren’tcoming to see her?”

Maybe her first graderscould fill in a little bit of thespace where visitors usedto be, Chalberg thought.She pitched the letter-writing idea to her teachingteam and school adminis-trators.

“Instantly, they were alllike, ‘Yes. We need to dothis,’ ” she said.

She contacted Summit ofUptown, a senior livingfacility in Park Ridge thatprovides independentliving, assisted living anddementia care. She told thestaff to expect a flood ofletters to start arriving nextweek. They said, in effect:Bring it.

On Thursday morning,using e-learning technol-ogy, the first graders gath-ered around for a groupreading of “It Came in theMail,” a picture book byBen Clanton about a boynamed Liam who longs forsomething to arrive in hismailbox with his name onit.

Then Chalberg and herfellow first grade teachersinstructed their students towrite letters to their neigh-bors a few blocks away.

They asked the kids tomake the letters conversa-tional and talk about someof their favorite hobbies.

They asked the students tohave grown-ups take pho-tos of them mailing theletters. They told the stu-dents to invite their siblingsto write letters too.

To stave off loneliness,the more the mightier.

The results speak forthemselves.

“We really try to teachthese kids (that) the wordsthey say and their actionsreally have an impact, eventhough they might just be 6or 7 years old,” said Chal-berg, who’s been teachingfor 18 years. “We tell themall the time, ‘It doesn’tmatter how little you are —you have a lot of love.’ I justwant them to feel likethey’re making a difference,even in the lives of peoplethey’re not going to meet.’”

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Letters from first graders provide a lesson in empathyStudents connectwith residents atassisted living site

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First graders in Julie Chal-

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writing letters to residents

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PERSPECTIVE

OP-ART JOE FOURNIER

The new coronavirus has been oneof the worst periods of DonaldTrump’s presidency. A crisis erupted,and he spent weeks downplaying anddismissing it before finally concedingthe urgent need for action. If thingsgo badly, he will get a lot of the blamefor his tardy, ineffectual response.

But in some ways, the pandemicputs him in the position he alwaysimagined the office would be.

He gets to stand in front of thecameras every day, issuing directives,invoking emergency powers andcommanding a platoon of subordi-nates who praise his inspiring leader-ship. It’s a Hollywood image of apresident in action.

Trump had an air of satisfaction indeclaring himself a “wartime presi-dent.” But this is the same guy who in2015 insisted, “I know more aboutISIS than the generals do.” Once inoffice, he mused, “I think I wouldhave been a good general.”

In fact, Trump has been a wartimepresident since he arrived, but he had

reservations about the military con-flicts he inherited, which lackedstrong popular support. WithCOVID-19, he obviously hopes thecitizenry will rally behind him in thesort of national unity during previouswars.

He is not the first president to seethe upside of such challenges. Presi-dent Bill Clinton, noted Todd Purdumlast year in The Atlantic, “sometimeslamented that he was serving in timesof broad peace and prosperity, be-cause true presidential greatness wasgranted only to those leaders whogoverned in war or crisis.” AbrahamLincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, Clin-ton knew, owe their heroic reputa-tions largely to the critical wars theyfought — and won.

George H.W. Bush saw his approvalrating soar to 89% after the coalitionvictory in the 1991 Gulf War. GeorgeW. Bush attained a 90% approvalrating after standing in the rubble ofthe World Trade Center and vowingto strike back at “the people whoknocked these buildings down.”

It’s not hard to believe that Trumpsees this as his chance for the publicto see him as the hero he admires inthe mirror.

On Wednesday, he channeled FDR:“To this day, nobody has ever seen(anything) like it, what they were ableto do during World War II. Now it’s

our time. We must sacrifice together,because we are all in this together,and we will come through together.”

Those words lacked any stirringquality, though, because they are so atodds with his habit of smearing hiscritics and inflaming his supporterswith venomous rhetoric. Even now,he can’t put aside his petty, bitterresentments.

Trump’s appeal for common sacri-fice came on the same day hetweeted: “95% Approval Rating in theRepublican Party, 53% overall. Notbad considering I get nothing butFake & Corrupt News, day and night.‘Russia, Russia, Russia’, then ‘theUkraine Scam (where’s the Whistle-blower?)’, the ‘Impeachment Hoax’,and more, more, more….”

You can’t ask people to come to-gether when your chief concern ishow popular you are with the 30% ofAmericans who identify with yourparty. You can’t expect solidaritywhen your favorite political strategyis stoking division. If you want citi-zens to rise above their selfish con-cerns, you need to do likewise. Trumpis incapable.

A president who expects to getcredit for taking steps that help in acrisis has to be accountable for mis-takes as well. But Trump has said, “Idon’t take responsibility at all” for theadministration’s failures in preparing

for this outbreak. As for the charge that he closed the

White House office that dealt withpandemics, he suggested that otherswere to blame, claiming, “I don’tknow anything about it.”

When I asked presidential histori-an Richard Norton Smith (who iscurrently writing a biography of Ger-ald Ford), about Trump’s posture, hehad a tart response: “He wants to takecredit for D-Day without acceptingresponsibility for Pearl Harbor.”

Trump, with his notorious igno-rance of history, also fails to see theperils of being in charge during acrisis. He has made no effort to learnfrom Lyndon Johnson, whose for-tunes fell so low that he abandonedhis 1968 reelection campaign duringan unsuccessful war.

As Smith says, Johnson failed “inlarge part because of the gross dis-crepancy between what he wasclaiming and what people were see-ing every night in their living rooms.”

Trump thinks the coronaviruspandemic will be his World War II. Itmay be his Vietnam.

Steve Chapman, a member of the Tribune Editorial Board, blogs atwww.chicagotribune.com/chapman.

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President Donald Trump takes a question during a briefing on COVID-19 at the White House on Friday in Washington, D.C.

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Note to Trump: Being a wartime president is about more than claiming victories

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Not that long ago, references to Ameri-ca’s toxic politics and the poisonous parti-san divide were largely metaphorical.

Now, though, with a highly contagiousvirus loose in the land and Republicanstaking the threat far less seriously thanDemocrats, the split has become literallylethal.

The polling results are consistent andstaggering

In an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist polltaken March 13 and 14, 76% of self-identi-fied Democrats said they felt the co-ronavirus is a real threat, compared with40% of Republicans.

In an NBC News/Wall Street Journalpoll taken March 11-13, 61% of Democratsbut just 30% of Republicans said theyplanned to avoid large gatherings due tofears of the spreading coronavirus. Whenasked then if the worst was yet to come,79% of Democrats said yes (correctly, as itturned out) compared with just 40% ofRepublicans.

A Pew Research Center Election NewsPathways survey released Wednesdayfound 53% of Republicans saying the newsmedia has greatly exaggerated the risk ofthe coronavirus compared with 22% ofDemocrats. Just 33% of Republicans saidthey felt COVID-19 was going to present amajor threat to the U.S. population com-pared with 59% of Democrats.

A poll taken last Sunday through Tues-day for the Economist/YouGov exploredthe partisan split in depth and offeredthese nuggets:■ “Do you think the coronavirus epidemicis a national emergency?” Yes — Demo-crats 81%, Republicans 53%■ “How concerned are you about a co-ronavirus epidemic here in the UnitedStates?” Very concerned — Democrats49%, Republicans 23%■ “How worried are you personally aboutexperiencing coronavirus?” Very or some-what worried — Democrats 71%, Republi-cans 45%■ “Have you reduced the number of timesyou eat out at restaurants or bars to preventthe spread of the coronavirus?” Yes —Democrats 64%, Republicans 44%■ Americans “are overreacting to the actu-al risks of contracting the virus.” Agree —Democrats 35%, Republicans, 58%

These ratios track closely with the re-sults of a Quinnipiac University poll and an

encouraged people to go about their livesas if nothing was amiss, and thus theyfacilitated the spread of a disease thatstands to rack up a chilling body count.

Trump has recently adopted a new tone,now referring to the virus as “horrible” andsaying on Tuesday that he “felt it was apandemic long before it was called a pan-demic.”

But he reverted to earlier form in anappalling moment during a Friday newsconference when Peter Alexander of NBCNews lobbed a softball question at him. Hecited the number of infections and fatali-ties, and asked, “What do you say to Ameri-cans who are watching you right now whoare scared?”

“I say that you’re a terrible reporter,that’s what I say,” Trump replied. “I thinkit’s a very nasty question, and I think it’s avery bad signal that you’re putting out tothe American people. The American peo-ple are looking for answers and they’relooking for hope, and you’re doing sensa-tionalism. … You ought to be ashamed ofyourself.”

But the shame hangs over those whohave seen the coronavirus as a politicalwedge, not a public health problem. Thehope for the American people is thatTrump finally begins to speak and actaccordingly.

Re: TweetsThere have been so many tweets about

isolation and self-quarantining that I cre-ated two divisions for the latest onlineTweet of the Week poll. The winner in thecoronavirus division was, “In an unsettlingreversal of my teenage years, I am nowyelling at my parents for going out,” by@BrigidWD.

The winner in the standard division was“One thing that’s cool about Irish people isyou’ll meet a guy named something likeLiobhan and he’ll be like ‘it’s pronouncedLucas but everyone calls me Sully,’ ” by@SortaBad.

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said in a Jan. 22 interview. “It’s one personcoming in from China. … It’s going to bejust fine.”

On Jan. 31 he said of the coronavirus,“we pretty much shut it down.” On Feb. 27he said, “It’s going to disappear. One day —it’s like a miracle — it will disappear,” and ata rally the following day, he referred to it asthe Democrats’ “new hoax.”

To doubt that was to doubt Trump,something that roughly 40% of the publicseems unable to do under any circum-stances. So Trump’s bootlickers in theright-wing media went right along with hisblithe nonsense.

“The coronavirus is the common cold,folks,” said syndicated radio gasbag RushLimbaugh on Feb. 24.

“I feel like the more I learn about this,the less there is to worry about,” said FoxNews’ Pete Hegseth on March 8. The fol-lowing day, Fox host Sean Hannity saidcoronavirus fears were simply an attemptto “bludgeon Trump with this new hoax.”

The polls reflected the success of thismessage. When Pew asked respondents ifTrump had “gotten the risks about right,”79% of those who said they got most oftheir news from Fox said yes, comparedwith the 37% of the overall population andjust 4% of those who get their news fromThe New York Times.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but theTrump/Fox message sowed death. They

Axios/Survey Monkey poll taken in thefirst 10 days of March. And even the Demo-crats surveyed seem excessively optimistic.Polls in the field today are likely to reflectgreater alarm and greater caution as thenumber of cases and the number of deathscontinue to grow along with the list ofstates more or less shutting down to try toprevent contagion. Let’s hope they also arereflecting a narrowing of the partisan di-vide.

The coronavirus doesn’t wear a redjersey or a blue jersey. It doesn’t care aboutyour politics or your opinions. What virusdoes, though, is take advantage of unwar-ranted optimism, spreading itself mosteasily in settings where blithe, indifferentpeople gather. It infects most readily thecasually indifferent among us who thinkit’s no big deal and that a vaccine will beready in just a few months (28% of Repub-licans and 17% of Democrats in the Pewpoll).

And because of the stealthy way thecoronavirus can be spread by those whoaren’t yet symptomatic or may never be-come symptomatic, these happy-go-luckyvectors of disease then become a threat tous all.

The dangerous Democratic/Republicandivide here is rooted in President DonaldTrump’s early attempts to minimize thethreat.

“We have it totally under control,” he

Our partisan split on the coronavirusputs all of us at greater risk

President Donald Trump responds to a question by NBC News White House correspond-

ent Peter Alexander during a Coronavirus Task Force briefing Friday at the White House.

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CHICAGO FLASHBACKBreaking history since 1847

What makes a fair athlete?With a sign-stealing scandal

rocking Major League Baseball,what may come to mind are com-petitors who act with integrity andplay by the rules of the game.

In the early 1900s, however, theterm “fair athlete” was a genderedway of referring to a girl or woman— a member of the so-called fairersex — participating in sports.

Society’s rules at the time gen-erally kept women on the sidelinesof athletic activities, but one sporthelped women break onto thefield and crack the gender barrier:field hockey. The sport, which issimilar to ice hockey but takesplace outdoors on grass, withhockeylike sticks, a ball and op-posing goals, was “the first teamsport deemed acceptable forwomen to play,” according to theIllinois High School Association.

The thought at first was thatwomen would play field hockey tobe fit for their husbands, but thesport took off, finding an enthusi-astic pool of players in Chicagoand opening up a new era of op-portunities for women here. Itcontinues to enjoy popularitytoday with young women.

Field hockey in the U.S. “isalmost entirely a women’s game,”according to the IHSA, though itdidn’t start off that way. The rootsof the sport can be traced to theearly 19th century as a gameplayed by men in England, but itwas “avidly adopted” by girls andwomen in academies and collegesthere by the 1860s and 1870s. Bythe turn of the 20th century, thesport had jumped the pond andspread through elite Americanwomen’s colleges in the East,according to the IHSA.

Soon, women took up sticks inthe Midwest and at the Universityof Chicago. A Tribune report fromearly 1903 described the burgeon-ing “coed” activity at the U. of C.:As many as “fifty young womenhave been seen at one time playinghockey near the campus” —weather willing, of course.

“On fair days the coeds could beseen in their red, blue, and vari-

ously colored jackets runningacross the green just north of themidway plaisance, between Kim-bark and Woodlawn avenues,driving a hockey ball through thegoals,” the Tribune wrote.

Field hockey was seen as a wayfor young women to escape theconfines of the gym, where theirphysical activities were previouslyrelegated.

“Miss Gertrude Dudley, instruc-tor for women at the university (ofChicago), thinks it is a speciallybeneficial sport for young womenbecause it is not too exhaustingand has all the advantages of beingspirited and being played in theopen air,” the Tribune said. “Shehas encouraged the young womento register for this work in prefer-ence to the gymnasium workindoors.”

By 1906, some of the city’s parkswere hosting formal field hockeyclasses alongside classes for tennisand rowing. And Chicago womenwere embracing field hockey notjust for exercise, but also as a wayto train for self-defense. Morewomen had entered the workforceand also were traveling alone atnight thanks to changing norms.

“This year,” the Tribune re-ported in 1906, “the increasedinterest in physical work by wom-en is believed by park officials tobe mainly the result of her terror-ized winter. The woman who isfrequenting the parks is she who,from business life or any othercause, has to be out at night. Thefact that she is giving her attentionto physical development (parkofficials) give as the reason thatlittle squads of women, young andold, pretty and otherwise, andaccompanied by trainers, areinvading the parks.”

The report continued: “Fieldhockey has space reserved for itfor the first time this year in Lin-coln park and is played regularlyby a large class of women in thesouth end of the ball field. This is atraining for self-defense. It best fits(a woman) to run swiftly anddevelops her lung power.”

The Tribune noted that whilein the past a woman went to thegym “to get thinner or fleshier, or

she is taking exercises to make herwaist line longer,” the focus hadshifted to building confidence andself-awareness through athleticexertion.

“‘The girl who has training inthis sort of work,’ says Miss Lash,one of the principals of one school,‘is an entirely different sort ofcreature in appearance from onewho does not in the least under-stand the handling or poise of herbody. She has self-esteem, exulta-tion, pride, confidence, all ofwhich are apparent in her bearing.She is erect in carriage, fearless,direct, and purposeful in her walk,in all of which she repels ratherthan invites attack.’”

By the beginning of the nextdecade, the Tribune noted thenew opportunities for physicaldevelopment available to Chicagowomen.

“All over the world one findsgirls who have never known whatit was to have a genuine playtime.It was work at school, and workhard at that, in order, to getthrough as quickly as possible, inorder that they might take up aprofession or occupation that

would bring in money. … In Chi-cago there are many of these girls.A kindly fate has ordained, howev-er, that in the future the numberwill be decreased for in variousparts of the city there are placeswhere the working girl may haveher diversion and exercise.”

The Tribune noted that by 1910,the city’s parks were home toprograms for baseball, golf, horse-back riding and rowing — all forwomen and all thanks to the suc-cess of “the first classes in outdoorwork,” namely field hockey andtennis, started in the parks just afew years previously.

The Tribune’s retrospective onthe state of women’s sports waswritten as the federal governmentwas considering an appropriationbill to provide for a physical edu-cation specialist in schools.

“Is not the girl who worksentitled to the same rights ofhealth and strength and physicaldevelopment as her strongerbrother?” the Tribune’s articleconcludes. “Chicago has voiced anation’s answer — Yes!”

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FAIRPLAY

When womencracked thegender barrierwith sticks: Field hockey in the early 1900s created a revolution in sports

By Elise De Los Santos LEFT: Senior

team captain

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EDITORIALS

In last year’s “The Body: A Guide for Occu-pants,” Bill Bryson notes a milestone in humanhistory: 2011 was the first year in which more peo-ple died from noncommunicable diseases (e.g.,heart failure, stroke, diabetes) than from all infec-tious diseases combined. “We live,” Bryson writes,“in an age in which we are killed, more often thannot, by lifestyle.”

The bacterium that caused the 14th century’sBlack Death was in the air, food and water, sobreathing, eating and drinking were risky behav-iors. Today, deaths from the coronavirus are not aptto match what Bryson calls “suicide by lifestyle,” anepidemic that will continue long after the co-ronavirus has.

Three decades after Jonas Salk’s good deed,AIDS shattered complacency about infectiousdisease epidemics being mere memories. AIDS,however, was largely a behaviorally caused epi-demic based in the United States primarily in 30 orso urban neighborhoods.

Changes in sexual behavior, and less sharing ofneedles by intravenous drug users, tamed the epi-demic.

Modern medicine, and especially pharmacology,has brought Americans blessings beyond theirgrandparents’ dreams. Nevertheless, a sour aromaof disappointment surrounds health care, which isthe most important policy issue in a nation grippedby political, social and actual hypochondria.

An old axiom (“Eat sensibly, exercise diligently,die anyway”) has become a new grievance: Medi-cine’s limitations, made more conspicuous by med-icine’s successes, are disturbing reminders of theskull beneath the skin of life.

George F. Will, The Washington Post

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING

Snowstorms, Chicagoans understand: Awinter weather system shuts down busi-ness activity for a few days, then the suncomes out. A recession or financial crisis?We’ve survived those too.

The coronavirus pandemic is a differentcategory of catastrophe, a public healththreat that can only be tamed by banningaspects of human interaction. It’s impossibleto keep an economy humming when peopletemporarily can’t mingle, whether on Ford’sChicago assembly line or at a tavern.

So who might save the day when there’sno snow to melt? That’s a dangerous ques-tion because the easy answer is expensive:The federal government has the power tocommit near limitless amounts of taxpayermoney to replace every missing paycheck,protect every nervous employer and saveevery buckling business. To go big, as Presi-dent Donald Trump vows. To spread casharound. To make payrolls. To save airlines.And Boeing too. How about money forBoeing?

There’s panic selling on Wall Street andpanic promising in Washington, whereCongress is compiling a $1 trillion-plusemergency fiscal stimulus package. Howmuch exactly and to benefit whom? As TheAssociated Press notes ominously: All thepressure is for the package to keep growing.

No one should be evicted by a pandemic

There is urgent work for the govern-ment to do to protect Americans fromCOVID-19. It begins with defeating thispotentially deadly illness as quickly aspossible, even deploying public and work-place lockdowns. The Federal Reserveneeds to use its powers to keep the finan-cial system operating so the economicdisruption of coronavirus doesn’t trigger abanking meltdown.

Federal and state governments also havea role, which includes supporting peoplewho have lost their jobs due to the publichealth emergency. The economy is headedfor a period of steep job losses. Trumpsigned a $100 billion aid package to expandpaid leave and unemployment benefits.Congress could work off that base to addcoverage if needed so that, for example, gigeconomy workers can supplement lostincome. The social safety net should beready when people need help. The Hous-ing and Urban Development Departmentsuspended foreclosures and evictionsthrough April. Good idea. No one should beput on the street because of an epidemic.

The secondary viruseffect: Writing checks

The caution we express is about thesecondary coronavirus effect: the rush bypoliticians to throw money at this crisis inhopes of making all negative and unantici-pated consequences go away. It’s businessas usual for government to spend otherpeople’s money aggressively. When indoubt, spend. When not in doubt, spend.When in crisis, spend more. That’s the onlyway to look at the White House plan tofight the virus by, yes, writing checks tomost Americans.

How much of your money, taxpayers, isWashington willing to hand out? Treasury

Secretary Steve Mnuchin suggests $1,000to most workers, and $500 to children, inApril and again in May if the epidemic isstill raging. For a family of four, that wouldbe $3,000 a month, as both assistance andstimulus for the stagnating economy. Couldthat figure go higher? You bet. Senate Ma-jority Leader Mitch McConnell likes thesound of $1,200 per person.

But people still working don’t need thecash. It will arrive as a gift (remember, agift you are paying for). This is profligacy.Past exercises in government largessesuggest many recipients will save the mon-ey instead of spend it. Pols would be wiserto deliver relief money quickly to those inneed, such as: furloughed restaurant work-ers, quarantined Uber drivers and under-employed dog walkers (because Fido isenjoying the work-from-home experience).

Bailing out the big boys As soon as Americans began social dis-

tancing and business activity fell off, theleaders of some of America’s biggest indus-tries started worrying, and seeking govern-ment assistance. Airlines want money totide them over. The restaurant industry,hotels and casinos too. Small businesseswant help, and so does one of the country’slargest: Chicago-based Boeing. Whocouldn’t use a few billion dollars to get pasta tight spot? Trump, whose casinos havefiled for bankruptcy, feels their pain.

The problem with bailouts to specificindustry — whether in the form of cash,loans or other assistance — is that selectingwinners and losers plays God in the

marketplace. Government aid to privatebusinesses distorts competition and allowsweaker players to survive. Bailouts alsocreate a moral hazard, establishing thenotion that business owners and investorscan take aggressive risks — such as runningup enormous debt during good times —because they believe the government willsave them. This creates a destructive cycle:Companies act recklessly, get bailed out,then go forward (even the weaker ones)while still being reckless. Remember thatthe airlines got bailouts after 9/11.

Say ‘No’ to Boeing During the Great Recession, General

Motors and Chrysler received governmenthelp. Ford didn’t ask — because it was inbetter shape. It had prepared. That’s whywe didn’t like those bailouts. If Americansweren’t willing to save automakers bybuying their vehicles, they shouldn’t havehad to save them with their tax dollars. Thesame principle should apply to UnitedAirlines, Boeing and other companies.

While true that this unforeseen epidem-ic caused passenger airline traffic to virtu-ally disappear, it’s also true airlines failed toprepare for a few months’ disruption.According to Bloomberg, the biggest U.S.airlines spent 96% of free cash flow lastdecade buying back their own shares.Boeing brought problems on itself. Thecompany mismanaged the design androllout of its 737 Max jet, leading to twofatal air crashes, the grounding of the fleetand exit of the CEO. Now with the airlinescutting back, Boeing is suffering.

There are ways for struggling companiesto survive, such as enticing new investorsto provide loans. Bankruptcy court reor-ganizations also are possible, which wouldhurt shareholders, but that’s how it’s sup-posed to be: Investors and executives whoget the rewards should bear the risks, with-out counting on help from Uncle Sam andhis millions of taxpayers.

America comes together, and adapts

The scariness of this moment is bal-anced by a certainty: Chicago’s emptystreets, closed dining establishments andreduced business activity represent part ofa temporary freeze. The pandemic will lift,and then the economy will roar back to life.Many analysts expect a deep recessionwith high unemployment followed byrecovery within a year.

The American economy is fundamen-tally strong, and its businesses are flexible.Just drive down those seemingly quiet cityblocks and you’ll see new signs outsiderestaurants offering curbside delivery oftakeout food. Never used video businessconferencing before? We bet you will soon.

Most workers, like most companies, willget through this crisis by adapting. Thiscataclysmic event will have the feel of along snowstorm. Some businesses will fail.Many people will be out of work. Govern-ment should be there to provide appropri-ate assistance, just as it’s there to helpshovel the snow after a storm. “Appropri-ate,” we’d add, isn’t a synonym for “unnec-essary” or “unlimited.”

Washington’s coronavirus reflex:Spend, spend, spend

President Donald Trump listens during a teleconference with governors Thursday at FEMA headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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Hoarding duringcoronavirus onlymakes crisis worse

Regarding hoarding and gro-cery store employees: A crisisbrings out the best and worst inpeople. Excessive hoarding ingrocery stores reveals the worstsince many customers arrivinglater cannot buy the necessitiesthey need.

The employees who work inthese stores represent the best.Stocking shelves, aiding custom-ers and handling transactions atthe registers for hundreds ofpeople in close proximity, theyare true heroes who are con-stantly putting themselves at risk.

— Larry Vigon, Chicago

Coronavirus andnursing homes

As we speak, many of our Illi-nois nursing homes and assistedliving facilities are rightly limitingor banning visitors, including

the nature of the institution. Thepolice protect each other becauseno one else can or will.

Our dilemma is that we haveallowed the growth of an armedelite in the midst of a republic. Wewant a professional police force,but we can’t face the fact that it isa standing threat to our rights andliberties. It is a standing army.

The police department rou-tinely invokes its professionalstatus to justify disempoweringthe individual citizen. On person-al safety, police officials say,“Don’t try to defend yourself.Leave it to the professionals.” Onguns they tell us, “We have theright to be armed and you don’tbecause we’re the professionals.”On transparency, they say, “Youdon’t need to see the video. We’lldescribe it for you. We’re theprofessionals.”

The low status of the ordinarycitizen in this city will not becorrected by a civilian policeoversight board alone. We willnever have meaningful policereform until we relate to thepolice as equals. And that alsomeans preserving or recoveringour right to keep and bear arms.We hear the call for constitutionalpolicing, but a police force thathas been granted a gun monopolyis by definition unconstitutional.

— John L. Sutton Jr., Chicago

ial and creative workers. We havea strong foundation of businessacumen. We are a wealthy nation.We have financial strength withsafeguards in place. Recovery willtake time. We will recover. Whatmight happen to other countriesnot so fortunate?

— Russell T. Harwood,Naperville

Civilian policeoversight not enough

I hope the creation of a civilianpolice oversight board (March 11editorial) will do some good, butin a real sense, we have alwayshad civilian oversight. The mayoris a civilian, the aldermen of theCity Council are civilians, andwhat has it got us? Surely, moreoversight is better than less, butperhaps we expect too muchfrom the creation of yet anotherpolitical institution. Perhaps weexpect too much from reform.

There will always be a policecode of silence. With enoughpressure, an individual officerhere and there will open up, butthe majority will close ranksevery time. I’m not saying there isno difference between good copsand bad cops, but the good copsprotect the bad cops, and the badcops protect the good cops. It’s in

This allows for electronic videomonitoring of your loved one intheir private room. Having awireless security camera providesme peace of mind that my moth-er’s needs are being met andensures her safety from abuse andneglect. Even though I cannot seeher in person in this uncertaintime, I am comforted by the life-line that monitoring provides me.I urge anyone who is concernedfor the well-being of their lovedone to utilize this valuable tool.The timing of its importance hasnever been better.

— Marty Hecht, Riverwoods

America will overcomecoronavirus

Our nation’s leadership hasbegun strong, determined andconcerted efforts to battle co-ronavirus, save lives, return citi-zens from abroad, help those infinancial stress, support weak-ened businesses, large and small,and the economy.

Our country is fortunate. Oureconomy has been strong. Peoplehave been prospering. A solidbusiness platform is in place. Wehave many resources. We are welleducated and have entrepreneur-

immediate family, from seeingour loved ones in an effort toreduce the spread of coronavirus.Recently, in Washington state,family members have resorted toshouting through glass to speak totheir loved one as if talking to aprisoner.

As the primary caregiver formy mother, who resides in a nurs-ing facility and suffers fromParkinson’s and dementia, I amgrateful for the Illinois Author-ized Electronic Monitoring inLong-Term Care Facilities Actthat went into effect Jan. 1, 2016.

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PERSPECTIVE

Here’s one of the great journalisticquestions in our age: If a politiciandoes something scandalous in plainsight, even on purpose, is there still ascandal?

President Donald Trump has raisedthat question in my mind many times.The latest came in an over-the-shoul-der photo that Washington Post pho-tographer Jabin Botsford caught of thepresident’s speech text during hisdaily coronavirus news briefingThursday.

Blown-up, the photo shows theword “corona,” a medical term for afamily of viruses, crossed out and theword “Chinese” put in its place with ablack marker.

If every picture tells a story, this oneadded a new twist to the developingdust-up over the president’s use of theterm “Chinese virus,” a usage that hasbeen roundly condemned as raciallyinflammatory by Asian Americans,among many of the rest of us.

There goes our rule-breaking presi-dent again. Most of us might have gonethe other way, replacing divisivewords with something more diplo-matic. Trump puts them in.

In fact, the phrase “Chinese virus”for the coronavirus is reported to havebecome a point of pride for somemembers of Team Trump. Trumpcame up with the label “Chinesevirus” to describe the novel co-ronavirus because it was first detectedin Wuhan, China, late last year.

Some White House staff are re-ported to have used the even moreblatantly offensive label “Kung flu.”

There’s more than mere offenseinvolved here, with Asian Americanand other civil rights leaders citing anincrease in anti-Asian hate crimessince the COVID-19 pandemicerupted. It is one of the most tragicaspects of human nature that grouphate always lurks beneath society’sthin surface of civility.

I don’t blame Trump for the hate,but I do condemn his callous indiffer-ence to the fear that his words stir upin a major segment of our society.

Moments like this give a sinistertone to the deep sighs of “That’s justTrump being Trump.”

But it’s not hard after years ofwatching Trump to see through thistactic. As a lot of his fellow conserva-tives would say, he’s just “triggeringthe libs,” deliberately provoking out-rage among his political critics todistract from more substantive issuesthat he might rather not have to han-dle.

I’m talking about issues like thewidespread shortage — or nonexist-ence — of testing facilities for the

presence of COVID-19, the virus thatcauses the coronavirus illness. Whilethousands of South Koreans, for ex-ample, have been tested, giving offi-cials a workable idea of how the virushas spread and what progress is beingmade to fight it, most Americans areleft in the dark.

But Trump, who seemed to be outof his comfort zone, to say the least,with the virus crisis until he had anadversary or scapegoat onto whom hecould shift blame, received a big giftfrom Chinese leaders who have triedto shift blame on Americans.

Some Chinese officials criticizedAmerican officials for politicizing thepandemic. Other Chinese officialsand news outlets floated unfoundedtheories that blamed the UnitedStates.

Some of their conspiracy theorists,apparently out of embarrassment afterallowing the virus to spreadunchecked for weeks of valuable time,have been pushing the notion thatCOVID-19 is really an American dis-ease brought to Wuhan by visitingmembers of the U.S. Army. So muchfor that long-standing partnership.

This plays right into Trump’s hands— but so, alas, do media pundits likeme who can’t find enough space tohandle all of the outrages that hepushes our way. As if to taunt us, hethrew in some more freewheelingassaults at “fake news,” and the cov-erage of his administration’s handlingof the crisis.

Never mind the rare moment Mon-day when he praised reporters forhelping to keep the public informed ofthe nature of the crisis. Reporters weredoing so, I might add, during weeks ofhis attempts to play down the dangerfrom COVID-19.

In a time of crisis, the public looksto the White House for leadership, aneasier word to say than to display. Wesaw President George W. Bush rise tothe occasion after the Sept. 11 terroristattacks with speeches that helpedunify and reassure the nation with asense of shared purpose. PresidentTrump is still learning.

He still has a problem with mixedmessages. After weeks of playingdown the threat posed by the virus, forexample, he suddenly whippedaround, insisting two weeks ago that,“I’ve felt it was a pandemic before itwas called a pandemic. All you had todo was look at other countries.”

Right. Meanwhile, there were thoseoccasions when Trump either down-played the threat of the virus, over-stated the government’s capacity toreduce the crisis or openly speculatedon untested treatments. Unreliableinformation is not necessarily a scan-dal, but it can lead to one.

Clarence Page, a member of the TribuneEditorial Board, blogs at www.chicagotribune.com/pagespage.

[email protected] @cptime

President Donald Trump stands with his notes, which show where the word “corona” was crossed out and replaced with “Chinese” as he speaks Thursday at the White House.

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Trump’s mixed messages about thecoronavirus pandemic aren’t helping

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DAKAR, Senegal — TheWest African nation of Malihas roughly one ventilatorper 1 million people — 20 inall to help the critically illwith respiratory failure. InPeru, with more than 32million people, about 350beds in intensive care unitsexist.

The coronavirus is mov-ing into parts of the worldthat may be the least pre-pared. Some countries inAfrica and Latin Americalack the equipment or eventrained health workers torespond.

Many of their nations areshutting borders and ban-ning large gatherings in thehope of avoiding the scenesin wealthier countries suchas Italy and the UnitesStates, but local transmis-sion of the virus has begun.

Containing that spread isthe new challenge.

Africa has more than1,000 confirmed cases andLatin America more than2,500, but an early responseis crucial as fragile healthsystems could be quicklyoverwhelmed.

With such limited re-sources, experts say identi-fying cases, tracing and test-ing are key.

“We have seen how thevirus actually acceleratesthat after a certain tippingpoint. So the best advice forAfrica is to prepare for theworst and prepare today,”WHO Director-GeneralTedros Adhanom Ghe-breyesus said last week.

“We have different andsignificant barriers to health

care in Africa, which couldbe a real challenge,” said Dr.Ngozi Erondu, a senior re-search fellow at the Chat-ham House Center for Glob-al Health Security.

Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa do not havethe isolation wards or largenumber of health care work-ers to respond to a surge ofCOVID-19 patients, she said.

Liberia and Burkina Fasoonly have a few ventilatorsfor their millions of people.

Dr. Bernard Olayo, found-er of the Kenya-based Cen-ter for Public Health andDevelopment, said mostcountries in Africa can’tafford ventilators. Even ifventilators were providedby other countries, it’s not

sufficient because of thelack of qualified people touse them.

“It’s complex, becausethe patients that end up onventilators require roundthe clock care by largerteams,” he said.

It’s not all grim. ElsieKanza, head of Africa at theWorld Economic Forum,said many countries aredeploying lessons learnedfrom the Ebola outbreak inWest Africa in 2014-2016that killed well over 10,000people.

The Africa Centers forDisease Control and Pre-vention was created to re-spond to that Ebola out-break. As of Thursday, morethan 40 countries can test

for the coronavirus, it said.In addition, Chinese billion-aire Jack Ma pledged todonate 1.1 million testingkits, 6 million masks and60,000 protective suits andface shields to share amongall African countries.

Meanwhile, Senegal ishelping to develop a fastCOVID-19 test that is ex-pected in June.

But some including Ad-ama Dempster, a humanrights advocate in Liberia,warned that support forAfrican nations’ effortsmight dry up if cases soar.

“It’s something that isworrisome because othercountries that are so power-ful and have the sophis-tication to deal with things

like this are themselves con-cerned about their own situ-ation,” she said.

Africa isn’t the only conti-nent worried about what’sto come.

Several countries in LatinAmerica are among the leastprepared in the world for apandemic, with healthcaresystems already stretchedthin.

Peruvian Minister of De-fense Walter Martos toldlocal America TV last weekthat the nation has less than400 respirators available.

“It’s not a lot,” he said.“Really, we don’t have theinfrastructure that devel-oped nations do.”

Peru and other nations inLatin America are looking to

the experience in Europe asa cautionary tale and hopingto curtail the spread ofcoronavirus cases beforethey overwhelm hospitals.

Epidemiologist CristianDiaz Velez said those mea-sures could potentially cre-ate a slower rise in cases thatis more manageable for Pe-ru’s medical system. He saidthe country has around 300to 350 beds in intensive careunits, half of which are nowin use.

“It will overwhelm ourhealthcare system,” he said,if cases skyrocket.

Other countries in LatinAmerica could fare farworse.

Venezuela ranks 176th of195 nations worldwide inpreparedness for a healthcrisis, according to the Glob-al Health Security Index, aproject of the John HopkinsCenter for Health Securityand the Nuclear Threat Ini-tiative.

The nation’s health caresystem has been crippled byyears of economic contrac-tion, political chaos and ahumanitarian crisis, withrising infant mortality ratesand critical shortages ofwater and medicine.

A migration crisis inwhich over 4.5 million peo-ple have fled could exacer-bate the spread of the virusthroughout the region.

That is of particular con-cern in Colombia, wherenearly 2 million Venezue-lans now live as hospitalsalong the border have seentheir capacity stretched.

“The health system obvi-ously has a capacity thatcould be clearly surpassed,in Colombia and in anycountry in Latin America,”said Dr. Alfonso Rodriguez-Morales, vice president ofthe Colombian Associationfor Infectious Diseases.

Virus puts vulnerable nations at riskLatin America andAfrica lack tools to stem spreadBy Carley PeteschAssociated Press

A supermarket cashier waits for customers behind a makeshift plastic curtain Monday in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

NATACHA PISARENKO/AP

BERLIN — Streets,squares and highways weredeserted in large parts of theworld Saturday as curfewsand lockdowns multipliedin the face of a rapidlyadvancing virus that is se-verely straining manyhealth systems.

Almost a week into tightrestrictions on free move-ment and the closure ofmost shops in Spain, policeintensified their efforts toenforce confinement ruleswith fines and extra patrolsto stop city-dwellers withsecond homes in the coun-try from leaving town forthe weekend. Spain now hasthe third-highest number ofinfections worldwide. OnSaturday it reported almost5,000 new cases in the pastday, bringing the total tonearly 25,000. The deathtoll rose to more than 1,300up from 1,002 Friday.

As hospitals and nursinghomes buckle under theburden of the virus out-break, Spanish health au-thorities have acknowl-

edged that some intensivecare units in the hardest-hitareas are close to their limit,and warned that they ex-pect infections to continueto rise before measures toreverse the trend have aneffect. The army was build-ing a field hospital with5,500 beds in a conventioncenter in Madrid, wherehotels are also being turnedinto wards for virus patientswithout serious breathingproblems. Dr. Olga Meridi-ano, who treated victims ofa 2004 jihadist bomb attackin Madrid that killed nearly200 people and woundedmany times more, saidnothing prepared her forthe national health tragedythat Spain is now enduring.

“I have been throughmany situations,” she saidfrom the central city ofGuadalajara, where sheworks in a public hospital.“But nothing is like this.

“If we keep seeing dailyincreases of 23%, this can-not be withstood muchlonger,” Meridiano said.“We are doubling up on ourshifts. We have strategies tohang in there this week, butbeyond that we need thesituation to improve be-cause we professionals arebearing a lot of pressure,including emotional.”

In Germany’s southern

state of Bavaria, townsquares were empty. Pi-geons outnumbered peoplein London’s usually bustlingTrafalgar Square andLeicester Square a day afterthe British government or-dered the closure of all bars,restaurants, movie theatersand other places wherepeople congregate.

Shoppers still flocked tostreet markets in both coun-tries, a sign that restrictionswere being interpreted in apatchwork fashion. Thenumber of confirmed casesof COVID-19 recorded inAfrica rose above 1,000 Sat-urday, according to the Afri-ca Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention. At least40 of Africa’s 54 countriesnow have cases.

More than 300,000 caseshave been confirmed glob-ally, including nearly 13,000deaths, according to a run-ning tally by Johns HopkinsUniversity. Nearly 95,000people have recovered.

For most people, the newvirus causes only mild ormoderate symptoms, suchas fever and cough. Forsome, especially olderadults and people with ex-isting health problems, itcan cause more severe ill-ness, including pneumonia.The vast majority recover.

Officials in many coun-

tries are desperate to pre-vent — or at least limit — arepeat of what has hap-pened in China and south-ern Europe. The co-ronavirus outbreak over-whelmed medical servicesin the central Chinese cityof Wuhan earlier this yearand now is pushing them tothe limit in Italy, Spain andFrance. Italy’s surging casenumbers have frustratedhealth officials. Statementsby authorities earlier in theoutbreak had raised hopesthat new infections mightsoon start dropping off. Buton Saturday, officials re-ported more than 4,800new infections and 793 newdeaths. The country, which

has Europe’s largest out-break, now has at least53,578 cases and 4,825 dead.

Health Minister RobertoSperanza called for a “greatalliance” between citizensand institutions, saying“what counts more is thebehavior of every individu-al.” Giuseppe Sala, mayor ofMilan, capital of the hard-est-stricken region of Lom-bardy, tried to rally the city’s1.4 million citizens, tweet-ing that “by now, we haveunderstood, this is a mara-thon, not a sprint.”

Germany’s southwesternstate of Baden-Wuerttem-berg on Saturday offered totake in patients from theneighboring French region

of Alsace that’s strugglingwith a surge of infectionsoverwhelming hospitals.

Britain still lags behindItaly, Spain and France inthe spread of the virus, butthe country’s overstretchedhealth system is creaking.The state-funded NationalHealth Service has about4,000 critical-care beds andsome 5,000 ventilators, andofficials say that’s far fewerthan will be needed as thenumber of cases spikes inthe coming weeks. Britain,which has recorded 3,983confirmed cases ofCOVID-19 and 177 deaths,has already asked 65,000retired nurses and doctorsto return to work.

Global lockdowns jumpas virus keeps spreadingMore than 300,000cases of COVID-19reported worldwide

By Frank Jordansand Joseph WilsonAssociated Press

Coffins at a church Saturday in Serina paint a grim picture of what’s happening in Italy,

where the death toll has topped 4,800. There have been nearly 13,000 deaths worldwide.

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CAPE CANAVERAL,Fla. — Isolated at home?Then train like an astronaut.

That’s the inspirationaladvice from a public en-gagement specialist atNASA’s Jet PropulsionLaboratory in Pasadena,California.

Astronaut wannabeRachel Zimmerman-Brach-man said Friday that isola-tion is a lot like astronauttraining. So she came upwith this positive message

and launched it via Face-book on Thursday:

“Attitude is everything:I’m on an adventure in aconfined space with a smallcrew for a long durationmission, with occasionalspacewalks and resupplymissions. Sounds like astro-naut training to me.”

Zimmerman-Brachman,a longtime JPL employeewith degrees in physics andspace studies, said she haswanted to be an astronautsince childhood. She’s ap-plied four times throughNASA and the Canadian

Space Agency. (She has dualcitizenship.)

She immediately thoughtof friends who have lived insimulated Martian habitatsand taken part in otherlong-duration isolationstudies, once the co-ronavirus outbreak hit theU.S. and space programemployees like herself wereurged to work from home.Her 14-year-old son ishome, too, in ShermanOaks, California, dealingwith schoolwork.

JPL is working up a list ofspace-related educational

activities that youngsterscan do while home.

“Life is a combination ofwhat happens to you andwhat you do about it. We’regoing to be at home for awhile, so we may as wellmake the best of it,” shewrote in an email.

“I hope other people willbe inspired to have a pos-itive attitude during thischallenging time, and find away to find silver linings inthe current situation,” sheadded.

“We’re all in this to-gether.”

Astronaut Scott Kelly sits inside a Soyuz simulator. JPL’s

Rachel Zimmerman-Brachman says isolating because of

coronavirus is like astronaut training.

BILL INGALLS/NASA 2015

Treat that confined space like it’s outer spaceBy Marcia DunnAssociated Press


WASHINGTON — Theoutbreak of the respiratoryvirus began in China andwas quickly spread aroundthe world by air travelers,who ran high fevers. In theUnited States, it was firstdetected in Chicago, and 47days later the World HealthOrganization declared apandemic.

By then it was too late: 110million Americans were ex-pected to become ill, leadingto 7.7 million hospitalizedand 586,000 dead.

That scenario, code-named “Crimson Conta-gion,” was simulated by theTrump administration’s De-partment of Health and Hu-man Services in exercisesthat ran from last January toAugust.

The simulation’s so-bering results — containedin an October 2019 draftreport that has not previ-ously been reported — drovehome just how under-funded, underprepared anduncoordinated the federalgovernment would be for alife-or-death battle with avirus for which no treat-ment existed.

Many of the potentiallydeadly consequences of afailure to address the short-comings are now playingout. And it was hardly thefirst warning for the nation’sleaders. Three times overthe past four years the U.S.government, across two ad-ministrations, had grappledin depth with what a pan-demic would look like, iden-tifying likely shortcomingsand in some cases recom-mending specific action.

In 2016 the Obama ad-ministration produced acomprehensive report onthe lessons learned by the

government from battlingEbola. In January 2017 out-going Obama administra-tion officials ran an exten-sive exercise on respondingto a pandemic for incomingsenior officials of theTrump administration.

The full story of theTrump administration’s re-sponse to the coronavirus isstill playing out, but theWhite House defended itsrecord, saying it respondedto the 2019 exercise with anexecutive order to improvethe availability and qualityof flu vaccines, and that itmoved early this year toincrease funding for theHealth and Human ServiceDepartment’s program thatfocuses on global pandemicthreats.

Yet officials have de-clined to say why the ad-ministration was so slow toroll out broad testing, ormove faster, as the simula-tions all indicated it should,to urge social distancingand school closings.

Asked Thursday about

the government’s pre-paredness, Trump respond-ed, “Nobody knew therewould be a pandemic orepidemic of this propor-tion. Nobody has ever seenanything like this before.”

The work done over thepast five years, however,demonstrates that the gov-ernment had considerableknowledge about the risksof a pandemic and accu-rately predicted the verytypes of problems Trump isscrambling to address.

“Crimson Contagion,”the exercise conducted lastyear in Washington and 12states including New Yorkand Illinois, showed thatfederal agencies underTrump continued theObama-era effort to thinkahead about a pandemic.

But the planning andthinking happened manylayers down in the bureau-cracy. The knowledge andsense of urgency about theperil appear never to havegotten sufficient attentionat the highest level of the

executive branch or fromCongress, leaving the na-tion with funding shortfalls,equipment shortages anddisorganization within andamong various branchesand levels of government.

As early as the George W.Bush administration,homeland security andhealth officials focused onbig gaps in the U.S. responseto a biological attacks andthe growing risk of pan-demics. The first test camein April 2009, just after thestart of President BarackObama’s first term. A 10-year-old California girl wasdiagnosed with a conta-gious disease that would becalled swine flu or H1N1,the first flu pandemic inmore than 40 years.

The Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention es-timates that ultimatelythere were about 60.8 mil-lion cases in the U.S., alongwith 274,304 hospitali-zations and 12,469 deathsassociated with H1N1.

The virus turned out to

be less deadly than firstexpected. But it was a warn-ing shot that officials in theObama administration saidthey took seriously, kickingoff a planning effort thatescalated in early 2014, withthe outbreak of Ebola inWest Africa and ensuingfear that it could spread tothe U.S.

Ebola was less contagiousthan the flu, but far moredeadly. It killed 11,000 peo-ple in Africa, and could havebeen far worse. The U.S.sent nearly 3,000 troops toAfrica to help keep thedisease from spreading.

While the containmenteffort was considered a suc-cess, inside the WhiteHouse, officials sensed thatthe U.S. had gotten lucky —and that the response hadrevealed gaps in prepared-ness.

Christopher Kirchhoff, anational security aide whomoved from the Pentagon tothe White House to dealwith the Ebola crisis, wasgiven the job of putting

together a “lessons learned”report, with input fromacross the government.

The weaknesses Kirch-hoff identified were earlywarning signals of what hasunfolded in the past threemonths.

While the U.S. rapidlydeveloped a way to screenair passengers coming intothe U.S. — borrowing fromintelligence tools developedafter 9/11 to track possibleterrorists — Kirchhoff founddeficiencies in even measur-ing how fast the virus wasspreading.

On the plus side, theObama White House hadcreated an Ebola Task Force,run by Ron Klain, VicePresident Joe Biden’s for-mer chief of staff, before asingle case emerged in theU.S. Congress allocated $5.4billion in emergency fund-ing to pay for Ebola treat-ment and prevention effortsin the U.S. and West Africa.

The money helped fund alittle-known agency insidethe Health and HumanServices Department incharge of preparing for fu-ture contagious disease out-breaks, the same office thatin 2019 ran the CrimsonContagion exercise andother similar events in theyears since.

What is striking in read-ing Kirchhoff’s account to-day, however, is how few ofthe major faults he found inthe American response re-sulted in action — eventhough the report was filledwith department-by-de-partment recommenda-tions.

But one big change didcome out of the study: Thecreation of a dedicated of-fice at the National SecurityCouncil to coordinate re-sponses and raise the alarmearly.

“What I learned most isthat we had to stand up aglobal biosecurity andhealth directorate, and get itenshrined for the next ad-ministration,’’ said LisaMonaco, Obama’s home-land security adviser.

Warnings noted, but went unheededExercises showedUS overmatchedfor viral outbreak By David E. Sanger,

Eric Lipton,

Eileen Sullivan

and Michael Crowley

The New York Times

Health care workers prepare to enter a high-risk ward at an Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia.

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WASHINGTON — Ne-gotiators from Congressand the White House re-sumed top-level talks Sat-urday on a ballooning $1trillion-plus economic res-cue package, urged by Presi-dent Donald Trump tostrike a deal to steady anation thoroughly upendedby the coronavirus.

Officials put the price tagat nearly $1.4 trillion andsaid with other measuresfrom the Federal Reserve itcould pump $2 trillion intothe U.S. economy.

Trump, during a briefingat the White House, ex-pressed optimism that itcould be agreed upon soon.

“They’re all negotiatingand everybody’s workinghard and they want to get toa solution that’s the rightsolution, I think we’re veryclose,” said Trump, whocontinued to strike a confi-dent tone about the nation’sability to defeat the pan-demic soon.

“We are going to becelebrating a great victory inthe not too distant future,”he said.

On Capitol Hill, key con-gressional and WhiteHouse officials convergedfor more talks on thesweeping aid package,

which would provide pay-checks for suddenly joblessAmericans, money for hos-pitals and aid to industry.

The Senate convened therare weekend session withthe aim of drafting thepackage Saturday, holdingan initial vote Sunday andwinning Senate passageMonday.

Senate Majority LeaderMitch McConnell, R-Ky.,said that negotiators aremaking “important prog-ress,” but urged talks towrap up.

“This is not a politicalopportunity, this is a na-tional emergency,” he said.“It’s time to come together,finalize the results of ourbipartisan discussions andclose this out.”

Despite the enormouspressure on Washington toact swiftly, the challengesare apparent. Lawmakersand administration officialslabored late into the eveningFriday over eye-poppingsums and striking federalinterventions, surpassingeven the 2008-09 bank bail-out and stimulus.

Some Democrats ac-knowledged they were tak-en aback by the willingnessof Republicans to embracesuch spending.

“I’m more worried aboutthe deficit than most Re-publicans,” said Rep. TomMalinowski, D-N.J., whofavors targeted cash pay-

ments.Trump has largely stayed

out of the details, whichlawmakers on both sides ofthe aisle privately acknowl-edge may have sped up theprocess, but he said Sat-urday that he would belobbying the lead negotia-tors. He also expressed adistaste for any industry,including airlines, thatwould use federal assist-ance to buy back its ownstock in an effort to increaseprofits.

Banning stock buy-backsis one of Democrats’ toppriorities in the emergingrescue package as lawmak-ers strain to avoid a repeat ofearlier politically toxic bail-outs. Senate Democraticleader Chuck Schumer saidthat meant no layoffs, nosalary boosts for executivesand no stock buy-backs.

Treasury SecretarySteven Mnuchin began ne-gotiations with McConnell,Schumer and other sena-tors from both parties usingMcConnell’s GOP offer as astarting point.

Democrats say Mc-Connell’s plan is insuffi-cient, arguing for greaterincome support for workersand a “Marshall Plan” forthe U.S. health care industry,which is preparing for anonslaught of patients.

The New York Times con-tributed.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks on the Senate floor on Saturday.

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Economic rescue packagetops $1 trillion amid talks By Jonathan Lemire,

Lisa Mascaro and

Andrew Taylor

Associated Press

SEATTLE — Staff mem-bers who worked whilesick at multiple long-termcare facilities contributedto the spread of COVID-19among vulnerable elderlyin the Seattle area, federalhealth officials said in anew report.

The U.S. Centers forDisease Control and Pre-vention has provided themost detailed account todate of what drove theoutbreak still raging in theSeattle area where dozensof deaths deaths have beenlinked to Life Care Centerin Kirkland..

Sick workers may havecontributed, although in-vestigators haven’t tiedspread to “any particularstaff member” and don’tknow how the infectionwas introduced or spread,said Dr. Jeff Duchin, publichealth officer for Seattleand King County, during aphone briefing for report-ers last week.

“They need the money.They don’t have sick leave.They don’t recognize theirsymptoms. They deny theirsymptoms,” Duchin said.And in mid-February,awareness of the virus waslow.

“Nobody was thinkingabout COVID-19 at thispoint,” Duchin said.

Public health authoritieswho surveyed long-termcare facilities in the areafound they didn’t haveenough personal protec-tive equipment or otheritems such as alcohol-based hand sanitizer.

They also said nursinghomes in the area arevulnerable because staffmembers worked withsymptoms, worked in morethan one facility, and some-times didn’t know about orfollow recommendationsabout protecting their eyesor being careful while inclose contact with ill pa-tients.

Nursing home officialsalso were slow to think thatsymptoms might be causedby coronavirus, and facedproblems from limited test-ing ability, according to thereport.

Life Care spokesmanTim Killian said last weekthat full-time nurses qual-ify for two weeks of paidsick leave. He was not surewhat benefits are availableto other job categories orpart-timers.

Several family membersand friends who visitedLife Care before the out-break said that they didn’tnotice any unusual precau-tions, and none said theywere asked about theirhealth or if they had visitedChina or any other coun-tries struck by the virus.

They said visitors camein as they always did, some-times without signing in.

Staffers had only re-cently begun wearing facemasks.

And organized eventswent on as planned, includ-ing a Feb. 26 Mardi Grasparty, where residents andvisitors packed into a com-mon room.

“We were all eating,drinking, singing and clap-ping to the music,” said PatMcCauley, who was therevisiting a friend. “In hind-sight, it was a real germ-fest.”

About 57% of the pa-tients at the nursing homewere hospitalized after get-ting infected, the CDC said.Of those, more than 1 in 4died. No staff membersdied.

“The findings in thisreport suggest that onceCOVID-19 has been intro-duced into a long-term carefacility, it has the potentialto result in high attack ratesamong residents, staffmembers, and visitors,” thereport says. “In the contextof rapidly escalatingCOVID-19 outbreaks inmuch of the United States,it is critical that long-termcare facilities implementactive measures to preventintroduction of COVID-19.”

Infected staff membersincluded those working inphysical therapy, occupa-tional therapy and nursingand nursing assistants.

Researchers who havestudied nursing homeworkers say the jobs arelow paying, with manyearning minimum wage.Many employees don’t getpaid when they are outsick, they said.

“It is very common forthem to work two jobs inorder to make ends meetespecially if they have afamily,” said Charlene Har-rington, of the Universityof California, San Fran-cisco.

Sick care facility staff fueledSeattle-area virus outbreakBy Carla K. Johnson

and Mike Stobbe

Associated Press

Workers conducted drive-up tests of employees on March

14 at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington.

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“You just heard the presi-dent describe one inspiringstory after aother at the waythe American people areresponding, the way Ameri-can businesses are respond-ing, religious communitiesacross this country,” VicePresident Mike Pence said.“The American people arecoming together.”

Pence said he and hiswife, Karen, tested negativefor coronavirus after astaffer in his office testedpositive. He said he had hadno symptoms and no con-tact with the staffer. YetPence stood near Trump onthe briefing room podium.

Pence said the staffer,who did not have closecontact with either thepresident or vice president,was doing well.

Pence reiterated the ad-ministration’s call forAmericans not to seek test-ing unless they’re showingsymptoms of COVID-19,which can include fever,cough and shortness ofbreath.

“If you don’t have symp-toms, don’t do a test,” Pencesaid. “It is another way thatthe American people canmake sure that we arepreserving the resources

our health care workersneed.”

Trump has refused totake responsibility for thenation’s shortage of co-ronavirus tests, a problemthat persists despite re-peated promises from topU.S. officials — particularlyPence — that it would bequickly alleviated.

For most people, the newcoronavirus causes onlymild or moderate symp-toms, such as fever andcough. For some, especiallyolder adults and peoplewith existing health prob-lems, it can cause moresevere illness, includingpneumonia.

The vast majority of peo-ple recover from the newvirus. According to theWorld Health Organization,people with mild illnessrecover in about two weeks,while those with more se-vere illness may take threeto six weeks to recover.

Nearly 200,000 Ameri-cans have completed testingfor coronavirus, officialssaid while displaying agraphic showing a dramaticincrease in recent days.

Meanwhile, New YorkGov. Andrew Cuomo saidthe state is scouring theglobe for medical suppliesand scouting temporaryhospital locations in andaround New York City.Flights were briefly sus-pended to New York City-area airports because of

staffing issues after an airtraffic control worker testedpositive for coronavirus.

Hospitals across the na-tion, about to be over-whelmed by an expectedsurge of coronavirus pa-tients, have reported a direshortage of masks and ven-tilators.

Pence said the govern-ment was completing a$500 million order formasks, but none of thegovernment officials at thebriefing could suggest whenthey would reach medical

facilities, a moment of con-fusion that caused Trump togrow visibly frustrated.

Trump also wonderedwhy so many masks areused in the U.S. health caresystem, and suggested thatsome should be sanitizedand reused to address thesupply shortage.

Health officials againwarned Americans that thenumber of coronaviruscases would continue toincrease in part as testinggrew more widespread.

But Dr. Anthony Fauci,

the government’s top infec-tious disease expert, prom-ised that the administra-tion’s measures were slow-ing the spread even thoughthey were not yet easilyquantified.

Fauci also, again, triednot to overpromise the ef-fectiveness or speed ofmedication that could pos-sibly be used to treat thevirus.

Trump has spent muchof the past three days tout-ing the possible benefits ofhydroxychloroquine.

He claimed Thursdaythat it had already beenapproved for use to fightcoronavirus — though theU.S Food & Drug Adminis-tration denied that — andsaid he had a “hunch” itcould be a “game changer.”

Trump suggested theanti-malarial drug and an-other drug calledazithromycin should beused by those sufferingfrom coronavirus.

“Hopefully they will beput into use immediately,“he wrote on Twitter. “PEO-PLE ARE DYING.”

After Trump had exitedthe briefing room Saturday,Fauci answered a questionabout Trump’s tweet aboutthe drugs by saying “I’m nottotally sure what the presi-dent was referring to.”

Fauci warned the nationFriday that there was noscientific basis for Trump’sclaims.

“There is hope there(but) we should listen to thedoctors and scientists,“ Dr.James Phillips said on CNN.

In Africa, where hydroxy-chloroquine can be obtainedover the counter, peoplehave reportedly rushed todrugstores to seek scarcesupplies and Nigerian offi-cials say some have beensickened after taking im-proper large doses.

The Associated Press andBloomberg News contrib-uted.

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President Donald Trump, left, listens to Vice President Mike Pence during a coronavirus

press briefing on Saturday. Both men have said they tested negative for the virus.

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The Scripps NationalSpelling Bee won’t be heldas scheduled this year be-cause of the coronavirus,meaning years of prepara-tion by some of the country’stop spellers could go fornaught.

Scripps cited state andfederal recommendationsagainst large gatherings Fri-day as it canceled plans tohold the contest during theweek of May 24. Scrippssaid it would try to resched-

ule for later this year but didnot commit to a new date.It’s possible the bee won’t beheld at all.

“Canceling the bee wouldcause an emotional break-down for most spellers,”Navneeth Murali, a 14-year-old bee veteran from Edi-son, New Jersey, told TheAssociated Press. “It wouldbasically be crushing theirdreams.“

Navneeth’s parentsjoined with families of othertop spellers to send an emailto executive director PaigeKimble, urging her to re-

schedule. Kimble expressedconfidence that the logisticsof holding a bee later thisyear could be worked out.

“If it is abundantly clearthat it is safe to hold anin-person gathering, we’regoing to do everything wecan possibly do to have thathappen,” Kimble told AP.“And if it isn’t possible, we’regoing to do everything inour power to reimaginesomething that would stillhappen for kids.”

Most nationally competi-tive spellers devote years oftheir lives to mastering the

dictionary and learningroots and language patterns,hoping for a win before theyage out.

The bee’s rules requireonly that participants notmove beyond eighth gradebefore Aug. 31, which meansif this year’s bee were heldlater than that, the competi-tion could include ninth-graders for the first time.

The Scripps bee began in1925 and this year’s, if ithappens, would be the 93rd.The contest was not heldfrom 1943-45 because ofWorld War II.

Competitors in this 2019 photo vied for the Scripps Na-

tional Spelling Bee trophy in Oxon Hill, Maryland.

PATRICK SEMANSKY/AP

Coronavirus spells cancellation of spelling beeBy Ben NuckolsAssociated Press


SINGAPORE — Twohours. That’s all the timemedical teams in Singaporeare given to uncover thefirst details of how patientscontracted the coronavirusand which people theymight infect.

Did they travel abroad?Do they have a link to one ofthe five clusters of conta-gion identified across thecity-state? Did they coughon someone in the street?Who are their friends andfamily, their drinking bud-dies and partners in prayer?

As Western nationsstruggle with the wildfirespread of the coronavirus,Singapore’s strategy, ofmoving rapidly to trackdown and test suspectedcases, provides a model forkeeping the epidemic at bay,even if it can’t completelystamp out infections.

With detailed detectivework, the government’scontact tracers found,among others, a group ofavid singers who warbledand expelled respiratorydroplets together, spreadingthe virus to their familiesand then to a gym and achurch — forming the larg-est concentration of cases inSingapore.

Quick, decisive and transparent

“We want to stay one ortwo steps ahead of thevirus,” said Vernon Lee,director of the communica-ble diseases division at Sin-gapore’s Ministry of Health.“If you chase the virus, youwill always be behind thecurve.”

Singapore, along withTaiwan and Hong Kong,offers successful ap-proaches, at least so far, inbattling the coronaviruspandemic. Despite being hitmonths ago by the virus,these three Asian societieshave recorded only a hand-ful of deaths and relativelyfew cases, although theycontinue to face risks aspeople from emerging hotspots in the United States,Europe and elsewherecarry the virus with them.

Early intervention is key.So are painstaking tracking,enforced quarantines andmeticulous social distanc-ing — all coordinated by aleadership willing to act fast

and be transparent.In Singapore, the details

of where patients live, workand play are releasedquickly online, allowingothers to protect them-selves. Close contacts ofpatients are quarantined tolimit the spread. The gov-ernment further strength-ened its borders last week toprotect against a new waveof imported infections.

Some of these lessons aretoo late for the UnitedStates and Europe, wherecontagion is raging as somegovernments delay and de-bate their response.

And the vigilant monitor-ing systems in Singapore,Taiwan and Hong Kongwere built over years, aftertheir failures to stop anoth-er dangerous outbreak —SARS — 17 years ago. TheUnited States disbanded itspandemic response unit in2018.

‘Isolating every case’In the early days of the

outbreak, Singapore washighly susceptible to a largepopulation of mainlandChinese people arrivingduring the Lunar New Yearholiday.

The dozens of confirmedcases in Singapore in Janu-ary reflect widespread andfreely available testing.Many were mild cases thatwould otherwise have gone

undiagnosed. NeverthelessSingapore was sprinting tostem the possibility of run-away local transmission.

“Until Italy, Korea andIran happened, Singaporewas the worst outsideChina,” said Linfa Wang,director of the emerginginfectious diseases programat the Duke-National Uni-versity of Singapore Medi-cal School. “Why didn’t wefeel that way? Because thegovernment is very trans-parent and because thatnumber means we are soeffective in tracing and iso-lating every case.”

For all the panic eruptingelsewhere, most Singapor-eans do not wear masks outbecause the governmenthas told them it’s notneeded for their safety.Most schools are still run-ning, albeit with staggeredlunchtimes to avoid bigcrowds. There is plenty oftoilet paper.

As of Tuesday evening,Singapore had 266 con-firmed cases. Only a frac-tion are mysteries, unlinkedto recent foreign travel orpreviously identified localclusters, which includechurches and a private din-ner.

Testing is free in Singa-pore, as is medical treat-ment for all locals. Singa-pore has 140 contact tracersoutlining each patient’s case

history, along with policeand security services doingthe shoe-leather work.

After weeks of investiga-tion and the use of a newantibody test that can detectpeople who have recovered,health officials were able totie two church clusters of 33people to a Lunar New Yeardinner attended by mem-bers of both congregations.

The people who trans-mitted the disease betweenthe two churches had nevershown serious symptoms.

Don’t be a criminal Close contacts of patients

are put into mandatoryquarantine to stop furthercontagion. Nearly 5,000have been isolated. Thosewho dodge quarantine or-ders can face criminalcharges.

All pneumonia patientsin Singapore are tested forcoronavirus. So are peoplewho are seriously ill. Pos-itive cases have been identi-fied at the airport, at gov-ernment clinics and, mostfrequently, through contacttracing.

Singapore’s epidemic re-gimen was shaped by the2003 SARS outbreak, when33 people died out of 238confirmed cases. As inHong Kong, medical work-ers were among the casu-alties in Singapore.

Hong Kong’s heavy death

toll from SARS, nearly 300people, has spurred resi-dents in the semiautono-mous Chinese territory toexercise vestigial muscles ofdisease prevention this timearound, even as local au-thorities initially ditheredon whether to close theborder with mainlandChina. Nearly everyone, itseemed, began squirtinghand sanitizer. Malls andoffices set up thermal scan-ners.

“The most importantthing is that Hong Kongpeople have deep memoriesof the SARS outbreak,” saidKwok Ka-ki, a lawmaker inHong Kong who is also adoctor. “Every citizen didtheir part, including wear-ing masks and washingtheir hands and taking nec-essary precautions, such asavoiding crowded placesand gatherings.”

The Hong Kong govern-ment eventually caught upto the public’s caution. Bor-ders were tightened. Civilservants were ordered towork from home, prompt-ing more companies to fol-low suit. Schools wereclosed in January, until atleast the end of April.

Wuhan a flight awayTaiwan acted even faster.

Like Hong Kong and Singa-pore, Taiwan was linked bydirect flights to Wuhan, the

Chinese city where thevirus is believed to haveoriginated. Taiwan’s na-tional health command cen-ter, which was set up afterSARS killed 37 people, be-gan ordering screenings ofpassengers from Wuhan inlate December even beforeBeijing admitted that thecoronavirus was spreadingbetween humans.

“Having learned our les-son before from SARS, assoon as the outbreak began,we adopted a whole-of-government approach,” saidJoseph Wu, Taiwan’s for-eign minister.

By the end of January,Taiwan had suspendedflights from China, despitethe World Health Organiza-tion advising against it.

The government alsoembraced big data, integrat-ing its national health insur-ance database with its im-migration and customs in-formation to trace potentialcases, said Jason Wang, di-rector of the Center forPolicy, Outcomes and Pre-vention at Stanford Uni-versity.

Getting the word out When coronavirus cases

were discovered on the Dia-mond Princess cruise shipafter a stop in Taiwan, textmessages were sent to everymobile phone on the island,listing each restaurant,tourist site and destinationthat the ship’s passengershad visited during theirshore leave.

As of Tuesday, Taiwanhad recorded 77 cases of thecoronavirus, although crit-ics worry that testing is notwidespread enough. Stu-dents returned to school inlate February.

Prime Minister LeeHsien Loong of Singaporewarned last week that thecountry’s caseload wouldincrease sharply. Singaporeannounced 23 new co-ronavirus patients Tuesday,the highest single-day tally,with 17 imported cases.

The city-state has re-stricted its borders further.Arrivals from SoutheastAsia and parts of Europemust now undergo a 14-dayself-quarantine.

“The world is only asgood as the weakest link,”said Lee, head of Singa-pore’s communicable dis-eases division. “Diseases donot respect borders.”

People with masks walk through a rail station in the Tsim Sha Tsui area of Hong Kong last week. Because of their experience with SARS, residents didn’t hesitate to take precautions.

LAM YIK FEI/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Even as Western nations struggle with the wildfire spread of the coronavirus within theirborders, other countries’ strategy — of moving rapidly to track down and test any suspected

infections — provides a model for how to stay two steps ahead of a relentless virus

How crowded Asian citiestackled an epidemic

Incoming passengers wearing face masks as a precautionary measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus fill

in health declaration forms after landing at Chek Lap Kok International Airport in Hong Kong in early March.

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By Hannah BeechThe New York Times



JERUSALEM — Israel’sprime minister said Sat-urday that he is ready tostep down next year as partof a proposed power-shar-ing agreement with hischief rival meant to steerthe country through thecoronavirus crisis and end ayear-long political dead-lock.

Prime Minister Ben-jamin Netanyahu made hisproposal during a nation-ally televised interview,calling for the formation ofa three-year “emergency”unity government with therival Blue and White Party.

Netanyahu said hewould remain as prime

minister for the first yearand a half, and allow Blueand White leader BennyGantz to assume the postfor a second year-and-a-half term in September2021. He said each partywould have an equal num-ber of seats in the Cabinet.

“I will give up the primeminister’s post in anotheryear and a half,” Netanyahusaid.

Yair Lapid, a senior Blueand White leader, dis-missed Netanyahu’s unityoffer as insincere. “Nextweek, we will go to choosea new parliament speakerand work to battle co-ronavirus for the good of

the people,” he said.Israel is facing a growing

threat from the coronaviruspandemic. It has detectednearly 900 cases and onFriday reported its firstdeath.

Blue and White has ac-cused Netanyahu of usingthe coronavirus crisis toundermine the country’sdemocratic institutions andtry to derail his scheduledtrial on corruption charges.Senior members of Gantz’party have expressed skep-ticism at previous power-sharing overtures by Ne-tanyahu, concerned that hewould not follow throughon his promises.

North Korea fires 2 projectilesinto sea amid virus pandemic

SEOUL, South Korea —North Korea on Saturdayfired two presumed short-range ballistic missilesinto the sea, South Korea’smilitary said, as it contin-ues to expand militarycapabilities amid dead-locked nuclear negotia-tions with the Trump ad-ministration and a crip-pling global health crisis.

South Korea’s JointChiefs of Staff said theprojectiles were fired froman area around a county inwestern North Korea.

They flew 255 miles cross-country before landing inthe sea.

Seoul’s military urgedthe North to immediatelystop its “very inappropri-ate” military demon-strations when the worldis struggling to cope withthe coronavirus pan-demic.

The North conductedtwo previous rounds ofsimilar short-rangelaunches and other mili-tary exercises earlier thismonth.

6th body recovered followingtorrential rainfall in Indiana

LAUREL, Ind. — Thebody of a 13-year-old boywas recovered Saturday ina southeastern Indianacreek, the last of six peoplepresumed to havedrowned when two vehi-cles were swept off aroadway after torrentialrainfall deluged the re-gion’s hill country, author-ities said.

The boy’s body wasfound in Sanes Creek,where the bodies of hissisters, ages 7 and 4, and

the siblings’ mother, Fe-lina Lewis, 35, of Laurel,Indiana, were recoveredFriday, said FranklinCounty Coroner BrianBaxter. The children’snames were not expectedto be released, he said.

The victims from theother vehicle were identi-fied as Shawn Roberts, 47,and Burton Spurlock, 48,both of Laurel.

Baxter said autopsieswere pending on all sixvictims.

Shiao to be named acting head of counterterrorism center

WASHINGTON —Lora Shiao, a careerAmerican intelligence of-ficer, will be the nextacting director of the Na-tional CounterterrorismCenter, the government’scentral clearinghouse forintelligence on terroristthreats, Trump adminis-tration officials said onSaturday.

Shiao replaces RussellTravers, who was abruptlyreplaced last week amidplanned cutbacks by the

acting director of nationalintelligence, RichardGrenell.

Shiao will begin servingas acting director on April3, a spokeswoman forGrenell, Maura Beard,said in an email.

Shiao has been execu-tive director, or chief ad-ministrative officer, of thecounterterrorism centersince March 2019.

She will become thecenter’s first female direc-tor.

Bolivia tribunal recommends delaying elections Bolivia’s Supreme Elec-

toral Tribunal on Saturdayrecommended that elec-tions scheduled for May 3be delayed as the govern-ment imposes restrictionsin an attempt to curbspread of the coronavirus.

The tribunal announceda 14-day suspension ofpreparations for the elec-

tions, coinciding with alockdown ordered by inter-im President Jeanine Áñezthat includes a stay-at-home order, domestic trav-el limits and a halt tointernational flights.

Bolivia has confirmed 19cases of the virus thatcauses COVID-19.

Bolivia’s congress would

have to enact legislation toselect a new date for theelections, according to tri-bunal president SalvadorRomero.

Last month, the tribunalrejected the candidacy offormer President Evo Mor-ales for a Senate seat be-cause he does not reside inBolivia.

1 killed, 4 hurtduring protestat prison in Sri Lanka

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka— One prisoner was killedand four others woundedSaturday when guardsopened fire after tensionsflared during a protest byprisoners in a facility innorth-central Sri Lanka,police said.

Tensions erupted whenprison guards tried to con-trol the protest in Anura-dhapura prison, policesaid in a statement. In thecommotion, some at-tempted to flee the facility,and guards opened fire toprevent them from escap-ing, the statement said.

Five prisoners werewounded and taken to ahospital, where one died,the statement added.

Police said no one es-caped and security hasbeen fortified.

Senaka Perera, presi-dent of the Committee forProtecting Rights of Pris-oners said prisoners wereprotesting congested con-ditions amid coronavirusfears.

Strong quake in Greece:

An earthquake with a pre-liminary magnitude of 5.6struck northwesternGreece early Saturday,causing damage to build-ings but no reported in-juries.

The Athens Geody-namic Institute said thequake’s epicenter was 7miles from the westernseaside town of Parga, and196 miles west-northwestof Athens.

Local media said thequake sent people runninginto the street, while sev-eral old and uninhabitedhouses were reported tohave collapsed in thenearby village of Kanalaki.

Less severe damagewas also reported innewer houses, with bro-ken windows and plasterfalling off walls.

Greece is a highly seis-mically active area.

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A florist gives flowers to a health worker Saturday at Burgos Hospital in northern Spain.

Spain has the second-highest number of coronavirus infections in Europe — behind Italy.

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Netanyahu proposes steppingdown in power-sharing deal

WASHINGTON — TheDepartment of Veterans Af-fairs is bracing for a potentialsurge of 1 million veteransinfected by coronavirus andpreparing for the possibilityit may have to absorb over-flow civilian patients if pri-vate hospitals are overrun bythe pandemic.

Based on a “worst case”scenario that up to 1 in 5 ofits mostly elderly populationof veterans will need co-ronavirus care, the govern-ment-run hospital system isseeking $16.6 billion inemergency money, accord-ing to a VA document sub-mitted to Congress and ob-tained by The AssociatedPress.

The money would beused over six months toramp up COVID-19 testing,cover hospital care and pro-tective masks for 4,500 moreveterans, add ventilators,boost online telehealth op-tions as Americans continueto hunker at home and payfor 40,000 more urgent carevisits. About $170.74 wouldbe allocated per VA employ-

ee in certain divisions forhand sanitizer, disinfectingwipes and antiviral face tis-sue for the rest of the budgetyear that ends Sept. 30.

“All that gives is an addedsafety boost,” Dr. RichardStone, the agency’s tophealth official, said in an APinterview.

During national emergen-cies, such as the one de-clared by President DonaldTrump last week, the VA notonly serves 9 million veter-ans but also acts as a backuphealth care system to thebroader public.

If called upon by statesand the Health and HumanServices Department, theVA network of 170 hospitals,1,074 outpatient sites andmore than 350,000 employ-ees could provide care tofirst responders and civiliansin hard-hit communities.

It could be an unprece-dented task for the VA,which has faced past criti-cism for staff shortages,management disarray andlong patient wait times.

Since January, the depart-ment has run drills andchecked stockpiles of medi-cal equipment. As co-ronavirus spread in the U.S.,the VA locked down visita-tion at its 134 nursing homesand 24 spinal cord injurycenters to protect elderly

and vulnerable patients andscreened patients for symp-toms of the virus before theyentered facilities.

To increase capacity, theVA has cut back on routineappointments, limiting den-tal work and canceling elec-tive surgeries, according toSecretary Robert Wilkie,who was added to the WhiteHouse coronavirus taskforce this month.

In the U.S., there are morethan 16,000 confirmed co-ronavirus cases as of Friday.

For most people, the co-ronavirus causes only mildor moderate symptoms,such as fever and cough. Forsome, especially older adultsand people with existinghealth problems, it can causemore severe illness, includ-ing pneumonia. The vastmajority of people recoverfrom the new virus.

At the VA, officials saidthey were tracking at least83 cases of veterans whoshowed signs of the virus.One patient in their 70s diedlate last week at a VA facilityin Portland, Oregon, of com-plications from COVID-19.The department currentlyhas 1,200 coronavirus testkits from the Centers forDisease Control and Preven-tion and 2,000 VA-devel-oped tests. More than 800veterans have been tested.

A group of Democraticsenators and the House Vet-erans Affairs Committeehave pressed the VA toprovide regular updates onits preparedness and avail-able resources to address thepandemic.

“VA must be properlyprepared to respond to theunique needs of our nation’sveterans, and ready to acti-vate its critical Fourth Mis-sion to support all Ameri-cans if it becomes neces-sary,” said Montana Sen. JonTester, the top Democrat onthe Senate Veterans’ AffairsCommittee.

He urged the agency,which currently has morethan 44,000 vacancies, to

work aggressively “to deter-mine both immediate andprojected needs for healthcare workers and first re-sponders on the front lines— including beds and per-sonal protective equip-ment.”

Joe Chenelly, executivedirector of American Veter-ans, or AMVETS, said veter-ans were anxious and uncer-tain about their health careamid the outbreak, withinformation from the VAoften slow in coming.

“We understand that theVA has a crucial role in apublic health crisis, andwe’re ready for whateverthat means,” he said.

The VA has played a role

in national emergencies be-fore, such as the 2017 hurri-cane in Puerto Rico.

The VA system has 13,000acute care beds, including1,800 intensive care bedsand 1,100 negative air flowrooms, which control airflow around patients withairborne contagious dis-eases to protect patients andmedical personnel.

Over the past two weeks,the VA has expanded hospi-tal capacity, dropping occu-pancy in acute care bedsfrom about 80% to over 60%to make room for possiblecivilian patients, Stone said.He added that VA also isworking to add negative airflow beds.

Amid virus crisis, VA may back up civilian hospitals Strained system has faced pointedcriticism in pastBy Hope Yen Associated Press

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie, left, confers with Centers for Medicare &

Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma on Thursday at the White House.

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PARIS — In the age ofconfinement, Elisha No-chomovitz figured out away to run a marathonanyway — back and forth onhis balcony.

He ran 26.2 miles, neverleaving his 23-foot balcony.

He saw it as a physicaland mental challenge, buthe also shared the images

online as a way “to extendmy support to the entiremedical personnel who aredoing an exceptional job,”he said from his apartmentin Balma, a suburb of thesouthern French city ofToulouse. Like athletes whoran around their Wuhanapartments or cyclists whofound ways to train in theirlocked-down Abu Dhabihotel rooms, Nochomovitzwanted to show others that

it’s possible to stay fit asvirus containment mea-sures tighten around theworld. He also wanted tolighten the mood.

“It was about launching abit of a crazy challenge andbringing a bit of humor, tode-dramatize the confine-ment situation,” he said.

He didn’t exactly makerecord time. It took him sixhours and 48 minutes.

He got nauseous, and got

worried the neighborswould complain about thepounding of his footsteps.

But he did it.Technically the French

authorities still allow peo-ple to go outside for “indi-vidual sports” like running,if they sign a special formexplaining why.

But the number of jog-gers in French streets hasmultiplied in recent days,amid exceptionally balmy

weather. That has author-ities worried that too manypeople are still out in thestreets, threatening effortsto contain the virus.

“If everyone thinks thesame way and does the samething, we’ll all find ourselvesoutside and that won’t helpanything, and the messagethat we need to stay con-fined at home will have hadno impact,” he said.

Nochomovitz, who had

been training for a mara-thon, lost track of how manylaps he did, but his pedom-eter kept track while hismind wandered. “I thoughtabout many things, what’sgoing to happen, when I seethat the world has stopped,sports, economy, finance,”he said. “We learned inhistory about wars betweennations, men and weapons,but this is something that isbeyond us.”

Locked down due to virus, man completes marathon on his balconyBy Nicolas GarrigaAssociated Press


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OBITUARIES

In 1638 religious dissidentAnne Hutchinson was ex-pelled from the Massachu-setts Bay Colony.

In 1765 Britain enacted theStamp Act to raise moneyfrom the American colo-nies. (The act was repealedthe following year.)

In 1963 the Beatles’ firstalbum, “Please Please Me,”was released in Britain.

In 1972 Congress sent theproposed Equal RightsAmendment to the Consti-

tution to the states forratification. (It fell threestates short of the 38 neededfor approval.)

In 1990 a jury in Anchoragefound former tanker cap-tain Joseph Hazelwood notguilty of three majorcharges in connection withthe Exxon Valdez oil spill,but convicted him of aminor charge of negligentdischarge of oil.

In 2005 a woman claimedto have found a fingertipwhile eating Wendy’s chiliat a restaurant in San Jose,costing the fast-food chain

millions in lost sales beforeshe admitted it was a hoax.

In 2012 University of Illi-nois President MichaelHogan resigned after 20months on the job aftermonths of turmoil, a facul-ty mutiny and a scandal inthe president’s office. Hewas replaced by RobertEaster, who held positionsfrom a doctoral student tointerim chancellor innearly four decades at theU. of I.

In 2014 Guinea reportedthat an Ebola outbreakkilled scores of victims andspread to neighboringcountries in West Africa.(The global death toll latertopped 10,000.)

In 2016 Islamic extremistskilled at least 34 people andwounded scores of others inback-to-back bombings atthe Brussels airport and asubway station.

In 2017 four people werekilled and at least 40 othersinjured when a man wenton a deadly rampage in theheart of Britain’s seat ofpower, plowing an SUV intopedestrians on London’sWestminster Bridge beforestabbing an armed policeofficer to death inside thegates of Parliament, leavinghundreds of lawmakers andworkers in lockdown forseveral hours; the 52-year-old assailant, whom theIslamic State claimed as asoldier, was shot dead bypolice.

Chicago Daily TribuneON MARCH 22 ...

Mark Hinojosa headedthe Tribune’s photo staff inthe 1990s and then was thepaper’s associate managingeditor of multimedia, serv-ing as a liaison between theTribune’s print, broadcastand online newsgatheringefforts.

Hinojosa later was a jour-nalism professor at the Uni-versity of Missouri.

“He was always yearsahead of everyone else instorytelling technique, fromthe film-to-digital (photog-raphy) revolution to videoto data visualization,” saidformer Tribune AssociateManaging Editor for Pho-tography Robin Daugh-tridge. “He expected thebest (from) everyonearound him, driving us tonew heights in photojour-nalism.”

Hinojosa, 63, died Feb. 20of complications from mul-tiple myeloma at his homein Columbia, Missouri, saidhis wife of more than 31years, Katherine Foran. Hi-nojosa had been diagnosedwith the disease in 2012.

Born and raised in LosAngeles, Hinojosa receiveda bachelor’s degree in 1978from Pepperdine Uni-versity. He worked in acamera store in Santa Moni-ca, California, before beinghired as an intern at theWilkes-Barre Times Leadernewspaper.

Hinojosa’s first full-timenewspaper job was at TheKansas City Star, where heworked from 1979 until1987, first as a staff photog-rapher and then as a photoeditor. He was part of a teamthat was awarded the 1982Pulitzer Prize for coveringthe 1981 Hyatt RegencyKansas City hotel walkwaycollapse that killed 114 peo-ple.

He worked at New YorkNewsday before joining theTribune in 1991 as an assist-ant photo editor, managingthe photography processfor the paper’s features,sports and metro news sec-tions.

Hinojosa became associ-ate managing editor of pho-tography in 1993, oversee-ing a staff of 65 photogra-phers, photo editors andphoto lab staff. He becameassociate managing editorfor multimedia in 1999.

“He was the best boss Iever had at the ChicagoTribune,” said Tribune col-umnist Ellen Warren. “Andwhen I’d walk into hisoffice, he had nothing buttime to talk about politics,office gossip and, of course,

photography.”Daughtridge called Hi-

nojosa “brazen, brilliantand endlessly curious,” andnoted his passion for diver-sity — both in the news-room and among the sub-jects he covered.

“He pulled diverse talentfrom around the countryand the world, and grew analready great staff to acollective of independentstorytellers,” she said. “Heproduced documentaries,anticipating the move toonline docs years ahead ofthe competition.”

Hinojosa hired PanchoBernasconi, now a GettyImages executive, as asports photo editor in 1995.Bernasconi, who laterserved with Hinojosa on aPulitzer Prize jury, said Hi-nojosa taught him how to bean effective journalist andphoto editor.

“He taught me a lot abouthow to be with my staff andhow to have a bunch ofdifferent voices come to-gether each day, creating acohesive and diverse staff,”Bernasconi said.

One Tribune project thatHinojosa was especiallyproud of, his wife said, wasthe 2005 “Crossing Bor-ders” series, which ex-plored the risks that femaleimmigrants have taken totraverse cultures and timezones in search of new lives.Hinojosa expanded theproject to include audio andvideo components, whichwere featured on the Trib-une’s website and the now-defunct CLTV cable chan-nel.

Hinojosa also orches-trated the Tribune’s in-volvement in the 2008 doc-umentary film “At theDeath House Door,” about adeath house chaplain at aTexas prison who ques-tioned whether Texas hadexecuted an innocent manin 1989.

“He loved working with

reporters and photojour-nalists who understood thatdigital offered new and evermore compelling ways toshare the news and tellstories that mattered andchanged lives,” Foran said.

Hinojosa helped edit a2000 book, “Americanos:Latino Life in the UnitedStates,” which chronicledU.S. Hispanics’ contrib-utions to the United Statesand cultures. The book wasa companion to a Smithso-nian Institution travelingexhibit nationwide.

After leaving the Tribunein 2008, Hinojosa oversawinteractive media at theDetroit News from 2008until 2015, when he joinedthe University of MissouriSchool of Journalism as anassociate professor of con-vergence journalism.

“He worked with stu-dents on weekly deadlines— coaching their multime-dia storytelling. He wasmeticulous at times anddemanded pristine audio.(And) he fought to ensurestudents had access to thebest quality equipment,”said Lynda Kraxberger,Missouri’s associate deanfor undergraduate journal-ism studies.

Kathy Kiely, a journalismprofessor at Missouri,called Hinojosa “one ofthose rare people in thebusiness who was bothgood at the craft but also agreat manager and teacher.”

“The students herewould say that Mark was atough taskmaster but theyloved him because hetreated them as an equaland he didn’t ask any moreof anybody else than heasked of himself,” Kiely said.

Hinojosa taught his finalclass on Feb. 5. Recentprojects included workingwith Kiely on a video for aStars and Stripes Museumfundraiser, creating a videofor a local arts organiza-tion’s annual fundraiser,and recently completing apodcast with a former stu-dent, Madi Lawson.

“He was thrilled to helpinspire and prepare the nextgeneration of journalists,”Foran said. “I think hesurprised himself to dis-cover how much he lovedthis final chapter of hisprofessional life.”

Hinojosa also is survivedby a son, John Luke; twodaughters, Maria and Isa-bella; and three sisters, SybilCoyner, Linda Brener andPatricia.

Services were held.

Bob Goldsborough is a free-lance reporter.

MARK HINOJOSA 1956-2020

Journalism school professoralso served as Tribune editor

After his tenure at the

Tribune, Mark Hinojosa

was a professor at the

University of Missouri.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. —Kenny Rogers, the smooth,Grammy-winning ballad-eer who spanned jazz, folk,country and pop with suchhits as “Lucille,” “Lady”and “Islands in theStream” and embraced hispersona as “The Gambler”on records and on TV, diedFriday night. He was 81.

He died at home inSandy Springs, Georgia,representative Keith Ha-gan said. Rogers was underhospice care and died ofnatural causes, Hagan said.

The Houston-born per-former with the huskyvoice and silver beard soldtens of millions of records,won three Grammys andwas the star of TV moviesbased on “The Gambler”and other songs, makinghim a superstar in the ’70sand ’80s. Rogers thrivedfor some 60 years beforeretired from touring in2017 at age 79. Despite hiscrossover success, he al-ways preferred to bethought of as a countrysinger.

“You either do whateveryone else is doing andyou do it better, or you dowhat no one else is doingand you don’t invite com-parison,” Rogers told TheAssociated Press in 2015.“And I chose that waybecause I could never bebetter than Johnny Cash orWillie or Waylon at whatthey did. So I found some-thing that I could do thatdidn’t invite comparison tothem. And I think peoplethought it was my desire tochange country music. Butthat was never my issue.”

His “Islands in theStream” duet partner DollyParton posted a video onTwitter on Saturday morn-ing, choking up as she helda picture of the two ofthem together. “I loved

Kenny with all my heartand my heart is broken anda big ole chunk of it is gonewith him today,” Partonsaid in the video.

“Kenny was one of thoseartists who transcendedbeyond one format andgeographic borders,” saysSarah Trahern, chief exe-cutive officer of the Coun-try Music Association. “Hewas a global superstar whohelped introduce countrymusic to audiences allaround the world.”

Rogers was a five-timeCMA Award winner, aswell as the recipient of theCMA’s Willie Nelson Life-time Achievement Awardin 2013, the same year hewas inducted into theCountry Music Hall ofFame. He received 10awards from the Academyof Country Music. He soldmore than 47 million re-cords in the United Statesalone, according to theRecording Industry Asso-ciation of America.

Rogers was raised inpublic housing in HoustonHeights with seven sib-lings. As a 20-year-old, hehad a gold single called“That Crazy Feeling,”under the name KennethRogers, but when thatearly success stalled, hejoined a jazz group, theBobby Doyle Trio.

But his breakthroughcame when he was asked

to join the New ChristyMinstrels, a folk group, in1966. The band reformedas First Edition and scoreda pop hit with the psyche-delic song, “Just DroppedIn (To See What ConditionMy Condition Was In).”

After the group broke upin 1974, Rogers started hissolo career and found a bighit with the sad countryballad “Lucille,” in 1977,which crossed over to thepop charts and earnedRogers his first Grammy.Suddenly the star, Rogersadded hit after hit for morethan a decade.

“The Gambler,” theGrammy-winning storysong penned by DonSchlitz, came out in 1978and became his signaturesong with a signature re-frain: “You gotta knowwhen to hold ’em, knowwhen to fold ’em.”

The song spawned a hitTV movie of the samename and several moresequels featuring Rogers asprofessional gamblerBrady Hawkes, and led to alengthy side career forRogers as a TV actor andhost of several TV specials.

Rogers is survived by hiswife, Wanda, and his sonsJustin, Jordan, Chris andKenny Jr., as well as twobrothers, a sister andgrandchildren, nieces andnephews, his representa-tive said.

KENNY ROGERS 1938-2020

Country music icon who wasisland in stream of croonersBy Kristin M. HallAssociated Press

Kenny Rogers, shown at his Brentwood, California, home

in 1978, enjoyed crossover success as a pop star.

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Dolores V. Bobruk nee Valiani, resident of RanchoSanta Margarita, CA andformer resident of PalatineIllinois passed away March7, 2020 with her loving fam-ily at her side. She was bornFebruary 14, 1929 in Chicago.She is predeceased by herparents Aldo and MariaValiani, husband LarryBobruk, son Mark Bobruk,

sister Violet Chisholm (Adrian) daughter in lawCynthia Bobruk (Jonathan).She is survived by her children Leslie McIntyre (Lee)and Jonathan Bobruk. Four grandchildren MelissaBowser (Justin) Stephanie Lanier (Scott), Jack Bobrukand Luke Bobruk. Five great grandchildren, ChaseLanier, Kaylee Lanier, Macee Lanier, Jackson Bowserand Dylan Bowser. Brother Aldo Valiani (Dorine) andmany relatives and friends.We love you and will miss you our wonderfulMomma, Noni, Auntie and friend. Until we meetagain.Dolores will be laid to rest at Queen of HeavenCemetery Hillside Illinois at date to be determined.Please see www.OConnormortuary.com for infor-mation regarding future services.

Bobruk, Dolores V.

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Blum, Nancy (nee Shuman), loving mother of Adam (Chip Scarborough) and Matthew (Jennifer), sister of Ronald Shuman. Friend and former wife of Michael Blum. Beloved friend to many. Our gratitude to Lani, her wonderful caregiver. Due to the

pandemic, a memorial service will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made tothe charity of your choice.

Blum, Nancy


Hayward Robert Blake. 94, born in West Haven,Connecticut. He died ofnatural causes on March 13,2020. Husband of SimoneLouise (nee Roussy), for 58years; Loving father of Paul(Kim), Christopher (Anita),and Yvonne (Brian); proudgrandfather to Andrew,Meredith, Anaïs, Anikó,Hayward, Tawny, and Kiera.

Hayward met his wife in France during WWII whileserving as a sergeant in the Signal Corps., afterwhich he studied design at institutions including,the Cambridge School of Design and Illinois Instituteof Design. He began working in the early 1950’s as apackage designer in New York City and later movedto Chicago where he worked with Raymond Lowey,The Container Corporation, Sears, Ecko-Alcoa, andLow’s, Inc. In 1961 he founded, Hayward Blakeand Co., and in 1967 incorporated with Jack Weiss.Together they worked with designers in The DesignPartnership which served as a model for similarcollaborative efforts elsewhere. His design projectsincluded the signage system for O’Hare Airport,identity designs for WAIT Radio, titles for the filmBang the Drum Slowly, catalog design for the BlockGallery, and identity program for the newspaper TheRapid City Journal. Hayward taught at NorthwesternUniversity’s, Medill School of Journalism, and lec-tured and judged at communication exhibitionsnationwide. He was an active member of The27 Chicago Designers, the American Institute ofGraphic Arts (fellow), Society of Typographic Arts(president), The Caxton Club (president), DesignEvanston, Evanston Art Center (board member), andThe Porsche Club of America. Hayward was an am-ateur race car driver, loved sailing, scuba diving andwas an avid squash player. Memorial services willbe announced at a later date. Donations in his honormay be made to either the Alzheimer’s Association(www.act.alz.org) or The Newberry Library (www.Newberry.org/give). Info: www.donnellanfuneral.com or (847) 675-1990.

Blake, R. Hayward


Wayne C. Biswurm, 77, formerly of Chicago, passedaway on February 16, 2020, in Palm Springs, CA. He was the first born and beloved son of the late Helen (nee Bamber) and the late Julius. He is survived byhis loving brothers, Robert (Patricia) and Patrick.He was the doting uncle of Julianne (John) Baker,Robert (Liz), the late Carrie, Timothy, Sean, Sarahand Shannon Biswurm. Wayne was the oldest of the 17 Bamber cousins,made a difference in the lives of every one of them and will be sorely missed.After a successful real estate career with ArthurRubloff and Co., specializing in Carl Sandburg Village,Wayne retired to the warmth of Palm Springs in2006. He spent his retired years travelling and en-joying the Coachella Valley community.A prayer service and celebration of life will be heldat a later date.


Biswurm, Wayne Charles

Ona Foley Ashford, of Joliet, a former longtimeresident of Chicago, bornin Tracy, MN, passed awaypeacefully with her daugh-ters by her side at PresenceVilla Franciscan in Joliet.Preceded in death by herparents, Michael and AnnaFoley; and husband JohnAshford.She is survived by her four

children, Michael (Carolyn) Ashford of Annapolis,MD, Bonnie Ashford, Jackie (Jim deceased) Kempesand Jill (Mike deceased) O’Brien; “Big Gram” to 11grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and onegreat-great grandson Jhett Wilson. Also surviving isher beloved little dog Buddy.She was an entrepreneur; first opening The LittleRed Schoolhouse, a childcare center in Joliet, withher daughter Jackie that served the community for50 years. Her second venture was a successful can-dy shop in Vero Beach, Florida. She was also knownfor her fashion and decorating talents.Memorials in Ona’s honor to Joliet Township AnimalControl, Annapolis Dragon Boat Club, Presence VillaFranciscan (Joliet) or a charity of your choice wouldbe appreciated.R.W. Patterson Funeral Home & Crematory inBraidwood, in charge of arrangements.A celebration of her life will be held at a later date.

Ashford, Ona Foley


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Lillian A. Chalupa (nee:Lysak), age 84, at rest March19, 2020. Beloved wife of the late Joseph Chalupa.Loving mother of Joseph (Maria) Chalupa andFrances (Robert) Henry . Grandmother of Michael,Walker and Ava Schwelitz. Fond sister of Josephine(the late Frank) Gayda. Preceded in death by FrankGayda and Frances (Frank) Fidler. Dear Aunt tomany nieces and nephews. Lillian was a member ofUnited Moravian Society and the Czech Congress .Services are private. A Memorial Mass at Our Ladyof Peace Church will be held at a later date dueto the Corona Virus. In lieu of flowers memorialdonations would be appreciated to the AmericanStroke Foundation~stroke.org, American CancerSociety~donate3.cancer.org or American HeartAssociation~www2.heart.org. For info (630)325-2300 or adolfservices.com


Chalupa, Lillian A

Former American Trans Air pilot Daniel N. Busta,age 70, known for his smoothlandings, was cleared for hisfinal take-off early morn-ing on March 12, 2020. Danmade his ascent with muchpeace, surrounded by fam-ily and love. Dan is the onlypilot to regain his FAA com-mercial license after endur-ing two organ transplants.

Born March 3, 1950, Dan was the son of Nicholasand Marie and is survived by his beloved wife of 30years, Cheryl (Gadbois), and son Christian; formerspouse Julie (Foersterling) and their children, Lynée(Daniel Wells), Ashlee (Miro Kovacevic), and Daniel;grandchildren Nicholas, Emmarie, EllaLee, and Lucy;his sister Lynda (Gary Rovansek); and nephewsGregory and Christopher and niece Jennifer (AlbertMiranda). A 1968 graduate of Morton East HighSchool, Dan spent countless hours playing with hisneighborhood buddies on South Austin Boulevard.Dan’s long list of passions and achievements in-clude professional French horn player, commercialairline pilot, ham radio operator with his Extra Classradio license (W9GOB), deacon in his church, andabove all, follower of Jesus Christ. Dan was a rolemodel by always helping those in need, somethinghe learned during time spent at the Boys Club ofCicero in his youth. He later helped many ham ra-dio operators who were visually impaired to repairradios and attend club meetings. His arms werealways outstretched to take anyone in who neededhis help. Visitation and Memorial Service is pend-ing. In lieu of flowers, please send donations toLifeline Chaplaincy (www.lifelinechaplaincy.org), TheChicago Lighthouse (www.chicagolighthouse.org),or Boys Club of Cicero (www.boysclubofcicero.org).Please visit the Colonial Chapel website and Dan’sfull Tribute for any additional information about theVisitation and Memorial Service given the state ofour world health crisis, www.colonialchapel.com.

Busta, Daniel N.


Stanley V. Buchacz, age 78, of LaGrange Park; be-loved husband of the late Sharon; loving father of Kimberly (Jack) Stob; Stanley will be dearlymissed. Services were held privately with the fam-ily. Arrangements entrusted to Hallowell & James

Funeral Home, Countryside. Funeral info: (708) 352-6500 or hjfunerals.com


Buchacz, Stanley V.

Harry E. Brekke, Jr. age 96. Beloved husband ofVirgina (nee Gerlich). Loving father of Barbara(Michael) Cabay and Wayne (Dawn) Brekke. Devotedgrandfather of Jill (Richard) Gray, Scott Cabay, andErik and Elise Brekke. Great grandfather of Wesleyand Cora Gray. Loving brother, uncle, relative, andfriend of many. All services are private. Colonial-

Wojciechowski Funeral Home of Niles is entrustedwith arrangements. Memorial contributions appre-ciated to Alzheimer’s Disease. Founding memberof the ROMEOS. A perfect day included a greatround of golf and a meal shared with loved onesincluding key lime pie. Info 847-581-0536 or www.colonialfuneral.com


Brekke, Jr., Harry E.

Patricia Elouise Borenstein nee Lubliner, belovedwife of the late Sidney Borenstein.Loving mother of William (Lynn), Steven(Diane) and Mark (Paula) Borenstein.Cherished grandmother of Eric (Jeanine),Aaron, Jacob, Dustin, Ethan and Tylar

Borenstein. Adored great grandmother of William P.Borenstein. Fond sister of the late Goodwin “Buddy”Lubliner. Devoted cousin of Barnee Honnet. Dearaunt, cousin and friend to many. Private Gravesideservices were held Thursday. In lieu of flowers do-nations to the Tiger Woods Youth Golf Foundationwww.tgrfoundation.org or your preferred charitywould be appreciated. Arrangement by MitzvahMemorial Funerals, 630-Mitzvah (630-648-9824) orwww.MitzvahFunerals.com

Borenstein, Patricia Elouise


Joseph A. Bochniak, age 82. Beloved husband ofthe late Mary (nee Muscarello). Devoted father ofAnthony (Elizabeth), Edward (Annie), Janet (Thomas)Simmonds, and Robert (Donna). Loving grandfatherof 8 and great grandfather of 3. Many years of ser-vice with Nabisco Brands-Chicago. Former fire andpolice commissioner (Village of Alsip) and longtimemember of Our Lady of the Ridge choir. Private burialservice Tuesday, March 24th, 2020. Celebration ofLife to be held at a later date. Stay home and staywell. Express your thoughts and memories in theonline Guest Book at www.palosgaidasfh (708) 9744410


Bochniak, Joseph A.

Sarah A. Fend, age 67, of Chicago. Beloved daughterof the late Frederick and Barbara Fend. Loving sisterof Johanna (Fend) Alpert and Peter Fend. A kind andgenerous friend to many. A caregiver to countlessdogs, whom she embraced with unstinting love andaffection.Memorial Service will take place at a later date.In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may bemade to PAWS Chicago, https://my.pawschicago.org/Sarah-Fend/Donate.Info: www.donnellanfuneral.com or (847)675-1990.


Fend, Sarah A.

William C. Elich, born June 12, 1946, at rest March14, 2020, age 73; beloved husband of Donna;loving father of Tyler (Jaysen), Cory (Kaitlyn), andstep-father of Valerie Burquin; dearest grandfatherof Anneliese; cherished brother of Betsy (Bill)Vandercook; fond uncle of Lisa, Nicole, Hannah, andNoah. A Celebration of Life will be held at a laterdate. Please visit www.elmsfh.com to read Bill’sbiography. Bill absolutely loved the National ParksSystem his whole life, and should you like to make adonation in his memory, please go towww.nationalparks.org. The Elich Family wouldlike to thank the Oncology Dept. of NorthwesternMemorial Hospital, Rainbow Hospice, and The ElmsFuneral Home in Elmwood Park for their care andsupport.


Elich, William C.

Mitchell Dziak, age 76, of Bensenville, formerly ofLaGrange. Beloved husband of Kathleen Dziak (neeStrah) for a wonderful 51 years. Loving father ofJennifer (Kevin) Sandstrom, the late William Dziak,Timothy (Sherry) Dziak, and Amanda (Michael)Insco. Devoted grandfather of Liam. Fond uncle,cousin, and friend of many. Mitchell was a formeremployee of Western Electric and AT&T. He was anavid collector and bird watcher. Services private. Inlieu of flowers, memorials may be made to MuscularDystrophy Association. Arrangements are entrustedto Hallowell & James Funeral Home, 1025 W. 55th St.,Countryside at 708-352-6500 or HJfunerals.com.


Dziak, Mitchell

Lorelei Cole-Redman, nee Brandt, age 92. Belovedwife of the late Abe Cole and the lateHerb Redman; cherished mother of Robin (the late Aaron) Fischer, Jeffrey (Lynn) Cole and Debbie Cole (Richard Taich); loving grandmother of Amy

Fischer, Michael Fischer (Fabiola Zanini), Rachel Cole, Jessica Cole and great-grandchild Avianna; dear sister of Ina (the late Walter Berkley and thelate Fred Robinson). A private family graveside fu-neral is necessary, however video of the funeral willbe available later Tuesday evening at www.mitzvahfunerals.com Info Mitzvah Memorial

Funerals, 630-MITZVAH (630-648-9824)

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Bernice L. Cohn, nee Kolb, 92. Beloved wife ofErwin Cohn. Loving mother of Charles(Lynn Michaelson-Cohn) Cohn andAbbe (the late Dan) Josephs. Cherishedgrandmother of Sophia Cohn. Dearsister of the late Phillip Kolb, Leo Kolb

and Esther Liss. Devoted daughter of the late Doraand Abraham Kolb. Private graveside services willtake place at Memorial Park Cemetery. Memorialsto your charity of choice would be appreciated.Arrangements by Chicago Jewish Funerals – SkokieChapel, 847.229.8822, www.cjfinfo.com

Cohn, Bernice L.


Nai Lin Chang, 97, of Appleton, WI, on March 8,2020. Nai was born in 1922in Beijing. In high schoolhe captained the school’sbasketball, volleyball, andping pong teams. Duringuniversity, Nai traveled over1500 miles, many on foot, toflee the Japanese occupationof China. He received a B.S.in Chemistry from Chinese

National Southwest Associated University (Kunming,China). Unable to return home to see his parentsafter graduation, he moved to Taiwan, where as aLt. Colonel (retired) in the Republic of China MilitaryForce, he supervised a production factory.Nai moved to the United States in the late 1950’sand received his Masters in Chemical Engineering(MSChE) from Columbia University in New York Citybefore marrying Helen C. Hsiang and moving toAppleton, Wisconsin, where they raised their family.In 1962, Nai joined the Institute of Paper Chemistry,then affiliated with Lawrence University, whichsponsored his citizenship. He became an associateprofessor of chemical engineering, retiring in 1986,and received an honorary Master of Science degreefrom Lawrence University. He was highly regardedas a meticulous scientist; papers from his earlywork on fiber mat compressibility and wet press-ing remained the cardinal references in this area fordecades.After retirement, Nai spent 35 years learning andplaying golf, which he considered his “new job”. Hishobbies included wood working, calligraphy, winemaking, photography, bridge, mahjong, and Beijingopera.Nai is predeceased by his parents, Wei-Chou Wenand Ting-Chien Chang and his wife, Helen. He issurvived by his daughters: Tai Chang Terry (F. DavisTerry, Jr.), Dr. Huan Justina Chang (Robert Stauffer),Lan Samantha Chang (Robert Caputo) and Dr. LingPatricia Chang (Joseph Finnin); his grandchildrenRick, Will and Alden Terry, Sophia and Justin ChangStauffer and Antonia Caputo; and his sister Xing-KeChang (102 years, Shijiazhuong, China). His daugh-ters will miss him for his wisdom, his charm anddevotion, and his ability to overcome adversity.A Celebration of Life will be held Sunday, June 14,2020 at 2 pm at Riverview Garden located at 1101S. Oneida in Appleton, WI. Due to COVID-19 detailsmay change; updates at legacy.com or [email protected]. In lieu of flowers, donationsmay be directed to “Lawrence University in memoryof Nai L. Chang,” Lawrence University, Office ofDevelopment, 711 E. Boldt Way, Appleton, WI 54911OR to University of Iowa Center for Advancement,P.O. Box 4550, Iowa City, IA 52244 (in memo linewrite “Nai Lin and Helen Hsiang Chang Scholarshipin Creative Writing”).

Chang, Nai Lin


Robert “Bob” Hurley passed away on Wednesday,March 11 surrounded by his wife Susan and his twodaughters Melissa and Amy. He is also survived byhis daughter-in-law Sarah, and two grandchildrenBenjamin Robert and Theodore Frederick. Bob wasone tough son of a bitch. Visitation Friday, March20 from 12pm until time of prayers, 1:30pm atHallowell & James Funeral Home, 1025 W. 55thSt., Countryside. Funeral Mass 2pm at St. CletusChurch, LaGrange. In lieu of flowers memorial dona-tion given to Toy-For-Tots or Rush University MedicalCenter are appreciated. Funeral Info: 708-352-6500or hjfunerals.com


Hurley, Robert ‘Bob’

Guadalupe “Lupe” Hernandez, age 70, of Chicago was reunited with her parents, Maria Luisaand Petronilo Hernandez, on March 14, 2020. Beloved sister of Francisco (Frank) and Fernando Hernandez, M.D., (Marion Gielow), Flavia, Irma(Sergio Candelaria) and Rocio Hernandez. Lovingaunt to Daniel (Tamara), Robert (Emily) and MatthewHernandez; Amanda, Francisco II and Fernando Avalos; and Antonio Candelaria-Hernandez.After much thought and consideration, the family ofGuadalupe Hernandez has decided to hold privateservices at this time. We will announce plans tocelebrate her life at a later date. In lieu of flowersdonations may be sent to The Rush Cancer Center,1725 W. Harrison, Suite 1010, Chicago, IL. 60612


Hernandez, Guadalupe ‘Lupe’

June 16, 1926-March 1, 2020Born in Maywood, IL toSydney Watts and GlennHaffner; graduated ProvisoEast HS, attended Universityof Illinois until enlistingin Navy. Married BarbaraFrances Hewes (d. 2017) onThanksgiving Day in 1949.Father of five: Bruce (MaryMoran), Mary (Holloway), Jim

(Lynn Carlos), John (Rae Bowden) and Russell (d.2011). Grandfather to Amy (Zimmerman), Eric, Will,Emily (McInerney), James, Claire. Great grandfatherto Ted Zimmerman and Patrick McInerney.Entrepreneur: co-owner of Koshgarian Rug, andlater, Born Again Colors. A father who providednot just college educations for five, but archery, BBguns, go carts, bicycles, trampolines and pool tables.Not to mention dinner table chat on how to calcu-late percentages.Swimmer, bowler, boater, fixer, finder, inventor,chocolate hoarder, card shark. Chicken finger,sparerib and peppermint ice cream lover; vegetablehater. Liked Drain the Oceans, Forged in Fire, TheCarbonara Effect and Hallmark Channel.Man of quiet pride and humility, who never braggedabout his life or service to the country in WWII. Afierce and persistent promoter of and volunteer forHonor Flight, he handed out applications in TacoBell, car washes, waiting rooms or wherever hespotted a possible candidate.At 90, conceived, designed and created theVeterans’ Wall at Oak Trace. Regular volunteer pre-senter at Downers Grove high school on Veteran’sDay with a powerpoint on his Navy experience.Expert with a camera and always eager to learnnew technology. Delighted in his Apple watchscreensaver: Mickey Mouse.Always making himself useful, and giving back tohis community through projects and solutions, likelazy Susans, water pitcher improvement, knife andscissor sharpening (with proceeds benefiting em-ployees at Oak Trace).Never spoke a disparaging word or underestimatedanyone… proud and humble… amazed and amaz-ing. Soft spoken, oft quoted. Translation: In his quietway, a very, very fine man.Honor Flight and Swim Across America were hisfavorite charities.For info on an upcoming memorial service, pleaseemail [email protected].

Haffner, Richard Glenn


Richard “Dick” Gray Sr., age 76, of Forest Park. Beloved husband of Nancy (Barone) for almost 54 years; loving father of Richard Jr. (Renee) and Tina Hosty; devoted Papa to Reagan and Sydney; dear brother of Edward Jr. (Carol), John Sr., Patricia

Antonelli (Edward), Catherine Sarno, and honorary “sister” Sherry Ayala; favorite uncle to many nieces and nephews; loyal friend to countless people. Richard was a proud Lieutenant of the Forest Park Fire Department from 1969-1989 and then realtor & partner at Reich & Becker for 10 years. Funeral ser-vices will be private. A celebration of his incredible life will be held at a later date. Info. 708-366-2200 or www.ZimmermanHarnett.com.

Gray, Richard A. ‘”Dick”’


Winifred Pawliger Gailen passed away on Monday,March 16th, 2020 after abrief illness, two months shyof her 100th birthday. A life-long Chicagoan, Winnie wasthe beloved wife of the lateLawrence E. Gailen; Lovingmom to the late RobertM. (Carol Smeja) and Judy(Michael Trautman) Gailen;Devoted Grandma to Hannahand Gabe; Beloved Aunt to

Beth Robyn (Jeff) Pawliger and Merryl(Robert) Kaplan. A special thank youto Myrna Lanuza, for compassion andfriendship the last two years. An award-winning artist who continued to make

beautiful paintings well into her late 90s, she was aninspiration to both students and her peers. She cel-ebrated the beauty and humor in the world and inthe many people she drew close. A devoted friend,she was always ready to give her talent, heart, andlaughter to those who needed it. Winnie loved art,the Cubs, the comics, her family and friends. Aboveall, she loved her sweetheart Larry. Winnie’s lovingbecame her legacy. A life of love that uplifted allwho knew her. Interment will be private by neces-sity. A celebration of her life will be planned at laterdate. For info: call Weinstein & Piser Funeral Home at847-256-5700.

Gailen, Winifred Pawliger


Eileen B. Flis, age 94, loving mother of William J.(Christine) Flis and Mariellyn A. (John) Parsons; deargrandmother of Brad (Lori) Flis, Catherine Parsons,Erin (Zack) Pollard and Joshua Parsons; cherishedgreat grandmother of Brady, Addison, Khenley,Trinity and Hailey. Funeral services and intermentwill be private In lieu of flowers donations madeto a charity of your choice would be appreciated.Funeral Info: (708) 429-3200.


Flis, Eileen B.


Marion Kaucky, (nee: Dafnis), age 90, at rest March16, 2020. Beloved wife ofthe late Leonard F. Kaucky.Loving mother of Kathleen H.(Patrick A.) Vivirito, LeonardR. Kaucky and Robert G.Kaucky. Devoted grand-mother of Patrick L. Vivirito,Theresa A. (Luigi) Sautarielloand Anthony R. (Brittany)Vivirito. Great-grandmother

of Kyria, Domenic, Ella and Phoebe. Dear sister ofHelen Dafnis and the late Elaine (Aristotle) Sarlasand George (Barbara) Dafnis. She is also survivedby nieces, nephews, cousins and her dear friendsDarlene Lorenz and Donna M. Kanak. Memorialsin honor of Marion to your favorite charity wouldbe appreciated. Private family service and inter-ment. Arrangements by Adolf Funeral Home –Willowbrook.630-325-2300 or adolfservices.com

Kaucky, Marion


Stanley P. Jacobs 63 years old died 3-18-20.Beloved husband of the late Kathleennee Nelson. Son of the late FlorenceBrindell and the late Harold Jacobs.Loving brother of Jeff (Ellen) Jacobsand Steve (Amy) Jacobs. Step Brother

of Kathy (Will) Brindell, the late Susie(the late Tim)Lytsell and the late Debbie Buckelew. Dear uncle ofMatthew (Jori) Jacobs, Jessica (Noah) Manion, Danand Quinn Jacobs and great-uncle of Jackson andSamara Jacobs and Henry Manion. Private gravesideservice with a public memorial service to follow ata later date. In lieu of flowers memorial contribu-tions may be made to the charity of your choice.Arrangements by Chicago Jewish Funerals - SkokieChapel, 847.229.8822, www.cjfinfo.com.

Jacobs, Stanley P.


Lorna Charlotte Jacobs, 94. Died Tues., Mar. 17, 2020.Beloved daughter of the lateAxel Gunnard and HannahCharlotte (nèe Lindblom)Johnson. Loving wife of thelate Robert Warren Jacobs, Sr.Adored mother of Robert Jr.,James (Linda), Diane (James)Grimes, Patricia (John)Decker. Cherished grand-mother of Wendy (Rod) Dole,

Jason (Nicole) Jacobs, Jane Lichtwalt, John Lichtwalt,Travis Grimes, Kelly Grimes and great-grandson,Lucas Dole. Fond sister of the late Alice Carlsonof Iron River, MI. Funeral services and interment inNorthshore Garden of Memories, North Chicago, ILwill be private Fri., Mar. 27, 2020. In lieu of flowers,donations to the Michael J. Fox Found., P.O. Box5014, Hagerstown, MD 21741. Arrangements wereentrusted to Strang Funeral Home, 1055 Main St.,Antioch, IL 60002. INFO 847-395-4000 or www.strangfh.com.

Jacobs, Lorna Charlotte


Sheila Ignas, nee Brannen. Beloved wife of Chris.Dear mother of Colin Patrick,Hannah Mary, and CaitlinMaureen. Adored sister ofCaroline Brannen Drake andthe late Maureen Brannen.Loving daughter of Sheilaand the late Patrick Brannen.Daughter-in-law of Helen andEdward Ignas. Dedicatedaunt of Julia and Mia. Sister-

in-law, cousin and friend of many. Funeral serviceswill be held at a later date. Information 773-736-3833 or visit www.smithcorcoran.com

Ignas, Sheila


John Joseph “Jack” Hurley, M.D. Age 92, Born intoEternal Life on March 19,2020. Beloved husband ofMary Ann (nee Hardin) for66 years. Loving father ofJohn (Kathy), Joe (Donna),the late Scott, the late Annie,Brigid (Kevin) Oakes, the lateinfant Michael, Dan (Susie),Katie (Dennis) Kettering, Fr.Tom Hurley, and Terri (Mike)Englehart. Proud grandpa of

Katie (Dan) Liston, Frankie (Elizabeth)Hurley, Mike (Cheryl) Hurley, Mary Ann(Luke) Rizzuto, Scott (Emma) Hurley,Owen Hurley, Mike Hurley, Kevin (Erin)Oakes, Erin (Andrew) Tenneriello, Megan

Oakes, Dan, Caroline, John, Abby, and Patrick Hurley,Shannon, Matt, Brian, and Charlie Kettering, Nora,Tommy, Brigid, and Mary Englehart. Adored greatgrandpa “Doc” of Packey and Jack Liston, AidenRizzuto, and Remy Tenneriello. Beloved son of thelate Joseph and Nora Hurley (nee Collins). Dearbrother of Joan (the late Hank) Deiters, and thelate Pat (the late Jim) Baker. Fond uncle of manynieces and nephews. “Dad” was lovingly caredfor by his devoted caregivers, Yvette D. Moye andEdna Sweeney. Proud graduate of St. ColumbanusGrammar School, St. Ignatius College Prep, LoyolaUniversity, and University College Galway MedicalSchool. Dr. Hurley faithfully served on the staff ofLittle Company of Mary Hospital for over 60 years.He is remembered with love and affection by count-less patients, medical colleagues, employees, andthe Sisters of The Little Company of Mary. Longtimemember of the American Academy of FamilyPhysicians. He was the proud Director of the LCMMobile Medical Care. Faithful member of St. CajetanParish for over 58 years.A private Mass of Christian Burial will belive streamed on Tuesday, March 24th at Noonthrough Old St. Patrick’s Church website athttps://www.oldstpats.org/livestream.html oronline at http://bit.ly/drjohnhurleyfuneral. Amemorial mass will be celebrated at St. CajetanChurch at a later date. Private IntermentHoly Sepulchre Cemetery. In lieu of flowers,memorials to Sisters of Little Company of Maryc/o 2800 W. 95th St., Evergreen Park, IL 60805, orMisericordia, 6300 N. Ridge Ave., Chicago, IL 60660are most appreciated. Funeral Info: Heeney-Laughlin

Funeral Directors 708-636-5500 or heeneyfh.com

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Kathleen T. Lauterbach nee Donnelly. Beloved wife of the late Norman. Loving mother of Lisa (Terrence) Quinn. Cherished grandmother of William Quinn.Dear sister of Thomas (Cathy) Donnelly, NoreenBennett, Mickey Smith, & the late Patrick (Marilyn)Donnelly, Maureen Gecas & William Donnelly. Fondaunt of many. Memorial Service at a later date.Arrangements entrusted to Thompson & Kuenster

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Dr. Bradley Garth Langer, former acting medicaldirector and chairman ofradiology of Cook CountyHospital, graduate of theUniversity of Chicago and theUniversity of Illinois Collegeof Medicine, dispenser ofmedical wisdom, longtimesupporter of the Chicago artsand restaurant scenes, reluc-tant devotee of the ChicagoWhite Sox, Blackhawks and

Bears, disciple of Bob Dylan and DavidBowie, connoisseur of Savile Row, takerof insanely long lakefront hikes, loverof French cuisine and the French coun-tryside, passed away at the age of 64

on Saturday, March 14, at Northwestern MemorialHospital after a yearlong battle with leukemia.Devoted son of Esther and the late Dr. SeymourLanger, Bradley is survived by his wife of 20 years,Julie Bernatz Langer; their daughter Sylvie JeanneLanger; his brother Adam (Beate Sissenich) Langer;his sister Karen Langer; his nieces Nora and SolveigLanger Sissenich; his loyal confidantes Dr. PatrickDunne, Donald Madia, Dr. James Lash, Tem Horwitzand Dr. Brendan Reilly; and scores of friends, col-leagues, chefs and sommeliers throughout Chicago,France and the world. Celebrations of Dr. Langer’slife are planned for the future. Arrangements byCremation Society of Illinois, 773-281-5058 or www.cremation-society.com.

Langer, Bradley G.


Robert L. Lange age 75. U.S. Army Veteran. Long time loving companion of Patricia Voltz. Loving father of Robert R. (Andrea), Lucian (Lisa) and the late Darryl. Dearest grandfather of Trevor, Layna and Lucian.Cherished brother, uncle and friend of

many. Funeral service private. Arrangements by Matz Funeral Home. Info. 773-545-5420 or www-matzfuneralhome.com.

Lange, Robert L.


Beloved wife of Charles N. Klemz. Loving mother ofCharles IV (Carol) Klemz, Theresa (Dan) North, andDonna (Gil) Prince. Cherished grandmother of Kelly,Caitlin, and Kiley. A Celebration of Life will be heldat a later date by family. In lieu of flowers, dona-tions can be made in Mary’s name to the AmericanCancer Society at donate3.cancer.org. Entombmentat St. Adalbert Catholic Cemetery.


Klemz, Mary F.

Harold H. Kellogg, age 85, U.S. Marine Corps veteran1953- 1955, a longtime resident of Lisle,IL, formerly of Elkader, IA, passed awayon Sunday, March 15, 2020. He wasborn October 26, 1934 in StrawberryPoint, IA. A bricklayer by trade, Harold

was a longtime, proud member of Union Local #74.Arrangements by Friedrich-Jones Funeral Home &

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Paul Allen Liebman, 73, currently of NorthBarrington died peacefully on Saturday, March14, 2020. He battled cancer bravely for five yearsbefore finally succumbing to it. He is survived byhis children; Peter, and Katherine (Henry) LeSueur;grandson, Benjamin LeSueur; longtime partner,Constance Edgerton and her son Chase; father,Charles; brother, Thomas; and sisters, Elizabeth andRebecca. He was preceded in death by his motherMary. Paul was born January 16th in Park Ridge toMary (Bruhnke) and Charles Liebman. He attendedMcHenry schools graduating from McHenry HighSchool. He then received a Bachelor’s degreefrom the University of Illinois - Urbana Champagne.He served in the Peace Corps in Sri Lanka whichsparked a lifelong love for the country, its people,and its culture. For years to come, he delighted insurprising native Sri Lankans with conversation inSinghalese. Later in life, in conjunction with a SriLankan friend and colleague, established a voca-tional school in southern Sri Lanka. The childrenwere provided with state of the art computers,internet connectivity, and job training. This con-nection and way of giving back to the country heloved so much was one of his greatest sources ofpride and joy. His time in Sri Lanka was the sourceof many stories told time and time again throughouthis life. He was quite the storyteller and could holdhis audience’s ear for hours. One powerful story herecalled the week before he passed exemplified theintensity of his experiences there and his lastingsentimentality. One day he was driving along on amoped and came across a young boy who, in imita-tion of his father, had attempted to use a macheteto open a coconut. Not having been properly taughtand with no supervision, he missed the coconut,clearly and swiftly removing his thumb. Thankfully,Paul came upon the scene and whisked the boy andhis thumb to clinic for reattachment. Many yearslater, Paul found himself in the same village. As hewalked through, a young man saw him and silentlybut enthusiastically gave him a thumbs up and anappreciative knowing grin. The Buddhist traditionsof Sri Lanka had a profound impact on Paul. Forthe rest of his life, he studied and was fascinatedwith its teachings and rituals. He had an affinity forBuddhist figurines, collecting them from across theworld. Each figurine in his collection held a storyof its own, and he relished the opportunity to tellthem. His interest in Buddhism led him to connectwith and support a local Buddhist monastery inWoodstock, Illinois, the Blue Lotus Buddhist Templeand Meditation Center. He developed a friendshipwith Bhante Sujatha, the International Abbot of BlueLotus, who was born in Kandy, Sri Lanka. In his finaldays, Paul received a visit and beautiful blessingfrom Sujatha. Paul never retired. He spent fivedecades at Coilcraft, saying he would stop workingwhen he stopped liking it. He loved his work andwas very good at it, continuing to work until the veryend. Music played a very important role in Paul’slife. He took up the ukelele in college and loved toteach himself to strum his favorite songs. He lovedto analyze song lyrics and apply their meaningsto his life. Recently, he had been learning to playsongs that embodied the experience he sharedwith other recovering people, like those in recoveryat his established rehabilitation center, FreedomFarm, near Harvard, IL. Paul’s own journey withrecovery served as a springboard for many ideasof how to structure the system. Though FreedomFarm helped hundreds of men redefine themselvesthrough recovery, he never stopped brainstormingradical changes to the status quo. Burial will be ata later date in Northern Wisconsin. Arrangementswere entrusted to Davenport Family Funeral Home,please visit www.davenportfamily.com to sendcondolences.


Liebman, Paul A.

Hilda Mansfield died on March 17, five weeks shortof her 100th birthday. Shealways said she didn’t wantto live to be 100. She wasa teacher, pianist, gardener,and supporter of humanrights. She voted in everyelection and hours before herdeath received notice thather mail ballot for the March17 2020 primary election had

been received and accepted. She appreciated art,music, theater, travel, and good food (especially icecream). Hilda lived in Chicago for her first 58 yearsand taught first grade, first in Alsip, IL and then atthe University of Chicago Lab School. She and herhusband Ralph moved to the island of Mallorca,Spain, after he retired and lived there for 12 years.She and Ralph moved back to the US in1990 andlived in Santa Rosa, California. Ralph died in 2007.Hilda remained in Santa Rosa until August 2018,when she moved back to Chicago. Hilda is survivedby her four children: Karen Mansfield of Oak ParkIL, Diane (Tom) Judge of Chicago, Ernie (Susana)Mansfield of Berkeley, CA, and Pamela Mansfieldof Oms, France; four grandchildren: Tara (Poco)Compehos of Hawaii, Sam (Lalita) Mansfield ofSanta Cruz, CA, Nikkie Mansfield of New Haven, CT,and Lori Mansfield of Oak Park, IL; and two great-grandchildren: Kamali Moon and Nalu Compehos, ofHawaii. In Hilda’s memory, please eat some good icecream and vote blue in November. Arrangements byCremation Society of Illinois, 773-281-5058 or www.cremation-society.com.

Mansfield, Hilda Blum


Edward “Mala” C. Maluchnik. Beloved husband ofElaine nee Blasinski. Loving father of Rick. Cherishedson of the late Edward and late Caroline. Caringuncle of many nieces and nephews. Dear brotherof the late Richard, late Casimir (Joan), late Donald(Mary), late Jerome (Rosemary). Fond brother-in-lawof late John (Christine), late Jim, Barbara Skarzynski,Sharon. Dear friend of the Hagemann, Carrasco andMatarazzo families. Visitation is Monday 4:00-7:00p.m. at BELMONT FUNERAL HOME 7120 W. BelmontAve. The State of Illinois has placed a limit of 10people at one time in the funeral home. After payingyour silent tribute to your loved one, please leavethe funeral home and allow other people the sameprivilege. Private Mass of Christian Burial Tuesdayat St. Ferdinand Church. Private Entombment St.Joseph Cemetery. Future memorial luncheon will beheld in the middle of August 2020. Info 773.286.2500or www.belmontfuneralhome.com


Maluchnik, Edward C.

37, died Saturday, March 14, 2020, at his home inWayland, Mass., surroundedby his family, a little more thana year after being diagnosedwith colon cancer. He was agraduate of NorthwesternUniversity and “a law schooloutside of Boston,” and spenthis career at the Wilmer Halefirm in Boston, but his great-est achievement was the

life and family he created with Jennifer, his partnerin life and love. They were a consummate team,through times good and bad. A devoted father, Jimmade sure to ingrain in their twins, Calvin and Oliver,and daughter Juliette, the important things in life:good books, Legos, all things Disney, video gamesand the value of a well-timed joke. In addition tohis wife Jennifer and children Calvin, Oliver andJuliette, Jim is survived by his parents Maureen andThomas Lux, his sister Kathryn (Joshua) Rudawitz,nephews Samuel and Jack Rudawitz, niece EleanorRudawitz, grandparents Richard and Velma Lux andDolores Carney Shipp, aunts Julie (Dan) Rosenbaum,Mary Beth (Phil) Pacsi, Karen Mix, Susan Carney,uncle Steve (Megan Garvey) Carney, cousins EvanCarney, Jamie Kettleson, Adam (Mollie Baxley) Pacsi,Dominica (Sean) Vanderhoof, Ellen (Raziel) Shields,Dominic Rosenbaum, Declan Carney and BrendanCarney, mother-in-law Julie Cheung, father-in-lawJimmy Cheung, brother-in-law Dr. Jimmy Cheungand countless, devoted friends. Jim is preceded indeath by grandfather Thomas Carney, aunt KathleenCarney, uncle Michael Carney and step-grandfatherDr. John R. Shipp. Because of restrictions due toCOVID-19, there will be no public visitation at thistime. A private funeral service will be held, followedby burial at Edgell Grove Cemetery, Framingham.The family plans to hold joyful celebrations of Jim’slife in Boston and in Chicago when all are once againable to travel and gather. In the meantime, the fam-ily invites you to send stories, pictures and memo-ries you wish to share to: [email protected]. In lieu of flowers, gifts may be madeto The Lux Children Educational Fund in care ofThomas Lux, 130 Black Bear Drive #1312, Waltham,MA 02451 or to the Young Onset Colorectal CancerCenter at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, P.O. Box849168, Boston, MA 02284. For his full obituary, visitDeeFuneralHome.com.

LUX, James Thomas


Gerald T. “Jerry” Padar, age 77, of Elgin and formerly of Schaumburg. Jerry passed away March 19, 2020 at Journey Care Hospice in Barrington. He was bornJune 11, 1942 in Chicago. He is survived by his lovingwife for 51 years Marie A. Padar, loving children Lisa Padar, Lauren (Tom) Lowitzki and Kristen (Patrick)Julian, cherished grandchildren Nathan 13 andHannah 11 a sister in law Durell Padar and manynieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents James and Daisy Padar, brother JamesPadar and sister Nancy (late George Wallentine. Jerry had a great love of music studying classicalpiano in his younger days attending the AmericanConservatory of Music and University of Illinois. He was a retired special agent for the U.S. Treasury.Throughout his life he enjoyed the theater, traveling and spending time with his family and friends.A celebration of Jerry’s life will be planned in thefuture. Funeral information or online condolenceswww.ahlgrimfuneral.com or 847-882-5580.


Padar, Gerald T. ‘Jerry’

Clyde Alan Okita, 63, photographer; of Chicago;passed away March 18,2020, after a long-standing ill-ness. Dear brother of DwightOkita, son of the late PatsyTakeyo Okita (nee Arase) andFred Yoshio Okita. Friendof Maryam Omar. He lovedart, Buddhism & strong cof-fee, not necessarily in thatorder. He liked movies and

even acted in a few. Visit www.DwightOkita.com/Clydeness. A virtual memorial for Clyde is graduallyemerging. An in-person memorial is unlikely at thistime because of the coronavirus. Arrangements byCremation Society of Illinois, 773-281-5058 or www.cremation-society.com.

Okita, Clyde A.


Chloe Nickolson nee Karris, age 89 of Chicago IL.Beloved wife of Frank Nickolson. LovingMother of Diane (Robert Nevels), MarkNickolson and the late Pamela Hamilton.Cherished Grandmother of Christopher,Evan and Grant Nickolson. Private

services will be held due to current conditions.Donations may be made in Chloe’s name to theAutism Research Foundation. You can visit Chloe’smemorial at www.legacy.com, www.smithcorcoran.com or call 773-736-3833.

Nickolson, Chloe


Anthony J. Mestan, age 81; beloved husband ofClaire (nee Abugelis); lovingfather of Anthony W. (Jamie)and Joseph V. Mestan; dearbrother of Daniel (Dorothy)Mestan; cherished brother-in-law of Laura (the late Craig)Cegielski and Doris (Richard)Leifert; fond uncle and greatuncle of many nieces andnephews. Funeral services

and interment will be private. A memorial mass andcelebration of Tony’s life will be held at a later date.

Mestan, Anthony J.


Sam Melamed, age 94, of Miami Beach, FL andformerly of Montreal, Canada; belovedhusband for 70 years of the late Sylvia,nee Gottlieb; loving father of HarveyMelamed, Susan (David) Rentschler, andEarl (Stacy) Melamed; adored Zaida of

Nick and Roxanne Rentschler Jack (fiancée RachelLongman) and Sarah Melamed; devoted son of thelate Max and the late Tybel Melamed; cherishedbrother of Bessie Bernard, Harry Melamed, Diana(late Sidney) Burn and the late Manny (late Miriam)Melamed; treasured uncle, cousin, and friend tomany. Due to the pandemic virus and concern forthe health of our extended family and friends, thegraveside service and shiva on Monday will be pri-vate. The service will be live streamed. Go to www.goldmanfuneralgroup.com, choose “Live Stream”from the menu bar which will direct you to ourFacebook page. The live stream will commenceMonday, 1:30 p.m. CT. Contributions may be madeto the Keshet Adult Programming in Memory of SamMelamed, 600 Academy Drive, #130, Northbrook, IL60062, www.keshet.org. Info: The Goldman Funeral

Group, www.goldmanfuneralgroup.com (847)478-1600.

Melamed, Sam


Retired CPD. Loving son of the late James and Elizabeth; dear friend to Maria Franklin and Alan Busch. Services private. For information please call 847-685-1002 or visit www.cooneyfuneralhome.com


McGann, James G. ‘Jim’

Daniel G. Martinotti, at rest March 12th, 2020. OfWestchester, formerly of Oak Park and Roseland.Loving husband husband of Sheila, nee Guinan. Adored father of Margaret, Colleen, Matthew andMarykate. Fond brother of Judy (Peter) Hedlin and Rick Martinotti. Beloved uncle, cousin, brother inlaw, mentor and friend to many. Proud member ofPipefitters Local 597, loyal White Sox fan. Preceded in death by his parents Richard and Rose Mary. Dan’s calm energy will be missed by all. Our gather-ings will forever miss the music history he wouldshare or that bit of wisdom you didn’t know you needed. Dan was the guy all were drawn to. We will have a celebration of Dan’s life when we can safely gather to honor him with music, laughter and community. Info: GAMBONEY & SON FUNERALDIRECTORS 708/420-5108


Martinotti, Daniel G.

Eileen E. Markwell (nee Even), 99, a lifelong residentof Chicago, passed away on March 13, 2020 inFlorida. She was the beloved wife of the late Cdr.Norman R. Markwell, USN, Ret., loving mother of Dr.John (Dr. Lori), Joan Lawler (David Verploegh), thelate Mary Frank (Steven), William (Louise), BarbaraLaw (Dr. Trevor), the late Robert (Vicki), Matthew(Suzanne), grandmother of Timothy, James (Anne),Tristan (Nicole) Robert (Laura), Gregory, CaitlinSkrdla, and Kevin (Paulina) and great grandmotherof many. A mass will be held later this year on adate to be announced. For info 773-736-3833 or visitEileen’s memorial at www.smithcorcoran.com


Markwell, Eileen E.

Dear Friends, Our hearts are heavy, and we long togather to celebrate Alyson and find comfort in ourcommunity. COVID-19 makes this impossible at thismoment. The March 28 service must be postponed.Please know we will gather when circumstancesallow. We will announce the date for her MemorialService on Caring Bridge https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/alysonrobertson and in this newspaper.In the meantime, please remember and celebrateAlyson, even during these difficult times. Expressyour thoughts and memories in the online GuestBook at www.palosgaidasfh.com (708) 974 4410


Robertson, Alyson

Francine Rissman, nee Greenberg. She was thewonderful wife of Burton Rissman for 67 years, the daughter of Michael and Rose Greenberg, lov-ing mother of Lawrence (Ellen), Thomas (DeboraChoate) and Michael (Marguerite Iorio, deceased,and Jennifer Dressler), the marvelous grandmotherof Jeffrey (Cassandra), David (deceased), Jessica Cohen (Roni), Nicole Shamis (Ben), Kelly, Julie, Jonathan, Joseph and Nicholas, great grandmotherof Kody, Shay and Emmy Cohen and Max and RubyShamis, and sister of Adelaide Rosen (Leonard),Enid Bloch, and the deceased William Greenberg(Barbara). She went everywhere; she did everything(including practice law); she loved music, theater, reading, sports, the arts, the law, history and archae-ology, and her family and friends; and she was a generous donor to the organizations she supported.In view of the pandemic, no funeral, shiva or other gathering is planned now, but a memorial service will be held when it is safe to do so. In lieu of flowers,please make donations to the Chicago Symphony, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (in Cortez, CO),Shirley Ryan Ability Center, or Steppenwolf Theatre.


Rissman, Francine

Ronald C. Rach - passed away at his residence with his family by his side, Thursday, March 19, 2020. Age 84 years.Survived by his loving wife of 62 years Marilyn M.Rach (nee Rhein), two sons Ken (Joanne) Rach andJeff (Faith) Rach. Four grandchildren Kevin, Michael,Megan and Joshua Rach. His sister Karen (Chuck)Dircks. Two nieces and two nephews also survive. Ron was preceded in death by his parents Charles and Louise Rach. Ron was born January 1, 1936 in Chicago. Ronretired from the Chicago Fire Department in 1998 after 42 years of service. He was an instructor atthe Chicago Fire Academy for 18 years. Ron wasa devoted member of Our Savior Lutheran Church and active with the Braille ministry. He served many years as a Scoutmaster with Boy Scouts of Americain Chicago. A memorial service will be held at a later date.Memorials to Our Savior Lutheran Church in Joliet orthe Fire Museum of Greater Chicago will be appreci-ated. For information call (815) 744-0022 or www.CHSFUNERAL.com


Rach, Ronald C.

Doris Pfenning, 92, passed peacefully at theGolden Years of Walworthin Walworth, WI on MondayMarch 16th 2020. Doris wasborn on January 24th 1928.She met her husband BrunoA Pfenning, in high schooland married on September11th 1948. They were mar-ried for almost 60 yearsbefore Bruno passed in April

of 2008. They raised two children in the ChicagoNorthwest suburbs. Doris was a graduate of SchurzHigh School. She finished her first two years of col-lege via television, then finished her degree at CTCNorth in Chicago. She obtained her Masters degreein 1987 from the National College of Education. Shespent over 30 years teaching primarily at SunsetRidge Schools in Northfield, Illinois. Doris had a pas-sion for teaching and was honored in “Who’s WhoAmong American Teachers”. Doris was known forher quick wit and a compassionate spirit. She en-joyed traveling with her family to Palm Springs andLas Vegas. Doris and her husband were avid golfersand loved playing pinochle with good friends. Sheis survived by her sister Maryellen Waters, was be-loved mother of Bruno “Rick” (Linda) Pfenning andApril (Jeff) Boeck, treasured grandmother of Tracie(Joe) Cyganiak, Gretchen (Dave) Kepler, Joshua(Susan) Boeck and great grandmother of AmbroseBoeck. She was Aunt to Jerry (Jean) Waters, Daniel(Sandra) Waters and Lynn (Neill) Spitz. Our familywould also like to extend a sincere thank you to thestaff at Golden Years who so graciously cared forher for almost 7 years. A celebration of life will beheld at a later date with family and close friends.

Pfenning, Doris Phyllis


Sally Ann Petterson, age 60 of Northfield, March18, 2020. Sally was the beloved daughter of Eleanor Petterson nee Layden and the late GeorgePetterson; loving sister of Susan (Steven) Morgan and the dear aunt of Willis and Patrick Morgan.Services and interment were private.Info: 847-675-1990 or www.donnellanfuneral.com.


Petterson, Sally Ann

Born in Chicago, IL to Loretta (Pullano) and JamesParadiso Sr., James (Jim)Raymond Paradiso, age 75,passed away on Monday,March 16th, 2020, inMadison, Wisconsin. A “re-covering academic”, Jim wasforever proud of his graduatedegrees in Philosophy andBusiness Administration. Anearly adapter of the digital

academic movement, he was known to teach onlinecollege courses at 4AM from his home office, enjoy-ing his most creative hours before the sun rose.Later in life, his artistry blossomed, first with paint-ing, then photography and, finally, memoirs andplays. He went on to have dozens of pieces pub-lished and dedicated his work to his true love, sweetmuse and bodyguard, Suzi; his most devoted fan.A fiercely intelligent and loyal soul, he will be keptalive in the hearts of those who love him, includ-ing his daughters, Rebecca and Nicole; son-in-law,Francisco; grandchildren, Majua, Niko and DessaRose; dear cousin, Ava; and his beautiful communityof family and friends. He was preceded in death byhis wife, Suzi, for whom his love reigns eternal.Jim’s family would like to share their profoundappreciation for the staff at Agrace Hospice inFitchburg, WI for their supreme care and kindness.

Paradiso, James Raymond ‘Jim’




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Samuels, Shirley ElizabethShirley Elizabeth Samuels, nee Levey, age 94, formerly of Sun Lakes, AZ & Skokie, IL Beloved wife of the late Stan-ley; cherished mother of Marcia (Clint) VanSchaick & Michael (Julie) Samuels; loving grandmother of Elisabeth Samu-els, Randi (William J.) Gutschick and Dr.

Sarah Emily Samuels; dear sister of the late Jerry(Sylvia) Levey. Former accountant with Frost, Rut-tenberg & Rothblatt. Navy veteran during WWII. Aprivate family graveside funeral is necessary. Video of the funeral will be available Tuesday evening at www.mitzvahfunerals.com Info Mitzvah Memo-

rial Funerals, 630-MITZVAH (630-648-9824)

Sybil Judith Rynowecer, 92; born in NYC, formerlyof Chicago’s Old Town neigh-borhood; passed peace-fully on March 11, 2020 ather residence in Evanston.Sybil was a dedicated vol-unteer for the Old TownArt Fair and later worked inretail, selling men’s shirts& ties at Marshall Field’son State Street. Beloved

mother of Alyse (fiancé Jaime Haas) Rynor; devotedgrandmother of Shelli (Jason) Shadday, Erica (Neill)Macrum, and David Rosenfeld and step-grandmoth-er of Sara Rosenfeld. Proud great-grandmother ofHazel, Zachary and new baby Shadday and Riverand Willow Macrum. Dear aunt of Amy Hill, Alan(Ceil) Horowitz, and Larry (Maud) Horowitz, Great-aunt of Helena and Leo. Services are being planned.In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in hername to http://unitychicago.org. Arrangements byCremation Society of Illinois, 773-281-5058 or www.cremation-society.com.

Rynowecer, Sybil Judith


Mary Ann Ross, age 99, passed away on March17, 2020. Chicago Board ofEducation librarian. She issurvived by son, Dr. Albert(Lori) Ross; grandchildren,Kiersten (Joshua) Hillmannand Blake Ross; dear friendGeraldine “Gerry” Brownlee;and dear friends and neigh-bors Clem Orange and Gail Jones. Online

guestbook at www.tiffanyfuneralhome.com.

Ross, Mary Ann


Virginia “Ginny” Rogers, nee Noonan age 93, of Downers Grove. Beloved wife of the late John “Jack”Rogers Sr.; loving mother of Sharon Bigane, Judy, the late John Jr., Susan, and the late Dick (Lynne) Rogers,Lauren (Chuck) Jamieson, and Tom (Karen) Rogers;devoted grandmother 17; great grandmother of 20;fond sister of Patrick (Wendy) Noonan, and preced-ed in death by 3 brothers and 1 sister in law; auntof many nieces and nephews. Visitation and serviceare private, a memorial Mass will be scheduled ata later date. Interment Queen of Heaven Cemetery. Memorials to PACTT Learning Center, 712 BelleforteAve. Oak Park, IL 60302, or Alzheimer’s Association,225 N. Michigan Ave., Fl. 17, Chicago, IL 60601, are appreciated. Funeral Info: www.knollcrest.net or 630-932-1500.


Rogers, Virginia A ‘Ginny’

Robert J. “Bob” Stumpe, Sr. Age 87, BelovedHusband of Margaret L. “Lois” Stumpe.Loving Father of Robert Jr. (Sissy), James(Paula), Karyn (Bob) McQuillan andthe late Kay (late John) Barcas. ProudGrandfather of 11; Great Grandfather of

18; Dear Brother of the late William (Carol) Stumpe.Loving uncle of many nieces and nephews.Visitation9:00-1:00 P.M. on March 26, 2020. Services 1:00 P.M.Interment Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. 708-614-9900or www.bradygill.com

Stumpe, Sr., Robert J. ‘Bob’


Marie K Seiwert, nee Kiener, age 99 longtimeresident of Villa Park, currently at Villa Scallabrini. Retired from Village of Villa Park.Private prayers held at Brust Funeral Home

to Assumption Cemetery for burial. Mass of Resurrection pending when public Masses are al-lowed at St. Alexander’s Catholic Church, 300 S.Cornell Avenue, Villa Park.For More Information call 1-888-629-0094 or visit brustfuneralhome.com


Seiwert, Marie K.

78, passed away the morning of March 1, 2020 inTampa, Florida.

Anni was bornon July 26, 1941 in thesmall village of Engelsberg,Czechoslovakia to Aurelia(Thaemer) and Joseph Gross.She was the third of threedaughters. In 1959, Annimet a Serbian electrician,Robert “Bob” Schlotzer in

the German city of Goeppingen. They were marriedfour years later.Anni and Bob Immigrated to the US in 1967 and

bought their first home in Northport, Long Island.They welcomed their first child, Yvonne, in Octoberof 1971. In 1973 they relocated to the Chicago sub-urbs and had their second child, Eric. Anni stayedhome to raise their children, later returning to workin the office of Bob’s own machinery sales andmanufacturing business.

In 1980, Anni and Bob moved from Lombardto their dream home in West Chicago, where theyspent the next 38 years lovingly tending to theirhome and garden. On weekends, they enjoyedmeeting up with others in their circle of German-American friends. Anni was known for her quick witand brutal honesty. She was amazingly generousand had a big personality that complemented Bob’smore introverted style.In late 2018, Anni and Bob moved to Land O Lakes,

Fl. When Bob passed away on January 12th, 2020Anni’s broken heart never recovered. Her passingcame just six weeks later.Anni Schlotzer is survived by her daughter Yvonne

(Mitchell) and husband Hunter, son Eric and his wifeLynsey, four grandchildren, Aria, Evangeline, Rafeand Rook, and sisters Erna (Steinhauser) and Linde(Kraus).

Schlotzer, Anna M ‘Anni’


Robert “Bob” Schiller, 70, of Carol Stream, IL, died onMarch 18, 2020. Beloved hus-band of the late Cathy (neeMosebach). Loving father ofKatie (Christopher) Kiepuraand Bobby Schiller. Cherishedgrandfather of Abigail,Allison, and Jacob. Precededin death by his sisters Joyce,Marlene, and Patricia. Fondbrother-in-law of Nancy (the

late Thomas) O’Donnell, Jean Mosebach, and Paul(Alice) Mosebach.Bob was born in 1949 in Chicago to Theodore andGenevieve. From an early age, Bob’s passion forbaseball was evident and after graduating fromWest Leyden High School in 1967, he continued onplaying catcher for the Illinois Benedictine Eagles. In1971 Bob married Cathy, the love of his life and theysettled in Saint Charles, IL, where they lived andraised their two children. Bob loved classic rock,New Orleans jazz, fishing, spending time with fam-ily, and Chicago sports. He will be remembered forhis unforgettable sense of humor. He left this worldhappy in the knowledge that his beloved Cubs wereWorld Series Champions.In lieu of funeral services, Bob wished any memorialgifts be made to Feeding America to support othersin need during this time or the Special Olympics, acause dear to Bob.

Schiller, Robert


Wayne E. Scheimann, age 79, a resident of Addison,IL since 1965, formerly of Fort Wayne, IN, passedaway on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 at EdwardHospital in Naperville, IL from complications dueto an illness. He was born July 5, 1940 in FortWayne. Wayne was employed by Nalco ChemicalCompany in Naperville for 29 years, retiring in 1998.Arrangements by Friedrich-Jones Funeral Home &

Cremation Services, Naperville, IL. For a completeobituary, please visit www.friedrich-jones.com orcall (630) 355-0213 for more information.


Scheimann, Wayne E.

Burton E. “Bud” Toepp, 86, of Naperville, IL passedaway on March 15, 2020in the care of hospice sur-rounded by family. He wasmarried to his survivingwife, Barbara, for 62 years.He was the loving father tofour daughters; Dr. Lisa (Dr.Roger Pumphrey) of ColoradoSprings, Colorado, Julie Gras(Michael Ross) of Spring,

Texas, Paula (Richard) Moore of Riva, Maryland, andLaura Gilmore of Ennis, Montana. He was known asPapa to his grandchildren Kathryn Moore, JamesMoore and twins William and Charles Gilmore. Hewas preceded in death by his parents Burton E. andIda P. (Schiffgen)Toepp and three younger siblings,Paula Toepp Allen, James Toepp and Thomas Toeppand granddaughter Evelyn Gilmore. Burton wasborn January 28, 1934 in Washington D.C. and grewup in South Bend, Indiana, where he graduated fromJohn Adams High School. He went on to receive aBachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering fromUniversity of Notre Dame and an MBA from IndianaUniversity. In June 1958 he married his high schoolsweetheart, Barbara Kelley of Granger, Indiana, atSt. Pius Catholic Church. After several job moves,they settled in Naperville, IL in 1971. He workedfor Lucent Technologies, formerly Western Electric,for 30 years and then he became a consultant fora software manufacturer for 9 years. Burt spentmany hours of his life in Naperville volunteering atNaperville CARES, Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry,PADS, Sunrise Assisted Living, Saints Peter and PaulCatholic Church and School, and the Notre DameClub of Greater DuPage. His presence in our fam-ily and his community will be greatly missed. GoIrish! In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions canbe made to Loaves and Fishes Community Services,1871 High Grove Ln., Naperville, IL 60540 (loaves-fishes.org). Donations will be directed to the CAREScar donation program. Memorial visitation and Massin Naperville and internment at Highland Cemeteryin South Bend, IN are being postponed until furthernotice. Arrangements entrusted to Friedrich-Jones

Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 44 S. Mill St.,Naperville, IL 60540. For more information, pleasecall 630-355-0213 or www.friedrich-jones.com

Toepp, Burton E. ‘Bud’


Age 91 of Joliet, and formerly of Chicago, passedaway peacefully onWednesday, March 18, 2020at Rock Run Place AssistedLiving in Joliet.Born April 17, 1928 inChicago, Gloria was a daugh-ter of Stephen and Ann(Matloka) Grzymalski. Shewas raised and educated inChicago and graduated from

St. Mary of Perpetual Help High School with theclass of 1946. Following graduation, Gloria attendedDePaul University. She worked for WestinghouseElectric as an accounting clerk for twenty years untilretiring in 1983.On June 11, 1949, Gloria married John Tobolski, Sr. inSt. Mary of Perpetual Help Catholic Church. Togetherthey made their home and raised their family in theGarfield Ridge neighborhood of Chicago. Gloria wasa devoted Catholic who was a lifelong member ofthe Council of Catholic Women. She volunteeredher time teaching religious education and helpingat St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet. She also hadthe great honor of being recognized as St. AmbroseCatholic Church Women of the Year in 2006. Gloriawas an avid reader and a wonderful dancer. Sheprided herself in being a progressive thinker andpassed onto her children her strong conviction forequality. Gloria’s most treasured times were withher family. She will be deeply missed by all whoknew her.Gloria is survived by her seven children: JohnTobolski, Jr., Fran (Tommy) Dymek, GloriaSendelbaugh, Stephen (Jill) Tobolski, Paul (Cheri)Tobolski, Andrea (Tom) Kemp, and Elizabeth (the latePeter) Dudak; thirteen grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren; beloved cousins, dear brother andsister-in-law, and many nieces and nephews.She is preceded in death by her parents, Stephenand Ann Grzymalski; husband of 44 years until hispassing in 1993, John, Sr.; sister: Cynthia Ecklundand brother, Donald Barton.Per Gloria’s wishes, cremation rites have been ac-corded and she will be laid to rest with her husbandin Resurrection Cemetery in Justice.A memorial Mass of Christian Burial will be held ona later date in St. Ambrose Catholic Church.In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may bemade as gifts in Gloria’s memory to Joliet AreaCommunity Hospice.The family would like to express a heartfelt thankyou to the entire staff at Rock Run Place for theircare and kindness.Obituary and tribute wall for Gloria Tobolski at www.tezakfuneralhome.com. Arrangements entrusted to:

Tobolski, Gloria


Jeanne Svihla, nee Tichna, 85 of LaGrange Parkpassed away peacefullyFebruary 13, 2020 after a 2month hospital battle withpneumonia. The belovedwife of 54 years to husbandRobert and devoted motherto children Gary (Jennifer),Kirk, Barbara and cherishedsister of Carole Cardamone.For many years before and

after her children were grown, she was an executivesecretary in advertising and public relations. She en-joyed sewing, homemaking and the arts, especiallydance and music. She also loved the outdoors andwas an avid flower gardener. She and Robert trav-eled extensively in the states and abroad, often withclose friends.Cremation service was private and handled by theLinhart Funeral Home, 708-749-2255. The intermentwill be private at Woodlawn Cemetery in ForestPark, IL.

Svihla, Jeanne


James Sundry, age 66, passed away on March 16,2020. Beloved son of the late Ann nee Hriczik andJim V. Sundry; dear nephew of Tom Hriczik; fondcousin and friend of many. Jim was a football playerduring his years at East Leyden High School. Proudmember for 35 years of the Electrical Union 134. Jimloved the game of golf and he was a lifelong ChicagoCubs fan. Jim’s family lives in Western Pennsylvania.Private Interment at All Saints Cemetery took placeon Wednesday March 18, 2020.


Sundry, James







Edward W. Zmuda, age 93. Husband of the lateStephanie (Galus); brother of the late Theodore (thelate Wanda), the late Stephanie Zmuda; brother-in-law of many sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law;survived by many nieces and nephews. WorldWar II Veteran in the Asian Pacific Arena 46th Eng.Construction BN, retired from Cowhey Fuel andMaterial. Funeral Services and Interment are private.Celebration of his life at a future date. Donations toMount Saint Joseph, 24955 N. Rand Rd., Lake Zurich,IL 60047. For further information 312-421-0936.


Zmuda, Edward W.

Marcia Dobrin Weiland, age 82, beloved wife ofMartin Weiland, happily married for 61years; loving mother of Steven (Lila)Weiland and Amy Weiland; cherishedgrandmother of Hannah, Sarah andRobert; dear sister of Barbara Wald; trea-

sured aunt to many nieces and nephews. Marcialived a life of service, she was a lifetime memberand past President of Hadassah. Private serviceswere held at Shalom Memorial Park. In lieu of flow-ers, donations may be made to Hadassah Chicago-North Shore or Lewy Body Dementia Association.For information and condolences: 847-255-3520 orwww.shalom2.com

Weiland, Marcia Dobrin


Douglas O. Weidman, 73 years, of Glencoe, ILpassed away on March 18,2020 at his home, follow-ing an extended illness. Hewas born June 3, 1946, inChicago, IL, the son of Robertand Virginia, nee Quillen,Weidman. He was mar-ried to Judith, nee Holzman,Weidman, who survives him.They were married February8, 1970 in Chicago, IL.

Douglas was a man of integrity, truly oneof a kind; he always did the right thingeven when nobody was watching. Heoperated his dental practice for over

25 years, creating a network of loyal clients whobecame great friends. When he wasn’t practicingdentistry, he was busy being a hero to his wife andthree sons. He loved tennis, cycling, kayaking, trav-eling, and going on adventures with his boys. Hisfun loving ways, gentle nature, sharp wit, big smile,and bright blue eyes will be terribly missed by ev-eryone that was blessed and fortunate enough toknow him.

Also surviving are his three sons, Matthew (Melissa),Bradley (Amanda Angell), and Gregory; brothers-in-law William Hamilton and Todd (Terry) Holzman; be-loved grandchildren, Alexander and Claire, cousins,nieces, along with other relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death by his sister, ArleneHamilton.

Services will be held privately on Sunday, March22nd, with Rabbi Steven Lowenstein, officiating. Apublic memorial service will be held at a later date.

In lieu of customary remembrances, the family re-quests with gratitude that memorial contributionsbe directed to: Parkinson’s Foundation, 200 SE 1stStreet, Ste 800, Miami, FL 33131(parkinsons.org) oranother charity of your choice.

For more information, please access our website,https://www.dignitymemorial.com/funeral-homes/wilmette-il/weinstein-piser-funeral-home/7157Weinstein & Piser Funeral Home, Skokie, IL, whohandled arrangements.

Weidman, Douglas Owen


Gerald L. Tourville, 91, passed away on March14, 2020. He was a Sgt. In the U.S.Marine Corp. Korean Conflict. RetiredSupervisor at Mt. Greenwood Park.Beloved husband of Claudette (neeRumpf). Loving father of Randy (Dawne),

Andrew (Brandie) and Sharon Tourville. Dear grand-father of 6 and great-grandfather of 2. Brother of thelate George (Inez) Tourville, Barbara (Tony) Zunica,and Alan (Judy) Tourville. Uncle of many nieces andnephews. Private interment Monday at AbrahamLincoln National Cemetery. A Memorial Service willbe held at a later date. Arrangements entrustedto Donnellan Funeral Home. For information (773)-238-0075 or sign guestbook at www.donnellanfu-neralhome.com.

Tourville, Gerald L.




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Those fears are especially acutefor those who don’t have healthinsurance — some of whom lackcoverage because they can’t affordplans sold on the Affordable CareAct exchange.

But far fewer people in Illinoisare uninsured now than a decadeago, before the law was signed.

This month marks 10 yearssince President Barack Obamasigned the law — an anniversary

that’s colliding with an unprece-dented health care crisis. It’s aturn of events that will undoubt-edly highlight both how the lawhas improved access to healthinsurance for many, and how it’sfallen short.

The law’s supporters note thatwithout the Affordable Care Act,also known as Obamacare, morepeople would be uninsured. Morethan 1.7 million Illinois residents— nearly 14% of the state’s popula-tion — were uninsured, on aver-age, between 2008 and 2010,according to the U.S. CensusBureau. By 2018, that percentage

had been cut in half, to about 7%,or about 875,000 people.

People with preexisting condi-tions can no longer be deniedcoverage, and insurance compa-nies no longer can cap how muchthey’ll spend on a person’s care.Preventative care, such as phys-icals, are now free. And mostindividual insurance plans mustcover at least 10 major areas ofcare, including mental health,prescription drugs and pregnancy.

More than 570,000 low-incomepeople in Illinois have gained

Obamacare turns 10 years old amid pandemic, and for some, it falls shortBy Lisa Schencker

Traci Fine gets a vaccine at the office of Dr. Michael Melnick on March 10

in Buffalo Grove. Fine is a makeup artist and relies on Obamacare.

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Hotel occupancy rates haveplummeted. Housekeepingstaff, bellhops, valets and otherworkers are being let go, notknowing when — or if — they’llbe back. Some of Chicago’sswankiest properties have gonedark, temporarily closing theirdoors to overnight guests.

An already dire situation isset to get even worse as the newcoronavirus puts the brakes ontravel and sends the lodgingindustry into a tailspin, un-leashing ripple effects across

the economy.“We haven’t seen anything

like this,” said Lee Hoener,general manager of The DrakeOak Brook, part of Marriott’sboutique hotel Autograph Col-lection. “We’ve had a drasticdrop in occupancy — prettymuch a 90% reduction. Likemost hotels, we’ve had to re-duce staff significantly.”

Chicago’s high-end Penin-sula and Park Hyatt hotels tookthe drastic step of shuttingdown midweek. The Park Hyatthas stopped taking reservationsuntil April 30. The Peninsula’s

website says no reservationswill be available “until furthernotice.”

The 173-room Hotel Zachary,across the street from WrigleyField, is temporarily closingFriday, according to an emailedstatement that did not providean expected reopening date.

Closure remains a possibilityat The Drake Oak Brook too.

“I’d be lying if I said it hasn’tbeen talked about,” Hoenersaid. “It’s on the table.”

Occupancy levels at hotels inChicago’s central business dis-trict continue to be on a down-ward spiral, dropping to 35.6%during the second week inMarch. That’s nearly 49% lowerthan the same time period last

year, according to hotel indus-try data firm STR. The averagedaily rate fell 10% to $147.

The grim statistics areplaying out across the country.Hotel occupancy levels in theU.S. hovered at 53% last week,about 24% lower than last year.The steepest drops were inSeattle, San Francisco and NewYork — areas hit particularlyhard by COVID-19.

“The performance declineswere especially pronounced inhotels that cater to meetingsand group business, which is areflection of the latest batch ofevent cancellations and govern-ment guidance to restrict thesize of gatherings,” said JanFreitag, STR’s senior vice presi-

dent of lodging insights, in astatement.

“The questions we are hear-ing the most right now arearound how far occupancy willdrop and how long this willlast,” Freitag said. “Throughcomparative analysis of theoccupancy trends in China andItaly over the past weeks, wecan with certainty say that weare not yet close to the bottomin the U.S.”

The impact of the hotelindustry’s implosion can havefar-reaching consequences. AnOxford Economic Study calcu-lated that a 30% decline in U.S.hotel guest occupancy could

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‘We haven’t seen anything like this’Outbreak makes empty rooms, staff cuts,closures the new reality for Chicago’s hotels

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On a summer weekend night, Logan Square’s Park & Fieldcan pull in as much as $50,000 in bar and food sales.

On Thursday, Park & Field’s delivery service, cobbledtogether in response to a government-mandated shutdown ofdine-in business, an effort to stem the spread of the newcoronavirus, earned the restaurant $222.

“It’s not exactly going great,” Park & Field co-owner DaveNalezny said. “But we’re doing what we can.”

Nalezny and his partners — his wife and his brother, wholaunched the restaurant three years ago with personal savings anda loan using Nalezny’s home as collateral — have enough money tocover about two weeks of expenses.

Survival of the business beyond that likely depends ongovernment relief, whether loans, grants, delayed deadlines for taxbills — or all of the above. On Thursday, a major hurdle was clearedin Illinois as the Small Business Administration’s coronavirusdisaster loan program became available across the state.

The key, though, is getting the money to businesses as quickly aspossible, said Ashley Brandt, an attorney representing more than

Cassius Wright serves customers at a walk-up counter at Baker Miller in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Chicago on Friday.

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insurance through the law’sexpansion of Medicaid, astate and federally fundedhealth insurance programthat was closed to mostable-bodied adults beforeObamacare.

And many people whomake too much for Medi-caid can get tax credits tooffset the cost of insurancepurchased through the ex-change.

“What we’re facing todaywith coronavirus and thethreat of a pandemic is agrim reminder of how im-portant public health is andhow important it is to havegood health insurancewhen you need it,” said Sen.Dick Durbin, D-Ill., whowas among those who votedfor the law.

But the law hasn’t beengood news for everyone inIllinois. Individuals whomake more than $51,040 ayear and families of fourwho make more than$104,800 don’t quality fortax credits, leaving some topay sky-high premiums forcoverage. Also, choices onthe exchange are limited,after some insurance com-panies pulled out of thestate’s marketplace and oth-ers changed their offerings.

“There are positives andnegatives to the AffordableCare Act,” said Robert Slay-ton, a Naperville insurancebroker and past president ofthe Illinois State Associ-ation of Health Under-writers. “Everyone whowants insurance can get it,regardless of health, andthey don’t pay more if theyhave a health condition.That’s huge.”

But for people who maketoo much to qualify for thesubsidies, “It’s been mixedto say the least,” he said.

Expandedcoverage

The Affordable Care Acttouched every part of thehealth care system, but itsmost basic goal was toexpand access to quality,affordable health insurance.

In Illinois, many peopleobtained coverage throughthe state’s decision to ex-pand Medicaid under thelaw. Not all states did, after a2012 U.S. Supreme Courtruling made expansion op-tional.

Previously, only low-in-come people with disabili-ties, children or certainother circumstances quali-fied for Medicaid coverage.Now, it’s available to peoplewithout children or disabil-ities, with incomes up to138% of the federal povertylevel.

As of last year, 570,000Illinois adults had coveragebecause of the Medicaidexpansion. That expandedcoverage also has meantmore payments for Illinoishospitals, which otherwiseoften have to absorb thecosts of treating uninsuredpatients.

“What the Medicaid ex-pansion did is it brought inmillions of dollars of federalmoney into the state,” said

Stephani Becker, associatedirector for health care jus-tice at the Shriver Center onPoverty Law in Chicago.The federal governmentpays 90% of the costs forIllinois residents coveredunder the expansion, andthe state pays the rest.

Those payments may beespecially important to hos-pitals as they gear up totreat potentially large num-bers of people withCOVID-19.

“It’s important, first forpatients, that they get thehealth care they need whenthey need it; because if youdelay or don’t get care,you’re worse off, you’resicker,” said Danny Chun, aspokesman for the IllinoisHealth and Hospital Associ-ation. “And it’s helped stabi-lize the finances of manyhospitals.”

Price increasesThe law has been tough,

however, on the finances ofsome of the people it wassupposed to help, as pricesfor exchange plans climbedin recent years.

Before the AffordableCare Act, Miranda Wilgus,of North Chicago, didn’thave health insurance be-cause her employer didn’toffer it, and a preexistingcondition made buying herown policy unaffordable.During that time, she hademergency gallbladdersurgery, a procedure thattook her five years to pay off.

Obamacare was sup-posed to fix all that. “Thefirst year, I was able to get adecent plan for $197 amonth. I could go to thedoctor,” she said. She wasthrilled.

But as the years went by,prices surged. Now, in 2020,Wilgus, who works as anoffice manager at a politicalnonprofit, is again unin-sured. Her monthly pre-mium would have beenabout $400 this year, andshe couldn’t afford it.

She said she’s now terri-fied of being uninsuredamid the spread of the newcoronavirus. “As much as Isee the irony and hypocrisyof me being an AffordableCare Act advocate, and notbeing able to afford insur-ance, there’s no choice,” shesaid.

In 2014, the first yearpeople had insurancethrough the exchange,prices were often relativelylow.

A 25-year-old Chicagoancould have paid $120 amonth for a bronze plan, atype of plan with low pre-miums but a higher deduct-ible. This year, Chicagoansof a similar age pay abouttwice as much for the sametype of plan. Many people inIllinois pay far more.

During that time, pricesalso have increased forplans offered through em-ployers, which is how mostIllinoisans get their insur-ance. Employer-sponsoredhealth insurance for a fam-ily of four cost an average of$20,576 a year in annualpremiums in 2019 — arecord high, according tothe Kaiser Family Founda-tion. Workers pay about$6,015 of that, and employ-

ers cover the rest.Experts say most of that

increase likely wasn’tcaused by the AffordableCare Act, but rather risingmedical and drug costs thatalso contributed to higherrates on the exchanges.

When the exchanges firstopened, many insurancecompanies weren’t surewhat to charge, said SabrinaCorlette, a research profes-sor at Georgetown Univer-sity’s Center on Health In-surance Reforms. Insurerslost money as more sickpeople, and fewer healthyones, signed up for coveragethan anticipated. Also, afederal program called rein-surance that helped fundinsurers expired after 2016,adding to their financialwoes.

Experts debate whichother factors led to the priceincreases. Some blame thebasic structure of the law.Overcharging healthy peo-ple for insurance to give sickpeople a better deal neverwas going to be sustainable,said Avik Roy, who served asa health care adviser toformer presidential candi-date Mitt Romney andfounded the Foundation forResearch on Equal Oppor-tunity.

Healthy people opt not tobuy insurance, leading toincreasingly expensiveplans for those on the ex-changes, he said. The laworiginally required every-one to buy insurance or paya penalty, but Roy said thepenalty was never enoughto compel everyone to buycoverage.

Others blame efforts bycongressional Republicans,and then President DonaldTrump, to weaken the lawand decrease funding.

Regardless of the reason,insurance companies re-acted to the losses. United-Healthcare and Aetnaexited the exchange in Illi-nois, limiting options forconsumers. Blue Cross andBlue Shield of Illinoisstayed on the exchange buteliminated a popular PPOplan that included many ofthe state’s top hospitals.

Other insurers, like Landof Lincoln, folded. Land ofLincoln sent nearly 50,000Illinois residents scram-bling for coverage when itcollapsed in mid-2016. Itwas a co-op, a nonprofitcreated under the Afford-able Care Act to help drivecompetition on the ex-change.

Co-ops across the coun-try failed, in part, many say,because Congress limitedtheir federal funding. Landof Lincoln and other co-opssued the federal govern-ment over the loss of thosepayments — an issue that’snow before the U.S.Supreme Court.

Insurance companiesthat remained on the ex-change increased theirprices significantly. In Illi-nois in 2016, average ratesfor many of the lowest-costplans increased by 5% to11%. Some consumers sawincreases of nearly 40%.

For people receiving taxcredits, those increases wer-en’t devastating, becausethe credits, in many cases,offset the increases. About

87% of the 288,000 peoplewho bought health insur-ance on the state’s exchangelast year received tax cred-its, which averaged about$524 a month.

Traci Fine, a 56-year-oldVernon Hills makeup artist,pays about $100 a month forher exchange coverage afterthe tax credit she receives.

Before Obamacare shespent years uninsured. If itweren’t for the law, shemight have been tethered toa job just for the benefits,she said.

“I make more moneythan I did in a dead-endjob,” Fine said. “I like lifemore. I’m happier and Ihave insurance. I’m able todo that because of Oba-macare.”

People who don’t qualifyfor subsidies, however, arepaying top dollar.

Gloria Charland, of In-gleside, is also self-em-ployed. The 62-year-oldwoman teaches part-timeand owns rental properties.Before the Affordable CareAct, she worried she’d bedenied coverage because ofa preexisting condition.

Charland no longer hasthat fear. But she’s payingmightily — about $896 amonth for a bronze-levelHMO plan.

“I make a little too muchmoney to get a subsidy butnot enough to afford a goodpolicy,” Charland said.

‘Not a lot of choice’

Like others, Charlanddidn’t have a lot of optionswhen it came to buying anexchange plan.

As there was only onecompany selling plans inLake County this year, “itwas an easy choice,” Char-land said. “I just went withthe cheapest one.”

Other Illinois residentshave found themselves withmore choices. On the whole,Illinois has fared better thanmany other states. Five in-surance companies offer ex-change plans this year inIllinois, including three thatsell plans in Cook County.

Still, it’s a far cry from2015, when 10 insurers werepart of the exchange.

“It’s frustrating becausethere’s not a lot of choice,”said Jessica Wanek, a Plain-field broker who’s beenselling insurance since 1999.“As a broker, it’s really hardto show people premiumsthat are so high and, no,your doctors are not goingto take this. As a broker, youalways want to have optionsfor your clients, and thereare less options than thereused to be.”

Many insurers narrowedthe networks of hospitalsand doctors as a way tolower monthly premiums,Corlette said.

Before the AffordableCare Act, people whobought their own insuranceplans, rather than gettingthem through an employeror government program,had an array of options ofwhat services they wantedcovered and what ones theydid not, Wanek said. Plansdidn’t have to cover whatare now known as the 10essential health benefits,

which include prescrip-tions, pregnancy, lab serv-ices and preventative care.

Many Illinois consumers,however, have seen theirchoices expand signifi-cantly under the AffordableCare Act. “If you’re some-body who has a preexistingcondition, then you do havemore choice,” Corlette said.

Before Obamacare, peo-ple with preexisting condi-tions in Illinois could getcoverage through a stateprogram called the IllinoisComprehensive Health In-surance Plan if theycouldn’t find it elsewhere.But they had to pay 125% to150% of what others in thestate paid for comparableplans.

“It was extremely expen-sive, and what it demon-strated, really, was the acuteneed across the state forIllinoisans of all incomelevels to have access to care,to health insurance that wasaffordable,” said MichaelMcRaith, who was directorof the Illinois Departmentof Insurance from 2005 to2011.

‘A first step’The law has changed in

many ways since it wassigned a decade ago. In 2017,congressional Republicansfailed to garner enoughvotes to repeal the law, butthe Trump administrationand Congress have madeother changes.

One of the biggest waswhen Congress erased thepenalty people had to payfor being uninsured, achange that took effect lastyear. The number of peoplein Illinois without insur-ance has again been climb-ing, since 2017, but it’s un-clear whether that’s be-cause the penalty is gone,insurance is expensive, theTrump administration cutback on advertising andoutreach surrounding theexchanges, or other factors.

The law will face another

major test later this year,when the U.S. SupremeCourt considers whetherthe mandate to buy insur-ance, and in turn the law, isstill constitutional withoutthe penalty.

Roy, with the Foundationfor Research on Equal Op-portunity, believes it’s morelikely the court will strikedown parts of the law ratherthan nix it entirely. If it isstruck down, “it would bekind of unimaginably dis-ruptive,” said KatherineHempstead, a senior ad-viser at the Robert WoodJohnson Foundation.

If the law is upheld,supporters acknowledgethere’s more work to bedone, such as addressingthe high costs of prescrip-tion drugs, Durbin said.

“We dropped the ball onthat,” he said. “We didn’t doeverything we could do onprescription drugs.”

Those behind the lawprioritized expanding in-surance coverage and argu-ably missed an opportunityto clamp down on risinghealth care costs, said Cor-lette, the Georgetown Uni-versity research professor.

Congress might get achance to make those im-provements, especially if aDemocrat is elected to theWhite House.

Wilgus, the North Chi-cago woman who is againuninsured because of highprices on the exchange,hopes the law survives. Sheruns a Facebook group withother women for consum-ers who rely on the ex-change. She’s since part-nered with other groups tosupport the law and effortsto build on it.

“People don’t necessarilyknow how big the Afford-able Care Act is and how itimpacts everyone,” Wilgussaid. “It was never meant tobe the end-all-be-all. It wasmeant to be a first step.”

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mean the loss of almost 4million jobs and a $300billion blow to the country’sGDP.

Oxford researchers esti-mate that the hotel industrysupports 8.3 million jobs — 1out of 25 — in the U.S.

One of those jobs belongsto Latonia Marshall, a singlemother of two who lives onthe West Side. For nearly adozen years, Marshall, 40,has worked as a house-keeper at Chicago’s Black-stone hotel. Last week, shefound out her serviceswouldn’t be needed, at leastfor the time being.

“They said with the co-ronavirus, they had a lot ofcancellations,” Marshallsaid. “They told us to go andfile for unemployment.”

Marshall checked withthe hotel this week to see ifanything changed. It hadn’t.

What may be her finalpaycheck from The Black-stone was due to arriveFriday. She, like many of hercoworkers represented byUnite Here Local 1, areworried about their healthinsurance.

A Blackstone representa-tive declined to comment.

“Here we are, just kind ofwaiting to see what’s goingto happen,” Marshall said,

choking back tears. “To gofrom being full-time to nothaving a job is hard.

“I feel like this is not justgoing to be a two-week fix,”she said. “I think it’s going tobe more than that. I have tofigure out in the meantimewhat I can do to take care ofmy kids.”

The Drake Oak Brook isin the midst of a multimil-lion-dollar renovation thatrecently overhauled 70guest rooms in one of itstowers. Construction work

is ongoing in the 84 roomsthat make up the secondtower. Some hotel staff thatwould have been let goduring this crisis are pitch-ing in with the remodelingproject.

“We’ve taken somekitchen staff, some banquetstaff, some of the folks in therestaurant, and we’ve putthem in blue jeans and workboots and put them them towork in the 84 rooms,whether it be painting orremoving old furniture,”

Hoener said. “We’ve been trying to

think of unconventionalways to be able to still getsome money in our employ-ees’ pockets.”

At the new Hyatt Househotel in the West Loop, anabundance of empty roomsrecently led to layoffs — astaff reduction that the ho-tel’s management company,McKibbon Hospitality, saidit hopes is temporary.

McKibbon plans tolaunch an employee assist-

ance fund to help pay forgroceries and other neces-sities.

“We consider our em-ployees family and will con-tinue to help them navigatethis unprecedented situa-tion as best as we can,” acompany representative re-sponded in an email.

Pebblebrook HotelTrust’s portfolio has 54 lodg-ing properties across thecountry, including HotelChicago and the WestinMichigan Avenue.

Of its 8,000-plus employ-ees, Pebblebrook has let goof more than 4,000 workersand expects to shed another2,000 by the end of March,according to CEO Jon Bortz.

“We are looking at closingthe doors at more than halfof our properties,” Bortz saidin a recent statement issuedby the American Hotel &Lodging Association.

AHLA members met thisweek with the White House,where they asked for $150billion in aid to keep hotelsfrom shuttering.

“The impact to our indus-try is already more severethan anything we’ve seenbefore, including September11th and the great recessionof 2008 combined,” saidAHLA President and CEOChip Rogers, in a statementreleased after the March 17meeting. “The White Houseand Congress can take ur-gent action to protect count-

less jobs, provide relief toour dedicated and hard-working employees, and en-sure that our small businessoperators and franchiseowners — who representmore than half of hotels inthe country — can keep theirdoors open.”

Compared with limited-services hotels without ex-tensive meeting and banquetfacilities, luxury propertieslike The Peninsula and ParkHyatt might be especiallyvulnerable to closure duringa crisis like this, said RenetaMcCarthy, senior lecturer atCornell University’s Schoolof Hotel Administration inIthaca, New York.

“Higher cost structuresmean that the breakeven-point for the hotels is higher… of course these days hotelsare barely running any occu-pancy, so it costs them a lotof money just to keep theirdoors open,” McCarthy saidin an email.

“I also think that if you area luxury hotel there is anexpectation for the level ofservice that you expect as aguest and that you are pay-ing for. With very littlebusiness it becomes verydifficult for a luxury hotel tooffer their guests the serv-ices they would expect.”

Chicago Tribune’s Ryan Oricontributed.

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A traveler arrives in February at The Peninsula hotel in Chicago. This week, the luxury prop-

erty closed for an indefinite period because of the coronavirus.


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American Century UltraInv 40.21 -6.45 -11.3American Funds AMCpA m 24.97 -3.66 -16.5American Funds AmrcnBalA m 22.97 -2.77 -9.2American Funds AmrcnMutA m 32.08 -4.61 -13.8American Funds BdfAmrcA m 13.02 -.34 +4.8American Funds CptWldGrIncA m36.97-5.75 -20.6American Funds CptlIncBldrA m48.46 -5.89 -15.0American Funds EuroPacGrA m 39.03 -5.29 -21.7American Funds FdmtlInvsA m 43.34 -7.77 -20.3American Funds GrfAmrcA m 38.90 -5.41 -14.4American Funds IncAmrcA m 17.70 -2.27 -13.9American Funds InvCAmrcA m 28.61 -4.04 -18.5American Funds NewWldA m 50.52 -7.36 -20.0American Funds NwPrspctvA m34.39 -4.99 -17.1American Funds SmCpWldA m 41.06 -5.96 -21.0American Funds TheNewEcoA m34.36 -5.04 -17.1American Funds TxExBdA m 12.24 -.87 -.3American FundsWAMtInvsA m 33.28 -6.24 -20.5Baird AggrgateBdInstl 10.92 -.43 +4.6Baird CorPlusBdInstl 11.07 -.54 +3.0BlackRock StrIncOpIns 9.14 -.47 -2.4DFA EMktCorEqI 14.46 -2.61 -31.0DFA EmMktsValInstl 18.05 -3.33 -38.3DFA FvYrGlbFIIns 10.73 -.06 +2.6DFA IntlCorEqIns 8.81 -1.26 -30.3DFA IntlSmCoInstl 11.63 -1.75 -31.9DFA IntlSmCpValIns 11.36 -1.80 -35.8DFA USCorEq1Instl 17.46 -3.24 -19.6DFA USCorEqIIInstl 15.70 -2.94 -21.2DFA USLgCpValInstl 23.54 -5.13 -29.3DFA USSmCpInstl 20.80 -4.09 -33.1DFA USSmCpValInstl 18.60 -4.17 -41.3Dodge & Cox Bal 73.08-10.58 -20.7Dodge & Cox Inc 13.27 -.67 +.8Dodge & Cox IntlStk 26.97 -3.96 -32.4Dodge & Cox Stk 122.42-22.51 -29.5DoubleLine CorFII 10.43 -.59 +.1DoubleLine TtlRetBdI 10.39 -.48 +2.8Edgewood GrInstl 29.92 -4.77 -10.2FPA Crescent d 24.84 -4.00 -20.1Fidelity 500IdxInsPrm 80.28-14.11 -16.8Fidelity BCGrowth 81.91-12.28 -12.8Fidelity Balanced 19.18 -2.45 -12.2Fidelity Cap&Inc 7.59 -1.20 -19.0Fidelity Contrafund 10.66 -1.45 -11.5Fidelity ContrafundK 10.68 -1.44 -11.4Fidelity EmergMketsOpps 14.36 -2.41 -21.1Fidelity ExMktIdxInPr 40.90 -8.55 -30.5Fidelity Frdm 2020 13.33 -1.11 -10.0Fidelity Frdm 2025 11.51 -1.06 -11.5Fidelity Frdm 2030 13.84 -1.46 -13.9Fidelity GlobalexUSIdx 9.03 -1.21 -25.4Fidelity GroCo 16.73 -2.09 -9.3Fidelity GroCoK 16.76 -2.09 -9.2Fidelity IntlGr 12.81 -1.91 -12.6Fidelity IntlIdxInstlPrm 29.31 -3.51 -25.3Fidelity IntlVal 6.20 -.87 -32.0Fidelity InvmGradeBd 11.08 -.44 +3.0Fidelity LowPrStk 32.14 -6.08 -27.0FidelityMagellan 7.82 -1.39 -11.6Fidelity OTCPortfolio 9.92 -1.44 -7.9Fidelity Puritan 18.46 -2.20 -9.9Fidelity TotalBond 10.33 -.46 +1.5Fidelity TtlMktIdxInsPrm 63.63-11.49 -19.1Fidelity USBdIdxInsPrm 11.85 -.25 +6.4Fidelity Advisor NewInsI 24.30 -3.52 -16.4First Eagle GlbA m 42.69 -4.38 -19.8Franklin Templeton CATxFrIncA1 m6.82 -.65 -1.3Franklin Templeton GlbBdAdv 10.02 -.27 -6.6Franklin Templeton IncA1 m 1.78 -.21 -18.3Franklin Templeton IncAdv 1.76 -.21 -18.3Franklin Templeton IncC m 1.80 -.22 -18.9Franklin Templeton RisingDivsA m49.58-8.54 -15.3Harbor CptlApprecInstl 59.73 -7.75 -10.5Harding Loevner IntlEqInstl d 17.28 -1.80 -19.3INVESCO DevMktsY 33.02 -4.71 -20.3JPMorgan CoreBondR6 11.71 -.37 +5.7Lord Abbett ShrtDurIncA m 3.92 -.20 -3.0Lord Abbett ShrtDurIncF b 3.91 -.21 -3.1MFS ValI 30.50 -5.79 -20.9Metropolitan West TtlRetBdI 10.66 -.41 +4.0Metropolitan West TtlRetBdPlan10.03 -.38 +4.0Nuveen HYMuniBdI 14.68 -2.45 -6.6Oakmark IntlInv 13.69 -3.17 -39.8Old Westbury LgCpStrats 11.06 -1.44 -17.6PGIM Investments TtlRetBdZ 13.35 -.91 +.9PIMCO AlAstInstl 9.39 -.82 -17.2PIMCO IncA m 10.50 -.87 -6.8PIMCO IncI2 10.50 -.87 -6.5PIMCO IncInstl 10.50 -.87 -6.4PIMCO TtlRetIns 10.14 -.28 +3.5PRIMECAP Odyssey Gr 27.61 -4.39 -26.7Schwab SP500Idx 37.00 -4.62 -13.2T. Rowe Price BCGr 96.29-14.26 -10.7T. Rowe Price CptlAprc 24.60 -3.58 -10.3T. Rowe Price EqIdx500 61.48-10.82 -13.4T. Rowe Price EqInc 20.38 -3.63 -25.1

T. Rowe Price GrStk 55.45 -8.73 -12.2

T. Rowe Price HlthSci 62.20 -8.21 -13.1

T. Rowe Price InsLgCpGr 33.40 -5.18 -12.9

T. Rowe PriceMdCpGr 65.02-11.47 -20.3

T. Rowe Price NewHorizons 46.27 -6.54 -9.3

T. Rowe Price NewInc 9.09 -.52 +.6

T. Rowe Price Rtr2020 17.48 -2.00 -11.9

T. Rowe Price Rtr2025 13.67 -1.72 -13.8

T. Rowe Price Rtr2030 19.41 -2.65 -15.5

T. Rowe Price Val 24.86 -4.71 -23.8

TIAA-CREF BdIdxIns 11.02 -.28 +5.9

Vanguard 500IdxAdmrl 212.65-37.42 -16.8

Vanguard BalIdxAdmrl 31.92 -3.59 -9.0

Vanguard CAITTxExAdm 11.10 -.81 -3.2

Vanguard CptlOppAdmrl 110.41-17.75 -21.6

Vanguard DevMIdxAdmrl x 9.45 -1.28 -26.5

Vanguard DevMIdxIns x 9.46 -1.28 -26.5

Vanguard DivGrInv 22.42 -3.97 -14.3

Vanguard EMStkIdxInAdm x 26.23 -3.86 -23.8

Vanguard EqIncAdmrl x 54.16-10.41 -22.3

Vanguard ExplorerAdmrl 62.11-11.94 -28.5

Vanguard ExtMktIdxAdmrl 60.11-12.58 -30.5

Vanguard ExtMktIdxIns 60.11-12.58 -30.4

Vanguard GNMAAdmrl 10.61 +.03 +5.5

Vanguard GrIdxAdmrl 71.89-12.00 -9.5

Vanguard GrIdxIns 71.90-12.00 -9.5

Vanguard HCAdmrl 68.79 -8.55 -12.7

Vanguard HYCorpAdmrl 4.89 -.57 -10.4

Vanguard HYTEAdmrl 10.50 -.95 -3.8

Vanguard InTrBdIdxAdmrl 11.72 -.34 +6.8

Vanguard InTrInGdAdm 9.52 -.54 +2.0

Vanguard InTrTEAdmrl 13.31 -.95 -3.0

Vanguard InflPrtScAdmrl 25.74 +.04 +4.6

Vanguard InsIdxIns 207.99-36.58 -16.8

Vanguard InsIdxInsPlus 208.01-36.58 -16.8

Vanguard InsTrgRt2020Ins 20.10 -1.73 -8.8

Vanguard InsTtlSMIInPls 48.27 -8.71 -19.0

Vanguard IntlGrAdmrl 78.39 -8.07 -13.5

Vanguard LTInGrdAdm 9.87 -1.06 +4.8

Vanguard LTTEAdmrl 10.81 -.89 -2.9

Vanguard LfStrGrInv 27.05 -3.53 -16.6

Vanguard LfStrModGrInv 23.25 -2.36 -11.3

Vanguard LtdTrmTEAdmrl 10.51 -.47 -2.1

VanguardMdCpIdxAdmrl 143.58-29.91 -25.7

VanguardMdCpIdxIns 31.72 -6.60 -25.7

VanguardMdCpIdxInsPlus 156.43-32.58 -25.7

Vanguard PrmCpAdmrl 102.56-16.03 -19.0

Vanguard RlEstIdxAdmrl 85.20-27.64 -26.4

Vanguard SCpGrIdxAdm 46.12 -8.43 -26.3

Vanguard SCpValIdxAdm 33.74 -8.26 -37.5

Vanguard STBdIdxAdmrl 10.64 -.07 +4.7

Vanguard STInvmGrdAdmrl 10.29 -.40 +.3

Vanguard STTEAdmrl 15.44 -.34 -.5

Vanguard SmCpIdxAdmrl 48.54-10.43 -32.5

Vanguard SmCpIdxIns 48.54-10.43 -32.4

Vanguard StarInv 21.62 -2.45 -11.8

Vanguard TrgtRtr2015Inv 13.31 -.87 -5.1

Vanguard TrgtRtr2020Inv 27.11 -2.34 -8.9







Vanguard TrgtRtrIncInv 12.59 -.71 -3.5

Vanguard TtBMIdxAdmrl 11.02 -.21 +6.8

Vanguard TtBMIdxIns 11.02 -.21 +6.8

Vanguard TtBMIdxInsPlus 11.02 -.21 +6.8

Vanguard TtInBIdxAdmrl 22.51 -.30 +5.0

Vanguard TtInBIdxIns 33.78 -.45 +5.0

Vanguard TtInBIdxInv 11.26 -.15 +5.0

Vanguard TtInSIdxAdmrl x 20.24 -2.78 -26.0

Vanguard TtInSIdxIns x 80.94-11.11 -25.9

Vanguard TtInSIdxInsPlus x 80.96-11.11 -25.9

Vanguard TtInSIdxInv x 12.10 -1.66 -26.0

Vanguard TtlSMIdxAdmrl 56.04-10.10 -19.0

Vanguard TtlSMIdxIns 56.05-10.10 -19.0

Vanguard TtlSMIdxInv 56.01-10.10 -19.1

Vanguard USGrAdmrl 87.16-12.62 -10.5

Vanguard ValIdxAdmrl 31.32 -5.83 -23.8

VanguardWlngtnAdmrl x 58.05 -8.37 -11.5

VanguardWlngtnInv x 33.62 -4.84 -11.6

VanguardWlslyIncAdmrl x 56.29 -5.80 -5.8

VanguardWlslyIncInv x 23.24 -2.39 -5.8

VanguardWndsrAdmrl 45.31 -9.19 -27.3

VanguardWndsrIIAdmrl 43.25 -8.29 -23.0

VanguardWndsrIIInv 24.37 -4.68 -23.1

WCM FocIntGrIns 14.06 -2.01 -10.5

Western Asset CorPlusBdI 10.93 -.69 -.4

AT&T Inc 28.45 -6.02Abbott Labs 68.00 -13.65Adobe Inc 295.34 -40.16Alibaba Group Hldg 181.30 -12.70Alphabet Inc C 1072.32 -147.41Alphabet Inc A 1068.21 -146.06Amazon.com Inc 1846.09 +61.09Apple Inc 229.24 -48.73Bank of America 19.67 -4.49Berkshire Hath A 257346.00 -31654.00Berkshire Hath B 170.06 -26.34Chevron Corp 59.39 -24.03China Mobile Ltd 34.12 -.33Cisco Syst 35.60 -2.04CocaCola Co 38.30 -10.17Comcast Corp A 33.37 -5.96Costco Wholesale 290.42 -11.85Disney 85.98 -16.54Eli Lilly 122.40 -16.97Exxon Mobil Corp 32.74 -5.38Facebook Inc 149.73 -20.55HSBC Holdings PLC 28.81 -1.09HSBC Holdings prA 23.32 -2.02Home Depot 152.15 -53.52Intel Corp 45.83 -8.60JPMorgan Chase 83.50 -20.41Johnson & Johnson 119.89 -14.40MasterCard Inc 211.42 -58.59Merck & Co 71.36 -5.39Microsoft Corp 137.35 -21.48Netflix Inc 332.83 -3.46Novartis AG 72.42 -7.19Novo Nordisk AS 49.46 -7.26Nvidia Corporation 205.75 -35.09Oracle Corp 45.65 -2.28PepsiCo 103.93 -23.52Pfizer Inc 29.01 -3.70Procter & Gamble 102.43 -11.64SAP Se 94.30 -14.05Salesforce.com Inc 139.35 -8.43Taiwan Semicon 44.53 -7.29Toyota Mot 116.46 +.23Unilever PLC 47.17 -2.80Unitedhealth Group 206.59 -65.45Verizon Comm 51.80 -2.37Visa Inc 146.83 -29.00WalMart Strs 113.97 +.41

Adv Micro Dev 39.61 -4.29Microsoft Corp 137.35 -21.48Apple Inc 229.24 -48.73American Airlines Gp 10.38 -3.93Waitr Holdints Inc 1.22 +.91Intel Corp 45.83 -8.60Cisco Syst 35.60 -2.04Sirius XM Hldgs Inc 4.44 -1.46Aytu BioScience Inc 1.36 +.21Comcast Corp A 33.37 -5.96Caesars Entertain 5.45 -3.04Facebook Inc 149.73 -20.55Micron Tech 36.11 -6.88

Alps Alerian MLP 3.56 -.65Citigp Vel Long Crde .27 -.93Dirx Jr GoldMin Bull 3.32 -1.15iShs Emerg Mkts 31.36 -4.78iShares Rus 2000 101.40 -18.07Invesco QQQ Trust 170.70 -21.64ProShs UltraPro QQQ 35.51 -21.33ProShs UltPro ShtQQQ 29.32 +6.20SPDR S&P500 ETF Tr 228.80 -40.52SPDR S&P O&G ExpPdtn 8.25 -1.21SPDR Financial 18.91 -4.14US Oil Fund LP 4.94 -2.02VanE Vect Gld Miners 20.55 +1.55

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Abbott Labs 119,913 68.00 t -13.65 -5.2

McDonalds Corp 110,691 148.49 t -28.64 -15.7

AbbVie Inc 101,795 68.82 t -16.55 -6.6

Mondelez Intl 62,075 43.32 t -7.60 -3.5

CME Group 56,786 158.41 t -23.60 -4.7

Boeing Co 53,505 95.01 t -75.19 -71.6

Caterpillar Inc 52,532 95.50 t -4.14 -20.3

Walgreen Boots Alli 41,121 46.42 s +.23 -21.0

ITW 40,106 125.78 t -30.67 -3.8

Baxter Intl 38,425 75.75 t -5.24 +1.9

Deere Co 35,009 111.63 t -27.33 -23.8

Exelon Corp 30,191 31.00 t -5.36 -31.0

Kraft Heinz Co 27,212 22.28 t -1.69 -25.7

Allstate Corp 23,410 73.87 t -18.90 -18.6

Motorola Solutions 23,302 136.61 t -18.34 +8.3

Equity Residential 20,566 55.29 t -17.72 -14.5

Arch Dan Mid 17,076 30.61 t -4.03 -18.9

Nthn Trust Cp 13,510 64.56 t -11.49 -26.3

Gallagher AJ 13,474 71.58 t -18.48 -11.3

ConAgra Brands Inc 12,681 26.05 s +1.26 +19.1

Grainger WW 11,470 213.78 t -52.24 -19.6

CDW Corp 11,358 79.56 t -21.74 -8.1

TransUnion 10,434 54.98 t -20.06 -9.5

Zebra Tech 9,688 179.38 t -4.64 -13.4

Dover Corp 9,544 66.13 t -24.62 -21.3

Equity Lifesty Prop 8,889 48.81 t -17.86 -14.1

IDEX Corp 8,876 116.48 t -14.37 -16.0

CBOE Global Markets 8,800 79.69 t -15.11 -11.7

Ulta Salon Cosmetics 8,463 148.06 t -59.00 -56.1

Packaging Corp Am 8,128 85.88 s +1.52 -6.8

Ventas Inc 8,061 21.62 t -11.71 -62.1

NiSource Inc 8,027 21.00 t -4.18 -13.1

CNA Financial 7,873 29.01 t -6.45 -21.2

Discover Fin Svcs 7,785 25.25 t -26.51 -59.2

United Airlines Hldg 6,074 24.50 t -17.14 -73.8

Aptargroup Inc 5,925 92.51 t -3.88 -3.2

Hill-Rom Hldgs 5,406 80.71 t -8.33 -13.5

Fortune Brds Hm&Sec 5,122 36.60 t -12.00 -16.3

LKQ Corporation 5,006 16.30 t -8.60 -39.3

CF Industries 4,809 22.25 t -5.43 -42.6

Jones Lang LaSalle 4,613 89.46 t -44.67 -37.3

Morningstar Inc 4,586 107.02 t -13.44 -9.3

Ingredion Inc 4,430 66.25 t -6.90 -28.6

Paylocity Hldg 4,409 82.25 t -22.84 -6.6

Stericycle Inc 4,077 44.68 t -9.28 -.4

Old Republic 4,070 13.40 t -4.59 -23.3

Kemper Corp 3,910 58.65 t -16.66 -22.2

CDK Global Inc 3,763 30.98 t -6.76 -43.6

IAA Inc 3,657 27.31 t -7.65

Equity Commonwlth 3,596 29.48 t -.56 +4.0

First Indl RT 3,524 27.74 t -6.85 -10.0

RLI Corp 3,307 73.63 t -5.29 +12.8

GrubHub Inc 2,912 31.71 t -6.16 -47.9

US Foods Holding 2,855 12.99 t -6.69 -63.4

Littelfuse Inc 2,762 113.09 t -16.35 -37.5

Anixter Intl 2,689 79.50 t -11.31 +35.7

Envestnet Inc 2,654 50.17 t -9.93 -17.9

Middleby Corp 2,644 47.07 t -29.05 -60.9

Cabot Microelect 2,603 89.07 t -32.02 -18.3

TreeHouse Foods 2,227 39.59 s +1.53 -35.2

Brunswick Corp 2,179 27.42 t -14.19 -38.9

John Bean Technol 2,007 63.38 t -12.96 -31.7

GATX 1,917 54.89 t -10.08 -22.8

Wintrust Financial 1,756 30.62 t -9.05 -56.3

Teleph Data 1,742 16.20 t -.49 -39.3

Navistar Intl 1,701 17.14 t -9.13 -45.1

Stepan Co 1,689 75.01 t -7.98 +11.9

Hyatt Hotels Corp 1,674 46.72 t -8.33 -44.1

Federal Signal 1,562 25.73 t -3.02 +7.3

US Cellular 1,499 28.21 s +.77 -32.0

Hub Group Inc 1,436 42.76 s +1.84 +6.7

Fst Midw Bcp 1,430 13.04 t -1.66 -33.6

Horace Mann 1,373 33.28 t -5.24 -7.9

Tootsie Roll 1,357 35.00 s +.58 +1.4

Adtalem Global Educ 1,241 22.55 t -4.31 -54.0

Knowles Corp 1,103 11.95 t -2.10 -27.9

Retail Prop Amer 1,024 4.79 t -3.23 -60.8

Huron Consulting Gp 899 39.96 t -10.44 -22.7

Allscripts Hlthcare 896 5.51 t -.59 -44.9

Addus HomeCare 894 57.50 t -7.30 -3.3

Methode Electronics 866 23.37 t -4.51 -16.9

First Busey Corp 772 14.17 t -3.56 -37.6

Coeur Mining 709 2.92 s +.36 -30.8

Sanfilipo John 661 75.04 s +1.04 +12.6

OneSpan Inc 573 14.23 s +1.33 -32.7

Great Lakes Dredge 518 8.06 s +.47 -7.4

AAR Corp 466 13.37 t -5.63 -62.5

ANI Pharma 446 36.95 s +1.01 -33.7

Echo Global Logis 435 16.23 t -.65 -29.5

SP Plus Corp 427 18.60 t -11.88 -45.0

QCR Holdings Inc 413 26.04 t -5.77 -16.6

Heidrick & Struggles 409 21.35 t -1.30 -44.6

Acco Brands Corp 383 3.97 t -1.41 -50.1

Fst Mid Bancshares 340 20.42 t -2.61 -35.7

MYR Group 326 19.59 t -3.80 -45.0

Enova Intl Inc 324 9.99 t -6.31 -59.1

Heritage-Crystal Cln 321 13.41 t -4.21 -42.1

Groupon Inc 313 .55 t -.28 -83.6

Consolidated Commun 287 3.99 t -1.21 -55.5

Century Aluminum 280 3.15 t -1.71 -62.3

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Dow Jones industrials

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S&P 500

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Stocks Recap

120 Chicago-area smallbusinesses who has beenblogging about SBA loans tokeep his clients updated.

“If the money can come ina timely fashion it will prob-ably be a lifesaver,” Brandtsaid. “If it comes monthsdown the line, the damagewill have been done andthere won’t be much use forthe money other than payingthe creditors that have put aplace out of business.”

The federal SBA programwas announced March 12,offering up to $2 million forbusinesses with fewer than500 employees, offering in-terest rates of 3.75% forfor-profit businesses and2.75% for some nonprofits.

The loans only becomeavailable as the SBA ap-proves state-by-state disas-ter declarations. Indiana be-came eligible sooner, whichmade Illinois’ border coun-ties eligible ahead of the restof the state.

Nalezny was among theearliest to apply in Illinois,but ran into the buzz saw heand many other small-busi-ness owners fear, includingwebsite glitches and phoneoperators unable to provideinformation. By the end ofthe day, however, he hadsubmitted his application.

“The website was veryslow,” he said. “But it onlycrashed once.”

Meanwhile, the clock isticking.

“We have enough to payour April 1 mortgage, andthen it gets dicey,” Naleznysaid. “I’ve already calledpurveyors and said, ‘There’sno way I can pay you.’ Someunderstand. Some say, ‘Well,I’ve got to cut you off.’”

SBA Regional Adminis-trator Robert Scott, whooversees six Midwesternstates including Illinois, saidbusinesses are advised thatloan applications are usuallyprocessed in 18 to 21 days,but “they’re processing a lotfaster than that.”

Money reaches busi-nesses two to five days afterapproval, he said.

Scott said the SBA ishosting daily weekday on-line sessions, some of whichare in Spanish, to help small-business owners navigatethe application process, at 11a.m. and 3 p.m.

“We’re going to continueto host those until the de-mand isn’t there,” Scott said.“Right now the demand ishuge.”

The SBA is also arrangingone-on-one assistance viatelephone (312-353-4528)and email ([email protected]), he said.Phone hold times last be-tween 30 minutes and anhour, he said. The agencyalso plans to counsel busi-nesses about how to reapplyif their applications are re-jected.

One of the biggest chal-lenges of getting emergencyloans to eligible businesseswill be unfamiliarity withthe process, said Pat Doerr,managing director of theHospitality Business Associ-ation of Chicago, which rep-resents more than 200 Chi-cago bars, restaurants andmusic venues.

“It’s just not somethingthey’ve ever been familiarwith,” Doerr said. “Thelearning curve is steep, butit’s unavoidable.”

The biggest salvation forsmall businesses, Doerr said,will be federal legislationbeing hashed out on CapitolHill, including the RestoringEconomic Security, Confi-dence and User Endurance(RESCUE) Businesses Act of2020, a $300 billion small-business emergency reliefplan unveiled this week toassist small businesses im-pacted by the pandemic.

“This is a nationwide hur-ricane, and when a hurri-cane strikes, those places

rely on government assist-ance to get back open,”Doerr said. “It’s not compli-cated.”

Additional assistance toChicago businesses was of-fered late Thursday whenMayor Lori Lightfoot an-nounced the creation of theChicago Small Business Re-siliency Loan Fund, a $100million relief package oflow-interest loans to busi-nesses.

The city emergency fundwill lend up to $50,000 tosmall businesses — definedas those with fewer than 50employees — that are “suf-fering substantial economicinjury to help support rentand payroll expenses,” thecity said.

Doerr said the city’s pack-age is likely to help thesmallest of small businesses.

Eligible businesses mustshow greater than a 25%revenue decrease due to theimpact of the coronaviruspandemic. Applications willbe reviewed beginningMarch 31 by the city with anetwork of banks, creditunions and other financialinstitutions. Lightfoot alsoannounced Thursday thecity is delaying several taxpayments, including salestax.

Dave Miller, co-founderof Lincoln Square bakeryand dinette Baker Miller,began applying for an SBAloan Thursday, but becameoverwhelmed at the formsand documents required. Hepaused the application andplanned to start again Fridayevening after closing.

“There was all this paper-work and I’m like, ‘Are youkidding me? I’m trying tosurvive right now. Paper-work? I don’t have time forpaperwork and red tape.’Look at my sales and puttogether a package thathelps my business,” Millersaid.

Baker Miller has pivotedbusiness to full to-go ordersvia a window facing LincolnAvenue and added new of-ferings, such as bread deliv-ery and entire dinners forfamilies of two to four peo-ple.

“Our neighborhood hasbeen incredible,” Miller said.“Every time I launch a newthing, they buy it.”

Miller has so far achievedhis primary goal of hangingonto all eight employees,and with full pay. But reve-nues are down and he’shoping for at least a $50,000emergency loan.

Miller said a loan couldbecome ever-more criticalwith Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s stay-at-home order issued Friday,which urges people to stayhome for anything but criti-cal reasons.

But Miller worries hemight not be able to showenough economic harm tobe eligible for a loan.

”I’m like, ‘Man, should Ihave shut down and waitedon the government? Am Igoing to be penalized fortrying to stay open andprotect jobs?”

Nalezny, at Park & Field,has had a rougher go. Hehas furloughed about 20hourly employees and keptfour salaried employeeswhile trying to convert hisbusiness to a delivery oper-ation. He said he and hiswife and brother alreadyweren’t taking salaries be-cause the winter monthsare so slow.

Still, Nalezny is opti-mistic his business can sur-vive. He hopes to get an SBAloan — he asked for$200,000 — and calledLightfoot’s announcementthat restaurant owners candelay paying city sales tax“huge.” He’s also planningto apply for the city small-business loan if he’s eligible— as well as any other reliefprograms.

“I’ll apply to them all andsee how it goes,” he said.“We’re not finished yet.”

[email protected]

Baker Miller has pivoted business to full to-go orders via a

window facing Lincoln Avenue in Chicago.

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CA, INC. - has an opening in Lisle, IL for R&D Engineer Soft-ware 3 to design and write new features and enhancements, debugging and correcting of particular applications across Mainframe, distributed and web server platforms using Java, Javascript, Assembler and C. Ref job code C#4596197 &mail resume to: CA, Inc. Attn: HR (J.O.), 1320 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, CA 95131.

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Engineering 5709735

NAVISTAR, INC. - is seeking a Project Engineer Sr. in Melrose Park, IL with the following requirements: Bachelors degree in Engineering or Engineering Technology and at least 8 years of experience in product design/development, including at least 1 year leading others in engineer/design activities OR Masters degree in Engineering or Engineering Technology and at least 6 years of experience in product design/development, includ-ing at least 1 year leading others in engineer/design activities OR PhD in Engineering or Engineering Technology and at least 3 years of experience in product design/development, includ-ing at least 1 year leading others in engineer/design activities. Required skills: perform FEA of steel cab components, subsys-tems and systems using NASTRAN and OptiStruct to evalu-ate strength and durability (3 years); perform FEA on bumper systems using LS-DYNA and nCode to determine impact and fatigue performance (3 years); perform FEA using LS-DYNA for FMVSS207/210 compliance of seats and anchorages and use ABAQUS for cab durability (3 years); perform FEA using LS-DYNA for FMVSS 220 (roof), 301(fuel-tank) and 222 (seats) of school-bus; ABAQUS and FE-SAFE for cab durability and fatigue analysis (3 years). Apply at http://www.navistar.com/navistar/careers/jobsearch. Refer to Job # 2020-34792.EOE

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Engineer/Scientist Sr. R&D I

UOP, LLC - Cndct rsrch & chrctrztn for various metallurgical failrs & phnmna. Dsgn exprmnts to undrstnd failre mchnsms. Perform visual examntns of specmns by sight & with the use of optcl mcrscpy (OM), scanning elctrn mcrscpy (SEM) & enrgy dsprsve X-ray spctrscpy (EDS). Reqs Ph.D. or forgn equiv in Materials Sci, Materials Eng, Metallurgical Eng, or a rltd fld & 1 yr of exp in the job offrd or accptble alt occupation in metal-lurgy rsrch, materials rsrch, or nanoscience req. Alt, emplyr will accpt a Master’s degree or forgn equiv in the lstd flds & 3 yrs of specfd exp, or a Bachelor’s degree or forgn equiv in the lstd flds & 5 yrs of spcfd exp. 1 yr of the req. exp. must incl: metallurgical anlys using advncd characterization tech-nqs, incl. optcl microscpy, scanning elctrn micrscpy (SEM) & enrgy dsprsv X-ray spectrscpy (EDS); & metallurgical smple preparation. Mail resumes to HR Services, Honeywell Interna-tional Inc./UOP, LLC, 115 Tabor Road, Morris Plains, NJ 07950. Ref MS/HY. If offd emplymnt mst hve lgl rght to wrk in U.S. EOE.

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Engineer Associate III 5710392

WISS, JANNEY, ELSTNER ASSOCIATES, INC. - seeks Engineer Associate III in Northbrook, IL responsible for investigations, sample testing, failure diagnosis & creation of deliverables. Requires Master’s or foreign education equivalent in Civil, Structural, or Architectural Engineering & 3 years’ experience performing structural testing, incl in-situ load testing of struc-tures, design & installation of in-situ monitoring systems to measure structural performance, & testing of structural com-ponents. Travel 30% w/in N. America. Email cover letter & re-sume w/Job Code ENGIN01766 in subject line to [email protected].

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Financial Analyst 5709227

GOOGLE LLC - Interested candidates send resume to: Google LLC, PO Box 26184 San Francisco, CA 94126 Attn: V. Cheng. Please reference job # below: Financial Analyst (Chicago, IL) Develop financial & data models & tools that provide a plat-form for Google decision making. #1615.49511 Exp Incl: fin analysis, fin modeling, or financial ops projs; present fin data to stakeholders; data analysis, data mining, data model, or data warehousing; electronic payments systs & SQL; & Fi-nance Compliance, Proj Mgmt & Payment Ops Mgmt.


Advisory Manager

DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP - seeks an Advisory Manager in Chicago, IL to perform daily aspects of client engagements, including scheduling & supervising staff, presenting client de-liverables, & working w/ clients mgmt. & personnel. Position requires 80% travel. To apply, visit https://jobs2.deloitte.com/us/en/ and enter XSFH20FA0320CHI1 in the “Search jobs” field. EOE, including disability/veterans.

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TECHNOLOGY

MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC - is accepting resumes for the position of Senior Wireless Research Engineer in Chicago, IL (Ref. #81167/81168). Identify and evaluate candidate solutions for next generation wireless systems. Validate solutions via analysis and simulation. To apply, go to http://lenovocareers.com/ and search for Job ID #(81167/81168). No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in U.S. without sponsor-ship. Foreign equivalency degree accepted. EOE/Affirma-tive Action Employer. Motorola Mobility LLC is accepting resumes for the position of NPI Cost Manager in Chicago, IL (Ref. #81166). Responsible for making daily cost decision for in-house NPI product. Apply the All-in-cost methodology, build product bottom up TMC with GP Tracker tool for new smartphone and MODs product from scratch. To apply, go to http://lenovocareers.com/ and search for Job ID #(81166). No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in U.S. without sponsorship. Foreign equivalency degree accepted. EOE/Affir-mative Action Employer. Motorola Mobility LLC is accepting resumes for the position of Software Engineer in Chicago, IL (Ref. #81142). Design, develop, code, test, research, program and document software systems, applications and/or operat-ing systems in conjunction with equipment designers and/or hardware developers. Perform modeling, designing, and cod-ing activities, employing structured methods. To apply, go to http://lenovocareers.com/ and search for Job ID #(81142). No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in U.S. without sponsorship. Foreign equivalency degree accepted. EOE/Affir-mative Action Employer.


Technical Lead 5709480

SAGGEZZA, INC. - is recruiting for our Chicago, IL office: Technical Lead: Develop project architecture, prototypes, & proofs of concepts using MessagePoint, OpenText Exstream, Quadient & .Net Technologies. May work at other undeter-mined worksites in the US. Mail resume w/ job code #39436 to Saggezza, Attn: HR, 200 W. Madison St., Ste. 1800, Chicago, IL 60606.

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the position plays in the organization

and why the job is currently vacant, but

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Sr. HRIS Administrator

CF INDUSTRIES EMPLOYEE SERVICES LLC. - is seeking a Sr. HRIS Administrator for Deerfield, IL. Uses knwl. Of & exp. with config. HR SW SYS., including Workday for Payroll, HCM, Re-cruiting, Compensation, Benefits, Performance & Talent, Pay-roll & Time & Absence modules. MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAIL-ABLE. Apply online: www.cfindustries.com.

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Risk Manager (Multiple Openings)

JUMP OPERATIONS, LLC - Monitor overall working order ex-posure; Track risk exceptions firm-wide to ensure accuracy & confirm trading groups are aware of exceptions & effectively resolve issues; Work w/ the Treasury team to understand capital allocation risk. Req Bachelor’s in a rltd quantitative analytics field including: Mech Engrg, Statistics, Economics, or Liberal Arts w/ a concentration in Statistics & 3 yrs of exp in risk data analysis. Submit resume to [email protected]. Reference Job: # IL015


Client Director & Team Leader 5706906

KORN FERRY (US) - Manage & coordinate sales functn incldg sales supprt & traing, territory sales, & key acct sales to meet co.’s businss reqs, generatg revenue through mgmt of sr. sales reps. Reqs Bach in Int’l Businss or hghr, MBA, or clsly rltd de-gree & 2 yrs exp in job offrd or as Client Relatnshp Mgr. Bkgd in educ, traing or exp must incld supervisry exp; exp w/ mgmt consultg co.; exp in HR, organizatnl consultg; deep knwldge of compensatn & benefits survey & benchmarkg data processes, methodologies, & tools; proven commercl exp in Human Capi-tal space; exp in planning & buildg long-term relatnshps w/ HR leaders & executives in client organizatns; exp in commer-clizatn of data, Intellectual Property & portfolio of derivd HR prodcts into new mrkt segmnts. Less than 20% of trvl req’d. Send resume to [email protected]; ref job title in subjct line.

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Unprofessional behavior canundermine your relationships withcolleagues — and limit your career.

Employers demand professionalismProfessionalism is important for many

reasons. Time spent accommodating acolleague’s prickly ego or ever-changingmoods is time taken away from workingtoward a common goal. As customer servicehas become the critical differentiator forso many businesses, the ability to treatcustomers and clients with tact and courtesyhas become indispensable. And, of course,almost everyone simply prefers working withpeople who make them feel respected.

Despite its value, professionalism is farfrom universal. That means you can setyourself apart from the competition byadhering to a professional code of conduct,especially if you’re relatively new to theworkforce.

What professionalism entailsMost of us can easily call up vivid

examples of unprofessional behavior, fromdishonesty to chronic lateness to the entirefinal hour of last year’s holiday party.Defining professionalism is a little trickier.While there may be no universally accepteddefinition, most employers and employeeswould agree on its core components. Hereare seven key elements of professionalism.

1. Accountability. When something goeswrong, do you immediately look for waysto avoid blame or for ways to correct theproblem? Taking responsibility for a mistake— and then learning from it — might be themost reliable mark of a true professional.

2. Consideration. True professionals tendto be aware of how their work and behavioraffects everyone around them. Smallcourtesies such as letting colleagues knowin advance when you’ll be unavailable canmake a big difference in the team’s overallperformance.

3. Humility. If you’re unsure how to bestperform a task, do you ask for help or plowforward? If you’re too proud to take directionor criticism, you’re putting pride ahead ofthe good of the team and the health of yourcareer.

4. Communication. Avoiding commentsthat make others uncomfortable orundervalued is a prerequisite, of course, buttrue professionals also grasp many subtleraspects of communication. For example,when you provide feedback, are you carefulto do it in a way that will be helpful ratherthan belittling? Do you listen to input fromothers even when you think you know best?

5. Tidiness. The effect of your personalchoices on others extends to the clothesyou wear. A suit and tie don’t make youa professional. But taking care to dressappropriately for your workplace conveysthat you’re attuned to your environmentand that you respect the job and the peoplearound you. It’s also a matter of self-interest,since employers say that clothing choicesaffect promotion prospects.

6. Kindness. Approaching others withpatience and respect for their perspectiveenables constructive criticism and strongercollaboration. When in doubt, fall back onthe old standby: Treat others as you’d like tobe treated.

7. Consistency. Professionalism iseasiest to measure when things aren’t goingwell — when you’ve done subpar work,miscommunicated with a co-worker orwhen clients or colleagues are behavingunprofessionally. Under duress, do you treatpeople with the same respect as you do wheneverything’s clicking? True professionalsaren’t necessarily less emotional than otherworkers, but they are less likely to let thoseemotions lead to outbursts and other knee-jerk reactions.

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IT Business Analysis 5715817

MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC. - seeks qualified professionals in Chicago, IL for the following position: IT Business Analysis-Bus knldg Orcle apps, define sys dsgn meet needs, wrte/revw docs conversn, intrfcs, extns, Resrch soltns, coord remdy of deficncies, asst bus w/test of final prdct. Undrstnd config pjct/portfolio mgmt pdct. Suppt end-end bus prcs testn of Unifer apps. Job ID-BS+3 (R5427) Comp Sci or rltd. To apply for a posi-tion or positions go to http://careers.motorolasolutions.com and search job ID #. Foreign equiv. degree accepted. EEO/fully supports affirmative action practices.


Higher Ed Consulting Manager

HURON CONSULTING SERVICES LLC - Design project solu-tions w/Oracle Cloud platform, incl. Oracle HCM/ERP app. & Oracle Integration Cloud & Dell Boomi app. Develop & main-tain project plans. Lead tech project team. Must have MS+3 yrs exp. or BS+6 yrs exp. in Comp. Sci., Comp. Eng, IS, or relat-ed & exp. w/ea. of the following: (i) design & dev integrations between PeopleSoft Portal, HCM, Finance & Oracle Cloud sys-tems; (ii) RESTful, SOAP messages; (iii) setting up Web Service Security; (iv) troubleshooting issues involving asynchronous & synchronous messaging; (v) setting up Integration broker; (vi) implement exp. in Oracle PeopleSoft Security; (vii) upgrading PeopleSoft & security; & (viii) building & upgrading roles, per-missions lists, data security, user profiles, reporting, & work-flow. Exp. may be gained concurrently. 80% travel to unantici-pated worksites in North America. Telecommuting permitted when not traveling. Individuals may reside anywhere in the US. Mail resumes to: Belinda Vela, Huron, 550 W. Van Buren St., Ste. 1700, Chicago, IL 60607.


Advisory Senior Consultant 5714251

DELOITTE TRANSACTIONS AND BUSINESS ANALYTICS LLP- seeks an Advisory Senior Consultant in Chicago, IL to utilize technologically advanced comp. labs & cutting-edge software to offer new, innovative solutions to clients’ complex legal problems. Approximately 50% travel required. To apply visit https://jobs2.deloitte.com/us/en. Enter XSFH20FQ0320CHI1 in ‘Search jobs” field. EOE, including disability/veterans.


Advisory Manager, Customer Consulting (Mult Pos)

PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS ADVISORY SERVICES LLC - Conducting customer segmentations & segmentation strate-gies to incl utilization of socioeconomic, behavioral or attitudi-nal, & wants-and-needs based techniques. Req Bach’s deg or foreign equiv in Bus, Mgmt, Info Systems or rel + 5 yrs post-bach’s progressive rel work exp; OR a Master’s deg or foreign equiv in Bus, Mgmt, Info Systems + 3 yrs rel work exp. Travel up to 80% of the time is req. Apply by mail, referencing Job Code IL2352, Attn: HR SSC/Talent Management, 4040 W. Boy Scout Blvd, Tampa, FL 33607.


Advisory Manager, Transaction Services (Mult Pos)

PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP - Advise clients on acctng rel valuation issues. Req Bach’s deg or foreign equiv in Acct, Fin, Bus Admin or rel + 5 yrs post-bach’s progrssv rel work exp; OR a Master’s deg or foreign equiv in Acct, Fin, Bus Admin or rel + 3 yrs rel work exp. Must have US CPA lic or foreign equiv. Travel up to 80% req. Apply by mail, referencing Job Code IL2350, Attn: HR SSC/Talent Management, 4040 W. Boy Scout Blvd, Tampa, FL 33607.


Advisory Manager, Workday Human Capital Management (Mult. Pos.)

PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS ADVISORY SERVICES LLC - Provide strategy, mgmt, technology & risk consulting services to help clnts anticipate & address complex bus. challenges. Req. Bach’s deg or foreign equiv. in Bus Admin, Mgmt Info Sys, Comp Sci or rel. + 5 yrs post-bach’s, progress. Rel. work exp.; OR a Master’s deg or foreign equiv. in Bus Admin, Mgmt Info Sys, Comp Sci or rel. + 3 yrs rel. work exp. Travel up to 80% req. Apply by mail, referencing Job Code IL2136, Attn: HR SSC/Talent Management, 4040 W. Boy Scout Blvd, Tampa, FL 33607.

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Internal Medicine Physician

CIMPAR, SC - Must have MD or foreign degree equivalent with ECFMG certification, have completed 3 years of Internal Medicine Residency training, and have a valid Illinois medical license. Reply with resume to Ed Cucci, Senior Administrator at [email protected]

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Senior Software Engineer.

THE WASHINGTON POST - Provide analytical, functional, & technical expertise for the dev’t, implement’n, maintenance & support of The Washington Post’s mobile apps. Design & dev new features into existing mobile apps. Identify, troubleshoot, & solve complex dev’t problems. Build deep understanding of The Post’s use of per-platform technologies & integrate differ-ent third-party SDKs. Create tech docs for customers related to SDK updates. Participate in all Agile sftwr dev’t practices & peer/code reviews. Job is in Chicago, IL. Req’d: BS in Comp Sci, Sftwr Eng’g, or Elect & Comms Eng’g; 2 yrs exp as Sftwr Dev; publication of at least 1 app in Apple Store; & 2 yrs of exp in each of the following: Swift; Objective-C; using Xcode, iOS Frameworks, Cocoa frameworks & Libraries incl Core Data & Core Foundation (UIKit, Foundation, UI Image Picker, UI Date Picker); & Version control principles & Agile/Scrum. All exp may be concurrent. Send resume & cov ltr to Sara Mogilski, Attn: SSE, WP Company LLC d/b/a The Washington Post, 1301 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20071


Senior Knowledge Analyst

THE BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP - Senior Knowledge Analyst-Center for Innovation Analytics, Corporate Finance & Strategy Practice for The Boston Consulting Group in Chicago, IL to direct and conduct the research, analysis and synthe-sis of information designed to develop new capabilities and software solutions to solve specific client issues and enhance capabilities. Requires a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equiva-lent in Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics or related field & 2 years exp. performing advanced data and strategic analyses with large scale, unstructured and struc-tured data to inform business and technology decisions. Mul-tiple positions available. Send resume to [email protected].


SAP OMNI Channel Analyst 5704009

WILSON SPORTING GOODS CO. - seeks SAP OMNI ChannelAnalyst to work in Chicago, IL. Work w/ the e-Commrc & IT teams in NA to dsgn & test core SAP systm functnlity, while coordinatng w/ othr globl OMNI channl teams to analyz user needs & dvlp & implmnt SAP softwr solutns. Degree & com-mensurate exp. req’d. For details & to apply see #2020-1913 at careers-amersports.icims.com/jobs.


Principal Consultant

PROXIMA, INC. - Identify and drive opportunities for improve-ment in client’s procurement and operational performance. Analyze market research and competitive information to de-velop high quality procurement solutions and efficiencies. De-velop negotiation plans and manage the negotiation process with clients and suppliers. Work with indirect procurement, change management, business process mapping and trans-formation within indirect procurement, Power Point, Excel, and negotiation and contract management. Req Bachelor’s degr plus 3 yrs exp. Mail resume to Proxima, Inc., Ref# AL-01PICO, Attn: HR, 311 South Wacker Drive, Suite 880, Chicago, IL 60606. No phone calls.

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Lead Software Developer, Full Stack 5709943

DFS CORPORATE SERVICES LLC - to participate in project ceremonies such as iteration planning, story grooming, daily standups, & retrospective meetings. Promote risk-aware cul-ture, ensure efficient & effective risk & compliance mgmt prac-tices by adhering to req’d standards & processes. Req’mts: Bachelor’s or foreign equiv Comp Eng’g, IT, or rel quantitative field & 5 yrs progressively respons exp in job offered or rel po-sition: working on high volume websites; participating in full sys’s life cycle incl designing, coding, testing, implementing, maintaining, & supporting apps softw; utilizing open source automation srvrs incl Maven, Gradle, Hudson, Jenkings, & Nex-us; dvlpg in HTML, JavaScript, & CSS in Unix (Linux) environ; utilizing test automation tools incl Rest Assure, XML, & JSON; utilizing dbase technologies incl DB2 & Oracle; & utilizing Spring Framework. Pls apply thru https://jobs.discover.com/ for Job ID R632 by clicking on “Apply Now.” EOE/D/V.


Lead QA Analyst

CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE, INC. - to collab w/ Biz Analysts, SW Engrs, SW Engrs in Test, Proj Mgmt, mgmt. REQS: Master’s degree in Info Tech, Comp Sci, Info Sys, Comp Eng, Elec Eng, or rltd & 3 yrs exp as QA Lead, SW QA Eng or QA rltd role; OR Bachelor’s degree in Info Tech, Comp Sci, Info Sys, Comp Eng, Elec Eng, or rltd field & 8 yrs exp as QA Lead, SW QA Eng or QA rltd role. Please apply to Katy Hurvitz/CME, 20 S. Wacker Dr., Chicago, IL 60606. Please refer to Job ID 22232. EEO.

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Lead IT Analyst 5693520

TENNECO AUTOMOTIVE OPERATING COMPANY INC. - is seeking a full-time Lead IT Analyst at our offices in Lake For-est, IL. This position will work under the new DRiV Automo-tive Inc. brand. The Lead IT Analyst is responsible for leading and participating in global business requirement sessions and translating that into the appropriate data solutions and models that integrate with the overall logical data warehouse. This position requires a Master’s degree or equivalent in Busi-ness Administration, Computer Information Systems, Com-puter Science, or a related field and three (3) years related experience. Must also have 3 years of demonstrated ability (which may have been gained concurrently) with each of the following: (1) working as a SAP HANA Architect by providing functional, technical and architectural leadership and playing an important role in evaluating and improving the design of our existing and planned implementation of SAP HANA/Busi-ness Objects (BOBJ)/Business Intelligence (BI) /SAP Business Object data service (BODS) systems; (2) creating agile busi-ness solution and data warehouse architecture on multi sys-tem landscape architecture and integration aspects between heterogeneous system technologies (Global focus), in the areas of Implementation, Modelling, Security and Authoriza-tion, Data Provisioning, SAP HANA Administration, reporting and SAP BODS; (3) using functional, business area and solu-tions designing experience in leading business meetings to identify and document business use cases across various SAP Modules like SAP SD, SAP MM, FI and CRM; (4) leading devel-opment team, driving the implementation with best practices and standards for the team, defining governance, data quality around meta-data to ensure an integrated definition of data for enterprise information, and to ensure the accuracy, valid-ity, reusability, and consistent definitions for common refer-ence data regulatory requirements; and (5) experience with the following technologies: HANA, BOBJ, BW/HANA data mod-eling, ETL tools, BODS, Lumira, Webi, PowerBI, Design Studio, Olap, SQL, and SAP. Employer will accept experience gained before, during or after Master’s program. Please apply online at http://www.tenneco.com/careers/.





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Graphic Installer 5705333

- - Install advertising and commercial graphics on vehicles, walls and billboards. req’d: 2yrs exp. Resume to: Janusz Puk-szta, JPD Graphics, Inc., 2517 Pan Am Blvd., Elk Grove Village, IL 60007


Geotechnical Engineer

CH2M HILL, INC - a Jacobs Engineering Group company, Geo-technical Engineer, Chicago, IL study the composition, struc-ture, & other physical aspects of the Earth & use geotechnical, geological, physics, & math knowledge in exploration & geo-technical dsgn for various infrastructure proj & environmental projs. Travel Required. Mail resume to CH2M Hill, Inc., a Ja-cobs Engineering Group company, Attn: Miriam Garcia, 5985 Rogerdale Road, Houston, TX 77072 and reference job code 19-IL-1674.

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Senior Manager, TAG Corporate Development, Advanced Analytics. 5693512

BAIN & COMPANY, INC. - Senior Manager, TAG Corporate Development, Advanced Analytics. Collaborate with senior Bain Partners in Advanced Analytics space to lead the stra-tegic roadmap for scaling capabilities; drive the regional cus-tomization of the strategy, along with end-to-end execution. Requires Master’s degree (or foreign equiv) in Bus Admin, or rel. + 3 yrs post-MBA exp. as sr. level consultant, or 5 yrs exp. on mergers & acquisitions, or corporate development. 20% domestic or international travel required. To submit re-sume please visit www.bain.com/careers. Please enter code “20CHISRMGR” in the “Additional Comments” field of the ap-plication. No phone calls.


Product Manager II

ACCUITY, INC. - Gather, validate, & evaluate product/market requirements through market and customer research, com-petitive & product research. Employee reports to Accuity, Inc. office in Chicago, IL but may telecommute from any location within the U.S. Apply w/resume to: Adi Ozegovic, RELX Group, 1100 Alderman Drive, Alpharetta, GA 30005. No relo. avail. No 3rd party responses. EOE.


Managers, Engineering 5709227

EAN.COM, LP - has openings for Managers, Engineering (Job ID#: 728.4981) in Chicago, IL: Manage a team of software engineers. Ensure that the team implements high quality fea-tures for our partnerships. To apply, send resume to: EAN Re-cruiting, 1111 Expedia Group Way W, Seattle, WA 98119. Must reference Job ID#.

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Maintenance Mechanic 5705293

- - Repair and maintain machinery and mechanical equipment. req’d: 2yrs experience. Resume to HR, Zakpol Trucking, Inc., 6600 S. Melvina, Bedford Park, IL 60638

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TECHNOLOGY

PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS ADVISORY SERVICES LLC - Advisory Manager, Applications Strategy & Integration (Mult Pos). Provide end to end solution offerings incl App Dvlpmnt & Integration, App Architecture, User Exp, Quality Mngmt & Test-ing & help clints determine best apps for their bus needs. Req Bach’s deg or foreign equiv in Engg, Comp Sci, Bus Admin or rel + 5 yrs post-bach’s progressive rel work exp; OR a Master’s deg or foreign equiv in Engg, Comp Sci, Bus Admin + 3 yrs rel work exp. Travel req up to 80%. Apply by mail, referencing Job Code IL2326, Attn: HR SSC/Talent Management, 4040 W. Boy Scout Blvd, Tampa, FL 33607.

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Technical Leads 5710392

MAGIKMINDS INC - seeks Technical Leads to design & de-velop software appls. MS+1 or BS+5 reqd. See https://www.magikminds.com/careers/ for detailed req’s. Resume: Magik-Minds, Inc. 4320 Winfield Road, Suite 200, Warrenville, IL 60555


Tax Senior 5709227

DELOITTE TAX LLP - seeks a Tax Senior in Chicago, IL to as-sist clients to manage state tax liability & such challenges as states w/ unique tax laws, enforcement focus of state depts. of revenue, growing number of audits, & increased M&A ac-tivity. To apply visit https://jobs2.deloitte.com/us/en/. Enter XSFH20FT0320CHI1 in the “Search jobs” field. EOE, including disability/veterans.


Strategy Advisor, PI -(Customer) (Senior Manager) (Mult. Pos.) 5709227

ERNST & YOUNG U.S. LLP - Help clients attract, retain and grow their most valuable customer relationships. Requires travel up to 80%, of which 20% may be international, to serve client needs. Employer will accept any suitable combina-tion of education, training, or experience. For complete job description, list of requirements, and to apply online, go to: ey.com/en_us/careers, and click on “Find jobs” (Job Number - CHI008UY).

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Sr. Technical Lead 5693512

ZIFO TECHNOLOGIES INC - Sr. Technical Lead (ZT002)– De-ploy software solutions to meet business needs. Define technical requirements & perform requirement analysis & documentation Req. MS+2/BS+5. Travel & work at client sites as assigned. Send resume to: [email protected]. Refer-ence Job Code: ZT002.


Software Development Engineer in Test

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Ask any medical professional about what youshould be doing to minimize your risk ofcatching the COVID-19 virus and they’lltell you the same thing: Wash your hands.Simple advice that seems not only practical butincredibly common. Except it isn’t.

Ask anyone who has observed his or her co-workers in thebathroom at work, where “washing hands” may be nothing morethan a quick pass under a three-second gush of water from thefaucet — if even that.

“It makes my head hurt when I think about it,” says Dan T., apart-time sales associate at a Chicago retail store. “It’s gross whenI see customers do it but when I see people I work with? Oh, man.It really makes me sick.”

So much so, Dan says, that he has started calling his foul-fingered co-workers out. “I’m like ‘dude, you’re going to bestocking shelves later? Are you kidding?’ Usually, they laugh andthen they wash their hands,” says Dan, who says he likes his job“just enough to not use his last name.” “I guess if you think aboutstuff like that, you’d never leave the house. But I work at a placethat’s filled with people all day long. If I thought about what wason their hands, I’d run out of there, screaming.”

While the various items in a store may provide the perfectbackground for a blacklight exposé, the tools of the trade — theprinter, the microwave, the conference room table — probablywouldn’t fare much better.

And what about those sniffly, sneezy co-workers? Are theyready to distribute droplets of COVID-19 to you and your peers?

The known and unknownAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,

health officials are still learning about COVID-19, which theCDC admits upfront on its website. “COVID-19 is a new diseaseand we are still learning how it spreads, the severity of illness itcauses, and to what extent it may spread in the United States.”

Here is, however, what they do know, and how it can affectemployees at the workplace:

Person-to-person spread: According to the CDC, the virus isthought to spread mainly from person-to-person, between peoplewho are in close contact with one another, usually within about 6

feet and through respiratory droplets, which are produced when aninfected person coughs or sneezes. These droplets can land in themouths or noses of people who are nearby or possibly be inhaledinto the lungs.

Also, while someone who doesn’t appear sick can spreadthe virus, the CDC says that people “are thought to be mostcontagious when they are most symptomatic (the sickest).” Inother words, if you’re sick, don’t go to work.

Contaminated surfaces or objects: The CDC website statesthat it “may be possible” that a person can get COVID-19 by“touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and thentouching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes, but this isnot thought to be the main way the virus spreads.”

Still, if you have bleached wipes or disinfectant, wash downyour keyboard, your phone, your desktop, your chair, yourcomputer and any other surface you may come in contact withduring your workday. That includes that conference room table,the one that’s been used for hands, feet, food and — shudder —who knows what else.

Share the painThe fact that the CDC owns up to its own lack of certainty

about the potential spread of COVID-19 does nothing to calmmany of today’s at-work employees. In fact, it’s the CDC’s “maybe possible” that worries Sarah G., an administrative assistant ata Brooklyn-based PR firm who also doesn’t want her last nameused. “I am constantly handed papers, envelopes, pens and I haveno idea where they’ve been,” she says. “If it’s possible for thecoronavirus to live on something like a piece of paper, I’m introuble.”

Sarah says that last week, she was talking to her manager aboutcanceling her travel plans when the manager suddenly handedSarah her phone and told her to finish the call. “She was talking toa vendor and wanted to reschedule but since I handle her calendar,she just handed me the phone and I continued the conversation,”Sarah says. “And later, I heard her coughing in her office and ithit me — my mouth was literally a centimeter aware from whereshe talks on her phone, my hands were all over it and it was up tomy ear. If it’s living on that cellphone, again, I’m in trouble.”

— Marco Buscaglia, Careers

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Close your eyes for a second. Deep breaths. In-hale. Slow exhale. Inhale. Slow exhale. Whoa.What a week that was. And what a long, long

road we have ahead.Maybe you were an everyday sports fan when this

week began, your fists gripping tightly to the waywe’ve always known things. Then real life begancrashing ashore in such unprecedented fashion with asuch a strong undertow.

The coronavirus was spreading from coast to coast,a global pandemic shaking everything.

So maybe you’re still trying to grasp what to do withall of this, how to behave, how to navigate this sports-less world with so many things we used to care aboutdeeply now seeming so trivial.

Even with the daily realization that your health andfamily require most of your attention, allow yourself agrieving process with the sudden disappearance ofsports. It’s only natural.

You have no spring training to keep tabs on, nostretch run in the NBA or NHL.

And, geez, no NCAA Tournament either?Man, what you would have given Thursday and

Friday to have that annual adrenaline surge kick in, tofeel instantly invigorated by Greg Gumbel’s voice, to beinvested more than you ever should in some upstartfrom the Patriot League challenging mighty Kansas.

Our once comfortable existence in the sports world has been upended by the coronavirus crisis. So how do we navigate this new reality during such a confusing and trying time?

AARON DOSTER/AP

Survive. Advance.

Turn to Coronavirus, Page 5

By Dan Wiederer

One of my favorite philo-sophers last week addressed theneed to use your time wiselywhile adhering to the new rulesof staying home during thecoronavirus pandemic.

“This is when you really haveto utilize your imagination,” hesaid. “There are so many lessonsto be learned right now, so manypositives that can be derivedfrom this awful moment.”

Yes, he said, we need to stay home andpractice social distancing. That goes with-out saying.

“But while you’re doing that, you stillcan carry on a pretty normal life withinthose parameters,” he added.

Play board games. Call your friends andfamily. Read. Write. Binge-watch. Whatev-

er it takes.That philosopher was former

Cubs manager and current An-gels skipper Joe Maddon, whospoke with local media Wednes-day during a half-hour confer-ence call. On Friday, Brewersmanager Craig Counsell saidmuch the same on a conferencecall with Milwaukee media.

“Public officials have asked usto have some discipline here,”

Counsell said. “That has put everybody outof their routines a little bit. We’re trying toadhere to that. It puts you in a differentroutine. You’re got to try to enjoy that andfind some different things to do to make ita productive day.”

Maddon says ‘utilize yourimagination’ during shutdownEx-Cubs, current Angels manager offers advice for crisis

PaulSullivanIn the Wake of the News

Turn to Sullivan, Page 2

Angels manager Joe Maddon offered some

advice for getting through the sports shut-

down due to the coronavirus.

DARRON CUMMINGS/AP

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSThe Cubs and Sox found out some things

during their spring training while a few

issues still haven’t been solved. Back Page

Lolo Jones is 37 —angling for acomeback to the trackand well aware thatshe’s running out oftime.

These days, though,earning a spot in theTokyo Olympics is nowhere close to herNo. 1 priority.

The hurdler-turned-bobsledder-turned celebrity, who remains one of themost recognizable and followed Olympicathletes in the United States, is imploringthe IOC to send a different message fromthe one it has thus far about thecoronavirus crisis. It has yet to postponethe games, set to start July 24, and by notdoing that, Jones believes it is subtly — ornot so subtly — telling athletes that theyneed to be ready, just in case.

“It’s tearing athletes apart,” Jones saidSaturday in an interview with TheAssociated Press. “We want to be likeeveryone else. We want to be healthy,responsible citizens. But we’re also afraidthe IOC is going to say, in a month, thatthe games are on, and, what, hopefullyyou’re going to still be in shape?”

Some could be. Even more probablywon’t. Such is the state of sports acrossthe globe, where different restrictionsexist in virtually every country, and inevery state in the U.S. Jones has access toa track near her home in Louisiana, buthas been heeding the warnings of healthofficials and government, opting to shutthings down.

“I fear contaminating my coach,” Jonessaid. “We need to be sticking in ourhouse, self-quarantining. We’ve gotbigger things to worry about right now”than training.

— Associated Press

Keeping an eye on the impactof the coronavirus crisis:

NBASeason

suspendedindefinitely

NHLSeason

suspendedindefinitely

MLBOpening day

delayed until at least

mid-May

MLSSeason

suspendeduntil at least

May 10

NFLDraft set forApril 23-25;

OTAscanceled

NCAASpring sports

schedulecanceled

Others: PGA

Tour suspended through the PGA Championship.

NASCAR suspended until at least May 9.WTA, ATP suspended through at least June 7.

Jones advocatestimeout for Games

WHEN SPORTS

STOOD STILL

THE QUOTE

“I think the IOC insisting thiswill move ahead, with suchconviction, is insensitive andirresponsible given the stateof humanity. This crisis is big-ger than even the Olympics.”

— Hayley Wickenheiser, four-time hockeygold medalist from Canada

THE NUMBER

70A poll by Japanese newsagency Kyodo this weekshowed nearly 70% ofJapanese questioned do

not believe the games will begin on time.In the face of the pandemic, Japaneseorganizers and IOC President ThomasBach say that the games will open July24 at the $1.43 billion national stadiumin central Tokyo. Bach has insisted it’stoo early to announce a final decision,saying he’s taking advice from a taskforce that includes the World HealthOrganization.

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Maybe these public service remindersseem obvious. Perhaps you don’t want tohear from anyone in the sports world whenreal-world problems are at your doorstep.

I wouldn’t blame you.I feel the same about celebrities I’ve

never heard of who post misinformed oreven dangerous opinions on their Insta-gram accounts, as a B-list actress namedVanessa Hudgens did.

The only one we really need to listen toright now is Dr. Anthony Fauci, director ofthe National Institute of Allergy and Infec-tious Diseases. For some reason my bloodpressure goes down whenever Faucispeaks during the daily White Housepress briefings, then suddenly jumpswhen the self-described “stable genius”next to him starts blathering.

This is a common malady among myfriends and family, but unfortunately nocure for what we call “stablegeniusitis”will likely be available until Nov. 3.

Some have understandably stoppedwatching the coronavirus updates on TVfor their own mental health. Maddon saidhe stopped watching CNN for some reliefand last week turned on MLB Network towatch a rerun of the George Brett “PineTar Game.”

I’ve also found myself turning to theclassics for a break, including parts of theCubs’ epic 23-22 loss to the Phillies in 1979— during which I kept repeating, “Whooboy” for some reason — and Mark Fid-rych’s “Monday Night Baseball” gameagainst the Yankees in 1976.

Reruns may get old, but I can still watchan “Andy Griffith Show” episode I’ve seen100 times, so we’ll see how long until itgets stale.

Naturally you’re bored after spendingall this time at home. But now it’s manda-tory, so just make the best of it.

One thing I’ve missed during the sportsshutdown is going to baseball-refer-ence.com and looking up stuff, a dailyroutine during the baseball season.

After listening to Maddon, I went to thewebsite the other day and tried to connect“Shoeless” Joe Jackson and Carlos Bel-tran, the biggest names from the two big-gest cheating scandals in baseball history:the 1919 “Black Sox” and the 2017 Astros.

Here’s what I found:Jackson played for the 1919 White Sox

with Hall of Famer Eddie Collins, who wasnot involved in the game-throwing scheme.

Collins played for the 1928 Athleticswith Jimmie Foxx, who played for the1942 Red Sox with Ted Williams.

Williams played for the 1950 Red Soxwith Jimmy Piersall, who played for the1965 Angels with Jose Cardenal.

Cardenal played for the 1980 Royalswith Willie Wilson, who played for the1993 Cubs with Sammy Sosa.

Sosa played for the 2007 Rangers withMark Teixeira, who played for the 2016

Yankees with Beltran.Beltran was the most famous culprit in

the 2017 Astros sign-stealing scandal andthe only player Major League Baseballnamed in its report.

Phew.That exercise in silliness took about a

half-hour or so and was performed on mycouch. It kept me from watching cablenews or looking out the window wishing Icould leave.

You could do this with any two playersin baseball history if you have the time andinclination to waste it in such a manner. Oryou can think of your own way to keepbaseball on your mind while waiting for theseason to start — if there is a season to start.

Whatever works.Shout-out to Maddon for reminding me

to “utilize your imagination” during thisdowntime. He’s an eternal optimist, ofcourse, even during pandemics.

I don’t know how many fans feel theneed to hear from sports figures thesedays. But as a reporter, I appreciate thatMaddon, Counsell, Blackhawks ChairmanRocky Wirtz, Indians President ChrisAntonetti and others have taken the timeto update media on their players, theirteams and their sports.

Every organization has its own way ofdoing things, and some have preferredtheir employees stay silent, which cer-tainly is their prerogative.

But for those who need a respite fromall the bad news of the day, even for a fewminutes, it’s nice to hear a familiar voiceremind us there’s something to look for-ward to down the road.

Sullivan Continued from Page 1

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“There are so manylessons to be learned rightnow, so many positivesthat can be derived fromthis awful moment.”— Joe Maddon, Angels manager

Dunk City on the map

College basketball, meet FloridaGulf Coast.

A school so new it wasn’teligible for the NCAA Tourna-ment until last year busted a

load of brackets Friday night.With 24 points from Sherwood Brown

and a healthy dose of swagger, FGCU upsetsecond-seeded Georgetown 78-68 in thesecond round of the South Regional.

“This is our first time being in the NCAATournament. To actually go out there andwin that first game, it means somethingreally special to us,” said Brown, who was thefirst of the players to head toward the FloridaGulf Coast cheering section with severalseconds still on the clock.

The Eagles used a 21-2 second-half run topull away from the Hoyas and then held onin the final minute to become just theseventh No. 15 seed to beat a No. 2.

“It’s an unbelievable feeling. We played avery tough team in Georgetown. They havegreat players. They’re a historic school,”forward Chase Fieler said. “So being a newerschool it’s very exciting for us to be able towin a game like that and for the NCAAhistory. That’s exciting and impressive to bea part of that.”

Bernard Thompson had 23 points forFlorida Gulf Coast, the champions of theAtlantic Sun Conference.

“We decided we can play with anybodyand we did,” said FGCU point guard BrettComer, who finished with 12 points, 10assists and just two turnovers.

Comer was part of a play late in the gamethat almost brought down the house,throwing an alley-oop pass from the cornerthat Fieler grabbed and threw down with aone-handed dunk.

“Nothing special. It’s something me andhim have done this year,” Comer said. “Weknew what was going to happen there. Timeand place didn’t matter. I knew he’d catch it.You saw the result. The whole place went nutsand we really got the momentum from there.”

Said Fieler: “That might be the highest

I’ve ever jumped. We’ll have to check thevideo. Brett has great vision. That was his10th assist. He just threw it up and I had to goget it.”

Just a night before, Harvard — the nation’soldest university, founded in 1636 — pulledoff a major upset over fourth-seeded NewMexico. Now, one of its youngest has an evenbigger one.

The Eagles’ monster run gave them a52-33 lead with 12:28 to play. The Hoyasstaged a furious rally to get within 72-68 with

52 seconds left but the Eagles went 6 of 10from the free throw line to seal it.

“In the second half, we pushed the ball,we got out, we ran, we made shots, got somealley-oop dunks to energize the crowd. I’mvery proud of our players,” said coach AndyEnfield, whose wife — supermodel AmandaMarcum — was shown several times on thearena’s big screen.

For those who don’t know FGCU, and thatwas probably plenty of people as of Fridayafternoon, Florida Gulf Coast is a state

university in Fort Myers with an enrollmentof about 12,000 students.

This is FGCU’s first tournament andGeorgetown’s 29th, including the 1984national championship. But the Eagles didbeat Miami earlier this season.

It was another disappointing NCAA exitfor the Hoyas (25-7), who have lost to adouble-digit seed in their last four appear-ances. The last time they made it to thesecond weekend of the tournament was in2007, when they reached the Final Four.

“I wish I could, trust me, more thananyone on this Earth,” Georgetown coachJohn Thompson III said when asked if hecould figure out the losses to lower seeds.“I’ve tried to analyze it, think about it, look atit, think about what we should do differentlyand I don’t know.”

Markel Starks had 23 points for the Hoyas,a tri-champion of the Big East regular seasonand one of the top defensive teams in thenation.

While Georgetown came in allowing 55.7points per game, FGCU beat that numberwith 9:22 to play when it led 57-40. TheHoyas allowed opponents to shoot 37.6percent from the field, fourth-best in thecountry. The Eagles shot 42.9 percent (21 of49) and they held the Hoyas to 37.5 percentfrom the field (24 of 64).

We’re all missing sports these days. So with the games on hold, we’re offering a daily dose of memorable moments as chronicled through sports history:

A GOOD TIME TO LOOK BACK

(MARCH 22, 2013)

This story was published when Florida GulfCoast made a Cinderella run in the NCAATournament in 2013. Their signature winwas over Big East power Georgetown.

Associated Press

Florida Gulf Coast’s Eddie Murray dunks in the second half against Georgetown in the

second round of the NCAA Tournament on March 22, 2013, in Philadelphia.

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MORE MARCH 22 MOMENTS

1932: The blue lines are eliminated with the

center red line used to determine offsides

in an experiment by the NHL. With both

teams out of playoff contention, the league

tries it in the New York Americans’ 8-6

victory over Boston.

1969: Lew Alcindor scores 37 points to lead

UCLA to the NCAA men’s basketball title

with a 97-72 win over Purdue.

1994: The NFL announces the addition of

the 2-point conversion, the league’s first

scoring change in 75 seasons.

2017: Russell Westbrook records his 35th

triple-double of the season with 18 points,

11 rebounds and 14 assists and the Okla-

homa City Thunder cruises to a 122-97 win

over the Philadelphia 76ers. Westbrook,

who made all six of his field-goal attempts

and all six of his free throws, is the first

NBA player to have a triple-double without

missing a shot attempt or free throw.

SPORTS

3B Chicago Tribune | Chicago Sports | Section 3 | Sunday, March 22, 2020

Day 11Since the sports world went mainly dark

CORONAVIRUS IMPACT ON SPORTS

DENVER — U.S. Olympic leaders face agrowing rebellion after the USA Track andField chief added to the call for a postpone-ment of the Tokyo Games because of themushrooming coronavirus crisis.

CEO Max Siegel sent a two-page note tohis counterpart at the U.S. Olympic andParalympic Committee, Sarah Hirshland,asking the federation to advocate for a delay.It came late Friday, only a few hours afterUSA Swimming’s CEO sent a similar letter.

Now, the sports that accounted for 65 ofAmerica’s 121 medals and 175 of its 554athletes at the last Summer Games are onrecord in urging, in Siegel’s words, “theUSOPC, as a leader within the OlympicMovement, to use its voice and speak up forthe athletes.”

Other national committees are alreadydoing that. The federations in Norway andBrazil each went public with requests topostpone.

“Our clear recommendation is that theOlympic Games in Tokyo shall not takeplace before the COVID-19 situation isunder firm control on a global scale,”Norway’s federation wrote in a letter to IOCPresident Thomas Bach.

The U.S. brings the largest contingent toevery Summer Games and wins the mostmedals — both factors that lead have ledNBC to pay billions to televise the gamesthrough 2032.

It would seem to give the USOPCleverage in talks about almost any subjectwith the IOC, but the federation has beenreluctant to use its power.

It spent years, in fact, trying to smoothover tense relations with its internationalpartners.

And since Hirshland took over as CEO in

2018, the focus has been inward, as thesex-abuse scandals that have consumedAmerican sports have shifted the focus toathlete welfare and safety.

Hirshland and the USOPC board chair,Susanne Lyons, were insistent that theUSOPC won’t sacrifice athlete safety in thecurrent crisis. But they stopped well shortof pushing the IOC toward a postponement.

“The decision about the games does notlie directly with us,” Lyons said in aconference call with reporters Friday. “Itlies with WHO, the Japanese government

and the IOC. Under no circumstance wouldthe USOPC send atheltes into harm’s way ifdidn’t think it was safe.”

Leaders of the track and swimmingteams don’t appear willing to take that risk,either, though whether they’ll act on theirown — without the sign-off from theUSOPC — remains in question.

The leader of the third sport that makesup the backbone of the Olympics —gymnastics — has sent a survey to athletes,asking for their thoughts on what the USAGymnastics stance should be.

The Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Center for olympic and paralympic athletes in San Diego, Calif., looks quiet on Friday.

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OLYMPICS

Groundswell buildsUSA Track and Field joinsswimming in pushing forOlympic postponement By Eddie PellsAssociated Press

Olympic cancellationsWith more and more calls to postpone the Tokyo Olympics because of the coronavirusoutbreak, it’s worth noting that this every-four-years spectacle has been rocked before bytraumatic events. Three other times, the games were canceled altogether because ofWorld War I (1916) and World War II (1940 and 1944) — and in those latter two quadren-nials, both the Summer and Winter Games were shelved. A look at the Olympic Gamesthat never were:

1916

Berlin was set to host the1916 Summer Olympics(the Winter Games weren’tfounded until 1924), beat-ing bids from Alexandria,Amsterdam, Brussels, Bu-dapest and Cleveland,according toGamesBids.com.

The German Empire evenconstructed a dazzling newfacility to serve as thecenterpiece of the games.Known as Deutsches Sta-dion, it opened well aheadof the games in 1913.

After the First World Warerupted in July 1914, prepa-rations carried on for awhile since no one ex-pected the hostilities tolast another two years. Butthe horrific war lasted until1918, eventually forcing theOlympics to be canceled.

1940

In an era when the se-lected nation got the op-tion of hosting both theSummer and Winter Gamesin the same year, Japan wasa surprising choice as thefirst non-Western countryto be awarded theOlympics. Tokyo was to bethe summer host, withSapporo getting the winterversion.

Again, war got in the way.After World War II eruptedin September 1939 withGermany’s invasion ofPoland, the Olympics werecanceled altogether. Tokyowould eventually get achance to host the SummerGames in 1964 — still thefirst Asian city to receivethe honor — while Sapporolanded the 1972 WinterGames.

1944

Shortly before the out-break of World War II, andafter all that scrambling tofind replacement hosts for1940, the IOC awardedLondon the 1944 SummerGames in balloting that alsoincluded Athens, Budapest,Detroit, Helsinki, Lausanne,Montreal and Rome.

With England not a feasi-ble host for the WinterGames, that event wasawarded to Cortinad’Ampezzo, Italy.

The 1944 Olympics neverhad a chance. World War IIdragged on until the follow-ing year.

London would then beawarded the 1948 SummerGames, the first in a dozenyears and staged in austereconditions as the city contin-ued to recover from the war.

Formula One champion Lewis Hamiltonsays he has been self-isolating for more thana week after meeting people who latertested positive for the new coronavirus.

Hamilton was at a charity event inLondon on March 4 also attended by actorIdris Elba and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau,the wife of the Canadian prime minister.Both were later found to have the virus.

In a message on social media, Hamiltonsays he’s shown “zero symptoms” but hasbeen isolating himself from other peopleever since March 13, when the AustralianGrand Prix was called off.

Hamilton said that “I did speak to mydoctor and double checked if I needed totake a test but, the truth is there is a limitedamount of tests available and there arepeople who need it more than I do.”

Virus kills ex-Real Madrid president:

Former Real Madrid president LorenzoSanz died Saturday from the new co-ronavirus, his family said. He was 76.

Sanz had been in intensive care since thebeginning of the week while being treatedfor the virus.

Sanz presided over Madrid from 1995until 2000, leading the club to two Europe-an titles, a Spanish league title and a SpanishSuper Cup title.

Under Sanz, Madrid ended a 32-yeardrought in Europe by winning its seventhEuropean trophy in 1998.

Madrid said Sanz was survived by hiswife, Mari Luz, and five children.

More than 24,000 people have beeninfected with the virus in Spain, with nearly1,400 deaths.

Another Senator tests positive: A sec-ond Ottawa Senators player has testedpositive for COVID-19.

The player was part of the recent roadtrip that included NHL games in San Jose,Anaheim and Los Angeles.

The total number of people on the tripwas 52, including players, staff, media,guests and flight crew. Of those on the trip,44 have shown no symptoms, eight have

been tested, and two positive results werereceived. The team is awaiting more resultsfrom tests given over the past three days.

Everyone on the California trip wasinstructed to self-quarantine on March 13.

Hockey Worlds nixed: The IIHF Councilhas confirmed that the 2020 Ice HockeyWorld Championship scheduled to takeplace in Zurich and Lausanne has beencanceled because of the ongoing co-ronavirus outbreak.

The decision to cancel the tournamentdidn’t come as a surprise after IIHFPresident Rene Fasel acknowledged thelikelihood of that happening following anIIHF executive committee conference callTuesday.

Fasel cited numerous challenges facingofficials, ranging from health directives inplace limiting attendance to travel bansmaking it difficult for nations to send theirteams. Another issue was players lackingpractice time, with most of world’s hockeyleagues having either indefinitely sus-pended or canceled their seasons.

ROUNDUP

Hamilton in self-isolation after charity event Associated Press

NBA Commissioner Adam Silverfinds himself almost constantly lookingat financial numbers and projections.And like the rest of a world that is dealingwith the seismic effects of the co-ronavirus pandemic, he still isn’t surehow bad things will get.

Silver said Saturday the league isconsidering all options — best-case,worst-case and countless ideas in be-tween — as it tries to come to grips withthis new normal. But definitive answerson any front are in short supply.

“It’s too soon to tellwhat the economicimpact will be,” Silversaid. “We’ve been an-alyzing multiple sce-narios on a daily if nothourly basis and we’llcontinue to reviewthe financial implica-tions. Obviously, it’snot a pretty picturebut everyone, regard-

less of what industry they work in, is inthe same boat.”

Saturday marked the 10th full day ofthe NBA’s shutdown, a stoppage that hascost the league 75 games and counting sofar, a total that will reach triple digits onWednesday and will eventually get to259 on April 15 — the day the regularseason was supposed to end. Play isn’tgoing to resume by then. The financiallosses will be massive and will obviouslyjust keep growing if this season cannotresume or if next season is affected.

“Adam is obviously cautious, cau-tiously optimistic,” Cavaliers forwardKevin Love said earlier in the week. “Wedon’t know what the future holds but theNBA has been through a lot, we’ve seen alot and I think we’ll be incrediblyresilient. It just might take time.”

Players who are due to get their nextpaycheck on April 1 will get them.Whether those players will get theirApril 15 check is in some question; theleague can exercise a clause in theCollective Bargaining Agreement thatallows it to take back 1.08% of eachplayer’s salary for each game missed incertain times — like war, or in this case, apandemic.

That clause has not been exercised yetsince, officially anyway, no game hasbeen canceled.

“We’re exploring all options to re-sume our season if and when it is safe todo so,” Silver said. “Nothing is off thetable.”

Besides, there are other bridges tocross first. The NBA — which was thefirst major U.S. pro league to say it wouldplay games without fans and the firstleague to suspend its season onceAll-Star center Rudy Gobert of the Jazztested positive — has been extremelyvocal in trying to get its massive fan baseto take social distancing and otherpreventative measures seriously.

“Our focus right now is doing all thatwe can to support, engage and educatethe general public in response to thispandemic,” Silver said. “We are alsomaking sure that we are prepared toresume the season if and when itbecomes safe for all concerned.”

The league has asked teams forbuilding availability dates through theend of August, an indicator that thisseason — if it resumes — may stretchdeep into the summer.

So far, there are 14 people within theNBA community, including at least 10players, known to have tested positivefor COVID-19. Of those positive tests,seven became known publicly on Thurs-day and Marcus Smart of the Celticsrevealed that he has the virus.

“Unfortunately, based on everythingwe know, significantly more positivecases in our league were inevitable,”Silver said. “So, Thursday’s results didnot come as a huge surprise and just likeeveryone else, we’re just trying to takeeach day as it comes.”

Silver’s sixth full season as commis-sioner of the NBA started with theleague getting into a major rift withChina. His mentor and NBA Commis-sioner emeritus David Stern died twomonths later. Kobe Bryant died in ahelicopter crash less than a month afterthat.

Now he is dealing with the biggestcrisis of them all — a pandemic, affectingand threatening virtually every corner ofthe planet.

“It’s been a challenging season,” Silversaid. “For all of us.”

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Money losscould bestaggeringSilver says economic impacton league ‘not pretty picture’

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MEN’S NCAA TOURNAMENT

Using ESPN.com’s fantasy 68-team field as a base,

Shannon Ryan is making her predictions on how

the NCAA Tournament might have played out.

This week: Through Round 2

Next week: Sweet 16, Elite 8

In 2 weeks: Final 4,

national championship

The curtains to the NCAA Tournament would have parted Tuesday and Wednesday in Dayton, Ohio. ■ A city devoted to college basketball, eagerly ushering in the First Fourevery March, also had a top contender of its own to root for this year. Dayton was expected to be a No. 1 seed with Kansas, Gonzaga and Baylor. ■ But brackets were bustedearly. All of them. ■ Concerns over the spread of the coronavirus prompted conferences and the NCAA to cancel the postseason. Fans were left with memories of pasteditions of March Madness and curiosity about what might have been for their favorite teams. ■ Let’s pretend, shall we, that the tournament took place anyway. Thanks toESPN’s Joe Lunardi, who projects the bracket throughout every season, we at least can enjoy a hypothetical tournament. He revealed a final bracket and is “playing” thegames on Twitter to help fill our sports void. ■ I’m with Lunardi. Let’s have a little fun. Using his bracket, here’s how I thought the first week might have played out.

Midwest RegionFor only the fourth time since Mike

Krzyzewski, right, started coachingDuke in 1980, the Blue Devils qualifiedfor the tournament and lost in the firstround. Many suspected this wasn’tDuke’s year — and it wasn’t. No. 14 seedBelmont won its 13th game in row on alate jumper by Tyler Scanlon. But LukaGarza and No. 6 seed Iowa were toomuch for Belmont in the second round,and the Hawkeyes advanced to theSweet 16 for the first time since 1999. They’ll face No. 2 seed Kentucky.

Fourth-seeded Wisconsin breezed by No. 13 seed North Texas and had no problemdispatching No. 12 seed Liberty, a potential Cinderella. The Flames upset fifth-seededAuburn in the first round, but the Badgers looked more prepared. They’ll face Kansasin the Sweet 16 in Indianapolis. The overall No. 1 seed looked dominant in blowoutvictories against No. 16 seed Siena and eighth-seeded Houston.

East RegionA Sweet 16 showdown in New York

between top seed Dayton and fifth-seeded Butler should be a fun matchupbetween teams with devoted fan bases.Obi Toppin, right, displayed his dazzlingdunks to help the Flyers defeat No. 16seed Robert Morris and ninth-seededFlorida. Kamar Baldwin, meanwhile,played like a senior with everything onthe line for Butler. The Bulldogs neededovertime to beat No. 12 seed Texas, andBaldwin was big down the stretch in a close win against a tough Maryland team.

Penn State is in the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2001. The Nittany Lions lostfive of their last six regular-season games before going on a roll in the Big Ten Tournament.The battle between Penn State’s Lamar Stevens and Villanova’s Saddiq Bey in thesecond round was a delight, but the Nittany Lions prevailed. Penn State will face No. 2seed Florida State, which escaped seventh-seeded West Virginia in the second round.

West RegionA star burst onto the scene in Seton

Hall’s Myles Powell. Big East fans haveknown about Powell, left, for years, buthe is becoming a national householdname with his tournament perform-ance. He topped 40 points in a victoryover No. 14 seed Eastern Washingtonand nearly hit the mark again to beatNo. 6 seed BYU as Seton Hall advancedto the Sweet 16 for the first time since2000. The Pirates will face No. 2 seed

San Diego State, which ousted 10th-seeded Texas Tech — last season’s nationalrunner-up — in the second round.

Top seed Gonzaga continued to impress in victories against No. 16 seed NorthCarolina Central and No. 8 seed LSU. The Bulldogs will face No. 4 seed Oregon in theSweet 16 in Los Angeles. The Ducks fought off pesky Michigan in the second round.Senior guard Payton Pritchard has averaged 20 points in the first two games.

South RegionTen Big Ten programs made the field

and five made it through the firstweekend, including two more out of theSouth: No. 3 seed Michigan State andNo. 7 seed Illinois. Illinois got a buzzer-beating 3-pointer by Ayo Dosunmu, left,to beat No. 2 Creighton and advance tothe Sweet 16 in Houston, where theIllini will face Michigan State.

No. 12 seed Stephen F. Austin and No. 13seed Vermont provided the region’s

major upsets. The Lumberjacks brought a 15-game win streak into the tournament andtook advantage of fifth-seeded Ohio State’s inconsistency; Vermont had lost only twicesince Dec. 20, and the Catamounts stunned No. 4 seed Louisville. Stephen F. Austinwon the battle of double-digit seeds and will face top seed Baylor in the Sweet 16.

No team has distinguished itself as the clear favorite. Will someone finally stand outin the Sweet 16?

Fantasy basketballBy Shannon Ryan | Chicago Tribune

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SPORTS

Free-agent wide receiver EmmanuelSanders has agreed to a two-year contractwith the Saints, general manager MickeyLoomis said Saturday.

The 5-foot-11 Sanders, who turns 33 nextweek, caught 36 passes for 502 yards andthree touchdowns for the 49ers last season.He caught five passes for 71 yards in three

postseason starts.His contract, first reported by ESPN, is

said to be worth about $16 million withbonuses that could push the total value ashigh as $19 million.

Rivers seals deal: Philip Rivers officiallyended his 16-year tenure with the Chargerson Saturday by signing the $25 million dealhe agreed to earlier this week with the Colts.

“I still love to play, I know I can play at ahigh level,” the 38-year-old quarterbacksaid on a conference call, acknowledging hewas ready to walk away from football if hereceived no offers.

Raiders bolster offense: The Raidersagreed to terms with wide receiver NelsonAgholor and guard Erik Kush, according toa team source.

Agholor caught 224 passes for 2,515 yardsin five seasons with the Eagles and had 39catches for 363 yards in 11 games last season.Terms were unavailable, but ESPN re-ported the contract was for one season.

Duke star set to jump: Duke sophomorepoint guard Tre Jones says he will enter theNBA draft. Jones averaged 16.2 points and6.4 assists for the Blue Devils this season.

ROUNDUP

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The road to the Final Four is alwaysexciting, always captivating, always soperfectly suspenseful and fast-moving.

But this yearthe bracket chatter on socialmedia revolves mostly around movie dogsand Halloween candy and quarantineactivities. (“Not showering” in a blowoutover “Eating pasta” in Round 1.)

And that’s simply the silly stuff, thosemuch-needed, lighthearted diversions totemporarily take our minds off this evolv-ing crisis.

Honestly, we’re all coming to grips withthis new form of “survive and advance,”trying to press forward one hour at a time,one day, one week. We all need that MarchMadness mindset to remind us that look-ing too far ahead is impractical, sometimesdangerous.

How jarring it has become to see gro-cery-store shelves so bare. How frighteningit is to hear the nightmare coronavirusstories from Italy and Spain and France.

And now Seattle? And Southern Cali-fornia?

How amazing it is to wake up with fullenergy, working lungs and a healthy family.You remind yourself never to take that forgranted.

With great uncertaintyMan, how quickly and drastically every-

thing changed. This remains so challeng-ing.

Even as we all process the gravity ofeverything, maybe your habits and hobbiesstill have you craving another Giannishighlight reel or a countdown to openingday or a little golf on TV. And maybe, in-stead, you’ve had to redirect a good chunkof your energy and focus to learning aboutthis new and deadly virus that’s spreadingso rapidly.

Everywhere.Schools closing. Restaurants closing.

Gyms closing.Everything closing.Lockdowns ordered.Maybe you’ve had to find extra time and

extra reserves of energy to keep your fam-ily safe and healthy and all on the samepage.

Maybe you’ve had to call your parents,your siblings, your in-laws to share every-thing you’ve been learning and to absorbwhat they’ve discovered too. To strategizeyour social-distancing plans, to coordinatemeal exchanges, to comprehend the fullmeaning of “shelter in place.”

Maybe you’ve also had to find the righttone and words to explain this to your kids.

Sure, leisure activity is still out there.Jogs around the park. Long overdue Face-Time calls. Streaming documentaries.Sports stuff too.

The NFL, for better or worse, wentahead this week with its free-agency carni-val. Which, for several days anyway, of-fered a needed fix of football, that familiaroffseason theater that seems to smell liketailgate charcoal.

Tom Brady? A freaking Buccaneer? Forreal?

DeAndre Hopkins traded to the Cardi-nals?

A new collective bargaining agreementthat will add two teams to the playoffs nextseason?

Crazy stuff. That is, of course, if nextseason will even be a thing when we get tothe fall. As quickly as everything is evolvingand changing and becoming more intenseand extreme, there are no longer any guar-antees. Of anything.

Deep breaths.Inhale. Slow exhale.

A new perspectiveThink about it. Maybe you were a prom-

inent NFL coach this week, in position tocelebrate the re-signing of your future Hallof Fame quarterback for a 16th season byyour side. Only that wasn’t the biggestnews of your week. Far from it.

It was that the fatigue you felt last week-end was not normal. It was COVID-19.Your test came back positive. You, SeanPayton, had the coronavirus. And whileyour symptoms were never severe, youwere now in the middle of a wake-up call, afamous face and important voice in aworldwide crisis.

Maybe you were a major NBA star, a10-time All-Star and former MVP whoentered a new reality with questions aboutwhere you picked up the coronavirus andhow you will isolate and recover. Now you,Kevin Durant, were added to the list offamous COVID-19 cases, on a roll call thatincludes Tom Hanks and Idris Elba and thewife of Canadian Prime Minister JustinTrudeau.

Maybe the suspension of all these sea-sons wasn’t such a hasty overreaction afterall.

It’s truly dizzying. All of it. Confusing asheck.

Maybe you’re a devoted Bears fan andyou were instinctively pulled into thisweek’s discussion about all the movesbeing made at Halas Hall. (Or more exactly,the moves being made by executives andcoaches who normally work at Halas Hallbut are adapting their routines as well.)

So now you have a new quarterbackdebate to go nuts with.

Mitch Trubisky or Nick Foles? Foles orTrubisky?

But why not Teddy Bridgewater? Or CamNewton or Derek Carr? And what was withthe hard charge to sign long-in-the-toothtight end Jimmy Graham?

Man, the table was set for a full-throatedweek of Bears conversation. Until realityset back in and you remembered this newsurreal existence we’re in.

The eerily empty streets. The regularbriefings from the mayor, the governor andthe White House. The rapidly collapsingeconomy.

Suddenly, the Bears’ offensive-line needsfeel incredibly inconsequential.

Patience. Presence. Deep breaths. Inhale. Slow exhale.Maybe you were a sports writer this

week, still dialed in on your job but tryingyour damnedest to strike the right tone, toretain proper perspective. Maybe on Tues-day morning, when news surfaced that theBears had given a $70 million contract toveteran pass rusher Robert Quinn, youwere in the middle of Chapter 17 of “HarryPotter and the Chamber of Secrets,” jug-gling your new duties as a part-time at-home schoolteacher and thrilled to watchyour first-grader’s eyes grow large asFawkes the phoenix rescued Harry fromTom Riddle.

Maybe it was collisions like that —chronicling Leonard Floyd’s release in onemoment, overseeing a math assignment thenext — that provided clear eyes and properdirection.

Instead of late nights with Charles Bark-ley and Ernie Johnson, Jim Nantz andGrant Hill, you’re now carving out timenightly to search “Dr. Anthony Fauci” onYouTube, appointment viewing of thehighest order.

You’re learning about droplets and herdimmunity and the frantic search for effec-tive drugs. Sure, you would have ratherspent time this week watching your almamater in the NCAA Tournament for thefirst time in seven years. You would haveloved texting with your dad and brotherabout how cold-blooded Ayo Dosunmu isand whether the over in the Providence-LSU game was worth pursuing.

But throughout the week, you also cameto realize you were just as sad for the teamsyou coach — the Pistons and the TimberRattlers and the Green Fire Dragons —whose seasons were canceled or mightnever start. So now, at your son’s request,you’ve become obsessive about the seven-day weather forecast to slot in drivewayshootarounds and batting practice andsoccer silliness to the daily schedule.

Maybe you’re finding yourself intenselypresent in so many more moments, realiz-ing it’s never an unwelcome interruption tobe asked to a crib-side tea party or a “LegoChallenge” build. You’re now soaking indaily “change-of-scenery walks” with yourkids and realizing your 16-month-olddaughter really loves screaming hello todogs and geese.

And maybe you return from those jour-neys with feelings of pure gratitude, only tothen read texts from doctor friends — inemergency rooms and operating roomselsewhere in the country — offering a so-bering peek behind their curtains.

The growing strain on hospital re-sources has become intense. The con-strained coronavirus testing protocols, theytell you, are mind-boggling. The need tomove into separate living quarters fromtheir spouses and kids has added to theexhaustion.

But, hey, they also wonder, what do youmake of Jordan Howard heading to theDolphins? And for real: Foles or Trubisky?

Damn, these emotions can becomeintense.

For the most part, sports has gracefullylowered its curtain and shut out the lights.It feels so unusual and yet so necessary.You’re still getting used to it and realizing itmay be this way for a long time.

Maybe, you joke to yourself, the govern-ment will soon greenlight golf as an accept-able activity. It’s outside, right? Always agroup smaller than five?

But then you see Dr. Fauci is back on TVand there’s a new graph to interpret andthe numbers and pictures being shown areunnerving.

Maybe it’s best just to be safe, to learnpatience, to take this a little at a time.

Close your eyes. Deep breaths. Inhale.Slow exhale.

Workers remove chairs from media row inside University of Dayton Arena on March 13, a day after the NCAA Tournament was canceled.

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“You, Sean Payton, hadthe coronavirus. And while your symptoms were never severe, you werenow in the middle of awake-up call, a famousface and important voicein a worldwide crisis.”

The Bears traded a fourth-round pickto the Jaguars for Nick Foles onWednesday.

Foles joins Mitch Trubisky in theBears quarterbacks room. While we waitto hear from general manager Ryan Paceabout which player he expects to be the2020 starter, here’s a look at thequarterbacks by the numbers.88: Pick the Eagles used to select Folesin the 2012 draft. The third-round pickpassed for 10,011 yards, 67 touchdownsand 33 interceptions over three seasonsat Arizona (2009-11) after transferringfrom Michigan State. The Wildcats wentto two bowl games during his time there.2: Pick the Bears used to select Trubisky.He passed for 3,748 yards, 30 touch-downs and six interceptions in his loneseason as a starter at North Carolina.The Tar Heels went 8-5 that year and lostin the Sun Bowl to Stanford.48: Games Foles has started over eightNFL seasons. The most he started in aseason was 11 in 2015 with the Rams,going 4-7. He started 10 with the Eaglesin 2013, when he threw for a career-high2,891 yards and 27 touchdowns with justtwo interceptions and went 8-2. Hehasn’t started more than five regular-season games in a year since 2015.41: Games Trubisky has started overthree NFL seasons. He missed threegames over the last two seasons withshoulder injuries. He didn’t play the firstfour games of his rookie season as theBears started the year with Mike Glen-non at quarterback. Trubisky’s bestseason was 2018, when he went 11-3.31: Age of Foles, whose birthday was inJanuary.25: Age of Trubisky, who will turn 26 inAugust.4-2: Foles’ record in postseason games.The Eagles lost in his first appearanceafter the 2013 season. They won all threeon their way to the Super Bowl champi-onship after the 2017 season. Foles threwfor 373 yards and three touchdowns andcaught a touchdown pass to help lift theEagles over the Patriots 41-33 and winSuper Bowl LII MVP honors. He went1-1 in the 2018 postseason.0-1: Trubisky’s record in postseasongames. The only Bears playoff appear-ance in Trubisky’s tenure — in the lastnine years, in fact — came against theFoles-led Eagles after the 2018 season.The Eagles won 16-15 after Bears kickerCody Parkey missed a 43-yard field-goalattempt off the goal post and crossbar inthe final seconds.88.2: Foles’ career passer rating, includ-ing 84.6 in four starts with the Jaguars in2019. His rating during a five-start stintwith the Eagles in 2018 was 96.0. Hiscareer best was 119.2 in 2013 with theEagles. His rating in the playoffs is 98.8.85.8: Trubisky’s career passer rating, including 83.0 in 15 starts in 2019. Hiscareer-best rating was 95.4 in 14 starts in2018.0: Jaguars wins in four games Folesstarted in 2019. To be fair, he left one ofthose games in the first quarter with abroken collarbone. The other three cameafter he returned from injury. 8: Bears wins in games Trubisky startedin 2019, though backup Chase Danielplayed most of one after Trubiskysuffered a left shoulder injury.0.8: Touchdown passes per game forFoles in 2019. 1.1: Touchdown passes per game forTrubisky in 2019. 61.9%: Foles’ career completion per-centage. 63.4%: Trubisky’s career completionpercentage. 390: Career rushing yards in 58 gamesfor Foles, with an average of 3.0 yards percarry. He hasn’t rushed for more than 23yards in a season since 2014. He has fiverushing touchdowns.862: Career rushing yards in 41 gamesfor Trubisky, with an average of 5.5 yardsper attempt. He totaled a career-low 193yards in 2019 after rushing for 421 in2018. He has seven rushing touchdowns.

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Foles vs.Trubisky bythe numbersBy Colleen Kane

SPORTS

Cornerback Artie Burns is joining theBears on a one-year contract.

Agent Drew Rosenhaus confirmedSaturday’s move, a one-year “prove it”deal that puts Burns in position tocompete for a starting job opposite KyleFuller.

Burns was a Steelers first-round pickout of Miami in 2016, selected at No. 25.But he never became the impact play-maker the Steelers hoped. The organiza-tion did not pick up his fifth-year optionlast year, and Burns fell deeper into areserve role.

Over four seasons in Pittsburgh,Burns started 32 of the 58 games inwhich he played. He recorded threeinterceptions as a rookie but only onemore over the next three seasons.

The 6-foot, 197-pound Burns hasintriguing length and speed and offers askill set that could allow him to replacePrince Amukamara as a reliable man-to-man cover corner. But he will certainlyhave to earn that role.

CB Burns signsa one-year deal By Dan Wiederer


CUBS AND WHITE SOX

All was not lost for the Cubs during thefirst four weeks of spring training beforethe coronavirus pandemic caused MajorLeague Baseball to suspend the final 1½weeks.

They resolved a few issues that hadhovered over them since missing thepostseason last fall for the first time since2014, followed by a largely dormant winter.

The canceled games prevented somequestions from being answered, though.Here’s a look at what the Cubs accom-plished during spring training and whatthey must answer when preparations forthe season resume.

AnsweredLeadoff batter: First-year manager DavidRoss kept his thoughts to himself duringthe Cubs Convention, but Kris Bryantdisclosed his candidacy for the leadoff roleshortly before exhibition play began.

It may seem crazy at first, given Bryant’sreputation as a run producer. But the Cubsdon’t have a true leadoff hitter on theroster, and Bryant’s .385 career on-basepercentage and running ability make him aviable candidate.

After a tedious winter caused by thelengthy process in his grievance regardingservice time, Bryant transitioned smoothlyto accepting his new hitting assignmentwhile stressing his desire to stay with theCubs and dismissing false rumors abouthis contract demands.

Fifth starter: It seemed axiomatic thatTyler Chatwood would have the insidetrack on the fifth rotation spot, based on his$13 million salary and tough adjustment intraining his arm to recuperate as a reliever.

Still, Chatwood displayed glimpses ofwhy the Cubs signed him to a three-year,$38.5 million contract before the 2018season.

He showed enough confidence not torely solely on his 96 mph fastball andincorporated his secondary pitches withvarying degrees of effectiveness.

Perhaps the biggest stride was thatChatwood worked out of trouble andavoided the big innings and bouts ofwildness that caused him to be removedfrom the rotation midway through 2018.

Alec Mills, who is out of options, couldbe a valuable swingman on the pitchingstaff and statistically pitched better thanChatwood this spring.

New boss: Aside from bringing in aportable basketball hoop stand with sevenrims before one workout, David Ross hasbeen the businesslike leader Cubs Presi-dent Theo Epstein sought after severingties with Joe Maddon.

No one got hurt during live battingpractice, and rundowns were executedprecisely in games.

The biggest tests involving strategy willarise once the regular season starts, butRoss and a new mix of coaches seem tohave blended well with the players for now.

QuestionsContracts: MLB officials and leaders ofthe M LB Players Association will need tosort out compensation, service time and anoverhauled schedule once the green lightis given to resume training.

Shortly after that will come the pressureon the Cubs players to embark on asuccessful start — and on Theo Epstein todecide when is the right time to trade KrisBryant, Javier Baez or Kyle Schwarber orto make one last attempt at re-signingthem before they’re eligible to depart infree agency after the 2021 season.

Bullpen: The final 1½ weeks of springtraining would have allowed closer CraigKimbrel to polish his changeup, increasehis velocity by a tick and pitch onconsecutive days.

Setup men Jeremy Jeffress and RowanWick also could have used some fine-tuning, but the bigger issue lies in thebridge from the rotation to the back end ofthe bullpen.

Casey Sadler, Dan Winkler and RyanTepera have promise, and Rule 5 selectionTrevor Megill may be too promising tooffer back to the Padres for $50,000. Thebreak might allow left-hander Brad Wieckto regain strength after undergoing surgerylast month to correct an irregular heart-beat.

26th man: Do the Cubs have the luxury ofearmarking the 26th spot on the roster fora specialist?

David Ross is open to that possibility,and non-roster invitee Ian Miller is receiv-ing a long look. Miller, 28, stole 35 bases atTriple A last season and batted .382 with a.462 on-base percentage and eight stolenbases this spring.

Spring training statistics mean little toevaluators, but Miller presents an intrigu-ing case because he could provide a speeddimension the Cubs have lacked off thebench.

The left-handed-hitting Miller would beviewed as a sixth outfielder. Anotheroption is infielder Daniel Descalso, who isguaranteed $2.5 million this season but has“some stuff to prove,” said Ross, who alsohasn’t ruled out carrying a third catcher.

Asked and answered?Bryant, Chatwoodnail down roles,bench unsettledBy Mark Gonzales

Thanks to a busy offseason, most of thepieces were in place for the White Soxwhen they arrived in Glendale, Ariz., for thestart of spring training.

It was just a matter of putting togetherthe puzzle.

The Sox answered some questions be-fore Major League Baseball’s decision tosuspend spring training and delay openingday because of the coronavirus pandemic.Other topics still need to be addressedwhenever the team resumes activities.Here’s where the Sox stand.

AnsweredTop of the order: The Sox had a fewdirections to go at the top of the order.

Would they give top prospect LuisRobert a crack at the leadoff spot? Thecenter fielder spent the bulk of last seasonleading off while doing damage at threeminor-league levels.

Would they place their top free-agentaddition, Yasmani Grandal, in the No. 2 spotto take advantage of his ability to get onbase? Grandal finished fourth in the majorswith 109 walks in 2019 with the Brewers.

So far, the plan appears to be heading inanother direction.

With a potentially loaded lineup, man-ager Rick Renteria wants to bat Robertlower as he transitions to the majors. AndRenteria sees Grandal batting anywherebetween No. 3 and No. 5.

For most of the Cactus League gamesfeaturing the regulars, the Sox went withTim Anderson and Yoan Moncada as theone-two combination in some form. Ander-son led the majors with a .335 average lastseason, and Moncada was third in theAmerican League at .315.

Anderson walked only 15 times in 2019but did lead the Sox with 17 stolen bases.Moncada stole 10 bases and has a goal ofrunning more often in 2020.

Luis Robert’s expectations: There wasplenty of buzz around center fielder LuisRobert, who came to terms on a six-year,$50 million contract during the offseason.Robert handled the hype well and displayedseveral of the skills that make him one of thegame’s top prospects.

Robert had a .333/.394/.567 slash linewith two doubles, one triple, one home runand two RBIs in 11 games this spring. Healso went 3-for-3 in stolen bases.

Robert and left fielder Eloy Jimenezhomered in the same game Feb. 29 againstthe Rangers. Jimenez, who hit 31 home runsas a rookie last season, said the next day,“You’re going to see that a lot this year.”

Second base: The Sox entered springtraining with Leury Garcia, Danny Mendickand Nick Madrigal vying to be the opening-day starter at second base.

Garcia is the veteran of the group. He hasplayed all over the field, although he spentthe largest chunk of his big-league career asan outfielder. Mendick hit .308 in 16 gameslast season after joining the Sox as aSeptember call-up. Meanwhile, Madrigal isthe No. 4 prospect in the organization,according to MLB.com.

None of the three hit higher than .235this spring. Mendick had a .235 average,Madrigal hit .222 and Garcia batted .200.

While the Sox have not announced astarter, it appears Garcia had the insidetrack, having been in the lineup with theprojected starters the most this spring.

Questions26th man: Outfielder Nicky Delmonicospent parts of 2019 with the Sox and theirTriple-A affiliate in Charlotte, N.C. Heunderwent season-ending surgery on his leftshoulder in May and was released in June.

He signed a minor-league contract withthe Sox this offseason and returned as anon-roster invitee to spring training. Del-monico then had a healthy and productivespring to emerge as one of the top candidatesfor the 26th spot on the roster. He hit .250with one home run and four RBIs.

If the Sox are looking for more infielddepth, Cheslor Cuthbert is a possibility.Cuthbert hit .407 with three home runs andsix RBIs in 14 spring games.

Bullpen spot: Most of the bullpen is inplace. Closer Alex Colome returns. Samewith top setup men Aaron Bummer andEvan Marshall. Jimmy Cordero, KelvinHerrera and Jace Fry are also back, and theSox added veteran Steve Cishek in theoffseason.

At least one spot is available. CarsonFulmer, who had a 1.86 ERA and 11strikeouts in 9 2⁄3 spring innings, is amongthe experienced options.

Michael Kopech’s next step: MichaelKopech made his return to the CactusLeague a memorable one.

The right-hander, who missed all of 2019while recovering from Tommy Johnsurgery, had one strikeout while retiring theside in order in one inning of work March 10against the Rangers.

When asked about his timeline after thestart, Kopech said: “They have a plan inmind, and if I don’t fit into it right away, thenI hope to fit into it at some point. Right nowI’m just going to do what I do, and hopefullythey get me there at the right time.”

Leadoff, 2nd baseset for Sox, whostill have questions By LaMond Pope

Cubs pitcher Tyler Chatwood, top, appears to have locked down the No. 5 starter

spot while Kris Bryant, second from top, will be the leadoff man.

MATT YORK (CHATWOOD), GREGORY BULL (BRYANT)/AP PHOTOS

The Sox’s Luis Robert, second from bottom, hit .333 during spring training. Pitcher

Michael Kopech, bottom, is attempting a comeback from Tommy John surgery.

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No one will escape the co-ronavirus pandemic’s effects, butjazz musicians appear especiallyvulnerable to its economic impact.

For even before Gov. J.B. Pritzkerordered restaurants, bars and con-cert halls closed, jazz artists in Chi-cago and across the country wereseeing their gigs canceled, toursdropped and livelihoods vanish.

“My entire spring is shot,” saidOrrin Evans, a top jazz pianist basedin Philadelphia, before his first setMarch 14 at the Green Mill JazzClub. “Tonight is probably the lastday I’ll do a gig” for a while.

Evans typically is a busily touringmusician who swings through Chi-cago once or twice a year to play theMill.

“I don’t know if there’s any way toplan for this. … I’ve never seen any-thing like this. The only thing thisreminds me of was 9/11,” said Evans,referring to the terrorist attacks ofSept. 11, 2001. “But that didn’t makepeople not come out. People weresad.

“Now fear is taking over. And it’s afear that we all should be consciousof, but it still is a fear.”

On purely economic terms, fewhave more to fear than jazz musi-cians. Most are freelancers who livefrom one-nighter to one-nighter,ever at the whim of club owners,restaurateurs and concert bookers.Engagements promised monthsearlier can disappear overnight, andhave.

“I never quite saw something likethis, where in one 48-, 72-hour

period all the gigs ended,” said Chi-cago jazz guitarist Andy Brown. “It’slike somebody dropped an atombomb on the town, or there was asolar flare and all the power wentout.”

Said Chicago jazz singer Petra vanNuis, his wife: “It all seemed to hap-pen in a couple of days. On Thursday,the 12th (of March), all day long, callafter call, cancellation after cancella-tion. … I have basically nothing be-cause I work at clubs, restaurantsand bars.”

Like many other jazz musicians,van Nuis also performs for seniors inassisted living centers and the like.But there too “events have beencanceled.”

“Retirement homes are nowclosed to nonessential people,” vanNuis said. “I do several library con-certs a month. Those are canceled.”

Brown said he wholeheartedlyagreed with the decision to shutdown these gathering places, where

the virus can easily spread. But henow faces a calendar that is as blankas his wife’s.

Yet even before the coronavirusonslaught, he experienced a fore-boding about the jazz musician’s life.

“For the last six months or so, I’vefelt like every gig that I do, prettymuch every day, starts with musi-cians wringing their hands andlooking nervous and thinking:Where is this going?” said Brown.

“This is pre-virus jazz. Every gigstarts with this stomachachefeeling.”

Van Nuis too noticed a slowdownin engagements this year. When shecommuned with colleagues, shelearned that “everyone’s scheduleseemed lighter,” she said.

It’s important to remember thatfor an independent musician, thecancellation of a gig representsmuch more than the loss of a couple

Orrin Evans, seen playing at the Green Mill on March 14, said thanks to the shutdown of businesses because of the coronavirus pandemic “my entire spring is shot.”


WATCHING GIGS DISAPPEAR

Jazz musicians have little or no safety net during the coronavirus pandemic

Howard ReichOn Music

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Stephen Sondheim is 90 on Sunday.What a time to have a birthday!

I could write, I suppose, about Sond-heim and the coronavirus. As with Shake-speare, who knew from the plague, you canapply Sondheim to every moment, eventhis unimaginable one, for Sondheim mightnot be God but he most certainly is life. Butwho needs such a column right now?

Let’s just celebrate all that he has taughtus about love — so far. And I’ll make itpersonal. I’ll talk about my own wedding.

In July 1999. In an old museum in HuronCity, Michigan. To Gillian Darlow. All ourparents were still alive and well. Weplanned an all-Sondheim program,

performed by friends.First up was “Marry Me a Little,” a con-

troversial song given the circumstances.It’s from “Company” (1970), one of Sond-heim’s best and a show about a confirmedbachelor named Robert, stuck on the edge

of change and self-knowledge. (If theworld were not unmoored, I would havebeen reviewing the latest Broadway revivalwithin hours of writing this column, butwe’re just not going there).

Why is “Marry Me a Little” such amasterpiece? It’s a song about commit-ment, really, and about how, when we areyoung, we think that we can make somekind of bargain that allows for love andindependence in some predeterminedpackage with clear boundaries. “Marry mea little,” Robert sings, “love me just enough.Cry, but not too often. Play, but not tootough. Keep a tender distance, So we’llboth be free. That’s the way it ought to be.”

But, as we understand life better, wefigure out that no one can really love some-one “just enough,” nor cry but not toooften, nor play but not too rough. (I’m nottouching the “tender distance” line rightnow.) That’s because we can never predictwhat lies ahead for us, or how we willchange, or how life will change us. This is asong that understands the crucial role of

humility and vulnerability in love, maybebetter than any song ever written.

In his book, “Finishing the Hat,” Sond-heim says that “Marry Me a Little” is “aninternal monologue of despair and self-deceptive determination.” I could makepolitical parallels with one of our currentleaders, who does not seem to understandthat to live is to love. But we’re not goingthere.

“Loving You,” our next choice, is a songfrom “Passion” (1994). It’s sung by an ob-sessive character named Fosca, who insiststhat our feelings are not controlled by ourintellect. “Loving you is not a choice, it’swho I am,” she sings, telling us that love is“not much reason to rejoice,” a reference tohow our feelings aren’t controlled by ourintellect.

If we lose someone we love, we can’t justrationalize that they’re gone, and we can’tdo anything about it, so therefore there isno point in feeling the pain we feel. On the

On Sondheim’s 90th birthday, celebrate love

Chris Jones

Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim

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2 Chicago Tribune | Arts+Entertainment | Section 4 | Sunday, March 22, 2020

As befits our current cooped-up conditions, more people thanever seem to be going on Face-book, Instagram and Twitter toexpress themselves. Much drivel,of course, but often some fun,good music, pleasant distractions,some news and substance.

Rich Cohen is on Facebook. Hehadn’t posted in a while but re-cently has offered a photo ofhimself playing the guitar, givinghis teenage son a driving lessonon deserted suburban streets andrecalling his dad: “My father usedto say this thing that now makesmore sense to me: We’re all inthis together by ourselves.”

The reason for his Facebookexercising is that Cohen feels asense of relief, for he is comingoff an arduous writing project, amulti-part series, “Murder inFairfield County.”

He has been at it since Januaryand it is a captivating, deeplyresearched tale of big money,betrayal, violence, adultery anddeath. It tells of Jennifer Farber,once an aspiring writer, and herhusband Fotis Dulos, a builderand developer. From outwardappearances and early on in theirmarriage, they seemed like agolden couple. They would par-ent five children and live in theNew Canaan, a town on Connect-icut’s Gold Coast and one of thewealthiest towns in America.

Cohen writes: “When youleave New York City for FairfieldCounty … you enter America asyou imagine it used to be, aMartha Stewart land of rollinghills, green valleys, and blueforests.” It is peppered withtowns that “stand for a certainAmerican social context — oldmoney, horses, and bluebloodsnobbery.”

Even amid such rarefied sur-roundings, the Farber-Fotis mar-riage began to shatter. It would

end on May 24, 2019, with thedisappearance of Jennifer and,not quite soon enough for many,the Jan. 7, 2020, arrest of Fotis,charged with her murder, eventhough there was no body.

“Naturally this story got a lot ofattention here, in the local papersand television and the internet,”Cohen says.

He gives tremendous credit tolocal newspapers for helping himform the foundation of his re-search. But it was when he wasable to get access to the lengthyand detailed arrest warrant is-sued for Fotis that Cohen realizedhe had the stuff of a larger story.

“There was so much in therethat had not been reported, somany details,” he says. “Still, thiswas probably the hardest writingI’ve ever had to do.

“As I was deep into the writingof one piece, I was finishing theprevious one, trying to determinehow to get readers to come backto the story. I often had the feel-ing that I was writing on a stage

because the feedback from read-ers was so immediate.”

In our short-attention-spanjournalism era, finding a homefor long stories is no easy task.But Cohen had a relationshipwith a new publication called AirMail that allowed for, was eveneager for, what would eventuallybe his 22,000-word series.

Self-described as a “mobile-first digital weekly that unfoldslike the better weekend editionsof your favorite newspapers,” it isthe creation of Graydon Carter,who was once and for many yearsthe editor-in-chief of Vanity Fairmagazine. Formally launched inJuly, it is staffed by many of Cart-er’s former colleagues, editorsand writers. One of them is Co-hen, with the title of Editor atLarge.

“When he was starting themagazine, Graydon and I talkedabout my writing for it,” saysCohen, who was born and raisedin Glencoe and now lives in Con-necticut.

He is a pro, having written formagazines for decades, mostrecently writing a monthly col-umn on conspiracies for the ParisReview.

Cohen is the wildly prolificauthor of many books, including“Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, andGangster Dreams,” and “TheAvengers: A Jewish War Story”;“Sweet and Low: A Family Story,”about the development of thepopular sweetener by his mater-nal grandfather; coauthor ofproducer and deal-maker JerryWeintraub’s autobiography“When I Stop Talking, You’llKnow I’m Dead”; “Monsters:The 1985 Chicago Bears and theWild Heart of Football” and “TheChicago Cubs: Story of a Curse”;“The Sun & the Moon & theRolling Stones” and “The RecordMen: The Chess Brothers andthe Birth of Rock & Roll.”

His latest book, “The LastPirate of New York: A GhostShop, a Killer and the Birth of aGangster Nation” was published

in 2019 and soon to be released inpaperback.

He knows a good story whenhe sees one and this one was rightin his own backyard.

Cohen is correct when hewrites, “There’s something mes-merizing about rich and super-rich people who go off the rails,with Fotis Dulos being a primeexample. They fascinate becausethey make you realize that noamount of money or squarefootage can fix what’s wrong withsome people.”

There was something else,something more personal thatdrew him to this story.

“My family and I live nearwhere this took place,” he says.“And Jennifer and I were roughlythe same age, ran sort of in thesame literary circles for a bit,surely knew some of the samepeople. Did I meet her? I don’tremember, but I must have.”

It would be unfair of me to giveaway too many details, thus spoil-ing Cohen’s forceful narrative andincisive social observations. Butthere are surprises aplenty, as thisin the final chapter of the series,when Cohen writes, “If Jenniferhad a weakness it was her taste inmen. In her mid-20s, according toseveral friends, she had flingswith future #MeToo ne’er-do-wells Charlie Rose and MattLauer.”

“As the series began to be pub-lished, I started to hear frompeople who had known Jenniferand wanted to share information,in part to see that she was treatedjustly,” Cohen says. “They wereall so helpful.”

Cohen and his wife Jessica, anattorney, are busy with the de-mands of with four boys, aged 16,14, 12 and 4.

“I will try to get some workdone in the mornings and thenit’s all about the kids,” he says.“We do school work and maybego outside and take hikes.”

In the morning Cohen’s phonehas been ringing with calls frompublishers interested in havinghim expand the Air Mail seriesinto a book. In the evenings, heand his eldest son are readingtogether the Truman Capotetrue-crime masterpiece “In ColdBlood.”

“In a sense I continue to grap-ple with the mystery to evil,” hesays.

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Author Rich Cohen, here near the Chicago Water Tower in Chicago in 2013, has written a series for Air Mail

magazine titled “Murder in Fairfield County.”

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Glencoe-raised authorrecounts a story fromhis Connecticut home

3Chicago Tribune | Arts+Entertainment | Section 4 | Sunday, March 22, 2020

International Women’s Day just passed, on the heels ofanother season of #OscarSoMale and another prize fordirector Roman Polanski, who fled the United States in1978 after he was convicted of unlawful sex with a minor.

And yet, there are bright spots.“I went to see ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire,’ ” said film-

maker and CalArts film professor Nina Menkes, “andthere were trailers for three other films by women. It’simpossible! It’s the first time anything like this has hap-pened in my life.”

Menkes is the creator of “Sex and Power: The VisualLanguage of Oppression,” a lecture and clip show she’sbeen staging at film festivals around the world. In it, sheuses scenes ranging from Hitchcock’s 1946 “Notorious” toSofia Coppola’s 2003 “Lost in Translation” (with its open-ing shot of Scarlett Johansson’s barely clad backside) toillustrate the nuances of objectification, the male gaze andhow it’s perpetuated. And not just by men.

“I’ve had women students come in and show footagethat begins on the woman character’s face,” Menkes said,“then for no apparent reason it cuts down to her low-cutshirt. And goes lower. And then back up. And I’d say, ‘Whydid you film that way?’ And there’d be this deer-in-the-headlights look. They were doing what they’d seen amillion times. And weren’t even aware of it. Heterosexualmale actors are almost never filmed that way.”

Right now there’s a surge in cinema made by women. Ispoke with the directors to find out how they have beenincorporating Menkes’ lessons into their work.

Liz Garbus, ‘Lost Girls’Garbus, a veteran documentarian, is making her narra-

tive feature debut with a drama about the case of un-solved serial killings on Long Island. She tells her story

through one victim’s mother, playedby Amy Ryan and based on the real-life Mari Gilbert.

Given that the dead women wereinvolved in sex work, Garbus said, amale director might have approachedthings differently. “But the point ofview of my protagonist, her subjectiv-ity, informed the shooting almostentirely. In the scenes with her family,we would break her off and put her at

a distance, but in terms of her walking into a man’s world— which is everywhere apart from her family — that in-formed everything.” Mari is never scrutinized by thepolice, for instance, and their disregard for the killings isread through her. “This is about making women’s voicesheard, so it’s ingrained in the entire movie.”

The perspective does shift in a sequence involving aretirement party for a detective named Dormer (GabrielByrne). “The cops call strippers to the party, and there wasan opportunity to objectify a lot of beautiful women,” Gar-bus said. “But that scene is told through his point of view,which involved a growing sense of alienation and disgustwith his colleagues. It’s one of the few scenes not anchoredby Mari’s perspective, but Dormer is coming to a realiza-tion, and is looking at his colleagues in a different way.”

Cathy Yan, ‘Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey’

In this recent follow-up to “Suicide Squad” focusing onMargot Robbie’s antiheroine Harley Quinn, there’s a mo-ment when a Gotham billionaire (Ewan McGregor) forces

a woman to get on a table and strip.“We were pretty conscious not tomuddy what the scene was meant tobe about, by not offering anythingremotely vulnerable or titillating,” Yansaid. “There are choices like thatwhich felt very deliberate; we weremaking sure we were protecting ourfemale actors, even in a scene that wasabout humiliation.”

But she said other choices weremore intuitive: “It was less ‘I’m going to unpack and rejectthe male gaze of every director who’s come before me’ andmore of an unconscious, innate reaction about what feelsright.” All the while keeping the camera on her actors’faces. “That’s where you tell the story,” Yan said. “‘Look uphere! I’m talking to you!’ ”

Kitty Green, ‘The Assistant’Green’s film was directly inspired by the Harvey Wein-

stein saga. “It’s told from the perspective of the youngestfemale at a production company, theperson with the least amount ofpower at that company,” she said.Outside the office of a predatory exe-cutive (who remains off screen), thewoman (Julia Garner) watches asother women go in and out of hisoffice, but, Green said, “I was verycareful not to linger or zoom or doclose-ups of their bodies, but rathersee them the way a young woman

would see them, without leaning into any of those tradi-tional tropes of the male gaze, seeing them as objects andnot human beings.”

The obvious comparison is with “Bombshell,” the JayRoach-directed tale of sexual exploitation at Fox News, butthat film has itself been accused by some of being exploit-

ative, as in a scene when the camera is trained on a femalecharacter hiking up her skirt at the behest of a man.

“With something like ‘Bombshell,’ the problem is at thescriptwriting level,” Green said, “where they’ve seized onthe most scandalous and sensational aspects of a story andignored the structures and systems in which these behav-iors are embedded. Perhaps they’re blind to it becausethey’re unwittingly participating in it. As women, we’remore aware of the broader points.” Among them: “Justgetting rid of Harvey Weinstein isn’t going to fix the prob-lems.”

Janicza Bravo, ‘Zola’“Zola,” which recently debuted at the Sundance Film

Festival and is set for a summer release, is based on a noto-rious Twitter thread about a waitressand a stripper on a real-life road trip.It’s told from the server’s perspective,Brown said, but “takes place inside ofsex work. I wanted it the moment Iread it. No one was going to protectthis narrative like I would.”

Brown said she did her homework:“Most of what was out there that dealtin this space was prescribing to a maleaudience. By men, for men. I made

what I wanted to see. I know what a breast looks like. Ihave a vagina. I didn’t feel I needed to add more to what isalready a strong library of these images.”

Eliza Hittman, ‘Never RarelySometimes Always’

Female filmmakers are working to reclaim their point ofview, Hittman argued. She does that in her new drama bystudying the faces of her lead characters: a young Pennsyl-

vania woman (Sidney Flanigan) tryingto obtain a legal abortion in New YorkCity with the help of her cousin.

The exception to that focus is ascene in which Skylar is about to roll abowling ball down an alley and thecamera — shifting to the perspective ofa guy they’ve met on the bus — followsher longingly. “That’s the one pointwhere the movie plays with the malepoint of view. You’re supposed to see

him watching and desiring.” But that one moment is a longway from some of Menkes’ favorite examples of gratuitousvoyeurism.

“I do think there is a systematized approach to making astudio film in terms of the expectations of how a film isshot and edited,” Hittman said. “But I do think there’sroom within that to control the points of view of the film.”

Oona Laurence, from left, Amy Ryan, Thomasin McKenzie and Miriam Shor in “Lost Girls.”

JESSICA KOURKOUNIS/NETFLIX Margot Robbie, center, leads an all-female squad in “Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey,” played by

Rosie Perez, from left, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ella Jay Basco and Jurnee Smollett-Bell.

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Julia Garner stars as Jane in “The Assistant.”

TY JOHNSON/BLEECKER STREET

Riley Keough, left, and Taylour Paige in “Zola.”

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Sidney Flanigan in “Never Rarely Sometimes Always.”

FOCUS FEATURES

Turning the male gazeWomen filmmakers are taking control and breaking the objectification habit

By John AndersonThe New York Times

contrary, we cannot helpourselves. Loving is not inour control.

But Fosca also sings thatlove is what gives our lifepurpose and reason anddirection. I could make aparallel with some of thesacrifices that we’re allmaking right now so someof us can continue to lovethose we love, and howstaying home is not somuch the right thing to be

doing as the only thing to bedoing. But we’re not goingthere.

“Not a Day Goes By,”which came next that beau-tiful summer Saturday,comes from “Merrily WeRoll Along” (1981) and canbe sung either mournfullyor rapturously. That’s be-cause it is a perfect musicalcapsulation of the verysame truth expressed byAlfred, Lord Tennyson,who wrote in 1849, “ ’Tisbetter to have loved andlost / Than never to haveloved at all.” (It just rarelyfeels that way.)

A young woman namedBeth has figured out thatshe cannot stay married toa man who has been un-faithful, but she’s also smartenough to know that shenever can erase this rela-tionship from her life.

“Not a Day Goes By,” shesings, “Not a blessed day,but you’re still somehowpart of my life, and youwon’t go away. So there’shell to pay. Until I die.”

That hell, though, is notnecessarily as bad as Bethmaybe thinks in that mo-ment. This is very much asong about loss. It can be

about a busted relationshipor about bereavement. Itdoesn’t matter. After all,every loving relationshiphas to end, or, at leastchange form. But where wecan, it is better to keepthese bonds alive. But we’renot going there.

Our last marital selec-tion? “Being Alive,” alsofrom “Company,” as alsosung by Adam Driver’smessed-up character in theOscar-nominated movie“Marriage Story.” This isSondheim’s ultimate lovesong.

It states better than any

other song in the history ofthe universe that to love tois to live. If we don’t love,we can’t live. We all flailaround trying to definewhat love means, of course,in whatever are the termsof the ever-changing mo-ment. But Sondheim simplydistills all of that nonsenseto its essence.

“Someone to hold me tooclose. Someone to hurt metoo deep. Someone to sit inmy chair, And ruin mysleep, And make me aware,Of being alive. Being alive.”

So if we were goingthere, I would say that if

there is someone in yourhome right now sitting inyour chair, or ruining yoursleep or forcing you to caremore than you think youhave time for, maybe some-one as frightened as youright now, then that is agood thing. A really goodthing.

You are rich.I guess Sondheim led us

there.

Chris Jones is a Tribunecritic.

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BOOKS

Architecture is afamously collaborativeenterprise. But the profes-sion’s icons have often beendifficult characters, andclashes with clients haveshaped architectural his-tory. When an architect’sideas and a client’s needscollide, the conflict canupend a project — andmake for a juicy story.

In “Broken Glass,” AlexBeam offers a readable,concise account of thedisputatious constructionof the Farnsworth House,in Plano, Illinois, about anhour from Chicago. In thisdrama, Ludwig Mies vander Rohe, his client EdithFarnsworth, and the glass-and-steel house theyfought over all play starringroles. An abortive romancebetween the two principalshelped nurture the project,Beam suggests, but eventu-ally led to a bitter legalbattle and lifelong enmity.

Like Frank Lloyd Wrightand Louis Kahn, Mies wasan idiosyncratic, char-ismatic figure with a strongvision, devoted acolytes,and an unconventionalpersonal life. (Beam’s bookcalls to mind FranklinToker’s fine 2003 culturalhistory, “FallingwaterRising,” on Wright, Pitts-burgh department storemagnate E.J. Kaufmann,and the creation of thatdomestic masterpiece.)

Mies, the onetime direc-tor of Germany’s Bauhausand a founder of the Inter-national Style, left behind awife and three daughterswhen he immigrated toChicago in 1938. He metthe unmarried Farnsworth,a nephrologist, at a dinnerparty in the winter of 1945.She told him she was inter-ested in building a countryretreat on meadow landshe owned, with a budgetof $8,000 to $10,000, orabout $110,000 in today’sdollars.

In the house’s planningstages, a close friendshipdeveloped between Miesand Farnsworth, 18 yearshis junior, which blos-somed, for a time, into aromance. Beam suggeststhat the love affair likelyended when Mies resumedhis former relationshipwith another woman, LoraMarx. The gossip, accord-ing to the book’s epigraph,was that Farnsworth hadwanted to marry, and Miesrejected the idea.

Beyond the failed affair,there were other stressors.“Relationships drown inpuddles, not lakes,” Beamwrites, referring to variousconstruction-related tiffsbetween Mies andFarnsworth.

Farnsworth’s concerns,though, were not trivial.Mies viewed theFarnsworth House as theembodiment of his aes-

thetic, at a cost to its practi-cality and habitability. Onemistake, Beam suggests,was siting the elevatedhouse too near the FoxRiver, where floodingremained a serious threat.The open-space floor planallowed for flexibility, butlittle privacy. The uninsu-lated glass made the house,which lacked air condi-tioning, broiling in summerand expensive to heat inwinter. The roof leaked,heating oil dirtied thewindows, and the fireplacewas nearly impossible touse.

Beam is neverthelessadmiring of Mies’s perfec-tionism and his “captivat-ing” vision, his desire (inMies’ words) to “let theoutside in.” Beam notesthat other architects pur-loined Mies’ ideas, and that

Philip Johnson’s 1949 GlassHouse, in New Canaan,Connecticut, was one earlyknockoff.

Neither Mies norFarnsworth seems to havebeen a keen businessper-son. With Mies’ penchantfor premium materials and

other issues, costs keptmounting, without anyclear limitations. For years,Farnsworth kept paying.Beam suggests that sheexpected, at least for awhile, that the architectwould share the house, andtherefore forgo his custom-ary fee. The cost overrunswere an obvious sore point,only compounded whenMies began ordering furni-ture without his client’sapproval.

After Farnsworth, hav-ing laid out more than$73,000 by 1951, finallystopped writing checks, thedispute erupted into alawsuit and a countersuit.

Beam, steeped in therecord, is fair-minded inrecreating this complicatedbattle. Mies “ruled more asa philosopher-king than asa manager,” he writes, andFarnsworth “isn’t always areliable narrator.” ButBeam’s dedication, “ToEdith,” seems to indicatewhere his sympathies lie.

In the end, the twoparties settled. Mies, whoheaded the architecturedepartment at the IllinoisInstitute of Technology, lefthis mark on the school’scampus and elsewhere inChicago, including twinresidential towers on LakeShore Drive and the Fed-eral Center complex.Farnsworth lived intermit-tently in her glass-and-steel box, with its variousinconveniences, for severalyears, in what Beam calls

“an uneasy peace.” Then, in a twist, she

retired to Italy, where shepurchased a stone villanear Florence and pursueda second career as a poetand translator. Mixing witha literary crowd, she be-came enamored of theItalian poet Eugenio Montale, another accom-plished European whowould never fully recipro-cate her feelings. She andMies would both end upinterred in Chicago’sGraceland Cemetery.

Julia M. Klein, a culturalreporter and critic in Phila-delphia, has been a two-time finalist for the NationalBook Critics Circle’s NonaBalakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.

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Drama surrounds Farnsworth HouseAlex Beam chronicles the contentious relationship between Mies van der Rohe and Edith Farnsworth

By Julia M. Klein

The Farnsworth House, near Aurora in Plano, is the subject of “Broken Glass” by Alex Beam, a new book recounting the drama that transpired between

architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the woman who commissioned it, Dr. Edith Farnsworth.

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe viewed the Farnsworth House as the embodiment of his

aesthetic, at a cost to its practicality and habitability, Alex Beam writes in “Broken Glass.”

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‘Broken Glass’By Alex Beam, Random

House, 337 pages, $28

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe look at plans for a convention

building in Chicago.

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Once upon a time, fa-mous actors and authorsunited during a pandemicto ease children’s anxietiesthrough storytelling.

Amy Adams, Josh Gad,Jennifer Garner and otherstars are lending theirvoices to “Operation Story-time” and “Save With Sto-ries,” initiatives aimed atlifting kids’ — and parents’— spirits amid coronavirus-induced uncertainty.

Here’s how it works:Participants post socialmedia videos of themselvesreading various children’sbooks aloud to entertainself-quarantined familieswhose children are nolonger in school because ofpublic health concerns.

“In case your day calls

for a calming story,” Garnercaptioned her Instagrampost, for which she recitedJan Brett’s winter wonder-land tale, “The Mitten,”accompanied by her kid-friendly golden retriever.

Gad — who is accus-tomed to amusing kids asthe voice of Olaf the snow-man in “Frozen” — opted toread Shel Silverstein’sclassic “The Giving Tree”and offered some support

to families who have com-mitted to social distancing.

“I also want to thankeveryone who is in self-isolation right now,” the“Book of Mormon” alumsaid. “I know it’s hard not

to be out there socializingwith everybody. Trust me, Iwant to be out there too, butit’s important that all of usprotect everybody who issomewhat fragile right now,or immunocompromised,so thank you.

“And now I’m going toread a book that I have a lotof trouble getting throughand haven’t actually read ina long time because I find ita difficult one.”

In addition to partneringwith parenting blog Romp-er for “Operation Story-time,” Garner also collabo-rated with Adams for “SaveWith Stories,” a readinginitiative started by non-profit organizations Savethe Children and No KidHungry. Similar to “Opera-tion Storytime,” “Save WithStories” features Adamsreciting Aviana Olea LeGallo’s “The Dinosaur Prin-cess” to her daughter andGarner reading Ken Geist’s“The Three Little Fish andthe Big Bad Shark.”

“We are galvanizing as acommunity to support anew fund for a combinedeffort between SAVE THECHILDREN and Share OurStrength’s NO KID HUN-GRY,” Adams wrote onInstagram. “THIRTY MIL-LION CHILDREN in theUnited States rely on schoolfor food. School closureswill hit vulnerable commu-nities hard.”

Both actresses also en-couraged their fans to do-nate to Save the Childrenand No Kid Hungry inorder to serve kids “af-fected by COVID-19,” whoare experiencing foodinsecurity during the pan-demic. Anyone who wantsto contribute can do so atsavethechildren.org/save-withstories or text “SAVE”to 20222 for a one-timedonation of $10.

“All you have to do iswatch our stories andplease consider donating,”Adams said in a joint videowith Garner.

Stuck at home with kids? Celebrities will read to youAmy Adams, JoshGad, others lendvoices to storiesBy Christi CarrasLos Angeles Times

Amy Adams partnered with fellow actress Jennifer Garner for “Save With Stories,” an

initiative from nonprofits Save the Children and No Kid Hungry.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Over the course of four days, Hachetteannounced the publication and then can-cellation of Woody Allen’s memoir, “Apro-pos of Nothing.”

This has nothing to do with free speechand the First Amendment. To believe oth-erwise is to miss some of the interestingundercurrents coursing through ourchanging culture.

Stephen King, bless his heart, misses thepoint in a tweet, saying, “The Hachettedecision to drop the Woody Allen bookmakes me very uneasy. It’s not him; I don’tgive a damn about Mr. Allen. It’s who getsmuzzled next that worried me.”

To be sure, Hachette canceling in suchrapid fashion a book it originally plannedto publish suggests a troubled internalprocess, but no one is being muzzled here.Allen is not being prevented from tellinghis story or even publishing a book. In fact,the book’s French publisher has decided togo forward with its publication.

Allen is still more than free to tell hisstory. His liberties have not been curtailed.There is no right to have a major publish-ing house distribute your work. If that is aright, I’d like to file a complaint on my ownbehalf for being muzzled.

Here are some things we should con-sider to understand the full context: AfterHachette’s announcement of the April

publication date for “Apro-pos of Nothing,” RonanFarrow — journalist, authorof the best-selling, “Catchand Kill: Lies Spies, and aConspiracy to Protect Pred-ators” (published by Ha-chette imprint Little,Brown), and Allen’s son —announced his surprise anddispleasure at the decision,declaring his intention tonot work with Hachettegoing forward.

As reported, Farrow’ssister Dylan has accusedAllen of sexually abusingher as a child. This familyhistory informed Ronan Farrow’s book,which is the inside story of how difficult itis to bring powerful and famous men tojustice for these sorts of crimes.

Shortly after Farrow’s announcement, agroup of Hachette employees staged awalkout at the company’s New York of-fices, saying their actions were “in supportof Ronan and Dylan Farrow and all sur-vivors of sexual assault.”

An unnamed Little, Brown employeewho participated in the walkout toldRachelle Hampton at Slate that the em-ployees felt “betrayed” by the decision topublish Allen, particularly in the secretiveway the transaction had been handled. Thefirst these employees had heard of the dealwas a month before the book was to bereleased.

This is decidedly not the norm in pub-lishing and suggests that Hachette brass

knew to expect backlash butwere perhaps calculatingthat the controversy couldbe good for sales. But afterFarrow — still a young manwith a hugely popular bookand presumably many moreto come — declared hisintention to sever ties withthe publisher and its em-ployees walked out, Ha-chette reversed course.

It is embarrassing forthose at the top, but it is theright thing to do. One hopesthat Harvey Weinsteinbeing sentenced to 23 yearsfor rape and sexual assault

after decades of acting with impunity is asignal that the days when powerful menare unfettered in their actions are over, butwe better believe it will be an ongoingbattle.

Allen has not been tried and convictedas Weinstein has, but then no one is depriv-ing him of his liberty here either. In thiscase, Farrow and the Hachette employeeshave simply used their power to signalwhat they believe is acceptable and what isnot.

Hachette is merely making a soundbusiness decision in canceling the book.The pain, in this case, is not worth theprofit.

John Warner is the author of “Why TheyCan’t Write: Killing the Five-ParagraphEssay and Other Necessities.”Twitter @biblioracle

BIBLIORACLE

Canceling was the right move

By John Warner

Book recommendationsfrom the BiblioracleJohn Warner tells you what to read based

on the last five books you’ve read.

1. “The Gifted School” by BruceHolsinger2. “Before the Fall” by Noah Hawley3. “The Friend” by Sigrid Nunez4. “The Dutch House” by Ann Patchett5. “Killing Commendatore” by HarukiMurakami— Donna L., Kildeer

I recently went through a reading slump,starting and putting down four con-secutive novels less than halfwaythrough (it happens) until the slumpwas busted by “Writers & Lovers” byLily King. It picked me up and carried meright along; I think Donna will experienceit the same way.

1. “Tales for a Winter’s Night” byArthur Conan Doyle2. “Favorite Poems” by HenryWadsworth Longfellow, edited by Stan-ley Appelbaum3. “The Lichtenberg Figures” by BenLerner4. “The Circle” by Peter Lovesey5. “The Secret History” by Donna Tartt— Kit B., Bloomington

An interesting list, including poetry andmystery. It puts me to mind one of myall-time favorite books that doesn’tappeal to everybody but is a hit forthose who connect with it: “Edwin

Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an

American Writer: 1943-1954 by Jeff-

rey Cartwright” by Steven Millhauser.

1. “The Tragedy of Great Power Poli-

tics” by John J. Mearsheimer2. “Ghost Wars: The Secret History of

the CIA, Afghanistan, Bin Laden and

the Soviet Invasion to September 10,

2001” by Steve Coll3. “The Great Transformation” by KarlPolanyi4. “The Second World Wars: How the

First Global Conflict Was Fought and

Won” by Victor Davis Hanson5. “Paris 1919: Six Months That

Changed the World” by MargaretMacMillan— John N.. Wheaton

Not a book I’m inclined to recommendto everyone, but I think John would beinterested in “The Ideas That Made

America: A Brief History” by JenniferRatner-Rosenhagen.

Get a reading from the BiblioracleSend a list of the last five books you’veread to [email protected].

Following journalist Ronan Farrow’s objection to a memoir by his father, Woody Allen (right), Hachette canceled the book’s publication.

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Controversy erupted over 4 days when Woody Allenmemoir was announced

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hours’ work. Far more timeis spent seeking out andlining up performancesthan delivering them.

“The problem with jazz,especially if you’re theleader, is you need so muchtime just to do the book-ing,” said van Nuis, whofronts her much-admiredand aptly named “Reces-sion Seven” ensemble.

“I’m basically workingall the time to keep mypart-time career.”

And because jazz datesare not typically very lucra-tive, “We sometimes aredriving home from the gigand depositing the check inthe drive-thru as we’regoing home,” added vanNuis. “We’ve been able tosqueak by like that.”

What’s more, for jazzmusicians and other gigworkers, there’s virtuallyno safety net.

Without a steady pay-check, paid sick days andvacation, employer-pro-vided health insurance andother benefits of a conven-tional 9-to-5 job, the slight-est interruption in workcan be economically devas-tating. Wipe it all away in asingle fell swoop, and art-ists have nowhere to gofinancially but down.

So though musicianssuch as van Nuis andBrown consider themselvesfortunate to have goodhealth insurance throughthe Affordable Care Act,their limited funds will lastonly so long.

“If we live frugally, wecan make it like twomonths,” said van Nuis.

All of which inevitablyleads them to comparetheir lot with classicalmusicians, such as theformidable artists who playin the Chicago SymphonyOrchestra. Few, if any, jazzmusicians enjoy the kind ofsupport that the CSO artistshave earned through their

superlative skills and hard-won union negotiations.

During last year’s CSOstrike, the terms of theiremployment and the ben-efits they sought werereported in the Tribuneand elsewhere.

“Reading about the CSOstrike, I felt agitated,” saidBrown. “Because it felt like:Wow, there’s really nocomparable situation forthe equivalent musician onthe Chicago jazz scene.

“CSO musicians, theyhave what they need to getin their contract. There’snothing at all comparablefor even the most cele-brated, the most veneratedand the most accomplishedmusicians here in jazz.”

The reasons for that aremany, but perhaps theycome down to how Ameri-ca views classical musicversus jazz.

Starting in the late 19thcentury, this countrysought to emulate Europeby creating great symphonyorchestras and veneratingthe historic masterpieces ofBach, Beethoven, Brahmsand others. Jazz came later,

emerging as a bona fide artform at the turn of theprevious century in NewOrleans brothels and clubs,migrating to saloons anddance halls in Chicago andbeyond.

Never has jazz enjoyedanything close to the insti-

tutional support and phi-lanthropy lavished onclassical music in America,though Jazz at LincolnCenter in New York andSFJAZZ in San Franciscohave been bucking thelong-standing trend. Thedisparities in funding be-

tween classical and jazzreflect the differences inlifestyle between musiciansworking in each arena.

“Basically, society hasdecided that classical isworthy of civic and culturalsupport,” said Brown, whopoints out that “there are a

lot of sociological reasons,you can say racial reasons.We get it — the history ofAmerica. Jazz is historicallyAfrican American music.

“America, I feel, doesn’tquite know how to value itsown history, like Europedoes. Europe is alwayslooking to its past.

“The United States isalways looking to its future— the latest pop music, thelatest trend. It doesn’t knowhow to celebrate itself.”

Not that Brown and vanNuis believe that anyoneowes them a living. Theymade the choice to pursuewhat was a tough life longbefore the current crisisand acknowledge that it’sup to them to figure outhow to make it work.

“We made our own bed,”said van Nuis. “I under-stand there are people outthere who are really suffer-ing, who are in an abso-lutely dire situation, whereone week can ruin them,not two months.

“I don’t want it to comeacross as a complaint. Iunderstand it’s my adultresponsibility to take careof myself.”

Along these lines, vanNuis has applied for a job atTrader Joe’s and has lookedinto becoming a censustaker. Brown, however,chooses to cling entirely tohis art.

“I’m going to go to thegigs, I will follow them tillthey’re gone, and when andif it stops, I’ll reassess,” hesaid.

Yet even beyond thequestion of money is that ofidentity.

“Musicians always won-der: What would happen ifI’m injured?” said Brown.“Who am I if I’m not aguitar player?

“I don’t know who I amif I’m not going to playevery day. I guess we’regoing to find out.”

Howard Reich is a Tribunecritic.

[email protected]

ReichContinued from Page 1

Jazz duo Petra van Nuis, left, and Andy Brown perform at Pete Miller’s in Evanston in 2014.

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Pianist Orrin Evans, bassist Luques Curtis, and drummer Gene Jackson perform at Green

Mill in Uptown on March 14.


Director Kelly Re-ichardt’s signature mini-malism permeates “FirstCow,” a good-naturedfriendship tale — enmeshedwith a subtle critique ofcapitalism — set in themid-19th-century OregonTerritory. Based on Jona-than Raymond’s novel “TheHalf-Life,” the adaptationfollows John Magaro’srecluse chef Cookie andOrion Lee’s immigrantrunaway King Lu, twodreamers who launch amischievously lucrativebusiness, frying up biscuitsmade with milk stolen fromthe region’s first cow,owned by a wealthy En-glishman.

Reichardt entrustedprior collaborators DPChristopher Blauvelt andcostume designer AprilNapier to help deliver thefilm’s look. They drewinspiration from Re-ichardt’s references, suchas “Ugetsu,” Kenji Mi-zoguchi’s mystery-dramaabout wartime profiteers,and “The Apu Trilogy,”Satyajit Ray’s coming-of-age classics.

The film shot in cold andwet terrain, but Blauveltwas well-equipped for theelements, having shot Re-ichardt’s other PacificNorthwest-based pictures,“Certain Women,” “NightMoves” and “Meek’s Cut-off.” The cinematographeraimed to complementReichardt’s patiently obser-vant narrative style byfavoring a mostly station-ary, close-to-the-groundcamera and a 4:3 aspectratio, achieving a sense ofdown-to-earth intimacyrather than leaning into thetypical sweeping grandeurof the Western genre.

Blauvelt sought thetextured look of celluloiddespite shooting on digital;an ARRI Alexa Mini, vin-

tage Cooke Panchro lensesand Glimmerglass diffusionfilters proved to be a win-ning combo. To pull offnumerous tricky nightscenes on a budget, includ-ing a complicated chasesequence that leads to acliff jump into a river, heplanned for months, thendid tricky day-for-nightshoots, tempering downthe tone and the palette toachieve a kind of 19th-century Frederic Reming-ton look. In scenes thatdemanded bolder colors,he studied the elaboratesculptures of MichelleSegre.

The shoots that involvedEvie, the long-lashed, doe-eyed cow, were fairlystraightforward, thanks tothe work of the produc-tion’s animal coordinatorsLauren Henry and RolandSonnenburg.

“Being so close to herbreath (at night) was hecticat times,” he said. “But weall shared a love of animals.Kelly would put (a dog) inevery scene if she could.”

The challenge for cos-tume designer Napier,meanwhile, was the briefresearch time she had for acomplex era that existedbefore the invention of thecamera and thus offered nophotographic examples torely on. Nevertheless, sheproduced a vast scope ofnearly 100 authentic, lived-

in costumes, mining thedrawings of frontier artistslike Alfred Jacob Miller andPaul Kane for ideas. Andshe contributed mightily toa concept that brought thegrubby reality of the periodto the screen, deliberatelygiving the outfits a soiledlook.

“We had a kit that wecarried around” to makethe clothes muckier, Napierrecalled. The blackness infabrics was especially im-perative during day-for-night shoots. “There wouldbe times when (Blauveltwould say), ‘Give me thatkit. We need more blackgunk on this thing.’ ”

She also had the gar-

ments reflect the wide-ranging socioeconomic andcultural forces at play, fromthe indigenous ensemblesof the Native Americans toclothes worn by trappers,voyageurs and rich oppor-tunists from all over theworld flooding the last freeland.

In her multilayereddesigns of vests, scarvesand jackets, she accentuat-ed that people would bringthings from their past andmix them with pieces thatthey traded. “You’d haveone outfit that got dirtierand dirtier,” she said. “Anda pair of (practical) leathermoccasins that lasted long-er than boots.”

To create the genuinecostumes of the ChinookNation — dentalium jew-elry to signify wealth, aswell as breastplates, capes,hats and other pieces tradi-tionally woven with dura-ble red cedar tree bark —Napier contacted the Chi-nook Nation’s Nan Mac-Donald, who made originaloutfits (as did a group ofwomen in Powers, Ore-gon). The costumer alsoconsulted Heidi Bohan’sbook “The People of Casca-dia” to expand on her re-search of First Nationspeoples.

Both Blauvelt and Napi-er praise the kinship theyfeel on Reichardt’s sets.

One of Napier’s favoriteexperiences was dressing anumber of the filmmaker’spersonal friends who ap-pear in “First Cow” —including Pavement singer-songwriter Stephen Malk-mus, Mississippi Records’Eric Isaacson and authorPatrick deWitt (“The Sis-ters Brothers,” “Under-majordomo Minor”). “It’sabout friends, and it fea-tures friends,” she said.

Added Blauvelt of thedirector’s productions:“Over the years, Kelly hashandpicked people withthe same ethics and ap-proach. It’s just becomethis amazing family that wework with.”

Mooviemagic

How ‘First Cow’ production team helped craft a well-worn look

By Tomris LafflyVariety

The costume designer for “First Cow” deliberately gave the characters’ outfits a grubby, soiled look. John Magaro plays

Cookie, one-half of an unlikely friendship between two dreamers in the Oregon Territory.

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“First Cow” director Kelly

Reichardt is known for her

patiently observant narra-

tive style.

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“The Rookie” (9 p.m., ABC):Nolan’s (Nathan Fillion) day getsoff to a notably bad start when helearns that his identity has beenstolen, a frustrating turn of eventsthat could jeopardize his positionas a police officer in the new epi-sode “Hand-Off.” Elsewhere, Sgt.Casey (Richard T. Jones) likewisefinds himself painfully tested, ashe is forced to confront his pastand testify at the parole hearing ofamanwho shot Casey andmur-dered his partner. Brent Huff andSeth Green co-star.

“Henry Danger” (9:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 6 p.m., Nickeldeon): The juve-nile adventure-comedy about a teenager who becomes sidekick to a superheroends its five-year runwith the series finale “The Fate of Danger: Part II,” in whichKid Danger and CaptainMan (Jace Norman, Cooper Barnes) battle the villainousDrex (TommyWalker) on top of a blimp to stop him from erasing Swellview’smemory of CaptainMan.When the blimp aims straight for the Swellview BabyHospital, one heromust stay behind to save the day. A spinoff, “Danger Force,”premieres on Friday.

“The Greatest Showman” (7 p.m., 9 p.m., FX): Aussie filmmakerMichael Grac-eymade a very big splashwith his feature directorial debut on this 2017 blockbust-er, which overcamemixed reviews to become the fifth-highest-grossing live-ac-tionmusical of all time. Critics mainly took issue with howmuch artistic licensethemovie tookwith the real-life saga of P.T. Barnum, played byHugh Jackman,but audiences clearly were swept away by the sheer spectacle and engaging cast,which also includes Zac Efron,MichelleWilliams and Zendaya. The song “This IsMe”was nominated for an Oscar.

“When Calls the Heart” (7 p.m., Hallmark): In the new episode “AnUnexpectedGift,” the whole community is abuzzwhen amystery admirer leaves a bouquet offlowers on Elizabeth’s (Erin Krakow) doorstep. She suspects either Nathan (KevinMcGarry) or Lucas (ChrisMcNally) may be behind themysterious delivery. Else-where, Rosemary and Lee (Pascale Hutton, Kavan Smith) organize bachelor andbachelorette parties for Jesse and Clara (Aren Buchholz, Eve Bourne). JackWag-ner andMartin Cummins also star.

“Killer Dream Home” (7 p.m., 11:01 p.m., Lifetime): Jules and Josh are over themoon when they find what looks very much like their dream house on a magnif-icent estate in this 2020 thriller. Eager to move in, they hire Morgan, a beautifuldecorator, to handle the interior design. What they don’t know is that Morganhas a secret personal history with the house — and she literally would kill tomake it her own. MaiaraWalsh, EveMauro, John DeLuca and Brooke Butlerstar.

“Duncanville” (7:30 p.m., FOX): Jack and Annie (voices of Ty Burrell, Amy Poe-hler) try to rekindle the passion of their youth by visiting a 1980s-themed club tocelebrate their anniversary, but wind up realizing their maturity may not be soboring after all in the new episode “Sister,Wife.” Elsewhere, Jing (voice of Joy Os-manski) makes Duncan (Poehler again) “marry” her, but their faux-union quicklybecomes fraught with very real marital problems.Meanwhile, Kimberly (voice ofRiki LIndhome) acts out to get attention.

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Due to unprecedented eventstaking place in the United Statesand around the world, a lot of usmay be finding ourselves stayinghome more than usual these days.And we’ll be needing things towatch — not just movies, whichkill maybe two hours or so, butmultiseason TV shows in whichwe can get happily lost. In be-tween washing our hands andmonitoring the latest publichealth news, here are 20 binge-worthy TV shows available forstreaming.

“Tuca & Bertie” (available onNetflix)

This unjustly canceled Netflixseries about a friendship betweenanxious perfectionist song thrushBertie (voiced by Ali Wong) andTuca, a big-hearted, extrovertedtoucan in recovery for substance-use issues (Tiffany Haddish), isthe only show I’ve watched andimmediately wondered, “Doesthis take place inside my brain?”The premise — from LisaHanawalt — is preposterous: It’san animated show about 30-something bird-women thatsomehow manages to take onserious content — trauma, mentalhealth, sobriety, workplace sex-ism — in a cartoon atmospherethat’s insistently fun and bubbly.And while the dichotomy be-tween introverted Bertie andbrazen Tuca could fall flat if itwere just that, I’ve always seenthem as two sides of the same(delightful, complex, vulnerable)personality, and their story as asurreal, comedic metaphor forthe way our friends can expandour understanding of our owninner reserves. We all have a littleTuca and Bertie in us.

“Love Is Blind” (available onNetflix)

“Love Is Blind” is not a goodTV show. The concept is like“The Bachelor,” with a distinctarranged-marriage vibe, whereina bunch of conventionally attrac-tive people talk to each otherthrough a wall and then get en-gaged without knowing whattheir (conventionally attractive)partners look like. Surprise! They(mostly) try to give their hotmystery dates a shot, cohabitingand planning weddings at a timewhen most of us are still onlycommitted to the texting-funny-GIFs stage of a relationship. Don’tworry, it gets weirder! The “LoveIs Blind” contestants are inexpli-cably shepherded through theirstress-inducing journey by one-time boy-band star Nick Lachey,and his wife, Vanessa Lachey, bestknown as host of MTV’s “TotalRequest Live.” I’ve always found“The Bachelor” unwatchable, butthere is so much going on in“Love Is Blind” — outdated gen-der norms, the horrors of cohab-itation writ large, the collisionbetween romance and the allureof one’s phone, insecure andavoidant attachment styles andHEAVY emotions expressed inways both functional and disas-trous. It’s a bad show and you’llfeel bad that you watched it. Youalso won’t be able to stop yourself.

“The Life of Birds” (PBS; avail-able on Amazon Prime)

At its root, the anxiety we’re allfeeling about coronavirus is aboutfear of death: the horror of theend of our own lives on this plan-et, sudden and stark and unknow-able, as well as terror of the livesof our loved ones taken from uswith a cruel finality. We knowthat statistically, we are almostcertainly safe — knock franticallyon wood — and yet we dread. It’stime to be with the birds, light-boned and feathery and endlesslyfascinating in their endless ways,absurd-looking or elegant, they ofindustrious nests and miraculouseggs and fuzzy baby chicks. ThisPBS documentary series is sovividly shot, it’s incredible in theliteral sense of not to be believed(how do they get the cameras soclose to the birds?!), and the nar-ration by the inimitable DavidAttenborough will soothe eventhe most existential anxiety (thataccent!).

“Curb Your Enthusiasm” (HBONow)

I want to hear Larry David’stake on coronavirus because aquarantine sounds like his dreamcome true. The fictionalized takeon the “Seinfeld” creator’s life iswrapping up its 10th season nowon HBO, so it’s the perfect time towind back across the bridgesDavid has burned in his tirelessquest to be right, no matter theargument (usually one hestarted). I won’t defend L.D.’spetty squabbles with friends,family, Mocha Joe, his drycleaner, an aggressive swan, Jo-seph from the Nativity scene anda slew of Hollywood folks, BUTDavid did once refuse to shakeBen Stiller’s recently sneezed-inhand, ruining their relationshipwhile displaying proper outbreak

preparedness.

“Monk” (USA Network; availableon Amazon Prime Video)

It’s a jungle out there, all right.Tony Shalhoub won three Emmysfor his role as Adrian Monk, thetitular sleuth bent by the un-solved murder of his wife and theobsessive-compulsive disorderand phobias that intensified afterher death. I fell for “Monk” inelementary school — it was excit-ing enough for my older brotherand I and not too violent for myyounger sister and mom. (Dadnapped.) Plotlines dulled as theshow trudged on, but there’senough heart in the script — andintrigue about Trudy’s murder —to make eight seasons worthwatching. “Monk” is easy to startand easy to love, and the protago-nist’s paranoia over germs hasnever been more relatable.

“Nathan for You” (ComedyCentral; available on Hulu)

Nathan Fielder graduated fromone of Canada’s top businessschools with really good grades.He says so at the top of every“Nathan for You” episode beforeoffering businesses ideas that theowners inevitably realize areludicrous. The fun is in watchingthem eventually tell Nathan hisideas are terrible and that theydon’t want to hang out after tap-ing ends. (He often asks.) Overfour seasons, Fielder envisionsinitiatives like a gas-station rebatethat requires customers to campovernight on a mountain, acleaning service that deploys 40housekeepers at once, a bar thatcircumvents smoking laws byrebranding as a hyper-realisticplay — the list goes on. If you likehumor that makes you cringeamid an unending uncomfortablesilence, throw on “Nathan forYou.”

“Grey’s Anatomy” (ABC; avail-able on ABC, Netflix, Hulu)

I love this show because, after16 seasons, the characters havebecome as familiar as friends.“Grey’s” has always been aboutrelationships — the medicine isjust a vehicle to advance thedrama! — and how the peoplearound us get us through life’schallenges. Also, it’s set in a hospi-tal full of fictional world-classdoctors who somehow alwayspull out miraculous answers forthe most confounding viruses,tumors and medical mysteries. Soif it’s hope you need in a time ofpandemic, well, pull up “Grey’s”and get acquainted with the doc-tors of Grey-Sloan MemorialHospital.

“For All Mankind” (Apple TV)The premise: What if the glob-

al space race had never ended?What if the Russians had beatenthe U.S. to the moon? How wouldthat have affected NASA’s spaceprogram? One hint: In this alter-nate universe, we would have

celebrated some strong femaleastronauts a lot sooner than wedid. Set in the ’60s, the showdoesn’t shy away from the soci-etal issues of its time and deftlyincorporates elements of historyinto a fast-moving narrative. It’sfascinating to see historical NASAfigures come to life too. You’llmeet John Glenn and a very dis-appointed Neil Armstrong, andone of the female astronauts(Molly Cobb, played by SonyaWalger) is based loosely on real-life pioneer Jerrie Cobb. Theshow just completed a 10-episodedebut season on Apple TV, andI’m dying to know what happensnext.

“Killing Eve” (BBC America;available on Hulu)

Like spy movies, old-schoolcat-and-mouse chases, livelyacting and a peek into the mind ofa cold-but-charming female as-sassin who has a complete lack ofempathy for anyone except thefemale agent trying to track herdown? This is the series for you.Based on the novel “CodenameVillanelle” by Luke Jennings, thisseries shines in large part becauseof its strong casting. In 2019,Sandra Oh won a Golden Globefor best actress in a TV drama forher portrayal of MI5 agent EvePolastri. Jodie Comer, who playsthe assassin Villanelle, won anEmmy Award for best actress in aTV drama this year. So, go ahead.Binge the first two seasons onHulu and you’ll be all caught upby April 26, when Season 3 beginson BBC America.

“Six Feet Under” (HBO; avail-able on Amazon Prime, Hulu,HBO Now)

Beginning in 2001 and endingfive seasons later in 2005, thisHBO drama was, quite literallyabout life and death: It centeredon the Fishers, a Los Angelesfamily who owned a funeralhome, and every episode beganwith someone’s life ending.Sounds dark, and it was, but thisAlan Ball creation was so per-fectly cast and elegantly writtenthat I returned for more everySunday back in the aughts. Thecharacters, not always lovable buthaving the messy imperfectionsand annoyances of real life, werealways surprising; the message ofhow those we have lost lingeramong us was unexpectedlylyrical.

“One Day at a Time” (Netflix;first three seasons available onNetflix)

I idly checked out the firstepisode of Gloria Calderon Kel-lett’s reboot of the 1970s sitcom,featuring three generations of aCuban American family livingtogether in more-or-less har-mony, awhile back, thinking itwould be something pleasantlysitcommy to pass a half-hour.And, just like that, three seasonswent by — and all I wanted was

more. This show, led by the pow-erhouse duo of Justina Machado(also great in “Six Feet Under”)and living legend Rita Moreno, isquite possibly the sweetest, funni-est streaming experience I’ve hadin years; sitcommy, sure, bututterly charming in its depictionof family love. Netflix canceledthe show after three seasons, butit’s returning to the airwavesnonetheless: The cable channelPop TV will present season four,starting March 24.

“Call the Midwife” (PBS; avail-able on Netflix)

Well, there’s only so manytimes a person can rewatch“Downton Abbey,” so I was inneed of a British period drama. Afriend recommended this one, setin midcentury and centering on agroup of midwife/nurses living ina convent in the working-classLondon district of Poplar, and Iquickly got hooked. This show isbased on the real-life memoirs ofnurse Jennifer Worth, and it’ssort of the spiritual opposite of“Six Feet Under”: In every epi-sode, a baby is born. In its manyseasons (its ninth recently airedin Britain, and at least two moreare planned), “Call the Midwife”has explored some unexpectedlygritty territory; this show is farmore modern than it appears atfirst glance, and it has a femaleenergy that’s both empoweringand irresistible.

“Brooklyn Nine-Nine” (NBC;available on Hulu)

You’ve probably already bingedit twice by now, but it’s smart, it’sfunny and, unlike many sitcomsthat we’re finding haven’t agedwell these days (since when isNew York that white, “Friends”?),“Brooklyn Nine-Nine” has a won-derfully diverse cast and is stand-ing proof that you can be funnywithout being offensive. You maythink you caught all the brilliantjokes the first two times youbinged it, but like with a goodbook, you’re guaranteed to findsomething new to laugh at withevery rewatch.

“Russian Doll” (Netflix)If you think you’re mired in rut

and routine while you’re stuck athome for the foreseeable future,try being Natasha Lyonne inNetflix original “Russian Doll.”Lyonne is delightfully vulgar andsympathetic as Nadia, a womanwho is destined (doomed?) torepeat the same party, at whichshe is the guest of honor, over andover and over again. It sounds likean old trick (a la “GroundhogDay”), but this is a smart takewith some unique devices, likethe fact that Nadia doesn’t justexperience the same night overand over, but she actually dies atthe end of each repeated night.Amy Poehler is one of the writers,and her skill at making the day-to-day of a “Parks and Recre-ation” office interesting for 125

episodes shines in this seriesabout a day that won’t end.

“Westworld” (HBO; available onAmazon Prime Video, HBO Now,Hulu)

The good news: There are onlytwo full seasons of this show (sofar; season three premiered Sun-day on HBO), so it’s not a hugetime commitment. The bad news:Once you start, you’ll probablywant to watch it all at once — notgood for either productivity orhealth. This series — in whichrich people live out their fantasiesin a Wild West-set amusementpark hosted by humanoid robots— becomes more twisted andmultilayered as it goes along. Addto that the stellar cast (EvanRachel Wood, Thandie Newton,Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris,Jeffrey Wright, etc.), and thisunsettling, violent, visually stun-ning sci-fi drama might have you,like me, hooked by the end of thefirst episode.

“Orphan Black” (BBC America;available on Amazon Prime Vi-deo)

Yeah, this series — which startsgrippingly when a woman seessomeone who looks exactly likeherself step into the path of anoncoming train — becomes in-creasingly silly. But the showalways remains compelling,thanks to its sense of humor andthe warmhearted sisterhood thatdevelops among a group of wom-en who discover they are allclones. The main reason to watchit, though, is for star TatianaMaslany, who earned a well-deserved lead actress Emmy forplaying more than a dozen clones,from a street-smart single motherto a book-smart bohemian scien-tist to a suburban soccer mom,and more. Who — or what — isbehind the cloning experiments?What are they trying to achieve?Who cares? All hail Maslany!

“Dark” (Netflix)Nothing against the real town

of Winden, Germany, but I haveabsolutely zero desire to visitafter watching this creepy-as-all-hell two-season (for now) series.The first German-language showto debut on Netflix, “Dark” hasbeen compared to “StrangerThings,” but other than the ’80sand some supernatural forces, thetwo shows have nothing in com-mon. There are no kids in “Ghost-busters” costumes here, only twonuclear cooling towers dominat-ing the rainy landscape plus anominous forest complete withspooky caves. Wormholes, timetravel, child abductions and morehaunt four families over threegenerations connected in 33-yearincrements. It seems like every-one is hiding something, somesecrets much more devastatingthan others. The default for theshow is with English dubbing, butmake sure you binge in Germanwith subtitles for the full effectand one dark, twisty ride.

“High Fidelity” (Hulu)I remember loving the movie

version of this Nick Hornby novelwhen it was released in 2000starring John Cusack, but this10-episode version starring ZoeKravitz has 100% won my heart.Kravitz plays Rob, the curmudg-eonly owner of ChampionshipVinyl and the character originallyplayed by Cusack. Replacing JackBlack and Todd Louiso as Rob’semployees and best friends areDa’Vine Joy Randolph as Cheriseand David H. Holmes as Simon(who also happens to be one ofRob’s top five desert island heart-breaks). Things have been de-lightfully updated for the times,while also scattering a few Eastereggs throughout the episodes forfans of the movie. Fingers crossedfor another season.

“The Circle” (Netflix)If you like reality television, or

even if you don’t, you shouldcheck this show out. A group ofstrangers all vie to be the mostinfluential, but they can onlyinteract with each other throughan online system called “TheCircle.” With catfishing, romance,drama and a cast of unique char-acters, this show is the perfectrecipe for a silly, but irresistiblewatch. Plus, considering theplayers have to be isolated in theirown apartments, it might helpyou feel less alone while you’redoing the same.

“You’re the Worst” (FX; avail-able on Hulu)

My one-sentence summary ofthis show is: It’s like “It’s AlwaysSunny in Philadelphia,” if it werea romantic comedy set in LosAngeles. Frequently referred to asan “anti-romantic romantic com-edy,” “You’re the Worst” containsone of the greatest love stories inmodern television. The showfollows two love-cynics, Gretchenand Jimmy, and their journeythrough love, relationships, hap-piness and other wacky anticsover the course of several years.

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Dear Readers: In my (almost) 17 years ofwriting the Ask Amy column, I have beenseriously, thoroughly and publiclypranked two times.

I assume I might have been fooled withother “faux” problems, but the followingtwo questions created viral gotcha mo-ments that, while embarrassing for me,were highly entertaining for the scores ofreaders who immediately recognized thespoofing. I reacted to both columns byowning my gullibility and doing my verybest to laugh along with my readers.

I rerun these questions (and my originalanswers) today, with the reminder that —even in this very serious world we inhabit— it’s important not to take yourself tooseriously.

At the end of this column, I’ll reveal theoriginal sources of these problematicplotlines.

I’ll be back with original Ask Amy Q&Anext week.

Dear Amy: I have a serious problem withmy future wife. She has not been faithfulto me. I recently overheard her talking toher friend about how she was unfaithful tome. When I confronted her, all that shesaid was that she couldn’t talk right now. Ifeel like I have to record everything in myown house just to learn the truth.

To make things even more stressful isthe fact that she recently told a couple ofpeople that I hit her, but it’s not true. I didnot hit her. I’m not sure why she has beenacting like this lately. She did just find outthat her mother has breast cancer, andthat might be playing a role in her behav-ior.

We still always find time to make love,so I don’t know why she would go outseeking it from someone else. I just can’tbelieve she would do this to me. I love herso much, she is my everything, and I don’tknow that I could go on without her. Sheis tearing me apart.

What should I do?— Devastated

Dear Devasted: The first thing youshould do is to NOT get married. Yourfiancée’s behavior and your response arethe very essence of dysfunction. If you arecorrect and she is stepping out on you, thisis a huge problem. Your declaration thatyou feel like you “have to record every-thing ... just to learn the truth” is chilling.

Her counter-accusation that you hit her ispotentially very dangerous for you.

Because of an escalation in behavior Isense in both of you — and the seeminglytoxic connection between you two — itwould be wisest for you to separate. Seekthe support of close friends, family and aprofessional counselor to help you dealwith this loss and change.

Dear Amy: I recently ran into a famouslocal sports figure at my gym.

I didn’t want to bother him, but muchto my surprise he approached me. Turnsout he knew me from my profession. Heasked if I wanted to go out for coffee, andwe exchanged numbers. A few days later,we had coffee, and I thought it was prettycool that he considered us friends.

Then everything changed. He told mehe was interested in taking out a womanwe ran into. She is my ex-girlfriend, andwe’ve remained good friends. He askedme a couple of times if I wouldn’t mind ifhe asked her out. I reluctantly said no. Imade plans with him, and then after talk-ing to my ex, I found out that he ditchedour plans to go out with her.

The next day, he called me and asked ifI could help him move some furniture. Ibarely know the guy; next thing, he will beasking me to drive him to the airport. Twofriends of mine warned me not to trustthis guy. What’s the deal — am I being toorash, or should I dump the guy as a friend?

— Feeling Foolish

Dear Foolish: The good news here is thatyou won’t have to dump the guy as afriend because he is not a friend. He’s anopportunist who just keeps asking you forstuff.

I suspect that when you turn down hisgenerous offer to let you move furniturefor him, you’ll likely never hear from himagain.

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We could be forgiven forbelieving, prior to corona-virus, that we don’t needeach other all that much.

That we had slipped,almost by accident, into atransactional society whereface-to-face, shoulder-to-shoulder interactions withour fellow humans wereunbearably slow and wildlyinefficient and frankly, alittle unpleasant.

We can purchase grocer-ies and birthday gifts andclothing and novels withour phones and we canhave them delivered by amystery human whilewe’re not even home to saythank you.

We venture, when wemust, to stores, but we cancheck ourselves out, thankyou very much, unlesswe’re buying produce andthe scanner gets confusedand then we cringe when ahuman has to come help us.

We forgo movie theatersin favor of Netflix and highschool reunions in favor ofFacebook and out loud,in-person, eye contactconversations in favor oftexts.

And it seems OK, mostly.It works, mostly. Lonelinessrates are on a precipitousrise and we’re choking onoutrage most of the timeand I do worry that robotsand/or those Amazon Gostores where you just grabthings and literally walk outthe door will take over mostof the jobs I was hoping mykids might one day applyfor.

But we’ve seemed, onbalance, to be going with it.We’ve appeared, in largenumbers, to have gotten on

board with the slow phas-ing out of human interac-tions.

And then coronavirushit.

And panic, understand-ably, set in. We are worriedabout whether we will liveor die and whether ourloved ones will live or dieand whether that living anddying will take place underchaotic, not-seen-in-our-lifetime conditions becauseour health care system willbe overloaded and oureconomy will collapse.

But we are also worriedabout losing our humaninteractions. The ones weappeared, as recently as acouple weeks ago, to bephasing out.

It’s tremendously painfulfor college students toabruptly leave their friendsand professors and room-

mates and classmates.It’s a shock to our sys-

tems to no longer have, forthe foreseeable future, abook signing or basketballgame or theater productionor music festival or prayerservice to experience witha crowd of people who willlaugh and cheer and singand worship and cry, may-be, alongside you.

It’s a lonely decision tosocially distance — grand-children from grand-parents, instructors fromstudents, neighbors fromneighbors — even if it’s aprudent one.

It’s refreshing, in a way,to realize how much of ourhealth and sanity and joyare derived from our hu-man connections.

It’s also a little terrifying.Because those connectionsare also what make us

vulnerable — to a virus, butalso to longing and pain.

“A couple of clients havebeen talking about thesupport so many of us aregoing to need if the virus,closings and cancellationsfollow course,” family ther-apist John Duffy, my friendand podcast partner, toldme when I asked him howhis sessions are going. “Wewere talking about impend-ing grief, for any lives thathave been or will be lost.But also of all of the ex-pected ritual, ceremony,vacations and such that willshift the expected course oflife for so many people.”

He talked about a highschool varsity basketballteam that was suited upand then turned away thatevening from what wouldhave been its last game ofthe season.

“They were lined upcrying in the parking lot,”he said. “It’s one, relativelysmall, example. But it gotme thinking about so manylasts that will, or may, bemissed: dances, gradu-ations, exams, internships.”

I also spoke with Adriana Torres, manager of volunteer services forFox Valley Hands of Hope,a nonprofit that offerssupport and counselingservices. Many of her vol-unteers go into nursinghomes and hospice carefacilities for weekly visitswith the residents. Butheightened safety restric-tions mean volunteerswon’t be allowed to visitpatients at least throughthe end of March, Torreslearned.

“Our patients are alreadyso isolated,” Torres told me.

“Their worlds get smallerand smaller becausethey’re not able to go outanymore and they don’t getas much family interactionor friend interaction asthey used to.”

Her volunteers bringflowers. Some play theguitar for patients. Someread to them from theBible.

“We tell our volunteersto wake the patients up ifthey’re sleeping,” Torressaid, “otherwise some ofthem miss their only visitorfor the whole week.”

She said the volunteersare distraught at the idea oftheir patients having noone to visit them, no one toread to them, no one tohold their hands. Some ofthe volunteers will writeletters, she said, but itwon’t be quite the same.

“A number of patientsare no longer able to talk,”Torres said. “They haveAlzheimer’s or dementia.But they always feel thetouch. They actually smilewhen they feel it. Theyneed the actual contact.”

What could be moretrue. What could be moreelemental. What could be,honestly, more beautiful.

Let’s hold on to that.Now. Tomorrow. A monthfrom now. A year from now.

“They need the actualcontact.” Don’t we all. Andwhen it’s safe and healthyand responsible to stopsocially distancing, whenit’s OK to socially gatherand socially engage andsocially share moments bigand small, let’s cherish andcultivate that part of ourhumanity.

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Q: How should you tell peo-ple you don’t want to shakehands or have other physicalcontact because of co-ronavirus?

A: At this stage of the disease,reduction of any physical contactis recommended, thus the hand-shake has been replaced by germ-free gestures. Some acceptablegerm free gestures to use insteadof shaking hands are: an air kiss,

royal wave or a namaste greeting.(Apparently, elbow bumps arenow out.)

Here are four ways to tellsomeone you’re not comfortablewith physical contact or shakinghands without being offensive:

1. I’m happy about not spread-ing any germs that I might haveand doing my small part in shut-ting down this person-to-persondisease.

2. I recently got over a cold andstill don’t feel comfortable withphysical greetings.

3. It’s odd not shaking hands,

but because everyone else isavoiding it, it feels like the newnormal.

4. It feels funny to refuse some-one’s hand, but at least there’s amedically acceptable reason for it.

— Lisa Grotts, the “GoldenRules Gal” and etiquette expert

A: As a stand-up comedianwho shakes hands and sharesmicrophones with dozens ofpeople a week, and as a womanwho has spent a lifetime trying toavoid unwanted contact fromstrangers, here are some tips:

Be honest. Simply telling peo-

ple, “I’m trying to keep my handsto myself for the next few weeks”or “I just washed my hands”should be enough for anyone whohas read the news in the lastmonth. If that doesn’t work, juststart coughing wildly, and watchthe good folks scatter.

Initiate a no-touch alternativeto shaking hands with an air five,bro nod or simple, unflinching eyecontact for 10 to 15 whole seconds.The last one will help you avoidthat person indefinitely.

Ask your boss to send out amemo requesting that everyone be

aware of body boundaries, andthat unless someone explicitlyasks people to touch them, youshouldn’t.

— Alex Kumin, comedian andwriter

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By Hannah HerreraGreenspanChicago Tribune

Brynn Randall breaks down,recalling the final days of her latehusband Scott’s life. She describeshim as a selfless man who lovedgolf and the Kansas City Chiefs,and as a fighter, vowing to beatcancer right up to his December2018 death at 33 — weeks beforethe birth of the couple’s first andonly child, son Oliver.

As she wipes the tears thatmourn her late husband, she’slovingly comforted by her newone.

And Charlie Whitmer has aspecial understanding of theRandalls’ story. It’s strikinglysimilar to his own.

Charlie’s wife, Kathryn, died inJune 2018, four days after thebirth of the couple’s triplets fol-lowing a stroke the week before.The Tribune reported on theWhitmers’ story last year, aroundthe triplets’ first birthday and thefirst anniversary of Kathryn’sdeath.

Charlie and Brynn, both 33, metthrough a mutual friend just overa year ago, bonded over theirlosses and fell in love. They mar-ried March 14 in a more intimatewedding ceremony than ex-pected, given the increased spreadof the coronavirus.

Both said it was a day of lovethat they didn’t want to put off,and they were eager to make theirunion official. They say theyunderstand each other in waysfew others can.

Now they’re raising their four1-year-olds together in a house fullof love, but also grief. They saythere’s room for both.

“You still feel those emotions —it still hurts,” Charlie said of miss-ing Kathryn. “But at the sametime … I can feel multiple emo-tions at the same time.”

“Love is the most powerfulemotion. The love trumps every-thing.”

Similar storiesIn the months after Kathryn

died, Charlie would think to him-self that he wasn’t going to datefor a while but hoped he wouldeventually find a new partner.

“I had hoped someone wouldjust drop into my life,” he said. “Inever intended, never wanted tobe alone for the rest of my life.”

In February 2019, a mutualfriend contacted Charlie, telling

him the story of a woman whosehusband had died just weeksbefore their son was born. Thefriend, knowing how similar theirtragic and rare stories were, sentCharlie a link to Brynn’s Insta-gram page.

Charlie, touched by the kind-ness of others who had helpedhim after Kathryn’s death, de-cided to reach out to Brynn, justto see if he could help as a way topay it forward. The two begansending each other messages.Brynn said she was desperate tofind someone who could relate tolosing a spouse so young andraising a baby on her own.

“I wanted someone … I couldconfide in,” she said.

After learning more about eachother, they were shocked by thesimilarities. Not only were theywidowed in their early 30s withyoung children, but both also haddealt with lengthy neonatal inten-sive care unit stays for their kids.

Oliver, now 14 months old,spent five weeks in the hospitalbefore he came home. Thenow-20-month-old Whitmertriplets — daughter Arden andsons Bobby and J.P. (who are alsoidentical twins) — were in theNICU for more than two months.

Another commonality? Brynnis also an identical twin. And bothshe and Charlie have overcomehealth obstacles of their own.

Charlie was diagnosed in highschool with aplastic anemia, acondition that develops when thebody stops producing enoughnew blood cells. It reemerged justbefore he married Kathryn in2016. He was able to control itwith medication, but that re-quired the Whitmers to use fertil-ity treatments to start theirfamily.

And at 27, Brynn was diag-nosed with breast cancer, but onlyafter deciding to have a proactivedouble mastectomy. Her motherhad survived breast cancer at ayoung age, and because of thatBrynn was tested for and learnedshe had a BRCA gene mutation,making it more likely she woulddevelop breast cancer.

During the operation, doctorslocated a small tumor — earlystage breast cancer. After chemo-therapy, Brynn recovered.

A year later, she met ScottRandall, a banker at NorthernTrust who also was a cancersurvivor. Before they met, he hadbeen diagnosed with and thought

he had beaten anaplastic astrocy-toma, a form of brain tumor. Butjust before they married in sum-mer 2017, symptoms returned.Scott’s cancer was back.

Brynn said their entire mar-riage was spent fighting cancer,but they were optimistic becauseScott had spent years in remissionbefore. She eventually left her jobas a nurse in a hospital to work ata start-up that does genetic se-quencing, which allowed her tohelp Scott more. Because of che-motherapy drugs, the Randallsalso had to rely on fertility treat-ments, and Brynn became preg-nant, originally due in March2019.

Despite their positive outlook,Brynn said Scott’s conditionworsened, and his tumor spreadand grew into glioblastoma, adeadlier form of a brain tumor.The prognosis from doctors wasgrim.

Scott died surrounded byBrynn and their families, whothen held hands, told stories ofScott and sang “Oh Holy Night.”It was four days beforeChristmas.

“It’ll never be OK,” she said.“It’s so messed up. Someone soyoung and full of life.”

Brynn said she recalls thinking,“I’m never going to find someonewho is near as good of a person orsomeone who loves me enough.”

The family decided to hold amemorial service after the holi-days. But soon after Scott died,Brynn started showing signs ofpreeclampsia, a high blood pres-sure condition that’s dangerousfor pregnant women.

She was hospitalized and couldnot attend Scott’s funeral. Insteadshe watched a livestreamed ver-sion from her hospital bed withher mother and aunt by her side.Her twin sister, Stephanie, deliv-ered a eulogy on her behalf.Oliver was born five days later.

‘Someone who gets it’In the early days of having

Oliver home from the NICU,Brynn and Charlie began messag-ing on Instagram and eventuallymet for coffee. Brynn said shewasn’t viewing her new friend asa relationship that could turnromantic.

Instead, she saw it as talkingwith someone who was alreadyon a journey she had just begun.Besides their shared challenges,they had other things in common,like being Christians and theirlove of golf.

“It was almost like a weightlifted off my shoulders that I can

talk to someone who gets it,” shesaid.

But Charlie’s feelings weregrowing. He said that before theymet in person, he had dreamedabout Brynn even though hebarely knew her. After that firstmeeting when they learned moreabout each other, Charlie said herealized those feelings but wasn’tsure he should share them. Char-lie said he wanted to be respectfulof the fact that Brynn had lostScott so recently and was adjust-ing to life at home with a new-born.

The two continued to text, calland spend time together over thenext few weeks, often talking forhours at a time. During one ofthese talks, Brynn realized shehad seen Charlie outside thechurch on the day of Kathryn’sfuneral — another eerie coinci-dence for the spiritual couple.

Brynn was having brunch withScott and his family in the sameneighborhood as Kathryn’s funer-al. She says she remembers seeinga funeral procession outside thechurch and recalled remarking onhow there were a lot of attendees,assuming the person who diedwas young.

After learning the date ofKathryn’s funeral from Charlie,Brynn pulled up a photo she tookthat day at the brunch and itmatched.

She texted Charlie to tell him.He had just prayed to God, askingfor a sign that he should tellBrynn about his feelings.

“My heart was pounding out ofmy chest,” Charlie said. He hadgotten his sign.

The two arranged to talk. Dur-ing the call, Charlie told Brynn, “Ithink literally and figurativelythat you’re the woman of mydreams.”

“I was shocked he was thatforward,” Brynn said, but shecontinued to talk with Charlie foran hour.

When they eventually saweach other again, both acknowl-edged their connection, and therelationship progressed quicklyafter that. Charlie proposed lastAugust.

Honoring the pastBrynn and Charlie said it’s

hard for some people, even thoseclose to them, to understand howthey could fall in love so soonafter their losses. They say theirrelationship is separate frommissing their late spouses, whomthey continue to honor.

“We miss them because we stillcare about them,” Charlie said.

“We’ll always look back on thetime we’ve had with them sofondly. But we also feel so luckyand so grateful to have found eachother.”

“As weird as it is, it is possible,”Brynn added. “Yeah I grievesometimes, and yet I can be so inlove.” She recalls sobbing withCharlie at her side when theChiefs won the Super Bowl,thinking about how much Scottwould’ve celebrated.

In many ways, they say they arethe best comfort to each otherbecause few others understand.

They honor Kathryn and Scottwith photos around the home,and point them out to the chil-dren. While the kids call Brynnand Charlie “Mama and Dada,”the couple said they refer toKathryn and Scott as “AngelMommy and Angel Daddy.”

The blended family of six livestogether in Charlie’s West Townhome. The triplets and Oliver allinteract as if they’ve been siblingssince birth — toddling aroundtogether, pawing at each otherand giggling. Despite the busyhome, the couple said they’d loveto add to it with more children inthe future.

As the children grow older,Charlie and Brynn say they’llexplain what happened to theirother parents, and will continueto keep Scott and Kathryn’s fam-ilies in their lives.

They said it’s been challengingblending all the extended families— especially as they grieve — butthe couple also consider it a“blessing” to have so many peoplein their kids’ lives who love them.

Charlie said another way theyhonor their late spouses is in thetime they spend with each other’schildren — time Scott andKathryn never got.

Brynn said she thinks ofKathryn when celebrating thetriplets’ milestones.

“She never got to experiencethat,” Brynn said.

“I feel so badly for Scott that hedoesn’t get to experience Oliver,”Charlie added. “So when I havetime with Oliver, I can channelthat and think about that. Howcan I make sure I’m the best ver-sion of a dad to Oliver that I canbe?”

While life hasn’t turned outhow they thought, Charlie andBrynn said they feel lucky to havefound each other.

“We can connect on so manylevels,” Brynn said. “In that sense,I know we’re supposed to betogether.”

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Brynn Randall and Charlie Whitmer with their 1-year-olds, from left, Oliver Randall, Bobby Whitmer, Arden Whitmer and J.P. Whitmer, at their home in Chicago on March 12.

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‘The love trumps everything’Widowed dad of triplets finds lovewith woman with a similar pastBy Kate Thayer


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As more Americans are encouraged topractice social distancing and to workfrom home, less person-to-person contactcan negatively impact mental wellness.

Deciding whether to visit family, haveloved ones over, or leave the house for anyreason is a real concern since PresidentDonald Trump declared a national emer-gency over the coronavirus March 13.

Andrea Graham, an assistant professorof medical social sciences at NorthwesternUniversity Feinberg School of Medicine,said it is hard to live in a space of uncer-tainty.

“That’s very challenging for people tobe wrestling with those kinds of decisions,and whether to be with loved ones,” shesaid. “These kinds of moments can lead to… waves of ups and downs of emotions.”

Joe Sislow, a Portage Park resident, saidhe and his wife, Lori Gentile, have beengoing back and forth on whether to visither mother in northwest Indiana.

“We’re totally weighing the calculus onthis,” he said. “Because odds are in a week,or two weeks, it’s going to be worse.”

With schools, bars and restaurantsclosing, so much feels in flux. Gentile runsa comic book store, Amazing Fantasy, inFrankfort, Illinois, that she might have toclose for a while, said Sislow.

“She’ll probably go stir crazy; she’s beendoing that for 30 years,” he said.

The coronavirus pandemic is eliminat-ing the normalcy of daily activities, andthat can be difficult to cope with.

On March 15, the Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention recommendedgatherings with 50 or more people becanceled or postponed for the next eightweeks, and that events of any size adhereto the guidelines “for protecting vulnera-ble populations, hand hygiene, and socialdistancing.” It also suggested more eventsgo virtual.

“We like to go to estate sales, we like togo to museums, we like to go out to seeshows,” Sislow said. And now many ofthose activities are no longer an option forhim and his wife.

Graham suggests ensuring regularcontact with family members and friends,even if it is not face-to-face. Utilize Face-Time to connect, she said, or make sure tospeak on the phone.

“Those are really important ways tobuffer against some of that loneliness andsadness that can creep up,” she said.

If you’re working remotely, call or videochat with a co-worker. It can help lessensome of the social isolation because, formany, conversations with co-workers area nice part of the work day.

“We don’t typically quantify that when

we go into work every day, but that’s partof the routine that’s important,” Grahamsaid.

View time at home as a positive. Focuson connecting with your family. Pick upthat hobby you have been considering, ortake on that home project you’ve put off.

And make a routine.Wake up at the same time, go to bed at

the same time.Pay attention to how you are feeling. If

you are more anxious, Graham suggeststaking a break from the news. “Practicesome relaxation activities,” she says. Dothings you enjoy, such as listening to mu-sic, reading a book, or calling a friend.

In the CDC’s tips for mental wellness, itnoted that people who might respondmore strongly to the stress of a crisis in-clude children and teens, those with pre-existing mental health conditions andsubstance abuse problems, or those help-ing with the response, such as health careproviders or first responders.

Reactions can include fear and worryabout one’s own health status and theirloved ones; changes in sleep or eatingpatterns; difficulty concentrating; in-creased use of alcohol, tobacco or otherdrugs and worsening of chronic healthproblems.

People with preexisting mental healthconditions should continue their treat-ment plans, the CDC suggested.

The agency also advised avoiding exces-sive exposure to media coverage and en-couraged deep breaths, stretching andmeditation. Eat well. Exercise regularly.

“Remind yourself that strong feelingswill fade,” the CDC guidance advised. “Itcan be upsetting to hear about the crisisand see images repeatedly. Try to do someother activities you enjoy to return to yournormal life.”

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Over a dozen seniors from South Chi-cago’s Baker College Prep were taskedrecently with making a better foreheadthermometer (from opening its package toutilization), improving patient gowns andredesigning a rolling walker.

As part of an internship opportunitybetween Baker and Medline Industries Inc.(manufacturer and distributor of medicalsupplies), students like AbdoullayeDoucoure, 17, of South Chicago, who isconsidering a major in biochemistry, andJacqui Logan, 18, of South Shore, whowants to be a family lawyer, got the chanceto work at Medline’s Northfield campus onreal life problems with health care prod-ucts that consumers use every day.

“We gave each group of students a dis-tinct product and said become the user andidentify the problems as you’re using it,”said Michael Turturro, Medline’s directorof product development. “We gave them allkinds of things to make them have poorvision or maybe not have good dexterity asthey try these devices. So, if you’re anelderly patient, maybe it’s not as easy assomeone in high school to figure out howto use it. Empathize with the end user,figure out problems. The devices work, butthey’re not perfect for a usability stand-point. So they defined what they wanted tosolve, then they ideated solutions and thenthey prototyped and tested those.”

The program came about with the as-sistance of Nancy Mills, a board member ofBaker and a part of the Mills family, whichowns Medline, said Baker’s principal MaryArrigo. Knowing how many college stu-dents compete for and benefit from intern-ships, Arrigo said she’s excited to see whatstudents glean from the experience andhow the program grows.

Medline Industries has been in the newsin the last 16 months because of ethyleneoxide it has been emitting when sterilizingmedical supplies, but according to a Med-line spokesperson, the internship programis not a response to that intended to im-prove the company’s image. The companystopped sterilization operations in Decem-ber and more recently has been testingemissions controls with monitoring by theIllinois Environmental Protection Agency.

“No. It wasn’t created in response tothat,” said Francesca Olivier, Medline’ssenior director of social responsibility andinnovation. “We’ve actually been doinginitiatives around STEM and other localengagements with schools in the area for

over five years now, and when we wereintroduced to the Baker school, we wantedto see what we could do with them to be alittle bit more robust, to be more of like amini-internship for them.”

The work that Medline has been doingaround STEM with various local schoolsbegan in 2014, and Baker was added to theprogram in early 2018.

“It gives them a great learning experi-ence and a great window into what theirpost-college world could look like, andwhat options are out there,” Arrigo said.“Some of the things that we’re hoping to dothrough this internship: giving our kids theopportunity to have hands-on experiencein a professional environment like Medlinewith real projects, trying to solve real prob-lems that push them to really think criti-cally about those problems. We wanted todesign an experience that gives them theopportunity to meet people that theywouldn’t normally see in their normalschool setting.”

Feb. 27 was the second day of the two-day winter internship — a continuation ofthe summer weeklong internship, andstudents Logan and Travis Gipson, 17, ofSouth Chicago were hard at work cleaningup what they consider a more readily us-able 3D printed thermometer. This one willhave packaging that is easier to open, as

well as just one button so it will be lessconfusing to operate when checking tem-perature on the forehead or by the ear. Theoriginal device also checked temperatureson surfaces like baby bottles, but the userhad to hold down two buttons simulta-neously until the thermometer screen said“food.” According to Gipson and his team,that was too confusing. So, the group’sprototype has a sliding button that goesfrom forehead to surface — much easierthan holding two buttons. Real world prob-lems with real world implications.

“Something can always be better fabri-cated,” said Tionna Merritt, 18, of SouthChicago. “There’s nothing just that good;there’s always something to improve on.”

While the second class of Baker students(the first class of Baker students participa-ted in internships during the 2018-19school year) tackled these STEM chal-lenges, they also got career coaching andmentoring from Medline employees volun-teering their time, said Karen Frey, seniorphilanthropy manager at Medline, whoruns the program.

“We can be as dynamic as we want tobe,” Frey said. “Medline is a microcosm ofso many job opportunities out there in theworld … of what you could potentially do.You could do sales, HR, finance, design,research and development — that’s all here.

So, when the students say: I don’t want tobe in the medical field. I’m really interestedin being an accountant. You know what?We have a robust accounting team here,and we can connect you. One of the biggoals at Baker is college persistence, andthis is a wonderful opportunity to say, ‘Hey,after you have achieved those college per-sistence goals, this is what one type of workcould look like on the other side.’”

At the end of the internship, the studentspitch their improvement ideas to Medline’sproduct division team, and if they reallylike their ideas, the students’ names couldend up on a Medline patent, Turturro said.

“What they’re doing, we may do as ateam,” Turturro said. “And if they come upwith a novel idea, they’re the inventor.Medline would have the patent, but theinventor would be listed with the student’sname.”

“The students come to all of these proj-ects with such a different point of view, andthe influences in their lives resonatethrough the projects that they’re present-ing,” Frey said. “It’s so cool. Our researchand development team tells them, you maysee this on the market in a few years. Whenthey’re doing a project and one of thegroups come up with an idea, we all kind oflook at each other like: Why didn’t wethink of that?”

Students solve medical supply problems

Baker College Prep student Jacqui Logan, right, removes support material from a part of a 3D printed thermometer with direction from

Genevieve Goelz, Medline’s design technician for the 3D printer, on Feb. 27. Logan’s group redesigned a traditional thermometer.

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When Deb Quantock McCareyheard the unmistakable buglingcries of sandhill cranes flying highabove her Oak Park home in earlyMarch, she ran outside to seethem without even stopping toput on her shoes.

EJ Roginic was at work inChicago, meeting with her boss,when she heard the hundreds ofbirds and abruptly excused her-self to go outside and take a video.

“I walked out on him,” she saidwith a chuckle.

Chicagoans are once againthrilling to one of the region’smost dramatic signs of spring: thereturn of flocks of crimson-capped, 5-foot-tall, loudly buglingsandhill cranes from as far awayas Georgia and Florida. Neighborshave been alerting neighbors,Facebook birding pages have litup with sightings, and text alertshave ricocheted back and forthamong cellphones: “The sandhillsare coming! The sandhills arecoming!”

Retiree Paul McFadden saw1,200 to 1,500 birds resting in afield in Barrington Hills onMarch 5 and posted photos at theIllinois Birding Network Face-book page. Roginic, 33, a second-generation birder from Berwyn,heard the cranes at her Chicagoworkplace and told her (veryunderstanding) boss she’d beright back: “I think he might have

been midsentence.”Local fans spoke of the birds’

stature, their long-necked, almostprehistoric silhouettes and, mostof all, the rich, rattling cries thatserve as harbingers of long daysand green leaves.

“When you hear them, it canalmost bring the hair on the backof your neck straight up becauseit’s just raw nature,” said Mc-Carey, 61, author of the blog Deb’sBig Backyard.

To spot a sandhill, yourself,listen for the birds’ call, which issometimes loud enough to beheard indoors, according to Chi-cago Audubon Society PresidentJudy Pollock.

Sandhills like to travel with thewind to their backs, and tend tofavor inland areas, not the shoresof Lake Michigan, although thereare exceptions. In 2016, when anestimated 30,000 sandhills flewover the city in a single day, flockswere spotted in lakeside neigh-borhoods such as Lincoln Park,according to DNAinfo.

Almost wiped out from landseast of the Mississippi River inthe 1930s, sandhills are amongseveral large-bird comebackstories in the region, with approx-imately 97,800 birds in 2018, a37% increase over 2017, whenthere were 71,400, according tothe U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

With studies showing declinesin small-bird populations, par-ticularly insect-eating varieties,

the cranes’ annual return hasadditional meaning.

“Sandhill cranes are a bird ofhope for me,” said Eric Gyllen-haal, 69, who monitors local birdsfor the Bird Conservation Net-work.

To spot the birds in CookCounty, listen for them on dayswhen the wind is blowing north,with a westerly component, saidGyllenhaal. In Kane and DeKalbcounties, your best bet is on dayswhen the wind is blowing straightnorth. The weekslong springcrane migration passes throughChicagoland between late Febru-ary and early April.

The birds, which fly in from asfar south as Florida, typicallytravel 150 to 400 miles a day, andthey like to hitch rides on ther-mals, or columns of rising air.

“They’ll stop in place and circlearound and just rise up, almostout of sight,” said McFadden, 83,of Crystal Lake.

“The lower ones come in first,and as they come in, they circle,and they’ll be stacked up. It’s just1,000 feet — 1,000 feet of birds.”

There are other signs of springthis time of year. The red-wingedblackbirds are back, with theircrimson markings. The robinsstart eating worms from theground, rather than fruit from thetrees, Gyllenhaal said. Cardinalsare singing their hearts out.

But the sandhills’ stature —they boast a 6-foot wingspan — as

well as their sounds and greatnumbers make the cranes themonth’s showstoppers.

“Somehow that flock of san-dhill cranes flying overhead justtakes it up to a different level,sprinkles a little fairy dust on it,”Pollock said.

McFadden thought he hadcome upon a field of Canadageese in Barrington Hills recently.

But then he saw a flock of 75sandhill cranes touch down, andrealized what he was actuallylooking at: 1,200 to 1,500sandhills.

“Oh I got all excited about it, Ireally did,” he said. “I’m 83 yearsold, and that’s the first time that’shappened to me.”

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Greater sandhill cranes

near Medaryville, Indi-

ana, in 2017.

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Sandhill cranes, seen in August in Heathrow, Florida, fly in from as far

south as Florida and typically travel 150 to 400 miles a day

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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Acentury after her death, MadamC.J. Walker is having a moment.

Her rags-to-riches story is thesubject of a new Netflix mini-series, “Self Made,” that startedstreaming March 20.

Oscar winner Octavia Spencerplays the unlikely millionaire, anAfrican American woman whoseparents had been enslaved.Walker toiled as a laundress be-fore building a black hair-careempire that led to vast wealth andinfluence. She amassed much ofthat in Indianapolis — a city that’scentral to her story and a placethat’s keeping her memory alivein ways big and small.

“I really hope the Hollywoodversion, which takes a lot of cre-ative license, will encourage peo-ple to want to know more,” saidWalker’s great-great-granddaugh-ter A’Lelia Bundles, whose 2001book “On Her Own Ground: TheLife and Times of Madam C.J.Walker” inspired the show.

“The Nexflix series is excitingbecause a lot more people willknow about Madam Walker, butit’s part of an overall matrix,”added Bundles, who was born inChicago and grew up in Indy.“I’m equally as excited about thereopening of the Madam WalkerLegacy Center and the fantasticexhibit at the Indiana HistoricalSociety.”

Running through Jan. 23 ofnext year, the historical society’sMadam Walker exhibit at theIndiana History Center delivers acomprehensive yet concise over-view of the woman born with thename Sarah Breedlove on a Loui-siana cotton planation in 1867 — awoman widely credited as thecountry’s first female, self-mademillionaire.

“The exhibit is cradle-to-grave,not just her time in Indy,” saidSusan Hall-Dotson, coordinatorof African American history at thehistorical society.

“She was more than just amillionaire,” Hall-Dotson said.“We show her life as a philan-thropist, activist, businesswomanand mother.”

Interactive displays tell thestory of Walker’s rise from wash-erwoman to creator of a hair-careproduct line spawned by her ownstruggles with alopecia. Visitorsfollow the footsteps of her peri-patetic life as she bounced be-tween cities such as St. Louis,where she met her second hus-band, Charles J. Walker (hencethe name on her products), andDenver, Pittsburgh, New Yorkand Indianapolis. The latter’slocation as a transportation huband its thriving black businesscommunity made it an ideal spotto relocate in 1910 and open theMadam C.J. Walker Manufactur-ing Co. headquarters.

The exhibit features old news-paper ads and round tins of Mad-am C.J. Walker’s Vegetable Sham-poo, Glossine and Wonderful

Hair Grower. Despite some criti-cism to the contrary, Walkerinsisted her products were aimedat promoting the health and ap-pearance of black women’s hair,not straightening it to conform towhite beauty standards. Photosshow some of the thousands ofAfrican Americans she enlisted inher army of Walker agents —

women who were able to escapelow-paying jobs and forge a pathto financial independence byselling her wares as “hair cultur-ists.”

A highlight of the exhibit takesvisitors back in time. Actors inperiod costume channel the per-sonas of Walker and her associ-ates, fielding guests’ questions

and demonstrating how to usethe products that paved Walker’sway into the 1%.

The exhibit also shines a lighton her struggles with racism —Walker took legal action after anIndianapolis theater charged hermore money because of her skincolor — and the considerablework she did to promote anti-lynching legislation, women’ssuffrage and other causes.

“She wasn’t trying to becomewealthy for the sake of beingwealthy,” said Tyrone McKinleyFreeman, assistant professor ofphilanthropic studies at IndianaUniversity-Purdue UniversityIndianapolis.

His book, “Madam C.J. Walk-er’s Gospel of Giving: BlackWomen’s Philanthropy DuringJim Crow,” is coming out inOctober. “She wrote and spokeconstantly about her responsibil-ity to her race and gender,” hesaid.

Her largesse included a hefty$1,000 check to help build India-napolis’ Senate Avenue YMCAfor black men. A large picture ofher next to Booker T. Washing-ton and other dignitaries at thebuilding’s 1913 dedication standsat a pocket park in Ransom PlaceHistoric District, the city’s oldestAfrican American neighborhood.

This residential area on thewest side of downtown — Walk-er’s stately brick home at 640 N.West St. is long gone — got itsname from her right-hand man,Freeman B. Ransom, an attorneyand general manager of WalkerManufacturing Co. The smallpark at the corner of Camp andWest St. Clair streets makesanother worthy stop on a MadamWalker tour of Indy. Other diver-sions include artist Sonya Clark’sgiant portrait of Walker madefrom thousands of hair combs. Ithangs in the second-floor lobby

of The Alexander hotel, wherethe bar Plat 99 recently added an“On My Own Ground” cocktail toits beverage menu in a nod toWalker.

In the Herron-Morton Placeneighborhood, the cafe FoundryProvisions named its lunch basketspecial — grilled cheese and soupof the day — after Walker, the topvote-getter among customerswho were asked which Indianap-olis woman deserved the honor.(“We had too many sandwichesnamed after men,” a staffer ex-plained.)

A far more significant tie toWalker can be found near Ran-som Place, where a four-storybuilding crowned with a “WalkerTheatre” sign in big red letterscommands the corner of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. Street andIndiana Avenue, once the buzzingmecca of black culture and com-merce in Indy. Walker bought thetriangular parcel of land with aneye toward expanding her busi-ness. She died in 1919 in NewYork at age 51 before those planscould come to fruition. Herdaughter, A’Lelia Walker, alongwith Ransom, saw her visionthrough.

Opened in 1927, the brownbrick and terra-cotta structurewith African-inspired Art Decoflourishes housed the company’sheadquarters and manufacturingplant as well as a lavish theater,ballroom, beauty salon, coffeeshop and more. Over time, thissymbol of the local black commu-nity’s pride got worn down andlargely fell out of use.

The curtain is about to riseagain in June when the iconicflatiron building, renamed theMadam Walker Legacy Center,has its grand reopening after atwo-year, $15 million renovation.The cultural arts center will offerentertainment as well as educa-tional programming, especiallythe kind that can make a tangibledifference in people’s lives, presi-dent Judith Thomas said.

“Madam was all about empow-ering people,” Thomas said. “I’dlike to do things like have an artshow in the ballroom with blackartists and have informationabout grants that are available,and a series for women withfemale speakers with resources tohelp them apply for micro loans.”

Details are still in the works,but plans also call for offeringtours of this National HistoricLandmark, including some led bya man who was there when thetheater opened.

“This was a famous cornerback in the days of dancing, jazzand the jitterbug,” said ThomasRidley, 97, who recently showedme around the theater whileconstruction workers drilled andhammered.

He paused to scan the sprawl-ing balcony through his wire-rimmed glasses, a wistful smilespreading across his face.

“This was a special place,” hesaid. “I’m glad they’re bringing itback.”

Clockwise from above: The Indiana Historical Society’s engaging exhibit about Madam C.J. Walker will run through late January; Octavia Spencer stars as Walker in the new Netflix

series, “Self Made;” The visage of Madam Walker, who once struggled with hair loss, graced the lids of her various hair-care products on display at the Indiana History Center.

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NETFLIX

Madam Walker’s own groundThe memory of this self-made millionaire depicted in new Netflix series lives on in Indiana’s capital

By Lori RacklChicago Tribune


A pocket park in the Ransom Place neighborhood celebrates the history of this area where many African

Americans in Indianapolis have lived. It’s named after Freeman B. Ransom, Madam Walker’s trusted adviser

and friend.


The “On My Own Ground” cocktail that pays homage to Madam Walker

includes Plantation O.F.T.D. rum, Hotel Tango Lemoncello and hot cider.

The lobby bar Plat 99 at The Alexander hotel recently added the drink

to its menu.



Sarah Wayne Callies isknown for her roles in thepopular series “The Walk-ing Dead” and “PrisonBreak.” The actress returnsto episodic television onMarch 24 with the newNBC series “Council ofDads.”

Born in Illinois andraised in Hawaii, Calliestravels often for her career,as well as for humanitarianwork for organizationssuch as the InternationalRescue Committee and theLEGO Foundation.

When she’s taking apersonal trip, though, shehas a tried-and-truemethod: “I ask people Iknow who grew up there(for tips). I’m happy to skipthe Eiffel Tower, the Em-pire State Building and theSydney Opera House infavor of some tiny little teashop or local art gallery orcheese-making class orhike into the middle ofnowhere.”

An edited version of ourconversation follows.

Q: What is your favor-ite vacation destination?

A: Nagano, Japan. Ispent a week there a fewwinters back and it was soextraordinary. I’ve alwaysloved Japan. It’s ancientand modern at the sametime, from the food, to theclothes, to the architecture.I stayed in a ryokan thathad been in the same fam-ily for 16 generations andate kaiseki dinner everynight. Some of the bestfood I’ve ever had. Sohealthy, delicious andprepared to look like art-work. During the day, I’dhike to see the snow mon-keys. When I came backtired and cold, there were

these onsen to soak in. I’dgo back tomorrow. It wasmagic.

Q: What untappeddestination should peo-ple know about?

A: I was in Jordan in2013. It was mostly refugeework. But I had time toexplore Aman and Petraand Wadi Rum. I thinksome Americans are afraidto travel in the MiddleEast, because so much ofour news coverage is aboutviolence and instabilitythere. But my experiencewas of such moving hospi-tality and vast history. Iloved it, the people, cul-ture, art and the food — mygoodness. If I could onlyeat one cuisine for the restof my life, it would be foodfrom the Middle East.

Q: What was the firsttrip you took as a child?

A: American Samoawhen I was 2, but I’ve onlyheard about it. I don’t haveany memories from thattrip, which is kind of heart-breaking because it’s theonly South Pacific islandI’ve been to and I’d love togo back. The first trip Ireally remember well wasWales. My parents were onsabbatical, so we livedthere for a while when Iwas 8. I went to schoolthere for a bit. They reallydidn’t like Americans atthe time, so the start was

rocky. I got the feeding-the-sheep-in-the-rainchore. But for a girl fromHawaii, sheep were exoticand the Welsh countrysidefelt like Middle Earth. Iguess over time, the kidsjust got used to me. Beforelong, I had sleepovers andfriends and it broke myheart to leave.

Q: What’s the mostimportant thing you’velearned from your trav-els?

A: We’re more similarthan we are different. It’snot complicated. Workhard and be nice to people.Food is an internationallanguage. When all elsefails, make someone a mealand eat it together. Themore I travel, the smallerthe world gets. It’s com-forting.

Q: Where is the mostromantic destination?

A: I was in Prague in1997. I’ve heard it’schanged a lot since then,but the Charles Bridge wasabout as romantic as Icould imagine. There was aman playing a glass harpand the whole placeseemed like it was just onthe other side of the look-ing glass. I’m almost afraidto go back and see if it’s alldifferent now.

For more from the reporter,visit www.jaehakim.com.

Food alanguagethat feedseveryoneBy Jae-Ha KimTribune Content Agency

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CELEBRITY

TRAVELER

It’s a familiar story inEurope: A once-importanttown falls on hard times,only to make a comebackmany years later and thrivein modern times. Add Bris-tol, England, to the list. LikeBelfast, Glasgow, and Liver-pool, this rusty old porttown is emerging with aspecial creative energy andis well worth visiting.

Known as the birthplaceof world-famous streetartist Banksy, with a handfulof his works dotting ascruffy part of town, today’sBristol has an energetic andyouthful vibe, thanks in partto a university with 50,000students. This historic yetsuddenly sassy city of ahalf-million people is therugged, industrial counter-part to Bath, just 30 minutesaway.

While Bath is refined anddressy, Bristol feels real. Itssidewalks are fortified withmetal edges to protect themfrom the crush of barrelstumbling between ships andwarehouses. So, too, the cityhas an edge — both its peo-ple and its architectureseem weathered yet dura-ble.

Bristol was built on trade.It has Europe’s highest tide(45 feet), which made thecity a muddy mess until1809, when a dam tamed thetides. The dam — with alock and embankments —created Bristol’s “FloatingHarbour,” which was a busyport until late in the 20thcentury.

During the Age of Dis-covery, Bristol really tookoff with the rise of tradewith the Americas. For acouple of centuries, the cityplayed a major role in thetriangular shuttling ofmanufactured goods, rum,port, sherry, tobacco, sugar,and — most notoriously —

slaves between Africa,America and Europe.

With the advent of theIndustrial Age, Bristolbecame England’s portfacing the west. A big partof the city’s story is theprolific work of a Victoriancivil engineering genius —Isambard Kingdom Brunel

— who designed railwaystations, train lines (theGreat Western Railway),and the iron-hulled, propel-ler-driven SS Great Britain,all to expedite trade be-tween London and NewYork City. (He also de-signed the picturesqueClifton Suspension Bridge,

the symbol of Bristol, abouta mile west of town.)

When Bristol’s portmoved to the mouth of theRiver Avon in moderntimes, the old center wasredeveloped. Unlike Bath,which protects its row-houses and keeps them auniform creamy tone, Bris-tol is known for its multi-colored “painted terraces,”coloring the surroundinghills like rainbows.

Exploring Bristol isreasonable on foot — youcan walk the center andconnect the importantsights in under an hour. Buton a day trip from Bath,you’ll want to allow severalhours for sightseeing and aharbor tour.

Fans of Banksy can ei-ther pick up a brochure fora do-it-yourself walkingtour or catch a street art-themed guided tour. Thosewanting to know the town’s

history should check outthe SS Great Britain, whichlaid the groundwork formodern shipping. At thetime the steamship wasbuilt in 1843, it was by farthe world’s biggest ship, thefirst major iron-hulledvessel, and the first ship tocross the Atlantic using apropeller.

The SS Great Britain isdrydocked a 10-minutewalk west of Bristol’s cen-ter, marked by its toweringold masts. A visit includesthe fine museum, the well-restored ship, and an im-pressive exhibit devoted toBrunel. You can get thereon a harbor tour aboard anold, long, skinny canal boaton a relaxing loop aroundthe Floating Harbour.

A short walk from the SSGreat Britain is the M-Shed, an old industrial shedthat tells Bristol’s historywith three galleries focus-

ing on places, people, andlifestyles. Historic ships areoften moored just outside,including a 1934 fireboat,the Mayflower — the oldestsurviving steam-poweredtugboat, and a modernreplica of explorer JohnCabot’s good ship, theMatthew. Cabot sailed theMatthew across the NorthAtlantic in 1497, discoveringa newfound land and clev-erly called it just that.

Back in town, take astroll down characteristicKing Street, with its histori-cal pubs and the 18th-century Bristol Old VicTheatre (which localsclaim is England’s oldestworking theater). Becauseof its strategic and indus-trial importance, Bristolwas heavily bombed by theGerman Luftwaffe inWorld War II, and you cantell where the bombs fell bythe ugly postwar devel-opment amid venerable oldbuildings.

Nearby is the Corn Ex-change Hall, the once for-mal and stately financecenter that is now a com-motion of bric-a-brac deal-ers — like a permanent fleamarket under one grandGeorgian roof. Outside,Corn Street was home toEngland’s first banks be-yond London and nowseems to celebrate thecommerce that made Bris-tol an economic power-house. Former palace-likebanks and buildings offinance are now mostlygrandiose pubs and restau-rants.

While you’ll still seebankers walking aroundtoday’s Bristol, you’ll alsolikely see old hippies, col-lege students, hordes ofcyclists, and restaurantswith vegan menus. With itsvibrant mix of old and new,Bristol is back.

Rick Steves (www.ricksteves.com) writes Europeantravel guidebooks and hoststravel shows on public tele-vision and public radio.Email him at [email protected] and follow hisblog on Facebook.

English town well worth a visit (later)

An exhibit at the SS Great Britain celebrates the engineering genius of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who designed the ship.

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Corn Street shows off the stately architecture from Bris-

tol’s financial boom years.

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QA: I’m sorry Spirit

stopped you from boardingyour flight to Las Vegas. Ifyou arrived at the airporton time, the airline shouldhave allowed you on theplane.

The airport agent misin-formed you. Check inbegins 24 hours beforedeparture and ends anhour prior to departure,according to Spirit. If youdon’t check in online, youcan use an airport self-serve kiosk or ask an agentfor help. Spirit charges a$10 fee to print eachboarding pass at thecounter.

I’m not sure where youheard about your flightbeing overbooked. Nor-mally, the airline will askfor volunteers at the gate.If it denied you boardingafter you checked in ontime without compensat-ing you, that would beillegal.

Under Department ofTransportation regula-tions, Spirit would have tooffer you compensation for

being involuntarily deniedboarding. The amount ofcompensation depends onthe length of your delay.For a delay of over twohours, for example, youwould be entitled to 400%of your one-way fare, notto exceed $1,350.

I asked Spirit aboutyour delay. Although it didnot have a record of youarriving at the airport twohours before the flight’s3:14 p.m. departure time, itdid show you tried tocheck in at its kiosk at 2:32p.m. A Spirit representa-tive said passengers musthave completed the check-in process at least 45 min-utes before their flight’sscheduled departure time.Although the 45-minutecutoff is disclosed onSpirit’s site, you say younever received any noti-fication.

Spirit should have takencare of you and your fam-ily at the airport. After all,you were at the kiosk twominutes past the cut-offtime. How about a little

compassion?You could have appealed

to one of the airline’s exe-cutives. I list the names,numbers and email ad-dresses of Spirit’s customerservice managers on myconsumer advocacy site,elliott.org.

In response to my in-quiry, Spirit said it wouldrefund your $99 rebookingfee for the next availableflight. It also offered you a$50 flight voucher as acourtesy. “We’ve sharedthe customer service theguest experienced with thegeneral manager in Phila-delphia for review andadditional training pur-poses, as we’re alwayslooking to improve,” arepresentative told me.

Christopher Elliott is theombudsman for NationalGeographic Traveler maga-zine and the author of“How to Be the World’sSmartest Traveler.” You canread more travel tips on hisblog, elliott.org, or emailhim at [email protected].

TRAVEL TROUBLESHOOTER

I deserve a refund since Spiritwouldn’t let me board my flight

By Christopher ElliottKing Features

My family and I purchased tickets to fly from

Philadelphia to Las Vegas on Spirit Airlines. We got

to the airport a little under two hours before depar-

ture. A representative told us we were required to

check in 24 hours in advance. Nowhere on my

confirmation did it say that I needed to check in 24

hours in advance.

Spirit denied us boarding because we were told

we got there too late. We discovered that was a lie.

The real reason was that the airline overbooked

and tried to weed people out. We had to pay for

tickets to leave the next day, which significantly

shortened our trip and made for a miserable experi-

ence. Plus, we had to pay for two hotel rooms and

meals.

I would like a full refund from Spirit because it

made us miss our flight for no reason, and the hor-

rible customer service was traumatizing and made

our trip miserable. Can you help?

— Michelle Strong, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania


Last summer, with her hus-band and 10-year-old twins, Hal-lie Cotnam, an Ottawa-basedjournalist, booked two rooms atMemorial University in St. John’s,Newfoundland, during the busyRoyal St. John’s Regatta boat race.Costing about 138 Canadian dol-lars, or roughly $103 a night, theirquarters included a kitchenette —allowing them to save on meals —and access to a pool, gym andconvenient public transportation.

“While there, we met othertravelers in the common areasand I was struck by their friendli-ness,” she wrote in an email. “Inthat sense it had a hostel vibe, butwas clean and bright and staffed24 hours a day.”

When students are away onsummer break, many universitiesand colleges rent rooms to trav-elers at affordable rates that re-flect their lack of frills. Schoolgroups, scout troops and studentsfrequently check in, but increas-ingly, independent travelers,families and thrifty businesspeople are finding the joys —economic and otherwise — ofhitting campus.

Accommodations range widely,from bare dormitory singleswhere you must bring your ownlinens to hotel-like rooms andfurnished apartments.

“There is variation among therooms, but a friend of minewalked into her room to discoverthat it had a grand piano,” saidBonnie Crail, 66, a small-businessowner in Austin, Texas, whostayed at the University of Oxfordin England last summer.

(On occasion, college stays canalso be expensive; while rooms atthe venerable Oxford start at 40pounds, or about $51, some canrun 500 pounds, or about $650,through UniversityRooms.com).

Chekitan Dev, a professor ofmarketing and management atCornell University’s SC JohnsonCollege of Business in the Schoolof Hotel Administration, calledthese seasonal options “pop-uphotels” from non-hoteliers, whereguests risk lackluster service,rooms and food. “As long as trav-elers make this choice with eyeswide open to expect a college-likeexperience, they will not be dis-appointed,” he said.

The following are some serv-ices that provide bargain accom-modations on college campuses.

A global serviceWhile most rental services are

regional or national, University-Rooms.com, founded in 2007with rooms at six colleges atOxford and Cambridge, nowoffers accommodations at morethan 100 universities in roughly adozen countries, with particularstrength in Britain and continen-tal Europe.

The service tends to drawbudget travelers of all ages, aswell as visitors on an academic or

business trip, or those simplyinterested in a university’s history,according to Laura Border, aspokeswoman for University-Rooms.com.

Most rooms are summer-onlyand universities set their ownrates and provide amenities, soinclusions of things like towelsmay vary. For simple single roomswith en-suite bathrooms andsupplied linens and breakfast,rates start at 65 pounds at Cam-bridge, the alma mater of CharlesDarwin; 48 pounds for a singlewith breakfast at Durham Castle,which dates back to the 11thcentury, at Durham University innortheast England; and 49 eurosfor a dorm single with access toan outdoor pool at the ColegioMayor Jaime del Amo in theuniversity district of Madrid,Spain, about 2 miles north of thecity center.

UniversityRooms.com lists justtwo U.S. locations — at TexasA&M International University inLaredo, Texas (from $20 a per-son), and four schools in Worces-ter, Massachusetts (from $50 aperson), including WorcesterState University.

Australian campusesIn addition to University-

Rooms.com’s listings in Australia,the suburban Sydney-based Uni-versity Stays offers accommoda-tions in Brisbane, Melbourne andSydney. While some are designedfor group bookings, most areavailable to individual travelersduring the Southern Hemispheresummer holidays between No-vember and February, with someavailable year-round.

In mid-March, a double roomat Robert Menzies College in the

Sydney suburb of Macquarie Parkwas recently going for 148 Aus-tralian dollars, or about $97, anight, with meals, linens and aprivate bathroom. A single in afive-bedroom apartment at West-ern Sydney University Village inPenrith, about 15 miles west ofSydney and along the train routeconnecting Sydney to the BlueMountains, was offered at 75Australian dollars a night, with-out meals but including a fullyequipped kitchen and linens.

By comparison, I found a bou-tique hotel in the center of Syd-ney for the same period for $78on Airbnb; as always, it pays toshop around.

Canadian collegesMany Canadian schools make

their residences available to trav-elers in summer. More than 100of them are listed on ConnectOn-Campus.ca, a website that acts asa central listing service linkingtravelers to the schools’ directbooking sites.

Through it, I navigated toMcGill University, with rooms indowntown Montreal from May 15to Aug. 3 starting at 49 Canadiandollars, or about $37, for a singlein a dorm, and 119 Canadian dol-lar, in hotel-like rooms.

The University of Torontocampus downtown has more than900 bedrooms available in sum-mer at its New College Resi-dences, which average 50 Canadi-an dollars a night. By comparison,STR, a hotel industry researchfirm, found Toronto’s averagedaily hotel rate was 196 Canadiandollars in 2019. The basic dormarrangements include linens andfree Wi-Fi and access to commonrooms with kitchen facilities(bring your own utensils).

Residence & Conference Cen-ter operates 21 campus residencesprimarily in Ontario with one inBritish Columbia and one inAlberta. During summer break, itoffers its suites, most equippedwith kitchens, to groups as well asindependent travelers. Its loca-tion at Southern Alberta Instituteof Technology in Calgary offersamenities like a fitness center andaccommodations ranging fromstudios to four-bedroom suites(starting around 110 Canadiandollars for a studio that sleeps twoin June, including breakfast).

London for lessLast year, the average daily rate

for hotels in London was about$197, according to STR. Comparethat to a stay at a University ofLondon room (where I intend tostay the next time I’m in London),ranging from singles in a dormi-tory with a shared bathroom(helpfully labeled “not for lightsleepers”) at 46 pounds, or about$59, to one-bedroom furnishedapartments with kitchens at 105pounds (rates include linens,weekly housekeeping and break-fast in residence hall diningrooms).

Most of the school’s roughly3,500 rooms lie in the centralBloomsbury area near sightsincluding the British Museumand Covent Garden.

Only 30 rooms are availableyear-round with the majority onoffer from the end of June to earlySeptember. Peak times, in Julyand August, are popular with U.S.university groups and are oftenbooked a year in advance.

American outliersIn the United States, travelers

will find university housingscarce. Many schools reservetheir accommodations for sum-mer school students, conferenceattendees, summer camps andresearchers.

Among those renting on ashort-term basis in summer, theUniversity Center ConferenceChicago, a residential buildingserving several universities indowntown Chicago, primarilyleases its apartments and suites tosummer interns or groups forperiods of 30 days or more. Itsshort-term rentals become avail-able after May 1 by signing up fornotifications at the website (from$65.72 a person a night, in ashared suite, including breakfast).

The University of SouthernCalifornia in Los Angeles rents itsone- and two-bedroom CardinalGardens apartments across thestreet from the main campusbetween June 1 and July 31 forstays from one to 29 nights, from$57 a person, double occupancy,per night. Expect to share a dou-ble room in one- and two-bed-room apartments with linens andkitchens but no cookware. Out-door amenities include a basket-ball court and furnished court-yard.

The Keble College dining hall at Oxford University, where room rates span a wide range, starting at 40 pounds, or about $51, and run as high as 500 pounds, or about $650, through

UniversityRooms.com.

QUINTIN LAKE/THE NEW YORK TIMES

School’s out, tourists are inCollege campuses can be a smart way to save money on lodging

By Elaine GlusacThe New York Times

Bed down in a Norman castle at University College, part of Durham University in Durham, England.

UNIVERSITYROOMS.COM/THE NEW YORK TIMES

A dorm at the University of London, where you don’t have to be a stu-

dent to immerse yourself in a higher-ed setting while saving money at

the same time.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON/THE NEW YORK TIMES


Mojave Desert. In addi-tion to California and Ne-vada, parts of it are found inArizona and Utah.

GEOQUIZ ANSWER

After encouraging salesemployees to mislead con-cerned customers about therisks of taking cruises dur-ing the COVID-19 out-break, Norwegian CruiseLine has backpedaled.

In response to a sharprise in cruise cancellationsin February, NorwegianCruise Line sales managersrecommended that em-ployees earlier this monthdo “anything for the sale,”according to a sales em-ployee in South Floridawho asked to remainanonymous for fear ofretaliation from the com-pany.

As first reported by theMiami New Times, com-pany managers down-played the threat of thevirus internally and di-rected salespeople to do thesame with customers. Man-agers told employees inmeetings, according to theemployee who spoke withthe Miami Herald, and viaemail, according to TheNew Times, to persuade

cautious clients to cruise byusing lines such as, “Thecoronavirus can only sur-vive in cold temperatures,so the Caribbean is a fan-tastic choice for your nextcruise” and “Scientists andmedical professionals haveconfirmed that the warmweather of the spring willbe the end of the co-ronavirus.”

After the New Timesstory published the cannedsales responses March 11,Executive Vice Presidentand General Counsel Dan-iel Farkas told sales staffmembers to abandon thephrases about coronavirusin an email that same day.

“Effective immediately, ifyou are referencing thebelow, please discontinueusing them,” read the email,with a list of the lines previ-ously approved and distrib-uted.

Scientists do not yetknow enough about thevirus to determine if it isresponsive to weather. TheState Department and theCenters for Disease Controland Prevention are warningall Americans, especiallythose who are older or have

underlying health condi-tions, to avoid cruise travel,citing a higher risk of infec-tion on cruise ships.

Christine da Silva, vicepresident of public rela-tions for Norwegian CruiseLine, said the company wasaware of the Miami NewTimes story and was “look-ing into the matter.”

“We remain committedto operating with integrityand providing our guestswith the best possible vaca-tion experiences across theglobe,” she said.

Norwegian Cruise LineHoldings is a Bermudancompany with head-quarters in the Florida cityof Doral. The companyoperates three cruise lines:Norwegian Cruise Line,Regent Seven Seas Cruisesand Oceania Cruises.

As part of the effort toboost sales amid masscancellations, managerstold employees not to men-tion the novel coronavirusunless customers brought itup first. However, the em-ployee who spoke with theHerald said almost everycustomer who has been intouch with the sales depart-

ment has asked about it.Sales employees make

most of their income fromcruise booking commis-sion, ranging from 1% to 5%depending on the numberof bookings closed permonth. Worried aboutcommissions, the employeeused some of the lines,particularly telling custom-ers that Norwegian wasexperiencing a “huge surgein demand” for non-Asiatrips, suggesting clientsbook their travel to avoid“paying more tomorrow.”

“Managers said it wasfine because we needed tocreate urgency for theclients,” the employee said.“They wanted us to keepbeing aggressive. A lot ofpeople were using those

lines to hook in customers.”Bob Becker, senior vice

president in the marketingdepartment, repeatedlydownplayed the virus toemployees. In a Feb. 24email to the sales teamobtained by the Herald,Becker said he was at a barwhere no one was dis-cussing the virus.

“I realize that they donot sell Corona so thereforecoronavirus is a non-issue… No one knows or caresabout the coronavirus.” Hecontinued, “This is wherewe turn it up, for everycancellation you get, workharder for your next 3bookings.”

Norwegian Cruise LineCEO Harry Sommer andother executives were

copied on the message.Becker tried to keep thetactics under wraps. In anemail with the subject line“be very careful” sent tosales staff March 9, theexecutive asked employeesto avoid journalists. “Themedia is trying to trickemployees at cruise lines tosay stuff about co-rona…………..nobody speaksto the media ever,” Beckerwrote. “We have a PR teamto do that………be cautious.”

Norwegian backs offsales tactics thatmisled customers By Jimena Tavel andTaylor DolvenMiami Herald

The Norwegian Dawn docked at Port Tampa Bay earlier this month in Tampa, Florida. In

response to a sharp rise in cruise cancellations in February, Norwegian Cruise Line sales

managers recommended that employees do “anything for the sale,” including downplaying

the coronavirus to customers, according to a sales employee in South Florida.

SCOTT KEELER/TNS

Major airlines say theyclean their planes to vary-ing degrees between flights,and that plane cleanlinessis a priority. But some trav-elers prefer the comfort ofknowing they’ve also takenmeasures of their own tosanitize their airplanespace.

There’s been increasedattention on this in recentweeks, with the spread ofthe coronavirus.

Here are some tips for

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window. ■ Disinfect hard surfaces.When you get to your seatand your hands are clean,use disinfecting wipes toclean the hard surfaces atyour seat like the head andarm rest, the seat-beltbuckle, the remote, screen,seat back pocket and thetray table. If the seat is hardand nonporous or leatheror pleather, you can wipethat down, too. Using wipeson upholstered seats couldlead to a wet seat andspreading of germs ratherthan killing them. Disin-

fecting wipes typically sayon the packaging how longa surface needs to stay wetin order for them to work.That time can range from30 seconds to a few min-utes. ■ Think before youtouch. If there’s a touch-screen television, use atissue or paper towel whentouching the screen toensure that there’s a barrierbetween a surface thatmight have droplets andyour hands, which willlikely make their way toyour face.

Passenger concerns about plane hygiene have increased in

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FORK IN THE ROADWHAT TO EAT WHEN YOU GET THERE

CINCINNATI, Ohio — I needto get my Cincinnati fix on aregular basis — say at least onceor twice a year.

Usually, one of the visits isdevoted to exploring the QueenCity’s cultural attractions (it hasmore than you might think) andthe other to checking out favoriterestaurants (again, more than youmight think.)

This time the trip was mainlyfor the purpose of eating, with afew other activities thrown inbetween meals. First things first— let’s get to the food.

Cincinnati’s culinary scene is,at least in part, influenced byseveral things: German roots,access to abundant regional pro-duce, a tradition of good beer togo with good food, and its resi-dents’ devotion to longtime favor-ite eateries.

Let’s start with the latter. Chilidoesn’t immediately come tomind when visitors arrive inCincinnati, but those who knowthe city well usually gravitate toone of its iconic chili parlors(there are more than 200 tochoose from). My choice wasCamp Washington Chili. Mod-eled after a 1950s diner — think“American Graffiti” and you’ll getthe picture — Camp Washingtonis open 24 hours a day, six days aweek (closed on Sunday). Currentowners Johnny Johnson and hisdaughter Maria Papakirk wel-come a regular clientele rangingfrom socialites sporting pearls torural workers sporting bib over-alls.

While the restaurant has anextensive menu, you come herefor its 3-, 4- and 5-way chili. Fornovices, don’t expect Texas-stylechili con carne in a bowl; theCincinnati version is more akin toa thick sauce to top spaghetti orslather on a hot dog. While itsmain ingredients are ground beefand tomato paste, it also has avariety of toppings or “ways” thatinclude cheese, onions and beans.

The real surprise is the numberof unusual spices in the flavorprofile. In addition to chili pow-der, there’s nutmeg, cinnamon,clove, cumin, bay leaf and in somecases, dark chocolate. It doesn’tmatter whether you choose tohave your chili 3-, 4- or 5-way;just be sure you choose to have itat Camp Washington Chili.

Almost as beloved as CampWashington is Montgomery InnBoathouse. If the former isknown for its chili, this placewrote the book on mouthwater-ing ribs.

You can get them slow-roasted(their original pork loin rack ribs)or slow-smoked (St. Louis-stylespareribs). If you choose thelatter, know that they use hard-wood hickory sourced from anearby farm to get just the rightamount of wood smoke. The only

thing better than the smell is thetaste.

On the night I was there, thecouple at the next table ordered aplatter with a slab of beef on itthat looked truly daunting (anddelicious). They still hadn’t fin-ished when I got up to leave.

The Boathouse has a lovelylocation right on the Ohio River(there’s a view from every table),and a rogue’s gallery of photos ofthe famous and infamous whohave dined here. It’s top heavywith athletes (they are the onlyones who can do justice to that ribplatter), but they also claim tohave served every U.S. presidentsince Gerald Ford.

For a real culinary experience,wipe that barbecue sauce off your

face and don your fanciest dudsfor dinner at Restaurant L. Thisgorgeous spot is evocative of thebest Paris has to offer, which ishardly surprising because it’s thedomain of French chef Jean-Robert de Cavel, or simply Jean-Robert to Cincy’s chic set.

Don’t be fooled by L’s elegance,and elegant it is with high ceil-ings, large windows, crystal chan-deliers and plush chairs. It may beposh, but there’s nothing stuffy orhaughty about this place. Serviceis immaculate, but friendly andnever supercilious. If you want alight, fruity rose with your steakau poivre, then that’s what you’llget — with a smile.

And the food — ah, the food.Jean-Robert believes in quality

over quantity, so most diners gofor his two- or three-course prixfixe dinners priced at $65 and$85, respectively, although foroverachievers there is a six-course menu gourmand for $125.There are Gallic touches, espe-cially in the starter courses wherefoie gras is offered either as aterrine with spinach, almonds,duck breast and riesling gelee orseared with roasted grape, duckconfit, spaghetti squash andpecans. Entrees, however, aremostly New World and featuredishes such as halibut withpumpkin risotto, braised redcabbage and fried cauliflower.Restaurant L is sophisticateddining at its best.

As for what to do in betweenmeals, take a few hours to explorethe National Underground Rail-road Freedom Center. As the firststop across the Mason-DixonLine on the Underground Rail-road, Cincinnati played an impor-tant role in the freedom move-ment. As one of the new group of“museums of conscience” in theUnited States, this beautifullycurated museum offers exhibitsthat will educate and enlightenvisitors of all races and ethnicgroups. Take a virtual bus tour tosee what Rosa Parks experienced

or walk inside a slave pen, used asa temporary holding place forenslaved people waiting to be sentsouth for sale. The whole experi-ence at the center is profoundlymoving.

You can also visit some of Cin-cinnati’s premier cultural attrac-tions, such as the Taft Museum ofArt, considered one of the finestsmall art museums in America forits collection of eclectic art fromChinese porcelains and Europeandecorative arts to works by OldMasters such as Rembrandt, Goyaand Gainsborough.

Don’t miss the restored ArtDeco Union Terminal containingthe Cincinnati Museum Center —a new exhibit about the Mayacivilization opened in March — orthe Cincinnati Art Museum,beautifully situated in Eden Parkand boasting a 60,000-piececollection spanning 6,000 years.

For a different type of art,check out the American SignMuseum where you can take awalk down memory lane courtesyof 900 actual signs dating back to1890. From a neon HOJO sign to afull-size fiberglass replica of theFrisch’s Big Boy to a rotating neonwindmill from a Denver dough-nut shop, this museum will haveyou overdosing on nostalgia.

A heaping helping of meat, beans, onions, cheese and spaghetti go into a plate of 5-way chili at Camp Washington.

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Where to eat in CincinnatiQueen City canserve up a feastfit for a kingBy Patti NickellTribune News Service

Hearty rib platters are a specialty at Montgomery Inn Boathouse, where diners also get views of the Ohio River.

MONTGOMERY INN BOATHOUSE

French chef Jean-Robert de Cavel’s Restaurant L has a reputation forsophisticated cuisine, such as this halibut dish. Most diners go for thetwo- or three-course prix fixe dinners, but the six-course menu gour-mand is an option too.

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Modeled after a 1950s diner — think “American Graffiti” and you’ll getthe picture — Camp Washington is open 24 hours a day, six days a week(closed Sunday).

CINCINNATIUSA.COM

If you’re looking for respitefrom this winter’s weather andnews, you’ll find plenty of peaceand quiet in the spring offeringsbeginning to show up at homedecor retailers.

Two of the biggest trends athome furnishings trade showshave been pop-culture maxi-malism and modern minimalism.The former is loaded with vibrantimagery and color; the exuberantdesigns are upbeat and uplifting.The latter, however, is for thosewho want home to be a sanctuary.This is clean, modern decor witha handcrafted, soul-nourishingapproachability, replete withnature references and sublimepalettes.

“We’re surrounded by thewhirring din of contemporarylife,” says Jorge S. Arango, a Port-land, Maine-based interiors stylistand co-author of seven designbooks. “It’s no wonder we wantthings that are simple and real,with hand-hewn textures thatreassure us of a connection to our

humanity.” He’s seeing the trend at all

price ranges. “We’re craving products with

the authenticity of natural materi-als, organic forms and warmtones of white,” he says. “Cream,ivory, vanilla — rather than starklyantiseptic shades — are plain,honest and uncomplicated.”

At this winter’s Ambiente inFrankfurt, Germany, one of theworld’s largest consumer goodstrade fairs, “Shaped and Soft-ened” was a trend, with thewatchwords “subtle, restful, co-herent and restrained.” The pal-ette evoked melty ice creams,warm earth and hazy summerskies.

Look for textiles with soft napand weave like cashmere orboucle; linen; knitted, crochetedand felted wool; vegan suede;shaggy sheepskin; vegetable-dyedvelvet. Items with a sustainabilityback story have growing appeal ina marketplace that has oftenfavored the replaceable andthrowaway.

Leftover alpaca, cotton andwool scraps are respun into

cream and black camp-style blan-kets at Blacksaw. These hard-working heritage pieces couldalso be hung on a wall as artwork.

Longevity is part of the plan,says Blacksaw’s founder, KyleTaylor.

“The blankets started out as avessel for design that had noexpiry date. It would be passed onfor generations; it would becomea meaningful possession — one ofthe things in your life that wasworthy of taking up space,” Taylorsays.

The interplay of light withdecoration is part of the season’ssofter side too. Hammered,buffed metals, like Target’s Lin-berg brass side table, are soft totouch and have a pleasing glow.Horchow has brass and silverpendant and table fixtures;pierced patterning turns theminto magic lamps.

Rattan and caning are in everyretailer’s spring furniture lineup.They let light travel through chair

backs and room dividers, easingthe footprint of these pieces in aroom. Woven seagrass or paperrope make for rustic yet feather-weight pendants and storageboxes at Target.

Matte finishes on ceramicsmute the material’s hardness. AtYear and Day, find Portugueseclay vessels and plates in hues likemidnight, fog, moon and day-break.

Buffing or sanding glass andmineral vessels, plates and objetsd’art give them an ethereal trans-lucence. CB2 has onyx bowls andtea light holders from Bali andThailand.

Siberian-born artist AnastasiyaKoshcheeva has her studio, Moya,in Berlin, but she harvests birchbark from her home country’staiga using methods that she saysdon’t harm the trees. She fashionsthe bark into little boxes, lightfixtures and even lounge chairs;she ships worldwide.

And then there’s pattern. If the

counterpoint trend this spring is1980s power prints and blowsyDutch florals, here, we’re lookingat discreet, understated illustra-tions that celebrate the organic.

Look for impressionist, photo-graphic and field study images offlowers at Ballard Designs. Un-fussy folk-art embroidery andearth-toned pieced panels are onthrow pillows at West Elm andTarget.

Limpid watery glazes on pot-tery by Berlin-based Anna Badurevoke frothy waves and tide pools.

Finnish artist Teemu Jarvicreates ink-pen illustrations ofwild mushrooms, animals, treesand rivers on paper, wool andcotton items. The artist says hewas inspired by the Japanesepractice of “forest bathing,” re-storative walks in the woods.

“I want my illustrations to calmyou down and make you feelgood, happy and grounded,” hesays. “I think nature has suchpower to enhance well-being.”

“The blankets started out as a vessel for design that had

no expiry date. It would be passed on for generations; it

would become a meaningful possession,” says Kyle Taylor,

founder of Blacksaw, which makes the blanket seen above.

BLACKSAW

Leftover alpaca, cotton and wool scraps are re-spun into beautiful camp-style blankets at Blacksaw, such as

in this blanket above.

BLACKSAW

Escaping from hard edges of winter,retailers’ spring offerings can help

create a soothing, sustainable — yetstylish — sanctuary at home

By Kim CookAssociated Press

SOFTSPOTS


HOMEMAKE YOUR SPACE


STYLEWHAT TO WEAR NOW

Dear Answer Angel

Ellen: My boyfriend’s faceis like leather! He won’twear sunscreen and hedoesn’t seem the least bitinterested in using moistur-izer. He says it makes hisskin feel “greasy.” Is there asingle product, not toopricey, that you can recom-mend that does the job anddoesn’t have a femininescent?

— Lizzie W.

Dear Lizzie: Wrinkles andskin cancer are dangers oftoo much sun exposure —even if the sun barelyshines all winter where youlive. That said, I don’t knowmany men (except maledermatologists) who takethose consequences veryseriously. So, if you wanthim to moisturize and usesunscreen you’ve got tohelp him make it part of hisdaily routine. Here’s how:Go to the drugstore and buyhim some CeraVe AMFacial Moisturizing Lotionbroad spectrum SPF 30(walgreens.com, $13.49). Itisn’t greasy or gunky likesome sunscreens. It doesn’tsmell girlie — just a very

slight unisex scent. Inciden-tally, it works just as well onwomen as it does on men.Once he sees how painlessthis is, maybe you can evenget him to use CeraVe PMFacial Moisturizing Lotion(without the sunscreen) atbedtime. Good luck and letme know how it goes.

Dear Answer Angel Ellen:

Those chunky square-heeled shoes. Are there anyalternatives for us olderfolks who remember themas church organist/old ladyshoes?

— Rachel E.

Dear Rachel: Those of uswho wore those chunkyblock-heel shoes in the ’70smight take offense at yourdescription. But, theyweren’t flattering then andthey are still clunky looking(although comfortable)today. Fortunately, there aremany options. Recent high-fashion runway shows likeDior for spring featured alot of ballet flats, even fordressy occasions. So that’sone alternative. If you wantto wear a heel but not thetowering stilettos favoredby Nancy Pelosi and Melan-ia Trump (how can theywalk in those?), there’salways the kitten heel — atapered heel 1-2 incheshigh.

Dear Answer Angel Ellen:

I remember watching afashion makeover show and

some guy was the subjectand the first thing they didwas tell him he was a largenot an extra large becauseall his clothes were XL andtoo baggy. He thought hewas an XL and the clothes,he felt, had a loose fit,which he thought wascorrect. So, any guidelinesif you’re right on the borderand don’t know if youshould go a certain size, orone size smaller or larger?

— Jay J.

Dear Jay: Because thereare no agreed upon sizingstandards, you might needan L in one style or brand ofshirt (or sweatpants orwhatever) and an XL inanother. If you’re buyingonline, the products usuallyhave a size chart to guideyou but they’re not fail-safebecause they’re dependenton you to do the measuring(chest, length, etc.) pre-cisely they way they did.Really, it’s a crapshoot. Thesame goes for women’sclothing. I’ve been an XL inone fashion and an XS inanother. Trying the clotheson is the only way to besure of the fit — but bear inmind that some clothingshrinks in hot water or thedryer! If I like the fit andfear shrinkage, I wash incold/delicate and line dry.As for the issue of wearingclothes that are baggy, Ithink both men and womenare more likely to wearclothes that are too tight

rather than too loose.Wearing a garment thattruly is too big is not goingto make you look smaller. Amirror and a brutally hon-est good friend are twoassets when choosing whatsize looks best.

Angelic Readers 1Thanks to so many read-

ers for their willingness toshare stain removal tips fortackling sunscreen stains.Here’s another: Deborah L.has this homemade stainremover that she says hasworked on set stains thatdidn’t budge until she triedthis DIY formula. “I mixedthis up and it removedthem all. You must get thestain area wet. Then spreadthe mixture over it. Let it sita bit then use a brush onthe fabric. You can keepadding more if it’s stub-born. I think it also worksbest when made fresh.”

Mix: ■ 1 teaspoon Dawn dishsoap■ 2 tablespoons bakingsoda■ 4 tablespoons hydrogenperoxide

Angelic Readers 2

Thanks to Susan I. andAnn C. for their suggestionsfor Pat S. who wanted tosell her vintage weddinggowns. Another option is todonate them to be made

into burial gowns — “angelgowns” — for deceasedinfants. NICU HelpingHands (nicuhelping-hands.org), Little AngelGowns (littleangelgo-wns.org) and the Emma &Evan Foundation (evefoun-dation.org) have willingvolunteers to sew the burialgowns, hoping to bringsome comfort to parentswho have lost a child.

Reader RantJeanne S. says: “I hate tosee women in trousers witha raggedy frayed hem in theback because the hemdrags on the ground andthey are unaware that theycould pay someone to hemtheir pants to the properlength.”

From Ellen: Some expen-

sive jeans come that waywith intentionally ragged,unfinished hems. It’s acurrent style. But you’retalking about a differentsituation in which the hemwear and tear is caused bytoo-long pants dragging onthe ground. It is not just awomen’s issue. Plenty ofmen wear pants — khakisand jeans — with this side-walk sweeper effect. I’mpretty sure many of themen and women who wearthese pants are aware thatthey could have themhemmed but don’t care.

Now it’s your turnSend your questions,

rants, tips, favorite finds —on style, shopping, makeup,fashion and beauty — [email protected].

Getting men to take skin care seriously

Ellen WarrenAnswer Angel

If you want your male partner to moisturize and use sun-

screen, you’ve got to help them make it part of their daily

routine.

DREAMSTIME

Since hand-washing hasbecome the national pas-time, we set out to findChicago’s top soap shop.Meet Merz Apothecary, theLincoln Square shop that’sbeen selling natural lotionsand potions since 1875 andstocks over 700 specialtysoaps, most of which aren’thousehold names.

Sure, good old Ivory stilldoes the trick. But if youwant to shake things up —think Dr. Theiss Natur-waren’s Marigold Soap,Icelandic moss soap, Span-ish fig and nutmeg washbar or Hungarian paprikasoap — Merz is the placefor you.

I checked in with Merzowner and self-describedbar-soap junkie AnthonyQaiyum to talk soap.

Q: Do you really stock700 soaps?

We were discussing thatearlier. Right now we haveover 700 different barsoaps.

Q: Have soap salesincreased with all of thehand washing that’s go-ing on because of thecoronavirus?

Yeah, we’re definitelyseeing an increase. It’s beena very busy couple ofweeks.

Q: Are you the largestpurveyor of soaps inChicago?

We’ve been trying to finda larger purveyor in thecountry or even the world.I can’t claim that withcertainty, but I’ve neverseen any place in the coun-try that offers more thanwe do.

Q: What makes a greatbar of soap?

We are looking for some-thing special, and that canbe a number of things. I’mnot an expert in all thechemistry of soap, but I’vegrown up my whole lifewith soap. When we testone out, we know if it’soverly dry, or harsh on the

skin. What is the scent?What is the origin? Becauseyou know, there’s a ro-mance to having a Por-tuguese soap or a Japanesesoap or a great Italian orAmerican soap. That’s partof the enjoyment. Findingsomething that has a greatstory and a great process.And finally the packaging.When you open up a bar ofsoap with a great design, itslike everything else in theworld: It makes you feelbetter about your day andyour daily routine to usesomething that feels great,smells great and looksgreat.

Q: Where did your love

of soap come from?I have a love of bar soaps

that was nurtured by Abd-ul, my father. If you want totrace the love of soap in thebusiness, you have to gowith my dad, who wasobsessed with always find-ing the best soaps. He grewup in India and moved toPakistan after the partition,so he’s a true child of thatera when India split. Hehad the soaps that weremade there, and had thisexposure through theBritish presence and fineEuropean soaps that hegrew up with. There is anevolution of soap where it’salmost gone back to tradi-tional soap-making, and as

he got involved in thisbusiness, I think that mydad saw that early on in histime here. When he boughtthis store in the ’70s, herealized that the chaindrugstore soaps were not asgood as the soaps that hegrew up with.

Q: What’s the mostunique soap that youcarry?

I’d say the Santa MariaNovella soap. That’s prettyunique because of the his-tory of the company.They’re still made in thewooden casks and hand-poured into molds thathave been used for hun-dreds of years. That is

something that makes itextremely special. I’m alsoexcited right now aboutthe Zador soaps fromHungary. They contain aspecific mineral from athermal lake in Hungarythat has a high mineralcontent. They’re also beau-tifully packaged and smellamazing. To find some-thing that’s done at a reallyhigh level of quality anddesign sensibility but alsohas skin benefits — I’mvery excited about thatright now.

Q: Of all of the soapsthat you have carried,what’s a personal favor-ite?

There’s one. (Laughs.)Yeah, it’s not everybody’sthing. It smells sulfury andweird — Pitys vegan PineTar Soap. Luminaire is thebrand. It’s made with purepine tar and made by alocal guy in Chicago.

It changes. I love soap somuch. I’m such a bar-soapjunkie.

Merz Apothecary, 4716 N.Lincoln Ave., and an out-post in the Palmer House, 17E. Monroe St.

Wash your hands in styleWelcome to theChicago shopwith over 700kinds of soap

By David Syrek

Nesti Dante’s Horto

Botanico artichoke soap

is enriched with vegetal

extracts that the skin

loves, and the energizing

scent of artichoke brings

a refreshing element to

your morning routine.

Zador’s My First Soap is a

hypoallergenic soap de-

signed specifically for the

needs of your baby’s skin.

Zador’s Paprika soap incor-

porates the healing proper-

ty of Hungary’s Hévíz ther-

mal lake, as well as shea

butter to firm and moistur-

ize dry, dull and flaky skin.

BRIAN CASSELLA/CHICAGO

TRIBUNE PHOTOS

Santa Maria Novella’s pomegranate hand soap is crafted using

19th-century equipment, hand-molded and aged for 60 days, and

wrapped by hand. The all-natural whole milk formula is infused with

the classic Florentine scent of pomegranate oil for a lather that is

rich, gentle and softly moisturizing.

Luminaire Body Care

Co.’s handmade Pitys

Pine Tar Soap has a

bold pine fragrance.

Pine tar is a natural

antiseptic and germi-

cide made from the

distillation of pine

wood.

Spa Ceylon’s Ceylon Tea Ylang

Luxury Soap is a creamy, natural

cleanser infused with a soothing

blend of green, white and black

teas rich in natural antioxidants

and nutrients. The brand is in-

volved in multiple projects that

support and enrich the Sri

Lankan community and encour-

age fair trade.

The Tabula Rasa bar soap by

1000 + 1 Seife is handcrafted in

Berlin using nourishing natural

oils and botanical extracts.

The soap is formulated espe-

cially for guys, with natural

exfoliants and the aroma of

vetiver and cardamom.


THE GOODSYOUR HUNT IS OVER

Coronavirus fears caused the cancella-tion of Chicago’s massive The InspiredHome Show, which can bring in up to60,000-plus attendees, but we were stillcurious about what new products wouldhave been there.

About 5,000 brands bringing tens ofthousands of products were expected atthe show, previously known as the House-wares Show. A canceled show didn’t stopus from reaching out to vendors to discovernew and innovative products.

Consider this your virtual InspiredHome Show.

Growler Werks uKeg NitroCold Brew Coffee MakerWhy we like it: Nitro cold brew coffees area great treat at the coffee shop because it’stough to make the creamy, draft-style javaat home. Enter Growler Werks uKeg NitroCold Brew Coffee Maker. It’s an integratedcold brew coffee maker and dispenser inone. A patented Nitro pressure system andregulator cap lets users keep and store upto 12 cups of creamy, nitro-infused coffeefresh-tasting for weeks. Double-wall stain-less-steel vacuum insulation keeps thebrew cold all day so you can take it on thego. $149, growlerwerks.com

Townew Self-Sealing,Self-Changing Garbage CanWhy we like it: Getting a whiff of lastnight’s fish dinner in the garbage can isgross. The Townew, a self-sealing, self-changing garbage can by Knectek Labs,may solve this problem. The can seals inodors by using a built-in thermoplastic sealthat encloses the trash bag. The lid openshands-free by using infrared sensors todetect when waste is within about a foot ofthe can. Those same sensors alert the userwhen the bin is too full to take that last bitof trash and will lift its top compartment tocatch overflow and avoid spillage. Whenit’s time to take out the trash, press a button

on Townew and the can drops a new bagfrom a refill ring that fits inside. $119.95,townew.us

Rocean One Water StationWhy we like it: Hate single-use contain-ers, but still love your fizzy, flavored water?Rocean One (pronounced ro-shen) mayhelp you kick the can (or plastic bottle).This countertop device filters, carbonatesand adds flavors to ordinary tap water.Drinkers can select their preferred level ofcarbonation and flavoring by popping in arecyclable Keurig-type pod. Pod flavors aremade of natural, non-GMO, plant-basedflavors and enhancements and can makeup to 48 servings with two pods. Users canmake up to 32 ounces at a time of carbon-ated flavored water in less than a minute.Expected to be available at the end of theyear, it will come with a starter pack of twopods and a CO2 container for carbonation.Estimated price, $349, rocean.com

Zojirushi Micom Toaster OvenWhy we like it: If you’re going to have anappliance take up precious counter space,it better look good and work hard. Zo-jirushi Micom Toaster Oven checks thoseboxes. The oven has 12 functions, includ-ing a “homemade” function that proofsshaped dough and automatically switchesto bake bread. Micro-computerized tech-nology ensures precise temperature con-trol with specialized temperatures fortoast, pizza and cookies, roasting, broilingand other functions. Double thermostatsprevent it from overheating. It’s bigenough to toast four slices of bread andbake a 12-inch pizza in a small footprint.Available in May. Estimated price, $251,zojirushi.com

De’Longhi All-in-OneCappuccino, Espresso and Coffee MakerWhy we like it: You like espresso drinks.Your partner needs a pot of traditionalcoffee to get started in the morning. Twocoffee machines on the counter takes uptoo much room. The All-in-One combina-

tion by De’Longhi gives you the best of bothworlds by brewing both drinks at once in acompact footprint. DeLonghi’s digital touchscreen makes this machine easy to use foreither espresso or drip coffee, while thebrew system extracts maximum flavor andaroma for a robust and rich coffee experi-ence. Users can use ground coffee or coffeepods in the two-in-one Crema filter holder.Available in the fall. Estimated price,$299.99, delonghi.com

Ardent Nova FX Edibles InfuserWhy we like it: Think of the Nova FX as an

Easy-Bake Oven for cannabis edibles.The kitchen device activates, infuses,melts and bakes up to four ounces ofcannabis plant material without emittingodor. It has four settings, including THCto turn cannabis into an activated prod-uct to sprinkle on food, an infusion set-ting for edible or inedible products, and abake setting to make cakes, breads andother edibles. It also has a special settingto use CBD, which has different temper-ature requirements. Like an Easy-BakeOven, Nova FX plugs in to bake, so it’sportable and works in small spaces. Oncedetached from its base, the unit is dish-washer safe. Available in April. $350,ardentcannabis.com

Some cool fromcanceled showHome Show productsworth a good lookBy Debbie Carlson Growler Werks uKeg Nitro Cold Brew Cof-

fee Maker

GROWLER WERKS

Townew Self-Sealing, Self-Changing

Garbage Can

TOWNEW

Ardent Nova FX Edibles Infuser

ARDENT

Rocean One Water Station

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Nicholas LampsonJAMES C. SVEHLA/PHOTOS FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Giordano Dance Chicago hosted its third annual LegacyBall on Feb. 29 at the Ravenswood Event Center.

Held amid pricey classic cars and vintage neon signs,the event was a record-breaker, exceeding previous attend-ance and revenue projections with over 300 guests and theraising of $120,000 to support GDC’s outreach programsand general operations. Partygoers enjoyed an eveningfilled with pop-up dance performances, lavish food sta-tions and a salute to Pamela Crutchfield, a longtime advo-cate for the arts in Chicago and beyond.

The night began with a VIP reception where companydancers greeted attendees. The party then moved to theShowroom, so named because the space originally servedas a billboard factory in the 1920s. Its soaring 45-foot ceil-ings with a glass-enclosed atrium was a dramatic backdropfor the Hayes collection of vintage European and Ameri-can sports cars that were on display.

GDC artistic director Nan Giordano introduced Crutch-field, this year’s Legacy Ball honoree, and GDC executivedirector Michael McStraw praised Crutchfield for herongoing support.

“Chicago has one of the strongest dance communities inthe entire nation, and that comes because of the work thateach of us as artists, companies and supporters do,” hesaid. “But the particular thing that makes our dance com-munity stronger than any other in the U.S. is Pam Crutch-field. She puts her heart and soul behind everything to dowith Chicago dance.”

Guest choreographer Autumn Eckman announced viavideo that her world premiere work “Retroverse” wouldbe dedicated to Crutchfield. The work features a commis-sioned score by Chicago composer Dan Myers.

Freelance writer Candace Jordan is involved in many localorganizations, including some whose events she covers. Sheis a member of the GDC board of directors.

Natasha Overturff, from left, Jack Halbert and Linnea

Stureson Tolbert

Artistic director Nan

Giordano and executive

director Michael McStrawTrey Gonzales and board

Chair Kip Helverson

Giordano Dance Chicago company surrounds honoree Pam

Crutchfield

Melissa Matarrese, from left, Daniel McEnerney, hon-

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Ashley Downs and Adam

Houston

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Hehmeyer and Elise

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Dear Miss Manners:Wehave two cats, a Siameseand an orange tabby, bothabout 2 years old. Whenthe tabby uses her litterbox, it’s disgustinglysmelly. My husband justsits there and says, “Whenyou have pets, they comewith smells.”

I think we should elimi-nate the smells as much aspossible. What if we hadcompany over?

I think even one usewith fresh litter is one toomany. I think he’s trying togaslight me and he’s justbeing lazy.

Gentle reader: If guestsare present, then smelly catboxes should not be. Thisdoes not, however, settlethe question you pose.

Household questionsshould be decided by mu-tual agreement, with bothsides giving greater weightto situations that causegreater discomfort. Itwould seem that yourhusband would, if he con-sidered it, concede that thediscomfort of having to getup is less than the discom-fort of smelling cats. Andthis can be further offset byrelocating the cat box or bytaking turns changing thelitter.

Dear Miss Manners: Ihave two great-nieces, ages6 and 3. The 6-year-old hasinsisted on “helping” peo-ple open their gifts, to thepoint of opening the giftand giving it to the recipi-ent. I think it’s ill-man-nered. When I buy a giftfor anyone, I want theperson receiving it to openit and know it’s from me.

For the 3-year-old’sbirthday, I bought hersomething I knew she

would love. I prepared forthe 6-year-old to zoom inon the opening of gifts,and, sure enough, shestarted to open my gift andthe card. As gracefully aspossible, I went over to the6-year-old and said,“Please let her open herown gift and card.”

The children’s motherand grandmother insistedshe was just trying to help,and tsk-tsked me as every-one looked on. The 3-year-old enjoyed her gift withsuch delight and was obliv-ious to any of the sillinessthat occurred. She happilycontinued “opening” hergifts.

Later, the mother, myniece, called me aside andsaid the 6-year-old wascrying and upset that Iasked her not to open thegifts.

I think it’s wrong of myniece and her mother (mysister-in-law) to continueto promote such bad man-ners.

Gentle reader: This is aproblem that will soonsolve itself, as the childrenget older, decide that theyare tired of being out-ranked and start to fightback. For now, however,Miss Manners recom-mends that you stay out ofit, except when it comes topresents given to you.Then you may say, “Thankyou, but I like to open giftsby myself, just as you do.” Ifyou want to expedite theprocess, you may add con-spiratorially to the young-est victim, “Right, Millie?Isn’t it fun to open yourown presents?”

Dear Miss Manners: I amattracted to a close friend;however, she is engaged tosomeone else. From herattitude and what I am toldby her, it seems she is lessthan satisfied with therelationship. I feel an at-traction between us. Wereshe simply dating, I wouldnot think twice aboutpursuing a relationship. Is

it wrong to pursue anotherwho is engaged unhappily?

Gentle reader: Were shein the morals business,Miss Manners would an-swer “yes.” Being in theetiquette business, sheanswers “yes” — but for adifferent reason. Implyingthat your friend has bothpoor judgment — sheshould not be engaged toher current suitor — and isuntrustworthy — she hasfeelings for you, whileengaged to another — isimpolite. It is also unlikelyto be effective. Instead,listen sympathetically, andwait.

Dear Miss Manners:

Does one need to make anytype of acknowledgmentwhen having a conversa-tion in which both peoplepronounce the same worddifferently? I’m not talkingabout words that haveregional influences, such as“car” and “caah,” but morelike “dachshund” (“dock-sund” vs. “dashhound”)and others.

I realize that bothparties believe they arepronouncing the word thecorrect way; it’s just thatsometimes I get this awk-ward feeling when we goback and forth multipletimes using the same word,as if it’s “dueling pronun-ciations.”

Gentle reader: If youcannot change the subjector laugh it off (“Oh, I neverknew how to pronouncethat”), at least change theword. Miss Manners real-izes this will be easier if itis not being used to iden-tify which of many dogsare involved in this scrum.

To send a question to theMiss Manners team ofJudith Martin, NicholasIvor Martin and JacobinaMartin, go to missmanner-s.com or write them c/oUniversal Uclick, 1130Walnut St., Kansas City,MO 64106.

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When Christa Haynesand her husbandbought their Aurorahouse in 2017, shepresented each

mortgage lender with a raft of paper-work proving the source of her incomeas an agent for New York Life, a na-tional insurance company.

Despite her long track record in theinsurance industry and her new cor-porate job with the company, lendersshrugged.

“Even though I was starting tomake a salary, the paperwork showedmy financial history based on commis-sions, and lenders didn’t believe me,”she said. “I had to get additional docu-mentation.”

In April, Haynes, 42, will cycle outof her management job to again beself-employed — a move she knowswill put her back into lenders’ higher-risk category, should she decide to buyanother property or take out a homeequity loan.

“Even though you succeed andmake money, commission income issuspect. You can’t just self-report,”Haynes said. “You have to prove tothem that you can make the pay-ments.”

Haynes’ experience over fourhouses and 18 years of homeowner-ship is a case study in the tricky inter-section of the gig economy and homeeconomics. Unlike salaried income,lenders have a different way of evalu-

ating side hustles and self-employ-ment.

Lenders and financial advisers whowork with entrepreneurs say thesmartest way to overcome lenders’skepticism is to overdo everything: putdown more than the minimum whenbuying; provide copious paperwork toprove what you earned and how; andstoke your financial cushion so erraticgig cash flow doesn’t undermine yourfinancial stability and standing whenyou buy and own a house.

That goes for those working sidejobs, as well. Illinois residents whopick up work on the side brought in anadditional $648 per month on averagefrom 2017 to 2019, compared to thenational average of $624, according toanalysis by Steady, an Atlanta-basedfinancial service that helps gig work-ers track their earnings. The Steadyapp has been downloaded 1.2 milliontimes.

And while gig work and self-em-ployment is popular with people of allages — even into retirement — it’smillennials, who are in their primefirst-home-buying years, who are mostlikely to rely on nonsalaried work,according to research by accountingfirm Deloitte.

People in their 20s and 30s workingfull time through contract, freelanceor other types of gig work made anational average of $38,000 in 2015,Deloitte found. That figure was justslightly lower than salaried employeesof the same age.

Often, aspiring entrepreneurs take

on side hustles to learn the entrepre-neurial ropes and gain enough incometo achieve major financial milestones,including homeownership, said LotikaPai, managing director of the access tocapital program at Chicago’s Women’sBusiness Development Center. “If yourside work becomes more continuous,you might make it your primary hus-tle,” she said. “It can help you move upthe value chain.”

All homeowners have to mastercash flow and credit scores, and thosehoping to use gig income as a spring-board to homeownership must elevatethose skills, Pai said, and learn to applythem to personal and business goals.

Often, the center’s clients work sidehustles to acquire a house that canaccommodate their growing businessas a household-supporting enterprise,she said, as with the transition frombabysitting at families’ homes to run-ning a home-based child care business.

While career and business goalsusually align, personal and businesscash need to be managed separately toprovide proper paperwork for lenders,Pai said. “Creating a business plan,financial forecasting — all those thingshelp you get bank-ready,” she said.

Troy Molitor, founder of the Chi-cago-based mortgage brokerage Mo-liter Financial Group, said he sees gigincome as a means of boosting first-timers into homeownership.

Lenders care less about how muchyou earn and more about how consis-tent your income is, he said.

“Even if it’s just a couple hours a

week, if the mortgage lender sees thatyou are consistent, they’ll let youcount it as income,” he said.

“Consistency used to be tied to oneincome, but in the gig economy, yourconsistent income comes from a lot ofstreams,” said Danetha Doe, an ac-countant who runs Money & Mi-mosas, an online financial educationplatform. Clean, accurate records thatshow straightforward management ofall income supports an applicant’scase, she said.

Erratic income is best saved for thebig expenses that can drive even themost careful planners to credit cards,advised Doe and Molitor. Seasonal gigincome, for instance, might coverclosing fees, insurance, moving costsand the inevitable home improvementprojects. Having cash on hand protectsyour credit score from big hits — es-sential when closing on a house can bederailed by a suddenly lower score.

“There’s no greater stress thanfeeling that you’re behind the eight-ball and can’t catch up financially,”Molitor said. “Lenders don’t wantsomeone who has never owned ahouse before to get into a situationwhere they can’t make the payments.If you think you can always pick up agig, and then you can’t … that’s stress.”

Earning and managing cash frommultiple sources is a perfect exercisefor controlling the myriad financialconsiderations of homeownership,Doe added. “Managing cash flowbefore is just as important as manag-ing cash flow after you buy,” she said.

Christa Haynes of Aurora has cycled in and out of working as a commissioned representative and being a salaried employee, which led to difficulties in getting a mortgage.

MARK BLACK/FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Buying a homein the gig economy

How to beat lenders’ skepticism without a salaryBy Joanne Cleaver

A five-bedroom, 6,200-square-footColonial-style mansion in River Forestonce owned by legendary Chicago Outfitfigure Anthony “Tony” Accardo sold Fri-day for $1.13 million — exactly half whatthe sellers originally sought for the man-sion when they first listed it in 2017.

Accardo, who earned the nickname “JoeBatters” as he rose through the ranks of theChicago mob — eventually becoming theboss — and famously boasted that he onlyever spent one night in jail, owned theAshland Avenue house in River Forest inthe late 1940s and early 1950s.

Accardo, who died in 1992, sold thehome in 1951 for $80,000, at the same time

that he paid $125,000 for a much largermansion on Franklin Avenue in RiverForest.

Built in 1926, the Ashland Avenue man-sion has 3 ½ baths, three fireplaces, a sunroom, a breakfast room, a mud room, anin-ground swimming pool and a coachhouse above the three-car garage.

The sellers had owned the house since1983, when they paid $325,000 for it. How-ever, they did not end up selling it for any-where near what they had hoped. As EliteStreet first reported in August 2017, thesellers first listed it in May 2017 for $2.25million and then cut their asking price to$2.15 million, and then to just under $2.1million, before taking it off the market.

They relisted it in 2018 for just under

$1.9 million before undertaking close totwo years of price cuts. Their final pricereduction was to just under $1.2 million inOctober.

“The price reflects what’s happeningoverall with huge houses everywhere,”listing agent Stephen Scheuring of Com-pass told Elite Street. “What’s one of themost popular HGTV shows? ‘Tiny HouseHunters.’ We don’t find too many familiesthat want to buy 5,000-square-foot homes.(The buyers) did, and they love it.”

Scheuring called the house’s foyer“twice the size of most people’s livingrooms.”

“It’s palatial, and it has a really cool,

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Q: I am “getting backon my feet” financiallyand would like to knowhow I should continue toimprove my personalfinances. Is it better toprepay my mortgage,credit cards or personalloan? Is there a soundmethod that discusseswhich I should tacklefirst?

A: We’re thrilled thatyou’re trying to put yourfinancial house in order.There are a lot of disparatepieces you’ll have to pulltogether to get that done,not the least of which in-volves changing your think-ing when it comes tomoney.

So you’ve got a mortgageon your home, credit carddebt and a personal loanyou’re trying to pay off. Youshould know you’re notalone.

More than 189 millionAmericans have creditcards, and the averagehousehold carries $8,398 incredit card debt. Creditcard debt is at an all-timehigh, personal debt is rising(roughly 19.1 million con-sumers currently have anunsecured personal loan),and the total U.S. consumerdebt is at $13.86 trillion.

When you think aboutpaying down or paying offdebt, you must consider theinterest rate being chargedfor different types of debt.

Unless you had a verypoor credit score when youinitially got your loan, wethink it’s safe to assumeyour mortgage interest rateshould be less than 5%,while your credit cardloans could be as high as28%. With the personalloan, we have no idea whatannual percentage interestrate, or APR, you’re paying,but we’re sure it’s at least ashigh as your credit cards,and possibly far more.

We think you should paydown your highest interestrate loans as quickly as

possible. And to that end,you need to stop chargingon those cards (if youhaven’t already). Under-stand that if you are stillusing your credit cards,every new purchase youmake will incur interest atwhatever interest rate thatcard charges you.

Let’s say your creditcards are charging you 28%on your debt, your mort-gage is at 5% and yourpersonal loan is at 50% (onan APR). You should pay offyour personal loan first,while still making your

monthly required mini-mums on your credit cardsand mortgage.

Once you get the person-al loan paid off, throw thatpayment onto your creditcard payment, with the goalof getting your credit carddebt paid off as quickly aspossible.

We’d love to see you getyour debt paid off asquickly as possible. To thatend, you might want to cutall nonessential expensesfor several months and addthat “savings” to your creditcard debt payments.

Ilyce’s advice on how toget your debt under controlgets down to the nitty-gritty. Even cutting out a $4cup of coffee every day goesa long way toward helpingto reduce expenses.

Depending on yourcoffee consumption, youcould save $1,500 to $2,500per year! We don’t mean topick on gourmet coffee, butmost people pay for thingsthat they don’t absolutelyneed and can do withoutfor a time until they gettheir financial house inorder.

As you pay down yourdebt, you may see yourcredit score improve. Asyou see your credit scoreimprove, you may receivecredit card offers that willpermit you to transfer whatyou owe from one companyto another for a lower inter-

est rate. If you can swapsome of your debt thatcarries an interest rate of25% to a card with a maxi-mum interest rate of 15%,you can push even morecash toward paying downyour debt.

Another option has to dowith your home mortgage.Frequently, homeownershave some equity built upin their home. If they cantap into that equity to payoff credit card debt andother loans, they can thenuse that equity to pay downtheir debt even faster.

The key is to rememberthat you need to be consis-tent in paying down thedebt. You can’t simply swapone kind of debt for anoth-er and think that you don’tneed to do anything else.

If you’re able to takeenough equity out of your

home and the equity line ofcredit you are given is at aninterest rate of 4% to 7%,and you use that cash topay down your otherhigher-interest rate loans,you’re going to save awhole bunch of money ininterest.

Once you get your debtpaid off, you’ll want to startbuilding an emergencysavings account for thefuture. And then save forretirement or other short-and long-term goals.

Trust us: The journeyyou’re on is tough, buteminently worthwhile.Good luck.

Ilyce Glink is the CEO ofBest Money Moves andSamuel J. Tamkin is a realestate attorney. Contactthem through the websiteThinkGlink.com.

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Where to start with multiple debts to payBy Ilyce Glink andSamuel J. TamkinTribune Content Agency

Credit card debt is at an all-time high in the United States, personal debt is rising, and the total U.S. consumer debt is at $13.86 trillion.

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When you think about paying downor paying off debt, you must thinkabout the interest rate you’re beingcharged for different types of debt.

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Just as with anyone you hire, choosing the right mortgage broker canmean the difference between a smooth, cost-effective process and abumpy one with higher costs. Arguably the best place to start is withrecommendations from people you know, as favorable word of mouthis one of the strongest indicators that a broker delivers good value toclients.

Interviewing prospective brokers is important, and you’ll want to askseveral questions. An obvious one is how they charge for their service.

The most typical arrangement is 1-2% of the loan amount. But otherfee types exist so it’s important to clarify, as well as whether the fee willbe folded into closing.

Another important question is what lenders the broker works with, andhow broad that field is. The more options, the better the chance of yourbroker finding you a top rate and/or low fees.

To get a sense of the rates a broker can provide, you can ask themfor a quote if you provide specifics on your credit score, desired loanamount, and planned down payment. If interviewing multiple brokers,ask for rate quotes on the same morning as mortgage rates changedaily.

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3 bedrooms & 2.1 bathsLINDSAY EVEREST

312.268.2707

4940 S Lake Shore D$890,000

3 bedrooms & 2.2 bathsKIMBERLY CHASE-HARDING

773.957.3599

405 N Wabash Ave 4909$850,000

2 bedrooms & 2.1 bathsDAVID ZWARYCZ

312.405.1843

950 N Michigan 2604$849,500

2 bedrooms & 2.1 bathsBARBARA LAKEN

312.642.1400

742 N LaSalle St 5$849,000

4 bedrooms & 2.1 bathsJUDI NEWBOLD312.919.9992

132 E Delaware Pl 5405$849,000

2 bedrooms & 1.1 bathsDANIELLE DOWELL

312.391.5655

33 W Ontario St 40B$835,000

3 bedrooms & 2.1 bathsDONNA URBIKAS

312.268.2732

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512 N Mcclurg Ct 4007$829,000

3 bedrooms & 2 bathsMICHAEL MAIER312.520.6572

456 N Carpenter St 3$814,900

3 bedrooms & 2 bathsLUCYNA WRUCHA

312.509.0146

1603 N Cleveland Ave$810,000

3 bedrooms & 2.1 bathsMEREDITH PIERSON EDWARDS

630.881.6741

1309 N Bosworth Ave 2$799,800

2 bedrooms & 2.1 bathsTATIANA PERRY773.551.6554

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910 N Lake Shore 1119-20$799,000

3 bedrooms & 3 bathsANNA BUSALACCHI

773.230.7631

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195 N Harbor Dr 2502$795,000

2 bedrooms & 2 bathsKATHLEEN KISER

312.893.3550

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505 N Lake Shore 3108$775,000

2 bedrooms & 2 bathsAELEE HAN224.388.0257

2741 N Mildred Ave 3N$750,000

2 bedrooms & 2 bathsDAVID ZWARYCZ

312.405.1843

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955 W Monroe St 3D$715,000

2 bedrooms & 2 bathsJULIE BOUCHARD

312.560.3211

400 E Randolph 3313$699,000

2 bedrooms & 2 bathsSHELLEY AND WALTER STUNARD

312.540.9000

1429 N Wells St 304$665,000

2 bedrooms & 2 bathsMONIQUE CROSSAN

312.893.8104

1765 W Altgeld St C$664,999

4 bedrooms & 2.1 bathsMARIA THANASOURAS

312.296.4114

346 W 24th St$660,000

3 bedrooms & 2 bathsYING LI

312.929.5516

3150 N Sheridan 25CD$650,000

3 bedrooms & 3 bathsTIMOTHYGUNTHER

312.944.8900

500 W Superior St 2113$649,888


312.330.3211

1423 W Catalpa Ave 1$649,000

3 bedrooms & 2.1 bathsRICHARD DIVITO

312.475.4189

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5021 N Northwest Hwy$629,900

4 bedrooms & 3.1 bathsJASON PARKE312.475.4519

2826 W Fletcher St 1$599,900

3 bedrooms & 2.1 bathsAKOS STRAUB312.620.0420

NEW LISTING

1723 W George St$589,000

2 bedrooms & 2.1 bathsDANIELLE DOWELL

312.391.5655

330 W Diversey 1602-04$575,000

3 bedrooms & 3 bathsPAUL WAITZ312.893.8179

1131 E 50th St 1A$550,000

4 bedrooms & 2.1 bathsLILIANNA SEKULA-LARK

773.501.1913

33 W Ontario St 51A$530,000

2 bedrooms & 2 bathsDONNA URBIKAS

312.268.2732

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1414 N Wells St 201$525,000

2 bedrooms & 1.1 bathsJAMES ZILTZ630.890.2182

4880 N Clark St 2D$525,000

3 bedrooms & 2 bathsSHAY HATA312.600.7510

100 E Huron St 1202$515,000

2 bedrooms & 2 bathsKAREN RANQUIST

312.475.4542

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3918 N Southport Ave 1N$510,000

3 bedrooms & 2 bathsKELLEY LYNCH312.501.1852

4936 S Indiana Ave$499,900

4 bedrooms & 3.1 bathsHILARY PENDER773.876.8234

NEW PRICE

175 E Delaware Pl 5003$499,000

2 bedrooms & 2 bathsMARGARET NAGEL

312.301.6400

NEW PRICE

2626 N Lakeview Ave 3503$499,000

3 bedrooms & 2.1 bathsMARLA NYBERG

312.893.8118

NEW PRICE

421 W Melrose St 10A$499,000

2 bedrooms & 2 bathsLAURA TOPP773.419.0076

175 E Delaware Pl 5909$495,000

2 bedrooms & 2 bathsMARGARET NAGEL

312.301.6400

1464 S Michigan 1601$494,900

3 bedrooms & 2 bathsAKOS STRAUB312.620.0420

NEW LISTING

3848 N Nottingham Ave$489,900

4 bedrooms & 3.1 bathsAKOS STRAUB312.620.0420

500 W Superior St 1402$485,000


312.330.3211

5254 N Ashland 2S$485,000

2 bedrooms & 2 bathsSCOT GREEN773.405.0488

500 W Superior St #709$485,000

2 bedrooms & 2 bathsCHARLES HEAVER

312.404.2861

1703 N Sheffield Ave 2$485,000

2 bedrooms & 2 bathsRICHARD DIVITO

312.475.4189

NEW PRICE

5946 W Berenice Ave$475,000

3 bedrooms & 2.1 bathsEDIN ESCOBAR312.642.1400

2918 W Lyndale St 1$475,000

3 bedrooms & 3 bathsBETH GOMEZ773.727.1707

6249 N Ridgeway$475,000

4 bedrooms & 4 bathsTED KUHLMANN773.640.1089

4956 N Kilpatrick Ave$474,900

5 bedrooms & 3 bathsKIMBERLY SAYDAK

312.602.6437

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1528 N Claremont Ave 3S$465,000

2 bedrooms & 2 bathsJIM STREFF773.490.1578

1429 W Henderson St 2$459,900

2 bedrooms & 2 bathsANDREA GELLER

312.642.1400

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5846 W Dakin St$459,000

4 bedrooms & 3 bathsKATRINA DE LOS REYES

847.337.0507

5253 W Devon Ave$459,000

4 bedrooms & 2.1 bathsMICHAEL KANG312.944.8900

910 N Lake Shore 818$459,000

2 bedrooms & 2 bathsRACHEL RAND MARTELL

312.268.7619

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3740 N Lake Shore 9A$457,500

3 bedrooms & 3 bathsSTEPHANIE DERDERIAN

312.268.0725

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1875 N Sheffield Ave B$455,000

2 bedrooms & 2.1 bathsPATTY MORAN-BAROCIO

773.851.2475

5555 S Everett Ave 8D$450,000

4 bedrooms & 3 bathsBEKI DARIN773.510.0859

946 N Winchester Ave 2$450,000

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312.927.0334

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2208 W Diversey N$450,000

2 bedrooms & 2.1 bathsFERNANDO BARGIONI

773.398.2828

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7558 W Palatine Ave$439,900

2 bedrooms & 2 bathsTOMAS SUMSKY773.332.0010

1350 N Astor St 10B$430,000

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635 N Dearborn St 703$429,999

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312.264.1158

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345 W Fullerton Pkwy 2908$425,000

2 bedrooms & 2.0 bathsKEITH WILKEY773.742.1318

5703 S Blackstone Ave 3$425,000

3 bedrooms & 2 bathsJASON PARKE312.475.4519

900 N Kingsbury St 826$419,900

2 bedrooms & 2 bathsNANCY A. HEARON

312.475.4595

600 N Lake Shore 1903$418,000

1 bedroom & 1.1 bathsMIA WILKINSON

312.719.9771

717 N Elizabeth St 1$414,900

3 bedrooms & 2.1 bathsLAURA TOPP773.419.0076

2148 N Sawyer Ave 102$410,000

3 bedrooms & 3 bathsREBECCA MARTINEZ

773.595.6466

500 W Superior St 1008$349,900

1 bedroom & 1.1 bathsTERRI MCAULEY

312.330.3211

NEW PRICE NEW PRICE

NEW PRICE

999 N Lake Shore 2A

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JANET OWEN312.268.0700


ADDRESS: 516 N. Armour St. in ChicagoPRICE: $4,995,000 Listed on Jan. 27, 2020

This 10,000-square-foot West Town mansion has fivebedrooms, six bathrooms and 27-foot ceilings. A land-scaped garden, lap pool, hot tub, putting green and diningarea can be found outdoors. Inside, the triple-lot homefeatures three levels of living space, two fireplaces, aMacassar wet bar, custom Archisesto kitchen with inte-grated Miele appliances, breakfast nook and hidden prepkitchen. The second floor master suite is made up of amarble master bathroom with double vanities, a steamshower, soaking tub, two walk-in closets and a terraceoverlooking the pool. The lower level features a recreationarea, fitness center, indoor driving range and a theater.Agent: Ryan Preuett of Jameson Sotheby’s InternationalRealty, 312-371-5951

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A vintage office buildingjust steps from the buzz ofState Street has been trans-formed into 176 chic urbanapartments.

Built in 1925 and for-merly known as the Hart-mann Building, it wasrenamed The Alfred afterthe building’s architect,Alfred S. Alschuler. He isbetter known for his designof the London GuaranteeBuilding, a Chicago land-mark that houses the Lon-donHouse Chicago Hotelat the southern end of theMichigan Avenue Bridge.

Developer Cedar Streetretained many of the origi-nal architectural detailswhile updating the build-ing for a modern dweller.The project included resto-ration of the brick and terracotta facade, and replace-ment of windows andmechanical systems. Theresidential floors werereconfigured, and theapartments were built outwith new baths andkitchens. Left in place wereexposed ceilings and manyof the original light fix-tures.

“We ripped this thingdown to its shell, essen-tially,” says Mark Heffron,managing partner at CedarStreet. “We think we have afun combination of fin-ished elements and rawelements.”

The unitsApartments at The Al-

fred range from studios totwo bedrooms configuredinto 17 floor plans. They arelocated on floors 2 through12.

All units are furnishedwith washers and dryers,window shades and closet

organizers.Kitchens have stainless

steel appliances, quartzcounters, subway tile back-splashes and open shelving.Duo-tone cabinets havewhite glossy uppers andbeige wood grain lowers.

Baths have quartz count-ers and white glossy van-ities. Units with one bath-room have rainforest show-ers. Two-bath units haveone rainforest shower andone with a shower and tubcombo.

About 80% of the thirdfloor is covered in hard-wood with a herringbonepattern and decorativeinlays. At some point in thebuilding’s past, the hard-wood was buried undercarpeting, but it was uncov-ered during the renovation.

“Never in a new con-struction apartment build-ing could you lay a floor likethis,” Heffron says. “Itwould be too expensive.”

Seventh-floor units haveindustrial-grade woodfloors, and the rest havefinished concrete floors.

A one-bedroom model isa corner unit measuring745 square feet. The L-shaped floor plan opens to

an elongated hallwayflanked on one side by thelaundry closet and bath,and on the other by a wallof linear closets. The hall-way leads to a light-filledgreat space with an appli-ance wall defining thekitchen. At the oppositeend are the bedroom andwalk-in closet.

The amenitiesStreet entrance to The

Alfred is as unassuming asany other basic office build-ing with a revolving door.The slim lobby, however,

with its original curvedmarble staircase andsweeping terrazzo floor,discloses a rich historiclegacy.

The connecting HeritageOutpost coffee shop, whichserves light fare and is opento the public, doubles asco-working space.

Resident amenities areclustered on the uppermostfloors of the building.

On the 13th floor are therooftop lounge and terrace— a grand indoor-outdoorspace separated by a fold-ing glass wall. The space isarranged with multiple

furniture groupings, com-munity and game tables,work stations, a pool table,a kitchen, grilling stationsand a dog run. The interiorwalls are lavished withoriginal artwork and thrift-store bric-a-brac. The ter-race is subdivided for inti-macy with raised gardenbeds.

On the 14th floor is thefitness center, which isstocked with cardio- andstrength-training equip-ment.

Any resident in the suiteof Flats-branded residences

is able to use the amenitiesof any other Flats building,Heffron notes.

The folks behind it

The Alfred was devel-oped by Chicago-basedCedar Street. The compa-ny’s Flats division is mar-keting, leasing and manag-ing the building.

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winding staircase,” he said.Scheuring also noted the house has a

basement mural of an ocean that was in-stalled by Accardo. Accardo’s long-agoownership of the mansion wasn’t an issuefor most who toured the house, althoughone family was repelled by it, Scheuringsaid.

“I decided early on that I would showthe house and I would accompany all theshowings, and I told prospective buyersabout this,” he said. “Because they’re goingto find out eventually, when once a week,the mob tour bus shows up.”

Scheuring also said the mansion’s pooland coach house were sticking points forsome buyers.

“Pools are hard to sell, and it also had acoach house, which is more space to takecare of,” he said. “Pools and coach housesaren’t always selling points.”

Rock star Richard Marx sells vintageLake Bluff megamansion for $4.2 mil-lion — less than what he paid in 1997:Rock star and songwriter Richard Marxand his former wife, Cynthia Rhodes, onMonday sold their nine-bedroom, 29,475-square-foot vintage Georgian-style mansion on almostfive lakefront acres inLake Bluff for $4.2 mil-lion — less than one-fourth the amount theyoriginally hoped to getfor the mansion.

The sale brings to aclose a long housingodyssey for the couple, who first listed theestate for $18 million in 2014. Over time,the price was gradually cut multiple times,eventually listing for just under $7 million.

And Tuesday’s sale price was less thanthe $4.7 million that Marx and Rhodes paidin 1997 for the property.

The home was among Chicago’s mostnotable megamansions that languished onthe market for years, joining the ranks ofMichael Jordan’s Highland Park com-pound and a $45 million Lincoln Parkmansion. The sale also is one of the high-est-priced sales of the year so far in theChicago area.

Listing agent Andra O’Neill declined tocomment after the sale.

A Highland Park native, Marx, now 56,and his then-wife bought the estate afterpreviously owning a smaller house innearby Mettawa. They almost relocated toGreenwich, Connecticut, near the home ofMarx’s close friend and collaborator, thelate singer, songwriter and record producerLuther Vandross, before getting a phonecall from their real estate agent informingthem that the Lake Bluff property wasavailable.

“I had the desire to go back to Chicago

and raise (my children) somewhere nearwhere I grew up,” Marx told Elite Street in2016. “I felt like I needed a change andwanted to raise kids in the Midwest. Wewent to see (the Lake Bluff estate), and Iknew that was the answer. The house andproperty are really extraordinary. It fell outof the sky (for us).”

Designed by legendary architect DavidAdler for meatpacking scion Lester Ar-mour and his wife, Leola, the U-shapedmansion originally was part of a 73-acreestate and has eight full baths, six half-baths, 19 fireplaces, a finished basement,walnut parquet floors, a home theater andan attached, 8,000-square-foot recordingstudio.

Marx is not the mansion’s only tie to

show business; the Robert Altman film “AWedding” was shot there in 1977, aroundthe time the Armour family sold it to adevelopment company.

“I’m not someone who looks back. I’mgrateful for the great times we had there,and I made great records there and had agreat time raising kids there,” Marx toldElite Street in 2016. “And it’s a remarkableproperty … it has elegance but also feelsvery homey.”

The buyer’s identity is not yet availablein public records.

Now married to former MTV VJ DaisyFuentes, Marx now lives in a four-bed-room, 5,163-square-foot house in Malibu,California, that he purchased in 2015 forjust under $5 million.

He has had that property on the marketsince last September, when he listed it forjust under $7.7 million. He is now seekingclose to $7.4 million for it.

Rush Oak Park Hospital buys thirdnearby building, bringing total acqui-sitions to $2.65 million: Rush Oak ParkHospital has continued its expansion ef-forts on the southwest edge of its Oak Parkcampus, paying $980,000 in January for apostwar four-flat apartment building.

The purchase of the property, at 601 S.Maple Ave., means the hospital has spentmore than $2.65 million since Septemberon acquiring a total of three properties thatborder its campus.

The hospital paid $1 million in Novem-ber for a vintage house that had been usedas an apartment building, and it paid$675,000 in September for a nearly 100-year-old brick house on the same block.

As was the case with the $1 milliontransaction, the hospital appears to havepaid an above-market figure to secure thefour-flat. The sellers paid $415,000 for it in2017, and the Cook County Assessor hasvalued it for 2020 at $775,000. The proper-ty had not been listed publicly.

Built in 1950, the four-flat is on a cornerlot and has an enclosed rear porch. Each ofthe building’s apartments have two bed-rooms.

Currently, the hospital’s plans for a new713-car garage on the northwest edge of itscampus are winding through Oak Park’sgoverning village board.

A spokesman for the hospital did notrespond to a request for comment.

Bob Goldsborough is a freelance writer.

EliteContinued from Page 1

Rush Oak Park Hospital unveiled its new $30 million, 55,000-square-foot emergency department off of Madison Street at Maple Avenue.

RUSH OAK PARK HOSPITAL

Rush Oak Park Hospital has purchased a four-story apartment building neighboring its

campus in Oak Park, apparently at above-market value.

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PLUGGED IN Batteries are his passion. Whether it’s the Galileo

space probe at Jupiter orthe Mustang Mach-E, F-150hybrid pickup and PoliceInterceptor hybrid, BobTaenaka is the man behindthe power source.

He’s the top batterytechnology guy at FordMotor Co. Taenaka camefrom NASA’s world, work-ing at Hughes Space &Communications Co. in ElSegundo, California.

“I’m not a rocket scien-tist, but I worked withrocket scientists,” he said.

At NASA, battery engi-neers sometimes get topbilling over actual rocketscientists, he said.

Taenaka is senior techni-cal leader on advancedbattery systems at Ford,designing the range, chargeand power of battery packs.For auto companies, this isthe secret sauce.

He has been creating carbatteries at Ford for nearlytwo decades, after earlierdesigning space batteriesfor NASA and for the U.S.Air Force for almost twodecades.

“Bob is passionate aboutbatteries, whether they’regoing in an interplanetaryspace probe or the FordEscape (hybrid) or (Mus-tang) Mach-E that’s parkedin your driveway,” saidMike Levine, Ford NorthAmerica product commu-nications manager.

“You need a reliable,

dependable, affordablebattery, whether hybrid orall-electric.”

This is the key to thefuture: figuring out how tokeep batteries warm in thewinter and cool in thesummer.

Speaking about Galileo’smission to Jupiter, Taenakasaid, “The batteries pro-vided power for all scienceinstruments. If the batteryfails, the whole missionfails. This is pretty muchtrue of any system as com-plex as spacecraft or auto-motive. Reliability is reallycritical.”

Dependability is just onereason why OaklandCounty Sheriff’s MajorChristopher Wundrachsaid the agency orderedtwo hybrid Police Inter-ceptors in April 2019 for$36,372 each and looksforward to receiving thevehicles soon.

“It’s more efficient,” hesaid. “We like it because ituses less fuel. It keeps ourcarbon footprint down.

“We want to do our partto help out.”

Fully electric vehicleshave zero tailpipe emis-sions, but making themand powering them stillrequires energy that cangenerate pollution. Long-

er-range electric vehiclesrequire more energy anduse up more natural re-sources to make them thanshorter-range versions.

Hybrid vehicles, on theother hand, have very lowemissions. They don’t needto be plugged in and there’sno limit to the distance theycan travel with just shortstops for gasoline fill-ups.

“Hybrids and fully elec-tric vehicles are both reallyimportant to achievinglong-term air quality goalsand environmentalsolutions,” said Taenaka,

who is 61 and lives in Plym-outh, Michigan. He drives a2019 Ford Fusion hybrid.

“I love that car,” he said.After the space shuttle

Challenger exploded in1986, the Galileo spacecraftwas redesigned. The tripwould take longer thaninitially planned, requiringscientists to slingshot thespacecraft around the sunand Earth to get it toJupiter. The project led tothe discovery that a moonorbiting Jupiter had anocean with as much wateras Earth.

Bernie Dagarin, a retiredprogram manager forHughes known as “GalileoProbe’s Guardian Angel,”said he worried about theproject when the top bat-tery engineer, Lynn Mar-coux, suddenly left thecompany. Marcoux insistedthat Taenaka was “evensmarter” than he.

“We had a very specialbattery that we put on theprobe that went to Jupiter,”Dagarin said. “It was lith-ium-sulfur dioxide. Bob isbrilliant while being bothquiet and unassuming.Additionally, he’s got anunbelievable work ethic.

“A couple times when wewere working together, Iwent into his office early inthe morning and found thathe had worked all nightlong. That was more thanonce. How many times, Idon’t know.”

Taenaka and his teamhave developed and deliv-ered hybrid, plug-in hybridand fully electric vehicles,including the F-150, Ex-plorer, Police Interceptor,Escape, Transit, LincolnAviator and Corsair.

Progress means batteriesaren’t so big and heavyanymore.

“Historically, you usuallynever have enough space to

fit all the energy desired,”Taenaka said. “That’s whythe electric vehicle rangehas been increasing overthe years: because batterycell technology has beenadvancing.”

Jeremy Acevedo, seniormanager of insights atEdmunds.com car apprais-al site, said battery technol-ogy is the “final frontier.”And having NASA exper-tise at Ford enhances thecompany’s credibility in ahighly competitive space.

“It’s uncharted territoryfor the industry,” Acevedosaid. “That’s huge. And it’sabout the industry gettingit right.”

Ford is investing morethan $11.5 billion in electri-fied vehicles by 2022, in-cluding the new fully elec-tric Mustang Mach-E SUVin 2020 with a targetedrange of 300 miles and anall-electric F-150 in a fewyears, Levine said. A hybridversion of the best-sellingF-150 pickup coming laterthis year will join new FordEscape and Explorer hy-brids, he said.

“When I was 9, I wascertain I was going to pitchor play first base for theLos Angeles Dodgers,”Taenaka said. “In juniorhigh, a career survey said Ishould become a nationalpark ranger. So I figured I’dbe a park ranger afterplaying baseball. But I gotcut from the varsity team in11th grade.

“Maybe I’ll work for theDetroit Tigers one day asan usher after I retire fromFord.”

Bob Taenaka is senior technical leader on advanced battery systems at Ford, designing the range, charge and power of battery packs.

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The 2020 Ford Explorer Police Interceptor hybrid offers

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If you’ve been delayingthat car repair, Jenni New-man has some advice: Don’twait to take your car to theshop.

The coronavirus hassickened many and hasbeen roiling financial mar-kets, and that’s before any-one knows how wide-spread the effect will be onthe automotive industry.But Newman, editor-in-chief of Cars.com, is amonga growing chorus of indus-

try watchers and insiderswho say they expect a bigimpact in the United States,including on the availabilityof parts needed for repairs.

China, where the out-break has been most in-tense, is behind only Mexi-co and Canada in theamount of imported autoparts sent to the U.S., ac-cording to the Center forAutomotive Research.

“If you were thinkingabout doing a repair to yourcar, and I know for somepeople they may be delay-ing, perhaps it’s time to

move that to the top of yourlist,” Newman said. “Betterto get moving on this ...rather than cross yourfingers and hope every-thing turns out OK.”

The message so far fromauto companies to dealersand beyond has been un-certainty about the impact— the Center for Automo-tive Research notes thatmost auto parts are stillproduced domestically —but the interconnectednature of the global auto-motive supply chain andheavy reliance on China for

parts production mean thewidespread factory shut-downs in an effort to con-tain the spread of the viruswill eventually send ripplesto the U.S.

Michael Dunne, a topChinese auto industryanalyst, predicts the impactwill be felt within weeks.

“China is quietly a sourcefor many replacement partsin American dealerships.Dealers are bound to feel acrunch in mid- to late-March as their inventorydwindles,” said Dunne,who is CEO of ZoZo Go.

Industry watchers and insiders expect the availability of

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Q: I have a 2006 HondaOdyssey with driver andpassenger temp controls.When the A/C is turnedon, the passenger ventsput out cold air; the driv-er’s side vents put outheat. If the temp con-trols are turned down tothe lowest setting, thedash reading is “LO,”then cold air comesthrough both vents. Thesystem will now worknormally for a while. Thesystem has been checkedfor leaks, evacuated andrecharged. No change.Any ideas?

—H.M., Orland Park,Illinois

A: A restriction in theA/C evaporator core is acommon cause, but be-cause your car has a dualcontrol system, a failure ofthe blower motor for theleft side is probably theculprit. Scanning for abody control trouble codeusually reveals it.

Q: I have a 2010 HondaOdyssey with about55,000 miles on it. I havedone all my service workas well as the recom-mended work at the localHonda dealership. At mylast oil change in Decem-ber, they said I was duefor a timing belt change.The guidelines I believeare 100,000 miles orseven years. I am over onyears but under on mile-age. I’m in my mid-80sand drive very little, asnoted by the low mile-age. I realize the conse-quences of a broken beltis a severely damagedengine but wonder if it isworth or necessary forestimated $2,200 to dothe work this at thistime. Any thoughts?

—R.W., Brooklyn Park,Minnesota

A: I have a hunch you

drive gently, traveling onlyabout 6,000 miles per year.As such, I would gambleon leaving the original beltin place. But that gamblepits a $2,000 serviceagainst an engine rebuildor replacement. Only youcan determine your risktolerance.

Q: We are trying tofind a replacement forour 2007 Envoy, whichhas 270,000 miles. In ourprolonged journey tofind a vehicle with a CDplayer, we have foundfrustration, as the onlynew vehicle with a CDplayer is the SubaruAscent. One of the deal-ers emailed me back andblamed it on the millen-nials. Any suggestions?

—L.N., Elburn, Illinois A: Millennials? I get this

question regularly, boomer,and have suggested buyinga stand-alone CD playerthat connects through theUSB port for the car’sentertainment system.Another option is a Blue-tooth player that can bepaired with your car’ssystem. I suggest one withan anti-skip feature.

Q: I wholeheartedlyagree with your responsein the Chicago Tribuneto S.P. from McHenry,Illinois, to follow themanual rather than thedealer’s recommenda-

tions about when tochange the oil. I have aslight variation to thisquestion, though. Werecently purchased a2019 GMC Acadia, whichhas a feature called DIC(Driver InformationCenter). While the ma-nual states that the oilshould be changed every7,500 miles, the DIC sig-naled that we should getan oil change after only4,500 miles. And ofcourse, the dealer wasnotified by the carthrough, I assume, GMOnStar. We promptlystarted receiving nagemails. Because the firstoil change was free, wetook it in, but in the fu-ture should we go by themanual or the DIC?

—M.P., Oak Park, Illi-nois

A: The oil change moni-tor on the Driver Informa-tion Center should be yourfirst choice. An algorithmbased on such things as thenumber of cold starts,engine reaching full op-erating temperature andother factors determinesthe oil change interval. Ifthe warning does not ap-pear before 7,500 miles,change the oil and filter.Do it at least once a year.

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We’ve all seen it happen:luxury brands that losecachet after confusingclass production for massproduction solely in thename of profits.

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The new SUV slotsbetween the smaller front-wheel-drive GLA and thelarger rear-wheel-drive,but still compact, GLC. At111.4 inches, the GLB’swheelbase is 5.1 incheslonger than the GLA, butoverall length is 1.7 inchesshorter than the GLC. At182 inches long, it’s fairlylarge for a compact, offer-ing a surprisingly spaciouscabin with two rows orthree. And it seems some-what affordable given thatthe front-wheel-drive GLB250 starts at $36,600, withall-wheel drive costing anextra $2,000, along with a$995 destination charge.

But the GLB is afford-able only if one goes easyon the options.

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wheels ($1,050), heatedand ventilated seats($1,030), Panoramic sun-roof ($1,500), adjustablesuspension damping($900), SiriusXM SatelliteRadio ($460), and aBurmeister surroundsound system ($350).

The GLB 250 is a laud-able addition to the luxurybrand.

Even though it’s a clicheto say that the GLB has asolid feel typical of Ger-man cars, the fact is that itdoes. One gets the sensethat in the things thatmatter, Mercedes-Benzdidn’t stint. Climbing in-side the cabin, front seatoccupants are greeted bythe same long twin screendisplay seen in tonier sib-lings. It’s dazzling andhelps offset the sea of hardplastic surfaces that dimin-ishes the opulent touches,one of which is the newversion of the Mercedes-Benz User Experienceinfotainment software.

Apple CarPlay and An-droid Auto are standard,and it’s far more intuitive

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Its styling looks like ashrunken version of itslarger siblings, with up-right styling that makes themost of its dimensions.While it calls to mind amodern version of the oldGLK, it also might makeyou think twice aboutspending more for theslightly larger GLC.

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66 Smitten69 Coral structures72 “Me too”74 Swift75 An additional

helping77 Mom’s sister78 Doc’s prescriptions80 Clairvoyants81 Enlivens, with

“up”

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Ethiopia91 Campus nickname92 Up and about93 Teen activist

Thunberg94 Japanese copier

brand95 Snow place like

home96 Tilted type: Abbr.97 Prefix for second

98 Scold, with “out”99 Love, at the Louvre100Frat letter101 Repeat, as

another’s words102Waterfall103Weld, say104Mideast airline105 Observe from a

distance108 “Am __ time?”109Rowboat

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winner31 Mystic number32 Arcing throw35 Row36 Farm spread37 Beget38 Greek letter39 Out of this world40 Brilliance41 Tapering cigar43 London insurers

44 Good sportsmanship46 Writer of nonsense verse47 Hounds’ quarries48 Object of worship50 USmilitary concern54 Former Peruvian55 Transitory57 Part of speech58 Opposite windward59 Water wheel60 Ques. follower61 Erstwhile Soviet news

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15 Excelled17 At any time21 Engaging smile23 Turkish title25 Some bills26 Grade27 Came to rest28 Entertainment, of sorts29 Southern college31 Trace33 Toward themouth34 Tout’s business36 Medicinal herb37 Constellation figure39 Large boats40 Guido’s note42 Vast amount43 Dutch painter44 Sevres, e.g.45 Babbled46 Auricular projections49 Stains51 Legendary monster52 Fancy53 Remain55 Cholesterol raiser56 Dir. from Texas to

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Across1 Thin coating5 Square things10 Hi-tech training

site15 City on the Aare19 Palm native to

South Americanswampland

20 Precept21 Family name in

CivilWar fiction22 Golfer Aoki23 Roadway closed

for repairs?25 Sturdy piece of

lumber?27 “Not interested”

feeling28 Maintain control

(over)30 Oater orphans31 Online biz33 Quirky34 Prop forMr.

Monopoly35 HotWheels maker38 “Nixon in China”

tenor role40 Showed up for44 Omits an

attachment, say45 TV show about

Amtrak services?50 “Dumbo” actress

Green51 Stephen of

“Counterpart”52 Had a stable baby53 Insignia automaker54 Presentation prop56 __ 5000: annual

list of the fastest-growing privatelyheld companies

57 “Stranger Things”actor

58 Despicable sort59 Surface60 Pay attention62 ColdWar st.63 Pequod co-owner65 HR dept. data66 Cornfield maze,

e.g.?70 Agitated state73 Apply to75 Mdse. category76 “Right this way”78 Boiling words80 PepsiCo-owned

chip brand81 Command to start

playing82 Choose83 Plane part84 Carson’s successor85 “I won’t miss it”86 Put a nick in

87 Chemistry suffix88 Free-for-all

debate?91 Mother of Ares92 Rutted route94 “You’re a fine __ to

talk”95 Triathlon segments97 Address bar letters98 Played for a sap100Guitar-making

hardwood102V8 veggie105 Preempts the

following show,perhaps

108 Ford named fora legendary flier,briefly

112 Unarmed spy?114 Sidewalk vendor’s

supply request?116 They’re often

scrambled117 Big dos118 Sure rival119 It’s near the

humerus120Recipe smidge121 Key wood122 Besmirch123 Often-pickled

veggie

Down1 Lose steam2 Quicken’s boxed Q,

for one3 Scotts Turf Builder

target4 French social

dances5 NFL pass,

complete or not6 Gibbs of country7 Ninja Turtles’

human pal April __8 Requirement9 Kin of -kin10 Prepared for a

selfie11 Bit of guitar music

notation12 Heap kudos on13 Prince Valiant’s son14 Statistician’s

concern15 Giant in the

developmentof neurologicaldisease therapies

16 ActorMorales17 Hard to come by18 Affirmative actions24 Webmaster’s

creation26 Animal-based

fertilizer29 Hula __

32 “HeWasDespised,” inHandel’s “Messiah”

34 PC corner key35 Is worthy of36 Concert venues37 Incidental music at

a race?38 Personal bearing39 “So?”40 Improved in a

barrel41 Make sketches of

Barbie dolls?42 Pre-event periods43 Glen relative46 Porch furniture

material47 Sci-fi visitor48 Stick in a cage49 Genre of Vasarely’s

“Zebra”52 Twitter follower,

often55 Recess rebuttal58 Bygone despots61 Advanced French

class assignment63 Positive particle64 Signed up67 Krall of jazz68 Richard __, first

black “SNL” host69 IRS convenience71 Convey72 Colorful swimmers74 Sewer worker in a

’50s sitcom77 Sgts.’ superiors78 Likemost cupcakes79 Salon service with

a pedi80 Give for a while81 __ office84 Go for a rebound85 “Sister Act” extra89 Thick soup90 Jupiter andMars91 Fragrant coating

for grilling93 Clobber96 Preventative power98 Spicy Asian cuisine99 Pacing, perhaps100Gaming pioneer101 Bolshevik leader102Duped?103 Bit of plankton104Short standards?105Move, for short106 Six-part undergrad

exam107 Blade brand109Not occupied110 Surrealist Magritte111 “Phooey!”113 Yak it up115 “Silent Spring”

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“MAKING CENTS”

“No Rhyme, No Reason”

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(John Tasker) HOWARD: THIS MODERN

MUSIC: It is not that originality alone

is a sign of greatness or even a virtue

in itself. Progress and change are by no

means synonymous. Many things may

be wholly original and yet be altogether

worthless.

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Today’s birthday(March 22): Spotlights il-luminate your professionaltalents this year. Supportyour team for optimalperformance.Make a bril-liant careermove beforeresolving a family chal-lenge. Summer itinerariescould shift before domesticcomforts recharge. Edit andrevise creativework nextwinter, before an explora-tion tempts. Push your ownboundaries.

Aries (March 21-April19): Today is an 8. A longshot could pay off. A friendcan get throughwhere youcan’t. All is not as it ap-pears.Have faith. Envisionsuccess.

Taurus (April 20-May20): 9. You can accomplishmiracles together. Set yourgoals high. Believe it can bedone.Have faith and shoul-der your load. Show theteamyour appreciation.

Gemini (May 21-June20): 8. Good news travelsfast. Interesting projectsabound.Upgrade profes-sional equipment for betterservice and to catch anopportunity. Discover alucky break through thegrapevine.

Cancer (June21-July22):8.Discovernew frontiers.Talkwith friendswhohavebeen there.Make adreamyconnection. Fall into a lovelytwist of synchronicity. It’s asmallworld.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22):9. You and a partner cangenerate nice profits.You’re spurred to action.Encourage each other tonewheights. You can getwhatever you need.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):8. Get a partner’s supportwith a creative challenge.Share your vision and ex-change ideas. Imagine per-fection. Take advantage ofa happy accident. Celebratethe results.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):8. The tempo quickens, andyou can’t stand still. Fallinto a steady beat and keepyourmoves graceful andfluid. Physical action getsfabulous results.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov.21): 9.Have funwithsomeonewho adores you.Communication channelsarewide open. Share aboutdreams, fantasies andwildideas. Discover newpos-sibilities together.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): 7. Youcan solve adomestic puzzle.Conferwith family and listen to allviews.Make sure everyonegets heard. Love finds away.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): 8. Brainstormingand networking produceabundant resources andsolutions. A brilliant insightshatters an illusion. Ex-press your dreams, visionsand discoveries to grow anddevelop them.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.18): 9. Cash flow increases.Sales andmarketing ef-forts shine. Yourwork is indemand. Produce excellentresults. Keep generatingvalue. Go for the gold.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March20): 9. You’re especiallycharismatic. Talk aboutimpossible dreams andfantasies.Whatwould youhave, if you could have any-thing?Write down insightsand epiphanies. Chooseyour focus.

— Nancy Black, TribuneContent Agency

Horoscopes

Q.1—Neither vulnerable, as South, you hold:

♠ A 7 ♥ K 6 5 ♦ A K Q J ♣ 5 4 3 2South West North East

1NT Pass 2♣ Pass

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What call would you make?

Q.2—North-South vulnerable, as South, you hold:

♠ 10 2 ♥ A Q 2 ♦ A Q 6 ♣ A 9 7 4 3South West North East

1NT Pass 2♦* Pass

?

*Transfer to heartsWhat call would you make?

Q.3—East-West vulnerable, as South, you hold:

♠ 10 6 5 ♥ 9 6 5 ♦ 7 6 4 ♣ A K J 5Partner opens 1C and right-hand opponent passes. What

call would you make?

Q.4—Both vulnerable, as South, you hold:

♠ A 10 ♥ Q 4 2 ♦ K Q 9 5 4 ♣ Q 10 9Partner opens 1NT, 15-17, and right-hand opponent passes.

What call would you make?

Answers in Monday’s comics pages.

— Bob [email protected]

Bridge

This game challengesyou to find as many wordsas you can, as quickly as youcan, in one master word.

EPITOME (eh-PIT-uh-mee): A representative orexample of a class or type.

Can you find 19 or morewords in EPITOME?

Average mark: 14 wordsTime limit: 25 minutes

Here are the rules:1. Words must be four or

more letters. 2. Words thatacquire four letters by theaddition of an “s,” such as“bats” and “cats,” are notused. 3. Use only one formof a verb — either“pose” or“posed,” not both. 4. Propernouns and slang terms arenot used.

Answers to the wordgame:

emit;emote;poem;poet;pome;item;teem;tempo;time;tome;tope;topee;topi;omit;meet;mete;mite;mope;mote

WordGame

— Kathleen Saxe,distributed by AndrewsMcMeel Syndication for UFS

March 2020

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Zoe Kravitz is in theprocess of curating a prettydope playlist.

After a few catchy earlynumbers and some recentjams like “Big Little Lies,”the actor, singer, model andnow producer is pumpingup the volume on her ca-reer with new Hulu series“High Fidelity” and, ofcourse, Matt Reeves’ “TheBatman,” in which sheco-stars as Catwoman.

Variety caught up withKravitz, 31, to talk romanticcomedies, playing oppositeRobert Pattinson and those“Big Little Lies” behind-the-scenes issues.

Q: Your character in“High Fidelity” is some-one who lives and breath-es music. Is that some-thing you relate to?

A: Her inability to fullysee herself is something I’veexperienced, somethingI’ve gone through. Someonewho’s able to understandsomething like music sodeeply and then struggle tounderstand how a relation-ship works is really interest-ing to me. I’ve had thosemoments in my life where Ifelt like I understand artand music really well, I cantalk about that, I can do that— but love is more compli-cated.

Q: What romanticcomedies, other than theoriginal “High Fidelity,”were you looking to forinspiration?

A: “Sex and the City” wasa major influence for me.There was a certain ele-ment of comedy and truedrama and authenticity, witand fearlessness that alwaysattracted me, and it’s alsojust such a New York show;for someone who lives

there, they did it correctly.I’ve always been drawn tothe kinds of stories thatrevolve around people stuckin a place and the thingsthey talk about, because itfelt like what I do with myfriends.

Q: Talk to me about theregular fourth-wallbreaks; what do theyilluminate about yourcharacter?

A: When you do those,you have to break a habit,because your whole careeryou’re told to not look at thecamera, not acknowledge it,so I had to allow myself tohave a new relationshipwith the camera, to think ofit as my friend. It’s good toimagine a person there,you’re talking to your friendbecause it can feel stiff andperformative otherwise,because that device lets theaudience into the character,especially because Rob is soguarded, it’s important thatshe’s able to feel vulnerablein those moments. I wouldliterally picture a friend ofmine in front of the cameraand say I’m talking to aperson right now.

Q: Those coupled withthe subject matter feelvery reminiscent of“Fleabag.”

A: I actually didn’t watch“Fleabag” on purpose ...because when we werewriting it and peoplelearned I was talking tocamera, the first thing theywould say is “Fleabag!” I feltlike if I saw the show Iwould either imitate, or beintimated by, or comparemyself to Phoebe’s perform-ance. I did not watch theshow until after, and then ofcourse I loved it andthought it was ... perfect.

Q: Switching focus to“The Batman,” DC films

come with their ownunique brand of pressure.Is that something you’renervous about?

A: Definitely, I was ex-cited when I got the role,and usually when you get ajob, the people who areexcited about it are you,your parents, your agent,your friends and that’s kindof it. But when the pressrelease came, I got moretext messages and calls thanI’ve gotten on my birthday,

on my wedding day. All of asudden, the reality began tosink in about what thismeans not only to me but toeverybody else culturally —and the fans of this universeare so dedicated and opin-ionated.

Q: You could certainlysay that.

A: It was a little scary, butalso whenever I get nervousabout something, I feel itpushes me to a better place,

so I welcome the nerves. Ifyou start focusing too muchon what people are going tothink you’re doing yourselfa disservice. Of course, Iwant to honor the fans andhope they like what I dowith the role, but in orderto do what I think I need todo with Catwoman, I haveto go internal and forgetabout the rest of the world.

Q: How do you feelabout Robert Pattinson

as Batman? What has itbeen like working withhim so far?

A: I’ve never workedwith him before, but we’vebeen together for the lastfew weeks ... training to-gether and rehearsing to-gether, and he’s just a de-lightful person and such awonderful, thoughtfulactor. I think he’s perfectfor the role, and it’s going tobe such an adventure. I’mexcited to have him as mypartner in crime and to bethere to support each other,because it’s intense. It’sgoing to be a long shoot andthere’s a lot of pressure, andI know he has my back andI have his.

Q: Nicole Kidman saidshe would be open todoing another season of“Big Little Lies,” but shepointed to your busyschedule to say that apotential Season 3 won’tbe here for some time.

A: Mine?! How aboutMeryl or Reese or Shailene?For wonderful reasonseveryone’s busy, but I thinkwe would all make time tomake another season hap-pen. It really feels like pri-ority No. 1 for a lot of us,because we love each other,and we love the story andwe love culturally what itmeans to people. I feel likeall of us would clear what-ever we could to make thathappen. But don’t try andthrow me under the bus,Nicole!

Q: Did you feel likeSeason 2 provided a satis-fying ending to Bonnie’sstory?

A: I don’t know if it feltlike an ending, but it felt likethere was a breakthrough,especially coming fromSeason 1 where she’s seenas this picture-perfect, veryZen person. It was nice tobreak that all down thisseason. It’s almost like wemet Bonnie for the firsttime by the end of Season 2.

‘High Fidelity’ and high expectationsZoe Kravitz on romantic comedies

and taking up the Catwoman mantle

Zoe Kravitz says “Sex and the City” was a big inspiration for her latest role in Hulu’s

“High Fidelity.” “It’s such a New York show,” she said.

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Ellen: I want to get in onthe “athleisure” trend buthave no idea where to start.How do I put together acomfortable outfit thatdoesn’t look like I’m leavingthe gym? There are so manycompanies and I have noclue what brands/styles/etc. to get. Please help!

— Claire M.

Dear Claire: What you’relooking for is everyday wearas comfortable as jeans anda T-shirt but sportier. Somepeople would define ath-leisure clothing as what istypically worn for athleticactivities, but that can thentransition to any locationwhere supercasual clothingis OK. For some women,that would include leggingsand figure-hugging stretchyyoga pants. I am a voicecrying out in the wilder-ness, but leggings aren’tpants! Stretchy figure-hugging leggings that leavelittle to the imagination arejust not a flattering look forrunning errands, meetingfriends for lunch (or din-ner!) and definitely not forthe workplace.

Back to your question:You don’t want to look likeyou just came from the gym(good for you!), so what youwant are pants with stretchthat aren’t skintight. De-pending on where youshop, they are classified aspants, joggers or jeggings.Some have drawstringwaists or cuffs at the ankles— at the more casual end ofthe athleisure offerings. Allof these bottoms I’m talkingabout are especially popularin black. Athleta, Gap andLululemon all carry them.So do Target, Walmart and

department stores. Topthem with a not-tight T-shirt in a bright color and ahoodie, a zip up or bomberjacket — again in a packable,no-wrinkle, stretchy (butnot clinging) fabric. Mygo-tos are the “BettonaJegging” from athleta.com,currently on sale for $44.99.

I wear them everywherethat casual is acceptable,including out to dinner, towork, and on an airplane.

The ‘what do I wear to thewedding?’ questions arepiling up, so here goes …

Dear Answer Angel

Ellen: Is this the first ques-

tion of wedding season? Itwon’t be the last. My nieceis getting married in August(plenty of time to shop!) inan outdoor setting. Theinvitation states dress is“garden semiformal.” Um,not familiar with this. Anyideas or suggestions?

— Patti D.

Dear Patti: Brides arecoming up with all sorts ofmysterious descriptionsfor what to wear to theirwedding. Garden semifor-mal is one such made-upcategory. The phrase“semiformal” is the tipoff.It’s dressy, but not asdressy as an indoor eve-ning wedding at a countryclub or other fancy spot.That said, because nobodywill know what “gardensemiformal” means, what-ever you choose to wear —as long as it’s not picniccasual — will be perfect.And yes, that includesdressy pants. If you decideto wear heels, be preparedfor them to sink into thegrass.

Dear Answer Angel

Ellen: Our grand-daughter’s wedding iscoming up at the Ritz Carl-ton. My cocktail dress isbelow the knee. I’m wear-ing black sandals. Can Iwear Donna Karan sandal-foot ultra sheer black hoseor do I need to buy a nudeshade?

— Ferne A.

Dear Ferne: The black arefine! As long as they’resheer they work year-round.

Dear Answer Angel

Ellen: I’m one of thoseunlucky women who sufferfrom female pattern hairloss. It started in my 40s.It’s pretty depressing. I’mwondering if it is time to gofor a wig. Where doessomeone like me go forhelp with a wig?

— Susan B.

Dear Susan: Talk to yourhair stylist for a recom-mendation on where tobuy a wig. Although youwrite that you are not acancer patient, cancerorganizations or the oncol-ogy department of yourlocal hospital will be gladto give you referrals in your

area. Your doctor (espe-cially a dermatologist) canalso suggest wig resources.Of course there are vastnumbers of wig shopsonline, but that’s an iffyproposition and hands-ontry-ons are what you want.Please know this: Manywomen are just like you,suffering from significanthair loss as they age. Thisincludes famous women Iknow who wear wigs orsmaller hair pieces — sodon’t feel like you’re alone.

Dear Answer Angel: I’m alittle confused about what Igather is the latest in highfashion. I am looking at apage in a fashion magazinewith the headline, “Must-Haves: The Cropped Pant.”The text calls it “an abbre-viated silhouette.” And thephoto, of a model in Chanelpants priced at $4,450,looks to me like she’s incapri pants. Are theycapris? Are they the heightof fashion? Knowing howyou feel about capri pants,have you changed yourmind?

— Celeste D.

Dear Celeste: You told methat you saw the photo inHarper’s Bazaar magazine,so of course I took a look(on page 52). I can nowconfirm that yes indeedthose Chanel pants are ...capris. And they’re stillugly. I’ve argued for manyyears now that capris makeyour legs look stumpy.Nothing has changed myopinion. Crops are caprisand I don’t care how highfashion they are ($4K????),they’re still unflattering.Have I changed my mind?N-O!

Now it’s your turnSend your questions,

rants, tips, favorite finds —on style, shopping, makeup,fashion and beauty — to [email protected].

Making ‘athleisure’ outfits work for you

Ellen Warren

For an athleisure look you can wear leaving the gym, you want pants with stretch that

aren’t skintight with a hoodie or zip up jacket.

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LOS ANGELES — When KimKardashian West says it, she’s notbeing funny. She doesn’t smile.She is professional and sincere,and that sincerity is worth mil-lions of dollars.

Had she made any mistakeswhen introducing Skims, her lineof shapewear, last September?

“I wouldn’t say a ‘mistake,’ ”she said. Then she listed a fewmistakes, concluding with “thepee hole thing.”

“I wish we launchedshapewear with a pee hole,” Kar-dashian West said. “For the peo-ple who don’t want to take it offand on all the time.”

It wasn’t the first time she hadbrought it up. Five months ago,she talked about it on “TheTonight Show” during a bit inwhich she revealed her mostrecent Google search: “Isshapewear with pee hole better?”

“This is so embarrassing,” shesaid, while Jimmy Fallon giggledand his audience cheered. Kar-dashian West gamely grinned,gave an entertaining and half-relatable example of urinating onherself at the Emmys and thenseemed to get a little defensive:“No, this is such a legit question.”

Shapewear is compressive; itsmain function is to make bodieslook smaller and feel tighter. It’ssupposed to mold limbs to man-nequinlike smoothness, pavingover cracks, flattening any bloatand restraining all bounce.

It is most commonly sold ashigh-rise shorts and underwear,though it also takes form as slips,sleeves, leggings and almost any-thing else short of a full-body skinsuit (though there are bodysuits).It usually comes in black, beige ora slightly warmer raw-noodleshade of beige.

For the uninitiated, removingshapewear — to use the bath-room, for example — can be labo-rious, requiring some yanking androlling and a base level of forearmstrength.

While she only recently mone-tized her interest in shapewear,Kardashian West, 39, has been adesigner of it all of her adult life.According to personal legend, shewas forced to dye, slice and sew

her store-bought shapewear foryears in order to meet the uniqueneeds of her unique body. Nowshe is taking on Spanx, an indus-try giant as synonymous toshapewear as Kleenex is to tissue.Skims, she said, is a modern alter-native.

But more important, it’s a com-fortable alternative — “reallycomfortable,” Kardashian Westsaid. Comfortable enough to wearevery day, not just special days.Comfortable enough to want towear at home, which she does,under sweats. Because Kar-dashian West, one of the mostfamous, wealthy and watchedwomen in the world, is at hermost comfortable when she’s inshapewear.

For all the products and con-

cepts she has sold to the worldover the years, this is the one sheis the most confident in peddling:Restraint will bring you comfort.

“I am really big on fabrics,”Kardashian West said.

The company has a growinginventory — a full line of regularbras and underwear, along withnipple pasties and a mystifyinglyflexible hoisting breast tape in-spired by gaffer’s tape — but itscore product is its shapewearfabric. Made from nylon andspandex or elastane and formu-lated depending on the intensityof the shapewear’s squeeze (me-dium, high or superhigh), it tookmore than two years to develop.

“I knew exactly what Iwanted,” Kardashian West said.“Like the right amount of hold,

where it’s not too tight and nottoo hard to get on.”

Weaving fabrication takes along time, though, which is whySkims has struggled to restockafter consistently selling out ofproducts, Jens Grede, KardashianWest’s business partner, said in aphone call. Skims operates on adrop model, releasing a batch ofnew products (or restockingthem) every week or so. A dropcould have 20,000 units or200,000 units, the company said.

Grede, 41, acknowledged thatcustomers are frustrated, but tohim the wait is worth it.

“Most great fashion companiesare really built on their own fabricbase,” he said, referring to Levi’sand Lululemon. “Billion-dollarapparel companies are built onidentifiable, and not easily repli-cable, fabrics.”

In November, TMZ reportedvia “sources with direct knowl-edge” that Kardashian West be-lieved Skims would be her billion-dollar company. Her husband,Kanye West, had already built one(Yeezy). So had her little sisterKylie Jenner (Kylie Cosmetics).But Kardashian West, the family’soriginal money tree, had not madeit there with her pre-Skims busi-nesses, including KKW Beautyand KKW Fragrance.

“I mean, I think everyonewould hope to have a billion-dollar business,” she said whenasked about the report.

Skims would not provide anyfinancial figures for this article.

The retail-partner aspect ofthis plan is brand-new. As of Feb.5, Skims products are available in25 Nordstrom stores and on theNordstrom website. (They werepreviously sold only atskims.com.)

Skims has ample competitionin its own market. A number ofshapewear companies with body-positive Instagram accounts havetried seducing young customersin recent years: Honeylove, HeistStudios, Shapermint. But amongthis group, Skims has the widestsize range (XXS to 5X) and colorrange (nine shades, comparedwith three or four at the otherbrands).

The color options are particu-larly important to KardashianWest. “I couldn’t find somethingthat would match my skin tone,”she said. “Let alone, how am Igoing to find something for mygirls when they’re older?”

Spanx, the 20-year-old com-pany that dominates the market,does sell plus-size shapewear, butmost items cost $4 more than thesame piece in a non-plus size.

Still, Skims is far from the firstof these companies to promisecomfort from a garment that isinherently uncomfortable or tooffer an “extra boost of confi-dence,” as Kardashian West put it,through compression. But she hasa personal sales pitch: her ownnewfound confidence.

“I credit every business venturethat I’ve been in until this point toreally understand what it takesand how involved you really haveto be if you want it to be the best,”she said.

Kardashian West’s shapewear line promises an easy squeezeBy Jessica TestaThe New York Times

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Dinner menus are nowcrowded with mixedgreens bowls, savory stewsand casseroles, which cancreate a quandary when it’stime to set the table.

Should you use regularsalad plates? (A little small.)Regular dinner plates? (Alittle flat.) Regular soupbowls? (A little big.)

Thus was born the din-ner bowl, a plate/bowlhybrid. It’s generally thediameter of a standarddinner plate, but with somecurved lip to contain all thedelectable broths, juices orerrant morsels.

New York-based PeterKayaian, who is part of

sweetgreens’ culinary oper-ations team, says morerestaurants have begunusing dinner bowls becauseof their versatility.

“Almost any type of dishcan go into a shallow bowl— pasta, salad, side dish.Plates aren’t cheap, sobeing able to have one typeof plate instead of three orfour is a plus for cash-strapped restaurateurs,” hesays.

“It’s also just the trendfor plating right now. Goneare the days of the oversizewhite plates with a smallportion in the middle. Theshallow bowl allows forsome creative plating, withthe tall curved rim as agood medium for swooshedsauces and purees.”

Craig Norton, director ofoperations for the PrinceGeorge Hotel in Halifax,Nova Scotia, also sees amove away from the stand-ard white plate: “It’s tooformal. Bowls are morerelaxed.” He says potterywith earthy tones and rip-pled texture are more inkeeping with what thedishes hold, whether that’sin restaurant dining rooms,takeaway spots or back athome.

“It’s all about the newcomfort food — a fusion ofcuisines. You can layerflavors, textures, cultures,leftovers and fridge con-tents into a culinary adven-ture, all in one bowl,” hesays.

A bonus feature of these

capacious containers is thatwhen they’re not corrallingrice, rigatoni or rocket, theymake lovely dishes forbunches of grapes or a batchof fresh-baked cookies.

And there are lots ofwell-priced options.

Food 52 calls its smooth,snowy porcelain bowl “thelovechild of a plate and abowl.” West Elm’s versionhas a slightly curvy rim,giving it an organic look.Williams-Sonoma’s has aclassic black trim.

World Market offers a setof four pristine white por-celain dishes, a deal atunder $20. For those readyto try some color, the re-tailer has a set of handmadestoneware dinner bowls inuber-trendy blush pink. Or

for al fresco gatherings,perhaps the foursome ofbamboo bowls, in a mid-century-modern palette ofteal, pink, cream and blush.

British designer AaronProbyn’s low-profile por-celain bowl plates come assets of four, in six hand-glazed hues including navyand 2020’s hot color, lightgreen, at Crate & Barrel.

Another pretty colorstory — this one’s midnight,daybreak, fog and moon —is at Year & Day; the bowlsare made of hardy Por-tuguese clay and can han-

dle the freezer, oven,microwave and dishwasher.

Stoneware in earthyhues with a nice speckledfinish can be found at Tar-get, from Project 62.

At Food 52, there’s theCaractere collection ofFrench porcelain plates inrustic white, turmeric ormoss, created in collabora-tion with designer NoeDuchaufour-Lawrance.Also at this retailer, you’llfind terracotta and whitebowls from Fortessa, in auser-friendly melaminethat looks like stoneware.

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Remember when you couldn’twait to paint the living room Mil-lennial Pink? As 2020 gets under-way and the annual itch to refreshour spaces hits, that color mightnot be feeling so fresh. MillennialPink, like most trends that showup everywhere, all at once, hasreceded like a splashy (yet subtle,dull, almost beige) pink wavewashing out to sea.

Some of us aren’t too torn upabout it. “I have never been a pink,purple, girlie girl,” says LaurenBuxbaum Gordon, who in 2019was named Nate Berkus’ firstpartner at Nate Berkus Associates,his Chicago-based design firm.

These days, a lot of other de-signers aren’t feeling it, either.When online marketplace 1stdibsreleased its annual designer sur-vey this week, the once-ubiqui-tous shade of pink wound up onthe “out” list.

Which leaves room for some-thing entirely different — like thenew trends that designers arecalling out for 2020.

Home design: What’s hot, not and why By Cindy Dampier

Studio Shamshiri’s office in Los Angeles makes watery greens a focus.

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An emphasis on nature that includes overscale

floral patterns is in. Moooi’s playful Nest sofa takes

the trend to the extreme. Hivemodern.com.

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Buxbaum Gordon of Nate Berkus Asssociates,

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Green in every shadeWhat’s taking off as pink and purple fade?

Nature-inspired green, which can be dark andmysterious, or modern and bright. “I havealways felt good about green,” says Gordon,who chose apple green for her 4-year-olddaughter’s room in her Chicago townhouse.“I’m drawn to a bunch of different shades ofgreen, and have them throughout my home,”she says. Dark greens in particular, she notes“go with just about anything” because they’reso often found in nature.

Warm woodDesigners in the 1stdibs survey said

the industrial look was out, giving wayto more natural wood. Wood furni-ture may have never disappeared, butwood has been showing up in lightfixtures, kitchen countertops andeven modern paneled walls. It’s partof an emphasis on nature that alsoincludes overscale floral patterns andthe color green (think not only paintand upholstery, but houseplants). “It’sthat idea of bringing the outside in,”says Gordon.

Antiques and vintageAs millennials continue to decorate first

homes or upgrade their apartments, interest invintage pieces continues to rise. Thirty-twopercent of the designers in the 1stdibs surveysaid they use predominantly vintage pieces intheir interiors, up from 26% in 2018. “I can’tthink of a single home or space or room thatcouldn’t use a bit of patina, character orwarmth,” says Gordon. “Antiques or vintagepieces always improve the room. You’re notgoing to find that exact thing in somebody else’shouse.” And, of course, antiques are sustainable.

“We’re reusing,” Gordon says, “and we’re notshipping it in from China.” Her one don’t in

the vintage department? The classic MiloBaughman-style, midcentury wood armchair. “Ifeel like those chairs became popular rightwhen design was really starting to be popularon the internet, and it’s just oversaturated now.We need to put those away for a while.”

Finding design everywhere“Everything is more accessible these days,”

says Gordon, “whether you have a huge budgetor not, because there are all these resources,even including Etsy, where you can find thingsthat let you get a little more creative and adven-turous with design.” The 1stdibs survey notedthat designers are finding items online, includingon social media platforms such as Instagram —though Gordon warns that she has rarelysourced items on Insta, mainly because “you’renot really sure how things are made or wherethey’re coming from.”

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Many of you probably are working on some fitnessgoals. Even if you’re not quite satisfied with your currentprogress, I’m all for feeling good in the moment. Luckilythere are easy tricks for dressing around the belly you’drather hide so you can look stylish while you work towardyour best body.

Modern sweats: Oh, happy day, wearing sweatpants forsomething other than lounging around the house is inright now! I love the athletic-style pants that are poppingup everywhere and being paired with everything fromblouses to slip-on sneakers. These pants are perfect forthose of us who need a little extra room in the waist rightnow and can be upgraded by rolling up the ankles andthrowing on a dressier shoe. Try doing a half-tuck with aslouchy sweater so that your waist shows, and pair it witha long necklace to create shape and jazz your ensemble upa tad.

Fitted jacket magic: Probably the easiest, and mostcomfortable way to camouflage a tummy this time of yearis by throwing on a fitted jacket. Look for one with strongshoulders, form-fitting sleeves that just skim your armsand lapels that can lay open in a straight or flatteringlyangled way. An open jacket can create a fantastic shapedown your torso, allowing you to wear a flowy blouse orloose dress without looking frumpy. If the jacket flattersyour waistline, that’s a bonus. Try a denim jacket withsome spandex in the fabric, a tailored moto-style jacket insoft sweatshirt or sweater fabric, or a casual blazer.

Show off your legs (or another favorite feature):What’s the best way to hide a tummy? Distract your on-lookers by showing off your legs (or arms or giant scarf orchunky necklace). Creating an outfit that draws the eyetoward what you’d rather have noticed is all about balanceand combining opposite shapes. If you’ve got somethingless fitted on top, try a fitted pair of pants or a shorter skirtor dress to highlight your legs. I love printed shift dressesthat just float over the midriff or little leather skirts tobring out your edgier side.

Shapewear to the rescue: Shapewear can swoop in andsave the day, by tucking your belly and holding it in to givethe illusion of a more svelte silhouette. These soft, com-fortable, form-fitting undergarments come in a lot of varia-tions, from full bodysuits to shorts and waist cinchers.

All bodies are beautiful, but if you’re a bit sensitive aboutyour midsection, there’s no shame in that. Use some cre-ative styling to help you strut with your head high,whether you’re at the start of a new workout regimen orbeginning your quest to love the skin you’re in.

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The Irrepressible Rita Moreno! Moreno returns before a live television audience when the reboot of One Day at a Time begins its fourth season on its new network (March 24 on Pop TV). “It terrified me at first because of my age and the memorization,” admits the Oscar-winning West Side Story actress, 88. This sea-son, her character, Lydia, the matriarch of the Cuban American Alvarez family featured on the Norman Lear comedy, experiences a religious crisis and reveals the details of her surprise trip to Cuba with Dr. Berkowitz (Stephen Tobolowsky). In December, you’ll see Moreno in the remake of West Side Story.

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Like Aladdin, Cin-

derella and Beauty

and the Beast before it, Disney’s Mulan (in theaters March 27) gets a live-action spin. Previously animated in 1998, the story fol-lows the adventures of a Chinese maiden who disguises herself as a male warrior in order to save her father. Mulan now has a little sister, a new commander and a new love interest.

Here are more fun facts about the movie, star-ring newcomer Yifei Liu, 32, as Mulan.

►The story of Mulan dates back more than 1,000 years.

► Chinese martial-arts superstar Jet Liplays the Emperor.

► Mulan was shot in some of the same New Zealand locations as The Lord of the Rings.

► The 2020 movie uses instrumental versions of some songs from the animated musi-cal, but charac-ters don’t burst into song.

Mushu, a fan-favorite dragon character voiced by Eddie Murphy in the original Mulan, does not appear in the new movie.

22 YEARS LATER

The NBC Nightly News and Dateline anchor, 61, will receive the Murrow Lifetime Achieve-ment Award in Journalism, one of the pro-fession’s highest honors, March 22 on the campus of Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. Holt, who is the first African American to solo anchor a weekday network nightly newscast, was named the most trusted television news personality in America in a 2018 poll.

What makes the Murrow award so special? I take this award as an acknowledgment of the power of the media and of what we as an organization do. Nightly News is nearly 75 years old. Over that time, it’s built a lot of trust. It’s seen as a place of integrity.

You’re nearing the fifth year as the Nightly News anchor. Why do you still go out and report stories? I’m a reporter at heart. So while I consider anchoring prestigious, the most exciting moments I’ve had in this job have been out in the field, talking to people, doing stories and witnessing history unfold.

Why do you think people like true-crime shows, like Dateline, so much? I’ve always said the secret sauce of Dateline is the superb storytelling, the abil-ity to really weave a narrative out of these sometimes almost hard-to-believe stories. You watch and you think how mundane and normal your own life is; that’s a good thing, because a lot of the people we cover in these stories are people that could be your neighbors. I think that’s what draws people in.

What do you think of your son Stefan following you into the business? To be able to sit in my of-fice and flip on my son, who’s working a few floors above me anchoring the news every day [on WNBC, the local New York NBC station], is just something that [makes me] pinch myself. It’s a thrill to watch him.

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Laura Dern just won an Oscar (for Netflix’s Marriage Story), but dad Bruce, 83, proves he still has what it takes in his latest role as Levi Coffin, one of the heroes of the American abolitionist move-ment, in the new movie Emperor (in theaters March 27). Based on the life story of escaped slave Shields Green (Dayo Okeniyi), the film tells how Green met up with Frederick Douglass (Harry Lennix) and Coffin and joined the militia to raid Harper’s Ferry, the first stage of an elaborate plan to es-tablish a stronghold of freed slaves in America. “This isn’t a slavery movie. It’s a freedom movie about a man who fought the system and changed the world,” says producer Reginald Hudlin.

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B NDNo Time to Die, originally set for an April release but

recently moved to Nov. 25, marks a milestone for James

Bond. It’s the 25th film in the super-spy franchise, and it

marks Daniel Craig’s fifth and final outing as the fic-

tional MI6 operative. There’s so much to celebrate in the

colorful past of pop culture’s favorite secret agent!

Celebrity CameosLook closely and you’ll see some famous folks in these 007

classics.

IAN FLEMING The creator of 007 himself, who wrote about Bond in 12 books and two short-story collections, is allegedly seen standing beside the train after Bond and

Tatiana Romanova board in From Russia With Love (1963). The cameo has never been confi rmed.

SAMMY DAVIS JR. The multitalented Rat Pack enter-tainer shows up in a scene—as himself—in Diamonds

Are Forever (1971), gambling in a casino when Bond walks through. (The scene was deleted from the theatrical release

but was made available on later DVD and Blu-ray editions.)

MADONNA Who’s that girl? In Die Another Day (2002), she’s Verity, the fencing instructor for Miranda Frost

(Rosamund Pike).

THE BEST OF

THUNDERBALL (1965) Undoubtedly the fi lmmakers wanted to make the most spectacular underwater fi ght ever made. And for the most part

they succeed! But at one point, the movie’s main villain (Emilio Largo) rips off Bond’s blue scuba-diving mask and throws it out of reach. Bond then takes off a bad guy’s black mask and puts it on. But in the next several

scenes, Bond’s mask goes back to blue, then to black and to blue again. Classic continuity error!

CASINO ROYALE (2006) Not all fl aws are centered on the impossible. Sometimes, they’re just a matter of eti-quette. In the $150 million poker tournament Bond plays in, he wins a stupidly lucky hand that eliminates three players. Normally, in a situation where all the players’ chips are in the pot, the “showdown” requires everyone to reveal their hand at the same time. But the movie makes it extra dramatic when each player reveals his hand one by one, each better than the last, until Bond (of course) shows his winning hand. No poker tournament with these stakes would ever allow this. But hey, at least we get to see Eva Green’s stunning entrance in an unforget-table purple dress, so the poker in this movie isn’t all bad.

GOLDENEYE (1995) When Bond jumps off a huge dam at a chemical weapons facility in the USSR, he goes down a vent in a bathroom, down a stairway, down another shaft, down another set of stairs and down a conveyor belt to fi nd himself . . . on top of a mountain? Interesting, since

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FANTASTIC FLAWSThe movie experts at CinemaSins find the flaws in a few of their fave Bond films.

VOTED MOST VILLAINOUSIn No Time to Die, Rami Malek plays the supervillain

Safin, Bond’s latest adversary. Who’s the baddest

Bond bad guy of all? You decide!

JAWS The almost-silent, nearly unstoppable assassin with lethal steel teeth was memorably portrayed by Richard Kiel in two fi lms, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).

GOLDFINGER In the 1964 movie that bore his name, Auric Goldfi nger (Gert Fröbe, with dialogue dubbed by Michael Collins) is a gold-obsessed businessman with a hat-throwing henchman, Oddjob (Harold Sakata).

BLOFELD The head of the evil organization SPECTRE, Ernst Stavro Blofeld (played by Anthony Dawson, Donald Pleasance and others) appears in seven Bond fi lms. A reimagined Blofeld, played by Christoph Waltz, appears in Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die.

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“Bond. James Bond.”From the very fi rst scene of the fi rst James Bond movie, Dr. No (1962),

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Combine 1 (14.5 oz) can diced tomatoes, ½ tsp dried oregano and 1–2 chipotle chiles canned in adobo sauce in a blender; puree. Set aside.

Heat 1 Tbsp canola oil in a skillet over medium. Add 1 small onion, sliced; cook 5–7 minutes or until tender. Add 2 cloves garlic, minced; cook 1 minute or until fragrant. Stir in tomato mixture and 1 cup chicken stock. Stir in 2½ cups shredded cooked chicken. Simmer 10–12 minutes or until thickened. Season to taste. Serve on 8 (6-inch) corn or soft-taco-size fl our tortillas, warmed. Garnish with sour cream; 1 avocado, pitted and sliced; shredded purple cabbage; and, if desired, thinly sliced radishes and chopped cilantro. Serve with hot sauce and lime wedges. Serves 4.

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STEAK AND SHRIMP VAMPIRO

If you think there’s no such thing as too

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Preheat oven to 350°F.Place a large heavy-bottomed pot or Dutch oven over medium-high. Add 1 Tbsp olive oil;

heat until shimmering. Add 2½–3 lb boneless pork shoulder and 6 oz bacon, cut crosswise into 2-inch pieces. Cook 10 minutes, turning pork occasionally, or until pork is browned on both sides and bacon is starting to render its fat. Add ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper, 1½ tsp ground cumin, 1 tsp kosher salt, ½ tsp red pepper fl akes, ½ tsp dried oregano and 1 bay leaf. Carefully (mixture will spatter) add enough water to come halfway up sides of pork; bring to a boil. Place pot, uncovered, in oven. Cook, turning pork every 30 minutes, 2–2½ hours or until fork-tender.

Remove from oven. Use a slotted spoon to transfer pork to a cutting board. Discard bacon. Roughly shred pork.

Reduce oven to 250°F. Heat a large cast-iron or nonstick skillet over medium-high. Working in batches to avoid over-

crowding the pan, cook pork 5 minutes, pressing down with a spatula, or until browned and crisp.Meanwhile, stack 12 (6-inch) corn tortillas and wrap in foil; place in oven 15 minutes or until

warm and pliable. Top each tortilla with about ¼ cup carnitas. Garnish with grilled pineapple and, if desired, Pickled Red Onions (recipe on page 14), fi nely chopped white onion and chopped cilantro. Serve with lime wedges and hot sauce. Serves 6.

from page 11

Pepita Pesto Combine 2 cups roughly chopped fl at-leaf parsley, 1½ cups roughly chopped cilantro, 1 cup unsalted raw pepitas (pumpkin seeds), ½ tsp kosher salt, 6 cloves garlic and juice of 1 lime in a food processor. Pulse until fi nely minced. With motor running, gradually add ½ cup olive oil; process 30 seconds or until mixture is combined and looks like coarse meal, pausing to scrape down sides as needed. Refrigerate in an airtight container up to 3 days. Makes about 1 cup.

MUSHROOM ASADA

Adapted from Trejo’s Tacos, meaty

mushrooms are marinated in smoky-

bright asada sauce and topped with

pumpkin-seed pesto for rich, satisfy-

ing vegan tacos.

Combine 6 Tbsp orange juice; ¼ cup roughly chopped cilantro; 2 Tbsp soy sauce; 1½ tsp ground cumin; 1½ tsp smoked paprika; ¼ large white onion, roughly chopped; 3 cloves garlic; 1 chipotle chile canned in adobo sauce, plus 1 Tbsp sauce; 1 jalapeño, roughly chopped; juice of ½ lemon; and ¼ cup olive oil in a food processor or blender; puree. Pour into a medium bowl. Add 1 lb cremini mushrooms, stemmed and sliced; toss to coat. Let stand 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 250°F.In a large skillet over medium-high, heat

1 Tbsp olive oil. Using a slotted spoon, transfer half of mushrooms to pan; saute 5–7 minutes or until deep golden brown. Transfer to a bowl. Repeat with 1 Tbsp olive oil and mushrooms.

Meanwhile, stack 12 (6-inch) corn tortillas and wrap in foil; place in oven 15 minutes or until warm and pliable. In a medium bowl, combine 1½ cups shredded green cabbage and ¼ cup salsa verde.

Top tortillas evenly with mushrooms, cabbage mixture and Pepita Pesto (recipe below). Serve with lime wedges. Serves 6.

CARNITAS TACOS

continued on page 14

This marinade is great with steak tacos too! Marinate 1½ lb skirt or fl ank steak for 30 minutes at room temperature. Grill over medium-high 5 minutes per side. Let rest 5 minutes before slicing across the grain.

“Quick-pickled onions add a tangy-sweet crunch to any dish and can help balance out the richness of tacos like the carnitas,” says actor Danny Trejo. Heat a grill pan over medium-high. Brush

sliced fresh pineapple with olive oil; grill 2–3 minutes per side or until grill marks form.

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