The Chicago Bears came away quite the crop of talent during the 2021 NFL Draft, and some fans still cannot believe the job done by general manager Ryan Pace.
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A man was fatally shot in the 700 block of North Leclaire Avenue.
Five people were shot, one fatally, Monday in Chicago including a man who was fatally shot and another stabbed during an incident in Austin on the West Side.
The two men, 34 and 40, were inside the bedroom of a residence in the 700 block of North Leclaire Avenue about 8:55 p.m., when the incident occurred, Chicago police said. Police sources said the pair may have been playing dice, and it was unknown if anyone else was in the room. The 40-year-old man was shot in the abdomen and leg and discovered inside the bedroom. He was transported to Stroger Hospital in where he was pronounced dead. The 34-year-old was stabbed in the chest, hand and leg. He was found in the backyard of the residence and transported to Mount Sinai Hospital in serious condition. Witnesses inside the residence did not see the incident but reported hearing shots and loud music.
In non-fatal shootings, a 38-year-old man was in Austin on the West Side. The man was walking about 8 p.m. in the 600 block of North Leamington Avenue when heard shots and felt pain, police said. He was struck in the buttocks and transported to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park. He was listed in good condition.
A 15-year-old boy was wounded in a shooting in Englewood on the South Side. The boy was found about 6:15 p.m. on a sidewalk in the 7100 block of South Emerald Avenue, and told officers he had heard shots and felt pain, police said. He suffered a gunshot wound to the right leg and a grazed wound to the neck. The boy was transported to Comer Children’s Hospital in good condition. Chicago fire officials initially reported the boy was in critical condition.
A 27-year-old man was shot in Woodlawn on the South Side. About 3 p.m., he was walking down the street in the 6200 block of South Rhodes Avenue when two people approached him and one fired shots, police said. He suffered a gunshot wound to the arm and leg. He brought himself to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he was listed in good condition.
In the day’s first reported shooting a 19-year-old man was shot in West Garfield Park, The man was shot in the thigh about midnight in the 4400 block of West Adams Street, police said. He was uncooperative and did not give details on the incident. He was taken in good condition to Stroger Hospital.
Twenty-six people were shot, five fatally, last weekend citywide.
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The two men, 34 and 40, were inside the bedroom of a residence in the 700 block of North Leclaire Avenue, when one was stabbed and the other shot, Chicago police said.
One man was fatally shot and another stabbed during an incident Monday night in Austin on the West Side.
The two men, 34 and 40, were inside the bedroom of a residence in the 700 block of North Leclaire Avenue about 8:55 p.m. when the incident occurred, Chicago police said.
Police sources said the pair may have been playing dice, and it was unknown if anyone else was in the room.
The 40-year-old man was shot in the abdomen and leg and discovered inside the bedroom, according to police. He was transported to Stroger Hospital in where he was pronounced dead.
The 34-year-old was stabbed in the chest, hand and leg, according to police. He was found in the backyard of the residence and transported to Mount Sinai Hospital in serious condition, police said.
Witnesses inside the residence did not see the incident but reported hearing shots and loud music, according to police.
No one is in custody, police said.
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About 1:40 a.m., officers responded to a single vehicle crash in the 2300 block of Sheridan Road, and found a vehicle with extensive damage.
A 27-year-old woman was killed in a vehicle crash Friday in suburban Waukegan.
An investigation found that about 1:40 a.m., 27-year-old Shaneera Bell of Waukegan, was driving a 2001 Toyota Corolla south in the 2300 block of Sheridan Road, when she lost control of the car, crashed into a tree, and the car caught fire, Joliet police said. Upon arriving to the scene of the crash, officers saw bystanders help get a passenger, a man in his 20s, out of the burning vehicle.
He was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, police said.
Officers found Bell partially ejected from the vehicle, police said. She was pronounced dead at the scene. An autopsy conducted Friday found that she died of multiple blunt force injuries as a result of the crash.
The crash remains under investigation.
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The two men. 34 and 40, were inside the bedroom of a residence in the 700 block of North Leclaire Avenue when one was stabbed and the other shot, Chicago police said.
One man was shot and another stabbed during an incident Monday night in Austin on the West Side.
The two men. 34 and 40, were inside the bedroom of a residence in the 700 block of North Leclaire Avenue about 8:55 p.m. when the incident occurred, Chicago police said.
Police sources said the pair may have been playing dice and it was unknown if anyone else was in the room.
The 40-year-old man was shot in the abdomen and leg and discovered inside the bedroom, according to police. He was transported to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, police said.
The 34-year-old was stabbed in the chest, hand and leg, according to police. He was found in the backyard of the residence and transported to Mount Sinai Hospital in serious condition, police said.
Witnesses inside the residence did not see the incident but reported hearing shots and loud music, according to police.
No one is in custody, police said.
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The Hawks scored twice in the first 90 seconds but ultimately fell 5-4 in overtime, finishing the season 24-25-7.
Dylan Strome’s 2020 offseason was full of uncertainty, as he lingered as a restricted free agent until the day before training camp. His 2020 offseason will be much the same, with his role on the Hawks moving forward jeopardized by his nightmarish season.
But whether or not Monday represented Strome’s last game in red and black, he made the most of it — even though the team squandered it.
Inserted back into the lineup for Adam Gaudette after being healthy-scratched the last two (and four of the last nine) games, Strome recorded a goal and an assist as the Hawks culminated their season with a 5-4 overtime loss against the Stars.
“[Strome has] had some good moments where he’s made some plays and impacted the game,” coach Jeremy Colliton said. “Then obviously we’re still looking for a bit more without the puck and winning puck battles and trying to get our team out of ‘D’-zone.”
The Hawks used the energy from another limited-capacity crowd of 3,917 to score twice in the game’s first 90 seconds, with Alex DeBrincat’s goal — his 32nd in 52 games — making him the first NHL player since 1985 to score in each of his team’s final seven regular-season games.
But the Stars dominated puck possession and the shot counter from then on, finishing with an absurd 50-23 shots-on-goal advantage, and finally tied the game 4-4 with two goals two minutes apart in the third period.
The Hawks squandered a four-minute power play in overtime before Jason Robertson’s game-winning goal for Dallas.
Andrew Shaw was nominated Monday by the Chicago chapter of the Professional Hockey Writers Association for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy.
The Masterton is awarded annually to the NHL player “who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to ice hockey.”
Shaw overcame low expectations as a youth player and prospect to make the NHL, score 573 career points and win two Stanley Cups with the Hawks. He then endured numerous lengthy concussion recovery periods to continue his NHL career until this season.
Thirty-one players are nominated — one from each team. Flyers forward Oskar Lindblom, Sharks forward Patrick Marleau and Maple Leafs goalie Jack Campbell will be top contenders along with Shaw.
A 15-year-old boy was wounded in a shooting in the 7100 block of South Emerald Avenue.
A 15-year-old boy was wounded in a shooting Monday evening in Englewood on the South Side.
The boy was found about 6:15 p.m. on a sidewalk in the 7100 block of South Emerald Avenue and told officers he had heard shots and felt pain, Chicago police said.
He suffered a gunshot wound to the right leg and a grazed wound to the neck, police said.
He was transported to Comer Children’s Hospital in good condition, according to police.
Chicago fire officials initially reported the boy was in critical condition.
No one is in custody, police said.
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The Chicago rapper and AMC Theatres announced screenings of “Magnificent Coloring World,” May 14-16 at AMC River East 21.
Chance the Rapper’s upcoming concert film “Magnificent Coloring World” will get three days of advance screenings in Chicago later this month.
On Monday, the Chicago rapper and AMC Theatres announced screenings May 14-16 at AMC River East 21.
Tickets will go on sale at 6 p.m. May 12 exclusively at the theater box office, 322 E. Illinois.
The movie was filmed in 2017, hot on the heels of Chance’s history-making win at the Grammys, where he was awarded best rap album for “Coloring Book,” the first time the accolade went to a streamed-only album. Nominated in seven categories, Chance picked up three statuettes for his work featured on the album, including best new artist and best rap performance for “No Problem” with 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne.
“Seeing movies together on the big screen is an essential part of summertime and something I deeply missed over the last year, so I am extremely excited and honored to partner with AMC to safely bring fans back to the theater,” Chance The Rapper said via statement, about the movie screenings.
“Magnificent Coloring World” is scheduled for a theatrical release this summer.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday expanded a drought emergency declaration to a large swath of the nation’s most populated state amid “acute water supply shortages” in northern and central parts of California.
The declaration now covers 41 of 58 counties, covering 30% of California’s nearly 40 million people. The U.S. Drought Monitor shows most of the state and the American West is in extensive drought just a few years after California emerged from a punishing multiyear dry spell.
Officials fear an extraordinarily dry spring presages a wildfire season like last year, when flames burned a record 6,562 square miles.
The expansion comes as Newsom prepares to propose more spending on both short- and long-term responses to dry conditions. He was set to release details during a visit to Merced County, in the agricultural Central Valley south of Sacramento.
The Democratic governor last month had declared an emergency in just two counties north of San Francisco — Mendocino and Sonoma.
The expanded declaration includes the counties in the Klamath River, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Tulare Lake watersheds across much of the northern and central parts of the state.
The Sierra Nevada snowpack, which provides about a third of the state’s water, was at just 59% of average on April 1, when it is normally at its peak.
This year is unique because of extraordinarily warm temperatures in April and early May, the Newsom administration said. That led to quick melting of the Sierra Nevada snowpack in the waterways that feed the Sacramento River, which in turn supplies much of the state’s summer water supply.
The problem was worse because much of the snow seeped into the ground instead of flowing into rivers and reservoirs, the administration said.
The warmer temperatures also caused water users to draw more water more quickly than even in other drought years, the administration said, leaving the reservoirs extremely low for farmers, fish and wildlife that depend on them.
That all reduced the state’s water supplies by as much as what would supply up to 1 million households for a year, officials said.
“It’s time for Californians to pull together once again to save water,” California Natural Resources Agency Secretary Wade Crowfoot said in a statement.
He urged residents to limit their use, whether by limiting outdoor watering, checking for leaks, or taking shorter showers and turning off the water when washing dishes or brushing teeth.
Newsom’s declaration directs the State Water Board to consider changing the rules for reservoir releases and water diversions to keep more water upstream later this year to maintain more water supply, improve water quality and protect cold water pools for salmon and steelhead.
The declaration also allows more flexibility in regulations and contracting to respond to the drought, while speeding voluntary transfers of water between owners.
Newsom said he also wants lawmakers to spend more in the next fiscal year to both respond to the drought and build the state’s long-term water supply.
The governor is spending the week previewing highlights of the revised budget he will present to state lawmakers Friday for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
Earlier Monday in the San Francisco Bay Area, Newsom proposed tax rebates of up to $1,100 for millions of lower- and middle-income Californians, one leg of a pandemic recovery plan made possible by an eye-popping $75 billion budget surplus.
The barnstorming comes as Newsom faces a fall recall election driven in large part by frustration over his handling of the pandemic, though he noted that he also previewed his budget proposals in the past when he wasn’t facing a recall.
The governor’s fellow Democrats, who control the Legislature, have until June 15 to pass a spending plan.
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