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I have proposed House Bill 1092, which would strengthen the Firearms Restraining Order law to better prevent the next mass shooting.
Though we’re beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel in the fight against COVID-19, our nation’s pandemic of gun violence continues to kill innocent Americans daily. The Illinois Legislature, I believe, must answer the call to fight this pandemic as well.
In 2018, Illinois passed the Firearms Restraining Order law, with bipartisan support, in response to rising rates of firearm suicides, firearm domestic violence and mass shootings. The law allows family members and law enforcement agencies to petition the courts to temporarily remove firearms from people who pose a significant danger to themselves or others.
Unfortunately, the law is underused, and its implementation has been inconsistent due to a lack of awareness.
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I have proposed new legislation, House Bill 1092, that would strengthen the existing FRO law, helping to prevent the next mass shooting in Illinois. The bill would ensure that, when allowed by the court order, ammunition also is removed from a person who is exhibiting dangerous behavior. And it would make sure firearms are removed in a timely manner.
To address the lack of awareness about FRO, the bill would create a public education campaign about the law. And because law enforcement officers often are the ones who file FRO petitions, it would require yearly training on how to use the FRO law.
By passing House Bill 1092, Illinois can strengthen its existing FRO law. It can help prevent mass shootings, hate crimes and firearm suicides.
No family should have to bury a child or spouse or parent because of preventable gun violence. We must pass HB 1092 to take lethal weapons out of the hands of those who pose a significant danger to themselves or others. Let’s not miss an opportunity to prevent a tragedy like the ones we continually see across the nation.
Please reach out to your state legislators and ask them to support this critical bill.
State Rep. Denyse Stoneback, D-Skokie
Three of my grandparents were immigrants, born in Europe. The fourth was born in America, but both his parents were immigrants. America has always benefited from immigrants’ contributions to our society.
Recently, immigrants have played a critical role throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly 23 million immigrants have been putting their health at risk by performing essential roles that have kept our children and families healthy, and kept our child care, health care system, long-term care, food supply chain and our economy running.
That’s why it is so important that immigrant essential workers, Dreamers and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders are given a pathway to citizenship in the upcoming economic recovery package. This would be an important step toward rebuilding our nation’s care infrastructure. Since mothers have stepped out of the labor force at a higher rate than fathers, we can support their return to the workforce by supporting child care jobs often held by immigrants.
Please support all efforts to protect immigrant families who have worked to support our communities throughout the pandemic. Please let your federal representatives know that you support this important effort, which benefits all Americans.
Bob Chimis, Elmwood Park
I agree with a Sun-Times’ reader who wrote this week in support of Mark Brown’s column about the shooting of Adam Toledo. It was a tragedy on all sides. Everybody in the media should view the recording of the shooting and see how little time passed from when Adam Toledo dropped his gun to when he turned and was shot. If we are not fair in this case, it will be harder to achieve fairness in others.
I disagree with the other reader, though, that “there are always two sides to a story.” Many times, yes, but were there two valid sides to the George Floyd killing? Or to the issue of Barack Obama’s birthplace? Or as to who was responsible for what happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6 (no matter what House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has changed his story to)?
Kevin Coughlin, Evanston
SPOKANE, Wash. — The Pioneer League is replacing extra innings with a tiebreaking home run derby.
The independent partner league of Major League Baseball said Tuesday that tied games this season will be decided by each team designating a batter who will receive five pitches, and the team hitting the most long balls during the derby will receive the win. If the derby is tied after five swings each, another hitter will be selected for a sudden-death derby round.
The league said the rule is designed “to avoid the excessive strain on our pitching staffs.”
While Major League Baseball is behind experimental rule changes in the independent Atlantic League, it is not involved in the Pioneer League changes.
Other Pioneer League rule changes involve:
— Designated pinch hitter: Each team can use once per game a designated pinch hitter, who will bat for a player, but the original player may then return to his defensive position unless and until substituted. The designated pinch hitter may not subsequently return to the game.
— Designated pinch runner: Each team can use once per game a designated pinch runner, who will run for a player, but the original player may then return to his defensive position unless and until substituted. The designated pinch runner may not subsequently return to the game.
— Check swings: A hitter may appeal a check swing strike decision to a base umpire. Under standard baseball rules, only the defensive team can ask for an appeal.
— Three-man umpire crews will be used instead of two-man crews.
Founded in 1939, the Pioneer League lost its affiliated status as part of changes to the minor leagues implemented by MLB ahead of the 2022 season. It will operate as a partner league with eight teams in Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Utah playing a 96-game schedule starting May 22.
“The Pioneer Baseball League is committed to developing ideas that enhance the strategy of the game, protect the safety of our players and add to the fun and engagement of our fans,” league president Michael Shapiro said in a statement. “We believe this focus will help assure the future of the game among a broader and more diverse audience.”
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While it may seem obvious that the constitutional right to “keep and bear arms” extends beyond the home, federal courts have been debating the question for years.
This week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that finally could settle the issue, which the petitioners call “perhaps the single most important unresolved Second Amendment question.”
The case involves a New York law that requires applicants for handgun carry licenses to show “proper cause,” which according to state courts means more than a “generalized desire” to “protect one’s person and property.” Applicants must “demonstrate a special need for self-protection distinguishable from that of the general community,” which in practice means that ordinary New Yorkers have no right to armed self-defense once they leave their homes.
The vast majority of states are less demanding, typically requiring that people who want to carry concealed handguns meet a shortlist of objective criteria. But several states have laws like New York’s, enforcing subjective standards such as “good cause” (California), “proper purpose” (Massachusetts), “justifiable need” (New Jersey), “good and substantial reason” (Maryland), or a special “reason to fear injury” (Hawaii).
In the case that the Supreme Court will hear this term, the New York State Pistol & Rifle Association, joined by two New Yorkers who unsuccessfully applied for carry licenses in Rensselaer County, argues that such policies transform a “right of the people” into a privilege enjoyed only by the favored few. “A law that flatly prohibits ordinary law-abiding citizens from carrying a handgun for self-defense outside the home cannot be reconciled with the court’s affirmation of the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation,” the petitioners say.
They are referring to the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller, which overturned a local ban on handguns. While that decision focused on the right to “use arms in defense of hearth and home,” it more generally recognized “the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation.”
The possibility of being confronted by violent criminals, of course, exists in public as well as private. “Like the threats that might precipitate a need to act in self-defense,” the petitioners say, the right to bear arms “necessarily extends beyond the four walls of one’s home.”
Two other aspects of Heller reinforce that argument. The court said its decision did not “cast doubt” on “laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings,” a caveat that would have been unnecessary if the right to armed self-defense were limited to the home, and it described bans on the open carrying of pistols that were overturned by state supreme courts in the 19th century as “severe restriction(s).”
Two federal appeals courts, the 7th Circuit and the D.C. Circuit, have agreed that the Second Amendment protects the right to carry firearms in public. But the 2nd Circuit, which rejected this lawsuit, concluded that New York’s regulations are constitutional, and four other appeals courts — the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 9th circuits — have upheld similar policies in other states.
Last month, the 9th Circuit went so far as to declare that the Second Amendment has no bearing at all on a state’s authority to impose a virtual ban on public carry. In a blistering dissent, Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain complained that the majority’s position “reduces the right to ‘bear arms’ to a mere inkblot.”
O’Scannlain and Judge Jay Bybee, who wrote the majority opinion, both delved extensively into the historical background of the right to bear arms, early gun control laws, and 19th-century decisions rejecting or upholding them based on state analogs to the Second Amendment. The Supreme Court will now have to revisit that territory.
Because of laws like New York’s, the petitioners say, “tens of millions of citizens are being deprived of individual, fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution.” Whether that situation continues will depend on how the Court resolves this circuit split.
Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason magazine.
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NEW YORK — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eased its guidelines Tuesday on the wearing of masks outdoors, saying fully vaccinated Americans don’t need to cover their faces anymore unless they are in a big crowd of strangers.
And those who are unvaccinated can go outside without masks in some situations, too.
The new guidance represents another carefully calibrated step on the road back to normal from the coronavirus outbreak that has killed over 570,000 people in U.S.
For most of the past year, the CDC had been advising Americans to wear masks outdoors if they are within 6 feet of one another.
“Today, I hope, is a day when we can take another step back to the normalcy of before,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said. “Over the past year, we have spent a lot of time telling Americans what you can’t do. Today, I am going to tell you some of the things you can do, if you are fully vaccinated.”
The change comes as more than half of U.S. adults have gotten at least one dose of vaccine, and more than a third have been fully vaccinated.
Walensky said the decision was driven by rising vaccination numbers; declines in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths; and research showing that less than 10% of documented instances of transmission of the virus happened outdoors.
Dr. Mike Saag, an infectious disease expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, welcomed the change in guidance.
“It’s the return of freedom,” Saag said. “It’s the return of us being able to do normal activities again. We’re not there yet, but we’re on the exit ramp. And that’s a beautiful thing.”
More people need to be vaccinated, and concerns persist about variants and other possible shifts in the epidemic. But Saag said the new guidance is a sensible reward following the development and distribution of effective vaccines and about 140 million Americans stepping forward to get their shots.
The CDC, which has been cautious in its guidance during the crisis, essentially endorsed what many Americans have already been doing over the past several weeks.
The CDC says that fully vaccinated or not, people do not have to wear masks outdoors when they walk, bike or run alone or with members of their household. They can also go maskless in small outdoor gatherings with fully vaccinated people.
But from there, the CDC has differing guidance for people who are fully vaccinated and those who are not.
Unvaccinated people — defined by the CDC as those who have yet to receive both doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine or the one-shot Johnson & Johnson formula — should wear masks at outdoor gatherings that include other unvaccinated people. They also should keep using masks at outdoor restaurants.
Fully vaccinated people do not need to cover up in those situations, the CDC says.
However, everyone should keep wearing masks at crowded outdoor events such as concerts or sporting events, the CDC says.
And the agency continues to recommend masks at indoor public places, such as hair salons, restaurants, shopping centers, gyms, museums and movie theaters, saying that is still the safer course even for vaccinated people.
“Right now it’s very hard to tease apart who is vaccinated,” Walensky explained.
She said the CDC guidance should be a model for states in setting their mask-wearing requirements.
The advice to the unvaccinated applies to adults and children alike, according to the CDC. None of the COVID-19 vaccines in use in the U.S. is authorized for children under 16.
Dr. Babak Javid, a physician-scientist at the University of California, San Francisco, said the new CDC guidance is sensible.
“In the vast majority of outdoor scenarios, transmission risk is low,” Javid said.
Javid has favored outdoor mask-wearing requirements because he believes they increase indoor mask-wearing, but he said Americans can understand the relative risks and make good decisions.
He added: “I’m looking forward to mask-free existence.”
“The timing is right because we now have a fair amount of data about the scenarios where transmission occurs,” said Mercedes Carnethon, a professor and vice chair of preventive medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
What’s more, she said, “the additional freedoms may serve as a motivator” for people to get vaccinated.
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AP medical writer Carla K. Johnson in Washington state contributed to this report.
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During my job search — which is a long way to say “recently” — I’ve found a kindred spirit on LinkedIn,com. The Grammar Girl column there, which features all sorts of “quick and dirty tips,” has a recent post here headlined “Don’t worry, be gruntled.”
Guest author Bonnie Trenga credits P.G. Wodehouse, one of the funnier writers ever to use English, as mentioning a character in 1938’s “The Code of the Woosters” as “far from being gruntled.”
This made me laugh and remember some of the adventures WGN-AM’s Bob Collins used to have on his radio program, from saying of unimpressive things “I’m whelmed” to reacting to failed skits or jokes with “It’s not a show-stopper, but it does slow it down a lot.”
Being Serious about words can include having fun with them, of course, so I have borrowed those phrases over the years. I don’t remember exactly where I came up with another, reacting to someone saying “I’m discombobulated” by telling them to call me when they’re “recombobulated.” It might have been my dad’s creation, if I didn’t try it first.
So if you’re running low on things to play with, try some words. At the very least, you’ll get people to listen to you more carefully!
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S&P Dow Jones released the February CoreLogic Case Shiller Home Price Indices this morning which show that the nation’s single family home prices rose 12.0% over the previous year, compared to 11.2% for the 12 months ending in January. That was the highest year over year appreciation rate in 15 years.
Alas, the Chicago area once again trailed the other 19 major metro areas tracked by Case Shiller with a mere 8.6% annual appreciation rate for single family homes. Now, it turns out that 8.6% is the highest appreciation that the Chicago area has had in not quite 7 years, which is good, but it’s not 15 years. And, if you were paying attention last month you would have noticed that I told you then that we registered an 8.9% appreciation rate so you’d be asking me how 8.6% is a 7 year high. Well, it turns out that the Case Shiller folks regularly revise the old indices and the revised data now has January with only an 8.5% growth rate. So January was not as strong as originally reported.
Chicago area condo prices have been losing a bit of steam over the last few months. February, with a mere 3.1% annual appreciation rate, was the third month in a row where appreciation fell from the previous month.
I’ve graphed all the year over year appreciation rates for the Chicago area for both condos and single family homes in the graph below.
Chicago area single family home prices have shown annual gains for 100 consecutive months
Craig J. Lazzara, Managing Director and Global Head of Index Investment Strategy at S&P DJI, provided some perspective on the price changes:
More than 30 years of S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller data help us to put February’s results into historical context. The National Composite’s 12.0% gain is the highest recorded since February 2006, exactly 15 years ago, and lies comfortably in the top decile of historical performance. Housing’s strength is reflected across all 20 cities; February’s price gains in every city are above that city’s median level, and rank in the top quartile of all reports in 18 cities.
These data remain consistent with the hypothesis that COVID has encouraged potential buyers to move from urban apartments to suburban homes. This demand may represent buyers who accelerated purchases that would have happened anyway over the next several years. Alternatively, there may have been a secular change in preferences, leading to a permanent shift in the demand curve for housing.
The graph below shows the actual Case Shiller index values for the Chicago area for both condos and single family homes going back to 1987 along with a red trend line that reflects the pre-bubble rate of price appreciation for single family homes. February single family home prices actually rose by 0.3% from January while condo prices fell 0.8%. Since single family home prices have been doing better than condo prices recently the single family indices have actually crossed above the condo indices in the last couple of months for the first time in more than 6 years.
As you can see, despite the recent energy exhibited by home prices we still haven’t caught up to the bubble peak. Single family home prices are still 8.2% below that level and condo prices are short by 5.8%. In addition, the gap between single family home prices and that red trend line has been widening for years and really hasn’t closed that much lately. We currently fall short by 26.2%.
Unfortunately, the average person that bought a single family home in the Chicago area between May 2005 and February 2008 is still underwater as is the average person who bought a condo between August 2005 and October 2008.
Of course we’ve made a lot of progress from when the market bottomed out. Single family home prices have bounced back 50.6% while condo prices have recovered 55.9%.
The Chicago real estate market still has a long way to go before catching up to bubble peak prices.
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Driving North on Michigan Avenue, the image became clearer near Wacker Drive.
Yup. That definitely looks like a tulip on the south exterior of the Sheraton Grand Chicago hotel. And that must be a sun with a spray of sunrays in the left corner.
If you’ve driven through downtown this past year, you’ve likely seen other images: a heart at the peak of the pandemic; a gingerbread man at Christmas; a martini glass at New Year’s.
Or maybe the nods to Chicago institutions: a Cubs “W,” the “LU,” when Loyola University progressed in the NCAA Sweet Sixteen.
“I’ll send an idea to the general manager and say, ‘What do you think?’ Then armed with a map of the building, the targeted windows and the room numbers, we unleash our fantastic engineering team,” said Sheraton’s chief engineer, Mike Dukelow.
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“They go room to room, switching on the lights. It’s the room lamp and the standing floor lamp — right in front of the windows, with the curtains open.”
Like most of the hospitality industry, Sheraton, one of Chicago’s largest convention hotels, with 125,000 square feet of meeting space on the downtown riverwalk, was shuttered by the pandemic. Its doors closed Mar. 27, 2020, three weeks after COVID-19 halted all travel.
After it closed, 635 employees — 1,000, if you count part-time staff — was reduced to a crew of 32. General Manager Mark Lauer said there was a desire among remaining managers and engineers to connect with a city devastated by the rising death count.
“One of the managers first came to me and said, ‘Everyone’s putting a heart on their buildings.’ I told Mike, let’s do it. After the heart was up a number of months, I challenged him to come up with other ideas,” said Lauer, 63, who lives near his hotel.
Lauer has worked in the industry for 40 years. Before his seven years at the Sheraton was four years with the New York Hilton and nine with the New York Waldorf-Astoria.
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“At first we wondered if anyone would even notice. Then we started seeing photos of our window designs all over social media. It was bringing just a little bit of joy, which was all we were trying to do at a very difficult time for so many. And it’s been fun,” the hotelier said.
Like much of the industry, the Sheraton, at 301 E. North Water St., has looked forward to reopening in spring or summer, as vaccines took hold nationwide.
Local economies have begun emerging from a COVID-19 recession that pummeled the leisure and hospitality sector, and spring travel trends were encouraging for summer.
Bookings are starting to come in, and the Sheraton expects to reopen in June.
Illinois remains in a “bridge” phase to a return to normal, with the Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association pushing for larger capacity limits for meetings, conferences and conventions.
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“I’ll never forget last March. Everything happened so quickly. My department went from 27 people to 10 — by far one of the worst days of my career, just surreal,” said Dukelow, 50, of Oak Forest, who’s been with the Sheraton for nearly three years.
Prior to that was two years with London House, a year at Trump Tower, 12 1/2 at Ritz Carlton.
Surprisingly, turning the massive windows into an art canvas is very low-tech.
“I print out a picture, put it on a building map and start filling in the windows with a sharpie, then run white correction ribbon over the sharpie to simulate light, label the rooms on the ribbon, and then we go room to room, first of all turning off the old design,” Dukelow said.
“As simple as they’ve been — a snowflake, mug of beer for St. Patty’s Day, heart with ‘XO’ in the middle for Valentine’s — it takes several tries to get them right. Curves are hard to simulate with square windows. Sometimes you’re trying to light half a window.”
Marcus Cornelious, director of sales and marketing, also will never forget last March. For him, it was watching hard-earned bookings of thousands of guests cancel, one after the other.
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“About the time the governor’s stay-at-home order went in place, travel in general came to a screeching halt,” recounted Cornelious, 38, of the West Loop, who’s worked at the Sheraton two years.
Before that was The Glen for three years; and several years at New York City hotels — including two with W Hotels there — had followed 10 years with The Langham here.
“I remember sitting around the table, thinking, ‘What can we do to send a message of hope?’ That’s when we came up with the windows,” he said.
“After that initial heart image, people started tagging us in photos of our windows on social media, and calling the hotel, sending handwritten ‘Thank-you’ notes, saying the designs were uplifting them in such a dark time. It was really powerful,” he added.
“In the beginning, it was more about solidarity. Then we started to get more playful. There are brighter days ahead for all of us. And our visuals are changing to match that.”
A man is facing charges after a stray bullet struck an unmarked Chicago police car last week in West Englewood.
Shemar Barber, 19, is charged with one felony count of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, Chicago police said. He was also issued a citation for possessing a high-capacity magazine and metal-piercing bullets.
The incident happened around 9:30 p.m. April 22 in the 6300 block of South Damen Avenue, police said. Two officers were in their vehicle when someone fired shots from a passing gray Chrysler, striking the officers’ vehicle and shattering the glass of a CTA bus shelter.
Police said the shooter was aiming for another vehicle in traffic, and neither officers were injured or returned fire.
Barber was arrested after responding officers spotted the Chrysler, and he and another person ran from the car, police said. The second suspect was still being sought.
The Chrysler was found blocks away in the 7300 block of South Winchester Avenue and officers recovered a gun, police said.
Barber was ordered held on $25,000 bail and is due back in court Friday.
The National Women’s Soccer League announced its ninth season will kick off May 15 with three matches.
The first match of the regular season pits Louisville against Kansas City with kickoff scheduled for 4 p.m. followed by OL Reign vs. the North Carolina Courage and Gotham FC vs. the Houston Dash.
The Red Stars open their season on the road against the Portland Thorns at Providence Park on May 16 at 6 p.m. giving them over two weeks to recover after their Challenge Cup finale against OL Reign tonight.
All kickoff times are subject to change because the league doesn’t have its official broadcast schedule yet.
Fans will be in attendance at SeatGeek Stadium in a limited capacity for the Red Stars’ home opener May 22 against Gotham FC at 7 p.m. The team will only be selling single-game tickets through July due to the fluidity of the pandemic.
The Red Stars COVID-19 protocol includes disinfecting all areas prior to games, required face coverings at all times except when eating and drinking and all fans will be strongly encouraged to use mobile ticketing through the team’s new app.
The 2021 season features all 10 clubs in 24 matches. The Red Stars will play 12 home matches and 12 away. The regular season begins on the road and finishes on the road for the Red Stars on Oct. 29 at 6 p.m. against the Orlando Pride at Exploria Stadium.
Coming off five consecutive league appearances, the Red Stars will look to make it six and play in their third straight championship match. The league’s expanded playoff pool will include six teams, with the top two seeds receiving a first-round bye and is set to begin in November.
The NWSL Championship is set to be played on Nov. 20.
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