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A garage fire spread to three others early Monday in Hegewisch on the Far South Side — only two blocks away from a blaze that swept through three others days earlier.
About 12:05 a.m., firefighters responded to the 13500 block of South Buffalo Avenue and began to extinguish a garage fire, according to Chicago Fire deputy district chief Curtis Hudson.
The blaze caused radiant heat exposure to spread to three garages across the alley in the 13500 block of South Burley Avenue, Hudson said. No one was injured.
The cause of the fire was under investigation but was similar to the one from two days earlier, Hudson said.
On Saturday, a person set multiple garage bins on fire causing it to spread to three garages and Chicago police determined it to be arson.
Avoid shopping or making important decisions from 2 to 8:30 a.m. Chicago time. After that, the moon moves from Capricorn into Aquarius.
You begin this week in a sociable way, eager to talk to others and share your hopes for the future. Not only will you learn, many of you will teach. Late in the day, someone might surprise you. Get ready. Does someone have something in store for you?
You might get recognition today for the research or work you do behind the scenes. Yes, your efforts will be acknowledged! Nevertheless, something out of the blue might surprise you when dealing with a boss, parent, teacher or VIP (including the police).
Interactions with younger people will be exciting. You might explore travel plans and exciting ideas about religion, human consciousness movements, philosophies and political systems. You welcome a heady exchange of ideas!
Others admire you , especially bosses and parents. They want to hear your views about something and you’re interested to hear what they have to say as well. This is an excellent day to relate to authority figures even to the extent that a flirtation might arise. Woot!
You will enjoy studying. Many of you will also enjoy teaching. This is because you have a desire to expand your mind and share what you learn with others. Naturally, travel appeals. (You might discuss this possibility with a partner or close friend.)
You are keen to work hard to accomplish as much as you can on the job. This same zeal might apply to your plans to improve your health. Be aware that as the day wears on, something unexpected, some sort of surprise might interrupt things. Be prepared.
Someone is eager to talk to you today. This might be someone in the general public or it could be a close friend or partner? Discussions about children might arise. Likewise, discussions about a future vacation or something to do with sports or the arts are also likely. A chatty day!
Today you’re prepared to roll up your sleeves and dig in to your job or whatever task that you set for yourself in a hands-on way. You want to get stuff done! A family member might help you. Alternatively, this work might relate to your home or someone in your family.
Today you are talkative because you’re interested in everything! This includes children’s activities as well as the arts and anything to do with sports. You might also get involved with neighbors, siblings and relatives. So much to do! So much to learn!
Because you are interested in home repairs or something to do with real estate or improving where you live, you are interested in your finances. How much money will be available to you? What can you do and how can you swing it? You need to get the facts.
Today the moon is in your sign, which always makes you more emotional than usual. (Happens for two days every month.) However, today the Moon is bouncing off Mercury, which makes you curious and eager to talk to others. You have something to say!
Trust your money-making ideas today. Write them down and perhaps run them up the flagpole to see if anyone salutes. You’re doing some quiet thinking and doing some behind-the-scenes research. Who knows what this might yield?
Singer, songwriter, entrepreneur Pharrell Williams (1973) shares your birthday. You are an honest straight shooter who is free-spirited and friendly! As your new personal year begins, you are entering a major window of change in your life. Get ready to pivot somehow in a major way. Welcome this because it presents exciting opportunities for you to explore new ideas and ways of doing things. Your personal independence might be tested.
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About 7:55 p.m., two men, 19 and 20, were in a vehicle driving north on Humboldt Drive, when two males approached from behind on orange dirt bikes and began to fire shots as they drove past the driver-side door.
A man was killed and a second man was critically wounded in a drive-by Sunday in Humboldt Park on the West Side.
About 7:55 p.m., two men, 19 and 20, were in a vehicle driving north on Humboldt Drive, when two males approached from behind on orange dirt bikes and began to fire shots as they drove past the driver-side door, Chicago police said.
The 19-year-old was struck in the neck and taken to Stroger Hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said. The 20-year-old was grazed by a bullet on his head, struck in the back, and brought to Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center in critical condition.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not yet identified the man.
Area Five detectives are investigating.
A 38-year-old man was fatally shot Sunday while he was driving in West Pullman on the Far South Side.
About 2:15 p.m., he stopped in the middle of the street in the 11500 block of South LaSalle Street, had a brief conversation with a man who approached his vehicle, and the man fired shots, Chicago police said.
He was struck in the neck and pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not yet identified the man.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — Having left-hander Garrett Crochet and right-hander Michael Kopech at his disposal for more than just one-inning stints out of the bullpen is just another aspect of the White Sox relief corps for Tony La Russa to love.
Never mind that the Sox’ first two losses of the season Thursday and Saturday were on the bullpen’s backs. In the first one, an error by Nick Madrigal played a big part. And in the second one, the Sox are chalking it up to a bad night at the office for Evan Marshall, who has been very good the last two seasons.
Confidence is not wavering. Not three games into the season.
“Confidence, if it’s a true confidence, I don’t think will ever waver,” Crochet said. “That’s what our bullpen possesses. Everybody will have a bad day now and again. It’s something you have to accept when you play baseball. I would say the confidence in the bullpen is still there for everybody, 100 percent.”
The Sox pen entered the season touted as perhaps the best in the American League, with 2020 Reliever of the Year Liam Hendriks added in the offseason to close games. Crochet and Kopech possess just two of the power arms capable of triple digit velocity, and La Russa has already called on each for multi-inning relief. Kopech pitched two-plus scoreless innings with three strikeouts Friday and La Russa said “we were able to win” because of it.
Protecting a 3-2 lead, Crochet threw 2 1/3 perfect innings with three strikeouts Saturday right before Marshall was tagged for three runs in the eighth.
“Pretty much anybody in our pen at this point could go one or two innings, go out there and turn over the lineup,” Crochet said. “But definitely it’s nice to be looked to in that role. Being trusted to help save the pen.”
It was Kopech’s first game since late 2018 because of Tommy John surgery and opting out last year. Crochet, drafted 10 months ago, has fast-tracked it to the majors. It’s still kind of new and he admitted “my command was nervy at the beginning.”
“But I was a lot more comfortable after I got that first part out of the way.”
Crochet, who walked away from his final appearance of 2020 with a forearm strain in Game 3 of the Wild Card series, turned heads with 100-plus mph velocity. He didn’t touch triple digits during spring training, and topped out at 98.9 Saturday,
“It is coming,” assistant pitching coach Curt Hasler said. “His velocity has been slowly ticking up during the spring. He was gaining strength — he had the issue at the end of the year — going through a program with our training staff and that program didn’t deviate. He’s adding strength.
“The lights will go on and you’ll see a little more. It’s increasing, and his strength is increasing and he’s on the right track.”
The 21-year-old Crochet’s multidimensional responsibilities go beyond multi-innings work. He has been carting a large yellow backpack to the bullpen before games as the bullpen’s snack guy.
“That’s the snack bag,” he said. “It’s shaped like Spongebob. I’m just in charge of snacks.
“Snickers, Twix, Starburst, Skittles. The whole nine. Fruity, chocolate, you name it.
“I wouldn’t say I rose to the role. I would say I arrived at that point. But it’s nice to be in charge of something.”
A garbage bin fire that spread to three garages Saturday night in Hegewisch was determined to be arson, according to Chicago police.
About 11:40 p.m., officers responded to the 13300 block of South Burley Avenue while Chicago fire officials were extinguishing three fires, Chicago police said. Witnesses told officers they heard loud bangs in the alley that sounded like fireworks, and after a short period of time they saw that a fire had begun in the alley in the 13300 block of South Buffalo Avenue.
The fire then spread to another garage in the same block and there was a third garage on fire in the 13000 block of South Burley Avenue, police said.
An investigation found that the fires were started by an unknown person who set multiple garbage cans on fire in the alley before fleeing, police said.
There were no injures or displacements reported.
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About 12:15 p.m., officers found the man sitting unresponsive in the front passenger seat of a white GMC Envoy in the 3600 block of West 32nd Street, with a gunshot wound to the back of his head.
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The starry cast of Aaron Sorkin’s 1960s courtroom drama “The Trial of the Chicago 7” took the top prize Sunday at a virtual Screen Actors Guild Awards where actors of color, for the first time, swept the individual film awards.
The 27th SAG Awards, presented by the Hollywood actors’ guild SAG-Aftra, were a muted affair — and not just because the ceremony was virtual, without a red carpet and condensed to a Zoom-heavy, one-hour broadcast on TBS and TNT. The perceived Academy Awards frontrunner — Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland” — wasn’t nominated for best ensemble, making this year’s postponed SAG Awards less of an Oscar preview than it is most years.
Still, the win for “The Trial of the Chicago 7” marked the first time a film from any streaming service won the guild’s ensemble award. Written and directed by Sorkin, “The Trial of the Chicago 7” had been set for theatrical release by Paramount Pictures before the pandemic hit, leading to its sale to Netflix. The streamer is still after its first best-picture win at the Oscars.
Frank Langella, who plays the judge who presided over the 1969 prosecution of activists arrested during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, drew parallels between that era’s unrest and today’s while accepting the award on behalf of the cast.
The win came over two other Netflix releases — “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “Da 5 Bloods” — as well as Amazon’s “One Night in Miami” and A24’s “Minari.” Had Lee Isaac Chung’s Korean-American family drama “Minari” won, it would have been the second straight year a film largely not in English won SAG’s top award. Last year, the cast of “Parasite” triumphed, becoming the first cast from a non-English language film to do so.
The SAG Awards are a closely watched Oscar harbinger. Actors make up the largest branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, and SAG winners often line up with Oscar ones. Last year, “Parasite” went on to win best picture at the Academy Awards, and all of the individual SAG winners — Renee Zellweger, Brad Pitt, Laura Dern, Joaquin Phoenix — won at the Oscars, too.
Those awards this year went to Chadwick Boseman, best male actor for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”; Viola Davis, best female actor for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”; Yuh-Jung Youn, best female supporting actor for “Minari.” and Daniel Kaluuya, best male supporting actor for “Judas and the Black Messiah.”
Of those, Davis’ win was the most surprising in a category that has often belonged to Carey Mulligan (“Promising Young Woman”) or Frances McDormand (“Nomadland”). It’s Davis’ fifth individual SAG award.
“Thank you, August, for leaving a legacy for actors of color that we can relish the rest of our lives,” said Davis, referring to playwright August Wilson.
As it has throughout the awards season, best male actor again belonged to Boseman for his final performance. Boseman, who died last August at age 43, had already set a record for most SAG film nominations — four — in a single year. He was also posthumously nominated for his supporting role in “Da 5 Bloods” and shared in the ensemble nominations for both Spike Lee’s film and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”
It was the SAG Awards where Boseman gave one of his most memorable speeches. At the guild’s 2019 awards, Boseman spoke on behalf of the “Black Panther” cast when the film won the top award. “We all know what it’s like to be told that there is not a place for you to be featured,” Boseman said then. “Yet you are young, gifted and Black.”
The Academy Awards frontrunner, “Nomadland” missed out on a best-ensemble nomination possibly because its cast is composed of largely non-professional actors. Zhao’s film previously won at the highly predictive Producers Guild Awards, as well as at the Golden Globes. “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” up for best picture at the Oscars and four other awards, could pose a challenge to the frontrunner.
In an interview following the taping of the award for “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” Langella called the virtual experience much more civilized. “I’m in my bedroom slippers,” he said from New York’s Hudson Valley. “I have no pants on,” added his co-star Michael Keaton.
Eddie Redmayne, who plays Tom Hayden in the film, credited Sorkin and casting director Francine Maisler for assembling such a disparate group of actors — including Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Rylance and Jeremy Strong — into an ensemble.
“It was like a clash of different types of music, whether it was jazz or rock or classical — but all of that coming together under Aaron. He was the conductor, almost,” said Redmayne. “It was a joy day and day out to watch these great and different and varied actors slugging it out.”
In television categories, the ensembles of “Schitt’s Creek” (for comedy series) and “The Crown” (for drama series) added to their string of awards. Other winners included Anya Taylor-Joy (“The Queen’s Gambit”), Gillian Anderson (“The Crown”), Jason Sudeikis (“Ted Lasso”), Jason Bateman (“Ozark”) and Mark Ruffalo (“I Know This Much Is True”).
The awards are typically the highest profile event for the Screen Actors Guild, though the union’s faceoff earlier this year with former President Donald Trump may have drawn more headlines. After the guild prepared to expel Trump (credits include “The Apprentice,” “Home Alone 2”) for his role in the Capitol riot, Trump resigned from SAG-Aftra.
An 18-year-old man was ordered held without bail Sunday after prosecutors alleged he carried out a brazen three-day “crime spree” last month that included stealing a Cook County judge’s vehicle.
Antonio Butler was arrested Friday and charged with felony counts of aggravated vehicular hijacking, armed robbery with a firearm and receiving or possessing a stolen motor vehicle. During Butler’s initial court hearing Sunday, prosecutors noted that some of his alleged crimes remained under investigation, leaving the door open for additional charges.
The alleged crime spree started March 25, when Butler allegedly stole an Audi A4 that was later used in an armed robbery early the following morning in the 3700 block of West 16th Street.
Officers responded to the scene of the robbery but the Audi was able to get away, according to Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy. Murphy said the Audi was then used that day in a pair of thefts at gas stations, a carjacking and an armed robbery, among other alleged crimes.
The following morning, officers responded to a call of a suspicious vehicle in the 3300 block of West 19th Street and found Butler sleeping in the Audi, Murphy said. When Butler disobeyed the officers’ commands, they broke out the car’s windows. Butler then allegedly took off, crashing into two marked Chicago police vehicles during his escape.
Butler later posted a livestream to Facebook that showed him smoking marijuana with a gun in his lap as he bragged about losing the cops, Murphy said. In the video, the Audi’s windows were clearly smashed.
Just before noon on March 27, Butler allegedly used the Audi to pull up alongside the judge’s vehicle at a gas station, Murphy said. He then crouched down, got into the judge’s vehicle and took off, leaving the Audi behind.
Last Friday, Butler was taken into custody after officers identified him as a suspect in the crime spree during a traffic stop. During the stop, the driver of the vehicle took off, striking two police cruisers and two other vehicles before he and Butler were apprehended.
Murphy noted that Butler had an extensive criminal history as a minor and was sentenced to over a year in the Juvenile Department of Corrections in a 2016 gun case. Butler’s public defender described his client as a high school senior and lifelong Chicago resident who works odd jobs.
Judge Susana Ortiz denied him bail and set his next court date for Friday.
