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8 shot, 1 fatally, at overnight party on South Sideon March 26, 2021 at 1:42 pm

A man was killed and at least seven others injured after gunfire broke out at a “pop-up party” early Friday in the Wrightwood neighborhood on the South Side.

It was the second mass shooting at a “pop-up party” this month. On March 15, a shooting wounded 15 people, 2 fatally, at a party in the Park Manor neighborhood.

In Friday’s shooting, at least two men opened fire shortly after midnight at a gathering in the 2500 block of West 79th Street, Chicago police said in a statement.

At least six of the victims were men in their 20s and 30s, police said. One victim was a woman. Several handguns were found at the scene of the shooting, police said. No one was in custody.

The shooting happened at a building where several people were throwing a “pop-up party,” police spokeswoman Karie James said. The event was reportedly a birthday party, WGN-TV reported.

A 26-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police. His name hasn’t been released.

Another man, 27, suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition, police said.

A man, 22, was shot in the left knee and a man, 28, was struck in the left leg, police said. Both were taken to the same hospital in fair condition.

Another man, 28, and a woman, 41, both suffered gunshot wounds to the abdomen, and were listed in serious condition, police said.

A man, 32, went to the Little Mary of Company Hospital with a gunshot wound to the back, police, said. An eighth person brought themselves to Roseland Hospital with a gunshot wound to the body.

Both adults were later transferred to Christ Medical Center, police said.

About two weeks ago, 15 people were gun downed at a Park Manor business where a party was being held. Two people were killed and at least five others seriously wounded, police said.

That shooting was the most violent attack in terms of the number of victims since last July when 15 people were shot outside a Gresham funeral home.

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The Chicago Bears aren’t cheap, they’re incompetenton March 26, 2021 at 12:00 pm

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The Chicago Bears, as an organization, deserve a tremendous amount of criticism. For decades, they have been a middling franchise that has leaned heavily on its status as a “charter franchise” to dodge the harshest of criticism.

You can call the Bears many things — incompetent, rudderless, disorganized, antiquated, clueless, etc. However, you can’t call them cheap, and a recent statistic underscores this.

On Thursday, Nick Wright was discussing the amount of resources the Bears have invested into the quarterback position since the end of the Jay Cutler era, and it is staggering.

The Chicago Bears are incompetent, not cheap.

In total, the team has wasted (and let’s call it what it is — a waste) $120 million and the number 3, 67, 70, and 111 overall picks. Yes, some of that total included in the money spent on backups Chase Daniel and Mark Sanchez, but it’s fair to ask what the value was to pay Daniel $10 million over two years to essentially babysit their No. 2 overall draft pick.

What’s more egregious, though, is the $45 million wasted on Mike Glennon, the $29 million and picks wasted on Mitchell Trubisky, and more recently the combined $34 million spent on Nick Foles and Andy Dalton.

It’s a shame, and really a confluence of events that has put the Bears in this situation. Unfortunately, they have a very naive, trusting ownership group who values relationships over results. Much like Clark W. Griswold once remarked about Cousin Eddie, George McCaskey’s “heart is bigger than his brain.”

That wouldn’t be such a fatal flaw if it wasn’t for the fact that the group he’s entrusting to make football decisions are equally incompetent in that regard.

The biggest concern I have, frankly is that the organization will tighten the purse strings, feeling burnt by the series of bad quarterback decisions from Ryan Pace and company.

And who wouldn’t be? Think of it this way — you may trust your financial advisor implicitly, but if he or she continues to make bad investments, you’re going to reconsider how much you give them to manage.

Next: Bears take a chance on Davis Mills?

Recently, on 67o The Score, Brad Biggs intimated that while George may ok a large trade to acquire an established veteran like Russell Wilson, he may be reluctant to allow Pace to make a similar big move in the draft. In that regard, it appears Pace’s failures are already influencing their decisions. Look, I’m not a fan of Ryan Pace, but if you don’t trust your general manager to make a big move in the draft to get a franchise quarterback, then why is he in that seat?

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Mayor for rent, cheapon March 26, 2021 at 5:47 am

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An ‘Expert’ picks the NCAA Men’s Basketball Sweet 16 gameson March 26, 2021 at 11:06 am

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Chicago Bulls: Here’s what each new addition brings to the tableon March 26, 2021 at 11:00 am

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The Chicago Bulls acquired four new players via trade at the NBA trade deadline.

They received Nikola Vucevic, Al-Farouq Aminu, Daniel Theis, Javonte Green, and Troy Brown. The Bulls gave away Otto Porter, Wendell Carter, Chandler Hutchison, Daniel Gafford, and newly acquired Moritz Wagner.

The Bulls filled a lot of needs as the deadline ended on Mar. 25. From a defensive standpoint, the Bulls have one of the worst defenses in the NBA. They allow113.7 points per game (24th in the NBA). They also allow 50.5 points per game in the paint (27th in the NBA) and force just 13.7 turnovers per game to their opponents (17th in the NBA).

On offense, the Bulls are one of the better offenses in the league, putting up 113 points per game (13th in the NBA). But, there is always room for improvement. The Bulls attempt the second-least amount of free throws in the NBA, at 18.8 per game. They also commit the most turnovers per game in the NBA, at 16 per game.

The most important aspect to see from the Bulls’ busy trade deadline is how these players fit into Donovan’s cutting/motion offense and into the man-to-man defense. With the new players’ strengths, fans could be seeing some changes to the offense and defense.

Each of the new Bulls’ players brings their own strong suit to the team. Here are the strengths that each player the Bulls acquired can bring to the table.

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Roger Hildebrand, University of Chicago scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project, dead at 98on March 26, 2021 at 10:45 am

When Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor, Roger Hildebrand was studying chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley.

Days later, a professor — Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ernest Lawrence — “tapped me on the shoulder and said, ‘Well, you want to help the war effort, don’t you?’ And there was only one answer to that,” Mr. Hildebrand recalled in an oral history.

Lawrence also told him, ” ‘You’re going to have to learn physics in a hurry,’ ” Mr. Hildebrand said in the interview with the Atomic Heritage Foundation. “I did, and I liked it.”

Mr. Hildebrand, then 19, got a quick lesson on how to operate a cyclotron — a particle accelerator. He started twiddling dials and watched the needles on the meters.

Nobody would talk about what the work was. But he deduced that he was refining radioactive material, including plutonium and uranium. It was transported to the University of Chicago, where scientists were helping to develop the atomic bomb in the top-secret effort known as the Manhattan Project.

Later, he worked in the “secret city” of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, another research center for the bomb.

According to the University of Chicago, where he was a professor for nearly 70 years, Mr. Hildebrand was the school’s last living scientist to have worked on the Manhattan Project. He died in January at 98 at a senior care facility in Massachusetts, where he’d moved to be near family, according to his son Peter.

Roger Hildebrand.
Roger Hildebrand.
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Born in Berkeley, he was the son of Joel Hildebrand, who, besides being a renowned chemist at UC Berkeley, was president of the Sierra Club and manager of the 1936 U.S. Olympic ski team.

“Dad and his brothers climbed most of the peaks in the Sierras in high school or college and were on the ski team at Berkeley,” Peter Hildebrand said.

In 1944, Mr. Hildebrand married his high school sweetheart Jane Beedle. They were married for nearly 73 years, till her death in 2017.

After he earned a master’s in physics from Berkeley, the University of Chicago recruited him in 1952. Mr. Hildebrand was thrilled. He said it was widely accepted the school had the world’s top physics department — and, in Enrico Fermi, the best physicist.

“Besides being the brightest physicist in the world, he was a superb teacher,” he told the Atomic Heritage Foundation.

Remembering how intimidated he felt when Fermi told him he was going out of town and asked him to teach a class, Mr. Hildebrand said: “I sort of gulped because I knew that I’d be compared to what I think was the best physics teacher in the world.”

When he asked Fermi for a quick review of the material for the lesson, he said in the interview, “He began asking me questions about [a particle called] the deuteron, easy questions, and it made me think sort of with one side of my brain, ‘Gee, I’m pretty smart.’ The other side, I said, ‘Oh, no, it’s Fermi that’s making this seem simple.’ I taught his class and somehow survived.”

Fermi “seemed to be able to do anything better than anybody else,” he said. “If we had a baseball game, he grabbed the bat and hit home runs.”

In a separate interview by Henry Frisch, a fellow U. of C. physics professor, Mr. Hildebrand said “Fermi just helped anybody that was around.”

Roger Hildebrand around 2011 with a time capsule filled in the late 1940s by Enrico Fermi and other University of Chicago physicists.
Roger Hildebrand around 2011 with a time capsule filled in the late 1940s by Enrico Fermi and other University of Chicago physicists.
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After serving as associate director of high-energy physics at Argonne National Laboratory, where he helped develop a particle accelerator, and as dean of the university’s undergraduate college, Mr. Hildebrand wanted a change.

“He looked around for a field he felt was ripe for an experienced newcomer” and settled on astrophysics, his son said.

Stars are formed from dust and gas pulled together by gravity.

“It was Roger who realized you could learn a lot from looking at the dust — but how to see the dust?” said John E. Carlstrom, a U. of C. astrophysicist.

To do that, Mr. Hildebrand did pioneering work designing instruments to detect infrared radiation.

He traveled to Mauna Kea, Hawaii, to use a California Institute of Technology telescope and to Chile to use telescopes at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. He also used an airborne telescope on a retrofitted 747: the SOFIA, for Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy.

Well into his later years, he displayed a youthful athleticism, camping with his family at the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota and Yellowstone National Park and canoeing the Wabash, Des Plaines and Fox rivers. In Hyde Park, he liked taking long walks and running.

A celebration of his life will be held at a later date.

He is also survived by his daughters Alice H. Klein and Kathryn J. Hildebrand, son Daniel M. Hildebrand, eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

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Deemed to have molested kids at NW Side parish, so why isn’t he on church lists of predator priests?on March 26, 2021 at 10:30 am

The Rev. John Baptist Ormechea lives in one of the most picturesque parts of Rome in a centuries-old monastery buffered by gardens and overlooking the ancient Colosseum.

A member of a Catholic religious order the Passionists, Ormechea was moved into the Rome complex in 2003 not for its contemplative setting but, according to the order’s province that includes Chicago, “because all the residences in the province had youth programs or were in a parish setting.”

From the late 1970s to the late 1980s, Ormechea served at Immaculate Conception Parish on the Far Northwest Side.

Then, in the early 2000s, several men came forward, saying that, as boys at Immaculate Conception, they were sexually abused there by Ormechea.

The accusations were deemed by church authorities to be credible, which meant Ormechea had to be away from children. He also could have faced criminal charges if the statute of limitations for filing such charges hadn’t expired, the Chicago Sun-Times found.

Such misconduct is exactly the kind of information that, in the wake of yet another national scandal over abusive priests, Cardinal Blase Cupich in Chicago and others in the American Catholic church hierarchy have said the public has a right to know.

Cupich maintains a public list, posted online, of abusive diocesan priests — clerics who worked under his authority or that of his predecessors overseeing the Archdiocese of Chicago.

The Rev. John Baptist Ormechea, a member of the Passionist religious order who was found to have been credibly accused of molesting boys while stationed at Immaculate Conception Parish in Norwood Park in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Rev. John Baptist Ormechea, a member of the Passionist religious order who was found to have been credibly accused of molesting boys while stationed at Immaculate Conception Parish in Norwood Park in the 1970s and 1980s.
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But you won’t find Ormechea on Cupich’s list. That’s because it doesn’t include abusive clerics who, like Ormechea, belong to the Passionists or any of the other semi-autonomous religious orders, whose operations extend far beyond the boundaries of a single diocese.

You could find out about the allegations against Ormechea that his own order deemed to be credible if the Passionists maintained a similar public list of its clerics.

Many other orders do, encouraged to do so by Cupich, who for years has asked Catholic religious orders that operate within his jurisdiction of Cook and Lake counties to come clean about abuse allegations against their clerics. Such publicly accessible lists of abusers and their assignments would help fill in the gaps that his own list leaves.

But the Passionists haven’t done that.

Cardinal Blase Cupich has called on religious orders serving in the Chicago area to release the names of their abusive clergy. But, though he has demanded the same information from orders, Cupich doesn't include it in the archdiocese's own list of predator priests.
Cardinal Blase Cupich has called on religious orders serving in the Chicago area to release the names of their abusive clergy. But, though he has demanded the same information from orders, Cupich doesn’t include it in the archdiocese’s own list of predator priests.
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Neither Cupich nor his top aides would comment. A Cupich spokeswoman previously has said he has left it to the orders to make public any information about their problem priests because they have the best information about them.

Cupich has been collecting detailed information, though, on abusive order priests who have ever worked in the geographic territory that he oversees for Pope Francis or who were found to have abused anyone here, the Sun-Times reported in February. But the cardinal has declined to make that information public even though he posts the same type of information about predator priests who worked under his authority.

Unlike Cupich, many other dioceses release the names and the assignment histories of any priest, regardless of whether they are affiliated with a religious order, who served within their boundaries at any point and faced credible allegations of abuse.

For example, the Archdiocese of Louisville has Ormechea on its list of problem priests even though he’s an order priest. He was serving there at the time the Chicago accusations were made in the early 2000s and was removed from public ministry after the claims were deemed credible.

The monastery in Rome where the Rev. John Baptist Ormechea has been living ever since credible sex abuse allegations were made against him nearly 20 years ago dating from his time serving at Immaculate Conception parish on Chicago's Northwest Side.
The monastery in Rome where the Rev. John Baptist Ormechea has been living ever since credible sex abuse allegations were made against him nearly 20 years ago dating from his time serving at Immaculate Conception Parish on Chicago’s Northwest Side.
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In 2016, a new child sex abuse allegation was leveled against Ormechea dating to an earlier stint in the Kentucky diocese, in the 1960s, according to church officials.

Victims of priest sex abuse and church reform advocates say these lists are important because they help provide a fuller picture of the scope of child sex abuse within the Catholic church, which has seen waves of scandal and cover-ups since the 1980s and hundreds of millions of dollars in payouts to victims.

They say such lists also can help validate and heal those who have been sexually assaulted by priests, spur more victims to come forward, put the public on alert about the presence of predators and allow the church to fulfill its stated mission of being transparent about its handling of abusive priests.

Timothy Nockels, who says he was molested as a boy by Ormechea when the priest was stationed at Immaculate Conception, sees it as a slap in the face that Ormechea hasn’t faced a more formal acknowledgement by the church regarding the claims church officials found credible that he was a serial child molester.

Timothy Nockels, who says he was molested as a boy by the Rev. John Baptist Ormechea when the priest was assigned to Immaculate Conception Parish. The Norwood Park church and the former Passionist monastery are in the background.
Timothy Nockels, who says he was molested as a boy by the Rev. John Baptist Ormechea when the priest was assigned to Immaculate Conception Parish. The Norwood Park church and the former Passionist monastery are in the background.
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The Passionists continue to list Ormechea as a priest in staff directories, referring to him by the priestly designation “Father” and noting that he recently has been working in the order’s archives department at the Roman monastery.

“I think he’s a monster pedophile, and essentially he’s still in the business” that allowed him to operate, says Nockels, now 55 and living in Vernon Hills. “When I heard he was in Rome and that he still puts that word ‘Father’ in front of his name, it makes me angry.”

Ormechea, 83, didn’t respond to calls or emails seeking comment. A man answering the phone at his monastery said, “He’s not available,” and hung up on a reporter.

The Rev. Joseph Moons, leader of the Passionists’ Park Ridge-based province that includes Chicago, says Ormechea is in Rome on a “safety plan.” He says that means the priest must abide by restrictions if he wants to stay a part of the order. According to Moons, Ormechea isn’t allowed to take part in any public ministry and is subject to monitoring.

He says the priest was moved to Rome because the province’s other residences “had youth programs or were in a parish setting.”

Ormechea “is not able to move around freely, and his name is already public,” Moons says — apparently referring to the priest’s having been named in abuse lawsuits.

The Rev. Joseph Moons, leader of the Park Ridge-based Passionists province that the Rev. John Baptist Ormechea belongs to. Moons says Ormechea was moved to Rome in 2003 to be outside a parish setting and away from children.
The Rev. Joseph Moons, leader of the Park Ridge-based Passionists province that the Rev. John Baptist Ormechea belongs to. Moons says Ormechea was moved to Rome in 2003 to be outside a parish setting and away from children.
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Ormechea left Immaculate Conception in 1988. By 2002, he was working at a parish in Louisville, Kentucky.

That year, “four men told Chicago investigators” the priest “had kissed and fondled them when they were teenagers in the late 1970s and early 1980s” at the Norwood Park parish, according to Moons.

“Chicago prosecutors determined that a legal deadline to charge John Ormechea in the alleged abuse of four minors had passed,” Moons says.

The Passionists “deemed the four men’s allegations as credible, and their civil lawsuits we settled,” Moons says. “An additional allegation was received in 2016 . . . dating back to 1963-1966. There have been no other allegations reported.”

The Chicago archdiocese — which has little direct authority over religious orders operating within its boundaries but has the power to grant or deny their clerics rights to minister here — also was sued over Ormechea and settled the case for an undisclosed amount.

Some of the lawsuits accused the archdiocese and the Passionists of having been aware of troubling behavior by Ormechea while he was at Immaculate Conception but doing little or nothing — including failing to tell parishioners of the allegations.

Moons won’t talk about that.

Nor will he say how many members of his order who have served in the Chicago area have faced allegations of sexual abuse.

Until it was redeveloped into a senior-living complex, the order maintained a towering, red-brick monastery on Harlem Avenue adjacent to Immaculate Conception and just north of the Kennedy Expressway that once housed an out-of-state cleric accused of sex abuse, according to Sun-Times interviews, until parishioners found out and objected.

A former Passionist monastery adjacent to Immaculate Conception Church in Norwood Park. The religious order once housed another cleric there who'd been accused of sexual abuse. After parishioners found out, he was moved. The building was sold in 2013.
A former Passionist monastery adjacent to Immaculate Conception Church in Norwood Park. The religious order once housed another cleric there who’d been accused of sexual abuse. After parishioners found out, he was moved. The building was sold in 2013.
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Moons says his order takes sexual abuse claims seriously.

And he notes that “there are no lawsuits pending against any Passionists of this province. More importantly, no Passionist with an established allegation of abuse is in public ministry. Additionally, no Passionist with an established allegation of abuse is living in a community serving minors.”

Moons says that, although it hasn’t heeded Cupich’s call for orders to be transparent about their clerics found to have abused, the province is “considering releasing a list of names of Passionists who have established allegations of sexual abuse of minors.”

Nockels, who has two teenage boys, comes from a firefighting family. Chicago fire Capt. Daniel Nockels, an uncle, died in 1985 with two colleagues battling a fire in Logan Square set by an arsonist. His late father was a Chicago Fire Department battalion chief at O’Hare Airport. His grandfather also had been a fire chief there.

Nockels says Ormechea abused him for several years while he was living in Edison Park and attending Immaculate Conception for grammar school and beyond. Ormechea was seen as a family friend, Nockels says, was at the house frequently for dinner and officiated at a family wedding.

Nockels says he fell into self-destructive behavior for a time but that he buried his painful memories and “didn’t really do anything until I started reading about those guys in Boston.”

In 2002, the Boston Globe published a series of stories about abuse there and cover-ups by the church and law enforcement that shook the American Catholic church and resulted in an outcry that saw Boston’s Cardinal Bernard Law transferred to Rome.

“When I started reading about them, I was, like, ‘I’m one of them,’ ” Nockels says of the Boston victims.

He subsequently sued and settled with Ormechea’s order and the Chicago archdiocese.

“He stole my childhood right out from under my family’s nose,” Nockels says. “Any funds given to me, I’d pay that 10 times to have a normal childhood.”

Nockels’ sister Joan Nockels Wilson traveled to Rome nearly a decade ago to confront Ormechea. He had presided at the wedding of Wilson and her first husband. She says she became consumed by what she saw as the priest’s treachery and with how to reconcile her faith with what happened to her brother.

Wilson, a former prosecutor and a lawyer in Alaska, says Ormechea agreed to speak with her and, though not admitting molesting her brother, told her words to the effect of: “I am sorry for what I did to you and your family. I spilled the milk and can’t put it back in a bottle.”

Wilson wrote a memoir about her family’s ordeal, titled “The Book of Timothy,” that’s slated to be published this fall.

The Passionists, like other religious orders, follow in the mold of a saint — for them, it’s St. Paul of the Cross — and a particular mission: reaching “out with compassion to the crucified of today,” keeping alive “the memory of Christ’s Passion through our commitment to community, prayer, ministries of the Word and service to those who suffer.”

In 2004, the order was among those named in a Dallas Morning News investigation that found that, in Rome, “in the heart of Catholicism, church leaders are giving refuge” to priests “who face allegations of sexual abuse in other countries.”

Ormechea’s order no longer staffs Immaculate Conception. Moons says his province left the parish in 2013 “due to our decline of available priests to serve as pastor.”

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8 shot, 3 fatally, Thursday in Chicagoon March 26, 2021 at 9:17 am

Eight people were shot, three fatally, Thursday in Chicago, including an alleged shoplifter who shot a security guard and Chicago cop before dying in a shootout nearby with other officers.

About 4 p.m., a loss prevention officer at a Home Depot store in the 2400 block of West 46th Street saw the suspect shoplifting, Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said. During an ensuing struggle, the suspect shot the security guard, who was in grave condition.

When the suspect fled, officers pursued and one officer was shot, Brown said. The officer was being treated at Mount Sinai and appeared to be in “good spirits” after suffering a gunshot wound to the shoulder, Brown said.

Following that shooting, other officers continued to pursue the suspect, Brown said. The suspect was then shot and killed during a shootout with police, Brown said.

The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not yet released information on the fatality.

Early Thursday, two men shot and killed each other during an argument in the South Shore neighborhood.

An argument broke out and they both fired shots about 3:20 a.m. in an apartment in the 7600 block of South Kingston Avenue, police said in a statement.

An 18-year-old man shot in his face and abdomen died at the University of Chicago Medical Center, police said. A 24-year-old man died at the scene with gunshot wounds to his chest, shoulder, hand and leg, police said.

The medical examiner’s office identified the 18-year-old as Jawond Brown, of Austin. The older man’s name has not been released.

In non-fatal shootings, a man was wounded Thursday night in Gresham on the South Side.

The man, 24, was inside a vehicle about 7:25 p.m. when someone fired shots at him in the 8300 block of South Damen Avenue, police said. He was struck in the back and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was listed in good condition, police said.

Hours earlier, another man was shot in Gresham on the South Side.

The 18-year-old was shot about 1:55 p.m. in the 7800 block of South Paulina Street, police said. The man self-transported to Mount Sinai Hospital and was in good condition, police said.

Thursday morning, a 57-year-old man was shot in Brighton Park on the Southwest Side.

The man was standing outside about 3:30 a.m. in the 2600 block of South Drake Street when someone inside of a passing dark-gray SUV fired shots, police said. He was struck in the left leg and transported to Mt. Sinai Hospital in critical condition, police said.

Ten people were shot, two fatally, Wednesday in Chicago.

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