2 killed, 3 wounded, Monday in ChicagoSun-Times Wireon October 26, 2021 at 7:51 am

Two people were killed, and three others were wounded in shootings Oct. 25, 2021, in Chicago. | File photo

A 22-year-old man was fatally shot in the 1400 block of West 60th Street.

Two people were killed, and three others were wounded, in shootings Monday in Chicago including a man who was killed in a shooting in Englewood on the South Side.

About 10:47 a.m., he was standing in the 1400 block of West 60th Street when someone fired shots from a red Charger, Chicago police said. The 22-year-old was struck multiple times and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

Hours prior, a motorist was killed on the North Side when someone fired shots from an SUV that pulled alongside him near the southwest corner of Rosehill Cemetery. The man, 41, was shot in his chest around 5:10 a.m. in the 5300 block of North Western Avenue, police said. He lost control of the car and crashed into a building one block south. His two passengers, both men in their 40s, were either uninjured or suffered minor injuries. The shooter drove off, possibly in an older-model Acura SUV, with another person inside.

In non-fatal shootings, a 16-year-old boy was critically hurt in a shooting in East Garfield Park. About 10:15 p.m., the teen was on the porch of a home in the 3800 block of West West End Street when someone shot him in the face, police said. There were no witnesses to the shooting. The teen was transported to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition.

Three others were wounded in shootings across Chicago.

Three people were killed, and twenty-six others were wounded in shootings last weekend citywide.

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Horoscope for Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021Georgia Nicolson October 26, 2021 at 5:01 am

Moon Alert

There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. The moon is in Cancer.

Aries (March 21-April 19)

Today you want to cocoon at home; however, issues about foreign countries, travel and school plans (especially higher education) are confused. You might also feel disappointed. It’s important to stay positive. Remember: Negativity is wanting things to be different from the way they are.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Your emotions might rule your reasoning today. For example, you might be confused about shared property, inheritances and your responsibilities to someone. If you’re unsure, do nothing because you could be tempted to give away the farm.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)

A close friend, spouse or partner might disappoint today. You might be able to chalk this up to a communications problem? After all, unexpressed expectations almost always lead to disappointment. Keep an eye on financial matters. Be patient with kids and social outings.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)

Today the moon is in your sign, which means things tend to go your way. Don’t hesitate to ask the universe for a favor. (Take a shot.) Work-related issues, perhaps with coworkers, are confusing. Don’t let someone put words in your mouth. Be patient with family members, especially doing repairs and DIY projects.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)

Romance might be disappointing, especially regarding a secret love affair. In general, you feel a bit wary about things, which is why you’re happy to keep a low profile. Double-check details related to kids, sports and social outings to avoid misunderstandings.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

You feel sympathetic to a family member today; nevertheless, perhaps you feel incapable of doing something to help? Note: You have to know what’s wrong before you fix it. A meaningful conversation with someone, especially a female, might help. Caution about going overboard redecorating.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

This is a strong time for you with Mercury and Mars in your sign. You’re eager to communicate and ready to act! However, today you might be confused or even deceived by a daily contact or relative. Until you know what is really going on, refrain from doing anything. Get your facts.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

You’re in charge because sun is in your sign! This is why people and favorable situations tend to come your way now. Double-check financial matters today, including major purchases, so that you have no regrets in the future. Bruce’s grandma used to say, “Wantin’ ain’t gettin’.” (Yeah, she was tough.)

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

This is a good time for you to shop for wardrobe goodies for yourself. You like comfortable clothes, and especially practical clothes for outdoors. (That’s where the car is.) You can’t please everyone today. Double-check issues with purchases and spending money to avoid errors and confusion.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

Your popularity with friends and groups continues. Furthermore, authority figures are ready to hear what you have to say. Be careful of something going on behind the scenes that is fuzzy or vague. Don’t let this sway you from your mission. Be clear in communications to others.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

A friend might disappoint you today. (This matters because friendships are important to Aquarians.) If the problem is trivial, then be forgiving because friendships have ups and downs. However, if it threatens your trust or respect for this person, it might be something you need to look at. It’s important to have friends who have your back. Hey, life is short.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)

Without having to do anything special, you look great to others, especially bosses, parents and VIPs (It’s smoke and mirrors.) Use this magical influence to advance your agenda. Demand the advantage!

If Your Birthday Is Today

Actor Cary Elwes (1962) shares your birthday. Although at times, you can be detached, you are a warm-hearted, congenial person. You are also intelligent. You work hard and you take your responsibilities seriously. This is a fast-paced year full of change and stimulation! New friends might help you. Be open to new directions and personal growth. Expect to travel more because you are expanding your horizons.

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The true cost of COVID-19Rick Telanderon October 26, 2021 at 4:12 am

Matt Nagy will need two negative tests 24 hours apart to be able to return to Halas Hall and/or coach Sunday against the 49ers. | Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images

More than merely affecting our sports, the virus has deepened the political divide in our country.

This era will be defined by two things: the COVID pandemic and the splitting of America into two warring camps.

Say what you will about the limits of disease and politics, but they now infest everything around us, including the usually upbeat, impassioned, cheery world of sports.

On Monday, we found out Bears coach Matt Nagy has COVID. He will need two negative tests 24 hours apart to be able to return to Halas Hall and/or coach Sunday against the 49ers.

No jokes here about how the 3-4 Bears might be better off without Nagy permanently (although I’ve got a couple).

The coronavirus blasted into our world at the start of 2020, and it began devastating our comfortable sporting life right then.

Remember the NBA’s delayed ”bubble” resumption? Remember NFL stadiums with nobody in them? Remember high school sports tossed to the wind, scholarship possibilities destroyed, teenage athletes lost in the vacuum?

Do you recall that by May 2020 colleges had eliminated more than 100 sports programs, citing money issues caused by the coronavirus as the reason?

Nagy quite often is maskless, as most of us are now, since the latest wave of COVID that struck hard this summer seems to be on the decline. But did he infect anybody else? Will he?

Who knows? We can’t see this thing. We can’t see those little bits of brainless RNA that Stanford professor and researcher Dr. Michael Lin described as existing ”in this grey zone between living and dead. They’re alive in a sense that they can reproduce, but [they] depend on a host.”

That host would be us.

Which brings us to NBA star Kyrie Irving, the player who won’t get vaccinated and therefore can’t play for his Nets at home or in other states where proof of vaccination is needed to enter a public arena. The Nets recently said he can’t practice or play with them at all, anywhere.

Why won’t he get vaccinated?

Those of us who are logical might say it’s because he’s stupid or insane. In reality, he doesn’t seem dumb or disturbed. No, it’s more that he’s bound up with the conspiracy nuts and their disinformation that flies through the internet and spreads like, well, a virus.

Don’t forget Irving once famously claimed Earth is flat. (Even though he attended Duke for only a short time, you have to wonder how Duke feels about his ”education” there.)

Nor is he without influence off the court. As the vice president of the executive committee of the powerful players’ union, Irving has a voice that matters.

As a result, Irving supporters stormed the Barclays Center in a near-riot Sunday, tearing through metal barricades while screaming that Irving must be free and allowed to play. The arena was put on lockdown for two hours before it reopened for the game.

Yes, this was reminiscent of the Capitol insurrection Jan. 6 in Washington led by Donald Trump supporters. There was a fascinating difference this time: There were Trump advocates in the protest, but there also were Black Lives Matters supporters, the two formerly being avowed foes.

This is what disinformation can do.

Nor does this have anything to do with personal freedom. In a democratic society — one with running water, electricity, highways, police, schools and, yes, pro sports — we all give up a vast amount of personal rule. Don’t think so? Try running through metal detectors at the airport, driving 130 mph on an interstate or performing surgery without a medical license.

Irving has ”liked” and engaged with online platforms promoting the theory that ”secret societies” are implanting vaccines in a plot to connect Black people to a master computer for ”a plan of Satan.”

Black Hall of Famers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Charles Barkley have ripped Irving’s essential nonsense. As Barkley put it, regarding team, family and societal responsibilities: ”You don’t get vaccinated just for yourself.”

People who don’t believe in science can’t be dissuaded with reason. They only will take advice from whomever or wherever they got their disinformation in the first place.

That vaccines keep measles, mumps, diphtheria, polio and so many other pandemics from occurring means nothing to vaccine deniers or the virulent ”vaccine-mandate protesters.”

Nagy has urged all his players to get vaccinated, and almost all of them have. But even the vaccinated face some risk. Much less risk, but some.

The thing is, much more than our sports world is coming apart because of this pandemic and its resisters.

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Judge lifts gag order on police union president, refuses to extend it to other union officialsMitch Dudekon October 26, 2021 at 2:03 am

Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 President John Catanzara | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file photo

Judge Cecilia Horan said the conditions under which she issued the order — in which the city faced a severe shortage of manpower — have not played out.

Chicago police union chief John Catanzara is again free to say what he wants.

Cook County Judge Cecilia Horan on Monday denied the city’s request to extend a 10-day ban on Catanzara’s use of social media to discourage his members from reporting their vaccine status to the city.

Horan also denied a request from the city to extend the ban to other officials from the police union — officially known as the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7.

In explaining her decision, Horan pointed to the dire prediction that the city’s police force might be drastically reduced as a result of Catanzara urging his members not to comply with the city’s vaccine policy — which contributed to her initial order — has not occurred.

As of Monday, the city had only put 23 officers who’d refused to share their vaccination status by the Oct. 15 deadline on no-pay status.

“With very limited exception, the city has not implemented no-pay status for those members who are not in compliance, and the threatened work-stoppage has not come to pass,” Horan stated in her ruling.

Horan called the issuance of a measure that would prohibit speech an “extraordinary remedy” and one that “is only available in situations where an extreme emergency exists and serious harm would result if it were not issued.”

Catanzara was not immediately available for comment. A spokesperson for Mayor Lori Lightfoot was also not immediately available.

Horan also refused a police union request to dismiss the city’s lawsuit seeking the union’s compliance with the city’s vaccine mandate policy, which, in addition to sharing their vaccination status, requires employees be vaccinated by Jan. 1 and be regularly tested until they are inoculated.

Horan’s decisions came several hours after Moshe Jacobius, the presiding judge in the county’s chancery division, denied a police union request to have the city’s lawsuit transferred away from Horan to a different judge.

“We have a strong policy against judge shopping,” Jacobius said, also citing the fact that Horan had already issued a substantial ruling in the case.

“There’s a presumption in law that judges are honest and fair and follow the law,” he said.

Attorneys for the police union had previously questioned Horan’s impartiality because the firm she was a partner at prior to becoming a judge, Hinshaw & Culbertson, created a report about police reform for the city’s Police Accountability Task Force that contributed to the creation of a federal consent decree the Police Department is still currently under.

Horan said the firm had more than 400 attorneys and she did not know about the report at all and had nothing to do with it while she was a partner at the firm. Horan further said she doesn’t know Mayor Lori Lightfoot and has never represented any of the parties involved in the case.

Swirling in the background are two other pending lawsuits.

One was filed by the police union and seeks a court-ordered suspension of the city’s vaccination policy pending further bargaining and arbitration.

A separate suit filed by more than 130 municipal workers, including a large group of Chicago Fire Department employees, seeks a temporary restraining and preliminary injunction that would block the enforcement of city and state vaccination mandates and prevent employees from being suspended or fired while the suit plays out.

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Bulls veteran DeMar DeRozan makes another emotional return ‘home’Joe Cowleyon October 26, 2021 at 1:17 am

The former USC standout was drafted by Toronto and raised by that organization. And even though he has played there since being traded, it’s still an emotional return.

It’s not like Monday was DeMar DeRozan’s first trip back to Toronto to face off against the organization that raised him.

It was actually his third time.

That doesn’t mean it wasn’t emotional for the Bulls forward, who spent his first nine seasons with the Raptors after they drafted him with the ninth overall pick back in 2009.

“Every time I’m ever back, it’s definitely been emotional,” DeRozan said. “That’s where I grew up. Not just basketball, but as a man. I was 19 years old, moving to a country I’ve never been to and they embraced me and took me in like I was one of their own.

“To see the whole city grow, the organization grow, me being a big part of that, you definitely have an emotional connection to that organization, that city. It’s always bittersweet going back, seeing people I grew up knowing that work there, everything about it. It’s like my second home.”

DeRozan admittedly treated it as such.

Most NBA players don’t have long-term plans to stay up North and play. There’s been a history of players publicly complaining about being a Raptor, whether it’s the idea of not being seen as much, the taxes, or just the hassle of going through customs for road trips.

DeRozan, however, did all he could to change that narrative. Not only with his play, reaching All-Star status four times and reaching the Eastern Conference Finals in 2016, but in talking to players about the positives in playing there.

“My whole mindset was to change that narrative when I was in Toronto,” DeRozan said. “I heard it my first year. You heard a lot of older guys I played with in my career while I was there had those same complaints – ‘I’m not trying to stay here long term.’

“I wanted to be the opposite and kind of change the narrative on why people should come here, how great of a city, how great of a country it really is, and see that transformation take [place] and the appreciation of the city, to have All-Star weekend there [back in 2016], being on center stage, you started to see a change. I feel like I had something to do with that and I took that with pride and honor being able to do that.”

That’s why being traded to the Spurs for Kawhi Leonard back in 2018 stung DeRozan so much. Good thing he forgives easily.

“That’s all I knew getting drafted to the NBA, Toronto,” DeRozan said. “I wanted to make sure everyone saw it the way I did.”

DeRozan and the Bulls will also play in Toronto on Dec. 16, so he’ll have another chance to visit his “second home” this season.

Waiting game

Tony Bradley and Derrick Jones Jr. were each solid acquisitions in the offseason, both expected to add some serious depth to a frontcourt that lacked bodies.

Four games into the regular season, they remained out of the rotation.

“One, it’s obviously a long year,” coach Billy Donovan said of where Bradley and Jones are in the plans. “Two, [Jones] like Tony Bradley, had some injuries in training camp.

“I think both guys have handled being out of the rotation at this point and time really well and professionally. They’ve been working before and after practice to keep themselves ready, and things could change. Deep down inside as competitors and NBA players, I’m sure every guy on our roster wants to be out there on the floor playing. I get that. And you want that. You want guys [like that], but the way they’ve conducted themselves, I think they’re trying to do what’s best for our team.”

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Legendary Marshall basketball coach Dorothy Gaters steps downMike Clarkon October 25, 2021 at 11:55 pm

Marshall’s coach Dorothy Gaters during a game on January 14, 2020. | Kirsten Stickney/For the Sun-Times

Dorothy Gaters, the winningest high school basketball coach in Illinois history, has stepped down after a 45-year career at Marshall that featured more than 1,100 wins, 10 girls state titles and 24 state trophies.

Dorothy Gaters, the winningest high school basketball coach in Illinois history, has stepped down after a 45-year career at Marshall that featured more than 1,100 wins, 10 girls state titles and 24 state trophies.

Gaters, who will remain as Marshall’s athletic director, said she made the decision to give up coaching “some time ago. It wasn’t anything spontaneous.”

The last game she coached was the 2020 Class 2A state final, which Marshall lost 43-37 to Pleasant Plains. Less than a month later, the COVID-19 pandemic shut down high school sports in Illinois.

When basketball finally returned for an abbreviated season earlier this year, Marshall did not field a team. But now Gaters is ready to step aside in favor of Fred Eaton, a longtime assistant who has been in the program for more than 20 years.

Gaters finished 1,153-217. St. Joseph coaching legend Gene Pingatore, who died in 2019, is atop the boys basketball wins list with 1,035.

Gaters said the biggest reason for her decision to leave coaching is the desire to spend more time with her great-grandsons Tristian and Darius, whose father died three years ago.

“I’ve known for some time what I needed to do,” Gaters said. “They spend a few days a week here. They have homework, I never get out of the kitchen.”

Gaters believes girls and women’s basketball are trending upward. “It’s only going to continue to grow,” she said, noting this is the 50th anniversary of Title IX.

There’s also the success of the WNBA champion Sky, which Gaters got to experience in person by taking in Game 3 of the league finals.

Marshall, which won state trophies in Gaters’ final four seasons — a third in 3A in 2017, championships in 2A in 2018 and ’19, and runner-up in 2A in ’20 — is starting over in more ways than one.

“We were going to be rebuilding anyway before the pandemic,” Gaters said. “We only had a varsity team [in 2020] and graduated nine of 12 players.”

In any case, Gaters is at peace with her decision to step away from coaching.

“I haven’t really had time to reflect,” she said. “[But] it’s been a good ride.”

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State Police won’t refer Christopher Vaughn case to FBI; clemency bid on holdJon Seidelon October 25, 2021 at 11:58 pm

Mug shot of Christopher Vaughn from the Will County Jail Web site in June 2007. | Sun-Times File

A Will County jury took less than an hour in September 2012 to find Vaughn guilty of the murders of his wife and three children, but he’s now the subject of a high-profile exoneration effort.

The Illinois State Police declined this month to refer questions to the FBI about the case of Christopher Vaughn, the Oswego man convicted of the murders of his wife and three children who has become the subject of a high-profile exoneration effort.

The rejection came after longtime Vaughn investigator Bill Clutter asked State Police Director Brendan Kelly for the FBI referral in a two-page letter dated Oct. 12, claiming “misleading and false” grand jury testimony was used to secure Vaughn’s 2007 indictment.

It’s an allegation Clutter has made before, including to the Office of Executive Inspector General in the months leading up to Vaughn’s 2012 trial, according to records obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.

Meanwhile, Clutter says plans to seek clemency for Vaughn from Gov. J.B. Pritzker are now on hold ahead of a Thursday petition deadline. He said he wants to further test a new claim about how Vaughn’s wife and children wound up dead in the family’s SUV while it was parked on a gravel path near Interstate 55 and Bluff Road on June 14, 2007.

Clutter shared a copy of his letter to Kelly with the Sun-Times, and the State Police shared its one-page response dated Oct. 18. Clutter argued Monday that an internal investigation should at least be conducted. A State Police representative declined to comment beyond the letter.

The State Police letter said copies were sent to Emmerson Buie Jr., special agent in charge of the FBI in Chicago, as well as to Attorney General Kwame Raoul and Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow. FBI spokeswoman Siobhan Johnson said the FBI would review any allegation of a federal crime that it received.

Clutter said his earlier complaint to the Executive Inspector General about the Vaughn case went nowhere. The Sun-Times obtained a copy of the March 2012 document through the Illinois Freedom of Information Act.

“They did nothing with that,” Clutter said.

Jed Stone, Vaughn’s new defense attorney, insisted there is evidence of Vaughn’s innocence, but Stone has not yet decided where it will be presented.

“We’re not going to litigate this in the Sun-Times,” Stone said.

A Will County jury took less than an hour in September 2012 to find Vaughn guilty of the murders of his wife Kimberly, 34, and their children: 12-year-old Abigayle, 11-year-old Cassandra and 8-year-old Blake.

Kimberly suffered an “angle-contact gunshot wound” under her chin, records show. The children were each shot twice, in the torso and head. The shots to the children, in the back seat of the SUV, came from over the left shoulder of the front passenger seat, where Kimberly was found, records show. Vaughn also suffered gunshot wounds to his left wrist and thigh.

Prosecutors argued that Vaughn shoved his Taurus handgun under Kimberly’s chin from outside the SUV and shot her, reached over her to shoot his children, and then shot himself. Vaughn’s defense attorneys argued Kimberly shot Vaughn and the kids before killing herself.

Vaughn is serving four life terms in the Pinckneyville Correctional Center, records show.

Clutter’s letter to the State Police this month revolved primarily around grand jury testimony about blood evidence in the case, including blood found on Kimberly’s seatbelt. That evidence has long been seen as key to Vaughn’s conviction, because it contradicted the defense theory at trial. Prosecutors said it showed Vaughn had been moving over his wife’s body after her death.

Clutter alleged that Vaughn’s indictment was secured through faulty testimony from then-State Police Sgt. Gary Lawson. Records attached to Clutter’s letter said Lawson advanced the theory before the grand jury in 2007 that Kimberly’s seatbelt had been buckled when she was shot.

Those records claim “DNA testing had disproven this theory.” But a pair of attached DNA reports — one marked “draft” and dated before Lawson’s testimony, as well as one dated afterward — show only that the blood on the seatbelt belonged to Vaughn and not Kimberly.

A prosecutor did not ask Lawson who the blood belonged to, and Lawson did not say, according to an excerpt of a transcript Clutter sent to the State Police. Prosecutors went on to successfully argue at trial that Vaughn unbuckled his wife’s seatbelt after shooting Kimberly, the kids and himself.

Stone said it would be inappropriate to even imply to the grand jury that the blood on the seatbelt belonged to Kimberly.

“Lawyers are very good at using words to lead and to mislead people,” Stone said.

Lawson could not be reached for comment. The State Police letter to Clutter said “nothing in the information provided would warrant” a referral to the FBI.

Clutter also pointed the State Police to a demonstration performed by two actors based on a third letter, purportedly from Vaughn. First read on the iHeart Radio podcast “Murder in Illinois,” it claims to explain what really happened in the Vaughns’ SUV.

That letter says Vaughn was around the back of the SUV when it suddenly “sounded like the inside of the truck was exploding.” It said he opened his car door and saw Kimberly holding the gun, and she opened fire on him when he jumped into his seat to grab it. It said he fell back out and prepared to make another attempt when she turned the gun on herself.

The letter claims Vaughn checked on the children, but nothing could be done for them. It said he then thought about driving the SUV and tried to buckle Kimberly’s seatbelt, but his hands were shaking and he couldn’t do it. It said he eventually “got to the road to get help.”

Asked whether Vaughn had signed an affidavit or had otherwise sworn to the new theory, Stone declined to answer and said, “when we’re ready to file affidavits, we’ll file them.” Clutter said no affidavit had been signed.

Clutter insists the blood evidence from the SUV matches the new theory, but he acknowledged Monday that multiple portions of that theory were not tested in the demonstration. Among them was the contention that Kimberly shot each of her children in the time it took Vaughn to get from the back of the SUV to his door.

Clutter said a second test, this time of ballistics, will be conducted to help explain the shooting of Vaughn by his wife. He said he is working with an expert in Canada, and COVID-19 restrictions will likely prevent the test from taking place before spring.

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