Richard S. Levy, who grew up to become one of the nation’s foremost experts on the history of antisemitism, first experienced it as a young boy.

He was about 5 when a nun at the Catholic school he was attending shushed noisy students with a comment that prompted his parents to pull him out of the school the next day.

“One of the nuns said, ‘I want you to be quiet. The last one talking is a Jew,’ ” his brother David Levy said.

Mr. Levy, a history professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago who taught for nearly half a century on the Holocaust, antisemitism and German history, died of prostate cancer June 23 at his Lake View home. He was 81.

At 11, “One of the kids in class was having a birthday,” said his wife Linnea. “The mother talked to her son about inviting all the kids who were standing around playing baseball. But Richard heard her whisper to her son, ‘Not the Jew.’ He told me about that story and how it hurt.”

After graduating from Morton High School in Cicero, he got his bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and a master’s and doctorate at Yale University, then taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

His dissertation became the ground-breaking 1975 book “The Downfall of the Anti-Semitic Political Parties in Imperial Germany.”

“There was a tendency to say antisemitism was in the air of this country,” said Peter Hayes, a retired Northwestern University history professor. “Richard said ‘No, it’s more complicated.’ He makes the argument that there were more effective structures to fight antisemitism before 1918” in Germany.

In addition to many articles, translations and contributions to books, Mr. Levy edited the two-volume 2005 book “Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution.”

“It was a huge international undertaking, where he got a large number of very important professors and scholars to contribute,” said Kevin M. Schultz, who chairs UIC history department. and said the encyclopedia “has sort of become the first stop for anyone wanting to study the history of antisemitism.”

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Mr. Levy’s 1996 book “A Lie and a Libel: The History of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion” explored the persistent and widely circulated conspiracy theory that proclaimed Jewish people were preparing for world domination.

Though he spent part of his childhood in Cicero, his parents Roy and Helen were heartsick when violence was directed at Harvey E. Clark when the Black CTA driver and World War II veteran tried to move his family to the west suburb in 1951. Thousands rioted, and the Levys decided to move to Berwyn, his brother said.

Mr. Levy’s father liked discussing history at the dinner table and took his sons on a trip retracing the path of the Union Army, stopping at battle sites including Gettysburg and Antietam, said David Levy, a retired history professor at the University of Oklahoma.

Their father had applied for a job with the Chicago Daily News on Feb. 14, 1929 — the day of the St. Valentine’s Day massacre. The paper had a scoop on the gangland bloodshed that turned a Clark Street garage into an abbatoir and, to prevent a leak, “They locked the doors of the Daily News,” David Levy said, keeping everyone inside until the paper hit the street. “My father reported saying to himself, ‘This is a very exciting place to work.’ ”

The father was hired as an ad salesman. His specialty was movie ads.

“That’s part of the reason Richard developed such a love of movies,” his brother-in-law Jon Randolph said.

Mr. Levy’s UIC office was decorated with a German poster of the Charlie Chaplin film “Modern Times.” If a student professed interest in movies, he’d give them his list of Hollywood classics, which always included the Marx Brothers.

Every semester for about two decades, he advised more than 100 history majors and another 50 or so students with minors in history.

As a result, Schultz said, “Every day, there was a line of students waiting outside for him, and they would go over their schedules and make sure they were doing everything they needed to graduate.”

His class on the history of the Holocaust was always the first to fill up at registration time, Schultz said.

“He was a mentor,” said Linnea Levy, who was married to him nearly 54 years. “He had the gift of being kind without being condescending.”

At home, Mr. Levy made delicious baguettes and pizzas. He and his wife “cooked for each other every night,” Randolph said.

His family said he was a cutthroat Scrabble competitor and a skilled pool player who played at Chris’s Billiards on Milwaukee Avenue, where scenes were filmed for the 1986 Martin Scorsese film “The Color of Money.”

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When AFSCME official Randy Hellman was hospitalized in February with COVID-19 — the diagnosis coming just two weeks before his scheduled vaccine appointment — he had a premonition it wasn’t going to end well.

Talking on the phone from his hospital bed, Hellmann told his longtime best friend and “union comrade” Pat Rensing this:

“I need a promise from you, Pat. I want to be used as the poster child for the vaccination. I don’t want anyone to go through what I’m going through.”

Rensing tried to be encouraging, as anyone might. She told Hellman he could lead the campaign himself once he recovered.

But Hellman was insistent.

“No,” he told her. “I need this promise.”

She promised.

That would turn out to be a heavy responsibility for Rensing after Hellmann died from the virus on March 13. He was 58.

For 30 years, Hellmann and Rensing had advanced together through the union ranks in the Illinois Department of Corrections, first as activists and local union leaders at state prisons in Centralia and Pinckneyville, later as statewide union leaders and finally as employees of the union itself.

Hellmann was the charismatic one, a “natural born leader,” as Rensing put it.

“He knew how to talk to folks,” she said. “He knew how to message.”

Rensing was his trusted sidekick, the detail person in their partnership.

“He taught me so much. I was more in the grunt work,” said Rensing, who came through the clerical side of the Department of Corrections.

Hellmann was a large man who went to work as a prison guard after attending Southern Illinois University Edwardsville on a baseball scholarship.

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An avid sportsman with a home on a quarry lake near far downstate Carlyle, Hellmann tried to fish every day, and he did his own taxidermy. The inside of his house looked like a Bass Pro Shop with all of his trophies on the walls, Rensing said. He took particular pride in an eight-pound bass that he’d caught and mounted.

“Randy, he was bigger than life,” said Lisa Hellmann, his widow.

Months later, she still finds his death difficult to talk about. Her husband had no prior health problems before contracting COVID, she said.

Of his union work, Lisa Hellman said, “He tried to help people in any way, shape or form to get what they deserved.”

In short, Hellmann was a perfect candidate in many respects to be exactly what he proposed to be on his death bed: the focus of a campaign to vaccinate his fellow union members. He fit the profile of many of the people who have resisted the vaccine.

But when he died, Rensing didn’t know where to start.

So she asked Roberta Lynch for help. Lynch, AFSCME Council 31’s executive director, assigned Anders Lindall, the union’s public affairs director, to the task. With Rensing’s assistance, Lindall put together a short video that has been widely shared on social media. It uses Hellmann’s story to make the case for vaccination as strongly Hellmann could have hoped.

Not long afterward, Rensing was meeting with union members at Menard Correctional Center when she was approached by a young man who told her he didn’t know Hellmann but that, after watching the video, went to his local public health office and got vaccinated.

“It was touching,” Rensing said.

I’d like to tell you that was just the start of an outpouring of union members and state corrections employees getting the vaccine after hearing Hellmann’s story. But Rensing said she hasn’t heard from anyone else.

That doesn’t mean there weren’t others. But, as in so many aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are people who can be persuaded and those who can’t.

“I think [the Hellmann video] has played a part and made a positive difference,” Lindall said, noting that the union also has taken other steps to encourage its members to get the shots.

Lisa Hellmann is frustrated by those who won’t get vaccinated.

“I have no idea why people don’t. It truly befuddles me,” she said. “I try to tell people: Please get vaccinated. I try to tell them it’s not going to go away until everybody gets vaccinated.”

It’s a shame Randy Hellmann can’t tell them himself.

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The Chicago Public Schools system has fired a company that had been granted the right to use school lots during Cubs games and other events this spring for paid parking.

Premium 1 Parking Inc. was behind and not paying CPS what it promised.

It also hadn’t paid what it had owed City Hall as a result of licensing issues and fines, the Chicago Sun-Times reported in May.

CPS terminated contracts that allowed Premium 1 to park cars at 10 schools.

It acted after being asked why it was doing business with a company that’s had licensing problems and was behind in paying City Hall.

Premium 1’s owner also had fallen months behind on paying CPS to use the school lots, for which the company would charge people going to Cubs games and other events to park. It was supposed to pay the school system about $13,000 a month.

As of June 7, the company settled bills dating as far back as October but still owed at least $23,000 for June’s license and outstanding late fees. It paid $13,125 June 8, but that wasn’t enough to catch up.

“The district has terminated, effective June 17, the parking agreement with Premium 1 Parking Inc. due to incomplete payment,” CPS spokesman James Gherardi said. “The termination is final.”

He said the owner “had a full 33 days after the district issued a demand letter to pay his arrears, late fees and provide an accounting, and he did not.”

Premium 1’s $11,617 payment for “license/late fees” landed in CPS’ account on June 18 — the day after officials canceled its contracts.

Gherardi said CPS will seek new bids from parking companies to lease the school lots “to ensure schools have the highest possible potential revenue streams.”

Asked about his debts, Premium 1’s president Dylan Cirkic at first said he didn’t owe CPS any money.

“I paid the full balance,” Cirkic said. “And when I paid it up, I got terminated.”

Cirkic said he had receipts and documents to prove he was current with his payments but never produced those records and later said he does still owe some money.

“The only thing I owe them is revenue-sharing for the four schools around Wrigley,” he said. “Otherwise, everything else is paid up to date.”

To settle years of unpaid taxes and fines, City Hall negotiated a payment plan with Cirkic’s company last December for $45,602. After Cirkic made a $20,000 payment, the city law department said he had failed to make any others, but it turned out he was sending them to the wrong department. He is current on his payments and owes the city $19,202.

Premium 1 had replaced Blk & Wht, whose clout-heavy owners stopped paying its bills shortly before one of the owners, James T. Weiss, was indicted in a federal bribery case.

CPS has sued Blk & Wht and Weiss, a son-in-law of Joseph Berrios, the former Cook County assessor who also headed the Cook County Democratic Party, trying to get at least some of the $366,607 — plus interest — Blk & Wht promised to pay for using school property for paid parking during non-school hours.

For more than a decade, some Chicago schools have been leasing out lots for parking. Whatever money a school gets from parking leases can be used as needed at that school.

The most lucrative lots have been near sports venues: Wrigley Field, United Center and for a time, Sox park.

Other schools in congested North Side neighborhoods also have benefited, as people in those neighborhoods sometimes have leased parking from them.

A few schools in other neighborhoods also have made money, though generally to a lesser degree, by renting to nearby churches and restaurants.

Overall, though, the schools that have gotten the most extra cash to do with as they like disproportionately serve white students in wealthier neighborhoods.

Before the pandemic, one school — Inter-American Magnet Elementary, which is just blocks from the Cubs’ ballpark — was getting as much as $381,000 a year for the use of its parking lot and parking garage.

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For most of the past decade, the school parking lease business in Chicago was dominated by Blk & Wht.

To replace it and the revenue it brought some schools, CPS asked companies to make formal bids for the leases. That was just before COVID-19 surfaced in Illinois, shutting down the economy and forcing the school system to cancel that competitive bidding process.

Premium 1 was given contracts anyway for 10 school lots. But the company didn’t disclose it had been put on a payment plan at City Hall to repay about $45,000 it owed.

Among its citations, Premium 1 had been cited for “operating without the required public garage license” in March at 10 schools.

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The Oscars were historic, shocking and a little bit schlocky, the Golden Globes spun into even more controversy and criticism before being given a timeout, theaters are no longer Quiet Places, the “other” music festival from 1969 was finally given its due, Jean Smart and Kate Winslet turned in career near-best performances in two wonderful new TV series, and in “F9,” for the first time in movie history, a Pontiac Fiero was launched into space. Thanks for keeping things interesting, 2021!

And we’re just at 50% capacity, meaning it’s time for my annual Halftime Report Card spotlighting the notorious and the noteworthy in the words of theatrical films (they’re a thing again!) as well as streaming, premium cable and broadcast TV.

In the immortal words of Dom Toretto in the ludicrous but wildly successful “F9”: “No matter how fast you are, no one outruns their past. And mine just caught up to me.”

How Dom’s buddies keep a straight face when he’s dispensing his fortune-cookie wisdom is beyond me, but in any case, off we go.

How can we miss you if you won’t stay away?

After the Los Angeles Times published exposes about the lack of a single Black member in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and some ongoing ethically dicey practices, while Tom Cruise returned his three Globes and Scarlett Johansson announced she would no longer participate in HFPA press conferences after facing “sexist questions and remarks … that bordered on sexual harassment,” NBC announced it would not broadcast the ceremony in 2022.

Ever since their inception, the Golden Globes have been something of a joke, but Hollywood played along, and we all enjoyed those booze-soaked, loosey-goosey telecasts.

But hey: You can still throw an awards party and get a champagne sponsor without calling it the Golden Globes.

Weird ceremony, historic results

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The 2021 Oscars took place at Union Station in Los Angeles, and it was a weird affair, with presenters giving rambling speeches directly to the befuddled nominees. It was, however, an historic night, as Chloe Zhao (“Nomadland”) became the second woman ever and the first woman of color to win best director, Youn Yuh-jung became the first ever Korean acting winner and the “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” hair team was the first Black-led group to win. In one of the biggest upsets in recent Academy Awards history, Anthony Hopkins won best actor for “The Father” over the late Chadwick Boseman from “Ma Rainey.” A grateful and gracious Hopkins delivered his acceptance speech from his homeland of Wales the next day, via Instagram — a scenario the great Sir Anthony couldn’t have envisioned when he won for “The Silence of the Lambs” back in 1992.

Kate and Jean, the smartest

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Two of our finest actresses were given plum roles in two very different series — and it’s no surprise they both knocked it out of the park. Kate Winslet was brilliant as a small-town detective with a soap-opera personal life in “Mare of Easttown,” while her “Mare” co-star Jean Smart also killed as a Joan Rivers-esque, Vegas-based comic legend in “Hacks.”

Wanna take you higher, higher!

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Arguably the most thrilling scene in any movie this year is when Sly & the Family Stone command the stage in “Summer of Soul,” an exhilarating look back at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival.

Vibrating seats, ear-splitting sound and popcorn, oh my!

On Tuesday, March 16, I saw a screening of a film in a theater for the first time in nearly a year. That movie was the big, dumb, fantastically over-the-top “Godzilla vs. Kong,” the first of a steady stream (or should we not say streaming?) films I’ve seen in theaters, including such spring/summertime treats as “Cruella,” “A Quiet Place, Part II” and “In the Heights,” all of which played beautifully on the big screen.

As for “Godzilla vs. Kong,” when people ask me what it’s about, I can only say, “It’s mostly about Godzilla and, um, Kong. They might fight but I don’t want to give anything away.”

Original films and series, kind of

Just a partial list of the sequels, prequels, spinoffs, origins stories and reboots to come our way in the first half of 2021:

• “A Quiet Place Part II”
• “F9”
• “Godzilla v. Kong”
• “Cruella”
• “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It”
• “Mortal Kombat”
• “Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway”
• “The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard”
• “Tom and Jerry”
• “The Boss Baby: Family Business”
• “Spiral: From the Book of Saw”
• “Wandavision”
• “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier”
• “Loki”
• “Monsters at Work”
• “The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers”
• “Blindspotting”

Better Call … Bob?

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If you thought Chris Pratt and John Krasinski made surprising (and spectacularly successful) transitions from playing ordinary guys on TV to action heroes, they’ve got nothing on Bob Odenkirk, who kills as a seemingly average husband and father who has a very particular set of skills and puts them to great use in “Nobody.”

Stephen Dorff vs. Hollywood

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In an interview with the Independent, the actor Stephen Dorff, a gifted artist who never reached his James Dean potential, said “Black Widow” looked “like garbage to me. It looks like a bad video game.. … I’m embarrassed for Scarlett!” and added, “My business is becoming a big game show. You have actors [and filmmakers] that don’t have a clue what they’re doing.”

Echoes of the mid-1990s, when Dorff was proclaiming he was the best of the new breed of actors that included Christian Slater, Mark Wahlberg, Matthew McConaughey, Leonardo DiCaprio and Will Smith.

FWIW, Dorff’s career-best performance was in Sofia Coppola’s “Somewhere” (2010), as a famous actor who’s a bit of an a——–.

The best films of 2021 so far

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The best series and documentaries of the year to date

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No one was injured after a fire broke out in an apartment Thursday night in Washington Park on the South Side.

Firefighters and police officers responded to a call of a blaze at a three-story apartment building about 11:20 p.m. in the 5100 block of South Michigan Avenue, Chicago police said.

A family of seven, including two juvelines, were able to safely exit their first-floor apartment, police said. A couple who lived on the second floor got out safely.

No injuries were reported.

The Chicago Fire Department are investigating the cause of the fire.

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PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns have never been closer to an NBA title.

Devin Booker scored 31 points, Chris Paul had 23 and the Suns beat the Milwaukee Bucks 118-108 on Thursday night to take a 2-0 series lead.

The Suns surged ahead late in the first half, withstood Giannis Antetokounmpo’s all-around effort to bring the Bucks back, and walked off winners again as fans swung orange rally towels all around them.

Antetokounmpo had 42 points and 12 rebounds in his second game back after missing two games because of a hyperextended left knee.

The Suns never even had a lead in the NBA Finals until their 118-105 victory in Game 1. They dropped the first two games in both 1976 and 1993, their only other appearances, and didn’t win more than two games in either series.

They’ve already got two this time and will go after a third Sunday in Milwaukee, which will host the NBA Finals for the first time since 1974.

“We know it gets rowdy in Milwaukee, but I think we’re ready for it,” Booker said.

Booker made seven 3-pointers and the Suns went 20 for 40 behind the arc. Mikal Bridges scored 27 points, and Paul finished with eight assists.

Jrue Holiday played more aggressively but didn’t shoot a whole lot better than in Game 1, scoring 17 points but hitting only 7 for 21. Khris Middleton was 5 for 16, forcing Antetokounmpo to carry an even heavier load on his sore left leg.

It adds up to the Bucks having to overcome a 2-0 deficit for the second time this postseason. They did it against the Brooklyn Nets in the Eastern Conference semifinals, but had some help when first James Harden and then Kyrie Irving were injured.

Now they are facing a Suns team loaded with weapons all over the lineup, and showed off all of them in the prettiest play of this series.

They whipped the ball all around the perimeter for the final basket of the first half. It went from Paul to Booker to Jae Crowder to Bridges, back to Crowder to Paul, then over to Crowder and once again Bridge. He then finally fed it inside to Deandre Ayton, who scored while being fouled with 14.9 seconds left for a 56-45 lead at the break.

The Bucks could only dream of having that many guys involved. Antetokounmpo’s 15 field goals were more than twice as many as any other Milwaukee player.

Phoenix opened a 65-50 lead with a good start to the third, but Antetokounmpo — and pretty much only Antetokounmpo — kept the game from getting away from the Bucks. He scored 20 of the Bucks’ 33 points in the third, the first 20-point period in the finals since Michael Jordan against the Suns in 1993.

Milwaukee got it all the way down to six in the fourth, but Paul nailed a 3-pointer and Bridges had a basket to quickly push the lead back to double digits.

Milwaukee outscored Phoenix 20-0 in the paint in the first quarter, but eight of the Suns’ nine baskets were 3-pointers and they were behind just 29-26.

Only two fouls — both on the Suns — were called in a clean quarter. Antetokounmpo took the only two free throws, making one and shooting an airball on the second as fans continued counting, as they have in Bucks’ road games during the playoffs to show that he often doesn’t appear to shoot them within the allotted 10 seconds.

It was tied at 41 with just under five minutes left in the half before the Suns surged ahead with precision offense and some shutdown defense. They finished with a 15-4 run, the Bucks managing just a pair of baskets by Antetokounmpo.

He tried to fire up his teammates with some screaming on the bench during a timeout, but he couldn’t put the ball into the basket for them. The Bucks were a dismal 6 for 25 in the period, missing 10 of their 12 3-point tries.

TIP-INS

Bucks: Middleton finished with 11 points. … Holiday was 4 for 14 in Game 1. … Antetokounmpo had his 13th game with at least 20 points and 10 rebounds in this postseason. Only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who had 15 in 1974 and 14 in 1971, had more for the Bucks.

Suns: Booker has 490 points, second-most for any player in his first postseason. Rick Barry scored 521 in 1967. .. The Suns are 14-4 in this postseason.

COIN TOSS

Abdul-Jabbar had some fun with a video on social media calling to mind the important shared history between the teams who came into the NBA together in 1968. The Bucks won a coin toss in 1969 that allowed them to select the future Hall of Famer with the No. 1 pick in the draft.

In the video, Abdul-Jabbar, wearing a Milwaukee No. 33 T-shirt, flips a coin.

“Bucks in 6,” he then said. “Fear the Deer.”

CROWDER COMEBACK

Crowder had 11 points and 10 rebounds, shooting 4 for 8. He missed all eight attempts in Game 1.

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As we prepare for another Wisconsin camping weekend there’s an excitement that can’t be denied, rain or shine! From discovering our site to the placement of the tent to the setup, and that first, ice-cooled beer!

It feels like a million years since The Go! Team has released music, but “World Remember Me Now” brings back lots of memories, making “Junior Kickstart” feel like yesterday. “World” will get you ready for the full-length they are dropping today called Get Up Sequences Part One.

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The quarantine made new music feel more special. Seeing Caveman grow exponentially during Covid season was one of the highlights. They’ve done everything from the spacey jams of “Like Me” to the quaint pop of “River.” They are definitely one of the newer bands you need to spend time with.

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I finally broke down and ordered a copy of Glowing In The Dark, the best work yet from Django Django. Their latest single “Say Something” is more of a mellow side, not often shown by the band, and it continues to grow on me. Unfortunately, this isn’t on their latest album, so I’m expecting a deluxe version.

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Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth (Primal Scream and Savages vocalists) have released a new single “Remember We Were Lovers.” This is their second song of the project and feels like they are actually creating a sound.

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Rap seems really bad these days. The art of storytelling is lost. Drake is still one of my favorites and one of the best in the game. Even though we have to wait for his verse until the end of “Wasting Time,” the rhymes are well worth it.

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“Contact High” is the latest release from We Are Scientists and they strike gold with soaring harmonies and big hooks. This is one of the best songs they have released in years and will be available on their new album Huffy, due out on October 8th. The new album will include recent singles ‘Fault Lines’ and ‘I Cut My Own Hair’.

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Your Jazz Cut Of The Week is now my latest addiction, marking the first time I have allowed an artist to hold that sacred spot on Release Radar for two weeks in a row. Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans owned my life over the 4th of July weekend, as it did the week leading up to it. I played it at night while cooking for the masses. I changed moods at midnight, winding down from ‘Murica playlists, and I played it early mornings while I was making coffee. Need I note that no one else seems to make coffee? Or they wait for me to get up early and put that pot on the grill?

Anyway, Evans will tickle the ivory, and you’ll feel all the better getting up and beginning a new day, for you, and for all the people needing that splendid dose of caffeine.

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There’s just a great vibe on that first album that is hard to deny. I’m pondering ordering this career-spanning collection of five discs, but this time, on CD?

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By Kristin Wicks,
today at 8:47 pm

This month, Netflix released FEAR STREET, a horror trilogy based on R.L. Stine’s horror series about the sinister history of a little town called Shadyside. They’re hosting virtual screenings in advance of each film’s release. Once fans enter to obtain their “Fear Pass,” they are granted access to screening links for watching the films before they show up on Netflix.

The first film is currently available on Netflix. Part 2 opens tomorrow, and the third releases on July 16th. The Fear Pass for FEAR STREET PART 3: 1666 will allow fans to see it on Wednesday, July 14th. The virtual screenings are timed to coincide with the LA premieres. Additionally, each screening link will be active for a certain number of hours.

The day of the screening (July 14th, 2021), Fear Pass winners will be sent the Indee.TV screening link. Please be sure to enter before July 12th!

To enter to win the advance Fear Pass for FEAR STREET PART 3: 1666 on July 14th, please fill out the form HERE.

FEAR STREET PART 1: 1994 (On Netflix now) – A circle of teenagers accidentally encounter the ancient evil responsible for a series of brutal murders that have plagued their town for over 300 years. Welcome to Shadyside.

FEAR STREET PART 2: 1978 (On Netflix this Friday) – Shadyside, 1978. School’s out for summer and the activities at Camp Nightwing are about to begin. But when another Shadysider is possessed with the urge to kill, the fun in the sun becomes a gruesome fight for survival.

FEAR STREET PART 3: 1666 (On Netflix July 16th) – The origins of Sarah Fier’s curse are finally revealed as history comes full circle on a night that changes the lives of Shadysiders forever.

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Two people were shot, one critically, near Benito Juarez Community Academy in Pilsen about an hour before students were released for the day Thursday afternoon.

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A 16-year-old boy and a 34-year-old woman were in the 2100 block of South Ashland Avenue when someone approached and opened fire about 12:10 p.m, Chicago police said.

The woman was hit in the neck and taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, police said. The teen was shot in the leg and was in good condition at the hospital.

The 16-year-old boy is a student at Benito Juarez Community Academy, though he was not participating in any programs Thursday, said Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez, whose 25th Ward includes the area where the shooting happened.

Sigcho-Lopez said he was told by police officials that there was a fight in the area when a vehicle driving along Ashland Avenue stopped, and individuals in that vehicle started shooting. He did not know if the teen was a bystander or had been involved in the fight.

About an hour after the shooting, cars lined up as students were released from the school. Groups of students huddled together near the bus stops on Cermak.

According to witnesses, gunfire erupted after two women were seen fighting outside the school and a car pulled up near Ashland Avenue and Cermak.

“Kill that (expletive),” a man was heard shouting. Another witness heard someone say, “Shoot her.”

A woman who had been waiting for the bus said she ran south on Ashland when the car pulled up next to the school’s outdoor space.

“I started running,” said the woman, 50, who did not want her name used. “When I heard the first shot, I looked back and I saw her fall to the ground.”

Another woman, 40, said she was walking near the area when she saw the car pull up and heard someone say, “Shoot her.”

“I just froze,” she said. “I don’t remember anything.”

The women, who were interviewed separately, both said someone attempted to perform CPR on the woman until paramedics arrived. The car involved in the shooting took off, according to the witnesses.

The 50-year-old woman said she asked if the woman who had been shot would make it. She was told they had found a heartbeat. “They said it ain’t looking good,” she said.

A mother and daughter waited near the scene of the shooting. The mother had come to pick up the 14-year-old from school. She was participating in a program for freshman and sophomore students.

“It’s ugly because there are children who come here alone,” the mother said in Spanish. The mother asked not to be identified.

Patricia Dominguez, 69, of Pilsen, walked her dog Tsipeni not far from the scene. She didn’t see the shooting, but she said it broke her heart to hear about it.

“Of course with the gentrification, it’s changing but we are still reminded that this is the barrio and sometimes they don’t let us forget that,” Dominguez said.

Dominguez, who is an artist and author of children’s books, said more arts and sports programs for children are needed to help curb violence in Chicago. She said that’s why she sponsors Benito Juarez’s girls soccer team.

“That’s what I feel is going to really, really help,” Dominguez said.

Sigcho-Lopez said Thursday that the strategies the city has been using to tackle violence aren’t working or are misguided. He said there needs to be more investment in social services that provides mental health programs for teens along with more arts programs. He also said more funding needs to allocated toward street outreach efforts.

“The issue here is we don’t have funding or support from the city,” Sigcho-Lopez said.

He said Mayor Lori Lightfoot needs to move quicker to disperse the $1.9 billion in coronavirus relief funds the city is expected to receive to address the root causes of violence.

“It’s an emergency,” Sigcho-Lopez said. “I don’t know what else needs to happen for the mayor to listen to the community.”

Elvia Malagon’s reporting on social justice and income inequality is made possible by a grant from The Chicago Community Trust.

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Principal Katina Manuel of Whistler Elementary on the Far South Side was at a cookout with family and friends when, toward the end of the gathering at 1 a.m. Monday, an SUV drove by and opened fire on the group of 50 people.

Manuel was hit in the side with the bullet exiting her back, and her daughter was struck in her hand, Manuel’s father told the Sun-Times in an interview. The principal was treated for her wound at Roseland Hospital, and her daughter was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital and later released.

“Principal Manuel was injured over the weekend off campus in a non-school related event, and is currently resting and recovering,” CPS official Daniel Perry wrote to families in an email. “Principal Manuel is expected to make a full recovery, and I ask that we all respect her privacy during this time until she returns.

“I know the whole Whistler community is deeply concerned for Principal Manuel, and I want to assure you that I and [district] staff will be available to support Whistler staff and students during this time. If your child is worried and needs extra support right now, I encourage you to reach out.”

Whistler, in the West Pullman neighborhood, enrolls 276 students.

Manuel and her young daughter were among 104 people who were shot — 19 fatally — over the deadliest and most violent weekend this year in Chicago. At least 13 children were wounded in the shootings.

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