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Opting out of 2021 season could pay off for Packers QB Aaron Rodgerson June 28, 2021 at 5:50 pm

GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Green Bay Packers could find out just how serious Aaron Rodgers is about never taking a snap for them again by the end of this week.

The most likely outcome in the standoff between team and quarterback might be a long, drawn-out process, but there’s a way Rodgers can send a definitive message about his future to the Packers in the near term. NFL players have until Friday to opt out of the 2021 season because of COVID-19, an option they also had in 2020. The opt-out is available only for players whose contracts went into effect before Oct. 1, 2020.

That group includes Rodgers.

If he opts out, he would retain the $11.5 million proration of his signing bonus as well as a $6.8 million roster bonus paid in March. He risks forfeiting that $18.3 million if he instead holds out from training camp, which starts in late July. Rodgers held out from the team’s mandatory minicamp earlier this month. It’s unclear whether the Packers excused his absence.

Rodgers would not be the first Packers player to opt out because of COVID-19. A year ago, receiver Devin Funchess opted out of the 2020 season. Funchess’ one-year, $2.5 million contract carried over to this year.

The same would theoretically happen for Rodgers, who is 37, with the remaining three years left on his contract. However, Rodgers pushing the opt-out button would be a clear signal to the Packers’ front office that he is unwilling to compromise. It could force general manager Brian Gutekunst’s hand.

Gutekunst has been steadfast through this offseason that he will not trade Rodgers under any circumstances, hoping the three-time MVP quarterback will return this fall.

“Our desire,” Gutekunst said after the draft in late April, “is to have Aaron as our quarterback and leading this team and competing for championships. So it’s a little bit of a hypothetical. So we’ll get to that. We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.”

Rodgers has a chance to force the Packers into crossing that bridge much earlier than they would like. Soon, the team could know if there is any chance in reconciling with its franchise quarterback.

Read more at usatoday.com

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77 people shot in weekend gun violence in Chicago, a third of them from four mass shootingson June 28, 2021 at 5:51 pm

Six people were killed and 71 others were wounded in weekend shootings in Chicago as the city reaches the halfway point of what could be one of its most violent years in decades.

Four of the attacks were mass shootings with four or more people wounded. The attacks accounted for about a third of all the shooting victims between Friday evening and early Monday morning.

Chicago has seen at least 331 homicides so far this year, compared to 319 at this point last year and 247 in 2019. That’s an almost 4 percent increase over last year and a 34 percent increase compared to 2019.

There have been at least 1,842 shootings this year, compared to 1,625 at this time in 2020 and 1,171 in 2019. This year has seen a more than 13 percent increase compared to 2020, and 57 percent compared to 2019.

City Hall and police officials have stressed that the increase in violence from last year to this year has been slowing, with this June seeing fewer homicides and shootings than last June. Still, last year was one of the worst for gun violence since the mid-1990s, and this year is on track for even more shootings and homicides.

Over the weekend, people were shot in 17 of the city’s 22 police districts. The most violent was the Grand Crossing district on the South Side, where six were shot in one attack, four in another and a 14-year-old boy was shot in a third attack.

The most serious attack in the district was in the South Shore neighborhood, where a gunman in a black SUV sprayed bullets at a group of people around 8:45 p.m. Sunday, killing one woman and wounding five other people, according to Chicago police.

Hours later, a woman was killed and at least 10 people were shot in Marquette Park when gunmen stepped from an alley, police said. The neighborhood is in the Chicago Lawn police district which surrounds Midway Airport.

No one was in custody in either shooting. There have been at least eight other mass shootings in Chicago this month.

Police Supt. David Brown blamed the cluster of mass shootings on a surplus of illegal guns on the streets and a court system he complained was too slow to reopen and too lenient in sentencing.

“The answer is too many guns, too many illegal guns in too many hands, and too little consequences,” Brown said in a news conference Monday, a theme he has repeatedly hit during his tenure as Chicago’s top cop.

Chicago is on pace to recover 12,000 illegal guns by the end of the year, which would be a record, surpassing last year’s 11,300 guns, he said.

Brown said the Cook County court system has been too slow to resume criminal trials, and also singled out what he called light consequences for emboldened criminals.

“We have strong advocacy in courts for offenders and very little for victims,” Brown said.

Brown also noted that officers are being shot at in higher numbers than last year. Thirty-one officers have been shot or shot at this year, he said. By the end of 2020, 79 officers had been shot or shot at, he said.

West Pullman homicide

Early Sunday, a man was fatally shot in West Pullman on the Far South Side. Officers responded to a Shot Spotter alert and found the 24-year-old in the 11700 block of South Laflin Street, police said.

He suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. His name was not released and no arrest was reported.

Englewood murder

Before dawn on Saturday, a 54-year-old man was shot and killed in Englewood on the South Side. Darryl Griffin was standing outside around 3 a.m. in the 600 block of West 61st Place when someone inside a passing SUV opened fire, police said. Griffin was shot in his torso and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he died, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Police reported no arrests.

Humboldt Park homicide

Early Saturday, 25-year-old Niko Davis was shot and killed around 4:35 a.m. in the 2600 block of West Thomas Street in Humboldt Park, Chicago police said. Shot in his chest, he was taken to Stroger Hospital and pronounced dead.

Man killed, 3 wounded in West Rogers Park

An hour later, a man was killed and three others wounded after getting into an argument in West Rogers Park on the North Side.

About 5:30 a.m., the group was in the 6100 block of North McCormick Boulevard when they got into an argument with a man who pulled out a gun and began firing shots, police said.

Joseph Darnell Johnson, 35, was shot in his chest and leg, and died at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. Three other wounded men were hospitalized with injuries that weren’t life-threatening, police said.

Other shootings

A woman was wounded Friday in Austin on the West Side. She was walking about 9:10 p.m. in the 200 block of South Cicero Avenue when someone opened fire, striking her in the leg, police said. The 56-year-old was taken to Stroger Hospital, where her condition was stabilized.
Another woman was wounded in a shooting late Friday in Bridgeport on the South Side. The 28-year-old was traveling in a vehicle as a passenger about 11:25 p.m. in the 2800 block of South Wallace Avenue when three males who were standing outside fired shots at the vehicle, police said. A bullet struck her in the elbow, and she was taken to Mercy Hospital in good condition, police said.
Minutes later, four people were hurt, two critically, in a shooting in Park Manor on the South Side. A group was standing outside about 11:50 p.m. when a person drove past in a red moped and fired shots in the 7000 block of South Indiana Avenue, police said.
One woman was shot three times on the body and was taken in critical condition to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said. The other was struck in the thigh and was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where her condition was stable.

One man was also critically hurt with a gunshot wound to the head, police said. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, police said. The other man was shot in the thigh and taken to the same hospital, where his condition was stable.

At least 46 other people were wounded in shootings in Chicago between 5 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Monday.

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French polymath Jean-Luc Guionnet finally commits his solo saxophone music to waxon June 28, 2021 at 5:00 pm

Jean-Luc Guionnet’s relationship to music is complicated, and it shows. As a youth, he drew while his father played saxophone, and he didn’t much like what he heard. When he changed his mind during his teens and started making his own music, his first instruments were keyboards, spliced tape, and drums; he only came around to playing saxophone himself because the horn was easy to carry. Since the late 1990s, Guionnet has contributed to more than 80 albums, coming at music from a variety of angles: he’s used recordings of people talking about their listening environments to craft a meditation upon space and memory, employed church organs as vast sound generators, and improvised on alto saxophone alone and in small groups. For years Guionnet has been playing solo saxophone concerts, but he’s never released an album of that music until now. The double LP L’epaisseur de L’air (“The Thickness of Air”) reveals that while Guionnet has mastered the instrument, his relationship with it remains conflicted. He defies the horn’s conventional vocabulary, challenging both its physical limits and his own. Sometimes he uses circular breathing to play unbroken, minutes-long ribbons of translucent sound that form shapes so slowly you can barely perceive them; at other times he spits out masticated notes as though they were unexpectedly bitter seeds. Guionnet’s music expresses extremes of sound and form, and the intensity of his efforts betrays an undercurrent of powerful emotion. The gorgeous severity of the LP’s gatefold sleeve, whose images he drew and etched, also gives a primary role to the visual art he used to make while he wished his father would stop playing. v

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After two mass shootings within hours Sunday night, Lightfoot decries ‘street justice’on June 28, 2021 at 5:40 pm

Two mass shootings within two hours of each other this weekend stemmed from gang conflict and retaliatory shootings, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday, decrying “street justice” driven by a “thirst for revenge.”

“Both incidents appear to be internal gang conflicts. Retaliatory shootings for past incident,” the mayor said, noting that Chicago police detectives who worked through the night “have some promising leads.”

About a third of the 78 people shot between Friday evening and early Monday were wounded in just four attacks, including the two mentioned by the mayor. Four were shot in each of the other two.

Lightfoot said yet another summer weekend marred by mass shootings is “both heartbreaking and frustrating.”

Heartbreaking for those killed and wounded and the people who loved them, she said, and equally heartbreaking for the wounds inflicted “psychologically” on those left “traumatized” by gun violence in their gang-infested neighborhoods.

“What’s also frustrating and heartbreaking is that, for some in our community, their thirst for revenge has no sense of decency. They don’t want to let the criminal justice system play itself out,” the mayor said.

“They want to engage in street justice, which is tragic and terrible because, invariably what happens — like we’ve seen so many times with way too many children in our city across this year — when they aim, they don’t get the target. They get the children and the innocent bystanders who have a right to live in our city without fear of being felled by gun violence.”

Lightfoot, sounding an all-too-familiar theme, demanded that Chief Judge Tim Evans order the full resumption of criminal trials for the first time since the pandemic.

“We still have too many murderers that are not being held accountable — not just in Chicago, but across this country. But, our county is being plagued. So I’m calling our our county partners — and particularly those in the criminal courts. Open up the courts. People need to get their day in court. Justice delayed is justice denied,” she said.

“You’re hurting not only those who are charged, but also those in the community. The victims, the survivors and the witnesses who need to have a measure of justice. Our criminal courts have been shut down for fifteen months. They need to reopen. We need to see the wheels of justice moving for our victims and their families.”

Earlier this month, Evans announced he had asked a committee of criminal justice stakeholders to determine how to safely accelerate the reopening of criminal courts to in-person proceedings, including increasing the capacity for bench and jury trials.

But Evans’ news release making that announcement also noted that while in-person criminal proceedings have been “limited,” since the pandemic, the courts “never really closed” and the “administration of justice, including hearings, bench trials, guilty pleas, findings of innocence and dismissal of cases have continued” for the past 15 months.

Lightfoot said she is “grateful” for the anti-violence help offered to big cities like Chicago by President Biden last week. She called them a “step in the right direction,” including “things I’ve been advocating for since 2019.”

That includes new powers for ATF and a crackdown on gun dealers, whom the mayor claims, are well aware that they are “selling to criminals and straw purchasers” but do it anyway.

“They need to be held accountable as well. And I’m glad the President is now empowering the ATF to be able to do their job and hold those people accountable,” the mayor said.

Already this year, the Chicago Police Department has taken “almost 6,000 crime guns” off the streets, Lightfoot said, calling that a “fraction of what’s out there.”

“When we have this many guns, we have to have accountability…for the people who are picking up guns and settling petty disputes at the tip of a bullet. This has got to stop,” the mayor said.

“We need the federal government and all of our partners to step up and do their parts.”

In the first of the two mass shootings Sunday, a gunman in a black SUV sprayed bullets at a group of people in South Shore around 8:45 p.m., killing one woman and wounding five other people, according to Chicago police.

Hours later, a woman was killed and at least 10 people were shot in Marquette Park when gunmen stepped from an alley, fire officials said.

No one was in custody in either shooting. There have been at least eight other mass shootings in Chicago this month.

In the Marquette Park attack, emergency crews were called to the scene of an accident at 63rd and Western Avenue about 10:30 p.m. when a shooting occurred just a block away on Artesian, fire officials said.

A group of people was gathered outside about 10:50 p.m. when three people came out of an alley and started firing, Chicago police said. A woman was shot in the chest and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. She hasn’t been identified.

Police Supt. David Brown said Monday that the Marquette Park shooting stemmed from a year-long gang conflict in which the gunmen were seeking retaliation. The woman killed in that attack was an innocent bystander, while one of the wounded men was targeted, he said.

The shooters’ car was seen but detectives have no license plate or description of the shooters, Brown said.

In the South Shore shooting, detectives know the gunfire came from an SUV but don’t have a plate number.

Brown asked anyone with information on the shootings to contact the department.

Contributing: Madeline Kenney, Sophie Sherry

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77 people shot in weekend gun violence in Chicago, a third of them from four mass shootingson June 28, 2021 at 3:51 pm

Six people were killed and 71 others were wounded in weekend shootings in Chicago as the city reaches the halfway point of what could be one of its most violent years in decades.

Four of the attacks were mass shootings with four or more people wounded. The attacks accounted for about a third of all the shooting victims between Friday evening and early Monday morning.

No one was in custody in either shooting. There have been at least eight other mass shootings in Chicago this month.

West Pullman homicide

He suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. His name was not released and no arrest was reported.

Englewood murder

Humboldt Park homicide

Man killed, 3 wounded in West Rogers Park

An hour later, a man was killed and three others wounded after getting into an argument in West Rogers Park on the North Side.

About 5:30 a.m., the group was in the 6100 block of North McCormick Boulevard when they got into an argument with a man who pulled out a gun and began firing shots, police said.

Other shootings

A woman was wounded Friday in Austin on the West Side. She was walking about 9:10 p.m. in the 200 block of South Cicero Avenue when someone opened fire, striking her in the leg, police said. The 56-year-old was taken to Stroger Hospital, where her condition was stabilized.
Another woman was wounded in a shooting late Friday in Bridgeport on the South Side. The 28-year-old was traveling in a vehicle as a passenger about 11:25 p.m. in the 2800 block of South Wallace Avenue when three males who were standing outside fired shots at the vehicle, police said. A bullet struck her in the elbow, and she was taken to Mercy Hospital in good condition, police said.
Minutes later, four people were hurt, two critically, in a shooting in Park Manor on the South Side. A group was standing outside about 11:50 p.m. when a person drove past in a red moped and fired shots in the 7000 block of South Indiana Avenue, police said.
One woman was shot three times on the body and was taken in critical condition to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said. The other was struck in the thigh and was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where her condition was stable.

One man was also critically hurt with a gunshot wound to the head, police said. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, police said. The other man was shot in the thigh and taken to the same hospital, where his condition was stable.

At least 46 other people were wounded in shootings in Chicago between 5 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Monday.

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Second person dies in Ashburn shooting that killed 25-year-old womanon June 28, 2021 at 4:03 pm

A man died a week after a shooting in Ashburn that also killed a 25-year-old woman. A child traveling in their vehicle was left unharmed.

Corey Dgaines, 29, of West Englewood died Friday evening of complications from gunshot wounds during the June 18 attack, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Dgaines and the other victim, Ciera Jones, were shot by someone in a burgundy Dodge Durango who pulled up along side them and opened fire around 3 p.m. in the 2800 block of West 79th Street, Chicago police said.

Jones was struck in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.

Dgaines suffered gunshot wounds to the back and hand and a graze wound to the head, and was Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said.

The child was not injured, police said. No arrest was reported.

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Message to mayor and aldermen: Grow up, quit squabbling and tackle Chicago’s real problemson June 28, 2021 at 4:19 pm

Instead of aggressively addressing the real and overwhelming problems facing Chicago, the mayor and City Council argue over parliamentary procedures. The constant stand-offs about who’s in charge are getting to be a pain. It is shameful.

The mayor wants everything to go her way, and she and the council argue about things like the renaming of Lake Shore Drive. Meanwhile, babies, teens and adults are being shot and killed in the streets of Chicago.

We do not have a City Council of concerned adults, working on the issues of the most importance to our city’s future.

SEND LETTERS TO: [email protected]. Please include your neighborhood or hometown and a phone number for verification purposes. Letters should be approximately 350 words or less.

Let’s work on cleaning up neighborhoods, for one. The garbage and litter on the streets and in vacant lots is awful. Overgrown trees need to be cut back or cut down. Viaducts are rotting, bricks falling off. You feel like they could fall down as you pass underneath.

South Side aldermen should be making sure that police officers are patrolling our neighborhoods, not being reassigned to the North Side or downtown to protect the businesses and people there. Living on the South Side, the aldermen know just bad the situation can be, with some people afraid to come outside and sit on their porches, or to put out the garbage in the alley or to just walk down the street.

The mayor and the aldermen need to grow up. They need to really look at what’s going on in the wards and take care of the overwhelming needs. They should be walking the wards, actually talking to people, actually listening to what people have to say.

Talk to the children especially, because they are our future.

Clifola Coleman, Park Manor/Grand Crossing

Point a gun and give up control

Filled with road rage after a traffic altercation in the Lawndale neighborhood, Keshawn Jackson allegedly told Patrick Earl that he “needed to be taught a lesson.” Jackson then, in front of his own two children, allegedly shot and killed Earl.

If that, indeed, is what happened, then Jackson was right. Someone did need to be taught a lesson. He was that person. And he will be taught that lesson every day for the rest of his life.

When you point a gun at someone, you hand control of the rest of your life over to them. Their heartbeat controls your fate.

Don Anderson, Oak Park

DuSable was no Columbus

In his essay in Friday’s Sun-Times, Professor Theodore J. Karamanski’s attempt to conflate Jean Baptiste Point DuSable with Christopher Columbus, the invader and enslaver, is disingenuous, at best. DuSable’s relations with Indians living in the area was nothing like those of Columbus’ with the peoples he and his forces encountered.

Loyola University should censure him for bad scholarship.

Muriel Balla, Hyde Park

Endless tug of war on guns and drugs

Does anyone hold any hope that the Justice Department’s launch of “five cross-jurisdictional firearms trafficking strike forces” will make any difference in Chicago gun violence? With 400 million guns in private hands in the United States, I doubt it. The horses are out of the barn.

In America, we see an ongoing tug-of-war between a so-called “War on Drugs” that puts guns into the hands of Second Amendment-loving Americans and a federal and state talk-fest about keeping guns out of the hands of criminals. It’s a sad commentary on ineffective government policy choices. The tug-of-war goes nowhere as so many are killed.

James E. Gierach, Palos Park

Fake outrage over Critical Race Theory

It is a term of derision now to describe somebody as “woke.” Perhaps that’s because it’s easier to manipulate people who are slumbering and clueless than those who are informed and aware.

For example, many Americans should have experienced a “woke” moment when former Trump strategist Steve Bannon recently revealed the true motivation for the right-wing media-generated “outrage” over the teaching of Critical Race Theory. In a homage to the despicable tactics of the McCarthy Era, Bannon expressed the belief that if Republican politicians continue to demonize CRT, the party could gain up to 50 House seats in the 2022 elections.

Regardless of whether parents support or oppose the teaching of CRT, there is something extremely abhorrent about politicians who feign concern about something so essential to America’s future as a child’s education, when their true goal is nothing more than crass, demagogic and self-serving political gain.

David R. Hoffman, South Bend

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USA Basketball will field the third-oldest Olympic rosteron June 28, 2021 at 4:33 pm

Experience mattered to USA Basketball when putting together a roster for the Tokyo Olympics.

The Americans formally revealed their roster Monday, one that will be third-oldest U.S. men’s team in Olympic history for the Tokyo Games. The 12-man list includes five players — Kevin Love, Kevin Durant, Jrue Holiday, Damian Lillard and Draymond Green — already in their 30s.

In addition to those five players, the U.S. also has gotten commitments from Bam Adebayo, Bradley Beal, Devin Booker, Jerami Grant, Zach LaVine, Khris Middleton and Jayson Tatum to play on the team. All those commitments became known in recent weeks; USA Basketball, which is seeking a fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal, merely made it official Monday with the announcement.

“USA Basketball selects players to represent our country in international competition with the skills, character, experience, and desire to win,” said retired Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of USA Basketball’s Board of Directors. “We build teams that are versatile and resilient in the short, intense competitions we face. We’re fortunate that this group of elite athletes has volunteered to represent us in Tokyo this summer.”

Love is the oldest, at 32. Tatum, at 22, is the youngest. The average age — calculated by USA Basketball to be 28.2 at the end of the Tokyo Games if this roster doesn’t change — ranks behind only the 1996 team (29.4) and the original Dream Team in 1992 (29.0) as the oldest groups that the U.S. has sent to an Olympics.

Durant is on the Olympic team for the third time, making him the fourth U.S. player to have at least that many selections; Carmelo Anthony was on each of the last four teams, while LeBron James and David Robinson are the other three-time selections.

Durant was part of the gold-medal-winning squads in 2012 and 2016. Love was also on the 2012 team, Green was on the 2016 team. The other nine players on the U.S. roster will be appearing in the Olympics for the first time.

“I’m happy for the selected players and looking forward to having the opportunity to work with this wonderful group when practice gets underway on July 6 in Las Vegas,” U.S. coach Gregg Popovich said. “I’m excited to represent the United States in our quest to earn a gold medal in Tokyo.”

Popovich will be assisted by Steve Kerr, Lloyd Pierce and Jay Wright. Jerry Colangelo is again the team’s managing director, serving in that role for the final time before Grant Hill assumes the job when these Olympics are complete.

“Our roster features players who are experienced in the international game, and this team has outstanding athleticism, versatility and balance,” Colangelo said. “We also believe we have excellent leadership which is a necessity in order to develop the needed chemistry. We still have a lot of challenges in front of us, but I believe these players will become a team that all Americans will be proud of.”

The team will be formally nominated to the Tokyo Games by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee next month.

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