Starting on June 18th, popular West Loop destination PB&J: Pizza Beer, & Jukebox will team up with the Chicago Craft Beer Festival to bring the 9th annual event to the Fulton Market neighborhood. In total, the weekend event will feature incredible craft brews of both local and national origin and live music. Those who have purchased tickets will receive admission to the tasting area, samples of more than 40 beers from all over the midwest and beyond. Additionally, guests will receive a commemorative tasting glass and tasting guide as well as access to various live music acts, making it a weekend to remember in Chicago.
We harped on the importance of festival season in Chicago. It’s honestly the lifeblood of Summertime Chicago and that goes well beyond the big ticket events such as Lollapalooza, the Chicago Auto Show, and Taste of Chicago. Smaller neighborhood festivals provide an electric energy for smaller groups looking to avoid 5 figure crowds. Here are the details for Chicago Craft Beer Festival:
Saturday, June 19th | Noon to 2:30pm, 3:30pm to 6pm, 7pm to 10pm |
Sunday, June 20th | Noon to 2:30pm, 3:30pm to 6:00pm, 7pm to 10pm |
WHERE
PB&J: Pizza, Beer, & Jukebox | 205 N Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Why
From brewery-focused pubs and taprooms to bars and even the local supermarket, the popularity of craft beers remains as strong as ever. Illinois alone is home to more than 200 of the nation’s 4,000-plus microbreweries. Windy City beer lovers will again be in hops heaven when Chicago Craft Beer Fest returns for its 9th flavor-packed year to it’s new Fulton Market location! In conjunction with PB&J West Loop, highlights include daily afternoon tastings where visitors who purchase a pass can sample from a pool of more than 40 specialty beers lovingly crafted by 35-plus local, regional and national breweries. Tasting ticket holders are also encouraged to savor the day before or after the tastings by enjoying a meal (or more brews) at PB&J while listening to some great hits on their jukeboxes.
More About PB&J: It is time for PB&J! Chicago’s hottest hangout is located in the heart of the West Loop. PB&J offers the best Neapolitan pizza and draft beer in town, as well as favorite jams from their state-of-the-art jukebox powered by TouchTunes. PB&J’s fantastic Happy Hour takes place Tuesday – Thursday from 3-6pm with half price pizzas and select specialty cocktails. The hotspot is also pet friendly! PB&J offers “Doggy Date Night” that happens every Wednesday from 5-7pm. Enjoy special half-price deals for both you and your pup. The sliding garage-style windows allow guests to become one with the lively West Loop neighborhood while keeping fresh air circulating throughout. There’s no better spot to link up with friends for brunch on their patio, or game day at the bar. With eight HD screens, guests will never miss out on supporting their team! Stop in today, PB&J has the best eats in town!
Wrigley is packed and the Cubs are rolling! The Dingers crew talks the sweep of the Cardinals and Jed’s perfect batting average on his offseason moves. The crew is also joined by Crawly from Crawly’s Clubhouse and the Son Ranto Podcast.
A photo illustration showing a gun tied to four shootings in Albany, New York, an investigative document and surveillance video of one shooting. | AP
In the first public accounting of its kind in decades, an AP investigation has found that at least 1,900 U.S. military firearms were lost or stolen during the 2010s, with some resurfacing in violent crimes.
Pulling a pistol from his waistband, the young man spun his human shield toward police.
“Don’t do it!” a pursuing officer pleaded. The young man complied, releasing the bystander and tossing the gun, which skittered across the city street and then into the hands of police.
They soon learned that the 9mm Beretta had a rap sheet. Bullet casings linked it to four shootings, all of them in Albany, New York.
And there was something else. The pistol was U.S. Army property, a weapon intended for use against America’s enemies, not on its streets.
The Army couldn’t say how its Beretta M9 got to New York’s capital. Until the June 2018 police foot chase, the Army didn’t even realize someone had stolen the gun. Inventory records checked by investigators said the M9 was 600 miles away — safe inside Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
“It’s incredibly alarming,” said Albany County District Attorney David Soares. “It raises the other question as to what else is seeping into a community that could pose a clear and present danger.”
The armed services and the Pentagon are not eager for the public to know the answer.
In the first public accounting of its kind in decades, an Associated Press investigation has found that at least 1,900 U.S. military firearms were lost or stolen during the 2010s, with some resurfacing in violent crimes. Because some armed services have suppressed the release of basic information, AP’s total is a certain undercount.
Government records covering the Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force show pistols, machine guns, shotguns and automatic assault rifles have vanished from armories, supply warehouses, Navy warships, firing ranges and other places where they were used, stored or transported. These weapons of war disappeared because of unlocked doors, sleeping troops, a surveillance system that didn’t record, break-ins and other security lapses that, until now, have not been publicly reported.
While AP’s focus was firearms, military explosives also were lost or stolen, including armor-piercing grenades that ended up in an Atlanta backyard.
Weapon theft or loss spanned the military’s global footprint, touching installations from coast to coast, as well as overseas. In Afghanistan, someone cut the padlock on an Army container and stole 65 Beretta M9s — the same type of gun recovered in Albany. The theft went undetected for at least two weeks, when empty pistol boxes were discovered in the compound. The weapons were not recovered.
Even elite units are not immune. A former member of a Marines special operations unit was busted with two stolen guns. A Navy SEAL lost his pistol during a fight in a restaurant in Lebanon.
The Pentagon used to share annual updates about stolen weapons with Congress, but the requirement to do so ended years ago and public accountability has slipped. The Army and Air Force, for example, couldn’t readily tell AP how many weapons were lost or stolen from 2010 through 2019. So the AP built its own database, using extensive federal Freedom of Information Act requests to review hundreds of military criminal case files or property loss reports, as well as internal military analysis and data from registries of small arms.
Sometimes, weapons disappear without a paper trail. Military investigators regularly close cases without finding the firearms or person responsible because shoddy records lead to dead ends.
The military’s weapons are especially vulnerable to corrupt insiders responsible for securing them. They know how to exploit weak points within armories or the military’s enormous supply chains. Often from lower ranks, they may see a chance to make a buck from a military that can afford it.
“It’s about the money, right?” said Brig. Gen. Duane Miller, who as deputy provost marshal general is the Army’s No. 2 law enforcement official.
Theft or loss happens more than the Army has publicly acknowledged. During an initial interview, Miller significantly understated the extent to which weapons disappear, citing records that report only a few hundred missing rifles and handguns. But an internal analysis AP obtained, done by the Army’s Office of the Provost Marshal General, tallied 1,303 firearms.
In a second interview, Miller said he wasn’t aware of the memos, which had been distributed throughout the Army, until AP pointed them out following the first interview. “If I had the information in front of me,” Miller said, “I would share it with you.” Other Army officials said the internal analysis might overstate some losses.
The AP’s investigation began a decade ago. From the start, the Army has given conflicting information on a subject with the potential to embarrass — and that’s when it has provided information at all. A former insider described how Army officials resisted releasing details of missing guns when AP first inquired, and indeed that information was never provided.
Top officials within the Army, Marines and Secretary of Defense’s office said that weapon accountability is a high priority, and when the military knows a weapon is missing it does trigger a concerted response to recover it. The officials also said missing weapons are not a widespread problem and noted that the number is a tiny fraction of the military’s stockpile.
“We have a very large inventory of several million of these weapons,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said in an interview. “We take this very seriously and we think we do a very good job. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t losses. It doesn’t mean that there aren’t mistakes made.”
Kirby said those mistakes are few, though, and last year the military could account for 99.999% of its firearms. “Though the numbers are small, one is too many,” he said.
In the absence of a regular reporting requirement, the Pentagon is responsible for informing Congress of any “significant” incidents of missing weapons. That hasn’t happened since at least 2017. While a missing portable missile such as a Stinger would qualify for notifying lawmakers, a stolen machine gun would not, according to a senior Department of Defense official whom the Pentagon provided for an interview on condition the official not be named.
While AP’s analysis covered the 2010s, incidents persist.
In May, an Army trainee who fled Fort Jackson in South Carolina with an M4 rifle hijacked a school bus full of children, pointing his unloaded assault weapon at the driver before eventually letting everyone go.
Last October, police in San Diego were startled to find a military grenade launcher on the front seat of a car they pulled over for expired license plates. The driver and his passenger were middle-aged men with criminal records.
After publicizing the arrest, police got a call from a Marine Corps base up the Pacific coast. The Marines wanted to know if the grenade launcher was one they needed to find. They read off a serial number.
It wasn’t a match.
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CRIME GUNS
Stolen military guns have been sold to street gang members, recovered on felons and used in violent crimes.
The AP identified eight instances in which five different stolen military firearms were used in a civilian shooting or other violent crime, and others in which felons were caught possessing weapons. To find these cases, AP combed investigative and court records, as well as published reports. Federal restrictions on sharing firearms information publicly mean the case total is certainly an undercount.
The military requires itself to inform civilian law enforcement when a gun is lost or stolen, and the services help in subsequent investigations. The Pentagon does not track crime guns, and spokesman Kirby said his office was unaware of any stolen firearms used in civilian crimes.
The closest AP could find to an independent tally was done by the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services. It said 22 guns issued by the U.S. military were used in a felony during the 2010s. That total could include surplus weapons the military sells to the public or loans to civilian law enforcement.
Those FBI records also appear to be undercount. They say that no military-issue gun was used in a felony in 2018, but at least one was.
Back in June 2018, Albany police were searching for 21-year-old Alvin Damon. They’d placed him at a shooting which involved the Beretta M9, a workhorse weapon for the military that is similar to a model Beretta produces for the civilian market.
Surveillance video obtained by AP shows another man firing the gun four times at a group of people off camera, taking cover behind a building between shots. Two men walking with him scattered, one dropping his hat in the street. No one was injured.
Two months later, Detective Daniel Seeber spotted Damon on a stoop near the Prince Deli corner store. Damon took off running and, not far into the chase, grabbed a bystander who had just emerged from the deli with juice and a bag of chips.
After Detective Seeber defused the standoff, officers collected the pistol. A check by New York State Police returned leads to four Albany shootings, including one just the day before in which a bullet lodged in a living room wall. In another, someone was shot in the ankle.
At the request of Albany police, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives traced the gun’s story. The ATF contacted Army’s Criminal Investigation Command, and a review of Army inventory systems showed the M9 had been listed as “in-transit” between two Fort Bragg units for two years before police recovered it.
And the Army still doesn’t know who stole the gun, or when.
The case wasn’t the first in which police recovered a stolen service pistol before troops at Fort Bragg realized it was missing. AP found a second instance, involving a pistol that was among 21 M9s stolen from an arms room.
Military police learned of the theft in 2010. By then, one of the M9s was sitting in an evidence room in the Hoke County Sheriff’s Department, picked up in a North Carolina backyard not far from Bragg. Another M9 was later seized in Durham after it was used in a parking lot shooting.
Another steady North Carolina source of weapons has been Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, where authorities often have an open missing weapons investigation. Detectives in Baltimore found a Beretta M9 stolen from a Lejeune armory during a cocaine bust. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service found in the 2011 case that inventory and security procedures were rarely followed. Three guns were stolen; no one was charged.
Deputies in South Carolina were called in 2017 after a man started wildly shooting an M9 pistol into the air during an argument with his girlfriend. The boyfriend, a convicted felon, then started shooting toward a neighbor’s house. The pistol came from a National Guard armory that a thief entered through an unlocked door, hauling off six automatic weapons, a grenade launcher and five M9s.
Meanwhile, authorities in central California are still finding AK-74 assault rifles that were among 26 stolen from Fort Irwin a decade ago. Military police officers stole the guns from the Army base, selling some to the Fresno Bulldogs street gang.
At least nine of the AKs have not been recovered.
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INSIDER THREAT
The people with easiest access to military firearms are those who handle and secure them.
In the Army, they are often junior soldiers assigned to armories or arms rooms, according to Col. Kenneth Williams, director of supply under the Army’s G-4 Logistics branch.
“This is a young guy or gal,” Williams said. “This is a person normally on their first tour of duty. So you can see that we put great responsibility on our soldiers immediately when they come in.”
Armorers have access both to firearms and the spare parts kept for repairs. These upper receivers, lower receivers and trigger assemblies can be used to make new guns or enhance existing ones.
“We’ve seen issues like that in the past where an armorer might build an M16” automatic assault rifle from military parts, said Mark Ridley, a former deputy director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. “You have to be really concerned with certain armorers and how they build small arms and small weapons.”
In 2014, NCIS began investigating the theft of weapons parts from Special Boat Team Twelve, a Navy unit based in Coronado, California. Four M4 trigger assemblies that could make a civilian AR-15 fully automatic were missing. Investigators found an armory inventory manager was manipulating electronic records by moving items or claiming they had been transferred. The parts were never recovered and the case was closed after federal prosecutors declined to file charges.
Weapons accountability is part of military routine. Armorers are supposed to check weapons when they open each day. Sight counts, a visual total of weapons on hand, are drilled into troops whether they are in the field, on patrol or in the arms room. But as long as there have been armories, people have been stealing from them.
Weapons enter the public three main ways: direct sales from thieves to buyers, through pawn shops and surplus stores, and online.
Investigators have found sensitive and restricted parts for military weapons on sites including eBay, which said in a statement it has “zero tolerance” for stolen military gear on its site.
At Fort Campbell, Kentucky, soldiers stole machine gun parts and other items that ended up with online buyers in Russia, China, Mexico and elsewhere. The civilian ringleader, who was found with a warehouse of items, was convicted. Authorities said he made hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Often though, recovering a weapon can prove hard.
When an M203 grenade launcher couldn’t be found during a 2019 inventory at a Marine Corps supply base in Albany, Georgia, investigators sought surveillance camera footage. It didn’t exist. The warehouse manager said the system couldn’t be played back at the time.
An analysis of 45 firearms-only investigations in the Navy and Marines found that in 55% of cases, no suspect could be found and weapons remained missing. In those unresolved cases, investigators found records were destroyed or falsified, armories lacked basic security and inventories weren’t completed for weeks or months.
“Gun-decking” is Navy slang for faking work. In the case of the USS Comstock, gun-decking led to the disappearance of three pistols.
Investigators found numerous security lapses in the 2012 case, including one sailor asleep in the armory. The missing pistols weren’t properly logged in the ship’s inventory when they were received several days before. Investigators couldn’t pinpoint what day they disappeared because sailors gun-decked inventory reports by not doing actual counts.
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ROOM FOR DISCREPANCY
Military officials shied from discussing how many guns they have, much less how many are missing.
AP learned that the Army, the largest of the armed services, is responsible for about 3.1 million small arms. Across all four branches, the U.S. military has an estimated 4.5 million firearms, according to the nonprofit organization Small Arms Survey.
In its accounting, whenever possible AP eliminated cases in which firearms were lost in combat, during accidents such as aircraft crashes and similar incidents where a weapon’s fate was known.
Unlike the Army and Air Force, which could not answer basic questions about missing weapons, the Marines and Navy were able to produce data covering the 2010s.
The Navy data showed that 211 firearms were reported lost or stolen. In addition, 63 firearms previously considered missing were recovered.
According to AP’s analysis of data from the Marines, 204 firearms were lost or stolen, with 14 later recovered.
To account for missing weapons, the Pentagon relies on incident reports from the services, which it keeps for only three years.
Pentagon officials said that approximately 100 firearms were unaccounted for in both 2019 and 2018. A majority of those were attributable to accidents or combat losses, they said. Even though AP’s total excluded accidents and combat losses whenever known, it was higher than what the services reported to the Pentagon.
The officials said they could only discuss how many weapons were missing dating to 2018. The reason: They aren’t required to keep earlier records. Without providing documentation, the Pentagon said the number of missing weapons was down significantly in 2020, when the pandemic curtailed many military operations.
The Air Force was the only service branch not to release data. It first responded to several Freedom of Information Act requests by saying no records existed. Air Force representatives then said they would not provide details until yet another FOIA request, filed 1.5 years ago, was fully processed.
The Army sought to suppress information on missing weapons and gave misleading numbers that contradict internal memos.
The AP began asking the Army for details on missing weapons in 2011 and filed a formal request a year later for records of guns listed as missing, lost, stolen or recovered in the Department of Defense Small Arms and Light Weapons Registry. Charles Royal, the former Army civilian employee who was in charge of the registry, said that he prepared records for release that higher ups eventually blocked in 2013.
“You’re dealing with millions of weapons,” Royal said in a recent interview. “But we’re supposed to have 100% recon, right. OK, we’re not allowed a discrepancy on that. But there’s so much room for discrepancy.”
Army spokesman Lt. Col. Brandon Kelley said the service’s property inventory systems don’t readily track how many weapons have been lost or stolen. Army officials said the most accurate count could be found in criminal investigative summaries released under yet another federal records request.
AP’s reading of these investigative records showed 230 lost or stolen rifles or handguns between 2010 and 2019 — a clear undercount. Internal documents show just how much Army officials were downplaying the problem.
The AP obtained two memos covering 2013 through 2019 in which the Army tallied 1,303 stolen or lost rifles and handguns, with theft the primary reason for losses. That number, which Army officials said is imperfect because it includes some combat losses and recoveries, and may include some duplications, was based on criminal investigations and incident reports.
The internal memos are not “an authoritative document,” Kelley said, and were not closely checked with public release in mind. As such, he said, the 1,303 total could be inaccurate.
The investigative records Kelley cited show 62 lost or stolen rifles or handguns from 2013 through 2019. Some of those, like the Beretta M9 used in four shootings in Albany, New York, were recovered.
“One gun creates a ton of devastation,” Albany County District Attorney Soares said. “And then it puts it on local officials, local law enforcement, to have to work extra hard to try to remove those guns from the community.”
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Hall reported from Nashville, Tennessee; LaPorta reported from Boca Raton, Florida; Pritchard reported from Los Angeles; Myers reported from Chicago. Also contributing were Jeannie Ohm in Arlington, Virginia; Brian Barrett, Randy Herschaft and Jennifer Farrar in New York; Michael Hill in Albany, New York; and Pia Deshpande in Chicago.
Rolling Meadows’ Max Christie (12) and Cameron Christie (24) cover Buffalo Groves’ Kam Craft (12). | Kirsten Stickney/For the Sun-Times
June, July offer several chances for Illinois high school basketball players to finally get the college attention they’ve been missing
College coaches will be watching, evaluating, scurrying around the country for two weekends in June and three more in July.
Players across the state will be competing with their high school teams this month, including many in some high-stakes “live” recruiting period shootouts in Illinois. Then the club circuit will follow in July.
A little normalcy returns to high school basketball and college recruiting.
Here is a primer for the next couple of busy, important weeks for prep players and college coaches.
Where will college coaches be in Illinois?
For starters, the Riverside-Brookfield Shootout and the Midwest Crossroads Showcase at Normal West this weekend (June 18-20) will be open season for 75-plus teams, dozens of potential scholarship players and college basketball coaches.
Ridgewood will host a similar “live” weekend period shootout the following week (June 25-27).
Why do so few players in Illinois have so few Division I offers?
This is a year like no other, so the answer to that question is a little jaded. But simply put, college coaches haven’t seen a prospect play in person in 15 months There are many college coaches, especially head coaches, who would like to, you know, maybe actually see a kid play before offering?
Those restless prospects and their “people” need to relax and let it all play out.
And for those who have received scholarships? The majority of you have them without the college coach having ever seen you play in person.
Will the Class of 2022 be squeezed out on the recruiting front like the Class of 2021?
Yes. Most likely. It’s the nature of the beast in college basketball recruiting these days.
The NCAA granting an extra year of eligibility due to Covid was a game-changer and will need to be cycled through. And with the transfer portal being a poor man’s version of free agency, college coaches covet the experienced college player over the unknown of a high school kid.
The good news is Illinois prospects are lucky. There are many, many states across the country who are doing nothing or are very limited during the June live evaluation periods. That means more college coaches with nowhere to go and descending on Illinois events at a higher rate.
Thus, there is the possibility even where Illinois prospects could be over-recruited as they will be some of the only players actually seen in June.
Who is the hottest prospect in the senior class?
Buffalo Grove’s Kam Craft is the hottest senior prospect. Through his play with Meanstreets this past spring, the 6-5 guard has elevated himself from being an on-the-bubble high-major prospect to being a bonafide target at that level. The offers and interest back it up.
Marquette, Xavier, Iowa, Texas Tech, South Carolina, North Carolina State, DePaul and others have offered and been involved.
Who is the hottest prospect in the junior class?
That was quite a first week of June for Owen Freeman of Bradley-Bourbonnais.
The 6-9 junior picked up offers from Purdue, Iowa, Wake Forest, Butler and, most recently, Ohio State after taking an unofficial visit to Columbus on Wednesday. Illinois offered Freeman last fall, and a whole bunch of other high-major programs will soon be involved after getting a chance to watch him play in person for the first time in coming weeks.
With his his impressive physical profile, mobility and long-range potential, Freeman’s emergence is similar to that of James Augustine, the former Lincoln-Way Central star who went on to play at Illinois nearly 20 years ago.
Who are the other senior prospects set to make a splash this June?
There are several players who coaches are anxious to get their eyes on, including Tuscola guard Jalen Quinn, Lyons guard Tavari Johnson, Glenbard West’s versatile Cade Pierce, New Trier’s 6-8 Jackson Munro and Mt. Vernon big man NJ Benson.
Who is the best prospect with the fewest Division I offers?
Timothy Christian’s Ben VanderWal.
It’s been a perfect storm in terms of VanderWal being under the radar. The combination of the Covid shutdown, playing at a small high school and not playing for a high-profile club team will do that to you.
Nonetheless, he will be seen and he will be offered. Watch one domino fall and others to follow.
Who is a sleeper no one talks about?
Marian Catholic’s Jeremiah Jones has made steady progress and the arrow is pointing up for the 6-3 senior guard. He has length, a growing game and is a bonafide two-way player who is so disruptive defensively. This is a scholarship kid.
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KANKAKEE, Ill.–Matt Mullady swept his arm toward the Kankakee River and said, “Last time he was in my boat was 16 years ago. Right here.”
On June 8, the Kankakee Valley Park District dedicated the Mullady Launch at Bird Park in honor of Ed Mullady, Matt’s father, who died at 94 in December.
The river ran high, fast and stained from heavy rains upstream the day before. Seemed apt in a weird way. If Mullady taught us anything, it was that life along the Kankakee is interconnected. That was the backbone of his Hall of Fame career.
Mullady was inducted in the 2011 class to the Illinois Outdoor Hall of Fame.
His “Big Outdoors Sportsman’s Letter” reports ran on three radio stations at least 5,725 times, a record unrivaled in outdoors media. He and son Matt held seminars for years that helped thousands fish better.
For 52 years, Mullady did the “Sportsman’s Letter,” a magazine/newsletter focused on hunting, fishing and conservation along the Kankakee. He made multiple editions of the Kankakee River Fisherman’s Atlas.
For decades, he battled the proposed Peotone Airport and fought for the Kankakee National Wildlife Refuge, which began before he died. He fought proposed dams, a reservoir and a dump.
Which explains Matt Mullady saying, after accepting the plaque in his father’s memory, “I could live to be 100 and won’t be half the man my father was.”
He then launched into a tale, circa 1968 or ’69, when his father went duck hunting and bagged a couple mallards. As he was loading decoys, he heard a commotion out in the river with something busting bait.
“He had a two-piece Shakespeare rod with him,” Matt said. “He tied on an L&S Jointed Minnow.”
The L&S Shiner Minnow was originally made in Bradley, Ill.
“He made a couple casts and caught a 6-pound walleye,” Mullady said. “He came home with two mallards and a 6-pound walleye. You can’t make this [stuff] up.”
Matt Mullady (left), son of Ed Mullady, and J.J. Hollis reach out to embrace at the dedication of the Mullady Launch at Bird Park in Kankakee.Courtesy of Kankakee Valley Park District
J.J. Hollis, previous president of the Kankakee Valley Park District board, led the charge to have Ed Mullady honored.
“I felt it very fitting we name something in the park district for him,” Hollis said.
The launch is good. I think a stretch of the river should be named for him, too.
At the end of the dedication, I caught up with Matt’s youngest son, Mick. The last time I had been with him, he was 15 or so and we had launched out of Bird Park. He just graduated college and we talked turkey hunting, fishing and life (he’s considering his options in conservation and law enforcement).
For great sports figures, it’s generational wealth; for the greats of the outdoors, it’s generational conservation.
In Mullady’s honor, donations may be made to Friends of the Kankakee River, P.O. Box 13 Watseka, Il 60970 or go to friendsofthekankakee.org.
File photo of Ed Mullady.Dale Bowman
RUMMAGE SALE
Blackhawk Field Archers’ outdoors sportsmen rummage sale is Saturday and Sunday in Rockton. Vendors contact Dave Lee at (708) 476-0305.
WILD THINGS
Mulberries are ripening.
STRAY CAST
Aug. 6-8 could be to Chicago baseball what June 16 is to Chicago fishing.
Four women were shot and killed, and four other people were seriously wounded, when an argument broke out inside a home in Englewood on the South Side early Tuesday, according to preliminary information from Chicago police and fire officials.
The women were all pronounced dead at the scene in the 6200 block of South Morgan Street after gunfire erupted around 5:40 a.m., Chicago police spokesman Tom Ahern said.
Four other people were taken to hospitals, at least two of them in critical condition:
A woman was taken in critical condition to the University of Chicago Hospital.
A 23-year-old man went to St. Bernard Hospital with a gunshot wound to the back. He was taken to University of Chicago Hospital also in critical condition.
A man suffered a gunshot wound to the back of the head was was taken to Christ Hospital.
A 25-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the back of the head. He was also taken to Christ.
A 2-year-old girl was taken from the home and brought to Comer Children’s Hospital for observation but did not appear injured, police said.
Police investigate outside a home where eight people were shot June 15 in the 6200 block of South Morgan Street.Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times
A woman sobbing hysterically ran under the police tape blocking the entrance to South Morgan at West 63rd. She was quickly surrounded by police and guided back behind the tape.
A few moments later, she cried: “They killed my daughter. That’s my baby. That’s my baby.”
The woman then got in a truck, along with community activist Andrew Holmes and was seen driving away.
Another woman at the scene said her grand-niece was among the dead.
The circumstances of the shooting are still under investigation, police said.
The attack is the third mass shooting in Chicago in little over a week.
Struck in her leg and abdomen, Miles was rushed to the University of Chicago Medical Center and pronounced dead, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
“She was only 29; in the prime of her life,” her cousin Takita Miles told the Chicago Sun-Times. “She hasn’t even experienced life. She just started traveling. It’s unfortunate. It’s really bad.”
The weekend before, six men and two women were wounded in a shooting in Burnside on the South Side.
The group were standing in the sidewalk about 4 a.m. June 6 when two people inside a silver-colored car opened fire in the 8900 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago police and Fire officials said.
A database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University that tracks mass killings — defined as four or more dead, not including the perpetrator — shows this is the 18th mass killing, of which 17 were shootings, so far this year in the U.S.
This is a developing story, check back for details.
STARKVILLE, Miss. — Logan Tanner hit a three-run homer to cap a six-run second inning and Mississippi State advanced to its third straight College World Series with an 11-7 victory over Notre Dame on Monday night in the Starkville Super Regional.
Mississippi State (45-16) advances to play Texas (47-15) on Sunday — seeking its first title in 12 trips to the CWS.
Mississippi State center fielder Rowdey Jordan denied Brooks Coetzee with a diving catch to end the top of the second, and then the Bulldogs broke it open. Mississippi State loaded the bases twice in the inning, scoring runs on a fielder’s choice, sacrifice fly, Kamren James’ RBI single, and Tanner’s homer.
Tanner Allen made Mississippi State’s second diving catch, stranding two in the fourth, and the Bulldogs hit three doubles in a two-run inning.
Mississippi State starter Houston Harding struck out four in four innings, and Landon Sims (4-0) added four more strikeouts in the final four innings.
Notre Dame (34-13) trailed 10-2 but got within four when Niko Kavadas blasted his 22nd home run of the season in the seventh to extend his single-season program record. Kavadas grounded out with two on and two outs in the ninth.
Notre Dame starter Will Mercer threw 23 pitches in the first and four Irish pitchers combined for five walks in the second.
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