One person is in custody after shots were fired at Chicago police officers April 22, 2021 in West Englewood. | Sun-Times file
No officers were shot or injured in the incident.
One person was placed in custody Thursday night after a stray bullet struck an unmarked squad car in West Englewood.
Two officers were sitting in a vehicle in the 6300 block of South Damen Avenue about 9:30 p.m. when a male fired shots from a passing gray Chrysler, Chicago police said.
The male in the Chrysler was aiming at another vehicle in traffic when one of the bullets struck the officer’s car door, according to police. No officers were shot or injured in the incident.
The grey Chrysler was seen driving south on Damen when two males got out, leaving on foot, police said.
One was taken into custody and brought to Area One headquarters, according to police. Officers were still searching for the second male, police said.
The vehicle was recovered with a handgun in the 7300 block of South Winchester Avenue, police said.
The officers were not the intended target, according to police. In an earlier statement, officers said shots were fired at the police.
No officers returned fire during the incident, according to police.
One person was placed in custody Thursday night after shots were fired at two officers sitting in an unmarked squad car in West Englewood.
The officers were sitting in a vehicle in the 6300 block of South Damen Avenue about 9:30 p.m. when a male fired shots at them from a passing gray Chrysler, Chicago police said.
The shots struck the officer’s car door and shattered the glass of a CTA bus shelter, according to police. No officers were shot or injured in the incident.
The grey Chrysler was seen driving south on Damen when two males got out, leaving on foot, police said.
One was taken into custody and brought to Area One headquarters, according to police. Officers were still searching for the second male, police said.
The vehicle was recovered with a handgun in the 7300 block of South Winchester Avenue, police said.
No officers returned fire during the incident, according to police.
It has been one step forward, two steps back for the Cubs during the first four weeks of the season, but they slowly might be starting to pick things up.
A team can’t win a division in April, but it certainly can make things tough on itself, and the Cubs appeared to be heading in that direction after four consecutive series losses. But with only one direction to go and the National League Central-leading Brewers coming to town Friday, the Cubs caught the Mets at the right time and have gotten themselves back on track.
Thursday’s series finale looked like it was going to get away from the Cubs, but after giving up the lead late, they were able to secure their first series sweep of the season on Jason Heyward’s 10th inning walk-off single, sending the Cubs to a 4-3 win.
“I think that’s a good character win right there,” manager David Ross said. “Things weren’t playing out the way I think we wanted and felt like we didn’t come through in some moments, but guys stepped up, made pitches, made plays and we came through with the big knock there at the end for [Jason Heyward].
“Sometimes, you don’t execute everything that you want to in a game, but when you come away with a win, you feel really good, especially after a grinder like that.”
The Cubs are going to have to find different ways to win to have success this season, and during the three-game series against New York, that’s what they did. In Wednesday’s 16-4 blowout win, the offense did the heavy lifting.
Strong starting pitching and defense along with some timely hitting got the job done Tuesday in the Cubs’ 3-1 victory and while it won’t always be pretty like in Thursday’s walk-off win, stacking up wins against a team considered to be one of the best in the NL is valuable.
“I think overall it was a tremendous team win,” said starter Trevor Williams who allowed two runs over five innings in Thursday’s win.
The Cubs aren’t going to burn on the basepaths, but against the Mets, they weren’t afraid to push the envelope on the bases, swiping a few bags and taking the extra base, which not only helped put runs on the board but forced New York into several costly mistakes.
The Mets made six errors during the three-game series and a few mental mistakes, and it seemed as if every time they happened, the Cubs made them pay.
“I think that’s important in this type of weather,” Ross said Wednesday. “Because I don’t think you can rely on the home run. ‘I think the little details in games with the cold weather and the wind blowing in here at Wrigley, you need the baserunning and the defense.
“If we need to do the little things, I think that’s what’s going to help us win ballgames. That’s championship baseball. Running the bases well. Playing good defense. We get good pitching and we get some timely hitting, that’s a formula for success. That’s nice to see.”
The Cubs have talked about the team they want to be during their early ups and downs, but they started to play like a team that has its eyes on winning a division.
One of the next objectives the Cubs will have to figure out is playing better against teams in the NL Central. They’re 5-7 against the division, and with Milwaukee coming in and the Reds waiting at the end of their next homestand, they’ll have an opportunity to make up ground.
“I think for us to get our first sweep of the season,” Williams said. “I think it was a real step forward for us to put behind the previous three weeks and we’re starting to ride that flow, so I think it’s something that was really good for us overall as a team to win these last three games and go into a division series to finish up the homestand and get on to Atlanta.”
The teen was in his vehicle at a stoplight in the 4400 block of West Augusta Boulevard when someone in a black Ford Fusion fired shots, Chicago police said.
Fifty-six percent of teens report spending more time talking with their parents during COVID than before, and 68% say their families have drawn closer. | kaliantye – stock.adobe.com
Families that had been hyperscheduled dervishes found time for togetherness. They cooked and ate dinner together. They talked.
As of this week, more than 40% of Americans have received at least one dose of the COVID vaccine and 26% are fully vaccinated. Though it wasn’t planned this way, more normal human life is returning just as the redbuds, azaleas, magnolias and tulips are performing their gorgeous annual affirmation of renewal. Fears of catastrophic depression, widespread shortages and massive civil unrest are receding.
Hundreds of thousands of American families and millions worldwide are bereaved, and nearly everyone has experienced some form of disruption, pain or trauma during the past year. But not everything changed for the worse.
A recent Pew poll found that among adults whose jobs can be conveniently performed online, 54% would like to continue working from home after the pandemic is over. Another 33% said they’d like to do so part time. If employers agree, then that could mark a dramatic change in many areas of American life — less road congestion, reduced demand for office space and reduced greenhouse gas emissions from cars and buses. That also means less income for real estate landlords, bus drivers, restaurants, dry cleaners, delivery services and other businesses that serve office workers. There will be many dislocations and adjustments.
To be sure, most employees (62%) don’t have the luxury of working from home. The more education you’ve acquired, the more likely it is that your job is mostly a matter of pixels. Eighty-three percent of those with a high school diploma or less cannot do their jobs from home, compared with only 32% of those with a graduate degree.
Still, the percentage of former office workers who may opt for home now could be significant, and may well improve their life satisfaction. Katy Clark, a researcher at the University of Michigan, told The Washington Post that she would frequently leave home before dawn in the morning to ensure that she got a parking spot. If she didn’t, then she might have to circle the lot for an hour and then work late and miss taking her teenagers to hockey practice. Christopher Thomas, an office manager at Portland State University, related that before the pandemic, he had seen his 3-year-old daughter only briefly on weekdays. It meant that their relationship was a bit distant. But in the past year, his wife got a job, and they’ve split the childcare. Now, he says, “I’m like her favorite person.”
The post-COVID world will not eliminate the office, but it does seem likely that many employees will have more choices about where and how they work.
There was worry early in 2020 about the mental health effects of the pandemic, and while there was evidence of high stress, particularly among those at highest risk of infection, the predicted spike in suicides doesn’t seem to have materialized. In fact, a couple of surveys have suggested that suicide rates, including youth suicides, may have declined somewhat in 2020 compared with 2019.
These numbers are preliminary. It can take up to a year to compile data. But if the early indications of reduced suicides are correct, a nation that loses nearly 50,000 people annually this way is going to want to figure out what went right. It may be that the extra money the government provided reduced feelings of despair. Or it’s possible that greater availability of online counseling meant that more desperate people got help. Or perhaps being together with family members, loved ones or even mere roommates improved people’s mental health.
The Institute for Family Studies reports that teenagers got more sleep, felt closer to their parents and had a more positive outlook on life in 2020 than in 2018. Fifty-six percent of teens reported spending more time talking with their parents during COVID than before, and 68% said their families had drawn closer.
Though couples reported more stress in 2020, they also discovered new strengths. A majority (51%) of couples reported that the pandemic “deepened my commitment to my marriage” and 58% said the hardship had “made me appreciate my partner more.” The share of married people who described their marriages as “in trouble” dropped from 40% in 2019 to 29% in 2020.
Marriages declined — who wants to have a wedding with no guests? — but so did divorces. It’s possible that people were postponing divorce for practical reasons rather than rediscovering love — but when you combine the data on suicide, relationship improvement and happier teens, you do begin to get a picture. Families that had been hyperscheduled dervishes found time for togetherness. They cooked and ate dinner together. They talked. They walked in the neighborhood or rode their bikes. They looked up from their screens at one another.
Of course, this image is far from universal. Some families are dysfunctional nightmares that do lasting damage to their members. But most aren’t. Most are sources of solace and strength, and if the pandemic is opening new possibilities for balancing family and work, and if it’s a reminder of the importance of nurturing our most intimate relationships, we will have found a glittering silver lining.
Mona Charen is policy editor of The Bulwark and host of the “Beg to Differ” podcast. Her most recent book is “Sex Matters: How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense.”
Jeff Arnett, the master distiller at the Jack Daniel Distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee, drills a hole in a barrel of whiskey in one of the aging houses at the distillery in 2009. | AP
Company Distilling will first open a 4,000-square-foot (3,712-square-meter) tasting room and restaurant in Townsend, Tennessee.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The former top distiller at Jack Daniel’s announced earlier this week that he and several partners are opening a new whiskey distillery near the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee.
Company Distilling will first open a 4,000-square-foot (3,712-square-meter) tasting room and restaurant in Townsend, Tennessee, former Jack Daniel’s master distiller Jeff Arnett and his partners said. A 20,000-square-foot (1,858-square-meter) main distillery in Alcoa and a tasting room in Thompson Station, closer to Nashville, will follow next year.
Arnett is teaming up with former Tennessee Distillers Guild President Kris Tatum; construction businessman Corey Clayton; founder of H. Clark Distillery Heath Clark, and Clayton Homes CEO Kevin Clayton. The initiative is expected to include a $20 million investment and provide 50 to 60 jobs.
Company Distilling’s locations will be geared toward the outdoors. The 31-acre (13-hectare) main distillery location in Alcoa will include a tasting room, restaurant, brewery, retail store, a live music venue, cornhole, pickle ball courts, bonfire pits and open access to greenway trails, according to the news release.
The Townsend location will be along the Little River with the Townsend Greenway in the front of the 13.5-acre (5-hectare) property, offering access to cycling, running and nearby mountain biking and hiking trails.
“I would like to say this is the first distillery in this county but you all know it’s not,” joked Blount County Mayor Ed Mitchell. “I would like to say this is the first distillery where they asked the mayor to speak at. Things are really changing.”
The distillery will make straight bourbon whiskey finished with maple wood “to produce a sip like no other,” Arnett said in a statement.
In late 2020, Jack Daniel’s announced Arnett’s departure after a nearly 20-year stint with the powerhouse whiskey maker, including 12 years in which he led production.
At an event in Alcoa to announce the new venture, Arnett stressed the pride he felt in the work he accomplished during his time at Jack Daniel’s, but said he was excited about “doing something different” as well.
“I just felt like it was time to move on,” he said.
A suspect in the weekend murder of a 7-year-old girl at a West Side McDonald’s was chased by police on the Eisenhower Expressway Thursday afternoon and shot while he allegedly tried to carjack someone, police said.
Police shot the man multiple times after he crashed a vehicle and then tried to carjack a family on inbound I-290 near Mannheim Road, Police Supt. David Brown told reporters.
Brown said the man was wanted in the murder of Jaslyn Adams, who was shot Sunday afternoon inside a car with her father in Homan Square.
Shortly after 4 p.m., Chicago police officers were performing surveillance of the suspect in a western suburb and attempted to stop the suspect’s vehicle on I-290 near Mannheim Road, Brown said. That’s when the suspect crashed on the shoulder of the highway and attempted to carjack a vehicle containing a family.
The officers then shot the suspect multiple times, Brown said. “We don’t know if the offender shot back. We can’t confirm that at this point,” he said.
Two guns allegedly belonging to the suspect were recovered at the scene.
Brown said the suspect was taken to a hospital for treatment. Police spokesman Tom Ahern said the man was expected to survive.
“There were other people involved” in the incident, Brown said, but no one else was taken into custody.
Brown said the shooting is being investigated by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, which probes all shootings involving city police officers.
Chicago Police on Sunday evening investigate a shooting scene where a 7-year-old girl was shot to death and her father was seriously wounded while in their car at a McDonald’s in the Homan Square neighborhood.Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times
Jaslyn was killed Sunday after two people exited a car and opened fire at the McDonald’s drive-thru, at 3200 W. Roosevelt Road. The girl, who has three siblings, was shot repeatedly and taken by police to Stroger Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said.
Her father, Jontae Adams, was treated for a gunshot wound to his torso.
“That’s my baby I just lost,” Adams told reporters Wednesday. “I got shot. My baby got shot six times… I want my daughter’s killers locked up.”
Police said the shooting was gang-related and was believed to be related to another shooting less than three hours later that wounded two people at a Popeyes in Humboldt Park.
“My 7-year-old daughter ‘Pinky’ was an absolute blessing. I will forever love her and continue the legacy she has left behind,” Jaslyn’s mother, Lanesha Walker, wrote in an online fundraiser.
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