A Bolingbrook man was ordered held on $400,000 bail after he allegedly burned down a martial arts studio where he used to be a student.
Andrew Wagner, 28, allegedly broke into the United Martial Arts studio, at 1260 Chicago Ave., and started a fire, according to the DuPage County state’s attorney’s office.
Naperville police and fire departments responded to an alarm at 9:40 p.m. March 26 and saw flames and smoke coming from the building, prosecutors said. The building was uninhabitable after the fire.
Investigators found that an accelerant was used in the fire, prosecutors said. Officers identified Wagner, a former student of the studio, as the person who allegedly started the fire. On April 6, Wagner went to the Naperville Police Department for an interview and was arrested. Prosecutors did not offer a motive behind the arson.
In a statement, State’s Attorney Robert Berlin said he was thankful no one was inside the studio or adjacent buildings at the time.
Wagner was charged with a felony count aggravated arson and another felony count of arson. He also faces a misdemeanor count of criminal damage to property.
The minutes haven’t necessarily changed that much for Coby White and Lauri Markkanen since the Bulls gave the roster a facelift at the trade deadline.
White’s near the 27 minutes per game he was getting since he lost his starting job to Tomas Satoransky, while Markkanen has lost about four minutes per game with his new role off the bench and the additions of Nikola Vucevic and Daniel Theis into the frontcourt.
The expectations hovering over White and Markkanen these days, however?
Completely changed.
It isn’t often that two No. 7 overall picks go from future foundation pieces to role players in just one season, but that’s where Markkanen and White now find themselves — like it or not.
“To me, with those two guys, it’s, ‘Just make good basketball plays,’ ” coach Billy Donovan said of where both players currently stand. “They’re probably not going to be featured guys, just calling it like it is. But they’re very important pieces to our team and we need them to play at a high level.”
Donovan insisted that both will still have plays called for them at certain times, but with the focal point of the offense now running through the post and White, as well as Markkanen when he’s playing the three, each perimeter players, they’ll have to feed off of that philosophy first and foremost.
Hard for each to swallow?
Likely, but that’s to be expected.
“With any young guy, you definitely think about that,” veteran Thad Young said of the demotion both players have endured. “You think about those types of things because you want to have a long, successful career in this league. When you go from starting to a reserve role, it’s tough. I’ve been in a starting role and I went to a reserve role, and now I’m back into a starting role. It’s definitely tough.
“But I think those guys have handled it well. They’re coming off the bench and still bringing energy and lots of fire and intensity into the game. And they’re both going to continue to get better and have long careers.”
Just maybe not with the Bulls.
White is still on his rookie deal, so he’ll have time to redefine his current ceiling, but Markkanen is a restricted free agent at the end of this year.
The market will set a price on him and the Bulls will have the final say on matching it or letting him walk. A sign-and-trade is also a possibility, but tougher to pull off.
Until then, however, all the two can do is wait their turn once again.
“I give those guys credit,” Donovan said. “They’ve been really good team guys. They’re trying to do everything we’re asking them to do to put ourselves in position to win.”
Shot taker
Young confirmed that he and most of his teammates did receive the coronavirus vaccine before the start of this road trip, with some taking a pass on it.
“You had some guys that were just like, ‘No, I’m not taking it,’ ” Young said. “Nobody was like into conspiracy theories or anything like that. Everybody was just like a strong no or just like, ‘Yeah, I’m going to take it.’ I think we only had a couple guys who didn’t take it. And that was about it.”
Young, who is a lefty, joked that he was the only player on the roster to get it in the right arm, and did say his wife was ticked off, “because I got it and she didn’t. We had talked about getting it together.”
BUFFALO, NY – JUNE 24: Henrik Borgstrom celebrates with the Florida Panthers after being selected 23rd during round one of the 2016 NHL Draft on June 24, 2016 in Buffalo, New York. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
The Chicago Blackhawks are one of those teams that can do a bunch of different things at the trade deadline this year. They were already off to a good start with the acquisition of Vinnie Hinostroza and they kept it going with Thursday’s trade with the Florida Panthers. The hope is that this is the type of move that propels them into making even more good moves that can help them in the future.
This is a trade where the Chicago Blackhawks weaponized their cap space.
The Blackhawks sending Lucas Carlsson and Lucas Wallmark over to Florida in this deal makes a lot of sense. They just had Wallmark clear wavers a few days ago so now they packaged him with Carlsson to get some very nice players.
The Blackhawks weaponized their cap with this trade. They are going to take on Brett Connolly’s cap hit from the Panthers. He is someone who is a proven goal scorer in the NHL and can add a certain level of play to this group. He is signed through the 2022-23 season. He won the Stanley Cup with the Washington Capitals in 2018 so he also has some recent playoff experience.
Henrik Borgstrom is the piece to be most excited about in the deal. He was selected with the 23rd overall pick in the 2016 NHL Draft. Florida has seen him as a top prospect for a long time. He has some time playing in the NHL and is currently playing in Finland. He is 23 years old with a lot of upsides so it would be cool to see the Blackhawks bring him over as soon as possible. If they develop him more, he could be a big piece going forward.
Another cool thing about Borgstrom is that he played some college hockey at the University of Denver. In his final season there, he was a teammate with Blackhawks defenseman Ian Mitchell. Seeing these two play together at the NHL level one day would really be cool.
Riley Stillman is also a good young defenseman that can make an impact on this Blackhawks roster. We don’t know if they are going to trade away any of their older defensemen at the deadline but Stillman can play in their lineup if they do. He isn’t someone who is going to put up any offensive numbers from the back end but he can play that defensive defenseman style of game.
Getting two young players by taking on Connolly’s contract is a very good use of salary cap space by Stan Bowman. With a few more players that the Blackhawks can trade away, don’t expect them to be done adding young assets and draft picks. This was a solid trade that could really pay off for them in the long term.
A person was in custody after allegedly shooting at three drivers Thursday morning on Lake Shore Drive near Bronzeville and on Halsted Street in University Village.
No one was injured in the seemingly random string of shootings, which started shortly before 9 a.m. near the lake at 35th Street and ended minutes later near the University of Illinois at Chicago.
It wasn’t clear if the shootings were related to the Tuesday road-rage shooting of a 1-year-old boy on Lake Shore Drive near Grant Park.
Thursday’s string of shootings began at 8:55 a.m. as a man drove on northbound Lake Shore Drive near 35th Street and reported being shot at by someone in a gray Nissan, police said.
Two minutes later, at 8:57 a.m., another man in a vehicle reported being shot at by someone in a gray Nissan on northbound Lake Shore Drive near 25th Street, police said. The driver of the Nissan began “jockeying” for a lane, police said. Someone then rolled down a window and shot at the other driver. The Nissan then entered Interstate 55.
At 9:05 a.m., police said they received another call of gunfire from a gray Nissan in the 500 block of South Halsted Street, near Harrison Street and the University of Illinois at Chicago. The victim was a female inside another vehicle, police said.
Police then arrested someone in connection to the shootings, although a police spokeswoman couldn’t immediately provide more details.
GLENDALE, ARIZONA – FEBRUARY 25: Aaron Bummer #39 of the Chicago White Sox pitches against the San Francisco Giants on February 25, 2020 at Camelback Ranch in Glendale Arizona. (Photo by Ron Vesely/Getty Images)
The 3-4 start is probably not what Chicago White Sox fans hoped for heading into the home opener, which is the first time the Sox have had fans at Guaranteed Rate Field since 2019. Especially with the team being a hot pick to win the American League or even the World Series in 2021.
Indeed, judging by the reactions of fans on Twitter, the word “letdown” is an understatement. Twitter is obviously not a representative sample of all Sox fans but there certainly was an undercurrent of “oh man, this team is actually bad” sentiment on the platform.
I am here to tell concerned Sox fans, and given my reaction to Wednesday’s sixth-inning meltdown, I am one of them, to relax. It will all be okay.
There is no reason for the Chicago White Sox fans to be worried so early.
The bullpen’s bad week wasn’t that bad: Some of the problems sprung not from poor pitching but poor defense. Yes, untimely homers and hits hurt. That said, the bullpen didn’t look completely disastrous, rather key hits/home runs overshadowed otherwise decent if not great performances.
The Los Angeles Angels, who took three of four from the Sox, are good. They have a lineup that includes the game’s best player in Mike Trout, an aging slugger who can still mash (Albert Pujols), and the dangerous player from both sides in Shohei Ohtani. To expect the Sox to go into Anaheim and wipe the floor with a solid Angels club was to buy into the hype.
It’s hard to sweep, especially on the road. I think a lot of Sox fans thought the good guys would sweep a subpar Seattle time right out of Safeco Field T-Mobile Park. The Sox took two of three and probably would’ve had the sweep if not for another defensive miscue (this time an errant throw after a bloop hit) that opened up the floodgates for a big inning.
Yes, there were concerns about Matt Foster’s outing, and his failure to finish off Ty France when France was 0-2 led to Kyle Seager’s crushing blow, but the whole fiasco might have been avoided if Adam Eaton hadn’t misfired his throw into the infield on Dylan Moore’s bloop single.
The injuries are scary but perhaps not as bad as one might think. Yes, Eloy Jimenez is out for the bulk of the regular season and that is bad but Tim Anderson’s injury doesn’t seem quite as bad. Same with Billy Hamilton. We could see both back sooner rather than later.
The Sox didn’t hit in Anaheim. This team will hit and the offense was better in Seattle but save for 12 runs in game two against the Angels, the Sox mostly struggled to score. Nothing looks good when a team built around offense isn’t hitting. That said, Jose Abreu has two grand slams already and as noted, the Sox looked much better against the Mariners. There are signs of life, even with Jimenez’s and Anderson’s bats unavailable.
The Sox will be playing some bad teams this year. The Sox should mostly roll over the Kansas City Royals and Detroit Tigers. Those teams will be pesky, possibly, and they may steal a few wins but the Sox should mostly feast on two bad teams that happen to be in their division.
The defense probably won’t be this bad the entire year. It’s true the Sox defense isn’t considered a strength of the team but it hasn’t been thought of as terrible either. Yet, it’s been the biggest problem and much more so than the bullpen or inconsistent hitting in this author’s opinion, so far this season. I do expect the Sox will start making more routine plays. That will also help the pitching, especially the bullpen, since giving away outs puts a lot of pressure on pitchers.
Finally, the biggest reason not to panic is it’s not 2020 any longer. We have a full 162-game schedule to play. Being 3-4, just one game under .500, after seven of those games is not really that big a deal. Take two of three from KC this weekend and the Sox are suddenly 5-4. Sweep and they’re 6-3.
Even if they drop two of three and fall to 4-6, there’s no reason to panic. I might get concerned if they get swept and find themselves 3-7, especially if they play poorly as opposed to losing close well-played games. Even then, there would be plenty of time to catch up. So Sox fans, sit back, relax, and strap it down. It’s going to be a long six months. Don’t fret about one week.
Police on Thursday released a new photo of a man who allegedly exposed himself to children in Lawndale and was recently seen following girls in a minivan.
On March 23, two girls were walking about 11:45 a.m. in the 1300 block of South Homan Avenue when a man called them over to the vehicle he was sitting in, Chicago police said.
The man exposed himself to the girls and touched himself inappropriately, police said. He was driving a dark gray Chevrolet Equinox with Illinois license plate CG14976.
A photo of the back of the man’s carChicago Police Department
Police said the same vehicle was seen following girls Monday near 13th Street and St. Louis Avenue.
The suspect was about 40 years old with a short afro-style haircut and was last seen wearing a black baseball hat, white T-shirt and light blue jeans, police said.
Anyone with information was asked to call Area Four detectives at (312) 746-8251.
First came the announcement that James Taylor is kicking off his world tour in July at the United Center.
Now comes word that Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli is bringing his 2021 arena trek to the Allstate Arena in Rosemont for an Oct. 14 concert.
The 21-date “Believe” tour, in support of Bocelli’s new album of the same name, kicks off Oct. 13 in Milwaukee. Tickets for the U.S. dates go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. May 3 at gelbproductions.com.
The two arena tours are the among the first to include 2021 Chicago dates amid pandemic restrictions that still have not called for the reopening of major concert venues and theaters in Illinois.
“It will be like going home, in each of the 21 cities,” said Bocelli, via statement. “It will be exciting to meet again with the public of my beloved and great homeland who adopted me over 20 years ago. I await that moment with the joy and trepidation I felt at the beginning of my career. Because those arenas we meet in have a glimpse of the sun after such a storm. Because I will sing for the life that wins, and thanks to music, we will celebrate beauty and faith in the future together.”
In addition, the Andrea Bocelli Foundation announced that $1 from every ticket sale throughout the tour “will go towards empowering people and communities in situations of poverty, illiteracy and distress due to illness and social exclusion,” Thursday’s announcement said.
NOTE: Kane Brown brings his Blessed & Free tour to the United Center on Jan. 22, 2022. Tickets will go on sale to the general public at noon April 16 at kanebrownlive.com.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden, in his first gun control measures since taking office, announced a half-dozen executive actions Thursday aimed at addressing a proliferation of gun violence across the nation that he called an “epidemic and an international embarrassment.”
“The idea that we have so many people dying every single day from gun violence in America is a blemish on our character as a nation,” Biden said during remarks at the White House.
He announced he is tightening regulations for buyers of “ghost guns” — homemade firearms that usually are assembled from parts and often lack serial numbers used to trace them. Also, a proposed rule, expected within 60 days, will tighten regulations on pistol-stabilizing braces like the one used in Boulder, Colorado, in a shooting last month that left 10 dead.
On Thursday, family members whose children were killed at the Sandy Hook, Connecticut, school massacre in 2012 and the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018 attended the hearing. Biden thanked them for attending, saying he understood it would remind them of the awful days when they got the calls.
He assured them, “We’re absolutely determined to make change.”
Biden’s Thursday announcement delivers on a pledge the president made last month to take what he termed immediate “common-sense steps” to address gun violence, after a series of mass shootings drew renewed attention to the issue. His announcement came the same day as yet another, this one in South Carolina, where five people were killed.
Biden emphasized the scope of the problem: Between the mass killings in Atlanta massage businesses and the Colorado grocery store shooting last month, there were more than 850 additional shootings that killed 250 and injured 500 in the U.S., he said.
But Thursday’s announcement underscores the limitations of Biden’s executive power to act on guns. His orders tighten regulations on homemade guns and provide more resources for gun-violence prevention but fall far short of the sweeping gun-control agenda he laid out on the campaign trail.
Indeed, Biden again urged Congress to act, calling on the Senate to take up House-passed measures closing background check loopholes. He also said Congress should pass the Violence Against Women Act, eliminate legal exemptions for gun manufacturers and ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines. Biden said
“This is not a partisan issue among the American people,” Biden insisted.
While Biden asserted that he’s “willing to work with anyone to get it done,” gun control measures face slim prospects in an evenly divided Senate, where Republicans remain near-unified against most proposals.
Biden was joined at the event by Vice President Kamala Harris and Attorney General Merrick Garland. Garland said he was “under no illusions about how hard it is to solve the problem of gun violence” and emphasized a need for a “collective effort to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and save lives.”
The Justice Department cannot solve the problem by itself, he said, but “there is work for the department to do, and we intend to do it.”
It is currently legal to build a “ghost gun” in a home or a workshop, and there is no federal requirement for a background check.
The Justice Department will issue a proposed rule requiring such gun kits be treated as firearms under the Gun Control Act, which would require that the parts be made with serial numbers and that buyers receive background checks.
Months before Biden was elected, the federal government had already been working on a proposed rule that would change the definition of a firearm to include lower receivers, the essential piece of a semiautomatic rifle, in an effort to combat the proliferation of ghost guns and to stave off losing court battles over the issue.
The process had been in the works in the waning months of the Trump administration, according to four people familiar with the matter. Justice Department leaders and officials at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had been working on language for a proposed rule since at least the summer of 2020, the people said.
Another change announced Thursday concerns a proposed rule that will designate pistols used with stabilizing braces as short-barreled rifles, which require a federal license to own and are subject to a more thorough application process and a $200 tax.
The department also is publishing model legislation within 60 days that is intended to make it easier for states to adopt their own “red flag” laws. Such laws allow for individuals to petition a court to allow the police to confiscate weapons from a person deemed to be a danger to themselves or others.
The department also will begin to provide more data on firearms trafficking, starting with a new comprehensive report on the issue. The administration says that hasn’t been done in more than two decades.
The Biden administration will also make investments in community violence intervention programs, which are aimed at reducing gun violence in urban communities, across five federal agencies.
The president argued that gun violence was also a massive economic strain, citing the costs from hospital visits, legal fees, and the cost of keeping people in prison and providing therapy to victims and others. A majority of firearm deaths are from suicides.
David Chipman speaks at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on assault weapons on Capitol Hill in Washington Sept. 25, 2019.Andrew Harnik/AP
Biden is also nominating David Chipman, a former federal agent and adviser at the gun control group Giffords, to be director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The ATF is currently run by an acting director, Regina Lombardo. Gun-control advocates have emphasized the significance of this position in enforcing gun laws, and Chipman is certain to win praise from this group. During his time as a senior policy adviser with Giffords, he spent considerable effort pushing for greater regulation and enforcement on ghost guns, changes to the background check system and measures to reduce the trafficking of illegal firearms.
Chipman spent 25 years as an agent at the ATF, where he worked on stopping a trafficking ring that sent illegal firearms from Virginia to New York, and served on the ATF’s SWAT team. Chipman is a gun owner.
He is an explosives expert and was among the team involved in investigating the Oklahoma City bombing and the first World Trade Center bombing. He also was involved in investigating a series of church bombings in Alabama in the 1990s. He retired from the ATF in 2012.
During his campaign, Biden promised to prioritize new gun control measures as president, including enacting universal background check legislation, banning online sales of firearms and the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. But gun-control advocates have said that while they were heartened by signs from the White House that they took the issue seriously, they’ve been disappointed by the lack of early action.
With the announcement of the new measures, advocates did laud Biden’s first moves.
“Each of these executive actions will start to address the epidemic of gun violence that has raged throughout the pandemic, and begin to make good on President Biden’s promise to be the strongest gun safety president in history,” said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety.
Associated Press writer Lisa Marie Pane in Boise, Idaho, contributed to this report.
ROCK HILL, S.C. — Former NFL player Phillip Adams fatally shot five people including a prominent doctor, his wife and their two grandchildren before later killing himself, authorities said Thursday.
York County Sheriff Kevin Tolson told a news conference that investigators had not yet determined a motive in the mass shooting Wednesday.
“There’s nothing right now that makes sense to any of us,” Tolson told a news conference.
Dr. Robert Lesslie, 70, and his wife, Barbara, 69, were pronounced dead at the scene Wednesday along with grandchildren Adah Lesslie, 9, and Noah Lesslie, 5, the York County coroner’s office said.
A man who had been working at the Lesslie home, James Lewis, 38, from Gaston, was found shot to death outside, and a sixth person, who was not identified, was hospitalized with “serious gunshot wounds,” authorities said.
Tolson said evidence left at the scene of the shooting led them to Adams as a suspect. He said they went to Adams’ parents’ home, evacuated them and then tried to talk Adams out of the house. Eventually, they found him dead of a single gunshot wound to the head in a bedroom, he said.
Tolson said both a .45-caliber and 9mm weapon were used in Wednesday’s shooting.
A person briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press earlier Thursday that Adams had been treated by Lesslie, who lived near his parents’ home in Rock Hill. Adams killed himself after midnight with a .45-caliber weapon, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly.
However, Tolson would not confirm that Adams had been the doctor’s patient.
Adams, 33, played in 78 NFL games over five seasons for six teams. He joined the 49ers in 2010 as a seventh-round draft pick out of South Carolina State, and though he rarely started, he went on to play for New England, Seattle, Oakland and the New York Jets before finishing his career with the Atlanta Falcons in 2015.
As a rookie late in the 2010 season, Adams suffered a severe ankle injury that required surgery that included several screws being inserted into his leg. He never played for the 49ers again, getting released just before the 2011 season began. Later, with the Raiders, he had two concussions over three games in 2012.
Whether he suffered long-lasting concussion-related injuries wasn’t immediately clear. Adams would not have been eligible for testing as part of a broad settlement between the league and its former players over such injuries, because he hadn’t retired by 2014.
Adams’ father told a Charlotte television station that he blamed football for problems his son had, and which might have led him to commit Wednesday’s violence.
“I can say he’s a good kid — he was a good kid, and I think the football messed him up,” Alonzo Adams told WCNC-TV. “He didn’t talk much and he didn’t bother nobody.”
Dr. Robert Lesslie in Rock Hill, S.C in March 12, 2009.John D. Simmons/The Charlotte Observer via AP
Deputies were called around 4:45 p.m. Wednesday to the Lesslies’ home, which is not visible from the road. They evacuated the neighbors as they spent hours searching for a suspect with police dogs.
Allison Hope, who lives across from Adams’ parents’ modest one-story brick home, about a mile from the Lesslies, said police allowed her to return home around 9 p.m. Wednesday. Moments later, a vehicle pulled into the Adams’ driveway and law enforcement quickly surrounded the property.
She said they spent hours negotiating with Phillip Adams, using a loudspeaker and sending in a robot to scan the house. She said authorities repeatedly asked Adams to come out, and promised to get his disabled mother out safely, before Adams shot himself.
“This is something I can’t grasp yet. I can’t put it all together and I’m trying to, and I witnessed it,” Hope said. “I feel bad for him because if it was mental or something going on in his life or whatever, you know, he needed help, and that’s the sad part.”
Adams often isolated himself, even as a player, his agent, Scott Casterline, told the AP. Casterline said he spoke regularly with Adams’ father, who left him a voicemail Wednesday morning.
“He was part of my family. I loved him. He’s a great kid, a great guy. This is so unlike him. He had to not be in his right mind, obviously,” Casterline said.
“All of us who knew Phillip are shaking our heads. He struggled away from the game. I tried to get him to come to Texas. I was going to find him a job, but he wouldn’t leave South Carolina because he had a son. He was a good father.”
“Seeing Phillip shoot two kids, it’s not him. I can’t fathom it. It’s devastating for the victims and the families,” Casterline said.
Former Cowboys cornerback Kevin Smith, who trained Adams leading up to the 2010 draft and after he entered the league, said he was a hard worker. He and Casterline both said Adams had opened a shop selling smoothies and juice before COVID-19 hit, and emphasized he didn’t drink or do drugs.
“He didn’t drink not one bit of alcohol,” Smith said. “He was a bit of a neat freak. In his house, everything was precisely placed.”
Lesslie had worked for decades as an emergency room doctor, board-certified in both emergency medicine and occupational medicine and serving as emergency department medical director for nearly 15 years at Rock Hill General Hospital, according to his website.
He founded two urgent care centers, wrote a weekly medical column for The Charlotte Observer, and also wrote a book, “Angels in the ER,” collecting what he termed “inspiring true stories” from his work. A biography page said he and his wife raised four children.
“I know without a doubt that life is fragile,” Lesslie wrote in his book. “I have come to understand that humility may be the greatest virtue. And I am convinced we need to take the time to say the things we deeply feel to the people we deeply care about.”
Contributors include AP Pro Football Writer Barry Wilner in New York; Josh Dubow in Alameda, Calif.; Maryclaire Dale in Philadelphia and Nell Redmond in Rock Hill.
Starting this Friday, The Loyalist in West Loop is reopening their dining room for the first time since the last round of indoor dining closures. Yes, that means beginning April 9th, you’ll be able to enjoy the basement vibes, an ice cold High Life, and the world-famous Dirty Burg Loyalist cheeseburger all while sitting inside at The Loyalist.
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Here are the details: guests can indulge in The Loyalist’s a la carte menu Thursdays through Sundays and reservations can be made now for parties of 2 to 4, available via Tock. Inspired by Paris brasseries, the menu is casual French and looks to see just how light and satisfying that beloved fare can be. It is the kind of honest, pleasure-inducing food that Chef Shields has looked to offer since opening. The Loyalist’s famous cheeseburgers are still available: including The Loyalist Original (aka. “The Dirty Burg”) and The Loyalist Classic.
Also, in true summertime Chicago fashion, The Loyalist will also be opening a season sidewalk patio on Ada street as soon as the weather warms up for good. The Loyalist sits at 177 N Ada St #001 below two-Michelin-starred restaurants, Smyth. Chef John Shields opened the two as a juxtaposition between menus and experiences. Smyth reopened for indoor business in March with a special tasting menu experience. Additionally, Smyth’s experience will also be available on the patio as soon as the weather allows.
The Loyalist follows suit as more and more of Chicago’s prominent restaurants reopen as the city turns corners in the fight against COVID-19. According to Gov. Pritzker, all people over the age of 16 will be eligible to receive the vaccine in the hopes to get every Illinoisan vaccinated before the summer.
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