Rapper SG Ali makes her label debut with her new single and video, “Drank on the Block.”
SG Ali’s new video for “Drank on the Block” opens with wistful, wordless melodic vocals over stills of what Chicago’s Cabrini-Green Homes once looked like—old photos of the high-rises, the last of which was torn down in 2011, and of the row homes that remain.…Read More
Cecelia Glinsey, was pulled from a rear bedroom at 8032 S. Hermitage Ave, according to officials.
A woman died after a fire broke out at a Gresham home Monday morning on the South Side and spread to two neighboring houses.
The woman, about 45 years old, was pulled from a rear bedroom immediately after firefighters arrived at 8032 S. Hermitage Ave., according to the Chicago Fire Department.
Cecelia Glinsey was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition and later pronounced dead, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
Autopsy results released Tuesday revealed she died of carbon monoxide poisoning and smoke and soot inhalation.
The fire, which broke about 10 a.m. and was put out within an hour, had spread to two other homes, fire department spokesman Larry Langford said.
A home to the north had extensive damage to its roof and attic, Langford said. Four people and a dog in the house escaped safely. A home to the south sustained some exterior damage as well.
The home where the fire started did not have a smoke detector, Langford said. The cause of the fire wasn’t immediately clear.
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Where to find the usual blue bloods? On the outside looking in. Meanwhile, Illinois rises and Loyola is back in the big-time.
You think a pandemic has made this college basketball season strange? Well, you’re right about that. But this season took leave of its senses from the jump for all kinds of reasons.
One example: the Champions Classic doubleheader back on Dec. 1. Actually, it’s more like four examples.
Preseason No. 6 Kansas probably thought it was a big deal when it beat No. 10 Kentucky 65-62 in Indianapolis. No. 8 Michigan State had to be feeling itself after topping No. 9 Duke 75-69. But now? Kentucky is 5-12 heading into Tuesday’s game against Arkansas, folks. Duke is 7-7 heading into Tuesday’s game against Notre Dame.
Kansas is unranked for the first time since 2009, snapping a record-setting 231-week streak in the Top 25.
And Michigan State? Oh, boy. The Spartans — the pride of the Big Ten — are near the basement of the conference standings. They were in 12th place with a record of 3-7 in league games entering Tuesday’s visit by Penn State.
The bluest of the blue bloods — Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina and Kansas — all are outside the Top 25. Those four and UCLA are all unranked for the first time since 1961.
Is the world ready for an NCAA Tournament without John Calipari and the Wildcats? Without Mike Krzyzewski and the Blue Devils? Try not to injure yourselves while leaping from your Barcaloungers and roaring in the affirmative.
It’s all just so different from what we’re used to. Then again, different is kind of good, isn’t it?
Different is Illinois landing haymakers at No. 6, flirting with the upper reaches of the national rankings for the first time since 2005 and showing Final Four potential. Guard Ayo Dosunmu and center Kofi Cockburn are the best duo in the league and right up there with any in the country.
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Different is Loyola, too. At No. 22, the Ramblers — 18-3 overall and a head-turning 12-1 in Missouri Valley play — have their first regular-season ranking since the 1984-85 season.
“It means that, in February, we’re where we want to be,” coach Porter Moser said. “It doesn’t mean anything more than that.”
Come on, of course it does. It means there’s a mighty good college team in town to watch. You don’t need me to tell you that isn’t always the case.
The Ramblers play two games this weekend at 18-1 Drake, the other MVC heavyweight this season. It’s shaping up like a two-bid season for the league, but the NCAA Tournament selection committee never fails to give one or more deserving mid-major conferences the royal blow-off. It’s best for the Ramblers to just keep winning.
“I love our team,” Moser said. “I love how hard they work. We’re definitely locked in.”
The blue bloods are jealous.
JUST SAYIN’
Speaking of Loyola in 1985: If you don’t know the names Alfredrick Hughes, Carl “Go-Go” Golston, Andre Battle and Andre Moore, you’d better ask somebody. What a team that was.
People remember that squad for going to the Sweet 16 and giving Patrick Ewing-led Georgetown a tough game, but my best memory is of a February clash against DePaul at what was then called the Rosemont Horizon. The Blue Demons were loaded as they always were back then, and they sucked up so much oxygen in the city that even a team as exciting as Loyola struggled for its share.
Some NBA rookie by the name of Michael Jordan was making a few headlines, too.
But DePaul had to play the Ramblers. Hughes and Battle went off for a combined 51 points in a 78-71 victory. Rogers Park had the “it” team for the rest of that season.
• The Illini are sixth, but two of the teams they’re looking up at are No. 4 Ohio State and No. 3 Michigan. Seven of the Big Ten’s 14 teams are ranked this week. Clearly the best league in the country, right?
Hmm, maybe not. The Big 12 has six of its 10 teams in this week’s poll. That includes No. 2 Baylor, which would clobber any Big Ten team in a best-of-seven series. Texas Tech, Texas, Oklahoma and West Virginia all are highly dangerous, too.
Prediction: One of these leagues is going to put two teams in the Final Four. And that’ll settle it.
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• How you doin’, Fred Hoiberg? Nebraska is 0-7 in Big Ten play, that’s how. Paul Zipser and Cameron Payne never looked so good.
• Be careful if you’re shoveling snow today. You might hurt Otto Porter.
• Speaking of the Bulls, a minor bone to pick with Jason Goff, Will Perdue and Kendall Gill, the trio that does the team’s studio shows on NBC Sports Chicago:
Every time the Bulls lose to a non-playoff type of team, must the theme of the postgame show be that it was a game they should have won? Since when “should” the Bulls win any game? Aren’t the Bulls — especially with Lauri Markkanen, Wendell Carter Jr. and Porter sidelined — still a team any opponent with a pulse puts in the “should” category?
Look, I said it was minor, didn’t I?
The leaders of the city’s cultural institutions remain encouraged after facing the most recent round of closings in November.
It took Chicago artist Myron Laban six months to create his new collection, “Sitting With My Thoughts,” a collection he says is some of the best art he’s ever made.…Read More
In her book Faux Pas, the painter makes a rarified field approachable with humor and profundity.
“You take a picture, but you make a drawing.” I’ve tried for decades to explain why a picture made by hand is closer to lived experience than one made via machine eye without much success.…Read More
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SAIC’s grad students control (and explode) the frame in an online performance festival.
The performance department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago began as a place where disciplines met. Founded in the early 1970s by Thomas A. Jaremba, who taught dance and movement at the Goodman Theatre, performance as theorized and practiced at the SAIC was always understood to be a hybrid form.…Read More
CPS Sports Director David Rosengard emailed schools on Tuesday afternoon that boys and girls bowling, boys swimming and diving, competitive cheer and dance, boys and girls basketball and badminton can begin Thursday.
Chicago Public Schools says that winter high school sports can begin on Thursday.
CPS Sports Director David Rosengard emailed schools on Tuesday afternoon that boys and girls bowling, boys swimming and diving, competitive cheer and dance, boys and girls basketball and badminton can begin Thursday.
“Our top priority will continue to be keeping our staff, students, and their families healthy and safe,” Rosengard wrote. “As we did for our comprehensive health and safety plan for reopening schools, the district is working closely with our public health officials to ensure sports can be offered safely. Winter Sports Guidelines have been outlined and CPS is evaluating the option of voluntary COVID-19 testing for athletes.”
According to IHSA rules basketball teams will need to practice for seven days before the can play games, which means games could begin sometime next week.
“I’m so excited that our students can have this opportunity to play given that everyone else in the state is playing,” Young basketball coach Tyrone Slaughter said. “
The news comes just one day after Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s comments at a news conference revealed she was unaware that the rest of the state was playing sports and CPS was not.
“That’s not really our call,” the mayor said. “Obviously, we’re going to follow the guidance of the Illinois State Board of Education, but also the Illinois High School Association. We’ve been anxiously waiting for further guidance from them. As an unrepentant sports fan myself, I’d like to see kids get back. There’s some loosening of the guidelines to let some non-contact sports happen. But . . . as far as I know, we haven’t seen anything that’s specific to, for example, high school basketball. So I’d like to see us move in that direction, but the state really controls the play, no pun intended, on that issue.”
Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Public Health announced Jan. 22 that regions would be allowed to play basketball and other higher-risk sports in Phase 4 of the corona-virus protocols. On Jan. 27, the IHSA started the basketball season, and it announced Monday that CPS will be allowed to play basketball until March 20, one week longer than the rest of the state.
The newly-released basketball guidelines from CPS say there will be a nine-game conference schedule and a city playoff. It says that Sports Administration “will define the number of non-conference games based on recommendations by the IHSA.”
The IHSA currently has no limit on the number of games basketball teams can play.
The guidelines say boys and girls basketball games can be played Monday through Friday with sophomore games starting at 4:30 p.m. and varsity games at 7 p.m. CPS will allow teams to play any school within 30 miles, which is the limit set by the IHSA and the Illinois Department of Public Health.
“I’m going to try and speak with as many people as I can to try and identify as many games as possible to have a productive season,” Slaughter said. “We feel good about the potential there of what we can have.”
The CPS basketball guidelines specify that a maximum of 50 people will be allowed at games and no spectators are allowed. Here’s the breakdown:
The guidelines do not mention if media will be allowed at games. The IHSA and IDPH currently allow media to attend games, but they also allow 50 spectators, which the CPS will not.
