Chicago Bears fans continue to be all over the place on where they believe Mitchell Trubisky belongs.
Quarterback tiers are a funny thing because, in the end, anyone can create them. The problem is, not everyone’s are credible — especially those who rank Chicago Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky a tad too high.
I completely understand how loyal Bears fans are — been one my entire life. The Bears are everything to me, like many others. However, Bears fans can be a bit blinded when it comes to the quarterback position. They always have been.
After all, this is the franchise that, while the Green Bay Packers have had Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers, has had to endure the likes of Cade McNown, Jim Miller, Rex Grossman, Mike Glennon and two dozen more taking snaps under center during the same time span.
Bears fans are starving for a franchise quarterback, and they will do everything they possibly can to cling to hope when it comes to a kid like Trubisky.
The thing is, Trubisky has a lot of athletic gifts. He is very talented. When he’s on, he’s one of the better, sneakier mobile quarterbacks there is. He’s great on his feet when he needs to be.
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But, the area where Trubisky lacks the most lies between his ears. It’s all mental for him. The issue has never been arm strength, mobility or any overly-serious injuries. The issue is whether or not Trubisky can accurately and intelligently diagnose defenses and make the right reads.
With an objective mind, where would someone say Trubisky ranks amongst fellow NFL quarterbacks? Why don’t we look at four specific tiers: Elite, upper, middle and bottom.
Though there’s no brick and mortar location yet, JUSTice Cream has recently initiated their campaign in Chicago to raise support about their social justice-centered, vegan ice cream brand. Founded by Hialy Gutierrez, JUSTice Cream is a nonprofit (mutual aid) vegan ice cream shop that is committed to donating 100 percent of its profits to fund and aid grassroots social justice initiatives.
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“I believe that most of the suffering in this world is the result of poorly wielded power,” said Gutierrez in a video promoting JUSTice Cream’s GoFundMe campaign. “I wanted to build something that would help redistribute that power, that would shift that power away from greed and exploitation, and that would ground that newly distributed power in community, integrity, and love.”
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The campaign has already raised over $9,000 dollars in a few weeks of the campaign launch, and the company has been very transparent about the funding they need to get a proper location and up-to-scale equipment. Much of the money JUSTice Cream is trying to raise is going towards hiring a full-time recipe developer that gets a solid salary ($65,000) and complete benefits. The fundraising also hopes to get a part-time support staff employee for six months. Once the location is up and running with full funding, the JUSTice Cream hopes to expand the team and offer more opportunities for people to be a part of the ice cream slinging team.
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Beyond redistribution of power, the team’s goal is to address social issues and misconceptions about them, such with as veganism and environmental exploitation. Every one their flavors is going to be dairy-free, and proceeds from each flavor will go to a specific cause or organization.
Their Fudge the Police flavor will give support to Black Lives Matter Chicago and while originally was comprised of mint and vanilla with fudge, the JUSTice Cream has recently added cookies into the mix. The Aboleche Ice, which is a strawberry ice cream with tres leches, will be supporting Organized Communities Against Deportation.
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Reparalines and Cream touts a cognac-infused praline sauce to accompany their vanilla bean ice cream, with funds supporting the Chicago Torture Justice Center. The Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights Empowerment will find their support from the Purple Root, which will get its color and flavor from ube, a purple yam native to the Philippines! Their final flavor, the Fried Dough Kahlo, a coffee ice cream packed with churros and chocolate-coffee swirls, supports Art and Resistance through Education.
Though there is no physical store yet, JUSTice Cream has been drumming up buzz about their mission through delivering pints in the community and selling their ice cream at pop-ups around the city, with their next one scheduled for July 25th. Once their distribution is down-pat through the fall, the team hopes to start offering out-of-state delivery.
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Chicago is a noise-rock city. It’s a gritty, working-class town built out of iron, glass, and dirt. It’s the home of Steve Albini, Touch and Go Records, and the Jesus Lizard. It’s never a surprise when a local band that embraces loud, grimy abrasion puts out a good album-it’s just what we do around here. But A Thread of Light, the debut full-length by Chicago four-piece Bruges, isn’t just a striking noise-rock record–it’s a mind-bending masterpiece. The group, whose members also play in incredibly loud noise and hardcore bands such as Moral Void, Den, and Angry Gods, had already been around for a few years when they put out the 2019 EP An Erasure of Form, whose doomy, high-volume Unsane worship I couldn’t stop listening to. But that release only hints at the heights they’ve reached on A Thread of Light. Pristinely engineered and played with next-level power and precision, the album drives like Tar, drones like Boris, and clangs like early Swans. The gloomy, furious spoken-word vocals of vocalist Patrick Nordyke bleed unhinged fury while the band pour out wave after wave of unrelenting, oozing distortion. Early Bruges material focused on repetition, but this time around their songs lean into progression and growth; each epic track is a creeping, twisting, turning, and evolving journey. Even in a city as steeped in noise rock as Chicago, A Thread of Light could wind up the best local rock release of the year. v
Chunky Caramel, Kissing Coffee and Mellow Stormy are a trio of two-year-old male guinea pig friends looking for a loving guardian.
These boys lived in a family’s kitchen where they enjoyed being handfed their favorites including red pepper, freeze dried strawberries, carrots, lettuce, etc.
Sadly, the responsibility of caring for them was too much for their teenager, so they decided someone with fewer pets in the home might enjoy them more.
They are sweet, talkative and fun guinea pigs who give furry little kisses and love to be brushed. When there is cooking, there is guinea pig whistling.
Guinea pigs eat a diet of unlimited Timothy hay, limited pellets, and fresh vegetables.
These three pigs have shared a home with children, dogs and cats and are not afraid. In fact, they are very tolerant.
Please read up on guinea pig care and diet before adopting by visiting this excellent web site http://www.guinealynx.info/.
They would love a home with people who will handle them daily, keep them well fed, and keep their habitat nice and clean.
If you’re interested in meeting and possibly adopting Caramel, Coffee and Stormy, please contact [email protected].
They are being fostered in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood.
Their adoption fee of $100 benefits the friends of Petraits Rescue. For an additional $100, we’ll include a kit of absolutely everything you need to care for the boys including food, large cage, hay, litter, two hidey huts, treats, a chewable log and water bottle.
Show Me Chicago previews, reviews and expresses opinions on what’s happening in Chicago from Blockbuster Theater, to what’s new in dining, arts, and the neighborhoods.
Show Me Chicago previews, reviews and expresses opinions on what’s happening in Chicago from Blockbuster Theater, to what’s new in dining, arts, and the neighborhoods.
Fairfax County (Virginia) Schools where left-wing hatred of Trump has replaced science-supported findings that schools should be re-opened.
Contrary to the usual media hype, the worst politicalization of the Covid-19 pandemic is coming from the political left. It far outstrips President Donald Trump’s own efforts to make political hay from the contagion.
It’s a cynical attempt to conscript your school-age kids into a Children’s Crusade against Trump by extending their isolation at home or forcing them into cockamamie partial openings that miserably fail their needs.
The benefits of returning to school in the fall semester are manifest. Parents don’t need science to know that keeping their children home for more months on end is lunacy. But the science also supports what’s self-evident:
Children are better off in school. Being shut in at home is damaging–mentally, physically, socially and psychologically. Study-at-home schemes have generally been a flop. The risk of children catching or transmitting the unique coronavirus is low.
The child lockdown has a raft of other negative consequences for parents who have to deal with impossible schedule-making and being driven out of their minds.
New research suggests that by September, most students will have fallen behind where they would have been if they had stayed in classrooms, with some losing the equivalent of a full school year’s worth of academic gains. Racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps will most likely widen because of disparities in access to computers, home internet connections and direct instruction from teachers.
And the crisis is far from over. The harm to students could grow if schools continue to teach fully or partly online in the fall, or if they reopen with significant budget cuts because of the economic downturn. High school dropout rates could increase, researchers say, while younger children could miss out on foundational concepts in phonics and fractions that prepare them for a lifetime of learning and working.
Parents are legitimately and genuinely worried about exposing their children to coronavirus by sending them back to school. Unfortunately, that worry is fed by the politically motivated, ignorant and self-serving partisans who want to keep kids out of school because it will serve their deep hatred of Trump.
The result is schools and parents wandering in the wilderness of uncertainty. Parents not knowing what the hell to do as the fall semester approaches.
And then there are the left-leaning school administrators who concoct goofy “re-opening” schedules that only make things worse. I have in mind Fairfax County (Virginia) schools that my grandchildren attend. Parents there have two options: full-time virtual instruction or t two days of limited in-school learning each week.
It’s really no choice because parents who want a return to full-time in-school learning will have an on-off schedule of mostly at-home “learning.” Because of negative push-back and great uncertainty, the school board has decided that it will “open” the schools later, on Sept. 8 instead of Aug. 25. Of course, the left-wing teachers union strenuously objected to any in-school teaching at all.
The left acts like this is a political game, a way to attack Trump for supposedly not caring about the welfare of children and teachers. Some have even ridiculously declared that Trump is motivated by a hardhearted campaign against “snowflakes” who just need to tough it out.
The science is on the side of proponents of sending children back to school. The anti-science left has turned a legitimate public policy issue into a get-Trump campaign. It is unconscionable.
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The Chicago Dogs, an independent league baseball team, played their home opener in Rosemont on July 7, 2020. It’s the first pro sports action in the Chicagoland area since March.
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There has been a surge of sales and under contract homes in the North Shore villages of Winnetka, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Glencoe, and Northfield.
Due in large part to pent up demand from the stay-at-home quarantine coupled with unrest in downtown Chicago buyers are looking again to the suburbs.
The number of under contract homes is an excellent indicator of market demand. Looking at SOLD homes tells you what the market was doing from 1-4 months ago while UNDER CONTRACT homes tell you what’s going on right now. And right now, there are a lot of homes going under contract.
Here’s the rundown for North Shore real estate in June.
WINNETKA
Current Winnetka Real Estate Market: Sold homes June: 24
Homes for sale: 89
Price range: $285,000 to $8,995,000
Median price ytd: $965,000
Under contract: 43
Condos for sale: 10
Price range: $240,000 to $725,000
WILMETTE
Current Wilmette Real Estate Market: Homes for sale: 121
Price range: $349,000 to $2,599,000
Median price ytd: $1,005,000
Under contract: 69
Condos for sale: 40
Price range: $145,000 to $1,599,000
KENILWORTH
Current Kenilworth Real Estate Market: Homes for sale: 38
Price range: $600,000 to $13,750
Current median for sale price: $830,000
Under contract: 10
GLENCOE
Current Glencoe Real Estate Market: Homes for sale: 62
Price range: $339,000 to $4,350,000
Median price ytd: $1,250,000
Under contract: 26
Condos for sale: 2
Price range: $355,000 to $699,000
NORTHFIELD
Current Northfield Real Estate Market: Homes for sale: 40
Price range: $330,000 to $4,400,000
Current median ytd: $645,000
Under contract: 17
Condos for sale: 11
Price range: $190,000 to $579,000
Margaret Goss is a full-time real estate broker since 1998 working in the North Shore communities of Winnetka, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Glencoe, Northfield, Glenview, and Evanston.
Hi – My name is Margaret Goss and I have been selling real estate in Chicago’s North Shore suburbs since 1998.
I’ve been writing blog posts about the North Shore since 2008 – real estate, restaurants, stores, civic and community events, plus interesting people. It’s a beautiful place to call home.
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A day after the Big Ten announced it will go to a conference-only season for all fall sports, including football, in the midst of “unprecedented times” during the coronavirus pandemic, FCS conferences are now scrambling to find potential games to fill voids in their own schedules.
Thursday’s announcement means that Missouri Valley Football Conference members Illinois State and Southern Illinois will not play Big Ten opponents this season. ISU was scheduled to open its season Sept. 4 at the University of Illinois, while SIU had a Sept. 12 date at the University of Wisconsin.
In addition to missing the opportunity to play a Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) opponent, both ISU and SIU are losing out of financial guarantee payments that are vital to each program’s budget. Illinois State was to receive $450,000 for its short trip east on I-74, while Southern Illinois was set for a $500,000 payday for its journey to Madison.
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“I spoke with (Illinois athletic director) Josh Whitman earlier today and he advised me of the decision made by the Big Ten Conference. I appreciate him taking the time to pick up the phone and speak to me personally,” said ISU athletic director Larry Lyons in a statement released Thursday. “We agreed to let the dust settle and have a follow-up conversation in a few days. Obviously, we are disappointed by the decision as there are many people affiliated with both universities that have had this game circled on their calendars for a long time. The fact of the matter is that the game will not be played, and we will adjust and move forward. That is how we have been operating since March and we will continue to do so as things continue to change due to this pandemic.”
ISU head football Brock Spack was a guest on North Dakota-based Keith Brake’s radio show Thursday.
“That’s disappointing, obviously,” Spack told Brake. “That’s a game that’s right down the road. We don’t even, it’s like a home game for us. We don’t go to a hotel. We stay right here. (We) have our pregame here. We get on a bus and go play. Obviously it’s a good payday for us. I think it would be a very competitive game . . . unfortunately I was expecting that. I heard about it a couple of days ago.”
In an SIU released statement, athletic director Liz Jarnigan said, “I spoke to an athletic official at the University of Wisconsin this afternoon. They were apologetic about the cancellation of our game, and we agreed to work together regarding the resulting impact on our program.”
Are the dominoes falling?
The Big Ten decision came on the heals of the Ivy League’s Wednesday announcement that it would suspend all fall sports to the spring semester.
While the Big Ten is the first of the Power 5 conferences to make an announcement, the SEC on Thursday said it continues to meet with campus leaders “to determine the best path forward” for fall sports, according to numerous media outlets. SEC league officials and athletic directors are scheduled to meet Monday but don’t expect to make any decisions on the fall schedule until the end of July, sources confirmed to ESPN. SI.com was first to report the meeting.
Eastern Illinois, a member of the FCS’s Ohio Valley Conference, is scheduled to play at the University of Kentucky of the SEC in October. Published reports state that EIU is to receive a $500,000 guarantee for the game.
Meanwhile, Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said in a statement that he has been advised to “move ahead slowly” and plan “for all available scenarios,” according to espn.com.
Western Illinois, like ISU and SIU a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference, is scheduled to play at Big 12 member Oklahoma State Sept. 19. No financial information was available for that contest, but it likely falls in the range of what the three other Illinois FCS schools were scheduled to receive.
Prairie State Pigskin was scheduled for a Friday interview with MVFC commissioner Patty Viverito, however, she declined in light of Thursday’s Big Ten announcement. Viverito also declined to release a statement.
“It’s our affected institutions’ space to answer those questions for the time being,” a conference official stated in an e-mail response.
Blog co-authors Barry Bottino and Dan Verdun bring years of experience covering collegiate athletics. Barry has covered college athletes for more than two decades in his “On Campus” column, which is published weekly by Shaw Media. Dan has written four books about the state’s football programs–“NIU Huskies Football” (released in 2013), “EIU Panthers Football (2014), “ISU Redbirds” (2016) and “SIU Salukis Football” (2017).
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