Новости за 27.08.2020

Dirksen Federal Courthouse | Sun-Times file

Robert Czernek, 69, has been charged along with others with honest services wire fraud.

Kyle Rittenhouse, who was arrested in the shooting of 3 protesters in Kenosha Tuesday night, helps clean the exterior of Reuther Central High School Tuesday morning.

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Wide receiver Kevin White (11, making a catch against the Falcons in the 2017 season opener) had 25 receptions for 285 yards and no touchdowns in his four-year career with the Bears. | Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images

The seventh overall pick of the 2015 draft is getting another chance at success after a disappointing four-year career with the Bears that was marred by three season-ending injuries.

Alex DeBrincat saw his production drop from 41 goals in 2018-19 to 18 in the 2019-20 regular season. | AP Photo/Paul Vernon

With DeBrincat’s expensive new contract kicking in next season, the Hawks need their 22-year-old star to start scoring again somehow.

The Olympic rings stand atop a sign at the entrance to the Squaw Valley Ski Resort in Olympic Valley, California. The site was the scene of the 1960 Winter Olympics. | AP

The word “squaw,” derived from the Algonquin language, may have once simply meant “woman.” But over generations, the word morphed into a misogynist and racist term to disparage Indigenous women.

The NHL reportedly will not play its Thursday playoff schedule. | Elsa/Getty Images

Games between the New York Islanders and Philadelphia Flyers, and the Vegas Golden Knights and Vancouver Canucks are affected.

Jacob Blake’s father, also named Jacob Blake, speaks at a press conference Tuesday afternoon. On Thursday, Blake’s father said his son has been handcuffed to his hospital bed. | Pat Nabong/Sun-Times

“He can’t go anywhere,” his father said, speaking of his son’s paralysis. “Why do you have him cuffed to the bed?”

Nurse practitioner Capri Reese runs to respond to a code blue in the intensive care unit at Roseland Community Hospital on April 28. The patient, an 80-year-old man with COVID-19, later died. | Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times

Officials said 390 coronavirus patients were hospitalized in intensive care units, well within capacity but still the highest number in about two months.

A woman was robbed Aug. 25, 2020, in the 100 block of East Grand Avenue. | Google Maps

The woman was hospitalized for a head injury, police say.

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The president’s tendency to cheat at golf is cited as evidence of his mental condition in “#Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump.” | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

The illuminating film, more personal than political, argues that psychiatrists have a duty to speak out on the president’s more disturbing behavior

Steam rises from the cooling towers at Exelon’s Byron nuclear power plant in 2011. | AP file

The company says the job-killing decision can be avoided if lawmakers opt to change rules to benefit carbon-free energy sources.

Woman hates her life and considers divorcing the man who watches TV all day and refuses to cook, clean, shop or do anything else

Preservationists are leading renewed efforts to save the two-flat where Emmett Till spent the last years of his life before leaving on that fateful train trip Down South on Aug. 20, 1955. | Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Preservationists and the family of Emmett Till are urging landmark status for the Woodlawn home where the teen lived before a visit to family Down South ended with his brutal lynching on Aug. 28, 1955 — for allegedly whistling at a white woman. The home has many building code violations... Читать дальше...

A dove sits on a wire with starlings above the weed seeds along a ditch in a collar county. | Dale Bowman

Here is the annual list of field conditions and prospects for dove hunting at public sites in northeast Illinois and select Downstate sites.

“You Cannot Kill David Arquette” chronicles the actor’s return to wrestling in his late 40s. | Neon

Convinced that wrestling will revive his career, the ‘Scream’ alum takes a few beatings.

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - AUGUST 26: Mike Pence stands with his wife Karen Pence before accepting the vice presidential nomination during the Republican National Convention from Fort McHenry National Monument on August 26, 2020 in Baltimore, Maryland. The convention is being held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic but includes speeches from various locations including Charlotte, North Carolina, Washington, DC, and Baltimore, Maryland. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images

An AP Fact Check finds that... Читать дальше...

Vice President Mike Pence arrives with his wife Karen Pence to speak on the third day of the Republican National Convention at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine in Baltimore, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. | Andrew Harnik/AP

A political convention is the most scripted, tightly controllable of events, especially when it is mostly virtual and much of it is prerecorded.

A girl, 12, was wounded and a 35-year-old man was killed in a shooting Aug. 26, 2020, in the 7300 block of South Claremont Avenue. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times file photo

They were at a gathering outside in the 7300 block of South Claremont Avenue when someone unleashed gunfire, police said.

Mike Pence accepts the vice presidential nomination during the Republican National Convention from Fort McHenry National Monument on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, in Baltimore, Maryland. The convention is being held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic but includes speeches from various locations including Charlotte, North Carolina, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images

“From Seattle and Portland to Washington and New York, Democrat-run cities across this country... Читать дальше...

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“I felt that I needed to be a part of what’s going on,” Heyward said.

Moon Alert

Avoid shopping or making important decisions from 6:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. Chicago time. After that, the Moon moves from Sagittarius into Capricorn.

Aries (March 21-April 19)

Today you want to help a family member if they need assistance or support. You might lend a sympathetic ear if they need to talk to you. Some of you will be interested in redecorating at home in a rather lavish way. It’s a fuzzy, interesting day.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Feelings of escapism are strong. Читать дальше...

Protesters march in Kenosha Wednesday, three days after police officer Rusten Sheskey shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back. | Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times

Rusten Sheskey, a seven-year veteran of the Kenosha Police Department, shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back while holding onto his shirt after officers unsuccessfully used a Taser on him, the Wisconsin Justice Department said Wednesday.

A stabbing left a teenage girl dead and another wounded Aug. 26, 2020, in Englewood. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times file photo

A 14-year-old girl was stabbed in the chest and abdomen in the 7400 block of South Parnell Avenue, police said.

Players from Los Angeles FC pose for a group photo on the field prior to the announcement that their game against Real Salt Lake was called off Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, in Sandy, Utah. Major League Soccer players boycotted five games Wednesday night in a collective statement against racial injustice. The players’ action came after all three NBA playoff games were called off in a protest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin on Sunday night. | Rick Bowmer/AP

The lone match played was between Orlando City and Nashville SC. Читать дальше...