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Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell. | AP

Fed chair Jerome Powell said government support — including expanded unemployment insurance payments and financial support for small businesses — has so far prevented a recessionary “downward spiral.”

St. Rita’s Kaleb Brown (35) holds off Richards Albert Jones (11) in Oak Lawn last season. | Kevin Tanaka/For the Sun-Times

Kaleb Brown and Henry Wilson have plenty in common. They are both Division I-bound players who will line up for St. Rita if and when there is football in Illinois this school year.

Forrest Stuart, a former University of Chicago sociologist, is among 21 people named MacArthur Fellows on Tuesday. This year’s recipients of what has become known as the “genius grant” will receive $625,000. | MacArthur Foundation

Forrest Stuart will receive $625,000 to continue his research; he wants to return to Chicago’s South Side to study the effect of violence on women.

The seven friends who stay in touch on group chat are Annie (Otmara Marrero, clockwise from top left), Rufus (Ely Henry), Ben (Preacher Lawson), Ellis (Shakina Nayfack), Garrett (Keith Powell), Michelle (Jill Knox) and Pradeep (Parvesh Cheena). | NBC

Seven likable friends, quarantined apart, share funny commentary on our times in NBC’s fresh take on the sitcom.

Two people died in a fire Oct. 6, 2020, in the 500 block of Maryland Street in Gary. | Google Maps

A man, 21, also died.

Firefighters extinguished a fire Oct. 6, 2020, in the 2800 block of East 93rd Street. Police say a man was unresponsive shortly before the fire broke out. | Chicago Fire Department

“We cannot conclude that fire was the cause of death,” a fire official said.

In the video, Michelle Obama accuses Trump of being “racist” when he and other Republicans are “lying about how minorities will destroy the suburbs.” | Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times

Mrs. Obama notes that more Americans have died from COVID-19 than died in the Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam and Korean wars combined: “our commander in chief, sadly, has been missing in action.”

Maeve Baker with “her recent haul of some chicken of the woods.” | Photo provided by Tim Baker

Maeve Baker, with “her recent haul of some chicken of the woods,” earns special Mushroom of the Week honors.

A boy fishing in Wisconsin | Sun-Times file photo

We are brothers and sisters united in the promise and work that have made America shine.

Moon Alert

There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. The moon is in Gemini.

Aries (March 21-April 19)

You want to talk to others in an engaged way. You don’t want to waste time in superficial chitchat, you want to talk about something meaningful. Be careful how you react to others. Take a moment to really hear them and think how you want to respond.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Today it’s easy to emotionally identify with your possessions and your values. Читать дальше...

A man was shot dead Oct. 5, 2020, in the 7600 block of South Stony Island Avenue. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times file

The 23-year-old was in a vehicle in the 7600 block of South Stony Island Avenue when two people got out of a white SUV and fired shots, Chicago police said. 

Cubs president Theo Epstein long has said there are ‘‘benefits to change after a significant amount of time on the job — about a decade.’’ | Matt York/AP

In his end-of-season news conference Monday, Epstein was clear that he was entering the twilight of his tenure with the Cubs.

A man was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Oct. 5, 2020, outside the 9th District police station. | Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times file

The man was suspected in a fatal shooting that had taken place just over an hour earlier in West Pullman, according to a law enforcement source.  

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Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California, in February. Kanye West was diagnosed with COVID-19 a month later. | AP

“I had my four babies and no one else in the house to help,” Kardashian West reveals.

People with the pro-life organization Bound4Life stand outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on October 5, 2020 in Washington, DC. With 8 justices currently on the bench, the Supreme Court begins a new term on Monday. | Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Justice Clarence Thomas suggested the court needs to revisit the issue because it has “created a problem that only it can fix.”

This 2020 electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - Rocky Mountain Laboratories shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles which causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells cultured in a lab. On Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, the top U.S. public health agency said that coronavirus can spread greater distances through the air than 6 feet, particularly in poorly ventilated and enclosed spaces. But agency officials continued to say such spread is uncommon... Читать дальше...

Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, left, in Chicago last year; Gov. J.B. Pritzker, right, in Rockford last month. | Colin Boyle/Sun-Times; Scott P. Yates/Rockford Register Star via AP

In the suit, the institute says a pamphlet released by Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White contains “misleading statements,” specifically around the proposed amendment not taxing retirement income.

Buccaneers receiver Mike Evans catches a pass against the Chargers on Sunday. | Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images

Neither the Bears nor the Buccaneers practiced Monday, but they had to submit injury reports as though they had.

M. Cameron “Cam” Davis, Kimberly Neely DuBuclet and Eira L. Corral Sepúlveda are endorsed by the Chicago Sun-Times for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District in the general election.

The Sun-Time endorses M. Cameron ‘Cam’ Davis, Kimberly Neely DuBuclet and Eira L. Corral Seplúveda for the board of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told teams that potential penalties for violating the league’s coronavirus protocols include forfeiting games. | Brynn Anderson/AP

In a memo sent to the teams Monday after a conference call involving NFL and club executives, Goodell reiterated the need to adhere fully to all of the league’s health and safety guidelines.

The Greater Chicago Food Depository will partner with Lurie’s Children Hospital for the hospital’s new food delivery program. | Sun-Times file

The hospital received a $150,000 grant from the Cigna Foundation to expand its efforts to address food insecurity.

President Trump waves to supporters from the back of a car in a motorcade outside of Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland on Oct. 4, 2020 | Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images

Many think the president isn’t likely to change. But if he learns from his illness and warns Americans to take this seriously, it could surely help reduce unnecessary deaths.

Former Chicago Police Supt. Terry Hillard | Sun-Times file

Hillard’s departure comes less than a month after his partner was outed as an employee of KPMG, the global accounting firm given a $4.2 million no-bid contract to grade the dispensary applications.

Improvements to the Lake Street bridge, which carries cars and pedestrians on one level and CTA trains above, are being held up as aldermen seek stricter requirements for minority contracting on the project. | Sun-Times file

The move by the mayor’s Council floor leader to hold up $9.1 million in upgrades comes two weeks after aldermen were warned by the corporation counsel not to go too far in demanding minority participation on city contracts.