Daywatch: A terrifying tour of 6 haunted objects
Good morning, Chicago.
Illinois likes a good curse.
We have plenty of cursed, and haunted, objects. The stuff of the damned, so to speak. The Field Museum owns screaming mummies and floating coats — supposedly. The Chicago History Museum has a mysterious stone carved by unknown hands — and, tempting fate for a second year, curators hid 13 “haunted dolls” throughout its galleries (a scavenger hunt that runs through Nov. 5). Many a guard at the Art Institute will tell you about paintings appearing to move in the corner of their eyes, always in darker galleries.
And that’s just institutional, archival Chicago.
Christopher Borrelli takes a look at 6 haunted objects, from an ancient book to an arcade game.
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GOP’s Jim Jordan will try again to become House speaker, but his detractors are considering options
Having lost the first vote to become House speaker, Rep. Jim Jordan will try again on a decisive second ballot that will test whether the hard-edged ally of Donald Trump can win over the holdouts or if his bid for the gavel is collapsing, denied by detractors.
Ahead of Wednesday morning’s voting, Jordan made an unexpected plea for party unity, the combative Judiciary Committee chairman telling his colleagues on social media, “we must stop attacking each other and come together.”
Summit with Arab leaders called off as President Biden heads to Israel
President Joe Biden’s efforts to tamp down tensions in the escalating war between Israel and Hamas faced massive setbacks even before he departed for the Middle East on Tuesday, as Jordan called off the president’s planned summit with Arab leaders after a deadly explosion at a Gaza hospital killed hundreds.
Biden now will visit only Israel and will postpone his travel to Jordan, a White House official said as Biden departed.
Howard Brown Health workers could strike for the second time this year following union vote
About 350 health care and retail workers associated with Howard Brown Health have voted in favor of a strike, the second of its kind at Howard Brown in less than a year.
Special prosecutor who handled third Jackie Wilson trial testifies as trial for former Cook County assistant state’s attorneys enters second day
Lawyers for two former Cook County assistant state’s attorneys on Tuesday attacked the credibility of special prosecutors who handled Jackie Wilson’s third trial, launching into contentious exchanges about whether the prosecutors did their due diligence in the case that racked up a roughly $494,000 bill.
The ex-assistant state’s attorneys are standing trial accused of wrongdoing in connection with the 2020 trial for Wilson, whose wrongful conviction case helped expose longstanding practices of torture by notorious ex-Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge and detectives working under him.
Latest Cook County property tax bills available online
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Cook County Forest Preserves $189 million budget marks ‘new era’ with referendum cash
Flush with money received after voters authorized a fresh property tax hike, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle pitched next year’s Forest Preserves budget Tuesday as the start of “a new era.”
“For the first time in a long time, it is not the budget of an agency in a holding pattern, keeping long-term, pressing needs at bay,” Preckwinkle said Tuesday. “For fiscal year 2024, we are moving forward, and there is only more on the horizon for the residents and visitors of Cook County.”
Wisconsin Assembly approves $545 million in public dollars for Brewers stadium repairs
Wisconsin legislators edged closer Tuesday to passing a compromise plan to spend more than half-a-billion dollars in public money to help cover repairs at the Milwaukee Brewers stadium, pushing the proposal through the state Assembly and on to the Senate.
Chicago Bears Q&A: Why haven’t we heard from Kevin Warren?
As the Bears prepare to take on the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday at Soldier Field (noon, Fox-32) with Fields doubtful to play, the Tribune’s Brad Biggs opens the weekly Bears mailbag.
There’ll be no singing the blues when Corky Siegel turns — can you believe it? — 80
Corky is a kid’s name and the only Corky I have ever known has ever been childlike in his energy, enthusiasm and worldview.
My Corky may actually be your Corky too, because Corky Siegel has been a part of the local and international music scene for a long time, and counting.
As his 80th birthday arrives in a few days, on Oct. 24, it comes with a couple of concerts.
‘Bosch: Legacy’ Season 2 review: Half the show works like gangbusters. The other half is just a bust.
Titus Welliver has played Harry Bosch on television for nearly a decade, starting with the seven-season Amazon crime series “Bosch.” Once a grizzled cop who would squint into the harsh LA sun and uncover ugly truths hiding in dark crevices, he has since retired from the police force. “Bosh: Legacy,” now in its second season on Freevee, is proof that Harry’s story is more interesting — and closer to the noir sensibility hinted in the original — as a private investigator teaming up with the wily and poised defense attorney Honey Chandler, played by Mimi Rogers.
Meet Minhal Baig, the next great Chicago filmmaker
When Tribune film critic Michael Phillips first saw “We Grown Now” prior to its U.S. premiere at the Chicago International Film Festival, it struck him not just as a vital and beautiful addition to the list of key Chicago-made movies about Chicago, but as a film staking out its own style of poetic realism.
