Good morning, Chicago.
After three games in Detroit, the White Sox have their home opener today at 3:10 p.m. against the Mariners at Guaranteed Rate Field. The temperature is expected to reach the low 60s, which would be quite the warmup after playing in the low 40s for part of the weekend at Comerica Park. If you’re headed to the game today, here’s our guide the ballpark — including what to eat.
I’ve been on the Sox beat since June 2019 and have watched a team with a young nucleus grow into a contender. They made the playoffs in 2020 as a wild card and 2021 as a division champion — and they are the popular pick to win the AL Central for a second straight season. The 2021 AL Central-winning team will be honored in a preseason ceremony today.
The pitching staff has taken some injury hits already this year, with starters Lance Lynn likely out eight weeks and Lucas Giolito possibly missing at least two starts. Reliever Garrett Crochet will miss the entire season after undergoing Tommy John surgery.
When healthy, the Sox have the talent to stack up among the best in baseball. Luis Robert is a budding superstar. All-Star shortstop Tim Anderson sparks the offense at the top of the order. 2020 AL MVP José Abreu, who is in the final season of a 3-year contract, is a leader on the field and in the clubhouse.
The Sox are looking to take the next step after losing their opening-round playoff series each of the past two seasons. Make sure to sign up for the Tribune sports newsletter and follow our Sox analysis, features, columns and inside perspective all season!
— LaMond Pope, White Sox reporter
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As Cook County property tax bills again face long delays, officials point fingers over who’s to blame
The heads of Cook County’s assessor’s office and its property tax appeal agency currently don’t agree on how it happened, but they agree on this: Second-installment property tax bills are going to be delayed this year again.
County officials have not announced how far the postponement will stretch, but the chair of the Board of Review has warned it could be six months — the latest due date in the past 10 years. Traditionally, the offices involved have aimed to get the second round of bills out by July with an August due date.
Willie Wilson announces run for Chicago mayor. Lightfoot responds: ‘It’s that season. People are going to jump in.’
Businessman Willie Wilson will run for Chicago mayor in the 2023 election, adding a second declared candidate to a growing field of potential challengers to Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Announcing his candidacy at a news conference in the ritzy downtown high-rise where he lives, Wilson promised to focus on crime and education.
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Requiem for a dollhouse: Handmade replica of a 1950s Bensenville ranch house is too big to donate, too precious to toss
A few years after Penny Parrish’s family moved into the Bensenville ranch-style house her father and a friend built with their own hands, her dad made a replica of the home as a dollhouse for Parrish and her younger sister. Parrish long ago moved away from Bensenville, but for decades she has kept the dollhouse as a memento of those happy midcentury days.
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Creeping interest rates are cause for pause, readjustment of expectations when it comes to home buying
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Jim Ramsey, delivered weather news on Channel 9 with ‘mellifluous baritone,’ dies at 69
Jim Ramsey, a mainstay on WGN-Channel 9′s weather team for 30 years, died of natural causes on April 8 at his Island Lake home, said his stepdaughter, Vanessa Wright.
With a deep voice and more than four decades of experience in broadcasting and in meteorology, Ramsey projected steadiness and competence to the station’s viewers, colleagues said.
“He had that beautiful, mellifluous baritone voice that everybody in broadcasting can only dream of having,” said Tom Skilling, Channel 9′s chief meteorologist.
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