Kass Column

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• As Chicago waited almost desperately Thursday for a star to become the city's basketball savior, another star rose on the South Side, at 61st Street and Racine Avenue.
  
  It was a simple star of gold on a field of purple and black, the flag of mourning for Chicago police officers.
  
  That gold star belongs, at least for a time, to police Officer Thor Soderberg, 43, shot to death the day before, not 100 yards from where that flag was raised.

Now how about a few columns from the writers across the city pointing out how someone who shot his own brother four years ago wasn't serving time for Aggravated Battery and UUW. Last we checked, those charges were worth at least a decade behind bars.

Never in Cook County though. Hmmm.