By MICHAEL TARM and SOPHIA TAREEN

CHICAGO — Mayor Rahm Emanuel has taken his fight against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies to court, with Chicago becoming one of the first cities Monday to sue the government over what many U.S. cities argue are illegal bids to withhold public safety grants from so-called sanctuary cities.

The 46-page lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, a day after Emanuel announced the litigation and said the city won’t “be blackmailed” into changing its values as a welcoming city. He argued it’s unconstitutional for a city “to be coerced on a policy.”

A first order of business now that the suit has been filed will be to ask a judge to put a freeze on the policy at least until the civil case plays out, said Edward Siskel, the head of City Hall’s legal department. That request for a preliminary injunction could be made within days.

Chicago officials say there are new qualifications for a grant that requires cities to share information with U.S. immigration authorities, which they allege are unconstitutional. Chicago has received the grant funds since 2005, including $2.3 million last year. They were used for buying police vehicles, radios and SWAT equipment.

“These new conditions — which would give federal officials the power to enter city facilities and interrogate arrestees at will and would force the City to detain individuals longer than justified by probable cause, solely to permit federal officials to investigate their immigration status — are unauthorized and unconstitutional,” the complaint read. “These new conditions also fly in the face of longstanding City policy that promotes cooperation between local law enforcement and immigrant communities, ensures access to essential city services for all residents, and makes all Chicagoans safer.”

Those grant amounts of money are relatively small, but Chicago leaders say they fear more impactful restrictions could be coming and so they hope to establish in court that such government measures are illegal.

It is the latest round in a battle between several major U.S. cities that opt to limit cooperation with federal government efforts to enforce immigration law and the Trump administration, with federal officials threatening for months to withhold funding for sanctuary cities, saying they don’t comply with federal laws.

Last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said local governments would lose the money if they do not give advance notice when immigrants in the country illegally are about to be released from custody. He also wants immigration agents to have access to local jails. He has argued that the policy makes everyone safer.

Chicago has been a sanctuary city since the 1980s, beefing up its policies in the past decade, particularly since Trump took office.

The city prohibits police from providing federal Immigration and Customs officials access to people in police custody, unless they are wanted on a criminal warrant or have serious criminal convictions. Local police are also barred from allowing ICE agents to use their facilities for interviews or investigations and from responding to ICE inquiries or talking to ICE officials about a person’s custody status or release date.

Authorities contend the policy helps encourage residents of the immigrant community to inform police when they are victims of crimes.

The lawsuit, which names Sessions, seeks to remove the immigration-related conditions for the grant applications.

When asked for comment about the lawsuit Monday, the Department of Justice spokesman directed The Associated Press to Sessions’ previous comments, including those saying sanctuary cities threaten safety.

“It’s especially tragic that the mayor is less concerned with that staggering figure than he is spending time and taxpayer money protecting criminal aliens and putting Chicago’s law enforcement at greater risk,” said department spokesman Ian D. Prior in an email.

Emanuel and other city leaders have rejected that the city’s policies protect immigrants with criminal records who are living in the U.S. without legal permission. Leaders of several sanctuary cities and counties, including in Chicago, have also dismissed such statements linking immigrants and crime as discriminatory and misleading.

“The rhetoric and the threats from this administration embodied in these new conditions imposed on unrelated public safety grant funds are breeding a culture and a climate of fear within the communities in our city,” said Siskel, the law office director, said at the courthouse after the lawsuit was filed.

In March, the Justice Department sent letters to officials in California and major cities including New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and New Orleans, all places the Justice Department’s inspector general has identified as limiting the information local law enforcement can provide to federal immigration authorities about those in their custody.

The department warned that the administration will punish communities that refuse to cooperate with efforts to find and deport immigrants in the country illegally. But some of the localities remained defiant, despite risking the loss of funds that police agencies use to pay for everything from body cameras to bulletproof vests.

Don Baylor and Bobby Grich grew up as Baltimore Orioles, playing on a legendary Rochester Triple-A team.

“We had a mantra throughout that organization that I never heard anywhere else,” Grich said Monday. “We said, ‘If we win, everybody had a good year.’’’

If you played with Don Baylor, you had a good year.

You generally won, too. From 1986-88, Baylor went to three World Series on three different teams. Bruce Hurst told him, “Tell me where you’re playing next year so I know who is going to win.”

The Angels played their first game in 1961 and saw their first postseason in 1979. That was the “Yes, We Can” year, when Baylor drove in 138 runs, and Grich noticed how his shoulder and legs ached before games, and Baylor played all 162 of them and led the American League in runs as a cleanup hitter. He was the Angels’ first Most Valuable Player.

He was the centerpiece of the table, weighty and thick, impossible to move. He showed how easily one could live if one divested oneself of the artifice and held onto the grace. A tough trick, but Baylor did it until Monday, when he died at 68, from myeloma that had advanced further than nearly anybody knew.

“He was a great teammate,” Grich said. “Even in the minor leagues he was a leader.

“When he and I and Joe Rudi came to the Angels (as free agents), I was out with a bad disk and Joe was after he was hit by a pitch. The team struggled and Don was the only new guy out there, and he bore the brunt of all the frustration. He could have called the fans front-runners and written them off. Instead he never complained and he just kept playing, and eventually we won.”

The Hall of Fame has become the Hall of Numbers and, as such, has a problem with a guy with the immeasurables of Baylor.

He  had one 100-RBI season, 2,135 hits and a .260 average, and he hit 338 home runs. Those are disqualifiers. He was on the ballot for two years and got 2.6 percent of the votes both times.

Never mind the number of 3,000-hit men who do their thing, walk out and leave nothing behind but their stats. They deserve Cooperstown, too, but Baylor’s name brought a smile to nearly every teammate. On Monday it brought tears, as well.

How many guys were MVPs and All-Stars and yet managed an expansion team to the playoffs in its third year? Baylor took over the Colorado Rockies in 1993. The Blake Street Bombers were the first National League wild-card club

First there was the strife of the 1995 spring, and the replacement-player scheme. Baylor wanted no part of anything that defiled baseball or mocked the men who had earned their way to the majors.

“”He’d sit in his office and figure out the lineup, and if the game started at 1:05 he was out there at 1:03,” said Mike Swanson, then the Rockies’ director of communications. “We had cast members from ‘Major League 2’ on that team. Every day he would ask me, ‘Heard anything yet?’  When it (the lockout) was settled, he was the happiest man you ever saw.”

One of Baylor’s few impudent moments came when he got to Baltimore and faced an outfield logjam. “Once I get in the groove, it won’t matter who’s out there,” he said offhandedly.

For weeks on end, Frank Robinson and Mark Belanger pounded him with comments. Baylor’s lifelong nickname became Groove. It became his license plate.

His first mentor was Robinson, who conducted kangaroo court hearings in the clubhouse and fined players for various misdeeds. Baylor took up the gavel in Boston.

But Grich says Baylor’s true legacy was the Sixty-Five Roses campaign, for victims of cystic fibrosis. Prompted by Dr. Gene Moses in 1979, Baylor organized the annual golf tournament that has been replicated in every pro sports league.

“He’s raised $10 million,” Grich said. “The life expectancy is now 37 years old.”

Few CF children saw their first birthday in the 30s, but in 1989 doctors discovered the gene that caused it. Baylor only said he wanted to hear one thing: “Yes, we did.” He wanted the bottom-line cure.

Baylor was a strong union supporter, and he clashed with George Steinbrenner and Buzzie Bavasi. He was prideful and opinionated in a sport that prefers submissiveness.

But he was the axis of every clubhouse, and his friends didn’t just grieve Monday. They felt unbalanced. They were accustomed to good years, because to know Don Baylor was to borrow winning.

TUSTIN Phil Cox has admired the boxy sedan for most of his 81 years.

As a boy, he would watch in awe as the 1921 Nash Sport Phaeton tootled around Tustin — two parents in the front seat, two kids in the back, top off.

“The fact it was a convertible just fascinated me,” Cox said.

So when the now-vintage car became available for purchase a few months ago, Cox was first in line.

“I wanted to preserve this piece of Tustin history,” he said.

On Sunday, Aug. 13, Cox will put the car on permanent public display — just across the street from where it resided for almost a century.

His father, Ed Cox, ran a grocery store on the corner of El Camino Real and Main Street. The owner of the coveted car, mechanic and firefighter Dale Crawford, lived kitty-corner to the grocer — so young Phil grew up with the snazzy vehicle in plain view.

In the 1940s, back when Old Town Tustin was just Tustin, the Hamburger Bar on A Street boasted a chef-attired mannequin that took orders via a hidden microphone. Phil Cox vividly remembers the Crawfords, regulars at the popular restaurant, pulling up in their showpiece like movie stars.

Cox would later inherit Cox Market Plaza, which he leases to boutiques and eateries. There, the car will turn heads through the windows of new clothing store, Johnny Jeans, which replaces a florist.

Initially, his wife puzzled over this seemingly out-of-the-blue brainstorm.

“You don’t want to know the way I reacted,” Linda Cox, 72, chuckled.

“It’s the only affair she’ll let me have,” Phil Cox said.

The car was passed down through three generations, ending up with Crawford’s grandson, Elwood Dale Boosey — whose mom was that girl in the backseat going out for burgers.

“My grandparents would drive us to the San Diego Zoo with the wind in our hair,” Boosey reminisced.

After his parents had both died, Boosey started renting out the family house. The Nash, which has not been out for a spin since the 1980s, was left in the garage.

“It got dusty and dirty, but it was not exposed to the elements,” said Boosey, 70, who lives in Los Angeles.

When Boosey decided to sell the house earlier this year, he discovered that Cox wanted to buy it the car.

“I feel so much nostalgia for it,” he said. “When Phil took an interest, I was thrilled.”

Cox declined to divulge the car’s price tag, saying only, “I paid what he asked. But it is not a Bentley.”

Others were interested, too, he said: “I didn’t want it to end up in some wealthy person’s garage never to be seen again.”

His new old car now sits under a protective tarp at a friend’s house in Santa Ana. A vintage auto refurbisher polished up its burgundy exterior, but Cox has no interest in hiring a mechanic for an overhaul.

“I don’t want to spend a bunch of money just so I can show it off once a year in the Tustin Tiller Days parade,” he said.

Thus, its odometer will remain frozen in time at 92,552 miles.

Cox moved to Northern California as a young man for a job in law enforcement. After retirement, he and his wife settled down in Oregon.

Still, they make the trip south to Tustin a couple of times a year for weeks-long stints, camping out in their motor home at Cox Market Plaza.

“He left his heart in Tustin,” Linda Cox said.

Or, at least, he left the childhood for which he waxes poetic — when orange groves cradled his quaint hometown.

Tucked in back of the shopping center is a small “museum” — open daily to the public. In it, Cox exhibits Tustin memorabilia such as a 1924 bank safe and stools that once stood at a pharmacy’s soda counter.

And in a few days, the center will acquire Cox’s crown jewel: The precious Nash.

“My grandfather would feel so honored,” Boosey said. “His car will stay in perpetuity where it belongs.”

The search for a missing Westminster woman and a Lakewood man at Joshua Tree National Park is continuing on, searchers said Monday, Aug. 7.

Despite the scorching temperatures and few leads, volunteers and resources from local agencies are still looking, the 12th day of the search.

On July 27, Joseph Orbeso and Rachel Nguyen left an Airbnb rental near the park to go hiking, officials said. Authorities were alerted the following day when it was determined the couple hadn’t checked out and found clothing, an iPad and food in their room.

“An extensive search has been going on in the park since July 28,” park spokesman George Land said in a Monday statement.

“While resources have been scaled back, a special regional overhead team made up of investigators from Yosemite National Park and Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park have arrived on scene as well as NPS drone specialists from the Grand Canyon,” Land said.

Canines were also searching the area.

The pair’s car and fresh footprints were found in the park near Maze Loop.

Anyone who might have seen them or with information is asked to call San Bernardino Dispatch at 909-383-5652.

HONOREES CHOSEN: Delivering Good (formerly K.I.D.S./Fashion Delivers) will honor four industry leaders at its annual gala fundraiser on Nov. 8.
The event takes place at the American Museum of Natural History, with cocktails at 6 p.m. and dinner and awards at 7 p.m.
This year’s honorees are Lissa Baum, executive vice president and chief lending officer, Israel Discount Bank of New York; Allan Ellinger, senior managing partner, MMG Advisors and Delivering Good board chairman; Brad D. Rose, partner, Pryor Cashman; and Stephen Teglas, senior vice president, The Walt Disney Co.
The event cochairs are Tom Nastos, president, women’s fashion, UBM Plc; and Joe Shamie, president, Delta Children.
The gala is a significant source of operating income that allows Delivering Good to distribute merchandise each year. In 2016, Delivering Good collected a record $214 million in merchandise.  This year’s gala focuses on the millions of people Delivering Good helps each year and the wide range of places where new product is provided. The charity accepts donations from hundreds of companies in the fashion, home and children’s industries.

Follow WWD on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.

Read More…

Maxfield and Bravado have teamed for a Guns N’ Roses-inspired pop-up set to open Friday at the upscale Los Angeles boutique.
The shop-in-shop bows in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the band’s debut album “Appetite for Destruction” and will run through Aug. 18.
Maxfield has been on a tear of late with its shop-in-shop model, tapping local brands for temporary stints at its gallery space on Melrose Avenue and a more recent one at its Malibu store. Participating lines have so far included Enfants Riches Déprimés, Mike Amiri, Local Authority, Fear of God, Off-White and Vetements.
This latest event for Guns N’ Roses pulled in many of those brands — such as Amiri, Kelly Cole, MadeWorn, Off-White, Palm Angeles and Enfants Riches Déprimés — to create limited edition capsules incorporating the Guns N’ Roses album and artwork.
For Bravado, part of Paris media conglomerate Vivendi’s music group Universal, the Maxfield pop-up is a continuation of a new retail experience it’s been dabbling with more recently that puts new spins on the traditional routes of selling basic concert T-shirts. Bravado was behind Kanye West’s 21-city pop-up event last  year that featured “Life of Pablo” album merchandise and Justin Bieber’s more recent “Purpose the Stadium

Follow WWD on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.

Read More…

Paramour by Felina is launching nursing bras.
The brand, which is known for its contemporary bras that cater to fuller sizes, has created three styles: Lorraine, a contour nursing bra made from moisture-wicking material with front and back closures and a soft lace racer-back; Cecile, a seamless, wire-free nursing bralette made from soft nylon, and Carol, a light nursing bra made from spacer fabric.
“Paramour is a brand that celebrates a woman’s curves, and she shouldn’t have to give that up just because she’s nursing,” said Robert Gardner, vice president of sales. “If she loves Paramour before pregnancy, she will be happy to find that she can have everything the brand has to offer while she nurses as well. And if her introduction to Paramour is first as a nursing mother, and she finds that she loves the fit, comfort and style, we will be here for her after she is done nursing.”
The collection will be sold at Designerintimates.com, Dillard’s and Nordstrom.
More from WWD:
Paramour by Felina Introduces Full Figure Sizing
Jockey Courts Younger Customer
Panache Introduces ‘Find Your Fit’ Campaign

Follow WWD on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.

Read More…

A visual experience worthy of a film director meets a new extra añejo from the premium tequila producer.

TUSTIN — A 3-year-old boy was found unconscious floating in his backyard pool Sunday, Aug. 6, before firefighters revived him, authorities said.

The Orange County Fire Authority received a call regarding the incident in the 13000 block of Hewes Avenue at 6 p.m., Capt. Stephen Horner said. Firefighters arrived at the house five minutes later, and the 3-year-old boy was not breathing and had no pulse, Horner said.

They performed CPR on him and were able to revive the child, he said. The boy was taken to a local hospital by ambulance.

Before the incident, the boy was taking a nap at the house, Horner said. When his mother went to check on him, he wasn’t there.

“She frantically looked around and found him faced down in the pool,” Horner said.

There was no fencing around the pool, he said.

Mater Dei offensive guard Chris Murray (6-3, 290) is one of Orange County’s hottest football recruits.

The senior announced Sunday that he has been offered by Notre Dame.

Blessed to say that I have received an offer from the UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME!!! ☘️ #GoIrish ☘️ pic.twitter.com/L2eNzeSazh

— Chris Murray (@chris1murray) August 7, 2017

Murray’s offer arrives after Stanford recently extended him a scholarship.