Fire coach Frank Klopas said Brian Gutierrezs form is why he hasnt started the past two matches.Courtesy of the Fire The Fire attack has sputtered the last three games, scoring once in open play. On Wednesday, coach Frank Klopas tried to explain why the offense has dried up.The one thing is to be way more aggressive in ...

Indiana State center Robbie Avila, who played high school basketball at Oak Forest, is one of the biggest local names in the college transfer portal. Doug McSchooler/AP The transfer portal dominates the college basketball conversation for roughly two months in the spring.Each year the portal is littered with former ...

New coach Teresa Weatherspoon (left) is at the center of the new era chairman and co-owner Nadia Rawlinson (right) is touting. Perfect timing isnt real.Being in precise alignment isnt the result of coincidence and certainly shouldnt be left up to chance. The reality of perfect timing is the successful execution of a ...

Andrew Benintendi and the Sox matched the 1907 Brooklyn Superbas as the lone MLB teams to get shut out six times in their first 16 games.AP LAS VEGAS As many professional bettors had expected, the White Sox have been woeful.But theyre worse than anyone could have imagined, Long Island handicapper Tom Barton said, and ...

The Burnham Prairie wetland in south suburban Burnham is protected because it is in the Cook County Forest Preserves, but other critical wetlands in Illinois have lost their protections because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year.Provided In Illinois, certain wetlands are at risk. The Legislature has an opportunity ...

DEAR ABBY: My parents have been divorced for 30 years. It was an unpleasant divorce because Dad had an affair with a woman he worked with and married her soon after. Mom was devastated. She and Dad were high school sweethearts.Both have moved on from this sort of. Dad has since divorced, remarried and divorced again. He's now with a woman he isn't married ...

Actors Mahmoud Bakri (center) and Muhammed Abed El Rahman (right) from a scene in Farah Nabulsis film The Teacher. Nabulsi will be in town later this month for a screening of the film at the Chicago Palestine Film Festival, which kicked off Saturday and continues until May 4. This is the 23rd year the festival has been held.Provided ...

An outrider intercepts Havnameltdown after the horse lost its rider and suffered a catastrophic leg injury during a race leading up to the 2023 Preakness Stakes in Baltimore. The horse later was euthanized.Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Sun via AP When a horse goes down in the middle of the track and a team rushes out with ...

The HeartMate 3 is a mechanical pump designed for patients with end-stage heart failure and manufactured by Thoratec Corp., a subsidiary of Abbott Laboratories of North Chicago. Known as a left ventricular assist device, the HeartMate 3 helps the main pumping chamber of the heart pump blood to the rest of the body. The device can be used by patients ...

The CHAs Harold L. Ickes Homes as they were being demolished in 2009. Sun-Times file When the city and Chicago Housing Authority demolished distressed high-rise public housing developments under the Plan for Transformation, they promised to fill the land with housing for many Chicagoans.Twenty years later, there are ...

Robert Fagaragan and Kissel Fagaragan are opening the doors to Umaga Bakehouse, 4703 W. Foster Ave., on Saturday. After working for another bakery, the couple decided they wanted to build a business of their own so they could have better work-life balance.Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Kathy Vega Hardy, the chef behind A ...

Joe Teri, 13 with a big tom turkey and a found shed antler from Illinois youth season.Provided Notes come from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.SHED (AND TURKEY) OF THE WEEKDuring second youth turkey season, Matt Teri emailed that walked in in the dark in Stephenson County. "Found shed antler," he emailed.  Then his ...

Moon AlertAvoid shopping or important decisions from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Chicago time. After that, the moon moves from Virgo into Libra.Aries (March 21-April 19)Keep your pockets open because gifts, goodies and favors might come your way today. Or you might spontaneously buy something that pleases you. (Check moon alert.) You might also dream up ways to boost ...

Bulls veteran DeMar DeRozan has a lot to unpack this summer now that his team has again come up short this season. The free agent-to-be first has to come to grips with again losing to Miami and its Heat Culture. Wilfredo Lee/AP MIAMI A 1,200-mile plane ride from Miami to Chicago isnt going to cure this one. Not this ...

They were driving in an alley in the 3800 block of West Jackson Boulevard when people in a nearby SUV and sedan opened fire. Sun-Times file photo A woman was killed and a man wounded in a shooting Friday in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.The two were driving in an alley just before 5 p.m. in the 3800 block of West ...

Majid Matariyeh, a Palestinian American, walks through Federal Plaza in The Loop, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-TimesTyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Time Tensions in the Middle East are high, with Iran and Israel trading drone strikes in recent days. Looking ahead, University of Chicago student ...

A voter at Isabelle C. OKeeffe School in South Shore feeds her ballot into a voting machine on Election Day in April.Pat Nabong/Sun-Times The March 19 election will go down in Illinois history as having the lowest voter turnout for a presidential primary since at least 1960. Chicago may have avoided surpassing 2012's ...

Crime scene tape marks the home at 5919 N. Washtenaw Ave. in October 2022, when the dismembered body of the buildings landlord was found in a freezer. Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file photo A woman accused of killing and dismembering her landlord two years ago at a Northwest Side home they shared took the stand in her own ...

Philadelphia Phillies Alec Bohm, center, celebrates with third base coach Dusty Wathan after hitting a three-run home run against Garrett Crochet during the third inning Friday, April 19, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP)Matt Slocum/AP Photos  PHILADELPHIA One of the few good things about this loss-after-loss-after-loss ...

Bulls coach Billy Donovan remains very hopeful that Lonzo Ball is headed for a return. He also sees a roster in which Ball can play and be productive even with the emergence of Ayo Dosunmu and Coby White.Charles Rex Arbogast/AP MIAMI It would seem that the guard room at the Bulls facility should have a filled to ...

White Sox catcher Martn Maldonado bunts during the first game of a doubleheader against the Kansas City Royals Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Chicago. (AP)Erin Hooley/AP Photos PHILADELPHIA -- Martin Maldonado owned a .205/.281/.346 career hitting line through Thursday, so offense has not not the catchers calling card ...

The Illinois State Capitol Building.Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Just eight of 78 Illinois House Democrats openly sided last week with the once-indomitable Chicago Teachers Union.The CTU hotly opposed a bill to halt all public school closures and prevent disproportionate budget cuts and changes to admissions criteria at ...

Williams won the 2022 Heisman Trophy.Michael Conroy/AP Photos USC quarterback Caleb Williams, who likely will join the Bears next week as the No. 1 overall pick in the draft, aims to exceed what Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud did as a rookie last season and eventually surpass Tom Bradys seven Super Bowl rings.In an ...

Jameson Taillons return can help stabilize the Cubs starting rotation. | Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty ImagesQuinn Harris/Getty Starter Jameson Taillon hadnt felt this nervousness in a while. The veteran right-hander had a hard time eating in anticipation of his season debut.But Taillons uneasiness didnt show on the mound ...

Contemporary Christian singer Mandisa accepts the award for pop/contemporary album of the year at the Dove Awards in 2014, in Nashville, Tenn.Mark Humphrey/AP, file NASHVILLE, Tenn. Mandisa, a contemporary Christian singer who appeared on American Idol and won a Grammy for her 2013 album Overcomer, has died. She was ...