DEAR ABBY: I recently hosted a family gathering that included my adult cousin and his wife, who live locally, and my son, daughter-in-law and their son, who traveled from Georgia to Pennsylvania to visit.Since my son and family rarely see relatives, I thought it would be great to get everyone together. At the gathering, my son barely acknowledged our ...

The party of Andrew Jackson has spent a decade running from him. It should keep the two things he got right.I was 14 the first time I raised my hand to volunteer. I was short for my age. I had a bad stutter. The campaign was Jesse Jacksons, in 1988. They made me a precinct captain anyway.Thirty years later, I was my states Democratic nominee for governor.So ...

If any Chicago thoroughfare deserves a come up, it's West Side's downtrodden Madison Street.And now, a spate of new projects and initiatives promises to significantly improve the long-neglected street, the latest of which is the $48 million Sankofa Village Wellness Center that officially opened a few weeks ago at 4305 W. Madison St. The center designed by ...

Its easy to think British playwright Tom Stoppard lived a charmed life. He was the toast of the West End, and his writing garnered some of theaters most prestigious awards, from the Oliviers to the Tonys to an Oscar.Even Stoppard said his life was charmed, until he began wrestling late in life with a reckoning numerous family members had been killed in ...

The James Beard Awards are back, bringing acclaimed chefs and restaurateurs from across the country to Chicago for the ceremony and a spate of related events.The so-called Oscars of the food world will descend on Chicagos Lyric Opera House on Monday, June 15.This year, three Chicago chefs are on the short list to win one of the prestigious prizes: Bailey ...

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Hundreds of people hopped on their bicycles Monday evening and rode through Bridgeport to honor Riley ONeil, a city employee and champion of improving road safety who was fatally struck by a truck driver while biking over the weekend.We were very lucky to get him as a staff member, Vig Krishnamurthy, managing deputy commissioner of the Chicago Department of ...

It was late Sunday afternoon at Wrigley Field, hours before Alex Bregman would sit in front of his cubicle in the home clubhouse and proclaim how terrible he has been this season.Over in the visitors clubhouse, Matt Chapman of the Giants was talking about Bregman and how he has struggled at the plate.Just like a lot of us have, Chapman said.Chapman didnt ...

Four people were shot and seriously wounded Monday evening in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side, according to the Chicago Fire Department.Paramedics responded around 7:30 p.m. and found the victims near Madison Street and Lockwood Avenue, according to CFD spokeswoman Katherine Peyton-Chaney.They were all taken to hospitals in serious-to-critical ...

Ald. Timmy Knudsen (43rd) is asking for "stricter rules on nightlife" in a corridor of Lincoln Park where a woman was shot Sunday following a bar fight nearby.The 39-year-old woman was shot while standing outside in Lincoln Park Sunday just before 4 a.m. in the 600 block of West Belden Avenue, police said.In an email to constituents Monday, Knudsen said the ...

The Cubs caused a stir in San Francisco, and it had nothing to do with the action on the field this weekend.After all, the Giants won the series and could've swept it.The angst came from the Giants' Spanish-language radio crew being moved from a booth into the rafters of the Wrigley Field press box, according to John Shea of the San Francisco Standard. On ...

The iconic Chicago-area hot dog chain Portillos will open a restaurant on Michigan Avenue, south of the Chicago River.The Oak Brook-based company didnt give an opening date for the location at 304 N. Michigan Ave. But the news marks renewed focus on Portillos home market, where the brand renowned for Chicago-style hot dogs and Italian beef sandwiches has a ...

Michael Jordan said Monday he's "deeply saddened" by the death of former Bulls teammate Stacey King, who died Sunday at 59. Jordan emphasized King's role on his first three NBA championship teams with the Bulls (1991-93). King was the No. 6 overall pick in the 1989 NBA draft by Chicago and played eight seasons in the NBA before a long career as a beloved ...

At least 22 City Council members say they plan to reject the sale of Chicago parking meters to a New York investment firm, after accusing Mayor Brandon Johnson of withholding critical information from the Council and secretly agreeing to a June 30 deadline to authorize the transaction.In a sharply worded letter to the mayor delivered Monday, the coalition ...

ComEd est ofreciendo pagos de hasta $500 a sus clientes propietarios de pequeos negocios que estn navegando para pagar sus facturas de electricidad tras dos aos de aumentos de precios relacionados con el crecimiento de los centros de datos.Las solicitudes de la subvencin estarn disponibles a partir del 15 de junio y se asignarn por orden de llegada. Para ms ...

A zingy mojo marinade should be in your grilling repertoire -- one that does double duty as both a marinade and a vibrant finishing sauce. "Mojo" is the Spanish word for sauce, and it traces its roots to the Canary Islands before traveling to Cuba, Puerto Rico and throughout the Caribbean, where each region developed its own distinctive iteration of the ...

More than 100 former federal prosecutors who served in Chicago and Rockford delivered an extraordinary rebuke of U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros on Monday, concluding theres been a failure of leadership in an office with a renowned history of excellence pursuing justice.The 111 signatories include individuals identifying as Democrats, Republicans and ...

Evanston Township High School is closed until Wednesday because of a cyberattack that occurred over the weekend, school officials announced. A ransomware attack "disrupted access to district systems, internet services and computer infrastructure" and forced the school to cancel summer classes, sports camps and other on-campus activities that were scheduled, ...

PHILADELPHIA Somebody had to represent the lowly White Sox in All-Star Games during the depths of the rebuild.Thats no knock on Shane Smith, Garrett Crochet or Luis Robert Jr., who each had admirable enough showings to earn their way to Midsummer Classics in the Sox string of three consecutive triple-digit-loss seasons.But with the team finally showing ...

The recruiting timeline for one of the states top basketball prospects may have been unorthodox, but it sure made the final days of his high school years memorable.Lincoln Williams, who has been the top uncommitted prospect in the state for months, graduated from Kankakee on May 21. The All-Area guard followed it up with a commitment to Illinois on Monday.I ...

La Polica de Chicago cerr rpidamente una investigacin sobre un accidente de choque y fuga que involucr a un agente federal de inmigracin mientras detena a un hombre la semana pasada en Albany Park, segn inform el Chicago Sun-Times.El accidente ocurri el martes por la maana en la cuadra 3100 al oeste de Lawrence Avenue, donde agentes de Inmigracin y Control ...

La Oficina de Aduanas y Proteccin Fronteriza (CBP) le neg el ingreso el viernes a un fotgrafo de la seleccin nacional de ftbol de Irak y mantuvo a un jugador bajo interrogatorio durante horas en el Aeropuerto Internacional O'Hare, mientras el equipo llegaba para un partido de exhibicin que se realizar esta semana, en preparacin para la Copa Mundial de la ...

How good is Brock Williams?Good enough for a national power to venture well away from its usual recruiting base to reel him in.The Libertyville tight end committed to Texas on the Pat McAfee Show last month, adding the consensus No. 79 player in the country to coach Steve Sarkisian's 2027 class."It says a lot for a team like Texas coming up to get him," ...

A 13-year-old boy was charged Monday with shooting four other children over the weekend in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood on the South Side.The teen allegedly pulled out a gun around 9:40 p.m. Saturday in the 4500 block of South Prairie Avenue and opened fire on the other boys, according to Chicago police. Responding officers later found the four boys ...

With June's summer shootouts upon us, which includes two live period weekends where college coaches will be out evaluating prospects, the high school basketball calendar has officially turned the page to 2026-27.High school coaches will get to start molding their teams for a few weeks this month through team camps, shootouts and summer leagues.Here are a ...