PHILADELPHIA Rookie first baseman Jacob Gonzalezs first career home run helped power the White Sox to a 6-3 victory against the hottest team in baseball on Saturday in Philadelphia.The Sox followed a tried and true formula to draw first blood from Phillies starter Andrew Painter, who plunked Sam Antonacci for the rookies MLB-leading 14th hit-by-pitch to ...

PHILADELPHIA Two grinders are better than one at the top of the White Sox batting order.With an eye-popping proclivity for getting plunked and diving across the field, rookie left fielder Sam Antonacci has seized the spotlight in the leadoff spot against right-handers for manager Will Venable.But with a full year of big-league baseball under his belt, ...

On the last day of April, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell stood at a dais and watched Browns owner Jimmy Haslam gush over the soon-to-be $2.6 billion Huntington Bank Field. The Browns next stadium is being built in Brook Park, Ohio, a suburb southwest of Cleveland, and is expected to open in 2029.At the ceremonial groundbreaking, Haslam detailed the teams ...

A beloved chef and restaurant owner was one of two people killed in a mass shooting early Friday in Back of the Yards, where five others were also injured.Isaac Wavy Bradley and Lamar Butler were among a group at a home in the 5100 block of South Wood Street around 12:25 a.m. when two masked men began walking down the block and opened fire, according to ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. When the Blackhawks drafted Swedish forward Anton Frondell a year ago, they knew he would likely return for one more season in his home country before making the NHL leap, and that's exactly what happened.Ivar Stenberg, arguably the odds-on favorite at the moment to be the Hawks' fourth overall pick this year, has no such plans. He believes ...

Jack Antonoff, the producer, finally got a night off on Friday. As his band Bleachers kicked off a new tour at Salt Shed, for once the focus turned away from the nonstop work hes done for other artists to his main gig: the indie pop project he founded in 2013, before he was building up his cache of pop star cohorts.OK, yes, Antonoff did just drop the new ...

They were a couple of college kids in Oregon with big plans. Matt Boyd was going to pitch in the big leagues, blessed with a strong left arm and a quiet confidence. Ashley Timm was going to change the world, in ways not yet revealed.It was her calling, Ashley had known since high school, to advocate for those who needed her most. Passion layered with ...

Lauri Markkanen and Jaren Jackson Jr. will eat up just over $96 million of the Jazzs salary next season.Fortunately for the Jazz, the rest of the roster is on the cheap, including second-team all-rookie standout Ace Bailey.Even holding the No. 2 overall draft pick in a few weeks, Utah finds itself in a salary cap comfort zone with just over $138 million in ...

During a Washington Nationals baseball game on May 17, three people unfurled a large banner from the upper deck of Nationals Park displaying a link to a white nationalist website.The website, warning of the replacement of whites by people of color, called for the deportation of 100 million people from the United States.The disturbing incident reflects the ...

DEAR ABBY: My boss doesn't set boundaries between work and our personal lives. I adore her, but the job is very stressful and comes first. She recently became engaged, and I don't know how to accept her husband-to-be. When we're all together, he's constantly on his cellphone or makes mean-spirited jabs at my husband over sports. We can't all cheer for the ...

Last April, Southwest Side residents celebrated the grand reopening of a Save A Lot, the last from a deal backed by $13.5 million in city money to renovate six of the discount grocery stores in food deserts.The man behind the project was Joseph Canfield, CEO of Ohio-based Yellow Banana, heralded by fellow cofounders for his couple decades of grocery ...

Summer is starting out tough. Customers who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program also known as SNAP, Link in Illinois, or food stamps are losing critical grocery benefits because of new federal work requirements contained in the socalled One Big Beautiful Bill.At Living Fresh Market, the supermarket I oversee as a senior executive, about ...

The same week I met Pope Leo XIV, I watched my eldest son graduate.Like any parent, I felt immense pride seeing him step into adulthood. But I also found myself thinking about the wounded country and world he and his peers are inheriting.Here in America, families are struggling with rising costs. Our immigrant neighbors, co-workers, classmates and friends ...

Parents often notice the physical symptoms first. Their child wakes up with a headache, mysterious stomach pain before school or tears at the kitchen table over homework. The anxiety underlying these symptoms is easier to miss. Adults frequently dismiss this behavior as a personality quirk, mislabeling compulsion as a harmless habit.Yet childhood anxiety ...

ComEds proposed one-acre substation in Lincoln Park is drawing the ire of neighbors, some of whom have formed a group in an attempt to block the project.The utility wants to build the substation at 1111 W. Diversey Parkway, which used to be a COVID-19 testing facility. Prior to that, it was a car dealership. ComEd purchased the site for $11.5 million in ...

In this over-connected world, where anyone can turn someone elses life into online content, its fair to question who actually owns our personal stories. Our social media feeds are often inundated with the personal, even embarrassing stories that people tell to get their 15 minutes of fame.These ideas come together in the cleverly crafted world premiere ...

Moon Alert Caution! Avoid shopping (except food and gas) and important decisions all day until 8:15 p.m. After that, the moon moves from Aquarius into Pisces.Aries (March 21-April 19) A positive day .HoroscopeStarbox { background: #f8f8f8; display: flex; ...

From the outset, it was a deal described as a sweetheart of one. Too good to be legit, too compromising to ever be official. Plus, it was Indiana. No one goes to Indiana; they just go back to it.Five years in the making it was. To all (still possibly, yet strongly) come to this. A situation, a conclusion, that began in 2021, when the Bears announced they ...

Throughout the Skys five-game losing streak, they knew exactly what they needed to fix.They knew that, injuries and all, they had enough talent and experience to beat the teams they kept losing to.They knew they had to shoot better from deep, where their 25.7% is still last in the league.They knew they had to stop fouling on defense, too often spoiling an ...

A woman was sexually assaulted in the Loop on Friday, and during the incident two men, including the assaulter, were stabbed, police said.A 24-year-old woman, who was walking on the sidewalk, was sexually assault around 4 p.m., Chicago police said. She was near the 200 block of N. State Street in the Loop.Following the assault, a physical altercation with ...

The three-day Pokmon GO Fest kicked off Friday in Grant Park to celebrate the games 10-year anniversary. Here are photos from the event. ...

A bicyclist died after being hit by a car Friday afternoon in Bridgeport, police said.A man riding a bicycle was hit by a vehicle in traffic around 4:40 p.m. while in the 3200 block of S. Halsted Street, Chicago police said.The man, 35, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.The Major Accident Investigation Unit (MAIU) is investigating.

PHILADELPHIA Three homers from the White Sox veteran platoon outfielders werent enough Friday night as they fell 8-6 in a series-opening slug fest against the Phillies, with Randal Grichuk swatting two solo blasts and Derek Hill adding another on a tough night for starter Anthony Kay.Left fielder Sam Antonacci got the Sox on the board the way the grinding ...

Once again, baseball reminds us that we are so easily fooled. One night after witnessing a dramatic ninth-inning comeback win by the Cubs that lures us into thinking this surely signals a change in the teams fortunes, reality slaps us in the face once again.This slap was a doozy: Giants 18, Cubs 3.It rarely is that easy, even though Jed Hoyer, the Cubs ...

For one painful afternoon Friday at Wrigley Field, Edward Cabrera earned a new nickname: El Aguafiesta. Loosely translated, thats Spanish for buzzkill.Cabrera hadnt pitched since May 20th because of a blister on the middle finger of his pitching hand.This was not independently confirmed, but many in the crowd of 39,060 left with blisters on their derrieres ...