PITTSBURGH In the Cubs latest bullpen-tweaking move, they selected right-hander Chris Flexen from Triple-A to serve as a multi-inning middle reliever Wednesday.In corresponding moves, they transferred right-hander Javier Assad (strained left oblique) from the 15-day IL to the 60-day, and they optioned left-handed reliever Tom Cosgrove to Triple-A after he ...

Health officials have reported the first two confirmed measles cases of the year in Cook County.One person with the disease is an adult from Chicago who traveled internationally through OHare Airport in early April, according to the Chicago Department of Public Health.A rash started April 25 and they have been isolated at home since being diagnosed. They ...

TheaterA creative team of Black women artists from New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Toronto, including a new story and libretto by Leah-Simone Bowen and co-librettist Cheryl L. Davis, and new orchestration and arrangements by Jessie Montgomery and Jannina Norpoth, presents a reimagining of Scott Joplins Treemonisha, the composers often-overlooked 1911 ...

Victor Gmez thought it was strange when he was asked to escort his students to the band room on Wednesday. There was supposedly an issue with the pipes in his classroom at East Leyden High School in the northwest suburb of Franklin Park.But Gmez, 31, didnt expect the band room to be filled with his family, state education leaders and a mariachi band, who ...

BARCELONA, Spain Barcelona and Inter Milan delivered a thrilling 3-3 draw in the first leg of their Champions League semifinal on Wednesday.The game featured gorgeous goals from both sides and sets up a must-see sequel next week in Milan.Marcus Thuram was a doubt for the starting 11 after missing Inter's previous three matches all losses without a goal. ...

A sharply divided City Council committee decided Wednesday to hold off before handing the Chicago Police Department a new tool against teen takeovers: the power to declare three-hour long snap curfews to disperse groups of 20 or more.After a five-hour hearing that featured legal warnings and strenuous objections from youths and their City Council ...

University of North Carolina football coach Bill Belichick defended girlfriend Jordon Hudson for interjecting during a CBS interviewer's questions about their relationship and said she was "simply doing her job."The six-time Super Bowl-winning head coach and first-time college coach at UNC issued a statement through the school Wednesday, which followed an ...

Mayo comienza con la mega marcha para hacer un llamado a la accin sobre el papel de los inmigrantes mexicanos y latinos en este pas y tambin ofrece una variedad musical para demostrar que aportan no slo su trabajo, sino su cultura, identidad, idioma y dinero.Marcha del 1 de Mayo No nos vamos y semana de la accin: La semana de accin comenzar con una mega ...

Angela Meeks gazed in horror at the motionless body of her 25-year-old daughter Keyana Meeks after she was hit by a SUV being driven by her younger sister early Tuesday."She was just laying there. I thought I saw her move," Angela, 51, said. "I hoped she'd be okay, prayed she'd be okay because I didnt see any blood."Keyana's family are "in shock and ...

Nunca olvidar haber visto a Kunta Kinte en la miniserie de televisin de 1977, Roots, luchando por mantener su nombre mientras la vara de un capataz caa una y otra vez sobre l.Su determinacin era un recordatorio brutal de cmo los colonizadores blancos utilizaron el lenguaje para transformar a las personas negras en mercancas: compradas, vendidas, ...

La Asociacin Nacional de Baloncesto Femenil (WNBA) transmitir todos sus juegos de pretemporada, incluyendo una transmisin nacional del partido de exhibicin del equipo Chicago Sky contra la seleccin nacional de Brasil el viernes en a Universidad Estatal de Luisiana (LSU).Ese partido es parte de un esfuerzo para marcar el retorno estrellas como Angel Reese de ...

The Stars head coach Lorne Donaldson is leaving the club.The team announced on Wednesday that first assistant coach Masaki Hemmi will be interim coach."We are grateful to Lorne Donaldson for the culture, respect and sense of self-belief he helped build within our squad. We appreciate his work and wish him the best for the future, general manager Richard ...

SPRINGFIELD A downstate man on trial for murder testified Wednesday that millions and millions of people hated me following his arrest for assaulting two people at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.Explaining his state of mind ahead of a Nov. 8, 2022, crash that ended the life of 35-year-old Lauren Wegner of Skokie, Shane Jason Woods said his arrest led to ...

The NFL has announced the disciplinary action it will take toward the Atlanta Falcons and defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich for allowing Shedeur Sanders' phone number to leak during the 2025 NFL Draft.On Wednesday morning, the league announced a $250,000 fine for the team and an additional $100,000 fine for Ulbrich "for failing to prevent the disclosure of ...

There's a new kid on the musical festival block headed to Chicago this fall.Well, it's not a new festival, per se, according to Pitchfork co-founder Mike Reed, who on Wednesday announced the inaugural Sound & Gravity a multi-venue-based, concert "community experience" running Sept. 10-14 in Bricktown/Avondale.Organized through Reed's Constellation ...

An international student forced to abruptly leave Chicago for his home country of India says his legal immigration status has been restored, but he feels deeply conflicted about returning to the United States. His status was revoked in early April without warning.What is going to make it hard for me to choose to come to the U.S. is that anything like this ...

If you had to use one word to describe Allana Clarkes art at EXPO Chicago last weekend, a fitting option would be freedom.Sure, one may consider the freedom of form in A Rhythm Black & Sweet #9, which features a sea of black hair-bonding glue spread over a linen panel.But the piece also represents a freedom from the burden of white beauty standards forced ...

Two Chicago police officers were involved in a collision with another car as they raced to an emergency call early Wednesday in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood.The officers were in a squad car with its emergency lights activated going north on Wentworth Avenue when they collided with a gray car going west on 69th Street around 12:15 a.m., police ...

A man was killed in a residential fire early Wednesday in Grand Crossing on the South Side. Around 2:20 a.m., police and fire officials responded to a fire in the 7100 block of South Rhodes Avenue and the 32-year-old man was pulled from a dwelling, Chicago police said. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he was pronounced dead, ...

Police are investigating after a 15-year-old boy was shot in his hand Tuesday night in Austin on the West Side. Officers responding to calls of a person shot around 10 p.m. in the 5000 block of West Quincy Street found the teen with a gunshot wound to his hand, Chicago police said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital where he was in good condition, police ...

As warm weather eases its way into the city, the Burnham Building, a 120-year-old pavilion in Jackson Park, ought to be a perfect little spot to visit.Located on Marquette Drive just north of 67th Street, the one-story, open-air structure sits on a slight elevation, allowing the building's patrons to better catch Lake Michigan views and breezes.The view ...

DEAR ABBY: I have been in a text relationship for nearly a year. I call it a text relationship because we communicate solely through texting. Because I'm not a video chat person, it doesn't bother me that we don't Zoom. Additionally, the few times he has tried to contact me via video, we just don't seem to connect.Even though our communication is strictly ...

Earlier this month, the Illinois House passed legislation House Bill 1237 that would phase out the use of Native American-based mascots and logos in our state's elementary and high schools.When the state Senate is expected to take up this matter next month, it should do the same.I was among those involved with the phase-out of Native mascots at schools ...

"Breathe in and out."Those are the instructions from Amy Landolt as the licensed acupuncturist inserts five small orange needles into the upper part of a persons ear at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Center in Evanston.One needle is for stress, another puts the body at rest and a third is used to heal internal organs and process fear, she explains. A fourth needle ...

Naples may be famous for its pizza, but the meatballs are just as deserving of worldwide acclaim. Massive orbs of ground beef are set in a shallow pool of rag, red and glistening, and are served as often alongside pasta as without. Despite their impressive size, theyre light and ultra-tender, thanks to a high ratio of bread to meat.In this recipe from our ...