Members of Toui Ballet Folklorico from the Richard Edwards Elementary School pose with La Mueca Lele during a celebration of Mexico Week at Daley Plaza in the Loop, Tuesday, May 9, 2023.Pat Nabong/Sun-Times As Cinco de Mayo fast approaches, the Chicago Mexican Consulate believes it's time for a cultural refresher. The ...

An American Airlines jet takes off from OHare International Airport.Associated Press The massive expansion of OHare Airport appeared to be cleared for takeoff on Friday after United and American Airlines, the airports two major carriers, signed off on Mayor Brandon Johnsons plan to salvage construction of a global ...

Miembros del Toui Ballet Folklrico de la Escuela Primaria Richard Edwards posan con La Mueca Lele durante una celebracin de la Semana de Mxico en la Plaza Daley en el Loop, el martes 9 de mayo de 2023.Pat Nabong/Sun-Times El Cinco de Mayo se acerca, y el Consulado de Mxico en Chicago cree que es hora de una ...

Johann Moonesinghe, CEO of inKind, a tech firm/restaurant financing firm, has purchased the Etta restaurant group in Chicago.Provided A tech entrepreneur from Texas has purchased the bankrupt Etta restaurant group and plans to expand the Chicago brand with hundreds of new locations across the nation.Johann Moonesinghe, ...

The Cubs Shota Imanaga, here in his major league debut, is off to a red-hot start at 5-0.Michael Reaves/Getty Images Whats the best thing about sports on TV in May?Is it the NBA or NHL playoffs? How about baseball? How about everything else, from iconic events the Kentucky Derby, the PGA Championship, the Indy 500 to ...

Illinois Senate President Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, during debate of an election measure that will place three non-binding referendums on the ballot, change the states slating rules and deadline to file petitions. BlueroomStream/Screenshot Gov. J.B. Pritzker has quickly signed into law a measure that will eliminate the ...

Chicago Police Supt. Larry SnellingTyler Pasciak LaRiviere / Chicago Sun-Times Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling on Friday defended the decision not to discipline any of the nine current members of his force whose names appeared on the membership list of the Oath Keepers, an anti-government extremist group with a key ...

John Stoops, founder of The Revival, sits on the improv theaters new stage in the South Loop.Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Two improv comedy venues opening soon in Chicago one new, one relocated reflect their names quite well.The Revival, whose Hyde Park venue has been closed since December, is returning to the ...

Loyal, but frustrated, White Sox fans werent sure how to take broadcaster John Schriffens hater remark. Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images At or around 9 p.m. on the night of April 27, White Sox play-by-play voice John Schriffen introduced himself to the city.Off the sound of Andrew Benintendis bat, the ...

SEIU Local 73, which represents CPS support staff, has reached an agreement with the district on a new contract. In 2019 SEIU joined teachers in a strike (pictured). Ashlee Garcia/Sun-Times Five years after going on strike alongside the Chicago Teachers Union, the union representing school support staff this time has ...

Xavier TateChicago Police Department A relative's bank card was crucial to tracking down the man suspected of killing Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca as he returned home from work late last month in Gage Park, officials disclosed Friday.The suspect, Xavier Tate, 22, had used the card in a store not long before Huesca ...

Students from the University of Chicago set up a protest encampment in the quad to express support for people in Gaza and call on the university to divest from companies supporting Israel, Monday. April 29, 2024.Jim Vondruska/For the Sun-Times file photo University of Chicago students and university officials reached an ...

Artist Griselda Avila of Little Village stands in front of the mural she painted in McKinley Park. The painting was inspired by Natalia Lafourcades song Hasta La Raiz.Provided Griselda Avilas first mural in McKinley Park puts the notes and lyrics of singer Natalia Lafourtunas song, Hasta La Raz, onto the wall in a kind ...

The Milwaukee Bucks Patrick Beverley threw a basketball at Indiana fans twice during the Bucks playoff loss to the Pacers. Morry Gash/AP INDIANAPOLIS Milwaukee Bucks guard Pat Beverley indicated a video showing him throwing a ball at a spectator on Thursday was misleading but later added that "I have to be ...

Country music singer Breland headlines Joes on Weed St. this week.Henry Ammann Platinum-selling country music artist Breland would have loved to join Beyonc on her blockbuster album Cowboy Carter.I mean, candidly, I can say yes, I would have loved to be on there, Breland says during a recent chat while riding an Amtrak ...

A fat pumpkinseed, caught at Hennepin & Hopper lakes, set against a blue wet bag.Dale Bowman HENNEPIN, Ill.--Bullheads?Of things to think of about Hennepin & Hopper Lakes at Sue and Wes Dixon Waterfowl Refuge, bullheads never even entered my mind.But the under-appreciated native species jumped out to Justin Seibert, new ...

A woman, 79, died in a residential fire Thursday, May 2, 2024, in the 6500 block of North Ashland Avenue.Chicago Fire Department A 79-year-old woman who died in a residential fire Thursday in Rogers Park has been identified. Officials responded about 8:45 p.m. to an apartment fire in the 6500 block of North Ashland ...

Characters Leighton Vance (Dayo Okeniyi, left) and Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton) stand on the shore of Lake Michigan after emerging from a box that transports them to alternate realities in Dark Matter.Apple TV+ In the new Apple TV+ show Dark Matter, viewers will see a Chicago that is both fantastical and familiar.They ...

Kilwins owner Jackie Jackson behind the counter of her Andersonville store. Jackson received the Illinois Small Business Person of the Year award from the U.S. Small Business Administration Great Lakes region.Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Kilwins franchise owner Jacqueline "Jackie" Jackson stood in her Andersonville store ...

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks in Oxon Hill, Md., Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. The Guardian recently obtained a copy of Noems soon-to-be released book, where she writes about killing an unruly dog, and a smelly goat, too. She writes, according to the Guardian, that the tale was included to show her willingness to do anything difficult, messy and ugly.Alex ...

Among high school students in 2019, 36.7% reported persistently feeling sad or hopeless in the past year, and 18.8% had seriously considered attempting suicide, according to the CDC.Stock.adobe.com "Are you thinking of killing yourself? Do you want to die?"The woman looked at me doubtfully and said: "We have to ask ...

DEAR ABBY: My sister "Sandy" divorced her husband 15 years ago. Her oldest son, "Nick," has never gotten over it. He's 30 now and has treated her badly over the years. He not only vandalized her home but has also said horrible things to her. She maintained a relationship with him despite his behavior, supporting him emotionally and sometimes ...

Robert Ellis.Frank Main / Sun-Times Robert Ellis wore a charcoal suit and red-striped tie for the hearing in Cook County Judge Carol Howards courtroom at 26th Street and California Avenue.He tucked his 6-foot-4 frame under a table facing the judge and began grilling two Chicago cops about a traffic stop on the South ...

Barbara Glusak, a former executive at Bridgeports Washington Federal Bank for Savings, leaving the Dirksen Federal Courthouse on April 25. Glusak is set to testify Wednesday at the sentencing of two key figures in the embezzlement investigation that grew out of the banks forced shutdown: Janice Weston and George Kozdemba.Jim Vondruska / Sun-Times ...

Moon AlertThere are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. The moon is in Pisces.Aries (March 21-April 19)You're unstoppable today. Use the energy that you have to make important changes in your immediate environment, and also to do something to improve your appearance. Take a realistic look in the mirror and ask yourself what you would like to ...