Connor Bedard recorded his first multi-point game in several weeks Friday, but the only thing he was thinking about afterward was a missed shot late in the third period.With the top half of the net gaping open with 3:34 left, Bedard rifled the puck high, and the Blackhawks never generated another quality opportunity to equalize before allowing an empty-net ...

Jayden Dozie was one of the most productive freshmen in the Chicago area last season at Maine East. This season, the talented 5-11 guard has been more careful about his shot selection.I took really crazy shots last year, Dozie said. This year is about playing as a team and taking better shots.His old creative aggressiveness, however, came in handy Friday in ...

An off-duty immigration enforcement officer admitted to tossing a 68-year-old protester to the ground to stop him from filming at a suburban gas station, according to newly released body camera footage obtained by the Sun-Times. In the words of a local law enforcement officer who responded to the scene: Dont look good f---ing grabbed at him, f---ing gets ...

As White Sox fans made their way Friday into the Ramova Theatre for SoxFest Live, many sported the jerseys of past players. There was a Mark Buehrle jersey here and a Paul Konerko jersey there.And rightfully so. Buehrle and Konerko are team legends who deserve to be remembered.But as the Sox enter this season, fans need a current player they can connect ...

A 38-year-old man died Friday afternoon after he was shot in Garfield Park, Chicago police said.The man was shot twice in the chest and in the abdomen about 4:45 p.m. Friday in the 700 block of South Pulaski Road, police said. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition and was later pronounced dead.A 22-year-old man was taken into custody ...

The Blackhawks adopted a new approach to developing rookie defenseman Artyom Levshunov after watching his disastrous performance Thursday against the Penguins.On Friday, Levshunov began a miniature program to "reset some foundational things" in his game, working with coach Jeff Blashill, assistant coach Anders Sorensen (who oversees the defensemen) and ...

As National Human Trafficking Prevention Month in January came to a close, more than 100 hotel employees met Downtown on Friday to take part in a training to ways to prevent human trafficking.The Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association and American Hotel & Lodging Association hosted the seminar at the Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk. A range of Chicago-area ...

Former Chicago police officer Peter Bella saw things through a camera lens that others did not.After years of patrolling the North and West Sides, Mr. Bella became a police forensics photographer, taking pictures of bloody crime scenes.After retiring from the police force in 2007, after nearly 30 years on the job, he focused on street photography, capturing ...

Time will be the decider on the White Sox decision to add late-inning reliever Seranthony Dominguez instead of a veteran outfielder will prove to be the right move.General manager Chris Getz has yet to add an established veteran outfielder because he wants to provide runway to players such as Everson Pereira and Luisangel Acunua. But with the Mets taking on ...

The top three Democratic U.S. Senate candidates faced off twice last week.The first debate wasnt televised, so the live audience was quite small. The second debate was televised, so the audience was bigger.However, these debates dont attract even a smidgeon of the audience of presidential debates, when half the country often tunes in.The object here is to ...

A federal judge reversed course Friday and barred former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel from being called as a witness in an upcoming civil trial over alleged police misconduct.U.S. District Judge John Tharp changed his mind two days after telling lawyers Emanuel put himself in play with a December 2015 speech acknowledging a code of silence at the Chicago ...

The good news: Minutes before the NBA trade deadline arrives Thursday afternoon, the long-stagnant Bulls will have a franchise-altering deal on the table.Alas, the bad: Thatll be precisely when Arturas Karnisovas catches wind that its someone at works special day. As 2 p.m. hits, sealing yet another window of opportunity shut, the teams executive vice ...

El Sindicato de Maestros de Chicago (CTU) quiere llevar a las Escuelas Pblicas de Chicago (CPS) a la mesa de negociaciones sobre las condiciones laborales, incluyendo la oferta de opciones de aprendizaje remoto, ante una posible reanudacin de la aplicacin generalizada de la ley federal en la ciudad este ao.Los lderes del sindicato dicen que esto es ...

A 35-year-old man died Friday morning after an altercation, Chicago police said.The man was outside near the 4800 block of West Ferdinand Street in the Austin neighborhood about 11 a.m. when he got into a verbal altercation with someone, police said.The other person pulled out a gun and shot the 35-year-old man in the head and torso. The shooter then fled ...

One year into his tenure, Bears coach Ben Johnson needs to find a new offensive coordinator. Thats hardly a crisis given that Johnson crafted the offense and is the play caller, but its a critical position nonetheless.The Ravens hired Bears offensive coordinator Declan Doyle to the same position Friday, a move that allows Doyle to be their play-caller under ...

Breakaway Community Development se estableci en 2017 con el objetivo de proporcionar servicios de capacitacin asequibles a jvenes atletas del vecindario de Austin, con la esperanza de ponerlos en el camino hacia el xito a travs del deporte.La organizacin sin fines de lucro organiza campamentos de baloncesto y ofrece entrenamiento atltico en atributos como ...

Last Saturday, 17-year-old Ben Luhmann was behind the wheel with his 16-year-old brother Sam in the passenger seat, like they had been countless times before. As they drove through frigid Minneapolis to yet another scene where federal immigration agents had taken over the streets, their phones went off, alerting them of pepper spray being deployed.Then ...

Celia Weiskopf, who survived the Holocaust and settled in Skokie with thousands of other Jewish survivors, died Jan. 16.Mrs. Weiskopf, 101, died at a senior living facility in Northbrook from natural causes.Mrs. Weiskopf, then known by her maiden name, Kadlubska, had just celebrated her fifteenth birthday when the Nazis invaded her home country of Poland ...

Lou Holtz, the College Football Hall of Fame coach who led Notre Dame to the 1988 national title, has entered hospice care, according to ABC57 and other reports.The South Bend, Indiana, TV station said a "source close to the family confirmed" the news.Kyle Sutherland of the On3 network was the first to report the news on Thursday.Holtz, 89, was at the helm ...

CM Punk is ready for clobberin' time as the new cover star for WWE 2K26.The former WrestleMania main eventer and UFC fighter was announced Friday as the headliner for the standard edition of the video game that will be released March 13.The WWE world heavyweight champion and Chicago native, Punk is just one of a record 400 playable characters on a roster ...

The WNBA and the players union will meet Monday in New York for the first time in several weeks to try to move the stalled collective bargaining negotiations forward.Kelsey Plum, who is vice president of the players union, mentioned the meeting to reporters while she was preparing for a game in Philadelphia with the 3-on-3 league Unrivaled."I think we'll ...

The behind-the-music drama Stereophonic arrives in Chicago on waves of buzzy acclaim. The tale of a 1970s rock band thrashing its way to stardom took the 2024 Tonys for best play, direction, set and sound design.For fans of mega-1970s folk-rockers Fleetwood Mac, playwright David Adjmis nearly three-hour drama is catnip. The sublime music and ever-present ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) Catherine OHara, the Emmy-winning actor known for comedic roles across the decades from Kevins beleaguered mom in Home Alone to the iconic Moira Rose in Schitts Creek died Friday at 71.The Canadian-born OHara died at her home in Los Angeles following a brief illness, according to a statement from her agency, Creative Artists Agency. ...

A teacher with a long record of child molestation charges and convictions who was fired earlier this month by the Archdiocese of Chicago was expected to appear in court Friday, after being arrested again on similar accusations in southwest suburban Orland Park. Brett Smith, 43, facing new aggravated criminal sexual abuse charges, was scheduled to appear ...

Journalist Don Lemon and three other people were arrested Friday in connection with an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church and increased tensions between residents and federal officials.Lemon was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles, where he had been covering the Grammy Awards, his attorney Abbe Lowell ...