Can you imagine a state basketball champion being crowned in Chicago?Devon Morales Sr. can, and he will soon be in a position to help make it happen.Morales, who has been Clemente's principal since 2021, is taking over as executive director of Chicago Public Schools' Office of Sports Administration.He succeeds acting executive director Mickey Pruitt, who is ...

Chicago has big financial problems at the city, the schools and the CTA but youd never know it by the modest wish list Mayor Brandon Johnson is carrying with him to Springfield Tuesday.With five weeks to go in the spring session, Johnson wants to revive a tax on prepaid cell phones and calling cards, extend the $5-a-month 911 surcharge, ratchet up funding ...

Shane Riordan, The Score's executive producer of the "Spiegel & Holmes" show, posted on X that he's no longer at the station. His dismissal, which happened Monday, wasn't related to a behavioral issue or anything he said on the air, the Sun-Times has learned.Neither Riordan nor The Score returned requests for comment.During the transition between the ...

The WNBA will televise all of its preseason games, including a national broadcast of the Skys exhibition against the Brazilian national team at LSU on Friday. That game is part of a push to get stars like Angel Reese back to their college arenas, including the Fevers Caitlin Clark playing at Iowa and the Libertys Sabrina Ionescu taking the court at ...

En Chicago, algunos estudiantes internacionales han visto restablecidas sus visas de estudiante despus de que desafos en las cortes de Estados Unidos llevaron al gobierno federal a revertir la anulacin del estatus legal para estudiantes internacionales, indicaron abogados el viernes.Jueces de todo el pas ya haban emitido rdenes temporales que restauraban ...

Nuestra comunidad latina es una parte vibrante y esencial del tejido estadounidense, contribuyendo de manera significativa a nuestra sociedad, cultura y economa.Sin embargo, en el mbito de la salud, esta comunidad enfrenta importantes desigualdades, especialmente en el tratamiento del cncer. Aunque los latinos son diagnosticados con cncer con menor ...

The majority of high school basketball fans will check out following the IHSA State Finals in March and patiently wait for the next season to tip off in November.The diehards, those who cant get enough and pore over player rankings and recruiting, immediately rev it back up in the spring months for the club basketball circuit.Here is a look at the top ...

The Cubs season-opening gantlet is over.Well, sort of. It depends who you ask.Theyve played 26 of their 29 games against contenders the Dodgers, Diamondbacks, Padres, Rangers and Phillies and theyve emerged mostly triumphant, owners of the highest-scoring offense in baseball and a 17-12 record that tops the NL Central.A road trip to face off, finally, ...

The Score named Leila Rahimi as Dan Bernstein's permanent replacement on its midday show Monday alongside Marshall Harris. Rahimi and Harris have been co-hosting together since the station fired Bernstein on March 21 after an ugly social-media exchange. Rahimi will lead the show, becoming the first full-time female lead sports-radio host during prime hours ...

General on-sale starts Friday, May 2 at 10am CDTAre there parts of our minds that are hidden from us? This question launched the Hidden Brain podcast ten years ago. Since then, the program has helped millions of listeners accomplish their goals, improve their relationships, and develop a deeper understanding of their emotions. Now, host and creator Shankar ...

Jay Damm begins Morel of the Week "with a reasonable start" on Friday."With ample rains falling this spring (the most plentiful since COVID), I actually have some cautious optimism for the morel season," he emailed Friday evening. "I keep my expectations low to avoid disappointment . . . I found these fresh, early season morels near a dead, fallen ash tree. ...

A homegrown Chicago project of jaw-dropping ambition and exhilarating theatricality, playwright Mickle Maher and director Charles Newells adaptation of the graphic novel Berlin at the Court Theatre brings to dynamic life an artistically daring, sexually decadent, politically divided city as it descends into fascism.Its a thrillingly staged piece of theater, ...

Police were looking for a 40-year-old man who shot two CTA bus passengers after a fight Sunday night in on the Northwest Side. Around 11:45 p.m., a 40-year-old man was arguing with someone on the bus in the 4800 block of West Belmont Avenue when the 40-year-old left the bus and opened fire at the man hitting him and another passenger, Chicago police said. ...

A 30-year-old man was in custody after his gun went off during a brawl on a CTA Red Line train Sunday night near the Sox-35th Street station on the South Side. A 42-year-old man was sitting in a train car around 9:40 p.m. when he began arguing with someone on the train, Chicago police said. The argument turned physical and the 42-year-old was hit in the ...

A man died early Monday in a South Shore apartment fire on the South Side. Around 3:30 a.m., firefighters were extinguishing the blaze in the 7800 block of South South Shore Drive and found an unidentified 27-year-old man unresponsive on the third floor, Chicago police said. He was dead on the scene, police said. The Chicago Fire Department was ...

A Chicago police officer was injured by shattered glass during a police-involved shooting shooting Monday morning on the Southwest Side. No one was shot in the incident, which happened about 5 a.m. in the 3700 block of West 67th Place, according to the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, which was on the scene. One officer was taken to Advocate Christ ...

Luv City, a violence prevention nonprofit that empowers youth by teaching digital media skills, got its start as a do-it-yourself project between Dre Rodriguez and his then-11-year-old son, "Little Dre" Rodriguez.The elder Rodriguez had recently gotten out of federal prison for drug-dealing and was looking for ways to connect with his son, who was a toddler ...

Last week, the Chicago Board of Education shared a resolution from Board Member Yesenia Lopez that claims to seek improvements to the charter school authorization process. This sounds like great news at first glance except that no one from the charter community was engaged in or consulted about the recommendations.This board claims to value equity and ...

DEAR ABBY: A few years ago, my daughter went "no contact" with both sides of our family grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles, as well as cousins. Since then, I have been struggling with how I should answer acquaintances who ask, "How is she doing?" as well as those who ask, "Do you have children?"I have been told by friends and family that I should tell ...

I will never forget watching Kunta Kinte in the 1977 TV miniseries, "Roots," fighting to keep his name as an overseers whip came down again and again.His determination was a brutal reminder of how white settlers used language to transform Black people into commodities: bought, sold, shipped and stripped of their identities. From "Roots," I witnessed how ...

A dress formerly owned by a local drag queen, testosterone gel and a personal collection of protest buttons from the late '80s and early '90s were displayed on a table at the Center on Addison Friday night.The objects appear vaguely related and their placement almost random. But the display is a deliberate creation for an art project titled Outside of the ...

When the dark GMC Sierra suddenly sped past him north on Interstate 55 in November 2022, the downstate police officer had to floor it, driving 101 mph to catch up.The officer flipped on his lights and siren, prompting the trucks driver to pull off around Springfields southern border. When confronted, the truck driver began to cry. He said he didnt care ...

Its Memorial Day weekend in Chicago. Dozens of teenagers are planning to descend upon 31st Street Beach in a possible teen trend takeover. How should the city of Chicago respond?That was one prompt at a first-of-its-kind meeting last week that brought together Chicagoans with vastly different views on how to respond to so-called teen trends, or mass ...

Moon alertAvoid shopping and major decisions from midnight to 1:50 a.m. Chicago time tomorrow. After that, the moon moves from Taurus into Gemini.Aries (March 21-April 19) A positive day .HoroscopeStarbox { background: #f8f8f8; display: flex; ...

A person was wounded when shots were fired at Illinois State University's Bone Student Center on Sunday night, university officials said.School officials urged students to avoid the area near the student center, as well as the intersection of University and Locust streets, according to emergency alerts issued by the school. One person was reported wounded.A ...