The Sun-Times high school basketball Mount Rushmore project highlights the sports biggest names and greatest stars.With the prep career as the criterias centerpiece with a sprinkling of post-high school success and overall stature used as a separator weve created a Mount Rushmore for 10 geographical regions throughout the Chicago area.***Today, ...

Most days, Maria feels grateful she gets to do what she loves: be in the classroom.Her students at the Northwest Side elementary school where she's a classroom assistant have special needs. Many speak Spanish. She says theyve improved academically since she started working with them last fall.But, having come from Venezuela, she, like others from the South ...

Just four days after being welcomed into the world, Brookfield Zoo's new baby bottlenose dolphin died Wednesday evening. The male calf, born to 38-year-old dolphin Allie on Saturday morning, was the zoos first dolphin birth since 2014.The zoo stated it was a "sudden loss" and is now waiting for autopsy results to determine the cause of death. According to ...

Gov. JB Pritzker will testify on Illinois' sanctuary policies during a congressional hearing Thursday with the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Related In House committee testimony, Pritzker will defend TRUST Act, point finger at abuses of power ...

LAS VEGAS For a quarter of a century, most frequently in December, an international tournament often featured just seven soccer clubs in either Japan, Morocco or the Middle East.However, FIFA, soccers global governing body, has turned its Club World Cup (CWC) into a titan.In its 21st edition, the powers finally nailed it by featuring 32 teams at 12 venues ...

Can I say something? Ariel Atkins asked a room full of reporters Tuesday night, following another blowout loss to the New York Liberty.As usual, the initial flood of postgame questions had been directed at second-year Sky star Angel Reese, including one about how her efficient performance against New York might send a message to her detractors online.Thats ...

A fight erupted leading the gunfire that hit a 17-year-old boy and critically wounded him Wednesday night near 31st Street Beach. The teen was in the 600 block of East 31st Street around 9:45 p.m. when a fight broke out between multiple people leading to gunfire erupting, Chicago police said. The boy was struck once in the abdomen and taken to Comer ...

The city of Chicago selected a development team to turn long-vacant land at the southwest corner of 115th Street and Michigan Avenue into a residential and retail building with a grocery store, and it's one of the first efforts to repopulate what used to be a bustling corridor in Roseland.Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives, Far South Side Community ...

Few in American politics are as desperate as California Gov. Gavin Newsom is right now.Newsom, long considered by himself, anyway a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for president, has been positioning himself and repositioning himself to be next in line for years.And this week, through the Los Angeles smog, he can see the prize on the ...

DEAR ABBY: My 40-year-old daughter is on weight-loss injections and a no-sugar diet. I offered to bake her a sugar-free cheesecake, and she agreed, but she asked me to make a "tester" cake three days before. I explained that the cake has a lengthy preparation process, involving a very slow bake in a water bath and 12 hours chill time. I suggested she wait, ...

The Sun-Times high school basketball Mount Rushmore project highlights the sports biggest names and greatest stars.With the prep career as the criterias centerpiece with a sprinkling of post-high school success and overall stature used as a separator weve created a Mount Rushmore for 10 geographical regions throughout the Chicago area.***When youre ...

Tight end Cole Kmet was lined up in the wrong spot by about maybe a yard as the Bears snapped the ball during an OTA practice last month. Ben Johnson, the first-time head coach, stopped practice, shouted a series of staccato obscenities, and told his team to run the play again.Its a scene that happens all the time in the offseason. This year, though, it ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson is returning to WBEZ 91.5 from 1-2 p.m. Thursday to answer listener questions live on the midday talkshow Reset with host Sasha-Ann Simons.Last month on Ask the Mayor, Johnson took questions from North Side, South Side and even suburban residents about crime, transportation, housing and more.One listener, Doug from the South Loop, ...

This weeks sentencing of Michael J. Madigan has been more than a decade in the making. Its the result of one of the most aggressive, expansive FBI corruption investigations in Chicago history.But the once-powerful Democrat left office more than four years ago. So, as sentencing approaches, heres a look back at the man, his record-breaking reign in Illinois, ...

As power prices skyrocket, ComEd is offering financial assistance to some of its 4 million customers who cant pay their electric bills.The utility is offering individuals grants of $500 each and providing nonprofit groups that help those struggling to pay their bills up to $1,000 each. A total of $10 million is available under the program.Customers can ...

A northwest suburban police department illegally shared automatic license plate reader information with a Texas sheriff searching for a woman who got an abortion, according to Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias.Mount Prospect police have also shared license plate data in hundreds of immigration-related cases in violation of a state law that took ...

WASHINGTON Amid the vivid backdrop of federal immigration raids and protests in Chicago, Gov. JB Pritzker plans to tell House Oversight committee members Thursday that the state of Illinois isnt a place for violent criminals who lack legal status and it will not tolerate violations of the law or abuses of power.The Democratic governor will also staunchly ...

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HOUSTON Starter Sean Burke had command issues right off the bat in the White Sox 10-2 loss to the Astros on Wednesday.He resembled the pitcher who struggled in April (7.71 ERA), leaving too many hittable pitches near the middle of the zone.In the first inning, Burke allowed a one-out double to Isaac Paredes on a 2-0 fastball in the heart of the zone. He ...

LOS ANGELES David Greenwood, who was one of the Bulls core players as the Michael Jordan era was getting underway, has died. He was 68.Mr. Greenwood was one of coach John Woodens last recruits at UCLA and would win an NBA championship with Detroit during a 12-year pro career, he died Sunday in Riverside, California, after battling cancer, the school said ...

All Krystal Rivera ever wanted was to be a police officer. Her dream came true in 2021 when she was sworn into the Chicago Police Department. But last week, Rivera was unintentionally shot and killed by her partner when they encountered an armed person during a foot pursuit in Chatham.Earlene Simons, who worked with Rivera for many years, recalled how ...

A small, dark and rigid space rock that touched down at the Field Museum last week could hold the answers to the origin of life in the universe, researchers say.The rock is just a portion of a sample from asteroid Bennu collected in 2020 during NASA's 2016 OSIRIS-REx mission. Bennu then landed on Earth in 2023. It is the third asteroid sample to reach Earth ...

The Skys plan to gradually guide first-round pick Hailey Van Lith through her rookie season turned sharply when veteran point guard Courtney Vandersloot suffered a torn ACL last week. Her timeline accelerated, and theres going to be much more required of her in real time.The upside is that although Van Lith has much to prove, she has a track record of ...

Now that longtime Sky sharpshooter Allie Quigley is officially retired, the team plans to put her No. 14 in the rafters next month.The Sky announced Wednesday they will retire Quigleys number at their July 9 game against the Wings. Shell be the first number theyve ever retired, with Candace Parkers No. 3 set to go up Aug. 25.Quigley, 38, hasnt played since ...

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