WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court on Monday restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a ruling that had threatened to upend one of the main ways abortions are provided across the nation.The order signed by Justice Samuel Alito temporarily allows women seeking abortions to obtain the pill at pharmacies or through the mail, without an ...

The Sky waived Hailey Van Lith, their No. 11 pick in the 2025 draft. Van Lith was a college standout but struggled to carve out a role in her rookie season, averaging 3.5 points per game in 12.4 minutes.To get Van Lith, the Sky effectively gave up the No. 11 pick in the 2026 draft (Cotie McMahon) to the Lynx. The Lynx then traded that pick to the ...

Dozens of of Brookfield Zoo Chicago union workers wanted their voices to be heard as they stood outside the main entrance with pickets in hand Monday morning on the first day of an authorized strike after prior contract negotiations were unsuccessful. Several dozen grounds crew members and union representatives of the zoo, 8400 31st St. in Brookfield, were ...

Good morning, Chicago. Below: The April 25 shooting that killed a police officer and gravely wounded another was the second shooting at an Endeavor Health hospital in less than a year. We look at potential security fail points. Plus: An escalating North Side dispute spurred by sex abuse allegations, a new bar's community donation model and more news you ...

By this point, Blackhawks general manager Kyle Davidson has probably memorized the NHL draft-lottery odds for the 31st-place team.This marks the third consecutive year the Hawks have finished in that spot, and therefore also marks the third consecutive year they've entered the lottery Tuesday at 6 p.m. CT with the exact same odds.The Hawks have a 13.5% ...

DEAR ABBY: I have a friend I have known for a very long time. We bonded 10 years ago over common interests and mutual friends. Over the years, they have suffered from anxiety, depression and OCD. In addition, they are also narcissistic, but it had never been a problem before.I have spent many a day and night on the phone with them for hours, letting them ...

Illinois legislators have taken a step forward with Senate Bill 2427, which bans student cellphone use during the school day. This bill excludes students in independent schools and it only mandates a bell-to-bell ban from arrival to dismissal for elementary and middle schoolers, giving high schools the freedom to set more lenient policies. These critical ...

A man was shot and killed after walking out of a fast food restaurant late Sunday in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side. When the 25-year-old man walked out of Southtown Sub, 112 E. 71st St., around 11:35 p.m., he spotted a gunman standing nearby, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office. He then heard ...

At first blush, a case unfolding in Cook County Judge Daniel Gallaghers courtroom has the hallmarks of a neighbor dispute thats taken an ugly turn.Two men living in the same North Side neighborhood are at odds.Threatening words may have been exchanged between the men, or their associates.An armed bodyguard was hired for one of the men and is accused of ...

The Murphy Auditorium inside Chicagos Driehaus Museum is an unusual room with a lot of churchy touches. Choir stalls line the back wall, a pipe organ console sits parked at the side of the balcony, and a large stained-glass window identifies the spaces former owner, the American College of Surgeons.The artist Brendan Fernandes first saw the space during its ...

Aadam Jacobs has been thinking a lot about the late Chicago photographer Vivian Maier.Remember how she took a million photos and after she died, they were all found and now shes famous? he said about the local nanny/prolific street photographer who never got to see her lifes work celebrated before she passed in 2009. My tapes arent going to last forever, ...

Moon alertAvoid shopping (except food and gas) and important decisions after 4 p.m. Chicago time. The moon is in Sagittarius.Aries (March 21-April 19) A positive day .HoroscopeStarbox { background: #f8f8f8; display: flex; align-items: center; } ...

On the top shelf of Nico Hoerners locker is an autographed baseball card of Ryne Sandberg. A fan gave it to him in spring training, asking for nothing in return. The fan just wanted Hoerner to have it.Maybe Hoerner reminded the fan of Sandberg because, if you didnt know better, you wouldve thought Sandberg was playing second base for the Cubs on Sunday. ...

Right-hander Ben Brown has appeared in 11 games this season, all in relief and all for more than one inning. Its the timing of his appearances that have varied. He has entered games anywhere from the fourth inning to the eighth.But he began entering in the eighth only recently. He earned his second career save Saturday, throwing two innings in a 2-0 victory ...

SAN DIEGO Xander Bogaerts hit a go-ahead infield single in the eighth, Miguel Andujar and Manny Machado homered and the Padres beat the White Sox 4-3 on Sunday at Petco Park. The loss ended the Sox five-game winning streak and prevented them from reaching the .500 mark.Sox reliever Tyler Davis walked Ramon Laureano to open the eighth. The Sox brought in ...

Steps from the Red Line , sandwiched between a cheese-based bar and a mobile phone repair shop, the new nightclub Decibel is quickly filling up. It is Saturday night of the club's opening weekend. Free entry ended at 10 p.m. and the line stretches down the block, passed what is affectionately called piss alley, for reasons you may assume, and continues to ...

DiJonai Carrington wants the preseason to hurry up already. The Sky guard is ready to get back on the floor which she hasn't been able to since last September, when she sprained her foot in the first round of the 2025 playoffs.She's also anxious to see what this retooled Sky roster actually looks like in action.Carrington said that in the team's first two ...

SAN DIEGO Thomas Wolfe once wrote you cant go home again. You cannot return to the past, childhood, or places you once knew, he said, because time, change, and memory alter them.That wasnt true this weekend for Will Venable. The White Sox manager returned to Petco Park where it all began for him as a young player, and it felt like home.Venable was picked ...

The Cubs got a double dose of good news Sunday. They activated closer Daniel Palencia (left oblique strain) from the injured list and will have second baseman Nico Hoerner (neck) back in the lineup. Palencia, who went on the 15-day IL on April 17, made one rehab appearance with Triple-A Iowa on Friday, reaching 102 mph. He threw 19 pitches, 14 for strikes, ...

A 31-year-old man was shot and killed in a Dollar Tree parking lot early Sunday in Joliet. A Joliet police officer near the Dollar Tree at 2900 Colorado Ave. heard gunshots just before 2 a.m., according to a statement from the Joliet Police Department. Officers then found the man shot in the head. He was taken to St. Joseph Medical Center where he was ...

Two teenagers and a 20-year-old were shot in the New City neighborhood Saturday night, Chicago police said. The three victims, all male, were in the 5000 block of South Hoyne Avenue just before midnight when they were shot. All were taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, according to police. The 20-year-old man was shot in the chest and is in ...

Five NFL teams unveiled new uniforms for the 2026 season and the Sun-Times Patrick Finley and Brian Sandalow are ranking the looks. Remember, this is subjective, not objective.PATRICK FINLEY1.TitansIs it abhorrent to dress up like the Oilers when you moved them out of Houston? It is wrong that NFL properties once sent the University of Houston a ...

Last month, when Bulls president and CEO Michael Reinsdorf was rattling off what he wanted in his next head of basketball operations, he included the term process-oriented without hesitation.I think [one of] the biggest mistakes we have made over the years is we have not followed a process, he said.It was a definite weakness under Arturas Karnisovas, whom ...

DEAR ABBY: My daughter, "Aline," 40, has gone from crisis to crisis since childhood. She can go from kind and generous one minute to vindictive and mean the next. She's easily triggered into rants, hurling the most hurtful words she can come up with. Men move in and out of her life on a regular basis.I'm sure Aline would qualify as mentally ill, but she ...

Greater Union Baptist Church has one of the city's most breathtaking sanctuaries, with its semicircular ranks of pews that sit beneath muscular, richly-detailed hammer beam wooden ceiling trusses and bronze chandeliers.The church, 1956 W. Warren Blvd., is just north of the routinely packed-out United Center and next to the stadium's parking lot ...