A 40 year prison sentence was handed down to a woman who pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing her 3-year-old nephew after pushing him into Lake Michigan at Navy Pier in 2022. Victoria Moreno, 38, threw Josiah Brown into the water off Navy Pier in 2022. She watched as he sank below without attempting to rescue him. Divers found him about 30 minutes later.On ...

A beluga whale at a Spanish aquarium died Friday, bringing to three the total number of belugas that have died since being shipped out of Marineland Canada this summer including two at Shedd Aquarium.Jelly Bean died suddenly and unexpectedly Friday, according to The Canadian Press, quoting an Oceanografic Valencia statement.In recent days, Jelly Bean had ...

Chicago founder Jean Baptiste Point DuSable has gotten a lot more attention than his wife, Kitihawa, and the contributions she made to the growth of Chicago.Two woman and a Ravenswood school are aiming to change that with a new mural featuring Kitihawa and DuSable on the front and side walls of the North Park Elementary School annex at 2017 W. Montrose ...

Los Angeles athleisure brand Set, popular among Gen Z and millennials, is opening its first Midwest outpost on Friday in the West Loop.The store's opening celebration will feature a hat and patch bar and the first 100 customers will receive custom Lands End totebags with Garrett Popcorn.The business, at 946 W. Randolph St., joins a sea of retailers and ...

DEAR ABBY: A dear friend of 10 years experienced a severe mental health crisis. I did my best to reach out to her, but she pushed me away and flaked on plans and important events at the last minute at least a dozen times. Once her mental health began to improve, I approached her and told her I understood her behavior had been largely out of her control, but ...

The only hint that Highland Park attorney Mark Josephson played a significant role in the history of Chicago's rap scene is the password he chose for his home Wi-Fi network a lyric from a Public Enemy song.In 1986, he was a University of Chicago student majoring in Near Eastern languages and and civilizations when he started spinning records at the ...

Like nearly 40 million other Americans, I'm a Head Start alumna. For my parents, childcare was an expensive proposition, so while my veteran father enrolled in community college, he enrolled me in childcare. It was my earliest community, a place where first friendships were formed, self-awareness was cultivated and curiosity was exponential.For over 60 ...

After the Bears allowed 37 points and 478 yards to the Panthers, defensive coordinator Dennis Allens response to the first question at his weekly news conference Thursday began with, Im not going to spend a lot of time talking about last week.Dont you think we should? Theres plenty to discuss.Its rare for a team to score that many points and get blown out, ...

The head of the Illinois Restaurant Association says Chicago's uneven enforcement of rules banning strings of sparkling lights for outdoor dining areas is unfair to restaurant owners, who are already struggling.President Sam Toia made the comments following the city's crackdown against one Roscoe Village restaurants outdoor lights even as scores of other ...

Inside Melissa Dixons home in Gary, the lights are back on. Her refrigerator is working. And shes playing music as she does yard work. The generator that she had on her front steps is gone now. It's more than a month since Dixon and hundreds of thousands of others in Gary and across northwest Indiana were left without power, some for at least two weeks, and ...

Without the Northbrook Public Library, Krewella may have never happened.It was an embassy of music for us and an incredible resource for records. Wed dive into the treasure chest of CDs and then rent them and upload them at home on iTunes, recalls Jahan Yousaf. Along with younger sister Yasmine, the duo first plotted out the electronic dance music project ...

Earlier this week at the Lyric Opera House, the stage was set for the Joffrey Ballets Liliom, a story ballet receiving its American-company premiere. A small carousel sat, unrevolving, to the audiences right, and a lonely bench at the left. Upstage from the center-stage dance floor and perched above where the action would unfold, a platform housed a big ...

Lying motionless inside a CAT machine scanning for signs of cancer, Shana Carrolls brain began to fidget.Ive had so many procedures where youre inside machines and you just feel like, what science fiction weird thing is going on here? said Carroll, a writer, director and choreographer.What if, the former trapeze artist thought, a show could be fashioned, ...

A 56-year-old woman was wounded after being shot in an alley in Chatham late Thursday, police said.At about 8:12 p.m., police said the woman was walking in an alley in the 8100 block of South Maryland Avenue when she reportedly heard a verbal altercation and saw a 23-year-old woman run to the area from a nearby apartment complex, being pursued by a man. The ...

Moon alertAvoid shopping (except food and gas) and important decisions after 3:15 p.m. Chicago time. After that, the moon moves from Sagittarius into Capricorn.Aries (March 21-April 19) An average day .HoroscopeStarbox { background: #f8f8f8; display: flex; ...

A man was hospitalized Thursday after he was shot in the neck while inside a vehicle in Morgan Park, police said. Police said the victim, a 29-year-old man, sustained a single gunshot wound to the neck at about 8 p.m. when someone fired at the vehicle in the 1100 block of West 114th Place. The man was reportedly a passenger in the vehicle when the gunman ...

A man was charged with the murder of a woman in West Ridge in February, police said.Darreon Plummer, 33, of suburban Glen Ellyn, faces a first-degree murder charge in connection with the fatal shooting of 36-year-old DaJ Dameka Flowers. Flowers was fatally shot near her home in the 6900 block of North Bell Avenue on Feb. 6.Plummer was arrested near O'Hare ...

Images of Woodlawns DJ Morgan will haunt Bowens football players for at least the next few days.The Boilermakers were powerless to stop Morgan on Thursday. The junior running back scored four touchdowns and ran for 261 yards in Woodlawns 54-6 win against visiting Bowen.Morgans first carry went 34 yards for a TD. His second carry was a 50-yard TD, and his ...

Amtrak officials and developers faced off against angry community members Thursday, opposing construction plans for a massive rail yard in Chinatown, Bridgeport and Armour Square beginning as early as the end of this year.The plan, headed by White Sox minority owner Justin Ishbias company, Canal Edge LLC, includes a proposal for the Sox to play at a ...

The Lincoln-Way School District Board of Education voted unanimously to allow the students involved in the racial harassment incident during the football game at Homewood-Flossmoor on Sept. 4 to withdraw voluntarily from Lincoln-Way East rather than be expelled.This investigation, which involved interviewing numerous students, reviewing multiple video ...

Thursdays retirement ceremony for former two-time All-Star Tim Anderson felt sudden, even with advanced notice.He feels like the story of why Major League Baseball players try to get what they can get when they can get it, because it happens so fast, said former Sox announcer Jason Benetti, in town to call the game for the Tigers. His story is some of the ...

The White Sox returned home this week, in second place in the division standings for the first time since beating the Guardians on Independence Day.Maybe its for the best.We play better when were behind, All-Star third baseman Miguel Vargas told the Sun-Times. We like being the underdog. We like to go out there when people do not believe in us.Beginning his ...

The Francis W. Parker School scored a victory in its yearslong battle against some Lincoln Park neighbors over its plan to build a new middle school building on West Belden Avenue.The school, which has been in Lincoln Park for 125 years, received approval Thursday for its expansion plans from the Chicago Plan Commission. The school also sought approval for ...

After a disappointing year, some hard conversations are coming for the Sky.The big one will be with coach Tyler Marsh about whether hes earned a third season.Marsh told the Sun-Times on Thursday he hasnt yet discussed his job status with general manager Jeff Pagliocca or principal owner Michael Alter, and that those conversations will be reserved for the ...

Patrick Kane could look down at his red jersey Thursday the first day of Blackhawks training camp and see the familiar logo that adorned his chest for so many triumphant years.He could pick his head up, gaze around the rink and see the same familiar surroundings at Blackhawks Ice Center that he visited so often between its opening in 2017 and 2023.But if ...