If you've attended a funeral in Chicago, you've probably witnessed the reach of Tim Kowalski's work.Over the span of 30-plus years teaching at the Worsham College of Mortuary Science in Wheeling, he schooled more than 3,000 students on how to embalm and prepare bodies for viewing. And, as important, he worked to make sure they knew to pay attention to the ...

Spoiler alert: Actors Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally are in love. Perhaps that shouldn't be surprising, as the celebrity duo have been in a very public marriage for 26 years.In the new world premiere musical IceBoy! opening June 20 at the Goodman Theatre, the two dont couple up unlike their pairing in the hit NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, where their ...

Coby Bryants biggest piece of advice to the Bears first-round pick, fellow safety Dillon Thieneman, was to slow down.The Super Bowl champ wasnt being metaphorical, metaphysical or deep. He wanted the rookie not to run so fast during the first part of mandatory minicamp practices last week.He wants to go full speed in everything Bryant said. [In] Individual ...

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NEW YORK The White Sox have been a revelation playing at home this season. Theyve had fantastic finishes and drawn big, loud crowds. And theyve repaid the fans efforts, going 24-12 at Rate Field with a plus-32 run differential.But when they leave town, they often forget to pack their mojo.Away from home, the Sox are 14-22 with a minus-35 run differential ...

Police are conducting a death investigation of a man who died after being found shot and stabbed in a South Loop fire, according to Chicago police.Officers responded to a call of a fire at 5:11 p.m in the 1300 block of South Wabash Avenue and found the man who had been shot in the head and cut on his neck, police said. The man, who was also suffering from ...

Sky guard Sydney Taylor was flowing against the Fever last week.When defenders crowded her, she crossed over and accelerated past them. When they sat flat-footed, she sidestepped and rose for a three-pointer.By the time she was done, the undrafted rookie had scored 30 points in 21 minutes of an overtime loss the highest-scoring game by a rookie this ...

With a projected $550 million budget shortfall next year, Cook County officials said Wednesday that the county must start considering restructuring its finances as expenses continue to outpace revenues.It would be the largest budget deficit in Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkles 15-year tenure, but the current projected shortfall is a much smaller ...

A Bridgeview woman is facing charges after she allegedly fired a weapon at Chicago police officers in Brighton Park in April, according to Chicago police.Alexia Castellanos, 19, faces four counts of attempted first-degree murder and aggravated discharge of a firearm at police, as well as two counts of aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon and a charge ...

A Near West Side man is facing hate crime and arson charges after burning a cross in Grant Park last week, according to Chicago police.Merlin Lu, 21, faces two counts of felony hate crime, as well as felony charges for arson and damage to property, police said. Thats in addition to misdemeanor charges for reckless conduct, criminal damage to property and ...

A man has been charged in a Lansing shooting in a warehouse that began a manhunt and shelter in place order earlier this month, according to Lansing police.Devon Johnson a 31-year-old former employee of Nippon Paint Automotive Americas in the 2700 block of 170th Street, where the shooting happened June 5 faces a first-degree murder charge, police ...

State Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid said his office is investigating whether state laws were broken after a person was detained by ICE agents Wednesday at the Bridgeview Courthouse, according to a statement from his office.The Cook County sheriffs office said a man ran into the courthouse and through security Wednesday and was stopped by court deputies before ...

Walter Parazaider, a co-founding member and saxophonist for pop- and jazz-infused rock band Chicago, has died. He was 81.The band confirmed Mr. Parazaider's death in a social media post on Wednesday."Chicago is heartbroken to share the sad news of Walter Parazaider's passing this morning," the band wrote, alongside an early-career photo of the woodwind ...

Justin Steele was supposed to be back pitching for the Cubs by now.Those plans obviously changed when a flexor-strain setback threw a monkey wrench in the left-handers comeback from last seasons elbow surgery, one of the increasing number of issues to befall whats become an injury-plagued Cubs pitching staff.But the 2023 All-Star hurler is hoping to still ...

A man was charged Wednesday in the fatal shooting of an Uptown condo board president who was trying to protect a resident from the suspect, according to Chicago police.Jonathan Wilson, 38, faces charges of first-degree murder, possessing a weapon as a felon, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon as someone under a protective order and aggravated assault of a ...

NEW YORK Its not enough to say the Yankees have had the White Sox number in recent years. Theyve had all the Sox numbers, letters, symbols and any other markings you can think of.Since 2024, when the Sox set a major-league record with 121 losses, the Yankees entered the teams meeting Wednesday 12-2 in the head-to-head series. They had won eight in a row, ...

If Chauncey Billups had been more like Dr. Jack Ramsay and less like Tony The Ant Spilotro, we wouldnt even be talking about Tiago Splitter. That much is certain.But Billups blew up his life, Splitter grabbed the controls as interim coach of the Trail Blazers only one game into the 2025-26 season, the team proceeded to weather various storms and exceed all ...

The Cubs dont seem to have any plans to bench Dansby Swanson.A prime target of frustrated fans during the teams ongoing offensive struggles, Swanson is in the most recognizably bad spot statistically of any Cubs regular, coming into Wednesdays game with a .175 batting average that ranked as the worst in the sport among qualified hitters.But Cubs brass, ...

In the 1970s, Thomas R. Donovan proudly served as Mayor Richard J. Daley's patronage chief doling out jobs that were the lifeblood of the city's Democratic machine.It was an era that gave Chicago politics the well-worn expression, We dont want nobody nobody sent.Patronage wasn't a dirty word yet. It was just how things worked.The federal court-ordered ...

Nearly a week after a tornado tore through parts of Merrillville, Indiana, Earline Walker is still dealing with the fall out as more storms were predicted for later Wednesday.Our roof had big, large holes due to trees or limbs flying onto the property, the 63-year-old Walker said Wednesday morning of the storm that hit last Thursday evening in this ...

Nearly five years after Chicago police officer Ella French was killed, oversight officials on Wednesday released video footage of the on-duty shooting closing the book on a dark chapter in the citys history. Body camera footage shows the brief moments before a routine traffic stop turned deadly on Aug. 7, 2021. French was shot and killed and her partner, ...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. Billy Williams played his last game for the Cubs in 1976. It was the 100th year of the Cubs, the bicentennial of our nation, the summer that his teammate, center fielder and U.S. Marine Reservist Rick Monday, snatched an American flag away from two intruders, father and son, about to set it on fire on the Dodger Stadium grass.Now it is ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson scored a rare City Council victory on Wednesday when his allies snuffed out an attempt to ban sweepstakes machines that compete with and take revenue away from video gambling terminals.Ald. Anthony Beale (9th) muscled the sweepstakes ban through the Councils License Committee over the mayors objections and hoped to convince the full ...

TheaterMegan Mullally and Nick Offerman star in Iceboy! Or The Completely Untrue Story of How Eugene ONeill Came to Write The Iceman Cometh, a new satirical musical with a score by Mark Hollmann, lyrics by Hollmann and Jay Reiss and a book by Erin Quinn Purcell and Reiss. In 1938, a Broadway star (Megan Mullally) adopts a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal (Grey ...

Tiago Splitter has been watching the Bulls from afar.Not just Wednesday morning before his introductory press conference at the Advocate Center, not just earlier this season when he was a thousand miles away trying to right the ship in Portland, and not just years ago when he was a championship player in San Antonio.Im actually a Bulls fan myself, Splitter ...