A day after addressing the top of their starting rotation and making a trade-deadline splash by landing veteran righty Kevin Gausman, the Cubs upgraded their relief corps, bringing in 28-year-old right-hander Ryan Zeferjahn in a deal with the Angels.It cost them one of their top young players, with slugger Moises Ballesteros going the other way in the ...

U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi is shifting his fundraising powers to a PAC to benefit other Democrats ahead of his own exit from Congress a move that also gives him flexibility should he decide to run for office again.Krishnamoorthi plans to hold a launch reception for a new hybrid-PAC called Equal Opportunity Now on Wednesday in the West Loop, according to ...

An Illinois State Police trooper has been charged with sexually assaulting someone in southwest suburban Tinley Park.Douglass Lee, 54, of Tinley Park, is accused of assaulting a person who was unable to give knowing consent early Sunday, according to a statement released Monday by the Tinley Park Police Department. Police did not share any additional ...

Musician and comedian Al Scorch thinks he got the last gasp of an old school childhood growing up in the 1980s and 90s on Chicagos blue collar Northwest Side.Pre-cell phone, pre-internet where you're just kind of running around the neighborhood in a pack with your friends all summer, Scorch said. You're coming home when the streetlights turn on. You're ...

Debemos frenar los abusos de ICE antes de que se pierda otra vida, dijo el senador Dick Durbin, demcrata por Illinois, el mes pasado tras el asesinato de dos padres de familia, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo en Houston y Johan Sebastin Durn Guerrero en Maine, a manos de agentes del Servicio de Inmigracin y Control de Aduanas (ICE).La mayora de los estadounidenses ...

A day after strengthening their rotation with a two-time All Star in Kevin Gausman, the Cubs reportedly added another arm on trade-deadline day, landing Clay Holmes in a deal with the Mets.Holmes, like Gausman, was seen as one of the better pitchers on the trade block this summer. The 33-year-old right-hander hasnt pitched since May, sidelined with a ...

White Sox general manager Chris Getz said Sunday he was pursuing a catcher, and he landed one Monday, acquiring seven-year veteran Joey Bart from the Braves. The Sox will be Bart's third team this season. Right-hander Duncan Davitt, whom the Sox designated for assignment, is heading to the Braves. The No. 2 overall pick in the 2018 MLB Draft, Bart hasn't ...

Its entirely possible that in a few years well find out Ado is just a front for a secret CIA operative.Since coming on the scene in 2020, the real person behind the mysterious J-pop star has been kept up under wraps. Anonymity is a foundational part of her identity as a singer who started as a cover artist and rose to international fame through the ...

Claiborne Wade was troubled when he woke up Friday morning to an email from the head of Chicago Public Schools telling parents like him that the school board had made a last-minute change to the budget that could affect the start of school.At the time, Wade, a parent leader at the nonprofit advocacy group Kids First Chicago, wondered if most parents were ...

Sky center Kamilla Cardoso has thrived in the paint this season. The bread and butter of the offense is finding her down low off a pick-and-roll, a post-up or anything else that gets her the ball deep.Saturday's win over the Aces gave Cardoso a taste of the bounty that lies beyond it. Most teams leave her wide open on the perimeter, and she finally made ...

The Notre Dame-Southern California college football rivalry will start again in 2030.The schools announced Monday they have agreed to a four-game home-and-home series. Notre Dame will play in Los Angeles on Aug. 31, 2030, and the Trojans will visit South Bend, Indiana, on Aug. 30, 2031. The meetings in 2032 and 2033 will be played in the first three weeks ...

Baggu announced the opening date of its second Chicago store.The California-based bag and accessories brand will open its Lincoln Park store, 2118 N. Halsted St., on Aug. 14, according to an Instagram post from Baggu last week. The 2,200-square-foot space was previously home to Its A Secret Medspa. When Baggu opened its first Midwest store in Wicker Park in ...

Another Lollapalooza has come and gone, but Grant Park has a way to go before it's back to its old self. Between a weekend full of rain (on top of historic rainfall throughout the Chicago region this summer) and four days of more than 100,000 festivalgoers descending on the city, Downtown's biggest green space needs some time to rest and recover. Here are ...

Lollapalooza 2026 opened with warm sunshine on Thursday but the weekend soon brought rain and turned Grant Park into a mud pit.But neither winds nor rain nor Saturdays delayed start prevented our critics from canvassing stages in search of the next big talents. After all, veterans of Lollapaloozas yore like to compare notes on which major acts they saw way ...

Bernice King contempl a la multitud portando ponchos y paraguas la maana del sbado, haciendo eco de los llamados de su padre, que haba estado en el mismo lugar 60 aos atrs.El reverendo Martin Luther King Jr. y otros activistas marcharon hacia Marquette Park en agosto de 1966 para protestar contra el redlining una prctica inmobiliaria racista y la ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson charged Monday that the same billionaire business interests that closed schools and mental health clinics under former Mayor Rahm Emanuel are trying to take us back to a time of trauma and torment and declared that Chicago is not going back.Johnson never mentioned Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias by name. But on the day ...

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will return for a second consecutive year to this months Air and Water Show in Chicago, the citys cultural affairs department announced Monday.Historically, the Thunderbirds and U.S. Navy Blue Angels have traded off years appearing at the Chicago show, which regularly draws upwards of 1 million spectators to the citys ...

Ten people were arrested at this year's Lollapalooza and 67 attendees were taken to nearby hospitals over the course of the four-day music festival that draws tens of thousands to Grant Park each summer, city officials said Monday. That's fewer arrests and more ambulance trips compared to last year's festival, according to figures from Chicago's Office of ...

Wishbone Chicago is closing its doors after 36 years, the West Loop restaurant's co-owners announced Monday morning. "There is no easy way to say goodbye to something that has been such a large part of our lives for so long," Joel and Julie Nickson said in the Instagram announcement. "To our many loyal customers and to the generations of staff members who ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) Two people have died in the cyclospora outbreak in Michigan in the first confirmed deaths in the U.S. related to the microscopic parasite, state health officials announced Monday.The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said both people had underlying health conditions that may have been impacted by the intestinal illness ...

The White Sox are acquiring outfielder Brenton Doyle from the Rockies, adding a right-handed bat to a left-handed-heavy unit. Right-hander Mason Adams, the eighth-ranked prospect in the Sox' system, according to MLB.com, and infielder Carlos Vielma are heading to the Rockies. Doyle, 28, is slashing .214/.287/.282 with one home run in 45 games this season. ...

Breaking down the Bears Monday training camp practice:What happenedIt was a run-heavy practice for their first day in pads, and coach Ben Johnson got his first look at an offensive line thats working to come together amid changes at center and left tackle.Its still a competition at the latter position, and newcomer Jedrick Wills got a shot with the first ...

Miles de personas que perdieron la asistencia alimentaria federal debido a la ampliacin de las normas laborales recibirn un beneficio nico de $400 a partir del sbado, segn funcionarios estatales.El programa Familias que Reciben Apoyo de Emergencia para el Hambre (FRESH) proporcionar apoyo a unas 100,000 personas en Illinois que fueron consideradas no ...

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This is the third time in 12 years the Bears will have the same head coach, offensive play-caller and starting quarterback working together as they did the year before.They should act like it.The teams first preseason game is less than two weeks away. If history is any indication, quarterback Caleb Williams wont play in it. If common sense has any say, the ...