The Blackhawks let another opportunity to build on one of their best performances of the season slip away Monday.An early two-goal lead quickly was drowned out by five unanswered Avalanche goals in a 5-2 loss Monday, dropping the Hawks to a woeful 4-10-1 this season.The news got even worse for the green-clad Hawks when Patrick Kane left during the second ...

SEATTLE The Bears are watching their plans click into place, and its beautiful.Its been a while since they felt like this, watching the right coach, the right quarterback and the right defensive star hit all at the same time in a 34-17 win over the defending champion Seahawks on Monday. After knocking off each of the teams from last seasons Super Bowl in ...

CHAMPAIGN Andrej Stojakovic and Stefan Vaaks each scored 20 points Monday night as No. 3 Illinois opened its season with a 120-45 win over Fairleigh Dickinson.The Fighting Illini made a program-record 19 3-pointers, had six players score in double figures and outrebounded Fairleigh Dickinson 65-21.The 75-point margin of victory was the largest for Illinois ...

PHILADELPHIA If someone would have told Tiago Splitter back in 2014 that in 12 years, he would no longer be competing against LeBron James, he would be coaching against him, his reply would have been a simple one.That youre crazy, he said with a laugh of that possibility.But there Splitter in Mondays 126-107 loss to Philadelphia, no longer battling James ...

SEATTLE In their first game since they declared their postseason dreams to the rest of the league, the Bears did something to the Seahawks that no one had done in 27 games: they scored on the first drive.And what a drive it was: 17 plays for 80 grueling yards over a whopping eight minutes and 32 seconds. Receiver Luther Burdens fourth catch of the drive ...

SEATTLE Bears quarterback Caleb Williams relented in his confrontation with the NFL over his cleats by wearing an all-black, logo-less pair Monday against the Seahawks.The league fined Williams a total of $35,823 for wearing Caddix cleats with a noticeable logo in recent games against the Falcons and Patriots because it violated its partnership with Nike, ...

PHILADELPHIA Help is on the way finally.And the Bulls could use it. Then again, who couldnt use a 6-foot-11 athletic big who protects the basket and is an elite rim runner?According to Bulls coach Tiago Splitter on Monday, offseason-acquisition Nic Claxton went through a full practice on Sunday the first since he injured his hamstring right before the ...

SEATTLE The Bears have been talking Super Bowl ever since the end of last season, and that got a bit louder last week when they traded for star defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons.But before they get to all that, its going to be brutal surviving the NFC North.As good as the Bears felt about standing 5-2 going into their game Monday night at the Seahawks, and ...

A Quincy man accused of sending suspicious letters to members of Congress will remain in custody while awaiting trial after waiving his right to fight prosecutors' bid to keep him detained.Matthew Unglesbee, 36, faces charges of mailing threatening communications, false information and hoaxes, according to the complaint filed in the Central District of ...

The Blackhawks debuted their new green jerseys a not-so-well-kept secret for the past weeks  on Monday against the Avalanche.They're quite similar to the jerseys the Hawks used to wear for St. Patrick's Day before the NHL banned specialty warmup jerseys in 2023. The color theme is built out from the green second feather in the primary logo, and the ...

After averaging more than 20 wins across 26 seasons in stops at IC Catholic, Lisle and Marian Catholic, Dan Murray stepped away from coaching girls basketball last year.But it was a pause rather than a hard stop. Murray joined the faculty at Marmion and laid the foundation for the first girls team in the school's 93-year history.Marmion has gone co-ed, ...

SEATTLE Bears cornerback Malik Muhammad, who has started four games this season, wont play Monday night after he hurt his toe against the Patriots. He was ruled inactive an hour-and-a-half before kickoff.Starting linebacker DMarco Jackson, who was questionable with an ankle problem, will play.The Bears also made rookie Jordan van den Berg a healthy scratch ...

In winning 84 games during the regular season, earning the franchises first playoff berth in five years and coming one win shy of playing for the American League pennant, the 2026 White Sox were a lot better than anyone expected.That has a way of leading to hardware for leadership, and on cue, the White Sox second-year skipper Will Venable has been named a ...

Michael Wilbon is taking a break.The longtime ESPN commentator and co-host of the network's popular "Pardon the Interruption" talk show alongside good friend Tony Kornheiser announced Monday he is taking a leave of absence because of what he described as "multiple health issues."Wilbon, a Chicago native who turns 68 later this month, wrote in a post on X ...

The first move in Jed Hoyers offseason quest to improve the Cubs pitching staff stayed in house.The team announced a new one-year deal with righty reliever Jacob Webb that contains a club option for 2028.Webb had some notable stumbles down the stretch, blowing four saves in his final 11 relief outings. But prior to that bumpy ride one that infuriated fans ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson was already facing a rocky road to re-election with a 30% approval rating, only $400,000 in his campaign war chest and a fractured coalition of progressive unions that helped put him in office.Now the embattled incumbent will have to survive a potentially costly and time-consuming petition challenge seeking to disqualify him for ...

Well see whether Seiya Suzuki returns to the Cubs next season, but the team made an effort to retain his services Monday.The Cubs tendered a qualifying offer to the free-agent right fielder, a one-year deal worth $23.15 million. Suzuki has until Nov. 17 to accept. If he declines and signs with another team, the Cubs will get a draft pick in exchange for his ...

Bowen Byram is now seeing a medical specialist whom the Blackhawks hope can help get him over the "last hurdle" in his recovery from an undisclosed upper-body injury, coach Jeff Blashill said Monday.It's the latest twist in a confusing story that seemed innocuous at first and has now stretched for three weeks. Monday marked Byram's eighth consecutive game ...

The federal judge presiding over the failed "Broadview Six" prosecution ordered Chicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros on Monday to testify in her courtroom under oath later this month.U.S. District Judge April Perry called Boutros' denial that he knew about certain wrongdoing by his staff until April "hard to credit" and "nearly unfathomable." She said he ...

The Northern Illinois Transit Authority wants your input on its expanded 2027 budget that aims to improve service and safety on CTA, Metra and Pace.NITA's proposed operating budget is 15% larger than the current year $5.02 billion compared to $4.3 billion  thanks to additional tax revenue from the NITA Act.This is NITA's first time proposing its own ...

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Mondays deadline for MLB teams to cut down their 40-man rosters to their maximum size always prompts a little bit of player movement across the league. Despite reinstating all six players off their 60-day injured list on Thursday without issue, the White Sox were not sidelined.The team announced theyve claimed infielder Graham Pauley off waivers from the ...

The lawsuit brought Monday by Chicagos former FBI boss undercuts a key claim made by U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros office about the politically charged Broadview Six case one that a judge had already sought to put under a microscope.Boutros office told U.S. District Judge April Perry in March that there were no communications of any nature from, to, or with ...

An East Aurora School District member facing federal charges for an alleged kickback scheme has denied the allegations in her first public statement since the grand jury indictment dropped last week.Annette Johnson, the former board president who signed the statement as a member of East Aurora School District 131, maintained her innocence and said she ...

Early voting and mail-in ballot turnout in suburban Cook County for the midterm elections has surpassed turnout in the 2022 gubernatorial election by nearly 30% so far, Cook County Clerk Monica Gordon said Monday. More than 242,000 residents have cast ballots during early voting as of Monday morning. Nearly 107,000 mail ballots have been returned and 11,000 ...