Chicago blues has always been bigger than the city. The music is a wide-ranging travelers log, filled with the heart and soul of the Mississippi Delta and tales of the Great Migration. Its a passport stamp showing how the sound found its way to the UK and influenced the British Invasion. Today, it manifests as a mecca for curious explorers like Ivan ...

Alexander Villeda has spent the past three and a half months in an immigration detention center in Michigan, thousands of miles away from his new bride, Alexa Ramrez, who was deported back to Mexico.Since their arrest last October, Villeda has been holding out hope that he might be released on bond. That would give him enough time to pack up his life in ...

Moon alertAvoid shopping or making important decisions from 4:30 to 9:45 p.m. Chicago time. After that, the moon moves from Leo into Virgo.Aries (March 21-April 19) A so-so day .HoroscopeStarbox { background: #f8f8f8; display: flex; align-items: center; } ...

MIAMI In a perfect world, Billy Donovan wouldnt have to be concerned about up to seven of his players facing free agency in July and dwelling on the Feb. 5 trade deadline.The Bulls coach knows thats not reality, however.And while Donovan said he addressed the team yet again on the topic before Sundays game with Miami, it didnt look to stick. As a matter of ...

It's been a very odd season in the Super 25. Traditionally Sunday is spent analyzing the results of the top teams and trying to decide where each should slot in somewhere in the top 15.There is typically a list of 10 teams that deserve to be in the rankings but haven't had a chance to crack the list because the established ranked teams didn't do anything to ...

White Sox legend Frank Thomas hasn't minced words when it comes to his relationship with the White Sox in the past, and on Sunday, he let his frustration out.The White Sox put out a social media graphic celebrating "momentous firsts" to commemorate the start of Black History Month. The graphic included moments like Ken Williams and Jerry Manuel becoming the ...

MIAMI This will be an interesting week for the Bulls and specifically executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas.He has a locker room that has a growing distrust in the direction the roster is going, he still has seven potential free agents come July even after the Jevon Carter move, and he has a product that remains stuck in the ...

The Blackhawks' power play needs all the practice they can get right now. They've gone 10 consecutive games without scoring, failing to convert 26 opportunities during that span.It's the franchise's longest drought since February 2012, and they're just five games away from the NHL's longest drought during the salary-cap era. They've fallen to 19th in ...

Despite bouts of bitter cold and a healthy amount of snow, January was an exactly normal, albeit slightly colder, month for Chicago, according to the National Weather Service.The weather services monthly roundup of records from O'Hare Airport shows January's average temperature of 21.9 degrees was just 3.3 degrees below the historic average for the ...

Nzareth had quite the week. The Roadrunners knocked off Benet on the road on Wednesday and Carmel at home on Saturday.The Roadrunners are led by forward Stella Sakalas. The do-it-all forward is one of the best players in the country and is headed to BYU next season. She and junior guard Sophia Towne draw a lot of the headlines for the Roadrunners.But I ...

White Sox general manager Chris Getz said Thursday at SoxFest Live that he anticipated some deals to be made.On Sunday, a source confirmed to the Sun-Times that the White Sox are acquiring hard-throwing reliever Jordan Hicks and pitching prospect David Sandlin from Boston for right-hander Gage Ziehl. The deal is less about acquiring Hicks, who has posted a ...

Sky majority owner Michael Alter is being sued by one of his minority partners, Steven Rogers, an early investor in the team. In laymans terms, the suit alleges that Alter robbed minority owners of their stake in an asset that is exploding in value. In legalese, the complaint says Alter breached his fiduciary duty to minority investors and unfairly deprived ...

"Abolish ICE," "Caleb Chilliams" and "Mueve La Nieve" are among the finalists for Chicago's fourth annual You Name a Snowplow contest.The Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation released the list of 25 finalists Sunday, which were pulled from more than 13,300 entries. Chicagoans can vote for up to six names, one for each of the citys snow districts. ...

How disappointed are you that former Mayor Rahm Emanuel won't be testifying about the Chicago Police Department's notorious "code of silence" in federal court? At least not during a civil trial that starts Monday, stemming from cops bursting into the wrong home in 2018 and driving a woman, her four children and half-naked grandmother outside at ...

Six vehicles crashed on the Edens Expressway early Sunday in Skokie, and a pedestrian was struck by one of the cars, according to Illinois State Police.The wreck happened around 4:45 a.m. Sunday in the I-94 northbound lanes near Golf Street. Several passengers and the pedestrian were taken to local hospitals, according to authorites. Their conditions were ...

Chicago police officers were on the scene of a SWAT incident early Sunday in the South Shore neighborhood.The incident happened around 5 a.m. in the 2700 block of East 76th Street. Chicago police said no additional details were immediately available.

Even a winter-storm warning couldnt keep the Sky front office out of Evanston last weekend. General manager Jeff Pagliocca, coach Tyler Marsh and support staff commandeered the bleachers at Northwestern to scout the best team in the Big Ten: UCLA.The No. 2 Bruins (19-1) are overflowing with WNBA-ready talent, starting five players who legitimately might go ...

DEAR ABBY: Six years ago, at my 40th high school reunion, a few former classmates asked me about my old high school sweetheart. (We broke up after high school.) I decided to find her and located her on Facebook. To my surprise, she never married. I told her I am married. We became friends again, but from 3,000 miles away.For a few years, it was a nice ...

Politicians usually preferred that Basil Talbott Jr. covered a different beat.The fair-minded, truth-seeking Chicago Sun-Times political journalist would never indulge in their emoluments, like a free lunch at a fine restaurant.Basil would have nothing of that. Absolutely nothing. He insisted that what he would tell the public would be what he believed ...

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MIAMI Coby White and Nikola Vucevic strolled into the locker room on the late bus, getting the night off because of the build-up of minutes lately.Josh Giddey, Tre Jones, Jalen Smith and Zach Collins were all in street clothes, battling injuries.It had all the makings of a Matas Buzelis night on Saturday.After all, the second year forward was the ...

In the new documentary Melania, the first lady states that one of her goals is to serve with purpose and style. To underscore that, director Brett Ratner lingers on images of Eleanor Roosevelt, Mamie Eisenhower and Jacqueline Kennedy before cutting to Melania Trumps photo shoot for her own official White House portrait.It's a not-so-subtle attempt at a ...

MIAMI Dalen Terry has a very realistic view of his predicament.Hes a former first-round pick but has never earned starting minutes. Hes been in whats basically become a contract year for him but hasnt convinced his own team of making a financial commitment. He could use a change of scenery but knows the only way that would happen by next Thursdays trade ...

A man who was shot Thursday night in Washington Park died early Friday at a hospital.Officers responded about 8:40 p.m. to a call of a person shot in the first block of East Garfield Boulevard, where they found the 31-year-old lying on the ground unresponsive, Chicago police said.He suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and was taken to University of ...

Bolingbrook sophomore Brady Pettigrew knows that as one of the states elite players his team requires him to do much more than just score.Im going to guard the opponents best player, Pettigrew said. Im a two-way player that will give you effort on both sides.The plan on Saturday at the War on the Shore against host Evanston was for Pettigrew to slow down ...