There are many disturbing things circulating inside of the world of sports. Sports-betting companies taking over sponsorship of every broadcast show, podcast and stadium. Athletes calling out members of the media for not knowing the game when most members of the sports media are former players. Etc.There exists one greater. Lets call this a sartorial ...

Cuando la cantautora mexicana Natalia Lafourcade comenz el proceso creativo de Cancionera, su dcimo lbum de estudio grabado en 2024, lo hizo como una especie de regalo propio para celebrar sus 40 aos de vida. Quera ser ms introspectiva y sin juicio, analizar su camino personal y musical ms que como artista, ms como una persona que compone e interpreta ...

Pope Leo XIV is a man of the cloth, and some of the ancestral threads woven to make the worlds first U.S. and Chicago pope are stained in blood, scandal and even glitter with celebrity.The Dolton-born pontiffs roots have been under a microscope ever since his election to head the Catholic Church May 8, but perhaps no one has offered a sharper focus than ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for corruption involving the abuse of the powerful state office he held for decades.A jury in February convicted Madigan on 10 criminal counts, including bribery conspiracy, wire fraud and other crimes. The jury delivered its verdict at the end of a four-month trial ...

The years first mosquitoes with West Nile Virus have been identified, Chicago Department of Public Health announced Friday morning.At least 16 counties across the state have had cases of West Nile Virus in birds, mosquitoes and horses, though no human cases have been reported yet this year. Cook and McHenry Counties have seen the bulk of the infected ...

ROME Pope Leo XIV on Friday set Sept. 7 as the rescheduled date to canonize the Catholic Churchs first millennial-era saint Carlo Acutis.Leo made the announcement during a meeting of cardinals, known as a consistory, to set the dates for a handful of new saints.Acutis canonization was originally scheduled for April 27, but was postponed following the death ...

Conductor Riccardo Muti returned Thursday evening to lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the first of its two final sets of concerts of the 2024-25 season, and there is always something reassuring about having him in on the podium.Serving since 2010 first as music director and now music director emeritus for life, audiences know what to expect ...

Round three of the 50 speed cameras tied to Mayor Brandon Johnsons 2025 budget will soon start nailing motorists driving too fast near schools and parks.The seven new locations announced Friday bring to 34 the number of speed cameras installed by the city so far this year. Sixteen additional speed cameras will be installed by Dec. 31 in hopes of generating ...

"This sucks," Dave Griffith observed accurately.We were wading through a patch of multifloral rose, a mess of prickles, Tuesday at the prescribed grazing demonstration project at Chain O'Lakes State Park. That's the crux of the matter of invasive or exotic plants, whether introduced or arriving some other way. "We don't have enough chainsaws in Chicagoland ...

En medio de una semana de protestas en Chicago y en todo el pas, el representante estadounidense James Comer, republicano por Kentucky y presidente del comit de Supervisin de la Cmara, inici el jueves una audiencia sobre las polticas de santuario estatales, acusando a los gobernadores de Illinois, Michigan y Minnesota de ignorar intencionalmente la ley ...

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Former NFL player Antonio Brown is facing an attempted murder charge stemming from a shooting that took place during an altercation outside an amateur boxing event in Miami, according to an arrest warrant.Brown, 36, is accused of grabbing a handgun from a security staffer and firing two shots at a man he had gotten into a fistfight with earlier. The victim, ...

NEW YORK Caitlin Clark's arrival and a major surge in viewers over the past year led to ION Television reaching a multiyear agreement on Friday to extend its broadcasting partnership with the WNBA.ION, which is owned by the Cincinnati, Ohio-based, E.W. Scripps Co., did not reveal the length or value of the contract, which extends the network's original ...

Their jobs are 24/7. The positions they have or still hold place them under a constant and unforgiving public spotlight.But there is one private title that matters most to all of them: Dad.Mayor Brandon Johnson, former Mayor and Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel and U.S. Rep. Jesus Chuy Garcia are each fathers to three children, though Garcias adult ...

Audrey Francis sits in a fancy chair in the top-floor library of Steppenwolf Theatre, where she oversees programming as one of two artistic directors. Shes about to answer a reporters question when a brisk knock sounds on the glass door.Amy Morton, who is scheduled for an interview after Francis, pushes past a public relations staffer and enters the room. ...

It was one of Kathryn Hall's first play dates, and everything was going great until the little girl was introduced to her friend's dad. How could this be a dad? He was just an average-looking guy. Not like her own dad."I remember thinking, 'No, your dad? Introduce me to your dad because this just doesn't make sense,' " Hall says. "In my mind, dads were ...

The Sun-Times high school basketball Mount Rushmore project highlights the sports biggest names and greatest stars.With the prep career as the criterias centerpiece with a sprinkling of post-high school success and overall stature used as a separator weve created a Mount Rushmore for 10 geographical regions throughout the Chicago area.***The East ...

WBEZ's Reset podcast asked listeners who ride the CTA, Metra or Pace to share what would happen if the Illinois legislature fails to fill a $770 million gap in regional transit agencies budgets. Here's what they said, lightly edited for clarity:"I started taking transit alone when I was 11 or 12. ... Being able to go to concerts, cultural events, getting to ...

ATLANTA (AP) A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trumps attempt to overhaul elections in the U.S., siding with a group of Democratic state attorneys general who challenged the effort as unconstitutional.Trumps order, issued March 25, demanded states not count mail-in ballots received after Election Day even those postmarked prior to the ...

As Adam and Hasina Taju grew older, they became concerned over who would pass away first in their marriage that spanned over half a century. They'd each save money so that the other was financially taken care of, just in case. "Who knew that God would take them both at the same time?" their son-in-law Wasim Musa told the Sun-Times. "They couldnt live ...

When Deanna Browley moved her hair salon, Relax Shes Natural, to its new home in West Town this spring, she didnt know the landlord had a mural planned for the exterior wall over her store.But when he asked her how she liked the art, she says, it was a full-circle moment.The mural is a two-story image of a young Black girl in a sundress with her shoulders ...

The world seemed to shatter when I heard about Jaahnavi Kandula, a 23-year-old Indian graduate student killed in January 2023 by a speeding Seattle police officer who was driving 74 mph in a residential area. After the crash, another officer who responded to the scene was caught laughing. His body-worn camera also captured him saying, Yeah, just write a ...

LONDON Two men who stole a $6.4 million golden toilet from an English mansion were sentenced Friday to more than two years in prison.The 18-carat, fully functioning toilet was on display as a piece of contemporary art at Blenheim Palace the country mansion where British wartime leader Winston Churchill was born when five burglars smashed a window and ...

LOS ANGELES Cincinnati Reds left-hander Wade Miley is accused in court documents of providing drugs to the late Tyler Skaggs, a Los Angeles Angels pitcher who died of an accidental overdose in 2019.Skaggs' former agent, Ryan Hamill, said in a deposition that Skaggs told him he was using pain pills containing oxycodone, which were provided by Miley.The ...

Two-time Olympic all-around champion Simone Biles has apologized for getting personal in a heated online exchange with former collegiate swimmer turned anti-trans athlete activist Riley Gaines.Biles, an 11-time Olympic medalist and the most decorated gymnast of all-time, initially responded to a post by Gaines on the social media platform X after Gaines ...