Jayson Tatum had 31 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds, and the Celtics topped the Mavericks 106-88 to break a tie with the Lakers for the most in league history.
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In celebration of the holiday, the Juneteenth Jumpoff, an annual cabaret-burlesque show, takes the stage on two nights — Tuesday and Wednesday — at the Baton Show Lounge and the Den Theatre, and allows Black performers to express themselves for “Jubilee Day.”
It’s not a great draft class, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t gems to be found. Considering the recent state of the Bulls and the confusing direction of the organization, exec Arturas Karnisovas & Co. need to hit it big.
It doesn’t seem like Shannon is going to personally have a problem putting the falsehood and what he had to go through because of the falsehood behind him. Unknown is whether the rest of the world finds the ability to do the same.
The Fire scored two goals for the first time since April 6 and generated 11 shots, but had an open week following the win over LA.
After a memorable five-plus-year run for our “Sports Saturday” editions, we’re shifting the best, thickest sports section in town back a day. Get ready for “Sports Sunday.”
Paul Vriend’s photograph of a lively fawn at Rosehill Cemetery and Todd Cook explaining cicada-imitating flies working on Salt Creek are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
After the Sharks take Macklin Celebrini at No. 1 overall, the order gets a lot murkier. Here’s a rough guess for how all 32 first-round picks will play out, including the Hawks’ No. 2 and No. 18 selections.
Bet on it: Following in the footsteps of her father and grandfather, she has become a handicapper to watch
Keith Zerbian writes that he used to enjoy going out in Boystown not for the drinks but for the camaraderie, which would often end with a late-night coffee. He talks about what it’s like to get a coffee today as a gay man at his suburban Dunkin’ Donuts.
The Greater Chicago Sudanese American Association was started to help underprivileged communities in Sudan and Sudanese refugees in the United States. The nonprofit’s immediate goal, however, is to feed the hungry amid the African nation’s latest conflict.
Council members made a forward-thinking move by approving bonds to create apartments in four LaSalle Street corridor buildings. We urge the council to move forward on a plan to bring back coach houses and other accessory dwelling units.
She’s not just a friend, she’s also a business associate, and she keeps spilling details about her involvement with a married man.
The treatment Clark is getting in her debut season “has persuaded me to return to my longstanding policy of total indifference to the WNBA,” columnist Gene Lyons writes.
‘‘That was a rough one,” said Flexen, who had posted a 3.00 ERA over his last three starts. “I thought my stuff was terrible. Terrible execution, especially in big moments. That’s one I’ll try to flush.”
“You get an MVP one night and an All-Star the next night,” Mystics coach Eric Thibault said. “Especially at the position that Angel and Aaliyah are playing, you don’t get many breaks.”
The Sky’s three-game losing streak, a symptom of another bad start, begs the question: is a change to the starting lineup needed?
‘‘It means the world,’’ said Kuhl, who nearly a year ago was designated for assignment by the Nationals after a rough outing.
The boy was shot while on a sidewalk just before 8:30 p.m. in the 1300 block of South Independence Boulevard.
The Skywest Airlines flight from Joplin, Missouri, to Chicago made an emergency landing at Peoria International Airport Thursday morning.
Brumby and Willum, a pair of 2-year-old male koalas, will be viewable to the public at 2 p.m. Tuesday — the first time koalas will inhabit Brookfield Zoo Chicago.
Thomas Pavey and Raheim Hamilton are accused of owning and operating Empire Market, an online site where thousands of vendors sold illegal goods and services, including heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, LSD, counterfeit currency and stolen credit card information, according to the indictment.
Plans for the new Morgridge Family Lakeside Learning Studios were unveiled Friday, along with an expansion of the Shedd’s youth education programs in South and West side neighborhoods. The learning center, she added, will serve about 300,000 young people very year.
The June 21-22 event is one of the latest music festivals to emerge in the suburbs.
Jac Caglianone of Florida and Braden Montgomery of Texas A&M are considered by many evaluators to be the two top power hitters from the left side (even though Montgomery is a switch hitter).
“He was one of those guys you wanted to read,” recalled Sun-Times columnist Rick Telander.
War looms as HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel returns with stunning visuals, explicit sex and violence, and a bewildering abundance of characters.
In his three decades as artistic director, Newell has taken the company to a series of heights, marked by a number of Jeff Awards, growth in audiences and engagement with its local South Side community, and, in 2022, the Tony Award for Regional Theater.
Third baseman Patrick Wisdom’s eighth-inning flyout had an exit velocity of 111 mph and would have been a homer in 20 MLB ballparks, according to Baseball Savant.
U.S. District Court Judge Harry Leinenweber, who died Tuesday, taught a one-man master class in life. A man of reason, a man in full, a husband, a father, a grandfather, a great-grandfather. A golfer, a raconteur, an intellectual who loved people, a teller of tall — but true — tales.
For the first time in the Chicago area in nearly 12 years, the drill rapper delivers songs old and new in Father’s Day set showcasing his life as a fun-loving dad.
The boy and a 16-year-old girl were on a raft Monday morning when it flipped over. Chicago Fire Department divers brought the boy to shore after a helicopter spotted him underwater.
Trains resumed service about 4 p.m., Monday, more than four hours after they were stopped in the South Loop due to a track fire.
Talyn Taylor, Niki Dugandzic, Cameron Brooks and Gabe Kaminski all recently made college decisions.
The company, which was purchased by private equity firm Variant Equity Advisors for $270 million in 2019, said bus operations will continue as it undergoes a court-supervised sale of its assets.
Chicago's historic heat wave may bring warmest stretch of nights in 91 years — what you need to know
The last time Chicago saw a seven-day streak of low temperatures above 70 degrees was in 1933, just months after Franklin D. Roosevelt was first sworn in as president, and Chicago was hosting its last world’s fair.
Napoleon Harris III, chairman of the Illinois Senate’s Insurance Committee for several years, recently became an “investor” with insurance brokers in Chicago’s southwest suburbs. He denies any conflict of interest.
John Mieszala’s 30-inch-plus walleye and Eugene NeSmith’s 27-inch walleye, both from Pistakee Lake, share Fish of the Week honors.
New guidance and a ruling includes plans to stop “partnership basis shifting” — a process by which a business or person can enter into a series of transactions to avoid taxes.