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With Mother’s Day coming Sunday, remembering a powerful 2016 commercial from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
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As a Netflix roast proves, there’s no such thing as too much fame for the former NFL star.
Action scenes thrill and the visuals stun in overlong but entertaining chapter of the simian franchise.
Despite dropping out of the race after Super Tuesday, Haley’s ghost continues to haunt Trump in some very significant and, for him, ominous ways.
As Hulu series details, the famous, the semi-famous and the ordinary got together on the platform for comedy as well as comfort
A new report from the Alliance for Entrepreneurial Equity finds that Black business owners still face barriers that keep them from thriving, such as lack of access to capital.
President Joe Biden hits Chicago Wednesday for a fundraiser after a stop in Racine, where his visit will spotlight one of Donald Trump’s economic flops, the failed Foxconn plant, which never employed the promised 13,000 workers.
None of the national experts has even talked with Underwood yet, he says, so their “way-too-early” rankings aren’t worrying him. Besides, the demands of a nonstop job create enough stress as it is.
It’s equal parts psychological horror film, 1990s TV nostalgia trip, coming of age story and dysphoria allegory.
Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Connelly keep morphing their characters in visually stunning tale of different Chicagos in the multiverse.
A rougher allergy season and the prevalence of wildfires will make the summer especially tough for people with asthma.
The cicadas are coming, and these glorious insects fill me with wonder.
The weather made the Big Ten championship game anticlimactic, but goal-scoring machine Izzy Scane and the Wildcats won it anyway. That’s just what they do — and an NCAA title defense comes next.
The classic toy, with Chicago roots, has its ups and downs.
If you’re losing your hair, here are useful lessons and realizations from an experienced and confident bald person.
Northerly Island should be a stunning urban space on par with Millennium Park. Instead, it’s the architectural equivalent of Felix and Oscar, with a 30,000-seat concert venue oddly coupled with a nature preserve.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker unexpectedly backed off his longstanding opposition to taxing services as lawmakers search for ways to fund and reform the Chicago region’s mass transit system.
On Aug. 20,1972, this reporter was assigned to cover the hordes of hippies, yippies, women’s libbers, Marxists, gay rights advocates, Black Panthers, and anti-Vietnam war vets tenting, talking, and toking it up in Miami’s Flamingo Park before the Republican National Convention kicked off.
If any longtime watchers of the Cubs and Brewers didn’t know which manager was in which dugout Friday at Wrigley Field, they might have assumed the hotshot with the richest contract ever for a big-league skipper was still on the visitors’ side.
When someone new to the “family” like John Schriffen tosses out directionless code words, like “haters,” to a rightfully sensitive and mistreated fan base, the outcome ain’t ever pretty.
Donald Trump’s infantile and unstable character is no laughing matter.