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America is staring down the possibility of putting someone back in power who has demonstrated he is willing to use informal violence to achieve his anti-democratic ends.
The Florida billionaire paid $125 million to get his name slapped on the Museum of Science and Industry. But will anybody use the new name? Just look at 875 N. Michigan. Don’t know what that is? Exactly.
NBA
Too many injuries and too much interference from the refs hurt what should be the highlight of basketball season — the playoffs.
The Guardians have no business being 10 games over .500 and leading a surprisingly decent-looking American League Central, but here they are. Boy, the White Sox could learn a thing or two.
ABC, ESPN+ series documents the joys, pressures of three stars during historic era for women’s college basketball.
‘The X is the event,’ Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told the Chicago Sun-Times about the location, which will be the central hub for about 60 agencies involved in designing and implementing convention security.
Letitia Wright stars as a Nigerian woman who flees to Ireland and befriends a lonely ex-con (Josh O’Connor) as she pursues asylum.
With Mother’s Day coming Sunday, remembering a powerful 2016 commercial from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
NFL
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
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.
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.
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.
Noem appears to have rather enjoyed herself executing her family dog. So much so that she followed up shooting the misbehaving pup with executing a rambunctious pet goat. There’s definitely something missing from her emotional tool kit.
Donald Trump’s infantile and unstable character is no laughing matter.
Inspired by Pop-Tarts, the Netflix comedy serves jokes that are just as weird and flat.
Classes disrupted, fellow students threatened, clashes with police, and the yo-yo story has to wait.