Joseph Stancak, who lived a private, frugal life in working-class Gage Park, was buried in a pauper’s grave.
Temperatures climbed to 1 degree early Saturday after a brutal 29 consecutive hours below zero, and eventually hit 14 at O’Hare Airport by mid-afternoon.
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“The outrage is still pretty strong,” says a parent whose son was in a special education classroom where high lead levels were found.
Fields went to the sideline with an apparent left leg injury with 2:08 remaining.
From Chicago to Romania to Brazil, Santa has much to do throughout the holiday season, not just on Christmas Eve.
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Howard Brown Health Workers United announced the January 3-5 strike Friday evening after resounding support in a vote from the union’s members.
Minnesota’s Greg Joseph kicked a career-long 61-yard field goal that prevented the New York Giants from clinching a playoff spot.
Sam Darnold completed 15 of 22 passes for 250 yards and a touchdown and ran for a score to improve to 3-1 as Carolina’s starting QB.
The Giants had earlier raised concerns about Correa’s health.
The Bears are competing well against a title contender for the second game in a row.
The officer was outside their vehicle about 2:05 a.m. in the 1500 block of West Roosevelt Road when someone got in and tried to drive away, Chicago police said.
Michael O’Brien and Joe Henricksen sit down and preview the state’s biggest holiday basketball tournaments in this episode.
It’s his second consecutive absence after hurting his knee against the Packers on Dec. 4.
It’s been two decades since Joliet played in the championship game at Pontiac. If they get there this year they will likely get a shot at the No. 1 team in the state on one of the biggest stages.
Can this year’s tournament grab enough headlines, though, to help build towards a full revival in coming years?
Exactly how good is Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin?
The “jittery feet” were the giveaway, and DeRozan knew he would have an opportunity to take Grimes where he wanted and win the game Friday. He explained how his love for boxing makes his late-game heroics on the court possible.
The Jack Tosh Holiday Classic at York has been raising its profile and gaining in prestige recently.
MARK BROWN: I don’t remember a lot about the night I almost died in a hospital bed, except for desperately wanting one more chance to tell my wife and kids that I loved them, but not wanting to unduly alarm them by waking them.
She currently leads Spar CityLift Girona in scoring, averaging 15.4 points per game to go with 2.5 assists and 1.6 steals. In 11 games, she’s shooting 45% from three-point range and 58% from the field overall.
A betting prodigy who attended Mount Carmel, Panayotovich took his impressive skills to Vegas and now plies his trade in Boston.
MLS placed first-year club St. Louis City in the Western Conference, a move that short-circuited any potential rivalry with the Fire.
Wait, grades before they’ve even taken the field for their new teams? It’s good, clean fun in the bar-room or water-cooler debate spirit.
Bait shop changes around Chicago, record crossbow usage by Illinois bowhunters, pink salmon records, cougars in Illinois and northern pike on the Chicago lakefront are among the top stories in the outdoors around Chicago during 2022.
The young man was observed ‘goosing’ half a dozen women on the dance floor.
The additions of Dansby Swanson, Jameson Taillon, Cody Bellinger and others have undoubtedly made the Cubs better. The question is, exactly how much have those signings changed the Cubs’ 2023 outlook?
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City Council looked the other way instead of supporting a vote on the tax on properties sold at $1 million or more, to generate an estimated $160 million a year to address the root causes of homelessness.
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Kane’s particularly unlucky game Wednesday against the Predators multiplied his frustration with his stats, but he started to turn the corner Friday against the Blue Jackets.
The Hawks raced to an early lead and translated that into a 5-2 victory Friday, snapping an eight-game overall losing streak and 11-game home losing streak just before the NHL’s Christmas break.
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Thanks to some poor New York free-throw shooting, the door was open for DeRozan to show off that cold-blooded clutch gene, and he delivered. His 22-footer with 0.1 left on the clock gave the Bulls a third straight win.