News

Homebrew dreams get closer to reality at this new plant

By Sun-Times Wire

If friends swear your homebrew is so good they’d buy it, here’s the first step to taking their money. Chicago Craft Bottling is making it easier to bottle homebrew, nonna’s limoncello or any beverage for sale. The new company will even help you with the “sale” part.

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City Hall

Cutting speed limit to 25 mph could make 'dramatic difference' in traffic deaths, experts tell City Council

The default speed limit on Chicago side streets is 30 mph, but lowering it to 25 mph could “go a really long way” toward reducing traffic deaths, which have skyrocketed since the start of the pandemic, city Department of Transportation officials said.

By Mitchell Armentrout

A demonstrator at the Democratic National Convention fights off tear gas as he walks in front of a police barricade at the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago in 1968.

Columnists

Memories of Chicago in 1968 from a top lawer who felt like 'Dorothy from Kansas in "The Wizard of Oz"'

“I remember coming out of my apartment one day and spotting Chicago cops dragging young protestors out of one section of Lincoln Park and shoving them into trucks, while nearby poet Allen Ginsberg was chanting in a circle of peaceful protesters not far away from the radical Abby Hoffman,” remembers Dan Webb, who later became a U.S. attorney.

By Michael Sneed

Music

Live Nation Concert Week: How to get $25 tickets to hundreds of shows

Concerts by 21 Savage, New Kids on the Block, Vampire Weekend are among the shows available through the promotion.

By USA TODAY

White Sox

All was bliss, but only for a while in White Sox' latest loss

Twins win 10th straight, sweep 6-25 Sox again.

By Daryl Van Schouwen

Bears

Bears waive P Trenton Gill after drafting Tory Taylor in 4th round

Gill was a seventh-round pick in 2022.

By Jason Lieser