More than eight miles of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive on the South Side were brightened with lights, inflatables, ornaments and wreaths.
For the 24th year, volunteers gathered to offload 1,200 Christmas trees, promised to families in need, from the Coast Guard cutter Mackinaw.
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A Sun-Times analysis finds that thousands of scofflaws — many from the suburbs — have dodged city debts over the years, depriving City Hall of a massive sum of money as Mayor Brandon Johnson faces steep budget challenges.
The Bears’ decision to move on from Fields might be made for them.
Paul Newman, Robert Redford reunited with their ‘Butch Cassidy’ director to play swindlers with different takes on their racket.
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Alabama is again the top dog in the SEC — and perhaps headed to the College Football Playoff — after ending Georgia’s 29-game winning streak with a 27-24 victory for the conference title.
Scores, highlights and more from Saturday’s games.
Isaak Phillips also went down to Rockford with Kaiser, while Louis Crevier was called up to the NHL for the first time. Jarred Tinordi’s activation off injured reserve sparked the shuffle Saturday.
All the scores from around the area.
As the Bulls remain uncompetitive and, in some minds, irrelevant, the Bucks are favored by a number of analysts to return to the NBA Finals in what would be their eighth straight postseason.
He fell around 2 a.m. from an apartment building in the 1500 block of West Jonquil Terrace, police said.
Elk Grove police officers responded to reports of a man with a knife in the 200 block of Fern Drive, and once at the scene, a man exited a house with a knife, police said. He then confronted police in a nearby yard, and during the exchange, police shot him.
They can’t seem to escape troubling situations, though this one was not of their own making.
A buck in Hegewisch, symbolic of too many deer in that area, a Downstate dog story and a near-record count of cranes at Jasper-Pulaski FWA in Indana are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
There’s plenty going on in the world to worry about, but I can’t agree that it’s rendered all Americans cynical and negative.
All her other siblings were there as she tied the knot with a famous athlete.
Coats and other winter gear are critical to children’s health and can help them remain engaged in school, a bank executive and a nonprofit leader say about their partnership to help kids who need winter clothing.
Incredibly, this game was even better than the one on Super Bowl Sunday.
Ty Macariola scored a game-high 26 points as the Friars beat local rival Oak Park 56-47 in the Chicago Elite Classic at Credit Union 1 Arena.
Another $2 million will be matched by the Chicago Food Depository, which has already been providing meals to migrants since June, in partnership with 15 minority-owned restaurants in Chicago.
The principle behind a pilaf is to saute grains and then steam them in a flavorful broth, embellished with aromatics such as garlic, onion and dried spices.
Savage received the full high school basketball experience. Mustangs fans booed him when he first checked in with three minutes left in the first quarter. Savage was the first player off the bench for the Hornets.
“It’s of course [had] an effect on myself and my family, but...it’s out of our control,” Bedard said Friday in Winnipeg.
If state revenues fall in the next fiscal year, as projected, base spending will likely have to be cut, Rich Miller writes.
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The man was found unresponsive about 1:30 p.m. Friday in the 4600 block of West Montrose Avenue.
Alex Alvarado, 19, was shot Aug. 20 and remained hospitalized for more than three months. He died Wednesday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
In a sweeping ruling last month, the Illinois Commerce Commission put a halt to the utility’s perennially delayed and over-budget pipe project, but Peoples Gas says it needs money to wrap up the project safely.
Dust, insect droppings, pesticide, mold, varying types of pollen and that beloved pine sent might be the culprits making you miserable.
If the results tell us anything, it’s that voters were, on the whole, unable to distinguish between one brand of awful and the other.
With Filipino eateries in the city garnering national attention, chefs say the cuisine has always been here, but now more of them are putting their unique stamp on the food they grew up eating and loving.
Let Beyoncé giving up people pleasing be your guide post. Deferring to others’ wants and needs so much that we lose ourselves in the process is a dangerous game, experts say.
The yearly ban, in effect between 3 and 7 a.m. from Dec. 1 to April 1, is enforced regardless of snow.