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Robert E. Crimo III listens to Judge Victoria A. Rossetti during a court hearing Wednesday in Waukegan. Nam Y. Huh/AP The alleged Highland Park parade shooter will be allowed to call his family from jail after a ruling Wednesday by …

Foxtrot at 2801 N. Broadway Ave. in Lake View was one of several Foxtrot stores to close Tuesday. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Dom’s Kitchen & Market and Foxtrot are facing a class action lawsuit, a day after shuttering its stores with …

Renderings of the proposed new Bears stadium Chicago Bears If everything works out for the Bears to build their new domed stadium on the lakefront south of Soldier Field, they won’t need a temporary home venue. Team president Kevin Warren …

Washington wide receiver Rome Odunze runs a play during a Play Football Prospect Clinic with Special Olympics athletes in Detroit. Carlos Osorio/AP DETROIT — Caleb Williams held a throwing session last week with two of his future teammates. Maybe three. …

Parents and students arrive at George Armstrong Elementary School, 2110 W. Greenleaf Ave. in Rogers Park, for the first day of school in August 2021. Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Taal Hasak-Lowy’s recent op-ed about third grade illiteracy in Chicago was a powerful …

Kristi Yamaguchi shows Mattel’s new Barbie doll based on the champion figure skater herself, as part of the company’s “Inspiring Women Series.” Yamaguchi became the first Asian American to win an individual gold medal for figure skating at the 1992 …

Donald Trump leaves Manhattan Criminal Court on April 23. Curtis Means/DailyMail.com via AP, Pool Imagine your party’s presumptive nominee for president is about to stand trial for paying off a porn star he allegedly slept with just months after his …

A rendering of a proposed domed stadium on the lakefront unveiled at Wednesday’s news conference. Chicago Bears The Bears finally opened the playbook Wednesday on a $4.7 billion project to put a fixed-roof domed stadium on a lakefront site that …

A city work crew on Wednesday removed the slab of sidewalk containing the famous rat hole on the 1900 block of West Roscoe Street. Brian Ernst and Pat Nabong/Sun-Times The Chicago rat hole, a rodent-shaped dent in a Roscoe Village …

USC quarterback Caleb Williams looks on before a game against UCLA in November. Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images Is this one The One? Not like the other ones over the decades — the unqualified, the overrated, the toothless, the armless, the …

By STEPHEN GROVES and MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON — For Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Mike Johnson, the necessity of providing Ukraine with weapons and other aid as it fends off Russia’s invasion is rooted in their …

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian students and their supporters began an occupation of USC’s Alumni Park on Wednesday April 24, and issued a list of demands — including university divestment from organizations that “profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide and occupation in Palestine” …

Stop me if you’ve heard this already: For the first time since 2016, the Rams are poised to use a first-round pick in the NFL draft. I know, I know, it’s been talked about ad nauseam since the season-ending loss …

By Larry Madowo | CNN At least 32 people have been killed and two are missing after flash floods swept through almost half of Kenya. Some 103,500 people in all have been affected. Kenya has registered heavy rain since mid-March …

When it came to housing, Susan Apel and Keith Irwin thought they had planned adroitly for later life. They bought a four-bedroom house on 2 acres in Lebanon, New Hampshire, 24 years ago, and “we made sure to pay off …

Jim Alexander: Breaking news this morning – Reggie Bush will get his Heisman Trophy back. And my first reaction was: It’s about damn time. The Heisman Trust announced that after what it termed “a deliberative process” in determining that the …