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Patrick Finley and Jason Liessr break down the Bears’ chances against the Packers, make their picks for Sunday’s game and examine the team’s playoff chances. New episodes of “Halas Intrigue” will be published regularly with accompanying stories collected on the podcast’s …

The state has warned national rental car companies that federal immigration enforcement agents switching the vehicles’ assigned license plates with other plates violates Illinois law, and the firms ultimately could be held liable. Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias’ office …

Chicago’s second straight budget stalemate is not about the City Council vs. Mayor Brandon Johnson, or left vs. centrist. It’s about Wall Street rating agencies and an almost certain downgrade in the city’s bond rating “if we don’t get this …

The Chicago Elite Classic is back for its 14th year. The annual early-season event at UIC’s Credit Union 1 Arena this weekend is bigger than ever with 13 games and 26 teams. Plus, the event features players at or near …

Federal prosecutors in Chicago are being asked to turn over “White House communications” by attorneys defending six people — including four Democratic politicians — charged with a conspiracy tied to protests outside an immigration holding facility in Broadview. A defense …

Watching Kobe Bryant play at the Staples Center in Los Angeles was always a bucket-list item for me. I moved to L.A. in 2013 for school eager for the opportunity. I never got the chance. Kobe missed most of that …

LOS ANGELES — The day Blackhawks forward prospect Roman Kantserov will finally move from Russia to America is approaching. In the meantime, Kantserov continues to elevate his stock. The 21-year-old winger leads the KHL, arguably the second-best league in the world, …

NEW YORK (AP) — The first full-length book by Pope Leo XIV to come out in the U.S. will be published next year. HarperOne announced Wednesday that it had acquired world rights to “Peace Be With You! My Words to …

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration on Thursday delivered a pointed rebuttal to sharply higher taxes and fees for garbage collection, off-premise liquor sales and rides on Uber and Lyft proposed by a City Council majority determined to avoid the mayor’s proposed …

It looked like the great collective-bargaining agreement war was ending. Months of terse negotiations had gone quiet. The players’ union and the league extended their bargaining deadline without trading public insults. Then a surprising proposal from the league leaked: They …

Bears safety Jaquan Brisker is on a text thread with a few of his former Penn State teammates, including star edge rusher Micah Parsons. During training camp, after Parsons requested a trade from the Cowboys, Brisker playfully lobbied via text …

One of the three men killed while standing outside the scene of a three-vehicle crash in West Pullman early Wednesday was described as a loving person “who brought joy and laughter to everyone around him.” Ruben Lujano, whose age wasn’t …

From time to time, David Kaplan would be inspired to record what he called a “REKAP,” a video several minutes long in which he’d recap a game in his usual energetic tone and post it on Twitter. He didn’t benefit …

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is making one last effort to push a bill ensuring a legal pathway to citizenship for child immigrants through Congress before his upcoming retirement. Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, introduced the Development Relief and …

Justin Baren, a Chicago-area musician who as a teenager shot to the upper echelon of the music industry in the pop band the Redwalls, has died. The band announced his death Tuesday. Baren was 40. Martin Baren, his father, declined …

Please send scores and corrections to preps@suntimes.com. Schedule provided by Jack Gleason. Send schedule updates to hsbballjg@gmail.com. Thursday, December 4, 2025 RED CENTRAL Hyde Park 64, Englewood 32 Phillips 63, Perspectives-MS 57 Kenwood at Dyett, 6:30 RED NORTH Lane 72, …

A Justice Department lawyer warned Thursday that it’s “wrong” to assume the deportation campaign that hit Chicago this fall is over, even though U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and others have left town for other cities. With a judge …

Thousands of lower-income residents in the Chicago area will be eligible for new discounts on their electric bills starting next year as energy costs soar. ComEd will roll out a low-income discount program starting Jan. 1 for households with incomes …

A man faces six felony charges and is accused of being involved in a kidnapping and series of armed robberies in North Lawndale that took place in less than an hour early Wednesday, according to Chicago police. Marquis Terry, 21, …

After 13 years in prison, Maria Garza needed a place to live. But finding housing was not easy for Garza, who left Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln in June 2021. While living in homes of friends and family, as well …