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LAS VEGAS — If not for Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson, perhaps even Dak Prescott, Christian McCaffrey’s trophy case would, by now, glimmer like a disco ball. At Alabama, with 2,219 rushing yards in 2015, Henry won the Heisman Trophy. …

At the beginning of the week of winter meetings, the Cubs talked over the metamorphosis of their bullpen throughout last season. “What we thought about our bullpen going into the season, … we were wrong,” manager Craig Counsell said in …

A 33-year-old woman was given several citations after she ran a red light and plowed into a police car Thursday night in Fuller Park on the South Side. Around 10:50 p.m., the officers were in a marked squad car going …

A motorist has died after plowing head-on into a median late Thursday near 63rd Street Beach in the Jackson Park neighborhood. Officers responded to the crash around 11:50 p.m. after the driver struck a median while going south in the …

Absorbing the news about the brutal treatment of detainees, to say nothing of the outright murder of “suspected” drug runners in the Caribbean, I think back to a conversation I had in February of this year. My interlocutor was a …

A massive tiger pushes up off a boulder with its two front legs and looks back over his left shoulder with an open mouth, white-capped waves lapping at both the rock and his feet. You can find that tiger as …

We asked readers about the city’s plan to close the State/Lake L station until 2029 for a $444 million rebuild? Here’s what you told us, lightly edited for clarity: “Money well spent. The station is from the 1800s. … If we …

Workers at the Alder Planetarium voted to unionize on Thursday. The union will form with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31 and represent 70 employees responsible for every aspect of the institution’s operations, union officials …

A pedestrian was fatally struck by an SUV driver early Friday in Rogers Park on the North Side. Around 5:50 a.m., the 34-year-old man was on the street in the 6800 block of North Sheridan Road when a blue SUV …

Three Chicago suspects remained in custody Friday after two robberies in suburban Will County, including one involving a 73-year-old woman who was bound and robbed at gunpoint during a home invasion earlier this week. The 73-year-old was able to escape …

La voz de la mamá de la oficial de policía de Chicago, Krystal Rivera, temblaba cuando hizo una pregunta el jueves mientras anunciaba una demanda por muerte injusta contra el Departamento de Policía de Chicago y el oficial Carlos Baker, …

La representante estadounidense Delia Ramírez y la senadora Tammy Duckworth se enfrentaron a altos funcionarios de la administración de Trump en audiencias separadas en Washington el jueves, donde Ramírez pidió una investigación sobre las “acciones potencialmente demandables” de la secretaria …

Los funcionarios de Chicago y del Condado de Cook advierten al público que se mantenga abrigado y cálido mientras la ciudad se prepara para temperaturas frías y amargas este fin de semana. Después de un breve aumento de las temperaturas …

Holding candles and flowers, a crowd gathered around an Evanston church’s Nativity display, where the familiar figurines stood quietly in the snow. But the Nativity display of Lake Street Church looked different this year, transformed to pay tribute to those …

Good morning, Chicago. ✶ 🔎 Below: U.S. Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino is at the center of President Donald Trump’s deportation show. Our reporters traveled across the country to trace his roots. 🗞️ Plus: The truth about corporate head tax …

LAS VEGAS — As East Texas handicapper Paul Stone drove up State Route 79 to I-20 and headed east to Bossier City, Louisiana, last Friday morning, he listened to Chris Fallica on the Vegas Stats & Information Network (VSiN). A …

A. Finkl & Sons, a steelmaker whose roots in Chicago date to the late 1800s, has agreed to add pollution controls and pay the state of Illinois $125,000 to settle accusations that the company broke environmental laws by releasing excessive …

Rome Odunze, the Bears’ leading wide receiver, has a chance at returning Sunday against the Browns after missing the first game of his career last week. Odunze practiced Thursday and Friday, though he was limited, and is listed as questionable …

Terminally ill people will have the option to end their own lives with a doctor’s prescription in Illinois next year, under legislation signed by Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday. Illinois joins 11 other states that have passed so-called right-to-die legislation, …

New York Times bestselling author Samira Ahmed and authors Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. and Eve L. Ewing are among the latest recipients of The Chicago Review of Books’ annual literary awards. The honorees of the so-called “CHIRBy Awards” were …