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The best fourth-quarter team in the NFL isn’t going to start thinking about the playoffs until the fourth quarter of the season. ‘‘Once we make it through the three-quarter mark, then we’ll start shifting our focus,’’ Bears head coach Ben …

Patrick Finley and Jason Lieser discuss whether the first-place Bears can reach the postseason. New episodes of “Halas Intrigue” will be published regularly with accompanying stories collected on the podcast’s hub page. You can also listen to “Halas Intrigue” wherever you …

In 2017, Stephanie O’Donnell, her husband, Terrence, and their young children Millie and Poppy left their beloved home in Oak Park and moved to Dublin, Ohio. In doing so, they left much of their collective hearts in the middle of …

Rocker Billy Corgan is anything but one note. For decades, he’s poured what he describes as a strong Midwest work ethic into seemingly endless ventures, from his 1990s rock group, the Smashing Pumpkins, to a professional wrestling league, an artisanal …

DEAR ABBY: I have a 54-year-old profoundly disabled, non-verbal child who is in a group home. I have been advocating for her since birth, when we learned she had suffered severe brain damage. The umbilical cord was wrapped around her …

The Bears are firmly in the playoff field after beating the Vikings to get to 7-3, and for a team that has been decisively out of the picture by mid-November each of the last four seasons, that’s a big step. …

A 9-year-old boy and a woman were seriously hurt by a group of attackers Monday afternoon in South Deering on the Far South Side. The group confronted the pair — who were walking — and hit them multiple times just …

Good morning, Chicago. ✶ 🔎 Below: Mayor Brandon Johnson experienced a significant defeat Monday as City Council’s Finance Committee rejected his $600 million tax package built on a corporate head tax. 🗞️ Plus: Local groups share lessons learned as feds …

Police are looking for three assailants who opened fire on a crowd waiting for a bus, hitting a woman late Monday on the Southwest Side. Around 11:50 p.m., the 54-year-old woman was seated among group at the stop in the …

El domingo por la mañana, el púlpito del reverendo Michael Woolf estaba adornado con minifiguras de Jesús mientras le hablaba a su congregación. Bajo su traje, su cuerpo estaba marcado por moretones que, dijo, sufrió cuando fue arrestado por la …

Many Illinois residents will be able to store their driver’s licenses and IDs on their cellphones starting Wednesday, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced. Digital IDs will first be available for iPhones and Apple Watches via the Apple Wallet …

DENVER — It didn’t take long for the team’s enforcer to get onto the scene. All 195 pounds of him, and that’s on a good day, likely with shoes on. Then again, Bulls guard Dalen Terry wouldn’t have it any …

When Aaron Rodgers decided to sign with the Steelers this offseason, he pointed to playing at Soldier Field as a perk of his new job. He still has a chance to do that. Rodgers broke his left wrist Sunday against …

The scent of burning hair permeated the smoky air as Michael Thomas descended an escalator at the Clark/Lake Blue Line subway station where he saw a woman lying on the platform Monday night. “She had severe burns all over her …

In another sign of the sudden ramp-down of federal immigration enforcement in Chicago, a Justice Department lawyer told a judge Tuesday the population of a controversial holding facility in the western suburbs had recently dwindled to only four people. It’s …

One of Música Mexicana’s most popular bands will headline Sueños Music Festival in Grant Park next spring. Sueños organizers C3 Presents announced Tuesday that Fuerza Regida, a 5-member band from San Bernardino, Calif., will headline the fifth year of the …

Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas is joining the 2027 race for mayor of Chicago, but she doesn’t want to talk about it until after she is safely reelected next year to an eighth term in the job she has held …

Twenty three House Democrats on Tuesday joined Republicans in a resolution admonishing Jesus “Chuy” Garcia’s last-minute resignation that paves the way for his chief of staff to be his successor in Congress. The 236-183 vote happened a day after House …

The founder of a Chicago-based cryptocurrency company has been indicted on federal money laundering charges, accusing him of laundering at least $10 million in wire fraud and drug crime proceeds, according to a recently unsealed indictment. Firas Isa, 36, of …

Ald. Bennett Lawson (44th), the city’s acting Zoning Committee chair, said Tuesday he has given Mayor Brandon Johnson a year-end ultimatum: Make his committee post permanent with control over his own staff or he’s done with the time-consuming job. Lawson …