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The Cubs are in agreement with first baseman Tyler Austin on a one-year, $1.25 million deal, sources confirmed Thursday. When completed, it will be the Cubs’ first major-league position-player signing of the offseason. Austin, 34, returns to MLB after spending …

A panel of local officials took its first crack Thursday at trying to hold federal immigration agents accountable for the deluge of alleged abuses that have unfolded across the Chicago area under the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign. The newly …

The Chicago Plan Commission on Thursday gave the first approval for a Chicago developer to turn a stretch of vacant lots in Bronzeville into dozens of new apartments. Pitched by East Village-based Capricorn Design and Build, the $24 million plan …

Bears president/CEO Kevin Warren’s timing has always been intentional. His letter Wednesday, though, was as smooth as the false starts the Bears piled up in the first month of the season. Warren’s declaration Wednesday the Bears would look outside Cook …

GREEN BAY, Wis.— For all that Bears quarterback Caleb Williams has yet to prove in the NFL, he has left no doubt that his elusiveness in the pocket is elite. He has gone from being the most sacked quarterback in …

State lawmakers have rolled their eyes for years at the Chicago Bears’ overtures for help building a new stadium, but the team’s threat this week to consider moving to Indiana has widened the fault line in a fraying relationship with …

More Chicago police officers will patrol CTA trains, platforms and buses under a “security surge plan” developed by both of the agencies. The Chicago Transit Authority announced the program will begin Friday, the same day the Federal Transit Administration demanded …

Cannabis industry leaders in Chicago commended President Donald Trump for signing an executive order Thursday that could reclassify cannabis as a less dangerous drug and create a path for further medical research. The move would change cannabis from a Schedule …

When students at dozens of schools across Illinois return to class in January, they may find that support services they depend on, such as mental health programs and food pantries, have disappeared. The Trump administration informed ACT Now Illinois last …

Last season’s trip to the state finals in Champaign made an impact on Rich’s Kavon Ammons. The Raptors lost to Warren in the Class 4A semifinals and then dropped a close one to Evanston in the third-place game. “The experience …

A Village of Broadview committee shot down an attempt to advance an ordinance that would restrict U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from expanding their property under certain criteria. Members of the public expressed concerns and confusion over the proposal’s apparent …

MONTREAL — Life without Connor Bedard is proving to be as grueling for the Blackhawks in 2025-26 as it was in 2023-24. The Hawks produced little offense Thursday against the Canadiens in a 4-1 loss, recording only 15 shots on goal …

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A man who is suspected of killing two and wounding several others at Brown University has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility where he had rented a unit, officials said. Claudio Neves Valente, 48, …

Moon alert Avoid shopping (except food and gas) and big decisions from 9:15 to 10:55 p.m. Chicago time. The new moon peaks at 7:43 p.m. CST. After that, it moves from Sagittarius into Capricorn. Aries (March 21-April 19) An average …

Open the door to Le Lo Lai Gallery, and you’ll walk into a world meticulously decorated for Christmastime. There are woodwork touches of Puerto Rican heritage, including a replica of the casita, or small house, that Bad Bunny featured on …

Candace Dane Chambers Five-year-old Eli Valentina Vaca looks up at a federal agent behind the gates of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview after being taken into custody with her parents, Nancy Guamangate and Milton Javier …

As a result of deals set in motion nearly two decades ago, five pension plans for Chicago city employers ended up losing more than $54 million on a risky real estate venture run by President Barack Obama’s former boss, Allison …

State officials gave a Chicago charter high school the harshest possible sanction after an investigation found three years of “repeated and unresolved” special education violations. Instituto Health Sciences Career Academy in Little Village on the Southwest Side will now be …

Chicago faced unprecedented challenges in 2025. Federal immigration enforcement transformed our streets, with dramatic confrontations at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview and raids across neighborhoods and suburbs. Massive protests erupted against the Trump administration, and we …

Recently, in Minnesota, some Somali Americans were charged with ripping off welfare programs to the extent of hundreds of millions of dollars. If so, they should be punished. The president, however, has used this alleged criminal behavior to demean and …