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Mayor Brandon Johnson signed a wide-ranging executive order Wednesday meant to prevent corporations that carry out corrupt or abusive practices, including inhumanely assisting in aggressive federal deportation campaigns, from doing business with the city. Citing an “unprecedented level of corporate …

Tim Curry, a character actor who created a gallery of delicious, very loony villains for stage and screen, including Dr. Frank-N-Furter in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” has died. He was 80. Curry, who suffered a stroke in 2012 that …

Police are looking for a vehicle involved in a Wednesday morning shooting that left a 26-year-old man critically wounded. About 10:15 a.m., a man was standing in the 3600 block of West Fifth Avenue when an assailant jumped from a …

The body of a 22-year-old man was pulled from Lake Michigan Wednesday morning outside the Chicago Yacht Club in Belmont Harbor, police said. After being recovered from the water, the man was pronounced dead on the scene about 10:20 a.m. …

Breaking down the Bears’ Wednesday training camp practice: Burden back Bears receiver Luther Burden returned to practice after hurting his groin earlier Aug. 8 when he got tangled up with cornerback Tyrique Stevenson. The former second-round pick stretched with his …

A program that has successfully helped revive Chicago’s once-downtrodden Downtown has been less effective in the city’s poorer neighborhoods, including many on the South Side and West Side, a sweeping study published Wednesday found. Authorized by state lawmakers more than …

PHOENIX – Potentially nearing the end of a monthslong rehab from a stress fracture in a vertebra in his neck, right-hander Ben Brown is once again trapped in the unknown. The Cubs right-hander experienced symptoms in his neck at the …

It’s been seven years since K-pop superstars BTS have been in Chicago. But the group’s fans have kept the fire burning during that time. Earlier this month Gov. JB Pritzker declared Aug. 27 and 28 “BTS Day” in Illinois as …

In his first public comments since being reinstated at St. Sabina Catholic Church following a decades-old, unfounded sex abuse claim, the Rev. Michael Pfleger stood flanked by dozens of supporters outside the church Wednesday with a promise to “turn the …

Moviegoers who planned to see the 50 Cent-backed “Moses the Black” earlier this year but saw it abruptly dropped from theater lineups will get a second chance this weekend when it screens at a South Side community center. The film’s …

The Bears’ Roschon Johnson knows how to be patient — at Texas, he played behind all-world running back Bijan Robinson. But he admits that he grew frustrated last season when, as a result of injury, ineffectiveness, he carried the ball …

A watchful Thorntons’ customer was fatally shot by masked armed robbers moments after warning the clerk when he spotted them outside the station early Tuesday in Brighton Park on the city’s Southwest Side. The attack unfolded just before 3 a.m. …

Much of the preseason was focused on the area’s star quarterbacks. Montini’s Israel Abrams and Jake Nawrot of Hersey are ranked in the top five in the nation by 247Sports.com, and there are four more FBS committed quarterbacks in the …

Gov. JB Pritzker has signed legislation regulating e-bikes and other powered micromobility devices that have fueled a rise in emergency room visits among children. The law codifies e-bikes to their current three-tiered classification, capped at 28 mph, and, starting Jan. …

Theater TimeLine Theatre’s 30th anniversary season opens with “The Birth of the Pill,” Jessica Huang’s adaptation of Jonathan Eig’s book about the controversial creation that reshaped women’s lives in the mid-20th century and gave them control over their reproductive futures. …

Specialty grocer Foxtrot is set to open a new location in Lake View and another in Lincoln Park next year, the company said Wednesday. The Lake View site takes over a former Ann Sather Restaurant space and will be part …

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and 24 other Democratic attorneys general on Wednesday filed suit against the U.S. Postal Service over what they are calling an unlawful attempt to interfere with mail voting in the fast approaching midterm elections. But …

GREEN BAY, Wis. — I know, I know; we’re talking about practice. But, man, for the Packers’ offense, that was some practice. “We started off the day really hot,” quarterback Jordan Love said. Indeed they did. In their joint practice …

The former Charles Warrington Earle School — one of 50 Chicago schools shuttered in 2013 — is taking on a second life as an affordable apartment building, with roughly a third of its units already leased. Project and city leaders …

The Indiana Fever-Chicago Sky game Sunday averaged 3.31 million viewers on NBC and Peacock to make it the most-watched regular-season WNBA game since the league’s inaugural season in 1997. It also was the third-most watched regular-season game ever and peaked …