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Moon Alert Avoid shopping (except food and gas) and important decisions from 5 a.m. to 3 p.m. After that, the moon moves from Sagittarius into Capricorn. Aries (March 21-April 19) A dynamic day This is your kind of day! It’s …

Analyzing the Bears with the help of 22 names, starting with … Cris Collinsworth (1), the NBC color analyst who suffered through the Bears’ sloppy Sunday night — yet walked away a believer. “I have a tough time deciding if …

A rat scampers across a grassy patch next to a paved lot at a shopping center in Niles, picks up a crab apple and carries the bitter little fruit under a parked car and upward — into the engine compartment. …

Centerstage, on a wooden rectangular set, La’Tevin Alexander stands alone. He’s bathed in a yellowish glow, boxing-gloved fists extended toward the heavens in victory. Alexander is currently portraying Jay “The Sport” Jackson in Writers Theatre’s production of “The Royale.” Jackson …

Andrew Bird had a revelation at the premiere of “I Play Rocky” in Los Angeles in October. The new Peter Farrelly movie features the Lake Forest native’s original songs within the story of Sylvester Stallone’s fight to make his boxing …

As more than one critic of Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch voiced after his announcement that he won’t be running again for the powerful leadership post, his political fall wasn’t as surprising as that it took this long — …

DEAR ABBY: My sister, “Randee,” and I are experiencing a falling-out with our older brother, “Darren,” which has left us hurt and confused. We come from a large, tightly knit family, and there’s always some sort of celebration happening. We …

In a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday night, President Donald Trump conceded that his mass deportation campaign may have contributed to the Republican rout in last week’s midterm elections because “a lot of people think it’s too tough.” Yet …

Good morning, Chicago. ✶ 🔎 Below: Now that Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch is leaving the post under pressure, critics say the only surprise is that it took this long for the Hillside Democrat’s past to catch up with …

If you have a device that’s connected to the internet, you’ve probably heard about the new documentary “You Can See Everything.” Co-directed by Nathan Fielder (“Nathan for You,” “The Rehearsal”) and Lance Oppenheim (“Primetime,” “Some Kind of Heaven”), the film …

The federal judge who ordered Chicago’s top federal prosecutor and others to testify under oath about the “Broadview Six” case on Thursday pushed back the high-stakes hearing more than two weeks. U.S. District Judge April Perry wrote on the court …

In a bonkers college football season where up is down, down is up and underdogging it to the tune of a double-digit point spread is just a state of mind, anything can happen. If we’ve learned anything on the way …

Ferrara Candy Co. cerrará su planta de producción en La Villita y despedirá a más de 150 empleados en abril. La compañía anunció planes para cerrar su instalación en la calle 31st en abril de 2027, citando “las condiciones del …

A Chicago man is scheduled to appear in court Thursday after being charged in a shooting that left a 4-year-old wounded in Auburn Gresham. Patrick Wallace, 30, was charged with possessing a weapon as a felon, causing a child to …

A team of Chicago developers unveiled Thursday a $10 billion, 100-acre development plan for the former Michael Reese Hospital site — both as a Hail Mary to keep the Bears in Chicago and to hit a city-imposed deadline to submit …

“Holocaust deniers say that her diary was written with a kind of ballpoint pen not available at the time,” said Eric Strating, the consul general of the Netherlands in Chicago. We were standing in the entrance of “Anne Frank The …

If you’re planning to attend the Chicago Thanksgiving Parade this year, set your alarm an hour earlier. For the first time in the parade’s 92-year history, the procession will begin at 7:45 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning — an hour earlier …

A woman was killed early Thursday in Greater Grand Crossing in what was the second deadly hit-and-run of the day in the city. The collision happened around 12:25 a.m. when a 48-year-old woman was hit by a white truck while …

Police are looking for the driver of a white car that fled the scene after slamming into a 69-year-old woman, killing her Wednesday night in West Garfield Park. Around 9:45 p.m., the 69-year-old woman was crossing the street in the …

Two of Andrew Mangiapane’s best traits happen to fall in two categories where the Blackhawks need the most improvement. They spent all week working on their forecheck pressure and backcheck tracking, acknowledging they haven’t recovered enough dump-ins or forced enough …