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NEW YORK — Facing the Yankees is personal for Sean Burke, having grown up as a Red Sox fan in Sutton, Massachusetts. So after holding the Bronx Bombers to one run in 7 ⅓ innings, he had a message: “This …

A man has been charged in a the fatal shooting of a cyclist in Grant Park earlier this week, according to Chicago police. Eliel Argudo-Tenorio, 18, is charged with first-degree murder, police said. Officers responded about 12:15 a.m. to a …

A 32-year-old man was shot in Burnside Thursday evening, according to Chicago police. He was standing near an alley in the 600 block of East 92nd Place at 5:44 p.m. when he was shot by someone firing from an approaching …

Moon Alert Avoid shopping (except food and gas) and important decisions from 6 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. After that, the moon moves from Leo into Virgo. Aries (March 21-April 19) An average day Pet owners should be extra vigilant today …

Pastor Jonathan Brooks says that, when you drive down Ogden Avenue in North Lawndale, you’ll see signs for Lawndale Christian Health Center, Lawndale Christian Development Corporation and Lawndale Christian Fitness. He says you might wonder: Where’s Lawndale Christian Community Church? …

A painting that’s been in City Hall’s sprawling collection of public art since the 1980s and was last known to have been hanging in the office of a top aide to former Mayor Lori Lightfoot is missing. It’s an abstract …

In the time that Sludgeworth waited to make a new LP, there have been five presidents, the birth of three generations and the turn of a whole millennium. But 35 years after the Chicago punk veterans released their debut “What’s …

Beverly, Lake View, Mount Greenwood and Printers Row are at the front of the line for the city’s first state-sanctioned slot machines outside of Bally’s Chicago Casino. Six bars and restaurants in those neighborhoods have gotten the green light from …

Smudging. Tracing. Blotting. Collaging. Erasing. Swishing. Showing himself to be one of the great draftsmen of the 20th century, famed abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning employed all these techniques and more to create at least 2,000 known drawings, with hundreds …

People loved Arnold Van Puymbroeck because, well, because he’s Arnold. He wore a permanent smile, spoke with a thick, Flemish accent from early years spent in Belgium and, at 95, maintained his long-held tradition of watching “Jeopardy!” at Toons, a …

Five patients are at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge for a diagnostic echocardiogram. For the same noninvasive test of the heart, the five patients could each get different prices — as little as $973 or as much as …

DEAR ABBY: My husband’s best friend died when we were in our early 30s. His son, “Marty,” recently moved back to the area with his wife and three boys. We think of them as family. My husband often needs help …

The approach of July 4 is making my heart hurt. Love of this country is deep-dyed in my soul, but pondering how or even whether to celebrate the semiquincentennial provokes a riot of mixed feelings. The right — and not …

June is LGBTQ Pride Month, a time for both celebration of how far we have come and acknowledgment of progress yet to be made. This year, however, LGBTQ people find themselves in an increasingly hostile environment. More Americans identify as …

I facilitate bringing speakers to sixth, seventh and eighth graders at Kilmer Elementary School in Rogers Park. The story Sun-Times reporter Amy Yee wrote in April about Zach Waickman turning cooking oil into biofuel in his lab at Loyola University …

As a former Republican, sometimes it’s fun to look back on the things we — I was part of a “we” at one time — criticized Democrats for, and not all that long ago. Remember, if you will, when Republicans …

A 14-year-old boy was shot and killed late Thursday in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood. Officers responded to a call of a person shot around 11:30 p.m. in the 8000 block of South Carpenter Street and found the teenager suffering from …

It’s Juneteenth, Chicago. ✶ Juneteenth is a day to celebrate freedom, but it also serves as a reminder of this country’s ongoing push to live up to its pledge of “liberty and justice for all.” A federal holiday as of 2021, Juneteenth …

Bears receiver Luther Burden wowed a group of local football campers by putting quarterback Caleb Williams on the phone with them. Burden was mingling with campers when they asked him if he could FaceTime Williams so they could say hello. …

Broadcasting live from 9 a.m.-11 a.m. along Stony Island Avenue in Jackson Park, just steps away from the Obama Presidential Center, hosts Sasha-Ann Simons and Mary Dixon talk with Mayor Brandon Johnson, former White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, …