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Here’s a tip for White Sox right-hander Davis Martin’s start Thursday against the Reds: He’s 100% sure that he solved his tipping problem that the Red Sox exploited last week. “It was actually a pretty easy one for me to …

SAN FRANCISCO — With 11 games left in the season, the Sky are still motivated by the possibility of making the playoffs, however remote it has become. ESPN’s model gives them just a 0.1% chance. They would have to go …

The White Sox made the right managerial hire in November 2003. Right for them. Right for the Red Sox — and the Cubs — too. Let’s go back so we can tie all this together. As that year’s World Series …

The WNBA on Wednesday criticized those trying to create a narrative about transgender women playing in the league. “There are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA, and we strongly denounce the bad-faith efforts to use these topics to demean …

SAN FRANCISCO — The fallout from DiJonai Carrington’s flagrant foul on Fever guard Sophie Cunningham keeps echoing. In the latest development, Fever coach Stephanie White has become public enemy No. 1 in some corners of Indiana. Fans booed her during …

WASHINGTON – The way Alex Bregman’s season has gone, each productive day at the plate is cautiously described as “a step in the right direction.” Those steps are adding up, none more “right” than the three-homer, seven-RBI game he had …

That was the Luis Castillo the White Sox were hoping for. Castillo, the 10-year veteran acquired from the Mariners two days before the trade deadline, pitched seven scoreless innings Wednesday against the Reds, allowing one hit and two walks in …

A teen was shot in Jackson Park Wednesday evening, according to Chicago police. The boy, 17, was in a verbal altercation with another person in the park in the 1900 block of East Hayes Drive at 6:47 p.m. when the …

Moon Alert Avoid shopping (except food and gas) and important decisions until 5:45 a.m. Then again — avoid shopping and important decisions after 2 p.m. The moon is in Virgo. Aries (March 21-April 19) A positive day This is an …

Look up: The long-dormant Bell Federal Savings weather sign outside the Rector Building, 79 W. Monroe St., is now back in action. The 1950s sign that features a lighted, acrylic bell that changes color according to anticipated weather conditions has …

Hailey Weathers likes to spend her summers playing volleyball in the sand with her friends at Chicago’s beaches, taking breaks in between games with dips in Lake Michigan. But sometimes the 14-year-old feels like adults are scrutinizing everything she and …

Like that kid at your high school who was somehow always a step ahead of everyone else in listening to the next cool band, Chicago theater audiences recently have been given plenty of opportunities to crow about seeing future hits …

Through the window of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle as it pulled away last September, Laura Murillo could see her tamale stand near the busy Home Depot on 47th Street and Western Avenue. A folding table held coolers, …

In August of 1969, Chicago welcomed Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. and Michael Collins to the city only a few weeks after their stop on the moon. Confetti cascaded down from skyscrapers in a ticker-tape parade and millions lined …

DEAR ABBY: I have been widowed for seven years. My husband served in the Air Force in Saigon during the conflict in Vietnam. We met and married shortly after he returned from his hitch overseas. We had two daughters together. …

Police are looking for a white SUV involved in a shooting early Thursday that left a 54-year-old man dead and two other people wounded in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood. Just after 3 a.m., two men and a woman were …

A gunman fled after shooting a 14-year-old boy during an argument early Thursday in the Morgan Park neighborhood on the city’s Far South Side, police said. The teen was in the 11500 block of South Church Street around 1:45 a.m. …

Good morning, Chicago. ✶ 🔎 Below: Laura Murillo’s arrest by ICE last fall was a rupture, both for the city’s immigrant community and for the life she had built around work and her daughters. Six months later, Murillo returned home to …

A woman was fatally struck by roofing material during damaging storms Tuesday afternoon in Gary, Indiana. Paula Plebanski, 58, was found by the Lake County Coroner’s Office around 12:20 p.m. Tuesday in a parking lot in the 5200 block of …

As Pullman celebrates the opening of a Chipotle on Thursday, local leaders announced plans to bring a Starbucks, Tropical Smoothie Cafe and Chicago’s first Slim & Husky’s, a pizza chain whose investor includes former Bears running back Matt Forte. The …