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Jen Greenwood loves a good encased meat. “I joke that I’m a half hot dog. I am not a vegetarian,” she said. Greenwood grew up in Evanston, Illinois, spent summers in Michigan and attended college in Milwaukee. She’s eaten more …

It might’ve looked like a bike parade at first glance. It was Friday morning in Ravenswood. A couple dozen children and parents were on bicycles. As they rode through the neighborhood, more kids and parents joined. “Big crowd today,” one …

More than a century after Wrigley, Brach’s and Mars helped turn Chicago into a candy epicenter, a trio of artists with an unabashed candy obsession brought their gummy candy startup to the shuttered former Jelly Belly plant in suburban North …

Parents and other members of a Local School Council are asking Chicago Public Schools to sanction an organization that they say violated the district’s rules by electioneering at a back-to-school festival on school grounds. Dad Adam Johnson, who has one …

There’s a lot of lore underlying the play “Kowalski,” which opened this past weekend at the Lookingglass Theatre. In 1947, Marlon Brando was a 23-year-old stage actor yet to make his mark. Tennessee Williams, 36 at the time, was following …

The Illinois Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Thursday on whether disciplinary hearings for Chicago police officers accused of serious misconduct must remain open to the public. It marks the latest, and possibly final, chapter in the yearslong legal …

DEAR ABBY: My husband, “Dirk,” cheated on me more than 20 years ago. He has kept in touch with the woman since then. Sixteen months ago, she told him she was “in a bad place.” He offered to let this …

Kudos to Sun-Times architecture writer Lee Bey’s perceptive critique of the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry’s damaging proposal to alter the building’s north facade. But if I could offer my own respectful critique of the critique: It didn’t go …

An 18-year-old Morgan Park neighborhood man will appear in court Wednesday, marking the third suspect charged in homicide of Kyle Bickham, who was pushed off of a Red Line train Sept. 7 near the 69th Street Station. Christian McBounds, 18, …

Good morning, Chicago. ✶ 🔎 Below: As the Chicago school board election nears, parents say one anti-teachers-union group broke the rules against campaigning on school grounds. 🗞️ Plus: The Art Institute returns Nazi-looted artwork, why more kids are taking the …

Near the end of the dramatic hearing last May when she revealed apparent wrongdoing by the feds in the case of the “Broadview Six,” U.S. District Judge April Perry said her priority was to make sure the defendants would “never …

Chicago police are looking for a thief who has swiped at least eight e-scooters since June by removing their ignitions. The thief is described as a white man in his 50s wearing a white shirt, blue shorts and a fanny …

There have been many changes in high school basketball — some big, some small — in the last several years. Here is a look at eight of them: Shot clock While nearly every major basketball event in the state — …

La policía de Evanston, un suburbio del norte, investiga un incidente ocurrido el domingo por la mañana que involucró a un residente, ciudadano estadounidense, y a agentes del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE). El incidente ocurrió cerca …

The City of Chicago is extending its contract with Divvy as the network of rentable bikes, e-bikes and scooters plans to bring changes to its system, including discounted pricing on the South and West sides and updates to its equipment. …

Third-stringer Case Keenum is the only Bears quarterback on the active roster who will practice Wednesday, coach Ben Johnson said. Still, he said, he’s “not sure who the starter’s going to be” Monday night against the Eagles. Second-stringer Tyson Bagent …

A Mundelein coach and teacher was charged with video recording a student exercising and stretching. Dagoberto Diaz, 48, was charged with felony unauthorized video recording of a juvenile, the Mundelein Police Department said. On Aug. 18, police were alerted by …

What’s happening Wednesday at Halas Hall: QB issues Starting quarterback Caleb Williams (hamstring) won’t practice, and backup Tyson Bagent (concussion) isn’t even in the building. Third-stringer Case Keenum, 38, will run the first-team offense with practice-squad quarterback Miller Moss behind …

When the lights come up on the set of Dominique Morisseau’s “Detroit ’67,” now playing at eta Creative Arts Foundation, the first sound the audience hears is The Temptations’ 1966 hit “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg.” The song works on …

The Summer of Caleb Williams is over, ending as abruptly as the weather changed this week when summer itself ended. As the hype ballooned for months amid expectations that he’d be an MVP candidate, Bears coach Ben Johnson touting all …