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Ever since last year’s game against Crete-Monee didn’t go his way, Kankakee quarterback Phillip Turner has been antsy for the rematch. For the senior, it was well worth the wait. Turner broke off two dazzling touchdown dashes early, getting the …

As the postgame celebrations wrapped up on the Downers Grove North sideline on Friday after the No. 19 Trojans knocked off No. 22 Lyons 17-10, a fan yelled: “Great job, Horeni!” The compliment was for Downers Grove North coach Joe …

A look at how the Super 25 fared in Week 8. 1. Loyola (8-0): Won 45-35 at No. 6 IC Catholic. 2. Lincoln-Way East (8-0): Won 40-0 at Lockport. 3. Brother Rice (6-2): Won 47-0 at DePaul Prep. 4. Mount …

Chicago restaurants are being squeezed from all sides as surging fuel prices drive up the cost of food and supplies, while higher household costs are prompting consumers to eat out less. Several food suppliers have significantly raised their fuel surcharges, …

Mary Ellen Guest made sure the mission of the Chicago Bungalow Association, as much as it was about the brick-and-mortar gems central to the city’s DNA, was really about the people who lived in them. Before she was hired as …

Fifty-seven years ago this month, my mother brought me home from Michael Reese Hospital, where I was born, to 4907 W. 43rd St. in the LeClaire Courts public housing development on Chicago’s Southwest Side. She lived there in a two-bedroom …

DEAR ABBY: I am a man in his 60s who lost his wife two years ago to a heart attack. I have fallen in love with my cousin, who is also in her 60s, divorced and a lawyer. Is it …

A group of Chicago community organizations — Housing Opportunities and Maintenance for the Elderly, Access Living, North Branch Works, Mothers Opposed to Violence Everywhere, Illinois Anti-Foreclosure Coalition, Light Up Lawndale, Rebuilding Together Metro Chicago and Northside Community Resources — sent …

This week’s top photo comes from Visual Journalist Manuel Martinez. Follow him on Instagram. What makes this photo important? They say you only get one chance to make a first impression, so when Northwestern inaugurated its brand new Ryan Field, …

A new three-story mural in Hyde Park honors the late sculptor Richard Hunt, a lifelong Chicagoan and the first African American artist to receive a solo retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The mural, created …

For decades, it was a bit of a stretch to call Bears-Packers a rivalry. It became such a one-sided domination that when former Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers screamed, “I own you,” at Soldier Field in 2021 during yet another …

A River North cybersecurity firm seems to have started another business in the wake of a scandal involving two former employees and an associate who extorted tens of millions of dollars from customers. The parent company of DigitalMint created a …

Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch raised some eyebrows after he attended a meeting in suburban River Forest to talk about the proposed O’Hare Flyer project, which would run express commuter trains back and forth from Downtown Chicago to O’Hare …

New restrictions have stripped Medicaid coverage from certain legal immigrants, including refugees and victims of human trafficking, as part of broader federal changes to the health insurance program that are expected to force millions off their coverage. The change effective …

Two teenage boys were shot while sitting in a car late Friday in Englewood on the South Side. The boys, 16, were inside the parked car in the 6500 block of South Laflin Street when a motorcycle drove by and …

A man was found shot to death in the hallway of a Garfield Park home early Saturday. The man, 26, was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the 3600 block of West 5th Avenue around 1:35 a.m., Chicago police said. …

Bears quarterback Tyson Bagent walked off the field Sunday with a familiar song blaring from the Soldier Field speakers. Country roads, take me home/To the place I belong West Virginia, mountain mama/Take me home, country roads The Martinsburg, W.Va., native …

The Bears have been upbeat lately about cornerback Kyler Gordon getting back on the practice field, but he won’t play Sunday against the Packers. While Gordon was eligible to come off the physically unable-to-perform list for the game, the team …

Returning to the Chicago Marathon is meaningful for defending men’s champion Jacob Kiplimo and 2025 women’s winner Hawi Feysa. For both, crossing the finish line first in last year’s race represents one of the highlights of their impressive careers. “Overall, …

There is a developmental plan in place for Dailyn Swain and it involves stints down in the G League. No matter what the Bulls rookie does between now and the end of preseason play he can’t change the inevitable, but …