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Mayor Brandon Johnson announced six proposed appointees to the Chicago Board of Education on Monday following uproar over last week’s announcement that the entire board was resigning. During a fiery news conference, Johnson rejected calls to pause the appointment process …

Bears safety Jaquan Brisker was ruled to have a concussion Monday evening, one day after his team beat the Panthers and is not on the squad’s charter flight to London. He first reported symptoms Monday afternoon. Brisker has not been …

Hundreds of students across Chicago walked out of class Monday, to honor the thousands of Palestinians killed in Gaza since the start of the war one year ago. Students at Northwestern University, DePaul University and the University of Illinois at …

A trio of unheralded prospects in the senior class recently made their college choices. DePaul Prep’s Makai Kvamme chose Western Illinois, Hinsdale Central’s Vince Buzelis committed to South Dakota and Batavia’s Jax Abalos is headed to Cornell. Kvamme has been …

Ruby Chen does not have to speak to drive his message home. He wears his sorrow etched upon his face, his mouth set in a firm flat line. When he does speak, at a breakfast for the Israeli ambassador during …

DePaul women’s basketball will be without coach Doug Bruno as they begin preparing for the 2024-25 season. According to the program, Bruno experienced a medical incident last month and is recovering at home. In Bruno’s absence, Jill M. Pizzotti will …

The two prevailing storylines around Connor Bedard during Blackhawks training camp were the stronger supporting cast around him and the relative dimming of the spotlight on him. But although both things are true, so are these caveats: Bedard’s supporting cast …

The U.S. National Hurricane Center has issued storm surge warnings for almost the entirety of Florida’s west coast, from Flamingo at the state’s southern tip to the Suwanee River, which flows into the Gulf of Mexico about halfway between Tallahassee …

On Monday, Mayor Brandon Johnson named six of seven new School Board members following last week’s unprecedented mass resignation of the entire existing board. But his swift action didn’t change our minds on this point: We can’t imagine how Johnson …

The Bears likely will be in England by the time you read this, having flown off cheerfully Monday after whipping the Panthers 36-10 on Sunday. The Panthers aren’t very good, but a win’s a win. Now the Bears will play …

Shahar Gabay is still haunted by what he saw at the Nova Music Festival in southern Israel. He thinks about the choices he made as the rockets started flying and gunfire rang out when Hamas militants attacked the festival on …

A child and man were injured in a shooting in West Pullman on Monday night, Chicago police said. A man, 27, and boy, 7, were in a residence in the 11600 block of South Yale Avenue at 9:06 p.m. when …

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There are a lot of shoulders in the Bulls’ guard room. And plenty have chips on them. Coach Billy Donovan has been warned. ‘‘I’m looking forward to seeing how it plays out,’’ Coby White said Monday of the guard rotation. …

A teen was injured after a “verbal altercation” led to a shooting on a CTA bus in Chatham on Monday afternoon, Chicago police said. Two women were in a “verbal altercation” on a CTA bus in the 8600 block of …

Maintaining a normal routine when playing a game in London is always a challenge for NFL teams. Bears coach Matt Eberflus is taking a different tack than the Bears did under Lovie Smith in 2011 or under Matt Nagy in …