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Rookie Caleb Williams is heading in a direction that’s unfamiliar to him but all too common for Bears quarterbacks. Backward. Williams has regressed in the last two games. He has been inaccurate, posting the second-worst adjusted completion percentage in the …

As the Bears’ season disinte-grates and the heat on coach Matt Eberflus increases, he’s staying the course — even if his course leads nowhere. After the mediocre Cardinals dismantled the Bears 29-9 on Sunday, causing them to fall to 4-4, …

Drake Maye was the hero — and then he wasn’t. A day after he was cleared from concussion protocol, the Patriots’ rookie quarterback threw a five-yard touchdown pass as time expired Sunday. The Patriots kicked the extra point to force …

Yeonsoo Chee likes small spaces — they focus the mind, make it harder to be distracted, she says. Good thing, because for the last four years, Chee has been working with a space about the size of a cramped two-bedroom …

Three people were wounded in a shooting in Woodlawn on Monday afternoon, Chicago police said. A 50-year-old man, 20-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman were on the sidewalk in the 700 block of East 67th Street at 2:46 p.m. when …

Hundreds of thousands of Chicagoans already have voted in the election — flocking to early voting sites or dropping their ballots in the mail. And at some early polling places, voters have waited hours to cast their ballot. “We are …

SAN ANTONIO — At his first general managers meetings last November as the White Sox’ man in charge, Chris Getz said he didn’t like his team. The clip with some of the best sound bites made the rounds, and Getz’s …

A man who allegedly cut in line at a polling place and punched an election judge while screaming obscenities was arrested Sunday morning in southwest suburban Orland Park. Daniel Schmidt, 24, was charged with two counts of aggravated battery to …

Here’s a reminder why Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed cuts to the Chicago Police Department’s office of reform are a bad idea: Over the last two decades, the city has paid out nearly $700 million in lawsuit settlements for 300 cases …

As a contentious presidential election season comes to a head, Chicago voters have their final chance to hit the polls Tuesday to decide a series of key local races, including the city’s first ever elected school board. The marquee political …

Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer could sense about a week and a half ago that outfielder Cody Bellinger was leaning toward opting into his contract for 2025. News of Bellinger’s decision came out during the weekend, but Hoyer …

Chicago’s hotel tax — already the highest among convention cities — may soon rise to 18.9% at downtown hotels to generate more than $50 million in annual revenue to help market the city. One year after the Illinois General Assembly …

For many of Chicago’s first responders, there is no such thing as being off duty. Firefighter EMT Eric Washington was driving home from a shift last year when he saw a wrong-way driver crash into a CTA bus on DuSable …

Eighteen jurors headed home from Chicago’s latest public corruption trial Monday for what will be their final opportunity to cast a ballot in Tuesday’s election — but before they left, they got a reminder that “freedom is not a spectator …

Lobbyist Michael McClain wrote with characteristic flair and bluster when he penned a retirement letter in 2016 to a fellow aide to then-Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, assuring 13th Ward worker Kevin Quinn that “I am not dying.” In …

Former President Donald Trump is stepping up his demands that the winner of the presidential race be declared shortly after polls close Tuesday, well before all the votes can be counted. Trump set the pattern in 2020, when he declared …

Mike Irvin has resigned as Kenwood’s boys basketball coach. According to Chicago Public Schools, which confirmed the resignation Monday, Irvin currently is ineligible for rehire with CPS. Kenwood assistant principal Joe Mason will take over as interim coach for this …

Jeffrey Grob, an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Chicago, has been named as the new archbishop of Milwaukee. Grob, 63, succeeds the Rev. Jerome Listecki, who gave his notice of retirement on his 75th birthday, as is required, in …

The plan is to get Bulls rookie forward Matas Buzelis playing time this week, and considering Monday night’s meeting with the Jazz was the start of four games in six nights, it seems doable. Unless it’s not. That’s why Bulls …

A set of Michael Jordan jerseys and other collectibles sold for $8.5 million at a New York auction Monday. Bidding began last month, according to Sotheby’s. Jordan’s Bulls jersey from the 1996-97 season fetched the highest price, selling for $4.7 …