As every year comes to an end, reflection becomes inevitable. “Let’s go back. Back in time . . .” To 2017, when Time magazine asked a simple question on one of its covers: Is Truth Dead? At the time, the target of …
From Netflix to the NFL to widespread online fakery, sports became full-on phony in 2024 Read MoreMoon alert There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. The moon is in Sagittarius. Aries (March 21-April 19) A so-so day Travel plans or opportunities in publishing, the media, medicine and the law might be stymied today because …
Horoscope for Saturday, December 28, 2024 Read MoreIf you talked to friends or family about politics over Thanksgiving, you might not have changed each other’s minds. But don’t be discouraged — and consider talking with them again as the holiday season continues. As a scholar of political …
Avoiding discussions about politics with friends and family? Try this approach Read MoreWhen President Joe Biden last week spared the lives of 37 prisoners on federal death row, I thought of the men and women who guard the condemned, who administer the lethal dose of drugs, who remove the body from the …
Death penalty creates more sorrow, pain for everyone involved Read MoreA major media outlet reported that a public figure accused of sexual assault was accused of “rape.” The accused saw an opportunity to use the court system to retaliate. He filed a defamation lawsuit seeking substantial damages. The effect of …
Trump isn’t the first to sue over the word ‘rape.’ A Northwestern professor lost his case Read MoreThe Illinois Senate is considering legislation to restore the Monetary Award Program funding, or MAP grants, for incarcerated people. These grants help lower-income people attend college. It is not just a matter of fairness. It’s a sound investment in public …
College MAP grants for Illinois inmates are a ‘sound investment in public safety’ Read MoreDEAR ABBY: After several months of weight loss, our preteen daughter was hospitalized after a trip to the ER. She was diagnosed with ARFID. It’s an eating disorder we had never heard of but one in which the patient is …
Dear Abby: People asking about a medical issue we’d rather keep private Read MoreIt was late 1974. Bill Walton was a young guy, and so was I. He was 22, the first pick in the 1974 NBA draft, taken by the Portland Trail Blazers out of UCLA where he’d been a two-time NCAA …
Bill Walton was young and hard to read, and it was my job to tell his story Read MorePlease send scores and corrections to preps@suntimes.com. Saturday, December 28, 2024 BLOOMINGTON / NORMALSemifinals – Large SchoolsPeoria 44, Rock Island 42Romeoville vs. Sacred Heart-Griffin, 9:00Consolation – Large SchoolsAddison Trail 62, Joliet Central 35Metea Valley 77, Oswego 59Normal 50, Bradley-Bourbonnais 38Normal …
Illinois high school basketball scores Read MoreLONDON (AP) — Olivia Hussey, the actor who starred as a teenage Juliet in the 1968 film “Romeo and Juliet,” has died, her family said on social media Saturday. She was 73. Hussey died on Friday, “peacefully at home surrounded …
Olivia Hussey, star of 1968 film ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ dies at 73 Read MoreThe property where Marie’s Pizza and Liquors, a beloved Albany Park pizza joint and liquor store that opened in the 1940s, is located is for sale for $1.7 million, according to Darwin PW Realty. It comes more than a year …
Marie’s Pizza and Liquors property in Albany Park is listed for sale at $1.7 million Read MoreDissecting Blackhawks defenseman Seth Jones’ performance is always tricky. His overpriced $9.5 million salary-cap hit makes him a lightning rod for criticism from fans, many of whom somehow believe the Hawks would be better off without him — which is …
Seth Jones still trying to rediscover pre-injury form within new Blackhawks systems Read MoreThe buyer of Chicago Bulls legend and NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan’s mansion in Highland Park has been revealed: a 42-year-old real estate executive from Lincolnshire. John Cooper, a partner at Lincolnwood-based HAN Capital, bought the 56,000-square-foot property for …
Suburban real estate executive buys Michael Jordan’s Highland Park mansion Read MoreComo muchos estudiantes, la ayuda financiera fue un factor decisivo para Nora Harvey, estudiante de psicología de la Universidad de Illinois en Urbana-Champaign (U of I, por sus siglas en inglés). A pesar de que su padre, que murió cuando …
More Illinois universities are covering tuition for low-income households but issues with cost remain Read MoreDeja las llaves del auto en casa. La Agencia de Tránsito de Chicago (CTA, por sus siglas en inglés) y Metra están ofreciendo viajes gratis en la víspera de Año Nuevo. La CTA no cobrará tarifas desde las 10 p.m. …
La CTA y Metra ofrecen viajes gratis en noche de Año Nuevo Read MorePONTIAC—The relationship between Simeon and the Pontiac Holiday Tournament dates back to 1995. The Wolverines have participated in 29 of the 93 tournaments, winning 16 titles. It ended on Saturday after Simeon lost to Benet 67-66 in overtime in the …
Simeon leaves the Pontiac Holiday Tournament after 29 years Read MoreSeveral people were stabbed Saturday afternoon at a restaurant in south suburban Oak Forest. Officers responded about 2 p.m. to Jamaica Jerk Choice, 6066 159th Street, where they found multiple people with stab wounds, Oak Forest officials said. It wasn’t …
Multiple people are stabbed at Oak Forest restaurant; 3 in custody Read MoreCook County Crime Stoppers has doubled its reward offer to anyone who can provide information leading to an arrest in a mass shooting that killed three people this month in Chicago Lawn. The reward has been increased to $20,000, up …
$20,000 reward offered for information leading to arrest in Chicago Lawn mass shooting Read MorePONTIAC—Simeon and Benet have played several important, exciting games over the past decade. The matchup lived up to its legacy in the semifinals of the 93rd Pontiac Holiday Tournament on Saturday. There were too many twists and turns, ups and …
Benet, DePaul Prep win semis, setting up first all-private school championship game in Pontiac’s long history Read MoreForty years after World War II, the U.S. government commissioned a study to examine the impact of the internment of Japanese Americans. Public hearings included testimony from those who had been imprisoned, many of whom had never before spoken about …
Exhibit on internment of Japanese Americans explores the trauma, tenacity in a dark moment in U.S. history Read More