Skye Blue started wrestling out of defiance. She remembered being in high school watching tables, ladders, and chairs matches, observing wrestlers perform in dangerous but exhilarating spots. Blue turned to her mom and told her, “I’m gonna do that one …
All Elite Wrestling’s Skye Blue ready to ‘jump in the deep end’ in her return match Read MoreA left-leaning online streamer with almost 3 million followers said he was detained at O’Hare Airport for about two hours Sunday so that federal agents could “put the fear of God in me.” “It wasn’t a very warm welcome. What’s …
Popular Twitch streamer detained at O’Hare Airport for 2 hours Read MoreThe Bears will find out their full schedule at 7 p.m. Wednesday, with details emerging during the course of the day. New head coach Ben Johnson will make his Week 1 debut in a “Monday Night Football” home game against …
Tracking the Bears on NFL schedule release day Read MoreTwo years ago, Walmart closed it’s Chatham supercenter—along with three other smaller Chicago stores — with only two hours’ notice to the local alderperson who fought for it. Then Ald. Howard Brookins (21st) was told the store was hemorrhaging money …
Site of shuttered Walmart supercenter in Chatham poised to become job training center Read MoreAld. David Moore (17th) threw his support behind the city’s chief operating officer John Roberson to run the Chicago Transit Authority during a contentious public comment at the agency’s board meeting on Wednesday. Moore accused the board of “moving the …
Ald. David Moore calls out CTA board over president search: ‘Don’t be a backbiting snake’ Read MoreChicago motorists now have eleven more reasons to slow down near schools and parks: newly installed speed cameras that spew out automatic warnings and costly tickets. The 11 new locations announced Wednesday are the second round of 50 speed cameras …
Time to hit the brakes: City installs 11 more speed cameras near schools and parks Read More“He totally f——ed us.” It’s rare to hear a political party operative speak this way about one of his own. It’s almost unheard of to hear a well-known campaign adviser like David Plouffe speak this way on the record about …
Dems won’t be trusted if they don’t admit mistakes, shrouding Biden’s health Read MoreThe Illinois Supreme Court is considering whether a former sheriff’s deputy accused of fatally shooting Springfield resident Sonya Massey should be released from jail before his October trial date. Sean Grayson, 30, responded to Massey’s 9-1-1 call reporting a potential …
Illinois Supreme Court hears arguments about pre-trial release of Sean Grayson as he awaits trial Read MoreGeico, the country’s third-largest auto insurer, on Wednesday announced the launch of a Chicago office in the Merchandise Mart, where it will house more than 100 employees in corporate roles, including communications, finance and marketing. Some of Geico’s Chicago staff …
Geico sets up Chicago office in the Merchandise Mart Read MoreCIUDAD DEL VATICANO — El nuevo papa comenzó con un viejo chiste. “Dicen que cuando aplaudes al principio, no significa mucho”, dijo el Papa León XIV a más de 6,000 periodistas de todo el mundo el lunes en su primera …
El Papa León XIV se reúne con los medios y pide la liberación de periodistas encarcelados Read MoreMcDonald’s anunció el lunes que este verano planea contratar hasta 375,000 empleados para sus restaurantes en Estados Unidos, incluidos más de 14,000 en Illinois, lo que constituye su mayor esfuerzo de contratación en años. El gigante de las hamburguesas de …
McDonald’s planea contratar a 375,000 trabajadores este verano, 14,000 en Illinois Read MoreCitando el aumento desmedido del costo de la educación universitaria, un comité del Concejo Municipal acordó el martes eliminar ese “techo de papel” permitiendo que los candidatos a empleos municipales puedan sustituir la experiencia laboral por un diploma. Por petición …
Comité del Concejo Municipal aprueba eliminar requisito universitario para empleos municipales Read MoreIllinois lawmakers took another step this week to end the program offering healthcare coverage to Illinois residents without legal status in the United States. The legislature’s Joint Committee on Administrative Rules this week gave a green light to rules that …
Some lawmakers want to save a program that gives health benefits for Illinois residents without legal status Read MoreFormer Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel openly flirted with a 2028 presidential candidacy Wednesday, telling a nationally televised talk show audience that he is “in training” for a White House bid. Emanuel’s remarks on ABC’s “The View” stopped short of an …
Rahm Emanuel flirts with idea he’d run for president Read MoreThere’s no shortage of literature about artificial intelligence turned sentient and posing an existential threat to its operators and/or humanity in general. From Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey ” to the grim world of Netflix’s …
Goodman’s ‘The Antiquities’ will leave you giving Siri the side eye Read MoreA significant, large-scale work by the late artist Sol LeWitt vanished from the exterior of a federally owned downtown building — and the government agency in charge of the piece had refused to say why. Lines in Four Directions, a …
Sol LeWitt’s famed Loop sculpture goes into hiding Read MoreJayden Perkins’ grandmother was on the phone with the 11-year-old’s mother as the boy’s killer burst through the door of their Edgewater apartment, she testified in court Wednesday. “I heard screams and, ‘No, C.O.! No!,” Shirese Turner said, referring to …
Jayden Perkins’ grandmother testifies she heard screams as the 11-year-old was killed Read MoreEleven students were hospitalized after ingesting edibles made with suspected cannabis Tuesday morning in Washington Heights on the South Side. Chicago Fire Department officials responded to Fort Dearborn Elementary, 9025 S. Throop St., for multiple overdoses around 9 a.m. Tuesday, …
11 students sickened after eating edibles made with suspected cannabis in Washington Heights Read MoreWhen the violinist and composer Brandi Berry Benson was researching her Chickasaw heritage, she came across a photograph of a dozen or so Chickasaw women holding stringed instruments — violins, guitars, mandolins. The photo had been taken at a Native …
Brandi Berry Benson conjures generations of Chickasaw women in music Read MorePolice are looking for the gunman who stood over a 38-year-old man lying in the street and shot him multiples times on the West Side last week. David Johnson, 38, who was shot in the 3100 block of West Madison …
Man shot in Garfield Park neighborhood last week dies Read More