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Alison Arngrim has been a b-tch since eighth grade. But in the five decades since that epithet was first hurled her way at Bancroft Junior High School in Los Angeles, she hasn’t always embraced it. “It took me a long …

PHILADELPHIA — Catcher Carson Kelly snapped future teammate Matthew Boyd’s streak in college. The way Boyd tells it, he and his housemates at Oregon State had converted their last 15 or so undecided baseball recruits into commits. Kelly, however, chose …

The family of a man killed in a fall from scaffolding that collapsed at a University of Chicago Medical Center construction site has settled a wrongful death lawsuit for $23.5 million, the family’s lawyers said. The suit was filed nearly …

Illinois joined 15 other states Monday in suing the Trump administration over plans to return forced-reset triggers that were confiscated by federal law enforcement and once again allow them to be sold. The devices are used to make semiautomatic rifles …

A teen and a man were wounded Monday night in a shooting in Chatham, Chicago police said. The two victims, 15 and 33, were near an alley in the 7900 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue at 7:19 p.m. when …

A motorcyclist who was attacked Monday night shot two of the attackers in Auburn Gresham, Chicago police said. The motorcyclist was in the 700 block of West 66th Street at 7:15 p.m. when he was attacked by multiple people, police …

PHILADELPHIA — With the bases loaded and the score tied in the 11th inning Monday, acting Cubs manager Ryan Flaherty went out to make a defensive change. Third-base coach Quintin Berry waved in left fielder Ian Happ, an infielder’s glove …

Moon alert There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The moon is in Sagittarius. Aries (March 21-April 19) A positive day In the year ahead, home and real estate will get a marvelous boost from the universe. …

My grandmother taught me we are all born into a great, unfinished struggle. She meant the struggle for justice. For truth. For dignity. Next week is Juneteenth, a time of year I always think about this lesson. I think about …

DEAR ABBY: I’m blessed at 38 to have my first and likely only grandbaby. She’s PERFECT. My daughter, “Robin,” is stressed. She’s left alone with the baby all day, every day while her partner works. Robin sleeps only when he’s …

Detectives are trying to figure out what happened to an infant and a 25-year-old woman who were found dead early Tuesday on the Southwest Side. Officers responded to a call to assist paramedics just after 3 a.m. in the 2400 …

Four people were robbed at gunpoint in about a half an hour late Monday night and early Tuesday on the North Side. Most recently, two gunmen in a white SUV approached a 20-year-old man around 12:05 a.m. in the 2300 …

In the 1960s, George E. Johnson’s manufacturing facility drew visits from Nobel laureate Ralph Bunche, boxer Muhammad Ali and the then-president of Liberia, William Tubman. But hosting the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was especially memorable for Johnson, founder of …

NEW YORK — Sky great Allie Quigley, who last played in the WNBA in 2022, officially retired Tuesday. She called it an “Irish Goodbye,” as in slipping out of the party without saying a word.   Quigley, 38, grew up …

Federal prosecutors want a new trial for state Sen. Emil Jones III, whose first trial on bribery charges ended in a hung jury earlier this year. Jones, a South Side Democrat, was not present at the Tuesday court hearing at …

R. Kelly launched a legal assault on his twin federal convictions Tuesday, alleging government misconduct amid his high-profile prosecution in Chicago and New York and insisting he should be released to home detention because his life is in danger. The …

A man was dead on the scene at the Granville CTA station in Edgewater after being hit by a Red Line train, officials said. Full service has resumed on the Red and Purple lines, though trains are bypassing the Granville …

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Kilmar Ábrego García, cuya deportación errónea a El Salvador se convirtió en un punto crítico político durante el endurecimiento de la administración de Trump en la política de inmigración, ha sido enviando de vuelta a los Estados …

El gobernador JB Pritzker ha contratado a un poderoso bufete de abogados de Washington, D.C., para ayudarle a navegar las complicadas aguas políticas antes de una aparición muy publicitada ante el Comité de Supervisión y Reforma del Gobierno (DOGE) de …

A Chicago judge ruled on Tuesday that a Mexican immigrant who was falsely accused of threatening to assassinate President Donald Trump can be released from a Wisconsin prison on bond. In federal immigration court, Judge Carla Espinoza said Ramon Morales …