The Sun-Times’ Bears experts make their pick for Sunday’s game against the Steelers at Soldier Field (noon, CBS 2): Patrick Finley Bears, 23-20 (OT): No NFL team allows more passing yards per game than the Steelers’ 261.7. After leaning on …
Bears predictions: Week 12 vs. Steelers Read MoreMayor Brandon Johnson has tried — and so far failed — to sell his corporate head tax by rebranding it as a “community safety surcharge” with $100 million in annual revenue for crime fighting and prevention programs that include summer …
Mayor Johnson pledges to use head tax for youth programs – then wants to cut funding for proven efforts Read MoreDaevon Reynolds grew up in Austin on Chicago’s West Side, where burning off energy at the neighborhood park around people selling drugs wasn’t safe. His mom would take her two boys to the vast Columbus Park nearby to play. Reynolds …
Chicago’s ‘Death Gap,’ how a three-generation West Side family fights to end it Read MoreThe Chicago Housing Authority and its partners marked the end of their decades-long effort to transform the land where the Henry Horner public housing complex once towered on the West Side. The CHA, city officials, developers Brinshore Development and The …
CHA, developers mark end of Henry Horner Homes redevelopment on the Near West Side Read MorePORTLAND, Ore. – The body is as good as it’s been since the Bulls made Patrick Williams the No. 4 overall selection in the 2020 draft. There’s a reason his teammates now refer to him as “Skinny Pat.” But the …
‘Vooch’ delivers Bulls from a mess, but what about Patrick Williams? Read MoreMoon alert Avoid shopping (except food and gas) or major decisions from 3 to 4:45 a.m. After that, the moon moves from Scorpio into Sagittarius. Aries (March 21-April 19) A positive day Today, you feel a strong urge to get …
Horoscope for Thursday, November 20, 2025 Read MoreIt was choppy. It definitely wasn’t pretty. The Near West Side has seen snow drifts that were more artful and traffic jams that were easier on the eyes. But it’s early. Too early to make any assumptions about where Illinois’ …
No. 8 Illinois falls 90-86 to No. 11 Alabama at United Center Read MorePORTLAND – Billy Donovan admittedly thought it would happen in Denver. After all, the Bulls coach watched his team fall in double overtime the night before in Utah, get on a plane to the “Mile High City” afterwards, and then …
Playing time still a tough get for Bulls rookie forward Noa Essengue Read MoreWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed legislation Wednesday that compels his administration to release files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, bowing to political pressure from his own party after initially resisting those efforts. Trump could have chosen to …
Trump signs bill to release Jeffrey Epstein case files after fighting it for months Read MoreThe Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership said the U.S. Department of Homeland Security used “shifting, contradictory, and often opaque communication” to deny clergy the ability to pray with detainees at the ICE facility in Broadview, including late immigrant activists …
Clergy sue feds over restriction on providing religious services to immigrants held at Broadview ICE facility Read MoreWhite Eagle Events and Convention Center in Niles, which has hosted dinners for celebrities, a pope and a president, will permanently close at the end of the year. The iconic banquet hall and restaurant was a staple in the Polish …
White Eagle banquet hall, an institution for Chicago-area Polish community, to close at year’s end Read MorePolice are investigating a bizarre shooting that left a man and woman critically hurt while traveling in car Wednesday night in Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side. The incident happened around 8 p.m. in the 3500 block of South …
Shootings inside moving car leaves 2 critically wounded in Brighton Park Read MoreDEAR ABBY: I recently bought a first-floor condo because I am an older woman with a knee disability. Otherwise, I would have purchased a unit on the second floor of this two-story condo complex. I am only here part time …
Dear Abby: Rambunctious children causing a ruckus for neighbor Read MoreCharges have been filed against a man who was shot by a Chicago police officer after fleeing officers trying to talk to him Tuesday morning in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side. Anthony Nelson, 25, was charged with …
Man shot by CPD charged after Washington Park confrontation Read MoreUna violación a la información y datos en el Hospital St. Anthony podría haber expuesto la información personal de pacientes, personal y otros, según informaron los funcionarios del hospital. En febrero, el hospital supo que un “pequeño número” de cuentas …
Filtración de datos personales en el Hospital St. Anthony pone en riesgo a personal y pacientes Read MoreChicago’s federal appeals court put a short-term hold on a judge’s order that aimed to release as many as 615 people detained by immigration authorities this year, with certain conditions, scheduling arguments on the matter for Dec. 2. The ruling …
Federal appeals court puts release of hundreds of ICE detainees on hold Read MoreA probationary Chicago cop accidentally shot himself in the groin Wednesday night as he headed into work at the Gresham District station. The man, 22, was in the parking lot of the station, 7808 S. Halsted St., when the firearm …
Off-duty Chicago cop accidentally shoots himself in groin outside police station in Gresham Read MoreOn Kilbourn Avenue, just south of 63rd Street and a block over from the grocer Sav A Lot — not too far from Taqueria El Pastor — sits a small architectural wonder that relatively few Chicagoans have seen. Ave Maria …
Endangered Southwest Side chapel designed by Lithuanian refugees could be headed toward salvation Read MoreFederal prosecutors in Chicago on Thursday dropped one of the most high-profile criminal cases to result from the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign, one the feds have pointed to while insisting agents on the ground were under attack. Marimar Martinez, …
Feds drop case against woman shot by Border Patrol agent in Brighton Park Read MoreGood morning, Chicago. ✶ 🔎 Below: Federal authorities say 50-year-old Lawrence Reed, who was arrested at least 40 times, had “no business being on the streets,” but now is charged with setting a 26-year-old woman on fire on the Blue Line. 🗞️ Plus: A …
Terror charges in Blue Line fire attack Read More