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Martin Castro no está listo para bajar la guardia ahora que los agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza y del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) parecen haber abandonado o reducido su actividad en el área de Chicago en …

We legacy media skew old. The grizzled goat in front of me, picking up press tickets at the Steppenwolf Theatre on Sunday night, asked, “Where’s the bathroom?” That seemed a smart idea. We were about to see the Peter Shaffer …

Union staff at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry and the museum have reached a tentative agreement as a strike date looms less than two weeks ahead, according to a joint statement from the union and museum. “After a …

Silverio Villegas González tenía cocaína en su sistema y sufría de una grave enfermedad hepática cuando un agente federal de inmigración le disparó y lo asesinó durante una parada de tráfico a principios de este año en el suburbio de …

Illinois Senate President Don Harmon is off the hook for a $9.8 million fine after election board officials deadlocked again Tuesday over allegations that the Oak Park Democrat’s political committee accepted donations beyond state campaign financing limits. Members of the …

State, county and local law enforcement agencies policing protests outside the ICE facility in west suburban Broadview have announced the designated protest zone will now include part of Beach Street, according to a statement Tuesday. A portion of Beach Street …

An aerospace firm that recently leased land east of Aurora is building a rocket that it hopes will be able to deliver goods to anywhere on the planet within 40 minutes. “Think of it as FedEx, but in space,” said …

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ, Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president on Tuesday ruled out allowing U.S. strikes against cartels on Mexican soil, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said he was willing to do whatever it takes to …

The Westminster headquarters of space technology firm Vantor, the company formerly known as Maxar Technologies, has sold for just over a third of what it fetched a decade ago. An entity affiliated with Southern California’s AXS Opportunity Fund paid $32 …

BOULDER — Deion Sanders cried tears of happiness as his son took the field over the weekend for the first time in a regular-season NFL game. There was admiration, too, over what it took for quarterback Shedeur Sanders to get …

The best fourth-quarter team in the NFL isn’t going to start thinking about the playoffs until the fourth quarter of the season. ‘‘Once we make it through the three-quarter mark, then we’ll start shifting our focus,’’ Bears head coach Ben …

Patrick Finley and Jason Lieser discuss whether the first-place Bears can reach the postseason. New episodes of “Halas Intrigue” will be published regularly with accompanying stories collected on the podcast’s hub page. You can also listen to “Halas Intrigue” wherever you …

In 2017, Stephanie O’Donnell, her husband, Terrence, and their young children Millie and Poppy left their beloved home in Oak Park and moved to Dublin, Ohio. In doing so, they left much of their collective hearts in the middle of …

Rocker Billy Corgan is anything but one note. For decades, he’s poured what he describes as a strong Midwest work ethic into seemingly endless ventures, from his 1990s rock group, the Smashing Pumpkins, to a professional wrestling league, an artisanal …

DEAR ABBY: I have a 54-year-old profoundly disabled, non-verbal child who is in a group home. I have been advocating for her since birth, when we learned she had suffered severe brain damage. The umbilical cord was wrapped around her …

The Bears are firmly in the playoff field after beating the Vikings to get to 7-3, and for a team that has been decisively out of the picture by mid-November each of the last four seasons, that’s a big step. …

Good morning, Chicago. ✶ 🔎 Below: Mayor Brandon Johnson experienced a significant defeat Monday as City Council’s Finance Committee rejected his $600 million tax package built on a corporate head tax. 🗞️ Plus: Local groups share lessons learned as feds …

Police are looking for three assailants who opened fire on a crowd waiting for a bus, hitting a woman late Monday on the Southwest Side. Around 11:50 p.m., the 54-year-old woman was seated among group at the stop in the …

A 9-year-old boy and a woman were seriously hurt by a group of attackers Monday afternoon in South Deering on the Far South Side. The group confronted the pair — who were walking — and hit them multiple times just …

DENVER — It didn’t take long for the team’s enforcer to get onto the scene. All 195 pounds of him, and that’s on a good day, likely with shoes on. Then again, Bulls guard Dalen Terry wouldn’t have it any …