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TORONTO — Some context is needed to understand the heartbreak of the Blackhawks’ 3-2 loss to the Maple Leafs on Tuesday night. The Hawks had worked diligently over the previous 48 hours, making strategic adjustments to give themselves a chance …

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JPMorgan Chase announced Wednesday that it will open a new flagship branch on the Magnificent Mile, which will include services for high net worth individuals. The two-story branch at 830 N. Michigan Ave. will have a JPMorgan Financial Center on …

Outside the iconic Garfield Park Fieldhouse on the West Side, Glydan “Momma” Hoffman stands in a large circle with about 50 people to warm up for a 1-mile walk. She tries to jostle her knees high, one at a time. …

The Goodman’s Albert Theatre holds 856 seats, the balcony pitched steeply so that it feels almost as if the audience is on top of the stage. Chicago mayors, Illinois governors, U.S. senators and even the occasional Hollywood star have all …

Diana Ezerins rarely pays with cash. So after filling her cart at an Albany Park Aldi, she payed little attention to the sign displayed near the checkout register: “Due to the U.S. Mint discontinuing penny production, we may be unable …

December always brings a flood of year-end music coverage, so-called “Wrapped” playlists and vast lists of the songwriters and sounds of the year. But our list aims to strike a more finite target, with our contributors from WBEZ/Chicago Sun-Times and …

A half-hour into my dinner at Cellar Door Provisions with seven strangers from the Chicago Food Subreddit dining club, we were dividing up pearlescent slabs of kampachi crudo in golden tomatillo leche de tigre. Impulsively, I picked up the plate, …

My son attends Orville T. Bright Elementary in South Deering. He’s in first grade in the cluster program for students with autism. I enrolled him at Bright two years ago because of the school’s excellent special education programming. If my …

DEAR ABBY: My wife and I stopped having sexual relations eight years ago. She keeps our two grandchildren 11 to 12 hours a day, five (and sometimes six) days a week. (That’s 60 to 70 hours.) By the time they’re …

A 14-year-old boy walked into a hospital Wednesday night after being shot in a drive-by Tuesday evening in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood. Around 6 p.m., the teen was standing outside in the 800 block of West 87th Street when a …

A good Samaritan flagged down officers when they saw the victim, a 40-year-old woman, lying in the street after a vehicle hit her and left the scene early Wednesday on the West Side. The incident happened around 1:40 a.m. in …

Good morning, Chicago. ✶ 🔎 Below: Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino returned Tuesday to Chicago, leading a new round of immigration raids.  🗞️ Plus: Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Council opposition passed an alternative budget plan, the people who showed out at the …

The three Republican members of the Illinois congressional delegation are asking President Donald Trump to deny former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s request for a pardon, writing that it “would send a dangerous message that public officials can betray the …

MONTREAL — At this point, prospects drafted by the Blackhawks should know there’s a sizable chance their rights will be traded before they sign. The Hawks are reaching the stage of their rebuild where so-called “future assets” — draft picks and …

Gregory Bovino, el funcionario de la Patrulla Fronteriza de EE.UU. que ha liderado los esfuerzos de deportación de la administración de Trump, regresó a el área de Chicago el martes con agentes federales, apuntando a inmigrantes en el lado suroeste …

Is a Chicago-area bishop going to be the next Catholic archbishop of New York? It’s being reported by a number of religious-oriented news sources, including the Catholic News Agency, that Ronald Hicks, current bishop of the Diocese of Joliet, is …

En marzo de 2023, Rocio Lasso dijo que recibió una llamada telefónica “que nadie espera”. La llamada que le informaba que su hijo, el oficial de la Policía de Chicago Andrés Vásquez Lasso, había sido asesinado en el cumplimiento de …

GREEN BAY, Wis. — As Packers coach Matt LaFleur looked ahead to a rematch with the Bears on Saturday, he had a lot of compliments Wednesday for how new coach Ben Johnson has turned them around.   The Bears took …

Bears linebacker D’Marco Jackson was named NFC Defensive Player of the Week on Wednesday, three days after he intercepted his first career pass and recorded a sack in the 31-3 win against the Browns. He’s the only NFC player this …