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Ah, “The Nutcracker.” Besides Handel’s Messiah, no work is more reliably found in the holiday arts calendar than Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s 1892 ballet. From professional ballerinas to toddlers in tutus, dancers of all ages and levels take on “The Nutcracker” …

The Sun-Times’ Bears experts make their picks for the rivalry game Sunday afternoon against the Packers at Lambeau Field (3:25 p.m., Fox 32) Patrick Finley Packers, 24-21 (OT): Sunday marks the third time in the Super Bowl era a 9-3 …

The Bears named wide receiver DJ Moore their Walter Payton Man of the Year on Thursday and nominated him for the league-wide award. The honor is given to a player who excels on the field and makes an impact beyond …

Timothy Jones, a Park Forest detective, has died nearly 10 years after he was shot in the line of duty, the suburban police department announced Thursday morning. “Yesterday, Tim’s long and difficult battle came to an end. And while our …

Everything feels monotonous lately. The defensive mishaps, the player reads on the offensive end whether the Bulls are running a Spain action in the halfcourt or a quick read in transition, the injuries, the excuses. All one big pile of …

Hey there, and welcome to the Chicago Sun-Times guided meditation for sleep. I’m your host, Neil Steinberg, and I’d like to invite you to get comfortable in a secure location. If you are driving your car, reading this on your …

Cornerback Nahshon Wright, whose strip of Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts on a “Tush Push” last week propelled the Bears to their best win of the season, was named NFC Defensive Player of the Month on Thursday. Wright intercepted three passes …

The Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday approved a $17.5 million settlement for a former student who was sexually abused by a former dean at a Little Village high school. It’s the largest settlement for a school sex abuse case …

Mount Carmel held on the top spot in the Super 25 from the beginning to the end of the season. This is the second consecutive year a team has pulled that off. Loyola did the same last year. Many fans …

One of the Loop’s oldest and busiest elevated stations is about to be out of commission for three years. The CTA State/Lake station is set to close Jan. 5 for demolition, city officials announced Thursday. The $444-million reconstruction project won’t …

No, Chance the Rapper won’t be reciting “You don’t want no problem, want no problem with me” from his 2016 hit “No Problem” on the CTA. But the Chicago rapper is lending his voice to something new. He is the …

The Bears got running back Kyle Monangai back out on the practice field Thursday, while receiver Rome Odunze remains out with an injury. The Bears said neither would have practiced in a theoretical session Wednesday, when they team merely issued …

The state has warned national rental car companies that federal immigration enforcement agents switching the vehicles’ assigned license plates with other plates violates Illinois law, and the firms ultimately could be held liable. Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias’ office …

Patrick Finley and Jason Liessr break down the Bears’ chances against the Packers, make their picks for Sunday’s game and examine the team’s playoff chances. New episodes of “Halas Intrigue” will be published regularly with accompanying stories collected on the podcast’s …

The Chicago Elite Classic is back for its 14th year. The annual early-season event at UIC’s Credit Union 1 Arena this weekend is bigger than ever with 13 games and 26 teams. Plus, the event features players at or near …

Chicago’s second straight budget stalemate is not about the City Council vs. Mayor Brandon Johnson, or left vs. centrist. It’s about Wall Street rating agencies and an almost certain downgrade in the city’s bond rating “if we don’t get this …

Please send scores and corrections to preps@suntimes.com. Schedule provided by Jack Gleason. Send schedule updates to hsbballjg@gmail.com. Thursday, December 4, 2025 BIG NORTHERN Rock Falls at Byron, 7:00 CENTRAL SUBURBAN – SOUTH New Trier at Maine South, 7:00 LAKE SHORE …

Justin Baren, a Chicago-area musician who as a teenager shot to the upper echelon of the music industry in the pop band the Redwalls, has died. The band announced his death Tuesday. Baren was 40. Martin Baren, his father, declined …

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is making one last effort to push a bill ensuring a legal pathway to citizenship for child immigrants through Congress before his upcoming retirement. Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, introduced the DREAM Act of …

From time to time, David Kaplan would be inspired to record what he called a “REKAP,” a video several minutes long in which he’d recap a game in his usual energetic tone and post it on Twitter. He didn’t benefit …