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Gregory Bovino, the U.S. Border Patrol official who has led the Trump administration’s deportation efforts, returned to the Chicago area Tuesday with federal agents in tow, targeting immigrants on the Southwest Side and in the west suburbs a month after …

La Universidad DePaul anunció el lunes que despidió a 114 empleados para atender un déficit presupuestario causado por el aumento de costos y una significativa caída en la inscripción de estudiantes internacionales de posgrado. En una carta al personal, la …

The Illinois High School Association state football playoffs will expand by 128 teams next season. IHSA schools voted in favor of adding 16 teams to each of the eight playoff classes. There were previously 32 teams in the playoffs in …

Illinois is running out of power. That’s the word from state analysts trying to figure out whether there are enough sources of electricity to keep the lights on in the coming years. The outlook is bleak, according to a just-released …

A woman is dead and a man is in custody after an early Tuesday morning domestic disturbance call in the 100 block of Roselle Road, Schaumburg police officials said. Officers responded to the area just before 5:30 a.m. and found …

An emboldened City Council majority made a clean break with Mayor Brandon Johnson Tuesday, advancing its own plan to balance the 2026 proposed budget without a corporate head tax, but with a revenue mix that includes a surprise 50% increase …

The Bears can clinch a playoff berth this weekend. If they beat the Packers on Saturday night, they’d need the Lions to lose or tie against the Steelers at 3:25 p.m. Sunday in order to clinch a postseason spot. If …

TORONTO — Blackhawks coach Jeff Blashill chewed out rookie defenseman Artyom Levshunov during practice Monday in Chicago, then took him out of the lineup Tuesday against the Maple Leafs. Blashill’s eruption was prompted by Levshunov absentmindedly missing his turn through a …

After struggling to start fast the week before, Caleb Williams was so good in the first quarter Sunday that Bears coach Ben Johnson asked his quarterback what he had for breakfast. The answer: Williams’ typical iced matcha green tea plus …

A medida que cientos de personas se reunieron el mes pasado en un parque de Chicago para un mitin contra la enforcement agresiva de la inmigración, un grupo de adolescentes estaba ocupado vendiendo bolsas de tela color burdeos y sudaderas …

Chicago’s cultural chief says one of her priorities is to deliver arts to Chicagoans where they live. Acting cultural commissioner Kenya Merritt said Monday she plans to steer more city grant funding to the department’s Neighborhood Access Program to bolster …

Chicago isn’t ready to let go of its feel good story of the year. The Leo High School choir, which captured hearts while placing fourth on “America’s Got Talent” in September, is booking gigs around town at an unparalleled clip …

The Oak Park village board has granted landmark status to a 96-year-old commercial building that was the first built-from-the-ground-up Marshall Field’s store outside of Chicago. The five-story structure, 1144 Lake St., in the village’s downtown was cited for its connection …

Coby White was telling his bosses what they are. Sure, the guard dressed it up with a cute little nickname of “Cardiac Bulls,” referring to an all too familiar pattern of falling behind early and having to come back to …

The Cubs are set to bring back a key component to their bullpen success last year. They are in agreement with left-handed reliever Caleb Thielbar on a one-year deal, a source confirmed Tuesday. The terms of the contract, which is …

Bears coach Ben Johnson has seen the Packers defense without Micah Parsons. So has quarterback Caleb Williams. Both have a sense, then, of what their rival will look like Saturday without the star edge rusher, who tore his ACL Sunday …

When “Manual Cinema’s Christmas Carol” debuted in 2020, we were throttled in the maw of a pandemic that turned the world into a hellscape. But as the year entered its final weeks, Manual Cinema’s intimate, intricate, livestreamed, puppet-centric take on …

Gov. JB Pritzker signed legislation pumping $1.5 billion per year into Chicago-area transit agencies and instituting a new oversight system, ending years of debate over how to govern and finance the CTA, Metra and Pace as they struggle to bounce …

In March 2023, Rocio Lasso said she received a phone call “no one awaits.” The call that her son, Chicago police Officer Andres Vasquez Lasso, had been killed in the line of duty. “Receiving that phone call tears your heart …

A Chicago police officer has alleged that another officer sexually assaulted her Friday morning after they attended a Christmas party with other cops assigned to their Southwest Side police district. Officers responded Friday afternoon to Trinity Hospital, where a nurse …