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What’s the biggest thing about Bears quarterback Caleb Williams that needs to get better? That question led off this week’s “Polling Place,” your home for Sun-Times sports polls on the social platform X. “It’s his inability to read the field …

Two of the three big contract extensions on the Blackhawks‘ immediate radar have now been sorted out. Goalie Spencer Knight signed a new three-year contract Saturday that will kick in next summer, after he completes the final year of the …

A turbulent season has ended, and the Sky’s heavy hitters — Angel Reese, Courtney Vandersloot and Ariel Atkins — still have to give their exit interviews. But other key players spoke on Friday. Here’s what we learned about where they’re …

Monday night’s Vikings comeback was as much about the run game as it was quarterback J.J. McCarthy. Take out the three rushes when the Vikings were trying to run out the clock, and the Bears gave up 77 rushing yards …

An infant girl died Saturday after she was pulled from Lake Michigan at 57th Street Beach in Woodlawn. Officials responded about 11:20 a.m. to the beach in the 5700 block of South DuSable Lake Shore Drive and recovered the child …

Family members, elected officials and community residents called Saturday for the release of Willian Gimenez, a day laborer involved in a lawsuit that accuses off-duty police officers of ethnically motivated harassment and assault. Gimenez, who is from Venezuela, was detained …

A man fatally shot by federal immigration agents on Friday in Franklin Park had dropped off his child at school minutes before he was shot. That’s according to U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., who spoke at a news conference Saturday …

Anthony Rizzo isn’t at first base for the Cubs anymore. So it’s OK that he missed a catch in the second inning Saturday. Improbably, as Rizzo took in the Cubs’ 5-4 loss from the Wrigley Field bleachers, he nearly caught …

St. Patrick has qualified for the state playoffs just once in the past 10 seasons. This season, new coach Tom Zbikowski, the former Notre Dame star and NFL player, arrived to turn things around. The Shamrocks dominated Leo 42-8 on …

Morgan Park coach Chris James is taking a page from Troy McAllister’s playbook. In 2015, McAllister was coaching at Phillips and moved his best athlete, Quayvon Skanes, to quarterback. The Wildcats went 14-0 and became the first Public League team …

At least a dozen people used six stolen cars to coordinate a smash-and-grab burglary of a luxury fashion store on the Magnificent Mile that resulted in a getaway driver striking and killing a Skokie man on his way to work, …

Expectations in Wrigleyville weren’t a thing when Anthony Rizzo arrived for his major-league debut. “I came up on a really bad team,” Rizzo recounted Saturday, as the Cubs celebrated his retirement. That Cubs squad, in the darkest days of Theo …

Police are investigating a woman’s death after her body was recovered from Lake Michigan on Saturday afternoon in Jackson Park. The 31-year-old was pulled from the water about 2:20 p.m. in the 6300 block of East Hayes Drive, Chicago police …

CLEVELAND — For right-hander Mike Vasil, this season has been about embracing the unknown. He joined the White Sox after spring training, when the club claimed him from the Rays. Joining the Sox as the season was starting made for …

At a Saturday morning art class in Pilsen, young students had the freedom to indulge their imagination, celebrate their culture and express their personal style. Wearing glasses and pink and yellow nail polish, Nora Wallace, 12, focused on perfecting the …

Cicero police are asking the public’s help in locating two people possibly connected to the strangulation of a man last month. Officers conducted a well-being check Aug. 28 for a 40-year-old man at a home in the 2800 block of …

An Evergreen Park man has been charged with robbery after allegedly stealing a bag of money from a Brinks armored guard, prompting the guard to shoot the man Wednesday morning in the Loop. The guard had picked up a bag …

Death investigations are underway after a woman and two children were pulled from Lake Michigan on Saturday on the South Side. Chicago police said the incidents “appear to stem from a domestic dispute.” Around 11:20 a.m., officials pulled an infant …

CLEVELAND — There’s something about this place that makes the White Sox’ offense wilt. The Sox had more hits — eight — than in the series opener, but they lost 3-1 to the Guardians at Progressive Field on Saturday, snapping …

A man was stabbed during a fight Saturday on a CTA Red Line train in Fuller Park. The 26-year-old man was arguing with another man just before 7:30 p.m. on the train in the 200 block of West 47th Street, …