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With 30 days to break Chicago’s second straight budget stalemate, a small group of City Council moderates and conservatives are intensifying efforts to craft an alternate spending plan that does not include a corporate head tax. The plan they hope …

Ben Johnson has been clear-eyed and straightforward throughout his first season as Bears coach, especially with quarterback Caleb Williams. And while he’s seen a lot he’s liked so far, he spoke up Monday about one of his team’s biggest red …

Thanksgiving week proved lucrative for the Blackhawks at the box office. The Hawks sold out three times on their four-game homestand, announcing attendances of 20,411 against the Avalanche (Nov. 23), 18,933 against the Wild (Wednesday), 19,755 against the Predators (Friday) …

The son of drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera told his father’s former partner that his presence was needed for a meeting in Sinaloa, Mexico. He lured the co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel into a room where glass had …

The Civic Federation is shining a bright and unflattering light on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to declare a record $1 billion tax increment-financing surplus to rescue the city and Chicago Public Schools, stave off classroom cuts and help bankroll a …

The death of a 30-year-old man stabbed in Auburn Gresham last week has been ruled a homicide, police said.  Mario D. Frazier was stabbed in his neck with a sharp object by 30-year-old woman during an argument about 11:20 p.m. Nov. …

City officials raised the capacity limit at Daley Plaza’s Christkindlmarket by 1,000 people after organizers, vendors and patrons complained about a last-minute crowd restriction on the beloved holiday market. The new capacity limit of 2,553 at the market, which opened …

Una jueza federal ha publicado imágenes de casi cuatro docenas de cámaras corporales que muestran el uso de fuerza “sin precedentes” por parte de los agentes de inmigración durante su ofensiva de deportación que duró meses en el área de …

The Kane County state’s attorney’s office has made a website to provide updates on its prosecution of David Hanson, weeks after the Batavia chiropractor was arrested and accused of secretly recording his patients when they were undressing and being treated. …

Ben Johnson was six minutes into his introductory news conference as the Bears’ head coach when he turned his attention to the NFC North and its coaches. ‘‘[The Lions’] Dan Campbell, [the Vikings’] Kevin O’Connell — talk about two guys …

Michigan State has hired former Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald to lead its football program. The announcement on Monday comes a day after the Spartans fired Jonathan Smith two seasons into his seven-year contract. “Pat Fitzgerald is widely recognized as an …

Bears tight end Cole Kmet knows first-hand how intertwined the Bears and Packers have become. His father, Frank, spent brief stints with both teams in the 1990s, although he never played an NFL game. Kmet’s best friend — one who …

For the first time in more than two decades, Cook County has sworn in a new chief judge. Charles Beach took the oath of office Monday morning, just months after defeating eight-time incumbent Judge Timothy Evans to assume control of …

Chicago’s South Side residents now have access to a new sickle-cell treatment clinic at Roseland Community Hospital. On Monday, Roseland held a ribbon-cutting ceremony introducing Dr. Mahoud Mahafzah as the clinic’s board-certified hematologist-oncologist, six years after the clinic’s initial projected …

A former Chicago mental health counselor has been accused of abusing five boys, ages 7 to 14, when he worked at Hartgrove Behavioral Health Hospital, Cook County prosecutors announced Monday. The prosecutors have accused Edmund Rivers, 68, of sexually abusing …

Monsanto, once the largest makers of a now-banned class of chemicals, agreed to pay the state $120 million and potentially more, under a settlement announced by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul on Monday. Raoul sued Monsanto in 2022 alleging that …

The biggest games bring the best teams and players together to generate the high-interest storylines of a season. Here is a look at the 15 biggest and best high school basketball games this season. Loyola at DePaul Prep, Friday A …

ORLANDO, Fla. — Coach Billy Donovan described holding guard Coby White out Monday night as an “overabundance of caution.” But for White and the Bulls, it has to be a growing concern. After missing the first 11 games of the …

The year isn’t ending well for Mar–quee Sports Network. Two months after Comcast bumped it up to its most expensive programming tier, the network said Monday it will operate without a general manager. Diane Penny is out as GM after …

December is kicking off with several more inches of snow for the Chicago area just days after a record-breaking storm over the weekend marked the snowiest November day ever. Between 2 and 4 additional inches of snow will have fallen …