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Every year, with approximately 400 schools spread across the Chicago area, you’re bound to have many players who fly under the radar over the course of the season. As the high school basketball season tips off on Monday, it’s time …

The Chicago Transit Authority says it plans to buy up to 150 hybrid buses after receiving a $121 million federal grant this week. The Federal Transit Administration on Thursday announced $1.1 billion in awards through its Low or No Emission …

Crane basketball is ready to play the role of the overlooked sleeper, both in the city and throughout the state in Class 2A. “We feel like we can compete for a city and state title,” said coach Mekiel Posey, whose …

When Bret Bielema was in contract negotiations with Illinois before formally accepting the coaching job, someone thought it necessary to point out to him, “You know, we aren’t just trying to win six games and get to a bowl around …

She’s worked at multi-Michelin-starred restaurants and at renowned pastry shop Pierre Hermé in Paris. But when it comes to Thanksgiving desserts, pastry chef Leigh Omilinsky is all about comfort and familiarity. “I like anything that gives you that warm and …

The “best” is always going to be subjective. But it’s fun to dissect and debate. While there will be three-plus months worth of basketball to determine who is the best, here is a preseason “best of” primer to get the …

Rey was just doing his job — cleaning up a yard in Rogers Park one morning at the end of October — when a Black Jeep Wagoneer slowed down, a group of masked men jumped out, slapped on handcuffs and …

The Chicago Sun-Times is a media sponsor of the Studebaker Theater. Manual Cinema’s awe-inspiring, one-of-a-kind rendition of the Dickens classic returns to the Studebaker Theater this holiday season! Avowed holiday skeptic Aunt Trudy has been reluctantly recruited to carry on …

The story on Aaron Rodgers and the Bears, an all-time epic in football’s library, was written and finished late in 2022 when he walked out of Soldier Field as a Packer for the last time. Anything after that would be …

An Indiana hospital fired a doctor and a nurse after the hospital discharged a pregnant woman who minutes later gave birth in her car, the hospital’s president and CEO confirmed. A video of the incident on social media shows Mercedes …

When Chicago Urban Leauge President and CEO Karen Freeman-Wilson’s colleague told her the organization should respond to Walmart’s request for proposals to redevelop its Chatham site, Freeman-Wilson remembers balking at the idea. “I’m like, ‘That big superstore?’” Freeman-Wilson said. But …

Congress’ “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which passed last summer, could prove to be far more damaging to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Illinois than most people know. A SNAP “death penalty” is built into the budget reconciliation law. …

The White Sox announced Friday that they signed outfielder Derek Hill to a one-year, $900,000 contract and non-tendered left-hander Cam Booser, first baseman Tim Elko and right fielder Mike Tauchman. Tauchman being non-tendered was surprising because he was one of …

After more than a century of teaching brewers from around the world, the Siebel Institute of Technology announced Thursday it’s leaving Chicago for Montreal. The school said in a news release the move aligns “with the changing dynamics of the …

The Cubs tendered contracts to half their arbitration-eligible players before the deadline Friday, promising deals to left-hander Justin Steele and right-hander Javier Assad for 2026. They non-tendered catcher Reese McGuire and reliever Eli Morgan, making them free agents. All four …

New details about the case involving an alleged $10,000 bounty on the head of U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino have been revealed in a freshly unsealed court document, including text messages the feds say show a street gang’s response …

Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the Rev. Jesse Jackson at a downtown Chicago hospital Friday, days after he was moved out of the intensive care unit. The longtime civil rights activist and founder …

A federal judge has issued a blistering review of immigration agents’ use of force during “Operation Midway Blitz,” offering new insight into the aggressive deportation campaign that’s torn through Chicago area neighborhoods. U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis’ found examples of …

Horace Grant’s wife at the time was pregnant and needed to go to the doctor. But accompanying her there would require missing a practice, so he called then-Bulls assistant Johnny Bach. Grant remembered telling Bach he would have to miss …

One flip of a switch in Millennium Park Friday night turned a Glenview family’s front-yard spruce into this year’s symbol of Christmas in downtown Chicago. In one moment, more than 39,000 feet of lights wrapping the 68-foot Norwegian evergreen came …