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Before leading the Bears in his trademark “Good, Better, Best” cheer to celebrate the team’s 10th win, head coach Ben Johnson handed out two game balls. The first went to linebacker D’Marco Jackson, whose third-quarter interception started a run of …

Matas Buzelis, who added 10 pounds of muscle in the offseason, has had to guard bigger forwards. The added bulk has helped him endure the contact and dish out some of his own. But as the Bulls tinker with lineup …

No changes at all this week in the top 13 teams of the Super 25. Kankakee gave DePaul Prep a solid challenge on Sunday night in the Team Rose Shootout at Mount Carmel to solidify its hold on the No. …

The preseason No. 1 ranking is a fun bit of hype for the school that picks it up and fans enjoy debating the merits of the top-ranked team for a few weeks. But it is a meaningless designation that doesn’t …

LOS ANGELES — Director-actor Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were the two people found dead Sunday at a Los Angeles home owned by Reiner, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation. The official could not publicly …

Benet senior forward Emma Briggs was forced into expanding her unique game. She plays the post for the Redwings by virtue of being taller than most of her peers. But Briggs spends the summer playing with the Great Britain national …

Moon Alert There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The moon is in Scorpio. Aries (March 21-April 19) An average day Today, your ruler Mars has moved to the top of your chart, arousing your ambition, which …

As a few hundred people gathered in a Chicago park last month for a rally against aggressive and rampant immigration enforcement, a group of teenagers were busy selling maroon tote bags and hoodies emblazoned with “I support undocumented students.” The …

A 14-year-old girl from Chicago was killed Saturday morning in a car crash on a Springfield highway. The girl, whose name has not been released, was the passenger in a car involved in a multi-vehicle crash on I-55, according to …

Browns edge rusher Myles Garrett had 1½ sacks, moving him within one sack of tying the NFL’s single-season record. The Giants’ Michael Strahan and the Steelers’ T.J. Watt share the record, with 22½. Strahan set the mark in 2001, and …

A 14-year-old boy was shot in the foot while walking in Roseland early Sunday, Chicago police said. The teen was in the 100 block of West 95th Street when he felt “numbness in his foot” around 3:50 a.m., police said. …

About two hours before Sunday’s kickoff, Patrick Vanier grilled chicken wings and Polish sausage with his family at the Waldron Deck lot outside Soldier Field. The temperature was 5 degrees. Vanier, who lives in Hammond, Indiana, took the train up …

Lights, camera, fashion! Chicago may not come to mind when it comes to fashion capitals, but the inaugural Chicago Fashion Awards Saturday honored scores of emerging and established “creatives pushing the city’s culture forward,” showing that creators and artists don’t …

Man, it was cold Sunday at Soldier Field. How cold? So cold, surrounding trees chopped themselves into firewood. Fans in the stands chipped their teeth on Italian sausages. Punts froze in midair. Way too cold for the Bears to be …

SYDNEY — Two gunmen opened fire during a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi beach, killing 15 people, including a child, officials said Monday, in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an act of antisemitic terrorism that struck at the heart …

“A people still, whose common ties are gone; Who, mix’d with every race, are lost in none.”— George Crabbe You can shave your beard, move to Australia — or your grandparents could, permitting you to party on a New South …

What marks do the Bears get after their 31-3 beatdown of the Browns at Soldier Field? QUARTERBACK — A-MINUS Against an opponent as unlikely to score as the Browns are, you gladly take the bad with the good with Caleb …

Bears cornerback C.J. Gardner-Johnson was asked about rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders and looked down at a pretend watch on his right wrist. “It’s about time he ran into some problems,” he said after Sunday’s 31-3 win over the Browns. “He’s …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The final images of the Kansas City Chiefs’ postseason pursuit were Patrick Mahomes getting helped to the locker room with what turned out to be a torn ACL in his left knee, a white towel draped …

DJ Moore was surprised Caleb Williams even tried to throw the ball. The Bears quarterback faked a handoff and rolled right in the third quarter of what would become a 31-3 win against the lowly Browns on Sunday at Soldier …