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Even as the Bears do everything they can to beat the Lions on Sunday and finalize their hold on the No. 2 playoff seed in the NFC, they probably won’t have top wide receiver Rome Odunze back until the playoffs. …

Jayden Wright started for Benet’s Class 4A state championship team last season and was one of the best players in the title game. The senior is a well-known and respected player in the area but over the past month he’s …

DePaul Prep’s vaunted team defense did the job from start to finish in a 50-36 win against New Trier in the 94th Pontiac Holiday Tournament semifinals on Wednesday. The Rams held Danny Houlihan, the Trevians’ smooth-shooting senior, to six points. …

Gentry Hunt stared at the sky while first responders stanched the bleeding from his gunshot wound. Moments earlier, he was shot when gunfire broke out Sunday afternoon near St. Sabina Church in Auburn Gresham. One thought ran through his mind: …

Bulls coach Billy Donovan takes a day-to-day view about what’s going on with the team. For him, that means doing whatever he can to try to win games with whichever players he might or might not have available. That’s where …

There was a lot of talk coming from the Bulls‘ locker room in the last 24 hours about that “next-man-up mentality,” and on Wednesday, coach Billy Donovan showed who those next men up would be and what they could do. …

PONTIAC, Ill.—It’s impossible to fully understand and appreciate the Pontiac Holiday Tournament from outside of Pontiac. Sixteen teams from around the state take over a small central Illinois town and for three days the entire focus of the community is …

Moon Alert There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The moon is in Gemini. Happy New Year! Aries (March 21-April 19) An average day Even though you might be seized with New Year’s resolutions, relax and take …

As viewers watched from coast to coast, Chance the Rapper poured all of his usual gusto into launching a new tradition Wednesday night, showing the nation how Chicago welcomes the dawn of another year. The hometown emcee served as Midwest …

DEAR READERS: Welcome to 2026! A New Year has arrived; the last one is safely behind us. As always, this New Year brings with it our hopes for a new beginning. Today presents an opportunity to discard destructive old habits …

Chicago faces — and braces — for another new year. What will 2026 bring architecturally? Here’s my annual look at the year ahead. The centerpiece of the Obama Presidential Center will be the 225-foot museum tower. Zubaer Khan/Sun-Times The Obama …

The start of a new year usually brings new motivation to achieve goals like eating healthier or finally cleaning your basement. Many resolutions also focus on financial goals, such as paying off credit card debt, saving for a new house, …

In a year when President Donald Trump called Chicago the “most dangerous city in the world” and launched an aggressive deportation campaign, citywide killings ultimately fell to a 60-year low as overall crime continued to drop. The number of murders …

In the final weeks of the 2025 season, Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner didn’t quite shrug off the feat of being in the running for the batting title, but he approached the conversation with a broader context in mind. “It’s …

A 38-year-old woman died Thursday morning after an SUV struck a pole at about 5:01 a.m. in the East Side neighborhood, according to the Chicago Police Department. The driver fled the scene, police said. A gray GMC SUV was traveling …

The Sun-Times’ Bears experts make their picks for the regular season finale Sunday against the Lions at Soldier Field (3:25 p.m., Fox 32): Patrick Finley Bears, 28-24: Since the start of the Matt Eberflus era, the Bears have beaten the …

Billy Donovan describes him as an “old school” point guard. Fitting, because it also matches Tre Jones’ soul. The Bulls reserve, turned temporary starter, comes across as the oldest sounding 25-year-old in the NBA. A mix of being humble, Minnesota …

Bears wide receiver Rome Odunze hasn’t played in a game since Nov. 28 — and doesn’t figure to on Sunday, either. Odunze was one of three players who didn’t practice Thursday. Guard Jonah Jackson sat out with an illness one week …

Patrick Finley and Jason Lieser break down what’s at stake for the Bears on Sunday — and when the playoffs begin. New episodes of “Halas Intrigue” will be published regularly with accompanying stories collected on the podcast’s hub page. You can …

Investigators with the Cook County Sheriff’s Police Organized Retail Crime Unit recovered more than $2 million worth of stolen merchandise from a warehouse in Oak Forest, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday. Police received information about a stolen cargo …