The state has warned national rental car companies that federal immigration enforcement agents switching the vehicles’ assigned license plates with other plates violates Illinois law, and the firms ultimately could be held liable. Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias’ office …
License-plate tampering a no-no, Illinois warns fed immigration agents, car rental agencies Read MorePatrick Finley and Jason Liessr break down the Bears’ chances against the Packers, make their picks for Sunday’s game and examine the team’s playoff chances. New episodes of “Halas Intrigue” will be published regularly with accompanying stories collected on the podcast’s …
Halas Intrigue Bears podcast: It’s Packers Week! Read MoreThe Chicago Elite Classic is back for its 14th year. The annual early-season event at UIC’s Credit Union 1 Arena this weekend is bigger than ever with 13 games and 26 teams. Plus, the event features players at or near …
Previewing the Chicago Elite Classic Read MoreChicago’s second straight budget stalemate is not about the City Council vs. Mayor Brandon Johnson, or left vs. centrist. It’s about Wall Street rating agencies and an almost certain downgrade in the city’s bond rating “if we don’t get this …
Chicago headed for a bond rating drop if City Hall doesn’t get budget right, Civic Fed president says Read MorePlease send scores and corrections to preps@suntimes.com. Schedule provided by Jack Gleason. Send schedule updates to hsbballjg@gmail.com. Thursday, December 4, 2025 RED CENTRAL Hyde Park 64, Englewood 32 Phillips 63, Perspectives-MS 57 Kenwood at Dyett, 6:30 RED NORTH Lane 72, …
Thursday’s high school basketball scores and schedule Read MoreJustin Baren, a Chicago-area musician who as a teenager shot to the upper echelon of the music industry in the pop band the Redwalls, has died. The band announced his death Tuesday. Baren was 40. Martin Baren, his father, declined …
Redwalls vocalist and bassist Justin Baren dies at 40 Read MoreU.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is making one last effort to push a bill ensuring a legal pathway to citizenship for child immigrants through Congress before his upcoming retirement. Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, introduced the Development Relief and …
Durbin reintroduces DREAM Act in hopes of paving citizenship pathway for child immigrants Read MoreFrom time to time, David Kaplan would be inspired to record what he called a “REKAP,” a video several minutes long in which he’d recap a game in his usual energetic tone and post it on Twitter. He didn’t benefit …
The rise of The REKAP, with David Kaplan and Ryan McGuffey — nearly a quarter of a million served Read MoreOne of the three men killed while standing outside the scene of a three-vehicle crash in West Pullman early Wednesday was described as a loving person “who brought joy and laughter to everyone around him.” Ruben Lujano, whose age wasn’t …
2 of 3 killed in I-57 crashes in West Pullman identified Read MoreBears safety Jaquan Brisker is on a text thread with a few of his former Penn State teammates, including star edge rusher Micah Parsons. During training camp, after Parsons requested a trade from the Cowboys, Brisker playfully lobbied via text …
Bears have their ‘hands full’ with Micah Parsons, whose presence on Packers changed NFC North Read MoreIt looked like the great collective-bargaining agreement war was ending. Months of terse negotiations had gone quiet. The players’ union and the league extended their bargaining deadline without trading public insults. Then a surprising proposal from the league leaked: They …
Battle to define revenue sharing in the WNBA continues Read MoreMayor Brandon Johnson’s administration on Thursday delivered a pointed rebuttal to sharply higher taxes and fees for garbage collection, off-premise liquor sales and rides on Uber and Lyft proposed by a City Council majority determined to avoid the mayor’s proposed …
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration shoots down Council members’ alternate budget ideas Read MoreNEW YORK (AP) — The first full-length book by Pope Leo XIV to come out in the U.S. will be published next year. HarperOne announced Wednesday that it had acquired world rights to “Peace Be With You! My Words to …
Pope Leo XIV’s first full-length U.S. book, ‘Peace Be With You,’ to be released in February Read MoreLOS ANGELES — The day Blackhawks forward prospect Roman Kantserov will finally move from Russia to America is approaching. In the meantime, Kantserov continues to elevate his stock. The 21-year-old winger leads the KHL, arguably the second-best league in the world, …
Blackhawks prospect updates: Roman Kantserov showing ‘bulldog mentality’ in Russia as NHL arrival nears Read MoreWatching Kobe Bryant play at the Staples Center in Los Angeles was always a bucket-list item for me. I moved to L.A. in 2013 for school eager for the opportunity. I never got the chance. Kobe missed most of that …
Review: ‘Elf the Musical’ falls short of capturing the magic of the movie Read MoreFederal prosecutors in Chicago are being asked to turn over “White House communications” by attorneys defending six people — including four Democratic politicians — charged with a conspiracy tied to protests outside an immigration holding facility in Broadview. A defense …
Broadview conspiracy defendants want to see if White House played a role in their case Read MoreThousands of lower-income residents in the Chicago area will be eligible for new discounts on their electric bills starting next year as energy costs soar. ComEd will roll out a low-income discount program starting Jan. 1 for households with incomes …
New ComEd discounts set to take effect for lower-income residents as power bills surge Read MoreA Justice Department lawyer warned Thursday that it’s “wrong” to assume the deportation campaign that hit Chicago this fall is over, even though U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and others have left town for other cities. With a judge …
DOJ lawyer warns deportation campaign is not over as judge considers lawsuit’s dismissal Read MoreFormer Cubs director of pitching Ryan Otero is leaving the organization to join the Red Sox as a special assistant to the chief baseball officer, league sources told the Sun-Times. Tyler Zombro, who for the past year served as a …
Cubs pitching director Ryan Otero joins Red Sox; Tyler Zombro steps into larger role Read MoreAs the Bears try to get their passing game off the ground, they have a perennial 1,000-yard wide receiver in DJ Moore ready to explode. Not in a bad way like the Eagles’ A.J. Brown has done amid their struggles, …
Bears WR DJ Moore can boost offense, but when it comes to dip in numbers, ‘my stats are in the win column’ Read More