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A portion of Milwaukee Avenue is closing Monday as a roughly six week improvement project gets underway, transportation officials announced. Starting Monday, Milwaukee Avenue will be restricted to local traffic only between Chicago Avenue and Kinzie Street with one lane …

A man was fatally struck by a pickup truck early Monday causing hourslong lane closures and major delays on DuSable Lake Shore Drive near the Museum Campus. Around 5:10 a.m., the man, 72, was standing in the median in the …

DETROIT — It was the first day of White Sox spring training and Jonathan Cannon was struggling with his changeup. The right-hander, who threw 339 changeups last year, couldn’t find the right feel for it and was spraying it. He …

Baseball and fishing, talk about heaven, especially when a 40-pound flathead catfish is included. Jim Hall was in Louisville, Kentucky, for son Nik Hall’s Brother Rice baseball games last week when, boom. “Whenever I travel for his baseball games, I …

I’ve never been one to excel at visual art-making. I’m pretty sure my mother built most of a miniature castle I turned in for an elementary school assignment. In junior high, I enlisted the help of my sister to do …

Amtrak has restored its Hiawatha train service between Chicago and Milwaukee after busing passengers for nearly two weeks while “corrosion” issues caused a shortage of railcars. The rail agency began running the Hiawatha line without bus substitution on Friday after …

Authorities have charged a man with sexually assaulting three women in Logan Square this year, as well as two more women in crimes dating back to 2022 in the Northwest Side neighborhood and in Lake View. Chakib Mansour Khodja, 36, …

Danny Solís ha sido llamado la “prueba A” en el mundo de la corrupción. Se le ha etiquetado como un “gran evasor de impuestos” y un “tumor maligno”. Pero también se le ha descrito como un “micrófono andante” y uno …

Con lágrimas en los ojos, un venezolano enfermo comentó que fue un momento hermoso reencontrarse con su hermano, quien viajó a Estados Unidos para donar un riñón para salvarle la vida, sólo para ser detenido por funcionarios de inmigración. Tras …

Former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun has been elected board chair of The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, the museum announced Monday. “As the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Senate, Carol Moseley Braun has a …

The WNBA will finally be able to welcome Paige Bueckers to the league. The versatile UConn standout is the odds-on favorite to become the No. 1 overall pick by the Dallas Wings. She spent five years at Connecticut after being …

Silverio, el álter ego con el que el músico y productor de origen argentino y que reside en México, Julián Lede se ha dedicado a mostrar el lado más punk de la música, regresa a Chicago. “Verán todo y más”, …

Those interested in the Chicago Park District’s summer camp programs are now able to view the programs online, ahead of the registration period starting next week. The programs, which will include sports, fitness and arts programs, are available to see …

CLEVELAND — Bulls point guard Josh Giddey might be one of the more self-aware players in the NBA. Then again, sitting with your own negative thoughts for 15 hours on a flight back to Australia — on top of finding …

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are careening through a manic Monday after President Donald Trump threatened to crank his tariffs higher, despite a stunning display from Wall Street showing how dearly it wants him to do the opposite. The …

The next time Carlos Burruel and Scotty McKinney cross paths, feelings of pain and anxiety will be replaced with gratitude and relief. The two technically “met” around 2:40 a.m. Wednesday as McKinney pulled Burruel to safety after he was struck …

On the day they reported to Halas Hall to begin the offseason program, the Bears re-signed four exclusive rights free agents and gave defensive tackle Chris Williams, a restricted free agent, a contract Monday. Defensive end Daniel Hardy, who played …

City Council members voted to add Cook County Commissioner Anthony Quezada to their ranks Monday, approving the first aldermanic appointment of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s tenure — but not without an unusually large show of opposition for an administration’s pick to …

On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of patriotic Americans all over the country participated in the “Hands Off” protests and demonstrated against the Trump administration’s authoritarian tendencies and ill thought-out economic plans that are hurting people. There were reportedly 30,000 people …

Richard Music’s son Matthew, 11, bagged a massive 28.4-pound gobbler on opening morning, March 29, of the first youth spring turkey season in McHenry County. “Yes sir, biggest I’ve ever seen in 30 years of hunting,” Music replied. “Leave it …