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The lone fatality in a burst of overnight weekend violence from Saturday night through early Sunday has been identified. Stephon Jacobs, 16, was gunned down in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood. He was found lying in a hallway of a …

A man was killed and three other men were injured in a drive-by shooting Monday evening in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side, according to Chicago police. They were on a sidewalk around 7:25 p.m. in the first block …

Good morning, Chicago. ✶ 🔎 Below: City and state laws to prevent buses and other vehicles from idling and spewing fumes into the air are almost never enforced, despite the problem occurring “every day, every block.” 🗞️ Plus: A memorial …

The city is opening 12 cooling centers from Tuesday through Thursday in anticipation of hot and humid weather that could reach above 90 degrees in Chicago. Tuesday’s high temperature is forecast at 86 degrees. Wednesday is forecast to be the …

Alyssa Gonzalez waited more than two hours in line to fill up her tank, drawn by gas prices so low they haven’t been seen in the Chicago area in years. Gonzalez was one of hundreds who lined up at an …

In spring training, White Sox outfield prospect Braden Montgomery already had baseball immortality in his sights. ‘‘My overall goal is to make the Hall of Fame,’’ Montgomery told the Sun-Times on March 1. ‘‘I’ll take it a game at a …

Cientos de personas montaron en sus bicicletas el lunes por la noche y recorrieron Bridgeport para honrar a Riley O’Neil, un empleado de la Municipalidad y defensor de mejoras a la seguridad vial, quien fue atropellado de forma fatal por …

Bears quarterback Caleb Williams‘ compelling 2025 season led to a top-10 finish in merchandise sales, according to the NFLPA’s rankings released Tuesday. Williams finished No. 8 in total sales, including jerseys, t-shirts and other items, over a 12-month span ending …

The outpouring of emotions and tributes in the wake of Bulls broadcaster – and former championship player – Stacey King, 59, dying over the weekend, continued days later and became much more personal on Tuesday. In a statement released through …

An Amazon employee remains behind bars Tuesday, accused of fatally shooting his co-worker in the parking lot of the Melrose Park facility where they worked. Authorities were led to Quentin Williams, 20, after a license plate reader snapped a picture …

Disneyland plans to rebuild a train station building in New Orleans Square more than three years after the employee breakroom was severely damaged in an after-hours fire during the busy Christmas holiday season. Disneyland has been issued a permit by …

By MICHAEL CASEY, R.J. RICO and CHARLOTTE KRAMON ATLANTA (AP) — Just a mile from Atlanta’s stadium, which will welcome tens of thousands of fans to World Cup games this month, dozens of people were camped out on a downtown …

By JAMES ROBSON, AP Soccer Writer The wait is over for the biggest World Cup ever with 48 teams, 104 matches, three host nations and a slew of questions and controversies swirling around the highly scrutinzed event that will last …

By MATTHEW PERRONE, AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators on Tuesday signed off on the first new sunscreen ingredient for the U.S. market in more than 25 years, giving Americans access to a skin-protecting chemical long used …

They won’t be flying to the moon, but will be paving the way. NASA announced today the four astronauts assigned to Artemis III, a mission targeting launch from Kennedy Space Center next year. “So you want to find out who …

The vote counts have finally solidified in the nationally watched race for Los Angeles mayor, and projections suggest that Mayor Karen Bass will face off against Councilmember Nithya Raman in the November general election. Anyone familiar with the city’s overwhelmingly Democratic voter-registration …

By SAM McNEIL and SYLVIE CORBET PARIS (AP) — A coalition of six countries on Tuesday issued new joint sanctions on Israeli settlers and settlements in the West Bank, including a hard-line Israeli cabinet minister already sanctioned by Western countries, …

PLAYER OF THE YEAR James Tronstein, Harvard-Westlake, Sr. Harvard-Westlake baseball coach Jared Halpert summed it up pretty well this past spring when talking about senior standout James Tronstein. “When you talk about the Mount Rushmore of players that’ve come through …

Call it President Trump’s “credibility gap.” That’s a phrase used for President Lyndon Johnson prevaricating on the Vietnam War. Trump’s gap got wider during his Sunday interview with Kristen Welker on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” held in a Wisconsin …

By STEPHEN HAWKINS, AP Sports Writer Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby has won a temporary injunction against the NCAA that allows him to remain eligible even after he acknowledged making thousands of impermissible bets worth at least $90,000 on college …