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Analyzing at the Bears with the help of 22 names, starting with … Dan Orlvosky (1), the ESPN analyst who came off the bench more than he started as an NFL quarterback. Just because the backup quarterback is the most …

Lawyers for the city and its largest police union faced off Thursday morning before the Illinois Supreme Court, arguing over the handling of disciplinary hearings for officers accused of egregious misconduct. The arguments marked the latest chapter of a yearslong …

The Bulls announced their local-TV broadcast plans for the season Thursday, including a rotation of analysts who will share the job of replacing the late Stacey King. Play-by-play voice Adam Amin will be joined by Kendall Gill, Robbie Hummel, Will …

Omar spent the morning like a lot of teenagers — browsing YouTube videos ranging on topics from tech to anime. Unlike most teens, though, he wasn’t swiping through the videos with his fingers. The 19-year-old, who has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, …

The City Council’s Finance Committee on Thursday approved New York investment firm Stonepeak Partners’ $2.53 billion bid to acquire Chicago parking meters, along with a compromise aimed at making the widely despised meter deal less onerous for taxpayers. “We were …

ARCADIA — Santa Anita is bringing a multi-race place bet back to its wagering menu for the fall meet that opens Friday, with a 15% takeout rate that’s lower than it was for the similar place bet at Del Mar …

ARCADIA — Maybe it was the bright sun rising over the Santa Anita grandstand that made people squint as they watched horses working out in the days before the start of the track’s fall racing season Friday. Or maybe trainers …

Late in the night, as one more fan shouted a request for Beck‘s first and best-known hit, the Los Angeles singer-songwriter gently teased him and anyone else who’d come to the Greek Theatre on Wednesday, Sept. 23 expecting that version …

By Kevin Hardy, Stateline.org Tens of thousands of Americans continue to lose access to food assistance each month, even as Congress debates slowing down major cuts to federal food stamps. New data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows more …

By MATTHEW BROWN Utah prosecutors are dropping their plan to seek the death penalty in an upcoming retrial of a Utah man who spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing in which newly analyzed DNA evidence did not …

Smoke from the 2025 Eaton fire sent toxic airborne contaminants soaring downwind, including lead levels up to 250 times above normal, but pollution returned to background levels within roughly six days after the flames were extinguished, according to findings from …

Two Republican candidates in closely watched U.S. Senate races are calling for President Trump’s war with Iran to end quickly after previously supporting his authority to continue it. U.S. Representative Ashley Hinson (R-IA), the Republican nominee for Senate in Iowa, …

Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume accused the Trump White House of appearing to defy a federal court order Thursday morning after reporters for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico remained locked out of the complex. “The WH has generally …

Decades after he was a fixture on American TV screens, the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen is back in a familiar place: the media spotlight. Tens of thousands of Catholic devotees are converging on St. Louis for a formal ceremony of …

The Blackhawks obtained a valuable bit of cost certainty in a very uncertain NHL salary-cap environment Thursday. Second-year forward Oliver Moore signed a five-year contract extension carrying a $4.25 million cap hit, which kicks in next summer after the final …

As more teams in the Catholic League shift toward spread offenses, St. Ignatius has stayed true to its triple-option attack under coach Matt Miller. The Wolfpack missed the IHSA playoffs each of the last two years, but Miller and his …

Miles de trabajadores de hoteles de Chicago podrían ir a la huelga en cualquier momento. Los miembros de Unite Here Local 1 votaron el lunes por la noche para autorizar una huelga; su contrato actual venció el 31 de agosto. …

His name is Connor Onion, but he won’t make you cry. If you’ve heard him broadcast games for Fox Sports, you already know that. What you might not know is that he could’ve been Connor O’Onion — pronounced O’Own-yun. “It …

By WILL WEISSERT WASHINGTON (AP) — A tech-heavy guest list, the fashion choices of those on it, who sits where, their body language throughout the night and what’s on the menu: these are the softer — often and glitzier — …

Vroman’s and Book Soup have been sold, the bookstores announced today. More than two years after the Southern California institutions went up for sale, the stores announced that Pasadena native Robert Hoffman and his family will be taking over the …