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Jim Tinaglia was tending bar in the northwest suburbs when the 1985 Chicago Bears shuffled to their Super Bowl title. Tinaglia hopes the team’s next championship run comes while he’s in the mayor’s office in Arlington Heights — and with …

Last year was rough for Rose Hanks: The Navy veteran and her children struggled to find steady housing and ended up homeless for six months. “I’d tell anybody that 2024 was one of the worst years of my life,” said …

While I was attending Georgetown Law School, my wife and I were blessed with a little baby girl, who was born with a serious heart defect. We had no health insurance. I rushed to Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., …

DEAR ABBY: I’m a 23-year-old college student struggling to find direction in life. I’ve been trying to find a part-time job and an internship, but I have had no success. This leaves me increasingly anxious, especially as my parents, who …

Chicago’s traffic stop policy is broken. What once manifested as stop-and-frisk has evolved into an overwhelming surge in violent traffic stops — especially “pretextual” ones. These are stops where drivers are pulled over for a minor infraction like a broken …

When word surfaced in February that prosecutors might be in plea talks with state Sen. Emil Jones III, it seemed the longtime legislator might follow the lead of so many colleagues who faced federal criminal charges. Resign from the Legislature, …

Besides the new buds popping up in gardens and parks throughout the Chicago area, another sign of spring is an active music calendar. Here are April highlights at the area’s small and mid-size clubs: Krasno Moore Project will perform at …

Old-school methods would have worked better than modern technology for young Blackhawks forward Lukas Reichel on Friday in Washington. Reichel forgot to bring his phone charger on the one-day trip, and his phone battery died while he slept. With no …

A 5-year-old girl was among two people burned early Monday in a residential fire in Woodlawn on the South Side. The fire broke out around 1 a.m. in the 6400 block of South Maryland Avenue injuring the girl and a …

A man who went back inside a burning Englewood home to retrieve personal items died Saturday. Sometime before noon Saturday, firefighters responded to the blaze at a coach house in the 5700 block of South Princeton Avenue, according to the …

Chicago gynecologist Nicole Williams landed in Uganda Jan. 20, the day of President Donald Trump’s inauguration. She was heading to the East African nation on a Fulbright scholarship — a longstanding international exchange program that connects Americans to the world …

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 …

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

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 separate woman in Logan Square earlier this year, as well as two more women in crimes dating back to 2022 on the Northwest Side neighborhood and in Lake View. Chakib Mansour …

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 …