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4+ min ago (676+ words) Benet senior forward Emma Briggs had a little extra incentive to play well. The Furman commit was celebrating her 17th'birthday. "I brought extra energy," Briggs said. "I definitely want to play really well on my birthday, especially because it is senior year. "I don't know if that made an impact, but it definitely energized me, gave me more motivation. But every game has to be the best that I can play." The 6-foot Briggs was definitely at her best on what can be called her super 17th. She recorded a career-high 26 points, a team-high nine rebounds and a game-high four steals to lift the Redwings to a 44-32 victory over St. Ignatius at Fremd's Dave Yates Chicagoland Showcase in Palatine on Saturday. "She was the birthday beast today," Benet coach Joe Kilbride said. "We really needed her. We were just struggling." Indeed,…...

15+ min ago (688+ words) Months after Chicago firefighters discovered a'North Lawndale man dismembered'inside his burning home, authorities have charged the man's live-in caretaker with shooting the man to death, trying to cut his body into pieces and setting fire to the home they shared to conceal his killing. In the days following Michael Lipford's March 7 death, prosecutors alleged that the caretaker, DeParris Slaughter, searched the internet querying, among other things, whether death is painful and what the best knife was to cut through a human arm. "I'd been praying for this for a long time," said Evelyn Moss, a sibling of Lipford. "I thought it was going to be a cold case." Read the full story from the Tribune's Caroline Kubzansky. Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett launched a campaign yesterday for the U.S. Senate in Texas, bringing a national profile to a race that may be…...

23+ min ago (30+ words) The Federal Transit Administration is demanding that the CTA take immediate action to improve safety or risk losing funding. Federal Transit Administration threatens funding if CTA does not improve security...

24+ min ago (286+ words) Updated on: December 9, 2025 / 6:27 AM CST / CBS Chicago The Federal Transit Administration is demanding that the CTA take immediate action to improve safety or risk losing funding. In a letter to Governor JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson, the FTA says the CTA has failed to keep riders and workers safe." The funding threat was issued after a"woman was set on fire"on a Blue Line train last month." On Nov. 17, a 26-year-old woman was allegedly set on fire by 50-year-old Lawrence Reed, who had more than 70 prior arrests. He is now facing federal terrorism charges. At the time of the attack, Reed was on electronic monitoring after a Cook County judge declined to hold him in jail on an aggravated battery charge The FTA letter says assaults on CTA workers have been higher than the national average for a…...

25+ min ago (344+ words) Merz tambi'n rechaz" la idea de que la democracia europea necesite ser salvada. Merz, el l'der de la naci"n m's poblada de la Uni"n Europea y su mayor econom'a, dijo que no le sorprendi" el contenido de la estrategia, ya que estaba en gran medida en l'nea con una conferencia que el vicepresidente de Estados Unidos, JD Vance, ofreci" a los aliados europeos en M'nich en febrero. Partes del documento son comprensibles, pero "algunas de ellas son inaceptables para nosotros desde el punto de vista europeo, dijo a los periodistas en la ciudad de Mainz, en el oeste de Alemania. "Que los estadounidenses quieran salvar la democracia en Europa ahora, no veo ninguna necesidad de eso, expres" Merz. "Si necesitara ser salvada, lo gestionar'amos solos. A'adi" que el nuevo documento de Estados Unidos "confirma mi evaluaci"n de…...

32+ min ago (359+ words) Lake Zurich officials approved a 3.81% property tax hike at the village board meeting on Dec. 1. This is the second property tax hike in as many years and the mayor says it is mostly due to the higher costs of business everywhere. The village held a meeting on the tax hike in November. According to the agenda from the Nov. 3 meeting, the village will use the extra revenue for pensions and debt obligations and $400,000 will go toward improvements in the village's special recreation area. Troy Smith, a village resident, asked the board of trustees on Nov. 3 why taxes keep going up. "Why is it we can't seem to live within our budget?" he asked. He pointed to the healthy housing market with property values bringing in higher taxes, but still, he said, the village is going back to the taxpayers for…...

38+ min ago (843+ words) Every five years, a small group of biologists and environmentalists assemble in a large corner office in Springfield with long glass windows. Inside that room, they weigh in on the fate of every animal and plant that exists in Illinois. They might not see it so starkly " who could wake up every morning with that burden? They are disarmingly plaintive about their roles. When she's asked why the 53-year-old list of endangered species is important, Hoffman simply says: "Because, all of these animals, plants " because they're there." "We are just making a list," Willink says. Towards the end of the five-year revision process, Hoffman took pains to remind the board that things change, and five years is a long time for an endangered species to be formally declared endangered, so yes, they can make alterations more often than every five…...

47+ min ago (46+ words) Chicago Bears tight end Colston Loveland (84) catches a pass from quarterback Caleb Williams (18) while covered by Pittsburgh Steelers safety Kyle Dugger (29) and linebacker Payton Wilson (41) during the fourth quarter at Soldier Field on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)...

47+ min ago (725+ words) The Chicago Bulls are in a record-setting skid, but the Illinois women's and men's teams are having a youth movement as Big Ten Conference play begins. The Bulls offense sputtered to a complete standstill on Sunday as the team scored a season-low 91 points in a loss to the Golden State Warriors. It's been a long time coming for the Bulls, who lack a severe combination of creativity and efficiency on the attacking end of the court. And Nikola Vu'evi" is one of the key pieces that isn't clicking as the center averages his lowest volume of scoring in nearly a decade. More noticeable " and concerning " is the big man's drop-off on the glass. Vu'evi" is averaging 9.5 rebounds per game, which marks his first time logging fewer than 10 per game since the 2017-18 season. Illinois freshman guard Keaton Wagler came up big…...

1+ hour, 6+ min ago (21+ words) Meteorologist Laura Bannon has the extended forecast. Wintry mix on Tuesday afternoon in Chicago Wintry mix on Tuesday afternoon in Chicago...