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26+ min ago (18+ words) Snow wraps up overnight leaving slick roads on Tuesday Snow wraps up overnight leaving slick roads on Tuesday...

31+ min ago (26+ words) High-profile immigration cases are back in court on Tuesday. Darius Johnson has a preview. Hearing for hundreds of people detained by ICE happening on Tuesday...

56+ min ago (508+ words) Dear Eric: I have a good friend whose memory seems to me to be slipping. She laughs it off, saying she has so much going on that she can't remember things, but I think there is something else happening. Should I say something and encourage her to see a doctor? I could talk to her husband to see if he is noticing anything. Maybe he should be the one to encourage her to talk to a doctor. Prevention is also a major component of healthy aging, so talking to a doctor, particularly a geriatrician, now could help her avoid issues in the future. Dear Eric: My wife and I will soon receive a small inheritance from the death of one of my relatives. Since we do not need most of this money, we have decided to distribute it among our…...

57+ min ago (655+ words) The living room of this house at 11711 Juanita Drive, Orland Park, has cathedral ceilings, full windows with remote-controlled window treatments and a floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace. (Mark Gutierrez) Address: 11711 Juanita Drive, Orland Park Listed: Oct. 2, 2025 Listing agent: Katie Ramoley, Coldwell Banker, 708-612-1848 This six-bedroom, 3-bathroom Alpine cabin, built with logs from Montana, sits on 3.8 acres with a 1-acre stocked fishing pond. The first floor has two bedrooms, including a primary suite with views out the back to the pond, a walk-in closet and a bathroom with a walk-in shower and a soaking tub. The living room has cathedral ceilings, full windows with remote-controlled window treatments and a floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace. The kitchen has two-story ceilings, a Sub-Zero refrigerator, Viking appliances, an extra Sub-Zero fridge in the kitchen island, a walk-in pantry and filtered hot and cold water. Off the kitchen is a…...

57+ min ago (473+ words) In person and in conversation, Steve Schapiro was not the sort of guy you might imagine hanging around with David Bowie, shooting the breeze with Mia Farrow, walking country roads with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. or hanging around with New York City heroin addicts. He died three years ago in Chicago, where he had lived for some years, but he comes alive in a new documentary, the appropriately titled "Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere." It is a wonderful film, 72 minutes long, making its local premiere over the weekend at the Gene Siskel Film Center. As she says, her aim was "to capture his charm and creativity and, equally important, to show how we can't always tell how our lives are being shaped " those moments in life that are influencing us but we don't realize it. It was important to me…...

57+ min ago (242+ words) Does Chicago ever need what the Bears are giving the city right now. Nothing unifies Chicago more than the Bears. Chicagoans disagree with one another on many things " including, of course, their baseball allegiances " but there's little if any dissent about our football team. Many of us live and die with them, and the rest of us are happier when they're succeeding and bummed out when they're not. So we think it fitting and proper, particularly after Thanksgiving weekend, to be grateful for meaningful December games for Chicago's NFL franchise. Before the season started, most fans would have been more than satisfied if you'd told them the Bears even would be in the playoff hunt at this point, much less leading the conference. Continuing with the thanksgiving theme, it's all gravy from here, Bears fans. Sure, if the Bears stumble…...

57+ min ago (408+ words) As a former social studies teacher and now professor of education, I am deeply alarmed by the civic lessons our youth are learning. In a political landscape in which teachers are increasingly reluctant to offer even basic instruction about American government, the scenes on the ground are filling the void. Students are learning that protesters exercising their First Amendment rights will be tear-gassed. They are learning that U.S. citizens will be detained. They are learning that federal agents will operate above the law'and that government officials will make false claims about their activities." As the mother of a teenager now studying civics, I tell my daughter that our democracy has never fully lived up to its promises. But I am terrified that what she is witnessing now " these widening contradictions and cruelties " is the version of government she will be left…...

57+ min ago (515+ words) Townsend, an uncredited extra in 1975 Chicago classics "Cooley High" and "Mahogany," may have made his mark on the world in Hollywood, but he hasn't strayed from his roots " he's directed an episode of the Chicago-based series "Power Book IV: Force" and portrays Emmanuel Adamu, chef Sydney Adamu's father, in "The Bear." "I'm excited to come back to Chicago," Townsend said. "I was seeing all the stuff going on in Chicago, and it really touched my heart. We're in crazy times right now. Human rights are under attack and I go. "I got to go to Chicago and help. I got to do my part.'" Made possible by Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Columbia College Chicago and Creative Cypher, the film fest will take place at Columbia College Chicago on Saturday and the Chicago Cultural Center on Sunday. "The…...

57+ min ago (1818+ words) For one day in September, Jose Coronado Meza became the Trump administration's poster child for why Chicago needed to be flooded with federal agents. Coronado Meza had been ordered deported. But the Biden administration let him live in Chicago, where he got arrested for murder. Democrats' "sanctuary" ways had coddled a would-be killer. Or so the argument went. But a deeper look at the case offers a window into the erratic nature of immigration enforcement " even in eras when administrations tout crackdowns. The case shows how someone like Coronado Meza can slip through the cracks of both Democratic and Republican administrations, once the facts get separated from the bluster and politics. Democratic policies for sure helped him stay on the streets despite a string of arrests, the Tribune found, such as ignoring a formal request to hold him for immigration…...

57+ min ago (1888+ words) A typical late afternoon for 4-year-old Adam is much like a typical late afternoon for any child his age: snacks, "Cocomelon" on YouTube, blocks, jumping off the stairs, resisting a bath." But unlike most toddlers, Adam lives with a host family thousands of miles away from his hometown in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. His parents were killed, his siblings, too. He also jumps off the stairs with just one leg, not two." Steve Sosebee, the founder of Heal Palestine, who has worked to medically evacuate children from war-torn countries for over 30 years, said his organization helps patients in Gaza who have had an amputation and require specialized care. Heal Palestine also facilitates evacuations to other countries such as Mexico, Spain, Portugal and Italy. "There's such a need that it's not a challenge to identify the patients " the challenge…...