1+ hour, 44+ min ago   (163+ words) Amateur scouting director Mike Shirley resigned and is no longer with the Chicago White Sox organization, the team announced Saturday. The Athletic reported Saturday evening that the resignation came after an internal investigation into allegations of verbal harassment. According to…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (892+ words) Jessica Rule, 18, entered Illinois State University this school year ready to step into musical theater as a major. Javon Phillips, 18, left his Austin community for Northern Illinois University with his eyes on a future that includes computer science. The pair…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (415+ words) Some 30 years ago, Sheldon Epps had a cool idea for a hot show. Why not fuse the music of Duke Ellington with the plot of William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” and set the whole thing in swinging 1930s Harlem? “My idea was…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (457+ words) Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 28, according to the Tribune’s archives. Front page flashback: Aug. 29, 1955 1955: Eight days after 14-year-old Emmett Till took the City of New Orleans train from Chicago to stay with…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (818+ words) Days after pausing construction on nearly all non-gaming amenities at its $1.7 billion casino complex going up in River West, Bally’s Corporation issued a going concern warning related to liquidity issues. The warning, part of Bally’s second quarter earnings filing Friday…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (210+ words) The homicide figures do not include killings that occurred in self-defense or in other circumstances not measured in Chicago police statistics. Homicide data from the Illinois State Police, which... The homicide figures do not include killings that occurred in self-defense…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (452+ words) Remember all the way back in 2023, during the height of the migrant influx, when Tribune reporting uncovered that a city contractor running operations at migrant shelters was submitting some eye-popping bills? We had no evidence of fraud. What we did…...