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…...

14+ hour, 7+ min ago   (714+ words) Despite the Chicago Bears turning their attention to northwest Indiana, Arlington Heights officials have re-upped with their lobbyists who are still trying to secure the team’s relocation to the northwest suburbs. The village’s new $5,000-a-month agreement with Mac Strategies Group…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (801+ words) The Chicago school board is weighing a resolution that would direct Chicago Public Schools to study how it could expand preschool and bilingual early learning opportunities. The proposal would launch a two-year review of the district’s preschool system, including staffing,…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (765+ words) Starting next year, Illinois will have new safeguards in place to prevent parents from being wrongly accused of child abuse or neglect when their children visit a doctor or hospital emergency room for unexplained injuries or ailments. Gov. JB Pritzker…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (947+ words) Labor Day marks the unofficial yet traditional launch of the fall general election campaign, and for the major candidates it also means a shift in focus from downstate fairs, tours and rallies to the vote-rich Chicago area, where statewide races…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (265+ words) More than 28,000 students in Chicago Public Schools will continue to have free home internet access through an extension of a pandemic-era city program. Chicago Connected, launched in 2020, provides free broadband or hotspot services to low-income families. Roughly 60,000 CPS students have…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (276+ words) An extreme heat warning was issued for central, northern and southern Cook County for the third consecutive day as heats indices are expected to reach over 100 degrees, weather officials said. National Weather Service officials stated the warning continues Thursday morning…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (31+ words) 1893: Chicago-born inventor Whitcomb L. Judson received a patent — one of his many — for his “Clasp locker or unlocker for shoes,” then displayed it at the city’s World’s Columbian Exposition. It......

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (253+ words) Gambling is nothing new in Chicago. Legal gambling is. City Hall’s handling of it still looks like the rackets of yore. With a suffocating debt and pension load, and another looming budget deficit, Chicago cannot afford incoherence on this important…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (314+ words) Data centers are one of the biggest and most controversial issues facing Illinois right now, and the two major-party candidates for governor only seem to offer extreme positions. The good news? Stakeholders in Illinois are already laying the groundwork for…...