16+ hour, 8+ min 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…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (474+ words) Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 19, according to the Tribune’s archives. Flashback: Aug. 19, 1895 1886: Eight radicals who had been rounded up after the Haymarket Affair on May 4, 1886 — in which a bomb was thrown during…...

1+ week, 3+ 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…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago   (655+ words) Monocropping — the practice of only growing one crop, whether it’s corn or soybeans or potatoes season after season — is ruining American farmland, depleting essential nutrients from the soil and decreasing the taste and heartiness of our food supply. But then,…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (306+ words) Notre Dame wide receiver Jordan Faison, who has played in national championships with two Irish teams, will leave the lacrosse team to focus on football, the school confirmed Friday. Faison led Notre Dame in receiving in 2025 with 49 catches for 640 yards…...

1+ week, 22+ hour 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…...

1+ week, 22+ hour 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…...

1+ week, 3+ 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…...

11+ mon, 4+ week ago   (251+ words) Laureano, adquirido a los Orioles de Baltimore antes de la fecha límite de canjes del mes pasado, aprovechó una recta alta de su compatriota Luis Castillo, abridor de los Marineros, para darle a San Diego una ventaja temprana de 5-0. Los…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (972+ words) To understand Sooper Records, the anything-goes local label, you have to understand the 2010s DIY world from whence it came. Pay-what-you-can ticketing, the collection plates piled with $1 bills. Boxes of Costco beer, sold for a buck. Apartments with sticky floors and…...