1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1012+ words) Choreographed dance moves, like a boy band from the ’90s. An acrobatic “Lion King”-inspired Simba lift. A juggling pirate on a unicycle. Pyrotechnics and a snowball fight (real fire, but cotton balls, because after all, it’s summer). This, plus more,…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (156+ words) The Chicago Bears avoided potential scares during a physical and spirited practice Thursday morning at Halas Hall, but they didn’t come away unscathed. More than 50 decomposing bodies found in Southeast Side funeral home, officials say John Gotti grandson Carmine Agnello…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (997+ words) BOSTON — The Chicago White Sox were one strike away from salvaging the finale of their three-game series against the Boston Red Sox. But Wilyer Abreu’s RBI single with two outs in the ninth forced extra innings, and the game went…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1239+ words) Just a year after his career took off, Omar David Panqueva, known as DJ TUNJO, made it to one of the largest music festivals in Chicago earlier this summer. It was a dream come true for the Colombian native to…...

4+ day, 54+ min ago   (333+ words) The Illinois Institute of Technology reduced its workforce by around 160 faculty and staff positions, a move a university spokesperson said comes as higher education institutions across the country face demographic declines, research cutbacks, and restrictions on international students attending U.S. universities....

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (156+ words) Former Chicago Bears running back Khalil Herbert has his four-bedroom, 2,461-square-foot townhome in Buffalo Grove on the market for $630,000. Herbert, 27, was drafted by the Bears in 2021, and he became a starting running back in 2023. The Bears traded him in 2024 to…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (654+ words) Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced Sunday he will run for mayor of Chicago, ending over a year of speculation and making official his frontrunner status in the already-crowded field. Giannoulias entered the race buoyed by high name recognition,…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (336+ words) A federal judge tossed a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, saying the federal agency cannot compel the Illinois Board of Elections to release sensitive information about the state’s roughly 8.3 million registered voters. Seven months after Trump’s DOJ filed…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1021+ words) PEORIA — In a crowded but airy courtroom 75 miles from where a downstate sheriff’s deputy shot and killed Sonya Massey near Springfield in a case that stirred national outrage, a prosecutor said Wednesday the deputy shot Massey after he got mad…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (892+ words) In 1966, Chicago became the epicenter of a world that was transitioning from the Wall of Sound and the British Invasion to hard rock and psychedelia. Chicago is, to its core, a music city, with a heritage that extends far beyond…...