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Crime scene tape. | Sun-Times file

Sun-Times file

A man was killed and another wounded in a shooting Friday in South Shore.

Delegance Crawl, 36, and a 20-year-old man, were near an alley just before 2:30 p.m. in the 7400 block of South Euclid Avenue when a fight broke out and they both were shot, Chicago police said.

Crawl suffered two gunshot wounds to his head and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

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Phillip’s Elijah Harris (3) finishes a fast break with a layup during the IHSA Class 2A championship game against Benton.

Joe Walsh (left) and Steuart Smith perform with the Eagles on Friday night at the United Center.

Cubs right-hander Jameson Taillon was scratched from his spring training start Satruday. File photo.

West Central’s Chance Little (24) reacts during the IHSA Class 1A state championship game against Meridian at State Farm Center.

Justin Steele pitches Wednesday in a spring-training game at Sloan Park in Mesa, Ariz.

The Strokes perform at Credit Union 1 Arena for the Kina Collins campaign, Friday, March 8, 2024. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Nikita Zaitsev returned from injury for the Blackhawks on Saturday.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Considering how long Andreas Athanasiou's groin injury has dragged on and on this season, it shouldn't be too surprising the Blackhawks' target return date for him proved slightly too optimistic.

Athanasiou, who has been sidelined since Nov. 9, won't play Saturday against the Capitals after all, missing his 52nd consecutive game. Reese... Читать дальше...

A 23-year-old man was standing outside in the 4000 block of South Dearborn Street at 9:48 a.m. when he was shot in his right leg, police said.

Tennessee forward Rickea Jackson looks to pass during a game against South Carolina on March 3.

At least two Chicago police officers were hospitalized in a Morgan Park crash late Friday.

Police responded to a call of a person shot in the 3500 block of West Franklin Boulevard at about 11:30 p.m.

One of the few groups out on opening night, April 1, for smelt netting last year.

Striker Hugo Cuypers (center) hasn’t gotten the service needed to score goals.

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services in 2019.

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Illinois’ foster care rules historically have been set up with the expectation that children removed from their homes will be cared for by unrelated licensed foster parents. But in Illinois, the Department of Children & Family Services now places more than half of those children with relatives, and that percentage is higher in Chicago.

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An affordable housing development at 5150 N. Northwest Hwy. in Jefferson Park. To solve the homelessness problem, Chicago, plain and simple, needs more housing for everyone along the economic spectrum, Alden Loury writes.

There are bills pending in the Illinois Legislature to create a Health Care Availability and Access Board to help control drug prices.

DEAR ABBY: During my late teens and most of my 20s, I kept journals that filled two full spiral-bound notebooks. I kept them my entire life before reading them for the first time on my recent 70th birthday. I found it to be an enlightening journey through my past on a very personal level, dealing with the highs and lows of those tumultuous years.

A Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, better known as WIC, bag sits in a shopping cart. Not everyone who is eligible for the program takes advantage of it, both in Illinois and nationwide.

Enrico Fermi led the Metallurgical Laboratory, a group of secretive atomic scientists, in creating the first nuclear reactor. On the right is an aerial view after the first atomic explosion at the Trinity Test Site in 1945.

Andrea McMiller, a laborer and journeyman with Air and Wellness Safety Training, who is also the daughter of the company’s founder Adrian Mobley, talks to laborer and foreman Darien McDaniels (left) at one of the company’s job sites in Uptown.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker at The Fields Studio on Feb. 28. His proposal to get rid of the grocery tax has diverted attention from a planned tax hike.

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There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. The moon is in Pisces.

Aries (March 21-April 19)

Tread carefully because this is an accident-prone day. You might have strong feelings about something and suddenly overreact or do something spontaneously that triggers an unexpected event, especially with a team or a group of people, possibly a friend. Be careful.

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Chicago Bears long snapper Patrick Scales attends practice at the NFL team’s facility in Lake Forest, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

Palatine’s Connor May (21) is guarded by Normal’s Dexter Niekamp (22) as he tries to pass the ball.