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A view of the Chicago skyline from part of the old U.S. Steel South Works site near 85th and South Shore Drive in 2014.

Students from the Catherine Cook School march in the annual Chicago Pride Parade in June 2018.

Launching a regional sports network is nothing new to White Sox and Bulls chairman Jerry Reinsdorf. In 1982-83, Sox, Bulls and Blackhawks games aired on SportsVision, a pay-TV service devised by business partner Eddie Einhorn. It required a converter box that unscrambled the signal through what was then WPWR-Channel 60.

Karen Clark Sheard (from left), Elbernita “Twinkie” Clark-Terrell, Jacky Clark Chisholm and Dorinda Clark-Cole of The Clark Sisters attend the Grammys 2024 Special Merit Awards Ceremony in February. The singers are scheduled to headline the Chicago Gospel Music Festival in June.

Coyotes fans sit in their seats long after the team’s final game in Arizona ended Wednesday. The Coyotes won 5-2. Team owner Alex Meruelo agreed to sell franchise’s hockey operations to Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith, who intends to move the team to Salt Lake City.

Jimmy Butler has had his way with the Bulls since they traded him back in 2017, but revenge could be coming now that the Heat star is sidelined with a knee injury.

The little girl (Alisha Weir) abducted by kidnappers turns out to have an ancient vampire trapped inside her in “Abigail.”

Gymnast Simone Biles and her husband, Bears player Jonathan Owens, record a video on the field before Owens threw out a first pitch before a game between the White Sox and Cincinnati Reds at Guaranteed Rate Field on April 13.

Diamond DeShields models the Chicago Sky’s rebel jersey.

Chicago Sky

The Sky released their newest uniform and it's full of "infinite possibilities."

At least, that's what it's meant to illustrate with its light blue coloring and white gradient throughout. Guard Diamond DeShields and forward Brianna Turner were the two players featured in the Sky's release of their new Rebel edition Nike uniform.

The immediate reaction from fans was positive. Читать дальше...

Citibank’s South Michigan Avenue branch in downtown Chicago, where former Citi wealth adviser Helen Grace Caldwell worked. | Jonah Newman / Injustice Watch

The fatal crash happened about 4:30 a.m. on westbound I-90 at Barrington Road.

The room-to-room in the evenings at the North American Vintage Decoy & Sporting Collectibles Show is where the real buzz, bartering, buying, selling and story swapping.

DEAR ABBY: I am on a limited income. My younger sister, "Tara," is a medical professional with disposable income she spends on frivolous things. I have one son, age 13; she has three children, ages 14, 10 and 3. Tara and I live a few miles apart; our mother lives 60 miles away. My mother keeps my sister's kids every other week. She rarely keeps my son. I must bring my son to her; she drives all the way to Tara's house to pick up her kids and take them home.

Community members, activists and family members of Dexter Reed rally outside the District 11 police station, after COPA released body camera footage of the fatal police involved shooting of Dexter Reed, Tuesday, April 9, 2024.

Henry Cavill plays a British officer who assembles an off-the-books naval attack squad in “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.”

Moon Alert

Avoid shopping or important decisions from 6:45 to 9:30 a.m. Chicago time. After that, the moon moves from Leo into Virgo.

Aries (March 21-April 19)

Roll up your sleeves because anything that you do to get better organized will please you. With the sun in your sign, you've got lots of energy. Meanwhile, Mercury is also retrograde in your sign creating hiccups, delays and goofy mistakes. Get busy!

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

This is wonderful day to socialize! Читать дальше...

The Bulls’ Coby White battles with the Hawks’ Dejounte Murray for a loose ball during the play-in tournament on April 17, 2024 at United Center.

People walk in and out of the George N. Leighton Criminal Courthouse on the Southwest Side, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023.

The Royals’ Salvador Perez crosses the plate after a two-run home run in the eighth inning of the first game of Wednesday’s doubleheader against the White Sox.

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Three University of Chicago students were robbed at gunpoint within minutes Wednesday near the school’s campus in Hyde Park.

Two students were walking in the 5600 block of South University Avenue about 2:50 p.m. when four people armed with handguns accosted them and took their belongings, then fled in a four-door black Infiniti, University of Chicago police said.

About five minutes later... Читать дальше...

Thousands participate in a community walk through downtown on the one-year anniversary of the Highland Park mass shooting, Tuesday, July 4, 2023. The year before, authorities say Robert Crimo fired a high-powered rifle from a rooftop onto a crowd attending a Fourth of July parade, killing seven and wounding dozens.

Ayo Dosunmu was sidelined the last week of the regular season with a bad quad, while Andre Drummond was dealing with a bum left ankle. Both were cleared to play against the Hawks on Wednesday.

Chicago police Supt. Larry Snelling at a news conference Wednesday outside the emergency assistance center at Richard J. Daley Academy in Back of the Yards. “As communities, we have to come together to combat the number of people who are out here committing these violent crimes,” he said.

Deivi García (right) and Korey Lee of the White Sox celebrate after the 2-1 win during game two of a doubleheader against the Kansas City Royals at Guaranteed Rate Field on April 17, 2024.

Mayor Brandon Johnson and his school board have sought to clarify this spring that the changing priorities don’t mean selective-enrollment schools will face massive cuts or closure, and the intent instead is to provide neighborhood schools with some of the same programs available at selective-enrollment schools.