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Miembros del Toui Ballet Folklórico de la Escuela Primaria Richard Edwards posan con La Muñeca Lele durante una celebración de la Semana de México en la Plaza Daley en el Loop, el martes 9 de mayo de 2023.

An American Airlines jet takes off from O’Hare International Airport.

Associated Press

The massive expansion of O’Hare Airport appeared to be cleared for takeoff on Friday after United and American Airlines, the airport’s two major carriers, signed off on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to salvage construction of a global terminal and two satellite concourses that, airline officials feared, was $1.5 billion over budget.

To cut costs and appease... Читать дальше...

Members of Toui Ballet Folklorico from the Richard Edwards Elementary School pose with La Muñeca Lele during a celebration of Mexico Week at Daley Plaza in the Loop, Tuesday, May 9, 2023.

Johann Moonesinghe, CEO of inKind, a tech firm/restaurant financing firm, has purchased the Etta restaurant group in Chicago.

The Cubs’ Shota Imanaga, here in his major league debut, is off to a red-hot start at 5-0.

Illinois Senate President Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, during debate of an election measure that will place three non-binding referendums on the ballot, change the state’s slating rules and deadline to file petitions.

Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere / Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling on Friday defended the decision not to discipline any of the nine current members of his force whose names appeared on the membership list of the Oath Keepers, an anti-government extremist group with a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

The Chicago Police Department’s leaders revealed in a statement Thursday... Читать дальше...

John Stoops, founder of The Revival, sits on the improv theater’s new stage in the South Loop.

Loyal, but frustrated, White Sox fans weren’t sure how to take broadcaster John Schriffen’s “hater” remark.

People wait to climb the ladder out of Lake Michigan at Montrose Harbor last August during Friday Morning Swim Club. As the event spread on social media, and the number of participants grew, so did safety concerns.

SEIU Local 73, which represents CPS support staff, has reached an agreement with the district on a new contract. In 2019, SEIU joined teachers in a strike (pictured).

Xavier Tate

Chicago Police Department

A relative's bank card was crucial to tracking down the man charged with killing Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca as he returned home from work late last month in Gage Park, officials disclosed Friday.

The suspect, Xavier Tate, 22, had used his mother's card in a store not long before Huesca was gunned down April 21 in the 3100 block of West 56th Street, Police Supt. Larry Snelling said at a news conference... Читать дальше...

Artist Griselda Avila of Little Village stands in front of the mural she painted in McKinley Park. The painting was inspired by Natalia Lafourcade’s song “Hasta La Raiz.”

The Milwaukee Bucks’ Patrick Beverley threw a basketball at Indiana fans twice during the Bucks’ playoff loss to the Pacers.

Country music singer Breland headlines Joe’s on Weed St. this week.

Henry Ammann

Platinum-selling country music artist Breland would have loved to join Beyoncé on her blockbuster album “Cowboy Carter.”

“I mean, candidly, I can say yes, I would have loved to be on there,” Breland says during a recent chat while riding an Amtrak train from New York to Washington, D.C. “I mean, it's one of the biggest albums of the year. I think everybody would've... Читать дальше...

A woman, 79, died in a residential fire Thursday, May 2, 2024, in the 6500 block of North Ashland Avenue.

A fat pumpkinseed, caught at Hennepin & Hopper lakes, set against a blue wet bag.

Characters Leighton Vance (Dayo Okeniyi, left) and Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton) stand on the shore of Lake Michigan after emerging from a box that transports them to alternate realities in “Dark Matter.”

Kilwins owner Jackie Jackson behind the counter of her Andersonville store. Jackson received the Illinois Small Business Person of the Year award from the U.S. Small Business Administration Great Lakes region.

Former President Donald Trump sits inside Manhattan Criminal Court, on Thursday.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks in Oxon Hill, Md., Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. The Guardian recently obtained a copy of Noem’s soon-to-be released book, where she writes about killing an unruly dog, and a smelly goat, too. She writes, according to the Guardian, that the tale was included to show her willingness to do anything “difficult, messy and ugly.”

Among high school students in 2019, 36.7% reported persistently feeling sad or hopeless in the past year, and 18.8% had seriously considered attempting suicide, according to the CDC.

DEAR ABBY: My sister "Sandy" divorced her husband 15 years ago. Her oldest son, "Nick," has never gotten over it. He's 30 now and has treated her badly over the years. He not only vandalized her home but has also said horrible things to her. She maintained a relationship with him despite his behavior, supporting him emotionally and sometimes financially.

Robert Ellis.

Frank Main / Sun-Times

Robert Ellis wore a charcoal suit and red-striped tie for the hearing in Cook County Judge Carol Howard’s courtroom at 26th Street and California Avenue.

He tucked his 6-foot-4 frame under a table facing the judge and began grilling two Chicago cops about a traffic stop on the South Side.

He asked why they didn’t read the driver his Miranda rights to remain silent. He quizzed them about police training and certification. Читать дальше...

Barbara Glusak, a former executive at Bridgeport’s Washington Federal Bank for Savings, leaving the Dirksen Federal Courthouse on April 25. Glusak is set to testify Wednesday at the sentencing of two key figures in the embezzlement investigation that grew out of the bank’s forced shutdown: Janice Weston and George Kozdemba.