At least 2 people were killed and 12 others were wounded in Chicago shootings on Sunday and early Monday, including a 14-year-old boy who was injured during an attempted robbery in West Garfield Park and a 57-year-old man killed during a home invasion.
The boy was also among three juveniles shot...
Too much wasn’t enough for Foo Fighters Sunday at a packed Wrigley Field. Playing the first of a two-night stand, the veteran band embraced almost any opportunity to go bigger and longer. The 160-minute concert came across as the antithesis of the get-in, get-out mentality of leader Dave Grohl’s...
Cubs pitcher Yu Darvish has missed more than two months due to right triceps tendinitis, and he made a trip to Dallas last month to be examined by Rangers team doctor Keith Meister.
But Cubs manager Joe Maddon still had to defuse comments made by ESPN analyst Alex Rodriguez that a few of Darvish’s...
Thousands more fled their homes after wildfires surged near a small lake town in Northern California while a deadly blaze farther north slowed slightly as crews stretched to their limits across the state fight flames that have claimed the lives of both firefighters and civilians.
Residents of the...
Orlando Campos was tired of carrying around his bulky Mexican passport everywhere and thought getting a Chicago municipal ID, similar in size and appearance to a driver’s license, might be easier to tote around.
Campos, 39, spent an hour in line on a recent morning waiting for the ID, formally...
Kyle Hendricks overcame his first-inning blues, and the Cubs took advantage of a two-out error by second baseman Yairo Munoz to score three times in the top of the fifth inning to earn a 5-2 win over the Cardinals and snap a two-game losing streak.
The start of Sunday night’s game was delayed 76...
Washington Nationals shortstop Trea Turner became the latest Major League Baseball player unable to outrun his online history Sunday when some tweets resurfaced that included racially insensitive language and homophobic slurs. The tweets were sent in 2011 and 2012 while he was playing collegiate...
As major leaguers Trea Turner, Sean Newcomb and Josh Hader face up to racist and homophobic tweets they sent as teenagers, publicist Lauren Walsh recalls how she dealt with a football player who had offensive Facebook posts years before he prepared for the NFL draft.
She went through his whole...
Kristin Cavallari looks annoyed when her husband, former Bears quarterback Jay Cutler, pops by her Nashville store while she interviews potential employees on Sunday’s episode of “Very Cavallari.”
“Hi, what are you doing?” Cavallari asked Cutler.
“I’m just wasting time until I can pick up the boys....
Even with 30 years of experience in the Cubs organization, bullpen coach Lester Strode wasn’t about to put up a fuss regarding his jersey number 35.
Strode agreed to relinquish his number to newcomer Cole Hamels, who has worn No. 35 since his days with the Phillies starting in 2006.
As for Strode,...
Each week Nina Metz and Darcel Rockett recap and discuss the second season of “Claws,” which airs Sundays on TNT.
Note: Spoilers ahead
In “Crossroads,” Desna sits in a jail cell realizing she “stayed on the ride too long,” while Jen and Bryce have their own unwelcome complication to deal with in...
Shortly after an asphalt plant quietly started operations across the street from McKinley Park, public officials have joined residents in chiding the Illinois EPA for an abbreviated notification process that culminated in no public input.
McKinley Park residents say they were taken aback when they...
Neymar has admitted he exaggerated some of his reactions after being fouled during the World Cup in Russia.
The Brazilian also said in a video published Sunday by one of his sponsors that he is now a changed man after all the criticism he received at home and abroad.
"You may think I exaggerate....
Federal air marshals have for years been quietly monitoring small numbers of U.S. air passengers and reporting on in-flight behavior considered suspicious, even if those individuals have no known terrorism links, the Transportation Security Administration said on Sunday.
Under a sensitive, previously...
Kyle Hendricks was open about his need to induce more contact early in counts after throwing 106 pitches in five innings Tuesday in a start against the Diamondbacks.
That theory was supported indirectly by Cubs manager Joe Maddon, who believes the lack of long outings by the Cubs’ starters can...
A Ghanian biochemistry student was ordered held on $100,000 bond Sunday on charges that he tried to sexually assault a Northwestern University student inside her residence hall room, prosecutors said.
Emmanuel Boadua, 26, appeared at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on a sexual assault charge....
Three-and-a-half years ago, Joe Corvo walked into Angelo Sisco’s office with an idea.
Corvo, who had just retired from pro hockey after 11 NHL seasons and 708 games played, needed a new challenge. Prior to his retirement, he had begun to work out via CrossFit, a high-intensity fitness program that...
The trial of President Donald Trump's onetime campaign chairman will open this week with tales of lavish spending, secret shell companies and millions of dollars of Ukrainian money flowing through offshore bank accounts and into the political consultant's pocket.
What's likely to be missing are...
The publisher of The New York Times said Sunday he "implored" President Donald Trump at a private White House meeting this month to reconsider his broad attacks on journalists, calling the president's anti-press rhetoric "not just divisive but increasingly dangerous."
In a statement, A.G. Sulzberger...
A 70-year-old Grayslake woman was fatally injured in a two-vehicle collision in Warren Township Saturday.
The Lake County Sheriff's Office responded to a collision just north of West Cottage Avenue and Route 45 around 4:35 p.m. Saturday.
A juvenile from Round Lake Beach was traveling north in his...
For 46 years, Val’s Halla Records in Oak Park was owned by Val Camilletti, a walking, talking encyclopedia of all things and genres of music.
Camilletti died early early in the morning on July 24 after a two-year battle with breast cancer. Customers and friends packed the store Saturday for the...
A 21-year-old man was seriously injured in a stabbing while trying to break up a fight in the North Side’s Lincoln Park neighborhood early Sunday, authorities said.
The man was on the sidewalk in the 600 block of West Belden Avenue just before 2:45 a.m. when he was stabbed in the left side of his...
Oak Park police said multiple individuals were in police custody Sunday after shots were reported to have been fired on South Taylor Avenue, near Roosevelt Road.
Police said no injuries were reported.
According to a news release posted on the village’s website, police responded to the area at about...
Tinley Park Mayor Jacob Vandenberg Sunday described flyers referencing the Ku Klux Klan found last week in the village as “flat-out disgusting and evil.”
“We have zero tolerance for evilness and bigotry,” he said at a press conference. “You flat-out are not welcome here.”
On July 22, a resident...
Less than three weeks after Harvey Public Library District officials held a groundbreaking ceremony for their multi-million-dollar library expansion in 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission launched an investigation into the project’s funding source, records obtained by the Daily Southtown...
A man who shot his grandmother and wounded another woman before leading police on a chase, crashing his car and running into a busy supermarket where he held dozens of people hostage in a tense standoff has been arrested on suspicion of murder, authorities said Sunday.
Gene Evin Atkins, 28, was...
Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page on Sunday denied he was an intelligence agent for Russia, while lawmakers appeared on the morning political shows to urge President Donald Trump to act tougher toward the Kremlin.
Page's denial was his first public response to the release on Saturday of...
U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw appeared conflicted in early May on whether to stop families from being separated at the border. He challenged the Trump administration to explain how families were getting a fair hearing guaranteed by the Constitution, but also expressed reluctance to get too deeply...
A candidate in this week's general elections was killed Sunday in a suicide bomb attack while on his way to a campaign event in northwest Pakistan, adding to concerns over public safety in an election in which at least 160 people have died this month in political attacks.
Ikramullah Khan Gandapur,...
Afghanistan's first vice president, a former Uzbek warlord, escaped unharmed from an explosion near the airport as he returned home on Sunday after living in Turkey for over a year, according to security officials.
Najib Danish, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said a suicide bomber carried...
There’s at least one reason why the Cubs currently miss former ace Jake Arrieta.
Arrieta limited Cardinals first baseman Matt Carpenter to four hits in 39 career at-bats, including a streak of 28 at-bats without a hit.
Carpenter enters Sunday’s game against the Cubs with at least one home run in...
The Bears are holding their first padded practice Sunday morning in front of fans at Olivet Nazarene University. It has been raining steadily at times throughout the session, and the effect on the offense is evident.
The most noteable play so far has been Nick Kwiatkoski’s interception of Mitch...
The state worker behind the lawsuit that led to the U.S. Supreme Court decision that eliminated “fair share” fees paid by nonmembers of public employee unions is joining the group that oversaw his legal battle.
Mark Janus, a child support specialist at the Illinois Department of Healthcare and...
Zion Elementary School District 6 school board Vice President Craig Bennett whose wife, a former district employee, is facing theft charges resigned last week from the board, a district spokeswoman said.
Bennett has served on the school board for 21 years, district spokeswoman Donelle Staples said...
After a sluggish 3 ½ months, Anthony Rizzo has found his stroke from the leadoff spot.
Rizzo will bat leadoff for the eighth consecutive game Sunday as the Cubs try to win the final game of this five-game series against the Cardinals at Wrigley Field.
Rizzo went 5-for-7 with one triple, one RBI,...
We're hanging out at Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park all weekend in search of the best festival flare. Rock on.
South African police say gunmen have opened fire on a minibus carrying members of a taxi drivers' association, killing 11 people and critically wounding four others.
Police Brig. Jay Naicker says the victims of the Saturday night attack had attended a colleague's funeral and were returning home...
At least four people were killed and 16 wounded during shootings Saturday and early Sunday, according to Chicago police. In five of the overnight shootings, at least two people were shot, including seven shot in a single attack in East Garfield Park.
About 9:35 p.m Saturday, four men opened fire...
Police said they were trying to determine what prompted a man to shoot his grandmother and wound another woman before he crashed his car and ran into a busy supermarket, where he held dozens of people hostage in a tense standoff with scores of heavily armed officers outside.
A woman was shot and...
The search for a missing boater competing in the Chicago Yacht Club’s Race to Mackinac resumed Sunday morning, a day after he fell overboard into the turbulent water, officials said.
Crews on Saturday suspended their search for Jon Santarelli, 53, of Lincoln Park at about sunset after an hourslong,...
When Alexander Rucker finally made it to Stroger Hospital Sunday morning, it was hard to see his first-born son that way.
Lying in a hospital bed, his son, a father himself, had trouble breathing and talking, Rucker said.
“There’s a hole in his chest,” Rucker said. “And he has a hole in his leg.”
...
Three men have been charged for their alleged roles in at least two carjackings Friday on opposite sides of the city, in Hyde Park and Bucktown, according to Chicago police.
All three have prior felony convictions, police said.
Dwayne Liberty, 21, of the 2500 block of East 98th Street, is charged...
Chance the Rapper finished a long night of music Saturday with a question. “Are you ready for your blessings?” he cried, and the packed house at Northerly Island mirrored his upraised arms.
It was the triumphant capper to a six-hour concert by a multigenerational lineup that included Smokey Robinson...
Wendy Howard is worried.
A steady uptick in prices and in her cost of living already led the Chicago native to abandon retirement to reboot her teaching career. She doesn’t eat out anymore and is concerned that her holiday shopping could be curtailed if the Trump administration’s trade war with...
An audible murmur rippled through the crowd Wednesday when backers of the massive Lincoln Yards project announced they want to build towers as tall as 800 feet.
That would be a huge leap in scale from adjacent sections of Bucktown and Lincoln Park, which are stocked with wood-frame houses, brick...
60 E. Monroe St. Unit 2302 in Chicago: $1,249,000
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Situated in the heart of downtown Chicago, adjacent to the University Club and overlooking Grant and Millennium Parks, this home offers spectacular views of greenery and Lake Michigan from every principle room. Features include...
Dear Amy: My brother and his wife are divorcing.
My brother has been abusive and an alcoholic throughout the marriage.
I have always sided with my sister-in-law. I have cared for my niece and nephew over the years as well.
Now my brother is committed to rehab and doing very well. I am now a support...
The Bears offense, that complex machine coach Matt Nagy is constructing over the next seven weeks, slowly began to chug in the rain at Friday’s first training camp practice and continued to gain steam Saturday.
There’s a handful of shiny new parts that somehow must fit together and function.
There’s...
All is not lost for Nico Hoerner, the Cubs’ first pick in the June amateur draft who will be sidelined for the rest of the summer because of a left elbow injury.
Hoerner, who batted .327 (16-for-49) this summer at three minor-league affiliates, will be invited to participate in the team’s Instructional...
Donald Trump said Saturday he finds it "inconceivable" that a lawyer would tape a client, as the president weighed in after the disclosure that in the weeks before the 2016 election, his then-personal attorney secretly recorded their discussion about a potential payment for a former Playboy model's...
When he emerged from his summit with Kim Jong Un last month, President Donald Trump triumphantly declared that North Korea no longer posed a nuclear threat and that one of the world's most intractable geopolitical crises had been "largely solved."
But in the days and weeks since then, U.S. negotiators...
It has been a very strange season for the Cubs, who might claim the National League Central by default the way things are falling into place.
They entered Saturday’s doubleheader against the Cardinals with a three-game lead over the slumping Brewers and a 7½-game lead over the inconsistent Cardinals,...
One company and one family loom large over this city, intertwined for decades. Cummins Inc. is the biggest employer in Columbus, built into a $20 billon heavy-equipment manufacturer with the help of Mike Pence, who as governor passed special tax cuts and made trade visits to China on its behalf.
...
Rylee Bennett started volunteering with the Fox Valley Trolley Museum since she was age 6. It was natural for her to be at Saturday’s open house offering guided tours of the historic train cars.
But this tour was different.
The 12-year-old, joined by friends Abi Reinert and Justin Morton, both...
"Grab the baby!"
Those were the last words Tia Coleman recalls her sister-in-law yelling before the tourist boat they were on sank into a Missouri lake, killing 17 people, including nine of Coleman's family members.
A huge wave hit, scattering passengers on the vessel known as a duck boat into...
A private inspector said Saturday that he warned the company operating duck boats on a Missouri lake about design flaws putting the watercraft at greater risk of sinking, less than a year before the accident that killed 17 people during a sudden storm.
Steve Paul, owner of the Test Drive Technologies...
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh suggested several years ago that the unanimous high court ruling in 1974 that forced President Richard Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes, leading to the end of his presidency, may have been wrongly decided.
Kavanaugh was taking part in a roundtable discussion...
The Cubs hope nine days’ rest will help Mike Montgomery rebounded from fatigue.
Montgomery will face the Cardinals in the second game of a split doubleheader Saturday night at Wrigley Field. Montgomery hasn’t pitched since July 11, when he allowed four runs on eight hits in five innings against...
Officials continue to search Lake Michigan after a boater competing in the Chicago Yacht Club’s Race to Mackinac went missing in the water on Saturday afternoon.
Around 2:30 p.m., authorities learned that the 35-year-old man had fallen into the turbulent water, said Petty Officer Brian McCrum of...
The top U.S. intelligence official is saying he meant no disrespect to President Donald Trump in a televised interview discussing the summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats says his Thursday comments at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado were not intended...
What do you say to a stranger who helped save your life and protect your child?
How do you put into words gratitude impossible to measure for a gesture unreasonable to expect?
Who can explain making a lifelong friend visiting “The Friendly Confines” without seeing a single pitch?
David Danner expects...
Family diaries mention that on July 16, 1844, Scottish-born settler Robert Clow fetched a load of lumber and laid off the ground for what would become his house in Wheatland Township.
Nearly 174 years later to the day, heavy machinery this week knocked down the final structures on the 31.5 acres...
Aurora officials participated in a flag raising ceremony Saturday to mark the return of the local Puerto Rican Heritage Week festival, which was absent last year.
The Aurora Puerto Rican Cultural Council will host the festival next Saturday and Sunday at RiverEdge Park in Aurora, featuring performances...
A Chicago attorney representing family members of Harith Augustus, a local barber fatally shot by Chicago police, released a statement saying they are deeply distraught by what happened.
“We acknowledge the emotions felt and expressed by so many in our community who witnessed the last seconds of...
A Chicago community activist is facing misdemeanor charges after authorities said he scuffled with officers during a protest of a fatal police shooting in the South Shore neighborhood.
Jedidiah Brown was arrested Thursday evening near the scene of last weekend's shooting at 71st Street and Jeffery...
The ball left Mitch Trubisky’s hand Saturday and sailed toward the left flat, where running back Jordan Howard had released as a checkdown option.
Instead of leading Howard, though, the pass was high and behind him. Not ideally located for a running back who has the NFL’s highest drop rate over...
Chicago police are scanning the lakefront and other areas of the city for missing Special Olympics athlete Rezwanul Haque, who has autism and does not speak English.
Haque, 22, remained missing as of Saturday afternoon, and his disappearance was classified by police as a high-risk missing person.
...
The Bears offense, that complex machine coach Matt Nagy is constructing over the next seven weeks, slowly began to chug in the rain at Friday’s first training camp practice and continued to gain steam Saturday.
There’s a handful of shiny new parts that somehow must fit together and function.
There’s...
At a truck stop in South Holland, Ill., a man looked at Dana Rose Gropp and asked, “What’s a pretty thing like you doing here?”
Gropp, who’s been hauling loads for 13 years, replied, “I’m paying on my mortgage.”
The man’s compliment made her day, possibly her week. She’ll never forget it.
The 35-year-old...
John Cynn developed a passion for poker as a junior at Glenbrook North, where he began playing the game with friends. In his early days, the buy-in was $10-20.
Five years ago, Cynn quit his job as an information technology analyst in Los Angeles to become a professional poker player.
Now, he is...
Cubs manager Joe Maddon spread the work as Kris Bryant and Addison Russell were out of the starting lineup for the first game of Saturday’s split doubleheader against the Cardinals at Wrigley Field.
“I didn’t want to wear (Bryant) out,” Maddon said of his third baseman, who returned July 11 after...
A Kane County corrections officer was accused of sexually assaulting an inmate, officials said.
John H. Johnson, 52, of Elgin, was charged with sexual assault, custodial sexual misconduct and official misconduct, officials said.
Johnson, who also is a Elgin library security guard, turned himself...
If the Cubs prayed for rain, give them credit. It actually worked.
Nothing else they tried Friday did.
You know it’s a rough day when pinch-hitter Tommy La Stella is summoned as a pinch-pitcher, inserted in the sixth inning to save the bullpen with his mid-70s cheese. And when catcher Victor Caratini...
After firing manager Mike Matheny and replacing him with Mike Shildt, Cardinals President John Mozeliak knows the spotlight now is pointed directly at him.
With the July 31 trading deadline closing in, the pressure is on Mozeliak to get his team back in contention or face the consequences.
“I’ve...
Days after hearing from concerned residents and officials about its proposal to bring a gun shop and shooting range to Lake Zurich, Shoot Point Blank is pulling back on the project for now, village officials said.
In an email July 20, Village Manager Ray Keller said representatives with the Cincinnati-based...
Two Gurnee police officers “acted reasonably and appropriately” in a May 23 confrontation on Route 41 that ended with the officers shooting a woman armed with a military-style rifle, according to a statement released late Friday by Lake County State’s Attorney Michael Nerheim.
Gurnee Police Department...
Divers found four more bodies Friday in a Missouri lake where a duck boat packed with tourists capsized and sank in high winds, bringing the death toll to 17 in the country-and-western town of Branson, authorities said.
A spokeswoman for Missouri Gov. Mike Parson says nine of the 17 people who...
Save the date: Sept. 17. Soldier Field. Bears versus Seahawks. Home opener.
That’s when the Bears are expected to honor Brian Urlacher with a halftime ceremony that will celebrate the linebacker’s decorated career and his 2018 entry into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
While the team has yet to...
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan are close to unveiling a proposed court agreement intended to govern reforms in the Chicago Police Department, attorneys said Friday in federal court.
The lone sticking point, attorneys said, remains whether the department...
Joe Perrino, the CEO who grew the fourth-generation family-owned Home Run Inn business into a frozen pizza empire, died Thursday morning, according to his family. He was 64.
Perrino’s father, Nick Perrino, and grandmother Mary Grittani first served pizza in the Home Run Inn tavern in Chicago's...
Zach Johnson and Kevin Kisner are more than just housemates this week. They share the lead in the British Open.
Johnson, whose name already is on the claret jug from his playoff victory at St. Andrews three years ago, holed a 30-foot birdie putt Friday on the 18th hole at Carnoustie for a 4-under...
Thirteen months have passed since the Bulls plunged into full-rebuild mode by trading Jimmy Butler to the Timberwolves.
That transaction netted them the Zach LaVine, Kris Dunn, the draft rights to Lauri Markkanen and the near certainty they’d be bad in 2017-18. Indeed, the ensuing 27-55 campaign...
More than 100 former students have provided firsthand accounts of sexual misconduct by the now-dead Ohio State University team physician at the center of an ongoing investigation, the university said on Friday.
Over 200 former students and university employees have been confidentially interviewed...
Norma Rios-Sierra says she’s become used to seeing rats scurrying in the alleys of her Logan Square neighborhood. Garbage cans — even tightly lidded ones — often end up with holes where the pesky rodents likely gnawed to find a recent meal, she said.
“It’s part of living in a city,” she said. “Even...
Naperville resident Karen Peck knows what she’s doing from 6 to 7 every night until Nov. 6
Peck plans to be at the Naperville Riverwalk’s dandelion fountain with signs that say things like, “Reunite families now,” “45 traitor” and “Every child returned” for one hour every night until the mid-term...
Despite a threat of rain Friday afternoon, the Bears held their first training-camp practice outside at Olivet Nazarene University.
Because of their participation in the Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio, on Aug. 2, the Bears and Ravens are off to the earliest training-camp starts this year. Bears...
Elias Francque’s once-in-a-lifetime summer golf adventure showed his gift at persuasive writing, but also the potent reach of social media.
The Maine South senior-to-be has been heavily interested in golf for a decade and began caddying this summer at Park Ridge Country Club, where his family has...
Griffith Police are searching for a man who allegedly stole a car after possibly being involved in a hit-and-run with a different stolen car, according to a release.
Police spokesman Commander Keith Martin said in a release that the hit-and-run occurred around 11:45 a.m. Friday in the 200 block...
Those zingy electric scooters you may have spotted on Chicago sidewalks and streets look like fun.
Until one of them zips up behind you at 15 mph and nearly clips you.
Or until one cuts across two lanes of heavy traffic in a nonchalant, I-own-the-road gesture of defiance.
Electric scooters and...
Wendy Howard is worried.
A steady uptick in prices and in her cost of living already led the Chicago native to abandon retirement to reboot her teaching career. She doesn’t eat out anymore and is concerned that her holiday shopping could be curtailed if the Trump administration’s trade war with...
President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer secretly recorded Trump discussing a possible payment to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with him, a person familiar with an investigation into the attorney told The Associated Press on Friday.
The president's current personal lawyer...
In 1967, Pete Seeger composed a protest song that said: “We’re waist deep in the Big Muddy, and the big fool says to push on.” It was a poke at President Lyndon Johnson in an allegory about Vietnam. That war is long past. But Johnson led us into another, more literal Big Muddy that we have yet...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Friday that contaminated material remaining at an East Chicago plant will be removed from the site.
The EPA announced the $26.6 million cleanup of the former DuPont site, on Kennedy Avenue in East Chicago, has been finalized. After receiving more than...
The first loud “Ooh!” from the crowd at MB Ice Arena didn’t come until about 95 seconds remained in the first period.
It took a nifty save from Alexis Gravel moving across the crease and denying a deflection from Liam Coughlin to wake up fans watching Friday’s scrimmage that closed out this week’s...
Sinclair Broadcast Group thought it had a friend in Ajit Pai when he was appointed to lead the Federal Communications Commission.
"We're very optimistic about this new FCC and the leadership of Ajit Pai," Chief Executive Officer Christopher Ripley told investors in February 2017.
That optimism...
At Rush University Medical Center on the city’s West Side, the median charge for a vaginal birth was $16,703 last year.
Three miles away, at Norwegian American Hospital, it cost about half that: $8,873.
Most patients don’t pay those charges, instead paying a sum based on rates negotiated between...
