Democrats flip state senate seat in rural Wisconsin as 2018 election season...
The 2018 election season kicked off Tuesday with an upset in rural Wisconsin, with Democrats flipping a state Senate seat that had been held by Republicans since the start of the century. With every...
View ArticleCar shot up on Kennedy Expressway in West Town area
Illinois State Police are investigating a car that appeared to be shot up while traveling north on the Kennedy Expressway in the West Town community on Tuesday night, authorities said. No one was...
View ArticleWorking toward a world where that Grace and Aziz date no longer happens
I’m raising two sons and a daughter, and I don’t want any of them to have a date like Aziz and “Grace” had. I don’t want my boys to define a good date as, “Come hell or high water, I climaxed.” I...
View ArticleEmotional affair partner wants 'normalizing' meetings
Dear Amy: Over the last few years, my marriage has felt stagnant and unfulfilling. About a year ago, I grew close to a friend and colleague (he is single), slowly at first, but then becoming more and...
View ArticleEmanuel admonishes City Council divided on health care access, abortion views
The Chicago City Council, long known for its liberal worldview and 50-0 votes, found itself bitterly divided Wednesday when support for health care in African-American neighborhoods ran into concerns...
View ArticleLawsuit accuses U.S. Steel of polluting Lake Michigan with toxic chromium
As a group of Lake Michigan surfers filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing U.S. Steel of repeatedly violating the federal Clean Water Act, it appears their earlier threat of legal action is having the...
View ArticleEmanuel doesn’t say whether city should challenge low commercial property...
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday again dodged questions about whether he’s willing to challenge the assessments of downtown commercial properties that are out of whack with their market values, an...
View ArticleMother of Brian Urlacher’s son files $125 million defamation lawsuit against...
The mother of Brian Urlacher’s 12-year-old son has filed a $125 million defamation lawsuit alleging the former Bears star conspired with his attorneys and a newspaper reporter to portray her as “a bad...
View ArticleAt White Sox hitters camp, Eloy Jimenez and Luis Robert providing plenty of...
Chicago’s next baseball superstar thought it was funny the other day when he passed White Sox manager Rick Renteria in the hallway at Camelback Ranch. “He saw me with my face down and said, ‘What...
View ArticleApple banks on tax break to build 2nd campus, hire 20,000
Apple is planning to build a new corporate campus and hire 20,000 U.S. workers in an expansion driven in part by a tax cut that will enable the iPhone maker to bring an estimated $245 billion back to...
View Article2nd lawsuit alleges sexual misconduct by ex-social worker at Elgin state...
For the second time in recent months, a former Elgin Mental Health Center patient alleged in a federal lawsuit that he was coerced into a sexual relationship with a staff member who abused her...
View ArticleBears coach Matt Nagy focuses on simplicity in developing and teaching new...
New Bears coach Matt Nagy has just started assembling pieces of the Bears’ offensive puzzle. With coordinator Mark Helfrich and most of the offensive position coaches in place nine days after Nagy’s...
View ArticleBannon agrees to Mueller interview but delays Hill return as White House...
Former top White House strategist Steve Bannon has agreed to be interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team, but his lawyer pushed back against House investigators' demands for an audience...
View ArticleLos Angeles security guard suspected of raping dozens of women, some as young...
A security guard who was arrested after a prostitute fell out of his car is suspected of raping more than a dozen women or girls as young as 15 at gunpoint in Los Angeles County, police said...
View ArticleIncarnation Catholic, Our Lady of the Ridge to close at school year's end
Incarnation Catholic School in Palos Heights and Our Lady of the Ridge School in Chicago Ridge will close their doors for good at the end of the school year because of low enrollment and financial...
View ArticleMan charged with West Side carjacking attempt using ride-share
A man who was a passenger in a ride-sharing car when he tried to carjack a 64-year-old man this week was arrested at his home after investigators identified him using surveillance video, authorities...
View ArticleScotty Bowman says he thinks Corey Crawford’s injury concussion-related
A new wrinkle was added Wednesday night to the mysterious Corey Crawford injury saga. Scotty Bowman, a senior adviser for the Blackhawks, said during a radio interview with CJCL-AM 590 out of Toronto...
View ArticleWarriors respect talent and potential of Bulls' Lauri Markkanen
As a fellow Arizona product, Steve Kerr watched Lauri Markkanen “all the time” last year in Markkanen’s lone season with the Wildcats. The Warriors coach appreciates the talent, not just the school...
View ArticleArchdiocese: 5 Catholic schools to close, several parishes merge
The Archdiocese of Chicago will close five Catholic schools at the end of the school year due to declining enrollment and financial constraints, officials announced Wednesday night. St. Cyprian School...
View ArticleGovernment shutdown threat remains with divisions over immigration, military...
Bitter divisions in both parties threatened Wednesday to derail Congress's effort to keep the federal government fully operating past the end of the week. The shutdown threat emerged on two fronts:...
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