North Shore congressional candidates split on Trump, gun control
For nearly two decades, suburban Republicans had a political name brand on the ticket in a North Shore congressional district as Mark Kirk won five straight times and Robert Dold won twice and lost...
View ArticleJ.R. Smith suspended one game for throwing bowl of soup at Cavaliers assistant
Chicken noodle or tomato? J.R. Smith didn't serve up any explanation. Cleveland's mercurial shooting guard declined an interview request Friday, a day after the Cavaliers suspended him one game for...
View ArticleFresh start for Northwestern next season begins with new gym and a talented...
Decades from now, will anyone remember Northwestern’s 2017-18 season? When the players return to campus to be feted and the video montage ends with the dog-pile celebration after the win over Michigan...
View ArticleJon Lester remains a dinosaur in a changing game
Jon Lester isn’t budging from his goal of throwing 200 innings in 2018, even though the evolution of the game suggests he may want to lower his sights. But good luck telling Lester what to do. The...
View ArticleSEC dropped inquiry a month after Kushner company got $180 million loan on...
The Securities and Exchange Commission late last year dropped its inquiry into a financial company that a month earlier had given White House adviser Jared Kushner's family real estate firm a $180...
View ArticleDelta, now entangled in controversy, says it sold just 13 tickets under NRA...
Caught in a maelstrom over his company's decision to cut ties with the National Rifle Association, Delta Air Lines chief executive Ed Bastian said Friday that his intention had been to "remain...
View Article2 cited in fiery pileup on I-290 near Elmhurst that killed Northwest Indiana man
The driver of a tractor-trailer that struck and killed a northwest Indiana man and injured three others in a seven-vehicle pileup on I-290 on Thursday has been cited for failing to reduce his speed,...
View ArticleOscars: Faye Dunaway, Warren Beatty expected to return to present best...
Despite last year's infamous best picture mix-up, Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty are expected back at this year's Oscars to again present the final award. Sources confirmed the duo will give it...
View ArticleNew hope for those with alcoholic hepatitis: Some area hospitals easing liver...
Since losing her daughter five years ago, Terri Oesterle has been speaking out about the challenges she endured. She speaks about her daughter’s alcohol addiction, the bullying she experienced, and...
View ArticleResidents raise concerns about plan for Aurora Burger King
Some Aurora residents are not happy about plans to build a new Burger King in their neighborhood. An Aurora City Council committee recently recommended a variance and final plan for a Burger King...
View ArticleState board approves closing 79-year-old Wirt-Emerson school in Gary
The 2018 graduating class of Gary’s Wirt-Emerson School of Visual and Performing Arts is likely its last. A state board charged with overseeing the Gary Community School Corp.’s finances approved a...
View ArticleJudge 'gags' lawyers in murder case of ex-Northwestern professor
A Cook County judge has quietly placed a “gag order” on attorneys involved in the case of a former Northwestern professor and a British national charged in a fatal stabbing last summer. Court records...
View ArticleBoy, 14, fatally wounded in shooting on South Side
A 14-year-old boy was fatally wounded Friday morning in a shooting on the South Side in the McKinley Park neighborhood, Chicago police said. Police said the boy was with a male friend inside a stolen...
View ArticleEmanuel doesn’t say whether he’ll apologize to LeGrier’s mother, who city...
Mayor Rahm Emanuel didn’t say directly Friday whether he would apologize to the mother of Quintonio LeGrier — a 19-year-old shot to death by a Chicago police officer in 2015 — after court records show...
View ArticleChicago-area teen suspected of fatally shooting two people at Central...
A student from southwest suburban Chicago has been identified as the suspected gunman who fatally shot two people at Central Michigan University on Friday and remains at large. The suspect has been...
View Article'We hate to cut teachers': Warren Township High School staff reductions...
Facing a $3.1 million projected deficit and continued declining enrollment, Warren Township High School District 121 is set to lay off three teachers and one librarian this summer, its superintendent...
View ArticleInspiring Ridgewood senior scores at the end of loss to North Chicago
The Ridgewood boys basketball team's season ended on an uplifting note Friday. After North Chicago pulled away in the second half of the Class 3A Elmwood Park Regional title game, Ridgewood senior...
View ArticlePolice arrest student suspected of killing parents in Central Michigan...
A 19-year-old student suspected of killing his parents at a Central Michigan University dormitory before running from campus was apprehended early Saturday following an intensive daylong search that...
View ArticleWidow unsure what to do with husband's trophies
Dear Amy: My husband passed away a year ago and left behind many awards, trophies, certificates and plaques. Our kids, like others of their generation, just are not that interested in collecting...
View ArticleMessing with Texas, yet again
If you want to get your left-leaning friends all fired up — and maybe, if they’re political junkies, even veering into the territory of delirious excitement — start talking about turning Texas blue....
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