A stalled project to renovate the children's garden at the Garfield Park Conservatory is expected to break ground Friday morning. The new Elizabeth Morse Genius Childrens Garden, first announced in 2021, will cost $10 million to complete. The Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance, the partner organization for the conservatory, mounted a yearslong fundraising ...

November is National Family Caregivers Month, when we celebrate these unsung heroes. It is also a time to elevate the voices of Americas 53 million family caregivers, who contribute a staggering $600 billion in unpaid labor to the U.S. economy each year.Unfortunately, the contributions of this essential health care workforce go mostly unrecognized.According ...

The FBI secured permission to record the phone calls of former Hillary Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle in October 2014, in the early stages of what turned out to be a massive public corruption investigation in which Solis Doyle was never charged, an agent testified Thursday.The investigation was not related to the presidential campaign, instead ...

A man fatally shot Wednesday morning while driving a 6-month-old boy, who was grazed in the shooting, has been identified.Leonardo Martinez, 35, and the boy were northbound in the 2400 block of South Oakley Avenue around 10:45 a.m. Wednesday when a blue vehicle approached and someone inside opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County ...

Thomas Brown gathered his offense on Monday, less than 24 hours after the Bears gut-punch loss to the rival Packers, and delivered a message in his signature direct style.There are no atta-boys in this game, he said. We play the game to win. We came up short.There was room for kudos for Brown, though, after he emerged from yet another chaotic week at Halas ...

The sophomore trio of Kenwoods Devin Cleveland, Bolingbrooks Davion Thompson and Warrens Jaxson Davis took the state by storm last season. The three guards turned in historically impressive freshman seasons, leading their teams to a combined 82-18 record.It was good to see us have a positive impact on Chicago basketball, Thompson said. It was kind of on the ...

Bears special teams coordinator Richard Hightower said poor protection technique and not kicker Cairo Santos low trajectory or the hash mark or the distance he was kicking from was the root of the breakdown that led to Santos 46-yard field goal getting blocked on the final play of a 20-19 loss to the Packers on Sunday at Soldier Field.And he took the ...

Brandon Spano knew his roster of daily digital sports shows was gaining traction. In 2021, his ALLCITY Network had expanded into Phoenix after launching in Denver two years before, and the programming had viewers engaging for 25 to 30 minutes on average. Thats significant in a time of short attention spans.Though the shows were only available on YouTube and ...

Patrick Finley and Jason Lieser preview Sunday's game against the Vikings. New episodes of Halas Intrigue will be published regularly with accompanying stories collected on the podcasts hub page. You can also listen to Halas Intrigue wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Luminary, Spotify and Pandora. ...

The U.S. Postal Service is offering a $150,000 reward for anyone who can provide information leading to the arrest of a suspect accused of robbing a letter carrier on the South Side.A letter carrier was robbed about 4 p.m. on Nov. 14 near 6200 S. Evans Ave., the Postal Service said. The suspect then ran toward East 63rd Street.The Postal Service said the ...

MILWAUKEE It is not going well for Josh Giddey this season.Its evident in his body language, its obvious in his words after games.The Bulls point guard is watching his minutes dissipate, he hasnt been closing games for the last few weeks, hes been pulled a handful of times for blown defensive assignments, and only Ayo Dosunmu (minus-119) has an uglier ...

When the City Council unanimously rejected Mayor Brandon Johnsons proposed $300 million property tax increase, it blew a giant hole in the citys $17.3 billion budget.Now, the hole is getting bigger.A tax on burner phones and pre-paid calling cards the Johnson administration was counting on to raise $40 million has been shot down in Springfield.Illinois ...

When it was released in 1988, "Die Hard" presented an anomaly of a film protagonist: a working-class, scrappy underdog hero with only reasonable musculature (for Hollywood, at least) who unwittingly finds himself in the center of the action. This stood in stark contrast to other top-grossing action franchises featuring Rambos, RoboCops and Ripleys out for ...

Los pasajeros del transporte pblico podrn agregar un poco de alegra navidea a su viaje cuando el tren y autobs navideos de la Autoridad de Trnsito de Chicago (CTA, por sus siglas en ingls) regresen a finales de este mes.El tren navideo estar iluminado con luces brillantes y coloridas por 33 ao consecutivo mientras Santa Claus saluda a los pasajeros, jvenes ...

Un beb de 6 meses recibi un rozn en la mejilla por un disparo que tambin mat a un hombre que conduca el mircoles por la maana en el vecindario Heart of Chicago, dijeron las autoridades.A eso de las 10:45 a.m., un hombre de 35 aos y el nio se dirigan hacia el norte en la cuadra 2400 al sur de Oakley Avenue cuando se acerc un vehculo azul y alguien que estaba ...

Un ao despus que Michael J. Madigan obtuvo el respaldo sin precedentes en 2016 del entonces representante de los EE.UU., Luis Gutirrez, Madigan se encontr en una reunin con Gutirrez y Juan Ochoa, un destacado empresario latino que buscaba un puesto en la junta directiva de ComEd.Ochoa crea que el puesto debera ser para un candidato latino. No le impresion ...

Its not often that a highly-touted pitcher transitions from Japans Nippon Professional Baseball to Major League Baseball at only 23 years old.Right-hander Roki Sasaki is breaking from the more common and lucrative path waiting to turn 25, after at least six NPB seasons, in order to enter major-league free agency to post as an amateur free agent this ...

Don't be a Scrooge! Fill your holiday season with joyful noise at these Chicago-area concerts. Some shows are for the jingle lovers out there, while others are simply a welcome distraction from the slushy Chicago winter. From pop to folk, orchestral and jazz you're sure to find something "ring tingle tingling" in the Chicago music scene before the new ...

For the third time in the past four elections, voters removed a Cook County judge from the bench something which hadnt happened in the previous three decades.Judge Shannon OMalley, 62, a first-term judge in the courts child protection division, was ousted by voters in the Nov. 5 election after Injustice Watch raised questions about whether he met state ...

Antisemitism exists in U.S. medicine the healing profession. We educate future doctors in medical schools and residency, including in Chicago. We care about clinical skills, scientific knowledge and moral compass. A stethoscope and technical skills are not enough. They must bring humanity, moral character, agency and an unbiased lens.Hostile environments ...

Americans don't put much stock in philosophy or so I assume. Whenever somebody else makes a sweeping statement like that, I always scowl, thinking: "Really? How do you know? Met 'em all, have you?"My guess is that most Americans don't consider philosophy I mean, just look at them. Nor weigh thorny ethical issues. If you asked your average fellow citizen ...

Nam khao, or crispy rice salad, is a signature dish from Laos. Jasmine rice with red curry is fried then flavored with fish sauce, cilantro and lime, and eaten on top of a crunchy lettuce leaf. It's also made with pork, or without for vegetarians.Since August, customers outside of Chicago have been able to sample nam khao and 10 other ready-made dishes from ...

The upcoming Thanksgiving holiday period is projected to be the busiest on record with nearly 80 million people traveling over 50 miles from home, according to auto club AAA.The potentially record-setting holiday could be hampered by bad weather, which forecaster say could hit much of the country.Illinois and most of the continental U.S. have an elevated ...

The Sun-Times experts offer their picks for the Bears game Sunday against the Vikings at Soldier Field (noon, Fox 32):Rick MorrisseyVikings, 24-17: The big question now besides whether Matt Eberflus will be fired the day after the final game or the day after that is whether the Bears will win again this season. The road to 4-13 rolls along with a loss to ...

Since Hamlet was written around 1599-1601, Shakespeares piercing story of revenge has intrigued and challenged artists of all kinds, inspiring hundreds of stagings, adaptations and depictions across the worlds of theater, dance, music and visual art.Its THE play in the sense that it is the great theatrical masterpiece of all times, said famed Canadian stage ...