A Department of Streets and Sanitation truck driver who brought a firearm into a city building and left it in a bathroom.A construction laborer with an expired firearms owners identification card and no concealed carry license found with an illegal firearm in his or her personal vehicle.A Chicago police lieutenant with an unlawful interest in a company ...

Do not be fooled by the Jackie Robinson jersey giveaway the Los Angeles Dodgers are doing or any of the empty platitudes they and Major League Baseball spout.Their lionizing of Robinson this year is the epitome of rank hypocrisy given their actions, or rather inaction, of recent weeks. Never forget that these same people who will claim to treasure Robinson ...

My childhood growing up in Pacific Grove, California was blessed with the kind of exposure to and immersion in nature that all kids deserve. We played among towering redwood trees that seemed to reach all the way to heaven. We surfed at Asilomar Beach and marveled at both how small we are in our place in nature, yet how connected we all are. And, a ...

A 24-year-old man who is accused of weapons violations after the fatal shooting of a 61-year-old doorman near the UIC/Halsted Blue Line station during an altercation over a fare was an employee for the transit authority, according to a police report.Luther Hopkins, 24 and of Calumet City, was charged with unlawful use of a weapon, according to police. No ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson is now being forced to reconsider his decision to shut down the controversial ShotSpotter system a move that set off a search for police technologies that some business leaders have slammed as slipshod and frantic.SoundThinking, ShotSpotters parent company, is among eight firms that submitted proposals to provide citywide gun violence ...

The Chicago Sky looked to take another major step in their rebuild around Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso during the 2025 WNBA Draft on Monday night. The team had two picks late in the first round and used them on Slovenian forward Aja Sivka and TCU guard Hailey Van Lith.Sivka, the third European player off the board in the draft, brings some floor-spacing ...

The Teri brothers contributed a pair of turkeys to Illinois' record youth spring turkey seasons. In Stephenson County, Luke (left), 17, bagged a turkey with an 11-inch bear and 1 1/4-inch spurs and Joe, 14, shot a tom with a 10-inch beard and 3/4-inch spurs. Both used 12-gauge shotguns, their father Matt emailed.Illinois youth hunters harvested a ...

A 35-year-old man is expected in court later Tuesday accusing of fatally stabbing his wife over the weekend in Lincoln Square. Nurmuhammed Inus, 35, is charged with first-degree murder, police said, after he allegedly fatally stabbed Mairunnisa B. Osman, 29, late Saturday night. Osman's 12-year-old daughter met with responding police officers and told ...

MONTREAL This Blackhawks season tired out defenseman Alex Vlasic.Vlasic, 23, began to notice an energy deficit around three-quarters of the way through the season. He powered through the fatigue, but it caused his performance to be less consistent than usual. Everybody is more prone to mistakes when theyre tired, and hes no exception.It wore on me, the ...

The long-awaited rebirth of a 120-year-old North Lawndale garden could begin this summer with the restoration of the park's 100-foot long Mediterranean Revival pergola, according to the project's advocates.Construction drawings are being finalized that will guide the rehabilitation of the historic wooden pergola a structure that is the key visual feature ...

DEAR ABBY: I am a single man with no siblings. My elderly father passed away eight months ago. My mother is now in hospice with a life expectancy of weeks to months. My parents have lived long and productive lives, and I'm proud of both of them. We have always been very close. Since their terminal illnesses, I have managed to function fairly well.My problem ...

This weekend, thousands of people will flock to Easter Sunday Masses at Catholic Churches throughout the Chicago area. Many of these congregants have not walked into the darkened portals of a church since Christmas. These twice-a-year worshippers have been given the classical sobriquet "Chreasters:" those who attend Mass on Christmas and Easter.Some clergy ...

Chicagoans are no strangers to shady towing practices. Unscrupulous towers monitor police radios, hear an accident dispatch and swoop in to prey on rattled drivers. In 2023 alone, the Illinois Commerce Commission received more than 500 towing complaints from consumers the bulk tied to tows in Chicago. While the ICC thoroughly investigates these complaints, ...

SAN DIEGO The Cubs 10-4 loss to the Padres on Tuesday quickly spiraled out of control in the late innings as the bullpen took over. But the turning point was far subtler than the home runs and multi-run hits that came later. It was a blooper hitting the grass in between two Gold Glovers.A good team like that, you make a couple mistakes, and they're going ...

Moon alertAvoid shopping or important decisions from 9 to 10 p.m. Chicago time. After that, the moon moves from Scorpio into Sagittarius.Aries (March 21-April 19) A positive day .HoroscopeStarbox { background: #f8f8f8; display: flex; align-items: center; ...

White Sox fans know things could be much worse for manager Will Venable.His squad is 4-11 through its first 15 games. But a year ago, Pedro Grifols team was 2-13 at this point and didnt reach four wins until the Sox 26th game of the season.Venables early record isnt one that anyone wants. And despite winning a weekend series against the Red Sox, the Sox ...

MONTREAL In a game Monday billed as the Canadiens biggest in years, it was the Blackhawks who earned arguably their biggest victory in years.Hawks rookie Frank Nazar led a valiant charge inside an electrified Bell Centre, eventually scoring a Patrick Kane-esque goal that nobody noticed in the shootout, to lift the visitors to a 4-3 victory and deny the ...

The ever-evolving nature of college football recruiting nearly derailed Bruno Massels plans to play at the next level.There's a happy ending to the York quarterback's story, as he's heading to rising power Indiana as a preferred walk-on.But the process was long and occasionally discouraging for one of the state's elite quarterbacks in 2024, and arguably the ...

As top prep football prospects continue to lock in offers while they're still viable in the portal era, two more of the state's top 20 juniors are off the recruiting board.Edge rusher Joey Quinn, a key member of Mount Carmel's Class 7A championship team last fall, has committed to Vanderbilt, while defensive lineman Daniel Howard of Lane has picked Iowa ...

A woman was injured in a shooting in Little Village on Monday night, Chicago police said.The woman, 39, was involved in a physical altercation with a person in the 4300 block of West 25th Place at 6:32 p.m. when the other person fired shots at her, police said. She was shot multiple times and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition.No one is in ...

Lorri Gyenes has been a Sky season-ticket holder for nearly as long as the team has existed.Back when they played at Allstate Arena in Rosemont, she would organize tailgates and introduce fans to each other. It earned her the nickname The Mayor of Skytown.On Monday, Gyenes joined hundreds of other fans new and old to watch the WNBA Draft at the Skys ...

The Sky still have a long way to go to be competitive, but picking up forward Ajsa Sivka from Slovenia with the No. 10 pick and TCU guard Hailey Van Lith on Monday should help their rebuild.Sivka starred in Slovenia in professional leagues and on the national team. Van Lith helped three programs reach the Elite Eight during her college career, including ...

SAN DIEGO The Cubs played like a more cohesive team this past weekend, as they won two out of three against the Dodgers, than they did in Tokyo, when they were swept by a shorthanded version of the defending World Series champions."They're arguably the best team in the game, from top to bottom," center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong said Sunday of the ...

The Sky still have a long way to go to be competitive, but picking up forward Ajsa Sivka from Slovenia with the No. 10 pick and TCU guard Hailey Van Lith on Monday should help their rebuild.It has been a hard slide for the Sky since winning the 2021 championship and reaching the semifinals in 22, and theyre looking for a young core to vault them back to ...

A Waukegan man has been charged with concealing the death of a missing Antioch woman after her body was found in a container on his property. Megan Bos, 37, was reported missing March 9. She was known to spend time in the Antioch and Waukegan areas. On April 10, Antioch police went into a Waukegan business to speak to Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez, a person of ...