MILWAUKEE Doc Rivers got emotional Wednesday when speaking about Bob Love, the former Chicago Bulls star forward and three-time All-Star who died Monday at the age of 81 after a long battle with cancer.Love, who spent 11 years in the NBA, forged a special bond with Rivers when the Bucks coach was a teenager growing up in Chicago.He was a big guy in my ...

Forget about breaking out when it comes to these seniors.In terms of production, theyve already generated significant numbers in their careers. But theyve done so in relative obscurity, whether it be due to lack of team success or playing for a program that hasnt been seen enough.Heres the list of underrated and overlooked seniors set for big seasons once ...

No one was injured in a residential fire Wednesday night in the North Center neighborhood. ...

MILWAUKEE The homework is being handed out.Its just not always being finished and turned back in.Thats fine against a Detroit team that is equivalent to lunch or gym class, but against Professor Giannis and the Milwaukee Bucks even with their 6-9 underachieving start? Thats a recipe for defensive failure. An all-too familiar storyline for this Bulls team ...

The parents of a woman found dead in a South Loop apartment building can bury their daughter after a judge denied her husband's latest efforts to delay a funeral and reclaim custody of her remains.Caitlin Tracey, 37, was found dead with a severed foot Oct. 27 at the bottom of a stairwell in her husbands apartment building. Police said she had fallen 20 ...

A 14-year-old boy was shot and wounded Wednesday night in West Englewood.The boy was walking about 6 p.m. in the 6900 block of South Wood Street when someone drove up to him in a car, pointed a gun and then fired shots, Chicago police said.The boy suffered three gunshot wounds to his thigh. He was taken to Comer Childrens Hospital, where he was listed in ...

MILWAUKEE Less than a week ago, Patrick Williams sounded like a guy that was in as good a head space as hes been as a Bull.He was coming off three-straight productive games on both ends of the floor and feeling like he finally understood his role.By Wednesday morning, that felt all gone for the forward.The team announced that after the win in Detroit on ...

Days into the New Year, the red flags were waving wildly when Constantin Beldie dragged his estranged wife into a bathroom, where he punched, slapped and kicked her, while telling her he could easily kill her.It wasn't an empty threat. Beldie fatally stabbed 54-year-old Lacramioara Beldie on Tuesday, then was found dead in a car a block away from the scene ...

TheaterThe Beatrix Potter Holiday Party features four classic Beatrix Potter stories that come to life in a 45-minute show followed by puppet play, photos, crafts and holiday treats in the lobby. From Nov. 23-Dec. 29 at Chicago Childrens Theatre, 100 S. Racine. Tickets: $45.25. Visit chicagochildrenstheatre.org. ...

A coalition of anti-abortion groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the states law that mandates health insurers in Illinois cover abortion care.The groups argue that they are being forced to indirectly pay for abortions with their premiums, and contend that the law is unconstitutional because it provides no exceptions or accommodations for ...

A former Chicago Public Schools assistant principal has been sentenced to probation for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Near West Side elementary school.Tracey Canty-Robinson, 56, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a single count of continuing financial crimes enterprise before Judge Stanley Sacks, Cook County court records show.Prosecutors ...

Three people are dead after the driver of a car bypassed a train crossing barrier and was struck by a freight train Wednesday in Harvey.The driver of a car went around a lowered crossing gate near 152nd Street and Park Avenue in the south suburb about 12:30 p.m. and was hit by a CSX locomotive, the transportation company said in a statement.The three ...

For the first time since 2020, soon neither AT&T Illinois nor ComEd will be facing criminal charges.A federal judge on Wednesday agreed to dismiss a criminal case against AT&T Illinois, involving a criminal charge leveled two years ago against the telecommunications giant as part of a sprawling public corruption investigation into the company's former ...

A Crystal Lake man is pleading guilty to assaulting law enforcement during the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.Robert Giacchetti, 59, is pleading guilty to one count of assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers, the U.S. Attorneys Office for the District of Columbia announced in a Wednesday news release. He joins more than 50 Illinois ...

A northwest suburban GOP state representative appears poised for reelection by a margin of just 47 votes over a better-funded Democratic challenger.With the final ballots counted this week in the hotly contested 52nd House District that includes Algonquin, Wauconda and Mundelein, Republican state Rep. Martin McLaughlin, R-Barrington Hills, had 29,520 votes ...

McRib fans, your wait is nearly over. The McRib sandwich returns to McDonald's menu nationwide for a limited time, starting Dec. 3.The sandwich's imminent return was expected as McDonalds USA president Joe Erlinger told the "Today" show back in June the McRib would be coming back sometime in 2024. "It will be back," he said.Last month, some local McDonald's ...

Prosecutors say a Barrington man accused of fatally shooting his estranged girlfriend in the chest Sunday savagely beat her with a baseball bat before opening fire. William R. Zientek, 46, of the 400 block of West Russell Street, was ordered held at Cook County Jail following a detention hearing Wednesday before Judge Ellen Mandeltort at the Rolling Meadows ...

Lets cut to the chase in regard to White Sox prospect Colson Montgomery: He feels 2025 is his time to grab hold of the starting shortstop job right from the jump and then never let it go.Yes, he said Wednesday, I do envision myself doing that.A miserable Sox season you havent forgotten about those 121 losses, have you? might have been a tad brighter with ...

News of Teresa Weatherspoon's firing in September hit the basketball world like a sudden rainstorm. The Sky had anything but a sunny season finishing 13-27 and failing to make the playoffs for the first time since 2018 but to many 11 months was far from enough time for Weatherspoon to establish herself. Eight weeks after her abrupt firing, Weatherspoon ...

Of all the new revenue sources being studied to minimize or eliminate the need to raise property taxes, none has divided the City Council like raising garbage collection fees.Chicagos garbage collection fee has been frozen at $9.50-a-month since being imposed in 2016. It raises $68.8 million, covering just 40% of the citys $167.2 million in annual refuse ...

Kevin OConnells Vikings had just won their third consecutive game Sunday when the head coach was asked exactly how good they could be.I'm old enough to remember when nobody thought we were very good, he said.He didnt have to think back very far. At the start of training camp, some penciled the Vikings for last in the NFC North, ahead of even the Bears. Then ...

Whether theyre excruciating or embarrassing, losses to the Packers often leave Bears fans without any hope, ready to fire everyone and start over. But Caleb Williams improved performance under new offensive coordinator Thomas Brown was a breath of life found in the rubble of a 20-19 loss to the Packers on Sunday an indication that maybe all is not lost.It ...

Stock imagepixdeluxe/Getty Images In Chicago and across Illinois, small businesses play an integral role in local communities by driving economic growth, creating jobs and fostering neighborhood development. However, fluctuating interest rates on borrowing, ...

Theater writer Kris Vire was always a champion of Chicago's scrappy storefront theater scene because he could relate to the little guy.Mr. Vire was bartending on the North Side and running a blog called Storefront Rebellion, which reviewed storefront theater productions, when Christopher Piatt, who served as editor at Time Out Chicago at the time, reached ...

I am an Adult Education teacher at City Colleges of Chicago. Like the majority of adult education teachers in the system, I teach a combination of English as a Second Language and General Education Development classes for adult students. My students range from recently arrived in Chicago to having lived in Chicago for many years. All of my students are ...