PALM BEACH, Fla. The Bears were among the 16 teams that voted to ban the Tush Push, chairman George McCaskey said Wednesday. The vote total fell well short of the 24 needed to ban the Eagles patented sneak in which the quarterback is shoved from behind.I know they say that we dont have sufficient injury data on it, but, to us, it appears to be an ...

April showers bring May flowers so as wet spring weather descends on Chicago, residents might be looking for an indoor activity that won't break the bank. Museums in and around Chicago offer free days for Illinois residents throughout the month of April, and some spots are always free and open to the public. Here are the free museum days for Illinois ...

INDIANAPOLIS Trey Bonham scored 23 points and Honor Huff hit a big 3-pointer late to lead Chattanooga to an 80-73 victory over Loyola in an NIT semifinal at Hinkle Fieldhouse on Tuesday night.The Mocs (28-9) will play UC Irvine in the championship game on Thursday. The Anteaters (32-6) set a school record for wins in a season after beating North Texas ...

PALM BEACH, Fla. In a marked shift in public tone, Bears president/CEO Kevin Warren said Wednesday the team is considering both Arlington Heights and the lakefront as potential stadium sites. Even though the Bears have owned 326 acres in Arlington Heights for more than two years, they had maintained publicly their focus remained on building a stadium on ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) Val Kilmer, the brooding, versatile actor who played fan favorite Iceman in Top Gun, donned a voluminous cape as Batman in Batman Forever and portrayed Jim Morrison in The Doors, has died. He was 65.Kilmer died Tuesday night in Los Angeles, surrounded by family and friends, his daughter, Mercedes Kilmer, said in an email to The Associated ...

More than 100 flight delays have been reported at O'Hare and Midway early Wednesday as thunderstorms move through the Chicago area. A ground delay went into effect around 5 a.m. at O'Hare and was expected to last most of the day due to the storms, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The average delay at O'Hare was slightly over two hours. As of 6 ...

DEAR ABBY: I was married to a police officer for 20 years. It wasn't a warm marriage. We divorced 20 years ago. Our one child is in his late 30s. I always put my son first and loved him with all my heart.During the last year of my marriage, my ex was poisoning my coffee. After drinking my one cup of afternoon coffee, my heart rate would go as high as 200 ...

Late last month, a Chicago family confronted the unimaginable after 8-year-old Josiah Hooker died and his 5-year-old brother was injured when police say they accessed a gun left unattended at a South Side home.Josiah and children across Illinois are growing up in a society where gun violence remains the leading cause of their death and where one in three ...

Corned beef, which no doubt made an appearance on many St. Patricks Day tables last week, isn't the only food to which corning, or salt-curing, can be applied. Corning originally was named for the corn kernel-size pellets of salt used to preserve meat in times before refrigeration, but the method today is used to permeate food with flavor.For a ...

Moon alertThere are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The moon is in Gemini.Aries (March 21-April 19) A positive day .HoroscopeStarbox { background: #f8f8f8; display: flex; align-items: center; } ...

It was a familiar sight for White Sox fans in the sixth inning.Holding a three-run lead, the Sox needed one out to escape the inning. But starter Shane Smith making his major-league debut suddenly couldnt find the strike zone, walking center fielder Byron Buxton and left fielder Trevor Larnach to end his day. He failed to get either Twins hitter to chase ...

Richard Irvin is out as mayor of Aurora, losing his re-election bid Tuesday to at-large Ald. John Laesch in the western suburb's runoff election.Irvin conceded late Tuesday, ending his run as mayor of Illinois' second largest city, which spans parts of DuPage, Kane, Kendall and Will counties. I hope the residents and politicians of Aurora put aside the ...

Billy Donovan was still working from an unknown.The Bulls coach insisted that his team had shown resiliency since the All-Star Break, that there had been no let-up in their practice and gameday habits. But then again, it had been quite some time since they were physically and mentally dismantled like they were Monday in a one-sided contest in Oklahoma ...

White Sox left fielder Andrew Benintendi cant escape the dialogue. Its the most-discussed topic in baseball right now: torpedo bats.Those heavier bats became all the rage after the Yankees blasted 15 homers over their first three games, including a 20-run explosion against the Brewers. The bat is from the mind of Marlins coach Aaron Leanhardt, who created ...

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. Take a closer look at Dansby Swansons game bat, and the curvature starts to look a little odd.While the bat he swung last year and continues to use in batting practice follows a traditional shape, this one tapers at the end.Swanson is in the growing legion of players who have adopted the torpedo bat, made famous this past weekend ...

An Army sergeant from Joliet was among four U.S. soldiers who were found dead in Lithuania a week after they went missing in an armored vehicle during a training exercise.Sgt. Jose Duenez Jr., 25, was identified after his body was found Monday along with Sgt. Edvin F. Franco, 25, of Glendale, California; and Pfc. Dante D. Taitano, 21, of Dededo, Guam. The ...

Multiple rounds of severe storms are expected to move across the Chicago area this week. Starting early Wednesday, the area could see showers, thunderstorms and wind gusts up to 30 mph, the National Weather Service said. A second, more powerful round of storms could develop late Wednesday morning and linger into the afternoon. The storms could bring ...

Jason House resoundingly defeated independent Casundra Hopson-Jordan in the race for Dolton mayor Tuesday, putting the eight-year trustee at the helm of a south suburb that has faced steady political turmoil for the last several years.With 94% of precincts reporting, House garnered 95% of the vote compared to 4.6% for Hopson-Jordan. House's margin of ...

A woman was found dead inside a burning home in Washington Heights on Tuesday afternoon. Firefighters found the 88-year-old woman inside a home that had caught fire in the 9400 block of South Lowe Avenue about 4:30 p.m., Chicago police said. The woman was found unresponsive in the living room with burns to her body, authorities said. She was pronounced ...

It was a bad time for Dalen Terry to be sidelined.The Bulls reserve has watched his stock continue to rise the last few weeks, not only getting more consistent playing time, but also getting the chance to close out several games in crunch time.That was put on hold on Tuesday, however, with Terry getting kicked in the right calf in Mondays loss to the ...

Bridgeport resident Ellen Grimes, 66, is fed up. She has tried finding a more affordable homeowners insurance policy for her two-flat but kept getting rejected by companies that didnt want to insure her 1880s-era home.After a year of trying to find a decent rate, I gave up, Grimes said. Her annual premium this year is $3,246. In 2020, it was $2,423. The ...

Luke Yozze, 15, shot a 22.5-pound turkey with 1-inch spurs Saturday, the opening morning of the first youth spring turkey season, on private land in Will County.The cool part is it had two beards of 8 and 9 inches, dad Bill emailed.Illinois second youth spring turkey season is this weekend. Regular seasons open Monday in the south zone and April 14 in the ...

Sometimes good things do come in small packages. That is certainly the case with Frida Kahlos Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds, a new exhibition that runs through July 13 at the Art Institute of Chicago.This smart, compact show offers a fascinating, highly focused look at an all-but-unknown moment in art history 4 weeks or so in February and ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson has a long way to go to realize his dream of becoming Chicagos longest-serving mayor.But he proudly proclaimed Tuesday that there are a couple of things that Richard M. Daley and I do have some alignment around: Running successful Democratic National Conventions and avoiding teachers strikes.A former middle school teacher turned paid ...

Summer sentencing dates have been scheduled for four former ComEd officials and lobbyists convicted of conspiring to illegally influence former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan.A federal jury in May 2023 convicted Madigan ally Michael McClain, former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore, ex-ComEd lobbyist John Hooker and onetime City Club President Jay ...