DEAR ABBY: I have been with my girlfriend, "Kim," for a year and a half. We are both in our 40s and very independent. Her mother struggles with our relationship because we are two women. She has told Kim our relationship is an embarrassment for her. She didn't know her daughter is a lesbian until we began seeing each other. Kim's mother has said that if I ...

The older man in the fire-engine red shirt and pressed white pants shuffled over to the gym mats and began growling commands.No, no, no! Dont reach back reach forward, he told a 10-year-old girl with ropy braids.Then came the next child.Dont fall over like spaghetti, he said, reaching out a hand to guide her into a forward roll. ...

Tom Jeffries made his first buck with a bow a big deal.On Nov. 1, he arrowed a wide nine-point buck in Kendall County."The buck field dressed at a whooping 268 pounds and was estimated to be over 8 years old, per my butcher," he emailed. "By no means the biggest buck Ive ever harvested, but definitely the largest deer Ive had to drag out on my own and my ...

Salisbury steakMakes 4 servingsPreparation time: about 15 minutesCooking time: less than 10 minutesINGREDIENTS1 pound lean ground beef1/3 cup finely chopped onion1/4 cup saltine cracker crumbs1 egg white, slightly beaten2 tablespoons 1% milk1 tablespoon prepared horseradish1/4 teaspoon coarse salt1/8 teaspoon pepper1 (12-ounce) jar mushroom gravyCombine ...

Tis the season! And with the season of holiday joy also comes preparing your small business and its finances. Being one step ahead of the hustle and bustle of the holiday season is all about forecasting cash flow, hiring seasonal help, and managing the marketing budget, among many things. These are critical for creating strong financial confidence during ...

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DETROIT Bob Loves playing career for the Bulls was legendary.Thats why hes one of four retired numbers hanging from the rafters of the United Center.But on the same day that the team announced that Love, 81, had died after a long battle with cancer, the people and Bulls personnel that knew him said the man, not just the player, was more impressive than a ...

DETROIT There was fight.No really, with just over a minute left in the first quarter, Detroit big man Isaiah Stewart and Bulls reserve guard Dalen Terry got tangled up on a rebound and then got tangled up with each other. A quick tossing of bodies, and then Terry tried to go after the 6-foot-8, 250-pounder, before teammate Jalen Smith grabbed Terry and ...

A Chicago man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for robbing three banks in Chicago and Evergreen Park at gunpoint, the U.S. attorneys office said.Christopher Porter, 53, robbed two Chicago banks and one in Evergreen Park between November 2020 and February 2021, making off with more than $11,300, prosecutors said. In all of robberies, he pointed a gun at ...

In the midst of football season, the Bulls abruptly got my basketball attention.In back-to-back losses to the Cavaliers and Rockets on Friday and Sunday, the Bulls gave up 144 and 143 points. Thats 287 points in two games. Thats a big wow.Me, I remember when the Michael Jordan-led Bulls were giving up 88 and 86 points in Games 2 and 3 and 75 in the ...

A settlement for $550,000 was reached with a Glenview construction company accused of misclassifying and underpaying employees for six years, according to the Illinois attorney generals office.Polo Masonry Builders Inc., United Builders Group Co. and company owners Petro Pariychuk and Oleh Synychak will be ordered to pay back the workers the wages they were ...

The day after one of Michael J. Madigans top door-knockers won a seat on the Cook County Board in October 2016, he placed a call to lobbyist Jay Doherty and explained that, the Speaker wanted me to reach out.Longtime Madigan precinct captain Ed Moody had collected $144,000 since March 2014 from ComEd through Dohertys firm, records show. But Doherty ...

A woman faces hate crime charges after allegedly berating a man wearing a hoodie with the word "Palestine" on it at a Downers Grove Panera restaurant.Alexandra Szustakiewicz, a 64-year-old Darien woman, allegedly confronted the man and yelled expletives at him while trying to hit his pregnant wife just before noon Saturday at the restaurant, Downers Grove ...

DETROIT Coby White pulled no punches in assessing his teams lack of defensive effort in Sundays embarrassing performance against Houston, and less than 24 hours later, Whites coach followed suit.I give him credit, Billy Donovan said of White. I think what he echoed after the game was exactly how I felt coming off the game. From my perspective, Ive always ...

Chicago may see its first snowfall of the season overnight Wednesday and into Thursday morning, according to the National Weather Service.Showers are forecast in the city through Saturday, and after Tuesdays high of around 60, temperatures are slated to drop, with highs in the mid to low 40s through the rest of the week. Low temperatures could drop to ...

More than a dozen brands are recalling bags of organic carrots that were sold in 18 states for potential E. coli contamination, federal officials announced.An E. coli outbreak in multiple states tied to the carrots is being investigated by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the agency said in a statement. One person has died and 15 have been ...

The musical Falsettos came into being in the early 1990s as the fusion of two one-act, sung-through musicals composed by William Finn nearly a decade apart. March of the Falsettos, written in the late 70s and set in 1979, deals with the family fallout from the central character Marvins having left his wife Trina and son Jason for his gay lover Whizzer. In ...

A Chicago rapper has pleaded guilty for his role in the wire fraud conspiracy case involving fellow local rapper G Herbo.Terrence Bender, 32, entered a plea Thursday to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in a Massachusetts federal court, the Department of Justice said in a news release Monday.Bender, whose stage names are Blends and Dopeblends, ...

Caleb Williams was detailing what was different Sunday when he said something that sounded obvious: new offensive coordinator Thomas Brown called the plays into Williams helmet faster than Shane Waldron ever did.Thomas being in control, just getting a few calls in super-fast, Williams said after the soul-sucking 20-19 loss to the rival Packers. As soon as a ...

If you woke up on Tuesday, Nov. 5 and went to bed early the night before, you woke up to the news not just about Election Day but also the news that another Chicago police officer was murdered in the line of duty.Officer Enrique Martinez, whose funeral was held on Monday, was one month shy of his third year on the job when he was brutally gunned down ...

A Monday autopsy determined a 25-year-old man who was slain in Washington Heights died of multiple gunshot wounds, officials said. The still-unidentified victim was on a sidewalk in the 9500 block of South Genoa Avenue when someone shot him in the back and left leg about 4:25 a.m. Sunday, police said. He was pronounced dead about two hours later, at 6:29 ...

The co-chair of the City Councils Progressive Caucus scoffed Monday at Mayor Brandon Johnsons claim that he has brokered a deal to cut his resoundingly rejected $300 million property tax increase in half.Ald. Andre Vasquez (40th) characterized the negotiating session he participated in more than a week ago as the great beginning of a conversation and a ...

If Bears coach Matt Eberflus had more credibility, he could withstand losing to the Packers on a blocked field goal Sunday. He could write it off as just one of those random things that happen.But those things always happen to him.The snafus continue piling up on Eberflus, and the latest was forfeiting the chance to advance at least a few extra yards before ...

Bears coach Matt Eberflus will not learn from what happened leading up to the blocked field goal that cost his team the game against the Packers on Sunday because he believes he handled it correctly.Down 20-19, the Bears reached the Packers' 30-yard line got a two-yard run by Roschon Johnson to the 28 with 28 seconds left, but rather than run another play, ...

A two-play sequence in a dire moment of the Bears ill-fated rally against the Packers on Sunday highlighted Caleb Williams growing connection with fellow rookie Rome Odunze. On the first play he found Odunze. On the critical one, he looked for him.It was arguably the best example of why Bears general manager Ryan Poles drafted Odunze with the No. 9 overall ...