White Sox offense "one knock short" in series loss against Angels
Still maybe just one knock short here to get us over the hump and get us the lead, but our pitching is keeping us in there ...
'I wasn't throwing out rainbows.' Gay Chicago firefighters, on TV and in real life, focus on their jobs
An interview with the actor playing a gay firefighter on "Chicago Fire" raises the question: What's it like for actual gay ...
Lil Durk releases ‘Deep Thoughts’ album while jailed on murder-for-hire charges
The 32-year-old Chicago rapper released the 17-track album Friday. He remains jailed in Los Angeles on murder-for-hire ...
Feds want $3.1 million from Michael Madigan after his conviction for ComEd bribery plot
Madigan was the longest-serving state House leader in the United States. A jury found him guilty of conspiring to be ...
Transit reform, state funding's bumpy road
Pretty much everyone at the statehouse has said that funding won’t happen without reform. But the transit leaders are still ...
Sen. Dick Durbin warns of food insecurity as cuts loom: 'People who need this most are virtually invisible'
With 6,000 USDA jobs hanging in the balance as a federal board looks into their termination, funding cuts have impacted ...
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Opinion: When newsrooms shrink, we all lose
The local journalists still on their beats continue to work tirelessly — often under difficult and precarious conditions — to ...
At White Sox Opening Day, time marches on even as some things never change
Three and a half hours before first pitch, I got out of my car and spotted an army tailgating in Lot E. Not long after, my ...
Judge aims to sentence ComEd defendants in July, but attorney calls it ‘reckless'
The public wants the case closed, prosecutors argue, but the defense wants to wait for the Justice Department to review it.
Trump’s DOJ to investigate L.A. County Sheriff’s Department over long waits for gun permits
The DOJ said it is likely that wait times for concealed carry permits are "unduly burdening, or effectively denying" 2nd ...
Health coverage for Chicago area immigrants jeopardized in Gov. Pritzker’s budget proposal
Nearly 33,000 Illinoisans without legal status — including 22,000 in Cook County — could be left without health care if lawmakers approve Gov. JB Pritzker's budget proposal to eliminate a costly ...