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A man was "temporarily trapped" in the city's new self-cleaning bathroom in West Town Wednesday afternoon. The man used the facility around 3 p.m. and finished before the door automatically popped open after 15 minutes, said Paul Stewart, a spokesperson for JCDecaux, the bathroom's operator.“Everything worked the way it was designed to," said Stewart, […]

It’s starting to feel like the Bulls just can’t have nice things.A right-hand injury forced prized rookie Caleb Wilson out of the game against the Spurs in the third quarter, and testing on Thursday revealed more bad news as he required surgery that will sideline him for the next four to six weeks.Not only a huge blow for the franchise and the No. 4 […]

LAS VEGAS — Will Venable received an award for the 2026 season this week, but he started thinking about 2027 weeks ago. The post mortem of how the White Sox fell short in the American League Division Series immediately bled into how it could be made better next year.“There’s likely a lockout, we’re not going to be able to communicate with our […]

The Sky need a point guard of the future. That’s one thing the front office and its fans can agree on.Look around the league and it’s the young crop of PG’s running the show — Caitlin Clark, Olivia Miles, Paige Bueckers, and Veronica Burton.Courtney Vandersloot, the Sky’s starting point guard, still has sublime moments representative of her Hall […]

Two of Andrew Mangiapane's best traits happen to fall in two categories where the Blackhawks need the most improvement.They spent all week working on their forecheck pressure and backcheck tracking, acknowledging they haven't recovered enough dump-ins or forced enough turnovers in the offensive zone and they've especially given up too many odd-man rushes […]

District 3b neighborhoods: Humboldt Park, Logan Square, Belmont Cragin, West Town, HermosaJason Dónes has upset incumbent Carlos Rivas Jr. by about 4 percentage points, adding another win for a Chicago Teachers Union-backed candidate in the historic school board election, according to Chicago Board of Election data.As elections officials continued to count […]

Police are looking for the driver of a white car that fled the scene after slamming into a 69-year-old woman, killing her Wednesday night in West Garfield Park. Around 9:45 p.m., the 69-year-old woman was crossing the street in the 4200 block of West Madison Street when a white sedan struck her and fled the scene, Chicago police said. She suffered what was […]

A woman was killed early Thursday in Greater Grand Crossing in what was the second deadly hit-and-run of the day in the city. The collision happened around 12:25 a.m. when a 48-year-old woman was hit by a white truck while crossing the street in the 300 block of East 71st Street, Chicago police said. An unidentified driver then fled the area westbound, […]

If you're planning to attend the Chicago Thanksgiving Parade this year, set your alarm an hour earlier.For the first time in the parade's 92-year history, the procession will begin at 7:45 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning — an hour earlier than in previous years, according to a parade spokesperson who confirmed the change to the Chicago Sun-Times.The earlier […]

"Holocaust deniers say that her diary was written with a kind of ballpoint pen not available at the time," said Eric Strating, the consul general of the Netherlands in Chicago.We were standing in the entrance of “Anne Frank The Exhibition" at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, the doomed Dutch teen's handwriting projected on the walls around us.I […]