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WBEZ's Reset podcast asked listeners who ride the CTA, Metra or Pace to share what would happen if the Illinois legislature fails to fill a $770 million gap in regional transit agencies budgets. Here's what they said, lightly edited for clarity:"I started taking transit alone when I was 11 or 12. ... Being able to go to concerts, cultural events, getting to […]

The world seemed to shatter when I heard about Jaahnavi Kandula, a 23-year-old Indian graduate student killed in January 2023 by a speeding Seattle police officer who was driving 74 mph in a residential area. After the crash, another officer who responded to the scene was caught laughing. His body-worn camera also captured him saying, “Yeah, just write a […]

When Deanna Browley moved her hair salon, Relax She’s Natural, to its new home in West Town this spring, she didn’t know the landlord had a mural planned for the exterior wall over her store.But when he asked her how she liked the art, she says, “it was a full-circle moment.”The mural is a two-story image of a young Black girl in a sundress with her […]

LOS ANGELES — Cincinnati Reds left-hander Wade Miley is accused in court documents of providing drugs to the late Tyler Skaggs, a Los Angeles Angels pitcher who died of an accidental overdose in 2019.Skaggs' former agent, Ryan Hamill, said in a deposition that Skaggs told him he was using pain pills containing oxycodone, which were provided by Miley.The […]

LONDON — Two men who stole a $6.4 million golden toilet from an English mansion were sentenced Friday to more than two years in prison.The 18-carat, fully functioning toilet was on display as a piece of contemporary art at Blenheim Palace — the country mansion where British wartime leader Winston Churchill was born — when five burglars smashed a […]

ARLINGTON — The White Sox acquired right-handed starter Aaron Civale from the Brewers on Friday morning. The New York Post was first to report the news.They shipped off struggling first baseman Andrew Vaughn, who had been demoted to Triple-A Charlotte.Civale, 30, is likely to be in the Sox' rotation. He has a 4.91 ERA in 22 innings in five starts this […]

Elizabeth Berenz's 7-year-old son Arthur has a rare, genetic neurodevelopmental disorder that leaves him unable to stand or walk independently.But when he’s in the warm-water therapy pool at Arlington Pediatric Therapy in Arlington Heights, he becomes buoyant. His face lights up as he's able to stride around, Berenz says."It’s like a different world […]

Two-time Olympic all-around champion Simone Biles has apologized for getting personal in a heated online exchange with former collegiate swimmer turned anti-trans athlete activist Riley Gaines.Biles, an 11-time Olympic medalist and the most decorated gymnast of all-time, initially responded to a post by Gaines on the social media platform X after Gaines […]

A 21-year-old Matteson man carrying a loaded gun and impersonating a police officer was arrested Thursday afternoon during anti-ICE protests in the Loop, police and sources say. Officers spotted the man, who was sporting a t-shirt and backpack with the word police on it, around 5 p.m. in the 200 block of South Michigan Avenue, Chicago police and sources […]

NEW YORK — It's sung every summer in baseball stadiums around the United States, including Wrigley Field. But the impact of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” goes much further than simply getting fans out of their seats for the 7th-inning stretch.More than a century after Jack Norworth penned the lyrics, a nonprofit founded with the song's royalties is […]