The North Suburban YMCA was well represented at the 2018 Gymnastics Illinois Junior Organization (GIJO) League Championships, held May 19-20 in Aurora. The GIJO league is a member of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), one of the largest, non-profit, ...

The 118th U.S. Open tees off Thursday at New York's Shinnecock Hills course with the usual mix of Chicago players among the 156 starters. This year it's a little different, however, because two of the local hopefuls are amateurs. For Arlington Heigh...

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Scott Cassin has been the tournament director of the previous eight Web.com Tour events played at Chicago golf courses, and he never had to experience a sudden death playoff - until Sunday, that is. Chase Wright, in what might be the last playing of...

Special Olympians and police officers jogged together across more than 30 miles of wet pavement in Lake and northern Cook counties Sunday for the annual Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics Illinois. The 36-mile trot from Gurnee to Lincoln...

Former Masters champions don't usually play in Web.com Tour events like this week's Rust-Oleum Championship at Ivanhoe Club. Mike Weir, the Canadian left-handed golfer who won the 2003 Masters, made it a point of coming this year, however, and Frida...

Celebrating five years of bringing professional children's theater to Chicagoland, The Performers School (TPS) reflects on their mission to become the North Shore's premier performance studio for young people. Focusing on cultivating kids from age ...

The 156 starters in Thursday's $600,000 Rust-Oleum Championship at Ivanhoe Club included six Chicago-area players and two more who played collegiately at Illinois. None were a threat to first-round leader Andrew Novak of Raleigh, North Carolina. He ...

Taste test Under the direction of founder and executive chef Mark Grimes, Che Figata recently opened its doors in Naperville's CityGate Centre, bringing its authentic "Italy to Table" concept to the suburbs. The restaurant's menu features a modern t...

To raise money for childhood cancer research, 8-year-old Anna Ciamarra, a Lombard girl now in remission from leukemia, hosted a lemonade stand Saturday at Immaculate Conception Grade School in Elmhurst. Anna and her family raised more than $4,000 at...