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Friday, January 21, 2022

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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Bulls guard Lonzo Ball — here defending against Orlando’s Terrence Ross earlier this month — will need knee surgery, the team said Thursday.

Columns | Bulls get bad news with Ball, but Dosunmu seems ready to thrive

Bulls guard Lonzo Ball has a small meniscus tear in his left knee, will have arthroscopic surgery and is expected to miss 6-8 weeks. This means Ayo Dosunmu's major role will continue.
Dylan Strome is no longer in COVID protocols and could center the top line Friday when the Blackhawks host Minnesota.

Columns | Blackhawks' Strome, Jones expected to face Wild

The Blackhawks removed Dylan Strome from COVID protocol Thursday and the forward is expected to center the top line Friday against Minnesota.
Jesse Compher of the USA Women’s Hockey Team has been practicing at Glacier Ice Arena in Vernon Hills.

News | Northbrook's Compher primed to defend gold medal in Olympic Women's Hockey

Northbrook native Jesse Compher announced as one of 23 players to make up the 2022 U.S. Olympic Women's Ice Hockey Team
The off-track betting parlor within Crazy Pour sports bar in Villa Park will reopen under management by Hawthorne Race Course, the Illinois Racing Board decided Thursday.

Special Report | Hawthorne to reopen Arlington's shuttered OTB in Villa Park

The Illinois Racing Board Thursday granted Hawthorne Race Course's request to reopen Arlington Park's off-track betting parlor in Villa Park, but five other locations formerly operated by the Arlington Heights racetrack remain shuttered.
Les Grobstein at Soldier Field.
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Jim O'Donnell: What a sensational career for Les Grobstein, a sports radio legend.
This perch was recently caught on the Chain of Lakes using a tungsten jig tipped with a wax worm.
Sports | For successful ice fishing, target panfish with various bait
Panfish species make for good eating after a day of ice fishing.
Chicago Bears wide receiver Darnell Mooney walks onto the field during an NFL football game against the Detroit Lions in Detroit, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Columns | Arkush: Bears new GM, head coach will find gaping hole at wide receiver
Current legitimate NFL receivers under contract include Darnell Mooney, a cast of one.
FILE - Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Maral Javadifar reacts before an NFL football game against the New Orleans Saints, Nov. 17, 2019, in Tampa, Fla. Last year, Buccaneers assistant defensive line coach Lori Locust and assistant strength and conditioning coach Javadifar became the first female coaches on a team to win the Super Bowl. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)
NFL | Analysis: NFL moving closer to 1st female head coach
The NFL is moving closer to having its first female head coach
The Bears have signed former New York Jets cornerback Lamar Jackson, seen here before an NFL preseason football game Saturday, Aug 21. 2021, between the New York Jets and Green Bay Packers in Green Bay, Wis.
Bears | Bears sign former Jets defensive back Jackson
The Bears have signed Lamar Jackson. No, not that Lamar Jackson.
Chicago Blackhawks interim head coach Derek King, top, watches his team during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Nashville Predators in Chicago, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021.
Blackhawks | New dates for 7 Blackhawks games announced
Here are the new dates for the six Blackhawks games that were called off, plus a rescheduled game against St. Louis.
Barrington’s Sophie Swanson (31) drives past Fremd’s Kace Urlacher during Tuesday’s girls basketball game in Barrington. Swanson committed to Purdue on Wednesday.
Girls' Basketball | Barrington's Swanson chooses Purdue
On the same day she rewrote the Barrington girls record book, Sophie Swanson made a commitment to write her name on a National Letter of Intent when she becomes a senior. The 5-foot-11 junior, who broke her own single-game school record with 40 points in a 62-47 win over Fremd on Tuesday night, earlier in the day committed to Purdue rookie women's basketball coach Katie Gearlds.
Schaumburg girls basketball coach Jacqie Strauch, left, takes on her brother-in-law Todd’s Conant team on Friday at Conant.
Girls' Basketball | Friday's matchup a family affair for Strauchs
On Friday in Hoffman Estates, the Strauch vs. Strauch Mid-Suburban West girls basketball match takes place again, just one week after Conant coach Todd Strauch and his Cougars edged Schaumburg coach Jacqie Strauch's Saxons, 42-38.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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The Daily Herald Archive, Assignment # 62,498, Scott Sanders photo: After seeing their regular trains delayed by a strike and the ones that were running pass them by, the numbers of commuters at the Arlington Heights train station grew so large that they spilled on to the tracks in April of 1982.
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