Articles filed under Chicago
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Lopez, White Sox fall to Royals, 5-0Jul 14, 2018 1:01 am - Scheduled to start for the Chicago White Sox Saturday, Reynaldo Lopez and his wife Jhilaris welcomed a baby girl late Friday afternoon. Sox manager Rick Renteria was pre...
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Southern Illinois bat-maker looks to leave mark on MLB Home Run DerbyJul 14, 2018 1:00 am - RIDGWAY, Ill. - No one really likes a deadline, but when you're Kyle Drone and two of your biggest clients need bats for the 2018 MLB Home Run Derby, you get to work. Qu...
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'He was brilliant': Illinois GOP strategist John McGovern dead at 48Jul 14, 2018 1:00 am - At the highest levels of Illinois Republican politics, John McGovern knew how to win. "He was brilliant ... Everything I built politically I built on a foundation he lai...
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Chicago-area Head Start programs getting $3 millionJul 13, 2018 7:00 am - EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) - Programs that help babies and young children and their low-income families in suburban Chicago are getting nearly $3 million. U.S. Sens. Tammy Duck...
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Chicago native relishes showy role in 'The Color Purple'Jul 13, 2018 6:00 am - Chicago native Carla R. Stewart's involvement with the Tony Award-winning 2015 revival of "The Color Purple" has been quite an emotional and artistic journey. Stewart m...
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Chicago licenses 1,500 pharmaceutical reps in opioid fightJul 13, 2018 1:00 am - In an effort to curb the over-prescription of opioids, the city of Chicago has licensed nearly 1,500 people as pharmaceutical representatives - people tasked with convin...
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Author of Emmett Till book gave FBI interview recordingsJul 13, 2018 1:00 am - BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Weeks after he published a book about the brutal slaying of Emmett Till, a North Carolina author received a call from FBI agents asking about his inte...
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Blackhawks trade Hinostroza, Oesterle and Hossa's contract to CoyotesJul 12, 2018 7:47 am - Marian Hossa was a huge reason the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup in 2010, 2013 and 2015. He was a leader behind the scenes and on the ice. Impossible to knock off the p...
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Chicago mayor meets Chinese VP amid trade disputeJul 12, 2018 7:00 am - BEIJING (AP) - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, on a mission to salvage business deals threatened by a tariff war, said Thursday that Chinese officials expressed confidence t...
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Thieves take 300-pound sculpture in ChicagoJul 12, 2018 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Size apparently didn't deter thieves from stealing a 300-pound (135-kilogram) sculpture from a former Chicago church. Plamen Yordanov told WLS-TV that his...