CHICAGO — There should be no question Los Angeles Angels star Mike Trout needs to resign as commissioner of his fantasy football league. His lack of action in the Tommy Pham-Joc Pederson feud already has resulted in Pham’s three-game suspension for sla…
Chicago woman arrested for breaching US Capitol during Jan. 6 riot
A Chicago woman was arrested this week on charges alleging she entered the U.S. Capitol with a relative shortly after rioters breached a Senate wing door and later tried to get back in the building before being turned away by police. Trudy Castle, 57, …
‘Crimes of the Future’ review: Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg present a cold, feral vision of the future
A chillingly beautiful dare of a movie, David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future” imagines a near-future much like the present, only colder and more feral. Shot in Athens, largely at night, writer-director Cronenberg’s first feature since“Maps to the S…
As screenwriter and star of Hulu’s ‘Fire Island,’ Joel Kim Booster puts the Pride in ‘Pride and Prejudice’
CHICAGO — The romantic comedy “Fire Island” is a very gay, very horny, very charming riff on Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” set on present-day Fire Island in New York. There is banter aplenty, a lot of it dirty. Both sweet and filled with spiky hu…
Illinois broadband expansion will create 25,000 jobs, researchers say
Illinois’ planned expansion of broadband internet access will create thousands of jobs, boost workers’ wages and help bridge rural-urban and racial divides in online access, researchers with the Illinois Economic Policy Institute and the Project for Mi…
20-29 record aside, the Chicago Cubs enter June with a feeling of optimism. Here are 5 reasons why.
The arrival of June means two things for the Chicago Cubs. It’s two months until the trade deadline — and four months until the end of the season. But despite a 20-29 record and the fact they trail the division-leading Milwaukee Brewers by 11 games ent…
Paul Vallas enters Chicago mayor’s race; former CPS head says Lightfoot ‘has proven incapable of dealing with these crises’
CHICAGO — Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas is running for mayor, he announced Wednesday. The longtime Chicagoan has been well-known in government circles since the 1990s, when Mayor Richard M. Daley selected him as budget director and then…
As companies plan post-pandemic office return, co-working makes a comeback in Chicago
With Chicago office vacancy rates at an all-time high and companies tentatively beginning to herd employees back into communal settings, co-working spaces — hard hit during the pandemic — are making a comeback. Two major co-working spaces opened this m…
Commentary: Foreign policy on Ukraine shows the West’s arrogance. It’s not up to us to call the shots.
The war in Ukraine has gone well from the perspective of Western pundits and officials. Russia has seen a series of costly reversals on the battlefield because of poor military performance and overambitious plans. Now many in the West are debating what…
Commentary: An America with less gun violence is still possible and worth fighting for
The mass slaying of 19 schoolchildren and two teachers evokes a pain that is almost too hard to express. Compounding this pain is anger — anger at knowing that the deaths of these children, the families in Buffalo, New York, the churchgoers in Californ…