Bob Odenkirk on how Mike Ditka made ‘Superfans’ of us all
The men in the old Saturday Night Live skit would not have believed the news Friday. No, it can’t be true, Bill Swerski’s Superfans would’ve said. Mike Ditka can’t be...
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For long-suffering Chicago White Sox fans, there’s catharsis and redemption in unexpected postseason run
Chicago White Sox fans persevered through three consecutive 100-loss seasons. Now they're basking in the postseason.
For those detained during Operation Midway Blitz, release doesn’t mean freedom
For many immigrants arrested and detained during Operation Midway Blitz, a release isn’t necessarily a new start. It is instead part of a long goodbye.
A city on guard: What the raids left behind after Operation Midway Blitz
It's been a year since the Trump Administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz.” What it left behind can be measured in the number of neighborhood patrollers, people who keep a wary eye...
Operation Midway Blitz, one year later: A changed Chicago forges on after the resistance
For 64 days, the federal government carried out a militarized immigration enforcement operation under the guise of making Chicago safer. A year later, why do people still feel so unsafe?
One Wrigleyville corner hangs on to its roots and ballhawks as Chicago Cubs mark 150th anniversary
The Chicago Cubs are celebrating their 150th year, 110 at Wrigley, where the land beyond left field remains old-school.
In rural southern Illinois, a cattle farmer fights back against an emerging threat from above
After her calf was killed, a southern Illinois cattle farmer is on the alert for black vultures that are increasing in numbers as the Midwest climate warms.
In Kaskaskia, first capital of Illinois, all that’s left is a church and the congregation keeping it alive
Believers persevere to honor Kaskaskia's role as explorer outpost, Revolution battleground, state capital and Mississippi River flooding victim.
The South Side shaped Barack Obama. Can his presidential center reshape the South Side?
The Obama Presidential Center opens on Friday on a sprawling South Side campus, with the kind of optimism that defined his first campaign.
Amid Illinois high school co-op controversy, an underdog girls lacrosse team plays on
For larger high schools, a new IHSA rule is meant to stop the formation of super teams. But it’s likely to lead to fewer opportunities.