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Nearly 200 artifacts mostly linked to Abraham Lincoln sold for more than $1 million at a Chicago auction Thursday, including some items originally purchased for display at the state-run Lincoln presidential museum in Springfield. The sale by Freeman’s is believed to have included pieces of a $23 mil
The Cubs reached an agreement with second baseman Nico Hoerner on a six-year contract extension after their 10-4 loss Thursday to the Nationals on Opening Day, a source confirmed to the Sun-Times. Hoerner was set to reach free agency after this season and was going to be one of the premier names on
Freight brokerage TransLoop held a grand opening Thursday for its new Chicago headquarters, more than doubling its footprint in the city. The company leased nearly 45,000 square feet of office space at 350 N. Orleans St. in River North. It has been on a hot growth trajectory since launching in 2019.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani Data from the city’s Rent Guidelines Board shows landlords’ “net operating income” increased – but with several notable exceptions. [ more › ]
MILWAUKEE — Hopes are rarely higher than they are before first pitch on Opening Day. Chase Meidroth sent the White Sox’ good vibes soaring to a new stratosphere Thursday with a 417-foot laser over the left-field wall at American Family Field, slugging the first Opening Day leadoff home run in franch
MILWAUKEE — It was an Opening Day to forget for the White Sox, but not for Jedixson Páez, who arrived in Milwaukee as a big leaguer with the White Sox. Manager Will Venable delivered the news earlier this week to the Rule 5 Draft pick rookie, whose first call went to his parents in Venezuela to tell
Some restaurant owners and servers say Chicago’s hotly debated law to increase the tipped minimum wage harms workers and the industry, following Mayor Brandon Johnson's veto of the City Council’s vote to freeze tipped workers’ hourly pay. Supporters of the ordinance want better pay and conditions fo
MILWAUKEE — So, how many games should the White Sox win this season? Sixty-plus? Seventy-plus? Dare I go on? But the question itself is a fair one, even if Sox general manager Chris Getz and manager Will Venable still treat any discussion of total wins and losses as a rhetorical third rail. You just
Fearing President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is “ignoring its founding principles,” a prominent group of former Chicago federal prosecutors invited more than 300 fellow alums this week to join them in moving “from handwringing to action” to preserve the agency’s integrity. The 14 signatori
Cash-strapped Chicago is crafting a plan to chip away at its $35.8 billion pension crisis that is likely to offer city employees the option of buying out a portion of their future pension benefits in exchange for a lump-sum payment upfront. Acting Chief Financial Officer Steve Mahr said Thursday he
Logan Reilly’s group chat with his friends was lighting up Thursday, the same as every year, for Major League Baseball’s Opening Day. But this time, the chatter was about which bets to place. “Three years ago, we're just talking about who we think’s going to win,” Reilly said outside Wrigley Field a
Keli McGregor couldn’t have foreseen his daughter Taylor’s career in broadcasting before he died at 48 on April 20, 2010. The idea was still new to Taylor, who was a junior at Golden High School at the time. But her father, who had been the Rockies’ president since 2001, posthumously gave her a nudg
Los murales y monumentos de César Chávez continúan siendo retirados en Chicago tras las alegaciones que surgieron la semana pasada de que el activista por los derechos civiles latinos había preparado y agredido sexualmente a niñas y mujeres. Las alegaciones fueron reveladas en una investigación del
Mars Snacking plans to invest $100 million to expand its global headquarters in Chicago and create more than 600 jobs. Mars Snacking, a division of Virginia-based Mars, announced the investment Wednesday with Gov. JB Pritzker. The company will receive about $43 million in tax incentives, as part of
For about 50 years, what Bernie Bluestein did during World War II remained classified. If you asked, he might open an old cigar box in which he kept a piece of shrapnel, his dog tags, a swastika patch and a pocket knife. But later, even after the U.S. government lifted the veil of secrecy, the Hoffm
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A 26-year-old man was shot and critically wounded Thursday morning in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. The man was standing outside in the 3600 block of West Grand Avenue when a gunman jumped from a vehicle and opened fire at him, hitting him multiple times, police said. He was taken to Stroger Hospi
Mayor Zohran Mamdani promised to freeze the rent on nearly a million regulated apartments as a signature part of his campaign. “Freeze the rent” became a call-and-response chant during rallies and a pitch his army of canvassers made to voters when knocking on doors. But his rent-freeze promise rests
A Thursday autopsy found that a 65-year-old man who was shot last year in the Roseland neighborhood died this week of complications from multiple gunshot wounds. Claude Dixon, 65, was shot on Nov. 20 about 6:20 a.m. at 68 W. 112th Place, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Dixon
PHILADELPHIA — During the Blackhawks' stretch of 21 games in 40 days between Christmas and the Olympics, coach Jeff Blashill tried to give his players as many breaks as possible, but the young roster still got worn down by the gantlet. At that time, Blashill was already thinking ahead to a spring ga
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