Candace Parker is one of the most recognizable faces in women’s basketball. The Chicago Sky star is the only player in WNBA history to win Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player — an award she has won twice. Parker is a two-time Olympic gold-medal…
Chicago Blackhawks trade star Alex DeBrincat to the Ottawa Senators for the Nos. 7 and 39 picks in the draft
The Chicago Blackhawks traded All-Star winger Alex DeBrincat to the Ottawa Senators for the Nos. 7 and 39 picks in this year’s NHL draft and a third-rounder in 2024. The Hawks closed the chapter on DeBrincat’s five-season run in which the 2016 second-r…
‘Maggie’ review: When ‘Friends’ meets ‘How I Met Your Mother,’ but there’s a psychic who can see the future
An ensemble comedy about relationships that’s actually funny, “Maggie” on Hulu follows in the footsteps of so many sitcoms that have come before it, from “Living Single” to “Friends” to “New Girl.” But it is “How I Met Your Mother” that comes to mind m…
Vice President Kamala Harris visits Highland Park following shooting and calls for federal ban on assault weapons
CHICAGO — Less than 36 hours after a shooter opened fire at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, killing seven people, Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in the north suburb Tuesday evening calling for federal action on assault weapons. “We’ve…
Death toll rises to 7 in Highland Park parade shooting; suspect allegedly planned attack for several weeks and dressed like woman to escape
CHICAGO — At a press briefing Tuesday afternoon, authorities said a seventh person has died in the Highland Park parade attack and released the names of the six other victims. Those killed in the incident ranged in age from 35 to 88. The briefing was t…
Highland Park suspect allegedly planned attack for weeks before firing more than 70 rounds on parade crowd while wearing women’s clothing, police say
CHICAGO — The man suspected of killing at least six people and injuring more than 30 others Monday morning during a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park allegedly planned the attack for several weeks before he climbed a fire escape ladder and fired o…
Editorial: Highland Park mass shooting a horrific stain on the Fourth of July
A year from now, the good people of Highland Park will be wondering whether to hold a parade. There will be a school of thought believing the town must get back to something approaching Independence Day normalcy, if only for the sake of its children; o…
‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ review: Gods, goats, Hemsworth and Portman, as Marvel tests the limits of camp
Twenty-nine films into the Marvel Cinematic Universe — a playful and flexible narrative arena in theory, too often a realm of granite solemnity in practice — if you can’t mess around a little then really: Why make all that money in the first place? In …
Office workers now dash about city on their own e-scooters as use spreads to private developments
CHICAGO — Getting around downtown used to mean jumping in a car, fighting traffic, trying to squeeze into scarce parking spaces or waiting for a slow-moving bus. But some landlords are making it easy for office workers to dash about, get lunch and run …
In Chicago, killings of transgender women of color often go unsolved. ‘There’s no justice,’ relatives say
CHICAGO — Speaking through tears, Rosemary Gamble returns again and again to the questions she would like to ask her granddaughter’s killer: Why did you do this? What could she have possibly done to you? Did you act out of hatred? Have you killed anyon…