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High School Football Scores

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2026 IHSA state football opening round playoff scores

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Bears get surge from Colston Loveland, Luther Burden at just the right time

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Is the Magnificent Mile's long-awaited revival here?

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A jury set to decide who owns the work of Henry Darger, Chicago's most famous outsider artist

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DOJ allowed to join lawsuit against Evanston reparations program for Black residents

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How we photographed the new baby penguins at Brookfield Zoo

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Obama Center values, respects its workers

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Bears QB Caleb Williams kept making major strides in fundamentals in sparkling performance to beat Patriots

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Letters to the Editor

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Screening, support for people with dyslexia can transform their lives

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Letters to the Editor

2 years ago

Share your memory of the night the Cubs won the 2016 World Series

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Dear Abby: Disliked dad's daughter receives no condolences

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The Chicago Mini Crossword

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Natalie Y. Moore

27 days ago

New transit authority, new opportunity

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I'm not shocked that systems fail sexual assault survivors

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Hate comes for South Asians — again

7 days ago

Griffin MSI defends its criticized Welcome Hall design

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What Chicago ghost story or urban legend did you grow up with? Here's what you told us

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Ann Tighe, attorney who was a finalist in consideration to be city's top federal prosecutor, dies at 87

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CPS high school graduation and college enrollment rates rise, but many students still struggle to finish

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Housing and Development

1 year ago

Salt Shed owners eye amphitheater expansion across from popular West Town venue

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After a year of unusual weather in Chicago, should you brace for winter?

1 day ago

This Illinois law was supposed to help families. It's failing them instead.

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Data centers will cost ComEd $3 billion, but consumer groups worry Illinois households will be on the hook

1 day ago

Almost all lawsuits brought in Chicago's federal court over deadly Boeing 737 MAX crashes have been resolved

3 days ago

2026 Illinois Midterm Elections Voter Guide

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Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ staff

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CPS Elected School Board 2026: Find your candidates and understand the races

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What you need to know about Chicago's historic school board election

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Meet the candidates for Chicago School Board president

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Chicago's 20 school board races: How the campaigns are taking shape

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4 takeaways from CPS School Board president forum

9 days ago

Key education endorsements for CPS School Board candidates

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Cash floods CPS School Board races, with big money groups outraising Chicago Teachers Union 5:1

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Long a foregone conclusion, property tax hikes will no longer be a given under elected CPS board

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Should Chicago close more schools? Candidates for school board president diverge on key issue

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Tell us your Kennedy traffic horror story

19 hours ago

CPS approves $300,000 for family of girl who endured years of racist bullying

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CPS board approves new lunchroom workers contract that raises wages

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ComEd's Lincoln Park substation shouldn't be built, judges say

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City inspects funeral home where 55 decaying bodies were found amid calls for its demolition

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Man critically wounded in afternoon North Lawndale shooting

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Man sexually assaulted tenant after strangling another woman in same Chatham apartment, police say

18 hours ago

Man charged with fatally stabbing man near Avondale railroad tracks

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Arts and Culture

8 months ago

5 places in Chicago you may not know were haunted

1 day ago

Theater and Stages

1 year ago

Review: 'Mud Row' encapsulates universal experience of Black families and conflict that tears many apart

13 hours ago

Chicago Shakespeare Theater chief Kimberly Motes to step down

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Movies and TV

4 years ago

Derrick Rose embraces filmmaking in his post-hoops second act: 'I love the untold stories'

10 hours ago

Woman has baby. Baby sprouts black feathers. Horror ensues.

2 days ago

High School Football

6 months ago

Mark Williams sparkles in the clutch as Naperville Central beats Warren in the 8A playoffs

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Lane's defense dominates with 5 interceptions, 3 TDs in playoff win against Joliet Central

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Sophomore Jaydin Edmondson is at the top of the state

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Canadiens much further along in their rebuild than Blackhawks are in theirs

12 hours ago

Bulls coming up with plan for rookie guard Dailyn Swain, and it involves G League

13 hours ago

Bears coach Ben Johnson on failed trick play: 'Shooters shoot. ... We missed'

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Bears lose TE Cole Kmet for the season with knee injury

19 hours ago

Halas Intrigue podcast: Bears keep it rolling

1 day ago

Bears coach Ben Johnson considers TE Cole Kmet's right knee injury serious

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Bears K Cairo Santos 'annoyed' by miss even after booting career-long FG

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Bulls' Caleb Wilson shows he's far from the usual rookie in clutch victory

13 hours ago

Bulls will broadcast 20 home games in Spanish via SAP

21 hours ago

Bulls hoping that whupping in season debut in Toronto was rock bottom for rebuild

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Horoscope for Saturday, October 24, 2026

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Dear Abby: Grandparents worry about drug use around grandchild

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Horoscope for Friday, October 23, 2026

1 day ago

Months after storm, Gary residents are plagued with blackouts

2 days ago

Illinois' electric grid is under a lot of stress. What does that mean for consumers?

3 days ago

Museums and Zoos

1 year ago

Five beluga whales have died at Shedd since Aug. 25, but CEO Bridget Coughlin says this is no crisis

3 days ago

Mayor Johnson announces plan to expand food access, create indoor public markets

1 day ago

Chicago passengers could see fuel surcharge on taxi fares

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Foundry Park developers break ground on $3 billion project

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Food and Drink

1 year ago

Art and food collide at singer and chef Lizz Wright's new cafe, the Hunt, in Woodlawn

2 days ago

A new Chicago brewery is making Korea's oldest alcoholic drink

4 days ago

Illinois is America's pumpkin capital; here's why

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High School Basketball

4 years ago

Leo big man Elon Henderson among several local standouts at annual Pangos frosh/soph event

22 hours ago

Previewing Week 10's top high school football games

1 day ago

Ex-Bears kicker Robbie Gould steps down as coach at St. Viator

2 days ago

College football second-half preview and Week 8 predictions

16 hours ago

Illinois men's basketball at No. 3 in preseason Top 25, matching second-highest ranking ever

4 days ago

Miami takes top spot in AP Top 25 for 1st time since 2002; BYU is No. 2 after beating Notre Dame

5 days ago

Bulls get thumped in season debut as rebuild looks like demolition site

2 days ago

Bulls add much-needed size with veteran Zach Collins finally returning

2 days ago

Adam Amin will call first quarter of Bulls' opener alone to acknowledge late Stacey King

2 days ago

Connor Hellebuyck trade shakes up Central Division, but Blackhawks must stay focused on themselves

17 hours ago

Blackhawks need to improve their breakouts, and thousand-gamer Ian Cole knows how they can

1 day ago

Blackhawks relying on two young centers to take on hardest defensive matchups

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Pope Leo XIV

12 days ago

Pope Leo's doctors say tests show he needs no further treatment for lung cancer

2 days ago

Sixth beluga whale rescued from Canada dies in San Diego, following four deaths at the Shedd

2 days ago

2 Chicago area members of Congress again received 'suspicious' packages

2 days ago

Fearing ICE, some Chicago immigrants shift work, daily life to nighttime hours

3 days ago

Pilsen nonprofit a finalist in national affordable housing solutions program

4 days ago

Huntley school bus driver charged with possession of child sexual abuse materials

1 day ago

DuPage County confirms measles case for vaccinated resident who traveled through O'Hare Airport

2 days ago

Victims in Mundelein murder-suicide shooting identified

3 days ago

2nd woman alleging sexual assault at a University of Chicago frat house feared she was drugged: police report

2 days ago

UChicago students, high school senior reflect on issue of campus sexual assault

2 days ago

Northwestern University student pulled from waters of Lake Michigan

1 day ago

MAGA is wrong. The unrest in France has nothing to do with immigration.

1 day ago

Early voting numbers ominous for Republicans

2 days ago

Put in the work to equip Americans in manufacturing jobs

3 days ago

Restrict surveillance systems before America falls down an Orwellian abyss

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To close the death gap, hospitals must get active where patients live

10 days ago

Poignant words touch reader who had recent cancer scare

1 day ago

Animals in the wild are worthy of personal pronouns

3 days ago

Thrifting is for need, not for greed

7 days ago

'Fearless' Humboldt penguin joins colony at Brookfield Zoo

16 hours ago

Charges pending after hourslong police standoff on Far South Side

2 days ago

Road rage blamed in Brighton Park shooting that critically injured woman, 32

18 hours ago

Playlist: Say More listeners pick the songs that bring the fall vibes

20 hours ago

WBEZ's Weekly News Recap, Oct. 23, 2026: Mayor Johnson unveils proposed budget, Bears pay tribute to legendary coach Mike Ditka, and more

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Thursday, October 22, 2026

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Amid ICE fears, some Chicago immigrants are shifting their daily lives to the night

1 day ago

Chicago Public Media's new digital public square is here!

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