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CHICAGO — A former Chicago Bulls player was arrested early Friday morning for allegedly punching a security guard in the face and throwing another to the ground when they tried to escort him from a McDonalds, officials said.

For the second time in my life, the threat of nuclear war is keeping me up at night. The first occasion was in 1983, when as a child, I sneaked out of my bedroom to watch the TV movie “The Day After.” That movie gave me a healthy appreciation for…

CHICAGO — Chicago Public Schools announced Friday that Jones College Prep Principal Joseph Powers has been removed from “principal duties, effective immediately, pending the results” of an investigation into his response to a student who came to school on Halloween dressed in a German military uniform, goose-stepped across a stage…

It may cost hundreds of dollars more to stay warm this winter in Chicago and the suburbs, with rising natural gas prices and ongoing ratepayer-funded repair work projected to raise bills by as much as 30% over last year.

CHICAGO — The long-waged fight by the group Protect Our Parks to halt construction of former President Barack Obama’s Jackson Park museum and campus has reached the end of the road in the federal district courts. But the plaintiffs plan to take the case to the appellate level, continuing a…

Sean “Diddy” Combs has agreed to buy nine cannabis retail stores and three production facilities in Illinois, New York and Massachusetts for $185 million as part of required antitrust divestitures for the pending $2 billion Cresco-Columbia Care megamerger.

CHICAGO — The 28th Black Harvest Film Festival, which kicks off this weekend and continues through Nov. 20 in person at the Gene Siskel Film Center, will not be like the previous 27.

In the comedy “Who Invited Charlie?” which premiered last month at the Toronto International Film Festival, Reid Scott plays a New York finance guy who decamps to the Hamptons with his wife and kid in the early days of the pandemic, only for his former college roommate — a wild…

For a nation torn apart politically, a cure is emerging, of all places, in Alaska.

Speaking with a French business owner in the energy industry this fall, I asked whether he thought NATO’s full support for Ukraine in its war against Russia would wane or fracture this winter. He replied matter-of-factly, “It depends on how cold it gets.”

The decades-old partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia has just been put to the test. It failed with flying colors.