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CHICAGO — Velus Jones Jr. fell to the ground at the 9-yard line Thursday night at Soldier Field, and the football hit him in the face mask and bounced to the field.

CHICAGO — Randy Jue shuffled through a heap of papers on the desk inside his Bridgeport business until unearthing a detailed map of Chicago’s 11th Ward, where he spotted opportunity.

CHICAGO — Last summer, federal prosecutors announced an investigation into the New York Police Department’s special victims division and its handling of sex abuse cases. The allegations include a decadelong history of “failing to conduct basic investigative steps and instead shaming and abusing survivors and re-traumatizing them during investigations.”

Much of the discussion about the Chicago White Sox manager search has involved retreads — the same, well-known names over and over — while other coaches and minor-league managers are ignored.

CHICAGO — In 1981, the MacArthur Foundation began awarding annual fellowships. These have consisted of monetary awards of $800,000 (an increase this year, bumped up from a decade ago and paid out in annual installments of $160,000 over five years) to do with whatever the awardees want.

There’s a subgenre of teen rom-coms that modernize everything from William Shakespeare to Jane Austen. On Hulu, the movie “Rosaline” flips that idea back around, giving modern rom-com tropes and dialogue to the original 16th-century setting of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” I mean, why not?

An icy-hot paradox of a film, and one of the year’s peak achievements, writer-director Todd Field’s “Tár” casts a gimlet eye on a fictional American orchestra conductor and composer, Lydia Tár, at the summit of her global fame. The view is glorious. It’s also more treacherous than she realizes.

Now in its 13th season, the Fox animated comedy “Bob’s Burgers” boasts some of the most indelible voice acting on TV, including that of John Roberts as the family matriarch Linda Belcher, with her endearingly perfect Brooklyn accent.

When he was elected governor of Illinois in 2018, J.B. Pritzker was blissfully unaware of the COVID-19 crisis that would dominate his first term. As anyone with a loved one in a retirement home knows, the state’s response was far from perfect, and history will judge that Illinois public schools…

CHICAGO -- Michael Kutza did not build any of the dozens of skyscrapers he can see from his apartment on the top floor of the downtown high rise in which he lives. But what he accomplished as the founder and energetic director of the Chicago International Film Festival has helped…

Russia and Iran have wildly different histories, cultures and demographics. But today, a similar aura is beginning to waft over both countries: anxiousness, bordering on restlessness.