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Sky lose another Game 1, fall to Sun 68-63

The Sun scored the final six points, holding off the Sky to win Game 1 of the WNBA semifinals 68-63 on Sunday night at Wintrust Arena. Game 2 is Wednesday in Chicago.

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Chicago White Sox get swept by the Arizona Diamondbacks — their 9th loss in 11 games: ‘It hasn’t gone our way’

CHICAGO — Elvis Andrus and Luis Robert stood at second and first base, respectively, representing the potential tying and winning runs for the Chicago White Sox.

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Adrian Sampson — 1 of 2 Chicago Cubs who can’t travel to Toronto because of vaccine requirements — gets pulled early from 9-7 loss

MILWAUKEE — Adrian Sampson handed off the baseball to Chicago Cubs manager David Ross, visibly unhappy at his removal.

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After years of neglect and disinvestment, it’s time for Auburn Gresham to rise again

My hope is that 79th and Halsted will rise again — restored to a place where South Side kids can dream big dreams, find the magic of their own neighborhood and gain the confidence to explore the world beyond.

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‘It’s just wild:’ Street takeovers continue throughout weekend, leading to clashes with cops but only a few arrests

A 19-year-old suburban man is facing felony charges for allegedly driving toward a police sergeant, and another man had his car impounded — but otherwise, the mayhem went on for two straight nights.

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Urban farm cultivates development in East Garfield Park — but it’s no charity: ‘Let’s empower’

Herban Produce in East Garfield Park switched from a nonprofit farm to for-profit in 2018. The team urges residents to visit, not because they’re on the West Side of Chicago, but because they offer “the best produce.”

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Cyclists, pedestrians and motorists clash over COVID street changes

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, cities including Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles installed dedicated bus lanes within a matter of months.

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Minor-leaguers and their advocates hope Congress will revoke MLB’s antitrust exemption. Here’s how they are pushing for change.

CHICAGO — Rob Manfred’s response to a question last month about minor league salaries before the All-Star Game took off when the Major League Baseball commissioner said “I reject the premise that they’re not paid a living wage.”

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Horoscope for Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022

There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions until 10 p.m., Chicago time. The moon is in Virgo.

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Bears fans were overjoyed with Justin Fields’ ‘dress rehearsal’ performance against the Browns

Fields was BALLING in Chicago's last exhibition!

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Julius Ellens steps up to help Glenbard West survive Marist

Julius Ellens scored four touchdowns as No. 7 Glenbard West built a big early lead and hung on for dear life to pull out a 33-31 win over No. 12 Marist in Chicago.

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How will MLS’ deal with Apple impact the Fire?

MLS matches will all be in the same spot, but the pact forces the Fire to leave WGN.

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Lake Michigan ‘Playpen’ tragedies: Woman who lost feet grateful to be alive; man who drowned remembered

CHICAGO — Celebrations ended tragically this month in Lake Michigan’s “Playpen” area when a boat rammed into a mom of two, leaving her without feet, and another boating accident claimed the life of a man remembered as a “great dad and a great brother.”

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2 killed in South Chicago shooting

The two men were fatally shot Saturday during an argument with another person in the 8300 block of South Paxton Avenue, police said.

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Paul Sullivan: It’s a bizarro season in Chicago, where contending White Sox get booed and optimism grows for Cubs

CHICAGO — With a little more than one month remaining in this bizarro baseball season in Chicago, the Cubs and White Sox have somehow managed to switch identities.

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9 killed by gunfire over the weekend in Chicago, 5-year-old boy among 25 others wounded

The boy and a man were shot while traveling in a car Sunday evening in Rogers Park on the North Side.

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Chicago outdoors: Suburban bucks, Jack O’Lantern mushrooms, black crickets & Illinois doves/pigeons

A bunch of bucks at a suburban forest preserve, Jack O’Lantern mushrooms in Will County, black crickets around Chicago, and recognized doves and pigeons in Illinois are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

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Why aren’t more Chicago parents going for free universal preschool?

CPS is offering universal pre-K for 4-year-olds in most of the city, but WBEZ found that thousands of seats are unfilled — mostly in schools serving high numbers of low-income families with large majorities of Black or Latino children.

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In 1982, a team from Washington won the Little League World Series and became famous. Forty years later, here is what the players learned.

SEATTLE — Pitcher Cody Webster didn't realize the magnitude of what he and his friends had accomplished until he saw the front page of a Chicago newspaper during an airport layover.

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Man seriously wounded East Garfield Park shooting

He was shot Friday night while standing in the 3900 block of West Monroe Street, Chicago police said.

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Ald. Leslie Hairston to retire from the City Council after 24 years representing 5th Ward

Her retirement is part of a mass exodus that promises to change the face of the Chicago City Council. Hairston is the ninth Chicago alderperson to either resign or announce a decision not to seek reelection. Several others, including indicted Ald. Edward Burke (14th) and Zoning Chair Tom Tunney…

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Chicago isn’t a ‘hellhole,’ neither are many other places dismissed as ‘dangerous’

Many places around the world are deemed dangerous. Violence does exist in these locales. But as in Chicago, there’s more to the story, and if a living hell exists for some residents here or elsewhere, it’s because someone is stoking the fire.

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Endorsement should be earned, not given away with political hints at public press conferences

As Chicagoans prepare to deliberate and consider who is to be their next choice for mayor, it is imperative that they consider how candidates are endorsed and if an endorsement from one organization actually represents that organization’s members.

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Kansas City man testifies about returning copy of purported R. Kelly sex tape to singer’s associates for cash

CHICAGO — The Kansas City man at the center of an alleged scheme to hide a sex tape showing R. Kelly in a threesome with a 14-year-old girl told a federal jury Friday that he only handed over a partial copy of the tape to Kelly’s associates because he “didn’t…

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‘Exhausted’ key witness breaks down at R. Kelly‘s federal trial in second day of contentious questioning

CHICAGO — The continued cross-examination of a key witness against R. Kelly got off to an extraordinarily contentious and emotional start Friday. Within 15 minutes, the exchange had grown so argumentative and circular that the judge intervened, and within about 20 minutes the witness had broken down in tears.

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