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WNBA officially announces 2022 All-Star Game will be played in Chicago

This will be the first year Chicago hosts the game, which was first played in 1999 in New York and saw Lisa Leslie crowned MVP.

Chicago Sun-Times

Afternoon Edition: April 28, 2022

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

Review: Billy Crystal’s ‘Mr. Saturday Night’ on Broadway is a hilarious, retro good time

NEW YORK — Billy Crystal, a comedic treasure now 74 years old, has aged into the role of Buddy Young Jr., a standup comedian who spent his glory years telling 1950s jokes on his own network show and playing Mister Kelly’s in Chicago, only to fall into the oblivion of…

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Sky get new additions to camp as coach James Wade makes his first cuts

Early in the day Wade waived Kamiah Smalls and Kayla Wells to make room on his training camp roster. No more than 15 players are allowed in a WNBA market at one time during training camp.

Chicago Sun-Times

Quigley joins Duncan in taking a pass on mayor’s race: What’s it mean?

“It helps the player to be named later,” said Peter Giangreco, a political strategist whose client, U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley, joined former U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan in passing up a run against Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

Chicago Sun-Times

Apple's 'Shining Girls' wouldn't be half as good without the great Elisabeth Moss

In "Shining Girls," premiering Friday on Apple TV+, Elisabeth Moss plays Kirby Mizrachi, a Chicago newspaper archivist who, having survived a brutal attack six years earlier — we are in 1992 — is brought out of her cocoon when the body of another woman is discovered with similar wounds. It…

Los Angeles Times

Interfaith Trolley offers tour of religion in America

Some Chicagoans got a crash course in the world’s religions recently, visiting five major religious sites on the city’s south side — including Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, Ebenezer Baptist Church and Masjid Al-Taqwa

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Off-duty Chicago police officer gets in shootout with catalytic converter thief in Norwood Park: police

No injuries were reported.

Chicago Sun-Times

US Rep. Mike Quigley says he won’t run for Chicago mayor in 2023

CHICAGO — U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley on Thursday announced he will not run for Chicago mayor in 2023.

Chicago Tribune

Logan Square furniture shop owners to take center stage in new HGTV home rehab show

The show, “Renovation Goldmine,” debuts Saturday and features Meg and Joe Piercy, owners of MegMade in Logan Square.

Chicago Sun-Times

Khris Middleton Out for Series vs. Celtics, per Report

The forward injured his knee during Game 2 of the first-round series vs. Chicago.

Sports Illustrated

Girl, 16, charged in four Chicago carjackings, stealing car with child in back seat

The child was arrested Wednesday on the Lower West Side and charged with four felony counts of aggravated vehicular highjacking with a firearm, Chicago police said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Predicting the Bears’ first selection in the 2022 NFL draft

Our Bears Wire staff shares their predictions for what Chicago will do with their first pick in the 2022 NFL draft.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Mike Quigley will not run for Chicago mayor in 2023

U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley, a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, cited the war in Ukraine as a factor in his decision.

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Adrian Matejka will be first Black editor of Poetry magazine, which faced criticism on diversity

Published in Chicago, it’s one of the country’s oldest and most prominent literary publications. Matejka, a former Indiana poet laureate, has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Chicago Sun-Times

12 shot, 1 fatally, Wednesday in Chicago

Two teenage boys were wounded in separate shootings in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.

Chicago Tribune

Program is bringing youth of color into health care sooner rather than later

CHICAGO -- Jayline Perez, 21, graduated three semesters early from Roosevelt University in December 2021. With her parents and grandparents only having gone through school as far as elementary school, she credits Rush Education and Career Hub, or REACH, with changing her future.

Chicago Tribune

Jonathan Toews thinks the Chicago Blackhawks ‘can turn around pretty fast’ — but will he be around for it?

CHICAGO — This season has been a challenge for the Chicago Blackhawks and Jonathan Toews in particular.

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Chicago Bulls season ends with a 116-100 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 5 of their 1st-round playoff series

MILWAUKEE — The Chicago Bulls season ended with an air of inevitability Wednesday night as the team crumpled against the Milwaukee Bucks in a 116-100 Game 5 loss to close their best-of-seven first-round series.

Chicago Sun-Times

Here’s how Peoples Gas should lower customers’ bills

Too many Chicagoans are struggling to pay to heat their homes. Peoples should contribute a hefty chunk of its profits to a customer assistance program and stop spending money so quickly on its effort to upgrade its pipeline distribution network.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago LGBTQ activists decry ‘genocide of trans identity’

With lawmakers in Texas and several other states mostly in the South advancing legislation that aims to ban trans youth from school activities and gender-affirming medical care, “a genocide on trans identity is underway,” Chicago activists say.

Tribune News Service

Drew Rasmussen makes amends, leads Rays past Mariners

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Drew Rasmussen admitted to being frustrated after his previous start, having pitched his way out of an April 20 game in chilly Chicago after just three innings by throwing too many pitches — 79, to be exact.

Chicago Sun-Times

Providing benefits to spouses of police, first responders who died by suicide is right step

Helping families that are left picking up the pieces isn’t too much to ask, and it isn’t expensive. It’s also important to invest in programs to prevent these tragedies.

Chicago Tribune

Meta expanding massive $1 billion Illinois data center, set to power everything from Facebook to Instagram beginning next year

Meta, the social media giant formerly known as Facebook, is expanding its massive $1 billion data center under construction in DeKalb to nearly 2.4 million square feet, putting the college town west of Chicago at the center of its metaverse.

Chicago Sun-Times

Jackson, Pfleger sound alarm on curbing gun violence in the city: ‘All of us have to be part of this’

After Chicago’s most violent weekend of 2022, Rev. Michael Pfleger said he hopes it will be a wake-up call before summer. “What are we doing before we need to call 911?” he asked.

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