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Reynaldo López has worked out with Johnny Cueto during previous offseasons. Recently, López found himself following Cueto in a game. Cueto pitched seven shutout innings for the Chicago White Sox on June 18 against the vaunted Houston Astros offense. López finished with two scoreless innings as they combined for a three-hitter in a 7-0 victory at Minute Maid Park, with López allowing one hit ...

There has been only one question in Chicago about this summer’s NBA free agency: Will Zach LaVine be on the Bulls next season? That decision could be made by the end of this week as the NBA trade window opens at 5 p.m. Thursday, at which point teams can begin negotiating deals with free agents. Executive vice president of basketball operations Artūras Karnišovas didn’t tip his hand on whether ...

An avid R. Kelly fan has been arrested in the Chicago area on federal charges alleging he threatened to “storm” the U.S. attorney’s office in New York. Christopher Gunn, 39, of Bolingbrook, was charged in a criminal complaint unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn with making threats involving serious bodily injury or death. Gunn, who also goes by the name “DeBoSki,” was arrested ...

Cook County Forest Preserves Police are investigating after a vehicle driven by an 89-year-old woman drove into six people who had been at Schiller Woods Sunday to enjoy the warm but windy weather, according to spokesmen from Forest Preserves of Cook County and the Chicago Fire Department. The driver also was injured and some of the six pedestrians were in serious to critical condition, ...

Cook County is once again at a high COVID-19 alert level. The county had dropped from the high to medium level June 16, but a slight increase in hospitalizations reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday pushed it back over the CDC’s high threshold. “I do expect again next week that we’ll drop back to medium, and potentially even to low,” Chicago Department of ...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city will continue working to support women from out of state who are seeking legal abortions and took aim at Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for a concurring opinion in which he urged colleagues to overturn various cases, including the landmark ruling establishing same-sex marriage. Lightfoot appeared on a CBS morning show Monday to talk about the ...

When Chicago Bulls draft pick Dalen Terry turned 10, he had only one request for his birthday present — a basketball tournament. So his mother, Fenice Yancy, rented out a space at the local rec center to organize a 3-on-3 tournament for Terry and his friends, picking up a referee’s whistle herself to officiate the competition. “She gave me all the calls that day,” Terry said Monday during his ...

Fox News analyst Gianno Caldwell took to social media to share news that his 18-year-old brother Christian Beamons had been shot dead in Morgan Park on the South Side early Friday. “Yesterday was legitimately the worst day of my existence,” Caldwell wrote on his social media platforms Saturday. “After all the things my family has been through never could I have imagined my baby brother’s life ...

A Monday night without “Godspell,” it feels to me, is always inferior to a Monday night with “Godspell.” True of any day ... by day, by day. After very many experiences of watching wide-eyed young folk preparing the way of the Lord, I can pretty much recount every line of this classic 1971 hippy-dippy pop musical with the superglue score by Stephen Schwartz (”Wicked”) and an of-its-time book ...

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