Good afternoon, Chicago. Pro-Palestinian protests continued for a second day today at Northwestern’s Evanston campus, with hundreds of students and faculty — many of whom spent the night in tents — pressuring the university to divest from funds connected to Israel or those that profit from its war in Gaza. Students and activists associated with the Northwestern Divestment Coalition started the ...

R. Kelly’s sex-crime conviction and 20-year sentence in Chicago’s federal court will stand, an appeals court ruled Friday in a blistering opinion. “For years, Robert Sylvester Kelly abused underage girls. By employing a complex scheme to keep victims quiet, he long evaded consequences. In recent years, though, those crimes caught up with him at last,” Judge Amy St. Eve of the 7th Circuit U.S. ...

A Gary man was sentenced to 13 years Thursday for shooting a man in the leg inside a gas station, court records show. It started as a fight with friends on Aug. 22, 2020, that spiraled into a deadly shooting. Roy C. Akins III, now 22, signed a plea agreement in March admitting to aggravated battery, a Level 3 felony. He faced up to 16 years. He was the last defendant sentenced in the case. ...

Rush University System for Health is teaming up with top-ranked University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center — a move that’s expected to give Rush patients better access to the latest cancer treatments and help Rush compete against other Chicago-area hospitals. Under the partnership, which was announced Friday, Rush Cancer Center is being renamed Rush MD Anderson Cancer Center. Rush will ...

Lemont and Homewood-Flossmoor move up in the rankings, while Tinley Park’s Addie Weed is the player of the week. Top 10 With records through Thursday and previous rankings in parentheses. 1. Lockport 17-0 (1) Ava Kozak-led Porters earn top seed in loaded Class 3A Plainfield North Sectional. 2. Andrew 11-5-1 (2) Kadence Jones blossoms into elite goalkeeper for top seed in Class 3A Joliet ...

Hobart junior Drew Burris didn’t rest on his laurels. Far from it. After the left-hander was named the Northwest Crossroads Conference pitcher of the year last season, he knew he had more to accomplish. “It felt great, especially as a sophomore,” Burris said. “There are a lot of great teams in the conference. I knew I had a good season, but that made me go, ‘Wow, I really did have a great ...

Just as the tulips blooming around Chicago every spring bring the promise of summer, this year’s NFL draft seemed to bring the promise of change for Bears fans. As the saying goes, hope springs eternal. While the front office assembled Thursday night at Halas Hall, prepared to take USC quarterback Caleb Williams with the No. 1 pick, fans assembled at Soldier Field buzzed with excitement. One ...

A Riverdale, Illinois man was extradited earlier this month for allegedly killing his Gary girlfriend near their five young kids. Samuel Carlos Edwards, 37, was charged on Jan. 13, 2023, with murder in the Dec. 27, 2022 death of Ieisha Jefferson, 31, of Gary. He made his first court appearance on Wednesday. His next date is scheduled for June 13. Court records show he was arrested in Houston ...

On a night when the Tinley Park girls soccer team honored one of its own and raised money for breast cancer research, senior forward/midfielder Gianna Butler was playing for her grandmas. Janis Butler and Dorothy Malito are both breast cancer survivors. “They both fought it, and now they’re living their best lives, and I’m so happy for them,” Gianna Butler said. “It meant a lot to me that ...

After months of buildup for the Chicago Bears, the 2024 NFL draft finally has arrived — a chance for general manager Ryan Poles to change the course of the franchise by using the team’s first No. 1 pick since 1947. The Bears drafted quarterback Caleb Williams with that pick to replace recently traded Justin Fields and then continued to build a team that finished the 2023 season 7-10. 2024 ...