Новости за 16.04.2018

Drivers who illegally double park downtown soon could face triple the fine at $300.

Minor League Baseball implemented several new pace-of-play regulations in March, and teams are still trying to get used to the changes.

The New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for breaking the Harvey Weinstein scandal with reporting that galvanized the #MeToo movement and set off a worldwide reckoning over sexual misconduct in the workplace.

Make no mistake. What we are looking at here is an epidemic, a pestilence that’s sweeping across the country, spreading like an infectious disease. A virtual tsunami, rolling over the American landscape and swallowing 10- to 16-year-old boys with an insidious ease I would have thought impossible...

Can you combine the post-colonial atrocities, the internal corruption, the ceaseless profiteering that still afflicts Africa, the mother continent of humanity, with the rubric of a knockdown, drag-out, no-holds-barred farce?

The Pulitzer Prize committee gets it. The Grammy Awards don’t.

Kendrick Lamar’s 2017 album, “DAMN.,” was snubbed by the Recording Academy for the album of the year Grammy a few months ago. But on Monday, the Pulitzer Prize for musical composition went to Lamar.

The honor made Lamar the first non-classical...

No one at Google envied Mark Zuckerberg last week as he was being grilled by Congress. But for years, they certainly coveted the personal data that made Facebook a formidable digital ad player. And the strategies they set to compete have now placed Google squarely in the cross hairs of a privacy...

Chicago aldermen on Monday voted to scale back a recently enacted ban on civilians wearing body armor.

California has rejected terms of the federal government's initial plans for sending National Guard troops to the border because the work is considered too closely tied to immigration, two U.S. officials told The Associated Press.

When Hungarian Kosher Foods opens for business next week, just as it has for more than three decades in Skokie, ownership will have changed, marking the end of an era for the store's founding family and longtime employees and customers.

While most of us are accustomed to throwing in a 20 percent tip for great food and service, a Seattle man tipped 260 percent Sunday night at Boka.

For most of his young adult life, Joshwa Larry, 28, has been homeless. He sleeps on friend's couches and stays in various church shelters.

Scenes from Electric Hotel Nightclub in River North on April 13.

Scenes from Electric Hotel Nightclub in River North on April 13.

Gen-Xers, get ready for a night of musical entertainment in Naperville this summer geared just for you.

President Donald Trump on Monday put the brakes on a preliminary plan to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia, walking back a Sunday announcement by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley that the Kremlin had swiftly denounced as "international economic raiding."

Navistar International Corp., the truckmaker in the midst of an ambitious turnaround, may be fixing itself just in time for a takeover by Volkswagen.

When a baseball announcer rattles off your favorite player’s batting average with two outs and runners on first and third, he’s not pulling that figure from the back of his mind. There’s a good chance that timely information was provided by Stats, a Chicago-based sports data and technology company.

Have you ever wondered how a baseball announcer can quickly call up your favorite player’s batting average with two outs and runners on first and third? Chances are those numbers came from Stats, a Chicago-based sports data and technology company.

When 70 or so moms gather in Washington, D.C., this week to talk to their elected representatives about childhood-cancer funding, Albany Park’s Sheila Quirke will be among them. Her 9-year-old son, Jay, will be there too.

There are fundraisers, and then there’s the G.O.A.T. (as in greatest of all time) dinner that Rick Bayless has planned for May 6.

Elgin’s Grand Victoria Casino is set to change hands later this year, and the prospective new owner is eyeing land near the casino for future development.

Our recent missile attack on Syria has led me to believe it’s time to revamp the Statue of Liberty.

High school students in Naperville, Aurora, Elgin, Geneva and Oswego plan to walk out of class this week to raise the issue of gun control and school safety as they mark the 19th anniversary of Columbine High School shooting in Colorado, an event that happened before they were born.

Two city workers are out after being investigated for sexual harassment, the city’s top watchdog reported Monday, as City Hall works to address the issue highlighted by the nationwide #MeToo movement.