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Tom Near's life changed with a glass of milk.

He needed change from gangs and a dysfunctional home.

"I grew up in the Lathrop Homes-Hamlin Park neighborhood well before gentrification," Near emailed. "I almost did not make it out. However, discovering fishes along Lake Michigan and, yes, the North Branch of the Chicago River (!) fueled my passion for biodiversity."

Tom Near on April 1, 1970, 10 days shy of his first birthday.

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DEAR ABBY: My friend "Gene" and I have been friends since elementary school. We're now in our 50s. We were inseparable best friends all those years. When we were about 30, I started noticing our friendship seemed to be a one-way street because he made no effort to initiate contact.

What was the most iconic sports action photo of the 20th century? Was it Babe Ruth’s called shot? Willie Mays’ catch? Michael Jordan’s "the shot"? Does it matter?

Two teens were sitting at the counter inside Vietfive, a West Loop coffee shop that was bustling with weekend customers. They watched as owner Tuan Huynh made drip-brewed Vietnamese coffee. Then, they sampled new flavors.

During Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s last year in office, one of her allies, Carmen Rossi, ran afoul of city lobbying rules. Rossi got fined $5,000. Lightfoot also gave back his campaign contributions.

The Episcopal Diocese of Chicago has a deal to sell its Streeterville headquarters to its neighbor, the denomination's St. James Cathedral, possibly ending a years-long quest to sell the office site for a posh high-rise development.

Chicagoans are likely to face the usual hot, muggy and wet summer this year but with less extreme heat and nowhere near as much smoke from wildfires as last year.

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The NCAA and the nation's five biggest conferences announced Thursday night that they have agreed to pay nearly $2.8 billion to settle a host of antitrust claims, a monumental decision that sets the stage for a groundbreaking revenue-sharing model that could start steering millions of dollars directly to athletes as soon as the 2025 fall semester.

NEW YORK — Sky coach Teresa Weatherspoon knew the questions that awaited her Thursday ahead of the Sky’s game against the Liberty. It was her first game coaching against the team with which she won two Defensive Player of the Year awards and became a five-time WNBA All-Star. And it also was an opportunity for the Sky to take another step forward.

There was a time during White Sox manager Pedro Grifol’s first season, especially during the 7-21 start, when he boiled after every loss.

Singer Danny Boy Steward was looking forward to serenading his fans with love songs Wednesday evening at City Winery, as he did at the popular West Loop venue about six months ago.

On a Thursday afternoon — a time not known for strong baseball attendance — some 35,000 fans packed the sunbathed seats at Wrigley Field.

Two men were shot and wounded while driving Thursday in Uptown on the North Side.

The Bears’ defense had just finished a boisterous, dominant performance in red zone drills Thursday when safety Kevin Byard, a two-time all-pro, walked up to quarterback Caleb Williams.

WASHINGTON – At a decorated pavilion on the South Lawn of the White House, President Joe Biden and first lady Jill hosted a state dinner on Thursday night for Kenyan President William Ruto and his wife, Rachel, with Mayor Brandon Johnson and former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun among the Chicagoans at the gala.

Wide receiver DJ Moore was the biggest Justin Fields fan among many in the Bears’ locker room last year. From the time Fields and Moore stepped onto the Halas Hall practice field as teammates in offseason workouts last season, the connection was a natural.

The Bears hope to get their other first-round pick back in full next week.

NBC Sports Chicago is coming to grips with the reality that it will lose the White Sox, Bulls and Blackhawks this fall. The regional sports network painted a bleak picture to employees Thursday, saying it didn’t see a path to a deal with the teams before their contract expires Oct. 1, the Sun-Times has learned.

Even as coach Matt Eberflus touted the Bears’ offseason attendance Thursday, the team’s two highest-paid players, in terms of 2024 salary-cap hits, weren’t at Halas Hall. Neither was their seventh-highest-paid player. Nor their top draft pick in 2023.

Visitors to the Chicago History Museum will be able to relive last year's NASCAR Chicago Street Race weeks before the roar of engines echoes through downtown as the race returns to the city for the second consecutive year.

No, manager Pedro Grifol is not giving up on Andrew Benintendi. And he will continue to play the struggling left fielder.

A moment early in Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship seemed like the stuff of a paperback love story.

At the outset of the derivative and overwrought artificial intelligence thriller “Atlas,” we hear snippets of desperate 911 calls and see newscast-style footage of mass destruction, as exposition-spouting anchors explain the premise of the movie: “For years, we have been assured that they would never harm us, but tonight all of that has changed, as across the globe, artificial intelligence bots ... have all bypassed their security protocols,” and, “Authorities have estimated that over 500,000... Читать дальше...

Lagunitas Brewing Co. announced Thursday that it's shutting its Chicago taproom and moving its brewing operations back to its original location in Petaluma, California, by early August.