It was only a few weeks ago that I wrote a column about how Advocate-Dreyer is dropping the latter half of that medical group's name, all but severing ties with a moniker that for so long represented quality health care in the Fox Valley. Perhaps you can understand my concern when I read the headline...
Local Scoreboard.. Scores and highlights may be emailed to tribwestsports@gmail.com BASKETBALL SCHEDULE FRIDAY'S GAMES BOYS Class 4A Postseason Sectionals At Elgin Title: Larkin vs. Jacobs, 7 p.m. At Hinsdale Central Title: Naperville North vs. Wheaton North, 7 p.m. Class 1A Postseason State Tournament At Carver...
It's a big deal no matter what the size of the town. But it's even bigger in a small town. Thats why Newark elementary, middle and high school students lined the sidewalk in front of the school Thursday, forming a virtual tunnel for the boys basketball team to walk through to get to their bus for...
Scores and highlights may be emailed to southtownsports@gmail.com Note: Schedules are subject to change because of weather and other factors. WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS HIGH SCHOOLS BOYS BASKETBALL SECTIONAL SEMIFINALS CLASS 4A THORNWOOD Thornton 64, Brother Rice 58 CLASS 3A PLANO Hillcrest 73, Morris 42 CLASS...
Plano senior Anthony Martinez is no stranger to hitting clutch 3-pointers. Last season, he drilled a game-winner during the regular season against Lisle. Thursday in the Class 3A Plano Sectional semifinals against Rich Central, Martinez was in a similar position to send the game to overtime. And...
Students from West Aurora High School's National Art Honor Society have been looking for a way to help people in the community in need of food. On Thursday night, they found it with the Empty Bowl fundraiser. Nearly three dozen people paid $25 each for a ticket to attend a special fundraiser dinner...
During a recent volunteer meeting, as Executive Director Jim Hirsch talked about the upcoming Chicago Sinfonietta concert, one member of the group admitted she hadn't quite been comfortable with the idea for it when planning started about a year ago. But the more they talked about it, the more she...
Don't go to the concert with expectations. "We don't give the people what they expect, we give the people what they demand," George Thorogood said. "And what they demand for their money is to see the greatest rock show they've ever seen in their life. Nothing else will do." Gold and platinum selling...
Every day is St. Patrick's Day at Quigley's Irish Pub, located in the historic Jefferson Hill building in downtown Naperville. Since 1998, the mother-daughter team of Nancy Quigley and Michele Michael have been serving "craic," a Gaelic term for "fun and good times among friends" to area diners...
Bothered about busing: Thanks a lot, East Aurora School District, for caving in and wanting to have buses for everyone. With the narrow streets and thousands of cars parked all over the place, trying to get around during the afternoon or evening is going to be a real cluster mess. With all these...
I'd never pretend to be an art aficionado. I wish I were. But I do appreciate a good story. And few among us have a more unique one than Dr. Charles Smith, who has become an internationally celebrated artist but readily admits he was often known here in Aurora as "the crazy man" with "all the junk"...
Now that Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan is no longer a focus in Aurora's mayoral election, my curiosity got the best of me: I just had to find out what the two surviving candidates plan on doing to separate themselves from each other. Although State Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia, who came in a surprising...
Some suburban congressmen think it's futile to hold town meetings only to have them packed by organized protesters who follow a partisan "playbook" of disruption. That's the easy way out. It's a little harder to be brave, and to take the heat. Just ask scores of local elected officials who don't...
A Kendall County jail inmate is accused of threatening to kill a fellow inmate if authorities didn't take him back to Cook County, where he was initially booked on sexual assault charges in 2013. Deverick Alex, 25, of the 2100 block of East 99th Street, Chicago, has been housed in the Kendall County...
A 20-year-old Aurora man was charged with a felony weapons offense after police said they found a loaded gun under his seat when they pulled over the car he was riding in Sunday on Aurora's East Side. Sean T. Bowman, 20, of the 900 block of Oakland Lane, is charged with aggravated unlawful use...
A young Aurora man is accused of being under the influence of marijuana and engaging in a race that spanned nearly two miles that reached a speed of 108 mph in a 40 mph zone, Naperville police said Tuesday. No one was injured and no property was damaged during the course of the race, police Cmdr....
Aurora police are continuing to investigate the death of a 36-year-old resident after he apparently stumbled into a semi-truck's path Monday evening on the city's near West Side. At about 7:41 p.m. Monday, officers responded to the 800 block of North Lake Street for a call of a man apparently hit...
Two Aurora men were killed and a third man injured in an early morning shooting Friday outside a bar and restaurant on the city's East Side, police said. Aurora police went to the 700 block of South Lincoln Avenue after several workers at a bar there called police about a shooting at about 12:50...
Working at a young boy's hair Tuesday afternoon at Chicago Style Barbers in downtown Aurora, Kyle Brown reminisced about the coworker whose sudden death this week is hard to swallow. Brown met Ralph E. Clark at least 15 years before, when Brown was a customer at the shop and Clark was a talented...
The White House says President Donald Trump was not aware his national security adviser was probably going to have to register as a foreign agent for his lobbying work. Spokesman Sean Spicer said Friday that retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn's decision to register was a personal decision and not one...
The top was down on Thaddeus Jimenez's shiny Mercedes convertible and opera music blared on the stereo as he and a gang associate drove around Chicago's Northwest Side looking for someone to shoot. Just three years earlier, Jimenez had won a staggering $25 million verdict for his wrongful murder...
In the 27 hours the House Energy and Commerce Committee spent debating Republicans' Affordable Care Act revision plan, a handful of moments stand out. This is one of them. At the start, Democratic Rep. Mike Doyle (Pa.) was talking with Republican Rep. John Shimkus (Ill.) about his objections to...
The NFL's new league year began at 3 p.m. Thursday, at which time free agency and the trade period opened across the league. As deals unfold and players change teams, the Tribune's coverage team is keeping you up to speed with all the latest Bears transactions while also providing insight into...
On his way to school, the ninth-grader heard the first gunshot from a distance. He figured it was meant for him. So he ran. With the sound of gunfire trailing him, he made his way down the street, through an alley and to the back door of the weathered two-flat where he lives. "I heard shots coming...
The Bears launched the post-Jay Cutler era on Friday by announcing the addition of quarterback Mike Glennon on a three-year contract. Eight years after a blockbuster trade to acquire Cutler was celebrated because he was believed to be the missing link, the club has made a move that is being met...
The Bears released Jay Cutler, then reportedly will sign someone else’s backup to start, and still plan to draft a quarterback this year. Isn’t this is what a general manager does in Year 1, not Year 3, Ryan Pace? Way to keep that 3-13 momentum going. In releasing Cutler, the Bears say goodbye...
With a lot of pretentious talk about the "deconstruction of the administrative state" and political fantasies (tariffs that don't provoke retaliation, for example), Steve Bannon and President Donald Trump hoped to transform the GOP into an ethno-nationalist, pro-Russia party akin to the Alternative...
Two small children have lightened up a serious television interview on a weighty subject by barging into their dad's office while he was on the air.Professor Robert E. Kelly was talking to the BBC from South Korea on Friday to discuss the ouster of that country's president when a small child danced...
Free agency is no way to lay a foundation for sustained success, and from that standpoint the Bears' underwhelming entry into the NFL's shopping season isn't alarming. But free agency is a proven method for plugging a hole here or there, and after the opening rush of moves it's debatable how successful...
A gang leader who blew a multimillion-dollar award from his wrongful conviction lawsuit by using the money to rejuvenate the Simon City Royals was sentenced Thursday to a little more than nine years in prison for a brazen daylight shooting on Chicago's Northwest Side. A federal judge imposed the...
Tearing down older homes or turning two-flats into single-family homes could get more expensive in neighborhoods along the western part of The 606 trail. Aldermen Proco "Joe" Moreno, 1st, and Roberto Maldonado, 26th, are drafting an ordinance that would increase the demolition fee for residential...
A woman laughed when told her boyfriend was likely to die after she poured bleach on his face and down his throat, prosecutors said in court Thursday. Hours later, Yasmine Elder's boyfriend, Darrius Elder, died at Stroger Hospital. "The defendant admitted to pouring bleach on the victim and then...
This was the official moment of finality, a 494-word news release sent out by the Bears at 4:36 p.m. Thursday. The subject line was momentous even if it was far from surprising. BEARS RELEASE QB JAY CUTLER. That's it. And that's all. The end of an era. And while the Bears' written send-off was...
Like Obamacare, Trumpcare, if enacted, will compel health insurance companies to do something crazy: Sell reasonably priced coverage to new customers who already have chronic illnesses or acute conditions. It's crazy because, even with the annual tax penalties now imposed under Obamacare (the Affordable...
She called the police. Then ATF. After that, the FBI. Janet Delana was desperate to stop her mentally ill adult daughter from buying another handgun. Finally, Delana called the gun shop a few miles from her home, the one that had sold her daughter a black Hi-Point pistol a month earlier when her...
U.S. Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) wants answers, darn it. During debate over the Republicans' Affordable Care Act revision plan, Democratic Rep. Mike Doyle (Pa.) asked Shimkus to name a mandate in the Obamacare bill with which he took issue, and Shimkus, a father of three, had this to say: “What...
Has a player ever been razzed so hard for making a 3-pointer? With 21 seconds to go Wednesday night, Northwestern's Nate Taphorn received the ball at the top of the key. Walk-on Charlie Hall, son of comedic giants Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall, was open to Taphorn's right. Hall has not scored...
A man who beat his murder case when prosecutors failed to give him a speedy trial was killed minutes after leaving Cook County Jail on Monday night, according to authorities. Kamari Belmont, 23, was being held on murder and robbery charges after he allegedly shot a man during a robbery and robbed...
A carjacker in Lakeview forced a woman into the trunk of her car Thursday night, then drove 20 miles south — only stopping when he crashed her car into a tree, police said. The woman, 24, was in the rear yard of an apartment building in the 3700 block of North Fremont Street about 8:20 p.m. when...
Sad to say, President Donald Trump doesn't drink. And thus out the window goes the most plausible excuse for his sloppy, intemperate tweets, four of which set all forms of media on fire early Saturday. "Terrible!" Trump posted at 5:35 a.m. "Just found out that (former president Barack) Obama had...
On the fourth day of January, less than a week after the Bears completed their worst 16-game season in franchise history, general manager Ryan Pace struck a reassuring tone, vowing to attack his offseason overhaul with purpose. Equipped with ample salary-cap space and favorable draft status, Pace...
A judge in the District of Columbia on Thursday slashed the monthly child support payments ex-U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. must make to former Ald. Sandi Jackson as their high-profile divorce case continues in two jurisdictions, court records show. Judge Robert Okun of the Superior Court of the...