CHICAGO - Days after Lori Lightfoot announced her long-shot bid for Chicago mayor last spring, she marched for peace alongside gun violence victims and anti-gun advocates in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. Just two days before she will succeed Ma

CHICAGO - The Bulls will add a point guard this offseason. It's just a matter of how. They disappointingly exited the NBA draft lottery Tuesday with the No. 7 pick. Do they keep the pick and use it on a point guard? Do they include the pick in a trad

WASHINGTON - After allowing five earned runs in his first 38 2/3 innings this season, Cubs left-hander Jon Lester's mastery ended quickly Saturday night. Lester was tagged for five runs in 4 1/3 innings against the Nationals, who held on for a 5-2 vi

When you think of former athletes who moved into ownership roles after their careers ended, the names Michael Jordan, Mario Lemieux, Magic Johnson and Derek Jeter spring to mind. Darwin Barney wants to join the club, though the former Cubs second bas

WASHINGTON - Kris Bryant popped out to first base Saturday night for the final out of the Cubs' 5-2 loss to the Nationals, capping an 0-for-4 night that snapped his career-best on-base streak at 26 games. But a night earlier at Nationals Park, Bryant

CHICAGO - A second case of measles in Cook County is the first in the city of Chicago and the eighth in the state of Illinois so far this year, according to health officials. Elena Ivanova, a spokeswoman for the city of Chicago, confirmed the city's

CHICAGO - Reynaldo Lopez began the White Sox's six-game homestand Monday against the Indians on a strong note. Lopez returned to the mound for the final game of the homestand Sunday against the Blue Jays. The right-hander produced another effective o

CHICAGO - If Jeff Glass' thick red beard ever turns white, it won't be hard to imagine him as a department-store Santa Claus. Not that he has the belly for it, but the 33-year-old goalie's cheery disposition remains off the charts. Blackhawks fans fi

CINCINNATI - Light rain fell on Great American Ball Park in the bottom of the second inning Thursday, but the Cubs had bigger issues in the fifth inning as the Reds scored three times and earned a 4-2 victory. The game was stopped because of rain wit

CINCINNATI - The Cubs and Cardinals will play a regular-season series in London next season, a source confirmed. It would be the first international series for the Cubs since they played the Mets in Japan in 2000. In spring training, many Cubs said t

CHICAGO - Ryan Cordell got the bunt down. Yolmer Sanchez did the rest. Sanchez slid in safely with the go-ahead run on a suicide squeeze in the eighth inning, and the Sox went on to a 4-2 victory against the Blue Jays on Thursday at Guaranteed Rate F

Q: I've found a simple solution for tight lug nuts that I've been using for over 30 years. Whenever I get a car, I remove the lug nuts and wheel, brush the threads with a wire brush and lightly coat the threads with anti-seize compound. I also put so

CHICAGO - The Bulls own the No. 7 pick in the NBA draft, which will be held June 21 at the Barclays Center in New York. Here's a look at the team's other No. 7s - whether it was their selection or was acquired in a draft-day deal. ___ 1982: Quintin D

A new member of the family was coming. A baby boy: Marlen Ochoa-Lopez and Yovani Lopez's boy. Nine months pregnant, Marlen already had a 3-year-old son who now would have a brother. Marlen, 19, was doing the things that parents do when they're bringi

CHICAGO - Joining a moms group on Facebook has become as common a ritual for pregnant women and new mothers as buying the book "What to Expect When You're Expecting" and registering for shower gifts. But the killing of pregnant Chicago teenager Marle

CHICAGO - One of the women accused of strangling 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez and cutting her full-term baby from her womb had pretended for months beforehand that she was pregnant, Cook County prosecutors said in court Friday. Clarisa Figueroa, al

CHICAGO - When Ja Morant arrived at Murray State in Kentucky, he went unnoticed around town and on campus. For a while at least. "Coming from being under the radar, I could sit somewhere and nobody would know me," Morant said Thursday at the NBA draf

CHICAGO - I wish I could say the pending dissolution of Ben and Julianna Zobrist's marriage was nobody's business but theirs. I can't. This isn't just because it's two celebrities - he a Cubs World Series MVP and she a Christian pop musician - who ta

It makes perfect political sense that the strictest anti-abortion law in the nation, signed Wednesday by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, contains a reassuring passage stating "that a woman who receives an abortion will not be held criminally culpable or civil

CHICAGO - A Cook County judge on Friday swatted down a request that a judge from outside the county make the decision whether a special prosecutor should be appointed to investigate the abrupt dismissal of charges against "Empire" actor Jussie Smolle

CHICAGO - Democratic presidential aspirant Pete Buttigieg accused Republicans of co-opting the terms "freedom" and "security" in the national mindset, and questioned whether talk "about freedom in this country has gone off the rails" following recent

Every time I enter the blue-tiled bathroom off the back door of my home I think about my mom, my millennial offspring and the overflowing shelves at the local Goodwill. In that bathroom, displayed next to the outdated mahogany vanity, is a wall hangi

CHICAGO - Marlen Ochoa-Lopez dreamed of one day meeting her grandparents. She was brought as a toddler to Chicago from San Luis de la Loma, a coastal town in the Mexican state of Guerrero, and never got a chance to meet them. Now, as the family prepa

CHICAGO - Joey Reinsdorf had known that the Bulls dropped from No. 4 to No. 7 for close to an hour Tuesday night when he grimaced as the NBA's draft lottery TV show aired in a hotel backroom to announce picks he already knew. "Maybe next time, my dad