As leader of the nonprofit devoted to fundraising for the Chicago Public Library, she put her lifelong commitment to books and reading to work.

1977: A bystander called it “a slow-motion horror.” The Tribune called it the worst crash in Chicago Transit Authority ...

Basil Talbott spent more than 30 years at the Sun-Times and was widely respected by his colleagues as a truth-seeker who ...

Although he and bandmates recorded at the famed Sun Studios in Memphis and he played Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, real fame ...

Gov. JB Pritzker threw his former running mate a $5 million lifeline, largely bankrolling an action committee aimed at helping Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton win the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination.

During a lengthy journalism career that involved covering bare-knuckled politics both in Chicago and Washington, Basil Talbott Jr. was the Chicago Sun-Times’ political editor for a decade before ...

Comedy actress Catherine O’Hara, who starred in film classics like “Beetlejuice” and “Home Alone” as well as the television ...

A Chicago carpenter cleared of accusations that he put a $10,000 bounty on the life of a Border Patrol commander has been taken into immigration custody and ...

The Oak Lawn resident officiated Illinois high school baseball, football and basketball games and was a ref for college bowl games.

John Joseph Dalicandro passed away at the age of 82 during the early morning hours of January 19, 2026, in LaGrange, Il. Born on August 21, 1943, in Chicago, IL, he was the beloved son of James ...

Joan Ann Tomkovick (nee Johnston) was born October 4, 1934 in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended school in North Royalton, Ohio; Granby High School, Norfolk Virginia; and graduated from Zion Benton ...

CHICAGO - Today we have cold temperatures and sunshine. Highs today will be in the low to mid 20s with wind chills this afternoon around 10-15. Clouds will be increasing later today, and the chance ...