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Is Williams really a bright spot on a bad team, or have the Bears simply not had time to ruin him yet?
Starting Jan. 1, under a change to the Illinois Equal Pay Act, job seekers should get wage and benefits information upfront. It should help expose and prevent pay inequities.
“Being confined in the cell for so many hours of each day (23 out of 24) is going to test you beyond belief,” he writes.
The Lions’ offensive coordinator is one of the hot head-coaching candidates.
As festive as GroceryLand, Edgewater’s food pantry for people with HIV, was the Saturday before Christmas, there was also a sense of trouble ahead, though co-founder Lori Cannon insists that neither the implosion of Heartland Alliance nor the nation’s lurch toward increasing intolerance will affect anything.
Don’t worry, the playoff will regain any momentum it lost over the weekend. Probably.
A fanciful 20,000-pound depiction of a ram cracked during installation at the National Public Housing Museum on Taylor Street.
Running errands downtown, amid a gloomy scene, the universe sent writer John Vukmirovich a message he calls “brief, yet startling in its clarity.”
What happens when the “fill in the blank” line is left empty? On those super-rare occasions when no one has earned or deserves the honor?
It’s all about modernizing infrastructure as Illinois turns to cleaner energy. Interregional power superhighways are the way to go, a union leader says.
A source with knowledge of Stratton’s poll and the thinking behind it told Rich Miller she is “keeping her options open” as Gov. JB Pritzker decides if he will seek reelection.
Images that girls and young women see online are curated, filtered and sometimes fake — nothing like IRL (in real life).
In the Trump era, there is simply no Republican, no matter how deranged or unfit, whom the Journal will not prefer to a Democratic opponent. The spectacle of the Journal chastising the Biden administration without a solitary word about Trump and his enablers is breathtaking.
Without clemency, those on federal death row remain at risk of execution under the incoming Trump administration, in a system rife with racial bias and other serious flaws, the head of the National Urban League writes.
It won’t end gun violence by itself, but showing young people how to resolve differences peacefully could save more of them from the trauma of constant shootings.
Cook County Department of Public Health’s new doula program overlooks the existing network of experienced doulas serving local communities and integrate with Medicaid. Also, readers weigh in on cuts at Columbia College, Donald Trump, souped-up Christmas lights and Chance the Rapper’s divorce.
The former slugger will be coming to the Cubs Convention after admitting to vague mistakes.
Scheduling last-minute meetings just before the holidays and potentially firing Schools CEO Pedro Martinez is part of an abdication of board members’ responsibility, writes Jesse Ruiz, a former interim CEO and School Board vice-president.
Charlie Wheeler, purveyor of novelty hats, walks the streets of Chicago hawking his wares.
Between the white lines is the perfect place for the best two teams in any state to run into each other.