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Dear Eric: We are a group of three female former co-workers who have gathered regularly for 10 years to celebrate birthdays and Christmas. We have taken turns at each other’s homes and always had a nice time eating, laughing and reminiscing together. This year, one member of our group ghosted the other two of us. She will not respond to phone calls or messages. We are totally in the dark and confused by this and don’t know if we should continue to reach out or let it go. She has given us no indication, at any time, of a problem. She recently became a…
A Lockport Township High School sophomore whose lemonade stand recently raised more than $15,000 to benefit children and young adults battling cancer said the two-day event far surpassed expectations. Austin Bielski, 15, has been running his Cups 4 Cancer lemonade stand each year since he was 8 years old. Over the years, the proceeds have supported several organizations that help children dealing with cancer, including the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation, CC2 Forever Foundation and Cal’s Angels. In seven years, he raised $34,917. But after hearing that Dylan Krestan, his former baseball teammate from Homer Junior High School, was diagnosed…
LONDON — What the skibidi is happening to the English language? “Skibidi,” pronounced SKIH-bih-dee, is one of the slang terms popularized by social media that are among more than 6,000 additions this year to the Cambridge Dictionary. “Internet culture is changing the English language and the effect is fascinating to observe and capture in the dictionary,” said Colin McIntosh, lexical program manager at Cambridge Dictionary, the world’s largest online dictionary. “Skibidi” is a gibberish term coined by the creator of an animated YouTube series and can mean “cool” or “bad” or be used with no real meaning as a joke.…
Information about homicides is released daily by the city of Chicago. The release of homicide victims’ names is delayed by two weeks to allow time for the victims’ families to be notified of a death by Chicago police. The homicide figures do not include killings that occurred in self-defense or in other circumstances not measured in Chicago police statistics. Homicide data from the Illinois State Police, which patrols the city’s expressways, also is not included here. After a two-year spike during the pandemic and national outrage over police accountability, Chicago began to see a decline in homicides in 2022. Homicide…
For 40 years he was the voice of the feisty Voice newspapers serving Chicago’s Far West Side neighborhoods of Austin, North Lawndale and Garfield Park. His voicemail — “This is Brad Cummings” — was bold and brassy, like a TV news anchor. He sure liked to talk. At the same time, he was always listening, always learning, always knitting people together. But on June 26 his bold voice fell forever silent when a tragic fire in the Austin neighborhood took three innocent lives, his among them. Fires change things. For the first time ever, the Voice missed its weekly publication date.…
The Tribune’s recent editorial about corporations leaving Chicago due to high taxation misses the mark when it comes to explaining company motives for locating in or leaving Chicago (“Brandon Johnson and friends think it’s ‘a privilege to do business in Chicago.’ Wrong,” Aug. 7). Let’s look at some of the examples: Boeing moved to Washington, D.C. to be closer to the Pentagon (its primary customer) and the Federal Aviation Administration (its regulator) as well as seeking engineering talent. Citadel leader Ken Griffin cited rising crime in the city as the primary reason for the company’s departure. (Since the departure, this administration’s investments in…
For the Frankfort Park District, which operates with an about $2 million annual budget, the recent announcement of a $7.9 million state grant will be a gamechanger. While the village in May received $1.6 million to link the eastern part of Frankfort and Commissioners Park, 22451 S. 80th Ave, to the broader Frankfort trail system, the most recent grant will largely focus on improving Commissioners Park itself, according to parks Director Gina Hassett. “This amount of money is pretty much unprecedented to get,” Hassett said Monday. “I’ve been with the district for 10 years and our Park District is underfunded…
The Kyle Tucker saga took a sharp turn late Monday afternoon when Chicago Cubs manager Craig Counsell announced he would give his slumping slugger some time off to regroup. How long is unknown, but with the season winding down and every game increasing in importance, any game off for Tucker is a sad statement on how far his stock has dropped in the last month. And so it goes for the Cubs in a dismal stretch where they’ve basically conceded the National League Central to the Milwaukee Brewers, whom they trail by nine games after Game 2 of the doubleheader…
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Democrats who ended a walkout found themselves shadowed by law enforcement officers to keep them from repeating the protest that stalled Republican efforts to redraw congressional districts and fulfill President Donald Trump’s desire to reshape U.S. House maps. Republicans in the Texas House forced returning Democrats to sign what the Democrats called “permission slips,” agreeing to around-the-clock surveillance by state Department of Public Safety officers to leave the floor. However, Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier, of Fort Worth, refused and remained on the House floor Monday night. The Democrats’ return to Texas puts the Republican-run Legislature in…
The CTA said Monday night there was a minor derailment of a Yellow Line train at the Howard Station near Evanston. About 7:40 p.m., the CTA and the Chicago Fire Department escorted riders from two trains to nearby platforms, according to CTA spokeswoman Catherine Hosinski. No injuries were reported and the cause of the derailment was not immediately known. Originally Published: August 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM CDT