Author: Voxtrend News
Carlos Santana has fond memories of Wrigley Field. In 2016, he was a 28-year-old starting first baseman for Cleveland, which faced the Chicago Cubs in that historic World Series. The Cubs won in seven games, but Santana said he was happy to play in the championship. He is now 39 years old and still without a World Series ring. The Cubs signed the switch-hitter to a major-league contract Monday as teams were allowed to expand their rosters to 28 players. “There are a lot of memories,” Santana said. “In 2016, it was one of my dreams to win a championship.…
With Broadway tours in town mostly consisting of reprise engagements of age-old blockbusters — “The Lion King,” “The Book of Mormon,” “Phantom of the Opera” — and some of the suburban theaters repeating each other’s programming, the theater spotlight this fall shines on Chicago’s venerable nonprofit theaters. As compared with the last few fiscally challenged years, we’re finally seeing more shows with larger casts, more complex storytelling and greater ambitions. Two Chicago theaters, Northlight Theatre and TimeLine, are looking forward to new buildings coming soon. That’s just as well, since two venerable performance venues, the Briar Street Theatre and Stage…
Darren Bailey cheered when President Donald Trump announced he was mulling deploying the National Guard to Chicago. He hardly stopped there. “If Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker try to block the National Guard from coming into Chicago, they should be held in contempt and jailed,” he wrote on Facebook. “Enough is enough — families deserve safety, not political games. It’s time to restore Chicago to greatness.” We ask you, readers, are these the words of an electable gubernatorial candidate here in Illinois? We say no. This kind of bombastic rhetoric is one of the reasons why we couldn’t endorse Bailey…
The door to Feld hides in its nook on Chicago Avenue. You could miss it in a blink. For Caroline Schrope, however, it’s the center of her Chicago. On a Thursday in June, at around 11:30 a.m., Schrope, 28, her curly brown hair in pigtails, looped a black apron over her head and wrote 13 things on her prep list. By noon, she had crossed out the first three. Schrope sliced Benton’s 14-month smoked ham into small cubes at her station at Feld, Jake Potashnick’s year-old tasting menu restaurant in Ukrainian Village. At Le Bouchon’s grill station on a Monday at…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will direct federal law enforcement intervention to combat crime in Chicago and Baltimore, despite staunch opposition from state and local officials in both cities. Asked by reporters in the Oval Office about sending National Guard troops to Chicago, Trump said, “We’re going in,” but added, “I didn’t say when.” “I have an obligation,” the president said. ”This isn’t a political thing.” Trump has already sent National Guard troops into Washington, D.C., and federalized the police force in the nation’s capital. More recently, he has said he plans similar moves in other cities, particularly…
The Printers Row Lit Fest, which takes place on Saturday and Sunday, is 40 years old this season, and I am, ahem, a few years beyond that momentous birthday and have been part of every one of those years, when the stretch of South Dearborn Street from Congress Parkway (since July 2018, Ida B. Wells Drive) south to Polk St. becomes for two days a delightful orgy of all things literary. It was founded by Bette Cerf Hill in 1985 as a means to, as she once told me, “bring books out in the sunshine,” but also to bring people…
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would send members of the National Guard into Chicago over the city’s crime problem, but he did not specify a date, as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations are expected to be ramped up in next few days. “Well, we’re going in. I didn’t say when we’re going in,” Trump said of the National Guard in speaking to reporters in the Oval Office at an unrelated news conference. “Look, I have an obligation. This isn’t a political thing. I have an obligation when we lose, when 20 people are killed over the last two…
The schools are open, the nights are longer, and the corn has finally stopped sweating. What could it all mean? Simple, that fall is right around the corner. And with the arrival of autumn comes the increase in the amount of time Chicagoans will be spending indoors. What better way to do so than by laughing? As we bask in the final few weeks of summer, here are some stand-up comedy options for fall. ILIZA! Live: Iliza Shlesinger’s million-plus Instagram followers will be the first to tell you that this comic’s star is doing nothing but rising and rising. With…
The city of Evanston deactivated its 19 license plate reading cameras Tuesday, Aug. 26, after a state official said on Aug. 25 that Flock Safety, which operates the cameras, had shared information about vehicles in Evanston with federal immigration agencies. Following mounting concerns that drivers could be under surveillance by federal authorities, Evanston also terminated its contract with Flock Safety effective Sept. 26, and any remaining payments the city owes the company are still to be determined. Until that date, Evanston police will still receive license plate tracking information from other jurisdictions but Evanston will not share its own license…
For Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Labor Day weekend spewed out an inconvenient truth: Nine people killed and 52 wounded in the most violent weekend of the Chicago summer. Too many gunmen did not get the message that Chicago had crime under control. That might not constitute a “killing field,” to use the frequent Trumpian parlance about our city, but it sure was a long way from a peaceful urban meadow for a holiday picnic. We’ve said from the start that the nothing-to-see-here, murder-rate-is-down, crime-is-under-control, we-know-best argument from local politicians was a loser. A total loser.…