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Federal Reserve Monday Museum highlights Negro Leagues
Black baseball is hitting it out of the park this year, especially in Chicago.What's happening: In May, Negro Leagues stats were finally merged with those in the rest of Major League Baseball, and this week a new exhibition on the leagues debuted at the Chicago Fed's Money Museum on LaSalle Street.Driving the news: The showcase is based on collectible coins released in 2020 to commemorate the league's 100th anniversary.Zoom in: One coin depicts the "father of Black baseball," Chicagoan Andrew "Rube" Foster."He not only put Black baseball in Chicago on the map in the early 20th century but more was...
Man dies after being dropped off at Chicago hospital with gunshot wound
CHICAGO - A man was shot and killed Thursday night in the Park Manor neighborhood. The man, who was between 30 and 40 years old, was shot once in the back around 9 p.m. in the 7100 block of South State Street, according to police. He was dropped off at...
Business suddenly booms at Chicago's Amici restaurant after Keith Lee review
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Keith Lee's online food reviews garner millions of views and help spotlight small, struggling restaurants around the country—his boost to those restaurants has widely become known as the Keith Lee effect.This week, the Last Vegas-based Lee made an unannounced visit to restaurant in Chicago's Lakeview community that has been having a hard time—and the impact was immediate.Amici is a relatively new restaurant located at 3933 N. Broadway—in a narrow storefront at the front of a blond brick building located right where Broadway splits off from Clarendon Avenue. Most recently before Amici, the storefront housed a Harold's Chicken—and...
IMAGES: Police searching for suspect involved in Red Line robbery
Police said the suspect approached the victim while riding on the train towards 47th Street on July 14 shortly before 10 p.m. The suspect allegedly hit the victim with a pair of pliers, and then started to strangle the victim.
Bears S Jonathan Owens to support wife, Simone Biles, at Paris Olympics
CHICAGO (CBS) -- It's rare that an NFL player is not only less famous than his spouse but also not even the better athlete.That's the case for new Bears safety Jonathan Owens, who is getting set to watch his wife, gymnastics superstar Simone Biles, in the Summer Olympics.The team is allowing Owens to skip part of Training Camp and their first preseason game so he can go to Paris to support his wife."They were really cool about it, man," Owens said. "It's a first-class organization. Like, I just wanna thank them so much for even allowing me to go over...
Man wants conviction tied to disgraced CPD detective overturned
A man falsely accused of a 1988 murder is seeking to have his conviction, tied to disgraced Chicago police Det. Reynaldo Guevara, overturned, which would be the 45th such reversal.One of those individuals, Edwin Ortiz, spent 25 years incarcerated for a Chicago murder he was falsely accused of, according to a news release. He was 15 years old when he was arrested and convicted for the murder of Jose Morales in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood. His attorneys said Guevara manipulated and bribed an eyewitness to identify Ortiz as the shooter.They claimed Guevara "terrorized and framed dozens of innocent people, especially...
Les Mis storms the North Shore
Repression, revolution, rebirth: the tides of change are always rolling, in politics and art. Uptown Music Theater in Highland Park leans into that spirit with their latest production: a revival of the global smash hit Les Misérables. Adapted from Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel of the same name, the musical (created by composer Claude-Michel Schönberg with a book by Schönberg, Alain Boublil, and Jean-Marc Natel and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer) has played to over 130 million people in 53 countries and in 22 languages. It started as a concept album in 1980, and had a run in Paris that same year. But when megaproducer Cameron Mackintosh got ahold of it for an English-language version, it really took off—even though the initial reviews in the UK were far from positive. (One critic called it “a lurid Victorian melodrama produced with Victorian lavishness.”)
Lorraine Hansberry Statue Finds a Permanent Home at Chicago's Navy Pier
The Lorraine Hansberry Initiative's Lorraine Hansberry statue, which has been on a nationwide tour since 2022, has found a permanent home in Chicago's Navy Pier. The move will mean the statue is in the Raisin in the Sun playwright's hometown. The statue, sculpted by Alison Saar, is titled To Sit...
4 teen boys arrested minutes after implying they had guns, robbing man in Little Italy: police
CHICAGO - Four teenage boys were arrested this week after allegedly robbing a man in Little Italy. A 12-year-old boy, a 13-year-old boy and two 15-year-old boys were each charged with one felony count of aggravated robbery, indicating that they were armed with firearms. The 13-year-old boy also received a...
Humboldt Boulevard Homes Could Be Protected Under Extension Of Logan Square Landmark District
HUMBOLDT PARK — Historical homes along a portion of Humboldt Park’s boulevards could receive landmark designation after years of advocacy by neighbors. A proposal to extend the Logan Square Boulevards Landmark District from Humboldt Boulevard and Cortland Street to Sacramento Avenue and Augusta Boulevard is gaining steam under Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th), who held a community meeting on the proposal last week.
Ald. William Hall Moving 6th Ward Office To Former Mercy Medical Building In Chatham
CHATHAM — Ald. William Hall (6th) is moving his ward services just a year after celebrating the grand opening of his first South Side office. The 6th Ward office will reopen Aug. 1 at 8541 S. State St., Hall announced on his social media pages Monday. Hall’s new headquarters is in the same building as the Trilogy wellness center, which provides mental health services to South Side neighbors.
Man, 25, dies after being shot multiple times on South Side
CHICAGO — A 25-year-old man has died after being shot multiple times on the city’s South Side. The shooting happened around 1:43 a.m. Thursday in the 6100 block of South King Drive in the Washington Park neighborhood. Police said a 25-year-old man was in the alley when he got into an argument with someone he […]
What does being ‘financially intimate’ mean?
Featured on WGN Radio’s Home Sweet Home Chicago on 06/15/24: President and CEO of the Kane County Teachers Credit Union Mike Lee joins the show to discuss the importance of budgeting and learning how to properly finance, especially when it comes to you and your partner. To learn more about the KCTCU and what they can do for you, visit kctcu.org or call 888-741-3344.
Chicago police find man in wheelchair shot in Greater Grand Crossing
CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago police are searching for the gunman who shot a man in a wheelchair in Greater Grand Crossing Wednesday night.Police say just before 10:30 p.m., officers responded to the 7400 block of South Perry Avenue, where they found the victim with a gunshot wound to his right hip. The shooter fled the scene in an unknown direction. Dozens of evidence markers and piles of bullets were seen scattered on the street.Fire officials took the victim to the University of Chicago Medical Center in fair condition. Police said he did not provide any further information about the incident. As of Thursday, no one is in custody. Area 1 detectives were investigating.
Chicago Businesses on Alert After Series of Daytime Robberies in Grand Crossing, South Chicago, and Calumet Districts
Chicago business owners in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Districts are on high alert after a series of mid-day robberies have hit local establishments. The Chicago Police Department has issued a business alert following multiple incidents involving a knife-wielding offender who targeted businesses during operating hours, taking cash from their registers.
Democratic convention planners are working to pull off a dramatic Biden-Harris role reversal
WASHINGTON (AP) — After nearly a near year of careful planning, organizers of the Democratic National Convention are in a mad dash to accommodate a new nominee, a re-crafted program and a highly compressed deadline to pull everything off as though this was the plan all along. With President...
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