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Cubs hope to rebound behind Jackson
The Pirates have been playing inspired baseball as of late, winning the first two in their series against the Cubs to give them 10 victories in 12 games. Their pitchers lead the Majors in ERA and opponents' batting average in May, including a shutout Wednesday. Pittsburgh goes for the sweep against Chicago on Thursday afternoon at PNC Park, sporting a record that sits a season-best 10 ...
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Chicago officials release final list of 49 school closures
In the face of mass opposition, the Chicago Board of Education released its final list of school closings Tuesday, announcing the closure of 49 elementary schools and one high school program this year. The city has shuttered public schools every year since 2001, but the latest round is the largest yet, and one of the biggest mass shutdown of schools in US history. Democratic Mayor Rahm ...
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White Sox Suffer 6-2 Defeat To Red Sox
CHICAGO (AP) -- Clay Buchholz pitched five-hit ball over seven innings to improve to 7-0, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Chicago White Sox 6-2 Wednesday night to avoid a three-game ...
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BGA 2 Investigators Ambulance Breakdowns Could Prove Deadly
CHICAGO (CBS) – It could have been a matter of life or death last month when a city ambulance broke down while rushing a gunshot victim to a hospital for emergency care. How could that happen? Pam Zekman and the Better Government Association investigate. Last month 22-year-old De'Angelo Simmons was shot in the abdomen and collapsed in front of his home at 80th and Manistee. ...
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Samardzija stellar but bats silent vs. Pirates
CHC@PIT: Jones slaps an RBI single to right field PITTSBURGH -- On Opening Day, Jeff Samardzija held the Pirates to two hits over eight scoreless innings and picked up the win. Pittsburgh got that many hits in the first inning alone Wednesday, which was just enough. Garrett Jones smacked an RBI single in the first to back Francisco Liriano, who struck out nine over seven innings, and lift ...
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Cubs Get Shutout By Pirates 1-0
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Francisco Liriano continued his torrid start, scattering two hits over seven innings and the Pittsburgh Pirates edged the Chicago Cubs 1-0 on Wednesday night. Liriano (3-0) struck out nine and walked just one to remain unbeaten since making his season debut against the New York Mets two weeks ago. Mark Melancon survived a bumpy ninth inning for his first save of the season. ...
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Parents React To Closing Of Bronzeville School
CHICAGO (CBS) – At one of the schools ordered closed by CPS - there was quiet opposition from some parents today, and some seemed resigned to what is about to happen. CBS2's Mike Parker reports. The kids leaving classes at Overton Elementary School in the Bronzeville neighborhood hadn't heard the news. But their parents had. Overton will be closed, the 400 students enrolled ...
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Clippers stop short of admitting Del Negro firing was made for Chris Paul MAY 22
Clippers fired head coach Vinny Del Negro on Tuesday after yet another promising season ended in playoff defeat. The reason for Del Negro's firing is perhaps the most obvious reason of all time as well ...
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Phegley making noise at Triple-A Charlotte
Email CHICAGO -- The .333 average, 11 doubles, 10 homers and 28 RBIs produced by catcher Josh Phegley at Triple-A Charlotte certainly are numbers that have caught the eye of White Sox fans. Phegley, 25, also has impressed many throughout the White Sox organization. But this great start for Phegley doesn't mean he'll be with the White Sox playing every day any time in the near future. ...
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Dunn able to swing through back pain
Email CHICAGO -- The bad news for Adam Dunn is that the back pain knocking him from Saturday's game in Los Angeles continues to be an issue. The good news is that it's not affecting the big man's swing. "It only bothered me twice swinging and they were both on pitches that I shouldn't have even swung at," Dunn said. "So that's kind of a good punishment ...
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Danks likely to start Friday Sale eyeing Tuesday
Email CHICAGO -- Although Robin Ventura wouldn't make the news official pregame Wednesday, John Danks almost certainly will make his return to the mound Friday against the Marlins. Chris Sale, on the other hand, is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday's game against the Cubs after being scratched Wednesday with a mild case of shoulder tendinitis. "There's going to be an ...
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Marlins series loses homecoming aspect
CHICAGO -- White Sox fans and players circled this coming weekend on the 2013 baseball calendar when the schedule was first released last September. The Marlins were coming to town, with Ozzie Guillen leading the team and Mark Buehrle as part of the starting rotation -- two key components to the 2005 White Sox World Series run. But Guillen was replaced as Marlins manager in late October and ...
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Gillaspie understands destruction of tornadoes
amateur storm chaser with a strong interest and knowledge of the weather. But there are former college teammates of Gillaspie at Wichita St. who live in the area of the destruction. "I just can't get a hold of anybody because all the cellphones are down, phones are down, power's pretty much out everywhere in that area," Gillaspie said. "It's a sad day for a lot of ...
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Chicago votes to shutter 50 schools critics petition state
CHICAGO -- The Chicago Board of Education voted on Wednesday to close 50 schools and programs, an ambitious plan that has sparked protests and lawsuits and could help define -- for better or worse -- Mayor Rahm Emanuel's term in ...
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Man Gets 50 Years In Prison For Killing Man He Pimped To His Pregnant Wife
WOODSTOCK, Ill. (STMW) – Timothy Smith tearfully apologized Thursday for pimping his pregnant wife and for gunning down an unarmed man who came to their McHenry County home seeking sex. It did him little good. Judge Sharon Prather minutes later sentenced Smith to 50 years in prison for the 2011 shooting that killed Kurt Milliman, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting. And Milliman's ...
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For Reinsdorf and Urlacher time is relative
*/ One day, longtime White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf remarked that he plans to still be in his position in 20 years. The next day, longtime Bears middle linebacker Brian Urlacher announced that he won't be around for another season of pro football. No matter how many years an athlete has leverage in contract negotiations, in the end the game will determine his fate. Urlacher earned a ...
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Chicago board approves largest school closing
elementary schools - in the largest mass school closing in the nation. The closings in mainly Hispanic and African-American neighborhoods have drawn protests by parents and teachers union leaders who say the closures will expose children to greater gang violence in a city that recorded 506 murders in 2012. ...
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Cubs May RBI leader the pitching staff
Email PITTSBURGH -- It is not a good sign when the players with the most RBIs for the month are a team's pitchers, but that is the case with the Cubs. Cubs pitchers combined for 13 RBIs in May and were batting .316 (12-for-38) with two home runs for the month entering Wednesday's game against the Pirates. Outfielder Alfonso Soriano had also driven in 13 runs in May with three home ...
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Cubs executives visit potential Draft pick Gray
Email PITTSBURGH -- The Cubs are finalizing prep work for the First-Year Player Draft, to be held June 6, and Theo Epstein, president of baseball operations, led a group of front office executives to Oklahoma to meet Wednesday with right-handed pitcher Jonathan Gray. The Cubs have the second overall pick in the Draft, and they are expected to take Gray or Stanford right-hander Mark Appel -- ...
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Barney hitting harder following midnight chat with Sveum
Email PITTSBURGH -- Darwin Barney matched his career high with four hits Tuesday, and he was batting .440 in his last seven games. The difference may have been a talk with Cubs manager Dale Sveum that lasted well into the early morning. Barney went to Sveum's apartment after the May 7 night game against the Cardinals. "We ended up talking about hitting and approach," Barney ...
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Wanted McHenry County Fugitive Nabbed In Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE (STMW) — The list of Top Ten fugitives in McHenry County got shorter after a man wanted for the sexual abuse of a girl was captured by police and federal agents in Milwaukee. On Nov. 8, 2012, Algonquin police obtained an arrest warrant for Brandon A. Williams of Milwaukee for sexually abusing and choking a juvenile girl, a statement from the McHenry County Sheriff's office ...
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Ingleside school wins $25000 in recycling contest
PepsiCo executive Tom Mooradian, left, applauds after handing a $25,000 check to St. Bede Catholic School PTA President Gretchen Renlund and Principal Charles Pinto during a celebration Wednesday. The Ingleside school won a grand prize in the Dream Machine Recycle Rally ...
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Glenbard students view mock DUI crash
A student-actor playing a victim in a mock DUI crash is removed from a car Wednesday as part of the annual Operation Safe Celebration staged by the Carol Stream police and fire departments at Glenbard North High ...
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Outrage at Chicago school board decision to close 50 schools
In the biggest mass public school closing in U.S. history, the Chicago Board of Education is closing schools they say are under-used. NBC's Brian Williams ...
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Cannes Foursome Team Up for Chicago Crime Boss Film Hubris
Charles Gillibert, Scott Stuber, Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert are joining forces for the thriller, which will mark French director Olivier Assayas' first film shot in the United ...
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Thorne Miniature Rooms go fictional
If you live in Chicago and do not know about the Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago, then you must have been living under the proverbial rock before you came across this article.
The Thorne rooms are one of the most famous museum exhibits in the city. They are a collection of 68 rooms contained within glass boxes and are notable because each room is constructed at a 1-inch to 1-foot scale and all 68 rooms together display a range of historical periods from various cultures. Read more
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