Новости за 30.03.2024

Frank Thomas is back on NBC Sports Chicago’s coverage of the White Sox.

A teen boy was shot and critically wounded March 30, 2024 on the South Side.

Cubs outfielder Seiya Suzuki swung a hot bat all spring training.

John Antonoff/For the Sun-Times

Let’s get right to the crux of the biscuit, shall we?

In this week’s “Polling Place,” your home for Sun-Times sports polls on the site formerly known as Twitter, we wanted to know how good you think the Cubs will be and how much the White Sox will stink.

Will the Cubs win their division? Be a wild-card team? Neither?

“Cubs take the division,” @michelle_cub commented. Читать дальше...

Coby White was playing All-Star caliber basketball back in December and January. Whether it’s opposing defenses or just exhaustion, the Bulls guard has hit a wall. He needs to hit back over these remaining games if the Bulls want to salvage this season.

Fabian Herbers and the Fire will play once again on artificial turf.

Courtesy of the Fire

As a youngster coming up the ranks, Fire midfielder Fabian Herbers sometimes would have to play on artificial surfaces. Not every experience on turf in his native Germany was a pleasant one.

“It feels like you’re playing on concrete,” Herbers recalled. “They just build on top of a parking lot or whatever. It’s not great. It’s just super hard, and it doesn’t really go deep. Читать дальше...

Reporters watch a video screen displaying the Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani (right) and interpreter Will Ireton during a news conference Monday at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

Yellow evidence marker and shell casing

File photo

A 29-year-old man was shot to death Friday night on the South Side.

The man, whose name hasn't been released, was standing in a parking lot at about 9:20 p.m. in the 800 block of West 87th Street in Auburn Gresham when a silver sedan drove up and someone inside the car shot him, according to the Chicago police, who said officers founds him on the ground, dead from multiple gunshot wounds. Читать дальше...

A coot swimming at Rosehill Cemetery.

Paul Vriend

Notes come from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

WILD OF THE WEEK

Paul Vriend observed, "While not known as a beautiful bird, this American coot does the most with what it has as it floats proudly on the pond at Rosehill Cemetery." It's the most glamorous photograph I remember of the homely bird, to be polite.

WOTW, the celebration of wild stories and photos around Chicago outdoors... Читать дальше...

Zachary Kam, a U.S. Marine veteran, sets fire on March 22 to an American flag during a rally outside City Hall to protest U.S. support for Israel and to call for the cancellation of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August. Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez said he joined the rally after the flag was burned.

Joseph Oliver, owner of Retro Stove and Gas Works in Evanston, stands next to a restored 1950s Roper gas stove with all six of its burners active.

DEAR ABBY: I am a 30-year-old woman who can't seem to forgive my mother. For many years I have felt that she doesn't like me. Every time I have tried to talk to her about it, she has done the old switcheroo and accused me of being ungrateful and uncaring. The day my horse died she excluded me, and then called an hour later to tell me she had put my mare down.

Moon Alert

There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. The moon is in Sagittarius.

Aries (March 21-April 19)

This is the perfect day to kick back and relax. You'll enjoy any chance to travel in a casual way or explore new areas and meet new people because you're curious, especially about people from different backgrounds. Please yourself today. Do what you want.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Although you might be focused on financial matters, especially anything to do with inheritances... Читать дальше...

Illinois’ Marcus Domask (3) during a Sweet 16 college basketball game against Iowa State in the men’s NCAA Tournament, Thursday, March 28, 2024, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Cam Thomas and the rest of his Nets teammates combined for 25 three-pointers in shooting the Bulls into trouble in the standings.

Richard Phelan, who served as Cook Cook Board president from 1990 to 1994, died Tuesday at age 86.

A wreath with a photo of Elise Malary in the center was displayed during Friday’s ceremony to designate part of Catalpa Avenue to honor Malary.

Bulls coach Billy Donovan said on Friday he doesn’t need to stress to his team how important it is to play well over the final eight games and make sure they don’t fall to the No. 10 seed again.

A dose of mumps-measles-rubella vaccine, also known as the MMR vaccine.

Illinois state Rep. Kelly Cassidy, D-Chicago, speaks at a news conference Friday at the UIC Forum, site of a summit on trans rights. Cassidy called attention to some legislative victories on trans rights in Illinois, and also noted that Sunday is the International Trans Day of Visibility.

Chris Kennedy (left) participates in a debate in Chicago in 2018; Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (right) attends a campaign event in Oakland, California, on March 26, 2024.

World War II veterans Myron Petrakis and Marvin Elfman met in person for the first time Thursday after being pen pals for 64 years.

Jesus, portrayed by Tony Diaz, is carried down from the cross during the 47th annual Pilsen Via Crucis: Living Way of the Cross on Good Friday.

Beyonce performs during Super Bowl 50 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, in 2016. On her new album “Cowboy Carter,” the 42-year-old Houston native has created a full-throated ode to her Southern roots, a 27-track blowout of an album flavored with strings, pedal steel guitar and twang.

Illinois’ Terrence Shannon Jr. has been on one of the greatest scoring binges in school history, yet, heading into an Elite Eight game against UConn, he hadn’t spoken publicly since December.

La cantautora italiana Laura Pausini regresa a Chicago este 4 de abril, luego de una década de ausencia.