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Bears 2023 offseason preview: Where does Chicago stand at special teams?

Our Bears offseason position previews concludes with special teams, which appears all but set.

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2023 Chicago Sun-Times All-City high school basketball team

The 20 best players in the city this season.

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2023 NFL mock draft roundup: Experts believe Bears will trade back from No. 1

We've rounded up the latest 2023 NFL mock drafts, where experts agree the Bears will trade back from No. 1.

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A whacked-out winter: Early birds, flowers, coho, crawlers & ticks; a dearth of ice

Early bird movements, early popping of flowers, early move north by coho, early night crawlers and early ticks along with a historic lack of ice are part of whacked-out winter.

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Chicago is seeing an increase in fatal meth overdoses. Here’s why.

110 people in Chicago died from methamphetamine overdoses in 2021, a steep rise from 47 in 2019. The fatal overdoses are linked to a rise in demand, increased supply and deadlier “cocktails” as dealers cut the drug with fentanyl and cocaine.

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These are the runners-up in our student art contest

We chose 19 students from Chicago and beyond who sent in artwork on the theme “Bringing Chicago’s Voices Together” as part of a Chicago Sun-Times/WBEZ/Vocalo student art contest.

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Here’s how the 4 mayoral front-runners plan to make the runoff

If the vote total is close to the 556,758 mayoral ballots cast in 2019, the two hopefuls making the runoff are likely to get 20% each. But the four top-polling contenders each have a different formula to reach that benchmark.

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This young artist won our student art contest and will have her work turned into a mural you can see at the Salt Shed

Buffalo Grove sixth-grader Lucy Holloway, 11, created the work for a Chicago Sun-Times/WBEZ/Vocalo contest. It will be turned into a sprawling mural at the entertainment venue that took up the old Morton Salt site.

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About 2 of every 3 Chicago polling places aren’t fully accessible for people with disabilities

That’s according to a WBEZ analysis of new data from the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, which has posted accessibility ratings for each poll.

Chicago Sun-Times

Editorial: Black mayors lead America’s 4 largest cities, but their skin color is largely beside the point

It is historically significant that America’s four largest cities have Black mayors. Eric Adams of New York, Karen Bass of Los Angeles, Lori Lightfoot of Chicago and Sylvester Turner of Houston run municipalities where 18 million of us live. They are chief executives in charge of some of the most…

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Higher education can do more to help our city’s immigrants

It is hard to know whether we will see comprehensive immigration reform in our lifetimes, but there are steps that higher-ed can take, right here and now, to partner with the organizations that serve immigrant communities.

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Brandon Johnson once said it was a ‘political goal’ to defund police. He’s been less precise running for mayor.

As thousands of Chicagoans took to the streets during 2020′s nationwide racial reckoning on policing, one word captured the fury of that summer: “Defund.”

Chicago Tribune

Horoscope for Friday, Feb. 24, 2023

After 3 a.m. Chicago time, there are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. The Moon is in Taurus.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago mayoral candidate Vallas’ Twitter account liked offensive, racist posts, which he denies doing himself

CHICAGO — Since losing the 2019 mayor’s race, Paul Vallas has been a prolific poster on social media.

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‘We Have a Ghost’ goes for humor over horror

The laughs are many in spooky Netflix comedy starring David Harbour as the lost soul haunting a family.

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Bulls found a spark in Patrick Beverley — but will it create a sense of urgency in their final playoff push?

CHICAGO — From the opening day of the NBA season, the Chicago Bulls have been seeking a sense of urgency.

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Johnson’s momentum could land him in April 4 runoff with Vallas, analyst says

David Axelrod has helped to elect mayors, senators and the nation’s first Black president. While not ready to “write the epitaph” of incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot, he said: “She definitely has a very, very steep uphill climb.”

Chicago Sun-Times

The scramble to help newly arrived migrants, R. Kelly’s sentence and more in your Chicago news roundup

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Uber Freight starts its first electric-truck test in California

The Chicago-based company is working with a shipper and a builder of charging stations for heavy-duty vehicles.

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Burke ‘cloud’ hangs over 14th Ward, as Madigan casts shadow in 13th and 23rd

In the two-candidate contest to succeed Ald. Ed Burke in the 14th Ward, Jeylú Gutiérrez faces Raul Reyes. And in the nearby 13th and 23rd Wards, two incumbents — one who broke with former House Speaker Mike Madigan and the other a longtime ally — are seeking reelection.

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R. Kelly gets extra year in prison for Chicago child porn conviction

The Grammy-winning artist, who once won hearts around the world with his “I Believe I Can Fly” anthem in the 1990s, remains on track to leave prison in the 2040s when he’s in his late 70s.

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Chicago mayoral election takes place next week

Nine candidates are running for mayor of Chicago, Illinois on Feb. 28. If no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, a runoff election will take place on April 4. Mayor Lori Lightfoot, first elected in 2019, is running for re-election.

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Zach Harrison with interesting landing spot according to one NFL mock draft

@nate_atkins3 of Bears Wire mocks Zach Harrison to Chicago #GoBucks

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R. Kelly sentenced to an additional year in federal prison, and 19 concurrent years in his Chicago case

CHICAGO — A dramatic legal saga that began in a Cook County courtroom 20 years ago drew to a close in a Chicago federal courtroom Thursday as disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly was sentenced to an additional year in prison on his conviction here.

Chicago Tribune

R. Kelly sentenced to an additional year in federal prison, and 19 concurrent years, for ‘horrific’ abuse of underage girls

CHICAGO — The video of R. Kelly sexually abusing his teenage goddaughter, “Jane,” has haunted her for more than two decades, robbing her of her childhood, of her dreams of being a musician, of any chance she ever had at normalcy.

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