CHICAGO — Election officials in a small Illinois county southwest of Peoria printed the wrong name of the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate on several hundred ballots, forcing the officials Wednesday to keep the ballots separate from all others bein…
Review: ‘Till’ is a compelling portrait of grief, resolve and the national impact of the Emmett Till murder
Drive around Chicago enough and you’ll likely catch sight of a video billboard flashing momentarily on “Till.” Its image of the actors playing Emmett Till and, more prominently and in color, Mamie Till-Mobley, hang in place for a few seconds before bei…
Michael Phillips: The women behind the new movie ‘Till’ knew they had to show a mother living through the unbearable
CHICAGO — Nowin theaters, “Till” is the story of a mother, a mother’s son and the horrific 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till, who was visiting relatives in Mississippi at the time of his murder. The killers were acquitted and lived as …
Chicago Bears waste 3 prime scoring chances and fall to the Washington Commanders 12-7 for their 3rd straight loss
CHICAGO — Velus Jones Jr. fell to the ground at the 9-yard line Thursday night at Soldier Field, and the football hit him in the face mask and bounced to the field. The Chicago Bears rookie returner tried to jump on the fumble, but the Washington Comma…
For Asian Americans, their moment in Illinois politics was a ‘long, long time’ coming
CHICAGO — Randy Jue shuffled through a heap of papers on the desk inside his Bridgeport business until unearthing a detailed map of Chicago’s 11th Ward, where he spotted opportunity. The son of Chinese immigrants who got his start in politics offering …
Nina Metz: ‘Law & Order: SVU’ is a sanitized fantasy while the real division in New York is being investigated
CHICAGO — Last summer, federal prosecutors announced an investigation into the New York Police Department’s special victims division and its handling of sex abuse cases. The allegations include a decadelong history of “failing to conduct basic investig…
MacArthur Foundation announces ‘genius’ grant winners for 2022
CHICAGO — In 1981, the MacArthur Foundation began awarding annual fellowships. These have consisted of monetary awards of $800,000 (an increase this year, bumped up from a decade ago and paid out in annual installments of $160,000 over five years) to d…
Review: ‘Rosaline’ is ‘Romeo and Juliet’ from another teenager’s point of view — the jilted cousin
There’s a subgenre of teen rom-coms that modernize everything from William Shakespeare to Jane Austen. On Hulu, the movie “Rosaline” flips that idea back around, giving modern rom-com tropes and dialogue to the original 16th-century setting of Shakespe…
Review: In ‘Tár,’ Cate Blanchett wields a mean baton in one of the best movies of the year
An icy-hot paradox of a film, and one of the year’s peak achievements, writer-director Todd Field’s “Tár” casts a gimlet eye on a fictional American orchestra conductor and composer, Lydia Tár, at the summit of her global fame. The view is glorious. It…
Human remains found in freezer in Chicago neighborhood, police say
CHICAGO — A suspect is in custody after police found human remains in a freezer on the city’s Far North Side Monday night, according to police. Officers responded to a well-being check on North Washtenaw Avenue around 7 p.m. Monday. The owner of the We…