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Saint Xavier wide receiver Justin Pringle finds room ro run during a 16-15 loss to Indiana Wesleyan in the Cougars' home-opener on Sept. 16. Photo courtesy of Saint Xavier University Department of Athletics

Indiana Wesleyan scrapes by Saint Xavier after missed 2-pt conversion

By Mike Walsh Correspondent Life is about choices. Sometimes, the result is to our benefit; sometimes it is not. In Saint Xavier’s loss to visiting Indiana Wesleyan on Sept. 16 at George R. Deaton Field in Mount Greenwood, head coach Mike Feminis was presented with an important decision to make with his team down a…

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High School Football Wrap: Week 4 | St. Laurence has Ball in win over Providence

By Mike Walsh Correspondent Providence has won 10 state championships and finished runner-up four times, including last season in Class 4A. So how did St. Laurence’s student body celebrate the Vikings’ second-ever victory over the Celtics, 31-24, last Friday night in Burbank? With an old-fashioned field-storming. St. Laurence senior Aaron Ball scored the go-ahead touchdown…

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Chicago Bears honor Stagg’s Nero, Gilmore

By Mike Walsh Correspondent The Chicago Bears named Stagg head football coach Colt Nero and Chargers senior Lebarion Gilmore as the Chicago Bears Coach of the Week and the Chicago Bears High School All-Star for Week 3 of the 2023 season. The honors came after Stagg defeated visiting Belleville West 24-0 in a nonconference matchup…

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It’s time for a day of atonement

. By Mary Stanek Your correspondent in Archer Heights and West Elsdon 3808 W. 57th Place • (773) 284-7394 Happy mid-September! I was fascinated when my husband did some ancestry research and found out he had a great grandfather, Simon. The cousins and him all seemed to be in agreement that Simon was a Jewish…

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Veggies, flowers in abundance this harvest season

. By Peggy Zabicki Your correspondent in West Lawn 3633 W. 60th Place • (773) 504-9327 Have you been harvesting your tomatoes or enjoying the gift of home-grown tomatoes from a neighbor or friend? The hot and dry beginning of summer and the intermittent rains made for an abundance of a variety of veggies and flowers…

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. By Kathy Headley Your correspondent in Chicago Lawn and Marquette Manor 6610 S. Francisco • (773) 776-7778 For the last several years, I have been periodically keeping you up to date on the progress of the gas company project that tore apart the grass, sidewalks and street. They did a very nice job replacing…

Some Red Stars fans welcome the team's new owners Sept .17 by saying goodbye to some controversial figures in the previous regime. Photo by Jeff Vorva

Pro Soccer Report | New owners watch Red Stars tie in front of record-setting crowd

By Jeff Vorva Staff Writer The Chicago Red Stars put on quite a show for their new bosses. It was fun. It was exciting. It had a big crowd and it felt like a big-time atmosphere. But in the grand scheme of trying to make it to the NWSL playoffs, it didn’t mean much. The…

The Trinity Christian College women's soccer team from 2005 will be inducted into the school's hall of fame in October. Photo courtesy of Trinity Christian College Athletics

Area Sports Roundup | Trinity soccer champs to be inducted into HOF

By Jeff Vorva Staff Writer The first team in Trinity Christian College history to win a national championship will be honored in October. The Trinity Christian College Athletics Department announced the 2005 women’s soccer team as the newest member to its Athletics Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony will take place on Oct. 21 as…

Helena Klooster of Marist and Orland Park could go deep into the IHSA state tennis tournament even though she is only a freshman. Photo by Jeff Vorva

Girls Tennis | Marist freshman Klooster a player to watch

By Jeff Vorva Staff Writer When Helena Klooster was growing up, she tried a variety of sports and activities. Dancing and tennis were two of them. “I didn’t like dance at all,” Klooster said. “I would first have dance and I would head straight to tennis. “My mom said that I would look super sad…

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. Crime reports courtesy of swchicagopost.com. Police report information is provided by law enforcement agencies. Charges are not evidence of guilt. They are a record of police actions taken, and people charged with a crime are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.   Shot to death in Hearst Area A 25-year-old…

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Cops warn of robbers

. From staff reports Police have issued a community alert in the wake of three armed robberies earlier this month. Each occurred on the street and involved bandits walking up to victims and demanding valuables. Crime scenes include: • 4800 block of South Kostner at 5:35 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 5. • 6100 block of South…

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Seek crew that robbed bus passenger

, From staff reports Police are seeking the public’s help in finding several people who beat and robbed a woman riding a CTA bus in the 6200 block of South Western at 9:07 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 24. The victim was on her way to work when she was accosted by a man and three women…

Minutes before last week’s Local School Council meeting at Hancock High School, several dozen teachers, parents and students staged a protest at the school’s 64th Place entrance. They chanted their support of Principal Vanessa Puentes and demanded that the LSC reverse their vote not to renew her contract. --Greater Southwest News-Herald photo by Cosmo Hadac

‘We want to know why’

. Frustration mounting over Hancock principal’s ouster By Tim Hadac Frustration over the apparent ouster of Hancock College Prep High School Principal Vanessa Puentes appeared to grow this week, in the wake of a marathon Local School Council meeting that failed to yield answers many teachers, parents, students an Clearing community members sought. “We want…

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Bursting with color and pride

Select dancers from Ballet Folklórico Estrella del Mar recently had the honor to perform with The Mexican Folkloric Dance Company of Chicago on the Jay Pritzker Pavilion stage. They, in turn, joined the Puerto Rican Arts Alliance and Cuerdas Clásicas at the event Somos Un Solo Pueblo, México y Puerto Rico. Showing a burst of…

Kendall Coyne Schofield inked a three-year deal with Minnesota in a new women's hockey league. (Photo by Jeff Vorva)

Area sports report: Coyne Schofield signs three-year pro deal

By Jeff Vorva The new Professional Women’s Hockey League is forming, and Palos Heights native and Sandburg graduate Kendall Coyne Schofield will be a part of its historic first season. Schofield was one of the first three players to sign for the Minnesota franchise, a trio that also features fellow U.S. Olympians Kelly Pannek and…

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As state Supreme Court weighs another BIPA lawsuit, lawmakers mull child data privacy framework

As state Supreme Court weighs another BIPA lawsuit, lawmakers mull child data privacy framework

By ANDREW ADAMS Capitol News Illinois [email protected] In Springfield on Thursday, the medical industry went to court. The Illinois Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a pair of class action suits brought by two suburban nurses, Lucille Mosby and Yana Mazya, who allege their employers violated the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act, a landmark 2008…

State’s high court opens new interactive learning center

State’s high court opens new interactive learning center

By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois [email protected] SPRINGFIELD – In 1946, the Illinois Supreme Court heard a case that would eventually become a landmark in American legal history. The public school district in Champaign, like many other districts in Illinois at the time, allowed a group of local religious leaders to use their schools to…

Biden administration responds to calls from Pritzker, other leaders, for help in migrant crisis

Biden administration responds to calls from Pritzker, other leaders, for help in migrant crisis

By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois [email protected] SPRINGFIELD – The Department of Homeland Security will speed up the processing of work authorizations for asylum seekers and extend Temporary Protected Status to Venezuelan migrants, actions that could help thousands of migrants who have arrived in Illinois in recent months. Those moves were announced by the Biden…

Former Illinois State Police trooper who pleaded guilty in relation to deadly crash postpones hearing

Former Illinois State Police trooper who pleaded guilty in relation to deadly crash postpones hearing

By BETH HUNDSDORFER Capitol News Illinois [email protected] Matt Mitchell, the former Illinois State Police trooper who caused a high-speed, distracted-driving crash that killed sisters Kelli and Jessica Uhl, has asked to delay his Sept. 20 hearing for the reinstatement of his driver’s license. Henry Haupt, a spokesperson for Illinois Secretary of State Alex Giannoulias, said…

As SAFE-T Act goes live, murder suspects previously eligible to post bond are held in jail

As SAFE-T Act goes live, murder suspects previously eligible to post bond are held in jail

By BETH HUNDSDORFER & HANNAH MEISEL Capitol News Illinois [email protected] In courtrooms around the state early this week, judges conducted the first hearings under a new system that determines whether a defendant will be jailed while awaiting trial based on dangerousness and risk of fleeing prosecution, rather than their ability to post bail. The abolition…

New State Police rules for assault weapons permits will take effect Oct. 1

New State Police rules for assault weapons permits will take effect Oct. 1

By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois [email protected] SPRINGFIELD – Illinoisans who own weapons that can no longer be purchased or sold in the state under its new assault weapons ban will soon be able to register those weapons so they can legally keep them. The law, officially known as the Protect Illinois Communities Act, bans…

Ahead of cash bail’s end, state’s replacement pretrial justice system takes shape

Ahead of cash bail’s end, state’s replacement pretrial justice system takes shape

By JERRY NOWICKI & HANNAH MEISEL Capitol News Illinois [email protected] Beginning Monday, state courts in Illinois will be prohibited from jailing individuals who are accused – but not convicted – of crimes simply because they cannot afford to post bail while they await trial. Monetary bond will be abolished in favor of a system that…

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