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“The Last House,” a new thriller film starring Greta Lee and Wagner Moura, debuted with 27.5 million views in its first three days of streaming on Netflix. With that total, the movie easily sailed to the top of Netflix’s viewership …

Los Angeles media has been all over the death of a local celebrity for the past two days. But this time, the dearly departed wasn’t a movie star from the golden age of Hollywood. Instead, Southern Californians and the rest …

La Academia Estadounidense de Pediatría (AAP) insta a que los niños de 6 meses en adelante reciban la vacuna contra la gripe de este año. La organización, con sede en Illinois, hace la recomendación antes de que cualquier agencia federal …

When Bears safety Coby Bryant got hurt last week, the team believed he’d still be back by October. Upon further medical examination, it’s now possible he’ll miss the season. Byrant initially was diagnosed with a hyperextension, bone bruise and small …

Movie theater owners have become embroiled in the kind of drama they usually sell on the big screen, thanks to the ongoing saga of Paramount’s proposed takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. Cinema United, the exhibition industry’s main lobbying group, for …

The Writers Lab announced writers selected for two Lab Intensives this Fall, in New York City and the inaugural Los Angeles cohort. Supported by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, The Writers Lab is the only script incubation program dedicated to …

Injury news usually is bad, but the Bears had a surprisingly optimistic update on left tackle Ozzy Trapilo on Tuesday. Trapilo ruptured the patellar tendon in his knee during the playoffs, and the Bears prepared for the possibility he’d miss …

A fast-moving storm with 99 mph winds raced through the Chicago area, leaving a path of destruction focused on the south suburbs and northwest Indiana and hundreds of thousands powerless. It was too early to say if tornadoes touched down …

When Vera Drew made her ambitious debut film “The People’s Joker,” she didn’t know if anyone else in the world would understand her deeply personal superhero movie parody about transitioning. The first time she met a trans person who connected …

Chicago’s effort to rehabilitate abandoned homes on the South and West sides to foster homeownership took a big step recently. The city, along with project partners and neighbors, held a ribbon-cutting Friday on two rehabbed homes on South Green Street …

Los funcionarios federales de control migratorio amenazaron con presentar cargos penales contra el Alguacil del Condado de Cook, Tom Dart, si no cumplía con las citaciones que solicitaban a su oficina la entrega de detenidos recluidos en la Cárcel del …

For a brief moment, after a win last Friday, the Cubs were closer to the Brewers than they had been since the end of May, shrinking the gap between them and their division-leading rivals to 4½ games. Though only slightly, …

Veteran unscripted producer Rachel Tung has renewed her development deal with ABC and Hulu, Variety has learned exclusively. Under the renewed deal, Tung will continue developing original unscripted programming for Disney and serve as showrunner on select projects for ABC …

Two custodians were fatally shot inside Mark Twain Elementary School in Garfield Ridge on Monday afternoon in an apparent murder-suicide, according to preliminary police radio transmissions. According to a statement from Chicago police, a 63-year-old man and 48-year-old woman were …

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held belief that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits. The order recommends separating the …

Sunday’s thunderstorms set the mood for listening to Kehlani’s self-titled fifth album — in the comfort of your own home. But the foreboding storms let up just in time for Kehlani to take the stage in front of 100,000 attendees …

Trump Media & Technology Group posted another large net loss for the second quarter of 2026, of $238.1 million, while the company generated $1.7 million in sales for the period. Donald Trump is the largest shareholder in TMTG, holding more …

Crystals, glitter and bold looks characterized “Euphoria’s” first two seasons, but when the show returned for its third and final season, the makeup shifted away from the sparkle, shimmer and intense looks that had defined the show. Season 3 saw …

Damon Wayans will share the screen once again with his “In Living Color” castmate David Alan Grier with a guest appearance in the Season 3 premiere of “St. Denis Medical.” Wayans will play Dr. Highland, who is described as “a …

As injuries stack up at wide receiver, the Bears signed veteran Ray-Ray McCloud on Monday. He will have a narrow path to make the final roster, but few of his competitors are as accomplished as him. McCloud, 29, has played …

SEATTLE — Sky coach Tyler Marsh said the focus coming out of the Fever game — which included DiJonai Carrington’s flagrant foul 2 on Sophie Cunningham and subsequent “WHITE PRIVILEGE” social media post tagging the Fever — remains on basketball. …

Hannah Einbinder is optimistic about the future of queer cinema after starring in writer/director Jane Schoenbrun’s latest film, “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.” “I hope that with the hopeful success of films like this, that [Hollywood] is able …

Nearly a year after President Donald Trump launched his pummeling deportation campaign throughout the Chicago area, a group of residents began a new effort Monday to hold federal agents accountable for alleged crimes by filing police reports and demanding investigations. …

Academy Award nominee Jacob Elordi is in talks to star in Ari Aster’s next film, A24’s “Scapegoat,” which already boasts fellow Oscar nominee Scarlett Johansson leading the cast. The logline for the film is being kept under wraps, but there’s …

KANSAS CITY – The four innings Colin Rea threw Saturday might not have seemed terribly different from his usual day at the office. But for the Cubs’ righty, everything was different. Those innings came in relief. “When you’re starting, … …

The Bears are entering scary territory in their secondary. Injuries are piling up, and they’re searching the ends of their roster and free agents for answers. Issues like this aren’t a disaster with the season still more than a month …

KANSAS CITY – Seven innings is getting to be the norm for Matthew Boyd. The Cubs’ front office got aggressive at the trade deadline and added two starters to the top of the rotation. But Boyd, the 2025 All-Star lefty, …

Reading Time: 2 minutes The girls are fighting? Maybe? Sydney Sweeney’s clothing line is SYRN. And her latest eye-popping underwear promo looks like a shot across Taylor Swift’s bow. Many people make nods to Swift’s songs. But when your boyfriend …

Sophie Cunningham owes Sky guard Jacy Sheldon flowers. That’s her mom’s position, anyway. Last season, after Sheldon poked Caitlin Clark in the eye, Cunningham answered with a flagrant foul that got her ejected — and went viral. “‘In fact, you …

Florian Hoffmann’s “Yazz,” about a teenager growing up in a UN compound in the Central African Republic, celebrated two major wins at this year’s Locarno Pro Awards for the Alliance 4 Development co-development platform for projects from Austria, France, Germany, …

“Five Nights at Freddy’s” and New Jersey entertainment and retail center American Dream will open a real-life Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza location in East Rutherford, N.J., in 2027. Based on the “Five Nights at Freddy’s” franchise, the immersive restaurant experience is …

Three people were shot Sunday morning in the Austin neighborhood, Chicago police said. They were standing outside around 8:20 a.m. in the 1400 block of North Leclaire Avenue when a white sedan pulled up and someone inside fired several shots. …

The suits of Hollywood are used to big numbers. That’s how they roll. But the record-setting opening weekend of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” isn’t something that happens every day, or every year — more like once a decade. Domestically, the …

The Illinois comptroller’s office announced it’s investigating Bohemian National Cemetery after a tip last month led investigators to find equipment failures and remains being improperly stored. Investigators from the state comptroller’s office visited the North Park cemetery the morning after …

After trying to play through the rain, the umpires gave up. Before the start of the second inning, they called for the tarp. The White Sox’ series finale against the Guardians Sunday at Rate Field is being delayed by rain, …

When “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” director Jane Schoenbrun described their vision for the bloody one-take sequence in which Little Death (Jack Haven) massacres an entire summer camp — all set to Counting Crows’ 1996 rock ballad “A Long …

Ariana Grande has earned her seventh No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with “Petal,” which bows in the top spot with 295,000 equivalent album units, her best opening-week figure this decade. “Petal” and its songs and videos have …

When Lions coach Dan Campbell announced Sunday that second-string quarterback Teddy Bridgewater had decided to retire, his mind flashed back six years. When Campbell was the Saints’ tight ends coach, Drew Brees hurt his thumb when he whacked the Rams’ …

Hagen Smith, the White Sox’ second-ranked prospect, is making his major-league debut after a rain delay Sunday against the Guardians. The Sox made Smith, out of Arkansas, their first-round pick in 2024.

Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the figures who truly embodied the 1990s was Alanis Morissette. The singer’s unique voice and evocative songs helped define a decade, and formed the soundtrack to people’s lives. She has not always been so …