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Chicago Fire FC: Team Effort Propels Fire Into Fourth Place Following 3-1 Masterclass

Photo by CSOM SportsThe Chicago Fire’s depth showed Tuesday night with a huge 3-1 victory over the Western Conference-leading Vancouver Whitecaps in a total team effort. Three different players found the back of the net, while five players remained away on international duty. The win marked the Fire’s second consecutive victory, giving the team momentum heading into the final stretch of the regular season.The Tuesday night crowd of 31,381 showed up at Soldier Field, rallying behind the Fire’s fi...

Azurá Stevens Made Major Impact in Return to Sky

A champion in 2021 with the Chicago Sky, Azurá Stevens is immortalized in this city.

This season, Stevens had the chance to add another chapter to an already storied legacy with the franchise.

In the 2026 offseason, Stevens chose to return to the place where a meaningful part of her career had already been written. One thing that didn’t change in the four years since she last played for the franchise: Chicago and the people within the organization still held a special place in her heart.

10 years later: Why Chris Singleton forgave his mother’s racist killer - Charleston City Paper

Chris Singleton received a phone call 10 years ago about 9 p.m., just after he got home from playing in a summer baseball game.

That call changed his life.

It was from Felicia Sanders, a friend from church. She told him he needed to come down to the church because something “really bad” happened.

“At 18, that’s when I figured out that the worst day of my life was about to happen,” Singleton recently said. “That was 10 years ago, but I still remember it like it was yesterday.”

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Rain can’t dampen spirits of My Morning Jacket, Nathaniel Rateliff fans

The rain fell on the brave concertgoers, who wouldn’t let their tickets go to waste on Tuesday night for the Empower Federal Credit Union Amphitheater’s last performance of the year. 

My Morning Jacket and Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats are on a joint tour, switching back and forth between headliner and opener. Before the show, the ticket upgrade line stretched far back, with attendees trying to relocate from the grass lawn to covered seating. 

The crowd was a sea of different-color...

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