Late in 2023, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined other attorneys general in filing an anti-trust suit against the National Collegiate Athletics Association. The suit challenges the NCAA’s transfer eligibility rules, which require Division One athletes to sit out for a year after transferring, unless they are granted a waiver. Capitol News Illinois · […]
Yearly Archives: 2024
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Amid record overdoses and drug counselor shortage, workforce expansion program aims to fill gap
By DILPREET RAJU Capitol News Illinois draju@capitolnewsillinois.com Amid five straight years of record overdose deaths in Illinois, a new state program aims to alleviate a shortage of professionals who work to prevent substance use disorders. Illinois’ behavioral health counselor workforce “is aging while new entrants are declining,” according to a 2019 report to the General […]
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Area Sports Roundup | Messi and Miami to visit Fire in August
By Jeff Vorva Correspondent Let the guessing games begin. The Chicago Fire released its MLS schedule for 2024, and there is a chance the team will have to move some of its games from Soldier Field to SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview. The Fire called SeatGeek its home stadium from 2006 to 2019. From August through […]
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Girls Hoops Wrap | Stagg stuns Bloom to take Hillcrest Holiday Classic
By Jeff Vorva Correspondent Stagg’s girls basketball team heads into the 2024 portion of the season with a good-but-not-great 10-7 record. But the way the Chargers closed out the 2023 portion of the campaign was spectacular. The Chargers won the 16-team Hillcrest Holiday Classic, held Dec. 27-29 in Country Club Hills. They earned a 45-44 […]
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College Sports Reports | Hoops programs seek net gains in 2024
By Jeff Vorva Correspondent A good chunk of the college basketball season has been completed. What have we learned about the men and women’s programs at Saint Xavier University, Trinity Christian College, Moraine Valley Community College and Morton College? Plenty. But there is more to be learned in the next few months. A look at […]
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Boys Hoops Wrap | Mt. Carmel wins Pekin Holiday Tourney; Brother Rice’s 15-game win streak ends at Hinsdale
By Xavier Sanchez Correspondent Mount Carmel extended its win streak to five games after defeating Normal West, East St. Louis and Lake Park at the Pekin Insurance Holiday Tournament. The Caravan’s 60-41 win over Lake Park earned them their third straight Pekin title. In the title game, Angelo Ciaravino finished with nine points, eight rebounds, […]
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Tosh Classic maintains spot among top holiday hoops tourneys in Illinois
By Xavier Sanchez Correspondent The 49th annual Jack Tosh Holiday Classic took place at York High School from December 26-30. The holiday season mainstay that would have been in its 50th year, but for the Covid-abridged 2020-2021 season, consisted of 32-teams, including some that are highly rated or expected to be contenders for deep postseason […]
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Crime fighting is focus of CAPS meetings
. Crime prevention is the focus of several Chicago Police Department CAPS meetings coming up on the Southwest Side in the weeks ahead. Police will offer the latest crime data, and residents and local business owners will have the opportunity to meet beat officers, air concerns and join forces to implement constructive solutions to crime-related […]
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Police Reports
. 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. . Two shot dead in Chicago Lawn A 49-year-old […]
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Plenty of holiday catching-up to do
. By Kathy Headley Your correspondent in Chicago Lawn and Marquette Manor 6610 S. Francisco • (773) 776-7778 . Happy belated Christmas to you all! I’ve been gone for several weeks and I do want to thank you for the calls of concern and condolence. As many of you know, my son-in-law, Brian Krol, passed […]