Sports
Senior Candace Parker of Naperville, Ill., defeats five male competitors to easily win high school slam dunk title.
March 31, 2004
Former Sparks star Candace Parker joined the Sky during the offseason with the goal of bringing home a championship. She is one win away from a title and has Chicago roaring.
Oct. 16, 2021
High School Sports
Palisades’ Anna Song, Santa Margarita’s Leigh Chien, Cerritos’ Jasmine Koo lead Southland contingent.
Sept. 14, 2023
Opinion
With great fanfare every spring, the national media announce a star-studded lineup of college commencement speakers.
May 9, 2019
Archives
Sparks are upended in Chicago
July 30, 2009
Because Dale Jarrett put his crew through a stifling experience the last time they visited Darlington Raceway in South Carolina, he figured the least he owed them was a hot lap.
Sept. 5, 1998
World & Nation
The case of a suburban Chicago teenager who killed himself after being confronted at his high school about whether he made a video of himself having sex with a classmate raised uncomfortable questions about how aggressively school officials should question kids suspected of wrongdoing and whether they should wait until a parent arrives.
Aug. 31, 2019
A tornado ripped through houses, a canning plant and a school in this southern Wisconsin community of 1,000 people, injuring 19 and leaving hundreds homeless.
July 20, 1996
Maureen Walgren describes the day her son Corey Walgren, 16, committed suicide.
May 23, 2017
California
Naperville Central grad’s family still hoping for his return
Sept. 21, 2013