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Seamstress Maria Estela Parra displays an oversized Blackhawks banner she is working on at W.G.N. Flag and Decorating Co. in Chicago, Jan. 29, 2026. Parra has handcrafted banners and flags for Chicago’s leading sports teams for 40 years. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Meet the Mexican immigrant who made retirement banners for Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and Derrick Rose

February 6, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Maria Estela Parra didn’t know how to sew and knew even less about sports when W.G.N. Flag and Decorating Co. hired her as a seamstress in 1986.

Cops: Two teens shot on a CTA bus in Humboldt Park following quarrel

January 31, 2026 at 8:16 p.m.

The teens were shot after a verbal dispute between a male of unknown age and a group of males, police said.

People gather in downtown Chicago on Jan. 17, 2026, to protest the Iranian government's killing of protesters and general crackdown. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Iranians in Chicago still struggle to communicate with loved ones in Iran after deadly protests

January 23, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Chicago’s Iranian community is facing uncertainty about their loved ones after deadly anti-government protests erupted in late December.

Yvette Hernandez passes to-go containers of food to a worker at her restaurant, Carato’s Venezuelan Restaurant in Roselle, on Jan. 8, 2026. Hernadez has been in the U.S. for 10 years and has owned the restaurant for 11 months. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

After Maduro’s capture, Venezuelans in the Chicago area face difficult choice: ‘People are afraid to stay and people are afraid to return’

January 13, 2026 at 9:18 a.m.

After the U.S. captured and imprisoned Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro last week, many Venezuelans in the Chicago area are left with conflicting emotions.

Passengers wait at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina, Puerto Rico, on Jan. 3, 2026, as all flights were canceled following U.S. military action in Venezuela. (Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty-AFP)

Caribbean travel resumes after disruptions from US military operation in Venezuela

January 5, 2026 at 4:01 p.m.

Major airlines reopened flights across the Caribbean region after U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on X that the U.S. would lift airspace restrictions at 12 a.m. ET on Saturday.

Chicago police Cmdr. William Betancourt speaks alongside city officials and community members, Oct. 29, 2023, at the scene of a shooting that wounded 15 people during an event in North Lawndale. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

CPD Deputy Chief William Betancourt, a ‘great leader’ in the department, dies over the weekend

January 5, 2026 at 1:14 p.m.

Chicago police are mourning the death of Deputy Chief William Betancourt, who died Saturday morning of heart disease, an autopsy revealed.

The Humanity 5K race organized by the Refugee Life Foundation at SeatGeek stadium in Bridgeview on April 27, 2025. (Rush Productions)

Palestinian orphanage gets 15-seat van donated by Chicago nonprofit

January 5, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Participants in the nonprofit Refugee Life Foundation’s Humanity 5K last April raised over $76,000 for a van donated to an orphanage in the West Bank.

St. Sabina suspends Sunday men’s basketball league after three are shot

December 29, 2025 at 1:25 p.m.

A man fired into a crowd outside the St. Sabina church gym after an argument erupted during a church basketball tournament, police sources said. Three men were wounded.

Daphne Labault puts merchandise on display in her Puerto Rican-inspired cafe and handicrafts store Plena Mercancia, in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood, on Dec. 23, 2025. She moved to Chicago from Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017 and now wonders if she will ever be in a position to return there. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

With island prices rising, Chicagoan from Puerto Rico must delay dream of moving back

December 26, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

And rapper Bad Bunny spotlights the gentrification displacing many islanders, with about 3,000 coming to the Chicago area after a 2017 hurricane.

Faith leaders and other participants pray for detainees and staff that were inside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility in Broadview on Dec. 24, 2025. The faith leaders were denied entry to the facility to offer pastoral care. (Dominic Di Palermo/baiduhai)

Faith leaders denied access to pray in Broadview ICE facility on Christmas Eve

December 24, 2025 at 3:47 p.m.

The faith leaders who were turned away instead led a prayer and sang hymns near the facility’s doorstep, and vowed to try again.

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