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Laura Mendoza, 27 is a volunteer with The Resurrection Project and a DACA recipient. The Resurrection Project in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood is giving workshops for people worried about the the Trump presidency.

Anxiety over Trump’s election galvanizes immigration advocacy in Chicago

June 2, 2019 at 5:02 p.m.

Lily Martinez had never been involved in activism. But after Donald Trump was elected president, the 20-year-old Little Village resident felt an immediate call to action, determined that his stance...

Manuel Chavez, 73, who grew up in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood, talks about the presidential election with a Tribune reporter Nov. 9, 2016. "Once Trump stood to accept the final results, he looked shocked as if he asked himself, what have I gotten myself into?" said Chavez.

Latinos, immigrants worry about future under Trump presidency

May 22, 2019 at 10:42 p.m.

Like many other Americans on Tuesday night, Berto Aguayo stayed up late watching the presidential election results on TV with his family. As the early returns favoring Donald Trump began...

Police hold CPD supporters away from Black Lives Matters protestors in the wake of an altercation that led to the fatal shooting of Joshua Beal near the intersection of 111th Street and Kedzie Avenue in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood on Nov. 8, 2016.

Officials appeal for calm, condemn rhetoric after police shooting

May 22, 2019 at 10:41 p.m.

Schools developed safety plans and Chicago officials appealed for calm Monday after the fatal shooting of a black man by off-duty police in the largely white Mount Greenwood neighborhood led...

Authorities investigate chaotic fatal police shooting in Mount Greenwood

May 22, 2019 at 10:56 p.m.

A day after a police-involved shooting left a 25-year-old man dead, authorities Sunday worked to untangle how a chaotic scene on Chicago's Far Southwest Side erupted in fatal gunfire. Joshua...

Cubs fans pour down North Michigan Avenue following the World Series celebration parade Nov. 4, 2016, in Chicago.

Millions at Wrigley, downtown for Cubs’ World Series parade, rally

August 18, 2019 at 3:56 p.m.

Chicago transformed into a sea — and a river — of Cubbie blue Friday as the city celebrated the Cubs' historic, if still somewhat surreal, World Series triumph. A massive...

Bleacher fans arrive before the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians play on Oct. 30, 2016, in Game 5 of the World Series at Wrigley Field.

Cubs fans exultant after nail-biting end to championship drought

August 21, 2019 at 8:47 p.m.

Grown men and women wept. Fireworks lit up the sky in both the city and suburbs, while school-aged children gathered on sidewalks long after bedtime to cheer honking cars. Thousands...

Chicago Cubs left fielder Chris Coghlan and Chicago Cubs shortstop Addison Russell stretch during practice before playing the Cleveland Indians in Game 4 of the World Series at Wrigley Field on Oct. 29, 2016.

Faith restored, Cubs fans rejoice as series heads back to Cleveland

May 22, 2019 at 10:54 p.m.

Faith shall be rewarded — at least for one more game. Cubs fans rejoiced Sunday as the club held off the Cleveland Indians, keeping the city's championship dreams alive and...

Fans dejected but not defeated, hope to salvage Sunday’s Game 5

May 16, 2019 at 12:02 a.m.

The Cubs aren't the only ones on the brink. Their fans are fairly despondent, too. The North Side's massive street party turned into an unanticipated wake Saturday night after the...

Tom Martin, 81, of Bourbonnais, was 10 years old when he traveled to Chicago with his father and uncle to watch the Cubs play in the 1945 World Series.

Fans at 1945 World Series ‘just glad to be alive’ to root on Cubs

May 15, 2019 at 11:52 p.m.

For Chicago, the fall of 1945 was a rosy spell of good fortune: World War II was won, the Cubs were in the World Series and soldiers like 20-year-old Marv...

"I started throwing a changeup a lot (at Dartmouth). And I had a pitching coach at the time in California (Scott Budner) who helped me with grips. I started throwing a four-seam changeup, and that was my original one and the one that cuts a little.
"Then I noticed that pitch was getting hit by left-handed hitters. I thought I had a good changeup, so that didn't make sense. I thought I should have gotten lefties out a little easier, but it was because the ball was cutting into their barrels. So I worked with (former Triple-A Iowa pitching coach) Bruce Walton. That's when we developed the two-seam (changeup) just to have it fade away from lefties. And since then, I throw the fading one to lefties and the cut one to righties."

A trip to the mound for the casual fan

May 15, 2019 at 11:50 p.m.

The Chicago Cubs pitching rotation this year proved to be the best in Major League Baseball. The accolades accrued by the four North Side starters speak for themselves. Kyle Hendricks...

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