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Anthony Rizzo walks off the field after making the final out in the Cubs' 1-0 loss to the Dodgers in Game 2 of the NLCS. (AP/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Cubs: Don't worry about Rizzo's slump or team's first NLCS loss

In fairness to slumping Anthony Rizzo and all the Cubs, bats tend to go quiet wherever Game 2 star Clayton Kershaw roams. It was just one loss, right?

By Steve Greenberg

Bears coach John Fox vs. the Jaguars. (Sun-Times)

It's on John Fox to right Bears' sinking ship — can he do it?

The Bears cemented themselves as of one the worst teams in the league with a 17-16 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday.

By Adam L. Jahns

A stuffed animal rests against the tiny casket carrying Jazlene Branham at her funeral Mass at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Buffalo Grove. | Santiago Covarrubias / Sun-Times

Baby Jazlene, buried through the kindness of strangers

For her funeral, Baby Jazlene was dressed in a white organza dress. About 75 mourners attended the service, all of them strangers.

By Maureen O'Donnell

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks to volunteers at a campaign office in Seattle on Oct. 14, 2016. She has a tight grip on the Electoral College majority needed to be elected president of the U.S., and may very well be on her way to a big victory. | Andrew Harnik/AP

GOP strategists: Clinton is in good shape with 3 weeks left

Republican strategists nationwide publicly concede Hillary Clinton has a firm grip on the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House.

By Thomas Beaumont | Associated Press

The cash-strapped district, still depending on the state for $215 million of its current budget, says it’ll pay the bonuses for staffers retiring in June 2017 by December 2017. | File photo

CPS may pay $50M to entice older teachers to retire in June

The cash-strapped district says it’ll pay the bonuses for staffers retiring in June 2017 by December 2017.

By Lauren FitzPatrick

A male was shot by police when officers respond to a report of a robbery at a gas station on the city's West Side on Sunday night. | NVP News

Police responding to robbery shoot male on West Side

A male was shot Sunday night by police in the South Austin neighborhood on the West Side.

By Matthew Hendrickson

A hacked construction sign flashed its disparaging neon message off and on for hours Sunday, just across the street from the Chicago Police Department's Belmont-Central district station at 5555 W. Grand Ave. | Maudlyne Ihejirika/Sun-Times

Construction sign hacked to flash message disparaging mayor

The hacked sign flashed its message off and on for hours, just across the street from the Chicago Police Department’s Belmont-Central district station

By Maudlyne Ihejirika

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Jim and Wendy Abrams at a Waterkeeper Alliance event in 2012.

Kapos: High-profile Chicago couple, Bob Dylan pop up in WikiLeaks

Emails from Wendy Abrams, a Chicago-area nonprofit leader, and her husband, Medline Industries COO Jim Abrams, were among ones released by WikiLeaks.

By Shia Kapos

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner speaks to reporters during a news conference Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016, in Springfield. The latest Federal Election Commission filings show $2,316,863 has been spent since Oct. 11 on an ad blitz to oppose Rauner by strongly linking him to GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. | Seth Perlman/AP

Sweet: Unions, Dem donors bankroll anti-Rauner, Trump super PAC

The latest FEC filings show $2,316,863 has been spent since Oct. 11 on an ad blitz to oppose Rauner by linking him to Donald Trump.

By Lynn Sweet

Police on the scene of a shooting that left one man dead early Saturday in Woodlawn. | Daniel Brown/Sun-Times

8 killed, 33 wounded in Chicago weekend shootings

Eight people were killed and at least 33 others have been wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday evening.

By Sun-Times Wire

Former Mayor Richard M. Daley,. seen here in May 2015. | AP

THE WATCHDOGS: Daley aiming for $15 million green-card bonanza

Former Mayor Richard M. Daley and his son are aiming to cash in on federal EB-5 visa program that offers green cards to wealthy foreigners.

By Tim Novak

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