Good morning, Chicago.
After , the White Sox have their home opener today at 3:10 p.m. against the Mariners at Guaranteed Rate Field. The temperature is expected to reach the low 60s, which would be quite the warmup after playing in the low 40s for part of the weekend at Comerica Park. If you’re headed to the game today, here’s — including what to eat.
I’ve been on the Sox beat since June 2019 and have watched a team with a young nucleus grow into a contender. They made the playoffs in and — and they are the popular pick to win the AL Central for a second straight season. The 2021 AL Central-winning team will be honored in a preseason ceremony today.
The pitching staff has taken some injury hits already this year, with starters likely out eight weeks and possibly missing at least two starts. Reliever will miss the entire season after undergoing Tommy John surgery.
When healthy, the Sox have the talent to stack up among the best in baseball. . All-Star shortstop at the top of the order. 2020 AL MVP José Abreu, , is a leader on the field and in the clubhouse.
The Sox are after losing their opening-round playoff series each of the past two seasons. Make sure to and analysis, features, columns and inside perspective all season!
— , White Sox reporter
Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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The heads of Cook County’s assessor’s office and its property tax appeal agency currently don’t agree on how it happened, but they agree on this: Second-installment property tax bills are going to be .
County officials have not announced how far the postponement will stretch, but the chair of the Board of Review has warned it could be six months — the latest due date in the past 10 years. Traditionally, the offices involved have aimed to get the second round of bills out by July with an August due date.
Businessman Willie Wilson will run for Chicago mayor in the 2023 election, adding a second declared candidate to a growing field of potential challengers to Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Announcing his candidacy at a news conference in the ritzy downtown high-rise where he lives, Wilson promised to .
A few years after Penny Parrish’s family moved into the Bensenville ranch-style house her father and a friend built with their own hands, her dad made a replica of the home as a dollhouse for Parrish and her younger sister. Parrish long ago moved away from Bensenville, but for decades she has kept the dollhouse as a memento of those happy midcentury days.
But now she is 75, and she that occupies a room in her Fredericksburg, Virginia, home. Although she believes it should be preserved as a piece of postwar suburban history, she has found no takers among Illinois historical societies.
The latest addition to the list of things the housing market has had a lot to contend with recently: that are impacting mortgages.
There was hope of relief in 2022 for prospective homebuyers. But a survey forecasting the outlook for homeowners in 2022 reveals 26% of people would be less likely to buy a home this year because of rising interest rates. The average interest rate jumped by more than half a percentage point since March 10, per Freddie Mac’s weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey. And the average rose above 4% on March 17 for the first time since 2019.
Jim Ramsey, a mainstay on WGN-Channel 9′s weather team for 30 years, died of natural causes on April 8 at his Island Lake home, said his stepdaughter, Vanessa Wright.
With a deep voice and more than four decades of experience in broadcasting and in meteorology, Ramsey , colleagues said.
“He had that beautiful, mellifluous baritone voice that everybody in broadcasting can only dream of having,” said Tom Skilling, Channel 9′s chief meteorologist.
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