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More than 11 million Illinois taxpayers who claim the standard exemption each year will not see an inflation-indexed bump for the 2023 tax year.

A crisis fueled by the arrival of more than 200 buses in suburban Chicago since Dec. 1 will be the main topic of next week’s in-person meeting of regional leaders.

The game against an undetermined opponent will be at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, where they last played in London in 2019 against the Raiders. The Bears also played in London in 2011 against the Buccaneers.

The move ends his 24-year tenure as the architect of the most decorated dynasty of the league’s Super Bowl era.

“The objective evidence is that despite enduring years of abuse, [Sheila von Wiese-Mack] loved her daughter and did everything she could to provide the best for her,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing.

Homeless after a foreclosure, they’re a bad influence on their daughter’s children and won’t take the hint that it’s time to go.

Some say a cease-fire amounts to letting Hamas win. That might be true if “cease-fire” meant a unilateral, unconditional laying-down of arms by Israel and nothing more, write state Reps. Kelly Cassidy and Will Guzzardi. But a cease-fire involves negotiations among both parties.

The cause of peace and an end to the war in Gaza is a serious, righteous and good one, at its core. But misguided and arguably ineffective stunts like shutting down bridges and snarling traffic don’t do anything to win people over.

The folks in Little Village on the Southwest Side have put up with the stench from Collateral Channel for years. The EPA has to order a clean-up, and it’s less about who does it than when it gets done.

The popularity of shopping online and remote work influenced the year’s biggest scams, according to the Better Business Bureau.

Funny bits are few among the talking teddy bear’s raunchy but predictable hijinks on Peacock show.