Author: Living Legends
CLEVELAND — Andrew Benintendi worked his way back from a right hand injury during spring training in time to be with the Chicago White Sox on opening day. He’s looking to make another quick recovery after being placed on the 10-day injured list Wednesday with a left adductor strain. The move is retroactive to Monday. “I think that in the last few years, it’s been kind of unfortunate with how it’s panned out with some injuries,” Benintendi said Wednesday at Progressive Field. “But I think that it’s better to catch it early. “And if you can kind of get over…
Musk encouraged investors to hold their shares and joked that he can’t walk past a television without seeing a Tesla on fire, then said, “I understand if you don’t want to buy our product, but you don’t have to burn it down. That’s a bit unreasonable.” Tesla owners have been turning in their cars at record levels since Musk launched the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, according to Edmunds. From Jan. 1 to March 16, the automaker saw its highest share of trade-ins at auto dealerships, according to Jessica Caldwell, head of insights for Edmunds. “These shifts in Tesla…
Three upcoming, monumental dance events, all with deep ties to Chicago, are on a collision course with your calendar. But it is possible to see the Joffrey Ballet, Twyla Tharp and Parsons Dance next weekend — and you should. Parsons Dance David Parsons launched his dance company in 1985. Three years later, he opened the season at Columbia College Chicago. “For some reason, they gave us a white limousine,” Parsons said in a recent phone interview. “I remember that gig. And I’ve done a lot of gigs.” Born in Rockford and raised in Kansas City, Parsons credits Chicago with putting wind in…
With a new mayor and three trustees set to take office in Orland Park, the trustees they’ll be joining on the Village Board are expressing hope of a good working relationship. “I think it will be an interesting two years,” Trustee Michael Milani, in the middle of his term, said at Monday’s Village Board meeting. “I don’t think we’ll agree on everything, but we’re going to continue to do what’s best.” Milani and Trustees William Healy and Cynthia Katsenes were first elected in 2019 and won second terms in 2023, running unopposed on outgoing Mayor Keith Pekau’s People Over Politics…
There’s a lot of talk out there. Social media and TV pundits have been bombarding us with high praise for the talking of U.S. Sen. Cory Booker. Last Tuesday, the New Jersey senator smashed the record for the longest speech ever on the floor of Congress, talking continuously for 25 hours and five minutes to protest the policies of President Donald Trump. There’s also a lot to protest, so he talked and talked and talked. Who held the previous record? The notorious South Carolina segregationist, U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, who railed against the Civil Rights Act of 1957. A nice…
With measles spreading across the country, the Illinois Department of Public Health unveiled a new online tool Wednesday that allows people to look up measles vaccination rates and data about the risk of outbreaks at individual schools across the state. Illinois has not had any reported cases of measles yet this year, but there were 607 reported cases across the country so far this year, as of April 3, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Earlier this week, Texas announced that a second child with measles had died. In all, three people with measles in the U.S.…
The Democrat-led Illinois Supreme Court on Wednesday said Republicans waited too long to contest the 2021 redrawing of legislative districts that has maintained Democratic majorities in the state House and Senate. Republicans had argued the Democratic mapping effort was unconstitutional political gerrymandering that limited voters’ choices. But the court’s five-member Democratic majority said the GOP’s “timing in filing the instant motion shows a lack of due diligence.” “Plaintiffs could have brought their argument years ago,” the majority wrote in an unsigned decision. “Their claim that waiting multiple election cycles is necessary to reveal the effects of redistricting is unpersuasive.” Of…
The Denver Rolling Nuggets, Colorado’s National Wheelchair Basketball Association team, are training the next wave of athletes. Having lost sponsorship and participation after the pandemic, the team is rebuilding while also bringing the community together. “We play basketball hard. I mean … you could put us up against probably an NBA team, and in our chairs, we’ve got a chance,” said board member and Rolling Nuggets player Dan Hendrix. “Most people have two hands to use when they are playing basketball. Well, that’s also what we’re using for our legs, too. So as we’re trying to propel ourselves forward, back,…
Sherlock Holmes’ classic case of The Hound of the Baskervilles is on stage at the Lone Tree Arts Center. This production of the whodunit is not like anything audiences would expect. Of course, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are on the case, figuring out who is killing the Baskerville heirs. But, this telling of the story is a fast-paced farce. “It’s a haunted story. It’s a mystery. It’s a ghost story, but it’s also a comedy,” said Matt Zambrano, Director of “Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first write Hounds of Baskerville as a serial…
Wednesday is a big day for the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame as they induct the class of 2025. One of those inductees, Theodore “Bubbles” Anderson, is the only Colorado native to play baseball for the “Negro Leagues.” Anderson is one of six inductees at the hall of fame’s 60th annual banquet. Also included in this year’s class are former Rockies infielder Troy Tulowitzki, World Cup skiing record holder Mikaela Shiffrin, former Denver Broncos linebacker Simon Fletcher, former Denver Nuggets coach and two time American Basketball Association Coach of the Year Larry Brown, and University of Colorado’s Lisa Van Foor,…