Author: Living Legends
One week after multiple tornadoes hit Northwest Indiana, Gary and Highland are continuing to clean up the damage. On March 19, three EF-0 tornadoes passed through, two in Gary and one in Highland. An EF-1 tornado passed through Gary’s west side. The city of Gary’s Emerson community, 21st Avenue and Clark Street and Black Oak areas received significant damage, according to a news release from the city. The 21st Avenue corridor between Whitcomb and Hendricks streets was severely impacted, according to the city. Gary’s General Services department continues to work to clear the city’s roadways, remove fallen trees from homes…
Deporting migrant criminals was in part what President Donald Trump was elected to do. But he must do this within the bounds of American law. The administration argues that each recently deported Venezuelan was carefully vetted for gang affiliation. The alleged gang members were deported without a hearing in an immigration court; much less a criminal conviction. Trump claims the migrants weren’t entitled to due process, invoking the Alien Enemies Act. This act can only be invoked when there has been a declaration of war. The deportees were frog-marched into a maximum security prison in El Salvador. Many families have…
Chicago-area residents might feel like it’s been a really long winter after enduring stretches of below-normal temperatures in January and February and a couple snowfalls in March. But the lingering cold snaps actually contributed to a proper winter — unlike the record highs and bitter but brief Arctic blasts of recent years. “You look at the numbers — whether it be for Chicago, for Illinois, for the Great Lakes — and it was sort of an unremarkable winter,” said Trent Ford, the Illinois state climatologist. “But it felt like it was intense because we’re getting these types of winters, as…
NEW YORK — A quiet, under-reported revolution has taken place on Broadway. Live streaming, massive video screens and technology that creates digital reproductions so intense that you see every pore and pimple now fight constantly with the human voice and body for domination and your hard-earned money. Oscar Wilde’s buttons would have popped right off his well-tailored waistcoat. Had I been wearing one at “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” so would have mine. But Sarah Snook, the truly formidable star of the new solo Broadway adaptation of Wilde’s 1891 gothic shocker, wrestles all of this technology into submission as she…
In many Catholic parishes, people are gathering for Friday night fish fries because they abstain from eating meat on Fridays during Lent. In Muslim homes, people are gathering every evening for iftar dinners to break their sunrise-to-sunset fast from all food and drink, including water, during the holy month of Ramadan. Lent, the 40-day period before Easter on the Christian calendar, always occurs at this time of year. Ramadan rotates around the calendar, taking place in various seasons because the Islamic calendar is calculated based on the lunar calendar. This year, though, they coincide, with Christian fasting taking place at…
DePaul women’s basketball coach Doug Bruno is stepping down after 39 seasons and a 786-405 record at the helm of the program. Bruno, who was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2022, will move into a new role with the Blue Demons as the Special Assistant to the Vice President/Director of Athletics for Women’s Basketball on May 1. DePaul announced Friday it will begin a nationwide search for its new coach. One of the most prominent figures in women’s basketball in Illinois and beyond, Bruno led DePaul to 25 NCAA Tournament appearances, including 18 straight berths through…
Elon Musk says a Wisconsin voter has been awarded $1 million days before the conclusion of a fiercely contested state Supreme Court election that has broken spending records and become a referendum on Musk and the first months of President Donald Trump’s administration. The payment to a Green Bay man, which Musk announced Wednesday night on his social media platform X, is similar to a lottery that Musk’s political action committee ran last year in Wisconsin and other battleground states before the presidential election in November. The upcoming election on Tuesday, filling a seat held by a liberal justice who…
The live music picture has more or less taken shape for summer 2025. What’s coming? This summer may not have the biggest of the big blockbuster concerts compared to last summer — farewell, Eras Tour — but that still leaves Beyoncé, AC/DC, The Weeknd, the recently announced Lady Gaga and lots more. It begins with the most concert-packed May in memory: Along with the first three of the aforementioned, Paul Simon is playing what’s likely his farewell Chicago show at Symphony Center, Post Malone is at Wrigley and Sueños returns to Grant Park. Later in August, Oasis, My Chemical Romance,…
The Chicago-based National Association of Realtors is laying off nearly 12% of its staff and eliminating 20 open positions, according to a news release posted on the organization’s website Friday. The cuts affect 41 of NAR’s 344 employees and, with the elimination of open roles, hit various departments including public relations and communications, creative and content strategy, digital strategy, meetings and events, member development, human resources, member engagement, member experience, research, finance and IT. “The industry is changing, and it is our responsibility to lead and change with it,” said NAR CEO Nykia Wright in the Friday news…
Northwest Indiana immigration attorneys raised concerns with an immigration bill that received final approval by the legislature this week as unconstitutional and an unfunded mandate on local governments. House Bill 1393, authored by State Rep. Garrett Bascom, R-Lawrenceburg, was amended in a Senate committee to require jail and detention facility employees to tell county sheriffs when they have probable cause to believe an arrestee, who is facing misdemeanor or felony charges, is not in the county legally. The sheriff would then be required to contact Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the bill. Initially, the bill required police officers who arrest…