The Michigan Daily · Oregon, IL
EUGENE — Saturday was the Michigan football team’s first competition with interim offensive coordinator Jim Harding calling the shots. Despite a new play-caller at the helm, the Wolverines looked markedly similar to their prior performances. Struggling to find offensive momentum, making small mistakes and overexerting its defense, Michigan fell to Oregon in a competition that looked like it was over at halftime. This wasn’t the first time the Wolverines have felt a frustrating loss, but it wasn’t so long ago that the Ducks were in a very familiar position themselves. After losing 21-10 to Illinois in Week 7, Oregon coach Dan Lanning relieved Drew Mehringer of his offensive coordinator duties in favor of Jay Johnson. Since then, the Ducks have gone 3-0 behind a reinvigorated offense. “The conversations that you’re having on the sideline with these guys, and what they want to be able to create, and how they want to be able to improve what they’re seeing on the field,” Lanning said.
Richmond Post · Maryland, IL
Nearby: Maryland, ILShare Tweet By Tamara Shiloh Long before African Americans could freely tell their stories, Michael G. Shiner was quietly documenting history. Born into slavery in 1805 in Piscataway, Maryland, Shiner became one of the most remarkable eyewitness chroniclers of nineteenth-century America. His writings preserved more than five decades of Washington, D.C., history, providing an extraordinary perspective on slavery, freedom, labor, and the nation’s transformation. He was born to William Pumphrey Jr., whose family owned property in Maryland and Washington, D.C. Around 1812, Shiner was brought to the nation’s capital, where he eventually worked at the Washington Navy Yard. Although denied the educational opportunities available to White Americans, he learned to read and write, likely through religious instruction at Washington’s First Presbyterian Church. His literacy became a powerful instrument of historical preservation.
Chicago Reader · Lee, IL
Nearby: Lee, ILNo one warns you just how blunt and underwhelming the transition from young adulthood to middle age really is. In youth, every milestone is recognized and heralded in community with ceremonies, diplomas, and opportunities to mourn and celebrate what’s moved to the rearview mirror in life. Middle age, on the other hand, just sort of quietly shows up—and more often than not, it hits you when you’re alone. A Body of WaterThrough 11/22: Thu–Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 2:30 PM; Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture, 2936 N. Southport, athenaeumcenter.org, seniors (65+), students, and military $33 That anxiety is made manifest in Lee Blessing’s 2005 one-act drama, A Body of Water, through Avis (Lori Rohr) and Moss (Jamie Ewing), a couple of . . . something. Spouses? Lovers? Colleagues? Strangers? They have no idea and seemingly no means of finding out.
Chicago Sun-Times · Ohio, IL
Nearby: Ohio, ILCOLUMBUS, Ohio — Jeremiah Smith said it would take a little time for him to build a connection with Luke Fahey after Julian Sayin was injured in Ohio State's win at Indiana on Oct. 17. It took a couple games, but the Heisman Trophy favorite and the freshman quarterback are on the same track. Smith had 11 receptions for 117 yards and a score — along with adding to his list of records — and Fahey threw three touchdown passes as the 21st-ranked Buckeyes defeated Northwestern 28-19 on Saturday to snap a two-game losing streak. Smith, who became the Big Ten's career receiving yardage leader, wasn't one of the players made available to reporters, but he did tell Fox Sports during a postgame interview on the field: “It’s not easy, a lot of work goes into it. I’m blessed to have the record but today was all about the win. That was the main focus today.” Smith, who has 3,875 receiving yards, surpassed Purdue’s John Standeford’s Big Ten mark in the second quarter.
The Lantern · Ohio, IL
Nearby: Ohio, ILPublic Address Announcer Tom Snyder speaking into the microphone during Ohio State’s football game against Illinois on Sept. 26, 2026. Credit: Dylan Buganski | Sports Senior Writer Tom Snyder walked into Ohio Stadium’s press box three hours before kickoff for the Buckeyes’ Sept. 26 game against the Fighting Illini, carrying Ohio State and Illinois’ rosters and a metal bottle full of hot water. He turned left off the elevator, walked to the end of the hall to the game presentation room, and went to the seat he had claimed for the past four years. Most fans may not know Snyder’s name or recognize his face. But once in Ohio Stadium, everyone hears his voice. Snyder, Ohio State football’s public address announcer, grew up a Buckeye fan in nearby Westerville. Now, on fall Saturdays, his voice is part of the sound of Ohio Stadium. “It is 3 1/2 hours of being dialed in all the time,” Snyder said.
Lake and McHenry County Scanner · Sycamore, IL
Nearby: Sycamore, ILAntioch High School’s undefeated football season ended Saturday after an inadvertent whistle wiped out what would have been a game-winning Hail Mary touchdown and the coach says the referee has since apologized. Top-seeded Antioch hosted No. 9 seed Sycamore in a Class 5A second-round playoff game that kicked off at 1 p.m. Saturday at Antioch Community High School. Antioch entered the game undefeated at 10-0 after going 9-0 in the regular season and winning its first-round playoff game. Antioch led 28-17 late in the third quarter before Sycamore came back and took a 32-28 lead on a touchdown with 20 seconds left, said Joshua Shuman, who covers high school sports in the Chicago area and recorded the game. Antioch had time for one more play and the Sequoits’ quarterback threw a long Hail Mary pass that an Antioch receiver caught as a “live bobble” and carried into the end zone for “what everyone believed to be the game-winning score,” Shuman said.
Lake and McHenry County Scanner · Huntley, IL
Nearby: Huntley, ILA Huntley police officer has been reassigned after the department received a cybertip linked to a school bus driver in 2022 but did not arrest him on child sexual abuse material charges until last month. Jon M. Roth, 43, of Huntley, a Huntley Community School District 158 school bus driver who parents say drove preschool routes, was charged with 10 counts of possession of child sexual abuse material depicting a victim under 13 years old, a Class 2 felony. The Huntley Police Department said in a statement Tuesday that it received a previous cybertip linked to Roth in 2022. Roth was not arrested until years later, on October 20. Prosecutors said the investigation that led to Roth’s arrest began when the Huntley Police Department received another cybertip in August from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). That tip originated from Google, which had flagged files containing suspected child sexual abuse material associated with one of its accounts.
Chicago Reader · Albany, IL
Nearby: Albany, ILOne wet fall night about ten years ago, I was at Yummy Buffet in Albany Park, shoveling glossy shrimp fried rice into my piehole beneath a red lantern as round and fat as a paper moon. A pack of flushed college boys barreled through the front door, high-fiving and shouting over one another as they […]