Vin Diesel Says Oscars Weighted Against Action Films
Vin Diesel said Friday that the latest "Fast & Furious" film deserves a best picture Oscar but has two strikes against it when it comes to the Academy — it's an action flick and it's a sequel.
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Vin Diesel said Friday that the latest "Fast & Furious" film deserves a best picture Oscar but has two strikes against it when it comes to the Academy — it's an action flick and it's a sequel.
Corden's seemingly never-ending list of social media accounts to follow him on is both a hilarious joke and a commentary on the digital age humans live in now
Things came full circle Tuesday night for David Letterman and the good people of Kankakee, as the city turned a gag gift from 16 years ago into a retirement gift for the Late Show host.
Chicago is known as the home of the blues. It's less well known as the birthplace of another kind of music. A proposed movie aims to tell the story of house music.
Paul McCartney, Metallica and Sam Smith will be among 130 acts at this year's Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago. Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell said Florence + the Machine, Bassnectar and The Weeknd are also on the lineup.
We're now getting a look at everything that Oprah plans to sell at auction next month, reports WBBM's Regine Schlesinger.
James Corden began his foray as the "Late Late Show" host with a schoolboy's giggle and a bid to endear himself to viewers as a nice English bloke looking for a little American TV love.
You will never ever be able to own a Taylor Swift porn site. Like, ever.
Music guests in the next few weeks include George Ezra, Noel Gallagher and Jessie Ware.
Dance your cares away, because a new "Fraggle Rock" film is on its way thanks to Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who will produce and star in the live-action movie.
This week, a pair of designers made a lot of people angry and you may have to feed your fashion addiction elsewhere.
James Corden is the perfect host.
Jai Courtney is slowly becoming America's next big action star, and in the next few years he may be what Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarznegger were for the 80's and 90's.
Two legendary acts are coming to Montrose Beach this summer, playing a live show on the sand -- a rare occurrence in Chicago.
The deal comes ahead of the Saturday shutdown deadline, but it will also need the approval of the House, which isn't scheduled to return until Monday — and at least one Republican senator has pushed back.
It cost taxpayers $21 million for hundreds of National Guards troops to be deployed to Chicago and Illinois, where they were kept on base by legal challenges and never mobilized.
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias on Thursday called for improved regulations on devices such as high-speed e-bikes and scooters, which he said can be dangerous.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said this week that Chicago's bid for the Democratic National Convention in 2028 is still in the early stages.
The Indiana State Senate this week approved a bill to fund a potential stadium for the Chicago Bears in the state.
This week marks Identity Theft Awareness Week, and Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza emphasized some safety tips Monday for avoiding and dealing with identity theft.
A controversial data center in Naperville, Illinois, could be the cause to pack a city council meeting there on Tuesday night.
Police in the west Chicago suburb of Geneva are warning of a scam involving spoofed phone numbers.
Protesters on Tuesday were cranking up the heat on Peoples Gas over a recently proposed rate hike that would add an additional $10 to $11 a month to utility bills.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital announced this week that it is planning to open a new pediatric hospital in the west Chicago suburb of Downers Grove.
It has been nearly six years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and one of the many questions doctors are still working to answer concerns the long-term effects.
Leaders from Cook County, the Illinois Department of Human Services, and the Greater Chicago Food Depository denounced changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Wednesday.
The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a grant from The Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation for a new cancer center.
Chicago's Lurie Children's Hospital said Tuesday that it is no longer initiating gender-affirming medical treatment for minors.
January may be the coldest time of the year, but Chicago is already looking forward to summer farmers' markets.
A development proposal issued this month calls for the replacement of a building housing a Giordiano's pizzeria in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood with a new mixed-use building with 28 residential units.
United Airlines flight attendants picketed outside Chicago's Willis Tower Thursday morning as they fought for a new contract.
WSCR-AM, 670 The Score, will begin a simulcast on 104.3 FM next month.
Does the Chicago Bears' dramatic improvement this season, culminating in their first playoff run in five years, change the discussion about where they will build a new stadium?
Among the 25 films selected by the Library of Congress to be preserved for future generations are "The Big Chill," Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel," the Civil War drama "Glory," and John Carpenter's "The Thing."
In a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal, Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, revealed that the right frontal lobe of his brain was injured in a car accident 25 years ago.
Sales of tickets to NHL games jumped more than 20% after the hit HBO show debuted in the fall, according to ticket vendor.
Among the names missing when the 98th Academy Award nominations were announced were Ariana Grande, George Clooney, Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, and anyone associated with "Wicked: For Good."
The nominees for the 98th annual Academy Awards were announced Thursday morning, and though "One Battle After Another," "Marty Supreme," "Frankenstein" and "Hamnet" were all nominated for plenty, it was "Sinners" that broke through with a record-smashing 16 nominations.
A special event on Thursday marked 13 years since the murder of Hadiya Pendleton, the honor student who was shot and killed just days after she performed with her school band at President Obama's second inauguration parade.
A man and a woman were shot Thursday evening while in the parking lot outside the Chicago Police Department's Austin District station on the West Side.
Chief meteorologist Albert Ramon has the latest First Alert Weather forecast.
A Lake County woman has a warning for other homeowners, after she said a contractor took thousands of dollars, destroyed part of her home, and then vanished, even leaving his tools behind.
Chicago city leaders are moving forward to install a new head of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, the independent civilian agency that investigates police for officer-involved shootings or allegations of misconduct.
A 19-year-old man charged with the brutal murder of a pregnant woman in Downers Grove has been hospitalized in critical condition, after he injured himself at the DuPage County Jail on Thursday, sheriff's officials said.
A former Catholic school teacher, who just days ago was fired by the Archdiocese of Chicago, has been charged with sexually abusing a child while working as a private tutor in southwest suburban Orland Park.
Friday morning snow squalls in the Chicago weather forecast could make the commute extremely dangerous and result in 1 to 3 inches of accumulation before Northwest Indiana gets clobbered by lake effect snow this weekend.
A Lake County woman has a warning for other homeowners, after she said a contractor took thousands of dollars, destroyed part of her home, and then vanished, even leaving his tools behind.
A special event on Thursday marked 13 years since the murder of Hadiya Pendleton, the honor student who was shot and killed just days after she performed with her school band at President Obama's second inauguration parade.
A Lake County woman has a warning for other homeowners, after she said a contractor took thousands of dollars, destroyed part of her home, and then vanished, even leaving his tools behind.
The crash on June 7, 2024, killed 76-year-old Bernice Pawilan. The driver had a history of traffic offenses, and, in fact, wasn't supposed to be on the road at all.
A town hall meeting on Monday night addressed the concerns of residents paying higher water bills after being forced to use a private utility company.
As temperatures fell below zero in Chicago on Friday, tenants of a public housing complex in the East Garfield Park neighborhood said they were freezing inside their own homes due to insufficient heat.
Chicago is marking 30 years since it started its first citywide recycling program, which began with a problematic kickoff, and continues to lag behind other major cities in terms of performance.
Norman Powell scored 21 points, Bam Adebayo had 20 points and 12 rebounds and the Miami Heat held on for a 116-113 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Thursday night.
The Penguins beat the Blackhawks 6-2 on Thursday night for their fifth straight victory.
On the eve of SoxFest, White Sox manager Will Venable and general manager Chris Getz are anxious to get to camp in Arizona in a couple of weeks to build on last season's promising signs from young players like Chase Meidroth and Kyle Teel.
Led by a coach who is also one of the program's all-time great players, DePaul College Prep is trying to etch its name among the best in Illinois high school basketball history.
The Indiana State Senate this week approved a bill to fund a potential stadium for the Chicago Bears in the state.
A jury has found a Wisconsin man guilty of forging threats against President Donald Trump in an attempt to get a witness against him deported.
A man was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly impersonating an FBI agent and trying to free Luigi Mangione, according to federal court filings and a law enforcement source.
The former Loretto Hospital executive accused of defrauding the federal government out of $290 million has been arrested in Serbia.
A burglar broke into a restaurant in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood early Thursday and ripped out an ATM.
Nedas Revuckas has been ordered detained as he awaits trial for the murder of a pregnant woman in Downers Grove who prosecutors say was stabbed 70 times.
