Hasselbeck-Cutler Duel Won't Come Down To Experience
The Bears-Seahawks game on Sunday will matchup up two very different quarterbacks. Matt Hasselbeck, has played in a Super Bowl, Jay Cutler, on the other hand, will make his first postseason start.
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The Bears-Seahawks game on Sunday will matchup up two very different quarterbacks. Matt Hasselbeck, has played in a Super Bowl, Jay Cutler, on the other hand, will make his first postseason start.
If the Chicago Bears beat the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday they'll advance to the NFC Championship game, and that's all they'll achieve by beating them. The loss to the Seahawks in the regular season can't be undone.
A lot happens in NFL war rooms on Draft day. Players move up and down the board and team's make decisions that can either lead to Super Bowl or to a losing season.
In the NFL, wins are the fastest way to change perception of a team. But going into the second round of the playoffs, eight wins aren't enough to change much.
At this time last year, there was a enormous outcry among Bears' fans that Lovie Smith should have been fired. However, after 11 wins and the second seed in the NFC Playoffs, a lot has changed.
As both the NFL players and owners prepare to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement, both sides have brought important issues to the table. The most polarizing issue for players and owners is the proposed 18-game schedule.
From the time training camp started there have been Bears' position groups that have taken a great deal of criticism. Other then the offensive line, the receivers have taken the most.
WMAQ-TV sportscaster and former Northwestern football star Mike Adamle was cited for DUI and and other traffic infractions in north suburban Evanston.
In the first meeting between the Bears and Seahawks, Mike Williams caught 10 passes for 123 yards. A performance that helped the Seahawks beat the Bears. On Sunday, the Bears will have a second chance to shut him down.
According to multiple reports, former Bears' linebacker and defensive coordinator Ron Rivera will be named the next head coach of the Carolina Panthers.
Ahead of the MLB trade deadline on Monday, the Chicago White Sox have reportedly added right-handed reliever Huascar Brazobán in a trade with the New York Mets.
Buffalo Grove, Illinois, native Till Bartkovjaks, 12, is a master of judo — and he's currently getting ready to represent Team USA for the second time, in Mexico in November.
The Major League Baseball trade deadline is coming up at 5 p.m. Monday, and the Chicago Cubs have already made a pair of deals with the Toronto Blue Jays.
José Caballero lined a two-run homer, Gerrit Cole pitched into the sixth inning and the New York Yankees hung on to top the Chicago Cubs 2-1 on Sunday.
The Chicago Bears were off on Sunday, having wrapped up their first week of training camp.
The Chicago White Sox beat the AL-leading Tampa Bay Rays 9-1 on Sunday.
Lewandowski, who made the move from FC Barcelona in a two-year deal with Chicago, equalized in the 20th minute off a screamer from outside the box that tied the game at 1.
The Chicago Cubs evened their series with the New York Yankees with a 5-2 win on Saturday night.
Only two baserunners advanced past first base for Chicago, which had its three-game winning streak halted.
Chicago's Mamdani moment might come in the form of a more socialist City Council. The Chicago DSA is working to oust aldermen and advance taxing the rich.
A new court ruling will keep Illinois from having to turn over its full list of voter information to the federal government.
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias officially announced his campaign for mayor of Chicago on Sunday. He said, "Chicago should never become a city reserved only for the wealthy,"
Investigators are probing whether Iranian hackers are behind this week's malicious cyber activity against water systems in Minnesota. If they are found to be the culprits, it would not be the first time.
The U.S. and Israel plan to hit Iran's energy infrastructure as soon as this weekend, although no final decision has been made, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
The Trump administration is taking aim at power grid operator PJM Interconnection over rising electricity bills that affect Illinois and Indiana residents.
Chicago remained the most bed bug-treated city in the country, according to Orkin's latest annual rankings covering a full year of residential and commercial treatment data.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul this week warned residents cleaning up from last month's storms to be on the lookout for scams.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday signed several new consumer protections into law, including a ban on junk fees.
CBS News Chicago has learned that Illinois home insurance premiums are not only higher than the nation's average, but going up faster too.
East Chicago, Indiana is being placed on a precautionary boil water advisory starting Monday morning for planned installations that could affect water safety.
A new Northwestern Medicine study on long COVID shows women show more neurological symptoms than men.
A lettuce supplier to fast-food giant Taco Bell has been linked to a nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened thousands of people, the CDC said.
Chicago just barely made the top 20 in the American College of Sports Medicine's 2026 ranking of the country's fittest cities.
In a major turnaround in the opioid crisis, overdose deaths are falling across Chicago and Cook County.
Stella's Diner in Chicago's East Lakeview community has gone out of business.
A Wisconsin appeals court reversed a lower court ruling that had declared Act 10 unconstitutional, keeping the 2011 law limiting public workers' collective bargaining rights in place as unions prepare to appeal to the state Supreme Court.
The changing developments at 1800 N. Clybourn Ave. represent a microcosm of 40 years of changing development priorities on the Clybourn Corridor as a whole, and in Chicago and beyond.
The food deserts on Chicago's South and West sides could spread even wider if seven Save A Lot grocery stores close.
Illinois American Water and Aqua Illinois are both seeking rate increases that would raise monthly bills by as much as $28, while their parent companies seek regulatory approval to merge — a deal a consumer watchdog says would give one company control of nearly all regulated water customers in the state.
Vincent Pastore played Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on all six seasons of "The Sopranos," which aired from 1999 to 2007.
If weather forces an evacuation, shelter sites are located at Grant Park North, Grant Park South, and Millennium Lakeside Garages, accessible through the vehicle entrance on Michigan Avenue.
Grant Park was filled with tens of thousands of people Thursday for the start of Lollapalooza, as warm weather greeted festivalgoers on day one of the four-day music festival.
Academy Award-winning Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard has died in a motorcycle crash.
Actor William Shatner and his daughter, Melanie Shatner Gretsch, recall how they helped each other as they fought Stage 4 cancer side by side.
Meteorologist David Yeomans has your 11 a.m. First Alert Weather forecast for Monday, Aug. 3, 2026.
Students at Evanston Township High School are bringing a new meaning to the term “home school.”
A total of 4,000 charter school students in Chicago went back to school, just in time for a sales tax holiday for those buying supplies. Lauren Victory reports.
“The Cube” is an interactive experience based on the TBS show of the same name. Brett Hintz, general manager of The Cube Chicago, joins us live.
A Southwest Airlines flight landed safely at Midway International Airport on Monday morning despite the nose-gear tires blowing out.
Relief is on the way for families of kids going back to school, with a sales tax holiday.
Three Chicago police officers, as well as a man and a child, were injured overnight in a crash in the Washington Park neighborhood.
Lollapalooza 2027 came to an end in Chicago's Grant Park Sunday night, as crowds emptied out and headed home.
A Southwest Airlines flight landed safely at Midway International Airport on Monday morning despite the nose-gear tires blowing out.
Thieves stole an ATM from a gas station in Chicago's Roseland community early Monday.
A clean energy initiative on the South Side of Chicago is increasing access to solar energy and electric vehicle charging stations, and community members say it's making a difference.
A glitch in the Illinois Tollway system earlier this month left about 100,000 drivers with unexpected warnings about unpaid tolls, some dating back about a year.
Chicago's Office of Emergency Management, which oversees roughly 200 traffic aides, says two were seriously injured by drivers this summer — leaving many uneasy on the job as Lollapalooza brings heavy traffic downtown.
Shavonne Worthy said she visited her mother's grave at Oakridge-Glen Oaks Cemetery in Hillside and found an empty hole where the headstone had stood for nearly 10 years — and the cemetery's new owner told her it was removed intentionally.
Earlier this month, charges were dropped in one case against Weinstein, but he still faces charges in New York and California.
Ahead of the MLB trade deadline on Monday, the Chicago White Sox have reportedly added right-handed reliever Huascar Brazobán in a trade with the New York Mets.
Buffalo Grove, Illinois, native Till Bartkovjaks, 12, is a master of judo — and he's currently getting ready to represent Team USA for the second time, in Mexico in November.
The Major League Baseball trade deadline is coming up at 5 p.m. Monday, and the Chicago Cubs have already made a pair of deals with the Toronto Blue Jays.
José Caballero lined a two-run homer, Gerrit Cole pitched into the sixth inning and the New York Yankees hung on to top the Chicago Cubs 2-1 on Sunday.
The Chicago Bears were off on Sunday, having wrapped up their first week of training camp.
Thieves stole an ATM from a gas station in Chicago's Roseland community early Monday.
Two young men and a teenage boy were shot and wounded early Monday in Chicago's Park Manor community.
A man was stabbed late Sunday night in a fight with a woman on Chicago's West Side, police said.
The suspect, identified as 24-year-old Chad Williams, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
Savannah Guthrie said she and her family have been "in agony and despair ever since" her mother Nancy's disappearance in February.
