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FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2016, file photo, Carolina Panthers' Jonathan Stewart (28) warms up before an NFL preseason football game against the New England Patriots in Charlotte, N.C. The Vikings and Panthers will be counting on their backup running backs when they meet Sunday in Charlotte. Both teams lost their “featured backs” last week to injury, Minnesota’s Adrian Peterson underwent surgery to repair a torn meniscus, while Stewart is dealing with a pulled hamstring. (AP Photo/Mike McCarn, File)

The Latest: Cowboys roll with Prescott, lead Bears at half

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

St. Louis Cardinals' Jhonny Peralta celebrates in the dugout after his home run off Chicago Cubs' John Lackey during the third inning of a baseball game Monday, June 20, 2016, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Ross helps Cubs edge Cardinals 3-1

By JAY COHEN - Associated Press

Cleveland Indians' Michael Martinez, right, and Francisco Lindor celebrate after Martinez scored on Jason Kipnis's double during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox, Friday, June 17, 2016, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

White Sox beat Indians 8-1, slow Cleveland’s title chase

By TOM WITHERS - Associated Press

St. Louis Cardinals' Jhonny Peralta celebrates in the dugout after his home run off Chicago Cubs' John Lackey during the third inning of a baseball game Monday, June 20, 2016, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Cardinals solve Wrigley again, crush Hammel, Cubs 10-4

By MIKE CRANSTON - Associated Press

Chicago businessman gets 2 years for state grant fraud

Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the Tulsa Oklahoma Police Department shows officer Betty Shelby. Police say Tulsa officer Shelby fired the fatal shot that killed 40 year-old Terence Crutcher, Sept. 16, 2016. The police chief in Tulsa says Crutcher, a black man fatally shot by a white police officer responding to a stalled vehicle, had no weapon on him or in his SUV. Police Chief Chuck Jordan said Monday Sept. 19, 2016, that an investigation is underway into the shooting death. (Tulsa Police Department via AP)

Criminal charges in Tulsa police shooting may prevent unrest; officer charged

By Justin Juozapavicius and Sean Murphy - Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016, in Toledo, Ohio. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump: Rahm Emanuel’s violence-plagued Chicago needs ‘stop and frisk’ policing

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 7, 2016, photo, Chicago police investigate a scene in Chicago where gunfire at a birthday party left a man dead and a woman injured. The city's police department said Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016, Chicago recorded 90 homicides in August, its highest monthly death toll in two decades. (Ashlee Rezin /Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Chicago cracks 500 homicides for the year after violent holiday weekend

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Chicago Body Count Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Carnage in Obama’s Chicago

By Tammy Bruce

Real estate mogul Donald Trump is profiled against his 92-story Trump International Hotel & Tower during a news conference on construction progress in Chicago in a May 24, 2007, file photo. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Donald Trump shuns lobbyists, uses star power and donations to advance interests

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. **File (Lou Foglia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT, NO SALES; CHICAGO TRIBUNE OUT

Outrage in Chicago

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Illustration on the mind behind American higher education by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Charles Sykes, a voice against retreat of reason, learning in higher education

By Suzanne Fields

Protesters march near a Planned Parenthood location in Aurora, Ill., on Sept. 18, 2007. Some Illinois lawmakers are seeking to require annual inspections for all the state's abortion clinics, more than three years after officials took steps to reinforce the system following a report by The Associated Press that some facilities had gone 15 years without an inspection. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Lawsuit challenges Chicago ‘bubble zone’ for abortion clinics

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

Baltimore Orioles' Pedro Alvarez hits a solo home run against the Chicago White Sox during the eighth inning of a baseball game Friday, Aug. 5, 2016, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Pedro Alvarez, Manny Machado lead Orioles past White Sox

By Matt Carlson - Associated Press

Screen capture from official website for the Barack Obama Foundation. Accessed July 30, 2016.

Chicago environmentalists accused of bias for cheering Obama library after blocking Lucas museum

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

The new version of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport seen in Allegiant," now available on Blu-ray from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.

Blu-ray review: ‘The Divergent Series: Allegiant’

By Joseph Szadkowski - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 13, 2016, file photo, Chicago Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant fields a ball hit by Washington Nationals' Ryan Zimmerman during a baseball game in Washington. The Cubs became the first team since the 1976 Cincinnati Reds' Big Red Machine to have five players voted as All-Star Game starters when their entire infield earned the honor Tuesday along with center fielder Dexter Fowler.¶ First baseman Anthony Rizzo, second baseman Ben Zobrist, shortstop Addison Russell and thir baseman Bryant also were elected. The only other team to start four infielders was the 1963 St. Louis Cardinals. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Five Cubs elected to start in All-Star Game

By Ronald Blum - Associated Press

In this Dec. 16, 2015, file photo, Richard Shipley, Freddie Gray' stepfather, left, with Gray's mother Gloria Darden and lawyer Billy Murphy speaks with the media in Baltimore Md. An Associated Press review of court records nationwide shows that the attorneys who represent cities are sometimes weak links in the systems meant to hold police accountable for wrongdoing. The review found that lawyers deliberately hid important facts, delayed their disclosure or otherwise sought to subvert evidence in civil cases. Gray's family sued after he was fatally injured in police custody. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

City lawyers weak link in police accountability: Records

By Michael Tarm - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, May 30, 2016 file photo, police work the scene where a man was fatally shot in the chest in Chicago's Washington Park neighborhood. This month, when nearly 400,000 young people pour out of school for their three-month vacation, many of Chicago's neighborhoods will become an especially target-rich environment for gun violence. (E. Jason Wambsgans /Chicago Tribune via AP File) /Chicago Tribune via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT CHICAGO TRIBUNE; CHICAGO SUN-TIMES OUT; DAILY HERALD OUT; NORTHWEST HERALD OUT; THE HERALD-NEWS OUT; DAILY CHRONICLE OUT; THE TIMES OF NORTHWEST INDIANA OUT; TV OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES

Chicago’s most violent neighborhoods brace for deadly summer

By Don Babwin - Associated Press