Sports

To encourage another W flying after Saturday's Cubs game against the LA Dodgers, Daley Plaza celebrates Cubbie blue with bubbling blue water and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra plays a rousing rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." 

Fun, happy, fun, cold, fun, not long enough, fun, friends, fun, family, fun, hockey, fun, memories….those are all comments about WickerICE, the new volunteer driven 60 by 120 foot ice rink in the middle of Wicker Park, 1425 N. Damen, that had a very short but worthwhile first season. 

Bike Rodeo and Registration event will be held for the 12th District at Eckhart Park, behind the Field House, 1330 W. Chicago Ave., Tues., July 28, between 10 a.m. and noon. 

Ernie Banks, the beloved "Mr. Cub", was pronounced dead at Northwestern Hospital this evening.

Area Ukrainians are urging people to support the Ukrainian people and world peace by signing a petition to move the 2018 World Football Cup from Russia. 

From 1957 to the present, hockey jerseys worn by 40 different top hockey players, many Ukrainians, will be on exhibit for one night only at the Ukrainian National Museum, 2249 W. Superior St., Fri., May 2, starting at 7 p.m.

Girls' softball is on the move. Popular in the suburbs and rural areas, the game is returning to Chicago. Holstein and Churchill Parks are being added to the roster of home fields thanks to the efforts of Karen Loiacono. 

Some of the 2012 U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame inductees put on a sports clinic for 100 local children

Wicker Park is getting a new well known resident. According to site workers, local shop owners and neighbors on the 1600 block of North Wolcott,