Before they became two of the best throwers in the state, Laci Nelson and Genesis Castro had no reason to ever cross paths.

Cedar Crest’s junior took first in the 200 and 400 at the PTFCA indoor track and field championships at Penn State Sunday.

CHICAGO — Once upon a time, Virginia McCaskey inherited memorabilia from a cousin, a collection that included a box of old ticket stubs. In it, she said, was a torn admittance to the NFL’s ...

MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill. (CBS) -- Longtime Chicago Bears matriarch Virginia Halas McCaskey was laid to rest this morning. Mrs. McCaskey died Thursday, Feb. 6, at the age of 102. She was the eldest ...

the Bears won 9-0 playing on an 80-yard field that came right to the walls. “I remember I didn’t save my ticket stub, but one of my cousins had saved his,” McCaskey said. “We sat in the ...

In 2003, at the first game in the newly remodeled Soldier Field in Chicago, Mrs. McCaskey sat with the former N.F.L. commissioner Paul Tagliabue as the Bears lost to their archrivals, the Green ...

McCaskey was 3 years old, a toddler beside her mother and infant brother, George Jr., as the family rode the rails in 1926 during the early stages of Red Grange’s renowned Barnstorming Tour.