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When people talk about legendary creatures, the Dogman cryptid doesn't always top the list, but in Michigan, it's practically canon.

This affordable Citizen timepiece is a sleeper favorite in a sea of quartz movements. You can't find something that looks this good for a competitive price.

The Bears are shifting the focus of their new stadium plans back to a site in Arlington Heights, Illinois that the team purchased in 2021.

Cameras mounted on six CTA buses will begin issuing warnings and tickets in July or August, the transit agency said.

And 17 other great photos from this week in news.

Plus other weird things we learned this week.

Mr. Faikus was the last living World War II fighter pilot of Czech heritage. He celebrated his 101st birthday in January. He was awarded the Air Medal six times. After the war he settled in Forest View with his wife, Lorraine, raised a family and wrote a memoir and poetry.

Gov. JB Pritzker took President Donald Trump's stated desire to take over Greenland as a cue to sarcastically announce "Illinois will now be annexing Green Bay to protect itself against enemies, foreign and domestic."

Some readers understandably found the concept of an honorary neighborhood absurd. But we got some nominees based on diversity, proximity, food options and transportation.

Take this fun quiz to see how many cities at night you can identify from images astronauts took aboard the International Space Station. The post Can you ID these cities at night from space? Take the quiz! first appeared on EarthSky.

The Music Box Theatre will once again screen Hundreds of Beavers, the low-budget silent film quickly becoming a cult favorite.

A strong snow and ice storm followed by brutally cold conditions will soon smack the eastern two-thirds of the United States as frigid air escapes the Arctic, plunging as far south as Florida, meteorologists forecast.

Sharon Waller plans to make a splash as the MWRD's first water engineer. Top on her list is expanding water reuse in Chicago.

Industrial agriculture in the Upper Midwest has been a driving force behind wetland loss. The farm bill might hold a solution.

Sun-Times readers, of course, talked weather and food and driving. We also heard about navigating gangways and correctly pronouncing city street names.

Emily Witt reports from a bellwether county in Wisconsin that appears evenly divided between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in the final stretch of the 2024 Presidential election campaign.

The lone grave of Andreas von Zirngibl is one of the many unexpected places housing Chicago's human remains.

Another in a series of unusually strong solar storms hitting Earth produced stunning skies full of pinks, purples, greens and blues farther south than normal, including into parts of Germany, the United Kingdom, New England and New York City.

The new monthly meal series and art collective RICE is creating community through South Asian cuisine.

Everett Titterington, who died at Pearl Harbor, was interred at Riverside National Cemetery after his remains were identified.