Football is coming back to Wrigley Field. Northwestern and Illinois will play a Big Ten game at the storied baseball park on Nov. 20. The Chicago Cubs and Northwestern have scheduled a news conference for Friday to announce the details. Wrigley Field, built in 1914 and the second-oldest baseball venue ...

JANUARY Jan. 1 Sixty-six New Year's revelers die and more than 200 are injured in a fire at a Bangkok nightclub. Longtime Rhode Island Sen. Claiborne Pell, creator of Pell Grants, dies at 90. Jan. 5 New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson withdraws his nomination to be commerce secretary. Jan. 8 Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine becomes chairman of Democratic National ...

Ed Blake SWANSEA, Ill. (AP) — Ed Blake, an Illinoisan whose 15 seasons of professional baseball included time spent with the Cincinnati Reds and Kansas City Athletics, died Wednesday. He was 83. Blake died at Rosewood Care Center after a long illness, Belleville alderman Catherine Kreher said Friday. Blake was 17 when he pitched batting practice for the St. Louis Cardinals ...