Lionel Messi picks Miami as he joins Major League Soccer

After months — years, even — of speculation, Messi finally revealed his decision to join a Miami franchise that has been led by another global soccer icon, David Beckham, since its inception but has yet to make any real splashes on the field.

Suit seeks to block $80M Chicago Fire training center on CHA land

A lawsuit filed in federal court Thursday claims the Chicago Housing Authority’s deal to lease land to the Chicago Fire soccer club to build an $80 million training center on the Near West Side did not go through proper review procedures.

Home where elderly woman died in fire in Chicago's Belmont Heights did not have working smoke detectors

Neighbors are heartbroken and were seen outside the victim’s home consoling one another. At least two neighbors off camera said the victim remained a heavy smoker, relying on oxygen tanks inside her home after being diagnosed with lung disease. Nate Rodgers reports. https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/home-where-elderly-woman-died-in-fire-in-chicagos-belmont-heights-did-not-have-working-smoke-detectors

Hundreds forced from Indiana homes as plastics fire burns

An evacuation order affecting more than 1,000 people was expected to remain in place through Wednesday around a large industrial fire in an Indiana city near the Ohio border where crews worked through the night to douse piles of burning plastics, authorities said.