The Chicago Force started the season 7-0. Two weeks and two losses later their season was suddenly finished — and they had a long, lonely trip home after losing in...
Last Saturday in the humid Kansas City twilight, Chicago Force quarterback Samantha Grisafe slouched on the bench, her long blond hair a sweaty tangle, red rings around her eyes, blood...
For the Chicago Force, Linda Bache serves as co-owner, general manager, head of marketing and public relations, chief financial officer, high priestess and hard-driving field boss. And until two years...
A football coach doesn't have much time to think about his feelings. It doesn't matter whether you're Bears coach Lovie Smith making millions or Chicago Force coach John Konecki making...
Katie Romano is new to the Force but has played with the D.C. Divas. This is an edited e-mail interview . What's your day job? Looking for job ... applying...
Before their road game against the Wisconsin Warriors, whom they'd blown out 42-0 in their home opener, the players and coaches of the 2-0 Chicago Force insisted that weren't looking...
This is supposed to be the season. After heartbreaking playoff losses the last two years, the 8-year-old Chicago Force is among the favorites to win the Independent Women's Football League...
On a February morning in Chicago, there's just nothing like a round of golf. That's how some hardy Chicagoans feel. Writer David Murray has played almost every week this winter;...
The poet W.H. Auden was once asked, "Are words all we have?" Of course not, he replied: "Words aren't all we have, but they're all we have to work with."...
Congratulations on an incredibly thorough and courageous series on preservation in Chicago. As a leader of the neighborhood movement to save the 1858 Huntley House in West Town, the story...