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2014 > December > 26
- Chicago Tribune’s 2014 Photos of the Year
- ‘The Interview’ goes pretty much as expected
- Discussing the future with the new community development director
- New Year’s fresh start means fresh tracks for local runner
- Flying Under the Radar: The clock is ticking on end-of-year giving
- News and Schmooze: Traditions and health for the new year
- Gabbin’ in the Grove: Reflecting on happiness for the new year
- Why family meals are so hard but so important
- Libertyville schools’ solar panels help teach, cut costs
- Ask Amy: Young woman has a bad case of ‘baby fever’
- Top national, international business stories of 2014
- Ayuda Legal: ¿Me pueden cortar la electricidad durante el invierno?
- Chicago police stop black motorists more, ACLU finds
- Chicago police stop black motorists more (chart)
- Clean Energy Challenge expects to award $1 million in startup funding
- Recycling Christmas tree gives it a second chance to do good
- Metra train fatally strikes pedestrian in northwest suburban Cary
- Cops: Suicidal man shot to death by police after attacking officer with knife
- Car crash in Chicago Heights leaves one dead
- ‘The Interview’ makes $1 million on Christmas
- Dragons, drags dominate theme parks in 2014
- What’s on tap for Orlando theme parks in 2015?
- Options abound for New Year’s Eve
- Animals
- Welcome home, thundering bison, to your Prairie State
- Biden’s visit to Vernon Hills tops 2014 ‘Year in Review’
- Chicago’s last tannery
- El arte de plasmar la rutina diaria en un producto
- Residential fees waived for new Des Plaines parkway trees
- Blotter: Woman charged with DUI; ‘one-hitter’ found in vehicle in Orland Park
- Specialty barbers focus on beards as facial hair grows trendy
- Entregan regalos a desamparados de Chicago
- McDonald’s fries back on menus in Japan in all sizes
- Photos: Remembering tsunami victims
- Photos: Beardsgaard Barbers in Batavia
- Brainerd’s last stand tops 2014 ‘Year in Review’
- Blotter: Two women charged with theft from Frankfort store
- Pictures: Tarpon Springs, Florida
- Brookfield Zoo animal spotlight: polar bears
- 3-pointers: Breaking down the Bulls’ victory
- PDF: ACLU study on Chicago traffic stops
- Clerk: ‘I wasn’t scared’ as gunbattle erupts with robbers, 7-Eleven staff
- Ex-Disney cast member’s photo snapped for Humans of New York site
- Best-sellers: Hardcover fiction and nonfiction, plus Chicagoland hits
- Photos: Bottle & Bottega in Glen Ellyn
- Un grupo armado se llevó al padre Goyo, y aparece con ‘el tiro de gracia’
- Exelon launches myCareer app
- Photos: The year ahead in Oak Park and La Grange
- State bans sale of new drug kratom to minors
- Photos: Top theater performances of 2014
- A generational dialogue
- Crowded race for Burr Ridge Village Board
- The Art Institute video collection is on YouTube
- PC-gift
- Huskies Hockey plans benefit for Hornets Sled Hockey Team
- Prickly City: Carmen’s Gift
- Few candidates for most area school races
- Oak Park in 2014: Lake and Forest starts up, new Ridgeland opens, grocery stores shuffle
- Upcoming events in Highland Park and Deerfield, Jan. 3-8
- Exelon puts its energy into career-management app for employees
- Terrell Suggs, Chris Canty, Eugene Monroe miss third practice this week
- Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith ruled out with lacerated spleen, absence could affect Ravens’ playoff outlook
- The world my sons will inherit
- Vikings feeling heightened confidence from Teddy Bridgewater
- Illinois, protect your wildlife
- Hijos de policía asesinado en NY se entrenarán con los Mets
- A son advocates for his fellow millennials
- Photos: The most interesting cars of 2015
- Letter: Raising the minimum wage will kill teen job market
- What 2014’s biggest social media fails can teach us in 2015 and beyond
- Chiefs QB Alex Smith out with lacerated spleen
- Notre Dame boys basketball team advances to Wheeling Hardwood Classic championship game
- Come Thursday, enjoy the raise you won Nov. 4
- High-profile murder, corruption trials kick off 2015 in Lake County courts
- Chicagoland companies adapt to global economy
- Dog, shelter reunite after 900-mile trip from NYC to Grayslake
- Ilana Malman’s ‘fearless’ play leads Glenbrook North girls basketball team to victory
- Some have recouped millions from risky type of debt that plagues CPS
- Risky CPS debt raises questions about SEC protections for governments
- Knicks’ Quincy Acy suspended, Wizards’ John Wall fined
- 2015 preview: Lake Forest, Libertyville and Grayslake
- Jeremiah Ratliff, Jared Allen questionable for Bears’ season finale
- The most interesting cars for 2015
- Blotter: Woman accused of identity theft in Libertyville
- Blotter: Young men accused of consuming alcohol in Highland Park
- Devils fire Peter DeBoer as coach
- Photos: Roosevelt University’s Auditorium Theatre celebrates 125 years
- Connor Shaw will make first NFL start Sunday against Ravens
- RedEye Rundown: 2014 year-in-review
- 2nd fatality reported after Christmas Day crash in Northbrook
- Glenview personal injury attorney named Illinois Rising Star
- Boys basketball blog: Helfgot breaks down Proviso West tourney semifinals
- What Ebola has taught us
- River Forest in 2014: Fresh Thyme grabs Dominick’s, lab pulls out, new plumbing plugged in
- El manejo de un asilo de ancianos de cinco estrellas
- A ruined Christmas Eve feast
- Police: Christmas Eve burglar stole computers, cash from school
- New Year’s party at 35,000 feet
- Help from strangers on a Thanksgiving
- Adding to a heavy workload
- A gift of Butterfinger candy bars
- 1973 contest poked fun at the mayor
- A little girl’s Christmas secrets
- An embarrassing class gift
- Dad’s bad idea
- Disabato: Holiday hoopla at its finest at McDipper
- Turns out this wasn’t such a bad gift after all
- A gift on our first Christmas together
- Hungarians in Chicago had a home away from the homeland: Liberty Hall
- The poster that ruined Christmas
- Used gifts are no gifts at all
- Baranek: Holiday hoops set to sizzle at Hillcrest girls tournament
- Chasing dreams and goals 10 minutes at a time
- Boys basketball: Justin Smith happy to be one of the guys for Stevenson
- With Eugene Monroe doubtful, John Harbaugh confident in offensive line reserves
- Photos: AKC has 4 new breeds
- 4 dog breeds join the AKC family — but which should join yours?
- The garlow: Just ahead of its time?
- The high cost of holiday gift returns
- Woodrow Wilson Road didn’t go far
- Libertyville remembers basketball star, kindhearted Jack Lipp, 19
- Harold Washington Library to close Saturday
- Ukraine, pro-Russia rebels swap war prisoners
- Mayoral race only contested municipal race in Darien, Willowbrook
- Police officers help deliver baby on train on Christmas
- Heart of Dallas Bowl: Louisiana Tech 35, Illinois 18
- Pedestrian, 71, dies after being struck by teen driver on Christmas
- Buying houseplants in winter? They need some TLC on the way home
- Eaglet retriever says he rejected plea offer, will go to trial
- Elmwood Park, River Grove in 2014: Businesses come and go, but politics carry on
- Asia marks 10 years since Indian Ocean tsunami killed 230,000
- 15 things to do with your kids: Dec. 29-Jan. 2
- ‘Cinderella’ star balances theater with motherhood on tour
- Some borrowers have gotten money back (table)
- Retailers, carriers improve holiday shipping performance
- Smart people offer workplace advice for 2015
- Saturday’s matchup: Kennesaw State vs. Illinois
- Gold star given to Elmwood Park Girl Scout for leadership
- Hostess cited after man’s fatal fall from window during underage party
- A year ago, ‘Duck Dynasty’ was inescapable; now, no one cares
- Extra cops looking for drunk drivers New Year’s Eve in Elmwood Park
- Dustin Diamond, Screech from ‘Saved By the Bell,’ arrested after bar stabbing
- Saturday’s matchup: Northern Kentucky at Northwestern
- Sunshine likely to halt any ‘cloudiest’ records
- Heart of the Home: A look back at west suburban real estate in 2014
- Bears center Roberto Garza signs one-year extension
- Cable news, where celebrity opinionators rule
- Hollywood struggles to reflect its audience
- Cops release photos of 4 wanted in CTA Red Line robbery
- District 200 reduces tax levy, approves abatement
- Oak Park police blotter: Two charged with DUI
- Baseball field option still on table for new OPRF pool site
- Girls basketball: Oak Lawn scoring record doesn’t add up, says former player
- Man found dead in creek at Geneva golf club
- Family asks why man shot by police in hospital wasn’t frisked after crash
- Vernon Hills trustees run for reelection unopposed
- Marian Catholic pulls away from Huskies in fourth quarter at Montini
- Biggest stories of 2014 didn’t need traditional news outlets
- After frustrating season, healthier Lardarius Webb is finding previous form
- Boys basketball: Libertyville remembers kindhearted Jack Lipp, 19
- Two longtime Trustees to depart Lincolnwood Village Board next year
- Traveling while black created a stir in China
- Illinois gas tax: Rauner needs fuel in drive to fill Illinois budget holes
- Evan Boudreaux sets the tone as Lake Forest cruises by Nazareth
- Ask Tom: How many traces of rain would it take to make an inch of rain?
- Missouri first state to see average gas price below $2
- Welfare drug testing program signed into law by Michigan Gov.
- DuSable Museum celebrates first day of Kwanzaa festival
- Ones to watch update
- Boys basketball: Hinsdale Central, Fenwick to meet in Proviso West consolation final
- Standouts from a year’s worth of smart money advice
- Northwestern coach Chris Collins not afraid to shake things up
- Boys basketball: Larkin’s Christian Negron becoming center of attention
- Ostracized baby gorilla will switch zoos
- New Russian military doctrine says NATO top threat
- E’Twaun Moore, Aaron Brooks giving Bulls a boost from bench
- Rutgers gives Big Ten its first bowl victory this season
- Al Piemonte, one of Chicago area’s most memorable car dealers, dead at 83
- Photos | Proviso West tourney: Stevenson vs. Kenwood
- We said they’d make headlines in 2014. Were we right?
- Holiday workers skip dinner, enjoy serving others
- Pau Gasol’s hard work paying off in first season with Bulls
- Illinois fumbles away huge opportunity in bowl loss to Louisiana Tech
- NFL sack title, Deacon Jones Award coming down to end for Dumervil, Houston and Watt
- Illini takeaways from Heart of Dallas Bowl
- Life support ended for pregnant Irish woman
- Football: Nyles Morgan makes progress at Notre Dame
- 2014 took the ‘awe’ out of ‘awesome’
- Body removed from creek at Geneva Golf Club identified as John Gaines, 74
- All await the coming turmoil after Bears finale Sunday against Vikings
- Blazers’ Kaitlin Aylward earning big praise for workouts
- Egypt bans biblical epic ‘Exodus,’ 20th Century Fox says
- Daily high temperatures in December
- Photos | Wheeling tourney: Fremd vs. Lake Park
- Bears dungeon
- Rain to follow Friday’s rare 50-degree highs
- Female veterans battling PTSD from sexual trauma fight for redress
- Boys basketball: Prospect, Waukegan squeak out Wheeling tourney wins
- Photos | Proviso West tourney: St. Joseph vs. St. Rita
- Wolves overwhelm AHL’s top goalkeeper in 6-2 victory over the Admirals
- Boys basketball: Nick Rakocevic, St. Joseph best St. Rita at Proviso West
- Pakistani forces kill an alleged organizer of school massacre
- Boys basketball: Lake Park’s Marcus McDaniel makes most of points against Fremd
- Using DNA to catch canine culprits – and their nefarious owners
- Boys basketball: Notre Dame vs. Naperville Central
- Boys basketball: Stevenson overwhelms Kenwood in Proviso West semifinal
- Roundup | Friday, Dec. 26
- Boys basketball: Ammar Becar steps up for Notre Dame at Wheeling tourney
- Full St. Joe’s lineup drops St. Rita in Proviso West semifinal