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- Deadly Washington, D.C. subway malfunction leaves many unanswered questions
- Illinois 72, Northwestern 67
- 10 dead after Texas prison bus skids off highway, hits train
- White Sox’s renovated clubhouse should be ready for opening day
- New Cubs hitting coach already at work making rounds with young players
- Wednesday’s recap: Wizards 105, Bulls 99
- Another defensive meltdown in 2nd half foils Bulls in loss to Wizards
- Two UVA frats refuse to sign agreement forged after rape article
- Cubs Convention preview: Is it time to get excited?
- Detroit rallies to defeat UIC
- Kendrick Nunn and Aaron Cosby played best games in Illinois uniforms
- ‘Still Alice’ thrives thanks to Julianne Moore
- ‘Two Days, One Night’ is a tough call
- Bird-counting event in county is a huge success
- We worry too much about terrorism
- Lift the smoke screen on medical marijuana licenses in Illinois
- ‘American Sniper’ gets Clint back on track
- Why child welfare is so bad
- ‘A Most Violent Year’ is just plain fantastic
- Quickly, Jan. 15: ‘We’re raising a bunch of wimps’
- County unemployment continues downward trend with nearly 10,000 new jobs
- ‘Paddington’ is fun and fuzzy
- #TBT prom photos from RedEye, Metromix, The Mash
- Talk of the County: Reader, cameras have eyes on Waukegan drug dealing
- Immigrants data reveals impact of Obama executive orders (infographic)
- Three Brothers Theatre announces 2015 season and auditions
- Prep boys basketball: Stevenson beats Lake Forest 76-69
- No phones on the throne
- 10 new weekend brunch options
- Friends bond over yarn, pie, family at local knitters club
- ‘Blackhat’ needs a stronger connection
- Editorial: Free community college is a great idea with no chance of passage
- Nigeria’s Boko Haram is back with a vengeance
- ‘The Wedding Ringer’ is alternately terrible and kinda fun
- Psychiatrist who dispensed opiates is pulled from Wisconsin VA hospital in Tomah
- Northwestern loses its grip in second straight narrow loss
- Christian Thomas leads Loyola over Drake
- Notre Dame survives against Georgia Tech without Zach Auguste
- Wrana judge seems frustrated with case against cop, but trial goes on
- Ask Amy: Mom seeks antidote for holiday blues
- Review: ‘Paddington’
- Spending choices that offer most bang for your buck
- Builder touts health benefits of some newly built homes
- Get an attorney to help remove liens from property
- Girls basketball: Crete-Monee’s Marsha Howard passionate about winning
- Man injured in Northwest Side fire
- Obama’s immigration initiative could benefit 225,000 in Chicago area, analysis finds
- Police warn of West Side burglaries
- Why your company might want to rethink the way it generates ideas
- Dining deals: Free breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Coupon: Free Chicken of the Sea Flavored Salmon pouch
- EN VIVO: Anuncio de los nominados a los Oscar 2015
- Mechanical problems delay trains on two Metra lines
- FBI: Ohio man planned to bomb U.S. Capitol, kill officials
- John Fox is coming back to sign his Bears contract, right? Right?
- Watch live: 2015 Oscar nominations
- 2 charged with trying to rob pot dealers, who reported incident to cops
- Pope on Charlie Hebdo: There are limits to free expression
- Prosecutors: Brothers’ cooperation against cartels led to their dad’s death
- Skeleton attraction set for Orlando’s I-Drive 360
- Don’t miss: Trattoria al Forno take over Downtown Disney food truck
- 2015 Oscar nominations: 17 snubs
- Otronicon tech fest hits decade mark at Orlando Science Center
- Animals
- School crossing guard seriously injured in hit-and-run on Far South Side
- Nine questions for your web developer
- Prickly City-Billofrights
- Weekend could see warmest weather of new year
- Prickly City Throwback: The Corrupt of Today….
- Oscars 2015: Complete list of nominees
- College of DuPage employed radio engineer despite theft conviction
- Oscars 2015: ‘Birdman,’ ‘Budapest’ top nominations
- Duck boat tours proposed for Chicago River
- ¿Cuántos indocumentados se beneficiarían de la acción ejecutiva en Chicago?
- The best and worst of the 2015 Oscar nominations
- WWII vet’s family upset by ‘false statements’ at cop’s trial
- Why Mike Huckabee will lose the War on Beyoncé
- Oscar 2015: Lista completa de nominados
- Impact Engine Demo Day
- The Biblioracle: Making a molehill out of ‘Mountain’
- Orwellian wordcrimes: The perils of not taking language seriously
- E-reader: Lost in the corn
- Reading Between the Wines book club
- Cornel West on ‘The Radical King’
- Chicago area libraries gear up for National Readathon Day
- Review: ‘See How Small’ by Scott Blackwood
- Review: ‘Huck Finn’s America’ by Andrew Levy
- New in paperbacks: Elizabeth Kolbert’s ‘Sixth Extinction,’ others
- Review: ‘Etta and Otto and Russell and James’ by Emma Hooper
- Chicago book news: Author explores bondage, feminism in Wonder Woman comics
- Me, My Shelf and I: Alice Berry
- Upcoming Chicago literary events
- Second City comedians pooh-pooh sticky situation with ‘Someday a Bird Will Poop on You’
- Review: ‘Tasty’ by John McQuaid
- Review: ‘Whipping Boy’ by Allen Kurzweil
- Review: ‘West of Sunset’ by Stewart O’Nan
- Sports book roundup: Chris Chelios’ memoir, more
- From the archives: Evanston church hears Dr. King
- Kurt Busch depressed, an alcoholic, ex says in statement
- 3-pointers: Breaking down Bulls’ loss to Wizards
- Man rescued after plunging into Chicago River after car crash
- Here’s how John Fox would fit as new Bears coach
- Oscar 2015: Equipo del filme argentino ‘Relatos Salvajes’, emocionado por nominación
- Review: ‘American Sniper’
- Review: ‘Goodbye to Language’
- Review: ‘If You Don’t, I Will’
- Jenn Gambatese joins Lyric’s ‘Carousel’
- Nicklas Backstrom drops appeal in Sochi Olympic doping case
- Demo Day: Ideas for children in poor schools, women in poor countries
- Review: ‘A Most Violent Year’
- Want to travel to Cuba? Don’t pack your bags yet
- Travel trends in 2015: more millennials, cheap European fares, frequent flier restrictions and more mobile technology
- Lo arrestan 22 veces por conducir con la licencia revocada
- PHOTOS: ‘Honeymoon in Vegas’ on Broadway
- Caesars bankruptcy shouldn’t affect Horseshoe
- Me, My Shelf and I: Alice Berry
- New pickups rock Detroit, roll into 2015
- Review: ‘Still Alice’
- Review: ‘The Wedding Ringer’
- Billy Joel returns to Wrigley Field this summer
- Oscar 2015: Iñárritu, feliz por todo el equipo de ‘Birdman’
- Pickups rock 2015 Detroit Auto Show
- Chicago-area classical music recommendations
- Piano great Robert Irving III nurtures the Generations
- Joe Henry is much more than a serial collaborator
- Better late than never for Coins
- Coronan a JLo como Nuestra Belleza Latina
- Oozing Wound serves up strong medicine
- The Vaselines: Indie before indie was indie
- Roadtrip: Tied up in Knotts in West Virginia
- ‘Empire’ ratings go up in second week
- Review: ‘Two Days, One Night’
- 2015 winter music guide
- Pictures: Don Knotts’ hometown Morgantown, W.Va.
- Review: ‘Spare Parts’
- Aurora, private company will share Elks property
- Review: ‘Blackhat’
- Kirk: Asegurar que Chicago no sea un blanco del terrorismo
- Builder plans big Shermer Road townhouse project north of downtown Northbrook
- Show Us Your Stuff
- Edward McMillan new U. of I. board chairman
- Eddie Redmayne admits his love of MTV’s “The Hills”
- Shaming Leelah Alcorn’s parents is rooted in bigotry
- Northbrook college student pleads to Michigan terrorism charge
- The best apps, shows, movies for toddlers
- Cubs, Felix Doubront agree to terms
- Swimming Hall of Fame beckons Don Watson
- Urban astronomy 101: Stargazing for beginners
- Another tentative teacher contract deal reached in Plainfield
- Jack Del Rio hired as new Raiders coach
- Urban astronomy 101
- Worker dies after falling from stage near Super Bowl stadium
- Briggs & Riley BRX Explore International Wide-Body a great carry-on
- John Fox’s career as a head coach (charts)
- Emirates to fly larger planes from O’Hare
- Chicago International Puppet Theater Fest: The G-rated events
- Tiger Woods designs first golf course, El Cardonal
- Buscan a conductor que atropelló a guardia de cruce escolar
- More consumers say ‘no way’ to driver-monitoring programs
- Pastor’s reply to Ellen DeGeneres lacks heart
- Charlie Hebdo special edition to be sold in Chicago area
- Browns interview ex-Bears coach Marc Trestman for OC: report
- Exploring rugged Russia and its volcanoes
- Free speech and Charlie Hebdo
- Northern Illinois hires Ross Watson as defensive assistant
- Fuller on Fuller and how a garrulous filmmaker got his start
- The price of living in a free democracy
- Combating a common threat
- Chef invidente logra su sueño e inaugura ‘La Diosa’
- Obama should have gone to France
- Chicagoans should fight for the freedom to live
- On her way out, UIC chancellor gets $100,000 bonus
- Common celebrates Dr. King’s birthday with Oscar nomination
- Pictures: Events at Walt Disney World Resort
- Jordan Lynch takes his talents to Canada
- What Patton Oswalt learned in the dark
- Build your innovation capability with an emphasis on implementation
- Epcot: ‘Frozen’ topiaries, mini-gardens to debut at Flower & Garden Fest
- Women’s periods may affect smoking cessation
- Delays a problem, but fewer late trains than 2014, Metra says
- Walker says Romney not best GOP candidate in 2016
- Gogo gets FCC approval for faster Wi-Fi on aircraft
- Hay límites a la libertad de expresión, dice el Papa sobre Charlie Hebdo
- 30-year mortgage rate falls to 3.66 percent; 15-year below 3 percent
- Photos: Boston Fish Market
- Witness tampering under investigation in North Chicago murder retrial
- West Aurora begins work to pass $84.2 million bond referendum
- Ian Ziering and Tara Reid return for ‘Sharknado 3’
- México emitirá actas de nacimiento a sus connacionales en Estados Unidos
- The stars of Orion (interactive)
- South Side man held without bail in Gresham dice game slaying
- Furniture store gambles $2 million on a snowy Super Bowl
- Ravens assistant Steve Spagnuolo hired as Giants’ defensive coordinator
- Metra on-time performance improves in 2015
- RedEye Was Here: Tomorrow Never Knows
- Studies show link between hearing loss, mental decline
- Types of hearing loss and when to get tested
- Google to stop consumer sales of Glass to redesign device
- Space Mountain at Magic Kingdom turns 40
- Tomorrow Never Knows Fest contest rules
- Twitter’s your ticket to invite-only 1871 event in Toronto
- 2015 Oscar predictions
- Snapshot: Coach Nubby and Michael Grossman ‘For the Love of the Game’
- Smokey’s pet adoption story is a winner
- All quiet on the John Fox front? Nothing to worry about just yet
- Tom Brady says a Ravens player poked him in eye Saturday
- Northlight’s ‘White Guy on the Bus’ sparks crucial conversation
- France sees 19,000 cyberattacks since terror rampage
- Fire bolster defense with first pick in SuperDraft
- In Chicago, suburbs the search is on for new edition of Charlie Hebdo
- Notre Dame lands top tight end recruit
- Photos: Smokey, the contest-winning dog
- NFL to hold combine for veteran players
- Anatomy of a duck, the amphibious vehicle (infographic)
- Longevity bonuses in Tinley Park (chart)
- En Puerto Rico cancelan sistema que multa con cámaras
- Best-sellers: Hardcover fiction and nonfiction, plus Chicagoland hits
- Litany of problems pushes Target into giving up on Canada
- Shattered Globe will perform ‘The Grown-Up’
- Alshon Jeffery psyched about ‘Tykes’
- Bears found their Joe Maddon in John Fox
- Mayor Poynton’s 2015 agenda: Downtown 2034 plan, potential water changes
- Ela Area Public Library once again one of nation’s best
- Starbucks flat white, Chipotle sofritas taste tested
- Ohio State’s QB Cardale Jones says he’ll return to Buckeyes
- Travelocity founder: Turn your problems over to new, young employees
- Family Friendly: Vernon Hills hosts outdoor Winter Fest
- Obama library foundation discloses donations
- Crittercam: National Geographic follows Chicago’s coyotes
- En Chicago piden clemencia para dos narcos
- Foreclosures decline, driving up prices
- Bill O’Reilly plans book, TV project about Wild West, scheduled for April
- Ravens QB coach Rick Dennison is a contingency plan if Gary Kubiak leaves, sources say
- Editor’s choice: ‘The Secret Wisdom of the Earth’ by Christopher Scotton
- Southwest hit with record fine for tarmac delays at Midway
- How the safe cracker Michael Paulson was caught
- Worst of flu season likely over for Chicago, suburbs
- New leadership, tuition freeze at the U. of I.
- Entire southern Indiana city to have gigabit network
- Sheriff: Burbank man accused of having child porn after undercover sting
- ‘American Beauty/American Psycho’ is Fall Out Boy’s first misfire
- Did Cardale Jones make the right decision?
- Pictures: 2015 Magic City Comic Con in Miami
- Fox Valley Cooks: Nut allergies change family’s eating habits
- Patriots’ Tom Brady shrugs off Ray Lewis comments
- Photos: Brunch at Grange Hall
- Ex-Citadel engineer receives 3-year sentence for stealing trade secrets
- The future of the community college
- Phil Rosenthal’s margin call: All the bull and 500,000 heirs, apparently
- Walgreens Boots Alliance declares higher quarterly dividend
- Mount Prospect garage fire causes $30,000 in damage
- Los Chicago Bulls no levantan cabeza
- Obama tries again to get paid leave for more workers
- Mark Johnson, Villa Park cop and school district president, dies
- ‘Money’ está contra las cuerdas
- Boys basketball blog: No. 1 Stevenson, Jalen Brunson have tough road ahead
- <br>Planning a neighborhood watch with blood still on the snow
- Midlothian chief gives public apology for remark about shooting police dog
- Bills introduced in response to Tribune’s ‘Harsh Treatment’ investigation
- Un circo llamado “boxeo”
- Space sex in ‘The Expanse’ trailer
- Satellite images show devastation in Nigerian towns attacked by Boko Haram
- Cruise company offers the ultimate internship
- Rauner publicará nombres de contrataciones políticas
- Pope on Charlie Hebdo: There are limits to free expression
- Police: Juvenile posed as doctor at St. Mary’s hospital
- Interview: Get ready for story time with Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts
- Boys basketball: Bonnett’s rise keeps Benet flying high
- Rauner to post political hiring list online
- Knicks lose 16th straight game 95-79 to Bucks in NBA’s London showcase
- Hola Godard, adiós al lenguaje
- 9/11 fund OKs payments of $804 million to 3,100 claimants
- No immediate ruling on blocking Obama immigration orders
- Flu vaccine not working well; only 23 percent effective
- Caregiver charged in alleged theft of $631,000 from Palos Hills woman
- 10 for the road: The hottest hotels by bookings, best rating
- Burge torture accusers seek reparations
- ‘In Dog We Trust’ rug to be auctioned for animal group
- Broncos submit request to interview Gary Kubiak for head-coaching vacancy
- Friday’s matchup: Jets at Blackhawks
- On her way out, UIC chancellor gets $100,000 bonus
- Caterpillar says 230 Joliet workers expected to be laid off
- Two Winnetka Metra stations, three underpasses to get security cameras
- At murder trial, burn victim recalls nothing of fire that killed friend
- Kurt Busch, ‘assassin girlfriend’ drama is off-the-charts crazy
- James Ensor’s very public obsessions
- Maryland regulators to meet with Caesars after unit files for bankruptcy
- Wrestling: Montini nears full health heading into key weekend
- Bricker investigation continues in Wyoming
- Muhammad Ali back in hospital for follow-up treatment
- Judge revokes Chris Brown probation in Rihanna assault case
- Palatine District 15 taking applications to fill vacancy
- White Sox avoid arbitration with 3 players
- Football | Hinsdale Central alumnus Brian Allen named freshman All-American
- Relatives upset they can’t visit inmates injured in Texas prison bus wreck
- Metra presents rail-crossing safety seminar in person and online
- Whiskey on the rocks: Yosemite climbers still enjoyed booze
- Emanuel with $6.5 million for stretch run of re-election bid
- Webb Simpson, Paul Casey share lead at Sony Open
- Muhammad Ali back in hospital for ‘follow-up care’
- Friday’s matchup: Bulls at Celtics
- Chicago and U.S. gas prices
- Ask Tom: When did weather reports begin including a ‘wind chill’ factor?
- Girls basketball blog: Narang previews MLK weekend tournaments
- Immigrants can now get Mexican birth certificates in U.S.
- REVIEW: ‘Honeymoon in Vegas’ on Broadway
- Officials: Man awaiting bond court on drug charges dies
- Woman accused of swinging baby around by bib
- Fourth person charged in alleged Toys for Tots theft
- Some Minnesotans left cold by the term ‘Midwest’
- Cheaper gasoline could save $300B across U.S. economy this year
- Family, police seek help in finding missing man, 21
- Aurora woman charged with possessing crack cocaine
- Bears’ pursuit of John Fox still on track
- Ravens, former running back Ray Rice settle grievance, sources say
- Unseen at the cinema — my Oscar score of zero
- Joe Maddon to Wrigley renovation skeptics: Give it time
- Boys basketball notes: ‘Rested’ West Aurora eyes Bartlett as big test
- Brandon Saad taking care of business on the ice now, off the ice later
- Yorkville library starts year-long celebration of 100 years
- Bulls defense is collapsing just when their offense is slumping
- Moving swiftly, U.S. eases travel and trade rules on Cuba
- On MLK birthday, Chicago 8th-graders rally for justice
- Freshman Bonzie Colson gives Notre Dame a lift with Zach Auguste out
- Cops leave trial into killing of John Wrana feeling good
- Arizona passes law requiring students to pass civics test
- Paul Konerko’s No. 14 to be retired by White Sox
- Police: 6-year-old’s hanging death in Minnesota either suicide or accident
- Aurora King Day celebration to feature ‘Hero of the Year’
- Loyola volleyball team appears even stronger than 2014 NCAA champion
- Georgia parents file lawsuit in death of son found inside rolled-up gym mat
- The way to anyone’s heart on Valentine’s Day: Homemade baked goods
- 5 tips to fall-proof your home and keep seniors safe
- 7 big (but easy) ways businesses can reduce employee absenteeism
- ‘I was afraid,’ testifies cop on trial in death of WWII vet
- 2104 Tribune Stock Report
- Ohio teacher convicted of showing high school class violent, graphic movie
- Oregon parents seek $36 million in water-birth lawsuit
- Marriott bows to complaints, won’t seek OK to block customers’ Wi-Fi
- 30s again Friday, but the best is still to come
- Boys basketball: It’s all in the family for Naperville Central’s Matt Meier
- Florida executes ringleader of 1993 home invasion that ended with man’s murder, wife’s rape
- Photos | Notre Dame vs. Benet
- Defense contractor pleads guilty to bribes involving prostitutes, Kobe beef, Spanish suckling pigs
- Cops issue alert after several South Side holdups
- Cubs will win NL Central, predicts Anthony Rizzo
- Photos | Stevenson vs. Lake Forest
- Boys basketball: Anthony D’Avanzo comes up big for Notre Dame
- John Fox’s strong-minded style developed over long coaching odyssey
- 13 more California measles cases tied to Disney outbreak
- Boys basketball: Jalen Brunson scores 41 as No. 1 Stevenson holds off Lake Forest
- Girls basketball: Neuqua Valley pulls away from Metea Valley
- Wisconsin’s Frank Kaminsky worked his way to unlikely stardom
- Scientists: Human activity has pushed Earth beyond 4 of 9 ‘planetary boundaries’
- Family outraged by North Miami Beach cops’ use of mugshots for target practice
- 2 suspected Islamist militants killed as Belgian police conduct anti-terror raids
- More than a third of American workers don’t get sick leave, and they’re making the rest of us ill
- Fire select SIU-Edwardsville’s Matt Polster in MLS draft
- The essentials: Must-try Chicago bars and restaurants
- ‘Go Cubs Go’ must go
- Marshawn Lynch and Eddie Lacy carry load into NFC title game
- Roundup | Thursday, Jan. 15
- Public divided on Obama library plans
- Oklahoma carries out its first execution since botched one