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- Handicapping Trump’s wild-card administration
- One Largemouth Bass Open Tournament is Jan. 1
- Indiana Dunes State Park presents Christmas Eve Stroll in Chesterton
- Local venues offer holiday fun
- Fuentes AP: Indios acuerdan contrato con Edwin Encarnación
- Shout Out set for New Year’s Eve Bash in Valparaiso
- A look back at 2016: Supreme Court nominee, fun shop, Purple Hotel among best-read local stories
- Fun ways to ring in New Year in NWI
- Elderly father climbs to dangerous heights
- Skokie in 2016: A look at some of the newsmakers
- Oscar pasará del Chelsea al Shanghai de Súper Liga china
- COI abre 28 nuevos casos contra atletas olímpicos rusos
- Morning Spin: Rauner ‘out west,’ Madigan’s whereabouts unknown as budget fight continues
- At Christmas, church helps to welcome refugees
- Obama Foundation’s daunting task: Raising money for his library
- Chicago penthouse on lakefront: $869,000
- Adult ESL program expands job prospects for Chinese immigrants
- Lake County hospitals low on blood
- Batavia Park District recognized for financial reporting
- ‘Godfather of Grass’ arrested in Canada after eight years on the run: Authorities
- Rauner gives his campaign $50 million almost 2 years before election
- October death of Little Village man shot in 1992 ruled a homicide
- Chicago’s rich and powerful ask favors big and small in Mayor Emanuel emails
- Torture of 2 Chicago-area students ‘almost indescribable’: prosecutor
- Outfit soldier caught on tape planning robbery: ‘It will be a great Christmas’
- Mobile market brings food to Elgin seniors
- Top police brass defended Laquan McDonald shooting after seeing video, records show
- La Liga apelará fallo en caso de muerte de un aficionado
- Trump promete ampliar capacidad nuclear de EEUU
- Diario estatal chino critica a asesor de Trump en comercio
- United focusing on domestic business, targeted fares in 2017
- What Bears coach John Fox should be talking about
- California shut down Uber’s self-driving car service; the company simply moved it next door
- How a giant TV company helped Trump’s campaign
- Christmas subdued in 1941
- Liberados todos los pasajeros del avión libio secuestrado
- 1 dead, 8 wounded in city shootings
- Shannon Ryan’s Big Ten power rankings
- Jack Forester steps up to help Vernon Hills rally past Rochelle Zell
- Putin: Promesa nuclear de Trump no es inusual
- Es ‘Fences’ una historia de familia y comunidad
- ‘Merry Christmas’ or ‘Happy holidays’? How national chains and mom-and-pop stores choose
- Delivery driver charged with misdemeanor in Little Village crash that killed woman, 84
- Prickly City- Privacy war
- Dyer man’s lighting reflects his need for precision
- 1 dead, 1 injured in crash after semi loses wheel on Tri-State
- Ashland, Virginia gives Amtrak riders a holiday light spectacular
- Controversial ‘pharma bro’ Shkreli says ‘of course’ he’d raise drug price again
- Man missing from group home found wandering Chicago streets
- Rahm Emanuel’s rarefied world of power
- Maercker District 60 Board contested in April election
- Trump’s Cabinet picks may offer the leadership we so badly need
- España extraditará a México a acusado de agresión sexual
- Western Springs budget increases road, water main repairs
- Christmas memories: ‘Tragic yet beautiful’
- Grants help Waukegan manage waterfront
- Chicago parents face challenges, joys in raising multiracial children
- ‘Jeopardy’ competitor Cindy Stowell showed heart of a champion
- Chewbacca sings a rousing version of ‘Silent Night’
- Students end year with songs and silly sweaters
- Winter travel ideas, including Iditarod and Waukesha Janboree
- Aurora murder suspect returned to Kane for fitness hearing
- Winter Sing in District 30
- Craving a condo? Follow these buying dos and don’ts
- Oscar pasará del Chelsea al Shanghai de la Súper Liga china
- How to work a room in social settings
- Chicago’s Pedway
- Los secuestradores del avión libio se rinden y son detenidos
- College of Lake County expands composting
- Trump tweets, baseball fever, Oreos and more: Chicago’s top business stories of 2016
- Petition calls for removal of R. Kelly from California festival lineup
- Council president eyes changes in Genesis Center funding
- Power of warmth: Central Baptist Village crafters donate scarves, hats
- Hobart officials looking forward to infrastructure projects
- ‘Let it be an arms race’: Trump and Putin emphasize nuclear strength while exchanging compliments
- Pirotecnia, una tradición en México que no teme a la desaparición
- Speak Out: Trump should stop worrying about ‘Saturday Night Live’
- Girls basketball: Montini Christmas Tournament preview
- ‘War-torn’… ‘out of control’: What a year for Chicago bashing
- New auto parts store to open on East Side of Aurora
- Six years for driver in fatal shooting
- Elections taking shape in Norridge, Harwood Heights
- Community Calendar
- Almodóvar: “En ‘Julieta’ se ve la soledad en la que vivo”
- Gary schools’ social media presence fades as $400K contract ends
- Artists at the inauguration: Big stage makes big dilemma
- Millonarios confirma negociaciones con el técnico Russo
- Help Them to Hope
- ‘Fences’ review: Family is tough
- Additional Rahm Emanuel email records, part 1
- Hawthorn 73, Park District begin talks over $12M kindergarten addition at Sullivan Center
- Israel acusa a EEUU de “acción vergonzosa” en la ONU
- Help Them to Hope
- Shout Out: Jack Olorvida, pre-med musician
- Additional Rahm Emanuel email records, part 2
- Chance the Rapper says he’s not mulling run for mayor
- One dark winter morning, there was a papergirl on a bike …
- Las miradas y espacios de Rodrigo Prieto
- Predicting 2016 was hard. Can we do better in 2017?
- I teach math — but not because I’m an ‘Asian wizard’
- HMS students’ musical send-off to winter break
- Elmwood Park report card data points to gains, areas that need to be addressed
- Robin Thicke shares memories from admirers of his dad: Alan Thicke, a family man in words and deeds
- Bike donation gives 911 dispatchers chance for exercise
- The best time to buy airline tickets and other travel advice for 2017
- Chicago bond expert: Markets will be tough to stomach in ‘great unknown’ 2017
- Zuckerberg builds artificial intelligence assistant to run house, entertain toddler
- It’s not the weather that makes Christmas so deadly
- 1 dead, 1 injured in crash after semi loses wheel on Tri-State
- Land donation to provide site for planned Tinley Park pond
- Chocolate in beer is a sweet success — but not too sweet
- Denzel Washington llega a los 62 años con “Fences”
- 10 ways to add sparkle to your wardrobe, home
- Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence and the changing definition of stardom
- Drink This: It’s Tom & Jerry season!
- ‘Nude’ makeup trend doesn’t mean going barefaced
- Renuncia del técnico Hoyos provoca malestar en Bolivia
- Curas informan que represores de dictadura piden perdón
- Orland Park OKs advisory referendum questions
- Year in review: Top Chicago entertainment stories of 2016
- HMS 2016 winter assembly
- Midwest buying spree lifted U.S. new-home sales in November
- Ecuador: Fiscalía allana oficina de brasileña Odebrecht
- Shout Out: Morton Grove Park District recreation superintendent Joe Bruntmyer
- How can you help the economy? Get some sleep!
- Baby orangutan makes debut in time for Christmas at Brookfield Zoo
- Principal hopes to combine old, new traditions at new Hill Elementary School
- This Santa writes back to Hobart kids
- In email, N’DIGO publisher demanded Rahm tear up her parking tickets
- Save the Tables restaurants
- Lincoln-Way projects further loss of enrollment, but plans to maintain 3 high schools
- Boys basketball: Jack Tosh Holiday Classic preview
- Bobby Brown to attend New Edition biopic screening in Chicago
- Waukegan woman charged with DUI after driving into squad car
- Bancos europeos compensarán a clientes en EEUU tras crisis
- Bolivia: restaurador devuelve esplendor a figuras de Jesús
- Poblado en Massachusetts permitirá cementerio musulmán
- Go ‘Under the Sea’ with Paramount’s ‘Little Mermaid’
- Mayoral race taking shape in Round Lake
- 5 hacks for navigating holiday emergency room visits with kids
- How to shop a post-Christmas sale
- Ald. Willie Cochran’s attorney says his actions ‘stupid,’ not illegal
- Christmas, Hanukkah celebrations commence
- Shout Out: Annie Ignoffo, book bank volunteer
- Disney announces singers for new Epcot arts fest
- 75 years later, residents share memories of Christmas 1941
- As Christmas dawns: ‘Praise the innocence of children as they stand awed …’
- It’s the thought that counts — season’s greetings
- As McDonald’s looks forward, ‘Founder’ movie shows shadowy view of past
- First lady Michelle Obama’s legacy
- Ornaments distributed to brighten patients’ holiday hospital stays
- Residents share memories of Christmas 1941 after Pearl Harbor attack
- Lions Club distributes holiday food baskets
- Fred’s, a small drugstore chain, may become national player after Rite Aid deal
- NWI leaders optimistic about drug task force’s recommendations
- McGrath: Parents should come clean about Santa
- El presidente Obama dará su discurso de despedida desde Chicago
- Migraine shelves Dwyane Wade for Bulls’ shootaround
- New businesses set to open in Carpentersville in 2017
- Luminary event connects subdivisions, community
- Ray Kroc, McDonald’s founder
- Marc Anthony con una de las giras más lucrativas del mundo
- School board candidates file for April elections
- L.S. Ayres Tea Room still Indiana’s Christmas tradition
- Lake County issues 30 warrants in drug sweep
- El gobierno federal administrará las sedes olímpicas de Río
- Partidarios del referéndum en Cataluña escenifican cumbre
- Activistas de minorías acuden a líderes de derechos civiles
- After losing a friend and daughter, 2 women work to raise awareness of DUI dangers
- A wonder of science and spines: If other paralyzed primates walk, will humans?
- As first lady, Michelle Obama charted her own course
- Thank you, Hoosiers
- 3 school board candidates married to District 64 teachers
- Pedway’s next step: Clarifying, enlivening Chicago’s confusing underground network
- Reeder: Man sues over union fees
- Blood donations needed in Aurora area
- Home for the holidays? Talk with aging parents about money
- Comey’s year of unintended, ruinous consequences
- New lights brighten Sleepy Hollow
- Beverly woman recalls Christmas after Pearl Harbor
- Speak Out: How many people will complain about the cost of Christmas events?
- Heartland centers put out call for blood donations
- Police find out why driver went wrong way in I-88 crash that killed 3 this month
- Batavia High School may do away with class rankings
- Women’s vote helped create flourishing 100-year-old Waukegan Park District
- The best places to spend Christmas
- Boys basketball: Proviso West Holiday Tournament preview
- Resurrecting Chicago, block by block: Another 1,000 homes in 2017? Maybe more?
- A simple note that changed my Christmas
- Aurora mayor candidates discuss transparency in government
- Sheriff reports another fake 911 call from man claiming he had killed his mother
- Candidates lining up for April 2017 election in Elmwood Park, River Grove
- Lincolnwood police, trustees to consider additional public surveillance cameras around town
- Top web stories of 2016 in Arlington Heights
- South Shore to expand bike program
- Malta plane hijacking ends peacefully; 2 Libyans surrender
- Bandits pinch lawn holiday displays in Arlington Heights
- Anti-abortion group likely behind ominous cards left around Aurora area, police say
- Park Ridge Bike Task Force to city: Update route plan, add more racks
- Shout Out: Bill Hogan, director of physician relations at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital
- Mayor’s emails provide glimpse into governor’s mind
- Park, library boards uncontested in Western Springs
- North Aurora Plan Commission member’s project raises concerns
- Longtime Deerfield parks director retiring at year’s end
- Campaign worker wants explanation of poll ejection
- Resurrected electronics recycling program draws 1,100-plus people in first 2 months
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- Cubs claim pitcher David Rollins off waivers — again
- Quiz: How well do you know the top national and world news of 2016?
- Elección de artistas para ceremonia de Trump genera críticas
- OPRF drops ‘interim’ tag, names Pruitt new superintendent
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- Cops: Hampshire man fired handgun into the air in Bartlett
- Some new faces, but few contested races in local elections
- In 2016, freedom faltered and tyrants thrived
- Lake Zurich budget reduces expenses from previous spending plan
- Zoning approved for amusement center in Elgin
- Community news
- Fin de la sequía: Milan vence a la Juventus en la Supercopa
- Las rivalidades dominan fin de semana navideño en la NFL
- Highwood seeks change in city clerk’s status
- Mego: Manger scene, regardless of who’s included and how they look, always means Christmas
- Moody’s downgrades Lincoln-Way to ‘junk’ bond status, issues negative outlook
- Former Costco employee awarded $250,000 over customer’s alleged harassment
- Alleged Beach Park armed robber crashes in snowbank, caught by police
- U.S. warns of possible attacks on churches, holiday gatherings
- Math-based game show could lead to multiplication in Stevenson student’s wallet
- St. Peter’s United Church of Christ: Oldest church in Skokie to mark 150 years
- Mount Everest and the fat (not flat) Earth: A plump planet’s trick on boastful climbers
- Community calendar
- ‘Reviven la esperanza en la humanidad’ a los desamparados
- 2 face felonies after being accused of shooting BB guns at cars in Arlington Heights
- Rauner’s budget chief leaves as spending plan is set to expire
- Families in need, library in Nigeria receive help from Hampshire church
- Candidates file for park and library boards
- The Christmas gift: A new hope
- Theater sign discovered during renovations in West Dundee
- Public safety, health workers share Christmas with their ‘second families’
- Watch: ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’
- Deerfield seventh grader works to preserve Holocaust survivor stories
- President-elect Donald Trump may spark a nuclear arms race. Big mistake.
- Rockettes’ owners say attendance of dancers at Trump inauguration is a choice
- Village president only contested Hinsdale office in April
- Obama administration declines veto on UN condemnation of Israeli settlements
- Disabato: Christmas season all about gift of life for Andrew’s Ethan Kosche
- Northbrook woman reports man trying to enter house
- Aurora police say shootings, car crash appear related
- Serendipitous, kind letter sparks a campaign
- Community news
- Petra Kvitova deja el hospital tras ataque con cuchillo
- Cristiano hace donación a Siria; pide no perder la esperanza
- Exclusiva AP: FIFA examina grupos de 3 equipos para Mundial
- ONU condena colonias israelíes; Obama declina usar veto
- Swinging temps threaten plants
- Kane seeks balance between providing information, protecting privacy
- Michael Flynn had role in firm co-led by man who tried to sell material to the KGB
- Three Derick dermatologists named top cancer doctors
- Dr. Sheldon Slodki, cardiologist, dies at 84
- Aurora man charged in West Side stabbing
- Acclaimed bartender Julia Momose to leave GreenRiver
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- Valparaiso’s international players celebrate Christmas near and far
- Why the white working class votes to maim itself
- Waukegan boys basketball players make meaningful holiday assist
- Police holding man in connection to Wednesday stabbing in Aurora
- Mike Huff stars in first start of season as Grant rolls by Cary-Grove
- Elgin family rebuilds, a second time, after fire
- Despite order to demolish, Elgin senior home developer says he will continue to build
- Van Til reflects on year of change, new freedom
- Carrie Fisher sufre emergencia médica en un vuelo
- Lawsuit: Whole Foods managers were fired for whistleblowing over worker bonuses
- An Aleppo story: ‘Sir, do you know where I can find my mother?’
- RailCats re-sign Frank Martinez in what they hope will be ‘quieter’ offseason
- Gift cards offered to attract blood donors
- Eddie Goldman’s move to IR another setback for Bears’ 2015 draft class
- Atléticos pacta con el lanzador cubano Norge Ruíz
- Only limit to small business success is leadership
- Trio performs Christmas music at grocery stores to raise money for food bank
- Heart to heart helps Bears’ right tackle Bobby Massie figure it out
- Girls basketball notes: Nicole Vacha helps Stagg find the road to success
- NBA, players complete process of ratifying new labor deal
- Another centenarian joins club at Lutheran Home in Arlington Heights
- Report: Former lawmaker fired from corrections job after harassing woman at party
- Cleanup of lead-polluted yards begins in Pilsen
- Naperville crime and court roundup
- Despite shelter staying open, challenges remain for Uptown homeless
- Trump adviser wishes mad cow death for Obama, first lady to be ‘let loose’ in Africa
- Letter to the editor: Affordable Care Act shouldn’t be repealed without replacement plan
- MLB: Incremento en el salario de MLB fue el menor desde 2004
- Trump da a conocer “agradable” carta que le envió Putin
- Ask Tom: Is global warming having any effects on the icecap in Antarctica?
- Berlin truck attack suspect fatally shot by police trainee in Italy
- Emails between Emanuel, Tribune’s Dold released in lawsuit settlement
- Echoes of 2016 fight shape race to run the Democratic National Committee
- Trump’s comments on nuclear weapons rattle U.S. officials and foreign leaders
- Open records experts see loopholes in Emanuel’s email lawsuit settlement
- Hornets 103, Bulls 91
- Community briefs
- Naperville police, Texas Roadhouse host Christmas lunch for children, parents
- Obama moves to split cyberwar command, NSA
- Juzgan en EEUU a pastor hispano acusado de agresión sexual
- EEUU advierte sobre posibles ataques a iglesias
- Suspect in road-rage killing of 3-year-old boy said car was too close: affidavit
- Blagojevich seeks presidential commutation of prison term
- Speak Out: The liberal progressives are really about denial, aversion, blame, scare
- Homeless encampment
- Area in store for dreary, mild holiday weekend
- Speak Out: The one huge difference between Eisenhower and Trump
- Trump, GOP leaders appear to have reached a truce
- Carrie Fisher permanece en unidad de cuidados intensivos
- Tanner Kero first call up to see game action for Blackhawks
- Nuevo triple-doble de Westbrook en triunfo ante Celtics
- Durant logra 32 puntos en 31 minutos en triunfo de Warriors
- LO ULTIMO: Trump pregunta cuándo “se defenderá” EEUU
- Body cameras useful, but costly, police in Lake County say
- Englewood thief steals delivery truck filled with packages
- Software engineer who was target of Gamergate harassment now plans run for Congress
- Lawyer joined grass-roots campaign for human rights ordinance
- Orland Park educator honored for her work on autism
- Ataque de tres en la 8va da triunfo a Leones sobre Tiburones
- Obama firma ley de defensa, se opone a mantener Guantánamo
- Casa Blanca desmiente veto a tarjetas navideñas a militares
- Bulls respond to questions after loss to Hornets with questions of their own
- Local roundup: Malik Parker, Chicago Christian boys keep rolling
- Friday’s recap: Avalanche 2, Blackhawks 1 (OT)
- Casino funds cover shortfall, Gary road projects
- Couple details career in Salvation Army
- Leonard anota 33, Spurs se imponen 110-90 a los Blazers
- Irán y 6 potencias revelan documentos sobre acuerdo nuclear
- Avalanche 2, Blackhawks 1 (OT)