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- See a sudden, drastic change in airfare price? Blame ‘dynamic pricing’
- Woodstock man gets 7 years in prison for kidnapping 13-year-old girl
- Christian-owned Hobby Lobby accused of hypocrisy after being fined for role in smuggling case
- Fire’s Bastian Schweinsteiger, Nemanja Nikolic among 11 players voted into MLS All-Star Game
- ‘Next time…Camden Yards will get our money’: Nationals fans look north after silly delay
- Taste of Chicago 2017 guide: Check out menus, maps, performances, more
- Illinois income tax increase calculator: How much will it cost you?
- McConnell hints at shoring up the Affordable Care Act, if GOP health bill fails
- A trillion-ton iceberg the size of Delaware is about to break off Antarctica
- AWEsome transportation options roll out at Children’s Museum
- Go off to see the ‘Wizard’ at Vero Voce
- Ribs and the river highlight Yorkville fest
- R. Kelly strives to make more ‘good, classic music’
- Gary council backs ordinances to create tire recycling facility
- Angelo’s features gourmet burgers, artisanal pizzas
- If Hugh Grant says it, this word must be OK
- Harbor Q puts country, barbecue together at the water
- Diocese partners with Habitat for Humanity for Gary project
- ‘Deferred adolescence’ flirting with middle-aged teenagers
- Parents’ crusade against deadly Batten disease brings hope, heartbreak
- From trust falls to escape rooms: The evolution of corporate team building
- McDonald’s foam cups running over with environmental controversy
- Victorian home near beach: $979,000
- Merrillville wants details on business plans
- Elderly woman with dementia missing from Gage Park
- Man who cops say sold rifle used to shoot 2 cops released on federal weapons charge
- NTSB report: Passengers pressured flight crew to evacuate plane after engine fire at O’Hare last year
- Skokie opts in on county minimum wage hike, but commissioner plans lawsuit for towns that didn’t
- Illinois Lottery resumes selling Mega Millions, Powerball tickets
- Illinois House overrides Rauner vetoes of income tax increase, budget
- First section of separate lakefront bike and pedestrian trails now open
- Morning Spin: Will Republicans who bucked Rauner face primary challenges?
- Creative financing to produce new Elgin homes
- Series preview: Pirates at Cubs
- Series preview: White Sox at Rockies
- Man fatally shot under Green Line station identified
- Public League basketball event addresses city’s violence
- Tim Hardaway Jr. signs $71 million offer sheet to return to Knicks
- Race-by-race picks for Friday’s racing at Laurel Park
- Man fatally shot in Bronzeville identified
- Buffett’s Berkshire to buy Texas power transmitter Oncor for $9 billion
- Pocket-sized Dostoyevsky? Chicago’s latest Kickstarter hit offers classic lit to go
- The best sort of travel reminds us that we’re small
- ‘Gary from Chicago’ has experienced ups and downs since his Oscars cameo
- Millennial women aren’t doing as well as women before them. Why?
- ‘Man v. Food’ filming in Chicago as new season announced
- Una Copa Oro más abierta que nunca
- Photos: Trump at the G-20
- El sabor y sazón de Café Tacvba en el Taste of Chicago
- Lots of kids misdiagnosed as allergic to penicillin: Report
- Prolonged use of heartburn meds may increase risk of early death
- Café Tacvba en el Taste of Chicago
- Former Bull Horace Grant will appear on ‘Celebrity Family Feud’ on Sunday
- Bus service in jeopardy without local support
- Remy Ma is back, and knees are shaking
- La Vida Boheme sigue en ‘La lucha’
- States join fight over EPA chief’s decision not to ban pesticide that can harm children’s brains
- La lotería de Illinois reanuda la venta de Mega Millions y Powerball
- Painkiller maker stops sales at FDA request because of abuse
- Meet the man who’s visited Disneyland 2,000 days in a row
- When men feared ‘a resolute woman with a hatpin in her hand’
- Chicagoan Kori Schulman helped create an online identity for the president — the last one
- Will Cristiano Ronaldo play for Real Madrid vs. the MLS All-Stars?
- For Cubs to break out from weak division, they merely must play as expected
- Companies may end up revealing big pay gaps between their CEOs and workers after all
- Soccer player Messi prison sentence lifted in exchange for fine
- Barrington police cite 11 teenagers for underage drinking after busting party
- Drink This: The spicy, fruity El Diablo is a great summer sip
- Dog racing ‘has a drug problem’ as 12 Florida greyhounds test positive for cocaine
- ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ review: The best Western of 2017
- Contemplan demanda contra quienes no adoptaron el aumento al salario mínimo
- ‘Ronaldinho and friends’ to play exhibition matches in Pakistan
- ‘Rick and Morty’ comes to life at Headquarters Beercade
- Messi is world’s best paid player: Barcelona president
- Antioch man faces gun charges after disturbance at apartment complex
- Former teacher appointed to Valparaiso School Board
- Opioid prescriptions dropped for the first time in the modern drug crisis
- 5 buzzworthy topics people will be talking about this weekend
- NWI meth lab busts sparse amid heroin epidemic, police say
- Filipinos watch in horror as their city is destroyed in fight with Islamic State
- Did Lena Dunham invent story of her ‘abused’ dog Lamby?
- La Grange sketch class
- How to put your financial life back together after defaulting on student loans
- FIFA bans Mexico soccer coach for six games for insulting language
- Young artists create art and explore La Grange
- ‘It was not even flat’: Court conditions under fire at Wimbledon
- Aprueban presupuesto estatal pero a un gran costo para los residentes de Illinois
- El temor a la deportación ahuyenta las denuncias de abuso
- United gives away toddler’s seat — why not market these mistakes?
- Rooney’s Man United future should be settled over weekend
- Indians manager Terry Francona has heart procedure, will miss All-Star game
- Kudos to Special Olympics swimmer, coach as they qualify for nationals
- Cubs raffling off player-grade World Series ring with 214 diamonds
- Drug-laced gummy bears blamed for illnesses in Indiana
- Mexico’s Xolos introduce 8 new players
- Naperville Ale Fest returns with over 100 beers
- Norridge school district releases new fee structure
- México asegura que no se habló del muro con Trump
- Do these 5 things for a stress-free summer adventure
- Jon Jay to Miguel Montero to flying ants: Ranking the curious behavior in sports
- Chicago date idea: Chinese-American Museum then Lao Sze Chuan
- Affordable housing in black neighborhoods can lead to greater racial, income integration: study
- Cubs recall reliever Dylan Floro, send down Jack Leathersich
- Letter: Illinois election officials won’t send voter information sought by Trump-formed panel
- Yoan Moncada still No. 1 on Baseball America’s top 100 prospect list
- Amish farmers square off against Big Organic in milk battle
- Defoe’s ‘best mate’ Bradley Lowery dies
- El mexicano Andrés Guardado llega a Sevilla para firmar por el Betis
- Alyssa Allgood a breath of fresh air among young jazz vocalists
- Nuevo albergue en Humboldt Park dara comodidad a personas sin hogar
- Tunden a Peña Nieto por no responder a Trump por el muro
- Game Day USA
- Germans arrest suspect in Volkswagen case after U.S. charges
- Police: Senator impostor tries to see Ivanka at Trump Tower
- Ruxbin grows up
- Review: Ruxbin grows up with clean-line decor that matches chef Kim’s precise cooking
- La Grange chooses new village manager
- Chicago magician David Parr on ‘Penn & Teller: Fool Us’
- Chicago Executive Airport contemplating future runway extensions
- Skokie fire officials: Construction crew hits gas line leading into a home
- Photos: ‘Hir’ at Steppenwolf Theatre
- Man pleads not guilty to reckless homicide, DUI in fatal Waukegan crash
- Over 120 nations adopt first treaty banning nuclear weapons
- Brad Underwood adds former player to Illini coaching staff
- In neighborhoods affected by crime, youth take back their blocks
- G-20 protests
- Secuestró y abusó sexualmente de una jovencita, será deportado cuando cumpla su sentencia
- The Midwest’s stake in NAFTA
- What Netflix’s ‘To the Bone’ misses about eating disorder recovery
- ‘The Nance’: Love hides behind double-entendres in 1937 New York
- WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
- Shout Out: Joyce Palmquist, executive director of Barrington Area Council on Aging
- Oak Park police investigate robberies of two Chicago Avenue businesses
- U.S. employers add 222K jobs, the most in four months
- Composer Stephen Flaherty surprises Chicago’s ‘Ragtime’
- Berg: Illinoisans are still waiting for independence
- Speak Out: Same people using food pantry are gambling at casino
- Police: 9-year-old boy missing from South Shore has been found
- Letter to the editor
- ‘Bread ladies’ set example at food bank
- Four places we’ll be looking for rap’s hottest new talent, Blue Ivy, next weekend
- 9-year-old Park Ridge fencer set to compete in Pan Am Youth Games
- Teacher Feature: Credit divine inspiration for giving this teacher her calling
- Federal Reserve tells Congress further rate hikes on the way
- Braves announcers unload on Nationals for ‘pitiful,’ ’embarrassing’ rain delay
- Bringing more federal agents to Chicago won’t end the violence
- Trump raised election meddling with Putin, who denied Russian involvement, Tillerson says
- Libertyville grad Evan Skoug ‘thankful’ to sign with White Sox
- WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
- Sears, Kmart closing 43 more stores
- Two Northbrook police leaders retire
- Illinois’ budget isn’t an end — it’s a beginning
- One reason the GOP health bill is such a mess: They didn’t think Trump would win
- Lake County antique tractor show salutes history of farming equipment
- East Chicago youth nurture garden, community
- My daughter was in the ICU, on a ventilator, facing death. Nothing shakes a parent like that.
- The city should move the Taste of Chicago somewhere else
- Oak Park police talk with residents about community policing
- Latinx college grads key to U.S. economic growth
- Shout Out: Evanston chef Brian Huston, owner of Boltwood restaurant
- A humbling moment at Chicago’s Warrior Games
- Down to Business: Writing firm helps shape message a business wants to send
- Why the next iPhone may ditch its fingerprint reader, and other rumors
- Donald Trump gives me hope for the future
- Two sons help their father keep his dream of a neighborhood gym alive
- All Set for #LosDellsFest
- Students work on literacy during summer Lit Camp at Arlington Heights School District 25
- BRUJOS, an unprecedented queer-of-color web series
- Trump’s policies will leave Americans with less and less
- Facing down the North Korean threat
- Oakton employee, former student volunteering in Habitat for Humanity Canada project
- St. Joseph parish in Elgin halfway to funding new church building
- Behind-the-scenes opportunities at Chicago museums
- Directors’ choice: Museum heads pick their favorite objects
- Take some history home from the Field Museum
- If these museum objects could talk, what a tale they would tell
- Thousands of treasures lie in wait at the Field Museum
- Chicago artists share their great objects
- Benefit raises $26,000 for Warming House
- Week in review: Budget battle ends in tax hike, suspect talks of ‘ideal victim,’ United takes a seat again
- Lake Bluff native Tyler Esplin takes alternate route to pro baseball
- San Jose player out of coma after swimming drama
- Will County heroin epidemic getting worse
- A weekend of fireworks and carnival rides at Mundelein Community Days
- Free ice cream courtesy of the Museum of Science and Industry
- Greenpeace banner flies from Trump Tower
- Waukegan’s revived summer school includes kindergarten prep for preschoolers
- St. Charles motorcyclist charged after video uploaded to YouTube
- Islamic State attack underscores fragility of Iraqi security forces
- Whole Foods’ 365 store in Evergreen Park delayed, concept’s future unclear
- Mundelein Days 2017
- Readers Respond
- Lawsuit accuses Atlanta Hawks of racist practices with performers at Philips Arena
- Contrite former Peterson attorney Brodsky apologizes for ‘going too far’
- Libertyville approves outdoor hockey rink reconstruction
- John Podesta op-ed: Why is Donald Trump tweeting about me?
- Ayad Akhtar, Calamity West in Steep Theatre’s 2017-18 season
- Hard Rock data breach affects 11 hotels, including Chicago
- 3 arrested, $20,000 in cocaine seized in raid by Round Lake Park police
- Illinois’ budget deal is a win-win for Rauner
- Trump says Mexico will “absolutely” pay for the wall, Mexican President Peña Nieto says nothing
- Accused mother smiles, gives thumbs up in court for fatal stabbings of husband, 4 kids
- Cadaver program at Indiana University Northwest teaches empathy, medicine
- Mixed reaction in Naperville to state’s first budget in 2 years
- 2 hospitalized after ammonia leak causes explosion at Elk Grove food plant: officials
- One politician’s answer to opioid overdosers: Let ’em die
- Roadwork begins in downtown Hinsdale; free valet offered Saturdays
- Man yelled at rescuers, got in the way after Fox River boat crash, police say
- Trump, meeting with Mexican president, again insists Mexico will pay for the wall
- Emanuel Provides Public Art Funding to All 50 Wards
- Clarendon Hills condos selling, apartment development continues
- Inspired by her strength, Chicago Latina artisans plan an all-Frida showcase
- Woman who was arrested after lockdown at Illinois Capitol has been released
- High rent pushes out Lake Forest McDonald’s, bank could take its place
- Anthony ‘Spice’ Adams, Bears pepper life lessons, humor to kids at Play 60 event
- Man killed helping motorist in South Barrington remembered for generosity as Stevenson coach
- Red picnic checkered farm kitchen curtains a family tradition
- QUOTABLES
- Venus Williams ‘lawfully entered intersection’ at scene of fatal crash, police say
- Community calendar
- Officials focus on safety measures after Chesterton church pool drowning
- Aurora-area schools, agencies: State budget just a start, work remains
- Leave concealed carry laws to the states
- Cubs 6, Pirates 1
- After lead test, Evanston water fountains should be flowing again soon
- Shout Out: Steve Adler, emergency volunteer
- FBI probed complaints that Bobby Knight groped women at U.S. spy agency
- Benefit raises $26,000 for Wilmette Warming House
- Program helps people with disabilities learn to ride a bike
- Schneider says Congress should be focused on Affordable Care Act fixes, not repeal
- Corrections and clarifications
- CTU member claims she was fired in retaliation over activism
- U.S., Russia announce Syria cease-fire after Trump-Putin talks
- Wall Street agency warns of further city debt downgrade
- For some baseball players on roster bubble, it’s like they live in a revolving door
- Naperville Park District holding men’s, women’s and youth golf tourneys
- Howard L. Sandlund, former District 214 principal, administrator, dies at 88
- 1 questioned after shots fired on the Ryan
- Sabotaging Illinois: Legislators’ tax-hike budget won’t stanch the exodus of jobs and people
- Lincolnshire’s T.J. Zizzo looking for a takeoff at NHRA Route 66 Nationals
- Podesta calls Trump ‘our whack job’ president in response to error-filled tweet
- Lawsuit: Joliet man had fatal heart attack from stress after wrongful arrest
- Islamic State claims attack in Egypt’s Sinai that killed 23 soldiers
- Aurora waits for official word on headbanging record
- Ex-Guantanamo inmate gets apology, millions from Canada
- Paul McCartney Sweepstakes
- Goodbye to the gas pedal
- Local roundup: Emanuel Dildy joins Valparaiso men’s basketball staff
- Talk of the County
- Aurora City Council approves 3 liquor license changes
- FBI: Flight attendant broke wine bottle over unruly man’s head on flight from Seattle
- 6 youths nabbed after fleeing from alleged stolen car in Naperville
- At G-20, world aligns against Trump policies ranging from free trade to climate change
- Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo turn on power for 6-1 Cubs victory over Pirates
- North Korea: The Rubicon is crossed
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Saturday, July 8
- Kris Bryant calls missing All-Star Game a ‘win-win’
- Trial postponed in Aurora shooting as suspect considers deal
- Elgin agencies welcome first state budget in 2 years
- David Robertson ‘more at ease’ with trade rumors after birth of daughter
- Fire getting contributions from entire roster to keep unbeaten streak going
- North Aurora robbery suspect faces return to prison
- Charges dismissed against Chicago man accused of sexual assault at Illinois State orientation
- Heroin death suspect to represent himself
- Judge asked to reconsider bond for man who allegedly sold rifle used in cop shooting
- Paul Ryan meets with Foxconn as it considers building plant in Wisconsin
- Waukegan approves deficit budget with some changes to lower costs
- Man claiming to have bomb in suburban Atlanta bank dies after police standoff
- White Sox prospect Luis Robert suffers meniscus injury during steal attempt
- Tuberculosis remains ‘silent challenge’ in Kane, Kendall counties
- ASK TOM: Why do temperatures keep falling after the winter solstice?
- Appeals court declines to weigh in on Trump travel ban rules
- Aurora OKs car allowance, expands transportation options for mayor
- Aurora man gets prison for choking girlfriend in St. Charles
- Davies double as Canada down French Guiana at Gold Cup
- Rockies 12, White Sox 4
- 40 local museum treasures worth your time
- Chicago police seek to fire sergeant for old allegations that fell through cracks
- Veteran Lake County cop makes court appearance on rape charges
- Chicago to see cooler, less humid Saturday before heat returns
- St. Laurence’s Kyle Wood floored by being named Frontier League All-Star
- GOP plans urgent health care push before August recess and Ted Cruz may be the key
- Tax hike shakes up dynamics in 2018 Illinois governor race
- Conservative writer Milo Yiannopoulos sues over canceled book
- Serbian baseball national team loses to Oilmen but enjoys the experience
- Officials to discuss renovation plans for Homewood train station
- Sky owner battling odds trying to develop successful WNBA model
- Speak Out
- Trump calls for dismissal of ‘Apprentice’ contestant’s defamation lawsuit
- 2 killed in North Chicago crash between SUV and semi
- Security forces call in reinforcements as clashes erupt during opening of G-20 summit
- Region legacy in my immigrant grandmother’s life
- Escaped South Carolina inmate may have used wire cutters delivered by drone