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- Hundreds carry lit candles across U.Va. campus against white nationalism
- Cubs 7, Reds 6
- Trump’s lawyer jumps into racial controversy by forwarding inflammatory email
- John Lackey’s eventful night ends in no-decision as Cubs blow lead, rally for 7-6 win over Reds
- Infographic: Prenatal yoga exercises help expectant mothers
- 117 years of eclipses: How Chicago Tribune artists have explained it
- Silicon Valley escalates its war on white supremacy despite free speech concerns
- National Park Service ends ban on disposable water bottles
- Dodgers 5, White Sox 4
- Carlos Rodon building confidence in quest to be elite White Sox starter
- White Sox team of closers can’t complete job as Dodgers seize 5-4, walk-off victory
- Lubeznik offers more art at annual fest
- DNA testing reveals family secret
- Coming to Rialto, proof that ghosts exist?
- Approachable sushi restaurant opens in Naperville
- 12 shows to see now
- ‘In This Corner of the World’ review: Animated tale about life before the bomb
- Five things to do in Lake County Aug. 18-20
- See wolves up close at Big Run open house
- Morning Spin: Democrats’ turn at the State Fair: Will Jesse White run again?
- Then and now: Chicago’s lost sports venues
- Adler CEO hopes Chicagoans look up at eclipse — then to planetarium to learn more
- Steve Bannon says there’s no military solution in North Korea
- Trump’s isolation grows in the wake of Charlottesville
- Former U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon to open Chicago office of Atlanta law firm
- Eclipse turns from foreboding to celebratory phenomenon with romance, spectacle
- Executive, escort indicted as part of $5.8 million scheme
- Lawmakers decry ‘racist’ cartoon published by policy group with Rauner ties
- After cruising in 2016, Cubs can benefit from tight division race down stretch
- ‘Call your mayor’: Sessions tries to blame Chicago’s crime on sanctuary city policy
- Confederate monument stands on Chicago’s South Side as questions swirl around the country
- Malala Yousafzai gets in to Oxford
- Photo gallery: Lawndale house fire
- Urban Crosta sets sights on late-August opening in former Robert’s Pizza space
- John Lackey collects a career milestone with first stolen base
- Consecutive first-pitch leadoff home runs make White Sox history
- Red Sox ceremonial first pitch goes wild, hits photographer in worst possible area
- Sorry for the inconvenience fans, but black athlete activism is multiplying
- Big Ten: 10 conference games to circle
- Business execs shunned Trump panels before he disbanded them
- Prickly City- confession
- Consejos para tomar las mejores fotos del Gran Eclipse Estadounidense
- 58 dead in 3 days in renewed anti-drug crackdown in Philippines
- Bonnie Tyler to sing ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ hit during eclipse
- Don’t look now, but Cubs starter John Lackey is making his own playoff push
- The ‘business president’ couldn’t even keep CEOs on his side
- Anti-Muslim Australian senator wears a burqa in Parliament
- ‘Logan Lucky’: Channing Tatum, Daniel Craig cut a caper
- Chicago festivals this weekend: Aug. 17-20
- Best Chicago happy hour deals: Aug. 17-23
- 5 things to do in Chicago this weekend
- Boy, 16, shot dead while playing basketball on Far South Side: ‘This kid was a good kid’
- Owner fights landmark push for old Nichols Library; says ‘property rights’ being violated
- ‘Herd immunity’ may be curbing U.S. Zika numbers
- Antidepressant use jumps 65 percent in 15 years
- State looks to approve new affordable housing in Lake County
- Charlottesville rattles the Trump presidency. This one hurts.
- Safari West: A free-range zoo adventure in California
- Online sales, solid store traffic gives Walmart 2Q boost
- 8 reasons to visit Sarasota, starting with the circus
- 8 reasons to visit Sarasota, starting with the circus
- Police: ‘Inconsistencies’ in man’s claims that 3 people he killed were intruders
- Luis Suarez out at least a month, says AUF
- Court upholds $80,000 fine against B&B over refusal of same-sex civil union ceremony
- Indiana University Northwest’s new Arts and Sciences building
- The unlikely reason Americans are shopping at Target again
- U.S. soldier killed, others wounded fighting Islamic State in Afghanistan
- Mitch Trubisky’s preseason debut
- Mbappe left out of Monaco squad
- I’m a teacher in Charlottesville. This is how I’ll talk to students about what happened.
- As Walmart snaps up trendy e-commerce sites, it risks alienating the cool kids
- Luis Suárez cae lesionado y estará al menos un mes de baja
- Plainfield native Melissa McCarthy lands No. 4 spot on Forbes actress list
- Rockit Ranch Productions’ Brad Young buys Winnetka mansion for $4.4 million
- 1 found dead in Lawndale fire: ‘I looked up and I saw flames coming in from next door’
- Paulinho: ‘En China he recuperado la confianza en mi fútbol’
- Column: North Korea missile threats – and Cold War lessons
- Allison Moorer and Shelby Lynne collaborate on an album, finally
- Butterfly garden and golf? 9 airports with insane amenities
- Money conversations to have with your first-year college kid
- Shout Out: Lynn Minuskin, a supervisor at Arlington Heights Park District
- Trump ataca a los senadores republicanos que criticaron su tibieza contra el racismo
- ‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’ review: Assassin meets boy scout; corpses ensue
- 3rd Australian government minister could be fired over dual citizenship
- Bannon contradice a Trump sobre Pyongyang y llama ‘payasos’ a racistas
- ‘Good Time’ review: The crook (a thief), his life and his brother
- How old is too old for an MBA? Depends what you want.
- 5 things to eat, drink, do this weekend
- ‘Ingrid Goes West’ review: Aubrey Plaza embodies true horror story for our digital times
- Watch the eclipse, but do it safely
- Chicago-area woman convicted of lying about terrorist bombings to get final court hearing
- Enjoy Japanese arts, music at a Garden Summer Festival
- Calendar
- Charlottesville reabre el debate sobre la simbología confederada
- ABC7’s Rob Elgas sells West Town condo for $343K
- Maine Gov. LePage: Removing Confederate statues like losing 9/11 memorial
- Romantic trouble on the table in ‘Honeymoon in Vegas’
- At Zanies, a still hysterical Emo Philips shows why he’s Emo Philips
- After July ‘miracle,’ Pope Francis reportedly moves Roberto Clemente closer to sainthood
- Confirman 12 muertos en ‘ataque terrorista’ de Barcelona
- Schneider addresses anti-Semitism, Middle East policy at Deerfield event
- No U.S. strike on North Korea without South Korea’s approval, Moon says
- Barcelona Las Ramblas attack
- Free online workouts
- Park West condo
- Trump needs to fire Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner
- Lincoln Park co-op once owned by former Harpo Studios president sells for $4.6M
- ‘Trevor’ a promising musical about a kid who’s easy to love
- Commissioners weigh offers for county land in Crown Point
- Monumento a confederados de pie en Chicago, a pesar de la controversia racial
- 5 fabulous deck fix-ups
- Clean clothes lead to success at school (Infographic)
- It takes a village: Integrated care team gives hope back to dialysis patient
- Bonci pizzeria opens in West Loop, bringing Roman al taglio style to Chicago
- Barcelona acknowledges interest in Coutinho and Dembele
- Taming a Hellcat at track safety school
- Admin assistants seek higher pay in Dist. 113
- Police identify man found dead outside of Buffalo Grove apartment complex
- Paris attacks suspect Abdeslam also to face trial in Belgium
- Sheriff: Man revived after suffering overdose in Lake County Circuit Court
- Enlisting young adult fiction in the battle against racism
- Shout Out: Chirag Goel and Justin Bank, young scientists
- Enter the Scott Stantis cartoon caption contest
- OPINIÓN/Real Madrid, una copa más con el Barca atravesado
- Man charged with dumping loaded gun into trash can at Cook County Jail
- Winner: “Please, give these guys a fidget spinner!” – Arlene Englander, Chicago
- Vehicle involved in Highland Park accident was stolen: Police
- Un sueño hecho realidad para los Bears y Trubisky
- Fundraising campaign underway to modernize Barrington High School library
- Spanish League Preview: Real Madrid starts title defense way ahead of Barcelona
- Ozzie Guillen confused by Jerry Reinsdorf’s ‘burned bridges’ comment
- The Michelin Guide introduces a new designation – but it’s no big prize
- BUNDESLIGA 2017-18: Bayern eyes record 6th straight title
- Facebook shut down anonymous employee group after Trump was elected, report says
- Putting pressure on Mitch Trubisky key to Bears’ development
- ‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’, un divertido escape de acción
- Narrow basements and collisions with dancers in ‘The Remains’ at Defibrillator
- West Ham confirms stay of Argentinian Lanzini
- Shout out: Tom Burdin, electrician, model train enthusiast
- If you still support Donald Trump
- Así tiraron una pistola cargada en la basura de la cárcel del Condado de Cook
- 25 kitchen gadgets that you probably don’t need – but might want anyway
- Column: Seeing a miracle thanks to technology
- Boys soccer preview: Central Suburban North
- Girls volleyball preview: Central Suburban North
- Italian Season Preview: AC Milan and Napoli likeliest challengers to Juve’s crown
- The best way to drink whiskey, according to science
- Photos: Yale residence colleges
- Incoming CNO Financial CEO buys Lincoln Park mansion for $4.2 million
- A couple of Safdies out for a ‘Good Time’
- Finding your niche can ease first-year jitters
- White nationalists already lost
- Community news
- Column: Symbols of hate have no place in public venues
- Kindergarten Preview Day aims to ease fears of kids and parents alike
- New Yale residential colleges: A strong sense of place, dimmed by excess
- Western Springs to go on record against beverage tax
- Toughness defines Ohio State: ‘Don’t wear your high heels here’
- Column: Former Illinois lawmakers powered by energy interests
- Mansion on Mohawk
- Udonis Haslem on Dwyane Wade buyout speculation and a Heat reunion: ‘We’d love to have you’
- En imágenes, el ‘ataque terrorista’ cometido en Barcelona
- Stevenson hires alumna Heather Ruchim as varsity softball coach
- Cash family: Keep Johnny’s name away from ‘hateful ideology’
- El heraldo de la cantera de Pumas
- Flies in plane for first time
- Magic garden: A tiny, moss-filled pleasure dome for your desk
- Shania Twain is bringing her ‘Now’ tour to United Center
- ‘Hard work’ behind Gov. Rauner’s 20-pound weight loss
- Are drug firms paying your doctor? Illinois doctors accepted $74.1M in industry payments last year
- Column: Taking stock of life and columns as summer days start to wane
- CTA launches program to reduce crowding on Cubs game nights
- México: Campeón Chivas va por su primer triunfo
- Man arrested after girl, 10, fondled at a Northwest Side Walmart
- The meaning behind Chicago’s Confederate monument
- Las cifras de récord de Zidane: 90 partidos y siete títulos
- Texas vice principal removed for writing children’s book with supremacist symbol
- Michael Bennett’s words, actions on anthem protest too important to ignore
- Recommended Chicago-area classical concerts
- En la escena de un tiroteo, una madre agradece a Dios que su hijo esté en la cárcel
- WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
- Keep Confederate monuments — but put them in context
- Gurnee seeks removal from national hate group map
- No-kill animal shelter at capacity, asking for foster homes
- My family served in WWII. Trump dishonors their legacy.
- Anonymous publishes GOP legislators’ private numbers in bid to push for Trump’s impeachment
- Man shot while sitting in parked car in Aurora released from hospital
- Laid-off Lake Station teachers land new jobs
- El Real Madrid comienza pletórico la defensa del título de LaLiga
- Naperville People in the News
- U.S. history teachers, this is your moment to shine
- ‘Panic not something we should embrace’: Keeping cool heads amid new nuke fears
- Man dies month after beating in South Loop
- Wheeling school district begins search for new superintendent
- Argo High School outdoor event eclipsed by faulty glasses ordered from Amazon
- Girl, 14, went missing more than a week ago in the West Woodlawn neighborhood
- PAWS Chicago’s Medical Center
- Illinois’ unemployment rate up slightly in July
- Ready, set, no pants: Underwear Run added to this year’s Chicago Triathlon
- European soccer weekend: What to watch in the main leagues
- Chef’s Choice: ‘Being Italian, food is love and love is food,’ local chef says
- Kiwanis golfers help support youth groups
- Vernon Hills junior Lia Pelech earns medals in Maccabiah fencing
- Football notes: New season marks last conference hurrah for some area teams
- Viking warship replica in Geneva open for tours
- Doctors treat Indiana toddler with Narcan after opiate overdose
- Horchata frozen yogurt meets Gansito, the Mexican cream-stuffed snack cake
- What’s the best mustard for a hot dog?
- Oribe Peralta: ‘Si quisiera títulos individuales hubiera jugado tenis o golf’
- Democratic governor candidates say Rauner too late in criticizing Trump
- One way short of bankruptcy to stabilize Chicago’s schools
- Column: The frightening last gasps of a movement based on hate
- Encouraging entrepreneurs with new PNW Co-Working Space
- Reds 13, Cubs 10
- Column: Will white people now be profiled, just like the rest of us?
- What’s the best hot dog mustard? We taste test 12 brands
- Libertyville considers offering sewer replacement grants
- Cook County: Soda tax no longer runs afoul of food stamp rules
- Defensive back Ishaun Walker wants to make a difference for North Chicago
- Lincolnshire under boil water advisory, forcing Stevenson to cancel classes
- 100 pack hearing on Campana affordable housing proposal, offer split opinions
- After criticism, DeVos condemns Charlottesville violence in letter to staff
- Raymond Fleischman, worked in lighting and set design, dies at 90
- Michael Oakes looks to provide muscle on offensive line for Bartlett
- Team USA’s Tianna Bartoletta medals at worlds despite being homeless for three months
- Speak Out
- Imperial Motors Jaguar dealership closes Wilmette location
- Evanston violated Open Meetings Act with June council session on minimum wage, attorney general says
- Triton touts cybersecurity program as ‘tremendous opportunity’
- Old Naperville Day block party this Sunday
- Zook home in Hinsdale at stake in property subdivision proposal
- St. Charles woman punched her boyfriend in the head and hit him with her car, court records say
- Shout Out: Keith Koonin, solar eclipse fan
- Democrats forced to make their own fun after state fair rally cancellation
- Aurora identity theft suspect denies stealing friend’s identity to buy commercial lawnmower
- Northbrook commissioners plan to recommend against assisted living center
- Harvard recruit Derric Lee showed character playing hurt for Waubonsie
- Hundreds of volunteers spruce up Whittier Elementary ahead of school year
- NSAL opening party for Member’s Show, ‘Art in Bloom’
- Man released from jail after allegedly driving with BAC 4 times the legal limit
- Oak Park, River Forest park districts working with OPRF on proposed community rec center
- Republican Sen. Corker says Trump hasn’t shown stability, competence
- Letter: Don’t expose potential trafficking victims
- Secretary of State Jesse White says he’ll run for record sixth term
- Shout Out: Meghan Meredith, Heller naturalist
- Glenview gives initial approval to revised Culver’s plan
- Naperville to license taxi companies instead of individual drivers
- West Suburban Local Scoreboard for Friday, Aug. 18
- Shout Out: Aaron Frankel, Beth Hillel Bnai Emunah education director
- Suspicious item at Route 59 Metra station turns out to be cooler bag
- Dating site OkCupid kicks out white supremacist: ‘There is no room for hate’
- Why do white supremacists hate Jews? Because we can fight them.
- Neuqua Valley grad Patrick Doody stands out in extra duty for Chicago Fire
- Quickly
- Column: Lipinski says record shows his support for birth control funds
- Countdown to Football: Jaleel Holloway, Crete-Monee ranked No. 7 in preseason
- Ford settles sexual, racial harassment claims at Chicago plants for $10 million
- Aurora churches combining forces on community outreach initiative
- Prosecutors: Woman accused of murder called 911 after shooting boyfriend last summer
- How do we keep traffic moving — even after a tragedy?
- Balmoral hosts prestigious horse-jumping competition
- Column: Portage family, friends mourn newlyweds killed in car crash in France
- Baranek: Sandburg grad Sarah Herold leaves lasting impression for Team USA
- Fire GM Nelson Rodriguez focused on present with club in slump
- In Day 9 of trial, Lake County Sheriff Buncich takes stand, denies wrongdoing in corruption case
- Law inspired by Park Ridge case aims to prevent lawsuits against those who comment at zoning hearings
- Tillerson, Mattis say Bannon wrong on North Korea: U.S. ‘prepared militarily’
- How serious are structural issues at Moser Tower? Testing to find out starts this fall
- Eating the zoo creatures in Venezuela
- Kris Bryant gets ‘engaged’ again — not that his wife minds
- Fox Valley Park Board approves new park, renovated playground
- Emanuel pushes back at Sessions in podcast with longtime ally Axelrod
- Pilsen Fest celebrates solidarity and local artists
- Eclipse offers rare opportunity to study sun, atmosphere, animals
- Spacewalking cosmonauts release 3-D-printed satellite
- Trump actually did something good this week
- Countdown to Football: Jaeger Gill, Lowell ranked No. 1 in the preseason
- Corrections and clarifications
- Girls cross country preview: Julia Arnold gets pumped up for Valparaiso
- Aurora mayor starts 2 new volunteer initiatives
- Yestival set for Saturday at Elgin’s Festival Park
- The solar eclipse in southern Illinois
- Walsh cites collaboration as key to Will County’s successes
- Trump’s chief economic adviser Gary Cohn staying, White House says
- Suspended Lake County cop accused in rape case pleads ‘not liable’ to disciplinary charges
- Elgin police begin work on homeless aid network
- Former President Obama to speak at Economic Club of Chicago in December
- Tinley Park denies racism in handling of low-income apartment plans
- Shout Out: Robin Tucker, retired ETHS teacher
- Senior officer on USS Fitzgerald to be relieved of command after fatal collision
- Red Sox owner John Henry seeks to rename Yawkey Way
- Others will have to provide the leadership Trump has not
- Sources: Feds made recordings at Cinespace Chicago studios in probe of Teamsters boss
- Two charged with hiding death of woman found last month in Kankakee River
- Ask Tom: Is there ‘warm’ air at high altitudes?
- Gov. Holcomb pitches job training plan at Gary groundbreaking
- Officials: Man, 32, shot on West Side Tuesday dies
- Michigan man in 1995 ‘Jenny Jones Show’ murder case to be released from prison
- Cubs manager Joe Maddon expects MLB discipline for his outburst against umpire
- Cubs manager Joe Maddon expects MLB discipline for his outburst against umpire
- Carpentersville fire battalion chief’s death caused by bee stings
- 2 killed, 9 injured in city shootings
- Glencoe library issues warning for solar eclipse glasses it distributed
- Eight are charged in toppling of North Carolina statue as scores line up to confess
- Yorkville doctor accused of sexually assaulting more than a dozen patients set for second trial
- Horse-friendly subdivision off the table for Merrillville
- Bill Weick remembered as coaching icon at Mount Carmel, Brother Rice
- Pence compares Trump to Teddy Roosevelt, praises his ‘can-do spirit’
- Speak Out: Elgin did great job picking up branches after storm
- Complaints persuade Crown Point to revoke solicitor’s permit
- Bears practice at Prospect High School
- Under fire — from GOP — Trump defends ‘beautiful’ Confederate monuments
- 6-year-old killed in crash involving Gary school bus; alcohol a factor, police say
- Rangers 9, White Sox 8
- Starbucks chairman questions country’s ‘moral fiber’
- Warm, humid air to return over weekend
- Lake County News-Sun Local Scoreboard for Thursday, Aug. 18
- Daily Southtown Local Scoreboard for Friday, Aug. 18
- Friday night games well past due for Cubs at Wrigley Field
- Arkansas to resume executions after getting new supply of lethal drug
- Before seeking ‘revenge,’ Derek Holland catches up with ex-teammates, pets in Texas
- Cubs starter Jon Lester likely to go on disabled list
- For Jewish Americans, echoes of the Holocaust and anger over Trump’s response to Charlottesville
- Undrafted Jake Matthys a diamond in the rough as pitcher for RailCats
- John Fox reiterates Bears’ QB order won’t change for second preseason game
- Trinity Christian grad Zack Jones beginning to catch on with ThunderBolts
- Despair is not an option.
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Friday, Aug. 18
- Policía mata a cinco sospechosos de nuevo ataque en Cambrils
- Charity fundraisers canceled at Mar-a-Lago after Trump’s Charlottesville remarks
- Glenwood man charged in murder of wife and son, police say
- Crazy day, wild week and more madness on the way for unpredictable Cubs
- Scott Stantis cartoon caption contest winner and extras
- Police search for gunman in CTA subway