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- Get a free bottle of McDonald’s Big Mac Special Sauce on Thursday
- Dwyane Wade and Jimmy Butler blast teammates’ commitment after loss
- Illinois snaps three-game losing streak with 76-64 victory over Iowa
- Trump’s tweet sends law enforcement scrambling to figure out its meaning
- Students at Skokie’s Lubavitch day school prepare for new Torah
- Upsets continue as Georgia Tech stuns lackluster No. 6 Florida State
- Income Tax is the total package in Edgewater, hospitality and cocktails included
- The private school advantage
- Private school listings
- School news
- Kids and sleep
- FREEkin WKND OFFICIAL RULES RETRO SKI LODGE BLOCK PARTY
- School directory
- Homework help: Creating a helpful homework atmosphere for your children
- Student exchange programs offer cultural diversity
- How art benefits young brains
- 13 food and drink festivals to heat things up this winter
- Trump vs. sanctuary cities: What you need to know
- 5 Chicago comedy shows to see this week
- Pegasus World Cup aims to ‘elevate’ horse racing with record $12-million race at Gulfstream Park
- Gala raises $213,000 for Chicago Loop Alliance
- Seventh annual ‘Pizza Wars’ draws big crowd, to be the last one
- Man messes up thanking gender transitioning clerk
- Service Club raises $45,000 at Holiday Luncheon
- Mitch Lewis does it all for No. 18 Naperville North
- Grace Loberg shines at second sport for No. 10 Geneva
- Police investigate death in Loop
- Morning Spin: Downtown Chicago alderman wants street performers to turn it down
- Glencoe home with loft: $1.08M
- Amazon’s Alexa can teach you something new via an app from Curiosity
- Free guac and chips at Chipotle
- ‘Toni Erdmann’ review: Gloriously unpredictable father-daughter comedy
- 4 plays to see right now: What ‘Temperamentals,’ ‘Blues’ and a math story have in common
- ‘Gold’ review: McConaughey glitters in his most extreme character work yet
- Chicago cat suffered with 5 pounds of matted fur; now he’s an internet star
- After Trump order, final Dakota Access pipeline protesters must now decide: Stay or go?
- Dwyane Wade, Jimmy Butler rip teammates, who then take to Twitter
- Serena and Venus both win to set up All-Williams final at Australian Open
- Thursday’s matchup: Jets at Blackhawks
- Vintage: Chicago celebrates Lunar New Year
- Shorter school year an option as CPS faces filling budget gap
- Doomsday Clock moved closer to ‘midnight’ since Trump started talking about nuclear weapons
- Racist, threatening graffiti found on Beverly garage
- Oprah Winfrey to sell refrigerated meals through Kraft Heinz
- Actor Shia LaBeouf arrested outside New York City museum during anti-Trump protest
- U.S. unemployment claims tick up to 259,000, but remain low
- The wall, deportations, sanctuary cities: What Trump’s orders mean, and what they don’t
- Bloomingdale officer killed in crash is remembered for compassion, ‘million-dollar smile’
- Seven shot, including 12-year-old boy, at memorial for slain woman on South Side
- Trump’s Labor pick said in 2016 that ‘you don’t build roads and bridges to create jobs’
- Prickly City- What did they hack?
- Freshman point guard Te’Jon Lucas provides spark for Illinois
- Shkreli wins access to law firm records to defend himself
- ‘Riverdale’ review: This isn’t the Archie you grew up with
- West Lake line development meetings set
- In Colombia, gourmet meals worth going to jail for
- Trump tweet, immigration order show how president will govern
- Bear Down Barbecue always smoking, even when a certain team isn’t
- Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood calls himself ‘cynical pragmatic optimist’
- What a pumping room should look like for nursing mothers, and why
- ‘Evolution’ review: Polished, perverse fable about childbearing and womanhood
- A fit-again Roger Federer is back in an Australian Open final
- Trampoline park offers dodgeball, volleyball and basketball
- The Rapper Chicks know it’s all about that base
- ‘Antarctica: Ice and Sky’ review: Documentary more like ‘March of the Glaciologist’
- Margaret Glaspy is coming off a very, very good year
- Sky Zone Elmhurst
- DuPage Medical Group CEO on growth: ‘The sky’s the limit’
- Cyr: Some good news for the new year — and beyond
- McDonald’s ‘vendor village’ gets city OK despite neighborhood backlash
- Burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese achieves a greatness of her own
- Shout Out: Melvin Turner, sports fan
- Recommended Chicago-area classical concerts
- Late-night TV hosts mock Trump for his Chicago violence tweet
- ‘The Ardennes’ review: Troubled brothers’ reunion turns too violent
- Bank robbed in West Loop on Thursday morning
- The Superhost: An easy way to simplify your Airbnb search
- Bulls: Shut ’em up and blow it up
- Who needs stress? We all do. Here’s why
- ‘A Dog’s Purpose’ review: A dog’s life, again and again and again
- With the election of Trump, the world turned upside down
- Sales of new homes at 10-month low as mortgage rates jump
- Trump called the government’s job numbers ‘phony.’ What happens now that he’s in charge of them?
- Caterpillar forecasts fall short as demand slump persists
- New weed sellers want you to swap chamomile for cannabis
- Shout Out: Elizabeth Maring, founder and director of nonprofit Community Threads thrift shop
- Bok Tower rings in concerts with long-lost works
- Full 2017 Doomsday Clock Statement
- Villa Park woman accused of stealing more than $250,000 from uncle with dementia
- Arlington Heights librarians take on fake news
- Bears Q&A: Jay Cutler trade scenarios, safety at No. 3, tag for Alshon Jeffery & more
- ‘Night of Love & Laughter’ helps Simiyu House
- Your favorite TV show probably owes a debt to Mary Tyler Moore
- Emanuel should have said ‘thank you’ to Trump
- Broadcaster Tommy Smyth leaving ESPN after 25 years
- Soldier Field to host 2017 MLS All-Star Game: report
- ‘Putnam County Spelling Bee’ taps universal hopes, dreams
- Queen and Adam Lambert to play United Center on summer tour
- Evanston early voting starts Feb. 13 for primary election
- Doomsday Clock moves 30 seconds closer to midnight, naming Trump high among world threats
- Jiobit raises $3 million to make a new kid-tracking wearable
- Shark photo-bombs Australian surfer riding wave
- Dads, daughters will be stars at Arlington Heights ball
- Family movie day features crafts and popcorn too
- Water main break
- Wilmette Park District troupe stages ‘Lion King Kids’
- Ball celebrates dads and their favorite princesses
- Cool outdoor fun at Oak Park Winter Fest
- Dads, daughters can share a night of ’80s fun
- Deeply Rooted Dance shows the many types of love
- Heart of the Home: You don’t have to spend a small fortune to snazzy things up
- Ex-bodyguard to El Chapo’s son extradited to Chicago to face drug charges
- 2 join the cast of Chicago-set drama ‘The Chi’
- Universal set for Celebration of Harry Potter
- Man in custody after bank robberies in Des Plaines, Schaumburg
- FitzGerald’s serves up taste of Door County with fish boil
- Willowbrook-area man pleads guilty to strangling girlfriend in their home
- New weed sellers want you to swap chamomile for cannabis
- 3 cheers for Roxane Gay’s gutsy book pull: ‘We’re not going to normalize racism’
- Enjoy your life again: Fix your hearing
- Over 50? You’re at Increased Risk for Shingles
- Glenview library cuts 10 jobs to avoid village tax increase
- Evanston high school superintendent comments on students’ walkout, protest
- Gold Coast condo
- Cubs’ Matt Szczur shows off his artistic side
- Former General Growth exec lists Gold Coast condo for $8 million
- Lake Forest Symphony warms up for Hot Jazz gala
- Sky respond to Elena Delle Donne trade reports
- Irvine Welsh
- Woodridge home once occupied by ex-Benet, Wisconsin star Frank Kaminksy sells for $540,000
- Column: Actions speak louder than words when it comes to supporting the military
- Column: Barrington Greenway Initiative welcomes volunteers
- Community calendar
- Shout Out: Sgt. Kevin Eckenstahler, law enforcement award recipient
- Enter the Scott Stantis cartoon caption contest
- Report highlights school funding gaps between rich and poor districts
- 70 Naperville merchants ace test of city’s new tobacco sale law
- ‘Wayne’s World’ director on Aurora celebration: ‘Don’t they have pumpkins or strawberries to celebrate?’
- First Folio’s ‘Captain Blood’ swashbuckler with a message
- Iranian actress boycotts Oscars to protest Trump
- South Side man dies 3 days after being shot in Lawndale
- Column: 8 things to know if you’re in a new relationship
- What’s leaving Netflix and Hulu: February 2017
- What’s streaming on Hulu: February 2017
- Column: Readers share their unique encounters at the checkout line
- Ford plunks down $200 million bet on Trump, awaits big reward
- Bears getting close look at Senior Bowl’s top two quarterbacks
- Elton John tapped to write ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ musical
- What’s streaming on Netflix: February 2017
- Sandburg Village condo once owned by late actor Dennis Farina sells for $299,000
- Petrak: Thank you to volunteers who help all of us
- Nate Robinson stumps to rejoin Bulls (or Cavaliers or any team)
- Promoting peace, harmony through music
- Irvine ‘Trainspotting’ Welsh lives in Chicago and has a new project: a pop opera
- Quickly: Kudos to Chelsea Clinton for defending Barron Trump
- Artist makes Obama-Emanuel T-shirt shack dream a reality
- Winner: Are you sure it goes: ‘People of Earth, Lead me to your Taker’?” – Jimmy Bielanski, Oak Lawn
- Trump hotel restaurant chef leaves Chicago, heads to Detroit
- A son finds himself chased by father’s intolerance in ‘Circumference of a Squirrel’
- Experts seek ways to protect environment from rising road salt runoff
- Two fatal accidents within four hours on Metra’s Union Pacific Northwest line
- Meet the man who keeps the train set on track at the Museum of Science and Industry
- Berg: For many Illinoisans, the next recession has arrived
- Association collecting donations for K-9 shot in traffic stop
- Lucky Day Lotto ticket worth $150,000 sold in Oak Park
- Meet the horses, owners and jockeys in the Pegasus World Cup
- Architects take stand on Trump, climate change — but should they go further?
- Piece of Estonian culture coming to Valparaiso
- Senators, congressman from Indiana ask Trump for answers on East Chicago cleanup
- Photos: Tim Raines
- Tim Raines’s Hall of Fame enshrinement a victory for stats geeks everywhere
- Wedding facility plan left at the altar; denied in 8-0 vote
- Another dog park planned for North Side as South Side residents wait
- Lake Forest students aim to bring the laughs in upcoming play
- Two Chicago PDs: TV show vs. DOJ report
- Clarkson: Guatemala trip energizing experience for Union Church of Hinsdale mission team
- Ditch dirt, disarray with a custom doormat
- Chicago-based parking startup SpotHero pulls into 13 new markets
- College freshman from Gurnee found dead at Miami University in Ohio
- Column: A story about giving from the 1980s reverberates today
- Fenwick ready for 50th anniversary of variety show
- Late Arthur C. Nielsen Jr.’s Winnetka mansion sells for $2.4 million
- Annual count puts number on area’s homeless
- Letters to the editor
- White Sox’s Yoan Moncada, Lucas Giolito at Lurie Children’s Hospital
- Several career diplomats have resigned from the State Department
- Car stolen in Aurora, found crashed a block away
- High-tech Tostitos bag knows if you’ve been drinking
- ‘Worst season ever’ for South Florida duck hunters
- Speak Out
- Merrillville school, town officials consider opening clinic
- Why is Walgreens still selling cigarettes? Shareholders want to know
- Johnson & Johnson makes big bet on rare disease with $30 billion Actelion deal
- Fire department makes pitch for new equipment
- Trump is a master of diversionary tactics
- Stan Mikita won’t attend NHL’s Top 100 ceremony due to health issues
- Vans plans indoor skate park and music venue off Restaurant Row
- Lincoln-Way cleans up student activity funds
- Route to a rout: Alex Sorenson sparks North Central College on the boards
- Naperville People in the News: Local students on dean’s lists, D204 volunteer of the month, Kennedy ‘Mission Makers’
- Help Squad: Sears customer experiences the fine print in her 30-year extended warranty
- 1975 Missing man search resumes in Rolling Meadows
- It will take positive change — not the National Guard — to help Chicago
- Quartet to give viola its due
- Outdoors notebook: Salt Water Sportsman seminar is Saturday
- Shout Out: Teri Collins, educator on drug and alcohol abuse
- West Suburban Local Scoreboard for Friday, Jan. 27
- Put politics aside, Emanuel, and accept Trump’s help
- Column: A few alternative facts about myself
- Outdoors calendar: Boating safety class in Boynton Beach
- Northbrook village president: Restrict nonretail businesses downtown
- What will it take for Chicago’s violence to hit home for elected officials?
- Aging ex-con couple charged with fraud a year after Tribune investigation
- Senior guard Kashmir Ivy takes the sixth-man role and runs with it for Larkin
- South Florida fishing report: Vermilion snappers and kingfish biting offshore
- Scientists create part-human, part-pig embryo
- Services planned, fundraiser created for West Aurora grad
- Data: Asian population rise on the South Side
- Aurora to hold electronics recycling event
- Profiles in pudding
- Column: Nothing touches the snow storm of ’67
- Police search Joliet-area home in connection with 1975 missing person case
- Airbnb said to turn a profit, expects earnings this year
- Fans can meet new Kane County Cougars manager
- Little girls led to believe men are more brilliant than women, study shows
- ‘A Salute to Gene Cernan’ headed to Triton’s space center
- Kelly: 70,000 in district at risk of losing health insurance coverage
- Vacant seat on Yorkville City Council to remain open until election
- Speaking to GOP, British prime minister warns Trump he cannot trust Putin
- Violence an act of intimacy in ‘Sweeney Todd’
- District 34 considers using Text-A-Tip program
- Prayer vigils planned for Aurora area shooting victims
- Flights down slightly at O’Hare, Midway, but passenger numbers up
- Bears GM Ryan Pace: Senior Bowl experience providing ‘a huge benefit’
- Post to note: West Aurora’s Travon Avery stepping up as a senior off the bench
- OT thriller: Connor Hanekamp’s free throws help Lake Forest top Waukegan
- Gurnee seeks public input on future comprehensive plan
- Dyson to join Google, McDonald’s in Fulton Market
- Police: Driver charged with DUI after hitting Round Lake Beach house and fleeing
- Chicago’s bag tax takes effect Wednesday. Here’s what you need to know.
- Corrections and clarifications for Friday, Jan. 27, 2017
- Chef’s Choice: Egg Harbor’s ‘down home’ breakfast offers ‘great combo’ of flavors, chef says
- Expo to chase winter doldrums
- Waukegan District 60 moves forward with solar farm plan at Yeoman Creek landfill
- Notre Dame flips safety Jordan Genmark Heath from Cal
- Senators go home without budget deal in place
- IDOT to work on financial plan for overhaul of Eisenhower Expressway
- People hawking McDonald’s special sauce online for thousands
- ArcLight Cinemas to show movies nominated for best picture Oscar
- Honored before the game, Amy Reiser helps Antioch roll past Grayslake Central
- DuPage Children’s Museum celebrates three-decade milestone
- Retired police chief and wife guide Police Bible Ministry project
- Dinner dates being replaced with ‘just drinks’
- Jenny on the block: Degnan delivers big as Benet prevails on senior night
- CDC’s canceled climate change conference is back on – thanks to Al Gore
- Batavia woman charged with falsely reporting St. Charles stabbing
- With incentive from city, SureWerx to open a headquarters in Elgin
- Shout Out: Matthew Stein, an Eagle Scout hopeful giving back to Advocate Children’s Hospital
- Coach K bars his players from locker room, forbids wearing Duke apparel: report
- Official: Border Patrol chief tells agents he was forced out
- Golfer Bernhard Langer disputes Trump’s story about unfounded voter fraud
- Spring opening expected for dog park
- Mr. President, don’t build that wall
- Debt poses risks to financial security for Americans reaching their golden years
- Shout Out: Kara Ingram, founder of Barrington High School Dance Marathon
- Fermilab brings equipment to Naperville school for family physics lessons
- Elmhurst fire in clothing store
- Ask Anna: She said she wanted to be my girlfriend, then bailed. What gives?
- Lansing resident is new executive director of mayors, managers group
- Bears gaining deeper pre-draft insight as Senior Bowl week wraps up
- Tavern 25 to open soon in downtown Aurora
- Rajon Rondo rips Bulls leaders on Instagram for criticizing teammates in media
- Jason Paskewitz exits The Blanchard, joins Ocean Cut
- FBI offers $10K reward in death of Channel 7 executive producer in Belize
- Orland continues search for village manager
- Are you carrying your cellphone too close to your body?
- Local students headed to D.C. for annual March for Life events
- Adventures in baby food making: Mead Johnson remains takeover target
- Aurora house fire caused by porch light
- Live blog: Week one of the Donald Trump presidency
- Chris Rongey signs off after 14 years at WSCR-AM 670
- Tinley Park seeks dismissal of federal lawsuit
- Welcome, Clerk Valencia
- Rauner rises above the low bar set by Trump
- Homeless count in Elgin Wednesday night lower than expected
- Elementary tech fee rising to cover lease of digital devices
- Fermilab comes to Naperville school
- Marmion, Rosary students to participate in March for Life
- Dwyane Wade not named to All-Star Game after 12 consecutive selections
- Jack Sheaffer, founder of engineering firms, dies at 85
- A promise kept: Super Jake Foundation raising millions for cancer research
- 3 charged in alleged Gary crime spree
- Elgin-area offerings hope to connect veterans to services
- Speak out: Americans are watching too much TV
- St. Catherine’s in West Dundee to honor first responders
- Aurora homeless count
- Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg denies Jimmy Butler blew him off on timeout call
- Play written, performed by former prison inmates to be staged at church
- Social media becomes the crack cocaine of communications
- Singing Styx, the DeYoung way
- What is ‘A Dog’s Purpose,’ really?
- Trump’s foreign policy revolution puts us on a disastrous path
- Around the city: DePaul’s Eli Cain learning to focus on positives
- Griffith chief touts drop in December crime
- Arraignment set for former Naperville firefighter from Elgin
- On his first morning as president, Trump sought Park Service proof of crowd claim
- Evanston mayor reaffirms sanctuary city status after Trump threats
- Boys basketball notes: Naperville North upsets Evanston to notch signature win
- Cousins get life terms in 1973 shotgun slayings of 2 girls in California
- Ice fishermen lucky to be alive
- Hill Republicans leave GOP retreat with few answers from Trump about agenda
- Westchester man shot to death in Englewood on South Side
- Vice President Mike Pence to join March for Life
- Reducing taxes the motivation behind Naperville merger referendum, lawyer says
- Aurora’s homeless out of sight but not out of mind
- Bulls are team torn apart, no matter management’s eventual spin
- Video appears to show Texas officer push teen with foot; charges dropped against woman, girl
- Center stage: Ryan Hanacek has visions of a Kennedy Cup at Brother Rice
- White Sox youth movement to take center stage at SoxFest
- Ask Tom: If January rain had been snow, how much snow would there be?
- Corey Crawford ‘feeling good’ after last start; Marcus Kruger returns
- Northwestern 73, Nebraska 61
- Clouds, occasional flurries persist through weekend
- Americans would need to buy 25 billion avocados for Mexico to pay for the wall
- Lake County News-Sun Local Scoreboard for Friday, Jan. 27
- A TrumPoem for the president’s first week
- Jets 5, Blackhawks 3
- It’s the climb: Andrew’s Ethan Gerald turns bad break into path to success
- Comments by Dwyane Wade and Jimmy Butler indict all, demand a front-office response
- Baranek: Queen of Peace basketball players find solace, resolve in school closing
- Trump orders advertising halt during final days to sign up for Obamacare
- Motion filed by Illinois attorney general on budget impasse
- Daily Southtown Local Scoreboard for Friday, Jan. 27
- It turns out Jared Kushner and Sean Spicer are also registered to vote in two states
- Trump proposes 20 percent tax on Mexican imports to pay for border wall
- Local roundup: Argo listens to Tadriana Heard to clinch conference title
- Thursday’s recap: Jets 5, Blackhawks 3
- Dererk Pardon leads Northwestern to fifth straight Big Ten victory
- Al Ervin finds an edge in second half as Griffith slips past Andrean
- Michigan nearly flawless in 90-60 rout of Indiana
- SoxFest 2017 schedule
- Luxury cars stolen in front of dealership employees