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- Police: South Side carjackings happened 2 blocks, 1 hour apart
- Judge dismisses lawsuit brought by choreographer who alleged Michael Jackson molested him as a child
- Police warn of attempted carjacking, robbery in Bridgeport, Chinatown
- Senate passes GOP tax bill, setting stage for final House vote on Wednesday
- Winter rules: Parking restrictions in play after of 2 inches or more of snow in Elmwood Park
- Morning Spin: Rauner on messaging woes: ‘Very, very difficult’ to explain complex issues to 12.5 million people
- Stepdaughter wants a room with a view
- Bucktown home with custom details: $1.3M
- Socialism is still popular in U.S. despite the Venezuelan example
- Mosul’s gravediggers say civilian death toll from battle against Islamic State nearly 10 times higher than reported
- Agent arrested, accused of taking photos in women’s bathroom at University of Wisconsin
- Cardinal Bernard Law, central figure in Catholic Church’s child sex abuse scandal, dies at 86
- Save the Seats is coming Dec. 27 — here’s a sneak peek
- 10 years after red light cameras came to suburbs, state hasn’t assessed whether they’ve improved safety
- Trump EPA pick for Chicago office cut enforcement, scrapped climate change information in Wisconsin
- ATM skimmer found at store in the Loop
- Attention freelance goalies: Canada’s looking for you! There’s even an app for that.
- Review: Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Volta’ will flip you out at Hard Rock Stadium
- New blow for Uber as top EU court says it’s a taxi company, not a tech service
- Bears Q&A: Can Mitch Trubisky attract an offensive-minded coach? Where is Ryan Pace?
- Lyft driver carjacked on South Side: ‘He kicked me and said a lot of expletives’
- Police officers pull woman out of car before it catches fire
- Northwestern’s Charlie Hall poses like Wilt Chamberlain after his 1-point game
- Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital unveils $200 million expansion
- Coding, cracked: Why these Chicagoans of all ages decided to dive into code
- Shoutout to Ryan Pace and John Fox: No Bears voted to Pro Bowl for 3rd straight year
- Wednesday’s matchup: Magic at Bulls
- The most disappointing NFL players of 2017
- Will County breaks ground on new 10-story courthouse in downtown Joliet
- Phillies, Carlos Santana agree to 3-year deal worth $60 million
- Track lemurs in Madagascar, celebrate Orthodox Easter in Greece and more
- Help Them to Hope
- New Elgin charter school picks principal, won’t reveal name until January
- Jonathan Toews’ ranking on NHL’s all-time captains list draws ridicule
- Trump’s ticket to survival: Ban all the words he detests
- Not your grandma’s cruise ship: New technology coming in the next few years
- Prickly City- delusional
- The NFL is in need of vision. Its owners can’t see through the white-out.
- Eating algae, Stevia 2.0 and other nutrition trends for 2018
- Man sentenced to jail for racially abusing Man City’s Sterling
- Is Trump done with Bannonism?
- Man who stole taxis in suburbs after robbing drivers gets 15 years in prison
- Former Arsenal midfielder Rosicky announces retirement
- Just 5, Chicago boy is struck by a bullet for second time in two years
- FIFA sign Chinese sponsor for 2018 World Cup
- John Stamos kept a piece of Chicago history from his ‘ER’ days
- Caligiuri calls for USSF to delay GM decision
- Disney sets performers for Epcot arts festival concerts
- Want to visit the tiny Pacific island of Palau? First, sign the pledge.
- ‘All the Money in the World’ review: Plummer seamlessly subs for Spacey
- NYCFC lose out on potential stadium site
- Chicago, la mejor ciudad para pasar la Navidad
- New York Islanders to leave Brooklyn, return to suburbs
- El Chicago Fire apunta en serio por Iker Casillas
- Eva Longoria confirma su embarazo
- ‘The Voice’ finale: How Chloe Kohanski won despite a big mistake by Miley Cyrus
- Worth a trip: Mezcal old fashioned from Vol. 39
- Top Chicago business stories of 2017
- Gary looks for Genesis Center partner, buyer
- Shout Out: Rich Silverstein
- The feminist energies of William Blake and Faith Wilding take over Chicago
- 2017, el año del ajuste de cuentas por acoso o abuso sexual
- GOP Senator: Vote in January on fate of young immigrants
- Pernell McPhee the 15th Bears player placed on injured reserve this season
- Shout Out: Jeff Kollar
- Police: Traffic rerouted downtown after man jumps from building
- Twin Peaks helps create deep-dish pizza puff as part of Dusek’s Sound Bites program for performers
- Fury Hip Hop is all about taking control — of everything
- A brilliant show about ‘stupid’ art; knocking over reliquaries at Shane Campbell Gallery
- Familia latina pierde su hogar tras incendio de su árbol de Navidad
- Ricky Martin regresará en 2018 a Las Vegas con su espectáculo ‘All in’
- Chance the Rapper and Jeremih release ‘re-wrapped’ edition holiday mixtape
- Best year-end deals on 2017 cars
- U.S. home sales climb 5.6 percent in November to 11-year high, but Chicago area lags behind
- Report: Orlando hotel occupancy up for November
- ‘Cowardly killers’ walked into an elementary school Christmas party and fatally shot a Mexican journalist
- Year-end incentives cut thousands off new car prices
- After fighting global poverty and disease, Community Trust’s Helene Gayle shifts focus to Chicago
- Sweden proposes tough sexual assault law amid #MeToo movement and fear of immigrants
- Sesame Workshop child refugee plan wins first MacArthur $100M challenge
- El Clasico, also played in Chicago
- First gene therapy for inherited disease — blindness — gets FDA approval
- Walker School students comforted by visits from an Angel
- ‘Who steals a toilet?’ Former NBA player Charlie Villanueva tweets about burglary
- Friends of the Green Bay Trail to restore another section of popular walk-bike trail next year
- Home away from home: Fox Valley families serve as ‘surrogate parents’ for youth hockey players
- OPINIÓN/Adiós 2017 y Feliz 2018
- Guest room delight for the holidays (Infographic)
- 5 ways to feel good while getting fit
- Dog show myths and facts
- Catt Sadler explains why she left ‘E! News’: ‘There was a massive disparity in pay’
- Chicago Fire in serious pursuit of Iker Casillas
- Ozuna and Cardi B collab is ‘killing it’
- Shopping in stores is a misery — can wine, yoga and storytelling make it fun again?
- Chanukah Wonderland 2017
- Investigators looking into whether Amtrak engineer was distracted before fatal wreck, official says
- U46 board divided over policy keeping kids from class for missing health records
- Star Wars Day at Nothbrook Library
- Navidad es ‘El Cascanueces’
- Kym Mazelle, Britain’s house music star, returns to Gary
- Turkey seeks jail term for Enes Kanter after NBA player insulted President Erdogan
- Arsenal to address mice problem at Emirates Stadium
- Coinbase looks at insider trading after offering bitcoin cash
- Speak Out
- Column: Time to say goodbye after years of covering Lake Barrington Shores
- Stop-motion animator uses humans and it’s hilarious and amazing
- 5 things to eat, drink, and do this weekend
- Ofrece PRI dinero a Eugenio Derbez
- New reads bearing Yuletide joy
- Teen flips car in attempted carjacking on West Side: Cops
- Chunk of Idaho with ‘dazzling’ star scenes becomes nation’s first International Dark Sky Reserve
- Column: Rediscovering the genius of Sammy Davis, Jr.
- Republicans have their own Obamacare now
- The GOP tax plan has a nasty surprise for upper-middle-class parents with kids in college
- Lawsuit: Bottled Blonde sues Chicago in liquor license fight
- Bulls Q&A: Will the Bulls ever lose again? Did they ‘win’ the trade with the Timberwolves?
- Nature serves as inspiration for holiday decorations
- Western Springs Village Board OKs new well to address water concerns
- 8 Americans among 12 killed in Mexican bus crash
- 10 key takeaways from the Republican tax bill
- Monterrey y Pachuca definen al campeón de la Copa MX
- Photos: Best performances of 2017
- Yorkville looks to extend life of downtown tax district
- Village Squire offers homey atmosphere, comfort food
- 3 big problems with the Meryl Streep ‘she knew’ posters popping up in LA
- Suspects who bought gas with fraudulent credit card sought by Naperville police
- Wisconsin priest applauded after coming out as gay: ‘I will embrace the person that God created me to be’
- Community news
- Orioles’ Zach Britton out at least six months with ruptured Achilles
- Bottled Blonde sues Chicago in liquor license fight
- You may not see it, but it’s there. Spring is waiting everywhere.
- Holiday displays keep Christmas spirit wattage up
- 5-year-old calls 911 to report that Grinch plans to steal Christmas
- Column: Let’s talk about New Year’s resolutions
- 300-acre arboretum donated to Purdue Northwest
- Hizo realidad uno de sus sueños
- Donnelly: Tax bill hurts middle class, preserves corporate loopholes
- ‘We have essentially repealed Obamacare,’ Trump says after tax bill passes
- Long distance ballet dancer
- Column: Letting go? I’ll start with clothes tailor made for a yo-yo dieter
- Transfer students may have an edge in admissions
- Shout Out: Jim Ritter, fan of the First Amendment
- ‘Feminism’ is the word of the year. Should we be celebrating?
- 10 things you might not know about fingerpointing
- How the tax bill impacts homeowners, buyers and sellers
- Help Squad: Ideas for gadgets to buy with that post-holiday cash
- ESPN’s Ryen Russillo is leaving his radio show, will do a podcast through next summer
- Township High School District 214 superintendent among finalists for national award
- Coppa Italia Recap: Dybala scores in Juve win, Torino eliminate Roma
- Giants’ trade for Evan Longoria carries significant risk
- LFA prep hockey team hits the road for top-shelf competition
- Southport Damen Armitage photos
- Solo, Wynalda, Caligiuri among US Soccer presidential candidates
- German Cup Recap: Bayern eliminate champs Dortmund, Bailey leads Leverkusen over Gladbach
- Shout Out: Tim Grafer of Grafer’s Moonlite Hair
- Shout Out: Sarah Chow
- Explosion, fuel oil spill leaves home near Barrington uninhabitable
- El Barcelona y Messi, líderes europeos en disparos al poste
- Swansea sack manager Clement
- A puny tax reform built on broken promises
- ‘This Christmas’: How a Chicago postal worker and Donny Hathaway created a holiday classic
- Bears-Browns Week 16 preview
- Peru’s Guerrero ban reduced, cleared to play World Cup
- Unique show offers a ‘Very Electric Christmas’
- Indiana hotel charges guest $350 after she posts negative review
- Bill O’Reilly, Fox News sued for defamation by two additional former employees
- Zeshan B manages to make magic, no matter the language
- Real Salt Lake sign Lennon on permanent deal
- Rauner won’t say if he has moral responsibility for Quincy veterans’ illnesses, deaths
- Nicole Mitchell, Cassandra Wilson top best jazz concerts of 2017
- Paolo Guerrero podrá jugar el Mundial
- Former Chicago, New York journalist gets 5 years in prison in Jewish threats case
- Clarkson: Oak Brook Art League brings light into winter’s dark
- New Lake County vendor promises ‘not your average cafeteria’
- What are you doing on New Year’s Eve?
- Mujeres explican por qué decidieron denunciar a Dustin Hoffman
- Shout Out: James Ross
- 2017 in review: Elmwood Park makes push on restaurants; River Grove developments signal new era for village
- Philadelphia Union re-sign Ilsinho, Herbers, Fabinho
- Students defrauded by for-profits may not get full relief
- Ukranian oligarch with ties to Manafort and wanted in Chicago gets holiday reprieve
- When it comes to holiday cards, which celebs do it right?
- Lake Zurich increases water, sewer rates to address ‘aging’ infrastructure
- Defense alleges Officer Van Dyke’s prosecution motivated by media, political pressure
- Quickly
- The new tax challenge for Illinois Democrats
- Notre Dame suspends indefinitely WR Kevin Stepherson, RB C.J. Holmes
- Saint-Etienne pick Gasset as new manager
- Holiday calendar a gift to procrastinating shoppers
- Coexisting with coyotes (and wolves and bears and …) in Illinois
- Man accused in ’85 slaying of DuPage girl can’t tie convicted murderer to crime: judge
- Homewood’s landmark Gottschalk House, once home to village founding father, for sale
- Zion’s Shiloh House decked for historical holidays
- Officials ask for help finding family of man found dead in burning donation box
- Jaycees commit $200k to city wi-fi park but council pushes back on club requests
- San Jose sign Swedish top scorer Eriksson
- 2 people from La Grange Park killed in apparent drunken driving crash in Wisconsin
- Waukegan man gets 120-year sentence in child sex abuse case
- Philip May, proprietor of May’s Honey Farms, dies
- Readers react: Republican tax reform bill
- New CLC president’s contract sets salary at $260,000, includes fewer perks
- Ligue 1 Recap: Cavani closes in on scoring record as PSG beat Caen
- Do ‘experts’ always have the answers?
- Corrections and clarifications
- Uncharted territory: Kate Bullman beats buzzer twice to lift Grayslake Central
- Shout Out: Mohammad Khan, wishing Chicago sports teams future success
- Sen. Al Franken to resign Jan. 2 over sexual misconduct allegations
- What would the Salvation Army be without its ‘red kettle’ ringers?
- Bears injury tracker: Josh Sitton unlikely to play versus Browns
- Nashville named latest MLS expansion franchise
- Slowik: 600 pack Elwood hearing to protest development’s impact on rural life
- Jugadora transgénero debuta en vóleibol brasileño
- State Senator Kwame Raoul smoking
- NTSB wants to talk with key Amtrak crew members who are hospitalized
- Shiloh House holiday decore
- Signing day roundup: Oswego East’s Antwain Walker finds home at Northern Illinois
- Man created makeshift blowtorch to clean his car at a gas station, police say
- Former Michigan trooper charged with murder in boy’s death
- Carlos Vela se despide a lo grande de la Real
- Carabao Cup Recap: Bristol City upset Man United, City, Arsenal, Chelsea advance
- Last uncounted ballots: Roy Moore can’t close 20,000-vote loss
- La Liga Recap: Real Sociedad beat Sevilla in Vela farewell match
- How GOP tax bill’s Obamacare changes will affect health care and consumers
- West Suburban Local Scoreboard for Thursday, Dec. 21
- Quién era ‘El Pirata de Culiacán’
- GOP leaders eye another shutdown-averting stopgap amid struggles for spending deal
- Rauner: Federal tax changes help tax-cut agenda
- Key NSA surveillance program’s reauthorization hits roadblock in Congress
- Scientists present a sweeping new estimate of how much humans have altered the planet
- Oak Park police: Two robberies reported 10 hours apart
- Baranek: From baseball to classroom, Tim Byrdak a major achiever
- Recently Presented Long-Term Progression-Free Survival Data in Multiple Myeloma
- 5 cold-weather hacks for winter driving
- 5 ways to capture the perfect family photo during your holiday travels
- Points for holiday hosting (Infographic)
- 4 tips to ‘sleigh’ the holidays from SIMPLE Mobile
- When buying hearing aids: 6 essential things to know
- Three questions every bariatric surgery patient asks
- Shout Out: AnaCecilia Grace Schildwachter, ballet dancer
- Metra resurrects Rock Island colors to honor retiring CEO
- Just add snow
- Charts: Illinois population over time
- Pro Bowl shutout another reminder of Bears’ critical shortage of playmakers
- Trump just admitted the GOP’s tax cuts were deceptively sold
- Taylor-made: Senior’s decision to focus on basketball pays off for Marist
- Naperville police, city recognize officer, resident who prevented child abduction
- ‘Cold, calculating predator’ gets 28 years in prison for Niles tanning salon rape
- Some special events get ax in new Orland Park budget
- Upon further review: Worthy names left off list of state’s 30 greatest college coaches
- Wrestling notes: Near-miss motivates Lincoln-Way West’s Nick Skentzos
- Hearing for man who shot Amtrak conductor trying to help him centers on intent
- 5 major Chicago sports teams join together to combat violence
- This Tinley Park house takes decking the halls to a whole new level
- Historic preservation tax credit is saved, but weakened
- Antioch holiday displays handmade with care
- Phillips Park transforms into Festival of Lights
- Northwestern signs a pair who could succeed Justin Jackson
- Notre Dame lands No. 7-ranked class with all 20 of its commitments signing
- Injured defensemen Cody Franson, Jan Rutta won’t play Thursday against Stars
- Trump threatens Jerusalem opponents with U.S. funding cutoff
- Bulls favored for just 2nd time this season
- Aurora man rescues resident trapped in burning house
- Inmate faces new sentence for 2007 slaying of student on CTA bus
- Harlem Globetrotters player returns to Markham to talk about bullying
- Corey Crawford’s stats place Blackhawks goalie among best in NHL
- Defendant fatally stabbed man, threw knife at Christmas tree: court records
- Bears lose to the winless Browns? ‘We won’t be that team’
- Major League Soccer grants Nashville latest expansion team
- Collector given 12 years in prison for selling phony sports memorabilia
- Police arrest man in homicide of boy, 4, in East Chicago
- Charges filed against coach, spectators in Hammond-Griffith basketball game fight
- How treacherous is Kyle Long’s road back after neck surgery?
- The wait is over: Lowell defensive standout Jordan Jusevitch signs with Indiana
- ASK TOM: I am tiring of Chicago’s cold winters. Where should I live?
- Post-Tribune Bowling Scores
- Congress dashes hope for end-of-year solution for immigrant ‘Dreamers,’ punts to new year
- Archive: Home Alone case turns 10 – Media circus caused soul-searching among latchkey-kid parents
- Lake County News-Sun Local Scoreboard for Thursday, Dec. 21
- Illinois still waiting on quarterback Coran Taylor but signs nine from Florida
- A couple of cloudy days before the cold air hits
- A political wish list for Santa
- Liberan a la activista Erika Andiola y a otros seis ‘soñadores’
- Democrats troubled as GOP senators show little urgency to pass law protecting Mueller
- Wisconsin man who stole guns, wrote manifesto sentenced to 14 years in prison
- Trump stands to save millions under new tax measure, experts say
- How Republicans pulled off the biggest tax overhaul in 30 years
- Daily Southtown Local Scoreboard for Thursday, Dec. 21
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Thursday, Dec. 21
- Magic passed on Lauri Markkanen, like what they have in 6-10 Jonathan Isaac
- Petrak: Christmas a time for queso and cookies
- In defiance of Trump ban, Pentagon releases detailed policy for recruiting transgender troops
- Triumphant Trump celebrates tax win — but some fear backlash
- Celtics 117, Bulls 92
- Cavaliers 115, Bulls 112
- Bulls 112, Magic 94
- Cubs sign right-hander Anthony Bass
- Los Bulls siguen ganando, y ya van siete al hilo
- Jumping Jack: Ellison helps Marist control boards in win over Rich East
- Bulls have gone from 10 straight losses to 7 straight wins
- EPA says Superfund Task Force created by Pruitt kept no records of meetings
- Court tosses out 1-vote victory in recount that had briefly ended a GOP majority in Virginia
- Confederate statue removed after Memphis sells public park
- Wofford stuns No. 5 North Carolina 79-75 in Chapel Hill