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- Eagles clinch No. 1 seed with 19-10 win over Raiders
- Why Americans insist on putting a price tag on life
- Chicago Ridge Medical Imaging offers 20 years’ experience, alternative to hospital outpatient imaging
- Man found dead after West Side apartment fire
- SeaWorld’s newest walrus, no longer alone, speaks out
- 2 injured after Christmas tree catches fire in Far South Side home
- Crime fiction: Reviews of the latest from Val McDermid, Peter Lovesey and Adam Brookes
- Teacher’s death triggered abuse accusation
- Want to feast? Identify life’s missing ingredients
- 2017 year-end fact check
- JetBlue plane slides off taxiway at Boston’s Logan Airport
- With daily physical education no longer the law, schools revising PE plans
- Rohingya refugees in Chicago face stress, anxiety after escaping horrors in Myanmar
- Tuesday’s matchup: Bulls at Bucks
- In change to force rules, Chicago police discourage using Tasers on people who flee
- Q&A: Michael Obsuszt, Barrington athletic director
- I am pathetic, smug and dumb. If that makes the trolls feel better, so be it.
- Raise your hand if you want Ted Phillips out of Ryan Pace’s search for next Bears coach
- ‘Trevor,’ Martha Lavey and Not in Our House: So that was 2017 in Chicago theater
- 2017 in review: The best sports photos
- Man dies after shot by concealed carry holder during robbery in South Loop, police say
- Charts: Divvy, income and costs
- Christmas in Chicago less violent than in recent years
- Chicago nightlife at Frosty’s Christmas Bar last week
- Ask Anna: Quick and dirty winter advice
- The unspoken history hidden behind a surname
- Gurnee District 56 names new superintendent
- Strolling carolers offer hope, joy to Zion cancer patients
- America’s trade wars are heating up, as more U.S. companies sue for relief
- ‘An amazing sacrifice’: Runner to donate kidney to Homewood coach
- Tinley Park’s ‘Freedom Pond’ detention basin ready for rain
- U.S. home prices surged 6.2 percent from a year ago
- Boo, the potbelly pig evicted from Hobart home, settling into life on the farm
- Puffed up for New Year’s Eve: Pastry bites for your big party
- ‘Bachelor’ contestants from the Chicago area: Where are they now?
- New Gary Career Center director touts plans to fill empty classrooms
- Which Blackhawk would other Blackhawks least like to fight?
- ‘El Puma’ ya habla con fluidez y camina aunque sigue sus terapias
- In break with tradition, Trump doesn’t host a state dinner
- Best rides of 2017
- Naperville YouTuber taking on the world, one crazy dance at a time
- Pone tenso a Kit Harington el final de ‘Game of Thrones’
- Banco de México subasta 500 millones de dólares para frenar caída del peso
- Tiroteos durante fin de Navidad, el menos violento en recientes fiestas
- Entirely woman-produced line at Modest Coffee hopes to make industry more gender inclusive
- Katie Ledecky named AP Female Athlete of the Year
- Help Them to Hope
- With top seed already secured, there’s still time for Eagles to formulate plan
- Los presidenciables en Facebook
- Renuncian los directivos de Miss América
- Highland Park’s 2017 in review: Dist. 112 takes first steps toward reorganization, tackle football is scrapped
- Year in review: The top Glenview stories of 2017
- Feline Community Network in Hobart
- VIDEO: Sampaoli pide disculpas por exabruptos en control de tráfico
- Got a gift card this holiday? Here’s how to spend it wisely
- Ready for the bag fee? Oak Park group urges shoppers to avoid charge and bring their own bags
- Union Church of Hinsdale welcomes Christmas with Charlie Brown and friends
- Winter’s a good time to whack invasive buckthorn
- Top stories of 2017 in Lake County: Waukegan elects first black mayor
- Chicago’s top business stories of 2017
- Trump llama ‘corrupto’ al FBI por uso del dossier sobre su conexión con Rusia
- El béisbol, el deporte rey de Puerto Rico durante el 2017
- Mom forgives the man who murdered her daughter, answers his letters from prison
- Elmhurst looks to spur development with new downtown tax district
- Real lasagna is a culinary marvel worth every minute of your time
- You can drink wine from a can. Just don’t drink it from a can.
- Options available to help students pay for college
- Party on, America! 5 fun facts about New Year’s 2018
- Gary asks Lake County for 120 tax-delinquent plots
- St. Louis-Chicago Amtrak route to get faster, more reliable, state says
- Woodland District 50 officials: $1.6 million needed to meet smaller class size goals
- North Side home that Jake Arrieta rented sells for $1.775 million
- Chicago high school students leave their classrooms to advocate for Dreamers
- Man carjacked at gunpoint near Washington Square Park on Near North Side
- Year in review: Glenbrook North hall monitor fired, new Maple School plans unfold
- Northbrook woman killed after being hit by car in Glenview
- Trump predicts GOP and Dems will agree on health care plan
- Craft beer, retail, finance among industry that will benefit from new tax law
- Black victims of heroin, opioid crisis ‘whitewashed’ out of picture, report finds
- Want a new Volvo every year? Subscription service starts with XC40 crossover
- Shout Out: Sam Rafidia, jewelry shop owner and PADS volunteer in Arlington Heights
- 2017 in review: A year of change in Oak Park; River Forest cheers as missing hiker found safe
- For Aurora mayor, 2017 a year to remember
- De adolescente vivían en la calle, ahora dan comer a los desamparados
- Talk of the County
- Ernie Els invited to Augusta National, but not to play Masters
- Nerves reunite, even if there isn’t supposed to be nostalgia in punk
- Photos: SAVE THE SEATS 2017
- Water main break closes part of Euclid Avenue in Arlington Heights
- Suburban garbage collector receives surprise donation after gaining attention as an ‘everyday hero’
- Medios enfrentan retos ante ola de noticias sobre abusos
- Yorkville basketball programs make impact, spread Christmas cheer at Mooseheart
- Stop worrying about your friends’ money. Set goals.
- Holiday sweater party helps Oak Park’s park district celebrate the season
- Everything you wanted to know about holiday returns
- Holiday sweater skate party
- My worst moment: William Petersen and a ‘legendary moment in Chicago theater history’
- Elgin Courier Newsletter Sweepstakes
- Candidates to attend meeting in Yorkville
- Column: Holiday season heightens the cruelty of poverty for children
- Victims identified in two fatal Christmas Eve crashes in Lake County
- Syria rebels, opposition reject Russia-proposed talks
- ‘Stranger Things’ star David Harbour on Season 3, his ‘dad bod’ and how he’ll top that SAG Awards speech
- Pennsylvania woman gets $284 billion electric bill, wonders whether it’s her Christmas lights
- Pizza delivery driver robbed by masked teens in Oak Park: Police
- They said what?! Chicago’s best, worst and oddest quotes of 2017
- J. Peter Teschner, former Doings owner and publisher, dies
- Streaming becomes mainstream as cord-cutting accelerates
- Westmont approves Oakbrook Hills development changes
- Mokena District 159 hires west suburban superintendent
- NFL power rankings: Patriots, Steelers at the top
- Holidays have passed, but spending season continues
- Ravenswood’s Ampersand closes
- Speak Out: Trump is the most persecuted man since Jesus
- Oak Park District 97 board works on equity policy aimed at eliminating bias and racism
- Speak Out
- Will the Republican tax plan be a blessing or a curse?
- Letter: You can help reduce underage drinking
- Zoe Perry plays her mother Laurie Metcalf on ‘Young Sheldon’ … sort of
- Elgin Police urge residents to sign up for emergency alerts
- Police: Man found in car trunk charged after filing false kidnapping report
- Warming shelter locations announced around the Southland
- A graduate income tax is a hard sell — but Illinois needs it
- Year in Review: Hazing scandal, referendum and controversial fitness center in Lake Zurich
- Make Indiana Dunes a national park
- Shelters available as frigid temperatures expected this week
- Cities sue Defense Dept. over gun-check system failures
- The joy of giving
- Moran: Requiem for an old-school Chicagoan who put ketchup on his hot dog
- Will County wins gold award for solar energy plan
- Wondering why your condo assessments keep going up? Here’s how to find out.
- A swastika was mowed into a Virginia field. Now neighbors ask if they could have prevented two deaths.
- Awards for best, worst of 2017: A year of living nervously
- The highs and lows in classical music in Chicago in 2017
- Maybe the free world doesn’t need a leader
- The aging Senate is a problem
- Dist. 112 makes the most of higher tax cap
- Federal court rejects challenge to Trump voting commission
- New film about J. Paul Getty rich in life lessons
- U.S. sanctions two key figures in North Korea’s weapons program
- Browns deserve a much better fate than a winless season
- Waubonsie Valley’s Kyle Schroeder provides senior leadership in tourney loss
- The Doings January challenge
- Workers get more done Christmas week than you might think
- ComEd using electric car ride-sharing program to examine energy use
- Shout Out: Erin Pouba, Lyons Township senior and hatmaker
- Inspector general says mishandling of sexual harassment complaints at Justice Department is a ‘systemic’ problem
- Quickly
- Drive seeks possible bone marrow donor for child
- Trump defies Putin with arms to Ukraine
- Stalled Olive-Harvey College construction to resume — over budget and years late
- West January challenge
- Kayla Hare raises effort in second half as Bartlett rallies past Jacobs
- Kremlin: Russia election boycott campaign may be illegal
- Mansion that was Glencoe’s highest-price residential sale in 2016 is demolished
- Community news
- Year in Review: Later school start, fatal high-speed crash among highs and lows in Arlington Heights
- Ask Tom: What’s the coldest spell in Chicago history?
- Shelters brace for winter influx of abandoned animals
- January challenge
- Rising star comics get feet wet during First Friday Funnies
- Man seriously wounded in Aurora shooting
- White House to cut back magnolia tree planted by Andrew Jackson
- Man taken to hospital after fire in South Side home
- Highland swimmer Ethan Churilla continues to learn from ups and downs in pool
- Democrats build case against tax bill, but don’t call for repeal
- New 911 center results in faster police response, officials say
- Military poised to accept transgender troops, despite Trump tweets, as courts block ban
- Jerry Jones: Jason Garrett to return as Cowboys coach in 2018
- Man on bicycle struck, killed on Route 12 in Fox Lake
- Man taken to hospital after fire in South Side home
- Record-setting storm buries Pennsylvania’s fourth largest city under more than 4 feet of snow
- John Fox, Bears enter final week before expected change
- Change in property tax deduction affects thousands in Naperville
- Chased by California fire, badly burned mountain lion cub faces long road to recovery
- Slowik: Everyone hates puppy mills, so why do they still exist?
- Construction halted at church destroyed in Sept. 11 attacks
- Cabbie found slain was ‘one of our greatest friends’ in Somali community
- U.N. budget cuts highlight new U.S. approach
- West Suburban Local Scoreboard for Wednesday, Dec. 27
- White nationalists built a memorial in Minnesota for white woman fatally shot by cop
- Librería Girón cierra en la calle 18
- Ziv Tal takes control as Highland Park rolls in opener of Jack Tosh Holiday Classic
- Police: Man missing since November has schizophrenia, may be homeless now
- Here’s how a coin flip, a pilgrim hat and a poker game have all been used to settle tied elections
- Draft, not free agency, is place for Bears to make offseason impact
- Starfish rebounding after mysterious wasting disease killed millions
- Malik Miller’s thriller: senior guard sparks Hammond in Big Dipper opener
- Mitch Trubisky spreads his wings, drives ahead after snowy Soldier Field sendoff
- Cold snap, flu season hit Elgin area
- After frigid Christmas, dangerous cold at least until New Year’s Day
- Lake Station fire source still unknown
- Kyle Czerak’s foul trouble proves costly as Aurora Central Catholic falls in tourney
- Michigan trooper whose Taser use caused fatal crash had prior stun gun complaint
- Lake County News-Sun Local Scoreboard for Wednesday, Dec. 27
- Dangerous wind chills, 2nd day of single-digit highs
- Funding, opposition derail $2B freight rail plan
- Fred Hoiberg, Bulls share Bradley Center memories before their final game there
- Mayor: ‘Holiday spirit is alive and well in Evanston’
- Arun’s Indian Kichen
- Daily Southtown Local Scoreboard for Wednesday, Dec. 27
- 2017 in review: Most dubious achievements in Chicago sports
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Wednesday, Dec. 27
- Trump slams FBI, Obamacare in post-Christmas tweets
- Bulls 115, Bucks 106
- Northern Illinois falls to Duke 36-14 in Quick Lane Bowl
- ‘We believe:’ Bulls notch their 8th win in 10 games
- U.S. decision to provide anti-tank missiles to Ukraine angers Russian leaders