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- Negotiating cancer: 8 tips from someone who’s done it
- Chicago’s overnight violence
- Carlos Rodon fires up White Sox for 7-2 win against Athletics
- Man texts timeless plot with ex-wife
- Musical director: ‘Jekyll & Hyde’ shows ‘We can’t let evil win’
- Disabato: Stagg pulls off slam dunk with coaching hire of Marty Strus
- 6 wounded in shootings on South, West sides
- Let’s talk about single-payer health care
- Fly your American flag in July — and June
- Remembering the Battle of Gettysburg on the 4th of July
- Woman critically injured crossing street on Northwest Side
- Series preview: Rays at Cubs
- Cavaliers remain in turmoil with Chauncey Billups passing up chance to run team
- 2 injured in crash with empty squad car on North Side
- Judge’s message to son’s shooter: ‘I want him to understand that I love him’
- Mayor Emanuel didn’t seek comparison to Mussolini in NYT op-ed
- Joe Maddon reminisces on tenure in Tampa ahead of Cubs-Rays series
- ‘Dumb Track Mind’: N.Y. Daily News slams Emanuel over transit boast
- 2 Chicago-area buglers play in prestigious Army band corps
- FBI agent’s stolen SUV found on West Side after getting parking ticket
- Five from west suburbs killed in Wisconsin plane crash
- After tax hike and budget votes, Illinois avoids credit downgrade to junk for now
- Man dies trying to rescue 11-year-old nephew off 63rd Street Beach: ‘He was a hero’
- Kato Kaelin wins 50/50 raffle at Brewers game
- As a tribute to his stepbrother, Wade Davis wore No. 17 — and now wears No. 71
- Side hustles are the new norm. Here’s how much they really pay.
- Holiday fireworks guide — find one near you
- Zack Cozart earns an All-Star spot — and a pet donkey from Reds teammate Joey Votto
- 5 things to know about the Navy Pier fireworks show
- Dillinger Day remembers the date a Chicago alley became famous
- Review: Buckingham, McVie stay close to Fleetwood Mac at Northerly Island
- Baby found dead after fire in vacant home in Markham
- Three of the first five American presidents died on the 4th of July
- Umpire Angel Hernandez sues MLB for racial discrimination, cites Joe Torre’s ‘animosity’
- Massive “bucket list” car show touches down in Wisconsin
- Aurora Fire Department offers grill safety tips
- MMA fighter Aaron Rajman is ID’d as man killed in West Boca shooting
- NHL free agents following NBA path in picking preferred destination over more money
- Separating hype from reality in North Korea’s ICBM claim
- We the people have a democracy to celebrate
- Trained dogs patrol Indiana beaches to keep birds away
- Slowik: Celebrities help grade school classmates celebrate 50th reunion
- Help for investment deserts
- Insurance legal fight continues over possible settlement in Waukegan wrongful conviction lawsuit
- How Illinois Senate voted on income tax increase
- Marcus Kruger traded for 2nd time in 3 days: From Blackhawks to Golden Knights to Hurricanes
- Elgin Fourth of July parade a family tradition
- Kyle Schwarber could rejoin Cubs by end of homestand
- Mike Hohensee rushes in, takes over reins as St. Charles North’s quarterback
- Yorkville’s July 4 bash ‘a snapshot of Americana’
- Joey Chestnut defends title, gobbles down record 72 hot dogs
- Grateful Scott: Hennig to carry on tradition as Geneva boys basketball coach
- Moran: A full night at the drive-in maximizes the moviegoing dollar
- Fourth of July in pictures
- Bucktown man with Alzheimer’s, 87, missing since Monday night
- Neuqua Valley’s Griffin Harmer follows Ethan Hojnacki as Brine All-American
- Hinsdale celebrates Fourth with parade, games and crafts fair
- 2017 Hinsdale Fourth
- College of DuPage names homeland security building after Medal of Honor recipient
- Crowds enjoy Summerfest July 4th parade
- Probation chief to leave, continuing department’s upheaval
- Local running notes: Hobart’s Brian Bowman comes up big in Brickyard 5-Miler
- Chicago police announce gun, drug arrests on last day of long holiday weekend
- Con la muerte de José Luis Cuevas se quiebra ‘La ruptura’
- 1,000 attend Homewood parade, organizers say
- Ribfest ends with a bang
- Red Line trains operating at serious delay, skipping numerous stops
- Great wreck fishing for groupers and snappers
- Families enjoy fishing at Zion derby
- Rays 6, Cubs 5
- Hazy days
- U.S.-backed forces breach ancient wall of Islamic State’s self-proclaimed capital
- Photos: Chris Bosh through the years
- Wilmette’s Tommy Wingels hopes for ‘more than just a good story’ with Blackhawks
- Joan Vydra, educator who also wrote books on teaching, dies at 68
- Chris Christie’s Greek-tragedy political career hits new low
- The ongoing terrorist attack in Ohio
- Drones capture new view of 4th of July fireworks
- How I learned to break bad news to patients and their families
- Firefighters rescue teen from Fox River
- Housing stipend for Congress? Here’s a better way
- A reading list for comprehending Donald Trump
- Supreme Court is last leak-proof institution
- Man shot in ankle in Elgin
- Popular stomach acid blockers linked to higher death rates
- Man fatally shot in Lake Station, officials say
- Missile launch tests President Trump’s North Korea strategy
- Students: Rename Douglas Park for abolitionist Frederick Douglass
- Athletics 7, White Sox 6
- Drone captures fireworks from a new angle
- Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic benefit from opponents’ withdrawals at Wimbledon
- Douglas Park on the Fourth of July
- Chris Archer got away from Cubs once; now they might look to bring him back
- Illinois House, be careful with this tax hike. Where are all those reforms?
- Fourth of July parade brings Aurora together
- Mueller probe could draw focus to Russian crime operations
- Gordon Hayward will leave Jazz for Celtics, reuniting with coach Brad Stevens
- Jose Abreu on 2017 turnaround: ‘I’m playing more like I know I can play’
- Baffled Cubs below .500 again after 6-5 loss to Rays
- White Sox allow one home run too many in 7-6 walk-off loss to Athletics
- Heat waive Bosh as Big Three era formally ends; No. 1 to be retired
- Ask Tom: What causes differences in solar radiation in Chicago during the year?
- Violence leaves about 60 shot, 8 of them dead, for July 4th weekend
- Illinois Senate votes to override Rauner veto of income tax hike, budget
- North Korea vows more ‘gift packages’ of missile tests for U.S.
- No ‘specific agenda,’ but Trump, Putin have lots to discuss
- CPD officers hurt during Englewood squad car crash
- Teen, 17, charged in connection with FBI vehicle theft
- Schools rethink meal-debt policies that humiliate kids