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- White Sox rookie Willy Garcia homers in return to big leagues
- Year removed from rookie ball, Aaron Bummer joins bare White Sox bullpen
- Cubs top White Sox 6-3; head to Milwaukee season-high 7 games above .500
- Texas executes man for killing woman in 2004 after break-in
- Jon Lester enjoying second-half success: ‘You got to ride the roller coaster’
- Cubs offense is starting to perk up, meet manager Joe Maddon’s standards
- Cubs win first City Series since 2013, but Crosstown Cup merely an afterthought
- Chicago-area unemployment rate ticks up in June from record low
- South Florida fishing report: Lots of small kingfish and dolphin, good mangrove snapper bite
- Senate narrowly rejects ‘skinny repeal’ of Obamacare, as 3 Republicans break with party
- Leading Disney parks ‘Imagineer’ Martin Sklar dies at 83
- Outdoors notebook: BugFest has a dive, a clean-up and a concert
- Outdoors calendar: Pompano Beach Saltwater Showdown is Aug. 5
- Single guy wonders if he should give up the ghost
- Chance the Rapper is a man with a plan in a ‘dead industry’
- Contemporary home in Lincoln Park: $3M
- Chance and Chief Keef: A tale of two rappers
- Wisconsin won Foxconn factory, but Illinois won’t lose out
- Supreme Court disqualifies prime minister from office over Panama Papers allegations
- Judge denies windfall to teachers union lobbyist who was substitute for a day
- Man killed in hit-and-run in East Garfield Park
- Willson Contreras ready to put Cubs’ ‘terrible’ first half behind him
- Merrillville’s Old Mill site sold; town to inquire about redevelopment
- Don’t let a ‘fresh’ or ‘rotten’ on Rotten Tomatoes fool you, this isn’t real criticism
- Police officer dies after being shot multiple times at Indianapolis crash
- Ten workers at Yellowstone National Park to be punished for sexual harassment
- Firefighter hurt in extra-alarm fire, explosion at factory in Irving Park
- Morning Spin: Wall Street agency: Chicago will need $1.3 billion more for pensions by 2023
- Foxconn deal would cost Wisconsin $230,700 per worker
- Starbucks to close all Teavana stores
- Four people hurt when car fleeing police crashes on Dan Ryan Expressway
- 5 things to eat, drink, do this weekend
- 5 buzzworthy topics people will be talking about this weekend
- HaiSous review: Vietnamese restaurant in Pilsen showcases owners’ brilliance, resiliency
- Chicago date idea: Coalfire pizza then a film at Music Box
- Kendrick Lamar alone with his ‘secret society’ at United Center
- MLS All-Star 2017: Stars vs. Galacticos
- Why are Bears scaredy cats when it comes to quarterback competition?
- How Chance the Rapper became Chicago’s hottest cultural export
- Extra-alarm fire injures firefighter
- In predicting Bears season, little knowledge goes a long way
- Prickly City-libertarian bumper sticker
- Why having a soda with that burger may be extra fattening
- Anthony Rizzo ‘would love to’ switch hit, but don’t expect it to happen
- How much it costs to stock the average family refrigerator
- McCain’s surprise thumbs down doomed the GOP bill. Did it open the door for Senate bipartisanship?
- Mandatory resort fees are on the rise – again
- Review: Legend Spicy Bar brings crystal hot pot trend to Chinatown
- Classical Blast bring classic rock with classic heart to Joliet
- How John McCain’s ‘no’ vote on health care played out on the Senate floor
- New debate on antibiotics: Do you really need to take the full course?
- At least 16 shot, 3 fatally in Chicago
- Grocery stores are adapting to male shoppers — and treating them like knuckleheads
- Ed Burns to develop a drama TV series about Chicago for AMC
- Paunovic: ‘We go against Kansas City with a different and renewed energy”
- Chicago could get new open-outcry trading floor, even as frenzied trading declines
- Blackhawks sign goaltender Collin Delia to 2-year deal
- El Senado tumba la última vía de Trump contra Obamacare con el voto crucial de McCain
- WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
- Piano Man wraps up Oak Brook summer concerts
- Oak Brook concert series
- 2 films to focus on Jane Collective, Chicago’s underground network for abortion access
- Niños mexicanos ganan torneo matemático con un ábaco y enorme agilidad mental
- Stop using military terms about cancer — it’s not that kind of war
- Barrington Park District’s summer concerts have music, fun at Citizens Park each Wednesday
- Eat This: Liquid olives, inspired by El Bulli, at Salero in the West Loop
- Crean mural en ‘El Paseo Community Garden’ para preservar la presencia latina
- Abre exposición de retratos en musgo de estrellas del Real Madrid y Barcelona
- Drink This: Pipeworks Brewing teams with Lolla duo to make new version of what’s been called ‘the best IPA in America’
- New faces trying to bond in the White Sox bullpen
- Illinois’ Dylan Meyer: Just another golfer with Clark Kent glasses and a mohawk
- Exhiben en Nicaragua 64 obras originales del pintor mexicano Rufino Tamayo
- Conozca al boricua que convierte en arte las bicis de su barrio
- Rapper Rick Ross apologizes for saying he doesn’t hire female artists because he would have sex with them
- What you may not know about Steve Bannon
- Herrera: Osorio necesita apoyo porque ha hecho bien las cosas
- Tragedy in Texas: Desperate to find their loved ones, families struggle to cross the border
- Neymar storms out of training after fight with team-mate Nelson
- Detienen en México a 19 sospechosos y desmantelan campamentos de cártel
- Review: Fiery music-making from trumpeter Wallace Roney at Jazz Showcase
- The world needs to stop mindlessly fawning over Justin Trudeau
- Kids learn soccer from FC Barcelona coaches
- 56 heridos tras choque de tren contra final de la vía en Barcelona
- Middlesbrough sign striker Fletcher from West Ham
- Foster to host Aug. 3 forum on women’s issues in Aurora
- Marijuana once again found in railcars of new Fords shipped to Midwest
- Scaramucci’s profanity-laden tirade brings smoldering White House tensions into the open
- Celtic hit with UEFA fine after Linfield match
- North Chicago man who allegedly struck police officer and dog arrested in Rolling Meadows
- Scott Stantis cartoon caption contest blog extras
- Crímenes en autobuses y trenes van en aumento, la mayoría no se resuelven
- New Burr Ridge administrator: We’re here to provide services
- Linkin Park singer’s wife opens about husband’s death
- Takata air bag inflator ruptures in Florida crash that killed driver
- Southwest Airlines touts 5 flights with prime solar eclipse view — complete with ‘cosmic cocktails’
- Liquor license for Montgomery sports complex on hold
- No fast lane to the Hall of Fame for speedster Tim Raines
- Lollapalooza 2017
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- Missing from Gary: 2 years and counting
- U.S. elections are an easier target for hackers than once thought
- Rethink your fantasy football draft strategy in five easy steps
- Turn your basic backyard into an outdoor oasis
- 5 ways to tame the back-to-school madness
- Newcastle sign midfielder Merino on loan from Dortmund
- What kind of example does Sarah Huckabee Sanders set for her daughter?
- Here are three ways to make health care more affordable
- The EPA continues to promote cleanup of contaminated sites
- District 214 students can sleep in with new later start
- U.S. economy rebounds in the second quarter
- Clarendon Hills to discuss development, annexation south of 55th Street
- Guardiola eyes long-term future with Man City
- A coffeehouse works to change the face of Back of the Yards
- Arcade Fire latest is ‘Everything’ except all that good
- Lincoln bust with ties to Park Ridge to be duplicated, displayed in Paris
- Paddle tennis courts debut at Park Ridge Country Club
- Niles awarded conservation grant for work at Farm on Franks
- Series preview: Cubs at Brewers
- Evanston library’s north branch to close until September
- Benefit raises $87,000 for Turning Point
- Ald. Edward Burke ready to do battle with North Korea … and China?
- Authorities: Suspect in Harwood Heights attempted bank robbery apologized to tellers
- Qué hacer en agosto en Chicago
- Chef Magnus Nilsson visiting Chicago in September in conjunction with museum exhibit
- Local veterans visit memorials via Honor Flight
- Natalia Lafourcade con sus ‘Musas’ en una noche bohemia
- Pair of Plano aldermen not happy with expansion of video gambling
- Column: How land around train station gets developed a test of who we are
- Northwestern’s Justin Jackson not a ‘look-at-me guy,’ but we can’t look away
- Trump’s transgender policy is on the losing side of the culture war
- Park Ridge youth soccer group hopes to light up playing field
- Sky center Imani Boyette out Friday vs. Mercury with ankle injury
- One injured in rear-end crash in Aurora
- Third O’Hare runway rotation test begins
- Back of the Yards Coffeehouse Inspires Pride
- Lake Forest author, Food Network competitor talks new cookbooks
- Restaurant openings: Chuy’s comes to suburbs, Honeygrow launching with free food
- Al Franken and David Axelrod have dueling accounts of 2010 Obamacare fight
- Illinois lawmakers should speak out against Madigan
- Donald Trump is now a lame-duck president
- Notable Boeing 747 aircraft
- Seeing America through Marc Chagall’s ‘Windows’
- Israeli, Palestinian teens find peace in the North Shore
- Exploring Chicago’s museums
- Down to Business: Consulting firm uses training to guide companies to goals
- Congresistas hispanos presentan una nueva propuesta para proteger ‘dreamers’
- Protestan contra empresa por ‘robo de salarios’
- Unity reception honors Evanston scholars
- O.J. Simpson will not be welcomed back by USC, says Trojans’ football coach
- Dems, don’t let John McCain down
- Rosemont’s new baseball team gets a tasty name: Chicago Dogs
- Hinsdale girl finds success on YouTube
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- Soccer players with special needs invited to Park Ridge event
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- Winnetka, forest preserve board reach tentative stormwater understanding
- GOP blame-game begins after Senate sinks Obamacare repeal bill
- Speak Out
- District 225 officials present tentative budget for fiscal year 2018
- En La Villita desafían el miedo a la violencia en la lucha por ‘incrementar la paz’
- Niegan asilo a periodista mexicano después de nueve años
- Man found stabbed to death in apartment on Near North Side
- Residents upset with streets in Yorkville subdivision
- Concerns raised about proposed ‘active living’ apartment complex
- Northwestern says it won’t bargain with faculty union until ballot dispute settled
- Glencoe discusses infrastructure projects in town
- Beyond the blockbuster: Your complete guide to must-see movies in August
- Photos: Relive Jason Taylor’s Hall-of-Fame career
- Readers Respond
- Sex offender charged with living near Waukegan school
- El Paseo Community Garden Gallery
- Man, 40, slain in Gresham identified
- Bar in St. Charles to have liquor license suspended for three days
- U46 hires new Larkin High School principal
- Medal of Honor veteran meets with jail inmates, shares story of his own challenges
- Springfield Bullies
- Want to be happier? It’s going to cost you.
- Parson’s Chicken & Fish looking to expand to Lincoln Park, plus ‘borderlands’ project coming
- Northwest Indiana home sales at record high prices
- Illinois election officials to review new request from Trump-formed panel for voter data
- Luz verde al impuesto a la soda
- Residents create mural in El Paseo community garden to ‘revive’ the neighborhood’s Latinx culture
- Park Ridge Park District starts planning for Oakton Ice Arena
- Updated proposal for Culver’s gets plan commission OK
- Margaret Bergmann Lambert, high jumper barred from 1936 Olympics, dies at 103
- Mother pleads with police at fatal shooting: ‘I need to touch my son’
- New Wilmette police chief named
- Beloved McDonald’s employee will ‘be hard to replace’
- Tesla Model 3 delivery day raises more questions than answers
- La Grange Park Memorial Park improvements on track for October completions
- Can we now at least put the screws on high health care costs?
- Can Uptown make room for recovering addicts?
- Drury Lane announces ‘Rock of Ages’ cast
- Charlie Gard, British baby at center of legal battle, has died
- Eisenhower Expressway widening project gets federal approval
- ‘Artistry of Wine’ raises $89,000 to fight blindness
- Column: Don’t let wild parsnip, giant hogweed, poison ivy wreck your summer
- Judge upholds 39-year sentence for Crest Hill man convicted of stomping wife to death
- 1 dead, 6 injured after knife attack at German supermarket
- Photos: Chicago actress Mariann Mayberry
- Late hiring of Oak Terrace principal a worry for some parents
- El Clasico set to turn up heat in Miami
- Trump nombra por sorpresa a Kelly como su nuevo jefe de gabinete
- Column: ‘Public welcome’ are welcome words at high school tracks
- FDA to target addictive levels of nicotine in cigarettes
- ‘I could talk all day about my job’: Meet Cubs and White Sox ushers on the front line
- Mini Lic, posible sucesor del Chapo, se entrega a la DEA en California
- Trump in August: Can his flailing presidency ever deliver results?
- DACA en la era de Trump: ‘El que no arriesga, no gana’
- Supporters of 18-story Oak Park Albion project have their say; opponents up next
- Aumenta el porcentaje de muertes entre los heridos de bala; ya se supera los 400 homicidios
- ‘A walk back in time’: Pierogi Fest offers heaping helpings of ethnic culture
- Turning ‘Merry Christmas’ into ‘Nuts to you!’
- Shout Out: Jennifer Dotson, poet in motion
- Illinois consumers to get peek at Obamacare rate changes, but uncertainty remains
- Board & Barrel open, Lil J’s Bohemia closes in downtown Naperville
- Basketball community still reeling from shooting death of Jonathan Mills
- Corrections and clarifications for Saturday, July 29, 2017
- Nearly 2 dozen car burglaries in Highland Park over 5 days
- Channeling Trump, Shkreli calls case against him ‘silly witch hunt’
- 3 teens charged in arson deaths of 2 women, baby in Joliet plead not guilty
- After Fourth of July stabbing, Waukegan woman indicted in boyfriend’s death
- More people dying from gunshot wounds as Chicago marks 400 homicides
- Evanston shoots down proposed drone ordinance
- ‘It’s exciting’: Experts speak on electric and hybrid vehicles in River Forest
- WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
- Lakes graduate T.J. Edwards finds home on defense for Wisconsin
- WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
- Wisconsin governor calls special session to waive regulations for Foxconn plant
- Frankfort District 157C names new board member after McFadden’s death
- Chesterton’s Mitch Davis the Post-Tribune 2017 Boys Golfer of the Year
- County fair a throwback to DuPage’s agricultural past
- Dear Illinois parents: You’re being played by Democrats in Springfield
- Matt Meneghetti hoping to break out of slump at Lake-Porter
- Cook County soda tax to start Wednesday after judge dismissed challenge
- The Picasso turns 50
- Friday’s Bears training camp practice
- Oak Lawn man pleads guilty to throwing poodles off parking garage roof
- Judge: Lake County did not discriminate against senior workers fired amidst financial crisis
- Week in review: A tragic crash, a GOP health care fail and the red-hot Cubs
- Crown Point’s Ryan Bishop the Post-Tribune 2017 Boys Golf Coach of the Year
- Jury acquits driver in taxicab crash that killed grad student
- ‘Distracted’ driver on cellphone hits sign, injures workers on I-80, police say
- Post-Tribune Boys Golf All-Area Team
- Pierogi Fest celebrates Whiting’s heritage
- Lake County tow operator charged alongside sheriff to plead guilty to corruption, tax evasion: documents
- Hobbling along with a bully president
- Orland Park man charged with injuring officer while in lockup
- Trade deadline waiting game: Will White Sox’s Melky Cabrera be the next to go?
- Aurora listed as top affordable housing market, top elementary schools
- Chief says slain Indiana police officer had no reason to expect danger
- Western nations decry Iran space launch; U.S. levies sanctions
- LaVar Ball has female AAU referee replaced midgame: ‘She needs to stay in her lane’
- Ask Tom: Is Chicago experiencing a record string of 70-plus days?
- Palos Township trustee resigns from county commission after anti-Muslim Facebook posts
- State report rips former DCFS chief over ethical, financial lapses
- Mike Glennon impresses slot receiver Victor Cruz with command
- Ohio State Fair reopening kiddie, other ‘low-impact’ rides after fatal accident
- Bears’ Pernell McPhee out indefinitely after arthroscopic knee surgery
- Hazelnut Fest expands to 3 days
- Lincoln Mall demolition site
- State worker retiring amid probe of racist emails in water department scandal
- Safety in numbers: Competition intensifying on back end of Bears’ defense
- What’s next for the Affordable Care Act now that repeal has failed?
- Unsigned Nikola Mirotic won’t play for Spain’s national team at EuroBasket
- Soda tax puts some Elgin businesses at ‘competitive disadvantage’
- McCain got the applause, but Murkowski beat back pressure from Trump on health care
- Letters to the editor: Trans ban, ‘Us,’ energy law
- Letters to the editor
- Cristiano Ronaldo will not play in El Clasico, official says
- Ex-priest in Boston sex abuse scandal released from prison
- ‘I want people to talk about it’: Sex abuse allegations surface against former Glencoe teacher
- Can new White House chief of staff impose discipline where it counts?
- Chia ettal? Uptown coffee shop transforms into ‘Dyslexia Cafe’
- Trump ousts Reince Priebus as chief of staff, names Gen. John Kelly as replacement
- Trump tells police not to worry about injuring suspects during arrests
- Brewers 2, Cubs 1
- Column: Immaculée Ilibagiza to speak about surviving Rwandan genocide at Southland appearances
- How an obscure procedural move became latest flashpoint for Rauner, Democrats
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- Lake County Council’s tax break process underway for mysterious Project Pumpkin
- Warm Chicago weekend to see sunny days, cool nights
- Slammers second baseman Melvin Rodriguez takes pride in iron man status
- ‘Water parks are complicated’: Porter says it might need to outsource inspections at Seven Peaks
- South Shore ready to seek federal money for projects
- Indians 9, White Sox 3
- Grappling tourney brings bit of Brazil to Oak Lawn
- ‘A man-made disaster’: North Carolina vacation turns into sweaty nightmare after power outage
- Indiana Democrats criticize Holcomb’s rhetoric on GOP health care repeal
- Trump: Mystery cop is biker who can fix Chicago crime in ‘couple of days’
- Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo won’t be in Chicago to face MLS All-Stars
- North Korea says 2nd intercontinental ballistic missile test puts much of U.S. in range
- Cubs could make move for bullpen help before Monday’s trade deadline
- Ask Tom: What are ‘full-fetch’ winds?
- Mother’s challenge: What to do with mentally ill child?
- As Trump plans to sign new sanctions bill, his hopes for better relations with Russia crumble
- Stefanie Dolson scores career-high 29 points but Sky fall 86-80 to Mercury
- After latest CTE study, time to re-examine our uneasy love affair with football
- ‘Detroit’ review: Kathryn Bigelow shoots the ’67 war at home
- Brewers merely a pesky pest to be swept aside during Cubs’ return to playoffs