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- Saturday party to remember Unity Partnership founder killed in Chicago
- Free entree at Olive Garden with purchase
- Mitch Trubisky looks good enough for Bears to promote him — to No. 2
- Mitch Trubisky’s preseason debut should lead to Bears QB competition
- Preseason: Broncos 24, Bears 17
- Mitch Trubisky impressive, Mike Glennon disappointing in Bears’ preseason loss
- ‘Annabelle: Creation’ review: Simple premise makes for very spooky prequel
- Trump doubles down on ‘fire and fury’ warning to North Korea as wargames near
- Kim Jong Un wants to stay in power — and that is an argument against nuclear war
- Yoan Moncada ties game in ninth, wins it in 11th as White Sox sweep Astros
- Young marriage roiled by old problem
- ‘The Nut Job 2’ review: A rote but radical sequel
- Morning Spin: Rauner opens the Illinois State Fair, agriculture director suffers a fall
- Custom Chicago condo: $3M
- As hospital violence grows, nurses seek reforms: ‘Too many of us are being hurt’
- President Bezos? President Zuckerberg? 2020 could feature Trump vs. CEO
- Teen among 5 people wounded in city shootings
- ‘SNL’ star Rachel Dratch gets 20-year-old Chicago parking ticket
- Woman sues firm, Cook County after alleged attack by teen wearing GPS monitor
- Democrats worry about political fallout from county soda pop tax
- Feds say Cook County soda tax collection violates food stamp rules
- Chicago police officer convicted of tipping off high school friend about drug investigation
- Series preview: Cubs at Diamondbacks
- Series preview: Royals at White Sox
- ‘Trevor,’ a musical about a gay teen, debuts in a world that still needs him
- Chicago cop’s 2012 fatal shooting of teen ‘unprovoked’ and ‘unwarranted’: IPRA
- That Google memo about women in tech wasn’t wrong
- Glenwood man calls 911, tells dispatcher he just killed his wife and son, police say
- Ex-Tulsa cop acquitted in shooting death now volunteers as deputy — and wears a firearm
- Asian-Americans are indeed treated unfairly in admissions, but the culprit is not affirmative action.
- Cubs’ challenge: Hold off Brewers and Cardinals without Willson Contreras
- China warns North Korea: Go after the U.S., and you’re on your own
- Oxford University worker, ‘quiet lad’ of the neighborhood, to appear in court today in Chicago stabbing
- Photo gallery: Overnight crime scene investigations
- Prickly City-uncomfortable
- Vote: Should Mitch Trubisky be the Bears starting QB?
- Watch: Weekend Update’ pokes Trump, Scaramucci on ‘SNL’ return
- Oak Park massage parlors shut down after prostitution investigation; 4 face charges
- Google CEO cancels companywide town hall on gender dispute after employee questions are leaked
- Uber investor sues ex-CEO Travis Kalanick, accusing him of fraud
- Why is John Fox telling Mitch Trubisky the starting QB job doesn’t have to be earned?
- Man dies after falling from tree near 31st Street Beach
- How do you deal with the schmuck in your office?
- ‘Hamilton’ launches app with access to ticket lottery
- 10 thoughts on Mitch Trubisky and Bears’ preseason 24-17 loss
- Chicago date idea: National Hellenic Museum then Greek food
- Knicks and Rockets reportedly renew Carmelo Anthony trade talks
- Yoan Moncada’s walk-off sets off raucous celebration — on the field and at home
- Delicious and self-guided: A 40-mile walk through Bordeaux’s vineyards
- Merrillville considers revising animal ordinance
- Busy Crown Point intersection draws attention
- How to survive a long flight with a baby or preschooler
- At 88, saxophonist Benny Golson has stories to tell
- Learning life lessons at Camp Rhythm, a summer camp for kids with heart conditions
- Fitness gurus to work out with for free on YouTube
- Call of the Colorado River leads to a family pilgrimage
- Applebee’s closing up to 135 restaurants; 25 IHOP locations could close
- ‘Wider view of science’: Fermilab and Metea Valley partner to promote STEM to minority students
- Making sense of Facebook’s new video platform, Watch
- Bonneville Salt Flats offers venue for the love of speed
- Perfect 10s: Mitch Trubisky and Yoan Moncada drive number buzz
- Fermilab and Metea Valley program
- Months late, city to start issuing long-awaited Airbnb host registrations
- Trump’s empty threats toward North Korea endanger us all
- Qué hacer este fin de semana en Chicago
- ‘Some Freaks’ review: Teen love complicated by outsider status
- Car stolen in River Forest carjacking spotted in Chicago; juveniles in custody
- Lake 2018 budget process gets started
- WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
- Chicago’s Reverb to launch vinyl-record selling platform
- Veterans health care: Building on success
- Buffalo Grove police urge residents: Lock your cars
- Juez otorga más tiempo a víctimas de abuso sexual para pelear su caso de asilo
- The NFL’s cowardly owners
- Trump advierte a Corea del Norte: EEUU está ‘listo’ para un ataque militar
- Batavia woman gets probation in battery case
- Naperville News Digest
- Aida Cuevas lamenta pérdida de espacio de música mexicana y apuesta a jóvenes
- ‘Do not look at the flash or fireball,’ Guam warns residents after North Korea’s nuclear threats
- Oak Park board backs Harrison Street property owner’s quest for county tax incentives
- Neymar’s transfer certificate received by French federation
- Enfrentamiento entre reos deja 9 muertos en Tamaulipas
- AC Milan midfielder Biglia out for a month with thigh strain
- Coutinho going nowhere – Liverpool
- State decision may cost Aurora $2 million
- Study: Lots of downtown Crown Point parking, if you know where to look
- Guardiola: Man City to rein in spending after record outlay
- After sticking with Juve, reinvigorated Allegri starts again
- iLe y sus boleros para el empoderamiento femenino en Pilsen Fest
- Stoke pay Porto 7.7 million euros for Martins Indi
- Absinthe stars at Chicago bars this summer
- Cops: 2 drivers who played ‘cat and mouse’ — one in car with 3 tires — charged with DUI
- Family affair at local frozen custard spot
- Elmwood Park student’s backpack project a big success
- Venezuela no está para hablar de belleza
- Bud Billiken Parade 2017: If you go
- Torino sing midfielder Rincon on loan from Juventus
- Gary triple shooting Friday morning leaves 2 dead, woman wounded
- Illinoisans give 2% to charity. A little more could mean a lot, says Forefront CEO
- 5 baby formula myths debunked
- Help support education and inspire positive classroom experiences nationwide during the back-to-school season (Video)
- ‘Mitote’ por negocios vinculados al narco
- Shout Out: Andrew Whowell, deputy police chief in Arlington Heights
- Benitez vows to fight on despite transfer woes
- Renovation project closes Waukegan’s Clearview Park into next year
- Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor in line for federal construction grant
- Northwest Indiana casino revenue down for July year-over-year
- Pyeongchang Olympics: IOC meeting to discuss North Korea threat
- River Forest Sustainability Commission considers regulating beekeepers
- Citizens for Conservation mourn sudden death of restoration director, advocate
- Freedom Caucus conservatives begin uphill fight for fresh health care repeal vote
- Leonard Floyd flashes early for Bears defense in exhibition opener
- Hinsdale’s ace pitcher is set for Little League regional championship game
- Cops seek portion of Merrillville’s expected $500K from state
- Free ice cream: Ben & Jerry’s to pass out new ‘pint slices’ in Chicago this week
- Amita Health names new CEO for La Grange
- NWI’s first aerial park reaches new heights
- James Cameron says ‘Terminator 2’ as ‘timely as it ever was’
- Church news
- ‘Jersey Shore’ cast returns to TV for a reunion
- NFL suspends Cowboys’ Ezekiel Elliott following domestic violence allegations
- Cars, music, fun rule at Cruisin’ Park Ridge
- Fantasy football: How to deal with Ezekiel Elliott’s suspension and today’s Bills trades
- Google creates epic hip-hop Doodle to kick off 44th birthday jam
- Optimism
- Residents raise concerns about proposed Yorkville gas station
- Arlington Heights police team up with Culver’s to support Special Olympics
- Column: Locher an amazing man who deserves to be remembered
- Magician returns to Theatre at the Center stage
- Train collision in northern Egypt kills at least 36
- Five questions about the solar eclipse
- Speak Out: Let’s start taking care of our highways
- Miembro de un sádico culto a punto de ser liberado
- Quickly
- Judge denies Dennis Hastert’s request to ban cameras during lawsuit proceedings
- As Evanston students end ‘elitist’ cotillion, other events remain strong
- The Tinder tiger selfie could soon be extinct
- Emanuel seeks to block feds from imposing new grant rules on sanctuary cities
- Surveillance video shows car’s 7-story fall from Texas parking garage
- How ‘Poor Richard’ changed Americans’ beliefs about eclipses
- At least 3 dead, 4 wounded in Chicago shootings
- Column: Cook County residents in Elgin bypass beverage tax across the border
- Lake Bluff Concours classic car show represents the other side of Lake Michigan
- Bills trade Sammy Watkins to Rams; get Jordan Matthews from Eagles
- Column: Let’s face it, Illinois has a broken school funding system
- Hollingworth Candies never intended to be retail business
- NIU to hold eclipse event in Aurora
- Chicago rapper Saba announces ‘John Walt Day’ concert benefiting Chicago youth
- Fire severely damages Geneva garage
- Find your kicks in Route 66 pocket guide, courtesy of Will County and the Heritage Corridor
- Prosecutors can use what Officer Van Dyke told union rep at Laquan McDonald shooting
- ‘Friday Night Flights’ beer series adds extra stop along the Riverwalk
- Designers, gardeners display their creativity at Garden Club Show
- Bicycle and vehicle collide in Aurora intersection
- Second suspect in Near North Side fatal stabbing agrees to return to Chicago
- Why Google was wrong to fire James Damore
- Lake Zurich police, Culver’s work together to support Special Olympics Illinois
- Member of sadistic Ripper Crew due for prison release, unless prosecutors can stop it
- Alexis, Morata, Chicharito, Agüero: la Premier habla cada vez más español
- Down to Business: 360Fit promises fitness options in ‘safe’ place, owner says
- Five things to do in Northwest Indiana Aug. 18-20
- Oak Park gas leak stopped; evacuation likely to end soon, official says
- Confirman la muerte de española desaparecida en México
- Video: Jacob Dickey sings ‘Proud of Your Boy’ from ‘Aladdin’
- Bug Fest puts spotlight on insects
- WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
- Quickly
- Read: Emanuel requests injunction over threat to grant money
- Agreement returns DarienFest to three-day celebration
- Lost at Lolla: What festival fans left behind
- Man dies after being shot last summer; woman still held
- Auto mechanics set to vote on offer that could end nearly 2-week strike
- Michigan woman killed by hippo while on African safari
- Elmwood Park public works employees to see 8 percent wage increase spread over four years
- Quickly
- A look at the weird things Jeffrey Lord said on CNN before he was fired for a tweet
- Official: Fixing cross-sections prone to flooding would cost residents
- D300 approves tentative 2017-18 budget, public hearing planned
- QUOTABLES
- Trump’s suicidal war on his own party
- Broken leg doesn’t prevent Hinsdale Little League player from staying involved
- Give Chicago’s Southeast Side community what it deserves
- Eleven park facilities in Naperville to be renovated, improved
- Chelsea Manning does beach photo shoot for Vogue’s September issue
- Jalisco, bastión financiero de las empresas de capo sancionado por EEUU
- Gray wolves still need our protection
- Protect gray wolves so our children can see them
- Squeezed out by Silicon Valley, the far-right is creating its own corporate world
- CPS’ let’s-pretend budget
- Incumbent Kenyatta declared winner of disputed Kenya presidential vote
- Barrington residents socialize with police during National Night Out
- Slammers follow walk-off victory with blowout win over ThunderBolts
- ‘Sexy Liberal Resistance’ Stephanie Miller coming to Athenaeum Theatre
- Judge or jury? Lake County experts discuss the critical decision each trial defendant must make
- Google bro’s diversity memo shows biological failings of white dudes
- Aurora mayor to talk about accomplishments, future plans
- Los pobres de la frontera…
- Affirmative action and the pursuit of the American Dream
- El machismo en la música, más allá de ‘Despacito’, ‘Gasolina’ o Maluma
- 14-year-old girl missing from West Woodlawn neighborhood
- Rock The Fox Music Fest set for Carpenter Park
- New Oak Lawn chief favors data-driven policing, community outreach
- The U.S. has to accept it: North Korea will join the ‘nuclear club’
- Washington Street underpass and new lanes open to traffic in Grayslake
- Will Preckwinkle face a ‘soda tax storm’ in 2018?
- ESPN pushes expanded fantasy football coverage with 28-hour marathon
- Republican megadonor uses cardboard box catalog to address Chicago murders
- Park Ridge restaurant Gumba Joe’s closing
- How to tell a controlling parent it is time to let go
- Readers Respond
- Diseñadoras salvadoreñas buscan mostrar la cara más amable de su país
- Prosecutors: Robber fatally shot by his accomplice in Parkway Gardens complex
- Oak Park Public Library to host eclipse viewing party
- Lend Preckwinkle some support
- South Bend man charged in fatal Hobart shooting
- Giroud rescues Arsenal to seal 4-3 opening win vs Leicester
- Andy Cohen helps raise $500,000 for JUF
- Nice defeated at home ahead of Champs League playoffs
- 16 shows to see now
- DeVos says school vouchers could be part of federal tax overhaul discussions
- Creativity on display at Garden Club Flower Show
- Green Ball creates a buzz in Evanston
- Spring Event raises $500,000 for JUF
- Mike Ditka on Mitch Trubisky: ‘It’s clear-cut. He should be your starter.’
- Doomsday Clock 2017
- Aurora City Council OKs telecommunication ordinance changes
- Cars, music and fun rule at Cruisin’ Park Ridge
- Countdown to Football: Michigan City ranked No. 7 by the Post-Tribune
- Column: Hunger on campus is a real problem with real solutions
- Naperville park employees helped family when canoe capsized; honored by officials
- Pritzker endorsed by Cook County Democrats
- N.Y. billionaire calls black senator’s support for teachers unions worse than Ku Klux Klan
- Column: U.S. health care ranked lower than in most developed nations
- ‘His teaching left a mark’: Former headmaster of Marmion remembered as ‘natural leader’
- QUOTABLES
- Illinois’ abortion notification law harms free speech
- Back-to-school shopping? Help I.D. stores that save air conditioning
- 5 ways to stop mosquitoes from bugging you this season
- Community briefs
- Naperville could be getting another hotel on northwest side
- Japanese photographer returns with unseen photos of ’90s Mexican Pilsen
- Man, 86, fatally shot in Canaryville neighborhood
- Aurora alderman gives awards for property improvement
- Historic Elgin homes featured on new mobile app
- Jim Kirk, Sun-Times editor/publisher, joins Tribune parent Tronc
- Dub Fest shows off VWs, Audis
- Rob Roy Way
- Illinois names 6 insurers to take part in overhauled Medicaid managed care
- Amateur Danish sub sinks, inventor held on murder charge after journalist goes missing
- Beyond bluster, U.S. and North Korea maintain regular contact
- Buying Lake County sheriff’s fundraiser tickets ‘only way to stay in towing,’ operator says
- Balloon festival takes off for fifth year
- Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria agrees to sell team to Derek Jeter’s group for $1.2 billion, reports say
- Three members of violent Hobos gang sent to prison for life
- Wisconsin GOP revises Foxconn incentives to encourage hiring state residents
- Birthday honor includes some famous shared names
- Chicago gets taste of e-sports craze with Rocket League regional
- Pow wow introduces public to Native American culture
- June Michaelson, went incognito to evaluate hotels, dies at 86
- Without Porter County’s help, domestic violence shelter plan depends on small donors
- Navy: Only woman in SEAL training pipeline drops out
- St. Charles teen’s anti-bullying video hits 1 million views
- Carlos Vela welcomes challenge of being LAFC’s first player
- ‘Show some love. Put down the guns.’
- Riverdale man killed in shooting
- Leverkusen, ‘Gladbach dig deep to progress in German Cup
- Lockport Township clerk eyes Will County seat
- Elgin equestrian heading to international championship
- ‘We want this to be a tourist destination’: Hammond breaks ground on Woodmar sports complex
- Walmart says back-to-school gun display was a prank
- Rep. Roskam says Trump’s ‘lack of ambiguity is helpful’ on North Korea
- Ann Coulter takes shot at Gov. Rauner after his Fox News interview
- A look at bomb shelters of the past
- Speak Out
- News-Sun Local Scoreboard for Saturday, August 12
- Daily Southtown Local Scoreboard for Saturday, August 12
- Ask Tom: How many dates have their record high and low just one year apart?
- Week in review: A nuclear war of words, Hobos gang sentences and an early Bears quarterback controversy
- Ex-Chicago cop convicted of shooting wife in head at their Oak Forest home
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Friday, August 11
- CPS proposes $5.7 billion budget, including $269 million in help from city
- No sugar rush for Taxwinkle’s Democrats
- Former White Sox teammates give Melky Cabrera warm welcome in his return
- Defendant plans appeal in 2014 murder of Bartlett man
- Lynwood provides school supplies, fun at annual festival
- Elgin man charged in May home invasion
- Officials hope Deerpath Golf upgrades will reduce flood-related closures
- White Sox 6, Royals 3
- ThunderBolts add catch with return of Corey Bass from Miami Marlins
- Ask Tom: Will there be a new moon during the solar eclipse?
- ‘Ripped from our arms’: Family, friends mourn Australian woman killed by Minneapolis police
- Chicago set for comfortable late-summer weekend
- Venezuela defense minister calls Trump’s talk of military intervention ‘craziness’
- Cubs uncertain how catching will be divvied up with Willson Contreras out
- Judge throws out Denver DJ’s suit against Taylor Swift in groping trial
- Things go right as Cameron Wright stars in Merrillville’s scrimmage vs. Lowell
- ‘Mayor coming through’: Tinley mayor moved cones for party bus after McCartney concert, records show
- Cubs prepare to absorb loss of Willson Contreras for up to six weeks
- Ground broken for new spec building in Tinley Park
- Will Cardinals’ Rally Cat and Dodgers’ Rally Granny step up in rally lore?
- Speak Out
- About time: Effort underway to put clock back into Flossmoor tower
- Community calendar
- Cubs 8, Diamondbacks 3
- Chicago cop found at fault in teen’s fatal shooting has history of lawsuits, complaints