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- Cubs pitcher John Lackey
- U.S. and South Korean troops start drills amid North Korea standoff
- Eclipse: Así se vivió en Chicago y Carbondale
- Show the world your smile
- Weekend homicide victims identified
- Heartbroken woman receives abuse at home
- 17 shot, 1 fatally on last day of violent weekend
- Morning Spin: Downstate Republican congressman says Trump derailing his own agenda
- The cost of eclipse fever for workplaces? It could be $694 million
- Nations search for 10 missing after U.S. Navy destroyer, oil tanker collide
- At trunk parties, African-American students get support — and advice — before college
- Race, the crack epidemic and the effect on today’s opioid crisis
- 170 rape kits, no investigations until Cook County stepped in to seek justice
- Big Ben bell to go silent in London for repairs until 2021
- U.S. Embassy in Russia suspends issuing nonimmigrant visas
- Suspects’ ‘sex fantasies’ led to fatal high-rise stabbing, prosecutors say
- Homeless group close to suit over bike path plan in Uptown
- Photo gallery: USS John S. McCain collision
- ‘Game of Thrones’: 5 thoughts on penultimate episode of Season 7
- Miguel Montero thanks Cubs fans, asks where his home run ball went
- Series preview: Twins at White Sox
- Prickly City-enjoying sloth
- Clouds, showers could overshadow solar eclipse here
- China’s Great Wall considers bid for Fiat Chrysler Jeep unit
- Ric Flair health update: Former pro wrestler is ‘awake, communicating and progressing’
- ‘It’s not 100 percent here?’: Ravens’ John Harbaugh not impressed with solar eclipse
- Putin appoints new Russian ambassador to U.S.
- Samir Nasri leaves Man City for Turkish club Antalyaspor
- She helps sales teams find the right people with GrowthPlay
- Free concert series comes to town featuring BJ the Chicago Kid, Leather Corduroys and Towkio
- Joffrey Ballet to team with Australian Ballet on ‘Anna Karenina’
- Dempsey’s last-second PK lifts Sounders past Minnesota, 2-1
- Nasri ficha por el Antalyaspor turco
- Jerry Lewis appreciation: The man, the monster, the legend
- Neymar deja boquiabierta a Francia
- ‘I still like football, but it scares me:’ Joe Kapp a reminder of sport’s dangers
- Target ends relationship with troubled food maker Hampton Creek
- Toca fondo el Rebaño
- Watch live: Total solar eclipse
- En vivo: eclipse solar total no se lo pierda
- Ask Anna: My boyfriend cheated on me
- Learn about Iceland’s ‘hidden people,’ trolls and more at elf school in Reykjavik
- Nestle’s Poland Spring is common groundwater, new suit alleges
- Aprende lección Tom Brady
- Chicago nightlife at Debonair Social Club last week
- On the hunt for elves in Iceland
- ‘Dirty Dancing’ at 30: How Baby and Johnny won over the skeptics
- Study suggests possible link between urban lighting and breast cancer
- Roger Goodell on verge of five-year contract extension through 2024
- Se une América a lucha ‘anti grito’
- Eclipse solar total, ¿qué es y por qué es tan inusual?
- Block Party: River Grove community comes together
- Asthma, more deadly with age, takes heavy toll on older adults
- Lake County mosque opens doors to non-Muslims: ‘There are so many things in common between us’
- Chicago won’t see eclipse spectacle of Carbondale, but excitement palpable
- Spain death toll to 15 as suspect linked to fatal carjacking
- River Grove Block Party
- Personality and flair: How kids are customizing school uniforms
- Pedestrian bridge over Fox River ‘will be built next year’
- Study says Aurora tops in country for pediatric health care
- Why are Chicagoans so obsessed with Italian sausage on pizza? An investigation
- Selle: Invading carp nears exotic locale in Big Lake
- Aukiki River fest features activities, Kankakee history
- Community news
- Target refreshes brands to stay chic and relevant, phasing out Merona and Mossimo
- Hinsdale business has been cleaning rugs for more than 100 years
- Kitty Conley’s Scratching Post
- Quickly
- Deerfield program splits cost of parkway trees with residents
- The NFL again is talking about shortening the preseason. Will it ever happen?
- Robert Allgyer, partner at Arthur Andersen, dies at 72
- Darien woman hospitalized after being hit by vehicle
- Teen pleads guilty to lesser charge in Slender Man attack
- Can’t make it outside to watch solar eclipse? Try TV
- Pioneer Press football preview: Libertyville Wildcats
- L’Chaim Center in Deerfield to celebrate new Torah
- Three Aurora teens become Eagle Scouts
- Minor-league baseball teams have game-day eclipse parties
- Pioneer Press football preview: Vernon Hills Cougars
- Green thumbs come together at Chicago’s community gardens
- Larger Vintage Days festival in Long Grove attracts thousands
- Top 25 poll: Alabama starts No. 1 for 2nd straight year
- CHICAGO TRIBUNE’S FANTASY FAN VOTE OFFICIAL RULES
- 15 things to do with the kids Aug. 21-27.
- Policía mata a tiros a presunto autor de ataque en Barcelona
- 63 shot over weekend in Chicago; only long July 4th weekend more violent this year
- EEUU ordena investigación de flota tras choque de la Armada
- Shout Out: Elizabeth Moy, diaper drive organizer
- 5 ways to explore the ‘final frontier’ on Florida’s Space Coast
- A mother’s loss sheds light on need for better asthma control
- 3 things you’ll need to throw the ultimate tailgating party
- Teaching your child to be a responsible digital citizen
- 5 mistakes millennials make when it comes to credit
- Tips to achieve the retirement you want (Infographic)
- Elmhurst celebrates summer with Park Palooza
- NFL’s Bennett brothers show two sides of activism. For Martellus, that’s political cartooning.
- Pioneer Press football preview: Mundelein Mustangs
- The ‘Big Brother’ Paul situation shows why returning players are a bad idea on reality TV
- Elon Musk and AI experts urge U.N. to ban killer robots
- Hinsdale business has been cleaning rugs for more than 100 years
- Talk of the County
- Jonathan Toews ranked 12th among NHL centers — but it’s hard to argue with that
- Calendar
- Pioneer Press football preview: Carmel Corsairs
- Sempra Energy bids $9.45B for Oncor, topping Buffett offer
- Chicago-area high school football preseason top 20
- Lake County Star Newspaper Almanac
- Big portions on hand for 11th annual Taste of the Towns in Lake Zurich
- New Valparaiso police chief, assistant sworn in
- La quietud enigmática de cada nueva jornada en Plaza Garibaldi
- Bill Cosby hires Michael Jackson’s lawyer for sex assault retrial
- Talk of the County
- Back to School: Students, school officials celebrate at Ridgewood
- Back to School Bash
- Elmhurst celebrates summer with Park Palooza
- Taste of the Towns in Lake Zurich
- Pioneer Press football preview: Lake Forest Scouts
- Talk of the County
- Talk of the County
- In the era of dating apps, who still posts on Craigslist’s Missed Connections?
- Talk of the County
- River Forest District 90, teachers union agree on new contract
- France’s Total buying Maersk Oil for $7.45 billion
- Police: Off-duty Chicago fire lieutenant fatally shoots man who stole car
- Suman ya 20 los grupos benéficos que desertan del club de Trump en Florida
- Denzel Washington volverá a Broadway con ‘The Iceman Cometh’
- Rose makes us believers in Music Theater’s ‘Gypsy’
- For the hungry
- Balbo did the right thing
- Ryan rechaza el relativismo sobre neonazis tras los disturbios en Virginia
- Speak Out
- English soccer embraces payback for Asian money
- Gary man’s trial in double murder postponed
- Countdown to football: Clayton Isbell in charge for No. 4 St. Charles East
- Mixed debut for VAR in Serie A
- ‘Suspicious’ fire probed at closed Gary high school
- North Chicago shooting victim identified
- Hispanos en EEUU desconfían de ancianatos
- Pioneer Press football preview: Stevenson Patriots
- Beach attendance figures appear to be down, officials say
- Glencoe Park District approves Takiff Center project
- Countdown to football: Luke Weerts, Batavia ranked No. 4 in preseason
- Mother and daughter bond strengthens after shared college experience
- Ayobami Adebayo’s stunning debut explores love, marriage and family
- Fred’s Garage prepares to fill Winnetka appetites
- Without question, Nancy Kane sets a leader’s pace for Mother McAuley
- West Deerfield Township helps patrons with back-to-school needs
- Secret Service says it will run out of money to protect Trump and his family Sept. 30
- Daily Southtown girls volleyball preseason top 10 and 20 players to watch
- 44 firefighters battle Naperville-area house fire
- NZ striker Wood joins EPL side Burnley for club-record fee
- Pioneer Press football preview: Nazareth Roadrunners
- Participants over the moon at Aurora eclipse event
- Ribfest brings blues and barbecue to Vernon Hills
- Aurora home uninhabitable after fire
- Steel Beam season starts with ‘100 Years of Broadway’
- ‘Chicharito’ no se dará por vencido
- Little Bear Ribfest 2017
- French police rule out terror after 1 killed when van rams bus stops
- The feel-good Hallmark Channel is booming in the age of Trump
- First Division Museum reopens with new exhibits
- ‘Why are we arresting a 12-year old?’ Father questions if race prompted son’s arrest in Evanston
- En Rayados, todos jalan parejo
- Barcelona fugitive shot dead had knives, wore fake bomb belt
- Stephen Wade has a new album ‘Amerikee,’ and a lifelong love of banjo
- Students view rare solar eclipse in Western Springs
- Man killed early Saturday in Waukegan motorcycle crash
- St. John of the Cross eclipse party
- Pioneer Press football preview: St. Joseph Chargers
- All the right instincts in this storefront ‘Shockheaded Peter’
- Coldplay’s Chris Martin visits ill teen in Chicago after Soldier Field show
- Clinical trials need more minorities
- Harwood Heights to receive portion of new car wash’s revenues
- Softbol de élite en el barrio boricua de Chicago de Humboldt Park
- Eclipse blotter: Tracking Chicago sports team’s memes
- Q&A: ‘Destroy Your Art’ founders ask filmmakers to create—then delete
- Taylor Swift teases fans with snake video
- Fire causes $250,000 in damage to Norris Center at St. Charles East High School
- Niles Township School District 219, union employees agree on contract in time for school start
- Lake County schools use solar eclipse as teaching moment despite clouds
- Showrunner: New ‘Chicago P.D.’ season to be more socially charged
- Naperville police probe 3rd armed robbery in 5 weeks
- Pioneer Press football preview: Lyons Lions
- New Lenox to host rally for Purple Heart recipient, Providence Catholic graduate Israel Del Toro
- Victoria Azarenka withdraws from U.S. Open amid child custody dispute
- WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
- Hawthorn 73 middle school students start year with new Chromebooks in hand
- Starbucks hops on the sushi burrito bandwagon
- Cubs’ Anthony Rizzo named NL player of the week
- Linebacker Tre Watson expected to be leader on inexperienced Illinois defense
- Late Sterling goal earns Man City 1-1 draw vs Everton in EPL
- New venue, same Naperville Wine Festival fun
- West Suburban Local Scoreboard for Tuesday, Aug. 21
- 3 sought in Hammond armed robberies caught on video
- Pioneer Press football preview: Fenwick Friars
- Despite cloud cover, Stevenson students cherish chance to watch rare solar eclipse
- Eclipse-viewing party draws thousands in Oak Park
- Oak Park Eclipse Party
- Baranek: Triathlon a dad-daughter delight for Jeff and Natalie Sabbath
- Watching the eclipse in Paducah, Kentucky
- Quotables
- Two Norridge establishments cited for underage liquor sales
- Police: Chicago boys captured in River Forest after carjacking that began in Oak Park
- ‘A bite out of the sun’: Eclipse causes a buzz at Volo Bog
- Orphans of the Storm finds new homes for 53 dogs, 31 cats during Clear the Shelters event
- Department employee picked for superintendent’s job
- New Lenox police offer addicts a ‘Second Chance’
- Eclipse does not disappoint Hinsdale South students
- Orphans of the Storm helps Clear the Shelters
- Car values dropping, underwater loans rising
- Danish police find torso of woman after submarine sinking
- The AP preseason poll is out — but does it really matter?
- Skokie library hosted gazers of historic solar eclipse
- Antioch police charge Spring Grove man with theft from downtown video store
- Trump’s real record on race may surprise you
- Party atmosphere at Cernan Space Center’s eclipse-viewing events
- Jorge Soler eclipse: Whatever happened to the former Cub?
- Former Mundelein police chief appointed to Plan Commission
- Eclipse viewing at Hinsdale South
- Arts and crafts go online
- Dental records may help identify body found in Aurora garage
- Residents line up early to catch glimpse of solar eclipse in Arlington Heights
- Will County proclaims Day of Hope
- OPRF High School kicks off 2017-18 school year
- Block 37 developer sentenced to 3 years in federal prison for fraud
- The new weapons America sorely needs
- Catholic Charities marks a century of service
- Kris Bryant isn’t having another MVP season, but he’s working on getting in the picture
- Poll shows strong disapproval of how Trump responded to Charlottesville violence
- False arrest lawsuit filed in Fox Lake staged suicide of Lt. Gliniewicz
- Random Acts of Flowers volunteers spread cheer
- Niles Chamber hosts 130 at annual golf outing.
- Aurora set to hire DUI prosecution firm
- Catholic Charities marks a century of service
- Countdown to football: Stevenson ranked No. 4 in the preseason
- 69-year-old woman repeatedly attacked on Aurora’s East Side: police
- Shnay: Squirrels, birds welcome but not raccoons
- Crowds look to the skies at Dunes eclipse viewing
- Even clouds can’t get in the way of solar eclipse above Park Ridge
- Countdown to football: Nick Marozas, Brother Rice ranked No. 4 in preseason
- Maine South watches the eclipse
- To protect its turf, this fiefdom wants more turf. Guess who pays.
- OPRF welcomes freshmen
- Trump celebrates solar eclipse by looking up without special viewing glasses
- Nearly 2,000 attend Oak Lawn library eclipse event
- Man who shot Ohio judge is father of football player convicted of rape
- Effort to see a total eclipse was totally worth it
- Waubonsie Valley’s Charles Robinson commits to Northern Illinois
- Cubs eager to see how former linebacker develops as full-time baseball player
- Elgin-area students observe historic eclipse
- Federal authorities: Texas man tried planting bomb on Confederate statue
- Nation’s political split on display at Trump Phoenix visit
- Ask Tom: Where does adage about sailors, red skies come from?
- Buncich denies wielding influence in towing contracts
- Ghost schools and goats: 16 years of U.S. taxpayer waste in Afghanistan
- Bears cling to positives as offense regroups for third exhibition
- JJC expands facilities at Romeoville campus
- At least 1 dead as earthquake rocks Italian resort island of Ischia
- Who will the Cubs promote when rosters are expanded Sept. 1?
- Montana rep who body-slammed reporter must get mugshot, fingerprints taken, judge rules
- Countdown to football: Kyle Eberly, Oswego East are No. 5 in preseason
- Watch live: Trump addresses nation on path forward in Afghanistan
- Michael Anderson, head of Chicago’s FBI office, retiring
- Clarendon Hills eclipse viewers don’t let clouds darken their day
- Despite measles outbreak, anti-vaccine activists in Minnesota refuse to back down
- Drew Snouffer has the inside track as a leader for Valparaiso at linebacker
- Boys cross country preview: Caleb Chapman champing at the bit for Lowell
- St. Catherine Laboure consecrates shrine to Immaculate Heart of Mary
- Entering its fourth week, Chicago-area mechanics strike causing confusion for customers
- Why Afghanistan matters: The U.S. cannot let this battered land fall to terrorists
- Navy orders probe into Pacific fleet after destroyer, oil tanker collision
- Game 1: White Sox 7, Twins 6
- Army suspends search for helicopter that crashed off Hawaii, identifies five soldiers
- For White Sox, eclipse viewing, then a 7-6 victory over the Twins
- Lake County News-Sun Local Scoreboard for Tuesday, Aug. 22
- Cooler, drier weather to follow early showers
- $1.6M VFW raffle drawing hits legal snag, halted amid ‘ordinance issue’
- Trump tries to unify after Charlottesville: ‘Heal our divisions within’
- Chicago CEO barely gets a ‘Bachelor in Paradise’ exit
- Trump’s phony Afghanistan plan
- Eclipse viewing at Naper Settlement draws more than 1,400 people
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Tuesday, Aug. 22
- Elgin-area U46 OKs pay hike for school police officers
- Daily Southtown Local Scoreboard for Tuesday, Aug. 22
- As Red Sox confront their former owner’s racist legacy, the Redskins should follow
- Photos of the 2017 solar eclipse from around Illinois
- New lawsuit alleges Baylor failures under new rape policies
- Evan Dubose corners the market on kicks as Munster slips past Crown Point
- The solar eclipse transformed America, at least for a few moments
- Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $417 million in lawsuit linking talcum powder to cancer
- Giants WR Odell Beckham Jr. hurts leg in first half against Browns
- Flame-throwing White Sox prospect Michael Kopech solid in his Triple-A debut
- Trump outlines new strategy for war in Afghanistan, but provides few specifics
- Paul Ryan says Trump ‘messed up’ on Charlottesville, but opposes censure