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- IHOP celebrates its birthday with 60-cent pancakes on Tuesday
- Top places for selfies in South Florida
- eBay offers ‘membership free’ deals on Apple products and more with rival Prime Day sale
- Amazon Prime Day: 8 freebies and hottest deals (half off Amazon devices) you can score now
- NTSB: Engines may have failed in helicopter crash near I-57
- ‘Very much counter to the plan’: Trump defies advisers in embrace of Putin
- Home Run Derby
- ‘Bizarre.’ ‘Shameful.’ ‘Disgraceful.’: Republicans join Democrats in condemning Trump’s remarks
- Morning Spin: Rauner’s campaign spent nearly $8 million last quarter. Pritzker’s spent more than double that.
- Father-son driving lesson takes wrong turn
- Move over Amazon: Target launches one-day sale with freebies, 30 percent off deals
- Anne Heche returning to Chicago for ‘Chicago P.D.’ role
- ‘Mission: Impossible — Fallout’ review: We choose to accept it
- Trump’s ‘America First’ morphs into ‘Me First’
- Elmhurst History Museum recalls roller skating days at The Elm and other Chicago area rinks
- ‘Jabari’s homecoming’: Parker to the Bulls makes perfect sense to his Simeon friends
- Instagram-friendly ‘wndr museum’ is coming to Chicago, tickets on sale Tuesday
- Anthony Bourdain unloaded on Bill Clinton and Trump in one of his final interviews
- San Francisco to consider tax on companies to help homeless
- Officer shoots dog after finding man clinging to car to escape attack
- Ford to spend up to $299 million to settle Takata air bag lawsuits
- Bryce Harper’s epic Home Run Derby duel with Kyle Schwarber will be hard to top
- Q&A with QB Mitch Trubisky
- Elon Musk’s attack on organizer of Thailand cave rescue rattles investors: ‘What is he doing?’
- 5 must-see concerts in Chicago this week: Girlpool, Zola Jesus, Sylvan Esso
- Explore Chicago: Dig up the past at Graceland Cemetery
- Concussions not that unusual among high school students
- Urgent care clinics are prescribing too many unnecessary antibiotics, study says
- Talk of the County: Not everyone worthy of praise in cave rescue story
- Gary eyes purchase of former Franklin Elementary property
- Hosting an interfaith dinner and want to say grace? Here’s what to do
- Prickly City-snapchat
- Amazon hopes Prime Day glitches don’t turn away customers
- Goldman’s Blankfein to retire as CEO, Solomon to take over
- Danica Patrick, who grew up a Bears fan, is now ‘the biggest Packers fan,’ thanks to boyfriend Aaron Rodgers
- This scam assumes you’re having an affair (so be careful if you really are)
- Literary fiction or genre? When Megan Abbott and Naomi Novik are writing, who cares.
- What’s wrong with baseball — and 18 ways to fix it
- Late-night hosts skewer Trump’s news conference
- Key West will be overrun with ‘Papas’ for Hemingway Days this week
- Loyola recruit Tykei Greene leaves program for Manhattan College
- Hawaii volcano boat tours continue after lava injuries
- Take that for data: NBA preps for expanded betting on games
- Cedar Lake man killed on U.S. 41 in St. John
- Could baby boomers spur a housing bust?
- Se corona junto a su padre
- Next Ford Fusion may be more like a wagon than a midsize sedan
- Hammers boss Pellegrini backs Anderson to add ‘new dimension’
- New Trier Board approves security upgrades, including shatter resistant window film, double-buzz entryway
- Talk of the County: Foxconn will hurt Lake County
- General Motors picks up market share in pickup truck war with Ford, FCA
- WFMT’s Carl Grapentine prepares to sign off after 22 years
- Drew Schad to lead cast of Shattered Globe’s ‘Crime and Punishment’
- Gaylord Palms to tell ‘A Christmas Story’ theme in ICE
- From Lou Boudreau to Kirby Puckett: Chicago area’s all-time MLB baseball team
- Talk of the County: Trump-Putin 2020
- Former WGN-AM sportscaster Judd Sirott lists Glencoe house for $760,000
- Naperville swimmer expecting invite to 2019 Special Olympics World Games
- Twins’ Fernando Rodney leaves game early to become a U.S. citizen
- Talk of the County: Congressmen or comrades?
- DuPage Children’s Museum focuses on transportation for event
- Gardeners, whip out the color wheel to craft eye-catching plant combos
- ‘The Band’s Visit’ to float in for Chicago premiere September 2019
- Los premios MTV se ponen latinos
- Oak Brook Park District to seek $17.9 million referendum to buy McDonald’s property
- CR7 tendrá un sueldazo en la Juve
- Wrestlers sue Ohio State over doctor’s sexual misconduct
- Northbrook contributing $15,000 toward YMCA mini bus
- East Dundee trustees on the fence about starting mosquito abatement program
- Jawbreaker to play only Midwestern show at Aragon Ballroom in November
- Second-chance points: Matt Hanushewsky, Rocco Ronzio help Hersey regroup
- 6 scenic spots to enjoy pizza outdoors along Wisconsin’s Great River Road
- Former Griffith student accused of bringing gun to school accepts plea deal
- Former WGN-AM sportscaster Judd Sirott lists Glencoe home for $760,000
- District 64 to gauge Park Ridge’s interest in district’s administrative office building
- Chicago Marathon adds 2 elite runners to women’s field for October race
- Nueva cultura de béisbol será expuesta en Juego de Estrellas
- Russian prosecutors want to question U.S. intelligence agents
- Cave-diving experts feel the ripples of the Thailand rescue — a rise in demand
- Spirit of Italian aperitivi captured in cans sized for toting on summer outings
- Elmhurst Council approves $30,000 American Legion grant, with stipulations
- Officials say Islamic State suicide bomber kills 20, Taliban kill 9 police
- Jupiter’s moon count reaches 79, including tiny ‘oddball’
- Underwood outraises Hultgren in latest fundraising quarter, new finance reports show
- Beach Bum Band brings Calypso beat to summer concert series
- New Trier Board approves tentative $106.78 million budget, relying on $101 million in property taxes
- 5 easy ways to create a healthier, happier you this summer
- Urban farmers forced off land find new ground to grow
- 6 simple ways to dress up ice cream using ingredients you’re sure to have on hand
- Boy who was run over by boat while swimming in Fox River is recovering, police say
- How to take your fruit salad from boring to brilliant
- ‘It’s a small little repair, but it has a rippling effect’: Free brake light clinic set in Oak Park
- Chance the Rapper will not be releasing new music this week
- On ‘The Bachelorette,’ hometown dates bring confessions of love — and a wrenching goodbye
- Black Tiberinus is coming to the Chicago Riverwalk
- The CDC director’s deeply personal reason for fighting opioids: His son nearly died of an overdose
- Construction of building on site of former Valpo bakery expected to begin in August
- Lawmakers warn Trump tariffs threaten local newspapers
- This simple sauce is summer’s best burger hack, and other tips
- My worst moment: ‘Queen Sugar’ star Bianca Lawson and a messy wardrobe malfunction
- Urban farmers forced off land find new ground to grow
- After the Trump-Putin news conference, here’s why people are talking about the Dixie Chicks
- Alabama officers suspended for alleged ‘white power’ gesture
- Niles auction to feature political memorabilia, personal items belonging to late Congressman Dan Rostenkowski
- Speak Out
- Argentina airport evacuated due to grenade-like pot grinder
- Oak Brook adds online travel services to hotel tax revenues
- 2 boys, ages 11 and 13, charged with causing over $100K in damage to South Elgin trolley museum
- Lake Barrington carries on preservation goal with latest land acquisition
- Proposed sports facility hints at the future of Northbrook Court
- Concejal ofrece donativo tras aceptar fondos de centros de detención
- Homeland Security advisory council members resign over immigration policies
- Vehicle crashes into Homewood Dairy Queen
- ‘That is a tunnel of noise’: Western Springs residents talk sound walls, park impact from proposed I-294 expansion
- Quickly
- Sugar Grove Corn Boil offers family fun, tribute to first responders
- 2018 fantasy football QB rankings, from Aaron Rodgers to Joe Flacco
- Los medios contra la apnea compiten por un espacio en la cama
- Prairie Elementary assistant principal moving into lead role at school
- Amended lease OK’d for satellite health department office in Porter County
- Amsterdam’s fire chief took on ‘white male culture.’ His employees tried to have him killed.
- Nothing screams ‘I NEED GLASSES!’ like squinted eyes and a confused look
- Liver cancer death rates rise 43 percent in U.S., CDC reports
- NAACP lifts travel warning against American Airlines
- East Aurora approves archway for new stadium
- Emanuel won’t judge officers’ actions in fatal police shooting, says he wants to use it to ‘help all of us learn from this’
- Readers react: President Trump in Helsinki
- How the Obamas managed to become invisible in Washington, D.C.
- Aislado, Trump queda bajo enorme presión por relaciones con Rusia
- Just Opened: Etta brings hearth-fire cooking to Bucktown
- ‘It’s a wonderful community event’: Food, entertainment draw people to Taste of Park Ridge
- ‘It’s hypocritical’: Chicago Latino Caucus to return donation from private immigrant detention company
- Brett Kavanaugh goes against a century of Supreme Court precedent
- Porter County Expo Center upgrades cost comes in under budget
- Taste of Park Ridge
- Beyond Home Run Derby: Baseball should add skills competition to All-Star festivities
- Peet’s Coffee taps former Wrigley executive as new CEO
- Gary gunshot victim identified
- Loyola bids adieu to old pool, looks forward to new aquatic center
- Just Opened: Etta brings hearth-fire cooking to Bucktown
- Coon Creek Country Days returns to Hampshire
- The ‘Holy Grail’ of baseball cards – a 1952 Mickey Mantle worth millions – goes on display at Denver museum
- Scrapping aldermanic privilege is an affront to local homeowners
- Civil War weekend returning to Carpentersville for third year
- Mike Kudla, former star on Ohio State 2002 national title team, dies at 34
- ‘Picnic in Paris’: CarefulPeach Boutique celebrates Bastille Day in Oak Park
- After social media push, organizers raise enough to pay for Ida B. Wells-Barnett monument
- Bastille Day in Oak Park
- Bicyclist surpasses gates as Wisconsin bridge lifts and falls into gap, narrowly avoiding serious injury
- El ‘Bolillo’ Gómez deja la selección de Panamá
- Board won’t move Griffith polls from school buildings
- Commercial property rezoned for up to four residential units in Park Ridge’s South Park neighborhood
- Lake Bluff Park District gets $350K state grant for beach accessibilty improvements
- The awkward obligation: When you suspect a student is dangerous
- Developers make minor density adjustment to 702-unit Polo Club proposed for south Naperville
- Time for some old-school fun at Wisconsin State Fair
- Park Ridge aldermen tentatively support allowing cosmetic tattooing, but hold off on addressing ‘body art’
- Comings & Goings: Lorenz Appliances opens Mokena store
- The best gyros in Chicago? Look for the pork
- Moran: A remarkably not difficult trip from the flat beaches to the ones with dunes
- Orioles likely to trade Manny Machado shortly after All-Star Game; top Dodgers prospect targeted
- Like Amazon, Target.com crashes amid one-day sale
- Proposed ordinance would fine Arlington Heights parents with truant kids
- Lake Forest aldermen reject plan for car wash combo: ‘The site is too small’
- Commissioner Rob Manfred: MLB must discuss whether ‘organic changes are good for the game’
- What’s happening in Park Ridge: Final outdoor orchestra concert this week; History Center to host open house
- Learning lessons: Hunter Rumachik and Jimmy Fairley step up but Huntley eliminated from summer baseball state tourney
- Free concert planned in downtown Aurora
- Iceberg, visible from space, could wash away nearby village in Greenland
- Vanilla ice cream: Which is best? A blind tasting of a dozen ice cream brands.
- 364-unit apartment building will help attract luxury renters in Warrenville, developer says
- ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ review: Elvis musical needs the real story
- The Civil War experience comes to life at Glenview History Center
- ‘It’s of strategic importance’: River Forest hears concerns, suggestions on proposed North Avenue TIF district
- Displaced Syrians protest near Israeli troops after airstrike hits school, killing 10
- What the rest of us can learn from the Wild Boars soccer team about importance of survival, coping skills
- Lake County Municipal League joins protest against possible ‘negative effect’ of Foxconn plant
- Obama denounces ‘politics of fear’ in speech: ‘If people can learn to hate, they can be taught to love’
- ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’ review: Sequel is a seaside confection
- Elizabeth Cambage scores WNBA-record 53 points for Wings over Liberty
- One year later, search continues for South Elgin 10-year-old who authorities say was abducted by her mother
- Woman sought in Grandwood Park armed robbery
- Papa John’s founder: Stepping down as chairman a ‘mistake’
- Post summit Trump
- Alivio e incertidumbre en caso de asilo de familia hondureña
- Kellogg Co. Chairman and CEO Steven Cahillane’s Lincoln Park mansion
- Four days of food, fun, music on the bill for Lincolnwood Fest
- Lincoln Park Zoo gala, Zoobilee, celebrates 150 years
- Lincoln Park Zoo Ball
- United Airlines expects passengers to pay more through September
- Pritzker spent nearly $11 million on advertising in recent months, compared to almost $5 million for Rauner
- Sports calendar
- Prosecutor in girl’s 1988 killing hails genealogy databases
- Goldfish Swim School headed to Park Ridge
- You’ll be a happy camper if you vote in the Tweet of the Week poll
- Al Capone bootleg brewery in South Loop set for demolition
- Did Bryce Harper cheat in the Home Run Derby? Some Cubs fans think so.
- Police: Child wasn’t at West Side home where cops were in standoff
- Waukegan takes out loan to pay off $9.5 million wrongful conviction settlement
- Church news
- New writer’s ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ series will focus on Spidey basics: Laughs and love
- Girl rescued from Crystal Lake swim beach, flown to hospital after being found unresponsive
- Reporter removed from Trump-Putin summit says he held sign to ask a question
- Trump’s shots at NATO allies reflect an ugly attraction to tribal leadership
- Kane County sees 7 percent increase in felonies in 2018
- William Carvalho: ‘Si gano la Liga Europa con el Betis me quito el bigote’
- Former Notre Dame soccer standout Michele Fumagalli, mom of a toddler, beats long odds to reach CrossFit Games
- New dockless bike-sharing program could debut in Oak Park in 2019, officials say
- Cedar Lake man held on child pornography charges
- Growing numbers of U46 students spending summer break putting on a play; this year it’s ‘Les Miserables’
- Community bands together to decry recent Valparaiso graffiti
- Aurora City Council approves Youth Commission appointments
- Is being a sports fan worth the agony of defeat?
- New world for Oyster: Neuqua Valley product Megan Oyster right at home as defender for Seattle Reign
- Shop Outdoor: Hemingway District, Downtown Oak Park team up for sidewalk sale event
- Frankfort police seek suspect in arson, burglary at Durbins Pizza
- Trump is on Putin’s side, not America’s
- Bremen High School District 228 board ousts president
- Lake Zurich Boy Scouts praised after helping crash victims during South Dakota hiking trip
- New Regina Dominican principal sees ‘tremendous power’ in having an impact on high school students
- Summer rainfall has shuttered beach, soaked parks more in 2018 than year before: Park District officials
- Glencoe caucus pushing application deadline for public office back to after Labor Day
- Brexit campaigners broke electoral law, watchdog group says
- Disabato: World Wiffle Ball Championships prove to be a big hit in Midlothian
- These Southland pets need new homes
- Charles Weigel, former Elmhurst mayor, dies
- Photo: Clow Farm relegated to history books as demolition clears way for new Naperville subdivision
- Ask Tom: What is the definition of a cold front?
- El Chicago Fire sigue incorporando refuerzos
- Metra’s Fox River rail bridge project in Elgin on schedule for 2020 completion
- ‘War and Peace’ and my pal Putin: A new TrumPoem, based on the president’s words
- U.K.’s Theresa May faces down revolt over Brexit trade bill
- Slowik: Some unopposed candidates have big campaign war chests
- Worried mayor pleads for calm as officer in Laquan McDonald case is set for trial
- Emanuel tops $10M for re-election bid, five times the total raised by his 10 challengers
- Trump’s Putin pivot: Following a blunder, a dubious disavowal
- Alejandro Fernández y Los Tigres del Norte invitan a ‘dreamers’ a su gira
- Federal judge remands Keystone Montessori lawsuit against River Forest to state court
- In unusual move, judge silences media lawyer in Chicago cop’s high-profile murder case
- Inmigrantes ‘actores de su propio desarrollo’
- ‘Skyline forever changed’: New Lake County Courthouse tower dedicated Tuesday
- Happy Zahora: Matt Zahora finishes strong as St. Laurence tops Lyons in summer baseball state quarterfinals
- Wendell Carter Jr. named to All-NBA Summer League first team
- Lalley sworn in as new Elgin police chief, seven other cops receive promotions in Tuesday ceremony
- This fireworks bill is a dud
- Blackhawks GM Stan Bowman takes center ice but focus is on Corey Crawford
- Emanuel: Take away Trump’s security clearance after summit with Putin
- TEDxNaperville video titled, ‘Why I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies’ surpasses 1 million views
- Trade commodities such as Manny Machado and J.A. Happ stimulate All-Star rumor mill
- Records detail orderly suicide of lawyer accused of impersonating Cook County judge
- East Aurora board members spar over immigration ‘safe zone’ request
- Fire land Raheem Edwards from Impact for $400K in TAM
- Meet the Estbys
- Kids crash antique double-decker Disney bus into tree at Volo Auto Museum, officials say
- Metra train hits pedestrian near Homewood station
- Rauner declines to remove Illinois from multistate voter database, criticizes Trump over Putin meeting
- Is there room for a little godliness at Google?
- Special investigations can be witch hunts. The Mueller probe isn’t one.
- Warriors coach Steve Kerr receives contract extension
- Elena Delle Donne and Candace Parker to captain WNBA All-Star Game
- Immigrant children describe hunger and cold in detention
- Fire damages the Gold Pyramid House in Wadsworth
- San Francisco bans tour buses from ‘Full House’ residence
- Another sunny day with lower humidity across the Chicago area
- Ambitious all-female initiative seeks to cut by half the number of women in state prison
- Arizona Cardinals suspend GM 5 weeks after extreme DUI plea
- Hawaii lava boat tours continue after explosion, injuries
- Fielding of dreams: Sure-handed Danny Zardon helps the Joliet Slammers lead Frontier League in defense
- Bright future: Croatia loses close game in International Baseball Challenge at Oil City Stadium, continues to make gains
- White Sox’s Jose Abreu enjoys first All-Star start