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- Hobart Walmart shooting
- In the boffo Broadway-bound ‘Tootsie,’ Dorothy sings
- Old Elm Park reopens anew in Glencoe after $200K renovation
- My worst moment: ‘Better Call Saul’s’ Giancarlo Esposito on the last-minute monologue
- Child abuse and neglect deaths down in Indiana: report
- Urban pioneer isn’t ready for the neighborhood
- Yerkes observatory, birthplace of modern astronomy, closes Monday. Will it become a subdivision?
- Telehealth company MDLive expanding in Chicago
- Valuable painting heading to auction to fund West Side library expansion
- Javy Baez plays baseball like nobody else. Can he save the game?
- Purdue Northwest students plan protest after school announces it will designate satellite campus on diploma
- The crucial question for jurors will be — why 16 shots?
- Driving, telecommuting are the most common ways people get to work. Neither trend bodes well for transit agencies.
- Morning Spin: Pritzker gives campaign another $20 million, bringing him to $146.5 million in self-funding
- 5 things to know about Yerkes Observatory’s 121-year history
- Polluter or good neighbor? Setting the record straight.
- At Treasure Island grocery stores, ‘everything must go’ as they prepare to close soon
- Cubs vs. Brewers: Who has the edge in Monday’s NL Central tiebreaker at Wrigley Field?
- How to make a pineapple jack-o-lantern for Halloween
- Evanston alderman accused of ethics violations, donating to group looking to demolish Harley Clarke Mansion
- 2 killed, 2 wounded when shots fired inside car near Grant Park
- 832 muertes confirmadas por sismo y tsunami en Indonesia
- Brad Biggs’ 10 thoughts on the Bears’ 48-10 win over the Buccaneers
- Mitch Trubisky pairs with dominant defense in Week 4 win
- Getting to know Grenada, 35 years after the U.S. invasion
- Wanted: New Tesla chairman, must work well with others — especially CEO Musk
- Prickly City-mayo
- California is 1st state to require women on corporate boards
- Fantasy football Week 5 waiver wire: Mike Davis, Taylor Gabriel and Nick Chubb break out
- It’s OK to skip school or work for today’s Cubs game. The team already wrote your excuse.
- College football Week 5 wrap-up: Would Kelly Bryant return to Clemson? And Ian Book changes the script for Notre Dame
- Ask Anna: How much of an age difference is too much?
- Evanston releases draft plan reduce greenhouse gases by 2050
- Culver School in Niles dedicates new park for preschoolers and their families
- Senior Medicare Patrol working to keep Fox Valley residents safe from scams
- Two weekend house fires put Naperville residents out of their homes
- Nobel Prize in medicine goes to cancer immunotherapy researchers
- ‘Twins are nature’s experiment’: How scientists use them to study nature vs. nurture
- U.S., Canada and Mexico just reached a new trade deal. Here’s what’s in it.
- Hard-hit Indonesian city buries its dead as death toll from earthquake, tsunami tops 840
- ‘Bucs walk plank’: Your 3-word reviews on the Bears’ Week 4 win over Tampa Bay
- Niles holds public hearings on proposed TIF districts; leaders hear how plans could help Golf Mill mall
- Restaurant owners looking to invest $1 million for new Mexican eatery in downtown Oswego
- ‘He’s fighting’: Tennessee State player in critical condition after surgery for head injury
- Finances and flexibility: Why some Chicagoans opt to rent single-family homes instead of buy
- Iran fires ballistic missiles at Syria militants over attack
- Adtalem’s sale of DeVry chain raises red flags for critics of Trump’s education secretary
- Why more TV shows are staying on the air
- This Chevy Suburban RST can haul so much more than people
- A man climbed one of the most terrifying rock formations in North America without a rope. Now he’s hoping you’ll pay to watch him do it.
- Shout Out: Anne Jolly, St. Gregory’s rector
- Líder del 68: El Estado debe pedir perdón por matanza estudiantil
- Rip it up, move down and read the top 10 tweets of September
- Rancics partner with Northbrook pharmaceutical company to help transform cancer care
- 9 things to know before going on a fast
- October 1, 1932: Babe Ruth, as legend has it, calls home run vs. Cubs in World Series
- Selle: Credit card purchases put a charge in county spending
- Jemele Hill joins The Atlantic after 12 years at ESPN
- Clarendon Hills Cub Scouts bike 1,000 laps around Prospect Park to help two charities
- Aretha Franklin exhibit debuts with eye toward her legacy
- York continues homecoming tradition by naming top student spirit group as King and Queen of the Couch
- Penélope Cruz: “Sabía que rodar ‘Loving Pablo’ me iba a afectar”
- Gwyneth Paltrow posts photo of matching wedding bands
- Post-season dining around Wrigley
- México 68: Los ecos de una noche trágica
- Review: With ‘The Neighborhood’ and ‘Happy Together,’ CBS offers two comedies of upsetting proximity
- Watch the weather, not the date, when planning fall garden chores
- Sen. Dick Durbin: FBI shouldn’t be ‘bridled’ in its investigation of Brett Kavanaugh accusations
- Vote in the Scott Stantis cartoon caption contest
- After 4 years, Bohemian House closes its doors
- México 68 en la cultura popular
- The Violence Against Women Act could expire soon. Here’s what’s at stake.
- ‘Sultan of Coins’ sentenced to death as Iran targets currency speculators
- U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear appeal of ex-Bolingbrook cop Drew Peterson’s murder conviction in death of 3rd wife
- Dos acusados por el asesinato de su casero, fue encontrado en una alcantarilla
- What do you want to know about buying a home in Chicago?
- Have an awkward situation? We’re here to help.
- Sigur Ros drummer leaves band after sexual-assault allegations
- Top 5 questions to ask your office manager to go green
- Fun fresh pork facts for National Pork Month (Infographic)
- Why our world needs wood
- United States of tacos (Infographic)
- Leave it to the machines: How to avoid injury during snow season
- Safe and effective: Choose physical therapy for your back pain
- 5 reasons a legal plan is a voluntary benefit you need
- Paseaba a sus perros cuando lo mataron
- New Trier healing racism group screens documentary at Bahai House of Worship
- Week 4: Bears 48, Buccaneers 10
- Aaron Rodgers delivers veiled criticism of the Packers’ playcalling ‘plan’
- While Timberwolves try to figure out what to do with Jimmy Butler, Tom Thibodeau marches on
- ‘A Star is Born’ review: Bradley Cooper goes Gaga in directing debut
- Aurora man pleads guilty to attempting to have sex with a minor in exchange for cash
- Get Fit: From karate to blood pressure tests, Elmwood Park event promotes a healthy lifestyle
- Hinsdale Library marks 125th anniversary with scavenger hunt, trivia and music from the 1920s
- Elena Poniatowska: El regreso a Tlatelolco
- From sculpture to photography, Deerfield displays new batch of public art
- Students in Mexico were slaughtered by army soldiers 50 years ago. Today, they’re still in danger.
- Regional Fire Museum anniversary to be celebrated at First Fridays in Aurora
- Court rules against Lake Forest drugmaker Akorn’s $4.75 billion merger with German firm
- Cubs’ Sunday game scores best ratings on NBC Sports Chicago since 2016 championship season
- Montgomery man wins state water operator award
- Lincolnshire police alert residents following rash of area burglaries
- Judge lowers bail for Gary mother charged in 2-year-old daughter’s shooting death
- Dryer fire causes $90,000 damage to Aurora home
- ‘On paper I am my genuine self’: How pen pals around the world keep one woman connected to humanity and herself
- ‘Tragedy of grand scale’: Victims remembered 1 year after Vegas shooting
- Get in losers, we’re going to ‘Mean Girls’-themed trivia
- Missouri doesn’t know where nearly 1,300 of its sex offenders live
- Quickly
- Avoca seventh-graders fly kites — many for the first time — as team building experience
- Parking meters in Chicago to phase out use of dashboard receipts
- Man gets 3 years for pushing stranger onto tracks at Blue Line station in Loop
- GE, seeking path forward as a century-old company, ousts CEO
- Jesús ‘Chuy’ García no se postulará para alcalde de Chicago
- No raises in 2019 plan for Lake Station workers
- Football notebook: Leyden, Elmwood Park dominate in Week 6
- Does seller owe buyer for land sold to city before home sale?
- The old Nichols Library in Naperville could be filled with a restaurant
- Tattoo helps a breast cancer survivor retake control: ‘I had the power to choose what I put there’
- Chicago’s talkiest season begins with a long, long chat at art expo
- Trump says he’d be a ‘mess’ as a drinker
- Judge vacates order barring Agpawa from taking mayor’s office in Markham
- Letter: Isn’t there someone who can take the reins of The Magic Tree Bookstore?
- UMass suspends football coach after ‘rape’ comment in postgame remarks
- Venus Williams shares her love of fashion and interior design while in Chicago
- Talk of the County: Time limit would have spared us the Kavanaugh complaints
- Northbrook woman fatally struck by Metra train
- Student charged with writing threatening messages on walls at Oswego High School
- From ‘The Shot Heard ‘Round the World’ to ‘The Blackout:’ The 15 previous MLB tiebreakers
- Bands to headline Lake Station’s Harvest Festival
- Former Aurora man sentenced to prison for sexually assaulting four children
- Pop!Con: Franklin Park library event brings together artists, vendors and fans
- Naperville People in the News
- 55th District candidates address guns, political affiliations during Park Ridge forum
- NICTD eyes $2 surcharge for on-train ticketing
- Lillian DeSitter Cunningham remembered as ‘the glue that held the family together’
- Brett Kavanaugh didn’t ‘lie’ — he just told some ‘little white-male-privilege lies’
- Girls volleyball notes: Sophomore outside hitter Jillian Gray’s get-it-done attitude a boon for Joliet Catholic
- BG Singers’ annual concert helps break in newly renovated Community Arts Center
- Mike Clark’s Chicago-area high school football rankings: Week 7
- Portage mayor ‘eager’ to keep trial date as government asks to postpone with co-defendant
- Bears linebacker Sam Acho out for season with a torn pectoral muscle
- Designer Patrick Kelly shines bold and bright at Fashion Outlet, thanks to artist Derrick Adams
- Bulls’ Kris Dunn knows only one speed — even after fluke injuries
- West Suburban Local Scoreboard for Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018
- ECC hosting job and resources fair this month for military veterans
- 12 old-school skills children shouldn’t lose
- Piden calma ante temor de pedir ayuda pública para inmigrantes
- Lake County News-Sun Local Scoreboard for Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018
- Daily Southtown Local Scoreboard for Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018
- With Lauri Markkanen out, does Fred Hoiberg need to tell Bobby Portis to be more aggressive? ‘Uh, Bobby’s always aggressive.’
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018
- Cardi B gets assault summons but lawyer say she did no harm
- Naperville North HS named a National Blue Ribbon school
- Myles to go: Myles Lockett-Peterson scores goal as Munster ousts Highland in soccer sectional
- First West Nile-related death reported in DuPage County this year
- Historical Society creates new Andy Aurora patch to honor veterans
- Learn all about Roscoe Village’s new French-Mediterranean spot, plus other restaurant news
- EPA hearing draws protestors
- A heartwarming breakthrough for patients at risk of heart disease
- Hinsdale woman seeks to be second Democrat on DuPage County Board
- ER treatment can lead to surprise medical bills
- Marquette point guard Colin Kenney decides to head south, commits to play basketball at Furman
- Tlatelolco, 2 de octubre de 1968
- Winners announced in Miller Beach photo contest
- How far will the Cubs go? Tribune readers, with some help from artificial intelligence, make their picks
- Weather postponements for Cubs, MLB
- Speak Out: Bloom High School student, Federal Reserve and holiday depression
- Winners announced in Miller Beach photo contest
- Kanye West’s ‘Yandhi’ album pushed back to November
- Feds announce Blue Ribbon Schools in Dyer, Crown Point, Valparaiso
- New Life in Norridge: Church launches space-sharing arrangement at Acacia Park Lutheran Church
- As a 17-year-old, I know right from wrong. So did Brett Kavanaugh.
- Niles jeweler in stable condition after being beaten, robbed and dumped at a golf course: Police
- Activists, politicians call on EPA to drop Trump plan to relax emissions standards for coal-fired power plants
- ‘Willy Wonka’ gadget play gives the Bears an offensive spark
- Referendum is a possibility as Libertyville reviews funding options for storm sewer overhaul
- Treasure Island is closing. I blame myself.
- Boys soccer notes: Bryan Alba loves to play the sport, and loves to dish out assists, for Mundelein
- Bears Rewind: Mitch Trubisky got better by correcting his eyes, his feet and his pocket awareness
- Quick, someone tell the Cubs that hitting in October is not optional
- Indiana schools chief announces she will not run for re-election in 2020
- Donations fuel major renovation at Hesed House in Aurora
- ‘The Old Man and the Gun’ review: The Sundance Kid makes his last score
- Recovering goalie Corey Crawford returns to full practice with the Blackhawks
- Four-star forward Robbie Beran of Virginia commits to Northwestern
- Las mujeres pisan fuerte en la ONU
- Mustang Charge 5K raises funds for Mundelein High School activities
- Letter: Planned 4-story senior living facility isn’t a good fit for River Forest
- Kanye West’s tweet about abolishing 13th Amendment calls for civics lesson, critics say
- Trump hails revamped trade deal with Canada and Mexico, but quick approval no sure thing
- Toys R Us owners set aside millions of dollars for laid-off workers after bankruptcy
- From paint to wood, Trump tariffs could mean higher home remodeling costs
- 2 Lockport high school students face charges after BB gun found near homecoming dance
- Oracle looks to bring construction innovation lab to Deerfield
- Northlake referendum question seeks to abolish city treasurer, with duties assumed by finance director
- Game No. 163: Brewers 3, Cubs 1
- Bears satisfied entering their week off, but Matt Nagy doesn’t want them getting complacent: ‘Do not think that you’re a playoff team’
- McHenry County man gets 12 years for breaking into home, striking another man with nail gun
- Van Dyke’s trial to resume Tuesday after sick juror delays testimony a day
- Gary man and 9-year-old son injured in gang-related shooting at Hobart Walmart, police say
- Culture didn’t kill Maryland’s Jordan McNair. Negligence did. DJ Durkin is responsible for both.
- New Life Church launches in Norridge
- Tom Brady ‘could tell in his eyes’ that Josh Gordon ‘knew what he was doing’
- Lawsuit alleging Tinley Park campaign defamation gets tossed by judge
- Romeo Santos | 16 de octubre
- Brothers charged with killing landlord, hiding body in sewer: ‘I’m hoping in their jail sentence maybe they’ll find some humanity’
- Trading up: This NAFTA rewrite should boost Midwest exports
- Central October challenge
- Calendar: Current events to be discussed at Highland Park event
- El lago de los cisnes | Del 16 al 28 de octubre
- Long Grove reopens historic bridge following crash — but with one signature piece missing
- ‘Two big furry dogs of love’ offer big rewards to students at Cristo Rey St. Martin
- Franco Escamilla | 20 de octubre
- Corrections and clarifications
- ‘Coach P,’ founder of the Elgin Sharks Track Club and retired teacher, remembered for his dedication, big heart
- Man wearing mask shows gun, attempts to rob driver at ATM in Oak Park, police say
- Jesus ‘Chuy’ Garcia won’t run for Chicago mayor
- How women business owners cracked the glass ceiling
- What parents need to know about bullying
- Fright Fest | Hasta el 31 de octubre
- ¡No se olvida! | Hasta el 20 de enero
- ESPN crew for Cubs-Brewers tiebreaker seemed unsure that fans knew circumstances were unique
- Martial arts event draws competitors of all ages to tournament
- Los Temerarios | 3 y 4 de noviembre
- Hawk pride winds through Park Ridge during Maine South homecoming parade
- Hillary Clinton campaigns in Chicago for Democrat J.B. Pritzker
- Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández | 10 y 11 de noviembre
- ‘Resist’ movement: Where were you when Illinois needed you?
- Cachorros pierden y van al ‘purgatorio’ del juego de Comodines
- Maine South homecoming parade
- Ansel Elgort to star in Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’
- Juntos por última vez | 17 de noviembre
- Cinco años trabajando por la paz en el bulevar de La Villita
- A jarring scene at Wrigley Field, but the better team earned the division title
- Boys soccer notes: Junior midfielder Noah Glorioso takes on leadership role for rebuilding Waubonsie
- Investigation continues into fatal shooting in Aurora
- Ask Tom: Did the longest tornado on record happen in Illinois?
- Zach Green, Kevin Meckert fulfill a dream by playing together on Barrington’s D-line
- Shnay: Crete-Monee Dist. 201-U parents voice doubts about school closures
- Brewers’ Ryan Braun: ‘We had to take it from them, and we did.’
- For Cubs, the moment of moxie is here
- Midlothian man charged with possessing child pornography
- Brewers fans stage a hostile takeover of Wrigley Field
- Belleville’s EJ Liddell, state’s Mr. Basketball, commits to Ohio State over Illinois
- These Southland pets need new homes
- For Justin Wilson and Cubs, loss ‘centered around one pitch’ to Orlando Arcia
- Near West October challenge
- Temperatures to fluctuate during rainy week
- Art Hellyer, Chicago radio personality whose career spanned six decades, dies at 95
- Teen charged with murder in Harvey convenience store double homicide
- Northwest October Challenge
- Rain moving into Chicago area Monday evening; severe storms could hit west, north of city
- Sam Sullivan keeps Glenbrook North thinking positive
- Post-Tribune October Challenge
- Cold bats cost the Cubs the NL Central title: ‘When you have good at-bats, good things happen’
- Cubs feel good sending Jon Lester to the mound for the NL wild-card game
- Dodgers capture NL West, send Rockies to wild-card game vs. Cubs
- White House gives FBI permission to expand Kavanaugh probe slightly after barrage of criticism
- Role reversal: Evanston nose guard Collin Olla-Chatman makes most of chance to play fullback
- Watch Chicago’s ‘Grocery Store Joe’ redeem himself on ‘Dancing with the Stars’
- Kanye West says he wants to bring Trump and Colin Kaepernick together
- Taking a cue from Charles Ludlam, David Cerda camps it up in ‘The Artificial Jungle’
- Soccer star Ronaldo sued, accused of rape by Nevada woman
- Kyrie Irving on flat-Earth comments: ‘I’m sorry’