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- Illinois takes deep blue dive as national Democrats hope for wave election
- Dem maintains lead in DuPage clerk race; Republicans ahead in board chair, sheriff races
- Oak Parkers favor exploring the consolidation of village taxing bodies
- Ask Amy: Dad’s feelings hurt when kids visit bio family
- Hain wins race for Kane County sheriff, incumbent Cunningham is clerk and Rickert takes treasurer
- Loyola raises Final Four banner before season opener vs. UMKC
- Voters appear to favor $48.7 million Hawthorn 73 construction plan, oppose taxing power increase
- Loyola opens its season with a Final Four-worthy banner and a victory
- New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez elected to House
- In race to replace Lawlor, Democrat Julie Simpson leading Republican Karimar Brown
- Lake County referendum roundup: Home rule bids struggle, $4.5 million for Round Lake fire district gets support
- Republican Ted Cruz fends off Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke in Texas Senate race
- Demócratas toman el control de la Cámara de Representantes. Republicanos mantienen mayoría en el Senado
- Democrat, ex-CIA officer Abigail Spanberger unseats Republican incumbent Dave Brat in Virginia
- Not the usual midterm ‘lull’ election judges say they’re accustomed to: ‘People want to be heard’ this cycle
- Will County sheriff defeats deputy in apparent Democratic sweep
- Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer wins North Dakota Senate race, ousts Democratic incumbent Heidi Heitkamp
- Incumbents trail challengers in treasurer, county clerk races; Mark Curran leading sheriff’s race
- Republican Josh Hawley wins Missouri Senate race, ousts Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill
- Suzy Glowiak and Chris Nybo down to wire in state Senate 24th District rematch
- Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney handily wins US Senate seat from Utah
- Photos: The Ladies’ Room
- Photos: Black-owned restaurants on Chicago’s North Side
- Democrat Gretchen Whitmer wins Michigan governor race, beating Bill Schuette
- New York Republican Rep. Peter King re-elected to 14th term with victory over Democrat Liuba Grechen Shirley
- Several firsts elected across country, including first two Muslim women in U.S. House
- Rep. King wins 9th term despite outcry over white supremacist support
- N.M. set to have all-minority U.S. House delegation; Haaland one of 1st Native American women elected to Congress
- Twitter reacts to midterm election results
- Live again on an election night, Stephen Colbert finds happier results for Team Not Trump
- Elecciones: las primeras musulmanas, la primera indígena, el primer abiertamente homosexual, en ganar
- The midterms are over. Now what?
- Naperville estate with outdoor oasis: $3.8M
- The race for mayor and the $125,000 question for homeowners
- How’s your school doing? Depends on which report card you read.
- Morning Spin: Illinois looks much different the morning after 2018’s midterm election
- With Election Day behind us, it’s time to deal with our political stress
- Q&A: Constellation Brands’ new CEO Bill Newlands talks Corona, wine and weed
- What’s next for Joel Quenneville? 6 NHL teams that could hire the former Blackhawks coach
- Starbucks: Buy a reusable cup for $2.50 and save on holiday beverages through January
- Let ’em entertain you: Faith Bacon and Sally Rand are the subjects of ‘Feuding Fan Dancers’
- Can the Bears beat the Lions on Sunday? Check the numbers
- Shout Out: Jake Lucas, enjoying job at Q-BBQ in La Grange while studying business at Triton College
- Shout Out: Barbara Rosenberg, retired Northfield teacher, traveler
- Was Trump the undoing of Roskam and Hultgren?
- Barriers for cops seeking mental health treatment remain despite FOID card law
- Speaker Madigan edges toward supermajority with anti-Trump push in suburbs
- Democrat J.B. Pritzker topples first-term Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner in Illinois governor race
- Michigan voters bring legal recreational marijuana to the Midwest
- The one thing new coach Jeremy Colliton can’t afford to screw up with Blackhawks players
- Bears Q&A: Could Roquan Smith win Defensive Rookie of the Year? What does Kyle Long’s future hold?
- Girl Scouts sue Boy Scouts over program’s name change, dropping the word ‘boy’
- Congratulations, Democrats, now it’s time to get to work
- Beckham MLS team scores key victory as Miami voters endorse soccer stadium plan
- City picks five architect teams as finalists for O’Hare expansion project
- Illinois’ must-try food is …
- Back to Black: 24 Black-owned restaurants on Chicago’s North Side
- Trent Frazier stuck with Illinois when others didn’t. Now he has ‘a big job’ in his sophomore season
- Democrats seize House control, but President Trump’s GOP holds Senate
- Nuevo récord de mujeres en el Congreso tras las elecciones
- Kim Davis, Kentucky clerk jailed over marriage licenses, loses re-election bid
- $17.9 million Oak Brook Park District referendum to buy McDonald’s property wins by more than 2-to-1 margin
- Protein Bar founder pays $1.5 million for condo in newly built Illume building
- For those who feel better eating gluten-free, fructans may actually be the issue
- The race to 2020 is on. What does that mean for Trump and the Democrats?
- Your landlord won’t make necessary repairs in your apartment. What do you do?
- Dem gains threaten Trump agenda, even without ‘blue wave’
- Governor’s office will be first elected post for Democrat J.B. Pritzker, just like Bruce Rauner
- 6 things we learned from White Sox prospects Luis Robert and Zach Thompson
- Bulls Q&A: Does the blame fall to Fred Hoiberg or management? Does Jabari Parker’s conditioning need to improve?
- Blackhawks GM Stan Bowman on a reported rift with Joel Quenneville: ‘None of that is true’
- How Illinois Democrats won a statewide sweep and 2 pivotal congressional seats in the midterm elections
- Prickly City- midterms over
- A full Blackhawks rebuild? Not so fast. A look at the contracts of the 8 highest-paid players
- How evangelical messages of sexual purity haunt adulthood for a generation of women
- Motel 6 agrees to pay up to $7.6 million to settle claim it helped ICE target Latino guests
- December temperatures, snow expected to arrive Thursday night
- Trump amenaza con investigar a los demócratas
- Solari set for Champions League debut after successful domestic start
- Pogba on leaving Juventus for Man United: ‘I don’t regret it at all’
- A mixed midterm verdict as Democrats retake the House, setting up divided government
- Rick Scott declares victory in U.S. Senate race; Bill Nelson wants recount
- Timeless tale of romance, deception and comic relief in ‘Wigs on the Green’ in Oak Forest
- Trump turned the midterm election into a big show for network news
- In the year of the NFL quarterback, the haves are thriving and the have-nots are reeling
- Napoli, PSG play to another draw in Champions League rematch
- Ron DeSantis elected Florida governor in close race, giving victory to Donald Trump
- Madame Tussauds: Aquaman diving into Orlando attraction
- Atletico Madrid avenge loss to Dortmund with win in Madrid
- Laura Ingraham mocks Taylor Swift after Tennessee candidate the singer supported loses Senate race
- Struggling Monaco suffer home defeat against Club Brugge
- Voters give a resounding ‘yes’ to referendum on saving Harley Clarke Mansion
- 7 succulent spices that can support your healthy lifestyle
- Affordable affair: 7 tips for a holiday bash on a budget
- Schalke close in on UCL qualification after victory over Galatasaray
- Watch live: President Trump hosts press conference following midterm elections
- Porto upend Lokomotiv to stay atop UCL Group D
- Kane’s double leads Tottenham’s comeback victory over PSV
- Pot stocks advance as Michigan voters legalize recreational use
- Hope soars in Illinois, but fear scores nationwide
- Small pickup trucks poised for comeback
- ‘The White Album’, medio siglo del disco más audaz de The Beatles
- ‘Either you are in or you are out’: Infantino warns of bans for players in breakaway league
- Rafa Márquez narra su pesadilla
- Edgewater’s Little Mexican Cafe reincarnated with new owner, name, dishes — plus more restaurant news
- Judge denies request to exhume stillborn fetus found at Gary funeral home for DNA testing
- Neo nazi ‘racista blanco’ pierde elección en el área de Chicago, no sin antes ganar 53,000 votos
- Miami voters approve path for Beckham franchise soccer complex
- ‘The Grinch’ review: Benedict Cumberbatch steps into the shoes of the mean one
- Congress forced scrutiny of USA Gymnastics — the USOC should be next
- Saints’ addition of Dez Bryant a reminder that the Bears made the right call on Cameron Meredith
- Check out cosplay, comics and more at Pop Culture Con
- Ibrahimovic on his future: ‘My priority is Galaxy’
- Sounders defender Marshall ruled out of MLS conference semis second leg
- El gran reto de los Chicago Bears
- Nationals’ offer to Bryce Harper was biggest free agent deal in U.S. sports history. What now?
- Un candidato a jurado queda fuera tras querer un autógrafo de ‘El Chapo’
- Barrington officials look to put off construction work after voters oppose creation of new sales tax
- Column: What do you do when you can’t let go of a past relationship?
- After knocking off the Cubs in the NL Central, the Brewers are primed for an encore
- Parade, memorials to honor veterans in Aurora area
- Evanston aldermen say they can’t support fire department cuts, despite expected $7.4M budget shortfall
- Comedy in the Southland — as you like it, where you like it
- Community news
- Red Bulls’ center back Long named MLS Defender of the Year
- Colorado moves left, electing 1st openly gay governor in U.S.
- Column: America steps back from the abyss
- La ‘Roca’ mexicana enfrenta a peligrosa japonesa
- Come to Big Ed’s for a sammich, or Thanksgiving dinner
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- A wave of women has Congress suddenly looking more like America. It’s about time.
- After 4 decades at East Dundee’s Manor Restaurant, Koulis family hands over reins to new owners
- Supporters ‘beyond relief’ home-rule status maintained in Batavia
- Trump, línea divisoria en un EEUU más polarizado
- Art that is not of this world, made by an artist who definitely is
- Christkindlmarket is here: What do eat, drink and do at Chicago’s favorite winter fest
- Selle: County GOP singing ‘blue on blue, heartache on heartache’
- Small truck war? Toyota Tacoma dominates, but Ford Ranger, Jeep Scrambler joining battle
- México investiga prácticas monopólicas en fichajes
- Lauren Underwood on stunning upset against 4-term GOP congressman: ‘Together we have built a movement’
- President Trump on Republican loss in Illinois’ 6th Congressional District: ‘Peter Roskam didn’t want the embrace’
- Photo gallery: President Trump press conference following midterm elections
- Democrats are coming for Trump’s tax returns. They should come for Pritzker’s as well.
- Judge says former Gary employee who used city funds to buy iPads can stand trial
- J.B. Pritzker defeats Gov. Bruce Rauner
- Democratic Sen. Jon Tester beats Matt Rosendale in Montana
- Oldest known animal drawing found in remote Indonesian cave
- $166 million Hinsdale District 86 referendum headed for failure with 96 percent of precincts counted
- Merrillville teachers, board ratify contract
- Column: Yoga pants are the perfect option for all your holiday eating needs
- County eyes nearly $1 million savings with jail food service contract
- Whitecaps announce Dos Santos as new head coach
- Democratic newcomer flips seat, wins Illinois Senate’s 27th District
- Arquitecto español es finalista en plan de remodelación de O’Hare
- Pegasus sets authors and plays for 32nd Young Playwrights Festival
- Body recovered from Calumet River
- Oak Park Township voters overwhelmingly support firearm storage referendum
- Electric scooters wait for permission to take off in Chicago
- Voters say ‘yes’ to Maine Township District 207’s $195 million bond referendum
- Maine Township voters to Cook County: Don’t bring back soda tax
- Democratic State Rep. Moylan holds off Smolenski to keep 55th District seat
- MLS name Crew SC’s Steffen 2018 Goalkeeper of the Year
- Bears expect Khalil Mack to play against the Lions on Sunday
- Shout Out: Mark Riego De Dios, marketer and room-escape high achiever
- Democrats gain seats in DuPage County, area state and federal offices
- Empoli sack manager Andreazzoli, announce Iachini as replacement
- Votantes aprueban planes de estadio de Beckham en Miami
- City opens $841 million parking and rental car facility at O’Hare International Airport
- Case of man killed by Gary police still under review, officials say
- Renuncia el secretario de Justicia Jeff Sessions
- Tight end Adam Shaheen on returning to Bears practice: ‘It’s been a long time coming’
- Voters reject Lake Ridge school questions
- On Wisconsin: Stevenson linebacker Maema Njongmeta verbally commits to play for the Badgers
- Chicago Tribune Holiday Giving
- DuPage Symphony Orchestra plans evening of romantic music
- Pellegrini provides goal, assist in Roma’s win over CSKA
- West Suburban Local Scoreboard for Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018
- After yes vote, Elmhurst District 205 set to plan course of repairs, upgrades
- In its first print toy catalog, Amazon bets on the classics
- Live downtown Christmas tree tradition ends, Naperville Park District switches to artificial model in cost-saving move
- Valencia earn first home win against Young Boys in Champions League
- Dream Angel: Arizona State recruit Emily Holbrook showing strong finishing kick for Joliet Catholic
- Resorts in Jamaica are facing a ‘historic’ sexual assault problem
- District 203 board celebrates having more schools on state’s top 10% list than other district outside of Chicago
- Infantino: ‘Jugadores de Superliga no podrán jugar el Mundial’
- Dems eye turning 2 GOP House seats blue in state races
- Mundelein man charged with possession of child porn
- ‘Holtz was masterful’: Aaron Taylor recalls 1993 Game of the Century between Notre Dame and Florida State
- How did Chicagoans watch Tuesday night’s election returns? With a lot of wine
- Evanston voters overwhelmingly signal that they want to save a threatened lakefront mansion. Will elected officials listen?
- Holiday season brings tree lighting displays
- EPA plans to dig contaminated soil from West Calumet, city looks at site’s future
- Niles voters respond ‘yes’ to referendums, one to go into effect March 2019
- Argentinas dan pelea contra desigualdad e indiferencia
- Broken voting machines, long lines under scrutiny in Georgia
- Seneca Falls: It’s a wonderful town
- García: Voy a Washington para que dejen de culpar a los inmigrantes por los problemas del país
- Winnetka police blotter: $5,000 damage to freshly poured sidewalk and drive
- Democrat from Buffalo Grove wins open Illinois House seat held by longtime Rep. Carol Sente
- Shout Out: Caitlyn Rodriguez and Dahiana Cruz hard at work making FunFlatables fun in Norridge
- What’s next? Readers react to the midterm election
- Homeless man charged with scamming the elderly, more potential victims sought: Skokie police
- Shout Out: Daniela Kovacic, painter a long way from the ‘vast landscape’ of her native Chile but at home in Evanston
- Truman Capote’s ‘Christmas Memory’ subject of SSA holiday anniversary luncheon
- 55,000 of my neighbors voted for a neo-Nazi
- Shout Out: Fran Joy, an artist and life coach who draws inspiration from humanity
- Hate lines at the airport? Pay to make them go away
- Pimp Dennis Hof wins Nevada legislative race after death
- The Wisconsin and Michigan results are giving Democrats hope, and a potential focus, for 2020
- Superintendent says defeat of sales tax proposal won’t hurt District 308’s budget
- The growing consensus for legal marijuana
- Rebuilding the shell-shocked Illinois GOP
- These tours take you behind the scenes of dining destinations in Fort Lauderdale, Miami and West Palm Beach
- We won! So, what’s next for House Democrats?
- Stava-Murray unseats Olsen in 81st House race; Wehrli wins close re-election bid against candidate with residency issue
- In post-midterm America everything is going to be all right, right?
- Holocaust-denier Arthur Jones loses in Illinois 3rd District, but still gets more than 25 percent of the vote
- OPRF officials: Adopting a maximum levy could delay operating fund referendum
- Honor Flight Chicago to start including Vietnam War veterans next year
- Speak Out: Political campaigns
- Man faces 51 counts of fraud, theft in credit card purchases
- Dems shake up GOP stronghold in DuPage by making history with election of county clerk, county board members
- Chicago voters want straw ban, schools funded by marijuana revenue
- 5 surprises in the Illinois midterm elections
- Sessions’ ouster throws future of special counsel probe into question
- Kenilworth police say missing Chicago man is safe
- 5 things we learned about Mitch Trubisky: Allen Robinson’s return, his midseason self-review and more
- El Real Madrid atropella al Viktoria Plzen en Champions
- Late rally propels Man United to victory over Juventus in Turin
- CPD moves to fire Officer Robert Rialmo in 2015 shooting that killed 2
- Chef’s Choice: It’s vegetarian all the way for this Indian restaurant owner in Naperville
- Real Madrid rout Viktoria Plzen for third straight win under Solari
- Visclosky coasts to record-setting 18th term
- Manchester Utd le arrebata la victoria a la Juve en Turín
- Gabriel Jesus’ hat trick leads Man City’s thrashing of Shakhtar
- Slowik: Attacks, extreme views making it harder for lawmakers to find common ground
- Incumbents stay put in Lake County races
- Sandra Bland documentary ‘Say Her Name’ will screen early at Music Box Theatre this weekend
- ‘O’ runs on Olivia: Senior setter Olivia Nelson settles into role as quarterback for Newark’s strong attack
- Bayern take sole control of Group E after win over AEK
- Shout Out: Frank Campobasso, for a real estate agent, ‘it’s about helping people’
- As part of ongoing accessibility effort, Deerfield Library offers sensory kits
- Woman who scammed Dennis Rodman and other star athletes sentenced to prison
- Hammond loses two incumbents in school board race
- Lyon squander two-goal lead in draw with 10-man Hoffenheim
- Midterm elections draw big turnout in Chicago, suburbs
- Ajax hold Benfica to draw to keep hold of second place in
- Aurelio’s offers authentic Italian pizza and dishes
- No injuries, but fire causes damage at Elmwood Park home
- No kidding: Blackhawks’ Brent Seabrook and Jeremy Colliton played against each other as kids
- Man guilty in 2014 killing of innocent bystander hit in gang shooting
- Lake County News-Sun Local Scoreboard for Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018
- Aurora outlet mall wants to hold Thanksgiving Day concert
- Baranek: Molly Murrihy offers best wishes for state-bound Marist all the way from Memphis
- New Blackhawks coach Jeremy Colliton, 33, doesn’t think his age will be an issue in the locker room
- Daily Southtown Local Scoreboard for Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018
- Do-it-all Davenport: Tom Davenport runs, blocks, makes catches, punts and even throws passes for Whiting
- Column: The increasing number of Uber, Lyft drivers need to stay in their lane
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018
- Central Perk in Chicago: ‘Friends’-themed pop-up bar takes over Replay Lincoln Park
- Ask Tom: Do snowy winters follow rainy summers?
- Introducing the 2018 Post-Tribune Boys Tennis All-Area Team
- Shout Out: Peggy Crowley, ‘Woman of the Year’ award winner
- Custodian finds loaded ‘rusty’ handgun on grounds of Roycemore School in Evanston: Police
- Neighbor testifies she heard screams the night Gurnee woman was killed
- Election offers a bit of history in Aurora
- Flossmoor officials consider easing truck parking ban
- Munster’s Frank Wolf and Zack Schmidt are the 2018 Post-Tribune Boys Tennis Players of the Year
- Park Ridge police: Witnesses report man kicked, threw dog
- Dolton voters appear to back term limits for trustees, but not a reduction in board seats
- Trump defiant as Democrats prep push for his tax returns
- Porter County officials to meet with FBI about possible election violations
- Blue wave washes over Lake County ballot, flipping County Board to Democrats
- Trump, House Democrats confront thorny life under divided government
- In Cook County Board races, Republican strongholds lose grip to blue wave — and a lot of green
- NFL fines Dolphins, coach Adam Gase for handling of QB Ryan Tannehill’s shoulder injury
- Single vote separates candidates in north suburban race to replace state representative who resigned amid scandal
- Kane State’s Attorney Office investigating potential cases of failed reporting of suspected child abuse in schools
- Agent Scott Boras believes Cubs will keep Addison Russell
- AG Jeff Sessions pushed out after year of attacks from Trump over recusal from Russia probe
- Civilian employee for Villa Park Police Department charged with stealing drugs from evidence locker
- Forest Park votes to ban video gambling in history-making referendum
- Solar energy farms may be built in Aurora
- Maryland fires trainers responsible for improperly treating football player Jordan McNair’s heatstroke
- ‘It’s not over’: Equity work continues at OPRF after Starz series
- Wisconsin Democrats rejoice as Republican Gov. Scott Walker is finally gone
- Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker names transition team, including former GOP Gov. Jim Edgar, Michael Sacks
- Tinley Park man charged with killing his wife repeatedly hit her with a bar, prosecutors say
- Letter: Imagine OPRF video was an exercise in propaganda
- Wendell Carter Jr. on Duke’s Zion Williamson: ‘Not many people can guard that’
- Early season snow may hinder Friday morning commute
- Georgia governor’s race: GOP’s Brian Kemp declares victory as Democrat Stacey Abrams hopes for runoff
- White House suspends press pass of CNN correspondent Jim Acosta
- Washington in battle mode as Trump vows retaliation against Democratic probes
- Dog named Lucky helps alert Deerfield resident to house fire
- Lauren Underwood, Sean Casten bask in Democrats’ suburban victories
- Future of Cubs pitching coach Jim Hickey in question after report he’s on way out
- Riding the wave: St. Edward grad Kelvin Cortez-Harvey rounds into form for Elgin Community College
- Nikola Mirotic is thriving in New Orleans as Pelicans down Bulls 107-98
- Max Strus scores 25 as DePaul opens season with 80-58 win over Bethune-Cookman
- Deck the halls with cherry preserves! Give your holidays a healthy twist
- Pelicans 107, Bulls 98
- More from Moore: Freshman receiver Cameron Moore’s TD on a kick return gives big boost to NCC