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- Year in review: Top stories of 2018
- The biggest stories in Chicago and around the state in 2018
- Ask Amy: Mom worries about friends’ compassion fatigue
- Ask Tom: Where would I go in the Southern Hemisphere to get Chicago’s spring and summer weather year-round?
- Faces of 2018: Oswego man called ‘hero’ after waking up residents during apartment fire
- Teen with inoperable brain tumor shares her gifts with other hospitalized kids
- El silencio ‘quedó atrás’
- Who thought it was a good idea to illuminate the dash without having the headlights on?
- 2 men seriously wounded in Northwest Side shooting: Police
- Amos Oz, Israeli novelist who wrote of striving and struggle, dies at 79
- Speak Out: Mayoral candidates and taxes
- Blackhawks’ 5 outdoor games, including 3 Winter Classics, ranked
- Notre Dame’s Ian Book and Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence: Chill dudes who started the season on the bench
- Cops warn of masked attacker who placed victim in chokehold before sexual assault
- ‘One and one equals three’: The Bruce Springsteen math Notre Dame needs to upset Clemson in the Cotton Bowl
- How an Oak Park kid persuaded his parents to let him drop out of college and play video games for a living
- 10 home design trends to watch for in 2019
- John Gardiner emerges as a consistent contributor for Maine South
- George McCaskey deserves credit for his role in the Bears’ resurgence
- Crash involving tow truck causes damage to Logan Square Blue Line station, charges pending
- The Wright State of mind: Trey Calvin leads St. Viator in quest to make state
- Car crashes into side of Beach Park home, leaving driver hospitalized and house uninhabitable
- Ex-Providence Catholic president accused of child sex abuse is AWOL from religious order, official says
- Trump EPA orders rollback of Obama mercury regulations
- The good and the bad of Elgin-area news in 2018: Clements shooting, career pathways and ice cream trucks
- Government to furloughed workers: Ask landlords about doing chores to cover rent
- St. John official calls for state investigation of police chief
- Brown water safe to drink, Lake Station official says
- Trump’s reckoning is well underway
- Quickly: Land of gun violence, seems like blackmail, bull in a china shop
- Glendale Heights police shoot male who refused to drop 2 knives
- West Suburban Local Scoreboard for Sunday, Dec. 30, 2018
- Daily Southtown Local Scoreboard for Sunday, Dec. 30, 2018
- Bears activate right guard Kyle Long from injured reserve
- As a Midwestern grocery chain is dismantled, investors recover their money. Workers are left short $80 million.
- New Trier thrives in Arizona, then heads to Pontiac
- Years removed from financial woes, Valparaiso’s Memorial Opera House continues to grow
- Former Gary boxer hopes Trump will grant him clemency over the holidays
- Northwest Indiana pay-to-play towing investigation keeps federal courts busy in 2018
- Woman sporting sunglasses robs bank on Southeast Side
- Armstrong: Geneva graduate Pace Temple blooms at Butler, looks to go pro after settting receiving records
- ‘It’s been pretty special’: Time in Rockford was worth it for Blackhawks rookie Dylan Sikura
- Oregon hotel fires employees seen evicting black guest on video
- ‘Nothing without work’: Naperville North’s Jim Konrad named national boys soccer coach of year
- ‘Another’ Artim: Crown Point junior Jordan Artim building on the legacy of sisters Mackenzie and Kelsi
- Florida routs Michigan 41-15 in Peach Bowl
- Notre Dame holds off upset-minded Coppin State 63-56
- Potempa: Highland councilman recalls delivering Post-Tribune by sleigh and pony in youth
- Bryce Hopkins picks up Illinois, Xavier offers after dazzling at Proviso West tourney
- A reflective Jabari Parker opens up about his demotion: ‘I kept my end of the bargain’
- Glenview’s Olivia Smoliga sets record with 8 gold medals at FINA world championships
- Bulls coach Jim Boylen defends offensive approach: ‘We are crawling. When we can run, we will run.’
- DePaul drops Big East opener 74-65 to defending conference champ Xavier
- Michigan State ruins NIU coach Mark Montgomery’s return to East Lansing as Spartans get 88-60 victory
- Wizards’ John Wall is considering season-ending foot surgery
- Former Aurora mayor ‘never forgot the real reason we enter into public service’: Elected officials remember Tom Weisner
- Laszlo Lorand, Northwestern biochemist who studied blood clotting, dies
- Not a major deal: Valparaiso blows out Purdue Northwest and gets ready to play Illinois State
- Malware disrupts Tribune Publishing newspaper production
- Upset loss to Florida Atlantic concludes Illini’s nonconference nightmare
- Digest (Dec. 29): Alwaysmining turns in hefty performance at Laurel Park
- Carson’s planned return to Orland Park welcomed by officials
- The good and the bad of Naperville news in 2018: New parks, GOP losses and the death of a beloved mayor
- New Year’s Eve comes early for Elgin children
- Patriots WR Julian Edelman fined $63K for 3 unnecessary roughness calls
- Top stories of 2018: ‘Increased violence in Zion’ results in multi-agency task force
- Lake Bluff police chief to retire March 1 after more than 30 years with department
- For those in drug addiction recovery, the holidays bring chances to reconnect but also challenges
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Sunday, Dec. 30, 2019
- Construction on ramp from north Randall Road to east Route 20 in Elgin will start in spring, county says
- Lawyer: Investigators gathered evidence of undocumented immigrants who say they worked at Trump golf course
- Clemson 30, Notre Dame 3
- Federal Reserve took President Trump’s advice on interest rates. Now he’s not happy.
- U.S. health-care worker with possible exposure to Ebola evacuated to Nebraska
- Utah gears up to implement toughest DUI threshold in the nation
- Sunny on Sunday, but rain on New Year’s Eve
- Sisters forgive him, but former bully admits ‘the guilt still haunts me’ as a year of healing closes
- Red Devil reserves: Hinsdale Central seniors find ways to contribute despite limited playing time
- Patrick Kane’s OT winner powers Blackhawks past Avalanche for their 5th win in 6 games
- Tourney MVP Rashaun Agee powers Bogan past Young in Proviso West Holiday Tournament final