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- Free ice cream cones at Ben & Jerry’s on Tuesday
- Qué ver este fin de semana en el Festival de Cine Latino de Chicago
- Jake Evans’ late goal sends Notre Dame to Frozen Four final
- Judy Blume, mini golf and other must-haves for road tripping with an 8-year-old
- Five-bedroom East Wilmette home: $1.2M
- Morning Spin: Jeb Bush comes to Rauner’s defense; Pritzker aide responds: ‘Please clap’
- The Greek Easter lamb debate: Head on or off?
- Maine West High School re-examining American Indian mascot after social media criticism
- Was grandparents’ choice to have girls’ hair cut off racist?
- Growing brain drain: University of Alabama’s gain in drawing Illinois students is a loss for Illinois
- I’m a proud member of the Chicago Teachers Union. Here’s why.
- Man critically injured in West Town among 3 stabbed in Chicago
- Next of kin sought after man fatally stabbed on West Side
- 2 dead, 2 wounded in city shootings
- Two men robbed, beaten in related robberies on Near North, Near South sides
- Disgraced South Korean ex-president gets 24 years in prison for massive corruption scandal
- Anti-Sinclair video montage scheduled to air in ad on Sinclair stations
- When Cubs can make Ryan Braun look stupid, it’s always a good day
- Jon Lester makes a successful pitch in harnessing baserunners
- This Week in Naperville
- McDaniel-Hale: Consultant to help Elgin on diversity
- Teacher Feature: A ‘sense of awe’ in helping students succeed
- Outgoing Lake Forest city attorney disputes report criticizing lobbying payments
- Dunkin’ Donuts selling donut fries, pretzels and chicken tenders
- Chicago date idea: Playful art at Rotofugi then craft brews at Beermiscuous
- Can Cubs shortstop Addison Russell live up to his performance on ‘Superior Donuts’?
- Houston’s wack bean, cancerous coffee and more conversation starters for your weekend
- Waukegan seeking answers on unfinished roads at River Glen development
- El Barca persigue el récord de imbatibilidad de la Real Sociedad de hace 38 años
- Take a tour of the world’s largest cruise ship
- Photos: Dwyane Wade’s wife Gabrielle Union
- Spring break road trip takes Larkin students on tour of out-of-state colleges
- U.S. added modest 103K jobs in March, fewest in 6 months
- Instagram-worthy home organization tips
- Purge, organize, post to Instagram: Pro tips to make your home orderly and attractive
- Prickly City- forgiveness
- SeaWorld: Churrasco is fest’s fave
- Learn how to take better photos, ‘time travel’ in Europe and more
- Lester aporta en la loma y con el bate; Cachorros aplastan
- Mayor Irvin determined to take Aurora to the mountain top in State of the City
- She’s not Laura Ingraham. But she’s gotten thousands of angry tweets meant for the Fox News host
- Guilty plea for home intruder who stabbed 3 people and dog but fled after victim fired gun at him
- Peña Nieto insta a Trump a resolver los problemas bilaterales con respeto
- Porter County buys old jail in Valparaiso for $3.6M
- Is there a ‘red line’ for Trump supporters? Northwest Indiana residents weigh in
- Rep. Roskam declines invite to gun violence town hall, citing scheduling conflicts
- Star Wars spinoff ‘Solo’ to premiere at Cannes Film Festival
- Banging on drum all day for Blue Man Group a ‘dream job’ for Stagg grad
- Yorkville shopping center wants bigger signs
- How the ‘Trump effect’ is causing panic in the Republican Party
- One wine writer asks wine lovers to reflect on their standards
- Primer debate de candidatos a la Presidencia de México será el 22 de abril
- Naperville News Digest
- Tom Neilson to perform ‘music for social change’ during Earth Week in Park Forest
- In Illinois, my Social Security benefits barely pay for my property taxes
- Lin-Manuel Miranda has shingles, quarantined from baby son
- Pictures: Universal Orlando’s Fast and Furious – Supercharged
- Fundraiser for reunited Congolese mom and child — ‘We can help them get a start’
- Indiana schools chief: Better accountability needed for schools taking public money
- Column: Martin Luther King’s legacy endures 50 years after his assassination
- Thomas Middle School looks to make student compliments go viral through Twitter campaign
- When Kennedy was assassinated, no one cared about the weapon
- Elgin News Digest
- Oswego looks at plan for boosting development
- Pochettino: Spurs must keep ‘200 percent’ focus after Chelsea win
- Target to pay $3.74 million to settle claims that it discriminated against black, Latino job applicants
- By the numbers: Enrollment of Illinois students at Alabama
- Loving Las Vegas, from its glittering Strip to its alluring desert
- Catalonia’s defiant ex-leader freed on bail from German jail
- Beer of the Month: Uinta’s Dubhe continues to please
- Symphony with ‘cheesesteak interlude’ captures city’s sizzle
- Older Americans are hooked on vitamins despite scarce evidence they work
- Universal: More inside looks at Fast & Furious — Supercharged
- Lemont woman seeks solitude on 2,190-mile Appalachian Trail trek
- Cubs’ Kris Bryant calls commercial stunt ‘one of the favorite things I’ve been able to do’
- What a simple act of kindness can do
- District 105 to promote assistant to superintendent
- Mourinho: Man Utd still have ‘motivation to finish second
- 18-year-old from Rolling Meadows gets 4-year sentence in Arlington Heights shooting
- Eat this! A drop-dead gorgeous flor de calabaza quesadilla at Minna’s Restaurant
- Mother of student shot by U. of C. police had worries about his mental health
- The Middle East is hurtling toward self-destruction
- Arrestan a conductora ebria en serie, y madre de 11
- Down to Business: Naperville woman loves helping people put best face forward
- Down to Business: Tables to last a lifetime are the signature of Spiritcraft
- Still haven’t filed your taxes? Here’s how to maximize your refund and keep your data safe
- Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting online retailers. Here’s how to protect yourself.
- Metal object mistaken for gun in New York police shooting was welding torch
- ‘La Chupitos’ arranca en Chicago su gira ‘Standopeda’
- Clearly, Michigan doesn’t value its water
- Metra safety plan proposes fewer morning BNSF express trains from Hinsdale to Chicago
- Poisoned former Russian spy no longer in critical condition, hospital says
- Illinois unveils new football uniforms, helmets for 2018 season
- Decent: Planning ahead for health problems pays dividends for local man
- Cut high school kids some slack — they’re under construction
- Guardiola reveals Man City were offered Pogba in January transfer window
- Everything Cardi B says is music on ‘Invasion of Privacy’
- Pollution forces South Korean baseball league to postpone games
- Automakers: Ignore EPA, continue path to clean, efficient vehicles
- Lawsuit challenges Deerfield’s assault weapons ban: ‘It flies in the face of state law’
- U.S. takes aim at Putin’s inner circle in Russia with new sanctions
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- Some trains might have fewer cars as South Shore tests new safety system
- Church news
- Larry Nassar wasn’t the only abuser in Olympic sports
- Letter: Become part of the discussion at Imagine OPRF’s third Community Conversation
- Reports: Casillas has ‘strong interest’ in joining Chicago Fire this summer
- Quarters in Fulton Market
- Co-working hotbed gets co-living spaces: Dorm-style apartments set to open in Fulton Market
- Fixing Chicago, life by life
- ‘In a Rhythm’: Choreographer Bebe Miller talks a lot, the music includes a Nelly hit — it’s a fascinating, atypical approach to dance
- Police: 1 held after shots fired in Uptown
- Forty years ago, ‘Rock Lobster’ launched the career of the B-52s — and revived John Lennon’s
- March Madness: Rock/paper/scissors tournament thrills students, teachers at Leigh School in Norridge
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- Surgeon general urges more Americans to carry overdose antidote naloxone
- Gary moves toward approving new fire station
- Public to get peek inside Porter museum space
- Drink this! Martini flight at Vol. 39
- Aurora spring yard waste collection extended by a week
- With state attorney general’s opinion, Gary School Board to fill vacancy Tuesday
- Boy, 14, struck while riding bicycle in Palmer Square neighborhood
- Larkin grad on Final Four run with Loyola: ‘I almost feel spoiled getting to experience it’
- Community news
- Chicago rents have dipped more than 15 percent since last year, report finds
- Volunteer days, environment fair, tree sale, more planned for Earth Day in Naperville
- CSO delivers a winning Ravel program under debut conductor Pintscher
- Changes in Wrigleyville
- Trump blames ‘Fake News Media’ for embattled EPA chief’s troubles
- It’s Opening Day for some Wrigleyville restaurants, too
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- Boss buzzing you after hours? NYC might ban it
- Lake County Council prepares for new look at vetoed hiring freeze plan
- Work progressing of Merrillville’s Bon Aire Lake
- GOP incumbent facing challenge in Porter County Council District 1 primary race
- Seniors tout new apartments in Hobart
- From crack cocaine to Mar-a-Lago: The unusual journey of the MyPillow man
- Attempted murder charges filed against four in Hammond shooting
- Four businesses fined for selling liquor to minors in West Dundee
- Making sweet treats for Reading Buddies
- Bank robbed in Mount Greenwood
- Miami Woods Forest Preserve celebrates 40 years of volunteer restoration
- Crosby: Patience, persistence and practice pay off for Aurora area athletes, officials
- Even where it’s legal to sell marijuana, it’s hard to advertise it
- West Loop Shakedown returns to Restaurant Row
- East Aurora sets Fine Arts Festival
- McGregor, liberado bajo fianza en Nueva York
- Best Buy warns of data breach
- Have you ever seen the moon? A short film will open your eyes
- Blue Sky Social at Highline Bar and Lounge
- Haggling over citizen oversight of CPD
- Chicago Bears offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich buys Lake Bluff home for $1.63 million
- Chicago Bears offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich’s Lake Bluff house
- Man already jailed on slew of charges now accused of 2 Evanston armed robberies
- Public to get peek inside Porter County Museum renovations
- North Chicago resource agency to unveil ‘Rigamajig’ for children of veterans
- Letter: Upgrades sorely needed at Hinsdale high schools
- How WWI was fought in Chicago’s ethnic neighborhoods
- Early morning fire sends 4 to hospital in Buffalo Grove
- Arrest of woman with DUI record spanning at least 6 states was ‘one of the worst’ ever, says Riverside chief
- Aurora can take deposition of convicted murderer who sought cops’ personnel files from behind bars
- Intelligence is wasted on Donald Trump
- Former White Sox infielder Juan Uribe cuts asking price for his condo to $999,999 — $300,000 less than before
- It’s opening day for some Wrigleyville restaurants too
- Hobart parts distributor looks to expand
- Gary dismisses library board appointee
- Battery malfunction leads to emergency response at West Suburban Hospital
- ‘Birdland’ at Steep: You’re treated like a god, people throw themselves at you — what does it mean to be a rock star?
- Email snags Hobart demolition plans
- Bail denied for man charged in River North stabbing death of software CEO
- Former White Sox infielder Juan Uribe reduces Regatta unit to $999,999
- Spudnik Press plants ‘Roots’ in divided terrain; NMMA connects dots between immigration, labor movements and art
- Saints reportedly sign Bears wide receiver Cameron Meredith to offer sheet
- Shout Out: David Rosenberg, theater publicist
- DuPage judge finds Winnetka financial adviser not guilty of misleading clients
- Shout Out: Charles Troy, theater historian
- Elgin middle school to remain demonstration site for national college readiness program
- Libertyville’s Rockland Road bridge, minus old truss, reopens to traffic
- Fox Valley schools adding cameras, bullet-resistant glass coating and increased security checks
- Frame by frame: Takeaways from a careful look at the University of Chicago police shooting video
- Letter: Volunteer Meet and Match event headed to West Cook YMCA in Oak Park
- Alderman says he’ll hold neighborhood meetings on dueling plans for police oversight
- Thomas Harris, PR executive who expanded field into branding and marketing, dies
- Lombard woman accused of strangling mom could face life in prison if convicted
- Cecil Taylor, pioneer of free-jazz movement, dead at 89
- Shoe retailer Nine West files for bankruptcy
- Chris Jones recommends
- Daily Southtown Local Scoreboard for Saturday, April 7
- Big crowd turns out for Aurora job fair
- Naperville letters to the editor: Carillon should come down
- Eggs remain a menu sensation throughout the centuries
- Puerto Rico running out of time as storm season nears, FEMA says
- Hobart celebrates opening new parks garage
- Óscar Jaenada es condenado a 6 meses de prisión
- Esports bookmaking? Globally, it’s already a billion-dollar gambling industry
- Chart: Number of synthetic cannabinoids
- Rat poison likely to blame for deadly side effects of synthetic pot in Illinois
- Sarah Shook sings with sharpened clarity on ‘Years’
- Part of Naperville’s Nokia property could be new subdivision
- Jay-Z opens up to David Letterman about cheating on Beyoncé and his mother’s sexuality
- Mellody Hobson, Fed chair Jerome Powell bond over ‘dictator’ filmmaker spouses
- Rory McIlroy keeps career Grand Slam in sight at Masters
- Palatine condo owners sue over planned sale, deconversion to apartments
- Corrections and clarifications
- The Panini sticker album, a global symptom of World Cup fever
- Aurora letters to the editor: Immoral language, citizenship question
- Tainted synthetic pot eyed as cause of another Illinois death as store owner accused of selling substance held without bail
- LeBron James, Kevin Durant but no Bulls in 35-player U.S. Olympic basketball team pool
- Former cop gets 55 years for ex’s murder at emotional sentencing, insists he is innocent
- Fed Chairman Jerome Powell tells Chicago audience it’s too soon to know economic impact of China trade dispute
- Saturday’s matchup: Nets at Bulls
- Ben Cornelius provides ‘swagger’ and experience for Lake Zurich’s pitching staff
- Chief Wahoo removal by Indians not enough for logo foes
- Soybean tariffs
- Council will vote again on Aurora tech plan contract
- Police blotter: Chicago man faces DUI, marijuana charges after traffic stop
- Program helps at-risk Aurora girls get involved in Scouting
- Fleckenstein’s to open New Lenox bakery in June
- Glencoe police blotter: Chicago man accused of failing to properly secure child
- Judge blocks contact with juror over allegedly racist tone of deliberations during gang trial
- Joshua Kane brings ‘Borders of the Mind’ to Palos Hills
- Buffalo Grove High School students return to middle school as volunteers
- Disabato: Stagg graduate Max Strus could decide to leave DePaul for the NBA
- Visit Oak Park seeks artists for ‘Urban Local Made’ program
- Voting machines tested as primary nears in Porter County
- Man gets $300,000 settlement in Beecher crash that killed his pregnant wife, 3 sons
- China vows to ‘counterattack’ Trump in trade dispute as markets tumble
- Quilts covering America’s national parks to summer in Will County
- 6 reasons to love the Malone Golf Club
- Wrigley Field gets ready for opening day
- Aurora city workers may get raises, pay more for health care
- Top EPA ethics official says he lacked key facts about Pruitt’s condo rental deal with lobbyist
- Forgetting events is part of the way we create memories. It also explains the Facebook crisis, Putin and Trump.
- Conservative Illinois publications blur lines between journalism, politics
- Texas Republican Blake Farenthold abruptly resigns from Congress
- Trump faceoff with China exposes GOP weakness in rural U.S.
- Former Walter Payton Man of the Year winner Thomas Davis tests positive for banned substance
- Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg faces long-awaited ‘reckoning’ in Congress
- Taking a look at the top 5 teams and top 15 individuals in the Region for girls track
- Reports of severe bleeding from synthetic pot prompt warning from Lake County health officials
- Loyola to host Nevada next season in Sweet 16 rematch
- After police shootings, officers are rarely prosecuted. But many are fired.
- Morehead State recruit Alysa Coleman puts Merrillville’s sprinters on the map
- New hotel stylishly complements Wrigley Field, but can’t match its authenticity
- Brewers closer Corey Knebel expected to miss 4-6 weeks with strained hamstring
- Wisconsin governor ready to send National Guard troops to Mexican border if Trump asks
- Notre Dame DE Jay Hayes announces plans to transfer
- Thomas Pieters ends a rough Masters by snapping his driver over his knee
- Trump troop request for border patrol gives governors opening to decline
- Speak Out: Cowards use Twitter to fire people
- Ask Tom: How does recent wintry weather compare with record April low in 1982?
- Pirates 99-year-old usher retires after 81 seasons
- Ask Tom: How snowy was it in early April 1938, city’s snowiest April on record?
- Around Wrigley Field, a high-stakes urban design drama plays out as buildings fall and rise
- Aurora man gets guilty verdict in sex assault case, immediately leaves courthouse, apprehended downstate
- Corrections and clarifications
- Celtics 111, Bulls 104
- EPA head fights for his job in meeting with Trump
- Speak Out
- Brewers 5, Cubs 4
- 2 dogs injured in fight, shooting — owners charged
- Scrappy Brewers love getting under the Cubs’ skin
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Saturday, April 7
- Lake County News-Sun Local Scoreboard for Saturday, April 7
- ‘Something clicked’ for Clarendon Hills contestant on ‘MasterChef Junior’
- NHL says Flyers, Panthers could play rare tiebreaker game for postseason berth
- 10 things you might not know about having a great editor
- Protests in Gaza
- Brewers seek to close gap on the Cubs
- Spring weather still a no-show as chill persists
- Patrick Reed goes low to take second-round lead at Masters
- Attorneys for city deny intentionally failing to disclose key evidence in code-of-silence trial
- Corey Knebel injury will be early challenge for Brewers’ hopes to contend
- South Carolina GOP rep pulls out gun at constituent meeting: ‘I’m not going to be a Gabby Giffords’
- Brazil’s ex-President ‘Lula’ defies order to turn himself in
- Extra-alarm fire extinguished at Bridgeport factory
- FBI seizing Backpage.com, affiliated websites in enforcement action
- Florida school shooting hero blames sheriff, superintendent
- Man charged in 2016 Oak Park drive-by shooting
- Conor McGregor’s UFC future in doubt in wake of felony charges
- Massachusetts assault weapons ban doesn’t violate 2nd Amendment, judge says
- Blues 4, Blackhawks 1
- Another day, another honor: Jalen Brunson wins Wooden, Cousy awards
- Skokie cop fires at armed resident, but misses, while responding to burglary alarm at his condo
- For an American teen whose parents were deported to Mexico, an agonizing choice
- Burglars broke into Near West Side businesses to steal laptops and cash
- Arizona, Texas send 400 troops to border after Trump’s call
- Armstrong: North Aurora’s Annika Albrecht rises as Nebraska volleyball walk-on to AAU Sullivan Award finalist
- Villanova’s Jalen Brunson, South Carolina’s A’ja Wilson win Wooden Awards
- U.S. expands data-gathering program on migrants in Mexico