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- Thaddeus Young agrees to multiyear deal with Bulls on opening night of free agency, while Robin Lopez joins the Bucks
- 10 dead in Dallas-area small plane crash, officials say
- Wide grins and historic handshake at DMZ as Trump visits Kim Jong Un in North Korea
- Ask Amy: Correcting the record on ammo and guns
- DuPage Children’s Museum ups its game after new report shows young children at risk, regardless of where they live
- Letters: Treatment of migrant kids a disgrace
- Daywatch: Tax increases and new laws, women increasingly caught in Chicago violence and other things to know to start your day
- Park Ridge Library adds more opportunities to read to dogs
- Counterfeit books? Amazon buyers, beware.
- Ranking the 100 best Bears players ever: No. 67, Mike Hartenstine
- Children dissect animals and learn about medical careers in Robert Crown summer day camp
- Franklin Park helps new business create a sustainable garden
- Rick Renteria’s son learned about work-family balance while growing up around baseball. Now 40, Joe applies it to his own U.S. Navy career.
- Man, woman in critical condition after shooting in front of 7-Eleven in Chicago Lawn
- Pictures: Fans at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup
- Column: How to survive renting one of Chicago’s electric scooters
- Despite plummeting enrollment and layoffs, Western Illinois gives outgoing president generous exit: ‘He did much better than the university did’
- Here’s a look at some of the tax increases and other new laws taking effect in Illinois on July 1
- New depositions reveal Team Madigan’s ‘strange’ request: Help a candidate run against the speaker
- 5 reasons the Blackhawks (probably) won’t make a big splash when free agency starts today
- White Sox address placing Emmett Till photo in scoreboard segment, calling it ‘poor form’
- ‘We are trying to save lives’: New black-owned urgent care fills void on South Side
- Ask Anna: I’m having my first threesome. What should I know about STIs and logistics?
- Get a taste of Italy in Milwaukee, watch champion water skiers and more Midwest events
- Tens of thousands remain without power after severe thunderstorms
- Mets apologize to 2 living members of its 1969 World Series team who were included in a video montage of dead players
- 4 takeaways from the Cubs-Reds series, including Jason Heyward’s surge and Yasiel Puig’s tired act
- Las Águilas femenil volaron por Chicago
- Near the nation’s capital, Alexandria offers history come to vibrant life
- 13 costly personnel changes at Illinois public colleges
- Now they’re making a helmet for flag football too
- El mercado de fichajes de la NBA se dispara el primer día
- 4 takeaways from the White Sox-Twins series, including James McCann’s prowess and Lucas Giolito’s historic turnaround
- Doctors say summer is kidney-stone season. Here’s what you should know.
- Survey: 3 in 10 workers don’t even know if employers offer retirement plans
- River Forest buys parking lot, considers future development
- River Forest prepares to enact 3-cent-a-gallon gas tax
- Celebrating 5 years of Ina’s column with 3 tasty new breakfast spots
- Daisy Ridley continues playing strong characters with ‘Ophelia’
- Tortello is bringing handmade pasta to Wicker Park, plus more dining news
- Bulls to acquire guard Tomas Satoransky from the Wizards in a sign-and-trade deal
- This week in Chicago arts, food and drink via ChicagoNow
- Park Ridge task force ramps up sustainability efforts
- Mexican hailstorm covers Guadalajara in ice
- Retired Bears center Olin Kreutz sells Lake Forest home for $1.15 million
- Contemporary Lincoln Park home: $3.4M
- Shooting injures 1 outside Camp Sullivan near Oak Forest
- Shout Out: Samantha Phelan, valedictorian
- Así quedó Guadalajara tras la granizada del domingo
- Norridge car show had 175 enthusiasts showing off their vehicles
- Indiana state news
- Deerfield church rummage sale helps fund mission trip
- Plenty of ways to celebrate Fourth of July in Aurora area
- Column: When the Cubs and Cardinals play in London next year, leave the U.S. announcers at home
- ¿Ilegal o sólo inmoral? Filme explora suicidio por texteo
- Here’s why the U.S. wealth gap has grown despite record-long economic expansion
- Don’t throw away that old bra — an animal rescue group needs the clasp to save injured turtles
- Libertyville, Mundelein and Vernon Hills offer area residents a variety of activities to celebrate Fourth of July
- ‘Jumanji: The Next Level’ drops first trailer
- 10 things to know about the record economic recovery, now in its 10th year
- Skokie native awarded prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
- 21 spots for 4th of July specials, from patriotic cocktails to a fireworks dinner cruise
- Home safe home: Protect your children with these 5 easy tips
- Summer is the perfect time to dive into unstructured play
- 20 Democrats competed in the first round of presidential debates. Only 6 have qualified for the next round so far.
- Shout Out: Lori Orlinsky, children’s book author
- Black, white, neon? Colorful sneakers create a sock dilemma
- Loyola basketball coach Porter Moser sells Wilmette home for $1.38 million
- Anthony Davis and (recently retired) Dwyane Wade on the cover of the NBA 2K20 video game
- Large fireworks display, beach activities highlight Fourth of July in Lake Zurich
- Kim Kardashian West finds solution to Kimono backlash
- These reality TV newcomers thought they were ready for fame – then social media turned vicious
- Column: Theo Epstein needs to make bold moves — such as trading Kyle Schwarber or Addison Russell — if the Cubs hope to make a playoff run
- Mayor Lori Lightfoot is right. Why we should love libraries, even on Sundays
- Más mortales que un tiburón
- Norridge police investigating report of battery of teenage girl
- Body of fourth missing boater found in Chicago canal following Forest View boat crash
- Speak Out
- Bewildered by the Taylor Swift situation that is exploding on social media? Here’s what to know.
- ‘Euphoria’ creator Sam Levinson isn’t interested in following the rules
- McGrath: This July 4, think about the rights we take for granted and vow to protect them when it comes election time
- Tariffs on fireworks would be a dud for industry in 2020, experts say
- Y si alguien se lesiona, ¿quién paga la cuenta?
- Russell Davies’ ‘Years and Years’ asks ‘what if’ and goes beyond
- Mosquitoes in Lake County test positive for West Nile virus, health department says
- Former Waukegan District 60 official claims he was fired for reporting misconduct over superintendent’s missing personnel file
- Neil Diamond musical heading to Broadway
- Outdoor Mass marks blending of Wilmette’s St. Joseph and St. Francis Xavier parishes
- Waukegan man dies in rollover accident Saturday
- Accidente de autobús deja 13 muertos y 40 heridos
- Speak Out: Fireworks, Lightfoot
- Tyke Play indoor playground center in Carpentersville has closed; owner says not enough business to keep going
- Shout Out: Jason Cody, chemistry professor
- Selle: Non-profit wraps up babies without much government aid
- Indiana-American water rate finalized
- Yung Miami talks fame, motherhood and JT’s return
- Sepultan a salvadoreño y su hija ahogados en río Bravo
- Vernon Area, Arlington Heights Memorial among public libraries offering summer literacy programs: ‘Summer is a wonderful time for children of all ages to explore books’
- Landowner secures zoning changes for area near Arlington Heights and Algonquin roads, envisions ‘walkable’ mixed-use development
- Academy reaches gender parity in 2019 new member invitations
- Iran breaches uranium stockpile limit set by 2015 nuclear deal
- El cuerpo del cuarto pasajero de un barco accidentado fue recuperado
- Rising junior quarterback Michael Ford handed keys to drive Oswego East’s offense
- Plans for another referendum taking shape as Barrington School District 220 leaders discuss what to ask taxpayers for in March
- Criticada en Japón, Kim Kardashian desiste de llamar ‘Kimono’ a su nueva marca
- Review: Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash turns local hip-hop blog into music fest delivering what’s hot and who’s up next
- Six degrees of ‘Music Man’: Goodman players say they’ve all had brushes with the musical before
- Column: Megan Rapinoe and U.S. women’s soccer take on the wretched, mole-people-descended English
- About 65 Aurora residents displaced after apartment building’s electrical panels overheat
- Trump administration seeks to relax limits on truckers’ drive time
- Experts talk good (and bad) wedding guest etiquette: Consider going alone and know how much to gift
- Stroopwafels, maple wafers or pretzels? Now United Airlines says it’s up to you.
- Naperville People in the News
- Pro-democracy Hong Kong protestors vandalize legislative chamber before police clear area with tear gas and riot shields
- Raven Theatre appoints Cole von Glahn as artistic producer
- Column: Szykowny family turns potential tragedy into good cause with Bats for Brains Wiffle Ball tourney
- Awkwafina, Jacob Tremblay join ‘The Little Mermaid’ live-action adaptation
- American Airlines IT chief: ‘One big domino left’ in tech integration from US Airways merger
- Talk of the County: Battle rages over cancellation of Lake County Civil War Days
- Tamir Rice Gazebo Memorial reconstructed with help from Rebuild Foundation: ‘For every Tamir that we know, there’s probably 20 or 30 that we don’t’
- Talk of the County: Stop getting news about Trump from Fox, ‘the original fake news’
- Want to go to the Gold Cup final Sunday at Soldier Field? Try the secondary market
- ‘I don’t want to go to school.’ When morning jitters become school refusal — and what parents can do about it
- Aziz Ansari returning to Netflix with stand-up special
- Sunday storm knocks down trees, causes power outage for nearly 130 Naperville residents
- 12-year-old migrant girl says some children were locked away when they cried for their parents at Texas border station
- Commentary: Want to end gerrymandering? Hold Mayor Lightfoot, Gov. Pritzker to their pledges
- Talk of the County: Leave the ducks alone
- How ‘Spider-Man’ star and Evanston native Zach Barack, the first openly transgender actor featured in a Marvel film, shed his own secret identity
- Coco Gauff upsets Venus Williams at Wimbledon — at 15, she’s the youngest competitor ever to qualify
- Funding for sidewalk along Milwaukee Avenue in Lincolnshire could be in FY20 capital budget: Officials
- Talk of the County: ‘Young people are idiots’ for not backing Biden
- Megan Rapinoe is being, well, Megan Rapinoe at the World Cup: ‘I think she honestly thrives in these moments’
- Former parishioners gather by the hundreds for Mass at South Holland church ‘one more time before it goes away’
- Area county fairs put wine tastings, lumberjacks, batting cages, sword swallowers on the schedule
- Talk of the County: Trump should keep his hands off medal
- Quickly
- Editorial: U.S. women’s World Cup quest, and the Chicago soccer connection
- Medical marijuana users will get dibs if supply wanes, but evidence from other states indicates some may turn to recreational pot once it is legal in Illinois
- Mundelein Fire Department again will go through staff restructuring after close village board vote
- Interfaith 5K walk offers fellowship, aid to local food pantries: ‘There’s hunger here in the suburbs’
- Indiana 911 dispatchers must get CPR training under new law
- Column: Conservative justices don’t think truth matters
- South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg says he raised $24.8 million in 2nd quarter
- Letters: Conditions at the border are shameful
- New Porter elections board gets start; former Dem director arrives to find no job in new office
- Con la victoria de Andy Ruiz Jr., un rincón olvidado de California tiene ahora su propio ‘Rocky’
- E.C. Public Library kicks off summer reading program with a carnival atmosphere
- Belmont Village carnival offers residents family time, raises money for Alzheimer’s Association
- Everton, el atacante que puso a Brasil a jugar como Brasil
- Metropolis musical focuses on life, tunes of Buddy Holly
- ‘All eyes on me’: Munster’s Sanjana Tallamraju is the 2019 Post-Tribune Girls Tennis Player of the Year
- Drivers, gas station owners react to first day of state fuel tax increase
- Giant moth often mistaken for a bat is spotted in Chicago, far from its native climate
- Jerrold Barton, football coach at several Chicago-area schools, including Glenbard South, dies
- Banker Stephen Calk barred from industry while feds pursue bribery charges for issuing Manafort loans
- Jimmy Butler to the Heat, Derrick Rose to the Pistons and where other ex-Bulls landed in NBA free agency
- Attorney: Plea deal rejected, for now, in Schererville robbery trial
- Buscan a varios jóvenes latinos reportados desaparecidos el fin de semana
- The Spin: Madigan old school politics?
- Woman shot fatally at a home in Long Grove, authorities say
- Group looks to ‘follow in the footsteps of the Tuskegee Airmen’
- Lightfoot says she won’t raise Chicago’s gas tax
- Column: There’s only one way to clean up government in Illinois and City Hall
- D203, D204 kids better prepared to start kindergarten than peers statewide, but majority still fall below standards: report
- Taxi driver accused of sexual assault over a decade ago in Oswego
- Chicago Tribune Food Bowl extends registration to July 12
- 5 ways to have a Happy School Year
- Announcing the 2019 Post-Tribune Girls Tennis All-Area Team
- Marina de Tavira y otros mexicanos invitados a la Academia del cine
- Field Museum collaborating on exhibitions highlighting ‘national significance’ of Calumet region
- Gary firefighters clean up park
- Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs, 27, has died; no immediate word on cause of death
- New York Mayor Bill de Blasio brings longshot presidential campaign to Chicago, emphasizes need to improve relations between African Americans and police
- A millionaire day trader, the secret bunker under his Maryland home and a murder conviction
- Editorial: Let the Fourth be the only Fourth: Bowser, babies, wildlife and too many nights of fireworks
- Waukegan celebrates casino, investments in Lake County with Gov. Pritzker
- Knowles: Chicago Heights group awards scholarships, mentors black youth
- Joe Maddon baffled by Cubs’ road woes: ‘Maybe the other teams have gotten better’
- Commentary: What the trade war with China means for your July 4th cookout
- ‘He realized the risks’: Lombard man who found peace in ‘free soloing’ dies after falling more than 80 feet from North Carolina mountain
- Trump says U.S. military tanks will be on display for July 4 event in Washington
- New Blackhawks goalie Robin Lehner ready to join forces with Corey Crawford
- After Blackhawks sign goalie Robin Lehner and center Ryan Carpenter on 1st day of free agency, GM Stan Bowman says: ‘We have a pretty full roster’
- Faulty gas line attached to rotisserie oven to blame for fire, explosion in kitchen of Buffalo Grove Boston Market restaurant: Officials
- Cubs reach new lows after an 18-5 loss to the Pirates knocks them out of 1st place