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- Man, 42, killed in drive-by shooting outside Rogers Park store
- Happy introvert doesn’t know how to party
- Man, 30, charged with reckless homicide after stolen Jeep crashes into Far South Side bus shelter
- Daywatch: Shootings down in violent area, Chicago commuters catch a break and other things to know to start your day
- Utility: Raccoon to blame for Springfield power outage
- Ranking the 100 best Bears players ever: No. 66, Mike Pyle
- Another violent weekend in Chicago, but some good news for a troubled neighborhood
- Experts predict record number of travelers for Fourth of July holiday
- ‘A stranger in my own community’: Mixed feelings as young Latinos move back to gentrifying Chicago neighborhoods
- Gov. Pritzker’s speedboats among most expensive on Geneva Lake
- Gov. J.B. Pritzker says Illinois can’t take on Chicago’s public pension liabilities without trashing state credit rating
- 5 fresh things to make with the season’s beautiful berries for the Fourth and all summer long
- Davich: Disturbing photo should remind us to eulogize life before we politicize death
- There’s lots of blame to go around after the Cubs’ latest debacle
- July 4th travel: TSA says airport checkpoint waits will rise, but only slightly
- Where’s all the stuff? Step inside Notre, the West Loop shop that’s reinventing how you shop for menswear
- Women’s exposure to solvents at work tied to autism in children
- Sleater-Kinney drummer Janet Weiss exits band
- Cloud Gate vandalized
- Why ‘Golden Girls’ matters even to people who weren’t born when the series first aired
- Europe braces for another summer of overtourism
- More seniors are dying in falls. Study shows doctors could do more to reduce the risk.
- 13 all-American movies to stream for Independence Day
- China backs Hong Kong chief, slams protesters for violence
- Plus-size burlesque troupe The Femme FATales is serving ‘fat liberation on a silver platter’
- Nike pulls ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ sneakers after a Colin Kaepernick complaint
- After spending time with beauty Bill Callahan is back, after five years, with some beauty of his own
- Hammond woman charged after gun fired, wounding boyfriend, documents say
- 40-foot tree limb strikes, kills Peoria man during storm
- Riz Ahmed calls on Hollywood leaders to re-examine Muslim imagery
- Calendar: Fourth of July events scheduled all over Lake County
- Gary man found dead in home; cause unknown
- Barrington posts anti-hate message after father tells of harassment against family, openly gay daughter
- Amazon exec fires back at John Oliver after HBO segment on warehouses: ‘He is wrong’
- Taylor Swift publica mensaje feroz contra empresario musical y se distancia de Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato y otros
- My worst moment: That time Audra McDonald ‘snubbed’ a Beatle
- Fox Valley beekeeper says hobby keeps him buzzing
- Hebron students put artistic skills on display with new town mural
- Letter to the Editor: Trump has joined the ranks of Washington, Lincoln
- Add your feet to Chicago’s SummerDance — no other city comes close
- Encuentran a un niño vagando en la calle y sólo habla español
- Akiem Hicks is in London to promote the Bears-Raiders game — and he’s taking notes
- Zion-Benton superintendent to retire in June 2020 after 12 years as district’s leader
- Dancin’ in the Street concert series could use better weather when it resumes July 10
- Alinea Group’s new project, The St. Clair Supper Club, now open in Fulton Market — reservations are live
- FBI: Tests of Facebook mail found nothing dangerous after initial sarin scare
- A group of Winnetka residents is pushing back against a proposed dog park: ‘They just won’t let this park alone’
- Naperville seeking proposals to replace its manual water meter reading system with an automated one
- Illinois sets new tourism record with more than 117 million visitors last year
- Antique Mall plan approved in Crown Point
- Un cuerpo fue encontrado flotando en el río Chicago, cerca de Logan Square
- Vandalizan ‘The Bean’ en el centro de Chicago, hay 7 detenidos
- Nike retira zapato tras duras críticas
- Michigan man charged after taking groups on illegal boat charters on the Chicago River and Lake Michigan
- ‘Bacon seitan’: Mississippi has outlawed using meat terms for plant-based food. A vegan Chicago company has a beef with that.
- Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot outraged over vandalism at The Bean, Millennium Park: ‘There are some things that should be sacred.’
- The next housing bubble could come from technology
- Trump campaign announces $105M raised during 2nd quarter
- Removed for a project, commemorative bricks returned to old Lake County Courthouse.
- Pedestrian struck and killed by UP Northwest Metra train in Cary
- Thousands of Chicago’s homeless have jobs, some college education, contrary to stereotypes, new study says
- Top 5 trend-setting vehicles
- A guide to affordable home improvement
- Sue Bird claps back at Trump for attacking her girlfriend Megan Rapinoe
- Judge gives extension to Ald. Edward Burke’s attorneys to file pretrial motions
- New exhibit at Children’s Museum in Oak Lawn sends kids up into space
- Vandals target canvas sails at Coffee Creek Watershed in Chesterton
- Teacher Feature: Feeling comfortable in your own skin key to classroom — and life — success, professional learner says
- Column: Once lovable losers, are the Cubs really becoming one of baseball’s most hated teams?
- Column: Misplaced baggage just one of the (worthwhile) hassles of summer vacations
- La foto y el horror
- Mischa Barton and Perez Hilton’s fight on ‘The Hills’ reboot was a sad reminder of cruel celebrity coverage
- District 181 looks at saving $132,000 with the elimination of bus routes to Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills middle schools
- Graphic, sexually explicit Facebook posts roil Border Patrol
- ‘Eat, Play, Give!’ fundraiser features Elgin, Crystal Lake theater companies
- From Red Grange to Devin Hester: Bears will give away 20,000 bobbleheads at every home game this season
- Chicago sisters honored late father by donating their kidneys to strangers, setting off a chain of 5 lifesaving transplants
- Speak Out: Gas tax
- New Trier student hosts benefit concert for National Scoliosis Foundation
- Eating recovery, behavioral health facility for children to open in Northbrook
- Zion Williamson’s high school jersey has become a hot seller
- V & V Supremo, el negocio familiar de comida hispana más antiguo del país, está en Pilsen y celebra 55 años
- First look at DJ Khaled’s The Licking soul food restaurant in Chicago, where fried lobster is the go-to order
- Con una ‘lonchera’ y perseverancia, un padre de seis les dio una carrera universitaria a todos sus hijos, a pesar de no tener el brazo derecho
- Beach access restored at Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk
- Girls basketball notes: Lewis recruit Jenna Badali ready to keep Mother McAuley on right road
- As pot goes legal in Illinois, Chicago Public Schools lessens penalties for students caught with drugs
- Jenni Rivera cumpliría hoy 50 años y lo celebran con nueva canción y sentido video
- Commentary: The freedoms we must not take for granted on Independence Day
- Glencoe village manager receives 2.5% pay raise
- Ridgewood High School begins using iPads to monitor student attendance, tardiness
- Band featuring ’85 Bears Wilson, Hampton and McMichael, Lima Lima flight team added to Ribfest lineup on July 4
- What’s the best hard seltzer? The worst? Is it a fad? We have answers.
- Commentary: Got student loan debt? Court ruling offers a lifeline
- Quickly
- ‘Darling Grenadine’ is a risky new Marriott Theatre musical about addiction
- Aurora teams up with Cigna to offer residents free classes on healthy cooking
- Harvey library ‘ill-served’ by advisers in $6M bond deal that funded 2015 building expansion: SEC
- Column: Kaneland grad Keith Snyder prepares DeKalb for big step up to DuPage Valley
- Wisconsin man gets 150 days of jail for clogging women’s toilets
- A ‘Mitch Trubisky for MVP’ bet got too rich for Las Vegas: ‘Is everybody drinking, like, Soldier Field water or something?’
- Comings & Goings: Barrel Club to open in Oak Lawn
- Column: The birthers are back — this time for Kamala Harris
- Column: Caregiving costs are not just for the elderly
- Elizabeth chef Iliana Regan talks about her new memoir and 5 key meals that describe her life
- Millions to gaze at the total solar eclipse expected to plunge parts of South America into darkness
- 5 things to do in Northwest Indiana July 5-9
- 5 things to do in Lake County July 5-11
- 5 things to do in the western suburbs July 5-9
- Fresh vegetables — some sold under Green Giant, Trader Joe’s brands — recalled over listeria risk
- Letters: Hitting us harder at the gas pump
- Alert level increased for the world’s largest active volcano, Hawaii’s Mauna Loa
- 2020 vision: Look for Porsche Cayenne Coupe this fall
- 2019 Lexus ES 350 F Sport: A headroom (and moonroof) pro
- Commentary: Charge people to put their faces on Crown Fountain and let the money flow in
- Shout Out: Dr. Ben Gong, Chinese medicine practitioner
- Church news: Greek festival, July 4 Ice Cream Social and more events offered at Southland houses of worship
- Man charged with reckless homicide in Fremont Township crash is caught on bus headed to Texas, sheriff says
- Crowded Chicago animal shelters brace for strays after July 4
- Rain forced ‘ScribbleMonster’ and Northbrook Park District summer concert series inside local theater, kids’ smiles shone bright
- Editorial: America’s impossible mission to the moon
- South Elgin to pay firm $45,400 to draw up design plans for downtown Panton Mill Park
- Former longtime Western Springs Police Chief William Rypkema dies
- Column: On the Fourth of July, gathering to celebrate the Declaration of Dependence
- Encuentran en el río el cuerpo del joven desaparecido Esteban Uriostegue
- Introducing the 2019 News-Sun Softball All-Area Team
- Niles inspector general: No evidence found to support election-related ethics complaint
- Moran: Maxx Force brings a sonic boom to the Great America landscape
- Cook County Board of Review opens review period for Oak Park property owners
- City cites four electric scooter companies over distribution issue
- Winnetka farmers market brings community together
- Southtowners: Moraine Valley employee receives state honor, more
- Cubs starter Cole Hamels likely out through July after MRI confirms oblique strain
- West Dundee OKs annexation, plats for luxury apartment complex, provides incentives to help fund infrastructure
- Aurora Public Library Board researching possibility of creating library district
- Park board approves synthetic turf plan for Keystone Park infields
- Crown Point mom, 20, enters not guilty plea in death of infant
- Happy Independence Day! John Adams predicted we would all celebrate Independence Day on July 2. What happened?
- Commentary: Tomorrow’s children cannot afford Trump’s ignorance on climate change
- Warren’s Caitlyn Britton is the 2019 News-Sun Softball Player of the Year
- Unlicensed Porter County midwife named in lawsuit after infant’s death
- Body found in North Branch identified as missing man from West Side
- “A proud moment for River Grove”: River Front Fest goes off without a hitch
- Somethings Brewing is a labor of love for family, friends
- Man, 56, dies after being pulled to shore by lifeguards in Rogers Park
- Sue Bird backs Megan Rapinoe against Donald Trump’s tweets in a Players’ Tribune story
- Evanston library celebrates Pride month with Drag Queen Storytime
- OPRF Food Pantry rebrands, renames itself ‘Beyond Hunger’
- Column: Say it was so, Joe! Biden was right to oppose busing in the ’70s
- Lincolnwood considers legal, zoning options to tax marijuana, limit sales locations
- These Southland pets need new homes
- 50 years on, Sandy Denny’s influence remains with Mumford, Decemberists and others
- Luego que Alejandra Guzmán dijera que su hija Frida Sofía la golpeó, esta la vuelve a exhibir
- GOP school chief, Dem Eddie Melton link up for town halls
- Priorities
- Long Grove woman fired gun at husband, then was fatally shot in struggle over weapon, cops say probe shows
- ‘A ticking time bomb’: Government photos show detained migrants pleading for help in overcrowded Border Patrol facilities
- Alyssa Naeher and the American depth carry the USWNT into another World Cup final with 2-1 win over England
- ‘This is an American problem’: Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg addresses systemic racism in Chicago speech
- Opener to St. John Brebeuf festival briefly troubled by rain, but continues joyfully
- Chicago man accused of stealing vehicles from two Good Samaritans in Aurora after he crashed stolen cars
- Chicago’s candy-making roots — and Naperville’s — explored in new Naper Settlement exhibit
- Editorial: Help the feds stop this scourge of robocalls
- Farmhouse style home in Barrington: $899,000
- The Spin: Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg tells Rainbow/PUSH audience that racial inequality, left unaddressed, ‘will upend the American project’
- Stay away from illegal fireworks, head to an organized show, Elgin police chief urges
- Park District of Highland Park looks within to find new executive director
- Naperville Ale Fest offers 200 brews, food trucks, music
- Lawn chairs, tarps and tape: Marking dibs along Evanston’s parade route begins well before July 4
- World Cup winners and losers: Sipping tea, Christen Press, Piers Morgan, goggles and more
- Fourth of July parade steps off in downtown Elgin at 9 a.m.
- Missing 20-year-old Glenview man found safe in hospital
- Crosby: Stricter distracted driving law will help break old habits
- $835,750 to Chicago theaters as part of 2019 Year of Chicago Theatre
- Land Rover stolen in Hinsdale and recovered in Riverdale the same morning
- Shout Out: Joe Kolar, new president of the Bohemian Lawyers Association from Libertyville
- Niles Township District 219 enters into agreement with Oakton Community College on math classes
- American English keeps going on for the love of the music
- What’s Corey Crawford’s status? Is GM Stan Bowman having a good offseason? 5 hot topics for the Blackhawks.
- Vintage base ball squads reviving America’s pastime as ‘a gentlemanly game’
- Victims and perpetrators of gun violence will work together to transform 50 vacant city lots into gardens
- New citizens in Elgin thrilled at being Americans: ‘We’re happy to feel the Fourth of July is real for us’
- La noche triste. Algo que festejar
- Don’t Procrastipaint: It’s Time to End Home Paint Project Procrastination (Infographic)
- 6 ways to get “s’more” outdoor fun during the short summer season
- Fact or fiction? 5 myths about metal roofing
- Otra vez a la final
- How to keep panicky pets calm and safe when the fireworks go off
- Attorneys say Wayside Cross child sex offenders shouldn’t have to move
- Man charged in 2017 crash that killed pregnant mom and her 3 young sons in Beecher seeks to have indictment dismissed
- Editorial: This weekend threatens more gun deaths in Chicago — and not just for young men
- Military jury in San Diego finds Navy SEAL not guilty of committing murder in Iraq
- U.S. beats England 2-1 to reach 3rd straight Women’s World Cup final
- First Culver’s restaurant in Elgin gets planning and zoning approval; Popeyes, Checkers to open new restaurants
- Former Loyola star Marques Townes to play on the Bulls’ summer league team
- OPPLCon celebrates pop culture with superheroes, stories, art and a tea party
- Aurora man charged with attempted murder of teen
- Trump administration will print 2020 Census without citizenship question, Justice Department says
- Having a good list of tweets to review is very good
- Portage releases clerk investigation report; Stidham says it’s retribution for testifying in disgraced former mayor’s trial
- Column: For many Democrats, the road to the White House requires a detour through Chicago and a tuneup by Jesse Jackson
- Kane County state’s attorney Joe McMahon won’t seek re-election; was special prosecutor in Laquan McDonald case
- Power problems on Metra Electric lead to delays to and from Millennium Station
- As Ribfest closes out its Naperville run this week, a look back at memories of festivals past
- Slowik: Lawsuit claims politicians retaliated against police whistleblower in Blue Island
- Astronaut James Lovell salutes ‘important milestone’ of addressing homelessness among Lake County’s veterans
- Sky miss final 10 shots in dropping their 4th straight, 90-82 to the Aces
- Workshop focuses on helping first-time homebuyers
- Naperville Ribfest through the years
- House committee sues Trump administration in federal court for access to president’s tax returns
- Time to celebrate Independence Day, but not with fireworks: 3 things you should know about Illinois’ fireworks laws
- ‘Amphibia’ creator eager for viewers to say, ‘There’s someone like me’
- With Cole Hamels out of action, the Cubs weigh options for the starting rotation
- Dylan Cease is following in Michael Kopech’s footsteps — but just not with an all caps tweet from the White Sox this time
- Ghost stories don’t scare ‘Annabelle’s’ Patrick Wilson
- Bulls reach terms with Ryan Arcidiacono on a 3-year, $9 million deal and get a commitment from free-agent big man Luke Kornet
- Tuesday’s White Sox-Tigers game rained out; it will be made up Sept. 27
- Joe Maddon held his midseason meeting with his struggling Cubs: ‘We have to find that other edge that’s going to put us over the top’
- Zack Collins on Dylan Cease avoiding jitters in his big-league debut: ‘I don’t think it’s possible’
- Counting on Conant: Ball State’s Justin Conant enjoying a ‘great summer’ for NWI Oilmen
- Megan Rapinoe ‘expects to be ready’ for Women’s World Cup final
- Severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings issued across Chicagoland as strong storms move through the area
- U.S.-England World Cup watch party in Lincoln Park
- Y la ‘novena’ para Messi fue una oda a la tristeza
- Gabriel Jesus lleva a Brasil a las puertas del paraíso en la Copa América
- World Cup viewing party in Lincoln Park inspires young soccer players to ‘dream a bit more’
- Black patient walking outside Illinois hospital arrested after security officer accused him of trying to steal IV stand
- U.S. customs agents seize 32 pounds of African rat meat at O’Hare
- Former Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca, who became a folk hero for rescuing the company in the ’80s, dies at 94