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- Column: Chicken-factory employees in the U.S. illegally work in fear. Their employers, not so much.
- Ask Amy: Distant dad has generous sons on family plan
- Ben Zobrist and Willson Contreras return and provide instant contributions in the Cubs’ 6-1 win over the Mariners
- Illinois colleges ramp up pursuit of rural students: ‘Colleges need to understand more about rural areas — they are kind of in a bubble.’
- The life and times (good and bad and with Sinatra) of comic Tom Dreesen
- Column: Break some eggs, Elizabeth Warren: Drop out and back Bernie
- Daywatch: Lightfoot claps back at Ted Cruz, strikes loom as CPS students head back to school and other things to know to start your day
- Column: Gracious. Proper. Proud to serve. Goodbye to Shirley Stratton, former first lady of Illinois
- In search of a healthier Slim Jim for millennials: Conagra to build new snacking innovation center in Chicago
- Quirky rooftop bar Utopian Tailgate opens above The Second City, plus more Chicago restaurant openings and closings
- Ranking the 100 best Bears players ever: No. 2, Dick Butkus
- Shout Out: Dawn Hathaway, Norridge mom loves to volunteer
- Shout Out: Mark Zimmerly, Presbyterian pastor and paw paw enthusiast
- Black women gone missing: Kalisha Buckhanon’s ‘Speaking of Summer’ explores the devastating impact
- U. of I. student charged with hate crime after noose found hanging in Urbana dorm elevator
- Deported Army vet hopeful he’ll be allowed to return to Chicago after governor’s pardon
- R. Kelly moved to general population of federal jail in Chicago, feds say. ‘I’m so popular here, it’s like yeah man’
- 22 million pounds of plastics enter the Great Lakes each year. Most of the pollution pours into Lake Michigan.
- George R.R. Martin to speak at the Chicago Humanities Festival
- Bears Q&A: Should they prepare for life without Trey Burton? Who will start at running back? Plus 53-man roster questions.
- A storm chaser who went silent as Dorian slammed the Bahamas resurfaced with a harrowing story: ‘It was like we were in a washing machine’
- 5 things to do in the western suburbs Sept. 6-8
- A Netflix movie starring Eddie Murphy about the making of ’70s cult classic ‘Dolemite’ has a Chicago family fighting for their father’s legacy
- Aeropuerto Internacional de Orlando abre nuevamente al mediodía del miércoles finalizando el cierre por el huracán Dorian
- Matt LaFleur bombed an interview 5 years ago to be Maryland’s WR coach. Now, he’s the Packers head coach. So how did that happen?
- Parting words from departing FBI boss in Chicago: ‘Our corruption program is extremely busy. Expect more to come’
- Bans not keeping drivers with implanted defibrillators off the road
- ‘Hiker trash,’ a fat rattlesnake and fickle Mother Nature: What it’s like to trek 800 miles on the Arizona Trail
- It’s time to start planning for fall. Here’s a list of awesome family activities around Chicago.
- Inter fans say monkey chants not meant to be racist
- Top 25 Reality Check: No overreactions this early, please
- Leading man: QB Baker Mayfield brings hope, hype to Browns
- 4 takeaways from the Cubs-Mariners series, including Ben Zobrist’s return, Kyle Schwarber’s groove and Jon Lester’s bragging rights
- Dimitrov fulmina a un errático Federer en el US Open
- Otro jonrón de Castellanos en triunfo de Cachorros
- Family of man killed by Gary police officer still seeking information about shooting
- Column: The Bears could be capable of making a run to the Super Bowl — depending on Eddy Pineiro
- Establishing a few facts about roots, water and new plants
- Encuentran muerta a histórica deportista española
- Chicago theater openings Sept. 6-12
- Juego de pelota prehispánico regresa a Ciudad de México después de 500 años
- Ric Wilson combines showmanship and ‘nouveau disco’
- Pentágono aprueba fondos militares para muro fronterizo
- State of Illinois is now taking orders for St. Louis Cardinals license plates
- Can the Bears beat the Packers on the NFL’s opening night? Our writers make their picks.
- Cup half empty: Starbucks shares slip as coffee giant lowers growth forecast
- Selle: Legal grass offers Lake County the potential for tourism highs
- Gobierno mexicano alerta sobre más liberaciones en caso de 43 estudiantes
- Parents guide: Advice about films kids may want to see in theaters or opening soon
- West Branch of Aurora library shows off its new look
- A look at how the Bears’ NFC North rivals are shaping up for 2019
- Editorial: Go U Northwestern: The customer service question that matters most
- Walmart, Kroger, Starbucks, Target all ask customers not to openly carry guns, as businesses wrestle with firearms issues
- Fighting with your teen over his sweatpants — time to pick your battles
- Conoce a ‘The Casagrandes’, la familia de origen mexicano que llega a Nickelodeon
- Images show unprecedented damage left by Hurricane Dorian across the Bahamas
- Ramón Ramírez: ‘No se puede pasar de América a Chivas o viceversa’
- Ramp closures planned at Orchard Road Interchange with I-88
- Fall preview: Lizzo, Madonna and 8 other concerts not to miss this season
- Storylines for Thursday’s Bears-Packers NFL season opener: Leonard Floyd’s next big hurdle, Ha Ha Clinton-Dix’s enthusiasm and Mitch Trubisky’s deep ball
- Lake County News-Sun Local Scoreboard for Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019
- Lista de nominados a los Latin American Music Awards 2019
- Deaf, mute man charged with stabbing Tradewinds worker in neck with a fork
- The sinister appeal of ‘The Dark Crystal’s’ bad Muppets
- Chicago trial for R. Kelly on federal sex abuse-related charges tentatively set for next April
- Most new vehicles will soon have electronic reminders to check back seats for children
- It’s time to frolic at northwest Indiana pumpkin farms, corn mazes
- Aurora police searching for suspect on city’s West Side
- R. Kelly’s daughter says music ‘saved my life’
- Naperville bans recreational marijuana sales — throwing into question one of the first licenses awarded by the state
- Venezuela y Puerto Rico logran pleno latinoamericano en Mundial de básquet
- Rick Armstrong’s top 5 teams, 20 players to watch in the Aurora area for the 2019 girls volleyball season
- YouTube to pay $170M to settle claims it violated kids’ privacy
- Regresa la esperanza a veterano deportado, podría volver a EEUU
- 5 takeaways from ex-Bear Brian Urlacher and ex-Packer Jordy Nelson’s football boot camp at the Navy’s Great Lakes base
- Es posible jugar siendo viejo en NFL, con sacrificios
- ‘It’s going to attack your lungs’: Gurnee teen hospitalized for vaping has message for his peers
- Daily Southtown football rankings and player of the week for Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019
- Due to low passing scores, Indiana State Board of Education will refrain from assigning letter grades to 2019 ILEARN exam
- Speak Out: Trump, Democrats
- Football notes: Injury in the past, Providence quarterback Kevin Conway ready to lead the way
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- Column: Joe Maddon’s future takes center stage as the Cubs enter the final weeks of the season
- Column: Emily Doe, who stayed anonymous after being sexually assaulted by Brock Turner at Stanford, has revealed her name and written a memoir. I’ll devour any words she wants to share.
- 3 cats killed in Valparaiso apartment fire
- Cary man, 18, held on $1 million bond in Wauconda crash that killed 16-year-old girl
- Hutton: Chesterton is X-factor in the DAC, and other takeaways from Week 2 of high school football in Northwest Indiana
- Old Post Office closes in on leases with PepsiCo and WeWork
- Despite GrubHub and Uber Eats, restaurants still hiring for deliveries — and may offer drivers a better gig
- Sheriff: Kane County inmate found with 5-inch-long metal shank
- West Suburban Local Scoreboard for Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019
- Gary man, 23, killed; second man wounded in shooting: police
- Despiden al cuarto técnico en la Liga MX
- Waukegan rejects taller emissions stack for Medline plant that uses ethylene oxide
- Column: Will China crush the Hong Kong protests?
- Community news
- Remy Bumppo’s ‘Howards End’ has great Schlegel sisters, but only villains around the table
- Scarlett Johansson defends Woody Allen: ‘I believe him’
- Column: Waiting for Dorian
- Texas A&M recruit Melissa Walden, veteran Waubonsie Valley teammates have unfinished business
- Los Wolves de Raúl Jiménez se visten de verde mexicano
- Naperville opts out of recreational marijuana sales, might put issue to voters in referendum
- Speak Out: What would Canada do?
- Hammond’s housing development program gains momentum
- La Italia de Mancini abre paso a los jóvenes… pese a los errores de la edad
- Wisconsin man may face sentencing Oct. 3 for killing ex-wife in Gurnee
- Verónica Castro le responde a Yolanda Andrade: ‘Es una falta de respeto’
- Dogs to have their day in Aurora
- Tinley Park officials signal support for recreational marijuana stores
- ‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ director notes production’s fight choreography
- Iturria se da una alegría en la Vuelta
- Niños migrantes separados de sus familias sufren trastornos
- Area fire departments get federal grants
- Man charged with selling rapper Mac Miller drugs before overdose death
- As MD-80s fly into sunset, American Airlines faces headwinds
- Bud Light ordered to remove ‘No Corn Syrup’ from packaging in legal battle with MillerCoors
- Deportaciones de centroamericanos desde México a Guatemala registran fuerte aumento
- Former Chesterton wrestler Lucas Davison full of confidence after runner-up finish at Junior World Championships
- Margaret Atwood revisits Gilead in ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ sequel, ‘The Testaments’
- Judge orders unsealing of more Jason Van Dyke case documents — but with redactions
- Casi mata a su hija al confundirla con intruso
- What will Chuck Pagano’s Bears defense look like? Expect a more aggressive pass rush and more man coverage.
- México chocará con Trinidad y Tobago en amistoso
- Convicted of bribery, obstruction, former Portage mayor asks to delay sentencing
- Shout Out: Chaon Cross, actor and Evanston resident
- Indiana woman arrested in death of 10-year-old stepdaughter after girl was reported missing
- Everything travelers need to know about Greenland (which is not being bought by the U.S.)
- How to take your first luxury vacation
- Prince Harry announces massive travel sustainability project
- Chicago State hires former Texas A&M athletic director Eric Hyman as interim AD
- These quiet national historic sites celebrate great women
- The do’s and don’ts of in-flight grooming
- Google cracks down on marijuana sale and delivery apps
- Illegal cannabis farms still scarring public lands, 2 years after California legalized marijuana
- Illinois spent $4.6 million on health insurance for dead people, federal audit says
- Desastres del huracán Dorian en Bahamas
- Lawyers for Jussie Smollett say bill to investigate alleged hate crime is city’s problem
- Bears y Packers abren la 100ma temporada de la NFL
- Rap cubano lucha por mantenerse en tiempos de reggaetón
- After decades as menswear retailer, Chicago Ridge clothier says future for ‘niche’ business is bright
- Oak Brook Park District offers naming rights for former McDonald’s property in exchange for $2 million
- Watchdog: City averaged nearly a year to send out citations for overflowing trash, other sanitation violations
- Column: Meteorologists’ dire (and inaccurate) forecasts ruined my Chicago Bears tailgate experience
- Michigan moves to be 1st state to ban flavored e-cigarettes under order from governor
- Aurora gets ready for census push
- Letters: Why no action on gun legislation?
- Hammond man charged in shooting of daughter’s boyfriend: police
- A cinco años de su muerte, así recuerdan a Gustavo Cerati
- Commentary: Boris Johnson — in the thick of Brexit — is presiding over Britain’s stupidest hour
- Gas leak forces evacuation at Deerfield Village Hall, police station
- Shout Out: Beverly Snell, teacher and Glencoe resident
- Oswego lowers water rates
- Petrak: Upcoming events offer downhome meals in La Grange, Western Springs
- A tres meses del acuerdo México-EEUU, estos son los cambios
- The Spin: Schock’s off the hook — and he can run for office again
- Get ready to see some new plays on northwest Indiana stages in 2019-20
- Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell hold Douglas Park cleanup ahead of ‘Bears’ beatdown of the Packers’
- Column: Hologram concert technology lets legends return to stage
- Trump’s approval rating remains below 50% in Wisconsin — one of four swing states that could determine the outcome of the 2020 election
- Downstate man charged with sexual assault in Evanston
- Side Street Studio Arts in Elgin wins $10,000 grant
- Flossmoor lures 600 runners from 15 states with race hoped to showcase village’s ‘hidden gems’
- Clarkson: Field hockey comes to Hinsdale (finallly)
- Teen fatally shot in Riverdale
- Gary woman finds child’s father with another woman; faces kidnapping charges
- Column: Sen. Ted Cruz and other Republicans in Congress are ignorant about gun laws. Mayor Lori Lightfoot was right to call them out.
- ‘I hope it’s hell on earth for you,’ mom of Schaumburg murder victim says to man sentenced to spend rest of life in prison
- Sears cuts 250 employees at Hoffman Estates headquarters
- How are the views from Vista Tower, the 101-story skyscraper and soon-to-be Chicago’s third-tallest building? We sent a photographer to find out.
- Life coach to sign copies of book at First Fridays in Aurora
- Editorial: This crisis alarms Lori Lightfoot. Does it alarm J.B. Pritzker, Michael Madigan and John Cullerton?
- Bacon Fest brings culinary creations, live entertainment to Portage
- Video walls, Italian fountains and ‘ultra-luxurious’ villas: Would-be casino developers offer details in redacted documents released by Waukegan
- National Weather Service confirms storm that toppled trees in Waukegan was a tornado
- Editorial: Three questions for President Trump about his looming Afghanistan peace deal
- Commentary: Along with school supplies, teachers bring to their classrooms plenty of hope and courage
- Zack Collins says struggling in his 1st time up with the White Sox led to some key adjustments at the plate
- Folk rocker returns to Running Vines in Chesterton
- After 12 years of pleading his innocence, Meek Mill is finally free and on tour
- Hong Kong government withdraws Chinese extradition bill that sparked months of protests
- Daily Southtown Local Scoreboard for Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019
- A death in Oregon is the 2nd linked to vaping, and the 1st tied to a legal marijuana dispensary
- Top Democratic presidential contenders focus on climate change in series of town halls
- Chicago Teachers Union sets strike vote; CPS counters that fair deal is already on the table
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019
- Boris Johnson fails to win vote on new election as U.K. lawmakers move to block Brexit plan
- Healthy again, Sophie Gregus and Benet deliver the hurt against St. Charles North