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- Anthony Roberts takes leadership to the next level with OPRF
- Disney World ticket deals for military in 2019
- Bears’ season comes to an end, as Cody Parkey’s field-goal attempt hits the upright and crossbar in 16-15 playoff loss to Eagles
- Ask Amy: Impoverished parents now ask for more
- ‘No Parkey Zone’: Your 3-word reviews from the Bears’ season-ending loss to the Eagles
- A Great Value Vacations trip that wasn’t so great
- Bill Daley: Shrink Chicago City Council from 50 aldermen to 15
- Bear Download podcast: Heartbreaking 16-15 playoff loss ends the Bears’ season
- Northwestern Medicine opens urologic institute with $10 million gift
- Juicing the Tri-State for an electric future
- Chicago-based Grubhub has come to Rockford, pop. 147,000, as the on-demand economy transforms America
- Brad Biggs’ 10 thoughts on the Bears’ season-ending loss to the Eagles
- The Bears scored 51 touchdowns this season. Here’s every one of them.
- In about-face, Toni Preckwinkle says she’ll return $116K from fundraiser held at Ald. Edward Burke’s home
- Emanuel orders audit of workers’ compensation program formerly overseen by Burke
- No peacocks: United says only dogs and cats can be emotional support animals, limits them to flights under 8 hours
- 3 takeaways from the Blackhawks’ 5-3 win, including a (practically) perfect power play
- China protests over U.S. warship sighting as trade talks start
- Evanston water flows to city’s new customers, Niles and Morton Grove
- Victims of Poland escape room fire to be buried together
- After 4 years and $850,000, Mundelein’s unsuccessful lawsuit against trucking depot ends
- 30 things that shouldn’t go in the microwave
- U.S., Turkey set for negotiations on fate of Kurds
- Review: Sandra Oh’s ‘I see you’ at the Golden Globes marks a real change in representation on film and TV
- A look at new TV in 2019, and the final seasons for ‘GOT,’ ‘You’re the Worst,’ ‘Veep’
- Algorithm vs. appraiser: Estimating a home’s value can be complicated. Here’s what sellers should know.
- ESPN apologizes for using ‘Dixie’ in Andrew Luck graphic during Colts-Texans playoff game
- PTSD drug may do more harm than good
- Sears prepares for possible liquidation as Chairman Edward Lampert’s bid fails
- ‘Dreamer’ has been selling tamales in Little Village since she was 9 — and is now able to pay for college because of it
- Chance the Rapper apologizes for working with R. Kelly
- Brahim: ‘Solo contemplé tres opciones: Madrid, Madrid y Madrid’
- Stars use Golden Globes stage to push for more diversity
- Flu season lands hard on New York and southern U.S.
- Bears loss on Parkey’s missed field goal shows why uprights must be abolished
- Federal prisoners in Florida served steak by unpaid guards during shutdown
- This week in Chicago arts, food and drink via ChicagoNow
- Food fight: Festival in Spain holds a flour-and-egg battle
- Friend of former ‘American Idol’ star Haley Reinhart reaches settlement in suit stemming from Palatine bar brawl that involved singer
- Republicans pushing target for Indiana schools spending
- NBC’s Cris Collinsworth’s ‘double doink’ call bounces into Bears and NFL lore
- Prickly City- new congress
- Amid trade war, Tesla breaks ground on factory in Shanghai
- Midcentury modern house in Lake Forest designed by architect Roy Binkley sells for $1.45 million
- Midcentury modern house in Lake Forest
- Cars take over Motor City, Lake Geneva celebrates winter and more Midwest events
- Disney: Kevin from ‘Up’ set for Animal Kingdom visits
- Cuentos Políticos: El bárbaro y los cobardes
- Motorola Solutions acquires license plate recognition company it says will help police solve crimes faster
- Hype machines: Coolest new cars include American supercars, return of off-road kings
- Ejército mexicano refuerza su plan de vigilancia en instalaciones de Pemex
- Selle: Hoarding cash one lesson from the education playbook
- Beer of the Month: The Defender, a pitch perfect hoppy stout, is now available in cans
- Christmas tree recycling begins in Aurora
- Sears through the years
- Soup Stats to Slurp Up for National Soup Month (Infographic)
- New treatment helps prevent migraine
- 4 questions heading into NFL playoffs’ second round
- Evers set to be sworn in as Wisconsin’s 46th governor
- Ask Anna: My wife wants me to be more romantic. How am I supposed to do that?
- Christian Bale thanked Satan for his portrayal of Dick Cheney. The Church of Satan approves.
- Fort Lauderdale named a 2019 bucket list travel destination, and there are some new reasons why
- 3 failed gambles led to Timberwolves firing Tom Thibodeau
- Golden Globes after-parties: Taylor Swift, Darren Criss and Barry Jenkins make the scene
- Drugmaker Eli Lilly to spend about $8 billion on cancer specialist Loxo Oncology
- Fickle winter persists as temps to plunge 30 degrees by Wednesday, ending warm spell
- Why is Netflix’s ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ so superior to the movie? We ask Barry Sonnenfeld
- Hawthorn 73 set to appoint new superintendent next week
- Fijan la próxima audiencia en el caso de Kevin Spacey para el 4 de marzo
- Disneyland Resort tickets and parking prices are going up again, as much as 25%
- Concerns grow about impact of shutdown on airport safety; Duckworth warns of long lines to come
- Riverside police chief orders officers to read report on Parkland high school shooting for ‘lessons that can be learned’
- Federal shutdown creating mortgage victims
- Excitement abounds on first day at new Hinsdale Middle School
- Sunday’s Golden Globes: Seriously? THESE are the champions?
- A fresh start: Norridge Park District’s open house offers a sampling of fitness center’s programs
- Levi’s Stadium field is a mess, so they got a new one for tonight’s college football title game
- Five boys, 14 and 15, arrested after running from stolen car on South Side
- 2019
- Dicen que Juanga quiere respaldo
- Evanston grandpa is first man to join hospital’s team of volunteer baby cuddlers
- No hay preguntas estúpidas
- Janet Ulrich Brooks cast in Steppenwolf’s ‘The Children’
- Mike Clark’s Chicago-area boys basketball rankings, Jan. 7
- Pull out your fainting couches, there’s a Twitter account dedicated to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dancing. And it’s marvelous.
- Brabham fabricará la versión de calle del BT62
- Nissan hará ‘visible lo invisible’
- Family doubles reward for information in 2017 slaying of Thornton Township woman
- 5 things to do in Lake County Jan. 12-17
- Infiniti tiene un nuevo concepto de vehículo eléctrico
- Elmwood Park library’s Imaginarium offers ‘the best puppet palace in all of Chicago’ and more
- Where to go in the Midwest in 2019
- Nadie escaparía al nuevo Police Interceptor de Ford
- Volkswagen Alltrack para los amantes de los deportes al aire libre
- Oswego man charged with beating gas station employee
- Threatening email leads to extra police presence at Oswego school
- Auto sales increased in 2018, despite rising interest rates and record new car prices
- Auto sales increased in 2018, despite rising interest rates and record new car prices
- Red circle, yellow circle: Mastercard to drop its name from logo
- ChicagoNow’s 20 best posts of December 2018
- ‘Family Time’ at Arlington Heights Memorial Library provides residents with chance to connect
- Illinois Rep. Lou Lang leaves House for lobbying 2 days before being sworn in for new term
- Rotary flags show club’s reach beyond Deerfield
- Big Ten basketball power rankings: Michigan and Michigan State rule
- 5 things to do in the western suburbs Jan. 11-13
- After another lucrative College Football Playoff, NCAA awaits ruling on amateurism
- Writers Guild Awards nominees include ‘A Star Is Born,’ ‘Green Book,’ ‘Roma’
- Family waits as pretrial conferences continue in Portage couple’s deaths
- Mi compadre ‘El Chapo’ no es mi enemigo… es un traficante de drogas real: Vicentillo
- ‘Victoria’ follows dramatic royal love story
- Meet the new Chicago band Young Man in a Hurry, with a teacher and a rock ‘n’ roll doctor
- Speak Out: Chicago Bears and Edward Burke
- 3rd Ward only competitive race in Lake Forest
- Pegasus 32nd Young Playwrights Fest: Themes of identity connect the 3 plays by this year’s new writers
- Ovens that track recipes, voice-command toilets: Like it or not, home devices are getting smarter — and creepier.
- Naperville resident says he’ll challenge Rep. Lauren Underwood in 2020
- Come together: International Beatles on the Beach Festival brings magical mystery to Delray Beach
- Police: Shots fired for New Year’s Eve leads to gun, cocaine confiscation in Aurora
- Mayoral hopefuls, aldermen line up to push reforms in wake of Burke charges
- The new streaming services you should watch in 2019
- Deerfield to survey residents about downtown
- All the angles of Cody Parkey’s double-doink miss
- Emanuel and ‘reformers’ suddenly locate their spines
- Mitch Trubisky’s 2018 stats
- A ‘Smash’ hit: Morton Grove library stages Super Smash Bros. tournament
- 5 things to do in Northwest Indiana Jan. 11-13
- With nod to past, former Gary mayors to discuss city’s future
- Arranca la era ‘Tata’ en el Tricolor mexicano
- Conductor de Uber se declara culpable de 6 asesinatos
- Here’s how Chicago property owners can split sidewalk repair costs with city in program kicking off Tuesday
- Tennessee governor grants clemency to Cyntoia Brown, woman convicted of murder as teen
- 10 Big Ten football storylines to get you ready for 2019
- Quickly
- Speak Out: Trump should forget about the wall, Anheuser-Busch greed shows in cannabis deal, Fox News controls White House
- ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ star Rachel Brosnahan to host ‘Saturday Night Live’
- Gerardo Martino abre puerta a ‘europeos’
- Chicago Tribune photos of the week
- American forward Weah joins Celtic on loan from PSG
- Mexico introduce former Atlanta boss Martino as new coach
- Two people wounded in Montgomery shooting
- ¿Aceras rotas? divida el costo de reparación con la ciudad, puede solicitarlo desde hoy a la media noche
- Naperville People in the News
- Shuttered Mundelein restaurant Tavern on 60 ‘still hopeful’ for a return
- CBOE Global Markets president Chris Concannon to exit company
- World Bank President Jim Yong Kim announces his departure
- A diplomat paying her bills by writing eyeliner reviews? It’s happening, America.
- Candidate withdraws from District 112 race as electoral board removes him from ballot
- Political activist replaces Kwame Raoul in Illinois legislature
- Magic man: Franklin Park store’s owner boasts collection of toys, tricks and supplies
- Ford es líder en camionetas comerciales
- 18.6 million watch Golden Globes telecast on NBC, a slight dip from last year
- Toyota muestra un auto con conducción autónoma
- Families turn out for ‘Under Five Family Time’ at Vernon Area Public Library
- College Football Playoff expansion isn’t happening, conference commissioners say
- Bess Bower Dunn Musuem welcomes families to mark the new year
- Democrats, take note: Rep. Cheri Bustos shows how it’s done
- Illinois adds wide receiver A.D. Miller, a graduate transfer from Oklahoma
- FBI: Bank robber targets TCF branch in River Forest on New Year’s Eve
- Trey Burton on groin injury that kept him out of Sunday’s playoff loss: ‘It’s just my body trying to protect itself’
- Nancy Grace Roman, ‘Mother of Hubble’ telescope, dies at 93
- Racial inequities in school discipline
- Pictures: Magic Kingdom train and speedway closed
- America’s top 15 phobias
- Un temor bien fundado
- Vote in the Scott Stantis Cartoon Caption Contest
- Man dies after being struck by SUV in Elgin, the city’s second pedestrian fatality in two days
- Man charged with stealing dog, electronics from Park Ridge home: Police
- Caucus pushes hate crimes bill, other proposals that have ‘taken too long’ to pass
- Tough playoff loss could spur a Super Bowl season — like it did for past Bears teams
- Did Jeanne Calment live to 122 years old, or did her daughter pull a fraud for the ages?
- Men still dominate top theater jobs. Here’s how that hurts women.
- What’s next for the Old Town School of Folk Music?
- Lake Forest Library lets kids ring in the new year a bit early
- Task force joins North Chicago police investigation of shooting death
- Appeals court upholds conviction of Chicago cop for firing 16 shots into car filled with teens
- 2019 Golden Globes: The major red-carpet fashion trends
- Tight end Trey Burton
- 10 things we heard from Bears players on locker clean-out day, from Allen Robinson’s view of 2019 to Adrian Amos’ free agency
- How a teen got her wish to display her paintings in LA
- How the rise of FemTech can help prevent cervical cancer and transform women’s health
- Sympathy for Cody Parkey — and the ‘double doink’ difficulty of being an NFL kicker
- ‘The Tin Woman’ explores experience of organ transplantation
- Aurora City Council to vote on members for new committee focusing on riverfront
- Chicago’s tallest rental residences: High-tech living with a local touch
- Vic Fangio interviews with the Broncos. Could the Bears soon have to contemplate who will run the defense in 2019?
- The Spin: Burke damage control | Lou Lang quits legislature | Gutierrez goes from politician to pundit
- Police: Man said he was too drunk to run from crash
- Ask Tom: How often has highest January-to-March temperature occurred in January?
- Longtime West Aurora School Board member will not run for re-election
- NBC’s Al Michaels on Cody Parkey’s tipped kick: ‘Someone must have done some forensic accounting on that one’
- Jordan Howard
- Jewett Park plans to come before Deerfield Village Board for approval
- ‘Captain Jack’ Lyle, South Side native and one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen dies at 98
- State aims to recover $132,742 from Gary councilwoman
- Bears wide receiver Kevin White
- Cody Parkey’s missed FG changed to a blocked kick — but that won’t quiet the social-media storm around one of the most infamous playoff moments
- Athletic Bilbao leave relegation zone after defeating Celta
- Bulls waive MarShon Brooks, Michael Carter-Williams as Ryan Arcidiacono’s contract becomes fully guaranteed
- Wrestling notes: Geneva coach Tom Chernich glad to be back in action after health scare
- Trying the Whole30 diet? Be prepared for day 31.
- West Suburban Local Scoreboard for Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019
- Marriott’s ‘Million Dollar Quartet’ actors have experience with the show
- Man charged in Gary standoff, constructed entrance to explode: court records
- Bears linebacker Leonard Floyd
- Illinois State Police argue decision to ID cop who fatally shot Jemel Roberson should be Midlothian’s
- Wintry temperatures to return on gusty winds
- Bears linebacker Danny Trevathan
- Advocates of Indiana hate crime law leery of new proposal
- Man hit, killed by pickup truck while working on car
- Police: Two men — 1 armed with gun — order driver, passenger out of car in Oak Park carjacking
- Girls basketball notes: Senior forward Sydney Downs reaches rebounding milestone for Stagg
- Bears tight end Adam Shaheen
- Tom Thibodeau, Fred Hoiberg and Ryan Saunders — when it comes to the Bulls-Timberwolves connection, Zach LaVine has seen it all
- Local college notes: Wins aren’t the only measure of success for St. Francis women’s coach Steve Brooks
- Shnay: Park Forest candidates fight to stay on the ballot
- Wolves eliminate makeshift Liverpool side from FA Cup
- Prime time: Graduate transfer guard Deion Lavender proves key addition for Valparaiso
- Low-wage workers free to quit Chicago-area payday lender for new jobs after state ends ‘unfair’ noncompete agreements
- ‘Americans are really hurting’: Rep. Schneider discusses government shutdown with constituents
- Ballot challenges: Waukegan, Millburn school board candidates survive; three others removed
- Former Broward Sheriff Scott Israel over the years | PHOTOS
- Oreo-maker Mondelez to move headquarters and 400 jobs to Chicago, leaving Deerfield
- Wrestling notes: After late start, East Chicago Central’s Jorge Martinez finds his groove
- ‘It was big for me’: Blackhawks’ Henri Jokiharju returns from World Junior Championships a little wiser
- Lake County News-Sun Local Scoreboard for Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019
- Daily Southtown Local Scoreboard for Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019
- Kalamazoo Uber driver pleads guilty to 6 murders in 2016
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019
- ‘Hamilton’ fans sing along with ‘Hamiltunes’ | Photos
- Flames 4, Blackhawks 3
- Trump plans border visit, prime time address as shutdown lurches into 3rd week
- Ginsburg missing Supreme Court arguments for first time following cancer surgery
- Kevin Spacey pleads not guilty to groping young man, is ordered to stay away from accuser
- Can Trump declare a national emergency in order to build his wall?
- Police: Man points gun at River Forest resident in carjacking attempt