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- Illinois U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush asks ‘what the hell is wrong with you?’ after Trump tweets that impeachment inquiry is like a ‘lynching’
- Juan Soto homers and drives in 3 as the Nationals top the Astros 5-4 in Game 1 of the World Series
- Ask Amy: Online addict worries about relationship
- Daywatch: CTU gets support from Warren and Biden, Lightfoot’s budget plan seeks to avoid property tax hike and Chicago’s top cop will skip Trump speech
- Will the world watch Aaron Sorkin’s movie ‘Chicago 7’? A real juror’s daughter has an opinion.
- Column: Permission to look old, the power of ‘I don’t know’ and other gifts I’m giving myself this birthday
- Editorial: A miniseries, Episode 6: Why a teachers strike is bad for Chicago
- Column: Chicago Outfit boss Joey ‘the Clown’ Lombardo and St. Dismas, the ‘Good Thief’
- DNA tourism: Tracing ancestry on a wild trip in Sweden leads to many rewards — and a dapper souvenir
- Column: A 9-year-old boy should not be charged with first-degree murder, no matter what he did
- Commentary: Jews increasingly see discrimination and danger in U.S. culture. The rest of America must listen.
- What pears to pick for your fall recipes — starting with a pear tart and pear butter
- Bears Q&A: Is it too soon for GM Ryan Pace to be on the hot seat? Is it time for Matt Nagy to stop calling plays? Has Mitch Trubisky been told not to run?
- Shout Out: Elizabeth Ringelstein of Norridge, planner of Ridgewood holiday market
- Shout Out: Jackie Errico, new Clarendon Hills homeowner, business owner
- Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s budget plan seeks to avoid property tax hike with help from Springfield to close $838 million deficit
- DuPage County Board says no to recreational pot sales, the first county in Illinois to do so
- Nine years ago, Woodstock woman Beth Bentley went missing. On Tuesday, police said human remains found in southern Illinois were hers.
- Column: Bulls have a coach and a roster that give them a chance to be good again
- Youngest victim of last weekend’s Chicago violence had been a freshman at school where loss is nearly constant. ‘My students are brave warriors.’
- Free things to do in Chicago this week: New Stages Festival, art exhibit about mental health
- Trump campaign targeting Hispanics in states not known for them, hoping ‘little bits’ of voters add up to wins in close elections
- The Radio City Rockettes rehearse for the 2019 Christmas Spectacular
- Many parents not following safe-sleep advice for babies
- 9 things to know about Joe Espada, including his long minor-league career and the chalk-outline prank
- Pressuring kids to diet can backfire, damaging long-term health
- Paramedic injured when car slams into parked ambulance with patient inside
- Tidy up the garden, but don’t do too much
- Waukegan to schedule second recreational cannabis public forum prior to voting on ordinance
- ‘I think they have their act in order now’: Boeing gets vote of confidence from India airline with big plans for 737 Max
- West Suburban Local Scoreboard for Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019
- 3 takeaways from the Blackhawks’ 2-1 shootout loss to the Golden Knights, including Robin Lehner’s postgame speech
- Blackhawks Q&A: Is it time for Stan Bowman to be fired? Should they trade for Taylor Hall?
- Daily Southtown Local Scoreboard for Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019
- 6 takeaways from diplomat William Taylor’s testimony on Trump, Ukraine
- As Gary’s mayoral transition nears, Karen Freeman-Wilson and Jerome Prince discuss Arthouse lease
- Lake County News-Sun Local Scoreboard for Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019
- Nacionales sorprenden a Astros en inicio de Serie Mundial
- Lake Forest freshman Autumn Rabjohns takes her ‘insanely hard’ shot to the state finals
- Sooner Schooner won’t run for rest of season after accident
- Houston Astros executive apologizes, MLB to conduct interviews
- PGA Tour hopes to ‘never leave Japan’
- River acaba con Boca y jugará otra final de Libertadores
- Los aguacates, el ‘oro verde’ que deja dinero pero atraen a los cárteles
- Aurora City Council votes to allow sale of recreational marijuana
- Cards Against Humanity to open Chicago Board Game Cafe, a restaurant with an escape room basement in Logan Square
- Iran banned from world judo until it agrees to face Israel
- El aplazado clásico Barcelona-Real Madrid ya tiene fecha
- Fletcher Cox chased a man out of his house with a shotgun
- Descubren 39 cadáveres en un camión
- ‘Western Stars’ review: Bruce Springsteen documentary proves he still shines brightly
- México podría quedar fuera del Mundial de Catar-2022
- Todo listo en España para exhumar al dictador Franco de su mausoleo
- Beacon-News girls volleyball rankings and player of the week for Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019
- The risk, rewards of avocado boom in Mexico
- Avocados – ‘green gold’ for Mexico farmers – bring both riches and violence to country
- David Ross sería el nuevo piloto de los Cachorros
- Hong Kong formally withdraws the extradition bill that sparked protests
- Aurora police to take part in Drug Take Back event
- Girls volleyball notes: Two sports keep Aurora Central Catholic’s hard-hitting Ava Wilkins busy
- Scientologists buy dozens of properties in Florida city, newspaper reports
- David Ross has big shoes to fill with the Cubs. Here’s how the successors of title-winning coaches have fared in Chicago.
- Column: Devoted diplomat saw quid pro quo, dishonest Trump says all was ‘perfect.’ Guess who we should trust?
- Bronzeville’s historic Provident Hospital, ‘a beacon of hope’ since 1891, gets state approval for new $240 million facility
- Massive $1 billion solar power ponzi scheme results in the largest single-owner car collection ever auctioned by the U.S. Marshals Service — including Burt Reynolds’ Trans Am
- Tech filled unit in South Loop: 1.3M
- Iconic Las Vegas wedding chapel is no longer up for sale
- Fish fillets make it quick and easy to move your grilling indoors
- He weighed 650 pounds in 2016. Now 475 pounds lighter, he completed his first marathon.
- Televisión china boicotea nueva temporada de NBA
- In Hamburg, ‘gesundheit’ means more than a wish for good health
- Google touts quantum computing milestone — saying it has completed a calculation in just a few minutes that would take a traditional supercomputer thousands of years
- How can employees prepare for a possible recession?
- Cole pierde invicto en el peor momento, la Serie Mundial
- Kim orders South’s buildings at resort in North be destroyed
- Edmunds: The worst financial mistake a car buyer can make
- Get a flu shot, doctors say, warning that this could be a severe season
- Selle: Future of Liberty Theater may be fading to black
- Read Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s 2020 budget speech
- How to offset losses from natural disasters
- Daily Southtown football rankings and player of the week for Thursday, Oct. 24
- Many children develop nearsightedness during elementary school years
- Pictures: Disney’s Halloween merchandise
- Maddie and Tae broke big with some bro-country snark, then it all blew up. Now they’re recovering in style
- Kim orders South’s buildings at resort in North be destroyed
- Oak Brook says no to marijuana related businesses
- Paramount production of ‘The Producers’ wins two awards
- Column: David Ross was the only real candidate for the Cubs, wasn’t he?
- East Dundee tightens rules on vicious dog attacks after two people mauled in their yards in the last year
- Football notes: Lemont linebacker Al Pontrelli couldn’t let senior class down
- México, la fortaleza de los delincuentes
- Is it possible to become addicted to marijuana’s CBD?
- CBDs: a ‘Wild West’ of wild claims
- Hemp delivery driver arrested in SD indicted on drug charges
- Andy Warhol exhibit at the Art Institute
- Parents guide: Advice about films kids may want to see in theaters or opening soon
- Is the stethoscope obsolete? More doctors are using high-tech devices that use artificial intelligence and apps to diagnose patients
- Read Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s 2020 budget plan
- Debunking the myth that Jews did not resist during the Holocaust, a new exhibit in Skokie shows the ways they fought back
- How to manage intense emotions — both your child’s and your own
- For generation Juul, nicotine addiction happens fast and is hard to shake
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy felt pressure from Trump months before July call on Biden investigation, sources say
- West Aurora School Board gets lesson on new math program
- A grievance hearing this week over Kris Bryant’s service time could move up his free-agency clock
- Griffith makes another pitch to merge with St. John Township
- How to clean your hands during germ season
- Nic Diana’s six-save shutout highlights Warren’s regional semifinal victory against Hersey; Round Lake also wins, setting up rematch
- When women ask for help, happy things happen
- Man, 23, shot to death in Hammond
- ‘The Irishman’ review: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci revisit the tyranny of the mob … and keep getting younger and younger
- Police: Griffith couple found dead after a likely overdose
- Jim Harbaugh calls rumors he’s leaving Michigan ‘total crap’ in an email to players’ parents
- Sing-along movies give audiences a chance to join in on the fun
- Commentary: Millennials may not be who you think they are. Hint: They’re not 18 to 24 anymore.
- Two Rudy Giuliani associates plead not guilty in campaign finance case
- Editorial: A miniseries, Episode 7: Why a teachers strike is bad for Chicago
- President Trump lifts sanctions on Turkey, says cease-fire permanent as the U.S. winds down its military commitment
- The 3-3 Bears and 2-5 Chargers both are struggling entering Sunday’s game. These numbers tell the story.
- Column: Men are from Waffle House, women are from IHOP — and other sexist nonsense we learned from Ernst & Young
- North Dakota lawmaker apologizes for sharing fake Omar photo, but not to Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar
- Wirtz-led Breakthru Beverage to pay nearly $1 million to settle EEOC discrimination allegations
- Misión de OEA dice que convocar un balotaje en Bolivia sería la ‘mejor opción’
- Patrick Mahomes back at practice, Andy Reid doesn’t rule him out for Sunday night
- Fill the Bowls event to aid Aurora food pantry
- Trump’s company removes his name from New York skating rinks
- Post-Tribune girls soccer rankings and player of the week for Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019
- Eddie B, teacher turned comedian, comes to Paramount
- Thomas Schippers, former Lake County judge, dies at 59
- La Liga española femenina se va a la huelga
- Willem Dafoe: ‘No escojo personajes’
- Joe Biden campaigning in his childhood hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania: Trump has ‘no idea’ about working-class struggles
- 8 best year-round stargazing spots in the world
- Missouri cattle farmer charged in killing of Wisconsin brothers; their bodies were burned and dumped on a manure pile, investigators said
- Girls soccer notes: Alivia Peters’ adjustment to a new role coincides with Boone Grove’s unprecedented postseason run
- Sergio Pérez lamenta nivel de automovilismo en México
- Lizzo extends the writing credits for her hit ‘Truth Hurts’
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019
- An unfortunate lesson from David Byrne and the Jeffs: We’re stuck in a new Me Decade
- Multitudinaria manifestación en Chile por demandas sociales
- Con maestros en huelga, la alcaldesa de Chicago enfrenta déficit y propone aumento de impuestos y servicios
- New poll shows Wisconsin voters are narrowly divided over impeachment hearings
- Red Bull y Verstappen buscan recuperar sonrisa en México
- Crisis drill at Ivy Tech Valparaiso helps campus, first responders prepare for emergency
- Painting stolen by Nazis in 1933 recovered from upstate New York museum by the FBI
- 2 dead after car plunges from Indianapolis parking garage, landing on its roof
- Lady Gaga’s mother says singer was ‘taunted, isolated’ by depression
- Hutton: Believe these sectional football picks at your own peril
- What a home is worth in every state
- West Aurora to hire its own crossing guards
- Pose on a hot dog sofa at the Portillo’s pop-up, coming to Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg
- After-school program for teens focuses on arts, media, offers ‘outlet where they can express themselves’
- Column: Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders deny the costly deceptions of ‘Medicare for All’
- Elgin Symphony Orchestra concert has dance as central theme
- A former JetBlue gate agent could get prison time for a ticket-upgrade scam that may have cost the airline $785,000
- Community news
- 38 of the best athletes to not have won a championship ring
- Look up to the stars: 8 best year-round stargazing spots in the world
- Speak Out: President Trump is in a class all by himself
- Former President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama returning to Chicago for Obama Foundation Summit
- Kovalev emocionado por pelear finalmente contra un mexicano en Las Vegas
- Post-Tribune boys soccer rankings and player of the week for Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019
- Hinsdale Fall Fest draws an evil Elf on the Shelf and Mike Ditka and Monsters Inc. costumes
- Boys soccer notes: Griffith concludes ‘one heck of a ride’ with regional semifinal loss
- Residents learn safety tips, hear of actual crimes during Harwood Heights safety seminar
- Boeing suggests 737 Max fix nearly done as it discloses heavy financial cost of grounding
- Caterpillar stung by slowing global economy
- Marian Theatre Guild is workin’ to stage ‘9 to 5’
- Quickly
- Here are 5 things to know about Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s 2020 budget proposal
- The serendipity of randomly catching a movie on TCM now comes with an additional price tag
- NBA busca abordar la creciente mala conducta de aficionados
- Periodistas y figuras de la cultura exigen actuar contra Google por los derechos afines
- Former Lettuce Entertain You wine director put on leave in new job amid lawsuit over sexual assault allegations
- West Dundee apartment complex proposed for property east of Century Plaza strip mall
- ‘Me la entregas junto con la verdad’
- Clarkson: HCS Family Services is more than a food pantry
- Man hit by CTA bus in West Chatham neighborhood
- Abbiocco presents progressive Italian cuisine
- ‘Todos somos hermanos’: La cultura y tradiciones de centroamérica ‘más presentes que nunca’ en Chicago
- Conducía sin licencia ni cinturón, lo detienen y le encuentran 10 kilos de coca
- Thipi Thai closes Clarendon Hills restaurant after 1 1/2 years
- New Ford Explorer SUV, built in Chicago, had so many quality problems Ford had to delay deliveries. Sales of the vehicle fell 48%.
- Aurora panel endorses liquor licenses for four restaurants
- La Grange Park levy looks to max out tax cap, adding about $16 to typical property tax
- Buffalo Grove votes to allow recreational marijuana sales, with one trustee saying opposition came too late
- Parents scramble to find activities, camps for kids as CPS strike drags on — but some programs are full. ‘I’ve been receiving a whole lot of phone calls.’
- Mujeres impactan en la NBA en varios roles, 11 entrenadoras asistentes
- Arlington Heights residents to pay more for water, something officials say is needed partially because they’re using less water
- Column: David Ross may be a marquee name, but the only way he can help the Cubs — and their Marquee Sports Network — is by winning
- Potempa: ‘C.S. Lewis’ stage chat gives audience insight into iconic author
- Investigators find Chicago cop had ‘reckless disregard for human life’ in fatal shooting of fleeing teen. But officer can’t be fired because ruling came too late.
- Speak Out
- Watch Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s meeting with the Tribune Editorial Board
- Harp duo CHQ.2 makes Portage concert series debut
- Chicago Red Stars practice ahead of NWSL championship game
- Feds charge executives of Chicago-area manufacturer with rehiring workers living in the U.S. illegally
- El Barcelona sufre pero se pone líder de grupo en Champions
- The Spin: About Mayor Lightfoot’s proposed property tax hike
- It’s the Great Pumpkin (contest, that is) rising in East Dundee this Saturday
- Deal closes on Lake Station water sale
- Weekend project to lead to schedule alterations on Metra BNSF line
- 4 things we learned at Halas Hall, including Matt Nagy will continue to call plays for the Bears
- Ellis Paul tour stops at the Front Porch
- Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook’s new globally ambitious project to create a digital currency before Congress
- Commentary: CPS strike sends message from teachers: Bigger paychecks won’t paper over troubling shortages in classroom
- Despite longest strike in its history, CSO’s deficit increased by $200,000 while endowment rose
- Dolton man arrested in Burbank bank robbery
- Blackhawks’ strong defensive start will be put to the test with Connor Murphy out at least 11 games
- Todos los goles de hoy en la Champions/23-Oct-19 (VIDEO)
- Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg says he’s used marijuana ‘a handful of times’ long ago, and it’s time for U.S. to legalize pot
- ‘Rhythm + Flow’ rap series is a wrap, and Chance the Rapper eyes a collaborator
- Merrillville man charged in 1988 rape, murder cold case
- Father charged with confining daughter in Waukegan basement faces judge next week to determine mental fitness
- Teacher Feature: Triathlete learned a good deal about herself when completing Ironman competition
- Commentary: Political hacks? Not even close. U.S. Foreign Service officers deserve better than White House attacks, writes Scott Turow.
- Murder investigation opened in Britain after 39 people found dead inside cargo truck; driver arrested
- Letters: Chicago teachers will keep fighting
- George Michael tribute show at Paramount in Aurora
- Curious to explore your curiosity? This year’s TedxNaperville will feature astronauts, artists, doctors and others
- U.S. soccer star Alex Morgan and her husband, L.A. Galaxy midfielder Servando Carrasco, are expecting a baby
- Is it scheme or execution? Putting one failed Bears run under the microscope
- Despite complaints, Gary approves 2020 city budget
- As the next manager, David Ross will bring a no-nonsense style to Cubs team that lacked accountability
- An umpire’s tweet referencing a gun and Trump critics draws MLB’s attention
- Jury finds Crystal Lake man guilty of sex crimes against young relative
- Bouncer’s girlfriend describes increasing drug use, paranoia in weeks prior to killing of bartender
- Bus aides, custodians and special education classroom assistants help make CPS schools run. Some say they still struggle to make ends meet.
- Editorial: Mayor Lori Lightfoot gets a standing ovation for her budget in Chicago. How will Springfield react?
- Hornets 126, Bulls 125
- CPS strike: Chicago Teachers Union says progress made on ‘about 80’ individual issues, but not top 5 priorities; classes canceled for Thursday
- West suburban school district averts teachers strike
- ‘This was a great man. A man who has inspired so many’: Baltimore bids farewell to Elijah Cummings at celebration
- Chaotic scene as Republicans blow past security to disrupt closed-door impeachment deposition with defense official
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Friday, Oct. 25, 2019
- New Bulls look a lot like the old in losing their season opener to the Hornets, 126-125