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- Dodgers shut out the Nationals 6-0 to take Game 1 of the NLDS
- Leyden Family Service helps people cope with life’s challenges
- Ask Amy: Wife wonders if separation is permanent
- Daywatch: Museum of Science and Industry gets new name, gunman convicted in gang revenge slaying and other things to know about to start your day
- Column: Trump fights off impeachment by flexing his stupidity muscle: The Week in Review
- Column: Who’s driving that big federal bus that’s frightening Illinois politicians? His name is Rico.
- Bears Sunday storylines: Chase Daniel’s true value, ‘White Nick and Black Nick’ and Richie Incognito’s latest chance
- Hobart, firefighters agree to first-ever contract
- Flashback: How 8 White Sox players fell from grace and were forever marked the Black Sox
- Your Cubs-Marquee Sports Network questions answered — and no, we don’t know yet if your TV service is carrying it or its effect on your cable bill
- Read the texts released by House Democrats showing discussion of potential Ukraine quid-pro-quo
- The Museum of Science and Industry is getting a new name after Chicago billionaire Ken Griffin donates $125 million
- FBI raid at McCook village hall targeted Village President and Cook County Commissioner Jeff Tobolski
- Prosecutors rest their case with an emotional punch, displaying graphic autopsy photos of slain 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee
- This Chicago author helped research a book about R. Kelly. Now she’s won a prize for her gritty fiction about 4 strong women.
- The Khalil Mack trade made the Bears instant contenders. Raider Nation is still grappling with the loss — and hoping Jon Gruden’s plan pays off.
- Social Graces: Your parents won’t stop fighting. How should you tell them to seek professional help?
- A covered bridge fest in Indiana, Oktoberfest in Wisconsin and more Midwest events
- Why maintaining weight loss demands more than willpower
- Boy, 15, thrown from car after it drives around gates and is hit by Pink Line train in Cicero
- Schnucks grocery chain to end tobacco sales as of Jan. 1
- Marian Hossa visits the Blackhawks in Prague and hopes to celebrate a 2010 Stanley Cup anniversary at the United Center: ‘I love Chicago’
- Colombiano Viáfara, acusado de narcotráfico, espera demostrar inocencia en EE.UU
- U.S. adds 136,000 jobs in September: Unemployment hits 50-year low; wage growth slips
- Civil War days come back to life for a weekend at Carpenter Park
- Harry’s Cafe is back in compliance with city code; new deal to keep business at Naperville train station to be drafted
- Yellow jackets may be beneficial as pollinators, but they’re after our food too
- Modern home in Wheaton: $1.1M
- Chemo packs new punch outside cancer fight’s spotlight
- Hold on to your shiplap. Chip and Joanna Gaines are opening a hotel.
- Can Willson Contreras stay healthy? 5 questions about the Cubs catchers heading into 2020
- We’re declaring it Cookie Baking Weekend to inspire your practice baking for our holiday contest
- Uruguay enfrentará a Perú sin Suárez ni Cavani
- Cheerio! The Bear Download podcast — with some awful accents — sets the stage for Bears-Raiders in London
- ‘I became strong for those who were weak’: Speaking at annual ball, high school senior credits Big Shoulders Fund for her success
- Cyr: Afghanistan election represents pronounced progress
- Houston Astros set MLB record with zero intentional walks in 2019
- Claressa Shields hoping to put on a show in Flint
- SMU transfers into Top 25 for 1st ranked game since 1986
- Renuncia ministro de la Suprema Corte de México investigado por depósitos sospechosos
- Apartment proposal defeated in Hobart
- Chipper Jones throws out 1st pitch, catches foul ball
- Real Madrid desmiente que Courtois sufriera un ataque de ansiedad
- Petition supports proposed community center in Merrillville
- ‘Michael Jackson’s This Is It’ gets box set after 10 years
- Ucrania revisa casos relacionados con una empresa vinculada al hijo de Joe Biden
- There’s magic in a Schiller Woods water pump, or so many Chicagoans, for generations, have wanted to believe
- Speak Out: It is time to outlaw vaping
- CSO review: Cynthia Yeh finds poetry in concerto’s U.S. premiere
- Supreme Court to hear abortion case, its first on the issue with new conservative bent
- Frontera Grill or Fawlty Towers? Chef Rick Bayless is writing a farce — with food
- Our definitive ranking of the Jokers, from Jack Nicholson to Joaquin Phoenix
- Letter: Physical education an important part of school day
- Bankrupt Sears settles dispute with retirees over life insurance benefits, setting up $3 million fund
- How Netflix’s ‘Unbelievable’ created its revolutionary portrayal of rape
- Horsefeathers celebrates 35 years of providing the ‘rare and unique’ for Waukegan ?— and Hollywood
- Voice smooth as shea butter, Ari Lennox is a future R&B star
- Judson Bergman, Chicago CEO, and wife, Mary Miller, among 4 dead in San Francisco crash
- College football Saturday: Five games to watch in Week 6
- A reading of ‘One Giant Leap: The Apollo 11 Moon Landing’ for one night only
- ‘Midwest is where it’s at’: Jenny McCarthy talks about her career, family and why she loves Illinois
- Daisy Haggard shows her emotional range in ‘Back to Life’
- Jon Gruden says the Raiders’ 6 straight weeks without a game at home will help build relationships — something he never had with Khalil Mack
- Porter County election officials test machines as early voting set to start
- Oak Park residents asked to take part in community survey
- Elizabeth Warren relies on small donors to raise $24.6 million
- Text messages show top American diplomats pushed Ukraine to investigate Biden company, dangled a D.C. visit, discussed quid pro quos
- Newly installed sculpture lends pizzazz to park
- Cone or scoop: Guinea pig ice cream for sale in Ecuador
- Moda inspirada en la represión policial
- Washington University in St. Louis to be free for low-income Missouri, southern Illinois students
- 10 things that have changed since your mom had a baby
- Disabato: Lincoln-Way North grad Holt Erikson says, ‘God has put me on this path for a reason. He wouldn’t put me up against something I can’t beat.’
- Investigators focus on rogue vape brand as mysterious and sometimes fatal lung illness spreads
- Analysis: Watergate was a TV spectacle. Just wait for the reboot: Trump
- Lake County News-Sun Local Scoreboard for Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019
- ‘Me siento más fuerte y más segura’
- Commentary: It could be worse — The Yeezy-Kardashian Museum of Science and Industry
- Can these posture devices pull you out of your constant slump?
- Home remedies: When to use and not use antibiotics
- Appreciation: Why Jessye Norman was more than a great voice. Much more
- Dos heridos de gravedad tras el choque de un auto y un tren de la CTA
- Chicago environmental group hopes 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg will join protest Monday, but spokesman says she’s not planning to be here
- Fiona Apple smokes a ton of marijuana to cure her insomnia
- 6 ways cannabis can improve the life of seniors
- Sports Illustrated shaken by major layoffs and massive reorganization
- An economic crisis in your teens can alter your behavior for life, economists find
- How to find the best references when you’ve only worked one place
- Park Ridge Historical Society granted extension to pay back history center debt to park district
- Davich: An extraordinary courtroom hug serves as an inspirational act of forgiveness
- Thyroid disorder may not show symptoms until pregnancy
- Walk to School Day seen as encouraging kids to be healthy
- ‘It definitely puts a smile on my face’: Andrew Rechtsteiner leads Jacobs’ effort at Fox Valley Meet
- Police: Three men sought after armed robbery, car theft of Oak Park resident
- Acclaimed chamber music ensemble Merz Trio comes to Valparaiso
- Review: Eric Carle’s books are brought beautifully to life in ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show’
- Elmhurst Memorial Hospital Foundation raises $393,000 at Autumn Affair
- Down to Business: Gun sales/shooting range business in Elgin a family affair
- La eminencia gris
- Treating osteoarthritis with corticosteroid injections
- Wilco review: ‘Ode to Joy’ keeps turbulence under wraps
- Highwood to allow single recreational marijuana shop downtown
- Northlake teen gashed with knife by two other youths seeking money
- Aurora woman fatally stabbed Naperville man during an argument over the man putting his foot on a table, prosecutors say
- Celebrate Filipino American History Month with Chicago’s first Filipino Restaurant Week, plus more events
- Column: What a travel weekend plagued by flight delays and Blue Line troubles taught me about expanding my horizons
- Former Porter charter school advisory council official charged with theft
- How two Chicago brothers built the largest Indian grocery chain in North America
- Letter: The Silence is Deafening
- Violence escalates in Iraq even after top cleric urges calm; at least 53 now dead in protests, clashes
- Harwood Heights officials considering ban on vaping, sale of vaping products
- Troubled in Minneapolis, 911 system hasn’t been a problem in Lake County: director
- Man fatally stabbed in Humboldt Park neighborhood, person in custody
- Speak Out: Trump, Lightfoot
- Man, 28, dead in overnight shooting in Englewood neighborhood
- Oswego accepts land donation for outdoor entertainment venue
- Column: The times require us to use words that reveal the truth without dehumanizing others
- Highland Park to allow medical offices in Port Clinton plaza space
- Crusading Salesforce founder Marc Benioff aims to prove CEOs can be activists too
- Crash after traffic stop kills 3 men, closes I-80/94 exit ramp in Gary for hours
- It’s the Recyclables vs. the New Age as Joe Maddon and other veteran managers vie for 7 openings against younger, inexperienced candidates
- Constance Morris House in La Grange marks 40 years of serving domestic abuse survivors
- Column: Courtroom hugs after Amber Guyger was sentenced in shooting of Botham Jean test the limits of forgiveness
- North Aurora woman turns old clothes into new products
- NFL’s foreign footprint has expanded over last 15 years
- This Week in Naperville
- Las películas Marvel ‘no son cine’
- Amateur basketball coach gets 3 months prison in NCAA case
- Hutton: Houston Texans cornerback Lonnie Johnson Jr. makes Gary proud
- Church news
- Go Away With … Jai Rodriguez
- Ukraine’s Chernivtsi a charming city of architectural gems
- Head to La Paz rather than overdeveloped Los Cabos for the real Baja California Sur
- Solo travel: 7 lessons from a trip to Tokyo
- Pet World: Nocturnal cat needs a clock reset
- Lost dog reconnects with owners thanks to former Oregon State kicker Alexis Serna and social media
- The 12 hottest Chicago shows to see right now
- Never fear, Cat Man is here: Big-hearted NYC mechanic rescues animals in his free time
- Cleopatra was the queen of making the first move: Relationship lessons from women throughout history
- Comedian Andy Dick charged with groping driver
- Secret Service dog who protected Obama receives honor
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- Evergreen Park Dist. 124, teachers reach tentative contract agreement
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- Column: Almost famous and long forgotten, Midwestern artist Gilbert Wilson, in death, is finally getting his due
- Political candidates’ spouses elect to share viewpoints about unexpected campaign runs
- Toyota offers Venture Edition for 2020 4Runner
- Thousands protest mask ban as Hong Kong leader toughens stance
- Colombiano Teherán entra en roster de playoffs de los Bravos
- 4 things we learned about the Bears at Friday’s practice in London, including Akiem Hicks’ upgraded status and Chase Daniel’s cherry juice trick
- Downtown Geneva to be featured in TV commercial
- Elgin News Digest
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- ‘Very rare’ furlough lets Kane County prisoner see his dying mother one last time
- Cubanas Pérez y Caballero hacen 1-2 en Mundial de atletismo
- Lake Point Tower
- Moran: B-17 that crashed in Connecticut visited Waukegan National Airport for public flights
- Diahann Carroll remembered by Hollywood: She ‘broke ground with every footstep’
- Michael Jackson stage musical gets new title, ‘MJ’
- Column: An Evanston school wants to keep Halloween out of the classroom. How does that result in equity and inclusion?
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- Futbolistas argentinas piden la pelota: se organizan por sus derechos
- Get tickets now for 2019 Tribune literary awards
- Diahann Carroll, Oscar-nominated, pioneering star of ‘Julia’ and ‘Dynasty,’ dies at 84
- District 112, teachers reach tentative settlement
- Slowik: All workers deserve raises, but who is going to pay for them?
- Zambrano da inesperada plata a Colombia en 400m del Mundial
- Lawyer: Decision on federal charges could come soon for St. John man accused of kidnapping and taking girl to Arkansas
- Indiana clergy sign letter calling for renewed moratorium on federal executions
- ‘Chucky’ Lozano, Herrera, Lainez encabezan lista de México para Liga de Naciones
- Rolling the dice: New Gary casino could spur regional commercial economic development
- Naperville News Digest
- Los Angeles Sparks fire GM Penny Toler after postgame tirade
- Commentary: I’ll take my time forgiving Amber Guyger, the off-duty white police officer who shot and killed an innocent black man
- Dan Webb to stay on as special prosecutor in Jussie Smollett probe despite campaign donation to Kim Foxx
- Survey says: Gurnee to poll residents on recreational cannabis dispensary using mass automated call
- Indiana approves new permit for exhumation of slain 1930s gangster John Dillinger’s body
- FAFSA 2020: todo sobre cómo solicitar ayuda financiera universitaria
- Naperville Historic Preservation Commission to consider demolition of Kroehler mansion this month
- 2 Chesterton schools, admin center closed due to Legionnaires’ disease concern
- Letters: Trump should resign if impeached
- In Trump impeachment inquiry, Chicago-area Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Mike Quigley are members of U.S. House Intelligence Committee
- Oak Lawn family sets up scholarship fund to honor father’s legacy of kindness
- Round Lake Beach police arrest two teens accused of pointing gun at student
- Shout Out: Geoff Shein, fitness trainer
- At a South Side McDonald’s, grade school chess players face off against the masters
- The Blackhawks played in Prague and Berlin — and fans wore a wide array of their sweaters. Here are the stories behind the jerseys.
- Waubonsee plans opens house at Fox Valley campus
- ¿Qué es más difícil: entrar a una secundaria selectiva de CPS o a la universidad?
- Steppenwolf’s LookOut 2019-20 lineup keeps dancers in mind
- Final defendant convicted in Cornell Square Park shooting that wounded 13
- Loyola Chicago investigates viral video showing man in restroom discarding box for menstrual products meant for transgender men
- Potempa: Farm wife neighbor Mrs. Dolezal will be missed
- Chess and cheeseburgers
- The Spin: ‘Whiplash’ – Congressmen Schiff, Krishnamoorthi, and Quigley offer Chicago a view of the impeachment inquiry battle in Washington
- Column: A black man forgave the white cop who killed his brother. And some African Americans don’t like it.
- Charlie Moore, a Kansas transfer, is eligible to play for DePaul this season, the NCAA rules
- Speak Out: MetroSouth Medical Center, Trump
- Investors were eyeing the 70-story Lake Point Tower for a condo deconversion. The owners just fought back.
- Familiares y admiradores despiden a José José en Miami
- Corrections and clarifications
- South Suburban College getting $35.8M for healthcare teaching center
- Justin Verlander and Jose Altuve lead the Astros to a 6-2 win against the Rays in their ALDS opener
- As hope for new source of city money fades, Chicago youth homeless programs at risk of losing federal funding too
- Developer seeks approval for 24-unit apartment buildings for northeast Oak Park
- Se dice que José José no será llevado a México; lo quieren enterrar en Miami
- New North Central College puts modern spin on iconic logo design
- Editorial: Chicago and Illinois don’t have enough taxpayers to pay for all this
- Chicago City Council plan would make it easier for aldermen to find out how much proposed ordinances would cost taxpayers
- EPA to host community meeting on USS Lead cleanup in East Chicago
- Armstrong: Sydney Fedderly another good fit for Waubonsee coach Steve Kish’s program
- Commentary: I worked in the White House during an impeachment. Trump’s team isn’t ready for it.
- VNA announces program to battle opioid addiction
- The scene from Blackhawks’ 4-3 loss to the Flyers in Prague
- Northbrook Plan Commission makes recommendations for cannabis dispensaries in the village, though trustees have yet to decide if they will even be allowed
- El veterano deportado Miguel Pérez Jr., obtuvo la ciudadanía de Estados Unidos
- Column: ‘Game of Thrones’ creator George R.R Martin on Chicago’s Greektown and the voices he hears when falling asleep.
- Elgin’s new podcast series focuses on city employees talking about ‘What would you say you do here?’
- Mark Rogovin, artist and activist who promoted outdoor murals and social justice, dies
- Aurora cultivation center at the heart of ongoing lawsuit wins state approval to grow recreational pot; Zion demands they cease
- Chicago Teachers Union didn’t help investigation of student sexual violence, consultant says
- Jury convicts gang member with a motive to kill 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee. Corey Morgan’s mother and brother had been shot by rivals just weeks earlier.
- Railroad crossing to be closed in Geneva
- Editorial: Our thanks to Cook County jurors who gave Tyshawn Lee a small measure of justice
- Commentary: Who killed Ann Harmeier? A family’s appeal for Indiana State Police records from the 1977 cold case
- Mike Foltynewicz’s strong start helps the Braves level the NLDS at 1 game apiece with a 3-0 win against the Cardinals
- Impeachment inquiry reaches into the White House with new subpoena from House Democrats
- Joe Girardi to interview for the Cubs’ managerial vacancy next week
- ‘I’m just overwhelmed,’ deported Army veteran Miguel Perez Jr. says after being granted citizenship
- Reuland Food Service in Aurora a family affair
- Commentary: Do William Barr, Mike Pompeo and Rudy Giuliani share a death wish?
- Column: Blackhawks show promise — and reasons for concern — in their season-opening 4-3 loss to the Flyers in Prague
- Tom Ricketts promises changes in a letter to Cubs fans: ‘We struggled to deliver … in the moments that mattered most’
- Boys tennis notes: Valparaiso wins first sectional title since 2013, ends Chesterton’s 5-year run
- Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders had a heart attack earlier this week, his campaign says
- Trump signs proclamation that says U.S. visas will be denied for immigrants who can’t prove they can afford health care
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019
- A happy home: Matt Tomczak scores winning TD as Valparaiso erupts in fourth quarter to top Merrillville
- ‘Right in my hands’: Chesterton’s Bryce Pickering scores off tipped pass for 2nd straight week in win against Lake Central
- Daily Southtown Local Scoreboard for Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019
- ‘Kenenna is a different breed’: Odeluga scores 2 TDs as Mount Carmel moves past Marist
- Cardinals pitcher Ryan Helsley, a member of the Cherokee nation, says Braves fans’ Tomahawk Chop is insulting