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- FBI says it presumes Florida naval base shooting was an act of terrorism
- Ask Amy: Abandoned child says no to father’s friendship
- Friends rescue Chicago couple facing tragic end-of-life decision while living abroad
- Column: The storied lives of Chicago’s Jewish gangsters, ‘in the shadow of Al Capone’
- An indie bookstore opens in the glittering 900 North Michigan mall. So are bookstores back?
- Editorial: How closing a Chicago high school with zero students can help kids citywide
- Column: If Republicans care about hunger in America, why do they keep trying to take food stamps away from the poor?
- Chicagoans may be ready for real winter cold, but are their pets? A guide to keeping animals safe during a polar chill
- Bar hopping on Oahu in search of a tropical treasure: the best mai tai
- Letters: In Illinois, the specter of corporate greed
- World Anti-Doping Agency bans Russia from major sporting events for 4 years, including Tokyo Olympics
- Daywatch: The death of Juice Wrld, our review of Chicago’s new NEMA skyscraper and why police are reexamining a questionable crash
- Four overdose victims found by Detroit children; 3 die
- 3 takeaways from the Blackhawks’ 4-3 shootout loss to the Coyotes, including whether Dennis Gilbert did the right thing coming to Alex DeBrincat’s defense
- Revisiting Barnes & Noble: Renewed focus on books encourages the Biblioracle
- The 1932 NFL championship. Indoors at Chicago Stadium. How one of the strangest — and most influential — games in Bears history changed the league.
- ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Trailer: Gal Gadot returns with Pedro Pascal, Kristen Wiig
- Best handheld gaming consoles available for giving this holiday season
- Best deals left on the internet for holiday shopping
- ‘Marriage Story’ tops Golden Globe Award nominations with 6
- Confidential documents reveal U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan
- For years, AT&T has charged Harvey for inoperable telecommunications lines, officials say. The city now owes $700,000.
- More evidence that marijuana might offer relief from migraine pain
- Column: Today’s MLB players live the good life, thanks in large part to someone they may not have heard of — Marvin Miller
- Ask Anna: How do I get a guy to kiss me?
- Chicago’s own Jesse White Tumblers celebrate 60 years of acrobatics, community and legacy
- More than 30 cars torched in two suspected arson fires on Chicago’s Far South Side
- Golden Globes once again nominate only male directors
- ‘The Morning Show’ scores Apple’s first ever Golden Globe nominations
- Things to do in Chicago today | Dec. 9
- Boeing knowingly put faulty wings on 133 jets, FAA alleges as it seeks $3.9M fine
- All I want for Christmas is … skydiving? Half of consumers say they’d rather get a gift of an experience than more stuff.
- Golden Globes 2020: The complete nominations list
- First ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ trailer brings Ghostbusting to the country
- Were those HQ2 tax breaks really needed? Amazon’s latest New York lease revives debate.
- Más de 30 autos incendiados en el sur de Chicago
- Shout Out: Scott Miller, Clarendon Hills family hardware business continues 20 years later
- More layoffs at Uptake Technologies, data firm launched by Groupon co-founder Brad Keywell
- Chicago Philharmonic review: Marcus Roberts jazzes Gershwin’s Concerto in F
- Kansas City Chiefs clinch AFC West; Baltimore Ravens clinch playoffs
- Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker dies at 92
- Jimmy G’s defining performance; calls hurt Pats
- Jimmy G’s defining performance; calls hurt Pats
- 4 enough for now to keep CFP expansion talk quiet
- Sharks are circling around Patriots
- Naperville gas station robbed at gunpoint, police say
- Elecciones de 2020, cruciales para que EEUU se ponga al día con la acción climática
- This week in Chicago arts, food and drink via ChicagoNow
- Rivendell Theatre Ensemble announces 25th season
- Lista de nominados a los Golden Globes 2020
- Elgin man arrested on five gun charges from two incidents, police say
- Susan Tompor: 5 year-end tax tips to get your money safely through the holiday season
- Anderson Family gathers for annual jamboree at FitzGerald’s
- 5 things to do in the Lake County area Dec. 13-15
- 5 things to do in Naperville, Fox Valley Dec. 13-15
- 5 things to do in northwest Indiana Dec. 13-15
- Flight shaming poses threat to airlines: Climate activists, scientists cutting back on air travel
- These three US cities smoke more marijuana than tobacco
- Deerfield rolls out its holiday traditions for annual ‘Winter Celebration’
- Liderada por ‘Marriage Story’, Netflix domina los Golden Globes
- Absuelven a jugadores y al ‘Vasco’ Aguirre en caso de amaño de partido en España
- Officials list pot vape brands reported in US outbreak
- Roban un auto, chocan, y van a dar al hospital
- Imagineer shares facts about ‘ambitious’ Epcot transformation
- Joining Lake County clerk, recorder offices painless path to tax savings
- La Agencia Mundial Antidopaje sanciona con dureza a Rusia
- Golden Globes fail to recognize Lupita Nyong’o in ‘Us’, Ava DuVernay’s ‘When They See Us’, Greta Gerwig
- Christmas on the Farm offers ‘old-fashioned’ holiday fun
- Chicago rapper Juice Wrld and his musical legacy of vulnerability and heartache
- Zion ATV rollover leaves rider in critical condition
- Speak Out: Nany Pelosi’s comments on faith a joke
- Uruguayo Viñas, el goleador discreto y rentable del América en México
- Column: NEMA, city’s tallest rental high-rise, reinterprets Willis Tower in one of the finest efforts of Chicago’s current building boom
- Fantasy football: 10 players to pick up on the Week 15 waiver wire
- Messi no entra en la convocatoria de Champions para jugar contra el Inter
- Embajador mexicano es acusado de robar un libro en Argentina
- Help Them To Hope
- Saudi gunman in Florida naval base shooting had a ‘deep-seated hatred of the United States’
- With ‘Joker,’ composer Hildur Gu nadóttir could make history as first woman to win best original score
- Student accused of bringing knife to Yorkville Middle School
- Willie Nelson says he’s not smoking, but is still using pot
- From brownies to ‘pot roast’: Missouri is learning how to get medical marijuana
- Best fantasy football players by points through Week 14 and where Lamar Jackson ranks
- Santas hit the slopes in Maine
- Riquelme vence a Macri y a Maradona en las elecciones de Boca
- How ‘The Nutcracker’ became a holiday classic
- It’s the most desperate time of the year – for retailers
- Man shot in Glenview but not cooperating with investigation into incident, police say
- As his wife’s caregiver, a doctor discovers what’s missing at health care’s core
- Double-lung transplant ordeals inspire hope, creativity in once ailing artist
- HFPA President responds to Golden Globes’ female director shut-out: ‘We vote by film’
- Bill Hemmer will inherit Shepard Smith slot at Fox News
- The decade in photos
- The holidays as an interfaith family: Trying to have a merry everything and a happy always
- Libertyville High School showcases the artwork of its students during annual pop-up show
- Clarendon Hills Christmas Walk brings residents together
- Historic Kendall courthouse honored on Christmas ornament
- Want to avoid porch pirates and car break-ins? Use these tips from Illinois police
- Supreme Court leaves in place Kentucky law requiring doctors to perform ultrasounds before abortions
- El proceso de destitución de Trump entra en una semana clave
- Woman who lost foot to cancer helps others feel whole again
- Lake County News-Sun Local Scoreboard for Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019
- Tinley Park officials consider mail survey, referendum to get more feedback on marijuana sales
- Hard-to-treat cancers are responding to proton therapy at Miami Cancer Institute
- News-Sun girls basketball rankings and player of the week for Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019
- Column: Two Chicago authors met at an AIDS conference hundreds of miles from home. Now they’re teaming up to keep the epidemic on people’s radar.
- Fires, floods and free parking: California’s unending fight against climate change
- Rosario propone emotivo viaje a la infancia de Messi
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- Fires, floods and free parking: California’s unending fight against climate change
- David Ross’ 1st Cubs coaching staff is complete after addition of Kyle Evans
- North Pole Express gives children in Mundelein a unique chance to meet Santa
- Climate scientists try to cut their own carbon footprints
- Police: Munster teen arrested after social media threat against high school
- Storm waves topple iconic Minnesota ‘sea stack’ into Lake Superior
- ‘Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol’ offers a different perspective of classic tale
- Broadcast TV shut out of Globe nods, Netflix edges HBO
- Settlements stall in City Council committee for witness to Laquan McDonald shooting, family of man who died in police custody
- ‘Mom and pop’ Jake’s Bagels a staple in Aurora
- The Big Number: Snow shoveling results in about 11,500 injuries – including 100 fatalities
- Review: In ‘The Tall Boy’ at Stage 773, Tandy Cronyn plays a woman deciding children’s fates after World War II
- Chance the Rapper, Ellie Goulding, Halsey, more celebrities remember Juice Wrld
- Girls basketball notes: Senior guard Katie Lach looks forward to last hurrah in the playoffs for Carmel
- #GlobesSoWhite? In TV categories, HFPA snubs ‘When They See Us,’ ‘Watchmen,’ more
- Daily Southtown wrestling rankings and wrestler of the week for Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019
- Daily Southtown Local Scoreboard for Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019
- Alejandro Fernández dijo que es ‘muy estúpido’ derribar estatuas de los conquistadores de América
- Police investigating death of Glenview woman whose body was found in hotel room
- Tufts University is severing ties with the Sackler family — which has given it millions — over concerns about OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma
- Managing stress during the holidays
- Pete Frates, one of the inspirations for the Ice Bucket Challenge, dies at 34
- Miss Universo 2019: ‘Crecí en un mundo donde una mujer que se ve como yo por mi color de piel o tipo de cabello nunca ha sido considerada hermosa’
- Stephen Strasburg agrees to a 7-year, $245 million deal to stay with the Nationals, the most ever for a pitcher
- ‘We came in with energy’: Brooke Schramek and Kendall Holmes power Benet past Mother McAuley
- Liverpool, un defensor del título en apuros en la última jornada de Champions
- Review: Harry Styles ‘steps into the light’ with great album
- Palatine man charged with reckless driving: Lincolnshire police
- Will Akiem Hicks or Prince Amukamara play for the Bears vs. the Packers? 3 things we learned Monday at Halas Hall.
- Santa, Elsa and Anna visit New Lenox as Christmas in the Commons kicks off
- Trump, Dems in tentative deal on North American trade pact
- Wrestling notes: Owen Dunlap works on ‘getting stronger,’ jumps up two weight classes for Marist
- Roquan Smith is out for the season with a torn pectoral muscle: ‘To lose a guy like that is hard’
- West Suburban Local Scoreboard for Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019
- Community gathers in Lincolnshire to light holiday tree, welcome Santa to town and donate toys for tots
- Column: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot shows how to build trust in a cynical city
- Lake Zurich marks the holidays with Miracle on Main tree lighting
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019
- Lincolnwood sets the night aglow for the holidays
- Solar power heating up: 66% of all installations since 2008 were completed this year, ComEd says
- Six common holiday gifts that experts say to avoid, and what to give instead
- Commentary: If we get to a Senate impeachment trial, who will testify?
- ‘We definitely missed them’: Emily Spisak sparks Naperville Central past shorthanded Oswego
- Valverde: ‘El Barca no es menos competitivo sin Messi’
- After unseasonably warm Monday, snow and windy weather for commute before Chicago-area wind chills drop into single digits midweek
- Chicago ranks 8th as best city for LGBTQ bachelor and bachelorette parties
- The holiday foods you love to hate can actually be delicious
- Cookie is a triple treat for ginger lovers
- Valparaiso University chapel lends festive atmosphere for TubaChristmas
- Snowplace like home: These 15 states get the most snow in America
- Khalil Mack pays off the holiday tab for more than 300 Walmart shoppers
- Chicago lost ground as top tech jobs concentrated in just 5 metro areas, study says
- Federal Judge John Grady, who oversaw landmark AT&T antitrust and Marquette 10 police corruption trials, dies at 90
- Aurora set to enact a number of tax increment financing districts
- Take steps to climb the career ladder
- Vinícius Jr. aprovecha oportunidad en el Madrid
- Wrestling notes: West Aurora’s Dzhabrail Khurshidov calls his weight class ‘a decision to make later’
- MidiCi features pizza for any taste, dietary need
- The Spin: Michelle Obama talks impeachment | Lightfoot spotlights Buttigieg transparency issue | A rare public appearance by former Mayor Daley
- Newest Rise’n Roll Bakery sells a variety of Amish-style treats in Schererville
- Park Ridge church’s Bethlehem Walk takes more than 1,000 visitors back to the birth of Jesus
- Prosecutors have 45 days to move forward in new trial for former Portage Mayor James Snyder
- Buffalo Grove cops take area kids down aisles of Wheeling Target in search of holiday gifts
- Nazareth Academy students proud of Christmas Gift Drive that helps families in need
- Regalar experiencias, una nueva tendencia navideña
- Commentary: Nikki Haley gets the history of the Confederate flag very wrong
- Editorial: Fed Chairman Paul Volcker’s legacy: High inflation? What’s that?
- Family of Lake Ridge football player who drowned in campus pool reaches legal settlement with school district
- Men’s basketball notes: Redshirt transfers Nick Robinson, Eron Gordon finding a comfort zone for VU
- El deportista del año en Colombia
- Oswego could rework its zoning rules for a ‘vibrant and pedestrian-oriented’ downtown
- Elf Invasion Pub Crawl adds revelry to the holiday season in Highwood
- If you only know Lamar Jackson, here are 5 other Ravens to keep your eye on
- Reward offered for info on suspects in Naperville convenience store burglary
- Chesterton couple charged with kidnapping children during supervised visit
- 4 things we learned at Blackhawks practice Monday, including Adam Boqvist getting called up and Andrew Shaw going on long-term injured reserve
- Former Outcome Health executive enters first guilty plea in alleged years-long, $1 billion fraud scheme. ‘There were practices going on there that were wrong.’
- Letters: Sexual harassers must earn redemption
- Oak Park planners, residents share concerns for proposed seven-story senior housing facility
- New Zealand volcano
- Orland Park’s St. Michael parishioners grapple with ‘grief, anger’ after former pastor charged in teacher’s death
- Corrections and clarifications
- Shnay: One night of flames leads to long journey out of the darkness, aided by kindness and a bit of luck
- Editorial: After 3,000 sexual assaults on Uber trips in 2018: Make the ride-share ride safer.
- Lottery decides Kim Foxx will top the list of candidates seeking Cook County state’s attorney nomination; order of other races also randomly picked
- Santa’s ‘sleigh’ travels around Morton Grove, dispensing candy and presents
- State Rep. Celina Villanueva files to replace Martin Sandoval in state Senate
- Will County Board member suggests using some marijuana sales tax money for reparations
- Ex-escort gets more than 4 years in prison for nearly $6 million fraud
- Porter County Election Board president found dead along road in Valparaiso, police say; no foul play suspected
- New York boosts state hemp industry with new rules, regulations and testing for CBD products
- Megan Rapinoe named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year — the 4th woman to receive the award unaccompanied
- Heisman Trophy finalists announced: LSU’s Joe Burrow, Oklahoma’s Jalen Hurts and Ohio State’s Justin Fields and Chase Young
- Lake County K-9 Zahr remembered for his smarts, love of pets
- Illinois to start taking applications Tuesday for new marijuana stores. Winners will be announced by May.
- Zion principal charged with sexually assaulting Kenosha high school student a decade ago
- Read the DOJ inspector general’s report on the Trump-Russia investigation
- Highly anticipated watchdog report finds FBI was justified in opening Trump-Russia probe and did not act with political bias
- Trial begins for defendant charged with murder in 2018 shooting death of 37-year-old Zion man
- Here are 6 key takeaways from the DOJ watchdog report on the Trump-Russia probe
- Gym coach charged with sex crimes in Will County facing loss of citizenship for withholding earlier allegations of abuse from immigration officials
- Brain differences may be tied to obesity, kids’ study says
- McKinsey says it will allow Pete Buttigieg to release the names of his clients
- Stephen Strasburg, Nationals reach record $245M, 7-year deal
- ‘Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins’ to bring performances to Temple Har Zion
- Column: The Cubs and White Sox once again find themselves at a spending crossroads. Is the future now — or can it wait a bit?
- Coby White moves into backup point guard role: ‘He’s ready for it’
- ‘He’s ready for it’: Bulls rookie Coby White will shift to point guard with the second unit
- Cubs confident they’ll win Kris Bryant’s grievance case, but major moves might be difficult until they know for sure
- House Democrats poised to unveil 2 articles of impeachment against President Trump
- Raptors 93, Bulls 92
- Weeks before recreational marijuana is legal in the state, 5 things Northbrook residents should know about it locally
- The Alliance of Latinx Theater Artists of Chicago (ALTA) hosts second awards ceremony
- Glenview School District 34 to have a late start day next school year, but parents say child care will be a challenge
- White Sox have already had several ‘productive conversations’ at the winter meetings, says GM Rick Hahn