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- Chicago teen Tucker Tynan suffers a severe cut to his leg that causes an Ontario Hockey League game to be postponed
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- Former NBA Commissioner David Stern undergoes emergency brain surgery
- Ask Amy: Reader weighs in on anti-male bias
- Violent crime rate up, number of police officers down in largest Wisconsin cities, new report shows
- 5 great reasons beyond football to visit Madison, Wis.
- Flashback: A plea by a ‘Good Fellow’ in 1909 inspired thousands of Chicagoans to become Secret Santas to the city’s children
- Column: Trumps cry about impeachment, insult teen Greta Thunberg and shoot a sheep: The Week in Review
- 3 drugs for severe epileptic seizures shown to be equally effective
- Column: ‘Tis the season for Christmas trees and shrunken Santa heads
- 1 dead in shooting at parking lot outside Crestwood apartment complex, police say
- Kentucky police charge 5 Illinois women in $25,000, multi-state shoplifting scheme
- Daywatch: Lightfoot defends website shaming aldermen, grieving parents plead for return of their baby’s ashes and Chicago hotel named one of the world’s best
- He asked United Airlines for White Claw after a delay — and it gave him a case: How Twitter became the best place to get airlines’ attention
- ‘Black Christmas’ review: Remake of classic is a women’s horror film for new generation
- ‘This feels like us again’: The Bears head to Green Bay with a surge of confidence after staying unified through their midseason struggles
- Clear is now active in most major American airports — what is it and is it worth it?
- Scary-good deals to shop on the Friday the 13th before Christmas
- Which smart home product you should get your grandma, child, and everyone in between
- Army Navy Game Ball Run 2019
- How to buy a healthy poinsettia and care for it through the holidays — and beyond
- Orland Park high school worker sent inappropriate texts to juvenile, police say
- Speak Out: People driving at night without headlights is a problem
- Outgoing Kentucky governor pardons man for homicide after brother holds big fundraiser
- Medical device failures brought to light now bolster lawsuits and research
- 3 takeaways from the Blackhawks’ 5-2 loss to the Coyotes, including the Dylan Strome-Nick Schmaltz shootout that never happened
- Peloton actress blames her face for viral ad controversy
- Neal Ormond honored for 56 years broadcasting West Aurora sports
- Olivia Wilde defends ‘Richard Jewell’ reporter over sex-for-tips claims
- Mundelein gingerbread house-making event attracts dozens of ‘builders’
- Suspect in 2018 West Side stabbing spree charged with second slaying
- Brexit next month? Prime Minister Boris Johnson claims new mandate to leave EU as Conservatives win majority in Parliament
- Music equals donations for Salvation Army bell ringer, who organizes quartets to play around his red kettle
- Don’t be a Grinch when co-workers say ‘Merry Christmas’
- Cyr: United States leaders show courage regarding Hong Kong
- Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy has a new handle on a great many things, from his migraines to making beautiful music
- Illinois sues e-cig maker Juul for allegedly targeting minors
- Gold Coast home with access to Park Hyatt Hotel amenities: $2.7M
- Help Them to Hope
- For Richard Jewell’s mother, Clint Eastwood’s new film brings both pain and healing
- Nuestro más sincero agradecimiento
- Column: That controversial Peloton commercial provides a lesson in holiday gift-giving
- CSO review: An elegant debut from pianist Jan Lisiecki
- Gary teen’s childhood prayer led to a father, a coach, and a shot at a dream
- Can the Bears beat the Packers to keep their playoff hopes alive? Our Week 15 predictions.
- Jury deliberates 3 hours, delivers guilty verdict in 2018 Zion shotgun murder
- Lake County News-Sun Local Scoreboard for Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019
- Detectives having trouble confirming story of 2 men who say they were kidnapped by people pretending to be cops, police spokesman says
- Altos precios de árboles navideños en EEUU; hay escasez
- From butterbeer to Baby Yoda, order these 22 Starbucks secret menu items like a pro
- How would millions of dollars in fees on e-cigarettes be spent? Sen. Dick Durbin and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi have a plan for that.
- Chicago Black Caucus chairman may try forcing City Council vote to stall recreational marijuana sales till July
- Actor Danny Aiello, known for Spike Lee’s ‘Do The Right Thing,’ has died at age 86
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- Got your Christmas tree yet? Nationwide, supplies are tight enough to please a Grinch, and prices would shock Scrooge
- David Pastrnak the Unpredictable: Boston Bruins winger is dominating NHL
- Ford is letting employees bring dogs to work in a bid to lure tech talent
- A guide to 25 popular Hanukkah foods
- Parents, teachers disappointed after Valparaiso elementary school ends dual language program
- Ford is letting employees bring dogs to work in a bid to lure tech talent
- Raiders bid farewell to Oakland in game vs. Jacksonville Jaguars
- Kick off your holiday party with this bubbling-hot crab and spinach dip
- Tokyo being billed as ‘Recovery Olympics’ — but not for all
- Community donations may help a new golf practice center at Sunset Valley in Highland Park open by summer 2021
- 5 White Sox takeaways from the winter meetings, including some tempting trade conversations and confidence in Nomar Mazara’s defense
- When you hear the sound of thousands of screaming girls in Rosemont, you’ll know where boy band Why Don’t We is
- Time-restricted dieting can lead to weight loss, lower blood pressure
- Wayside Cross child sex offender residents receive new notices citing proximity to Aurora park
- Lake Forest public works crews partner with IDOT for snow removal plan
- Chicago-area residents could see snow during Monday commute
- ‘Auto-oriented’ business, medical offices proposed for two vacant Park Ridge sites
- Naperville News Digest
- Here’s 5 suggestions for a Lake County New Year’s Eve out
- Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney, visits White House moments after impeachment vote
- Incumbent Cedar Lake Councilman keeps seat after recount confirms 3-vote margin of victory
- Mark Prior, former Cubs pitcher, is named Dodgers pitching coach
- Murder suspect extradited from Poland accused of stabbing 24-year-old roommate in 2013 on Northwest Side
- El ‘sueño’ de Mohamed y las deudas pendientes con Monterrey
- California calls pot smoke, THC a risk to moms-to-be
- Why Austria should be your next dream vacation
- Michael Vick is an honorary Pro Bowl captain, and animal rights activists are upset
- Tokyo being billed as ‘Recovery Olympics’ — but not for all
- Speak Out
- Park Ridge plan commission recommends approval of additions at Maine East, Maine South High Schools
- Chicago prosecutor kicks off effort to expunge tens of thousands of minor marijuana convictions
- Steppenwolf’s LookOut series will host First Floor Theater and Definition Theatre in 2020
- Column: The Bears face a big decision about Leonard Floyd’s future. Is he worth $13.2 million in 2020?
- Charges dropped, brothers in hemp-pot mix-up look to sue NYC
- Milo the cat went missing at the airport. Two months later, he’s been reunited with his owner.
- Chicago among top 5 cities for organized retail crime
- Beachfront property owners seek to revive case to block public access along Lake Michigan shoreline
- You’re going where? Albuquerque
- Chicago Police Board suspends sergeant for 6 months for shooting unarmed teen with developmental disabilities
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- You’re going where? Albuquerque
- Down to Business: Experiments with home-brewing led to launch of East Dundee brewery and taproom
- Bannockburn residents debate whether mixed-use apartment proposal would change character of a village known for its spacious homes
- Evergreen Park man dies after being shot in front of Hammond house, police say
- Down to Business: It’s tee time — no matter the weather — when you’re playing indoor golf
- Here’s 5 suggestions for a Fox Valley, Naperville New Year’s Eve out
- Davich: Photo book of national parks allows us to appreciate our region’s natural beauty from a new perspective
- Chicago cop given only reprimand for role in botched reinvestigation of David Koschman’s death
- Giants cut Janoris Jenkins over ‘refusal to acknowledge the inappropriate and offensive language’
- Teen charged in murder of Portage woman will undergo mental health evaluation
- Who is interested in trading for Kris Bryant — and what could the Cubs get in return?
- While Kevin Burkhardt hopes to regain his voice for Bears-Packers, Charles Davis speaks for both the Fox broadcasters: ‘We pray for heaters’
- Editorial: Illinois, here comes recreational marijuana — and a haze of confusion
- Stephen Gilmore is the frontrunner to win NFL Defensive Player of the Year award
- General Motors to invest $1.5 billion in St. Louis-area truck and van factory
- The U.K. is almost certainly done with the E.U. Is Scotland done with the United Kingdom then?
- Small repair by Oak Forest welding students makes a big difference for special needs gym class
- Column: In Afghanistan, presidents lied and Americans died
- Spike Lee, Mia Farrow, Cher and more remember ‘Do the Right Thing’ actor Danny Aiello
- Teacher held up at gunpoint when leaving Evanston middle school for the day
- Oswego OKs zoning rules, tax for marijuana sales
- Elgin News Digest
- Will Dave Matthews Band make the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? The case for and against the jam-pop troubadours
- Column: Late Barrington WWII veteran’s combat notes and tales presented in his daughter’s compilation tome
- Kane County sheriff honors officers for heroism
- Suspect in attack on family at Six Flags Great America in 2017 charged with armed robbery in Waukegan
- Girls basketball notes: Autumn Jones ‘not afraid of anything,’ always ready to take charge for Tinley Park
- Nuevo bar de la familia Moreno busca ‘mostrar el potencial’ de La Villita
- Tesla’s Model 3 gets best electric car title from Edmunds
- Cadillac has big changes ahead for its lineup and manufacturing
- Chevrolet unveils newly designed Suburban, Tahoe, sold in more trim levels
- Under the Hood: The magic of rain-sensing wipers, explained
- Aurora considers total $96 million tax levy
- Chicago firm says it is close to deal to buy shuttered MetroSouth hospital in Blue Island
- Harwood Heights names street after former village clerk
- Column: President Trump fights anti-Semitism one day, fuels it the next
- Resisten el cambio: Algunos negocios familiares en Pilsen prosperan a pesar de los cambios económicos y demográficos
- 50 Cent accuses Oprah Winfrey of only ‘going after black men’ in #MeToo cases
- ‘Land of Forgotten Toys’ at the Greenhouse: There’s a gift wrapped up in this musical somewhere
- The 5 places that stole my heart in 2019
- Aurora restaurant to serve up Christmas dinner for those in need
- Aurora man charged with aggravated battery
- Column: From Airbnb to TikTok, the things that have risen onto our radar screen in the 2010s
- 5 Cubs takeaways from the winter meetings, including the inevitability Kris Bryant will be traded and unnecessary worry about Anthony Rizzo’s future
- Lincolnshire trustees vote down recreational marijuana dispensaries in the village, advocacy groups offer up praise for the decision
- Announcing the 2019 Daily Southtown Football All-Area Team
- Child welfare professionals recommended for dismissal over AJ Freund case are now out at DCFS, state says
- Indian Head Park approves the sale of marijuana for recreational use
- Head shops come out of the shadows as weed becomes legal
- ‘Mad Men’ actress Christina Hendricks files for divorce from actor Geoffrey Arend
- This Week in Naperville
- 21 Christmas dinners, cookie decorating events, beer tastings and a candy store pop-up to check out
- Introducing the 2019 News-Sun Girls Volleyball All-Area Team
- Libertyville’s Peyton O’Brien is the 2019 News-Sun Girls Volleyball Player of the Year
- ‘Chateau-esque Revival’-style Evanston mansion sells for $1.85 million
- Commentary: Holiday shopping? Bah! I haven’t bought a thing.
- Roselle couple pleads guilty in financial scheme against College of DuPage that authorities say netted $200,000
- Center Twp. Trustee exploring providing renters insurance
- Here’s 5 suggestions for a New Year’s Eve out in the Region
- Decent: Plenty of reason to give thanks when first crack at roasting a turkey doesn’t kill anyone
- McDaniel-Hale: As pot legalization looms, Elgin must protect citizens
- Flexible classroom seating allows for students to be more focused, less nervous: teacher
- ‘He has that swagger’: Mount Carmel’s Jordan Lynch is the 2019 Daily Southtown Football Coach of the Year
- We are an LGBTQ family. Please don’t ask us awkward personal questions at holiday parties.
- Oak Brook geography bee cheating allegations at center of upcoming federal trial
- Corrections and clarifications
- RDA anticipates spending to increase for Double Track, West Lake Corridor projects in 2020
- Chicago writer Alex Kotlowitz pays $817,500 for Andersonville greystone
- Radio DJ Tone Kapone offers career advice to students at Rich Central, his high school alma mater
- Her boss has made her work all major holidays for the past 12 years
- 10 ways to rock your New Year’s Eve party
- Bears are optimistic Akiem Hicks will play against the Packers after completing 3 practices this week
- Hutton: Final thoughts on the 2019 football season
- Lake Zurich homeowners can expect to pay less in village property taxes next year, officials say
- 174-year-old Feast of the Haggis celebrates Scottish culture, raises funds for senior care
- Commentary: Rabbi Capers Funnye, other Black Hebrew Israelites wrongly connected to Jersey City shooters
- ‘I had to put everything I had into it’: Lincoln-Way East’s AJ Henning is the 2019 Daily Southtown Football Player of the Year
- Four years after hijab controversy, former Wheaton College professor Larycia Hawkins is rebuilding her life — and refusing to back down
- In CPS, ‘tiers’ are supposed to even the playing field for school admissions. But hundreds of students were placed in the wrong tier.
- McGrath: Eradicating the hate is the hardest part when a fight ends and you need to move forward
- Buscar juntos una salida
- 141-year-old fruitcake is a Michigan family’s heirloom: ‘It’s a legacy’
- Christmas songs will be part of John Denver Tribute band performance
- Five years of Chicago Tribune cookie contest recipes – all in one place
- Employers have to weigh liability, funding, recruitment concerns when deciding how to enforce pot policies, experts say
- Delays in relocating gas lines put Huntley Road work months behind schedule, Carpentersville officials say
- Secretos de la cocina
- First lady appears to condone Trump’s criticism of 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg after Time magazine honor
- Commentary: Kentucky’s dangerous abortion law undermines the idea of ‘informed consent’
- Brazilians arriving in waves at the U.S.-Mexico border and applying for asylum
- Vermont police chief admits anonymously trolling government critic on Twitter
- The Spin: House expected to vote next week on impeachment articles | Will Chicago pot sales be delayed? | It’s a Bears-Packers weekend — and it counts
- Corrections and clarifications
- Red Skelton a funny theme for Sunday book event
- Family of man who died while being detained by Jewel Osco security in Lakeview East files wrongful death lawsuit
- Moran: Big changes taking shape for 2022 at Hunt Club Road and Washington Street
- Naperville Park Board bestows honors to cop who saved man’s life, winning softball team and longtime board member
- Impeachment charges head toward a historic vote by the full U.S. House; President Trump cries anew: ‘Hoax’
- Reliever Brandon Morrow agrees to a minor-league contract with the Cubs
- Indiana environmental agency ‘kneecapped’ by staff cuts, report says
- Letters: Judaism is a religion, not a nationality
- Editorial: When taxpayers trust Springfield … Part 6: A motto for the Fair Tax: ‘Would we ever break a promise to you?’
- Parents, students rally to protest axed dual language program at Parkview Elementary
- Beyond the best-sellers: Lesser-known literary delights make perfect holiday gifts
- Join Fox Valley Orchestra and Chorus for sing-along ‘Messiah’
- Editorial: Dorothy Brown and the case of the lying deputy: Voters, you can change this
- Park board OKs $57.2 million budget and tax levy for 2020 with opposition from two members
- Joseph Chiodo, ex-Secret Service officer who once drove popemobile, dies at 74
- CPS adopts new policy on timeouts and physical restraints following Tribune, ProPublica Illinois investigation
- Full-time cashier at Naperville Walgreens celebrates his 90th birthday: ‘When you go to work, you have a purpose’
- Former state Rep. Julie Olthoff seeks another run for state District 19 House seat
- Shout Out: Andrew Kurland, a fitness fanatic who also loves NASCAR and country music
- Column: Have we forgotten what it means to truly listen?
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- Cubs hope to draft smarter with new scouting director Dan Kantrovitz blending data analysis with traditional opinions
- Column: Advertiser pulls ads from Hallmark Channel after network drops same-sex wedding commercial
- Annual Shop with a Cop event gives Naperville police a chance to play Santa for 50 parents and kids
- Thaddeus Young says his limited role with the Bulls ‘is not the best-case scenario,’ but the veteran forward is ‘rolling with it’
- Gail Borden library to put ‘no tax rate increase’ referendum on March election ballot
- Wisconsin vs. Foxconn: Gov. Tony Evers says scaled-down factory won’t qualify for tax credits amid deepening schism
- Supreme Court to hear subpoena fights over Trump financial records
- How the U.S.-China ‘Phase 1’ trade deal achieved a little but left out a lot
- Money collected for Calumet City PTA fundraiser goes missing, superintendent says
- Stolp Island in Aurora could see another restaurant
- Column: Democrats’ impeachment of Donald Trump is way too thin, like butter scraped over too much bread
- Son ‘should have been safe’ insist parents of 20-year-old killed in Aurora
- All 7 Democrats who qualified for next week’s debate threaten to boycott event over labor dispute
- College notes: Park Ridge’s Aidan Megally named best Missouri Valley soccer player
- Wisconsin judge orders 234,000 voter registrations to be tossed. Trump won the key swing state by 23,000 votes in 2016.
- Man who witnessed carjacking gets car stolen in Woodridge
- Crosby: Wayside Cross holiday evictions come as a surprise, sort of
- Mitch McConnell’s vow of ‘total coordination’ with White House on Senate impeachment trial angers Democrats
- Will Moore brings team mindset to Libertyville boys basketball
- Aurora set to approve tax increment financing district on far East Side
- 1 teen dead, 2 injured after stolen vehicle crashes into house on Far South Side
- FBI investigating Near North bank robbery
- Carmel freshman Jordan Wood still has room to grow: ‘She’s going to be amazing.’
- Q&A: Libertyville wrestling coach Dale Eggert, who recently wrote a book on Wildcats history
- ‘He’s been overlooked’: Josiah Palmer a shooting star as H-F gets jump on Lincoln-Way Central
- ‘The one who got us going again’: Merrillville turns to Armani Cole, who scores eight of her 10 points in the fourth quarter in a win over LaPorte
- Hornets 83, Bulls 73
- Stevenson’s RJ Holmes takes an academic approach to basketball
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019
- ‘I just try to bring a spark’: Mason Jones makes presence felt as Valparaiso overpowers Lowell
- ‘Defense is where it starts’: Behind Luka Balac, Munster scores the first 13 points and rolls past East Chicago Central
- Daily Southtown Local Scoreboard for Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019
- Buffalo Grove senior Macy Floro eager to provide ‘spark of energy’ on defense
- ‘The guy to galvanize the troops’: Devin Tolbert sparks Oak Forest in a win against Richards
- ‘We have so much talent on this team’: Kenton Wright, Julius Rollins combine forces as Hillcrest tops Eisenhower
- For Rolling Meadows phenom Max Christie, life in the spotlight is the new normal
- West Suburban Local Scoreboard for Sunday, Dec. 15, 2019