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- The Bears’ Week 17 matchup against the Vikings is meaningless — but could have big implications on personnel decisions. The Bear Download podcast breaks it down.
- Ask Amy: New mom has had it with unsolicited advice
- Daily horoscope for December 27, 2019
- Decade in review: 10 ways retail shopping changed over 10 years | Doreen’s Deals
- The Disney employees behind Mickey Mouse, Minnie and Donald Duck were violated by tourists
- Free time for parents: Chicago author Rachel Bertsche maps a plan to grab your life back, in just 20 minutes
- New construction Near North home: $2M
- Guards at his side, jailed teen was able to attend college on campus. ‘I didn’t count the days. I made the days count.’
- Editorial: The 2010s are nearly over. What will the decade stand for?
- Flashback: Edith Rockefeller McCormick reigned as a queen of Chicago’s elite — and as a quirky visionary
- US Customs extends grace period for 350,000 backlogged Global Entry applications
- No one wants the dreaded callback after a mammogram. Under a new Illinois law, at least there’s a good chance you won’t have to pay.
- Daywatch: Unusual warm streak continues, a look at legal weed’s ripple effects and how a jailed teen made the most of attending college on campus
- Column:
- He’s trying to get victims of California’s worst wildfire paid. But first, he has to find them.
- Aurora’s Greg Zanis, known for making crosses for mass shooting victims across the country, is retiring
- Review: The Plastics hit the road with life lessons in Tina Fey’s ‘Mean Girls’
- Bears Sunday storylines: A final Mitch Trubisky progress report, a farewell to Bears100 and Allen Robinson’s Good Guy honor
- Naperville has banned recreational marijuana sales, but an Aurora dispensary is poised to open right across the street
- Speak Out: Media shouldn’t publicize Trump protests
- Maple Tree Inn, the beloved restaurant destroyed in a 2018 Blue Island fire, is set to open at new Homewood location
- Another high-level exec is leaving beleaguered Boeing
- Best winter gear on sale
- What to buy with the money you got for the holidays
- Onetime Unification Church headquarters in Rogers Park sells as a house for $1.25 million
- John Mulaney’s new Netflix special ‘Sack Lunch’ is his best gift all year
- China’s about to complete its own GPS network, Beidou
- ‘This is the heart of the town’: East Dundee says goodbye to Piece-a-Cake Bakery
- 10 most-searched athletes on Google in 2019
- Godsmack, Disturbed, Rob Zombie and Three Days Grace tributes take stage in Merrionette Park
- Man shifts perspective on career, other goals as he considers past, future
- 38 days until Iowa: It supercharged Obama’s victory, and easily went to Trump in 2016. What’s the deal with the Hawkeye State?
- Un golazo de Funes Mori deja grogui al América en final mexicana (VIDEO)
- Cyr: 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge recalls peace and war at Christmas season
- Quickly
- Fry the Coop in Oak Lawn features Nashville hot chicken and communal social space
- Help Them to Hope
- ‘Piojo’ Herrera se queja del árbitro y apuesta por la remontada en el Azteca
- Suspended Spanish game to end with no fans after Nazi insult
- Lake County News-Sun Local Scoreboard for Saturday, Dec. 28, 2019
- Adiós al ‘Newseum’, el museo del periodismo
- Teenagers ditch alcohol and cigarettes for weed and vaping
- ‘Turco’ Mohamed, DT Rayados: ‘Estamos con la suerte del campeón’ (VIDEO)
- Niedner: Christianity Today editorial lambasting Trump also exposed flawed reaction from Evangelical Christian leaders
- Speak Out: No reason for Trump to release taxes
- Letter: ‘We the People’ need to have voices heard
- Joliet Diocese announces Bishop Daniel Conlon taking medical leave
- Investigan ataque a estudio de filme que presenta a Jesús como gay
- The decade in fashion: Chicago’s Virgil Abloh heads to Louis Vuitton, Gaga wears a meat dress and Instagram influencers change the face of fashion
- Column: At a local memory care community, a different kind of date night builds connections
- Lurie Children’s Hospital notifies some patients about unauthorized access to medical records
- Resurge la cocaína y se vuelve más mortal en EEUU
- Amazon bans CBD sales, but buying such products on the platform is still easy
- Oswego tax program to focus on small business
- Ducks y Badgers, con distintas actitudes para el Rose Bowl
- Chicago Fire hire Raphael Wicky as the team’s new coach: ‘He has a fresh, modern approach to football’
- La crisis cambia el brindis en Venezuela
- Weed businesses flourish. Minimum wage rises to $15. Boeing grapples with 737 Max crisis. Chicago’s top 10 business stories of 2019.
- Editorial: The 2010s: America’s decade of jobs, opportunity and prosperity
- Introducing the 2019 News-Sun Football All-Area Team
- Aurora restaurant serves up spirit of the season during dinner for those in need
- Man killed in Volo crash identified; emergency worker struck in second crash at scene recovering
- Jerry Herman, composer of ‘Mame,’ ‘Hello Dolly!’ and ‘La Cage Aux Folles’ dead at 88
- Tsunamis tourism: By marketing disaster, a struggling California town hopes to recover economically
- Un técnico de Champions para el Chicago Fire
- Illinois Attorney General orders release of police bodycam recordings from in-custody death; Waukegan appeals
- Camping World President Brent Moody pays $2 million for Lake Forest house
- To overcome travel ban, some Americans taking cases to court
- Norridge and Harwood Heights’ preview of 2020: More restaurants, Harlem Irving Plaza revamp
- Warren’s Christian Phillips is the 2019 News-Sun Football Player of the Year
- Harvey police seek to question person in fatal home invasion
- Don’t look for problems before they arise
- Should you avoid meat for good health? How to slice off the facts from the fiction
- Patience needed when house training puppy
- After canine deaths, US stops sending dogs for overseas assignments
- Released inmates help shelter animals get second chances
- ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit will call Saturday’s College Football Playoff game featuring alma mater Ohio State — and twin sons at Clemson
- Murió la hermana de George Michael, justo tres años después que él
- Concussion in 2017 turns Cedar Lake man into mental health advocate, shapes rest of decade
- Tsunamis tourism: By marketing disaster, a struggling California town hopes to recover economically
- To overcome travel ban, some Americans taking cases to court
- Lake Zurich’s 2019 in review: Marijuana, vaping issues stir debate while District 95 welcomes new leader
- Clarendon Hills mom organizes retirement celebration for park district’s Kelly Smith
- America’s marijuana growers are the best in the world, but federal laws are keeping them out of global markets
- Tokio 2020, otra cita marcada por el dopaje ruso
- Glenview residents, officials thank Gov. Pritzker in private meeting for support in fight against Amtrak
- Park Ridge Park Board adopts tax levy without staff-recommended 1.9% increase
- Why Stephen Curry (not LeBron) is the NBA player of the decade
- Undercutting part of what makes baseball special
- Shout Out: Judy Andringa, tax preparation volunteer
- El PSG no es lo que era, pero le sobra en Francia
- Speak Out
- Arrestaron a exintegrante de Menudo (VIDEO)
- Winter’s best statement coats
- Speak Out
- In the U.S., an angioplasty costs $32,000. Elsewhere? Maybe $6,400.
- Moran: 2019 celebrity deaths that might have flown under your radar
- Drug recognition experts will play a big role in detecting drivers who are high come Jan. 1 , police say
- You see someone’s fiance on Tinder. Now what?
- 5 ways to make your home a cozy retreat this winter
- El Deportista del Año 2019 según The Associated Press
- Letters to the Editor
- ‘An experience you dream of’: South Elgin graduate Andrew Kamienski reflects on North Central College’s first national championship
- 10 things to do and see in 2020 in the Region
- Letters to the Editor
- 10 things to do and see in 2020 in the Naperville, Fox Valley area
- Commentary: What will it take to beat Donald Trump?
- El nuevo reto de ‘Ibra’ a sus 38 años
- 10 things to do and see in 2020 in the Lake County area
- Commentary: Big money and America’s lost decade
- ‘Mike always had the right perspective’: Lifelong Naperville resident Mike Prasse leaves a legacy as a loving father and a basketball-loving coach
- Anguished Navy SEALs recall Chief Edward Gallagher as ‘freaking evil’ and ‘toxic’
- Column: From Instagram to Baby Yoda, the 2010s entertained people. But are they using the Force wisely?
- Gunfire reported Thursday night outside Lansing Hooter’s
- Geneva pig who ‘everybody loves’ enjoys hogging the spotlight
- After 8 years as Gary’s mayor, Karen Freeman-Wilson reflects on her accomplishments — and regrets
- YouTuber es arrestado por criticar al presidente de su país
- Hutton: Wrapping up the year in sports through my lens
- New Senior Activity Center opens in Aurora
- Eisenhower science teacher demonstrates how stimulators implanted in her brain alleviate uncontrollable shaking
- Fitzpatrick podría no volver con Dolphins
- Column: An ode to the vanishing 2019, a year unlike any the world’s ever seen
- Whirlwind decade ends for Gary man with promise for changes to come
- Down to Business: Being your own builder can save thousands on new construction or additions, consultant says
- Farm to table? More like ghost kitchen to sofa
- Armstrong: Micah Schnyders finds just what he needs with move to Yorkville Christian
- Swartz School student artwork turned into banners
- The CBC says it cut Trump’s scene from ‘Home Alone 2’ for time. The president has a different theory.
- Excamaradas dicen que Eddie Gallagher es ‘tóxico’
- Alderman Ray Lopez
- 2019 in Lake Forest: Public figures face surprising criminal charges while community grapples with turnover
- 99-year-old woman knits Christmas hats for child victims of domestic violence: ‘I like the idea of giving it away more’
- For Georgia patients, medical marijuana is legal but not for sale
- Michigan man caught trying to bring loaded gun into Cook County Jail, adds on to drug charge
- Así habría robado García Luna el dinero de los mexicanos
- My New Year’s resolution: Learn again to play the saxophone, ’til death do us part
- It’s now only days away: Jan. 1 to usher in the era of legalized recreational weed in Illinois. ‘It changes everything.’
- In Franklin Park, 2020 will bring quiet zone, school renovations
- Murió el compositor de ‘Mame’ y ‘Hello, Dolly!’
- Editorial: Celebrating great work: 50 years of Clarence Page at the Chicago Tribune
- ‘Morning dude’: Senior guard/forward T.J. Burt scores 18 points to lead Hanover Central past Morton in an early game at the Highland Holiday Hoopfest
- Even if pot is legal, don’t bring it to school, Barrington school board says
- Mickey, Minnie y Donald denuncian manoseo
- Changes keep coming to downtown Aurora
- How to work retail in the middle of the retail apocalypse
- Column: Remember the good things that happened in America in the past decade
- New state law requires companies to train employees on how to recognize, prevent sexual harassment
- The Big Ten hasn’t scored a point in the College Football Playoff the last 4 seasons. Here are 4 reasons this year will be different.
- Traficaban cocaína en el estómago, tres están muertas
- The royal treatment: 25 enchanting castles around the world
- Suspect surrenders after Racine County car crash and home invasion killing
- Cortan escena de ‘Home Alone 2’ donde sale Trump y así lo justifican (VIDEO)
- Potempa: Reader’s newspaper clipping cake recipe has 50-year history
- Illinois quarterback Brandon Peters is cleared to play in Monday’s Redbox Bowl against California
- Pop culture in 2010s marked gains in diversity, inclusion
- Remontada con sabor mexicano de los Wolves ante el City (VIDEO)
- Letters: Students need to develop email skills
- Decent: Looking back at New Year’s Eves past — fashion changes, lifestyles change, but family and friends remain center stage
- Battle for casino license, decisions on marijuana sales among year’s top stories in south suburbs
- Innovative fashion designers lead the way on sustainability
- Glenview seeks about 1% more from property taxpayers under levy for village, library
- You may have to give more personal data to get personal loan
- Online sales make up a larger portion of overall sales again
- Spending: Making the most of cash-back rewards cards
- Top Stories Of 2019: Waukegan on track to get long-sought casino
- 2019 in review: Deerfield doubles down on its assault weapons ban and welcomes marijuana sales
- Kane Forest Preserve District looking for volunteers
- This Week in Naperville
- Directoras ganarán protagonismo en Hollywood en 2020
- ¿De qué vale realmente el gol del América ante Rayados en la ida de la final mexicana?
- Two charged in East Chicago robbery, shooting
- Community leader DeMeyer dead at 80
- Blackhawks prepare for life without 15-year veteran Brent Seabrook: ‘You miss his presence for sure’
- Racial controversy rends Romance Writers of America
- Family dog falling through ice creates chain reaction of rescues for family in Deer Park
- Naperville News Digest
- Best of 2019: Naperville man says experiencing Woodstock in 1969 with best friend proved a ‘perfect segue to the rest of our lives’
- Reggie Corbin and Illinois’ other 5th-year seniors played for 3 head coaches and faced immeasurable adversity to get to the Redbox Bowl. ‘I’m glad I went through it,’ he says.
- Girls basketball notes: Passing for points adds up for Hillcrest senior guard Trinity Duckworth
- Prominent attorney Karen Daniel, who led Northwestern’s wrongful convictions unit, is struck and killed by vehicle in Oak Park
- At least 12 killed, 54 injured after plane crashes into fence, building in Kazakhstan
- SD220 summer school program to add LEGO course, maintain flat hourly rates
- Don Imus, radio host whose career was made and undone by his acid tongue, dies at 79
- Naperville Central’s defense holds Huntley in check in the quarterfinals of the Chuck Dayton Holiday Classic
- Kindergarten enrichment program fees to increase in next school year
- Senior guard Finn Walsh shows he’s willing and able to take the ball to the basket in St. Laurence’s loss to Lyons in the Jack Tosh Holiday Classic
- Joe Biden says he’d defy subpoena to testify at Trump’s impeachment trial in Senate
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Saturday, Dec. 28, 2019
- 17-year-old injured in Grand Crossing shooting near Popeyes
- NFL 100 All-Time Team includes 8 Bears players and coach George Halas — but franchise legends Bronko Nagurski, Sid Luckman and Bill George are left off the list
- Daily Southtown Local Scoreboard for Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019
- Arlington Heights in 2019: ‘No’ to recreational cannabis dispensaries, welcome new chief, $150M downtown development
- West Suburban Local Scoreboard for Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019
- Andy Brown knows his role with Lake Forest boys basketball
- Oak Park has recovered more than half of $613K lost in IMET fraud scheme, village officials say
- Blackhawks 5, Islanders 2