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- Highland Park’s Val Oplchenski overcomes injury, returns better than ever
- Bulls 116, Hawks 81
- Daily horoscope for December 29, 2019
- Ask Amy: Bereaved daughter worries about mom
- Letters: Climate crisis shows the need for changing ideas about economy
- Modern home in Bucktown with 5 bedrooms: $2.2M
- Speak Out: Legal marijuana puts profits over life
- In gory, majestic ‘Doppelganger,’ a hard look at the Holocaust’s stubborn silences
- Can the Bears beat the Vikings in Sunday’s season finale? Our Week 17 predictions.
- Trump is attacking scientists and sidelining researchers. The effects could be felt for years.
- Sweeping ICE raids in Mississippi’s chicken country opened up jobs for American workers. For some, it’s complicated: ‘It’s like I stole it.’
- 7 takeaways from Ohio State’s controversial 29-23 playoff loss to Clemson, including a terrific — and terrible — night for J.K. Dobbins
- Considering a plant-based diet? Here’s what you need to know
- How to dress comfortably while still being business casual
- Things to do with the kids in the Chicago area in January 2020
- Taking an Uber? 9 tips to ride safely
- Sheriff’s Office offers residents Lake County jail data, from population and demographics to charges
- Help Them to Hope
- LSU’s offensive coordinator directs playoff win amid a family tragedy: ‘The best thing for him is to be around this football team’
- After seven years, Oz event returning to Porter County in May
- Soul, Irish and Pride fests and a new 4th of July event added to Naperville’s 2020 calendar
- Palos teen on quest to save monarch butterfly plans second conservation expo at Stagg High School
- St. Monica’s Father Manny, 36, loses his battle with cancer — something he described as a ‘gift in ugly wrapping’
- Mundelein officials say Franks for the Memories’ iconic yellow sign needs to change. The restaurant isn’t happy.
- 3 takeaways from the Bulls’ 116-81 rout of the Hawks, including Wendell Carter Jr.’s 3-point shooting and the Tomas Satoransky effect
- Top Stories of 2019: Old Mill Creek burglary, shooting leads to felony murder law controversy involving Chicago teens
- Freshman Kora Kipley doing a balancing act with Buffalo Grove basketball, travel soccer
- Wisconsin woman and her teen daughter among 7 killed in Hawaii tour helicopter crash
- Concussion lawsuit against Pop Warner dismissed
- Sports losses in 2019: Bart Starr, Don Newcombe, Frank Robinson and John Havlicek
- 13 ways to be a better person in 2020
- Eli Manning: Championship quarterback, Hall of Fame prankster
- Week 17: Bears 21, Vikings 19
- The year in real estate
- Down to Business: If you hear boxing gym and think ‘Rocky,’ think again, owner says
- Police looking for suspect who robbed a Fifth Third Bank in Highland
- McGrath: If you’re making a resolution for 2020, might I suggest you follow my list and put time back on the clock?
- Column: How billboards warning motorists of I-80 bridge safety concerns created one of 2019’s biggest local political stories
- Unbreakable bonds: Prospect seniors have been teammates for nearly seven years — and it shows
- Laura Mahlum enjoys playing basketball and saxophone at Barrington
- Amid an emotional holiday season, family of slain McHenry County Deputy Jake Keltner is organizing blood drive in his memory
- This weekend’s Great Train Show at Lake County Fairgrounds offers lots of fun for kids — and ‘kids at heart’
- James F. Russ, Downers Grove bank CEO who also was influential in development and growth of Good Samaritan Hospital, dies at 82
- Understated excellence: Hersey point guard Mary Kate Fahey is effective, not flashy
- Nearly 90 people homeless after early Sunday fire destroys 32 apartments in Griffith
- Davich: Feeling weight of time slipping by leads some to ruminate on repetitiveness of days; ‘I’m so damn bored’
- State police say two abandoned cars found on I-80/90 exit ramp in Hammond, one with bullet holes in windshield
- Shooting in River North lands one in critical condition, police say
- Salon Artists Gallery members share their work about winter at show in Park Forest
- Week 17 recap: Bears beat the Vikings 21-19 to finish their disappointing season 8-8
- Empathetic Unity exhibit in Palos Hills offers the opportunity to ponder circumstances
- Race car driver’s Florida home listed at $2.5 million
- Speak Out
- Elon Musk says his underground transit system in Las Vegas may be ready in 2020
- Illinois’ Redbox Bowl appearance is a significant step for Lovie Smith and the football program. What’s next for both?
- Legal marijuana sales in Illinois and Michigan may spark tension among Midwest states
- Kofi Cockburn’s career-high 26 points help Illinois to a 95-64 win over North Carolina A&T
- Louis Lesmond’s dunks help Notre Dame win Wheeling Hardwood Classic title
- Charlie Sessa, Phil Borhani happy to be back on the court for Hinsdale Central
- Naperville People in the News
- Richard Jewell was wrongly implicated in a mass attack. He wasn’t the only one.
- Packers clinch a 1st-round bye with a 23-20 comeback win over the Lions
- Sara Krissinger switches positions to give York a boost in the post
- ‘Flaws of average’: Your 3-word reviews from the Bears’ 21-19 win over the Vikings
- Timothy Christian banking on senior leadership during special season
- Column: ‘Prove it.’ That should be Matt Nagy’s slogan for the 2020 Bears.
- Column: Bears starters finally experience that preseason vibe. Now stop making excuses for this disappointing season.
- Column: After clawing to 8-8 with a last-minute win in Week 17, the Bears must take a long, difficult look in the mirror
- From Eddy Pineiro to Riley Ridley: 5 Bears performances that mattered in an otherwise meaningless Week 17 win
- 84 days of conflict and confusion: The inside story of Trump’s demand to halt military aid to Ukraine
- The Bears pull out one final win in a disappointing season: 3 keys revisited after a 21-19 win over the Vikings
- U.S. military strikes hit Iraqi militia blamed in attack that killed American contractor
- Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer
- 5 people stabbed at Hanukkah celebration in New York in latest attack on Jews in the region
- Bears Week 17 winners and losers: Spending one more Sunday with Fox’s Dick Stockton
- Hartford stuns Northwestern 67-66 in Evanston
- Niles looks to economic development in 2020
- Column: Why 2019 has been the best year in human history
- Lincolnwood looks to 2020 developments
- No bail for man accused of fatally strangling ex-girlfriend in South Side motel on Christmas morning
- ‘The sky is the limit’ for Fenwick boys basketball and its multi-sport athletes
- Lincolnwood sits out marijuana for now, but maybe not forever
- Niles makes $850,000 purchase of former Skokie Automotive site
- Congregants fatally shot the Texas church gunman who killed 2 people, police say
- Chicago’s stretch of unseasonably warm weather is coming to an end