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- Braves 8, Cubs 0
- Muffet McGraw adds to her coaching legend by taking Notre Dame to the Final Four for the 9th time
- Jets 4, Blackhawks 3 (OT)
- Chicago election results: Here’s a breakdown of how the city and suburbs voted
- The final stretch of the mayoral election
- Food halls in Chicago: Where to find them and what to eat
- Chicago votes in historic election
- Ask Amy: Dreams are dashed by academic abuse
- Election Day is here, Chicago. Catch up on what you need to know before voting in today’s runoff.
- Women’s NCAA Tournament at Wintrust Arena
- Knicks 113, Bulls 105
- 3 takeaways from the Blackhawks’ 4-3 OT loss to the Jets, including every way they can still make the playoffs
- The next cruising hot spot is closer than you think: Get ready for more ships on the Great Lakes
- State trooper’s 12-year-old daughter starts Facebook page to keep her dad and others safe
- 3 takeaways from Notre Dame’s 84-68 win in the Elite 8, including a Final Four rematch is set with UConn
- First Look: Entente ‘1.2’ brings its Michelin-rated act to River North
- Legoland Florida: Rides rumble into new Lego Movie World
- Joe Maddon doesn’t think the Cubs are trying too hard — even after that comedy of errors in Atlanta
- Walgreens misses earnings expectations, chops forecast for year
- New trouble for Boeing: Singapore Airlines grounds two 787-10 jets over engine issues
- U.S. officials worry paralyzing illness, acute flaccid myelitis or AFM, may grow more common
- President Trump considering naming an ‘immigration czar’
- New Zealand lawmakers pass initial vote for new gun restrictions
- Teams don’t dodge chance to help fight childhood cancer in Crown Point
- 3 takeaways from the Bulls’ 113-105 loss to the Knicks, including JaKarr Sampson’s strong debut and more poor 3-point statistics
- Talk of the County: ‘Batty Democrats’ should lay off Trump
- ‘Unplanned’ review: Case against abortion is absolutist and extreme
- Día de elecciones: se elegirá a la alcalde de Chicago, tesorero y 15 concejales
- Talk of the County: ‘We can all hope’ Trump goes to jail
- Teachers, parents hope for continued funding for School District 34 Science Olympiad
- Prickly City-mature
- Talk of the County: Smollett case shows if ‘you have money, you can get off of anything’
- ‘Shazam!’ review: Lightning strikes, Zachary Levi and a pretty good time ensue
- Long snapper Patrick Scales is back on a 1-year deal, just in time for the Bears’ kicking competition
- Contemporary mansion on Lake Michigan
- Contemporary mansion on Lake Michigan once owned by author Scott Turow sells for $5.15 million
- La fuerte presencia de Ocasio-Cortez en la puja presidencial 2020
- Fulton Galley, opening in Fulton Market, announces its 5 restaurants and the participating chefs
- Batavia event works to pair up teens with jobs
- Healthy Night Out puts the focus on women’s heart health
- Nipsey Hussle’s lyrics were designed to be recited the world over
- Disney World: Villains invade this summer’s After Dark events
- Barbara Bush had a countdown clock for the end of Trump’s term, saw him as as a ‘symbol of greed’
- Arrestan a sujeto y evitan tragedia de ‘dimensión nacional’
- Does Biden’s ‘GroperGate’ matter? Let the voters decide.
- Clarendon Hills residents to see slight increase for recycling, yard waste pick up
- ‘Inside Edition’ host Deborah Norville will have cancerous nodule removed
- 7 razones por las que el cierre de frontera causa temor: ‘Sería un caos’
- Whole Foods apuesta otra vez a reducir precios
- Pope says women have ‘legitimate claims’ for equality in Catholic Church. Does that mean leadership?
- Quickly
- Man dead after Far North Side apartment building fire
- Burr Ridge teen whose abnormal brain condition has required 13 surgeries hopes to pursue a career in medicine
- My Worst Moment: ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ star Camilla Luddington loses a part in a hit movie and ends up serving wings to the director
- Dylan Sikura’s 1st NHL goal will have to wait until next season as he is sent to Rockford
- Yes to perform at RiverEdge Park in Aurora
- Metra riders soon will be unable to purchase on-site tickets at Franklin Park station
- ‘Walking Dead’ Season 9 finale is lowest-rated in series history
- During Lent, some eatieries focused on fish
- El #MeTooMúsicosMexicanos, el caso de Armando Vega-Gil y la violencia de género en México
- Beerhead Bar & Eatery’s 1st Chicago location opens across from Wrigley Field on Friday
- Pros know: How to freshen up your home for spring
- 12 ways to freshen up your home for spring — that have nothing to do with cleaning
- Don’t let spring tempt you to start spring planting too soon
- After 2018 fire, Oak Park’s Good Shepherd Church looking toward future
- How to create an outdoor living space you can enjoy all year long
- How daylighting can brighten up your home
- Tax reform to present huge changes in 2019, introducing special considerations
- Why I’m grateful my kids could watch me vote for a black woman to be Chicago’s mayor
- On Equal Pay Day, Sophie Turner is OK with Kit Harington’s bigger ‘Game of Thrones’ salary
- Una decisión financiera que muchos lamentan
- Appeals ruling could have impact on lawsuit against ex-Munster school administrators
- Moran: Bridge work in Waukegan and Fox Lake becomes a recurring theme
- Elmwood Park purchases vacant Harlem Avenue commercial property, aims to find new use for it
- Erie Family Health Centers doubles size of Evanston/Skokie clinic
- Is the unibrow catching on? The lowdown on brow trends
- OPRF approves new inclusion facilitator position, cost offsets for 2019-20
- DeKalb man charged after Aurora police find loaded weapon
- Davich: ‘Long Island Medium’ Theresa Caputo invites cynical columnist to her next show
- FICO facts: Four key things to know about your credit score
- 2 years after the Jimmy Butler trade, the Bulls still don’t have a firm grasp on what the core of the rebuild can do together
- Inaugural ‘Pride in the Park’ boasts performances from Iggy Azalea, Steve Aoki and more in the name of LGBTQI+ equality
- FGM approved as design architect for Project 1 of OPRF renovation
- Scam ads promoting fake tax breaks prosper on Facebook
- Lake County News-Sun Local Scoreboard for Wednesday, April 3, 2019
- A Fyre Fest pop-up bar will throw its own ‘greatest party’ at Replay Lincoln Park in May
- IDOT and Northbrook to replace culvert, shut down portion of Dundee Road in mid-April
- Media attorneys seek to unseal Jussie Smollett’s court file days after prosecutors dropped all charges
- Highland considers pay raise to attract summer help
- West Suburban Local Scoreboard for Wednesday, April 3, 2019
- What’s happening in Park Ridge: Residents encouraged to eat local during ‘Restaurant Week’
- River Forest schools leader appeals projected state funding boost as it seeks local tax hike
- McGrath: Mueller report could have sent Trump directly to prison, and his fans would still defend him
- Florida travel calendar for July
- Downtown Oak Park’s Prairie Bread Kitchen to close Easter weekend
- A dead whale off the coast of Italy had eaten 48 pounds of plastic — two thirds of its stomach
- Google teams up with Walmart on voice shopping. Hear that, Alexa?
- Libertyville Village Board extends two utility taxes
- East Dundee Thorntons station acquires more land to become truck stop, plans to seek video gaming license
- Going to the White Sox home opener? Don’t print your tickets at home
- You could get lost in these portraits of goats and sheep, from the Chicago photographer who once shot Styx
- ‘Still part of the mission’: OPRF Museum hosts panel discussion on fair housing ordinance
- Fifth Third Bank to cut almost 500 Chicago-area jobs after MB Financial acquisition
- The Cubs cologne spoof is a joke — but could have been so much better
- Man gets probation in Merrillville shooting where 3-year-old found gun, wounded mother
- Glencoe marks 150 years since incorporation
- More states are betting on sports gambling. But for most, it’s a losing wager.
- Top dogs: Michael Talesky, Hunter Rumachik spark Huntley to shutout win over Dundee-Crown
- Craft beer growth slows despite record number of breweries — but stays ahead of broader beer market
- Cheers to Illinois for making a common-sense decision to sell beer at games
- Tyler Flowers’ pitch framing helped Chris Sale on the White Sox. Can Willson Contreras do the same for Cubs starters?
- Trump tweets he’s ‘the best thing that ever to happened to Puerto Rico,’ drawing ire of Puerto Ricans in Chicago
- David Blaine denies sexual assault allegations: publicist
- Holmes stays home: Junior guard Kendall Holmes opens eyes for Benet before committing to DePaul
- Hinsdale District 86 increases tuition, advances registration for summer school
- Easter Bunny visits, egg hunts, egg dying and more planned for the Elgin area in the next few weeks
- ‘I’ve been eating cans of corns’: White Sox broadcaster Jason Benetti talks Hawk Harrelson, Harry Potter and the haters
- Lena Waithe, Halle Berry show ‘Boomerang’ renewed for Season 2 at BET
- ‘Botellita de Jerez se acaba hoy’, anuncian tras muerte de Armando Vega-Gil
- After opening the door to banquet halls, Lincolnwood welcomes Amron Hall
- Latino Film Festival Elgin brings Latin American cinema to the suburbs
- Latest ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 promo shows Winterfell in ruins
- Comings & Goings: Cuban cafe opens in Burbank
- The early winner in the Chicago mayor’s race
- Lake precinct consolidation creates issue for East Chicago polling location
- Speak Out: Mueller report, drivers
- Plea deal possible for teen charged in death of 11-year-old boy shot at East Chicago park
- We still haven’t seen President Trump’s tax returns. Here is why we should.
- Church news: Living Last Supper event to be staged in Homewood, more
- Police searching for 74-year old missing Portage man
- A huge ghost town next door clouds an Iowa city’s future
- Coming together: Church community holds prayer vigil for Park Ridge teen battling terminal cancer
- Trump backs off on new Republican health plan after GOP pushes back
- Organizers, participants call first year of BEDS Plus facility in La Grange a success
- ‘That next chapter of my life’: Benet grad Christen Prasse leads Nova Southeastern to Elite Eight of NCAA tourney
- Central Athlete of the Year challenge
- Skokie honors local exotic animal hospital for work with lost or injured animals
- Two former Illinois residents among 4 dead at North Dakota business
- ‘Vivir y morir en el sendero migrante’
- Police say 2 young women appeared to be targeted in fatal shooting on South Side
- Why the cool kids got behind Lightfoot
- Large crowds of Evanston residents turn out to appeal property tax assessments
- The Spin: Election Day scramble | Low voter turnout | Moseley Braun, Durbin stand by Biden
- Judge rules defendant’s texts can be used as evidence in Libertyville murder trial
- Walgreens already angered store managers by slashing bonuses. Now it’s cutting even more costs.
- The Doings Athlete of the Year challenge
- Purchase complete, developer moves forward with plans at purple hotel location in Lincolnwood
- It’s been a wild ride for National Pay Inequality Awareness Day
- Northbrook cops have ‘coffee’ with residents at informational session
- ‘The experience was like a dream’: Fenwick honors state champion girls hockey team
- Joe Biden’s touchy-feeliness
- Shout Out: Chris Kappes, a Libertyville resident who launched Exhibitshub for trade shows
- Park Ridge aldermen reject creation of specialty liquor license for proposed ‘cocktail and confection restaurant’
- Parker: Kiss me, kiss me not
- Sons of man charged in Valparaiso teen’s murder accused of inimidating informant
- Easter-themed events planned in Niles, Park Ridge
- Job One for the new mayor? Stop the violence.
- ‘We can’t give so many free baserunners’: Kyle Hendricks is annoyed Cubs pitchers have walked 27 batters in 4 games
- Men plead guilty in federal court after rash of copper wire thefts
- Truman grandson stars in ‘Give ‘Em Hell, Harry!’
- Fulham fall to Watford, secure relegation after one season
- These Southland pets need new homes
- Democratic socialists give an AOC vibe to aldermanic runoffs
- Las letras de Nipsey Hussle fueron diseñadas para ser recitadas por todo el mundo
- Pancreatic cancer on track to be 2nd-leading cancer killer by 2020
- 5 smart money tips that take a matter of minutes
- Corrections and clarifications
- As of 3:50 p.m. voter turnout is weak — get out and vote!
- Indiana Senate OKs hate crimes bill; Holcomb says he’ll sign it
- Lake Shore Athlete of the Year challenge
- ‘Monsters are real,’ DuPage County judge says in sentencing man to life in prison for murder of his girlfriend
- Richton Park man found guilty in carjacking, kidnapping of 69-year-old woman in Frankfort Square
- Hey, Madame Mayor, don’t fall off that financial cliff!
- ‘None of that fazed me’: Mount Carmel grad Alek Thomas already making noise with Kane County Cougars
- You <i>can</i> vote twice this week. Consider our candidates for Tweet of the Week
- Kane, DuPage, Will County election officials lament low voter turnout
- Election fatigue? Yes, it’s a real thing
- New faces coming to East Aurora school board
- U46 may expand partnership with ECC so more students can earn high school and college credit at same time
- After finishing a puzzle and watching ‘The Price is Right,’ Fred Hoiberg is coaching again. Here are 5 things he said about Nebraska and the Bulls.
- ‘Steady, relatively slow’ Election Day voter turn out in Glenview, Northbrook
- Frankfort Township man charged with kidnapping after breaking into neighbor’s house, taking 4-year-old: police
- Fire engulfs Hermosa factory
- Near West Athlete of the Year challenge
- In his 4th trial, man convicted in 1990 slaying of 9-year-old Illinois girl in Iowa
- Alliance of American Football ends its 1st season after 8 weeks; most employees will be out of jobs Wednesday
- North Shore Athlete of the Year challenge
- Why many shy away from hearing aids and over-the-counter devices
- Chicago election results: See how your ward voted in the mayor’s race
- Voter turnout on Election Day called ‘disappointing’
- Castles you can stay in close to home
- Pittsburgh approves gun restrictions 5 months after synagogue massacre
- Dog rescued from pipe at Glencoe golf course
- Hinsdale Central and South students walk out to urge voter support of $140 million referendum
- South Dakota man faces felony charges after he was found armed and hiding in basement of Franklin Park church: police
- Mayor asks Wayside Cross to reconsider its decision to let ‘Ripper’ member live in Aurora
- Chicago Heights woman killed in 2-vehicle crash
- Chicago’s next mayor won’t be a miracle worker. But she will set the moral tone that could raise our city.
- Wauconda’s Matt Mooney took a winding path to Texas Tech and the Final Four
- CLC’s Grayslake campus to host wake and funeral for state trooper killed in Tri-State crash
- Friends and family attend a vigil for Senobia Brantley
- Escape artist: Northwestern recruit Angela Zedak scatters seven hits as Marist stops Lincoln-Way Central
- Northwest Athlete of the Year challenge
- How Lori Lightfoot broke the rules and beat the establishment
- Carpentersville to debut new Easter Egg Hunt at Carpenter Park
- Lori Lightfoot fue electa alcalde de Chicago
- Two teenagers electrocuted while trying to rescue dog from canal in California
- Mayor Lori Lightfoot
- Little support for plan to turn St. Cyprian School into new River Grove library
- Post-Tribune Athlete of the Year challenge
- Column: Let’s celebrate the historic moment we elected a female African-American Chicago mayor. And then let’s get to work.
- Hall call: Former Valparaiso coach Homer Drew named to college basketball’s hall of fame
- Lori Lightfoot makes Chicago history — a fed as mayor
- Voter turnout for Chicago likely to rival historic low, election official says
- South Athlete of the Year challenge
- Melidosian to keep 5th Ward aldermanic seat on Park Ridge City Council
- Daily Southtown Local Scoreboard for Wednesday, April 3, 2019
- West Athlete of the Year challenge
- Reports reveal owner of gun linked to two Chicago cops’ deaths had lost another weapon in 2015
- Contiendas de concejales: Reboyras y López se reeligen, Sigcho-López y Vásquez se imponen; Santiago es derrotada
- Lake Zurich voters favoring trustee candidates from differing slates
- Nancy Pelosi offers advice for Joe Biden, while Donald Trump offers sarcasm: ‘You having a good time, Joe?’
- 5 defining moments leading up to Lori Lightfoot’s victory over Toni Preckwinkle
- Gene machine: Kolarik’s first career grand slam carries Crown Point past Chesterton
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Wednesday, April 3, 2019
- Here’s how Lori Lightfoot can wield her mandate
- South Elgin sales tax hike appears headed to loss by a six-vote margin
- Runoff election reaction from Tribune Editorial Board, columnists
- Buffalo Grove incumbent Sussman faced tight reelection race, challenger Terson concedes
- Newcomer, 3 incumbents selected for West Aurora school board
- State Rep. Melissa Conyears-Ervin defeats Ald. Ameya Pawar in race for city treasurer
- Russell Westbrook grabs NBA’s second 20-20-20 triple-double, joining Wilt Chamberlain in 1968
- Strong showing for Alliance for Lincolnwood Party candidates
- How strong will the Progressive Caucus be now? Chicago’s City Council is changing.
- Standing up for defense: Ailyn Gallardo leads way as high-scoring Eisenhower shuts down Argo
- 3 candidates pulling ahead in ETHS District 202 board race
- Unofficial results show 2 incumbents, 2 newcomers elected to Naperville council
- Wilmette voters cast ballots in hotly-contested trustee race
- Incumbents out front in battle for 3 seats in Indian Prairie District 204
- 4 candidates lead in Niles Township Dist. 219 board race
- 5-alarm fire at Hermosa factory extinguished after burning for hours
- 13 candidates facing off for 3 seats on Oakton Community College board
- Most incumbents leading in Waukegan City Council, District 60 school board races
- After two years, women elected to District 64 School Board
- Gurnee Village Board incumbents lead among 8 candidates; McKinney ahead in Zion mayor’s race
- Incumbents reelected to 3 seats on Naperville District 203 School Board, unofficial results show
- Slowik: Voters deciding many school, municipal races in south suburbs
- Blackhawks are eliminated from playoff contention for a 2nd straight season with 3 games to go
- Burr Ridge voters choose Grasso over Mottl by 2 to 1 margin
- Naperville Township voters say abolish road district, let township take over duties
- Voters appear to reject tax hike in School District 308
- Lalmalani wins third term as Oak Brook village president
- Emanuel’s floor leader Ald. Patrick O’Connor out as progressives make City Hall gains
- Unofficial election results indicate Hazel Crest wants to keep term limits short, Lemont favors new sales tax
- Kerr, Devereux, Porter, Thommes lead in U46 school board race results
- Lori Lightfoot elected Chicago mayor, making her the first African-American woman to lead the city
- Clark leading in Harvey mayoral election; races tight in Park Forest and University Park
- With nearly all votes counted, Elgin council incumbents en route to new 4-year terms, Lopez wins 2-year term
- 2 new aldermen, 3 incumbents appear to win Aurora City Council seats
- Highland Park voters overwhelmingly support mayor’s re-election bid, decide crowded school board races