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- Flight tracker
- North Korea’s Kim Jong Un back to military optics to raise heat
- 5 ways you and your pet can help the planet
- 4 smart home improvements that pay off
- Pilgrim Baptist Church through the years
- Photo gallery: Woodlawn church fire
- Ask Amy: Grieving mother diminishes others’ problems
- Sterling Bay’s other urgent project — the one in Englewood
- 90% of U.S. school boards are picked by voters, but not in Chicago. Here’s why that could change.
- ‘Footloose’ at the Marriott keeps it light — it’s about the kids and their music
- 13 ways to enjoy 4/20 this Saturday in Chicago, dude
- Sears hoping DieHard can power sales of everything from garden tools to camping gear
- California couple who pleaded guilty to horrific acts against their children — including torture — face life in prison
- Lincolnshire residents want splash pad, dog park: Officials on community survey results
- Glenbrook North warns parents about ‘paranoia’ — the Nerf gun game can lead to car accidents and stalking, officials say
- How did an Ohio man fool authorities into thinking he was Timmothy Pitzen? An Aurora detective explains.
- A decade of Daisy: How Half Acre’s iconic Daisy Cutter pale ale changed Chicago beer culture
- Yankees suspend use of Kate Smith’s ‘God Bless America’ after questions of possible racism arise
- Ryan Burr and Josh Osich represent the 2 extremes of the White Sox bullpen: ‘He has 160 some games under his belt. I’ve got 16’
- Hawaii pushes back after Chicago restaurant’s ‘Aloha Poke’ trademark: ‘They need to have some cultural sensitivity’
- Maradona da marcha atrás y asegura estar a muerte con Dorados
- Teen boy inside bedroom shot by stray bullet on city’s Far South Side
- Cubs employees with cerebral palsy are just part of the team at Wrigley Field: ‘Almost every day I prove people wrong’
- Mueller report: Stephen Colbert and Hollywood have a field day with its findings
- Bonsai blowout in Michigan, train adventure from Chicago and more Midwest events
- Things to do in Chicago this weekend: Daisy Cutter’s birthday, 4/20 fun, Kuma’s Ghost Burger returns, Iliza Shlesinger
- Food stamps at Amazon: Pilot program lets SNAP recipients go online for groceries
- Sally Rooney, defining novelist of the Millennial generation? Not so fast.
- ‘There’s a donkey in the middle of I-90’: Sheriff’s officer corrals donkey named Dusty on interstate near Arlington Heights Road
- Mary Flower brings folksy, Piedmont style to McCord Gallery concert
- Ex-EPA chief Scott Pruitt registers as energy lobbyist in Indiana
- Why Elmo and Cookie Monster made cameos in ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Westworld’
- Prickly City- subscription
- Good Friday: Though banks are open, U.S. stock markets are closed; global trading light
- Antibiotic-resistant superbugs kill thousands each year. Chicago health care facilities are testing a special soap that could help.
- Moraine Valley Community College presents timeless ‘Little Women’
- Jack Brickhouse, George Halas helped Chet Coppock get his start during North Shore childhood
- The missing ‘Avengers’ return: Paul Rudd and Jeremy Renner are back for ‘Endgame’
- China launches major piano competition — with $150K prize
- One of Alaska’s warmest springs on record is causing a dangerous thaw
- Tim Anderson’s bat flip and Daniel Descalso’s upswing. Plus, a chat with the voice of the Rays on the Deep Dish baseball podcast.
- Morton Grove police fly drone over rooftops of homes in search for evidence, motive in fatal January shooting
- Cyr: President Moon personifies South Korea success
- Universal: New Potter coaster to show off ‘blast-ended skrewt’
- Police: North Judson man blames cat for running off road, faces charges
- ‘Fast Color’ review: On the run, Gugu Mbatha-Raw reconnects with her family and her powers
- Group focuses on Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Carly Simon, for Portage show
- Barrio en México se desborda ante la presencia de Will Smith
- Park Ridge Library director completes first year, receives bonus and pay raise
- Coachella’s antisexual harassment policy was welcome, but did it work?
- How do you tell the group at dinner that you don’t want to split the check?
- 10 essential ‘Game of Thrones’ fan films reviewed, the most professional to most lovable
- This Caribbean getaway is so laid-back there’s not a single stoplight on the island
- Decent: Naperville woman’s dream job has her flying all over the world on a private jet
- What Just Happened? The Week in Review
- Right now, frozen cherry pies must be 25% cherries, no more than 15% blemished. The FDA wants to cut obscure rules.
- South Holland Master Chorale, featuring Davidsmeier Quartet, closes season with ‘Music of Mendelssohn’
- Review: Revisiting Les Nomades, where chef Roland Liccioni’s signature style still commands 4 stars
- Niles police to host active shooter preparedness event for local business owners
- Long vacant, Old Post Office will soon have 3,000-plus workers. Home Chef’s HQ is among the latest deals.
- Dying professor’s last lecture offers timeless lesson: ‘Time is all you have’
- Half of Americans are ‘C’ students at best when it comes to understanding finances
- Consumers across the country use purchasing power to help the environment
- Immigration detainee with cancer to be deported
- Police: 21 charged in mobile app car rental scam involving dozens of Mercedes-Benzes
- Una labor que ‘llega al corazón’
- Incumbent Mundelein trustee narrowly wins re-election over village board colleague
- ‘Restaurant: Impossible’ to renovate South Side soul food restaurant
- Dixmoor trustee arrested for allegedly hindering capture of her wanted son, officials say
- Column: Superintendents’ secretaries offer something special for Aurora schools
- Valparaiso Theatrical Company takes on classic farce ‘Real Inspector Hound’
- Shout Out: Kam Gottlieb, Sweat Fest organizer
- 5 perfect NFL draft prospect-team fits, including Notre Dame’s Jerry Tillery
- Elmhurst police K-9 dog dies
- MLS anuncia planes para expandirse a 30 equipos
- Former North Shore teacher sentenced to 35 years after pleading guilty to sexual assault, child pornography
- Community news
- Letters to the Editor
- Fox Valley Orchestra offers diverse lineup
- Speak out: Marijuana smoking is dangerous to your health
- The Easter bunny made home visits to Barrington area children
- Letter: Time to fight climate change is now
- Parthun sworn in as new chief for the East Dundee fire district
- Elburn man, juvenile accused of robbing man lured to Aurora apartment through dating app
- East Chicago mayor seeks state support for more protective West Calumet cleanup
- Speak Out: Mueller report, drivers
- Mick Jagger makes first post-surgery appearance at Rolling Stones ballet premiere
- Election board: New high-speed machine to tally early Porter County votes
- Statement ceilings
- Down to Business: Preserving memories captured on film or video a passion that started with a need
- Northwestern University condemns ‘attempts at racial intimidation,’ including noose found on campus
- Aurora City Council considers updated ethics ordinance
- Berg: Illinois shrinkage makes history
- My legs were bandaged up to my knees in 7 layers of gauze. What it’s like to have a disease no one understands
- Lil Dicky’s explicit ‘Earth’ video makes Bieber a baboon, Grande a zebra for Earth Day
- Church news
- Non-Equity Jeff Award nominations
- Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande join Lil Dicky for Earth Day video
- ‘A nice sign of spring’: First hummingbirds of the season spotted in Will County
- California couple who tortured their children for years get life in prison
- Former Glenbard East student charged with threatening to harm ex-girlfriend at school and kill her current boyfriend
- Netflix starts testing random episode button
- Quickly
- Joe Maddon dislikes bat flips — a ‘generational thing’ — but lets his Cubs players do what they want
- Southland food pantries get big boost from April Food Day
- Lori Lightfoot’s wide-awake take on the ‘Illinois Exodus’
- Popular site for Highwood festivals, Everts Park, could receive a makeover
- The Custom Companies breaks ground on new 225,000-square-foot logistics facility in Northlake
- Lizzo squeezes some personality into over-the-top ‘Cuz I Love You’
- Tax break bid for former Porter County child support office questioned
- A day after declaring victory, Trump blasts claims ex-advisers made in Mueller report as lies
- Tinley Park to establish registry for foreclosures
- Families dine with superheroes at Universal’s Marvel Character Dinner
- ‘I don’t change my approach to the next games’: Chicago Fire’s David Ousted reflects on his error and moving on from it
- Transition to new village president underway in Oswego
- Gun violence took her brothers’ lives. She dreams of stopping bullets by opening a youth center in Gary.
- 3 teens charged — 1 with a felony — after 4th teen shot in the leg: Northlake police
- The Spin: Politics talk over holiday meals | Elections and gender bias | Chicago inching toward elected school board
- Barrington Area Development Council fundraiser to feature community service award
- McDaniel-Hale: Time is right for Elgin to ‘Nocturne’ in the past and embrace more murals for downtown
- Quickly
- Exonerated? We’ve only just begun, Mr. President
- Aurora business registration program backed by police and fire departments
- Flashback: At a Chicago smorgasbord restaurant, guests came for dinner — and puppet opera
- Christine and the Queens pull out of Coachella due to death in family
- Can Luminary entice podcast listeners to pay to listen?
- Disney: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ bar coming to Grand Floridian
- Ex-Glenbard East intern accused of sexually assaulting teen gets probation, felony charges dropped in plea deal
- Teacher Feature: Scott Todnem says kids need time, patience and teachers who don’t ‘know it all’
- Chicago is a ‘Boss’ town in Stanley Nelson’s documentary on black business in America
- Quickly
- After 376 days at Aurora shelter, ‘special dog Sheba’ finally gets a home
- Annual Via Crucis procession a family tradition in East Chicago
- Man who claimed to be missing Aurora boy Timmothy Pitzen pleads not guilty
- Cubs 5, Diamondbacks 1
- Bannockburn police chief to retire following 32 years with department
- Down to Business: Mutual love of animals led couple to buy South Elgin pet store 31 years ago
- The Barrington area go-to shop for business printing needs closes, Olker family owners retiring
- Report: FTC considering oversight of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
- Brad Biggs’ NFL mock draft 2.0: There’s a new name at No. 1
- Trump is right to call out Democrats for their hypocrisy on sanctuary cities
- Red Wings name Steve ‘The Captain’ Yzerman general manager
- Lake County News-Sun Local Scoreboard for Saturday, April 20, 2019
- Chris Brown and Nicki Minaj to tour together this fall
- ‘Inspiring’ crowds take part in Aurora Living Stations of the Cross
- 5 things to do in Lake County April 26-28
- Daily Southtown Local Scoreboard for Saturday, April 20, 2019
- Waukegan’s proposed $75 million operating budget projects $3.5 million deficit
- ‘He’s our town’s goodwill ambassador’: Over 100 people attend milestone birthday for beloved Mokena Berkot’s employee
- Tip to Elgin police leads to bust, felony drug and gun charges for 2 men
- Inspector general report on state workers’ emails
- House Judiciary Committee chairman issues subpoena for full Mueller report
- International panel to review how the FAA approved Boeing’s 737 Max flight controls
- 5 things to do in the western suburbs April 26-28
- Roman Polanski sues film academy to be reinstated
- State worker resigns after watchdog uncovers racist emails about the Obamas
- Woman, 63, in critical condition, man cut during Near North Side incident
- Man in prison for 28 years in Burge-related conviction released to home arrest while awaiting retrial
- 5 things to do in Northwest Indiana April 26-28
- The quandary over donating to rebuild Notre Dame, solved in part by a homeless man
- Concert in Aurora featuring Brandy, En Vogue and Arrested Development moved to new date
- Elgin News Digest
- Moran: Planned Lake Michigan shoreline trail better a century late than never
- Review: Gina Rodriguez and gal pals are the real delight in Netflix movie ‘Someone Great’
- Commentary: ‘Field of Dreams’ came out 30 years ago Sunday and some people love it — but sorry, it is a terrible movie
- ‘A slip of the tongue’: Sarah Sanders claims she didn’t lie, despite Mueller’s finding
- Athlete of the Year challenge
- The world is a big family
- Peace Walk
- President Trump did nothing wrong, I think
- A mentor was having trouble getting through to a student. Then the Bremen freshman asked for a piano.
- China can bring positive change to Venezuela
- Students, faculty object after Purdue Northwest report questions future of school’s English literature program
- ‘We’ll be taken care of’: Manafort’s promise and other things you may have missed in the Mueller report
- Potempa: Easter memories include cake decorating and icing ingenuity
- Funeral set for Rev. John Smyth, controversial former head of Maryville Academy
- State’s Attorney Kim Foxx wants to join case to keep Westlake Hospital open longer
- Volunteers needed for Wine on the Fox
- Patrick Kennedy asks Illinois lawmakers to oppose marijuana legalization
- Kim Foxx’s chief spokeswoman suddenly departs amid fallout over handling of Jussie Smollett’s prosecution
- Donations sought to help special needs students attend East Aurora prom
- Cubs, White Sox, Bulls and Blackhawks are all-in on sports betting — if their leagues get a cut
- Shoppers discover unique finds at Spring Jam
- Aurora offers free internet security course to residents
- Wisconsin prison escapee found hiding in a baby crib in Steger, police say
- Former Vice President Joe Biden expected to launch presidential campaign next week
- Officials: Five animal hearts found in Loop alley
- Fake news? No, Mueller report shows journalists mostly got it right on Trump, Russia
- ‘Where he took his last breath’: Walk for peace honors victims of violence where they died in Albany Park
- Markham junior high teacher arrested, brought loaded gun to school, superintendent says
- Tim Anderson suspended 1 game for ‘his conduct after the benches cleared’ in Wednesday’s on-field scrum
- Sure, you could buy that book online for $15. But here’s what that book really costs us.
- Sheriff vows accountability after deputies are seen pepper-spraying and punching teens
- Emery on board: Warren graduate Emery Parker repeats an All-American in wrestling for Illinois
- Earth Day turns into Earth Week as concern for environment grows in Lake County
- NFL honors founding Hammond franchise with draft pick reveal as part of centennial festivities
- A superb conservation law and your summer vacation
- Naperville native James Holzhauer’s ‘Jeopardy!’ run now at 12 days, winnings more than $850K
- Turned down by Loyola’s Porter Moser and others, St. John’s hires Mike Anderson as coach
- Girls on the Run 5Ks set for May 18 and May 19 in Highland and Chesterton
- Boy thrown from balcony at Mall of America ‘showing real signs of recovery,’ his family says
- Disabato: Sandburg grad Bryan Pall makes remarkable return to mound in Seattle Mariners organization
- New Lenox officials to discuss increase in car burglaries
- Cops: Concealed carry license holder, suspected robber fatally shoot each other
- Naperville City Council turns down proposal for shortened leaf pickup schedule
- Porter County hazardous waste disposal events start May 4
- Hundreds of trees from Wagner Farm’s nursery to be planted in new Clow Creek Park subdivision
- Mother McAuley girls basketball coach Ashley Luke Clanton leaving after 7 ‘wonderful’ seasons
- Elizabeth Warren becomes first 2020 Democratic candidate to call for Trump’s impeachment
- Jumping for joy: H-F’s Quinton Stringfellow takes off in triple jump, his dad’s signature event
- DCFS has long history with family of missing Crystal Lake 5-year-old ‘AJ’ Freund; police raid boy’s home
- Easter 2019
- Kyle Hendricks and the Cubs beat the Diamondbacks 5-1 on a memorably windy afternoon at Wrigley Field
- Will walk-happy Yu Darvish get things under control? Cubs manager Joe Maddon isn’t concerned
- The Blanche DuBois fantasy over the Mueller report
- Elgin 3rd-graders learn lesson in philanthropy when they give $1,000 to Food for Greater Elgin
- A dishonorable man like Donald Trump cannot remain at the helm of an honorable nation
- Armstrong: Batavia sprinter-hurdler Sabrina Schlenker makes quick comeback from ACL surgery
- White Sox 7, Tigers 3
- A suburban Chicago man was diagnosed with cancer while in prison. Now ICE is deporting him to Mexico.
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Saturday, April 20, 2019
- FC Cincinnati’s winless streak reaches 4 after loss to Real Salt Lake
- Yoan Moncada stays hot with a long home run as the White Sox top the Tigers 7-3
- Hutton: West Side graduate Lonnie Johnson Jr. will definitely be dancing on NFL draft day
- Leonel Vangioni le da triunfo a los Rayados sobre el Veracruz
- Read the texts and emails between Michael Avenatti and Kim Foxx’s office
- Substitute Hamilton nets brace, leads Toronto FC past Minnesota United
- US Soccer defends ‘perfect host’ Cincinnati after player protests
- Cubs and Sox fans needed for photos on team rivalry exhibit, reading program at Gail Borden library
- Call to duty: Michael Stoltz comes up big as North Central College sweeps conference doubleheader