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- Ask Amy: DNA testing uncovers terrible legacy
- Davich: Saying goodbye to a dear friend, a good man, a holy bishop — in that order
- Palos Park author pens biography of David Johnston, Oak Lawn geologist killed on Mount St. Helens
- Illinois Democrats are split on the Green New Deal. But they all want a piece of the pie when it comes to climate change.
- Pursuing impeachment would backfire
- Value of native plants takes root, boosted by annual sale
- After 9 years, mom close to getting new review of fatal police shooting of her son: ‘Where’s the proof?’
- Watch out! Cities with electric scooters have seen hundreds of injuries, from broken arms to brain trauma.
- When did everyone start dropping F-bombs?
- Vickroy: My daughter was a frequent flyer in the school nurse’s office. Now she’s getting a nursing degree, of course.
- 80 teens — and a local cop — explore cemeteries, jails and other Northwest Indiana sites as part of school paranormal society
- Sweden to reopen rape case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
- Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot contends with ‘palace intrigue’ in the City Council
- An imperative for Mayor-elect Lightfoot: Enhance Chicago’s status as a global city
- Burr Ridge residents push back against microwave tower
- The Bulls rebuild would be accelerated with a little draft lottery luck — but ‘luck and hope are not a strategy or a plan’
- An ode to mom jeans … and my application for Aurora poet laureate
- Edwin Jackson could make history this week by pitching for his 14th different MLB team
- Lingering ‘Game of Thrones’ questions: Where’s all the dragon poop?
- 25 years ago, Scottie Pippen defiantly benched himself in the final 1.8 seconds of a playoff game
- Ask Anna: How do I help my boyfriend have an orgasm?
- 10 best and worst airlines and airports of 2019
- Con Águilas y Rayados, quedan definidas unas apasionantes semifinales MX
- Hub Arkush’s Deerfield home
- Legendary actress and singer Doris Day dead at 97
- Sportscaster, Pro Football Weekly publisher Hub Arkush lists Deerfield home for $639,000
- Upcoming season of ‘Empire’ will be the Fox show’s last, Jussie Smollett’s future unclear
- This week in Chicago arts, food and drink via ChicagoNow
- Talk of the County: Medal of Freedom for Tiger Woods ‘a huge joke’
- Aaron Rodgers made his ‘Game of Thrones’ cameo in Episode 5 — but when exactly was it and who was he?
- In satisfying ‘Veep’ finale, Selina gets what she wanted – and the final indignity she deserved
- Why I don’t want my daughters to be called ‘guys’
- Penurias en la ciudad hondureña donde nacen las caravanas
- Talk of the County: Cubs fans ‘deserve better’ than return of Addison Russell
- ‘I can’t breathe’: 5 years after Eric Garner was killed by police chokehold, the officer faces a long-delayed internal disciplinary trial
- Selle: State needs to respond when cancer strikes firefighters
- Passenger in critical condition after Corvette hits utility pole and trees in Beach Park
- Kiwanis pancake breakfast raises funds for special needs camp
- Foxconn chairman Terry Gou moves closer to run for Taiwan president
- China responde a aumento de aranceles de EEUU
- How can a marriage of Judaism and Catholicism work? Chicago documentary ‘Leaps of Faiths’ shows the way
- Author Joyce Carol Oates says she’s haunted by her family’s denial of its Jewish roots
- First Look: Winnetka’s French restaurant trio Aboyer, Silencieux, George Trois
- More than 1,100 tour homes on Hinsdale Kitchen Walk
- Maximum Security’s jockey is banned 15 days for causing the interference at the Kentucky Derby
- L.A. grunge pioneers L7 stage their comeback with a snarl and a wink
- ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 Episode 5: Did you love it or hate it? Fans are divided.
- Hobart veteran, a WWII paratooper, to revisit battle sites for first time in 75 years
- Southwest Airlines launches flights between Hawaiian islands
- La Grange Park’s tomato man: ‘I am really selling memories’
- 4 takeaways from a conversation with ESPN’s Rachel Nichols, including what landing Zion Williamson would mean to the Bulls
- ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8, Episode 5 recap: 5 thoughts on who died Sunday and who really won the fiery battle in the streets
- Paramount announces Leno’s return, 3 other shows
- Family, friends remember Crown Point teen: ‘I hope you never have to feel this pain’
- Western Springs plant sale raises funds for scholarships
- I didn’t smoke in the hotel, so what’s this $250 cleaning fee?
- The officer who put Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold, despite pleas of ‘I can’t breathe,’ faces disciplinary trial
- Kawhi Leonard’s ‘quadruple doink’ gives Kyle Long and Bears fans a chance to troll Philadelphia
- Sachs Center celebrates decade of park district ownership
- Get to know Bears draft pick Stephen Denmark: A Q&A with former Valdosta State defensive backs coach David Rowe
- Get to know the Bears’ 2019 draft class
- June 18 | How the Newspaper Gets Printed – Tour the Printing Plant
- More than 1,000 participants help raise $11,000 in Oak Brook Pink 5K walk/run
- Craft beer drinkers enjoy local varieties during Lake Zurich festival
- Escalating trade war between U.S. and China sends stocks plunging
- ‘I felt like I was dying’: The scare of panic attacks
- ‘Robust’ Oak Park Farmers’ Market opens May 18
- Trial opens in killing of off-duty Chicago cop who was near retirement in 2010
- Oak Park artist chosen for special Chicago fundraiser
- Hey, ESPN, ‘Sunday Night Baseball’ viewers actually want to watch the game — so focus on that
- Amazon ofrece dinero a los empleados que renuncien para montar sus propias empresas de reparto de paquetes
- House GOP focusing on women and minorities for 2020 challengers
- Chicago author Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s ‘You May Want to Marry My Husband’ essay went viral. Now her husband is honoring her life with a giant yellow umbrella in Lincoln Park.
- OPRF High School team takes top honors at entrepreneurial contest
- Planting right after a rainstorm can be bad for soil
- What’s happening in Park Ridge: Harry O’Brien Fun Run; candidates sought for aldermanic vacancy
- Lake County News-Sun Local Scoreboard for Tuesday, May 14, 2019
- States sue generic drugmakers, allege price-fixing scheme
- New lane closure on inbound Ike causes commuter pain
- West Suburban Local Scoreboard for Tuesday, May 13, 2019
- Chicago Tribune photos of the week
- 5 injured, including child, in rollover accident on Far North Side
- Badminton notes: Glenbrook South, New Trier among teams to make a run at state
- Since April 10, the Cubs are winning at a 77.8 percent rate. Here are 5 ways they’re pulling it off.
- ‘Game of Thrones’ through the eyes of a ‘non-throner’
- Former GM exec sells Tudor-style Winnetka mansion for $4 million
- District 181 crossing guards love their jobs, being appreciated
- Cancer awareness 5K defies chilly weather in Highland Park
- Landing Zion Williamson would put the Bulls on a winning path. But even without him, there’s no excuse for missing the playoffs again.
- Ex-judge who wants special prosecutor in Jussie Smollett case has questions about appointment of judge
- Doris Day appreciation: A showbiz survivor’s double life
- Glencoe introduces Smart911 service, encourages residents to create profile
- Why at least 3,500 parents may be having regrets after last night’s ‘Game of Thrones’
- Colonial-style mansion in Kenilworth
- Talk of the County: Barr’s new investigation will even score
- 1 adult, 1 infant injured in Northwest Side apartment fire
- Milbank: For Trump, Morning in America never seems to dawn
- Elmwood Park students thrilled by Skyping with book author
- Girls soccer notes: Hardworking sophomore Cate Cullison gives Warren shot to win as a forward
- Jockeys greeted moms with roses at Arlington International Racecourse on Mother’s Day
- July 18, 1974: She’s on the job — Chicago’s 1st woman CTA driver
- Authorities say Waukegan man set his own car on fire because of recent breakdowns
- Quickly: ‘Where are the laws that include punishment for the men?’
- Talk of the County: McConnell ‘a toadie for the grafter cult of personality known as Donald Trump’
- Buffalo Grove High School senior wins coveted music composition award
- Hollywood mourns Doris Day: She ‘took a piece of the sun with her’
- John Beilein leaving Michigan to coach the Cavaliers is a loss for all of college basketball
- Talk of the County: ‘No little boy should have had to go through that’
- Evers more: Senior third baseman Maggie Evers goes extra mile for surging Libertyville in softball
- Lo que Trump dice sobre ‘ejecuciones’ de bebés contrasta con la realidad
- Shnay: Park Forest welcomes a new mayor for just the 11th time as several pressing issues loom
- Naperville compressed natural gas filling station expected to be operational by end of October
- 10 hottest sneakers for men this spring and summer
- 2 promoted within Buffalo Grove Fire Department
- Summer’s most popular sneakers for guys
- Sujetos abandonan avioneta en llamas cargada con cocaína
- Lake Forest officials host indoor, drive-in movie night with a twist for children
- ‘Killing Game’ at A Red Orchid: Death (and Michael Shannon) arrive fast and furious
- A meteor streaked over Chicago Friday night. The Adler Planetarium is hoping to get its hands on a piece.
- Girls soccer notes: Twin sisters Kiara and Olivia McPherson fuel West Aurora’s offense as forwards
- ‘Game of Thrones’: I was an extra in that King’s Landing crowd scene
- Mordecai debuts bar upstairs, Topolobampo marks 30th with special torta, plus more restaurant news
- Softball notes: St. Francis recruit Victoria Alfaro brings out big bat as Oak Forest chases conference title
- ‘Desperate Housewives’ actress Felicity Huffman pleads guilty in college admissions scam
- Shout Out: Renee Dominguez, Family Service Center executive director
- Lake Zurich police soon will be on the roof of a Dunkin’ Donuts but for a charitable reason
- Amazon, eager for drivers, offers to help employees quit to start delivery businesses
- New Trier High School senior Asher Noel named U.S. Presidential Scholar
- The Cubs are on a roll and the White Sox’s Tim Anderson stays hot. Plus, a preview of the MLB draft on the Deep Dish Baseball podcast.
- An orangutan at the St. Louis Zoo just turned 50 years old
- Jewel-Osco employees alleging age discrimination can pursue lawsuit as a group, judge rules
- Matteson police issue suicide prevention message after recent calls
- Man says car crashed into him as ruse to steal $50,000 in cash out of front seat, police say
- Mundelein Park District opens new neighborhood park
- The bigger reason Steven Mnuchin should turn over Trump’s tax returns
- The U.S. military needs a ‘sexual assault unit’ to address its alarming rape problem
- Pomp, circumstance and luxury — For $425, Sears Centre arena renting out private suites to families attending high school graduations
- The Spin: Lightfoot vs. City Council? | Sanders wins Illinois, poll finds | Trudeaus in Chicago
- Fallout from China trade war: Illinois firms say you’ll pay extra for furniture, scooters … and a lot more
- ‘Game of Thrones’: Burning questions before the series finale
- Union Ridge health party focuses on risky choices
- Trader Joe’s to open store in Hyde Park, first on Chicago’s South Side
- Arlington Heights top cop to retire this summer
- Stocks plunge as fallout from trade war with China hits markets
- Girls track notes: Relays boost Evanston at 3A Loyola Sectional
- ‘Game of Thrones’ actor on why Euron should claim only ‘35%’ of major death in ‘The Bells’
- Ignorance about the female body hurts us all
- Illinois alumni Dylan Meyer and Nick Hardy on the list of exemptions for Web.com Tour event at The Glen Club
- 4-year-old dies after finding gun from dad, an Ohio state trooper
- Judge blocks prosecutors from using video of Robert Kraft allegedly engaging in sex act at massage parlor
- Elgin teacher wins national contest, gets $5,000 for his school and a trip to Berlin
- La ex estrella de la NBA, Dennis Rodman, es acusado de robo
- Don’t medicalize DCFS’ system
- Boy Scouts to host Wizard Academy to raise awareness about disabilities
- Former Porter County deputy accused of seriously injuring son retains new lawyer as trial faces a delay
- Man charged with murder on the Appalachian Trail ‘disturbed and unstable,’ will get psych evaluation
- Indiana schools chief worries safety grants boost inadequate
- Badminton notes: Cindy Tang takes another step with Hinsdale Central
- Addison junior high student charged after allegedly leaving profanity-laced message threatening to blow up school
- Annual service remembers police officers killed in the line of duty
- Why Illinois shouldn’t mandate quotas for company boards
- What you might not know about radiation therapy to treat cancer
- Study up on student scams
- Bears sign draft picks Riley Ridley, Kerrith Whyte and Stephen Denmark
- Motorcyclist dies in Merrillville crash
- Carlos Gaytan heading back to Chicago with two new restaurants
- Postal worker: Sketch was ‘best I could remember’ of man spotted running from 1999 double homicide
- Saint Xavier grad lauded for using marketing skills to help the homeless
- Trade battle deepens as China ups tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods
- Lake County sheriff’s deputies round up ‘two furry bull-like species’ roaming near Ingleside
- Cubs starting pitcher Jon Lester
- After widow calls him ‘diabolical,’ weeping McHenry man is sentenced to 71 years in slaying of man during home invasion
- Another Aurora man accused of using ‘Henry Pratt’ reference while making threat, this time against housing officials
- Ex-Chicago cop accused of groping woman pleads guilty to reduced battery charge
- Pepper spray exposure on school bus sends 11 to hospital near Park Ridge
- Former President Jimmy Carter has surgery after breaking hip in fall
- Monsanto ordered to pay $2 billion in weed killer cancer case
- Cubs pitcher Cole Hamels
- Trump, trade and China — a Chicago story. Tennis, anyone?
- Cubs pitcher Jose Quintana
- Juvenile judge approves request to hold teen in Red Line shooting
- Rosenstein says Russia probe was justified, dismisses Comey as a ‘partisan pundit’
- Chicago Cubs outfielder Jason Heyward
- The secret to James McCann’s surprisingly hot start? ‘Just getting back to who I was as a hitter’
- Trump planned mass arrests of migrant women and children in 10 cities, including Chicago, officials say
- Carlos Rodon needs Tommy John surgery and likely will be out until the 2nd half of the 2020 season
- Boys gymnastics notes: Tegshmurun Jamiyankhuu paces Niles West to 2nd place at state
- Rejecting self-defense argument, jury issues first-degree murder verdict in 2016 Waukegan shooting
- ‘Our MVP, for sure’: Illinois recruit Justin Janas goes 3-for-4, pitches scoreless relief as Marist tops Brother Rice
- Alex DeBrincat tallies assist as U.S. tops Finland in OT at world hockey championships
- 3 felony charges approved in connection with hit-and-run that critically injured girl, 7, in St. Charles
- WGN’s Nancy Loo makes a cameo on ‘The Bachelorette’ premiere as 2 Chicago-area men are sent home
- Daily Southtown Local Scoreboard for Tuesday, May 14, 2019
- At least 3 dead, 3 missing after sightseeing planes collide in Alaska
- ‘The hype … was unreal’: Jenna Towle says she’s not discouraged by Lake Central’s loss to Marist
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Tuesday, May 14, 2019
- Wolves beat the Iowa Wild 3-1 to advance to the AHL Western Conference finals
- White Sox 5, Indians 2
- The Maurer, the merrier: Kyle Maurer retires 15 straight as Huntley rolls to share of conference title