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- Louisiana’s Democratic governor signs strict abortion ban into law
- White Sox win their 4th straight — and finally get to Indians starter Carlos Carrasco, tagging him for 6 runs
- Storms and climate change. Connect the dots
- Raptors take NBA Finals opener over Warriors, 118-109
- Craving: Appetizers, small plates and snacks — our quest for Chicago’s best starters
- Ask Amy: Do disadvantaged parents deserve warm winters?
- ‘Miracle baby’: Woman gets pregnant years after having fallopian tubes removed
- My dalliance with the Bauhaus, and ‘less is more’
- Florida Man, Harvard among notable nominees for Golden Moutza of May
- Palos Heights Library presents an evening with best-selling author Lisa See
- Daywatch: New charges for Ald. Burke and R. Kelly, a big day in Springfield ahead and other things you need to know to start your day
- The canteen: How a WWII veteran’s lost relic made its way home to Chicago from France
- What the (BLEEP) just happened? Rex Huppke’s ‘Week In Review’
- ‘She was just really proud of it’: Oak Park hair salon gives confidence to kids — and parents — in transracial families
- Ranking the 100 best Bears players ever: No. 98, Tom Thayer
- Davich: Life experiences can change minds, even on abortion
- ‘Chilling, mind-boggling, utterly senseless’: Judge scolds suspects in killing of mother holding baby
- Trade war, flooded fields leave Midwestern farmers thinking about skipping a year: ‘What the heck am I doing farming?’
- Expanded McPier tax on hold in Springfield after Mayor Lori Lightfoot voices opposition
- Hinsdale Humane Society Pet Walk, with dog agility course and live concert, moves to Salt Creek Lane
- Recreational marijuana heads to Illinois House after committee vote
- R. Kelly charged with new counts of sex assault involving one of same four alleged victims
- With seal lifted, police release hundreds of pages of reports in Jussie Smollett case
- Ald. Edward Burke indicted on expanded federal racketeering, bribery charges
- Urban Meyer, still adjusting to life after coaching, is as intense on the golf course as he was on the football sideline
- Mitch Trubisky shoots a promotional video for Formula 1
- Mitch Trubisky looked the part at his Formula One shoot — but don’t worry, the Bears wouldn’t let him drive
- Boy, 14, charged with carjacking teacher at gunpoint near Whitney Young High School
- National Spelling Bee ends in an 8-way tie after the co-champions spell 47 consecutive words correctly
- Salah busca redimirse en final de la Liga de Campeones
- What Kanye West told David Letterman about Chicago on his Netflix show
- This Week in Naperville
- Discovered files show Republican gerrymandering expert behind census citizenship question
- Kyle Hendricks and Lucas Giolito are the 2 best pitchers in Chicago. How do they compare? Check the numbers.
- Decent: Cantor celebrating 25th year at Beth Shalom reflects on path that led her to Naperville
- Huawei reportedly canceling U.S. meetings, has sent American workers home
- Down to Business: This South Elgin ‘pedaler’ likes to sell bicycle excitement
- Celebrate Native American culture in Indy, Pride in St. Louis and more Midwest events
- A new Oak Park salon wants customers to look good. It’s also a nonprofit that educates biracial families on hair care.
- Cardi B drops NSFW new song, ‘Press’
- NBC 5 reporter Mary Ann Ahern sells Skokie home for $575,000
- Blood test for cancer: Medical firm to report promising results at Chicago meeting
- Mary Ann Ahern Skokie home
- Younger brother of slain Crystal Lake boy AJ Freund is doing ‘great,’ attorney says at court hearing
- Bears are sifting through misses and makes as their 3-man kicker competition continues: ‘We’re going to be delicate with it’
- Bittercube turns sweet with liqueurs that continue the bitters maker’s artisan approach
- Act quickly to fight bagworm caterpillars
- ‘No soy cobarde’ responde AMLO a Trump ante amenaza de aranceles a México
- Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge offers new world at Disneyland. Take a peek inside.
- A peek inside Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge
- White Sox pitcher Dylan Covey rediscovers his four-seam fastball — now he needs to limit the key mistakes
- From Chicago to Broadway: What happened to the musicals that premiered here?
- Mayor Lori Lightfoot calls on Ald. Edward Burke to resign after corruption indictment
- Scott Stantis Cartoon Caption Contest Winner and Extras
- As Kris Bryant braces for boos tonight in St. Louis, Joe Maddon recalls his 1st time getting jeered
- Hobart school makes a splash for hospital fundraiser
- Cyr: Britain and Europe – will Brexit never end?
- Highland historian Parlor dead at 64
- Wildfires in Canada bring hazy skies to Chicago area
- Beer of the month: Hopewell’s refreshing Cold Brew is a little bit beer and a whole lot coffee
- Victims can be intimidated by the judicial system. Advocates are there to help.
- For French Open competitors, red clay dust comes free. So does the laundry.
- Police seeking assistance with assault case
- Church briefs
- Regional Performing Arts Co. closes season with ‘The Little Mermaid’
- Robert Pattinson is officially ‘The Batman’
- New Mexico artist brings ‘The Black Sox – A Century Later’ to Beverly Arts Center
- New Highlands Elementary principal brings integrated learning experience
- Eddie Izzard goes all-in on politics in ‘Wunderbar’ at the Chicago Theatre
- Rush hospital temporarily closes mental health units amid safety concerns
- Work to begin on converting Dancecenter North in downtown Libertyville into apartments
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- Speak out: Economy only going good for the rich
- Northwestern’s request to host professional sports events at Welsh-Ryan Arena draws neighbor concerns
- Trump vows escalating tariffs on Mexico starting June 10, ‘until the Illegal Immigration problem is remedied’
- Sterigenics created cancer risk 10 times higher than federal EPA standards in Willowbrook, new report says
- D-Day ceremony spotlights Trump’s complicated military ties
- Oak Park hair salon gives confidence to kids — and parents — in transracial families
- Tiene 14 años el acusado de robar a mano armada a una maestra afuera de Whitney Young High School
- Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot renews call for indicted Ald. Edward Burke to resign
- D-Day veteran, 94, recalls parachuting into Normandy: ‘Only America could do this’
- Letter: You can’t control climate, so let’s adjust to it
- Mexico president: We won’t react desperately to Trump’s tariff threat
- Down to Business: Childhood obsession with vacuums never waned for man who now owns store in downtown Naperville
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- Elton John gets the absurd bio-pic he deserves in ‘Rocketman’
- Lansing home day care sued over death of infant
- Lake County completes work on bridge over Hart Ditch
- All together now: 6 tips toward being a friendlier neighbor
- 5 ways to make your morning routine eco-friendly
- New Technology Strives to Ensure a Properly Fit Football Helmet For Every Player
- Good health for men often depends on wellness awareness and early screenings
- Should you say something after a friend gets plastic surgery?
- Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’ radically changed the superhero-movie landscape 30 years ago
- Three best bread boxes
- Amid report of North Korea purge, there are reasons for caution
- 5 things to do in Northwest Indiana June 7-9
- Makeup of Mundelein High School District 120 board changes with new president, appointee
- Pickup driver cited after being hit by South Shore train: Portage police
- Stravinsky and Ravel shine in an otherwise clunky first-time collaboration between the Joffrey and CSO
- Three best laser hair removal systems
- Three best pet doors
- Wauconda District 118 pays $22,500 settlement with a student’s family, but won’t say why
- From avocados to SUVs, Mexico tariffs ‘could be very disruptive and costly’
- Bartlett man charged with murdering his 93-year-old mom. Prosecutors say he stabbed her in back 12 times.
- Three best salad spinners
- Three best dog nail clippers
- Naperville People in the News
- Five storylines for the 2019 Belmont Stakes
- Teacher Feature: Kindergarten’s more than fingerpainting these days: ‘It is not as easy as people imagine’
- Mattress fire causes damage inside Park Ridge home
- Unless you’re a sadist, an 8-way tie at the National Spelling Bee is a win
- Twitter is eroding your intelligence — there’s data to prove it
- Illinois National Guard members deployed amid flooding
- Photos: Aerial pictures of D-Day sites captured by drone
- After a 4-year absence, Roger Federer has yet to drop a set at this year’s French Open
- Chaves gana la 19na etapa del Giro, Carapaz sigue líder
- After positive drug test, bond increased for former Northwestern student charged with sexual assault
- Waukegan High School’s JROTC program ‘going to feel a little empty’ with its most-tenured staff heading to retirement
- 5 things to do in the western suburbs June 7-12
- McDaniel-Hale: Taking a page from Aurora’s book and centralizing services for the homeless might be answer for Elgin
- Joe Biden should tout his role in the 1994 crime bill — not hide from it
- Summer’s best sunglasses — from retro-chic to futuristic
- Alertan sobre impostores que dicen ser agentes de la DEA
- 22 books to put on your list, from crime fiction to celeb bios
- PAWS rescues puppies following severe weather in Oklahoma
- ‘Muhammad: Forty Introductions’ is a soul-stirring primer on Islam
- West Dundee plans to purchase 20 body cameras for village police officers
- Lake County News-Sun Local Scoreboard for Saturday, June 1, 2019
- 5 things to do in Lake County June 7-12
- Legislators reflect on high points of latest session
- Community news
- Aurora boy honored for organizing charity drive after Pratt shooting
- John Hersey High School graduates 462 seniors: ‘Today we gather to celebrate strength’
- All That Remains ready to rock The Forge in Joliet
- Pochettino: ‘Tenemos que disfrutar, queremos escribir historia’
- ‘They finally have something to come home to’: Volunteers turn living spaces of recently homeless into homes
- Is the Chicago machine ‘dead, dead, dead’? Don’t plan the funeral yet.
- Too much legal marijuana: Last year’s harvest alone may give Oregon a pot surplus of more than 1 billion joints
- What you need to know about ballpark netting and fan safety after a child was injured on an Albert Almora foul ball
- Skokie man awaiting trial in fatal 2017 DUI case again charged with DUI
- Take a big, deep whiff of those molecules of freedom
- Burning Man waits for U.S. decision on big changes at Nevada counterculture festival
- Cheap Trick kicks off New Lenox’s Triple Play Concert Series
- Naperville News Digest
- Kari Faux has found freedom at the end of a long road back from a very dark place
- Scottie Pippen accuses couple’s 5-year-old daughter of defacing his mansion with crayons in property damage lawsuit
- Corrections and clarifications
- Guest column: College is a place of self-discovery and reinvention
- Queen Anne-style Evanston home near Dempster Beach: $2.35M
- Sudden hike in heroin overdose deaths in Kane County: officials
- Moran: Travel Illinois this summer, but only after making up your snow days
- Illinois lawmakers pass bill to help Medicaid patients keep coverage, ensure hospitals get paid faster
- Hank Haney suspended from his SiriusXM radio show for offensive comments about the LPGA
- One way to make a difference in the life of a Chicago child: Volunteer
- Elgin News Digest
- Memorial held for police K9 named after Maine Township child
- ‘Hay que pensar antes de abrir las piernas’, dice diputado de Morena en relación al aborto
- ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli sues over his ouster from drug company
- Wizards Weekend Day offers more magic school classes, new after party
- Nature enthusiasts tout Wolf Lake at bi-state festival for 19th consecutive year
- Slowik: Planners address housing needs as part of strategy to revive Southland economy
- Attorneys spar over definition of ‘recuse’ while debating need for special prosecutor in Jussie Smollett case
- Bartlett man charged in death of 93-year-old mother, stabbed 12 times with kitchen knife
- Garage Mahal transforms Whiting into an epic sale
- Ellen DeGeneres’ mom regrets not believing her daughter’s sexual-abuse allegation
- Illinois aprueba la legalización de uso recreativo de la marihuana
- Rescued dogs from Oklahoma arrive in Chicago: ‘Anyone who was healthy and rambunctious, we loaded up and brought back’
- Kenny Rogers is hospitalized but ‘plans on sticking around’ for a while
- Taurus Flavors closed for repairs after car crashed into storefront Thursday night
- Speak Out: White Sox, state fees
- Robin Weigert talks about Calamity Jane, ‘Deadwood’ and the ailing David Milch
- Black Door Pub in Aurora gets new liquor license
- Shout Out: Buggie O’Grady craft exposition co-chair
- Recreational marijuana in Colorado: What the numbers say about health, safety and tax dollars
- Record number of air travelers will take to the skies this summer
- Man stabbed to death in Cicero, woman then hanged herself, authorities say
- Man shot while working on his car on South Side
- Illinois House approves marijuana legalization bill backed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker
- The Hello Kitty Cafe Truck is rolling back to Chicagoland this weekend
- Trump’s Mexico tariffs endanger the U.S. economy
- Where recreational and medical pot is legal
- New Township High School District 113 chief looks to bring collaborative leadership style
- Aurora Museum Week runs through June 8
- Did James Holzhauer win again? Tracking his record-breaking ‘Jeopardy!’ tally
- USMNT U-20 team to face France in World Cup round of 16
- Naperville native James Holzhauer could break Ken Jennings’ ‘Jeopardy!’ record by Monday
- Will employers still drug test for marijuana once recreational use is legal in Illinois? Don’t keep a pipe at your desk just yet.
- ‘We are taking a strong stance’: EtO regulation bills head to governor’s desk
- Mackinac’s Grand Hotel and Father Marquette share rich Island history
- Ed Burke’s tuna
- The Spin: As lawmakers legalize weed, they blow a deadline
- Defense alleges entrapment as 2 friends go on trial in Chicago on charges of aiding ISIS in Syria in 2017
- Descubren túnel en estacionamiento en la frontera México-EEUU
- Fire causes $285,000 in damage to Lake Forest home
- Lake County legislators react to historic vote approving recreational marijuana
- Father of Aurora boy killed in hit-and-run crash thanks community
- Alas, no, Illinois is not a high-tax, free-spending state
- 5 wounded in drive-by shooting at Robbins home where dozens were gathered for party
- Mayor Lightfoot and the machine … Part 5: After the Burke blast, what’s next for Chicago’s corruption eruption
- New Aurora City Council committees set to start
- Naperville Jaycees Park, with Wi-Fi, outlets and seating, now open; dedication set for Tuesday
- Woman stabbed during argument in Gresham neighborhood
- Corrections and clarifications
- Legalizing marijuana is a victory for freedom in Illinois
- The ‘Betrayed’ law would help shield students from sex abuse
- If only HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ had been produced by Russians
- Leaders of Kane program say battles being won in war on childhood obesity
- Let’s Talk About Bladder Cancer: Tips for Getting the Support You Need (Video)
- What’s more realistic, Bigfoot or a secure retirement?
- Sweet, Savannah: Johnson scores winner in 1st half as Wauconda makes history in state semifinals
- ‘Asesinato-suicidio’, él murió apuñalado, ella ahorcada, en Cicero
- New evidence in 41-year-old homicide has Chicago Ridge police ‘really close’ to an arrest
- Beer industry shudders at Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on Mexican imports
- 2 dead, 2 injured after shootings, car chase in Harvey: police
- Police install cameras along Eisenhower Expressway to try to crack down on ‘Heroin Highway’
- Barrington Dance Ensemble brings ‘Sleeping Beauty’ back to the stage
- Roky Erickson, legendary psychedelic musician, dies at 71
- Kane County entombment aims to make sure unclaimed remains ‘respected in death’
- Milk house that had been part of Maple Knoll Dairy farm in Naperville offered to Naper Settlement
- Fuel for thought: Crown Point shakes off DAC golf controversy, rolls to eighth straight sectional title
- Waukegan among 6 new casino sites in gambling expansion proposal taking shape in Springfield
- Judge issues order ensuring Missouri’s only abortion clinic can continue providing abortions — for now
- Elgin seeking business input on proposed changes to permit and license forms, creating online submission process
- Fundraising for her burial
- 11 muertos, 6 heridos en tiroteo en Virginia Beach
- Some Orland Park businesses say video gambling is a good bet
- ‘We never give up’: Kendall McLeod, Makenzie Kaput key comeback as JCA loses in 2A state semifinals
- 11 muertos y 6 heridos en tiroteo en Virginia Beach
- Randall Road/Route 20 intersection work starts Monday, won’t end till later this year
- Eight properties win Aurora preservation awards
- Aurora man accused of hiding gun before running from police
- Celebrate good times: Gene McNulty, Marist mean business in state quarterfinals with third win over Minooka
- Cubs slugger Kris Bryant responds to Busch Stadium boos with a hit in his 1st at-bat
- Mayor of Aurora, site of February mass shooting, sends support to Virginia Beach
- Yorkville residents unhappy with train noise want ‘quiet zones’
- Albert Almora Jr. feels blessed from the ‘endless’ support following a scary foul-ball incident: ‘I never want it to happen again’
- Speak Out: Preakness Stakes, property taxes
- ‘It’s her heart, her passion’: Easton Lotus’ single in the bottom of the 8th lifts Marist to sectional title
- The secret history of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s introduction to City Hall clout
- Barrington Village Manager Lawler retires after 44 years with the village, replacement is former Buffalo Grove finance chief
- ‘Heartbreaking’ loss for Munster in state quarterfinals, but Sanjana Tallamraju advances in singles
- Illinois lawmakers approve legal marijuana, while indecision on other items likely to force session into weekend
- Police searching for missing Houston girl Maleah Davis say body of child found in Arkansas
- Daily Southtown Local Scoreboard for Saturday, June 1, 2019
- Cubs are on a power surge, but it’s not paying off in the win column
- Illinois gun licensing bill prompted by Aurora mass shooting fails, but supporters vow to bring it back
- Trey bien: Sedden finishes second in both hurdle events at state for Portage and earns three medals
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Saturday, June 1, 2019
- Kim Foxx’s office releases records shedding light on behind-the-scenes negotiations in Jussie Smollett case
- Sam’s club: Winona State commit Sam Keller powers Geneva to first sectional title in program history
- White Sox 6, Indians 1
- Text messages from Kim Foxx’s office in Jussie Smollett case
- West Suburban Local Scoreboard for Sunday, June 2, 2019
- Cardinals 2, Cubs 1 (10 innings)