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- White Sox now 0-7 since the All-Star break after a 6-5 loss to the Royals: ‘It has been a tough stretch’
- Ask Amy: Mother-in-law’s friendship with ex is disruptive
- Hobart to increase enforcement of golf cart use in the city
- Daywatch: 4 officers fired over Laquan McDonald shooting, Chicago under heat warning and other things to know to start your day
- Column: Offer water and shade in summer’s heat, and then in winter remember how warm it made you feel
- Friday could be the hottest day of year in Chicago. In the future, it could just be … Friday, experts say.
- Column: What the (BLEEP) just happened? Rex Huppke’s ‘Week in Review’
- Ranking the 100 best Bears players ever: No. 49, Dave Duerson
- Panic as police respond to Loop building for reports of active shooter that turned out to be false alarm: ‘It went terribly wrong’
- Woman, 22, slashed in face and neck near DePaul University fought back, foiled sexual assault, police say
- Editorial: Chicago’s race riots of 1919 and the epilogue that resonates today
- Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot calls on Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle to release bond data on gun offenders
- 4 Chicago cops fired for alleged cover-up of fatal police shooting of Laquan McDonald
- Immigration officers at O’Hare detain 3 children who are U.S. citizens: Congresswoman calls it ‘kidnapping of children by our government’
- 3 plover chicks hatch as Mamby music fest floats plan to move away from Montrose Beach
- Chicago activist Diane Latiker to be subject of film
- ESPN’s Dan Le Batard rips Donald Trump and derides the network’s no-politics policy
- Woman killed, 3 people shot while standing on porch in East Garfield Park neighborhood
- With extreme heat forecast for Wrigley Field this weekend, here’s how the Cubs will keep fans cool
- ‘Handmaid’s’ Bradley Whitford and Chicago’s Amy Landecker are married
- As vaccine opposition grows, survivors of measles, mumps and rubella warn of lifelong effects, including vision loss, deafness: ‘How different my life would have been’
- Blackhawks teach their prospects how to eat smarter — say yes to bone broth and dark chocolate — to get them to the NHL faster
- Report: Newspaper chains Gannett, GateHouse in merger talks
- Comicopolis in Lockport includes premiere of Limestone Stage comedy ‘In a Fortnite’
- A downstate Goodwill CEO resigns after threatening to stop paying disabled workers, sparking outrage across Illinois
- 4 takeaways from the White Sox-Royals series, including the search for consistency at the plate and on the mound
- Celebrate ‘Shawshank,’ watch Illinois and Wisconsin battle it out in the Border War Beer Fest and more Midwest events
- Beyond Jason Van Dyke: Officers who faced criminal charges and/or discipline over Laquan McDonald shooting
- Elgin police union buys billboard voicing support for officer who shot Decynthia Clements
- Medicare going in ‘right direction’ on opioid epidemic, federal report finds
- Illinois Tollway deploys ‘Hot Weather Patrols’ to help motorists in extreme heat
- It’s not just you — American adults are increasingly anxious
- Column: ‘Future Hall of Famer’ is practically part of Pat Hughes’ name. But will he get the call next year?
- Cyr: The Moon landing still resonates
- Chicago’s 3 new apartment-library developments offer fresh take on mixed-use buildings
- Data centers critical to our increasingly tech dependent lives
- A man of few words, White Sox legend Harold Baines let his bat do the talking — all the way to the Hall of Fame
- Caley Chelios, daughter of former Blackhawk Chris, marries Danny Vitale, who played at Northwestern before joining the Packers
- Blackhawks prospects learn nutrition
- Invenergy CEO sells Metropolitan Tower condo for $3.33 million
- Beach Park District 3 moves toward referendum in April 2020 for ‘much needed’ improvements
- Lake Bluff moving forward with project to add LED lights on bike paths
- Man punched in the face by Buzz Aldrin still insists moon landing was fake: report
- Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ruth Wilson debut ‘His Dark Materials’ trailer at Comic-Con
- ‘Farewell’ filmmaker Lulu Wang: Making the right kind of movie out of the right kind of lie
- Jennifer Hudson wows crowd at annual Ravinia Gala
- Shout Out: Gretchen Waitley, a Vernon Hills resident with multiple sclerosis and organizer of PuckMS fundraiser
- Got black spot? Don’t despair, rose lovers. Here are the ways you can control it.
- Wayside residents sue city of Aurora, challenge state’s residency laws for registered sex offenders
- Strong earthquake hits near Greek capital of Athens, sparks fear
- Former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s 1950s Phoenix home being listed on the National Register of Historic Places
- Think you’re hot now? Wait until you get your electric bill. (Here’s how to save money while keeping your cool.)
- Letters to the editor
- Snowmelt pushes Lake Tahoe water level to near legal limit
- Ex-Giants offensive lineman Mitch Petrus, 32, dies of heat stroke
- Gary’s Virginia Street could soon be renamed in honor of Malcolm X
- Lo que se sabe de las niñas detenidas por Inmigración en el O’Hare
- Coyote enters house through doggie door, killing pet in ‘unprecedented’ attack
- Rainbows before noon: ‘Wizard of Oz’ is lovely at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
- Speak Out
- Imagina un guardarropa ilimitado
- Album Review: Beyonce’s ‘The Lion King: The Gift’
- Cat with firecrackers strapped to paw has leg amputated
- Down to Business: Reputation means everything to this ‘roofing guy’
- Pet World: Dogs have natural prey drive and shouldn’t be punished for it
- The trouble with tigers in America
- Batavia Democrat announces bid for Kane County Board chairman
- Down to Business: Tapping into creativity to find ‘worthy’ beers for customers to try
- Pet leasing is real and can catch owners by surprise. New Jersey lawmakers want to ban it
- The Loop explosion of the Wingfoot Express blimp
- During meeting at Evanston police station, city clerk arrested on traffic warrant
- Gary OKs funds to improve marketing of Genesis Center
- Tiger Woods misses another cut — this time at the British Open. But he’s not done yet.
- Llevaba un rifle cargado en una estación del tren de la CTA, ya fue sentenciado
- Naperville News Digest
- Panic over Russian company’s FaceApp is sign of new distrust of Internet
- Financing issues with Zion Woods affordable housing development in Deerfield causes delay
- ‘Windy City Rehab’ troubles highlight a cardinal rule of rehabbing: Always be good to the neighbors
- Bilardo, DT campeón mundial en México 1986, en estado grave
- Church news
- Alaphilippe vuela en la contrarreloj y amplía liderato en el Tour
- Pacquiao contra voraz Thurman en pelea intergeneracional por el cetro wélter
- Collecting facts is an addiction — did you know that?
- R. Kelly to be taken in custody to New York to face racketeering charges there
- Column: Democrats gave Donald Trump a gift. Now, take it back.
- Lots to love in Lubbock, a West Texas town with a cowboy past and a bright future
- Gilmer Road railroad crossing set to close July 22 for replacement project
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- Glenview Blaze players make an impact with Buddy Ball friends at Chicago Dogs game
- How ‘Lion King’ and other Disney live-action remakes measure up to the animated originals
- How to ask your partner to remove a tattoo with an ex’s name
- Carl Edwards Jr. returns from shoulder injury: ‘I feel like (the pain) is pretty much over with’
- Disabato: Louisville recruit Jack Payton powers up as Brother Rice wins summer baseball state title
- Elgin News Digest
- Community news
- Iran denies Trump’s claim that U.S. warship shot down an Iranian drone
- Letters: When a man stepped foot on the moon
- This Week in Naperville
- Column: How can architects change their image as self-indulgent aesthetes? A Chicago affordable housing design contest offers an answer
- Milano brothers enjoying long-awaited opportunity with Nazareth baseball
- Column: Is Trump’s latest race-baiting a 2020 campaign strategy?
- New ‘Halloween’ movies set for 2020, 2021
- ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ at Theatre at the Center offers a new spin on classic tale
- Carpentersville Rotary 5k partners with animal shelter, dogs available for adoption on event day
- McDaniel-Hale: Elgin rolls back to where it started on RV parking issue
- States, Canadian provinces talk cooperating to stop Asian carp
- Expressway camera program, named for Southland woman fatally shot on I-57, aims to aid highway shootings investigations
- Column: We landed on the moon not because we needed to, but because we could
- The Porter water park shuttered in 2017 after children suffered chemical burns is now for sale
- Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh expects his former QB Brandon Peters to win the starting job at Illinois
- Shout Out: Leslie Donavan, CEO of global company who got ‘good’ advice from Dad
- Calumet Township man wanted for shooting dog in the head
- Naperville People in the News
- ‘He just elevates everybody’: Jordan Chisum a building block at running back for Zion-Benton
- South Elgin supports bike-sharing program floated by Kane County
- What we know about the children detained by border protection officers at O’Hare
- Event planned to protest ICE raids, deportations and detention camps
- Sheriff: Beach Park man dies after being attacked with garden shears; son charged with murder
- Shout Out: Barbara Shapiro, personal trainer and author
- A top city planner for Detroit likely headed for Chicago and Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration
- Latino could help conquer climate change
- Moran: A look back at Lake County’s reaction when Apollo 11 ‘bridged the forbidding vacuum of space’
- East Chicago man, 19, pleads not guilty on murder charge
- Gas station fires clerk accused of telling Latinx customers to ‘go back to their country’
- Elliott Golub, influential concertmaster with Music of the Baroque, dies at 85
- Kristen Bell reveals ‘Veronica Mars’ Season 4 is streaming right now on Hulu
- Country club redevelopment has Homewood officials, residents upset
- Gary council will re-do proposed in-home business ordinance
- Streeterville condo with Lake Michigan views: $2.6M
- ‘She’s going to be huge’: Zion-Benton’s Morgan Callahan complements inside game with outside shot
- Chicago broils as 2 days of extreme heat set in
- Jussie Smollett’s lawyers portray actor as a victim twice over — of attack and frame-up
- Pitchfork Music Festival cheap eats: 5 bites for $6 or less
- Go on holiday, but that doesn’t mean you’ll get a vacation from politics
- Batavia man, two others indicted for fraudulently inflating revenue at publicly traded Wood Dale company, feds say
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- Corrections and clarifications
- Village centers, local lake open for cooling sites as temperatures soar
- Trial date set for Gary attorney charged with theft
- Committee alleges Portage clerk destroyed claims dockets in violation of state rules
- Editorial: A decisive epilogue to the Laquan McDonald case: Yes, Chicago will punish police misconduct.
- Get together with your neighbors at La Grange Endless Summerfest
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- Barrington making it a ‘community effort’ to get through spate of extreme heat: ‘We need to be good neighbors’
- Death investigation after body found in Cal Sag
- What to eat at ComplexCon this weekend? The food’s actually pretty good
- Chicago Red Stars welcome back their U.S. World Cup players Sunday — and the game is sold out: ‘A historic and unprecedented moment for us’
- Chicago Red Stars hablan sobre cómo sostener el interés por el fútbol femenino (VIDEO)
- Adam Boqvist and Kirby Dach steal the show: 5 takeaways from Friday’s scrimmage at Blackhawks development camp
- Molly of Denali brings representation of Alaskan Natives to the mainstream
- Excessive heat warning cancels WaukAMole festival while Lake County beaches deal with high waves, elevated bacteria counts
- New principals to lead Gary schools
- Slowik: South suburban protests highlight battles over access to abortion
- South Bend police to get body camera upgrades after fatal shooting that sparked protests
- Duneland names new principals at Jackson Elementary and Chesterton Middle School
- Illinois HIV/AIDS program chief resigned after state watchdog recommended firing for sexual harassment
- Column: More new citizens? It’s no credit to Trump.
- Evanston beaches closed, advisories lifted at North Side beaches as heat sets in
- Schneider: Lake County residents, businesses are ‘underwater literally’ because of Foxconn development
- Youth baseball concession stands offer fun foods, fond recollections of being a kid
- The Spin: Cook County Commissioner Luis Arroyo Jr. cops to ticket intervention | Will Summer heat waves be a regular thing? | Jussie Smollett doubles down
- Police: Oak Park resident attacked, robbed at CTA Green Line stop
- Column: 10 years later, the death of its daily newspaper still haunts my hometown
- Intelligentsia Cup race returns to West Dundee for fourth year
- Police: Man accused of resisting arrest, criminal trespass outside state representative’s office
- Culver’s restaurant likely headed to St. John, but sidewalks still a question
- Wilmette ends summer concerts with Wallace Bowl shows Aug. 9 and 10
- Moon landing conspiracy lives on 50 years later despite evidence
- Cook County Commissioner Luis Arroyo Jr. acknowledges he intervened for ally in forest preserve parking ticket incident
- Henry Cavill unveils ‘The Witcher’ trailer, talks performing his own stunts at Comic-Con
- One part of Huntley Road reconstruction through Carpentersville, West Dundee months behind schedule
- The race to save the endangered piping plover from tourists and a music festival escalates
- Jim Harbaugh keeps fueling the rivalry with Urban Meyer — even if he says that wasn’t his intention
- Firsthand visit with homeowner who converted 1840s barn helps Deer Park couple learn the story behind their dream home
- Marijuana company Cresco Labs is looking to relocate its medical dispensary near Wrigley Field
- A shark discovered in the Gulf of Mexico is a new species that can fit in your pocket and squirt glowing clouds into the ocean
- Editorial: The first rule of active-shooter training: Do no harm
- Porter County Election Board hires two new election deputies
- Former Power Solutions CEO indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly inflating revenue by $25 million
- Collision in Northbrook where one vehicle flipped on its side shuts down Waukegan Road during rush hour
- Waukegan homeowners association president found not guilty of trespassing in confrontation over campaign signs
- Back with the White Sox, center fielder Adam Engel hopes his offensive work in Triple A will carry over
- Editorial: Illinois prison strip-searches and the Constitution
- State inspectors review 2 area carnival ride incidents that injured child, woman
- Chicago’s celebrity alligator settles into new Florida home
- Illinois increases possible fines for using phone while driving
- Trump reverses course on ‘send her back’ chants, says rally crowd full of ‘incredible patriots’
- Chicago police accused in lawsuit of unlawfully raiding same South Side home 3 times over 3 months
- Cubs 6, Padres 5
- DuPage County Fair introducing lots of new activities in its 178th year
- Entertainment at Fusic Fest in East Chicago includes freestyle favorite George LaMond
- Mamby on the Beach festival canceled amid bird flap
- Niles West tops Maine West to claim Connie Mack summer baseball title
- Speak Out: Trump, Democrats
- Trump says he’s trying to help free rapper A$AP Rocky, held in custody in Sweden for weeks
- Commentary: Don’t raise the debt ceiling, abolish it
- Northwestern is 15-1 in its last 16 Big Ten games and coming off a West Division title. Yet the Wildcats still can’t get any love from media, bettors or computers.
- No one above sergeant disciplined for fatal police shooting of Laquan McDonald
- Column: Illinois after Boss Mike Madigan? Like Yugoslavia after Tito
- Anthony Rizzo’s grand slam in the Cubs’ 6-5 victory over the Padres answers Joe Maddon’s call — and a promise to a 9-year-old
- Waubonsee Community College holds event to mark 50 years since the first moon landing
- Cubs weather the sweltering conditions at Wrigley Field: ‘It was miserable’
- Pitchfork 2019
- Fires at 2 Wisconsin substations knock out power to more than 13,000 customers on sweltering day
- More from Moore: Purdue’s Rondale Moore looking to improve upon award-winning freshman year
- Niñas ciudadanas describen las 13 horas bajo custodia de Inmigración en O’Hare: Una durmió en el piso y comieron comida expirada
- White Sox pitcher Alex Colome began as a starter with the Rays before settling into the closer role: ‘He’s kind of made for it’
- Column: Dad, Aunt Ruby and Teibel’s restaurant all sharing 90th birthdays in July
- Jamie Bell says neo-Nazi portrayal took emotional, physical toll
- Portage looking to bolster police force
- Police: Transgender woman sexually assaulted in Lakeview; felon facing charges
- Children held by border protection at O’Hare were to be placed in DCFS custody
- Hammond’s housing development program gains momentum
- ‘It’s come back’: Matt Tabor takes game to new level with return of slider for Kane County Cougars
- Iran seizes British oil tanker and briefly detains second vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, escalating tensions with West
- Girls basketball notes: College interest heating up for Michigan City junior Trinity Thompson