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2019 > July > 24
- Ask Amy: Co-worker ponders race, paternity
- Giants 5, Cubs 4 (13 innings)
- Chicago theater openings July 26-August 1
- Daywatch: Chicago police compiled profiles of citizens who spoke at disciplinary meetings, Lightfoot and the city’s ‘addiction’ to fines and fees and other things to know to start your day
- Column: The race card slowly loses its sting through overuse as we head toward 2020
- Cubs lose their 3rd straight when Pablo Sandoval hits a HR in the 13th inning off Brad Brach
- Tim Anderson (sprained ankle) to begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A Charlotte
- Ranking the 100 best Bears players ever: No. 44, Johnny Morris
- Editorial: Saying no to ugliness on the Illinois campaign trail
- Hospital paid $6 million to family of astronaut Neil Armstrong in wrongful death case
- Algren Award winner Barry Pearce inspired by growing up on South Side
- ‘What made me stop was the blood.’ Uber driver comes to aid of woman slashed in Lincoln Park attack near DePaul
- The 2020 Olympics starts one year from today. And ticket prices are expected to soar.
- Joe Maddon prefers to recruit — not advise — in trade discussions
- Robert Mueller testifies before Congress
- Column: Bears report to camp with high expectations — but can they find the edge they’ll need?
- Free things to do in Chicago this week: Chicago Poetry Block Party and Newberry Book Fair
- Originally planned for Chicago, Lucas Museum gives the Comic-Con crowd a peek at new L.A. site
- Text of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s opening statement to the House
- Barbra on Barbra: Streisand riffs on music, anti-Semitism and how Chicago has always brought her good luck
- The college search can be a great excuse for a family vacation — and a 57-hour train ride
- The realistic expectation for the 2019 Bears is ______ . Our writers fill in the blanks on 4 topics before training camp.
- Having a paying job may help fend off Alzheimer’s disease in women
- Do you have a werewolf problem? Upright alligator? Cryptozoologist Linda Godfrey probably believes you
- ‘The Killing Floor,’ an unsung Chicago labor story, returns Saturday in a 4k digital edition
- Gary council studies increases in some municipal fees
- Column: Where do generic drug names come from? Two women in Chicago, that’s where.
- ‘Ghost Adventures’ films at Old Joliet Prison for John Wayne Gacy episode
- Man buying booze at Bartlett grocery store punched and kicked bagger who has special needs, prosecutors say
- Feds investigating $10,000 in checks from ComEd lobbyists to ousted Madigan operative
- Family fights to remain in Austin neighborhood’s iconic pink house
- Have you spoken at a Chicago Police Board meeting? The police know more about you than you realize.
- After 26 deaths in 4 years, Elk Grove Village turned to some unusual measures to fight opioid deaths — and it’s paying off
- Commentary: Does anyone care about MTV’s Video Music Awards?
- Caterpillar earnings weaker than expected as energy prices fall
- Dwight Gooden arrested on DWI charges after driving the wrong way down a one-way road
- Meek Mill launches new record label with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation
- Mueller: Yo no exoneré a Trump de obstrucción
- ‘Come From Away’ and the amazing events on Broadway on Sept. 13, 2001
- Breakfast with Ina: Delightful find in a Go Grocer, plus more tasty recs to start the day
- Some St. John employees to share $188K in bonuses
- Debut y despedida del Chicago Fire en la Leagues Cup (VIDEO)
- Selle: Losing 2,700 jobs should be a wake-up call to Lake County and Illinois leaders
- Commentary: Netflix is having a long, cruel summer
- New grant helps support project to create arboretum at Kuechmann Park in Lake Zurich
- Feds fine Facebook $5 billion for privacy violations, establish new oversight
- Rapero adolescente recibe 55 años de prisión por asesinato
- Sexually abused as a child, Erin’s Law namesake wants prevention taught in all 50 states: ‘I’m going to make sure other kids don’t experience this’
- U.S. citizen wrongfully detained for more than three weeks released; ICE blames conflicting reports of citizenship
- Councilman: Hammond streetlights installed, but still not powered up
- Mark Sanchez retires from football to join ESPN as a college analyst
- Paris heat wave poses new threat to fire-damaged Notre Dame Cathedral, architect says
- El fútbol femenino busca dar su salto de calidad
- ICE libera a joven estadounidense detenido más de tres semanas
- Actores sufren un aparatoso accidente en grabaciones de ‘El señor de los cielos’
- Man barricades himself in Lakeview East hotel, sparking hourslong SWAT standoff
- Ivanka Trump’s new dog has people talking. Here’s a look at other presidential pups.
- Expert: President’s racist tweets viewed through ‘lens of partisanship’
- Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs measures aimed at protecting young immigrants
- Parents guide: Advice about films kids may want to see in theaters or opening soon
- Fan favorites help to carry the load at Garfield Farm in Kane County
- Mike Quigley and Raja Krishnamoorthi: Meet the Illinois congressmen questioning Robert Mueller
- Chicago police vehicles damaged near South Loop station for second time in a month
- Juez se rehúsa a bloquear restricciones de asilo de EEUU
- City of Aurora, area park districts get open space grants
- Gail Borden’s Craft Donuts to open in August; first Chipotle in Elgin to open this fall
- Column: Robert Mueller’s congressional testimony resolves nothing
- Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford marries longtime girlfriend Kristy Muscolino
- Shakespeare in the Park debuts at RiverEdge in Aurora Aug. 3
- Contracts: Kelly, Dershowitz, Steinem in line for $50K or more for Sinai Forum appearances
- Oak Forest man pleads not guilty to sexual assault of a minor in Buffalo Grove and child porn charges
- La Grange Park says no to backyard chicken coops after residents cite concerns with attracting predators, disease outbreaks
- Arrestan en México a sospechoso de doble intento de asesinato
- Bond, rezoning approved for new Valparaiso subdivision
- ‘An amazing feeling of empowerment’: New transponders at Elgin Community College help paralyzed professor get around campus
- A 10-year-old wrote a letter to the editor when she couldn’t get into Yo-Yo Ma’s free Chicago concert. He took note.
- Highland Park, Highwood officials wrestle with major decisions on recreational marijuana sales as deadline for legalization approaches
- Última recta para los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio-2020
- Shout Out: Micki Doherty, longtime La Grange Park resident and Music Makers Theatre director
- Quickly
- Six businesses cited for selling liquor to underage buyers in East Dundee
- La reina de belleza que perdió la corona por sus comentarios catalogados de racistas
- Boeing, grappling with 737 Max crisis, lost nearly $3 billion last quarter
- 5 things to do in the western suburbs Aug. 2-4
- Community news
- Memoir in pictures: Cartoonists on California fires, vagaries of adolescence, and immigrant life
- Commentary: Lovable ‘Chance the Snapper’s’ ancestor? A 40-foot ‘SuperCroc.’
- GM says self-driving ride service won’t start this year after all
- Only one hospital transport, no arrests during rainy and steamy Pitchfork weekend
- ‘Carmine Street Guitars’ review: A week in the life of an iconic Greenwich Village shop
- ‘Go Down Moses’ at Chicago’s MoCP moves from contemplation to cacophony (and back)
- Country club staffer fatally crushed by vehicle on golf course, Westchester police say
- Speak Out: Alligators, taxes
- Chicago festivals this week: Wicker Park Fest and Taste of Lincoln Ave.
- Trentin vence en Gap y los favoritos al Tour velan armas para los Alpes
- City Council approves Chicago’s ‘fair workweek’ ordinance: Now many workers must get two weeks’ notice of their schedules
- Independiente va por otro paso copero ante la Católica ecuatoriana
- College student who vanished in Chicago more than 12 years ago subject of new documentary, ‘When I Last Saw Jesse’
- 5 things to do in Lake County Aug. 2-4
- Gobernador Rosselló no ha renunciado, dice su portavoz
- Review: Ocean Prime’s seafood is primo, but pricy
- Woman killed, man wounded in Lansing shooting
- Meek Mill’s conviction thrown out, granted new trial
- Expulsados dos ciclistas del Tour tras un altercado
- 5 things to do in northwest Indiana Aug. 2-6
- Column: Ilhan Omar, quintessentially American
- Police seeking men who reportedly robbed man in his Homer Glen garage
- Actor Rutger Hauer, of ‘Blade Runner’ fame, has died at 75
- Woman charged with striking Naperville police officer
- Oscar winner Anne Hathaway is pregnant with baby No. 2
- Maradona es operado en Argentina
- Commentary: Police accountability in New York and Chicago. Who’s got it right?
- Speak Out
- Boris Johnson becomes British prime minister, derides the Brexit ‘doubters, doomsters, gloomsters’
- Humboldt Park alligator trapper Frank Robb rides his Chicago celebrity back to Florida
- ‘The Ice at the End of the World’ is melting: Book explores Greenland and the warning it raises for global climate change
- Facebook says it’s under FTC antitrust investigation
- Teacher Feature: Nothing like a ‘mess’ in the classroom to keep things interesting
- The medals for the 2020 Olympics ‘resemble rough stones that have been polished and which now shine with light and brilliance’
- Merrillville man faces theft charges after townhome audit
- ICE rompe una ventana y saca a un inmigrante de su auto frente a sus hijos
- City moves up release of Aurora Strong money to families of victims of Pratt shooting
- Column: Addison Russell is gone. Whether he’ll return to the Cubs is anyone’s guess.
- Commentary: ‘Cadillac tax’ repeal showed hazard of bipartisanship
- Model airplane club will be able to take flight from former U.S. 30 drag strip
- East Dundee awards $25K grant to Aliano’s restaurant to help cover cost of patio expansion
- Aurora honors old and young at City Hall
- The Spin: Mueller testifies about Trimp, er, Trump | Chicago police keep files on public speakers | Obama honored near Mount Rushmore
- Editorial: A stoic Mueller refers America to the report: When reality TV defies partisan hype
- Local Latino storytellers and comics share stories of survival and strength in La Sala
- Wife of Army captain killed in Ethiopian Airlines crash sues Boeing and urges airlines to ‘ban’ 737 Max jet
- FDA targets US marijuana leader in CBD marketing crackdown
- Head of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois parent company exiting
- Ex-banker builds billion-dollar fortune as legal pot sweeps U.S.
- Long linked to oranges, Florida considers a lucrative future – with hemp
- CBD-infused food and beverages are still illegal under US law. So why are they everywhere?
- Advertising weed is tough when the Feds consider you a drug dealer
- Orland Fire Protection District celebrates 125 years of volunteers saving lives, property
- In California, Fresno’s West Side lost the war on drugs, but hopes a revival will be tied to marijuana
- Cubs send struggling infielder Addison Russell to Triple-A Iowa: ‘It’s been cumulative’
- Naperville man, 18, arrested on charges he arranged sexual tryst with 15-year-old girl
- Second former Waukegan District 60 administrator files lawsuit claiming retaliation
- Chicago teachers routinely create their own lesson plans — sometimes off Pinterest. But does that justify CPS spending $135M on a new curriculum?
- Letters: No supervisors disciplined in McDonald shooting
- Get muddy for a good cause at MuckFest
- Sandouka tapped as new CEO for Ecker Center for Mental Health in Elgin
- Column: Make time to relax during the waning days of summer before a new school year roars back to life
- Editorial: Bravo to Yo-Yo Ma for making a little girl’s day
- 7 key takeaways from Robert Mueller’s testimony before Congress on the Trump-Russia investigation
- Audits: Merrillville charter school pledged progress after leadership overhaul
- Slowik: Tour visitors see robots in action at Amazon’s Monee fulfillment center
- Column: Chicago Magic Lounge provides stage history lesson in magic
- Advocate hospital system will no longer have two CEOs
- Witnesses to fatal shooting say they picked out the suspect nearly a decade later
- Talks continue on plan for old Kendall County jail in Yorkville
- México instalará albergue para migrantes devueltos por EEUU
- Cubs 4, Giants 1
- Fact check: President Trump falsely claims former special counsel Robert Mueller exonerated him
- Robert Mueller bluntly dismisses Trump’s claims of ‘total exoneration’ and warns of Russian interference in 2020 election
- President Trump declares Robert Mueller’s testimony before Congress a win for the White House
- In Chicago, Democratic presidential contender Kirsten Gillibrand said Mueller presented rationale for Trump impeachment hearings
- Officials warn ‘people will die’ if Blue Island hospital closes
- Chicago City Council approves Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s ethics package; an empowered inspector general, larger fines among reforms
- Jaguars star cornerback Jalen Ramsey arrives at training camp in an armored truck
- Scouting director Nick Hostetler moves to a new role with the White Sox
- Jace Fry gives the White Sox bullpen another reliable arm since: ‘We’re all in a groove’
- After Tyler Chatwood gives Cubs temporary relief, Jon Lester’s next start pushed back to Saturday vs. Brewers
- Palos pediatrician who’s treated refugees all over the world explains how ‘scarcity of safety’ affects children
- DC’s new pot-infused tourism takes renting AirBnb space to another level
- Where the war on weed still rages
- A Capitol offense? Cannabis found in Statehouse flower beds
- Bear attempts theft of pot dispensary dumpster in Colorado
- Speak Out: Biden, taxes
- Rick Renteria sees a focused group as the trade deadline nears: ‘Honestly, I don’t hear a conversation about it’
- Cubs show resiliency in avoiding a sweep with a 4-1 win over the Giants. Now comes a crucial 9-game division stretch, and Kris Bryant says he’ll be ready.
- Tim Anderson goes 3-for-4 as he begins a rehab assignment with Triple-A Charlotte
- Marlins 2, White Sox 0
- Father says his son, one of the suspects in 3 killings in Canada, is on ‘a suicide mission’ and nationwide manhunt will end in son’s death
- Federal judge blocks Trump administration’s asylum restrictions at U.S.-Mexico border, hours after another judge let new rules stand