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- Bryce Harper’s walk-off grand slam hands the Cubs a crushing 7-5 loss: ‘That one is going to leave a mark’
- Ask Amy: Emotions roll when the ex gets married
- White Sox stage 4-run rally in the 9th but fall short in 8-7 loss to the Angels
- Angels 8, White Sox 7
- Democratic divide in Iowa: Will ‘Medicare for All’ and free college appeal to rural voters or send them back to Trump in 2020?
- Column: Trump, an avatar for Nazis, now gets to decide who goes to Israel? What the (BLEEP) just happened?
- Daywatch: Illinois prison removes books from library over ‘racial’ content, parents say girls targeted for wearing tank tops to school and other things to know to start your day
- Column: Father of teacher robbed in Lincoln Park questions $100 bond allowing alleged attacker to walk: ‘Is that all she’s worth to them?’
- Merrillville having chicken and egg debate
- Inventing the road trip: How Thomas Edison and Henry Ford made car travel the engine of their celebrity
- Ranking the 100 best Bears players ever: No. 21, Jimbo Covert
- Flashback: How the Great Fire of 1871 gave rise to the Chicago Public Library
- Editorial: Mayor Lightfoot confronts Chicago’s riddle: How to close the $1 billion budget gap
- Lake County prosecutor defends murder charges against teens whose friend was killed during attempted car theft, saying teens ‘ultimately’ were responsible for the death
- Three reputed gang members charged in execution-style slayings on West Side
- 4 things to watch in tonight’s Bears-Giants preseason game, including a glimpse of Mitch Trubisky and a 2nd look at the rookies
- Illinois State Police officer shot serving search warrant in Wheeling
- 4 takeaways from the Cubs-Phillies series, including the offense mirroring the 2nd-half struggles of 2018 and a troubling lack of depth
- Best Chicago happy hour deals: Aug. 15-21
- Things to do in Chicago this weekend: Half Acre’s annual bash, block party at Gallagher Way, Ali Wong, Sangria Fest
- Árboles artificiales contra la contaminación atmosférica en México
- Loverboy, Jefferson Starship co-headline classic rock concert in Orland Park
- That metal thing your parents used to measure your feet? It’s called a Brannock Device, and it’s increasingly rare.
- Hazard se lesiona y no estará en el debut liguero del Real Madrid
- How families can get away with flying ‘economy light’
- Review: Sleater-Kinney embraces new sound, uncertain future on ‘The Center Won’t Hold’
- Hepatitis A is racing across the U.S. Here’s what you should know.
- Cyr: The vast Asia region – and the U.S.
- Mighty Mighty Bosstones among headliners for 350 Fest V in Tinley Park
- Talk of the County: Zion needs to grab its ‘chance to make some money’ on legal marijuana
- Townhome development planned on far East Side of Aurora
- The misunderstood humor of Danny McBride
- Flooding, a trade war and Deere cuts outlook again
- What’s going on with the Chrisleys?
- Hammond opens new skating area at Hessville Park
- Casinos readying facilities for September start of sports betting
- Actores y escritores latinos firman ‘carta de solidaridad’
- Chicago Tribune Food Bowl’s opening night celebrates cuisine and community
- Jeremy Renner’s career trajectory reads like a game of Mad Libs
- Speak Out: Fighting back Trump’s main strength
- Latino actors, writers pen ‘letter of solidarity’ amid fears
- Letters: Think of taxpayers during COD contract talks
- Man charged with battery after alleged groping incident in Oak Park
- Thipi Thai’s La Grange success hasn’t carried over to Clarendon Hills
- Munster school case appealed to Indiana Supreme Court
- ‘Murdering Macbeth’ reinvents Shakespeare for today, inviting new audiences to discover an old story
- Read the CTU resolution to oppose the invasion of Venezuela
- Popular Lyric Opera in the Gardens event returns to Michigan City
- ‘God Bless the USA’ removed from Oswego school message board after complaints
- Greenland to President Trump: Thanks, but we’re not for sale
- 5 things Cubs fans can do to deal with the latest devastating road loss (thanks a lot, Bryce Harper)
- Trump asegura que el éxito de EEUU depende de su reelección
- Pioneer Press 2019 boys soccer preview: Chicago Catholic League
- A documentary featuring Bears owner Virginia McCaskey — and the NFL’s other 3 female team owners — will air later this month on ESPN
- 25 of Chicago’s best chefs throwing big brunch for Ina Pinkney fundraiser
- Wonder what that four-faced object is outside your Green Line ‘L’ window? The Floating Museum’s latest art initiative
- Elgin News Digest
- Back to School Bash gets West Aurora students ready for classes
- Pioneer Press 2019 boys soccer preview: Central Suburban South
- Down to Business: Ups and downs of the custom window treatment biz makes for interesting work, store owner says
- Richton Park man charged with sex assault of 15-year-old
- Palestinian-American Rep. Rashida Tlaib refuses new Israeli offer to enter the occupied West Bank to see relatives
- Lake County sheriff charges McHenry man with DUI in February crash near Cary
- Montgomery man charged with aggravated DUI in Aurora
- Church news
- Report: Student extracurricular participation holding steady at OPRF
- Man charged with Gary woman’s murder after Tinley Park concert pleads not guilty
- Quickly
- Crisis golpea al béisbol infantil en Venezuela
- Feds allege that suburban Chicago’s Koch Foods, whose Mississippi plant was raided by ICE, had history of ‘knowingly hiring and employing illegal aliens’
- Pioneer Press 2019 girls volleyball preview: North Suburban Conference
- Hey Ali Wong, we heard you’re looking for Asian food in Chicago. We got you.
- Madigan’s hand-picked Chicago alderman tried to disqualify his opponent by challenging signatures that were never submitted. Now a grand jury is investigating.
- Commentary: My America, I hardly know you anymore
- Schererville challenge to Lake Station water plant sale may be headed to State Supreme Court
- Bolivia echa a su técnico tras fiasco en Copa América
- College of DuPage board, faculty agree to mediation in stalled contract talks — after college advertises for replacement teachers
- Neymar reaparece con Brasil para amistosos de septiembre
- Kane committee to look at plan for expanded gravel mining in Blackberry Township
- Quickly
- 4 games that highlight Reynaldo Lopez’s 2nd-half improvement, including a 1.88 ERA at home since the break
- Patton Oswalt’s show got moved to a Wicker Park rooftop — so he messed with the neighbor in the next building
- Speak Out: Trump, Obama
- Family of woman killed by Red Line train sues CTA, security company
- Community news
- State Sen. Thomas Cullerton pleads not guilty to federal embezzlement charges
- 50 years after Woodstock, can festivals match its magic?
- Pioneer Press 2019 boys soccer preview: East Suburban Catholic Conference
- Highland official explains impact of looming tax caps
- Letters: Cut harried parents some slack
- Cubs get some love at the BMW Championship — in an unusual place
- Aidy Bryant tries her hand at fashion with plus-size line
- Community news
- At the Illinois State Fair, farmers celebrate ag but bemoan a ‘nightmare’ of a year
- Old marijuana edibles: To eat or not to eat?
- End of pre-employment drug testing doesn’t mean you can’t still be fired for marijuana
- Hidden in plain sight: California illegal pot market booming
- Community news
- Court appearance for East Chicago man, 18, called off; plea agreement was expected, lawyer says
- PADS of Elgin, local shelters discussing options that would lift barriers that keep people from getting a bed
- Moran: Old Mill Creek shooting inspires the knee-jerk reactions we’ve come to expect and accept from ourselves
- Commentary: China doesn’t have the upper hand in Hong Kong. Trump does.
- ‘I love ’em to death’: Woman gives home to hundreds of neglected tortoises
- Airlines can’t bar pit bulls or other breeds from cabins, feds say
- Municipalities nationwide grapple with bans on pet pigs
- Dogfishing: When online daters pose with adorable pets that aren’t theirs
- Dog owners are much happier than cat owners, survey finds
- Editorial: Include measles vaccine on your checklist of back-to-school supplies
- Decent: Having a child with Down syndrome ‘not an experience I would change for the world,’ mom says
- ‘We’re talking about 1-0 a lot’: Chris Selig, Lakes keep focus on winning season opener in football
- Column: Recreational marijuana is coming, and suburban leaders have some decisions to make
- Commentary: Does Scabby the Rat cause fear — or is the NLRB inflating the balloon’s power?
- Want Barack Obama’s high school basketball jersey? It’ll cost you more than $43,000.
- Slowik: Legislator fields questions about how legal pot will affect south suburbs
- New Richards High School mural reflects diversity, inspires conversation
- Quickly
- ‘I knew volleyball was my passion’: Grace Tully sets the example for Stevenson with skill, leadership, work ethic
- Girl born with half a heart overflows with love, hope
- FCC fines Jimmy Kimmel, ‘Walking Dead’ for wrongly using emergency alert system
- Tinley Park police investigating death of Zion man at Slipknot concert
- Davich: A civil conversation between a Trump critic and supporter, over hamburgers and fries
- Thomas Kokoraleis, the Ripper Crew member staying at Wayside Cross Ministries in Aurora, is ‘tired of hiding’
- Towle dark comedy ‘Smell of the Kill’ focuses on 3 wives
- Apartment owners race to add luxury amenities
- Land values in these two states are growing faster than in California
- Luxury Art Deco-inspired skyscraper planned for Miracle Mile in Los Angeles
- Drop in mortgage rates is a boon for homebuyers and refinancing
- Eataly cuts final ties to Mario Batali, buying out his minority stake
- Political science professor says Hong Kong protests could affect U.S. markets, farmers
- In Will County’s food deserts, community gardens fulfill not just need, ‘but a demand’
- Kenosha man sentenced to 15 years for leaving scene of fatal collision in Zion
- Disabato: Marist football coach Ron Dawczak embraces challenge of ‘meat grinder’ schedule
- Deportados y retornados visitan Chicago, relatan su lucha de pertenecer ‘aquí y allá’
- West Dundee woman remembers being among the thousands who attended Woodstock: ‘I can’t believe it’s been 50 years’
- Alley Art Festival in Aurora to feature more than 60 artists
- I. Ian ‘Izzy’ Dick, longtime funeral director, dies at 95
- Department of Justice hosts seminar on keeping houses of worship safe
- Would-be princes and princesses encouraged to attend the Enchanted Ball in Valparaiso
- ‘I like to connect with people’: Jack Finnegan wants to do more than score goals for Brother Rice
- Tribune Tower Residences debuts details about the condos and amenities. It’s as lavish as you’d expect.
- Despite Jussie Smollett controversy, Kim Foxx locks up support from Cook County Democrats for her 2020 reelection effort
- Sexual assault victims in Illinois will be able to track evidence in their cases under new law
- Homer Glen OKs $150K for holiday light experience for Heritage Park
- Memorial scholarship named for Lane Tech student who went missing from Lollapalooza in 2018
- ‘Having blighted properties pulls the whole neighborhood down’: Zion, Waukegan join effort to rehab abandoned homes
- It’s the start of a school year, not the end of the world
- This Week in Naperville
- Radio Flyer sues Michigan toy company over allegedly ripping off its two-seater red plastic wagon
- Commentary: If a recession is coming, how will Trump handle it?
- Newly hired Lake County administrator leaving for top transportation job in North Dakota
- 2 days after a fight in practice, Bears keep Kyle Long home from tonight’s preseason game
- McDaniel-Hale: Counting on state’s new property tax task force to bring relief
- Down to Business: Helping patients ‘get their lives back’ gives couple joy
- Basecamp Marina Cafe + Provisions brings homemade eats, beach goods to Michigan City
- Column: What else Trump gets wrong about the ‘Bla-goya-vick’ case
- Burr Ridge police investigating videos of dementia care patients apparently being mocked, filmed partially naked by employees
- VIDEO: Ana Bárbara: De vida, carrera y su ‘revancha’
- Mark Schanowski reduces his NBC Sports Chicago duties and will not host Bulls pregame and postgame TV shows
- Learn from the chefs behind Uncle Remus, Honey Butter Fried Chicken, Grace and more at Chicago Chef’s Conference
- Chemical exposure in Little Calumet River causes fish mortality, closed Portage Riverwalk beach
- The Spin: Trump calls Durbin, asks about Blagojevich commutation
- Round 2 of the BMW Championship
- Naperville News Digest
- Yoan Moncada goes 1-for-5 in his first rehab game with Triple-A Charlotte
- New school year features 2 new principals at Lake Forest School District 67
- ‘El Juego de las llaves’, indaga sobre el deseo
- Commentary: Netanyahu could have avoided showing a ‘great weakness’ in the Omar-Tlaib affair
- Column: Paste-eaters, pukers and bullies, why I hate those back-to-school stories
- Elgin revising its honorary street name policy, will remove signs posted more than 5 years ago
- ‘This was a very dangerous situation,’ Chicago police captain says after seizure of more than 60 guns from Lawndale home
- Sin Messi, Barcelona cae en debut de liga ante Athletic
- Column: Small town church gathering honors Farmer Emil’s 100th birthday
- Corrections and clarifications
- Aurora man gets 13 years in prison for sexually assaulting two children
- Self-defense discussion arises in wake of Lake County shooting. Legal experts say keys include circumstances and shooter’s concern for own safety.
- Children’s Museum volunteers from China on a mission to build ‘cultural awareness’
- Column: Trump’s climate denial could hasten the demise of his own empire
- Editorial: Engage China? Confront China? Trump isn’t doing either very well.
- ‘Good Boys’, bienvenidos a la preadolescencia
- Missouri public defenders say they expect women to face abortion felonies under new law
- Aurora starts looking at tax district for old Copley property
- East Chicago library celebrates the foods, culture of Puerto Rico
- Renovated ECC Arts Center ready for students heading back to class Monday; only Blizzard Theatre work still ongoing
- Después de lo ocurrido en Rancho 57, Viva Tu Música responde así a las peticiones de los asistentes
- 4 female Markham police officers file gender discrimination complaints against new chief
- Toxic spill from northwest Indiana steel mill kills fish, forces closure of Lake Michigan beaches
- Aurora mourns death of John Galles, longtime owner of Johno’s
- Pioneer Press 2019 boys soccer preview: West Suburban Gold
- Allegory in Naperville is getting into the food truck business
- Man fatally struck by Metra train in Evanston
- Ex-clergyman Fred Lenczycki, who served in suburbs and was first priest in U.S. labeled sexually violent, gets 10 years for abusing boys in Missouri
- Falleció el actor Peter Fonda
- 2020 vision: Meet the anti-Escalade — Cadillac XT6
- Column: Medinah looks great, but most of the big names are sinking at the BMW Championship
- 2020 vision: Meet the first purely electric premium small car — Mini Cooper SE
- Column: Nobody wants my mother’s four-poster bed. Should I take it?
- Oswego officials believe downtown project will begin soon
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection computer outage leads to slowdown at international airports nationwide
- Oswego may lower water rates
- Jed Hoyer praises Joe Maddon for remaining calm amid the road storm —but the GM knows the Cubs are fortunate to be in the thick of a playoff race
- Jury convicts homeless man who represented himself on charges of killing off-duty Chicago cop in River North earlier this year
- State health officials: 2 confirmed cases of Legionnaires’ disease linked to Schaumburg hotel
- Bayern acuerda adquirir a Coutinho a préstamo del Barcelona
- Addison Russell is back — ‘I felt like I got back to the original me’ — as the Cubs send Albert Almora Jr. to Triple-A Iowa
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019
- Woman, man killed in Lawndale shooting, police say
- ‘I know what I have to do’: Valparaiso’s Cooper Jones right at home with 3 sacks against Hobart
- Cubs are at a loss for words after suffering their 2nd consecutive walk-off loss, this time 3-2 to the Pirates: ‘I don’t know how to respond to it’
- ‘He just has more trust in his legs’: Damian Dixon looks dangerous in Merrillville’s scrimmage vs. Lowell
- Giants 32, Bears 13
- Corrections and clarifications
- Fallece el excampeón mundial ‘Mantequilla’ Nápoles
- No injuries, 2 in custody after gunfire shatters window of Austin police station
- Chicago cop on Mayor Lightfoot’s security detail cleared of misdemeanor domestic battery charge
- Medical examiner rules Jeffrey Epstein’s death a suicide by hanging
- ‘It virtually gave us another starter’: Kenny Hernandez fills in relief gap for Kane County Cougars