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- ‘He had a fantastic fourth quarter’: Jakobe Strong’s late effort rallies Streamwood past South Elgin
- Girls basketball notes: Kylie Frixen, a 3-point ace, doubles up as driving force for Reavis
- NFL says the number of concussions increased slightly in 2019
- VU men’s basketball notes: Chesterton native Ryan Fazekas returns, but the Crusaders drop a road game to Missouri State
- Daily horoscope for January 24, 2020
- Ask Amy: Boyfriend wants influence over Instagram
- 60-year-old man killed after being struck by vehicles twice on Gresham street
- Column: The Astros cheated and should be banned from the big leagues for a year. But money talks.
- Downers Grove ranch with Tesla charging station: $1.5M
- Editorial: 75 years after its liberation: Why did Auschwitz happen?
- Column: As doomsday looms and impeachment progresses, departed PBS newsman Jim Lehrer’s rules remind us how to be better
- Column: Coronavirus shows up in Chicago, Trump toadies make impeachment trial trivial: The Week in Review
- War and peace in Iowa: How heightened tensions with Iran are shaping Democrats’ first 2020 presidential contest
- Flashback: Secret experiments in a Cook County preserve aided atomic bomb efforts — and left nuclear waste behind
- Cook County ethics board approves reforms as member resigns in protest of President Toni Preckwinkle’s move to replace chair
- In a race against terminal illness, former Obama staffer with ALS and his wife find new hope
- West Side shop owner given 7 years in prison for selling synthetic weed laced with rat poison
- Daywatch: Iran tensions reshape Iowa caucuses, 4 struggling South Side hospitals join forces and one cancer is almost 100% preventable
- New details released about Chicago rapper Juice Wrld’s death: ‘He let out a gasp and collapsed to the ground’
- Brad Biggs’ 10 thoughts on the Bears’ offseason priorities and the buzz at the Senior Bowl
- Chicago’s classical scene has Grammy magic, mojo that comes from a group of creative women on the city’s new music scene
- No injuries after ‘minor explosion’ prompts evacuation at police station in South Loop
- Speak Out: Shepard students would get more support with broader proposal
- Charges filed against 2 suspected of shooting man during Logan Square gang wake, then firing at pursuing police officers
- Column: A win for Frank Lloyd Wright fans: In Glencoe, a threatened cottage by the great architect will be moved to a park
- Disney’s Believe-It-Or-Not: Weird moments reported to deputies at Disney World in 2019
- Family keeps vigil in the rain after man is shot and killed at Walgreens drive-through on South Side
- 8 easy things you can do to decrease your carbon footprint
- The ABCs of getting healthy — and it all starts with sleep
- Elgin to seek landmark status for 119-year-old house whose owner wants to tear it down
- Torres album review: ‘Silver Tongue’ turns a relationship inside out
- Armed robbers wanted for string of attacks strike again on North Side, shooting a man and robbing 2 others within minutes
- Where do I walk? Study finds several Metra, and some CTA stations, have a shortage of nearby sidewalks
- McDonald’s new global headquarters in Chicago
- Boka chef Lee Wolen opening rotisserie-chicken shop in Revival Food Hall
- Super Bowl LIV: How to throw a watch party when your guests might be anti-NFL
- 3 years after Naperville teen’s suicide, school board drafting protocols for when students speak to police
- Chic weed-inspired housewares to make your space look dope
- 3 Illinois Bed Bath & Beyond stores on closure list
- Lake County News-Sun Local Scoreboard for Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020
- Australian Open: Serena Williams ousted, while 15-year-old Coco Gauff knocks off No. 1 Naomi Osaka
- Boys basketball notes: Junior guard Kimahri Wilson and Carmel find their footing during five-game winning streak
- Illinois school resource officer charged with sexual assault and child pornography after ‘suspected inappropriate relationship’ with student, police say
- Ferrara Candy headquarters at Old Post Office
- Mushing in Michigan, Groundhog Days in Woodstock and more Midwest events
- What time are the 2020 Grammy Awards?
- Work to ‘restore the historic prairie’ on north side of Van Patten Woods leaves area looking bare
- Sundance festival kicks off with Taylor Swift, ‘Crip Camp’
- Cyr: U.S., Mexico and Canada reconfirm free trade
- Country Megaticket bringing Rascal Flatts, Brooks & Dunn, Luke Bryan, Chris Young, Tim McGraw to Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
- NFL receiver Antonio Brown granted bail after turning himself at a Florida jail on charges he attacked another man
- Conferencia de prensa completa de la presentación de ‘Chicharito’ con el Galaxy (VIDEO)
- Demócratas: ‘Lo correcto importa’ en juicio político
- ‘Goshen’ is coming to Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse
- Antonio Banderas, ¿un ‘actor de color’ por hablar español?
- Harvey police Chief Eddie Winters placed on leave after 8 months
- Se reporta un caso de coronavirus respiratorio en Chicago
- Firefighters extinguish townhouse chimney fire in Park Ridge
- From Elton John’s nappies to Morris Day bickering with Prince: Why I love music memoirs
- Speak Out: Lines for marijuana a sign of the times
- She lures them in with Insta-Snow and her smile: The secrets to becoming Arlington Heights’ award-winning children’s librarian
- Column: This Dyer teen commutes 90 minutes to Chicago each day to rehearse his dream
- Coronavirus worries spread nationwide
- Coronavirus worries spread globally
- Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra features guest violinist William Hagen for All Tchaikovsky concert
- ‘Chicharito’: ‘Soy uno de los mejores jugadores del mundo’
- New Orleans Saints fight to shield emails in Catholic abuse crisis
- Athletes warily embrace progress as USA Gymnastics evolves
- Aurora nears approving first marijuana store
- Caroline Wozniacki’s tennis career ends in Australia
- Feeling overwhelmed by the news? Authors recommend books to read as we enter a new decade
- Goldendoodle rescued from hoarding has new purpose in Juvenile Court
- Aumenta el número de conmociones cerebrales en la NFL
- Great Lakes commander: Brief lockdown started after base employee passed security point without providing credentials
- Sepsis: A team response to a potential killer
- Review: ‘The Tasters’ at Rivendell Theatre: Interesting play about a government job becomes a bland political statement
- For hippo Fiona’s 3rd birthday, zoo seeks aid for Australia
- 5-year-old girl dies following traffic crash in Orland Park
- Serena tras caer en Australia: ‘Soy mejor que eso’
- Antonio Brown paga fianza y sale de cárcel de Florida
- Mayor Lori Lightfoot tells U.S. mayors Chicago deals with a mass shooting every week
- Fact-checking President Trump and his lawyers on the impeachment case, which sometimes only requires a calendar
- What you may not know about carrots
- For hippo Fiona’s 3rd birthday, zoo seeks aid for Australia
- LeBron y Giannis tendrán revancha en Juego de Estrellas
- What happened to Chicago Tribune community submissions?
- FDA study sheds more light on safety of sunscreen chemicals
- Decent: Centuries-old traditions part of Year of the Rat celebration for Naperville’s Chinese residents
- Column: Steven Mnuchin’s jab at Greta Thunberg proves how little he understands the urgency and optimism of young people
- Lake Station taps Watts to fill school board seat
- Former Blackhawk Patrick Sharp adjusts to TV role: ‘Weird to discuss the play of former teammates and current friends’
- 2020 Grammy Awards: Odds for best new artist
- When life throws you curveballs, embrace the ‘new normal’
- Guillermo Arriaga gana Premio Alfaguara 2020
- Journey to Jurassic Park or hop on the Hogwarts Express at these 51 movie locations you can actually visit
- Pile it on: The must-try sandwich in every state
- Review: ‘Grease’ at the Marriott Theatre is a refreshing blast of Pink Ladies and 1959-era Chicago
- Take in Black History Month events in Naperville and the Fox Valley
- Childhood obesity is a major problem. Research isn’t helping.
- Brains turned to glass? Suffocated in boathouses? Vesuvius victims get another look
- Column: Jealous of your partner’s ex? It’s best to talk it out.
- Greatest Love of All tour headed to University Park includes many Whitney Houston hits
- Lincolnwood bans e-cigarettes indoors in public places
- Where surgeons don’t bother with checklists
- VU students start semester with new fraternities, sororities growing membership
- Women get a spotlight, but no prize money, in new NHL All-Star event
- Site announced for potential recreation center in Batavia
- McGrath: Memories of dogs gone by raises question — how do I find one that’s lovable AND trainable?
- Obscure election being used to test online voting
- Jeff Bezos’ hack inquiry falls short of implicating National Enquirer
- McDaniel-Hale: Macy’s closing at Spring Hill Mall a real loss for those who aren’t online shopping fans
- Acusan de narco a ex alto mando policiaco que iba a ser liberado y deportado a México
- Sale of internet’s dot-org registrar to private equity firm worries nonprofits, tech activists
- Pentagon: 34 US soldiers diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries from Iran’s missile strikes
- Maryland lawmakers met with Washington owner Daniel Snyder on sports betting
- Column: Looking for a great film? The Oscars aren’t always the place to turn.
- Los 10 mexicanos que más dinero han movido con sus fichajes
- Las Vegas casino says O.J. Simpson too tarnished to defame
- Ex-NFL player Antonio Brown is released from jail on $110,000 bond
- Giants’ Eli Manning retires after 16 seasons, 2 Super Bowls: ‘I did it my way’
- Auto review: Jeep Wrangler gets an option for diesel grunt
- Romance of Dance in Park Forest traces journey of ballroom dance
- Aurora Historical Society plans memorial exhibit on Henry Pratt mass shooting
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- The best stand-up paddleboard paddle
- The best firewood rack
- The best golf club travel case
- The best gaming keyboard
- The best film and slide scanner
- Suburban restaurants feature deals during Chicago Restaurant Week, Jan. 24-Feb. 9
- The best computer for VR
- The best inflatable snow tube
- The best puzzle game
- The best drill set
- ¿Cambio generacional? Gauff gana y Serena fuera en Australia
- The best teleprompter
- The best coaster
- Toyota sided with Trump in California fight. Will it pay a higher price than others?
- Más de 30 soldados de EEUU sufrieron conmoción cerebral por ataque iraní en Irak
- Motormouth: In cold climes, keep the tank full
- Suburban man charged with cannabis trafficking after undercover investigation ties him to 64 pounds
- Down to Business: Cinnaholic feeds the sweet tooth with creative cinnamon options, and it’s all vegan, too
- Army investigates handling of Illinois sex assault complaints
- Down to Business: Joy of being in hair styling biz is the daily opportunity ‘to make someone’s day’
- Se encienden las alarmas en el Atlético del ‘Cholo’ Simeone
- District 308 looks for state grant for work at Old Post Elementary
- Walmart tests higher starting wage — $12 an hour — at 500 U.S. stores
- Let the good times roll at the must-try sushi restaurant in every state
- Column: Dinner dance will commemorate 20 years of the Jeffrey Pride Foundation
- Elgin News Digest
- Ice Castles sets opening date in Lake Geneva, Wis.
- Prayer vigils set for three Aurora men who were killed in January
- Column: Mike Bloomberg’s campaign, the best money can buy
- Shout Out: Dede Hart, a Lake Bluff resident who practices energy healing
- Hallan 500 kilos de cocaína en cargamento de plátanos colombianos
- Sin ser protagonista, Garoppolo lleva a 49ers al Super Bowl
- Saying ‘diabetes doesn’t discriminate,’ Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs measure limiting out-of-pocket cost of insulin to $100 for 30-day supply
- 7 days, 3 protests: With activists dug in on the left and right, there’s increasing pressure on Americans in the middle to choose sides
- Los latinos nominados al Grammy 2020
- Bolivia suspende relaciones con Cuba
- EPA is letting cities dump more raw sewage into rivers for years to come
- Naperville News Digest
- New year construction season in Buffalo Grove kicks off with Lake Cook Road widening
- Ex-volleyball coach who recorded hundreds of children in bathroom with hidden camera given almost 7 years in prison
- What’s hot, what’s not, and why the new home design trends are Chicago-friendly
- Tyson Fury cuida su salud mental previo a la revancha ante Wilder
- Arlington Heights suspends liquor license of downtown bar ‘to send a message’ after underage patrons served
- Frank Burns, who led US wheelchair basketball team to Paralympics gold, coached at South Side’s ‘O-School,’ dies at 67
- Black History Month: Amazing figures you likely didn’t learn about in school
- Four men charged after shootout at Munster tobacco shop
- Park District of Oak Park receives nearly $600k in state grants for Rehm, Carroll park projects
- Column: Large family from ‘Chinese House of Park Forest’ shares message of helping others
- Column: It’s Restaurant Week season and there are plenty of local options
- Oak Park Dist. 97 gets national honor for advancing quality of teaching through certification
- Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she’ll endorse a presidential candidate who can beat Trump, understands big cities’ needs
- Bears raise ticket prices for 2020 after a disappointing 8-8 season
- Disabato: Tom O’Malley, retiring after 55 years as a basketball coach, says ‘I never measured success by wins and losses but by people’
- The serious consequence of exercising too much, too fast
- Sheriff: Suspect in Alabama rape taken into custody in Gurnee
- Aurora considers study concerning awarding of contracts
- A firefighter since he was 16, fire chief who led departments in Flossmoor and Sauk Village hangs up his hat
- Waukegan Public Library board remains divided after vote to oust executive director
- Commentary: While candidates posture on student loan debt, Midwestern universities are taking action to relieve it
- Body of missing Notre Dame student recovered from a campus lake
- Super Bowl prop bets: More than 1,000 ways to lose
- Eli Manning se retira justo como quería
- El interrogatorio con ahogamiento de los detenidos era tan horrible, que hasta los agentes de la CIA lloraban al verlo
- Speak Out
- Crosby: Frustration mounts for Aurora parents 3 years after professor’s killing in Naperville
- El dopaje hace temblar a la pareja colombiana número uno del tenis mundial
- ¿Quiénes ganarán en los Grammy 2020?
- People harmed by OxyContin can now file claims against Purdue Pharma
- Homewood’s marijuana dispensary is popular with Indiana customers, who say they aren’t worried about the return trip home
- Chef Andrew Zimmern announces new MSNBC show on food and politics
- El nuevo manager de los Mets destaca lazos familiares
- Buffalo Grove trustees approve using motor fuel tax money to pay village’s share on road projects
- Trump, a late convert to the cause, becomes the first sitting president to attend the March for Life anti-abortion rally: ‘I am truly proud to stand with you’
- Griffith OKs $35K raise for council president
- As 75th anniversary nears, families affected by Holocaust sound warning as anti-Semitism incidents rise
- This Week in Naperville
- Moran: Broken-down train in Grayslake highlights the need for a railroad overpass at Route 120
- Illinois Supreme Court grants new trial for Geneva man found guilty of killing wife
- Retrial set next week for man convicted in 2011 beating death of 3-year-old Waukegan child
- Man and teenage boy critically wounded in separate shootings in Humboldt Park neighborhood
- The EPA has made it easier for cities to dump more raw sewage into rivers for years to come
- Suggs llegó a los Chiefs hace un mes y ya está en el Super Bowl
- Recetas antiguas para grandes epidemias
- Rosie Perez testifies that Annabella Sciorra told her in mid-1990s that Harvey Weinstein raped her
- London police are taking surveillance to a whole new level, to start using facial recognition to spot criminal suspects
- Naperville to celebrate North Central football’s National Championship with rally
- Bannockburn officials still undecided on apartment, retail proposal
- From Hap Hazzard to Midwest Cartel, this one-legged rock-n-roller’s memoirs reveal an unconventional life
- The complete Puppy Bowl XVI starting lineup
- California legalized marijuana 2 years ago. So why is the state seizing so much of it?
- Familiares afrontan el dolor tras la masacre en una comunidad mormona de México
- Letters: Retirees can live well on $55,000 a year
- Need a legal pot shop in California? Grab your smartphone
- Alaska pot shops to be among 1st in U.S. to allow consumption
- Chicago shop owner given 7 years in prison for selling synthetic weed laced with rat poison
- Column: The darkness where the future should be — what happens to a society that loses its capacity for awe and wonder at things to come?
- Potempa: It’s a dozen years for Teibel’s veterans’ charity dinner
- Art experts warn of a surging market in fake prints
- The Spin: Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she’ll endorse in Dem presidential race | Mayor boycotts Trump’s speech, will watch impeachment | Obama portraits coming to Chicago
- Buffalo Grove activists offered letter-writing event for supporters not able to join Women’s March
- Residents can provide input, ask questions on updating Naperville Environmental Sustainability Plan
- PBS documentary probes radical black-Latino-poor white 1960s alliance in Chicago
- Implican a Saints en escándalo de abusos sexuales del clero
- Houston warehouse explosion: Two dead, buildings and homes damaged, residents frightened from their sleep miles away, authorities said
- Could Nick Madrigal be the White Sox’s opening-day second baseman? ‘Whenever they call me, I’ll be ready.’
- Teacher Feature: One size does not fit all when it comes to teaching, and that’s the key to connecting with kids
- Oswego tattoo artist ready to continue ministry after long battle with flesh-eating bacteria
- Column: ‘Ban the box’ laws, a helping hand for ex-offenders, are actually holding them back
- Estelar receptor venezolano de los Reales se hace ciudadano estadounidense
- 3 teens arrested in central Illinois triple homicide case
- Construction on $4.9 million Washington School addition in Dist. 64 planned to start in early February
- Luis Enrique se sale de su zona de confort y llega al Grammy 2020
- Phony delivery driver who sexually assaulted woman in Albany Park denied bail
- Column: Let’s go there! The Biden ‘scandal’ in Ukraine needs a full airing.
- Antetokounmpo, Jordan y Neymar bendicen el estreno de la NBA en París
- Northwestern University professor leading research team trying to stop coronavirus: ‘We are here specifically for this.’
- A major fear for Democrats: will the party come together by November?
- Doubts loom over nominating process for Grammy Awards
- Naperville North esports team second in North America after just one year of play
- Pastor will continue feeding community after church burned down: ‘We have to continue doing what we’re doing’
- Pictures: Royal puppies from British Virgin Islands available for adoption
- Faculty senate at Governors State gives ‘no confidence’ vote for president after watchdog report on payroll irregularities
- Portage home to new flagship building for NorthShore Health Centers
- ‘A new era for Valpo soccer’: Former assistant coach Mike Enghofer, a Merrillville graduate, succeeds Danny Jeftich at Valparaiso
- Michigan family demolishes home before the lake can
- Tatiana Clouthier en cuatro temas
- Corrections and clarifications
- Oswego police searching for four burglars after break-in at Route 71 business
- Tinley Park police investigate armed robbery, carjacking they believe are linked
- Lake County Sheriff’s Office locates suspect who escaped from back of squad car near Lake Villa
- Editorial: How to wipe out cervical cancer in Chicago
- Taxi company loses permission to do business in Park Ridge
- Robert Archibald, an Illinois center on 2 Big Ten championship basketball teams, dies at 39
- State honors Aurora’s Endiro Coffee
- Where was Bo Jackson when college football’s greatest were honored at the national championship game? Taking care of business, he says at SoxFest.
- Commentary: Don’t wait to hit rock bottom — treat alcohol problems before the worst happens
- Letters to the Editor
- After big wins last year, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Democratic legislature start new session facing major challenges on pensions, property taxes and ethics
- At least 18 dead, hundreds hurt as earthquake topples buildings in eastern Turkey
- Column: Hope is back on the South Side. Can White Sox newcomers Yasmani Grandal and Dallas Keuchel help them win and win over fans?
- Column: Donna More targets Kim Foxx over Jussie Smollett fiasco and Bill Conway for ties to his father’s influential investment firm
- They rented waterfront Airbnb homes to smuggle piles of cocaine, authorities say
- Bulls forward Lauri Markkanen will miss 4-6 weeks with a pelvis injury
- Owner keeps the wheels turning at Batavia bike shop
- South Elgin bike-sharing system would cost $8,200 a year, officials told
- Column: From the man who brought you the @MayorEmanuel Twitter parody, a newsletter on Trump’s impeachment
- Does Eloy Jimenez want to DH for the White Sox? ‘No, (bleep) that.’
- Church news
- Column: Anyone but Trump? Not so fast.
- Coronavirus death toll jumps to 41 in China as lockdown expands to unprecedented 36 million people
- Harvey seeks to resume control of water operations, alleging receiver appointed to oversee department is ineffective
- University Park man is found guilty in murder of Hinsdale mom in her home in 2017. DuPage jury delivers verdict after deliberating about 4 hours.
- Dallas Keuchel apologizes for his role in the Astros sign-stealing scandal but says, ‘It wasn’t every game’
- Post-Tribune Local Scoreboard for Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020
- Cubs reportedly close to signing veteran outfielder Steven Souza Jr.
- No surprise: Her notably quick return from an injury aside, Jessica Carrothers leads Crown Point past Chesterton in a conference-clinching win
- Photos: SoxFest 2020
- Rain, fog to give way to overnight snow, 3 to 5 inches possible north and away from lake
- For years Chicago police rated the risk of tens of thousands being caught up in violence. That controversial effort has quietly been ended.
- Why aren’t there more rich foster parents?
- Daily Southtown Local Scoreboard for Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020
- Man found beaten to death inside vacant house in West Englewood
- Man found beaten to death inside vacant West Englewood home, police say
- Photos: Kings 98, Bulls 81
- College notes: New Trier’s Jeannie Boehm thriving as Harvard senior forward
- Teacher’s aide at Oak Lawn school accused of sexually abusing student
- Joel Watts hits pair of 3-pointers from NBA range as H-F tops Lincoln-Way East: ‘I’ve been practicing that for years. I do it every game.’
- ‘He does so many things’: Jake Wadding’s 10 assists, part of a near triple-double, pay dividends for teammate Alex Schmidt and Chesterton in a win against Crown Point
- 3 takeaways from the Bulls’ 98-81 loss to the Kings, including Lauri Markkanen’s absence and Zach LaVine’s increased scoring load
- David Reyes sinks four straight free throws as Oak Lawn holds off Richards: ‘That was the craziest game of my high school career’
- Democrats close their case with a warning: Trump will continue to endanger American democracy if he is not removed
- St. Viator wrestling has three captains as program ‘ambassadors’