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- Daily horoscope for April 20, 2020
- Ask Amy: Niece’s outbursts terrify aunt
- ‘That was nothing’: Former Bulls guard BJ Armstrong offers his perspective on ‘The Last Dance’ and Michael Jordan’s relationships with teammates
- 50 resources that will help educate kids at home
- Stay-at-home together: Experts offer advice on keeping relationships healthy during quarantine
- Fourth detainee with COVID-19 at Cook County Jail dies
- 4/20 fizzle: Pot industry tested as virus slams economy
- Ask Anna: Dealing with pain during sex, and more dirty advice for spring
- Letters: Military veterans rely heavily on the USPS to get their medication
- Editorial: In the battle against COVID-19, privacy can’t become collateral damage
- Illinois districts were urged to prepare e-learning plans for students in case of emergency. Most didn’t do it.
- Ninaa Edwards was killed, allegedly by her boyfriend. Now a foundation in her honor is reaching out to domestic violence victims.
- Column: What Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz are really saying is coronavirus deaths matter less than the freedoms of the majority
- Chicago banker Jesse Binga opened doors for fellow African Americans and once was the king of State Street. Now he’s forgotten.
- Idris Elba and Sabrina Dhowre Elba, recovering from coronavirus, to help others
- Daywatch: Pritzker pushes back on shutdown protests, state nursing homes hit hard by virus and Chicago-made glasses designed to block facial recognition
- Fewer dead opossums, a shower of squirrels: How the coronavirus pandemic is affecting wildlife
- From Michael Jordan’s 63 points to Scottie Pippen’s trade demand: How the Chicago Tribune covered the events you saw in Episode 2 of ‘The Last Dance’
- From Jerry Krause’s infamous quote to drafting Michael Jordan: How the Chicago Tribune covered the events you saw in Episode 1 of ‘The Last Dance’
- Is coronavirus to blame for my delayed Trip Mate insurance claim? Travel Troubleshooter investigates.
- Bears Q&A: Is Cole Kmet in play in Round 2 after Trey Burton was cut? What about a trade for O.J. Howard? Would it make sense to switch to a 4-3 base defense?
- Orland Park’s former village manager alleges defamation, emotional distress in lawsuit
- Column: The Chicago Bulls’ ‘Last Dance’ began with their joy diminished — and their dynasty threatened
- Village officials urge residents to fill out 2020 census as they stay home due to coronavirus pandemic
- 2020 NFL mock draft (Version 8.0): Eight trades shake things up in first round — for the Ravens, too
- Northbrook, Glenview public school districts encouraging students to use anonymous text option for mental health assistance if they need help
- Former Lake County NAACP chapter president, Waukegan alderman dies at age of 90
- Prince Harry and Meghan Markle say they will no longer cooperate with British tabloids because of ‘distorted, false or invasive’ stories
- Couple with decades of experience at Lutheran General talk about COVID-19’s unique challenges
- Hits, misses and busts: Grading all of Ryan Pace’s 32 draft picks as the Chicago Bears GM
- Coronavirus devastates the Detroit police force, from the chief on down
- Local teachers transition to online, try to stay connected with students over Zoom meetings, FaceTime calls
- Audio of 911 calls reveals confusion as panicked partygoers hid inside and outside Barrington Hills home where fatal shooting happened
- Pay now, stay later: Hotels hit hard by coronavirus pandemic selling ‘bonds’ for future travel
- ‘Hey, it’s your friend Bob Saget here.’ Amid coronavirus, comedian wants to talk to you
- Talk of the County: Trump has met his match in ‘real men’ Pritzker and Cuomo
- Column: Drive-by parade for terminally ill mother displays the best of humanity at the most needed time
- The Korea Baseball Organization is ready to start its season, a former White Sox scout says: ‘It’s pretty much business as usual’
- Speak Out: Where are people getting all these face masks we’re encouraged to wear?
- 2020 NFL mock draft: Five-round projections
- Zoom’s security flaws were no secret to business partners like Dropbox
- 2020 NFL Draft: Top 10 quarterbacks
- What’s on TV Monday: ‘Better Call Saul’ on AMC; Coronavirus
- Sujeto disfrazado de policía mata a 16 personas en Canadá
- Un futbolista de cada 10 se siente deprimido
- La pandemia de coronavirus asesta golpe al narcotráfico
- Talk of the County: A vote for Biden is a vote for socialism, and the country sinking ‘to new lows as it did during the Obama years’
- Homewood man charged in death of girlfriend’s 5-year-old son in Schererville
- Paulina Rubio protagoniza bochornoso directo en macrofestival benéfico (VIDEO)
- A comedian is giving her ‘Millionaire’ TV winnings to a Northbrook parrot rescue, even though she doesn’t know much about the facility
- Peyton Manning reminds Joe Burrow: Bengals picking No. 1 for a reason
- Deep receiver class faces high hopes for immediate impact
- Swedish Days in Geneva canceled due to pandemic
- Opinion: A decade after Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Trump ignores lessons learned with rollback of regulations
- Talk of the County: Trump is ‘proving himself a power-hungry, insane, asylum candidate’
- Looking for a way to say thank you? Try these happy gifts.
- Documentary series proves fortunate for five NFL prospects
- El coronavirus acaba con el ascenso en México y mucho más
- Climate change brings summertime heat to Florida’s early spring
- Exestudiantes acuden en ayuda de un enfermo de coronavirus
- Next up, locusts? Maine had 5 potential disasters in a week
- Among the ‘climate monsters’ that afflict California, Megadrought is the most reliable
- Hyde Park bookstores turn the page to e-commerce amid coronavirus pandemic
- GoFundMe, restaurants help turn food drive for Advocate Condell Medical workers in Libertyville into a consistent effort during pandemic
- Japan scientist ‘very pessimistic’ Olympics will happen
- Hobart High team’s Remedy Glove tops state
- Person to person: Facing negative emotions helps mental health
- We do what we can to be decent
- Talk of the County: Trump critics ‘lost in a world of hate’ and need to get out
- Looking for a way to say thank you? Try these happy gifts
- Column: She lived through polio, the Great Depression and the civil rights movement. She has some advice for living through coronavirus.
- A gunman disguised as a police officer went on a 12-hour rampage that left at least 18 people dead in Canada’s worst mass shooting
- Expecting $2 billion loss in first quarter, United Airlines to seek another $4.5 billion in federal coronavirus aid
- Talk of the County: Florida governor is ‘another goofy Republican who’s full of it’
- College sports, academics a balancing act for top performers: ‘I never wanted to sacrifice one for the other.’
- Tribune Overdue Film Festival: ‘Destry Rides Again,’ when Marlene Dietrich met James Stewart way out west
- Commissioners extend county building closure through May 1
- Hospitales de CDMX, casi a capacidad en plena pandemia
- Tobacco, vaping industries seize opportunities in coronavirus with freebies, donations
- Scammers on the prowl as government money goes out
- Michael Jordan’s ‘Dream Team’ jersey sells for $216,000 — his 2nd-highest seller ever at a public auction
- Nations seek to ease nursing home loneliness yet keep safe
- 3 Naperville nursing homes have confirmed cases of COVID-19; one facility has reported two deaths
- How young investors can ride out market downturn
- Commentary: Racism is the other virus sweeping America during this pandemic
- El actor Nick Cordero pierde una pierna debido al coronavirus
- Kaehler Luggage made it through the Great Depression, World War II and the 2008 recession. ‘This one’s just way different.’
- Wisconsin Tavern League calls for opening bars by May 1, more than 3 weeks ahead of the current stay-at-home order
- Column: Protests against coronavirus stay-at-home orders put us all at risk, may delay America’s reopening
- Bored at home? Check out these local virtual events.
- ‘She is the perfect fit’: Sandburg libero Rachel Krasowski ready to hit the court running for DePaul in women’s volleyball
- Iowa beef processing plant reopens one day after testing shows 177 workers tested positive for coronavirus
- Extended stay-at-home order leads to spring, summer cancellations
- Bishop Ford Freeway shooting kills Chicago man; state police investigating
- Working from home? Dress like the adult you’re getting paid to be.
- Column: How a bakery survives the pandemic apocalypse
- Bars and restaurants peel cash from walls to help idled workers
- Gary sees ‘significant jump’ in COVID-19 cases, official says
- La burbuja del fútbol-negocio está en serio peligro
- When pet owners fall ill with coronavirus, what happens next?
- La atención a los pacientes de coronavirus se pierde en la traducción
- Bored at home? Check out these local virtual events.
- ‘Turn around, go back’: Summer islands don’t want coronavirus, or you
- ‘Turn around, go back’: Summer islands don’t want coronavirus, or you
- Need comfy shoes? Here is the best athleisure footwear
- Column: Every border state is allowing golf, so why not Illinois?
- Quickly
- Prince Harry begged Thomas Markle not to speak to media before wedding to Meghan: report
- Australia moves to force Google and Facebook to compensate media outlets
- ‘I think it is just going to spur greatness’: Batavia’s Abby Zipse begins to dial into her future at Northern Illinois in women’s soccer
- OPINIÓN/La vida se volvió rara en muy poco tiempo: ¡No te rajes!
- Hutton: Former Merrillville star Jaylon Holmes nears the end of a long road to Division I basketball after committing to Western Michigan
- Column: Olympia Fields telepsychiatry program addresses mental health issues during coronavirus pandemic
- President Trump leans into anti-government messaging, nurturing protests against state-issued stay-at-home orders
- The pandemic’s hidden victims: Sick or dying, but not from the coronavirus
- Rafa Nadal: ‘No entiendo muy bien por qué no podemos jugar’
- Elgin-area districts set tentative summer graduation dates, make alternate plans for proms and other events
- Oler mostaza y jabón puede salvar vidas en la pandemia
- Youth sports worry about weathering pandemic, and future play
- Israeli coalition deal keeps Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in power
- New this week: Beastie Boys doc, Earth Day shows, ‘Fleabag’
- Pandemic pushes prom possibilities for many
- Willie Nelson is firing up a 4/20 livestream concert with famous friends
- Parade helps 101-year-old World War II veteran mark celebration in time of social distancing
- Big restaurant chains like Potbelly’s and Ruth’s Chris have won small-business PPP loans. Shake Shack is giving its $10 million back.
- Can’t find the measuring cups again? Employ these cheap and easy kitchen organizing hacks
- Willson Contreras’ home workouts are featured in a new Gatorade video
- La otra urgencia en la cuarentena
- Cameron Esposito was supposed to be book touring. Her partner got coronavirus. More change and challenge.
- Oklahoma City marks 25 years since America’s deadliest homegrown attack
- Pair killed in early Monday crash in Hanover Township
- Indiana commission approves in-person early voting the week before the June 2 primary
- Glenview Terrace rehab facility sees 24 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 7 related deaths, facility and public health officials say
- Oklahoma City marks 25 years since America’s deadliest homegrown attack
- Is the virus on my clothes? My shoes? My hair? My newspaper?
- For Charlie Kirk, conservative activist, the virus is a cudgel
- Michelle Obama launches online reading series for kids
- Brad Paisley raises a glass for frontline workers
- The states the most active NFL players are from
- Los libros que recibieron más quejas en escuelas y bibliotecas
- Pandemia refuerza control de Maduro
- A virtual NFL draft might be a back to the future moment
- Youth sports worry about weathering pandemic, and future play
- For Charlie Kirk, conservative activist, the virus is a cudgel
- All dressed up and nowhere to go: Chicagoland proms get postponed or canceled
- Un policía triunfa con video contra la tristeza por el confinamiento
- ‘Chicago Offstage! Live At Home’ a lively fundraiser and reminder of just what we are missing
- Former Garrett Popcorn employee sues the chain, alleging retaliation for safety complaints
- Wayne Rooney critica a dueños de equipos de la MLS
- Obama’s health care guru has been right so far about coronavirus. His message: This will be over, but it’ll hurt.
- Who was Jerry Krause?
- Work resuming at Seattle-area Boeing plants after coronavirus shutdown
- Naperville’s mayor says he wants some businesses to reopen May 1, ‘but I’m not making the call’
- Enrique y Meghan vetan varios tabloides por chismosos
- 33 Porter County Jail inmates test positive for COVID-19, while Lake County awaits testing results
- Commentary: Eddie Genson was from an era when ‘lawyers were allowed to be characters’
- Families sue helicopter company in deadly crash that killed Kobe Bryant and 8 others
- Oak Brook police, fire unions reject furlough request
- Letters: City needs to revisit project after botched demolition in Little Village
- Oil demand collapses: For first time, price of barrel goes negative
- When older relatives shrug at coronavirus restrictions
- Pactan vuelta a los entrenamientos en La Liga española
- Illinois was a month away from officially adding an ice hockey program. But the school has ‘hit the pause button’ in the wake of COVID-19.
- Cárteles, y la hija de ‘El Chapo’ repartieron despensas, AMLO lo critica
- Inmate’s long fight with criminal justice system ends in coronavirus death
- Humane Indiana works to re-home animals
- Aurora senior facility has highest number of COVID-19 deaths among Kane County nursing homes, new state data shows
- ‘La soledad mata a los ancianos’
- ‘Las mejores dos horas de la cuarentena’: ‘The Last Dance’ de Michael Jordan con los Bulls
- Financial spring cleaning tips during a downturn
- Cientos de manifestantes protestan contra el confinamiento en Pensilvania
- Scammers want your stimulus check. Here’s how to keep your $1,200.
- Your virtual NFL draft party guide
- Former Valparaiso H.S. star Brandon Newman’s father, a Chicago police officer, dies of COVID-19
- Paul McCartney: ‘Los Beatles fueron mejores que los Rolling Stones’
- Sterilizing N95 masks in Waukegan
- On pandemic’s front lines, nurses from half a world away
- On pandemic’s front lines, nurses from half a world away
- Nationally, the first 2 episodes of ‘The Last Dance’ were ESPN’s most-viewed documentary content ever
- NBA lookback: Why Michael Jordan needed to go play baseball
- Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot rips Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for reopening beaches: ‘God help us all’
- Aldermen advance Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s pick, former Dallas Chief David Brown, for Chicago police superintendent
- Column: Property tax plague waiver needed for Lake County homeowners
- Oak Lawn will require face coverings in public places beginning Friday
- Fallece el director de cine mexicano Gabriel Retes
- Archdiocese of Chicago reaches $2.1 million settlement in lawsuit claiming 7-year-old girl abused at church camp
- Pediatrics official at Advocate Children’s Hospital in Oak Lawn: Don’t put masks on babies
- Jalisco y Michoacán aislados por avance de COVID-19
- Corrections and clarifications
- Agüero da clases de español a niños durante confinamiento
- Mayor Lori Lightfoot says Willie Wilson wanted millions in cash to buy masks; Wilson denies accusation
- Aldermen push back against Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s emergency powers proposal
- Commentary: The key word missing from Trump’s plan to reopen America: Quarantine
- Deaths of Chicago firefighters linked to COVID-19 determined to be in line of duty
- Coronavirus update: Cases in DuPage, Will hit 3,600 combined; Edward Hospital installs daffodils for recovered patients; giving event to benefit Naperville nonprofits
- Three more Elgin residents dead of COVID-19; four of Kane County’s 36 deaths lived at Elgin nursing home
- Natti Natasha: La pandemia nos ha afectado a todos
- Millones hacen fila para recibir donaciones de comida en EEUU
- Ramsey Lewis brings his jazz pianism to cyberspace
- Wilmette’s Warming House moves teen activities online: ‘We want to be as caring and welcoming as we can be right now’
- Cubs and White Sox among teams guaranteeing to pay their employees through May, even as MLB reportedly will allow furloughs and pay cuts
- State identifies 20 nursing homes in Lake County with coronavirus clusters
- President Trump says states ‘in good shape’ on testing, criticizes governors who’ve said they don’t have enough
- Chicago’s coronavirus disparity: Black Chicagoans still dying disproportionately in city as Mayor Lightfoot creates response teams for hard-hit neighborhoods
- Amid N95 mask shortage, new Waukegan site set up to sterilize thousands of masks daily with hydrogen peroxide gas
- López Obrador critica a narcos por repartir ayuda
- Talks drag in Washington on new $450 billion coronavirus aid package for small businesses, hospitals
- Illinois congressional Republicans oppose Democratic state Senate president’s request for $41 billion in federal aid, accuse him of using crisis to try to cover mismanagement
- Two killed, one wounded in Markham shootout between vehicles
- Commentary: David Mamet: Uncle Henry, two pandemics and the cohesion of family
- Extension of Gordon Road discussed to help ease traffic on Route 47, Orchard Road
- DuPage County reports 7 more coronavirus deaths. All were residents of long-term care facilities.
- Chicago alderman proposes COVID-19 rent relief plan
- Developers say Aurora projects should finish on time, despite pandemic
- Some US manufacturers reopening amid fierce political heat
- Governors push back hard after Trump accuses Democrats of playing ‘a very dangerous political game’ by insisting there is a shortage of coronavirus tests
- Maine East, South high schools plan ‘virtual graduation,’ delayed prom during COVID-19
- The Spin: Trump vs. Pritzker on COVID-19 testing | Willie Wilson vs. Mayor Lightfoot | Obama on Chicago in the time of Michael Jordan
- 4/20 just isn’t same this year for marijuana users amid the coronavirus crisis. ‘It’s a weird one.’
- Families react as Illinois for the first time lists COVID-19 cases at nursing homes. ‘We hadn’t heard anything at all. I was pretty shocked.’
- Gyms, hair salons, bowling alleys and tattoo parlors: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says some shuttered businesses can reopen Friday
- During daily briefing, President Donald Trump blasts Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker over COVID-19 testing
- Oak Park police seek assistance from neighbors to solve murders of prominent attorneys found stabbed to death in their home
- Inmates at 2 Illinois prisons allowed again to talk on phone with attorneys, after temporary suspension
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened April 20 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Amid questions about coronavirus outbreaks at nursing homes, Illinois to ramp up testing
- Coronavirus deaths greater where Fox News viewers watched ‘Hannity’ more than Tucker Carlson, says U. of C. study
- ‘Masturbation will not spread COVID-19’: Solo sex is best option for pleasure during quarantine, especially if you live alone
- Reportan grave al líder norcoreano después de una cirugía
- México aprueba amnistía de presos para evitar contagios por coronavirus
- Trump suspenderá temporalmente la inmigración a EEUU, según anunció
- 1 dead, 2 injured in South Side shooting, police say
- Letter to the Editor: Some landlords are seniors and depend on rental income
- Fans sue MLB and teams over ticket money, ask for class action