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- Ask Amy: Mother’s mistakes come back to haunt her
- Daily horoscope for April 3, 2020
- Flashback: How fingerprinting made Chicago famous: New technology led to 1910 murder conviction in a first for the nation
- Column: If you get the coronavirus, would you, should you, make it public?
- Column: The kid from the South Side and the voice of the Sox: Ed Farmer, RIP
- Mental health groups mobilize virtual community for those isolated by coronavirus outbreak. ‘This is a lifeline for people’
- ‘To us right now, time is life.’ Chinese community mobilizing to provide medical supplies to Chicago-area hospitals.
- Commentary: ‘Tiger King’ confuses binge-watching ‘justice’ with the real thing. That’s a problem
- Daywatch: Pritzker launches celebrity virus campaign, lawmakers craft post-pandemic budget and how to know if your cleaning products are working
- How to submit a virtual event to the calendar
- Jeff Mauro co-hosting ‘quarantine edition’ of Food Network’s ‘The Kitchen’ from his River Forest home
- ‘A staple in the scenery of the White Sox’: Darrin Jackson, A.J. Pierzynski and Paul Konerko reflect on time spent with Ed Farmer
- 10 things to do on your next trip to help you make better photo memories
- Navy fires aircraft carrier commander who sought help for his coronavirus-stricken vessel
- Deer Park man charged in 2018 hit-and-run that killed Schiller Park bicyclist
- Carpentersville school holds neighborhood parade to cheer students stuck at home: ‘We all miss the kids’
- Who is the most popular Cub: The dazzling Javier Baez, the mellow Kris Bryant or the charitable Anthony Rizzo?
- After hitting .344 in three minor league stops during his first pro season, Libertyville graduate Jimmy Govern ‘was pumped’ about a new year in the Royals’ system
- Kraft Heinz ramps up production as shoppers cook at home more often
- Mobility data shows room for social distancing improvement in Lake, Porter counties
- ‘Tiger King’ animals rescued in 2017 at Colorado sanctuary
- Employees at Trump hotel in Chicago among thousands in Illinois laid off in March because of coronavirus
- Mental health specialists are ramping up ‘tele-therapy’ treatments for clients during pandemic
- Judge lets rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine go home, citing COVID-19
- Getting outdoor exercise ‘helps maintain some sanity,’ but keeping social distance imperative
- Tourism industry scrambles for government loans
- Coronavirus: Un millón de enfermos y medio mundo confinado
- Speak Out: Impressed with young people helping during this pandemic
- Pese a cuarentena, la contaminación persiste en CDMX
- Speak Out: Politicians need to come together to battle pandemic
- Lost your job? Here’s a guide on how to keep or get health insurance
- MLS amplía la suspensión de prácticas de sus equipos
- Lakeview home with 6 bedrooms: $3M
- Empty hotels. Idled tour buses. The pandemic is devastating tourism.
- UEFA confía en reanudar las ligas en julio
- Funerarias de NY en ‘estado de emergencia’ por el coronavirus
- Indiana death toll tops 100 as Lake County reports 7th COVID-19 death, officials say; Franciscan hospitals ask for homemade masks, gowns
- Can pets get the coronavirus?
- Decade of job growth comes to an end, undone by a pandemic
- Judíos ultraortodoxos ignoran cuarentena, lo pagan caro
- Should you tell your landlord if you have coronavirus? As Chicago tenants get requests to disclose, experts say such attempts are misguided
- What’s on TV Friday, April 3: Series finale of ‘Hawaii Five-0’; Coronavirus TV coverage
- Judge tosses DraftKings bettors’ lawsuit against Houston Astros and Red Sox, but calls both teams a disgrace
- ‘Lean On Me,’ ‘Lovely Day’ singer Bill Withers dies at 81
- Reik pide no juzgar a quienes no pueden quedarse en casa
- Labor fight collides with the pandemic at Trader Joe’s
- As the coronavirus rages, birthday parties celebrate life in isolation
- The NRA sees a threat, and an opportunity, in COVID-19
- ‘We just got laid off out of nowhere’: Cooks and cashiers at university dining halls plead for Chicago schools to pay lost wages amid coronavirus job cuts
- John Prine update: Wife Fiona reports he is ‘very ill’ with double pneumonia, ‘and yet I remain hopeful’
- Labor fight collides with the pandemic at Trader Joe’s
- Tribeca Film Festival to proceed, in part, online
- Flight of the influencers
- EPA threatens legal action against sellers of fake coronavirus cleaners
- Zion elementary school district fires principal charged with sexually assaulting student a decade ago
- How far should police go in enforcing coronavirus lockdowns?
- ‘We can’t make enough mac and cheese’: Processed food is undergoing a renaissance as people settle in for a long stretch of cooking at home
- South Central’s Wes Bucher is the 2019-20 Post-Tribune Girls Basketball Coach of the Year
- Paramount hosts livestream series, delays pre-order deadline for 2020-21 season
- Introducing the 2019-20 Post-Tribune Girls Basketball All-Area Team
- Médicos cubanos ayudan al mundo con COVID-19, EEUU critica
- Column: The COVID-19 slump has arrived
- ‘Maestros Choice’: Chicago Symphony Orchestra launches series on WFMT
- My city friends want to wait out the virus in my suburban home
- Crown Point’s Jessica Carrothers is the 2019-20 Post-Tribune Girls Basketball Player of the Year
- Tokyo’s unfinished Olympic Athletes Village could house coronavirus patients
- A City Colleges employee has died from COVID-19. Coworkers say they were told she had bronchitis.
- You know the original, but these coronavirus song parodies are catchy too
- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo emerges as ‘Trump whisperer’ during the coronavirus outbreak
- Local leaders praise Pritzker plan to reopen Westlake Hospital to treat COVID-19 patients
- EEUU: Burocracia y escasez de respiradores ante la pandemia
- COLUMNA/La pelea contra el tiempo y el alcohol para la exboxeadora Mia St. John
- Ex-wife sick. Daughter sick. 3 friends dead. Everyone knows someone who is sick with coronavirus.
- Cómo saber si tu préstamo estudiantil es elegible para el alivio económico por coronavirus
- Amid coronavirus outbreak, Mayor Lori Lightfoot says no plans to close Chicago streets to traffic and open them to exercise
- Estrellas de la Premier rechazan reducción de salarios
- Realtors, lenders brace for impact of COVID-19 on housing market in the coming months
- NWI DJ’s talk affects of closed bars, canceled events
- Muere el mítico cantautor Bill Withers a los 81 años
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- Bradshaw: University of Illinois is more than a safety school
- Oak Brook makes an additional $870,000 in budget cuts, as closed businesses reduce sales tax revenue
- Lo que debe hacer si no puede pagar la renta este y otros meses por venir
- Tele-therapy and #ChicagoUpstander: How Chicagoans are living through the coronavirus crisis Friday
- Column: A love letter to Chicago, whose people are stepping up while the city is shuttered by coronavirus
- Alianza Lima presenta a su nuevo técnico en plena cuarentena
- Charcoal grill ignites fire in Naperville home’s deck, siding and atttic
- How to care for your mental health during COVID-19 pandemic
- NBC-5 Chicago reporter Natalie Martinez sells Bucktown condo for $495,000
- NBC 5 Chicago reporter Natalie Martinez lists Bucktown condo for $500,000
- Dump, stir and plop: Drop biscuits are easy and comforting
- Peaks, testing, lockdowns: How the coronavirus vocabulary is causing confusion
- Mitch Trubisky vs. Nick Foles is ‘an open competition’ to be the Bears starting QB. Plus 3 more things we learned from Ryan Pace and Matt Nagy.
- Has your dystopian play come in handy?
- Noodles Pho U offers variety of Asian specialties
- Vendors return in Wuhan as China prepares for a national coronavirus memorial for health workers and others who died in the outbreak
- Nectar mattress review: Does it really relieve pressure?
- The best earplug
- The best wild mushroom field guide
- The best wall mount range hood
- The best soil test kit
- 19-year-old man shot in Lynwood, area police searching for more information
- The best electric bike conversion kit
- The best sunscreen lotion
- Nursing home infections, deaths surge amid lockdown measures
- Billy Johnston, influential leader of Illinois’ once thriving harness racing scene, dies
- ‘The pandemic is like a punch in the mouth’: Medicaid faces new challenges amid U.S. coronavirus outbreak
- Working from home got you stiff and sore? Here are 8 tips to stay healthy
- Cuatro salvadoreños fallecidos por coronavirus en EEUU
- La Grange: Finding balance in the time of quarantines
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois joins ranks of insurers waiving cost-sharing for COVID-19 treatment
- Teen in Yorkville robbed during exchange of item bought online
- Does COVID-19 hit women and men differently? US isn’t keeping track.
- U.S. Treasury reverses course, now says seniors, vets won’t have to file tax return to receive stimulus check
- These are the most popular jelly bean flavors in America
- Column: This young Chicago architect’s life was cut short by the 1918 flu pandemic. He could have been one of the greats.
- Editorial: Empathy and flexibility, not a rent strike, are the right responses to coronavirus
- Column: Six things I’m grateful for during this stay-at-home order, no C-words allowed
- Airbnb customers vent about ‘confusing’ refund policy for travel during coronavirus: ‘It’s been a total hassle’
- WNBA postpones the start of its season because of the coronavirus, weeks before training camps were set to begin
- Yorkville may withdraw from cable TV consortium
- German accent, Italian flair: How Audi taught Lamborghini quality
- Valparaiso panel debates liquor license requests for planned new downtown restaurants
- Old Town with heated driveway and front steps: $2.75M
- In Chicago-area food deserts, it’s getting even harder for residents to find fresh, healthy groceries because of the coronavirus
- Suspect in deaths of University of Wisconsin doctor and her husband was known to them
- Paramédicos en España: ‘Apenas dormimos. Tenemos miedo y soledad’
- Rels B y Nathy Peluso estrenan nueva colaboración (VIDEO)
- McGrath: Ask, and ye shall receive — readers respond to column on books to read while stuck at home and offer recommendations
- Long Grove home with in-ground pool: $1.05M
- Column: David Schuster lost his job at WSCR-AM 670 — but not his sense of humor: ‘At least I’m not lying down yet’
- Down to Business: People aren’t broken and need to be fixed, they’re hurt and need to be healed, therapist says
- Salvation Army volunteers helping people with food and prayer in drive through
- Column: Solid science, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, are essential during this pandemic
- Column: Waiting for unemployment insurance benefits to kick in? ‘Just hold tight.’
- Don’t tell anyone, but baking bread — even sourdough, one of the biggest lockdown pastimes — is easy
- Tribeca Film Festival to proceed, in part, online
- With parks closed, Disney starts furloughs in 2 weeks
- Trump EPA still hasn’t told thousands of Americans about cancer risks from ethylene oxide
- Queiroz, técnico de Colombia, pide que le rebajen el sueldo
- White House: Anyone who will be in close proximity to President Trump or Vice President Mike Pence will be given rapid a COVID-19 test
- Down to Business: Maaco owner in Carpentersville says he still gets a thrill when a car ‘leaves our place looking brand new’
- Clarendon Hills offers video, phone access for April 6 Village Board meeting
- Los cadáveres agobian a Ecuador, se acumulan en las calles por coronavirus
- ‘It is going to get much worse’: U.S. sheds 701,000 jobs as COVID-19 pushes unemployment to 4.4%. Some economists predict it will hit 15%.
- Coronavirus pandemic leaves Montgomery greenhouse with thousands of lilies ‘all dressed up and nowhere to go’
- The Bulls reportedly will seek a top front-office executive with full basketball authority, altering the controversial GarPax era
- Un romance de varias décadas
- 10 questions with… Al’s Cafe server/hostess Kate Kessuvan
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- Construction projects continue as lighter traffic aids workers
- Watch James Corden in ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ for the best bit of quarantine escapism yet
- Column: Worship services should not be exempt from stay-at-home orders
- Brooke Baldwin becomes 2nd CNN on-air person diagnosed
- Mixed first day for stimulus small-business loan program; some banks not ready
- Indiana governor calls on abortion clinics to cancel or postpone ‘elective’ procedures in COVID-19 pandemic response
- 4-year-old dead from gunshot wound in Thornton
- Marvel remakes release calendar; ‘Mulan’ moves to late July
- Restaurants turn to toilet paper giveaways to lure carryout customers
- COVID-19 may throw a generation of college grads off their career paths. Some Chicago companies already are cutting internships.
- Call me? The many ways coronavirus is changing relationships from first dates to wedding days
- Down to Business: With people stuck inside these days, interior designer says she’s getting calls about creating new looks
- Brooke Baldwin becomes 2nd CNN on-air person to test positive for coronavirus
- Lake County food pantries stepping up efforts to meet needs caused by coronavirus
- The coronavirus pandemic could slow growth of applications for Illinois medical marijuana cards
- Billionaire Ken Griffin, Illinois’ richest resident, sets up emergency trading base at Florida hotel
- Springfield nurse explains what it’s like to treat a COVID-19 patient
- Column: Parking lots are now littered with disposable gloves. In a pandemic, we really need to do better.
- Letters: Chicago will come back stronger after this crisis
- Supreme Court postpones April arguments — including fights over subpoenas for Trump’s financial records — because of coronavirus
- ‘Me dijeron que no tenía solución’
- ‘Modern Family’ promete final satisfactorio tras 11 temporadas
- 3M fires back at Trump, says halting exports of N95 face masks would backfire, hurt U.S.
- Greek street food can be found at Gyro Grill in Tinley Park
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- New Lenox resident Andrea Fox has spent six decades on her art
- Despite coronavirus crisis, Aurora stresses importance of accurate census count
- Chicago police officer’s death linked to COVID-19 will be considered on-duty, entitling family to greater benefits
- Chicago yoga studio could face up to $10,000 in fines for defying stay-at-home order, city says
- Letters to the Editor
- As humans move indoors, are coyotes and other urban wildlife entering the void?
- El emotivo video de la Real Federación Española de Fútbol en la campaña contra el coronavirus
- Bo Jackson and other athletes promote social distancing in new campaign to stop coronavirus spread
- Amid crisis, try not to be consumed by smaller things
- Travel firm assured safe Cabo trip that ended with 28 coronavirus cases, Texas students say
- The next coronavirus test will tell you if you are now immune. And it’s fast.
- Carrot the cat has won Instagram fame — and a birthday call from Ellen — by letting her 3 favorite kids dress her in costumes and give her ‘spa treatments.’
- Community news
- Indiana governor extends coronavirus stay-at-home order 2 weeks
- College seniors in spring sports throughout the Chicago region weigh the professional and financial factors of an additional year of eligibility
- Planned expansion of College of Lake County’s Waukegan campus pushed back over coronavirus concerns
- Letters to the Editor
- Where to order Passover dishes or full dinners for pickup in Chicago area
- New coronavirus testing sites: Pilsen, Roseland and Joliet
- Bisbal y Aitana honran a héroes de la pandemia con video (VIDEO)
- Niedner: COVID-19 crisis puts us in “the place beyond words”
- Dr. Terry Mason, head of Cook County’s public health department, out amid pandemic
- For religious leaders, the pandemic doesn’t negate faith but points to its importance. ‘What we are trying to do is offer people hope’
- ‘What would TV look like if it actually tried to represent people who aren’t just heterosexual, white rich men’: Open TV will go live with its 5th cycle of pilot premieres and shorts
- Aurora hospital sees uptick in sick employees
- Opciones y escenarios para salvar la temporada NBA
- How long does coronavirus live on surfaces in your home? Up to three days, in some cases. An expert explains how we can deal with it.
- Illinois communities get more than $147 million for community health centers, child care, food banks, homeless relief
- White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson’s message to fans longing for the return of baseball: ‘Stay prepared’
- Amid coronavirus crisis, families prepare to bring Seder rituals to Zoom for Passover: ‘This gathering of friends and family is all the more precious’
- Valparaiso junior defensive end Cooper Jones verbally commits to Indiana
- Wheaton native Sonal Shah, Naperville native Parvesh Cheena are ‘on the case’ with Disney Junior’s ‘Mira, Royal Detective’
- Coronavirus pandemic presents challenges to caring for disabled adults
- Commentary: ‘Church’ is so much more than a building — and other lessons from this pandemic
- Column: The Bears say it’s an ‘open competition’ at QB, but all signs point to Nick Foles starting ahead of Mitch Trubisky
- The Spin: Trump hotel in Chicago, elsewhere lays off staff amid coronavirus | Coronavirus wreaking havoc on Wisconsin’s election | Ken Griffin’s makeshift office in Florida
- Decent: With the need for human contact ‘hard-wired’ into us, finding alternative ways to communicate key to mental health
- Woman faces charges after slamming into Calumet Township house, police say
- As supermarkets feel hazardous and sparse amid coronavirus, small farms are rising to the occasion
- COVID sideswipes autos: ‘We’re going to ride this out,’ says one car dealer after shutting off all sales
- Coronavirus could derail Cadillac’s plan for massive product rejuvenation
- 15 places where you can order in brunch this weekend in Chicago area
- Disney reduce personal debido al coronavirus
- Commentary: If AMC folds, are we done going to the movies?
- Old Mill Creek priest is next bishop in southern Illinois
- Aurora police investigator was suspended for leaving gun in bathroom of restaurant
- Karol G y Anuel AA muestran cómo pasan la cuarentena juntos en su nuevo videoclip (VIDEO)
- Illinois Democratic Party seeks to amend delegate meeting plans to deal with coronavirus
- Due to pandemic, Aurora cancels special events in May including Memorial Day Parade
- Jugadores del Junior reducen sus salarios y Osorio renuncia al suyo
- Wisconsin Republicans say Tuesday’s election should go on as scheduled despite coronavirus outbreak
- US payrolls fall 701,000 in March ahead of surge in layoffs
- Una abuela festeja el cumpleaños a sus nietos ‘de lejitos’ por coronavirus
- Companies, local residents find ways to say thanks to those on the frontlines
- Corrections and clarifications
- Drake lanza una nueva canción con un baile ya en TikTok (VIDEO)
- Catholic churches throughout archdiocese and Park Ridge churches of various faiths ring bells for COVID-19 patients, helpers
- What we know so far about the coronavirus in Lake County
- Domestic violence services expanded due to pandemic
- North Pond restaurant looking to post-pandemic era, selling tickets to re-opening cocktail party
- 1 dead, at least 5 others wounded in Chicago shootings since Thursday evening
- Editorial: Mayor Lightfoot needs to face fiscal reality
- When COVID-19 attacks the lungs, ventilators can be a patient’s only chance of survival. State officials say Illinois needs more of the devices.
- District 204 mourning the loss of White Eagle Elementary principal
- Illinois football recruit John Bickel looks to be a pick to click for Andrew in 400 relay: ‘I am pretty sure we can win a state championship.’
- Column: Playing tennis while trying to adhere to social distancing is tough, but it can be done
- Hinsdale High School District 86 proms rescheduled due to coronavirus, no changes yet to graduation dates
- EEUU libera a inmigrantes detenidos
- Willowbrook nursing home records its 7th death as DuPage’s COVID-19 toll rises to 17. Officials working with care facilities to combat rise in number of cases.
- District 203 foundation collects more than $100k to help struggling families buy food and gas, pay for housing and other needs
- Aurora man accused of shooting gun in residential area, threatening convenience store customer
- Armstrong: Senior outfielders Stacy Bellack and Brianna Lewis master a comeback plan for playing softball at AU
- Airlines apply for their share of $25 billion in federal grants
- Aurora’s Venue to sponsor live stream concert
- Potempa: Organic greens have feline family connection to farm
- An inside look at McCormick Place’s transformation into a Chicago coronavirus field hospital
- Larry Printz: Cleaning your car of the coronavirus
- Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot rip into Jared Kushner over federal medical supply stockpile comments
- Column: Remote learning, telemedicine and Zoom show us the internet should be free
- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo vows to seize ventilators and PPE from private hospitals and companies not using them: ‘Let them sue me’
- ‘I am still hopeful’: Yale recruit Matthew Appel eyes state titles in the discus and shot put for Neuqua Valley
- Column: President Trump’s coronavirus response tops the list of America’s presidential failures
- Crosby: Rush Copley CEO ‘cautiously optimistic’ as pandemic continues
- Column: The pleasure of an unexpected phone call in the pandemic: ‘I just wanted to hear your voice’
- When will the coronavirus outbreak peak in Illinois? Here are some projections.
- Powdered drink maker Jel Sert shutters temporarily after six workers test positive for COVID-19
- An Indiana soccer team extends its nonstop run from 48 hours to 1 week to raise funds in the fight against the coronavirus
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened April 3 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Column: ‘Alone’ vs. ‘Tiger King’: Which reality show is best for coronavirus shutdown?
- Man, 62, dies after falling into the Fox River in South Elgin
- More Illinois residents studying to be high school sports officials: ‘It’s desperately needed.’
- Commentary: Public safety during COVID-19 pandemic requires a full-capacity CPD
- Libertyville grad Peterson moving on from Rice basketball
- At least 10 nursing home residents among 47 confirmed COVID-19 deaths in south and southwest suburbs
- Judge rules Wisconsin election to go on as scheduled, but extends absentee voting by 6 days
- Civilian employee for the Elgin Police Department tests positive for coronavirus
- Regina’s Gabby Rocha earns prestigious softball honor
- Elgin’s former Sherman Hospital could have as many as 250 beds when it reopens April 24 as overflow medical facility