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- Northbrook bans group sports and exercise programs, Glenview Park District closes park amenities
- Ask Amy: Canine custody keeps former spouses in doghouse
- Column: ‘Bloom where you’re planted’ can mean your backyard
- MLB open to possibility of playing all games in Arizona this season
- Rabbis to celebrate Passover Seder with virtual crowds and small family gatherings amid coronavirus social distancing
- Man, 51, dies after exchanging gunfire on West Side, police say
- 13-year-old boy shot in Englewood, police say
- Rabbit rescue overflowing with bunnies shares adoption tips ahead of Easter
- Daywatch: Black Chicagoans are dying from virus at highest rate, intensive care beds are filling up and Mayor Lightfoot defends getting a haircut
- Celebrities — including Pink, Madonna, Justin Bieber — reveal new sides during virus, but face backlash
- Coronavirus keeps TV news anchors at home but not off the air
- Merrillville woman shot to death: coroner
- Cook County Jail detainee dies of COVID-19
- Looking for wiggle room in your social distancing habits? There isn’t much.
- Family of Evergreen Park Walmart employee who died of COVID-19 complications files wrongful death lawsuit
- Trade adviser Peter Navarro warned Trump of coronavirus epidemic in January as president downplayed threat
- Niles Animal Hospital reopens after owner’s death: ‘We just need to put our family back together’
- Winnetka schools get ‘Zoombombed’ with pornography, racist rants during online meetings with students; police investigating
- Bunny brings candy-filled eggs to kids for ‘socially-distanced Easter egg hunts’
- Column: Her father died alone in a hospital with no presence of family during the pandemic. ‘It will forever be one of my greatest regrets.’
- Bears Q&A: Does Nick Foles’ low salary-cap number make room for more free agents? Could Mitch Trubisky regain his 2018 form? Why hasn’t the Jimmy Graham signing been panned more?
- Steelers GM Kevin Colbert proposed three more rounds for 2020 NFL Draft to offset coronavirus restrictions: sources
- 10 ways to get cozy and de-stress while you stay at home
- The hectic lives of college basketball coaches have suddenly changed. Instead of spring recruiting, they are tackling the ‘honey-do list’ and Peloton workouts.
- Boeing to extend Seattle-area coronavirus shutdown indefinitely, pause S.C. plant too
- The cruise ship industry, now a symbol of the coronavirus pandemic, struggles to survive
- Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation launches Strike Out Hunger campaign with $100,000 donation during coronavirus pandemic
- Suburban coroners, funeral directors brace for jump in COVID-19 deaths
- Churches turn to technology to offer Holy Week, Easter services
- Oprah Winfrey chooses “Hidden Valley Road” for book club
- Pandemia paraliza el mundo de las apuestas deportivas
- Ruling may give state’s case new life against ex-Munster school administrators
- My worst moment: ‘True Blood’ and ‘Homeland’s’ Sam Trammell on being encased in plastic wrap for hours on end
- Speak Out: Shoppers crowd into stores that are open
- Sportsbooks are dark and the odds are long in Las Vegas: ‘Russian pingpong has stolen the show’
- MLB analiza jugar todos sus partidos en Arizona
- What’s on TV Tuesday, April 7: ‘Schitt’s Creek’ finale, ‘Empire’ 100th episode
- Best desk chairs for working from home
- Conoce la plataforma Quibi con producciones exclusivas para teléfonos celulares
- Beloved ‘Schitt’s Creek’ ending at its peak
- 3 charged in October shooting death of Hammond man
- The best cornhole bag
- La Liga española pone fechas para retomar el campeonato
- The best Oster waffle maker
- Chicago’s coronavirus disparity: Black Chicagoans are dying at nearly six times the rate of white residents, data show
- The best Ergobaby carrier
- The best dinosaur toy
- The best home spray tanning kit
- Seriously Simple: Cheer up with a delicious banana chocolate quick bread
- Bunbury adelanta el lanzamiento de su nuevo disco
- Wisconsin election back on for Tuesday after state Supreme Court overrules governor’s order to postpone it
- Spotty Wi-Fi? Interruptions from the kids? Conducting the NFL draft from home will be a bit of a circus.
- Flip the script on your Easter brunch drinks with a Bunny Mary
- Supermarkets shut floral sections. Brides cancel weddings. Coronavirus hits flower farms at the worst possible time.
- Lake County reports 3 new COVID-19 deaths, officials say; Indiana death toll rises to 173
- ¿Reanudación de los partidos? La prioridad son los entrenamientos
- Daily horoscope for April 7, 2020
- Wisconsin primary election
- Elenco y creadores de ‘Modern Family’ comparten recuerdos
- Airbnb raises $1 billion to stockpile cash in pandemic
- Trump, 3M reach ‘amicable’ deal on N95 mask supply
- How gig workers are weathering the virus shutdown
- ‘Modern Family’ cast shares memories as series finale nears
- Using shelter-in-place time to foster better family food habits
- With restaurants closed, chefs reinvent their food service methods
- Go Away With … Johnny Iguana of The Claudettes
- Coronavirus pandemic forces many Lake County school districts to devise remote learning plans on the fly
- Earth Day: What good has it done in the last 50 years?
- Great Barrier Reef is bleaching again. It’s getting more widespread.
- Easter Bunny and tooth fairy deemed ‘essential workers’ in New Zealand
- Here’s how they found the California ‘murder houses’ of Quibi’s ‘Murder House Flip’
- ¿Ni Modelo, ni Dos Equis? No hay problema, todavía, ya que la producción de cerveza mexicana está detenida por el coronavirus
- Fringe sports like platform tennis get their chance to shine on TV during coronavirus pandemic
- Travel patterns show sharp split, swayed by stay-at-home orders
- Struggling Napa wineries offer deep discounts and virtual tastings
- Acusan de sobornos en votación de Mundial 2022
- With mobile morgues and delayed burials, suburban coroners and funeral directors brace for jump in COVID-19 deaths
- Virus puts event planning industry on brink of devastation
- Column: Red states are exploiting coronavirus to ban abortion
- Cities that went all in on social distancing in 1918 emerged stronger for it
- Inglés, obstáculo para clases online de inmigrantes en EEUU
- Charli XCX anuncia nuevo álbum compuesto en tiempos de aislamiento
- A new COVID-19 crisis: Domestic abuse rises worldwide
- Homer Glen religious publishing company focuses on Catholic writings from before Vatican II
- Museums scramble to document the pandemic, even as it unfolds
- Amid coronavirus crisis, Mayor Lori Lightfoot signs order ensuring city benefits for immigrants living in US without legal permission
- ‘Positivity in our household’ helps David Vales and his dad wait and hope for a boys volleyball season
- Dealing with isolation while working from home
- Entrepreneur building on success of satin-lined caps
- ‘No es el fin del mundo, es una advertencia’
- Brookfield Zoo furloughs nearly third of employees after coronavirus-related financial pressures
- 16-year-old pilot flies medical supplies to rural hospitals
- U of I Extension Office holding more than a dozen webinar programs on planting, cooking and health
- Sex. Drugs. Virus. Venezuela elites still party in pandemic
- Disabato: After hitting ‘rock bottom,’ Mount Carmel graduate A.J. Lewis bounces back in baseball at Eastern Kentucky
- Clarendon Hills extends emergency declaration, ponders fate of summer concerts and Daisy Days festival
- Ocho maneras de lidiar con la nueva normalidad
- Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot responds to Trump comment that she’s ‘happy’ with feds: ‘I’m not going to take the bait’
- Aurora women work to make masks for health care workers, senior citizens
- ‘Sorry We Missed You’ review: The human toll of that one-click buy
- NBA matchups if league resumes season with postseason play
- DeKalb principal hired to take helm at Ranch View Elementary in Naperville
- Big Shoulders Coffee
- New Holcomb order brings some clarity to essential and non-essential debate in COVID-19 response
- El coronavirus, más letal que los atentados del 9/11 en NY
- Column: 9 reasons baseball’s plan to play games in Arizona won’t work — and 1 reason it could
- ‘Holding out hope’: RailCats manager Greg Tagert not giving up that American Association season begins in late May
- Second Elgin Police Department civilian employee tests positive for coronavirus
- ‘Darling Rose Gold’ review: Stephanie Wrobel’s debut is an edgy page-turner
- Chris Erskine: The latest shortage? Dogs and cats, as folks foster and adopt pets during quarantine
- La alcaldesa de Chicago firma una orden que garantiza beneficios a indocumentados
- Matt LeBlanc (Joey) revela lo más extraño que le pasó en Friends (VIDEO)
- How to make the most out of staying at home with your pet
- Fox-32 hires Milwaukee’s Kaitlin Sharkey as its new Bears reporter, replacing Shae Peppler
- The Bears have a QB competition on their hands. And how good can Jimmy Graham be? The Bear Download podcast dives in.
- ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli wants out of prison to research coronavirus drugs
- China ends its lockdown of Wuhan, where coronavirus first emerged, but normal life is a distant dream
- ‘Happy Hour,’ magic by phone or mail: Chicago magicians devise ways to appear in your quarantine
- The coronavirus inflicts its own kind of terror
- Portage man charged with violating Indiana’s at-home order: police
- Community news
- Evanston man shot by Skokie police faces felony charges
- Online sales helping Chicago roasters, but will specialty coffee survive pandemic?
- Air Force recruit Ava Gilliana ‘really sad, kind of heartbroken’ after Valparaiso’s girls track season canceled by IHSAA due to coronavirus pandemic
- Catholic parishes find new ways to observe Holy Week, Easter with churches shuttered
- UK’s Boris Johnson is stable, receiving oxygen in a hospital intensive care unit with coronavirus
- Chicago therapists are switching to teletherapy to see stressed-out patients during coronavirus pandemic
- The Detroit Auto Show’s move to June may have prevented a bigger coronavirus disaster
- Judge in New York says R. Kelly must stay behind bars despite coronavirus threat
- Which car got screwed the most by a next-generation update?
- Crown Point moves to virtual meetings; Uran hints at continuing virtual options after pandemic ends
- Toilet-paper cakes and more: Illinois museums already seeking coronavirus artifacts
- Famosos revelan otro lado durante virus, enfrentan críticas
- Cadillac wants to save the stellar Blackwing V-8 engine: report
- Testing backlog leads to processing delays at Chicago-area drive-up sites run by U.S. Health and Human Services
- Some businesses in Highland Park to receive rent relief during coronavirus pandemic
- Commentary: The key to beating the coronavirus? Innovation.
- Orland Park voters to weigh in on term limits for mayor, trustees
- Toni Kroos: ‘Una reducción de sueldo es como una donación en vano’
- Column: Architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright groups seek donations as virus shuts down tours
- Correa es condenado por corrupción en Ecuador
- Mark Hamilton, a former first baseman with the Cardinals, is graduating a month early from med school: ‘I could get the call tomorrow’
- Se arruinan los planes de boda de JLo y A-Rod
- Dolton man fatally shot inside home
- McGrath: A little ‘meanness’ goes a long way when reminding us why we need to follow the rules during this pandemic
- Trump administration to seek $250 billion more for small businesses
- Column: As the pandemic rages on, what is our new normal?
- Due to coronavirus outbreak, artist to give online talk about Aurora display
- Los cheques del estímulo federal están en camino. Quién recibirá qué, cómo y cuándo:
- Rand Paul announces he’s ‘recovered’ from coronavirus
- ‘There’s still hope’: St. Charles East’s Christina Hull keeps working for a girls soccer season that remains in limbo due to coronavirus pandemic
- Sexo, drogas y coronavirus en fiesta de niños ricos
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- Glum air travel prediction from Germany’s Lufthansa: Rebound could take years
- Finding time for coping skills is crucial during this stay-at-home pandemic, mental health professionals say
- Despidos y baja salarial en equipo de la MLS
- New Trier teachers make social distancing visit to special education students’ homes with motor caravan
- Speak Out
- Cinéfilos consiguen la manera de salir juntos en pleno encierro
- Cam Newton discusses coronavirus and free agency in Instagram interview with Chris Paul
- Ex-TV commentator Kayleigh McEnany will be next White House press secretary as Stephanie Grisham exits without ever holding briefing
- Catar desmiente que sede de Mundial-2022 se lograra con sobornos
- Pulitzer Prize announcement to be postponed due to pandemic
- Sheriff defends attempts to curb coronavirus at Cook County Jail as judge mulls lawsuit seeking releases
- Cats around the world receive care amid coronavirus shutdowns
- So you want to donate to Chicago theater — here are 6 good ways to help
- Clear vision: Program provides ski goggles to medical staff
- Senate Democrats want to issue ‘hazard pay’ of up to $25K to grocery cashiers, transit operators and other essential workers
- Da positivo a COVID-19 un tercer migrante deportado a Guatemala
- Organizers cancel Park Ridge Memorial Day Parade; Morton Grove, Lincolnwood, Skokie waiting to decide
- Funeral homes on the North Shore help families grieve in the age of social distancing and stay-at-home orders
- Families protest as veterans nursing home emptied for virus
- Creative types coping with work-from-home options in the wake of the coronavirus
- A hospital worker was worried about passing COVID-19 to his family. Then a Chesterton couple loaned him their RV.
- Elgin’s police chief says cops now wearing protective gear on all calls, urges residents to report large groups and be aware of scams
- 8 ways to switch up the new at-home normal
- Oak Park & River Forest, Leyden, Elmwood Park high schools adjusting prom, graduation dates amid COVID-19 outbreak
- What to do when you can’t pay your bills
- Lake County board member Barr fuses quarantine with karaoke for event that attracted 1,500 online
- La Bundesliga planea que entren unas 240 personas en estadios con partidos a puerta cerrada
- Column: It’s sad but, frankly, not surprising that the pandemic has caused the cancellation of Hot Dog Fest
- Adam Sandler and Jimmy Fallon want to remind you not to touch Grandma
- Kofi Cockburn declares for the NBA draft, and the Illinois freshman will get feedback from teams before making a final decision
- Column: Watching ‘Tiger King’ a bit like a Trump vs. Clinton rematch
- Retail thought it was facing the apocalypse. Then came the coronavirus.
- Crosby: Finding time for faith, Holy Week observances during a pandemic; ‘This is a reminder we are not in control’
- Editorial: The pandemic few saw coming: Assessing how Trump and Pritzker have responded to COVID-19
- R. Kelly debe permanecer encerrado en tiempos de coronavirus
- Brookfield Zoo union files labor complaint over worker furloughs
- Column: The Navy secretary’s subservience couldn’t save him
- Lakeview home with climbing wall: $825K
- Protesters call for inmate release due to coronavirus threat
- All brick West Town home: $1.25M
- Cook County launches $10 million loan fund to help small businesses, gig workers struggling during coronavirus pandemic
- Navy’s acting secretary resigns amid calls from Sen. Duckworth, others, for his exit after his comments about fired captain of coronavirus-stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt
- You can talk virtually to a therapist from Leyden Family Service
- Café Fresco creates food, hygiene pantry to help those in need during school closures
- Oak Park board waives parking fees, water payment penalties
- Augustana-bound catcher Joe Morgano an impact player behind the plate for Naperville Central: ‘He is what you want your catcher to be’
- El Santa Fe colombiano suspende pagos al equipo femenino por pandemia
- Man who didn’t want his former daughter-in-law, son to reconcile now charged in her murder: court documents
- ‘It hits you.’ Lester Holt on covering the evening news amid coronavirus crisis
- Member of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s staff tested positive for COVID-19
- Is your pandemic drinking out of control? Here’s what to do about it.
- Oswego postpones Wine on the Fox due to pandemic
- La orden de quedarse en casa ‘muy lejos’ de terminar en Chicago
- Column: Officials stress safety as building trades continue working during pandemic
- Congressional candidate calls for mail-in ballots sent to all voters; Lake, Porter election officials say application shouldn’t be discarded
- Ronaldinho cambia la cárcel por una habitación de hotel
- Photos: Tampa Bay Bucs unveil new uniforms inspired by Super Bowl era
- Dr. Drew Pinsky apologizes for damaging coronavirus comments, says he ‘got it wrong’
- North Shore senior centers turn to technology to connect, entertain residents during stay-at-home order
- Six-bedroom Kildeer home with three kitchens: $900K
- Alarma número de casos de COVID-19 en minorías en EEUU
- State announces Community Crossings grant recipients
- First, Zach Smith transferred to state champion Naperville North from Kaneland. He’ll start over as Bellarmine moves up to Division I.
- Comings & Goings: Tinley Park restaurant closes for pandemic
- Actividades en línea para la Semana Santa en confinamiento
- No one could have predicted another double-length Tweet of the Week poll!
- MLB rebaja expectativas de comenzar pronto la temporada
- Communities respond to COVID-19: First responders applaud hospital workers; teachers create 3D masks
- Athletes already qualified for the Tokyo Olympics get to keep their spots
- Desestiman en EEUU caso contra líder de La Luz del Mundo
- About 30% of Naperville households earn too much to receive COVID-19 stimulus money, study says
- Southtowners: Morgan Park’s Ta’liyah Robinson wins theater award
- ICE podría liberar a detenidos vulnerables
- Commentary: What will post-pandemic GOP politics look like?
- Bronco le devuelve el favor a Zoé con esta versión de ensueño (VIDEOS)
- Pets of the week
- Lockport Township barn fire kills 20 sheep
- Lightfoot says Illinois’ stay-at-home order ‘a long way away’ from being phased out in the city; Pritzker says ‘solution isn’t coming tomorrow, or next week or next month’
- Kane County state’s attorney says criminal cases changing a bit during coronavirus pandemic
- Letter: I’ve been intubated and put on a ventilator before. It traumatizes the body.
- Letter: Release more information about where people with COVID-19 are living so police, paramedics are forewarned
- The Spin: A game of telephone with Trump, Lightfoot and Pritzker | Mayor, governor warn of COVID-19 long haul | Navy boss resigns amid Duckworth, Schneider’s criticism
- Travel nurses head to Illinois to aid hospitals amid coronavirus crisis. ‘It’s your duty to help.’
- Servicio migratorio de EEUU detecta 19 casos de COVID en centros de detención
- Waukegan City Council to vote on budget developed before coronavirus hit, video gambling ‘push tax’ proposal
- To bring her neighborhood together (but not too close!), Aurora woman organizes a scavenger hunt
- Severe thunderstorm watch in effect for Chicago area with large hail and strong winds possible
- Positive COVID-19 test for youth at juvenile detention center sparks alarm among lawyers and advocates
- Another spring ritual delayed because of the coronavirus: Chicago’s bridge lifts
- Column: A lamentation for churches closed at Easter by the coronavirus pandemic
- Skokie reports largest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases within Cook County suburbs
- Four more coronavirus deaths in DuPage County — including 8th from Willowbrook long-term care home — bring overall total to 26
- FAQ on coronavirus relief for small businesses, freelancers and more
- New research links air pollution to higher coronavirus death rates
- Trump removes inspector general who was to oversee $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus spending as president continues to upend agency watchdogs
- Acting Navy boss submits resignation amid uproar over firing captain of coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier
- In battleground Wisconsin, long voter lines, no election results and a missed opportunity to build toward November
- Microsoft engineer adapts football fan-tracking app for coronavirus use
- Trump threatens to freeze funding to WHO, plays down January memos that warned of possible coronavirus pandemic
- ‘It’s gorgeous outside but please behave.’ No end in sight for stay-at-home order as Chicagoans fight summer weather temptations.
- Lightfoot on high rate of African Americans in Chicago dying from coronavirus: ‘As a black woman … that’s a hard thing to come to terms with’
- Recruiting notes: Zion-Benton’s Damontae Taylor makes ‘right decision’ by committing to Green Bay in basketball
- Baseball in the Arizona heat? Eloy Jimenez is on board: ‘If that’s the plan, I’m going to do it. I just want to play.’
- Column: Americans were naive to think the coronavirus was colorblind
- Man charged in death of alleged accomplice in brazen daytime home invasion, Arlington Heights police say
- Funeral for Jose Vazquez
- New battle for those on coronavirus front lines: Child custody
- New York coronavirus deaths exceed 4,000, eclipsing the number of people killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11
- FDA approves first U.S. trial of Japanese coronavirus drug
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened April 7 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Los Angeles air is dramatically cleaner since the coronavirus pandemic
- Oilers forward Colby Cave is out of emergency surgery but remains in a coma after suffering a brain bleed