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- Daily horoscope for May 13, 2020
- Ask Amy: Grandparents struggle with COVID restrictions
- Column: Chicago’s DuSable Bridge, originally the Michigan Avenue Bridge, turns 100 Thursday. Here’s why the centennial matters.
- WGN reporter Nancy Loo, moving to California for ‘News Nation,’ lists Fox River Grove house for $525,000
- Column: Gov. Pritzker says he understands frustrations of business owners. What do the restaurant guys think?
- Column: An old Chicago dairy is sold, destined to be torn down. A piece of the city’s history will vanish with it.
- If you’re artist Tony Fitzpatrick and sidelined by the pandemic, you create jigsaw puzzles. His first batch sold out in 15 minutes.
- 19th century dairy to be demolished
- This week’s north suburban virtual events, May 14-20
- This week’s virtual suburban events, May 14-20
- Tony Shalhoub returns as Monk to reveal he had COVID-19: ‘A pretty rough few weeks’
- This week’s west suburban virtual events, May 14-20
- Wisconsin special election: Trump-backed senator easily wins US House seat in heavily conservative district
- Daywatch: State reports record daily cases, why pools could be last to reopen and dog scams may be on the rise
- Chicago morgue coping despite historic surge in deaths due to the coronavirus pandemic
- Applying for unemployment benefits for the first time? Here are 7 things you need to know.
- Illinois attorney who filed lawsuits against Pritzker for stay-at-home order now working with dozens of businesses that have reopened
- Half of black churchgoers say faith has been strengthened as pandemic devastated congregations. Here’s how Chicago churches keep their spirit alive.
- Indiana utilities want to recover revenue due to pandemic
- Chicago Bears Q&A: What to make of Deshaun Watson’s tweet that the Bears never talked to him? Are they still pursuing Larry Warford? Can David Montgomery carry the load at running back?
- Boeing CEO says ‘most likely’ a major US airline will go out of business
- Longtime Naperville couple die within a month of each other, both victims of COVID-19 complications
- The Arctic, melting ice and international challenges
- Ex-lovers of Johnny Depp come to his defense in libel case
- Potbelly warns it could close 100 stores as COVID-19 causes sales drop
- There’s ‘overwhelming’ support from players to resume the NBA season in a safe way, according to a poll
- CSO chief Riccardo Muti, colleagues contemplate season of silence and surprising ways they could resume
- Coronavirus pandemic scams: Here’s how to avoid falling for them
- These usually expensive appliances are crazy discounted right now
- The best baby rocker
- The best makeup brush cleaner
- Valparaiso lab gets key machine from VU to perform COVID-19 testing
- The best quad chair
- The best Dead Sea mud mask
- Can you get a marriage license in Cook County during the coronavirus pandemic? Well, that depends.
- Chicago bracing for Mexican beer shortage as coronavirus industry shutdown persists
- Aparecen nuevos focos de contagio del coronavirus
- Apoyo ‘abrumador’ de los jugadores a reanudar la NBA
- Professional sumo wrestler Shobushi dead at 28 from coronavirus
- Pillar Booth usually makes ‘phone booths’ for offices. Now it also makes booths to protect health care workers testing for COVID-19.
- La UE anuncia plan para salvar sus vacaciones de verano
- Edwin Congo, exfutbolista del Real Madrid: ‘Soy inocente’ (VIDEO)
- Manafort, exjefe de la campaña de Trump excarcelado para prisión domiciliaria
- MLB owners put the players in a no-win situation on the subject of money
- Sweden not planning to test soccer players for virus
- Virus sparks debate on whether more prospects will stay home
- For bookstore owners, reopening holds promise and peril
- A big youth baseball tournament was played in Missouri. Was it too soon?
- UFC’s coronavirus plan is careful. Its enforcement has been spotty
- Domadores de leones ofrecen espectáculos desde el salón de su casa
- Where bats are still on the menu, if no longer the best seller
- Red Stars hire Lindsay Eanet as their new public address announcer, becoming the 1st pro team in Chicago to hire a woman full-time for the role
- México anuncia plan para regresar a la ‘nueva normalidad’
- How to make the most of potatoes
- ‘Vasco’ Aguirre: ‘Me gustaría seguir en España’
- The social-distancing police are among us. Would you call out a neighbor for unsafe practices? Or call 911?
- ‘It was set to be a record year’: Great Lakes cruise operators buckle up for a rough season in wake of the pandemic
- Joe Biden has the edge on Trump in most polls. So why are Democrats so worried?
- Fox Valley Park District closes community pools for the summer due to pandemic
- Breakfast taquitos, chili dogs and other Father’s Day recipes to make with kids
- Michael Jordan: Top moments and stats in the life and career of the Chicago Bulls and NBA legend
- Boys basketball notes: Jalen Washington might be a hot prospect, but the Region hasn’t seen what the 6-foot-9 point forward and West Side can do
- Jefe de Policía se disculpa por fiesta en cuarentena
- Cate Blanchett ficha por las nuevas películas de James Gray y Adam McKay
- Refunds or credits? Travelers and businesses face off
- Facebook removes 2.5 million posts selling masks, COVID-19 kits
- Little Company of Mary hospital was up against it when the coronavirus hit. Then central Illinois nurses came to the rescue.
- Fearing a second wave, Cal State will keep classes online in the fall
- Tracking the Chicago Bears’ moves in free agency: Veteran cornerback Prince Amukamara is closing in on a deal with the Raiders
- Enfermera que pidió alto a la violencia contra personal médico contrajo coronavirus
- Quarantined and engaged: They said ‘yes!’
- ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ is canceled for Chicago this summer, will return in 2022
- Central Illinois nurses volunteer at Little Company of Mary hospital
- Los Angeles Rams unveil new look designed to match the style of team’s new stadium … early reviews are harsh
- Can physical comedy work on Zoom? Bill Irwin wants to find out
- Environmental group asks judge to broaden proposed U.S. Steel settlement to include soil, groundwater
- Three months, two continents and four stints in quarantine
- Chicago to resume regular street cleaning schedule next week, but hold off ticketing because of stay-at-home order
- Ya se titularon, ¿tendrán trabajo?
- Las celebraciones de los goles, ¿cómo respetar el protocolo sanitario?
- Packing on pounds during COVID-19 and how to turn it around
- How long immunity lasts after a coronavirus infection and what that means for vaccines
- Alertan sobre reventa de mascarillas usadas
- Y de repente, sin trabajo a los 60
- Four tips for maximizing virtual health care visits
- Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort released from prison to home confinement due to coronavirus fears
- 25-year-old Aurora man killed in shooting
- Evanston man charged in shooting of woman on Howard Street, police say
- OPINIÓN/A favor de los deportistas bocazas
- Speak Out: Early focus on masks could have staved off coronavirus impact
- Nueva iniciativa de Biden y Sanders para unir a demócratas
- Lead water lines in abandoned Gary homes being removed, upgraded
- Trump ramps up expulsions of young migrants and asylum seekers, citing the coronavirus pandemic
- Baranek: The work never stops as Mother McAuley graduate Charley Niego ‘still trying to get better every day’ at Notre Dame
- Column: Fed chair Powell shares shocking job loss numbers. Pelosi’s coronavirus relief plan is big — and we need big.
- Riverfront home in Avondale with sweeping cathedral ceilings: $2.13M
- CDC guidance shelved by Trump administration on how to safely reopen businesses during the coronavirus pandemic was more restrictive than White House plan
- VIDEO: Artista convierte su rostro en el animal que quiera
- Gobernador de Arizona abre la puerta a reanudar deporte
- Joe Biden’s VP pick isn’t the biggest issue for Latino activists
- Exparejas de Depp salen en su defensa en caso de difamación
- Elon Musk gets his way, as Telsa wins OK to restart factory production
- Grocery prices see biggest monthly increase in nearly 50 years
- Prince Harry and Meghan are reportedly living in a Tyler Perry-owned LA mansion
- Bremen teacher teams with police to distribute sidewalk chalk to area children
- Estatus racial y pandemia: una mezcla combustible
- Lady Gaga, Madonna among A-listers whose information was stolen in law firm hack
- Wear a mask? Even with 20,000 dead due to COVID-19 complications, some New Yorkers don’t.
- Oak Parker stages Zoom plays as COVID-19 benefits, casting Florence Pugh and more young Hollywood actors
- Argentina estudia regreso a entrenamientos de fútbol
- Recruiting notes: North Chicago’s Vondarious Gordon turns to cousin Melvin Gordon’s former coach and follows Michael Turner’s path to Northern Illinois
- Chicago businessman Willie Wilson donates 100,000 masks to Aurora
- How to do dim sum at home with dumplings, seafood noodles and coveted custard buns
- Linebacker or running back? Mount Carmel’s Kenenna Odeluga says he doesn’t have a preference for college: ‘I just like playing football.’
- Michael Flynn case boosts President Trump’s bid to undo Robert Mueller’s Russia probe narrative
- Yerno de Trump siembra la duda sobre eventual aplazamiento de elección presidencial
- From margaritas to old-fashioneds, the most searched for quarantine cocktail in every state
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- It’s all hands on deck for the Yates family during the coronavirus pandemic. ‘I think now is one of the best times to really make a difference.’
- Kathryn Hahn is keeping busy, from an all-doll Mamet spoof to efforts for HBO and Apple TV+, a good period for the actor with Chicago theater roots
- Poll shows a partisan split over whether coronavirus-era restrictions on in-person gatherings violates religious freedom
- Property tax delay forces Merrillville to consider $2M short-term loan
- ¿Cómo afrontar la pérdida de un ser querido en tiempos de confinamiento?
- Column: Former News-Sun sports writer loved covering games, both big and small
- Bestselling author with northwest Indiana roots Kate Collins unveils new mystery series
- Common’s #WeMatterToo push urges jail releases amid virus
- Gary airport lands cargo tenant UPS; Next Day Air growth cited in decisison
- Reese Witherspoon, Demi Lovato open up on Jameela Jamil’s anti-shame podcast
- Officer John Catanzara misconduct allegation documents
- Column: Chicago’s new police union chief is the wrong man for the difficult job ahead
- Oakbrook Terrace will give $311,000 in sales tax rebates to help businesses
- Chicago Cubs slugger Kris Bryant is going head-to-head with Los Angeles Rams QB Jared Goff and 8 professional drivers in a virtual car race
- Indiana should say which nursing homes have COVID-19 outbreaks, Dyer lawmaker says
- Review: The best way through Netflix’s interactive ‘Kimmy Schmidt’ special? Choose sympathy
- Commentary: A grim COVID-19 lesson. We’re paying a steep price for not investing in science.
- Marlins to furlough baseball operations employees amid coronavirus pandemic, report says
- Diez imputados, cinco de ellos militares, por motín carcelario que dejó 47 muertos en Venezuela
- Scorpions niega que la CIA escribiera ‘Wind of Change’
- Coronavirus restrictions fuel anti-government ‘boogaloo’ movement with roots in online meme culture steeped in irony and dark humor
- Column: Asian American police officers working to feed, protect Chicago’s Asian communities. ‘We know there’s a stigma. You hear it. You feel it.’
- Woman falls into thermal feature near Old Faithful geyser in closed Yellowstone National Park
- Union urges United Airlines to close New Jersey kitchen after coronavirus cases
- Evander Holyfield: ‘He vuelto’ (VIDEO)
- Baseball’s greatest living player Willie Mays at 89: ‘My thing is keep talking and keep moving’
- Con el coronavirus como pretexto, funcionarios de Trump se niegan a entregar a niños migrantes a sus patrocinadores, y en cambio los deportan
- Judge dismisses charges against the former Michigan State president who was accused of lying to investigators in the Larry Nassar sexual assault case
- Reward offered for info on person who fired shots at vehicles, fence at Naperville apartment complex
- Former Northwestern soccer standout Gerardo Alvarez returns to alma mater as Marmion’s coach: ‘I need this opportunity.’
- EEUU: Cuba no coopera contra el terrorismo
- ¿Quién es el hombre que se hizo pasar por Juan Gabriel?
- How to deal with boredom to reduce stress
- Look for the helpers: 100-vehicle parade honors Korean War vet on his 89th birthday
- Hollywood Bowl season canceled for the first time in 98 years. So long, L.A. summer
- Music videos in the age of quarantine: Zoom boxes, hazmat suits and sad twerking
- You can skip mortgage payments for 6 months. But many fear what comes after that
- As deaths mount, coronavirus testing remains wildly inconsistent in long-term care
- Capital de México analiza propuesta para vuelta del fútbol
- Rihanna rides out pandemic in U.K., gets trial for business battle with dad pushed to September
- How CBD can help you cope with social distancing guidelines
- New coronavirus relief bill includes marijuana banking legislation
- Elgin News Digest
- ‘Quaranchella’ concerts let locked down neighbors let loose
- Zay Smith is dead at 71, the former Sun-Times columnist and ‘Mirage’ series writer
- ¿Cuánta sal es buena para la salud?
- Cook County Board to vote on waiving 1.5% interest fee on late property tax payments through Oct. 1
- Help wanted, no pot test required: New NYC law takes effect
- Hummus and chicken make a magical dish
- Rhubarb cheesecake bars are perfectly sweet and tart
- Fed chief warns coronavirus recession could be lengthy, painful
- Atletas que practicaron múltiples deportes profesionales
- Athletes who played multiple sports professionally
- Denuncian venta de mascarillas falsas en EEUU
- Deportistas cultivan nuevas aficiones durante pandemia
- Column: The coronavirus protesters’ false notion of freedom
- With plan to close elementary school, Griffith Council votes to ask schools to wait 120 days
- Gov. Ron DeSantis urges pro sports teams to train, play in Florida
- Editorial: Summer is almost here. Open more state and national parks.
- Column: Suburban officials make compelling case in urging Pritzker to separate collar counties in reopening plan
- ‘There will be a resurgence’: Ousted doctor says US facing its ‘darkest winter in modern history’ with coronavirus rebound
- Postergan hasta 2021 musical de Michael Jackson en Broadway
- John Macurdy, bass who sang 1,001 times at Met, dies at 91
- Se reporta el mayor número de muertes por COVID-19 en un sólo día en Illinois
- Photos: The early years of the Michigan Avenue Bridge
- Federal judge spikes 2 Chicago-area churches’ legal challenge to Pritzker’s stay-at-home order
- Creamery in Frankfort, Mokena, Orland Hills continues ice cream tradition established in early 1980s
- NFL pospone apertura de instalaciones a jugadores
- Heat again are men at work as ‘competitive juices’ flow at AmericanAirlines Arena
- Fox Valley, Naperville museums offer videos as a way to keep in touch with history while sites are closed
- NBA lookback: Scott Burrell talks Michael Jordan’s intensity at practice
- Gov. Pritzker apologizes for his comments on MLB players ‘holding out’ for more money: ‘I absolutely support that right’ to collectively bargain
- Illinois logs 192 daily COVID-19 deaths, a new high
- Dele Alli, herido tras ser asaltado en su casa a punta de cuchillo
- New police union President John Catanzara rode a wave of controversy to popularity with fellow officers
- Under coronavirus lockdown, Detroit-area Muslims light up their homes with Ramadan lights and some neighborly competition
- Santiago Cruz: Pedir ayuda no es un signo de debilidad
- Potempa: Clothing store name, raconteur Fred Cicco gone at age 69
- Midlothian officials say COVID-19 home for children violates zoning laws
- The tiny radio stations that lift spirits in hospitals
- Midwest Collegiate League announces July 1 start for the 2020 season
- Bulldog suspected in attack that left Fox Lake woman dead to be euthanized
- Letters: Airlines needed bailout because of the pandemic, not because of bad management
- Editorial: An outbreak of overspending in Springfield and D.C. would cost us all
- Exinternacional argentino Lavezzi es víctima de ‘pornoextorsión’
- Emails show Trump nominee was involved in shelving CDC guidelines on how to safely reopen businesses during the coronavirus pandemic
- Coronavirus wipes out summer events in Aurora; RiverEdge concerts, and parades, fireworks canceled
- Prosecutors: Altgeld Gardens gang did block-by-block sweep for rivals, killed grandmother arriving home instead
- Republican claims victory in special California House vote
- Two new cars, designed from the inside out
- Illinois legislators set to return to Springfield next week with a number of COVID-19 precautions in place
- How a messy divorce could affect Jay Cutler and Kristin Cavallari’s reputations
- Conmebol aumenta ayuda a clubes pero no define reanudación
- Naperville News Digest
- The Spin: On state’s deadliest COVID-19 day, legislature says it will meet in Springfield | Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down stay-at-home order | Mayor Lightfoot says lakefront won’t open anytime soon
- Illinois Tollway collections down $52 million in April due to pandemic
- Breaking down the different types of COVID-19 tests — and why Illinois and the nation have struggled with mass testing amid the pandemic
- DuPage coroner sounds alarm after handling 22 drug overdose deaths in last three weeks
- Kendall County sheriff won’t bust gatherings, businesses for not following governor’s COVID-19 orders
- Rush hospital system latest to make cuts amid COVID-19 financial struggles
- OK Go’s new video ‘All Together Now’ is response to COVID-19 — and the lead singer’s illness
- Aurora officials concerned state’s reopening plan links Fox Valley to Chicago
- UChicago Medicine expands curbside COVID-19 testing to Orland Park
- Volo Auto Museum co-founder dies at 77
- Short staffing. PPE shortages. Few inspections. Why calls are growing for Illinois nursing home regulators to step up efforts on COVID-19.
- Two men charged in St. Charles home invasion
- In a bid to unify the Democrat party, Joe Biden moves beyond pre-Trump era vision
- Naperville Park District may take legal action to reopen parks and facilities on its own schedule
- Father and son shot in Dolton, trustee says
- Bond set at $150,000 for Bellwood man charged with illegal videotaping in Hinsdale home
- Calls grow for outside investigation into fatal Louisville police shooting of Breonna Taylor
- Column: We need to prepare for a coronavirus information war led by the anti-vaccine movement
- Downstate legislator cites 2001 letter from then-AG Jim Ryan in amended lawsuit contesting Pritzker’s stay-at-home order
- Does Mayor Lori Lightfoot want to add a 5th red star to Chicago’s iconic flag? She’s brought it up twice in a week
- Abbott coronavirus test used by the White House could miss nearly half of infections, study claims
- In effort to advance ‘Obamagate’ theory, President Trump and GOP launch broad attack on Russia investigation
- New coronavirus spikes could emerge weeks after US economic reopenings
- En plena pandemia la ciudad le cierra el negocio a un tamalero, la comunidad de Chicago aboga por él
- Chicago man accused of Bronx, N.Y., homicide
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened May 13 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area