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- Park Ridge mayor names 10 residents to review police department policies
- Citing need, Maine Township high schools to continue free meal distribution for students through summer
- Oak Park to spend $25,000 to help set up more outdoor dining spots
- Ask Amy: Person placed for adoption surfaces through DNA
- Daily horoscope for June 19, 2020
- Village of Oak Park to give federal CARES money to housing programs, small businesses
- Design unveiled for proposed recreation center on Madison Street
- 45 facts about small businesses in America
- Ross Douthat: Three futures for the police (one to be avoided at all costs)
- Column: With the reopening of the lakefront, a reunion with a lost love. Let’s not mess it up.
- Column: It’s now 100 days since a pandemic was declared. We may still be in the early stages of a transformative disaster.
- Column: Trump’s Tulsa coronavirus rally: Deep-fried hydroxychloroquine, a ‘Joyous Festival of Narcissism, Anger and Disease’
- Column: Who else dares speak for the mistreated vegetables of CHAZ/CHOP?
- Flashback: ‘Dad is equal to any crisis’: The many faces of fatherhood over the years in the Tribune
- Daywatch: Lake Michigan nears historic high as lakefront to reopen, U. of I. unveils COVID-19 plan for fall and Chicago’s restaurant reckoning continues
- Arlington Racecourse officials, horsemen’s group at odds as state looks to allow racing this summer
- State regulators strike deal with ComEd, other utilities to extend help for customers struggling during pandemic
- CTA and Pace buses will begin collecting fares again, as riders slowly return to public transit
- City Hall missed 70% of deadlines in first year of reforming Chicago Police Department
- Eager to head back to the lakefront? A rising Lake Michigan — near the historic high water mark — awaits.
- Mayor Lori Lightfoot rips Chicago Teachers Union’s ‘Scooby-Doo’ tweet as ‘racist’
- ‘Now we have everyone’s eyes and ears:’ Juneteenth march organizers focus on police reform
- ‘Haddad: A Requiem’ wins Tribune’s Nelson Algren Short Story Award
- 2020 Nelson Algren Short Story Award Winner: ‘Haddad: A Requiem’ by Edward Hamlin
- 5 things we learned from Chicago Bears assistant coaches, including Jaylon Johnson needing to show ‘his desire to want to play’ and Juan Castillo’s demands for his offensive line
- 2020 Algren Award finalist: ‘Alte Sachen’ by Omer Friedlander
- 2020 Algren Award finalist: ‘My Son’ by Victor Yang
- 2020 Algren Awards finalist: ‘The Overmind’ by Nick Arvin
- 2020 Algren Award finalist: ‘Winner Winner’ by Becky Mandelbaum
- The similarities between fatherhood and military service: ‘You just do your best and keep going’
- Milwaukee Public Schools will end funding for police patrols outside buildings and events
- Orland Park sues Gov. Pritzker over COVID-19 restrictions
- OPRF school board might hold off on parts of proposed campus renovation
- NFL Network and RedZone dropped from DISH Network and Sling TV over distribution disagreement
- Atlanta police call out sick to protest charges against officer who shot Rayshard Brooks
- It’s not Amy: Sen. Klobuchar drops out of running to be Biden’s VP pick
- American Airlines bans activist flyer who refused to wear face mask
- Shawon Dunston, a former Chicago Cubs No. 1 pick, knows all about high hopes — and he has advice for Ed Howard, the latest shortstop wunderkind in town
- Minor league baseball faces major anxiety as Chicago-area clubs hope to salvage their seasons
- ‘A huge opportunity’: Lake County receives federal designation in efforts to reduce drug trafficking
- Hertz, in bankruptcy, drops plan to sell $500 million in stock
- Read the winner of the Nelson Algren Short Story Award
- Sports lookback: Kevin White living with “bust” label
- ‘Shadow of the Wind’ author Carlos Ruiz Zafón dead at 55
- Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center cancel fall schedules
- How COVID-19 has changed shopping trends
- The best quadcopter
- The best knitting kit
- The best KitchenAid dishwasher
- The best inspection camera
- The best geography learning material
- Nicole Beharie was called ‘problematic’ and blacklisted. ‘Miss Juneteenth’ brings redemption
- Commentary: Why Satie? Why now? How one composer embodies our time of loneliness and angst
- Fallece el escritor Carlos Ruiz Zafón a los 55 años
- The best fly fishing reel
- The best dive computer
- The best cat collar
- Best Bluetooth car stereo
- The best adult swim cap
- Trump dice que volverá a intentar eliminación de DACA
- Muere Ian Holm, actor de ‘El señor de los anillos’ y ‘Carros de fuego’
- Japan opens baseball season after 3-month pandemic delay, scheduled to play 120 games
- Condenan a Neymar por ‘incumplimiento de contrato’
- Negros e hispanos están retrasados en responder el censo
- Trump tweets: He will again try to end DACA program after Supreme Court loss
- For an American journeyman, a long-delayed honor in Japan
- Florida is a popular site for pro leagues. It’s also a virus hot spot.
- WNBA guard Renee Montgomery will skip season to work on social causes
- 3 things that will be radically different if MLB returns
- Your 2020 virtual Pride guide
- For Belmont jockeys, the return of a gig
- Washington’s concert event of the summer unites music royalty for coronavirus relief
- Ocho estados en EEUU con altos repuntes de coronavirus
- New solo version of Aretha Franklin song about race, faith released
- Gobernadora de Puerto Rico presenta presupuesto
- Black MLS players — including the Chicago Fire’s C.J. Sapong — form coalition to fight systemic racism
- México registra récord de 5,662 casos del virus en un día
- Disney World reveals details about park reservations, suspends park-hopping for now
- Google, Fitbit and big tech zero in on coronavirus testing market
- Mellizos retiran estatua de exdueño por comentarios racistas
- Climate change tied to pregnancy risks, affecting black mothers most
- ¿Por qué Donald Trump le teme tanto al voto por correo?
- You may have antibodies after coronavirus infection. But not for long.
- For Canadian doctor, the virus came with stigma
- Coronavirus fears in China find a new target: Salmon
- NCAA: No championships in states with confederate symbol
- Dos nuevos jugadores con coronavirus en la MLS, y van cinco equipos infectados
- Coronavirus updates: Britain lowers alert, Germany sees spike in cases
- WLS-Ch. 7 to air panel on struggle for racial equity
- Should ‘black’ be capitalized? Newsrooms are debating it.
- Naperville Letters to the Editor
- Hollywood apoya Black Lives Matter, pero necesita diversidad
- Online health insurance marketplace GoHealth looks to raise $100 million through initial public stock offering
- Dickey’s Barbecue Pit offers savings for summer
- Elmhurst allows restaurants and bars to sell to-go liquor, eases other rules and costs
- Juneteenth celebrations in Chicago
- Ronaldo Nazario analiza el nuevo formato de Champions y da sus predicciones
- WP: Funcionaria renuncia por reacción de Trump a tema racial
- Waukegan High School may see return of two administrator positions
- Protesters set fire to, pull down, spray paint George Washington statue in Portland
- Southland-based Sisters Working It Out offers support, fights health care disparities among women of color
- Look for the helpers: Nonprofit Bravo Waukegan offers free music lessons for District 60 students
- Nace la Coalición de Jugadores de Raza Negra de la MLS
- Black business owners are hit hardest by virus
- Why the sickest workers may be among the first back on the job
- We will be living with the coronavirus pandemic well into 2021
- Auto review: 2021 Nissan Rogue makes room for car seats, adds clever navigation
- James Gandolfini wanted to ‘beat the f–k out of’ Harvey Weinstein in 2012
- Twitch’s streaming boom is jolting the music industry
- ‘Black women are not encouraged to be fragile.’ Bittersweet Juneteenth project focuses on black hearts cracking
- Former Chicago Bears quarterback Chase Daniel sells Glencoe house for $1.48 million
- Ford reveals new technology in the Mustang Mach-E: Look, mom, no hands
- ‘Crime of opportunity’: Rodents cause engine damage amid coronavirus
- Kevin Bacon regresa al terror mientras lidia con la pandemia
- Auto review: 2021 Nissan Rogue makes room for car seats, adds clever navigation
- Indiana’s confirmed, presumed COVID-19 deaths top 2,500
- ‘El mundo enfrenta nueva y peligrosa fase’ ante covid: OMS
- Hyundai Sonata Hybrid has OMG mpg and looks, ho-hum performance
- Hand sanitizer left on dashboard causes small car fire in Waukegan
- Community news
- McGrath: Defining what makes a good dad gets a little gray when I know the occasional selfish motives behind doing the right thing
- Theft charges dropped against former Gary school chief
- Hyundai Sonata Hybrid has OMG mpg and looks, ho-hum performance
- Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot delivers commencement speech at Northwestern, says democracy will fail ‘if we do not see the humanity in each other’
- Indígenas luchan con plantas contra coronavirus en Lima tras huir de la violencia en la selva
- Lake County warns of possible contact tracing scam
- Baranek: Can’t officially call them an all-area team, but this best bunch of softball players deserves a salute for a 2020 season that never was.
- Stevenson girls basketball team embraces school’s extracurricular emphasis
- Commentary: America’s mask problem, a multiplex suspense drama in the making
- Quickly
- Valparaiso recruit Molly Sheehan on Benet becoming a host of Coach Kipp’s Hoopsfest: ‘It’s why you play basketball.’
- Column: Know thyself in the face of the coronavirus
- Chicago Tribune changes style to capitalize ‘B’ in Black in reference to people
- Alcalde de Tulsa declara emergencia por evento de Trump
- Family of Fort Hood soldier who disappeared in April seeks answers: ‘I will not rest until my daughter is found’
- ‘It just clicked for me’: Naperville Central’s Carter Stenmark takes circuitous route to men’s volleyball scholarship at Lindenwood
- ¿Cuándo volverán los deportes de Chicago? Aquí un vistazo a los equipos locales
- Bernie Sanders predicted a revolution — just not this one: The politician who talked about progressive change now wrestling with a nationwide movement he didn’t start
- Apple closes stores it had reopened in 4 states as COVID-19 infections rise: Arizona, Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina
- Decent: Father’s Day takes on a new meaning when you’re a nurse, your sister’s a paramedic and your dad has cancer
- Apple cierra tiendas en EEUU en medio de crisis de virus
- Hinsdale Library delivering books with pedal power
- Quickly
- Pandemia deja sin hogar a familias de indígenas colombianos
- Porter County economy in transition as reopening brings a new reality: ‘We are coming out of the lockdown pretty strong’
- 152nd Belmont Stakes Preview: Tiz the Law the heavy favorite as Triple Crown opens up in New York … how we see the race playing out
- Editorial: Property taxes too high? Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi isn’t the problem
- With camps canceled, former Stevenson basketball players start a virtual training program for kids: ‘It was real important to us to give back to our community.’
- Naperville library board approves diversity statement affirming it serves everyone in the community
- The special secret sauce in John Legend’s album: the Grammys
- Travelers slowly return to air travel
- Speak Out: Hats off to New Zealand
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- ‘The roads can’t handle that many cars’: Employers fear gridlock, economic toll if workers shun Metra, L over COVID-19 risks
- Vacation across America virtually with online tours from every state
- Instagram art auction supports Pride Month and Black Lives Matter movement
- You can drive-in to a ‘carpool concert’ as Chicago awaits the return of live music
- Breonna Taylor shooting death: Louisville’s mayor says one of three police officers involved will be fired
- Ollas comunitarias regresan para contener el hambre en Perú
- Defund police? Some suburbs — Naperville, Aurora, Elgin — have done the opposite.
- ‘Into the Wild’ bus removed from Alaska backcountry
- Alejandro Fernández regresa al mariachi junto a su padre
- Commentary: Pay raise or not, legislators boosted their own pensions
- Speak Out
- Man identified in fatal shooting overnight Thursday in Woodlawn neighborhood
- Cook County sheriff wins partial appeal victory over COVID-19 order covering jail conditions
- Chavismo abre puerta a micropartidos ante boicot opositor a elecciones legislativas
- Remote learning worked well for some, D203 and D204 surveys show, but parents found it hard to juggle responsibilities
- They live alone in ghost towns
- Expiloto de F-1 y campeón paralímpico Zanardi muy grave tras accidente
- ‘American Gun: A Poem by 100 Chicagoans’ offers collective response to city’s shooting violence
- The confederate flag didn’t bother Bubba Wallace. Until it did.
- Illinois mom, 51, carries her grandchild after her daughter’s 476 injections, 8 IVF frozen embryo transfers, 2 miscarriages and 1 ectopic pregnancy
- Republicanos de Ohio censuran a exlíder que se opone a Trump
- Column: North Korea scammed Donald Trump
- In a stunning reversal, Navy upholds firing of aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt captain in coronavirus outbreak
- Commentary: Read the newspaper, not John Bolton’s ‘The Room Where It Happened’
- Deaths prompt officials to remove the ‘Into the Wild’ bus, an attraction for adventurers, from the Alaska backcountry
- Voz de Aretha Franklin se alza en canción sobre raza y fe
- Python skin jackets and elephant leather boots: How wealthy Western nations help drive the global wildlife trade
- The special secret sauce in John Legend’s album: the Grammys
- President Trump turns coronavirus conversation into ‘US vs. THEM’
- At age 100, this retired WWII vet lives alone, walks the stairs, and shops for his disabled neighbor
- Speak Out: Questions for Aurora police and Fox Valley Park District
- Superinfections pose threat to those being treated for the coronavirus
- Around the sports world, Juneteenth is celebrated like never before: ‘Together we stand’
- Letters: Friendly advice to officers: Soften your image
- ‘Banking while black’: How cashing a check can be a minefield
- In the Randolph family, lessons about interacting with police while black get passed down to next generation: ‘Make sure he comes home’
- Conmebol aprueba protocolo anti Covid-19
- Hutton: Newly hired Portage football coach Terry Chestovich, a self-described ‘grinder,’ says he has no illusions about the task ahead
- Chicago aldermen get into Twitter fight after one of them complains about parking tickets
- Study finds vitamin K might help you live longer
- State police investigate death of woman found on Edens Expressway in Skokie
- Rapper Hurricane Chris arrested for murder in Louisiana
- Patrons mourn closure of Chicago Heights restaurant Carlo Lorenzetti’s, ‘an institution in town’
- Letters: John Bolton’s scary time in ‘The Room’
- Naperville-based Unity Partnership weighs in on how to use money budgeted to police
- Más de 600 grandes artistas piden ayuda al Congreso de EEUU
- DCFS set to resume parental visits after 3-month coronavirus shutdown, but advocates say it’s ‘much too little too late’
- Dory from ‘Finding Nemo’ was almost a male fish — then Ellen DeGeneres arrived
- Australian leader says a ‘sophisticated state-based’ cyber campaign is threatening all levels of government, businesses, essential services
- Eric Andre isn’t a prankster, he’s a ‘benevolent attacker’
- Guest column: The Pandemic, the Police and Politics
- Racionamiento de agua en Puerto Rico por sequía
- Albert Pujols pagará los sueldos del personal de los Angels en República Dominicana
- Column: Amid crises of racial unrest and coronavirus, Chicago’s top planner sees opportunity to revive South and West Sides
- Shots fired at River North building where cops find several IDs, a weapon and large amount of drugs
- Kid Rock’s restaurant cited for failing to comply with coronavirus guidelines
- Commentary: Why we voted with our feet
- Trump administration pushes ahead with rollback of LGBT health care protections, even as Supreme Court bars sex discrimination on the job
- Seriously Simple: Apricot cherry cake is a welcoming summer dessert
- Column: When an elderly man living alone in squalor says he doesn’t need help, what can we do?
- Bernie Sanders: If you want police reform, legalize marijuana
- Kansas City mayor wants to stop penalizing marijuana possession
- Richard Ligon resigns as Gary police chief after 6 months: ‘I just thought it was time for me to step out of the way’
- Defund the marijuana police? Reports call for California to shift from law enforcement focus
- From teachers strike to total shutdown: A timeline of Chicago Public Schools’ very strange year
- What it takes to reopen a small business right now
- Cahokia Mounds
- Column: Jinkies! Mayor Lori Lightfoot overreacts to ‘Scooby-Doo’ dig, underreacts to Christopher Columbus’ atrocities
- Commentary: Democracy, public debate and The New York Times
- Chicago’s tourism industry faces rocky road to recovery. ‘There is no marketing or tourism template for reopening during a global pandemic.’
- Los cines se enfrentan a pérdidas de hasta $31,000 millones por el coronavirus
- Letters to the Beacon-News
- Activistas antimáscaras atacan a funcionarios de salud pública, frente a sus propios hogares
- Angelina Jolie doesn’t regret leaving Brad Pitt, praises kids’ handling of the drama
- Chicago restaurants can open for limited indoor dining June 26
- Elgin delays police applicant deadline because of coronavirus challenges, desire to find more female and minority candidates
- Home hacks to feel like you’ve done a reno, but didn’t
- Gary marks Juneteenth with celebration as day rockets into American conversation
- AMLO enfrenta reclamos y protestas cada vez más frecuentes
- Dalex lanza EP ‘suavecito y romántico’ creado en cuarentena
- Thousands gathered for marches and other events throughout Chicago to commemorate Juneteenth. Here’s how the day unfolded.
- South suburban mental health organization finds new home in Oak Forest
- Critican festejos de aficionados de Napoli en plena pandemia (VIDEO)
- The Spin: Lightfoot’s test on police reform | Aldermen’s parking ticket spat plays out on Twitter | Surprise! Indoor dining in Chicago to start June 26, but not everyone’s happy
- El Barcelona tropieza y pone en peligro su liderato
- Commentary: Why Nancy Pelosi is wrong to remove four portraits from the Capitol
- Hinsdale School District 86 head of HR resigns
- 2 Homer Glen men charged after identity theft investigation involving Lake Forest man and $1 million worth of tractors, appliances
- Commentary: The real stories of the Chicago women who portrayed Aunt Jemima
- Nick Watney becomes the 1st PGA Tour golfer to test positive for the coronavirus
- America marks Juneteenth as protests bring new attention to holiday that long commemorated emancipation of enslaved African Americans
- Chicago Tribune changes style to capitalize ‘B’ in Black in reference to people
- Chicago White Sox’s Ken Williams and Cubs’ Theo Epstein are hopeful race discussion can be a catalyst for change in baseball — and beyond: ‘I think this time is different’
- Column: Police families on Father’s Day: ‘Everybody has something to say, but cops can’t say a thing. It gets to you.’
- Potempa: Father’s Day different in 2020 without Mint Fest
- Coronavirus air travel: Masks, a new boarding routine and bagged snacks. Here’s what you need to know.
- More than 200 celebrate Juneteenth in downtown Naperville, continue call for action in the Black Lives Matter movement
- Illinois to begin allowing limited outdoor visits at nursing homes amid continued PPE shortages and deaths
- Vernon Hills girls basketball hoping to build on athletic, academic success
- Oklahoma Supreme Court rejects bid to require face masks and social distancing at Trump rally in Tulsa
- Trump administration abruptly drops insistence on secrecy for $600 billion coronavirus aid program for small businesses
- Black girls and women are often left out of the social justice movement. These 2 sisters have been fighting to change that.
- Park West home with private terrace: $1M
- Evans Scholars Invitational to be played at Chicago Highlands Club
- Editorial: DCFS foster kids to see parents after months apart. It’s about time.
- Column: On Father’s Day, in praise of growing up with a difficult father
- Chicago observes Juneteenth like no other with marches, performances and commemorations
- Anthony Stanford: Looking back at an extreme idea from Marcus Garvey
- ‘Unprecedented’ surge in visitors at forest preserves, natural areas during pandemic
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened June 19 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Winner of 2020 Algren Awards announced
- Rosario Dawson ‘excited’ for impending move to Newark to be with Cory Booker
- Stalemate continues: MLB tells the players union it won’t agree to more than a 60-game season
- Canadian government approves NHL’s return-to-play plan, shifting the league’s focus to the country for possible hub cities