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- Daily horoscope for June 29, 2020
- Ask Amy: Husband serves time for the sake of the kids
- Man injured after falling onto Pink Line tracks
- Monitoring the Montrose Beach plovers: ‘It’s not just bird-watching, it’s like you’re guarding an entire line of descendants’
- Some Illinois parents opt for home schooling instead of sending kids back to school in the fall
- Letters: America is, and always has been, a messy democracy
- Ask Anna: On looking for a married girlfriend, how to deal with annoying people, and letting an algorithm give advice
- Chicago Heights company creates protective equipment as schools seek alternatives to keep students safe
- Daywatch: Three more youths killed this weekend, new laws affecting drivers and workers coming and employers brace for ‘PTO bomb’
- Suburban protests against racial injustice awakened many white residents. Allies hope they follow through.
- As 2020 NWI Pride was postponed, many LGBTQ community members celebrating different events online
- Review: At $100 per car, was Garth Brooks’ drive-in concert worth leaving the house for?
- Airport should drop John Wayne’s name, statue because of racist comments, California Democrats say
- Column: The fall book release calendar is even more crowded than usual — and readers are going to have to work harder
- Michael Jordan, Barack Obama and many others do a long-overdue ‘Tip of the Cap’ to baseball’s Black pioneers
- Barrington, Lake Zurich alumni collect signatures on petitions that call for racial changes in schools: ‘It’s important for white people to do the work of anti-racism’
- Virtual 5K, music festival and parade among the Fourth of July activities in Highland Park
- Deerfield will rename a park whose namesake is tied to the village’s 1959 integrated housing debate
- Crosby: New program in Aurora putting more focus on crisis intervention
- Quickly
- ’60 is better than no games’: Baseball is back in Chicago, with the Cubs and White Sox reporting to training camp 2.0. But things will be far from normal.
- Kris Dunn will soon hit restricted free agency. What type of commitment should the Chicago Bulls make to their defensive ace?
- Talk of the County: Bolton’s book just the money-grubbing rants of ‘a disgruntled ex-employee’
- Barrington to hold Fourth of July community car parades, virtual patriotic music performance
- Talk of the County: ‘Thank God President Trump is our leader’
- Meet the New York doctor who fought coronavirus while pregnant — in a Netflix doc
- Many Wisconsin Republicans oppose expanding voting by mail, but 80% of state GOP legislators used absentee ballots in April
- Talk of the County: Trump’s focus on re-election rather than coronavirus ‘sad for America’
- Burl Carraway wasn’t on the Chicago Cubs’ initial summer roster, but the 2nd-round pick still could join rare company by making it to the majors this year
- Iran reportedly issues arrest warrant for President Trump over drone strike that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Iraq
- Appreciation: Chicago’s Freddy Cole, Nat King Cole’s gifted kid brother, created his own sound
- East Aurora High School graduates honored during parade
- Trump niega haber sabido de recompensa contra tropas de EEUU
- OPINIÓN/Una estafa globalizada
- Employers brace for a ‘PTO bomb’ as vacation-starved employees make time-off requests
- Talk of the County: Those who don’t wear masks ‘are extremely selfish’
- Ataque a jefe de Seguridad, un golpe al Estado mexicano
- ¿Despreció e ignoró Messi al segundo entrenador del Barca en pleno partido? (VIDEO)
- Remdesivir costará 2,340 dólares por tratamiento en EEUU
- The Rocket Mortgage Classic will be different this year. Here’s how
- Los premios BET celebran las voces negras en EEUU
- Live from Chicago: Jazz back in action at the Green Mill and Andy’s
- A limited series based on Colin Kaepernick’s high school years is coming to Netflix
- Some suburbs, northwest Indiana towns going ahead with July 4 fireworks with restrictions
- Talk of the County: Trump’s effort to eliminate Obamacare during pandemic a ‘display of lunacy’
- 5 dishes to cook for the 4th of July
- Gwen Berry gets apology from U.S. Olympic committee but wants change
- Siguen aumentando los positivos por coronavirus entre jugadores de MLS
- ‘We could be feeling this for the next decade’: Virus hits college towns
- México: Arrestan a 2 personas ligadas a asesinato de juez
- Johnny Depp se viste de Jack Sparrow y los fans estallan
- ‘We live from the tourists’: Orlando workers face virus’s fallout
- ‘We could be feeling this for the next decade’: Virus hits college towns
- Teen injured after falling about 25 feet through skylight of former school building in Deerfield, police say
- ‘We live from the tourists’: Orlando workers face virus’s fallout
- Broadway shutdown due to virus extended again until January
- Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana law in first big abortion case of Trump era
- On coronavirus, Americans still trust the experts
- DUAB clears path for Gary school loan deferrals
- Speak Out: Politicians, protesters pick and choose which medical recommendations to follow
- Florida’s COVID cases up fivefold in 2 weeks: ‘The numbers are scary’
- Chicago White Sox set 44-man summer camp roster, which includes highly touted prospects Andrew Vaughn and Nick Madrigal
- Rosalie Clark, for years City Hall’s host for Chicago, dies at 95
- Florida’s COVID cases up fivefold in 2 weeks: ‘The numbers are scary’
- Supremo de EEUU tumba ley sobre el aborto en Louisiana
- ‘They want to kill me’: Many COVID patients have terrifying delirium
- Ed Perkins on travel: VFR: Do it the comfortable way
- Bring your own pen: Poland’s vote tests democracy in a pandemic
- Column: Given the pandemic, we all should have heeded ‘The Graduate’ advice about a career in plastics
- Charles M. Blow column: Yes, even George Washington
- Los Rolling Stones amenazan con demandar a Trump
- Maureen Dowd column: Trump, not so statuesque
- Denuncian que incidente en Connecticut fue por racismo
- Naperville People in the News
- A ‘cure for heart disease’? A single shot succeeds in monkeys
- Ross Douthat column: Waking up in 2030
- Frank Bruni column: Here’s why Tammy Duckworth is the obvious choice to be Joe Biden’s vice president pick
- How the coronavirus short-circuits the immune system
- Científicos devuelven la vista a ratas ciegas
- Speak Out: COVID, Kaepernick and alleged hypocrites
- Dems push election-season health care bill, a strengthening of ‘Obamacare’ patient protections, toward House passage
- St. Louis couple point guns at protesters heading past their home to mayor’s house
- Consumo de azúcar libera químicos que dañan la salud
- For the first time since the middle of March, the Blarney Stone is kissed as Ireland eases coronavirus restrictions
- Oswego police look at using license plate readers
- Kessel Heat girls basketball in Lake County among youth sports already competing again: ‘We just wanted to play. Some of the kids were going crazy.’
- US pending home sales see record-breaking 44.3% rebound
- Two friends were tested for COVID-19. One paid in cash and was billed $199 – the other paid with insurance and was billed $6,408.
- ‘Feeling like death’: Inside a Houston hospital bracing for a peak in virus cases
- Coronavirus drug price ‘an outrage’: $2,340 for remdesivir, or even more for those with private insurance
- Irán pide a Interpol que le ayude a detener a Trump por muerte de general iraní en Irak
- How the world missed COVID-19’s silent spread
- Coronavirus is battering Africa’s growing middle class
- A title fit for a king? Eddie Hoffman on the brink of all-time royal status at Grundy County Speedway
- ‘Feeling like death’: Inside a Houston hospital bracing for a peak in virus cases
- Un boxeador gay ante sus fantasmas se convierte en cómic
- AMLO valoraría prueba de covid-19 si la piden para reunión con Trump
- Glenview gives current interim fire chief permanent post
- Elmhurst Eagles using fundraising efforts to help others
- Bret Stephens column: After the statues fall
- Jennifer Hudson, una Aretha Franklin deslumbrante y combativa en Respect (VIDEO)
- Golf’s U.S. Open is returning to NBC this year after Fox gets out of its USGA contract
- Mark Hamill and George Takei push for mask awareness amid coronavirus surge
- Driver in custody after 13-year-old boy riding bike killed in hit-and-run on Southwest Side, police say
- Why more men aren’t wearing masks — and how to change that
- At-home fitness experiences a pandemic-era resurgence
- The most memorable BET Awards looks through the years
- Abortion foes vent disappointment after Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana law regulating clinics
- Ciudad de Florida que alojará Convención Republicana ordena uso de mascarillas
- Number of people buying prescription medications outside U.S. could rise with unemployment, uninsured rates
- NHL Prospect Tournament — which was a launching pad for Alex DeBrincat and other Blackhawks — canceled in Traverse City because of COVID-19 concerns
- Indiana regulators rule NIPSCO can’t charge more for electricity during pandemic
- La UE sanciona a Luis Parra y a funcionarios de Venezuela por decisiones contra oposición
- Coming back home: Batavia graduate Steve Schafer returns to his alma mater to coach men’s basketball at Augustana
- Chicago Bears season ticket holders can get a full refund for 2020, but team is still hopeful some fans can attend games at Soldier Field this season
- Mercedes usará autos negros para combatir el racismo
- Column: Incoming Governors State president focused on COVID-19 challenges, but would like to see a social justice institute
- Despite pandemic, MTV VMAs to take place Aug. 30 in Brooklyn
- Kim Kardashian West selling 20% of KKW Beauty for $200 million
- Her olympic dream on hold, teen gymnast faces other trials
- Empleadas domésticas, frágiles víctimas de la pandemia
- Community news
- ‘Black Widow’ star Florence Pugh is ‘ashamed’ and apologizes for past cultural appropriation
- Using ‘face doubles,’ a new doc captures an anti-LGBTQ purge
- Sport of rowing is the unlikely escape for a West Side high schooler, who tells his story in a memoir and movie
- Editorial: Baseball is back, but it will be different
- ‘A Most Beautiful Thing’
- After 60 years of giving haircuts, this boxer-turned-barber reluctantly hangs up his clippers
- Another shooting in Seattle’s ‘occupied’ protest zone leaves 1 dead: ‘Enough is enough’
- Colorado Supreme Court upholds the state’s ban on large capacity gun magazines passed after Aurora theater shooting
- Lincoln Park Zoo reopens
- ‘White power’ flare-up in Florida retirement haven reveals tensions: ‘It’s like a powder keg here’
- Pair charged with aggravated battery in attacks on three people in Elgin, including one beaten at two different times
- Empresa china probará vacuna en militares
- East Chicago boy, 17, found gunned down in alley: police
- Majestic icon or invasive pest? A war over Australia’s wild horses
- Expolicía acusado de matar a 13 mujeres se declara culpable
- ¿Quién gana con el intercambio de volantes entre la Juve y el Barca?
- Police: Woman shot dead inside Far Northwest Side motel
- IU freshmen still hope for ‘college experience’ in pandemic
- Reddit, acting against hate speech, bans ‘The_Donald’ subreddit
- CVS will stock makeup for guys. ‘Men are a top customer focus at CVS Beauty.’
- Column: Rise up, oppressed parents, and cast off your shackles! Or take a nap. Either could be good.
- Calumet City man dies after being struck by vehicle
- Top-ranked basketball prospect Emoni Bates commits to Michigan State
- Científicos bolivianos advierten sobre uso de dióxido de cloro contra covid-19
- Los 10 bombazos videoclips en tiempos de pandemia
- NHL says 26 players have tested positive for COVID-19
- Indiana Beach reopens with new Chicago owner. ‘We didn’t purchase this to make a fortune. We purchased it to save a park and invest in it.’
- Exclusión, confinamiento y desempleo
- Tom Brady ya tiene sustituto en los Patriots
- Amid coronavirus pandemic, those with pre-existing mental health conditions find it difficult to cope: ‘You can’t just turn it off’
- Flight tests of Boeing’s grounded 737 Max to begin this week
- Letters: Protesters should consider public officials’ homes off-limits as a matter of decency
- Naperville man arrested on charges he went into woman’s bedroom armed with ‘edged weapon,’ police say
- Gary district mulling August re-entry plan for students
- J.K. Rowling deletes tweet praising Stephen King after he posts support for transgender women: report
- Paycheck Protection Program will leave billions unspent. ‘It seemed to be structured by people who might not know how small businesses are run.’
- Serie de Netflix dramatiza camino de Kaepernick al activismo
- Down to Business: Finding the perfect item to market a business more than just slapping a company name on a pen
- Mayor Lori Lightfoot announces $11 million in grants to community groups on South and West sides
- Players who have opted out of their sport
- Se extiende el cierre de Broadway por coronavirus
- Commentary: The ship full of excuses for Christopher Columbus has sailed
- Glenview, Northbrook religious leaders assess reopening options: ‘We need to make sure our congregants are safe’
- District 97 approves Jeremy Christian as Julian Middle School principal
- Primer pelotero que renuncia a jugar en 2020
- Skydeck Chicago to reopen Friday with timed tickets and a new floor to explore
- Sports lookback: NFL history trivia
- Las vidas que se resisten a apagarse en un hospital militar-civil
- Aurora looks to replace burned squad car
- Seriously Simple: Minestrone with pesto cream is the perfect summer soup
- EatingWell: Side salad showcases a perfect balance of sweet and savory
- Authorities: One killed, two injured in targeted shooting outside Amazon warehouse in Jacksonville, Florida
- Judge warns he’s likely to move the trials of four police officers charged in George Floyd’s death out of Minneapolis
- Orland Township to gain driver services facility after Village Hall location closes
- Billions of dollars in aid for small businesses go unclaimed
- Man dies following Orland Park roll-over crash
- Advice for those considering a career transition in the wake of COVID-19
- Analysis: The Supreme Court has stopped anti-abortion momentum — for now
- ‘Sin taxes’ could help states in pandemic budget slump — at least a little bit
- Is marijuana the next recovery revolution for pro athletes?
- ‘Total chaos’: Police say fight between 2 girls responsible for Portage skating rink melee
- July Fourth celebration will include East Coast flyovers
- Three words. 70 cases. The tragic history of ‘I can’t breathe.’
- ‘Dolor y gloria’ triunfa en Premios Platino virtuales
- Soldados colombianos señalados en nuevo caso de violación a menor indígena
- Two black holes colliding not enough? Make it three. ‘We have seen a visible signal from a previously invisible part of the universe.’
- Dr. Dre’s wife files for divorce after 24 years of marriage
- Chicago’s fair workweek law takes effect Wednesday as businesses grapple with pandemic uncertainty
- Cirque du Soleil files for creditor protection in Canada
- 45-year-old man shot to death on Harvey street
- The Spin: Mayor Lightfoot blasts Trump, lays out ‘terms of engagement’ for feds to help Chicago | Top cop blames ‘evil murdering bastards’ for children’s deaths in Chicago | Gas tax, minimum wage hikes hit July 1
- Un técnico colombiano toma las riendas de Emiratos Árabes
- Column: Bipartisan police reform was possible, but Congress blew it
- Corrections and clarifications
- El cubrebocas, manzana de la discordia entre republicanos de Trump y la oposición demócrata
- Sundance amplía fronteras, podría llegar a México en 2021
- Almost 25 years after a Waukegan man was killed in a Lake Forest crash, a man charged with reckless homicide has been extradited from Poland
- Florida man sentenced to prison for sexually abusing Aurora teen
- Commentary: Online or in-person teaching? With COVID-19 risk, let the faculty decide
- Police body-camera video released after man alleges Evanston officers used excessive force during arrest
- Police: Gurnee homeowner shot at after confronting two car burglars
- Naperville News Digest
- Hutton: Hopeful to get back onto the football field, Andy Simpson says, ‘Officiating is addictive. It’s an internal adrenaline rush. We need the rush.’
- Chicago Sky sign rookie Stella Johnson, the NCAA’s leading scorer last season at Rider
- Michael B. Jordan brings free, diverse movies to drive-ins across the U.S. all summer, starting July 1
- Editorial: What conservative John Roberts wants to conserve on the Supreme Court
- Tips for a dog-friendly Fourth of July
- Who is responsible if a cashier deliberately undercharges?
- 2 Chicago Cubs staff members test positive for COVID-19 as the team emphasizes following protocols when summer camp opens this week
- Golden State Killer pleads guilty, admits to dozens of rapes, murders
- Governments step up testing, reimpose restrictions as COVID-19 cases surge in US, many other countries
- FBI warns of fraudulent coronavirus antibody tests
- Cardinal ordains new priests during Archdiocese ceremony at Niles church
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened June 29 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Running back Akrum Wadley says he was mistreated and belittled because of his weight — and now regrets playing for Iowa
- Pop Smoke deserved better than Virgil Abloh. Now, he’ll get it
- New flu with ‘pandemic potential’ found in China
- Chicagoans mourn victims of gun violence after multiple shootings last weekend
- Trump got written briefing in February on possible Russian bounties, officials say