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- Chicago Red Stars beat Utah Royals 1-0 on Casey Short’s late goal for their 1st win of the NWSL Challenge Cup
- Daily horoscope for July 13, 2020
- As COVID-19 cases surge nationwide, we asked Chicagoans: Why are you getting tested?
- Editorial: Enough excuses, governor. The unemployment mess deserved your early attention.
- Ask Amy: Friendship for three leads to awkward triangle
- A West Woodlawn native wants to right redlining wrongs with some greenlining — and he’s starting in the neighborhood where he grew up
- Ask Anna: Man can’t ejaculate with girlfriend
- Letters: The slippery slope in exempting nonreligious companies from mandate
- Bicyclist, 72, fatally hit on West Side, police say
- A neighborhood photographer gives a voice to Latino essential workers during the pandemic: ‘We need to tell our own stories’
- Grandson of Elvis Presley has died at age 27, agent says
- In libel case Monday, Johnny Depp says Heard hit him with ‘haymaker’ punch
- Crosby: New Aurora police officers ‘looking forward’ to what future holds
- The NBA is considering a 2nd bubble in Chicago for its bottom 8 teams, including the Bulls. The mayor’s office is on board — but Illinois’ recent COVID-19 uptick is only 1 potential hurdle.
- Spying on celebrity bookshelves: Celebrating a pandemic guilty pleasure
- Actor Kelly Preston of ‘Jerry Maguire’ fame dies at 57, husband John Travolta confirms
- Daywatch: State breaks testing record, teachers union has demands for CPS and find out the names of the fledged piping plovers
- Do police departments in Northwest Indiana need armored vehicles? Officials tout their value, but perception of militarization lingers.
- Yu Darvish hasn’t closed the door on opting out of this Chicago Cubs season — particularly because of the COVID-19 testing delays in MLB
- Talk of the County: With Stone decision, Trump ‘disrespecting every American who loves this country’
- Talk of the County: Thanks Gov. Pritzker for slow and steady leadership in reopening state for business
- The Chicago Fire are back. Here’s what you missed since their last game — and what to watch for in the MLS Is Back Tournament.
- How many jobs will PPP loans actually save? About 22% of small-business recipients plan layoffs anyway.
- Talk of the County: ‘You people have lied to us so many times … that I’m not going to believe anything you have to say now’
- EEUU abrumado por peor brote de virus en el mundo
- COVID-19 mobile testing site in Lake Zurich this week following spike in youth cases
- Reporte: Maduro elude sanciones con petroleros clandestinos
- Más de 90 contagios en bases militares de EEUU en Okinawa
- Woman shot on Dan Ryan Expressway, driver and girl in rear seat not injured
- Speak Out: Tucker Carlson’s criticism of Tammy Duckworth was unwarranted
- Eldorado-Caesars deal may force sale of Hammond casino
- Lejos, objetivo de acabar con hambre en el mundo para 2030
- Revenues reported for short month for casinos shows gamblers welcomed reopening in mid-June
- Black mental health patients hit hard by COVID-19, social injustice: ‘We were already at a breaking point’
- Richardson busca liberación de estadounidenses en Venezuela
- Returning South: A family revisits a double lynching that forced them to flee to Chicago 100 years ago
- ESPN employees say racism endures behind the camera
- Talk of the County: ‘Yippee’ to the Volo Auto Museum for preserving history with ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ car
- Ed Perkins on travel: Air travel: Where do we go from here?
- ¿Habrá convención republicana? Todo depende de Trump
- Minnesota girl, 10, drowns while swimming at Indiana campground resort
- Thomas Kail explains how Eliza’s gasp at the end of ‘Hamilton’ came to be
- Kelly era ‘brillante, cariñosa y talentosa’
- Proposed Oswego project may include Metra station lot
- Indianapolis man found shot to death on Gary sidewalk, police say
- The post-pandemic hotel looks a lot like a cruise ship
- Lane, ramp closures scheduled for St. Charles Road and I-290 ramps
- Talk of the County: Mount Rushmore event was ‘for people who love America versus hundreds of protests all over America’
- ‘The Old Guard’ ending: Why Charlize Theron and Gina Prince-Bythewood want a sequel
- Fact check: Trump team’s false comfort on coronavirus as they push to reopen schools
- With new name and album, The Chicks’ voices ring loud again
- Tras 87 años, dejarán de ser los ‘Redskins’
- Camping during the coronavirus: 10 cool gadgets to upgrade your outdoor experience
- Neighbors get their say this week on a 43-story apartment tower proposal for the Near North Side. One condo board already says no.
- The old man of the river gets a brand new boat for the Wendella fleet
- Wall Street’s campaign to hire Black talent isn’t going so well
- U.S. district judge blocks federal executions, which would be first carried out since 2003; Trump administration appeals
- Faux meat flies off shelves when it’s sold in the meat aisle
- Hinsdale sisters offer free workshops to inspire girls in computer science
- How Russia built a channel to the Taliban, once an enemy
- 1934 fire truck returns home to Park Ridge, delighting former fire captain who drove it in 1950s
- Mars is about to be invaded by planet Earth — big time
- Northwestern’s Jim Phillips to chair the NCAA men’s basketball committee for the 2021-22 season
- Ofrecen a México 120 mdd por avión presidencial
- Howard Stern to singer who had affair with Jada Pinkett Smith: you’re lucky, shut up
- Juez en EEUU ordena retrasar las ejecuciones federales
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- Camping during the coronavirus: 10 cool gadgets to upgrade your outdoor experience
- How Russia built a channel to the Taliban, once an enemy
- Manchester City logra revocar sanción en Champions
- Federal judge demands more details on President Trump’s clemency for Roger Stone
- What’s missing in the effort to stop maternal deaths
- LT has new Student Council, Class Boards, ready to go for the 2020-21 school year
- Serie de The Batman revelará oscuros episodios de Gotham
- ‘Lake of Death’ review: Norwegian thriller, streaming on Shudder, is more like a shrug
- Scott Gardner gave up racing to raise his family. Now that son Scotty wants to give it a try, dad is back winning at Grundy Speedway: ‘He looked like a superhero.’
- Toasted almond cookies and summer fruit salad become a Seriously Simple dessert
- Millennials and boomers: Coronavirus pandemic has smacked America’s two largest generations at a pivotal time in their lives
- The Kitchn: Open-faced pizza burgers are the nostalgic comfort we need
- BMW Championship at Olympia Fields in August will be played without spectators
- Fallece actor mexicano Raymundo Capetillo por COVID-19
- 20th Street renamed after North Chicago’s first Black councilwoman Hazel S. Moore
- Marian Catholic graduate Angelo Cantelo is a ‘baseball nerd’ who has become a fixture in the Oilmen’s lineup: ‘He loves the grind.’
- With her son as model, Illinois artist Michelle Smith gives the iconic Polo shirt a new look to benefit COVID-19 relief efforts
- Chance The Rapper shows support for Kanye West’s presidential bid, faces Twitter backlash
- Judge denies bond for Elmhurst man accusing of attempted murder for shooting at a man walking his dog
- Hinsdale Central’s Kiran Amegadjie must wait for Yale football debut after Ivy League rules out fall sports, but he continues to work: ‘There are still so many moving pieces.’
- Old tombstones get TLC from Luther Cemetery volunteers: ‘It really makes a difference to the neighbors’
- La Trevi aborda grandeza y fragilidad del ser humano en nuevo tema
- Choke point for U.S. coronavirus response: The fax machine
- The pandemic has accelerated demands for a more skilled workforce
- México supera las 35.000 muertes por COVID-19
- How Everclear became a pandemic favorite
- ‘Estamos grabando una bomba’, afirman JLo y Maluma
- Russell Westbrook tests positive for COVID-19 before entering the NBA bubble for the Houston Rockets
- Naperville People in the News
- Local students receive final round of Merit Scholarships from colleges and universities
- Florida adds 12,624 coronavirus cases, its second-biggest daily increase
- More than 200 schools back lawsuit over new Trump administration restrictions on international students
- ‘It would be like losing a little bit of me’: TikTok users respond to potential U.S. ban
- Hero of her own story: A young eyewitness to George Floyd’s killing is writing a children’s book
- En corte, Depp dice que Heard le propinó un ‘golpazo’
- She found her voice in a WNBA locker room, then used it in Sweden
- Editorial: How can Chicago-based Boeing regain the public’s trust? Embrace transparency
- When scholars collaborate with tech companies, how reliable are the findings?
- What’s next for Kelvin Balfour? West Aurora grad, a top unsigned player from the 2020 class, looks back and moves forward: ‘It was bittersweet.’
- ‘Dress Coded’: Carrie Firestone’s middle-grade novel explores harmful effects of school clothing policies
- High Times Cannabis Cup coming to Illinois for the first time with public judging to see what pot products are the best
- Chicago’s jazz clubs at the cutting edge of city’s reopening
- Skokie carjacking ends with police chase into Chicago, a crash and 2 arrests
- Rituals keep these athletes grounded. They can help parents, too.
- The Chicago Marathon, scheduled for Oct. 11, is canceled for just the 2nd time in its history
- Starbucks barista who got $100,000 in donations after face mask dust-up: ‘I’ve been given this incredible opportunity that I never saw coming’
- New York & Company parent could close many of its stores — perhaps all 378 — in bankruptcy
- Prominent artistic staffers — including Young Adults director — are part of extensive Steppenwolf layoffs
- Charles M. Blow column: American horror, starring Donald Trump
- Column: Illinois Holocaust Museum sends trunk of books to NFL player DeSean Jackson after anti-Semitic posts. ‘From these bad incidents can come good things.’
- Coca-Cola admits shortage of canned drinks is a real thing
- Plant-based meat flies off shelves when it’s sold in the meat aisle
- Peacock enters streaming fray with paid, free subscriptions
- Maine South’s Ryan Kilburg uses quarantine time to prepare for playing football at Western Michigan: ‘This is a chance … to get things done.’
- Preliminary work begins on new Lake Station gas pipeline
- MCA sets re-opening for July 24 with new hours and entrance — and no admission charge
- ‘We’re not an island’: Rural outbreaks challenge Oregon’s coronavirus success
- Commentary: I owe it all to Martin Short — or maybe Jiminy Glick
- In astounding test, scientists revive damaged lungs for transplant
- Column: Minding our manners needed as Lake County slowly reopens
- Víctimas de explosivos en Colombia suman 181 durante 2020
- Molson Coors stops production of Saint Archer Gold light lager after pandemic disrupts rollout
- Un fotógrafo de barrio da voz a los trabajadores latinos esenciales durante la pandemia: ‘Necesitamos contar nuestras propias historias’
- Hallan cuerpo en lago donde desapareció actriz Naya Rivera
- Sin freno, los nuevos caso de coronavirus en Florida
- Column: Pike County has the fewest COVID cases in Indiana — and ‘maybe a little luck’
- Black Lives Matter art and murals around the world
- Hugh Hefner’s son, Cooper, plans to run for state senate in California
- No bail for La Grange man accused of killing his stepfather and citing fears of a blood sacrifice for the Illuminati
- Fire still burning after explosion on Navy ship in San Diego where at least 57 were hurt
- Ross Douthat column: The Chinese decade
- Indiana school districts grapple with reopening decisions
- Maureen Dowd column: Liar, liar, nation on fire
- Frank Bruni column: The Republicans who want to destroy Trump
- Este año no habrá maratón en Chicago
- Ex-state’s attorney of LaSalle County sues successor for ‘malicious prosecution’ after case accusing him of official misconduct fizzles
- Chicago Blackhawks are back at training camp
- ‘The parrot is alive’: Edwin Encarnacion hopes to show off his signature home run trot frequently as the new Chicago White Sox DH
- Respiratory health is vital to fight off COVID-19. Here’s how to keep your lungs healthy on low-quality air days.
- Chicago sets record for mail-in ballot applications ahead of new state law that will offer vote-by-mail to anyone who voted in last few elections
- Chicago Sky will open the shortened 2020 WNBA season July 26 vs. Las Vegas
- Rick Bayless leaving acclaimed Chicago restaurants Lena Brava and Cruz Blanca
- Letters: Telehealth benefits patients and doctors, even during nonpandemic times
- Mosquito Abatement District warns of ideal conditions for mosquitoes involved in West Nile Virus transmission
- Hong Kong Disneyland to close again, days after Disney World reopens
- Prosecutors argue to deny bail for Ghislaine Maxwell, ex-girlfriend and confidant of Jeffrey Epstein
- New Indiana report eyes COVID-19 health disparities among minorities
- Washington’s NFL team is dropping its name and logo after 87 years. A new name has not been announced.
- Temporada veraniega en EEUU sufre el congelamiento de visas
- Face coverings now required in Hammond buildings; Evansville, West Lafayette mayors also implement mask mandates
- Lake Forest’s Deer Path Inn is No. 1 among Travel + Leisure’s top 10 Midwest resorts
- Northwestern football recruit Jackson Carsello follows in sister’s footsteps with another sister on the way: ‘They’re pushing me constantly.’
- How CBD topicals can complement your mask wearing
- Prenatal marijuana use could cause sleep problems in children
- Activists seek to decriminalize ‘magic’ mushrooms in DC
- More than 12,000 Lake County businesses, nonprofits received federal loans aimed at saving jobs
- Commentary: Does Trump deserve a second term?
- Lake County schools announce return to in-person learning with required safety measures
- City closes West Loop bar for violating Chicago’s coronavirus crowding rules
- One-third of young adults may be at risk of severe COVID-19, especially if they smoke or vape
- Alinea’s rooftop popup cancels two dinners after employee tests positive for COVID-19; plans to reopen Wednesday
- Mass transit, cleanliness and COVID-19: From the New York subways to Chicago’s ‘L’
- Factory jobs catch bounce from PPE manufacturing
- Commentary: Let the kids guide us through this reckoning on race and violence
- Interpersonal Edge: Dealing with change burn out
- U.S. budget deficit hits all-time high of $864 billion in June
- Voting by mail in Illinois this year? Read this first.
- Column: The joy of quarantine eating
- Expertos anticipan desastre electoral en noviembre
- California ordena de nuevo el cierre de iglesias, gimnasios y salones de belleza
- Milwaukee council unanimously approves mandatory masks in public to prevent the spread of the coronavirus
- Inside the White House, a gun industry lobbyist delivers and a longtime industry goal realized
- Opening day ‘exciting’ at new multi-million-dollar Geneva Public Library facility
- Nearly 500 tested for COVID-19 at Lake Zurich High School mobile site
- Aurora City Council set to approve liquor license spots
- Whiting’s Whihala Beach to close starting Wednesday due to crowds, mayor says
- El rostro de la pandemia en México: Los pobres son los más afectados
- Florida shatters record for a state’s largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases as WHO warns ‘no return to normal’
- Loyola University Chicago announces fall classes will be mostly online as coronavirus cases continue to rise
- Oak Park and River Forest High School opts for 100% virtual learning this fall, with more rigorous classes than last spring
- Trump: la violencia en Chicago es ‘peor que en Afganistán’
- Juez pide información sobre perdón de Trump a aliado Stone
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- Richard Nardini, Leyden school board president for 3 decades, dies at age 85
- Gary mayor, others mourn former councilwoman Carolyn Rogers, who served from 1999-2019
- 4 takeaways from Chicago Cubs camp, including Willson Contreras’ support of Victor Caratini and his appreciation for White Sox catcher Yasmani Grandal
- President Donald Trump says he will bring down Chicago violence even if he has to ‘go in and take over’
- Veteran Chicago alderman announces she has coronavirus
- Quedan a un paso del título
- Car sliced in two, but no fatalities reported in high-speed, six-vehicle crash at Park Ridge-Niles border
- The Atlanta Braves say they won’t change their name but are studying their fans’ chop chant
- Editorial: Marathon cancellation is a major blow to Chicago, both dreams and money
- Between record-low interest rates and down payment assistance programs, the pandemic might be an opportune time for millennials to buy a home
- Knife-wielding man flees into the woods in Poland, hoping to keep his pet puma
- A big California earthquake along the San Andreas Fault just got ‘a little likelier’
- EEUU: Reabren cortes de inmigración pese a coronavirus
- University of Texas won’t get rid of ‘The Eyes of Texas’ despite athletes’ complaints about song’s racist background
- She’s an authority on Earth’s past. Now, her focus is the planet’s future.
- A year after elevated lead levels were detected, University Park residents still unable to consume water without restrictions
- First female president of Frankfort Lions Club now leading at state level
- Illinois universities join fight against a new visa rule they say targets international students and already stopped a DePaul student from entering the US
- Column: The Chicago Blackhawks are back, but goalie Corey Crawford’s uncertain status makes the chances of advancing in the playoffs seem remote
- The US monthly budget deficit hit an all-time high of $864 billion in June, amid COVID-19 recession and mass unemployment
- The Spin: Politics and Chicago’s hazardous air pollution | Ald. Carrie Austin says she has COVID-19 | Trump threatens to ‘take over’ American cities troubled by gun violence
- COVID-19 tests turn out negative for David Ross and 4 Chicago Cubs players who sat out Monday’s workout ‘out of an abundance of caution’
- After another weekend of children shot in Chicago, top cop asks for more time for his ‘community policing on steroids’
- Police seeking three men who carjacked Oak Park resident at gunpoint Friday night
- 4 takeaways from Chicago White Sox camp, including Lucas Giolito fine-tuning his curveball and the team testing the new extra-innings format
- Trump EPA brushes aside public health experts, fails to tighten national standard for lung-damaging smog
- Legal experts are reviewing a Black Minnesota teen’s lifelong sentence — a conviction Amy Klobuchar once touted in her presidential run
- ‘Glee’ star Naya Rivera saved 4-year-old son before drowning in California lake, authorities say
- Lincolnshire awards local restaurant gift cards to winners of Independence Day decorating contest
- On 25th anniversary of Chicago heat wave, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle vows 100% renewable energy in county facilities by 2030
- 5.4 million Americans have lost health insurance in coronavirus-driven recession, analysis finds
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened July 13 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- California rolls back on reopening after resurgence of COVID-19 cases: Bars, indoor restaurants, churches and gyms closed
- Summer reading programs offering literacy boost, prizes for kids and economic bump for local merchants
- Cafe, vet hospital get special use approval from Lake Zurich trustees
- Pressure shifts to other pro teams after Washington drops its Native American nickname and logo
- Lawsuit aims to lift IHSA’s pandemic-related restrictions on high school sports