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- Daily horoscope for July 7, 2020
- WBBM-Ch. 2 meteorologist Mary Kay Kleist lists Naperville 4-bedroom home for $554,000
- COVID-19 cases are spiking in states across the country. How does Illinois compare?
- Comings & Goings: Wingstop franchise returning to Tinley Park
- Ask Amy: Parents don’t want son to cohabit with girlfriend
- Here’s what to know about sex and dating in phase four of COVID-19 reopening
- Daywatch: How Illinois compares as COVID-19 cases spike in US, charges filed in July 4 killing of 7-year-old and thousands of Chicago businesses got PPP loans of at least $1 million
- The best jazz recordings of 2020 to date: From Wynton Marsalis to Adam Palma
- Johnny Depp takes stand in libel trial, claims Amber Heard hit him
- ‘Nothing I’d ever seen before’: Illegal fireworks light up Chicago skies over July 4 weekend
- Shops talk bike shortage, panic buying: ‘best bike year in history’
- Central Florida man survives lightning strike after passerby performs CPR: report
- ‘The Old Guard’ review: Sci-fi action film elevated by exploring morality of immortality
- Workers at Georgia Jimmy John’s fired for making bread dough noose
- Prosecutors question credibility of publishing CEO bankrolling Marni Yang exoneration effort
- Rasir Bolton says he left Penn State basketball last spring after coach’s ‘noose’ comment
- Coaching during COVID-19: After an online offseason, Chicago Bears face a new batch of complications as they prepare for training camp
- Experimental drug treatment may have rid man of HIV, doctors report in preliminary findings
- 5 big free agents the Chicago Bulls missed out on, from Tracy McGrady in 2000 to LeBron James and Dwyane Wade in 2010
- Illinois promised in April to improve the system to file for unemployment benefits. But people are still having trouble, and ‘hundreds of thousands of calls’ come in every week.
- Kanye West’s Yeezy, Jim Henson Co. got federal PPP loans
- Chicago-area greenhouse BrightFarms expands as pandemic fuels demand for local lettuce, spinach and other greens
- Esther Povitsky returns home to Skokie for new Comedy Central special: ‘It’s my favorite place in the world’
- Sports reading: 36 years later, Earl Weaver’s ‘Weaver on Strategy’ book still holds up as a manual for running a major-league team
- 4 MLS teams, all NWSL teams and Big 3 Basketball jump on the PPP bandwagon, but the NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB take a pass
- Johnny Depp declara en corte que su exesposa lo golpeaba
- Blotter: Items reported missing from Northbrook storage unit
- Puerto Rico se prepara para un posible escándalo político
- ‘Bruno,’ the wandering black bear who traveled through Illinois in search of a mate, is relocated from a St. Louis suburb
- Johnny Depp takes witness stand, claims ‘aggressive’ Amber Heard assaulted him in frequent ‘violent rages’
- US will pay $1.6 billion to Novavax for coronavirus vaccine
- Multan a Federación Colombiana de Fútbol por reventa de boletos
- Acusación contra Emilio Lozoya señala corrupción extrema
- Northbrook, Glenview government buildings reopen to public with mask requirement
- Grandes Ligas abre el 23 de julio con Yankees-Nacionales
- Ejército identifica restos de soldado desaparecida en Texas
- Create your own simple syrup for the best summer drinks
- Ross Douthat column: The religious roots of a new progressive era
- Summer squash reaches its peak in the air fryer
- Jamelle Bouie column: Maybe this isn’t such a good time to prosecute a culture war
- How to make super-tasty, adorably tiny open-faced sandwiches
- Brad Pitt protagonizará ‘Bullet Train’, nueva película de David Leitch
- Historic Sandwich Fair, oldest in Illinois since 1888, canceled due to pandemic
- Venice Film Festival forges ahead with reduced lineup
- Portage, Valparaiso release re-entry plans for upcoming school year
- Debutantes denied: Cotillion group Links turns 60, but coming out has to wait until 2021 thanks to COVID-19
- Paul Krugman column: How America lost the war on COVID-19
- From museums and restaurants to law firms and supermarkets, thousands of Chicago-area businesses got PPP loans worth $1 million or more
- Tom Hanks on COVID-19, ‘Greyhound’ and wartime mentality
- Mahomes firma el contrato más lucrativo en la historia del deporte
- ‘Palm Springs’ review: Kooky comedy finds connection in ‘Groundhog Day’-esque wedding time loop
- Teen charged with throwing fireworks out window of moving car; fireworks complaints abound, including damage to homes
- ‘It will consume your life’: 4 families take on rare diseases
- Clubes europeos perderán miles de millones en ingresos
- Corte de apelaciones bloquea medida de Trump contra asilo
- What to stream: Consult this list when you need a delightful movie
- Cruise lines join forces to draw up health plans for setting sail again
- Bad Bunny, Romeo Santos y Daddy Yankee ganan Premios ASCAP
- Eloy Jimenez is looking to build off the strong September he had with the Chicago White Sox last season
- Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro, who has repeatedly downplayed risks of COVID-19, tests positive for the virus
- Glenview, Northbrook district officials share tentative plans for a return to school in the fall
- El final de Stranger Things está escrito desde la primera temporada
- Tom Hanks on COVID-19, ‘Greyhound’ and wartime mentality
- Jesse Wegman column: Can we please pick the president by popular vote now?
- Gail Collins and Bret Stephens column: Trump’s beliefs are carved in stone
- Virus revives Italy’s age-old shadow safety net: The pawnshop
- Presidente de Brasil, Bolsonaro, anuncia que tiene COVID-19
- ‘It will consume your life’: 4 families take on rare diseases
- Pets of the week
- Skokie’s Backlot Bash canceled for 2020 due to coronavirus precautions
- Pilots were once in short supply. Now they’re losing their jobs.
- Employers find testing employees more trouble than it’s worth
- Cruise CEOs insist ships are safe, prepare new health protocols
- Virus revives Italy’s age-old shadow safety net: The pawnshop
- Renuncia el vicepresidente de Ecuador
- Airborne coronavirus: What you should do now
- Laid off and locked up: Virus traps domestic workers in Arab states
- Former Pottery Barn exec to take over as Crate & Barrel CEO
- Why is Candlewood Suites charging me a $250 cleaning fee? Travel Troubleshooter investigates.
- Can an algorithm predict the pandemic’s next moves?
- Donantes de Trump entre primeros en recibir ayuda por virus
- Lake, Porter officials support pausing reopening as COVID-19 cases in Indiana continue to climb
- Mary Trump’s book highlights: President practices ‘cheating as a way of life,’ including on his college entrance exam, niece writes
- Trump’s recent behavior may cost Senate majority, some Republicans fear
- La NBA pone a prueba su burbuja en Disney
- Charlize Theron says ‘it’s a little heartbreaking’ she won’t get to play ‘Mad Max’ character in prequel film
- Chicago Fire’s 1st match of the MLS Is Back Tournament is postponed after Nashville SC experiences a COVID-19 outbreak
- Thandie Newton says she was ‘scared’ of ‘dominant’ Tom Cruise while filming ‘Mission: Impossible 2’
- Best movies of 2020 so far, according to the audience
- Column: Laughing during the time of coronavirus just to keep from crying
- Thermometers in hand, Dubai opens for tourists amid pandemic
- Thermometers in hand, Dubai opens for tourists amid pandemic
- Disabato: Go back to Illinois or sign with the Oakland A’s? Lemont’s Garrett Acton had a big decision to make. He knew who to ask … his mom.
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- La MLS pospone partido y reprograma otros dos
- Community news
- The 2020 UX 250h: Lexus offers cuddles in a tiny package
- Lightning strikes rarely kill, but change victims’ lives
- Halle Berry renuncia a un papel transexual y estallan las redes sociales
- El 4 de julio de un descendiente de mexicanos
- Column: ‘Racism is killing the planet’ author connects dots between climate change and white supremacy. Will we finally listen?
- Andrean offensive lineman Vinny Allegretti and other Region football players return to practice amid pandemic: ‘It was good to be back after so long in quarantine.’
- COVID-19 risk chart: When going out in public, use this chart
- Spencer Dinwiddie (positive COVID-19 tests) and Bradley Beal (injury) won’t play in the NBA restart
- Column: Trump’s new culture war sounds a lot like his old one
- Education Secretary Betsy DeVos wants schools open full-time this fall, even amid the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘It’s a matter of how’
- Column: President Trump versus Vice President Biden, a disappointing decision for American voters
- 27,412 Illinois companies got PPP loans of more than $150,000: Search our database
- Speak Out
- Latinas y afroamericanas representan el 70% de casos de COVID-19 en embarazadas
- Lake Station seeks candidates for school board vacancy
- Philadelphia Eagles receiver DeSean Jackson apologizes for anti-Semitic posts
- Retail chains, ‘alarmed with the instances of hostility and violence,’ urge governors to require face masks nationwide
- 31-year-old man dies after being pulled from water at Evanston beach Monday night
- Wednesday outside Soldier Field: Pop goes the drive-in
- Meatpacking production returns to near normal, but workers still paying the price of COVID-19
- Face masks in school likely to be mandatory, so it is time kids get used to them now: officials
- López Obrador viaja a Washington para reunirse con Trump
- Free saliva-based COVID-19 tests begin at University of Illinois, but school won’t say if students are required to take them
- Aurora man to get new sentencing hearing for 2009 murder of East Aurora High School soccer player
- Some suburban pools have opened with new protocols
- Police officers in schools? Oak Park board will wait on school district discussions
- Naperville’s Nick Solak and Nicky Lopez look to build upon momentum in sophomore MLB seasons: ‘I’m pretty comfortable with everything.’
- Tom Hanks’ and Rita Wilson’s vastly different reactions to coronavirus were ‘odd,’ he says, exhorting people to ‘do your part and wear a mask’
- Kevin Hart celebrates 41st birthday: ‘I’m lucky to be alive’
- Piden uso obligatorio de mascarillas en las tiendas en EEUU
- Illinois Holocaust Museum, North Suburban YMCA announce reopening approaches
- June weed sales top $47 million in Illinois, a monthly record
- Winnetka Village Hall reopens; local merchants to host summer sidewalk sale
- Oakton Community College kicks-off new cannabis certification program for students this fall
- DuPage Medical Group names new CEO after former leader’s death
- Gobernadora de Puerto Rico acepta que se la investigue
- Northwestern Cutlery leaving Fulton Market after nearly 50 years, selling building and moving north
- Diversity artwork for Naperville moving ahead under guidance of new community committee
- At least 17 shot, 4 fatally, in less than 12 hours in Chicago
- Odds for the new name of Washington’s NFL team
- 4 takeaways from Chicago Cubs camp, which was delayed so players could complete COVID-19 testing
- Ferrara Candy fined nearly $500,000, placed in OSHA severe violator enforcement program after two workers hurt at Bellwood plant
- Tom Hanks charla sobre coronavirus y mentalidad de guerra
- Joe Biden releases plan to shift medical equipment, pandemic supply production to the US
- Illinois county warns against touching and catching bats as they reach most active time of the year
- Best tips for indoor and outdoor gardening in the summer
- The best gold IRA service
- Amanda Kloots shares montage of memories with Nick Cordero: ‘I was the luckiest’
- The best senior dog food
- The best baby crib of 2020
- The best air fryer of 2020
- Cleveland aleja a Franmil Reyes por ir a fiesta sin barbijo
- Oak Park resident named River Forest Township senior outreach coordinator
- Elmwood Park Public Library scheduled to reopen doors for some services July 13
- Raven Theatre adjusts 2020-21 season to begin next February
- Quentin Tarantino despide a Ennio Morricone: ‘¡Larga vida al Rey!’
- Southland crime: Looting charges in Oak Lawn, and more
- ¿Es arriesgado ir a un restaurante durante la pandemia?
- Lender halts funding for Helmut Jahn-designed skyscraper on Michigan Avenue, putting project in doubt
- As heat wave continues, Aurora opens cooling center at Transportation Center on North Broadway
- Dwight Howard estará en Orlando y donará su sueldo
- Elmhurst Family Restaurant closes after 41 years because of coronavirus pandemic
- Transportation company’s relocation to Elgin moves ahead
- Identifican restos de otro estudiante desaparecido del caso Ayotzinapa
- Butler District 53 readies for three possible scenarios for start of new school year
- Anitta no tiene paciencia para los prejuicios
- New Starbucks proposed for Elgin, Dunkin’ store slated for South Elgin
- Chicago students earn stipends through online summer program
- Central Illinois man says he’s facing eviction for hanging Black Lives Matter flag on apartment balcony
- Here’s a list of drive-in movie theaters near you
- Singers collaborate for quarantine livestreams
- Gavin Rossdale was most embarrassed by ‘crumbling’ of marriage to Gwen Stefani
- Talk of the County: You can’t erase Washington and Jefferson from American history
- Deerfield, Highland Park school alumni hold ‘call to action’ racial awareness rally in Mitchell Park
- Corte suspende cúpula de partido opositor en Venezuela
- Trump intends to reopen schools this fall despite COVID-19 pandemic: ‘We’re very much going to put pressure on governors and everybody else’
- Elgin cops issued 116 tickets for illegal fireworks, handled 1,025 complaint calls between July 1-5, police chief says
- Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms says governor’s authorization of National Guard is ‘outrageous and will endanger lives’
- Antes payaso, ahora obrero de fábrica de ataúdes en Perú
- Estadounidense Pulisic brilla en victoria del Chelsea (VIDEO)
- Northbrook and Glenview celebrate Fourth of July — at a distance
- School to start in September at North Shore District 112; air conditioners to be rented
- Las Lunas del Auditorio de México cancelan su ceremonia por coronavirus
- Family turns to volunteers, technology as they continue search for Valparaiso man suffering from dementia, missing since June 30
- Naperville man facing 14 counts of child porn possession and distribution
- DUAB to weigh referendum for Gary schools
- University Park man sentenced following 2018 Gary robbery that led to shooting of federal agent
- Evanston names new African American heritage sites to mark local history
- Trump administration sends formal notice of withdrawal from World Health Organization
- Kenosha man charged with child porn, threatening woman from Gurnee area
- Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a co-owner of the Atlanta Dream, wants WNBA to scrap plans to honor Breonna Taylor and Black Lives Matter. Commissioner responds: ‘We will … vigorously advocate for social justice’
- COVID-19 pandemic blamed as Valparaiso cancels 2020 Popcorn Fest: ‘I don’t know how to control a crowd of 60,000’
- Bowling alley, fitness spots, indoor dining reopen in Franklin Park, Elmwood Park, River Grove
- Charles Compton, Civil Air Patrol pilot during World War II and ad salesman, dies
- Kershaw abrirá temporada con los Dodgers batiendo un récord
- Crosby: Luigi’s among Aurora’s long-timers struggling in pandemic’s new normal
- Fight over Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s graduated-rate income tax plan intensifies in Illinois
- How to recognize, treat and prevent heat illnesses
- ‘#Lincolnshire Strong’ was theme of village’s Independence Day celebration, home decorating contest
- To our readers
- Dog adoption rates are increasing during COVID-19. Chicago’s most popular dog breeds differ from the rest of the U.S.
- Tips on protecting your dog from the sun
- COVID cases up: 17 new deaths reported across 17 north and west suburbs this week
- U.S. Cellular CEO Laurent Therivel buys Glencoe house for $2.6 million
- U.S. Cellular CEO Laurent Therivel buys Illinois home for $2.6 million
- North Shore houses of worship debate opening plans as Illinois enters new phase of coronavirus recovery
- Many did not wear masks at the Mississippi Capitol in June. Now, at least 8 lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19.
- Demanda: Política laboral pone en riesgo a inmigrantes
- Letters: Rookie Chicago police officer should fight the good fight as a union member
- Lake Zurich High School shuts down sports camps after students test positive for COVID-19
- Corrections and clarifications
- Ex vocalista de Kasabian sentenciado a 200 horas de trabajo
- Max Christie, a 5-star basketball recruit from Rolling Meadows ranked in the nation’s top 15, commits to Michigan State
- Commentary: How a graduated income tax would help the environment
- Former Highland Park musician, entrepreneur remembered as ‘real gentleman and very good tuba player’
- Ordinance to require more COVID-19 help for residents of large Chicago senior buildings sent to City Council for vote
- Orland Park sets guidelines for broader reopening after judge voids governor’s COVID-19 orders
- New U.S. Cellular CEO Laurent Therivel buys Glencoe home with Lake Michigan beach access for $2.6 million
- Winnetka residents take to their cars to celebrate July 4
- As houses of worship reopen, some require masks, reservations, temperature checks
- Elgin police chief hopes to spur race discussion with public roundtable talk on ‘White Fragility’ book
- Lake Forest Showhouse and Gardens exhibition returns this month to the Pullman Estate
- The Spin: Sen. Duckworth responds to Tucker Carlson | Federal PPP recipients released | Details from Mary Trump’s new tell-all emerge
- Residents call for Arlington Heights to be ‘more welcoming’ to racial diversity. Village manager says firm will be hired to help with that.
- Speak Out: Attempts to get President Trump to wear a mask fail
- Column: Residents seek services as public buildings reopen after four months
- Some items inside Aurora church ruined in weekend fire
- Judge denies bail for man accused of being getaway driver in fatal shooting of 7-year-old Natalia Wallace in Chicago on July 4
- NFL and Players Association still are without finalized protocols with training camps a few weeks away
- More than 500 Naperville businesses awarded federal PPP loans of between $150,000 and $5 million or more
- Editorial: Coronavirus aid to businesses: How Washington helped but overspent on PPP
- Column: A lower COVID-19 death rate is nothing to celebrate
- Robert Redford thrashes Donald Trump while endorsing presidential candidate Joe Biden in lengthy post
- Supply of PPE for medical workers begins to run low again as COVID-19 spikes in US
- Waukegan protesters call on Congress to protect women in the military following death of Vanessa Guillen
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened July 7 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Lake County rolls out grants for small businesses hurt by COVID-19, state shutdown
- 3 takeaways from Chicago White Sox camp, including the pitching depth impressing Gio Gonzalez and no issues so far with COVID-19 testing
- Column: Umpire Joe West’s skepticism about the COVID-19 death count puts his judgment under fire before the MLB season even begins
- FBI investigates reported assault of Black man by group of white men at southern Indiana lake as hate crime
- Anthony Rizzo sits out Chicago Cubs intrasquad game because of lower back tightness
- Contracts and trades take a back seat for Chicago Cubs GM Jed Hoyer as baseball returns amid a pandemic: ‘That’s really not where our mind is’
- Trump is stoking racial tensions to drive his supporters to the polls. But some in the president’s orbit are sounding the alarm.
- The inside story of why Mary Trump wrote a tell-all memoir
- Chief Justice John Roberts was hospitalized after injuring head in fall last month