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- Daily horoscope for August 12, 2020
- Game 1: Golden Knights 4, Blackhawks 1
- Woman, 45, dies after falling off boat into 59th Street Harbor
- 14-year-old boy shot on West Side
- Ask Amy: Husband patrols wife’s feelings
- Column: As prison reform gains more support, is reducing the number of incarcerations really a good idea?
- Column: USPS postal carriers brave the storm, and not just the political one
- Column: Biden picks Kamala Harris. Trump should dump Mike Pence and replace him with a yacht.
- As universities reopen, no one has more uncertainty than this year’s freshman class
- Electric scooters are back in Chicago: Here’s what you need to know about the program from Lime, Spin and Bird
- Column: One story from the night of looting in Chicago that doesn’t fit the approved narrative
- Original ‘Hamilton’ star Christopher Jackson is doing a concert for Northlight Theatre. And no, not from his basement.
- 7 lingering questions about Big Ten football, including what would a spring season look like? And is Nebraska entering the transfer portal?
- Homewood students connect with Purdue for summer STEM camp, a possible model for online learning
- Virtual attractions bring European travel experiences to those stuck stateside — and hint at what future trips might look like
- Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald wins GOP primary for US House seat
- Daywatch: Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris for VP, uncertainty for college freshmen and electric scooters are back in Chicago
- About three-quarters of American voters can cast ballots by mail this November, despite President Trump’s objections
- ‘I’m going to get back to making big plays and scoring touchdowns’: A closer look at Jimmy Graham and the Bears tight ends in 2020
- What do you do with a basement full of decades-old jerseys? Here’s how US Soccer and a CPS educator teamed up to create and donate 500 masks to frontline workers.
- ‘Inception’ review: Hit the road again to DiCaprio’s dreamland, in all 70 millimeters
- ‘A no-win situation’: North suburban parents prepare for schools’ in-person, remote and hybrid plans
- 8 takeaways from the Blackhawks’ Game 1 loss to the Golden Knights, including ‘one-and-done’ offense, forecheck frustrations and Robin Lehner’s wayward left skate
- Tesla plans 5-for-1 stock split; shares have tripled so far this year
- Chargers coach Anthony Lynn reveals on ‘Hard Knocks’ that he had COVID-19 during the offseason
- Hank Williams Jr., Marty Stuart to join Country Hall of Fame
- Estimated 2021 tax levy shows 4% increase from previous year
- NIRPC awarded $583K grant to help small businesses deal with pandemic
- Sumner Redstone, who built media empire including CBS and Viacom, dies at age 97
- Where Kamala Harris stands on the issues: Race, policing, health care and education
- Haile Thomas wrote more than a cookbook. It’s a life guide.
- Small businesses are quietly dying by the thousands during the coronavirus pandemic
- Former EPA bosses join more than 500 ex-employees in calling for agency overhaul after Nov. 3 election
- Neil Young spends thousands to leave ‘corrupt’ Facebook, Google
- Kamala Harris’ selection as VP resonates with Black women
- Like its vampires, ‘Twilight’ lives forever: Fans gush over new ‘Midnight Sun’ book
- Bill Cosby’s lawyers argue for new trial, calling sex-crimes conviction ‘fundamentally unfair’
- Ecuador: arrestan a expresidente por delincuencia organizada
- Evanston budget deficit grows to $2.1 million this year due to ongoing coronavirus pandemic
- Column: What did we learn from the killing of George Floyd? The police shooting in Englewood shows not very much.
- Local scores for Northwest Indiana
- Candidatura de Kamala Harris repercute en votantes negras
- NBA memo details family and friends policy for joining the Orlando bubble — No first dates need apply: report
- Holiday pay cut for some Lake County employees to help cover COVID-19 budget shortfall
- ‘Everything is a risk vs. benefit equation these days and it is exhausting’ — What 29 Chicago-area parents have to say about going back to school
- Interest in homeschooling has ‘exploded’ amid pandemic
- El venezolano Giovani Savarese le gana la partida al colombiano Óscar Pareja
- Review: ‘Sputnik,’ a Russian spin on ‘Alien’ — and it’s good
- Celebrate Derek Jeter’s historic MLB career with limited edition bobblehead
- Girl convicted in Slender Man stabbing in Wisconsin loses appeal
- 3 muertos en choques por una publicación en Facebook
- How will scouts approach the 2021 NFL draft without a full slate of college football? It’s getting more complicated by the day.
- Por qué los ‘Lils’ y ‘Babys’ dominan los charts en EEUU
- Speak Out: People need to be held accountable for downtown violence
- Host a nostalgic sleepover at the world’s last Blockbuster
- El virus trastoca la campaña de un joven candidato latino
- The Masters — pushed back to Nov. 12-15 — will be played without fans
- Girl, 4, dies after Gage Park house fire that also displaced 9 other residents
- Bienvenidos a la Liga de Campeones, se agradece mantener distancia
- Más detalles de este caso: el padre mata a su hija, de 11 años, que tenía “enfermedad terminal devastadora” y luego se suicida, dice policía
- More than decor: Houseplants can boost your mental health while COVID-19 has you stuck inside
- Having an eating disorder during coronavirus is like being ‘in a maze blindfolded’
- Luis Fonsi y muchos más se unen para ayudar a clínicas St. Jude y niños con cáncer
- Prince Harry and Meghan Markle buy home in Santa Barbara, Calif. and are now settled in
- FBI arresta a contador en causa de corrupción en Puerto Rico
- Odebrecht habría financiado campaña de Peña Nieto
- Fútbol colombiano podría volver en septiembre
- After being fired by St. Xavier, Rocco Mossuto enjoys coaching revival with Southland Vikings: ‘I really didn’t know when or if I’d coach again.’
- Police: Three men attack, carjack driver at gunpoint Monday night in Oak Park
- NBA lays out plan to allow players 4 family members or long-time close friends — but not ‘personal chefs, hair/apparel stylists, tattoo artists’ — to enter the Disney bubble
- Frank Bruni column: Kamala Harris is the future, so Mike Pence may well be history
- Ross Douthat column: The revolt of the Republican strategists
- Virus worsens the US gender pay gap, with women losing out
- After tribute to slain teen activist Caleb Reed, Mather High council votes out school resource officer
- Odegaard se despide de la Real para volver al Real Madrid
- Derrame petrolero afecta parque protegido en Venezuela
- Muere Trini Lopez, uno de los ‘Doce del patíbulo’, por coronavirus
- Lucille Ball Comedy Festival goes virtual in its 29th year
- Yes, Chicago, there is some live rock music to be found these days. But can it last?
- Waukegan among Lake County schools with concerns about playing surfaces for football and boys soccer during IHSA’s new ‘spring’ season
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- Marist graduate Nic Weishar finds gaming success with Yoke after playing football at Notre Dame: ‘It’s cool to see this thing grow.’
- Ciencia y política se mezclan en carrera mundial por vacuna
- Custom Near North penthouse with sweeping views: $4M
- Vito & Nick’s celebrates 100 years
- Embarazadas con COVID-19 enfrentan duros desafíos en Perú
- Israel quietly opens its borders, and Palestinians have a beach day
- Are racial attitudes really changing? Some Black activists are skeptical
- Chicago brewery recalls three beers that may rupture — here’s how to get a refund
- Otro golpe demoledor para el fútbol americano colegial
- Batavia sprinter Tori Ortiz takes on Big 12 Conference with transfer from Illinois State to Oklahoma State: ‘I just had to make a change.’
- Illinois is one step closer to awarding 75 marijuana dispensary licenses after 3-month delay
- Column: Mail-in ballots in plague year make sense except to GOP
- American hopes to charm Brits in soccer series ‘Ted Lasso’ with Jason Sudeikis
- EEUU: Pandemia aumenta interés en enseñanza en casa
- Vito & Nick’s celebrates 100 years in Chicago with the best tavern-style pizza in the city
- What’s on TV and streaming this August
- 925 quarantined for COVID. Is this a successful school reopening?
- Kamala Harris: Pros and cons of her candidacy
- ‘No slavery in Australia’? These Pacific islanders tell a different story
- How did Scott Borgerson get mixed up with Ghislaine Maxwell?
- Israel quietly opens its borders, and Palestinians have a beach day
- Are racial attitudes really changing? Some Black activists are skeptical
- Mall owner Simon, Authentic Brands buying Brooks Brothers for $325M
- Four-car ‘sky garage’ elevates South Florida penthouse
- Carmelo Anthony calls push for social justice a ‘lifelong fight’
- Los 10 actores mejor pagados de Hollywood
- OMS: Jóvenes, ‘responsables’ para detener contagios
- Comedy, she wrote: Longtime ‘Saturday Night Live’ writer Paula Pell on riffing on an Angela Lansbury TV classic in her new Quibi show ‘Mapleworth Murders’
- Carlos Rivera busca transmitir paz con EP ‘Si fuera mía’
- Coronavirus prolifera entre latinos en un condado rico de California
- Best home decor additions for less than $100
- The best sous vide machine of 2020
- The best hypoallergenic skin cleanser
- The best drawing tablet of 2020
- The best cordless drill of 2020
- La Grange Park firefighters deal with live electrical wires and explosions during backyard fire
- The best pellet grill of 2020
- The best vitamin C supplement of 2020
- The best cosmetic beeswax
- The best field hockey stick
- Learning tools for your next outdoor excursion
- Stein Mart, with 7 Chicago-area locations, files for bankruptcy, plans to close most or all stores
- Countdown to football: Max Korniak-led Rensselaer ranked No. 9 in the preseason by the Post-Tribune
- Dance director Winifred Haun creates Zoom events, film during pandemic
- Big 12 Conference moves ahead with the fall sports schedule, with football kicking off on Sept. 26
- Conductor atropella a madre e hija, regresa y atropella nuevamente a la madre, la arrastra y la mata
- HGTV green lights Chicago-based show with local interior designer, ‘$50K Three Ways’
- The nation wanted to eat out again. Everyone has paid the price.
- Colapsa enorme grúa de construcción, 5 muertos
- Battle lines set for Wisconsin GOP’s super-majority push
- Trump lip-sync star Sarah Cooper gets Netflix special
- Retired Boeing CEO Jim McNerney sells Lake Forest mansion for $3.98M
- The bubble’s best TV innovation deserves a longer look
- In Beverly at the new Two Mile, drinking coffee and hot chocolate and looking at art with rich Chicago roots
- Chicago-area high school athletes help out downtown small business owner, after second looting in two months
- NBA permitirá que jugadores tengan invitados en la burbuja
- Concrete, a centuries-old material, gets a new recipe
- Ballet clásico lucha por sobrevivir la pandemia en Venezuela
- Students arrive in masks for the first day of school in Munster: ‘We’ll see how it goes’
- Highland man faces drunken driving charges after hitting 3 Indiana State Trooper cars: police
- Grupos de mujeres combatirán ataques contra Harris
- Former Tronc CEO Justin Dearborn moves into the Hollywood Hills
- Former Tronc CEO Justin Dearborn moves into the Hollywood Hills
- Court settlements can pay people of color less than whites, data shows. Former University of Michigan athletes alleging sex abuse are speaking out.
- Gold Coast residents push back against proposed marijuana dispensary. ‘The sheer number of people will be too much.’
- 11 supposedly fun things we’ll never do the same way again
- Designer Virgil Abloh’s Spring 2021 collection for Louis Vuitton
- Fiscales acusan a tres de amenazar mujeres en caso de R. Kelly
- Oak Brook Village Board rejects residential portion of proposed development on former McDonald’s campus
- With 32 days until the Bears’ 1st game, Matt Nagy isn’t sure what a best-case scenario would be for a Mitch Trubisky-Nick Foles decision
- Open burning of leaves allowed in unincorporated Lake County
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor: ‘We’re in a real financial crisis’
- Glenview woman, 81, hit and killed by vehicle Sunday while crossing the road
- DePaul University shifts ‘vast majority’ of classes online, closes residence halls to most students
- Letters: ComEd should return its ill-gotten gains to customers
- El Atlético del ‘Cholo’, ¿favorito en la Champions?
- Retired Boeing CEO Jim McNerney sells Lake Forest mansion for $3.98 million — about half its 2006 buying price
- Somalia sopesa ley que permitiría el matrimonio infantil
- Hundreds of thousands in Iowa still without power after 112 mph winds near Cedar Rapids: ‘It feels like we got kicked in the teeth’
- Muere el magnate mediático Sumner Redstone
- Contractor hired for Gary airport taxiway project
- The fall Chicago Humanities Festival will go on — but all digital
- #SelPink is a go! Selena Gomez joins K-pop group Blackpink for next single
- Stevie Nicks fears COVID-19: ‘If I get it, I will probably never sing again’
- Most silent films are lost forever. The Chicago Film Society found one that wasn’t really lost, ‘because hardly anyone knew it existed’
- Mobile units to provide free coronavirus tests in Aurora
- Why celebrities are declaring ‘we have her back’ about Kamala Harris
- Photos: White Sox 7, Tigers 5
- Trump tweets congratulations for QAnon supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene after she wins GOP nomination for US House in Georgia
- Omar, otra victoria para el ‘escuadrón’
- Students arrive at Valparaiso University with COVID-19 rules in place
- Luis Robert knocks in 3 while Tim Anderson collects 4 hits as the White Sox beat the Tigers 7-5
- Did the storm knock down trees near you? Tell us about it.
- Power outage zaps first remote day for Gary students
- Commentary: Healing Chicago will take authentic listening by all of us
- La moda volverá a las pasarelas de Milán, parcialmente
- Column: Storm damage brought neighbors together. It also exposed how drivers are impatient.
- Tribune Publishing vacating offices at 5 newspapers around the country
- 3 things we learned from Bears coach Matt Nagy after the 1st practice of 2020, including how he’s handling the time crunch before the season opener
- Lake, Porter county officials ‘ecstatic’ about Joe Biden picking Kamala Harris as running mate
- Cuba desarrolla una vacuna propia y negocia con Rusia
- Tomar alcohol después de practicar deporte es malo para músculos
- Arrestan a estadounidenses por vender falsa cura de COVID-19
- Dining with heaters, blankets and plastic domes? With more than 5,000 Illinois restaurants predicted to close, extending patio season may be crucial
- Simeone: ‘No es importante ganar, es lo único que hay’
- ‘Qanon is a fabrication’: Republicans react as QAnon conspiracy theory continues to gain mainstream ground
- Aurora educators say remote learning in the fall will ‘look very different’ than in the spring
- Column: The complicated truth about Chicago crime
- Remontada épica del PSG que se mete ‘in extremis’ en semifinales de Champions
- David Blaine’s next stunt involves soaring over New York City holding helium balloons
- Editorial: How will Kamala Harris shape the election in the Midwest?
- Pregnant marijuana use linked to children with autism, study
- What’s the difference between marijuana CBD and hemp CBD?
- Tribune Publishing cierra salas de redacción de 5 diarios
- Portland CBD manufacturer sued for $2.2 million by Italian chocolate company
- Love your neighbor: Austin 100-year-old shares his best life advice
- Corrections and clarifications
- Commentary: Democrats are waging war against the Constitution
- Three men accused in plots to threaten, harass victims in R. Kelly racketeering case in New York
- Column: Amy Boyle set out to tell the stories of 52 phenomenal women. She’s at 100 and counting, boosting her faith in humanity all along the way.
- Visitation Friday for former longtime Steger mayor Lou Sherman
- Column: Women have the power to steer this election. Can Kamala Harris drive them to the Democratic side?
- Potempa: Hoosier actor, Oscar nominee Clifton Webb a favorite
- The Cubs’ Javier Baez calls his childhood friend Francisco Lindor of the Indians ‘the best shortstop in the game’ — and that motivates him to close the gap
- Before Isiah Thomas was left off the 1992 Dream Team, he cried when the U.S. boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics
- Elmhurst District 205 shifts to all-remote start of school Aug. 24
- Commentary: Kim Foxx: Let’s stop pointing fingers and solve this violence problem together
- Can the former Golden Knights on the Blackhawks roster give them an edge? Either way, expect this to continue to be a bruising series.
- Hinsdale Police Chief to talk about recent ‘uptick’ in crime during online meeting Aug. 17
- Companies test antibody drugs to treat, prevent COVID-19
- Second stimulus check updates: For Americans waiting on coronavirus aid from Washington, no new relief in sight
- Lightfoot announces review of Chicago monuments as part of ‘a racial healing and historical reckoning project’
- ‘It could have been worse’: Officials confirm tornado touchdown in northwest Lake County during Monday’s storms
- Man convicted in infamous 1994 Aurora murder ordered to return to prison after sentencing error led to his early release
- Live drive-in concert series at Boomers Stadium a draw for people who ‘want to get out of their house’
- Report includes recommendations for Aurora police reform
- ‘Everyone wants to play football as soon as possible’: Illinois’ Josh Whitman and Lovie Smith are optimistic the Big Ten can pull off a spring season
- Chicago police launch new website of videos and photographs from downtown looting to spur tips
- Progressives didn’t want Kamala Harris for VP. They’re backing her anyway.
- Cello teacher in Crystal Lake convicted of attempted sexual assault of student
- University Park trustee sues village over official’s alleged refusal to turn over ‘readily available’ financial documents
- For suburban theater fans, Paramount Broadway series shows are a major event
- Waukegan woman critically injured in scooter accident
- Gov. J.B. Pritzker voices support of Black Lives Matter goals while making clear that ‘anybody who is looting … should be held responsible’
- Downtown Chicago restrictions and limited train service to extend through the weekend
- Coronavirus trends in Illinois not looking good: ‘My concern is growing each day,’ says public health director
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened on Aug. 12 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Ask Anna: Cuckolding 101
- Current NBA players who weren’t highly ranked college recruits
- Joe Biden and Kamala Harris assail Trump in their historic first appearance as running mates
- Notre Dame says 2 football players tested positive for COVID-19 and have been placed in isolation
- Harold’s Chicken Shack on 87th at Dan Ryan closed permanently after rent raised over 40%
- The Spin: Illinois at ‘make or break moment’ on COVID-19, Pritzker says | NYT: Kanye West met with Jared Kushner | Kinzinger weighs in on QAnon
- Photos: Cubs 7, Indians 2
- Trinity Hospital reopening labor ward as Mercy plans to close, but South Side women are still stuck in a birthing ‘desert’
- Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly’s suspension reduced to 5 games on appeal
- Kyle Hendricks and the Cubs complete a 2-game sweep of the Indians with a 7-2 win
- Marlee Matlin flabbergasted Trump doesn’t have ASL interpreter for COVID-19 hearings
- Sky beat Mercury 89-71 behind Allie Quigley’s 20 points
- Andrew Lloyd Webber set to receive experimental COVID-19 vaccine