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- Lute Olson, the coach who transformed Arizona into a college basketball powerhouse, dies at 85
- Trump lashes Biden as he accepts renomination on massive White House stage, defying pandemic guidelines to address large crowd
- ‘She’ll do whatever she needs to do’: Newcomer Sophia Jaime finds groove, scores four goals in Valparaiso’s 5-1 win against Chesterton
- Analysis: 7 key takeaways from RNC’s final night, including Trump believing rhetoric of fear is more powerful than words of hope
- Daily horoscope for August 28, 2020
- Column: Indiana is open for business as the Illinois Exodus continues
- Ask Amy: Dad wants to ‘Meet the Parents’
- Column: ‘America, America, God sheds His grace on me’: A convention TrumPoem
- ‘We’re in uncharted waters:’ Illinois counties rush to finalize early voting sites amid looming election deadlines, COVID-19 concerns
- Flashback: Geraldine Ferraro’s VP nod in 1984 was a watershed moment — but soon came the smears
- Without another bailout, Exelon plans to close two Illinois nuclear plants next year
- RNC fact check: False claims on COVID-19, Black Lives Matter and more on convention’s final night
- Daywatch: Trump makes case for a 2nd term, inside the Kenosha militia linked to shootings and the best grab-and-go pizza slices in Chicago
- How to have work-life balance when working from home
- The best 3-in-1 shampoo
- The best alcohol-free mouthwash of 2020
- The best aromatherapy candle
- The best fruit snack
- The best Graco jogging stroller
- The best hanging egg chair
- Everything you need to know about the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, including how to watch
- Jason Heyward and the 1st-place Cubs face plenty of unknowns with 30 games remaining in the season
- The best wireless router of 2020
- Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to step down because of chronic health problem
- Fledgling militia group put out call to arms in Kenosha and 5,000 people responded. Now it’s banned from Facebook after fatal shootings during protests.
- What does Andersonville smell like? Or Pilsen or Hyde Park? A candlemaker customizes scents to fit the ‘personality’ of Chicago neighborhoods
- With David Montgomery sidelined, could undrafted rookie Artavis Pierce be in the Bears running back mix with no preseason to prove himself?
- Kyle Rittenhouse charged with murder in Kenosha shootings that killed 2; Jacob Blake handcuffed to hospital bed, uncle says
- Protesters confront Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul about Breonna Taylor after RNC
- Waukegan schools pass 1-million mark in meals distributed during pandemic
- Amazon to buy 1,800 electric vans from Rivian rival Mercedes
- Attorney: R&B singer R Kelly attacked in federal detention
- Commentary: A pandemic trip to Europe was going great — until the return to O’Hare airport
- Wildlife sanctuary maintenance on hold as officials wait for transfer to county park board
- Column: Law and order only work if you apply them equally. That’s not what happens when unarmed Americans keep getting shot.
- Football commentator Hub Arkush sells Deerfield home for $563,000
- Park Ridge Library Board cuts funding for employee raises, bonuses
- Thiago Silva llega a la Premier de la mano del Chelsea
- ¿Puede fichar el Liverpool a Messi?
- Gold Coast home with gallery hall foyer: $1.02M
- Riccardo Muti, ‘a prisoner’ in Italy, on the CSO during the coronavirus pandemic: ‘We need to save the orchestra’
- Encausan a joven blanco por matar a dos hombres en protestas en Wisconsin
- For David Hallberg, a swan song in pictures
- Community news
- For David Hallberg, a swan song in pictures
- March on Washington
- This Week in Naperville
- This neighborhood contains multitudes
- Changes coming to Uptown Park Ridge as Prospect Avenue shops open, relocate
- After nearly 200 years, Lord & Taylor going out of business
- ‘Speak Out’ reader opinion: Voting by mail makes sense
- This neighborhood contains multitudes
- ‘Class Action Park’ review: Welcome back to the world’s most dangerous waterpark
- Trump recurre al miedo al pedir 4 años más
- Muere el creador de Scooby-Doo, Joe Ruby
- Speak Out reader opinion: Protesters should have to pay for damages they cause
- WGN America to launch ‘News Nation’ on Tuesday, aiming to transform the house that Bozo built into the next CNN
- Review: Horror comedy ‘Get Duked!’ finds the going rough
- ‘Big Ben’ ya no tendrá que mentirle al coordinador ofensivo
- If you want to own a lock of Abraham Lincoln’s hair, wrapped in a bloodstained telegram about his assassination, this is your chance
- Distance learning can fit into your back-to-school budget
- Laura se debilita, pero sigue amenazando al este de EEUU
- Recessions lead to big money mistakes – here’s how to break the trend
- Lake County libraries gradually reopen, restore services: ‘We needed to ensure we could do it safely’
- How to continue working remotely from another state
- You’re beginning to look dull
- As the need for food aid soars, small Chicago grassroots efforts are stepping up. ‘When it was a difficult moment, we made a difference.’
- The TikTok FOMO is real
- Owner of St. John dog training facility on civil case against town: ‘They accused me of something … because of my skin color’
- Plácido Domingo: ‘Me gustaría aclarar personalmente mi situación’
- Pictures: Hurricane Laura
- Half-floor condo at No. 9 Walton lists for $7.2 million
- Katrina to COVID: New Orleans’ Black community pounded again
- Down to Business: Q&A with Barry Atkins, whose Naperville scrubs store fills a niche for med professionals and comfort seekers
- EEUU vería casi 320,000 muertos por covid-19 para diciembre
- Premier japonés busca dejar su cargo por deterioro de salud
- Paul Krugman column: April was Trump’s cruelest month
- Easy, healthy and tasty smoothie recipes
- Column: Kanye West’s campaign a twist in presidential election season
- NHL playoffs to resume this weekend after players prompted the league to postpone games to protest racial injustice
- David Brooks column: Trump and the politics of ‘mean world’
- Recruiting notes: Stevenson’s Ava Bardic sacrifices out-of-state tournaments, adapts to ‘new and challenging’ outdoor basketball during pandemic
- Is Ivanka Trump going to change anyone’s mind?
- Gary woman eyes school for kids with disabilities
- Muere el actor mexicano Manuel ‘El Loco’ Valdés
- Aurora house fire displaces two adults, four children
- Column: The RNC’s message: Biden’s America will look like Trump’s America, so … don’t elect Biden?
- Fabrics with powerful stories to tell
- Fabrics with powerful stories to tell
- Second season of ‘High Fidelity’ would have focused on Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s Cherise
- Social justice-themed public artwork delivered to Curt’s Cafe, part of collaboration with Highland Park art center
- Notre Dame to resume in-person classes starting Wednesday
- Ulta Beauty beats earning forecasts during pandemic
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- ¿Sin Halloween por la pandemia?
- Self-driving shuttles try virus-killing UV rays to assure riders
- River Plate aislado por caso confirmado de coronavirus
- NBC Sports Chicago parent buys a stake in bookmaker PointsBet, a partner of Hawthorne Race Course
- ‘Padre no hay más que uno 2’ se estrena en 16 ciudades de EEUU
- La Corte Suprema mantuvo vigente DACA, pero el futuro de los inmigrantes es incierto. ‘Sentimos que somos un objetivo’
- Two public relations experts at FDA ousted after blood plasma treatment for COVID-19 error
- Rev. Roxy is serious about marriages and helping make them work
- Rev. Roxy is serious about marriages and helping make them work
- Some young NWI residents watch their peers continue as normal: ‘It’s almost like the pandemic isn’t really happening’
- OPINIÓN/LeBron James y otros atletas tomaron la decisión correcta
- COVID-19’s true toll in Illinois is likely higher than reported. A closer look at ‘excess deaths’ in 2020.
- Chicago still doesn’t have standalone birthing centers, even as options for pregnant women on the South and West sides are dwindling
- Unsealed archives give fresh clues to Pope Pius XII’s response to the Holocaust
- How do you qualify for SNAP, EBT and more
- Half-floor condo in luxury No. 9 Walton tower lists for $7.2 million
- ONU arremete contra EEUU por ‘lenta’ reacción a la brutalidad policial
- Economía de EEUU pasa apuros para mantener su recuperación
- La NBA reanuda los playoffs este sábado
- Review: Angel Olsen displays intimate and raw brilliance
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- GOP nationally, in Illinois, look to President Trump’s law-and-order message to regain suburban foothold
- Cook your way through popular cuisines throughout American history with these recipes
- Guest column: South Side widow donates $70,000 to St. Rita High School after husband, daughter die of COVID-19
- Lake County politicians believe virtual conventions will change how future party gatherings are done
- Babysitter bidding wars: As Chicago parents shell out $25 per hour, paid vacation and $1,000 signing bonuses during pandemic, ‘wealthiest families win out’
- Coca-Cola ofrece 4,000 retiros voluntarios con indemnización
- Will County to have eight vote-by-mail drop boxes set up for Nov. 3 election ballots, including one in Naperville
- Naperville News Digest
- COVID agrava escenario de exportación de flores ecuatorianas
- Disabato: Get ready for some Mount Carmel football. Even though it’s six months away and he’s coaching golf, Jordan Lynch can see the light.
- Celebrate Women’s Restaurant Week with deals at women-owned Chicago restaurants
- Former Northwestern University President Arnold Weber remembered for ‘brilliant leadership’
- Beach Park traffic stop leads to felony drug arrests, seizure of almost 7 pounds of meth, heroin and cocaine
- Open a resort in the middle of a pandemic? These developers are giving it a go
- Boeing grounds some 787 jets after discovering defect
- Longtime Hinsdale volunteer and Burr Ridge resident Ly Hotchkin dies at 95
- President Trump’s acceptance speech draws 21.6 million TV viewers, trailing the audience for Biden
- Recent H-F grad earns third straight nomination for best actress in Illinois
- Illinois exceeds 1.1 million mail-in ballot requests for November election, state may break previous record
- How the team behind ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ assembled a band that could save the universe
- ‘Watchmen’ director is among women making an Emmy splash
- Column: Meet the secret weapon for fighting the pandemic: Interior architects
- Law & Order Column: Liability concerns kept Lake County Sheriff’s Office from helping quell Kenosha unrest
- Elgin restaurant owner charged with fraudulently obtaining $176,000 PPP loan
- Extreme makeover for Evergreen Park: New indoor sports complex includes turf fields for the high school’s athletic teams
- TikTok celebrities criminally charged after LA house parties
- Sin noticias de Messi tras oferta de que Bartomeu renuncie
- Column: South suburban line dancers walk for peace to show solidarity with marchers in Washington, D.C.
- Ciudades piden a CDC que cambie recomendación sobre pruebas de COVID
- Commentary: Exelon’s nuclear hostage crisis tactics must end
- En ‘Tenet’ el tiempo es protagonista
- More Catholic schools delay opening because of COVID-19 cases as teachers at other Chicago-area private schools resist in-person classes
- Plea deal in the works for AJ Freund’s father, who is accused of murder in the death of the 5-year-old Crystal Lake boy
- R. Kelly fue atacado en prisión federal
- Local fire department called out to assist Kenosha during civil unrest
- NBA playoffs are set to resume Saturday as the league and players detail new commitments to social justice, including turning arenas into voting locations
- Alemania contribuye a combatir la Covid en los deportes de EEUU
- Miles se congregan en Washington por la justicia racial
- Column: Mike Pence debases the vice presidency. Kamala Harris can elevate it.
- Georgia recruit Rachel Stege keeps one eye on 2024 Paris Olympics with both legs in pool for Neuqua Valley: ‘She rises to that challenge.’
- Column: Trump describes an America so scary, I wonder who’s president
- Hutton: Chesterton senior Peyton Martinson’s ‘long journey’ with chronic disease reaches a moment of joy on the golf course
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Indiana gets a ‘D’ for its vote-by-mail procedures, according to Brookings scorecard
- Judge refuses to release full report on handling of Jussie Smollett case by State’s Attorney Kim Foxx
- Letters: Chicagoan wonders if she’ll see the city recover
- Osaka avanza a la final en NY tras pedir justicia racial
- Daily Southtown local scores for Sunday, Aug. 30
- Herbalife reconoce soborno a funcionarios
- Naperville North picks up top runner Tommy Paltzer by chance: ‘I decided to try cross country and discovered I was pretty good.’
- The coronavirus is damaging kidneys. Doctors worry that some survivors will need dialysis forever
- Seriously Simple: Classic Spanish cold soup triples as a soup, dip or sauce
- Column: Former Aurora fire chief, now 95, gets moment in the sun
- Column: Naperville’s first murder victim, the result of a deadly love tryst, now has an unmarked grave
- Environmental Nutrition: The best diet for healthy aging?
- Column: Spring? Winter? Thanksgiving? Big Ten football coaches are pushing for scheduling solutions — and an answer to the question: Who is in charge?
- Don’t like how you look on Zoom? More people are asking plastic surgeons to fix that
- Review: Dua Lipa, with some help and inspiration from Madonna, revives the remix album
- Messi elegido en el equipo ideal y mejor gol de la Champions 2019-20 (VIDEO)
- Stroke admissions fell by a third during COVID-19 lockdown, new study finds
- Barrington Hills home on 5.6 acres with built-in grill, vegetable garden: $915K
- ‘A great comeback’: University of Notre Dame will reopen following two-week pause prompted by COVID-19 spike
- Lake County local scores for Saturday, Aug. 29
- Tensions rise between college towns and universities as outbreaks emerge among students returning to campus
- Commentary: I’m fighting for my right to garden
- Laura causa 11 muertes y apagones que podrían durar semanas
- Lucero recapitula cuatro décadas de carrera en ’20y20′
- In closely divided Kenosha, Trump’s law-and-order message hits unexpectedly close to home after Jacob Blake shooting
- Commentary: Trump’s speech: What worked, what didn’t
- Bradshaw: College essays should be thoughtful, authentic — but never boring
- Arlington Heights police investigating death of man found on Arlington Heights Road
- Stimulus money formula meant to aid poorer towns could do more harm than good, some Southland mayors say
- Tour podría marcar un cambio de poder en el ciclismo
- Southwest Airlines needs ‘business to double in order to break even,’ CEO says
- Appealing to sense of togetherness, Chicago’s top cop outlines plans to avoid yet another violent weekend
- Illinois schools reopening updates: What suburban Chicago districts plan for fall
- Armstrong: From chasing butterflies to hitting left-handed winners, Chloe Siegfort continues to trend upward in tennis for Jacobs
- Naperville teen creates free tutoring service to help middle school students with classes, social interactions
- Top US general says military will have no role in carrying out election process or resolving disputed vote
- Sin chispa, el US Open persevera en medio de la pandemia
- Commentary: Pull our troops out of Syria
- University of Illinois ran 17,000 COVID-19 tests on first day of classes, but results are taking longer and hundreds have been invalid or inconclusive
- The Spin: Trump, surrogates take law-and-order message to the ‘burbs | State exceeds 1 million mark for mail-in ballots | How Kenosha could shape election
- Police: Man threatens employee with glass bottle, steals cash from Oak Park cellphone store
- Pareja de casados más longeva del mundo es de Ecuador
- Column: The Liberation of Paris
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened on Aug. 28 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Thousands gather at Lincoln Memorial to rally for racial equity, remember the 1963 March on Washington
- Corrections and clarifications
- Column: Charges against Whiting mayor feel like sucker punch for city known for pierogi festival and mascots
- After fierce wind storm, Graceland Cemetery facing its longest closing and costliest repairs in its 160-year history
- Elmhurst School District 205 to begin partial transition to in-person learning
- Elgin-based Young Rembrandts company finds switch to online art classes helping them keep about half their students
- Gun charge for Chicago man is first federal case from downtown looting this month
- Keith Raniere gurú de NXIVM dice que culto sexual era ‘noble’
- Round Lake Beach police hires firm to investigate ‘disturbing’ video of officer punching woman
- Aurora moves toward larger redevelopment zone
- White Sox acquire speedy outfielder Jarrod Dyson in a trade with the Pirates
- Township SD113 passes $115M budget for FY21, including money for new hires and COVID-19 expenses
- Judge denies request to revoke bond for retired Cook County sheriff’s sergeant facing sexual abuse, child pornography charges
- Suburban Cook County at coronavirus ‘warning level,’ Illinois Department of Public Health announces
- Joe Biden can claim bragging rights over President Trump in convention TV ratings — but it was close
- Letters to the Editor: Is Wehrli passing buck on inaction or are Dems to blame, remember suffragists, climate change when you vote
- Family of Jacob Blake takes part in March on Washington: ‘We can make a historic change for people’
- Northwestern University announces it won’t have freshmen and sophomores on campus and will close fraternity and sorority houses because of COVID-19
- Leonard Cohen estate ‘exploring legal options’ against RNC and Trump campaign for using ‘Hallelujah’
- Column: Memo to the left: Stop it with the bad trouble
- Layoffs, South Side clinic consolidations planned as Cook County Health grapples with pandemic, ballooning charity care
- Potempa: Farm’s shade covered swing gets a new chapter
- Chatham crash involving squad car leaves 4 hurt, including 2 cops
- Jason Heyward reiterates he urged his Cubs teammates to play Wednesday and says his decision to sit out was worth it: ‘There’s change coming because there’s conversation’
- White Sox reinstate Nick Madrigal from the 10-day injured list and option catcher Zack Collins to the Schaumburg training facility
- Developer will appeal Naperville commission’s rejection of certificate for townhouse plans for Little Friends historic district land
- Column: The Chicago Botanic Garden, a good chair and a poem called ‘Hope’: 9 things to like right now
- Credibility of FDA, CDC at risk after controversial decisions that experts say hint of pressure from Trump
- Feds charge four former employees of failed Bridgeport bank in alleged $29 million embezzlement scheme
- Column: After a 2nd rugged day at the BMW Championship at Olympia Fields, Rory McIlroy zings the USGA on U.S. Open setups
- Column: For working parents, Fox Valley Park District’s new program at the head of the class
- West Suburban local scores and schedules for Sunday, Aug. 30
- Aurora moves closer to TIF district for Fox Valley Mall
- Kenosha chief defends cops’ action in letting Kyle Rittenhouse leave scene of deadly shooting; handcuffs taken off Jacob Blake
- Recruiting notes: Niles North wide receiver Jalen Butler gives up playing two sports at next level in committing to Northern Illinois for football
- Ryan Walsh blocks punt, runs for TD as Andrean dominates Lake Central after lopsided season-opening loss: ‘The Merrillville game was a wake-up call for us.’
- Heuer’s House: Junior running back Joey Heuer goes for 232 yards and 5 TDs as Lowell rolls past Portage
- Cubs strike out 14 times in a 6-5 loss to the Reds, extending their losing streak to 3 games
- Yasmani Grandal hits a walk-off home run to give the White Sox a 6-5 win over the Royals and vault them into a tie for 1st place