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- A different role for Destiny: Vargas reacts to Kaylie Politza’s transfer by winning second straight race for Lemont
- Taylor Carlson knows to ‘hit it where it’s smart’ for Illiana Christian, which sweeps Bishop Noll in potential postseason preview
- Dane Dunning’s ‘quiet confidence’ leads the White Sox to their 6th straight win and a 3-game division lead
- Daily horoscope for September 16, 2020
- Cubs surrender a 9th-inning lead but rally to top the Indians 6-5 on a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch, increasing their edge in the NL Central to 5 games
- My absentee ballot application came in the mail. Now what?
- Column: Republicans adopt ‘herd mentality’ to Trump’s dangerous rigged-election rhetoric by staying silent
- Study: Legal marijuana in Connecticut would raise between $784M and $952M in state taxes in first five years
- COVID-19 cases have plummeted at Notre Dame since a two-week campus shutdown. Can that work for other universities struggling to contain the virus’s spread?
- Ask Amy: Scammed by a hacker, revenge would be sweet
- In a career born in her own grief, violence recovery specialist works at a Chicago hospital in a city under siege
- Column: Boss Preckwinkle and Braveheart Evans muscle a judge to protect Kim Foxx
- Live Goodman play to tour Chicago parks, with E. Faye Butler as activist Fannie Lou Hamer
- Fantasy football lineups for Week 2: Start Aaron Rodgers and sit David Montgomery
- Chicago Bears Q&A: So is the running game fixed? Should Anthony Miller get more snaps? Why isn’t Mitch Trubisky used on the move more often?
- Daywatch: Pritzker warns of ‘nightmare scenario’ for budget, universities look to contain COVID-19 spread and the city’s best soft serve
- Country music’s night to party Wednesday sobers up amid pandemic
- Revote on senior living center zoning denied in Highland
- East Moline Correctional Center has COVID-19 outbreak and inmate alleges protocols aren’t being followed
- Off-duty Chicago cop exchanges shots with gunman on West Side, police say. No one hit
- Two men shot and wounded, boy, 12, grazed in leg, while standing on sidewalk on South Side
- Italian restaurant Nonnina faced closing until it struck a creative partnership with the landlord
- From treehouses to yurts, check out these unique Airbnbs in the United States
- ‘The Nest’ author has new novel scheduled for 2021
- More than 1,000 former ITT Tech students in Illinois may have $9.4 million in loans forgiven
- Cardi B files for divorce from Offset after nearly 3 years of marriage
- College of Lake County expansion project to begin this fall
- Coronavirus pandemic walloped global economy, but OECD says it’s not as bad as it first feared
- Trump town hall: President denies downplaying pandemic — despite audio recordings — questions mask-wearing and gets called out on Obamacare
- What will the Emmys look like? The show’s history-making producer reveals his plans
- One bold prediction for every NFL team after Week 1 of the 2020 season
- Superintendent calls for continuation of e-learning at Highland Park, Deerfield high schools
- Madonna dirigirá y escribirá su propio biopic
- Gary school referendum wins city council support
- 2 inmates die of COVID-19 at Indiana prison where federal executions are carried out
- Chicago Opera Theater review: ‘Jane Doe’ a virtual success with an intense story of ambition
- Hollywood deja a muchos sin seguro médico
- Hinchas del PSV que vejaron a mendigas en Madrid son condenados (VIDEO)
- EEUU presenta plan sobre vacunas contra coronavirus
- Carnival Cruise Line announces 2 more ships leaving fleet
- Guaidó califica de ‘histórico’ el informe de la ONU
- Murders have soared while other violent crime has declined, FBI finds
- At 39, DeKalb disability activist Melissa Blake is modeling in her first runway show — at New York Fashion Week
- Harvard, Yale face broad attack on race-conscious admissions
- Party selfies and hazmat suits: How New York’s worst campus outbreak unfolded
- Chicago gun violence
- Campeón defensor colombiano Egan Bernal abandona el Tour de Francia
- Thomas L. Friedman column: The love triangle that spawned Trump’s Mideast peace deal
- NFL’s big running back deals will lead to sour grapes
- Letter to the Editor
- Kohl’s to cut 15% of office jobs due to coronavirus-related slump
- Alemania: Suspenden a 29 policías de extrema derecha
- Man in custody in Valparaiso shooting; man, woman wounded, police say
- Famosos se unen a boicot para protestar inacción de Facebook
- 21 Chicago-area teachers share their setups for remote learning
- Speak Out reader opinion: Swallow Cliff stair restrictions make it difficult for some to climb
- HP ENVY Pro 6455 Printer review: Can it help a family working/learning from home?
- EEUU determina que Boeing mintió sobre el 737 MAX
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- Lake County local scores for Thursday, Sept. 17
- The best squat rack
- Music Box Halloween film festival continues at Pilsen drive-in. Plus: tacos and frozen mangos, delivered to your car!
- Leila Rahimi will co-host Wednesdays with Dan Bernstein on WSCR-AM — a move said to be ‘in the works’ before Dan McNeil’s firing
- Chicago police search for driver of red pickup truck who hit and seriously injured woman at South Loop bus stop
- Column: Let’s ‘Light Up Lake County’ to blot out a year of the plague
- The other way COVID kills: Hunger
- Northwest Indiana local scores for Thursday, Sept. 17
- Aurora Historical Society mask project aims to document ‘icon of the COVID-19 era’
- The other way COVID kills: Hunger
- Pet World: Older dog, traumatized cat both need time to get used to new homes
- A job that isn’t hard to get in a pandemic: Swindlers’ helper
- US poverty hit a record low before the pandemic recession
- Under current rules, golf’s most memorable U.S. Open playoffs wouldn’t have happened
- Tiger Woods reflects on his U.S. Open history that pre-dates his competition
- Diversity push barely budges corporate boards to 12.5%, survey finds
- Celebrities plan an ‘Instagram freeze,’ but reaction is icy
- AJ Freund’s father may plead guilty Friday
- Hinsdale fall festival to be held Oct. 17 in KLM Park
- Black Barrel Tavern wins reimagined Hamburger Hop, Chicago’s best burger out of more than 100
- Chicago’s architectural biennial keeps the city at the forefront of design. But will it be held in 2021?
- Maluma recibirá el Premio Billboard Espíritu de la Esperanza
- West Suburban local scores and schedules for Thursday, Sept. 17
- Daily Southtown local scores and schedules for Thursday, Sept 17
- Wisconsin Dells’ Tommy Bartlett water ski show, closed by coronavirus, is shutting down for good
- Savannah Ridge addition gets nod from Merrillville planners
- The story of how ‘Touched by an Angel’ got its wings and became one of TV’s biggest shows
- Damage in Kenosha from unrest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake tops $11 million, fire chief says
- Siria: EEUU, ‘Estado canalla y criminal’ por plan para matar a Al Assad
- Restauración devela detalles en ‘La Piedad’ de Miguel Ángel
- Photos: Catastrophic flooding in Pensacola and the Gulf Coast
- Tinley Park OKs plan for shopping center renovation, incentives
- El ‘Submarino Amarillo’ se refuerza con un defensa ecuatoriano
- Portage woman faces battery, domestic violence charges in incident; man treated for stabbing wounds
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Maduro dice que será seguro votar el 6 de diciembre
- Yoshihide Suga named Japan’s prime minister, succeeding Shinzo Abe
- Woman sues University of Wisconsin over decision to reverse expulsion of ex-football player, now in NFL
- El huracán Sally toca tierra en Alabama, inundando casas
- Laporta: ‘Bartomeu no merece seguir ni un minuto más’
- Highland parents, teachers express concerns over online learning as return to classroom date looms
- Close friends Siera Tatarynowicz and Katelyn Pfeifer a good match as doubles partners for Lakes: ‘It just seemed to make a lot of sense to put them together.’
- Hurricane Sally makes landfall along U.S. Gulf Coast
- After losing father and sister to ALS, Illinois man swims nearly 20,000 strokes from Evanston to Chicago to raise funds
- More than 20 injured in crane accident in Austin, Texas
- Girls golf notes: Lockport’s Lizzie Anderson looks ‘better than ever’ after recovering, making return from labrum surgery
- US charges 5 Chinese citizens in global hacking campaign that targeted more than 100 companies
- Elgin woman gets jail term for lying to police about 2017 murder
- Subieron ingresos por unidad familiar en 2019
- City Hall, police union’s new leadership at odds in contract negotiations
- Gen Zers take on Silicon Valley establishment
- Post-Tribune girls soccer rankings and player of the week for Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020
- 15 Lake County Jail inmates test positive for COVID-19, another 78 inmates in quarantine after cases doubled this week
- 34 key events that led to the Big Ten reversing course and announcing a fall football season, from a dire prediction in March to postponement and outcry
- No todos los vikingos eran rubios y escandinavos
- En EEUU se impone una visión partidista de la econmía
- Siria, un drama interminable
- Kerry Washington wins first Emmy Award as producer of ‘All in the Family’ and ‘Good Times’ revivals
- Boys cross country notes: Austin Molitor credits doing ‘all the little things without stressing out’ for Lockport’s success
- Dominick Reyes asegura que no dejará ir segunda oportunidad por el título en UFC 253
- Satélites muestran que humo de incendios en EEUU llega a Europa
- If a coworker shirks responsibility, do I report it?
- John Bell announces run for Aurora 4th Ward alderman
- Two shootings in two days, a block apart in Albany Park. ‘It’s too much blood. It’s not going to stop because people don’t know how to forgive.’
- Lou Holtz selling $4.5 million Orlando mansion with man cave, cigar room, trophy rotunda
- Making gyms safer: Why the virus is less likely to spread there than in a bar
- Commentary: My daughter loved pre-K; now in CPS’ remote kindergarten, she says ‘I hate school’
- Health risks of breathing in wildfire smoke
- How some Wisconsin voters are seeing the economy through a political lens — filtering the facts they want to see, and those they don’t
- ‘Blackbird’ review: Susan Sarandon at center of story about grace in death
- After social media rants that included claims of scientific ‘sedition’ and hints at his impending murder, senior Trump aide to take ‘leave of absence’
- Aumentan probabilidades de escasez de agua en oeste de EEUU
- Editorial: West on fire, Great Lakes on the rise, and other climate perils
- Oswego’s Lani Breedlove finds groove again in bowling first career 300 game: ‘It feels like I got my mojo back.’
- Chicago Bears sign kicker Cairo Santos to the 53-man roster, creating a 3rd open spot on the practice squad
- Muertes de niños por COVID similares a las de adultos
- The Cubs and White Sox release their 2021 spring training schedules, which both start Feb. 27 and finish with a Crosstown Classic on March 30
- Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, credited for helping to bring an end to the Vietnam War, comes to defense of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
- 20 easy Indian recipes to add some spice to your life
- Girls soccer notes: Versatile senior Kayla Ziel’s shift to defense looks prescient for Munster in key conference win
- Oak Brook sales tax revenue makes a comeback after big drop
- 737 Max probe: House panel blames crashes on ‘horrific culmination’ of failed oversight, design flaws and Boeing inaction
- UEFA confirma cabezas de serie para la Liga de Campeones
- Commentary: Cook County Democrats’ move against Judge Toomin is a throwback we don’t want
- Lake commissioners approve time off accommodations for election staff
- Emmys 2020: Who’ll win, who should win and how the ceremony is going virtual
- Neil Patrick Harris reveals he and his family contracted COVID-19
- ‘Antebellum’ review: A provocative idea about oppression that doesn’t work
- Andrea Pirlo recibe su diploma de entrenador
- Federal Reserve plans to keep interest rates near zero at least through 2023
- Blanco o integral, ¿cuál es mejor?
- Stunning sights in national parks during peak fall foliage
- El Aston Villa ficha un arquero argentino
- Column: Big Ten football is suddenly ‘safe’? In the reopening debate for sports and entertainment, that word is a lie.
- El acuerdo tripartito entre Israel, Emiratos Árabes Unidos y Bahréin, el comienzo de la estabilidad en Medio Orient
- St. Charles man accused of sexually assaulting minor
- The Big Ten changed its mind on football, but a reversal at the Illinois high school level appears unlikely
- Twitter removes Kanye West’s tweet doxing the Forbes editor he dubbed ‘a white supremacist’
- Review: Back roads brutality in ‘The Devil all the Time’
- Panini presenta la colección oficial de cromos de LaLiga 2020-21
- Horrors of slavery at center of Janelle Monae’s ‘Antebellum’
- CPS reports 258 cases of COVID-19 among staff and vendors, including eight deaths, in six months since schools shut down
- Trick-or-What? Pandemic Halloween is a mixed bag all around
- Inside Kanye West’s perplexing run as a potential 2020 spoiler that has confused fans and voters alike
- What does Allen Robinson’s surprise trade inquiry mean for the Chicago Bears? The Bear Download podcast breaks it down.
- Hinsdale Village Board sees revised plan for Ryan Cos. Senior Residences
- ¿Truco o qué? Halloween sin duda será diferente este año
- Lil Nas X has a children’s book ‘C Is for Country’ coming out next year
- Thinking of a staycation? Here are 8 of Chicago’s most Instagrammable short-term rentals.
- Pacientes con cáncer no tienen mayor riesgo de contagio de Covid-19, según estudio israelí
- South Elgin man involved in 5-car crash with serious injuries charged with aggravated DUI
- Sarah Snook protagonizará la adaptación cinematográfica de ‘Persuasión’
- The Chicago Film Society loans movie lovers 16mm projectors to help catalogue their collection
- National Toy Hall of Fame reveals 2020 toy finalists
- County to discuss ’21 raises later; officials eye $42.7M budget
- Man shot in Lincolnwood; his car hit light pole
- Renovado interés en esclavos de EEUU que huyeron a México
- Ten OPRF High School seniors named National Merit semifinalists
- Lockport park district plans socially distanced, but in-person triathlon
- Cardi B solicita el divorcio del rapero Offset
- Acusan a conserje de desfalcar a cementerio de Connecticut
- Allen Robinson says scrubbing the Chicago Bears from social media came from being ‘a passionate person’ a day after trade inquiry surfaced
- Here’s how to help your kids pay attention to online school
- Column: Americans love free trade. Trump and Biden don’t.
- Amazon plans to put 1,000 warehouses in neighborhoods
- Tips for holding productive virtual meetings
- Mono roba celular y se toma selfies
- COVID-19 is forcing small stores across Chicago to try online retail, but ‘we’re not Amazon’
- Stan the Tyrannosaurus rex goes up for auction: ‘He is 37 feet long and one of the fiercest killing machines that has ever roamed the earth’
- Southwest Airlines will keep middle seats open through November and signals travel woes aren’t ending
- Student in Hinsdale South High School football camp has positive COVID-19 test
- Letters: The story of North Lawndale is still being told
- Hammond man, 23, charged with lying on forms to purchase guns for Chicagoans
- Former state Sen. Terry Link pleads guilty to tax evasion charge in federal court
- Tras la tormenta, Messi firma doblete en amistoso del Barca (VIDEO)
- Illinois racing board grants 2021 race dates to Arlington International despite uncertainty over track’s future
- State offering more small business grants
- Park Ridge Library Board narrowly agrees to eliminate overdue fines through April
- Column: Scrapping the Electoral College is a bad idea
- Original Rainbow Cone coming to downtown Naperville this week
- Will, Kankakee counties closer to return to looser phase 4 restrictions; Pritzker extends eviction moratorium for 30 days
- Oak Forest man drowns in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- Aurora looks to put grant money toward body cameras for police
- Student turns himself in to Chicago cops after Western Illinois University shooting of roommate in residence hall, officials say
- Senators seek highest civilian honor for Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley
- Coby White, after a Bulls offseason shrouded in confusion and frustration, ready to end the longest layoff of his career: ‘For a lot of us, basketball is our therapy’
- ONU: Pandemia de coronavirus sigue “fuera de control”
- Big Ten football is coming back in October with an 8-game regular-season schedule — and daily rapid COVID-19 testing
- Stefani group drops request for court order to stop Navy Pier from evicting Riva and The Crystal Gardens after access to properties restored
- Boca viaja a Paraguay y Libertad desconfía por coronavirus
- Anuncian a los candidatos al Salón de la Fama de la NFL
- Potempa: Caring Place CEO Schultz retiring, takes to stage for charity
- Attorney for woman slain in Wicker Park Walgreens questions state’s attorney’s handling of suspect’s gun burglary case
- ‘He took a life, the life of a friend’: North Chicago man sentenced to 28 years in fatal shooting
- Jazz pianist Dan Murphy creates music video in quarantine with 8-year-old daughter
- Former lawmaker Maggie Crotty to resign as Bremen Township supervisor, officials say
- North Shore Distillery open for fall cocktail flights, tours
- Waukegan Fire Department gets 100 new-age smoke detectors to help city homeowners meet 2023 deadline
- Corrections and clarifications
- A former employee of Michelin-starred Acadia granted no stalking order against chef Ryan McCaskey, alleges online harassment
- Luis Robert is working to get back ‘to my basics’ and aid the White Sox during the stretch run
- In denying minimizing the threat of the coronavirus, President Trump again downplays the pandemic
- Column: The Big Ten will have to walk a dangerous tightrope to pull off a football season. And even if it trips up, will anyone care?
- Second stimulus check updates: President Trump says he can talk GOP into ‘larger’ coronavirus aid package
- Down to Business: Naperville couple sheltering in place start their own microgreens farm
- The Spin: Signs that sin taxes may be pandemic-proof | Ex-state Sen. Link pleads guilty – now who will be his replacement? | Lightfoot vs. police union boss over contract
- Chicago health commissioner looks ahead to building vaccine trust, eventual distribution
- College basketball season will begin Nov. 25 — the day before Thanksgiving
- CDC director says masks may do more than vaccine to protect against COVID-19
- Citing pandemic’s ‘unprecedented’ impact on November vote, Pritzker asks election officials to put federal funds behind drop boxes, election judge recruitment
- Teenage boy wounded in shooting on Far South Side
- Travis Scott fined for large surprise McDonald’s event in California
- Biden says he trusts scientists on COVID-19 vaccine — but he doesn’t trust Trump
- Elgin News Digest: Banner beats Hain in charity fight, U-46 increases meal pickup sites
- Trump vs. the CDC: President quickly contradicts top US health officials on vaccine timeline, calling top doc ‘confused’
- Visitor to Chicago comes to the aid of man shot in drive-by at Morse ‘L’ station. ‘I’ve never been around gunshots that close in the city.’
- As the Cubs close in on a playoff berth, they look ahead — anxiously — to potential bubble life in Texas
- ACM Awards 2020: Top show moments
- AG William Barr told federal prosecutors to consider sedition charges for protest violence
- Chicago-based tofu producer halts production after FDA inspectors allegedly find rats, other food safety violations
- 50 images of parenthood in the animal kingdom
- Peyton Manning, Charles Woodson highlight 2021 Hall of Fame candidates
- The wish list for the Chicago Bears offense is straightforward: Better third-down execution, more touchdowns and additional under-center alignments
- 2 charged in Michigan Avenue shooting attack, Near West Side pursuit and crash, cops say
- A drone flies over Wrigley Field, causing a 7-minute delay in the Cubs-Indians game
- Masked robbers snatch Celine handbags worth more than $40,000 during Neiman Marcus ‘grab and run’ at Northbrook Court: police
- Hurricane Sally now a tropical depression, slammed Florida, Gulf Coast with ‘catastrophic flooding’
- ‘Playing out of his mind,’ Afam Oniah contributes a goal and an assist as Munster blanks conference rival Highland
- Photos: Twins 5, White Sox 1
- Photos: Cubs 3, Indians 2 (10 innings)
- Feds considered using ‘heat ray’ on DC protesters, report says