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- Cubs clinch the NL Central title despite the 9-5 loss to the White Sox — while the AL Central race remains tight heading into the final day of the regular season
- Daily horoscope for September 27, 2020
- Kris Bryant responds to critics with his bat — and some profanity — after hitting a grand slam: ‘I don’t give a (bleep)’
- Ask Amy: This episode of ‘The Brady Bunch’ never aired
- An ode to the ginkgo, as its fleeting golden leaves arrive in the last show of summer
- Letters: Threat of a 20% tax hike is laughable
- David Attenborough gives shark tooth to 7-year-old Prince George
- Crosby: Large banquet halls doing mini-receptions during COVID but finding little to celebrate
- Journalists are leaving the internet for your inbox
- The home schoolfluencer
- Now’s the time for wigs, if you have them
- Maybe the best home school is … on a boat?
- How Lenny Kravitz keeps his cool
- Beyond the pandemic, libraries look toward a new era
- Busy Philipps’ week: Coffee, ‘Little Women’ and keeping it together
- ‘I feel sorry for Americans’: A baffled world watches the US
- Care for a cup of satanic chamomile?
- I watched ‘Fleabag.’ I watched ‘Insecure.’ What’s next?
- As season premiere approaches, Lorne Michaels isn’t sure ‘SNL’ can pull this off
- Behind the scenes during the making of Prince’s ‘Sign o’ the Times,’ his ‘masterwork’ just reissued
- Leadership Councils, group chats and team dinners are keeping athletes connected during COVID; ‘Everyone is going through the same thing’
- From health care to the election, here are the issues a more conservative Supreme Court could decide
- A year after setting a program record, Loyola’s Mia McGrath waits for volleyball season — and nets a commitment to Clemson
- Merrillville reverses trick-or-treat cancelation after Indiana moves to Stage 5
- Column: Cook County assessment report verifies what many already knew: Our property tax system is unfair
- Military suicides up 20% this year as the coronavirus pandemic, civil unrest add stress to an already strained force
- COVID-19 test site at Aurora outlet mall to close; mobile testing to take place in Kane County
- Spike in burglaries in 2020 linked to downtown Naperville looting in June, police chief says
- A major deal: Naperville North graduate Jerry Hairston Jr. develops voice as baseball analyst for Los Angeles Dodgers
- Hinsdale High School District 86 to offer in-person learning starting Oct. 5 for a quarter of its students
- Raiders investigated by the NFL for allowing an unauthorized person in the locker room
- Review: Hyde Park Jazz Festival makes a mighty impact online
- Week 3 photos: Chicago Bears 30, Atlanta Falcons 26
- Chicago Cubs promote Brailyn Marquez, their top pitching prospect
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened Sept. 26-27 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Four Lake County schools earn Blue Ribbon status
- Slain woman’s body discovered in river on North Side, police say
- Big Ten and Pac-12 teams return to the AP Top 25, weeks before opening the season, while Notre Dame moves up to No. 5 without playing
- Editorial: Amy Coney Barrett: Let’s learn more about her
- Ann Arbor decriminalizes magic mushrooms, psychedelic plants
- Chicago representative leads bike rally for justice, census
- A bike ride for justice: ‘We all have to work together for peace in this city’
- Nearly a year after sudden exit from Fox News, Shepard Smith returns to TV
- As winter approaches, how to keep the coronavirus at bay indoors
- Week 3 recap: Nick Foles replaces Mitch Trubisky at quarterback as the Chicago Bears rally for a 30-26 win over the Atlanta Falcons
- EPA to promote lead testing rule as Trump tries to burnish his record
- Vikings remain winless after Stephen Gostkowski’s 6th field goal, a 55-yarder, gives the Titans a 31-30 win
- Cream of Wheat to drop Black chef from packaging, company says
- Trump, with his baseless attacks on Joe Biden’s mental status, may have set a trap for himself in the first debate
- Appellate court halts Wisconsin ballot-counting extension
- Joe Montana and his wife stop an attempted kidnapping of their 9-month-old grandchild
- Photos: Cubs 10, White Sox 8
- Chicago Bears fear Tarik Cohen is out for the season with a torn ACL in his right knee
- Joe Biden to Democrats: Keep focus on health care, not expanding Supreme Court
- Gary police catch fatal shooting in progress, shoot armed man; union says officers performed in ‘heroic fashion’
- ‘Scared to breathe’: Your best 3-word reviews from the Chicago Bears’ 30-26 win against the Atlanta Falcons
- Cubs playoff tracker: NL Central champs are seeded 3rd and will host the Marlins in the wild-card round
- Customers flock to Cupid Candies for final weekend at Oak Lawn store; had been part of community for 64 years
- White Sox playoff tracker: 7th-seeded Sox will face No. 2 Athletics in best-of-three wild-card series
- Column: As the White Sox and Cubs enter the postseason amid plenty of skepticism, the odds of an all-Chicago World Series are long. But it’s 2020, so anything’s possible.
- Bill Murray’s golf company responds to The Doobie Brothers’ legal threat in very Bill Murray fashion
- Detroit Lions snap an 11-game losing streak by beating the Arizona Cardinals 26-23
- Column: It’s Nick Foles’ job now to be the Chicago Bears offense’s ‘eraser’ after Matt Nagy benched Mitch Trubisky in a decision there’s no turning back from
- City Series finale: White Sox drop to the No. 7 seed in the AL playoffs with a 10-8 loss to the Cubs
- Trump’s taxes show chronic losses and years of income tax avoidance
- A resilient Cubs bullpen bounced back from a rough start in 2020 to become a team strength entering the playoffs
- ‘Bull(expletive)’ calls or not, the Bears channeled their frustration into a massive 4th-quarter comeback
- Car crashes into Michigan Avenue jewelry store
- Federal judge postpones Trump ban on popular app TikTok
- ‘That’s a fun way to win a game’: Nick Foles’ familiar magic and 3 fourth-quarter TD passes spark the Chicago Bears’ comeback win
- Trump paid $750 in US income taxes in 2016 and 2017, according to report in The New York Times
- Chicago Bears coach Matt Nagy is pleased Sunday’s game was played after a brief COVID-19 uncertainty: ‘This stuff can happen and is real’
- Reporte: Trump pagó 750 dólares en impuesto sobre renta en 2016
- Chicago Fire beat Atlanta United 2-0 for their 2nd straight victory