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- Luis Robert’s 458-foot blast — 1 of 3 White Sox home runs on the night — fuels an 11-6 victory over the Royals
- Daily horoscope for September 4, 2020
- Flashback: A look back in photos as classrooms and fashions change, but the challenges remain the same
- Ask Amy: Who is that masked man? Possibly, a jerk
- Column: Video of Daniel Prude’s death at hands of police is horrifying. But white Americans need to bear witness.
- Column: Remember, Nancy Pelosi, it’s always those little things that bite
- Sister Anna Clare turns 105 with a few friends, ‘baby brother,’ 96, and a world-class brass ensemble
- Column: Why it’s OK to reinvent classics such as Holst’s ‘The Planets’ via jazz
- Chris Johnson, Classic Cinemas CEO: representing Illinois movie theaters, while working through his own reopening timeline
- Column: Lynn Osmond steers the Chicago Architecture Center through turbulent waters
- Mohsin Hamid discusses ‘Exit West,’ new One Book, One Chicago pick
- Daughter of Daniel Prude speaks out against his death at hands of police: ‘This is unjust and this has happened too many times’
- Daywatch: Joe Biden meets with Jacob Blake’s family, CPS substitute teachers left behind and siblings create luxe picnic service
- 4 takeaways from the Cubs-Pirates series, including Josh Osich’s tuneup for the Cardinals series and the need for Jon Lester to pitch deeper
- From Venice, a plea to reopen movie theaters shut by coronavirus
- Park Ridge business owner closes doors for staff ‘mental health day’ after incidents of confrontational customers
- 9 things to consider about Nick Foles’ quest to become the Bears’ starting quarterback
- Girlfriend charged with attempted murder in Highland man’s death; police say she hit him with her car
- Election board rejects school board candidacies
- ‘We don’t want to go backwards’: Masks essential as pandemic progresses, Lake County health officer says
- ‘We are preparing for the worst’: Chicago-area hospitals brace for flu and COVID-19 to collide
- Chicago Fire find themselves in a tricky spot: Trying to establish consistency while needing to rotate the squad during a run of 5 games in 18 days
- ‘Whip/Nae Nae’ rapper charged in attempted hatchet attack
- Judge bars Kanye West from appearing on Arizona’s ballot
- Seeds of change: Lake County forest preserve begins experimental restoration
- The Kitchn: Cheesy skillet nacho dip is fast, easy and totally counts as dinner
- EatingWell: A simple side for your summer supper
- These are the stars of Disney’s live-action ‘Mulan’
- North Carolina sending out more than 600,000 mail ballots today, 16 times the 2016 figure: ‘These numbers are astronomical’
- Chicago ‘Tamale Guy’ Claudio Velez’s COVID-19 condition is improving, family says his restaurant will reopen soon
- Lake County officials fear holiday gatherings could bring back coronavirus restrictions
- Federales abaten a sospechoso de matar a seguidor de Trump
- Trustee proposes slashing Maine Township elected official salaries, one by more than half
- Column: A plaque on Emmett Till’s house is just a first step. Chicago can do a better job of preserving Black history sites. Even city’s top planner says so.
- Northbrook police looking for 2 men after 7-Eleven robbery
- Online elementary school is a mess, but one educator says she’s got an answer
- Labor Day weekend: ‘Mulan’ on Disney Plus, a taste of the Chicago Jazz Festival and more things to do
- Speak Out reader opinion: Fly your flag for the Sept. 11 anniversary
- Cae agente de policía de Cleveland en tiroteo
- ‘Speak Out’ reader opinion: Voting by mail not ‘foolproof’
- Trump niega haber llamado ‘perdedores’ a soldados muertos
- Letter: Residents must do their part in ending pandemic
- Desbaratan red mundial de pornografía infantil
- David Brooks column: What will you do if Trump doesn’t leave?
- Shelby to host replacement Labor Day parade Monday; town usually participates in Lowell event
- Affected by virus, visual artists take refuge in their work
- Boseman honored as hometown hero in native South Carolina
- Jorge Messi dice a Liga que su hijo puede salir del Barca
- Michelle Goldberg column: How the Green New Deal saved a senator’s career
- Iowa prosecutor says police killing of Rock Island man in June unrest was justified
- Column: Dressing up for Halloween can be spooky during a plague year
- Tasa de desempleo en EEUU baja a 8,4%
- Paul Krugman column: Trump and the attack of the invisible anarchists
- Refrigerated van offers local nonprofit a way to tackle food insecurity worsened by COVID-19
- La NFC: El lugar en el que todo puede pasar
- Lake County local scores for Saturday, Sept. 5
- This $995K Hinsdale home is the stuff of your midcentury modern dreams
- Authorities find bones in Illinois based on serial killer’s podcast interview
- The full fall experience awaits at these apple orchards across the country
- How to protect children’s eyes during remote learning
- The Rockets’ small-ball strategy gets a big test against the Lakers
- Afirman que Bukele pactó con la Mara Salvatrucha
- Gobierno boliviano contacta a firma castigada por Facebook
- How to survive in the ‘shark attack capital of the world’
- Getting children flu shots is even more important this year
- Expert picks: Who will win the Kentucky Derby
- Nevada judge rules state pot licensing process can go ahead
- Commentary: We need healthy school lunches in the era of COVID-19
- New study reveals over 90% of rolling papers contain heavy metals
- Theragun PRO review: A professional-quality tool for workout recovery
- What are ‘spit hoods,’ and why do police use them?
- The best baby soother
- The best beard wash
- The best fire pit table
- The best GoPro camera of 2020
- The best wine storage cabinet
- Drive-in Mass proving popular at St. Vincent Ferrer; a $50 radio transmitter makes it happen
- ¿Cómo ha golpeado la pandemia a la educación ecuatoriana?
- Glenview resident’s new guidebook of historic Chicagoland spots offers safe exploration during the pandemic
- Steve Nash, a coaching newcomer, will take charge of the Brooklyn Nets
- Working from home? Out of work? Here’s what you need to know now for next year’s tax season.
- ‘The Batman’ pauses production amid a positive coronavirus test
- La pandemia convierte una escuela en gallinero
- Vehicle recall information sent right to your phone? NHTSA says it’s got an app for you
- Messi: Jamás iría a juicio contra el club de mi vida
- Letters: The more we take care of the many, the safer we all will be
- Chicago Public Schools announces ‘record-high’ graduation rate despite remote learning challenges as mayor vows district is ‘not sitting this year out’
- Minnesota man who attended Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is first COVID-19 death tied to the South Dakota event
- México resta importancia a infecciones entre personal médico
- Decent: Even a psychic couldn’t predict the craziness we’ve experienced in 2020 so far
- Glenview Ice Center reopens Sept. 12, offering month of free activities
- Commentary: No escape from COVID-19 — even up here in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
- Cleveland: matan a detective antidrogas; 2 arrestados
- How to set up the best school space for your kid at home
- Chicago aldermen advance ban on sale of flavored vaping products in city; plan moves to full City Council
- Virtual forum planned for 11th District Congressional candidates
- Federal task force kills Portland shooting suspect during arrest
- Offshore restaurant to remain open, even as rest of Navy Pier closes for fall and winter
- Carolina del Norte inicia voto por correo en presidenciales
- Commentary: We’re in a workplace transformation that will affect everyone — even unions
- Northbrook receives environmental grant for Park District prescribed burns program
- Ciudad de Carolina del Sur ordena seguir usando mascarillas
- Column: Child sex trafficking is a ‘human tragedy’ ignored through apathy, shame, lack of compassion
- Glamping for first-timers
- US unemployment rate falls to 8.4%, though hiring slowing and economists predict sluggish recovery
- Rusia publica primeros resultados de su vacuna
- Elizabeth Debicki rises to the challenge in ‘Tenet’
- Disabato: It’s transfer season for high school sports, but outrage barely exists anymore when star A.J. Casey leaves Tinley Park after one year
- Former East Aurora School Board member to run for mayor of Aurora
- Hutton: Tom Brankin, who packed a lot of coaching into the past 13 years, is gone way too soon
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Uptown’s Green Mill reopens on the sidewalk, with music, perhaps, through a window next door
- Police officers in suffocation death of Daniel Prude followed training, union says: ‘If there’s a problem with that, let’s change it’
- R. Kelly asks again to be released from federal custody after inmate says he beat the R&B singer in Chicago jail
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- One family has delivered the mail by boat for 115 years. Is this the last?
- ‘Jeopardy!’ will look a little different when it resumes filming with Alex Trebek
- Pandemic drives millions from Latin America’s universities
- McGrath: This Labor Day let’s salute the American work ethic, something D.C. pols seem to dismiss
- Column: Do we ask police to do too much? Daniel Prude case forces questions about mental health care
- Girls cross country notes: Emma McGrath develops into the runner and leader ‘who never backs down from anything’ for Oak Lawn
- Hoosier Star goes virtual for 15th annual benefit for La Porte County Symphony Orchestra
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Waukegan golfer Erik Garza followed in brother’s footsteps and hopes others follow in his: ‘It’s been exciting to see him develop.’
- Four in running to fill vacant seat on St. Charles City Council
- Grilling materials blamed for fire that badly damaged family’s Naperville house
- Indiana officials add 18 coronavirus deaths to state’s toll
- Column: The Phoenix rises: Loyola’s student newspaper takes a courageous stand for journalism
- Zion approves solar-power station for former landfill site
- Fire at Indonesian Consulate General residence in Winnetka caused by roofing torch
- Canadá: Cinco muertos tras tiroteo en una casa
- Community news
- Bus contractors, uniform suppliers, trophy makers: Many Chicago-area companies feel the pain as schools begin with remote learning
- Burr Ridge leaders consider sales tax hike to pay for business development district
- Pete’s Fresh Market sets 2022 Tinley Park opening
- Aurora may change makeup of Planning and Zoning Commission
- Editorial: Illinois after Michael Madigan
- Chicago stores hit by looting are warily reopening. That doesn’t mean all the plywood is coming down.
- With work and school remote, people are moving into Midwestern vacation homes full-time — and paying top dollar for pandemic-friendly features
- Best friend remembers Daniel Prude: ‘He challenged me and inspired me. … That’s the main reason why I can’t be silent.’
- Man continues wait for daughter, grandson to come home 5 years after they went missing in Gary
- Young women reflect on how COVID-19 has impacted the start of their careers
- T.F. North’s Diego Duran happy to be on course again with Calumet City Running Club: ‘You see them compete, but we can’t compete.’
- This Week in Naperville
- Column: The five elephants and the media’s duty to truth
- Law & Order column: Jury trials set to resume in Lake County courts
- Decline in corporate travel puts Oak Brook hotels under strain during pandemic
- Gary health officer, parents experience COVID-19 as a family; mother spent 4 months on ventilator
- Investigation finds no bias in Maryland’s cannabis license award process
- Happy birthday, mom: Warren offensive lineman Tommy Matheson commits to Princeton with a nod to ‘one of strongest women I know’
- ‘I Am Greta’, un retrato más completo de Thunberg
- Commentary: Trump tests GOP’s aversion to federal overreach
- 2 Naperville juveniles, Chicago man arrested in connection with vehicle burglary investigations
- Column: Holiday a reason to celebrate labors of love during pandemic
- Man shot by Cook County sheriff’s deputy charged with assault, gun possession
- 17-year-old motorcyclist dies after being struck by another driver in Skokie
- A Cleveland detective and a police informant were killed in an undercover drug operation; cop was recently sworn in as member of federal Operation Legend
- Ozuna es ‘ENOC’
- Naperville awards $7.2 million contract for switch to automated water readers
- Commentary: Graduated-rate income tax would be a more fair system
- Here are fall suburban entertainment event and performance cancellations due to coronavirus
- Biden slams alleged comments as Trump denies disparaging American war dead as ‘losers’ and ‘suckers’
- Lake County school districts report ‘positive’ start to new year
- Trump says he won’t let Pentagon shut down Stars and Stripes newspaper
- Naperville Central graduate Alexa Puccini and three former St. Charles North swimmers affected by Iowa sports cuts: ‘I couldn’t believe it.’
- Fauci warns that Illinois and six other states are at higher risk for a COVID-19 surge over Labor Day weekend, report says
- Three positive COVID-19 cases as Judson University starts fall semester, president says
- Northwestern Memorial HealthCare warns 56,000 donors and patients about data breach
- Man with a shotgun tried to rob gas station, using woman as shield. A patron shot and killed him.
- Illinois employers warn of another round of mass layoffs as some companies make temporary furloughs permanent
- Facing $2 billion budget shortfall, Lightfoot says she has to work better with others. ‘Hallelujah,’ says one alderman.
- Labor Day celebrates workers, focuses attention on changing role of unions
- Porter County COVID-19 hotspots remain Portage, Center townships; county nearing 2,000 cases
- State catches up after data processing slowdown, reports 5,368 new cases; 29 counties, including Lake, put on warning list
- The Rev. Leon Finney, longtime South Side activist and developer, dies at 82
- Legislador promueve quemar casas de Black Lives Matter
- Column: Local officials lead new Republican coalition that aims to recruit Black voters, candidates
- The Spin: Duckworth blasts Trump over reported insults of war dead | Ken Griffin vs. Gov. Pritzker on November ballot issue | RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel to headline Illinois GOP fundraiser
- Column: After historic Aurora church sold, congregation moves next door to continue outreach
- Former red-light camera executive who wore FBI wire could see bribery charges dismissed in deal with prosecutors
- Column: Don’t call Kyle Rittenhouse a hero
- Biden critica a Trump por comentarios sobre soldados caídos
- Lionel Messi says he will stay at Barcelona this season after expressing his desire to leave the club
- Update: Death of 3-year-old girl on West Side ruled homicide
- Remote lessons become staple ingredient in high school culinary classes
- Platform improvements underway at River Forest train station
- As CPS begins virtual learning, back-to-school events provide school supplies, even amid burglary setback
- Fiscalía pide extraditar a venezolanos detenidos en Colombia
- Column: What if, in those violent big cities run by liberal Democrats, the politics were different?
- Doctors’ fees may mean a ‘free’ COVID-19 vaccine isn’t free
- U.S. unemployment rate falls to 8.4% even as hiring slows
- Number of uninsured Americans skyrockets during COVID-19 pandemic
- Se calcula 1.9 millones de muertes más por COVID en 2020
- Car found flipped over near Lake Shore Drive in Lakeview; 2 women seriously hurt
- High Lake Ontario water and its coastal wetlands
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Southbound Dan Ryan lanes closed after shooting at 63rd Street, fatal motorcycle crash near 47th
- Potempa: Redenbacher’s daughter’s death the prelude to canceled Popcorn Fest Week
- Winnetka’s Cafe Aroma, Little Ricky’s shuttered amid COVID-19 hardships: ‘I will not let this tarnish my heart’
- River Forest officials: Water main projects underneath Keystone, Franklin avenues will improve water flow near viaducts
- Corrections and clarifications
- Elgin Salvation Army and Community Crisis Center joining forces on new, larger Christmas toy effort
- Sheriff’s deputies, local police can issue tickets to businesses that aren’t complying with COVID-19 orders
- Pennsylvania police chief steps down after reposting offensive Facebook meme
- Illinois election officials respond to President Trump’s suggestion to vote twice this November: ‘It’s not going to happen’
- She’s a freshman. She’s the No. 1 golfer for Metea Valley. But Meadow Rolence relies on her experience: ‘The better you get, the more fun it is.’
- 700 weed applicants, 21 finalists: Some hopefuls aren’t happy about who’s still in the running for Illinois’ 75 marijuana dispensary licenses
- Naperville News Digest
- Column: Show some love. Be good to each other. A Park Ridge cafe owner inspires us on Labor Day
- City Council committee looks at residency requirement for city of Aurora employees
- Native American activists call on City Council to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened Sept. 4 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Maine East High School officials defend inclusivity banners after local Republican leader, citizens object to content
- Boka Restaurant Group, owner of Girl & the Goat, GT Prime and more, explains reports of ‘mass layoff’ in Chicago
- Billionaire Ken Griffin gives $20 million to stop graduated-rate tax amendment group
- Jacob Blake’s father says his son is optimistic for his future, remains paralyzed from waist down after being shot
- Commentary: Ken Griffin: Why I oppose the graduated income tax
- Illinois Senate President Don Harmon’s office subpoenaed by feds who wanted information on land parcel in Chinatown
- Oswego delays construction schedule for new entertainment venue
- Bears name Mitch Trubisky the starting quarterback for Week 1 ahead of Nick Foles
- Mikal Smith, son of former Bears coach Lovie Smith, indicted on charges of sex trafficking and operating a prostitution ring
- The Rev. Leon Finney Jr., longtime South Side activist and developer, dies
- Death row inmate set free after 37 years
- ‘It feels like September’: 5-game Cubs-Cardinals series could go a long way toward deciding the NL Central
- Long, winding journey from Barrington to being drafted by Arizona Diamondbacks to playing for two junior colleges takes Tyler Acosta to Purdue
- Former ComEd VP charged with bribery conspiracy in scheme to sway House Speaker Michael Madigan
- White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson is in contention for a second consecutive AL batting crown, but his focus remains on the team: ‘I want something I can share with everybody’
- Recruiting notes: More twists, turns for Sebastian Cheeks as Evanston junior linebacker adds bevy of Power Five football offers to growing list
- Chicago Sky fall to the Washington Mystics 79-69, their 4th loss in 5 games
- Portland shooting suspect and victim both had guns, documents show
- After an injury ended her freshman season before it began, Maggie O’Malley comes of age for Fenwick: ‘The more I raced, the more I enjoyed it.’
- Longtime Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz to get Medal of Freedom from President Donald Trump
- Illinois State University athletes lead Black Lives Matter march on campus
- West Suburban schedules and scores for Sunday, Sept. 6
- Trump calls federal agencies’ anti-racism training sessions ‘anti-American propaganda’
- Running backs Hayden Vinyard and Tommy Burbee carry Valparaiso to 37-7 win against LaPorte: ‘It’s a friendly competition that drives both of us to play better.’
- The legend of Troy: Ethan Troy’s late interception against Michigan City helps Chesterton clinch first victory of the season
- Daily Southtown local schedules and scores for Sunday, Sept. 6
- Photos: Cubs 4, Cardinals 1
- Merrillville’s Angel Nelson passes for 215 yards and three touchdowns against Crown Point’s pressure in 42-7 win: ‘He stepped up and took some shots.’