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- Park Ridge 9/11 remembrance ceremony to move online due to pandemic
- Daily horoscope for September 7, 2020
- Morton Grove police: Car stolen while parked unlocked with keys, valuables inside
- Union Ridge school receives new trees from Morton Arboretum
- Teaching to empty classrooms: For some educators, giving lessons from school to students watching from home ‘helps it look and feel more normal’
- From death row to model inmate, Renaldo Hudson set free after 37 years. ‘I was preparing to die. I wasn’t preparing for this moment.’
- With electric vehicles, the road to the future still has bumps
- Ask Amy: Mom’s addiction and abuse roils household
- On Labor Day, supporters optimistic about completing Pullman National Monument work: ‘A game changer for our community’
- Letters: Bill would strengthen democracy, combat corruption
- Column: Coalitions urge blood donations, specifically among African Americans, to fight sickle cell disease
- 2020 is winding down, but the drama isn’t: Read these books now to make sense of it
- What if Nick Foles had more time with the Bears? We’ll never know, so now the question is how the ultimate backup QB can help.
- 4 takeaways from the White Sox-Royals series, including Luis Robert making an all-around impact and MVP cases for Jose Abreu and Tim Anderson
- Daywatch: Chicago lags on releasing police body cam footage, how CPS is prepping for remote learning and full-time living in Midwestern vacation homes
- Column: On this Labor Day in the midst of a pandemic, our front-line and essential workers are the heroes
- ‘Tenet’ tallies $20.2M as Americans step back into theaters
- Up is down in this fun physics experiment
- This vertical farm was born in the pandemic. Sales are up.
- Endurance racing with cars that belong in a demolition derby
- What does everyone see in Jesse Plemons?
- Bar and medical exam delays keep graduates in limbo
- Glamping for first-timers
- Help! What are the best precautions when traveling by car?
- One family has delivered the mail by boat for 115 years. Is this the last?
- Pandemic drives millions from Latin America’s universities
- Amazon’s biggest leap was boring
- Jiri Menzel, Oscar winning director for ‘Closely Watched Trains,’ dies at age 82
- Winners and losers from ESPN’s Cubs-Cardinals broadcast, including Mike Shildt bailing, a lost earpiece and unexpected love for the White Sox — and Hawk Harrelson
- Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny out of coma after poisoning
- Massive California wildfire sparked by gender reveal party pyrotechnics
- Speak Out reader opinion: My family and friends avoid Orland Square mall
- French Open will allow a limited number of spectators in despite the country’s COVID-19 resurgence
- Police: North Chicago man, 18, fatally shot and neighbor, 77, also wounded during attack
- Connecticut mayor agrees to name sewage plant after John Oliver under one condition
- ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ star Michael Rooker reveals ‘epic battle’ with coronavirus
- Cubs claim speedster Billy Hamilton off waivers from the Mets, while Jason Heyward could return Tuesday
- Analysis: More than ever, Trump casts himself as the defender of white America
- Prince Harry pays back renovation costs for U.K. home that were covered by taxpayers
- Column: New billboard campaign alerts us to adverse childhood experiences: ‘What is shareable is bearable’
- ‘What’s best for the Bears?’: Bears GM Ryan Pace weighs in on Mitch Trubisky’s mindset, Allen Robinson’s contract situation and Khalil Mack’s 2019 production dip
- Serena Williams advances to the US Open quarterfinals for a 12th consecutive time with a 3-set win
- Second stimulus check updates: Hopes fading for COVID-19 relief deal as Congress returns for abbreviated preelection session
- High schools in Arlington Heights, Barrington and Highland Park districts start new year amid COVID-19 pandemic
- The Summer of COVID-19 ends with US health officials worried about another surge following Labor Day
- Hundreds mark Labor Day with social distancing at annual Malden parade: ‘It’s a big one this year’
- Column: Bears GM Ryan Pace has ‘championship expectations’ — and he’s counting on quarterback Mitch Trubisky’s ‘different presence’ to get them there
- Navy Pier’s final day of the year
- As wildfires grow amid oppressive heat, California sets state record with 2 million acres burned so far this year
- 10 things to know about Notre Dame football this season, including a Heisman candidate, a shrinking receiver and the goal of winning the ACC title
- Forecasters: ‘Life-threatening waves’ possible. Beach hazards statement, small craft advisory extended through Wednesday night for Illinois, Indiana.
- Photos: Cubs 5, Cardinals 1
- How Trump’s billion-dollar campaign lost its cash advantage
- Biden and Trump go on the attack as 2020 race enters final, post-Labor Day stretch; Harris meets with Jacob Blake’s family in Wisconsin
- Teen fatally stabbed trying to break up fight after Facebook feud, prosecutors say
- Community leaders, tradesmen on Labor Day decry lack of Black representation in union apprentice programs: ‘We don’t have anything to celebrate’
- ‘It’s just sad’: On Navy Pier’s final day until spring, patrons and merchants rue another COVID-19 shutdown
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened Sept. 5-7 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Column: Does it matter if the Cubs win the division under MLB’s new postseason format?
- Kevin Dobson, actor in ‘Knots Landing’ and ‘Kojak,’ dies age 77
- Kyle Hendricks stops the Cubs losing streak at 3 with 8 steady innings in a 5-1 win over the Cardinals
- Trump says top Pentagon leaders want to keep waging wars in order to keep defense contractors ‘happy’
- Update: Missing person found in Lincolnwood, police said
- 8-year-old girl killed, 3 adults injured when someone shoots into car on South Side