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- Week 5 recap: Chicago Bears rally to beat the Buccaneers 20-19 on Cairo Santos’ 38-yard field goal with 1:13 left
- ‘Brady lost count’: Your best 3-word reviews from the Chicago Bears’ 20-19 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Daily horoscope for October 9, 2020
- Column: The Chicago Bears caused the great Tom Brady to short-circuit on fourth down with the game on the line
- Chicago Bears kicker Cairo Santos’ winning field goal came 1 year and 2 days after a low point in his career: ‘I felt that I was due’
- Flashback: Touring the Bohemian National Cemetery grounds with ‘Cemetery Lady’ Helen Sclair
- Ask Amy: Letters should go to the archive, not the shredder
- Column: The threatening silence of Biden and Harris on packing the Supreme Court
- Only a Zoom call away: COVID-19 brings long-distance friends closer
- With opioid deaths on the rise in Will County, addiction experts spread message it’s OK to seek help
- Editorial: Final choices for the Illinois House: McGorray, Batinick, Halbrook, Ammons, Marron, Brady, Wilhour, Niemerg, Miller, Elik, Stuart, Jacobs
- Column: Chicago’s Second City is up for sale. But can America learn to laugh together again?
- Jeff Tweedy’s new book is ‘How to Write One Song,’ and is about how much you can learn about yourself in the trying
- Brad Biggs’ 10 thoughts after the Chicago Bears beat a Tom Brady-led team for the 1st time
- Daywatch: 1 in 5 Chicagoans have antibodies in study, the Bears take down Tom Brady and how to build a candy chute for trick-or-treaters
- Winners and losers from the Chicago Bears’ Week 5 win: Tom Brady is old, something happened to Terry Bradshaw’s head and the White Sox were forgotten (again)
- 3 new COVID-19 cases in Highland Park, Deerfield high schools, but officials say latest uptick is not an outbreak
- How are ballot drop boxes protected from tampering, human error, weather? County clerks explain.
- Guest column: Honor organ donors by saving procurement organizations
- Friend uses his shirt to stop the bleeding after 10-year-old girl is shot in the back. ‘He calls her his little sister. He was crying too.’
- Rapper Tory Lanez charged with shooting Megan Thee Stallion
- Gary takes ownership of shuttered Edison, Ivanhoe schools
- Pixar’s ‘Soul’ bypasses theaters, will stream at Disney Plus on Christmas
- ‘The War With Grandpa’ review: A family-friendly nightmare with the subtlety of a bouncing anvil
- Trump says he’s ready for rallies a week after trip to hospital, but details on his health status are scarce
- Record-breaking python killed in Florida Everglades hunt
- Column: A son re-imagines his father’s hit single from 40 years ago, now asking the world, ‘How ‘Bout Us’
- Broadway shutdown due to virus extended again until May 30
- Chef of now-closed Michelin-starred Blackbird pivots and opens a sandwich shop
- What would a Justice Barrett mean for the Supreme Court? Here’s a look at her legal writings at Notre Dame.
- Fires ravage Brazilian wetlands known as the Pantanal
- Oral arguments in Bill Cosby’s attempt to overturn sex assault conviction to be heard by Pennsylvania court Dec. 1
- Fancy cars, fine dining, creator mansions, cash: Triller is shelling out for talent
- Mother, sisters of teen killed by Wauwatosa police arrested at protest in Wisconsin church parking lot
- Customers still like to shop in person, even if they get only to the curb
- Paul Krugman column: Trump is killing the economy out of spite
- Fancy cars, fine dining, creator mansions, cash: Triller is shelling out for talent
- The best hair vitamin
- Saatva Mattress review: Can this mattress alleviate neck and back pain?
- The best hair-thickening shampoo
- The best breast milk storage bag
- The best cloth face mask
- The best collagen supplement for men of 2020
- Jamelle Bouie column: Court packing can be an instrument of justice
- Frank Bruni column: Pence’s debate performance bugged me out
- Trump’s COVID-19 scare propels him to record Facebook engagement
- ‘No es una pesadilla’: Otro huracán amenaza a Luisiana
- David Brooks column: Kamala Harris knows how to win elections
- ‘Speak Out’ reader opinion: Illinois needs to get its house in order
- Nick Foles vence a Tom Brady otra vez
- ‘A devastating blow’: Virus kills 81 members of Native American Tribe
- Programa Mundial de Alimentos de ONU gana el Nobel de la Paz
- New York Jets sent home after a ‘presumptive positive’ COVID-19 test — the same day as the Tennessee Titans have no positives after their Sunday game is moved to Tuesday
- Natti Natasha sorprende con su nueva canción
- Everything that should be in your home first-aid kit
- Speak Out reader opinion: Different views of candidates from vice presidential debate
- Crecen los problemas para los venezolanos que huyen a pie
- Farmacéuticas elogiadas por Trump mandan dinero a Biden
- ¿Sabes cuánto costó atender a Trump por el covid-19?
- Princeton to rename dorm, dropping President Woodrow Wilson for Chicago’s Mellody Hobson
- Got stamps? The pandemic is fueling a boom for greeting cards offering cheer — and some are pretty cheeky.
- Supreme Court refuses, for now, to halt by-mail abortion pills
- Hospitales de París en emergencia ante repunte de COVID-19
- Politics has a way of finding a Supreme Court eager to avoid it: ‘Right now the politicization of the courts puts their decisions front and center’
- Trump se sometería a examen médico en entrevista con Fox
- ‘A devastating blow’: Virus kills 81 members of Native American Tribe
- iO Theater of Chicago is for sale, a sad week for Chicago comedy
- Prince William announces new prize aimed at ‘repairing’ the planet
- World Food Program wins Nobel Peace Prize as hunger surges and pandemic has millions on the brink of starvation
- They took $645 million in valuables. Then they took a taxi.
- Budget, transparency among issues in Kane auditor election
- Whitey Ford, the Yankees’ famous ‘Chairman of the Board,’ dies at age 91
- Lake County local scores for Saturday, Oct. 10
- Illinois U.S. Rep. Mike Bost of Murphysboro says he’s tested positive for the coronavirus
- Republicanos descartan nuevo paquete de ayuda antes de las elecciones
- Auto review: 2021 Nissan Rogue’s new features, performance, value ready to pressure RAV4 and CR-V
- Auto review: 2020 Ford Ranger offers big things in a small package
- Cleveland-Cliffs marks the next step in Northwest Indiana’s steel legacy. Here’s a brief history.
- Commentary: The ‘Fair Tax’ fairy tale vs. real budget solutions
- Expertos: Calentamiento hace que huracanes crezcan rápido
- Lake Station OK’s ’21 budget; consultant warns of possible deficit
- Review: Bank of America Tower
- Danbury, Connecticut, OKs renaming its sewage plant for John Oliver — who went on an expletive-filled rant against the city
- Jeff Tweedy performances
- Homer Township referendum seeks voter input on constructing multipurpose building at Trantina Farm
- President Trump, Attorney General William Barr at odds over slow pace of Durham investigation into origin of the Russia probe
- Letters: A wink, a nod and a kidnap plot
- Pop-up food pantry planned in Aurora
- Sean Ono Lennon on remixing father’s music: It was therapy
- Lake County shatters record for first day early in-person voting, on track to beat previous totals
- From spritz to sugar to salted caramel, 50 cookie recipes perfect for the holidays
- Community news: Pets get blessed in Evergreen Park; new pickleball courts in Frankfort
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveils 25th Amendment bid, questions Trump’s fitness to serve
- Column: City’s tallest office building in 30 years opens along Chicago River, mixing drama and banality
- BM prevé mayor caída económica en Latinoamérica para 2020
- Cicero teachers criticize plan to bring them back into schools to deliver remote lessons in empty classrooms
- Bhagavan ‘Doc’ Antle, who was featured on ‘Tiger King’, charged with animal cruelty
- Aurora house fire kills two pets, displaces family
- Community news
- Griffith Public Schools announces grants, names assistant to the superintendent
- Tips for planning gatherings and celebrations this holiday season
- Luis Suárez: ‘Lloré por la situación que atravesaba en el Barca’
- Blackhawks re-sign goal-scoring winger Dominik Kubalik and goalie Malcolm Subban on the 1st day of NHL free agency
- Frustran complot para secuestrar a gobernadora de Michigan
- Column: Democrats should reject court-packing
- Close friends Dylan ‘DJ’ Josephson and AJ Kaprosy hope to experience Vernon Hills’ first sectional title together
- Hawaii pushes forward with tourism despite safety concerns
- Why these Armenian American celebs are speaking out about a chronic conflict
- ¿Planea votar en persona este año? Lo que los votantes de Illinois deben saber antes de ir a las urnas
- Vice President Mike Pence and his wife had requested absentee ballots by mail
- Ricky Martin espera llevar el sonido a otro nivel con su Music Lab
- Hawaii pushes forward with tourism despite safety concerns
- Porter County investigator explains at murder trial what he found in garage where Lake County teens were killed
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Column: More diversity, more dialogue wanted as listening sessions continue across Fox Valley
- Disabato: Get. It. Done. IHSA needs to do everything in its power to stage a state meet in boys and girls golf
- Hearing date set for Kyle Rittenhouse after lawyers argue he shouldn’t be extradited to Wisconsin over Kenosha shooting because he’d be in danger
- Nadal tras ganar a Schwartzman: ‘He jugado un partido muy inteligente’
- Michigan governor and her family were moved as kidnap plotters were tracked, state attorney general says
- Coronavirus can also infect your eyes ‘in addition to the respiratory system’
- UAE sheikhdom hopes Bear Grylls camp draws pandemic tourists
- UAE sheikhdom hopes Bear Grylls camp draws pandemic tourists
- Baranek: The ‘circle of life’ brings back familiar faces Annalisse Scott and Jenna Moravec Schulz to Tinley Park softball
- Surf’s Up in Aurora offers seafood with bite
- Rusia reporta más de 12,000 casos de COVID-19 en un día
- After 46 years, Cypriot ghost town’s beach opens to public
- Pictures: Hurricane Delta
- Man indicted for using explosive device at Naperville restaurant in June, federal officials say
- Glenbrook high schools report multiple positive COVID-19 cases during first days of hybrid learning
- Rapinoe among athletes touting CBD’s benefits for pain
- A long road: Weed goes on sale years after approval in Maine
- Women with menopause turn to cannabis for treatment
- Column: The case for (carefully) spending more in retirement
- Armstrong: One place. One second. St. Charles North’s Noah Eng motivated by last year’s disappointing finish to reach higher level.
- Researchers surprised: 20% of Chicagoans in blood-test study came up positive for coronavirus antibodies
- East Aurora to continue with remote learning until January
- Chicago Bears rebounded with a prime-time victory over Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers — but local TV ratings dipped
- Elgin News Digest
- Column: Woman fired from Hobart YMCA for displaying BLM messages feeling backlash over new wrongful allegation
- Muere Whitey Ford, legendario lanzador de los Yanquis
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Alcalde de Boston lamenta actuación de agentes de migración
- Trump tax records expose more than $21 million in highly unusual payments from the Las Vegas hotel he owns, an engineered windfall in 2016 as campaign funds dwindled
- ‘Despacito’ recibirá Billboard a canción latina de la década
- Are you being watched? 7 of the best paranoid thrillers of the 1970s
- Chicago Bears left guard James Daniels is out for the season with a torn pectoral muscle
- Mayor prevails in bid to turn back city council meeting room lawsuit
- Adding radiation therapy to prostate cancer surgery has been a tough call. New science eases the dilemma
- Wichita State investigating men’s basketball coach Gregg Marshall after allegations of hitting players
- Las mejores fotos en América Latina 2-8 Oct./2020
- Mark Zeigler column: It’s time to stop using youth athletes as political pawns
- Joe Starkey column: NFL should lower the boom on Tennessee Titans
- Moved by plight of young heart patient, stranger pays his hospital bill
- Mayo Clinic Q and A: Children with animal allergies can live comfortably with pets
- With more than 200 million Instagram followers, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is America’s ‘most followed man’
- After 46 years, Cypriot ghost town’s beach opens to public
- Petco ends sale of shock collars
- Activists offer $5,000 reward for information about killings of prominent Oak Park attorneys
- Trump apunta contra esfuerzos de diversidad en los empleos
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- ‘It’s a cool story’: Dundee-Crown graduate Elliot Soto finally gets the call, literally, to make major league debut with Los Angeles Angels
- Chicago masks, the Chicago way — coronavirus protection with style
- FIFA revela desplome de traspasos internacionales en 2020
- Indiana poll workers grapple with COVID-19 precautions, Trump’s rhetoric ahead of Election Day
- Tania Libertad y Sabo Romo sellan su amistad con SA’nTA
- Despite the Chicago Bears’ 4-1 record and rare win over Tom Brady, Matt Nagy gets testy about his team’s offensive woes: ‘You better be freaking detailed’
- St. Charles Scarecrow Stroll works to offer ‘sense of normalcy’ during pandemic
- Metro East region outside St. Louis returned to phase 4 reopening rules after weeks under tighter restrictions; Lake County added to state’s COVID-19 warning list
- Planning to vote in person this year? What Illinois voters should know before heading to the polls.
- A shoo-in: Matt Walters, who owns a shoe company, makes mark as an assistant coach in tennis for alma mater Naperville North
- Sylvester Stallone pone voz a Rambo en Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate
- Ohio county says nearly 50,000 voters received incorrect absentee ballots
- Why won’t White House say when President Trump last tested negative for the coronavirus?
- After complaints about GOP event at Park Ridge Country Club, city looks at ways to enforce COVID-19 rules
- Running a virtual marathon? Can you match the times of these celebrity runners?
- Under proposed budget, Evanston will not fill 11 open police officer positions as city looks to recover from COVID-19 financial losses
- President Trump’s struggles ripple across the Sun Belt, endangering a GOP stronghold
- Excampeón mexicano de WWE es acusado de secuestro y agresión sexual
- McDonald’s HQ to sell for about $420 million, a record for Chicago’s Fulton Market district
- Naperville News Digest
- Service, technology stressed by candidates for Kane County circuit clerk
- Potempa: Koko’s Chef and former newspaper delivery boy share ribbon cutting and recipe
- Sobrevivientes de covid-19 cuestionan a Dios y su propósito
- M&A roars back from pandemic slowdown
- Police investigating crash in which Mundelein bicyclist was killed
- Se naturalizan justo a tiempo para votar
- Thousands of geese make their annual migration over Scotland
- Twitter pone límites para limitar la la difusión de contenido engañoso
- Tomatoes, turnips rule in big year for veggie gardening
- Coronavirus updates: WHO reports new daily high in COVID-19 cases, as global tally hits more than 350,000
- Two years after flipping suburban district, U.S. Rep. Sean Casten faces challenge from Jeanne Ives
- McDonald’s exec Joe Erlinger pays $2.42 million for vintage brick mansion in Kenwood
- Twitter pondrá límites a políticos antes de elecciones
- Commentary: How Illinois’ eviction moratorium puts neighborhood housing in peril
- In the Sahara, the solace of community baking
- What we know about the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor
- Top-ranked Andrean and disruptions caused by coronavirus pandemic are among football storylines to watch following postseason draw
- The Kitchn: One-pot spicy sausage and tomato pasta is low effort, big flavor
- Snag a new account bonus
- ‘Soul’ de Pixar se estrenará directo en Disney+
- Excess deaths, major losses and the US as the world’s COVID epicenter: How the pandemic looks to the reinsurance industry
- Trump realizará mitin en Florida el lunes, el primero desde que le diagnosticaron COVID-19
- Decades-old dredging project resumes in East Chicago: Environmentalist says ‘we did not want this permit’
- Once a hotel suite, now an office space
- Lumberjack, tailor, counselor, host: A hotel owner does it all during the pandemic
- 9 Philadelphia medical experts say how their kids are safely celebrating Halloween
- Almost a third of Lake County voters have already requested mail-in ballots
- Project Dandelion exposes sexual assault crimes on Illinois college campuses. It was created by a high schooler.
- This Week in Naperville
- LaSalle County man sues prosecutor and police after being found not guilty of drowning his wife in a toilet
- Inquietud en EEUU: menos inscripciones a escuelas públicas
- North Central College’s spring semester includes later start for undergraduates, shorter spring break, May commencement
- Mindy Kaling secretly gave birth to baby boy named Spencer, insulted paparazzi didn’t identify her as pregnant
- Sean Ono Lennon se reencuentra con John
- Want to vote by mail in Illinois? Here’s how.
- Editorial: Protect independent judges. Retain Michael Toomin.
- Will County officials celebrate completion of 10-story courthouse in downtown Joliet
- Toronto restringe servicio en bares y restaurantes ante récord de casos confirmados por COVID
- Koeman: ‘Intentamos mejorar la plantilla y en unas cosas no se hizo’
- With ‘Dreams’ and juice, Idaho man finds online fame
- Editorial: Republican Mark Curran Jr. for U.S. Senate
- At book 78 and counting, Dean Koontz has no drought of ideas
- Second stimulus check updates: After ending negotiations, Trump now says he wants bigger relief package than Democrats as McConnell says deal ‘unlikely’
- Con ‘Dreams’ y jugo de arándanos hombre se hace famoso
- Maude’s Liquor Bar closes permanently — but not due to COVID-19, says owner
- Lake Michigan property values in Indiana are climbing despite erosion issues. One possible cause: Residents fleeing Illinois.
- Vacuna anti-COVID hasta el año próximo, funcionario contradice a Trump
- Florida, for once, could be a beacon of clarity on Election Night. Or will it be just another cluster of chaos?
- Washington Street bridge reconstruction project in 2021 hinges on land acquisition, Naperville officials say
- Commentary: Millions of migrating birds need Chicago’s help
- Volleyball’s Beard Bros go from beach to ‘Amazing Race’
- FitzGerald’s Nightclub in Berwyn closes temporarily after employee tests positive for coronavirus
- What’s an endorsement, and why does the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board do them?
- Corrections and clarifications
- The Spin: Pritzker focusing on ending no-knock warrants | COVID-19 exposure in Chicago higher than researchers thought | Princeton to name building for Chicago’s Mellody Hobson
- Mount Desert Island, Maine
- Column: Making sense of the 3/5th vs. majority of votes requirement for the graduated tax amendment
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened Oct. 9 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Commentary: Buy from your independent bookstores before it’s too late
- We’ve all thought of building a world from scratch. University of Chicago’s ExoTerra Imagination Lab is doing it.
- Northwest Indiana local scores for Saturday, Oct. 10
- 2nd presidential debate between President Trump and Joe Biden is officially canceled
- Former Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke withdraws appeal of his conviction in slaying of Laquan McDonald
- Chicago Bears add another kicker, signing veteran Kai Forbath to the practice squad
- Aurora residents speak with police officials about civilian review board, traffic stops, training during listening session
- Column: What was Judge Amy Coney Barrett like as a freshman at Notre Dame law school? ‘A joy.’
- Since hitting Netflix, ‘Sister, Sister’ is among Nielsen’s list of most-streamed shows
- Commentary: Even after my meltdown at the polls, I’m going to vote in person
- Panel recommends pay increase for Aurora mayor, aldermen
- Column: What the plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer tells us about militant extremists
- St. Malachy and Holy Cross partnership
- After a scare, all Jets test negative for COVID-19, and their game Sunday against the Cardinals is on as scheduled
- Officials to remove dams
- A week after hospitalization for COVID-19, Trump plans big White House event on Saturday, rally in Florida on Monday
- ‘That was so much fun’: Lincoln-Way Central’s Merrigan Allen holds off Lincoln-Way East’s Kate Guderjan in triangular showdown
- Daily Southtown local scores and schedules for Sunday, Oct. 11
- Businessman named in federal corruption probe accused of fraud in bankruptcy court
- Ryan Walsh rushes for 161 yards and four touchdowns as Andrean overcomes ‘too many mistakes’ and pulls away from Kankakee Valley
- Rays advance to the ALCS for the 1st time in 12 years after beating the Yankees 2-1
- Northwest Indiana local scores for Sunday, Oct. 11