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- Daily horoscope for November 6, 2020
- Election 2020 updates: Here’s what happened on Nov. 5
- Flashback: Love it or hate it, here’s how the Electoral College came to be
- Ask Amy: Political differences impact a father’s bequest
- Column: Oh, say can you see that big blue wave?
- At Second City, the search for a new owner and executive producer continues
- How Second City’s diversity promises are being executed
- Reinventing Second City: After charges of institutional racism and ongoing leadership changes, how the Chicago comedy powerhouse is trying to move forward
- Oak Lawn man marks 350th blood donation, which may be an underestimate
- Second City alumni talk about their experiences, good and bad
- Daywatch: Biden leads in Georgia, Pritzker warns of possible statewide crackdown and 10 restaurants to order from for Take Out challenge
- Waukegan police shooting victim Marcellis Stinnette did not get immediate aid because authorities feared he had a gun, records show
- Fantasy football: Target these players — and dump these players — in the 2nd half of the season
- About half of Naperville restaurant owners fear they could be out of business within five months, survey says
- Chicago cop stabbed while answering mental health call on the South Side
- College football picks and odds: Several top-10 matchups this weekend will shape the playoff race
- Column: Readers’ responses range from ‘You’re an idiot’ to ‘Have a blessed day’
- Lake Council to seek judge ruling after commissioners veto authority shifting ordinances; experts say two laws are at odds
- If Biden wins, Georgia runoff elections in January could decide control of Senate
- Fleeing cops, Chicago murder suspect left behind his wallet, his gun, his knife, $1,980 in $20 bills, $58 in gold coins and 10 silver dollars, police say
- Stephen Colbert’s tearful response to Trump election claims: ‘I didn’t expect this to break my heart’
- Second City at a crossroads: Now is the time for the Chicago comedy powerhouse to reinvent itself
- Biden aventaja a Trump en Pensilvania y Georgia
- Week 9 predictions: Can the Chicago Bears overcome their COVID-19 and injury issues to beat the Tennessee Titans?
- Unemployment drops to 6.9% as US adds a solid 638,000 jobs
- Renovation will essentially create new 5-story North Chicago middle school
- Lincoln-Way students team up with scientists at Argonne to study how gold transmits light
- Merrillville to begin $1.3M flooding project
- NBA players approve a proposed plan to start a shortened season on Dec. 22
- David Brooks column: What the voters are trying to tell us
- Paul Krugman column: Is America becoming a failed state?
- De’Longhi Stilosa review: Is this affordable espresso machine easy-to-use for beginners?
- Universal’s holiday plan includes Macy’s balloons on display, new Tribute Store, Grinch interactions
- ‘Speak Out’ reader opinion: Athletes should be role models in fight against COVID-19
- Republicanos se apartan de Trump sobre recuento de votos
- Naperville Driver Services office closed until Nov. 19 after employee tests positive for COVID-19
- Inicia la transición en una Bolivia todavía polarizada
- Mientras Biden avanza en Pensilvania y Georgia; Trump denuncia fraude
- Boston Red Sox reportedly rehiring Alex Cora, less than 1 year after firing him as manager for his role in the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scandal
- Trump pronostica ‘muchos litigios’ para conservar su puesto
- Tensa espera en Puerto Rico por resultados de elecciones
- For office furniture sellers, now there’s no place like home
- Tokio sostendrá evento con gimnastas de 4 países
- Column: The Chicago Bears are in a quandary on the offensive line this week — and it’s further proof that GM Ryan Pace needs to fix the unit in the offseason
- Maradona sigue internado bajo cuidado psicológico
- Park Ridge Park Board approves contract to buy $330,000 house
- Twitter etiqueta como ‘engañosos’ el 38% de los tuits publicados por Trump desde el martes
- November has been former Grayslake Central star Jack Aho’s month throughout his career. It’s a lot different for the Michigan senior this year.
- Maine East student Roshni Lotwala of Morton Grove wins ‘207’s Best’ award for community service
- Wondering about recounts? They rarely overturn initial results. Here’s how different states re-tally the vote.
- Así lucen los vasos navideños de Starbucks para 2020
- Pastor to celebrities is fired from Hillsong Church
- Here’s what different Republicans are saying about Trump’s unfounded claims of election theft
- Speak Out reader opinion: Divided electorate continues after presidential election
- EEUU vuelve a batir récord diario de coronavirus con más de 121,000 casos y suma 1,210 muertos
- Rapper King Von killed in shooting outside Atlanta nightclub; 2 others dead, 3 wounded: police
- What’s happened with the Chicago Bears and COVID-19? And what are the guidelines for those who tested positive? 7 important questions — and answers.
- States with the most and least student debt
- Our Shining Stars Foundation helps Lake County residents in variety of ways; ‘More people are in need now’
- Venezuela critica que ministra española se refieran al país como un ‘régimen’ y dice que es influencia de EEUU
- Editorial: CTU’s pandemic game plan? Delay, impede, derail.
- Presidential election history: Popular vote vs. Electoral College winners dating back to Dwight Eisenhower
- Filadelfia: arrestan a 2 hombres armados cerca de recuento
- 2021 Hyundai Santa Fe adds hybrid model
- Commentary: Teachers’ lessons not found in a textbook
- TikTok y Facebook bloquean hashtags que difunden desinformación de las elecciones de EEUU
- Restaurants cater Thanksgiving during the pandemic
- Commentary: The failure of the tax amendment means we all lose
- Michigan couple with 14 sons welcomes their first daughter, Maggie
- ST line returns for 2021 Ford Edge
- NBA is expected to start its new season next month
- A gymnastics coach made the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Misconduct complaints are trailing her.
- Sugar Grove changes curfew rule
- Raiders and Jon Gruden are fined again over virus violations
- Days from its delayed football opener, Cal is stalled again by the virus
- For office furniture sellers during a pandemic, there’s no place like home
- Bob Baffert at the Breeders’ Cup: Awash in favorites and suspicion
- The many lives of lentils
- Georgia volverá a contar los votos, Biden tiene estrecha ventaja
- Activistas exigen a museos mejorar su representación racial
- Elmhurst Mayor Steve Morley asks Gov. Pritzker to ease dining restrictions
- Pese a dolencias, Neymar se suma a Brasil en eliminatorias
- ‘Magic in the dirt’: Small farms cultivate food, companionship despite pandemic
- What a typical presidential transfer of power looks like
- More than 1,100 individuals in NWI schools quarantined as cases rise, schools move online
- Gold Coast 4-bedroom home in historical building: $1.9M
- ‘¡Relájate, Donald, relájate!’, replica Greta Thunberg a Trump tras dudar del sistema de recuento de votos
- Children produce weaker coronavirus antibodies, study finds
- Forget long weekends: During the pandemic it’s all about short weeks
- In the age of COVID-19, a Mexican doctor’s phone rings and he makes a house call
- Commentary: Armed with facts, voters made the right choice on the tax amendment
- Chicago’s Christmas tree lighting goes virtual to kick off 2020 holiday events
- Auto review: The redesigned 2021 Cadillac Escalade is the first true Cadillac in decades
- Chicago’s Christmas tree is installed at Millennium Park
- Hutton: Jalen Washington has played just six games during his first two years at West Side. But Duke is calling.
- ‘Eta’ deja al menos ocho muertos y más de 81,000 personas afectadas a su paso por Guatemala
- Indiana Democratic chairman leaving after 8 years in post
- Auto review: Mojave dunes await Jeep’s newest Gladiator
- Auto review: Mojave dunes await Jeep’s newest Gladiator
- ‘You got them Trump licks?’ Chicago brothers target COVID-19 stimulus checks in scheme to steal mail, feds say
- Aurora woman who works with Butterball Turkey Talk-Line wants to create ‘sense of normalcy’ this Thanksgiving
- Column: Emmett Till house makes strides toward becoming an official city landmark and a museum
- Biden cerca de la presidencia con ventaja en Pensilvania
- Baranek: Ed Tadevich Jr. leaves a legacy of maintaining quality bowling lanes with a personal touch. ‘He lived it, loved it.’
- Veteran’s Day commemoration to take place virtually in Oak Park Wednesday
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Lake County reaches 60% voter turnout in 2020 general election
- Jennifer Senior column: Republicans, now is the time to step up
- Guest column: Trump’s corruption cries and battle to stop counting votes rooted in racism, history
- Mutual Ground domestic violence shelter temporarily closes because of COVID-19 outbreak; other services remain open
- Community news: Mother McAuley honors family for support
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Ancient remains in Peru reveal young, female big-game hunter
- Trump faces tough road in getting Supreme Court to intervene in close battleground races
- Smaller turkeys. Yams to go. Or a Thanksgiving lobster? COVID-19 will transform holiday meals.
- ‘Long overdue’ demolition begins for vacant buildings along Broadway in Gary
- Down to Business: Name of this diaper pad, trunk mat company says it all — Lessy Messy
- Second stimulus check updates: Dueling coronavirus relief bill visions cloud lame-duck outlook
- Alison Saar on transforming outrage into art
- After a week of shutdown orders, some Lake County restaurants continue limited indoor dining
- What in the world Is a $590 scratch-and-sniff T-shirt doing in 2020?
- Dances with robots, and other tales from the outer limits
- Review: Interrobang Theatre’s ‘The Spin’ is a wickedly satirical Zoom world wrapped in the Zoom world on your own computer
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Brian Eno’s music for anxious times
- Decent: How did Naperville tech writer end up penning kids books? It’s not that big of a leap, she says
- Man held without bail in fatal shootings of his girlfriend, her mother and sister
- Di María vuelve a selección argentina ante Paraguay y Perú
- PAWS transforming Fur Ball fundraiser into virtual affair
- Editorial: Pritzker has budget options that don’t include draconian tax hikes or a machete
- Trump gana evangélicos blancos, católicos están divididos
- Column: Yes, Donald Trump has Black and Latino supporters. Democrats can learn from it.
- Why Ethiopia is suddenly on the brink of civil war, threatening the stability of one of the world’s most strategic regions
- Costly campaign for 47th state representative seat
- Speak Out reader opinions: Tents can’t be safer than restaurants; Madea good for escaping reality for awhile; fewer tests doesn’t mean less COVID-19
- Twitter suspende permanentemente la cuenta de Steve Bannon tras pedir la decapitación de Fauci y del director del FBI
- Letters: The job of reporting has become more dangerous
- Rickert concedes to Pierog in Kane County chairman race
- Fundraisers shift from ballrooms to Zoom as Chicago nonprofits struggle to keep donations flowing during pandemic
- El Vaticano sanciona a cardenal tras acusaciones de abusos sexuales a menores
- Pennsylvania vote counters’ toil to extend into next week
- Boy, 15, ordered held in custody, accused of fatally shooting man over backpack in Buena Park
- Final votes confirm New Zealand won’t legalize marijuana
- Mike Charley, Oak Park’s public health director for last five years, leaving for similar job in Skokie
- All NFL games for Week 9 are on despite several teams dealing with COVID-19
- School district fires Marine vet over medical marijuana use
- A two-sport athlete, Andrew’s Jack Day knows you can’t forget equipment. He forgot a calculator for the SAT. But he ended up getting a perfect math score.
- Advocates race to find Georgia voters who cast bad ballots
- Indiana sets COVID-19 case record for third straight day; Lake, Porter counties report 3,000 cases since Sunday
- Pressure mounts, rifts emerge at Fox News over election
- Commentary: 5 types of misinformation to watch for while ballots are being counted — and after
- Steve Bannon’s lawyer quits fraud case after inflammatory remarks that prompted Twitter to permanently suspend his account
- Law & Order column: State police will only say Waukegan police shooting investigation is ‘ongoing’
- Morgan Park woman, 85, donates tree she planted 35 years ago to city for Millennium Park Christmas tree
- Trump insiste en pedir ‘plena transparencia’ en el recuento y señala que es por ‘integridad’
- Community news
- ‘Hamilton’ was just the beginning. Hollywood loves Broadway, again.
- El oficio de llorarle a los muertos en México
- This Week in Naperville
- Unseasonably warm weather forecast to continue in Chicago, with near record-breaking temperatures
- Official election results show support for Biden in central Lake County precincts
- Column: America is witnessing the meltdown of a madman on the grandest scale
- Terry Savage: The election and your finances
- Retirement: Lump sum versus traditional pension
- Family finances: It’s virtually open enrollment time
- The end of HQ as we know it: Office, co-working, or something else? There’s a new winner
- Longtime Gary doctor remembered as trailblazer, mentor
- For Hershey, Halloween was sweet success
- Incumbent Democrats in 17th, 18th state House districts look toward new term
- Wisconsin tops 6,000 coronavirus cases, setting a new record
- Eva Green es una astronauta en ‘Proxima’
- District 203 planning $6M in capital projects for coming year, including new field house floor at Naperville Central
- Armstrong: Forget the IHSA and Gov. J.B. Pritzker. Yorkville Christian’s Aaron Sovern says ‘we’re planning to play.’
- Column: Second-guessing the campaign for the ‘fair tax’ that went so foul
- Porter County comes close to vote turnout record: ‘Early voting as a way of voting is here to stay’
- Lake Bluff schools set to reopen for some in-person learning next week; Lake Forest schools continue with hybrid plan
- Suspect in shooting of 2 Wisconsin police officers is captured
- How claims of dead Michigan voters spread faster than the facts
- Aurora council panel recommends civilian police board
- Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra presents Midwest premiere of the documentary ‘The Bowmakers’ virtually
- Lake County put back on warning status as COVID-19 cases, deaths climb: ‘We’re going in the wrong direction’
- Column: Amazon’s large tax breaks are needed to create jobs, south suburban officials say
- Fox 32 meteorologist Mike Caplan sells Wadsworth house for $675,000
- Edward Hospital treating record number of COVID-19 patients as coronavirus grips Naperville area
- Trump’s attacks on mail-in ballots rankle some military vets
- Potempa: River otter and ailment, not troll, responsible for killing ducks and goat
- Evangelicals stick with Trump, see upside even if he loses the election
- Bradshaw: How college consultant professionals are changing college admissions
- Ring the bells: Salvation Army plans to bring out red kettles next week as organization anticipates 50% decrease in donations
- Health care provider seeks location in Aurora church
- Concordia University programming team takes first place in Chicago-area, third in country in IEEE competition
- U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley: Time to consider replacing Michael Madigan as Illinois Democratic Party chair, House speaker
- River Forest Dist. 90: Person involved in ‘community programming’ at Roosevelt School tests positive for COVID-19
- The Spin: Duckworth, Quigley now leaning on Madigan | Pritzker in self-isolation after COVID-19 exposure | Will we have a winner soon? | Near record voter turnout and partisan divide
- Northwest Indiana local scores and schedules for Saturday, Nov. 7
- 5 things to watch as the Chicago Bears face the Tennessee Titans, including containing Derrick Henry and Jimmy Graham’s mea culpa
- For this Merrillville church community, restoring trust comes first
- Huntley’s Reese Hunkins becomes a piece of the puzzle with commitment to Illinois: ‘She’s a pure athlete. She just gets it.’
- Chicago Cubs win the National League Gold Glove team award for outstanding defense
- Naperville diners, restaurants take advantage of unseasonably warm weather: ‘Get it while you can’
- Aurora downtown event continues celebration of Day of the Dead
- ‘No sign of slowing’: Illinois hospitalizations could soon break pandemic record, raising concerns about capacity
- COVID or not, the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra has found a way for the show to go on
- Alec Baldwin on having 6th kid with Hilaria: ‘We’re oh-so-done’
- Column: If there’s no Boss Madigan, who’ll herd the cats with Illinois in crisis?
- Column: Let’s give thanks for poll workers, Stacey Abrams, fact-checkers — and the weather
- He started on the scout team. Now, Neuqua Valley graduate Jon Rhattigan is Army’s defensive leader: ‘I have trust in the guys.’
- Justin Turner will not be disciplined for his return to the field to celebrate the Los Angeles Dodgers’ World Series title after testing positive for COVID-19
- Stacey Abrams draws credit and praise as Joe Biden inches ahead in Georgia
- Pandemic, lack of trust in government and Madigan effect help send graduated tax amendment to defeat
- Court overturns ruling that Geneva steakhouse may stay open for indoor service despite coronavirus ban
- Waukegan releases reasons for firing police officer who killed Marcellis Stinnette
- Hundreds of Illinois schools potentially exposed to COVID-19 in last month, new contact tracing data shows
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened Nov. 6 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Wisdom from Lindsay: Wisconsin assistant coach Lindsay Wisdom-Hylton looks back on her days as a basketball star at Neuqua Valley.
- Incendiary election texts traced to outfit run by top Trump aide
- Ex-financial adviser who stole money from Jake Peavy, Mark Sanchez gets 3-year federal prison sentence
- Quarantined for two weeks due to COVID-19, Jordan Pyle sinks 2 free throws to clinch University of St. Francis’ season-opening win
- Georgia Senate election: Republican David Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff head to runoff
- ‘Loss-proofing’: Bobby Babcock and Hobart do it again, as defense limits Lowell to 160 yards to deliver 10-7 win in sectional final
- Colby Bullock runs for 131 yards and a TD but Chesterton comes up short against Elkhart: ‘It’s tough to get that close and lose.’
- Why ballot-counting in Nevada is dragging on
- Northwest Indiana local scores for Sunday, Nov. 8
- Election 2020 updates: Here’s what happened on Nov. 6
- Biden dice que ya se prepara para la Casa Blanca
- Arizona-Utah game canceled because of multiple COVID-19 cases within the Utes program — the 2nd Pac-12 game called off on the conference’s opening weekend