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- New York City in the Prohibition days
- Illinois State scores the 4th-most points in Division I history and sets NCAA records for field-goal percentage and assists in a 177-108 win
- Discovery of murder victim in 2019 earns Park Ridge police officer top department award
- Daily horoscope for December 3, 2020
- Northwestern makes 14 3-pointers while opening its season with a 92-49 rout of Arkansas-Pine Bluff
- 4 takeaways from Illinois’ 82-69 loss to No. 2 Baylor, including down games for the Illini’s dynamic duo and the return of Giorgi Bezhanishvili
- Column: Lack of draft gold leaves Bears GM Ryan Pace downwind
- Column: Rahm Emanuel belongs in America’s political past, not in Joe Biden’s Cabinet
- Ask Amy: Worker wonders how to respond to slur
- Column: Recovery is coming in 2021. Will artists be off their games? Or will there be a rush of new talent and ideas?
- Daywatch: A third of PPP money went to large businesses in Illinois, see how your neighbors voted and ‘Shameless’ executive producer shares Chicago memories
- The 10 Best Books of 2020: It was an off year for the arts, but not for books. Our list of favorites, fiction and nonfiction.
- George McCaskey must soon confront difficult Chicago Bears questions about Ryan Pace and Matt Nagy. But his past words might offer some direction.
- They volunteered for COVID-19 vaccine trials and got the placebo. Do they now deserve the real one?
- Chicago Cubs might have options in the new pool of non-tendered free agents, including Carlos Rodon and David Dahl
- Everyone is spending more time in the kitchen — these gifts will make it easier
- We found markdowns on Apple products — plus other top tech deals
- Column: Kyle Schwarber’s time with the Chicago Cubs likely is over, but his tenure — and comeback in the 2016 World Series — should be remembered fondly
- Chicago was a video game powerhouse in the ’90s. ‘Insert Coin’ looks at the company behind Mortal Kombat
- Chicago books and authors in 2020: Our list of 36 suggests it was anything but a slow year
- Column: Curse words in this auto recycling business all add up for a South Haven homeless shelter
- ‘Selena: The Series’ review: Selena isn’t here to tell her story. And Netflix’s new series fails to give her a voice
- For museums, 2020 was an open-and-shut, up-and-mostly-down year
- 10 years ago, Groupon turned down Google’s $6B offer. Here’s what’s happened since.
- Tina Flournoy, longtime Democratic strategist, named chief of staff for Vice President-elect Kamala Harris
- Speak Out reader opinions: Playing dirty tricks no way to hand over White House; Trump needs to seize chance to do good; maybe good will come from COVID
- ‘Inexcusably reckless’: Michigan police search for person who climbed Mackinac Bridge tower, then posted photos on social media
- Make chana masala your new weeknight dinner hero
- Ho, ho — Whoa! Virus keeping most Santas at a distance
- How ski resorts are returning safely for the 2020-2021 season
- California got $1.3 billion in wildfire relief. Victims have received nothing, prompting outrage
- Las Chivas salen vivas tras visita de la Fiera (VIDEO)
- Charles M. Blow column: Obama’s curious cautiousness
- Dan Ryan express lanes closed for half-hour after state police see passenger in car shoot at vehicle
- Serie de Netflix invita a conocer más de Selena
- Frank Bruni column: The deep state is on a roll
- More hero pay: Walmart to give 4th round of COVID-19 bonuses to workers
- Northwest Indiana local scores for Friday, Dec. 4
- Make a pizza Margherita like an Italian. Here’s how.
- Recreation centers in Elmwood Park and Franklin Park limit capacity, cancel indoor group classes
- He lost his quesadilla stand to the pandemic. Now he feeds needy people
- Speak Out reader opinion: People’s needs should be focus for Oak Forest Hospital campus
- Pandemic means changes to the typical visit with Santa
- Job interviews without interviewers, products of the pandemic
- Post-Tribune boys basketball rankings and player of the week for Friday, Dec. 4, 2020
- Singapore approves a lab-grown meat product, a global first
- Nadal recibe la Gran Cruz de la Orden del Dos de Mayo
- Roddy Ricch, el más escuchado en Apple Music en 2020
- NASA: Mystery object orbiting Earth is a 54-year-old rocket, not an asteroid
- Package delays: UPS limits some retailer pickups as holiday surge tests its network
- Northwestern-led researchers unveil data dashboard that aims to spot COVID-19 surges faster
- Facebook to remove COVID-19 vaccine-related misinformation
- Aurora First Fridays to offer virtual and in-person events
- Volunteer bitten, seriously injured by tiger at Carole Baskin’s Big Cat Rescue, which was made famous by Netflix series ‘Tiger King’
- Joaquín: ‘El Villamarín es otra forma de vivir el fútbol’ (VIDEO)
- Northern Illinois strikes it rich at receiver with H-F graduate Tyrice Richie: ‘He’s a special kid. He knows how to make things happen.’
- Expertos en salud y ciencia responden a las preguntas sobre COVID-19
- Burr Ridge is soon offering a local solution to some local legal issues
- Study reveals the 30 best small cities in America to live in
- Viggo Mortensen defends playing gay character in new film: Maybe I’m not ‘completely straight’
- Abren investigación por accidente de Grosjean (VIDEO)
- Lake Station schools push for TIF money: ‘We don’t want to be forgotten’
- Rick Steves’ Europe: Naples: Bella chaos
- Chicago wins $7.2 million in affordable housing funds through JPMorgan Chase philanthropic challenge
- Celebrity Travel: Go away with … Amber Nash
- Neymar asegura que el próximo año jugará con Messi
- Anthony Davis is finalizing a 5-year, $190 million deal to return to the Los Angeles Lakers
- Column: Former Fulton Market restaurant and Schlitz tavern is safe from wrecking ball — for now — after city revokes demolition permit
- Four candidates have announced they’re vying for Oak Park village president in spring election
- Recruiting notes: Marist quarterback Dontrell Jackson Jr. excited about ‘going to a program on the rise’ in Coastal Carolina
- Holiday lights, pandemic style
- Do you have questions about the coronavirus vaccine? Send them to us and we’ll ask the experts.
- ‘We’re heading for a huge housing crisis’: With the pandemic posing a mass eviction threat, here’s what 11 housing experts say a Biden administration can do to help
- Benny Blanco on his new song with Juice Wrld: ‘It’s hard to listen to now’
- In a boost for Boeing, Ryanair adds 75 Max jets to its existing order
- New York Times critics’ top books of 2020
- Lou Holtz receives Presidential Medal of Freedom from Donald Trump, who calls the former Notre Dame football coach ‘one of the greatest’
- Making the most of time, even in trying times, is a key to creativity for Chicago musician Julius Dolls
- Oak Brook Park District seeks recipes for community cookbook
- Diez cosas que la ciencia ha aprendido sobre COVID-19
- 4 killed when driver tries to evade police in Berkeley and car is hit by truck, cops say
- NFL Week 13 predictions: NYT’s picks against the spread
- Indiana tops 6,000 coronavirus-related deaths since March
- Best Chicago architecture of 2020: The design of St. Regis Chicago, a new bridge and the pandemic-ready Rush Hospital raised our sights and spirits
- Giants star Saquon Barkley apologizes for letting ‘our guard down’ on maskless night in Manhattan
- Former presidents Obama, Clinton and Bush say they’d get a COVID-19 vaccine publicly to boost Americans’ confidence
- Una Navidad con Juanes, Thalía, Camilo y Schajris
- Oak Brook Bath & Tennis Club receives recognition as top wedding venue
- For school officials in NW Indiana, switching between in-person and online learning has been ‘frustrating, but it’s not surprising’
- Cops seeking driver in Wacker Drive hit-and-run that killed 70-year-old woman
- Inspired by great-uncle Marty Pattin, Southern Illinois recruit Kaydon Norkus can’t wait to pitch for Neuqua Valley
- Boys basketball notes: ‘Dynamic’ Michigan City guard Jamie Hodges lets his game do the talking
- Students could return to Oak Park District 97 schools by Feb. 1, administrators say
- Commentary: Want to avoid pandemics? Eliminate factory farming
- En racha, el Atleti amenaza al Barca y Real Madrid
- Senate confirms Christopher Waller to serve on Fed’s board
- UK and US officials spar over ‘vaccine nationalism;’ scientists bemoan the debate, saying it could undermine the public’s trust
- Hitting coach Frank Menechino sets high expectations for the Chicago White Sox — ‘World Series or bust’ — after the team finished 2020 near the top in key offensive categories
- US jobless claims remain high at 712,000 as COVID-19 escalates
- Letters: Contact tracers need Chicagoans’ help to slow the spread of COVID-19
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- OPRF Alumni Association awards $10,000 grant to Opportunity Knocks
- As hospitals fill, travel nurses race to virus hot spots
- ‘Godfather Coda’ review: A famously disappointing sequel embraces the dying fall
- How to be more optimistic in the new year, according to an optimism doctor
- Bradshaw: Coding skills are in high demand in today’s economy
- DePaul women’s basketball team practices and plays in masks
- Brothers who are legally deaf, blind and no strangers to helping out, send messages of love to sequestered seniors
- Laporta: ‘Hay propuestas imaginativas para que a Messi le guste quedarse en el Barca’
- The real deal: Jessica Tow-Arnett took intensity to a whole new level, leading Neuqua Valley in two sports. Now, she coaches in Minnesota.
- Elgin News Digest
- DePaul women’s basketball is one of the few teams that wears masks during games. And the No. 20 Blue Demons won’t use it as an excuse: ‘Make adversity your best friend.’
- Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she’s ‘watched with great interest’ the ComEd case, will have more to say later on House Speaker Michael Madigan
- Incendiary rhetoric is fueling a wave of threats against election workers across the country: ‘I can’t begin to explain the level of anger I have over this’
- Cook County health department investigating large wedding held at Hilton hotel on day state marked highest number of COVID-19 deaths
- Boy, 15, accused of beating 74-year-old man with baseball bat and setting his body on fire
- Yorkville’s Aaron Nieckula, the former Cougars manager, goes on a mission after being let go by Oakland A’s: ‘It’s a blessing in disguise.’
- Naperville adopts $502.4 million budget that includes raises for staff over objection of 3 council members
- No fans at the United Center for the start of the Chicago Bulls’ 2020-21 NBA season
- As hospitals fill, travel nurses race to virus hot spots
- Pandemia propicia cifra récord de descartes en MLB
- Illinois recreational weed sales flat at $75 million in November
- CVS to give out COVID-19 treatment in nursing homes
- 11 minutes of exercise a day may help counter the effects of sitting
- Young players, blurred boundaries and a coach on the move
- La revista People revela a sus ‘Personas del Año 2020’
- Motormouth: Another alternator, same story
- Indiana locations a real world reminder of Jean Shepherd’s ‘A Christmas Story’
- ¿Llegarán vacunas a hispanos y minorías?
- Mindy Kaling almost turned down Vogue cover for lack of body confidence after childbirth
- Kim Ng optimista sobre el futuro de los Marlins
- ‘I would say it was very successful’: weekend of shopping in central Lake County sees steady results
- Column: Trump likely won’t give us the White House eviction craved by so many
- Venezuela celebra elecciones en medio de boicot opositor
- Though restaurants remain a COVID-19 risk, experts and owners talk about balancing safety and business concerns
- Saunders espera que ‘Canelo’ pierda ante Smith
- Glencoe Caucus announces committee picks for April election, including choice for new village president
- Inmates quarantined at Will County jail after 38 test positive for COVID-19
- Small plane crash-lands on Minnesota interstate, authorities say
- Feuding shakes up Maine Township Board race; some Republicans plan to run as Democrats in 2021
- California governor: Most of the state nears a stay-home order in the coming days
- New look: NBA players will rock Nike ‘City Edition’ jerseys during 2020-21 season
- Biden encara decisiones difíciles sobre muros en la frontera
- 15-year-old charged in Wisconsin mall shooting that left eight people wounded to contest move to adult court
- ‘We are taking the time that we need,’ FDA head says, defending COVID-19 vaccine approval process. Here’s what he told us about what comes next.
- Trump aide banned from Justice Department building after pressuring staffers for sensitive information on election fraud
- Dan Le Batard and ESPN complete their divorce
- Aurora considers broker to market ‘premier’ downtown properties
- Daddy Yankee logra nuevo balance y se alista para su regreso
- Valparaiso forum gathers voices to decide if Wednesday e-learning will continue
- Purchasing battle continues as sheriff goes to county council after commissioners table temperature kiosk request
- Commentary: On Day 1, Biden should end Trump’s vaccine nationalism
- Naperville-area health agencies preparing for all possibilities as they await COVID-19 vaccine details
- The college-entrance exam is 9 hours long. COVID-19 made it harder.
- 3 firms offer bids on long-vacant Gary Edison
- With one of the top audiobooks of 2020, Jessica Simpson emotionally reflects on her dyslexia battle
- Community news: Students, health care workers and others collecting for good causes
- 8 years after a cat went missing, a woman heard from someone who found him. Instead of a happy reunion, a legal battle ensued in Lake County.
- Los Chicago Bulls abrirán temporada sin público en el United Center
- US COVID-19 deaths top 3,100 in a single day for the first time as new cases begin topping 200,000 a day
- Commentary: Chicago’s over-reliance on fees needs reform. Now.
- Pared down TubaChristmas event Sunday in Valparaiso
- Family of Orland Park teacher killed following 2019 holiday party ‘frustrated’ at pace of criminal case against priest
- Column: Del Dufrain remembered as the Tom Landry of his era as the Hall of Fame football coach for East Aurora
- Snoop Dogg lanza una liga de boxeo llamada Fight Club
- Editorial: Illinois pols, don’t dare jump the vaccine line
- Republican Illinois congressman says to President Trump in tweet: ‘Time to delete your account’
- Hinchas vuelven a estadios en la Premier
- Patrick Williams is embracing change as he approaches a fast-tracked Chicago Bulls season: ‘All the rookies are stepping into something we’ve never seen before’
- Column: Cook County channels another $1 million in stimulus funds to help small businesses
- Second stimulus check updates: Optimism grows as House Democrats promise some measure of COVID relief before the holidays
- Column: TV series to feature Timmothy Pitzen mystery
- Luis Suárez vuelve al grupo tras dar negativo en la PCR
- Meet Joe Biden’s energy and climate Cabinet contenders
- Lake County Health Department preparing for COVID-19 vaccinations to start this month
- Los casos de coronavirus aumentan otra vez entre los más vulnerables. ¿Ahora qué?
- Elgin council debates whether creating new human rights, sustainability posts makes sense in 2021
- Someone shot at 4 people in a Kia in Lawndale. After the car crashed, 2 were found dead and 2 injured, police say.
- Chicago Bears defensive players have no problem with Matt Nagy’s criticism after their season-worst performance: ‘Just motivation,’ Eddie Jackson says
- Proposed Aurora 2021 budget about $33 million lower than in 2020
- Religious leaders in Chicago urge devotees of Our Lady of Guadalupe to avoid pilgrimages to Des Plaines as image will be removed from shrine
- Aurora man who claimed he was robbed at gunpoint charged with filing false police report
- Holiday lights in Wisconsin
- Elgin council faces criticism over how public comments are handled during virtual meetings
- Column: Crystal Lake teen with Down syndrome looks forward to holiday parade all year. When COVID-19 canceled it, his community came to the rescue.
- Fantasy football lineups for Week 13: Start Kirk Cousins and sit Tyler Boyd
- Kyle Rittenhouse lawyer steps away from criminal case, hours after prosecutors allege fundraising effort ‘provides ample opportunity for self-dealing and fraud’
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened Dec. 3 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Illinois’ COVID-19 death toll in the last seven days is highest in nation at 957
- Children from poorer Chicago areas are still less likely to attend top-performing high schools, despite CPS efforts to even the playing field, new report finds
- The Spin: Mayor Lori Lightfoot weighs in on Madigan, ComEd | Republican Adam Kinzinger to Trump: Delete your account | FDA commissioner defends COVID-19 vaccine approval process
- Biden to name top health care officials soon as pandemic rages, will keep Fauci as chief medical adviser
- Wisconsin Supreme Court won’t hear Trump election lawsuit, likely dooming state court case seeking to overturn loss
- In seismic shift, Warner Bros. to stream all 2021 films same time they are released to theaters
- 2021 Toyota Sienna earns Family Green Car honors
- Lincoln features new interior on 2021 Nautilus
- Who will Jake Paul fight next? Here are the odds.
- Embattled Madigan to make his case before supportive House Black caucus on Saturday
- Jim Oberweis launches discovery recount effort in election that has Rep. Lauren Underwood winning by just 5,374 votes
- Southeast Side Superfund site
- Virtual sushi making class
- Among first acts as president, Biden says he will ask Americans to commit to 100 days of wearing masks