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- Daily horoscope for December 7, 2020
- It’s not just COVID-19 that’s closing schools — it’s a lack of substitute teachers. The shortage has reached crisis levels in some districts.
- Vaccine shortages have led to theft, smuggling and doses going to the famous instead of the needy. Will it happen again with COVID-19?
- Ask Amy: Partying right now could yield unhealthy surprises
- Column: Georgia can give America a 50-50 Senate and force lawmakers to compromise
- Letters: Sen. Mitch McConnell has failed to help struggling businesses
- Editorial: Last spring, IDES was a pandemic mess. Guess what? It’s still a mess.
- Markham police officer shares first book with students at Bremen, where he is resource officer
- Should a 6th straight loss lead to sweeping changes at Halas Hall now? Brad Biggs’ 10 thoughts on the Chicago Bears’ crushing 34-30 defeat to the Detroit Lions.
- 5 Big Ten football takeaways after Week 7, including what’s in store for Ohio State if Michigan can’t play this week
- Column: The Chicago Cubs say Len Kasper’s replacement must be someone who fits their ‘culture.’ But with so much change at Wrigley Field, how is that defined?
- Daywatch: What could happen if there’s a COVID-19 vaccine shortage, a lack of substitute teachers reaches crisis levels and what experience gifts look like now
- This day in history, December 7: Japan launches attacks on Pearl Harbor, Hong Kong and more
- 24 deals on video games and gaming accessories to help you finish holiday shopping
- Winners and losers from the Chicago Bears’ Week 13 loss, including Ryan Pace’s realtor, Fox’s odd angles and Tarik Cohen’s tweets (again)
- ‘If nobody knew … no one would ever know,’ said Michigan woman charged with murder after newborn boys found in Stickney garbage 17 years ago, according to prosecutors
- German CEO stepping down from retailer to let his wife’s career ‘take priority’
- Help Them To Hope
- Illinois fire marshal warns of fire risk posed by holiday decorations, reminds people to keep trees watered
- Column: Waukegan needs more boosters to take city to the next level
- Would-be armed robber fatally shot in Goose Island moments after wounding victim, police say
- Tired of boring chicken? Here’s 101 ways to make it that are anything but boring
- Bryan Cranston hasn’t fully recovered from COVID-19. But he knows how lucky he is as he portrays another damaged man
- ‘What are we going to do when we lose the unemployment money?’ Millions fear cutoff of US jobless aid.
- Holiday streaming: Movies, TV to watch this holiday season
- Triunfo histórico de Sergio Pérez en Fórmula Uno
- Festejan mexicanos histórica victoria de Pérez en F1
- El milagro de Pumas en CU se hace realidad (VIDEO)
- Muere el padre del actor mexicano Jaime Camil
- Charles M. Blow column: How Black people learned not to trust
- Tras boicot opositor, Maduro recupera la Asamblea
- Talk of the County reader opinion: ‘It will be another four lame years thanks to Republicans in Congress’
- Tom Brady’s Boston mansion broken into, homeless man arrested: cops
- More than 200 people are hospitalized and one person has died due to an unidentified disease in India
- Batavia works to celebrate holidays in midst of pandemic
- What the experts expect to be the biggest wedding trends of 2021
- Qatar planea un Mundial de fútbol ‘totalmente normal’
- Ross Douthat column: Why do so many Americans think the election was stolen?
- CDC’s ‘stay home’ advice is more terrible news for airlines
- Retailers are warning of shipping delays as millions shop online. Here are the deadlines you need to meet.
- Black Michigan lawmaker gets lynching threat from male caller, threatening call possibly from Wheeling woman after voter fraud hearing
- Frank Bruni column: Death came for the Dakotas
- Restaurateur sees vegan food as key to post-COVID success
- Frank Bruni column: Death came for the Dakotas
- Post-Tribune girls basketball rankings and player of the week for Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020
- Fantasy football waiver wire for Week 14: Pick up receiver Keke Coutee or running backs Cam Akers or Ty Johnson
- Koeman: ‘Estos horarios están matando a nuestros jugadores’
- Talk of the County reader opinion: ‘These clowns are all going to try to recycle Obama’s failed policies’
- ChicagoNow’s 20 best posts of November 2020
- Talk of the County reader opinion: ‘Give it up already … the buffoonery show is over’
- La IFFHS elige al mejor entrenador del mundo en 2020
- Millions of hungry Americans turn to food banks for the 1st time: ‘This is a hard thing to accept that you have to do this’
- The suburbs helped elect Biden. Can they give Democrats the Senate, too?
- ¿Por qué han desaparecido los videos musicales de Jenni Rivera?
- Talk of the County reader opinion: ‘These media people are so clueless, and awful, and biased’ against Trump
- La Grange shows strong support for American Legion Post 1941 toy drive
- Ordenan detención de volante charrúa de River Plate
- Trump administration ratchets up pace of federal executions before Biden inaugural
- Northwest Indiana local scores for Tuesday, Dec. 8
- Supreme Court rejects appeal to limit transgender students from using locker rooms and bathrooms of the gender with which they identify
- Desarrollador tenía grandes planes para un terreno contaminado por las acereras en el sureste de Chicago. Pero cambió la propiedad por millones y ahora los contribuyentes pagarían por la limpieza
- Speak Out reader opinion: Firefighter spent life protecting the very people who shot him
- Now and then: How the world reacted to Spanish influenza and COVID-19
- Another month on a warming planet: Record-hot November
- Girls basketball notes: ‘Protecting the rim,’ Lilly Stoddard clinches Crown Point’s win in latest game against top-ranked Penn
- Audible enlists Lena Waithe, Malcolm Gladwell to help find new talent
- García Luna es aislado en la cárcel debido al COVID-19
- Ed Perkins on Travel: The new DoT rules: Should you worry?
- Talk of the County reader opinion: Will Biden incorporate ‘the values and the views of the 70 million people who didn’t vote for him’ into his policies?
- Libertyville hosts first Santa parade to ‘bring holiday cheer’ to residents
- What’s impeding New Jersey’s cannabis amendment?
- The suburbs helped elect Biden. Can they give Democrats the Senate, too?
- Three years after family separation, her son is back. But her life is not.
- What we learned from Week 13 of the NFL season
- Anti-vaccine scientist has been invited to testify before senate committee
- Column: ABC 7 anchor Tanja Babich’s daughter, 10, was afraid to wear glasses in school, so her mom wore hers on TV. The response was a thing of beauty.
- China peddles falsehoods to obscure origin of COVID pandemic
- Our Lady of Guadalupe devotion during pandemic
- Column: Elusive promise of Park Forest grocery continues to be heard
- Bob Dylan vende uno de los grandes tesoros en la historia de la música
- Gonzaga and Baylor remain 1-2 in the college basketball rankings, while the Big Ten has 3 teams — Iowa, Michigan State and Illinois — in the top 6
- Ex-Bears player Johnny Knox lists Wadsworth home for $575,000
- UK readies for ‘V-Day,’ its 1st vaccine shots in war on coronavirus
- Outdoor venue, COVID-19 precautions don’t put a damper on TubaChristmas festivities
- Oswego Village Board gets more details about proposed police body cameras
- Los dolientes se las ingenian para dar el último adiós a sus seres queridos en la pandemia
- Behind Baker Mayfield, the Browns and their playoff hopes mature
- An NBA veteran turns wisdom into wins, on and off the court
- Mundelein hosts virtual tree lighting event
- Mario Lopez heats up as new Colonel Sanders in Lifetime KFC spoof movie
- Annual July 3 Park Ridge fireworks show may not return in 2021
- Police drones are starting to think for themselves
- Freshmen Connor Barrett and Jacob Ognacevic lead VU in scoring during first win of season: ‘It all starts in practice.’
- Trabajadores de la salud agotados ‘gritan al abismo’ ante el repunte del coronavirus
- Park Ridge Kiwanis Club raises more than $15,000 for District 64 families to receive holiday meals
- Police drones are starting to think for themselves
- As she’s sworn in for a second term, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx vows to repair ‘broken criminal justice system’
- Champions: Real Madrid en la cornisa, Messi y Cristiano se reencuentran
- Alfombra roja de los premios MTV Movie & TV 2020
- ¿Puede el té verde inhibir el virus COVID-19?
- Some colleges plan to bring back more students in the spring
- Education was a key dividing line as a clearer picture of the presidential results confirms a few patterns in the 2020 vote
- In Australia’s deadly year for shark attacks, a surfer lives to tell the tale: ‘It was like being hit by a truck’
- Some colleges plan to bring back more students in the spring
- Quedan definidos los 10 grupos de eliminatorias europeas para Mundial 2022
- ‘This is insanity’: Start-ups end the year in a deal frenzy as investors are tripping over one another to give hot businesses money
- Glenview, Northbrook officials remind residents of winter street parking, snow clearing rules
- La pandemia ‘destroza’ a las guarderías
- Former Wheaton home of longtime Chicago news anchor John Drury sells for $700,000
- Even before COVID-19, more than 100 people a day were leaving Chicago
- MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle ‘sick and scared’ after she, husband and kids tested positive for COVID
- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to head to Brussels for crucial Brexit talks
- President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani in the hospital after positive coronavirus test
- A postseason hero for Geneva, Stephanie Hart finds a new role as a versatile guard for Lewis women’s basketball: ‘She’s going to be the glue for us.’
- What’s the reason behind Northwestern safety JR Pace’s towel-swiping tradition? ‘I do it to mess with offensive players.’
- Rockford community fights to keep Exelon nuclear plant open
- ‘The Prom’ review: Broadway babies save the day, and deliver some social justice to small-town Indiana
- Legendary Iowa wrestler Dan Gable the latest sports figure to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Donald Trump
- For Chicago’s classical and jazz scenes, rays of hope amid the despair of music in 2020
- Dick Allen, the Chicago White Sox legend who won American League MVP honors in 1972, dies at 78
- Chicago photography startup Bouquet is all about showcasing inclusion and diversity
- Georgia recertifies presidential election results after recount requested by Trump affirms Biden’s win in the state
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Former Wheaton home of longtime Chicago news anchor John Drury sells for $700,000
- Andrea Zopp stepping down as CEO of World Business Chicago
- Richton Park families displaced by fire get donations of food, gift cards
- Airbnb raises price target for stock IPO, pegs company’s value at $42 billion
- Waukegan resident Jesus Perez returns from first professional soccer season with Tacoma Defiance, offering expertise to kids in Lake County
- Matt Nagy says he hasn’t talked with Chicago Bears ownership about his job status as rumblings about change grow louder
- Commentary: On John Lennon, war and a pandemic Christmas
- Editorial: No more ‘Noah’s Ark’ on commercial flights
- Ford Bronco delayed by COVID-19 supply chain disruption
- Home office ergonomics tips
- Dealing with burnout during our pandemic
- Man who badly beat neighbor’s dog gets weekend in jail, probation
- El Jugador Más Valioso de la MLS 2020 es español (VIDEO)
- Speak Out reader opinions: Dems need to break free of Madigan; time for a Bears shakeup; should teachers get vaccine first or last?
- Jets fire defensive coordinator Gregg Williams day after stunning call leads to loss vs. Raiders
- Huge apartment towers pitched for South Loop, Near West Side despite uncertainty for downtown Chicago
- Administrator fired, nursing director placed on leave amid deadly coronavirus outbreak at Illinois veterans home in LaSalle
- The Swiss cheese model of pandemic defense: It’s not edible, but it can save lives. Virologist Ian Mackay explains how.
- El fútbol sufre recortes y pérdidas financieras, pero los directivos viven rodeados de lujos
- OPRF High School board angry after letter causes ‘frenzy’ over proposed budget cuts
- Piden a guadalupanos no ir el Cerrito del Tepeyac en Des Plaines el 12 de diciembre, la imagen de la virgen será removida
- MoMA preserva legado de arquitecto argentino Emilio Ambasz
- 2020 indelible TV moments: Trebek, debate bluster and Floyd
- America’s biggest dog show moves to ABC under AKC-ESPN deal
- Ra’Von Bonner, the former Illinois running back, commits to Temple as a graduate transfer
- OPINIÓN/Diego Maradona sigue haciendo su magia
- How to read the opinions pages: A guide to different types of content
- With thousands still on waitlist, additional $7 million in federal coronavirus relief funding to go toward Cook County’s in-demand cash assistance program
- Veteran Calumet City officer suffers medical emergency, dies on duty, officials say
- Second stimulus check updates: Lawmakers say COVID-19 relief bill won’t offer $1,200 direct payments to most Americans
- New Will County Board seated, elects Mimi Cowan to continue as speaker
- El breakdancing entra al programa olímpico
- Chicago Bears’ local TV ratings rise slightly from the previous week, even as they sink deeper with the collapse against the Detroit Lions
- Yes, Virginia, there are movies this holiday season. Here’s where to find them
- El 21 de diciembre, Júpiter y Saturno crearán una maravilla: una estrella de Navidad
- Fun competition sends serious message on mental health, teen suicide
- Grandson of antiquities dealer Forrest Fenn confirms ID of man who found $1 million Rocky Mountains treasure chest hidden over a decade ago
- Commentary: How one phone call can improve police accountability
- Munster’s Brett Boden is the 2020 Post-Tribune Girls Volleyball Coach of the Year
- ‘Remember Pearl Harbor’ resonates with veterans, citizens 79 years later at Highland event
- Dionne Warwick writes her own tweets and thinks she’s pretty good at it
- New Vivian Maier color photo trove donated to Chicago History Museum
- Column: Santa Claus needs a work-from-home fashion makeover. I’m here to help.
- Lake County sheriff details need for postponed purchases, recommends highest bidder for thermometer kiosks
- From shopping local to Instagramming a find, here’s how to effectively support small businesses
- These NBA players have a new home this season
- Estrellas de NBA que cambian de equipo para temporada 2020-21
- Breakdancing gets Olympic status to debut at Paris in 2024
- Local mental health professionals offer suggestions for dealing with coronavirus mental health challenges
- Federal judge pointedly reminds Chicago police to wear masks themselves as union accuses city of holding unsafe training sessions during pandemic
- Letters: Republican Party fails to be competitive in large blue states
- Waukegan stages COVID-conscious Christmas events: ‘We’re all in this together’
- Commentary: How Kenosha became a tinderbox
- Introducing the 2020 Post-Tribune Girls Volleyball All-Area Team
- Police looking for driver in fatal East Garfield Park hit-and-run
- Fallece Dick Allen, temido toletero en los 60 y 70
- EatingWell: The lighter side of French toast
- Seriously Simple: Light Up Hanukkah with potato pancake frittata and maple cinnamon apple sauce
- Kary Osmond: When the weather outside is frightful, this warming soup is delightful
- Trump acelera ejecuciones antes de dejar la presidencia
- Holiday activities not letting distance curtail social spirit of season
- Naperville People in the News
- Former Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett tapped as interim head of his foundation
- Though prom uncertain, OPRF High School approves contract with downtown Chicago hotel
- Munster’s Lourdes Torres is the 2020 Post-Tribune Girls Volleyball Player of the Year
- Los Nuggets confían ciegamente en Facunco Campazzo
- Housing for female veterans breaks ground in Merrillville
- Editorial: The Union League Club’s Monet and the art of surviving a pandemic
- Individual mailboxes may be a thing of the past at new homes in Aurora
- Corrections and clarifications
- Indiana sees 5,700 new COVID-19 cases, 42 additional deaths
- Franklin Park holds holiday parade through residential streets
- The Spin: Tunney cops to violating ban on indoor dining at his Ann Sather restaurant | Lightfoot on vaccines, equity | Durbin on compromise COVID-19 relief package
- Former Chicago White Sox infielder Dick Allen
- North Aurora man charged with possession of child pornography
- Teen charged with two shootings months apart in Gage Park. In one of them, a man was killed while waiting for his girlfriend
- Naperville News Digest: Santa posing for photos at NaperLights display; Wehrli awards $3M grant to Little Friends; cops write nearly 80 tickets during campaign
- The Kardashians face reality and cancel annual Christmas Eve bash
- Chicago Bulls players are excited about the changes under Billy Donovan, including tailoring the offense to their strengths: ‘You don’t have to think about everything’
- New hospital metrics could mean the end of NYC indoor dining soon, Cuomo says
- Column: Do better, then feel better, that’s my pandemic prescription
- Biden picks California AG Xavier Becerra to lead HHS as health team offers glimpse of his COVID-19 strategy
- Santa goes virtual
- Longtime Chicago activist and historian Timuel Black
- Wrigleyville Ald. Tom Tunney allowed diners inside his Ann Sather restaurant in violation of COVID-19 rules, calls it an ‘error in judgment’
- Maine East High School alumni featured on 2021 Grammy-nominated recordings
- Illinois to expand testing of prison workers as inmate deaths, infections surge
- As CPS parents face decision day on sending their kids back to school, CTU seeks legal action to stop ‘arbitrary’ reopening plan
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened Dec. 7 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Sources say Biden will pick retired Gen. Lloyd Austin as secretary of defense, who would be first Black leader of Pentagon
- Pritzker says next 4 weeks could be ‘the most crucial month of this entire pandemic’
- Florida police raid COVID data whistleblower’s house with guns drawn
- Hearings on ballot objections to 5 Evanston municipal candidates continued until Thursday
- Northbrook library will remain closed through mid-January, in line with local schools
- North Shore Girl Scouts from 23 troops deliver holiday cheer to Chicago families in need
- Chicago Tribune photo requests, reprints and licensing
- Pennoyer School district to set property tax levy nearly 13% over last year’s, though residents won’t pay that much
- LeBron James: Kyrie Irving’s statements ‘hurt me a little bit’
- Chuck Yeager, first person to break sound barrier, dead at 97