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- Park Ridge Library to pay consulting firm $24,000 for executive director search
- Daily horoscope for December 21, 2020
- Ask Amy: This year, everybody needs a book on their bed
- Column: Anjanette Young reminds Black women of their ancestors who stood naked on a slave auction block
- Tired, numb and burned out: With hospitals short on workers, those remaining feel pushed to the edge by COVID-19
- A child’s killing at Cabrini-Green sparks memories of a neighborhood’s troubled past, and hopes for a lasting peace
- Letters: We are divided over athletes kneeling and standing
- ‘The longest-serving athlete’: Pioneering Special Olympian dies
- Editorial: Voters, tell Madigan’s enablers to do the right thing
- The Chicago Bears exploded on offense again to remain in the NFC playoff hunt. Brad Biggs’ 10 thoughts after their 33-27 victory over the Minnesota Vikings.
- 9-2 Army left out of the college football bowl picture: ‘They deserve better. Period.’
- 5 things to do in northwest Indiana for New Year’s Eve
- Daywatch: A changing Cabrini-Green, hospital workers burned out and the Bears stay alive in playoff hunt
- Fantasy football waiver wire for Week 16: Grab Jalen Hurts and Tony Pollard for the final push
- This day in history, December 21: Union forces led by William T. Sherman conclude their ‘March to the Sea’
- Winners and losers from the Chicago Bears’ Week 15 win, including Chris Myers’ potential Marquee Sports Network audition and a Jeannie Morris tribute
- From Irving Berlin’s ‘White Christmas’ to James Brown’s ‘Santa’s Got a Brand New Bag’: Why Christmas classics never get old
- ‘Monster Hunter’ review: A funky finish that Milla Jovovich can’t redeem
- In China, McDonald’s serving Spam burger topped with Oreo crumbs: ‘When you hate someone but have to invite him to dinner.’
- As schools break for the holidays, there’s little break from anxiety over when and how they will reopen in 2021
- The Chicago Blackhawks will play in a tweaked Central Division in 2021. Here’s a look at the 7 teams they’ll face — from the Stanley Cup champions to the lowly Detroit Red Wings.
- Vatican tells Catholics it’s ‘morally acceptable’ to get COVID-19 vaccines based on research using fetal tissue from abortions
- COVID-19 liability lawsuits: Should businesses be immune?
- Gal Gadot knows this year was rough. She hopes ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ will end it on a high
- Trump mulls new election gambits as conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell returns to White House
- Lines grow longer as residents wait for food: ‘Our site is overrun’
- Jupiter and Saturn to create ‘Christmas star’ last widely visible 800 years ago. Here’s how you might be able to see it.
- Jacqueline Stewart: A bright light of Chicago cinema heads west
- Country Club Hills businesses join together to provide toys and food to families in need
- Barrington takes ‘Santa to the people’ as he drives through town aboard a fire engine: ‘A lovely morning of Christmas cheer’
- People’s Gas spends billions to replace miles of aging pipe below Chicago by 2040
- Surge variante más contagiosa del coronavirus
- Alexei Navalny tricks spy into revealing he was poisoned through his underwear: report
- ¿Es preocupante la nueva cepa de COVID-19?
- Orlando Pride star Alex Morgan to return to U.S. in January
- ‘Canelo’ Álvarez: ‘Soy el mejor boxeador en el mundo’
- Live nativity at Aurora church offers chance ‘to feel festive’ during the pandemic
- Ross Douthat column: When you can’t just ‘trust the science’
- Frank Bruni column: The greatest restaurant city in America is hurting more than you know
- Charles M. Blow column: Black and armed
- Nicholas Kristof column: Pastor, can white evangelicalism be saved?
- Ariana Grande anuncia que está comprometida
- The ‘Queen’s Gambit’ effect: 8 great chess sets to make staying at home a little more fun
- Tammy McCann spent the year nurturing jazz on the South Side
- Dionne Warwick’s tweets are heading to a billboard near you
- Christmas without music? Churches are finding a way
- Christmas without music? Churches are finding a way
- 14 largely skeptical, somewhat unconventional holiday songs
- For cocoa with panache, make hot chocolate bombs
- Messi: ‘Me encuentro ilusionado’
- For cocoa with panache, make hot chocolate bombs
- Tesla joins the S&P 500 today. It’s already worth more than Toyota, Volkswagen, GM, Ford, Fiat Chrysler, Nissan and Daimler combined.
- Talk of the County reader opinion: All that disinfectant is dangerous
- Band shell proposed along Fox River in Yorkville
- OPINIÓN/Diez lecturas en español para sobrevivir a una pandemia
- EEUU: Congreso acuerda paquete de ayuda por COVID-19
- OPINIÓN/’Canelo’ tuvo la oportunidad de elevar su legado y la perdió
- Four Midwestern universities form alliance to lure U.S. Space Command headquarters
- Barr dice que no hay razón para designar fiscal especial
- Ed Perkins on Travel: Bypass airport lines — for a price
- Santa delivers for Amy Rediger, Meredith Flaherty and Andrew girls volleyball in the IHSA’s Holiday TikTok Challenge
- New coronavirus strain in Britain prompts travel restrictions across Europe
- At Christmas parade, Robbins community supports 5-year-old girl who lost both parents in car crash
- LHS Polar Express makes its journey around Libertyville
- IUN educators, students discuss going to college amid pandemic
- ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ recauda 38.5 millones de dólares
- In a pandemic year, walk and talk therapy is helping some Chicago residents get exercise and receive counseling
- Indiana lawmakers to push coronavirus lawsuit shield
- Big Ten football takeaways after Week 9, including Illinois hiring Bret Bielema and — surprise! — another rule change that benefits Ohio State
- Mundelein hosts two Santa’s Cottage events in past couple of weeks
- Funeral service set for Kendall Pickering, as GoFundMe campaign raises more than $50,000
- Rafael Leao marca el gol más rápido de la historia de las ligas europeas (VIDEO)
- La triste Navidad de una Venezuela en crisis
- Major FAA oversight reform, the result of Boeing 737 Max crashes, is set to pass Congress
- Northwest Indiana local scores for Tuesday, Dec. 22
- Retiran estatua de Robert E. Lee en el Capitolio de EEUU
- Speak Out reader opinion: The system let down Markham woman left homeless
- A company made gloves for the world. Now its workers have the virus.
- América Latina suspende vuelos por nueva cepa de COVID
- Tiger Woods mixes golf and family once again
- What you can do post-vaccine, and when
- The complete guide to Netflix’s 2020 slate of original Christmas movies
- From his home, Attenborough shows viewers ‘A Perfect Planet’
- Fierce pushback, fear of new and onerous regulations from small farmers on Joe Biden’s choice of Tom Vilsack for USDA
- Column: ‘Selfless’ St. Laurence junior Angelina Seropian takes bruises in stride, makes softball program history with commitment to Bucknell
- Evanston native Lyon Daniels makes feature film debut in Netflix kids movie ‘We Can Be Heroes’
- The Strokes acude a productor ‘unicornio’ y llega al Grammy
- Home for the holidays
- Indiana virus hospitalizations down but deaths remain high
- #1 pop song from the year you graduated high school
- Donald Trump, ¿un modelo presidencial a seguir o repudiar?
- Sesame Street introduces Rohingya-speaking new Muppets, Aziz and Noor, for refugees
- What we learned from Week 15 of the NFL season
- Florida Legislature should legalize marijuana or voters will do it for them | Editorial
- Deadline is noon Tuesday to apply for Police Civilian Review Board in Aurora
- Family finances: Charitable givers get special relief in 2020
- Op-ed: General Assembly, stop hiding the people’s work behind COVID-19 excuses
- How to use 2020 to optimize your lifestyle design
- NBA Eastern Conference preview: Will the Nets reign supreme?
- City distributing grab-and-go activity kits for kids, teens as winter break camps go online
- El Tri vuelve a Europa en 2021 y ya tiene rival
- Morris 6-bedroom home with indoor pool: $4.5M
- Dabo Swinney votes Clemson’s College Football Playoff opponent Ohio State 11th
- Help Them To Hope
- Week 15 win at Minnesota gives the Chicago Bears their best local TV ratings since early November
- College basketball rankings: Gonzaga strengthens its grip on No. 1 spot, while Michigan State drops 8 spots after loss to Northwestern
- Hobart Tri Kappa Giving Tree surprises more than 500 children with gifts
- Alan Bergman succeeds Alan Horn as Disney Studios chairman
- NBA Western Conference preview: The Lakers reloaded
- Op-ed: Pandemic traffic: It’s not your imagination — it’s bad out there
- Column: Ready to shovel ‘dreadful residue’ of 2020 out the door
- Kilauea volcano erupts on Hawaii’s Big Island, produces steam cloud, draws crowds to park
- Column: On the longest night of the year, let’s huddle together for warmth
- Finneas y su emocionante odisea para llegar a James Bond
- Kurt Streeter column: It’s 2020. Indigenous team names in sports have to go.
- Column: U.S. Steel plant’s COVID-19 outbreak is workers’ fault, some employees say
- Recruiting notes: Cornell recruit Carmine Bastone gets back on the field, representing St. Charles North in Blue-Grey All-American Bowl
- George Clooney le aconsejó a Ben Affleck que no aceptara el papel de Batman
- Dozens test positive for coronavirus in Lake County Jail COVID-19 outbreak
- Dessert classics updated: Hot toddy pudding and hazelnut cream pavlovas for Christmas
- Need a holiday entree to share remotely? Few dishes beat beef short ribs for festivity and reheatability.
- ‘This is going to save so many lives’: Health care workers at Advocate Lutheran General in Park Ridge receive COVID-19 vaccine
- Lincoln-Way East, Andrew to have new principals in 2021-2022 school year
- Raphael, comprometido para recuperar la música en directo
- Mundelein High School livestreams one-act plays over weekend
- ‘It was all in the moment’: Chesterton senior Brandon Bolin rewarded for offseason work with win even he couldn’t explain yet
- Congress OKs 5-year extension of Great Lakes cleanup program
- Column: Did Trump’s impeachment matter in the end?
- Joe Biden receives COVID-19 vaccine, says ‘nothing to worry about’
- Column: Yes, Mr. Grinch, 2020 did indeed stink, stank, stunk
- Post-Tribune girls basketball rankings and player of the week for Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020
- Pesquisa: Funcionarios de CDC cambiaron informes de COVID
- Second stimulus bill would give airlines $15 billion more, bring back 32,000 furloughed airline workers
- Con ‘Carita inocente’, Prince Royce tiene un récord Guiness
- El virus lleva un invierno de incertidumbre a EEUU
- Santa rolls through Park Ridge in ‘Taste of Winterfest’ parade
- Muertes de migrantes en Arizona casi supera el récord anual
- Kary Osmond: Simple pantry soup is quick and long-lasting
- Seriously Simple: Chocolate and peanut butter brownies, a favorite combination
- EatingWell: Mini quiches offer the perfect bite
- Girls basketball notes: Senior guard Dyamond Blair and balanced Andrean score perfect 10 with win against Hobart
- ‘Our purpose has always been to help’: Glenview Public Library celebrates 90 years of service
- Watching the temperature for cold and COVID-19, Gary warming shelters ready to be opened
- Column: Hope is merry and bright in the annual Hope Fund campaign
- Kim Kardashian wants to send 1,000 people $500 each
- Holiday shopping is the last chance for many struggling stores
- Letters: Stunned by Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s lack of transparency over 2019 raid
- Carlos Bardem responde a las críticas de El Cid
- Pequeñas empresas en EEUU temen demandas vinculadas a virus
- Cops involved in Anjanette Young raid placed on desk duty; Lightfoot says Black people nationwide ‘feel angry and feel violated’
- Los ganadores de los premios 2020 de la ATP
- Morton Grove citizens group calls for full-time social worker for police department
- Wreath laying remembers sacrifice, raises funds to assist veterans
- Elgin News Digest
- Wilmette District 39 to launch COVID-19 saliva testing program in January
- ‘COVID can’t compete.’ In a place mired in war, the virus is an afterthought.
- Tony La Russa pleads guilty to reckless driving. ‘I brought this on myself. I feel a deep remorse and regret,’ the Chicago White Sox manager says.
- Editorial: No ‘rescue’ for Illinois in federal relief package, and that’s a good thing
- Charges, delayed by COVID-19, filed in Orland Park carjacking attempt
- Como en el Titanic, la música no dejó de sonar en 2020
- Lake County region offers opportunities for outdoor ice skating, hiking
- John Mulaney checks into rehab for cocaine, alcohol abuse: reports
- Column: What are you cooking for Christmas dinner?
- Oak Lawn’s 2021 budget up $2.29 million from 2020 expenses, mostly in labor
- Ontario anuncia confinamiento por 2da ola de COVID-19
- Hinsdale High School District 86 prepares for 50 percent in-school attendance next month
- Glenview police investigating weekend armed robbery at 7-Eleven
- Joe Biden recibe primera dosis de vacuna contra COVID-19
- Oak Parkers light up village on year’s longest night: ‘It just did the heart good’
- Naperville News Digest
- Kevin Greene, Hall of Fame linebacker and pass rush great, dies at 58
- For Improv Playhouse, the show must go on, with safety protocols in place, that is
- The Spin: Lightfoot working to rebuild trust after wrongful police raid, video scandal | Cops reassigned, city’s top lawyer given the boot | Congress prepares to OK relief bill
- Speak Out reader comments: Blackhawks right not to change name; Cal Thomas column spot on; why save Kimball House and not Cook building?
- Lauri Markkanen and the Chicago Bulls fail to reach a contract extension before the deadline — setting up a ‘prove it’ year for 4th-year forward
- Illinois says 63,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered from state’s supply
- OPRF High School considering COVID-19 saliva tests for students, staff
- 2 Chicago Bears named to NFC Pro Bowl team: Linebacker Khalil Mack and kick returner Cordarrelle Patterson
- To brighten the ‘COVID Christmas,’ Oak Park family brings gifts to Franklin Park community homes
- Bret Bielema, a native of Prophetstown, Ill., said his life has ‘come full circle’ as the new Illinois football coach
- Those we lost in 2020
- Center Sam Mustipher started his Chicago Bears tenure on the practice squad. Now he’s a big reason the team is running the ball with authority.
- Undercutting Trump, outgoing AG William Barr says he sees ‘no reason’ to appoint special counsel on election or Hunter Biden
- Treasury Department email accounts compromised in massive hack of US agencies being blamed on Russia
- Evanston pop-up food pantries designed to help those newly affected by pandemic
- Trump political appointees tried to block or change CDC coronavirus reports, House panel says
- Army will play in the Liberty Bowl after Tennessee withdrew because of COVID-19
- Lincolnshire trustees increase village’s tax levy for first time in almost a decade
- Trump, House GOP lawmakers plot futile effort to block Congress from affirming Biden’s victory
- Alyna Santiago gives no thought to repaired knee for first time, scores career-high 19 points in No. 1 Crown Point’s win against Bishop Noll
- The U.K. coronavirus variant: Here’s what scientists know so far