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- Daily horoscope for December 30, 2020
- Ask Amy: Aspiring journalist’s instructor buried the lede
- Toast 2020’s demise with cava, a sublime Spanish sipper, stellar for sangria
- Restaurant-worthy brunch recipes re-create the weekend meal’s leisurely magic at home
- Illinois Supreme Court to decide fate of last contested medical marijuana growing license in the state
- New year brings new laws, including insulin price limit, while minimum wage goes up another dollar
- Wheaton 1890s Painted Lady-style house lists for $880,000
- Beautifully preserved Victorian-era Painted Lady in Wheaton lists for $880,000
- Our favorite Chicago-area takeout dishes of 2020
- Column: Looking back on 2020: A pants-less year of isolation and fervent hand-washing
- Daywatch: CPS denies COVID-19 accommodations, weed sales top $1B and ex-Cubs player lists home near Wrigley Field
- Great-grandmother on shooting death of 13-year-old boy: ‘This little guy was fine, they just took his life, just like that for no reason.’
- Chicago Bears Q&A: Is this team poised for a Cinderella run? Are the front office and coaches safe now, or will the Packers game swing decisions? Is Dwayne Haskins worth a look?
- Principal Joe Clark who inspired film ‘Lean on Me’ has died
- Decades revisited: For newlywed Hobart kidney recipient, a year of gratitude: ‘I am exactly where I’m supposed to be’
- What to do for New Year’s Eve in Chicago: Live-streaming and a live event to ring in 2021
- We’ll remember 2020’s weather for 30 named storms, a great deal of warmth — and lots of rain
- This day in history, December 30: 600 people die in fire at Iroquois Theater in Chicago
- Fragment of Nativity cave in Bethlehem, long displayed at Tribune Tower, comes to Morton Grove church’s shrine
- Dec. 29 storm map: How much did it snow near you?
- 2 takeaways from the Chicago Bulls’ 1st win of the season over the Washington Wizards, including uncertainty about Lauri Markkanen’s calf injury
- 3 takeaways from Northwestern’s 1st Big Ten loss, 87-72 at Iowa, including a game-turning technical foul
- COVID-19 wreaked havoc with their lives. Now, musicians battle another epidemic: addiction
- Goal setting tips for the new year, according to a professional counselor
- Los Milwaukee Bucks imponen récord de triples
- ¿Parará la Premier ante crecientes casos de COVID-19?
- Los cines AMC lanzan una ampliación de capital
- Column: Why rush teachers and students back into classrooms now, CPS? Widespread COVID-19 vaccination is on the horizon.
- Ava DuVernay and Peter Roth have a plan to diversify film crews. And Hollywood is on board
- Illinois is reinstating federal jobless aid programs as part of a $900B pandemic relief package. Here’s what to know.
- Presión en EEUU para desbloquear los cheques de Trump
- Trump deja una huella perdurable en política migratoria
- Bird-watching to turkey hunting: Pandemic brings record numbers of people outdoors in Minnesota, and record off-road fatalities
- Legislador electo de Luisiana muere de COVID-19
- Process begins to come up with list of finalists for police Civilian Review Board in Aurora
- Rogers Park Black Lives Matter memorial wall
- Speak Out reader opinion: Orland Square will face the same fate as other shopping malls
- Cutest couple, class clown and a competitive year for D.C. superlatives
- Speed camera tickets starting at 6 mph above the limit part of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s 2021 revenue packages
- A Chinese COVID-19 vaccine has proved effective, its maker says
- Quarterback keeper? Jets, Browns and Bears face contract decisions
- Heated jackets: What they are and why you need one if you live somewhere cold
- Audit of Georgia absentee ballot signatures finds no fraud, secretary of state reports
- Aprobación de aborto en Argentina puede influir en la región
- Murder suspect who escaped at restaurant drive-thru caught in East Chicago: sheriff
- Ballot lotteries held to determine name placement for local Oak Park, River Forest candidates
- Nashville: Novia de autor de explosión alertó sobre bombas
- He was hospitalized for COVID-19. Then hospitalized again. And again.
- Cryptocurrency startup underpaid women and Black employees, data shows
- Column: The Chicago Blackhawks ‘rebuild’ is off to a bad start — and the absences of Jonathan Toews, Kirby Dach and Alex Nylander are 3 more setbacks
- Explosión en aeropuerto de Yemen deja 22 muertos, 50 heridos
- Britain Oks AstraZeneca-Oxford coronavirus vaccine, the ‘vaccine for the world,’ and extends time between doses
- Achy backs. Sore necks. Working from home has created new demand for physical therapy. ‘Your body just can’t handle it.’
- Argentina makes abortion legal, the largest Latin American nation to legalize procedure
- Cristiano Ronaldo: ‘Mis ojos ven un futuro muy brillante’
- How Richard Jewell’s lawyer became a pro-Trump conspiracy theorist
- A 100 años del estreno de ‘La ronda’, un gran escándalo en el teatro
- How the pandemic has been devastating for children from low-income families
- Variante de coronavirus en EEUU genera preocupación
- ‘Her tenacity is something’: Benet’s Allyce Gaborik finds her wonderland, takes serve-and-volley style in tennis to Lehigh
- Abortion doctor who stored fetal remains at home acted alone, Indiana attorney general report shows
- Editorial: Bring on a new mascot for the University of Illinois
- An intimate send-off to the year of being together
- ‘She’ll be a good fit for us’: Neuqua Valley’s Emma Guthrie goes from third string to signing for soccer with Loyola University
- After a ‘tough year,’ Aurora area restaurant owners hope for better things in 2021
- Surprise ending for publishers: In 2020, business was good
- How the pandemic has been devastating for children from low-income families
- An intimate send-off to the year of being together
- The Buggemi man: Lincoln-Way East graduate Joey Buggemi wants to ‘just turn it up a little bit’ in men’s basketball for St. Francis
- U.S. diet guidelines sidestep scientific advice to cut sugar and alcohol
- Los 10 momentos memorables del boxeo en 2020
- 7 wonderful non-covid things we learned in 2020
- Thomas L. Friedman column: Will Trump force principled conservatives to start their own party? I hope so.
- Motormouth: Don’t top off your gas tank
- Fiat kills 500L compact, 124 Spider roadster in United States
- Man shot on East Side of Aurora
- Recruiting notes: Deerfield linebacker Chris Dawson made 208 tackles in 2019 but remains ‘overlooked,’ holds out hope for senior season
- Celebrity Travel: Go away with … Gianni Decenzo
- Rick Steves’ Europe: Portugal’s sunny Salema
- Muere el actor de Superman 2, Marcus D’Amico, a los 55 años
- Full results of the ‘Predict the News of 2020’ survey
- Republican Sen. Josh Hawley will object to certification of Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory
- North Shore leaders reflect on a year impacted by COVID-19 as they look toward 2021
- El calvario de Robert Pattinson en The Batman
- Column: A year of painful losses also had inspiring stories about hope and resilience
- The Times Square ball drop is still happening. You’re just not invited.
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- ‘The Office’ star Angela Kinsey tests positive for COVID
- Ray Fisher says he’s done working with DC Films President Walter Hamada
- Aetna drops Walgreens from its Medicaid plan, making it harder for low-income Chicagoans to get their prescriptions during the pandemic
- Column: Chicago Cubs used to compete for the pennant. Now they’re content with just contending for a division title.
- Column: Politics in 2021 — Will the blurring of reality and fantasy continue?
- First responders in central Lake County voluntarily receive COVID-19 vaccine
- Aplazado el Tottenham-Fulham por coronavirus
- Alex Trebek’s last new ‘Jeopardy!’ episodes airing with a tribute
- Timeline: How COVID-19 upended the Chicago-area restaurant industry — and how it fought back.
- Dawn Wells, ‘Gilligan’s Island’s’ Mary Ann, dies of COVID at 82
- Challenges have been filed to petitions of two candidates in District 181 Board election
- Talk of the County reader opinion: Pick up your trash
- Op-ed: COVID-19 is not the only threat to Chicago’s music venues
- Miembro de Guardia Nacional de Colorado es el primer caso reportado en EEUU de la nueva variante de COVID-19
- Column: H-F graduate Bryce Gray got called into the coach’s office. His Notre Dame baseball career was over. His life was just beginning.
- Help Them To Hope
- Estudio muestra falta de recursos de cuidado infantil en barrios latinos de Chicago
- The 2020 moments when sports made sense
- A South Side student fashion show went virtual this year, drawing inspirational A-listers: ‘These are successful women of color sharing what life is like in their world’
- Chicago violence numbers soar in 2020
- Looking back at 2020’s top news stories in the Southland
- Stormwater, sanitary fees to jump Feb. 1 for Highland residents
- Speak Out reader opinions: Festival of Lights could have been better; Crosby’s criticism of restaurant diners off base; U.S. Supreme Court’s worthless
- Adam Engel and the Chicago White Sox agree to a 1-year, $1.375 million deal to avoid arbitration
- Chicago Cubs President Jed Hoyer says the focus of the Yu Darvish trade wasn’t financially motivated: ‘We were able to infuse more depth into the organization’
- Lo más destacado del entretenimiento latino en 2020
- Column: West Aurora’s Tori Spagnola checks off all the boxes. It’s the Big Ten. It’s Minnesota. It’s where her sister competed in track.
- Editorial: Plan now to help save monarch butterflies next summer
- Temps to dip below freezing for days after Chicago’s first winter blast dropped 4 inches of snow and made evening commute ‘one of the worst we’ve had’
- The name game: A few athletes primed for breakouts in 2021
- Simeone gana en su partido 500 al frente del Atlético
- Reggie Cole and David Hill among players affected by Elgin Community College canceling 2020-21 men’s basketball season
- GHA receives $8.6 million HUD grant for Dorie Miller, Delaney demolition
- Volunteers create Black Lives Matter memorial under the Red Line in Rogers Park with the names of people killed by police
- Inicia vacunación contra COVID-19 en prisiones de EEUU
- Corrections and clarifications
- Fans indignados con el tráiler de Superman & Lois: ‘Es una basura’
- Family finances: Make the most of your credit cards
- Remote work is here to stay, here are 9 ways to make it better
- EEUU sanciona a jueza y fiscal venezolanos en caso Citgo
- Op-ed: Can Biden bring back America’s brand?
- Column: The pandemic has been a national test. We flunked.
- Baltimore Police detective charged with assaulting a grocery store shopper who refused to wear a mask
- Canadá pedirá prueba negativa de COVID-19 a viajeros
- Potempa: Mixed-up year of radio departures for NWI rooted radio stars
- Speak Out reader opinions: Pritzker’s proposed budget cuts raise questions; S. Elgin needs to be environmentally conscious; GOP ‘lunacy’ must stop
- LinkedIn etiquette for managers, employees and recruiters
- Letters: As we start a new year, it’s a time for forgiveness and caring
- Chile da permiso para vacacionar en medio de la pandemia
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened Dec. 30 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- The Kitchn: The easiest method for making perfect flan at home
- Half of Indiana counties labeled high-risk for coronavirus spread; Lake County tops 600 deaths
- Year in review: COVID-19 pandemic’s toll includes 700 Lake County deaths and increased anxiety, stress, addiction
- Column: Should Lake County Democrats support Michael Madigan?
- Ecuador: allanan vivienda de ministro acusado de corrupción
- Nashville explosion: Suspect’s girlfriend warned police he was building bombs in RV, but cops never checked vehicle. ‘Hindsight is 20/20.’
- Wisconsin rides 4 second-half interceptions to a 42-28 bowl win over Wake Forest — then breaks the trophy while celebrating
- Illinois’ largest rodents are in city lagoons, rivers and streams. Now, they’re on Instagram.
- Two weeks after Luke Letlow celebrated House seat win, he was in the hospital with COVID-19. He never left.
- California has nation’s 2nd confirmed case of coronavirus variant
- Censo de EEUU no cumpliría con plazo para entregar cifras
- Ticketmaster to pay $10 million fine over hacking charges
- Lake Forest will see competitive school board elections
- Ice fishing in Wisconsin
- Editorial: Boeing’s task: Restoring trust in the 737 Max
- What to watch: Find your favorite shows and set reminders
- Find when to watch your favorite sports teams and set reminders
- Zidane tras empatar con el Elche: ‘Todos los equipos van a perder puntos’
- Legendary pitmaster Mike Mills was an ambassador for barbecue, southern Illinois and the aroma of life
- VNA Health Care to vaccinate its frontline health workers against COVID-19
- Chicago Bears to use Vernon Hills fitness center as donation spot for annual coat drive
- Senador de Missouri planea objetar victoria de Biden
- Census Bureau to miss deadline, jeopardizing Trump plan
- After losing her mother to COVID-19, Aurora woman left to grapple with pain and grief during a pandemic
- Illinois House set to reconvene in January for the first time in months; state senators asked to reserve time
- Illinois State Board of Elections dismisses complaint against former Lake County Board member Michael Rummel’s campaign finance structure
- Naperville bioscience lab taking aim at creating system to dramatically cut COVID-19 test processing time
- Chesterton Tribune stops the presses after 136-year run
- The Spin: Pandemic, politicians make Jan. 1 reset difficult | An ‘inflection point’ for police reform? | Illinois’ minimum wage goes up $1 next month
- Storm dropped 3-4 inches of snow, sleet and rain on Elgin area — a pattern that could repeat Friday
- Mayor Lori Lightfoot was told by staff in November 2019 that Anjanette Young raid was ‘pretty bad’
- Huntley man charged with attempted murder in Carpentersville stabbing, Kane officials say
- McGrath column: Forget about losing weight and exercising more — these resolutions will save you money!
- Two Chicago men charged with taking $5,100 in alcohol from Jewel-Osco store in Naperville
- Second stimulus check updates: Trump push on $2,000 checks flops as GOP-led Senate won’t vote
- Illinois reports 126,211 COVID-19 vaccinations administered throughout the state
- Adam Levine has no interest in returning to ‘The Voice’
- ‘Jeopardy’ champ Ken Jennings apologizes again for crass tweets
- China gives conditional approval to Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine
- Tinley Park teen who died from COVID-19 remembered as ‘sweetest person you’d ever meet’
- Chicago police release additional videos from botched raid on Anjanette Young’s home
- Wisconsin health system: Worker deliberately spoiled vaccine
- Northwest Indiana local scores for Sunday, Jan. 3