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- Olympic flame lands in Japan as doubts grow over Tokyo Games
- Ask Amy: Reconnection with woman will disrupt family
- Daily horoscope for March 20, 2020
- As social distancing becomes new norm, craft beer purveyors offering curbside pickup, brew delivery
- Flashback: When women cracked the gender barrier with sticks: Field hockey in the early 1900s created a revolution in sports
- Netflix has a new series on self-made millionaire Madam C.J. Walker, whose memory lives on in Indianapolis
- Editorial: Washington’s coronavirus reflex: Spend, spend, spend
- I’ll say it: Gen Xers are best prepared for our quarantine moment. Let the arguments begin.
- ‘Teenage Dick’ at Theater Wit: The show goes on, with a review of the video-streamed play. Kudos!
- Column: Time to plan your coronavirus garden. Do you really have anything better to do?
- Coronavirus outbreak at nursing home is latest in string of ‘nightmares’ in Willowbrook
- Tinley Park considers ‘penny-a-push’ tax on video gambling terminals
- Oak Park, River Forest school districts, local partners receive $100,000 social-emotional learning grant
- He realized his dream and bought FitzGerald’s Nightclub. The next week, coronavirus happened
- ‘He offered to pay me for a haircut that he wasn’t going to get’: In the coronavirus era, we’ll get by with a little help from our friends — and some strangers, too
- Woman rescues 6-month-old daughter from SUV as gunman attempts to carjack her in River North, police say
- 2 Chicago police officers fired for shooting at moving car in a 2016 videotaped incident that ended with death of teenager Paul O’Neal
- Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot closes City Hall to general public until further notice
- ‘The severity of this can’t be understated.’ Librarians say it’s dangerous for themselves and patrons to keep Chicago libraries open
- Coronavirus: More than 10,000 dead worldwide, but Japan plans to reopen schools in April
- Daywatch: Lightfoot extends CPS closure, state nursing home conditions raise concern and how you can get local craft beer delivered
- Column: Pandemic shows churches are the people, not the buildings
- For Chicago-area arts students in a coronavirus world remote learning is necessary, but there are many challenges
- UIC is 1 of 3 men’s basketball teams in self-isolation after an official who called a recent game tested positive for the coronavirus
- After referendum vote, Naperville calls special meeting to consider ordinance to tax recreational marijuana sales
- Is Nick Foles an upgrade for the Chicago Bears at QB over Mitch Trubisky? Check the numbers.
- From child care to telemedicine, here’s how Aurora and Naperville hospitals, doctor’s offices are preparing for an expected surge of COVID-19 patients
- ‘I still feel like we’re getting ready to play.’ Northwestern’s lost opportunity in the NCAA Tournament stings after championship season.
- More hurricanes possible this season with a weaker El Niño, experts say
- Speak Out: Blaming, hoping and asking for help during coronavirus shutdowns
- Body found in Lake Michigan near Holland State Park, where Flint teen was swept into lake
- Andrew Bogut: Players ‘used like pawns’ amid Aussie finals dramas
- Canada takes instructive approach to native people
- Most renters won’t receive eviction protections under Trump’s coronavirus proposal
- Reservan horarios en supermercados para ancianos por virus
- Tom Brady officially signs with the Buccaneers on a 2-year deal: ‘I’m starting a new football journey’
- Letter to the Editor
- Introducing the 2019-20 News-Sun Girls Basketball All-Area Team
- EEUU, México negocian parar parte de cruces transfronterizos
- Could paper money transmit the coronavirus? Some businesses shun cash to cut perceived risks.
- Speak Out: Red-light cameras not to blame for crashes
- Lake Forest’s Halle Douglass is the 2019-20 News-Sun Girls Basketball Player of the Year
- Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is self-quarantining for COVID-19
- Germany leads the way on soccer salary cuts as virus hits
- Customers cheer after woman gives birth to baby girl in Missouri Walmart’s toilet paper aisle
- During the coronavirus outbreak, livestreamed ‘quarantine concerts’ provide a connection
- Selma Online offers free civil rights lessons amid virus
- U-46 student at early learning center in Bartlett has tested positive for coronavirus, superintendent says
- Coronavirus and poverty: A mother skips meals so her children can eat
- Mundelein closes village hall; declares state of emergency along with Vernon Hills amid coronavirus outbreak
- Recorren la fecha límite para declarar impuestos hasta el 15 de julio
- Aurora stores hold special shopping hours due to coronavirus for senior citizens, vulnerable residents
- Lake County school districts, organizations work to fill void of missed student meals
- Six-bedroom Northbrook home: $1.9M
- ‘Influenza 1918’ a potent, cautionary tale, plus what else is on TV Friday, March 20
- American Airlines plans cargo-only flights between US and Europe
- Social distancing couples see different sides of each other while working from home
- Hanging out virtually with your friends in the time of coronavirus
- Coronavirus and poverty: A mother skips meals so her children can eat
- Distilleries race to make hand sanitizer amid coronavirus pandemic
- Lake County has 6th coronavirus case, Indiana officials say; Hammond distillery says it will offer free hand sanitizer to elderly
- Stuck at home, Americans turn to foster pets for companionship
- Olympics president: ‘Of course we are considering different scenarios’
- What to watch: How about cherry-pit spitting or Australian rules football?
- With no NCAA tournament, here are past games coaches say you should watch
- Coronavirus layoff surge overwhelms unemployment offices
- Teen suffered life-threatening injuries in likely skateboarding accident
- Split-shifting and other hacks for working from home while parenting
- J Balvin busca reinventarse con ‘Colores’, su nuevo álbum
- Running from coronavirus: A back-to-basics exercise boom
- ‘It feels like a war zone’: Doctors and nurses plead for masks on social media
- ‘Wash our hands? Some people can’t wash their kids for a week.’
- Kartemquin Films’ Gordon Quinn hospitalized due to coronavirus
- Colonial home in Glenview: $1.05M
- Those trains you see transporting military vehicles? Illinois National Guard says they’re not part of enforcing a lockdown
- Improvisar contra el coronavirus
- ‘Wash our hands? Some people can’t wash their kids for a week.’
- Efecto coronavirus: sudamericanos ya no comparten el mate
- ‘At war without ammo’: Doctors say shortage of protective gear is dire
- ‘At war without ammo’: Doctors say shortage of protective gear is dire
- Soy balsamic marinade flavors Katsuya’s Brussels sprouts
- Introducing the 2019-20 Post-Tribune Boys Swimming All-Area Team
- Estrellas latinas se unen en ‘Concierto en casa’ este fin
- Gold Coast home with walnut flooring: $3.6M
- World feared China over coronavirus. Now the tables are turned.
- How to strengthen your immune system through sleeping
- Riverwoods shuts down village hall after relative of employee tests positive for new coronavirus
- The best portable washing machine
- The best lice kit
- The best Sims game
- The best electric bass guitar
- The best kids’ Thermos
- Make a sign, save a restaurant? Chefs make massive ‘call to action’ online video campaign Friday morning
- Six-bedroom Northbrook home: $1.9M
- Employees at salons, barber shops living with uncertainty as COVID-19 outbreak expands
- EEUU y México limitarán parte de cruces transfronterizos
- Policeman. Reality star. Recent ex-boyfriend.
- Column: After traumatic childhood, local woman finds healing through forgiveness
- Quick and easy dinners you can make using canned foods
- El juicio por difamación de Johnny Depp, aplazado por el coronavirus
- Chesterton’s Andrew Alders is the 2019-20 Post-Tribune Boys Swimmer of the Year
- Waubonsee cancels commencement, moves classes online due to coronavirus
- Tired of ‘Into the Wild’ rescues, locals want bus removed
- The ultimate guide to hanging out virtually with your friends
- From victims to superwomen: Honoring female strength in Afghanistan
- Obamacare is turning 10 years old amid the coronavirus pandemic. Far more Illinoisans have insurance, but for some the law falls short.
- NY Gov. Cuomo presses ‘pause’ by imposing tough new controls as coronavirus spirals to 7,100 cases and 35 deaths
- Environmental Nutrition: Boost your immunity
- Letters: Nonprofits struggle during coronavirus
- This artist got his start as an ICU nurse
- Quickly
- ‘The Edge’, un mirador espectacular en NY
- John Legend says ‘The Voice’ has been taped until end of April, live in May
- Disney World’s doors are shut, so we travel to Magic Kingdom — via YouTube
- Lincolnwood turns thumbs down — again — on video gaming
- Quickly
- How to help Chicago independent movie theaters right now — and stream new Siskel Film Center offerings at home
- El dinero en efectivo ya no manda
- Column: Coronavirus closures are pushing even more of us to shop online. It’s a habit likely to stick.
- Cubs outfielder Jason Kipnis buys $2.8 million mansion in Old Town
- Column: Park Ridge first graders write letters to assisted living residents whose visitors are blocked by coronavirus: ‘I hope your glasses work’
- Meet the 3 Chicago-area natives competing on ‘The Voice’ Season 18
- You can order your craft beer for delivery in Illinois, says liquor commission
- Crosby: Hesed House ‘trying not to be ground zero in Aurora’ for coronavirus outbreak
- Legislators push for reopening of Blue Island hospital to handle COVID-19 patients
- Todos deberán quedarse en casa a partir del sábado en Illinois
- Income tax filing deadline moved to July 15 from April 15
- Trump invokes war-time production act to produce needed medical supplies
- With Chicago Public Schools, New Trier, others extending their shutdown, there’s a ‘very real possibility’ that could happen statewide
- Más de 60 médicos y enfermeras de Cuba viajan a Italia para lucha contra el coronavirus
- Students and parents go through learning curve as school districts make switch to at-home e-learning
- What do people in recovery from alcohol or drug use do now that coronavirus has shuttered many churches and community centers?
- With games on hold, teams and the sports business world find creative ways to relay information and share content
- Shoppers stock up at stores during the coronavirus crisis
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- Community news
- ‘I’m thankful for everything’: Morgan Park’s Adam Miller is the 2019-20 Daily Southtown Boys Basketball Player of the Year
- Answers to kids’ coronavirus questions
- Feeling depressed? You’re not alone — and you may want to seek help
- Community news
- La Porte artist Laura Cutler is teaching online, painting through tough times
- Falsa información, la epidemia en la pandemia del coronavirus
- 2 senators sold off stock shortly before market losses from coronavirus began. 1 bought shares in a teleworking software company.
- Racketeering charges allege violent Chicago street gang behind 2015 slaying of Urban Prep student
- Teacher Feature: Celebrating diversity stems from experiences as ‘different’ student
- Muslim youth group offers grocery delivery to the area’s elderly during coronavirus pandemic
- Coronavirus llevaría al desplome de ligas europeas
- COVID-19 testing at Chicago-area locations
- Column: Note to Trump: Being a wartime president is more than claiming victories
- East Dundee may start curbside leaf pickup service in fall
- Indiana primary moved to June 2 in response to COVID-19 pandemic
- The 25 best ’30 for 30′ sports documentaries now streaming on ESPN+
- Aurora allows restaurants to deliver liquor with food orders as boost during coronavirus pandemic
- Hutton: Munster graduate Craig Dedelow, an outfielder in the White Sox organization, needs to get paid soon, one way or another
- Grocers, delivery services scramble to hire thousands of workers to help with a crush of business driven by the coronavirus
- ‘Every day was a joy at practice’: Thornton’s Tai Streets is the 2019-20 Daily Southtown Boys Basketball Coach of the Year
- Tables laid for Nowruz, the Persian New Year, feature items starting with ‘S,’ like sekkeh — coins — for prosperity. With coronavirus, families joke they’re adding sanitizer and soap.
- Look for the helpers: Stories of kindness during the coronavirus pandemic
- Southwest Airlines cancels most flights in and out of Midway
- Walmart y Amazon hacen contrataciones masivas pero el empleo sufre en EEUU
- Valparaiso University semester to move to online only
- State crime lab scales back operations amid coronavirus spread, leading to shelving of drug cases
- Gary buses to drop off student meals
- Illinois prepares to stay at home
- Streaming Mass
- President Trump angrily defends his handling of coronavirus pandemic
- Once a global leader in times of crisis, America has become the latest coronavirus pandemic victim
- Introducing the 2019-20 Daily Southtown Boys Basketball All-Area Team
- Aurora University graduate student tests positive for coronavirus
- Facing steep ridership drops, transit agencies will ask for state, federal help
- Should we let our pets lick us on the lips?
- No evidence that pets can transmit coronavirus to owners
- How to make Japanese curry then serve it three different ways
- Decent: Endless debates, giant pots of money, people who can’t be bothered — Tuesday’s election through the eyes of a voting ‘virgin’
- Arrestan a falso médico que ofrecía vacuna contra coronavirus
- La Grange Highlands school board searching for new member
- Contract approval should hasten removal of vacant houses along Bilter in Aurora
- Aquarium releases rescued seal back into habitat
- Column: How to stay sane while sheltering in place during a sports shutdown? Take Joe Maddon’s advice and ‘utilize your imagination.’
- Marriage proposal outside Edward Hospital a bright spot amid tense circumstances
- Dow drops more than 900 points, ending stocks’ worst week since 2008
- Cast is locked up together at Annoyance Theatre to create a video show in 10 days — finding the funny in all our claustrophobia
- Aquarium releases rescued seal back into habitat
- 10 questions with… YWCA Elgin employee Ikie Ledbetter
- Lake, Porter state legislators call on governor to use surplus to help residents during COVID-19 pandemic
- Songs in the Key of Coronavirus: A playlist to survive our working-from-home lives
- Washington dispensaries see increase in business
- Introducing the 2019-20 Beacon-News Boys Basketball All-Area Team
- Editorial: The coronavirus lockdown arrives in Illinois: We can do this
- A pot shop at your door: Home delivery surges amid outbreak
- Neighborhood group bands together to help with pandemic response
- Column: Forest preserves offer respite during coronavirus outbreak while trails remain open
- Down to Business: During crisis, financial planners reassure that ‘this, too, shall pass’
- Coronavirus is keeping people away from animal shelters, so volunteers are needed immediately to foster pets
- As coronavirus shuts church doors, Catholic parishes fight drastic drop in collections and archdiocese sets up emergency fund for parishes and those in need
- Biden le gana terreno a Sanders
- No salir de casa a partir del sábado, ordenan a residentes de Illinois
- Column: Trump’s mixed messages about the coronavirus pandemic aren’t helping
- Down to Business: Cleaning carpets and after floods can be a 24-hour job but lets you be your own boss
- Restaurants, parks and enforcement: here’s what Illinois’ stay-at-home order means for Aurora
- Commentary: Take a hike! Getting outside will help us through this pandemic
- Public debut without public for polar bear cubs at Dutch zoo
- Gary’s mayor reaches out to residents in virtual town hall meeting
- McDaniel-Hale: Local restaurant owners are really struggling so do what you can to help
- Coronavirus propels the criminal justice system into unprecedented challenges
- New Trier, feeder elementary schools extend shutdown through April 13
- Illinois statewide school closure extended into April as stay-at-home order issued to stem coronavirus spread
- When stocking grocery shelves turns dangerous
- ¿Qué significa la orden ‘quédate en casa’ emitida para Illinois?
- Column: Dear diary, it’s Week 2 quarantined with our families. Please send help.
- Ford dividend cut a sign of more coronavirus troubles ahead
- Auto review: The Chrysler Pacifica minivan has much to admire
- UAW and GM agree to run parts distribution centers with paid volunteers only
- Volvo refreshes S90, V90
- Ram offers Laramie Southwest Edition for Ram
- Commentary: Yes, China slowed its coronavirus crisis — but not before serious missteps that led to this pandemic
- Food delivery services move to no-contact system
- Read Rev. Jesse Jackson’s letter to President Trump on the coronavirus pandemic
- Share-watch shows with your friends remotely while social distancing
- Ryan Fazekas reflects on Valparaiso’s conference tournament success and turns his thoughts toward his future, including the possibility of a pro career: ‘I’ll keep all doors open.’
- NYC designer Christian Siriano will produce masks for coronavirus instead of high fashion cocktail dresses and ‘whimsical’ evening gowns
- Coronavirus crisis pushes back Tax Day to July 15: Mnuchin
- Read Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s ‘stay at home’ order
- Harvey man charged in brother’s slaying
- Column: It’s OK not to feel OK right now. But here’s how to feel better.
- McGrath: If there’s one benefit to self-quarantining and sheltering in place, it’s the gift of time you now have to read
- The Spin: Gov. Pritzker issues stay-at-home order | Rev. Jesse Jackson talks to President Trump about coronavirus, jails | GOP senate candidate questions COVID-19 response
- Column: Our partisan split on the coronavirus puts us all at greater risk
- ‘He attracts people’: Aurora Christian’s Taaj Davis is the 2019-20 Beacon-News Boys Basketball Player of the Year
- Burr Ridge buttons down under the coronavirus crisis
- Letters to the Editor
- Dorothy Brown blinks on clerks’ hours during court shutdown over coronavirus, as some walk off job
- Meals on Wheels calls for extra volunteers as demand jumps 30% during coronavirus, it says
- Column: Watching Trump’s news conference is like witnessing propaganda approved by Soviet Politburo
- Mark Hinojosa, journalism professor and former Tribune multimedia editor, dies at 63
- Volunteers needed in DuPage, Kane to deliver Meals on Wheels emergency backup dinners to seniors
- ICE won’t accept bond money in Chicago for detained immigrants, agency says
- Waukegan sets application fee for recreational marijuana businesses at $5,000
- Third resident of Three Crowns Park senior living in Evanston has COVID-19; first two return to facility
- Kane County jail population sees decrease amidst coronavirus threat
- Potempa: Farm’s towering grapefruit tree has 75-year history
- The race is on to save small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. Is government up to the task?
- Lake Station mayor keeping City Hall closed
- Introducing the 2019-20 Naperville Sun Boys Basketball All-Area Team
- Commentary: How education funding, property taxes and COVID-19 stimulus money are connected
- Ordered to stay home to halt COVID-19’s spread, Chicagoans already were preparing to hunker down
- Member of Vice President Mike Pence’s staff tests positive for coronavirus
- ICE no aceptará pagos de fianzas de detenidos en Chicago, y limitará los arrestos ante pandemia
- ‘We feel like we’re in this alone’: Nurses treating coronavirus patients plead for more protective gear
- Low-risk inmates begin exiting Cook County Jail amid coronavirus threat
- Advocate hospitals pause drive-up coronavirus testing, citing national shortage of test kits
- Crosby: FaceTime hugs and kisses have to do for now
- ‘He drove himself to be better’: Naperville Central’s Cameron Dougherty is the 2019-20 Naperville Sun Boys Basketball Player of the Year
- We all need small businesses — but after the coronavirus crisis, some may not exist. Here’s how we can help.
- Ellie Kaiser paces Fenwick girls hockey during shortened season
- Hawaii Democrats scrap in-person voting amid coronavirus concerns
- In Oak Park, first day of shelter in place was almost like any other day, but with a strangeness in the air
- Hospital officials: Illinois should consider reopening shuttered facilities to help care for COVID-19 patients
- When Olivia Grace’s 5th birthday party was canceled by coronavirus, the party came to her via a drive-by parade in Elgin
- Customers volunteer to help Aurora family grocery store during coronavirus rush
- Methodist ER doc tests positive for COVID-19, hospital says
- Oak Park’s shelter-in-place order is now in effect. Could the rest of Illinois soon follow?
- Niedner: Practice patience, treasure loved ones amid social distancing
- Letter: Dothager questions harassment allegations against him
- Coronavirus concerns have closed thousands of stores nationwide. Here are some still open in the Chicago area.
- Column: How much liberty do we want to give up as government fights deadly coronavirus?
- Coronavirus is pushing thousands of Illinois kids into e-learning. But the school that pioneered the model in Chicago has just been forced to close.
- Gov. J.B. Pritzker issues order requiring residents to ‘stay at home’ starting Saturday
- Naperville mayor issuing executive orders to help businesses, supports stay-at-home edict issued by governor
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened March 20 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Hearts of Hope event raises funds for cardiovascular research
- Bloomberg to give $18 million to the Democratic National Committee
- Keep having that quarantine sex — you can’t get coronavirus from it.
- As coronavirus shutdown extended, CPS families brace for another month without classes: ‘It’s not just school that’s canceled’
- Stimulus checks: Congress, White House race to draft $1 trillion coronavirus rescue package
- ‘Accept it’: 3 states now ordering 70 million people to stay in their homes over coronavirus threat
- Coronavirus threat prompts US and Mexico to restrict all ‘non-essential’ border travel
- How does ‘shelter in place’ work without shelter? Agencies try to fill in the gaps
- Illinois police departments grapple with enforcement of stay-at-home order: ‘Let’s not make it a public safety crisis’
- Meridian Health founders buy vibrant Gold Coast house for $2.5 million
- Commentary: Digging into the new normal during the coronavirus pandemic
- Introducing the 2019-20 Courier-News Girls Basketball All-Area Team
- Barrington SD220 plans to feed students before spring break starts, looks for online classes to return after the break
- ‘I had to try that much harder’: Dundee-Crown’s Alyssa Crenshaw is the 2019-20 Courier-News Girls Basketball Player of the Year