Skip to content
2020 > May > 4
- COVID-19 closures add new wrinkle to Earth Day celebration
- US officials believe China covered up severity of coronavirus outbreak to hoard medical supplies, DHS report shows
- Ask Amy: ‘Boy problems’ resurface in middle age
- Daily horoscope for May 4, 2020
- Trump says coronavirus death toll may reach as high as 100,000 in US — far worse than he had forecast just weeks ago
- Around Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls, B.J. Armstrong and his teammates saw the price of fame
- May the Fourth: 5 ways for ‘Star Wars’ fans to celebrate at home
- Letters: How we can reopen Illinois safely
- Editorial: Navy task: Clean up the coronavirus mess aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt
- The coronavirus pandemic has people cooped up and anxious. Therapy dogs are here to help, by video call, of course.
- Zebra Tech co-founder Edward Kaplan sells ‘gem’ of a lakefront home in Highland Park for $3.67 million
- Column: Celebrating death is long-standing ritual of Chicago’s culture of violence
- Column: Graceland Cemetery is an unexpected green oasis, with architecture galore. Don’t miss these monuments.
- Food distribution pop-up sites start on South, West sides to fill gap during COVID-19 pandemic
- Car donation helps Tinley Park couple who had to give up vehicle due to high cost
- Volunteers load boxes and bags of food into residents’ cars from the Greater Chicago Food Depository
- Daywatch: Pritzker says shutdown is only way to curb virus, food distribution pop-ups help fill gap and plovers reunite at Montrose Beach
- ‘We can have conversations like everything is normal.’ At a social distance, students gather in Lane Tech parking lot and talk about the school year they missed
- Governor: ‘No other way’ to curb coronavirus than to stay the course on stay-at-home restrictions
- Northwest Illinois church holds services days after filing lawsuit against Gov. J.B. Pritzker over stay-at-home order
- Inmate who agreed to stay in Cook County Jail to avoid immigration trouble lost life to COVID-19 instead
- Cook County sheriff’s deputy dies of COVID-19
- This Airbnb refund should be approved. Why isn’t it? Travel Troubleshooter investigates.
- Financially devastated by statewide restrictions, Oak Lawn’s small businesses have had to adapt in the time of coronavirus
- Warren Buffett remains optimistic — but not about airlines
- 65 MLB players would earn at least $100,000 per game if the coronavirus-delayed MLB season starts
- Quickly
- Northbrook approves $95M budget with anticipated $2M shortfall due to coronavirus financial impact
- Column: She switched from styling hair to nursing to give her kids a better life. Now she worries about coronavirus. ‘I can’t imagine these kids going through life without me.’
- How Boeing was rescued by the Fed, without a bailout
- When Osan met Zia: Amid coronavirus, Maryland animal shelters focus on fostering, feeding pets in need
- Column: 20 things I’ve learned since the sports world shut down
- ’60 Minutes’ correspondent Lesley Stahl says she fought coronavirus
- NW Indiana marina staff make sure season gets off to a safe start for Lake Michigan boaters
- Netflix reality contestant spent $20,000 for sex. She has no regrets
- Speak Out: Illinois needs to get back to work
- Informe: China ocultó gravedad de virus para acaparar equipo
- What’s on TV This Week: ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ and more
- Prince guitar, Paul McCartney Beatles lyrics come up for auction
- 15 leagues join forces to recognize health care workers
- Anthony Fauci nominated for an ‘Oscar’ of civil service
- Médicos de deportes de combate piden que se retomen las peleas
- Top 10 NFL coaches of all-time: See where Don Shula ranks
- Nursing homes push for immunity from lawsuits as COVID-19 deaths top 20,000
- ‘No sabemos cómo acabará’: el hambre acecha tras el virus
- Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson headline charity match for COVID-19 relief
- January? Autumn? Doctors debate arrival time for COVID-19 vaccine
- Trump promueve en TV la reactivación de la economía
- Debutante Elena Rose fluye con las sorpresas de la vida
- Teens are feeling lonely and anxious in isolation. Here’s how parents can help
- Here’s the ‘American Idol’ top 11
- Ways other than diet, exercise to stay healthy while at home
- How ‘caution fatigue’ may slow social distancing efforts
- Golfers adjust to guidelines at reopened Oak Brook Golf Club
- ‘How many more John Wayne Gacys are out there?’: After 41 years, key players are still haunted by serial killer case
- Clothing retailer J.Crew files for bankruptcy because of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Don Shula, entrenador más ganador de la NFL, muere a los 90 años
- Hall of Fame Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula through the years | PHOTOS
- Chesterton motorcyclist killed in U.S. 12 crash
- Exmundialista peruano Héctor Chumpitaz y su esposa internados con coronavirus
- 40 songs about the coronavirus pandemic. Listen here.
- Principals find novel ways to honor seniors during shutdown
- Review: ‘Becoming,’ the Michelle Obama documentary, coming to Netflix Wednesday
- If you get sick with COVID-19, is your employer liable? As businesses prepare to reopen, worker safety is a priority.
- Best graduation gifts for 2020
- Expresidente mexicano Felipe Calderón niega que conocía nexos de exministro con el narco
- Carnival Cruise Line to start phasing in service from Miami, Port Canaveral on Aug. 1
- Cómo celebrar el Día de ‘Star Wars’ en cuarentena sin dejar de sentir La Fuerza
- Masks become a flashpoint in the virus culture wars
- 3 hospital workers gave out masks. Weeks later, they all were dead.
- AMLO pide a mexicanos ‘dar el último jalón’ contra el Covid-19
- Graduation gifts to celebrate the class of 2020
- 3 hospital workers gave out masks. Weeks later, they all were dead.
- Shooting, for the stars, is not as easy as you’d think
- Muere el legendario entrenador de los Miami Dolphins, Don Shula
- McLean County authorities identify mobile home fire victims
- Hand forged bread, pastries and sandwiches: Hewn bakery opens beautiful new bakehouse in Evanston
- How the Spanish Flu almost upended women’s suffrage
- Grant Park Music Festival cancels 2020 summer season
- These are the bedside concerts comforting virus patients
- La guerra de Vin Diesel por la saga ‘Fast and Furious’
- Italians find promise of antibodies remains elusive, for now
- Therapists and patients find common ground: Virus-fueled anxiety
- For some elite athletes, #StressBaking is more than a hashtag
- Live baseball is back: ESPN will televise Korean Baseball Organization League games starting at midnight
- Running list of Chicago-area closings and cancellations because of coronavirus
- After winter apart, piping plovers Monty and Rose reunite at Montrose Beach
- Sheltering in place in an RV is not as fun as it sounds
- Column: ‘Watergate Girl’ is Jill Wine-Banks’ memories of being a female on political front lines
- Indiana governor apologizes for maskless photo at restaurant
- Upcoming meteor shower remnants of Halley’s comet
- Big Ten athletes and coaches now get free access to the Calm app — making good on Commissioner Kevin Warren’s commitment to mental health
- Trump: EEUU está bien protegido del coronavirus gracias al muro con México
- Después de correr y pasear, los españoles pasan por la peluquería
- Indiana reports nearly 100 COVID-19 deaths in Lake County
- Could Big Ten football return with only some schools participating? Commissioner Kevin Warren says it’s too early to evaluate.
- Coronavirus canceled normal classes, but these teachers rose to the occasion
- Stroll through Graceland cemetery
- NFL cancela jugar en México y Londres esta temporada
- Legendary Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula dies at 90
- NFL moves 5 scheduled games in London and Mexico City back to US stadiums
- 2 killed in Interstate 80 crash in Grundy County, including truck driver from River Grove
- New book aims to portray ‘real’ Prince Harry and Meghan
- Pope Francis accepts Conlon’s resignation as Diocese of Joliet’s bishop
- Review: The amazing ‘Make A Shrine Or Burn It’ has the gift of timing, as mood music for these quiet, introspective times
- 2 dead in separate Gary shootings
- Why do we celebrate Mother’s Day? Thank this Philadelphia woman.
- VW’s electric nostalgia trip
- Alinea is celebrating its 15th anniversary in a most puzzling manner
- Colorful bowl recipe perfect for Mother’s Day
- Personal médico se aloja en Los Pinos
- Column: U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly: Higher rates of COVID-19 infection in people of color ‘shocking but not surprising’
- How a new breed of union activists is changing the rules — and newsrooms
- Illinois State coach Kristen Gillespie calls Thornwood forward Fantasia Baines a ‘Power Five talent’
- El final de los ‘strip-club’ en la ‘ciudad del pecado’ de Medio Oriente
- Supreme Court, working remotely due to COVID-19, hears its first oral arguments by telephone
- Driver crashes SUV through Denny’s restaurant in Arlington Heights after medical incident
- Arts alliance founder focuses on landscapes, new ways to approach photography
- Citing confidentiality, Senate secretary declines to release any potential documents on Tara Reade complaint against Joe Biden
- ‘Arkansas’ review: Great cast, but underneath the stylistic elements there’s not a whole lot there
- Column: ‘Listen to Lightfoot’ is a mantra for the moment: Stay home, let coronavirus testing lead the way
- Hutton: College offers on hold for boys basketball prospects like West Side’s Mason Nicholson, Merrillville’s Keon Thompson and Lowell’s Chris Mantis
- Maduro acusa a Guaidó de complot para matarlo
- Avgo in St. John serves creative take on breakfast and lunch classics
- How 60 years ago today, Martin Luther King’s traffic ticket changed history’s course
- Commentary: No handshakes, more face masks: What I learned from Japan about battling COVID-19
- Amor en días de encierro: solteros de EEUU reinventan el mundo de las citas
- Methodist Preschool families in La Grange find ways to celebrate teacher’s retirement despite social distancing
- Double Yolk owner, staff works double hard to stay open
- Sophomore defender Arizbeth Sanchez shows a won’t-back-down attitude for East Aurora: ‘I just try to take advantage of my talent.’
- Nina West grapples with stardom in post-‘Drag Race’ world
- Stranglers keyboardist Dave Greenfield dies with COVID-19
- Amid ‘scary things happening in the world,’ video games can offer homebound students mindfulness, Oak Lawn educator says
- La Liga española de fútbol volvería en junio
- No tener hogar en NY ahora más peligroso que nunca
- Solar, wind energy struggle as coronavirus takes toll
- Remembering Chicago’s Lee Konitz, who brought new sounds to the saxophone
- With no one in the water because of coronavirus, Chicago-area swim school sets its sights on expansion
- La Grange businesses, residents, share the love
- NCAA accuses Louisville basketball of Level I recruiting violations
- El trepidante adelanto de la emisión de ‘The Last Dance’ antes de finalizar el rodaje
- US to rein in flood of coronavirus blood tests after false claims, lax oversight
- National Endowment for the Arts chair Mary Anne Carter: The arts have an important role in the well being of America as we recover
- COVID-19 pandemic blamed as Porter County furloughs opera house, Expo Center staffs
- Nina West grapples with stardom in post-‘Drag Race’ world
- How Mindy Kaling brought the Hindu tradition of Ganesh Puja to American TV
- Chicago chef Bruce Sherman helps launch CSA featuring small-scale women farmers
- Ciencia ficción y las grandes epidemias
- Camila Fernández encuentra su propia voz y estilo
- Nicolas Cage to star as Joe Exotic in limited TV series
- As weather warms amid coronavirus outbreak, states face new challenges
- Institutions that have closed their doors need our help
- Solar, wind energy struggle as coronavirus takes toll
- Meatpackers reopening pork plants amid coronavirus fears
- Italy lets millions of people return to work after long coronavirus lockdown
- Chicago reaches 1,000 COVID-19 deaths, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says
- ‘All Rise’ is the first TV drama to tackle coronavirus. Here’s how they did it
- Hinsdale Fine Arts Festival and Uniquely Thursday concerts in June rescheduled
- Legendary players you forgot ended their careers with a different team
- Grandes estrellas que se retiraron en diferentes equipos al que triunfaron
- Xavi Hernández: ‘Sería un plus entrenar a Messi, sería más fácil’
- Carmakers in US hope to restart, but it all depends on Mexico
- Cuarentena inspira a grandes músicos
- El miedo al coronavirus motiva a fumadores a dejar el hábito
- How a reclusive ‘town of aging hippies’ worked to screen itself from coronavirus
- The pandemic has amplified ageism. ‘It’s open season for discrimination’ against older adults
- Letter to the Editor: Why is OPRF borrowing when it already has $20 million set aside?
- Residents request safety information from Lake election board ahead of June 2 primary
- Protocolo de seguridad para jugar en Colombia genera dudas
- Main Street coronavirus loans will be tricky territory for Federal Reserve
- For AOC, an ‘existential crises’ as her district becomes the coronavirus epicenter
- Frustration reigns amid efforts to get youths out of Cook County’s juvenile detention center before virus hits
- La nueva película de ‘Star Wars’ ya tiene director
- NBA lookback: Ranking the rivals of the 1990s Chicago Bulls
- Illinois legal weed sales during the first full month of coronavirus lockdown amount to almost $37.3 million
- Column: Garden plots becoming havens from a season of worry
- Editorial: Let’s figure this out, Mayor Lightfoot: Bring back baseball
- Commentary: We need custom COVID-19 plans for the four distinct regions of Illinois
- Se va de compras al súper con capucha del KKK
- Editorial: An amendment to raise taxes? Illinois Democrats jumped at that. Reform? Nah.
- Tony Parker: ‘El objetivo final es ser dueño de una franquicia de la NBA’
- Plastic model kits get boost as coronavirus shut-ins turn to old-school hobby for ‘something to do’
- 47-unit apartment and retail building in downtown Naperville gets initial OK from advisory commission
- College basketball recruiting tracker: Julian Roper, a Class of 2021 guard from Michigan, commits to Northwestern over Illinois, Ohio State and Iowa
- Commentary: As the pandemic goes on, cling to hope
- Scaled-back Elgin farmers market might reopen June 5
- Online workout classes — 5 to 60 minutes and mostly free — will get you through the coronavirus stay-at-home order.
- Letters: Congress should ensure voters have options to safely cast their ballot
- Firefighters extinguish blaze on private deck behind The Lantern in downtown Naperville
- Algunos deportes comienzan a reactivarse en EEUU
- Column: My visit to Indianapolis, where Hoosiers demonstrated in the streets by returning to their lives
- Alien creatures and slime: Park districts create boredom busters as recreation world moves online
- ‘How to Feed a Dictator’: Insight from cooks who fed despots
- Nicolas Cage protagonizará la serie de TV ‘Tiger King’
- Corrections and clarifications
- Ida B. Wells, journalist and civil rights icon
- 65 peloteros de Grandes Ligas cobran 100,000 dólares por juego
- Suburban entertainment events canceled because of coronavirus
- Chicago TV ratings for ESPN’s ‘The Last Dance’ dip in the 3rd week, while national numbers continue to decline
- Communities respond to COVID-19: Students leave notes at nursing homes; donations pour in for District 207 families
- Is it safe to come out of coronavirus lockdown? Check the sewer.
- Valparaiso school chief Lauck resigns; board says it will begin search for replacement
- Crashes in Mettawa, Beach Park leave 2 in critical condition
- The Spin: Despite GOP pressure, Pritzker says he’s ‘not thinking politics’ in pandemic | Axelrod, Jarrett stand with Biden | Will pandemic hit property taxes next?
- Crystal Lake Mayor Aaron Shepley, 56, dies. Longest-serving mayor in city history ‘never stopped advocating for his constituents’
- Retired South Holland priest Anthony Talarico from Holy Ghost Parish dies at 75
- Inmigrante acordó quedarse en la cárcel para evitar problemas con ICE y perdió la vida por COVID-19
- Oak Park couple offers $250,000 in matching grants; OPRF Community Foundation announces grant recipients
- By the year 2070, billions of humans could be living in extreme heat zones, recent study finds
- Greg Zanis, the Aurora man whose crosses memorialized victims of gun violence around the country, has died
- With the 2020 Bears roster in place, the Bear Download podcast breaks down each position group
- Crosby: Aurora’s ‘Cross Man’ led a compassionate but ‘complicated’ ministry
- Illinois reports the fewest coronavirus deaths in two weeks, but Gov. J.B. Pritzker urges longer view in fight against COVID-19
- Drive-thru graduation? How Illinois high school commencement ceremonies might look this spring amid COVID-19 pandemic
- 33 more die from coronavirus in Kane County in the last week, coroner says
- The drug remdesivir got emergency use clearance from the FDA. What will that mean for treating COVID-19?
- ‘Riveting’ coverage of Alaska policing wins Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica the Pulitzer Prize
- Lake County sheriff’s office won’t issue tickets for breaking 2-person boat limit, but boating communities push back on Gov. Pritzker’s order
- ‘People are scared’: Coronavirus statistics worry some in Waukegan, North Chicago
- Salty Saltwell, a longtime Chicago Cubs executive and former general manager, dies at 96
- As Trump presses states to reopen, his administration privately projects daily coronavirus death toll to nearly double by June
- Ida B. Wells receives Pulitzer Prize citation: ‘The only thing she really had was the truth’
- Kobe Bryant’s sincerity turned him from Michael Jordan’s ‘little Laker boy’ into a friend
- NFL to release its 2020 schedule Thursday night
- Elon Musk and Canadian singer Grimes welcome baby
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened May 4 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- A coronavirus vaccine project takes a page from gene therapy