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- Daily horoscope for May 17, 2020
- Ask Amy: Son Zooms in with a zinger
- Letters: Nursing home staffers are the hearts and hands that tend to people’s vulnerable loved ones
- It’s time to prune spring-flowering shrubs like forsythia and lilac. Here’s how to do it right.
- Commentary: Coronavirus changed the media landscape overnight. Welcome to the new normal
- More than 100 apply for funds set aside to help Aurora businesses
- Evanston subprime auto lenders charged with pocketing $5.3 million through alleged GPS resale scheme
- I left my husband before the pandemic. Can I go back to him now?
- When shoppers venture out, what will be left?
- Coronavirus ravaged a choir. But it didn’t spread further.
- CDC issues reopening checklists for schools and businesses
- The Paralympics got postponed. A retired champion got an idea.
- Who’s enforcing mask rules? Often retail workers, and they’re getting hurt
- Michael Jordan’s 15 most memorable commercials, from Coca-Cola to Hanes to Ultra Star to Nike
- New coronavirus vaccine czar says finding one by January is a ‘credible’ goal
- From ‘respect’ to ‘sick and twisted’: How coronavirus hit US-China ties
- ‘I wish I could do something for you,’ my doctor said
- Ask Well: Can I get coronavirus from riding an elevator?
- Governors State names new president to succeed retiring Elaine Maimon, who is embattled in $1.5 million payroll scandal
- Aurora teen charged with attempted murder after house fire where girl suffered smoke inhalation
- Environmentalists concerned about NIPSCO plan to move coal ash from Michigan City Generating Station
- Donations sought for new Elgin Covid Response Fund to help people struggling to pay bills during pandemic
- No pomp and circumstance for Naperville high school grads but a socially distanced photo provides a little closure
- Column: Michael Jordan singled me out about something I wrote during the Chicago Bulls’ championship run in 1991. Here’s why.
- Southland communities lay off, furlough staff as coronavirus pandemic craters revenue projections
- At hard-hit Geneva nursing home where nearly a quarter of its residents died, anger and a rallying cry amid COVID-19 outbreak
- Oak Park’s West Suburban hospital recovery unit assisting patients with post COVID-19 issues
- After 125 years, Oak Park’s Pieritz Bros. office supply store to close; ‘It had to happen sometime’
- Michael Jordan severed a tendon in his right index finger with a cigar cutter after the 1997-98 season. How much did that influence his decision to retire?
- Phyllis George, a sportscasting pioneer on CBS’s ‘The NFL Today,’ dies at 70
- Crosby: City dwellers headed to the suburbs after pandemic? Only time will tell
- Hutton: Purdue coach Matt Painter complains that Matt Haarms and Nojel Eastern won’t finish what they started. But what good does that do?
- Heavy rain continues Sunday, flash flooding possible
- New MLB rules including players showering at home, no spitting, no dining out on road trips — and no mascots
- 13 injured in shooting at a memorial in Louisiana, police say
- Zero stars for Lightfoot’s fifth-star idea
- Recruiting notes: Nazareth’s Landon Morris picks Syracuse football
- ‘Utter disappointment’ for youth teams as Little League, other organizations cancel national tournaments
- Kim Kardashian introduces SKIMS face masks that quickly sell out – but more are on the way
- Data breach in new Illinois online unemployment system exposes private information
- Stevenson’s Maddy O’Donnell is on top of her game in the pool and classroom
- Federal judge moves up petitions deadline for third-party and independent candidates but rejects call to require more signatures
- The Ahmaud Arbery case: Law enforcement ties, long delay in arrests complicate investigation
- Hersey girls soccer players celebrate senior night with a drive-by parade
- ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli denied prison release by judge, who calls him ‘delusional’
- Charges pending after Lakeview restaurant worker struck by deliveryman during quarrel over social distancing
- Trump says back to normal in golf means big crowds and no masks
- Fear of the future: Class of 2020 enters a world in crisis
- Rory McIlroy delivers the winner as live golf returns to TV for a COVID-19 relief fundraiser
- Tropical Storm Arthur, first named storm of hurricane season, inches toward US East Coast
- We can’t wait for a COVID-19 vaccine to reopen, Britain, Italy tell citizens
- Kevin Harvick wins at Darlington as NASCAR returns to racing
- Canadian aerobatic jet crashes amid pandemic show; 1 dead
- Guitarist Jorge Santana, brother of Carlos, dies at 68
- Hundreds defy stay-at-home order to attend church while mayor’s office warns that violators may be cited after review
- Nike released a shock drop of the Jordan 13 ‘Flint’ for ‘The Last Dance’ finale and sold out in minutes
- $250K bail for man accused of stabbing bystander who defended woman
- Fed chairman says recovery may ‘stretch’ through end of 2021
- Inspector general’s firing puts Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s use of taxpayer funds under scrutiny
- Investigators open criminal probe into LA explosion that injured 12 firefighters
- How the Chicago Tribune covered the events you saw in Episodes 9 and 10 of ‘The Last Dance’
- ‘The Last Dance’ winners and losers: Michael Jordan, cigars and sports media fared well — while Jerry Krause and Isiah Thomas did not