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- Ask Amy: Partner’s proximity breeds contempt
- Daily horoscope for May 19, 2020
- Countries with the youngest and oldest populations
- Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s first year in office was filled with big moments and tough decisions. Then the coronavirus ‘changed everything.’
- America’s first concert in months rocks an Arkansas stage
- Brian Cox says movie industry must reinvent itself completely after the pandemic
- Richards High School students build culture of inclusiveness
- Can Chicago’s food halls survive the pandemic? Owners and chefs consider the future of what had been a hot format.
- Daywatch: Lightfoot’s 1st year as mayor, possibly the wettest May on record and a ‘Married at First Sight’ Chicago couple’s quarantine spinoff
- City orders shutdown of controversial North Side shredding plant after explosion
- Zoom with the Biblioracle: John Warner to appear in online event May 28
- The most underrated scene was ___. The iPad clip I would like to hand to Michael Jordan is ___. Our ‘Last Dance’ answers to 6 key questions.
- Column: What can we learn from Michael Jordan and ‘The Last Dance’? Forget about what might have been and just stay in the moment.
- 2.35 million viewers tuned into NBC for live golf’s return to TV on Sunday
- Column: Do I really need Red Kerr’s cocktail napkin? Dusty Baker’s toothpick box? Carlos Zambrano’s pacifier? Quarantine is the perfect time to declutter my house of sports junk.
- How much did it rain near you? Check out our interactive map
- All this food with nowhere to go. Restaurant distributor finds new demand in supermarkets, carryout and home delivery
- Chicago woman wants love and a baby on the new Fox show ‘Labor of Love.’ Here are 5 things to know.
- ‘Lucky Grandma’ review: Taking on the Chinese mob, with a cig and a sneer
- Wendy Williams pauses talk show because of health condition
- Why has American Airlines added a 29-mile flight? Your tax dollars at work.
- Marc Maron mourns partner Lynn Shelton in emotional podcast
- Chicago Children’s Choir concert goes virtual for Paint the Town Red: ‘This is an opportunity for us to share our love and passion for the arts’
- Lebron James, Spotify, HBO among 2020 Webby Award winners
- Watch Spanish artist known for designing Millennium Park’s Crown Fountain create special piece just for Chicago 2020 grads
- Extra alarm fire guts South Side building
- How job seekers can stand out in a crisis economy
- Speak Out: Wisconsin bar openings provide a warning for us in Illinois
- Teams find ways to stay productive, positive
- Daisies, El Che, Publican Quality Meats and more join ranks of restaurants offering groceries
- Michigan to mail absentee ballot applications to all voters for November election
- 2 Chicago firefighters injured battling extra-alarm fire that likely will lead to South Side building’s demolition
- Jar yourself out of culinary complacency with a fun, new skill: pickling
- Biden incorpora a nieta de César Chávez para llegar a los latinos
- Darden Restaurants reopens nearly half its dining rooms; employees to return to Orlando headquarters
- EatingWell: You’ll love this egg-cellent brunch dish
- Lawsuit claims negligence in coronavirus-related death of resident at Bria of Geneva nursing home
- Trump dice que toma hidroxicloroquina para prevenir COVID-19
- With the world on pause, salamanders own the road
- When will national parks reopen? Grand Canyon and others have phased plans
- Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin faces grilling about coronavirus PPP lending
- Column: Chicago couple wanted to get married before her ER residency began, even if it meant driving 2,000 miles
- ‘Minecraft’ is for learning? In COVID time, 50 million downloads of free education content
- With the world on pause, salamanders own the road
- A new viral outbreak is killing rabbits
- Toronto was obeying social distance rules. Then came adorable baby foxes.
- TV cliffhanger: New season in jeopardy amid virus shutdown
- Did Michael Jordan really get food poisoning before Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals? Man who says he made the pizza says don’t blame him — he even named his son after the Chicago Bulls star.
- Oswego businesses impacted by pandemic can apply for grant funds
- EEUU y Canadá acuerdan mantener cerrada frontera común
- Here are all the movies Hollywood is still planning to open this summer
- Lakeview 4-bedroom home with panoramic rooftop views: $1.75M
- After buying suburban homes from relocated execs, Aldi cuts price of 5-bedroom home in Downers Grove to $925,000
- Toronto was obeying social distance rules. Then came adorable baby foxes.
- Column: In this election, the workers most exposed to COVID-19 will decide the winner
- Chocolate with caviar? With blue cheese? Here are some intriguing pairings from Lonely Planet
- The best organic baby food
- The best alkaline water machine
- The best model boat kit
- The best Bluetooth transmitter
- The best diabetic cookbook
- The best vegetable seed
- Vaccinations fall to alarming rates, CDC study shows
- Stranded MLB prospects find a backyard of dreams
- 3 days after listing, retired WGN anchor Steve Sanders sells Lakeview house for $1.5 million
- Bicycle sales surge with Americans eager to get moving again
- Smashing eggs, dumping milk: Farmers waste more food than ever
- Staffing nursing homes was hard before the pandemic. Now it’s even tougher
- Ditka’s restaurant in Chicago’s Gold Coast closing due to coronavirus shutdown
- Elgin Baptist church backs off plan to hold services after Kane state’s attorney warns he’ll enforce state order
- ‘We’ll prove that we are essential’: Massachusetts recreational marijuana allowed to offer curbside on May 25
- How to use CBD for a better night’s sleep
- Maine East, Maine South High Schools celebrate graduation during pandemic with car parade
- Here’s what pregnant and breastfeeding women need to know about CBD
- Man fatally shoots self during struggle with police in Racine County, Wisconsin, officials say
- ‘Unreal’ rains flood homes, knock out power and put Chicago on the cusp of wettest May ever
- So you want to be a contact tracer?
- Elgin rainfall measures more than 7 inches in last week, pushing many waterways to near flood levels
- Rooms by the hour for people weary of quarantine
- Elmhurst officials compile video messages to recognize and congratulate graduates
- For young adults, quarantining with parents turns back time
- Michigan City junior forward Trinity Thompson continues to pick up college offers, despite recruiting shifts during the pandemic: ‘It’s a nice journey.’
- Annie Glenn, advocate for people with speech disorders, widow of astronaut John Glenn, dies at 100 of COVID-19 complications
- South Elgin deputy police chief retires after 23 years
- Ya son 959 los mexicanos fallecidos por coronavirus en EEUU
- Walmart profit surges, Kohl’s revenue plummets as coronavirus sorts retail winners and losers
- Letters: What Pritzker doesn’t worry about
- Pilas de ataúdes y toneladas de desechos de hospitales están apareciendo en México
- Hasidic school with 60 children is closed for violating virus ban
- Low-tech way to help some COVID patients: Flip them over
- After the coronavirus, the race to resume film production goes global
- Auto review: 2020 Hyundai Palisade highlights the softer side of three-row SUVs
- Column: The Farnsworth House, a modernist masterpiece, is threatened anew by floodwaters
- Why won’t Airbnb refund our rental? It promised it would. Travel Troubleshooter investigates.
- Different kind of fuel for Marist’s Caden Carr as ace pitcher did not play travel ball until after sophomore season: ‘I have some great memories.’
- Hinsdale High School District 86 considers using additional bond proceeds to fund more projects
- Speak Out
- How grocery giant Aldi got into flipping houses
- Wilmette rabbi raises spirits during COVID-19 pandemic with inspirational lawn signs
- When you’ve had it with COVID-19 isolation, these camper vans are ready for vacation
- When you’ve had it with COVID-19 isolation, these camper vans are ready for vacation
- ‘Estas en mi club, y yo en el tuyo’
- Is the pandemic sparking suicide?
- Oswego OKs video gambling at gas stations, convenience stores
- Illinois rumbo a la Fase 3, ¿qué se podrá hacer y qué no?
- Huh? Belmont Stakes to lead off Triple Crown, set for June 20
- ‘The Last Dance’ is over. Here are 5 great sports documentaries to watch next
- From science to dance, Niles North and West students finding ways to connect digitally
- Denuncian ‘encierro’ de dos bebés, uno mexicano, en aeropuerto parisino de Roissy
- Quickly
- For Leak & Sons Funeral Home, a pandemic is no easy business
- Column: Alsip’s Castro brothers produce ‘Dope Movies’ for Comedy Central
- A 2017 video shows a Georgia police officer trying to use stun gun on Ahmaud Arbery after he refused a search of his parked car
- Park Ridge, Evanston men accused in scheme to use company money to buy GPS devices and sell back at markup
- Four new COVID-19 deaths reported in Lake County, while Porter County reports no new virus deaths Monday
- ‘Trip to Greece’ review: Delphi gets a couple of new oracles named Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon
- NEWSLETTER TEST – THREE PHOTO GALLERY
- Is it safe to go out to eat?
- Naperville North’s Cesar Recendez joins club teammates in creating a Carthage connection: ‘We’ve been together for such a long time.’
- Isolated Key West will reopen. For some people, it will be too late.
- CR7 ya entrena con la Juventus
- ‘It’s not about us’: Wauconda soccer standout Savannah Johnson sets aside disappointment of canceled season and gets back to work in the community
- Ryan Seacrest is back on TV and ‘doing well’ after ‘American Idol’ scare
- The new face of restaurant hospitality wears a mask
- Beyoncé to give graduation speech alongside the Obamas
- National federation passes on shot clock for high school basketball but IHSA’s Kurt Gibson senses a trend: ‘I think it’s coming.’
- La Grange Park Library preparing to reopen for visitors
- Commentary: Why the Michael Flynn case matters in the fight against Illinois corruption
- Norma McCorvey — ‘Jane Roe’ of Roe v. Wade — changed abortion stance for money, deathbed documentary reveals
- NHL’s plan to return could face a possible U.S. and Canada border restriction hurdle
- Some creators of color fear coronavirus will be major setback in TV’s diversity push
- Lance Armstrong empezó a doparse desde los 21 años
- Preocupa a inmigrantes difusión de información personal por coronavirus
- Single Chicagoans are turning to video dating in a big way during the coronavirus pandemic. And geography is no longer a barrier.
- Officials at joint board meeting call for approval of new TIF in Arlington Heights
- What to stream: Remembering Lynn Shelton and Fred Willard
- Conciertos en la era del coronavirus se ven desde el auto
- Coronavirus prompts Lake Forest schools to rethink graduation ceremonies
- United, Southwest report signs of hope for air travel rebound
- After virus shutdown, kids, calves again greet zoo patrons
- Actriz de Game of Thrones llama ‘desagradecidos’ a los fans
- Lake Forest and Lake Bluff cancel summer events to align with state coronavirus rules
- ‘Smothered’ brings back Norridge mother, daughter for more hijinks: ‘Chicago seems to love this show’
- Pier 1 going out of business, plans liquidation sales at its 540 stores
- South Elgin to cut residential and business water bills by $30 in June and July to help during pandemic
- Skokie accepting items damaged by basement flooding after recent storms
- Dos detenidos por secuestro transfronterizo con 2 muertos
- Warren Township High School District 121 pushes back possible referendum despite coronavirus-related financial hit
- Orland Park threatens legal action if COVID-19 restrictions not loosened soon
- Elmhurst remembers fallen servicemen and women with Memorial Day convoy
- Ken Burmeister, a Loyola basketball coach in the 1990s, dies at 72
- Let vegetables be the star of your Memorial Day
- The new face of restaurant hospitality wears a mask
- Tribute broadcast planned for late music exec Andre Harrell
- Beaches, nightclubs? Europe mulls how to get tourists back
- After virus shutdown, kids, calves again greet zoo patrons
- Charges filed against food delivery driver after attack outside Lakeview restaurant, apparently over social distancing
- Des Plaines River floods River Grove, stranding residents and dividing the town
- Evanston budgets additional $1 million to house homeless, others during pandemic
- El ‘tesorero’ del genocidio ruandés se opone a ser entregado a la justicia internacional
- Family matters: These athletes are related
- Glencoe Beach will reopen to season pass holders with coronavirus-related restrictions
- From sneeze guards to seating, what restaurants could look like after coronavirus
- Survey: More than half don’t expect to return to pre-pandemic conditions until 2021
- Con banderas blancas piden ayuda en pandemia
- Chicago McDonald’s workers file class-action lawsuit alleging COVID-19 failures put employees and customers at risk
- Editorial: The glaring hole in Springfield’s to-do list: A corruption cleanup bill
- Roads still flooded, rivers close to cresting as Chicago hits wettest May on record
- Commentary: Will masks be a magnet for racial profiling? Some African Americans put in a tough spot
- Community news
- ‘Very Cavallari’ won’t be back after Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler split
- Leagues are comparing notes, but there is no universal playbook for coronavirus testing in pro sports
- Glenbrook North goes virtual for senior prom: ‘It became a really special moment’
- Cast away your cares and take the Tweet of the Week survey
- Crosby: Time to party? Proceed with caution
- Hinsdale District 86 2020 graduation includes drive-up diploma delivery and band directors conducting students from home
- Lake County election board approved resolutions to aid with counting votes as thousands of mail in ballots have already been received
- Restaurante usa ‘mesas chocadoras’ para mantener distanciamiento social
- Sierra Nevada towns fear tourists will bring coronavirus with them
- Southtowners: JJC honor society earns Hallmark Awards
- WATCH: The most-shocking moments from ‘The Last Dance’
- How to invest your stimulus check
- Millennial Money: Put off debt payments to start saving now
- 2021 Lexus IS 500 will get Lexus’ last naturally aspirated V8: Report
- Corrections and clarifications
- Freelance Wrestling owner says independent pro wrestlers need support during pandemic
- Facebook lanza ‘Shops’ para que los comercios sorteen la pandemia
- ‘King’ David Lane keeps working through the coronavirus stay-at-home orders
- Mariano’s parent Kroger will not seek repayment from workers it overpaid during COVID-19 outbreak
- Glencoe officials move to trim budget in anticipation of coronavirus-related revenue losses
- Numerous states accused of manipulating or bungling COVID-19 data
- Comings & Goings: Honey Pedals opens in Lemont
- Chicago teacher for deaf and hard of hearing students surprised with Golden Apple educator award
- Salons reopen amid pandemic with precautions, anxious customers
- Made in America: US bombs keep killing civilians in Yemen. Here’s why — money.
- The Spin: Speaker Madigan seeks to quash mask rebellion | Lightfoot looks back on first year as mayor | Is it time for Chicago to open its lakefront?
- 93rd Academy Awards could be postponed due to coronavirus, claims agency insider
- Johnson & Johnson to end talc-based baby powder sales in North America after facing nearly 20,000 lawsuits filed by cancer patients
- Pets of the week
- Fearing a winter coronavirus resurgence, colleges including Notre Dame and Marquette will start fall classes early and shorten breaks
- Column: With hydroxychloroquine statement, President Trump distracts from real health care issues
- Niles home to most COVID-19 deaths among Cook County suburbs, majority reported in nursing homes, data shows
- 10 people from Elgin/South Elgin dead of COVID-19 in last week; Kane County total now 153, coroner says
- Second lawsuit filed against Bria of Geneva nursing home over coronavirus-related death
- Testing increases at Evanston senior living home with 34 confirmed COVID-19 cases
- MidiCi Neopolitan Pizza, A-1 Antiques close their downtown Naperville locations
- Trump says he’s taking unproven drug hydroxychloroquine to fight off the coronavirus: ‘This is an individual decision to make’
- Tom Brady, Bucs work out together at Tampa’s Berkeley Prep
- ‘Avengers’ star Jeremy Renner accuses ex-wife of embezzling nearly $50K from daughter’s trust fund
- 12-year old Chicago boy shot and killed in Gary loved video games and gym class, family says
- Highwood man charged with DUI after allegedly driving while flashing ‘police-style lights’
- Kane and Kendall sheriffs said they are not enforcing the governor’s stay-at-home order. Here’s how Aurora area police departments are handling it
- Gov. J.B. Pritzker preaches patience, expresses optimism as Illinois coronavirus metrics improve
- WHO members reject Trump’s demands for punitive action but agree to study its virus response
- Which Bears QB has the edge? What’s with all the Ryan Pace do-overs? The Bear Download podcast breaks it down.
- New CEO for Chicago public radio station WBEZ lands ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ gig, with plans to build on local news
- Naperville Park District files suit against Pritzker, wants judge to give the park board authority to reopen facilities
- Porter commissioners announced May 26 return for county employees
- Two men shot to death in Gary
- ‘Ready to be a Don’: LaPorte junior Ryin Ott commits to Purdue Fort Wayne, where she can play Division I basketball alongside her older sister
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened May 19 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Miss ‘The Last Dance’? ABC will air the Michael Jordan documentary the next 5 Saturdays.
- The Belmont is set to kick off the Triple Crown on June 20 — without fans
- MLS, players negotiate cut in pay ahead of restart