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- Daily horoscope for May 26, 2020
- Ask Amy: Future bride doesn’t want to marry in-laws
- Letters: No law-and-order hypocrisy from protesters
- Editorial: Live audio from the Supreme Court? Now, let’s have video.
- Column: Trump should pull GOP convention from North Carolina, put in on cruise ships off the coast of Mar-a-Lago
- Column: Americans have never liked being told what to do
- ‘Game of Thrones’ author George R.R. Martin joins group to buy historic railway
- Commissioner candidates set sights on revenue loss due to pandemic in Porter County
- New CDC warning old hat to Chicagoans: Rats scurry for food during COVID-19 restaurant closures
- Teen essential workers juggle labor, fear, stress — and remote learning — to help support their families amid coronavirus job losses
- Daywatch: Inside Cook County Jail amid a pandemic, what Rahm Emanuel is telling Joe Biden and Chicago teacher’s daily ‘Dad jokes’ find a following
- Packed pool party gone viral in Missouri earns rebuke from state health director, who warns of ‘long-lasting and tragic’ results
- KBO suspends Jung Ho Kang, the former Pittsburgh Pirates infielder, for 1 year over drunk driving cases
- As Guerin Prep prepares to permanently close, school rallies to give graduating seniors ‘a proper goodbye’
- Steve Ross says NFL will ‘definitely’ play this season, ‘planning to have fans in the stadium’
- Rematch: Hatcher, Renslow again vie for Dist. 3 House seat nomination on June 2
- Hertz, slammed by coronavirus, to continue under bankruptcy protection. ‘No business is built for zero revenue.’
- Next up for the executive producer of ‘The Last Dance’? A documentary — and labor of love — on Chicago White Sox great Dick Allen.
- Manhunt for UConn senior suspected in two homicides continues; Peter Manfredonia’s family urges him to ‘turn yourself in’
- My worst moment: ‘Frasier’s’ Peri Gilpin on the perils of taking a role with more lines than ‘King Lear’
- Community news
- Speak Out: Mitch McConnell has damaged our country
- Stephen Bardo’s love of basketball and lineage brought him to Africa. And there’s still so much the former Illini star wants to do there.
- La grave lesión de Ibrahimovic se queda en un tremendo susto
- Fenway Park organist goes live on Facebook to bring fans their ballpark fix: ‘We figured as long as people need it — as long as we need it — we’ll do it’
- #MeToo, phase 2: Doc explores heavy burden on women of color airing on HBO Max
- NHL plans move to small-group training as Phase 2 of return
- With summer starting, Lake County school districts begin working to see how next year could look
- Chicago actress Ta’Rhonda Jones talks pursuing dramatic roles and the ‘confusing’ end to ‘Empire’: ‘I had a lot of people coming at my neck’
- Mark Wahlberg’s ‘Spenser Confidential’? Action movie has none of Robert B. Parker novels’ flair
- Talk of the County: Thanks Gov. Pritzker for ‘taking the bull by the horns and leading our state’
- Dos estadios colombianos se postulan para acoger finales de Sudamericana y Libertadores 2023
- Dominic Cummings offers a sorry-not-sorry for U.K. lockdown breach
- Officials see signs COVID-19 is contained at Cook County Jail, while experts caution measures need to remain in place
- Morgan Wallen es arrestado tras ser expulsado de bar
- Glenbrook South High School radio students entertain listeners online with children’s folktales
- Meatpacking relies on immigrants. But coronavirus fears, border moves could trigger labor shortage.
- Audi suspende a su piloto por hacer trampas en carrera virtual benéfica
- Have a question about the Chicago Cubs’ Game 7 win in the 2016 World Series? Ask Joe Maddon tonight.
- South America’s Latam Airlines, partially owned by Delta, files for bankruptcy protection
- Classic car auctions upended by coronavirus
- Talk of the County: When it comes to sexual-assault allegations against Trump and Biden, ‘who wins this contest?’
- How Kobe Bryant created his own Olympic dream team
- A virus-hunter falls prey to a virus he underestimated
- Woman from Sandwich accused of shooting man in Aurora
- When the CEO, already facing a crisis, gets the coronavirus
- Talk of the County: You can listen to the scientists or ‘the whack job in the White House who can’t find the truth’
- Athing Mu might be America’s fastest teenager. How much faster will she be in 2021?
- Tips to avoid separation anxiety in pets once routines return
- Curtis Sittenfeld on her novel ‘Rodham’: Imagining a world where Hillary never married Bill Clinton
- Anti-lockdown protest held at Grant Park fountain on Memorial Day
- Teen plans First Responder Memorial in Oswego
- A pandemic bright spot: In many places, less crime
- Athing Mu might be America’s fastest teenager. How much faster will she be in 2021?
- Davenport’s cabaret looks optimistically to the future
- Clubes españoles entrenan con grupos de 14 jugadores
- Consumer confidence up slightly but remains near 6-year low
- World TeamTennis plans to have 500 fans at each match during a 3-week season in West Virginia
- Talk of the County: Quip about Packers fans getting the coronavirus was ‘disgraceful’
- Bolsonaro, más ‘irresponsable’ que Trump ante la pandemia
- Indiana Jones 5 ya tiene sustituto para Spielberg
- Letter from widower to Twitter asking company to delete Trump’s Scarborough murder conspiracy tweets
- Crime fiction: A roundup of worthy reads from Donna Tartt and beyond
- Memorial Day weekend violence
- Column: Exercise, diet (watching Vitamins C and D) to foster immunity, fight inflammation and ward off COVID-19
- Winnetka-Northfield Public Library District to launch curbside pick-up June 1
- As meatpacking plants reopen, data about worker illness remains elusive
- She fed her sick flock during the 1918 pandemic. Her legacy lives on.
- As meatpacking plants reopen, data about worker illness remains elusive
- Column: That time Hecky Powell saved Thanksgiving for a Northwestern student and his roommates. ‘That’s Mr. Hecky.’
- Returning to exercise after recovery from coronavirus
- Putting the risk of COVID-19 in perspective
- Hacen ‘milagros’ para alimentar a pobres
- Lake County boaters hit the water with a sense of safety, purpose over holiday weekend
- ‘This is not the Hunger Games’: National testing strategy draws concerns
- Toyota issues anniversary edition for Prius
- New one-year contract gives returning District 203 teachers an average raise of 3.29%
- Comment period extended for NIPSCO coal ash plan
- Un chico de 11 años logra una hazaña en patineta
- Dick Rosenzweig dies at 84. As much as anyone, he was an architect of Playboy, and a lover of jazz.
- ‘This is not the Hunger Games’: National testing strategy draws concerns
- Porsche adds third variant to 911 with Targa 4
- East Aurora High School to hold virtual graduation ceremony
- Dangerous blood clots pose a perplexing coronavirus threat
- Really big rides: Piloting the 2020 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD
- ‘I’m excited for the next chapter’: A freshly minted Marist graduate, Camryn Hannah says she’s ready to turn a new page at Clemson
- HBO lanza su servicio streaming en medio del encierro por la pandemia
- Really big rides: Piloting the 2020 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD
- Oak Park board to consider millions in budget cuts to combat COVID-related losses
- Procesadoras de carne, un riesgo para inmigrantes
- Man facing charges after allegedly grabbing WGN-TV reporter and shouting profane language during live broadcast
- Driver wounded when shots fired from another car on Bishop Ford Expressway
- Oak Brook’s Class of 2020 has a graduation procession on wheels
- Home Run Inn suburban Chicago factory churns out nearly 80,000 frozen pizzas a day to meet soaring demand during pandemic
- Elmhurst residents honor fallen veterans with Memorial Day convoy
- La incertidumbre de ser deportado a los 10 años
- Jugadores NBA quieren volver pero necesitan certezas
- Buffalo Grove Rotary Club offers nonprofits a boost, giving out $12,500 in grants
- Benet point guard Molly Sheehan finds a home, commits to Valparaiso: ‘It’s a very unusual time to be going through the recruiting process.’
- Woman charged in connection with slayings of a Gage Park family of six loses bid to get out of jail to avoid COVID-19
- Country Club Hills District 160 taps Freeport schools administrator as fifth superintendent in 2 1/2 years
- Indiana’s confirmed, presumed COVID-19 deaths pass 2,000
- Editorial: Data breach, backups continue to plague unemployment agency. Fix this, Gov. Pritzker.
- Gareth Bale defiende su pasión por el golf y dice cual es el problema del fútbol
- Southtowners: Area college students named to dean’s lists, graduate
- Allstate extends its rebate as motorists continue to stay off the roads during the COVID-19 health crisis
- Warriors coach Steve Kerr on cop who knelt on neck of black man in Minnesota: ‘This is murder’
- Indiana DNR wants eagle-eyed paddlers to document river wildlife
- Using Zoom and apps, Naperville/Oswego hair stylist and others in area help clients cut, color their own hair
- Lightfoot announces search for organization to lead Chicago’s virus contact tracing effort
- Column: Thousands of visitors pack Indiana Dunes beach in ridiculous display of sun-kissed apathy
- Column: Hey, Joe Biden, sometimes it’s best to leave black humor to black people
- Pandemic pivot: How Chicago-area businesses and workers are managing the coronavirus crisis
- As contract negotiations stall with New York Jets, oddsmakers predict Jamal Adams’ future
- Should you fix that yourself? How to handle home repair during the pandemic
- Barrington Memorial Day commemoration includes communitywide cookout
- Inside Trump’s fight with California over opening churches amid coronavirus
- Give up playing volleyball for AAU basketball? Waubonsie Valley’s Ben Schwieger decided to go against that grain … and the offers have rolled in.
- The General Assembly adjourned its special pandemic session in the wee hours of a holiday weekend. Here’s what you might have missed.
- Eli’s Cheesecake, the iconic Chicago-style sweet, celebrates 40 years, and whatever happens next
- Rick Steves: Pompeii — Italy’s frozen-in-time Roman city
- Dueño de los Dolphins asegura que habrá temporada
- Lake, Porter county residents take precautions as week of early voting begins Tuesday
- Letters: State lawmakers are using the pandemic as a fiscal scapegoat
- Area eighth-graders get in on graduation parades, ‘drive-in movies’
- Ya no hay límite para las canciones que puedes guardar en tu biblioteca de Spotify
- ‘The Ickabog’: J.K. Rowling releases free online chapters of new kids’ book
- Not all lost for Class of 2020 as schools eye live graduations
- Speak Out
- ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ no será el final de la saga, sino el inicio de una nueva era
- Evanston lakefront repairs after recent storms expected to cost millions
- Editorial: Is this news anymore? Illinois lawmakers approve out-of-balance, gimmicky budget
- Detienen a sujeto que intentó matar a su novia a golpes
- Sugar Grove looks to get state money for business ‘incubator,’ new water tower
- Fastest to put on 10 T-Shirts. Juggling toilet paper. Pyramid can-stacker. Guinness crowns new record holders — and adds online challenges in the pandemic.
- Muere el ‘Macho’ Figueroa, mítico mundialista hondureño
- Commentary: Hilco needs to come clean with Little Village after botched demolition
- Andrea Bocelli tuvo coronavirus y dona su plasma para la investigación
- Radiologists group pulls November meeting — and 50,000 attendees — from Chicago
- The Score’s Patrick Mannelly lists Libertyville home for $790,000
- MLB proposes sliding salary scale for players with superstars taking the biggest hit: report
- New marijuana dispensary, Rise, opening in Niles near Golf Mill
- El Bayern ata media Bundesliga con un gol para enmarcar (VIDEO)
- Federal judge rules Florida ex-felons can vote despite fines or fees
- Waukegan mayor calls insult during closed-door library meeting ‘unacceptable’
- Daydreaming of the next trip: An English village in Suffolk waits, unchanged
- South Elgin quarry wants village board OK for later hours to catch up on work slowed by pandemic
- Hurricanes and other extreme weather disasters prompt some people to move and trap others in place
- Glencoe turns down historical society’s request for additional funding for Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Booth Cottage
- The Score’s Patrick Mannelly lists Libertyville 5-bedroom home for $790,000
- CBS’ ‘Criminal Minds’ team sued in sexual harassment case
- Julian Middle School principal resigns to take administrator job in North Riverside
- Best long movies for when you’re stuck inside
- Cartero se maquilla como los KISS para animar al barrio en pandemia
- Summer camps are canceling and parents are scrambling: The search for sitters who embrace social distancing
- Column: Wait a sec! Is it really time to re-legalize granny flats 63 years after Chicago banned them?
- Former DePaul guard Jalen Coleman-Lands signs with Iowa State as a graduate transfer
- Drive-through event in downtown Elgin Thursday to give away free food, diapers, kids books and other items
- Lake Bluff mansion with vaulted ceiling, sunroom: $2.5M
- Pets of the week
- New York Stock Exchange trading floor reopens under new coronavirus rules
- Column: ‘Red states, blue states — they all need the money,’ U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly says of stalled tax relief bill
- ‘Windy City Rehab’ host seeks dismissal from Wicker Park couple’s fraud lawsuit
- Corrections and clarifications
- Expresidente colombiano aviva la polémica del regreso del fútbol tras la pandemia
- More ‘health care deserts’ possible after four South Side hospitals call off $1.1 billion merger plan
- Veteran educator experienced with starting bilingual programs tapped to be Washington school principal
- Memorial Day fire damages portion of colossal Palos Park home
- ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ renewed for 15th season, breaking live-action sitcom record
- Despiden a oficiales por muerte de un hombre que, durante su arresto, dijo no podía respirar
- Fire at 9-story Wilmette lakefront condo building prompted evacuation of 120 residents, authorities say
- Eat like a local, from anywhere: Meal kits from top U.S. restaurants
- Valparaiso Police veteran dies on duty
- North Shore officials, restaurant owners prepare for potential return of outdoor dining: ‘We’re all really excited’
- Worry, haste, retail therapy: What have we bought and why?
- US approaching 100,000 deaths over a span of less than four months as the coronavirus has killed over 346,000 people worldwide
- JK Rowling publica nueva historia gratis en internet
- Working from home isn’t enough: These employees can ‘work from wherever’
- Elgin City Council expected to give $60K to nonprofits helping struggling business owners, families
- Lilly King, other U.S. Olympians, swimming in Indiana pond during pandemic
- California woman accused of home invasion in Aurora Township
- Widower implores Twitter to delete Trump tweets implying his wife was murdered. Twitter says no.
- Living with Children: Appreciate the odd among us
- Skokie Park District names park in honor of pioneering local doctor
- CPD honors high school graduate
- Agencia antidopaje examina uso de inteligencia artificial
- Inside the dizzying effort to pitch President Trump to black voters
- In audacious move, Georgia and Florida governors offer to host GOP Convention
- ‘Riverdale’ stars Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart call it quits, again, after three years of dating
- Artistas y deportistas se unen en especial: ‘Se agradece’
- 2nd hairstylist at Great Clips in Missouri is sick with COVID-19 — 56 more clients potentially exposed
- NBA lookback: The NBA’s role in Michael Jordan joining the Wizards
- Collector owns both of Bob Dylan’s childhood homes — and his highchair
- Northwestern has its potential starting QB, even with college football’s uncertainty because of the coronavirus: ‘We needed instant competition in that room’
- Racist, gang graffiti found on Naperville park property days after city council resolution denouncing racism
- Exjugador del Real Madrid debutará como entrenador
- Mark Hamill kept ‘I am your father’ scene under wraps for more than a year
- Chicago releases rules for restaurants to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic — but no date yet
- Naperville man wins College of DuPage’s outstanding faculty member of the year award
- Family marks missing Griffith woman’s 49th birthday as search continues; Dushawna Glover disappeared May 16
- Lincolnshire pays virtual Memorial Day tribute to fallen soldiers: ‘We celebrate their service, we commemorate their sacrifice’
- Commentary: The Mike McCaskey most didn’t know — far away from Soldier Field
- Rick Steves: Foraging Europe’s markets for the perfect picnic
- Duras reacciones tras falsa denuncia de mujer blanca contra hombre negro
- En marcha el biopic de Amy Winehouse
- 20 more dead of COVID-19 in Kane over last week; nursing home residents make up 94 of 173 county deaths
- Marca de 100,000 muertes retumba en presidencia de Trump
- Lana Del Rey estalla en Instagram y se defiende: ‘No soy racista’
- Rewards issued for info leading to arrests in school break-in, house/garage burglaries in Naperville
- Illinois driver’s license offices to open in June with limited services
- Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle vetoes ‘extraordinarily bad’ plan to share coronavirus-positive addresses with first responders, a first in her tenure
- Oak Park & River Forest High School board decides against borrowing plan, will fund campus renovation from reserves
- Niles continues to see most COVID-19 deaths among Cook County suburbs; check your town’s count
- Businesses adapt, from finding new markets to closings via Zoom
- 4 Minneapolis police officers involved in restraint death of black man who claimed he couldn’t breathe have been fired
- Kiah Gillespie, a 3rd-round pick in 2020, won’t play for the Chicago Sky this season for personal reasons
- East Garfield Park shooting leaves 1 dead, 3 wounded
- Alison Roman confirms newspaper leave after Chrissy Teigen beef, starts newsletter
- Honoring frontline workers and the fallen in Franklin Park this Memorial Day
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened May 26 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot releases guidelines for phase 3 of city’s reopening plan
- The Spin: Lightfoot announces contact tracing effort | Kinzinger calls out Trump in tweet | Preckwinkle uses her 1st veto as County Board president
- In a first, Twitter adds fact-check warnings to President Trump’s tweets
- Mayor scolds new police superintendent after Chicago sees deadliest Memorial Day weekend in five years: ‘Whatever the strategy is, it didn’t work. … We have to do better’
- Watch a suburban Chicago duo impress the ‘America’s Got Talent’ judges with a Bon Jovi cover
- Joe Biden calls Trump a ‘fool’ for mocking face masks during coronavirus pandemic
- Letters to the Editor: Move from pain to purpose; value every person equally; no to D200 debt certificates
- Kevin Hart says 2019 injuries much more serious than he let on
- Here’s how Wuhan tested 6.5 million for coronavirus in days
- Same as it ever was: Another week, another tweet poll
- Chrissy Teigen to have breast implants removed: ‘They’ve been great to me for many years but I’m just over it’
- Dispensary job market still strong despite lockdowns
- Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania say marijuana legalization ‘inevitable’ post-pandemic