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- Iowa football places strength coach Chris Doyle on leave amid former players’ racism allegations
- San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich on George Floyd’s killing: ‘I’m just embarrassed as a white person to know that that can happen’
- Kurt Thomas, the 1st U.S. male gymnast to win a world championship, dies at 64 after suffering a stroke
- Ravinia Farmers Market opens with social distancing in place
- Daily horoscope for June 7, 2020
- Ask Amy: Online pity parties don’t elicit hugs
- Former and current Stevenson students organize peaceful protest
- Library creates clearinghouse for online activities in the wake of coronavirus shutdowns
- Peaceful Arlington Heights protest seeks to end racism, police brutality
- Students who experienced the pandemic become primary sources once 2020 relegated to the history books
- Letters: How do we defeat racism? By not paying the issue lip service
- Ailing hostas could be sign of frost damage or fungal disease — here’s how to tell the two apart
- Volunteers monitor man-made boxes to help native songbirds
- Chicago’s Steve James finished his mayoral campaign documentary months ago. Then 2020 happened.
- Column: When Drew Brees uses the American flag to virtue signal, he ignores black contributions to the military — and the systemic reasons many don’t know their family history
- Venice glimpses a future with fewer tourists and likes what it sees
- This pantry pasta is sure to be a family favorite
- How to be your own glam squad for a Zoom wedding
- 401(k) plans move a step closer to pooling with private equity
- Pete Davidson comes out of his basement
- Norah Jones enjoys a weekly Christmas, and sweating to the (not so) oldies
- 4 books to inspire your inner designer
- As audiobook market grows, narrators of color find their voice
- Luxury cars go sustainable from the inside out
- How Zane Lowe became pop’s unofficial therapist
- On tribal lands, a time to make art for solace and survival
- Hebron celebrates 1-mile completion of Veterans Memorial Parkway with ribbon-counting
- Colin Kaepernick: Timeline of the QB’s football and post-NFL days since he first knelt in 2016
- Chesterton councilman resigns after Facebook post suggesting use of snow plows against protesters at Hammond rally
- Landmarks: Bevy of cicadas creating a buzz, but in four years they’ll be back in even larger numbers
- Family alleges negligence by Bridgeview nursing home in COVID-19-related death of 81-year-old
- IHSA Return to Play plan has athletic directors and coaches eager to go back to work: ‘We’ll meet face mask to face mask.’
- New state guidelines open the door for the return of high school sports in Indiana this summer
- Arrests following Aurora unrest: Racially diverse group includes Lifetime reality TV personality, a married couple, several 20-somethings
- Northbrook family asks for help after South Side business is damaged during fallout in Chicago
- Your graduation announcements for Chicagoland’s class of 2020
- At Victory Gardens, boarded up windows turned into billboards for a theater artists’ protest
- Area minor league baseball players react to major league cuts: ‘To know that one of my best friends got released, it hit me.’
- In Naperville and Aurora, violence and police tactics diverge during protests but have similar results
- 2 men charged with defacing property at downtown Naperville protest
- Black, Latino officials in Aurora area call for police reform: ‘If we don’t get together now, woe to all of us’
- Rachel Lindsay says she’ll cut ties with ‘The Bachelor’ unless ’embarrassing’ diversity issues are fixed
- Chicago police investigating protest video where officer is heard using gay slur
- Library begins curbside computing project, allows residents to use desktops outside
- World reaches 400,000 virus deaths as Pope urges caution
- Sammy Sosa’s career with the Chicago Cubs
- Local runners keep training even though some notable races might not take place
- Anthony LeBlanc named interim executive producer at Second City
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened June 6-7 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Niles North senior, ‘superfan’ Angelo Battung named school’s volunteer of the year
- What you need to know about the 2020 MLB Draft happening this week
- Democrats’ legislation would overhaul police accountability
- Joe Biden to meet with George Floyd’s family ahead of funeral
- NASCAR vows to do better job addressing racial injustice: ‘Our sport must do better. Our country must do better.’
- At Aurora rally, community calls for local police reform
- Attorney General William Barr says there is no systemic racism in policing
- Chief of police takes a knee as hundreds march against police brutality in Griffith
- George Floyd fallout: Lightfoot lifts Chicago curfew; peaceful protesters march through South Side police neighborhoods; hundreds rally for reform in Evanston
- Ex-NFL, Gators receiver Reche Caldwell killed in Tampa shooting
- Virginia officer charged in use of stun gun on black man
- Minneapolis council majority backs disbanding police force
- When protesters demand ‘defund the police’ at George Floyd demonstrations, what does it mean?
- Man charged in slaying of retired St. Louis police captain
- Obamas deliver speeches during YouTube virtual ceremony
- Trump orders troops to leave D.C. as former military leaders sound warning
- Watery end for statue of slave trader in UK city of Bristol
- A U-turn, a rush to see Trump, a day of tension and surprise
- Curfews lift, police show less force amid peaceful protests
- Amid pandemic and upheaval, new cyber risks to the presidential election
- Two black women denounce Black Lives Matter protests in unusual confrontation in West Town
- Iowa strength coach Chris Doyle, who was placed on administrative leave, denies ‘unethical behavior or bias’
- New York Times editorial page editor resigns amid fury over op-ed
- Athletes, coaches get involved after George Floyd’s killing: ‘I am really proud of our youth right now.’