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- Ask Amy: Smoker would rather fight, than quit
- Meet the graduates; Elmwood Park will hold a drive-in ceremony Sunday
- Daily horoscope for June 9, 2020
- Ask Amy: Smoker would rather fight, than quit
- Teen activism in Chicago spurred by police killing of George Floyd: ‘We are fed up and this is the last straw’
- ‘Pie house’ in Deerfield, featuring 3-foot-wide wall on tiny suburban lot, lists for $300,000
- Will there be a second COVID-19 surge in Illinois? These are the stats to watch.
- ‘Living through history’ is hard, so MVCC prof wants to help put pandemic in perspective
- 3 teams that would be good fits for Colin Kaepernick
- 18 years. 40 seasons. Just one black lead. These ‘Bachelor’ fans are fed up
- Gov. Pritzker marches with hundreds in Matteson, demanding racial equality
- 6 options for the Chicago Cubs with the No. 16 pick in the MLB draft
- 6 options for the Chicago White Sox with the No. 11 pick in the MLB draft
- Demonstrators gather in Midlothian to demand justice for Jemel Roberson, black security guard killed by police in 2018
- Grant Park Music Festival re-emerges online and on the air
- Daywatch: Pritzker calls ‘defund the police’ an obstacle, the story behind Nini’s Deli and a Chicago treasure hunter’s stolen solve
- What was it like to cover Sammy Sosa’s career in Chicago? Simply put, he was one of a kind.
- Coronavirus deaths, George Floyd protests spotlight persistent racial gap: Black Americans have 10 cents in wealth for every $1 whites own
- Federal statistics show unemployment dropping despite coronavirus job cuts. Take a closer look at the numbers.
- Daniel Radcliffe defends trans women in response to J.K. Rowling’s anti-transgender comments
- When 511 epidemiologists expect to fly, hug and do 18 other everyday activities again
- 27 steakhouse secrets straight from the experts
- Speak Out: Residents react to protests about police
- The Chicago Cubs are more prepared ‘in some ways’ for this year’s MLB draft — thanks to NFL coaches and GMs
- Minnesota police slashed car tires at George Floyd protests and unrest
- 2 Chicago boxers take different paths to success in ‘Ringside’ documentary
- Chicago Cubs’ Anthony Rizzo shows off his new look — now 25 pounds lighter with the help of a Florida-based trainer
- Fallece el vocalista de Jarabe de Palo, Pau Donés
- Outdoor exercise classes in Aurora offer a ‘sense of community’ during pandemic
- George Floyd, whose death energized a movement, to be buried
- What’s next for Iowa football? One former player defends head coach Kirk Ferentz, while another is ‘asking for change’ after alleged racist remarks by strength coach.
- Dating apps debate race filters as empowering or discriminating
- Milwaukee-area lawyer spat on high school protester, later kneed police officer in groin, authorities say
- You’ll want to bake the DoubleTree Hotel’s chocolate chip cookie recipe
- Ground turkey can be delicious. No, really!
- Jennifer López recibe ayuda de sus hijos para protestar
- Tired of banana bread but still want to bake? Try fluffy muffins instead
- St. Charles-area woman charged with animal cruelty after 3 dead dogs found at her home, 9 others confiscated
- Women veterans focus of online program
- How the Chicago Bulls — and 7 other teams not invited to the NBA’s restarted season — will stay sharp with a nearly 9-month break
- Entierran a Floyd, cuya muerte inspiró un movimiento
- Alcalde Londres: Pueden retirarse estatuas de imperialistas
- Trump signals he’s ready to battle again over NFL players kneeling during anthem
- Dating apps debate race filters as empowering or discriminating
- Por coronavirus, los hoteles ahora compiten en limpieza
- Libertyville approves final plan for rehabilitation center
- Airbnb joins vacation-rental sites seeing surge in summer demand
- Ed Perkins on travel: Cautiously optimistic on reopening
- Off-duty Chicago police officer shot during Brighton Park attack, returns fire
- NFL delinea reapertura de instalaciones
- No swimming at Naperville’s Centennial Beach this summer for first time in park’s 88-year history
- Hard Rock casino taking shape in Gary; official predicts first quarter 2021 opening
- Chicago Film Office to issue permits to small crews starting June 15
- A Chicago treasure hunter was on the trail of a hidden chest worth more than $1 million — but she says she was hacked and her ‘solve stolen’
- Column: Biden’s response to the George Floyd protests isn’t presidential. He should be tweeting more insults!
- 11 great alternatives to the top national parks
- How to keep your kids entertained this summer amid coronavirus outbreaks
- Older adults remain isolated despite reopening. These programs help.
- NFL outlines steps for training camp, but timeline unclear
- Esposa de Brees se disculpa por comentarios del QB
- 11 great alternatives to the top national parks
- ‘People are getting in planes’: The travel business is picking up
- Navigating home care during the pandemic
- Despite recession, stock markets turn positive for the year
- Planning to travel this summer? Want to know how to protect yourself from coronavirus when away from home? Send us your questions.
- With an internet of animals, scientists aim to track and save wildlife
- How to sprout and grow herbs and vegetables from store-bought produce scraps
- With an internet of animals, scientists aim to track and save wildlife
- The best preschool learning kit
- Tri-State Tollway near Hinsdale and Western Springs will be one lane in each direction overnight Friday
- The best playground
- The best math learning material
- The best lesson plan
- The best immunity boosting multivitamin
- Artistas usan escaparates cerrados para marcar una diferencia
- Chicago is losing out on $1.4 billion in spending as trade shows keep canceling because of coronavirus. International Manufacturing Technology Show is the latest to be scrubbed.
- Column: As we grapple with police violence, it’s time to put down the books and take action
- Evanston moves forward with public search for new city manager
- Amazing tiny homes around the world
- Sammy Sosa hopes ESPN documentary is ‘going to change a lot of people’s minds’ — and bring a reunion with the Chicago Cubs
- Avoca school district celebrates end of the school-year with car parade: ‘I miss the children’s spirit’
- Letters to the Editor: Move from pain to purpose, value each human life
- As the art world goes online, a generation gap opens
- Boxed lunches and plexiglass will welcome back Wall Street’s workers
- Educators talk cost of reopening schools for upcoming year
- The challenges of pandemic dental care
- Child abuse cases drop 51%. The authorities are very worried.
- As the art world goes online, a generation gap opens
- NFL stars DeAndre Hopkins, Deshaun Watson petition Clemson to remove slave owner’s name from honors college
- No, the jobs report wasn’t rigged. Here’s what happened.
- 6,000 strains of bacteria under 1 roof
- How Sam Acho recruited Jonathan Toews, Mitch Trubisky, Jason Heyward and other athletes to try to spark change in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood
- High school football conditioning starts on July 6, but questions remain for a season to begin: ‘I’d like to be cautiously optimistic.’
- Community news
- Testing nursing home workers can help stop coronavirus. But who should pay?
- This NASA mission may cause an artificial meteor shower
- Roadside America salutes Lake County oddities
- Lollapalooza, Taste of Chicago, y otros festivales de verano fueron cancelados
- Model Bar Refaeli owes millions in Israeli tax evasion case as mom is sent to prison
- Delino DeShields Jr. recalls Yankee fans hurling the n-word at him in 2017: ‘I don’t want to stay quiet no more’
- A Chicago brewery is available for $2.5 million — on Craigslist
- Auto review: 2021 Mercedes-AMG GLS 63 is the perfect embodiment of our age
- Indiana officials report 23 more coronavirus deaths; Lake County tops 4,000 cases
- Seniors, already at risk from COVID-19, face problems getting groceries and prescriptions
- Auto review: 2021 Mercedes-AMG GLS 63 is the perfect embodiment of our age
- De La Salle’s Ben Hernandez keeps the faith, believes he will be taken in first three rounds of MLB draft: ‘Whichever way God takes me.’
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- Optimism at Macy’s: Reopened stores doing better than anticipated
- Electric truck maker Nikola looks like Tesla 2.0 — except even riskier
- Commentary: When the Twitter mob takes on George Floyd, Tom Cotton and police power, we all lose
- Indiana State Superintendent Jennifer McCormick: Schools to have flexibility when reopening
- Spike Lee: Con Trump, ‘el mundo está en peligro’
- Jennifer Aniston donates nearly $1 million to racial justice charities
- La historia detrás de Nini’s Deli, el restaurante del momento que cerró en medio de protestas por la postura homofóbica y anti-Black Lives Matter de sus propietarios
- Ordinary office elevator now coronavirus risk-multiplying bottleneck. Expert tips: Stay in your corner, face the walls, carry toothpicks.
- Column: Remembering legendary comedian Richard Pryor and wondering how he’d react to George Floyd, Black Lives Matter
- West Aurora’s Antwone Rayford lost his chance for stardom as the boys track season was canceled. Then Central Michigan axed the men’s track program.
- Column: ‘Defund the police’ is bold, but it might just bring necessary change
- Speak Out
- Cupich says Catholic school students in Archdiocese of Chicago expected to return to classrooms in fall
- LaLiga se agita con la posibilidad de tener público
- Comings & Goings: O’Hara and Friends Salon reopens in Palos Heights
- Two telemarketers made 1 billion robocalls, FCC says. Now they face a record $225 million fine.
- Trump propaga teoría infundada sobre manifestante herido tras ser empujado por la policía
- Vandalism to vehicle with a Black Lives Matter message being called a possible hate crime by Elgin cops
- Delayed by COVID-19, Hobart welcomes area’s newest Baby Box at fire station
- North Korea cuts off all cross-border communication with South Korea
- Matt Nagy ends the Chicago Bears’ virtual offseason program 13 days early: ‘We would know if we needed more time’
- Feminicidios en México se disparan durante la pandemia
- Trump tweets conspiracy theory about Buffalo protester shoved by police after it appears on television
- IBM quits facial recognition, citing surveillance fears, and joins call for police reforms
- 3 Barrington High School alums collect food, cash for some Chicago Public Schools families in need
- Starlight Children’s Foundation won’t produce Homer Glen boy’s winning hospital gown design after racist texts by mother
- Bail denied for man accused of firing at Chicago cop, hitting his protective vest
- Weddings become a moving target amid coronavirus restrictions: ‘I feel like we are on Plan D’
- Column: ‘You can wear love on your sleeve.’ Nanny who created annual Stand Up To Hate Play Date is making buttons for people to show their allyship
- US employers laid off 7.7 million workers in April
- Division I prospect. Reigning state champion. Neuqua Valley’s Jane Riehs carries that banner in diving, not gymnastics: ‘I’m really happy.’
- Lollapalooza is canceled for 2020, which is a chance for the giant music fest to become something better
- Thornton Fractional District 215 hires Illinois juvenile justice education system reformer as superintendent
- Rick Steves: Roman treasures in Nimes
- ‘It’s an overdue conversation’: Hundreds march in Northbrook to protest racial injustice
- Is my online travel agency withholding an airline ticket refund? Travel Troubleshooter investigates.
- MLB quiere un sinfín de equipos en postemporada
- Letters: Mayor Lightfoot has much more to do to change policing in Chicago
- Stray bullet from shootout shatters window at Hyde Park Art Center
- Go away with … Richa Moorjani
- Auto review: 2020 Genesis G80 strong on style, technology, value
- Dog-killing cane toads are back as Florida rains draw them out
- Lollapalooza, Taste of Chicago, other summer festivals canceled by city
- Arrestan en México a defensora de trabajadores
- Coronavirus updates: 8 deaths from Elgin and South Elgin and 20 overall in Kane County in last week
- City of Elgin organizing effort to thank essential workers in the pandemic with the use of banners and yard signs
- Laid off, or hours cut for COVID-19? Indiana offering $350 in help for utility bills
- Caregiver facing 20-40 years in death of 2-year-old; detective says home was ‘barren and filthy’
- 2,700-plus U-46 students to graduate virtually this Saturday
- Top cop strips officer of police powers, moves him to administrative tasks following obscene gesture at protesters
- Sports lookback: Swing compilations of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson from 1996-2020
- Naperville council OKs buying more Fifth Avenue land while pondering how to move ahead on the development
- Lake Council warned to consider cuts in 2021 budget as COVID-19, civil unrest costs mount
- Fauci warns that the coronavirus pandemic is far from over
- Column: Add the S already! The fierce urgency of renaming Chicago’s Douglas Park for Frederick Douglass
- Wolf headaches persist for ranchers in elk-rich Jackson Hole
- A wave of new polling suggests an erosion of President Trump’s support
- Southtowners: Crete Woman’s Club awards scholarships
- Editorial: Once more with feeling: Gov. Pritzker, reopen restaurants
- Aurora panel recommends $245,000 to renovate parts of City Hall
- Driver charged in fatal April crash in Burns Harbor
- Baiting grizzly bears with doughnuts soaked in bacon grease, using spotlights to blind hibernating black bears and their cubs, gunning down swimming caribou from motorboats: Trump administration revives banned hunting techniques in Alaska
- Aurora Township changes meeting site
- Pets of the week
- Reports of racist, anti-Semitic images involving students prompt response from Resurrection High School
- Editorial: The high-speed chase that killed an innocent mother should never have happened
- Solving the mystery of what became of JFK’s other patrol boat, the PT-59 Navy vessel he commanded in his mid-20s during World War II
- Magic in Greek moonlight as outdoor cinemas open
- Illinois supera las 6,000 muertes por coronavirus
- Winnetka Caucus survey offers incentive for participants
- Ground broken for new Downers Grove Township Senior Center
- Best TV dramas of all time, according to audiences
- Jordan Lucas, the Chicago Bears’ new special teams ace, says ‘110% I plan to kneel’ during the national anthem
- 10 popular food brands serve up strong anti-racist calls to action
- No Pride Parade this summer, but a drag queen’s Black Lives Matter march in Boystown on Sunday is drawing interest from thousands
- Village halls, government buildings reopen to public with limited hours
- Mayor Lori Lightfoot: Chicago’s coronavirus budget shortfall at least $700 million
- Lake County Board OKs $19 million in coronavirus aid for residents, small businesses
- Regresan turistas al Caribe mexicano
- Rebel Wilson’s next gig could be ‘The Bachelorette’
- After 10 years of Morton Grove market, French Market debuts
- Elgin News Digest
- Commentary: Mitt Romney is owed an apology for how he was attacked in 2012. He’s unlikely to get it.
- 15-year-old Sauk Village girl fatally shot by relative, police say
- FSU football players test positive for COVID-19 upon return to campus
- Corrections and clarifications
- Column: Don’t let right-wingers like Candace Owens dictate how we feel about George Floyd
- Houston despide a George Floyd en un funeral con un tono político y demandas de justicia
- Consumer Confidential: Debt collectors see golden opportunity with all of us stuck at home
- A Juneteenth of joy and resistance
- There’s a black jobs crisis. Coronavirus is making it worse
- While other cities pledge funding cuts to police forces, Chicago more hesitant
- Gerentes de DirecTV detenidos en Venezuela son acusados de ‘estafa’
- ‘He is going to change the world’: Private funeral held for George Floyd
- For less than the price of a cup of coffee — way less — you can fill out the Tweet of the Week survey
- The Wiener’s Circle dishing out side orders of curbside abuse with profanity-laced takeout
- Park Ridge youth football programs scrimmage in court over new team’s name, logo
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened June 9 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Lake County sheriff: Deputies must intervene if they witness others using excessive force
- Pull Chicago police from CPS schools and use that $33 million on mental health services instead, activists and elected leaders say
- Republicans rip Pritzker as social distancing hypocrite as he joins protests; he hits back on Trump conspiracy tweet
- ‘SNL’s Chris Redd and other black Second City alums call out racism of landmark Chicago improv company
- George Floyd response: As protests continue, debate grows over police reforms. License cops like barbers and nurses?
- Insisting he’s ‘done more for the black community than any president since Abraham Lincoln,’ Trump eyes the racial equality debate through an economic lens
- Aurora panel supports canoe chute repairs downtown
- ‘We knew this was going to be the year’: Former Chicago Blackhawks look back on a wild and wonderful 2010 Stanley Cup run
- Natalie Portman stands up for black people, calls out her white privilege
- A bitter election. Accusations of fraud. And now second thoughts: A close look at Bolivian election data suggests an initial analysis that raised questions of vote-rigging — and helped force out a president — was flawed
- Suburban Cook County COVID-19 cases among the highest in Des Plaines; most deaths in Niles
- Lake Zurich extends fireworks contract to 2021 with this year’s display canceled due to COVID-19
- North Central College asked Naperville police to leave campus during protest despite initially allowing cops to use dorm for staging
- ‘I felt my personhood was threatened,’ says Joliet mayor, again defending actions in skirmish caught on video during protest
- The era of Confederate flags flying during NASCAR races could be coming to an end
- ‘Days of Our Lives’ star Judi Evans nearly had both legs amputated due to coronavirus complications: rep
- How to stay safe in a tornado, hurricane or other natural disaster
- NBC 5 anchor Dick Johnson, ‘old-school newsman,’ dies at 66
- Cristobal’s remnants bring strong winds to Chicago area as tornado warning, severe thunderstorm watch in effect
- Michael Jordan and his crew caught a 442-pound marlin at a fishing tournament
- MLB players’ latest proposal cuts the season to 89 games and requests prorated money
- Voting delays, long lines bring chaos to twice-delayed Georgia primaries amid coronavirus pandemic
- Model Munroe Bergdorf rehired by L’Oreal 3 years after slamming company