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- Daily horoscope for July 4, 2020
- Ask Amy: Exasperated parents inspire kids to help at home
- Cook County courts start reopening Monday, with thousands of cases stalled by pandemic. ‘How do you wake the sleeping giant?’
- Cook County Board considers nonbinding proposal to shift money from ‘failed and racist’ policing, incarceration systems
- ‘Happy Hamilton Day!’ Stage musical fans and others reminisce, debate treatment of slavery
- Jim Carrey, unmasked
- 5 BRs, pool/hot tub, Mediterranean vu; too far to commute to Jerusalem
- The reality behind ‘Below Deck’
- ‘You know your audience’: Russia’s internet stars turn away from Putin
- Who wants to go to fashion school in a pandemic?
- ‘The future looks bleak’: The pandemic ravages medical tourism
- How Mount Rushmore became Mount Rushmore
- The secret to deep cleaning
- How to make your tech last longer
- Duchess Goldblatt is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside a Twitter account
- The music industry is wrestling with race. Here’s what it has promised.
- Hundreds of Joliet nurses strike after hospital, union fail to reach contract
- 31 MLB players and 7 staff members test positive for COVID-19 — a rate of 1.2%
- At Mount Rushmore, Trump fights the culture war: Assails protesters and ‘merciless campaign to wipe out our history’
- 3 Colorado police officers fired over photos of chokehold used on Elijah McClain
- 4th of July violence in Chicago
- 2 killed, 16 wounded in overnight shootings as Fourth of July weekend gets underway in Chicago
- Michigan village ravaged by flooding starts the recovery process, still awaits state and federal funds
- MLS Is Back match postponed after 6 FC Dallas players test positive for COVID-19
- Lake commissioners OK’d $340K for new armored vehicle in 2019; didn’t know sheriff acquired two more for free in fed program: ‘I don’t think he has the authority’
- 4 Atlanta Braves players test positive for COVID-19, including 4-time All-Star Freddie Freeman
- Mississippi ditched the Confederate-stamped state flag. Next, it could end its Jim Crow-era voting system.
- In NASCAR, the paint schemes on cars have taken a decidedly political turn recently — and will again this weekend
- Aurora procession driven to honor healthcare workers
- Crosby: An ode to the return of in-school learning
- ‘It oddly hasn’t been a stressful time’: European nations handled COVID-19 unemployment differently than the United States. Take a look.
- Funds help Aurora businesses impacted by pandemic, unrest
- Column: How is going back to the movies during the COVID-19 pandemic? Well, it’s complicated…
- Chicago Cubs hold simulated 3-inning game as David Ross tries to make his players feel ‘safe’ at Wrigley Field
- NFL to consider the union’s recommendation to cancel the entire preseason — not just cut it in half
- 1 dead, 2 seriously wounded in shootings so far Saturday
- Atlanta Braves give no indication they are considering a name change, unlike the Cleveland Indians and Washington Redskins
- Fourth of July in Chicago, amid COVID-19
- Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo repeat as hot dog eating champs
- Yorkville celebrates Fourth of July with neighborhood parades
- Amber Heard can hear Johnny Depp give evidence in libel trial
- As monuments fall, America’s largest Confederate memorial is protected by law, logistics
- New Lenox parade honors essential workers who continued work through stay-at-home order
- Kimberly Guilfoyle, fundraising official for Trump campaign and Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend, tests positive for COVID-19
- Lake Zurich man facing sexual abuse and child pornography charges, police say
- Socially distant Fourth of July in Chicago area: ‘We would normally have a bigger gathering with family’
- 3 takeaways from Day 2 of Chicago White Sox summer camp, including an early advantage for pitchers in a shortened season
- Dance team member who hoped to join Chicago Police Department dies week after block party shooting
- Protesters rally downtown for July Fourth boycott: ‘That flag is a lie’
- President Donald Trump entices masses with White House event even as officials across US warn against large July Fourth crowds
- A change for the better: Carmel boys basketball coach Zack Ryan implements study hall, which pays off in Academic All-State honor
- 5 takeaways from Day 2 of Chicago Cubs summer camp, including Kyle Hendricks and Yu Darvish showing endurance in an intrasquad game
- Triumphant returns: Highland Park’s Zoe Redei, St. Joseph’s Jake Hansen, Hinsdale’s Caroline Dolehide get taste of competing again
- Milwaukee Brewers’ Ryan Braun says he’s more likely to play beyond 2020 because of the shortened season
- Recruiting notes: Mundelein’s Scottie Ebube to meet up with teammate Conor Enright in Missouri Valley Conference
- Kanye West says he’s running for president in 2020, which he’s been saying since 2015
- Measuring up: Barrington boys basketball team wins 20 games, but goes one better by being named Academic All-State
- Pubs reopen in England for first time in 3 months: ‘Let’s not blow it now’
- Kansas newspaper’s Facebook post equates Democratic governor’s mask mandate with Holocaust
- ‘It’s a great honor’: Grant Niego hits all the right notes about Lyons being named Academic All-State in boys basketball