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- Photos: Cubs split doubleheader with Reds
- Daily horoscope for August 30, 2020
- Ask Amy: Engagement brings on family snark
- Letters: Boomers are not to blame for all that’s wrong
- Landmarks: Golf, trains share an old link along the old Illinois Central line
- Splotchy, black-specked leaves are likely sign of Guignardia leaf blotch. Here’s how to treat it.
- Column: ‘Not my coach.’ Notre Dame icon Lou Holtz risks estrangement from the university and his former players with his tone-deaf RNC speech.
- Officials say January probably earliest Aurora police could get body cameras
- ‘Football is a game. What we’re talking about is real life.’ Bears players discuss why they chose to protest Thursday after the police shooting of Jacob Blake
- What’s a Palantir? The tech industry’s next big IPO
- Mr. Smith went to Washington … With dimmers
- Where the produce includes pepperoni: The pizza farm
- How Mark Duplass and Bradley Whitford swapped bodies
- The suffragists fought to redefine femininity. The debate isn’t over.
- The 2020 back-to-school list for teens’ emotional well-being
- 7 podcasts to serve shaken or stirred
- Trump to visit Kenosha on Tuesday to meet with police amid protests over shooting of Jacob Blake
- German automotive giant admits it was a Nazi accomplice
- Intel slips, and a high-profile supercomputer is delayed
- You can’t escape lice, even 6,500 feet below the ocean
- Soon, the kitty litter will come by electric truck
- Near-beaning of Anthony Rizzo and Craig Kimbrel’s blown save leave David Ross and the Cubs angry and frustrated after a doubleheader split
- Congress won’t get briefings about election security because ‘we got tired’ of leaks, Trump says
- Downtown Hobart becomes traffic challenge as construction projects continue
- Michigan City, Gary, Ogden Dunes have Indiana’s worst ozone levels: experts
- Road to recovery from horse’s kick to the head sees plenty of twists and turns for Yorkville cross country runner Hailey Simmons
- Early voting to begin Sept. 24 in Kane County
- Kane County Child Advocacy Center leader who ‘ferociously protected’ victimized kids dies after battle with cancer
- Disabato: Simeon, Tinley Park, what’s next? A.J. Casey to transfer again and his dad Andre says, ‘If I tell him we’re moving to China, he has no choice. We’re moving to China.’
- With remote learning underway, OPRF High School board votes to furlough food service employees
- ‘Intruders’ disrupt Zoom classes at Emerson Middle School in Niles with hate speech, racial slur
- Outdoor dining to continue into early fall in Highland Park’s Ravinia Business District
- Breonna Taylor’s life was changing. Then Kentucky police came to her door.
- Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has long leveraged connections, contributions. Democrats want to know how he got this job.
- A’s-Astros postponed after a positive COVID-19 test for Oakland
- Despite earlier tiff with CPD, rabbi leads protesters to briefly close Mag Mile in vigil for lost Black lives
- 7-year-old girl attending birthday party killed in drive-by shooting in South Bend, police say
- Inspired by a student’s hug, principal on Chicago’s South Side pens children’s book about returning to school during COVID-19
- Popular tamalero de Chicago hospitalizado con COVID-19 y conectado a un respirador
- Benoit Paire out of the US Open after the French tennis player tests positive for COVID-19
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened on Aug. 29-30 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Ohio State football player Haskell Garrett wounded in a shooting
- University of Chicago students call for defunding, abolishing school police during rally outside university president’s house
- Real Salt Lake owner to sell his 3 soccer teams after reports of racism
- Harvey educators supply community with pandemic essentials in time of need
- David Blaine moves balloon stunt from New York City to Arizona
- Music Theater Works is heading from Evanston to Skokie, where it says it can grow
- Tens of thousands protest in Belarus on leader’s birthday, demanding he resign
- 2 Chicago police officers recovering after being shot by a man early Sunday on West Side; officers returned fire
- Photos: Cubs 10, Reds 1
- Photos: BMW Championship at Olympia Fields
- Chicago police respond to 10 shootings in about 3 hours Sunday, including 3 homicides and an attack that left 2 officers seriously wounded
- Column: Human trafficking often goes underreported in Indiana, but ‘it is in our back yards, our schools and neighborhoods’
- Photos: White Sox 5, Royals 2 (10 innings)
- Record number of riders join in Orland Park police summer ride
- Cubs acquire DH Jose Martinez and sign right-handed reliever A.J. Ramos ahead of Monday’s trade deadline
- Democrats accuse Trump of stoking violence; Wisconsin governor asks him to reconsider Kenosha visit
- Teen killed in Waukegan’s 3rd deadly shooting in a week
- Cubs make history as all 3 outfielders hit 2 home runs in a 10-1 win over the Reds, but Tyler Chatwood leaves early with an elbow injury
- Luis Robert’s 3-run homer in the 10th gives the White Sox a 5-2 win over the Royals after Dane Dunning pitches 5 no-hit innings
- Evanston residents, leaders grieve, pray and demand change following the shooting of Jacob Blake
- Man fatally shot in Portland as Trump supporters, protesters clashed was supporter of right-wing group, founder says
- Moment of silence, demonstration in Highland Park for Jacob Blake police shooting, Black Lives Matter support
- Remembered as a ‘journalistic whirling dervish,’ former Tribune correspondent William R. Neikirk dies at 82
- ‘We will unite to fight’: Evanston residents, leaders grieve, pray and demand change following the shooting of Jacob Blake
- Olympia Fields shows its ‘beauty and brawn’ with a spectacular finish produced by Jon Rahm and Dustin Johnson at the BMW Championship
- VMAs 2020: Best and worst red carpet looks at MTV’s Video Music Awards