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- Daily horoscope for September 1, 2020
- Luis Robert provides more late-inning heroics as the White Sox rally to beat the Twins 8-5 and take sole possession of 1st place
- Ask Amy: Stepmom’s shocking news reaches the campsite
- The wilds of one Lake Ontario bay reveal how coastal habitats suffer from a changing climate and human choices
- After Chadwick Boseman’s death, doctors are recommending immediate screenings for those with colon cancer symptoms
- ‘Music has no color’: Debbie Parks won’t let pandemic get in the way of bringing people together through song
- Big problems for smallest Great Lake: More precipitation, warmer temperatures and controversial regulation plan upend life along Lake Ontario
- Problems on the smallest Great Lake
- Eula Biss’s new book ‘Having and Being Had’ is about buying a house in Evanston — and the box-fulls of self-questioning she unpacked next
- Daywatch: Trump is headed to Kenosha, big problems for the smallest Great Lake and a candlemaker creates custom scents for Chicago neighborhoods
- Ed Sheeran and wife Cherry announce birth of daughter Lyra
- Over public objections, Highland council approves rezoning for controversial senior living center
- ESPN signs Chicago-based reporter Michele Steele to a multiyear contract extension
- Black former franchisees sue McDonald’s, allege discrimination
- Chicago passes 500 homicides, on track for one of the most violent years in decades
- Walmart+ will be Walmart’s answer to Amazon Prime, launching Sept. 15
- Cuts to Cubs’ scouting and player development staffs will require people ‘to wear multiple hats’
- Commentary: 5 lessons the VMAs can teach the 2020 Emmys about COVID-era award shows
- NASA, Boeing target December for Starliner redo, next June for crewed flight
- Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh nearly died from COVID-19. FaceTiming with his family kept him alive
- Black editor resigns in protest from the Kenosha News over rally coverage headline
- Ghost Democracy review: This full skincare system is actually affordable
- The best AUX cable
- The best baseball helmet
- The best custom towing mirror
- The best flute for beginners
- The best grilling spice set
- The best hair removal cream for men of 2020
- The best magnesium supplement of 2020
- College of Lake County welding student earns scholarship courtesy of metal band Metallica
- Mariah Carey recounts the time Ellen DeGeneres outed her as pregnant
- Are you binge-watching reruns of your old favorite TV shows? You’re having a natural response to COVID-19
- Illinois State athletes sit out practices after athletic director said, ‘All Redbird Lives Matter,’ during a video call about race
- Make corn pop: Pan-roasting makes flavor a little sweeter, adds appeal
- Duke’s mayo stars in breads, cakes and even pasta
- Friends, president mourn conservative activist fatally shot in Portland: ‘He was a good man and he was just killed senselessly’
- Trump visita Kenosha, centro de protestas, pese a críticas
- 8 ways to make school-at-home lunches easier
- Foundation raises funds to help student buy electric wheelchair, holds event at Chicago Dogs game
- Aurora First Fridays to feature art, music and dance
- Northwest Indiana local scores for Wednesday, Sept. 2
- Man shot to death in Sauk Village
- Feeling extra anxious these days? Study of online traffic says you’re not alone
- Coronavirus o no, es hora de regresar a clase en toda Europa
- Why you might not be welcome at this year’s Thanksgiving table
- Miranda Lambert leads CMA noms, Luke Combs’ streak continues
- Trump keeps taking credit for dispatching the National Guard to unrest. He doesn’t command them.
- Venezuela: liberan jefe de despacho de Guaidó y 3 diputados
- Police investigating shooting death of Hammond man, 35
- Hunger is threatening to kill more people than COVID this year
- Ed Sheeran anuncia el nacimiento de su hija Lyra
- Obese patients at high risk of severe COVID-19 illness, study finds
- Speak Out reader opinion: Chicago baseballs teams are on top, but does it matter?
- Venecia realiza primer Festival de Cine en la era COVID-19
- Daily Southtown local schedules and scores for Wednesday, Sept. 2
- West Suburban local scores and schedules for Wednesday, Sept. 2
- John Thompson spoke truth to power ‘when it was hard to do’
- Lambs Farm reopens gates for visitors with online reservations
- Column: Emmett Till house poised to take first step toward official landmark status
- Transfers Crystal Galaviz and Alexis Mines turn Joliet Catholic into feeling tall and talented: ‘They have raised the level of competition.’
- Policías de Los Ángeles matan a un sospechoso negro
- The NFL’s quarterback soap opera in eight story lines
- Michelle Goldberg column: Biden condemned violence. Why won’t Trump?
- Review: Breonna Taylor and the grim power of Vanity Fair’s unflinching cover portrait
- Paul Krugman column: Trump had one good response to COVID-19. His party killed it.
- Post-Tribune girls volleyball rankings and player of the week for Wednesday, Sept. 2
- Bret Stephens column: Unwitting progressives for Trump
- Hockey’s fights and handshakes? Not exactly socially distant
- Gail Collins and Bret Stephens column: Biden had better watch it
- After rocky chapter, Winnetka-Northfield library names new director
- My worst moment: ‘Moesha’ star Sheryl Lee Ralph on racism in Hollywood and degrees of Blackness
- Move over, sustainable travel. Regenerative travel has arrived.
- Burned trucks, damaged street lights: Kenosha unrest has caused $2 million in damage to public-owned property, city says
- Will you have enough time to vote by mail in your state?
- Hotels tout cleaning, but guests say, ‘My room was dirty’
- Quarantine and travel: Strict penalties, rare enforcement
- Oswego OKs special counsel for water study
- Trump books keep coming, and readers can’t stop buying
- Frank Catalano plays what would have been Chicago Jazz Festival weekend
- ‘Here we go again’: A second virus wave grips Spain
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Community news
- Fireworks set off, small fire ignited in residential building; sheriffs slam Oregon governor’s plan to curb Portland violence
- ‘Here we go again’: A second virus wave grips Spain
- Boys cross country notes: Area teams change course, improvise due to coronavirus restrictions at local forest preserves
- President Trump visits Kenosha following days of protests
- Clientes de Uber deberán mostrar foto con cubrebocas
- Rizzo opens 2020-21 Sinai Forum with virtual event
- Comings & Goings: Masks & More store opens in Orland Park
- Presidente de México mantiene popularidad pese a las crisis
- AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine enters final testing stage, third in US to reach that goal
- Niecy Nash surprises fans by announcing marriage to musician Jessica Betts
- As recruiting heats up in girls volleyball, Metea Valley’s Morgan Rank makes decision to play at University of Alabama: ‘I wanted to go warm.’
- Winnetka schools reopen, students return to the classroom in year ‘unlike any other’
- Chadwick Boseman’s ‘Black Panther’ family asks: ‘How do you honor a king?’
- Girls volleyball notes: Junior leader Maddie Kmetz delivers the sets for young and talented Andrean
- Beloved Goddess and Grocer chef Jill Dedinsky dies at 49: ‘Her food was filled with her love’
- Gary teen faces extra prison time if guilty in Portage woman’s killing; trial date set for February
- Big problems for smallest Great Lake: More precipitation, warmer temperatures and controversial regulation plan upend life along Lake Ontario
- National Guard helps operate Indiana prison amid COVID-19
- It’s a… lot! One dolphin and beluga twins, one stillborn, arrive in half a day at Shedd Aquarium
- ‘I miss my son’: Family and friends of stabbing victim Elias Valdez remember the Glenview-area teen, demand justice for his death
- Tuesday weather: Cooler Chicago temps, chance of thunderstorms combine with 8-foot waves, rip currents to make for high swim risk
- Tercera vacuna para coronavirus se probará en humanos
- Lake Station paving at record pace: spending about $900K on projects
- Geneva debuts Sip and Sample in place of Festival of the Vine this year
- Ss. Peter and Paul alumna returns as school’s principal
- Mariah Carey says miscarriage happened after Ellen DeGeneres needled her about pregnancy
- A big get for the Bonnies: Bartlett’s Lexie Sinclair commits to play women’s basketball at St. Bonaventure
- Kanye West sues to be listed on West Virginia ballot
- Fire results in $15,000 in damage to shed and two garages in Elgin
- Uber to require face-mask selfies from some passengers
- Column: Drought in Fox Valley only adding to 2020 blues for farms, forest preserves
- Reacción a violencia policial, una historia repetida
- Southtowners: Mother McAuley grad promoted at ABC 7 Chicago
- Young girl found dead in New Chicago fire identified
- With ‘Boots in the Ashes,’ one of the first female ATF agents looks back on the murder and mayhem she saw on the job
- Reigning state champion Benet returns all six top runners. Even better? Kelly Andrews’ recovery from injury: ‘Having her back makes our team.’
- Park Ridge Park District Board forms task force aimed at studying diversity, inclusion in programs and policies
- Crew death renews concerns over film set safety amid COVID-19
- Column: What goes around comes around whenever the White Sox and Indians are in a tight AL Central race
- Chicago teen charged in connection with three armed robberies in Oak Park, police say
- Hinsdale Central High School social worker receives statewide honor
- After decades of unmet diversity goals, some major employers turn to hard racial quotas
- Down to Business: Q&A with owner of Naperville shoe repair biz: ‘He’s turned my old shoes into new’
- Tribunal bloquea por ahora declaraciones fiscales de Trump
- You know who’s had a good pandemic quarantine? Zoom. It’s now worth more than GM and Ford combined.
- Coronavirus crisis easing across America’s Sun Belt after deadly summer
- Fusil en mano, salen a contener a manifestaciones violentas
- Pets of the week
- Barcelona quiere resolver el tema Messi en persona
- Treats you can make with leftover Halloween candy
- 3 things we learned after Bears practice, including Allen Robinson’s mindset with no current talks about a new contract
- Column: Trump’s visit to Kenosha will do nothing to heal our divided country
- Trump repeats story about airplane full of black-clad ‘thugs’ and ‘rioters’ — without providing evidence
- No procesarán a hombre por pelea por cubrebocas
- Oak Park activist Anthony Clark announces run for village board; Deno Andrews to seek reelection
- Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts claims there’s ‘no such thing as medical marijuana’
- Chicago police fatally shoot man after shots fired at officers in Pilsen
- ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero Paul Rusesabagina arrested on terrorism charges; daughter says he was kidnapped in Dubai
- Editorial: More secrecy in the Jussie Smollett case. Who is protecting whom now?
- Column: Joe Biden’s familiar straight talk faces Donald Trump’s doublespeak
- Each day, a New Lenox mother tends the memorial site at the gas station where her son was fatally shot. ‘I can’t let him go.’
- Franklin Park mayor questions Congressman Quigley in telephone town hall
- 25 cities gaining the most time back from their commutes during the pandemic
- El Inter de Milán cierra la puerta a Messi
- DuPage County clerk to double the pay of election judges to $260
- Study: The safest, most reliable used cars for less than $20k
- Officials: Lake Street in downtown Oak Park could reopen to traffic this week
- Editorial: All aboard! Freeloaders on Metra damage agency’s bottom line
- Samsung promociona nuevo celular plegable de $2,000 dólares
- How holding onto a perfectionist mindset hinders your progress
- 7 of the most irritating things job seekers wish companies would change about the hiring process
- House investigators warn of possibly ‘billions of dollars’ in PPP fraud and abuse
- Big East women’s basketball tournament returning to Connecticut after 3 seasons in Chicago
- Muguruza y Nadal expresan su solidaridad a Carla Suárez
- Evanston is using marijuana tax revenues to fund reparations. Officials see home-buying help and a new STEM school as priorities.
- La Habana inicia toque de queda y niños se quedan sin clases
- Gogo is selling its commercial aviation business for $400 million
- Wilmette students begin year with remote learning, will return to classrooms in coming weeks
- Chicago adds North Carolina, Hawaii and Nebraska to travel quarantine order, warns Indiana could be next
- Florida levantará prohibición de visitar asilos de ancianos
- The US sent $1.6 billion in stimulus checks to dead people — and about $500 million never came back
- Glencoe Community Garden’s Power Tower exhibit inspires educational documentary on environmental issues
- El deseo es ‘seguir la fiesta’
- Cher helps to raise nearly $2 million for Joe Biden in virtual LGBTQ fund-raiser
- Matteson school finance director faces third termination from district since 2008
- Jellyfish glow, tourists graze at Shanghai ‘ocean park’
- Kane reports 357 new COVID-19 infections and 3 deaths in last week of August, down from prior week
- Aurora looks to add funds to empowerment center
- Lake County Council asks departments to maintain previous budget for 2021, warns 2022 will be tougher
- Drag queens entregan comida y música en San Francisco
- Chadwick Boseman’s play was on Chicago’s Congo Square Theatre years ago
- Illinois warns extra $300 in weekly unemployment benefits would last only three weeks and leave out thousands of jobless workers
- Foreclosure suit may derail Logan Square’s Congress Theater rehabilitation
- Miranda Lambert encabeza nominaciones a los CMA
- Commentary: The path to Illinois pension reform
- D.B. Weiss and David Benioff line up first post-‘Game of Thrones’ TV project
- Franklin Park veterans who served in WWII reflect on the 75th anniversary of the war’s end
- Greenhouse recreational marijuana facility set to open in Skokie this week
- Chicago Bears are favorites to land Leonard Fournette
- 75 years after the end of World War 2, take inspiration from the ‘greatest generation’
- Former county official and McCook Mayor Jeffrey Tobolski pleads guilty to extortion charges, cooperates with investigation
- Juez bloquea entrevistas de asilo por agentes de CBP
- Spectators allowed at Arlington racecourse in final weeks of season
- Mexicanos en EEUU aumentan envío de dinero a su país
- 75th anniversary of World War II’s end: Local interviews preserve war stories for future generations
- Letters: Chicago Archdiocese should stop in-person classes to protect kids, teachers, families
- Husband, wife found slain in Markham home; family member in custody
- 14 COVID-19 cases reported among 94 Maine South students exposed to virus via parties: District 207
- Aumentan muertes por coronavirus entre los navajos de EEUU
- Gun fired in robbery reported at Niles park: Police
- Former Portage Clerk-Treasurer Christopher Stidham’s criminal case stumbles at start as judge recuses herself
- Northwestern University president apologizes and reduces tuition after shifting 1st- and 2nd-year students to remote learning: ‘I understand that anger’
- Franklin Park to hold food distribution Saturday morning
- Indiana launching new guidelines for schools during pandemic
- Chicago-area counties boost election judges’ pay, ramp up recruitment efforts as nation faces ‘critical shortage’ of election workers
- Bears rookie Ledarius Mack, facing roster cuts this weekend, has a helpful guide in older brother Khalil Mack: ‘He showed me what hard work is’
- Niños, poco espacio: El difícil reto de trabajar desde casa
- Column: Patrick O’Brien needs to own up to his role in bungled case
- Column: Democrats, don’t let the far left hijack your party
- Skokie-based Maxwell Street Klezmer Band returns from coronavirus-induced hiatus at Highland Park concert
- Column: Emmett Till house poised to take first step toward official landmark status
- One Book, One Chicago: Mohsin Hamid’s ‘Exit West’ is new Chicago Public Library pick
- Park districts, individuals turn to remote learning ‘pods’ in Glenview and Northbrook
- Lincolnwood police get meal delivery from members of Orthodox Jewish community; mayor, chief on hand
- Iowa continues to see COVID-19 cases rise as federal report says state has nation’s highest rate of virus spread
- In Chicago visit, Dr. Birx raises alarm over growing COVID-19 positivity rates in parts of Illinois
- Donald Trump chats with Kevin Warren and says the return of Big Ten football is ‘on the one yard line’ — but which one?
- Work renovating EHS Memorial Field stadium, Larkin HS career and tech classrooms nearly complete
- Two women kidnapped and driven to ATMs in Hyde Park to withdraw cash, police say
- Don’t overthink it, just cast your votes in the Tweet of the Week poll!
- Providing comfort or promoting racism: Lake County politicians split along party lines about motives for Trump’s visit to Kenosha
- Lake Forest High School pushes back dates for when students may return to school building
- ‘Dynamite’ by BTS becomes 1st K-pop single to top Billboard Hot 100
- 2020 becomes Chicago’s hottest summer on record, despite few record-setting days
- Ian Happ remains at the top of the Cubs order as manager David Ross sorts his expanded options
- Motorcycle racing star Miguel Oliveira engaged to stepsister, eyes 2021 wedding
- ‘Top Chef’ winner Stephanie Izard bringing meal kits and grilling to Naperville’s Solemn Oath brewery
- Saying their white colleagues are ‘now uncomfortable,’ Illinois Legislative Black Caucus call hearings on criminal justice, education and economic reform
- Elgin cops put out warning to lock car doors after 13 break-ins reported in just one week
- Pence told ‘to be on standby’ during Trump’s unscheduled visit to Walter Reed last fall, according to new book
- Big moments haven’t fazed White Sox rookie Luis Robert: ‘He has this special talent where he makes things look way easier than they are’
- Live updates: Trump defends police during Kenosha visit; Jacob Blake’s family says they refuse to let president use shooting as ‘political prop’
- 17-year-old activist Caleb Reed was shot to death by a friend who was aiming at a passing car in West Rogers Park, prosecutors now say
- Protesters damaged property at the Oak Park mayor’s home. Village officials are divided about what happened.
- The Spin: Trump manages to bash Chicago during Kenosha visit | In Chicago, Dr. Birx warns of rising COVID-19 cases in Illinois | Ex-Cook Commissioner Tobolski pleads guilty in extortion case
- Chicago closes 4 more restaurants and bars for COVID-19 guideline violations
- The NFL will require coaches and staff near the bench to wear masks this season
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened Sept. 1 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- In Kenosha, Trump says law enforcement isn’t systemically racist, and the needed structural change is safety
- Allen Robinson, a former Penn State star, weighs in on the Big Ten football debate: ‘I don’t think that they should play’
- Second stimulus check updates: Pressed by Democrats to quickly negotiate COVID-19 relief package, Mnuchin says Trump still wants deal
- Fact check: Trump’s false and misleading statements about protests and violence
- Family demands answers after Chicago police fatally shoot man when shots are fired at officers in Pilsen
- Photos: Twins 3, White Sox 2
- Sen. Edward Markey defeats Rep. Joe Kennedy III in Massachusetts’ Senate primary