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- 3 takeaways from the Chicago Bulls’ 121-117 loss to the NBA-worst Minnesota Timberwolves, including a postgame moment between Zach LaVine and Karl-Anthony Towns
- Daily horoscope for April 12, 2021
- Ask Amy: Poorly placed tattoo causes grief
- ‘I hope they understand what they’re doing is important.’ The Humboldt Park Gators, a rare all-girls baseball team, poised to begin inaugural season
- Editorial: Those rules that got waived for the pandemic? Let’s get rid of them
- After traveling hundreds of miles for the first COVID-19 shot, can you get the second dose closer to home? Vaccine providers are divided.
- Celebrity chef José Andrés bets big on downtown with Bazaar Meat and riverfront cafe
- Column: In the traffic stop of a Black Army officer in Virginia, echoes of George Floyd
- Letters: It’s time to support rent control
- 4 takeaways from the Chicago White Sox series vs. the Kansas City Royals, including Lance Lynn showing why he was a big addition and Yermín Mercedes showing no signs of slowing down
- 3 takeaways from the Chicago Cubs series vs. the Pittsburgh Pirates, including the danger of building a rotation based on command over velocity
- Minnesota protests, unrest after fatal police shooting
- Daywatch: COVID-19 cases up in Chicago’s more vaccinated areas, city lags far behind others in getting rid of lead pipes and brewery’s ‘Beer for’ series wins over fans
- Column: No better time than now to focus on Negro Leagues museum
- This day in history, April 12: President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia, at age 63
- Suburban Chicago parents visit daughter at Valparaiso University, leave with COVID-19 vaccination at Porter Expo Center
- Aurora looks at measure to make it easier to hire experienced police officers
- ‘Huge explosion’ of ash and hot gas rocks St. Vincent as volcano keeps erupting
- Man dead, two injured in shooting on Eisenhower Expressway on Near West Side
- Fatal Eisenhower Expressway shooting
- Talk of the County reader opinion: Overhead wire and tire-piercing spikes could solve Long Grove bridge problem
- Sidelined last year, the Met Gala is returning — twice
- Prince Philip vs Philip of ‘The Crown’: Fact and fiction
- These elite bottles of wine are so exclusive, you can’t just buy them
- Will Smith, Antoine Fuqua won’t shoot ‘Emancipation’ in Georgia because of voting restrictions
- Talk of the County reader opinion: ‘Putting George Floyd’s smiling face on $20 bills would serve as a reminder to respect life’
- All-girls youth baseball team: the Humboldt Park Gators
- Will COVID-19 vaccine be mandatory? At some colleges, events and workplaces, it already is.
- Habitat for Humanity emerges from pandemic lull building 5 Waukegan homes: ‘It’s something I can pass on to my children’
- Los Rayados del ‘Vasco’ Aguirre se afirman en el tercer puesto de la Liga MX
- Protestas tras muerte de un hombre a manos de la policía en Minnesota
- ¿La pobreza afecta el cerebro de los niños? Un nuevo estudio lo investiga
- Man struck after walking in front of CTA Brown Line train at Armitage Avenue station, authorities say. Service on several lines affected but returning to normal.
- Elecciones en Perú
- Racist hazing incident of football player at Moline High School under investigation
- Perú afronta probable segunda vuelta de las presidenciales
- Column: Maybe Lake County needs to hand out marijuana coupons to increase Election Day turnout
- NFL draft profile: Jamin Davis of Kentucky
- Speak Out reader opinion: Senior nauseated by cancer culture
- Daily Southtown girls volleyball rankings and player of the week for Tuesday, April 13, 2021
- Así serán las olimpiadas de Tokio
- Comscore founder Gian Fulgoni sells Gold Coast mansion for $1.85 million
- La Gala del Met regresa, y por partida doble
- Oswego takes step to create railroad quiet zone downtown
- Virginia police officer in pepper-spraying of Black Army officer is fired
- Which soil do I need for my garden?
- The best blenders for smoothies
- Lasso se proclama ganador de presidenciales en Ecuador
- ComScore founder Gian Fulgoni sells Gold Coast mansion for $1.85 million
- How to use purple shampoo
- Which misting fan is best for camping?
- What can you do with a VR headset?
- Amazon Fire tablet vs. Nook: Which is better?
- Lasso se proclama ganador de presidenciales en Ecuador
- How to make crepes
- Best cheap 4K TVs
- Best hitch mount bike rack
- How to crochet
- The best mindfulness game
- The best tablet for playing games
- The best air fryer for vegetables
- The best golf impact bag
- Girls volleyball notes: A true little sister in height, Brooke Haggerty stands tall as a freshman defensive specialist for Andrew
- Daily Southtown, West Suburban and Lake County local scores for Tuesday, April 13
- Cómo los Chicago White Sox obtuvieron una ‘victoria organizativa’ con Yermín Mercedes, desde buscarlo para el draft de la Regla 5 hasta desarrollarlo en las menores
- Guillermo y Enrique recuerdan ingenio y servicio de abuelo
- Small but quick: Bhutan vaccinates 93% of adults in 16 days
- Rockford police shootings over weekend leave 1 dead, 1 injured
- Column: Park Forest tradition of independent candidates blurred in April election; Non-Partisan Committee reaffirms rules
- Dos históricos al borde del precipicio en la Champions
- Prince Philip had a rich Hollywood history. Here’s how he was depicted in film and TV
- NFL draft profile: Kelvin Joseph of Kentucky
- Daily Southtown boys soccer rankings and player of the week for Tuesday, April 13, 2021
- Northwest Indiana local scores for Tuesday, April 13
- Here’s what you need to know about COVID-19 vaccines in Illinois
- Tres policías heridos en tiroteo en Georgia
- Uber needs drivers: Record demand for ride-sharing, food delivery as vaccinations rise
- ‘Nomadland’ es la gran triunfadora de los premios BAFTA
- After not seeing each other in person during pandemic, Montgomery club holds parking lot party
- What to stream: With MLB season underway, revisit these baseball films
- NFL draft profile: Kyle Trask of Florida
- NFL draft profile: Travis Etienne of Clemson
- NFL draft profile: Christian Barmore of Alabama
- Con vacuna Sputnik V, Rusia gana presencia en Latinoamérica
- NFL draft profile: Liam Eichenberg of Notre Dame
- BTS return with ‘Bang Bang Con 21’ on April 17
- Premier League kickoff moved back to avoid starting during Prince Philip’s funeral
- What — and where — is NBC Sports Chicago+2? How to find the White Sox, Bulls and Blackhawks games when all 3 are playing at the same time.
- Snoop Dogg wants a new ‘Mythic Quest’ expansion in Season 2 trailer
- Boys soccer notes: Much to like about senior defender Matt Mucha as Stagg clinches second straight conference championship
- ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ hits $70 million in pandemic-era box office milestone
- Madison School principal Kim Rutan leaving for Naperville job
- NFL draft profile: Elijah Moore of Ole Miss
- Motorcyclist, 32, killed in Chesterton head-on crash
- Las Vegas pushes first-in-the-nation policy banning grass that nobody walks on: ‘The scale of this is pretty unprecedented’
- Piden juicio para 50 personas en Panamá por caso Odebrecht
- More COVID-19 vaccines wouldn’t slow surge in hard-hit Michigan, says CDC director
- Un vistazo al caso que atrapó a Matt Gaetz
- UE recibe 1er cargamento de vacuna contra COVID-19 de J&J
- NFL draft profile: Samuel Cosmi of Texas
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Inside the case of a Florida tax collector that ensnared US Rep. Matt Gaetz
- ‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ casts Lucy Liu as villain
- NFL draft profile: Levi Onwuzurike of Washington
- St. Isaac Jogues in full remote as a precaution after spring break travel
- Severe weather ‘off to an unusually slow start’ in the Chicago area, but this is the time of year when flash flooding and tornadoes can ramp up quickly
- FBI boss a ‘skilled predator’ who sexually harassed 8 women subordinates, says internal watchdog
- Vecinos horrorizados por el asesinato de tres niños
- Boys soccer notes: Uncommitted Jacobs forward Liam Armstrong, ‘one of the top players in the area,’ earns rave reviews with 14 goals
- Bishop Noll’s Courtney Blakely says Middle Tennessee State asked her to be its point guard: ‘They always wanted me.’
- ‘American Framing’ entry for architecture biennale
- Los 20 equipos de fútbol más ricos en 2021
- Post-Tribune softball rankings and player of the week for Wednesday, April 14, 2021
- Biden nombra a funcionarios a cargo de inmigración
- Chicago is 120,000 units short on affordable housing. Here’s how the city and developers hope to fix that gap.
- Chicago aldermen move to condemn Downstate Republican congresswoman for Adolf Hitler remark she made during January speech in Washington
- Column: Don’t reflexively, and wrongly, blame Adam Toledo’s parents for their son not being home when he was killed by police
- The best-paying cities for teachers
- Park Ridge election: Former alderman’s lead in city clerk race narrows
- Eddie George is reportedly set to become Tennessee State’s new football coach
- 4 ways to maximize productivity at work
- Major road work begins on Oak Brook Road/31st Street
- Indiana COVID-19 hospitalizations, infections creeping up
- 3 ways to connect with your boss when you’re working from home
- Dolton woman killed in Sunday crash on Dan Ryan Expressway is identified
- DuPage County Fair canceled for 2nd straight year
- California: Indagan accidente vial donde murieron migrantes
- Man convicted of drowning his wife in South Barrington talks prison life on TV show
- William and Harry remember their grandfather Prince Philip’s wit, service to UK: ‘My grandfather was an extraordinary man’
- Three-sport athletes are common. Perhaps you’ve heard about a kid in four sports this school year. Libertyville’s Andrew Clark outdoes them all.
- 5 energy-efficient home improvements that qualify for tax breaks
- Chicago’s tallest movie screen is likely gone for good. Here’s what’s left (plenty, actually) for filmgoers who’d rather go big than stay home
- Cambio de líder en lista de equipos más ricos del mundo
- Drive-thru COVID-19 mass vaccination site in Gary
- Talk of the County reader opinion: ‘It’s a new day. There is a new, fresh air in Waukegan’
- Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt join Oscars starry presenting cast
- Subaru introduces Wilderness model for 2022 Outback
- Smith y Fuqua retiran producción de película en Georgia por razones políticas
- Reporte: Exdirectivo del FBI acosó sexualmente a 8 mujeres
- Britt Reid, a former Kansas City Chiefs assistant, is charged with DWI in the crash that critically injured a 5-year-old girl
- US budget deficit jumps to an all-time high of $1.7 trillion
- CBS News executive Kim Godwin will make history as new ABC News president
- Científicos detienen el crecimiento de tumores cerebrales en roedores
- Commentary: Hollywood loves making excuses for bullies. Here are some of the most damaging
- Northwest Indiana school districts say ‘parents are going to have to initiate’ COVID-19 vaccinations for students
- Chicago gets its first full-blown cherry blossom season, with 160 temperamental young trees in Jackson Park finally living up to their promise
- 1 charged, others sought by cops in Michigan Avenue Nordstrom break-in
- Luke Bryan tests positive for COVID, sidelined from ‘Idol’
- Talk of the County reader opinion: Biden doing bad job of protecting American people if you look at southern border
- El príncipe Felipe real vs. el príncipe Felipe de ‘The Crown’
- Elmhurst disturbance leads to someone being taken to hospital
- Mercedes Metris sees redesign in 2021
- Opinion: We’re not reading as much Leon Uris and James A. Michener — and that’s a good thing
- A Chicago artist whose work has been shown in White House, Vatican, has spent part of pandemic creating free coloring sheets to do while sheltering at home
- Quimari Peterson says the offer from Indiana State ‘came out of the blue.’ The West Side senior guard quickly decided he’ll wear the Sycamores’ blue.
- Op-ed: Susana Mendoza: Ex-lawmakers trying to claw back rejected raises are wasting taxpayer money
- 28 closed or temporarily closed businesses on the Magnificent Mile: Block-by-block analysis of where North Michigan Avenue stands after impact of pandemic, unrest
- Musical frustrado por la pandemia se estrena en Audible
- Talk of the County reader opinion: ‘Congratulations to the residents of Mettawa for showing how concerned you are for our youth’
- Países centroamericanos reforzarán seguridad fronteriza
- BTS song ‘Dynamite’ achieves rare feat of surpassing 1 billion YouTube views
- Brecha de género contra covid: se vacunan más mujeres que hombres
- Hinsdale principal named to succeed retiring Cheryl Degan at helm of Naperville’s Ellsworth Elementary
- A pastor’s son becomes a critic of religion on TikTok
- Perro de los Biden recibe ayuda profesional tras incidentes
- Ride-share driver accused of stealing nearly $10,000 from passengers’ debit card and bank accounts, prosecutors say
- Op-ed: Banking at the post office? Service would help millions of ‘unbanked’ Americans
- By foot, pedal or mule power, exploration awaits along historic Illinois canal
- Posponen juego de béisbol tras muerte de un hombre de raza negra a manos de policía
- Downtown Chicago hotels are starting to reopen. Laid-off workers worry they might not get their jobs back.
- Chicago man charged with attempted murder after police say he shot Oak Park officer during traffic stop
- Autoridades: Tiroteo en secundaria de Tennessee dejó un muerto y un policía herido
- Park board OKs $10,000 contribution to Gold Star Families monument to be built in Naperville’s Veterans park
- ¿Perjudican los deportes juveniles la salud mental de nuestros hijos?
- Column: Biden’s Supreme Court panel should listen to Justice Breyer
- Kanye West agrees with Kim Kardashian on joint custody in divorce response
- White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson and his hot bat commemorated with new bobblehead
- Chile mantiene 97% de sus camas con ventilador ocupadas
- Study results bolster the case that antibody drugs can prevent COVID-19
- Texas Tenors to perform live on McAninch stage — for livestreamed concert
- Muere el actor de Los Soprano Joseph Siravo
- Letters: Chicago has mishandled its power and duty to discipline police officers
- Niles police looking for suspects in battery of King Spa employee; manager says victim seriously injured
- Los hoteles del centro de Chicago comienzan a reabrir. A los trabajadores despedidos les preocupa no poder recuperar sus empleos
- Suburban Rotary clubs team up to collect new shoes for children in need
- Indian Head Park woman loses $48,000 in Amazon Prime phone scam that took a month to unfold, son says
- La reunión de Friends ya está rodada
- Todas las escuelas de Ontario cerrarán por repunte de COVID
- Mokena mayor says there is an investigation after weekend disturbance at trampoline park, but facility has no history of problems
- Editorial: Legislators, stop your sneaky pay raise system. Just vote them up or down.
- U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan hears from COVID-weary students in Gary seeking return to normal
- Column: Business is booming for this local comic book entrepreneur
- La región más afectada del mundo por covid reabre a pesar de las advertencias
- El Masters, un triunfo para Hideki Matsuyama y Japón
- Singer/songwriter goes back to the circus with his new album
- Man charged in Gary with beating woman in a wheelchair
- Documental narra batallas boxísticas de la era de Durán, Leonard, Hagler y Hearns
- Have you been to the ballpark for a Cubs or White Sox game this season? We want to hear about it.
- Chicago alderman looks to block pet stores in the city from selling puppy mill dogs
- Coronavirus metrics in Illinois continue to move in wrong direction, stressing hospital ICU capacity in some regions
- Triunfal debut del rapero boricua Bad Bunny en WWE
- Taste of Park Ridge uncertain this year; ‘Cruisin’ event postponed until August
- Naperville-based hub88 acquired by fellow tech incubator 1871
- Chicago’s cherry trees in full bloom
- Column: When thinking about the good old days, it’s helpful to remember that nostalgia is a liar
- How can a police officer draw a handgun instead of a Taser?
- Economista Nobel advierte contra el impuesto a la riqueza para pagar la pandemia
- Letter: Grateful to pharmaceutical companies’ innovations during pandemic
- Perú: Bus con votantes de elecciones se accidenta; mueren 20
- Aurora City Council to consider plan for gas station as residents worry about contaminated water, traffic
- ‘Scheming’ former Portage official gets year of probation; sentenced for felony conflict of interest
- Chicago Blackhawks at the NHL trade deadline: 4 more deals net 3 high draft picks and a pair of promising young players as Stan Bowman ‘rebuilds our asset pool’
- Tennessee: Tiroteo en escuela deja 1 muerto; policía herido
- 3 Georgia officers injured, suspect killed after police chase, gunfight
- Marc Silverman of ‘Waddle & Silvy’ back in the ESPN 1000 studio after 370 days away to fight cancer: ‘You have to celebrate the milestones’
- Column: Daunte Wright was unarmed. Wouldn’t letting him go have been better than killing him?
- Second pandemic Ramadan for Chicagoland Muslims means finding purpose, indulging in nostalgia
- The Spin: Lightfoot says city ‘prepared’ for possible protests over Toledo video, Chauvin verdict | Biden aides eye Illinois for temporary migrant shelter | Pardoned by Trump, Casey Urlacher claims reelection victory as Mettawa mayor
- Schmaltz Deli secures $85,000 in Lisle grant money to fund move from Naperville to larger stand-alone Ogden Avenue site
- Oscars presenters to include Halle Berry, Bryan Cranston, Harrison Ford and Renée Zellweger
- Derek Chauvin trial: George Floyd’s brother sheds tears on the witness stand
- CDC chief urges Michigan to ‘close things down’ to help address the country’s worst coronavirus outbreak
- Column: Sage advice? Liam Hendriks turns to his tarot card reader for answers after some early struggles for the Chicago White Sox closer.
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened April 12 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Chicago Teachers Union prepares for possible walkout Wednesday over reopening plans; high school staffs would refuse to work in person
- ‘Black Ink Crew: Chicago’ star talks COVID-19 symptoms and plans for his Pilsen tattoo shop
- Minnesota Twins, Wild and Timberwolves postpone their games Monday after fatal police shooting near Minneapolis
- Glenview neighbors in fight over beavers
- Illinois State Police investigating fatal shooting by officer in Stephenson County
- Photos: Chicago White Sox 4, Cleveland Indians 3
- Bryce Schaum’s first start since 2019 was a good one. Munster’s senior right-hander struck out 14 in a 4-1 win against Andrean.
- Tara Glynn couldn’t get one thing out of her mind … Shepard. The junior outside hitter had 11 kills as Richards swept to the win.
- After overwhelming support, Glencoe prepares for $10 million bond sale to fund infrastructure work
- Carmen Rosado hits two home runs and Mary Kate Shultz hits one as Kankakee Valley slugs out a win against Munster: ‘We knew the bats were coming.’
- On the field, Katelyn Nardulli stars as a Xavier-bound midfielder for Neuqua Valley. Off the field, she’s simply known as ‘Lauren’s sister.’