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- Daily horoscope for May 9, 2021
- Ask Amy: Recognition days are tough for grieving parents
- Easy ways to calculate how many plants to buy for your garden
- Landmarks: A trip to the woods in Chicago Heights brings rediscovery of the mysterious ‘pillbox’ structure
- Family of Sauk Village teen who was fatally shot last June still looking for answers, justice
- This day in history, May 9: South Africa’s newly-elected parliament chooses Nelson Mandela to be the country’s first Black president
- Edward-Elmhurst Health donating PPE to Naperville-based group to send to India in COVID-19 battle
- At least 50 people killed, 100 injured after bombing at girls’ school in Afghanistan capital
- Baseball notes: No slow start for Mundelein’s Daniel Pacella; Ridgewood’s Jack Ryan is a baseball lifer and it shows
- NASA calls China irresponsible after large chunk of rocket debris burns up over Indian ocean
- Softball notes: York’s Lauren Derkowski putting up big numbers; Maine South outscores foes 40-4 in five-game winning streak
- Architect Helmut Jahn
- State, county officials join ceremony as Tiffany Henyard becomes Dolton’s first female mayor
- Effort to vaccinate Hispanic community in Northwest Indiana brings out officials to Wolf Lake
- A girl asked a woman at church if she would be her grandmother. 20 years later, ‘she and grandpa have been with us for most of our history.’
- Speak Out reader opinion: Harris has failed by not visiting the southern border
- Naomi Osaka conflicted over whether the Tokyo Olympics should be held: ‘There’s a whole pandemic going on’
- Deerfield’s trio of captains look to a boys volleyball postseason, hopefully past a regional round: ‘We’re playing every game like it’s our last’
- Ziwe is here to revolutionize late night. Even better if it makes you uncomfortable
- Before her death, Ma’Khia Bryant had a turbulent journey through Ohio’s foster care system, cycling through 5 homes in 2 years
- Pierre ‘Pete’ du Pont IV, Republican who ran for president in 1988, dies at 86
- Oswego OKs plan for rental housing development
- Phoenix hotel shooting leaves 1 dead, 7 injured after fight escalates, police say
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened May 8-9 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Greater Englewood Unity Day 2021
- Aurora teacher turns chocolate business into a sweet success
- West Aurora OKs new contract with transportation union
- Jason Statham heist thriller ‘Wrath of Man’ leads weekend box office with $8.1 million
- How did broadcaster Beth Mowins celebrate after making history with the Chicago Cubs? ‘A hamburger, a Manhattan and more baseball.’
- Medina Spirit — after failed drug test — could lose Kentucky Derby win as Churchill Downs bans trainer Bob Baffert: ‘Biggest gut-punch in racing for something that I didn’t do’
- Boy, 14, fatally shot near Garfield Park late Saturday
- Ed Ward, rock critic for Rolling Stone and others, and historian for NPR’s ‘Fresh Air,’ dead at 72
- House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy endorses Elise Stefanik for Liz Cheney’s No. 3 Republican post
- Photos: Pirates beat Cubs 6-5 at Wrigley Field
- Chicago Sky trade Gabby Williams to Los Angeles Sparks for rookie Stephanie Watts — the No. 10 pick in the 2021 draft — and the rights to Germany’s Leonie Fiebich
- In Candace Parker and Diamond DeShields, the Chicago Sky can see a dynamic duo: ‘We could be unbelievable’
- Kane County recycling event gives residents a chance to do some spring cleaning
- Man kills 6, then self, at Colorado birthday party shooting
- Teen, 17, charged with April rifle shooting in Little Village that left 1 dead, 1 with graze wound
- Alvarez family reacts to fatal police shooting
- Box turtle survey — with a canine assist — helps researchers understand where risks to human health might emerge
- Yermín Mercedes busts out of a slow start to May with 3 RBIs — and his 1st career triple — as the Chicago White Sox complete the series sweep
- Photos: Fans return to United Center as Blackhawks beat Stars 4-2
- ‘Chicago Med’ actress Torrey Devitto confirms she’s dating Chicago Cubs manager David Ross
- Therapy in aisle 7: Retailers are entering the mental health market
- Phylicia Rashad and her ‘Cosby Show’ character Clair Huxtable get Twitter-shamed on Mother’s Day, and the internet bites back
- Cyberattack on US pipeline is linked to criminal gang
- Fans return to the United Center for the Chicago Blackhawks’ 4-2 win over the Dallas Stars: ‘It makes my heart happy, makes the city happy’
- Twin brother of Chicago Bears running back Tarik Cohen is found dead in North Carolina
- Famed architect Helmut Jahn struck by two vehicles, killed while riding bicycle near St. Charles
- Helmut Jahn, Chicago’s ‘star-chitect’ to the world, was the visionary behind United’s O’Hare terminal and Thompson Center
- Zach LaVine and Nikola Vucevic combine for 59 points in the Chicago Bulls’ 108-96 win over the Detroit Pistons