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- ‘A pretty good pitchers’ duel’: Lucas Giolito is locked in vs. the Toronto Blue Jays’ Robbie Ray, but the Chicago White Sox give up 2 in the 8th to lose 3-1
- Daily horoscope for August 26, 2021
- Ask Amy: Elder parents’ views cause concern
- A silk dress that started out as a WWII parachute has played a role in 4 generations of family celebrations
- Yamma restaurant pop-up brings first-rate hummus, lamb meshwi and more Palestinian food to a Wicker Park sports bar
- Column: COVID-19 vaccine mandates are coming. The willfully unvaccinated are about to see their world shrink.
- CPS students return to school Monday. We have answers to your questions about fall in-person learning.
- Kraft Heinz’s move to a hybrid work model means big changes to its Chicago headquarters. Here’s what the new office will look like.
- 3 thoughts on the Chicago Cubs doubleheader split with the Colorado Rockies, including Patrick Wisdom’s Rookie of the Year chances
- Fantasy football mock draft: It’s all about making adjustments with a 17-game NFL season — such as where to pick James Robinson with Travis Etienne’s injury
- Column: What will it take for the unvaccinated to get a shot? Public pressure? More deaths? How about $100 at a church?
- Daywatch: Pritzker to require vaccines for educators | Lightfoot mandates vaccines for Chicago workers | ‘Check, Please!’ ending its run after 20 years
- ‘Origins’ exhibit by National Geographic photographers — opening in Bridgeport — is sometimes ‘cute,’ but with a message of natural conservation
- This day in history, August 26: The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing American women’s right to vote, certified in effect by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby
- Column: As a corrective to ‘The White Lotus,’ the Mexican film ‘The Chambermaid’ puts the manual labor of a hotel’s housekeeper front and center
- Half of US workers favor employee vaccine mandate, AP-NORC poll shows
- 3 people shot, 1 fatally, in unrelated Chicago attacks, police say
- Chicago Red Stars are on the right track to recover from ‘devastating’ pandemic losses — and are actively looking for a local TV deal for the 2022 NWSL season
- Flight attendants’ hellish summer: ‘I don’t even feel like a human’
- Explosión estremece aeropuerto de Kabul; reportan muertos
- High school football stats leaders in Northwest Indiana
- Organization creates contest for voters to draw new district maps
- Mayor Lori Lightfoot rips police union head after he compared vaccine mandate to the Holocaust
- Prominent Wicker Park mansion sells for record $4.8M, slated for renovation
- Post-Tribune football rankings and player of the week for Friday, Aug. 27, 2021
- Unvaccinated Bills receivers whine about fines for not wearing masks at work
- Airlines are helping in Afghanistan evacuations. How does that work?
- Niños migrantes pasan semanas en refugios de EEUU
- Speak Out reader opinion: Surprised by drill team guns in Bud Billiken Parade
- Familiares de soldados caídos en Afganistán: ¿valió la pena?
- Libertyville doubling local business grant amount, awaiting American Rescue Plan funds to pay for program
- After a year without rowdy tourists, European cities want to keep it that way
- Naperville Police Arrests
- R. Kelly trial: Witness says singer made victims write fake blackmail letters
- Countdown to football: Oh, Brother, Vaughn’s at Rice. Aaron Vaughn’s transfer ramps up talented offense for No. 1 Brother Rice
- Sondeo: 50% de empleados en EEUU apoya vacuna obligatoria
- América quiere demostrar que el liderato no es casualidad
- Football notes: In Craig Buzea’s debut, Crown Point took the Old Leather Helmet back from Lowell. But Andrean and Merrillville await. ‘It’s quite a challenge.’
- ‘I want to see the world’: St. Rita graduate Joe Polselli, a nursing major, carves out spot as receiver and on special teams for St. Xavier
- Mon Laferte cantará ‘a dos corazones’ en su gira por EEUU
- Headed away to school? Here’s what students with health issues need to know about insurance
- Verstappen busca reaccionar tras ceder liderato a Hamilton
- Chicago’s Al Capone, up for auction
- ABC News employee files sexual assault lawsuit against former executive producer Michael Corn, now president of Chicago-based NewsNation
- Paquita la del Barrio será homenajeada en Premios Billboard
- AMLO insiste en llevarse bien con EEUU tras fallo sobre asilo ‘Permanecer en México’
- Column: A torn ACL. A senior season, gone. But Illinois recruit Bianca May maintains a positive outlook every day for Sandburg.
- 7 US Capitol Police officers sue Trump, his allies and extremist groups over Jan. 6 insurrection
- Column: News of explosions near Kabul airport brings thoughts of unlearned lessons from previous evacuations
- South Dakota AG pleads no contest to 2 counts in fatal crash, gets no jail time
- News-Sun’s top 5 boys soccer teams in Lake County
- Video muestra daños estructurales en edificio derrumbado
- US projected to see 100,000 more COVID deaths between now and Dec. 1 unless Americans change their ways, experts say
- Child abuse charge reduced against anti-mask protester at school
- Policías del capitolio demandan a Trump por insurrección
- R. Kelly compared himself to Jerry Lee Lewis, who married 13-year-old: ‘We should be allowed to do whatever we want’
- Kane County officials say resources available to help veterans trying to cope with situation in Afghanistan
- Spotlight on football: After going through recruiting grind, Illinois State-bound Thomas ‘Bubba’ Hubbard wants to lead way for Bartlett
- Homer Glen and Homer Township seek to negotiate agreement on road maintenance, but threat of litigation remains
- Ataques dejan 13 muertos en aeropuerto de Kabul
- Rabid bat found in Naperville, the seventh in DuPage and Will counties since April
- EEUU con 20 debutantes en eliminatorias
- Longtime friends George McAtee, Josh Pos and Justin Uribe compete for starting role in goal as Warren begins pursuit of state title: ‘It’s kind of like a brotherhood.’
- Review: On Netflix, ‘The Chair’ and Sandra Oh offer a tricky seminar in academic cancel culture
- Performers sought for Oswego’s Got Talent contest
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- 12 protein-packed vegetables and how to cook them
- Go away with… costume designer Beverley Huynh
- With COVID-19 screening on the rise, here are 10 tips for taking at-home tests
- Illinois State Police to install license plate-reading cameras on expressways
- Spotlight on football: Bigger, stronger, just as fast. Pierce Walsh looks to make a difference at receiver, tight end and defensive end for Benet.
- Bradshaw: With college essays, write about what’s important to you and be yourself
- VU author and noted faculty member Walt Wangerin dead at 77
- Post-Tribune boys soccer rankings and player of the week for Friday, Aug. 27, 2021
- Elgin Fringe Festival goes back to — mostly — live shows
- Illinois has new COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates. Here’s how they’ll work.
- Militares cubanos operan planta de oxígeno donada por Rusia
- Former Gary man gets time served for 2007 Munster slaying
- Yorkville High School students hold walkout over mask mandate
- Spotlight on football: Shades of Grays? Cameron Grays finds comfort zone at Oswego in second year after transferring from DeKalb
- EEUU confirma varios militares muertos en los atentados de Kabul
- Pepi descarta a México y jugará eliminatorias con EEUU
- News-Sun’s top 5 football teams in Lake County
- Champions: PSG-Man City y Bayern-Barca en fase de grupos
- Djokovic buscará en el US Open el récord de 21 títulos
- Una de las primeras alcaldesas afganas escapó de los talibán escondida en un coche
- Brothers face federal Medicaid fraud, other charges over dental business, indictment says
- Homer Glen 12-year-old headed to Disney World thanks to town’s pop tab challenge
- Two dead in shooting outside Kankakee County Courthouse
- Park Ridge City Council tentatively approves using public funds for holiday lights in Uptown, South Park
- Superintendent Brown seeks 4 Chicago police officers’ firing over alleged choking incident
- Acusan a jugador del Man City de violación
- Elgin eyeing a 4 to 6 a.m. downtown parking ban to prevent residents from filling up spots meant for businesses
- Spotlight on football: Ben McLaughlin’s older brothers played for Warren too and have some advice for the team’s new fullback. ‘Make the most of every opportunity.’
- COVID-19 resurgence crimps spending, travel recovery
- Judge rules Kim Foxx can’t be called to testify in the Jussie Smollett trial
- AP sources: Jailed ex-officer in murder plot beaten to death
- Rick Armstrong’s rundown of the top 10 football teams in the Beacon-News/Courier-News coverage area for the 2021 season
- What is ISIS K? How dangerous is Afghanistan’s Islamic State affiliate?
- Speak Out reader opinions: TV has crossed the line into indecent; Sosa not deserving of Cubs Hall of Fame honor; let’s give slain Chicago police officer an honor that means something
- Aurora mayor requests review of census count after numbers show drop in population
- Protestan por uso del quechua y el aimara en el Parlamento de Perú
- Afganistán: Al menos 72 muertos en ataque contra aeropuerto
- Editorial: Keep the ‘Chicago’ in Chicago’s financial exchanges
- El tridente Mbappé-Neymar-Messi podría quedar sólo en un sueño
- Para McAvoy y Horgan, ‘Together’ es sueño de cualquier actor
- Secretaria de Gobernación de México deja su cargo
- Los tiroteos en escuelas tienen solución, sugiere un padre israelí
- Column: Cook County officials gather input on how to spend $1 billion in COVID relief funds
- Column: The Bret Bielema era is set to begin at Illinois. Can the coach change the football culture in Champaign?
- Elgin residents like their town and the services they receive, but worry about street conditions, new survey shows
- Gary man agrees to testify against co-defendants in double slaying of two Calumet Township teens
- Proyectan 100,000 muertes más por COVID-19 en EEUU
- Illinois governor mandates COVID vaccines for teachers, college students and health care workers, and imposes indoor mask mandate for all
- Purdue Northwest welcomes students for new school year with parade around Hammond campus
- New round of loan forgiveness offered to former ITT students
- Elgin police stationed at Larsen Middle School as a precaution after student fights
- Op-ed: Pritzker’s economic track record fails Black and Latino workers
- CLC board approves diversity director after passionate debate
- Weekend forecast calls for hot and humid conditions
- Apps de empleos temporales proliferan en pandemia
- Costa Rica apuesta por experiencia para iniciar eliminatoria
- Another plover summer comes to a close in Chicago as Monty and Rose fly south for the winter
- Letters: Rod Blagojevich should preserve what remains of his reputation and call it a career in Illinois
- Tickets on sale for Naperville Music Festival, featuring Smash Mouth, Kool & the Gang, Village People and other acts
- Tennessee Titans’ COVID-19 outbreak now at 9 — 3 starters including QB Ryan Tannehill — as team prepares for Saturday’s preseason finale vs. Chicago Bears
- Cook County court website still down after breach caused visitors to be rerouted to an ‘NFL-related’ page
- Around the Southland: School district sets AP exam record, Woods Walk returns, and more
- Citing delta variant spread, Ebertfest film festival postpones September plans until April 2022
- Club de las Chicas con Agallas hace ciencia en Galápagos
- Macy Gray, Zoo Brew, drag show and wine festival: Things to do around Chicago this weekend
- The 1961 Trans World Airlines crash that killed 78
- Company looks to build 198-unit apartment development on West Side of Aurora
- Moose and Me bakery surpasses its $50K fundraising goal for new store to create more jobs for disabled people
- Special prosecutor to take over cases involving alleged misconduct by former detective who is married to a Cook County judge
- ¿Qué es un pasaporte de vacunación COVID-19? ¿Lo necesito?
- Pritzker’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement for teachers arrives amid school outbreaks, hundreds of possible exposures
- Gunfight outside Kankakee courthouse leaves 2 dead, 1 seriously wounded. One man is charged with murder.
- Carlos Rodón throws 5 solid innings in his return, and the Chicago White Sox hit 4 HRs in a 10-7 win over the Toronto Blue Jays to cap a tough 14-game stretch
- 13 US troops and at least 60 Afghans killed in Kabul airport attack, officials say
- Biden vows to finish Kabul evacuation, avenge US deaths: ‘We will hunt you down and make you pay’
- Supreme Court allows evictions to resume during pandemic across the US
- Local scores and schedules from the Aurora, Elgin, Naperville and Lake County areas