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- Duke-Florida State basketball game is postponed after Mike Krzyzewski didn’t make the trip because of a COVID-19 close contact
- Alabama dominates Notre Dame 31-14 in a College Football Playoff semifinal to reach its 5th national title game in 6 years
- Daily horoscope for January 2, 2021
- Ask Amy: Extreme judgment might lead to radical acceptance
- Justin Fields throws for 6 TDs as Ohio State blows out Clemson 49-28 and will meet Alabama for the national title
- End of the Lipinski era: A 45-year political reign on Chicago’s Southwest Side comes to a close
- Jailed 33 years for buried-alive suffocation murder, Nancy Rish using Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s words against him in latest bid for freedom
- Oak Forest students put faces to areas of world facing crisis though international Memory Project
- With a new year comes new plans for your garden. Here’s how to get started.
- Letters: Time to hold Peoples Gas responsible
- Old railroad corridors near Chicago transformed into all-weather trails for hiking, cycling and cross-country skiing
- North of the border, Wisconsin cops are monitoring the impact of legal recreational marijuana in Illinois
- 5 things to watch in the Chicago Bears’ regular-season finale, including ‘disrespect’ from the Packers and no score updates at Soldier Field on the Rams-Cardinals game
- This day in history, January 2: President Nixon signs legislation requiring states to limit highway speeds to 55 miles an hour as a way of conserving gasoline in the face of an OPEC oil embargo
- Judge tosses lawsuit from House Republican seeking to give Mike Pence the power to overturn election loss
- Claude Bolling, popular jazz-classical musician, dead at 90
- Chicago Bears will have their hands full with WR Davante Adams and the Green Bay Packers’ YAC attack: ‘We’ve got our work cut out for us’
- After pardon for massacre in Iraq, Blackwater guard says he did nothing wrong: ‘I didn’t shoot at anybody that wasn’t shooting at me’
- 3 takeaways from the Chicago Bulls’ 126-96 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks, including rookie Patrick Williams getting the task to guard Giannis Antetokounmpo: ‘My chest is on fire’
- 4 wounded in city shootings since Friday night, police say
- Women’s down jackets and leather gloves: Which styles to choose to fit your needs
- 7 children hospitalized after being found in vacant building on West Side; woman charged, police say
- One big pop star + one big pop star = an easier path to No. 1
- The Bruce Willis journey from in demand to on demand
- Andy Cohen had a year
- The Hilaria Baldwin story: ‘I’m living my life’
- ‘You checked Tesla the most’: Robinhood recaps from a volatile year
- As the pandemic took lives, it also stole hopes
- In a village of widows, the opium trade has taken a deadly toll
- Let there be light, and art, in the Moynihan Train Hall
- Nearly a century later, we’re still reading — and changing our minds about — Gatsby
- Death transformed a year, and what may lie ahead
- Speak Out reader opinion: Biden Administration will bring less freedom, more taxes
- No injuries reported in roof collapse in South Chicago neighborhood
- Anonymous donor gives Central Illinois Foodbank $500,000 gift: ‘The timing is impeccable’
- Wrigleyville bar ordered closed until further notice after New Year’s Eve gathering
- 4 Premier League players from Tottenham and West Ham broke English lockdown rules by gathering for a Christmas house party
- A rager: France’s giant, curfew-busting hangar party is over after 2 nights
- Column: Brian Kelly goes on the defensive — again — after another big-game loss by Notre Dame in the Rose Bowl
- Man shot in West Side police-involved shooting charged with attempted murder
- It’s rare, but some COVID patients develop severe psychotic symptoms
- Democrats made history on election day in Kane County in 2020
- A few COVID-19 survivors don’t have their sense of taste or smell back, and doctors aren’t sure they ever will
- Oswego Senior Center offers Zoom Bingo
- Column: Even with one composer missing, here’s why ‘Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical’ points straight to Broadway
- Pelosi, McConnell homes in San Francisco and Kentucky are vandalized after $2,000 checks fail to pass
- Elgin News Digest
- Texas congressman suggests street violence after judge rejects his legal effort to overturn election
- Elgin’s 2021 coming attractions: 11 people running for council, new PADS shelter location, budget worries
- Nicki Minaj thanks 3-month-old son for choosing her to be his mama, posts photos of adorable tot
- Corrections and clarifications
- Paul Westphal, Hall of Famer who won an NBA title with the Boston Celtics, dies at 70
- Texas fires football coach Tom Herman and replaces him with Alabama offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian
- Indiana rally falls short in a 26-20 loss to Mississippi, extending the Hoosiers’ bowl-win drought to 29 years
- ‘From crisis to crisis’: Here are some of the moments that defined the 116th Congress
- EEUU: Coalición republicana impugnará resultado de elección
- Santeros cubanos advierten y recomiendan sobre 2021
- Talk show host Larry King has been hospitalized with COVID-19, report says
- Pierluisi promete estadidad para Puerto Rico al juramentar
- No. 15 Illinois battles past Purdue 66-58 behind Kofi Cockburn’s 14 points and 10 rebounds
- James Corden ‘fed up’ with being fat, teaming up with WW
- CBS analyst Tony Romo will sit out the Arizona Cardinals-Los Angeles Rams game Sunday because of COVID-19 protocols
- Splitsville for Zoe Kravitz and actor Karl Glusman after just 18 months