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- Daily horoscope for October 11, 2021
- Ask Amy: Mom ‘unmasks’ some schoolchildren
- River Forest firefighters give kids some safety tips at open house
- Teatro Leyden raising curtain on “Wave,” a play it commissioned in Spanish and English
- Column: An epic win extends the Chicago White Sox season as playoff baseball returns to the South Side for the 1st time in 13 years
- ‘This place was rocking’: Chicago White Sox come back from the brink, rallying from a 4-run deficit vs. the Houston Astros for a wild 12-6 win in Game 3 of the ALDS
- Op-ed: People with mental health struggles get trapped in our criminal court system. Here’s why that must change.
- Op-ed: Why we must make the Great Lakes ‘smarter’ to prepare for climate change
- Op-ed: With COVID-19, we were too often fighting the wrong pandemic. But there are new grounds for optimism.
- Beyond COVID-19, there’s another crisis emerging in Chicago-area schools: A critical shortage of workers
- Letters: Big Pharma isn’t fooling anyone
- Review: At Hermosa restaurant, breathtaking Cambodian fried chicken, and dinners sold out until next summer
- Mayor Lori Lightfoot put out a list of building safety ‘scofflaws.’ Only 98 properties are on it.
- Editorial: Forget the homicide rankings. Bring on the solutions.
- Another run-heavy approach and solid defense help Justin Fields get his 2nd win. Brad Biggs’ 10 thoughts on the Chicago Bears’ Week 5 win in Las Vegas.
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- The best Versace cologne
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- The best Mario Badescu product
- The best guinea pig bedding
- The best under-desk treadmill
- The best baby K’tan
- The best Evenflo booster seat
- The best analog clock
- The best volleyball shorts
- The best hands-free breast pump
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- The best Tumi luggage
- The best bell bottom jeans
- The best budget aquarium
- Morton Arboretum’s longtime president will retire in 2022
- Foxtrot expands in the Loop with new Willis Tower store opening next year
- Dr. Seuss Experience opens at Water Tower Place, with ‘Horton Hears a Who’ games and a chance to meet the famous hat-wearing cat
- The best Zinus desk for your home office
- The best pumping bra
- The best deodorant for excessive sweating
- The best stocking stuffers for kids
- Daywatch: What a day for Chicago sports | Critical shortage of workers in Chicago-area schools | ‘New’ Ed Debevic’s diner experience among 8 restaurant openings
- The best baby Halloween costume
- The best high-back booster seat
- This day in history, October 11: The first manned Apollo mission launches
- The best elderberry syrup
- The best funny Halloween costumes for babies
- The best intuitive eating book
- The best backless booster seat
- The best drafting chair
- The best Chicco stroller
- The best tea gift set
- The best dog thermometer
- Los White Sox se mantienen con vida en serie divisional
- El Tri recupera el liderato ante Honduras
- Rusting sculpture outside DuPage Children’s Museum poses dilemma: Who owns Naperville’s public art?
- McCartney: Lennon fue responsable de separación de Beatles
- Tres economistas residentes en EEUU ganan Nobel de Economía
- ‘No Time To Die’ arranca dominando la taquilla de EEUU
- Council gives initial approval to 2022 Lake budget
- Comienza la era de las denuncias contra redes sociales
- Dr. June: Should I talk to my daughter about her potential move?
- Médicos en Brasil denuncian atención poco fiable al COVID-19
- Ask Mister Manners: Is there a nice way to say I won’t serve as a job reference?
- Speak Out reader opinion: Justice Department memo on threats to school boards is disturbing
- As e-scooters and e-bikes proliferate, safety challenges grow
- Facebook anuncia nuevos controles para sus plataformas
- Las mejores imágenes del Maratón de Chicago 2021
- Local scores for the Aurora, Elgin, Naperville and Lake County areas
- Inside Rikers: Dysfunction, lawlessness and detainees in control
- Neymar afirma que Qatar 2022 podría ser su último Mundial
- Local scores for the Southland
- Merck pide autorización en EEUU para fármaco contra COVID
- Kane County farm works to grow movement for locally- produced food
- Agotados por la pandemia, algunos trabajadores hospitalarios quieren huir
- Policía británica no tomará medidas contra príncipe Andrés
- They were promised a new home. Then they tried to escape it.
- Girls volleyball notes: Make a mistake? She owns it. But as a setter or hitter, Kaila Butvilas is never sorry about contributing for Shepard.
- Tony Baranek’s Daily Southtown girls volleyball rankings and player of the week for Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021
- Retired Bull Scottie Pippen sells Highland Park home for $1.8M
- Merck asks FDA to authorize COVID treatment pill
- Where parents have abducted their own children in a bid for custody
- Teen from Illinois dies, cousin injured in ATV crash on Michigan sand dunes
- Northwestern University names Rebecca M. Blank as next president; noted economist will be first woman to hold role
- Papeles Pandora revela paraísos fiscales en EEUU
- Trees and shrubs like witch hazel prone to leaf scorch if not watered enough
- Tenoch Huerta ante el terror con mensaje de ‘Madre’
- Steve Millar’s Daily Southtown boys soccer rankings and player of the week for Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021
- 1 killed in 7-vehicle crash on Kennedy Expressway on North Side
- Relevista de White Sox insinúa que Astros roban señas
- Líderes comunitarios y universitarios primerizos se unen para fomentar el compromiso cívico
- Southwest Airlines cancels nearly 200 flights at Midway, O’Hare
- Boys soccer notes: Alabama-Huntsville recruit Ross DeGroot grows into a ‘phenomenal’ goal-scoring threat for Lincoln-Way West
- Congreso de EEUU trabaja a contrarreloj en pendientes
- Las leyes de señal de alarma salvan vidas. Podrían salvar más
- Republicano Scalise se rehúsa a admitir derrota de Trump
- Audrey Diwan deseosa de traer ‘Happening’ a EEUU
- Cifra de niños cruzando el Darién alcanza máximo histórico
- Muere el actor de Oz Granville Adams
- West Aurora School District looks at $26 million in improvement projects
- Glenwood woman has ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ experience on ‘Wheel of Fortune’, a show she grew up watching
- Las conclusiones del Tri tras victoria ante Honduras
- Patrick Z. McGavin’s Beacon-News/Courier-News boys soccer rankings and player of the week for Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021
- Zion woman in serious condition after she was stabbed early Monday morning
- Sondeo: Estadounidenses están preocupados por los hackeos
- Column: Documentary ‘Revisiting Utopia’ seeks to document efforts to integrate Park Forest
- Southwest Airlines extiende cancelaciones de vuelos el lunes
- Gary council takes disagreement over job title funding to court for ruling: Council contends Prince didn’t have the authority to make change
- New principal, assistant principals approved in East Aurora School District
- Valparaiso City Council grants up to $25 million in housing bonds for new senior living complex
- A year after ‘defund,’ police departments get their money back
- Does your vehicle’s interior reflect your dirty little secrets? A car detailer shares his automobile autopsies.
- Christian Diaz remembers his first varsity game. ‘I started on the bench.’ Now, the senior forward is a star goal scorer for Geneva.
- Column: Potawatomi lawsuit casts shadow over Waukegan casino choice
- Ave mascota logra salir de Kabul; nuevo símbolo de esperanza
- Can left-hander Carlos Rodón — who will start Tuesday’s ALDS Game 4 — save the Chicago White Sox season? ‘It all depends which Rodón is present.’
- Two apartments left uninhabitable following morning fire in complex on Kilburne Lane, Naperville Fire Department says.
- Most Deere workers reject contract offer from tractor maker
- Erik Gustafsson returns to the Chicago Blackhawks on a 1-year deal. Can the defenseman rekindle his monster offensive output from 2018-19? ‘I know I can do it again.’
- Southern California beach known as ‘Surf City USA’ reopens after massive oil spill
- Los conoce bien, dice que Trump admira a Putin
- Aptakisic-Tripp School District 102 makes remote instruction provision for select group of students, families worried about COVID-19
- Moderna executive: There are no plans to share makeup of COVID-19 vaccine
- Talibán: EEUU dará ayuda humanitaria a Afganistán
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Wheeling Township making call for donors for its upcoming holiday giveaways that benefit local families in need
- EEUU: Ingeniero militar intentó vender secretos nucleares
- Merrillville woman charged in husband’s fatal shooting
- Letters: Editorial on real estate commissions gives an incomplete picture of broker fees
- Editorial: Park District CEO Mike Kelly quits. An inevitable departure, given the history.
- Monday’s Chicago White Sox playoff game against the Houston Astros is postponed because of rain and rescheduled for Tuesday
- Former Portage Mayor James Snyder to be sentenced Wednesday, ending a 5-year saga
- Cafe Voca offers vocational training and employment opportunities while serving coffee to patrons
- Si estás a la espera de un trasplante, lo mejor es vacunarse contra el covid
- Waukegan Park District scares up Halloween hauntings, pumpkin crafts all month long
- Al Capone auction: Top 10 highest winning bids
- Talk of the County reader opinion: Waukegan could be a powerhouse
- Gary honors Richard Hatcher on his day: ‘A magnetic north star’ arcing toward justice
- Those scary critters at haunted houses, on TV are ‘actually pretty cool,’ if you ask the guys from Crosstown Exotics
- School COVID-19 cases drop meshes with Indiana decline
- Ask Anna: How much eye contact is too much during sex?
- Op-ed: New York and Los Angeles got their gun violence under control. Why can’t Chicago do the same?
- DC’s new Superman, Jon Kent, comes out as bisexual in upcoming comic
- Toasty tahini is the star ingredient in these recipes
- Grecia refuerza sus fronteras por temor a inmigración afgana
- Chicago weather: Tornado watch issued for most of northern Illinois
- Idilio argentino con Messi y enfado brasileño por Neymar
- “Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.” by Barbara Kruger
- 46 people shot, 3 fatally, in Chicago gun violence over weekend, including 6 children
- Presidente mexicano visitará ONU para hablar de corrupción
- Corrections and clarifications
- 3 things we heard from Chicago Bears coach Matt Nagy, including Justin Fields being ‘smart’ about protecting himself and the Khalil Mack ‘domino effect’
- Fate of former Aurora YMCA building still up in the air
- York Drama staging “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” in tent outside
- OMS: Asesores recomiendan 3 dosis de vacuna en ciertos casos
- 52 años en 11 días: un hijo moribundo halla a su padre
- The 2021 Columbus Day Parade in Chicago
- Prep School: How to reverse sear steak
- Aurora’s leaf collection program begins next week
- US-based economists win Nobel prize for research in labor force, wages
- South suburban police probe 4 homicides, shots fired at off-duty cop
- How ‘Cane Guy’ worked his ‘magic’ to turn around the White Sox playoff fortunes in front of a national TV audience: ‘It was uncanny’
- Varios tornados causan daños en Oklahoma
- Strikeout disparity? Chicago White Sox reliever Ryan Tepera references the Houston Astros’ past of ‘sketchy stuff’ after the Game 3 win.
- Joc Pederson’s pinch-hit homer gives the Atlanta Braves a 3-0 win over the Milwaukee Brewers and a 2-1 lead in the NLDS
- Activists rally to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day. Italian American group doesn’t want ‘one-sided narrative.’
- White Sox playoffs bring back magical memories of rowdy, triumphant 2005 season
- Jon Gruden resigns as Las Vegas Raiders coach after a report details frequent misogynistic and homophobic language in emails
- Matt Amodio’s ‘Jeopardy!’ winning streak ends at 38
- Local scores for the Aurora, Elgin, Naperville and Lake County areas
- Local scores for the Southland
- As numbers of seniors grow, suburbs boost ‘aging in place’ efforts; handymen, accessibility, transportation and more
- Boston Red Sox advance to the ALCS after finishing off the Tampa Bay Rays in 4 games on a walk-off sacrifice fly in the 9th inning
- Local scores for Northwest Indiana