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- Vital signs: Bryan Higgs and Keegan Flaherty score goals as Naperville North jumps to 2-0 lead, holds off St. Charles East
- Always confident, Round Lake’s Jerry Perez delivers clutch saves again to preserve draw with Grayslake Central and share of conference title
- Rookie Randy Arozarena steals home and hits a home run, highlighting the Tampa Bay Rays’ 5-0 win against the Boston Red Sox in Game 1 of their ALDS
- Daily horoscope for October 8, 2021
- Ask Amy: Distanced family visit causes heartache
- Surpassing 25,000 dead in state from COVID-19: How pandemic evolved from killing Chicagoans to southern Illinoisans
- Best Funko POP! Disney toys
- Best Funko Pop! toys for collectors
- Know someone who always wears headphones? Here are 11 gifts they’ll love
- How to choose a Schwinn adult tricycle
- The best OXO can opener
- Best gifts for record collectors
- The best Christmas gifts for your wife
- 6 best gifts for Death Note fans
- The most popular Halloween costumes you can buy online now
- Best co-op PC games
- Best racing PC games available on Amazon
- Best “The Office” Funko POP! toys
- Best “Stranger Things” Funko POP! toys
- 6 products to check your blood pressure
- Chicago Bears Week 5 storylines: Bill Lazor’s calming influence, Allen Robinson’s frustration and a pass-rush resurgence
- Best plus-size going-out clothes
- Medela breast pump vs. Spectra breast pump: Which is better?
- Best gifts for basketball players
- Coleman sleeping bag vs. North Face sleeping bag: Which is better?
- A local Marine will run the Chicago Marathon — then fly to Boston for another 26.2-mile race the next day to help raise funds for injured service members: ‘I want to see how much I have left in the gas tank’
- The best bicycle accessories
- Judge upholds Indiana emergency law challenged by governor; Holcomb undecided on appeal
- 8 products to help your child sleep through the night
- The best gifts for young entrepreneurs
- 4 things to watch for in Game 2 of the ALDS between the Chicago White Sox and Houston Astros, including the ‘little things’ making a big difference
- Waterpik vs. flossing: Which is better?
- The best budget gifts for your girlfriend
- Best gifts for Type A personalities
- The best high-end gifts for your husband
- This day in history, October 8: Hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro kill American passenger Leon Klinghoffer
- The best budget Christmas gifts for your wife
- Most popular Mario games you can buy online now
- The best gifts for Zelda fans
- 6 ways to relieve diabetic foot pain
- Coolest thing about James Bond? That theme music, first created for ‘Dr. No’ and a story of intrigue all its own
- With ‘City of Mirrors,’ Chicago alt-Latinx band Dos Santos lets the light in
- Things to Do in Chicago this weekend, the Chicago Marathon to Moonrunners at Reggies
- If a county courthouse’s walls could speak, what would they say?
- Daywatch: Illinois surpasses 25,000 COVID deaths | Former Northwestern professor convicted of murder | What to know about the Chicago Marathon
- 5 takeaways from the Chicago Blackhawks’ preseason loss to the Minnesota Wild, including Kevin Lankinen feeling ‘like myself’ again and jockeying for position among the up-and-comers
- School essential workers shortage
- Ride-share driver attacked in Lakeview. Passersby capture suspect and detain him until police arrive.
- The days of ‘set it and forget it’ homeowners insurance are fading fast. Here’s why protecting your home is more complicated than ever.
- Crestwood mayor postpones resignation; trustees defer action on creating new position for him
- El éxito de los White Sox impulsa las ventas de mercancía, pero será difícil encontrar ciertas camisetas
- México y EEUU preparan nuevo marco de trabajo en seguridad
- Anti-vaccine chiropractors: a rising force of COVID misinformation
- White Sox abren los playoffs perdiendo ante los Astros
- Lake County Council to vote on $2.4 million transfer into insurance fund to bolster reserves
- El secreto del éxito de los White Sox: sus jugadores latinos
- Niegan trasplante a una mujer que no se vacunó
- Trump invocará privilegio ejecutivo en asalto al Capitolio
- Good luck finding certain White Sox jerseys. The supply chain issues affecting everything from toilet paper to chicken wings are hitting team apparel, too.
- Review: Alla Vita wants to reboot the staid Italian American joint
- Speak Out reader opinion: Lack of being held accountable spurs crime in Chicago
- Most and least valuable teams in the NFL
- Danzones perdidos por un siglo vuelven a la vida en Cuba
- Woman fatally stabbed in Chatham motel room following argument with a man, police say
- Cristina Fernández es sobreseída por presunto encubrimiento
- Periodistas de Filipinas y Rusia ganan el Nobel de la Paz
- Emerge otro grupo de autodefensas en el sur de México
- News-Sun boys soccer rankings and player of the week
- Recent North Carolina parolee charged in deadly Merrillville motel shooting
- August housing report shows selling prices increase despite small dip in houses for sale
- Column: I’ll be running the Chicago Marathon — in my mind. Care to join me?
- El Barca tendrá casa temporal mientras el Camp Nou se moderniza
- Man killed after he drives into oncoming traffic near Elgin and hits pickup truck head on, sheriff’s police say
- Durante la II Guerra Mundial, vacunarse contra la influenza fue patriótico. Algunos ya no ven la ciencia de esa manera
- Distict 105 holding early childhood screening on Oct. 27
- La confusión interna de la FDA afectaría los refuerzos y las vacunas para los niños
- Review: Hermosa restaurant
- Desinformación rampante en EEUU es un problema
- Carol Stream woman gets jail time for Yellowstone grizzly close encounter
- Deontay Wilder dice estar rejuvenecido para enfrentar a Tyson Fury
- Collision with car kills bicyclist, 30, in Park Ridge
- Ser inmune a covid por haberlo tenido o estar vacunado, ¿es lo mismo?
- Explosión en Afganistán deja 100 víctimas, dice funcionario
- Empresas de EEUU añaden apenas 194,000 empleos en septiembre
- CSO review: A soloist celebrates Brahms, then Muti strays off the beaten path with ‘Pathétique.’ And Mazzoli gets her turn at last.
- Nobel Peace Prize awarded to journalists in Philippines, Russia for promoting freedom of expression
- Foxx and Lightfoot meet after Chicago mayor uses fatal shooting case in political email
- Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman sells Lincoln Park home for $1.7M
- Reino Unido relaja restricciones para viajes internacionales
- Lake County debuts new mobile clerk office to increase access, shine light on election process
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Se acaba luna de miel del argentino Martino con el Tri
- Texas: Clínicas reanudan abortos tras suspensión de ley
- Rising inflation this year could raise tax cap, meaning higher property tax bills
- ‘Rita Moreno’ y álbum de Santana entre próximos estrenos
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Community news
- Elgin News Digest: Chicago fire to be discussed at museum program; Carpentersville cops swearing in new therapy dog at open house; drug take-back events set for Elgin, Carpentersville
- Laporta: ‘Tuve la esperanza de que Messi dijera ‘juego gratis”
- AMLO aboga por un entendimiento y cooperación con EEUU
- COVID-19 in Chicago-area schools: Outbreaks and cases by county (updated Oct. 8)
- Let us now praise the White Sox bleachers at Guaranteed Rate Field: A world unto itself — and a little crazy this year
- When it comes to ballpark traditions, White Sox fans step up to the plate — or meet at giant cottonwood tree on 35th Street
- Fiscalía chilena investigará negocios de presidente Piñera
- El 1% de las personas con mayores ingresos en EEUU acumulan más riqueza que toda la clase media
- ALDS Game 2 photos: Houston Astros 9, Chicago White Sox 4
- Islamic State bomber kills dozens inside Afghan mosque in challenge to Taliban
- Trump hotel lost $70M during presidency despite millions in foreign business
- The Dr. Seuss Experience at Water Tower Place
- Letters: Chicago is fighting another great fire. To rise from the ashes, the city needs leaders to team up.
- Aurora to dedicate streets to local soldiers who died in Iraq war
- FIFA estudia aplazar Mundial de Clubes hasta 2022
- Neighbor fears repair shop would increase traffic near Orchard Road, Route 30
- Column: Family members, supporters seek justice for state police killing of Darren Green Jr.
- Gurnah: Gobierno británico no es compasivo con refugiados
- Plan climático del Pentágono: adaptarse a nuevos extremos
- Una nueva estrategia de vacunación para los niños: sólo una dosis, por ahora
- Griezmann: ‘Si no ganamos la final me gustaría quedarme dormido el lunes’
- Argelia Atilano cumple el sueño de leerle a niños
- Trump respalda a candidatos escasamente investigados
- ‘Quiero vivir mi vida’: los jóvenes viven un retroceso social por la pandemia
- Man accused in woman’s death after Illinois concert released back to house arrest after fraud charges
- Illinois-Wisconsin preview: Bret Bielema faces his former team with the Badgers on a rare 2-game losing streak
- Jim Kaat somehow attempts slavery joke during White Sox-Astros broadcast
- Messi desvela su votación al Balón de Oro
- Number of Americans getting COVID-19 vaccine increases as people seek boosters and comply with employer mandates
- Allstate to sell Northbrook headquarters as more employees work from home
- President Biden won’t invoke executive privilege on Trump Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection documents
- Hallan 652 migrantes en seis tráileres en el norte de México
- Big Ten says it is putting a greater priority on mental health after a tough basketball season amid the pandemic
- As Waukegan schools recognize Indigenous Peoples and Immigrants Day, local event celebrates Native American culture
- Consent decree report: CPD foot-pursuit data likely inaccurate; policy deadline missed
- Afghan refugees resettlement process: ‘A lot of it is the fear of the unknown’
- Column: Crime in the tweets. Can social networks make gangs even more angry?
- Bitcoin predica la libertad financiera. Nayib Bukele pone a prueba esa promesa
- Column: Abdulrazak Gurnah wins Nobel Prize in Literature, a little-known name for U.S. readers
- Column: What’s especially bad about ‘coastal elites’? Liberals live everywhere.
- Go Brewing nonalcoholic brewery wins liquor commission OK but needs Naperville council to increase cap on breweries
- Notre Dame-Virginia Tech preview: Dual threat Tyler Buchner is 1 of 3 possibilities to start at QB for the Irish
- Column: She’s only 6 years old and has endured 34 surgeries, with many more to come. ‘It’s OK, though’ says Eden Tansey.
- Editorial: Preckwinkle’s Cook County budget is balanced and smart. Other Illinois politicians should take notes.
- Op-ed: You signed up to be a teacher. Then you had a baby. Then COVID-19 hit. And then …
- Waukegan man found guilty of attempted murder in 2018 attack of woman who rebuffed his advances
- Prince takes resident questions in first in-person Gary town hall meeting; population drop, rise in shootings among topics
- Chicago city workers can opt out of vaccine mandate and get tested for rest of year, Lightfoot announces
- U.S. Steel oil spill in Indiana mostly contained, agency says
- Culture Stock arts group wins grant to put toward building
- Federal COVID-19 testing program to support overwhelmed Illinois schools
- Los 30 nominados al Balón de Oro 2021
- Handful of Indian Prairie employees refusing to be vaccinated or tested for COVID could be jeopardizing their jobs
- Op-ed: What parents know matters, what society does matters more
- Number of new COVID-19 cases in Lake County declines while vaccination rate inches up
- Hammond man gets 20 years for hammer beating at middle school
- Tres nominados españoles al Balón de Oro
- Commissioners ask for probe into allegations of unsafe use of county police vehicles: Sheriff defends department
- Wishes for Wyatt and local hospitals give grieving parents the ‘gift of time’
- Fury promete noquear a Wilder en cierre de trilogía épica
- Biden proclama el Día de los Pueblos Indígenas en EEUU
- Biden dice que quiere saber ‘quién es responsable’ del síndrome de La Habana, lo considera máxima prioridad
- Quiroprácticos combaten las vacunas contra COVID-19 en EEUU
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Lashana Lynch hace historia como 007 en ‘No Time to Die’
- ‘Love is not stuck at life.’ How a village like the one that was around Jamal Clay grapples with the suicide of a loved one
- NFL calls Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden’s reported use of a racist comment in a 2011 email ‘appalling’ and ‘abhorrent’
- Law & Order column: Lake County legal community to help preserve an oral history of veterans
- Hacedor de estrellas Joe Bonilla comparte sus ‘verdades’
- Texas asks federal appeals court to reinstate the most restrictive abortion law in the US
- Just opened: ‘New’ Ed Debevic’s diner experience among 8 restaurant openings in Chicago and suburbs
- From opening day into the playoffs, a White Sox fan cheers on his favorite team and savors memories of his late ballpark buddy
- 18-year-old Joliet man charged with attempted murder after Grundy County deputy shot during traffic stop
- Brookfield Zoo names new CEO to lead the 87-year-old institution
- Lake County sheriff announces new program to assist inmates in the 30 days after their release
- DEA otra vez en problemas por caso de corrupción en Colombia
- Public fight between Lightfoot, Foxx highlights frustration over violence and overshadows probe of West Side shootout
- State receives two bids to buy Thompson Center, its polarizing Loop headquarters
- ‘You have to have no bias’: The underdog White Sox present betting fans a test of heart vs. head
- Rusia registra cifra histórica de muertos diarios por COVID
- Potempa: Drury Lane new ‘Forever Plaid’ pays tribute to Como and nostalgic musical fun
- Milwaukee Brewers take Game 1 of the NLDS vs. the Atlanta Braves 2-1 on Rowdy Tellez’s 2-run homer in the 7th
- Prove them wrong, Tony La Russa, and White Sox fans will take it all back
- Officials clarify Joliet police chief firing, give ultimatum
- Chicago White Sox come home with a 2-0 deficit in the ALDS after a tense Game 2 vs. the Houston Astros turns into a blowout: ‘We know our backs are against the wall’
- ‘Magnet fishing’ from bridges in downtown Elgin nets a surprising catch — 3 rusty handguns
- Column: Dusty Baker gets the best of Tony La Russa again in Game 2 — but the Houston Astros manager knows closing out a playoff series in Chicago is no sure thing
- Spreading love to women in need, one purse at a time
- Classic Cinema in Carpentersville now serving canned beer, wine and cocktails after receiving village’s 50th liquor license
- 2-year-old girl, 70-year-old man among at least six shot Friday evening, officials say
- Boston Red Sox power past the Tampa Bay Rays 14-6 to even their ALDS at 1-1
- Chicago Sky’s WNBA Finals opponent is the Phoenix Mercury, who beat the Las Vegas Aces 87-84 in Game 5 of their semifinal series
- Jordan rules: Illinois recruit Jordan Anderson runs for 316 yards and 6 TDs as Joliet Catholic makes statement with win over Brother Rice