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- Daily horoscope for November 26, 2021
- Ask Amy: Dating is disrupted by smoke-filled rooms
- Tiny home vacation rentals are all the rage, everywhere from the Wisconsin Northwoods to downtown Las Vegas
- Work to save North Pond in Lincoln Park set to begin soon. ‘Such an important connection for people.’
- Letters: Illinois should revise its prison sentencing laws
- Editorial: Book banning at school libraries blinkers children in the worst way
- A shared mission to ‘bring happiness to somebody’ when they need it most unites members of Tinley Park, Frankfort churches in quilting effort
- Op-ed: Black Friday deals not cutting it? Wait a few weeks.
- Editorial: Black Friday is dead. Long live ‘Family Friday’ instead.
- Lake Michigan’s November surface temperature — hovering around 50 degrees — ‘really warm for this time of year’
- Best deals of Black Friday
- This day in history, November 26: Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivers note to Japan’s ambassador to the US, Kichisaburo Nomura, demanding ‘lasting and extensive peace throughout the Pacific area’
- Despite an erratic supply of building materials and labor, home renovations are booming
- From tearful interviews to summoning ambulances, contact tracing ‘takes an emotional and psychological toll.’ Cook County is offering mental health support.
- Matt Nagy gets a reprieve after a bizarre week — and a win over the NFL’s worst team. Brad Biggs’ 10 thoughts on the Chicago Bears’ 16-14 victory on Thanksgiving.
- Respecting courtroom verdicts challenges us to look beyond our biases, politics, and assumptions
- Raven Mazique, aka Zvrra, got hooked on techno by way of video game soundtracks
- Things to Do in Chicago this Thanksgiving weekend, from Cirque to a Chicago sing-along
- ‘Licorice Pizza’ review: Coming-of-age odyssey is Paul Thomas Anderson’s ode to 1970s San Fernando Valley
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- Aurora gets $1.2 million grant for downtown security cameras
- EV buses, new driver relief facility drive GPTC agenda
- Gary man wanted for setting girlfriend on fire
- Community Fridge Project in Aurora looks to provide those in need 24/7 access to fresh food
- Indiana’s top electric provider seeks rate increase approval
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- ‘Speak Out’ reader opinion: Time for Chicago Bears to move on from Matt Nagy
- Police budget expands wellness support, adds social worker and mental health expert in Valparaiso
- This Week in Naperville
- Speak Out reader opinion: Who’s really to blame for higher prices?
- Sparked by student interest, Merrillville expands welding shop; expansion project nearly doubled student workstations
- Celebrated snowboarder Marko Grilc, 38, dies in Austria after hitting head on snow-covered rock
- Two men wanted after Hammond gunfight
- Prosecutor, PNW partner to form state-funded high-tech crimefighting unit
- New state senator ready to go to work: ‘I had a really great, warm welcome’
- Letters: Congress needs to fix disparity in Medicare Advantage program
- Naperville News Digest: Park district program registration, forest preserve permits starting; Naperville residents headed to Special Olympics; signup, money needed for Christmas meals
- Lincoln-Way band members show their colors in Macy’s parade
- Breakfast with Santa to be held at Rosary High School in Aurora
- From Buddy Guy’s Fender Strat to Miles Davis’ trumpet, museum exhibit celebrates Illinois’ worldwide impact on music
- Speak Out: Hard to pity ‘miracle man’ not vaccinated before he got sick; McCarthy’s criticism of Biden ridiculous given GOP stance on vaccine; death penalty for Waukesha parade attacker
- Michigan City man gets 12 years in former Griffith basketball player’s death
- Aurora holiday shopping season off to a busy start
- Op-ed: Why is it so hard to get a rapid COVID test in the US?
- Russia names 51 people presumed dead in coal mine accident
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Vickroy: You’re not alone if you feel alone — or lonely — especially as you get older and making friends gets harder
- A Thanksgiving dinner at a Pilsen bar, old friends and Mexican music: ‘It feels like home’
- Surprised York won the Class 3A state title? Sam Musial isn’t. The senior midfielder anticipated history in the making. ‘That’s never going to be forgotten.’
- Chicago Bears go into a mini-bye weekend with a win — and with the hope Justin Fields (cracked ribs) and Roquan Smith (hamstring) can heal before the next game
- Introducing the 2021 Naperville Sun Football All-Area Team
- Introducing the 2021 Beacon-News/Courier-News Football All-Area Team
- Naperville ranks second in Illinois for most electric cars, trucks and SUVs, and federal infrastructure dollars could drive up those numbers
- New COVID-19 variant hits sports just as they were nearing normality across the world
- Column: Families keep their ancestors alive during the holidays one recipe at a time
- Residents support local businesses, shop for holiday gifts at Crown Point Winter Market
- Indiana recruit Katie Hurta wanted more playing time when she transferred for her sophomore year in 2019. She got that, and a whole lot more, at Nazareth.
- Sheriff’s $770k boat purchase, lease agreement deferred to December; Martinez says delay ‘deliberate and illegal’
- What is this new COVID variant in South Africa?
- Biden sets out oil, gas leasing reform, stops short of ban
- Proposal to dredge, restore two plant-covered ponds at Hawthorne Hill center to cost $2M if approved by Elgin council
- Elgin News Digest: Winter clothing and new toys sought for nonprofits; Dec. 3 deadline to apply for Elgin Police Explorers program; forest preserve district planning Winter Solstice event
- Food pantries, social clubs stepping up to feed neighbors in Gary, Valparaiso: ‘If our clients don’t have an oven, how’re they going to cook turkey?’
- IDOT to turn on new traffic signals Wednesday for the Route 58/Shady Oaks Drive intersection in Elgin
- Stephen Sondheim, Broadway composer best known for ‘West Side Story’ and ‘Gypsy,’ dies
- Column: Another way to fight violent hate groups? Take ’em to court
- Plans to hire private tutors and to send paraeducators to NIU for special education licenses to cost U-46 nearly $1M
- Taylor Curry is the pick-me-up for Waubonsie Valley, scoring 11 of her 25 points in the third quarter of a win against West Aurora: ‘She has a real knack for the game.’
- People return to retail for Black Friday shopping
- ‘He did so much for us’: Neuqua Valley’s Palmer Domschke is the 2021 Naperville Sun Football Player of the Year.
- Heat road-weary and road-dreary as trip delivers them to Chicago
- ‘A real game changer for us’: Batavia’s Jalen Buckley is the 2021 Beacon-News/Courier-News Football Player of the Year.
- Michael Morawski scores 28 points, grabs 9 rebounds and dishes out both assists and advice for Andrew in the D218 tourney final: ‘He can do anything.’
- Alex DeBrincat’s overtime goal gives the Chicago Blackhawks a 3-2 victory against the St. Louis Blues, snapping a 5-game skid in the series
- Appreciation: Stephen Sondheim, as great an American composer and lyricist as ever lived
- Convicted gang boss Labar Spann denies threatening witnesses in jail call posted to Instagram
- Chicago Sky WNBA championship bobbleheads — featuring Candace Parker and Kahleah Copper — released
- Bryce Tillery plays every game in memory of his friend, Pierre McLoyd. He stars as Hillcrest tops Marian Catholic for tourney title.
- Nikola Vucevic scores 16 points against his former team, helping the Chicago Bulls break a 2-game skid with a 123-88 rout of the Orlando Magic
- Local scores for Northwest Indiana
- Loyola pulls away for a 77-59 win against Arizona State in the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament, improving to 5-2 entering MVC play