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- Blaine Dalton nearly matches his season total with 17 points to help Valparaiso stay unbeaten. His response? ‘It’s more of what the people around me have done.’
- Patrick the playmaker: Robinson also scores 34 points as Oswego East edges Duke recruit Jaden Schutt and Yorkville Christian
- Daily horoscope for December 15, 2021
- Ask Amy: Mother-in-law triggers traumatic experience
- ‘Nightmare Alley’ review: Bradley Cooper swindles his way to the top in Guillermo del Toro’s gorgeous carnival melodrama
- Disorder. Dysfunction. Disappointment. As the Chicago Bears’ systemic failures continue, one proposed remedy has become common: ‘You clean house.’
- House votes to hold Mark Meadows in contempt in Jan. 6 probe
- Sheriff, coroner employees to receive COVID-19 hazard pay
- Highland approves first tattoo parlor on 4-0 vote; plan for Duluth Street day care denied
- Omicron’s fast spread could lead to winter surge, CDC says
- This day in history, December 15: President Jimmy Carter announces he will grant diplomatic recognition to Communist China
- Gary teacher’s coat drive adds warmth to winter; ‘We were seeing kids come with double hoodies’
- Daywatch: Fighting for cleaner air, Little Village residents slam city over influx of industry | CPS says new bathroom signs are gender inclusive | Big changes loom for the Bears
- Vecinos de La Villita critican a la ciudad por no reducir la afluencia de industrias: ‘Como si no mereciéramos aire limpio’
- Help Them To Hope
- The best biscuit cutter
- Jefe de alianza de vacunas advierte contra acaparar fármacos
- The best skateboard wheels
- Waukegan Park District offers program to keep kids busy during winter break
- Warm December temperatures in Chicago
- The best dish drying rack
- Nov. retail sales up modest 0.3% as Americans keep spending
- The best Disney princess bedding
- EEUU rebasa las 800,000 muertes por COVID-19
- Column: Help Them to Hope connects us to those in need
- Daughter of South Dakota governor received unusual treatment in license application, official says
- UE: ómicron será la variante dominante en Europa en enero
- Indoor speedway Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve specials offer holiday break fun
- Agüero se retira del fútbol porque ‘lo primero es mi salud’
- West Aurora School Board OKs purchase of site for new Custodial and Maintenance Center
- Miss América cumple 100 años. ¿Durará otros 100?
- Regulador UE autoriza dosis de refuerzo de J&J a los 2 meses
- Speak Out reader opinion: State’s Attorney Kim Foxx should have prosecuted Jussie Smollett
- Girls basketball leaders for Northwest Indiana
- The best mini cupcake liner
- The best women’s winter hiking boots
- Girls basketball leaders for the Southland and the Aurora, Elgin, Naperville and Lake County areas
- Crean memorial para desaparecidos en la capital mexicana
- The best copper pot
- Girls basketball leaders for the Aurora, Elgin, Naperville and Lake County areas
- ‘Cuentos de morras y de la amistad entre ellas’
- The best carbon steel pan
- Sentencing of 17-year-old in stabbing death decried by family of 15 year-old victim
- On a single street, the tornado killed 7 children
- Expolicía Derek Chauvin se declara culpable de violar derechos de Floyd
- Michael Osipoff’s Post-Tribune boys basketball rankings and player of the week
- On a single street, the tornado killed 7 children
- Southtowners: Oak Lawn bowlers roll strike, area athletes competing for 2022 Special Olympics USA Games, and more
- The best denim jacket
- Genaro García Luna, exsecretario mexicano pedirá aclaraciones a fiscales de EEUU
- Art Basel Miami Beach y la nueva normalidad
- The best glow-in-the-dark dog collar
- Marcelo y Modric dan positivo por coronavirus
- Man convicted of kidnapping and robbing college student at gunpoint, sexually assaulting her in Elgin
- “Pretty Woman: The Musical” in Chicago
- Con más muertes por sobredosis, defensores claman por una naloxona de venta libre
- FSU’s 5-star commitment Travis Hunter flips to Jackson State
- Ecuador y Colombia reabren frontera tras 20 meses de cierre
- Army came calling at the last minute, but Marist’s Ak’Tavion Agee committed in early November to Dayton. Decisions, decisions.
- Italia y Argentina jugarán una ‘Finalísima’ en Londres
- Familia latina protagoniza comedia navideña ‘With Love’
- ‘Red Rocket’ review: Simon Rex is an ex-porn star, returning to hustle his Texas hometown
- Amid surge, more people want a COVID-19 treatment called monoclonal antibodies. But it’s not always easy to find in Illinois.
- Notre Dame or Northwestern. Brother Rice quarterback Jack Lausch looked at all of the options before answering one big question.
- First omicron case reported in suburban Cook County
- 100 years of robots: How technology – and our lives – have changed
- bell hooks, groundbreaking feminist thinker, dies at 69
- Universidades en EEUU se preparan para nuevas restricciones
- Pets of the week
- Juez: Congreso podrá ver declaraciones fiscales de Trump
- How student debt has grown in every state
- Illinois students covered by Medicaid to receive automatic approval for free or reduced-price lunch
- Una sobredosis de Spider-Man en ‘No Way Home’
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Derek Chauvin pleads guilty to federal civil rights charges in George Floyd’s death
- Gary gas station owners meet with council looking for solution to robberies, violence at businesses; owners want to work with city to find solution
- Sports betting at Chicago stadiums gets the go-ahead
- Freight rails trying other locomotive fuels to cut emissions
- Review: ‘Pretty Woman’ musical is back in Chicago, a crowd-pleasing night out starring Adam Pascal
- Commissioners defer jail medical contract amid dispute over allowing consultants into the facility
- CTA President Dorval Carter awarded 33% pay increase as transit agency contends with pandemic-related drop in riders
- NWI in line for $50M development grant; 36 projects were originally planned
- Naperville Municipal Band wraps up 2021 in a holiday bow with concert
- Park Ridge man accused of threatening neighbor with gun, barricading himself inside home, released on bond
- OPS advierte evitar desequilibrios con medicinas de COVID
- Column: Union seeks raises for workers in group homes: ‘We’re helping people that are pretty much forgotten about’
- Highland man charged in Griffith convenience store robbery: police
- Vernon and Wheeling townships holiday adopt-a-family programs ‘a huge benefit’ for those in need, donors who want to help
- Multiple interest rate increases planned for 2022, Federal Reserve announces
- Student, 12, threatens to set fire at Emerson Middle School in Niles: Police
- Officials at Barrington, Lake Zurich and Stevenson high school mulling ISBE school report card info: ‘Education is much more holistic than that’
- Must employers follow Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates?
- NY: Alcalde electo elige a mujer como comisionada de policía
- Weeks away from Christmas, omicron comes to town as Chicago celebrates one-year anniversary of the vaccine rollout
- Letters: Most of us don’t know the suffering of trying to survive the winter while being homeless
- Ómicron amenaza con estropear fiestas de fin de año en EEUU
- Op-ed: Ex-city lawyer Mark Flessner: Anjanette Young settlement is a donation to Lightfoot’s reelection campaign
- South Elgin building storing $1.5M in exotic cars a total loss in blaze but volunteers help save 40 horses
- Waukegan D60 officials say property tax payments likely to decrease slightly
- Cook County ethics ordinance slated for biggest overhaul in 15 years, but some experts want more
- NYFC jugará como local en tres estadios en 2022
- NY: Exigen a exgobernador Cuomo devolver dinero de libro
- El Super Bowl de 2024 será en Las Vegas
- El Festival Essence regresa a New Orleans en 2022
- State in talks to sell Thompson Center for $70 million — but would buy back office space for $148 million
- Porter County Museum gallery celebrates future, past with design exhibit
- Ridgewood High School in Norridge holds remote learning after threat made; officials later learned threat intended for a Chicago high school
- Dylan Strome — after weeks of ups and downs with the Chicago Blackhawks — clings to the top-line center role with Patrick Kane and Alex DeBrincat: ‘It’s a good opportunity’
- A los rateros les encanta esta época del año. Esto le ayudará a proteger sus paquetes
- ‘Everyone here are my friends’: Cold season hikes offer camaraderie, exercise and sometimes even mystery soup
- Column: Texts presented at hearing reveal what Trump loyalists privately felt: Jan. 6 was a shocking disaster
- Police, foundation host toy event Sunday in Merrillville
- Billie Eilish dice que comenzó a ver pornografía a los 11 años y eso la ‘devastó’
- Illinois’ top cannabis official Toi Hutchinson leaves post to head national lobbying group that helped draw up law making pot legal in state
- Friends mourn ‘fun-loving’ woman who, along with brother, were struck by vehicle in Midlothian
- Santa greeted families at his Mundelein ‘cottage’ and children submitted holiday wish list letters
- Aurora honors Metea Valley High School state volleyball champs
- Magistrate rejects release bid for Merrillville couple accused of killing 10-year-old boy
- Anjanette Young botched raid settlement: ‘No amount of money could erase what Ms. Young has suffered’
- Miles de niños en EEUU carecen de un seguro médico adecuado: Estudio
- Editorial: In the City Council, finally a win for affordable housing and a defeat for segregation
- Aurora City Council approves $83 million tax levy
- Chicago Blackhawks express concerns about a string of COVID-19 outbreaks as the NHL brings back enhanced protocols: ‘You’re always worried about it’
- Former Jags player says Urban Meyer kicked him; freefalling coach denies it
- Potempa: Broadway in Chicago has stage performance gifts for audiences
- Mundelein trustees adopt tax levy, approve requests that pave the way for Thornton’s gas station to open — over residents’ objections
- Santa makes arrival in Barrington, local family illuminates town Christmas tree
- Mayor Lightfoot: Northwest Side affordable housing vote a win against ‘grip of segregation’
- CPS pleads with parents to test kids for coronavirus over winter break amid ‘wicked post-Thanksgiving COVID surge’
- Volunteers distribute boxes of food from the Greater Chicago Food Depository
- CPS students walk out of school for immigrant rights
- Special prosecutor again seeking release of full report on handling of the Jussie Smollett case
- Mayor Lori Lightfoot responds after city’s former top lawyer calls her tenure a ‘disaster’ and criticizes Anjanette Young settlement
- Michael Jordan graces Wheaties box for a record 19th time to commemorate 100th anniversary
- Illinois teachers union calls for legislation holding districts accountable to school safety requirements in wake of Michigan shooting
- College football signing day recap: Who’s headed to Notre Dame, Illinois, Northwestern and Northern Illinois?
- Chicago Blackhawks reach a settlement with Kyle Beach in the former prospect’s negligence lawsuit over an alleged sexual assault in 2010
- Valen Erickson, who moved to Florida for five years, didn’t play football until seventh grade. Missouri commit finds groove at St. Rita.
- Reggie Fleurima is ready. The Naperville Central receiver signs with Northwestern, plans to graduate early to play spring football.
- A big shot. A big play. Even after foul against Providence, Marian Catholic’s Madison Davis could count on her twin brother Josh.
- ‘A very difficult and unpopular decision:’ Niles Village Board approves 88% increase in property-tax levy
- ‘They’re really good.’ Abby Drendel and Naperville North certainly make that case against rival Central, scoring 49 points in the first half of a lopsided win.