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- Metea Valley graduate Ethan Helwig transferred from Merrimack to play with his brother Matt at North Central College. They had one issue. ‘Never played with him before.’
- Photos: Blackhawks 5, Capitals 4 (OT)
- Daily horoscope for December 16, 2021
- Ask Amy: Sister’s annual gift cards just don’t cut it
- Jacksonville Jaguars fire coach Urban Meyer after just 13 games — and 2 wins
- Those we lost in 2021: Saying farewell to people, places and things gone over the course of a year — in Chicago and beyond
- Column: Chicago oligarch caught infiltrating holiday food drive in attempt to make handsome columnist look bad
- What We’re Reading: With ‘Energy Never Dies,’ Ayana Contreras has written the cultural biography of Black Chicago
- Review: ‘Station Eleven’ on HBO Max is a ruminative look at humanity (and Chicago) in the aftermath of a fictional pandemic
- Transgender and Civil War history converge on a day trip to Saunemin, Illinois
- Naperville Police Arrests
- Chicago Bears Q&A: How quickly can the team return to winning ways? Who are the building blocks for 2022? And what’s with the drought in interceptions for cornerbacks?
- Column: It’s a battle of all-time greats when LeBron James and Bozo go head-to-head for the attention of TV viewers in Chicago
- Naperville News Digest: Tickets on sale for DuPage Children’s Museum’s New Year’s Bubble Bash; Edward on U.S. News’ list for best maternity care hospitals
- Temps spike to record-breaking 66 as gusts could reach 60 mph Wednesday night in the Chicago area. Secure those holiday decorations.
- Best stocking stuffers for cats
- Thomas Hammock’s belief in his Northern Illinois team never wavered during a winless 2020. Now the Huskies are enjoying one of the best turnarounds in FBS history.
- Best products for New Year’s nails
- Best travel accessories for cat owners
- Best high-end gifts for your grandma
- Best gifts for nieces from aunts
- Best budget gifts for your sister-in-law
- Romantic getaway packing list
- Most popular BB creams at Sephora
- Best women’s winter coats for extreme cold
- Best affordable compression socks
- Tornadoes in December? The latest warning – and devastation – finally forced me to plan for the unthinkable.
- Indiana officials plan $125 refund to taxpayers from $3.9B surplus
- Elgin News Digest: U-46 administrator changes announced by superintendent; vaccine clinic to be held in Carpentersville; new HS boys lacrosse squad wins OK
- Help Them To Hope
- This day in history, December 16: Boston Tea Party takes place as American colonists board a British ship and dump more than 300 chests of tea
- Former McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook returns $105 million in equity awards and cash
- High winds cause damage in Chicago
- Letter to the Editor
- 1 dead as Midwest storm brings hurricane-force wind gusts
- Daywatch: State in talks to sell Thompson Center for $70 million | CPS urges at-home COVID tests for kids over winter break | Wind gusts reach 74 mph at the lake
- Bruce Springsteen sells music catalog for reported $500M
- State OKs permit for OrthoIllinios to build $17.7M center for elective surgery procedures in Elgin
- President Joe Biden and Sen. Joe Manchin sharply divided over Democrats’ huge social and environment bill
- Column: The U.S. has lost two great leaders in Dole and Powell
- Puerto Rico suspende su liga de béisbol por COVID-19
- Chicago Film Critics Association awards: ‘The Power of the Dog’ wins 7 awards for 2021; Kristen Stewart wins best actress for ‘Spencer’
- CRÍTICAS. Un Hombre Araña sorprendente, un Guillermo del Toro virtuoso y más estrenos de cine
- Belmont Cragin house fire: 1 dead, 3 others in critical condition including Chicago firefighter
- EEUU: hermanos de armas planean el robo y venta de armamento
- Muere en accidente aéreo el productor musical boricua Flow La Movie y su familia
- High school basketball scores for the Aurora, Elgin, Naperville and Lake County areas
- ¿Puede su mascota contraer el COVID-19?
- High school basketball scores for the Southland
- Dentro de un ensayo de vacuna covid para bebés y niños pequeños
- Lake County facilities to eliminate use of single-use plastics by 2023
- ‘Illumination: Tree Lights’ at Morton Arboretum has been extended
- ‘Skates’ musical will finally debut at Studebaker Theater; ‘Winnie the Pooh’ musical arriving in March
- Speak Out reader opinion: End of the dollar store, what a joke
- Bruce Springsteen vende su catálogo de música por $500 millones
- Boys basketball leaders for Northwest Indiana
- Agotamiento entre farmacéuticos desacelera vacunas de refuerzo de COVID-19
- Ejército de EEUU reporta 98% de vacunación de su fuerza
- Aurora pantry’s pet food program ‘a godsend’ for animal lovers in need
- En medio de la incertidumbre de ómicron, los estados se resisten a los nuevos mandatos
- News-Sun boys basketball rankings and player of the week
- Construction on 109th Avenue and I-65 completed in Crown Point: ‘This has been a tremendous project’
- Ben Affleck habla sobre estar “atrapado” en el matrimonio con Jennifer Garner, bebió una botella de whisky para escapar
- Passenger rail expansion expected with $1T infrastructure bill
- El ‘coworking’ espera un repunte del COVID-19
- US jobless claims rise but still historically low at 206,000
- Alden sues Lee after news publisher rejects its takeover bid
- US faces a double coronavirus surge as omicron advances
- Lakeview 6-bedroom home with 6 outdoor decks and heated pool: $1.9M
- Boys basketball notes: Cooper Venamore was given a new nickname over the summer. ‘It’s a little different,’ the Deerfield senior says.
- Estrés y miedo pueden causar mareos
- Escépticos de vacunas cambian de parecer
- Army says 98% of active duty got COVID-19 vaccine by deadline
- All from US missionary group freed in Haiti, police say
- Rick Armstrong’s Beacon-News/Courier-News girls basketball rankings and player of the week for Friday, Dec. 17, 2021
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- La paridad ayuda a la Liga MX, pero ¿perjudica al talento local?
- Steve Millar’s Daily Southtown wrestling rankings and wrestler of the week for Friday, Dec. 17, 2021
- Tormentas azotan centro-occidente de EEUU; calor inusual
- After 25 years, she left consulting to become a nurse. Then COVID-19 hit.
- Kane County to keep vaccination hub open until end of January
- Bioenergy facility with Gary plans hosts city open house; skeptical residents say there’s no track record
- OPINIÓN / Cuentos Políticos: Del triunfo al golpe
- A fire destroyed a Pilsen food truck that helps Chicago’s homeless — but it also opened a new chapter
- PNW column: Purdue Northwest graduates poised for success
- Henry Cavill vuelve a tomar la espada en ‘The Witcher’
- South Shore offers free ride program Dec. 22-29
- Wrestling notes: H-F’s program has never had a state champion. Marian Catholic transfer Vincent Robinson wants to change that.
- La Premier posterga más partidos, aumentan casos COVID
- A former New Hampshire resident, Jaci Menard learned quickly about Indiana basketball. It’s ‘relentless.’ Not that it’s a problem for Boone Grove’s 6-foot junior.
- Op-ed: Disappointments abound in 2022 Pentagon budget
- Presidente de LaLiga habla del aumento de Covid y el posible fichaje de Haaland por el Barca
- Op-ed: The school shooting in Oxford, Michigan, shows our teens are in need
- 3 takeaways from the Chicago Blackhawks’ 5-4 win in overtime against the Washington Capitals, including a break from ‘boring hockey’ and a near-historic 3 goals in 34 seconds
- Elmwood Park railroad underpass project continues as $3.1 million released for engineering
- With $2T bill stalled, Senate Democrats seem ready to move on for now
- R & A Bread Bakers in Ravenswood
- Morton Arboretum’s Illumination offers family fun during holiday lulls
- Indemnizarán a víctimas de tiroteo en escuela de Florida
- How Mark Meadows and a band of loyalists fought to keep Trump in power
- ‘A lot of moving parts’: Chicago Bulls are starting to get players back from their COVID-19 outbreak, but uncertainty lingers around increased NBA cases
- Sondeo: Jóvenes de EEUU están motivados para el cambio
- 10 things to do in the Chicago suburbs to ring in 2022
- At least 5 dead as Midwest rocked by hurricane-force winds
- Should parents worry about a vaccine affecting a child’s fertility? Your COVID-19 questions answered.
- ‘It was not worth it’: Two downstate men sentenced to probation in US Capitol breach
- Commissioners extend mask mandate in county-owned buildings through mid January
- Girls basketball notes: Caroline Croft is more than just a classic point guard for South Elgin. ‘Her hustle, her heart? It’s really epic.’
- Column: The Southland faces a youth mental health crisis that may worsen
- MegaBeatles invade La Porte Civic Auditorium for the first time
- Letters: In his criticism of Mayor Lightfoot, former city lawyer Mark Flessner violated sacred bond
- Merrillville council members discuss COVID-19 testing for town employees
- Brote de coronavirus sacude al Real Madrid
- Pueblos afectados por tormentas en EEUU lloran a sus muertos
- El grupo de la muerte de la Liga de Naciones
- Young adults in Illinois are many of the patients at Northwestern’s Neuro COVID-19 clinic tracking long-haulers
- Disney+ prepara una serie de los Goonies
- Oak Park woman honored with Senior Illinoisan Hall of Fame award for nursing career, volunteering with homeless
- Empleador de tecnología en Silicon Valley ‘roba salarios’ de trabajadores extranjeros, dice un informe
- UE exhorta a aplicarse refuerzo: es ‘urgente’ y ‘crucial’
- Sears plans to sell Hoffman Estates headquarters
- Francia restringirá llegadas por ómicron
- Reseña: Maravillosa ‘The Lost Daughter’ de Maggie Gyllenhaal
- CDC panel recommends Pfizer, Moderna vaccines over J&J shot
- Life goes local: ‘The Game of Lemont’ riffs on classic board game while offering boost in business skills
- Parlamento Europeo pide más sanciones contra Daniel Ortega
- Officials failed to ‘adequately consider’ Anjanette Young’s ‘dignity’ but mayor didn’t intentionally conceal details, outside report finds
- The reindeer of Whispering Pines Reindeer Ranch
- Northbrook trustees discuss senior living facilities, demolition tax in affordable housing discussion
- First Watch restaurant, medical offices coming to East Ogden Avenue development in 2022
- Op-ed: It’s time to get the band back together for the Uptown Theatre
- How the Chicago Bears are dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak — 11 players and all 3 coordinators this week: ‘We’re not the only team going through this’
- Evanston Township High School students spent hours on lockdown after 2 guns found: ‘It’s just overwhelming’
- Park Ridge plan commission recommends City Council approval of marijuana dispensary on Higgins Road
- Cómo Mark Meadows y una banda de leales lucharon para mantener a Trump en el poder
- The Chicago Tribune’s 100 best photos of 2021
- Camilo regresa al regional mexicano y Karol G y Feid le ponen pasión al reggaetón de Medellín
- Op-ed: Advice to Jewish parents who send their kids to Catholic school this ‘J’Oy-ful’ time of year
- Mueren 5 niños en accidente en castillo inflable
- US regulators lift in-person restrictions on abortion pill
- Hinsdale village board approves 2022 budget taking into account pandemic woes and impact to local economy
- Indiana officials projecting big jump in budget surplus
- Oak Lawn cuts staff and public works, police and fire budgets to climb out of COVID-19 budget hole
- Seedlings Theatre Co. launches season with ‘The Land of Forgotten Toys’
- Photos: Gordon Ramsay Burger opens in Chicago
- La MLS anuncia su calendario 2022, ajustado por el Mundial
- Pottery Barn, Yaseen Jewelers, Li’l Deb-n-Heir and other Naperville stores closing
- Waukegan library, park and historical society officials at odds over Ray Bradbury collection
- Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to require healthy drink options with kids’ meals is already taking effect statewide thanks to new Illinois law
- Golazo del mexicano Diego Lainez rescata al Real Betis en la Copa del Rey (VIDEO)
- Hundreds of Barrington School District 220 families picked up donated clothes, household goods at ‘Giving Day’ winter event
- Housing Market Outlook
- COVID-19 hospitalizations at Edward Hospital in Naperville reach highest level in months
- Little Village residents slam city for failing to reduce influx of industry: ‘As if we don’t deserve clean air’
- Man gets 80 years for Gary woman’s death after Tinley Park concert
- Column: Protecting Justin Fields vs. the Minnesota Vikings will be complicated for the Chicago Bears with injuries, illnesses and COVID-19 protocols impacting the offensive line
- ‘Billy Elliot’ leaps onto North Shore stage to close out 2021
- Pickles Support Group
- Bond set for Elgin man who tried to disarm Elmhurst cop, steal patrol vehicle
- Vernon Hills trustees discuss capital improvement plan, approve police mental health pilot program at last meeting of year
- Con el fentanilo vinculado a la mayoría de las muertes por opioides en Chicago, la ciudad distribuye tiras reactivas gratis: ‘El juego es totalmente diferente ahora con el fentanilo’
- Vaccine mandate upheld for Chicago firefighters, other city workers
- Billionaire Ken Griffin pushes Illinois GOP to back his slate of candidates for 2022, with Aurora mayor potentially filling the slot for governor, sources say
- State rejects Arlington International’s OTB parlors, citing owner’s shutdown of horse racing at what could become site of Bears’ new home
- Editorial: In a cynical world, we must guard democracy or risk its loss
- Grassroots effort working to bring Boys and Girls Club to Aurora
- Abortion by mail: FDA permanently eases abortion pill restrictions, allowing direct shipment to patients in many states, including Illinois
- Sheriff: 2 Rottweilers used jogger ‘like a chew toy’ in St. Charles attack before a CCL holder had dad bring him his gun. He fatally shot 1 dog. The 2nd was later euthanized.
- 2,500 Park Ridge water lines made of lead pipe will require replacement under new law; could cost $2 million annually
- Hundreds remain powerless Thursday night after wind gusts reach 74 mph at lake, leaving trees, power lines downed and semi-truck careening as cold front grips Chicago area
- Pascuala Herrera of Franklin Park wins ‘soon to be famous’ author search contest for Spanish-language book