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- No. 20 Notre Dame women hold off DePaul 91-86, improving to 11-2
- Daily horoscope for December 23, 2021
- Ask Amy: Dormant affair triggers obsession
- Singing bell-ringer at Oak Forest grocery store has been collecting for Salvation Army for 50 years: ‘Her effort to spread joy is a blessing’
- Chicagoan of the Year for Jazz: Angel Bat Dawid honors memory through music
- Review: ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ is gripping screen Shakespeare, with Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand and one hell of a witch
- Amid pandemic uncertainty, AMC Theatres acquires Chicago’s ArcLight 14, eyes late spring 2022 reopening
- Merry Christmas! Let the bells in the tower ring! U of C’s Guild of Change Ringers has been following a tradition — and getting on Hyde Park’s nerves — for generations
- What We’re Reading: This week it’s what YOU’RE reading — Reader Favorites for 2021
- Daywatch: New daily record set for Illinois COVID cases | Mom recalls fallen Chicago firefighter | Fields expected to play Sunday for Bears
- ‘Locked in’: As he pursues a 1,000-yard season, Chicago Bears receiver Darnell Mooney is setting a tone and building a special connection with Justin Fields
- A Christmas Eve peek behind an angel tree wish list
- This day in history, December 23: George Washington resigns as commander in chief of the Continental Army and retires to his home at Mount Vernon, Virginia
- Omicron COVID variant less likely to put you in hospital, studies suggest
- COVID-19, full-day kindergarten, marijuana, theft of mail and checks top Park Ridge news in 2021
- River commission continues projects after a year of work on Yellow River: ‘We purposely started with the hardest part’
- Lake superintendent says crews ready to take on snowy roadways: ‘We plow one way and then back another way’
- Pope Francis urges humility in Christmas speech
- Gary schools add truancy officer, two new security vehicles
- President Joe Biden promised 500 million COVID tests, but Americans will have to wait
- Griffith trucking company eyes move to Gary
- Is the COVID-19 vaccine safe for children?
- Consumer prices up 5.7% over past year, fastest in 39 years
- 17 last-minute Christmas takeout options from Chicago-area restaurants
- Speak Out: Time to change Dollar Tree name since nothing’s still a dollar; elect Pritzker president if you want a country just like Illinois; ‘Die Hard’ just a movie
- Potempa: Broadway in Chicago ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ is all RIGHT
- With contractors and repairmen in short supply, many homeowners are turning to do-it-yourself videos, with mixed results.
- Salud mental de deportistas acaparó titulares en año caótico
- East Dundee assistant village manager ousted after job eliminated in wake of romance controversy
- ¿Es segura para los niños la vacuna del COVID-19?
- Gary continues work to fine tune premium pay bonuses for city employees
- EEUU autoriza segunda píldora contra covid, ahora de Merck
- Stephen Curry celebra su récord de triples con el lanzamiento de réplicas digitales de sus zapatillas
- Is it time for a shot clock in high school basketball for Illinois and Indiana? Coaches and players say yes, but there are concerns.
- Speak Out reader opinion: Amazon warehouses need to be built for stronger tornadoes
- Muere Sally Ann Howes, actriz de ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’
- US adds Merck pill as 2nd easy-to-use drug against COVID-19
- Cook County follows Chicago with COVID-19 vaccination mandate for patrons of restaurants, gyms and other businesses
- Morgan Park woman, 81, struck by car a month after running Chicago Marathon
- La Navidad de Mariah Carey es lo primero y después contará su historia en la pantalla
- Aurora event offers something extra for Christmas for those in need
- Naperville Police Arrests
- US jobless claims unchanged at 205,000
- Precios al consumidor en EEUU aumentan 5.7% en el último año
- Lincoln Park mansion sells for $12.5M, making it Chicago’s highest residential selling price in 2021
- EEUU logra reunir a 100 niños migrantes con sus familias
- Bradshaw: All is not lost if students don’t achieve admission to first choice college
- ‘Don’t Look Up’ review: A movie about armageddon in the age of idiocracy
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Si no puedes vencerlo, ignóralo. Cómo McConnell sobrevivió un año a los ataques de Trump
- Working as a part-time game manager for Benet is not about glamour or money, Jim Schramek says. The father of three former Redwings players loves high school sports.
- Joan Didion, revered essayist and novelist, dies at 87
- Chicago restaurant owners applaud vaccine mandate — especially if it prevents another ‘catastrophic’ industry shutdown
- Lake County Dems look forward to opening new Griffith headquarters, voter engagement in 2022
- China confina a 13 millones antes de Juegos Olímpicos
- El actor Jason Bateman es el Hombre del Año
- Oswego man sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing Aurora child
- Letters: Mistakes that police officers make are not automatically signs of ‘bad policing’
- Desgarrados por tragedias familiares, una viuda y un representante federal cuestionan las reglas de suicidio de las aseguradoras
- México busca talento en EEUU para su selección femenil de fútbol
- Restaurantes y espectáculos cierran conforme ómicron se apodera de EEUU
- Applications being taken for Kane County grants for mental health groups, homeless shelters and food pantries
- For Mexican families, Christmas means one big thing — homemade tamales for the holiday meal
- Column: Dear Santa, all I want for Christmas is a COVID-19 rapid test kit
- Column: Fifty years and 30,000 games? ‘Never in my wildest dreams.’ After all that, basketball official Jim McKenna is still calling it fair.
- Chicago Heights police investigate homicides of two males found shot in parked vehicle
- Op-ed: Why John Hughes films are such a part of our family’s holiday season
- Top Elmwood Park news in 2021: railroad crossing, vicious dogs, Taste of Elmwood, Guerin Prep site
- Column: Does Mayor Lightfoot have fresh solutions for Chicago’s violence?
- Trump asks Supreme Court to block release of Jan. 6 records
- La Liga española ordena pruebas diarias de antígenos
- Last-minute Christmas shoppers in Aurora like the hustle and bustle of ‘crunch time’
- Column: Tinley Park debates whether Avon Lane holiday display has outgrown neighborhood
- Jake Renfro learned to play ‘tough and nasty’ at Providence. No. 4 Cincinnati’s starting center faces his greatest test of that against No. 1 Alabama.
- Universal Orlando restablece uso de mascarillas por COVID
- Op-ed: My family’s 2019 Christmas in Florence was like a dream. Then the world’s nightmare unfolded.
- After more than 200 days in Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Brittani Bury leaves with new heart, lungs, future
- Kim Potter guilty of manslaughter in Daunte Wright death
- Kim Potter culpable de homicidio involuntario en la muerte de Daunte Wright
- State Democratic chairman talks tours around the state, plans for 2022
- Op-ed: Christmas in Syria is an inspiring display of Muslims and Christians mingling in peace
- Oswego tight end Deakon Tonielli has offers from Michigan and Tennessee. What if he had focused on basketball?
- Naperville man’s played Santa for six decades, this year getting to pay a visit to his wife in memory care facility
- Decades before jazz was heard in Bronzeville, sleigh bells rang as horses raced its snow-covered boulevard
- Recruiting during a pandemic: 10 student-athletes tell their stories.
- Los Chiefs buscan su boleto a playoffs; Steelers, sobrevivir
- Germain Ifedi’s angry reaction to a personal foul on Chicago Bears rookie Teven Jenkins came with a message: ‘Do it the clean way.’
- State Sen. Kimberly Lightford’s husband exchanged gunfire with at least one suspect during carjacking earlier this week, police say
- New Year’s Eve in Times Square still on, with smaller crowd
- Nets dicen que tienen suficientes jugadores para el sábado
- Tesla to halt games on infotainment screens in moving cars
- Ecuador anuncia que vacunación contra covid será obligatoria
- Gary teen sentenced to 9 years in fatal shooting
- Clowns will get down to serious business during March convention in Northbrook
- Actriz Silvia Pinal es hospitalizada con COVID
- Editorial: Mask up, get your booster, and merry Christmas, Chicago!
- In 2021, violence spread into Chicago neighborhoods that normally enjoy a sense of security, rattling nerves and putting city leaders on the defensive
- Former Lincoln Park Zoo director Lester Fisher dies at age 100 — a transformational leader for the zoo and its animals
- Pandemia agrava adicción en pueblos nativos norteamericanos
- No snow this Christmas but yes, Virginia, you can go to the movies, eat at McDonald’s or shop at Walgreens
- Help Them To Hope
- ‘Merry Christmas!’ from readers in other countries, where pandemic-affected customs celebrate religious and pagan traditions
- Judge leaves 79-year prison sentence unchanged for Aurora-area man convicted of ‘brutal and heinous’ killing of neighbor
- Prolific scorer Trinity Barnes returns to West Side as a more mature and more polished player. The senior guard’s coach, then and now, is ‘glad she came back home.’
- Gary takes steps to reduce COVID-19 spread; city offices to remain open but online business encouraged
- Ómicron se suma a problemas para Copa Africana
- Robert L. May, the creator of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- As residential evictions increase in Lake County, rental relief money remains undistributed
- Nochevieja en Times Square sigue en pie, con menos público
- Kane County COVID-19 hospitalizations have more than doubled since November
- Chicago Bulls players fully clear the NBA’s COVID-19 protocols, and the team is nearly at full strength for its upcoming games: ‘Now we can get things rolling again’
- Gold Coast 3-bedroom home with built-in millwork: $1.9M
- Niña de 10 años muere tras intentar el ‘Desafío Blackout’ viral
- Winter solstice marked on Green Bay Trail with traditional dance, family walk
- US sets shorter COVID-19 isolation rules for health workers
- New Lake County COVID-19 cases climb despite rising number of fully vaccinated people
- ‘No, no, no, no!’ 59-year-old Budlong Woods man before fatal shooting and robbery, prosecutors say
- Public watchdog for CPS releases final report on sexual misconduct at Marine Leadership Academy
- Bubble Bash planned at DuPage Children’s Museum
- Joe Wark, former Glen Ellyn village president and trustee, dies at 89
- In Morton Grove, 2021 saw store openings, a police standoff, a pool delay and a celebrated pet
- NorthShore closed most of its immediate care centers to additional patients early Thursday, following surge of demand
- Officials working to contain COVID-19 outbreak at Kane County Jail
- Waukegan Mayor Ann Taylor addresses budget issues and library problems during first months in office
- Maine Township to host COVID-19 vaccine clinic for children at Town Hall
- Morton Grove’s Cultura Subs serves up mix of Latin American and Mediterranean tastes
- Big East and SEC alter their policies for basketball postponements and cancellations as COVID-19 cases spike
- 4 injured in Oakbrook Center shooting
- Hawaii Bowl canceled on eve of the game after Hawaii withdraws because of a COVID-19 outbreak within the program
- Shots ring out amid last-minute Christmas shopping at Oakbrook Center, four people wounded, police say