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- Geneva scored first. Jared Sinnaeve scored twice, though, as St. Charles North responded with four unanswered goals in a 4-1 win.
- Daily horoscope for March 17, 2021
- Ask Amy: Germ risks also contaminate relationships
- Column: Biden’s diplomatic team on China needs real experts, like Hunter and Swalwell
- Illinois legislators begin redistricting process amid census delays that complicate an already raucously partisan event
- Column: What are you going to do when you’re fully vaccinated?
- Pets of the week
- Column: Gospel artist Kirk Franklin and the hard truth about toxic relationships
- Illinois universities aim to reopen completely this fall. Is that a post-pandemic pipe dream or a realistic goal?
- 8 killed in shootings at 3 Atlanta-area massage parlors; man taken into custody
- Cactus League report: White Sox add some potential speed to their bench — and Nico Hoerner ‘fighting’ to get back on the field for the Cubs
- Oak Brook home of Dominic Senese, late union official and reputed mob boss, sells for $640K
- Frankfort trustees face off to become village’s first new mayor in 16 years
- Daywatch: Ineligible Trump Tower employees vaccinated, CPS announces high school reopening ‘target date’ and Wrigley Field 2021 concert lineup in place
- With Tomas Satoransky back in the Chicago Bulls lineup, his chemistry with Zach LaVine has helped create back-to-back wins: ‘We don’t even need to speak, we just see the floor’
- Willson Contreras’ work on pitch framing showed progress in 2020. The Chicago Cubs hope their catcher grows more in 2021: ‘Those are all traits I see in elite receiving catchers across MLB.’
- This day in history, March 17: New York holds first St. Patrick’s Day parade.
- Will the dinner circus Teatro ZinZanni be the first big indoor show to return to downtown Chicago?
- Get to know the Illini: Who are the key players for No. 1 seed Illinois in the NCAA Tournament?
- ‘King-Cat’ cartoonist John Porcellino says he is living the dream in Beloit. His dream, anyway.
- Indiana lawmakers pass bill to ensure school funding
- Column: After taking a swing at a Russell Wilson trade, the Chicago Bears had to act fast to sign Andy Dalton. Ryan Pace and Matt Nagy are betting he’ll be an upgrade over last year’s QBs.
- Chicago’s Leyna Bloom breaks another barrier as a transgender swimsuit model for Sports Illustrated
- Illinois appellate court rules a woman hit by a foul ball at Wrigley Field can pursue a lawsuit against MLB
- Two men hoping to hook up with a woman they met online instead beaten and robbed by thieves in ski masks, Chicago police say
- Stevenson High School will resume full in-person learning April 5
- Eight dead in Atlanta-area shootings
- After 40 years, Barrington youth basketball coach steps off the court: ‘I loved every minute of it’
- Chicago’s Leyna Bloom is a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model
- ‘The Courier’ review: Uneven, but ultimately more than standard spy movie fare with Benedict Cumberbatch
- White supremacist propaganda surged in 2020, report says
- Demi Lovato opens up about being sexually assaulted as a teen
- 5 things to know about Andy Dalton, including the new Chicago Bears quarterback’s playoff history and his departure from the Cincinnati Bengals
- My Pet World: Neighbors are picking up poop — then leaving it on the sidewalk
- Storylines every broadcaster will mention during the 2021 NCAA Tournament
- Column: Biden administration takes a sensible step regarding China
- Stimulus checks are here: Check your bank account
- A beachy, spring break-inspired meal
- Despite impact of the pandemic, North Aurora microbrewery looking to expand
- Paul Manafort sued by Chicago bank seeking to foreclose on mansion owned by former Trump campaign chairman
- Women who broke barriers from the year you were born
- Reporte: la propaganda supremacista blanca creció en 2020
- After a Hobart bagpiper lost feeling in his hands, he taught himself a new way to play
- Column: New gas tax hike adds to sting of COVID hurt
- Life in the bubble: Boredom, isolation pose new challenges at unusual NCAA Tournament
- NCAA Tournament bracket picks: Prediction for every game
- Bring this diner staple home for St. Patrick’s Day
- LaSalle County manhunt spurred by couple’s killing ends with arrest of their daughter’s ex-husband
- El Puma recibirá el Premio Leyenda en los Latin AMAs
- Speak Out reader opinion: National Guard is friendly and efficient at United Center vaccination site
- EEUU: Gobierno llama a reunión sobre reapertura de escuelas
- Martino relega a ‘Chicharito’ y cita a Efraín Álvarez al Tri
- Illinois launches plan with some pharmacies to provide COVID vaccinations as nursing homes raise concerns over ongoing need
- School District 308 to stick with plan for four days of in-person learning a week
- Northwest Indiana local scores for Thursday, March 18
- Physical therapy office looks to open in former Sav-A-Lot store in Park Ridge
- Daily Southtown, West Suburban and Lake County local scores for Thursday, March 18
- Después de pandemia, trabajar desde casa no será tan inusual
- Farmacéuticas impulsan vacunas para niños en medio del debate sobre la necesidad de inyectarse
- It’s not easy being green: Cities scale down St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in the pandemic’s second year
- Impulsan monitores de glucosa aunque no ayudarían a muchos diabéticos
- Temor a ola de racismo tras tiroteos en Atlanta, 8 muertos
- Latinas se abren paso en Israel
- Oak Brook Park District looking for River Sweep volunteers
- NY: Legislatura contrata abogados para investigar a Cuomo
- Lake County reports first case of COVID-19 Brazilian variant
- Record-breaking wildfires made North American air worse in 2020
- Spring party season, relaxing of mask rules creates fear of COVID-19 resurgence in US
- Column: Ken-Matt Martin is new artistic director at Victory Gardens. He is just one of a new group of Black arts leaders coming to Chicago.
- Yes, the pandemic crushed carbon emissions. Now they’re back
- Biden festeja el Día de San Patricio apoyando acuerdo irlandés
- Biden critica a los que no se ponen la vacuna COVID-19
- Cuentos Políticos: Los patriotas
- How to season a cast iron
- iPad vs. iPad Air: which is right for you?
- How to decorate in French Country style
- Best cheap electric guitars
- How to cook steak
- The best sustainable kitchen products
- How to get an American passport
- Walgreens faces new opioid lawsuit in Arkansas
- How to cook bacon in the oven
- Best blankets for cat hair
- The best Instant Pot for beginners
- National Guard’s mass COVID-19 vaccination center for eligible Illinois residents opens Friday in Batavia
- Football preview: North Dakota recruit Malachi McNeal leads Warren’s hard-hitting defense into long-delayed season
- Tiroteo en Phoenix deja 4 muertos, 1 herido
- Homeland Security head rejects GOP claims, refuses to say surge of migrant children at the border is a ‘crisis’
- St. Patrick’s Day 2021: What to cook and how to celebrate
- En casa, México busca su boleto al fútbol olímpico
- Indiana attorney general defends governor’s mask order power
- ‘Serial stowaway’ charged again after latest arrest near O’Hare
- Animan a embarazadas a vacunarse contra el covid
- Voters will choose 3 La Grange Park Village Board members from 4 candidates on the April ballot
- Commissioners push vote on 20 new SUVs for Lake sheriff’s department: Merrillville dealership was lone bidder
- Experts say coronavirus surge, new lockdowns in Europe should be a cautionary tale for US: ‘They simply took their eye off the ball’
- Shifting sand, Lake Michigan water levels again reveal 1880s shipwreck
- Remembering Yaphet Kotto, and the screen career Hollywood didn’t accommodate
- Maestros de CPS ya son elegibles para la vacuna COVID-19
- Pat Disabato’s top 10 teams and top 25 players to watch in the Southland for the football season
- Ford Motor Co. tells 30,000 employees they can work from home indefinitely
- Chicago lost these 361 businesses during pandemic. See what closed in your neighborhood.
- CPS employees receive the COVID-19 vaccination
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Roundy’s employee fatally shot 2 co-workers at Wisconsin warehouse, later dies, union official says
- Matanzas en salas de masajes podrían ser por ‘adicción sexual’
- Glenview to host second vaccination event; residents 65 and older can sign up Thursday afternoon
- Kouts basketball a family affair for twins Hunter and Parker Kneifel and rallying point for community
- Column: Atlanta shootings a chance to speak out, say members of Illinois’ Asian American community. ‘We’re tired of being quiet.’
- Catch him if you can: St. Rita’s Kaleb Brown dominated last season at running back. Now, he’s also a receiver … with Alabama in pursuit.
- Aliado de Maduro puede ser extraditado a EEUU
- Lake Forest HS Principal Holland leaving the district at end of school year, headed to Naperville
- Outdoors column: How early-bloomers witch hazel and skunk cabbage got their strange names
- Pritzker says health and economy to be considered in incremental reopening plan, as another 102,390 COVID-19 shots administered
- Fed expects to keep its key rate near zero through 2023
- James Levine, former Ravinia Festival music director accused of sexual abuse, dead at age 77
- Column: For East Aurora’s Amarion Savage, the last dance might not have been the best dance. But it was well worth getting out on the floor.
- Op-ed: Amending the Illinois Constitution: 50 words that can save the state
- Dick Hoyt, who pushed his son in a wheelchair in multiple Boston Marathons inspiring thousands of disabled athletes, dies at 80
- A 15th century bowl purchased for $35 at a Connecticut yard just sold for $722,000
- Venezolano vende dibujos en Twitter para comprar comida
- Biden is marking St. Patrick’s Day as he recommits the US to the Good Friday Agreement
- Wisconsin judge charged with multiple counts of child pornography
- FAA: Airlines have reported more than 500 cases of unruly passengers since December
- Amazon jumps into health care with telemedicine initiative
- Judge declines to approve bond reduction in Kankakee River drowning case; trial date set but judge urges resolution
- Elgin News Digest: Rakow branch library closed until Monday due to staff shortage; work on Illinois 58/Shady Oaks intersection starts March 22; Kane offering herb garden class
- Es rentable, pero no lo quieren financiar
- The U.S. is opening up. For the anxious, that comes with a cost.
- ‘Resident Alien’ renewed for Season 2 at Syfy
- Tesoro EEUU efectúa pagos del rescate por $242,000 millones
- Bail denied for two men charged with attempted murder, carjacking in attacks minutes apart in Lawndale neighborhood
- Libertyville School District 70, local Jewel-Osco partner to administer more than 500 doses of COVID-19 vaccine
- Column: We don’t need Biden’s infrastructure binge
- El aumento de migrantes desafía las soluciones fáciles o rápidas para Biden
- As vaccinations speed along in Serbia, the country basks in the glow of a successful campaign
- Letters: Decriminalizing prostitution would allow for more victimization
- For the first time, scientists have used human cells to make structures that mimic the earliest stages of development
- Woman killed while pushing her husband out of path of oncoming truck in Elgin, Kane County coroner says
- Hurricanes won’t be named using the Greek alphabet anymore
- Así intentó el equipo de Cuomo mancillar a una de sus acusadoras
- Andy Dalton and the Chicago Bears’ quarterback woes: What the data says about spending, success and ratings
- NIPSCO fined another $1M for gas pipeline safety violations
- Outdoor dining areas may soon reopen in Park Ridge, mayor says
- Crown Point’s St. Pat’s Day fundraiser thrives in 2nd year as drive-thru event for traditional Irish meal
- Eating disorders were already on the rise among teens. TikTok is ‘like a trap,’ health experts say
- Op-ed: Look to the Reagan administration for the answer to the China challenge
- A day before the NCAA Tournament begins, players push for reform with #NotNCAAProperty movement on social media: ‘Time for our voices to be heard’
- Tensions rise between judge, attorneys in retrial of former Portage mayor on soliciting bribes charge
- Orland ‘Triangle’ could feature mix of offices, restaurants, apartments
- OPS recomienda que se siga usando vacuna AstraZeneca
- Documental dramatiza y reorienta escándalo de universidades
- Navy Pier hotel to open Thursday, as the popular Chicago attraction prepares for crowds to return
- Solar system’s first known interstellar visitor is a cookie-shaped planet shard
- Tras veto, exsacerdote gay inicia apostasía en tierra natal del Papa
- Column: New Bremen superintendent says district will continue working to address teacher diversity
- School District 207 offering two vaccination clinics for area educators
- Naperville council needs to decide how $13.4 million in new federal stimulus money should be spent in the city
- Column: 8 tips for filling out your NCAA Tournament brackets — if you have no idea what you’re doing
- The Spin: Mayor Lori Lightfoot announces Chicago vaccination expansion | Ineligible Trump Tower staff received shots | Ad blitz salutes Underwood, other House Democrats in swing districts for backing COVID-19 relief package
- Trabajadores sociales se replantean colaboración con policía
- Brightside Theatre just goes on with the show — virtually, for now
- La agencia libre en la NFL entra en calor
- House passes domestic violence bill, pushes issue to Senate: ‘This bill leaves no victim behind’
- Naperville News Digest: D203 hires Lake Forest principal as new assistant superintendent; compost bins being sold by Will County; Cookies for Canines fundraiser set for March 27
- El Chelsea anula y elimina al Atlético
- Eat. Watch. Do. — 2020 Takeout Awards | Celebrate St. Paddy’s | Summer concert comeback?
- Chicago to begin vaccinating those with health conditions and remaining essential workers on March 29, Mayor Lori Lightfoot says
- On the anniversary of Illinois’ coronavirus school shutdown, CPS sets goal of first vaccines for all employees by April to help ‘get us back to normal’
- Chicago cop arrested after shooting man while off-duty now charged with felony in connection with Northwest Side confrontation
- España investiga 2 casos de coágulos con vacuna AstraZeneca
- El Bayern no se cansa de ganar
- Two massage therapists file suits against Houston Texans QB Deshaun Watson, alleging inappropriate sexual contact
- CBS 2 hires Naperville native, Neuqua Valley grad as its new morning meteorologist
- Corrections and clarifications
- Editorial: Emails show CTU playing games while kids languish out of school
- Derek Chauvin trial: 2 jurors dropped over concerns they had been tainted by $27 million settlement with George Floyd’s family
- Potempa: Chesterton Great Dane competing for Cadbury Easter commercial
- Aurora City Council set to vote on members for new police Civilian Review Board
- Mood swings, loss of inhibition may predict substance use disorders, study says
- This common herpes virus may ruin your love life. Here’s how to keep it in check
- Demanda de gasolina podría no recuperar nivel prepandemia
- Century Walk pitches proposal that would have city of Naperville commit $200,000 or more a year to public art
- Salt changes Chicago-area water and wildlife
- Luis Robert returns to Chicago White Sox lineup — so where will he bat this year? ‘There isn’t any place you couldn’t put him.’
- IRS delays 2020 tax filing deadline until mid-May amid crippling backlog
- Column: Atlanta shooting suspect’s ‘bad day’ and the whitewashing of white crime
- North Korea ignores US offer for talks, citing its hostile policy
- Republicans turning their focus to immigration as border crossings surge
- Chicago Blackhawks defensemen Nikita Zadorov and Ian Mitchell bring different elements to the team. But do they complement each other?
- Palatine man driving on revoked license accused of sixth DUI, police say
- DC police arrested a man near the vice president’s residence on a weapons charge
- IRS will delay tax filing due date until May 17
- What’s the Senate filibuster and why change it?
- Is the US border with Mexico in crisis?
- Column: Chicago Bears don’t have to make any major cuts as NFL free agency opens. But as the cap-crunching continues, will they be able to keep both Kyle Fuller and Akiem Hicks?
- Atlanta spa shootings: Suspect charged with murder, claims ‘sexual addiction’ as police investigate motive
- 3 takeaways from Chicago White Sox spring training Wednesday, including Lucas Giolito welcoming stressful innings and Liam Hendriks bouncing back
- Pritzker expected to expand COVID-19 vaccine eligibility starting April 12 to all Illinois residents 16 and older, but Chicago will still set its own rules
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened March 17 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- Photos: San Antonio Spurs 106, Chicago Bulls 99
- Federal appeals court judge Joel Flaum lists Gold Coast condo for $1.1 million