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- Oscars In Memoriam: Jessica Walter, Naya Rivera among those not included
- Record number of women win at Oscars, led by ‘Nomadland’ domination
- Oscars 2021: Winners and losers from the 93rd annual primetime awards show
- Twitter reacts as Chadwick Boseman loses to Anthony Hopkins in Best Actor race
- Oscars 2021 ends with a shock as Anthony Hopkins beats Chadwick Boseman for Best Actor, ‘Nomadland,’ Frances McDormand win
- Daily horoscope for April 26, 2021
- Ask Amy: Chronic depression is constant topic
- Commentary: Oscar night ends with the Chadwick Boseman triumph that wasn’t, and valentines to ‘movie love’
- Editorial: … And in baseball news, moving the pitcher’s mound. Yea or nay?
- New transgender studies center in Chicago aims to combat misinformation and lack of trans-led research
- Column: Every mayor for the last 30 years has failed to keep his or her promise to bring the violence under control. Our patience is wearing thin.
- Letters: Illinois should do more to regulate recreational marijuana
- If the Chicago Bears don’t use their 1st-round pick on a QB, here are 10 other players who might be a fit at No. 20
- North Aurora looks to create united tax increment financing district to spur development
- Daywatch: The latest COVID challenge in schools, new transgender studies center in Chicago and the best and worst looks from the 2021 Oscars
- 4 takeaways from the Chicago White Sox sweep of the Texas Rangers, including Michael Kopech becoming ‘more of a pitcher’ and the small-ball strategy
- Anthony Hopkins pays tribute to Chadwick Boseman in video after surprise Oscar win
- This day in history, April 26: explosion and fire at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine causes radioactive fallout to begin spewing into the atmosphere
- Chlorine shortage could make it harder to keep South Florida’s pools sanitized this summer
- Oscars 2021: Backstage at the 93rd annual Academy Awards
- Markham mayor’s supporters, detractors exchange words after appellate court ruling that he is ineligible
- Analysis: Many Republican leaders are skipping the reckoning on racism
- Ryan Pace has made 11 NFL draft trades since becoming Chicago Bears GM. Here’s a look at each of them.
- Anthony Hopkins honors Chadwick Boseman after Oscar win over him: ‘I did not expect to get this award’
- Mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig, who sang with Chicago’s Lyric Opera, dies at 94
- A teen was suspended from her cheerleading team for cursing on a Snapchat video. Now she’ll be heard by the Supreme Court.
- Kanye West sneakers fetch record $1.8 million at auction
- Man found dead on CTA train at Addison Red Line station
- China mutes reaction to Zhao’s Oscars as S. Korea lauds Youn
- Fans upset ‘In Memoriam’ segment at Oscars didn’t include Jessica Walter, Naya Rivera
- Elizabeth City declares state of emergency before Andrew Brown body camera footage is released
- Primeros 100 días de Biden: Cómo marchan sus promesas clave
- Teen charged in three armed carjackings of ride-share drivers in Morgan Park area
- His wife gave him a bagel kit for Christmas. It ‘sat around for a few years.’ Now this Batavia man has a new business.
- Talk of the County reader opinion: Oscars are ‘supposed to be about entertainment, not politics’
- Tokyo Olympics rules: Daily testing for athletes, no 14-day quarantine but a ‘bubble’ in the Olympic Village
- Gary native Mia Neal wins Oscar for hair/makeup; recalls late grandfather, former deputy mayor in acceptance speech
- Harris pedirá a líderes preparase para la próxima pandemia
- Joe Biden’s first 100 days: Where the president stands on key promises
- Best US movies with racially diverse leads
- Speak Out reader opinion: Anti-vaxxers are not showing freedom
- Girls volleyball notes: One set here, one set there, Caroline Macander uses all of her options in making Mother McAuley mighty
- Antique toy show at Kane County Fairgrounds ‘all about nostalgia’
- Daily Southtown girls volleyball rankings and player of the week for Tuesday, April 27, 2021
- Even as economy heats up, Fed likely to stick with near-zero interest rates
- Girls soccer notes: Putting panic aside, Western Illinois recruit Rachel Balinao learns to relax to keep scoring in bunches for Oak Forest
- Cargos contra chofer en tiroteo en que murió niña en Chicago
- Daily Southtown girls soccer rankings and player of the week for Tuesday, April 27, 2021
- Beacon-News/Courier-News weekly football rankings and player of the week for Tuesday, April 27, 2021
- La Grange Farmers Market returns May 6
- ‘Estamos atrapados aquí’. Un pueblo mexicano aislado por el terror de los cárteles
- Column: Joe Biden isn’t coming for your meat. But Republicans want you to become a cannibal.
- Identifican restos de víctima de asesino en serie
- Listing your home in 2021? Here’s what to know
- After a year home in sweatpants, Americans are updating their closets
- Clarendon Hills Lions Club assembles care packages for families staying at Ronald McDonald House
- The best novelty songs of the past 60 years
- A pill for COVID-19? Here’s what treatments are available for the virus now and what’s on the way.
- Legisladores de minorías en EEUU aprueban leyes ‘audaces’
- Donde el COVID-19 mata a los jóvenes: Brasil es lo que le pasaría a otros
- Football notes: On his future field at NIU, Trey Urwiler can’t stop Batavia from being turned away by Wheaton North in red zone
- Column: A full bodysuit can’t combat sexualization in gymnastics. Only adults who sexualize athletes can do that.
- The state of compensation in 2021
- FDA analizará efectividad de medicamentos contra el cáncer
- Corte EEUU revisará caso de publicación polémica en Snapchat
- They met at Columbia College as professor and student. Now they have a hit movie starring Liam Neeson.
- Football notes: Ivy League recruits Braden Mullen and Brandon Svets get smart as Loyola beats Marist to close out undefeated season
- López Obrador y Harris sostendrán encuentro sobre migración
- Central Michigan QB seriously injured in an off-campus shooting
- Tras un año de pandemia, aumenta la venta de ropa en EEUU
- Gaffes, gags, busy signals and a dog named Buttercup: Wacky NFL draft stories
- Fiery van crash in Georgia kills 6 people, injures 10 others as motorists frantically raced to save passengers from burning vehicle
- Burr Ridge to celebrate troops May 15 at Armed Forces Day event
- Glenview Park District to open both pools this summer with COVID-19 protections in place
- Daily Southtown, West Suburban and Lake County local scores for Tuesday, April 27
- Personal extranjero aún más necesario en balnearios de EEUU
- Northbrook, Glenview farmers markets prepare for new season
- Northwest Indiana local scores for Tuesday, April 27
- ‘Vamos por ti’: Un año de intimidaciones y amenazas contra los funcionarios de salud pública
- US to share entire supply of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines once it’s approved here
- Warm spring weather in Chicago
- Auto review: 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz compact pickup offers maneuverability, striking looks
- Turistas de EEUU podrían regresar a Europa en el verano
- Man in custody after resale shop fire attempt: police
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- EEUU compartirá vacunas de AstraZeneca con otros países
- Ford Mustang Mach-E so close to perfect safety rating, what held it back?
- Column: Women now hold five of six seats on Park Forest Village Board
- Talk of the County reader opinion: When will ‘liar-in-chief’ admit only select few would drive cars under his environmental plan
- Audi unveils A6 e-tron concept
- Mercedes-Benz EQS is company’s first all-electric luxury sedan
- Enfrentamientos entre venezolanos y colombianos dejan bajas
- Apple to build East Coast campus in North Carolina with at least 3,000 new jobs
- Man tried to rob on-duty Chicago detective, stabbed, kicked him as he was working on homicide investigation, prosecutors say
- After a deadly year on the roads, states push for safety over speed
- Boys golf notes: Crown Point sophomore Ray Filter’s 1-under 71 at the Lake Central Classic continues his hot start
- Academy Awards television audience plummets to 9.85 million
- School officers won’t be back in Chicago Public Schools buildings this spring as future of police in schools remains in doubt
- UEFA investiga a Ibrahimovic por nexo con apuestas
- Italia reabre entre temores a un repunte del virus
- Talk of the County reader opinion: What happens if Jefferson Middle is named after John Lewis, ‘and we find something wrong with him?’
- Woman carjacked at gunpoint outside Countryside grocery store
- ¿Superliga? El Real Madrid se enfoca en su torneo mimado
- Summer concerts, outdoor movies return to Elmwood Park
- Avanza el plan para los olímpicos
- Evanston dealing with storms fueled by climate change
- EEUU revisa su política hacia Venezuela
- Italia aprueba una cláusula ‘anti-Superliga’
- Supreme Court to hear case on right to carry guns for self-defense
- Op-ed: CPS parents are getting $450 to buy food. For those who can, a plea to pay it forward.
- Op-ed: Breaking down the blue wall of silence, as we saw in the Chauvin trial, is critical to meaningful police reform
- District 181 returns to classrooms for Summer Learning Program
- Football notes: Wingbacks Jayden Marquis, Andy Bowles and Khalil Anderson find end zone as Antioch clinches another NLCC title
- SOS messages, open-air crematories, panic as coronavirus breaks India’s health system: ‘Please send oxygen to us’
- Column: Survivors of Armenian genocide remember their history
- Italy opens again, including Riccardo Muti at La Scala, amid hopes for real economic relaunch
- Willie Colón ‘está grave pero estable’ tras accidente
- Athletic director, coach Lynda Pariso retiring after 41 years at Morgan Park Academy: ‘The footprint she put on the school will be here long after she’s left’
- Waukegan schools recruiting teachers from Puerto Rico and internationally to provide Latinx students ‘enriched educational experience’
- Column: 100 days in: Biden vs. Trump
- Pasquotank County only shows 20 seconds of redacted body cam video of Andrew Brown Jr. shooting
- Volunteers help to upgrade Gary Roosevelt’s baseball field in time for Little League season
- El Salvador: alcaldes y policías detenidos por corrupción
- De Tepoztlán al Oscar
- Gas station robbed on La Grange and Joliet roads in Countryside
- Six Flags Great America opens at COVID-reduced capacity. ‘With the year we’ve had, this is just a welcome escape.’
- Europe plans to allow US tourists back this summer
- Track notes: Lowell’s Karina James breaks 5-minute mark in 1,600 during record-setting day at LaPorte’s Dick Deardurff Classic
- Las mejores imágenes de los Oscar más inusuales
- Chicago sues Indiana gun store, alleging weapons routinely wind up with gang members and felons
- Greylord-era murder case tainted by corrupt judge is re-docketed in Cook County criminal court
- Navas se adueña de la portería del PSG hasta 2024
- 2 suburban 12-year-olds got the chance to compete at Augusta National Golf Course: ‘This is where some of your idols have won’
- Steve McMichael calls for sellers of knockoff ‘Team Mongo’ merchandise to cease as fans contribute to the Chicago Bears great’s battle with ALS
- El final raro de unos Oscar inusuales
- Gary woman fatally shot in SUV on Far South Side
- EEUU sanciona a diputado y exfuncionario de Guatemala
- Corrections and clarifications
- Indiana University’s first incoming female president a sign of change: ‘Our hope is to be back as fully as possible’
- Justice Department to probe Louisville police after fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor
- La NFL vislumbra un draft confuso y poco convencional
- Down to Business: Tasting deVine Cellars, hiding in plain sight in Naperville for 16 years, teaches wine one glass at a time
- Hammond’s Challenger Learning Center gives students a chance to see what life would be like on Mars
- Letters: Chicago can do more to stop deaths by fire
- Franklin Park progressing on ‘Quiet Zone’ efforts to minimize train horns
- Illinois sees substantial drop in daily COVID-19 vaccinations as Gov. J.B. Pritzker says ‘supply will soon exceed demand’
- ¿Pastilla anti-COVID-19 en el horizonte? El nuevo objetivo
- Salsa music legend in Norfolk hospital after motor-home accident in Outer Banks
- Column: Apartment hunting in a college town requires a different kind of immunity
- Chesterton art teacher faces drug charges after cocaine found in school parking lot: police
- Chloé Zhao’s Oscar win celebrated by people in China despite censorship
- Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened April 26 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
- T-rex and friends are ready to greet visitors at new Jurassic Gardens on Volo Auto Museum grounds
- La Corte Suprema rechaza intento republicano de defender la regla de carga pública
- Big Ten football spring practice wrap-up: Ohio State and Northwestern among 5 teams with quarterback competitions
- Three-hour long Oscars set record-low ratings as viewership plunges 58%
- Column: Letter from a vaccine-hesitant Florentine in 1348
- Rifle attack leaves teen dead in Little Village neighborhood, officials say
- Editorial: The Illinois Exodus continues. We’re losing a congressional seat.
- Colorado cop accused of hurting 73-year-old woman with dementia while arresting her apparently knew he had injured her: ‘Ready for the pop?’
- Buona’s Italian Beefless sandwich
- Censo: Texas suma escaños en el Congreso; California pierde
- Traditional Bosnian dishes for iftar during Ramadan
- The Spin: Illinois to lose congressional seat over population drop | Former congressman Gutiérrez blasts Kim Foxx | Lightfoot touts economic development in struggling neighborhoods as critics hammer her over crime
- Chicago forecast: After windy warmup, near-record high temperatures, thunderstorms expected Tuesday
- Escaso interés republicano en combatir el racismo
- Maine South High School musical will stream online to at-home audiences April 30-May 2
- We tasted Buona’s new Italian Beefless. Here’s how the vegan sandwich compares to the Chicago classic.
- Cuomo niega acusaciones de conducta sexual inapropiada
- Kamala Harris enfrenta crisis fronteriza agravada por disputas regionales
- Former Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission leader James Ranfranz dead at 84
- Jim Rigg, who is stepping down as superintendent of Chicago’s Catholic schools, tapped for similar job in Miami
- The health benefits of garlic
- Community clean-ups in Park Ridge, Niles generate hundreds of bags of trash
- Is nutritional yeast good for you?
- Editorial: Helping jail inmates kick an opioid addiction helps us all
- How to make grape juice
- How to get rid of cable
- How to format a computer hard drive
- One of the world’s oldest science experiments comes up from the dirt beneath the campus of Michigan State University
- What does purple shampoo do?
- Jim Rigg, quien dejará la superintendencia de las escuelas católicas de Chicago, acepta puesto similar en Miami
- How to wear a face mask
- What do you need for golfing?
- What’s behind the Apple-Facebook feud?
- Which corner shelves are best for small spaces?
- Best lawn games for adults vs. lawn games for kids
- Best patio string lights
- N.Y. loses single seat in Congress by just 89 people as Census Bureau releases reapportionment figures
- How to use a Ninja food processor
- How to get rid of blackheads
- How to set up a fitness tracker
- The best beach toys of 2021
- Does vitamin C boost your immune system?
- How to cook with a convection toaster oven
- What’s the most accurate fitness tracker?
- What are the health benefits of ginger?
- Ashley Judd shares photos from recovery as she heals from traumatic leg injury
- Census maps and charts: How does Illinois compare with other states that lost or gained US House seats
- State closer to extending tax credit program seen as key for Aurora redevelopment projects
- Recall effort against California Gov. Gavin Newsom has enough signatures to make ballot
- Census figures show Illinois 1 of 3 states to see population drop in last decade, costing it one congressional seat and some clout in Washington
- Department of Homeland Security will undergo internal review to root out extremism in its ranks
- McHenry County woman found guilty in ‘revenge porn’ case following ruling by Illinois Supreme Court
- Pandemic Health Navigator program looks to connect Illinois residents to resources, educate them on vaccine
- Census: US population rises at slowest rate since Great Depression; Texas gains congressional seats, Calif. loses for first time
- Andrew Shaw used all of his smallish frame to make a huge impact on the Chicago Blackhawks — until concussions forced him to retire at 29: ‘I’m in a good place’
- James Serritella, who defended Cardinal Bernardin against abuse allegation and helped craft policies to protect children, dies
- The best iPad for the money
- The best Instant Pot for vegetarians
- Illy vs. Nespresso espresso machines: Which is better?
- What to eat after you weight lift
- Canon vs. Nikon digital cameras
- Best beach coolers with speakers
- Best acoustic guitar for beginners
- California: Elección revocatoria tiene suficientes firmas
- Glenn Close’s viral ‘Da Butt’ dance at Oscars wasn’t scripted
- NIH grant to help Northwestern spinoff produce 1 million COVID-19 tests per month
- Cleveland Browns QB Baker Mayfield on recent UFO sighting: ‘I believe’
- Chadwick Boseman’s family not upset at Oscar loss: report
- ‘I was smiling miles wide’: Kit Gormley scores 3 goals in high school debut as Tinley Park overwhelms Eisenhower in second half
- While Javier Báez sits out the Chicago Cubs’ series opener in Atlanta with a sore hamstring, David Ross adjusts to the latest bullpen shuffle
- Teen killed in Bronzeville shooting Monday afternoon
- North Shore towns to receive federal COVID-19 recovery funds
- Maryland epidemiologist named new health director for village of Oak Park
- Person in custody after SWAT response during investigation of Jaslyn Adams killing
- Chicago Bulls — without Zach LaVine for a 7th time — pick up a game in the race for a play-in spot with a 110-102 win over the Miami Heat
- ‘It’s new’: Cole Yearsley reaches base six times from leadoff spot as Yorkville rolls to wind-swept win over West Aurora
- ‘It’s been crazy to wait so long.’ Liz Matimore waited nearly 3 years, in fact. But the Illinois Wesleyan commit is back on the field for unbeaten Warren.