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- Rowan Wick overcame an odd injury to appear in his 1st major-league game in nearly a year. Now the Chicago Cubs reliever is out to re-establish his back-end role in the bullpen.
- Daily horoscope for August 12, 2021
- Ask Amy: Attack victim wants to warn others
- Bud Billiken Parade 2021: A modified route and free COVID-19 vaccinations are new additions to the 92-year-old Chicago tradition
- Column: As COVID cases surge, the unvaccinated-by-choice should know they’re being judged harshly
- Beverly native pens guide to ‘Nature in Chicagoland,’ listing more than 120 nature destinations within a day’s drive
- Man who supplied gun in officer’s fatal shooting gets bond
- Fourth day of severe weather for Chicago area, forecasters say: ‘Nicer weather arrives Friday’
- This day in history, August 12: Japan Airlines Boeing 747 crashes into mountain, killing 520 people. 4 people survived.
- College students are heading back to school; don’t miss these deals on college dorm essentials
- This is how Americans spend their time
- ‘CODA’ review: Great cast, contrived story in Apple TV+ movie about a hearing teenager from deaf family finding her voice
- ‘Respect’ review: Jennifer Hudson is the right choice to play Aretha Franklin — she and the music are the best parts of this biopic
- What if Chicago never had Lollapalooza or Daley? What if deep dish was born in Milwaukee and you never read this headline? Marvel series asks ‘What If?’
- Review: ‘Free Guy’ is Ryan Reynolds in a hit-and-miss look at video game culture
- Daywatch: Chicago cop’s death continues to roil city, CPS rejects remote plea from parents group, and the extraordinary story behind the Field of Dreams game
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- Interested in woodworking? Here’s everything you’ll need
- Pediatrician’s warning to parents: Don’t let COVID-19 vaccine controversy infect decision for children’s flu shot
- How to revive dead grass
- The best car subwoofers for 2021
- Waukegan spending $1.6M on student counseling programs
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- Indiana Supreme Court suspends former Portage official’s law license
- Rep. Schneider holds first live town hall in 18 months; ‘It feels great to meet with different people and hear what they have to say’
- Census results will set off massive redistricting battles around the country
- Velocista bielorrusa dice sentirse segura en Polonia (Entrevista)
- Justin Bieber encabeza nominaciones para Premios MTV
- Mbappé da la bienvenida a la ‘leyenda’ Messi en redes sociales
- ONU critica deportación de centroamericanos de EEUU a México
- The Killers entran en un nuevo y rico paisaje musical
- Ola de calor lleva a EEUU a abrir centros de ayuda
- Illinois launches online site for residents to check COVID-19 vaccination status
- El fuego se acerca a ciudades de Montana, el Oeste arde
- NCAA sólo sanciona a Baylor por escándalo de abuso
- EEUU mantiene distancia en lucha Talibán-fuerzas afganas
- Updated security approved for downtown Aurora parking garage
- DuPage County Board rejects requests to pay half the $112,600 bill for former auditor’s vote recount
- Speak Out reader opinion: Third airport would take farmland we’re going to need soon
- DC habría ofrecido un papel a Scarlett Johansson tras romper con Marvel
- ¿Sin expectativas el diálogo entre el gobierno y la oposición en Venezuela?
- La renuncia de Cuomo, un hito para el movimiento #MeToo
- Nadador yucateco cumple sueño de Triple Corona de nado
- 248th Avenue widening project at least 3 years away, Naperville city engineer says
- Riverside home known as the ‘Boathouse’ sells for $1M
- Quadriplegic man first in Chicago to participate in research for robotic prosthetic limbs: ‘We always need to figure out a new way to do things’
- Merrillville man charged with rape; women said he used them to get money for sex
- Riverside home known as the ‘Boathouse’ sells for $1M
- Familias apoyan tapabocas en las aulas, pero se oponen a la vacunación obligatoria
- Aurora Uke Festival returns Aug. 22
- Aaron Cook needed Tommy John surgery. Then his mother died of cancer after years in a steel mill. The Hammond Academy graduate takes life ‘just step by step.’
- Más embarazadas con covid en cuidados intensivos, expertos enfatizan que deben vacunarse
- La pandemia devastó la salud mental de los trabajadores de salud pública
- El covid impide las visitas en prisión y eso revela el alto costo de las llamadas telefónicas
- India Fest returns to Merrillville on Sunday
- DNR OKs feeding birds again, but not in Lake, Porter counties; June 25 moratorium an effort to slow the spread of the unidentified illness
- Man killed in Cottage Grove Heights crash, 2 others injured, Chicago police say
- Newest Valparaiso School Board member happy to be ‘a diverse first’: ‘We’ve come a long way in Porter County’
- Entrance fee proposed for Indiana Dunes National Park: ‘Our budget hasn’t kept up with the need’
- Hijo de Robin Williams rinde homenaje a su padre en séptimo aniversario de su muerte
- Marist’s Cal Sefcik shows off exit strategy at Prep Baseball Report Future Games in Atlanta: ‘It was cool and it was competitive.’
- Survey reveals how long people think a couple should wait to have sex, move in together and hit other relationship milestones
- Highest-paid CEOs at America’s largest companies
- Indiana officials appealing decision against abortion laws
- U. of C. study offers evidence for lower rates of depression in large U.S. cities: ‘It’s not about the person. It’s about the environment.’
- Speak Out reader opinions: People more afraid of polio than COVID-19; Riverview missed for its ability to unite people; why is no one seeking rent/mortgage help?
- Tebas: ‘Real Madrid y Barca no son imprescindibles para crecimiento de LaLiga’
- Pining for the intimacy of pandemic pods
- Gold Coast 4-bedroom home with custom built-ins, bay windows: $3.5M
- ‘We’re a fastball family’: Sandburg’s Grant Tenuta follows his brothers, brings the heat at Prep Baseball Report Future Games in Atlanta
- Former Cubs pitcher Jake Arrieta
- Alcalde japonés ofrece disculpas por morder medalla olímpica
- Vinculan 203 casos de COVID-19 al festival Lollapalooza
- O’Hare Airport travel tips: How to navigate one of the world’s busiest airports
- Aurora man sentenced to 18 years in prison for sexually assaulting child
- Naperville Police Arrests
- Op-ed: Time for a fair ward remap in Chicago that gives everyone, including Hispanics, a voice
- Islamic Center gets Merrillville approval for temporary mobile classrooms
- Rockford woman killed when tree crushes mobile home during severe weather. ‘She was making plans for her birthday.’
- Inaugural Brewski Fest features retro beers, food trucks and live music outdoors in Valparaiso
- Andrew Cuomo is leaving office, but many still want accountability for New York’s nursing home outbreaks
- Molly’s Cupcakes in Naperville seeking liquor license to sell wine served in dessert-rimmed glasses
- Cressmoor Estates developer questioned over plan changes; Hobart mayor, others on board with project
- Mark Mennecke played three varsity sports as a sophomore for Neuqua Valley. It all took place before he could even drive a car.
- Mundelein’s Brendan Murphy is pitching again in the Milwaukee Brewers system for the first time since surgery in 2018: ‘It’s taken so long just to get to this point.’
- Social Graces: How do you tell someone you’re not re-upping your friendship with them after pandemic restrictions?
- San Francisco to mandate proof of vaccination for indoor restaurants, gyms
- El teletrabajo llegó para quedarse: Cinco herramientas básicas
- Your coffee habit is about to get more expensive
- Her mom said, ‘Once Morgan knows, she knows.’ Benet’s Morgan Demos knows. She’s committed to play basketball for Navy.
- Letters to the Editor: Conflicting views on whether city should fund Century Walk; state needs to make DuPage River a public waterway
- Súbita jubilación: cómo enfrentar una pérdida inesperada de empleo
- With return of in-person learning, back-to-school shopping back in full swing in Fox Valley
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- El Top 20 del Ranking FIFA en agosto de 2021
- Indoor simulated golf facility set to open on Route 59 in Aurora
- Column: The prospect of a big finish — think national championship — lures Tyran Bailey and Gavin Zimbelman back for one more season at Aurora University
- ‘I’m just so grateful’: Batavia’s Liza Fruendt excited to get started as a program assistant for storied Tennessee women’s basketball
- Lukaku regresa al Chelsea siete años después
- Northwestern and Amita hospitals have yet to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for workers. Here’s why.
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- ‘Gonzo’ Pineda, exjugador del Tri, nuevo técnico de Atlanta
- Elgin District U-46 to provide free breakfasts and lunches to all students in 2021-22 school year
- Naperville Freemasons donate $34,000 to the Gold Star Families memorial in Naperville
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- Editorial: Why the Magnificent Mile needs the Drake Hotel
- Everything you need to cut your dog’s hair
- Toletero Chris Davis, de Orioles, anuncia su retiro
- Advierte Fauci que más niños se infectarán de covid por variante delta
- Vintage: August weather extremes and the dog days of summer
- Rainbow Cone eyes Hinsdale as next brick-and-mortar location
- Homewood musician provides connection between Aretha Franklin and Jennifer Hudson
- Column: Back to the cinema? At this particular delta moment, this critic will pass, thanks
- Letters: When it comes to masks in Illinois schools, let science, not parents, have the final say
- Indiana Republicans eye quick approval of new election maps
- Naperville keeps its standing as 4th largest city in Illinois, according to 2020 Census numbers
- Photos: White Sox beat Yankees 9-8 in the Field of Dreams game
- Los compadres colombianos arrancan su gira por EEUU
- 5 Census takeaways, including urban gains and Florida’s fast-growing Villages
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- Hammel Woods dam removed
- Migrantes varados en extranjero por nueva política de EEUU
- Incentives seal deal to bring largest corrugated operation in the Northern Hemisphere to Elgin
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- Bad Bunny es el mayor finalista de los Latin Billboard
- Private birthday party in Crestwood brings large police presence, rumors of active shooter situation
- ‘SNL’ alum Horatio Sanz sued for alleged sex assault, denies claim
- Investment adviser who stole part of man’s settlement for wrongful conviction is sentenced to 42 months in federal prison
- Metropolitan Brewing’s vaccinated-only rule
- Facebook delays return to office until 2022 in response to delta variant
- Waukegan, Zion students return to school with mix of nervousness, excitement
- Census shows many rural Indiana counties lost population
- Biden eyes tougher vaccine rules — without provoking a backlash
- Red tape delays pickleball court in Park Ridge, aquatic center in Morton Grove, park district officials say
- Kit Harington cambia de Jon Snow a ‘Modern Love’
- Around the Southland: Tinley cuts ribbon on refurbished St. Boniface Park, Crete photographer wins contest, and more
- Keith Cross sworn-in as new Aurora police chief
- Cachorros dan de baja a Arrieta en mala campaña de regreso
- Fun Fact Thursday from Chicago Bears camp: David Montgomery bowls, Marquise Goodwin did 7-Eleven training runs and Damien Williams ate burned hot dogs on NFL Sundays
- Police Superintendent David Brown says it’s ‘an outrage’ judge ordered release of man accused of supplying pistol used to kill officer
- Elgin News Digest: Kane at ‘high’ level for COVID cases; Hanover Township to hold blood drive; Elgin History Museum lecture on Carnegie libraries in Illinois
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- Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett refuses to block Indiana University’s vaccine mandate
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- US sends 3,000 troops to help evacuate some embassy staff in Afghanistan as Taliban captures Kandahar
- Does a bad ending tarnish Jake Arrieta’s legacy with the Chicago Cubs? ‘Nothing at all this year diminishes what he’s done. This guy is a legend,’ Jed Hoyer says.
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- Column: Justin Fields’ ability to change the energy of the Chicago Bears is on display with a series of sharp playmaking at the end of Thursday’s practice
- Lollapalooza COVID-19 outbreak: 200 cases linked to event so far, but Chicago’s top doctor says no signs it was a ‘superspreader’
- Elgin’s population climbs 2.4% in last decade, new 2020 U.S. Census numbers show
- Suburban private school that lost state recognition over its response to Pritzker’s mask mandate says it never planned to defy the law
- Britney Spears’ father says he is planning to step down from conservatorship — but not yet
- Column: Waubonsie Valley High School student starts national program to get teens engaged in civics
- La Grange Park trustees vote to accept money from the federal American Rescue Plan Act
- Preparation in a ‘dream’ job is key for Miguel Cairo, who will handle the managing duties for the Chicago White Sox in tonight’s Field of Dreams game
- Chicago Cubs catcher Willson Contreras, who leads the majors in games played behind the plate this season, lands on the injured list with a right knee sprain
- Authorities investigating report that Wayne man shot, killed neighbor’s dog
- ‘They came and took him from me’: Mother mourns fatal shooting of 16-year-old son at Englewood home
- Chicago Cubs release Jake Arrieta after another ugly start — an abrupt ending to their reunion with the former Cy Young winner: ‘It was the right thing’
- Aurora keeps its standing as 2nd largest city in Illinois, but loses residents, according to 2020 census
- 2020 census: Chicago’s population grows slightly, but suburbs stall to slowest rate in decades
- The US is becoming more diverse, Census data shows, and the country’s white population is shrinking
- 6 people killed, including suspected shooter, in southwest England, police say
- Ben Zobrist drops his $6 million lawsuit against the pastor who is having an extramarital affair with the former Chicago Cubs player’s estranged wife
- Illinois Commerce Commission starts ComEd probe, wants to know if ratepayers picked up improper costs
- Photos: Why the Chicago Bears wear padded helmets