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- Orlando City extends MLS unbeaten streak to 5 with win over Chicago Fire
- Daily horoscope for August 22, 2021
- Ask Amy: Grieving spouse searches for help
- Letters: CTA should enforce mask wearing on public transit
- Landmarks: A firefighter for 71 years, East Hazel Crest’s Chief Vallow looks back on a lifetime of doing his part
- Emerald ash borer isn’t going away, so keep treating trees with insecticides for protection
- Oswego, Yorkville booming as Kendall County sees largest population growth out of all Illinois counties
- Column: Aurora wine company, new dance studio reflect on work to help children with disabilities
- Elburn Days festival back after year off due to pandemic
- Palos Heights nursing student receives inaugural Renee Isadore memorial scholarship
- Most affordable new cars in America
- This day in history, August 22: President Bill Clinton signs welfare legislation ending guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanding work from recipients
- Brad Biggs’ 10 thoughts on the Chicago Bears’ 41-15 loss to the Buffalo Bills in their 2nd preseason game
- Chicago Sky lose to the Minnesota Lynx 101-95 at home as Candace Parker sits with an ankle injury
- Bronzeville mourns longtime community organizer killed at 65. ‘Everything he did was about bringing people together.’
- Oak Park holds first clinics to provide COVID-19 vaccine boosters
- Vernon Hills lowers alcohol-selling age to 18 to attract more workers: ‘No reason for us to be more restrictive than the state law’
- Chicago weather: Beware high waves, rip currents
- Speak Out reader opinion: Efforts needed to honor, remember Officer French
- Kansas City Royals manager Mike Matheny upset about a weather delay during pitcher Kris Bubic’s no-hit bid vs. the Chicago Cubs: ‘That just can’t happen like that’
- Don Everly, half of Everly Brothers duo who scored huge hit with ‘Bye Bye Love’, dies at 84
- Weekend shootings leave 3 dead, at least 20 wounded as of Saturday night, police say
- College football 2021 season preview: The return to normal — wrapped in change
- Aurora man killed, second person hurt in motorcycle crash on Naperville’s southwest side
- Tropical Storm Henri hits Rhode Island coast with high winds, flash flooding
- Tennessee Titans coach Mike Vrabel tests positive for COVID-19 and is quarantining pending further testing
- Despite four new films in theaters, Ryan Reynolds’ ‘Free Guy’ still wins weekend box office
- Joliet resident Phillip Hanks is following his purpose after a 5-organ transplant
- Panicked crush of people trying to enter Afghan airport kills 7; thousands still trying to flee country
- President Biden says US-led evacuations from Afghanistan are accelerating
- Body pulled from Fox Lake Sunday was the man who fell from a water tube Friday, fire officials say
- Warrior Moms send more than 50 youth to Great America on Saturday as a break away from Chicago violence
- Chicago White Sox — with Tim Anderson out for the 2nd straight game — lose the series finale to the Tampa Bay Rays 9-0: ‘It was a stinker’
- Photos: Royals 9, Cubs 1
- Chicago Cubs set a franchise record with their 13th consecutive home loss: ‘Listen, it’s no fun to lose. It’s like nobody is having a good time.’
- 17 inches of rain fall in Tennessee; 22 killed in flash flooding, including twin toddlers swept from father’s arms
- Rev. Jesse Jackson, wife Jacqueline remain hospitalized, under observation for COVID-19
- Aldermen, state lawmakers raise concerns about CPS fall reopening plans in letter to mayor
- 40 shot, 5 killed in Chicago in weekend gun violence through Sunday
- Activists at peace walk reject negative image of Englewood: ‘Today we are here to bring peace to our community once again’
- Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera becomes the 28th major-leaguer — and 1st Venezuelan — to hit 500 home runs: ‘It’s something special for my country, for my family’