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- Photos: Cubs end record home losing streak with 6-4 win over Rockies
- What’s happening: Car show, 5K Run/walk, art contest, village-wide garage sale
- Niles-Maine Library trustee resigns before contentious meeting with complaints of board micromanagement, public information requests
- Daily horoscope for August 24, 2021
- Ask Amy: Stepchild would like for dad to leave stepmom at home
- Democrats redrew Illinois’ legislative map over GOP objections. Now they’re vowing to ‘make sure all voices are heard’ ahead of next week’s special remap session.
- Column: Keep Amazon lockers out of Chicago parks, Mr. Bezos. Just strap one on me instead.
- Column: Chicago Bears have a lot to work on the next 3 weeks — from figuring out the QB situation to sorting through the offensive line to tightening up on defense
- Council to consider proposed Waukegan library board members; ‘The library is paralyzed’
- Former Niles police commander sues village, police, alleging retaliation for whistleblower actions; says he was threatened
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- This day in history, August 24: Amelia Earhart embarks on 19-hour flight from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey, making her the first woman to fly solo, non-stop, from coast to coast
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- Chicago sports media week in review: Sammy Sosa’s Cubs Hall of Fame candidacy, Tony La Russa’s notable White Sox moves … and correcting a myth 36 years later
- Everything you need for a successful hockey season
- A look at how the top Chicago White Sox prospects are performing, from Colson Montgomery to Wes Kath to Yoelqui Céspedes
- The most popular “Star Wars” toys you can buy online
- My worst moment: ‘The Protégé’ star Maggie Q and the time she nearly lost her fingers while filming a scene for ‘Nikita’
- Daywatch: Will Illinois see an uptick in vaccinations — and mandates? | New cameras coming as expressway violence persists | Meet this 5-organ transplant recipient
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- The highs — and lows — from the Chicago Cubs’ 6-4 win that ended their franchise-record 13-game home losing streak at Wrigley Field
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- Caught in the crossfire over COVID’s origins
- The best Hot Wheels track under $50
- 16 appetizing air fryer recipes for everyday meals
- Ask Mister Manners: Is it fine to decline a plus-one guest request?
- Disney closing all standalone Chicago stores, including its Michigan Avenue shop
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- Dr. June: Is a perfect work-life balance possible?
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- Afganos en peligro se esconden del Talibán y esperan huir
- Director de la CIA se reúne con líder Talibán en Kabul
- EEUU deporta a México a exjefe del cártel de Tijuana
- Speak Out reader opinion: Remember our hero, Ella French
- Western US bakes and East is deluged in a summer of extremes
- Valverde se queda en el Madrid hasta 2027
- ¿Qué supone la aprobación definitiva de la vacuna de Pfizer?
- Millions of rapid COVID test results risk going uncounted
- Pregnant, unvaccinated and intubated: Doctors alarmed by rise
- Just opened: 10 new restaurants in Chicago and the suburbs, plus the city honors Calumet Fisheries ambassador
- La Vinotinto ya tiene entrenador… para tres partidos
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- Nearly 12,000 Township High School Dist. 214 students start new year — in person and wearing masks
- U-46 students and staff contracting COVID-19, but to be expected as local numbers climb, superintendent says
- Cero tolerancia a venta de citas en consulados de México en Estados Unidos
- Countdown to football: Trey Johnson, ‘the next great playmaker,’ looks to take control on offense for No. 3 Lincoln-Way East
- Los Paralímpicos comienzan con misma inquietud por el virus
- Kathy Hochul, New York’s 1st female governor, promises a fresh start
- Kathy Hochul, primera gobernadora del estado de Nueva York
- Los Doobie Brothers celebran medio siglo en la música
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- James J. Quinn, composed the music for ‘Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?’ dies
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Absuelven al policía que baleó a muerte a una mujer en la toma de Capitolio
- Spotlight on football: Receiver. Running back. Defensive back. Clem McCullough is ‘very hyped’ to see how he stacks up for Elgin.
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- Some CPS schools could start year with 2 officers despite votes to reduce police presence; decision on CPD contract delayed
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- ¿El trabajo de tus sueños en tres semanas?
- Spotlight on football: Luca Maravola has a plan. But on the field, the Grayslake Central senior is all over the place.
- Taliban insist US airlift must end Aug. 31 amid new report of abuses
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- Alemania teme ataques de Estado Islámico en Kabul
- Highland Park mansion owned by former Bulls star Scottie Pippen finds a buyer
- Skokie Theatre embraces Sondheim hidden gem ‘Anyone Can Whistle’
- Highland Park mansion owned by former Bulls star Scottie Pippen that was recently offered on Airbnb finds a buyer
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- Spotlight on football: John Flynn, ‘our best football player,’ makes early recovery from shoulder surgery to earn start for Metea Valley
- Hanover Central’s Aidan Padilla struggled early in the pandemic, not quite three years after his mother died: ‘I have no idea how I made it through.’
- Harris retrasa viaje: probable caso de ‘síndrome de La Habana’
- The 57 women who have won the Nobel Prize
- Lake Zurich police raise $5K in ‘coffee’ fundraiser for Special Olympics Illinois
- Speak Out reader opinions: Exit from Afghanistan a gift to Taliban; charge straw gun buyers for offense committed with weapon; doubting Thomases believe everything but truth
- CoinFlip, fast-growing Bitcoin ATM operator, moving to Old Post Office
- ?’Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal and Greed’ review: The Netflix documentary pulls back the curtain on the business behind the beloved public television painter of landscapes
- Crown Point considers bonus payments, 6% raises for employees: ‘Our employees didn’t have the choice to stay home’
- G7 presiona a EEUU para que no salga aún de Afganistán
- Aurora area bicycle store owners say interest in electric bikes has ‘skyrocketed’
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- Muere Charlie Watts, el baterista de los Rolling Stones
- Amita, Edward-Elmhurst and Silver Cross hospital systems to require vaccines for workers
- Column: Should families be allowed to request COVID-19 not be listed on a loved one’s death certificate?
- McDonald’s possible dining room of the future makes its debut Aug. 31 at Elgin restaurant on Larkin Avenue
- Escuelas en EEUU revierten clases presenciales por COVID-19
- Indiana COVID-19 hospitalizations highest since January
- Suit filed to get Portage pay owed since 2019
- Column: Census data show extent of wealth gap among segregated Southland towns
- 4 states added to Chicago travel advisory for unvaccinated; guidance now covers 43 states
- Four masked men burst into Waukegan-area home, threaten woman with knife in daytime robbery
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- Elmwood Park and River Grove police reports
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- The Paralympics have started in Tokyo. Here’s what you need to know, including the 20 Illini athletes and other locals to watch.
- Bolivia: expresidenta Áñez es sometida a exámenes médicos
- La Premier no liberará a jugadores para eliminatorias
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- Fling for free at this year’s Naperville end-of-summer festival
- Temple Beth Israel welcomes new rabbi who sees religion as a way to ‘expand the circle of concern’
- Dylan Farrow viaja en el tiempo con ‘Silencio’
- Cuba avanza en prueba de vacuna en niños en medio de rebrote
- 3 things we learned at Chicago Bears practice, including Allen Robinson’s assessment of the offense and the potential of a special package for Justin Fields
- ‘Lets have fun’: Homer Glen native CM Punk back in the limelight with United Center appearance heralding his return to pro wrestling
- Leyden District 212 to add 5 to Alumni Wall of Fame
- ComEd scheme to influence Madigan was not legal lobbying — it was bribery, prosecutors say
- New Trier High School officials outline COVID-19 safety procedures, report 90% of students and 92% of staff are vaccinated
- Academia retira Emmy especial a Andrew Cuomo
- Health officials pleased as Pfizer wins FDA approval in fight against COVID-19
- Justin Fields’ next opportunity is unclear after he starts the preseason finale, but the Chicago Bears rookie QB says he trusts Matt Nagy’s development plan
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- Northwestern University to create technology accelerator in downtown Evanston with help from state funds, private donation
- Movie pegged as ‘modern day Breakfast Club’ filmed at Elmhurst University with student interns and pandemic protocols
- Evanston Public Library to expand operating hours
- Indian Prairie school board approves $414 million tentative budget; final budget proposal coming in late September
- Culpable de bomba en EEUU quiere ser reconocida como mujer
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- Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies at age 80
- Heather Mack, imprisoned in her mother’s grisly Bali murder, expected to be released early
- A new trustee joins the La Grange Village Board at Monday’s meeting
- Judge rejects GOP effort to invalidate Democratic-drawn legislative map, but warns Democrats to make fixes that address minority concerns
- Editorial: The Illinois legislative remap, aka Democrats’ incumbent protection plan
- Letters: Illinois could help tackle pension woes by using government assets
- Aurora could pay for replacing lead water service lines
- Column: Donald Trump can’t cram his ‘fake news’ genie back in his bottle
- Notre Dame defends leprechaun mascot after survey ranks it 4th-most offensive
- Glenbrook District 225 starts new school year with masks, revised COVID-19 testing policy
- Te vacunaron. Ahora demuéstralo
- Spring Grove 5-bedroom home with two-story fireplace: $1M
- Haitianos se van de hospitales, pero no tienen hogar
- Cicero woman, charged in fatal Elmhurst DUI accident, ordered held on $500,000
- North Shore-based Off Campus Writers’ Workshop celebrates 75 years with new anthology
- Proposals sought for new mural in downtown Oswego
- ‘Fantome: An Evening of Ghosts and Gore’ at Beatniks on Conkey includes 2 one-act plays
- Local Army vet trying to get interpreters and families out of Afghanistan
- Franklin Park Fest will offer vaccinations in addition to food, music this weekend
- Lack of air conditioning, heat keeps 3 Gary schools closed
- ‘Ribfest’ in Vernon Hills makes return, with fireworks and live music: ‘We were extremely happy with the turnout’
- Suicide prevention info on student IDs now the law after Gov. Pritzker signs bill pushed by Naperville Central teen’s group
- La ampliación de la cobertura de salud para adultos mayores en Illinois, independientemente de su estado migratorio, beneficiaría a miles de trabajadores esenciales en riesgo
- Burr Ridge approves new communications system
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- Mundelein School District 75 STEAM Foundation receives $20K Medline grant to build recording studio
- With infrastructure improvements needed, Skokie increases water rate by 7.5%
- Zion man sentenced to 70 years for home-invasion assaults on couple, had stabbed one victim at least 20 times
- Oswego, Yorkville and Montgomery residents invited to meeting on future water supply
- OPINIÓN / Bennett y Biden, ¿por qué es tan importante esta primera reunión?
- Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills D181 kicks off first day of in-person, full-time instruction
- ONG piden a AMLO impedir retorno del plan Quédate en México
- ‘We made a promise’: Local Army veterans beg for help getting interpreters and their families out of Afghanistan
- Testigo: R. Kelly controlaba a sus novias en entrevistas
- Festival celebrating Pakistani culture draws crowds in Park Ridge
- No bail for man charged with murder, attempted murder in connection with Back of the Yards shooting in April
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- Footlight Players returns to stage with ‘Steel Magnolias,’ opening 72nd Season
- Lake Forest man who sexually abused child for 8 years sentenced to decades in prison
- Op-ed: Physical infrastructure is a start; human infrastructure must follow
- Woman who was high-ranking Sinaloa operative under ‘El Chapo’ is sentenced in Chicago to 10 years in federal prison
- One for the Books: Naperville library’s app can people with autism or sensory processing disorders enjoy their visit
- City inspector general raises questions over police use of ShotSpotter
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- Evanston officials outline strategy to eliminate emissions in municipal operations by 2035
- Lincolnshire, Highland Park, Buffalo Grove and Deerfield among most vaccinated Lake County communities
- Suburbs in Maine and Niles Townships see population growth up to 9% over last 10 years, census data shows
- Gov. Holcomb visits Indiana Dunes State Park to discuss regional development initiative
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- Chicago: Trasladan a rehabilitación a policía baleado
- Jerry Harkness, the captain of the 1963 Loyola basketball national champions and a ‘trail blazer’ for civil rights, dies at age 81
- EEUU: Fauci prevé que más gente se vacunará contra COVID-19
- Evanston, Skokie health departments join Cook County in enacting mask mandates
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- Estimated cost for Park Ridge Oakton Park improvements rises to $34 million
- Indicted Chicago Ald. Carrie Austin steps down as committee chair, she says at Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s request
- R. Kelly trial: Witness says singer controlled girlfriends during CBS segment
- House passes Biden’s $3.5 trillion budget blueprint after deal with moderates
- G-7 leaders can’t sway Biden to delay Afghanistan withdrawal
- Biden keeps to Aug. 31 deadline for completing evacuation from Afghanistan despite criticism
- Kanye West listening party at Chicago’s Soldier Field will have no vaccine or COVID-19 test requirement but lower capacity
- Tim Anderson is out of the Chicago White Sox starting lineup for the 4th straight game but is hopeful he’ll be penciled in Wednesday
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- Big Ten, Pac-12 and ACC form an alliance ‘to protect the collegiate model’ — 41 schools that span from Miami to Seattle
- Former East Aurora School District teacher found guilty of sexually assaulting a student
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- House passes bill bolstering landmark civil rights-era voting law
- Chicago Cubs game postponed because of severe weather. They’ll play the Colorado Rockies in a split doubleheader Wednesday at Wrigley Field.
- Illinois schools flouting Pritzker school mask mandate banned from fall playoff games
- Fernando Mejia delivers ‘the best goal I’ve ever scored’ as Bremen pulls off upset of St. Laurence in Windy City Ram Classic opener
- Candace Parker returns from a 1-game absence to help the Chicago Sky beat the Atlanta Dream 86-79
- Hot weather and sudden storms in Chicagoland
- Post-Tribune girls soccer preseason rankings
- No injuries reported after multiple sailboats overturn, 2 people pulled from Lake Michigan in Evanston
- A great White shark: Ellie White sees blood … her own … and then responds in kind as Mother McAuley rallies past Joliet Catholic
- Gianna Witte’s soccer career continues at Crown Point, and eventually will at North Central College, as a tribute to her late father: ‘He would be so proud of me.’
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- Chicago White Sox break out of their mini offensive funk after José Abreu ‘set the tone for the game’ with a 3-run HR