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- Franklin Park fest offered music, food, vaccinations, fun
- Daily horoscope for August 30, 2021
- Ask Amy: Addiction is a family disease
- Can Bernie Sanders sell Democrats’ $3.5T budget to Trump voters? Here’s how he tried in Indiana.
- Chicago Public Schools fully reopens today for first time in 18 months as COVID rages on: ‘I’m happy and worried’
- Growing up Capone: An interview with a granddaughter of the legendary Chicago Outfit boss
- Op-ed: Illinois must tackle the widening higher education racial divide
- Own Al Capone: The Chicago gangster’s favorite gun, diamond jewelry, bear-shaped humidor, family photos and more to be sold by his granddaughters at auction
- Letters: CTA should drop rush-hour train ban on bicycles during the pandemic
- Editorial: ShotSpotter as an effective crime-fighting tool? Jury’s still out.
- Oak Lawn Children’s Museum program for toddlers raised during pandemic expands to educate, reassure parents
- Review: Lardon has the expertly crafted charcuterie Chicago deserves
- Aurora festival seen as ‘a celebration of local art’
- Column: It’s time for Jed Hoyer to admit a rebuild is on its way. Because, yes, the Chicago Cubs are as bad as they look.
- This day in history, August 30: Senate confirms appointment of Thurgood Marshall as first Black justice on U.S. Supreme Court.
- Who is trending up — and down — for the White Sox and Cubs after the City Series
- Daywatch: Illinois prepares for more vaccine mandates as cases climb | In-person class for CPS begins | Lardon brings Chicago the charcuterie it deserves
- Chicago Bears player Andy Dalton buys $2.5M home in Lake Bluff
- After census, citizens panels seek sway in redistricting
- Police dog helps in arrest of Grayslake stabbing suspect
- First day of school for CPS students
- Talk of the County reader opinion: ‘Obama did nothing for Illinois … Let Hawaii, his birthplace, tackle that project’
- Talk of the County reader opinion: Biden and his administration ‘are lining things up so they can blame everybody else’
- Will hearing aids ever be hip?
- At 6 days old, she went into foster care. At 7 years old, she was dead.
- Talk of the County reader opinion: ‘The Republicans are playing Russian roulette with our kids’ lives’
- Jacob Blake, paralyzed after being shot by Kenosha cop, is making progress toward walking, but worries ‘it could happen to me again’
- La era Messi en el PSG comienza con triunfo
- Palestinians finally have vaccines. But will people take them?
- Hostile school board meetings across the country are prompting members to ask, ‘Why am I doing this?’
- ‘Candyman’ encabeza las taquillas en EEUU
- Two men shot — one critically — during Naperville fight flee to Aurora, call 911 to be taken to the hospital, police say
- Ida inunda Luisiana y Mississippi como tormenta tropical
- Talk of the County reader opinion: ‘Did Trump and Pompeo set us up for failure?’
- DT de Pumas tras derrota ante Toluca: ‘Hay que poner el pecho a las balas’
- Playoffs return this season, and Carson Eggebraten wants to lead St. Viator back for the first time since 2017. Along the way, the senior linebacker will ‘lay the boom.’
- Grandparents face bank fraud charges over funds left for late soldier
- Uruguay pierde a sus dos máximos goleadores para eliminatorias
- Cohetes lanzados al aeropuerto de Kabul caen en viviendas
- Aurora police investigate apparent murder-suicide on West Side
- La Grange West Arts Festival resumes in time for 25th Anniversary
- Talk of the County reader opinion: Since Cubs ‘gutted the team … shouldn’t they lower the ticket prices’
- Best-selling American cars
- Speak Out reader opinion: Walt’s is missed by senior citizens
- México regresa a clases presenciales… en teoría
- West Aurora School District looks at options for using federal pandemic relief funds
- He’s healthy. He’s ready. And he’s committed. North Carolina recruit Sebastian Cheeks wants to ‘do something special’ for Evanston.
- Camp Sheilah continues Southland family’s tradition of helping others who face trauma
- Column: COVID-19 threat and the bullheaded continue to frustrate government leaders
- US Open spectators must show proof of vaccination, but many tennis players have been reluctant to get their shots
- Local scores from the Aurora, Elgin, Naperville and Lake County areas
- Tony Baranek’s Daily Southtown girls volleyball rankings and player of the week for Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021
- Crown Point astronaut honored with tribute wall at park: ‘Pursue your dream. Dreams can come true.’
- Steve Millar’s Daily Southtown boys soccer rankings and player of the week for Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021
- Ida’s path through ‘Cancer Alley’ raises risks at chemical plants
- Local scores from the Southland
- Berlín ofrece tren especial para vacunarse contra COVID-19
- It’s easier for your car to be hacked than you might think: How to protect yourself
- Preocupan a la Iglesia católica los señalamientos de sacerdotes que usan apps para encuentros gay
- Girls volleyball notes: True, Katie DeHaan is a senior leader for Andrew. She always has been a leader, ‘but it’s not about her.’
- Local scores from Northwest Indiana
- Prevén modesto impacto económico del huracán Ida
- R. Kelly had naked ‘young lady’ waiting under a boxing ring in his garage for sex: testimony
- Column: Park Forest politics takes on new look with early fundraising
- Hollywood llora la muerte de Ed Asner, astro de ‘Lou Grant’ y ‘Up’
- Five things to do in the Southland and northwest Indiana Sept. 3-9
- Cuando la policía miente, los inocentes pagan. Algunos están luchando
- Five things to do in Lake County Sept. 3-6
- Five things to do in Naperville and the Fox Valley Sept. 3-9
- Italia: Regresan restricciones por el coronavirus
- Boys soccer notes: Zach Soltysiak is back for Shepard. He’s scoring goals, too. The best part? ‘I always want more. I don’t come to lose.’
- Hinsdale District 86 support staff union gets raises, bonuses in new contract
- Bomberos tratan de apagar incendio en edificio en Milán
- El ‘Malverde’ de Pedro Fernández es enamoradizo, arriesgado y hasta brujo
- Patrick Z. McGavin’s Beacon-News/Courier-News boys soccer rankings and player of the week for Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021
- Sunday in the Park with Lyric’s Rising Stars
- Alemania detiene a una sospechosa de ayudar al grupo EI
- Insider Q-and-A: What’s next for student loans in the COVID era
- Era un bebé cuando EEUU invadió Afganistán. Ahora, es una de las víctimas más recientes de la guerra más larga del país
- Fire damages $250K of technology equipment at Highland Park High School; Monday classes held virtually
- México inicia proceso penal contra ex jefe cártel de Tijuana
- European Union takes US off safe travel list because of rising COVID-19 infections; backs travel restrictions
- China limita a 3 horas por semana los videojuegos para niños
- Dinamarca recomienda tercera dosis de vacuna contra COVID-19
- Speak Out reader opinions: We’re all sitting ducks on the expressways into Chicago; Florida governor not much better than a cult leader; Biden’s making things worse for nursing homes
- La selección italiana acecha récord histórico de España
- As Deshaun Watson rumors swirl, Dolphins coach Brian Flores says he wants players with ‘high character’
- A ‘kind of crazy’ start to what Colin Husko and Bennett brothers Nick and Vince hope is an entire season worth remembering for Wauconda
- Pandemic coworking space
- Suben temperaturas mientras incendio se acerca a lago Tahoe
- Remembering Ed Asner: How a Chicago-trained ‘heavy’ met his match with Lou Grant. Twice.
- As kids return to school, parents must again learn how to ‘let go’ as they pedal away
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Michael Winslow, ‘Man of 10,000 Sound Effects’ and ‘Police Academy’ fame brings his cast of characters to Genesee stage
- Logansport, Indiana, mourning Cpl. Humberto Sanchez, killed during Afghanistan bombing. ‘He was honored to be putting on the Marine uniform.’
- EEUU investiga a 5 estados por prohibir medidas anti COVID
- As team manager when his sisters played, Sebastian Carranza watched and learned. He’s now the star for St. Charles East.
- El Real Madrid detiene las negociaciones por Mbappé
- CPS reopening: Worries, excitement, busing woes mark first day as schools reopen fully
- Hannah Keaveney remembers having ‘zero interest’ in volleyball. A Crown Point camp she didn’t want to attend changed that.
- Puerto Rico retoma restricciones ante alza de casos de COVID
- 2020 census shows steady population increases for Glenview, Northbrook
- 21 Labor Day specials from Chicago-area restaurants, from patriotic margarita flights to take-home grilling kits
- Michigan se corona campeón de la Little League
- Will County winter deer culling to include preserves dropped from program, but now facing overpopulation
- Netflix renueva ‘Cobra Kai’ para quinta temporada antes de estrenar la cuarta
- Potempa: Vacation condo cooks up memories and kitchen adventure
- Hombre declara que R. Kelly abusó sexualmente de él
- UPS delivers first COVID-19 vaccines by drone
- Muere ídolo jamaiquino del reggae ‘Lee Scratch’ Perry
- Variante de virus afecta las reservas de aerolíneas para el fin de semana del Día del Trabajo
- Los derechos de las mujeres en Afganistán dependen de una ley islámica. ¿Qué es la ‘sharía’?
- Fans, impersonators turn out in Gary to remember Michael Jackson on what would have been his 63rd birthday
- Cuentos Políticos: Y si no…
- Education Department opens civil rights investigations against 5 Republican-led states with mask bans for schools
- Padma Lakshmi cocina libro infantil con Juana Martinez-Neal
- On a warm August night, the Lyric Opera of Chicago comes back to life with ‘Rising Stars’
- Illinois sends search and rescue team to Louisiana to help in Hurricane Ida recovery efforts
- Column: Giving Mets fans a thumbs down pretty much ends Javier Báez’s future in New York. Will it affect the free-agent market for the ex-Chicago Cub?
- Letter: Go Green Winnetka to host fall native plant sale
- Aurora examines plan for 250 townhomes on city’s far East Side
- Letters: CPS has put my seventh grade son in harm’s way
- Barrington to hold memorial ceremony, concert to commemorate 20th anniversary of 9/11
- Op-ed: Illinois is running out of time to save jobs and protect its energy future
- Guardia talibán: Últimos aviones de EEUU han salido de Kabul
- Airplane food is back, but it’s not like you remember
- Kevin Bacon’s childhood home in Philadelphia is available for $1 million
- Regreso de Prescott no resuelve problemas de los Cowboys
- La variante delta se infiltró en un aula de primaria. Así sucedió
- Cannabis smoking lounges off to successful start in Illinois
- DuPage Medical Group notifying 600,000 patients that their personal information may have been compromised in cyberattack
- Lake County Council to consider health officer’s proposed mask mandate for schools, but a procedural hurdle could derail the order
- Últimas tropas de EEUU salen de Afganistán
- EEUU: Weah se pierde primera triple fecha, Pulisic se entrena
- Hurricane Ida makes landfall in Louisiana
- Chile con dos cambios por negativa de clubes ingleses
- Qué hacer si no puede pagar sus préstamos durante la pandemia
- Record numbers of COVID-19 cases reported in Indiana schools
- Column: This week’s massive NFL roster cutdown is the ‘Super Bowl’ for scouts — and the Chicago Bears surely will be on the lookout for cornerback help
- Ask Mister Manners: If an eatery turns away my unvaxxed friend, am I obligated to leave, too?
- S&P 500, Nasdaq notch more records even as the Dow slips
- Dr. June: Tapping into entrepreneurial spirit means drawing up an action plan
- Abejas atacan a jugadores y paralizan partido en Bolivia (VIDEO)
- La UE recomienda restringir a viajeros de EEUU por COVID-19
- Emergency responders, Red Cross go south to aid in Ida efforts
- The worst animated Disney movies of all time
- Ask Anna: The definitive way to know if someone is into you
- Man found shot on Waukegan sidewalk in serious condition, police say
- Editorial: Grubhub, DoorDash racket needs reform. The city of Chicago was right to sue.
- Talibán proclama ‘plena independencia’ de Afganistán
- The cost of America’s longest war: Thousands of lives, trillions of dollars
- Orland Park special education teacher fatally shot on Dan Ryan was a tireless volunteer, faithful Catholic and inspiration to students
- North Chicago D187 schools open with mix of excitement, apprehension; ‘We’re … focused on giving them as much normalcy as we can’
- Taliban celebrate victory as US troops leave Afghanistan
- 3 things we learned from the Chicago Bears, including the bar set high for Andy Dalton and Justin Fields running the scout team
- A DuPage Medical Group data breach may have affected 600,000 patients. Here’s what patients should know.
- One-person show ‘Twilight’ explores Rodney King beating from many different angles
- Lake Zurich renews lease with Sunset Pavilion eatery operator, with fire pits and more to be installed as part of agreement
- Diques de Nueva Orleans resisten la furia del huracán Ida
- Volunteers with PAWS Chicago bringing animals to the city after Hurricane Ida leaves many displaced, homeless
- Lawmakers returning to Springfield to vote on new legislative maps but energy overhaul may also be on agenda
- El costo de la guerra: Miles de vidas y billones de dólares
- Tulane moves Saturday’s home game to Oklahoma because of Hurricane Ida fallout in New Orleans
- Two killed when motorcycle strikes pedestrian near Peotone
- Jacqueline Jackson out of ICU, still on oxygen for COVID-19
- Cook County judge rescinds order stripping unvaccinated Pilsen woman of child custody rights, but fight may not be over
- Ed Asner, the early years
- Fully vaccinated NFL players will be tested for COVID-19 weekly under revised protocols
- Rowan Brumbaugh commits to Northwestern basketball over Kansas and other high majors. The 4-star point guard is Chris Collins’ highest-ranked recruit.
- Ava Novak put away 10 kills as Benet beat Providence. One of the reasons why? The sets came from Sam Buckley, her cousin.
- Hurricane Ida traps Louisianans and leaves more than 1 million — including all of New Orleans — without power
- Letter to the editor: Niles library trustees, invite, interview applicants for trustee position and choose fairly
- Despite rain, D.A.R.E. car show fundraiser still pulls in $800
- Local scores from the Aurora, Elgin, Naperville and Lake County areas
- Local scores from the Southland
- Local scores from Northwest Indiana
- Pickwick Theatre Classic Film Series returns after 19-month hiatus with ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’