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- St. Charles East’s Torrie Kortan hits the winning shot in overtime. And then? ‘I wanted to cry when we got the last board. It felt so good.’
- Illinois Fighting Illini vs Ohio State Buckeyes
- Benet’s Maggie Sularski makes free throw with 0.6 seconds left vs. Naperville North. The next breath: ‘It was relief, joy, everything.’
- DeMar DeRozan does it again, scoring 37 points and delivering down the stretch in the Chicago Bulls’ 112-108 win over the Atlanta Hawks
- Daily horoscope for February 25, 2022
- Ask Amy: Generous couple wants to leave huge tip
- Illinois stages a furious rally but comes up just short in an 86-83 loss to Ohio State, putting a dent in the Illini’s Big Ten title hopes
- ‘Murder, She Wrote’ was one of TV’s biggest hits. Its showrunner, a Chicago native, reflects on its success and how television has evolved since
- Chicago speed cameras nabbed drivers around school when kids weren’t in class: ‘6 mph over and they’ll ticket you every time’
- Colleen Kujawa: I joined groups to discuss music and graphic novels and got an education I didn’t expect
- Chicago region grapples with reducing road salt as chloride levels exceed state limits in waterways, continue to rise in Lake Michigan
- 8 things to do in Chicago: Golden Girls drag brunch, big dinosaurs and a Goose Island tap takeover
- Step aside Tom Cruise, there’s a new Jack Reacher on Amazon Prime
- Column: Why is Soderbergh’s ‘Kimi’ movie on HBO Max so good?
- With Xherdan Shaqiri as their focal point, here’s what to know about the Chicago Fire as they begin their 25th MLS season on Saturday
- Chicago Cubs prospect Pete Crow-Armstrong, in his return from shoulder surgery, is poised to show why he was coveted in the Javier Báez trade
- Russians see a new side to Putin — dragging them into war
- Column: Cruising Broadway, from Crown Point to Gary, reveals an eye-opening landscape of social disparities
- Unable to be saved, Collier Lodge replica project in the works; some materials from original lodge to be salvaged for new building
- Merrillville neighborhood residents skeptical of warehouse plan: ‘Who wants to buy a house next to a warehouse?’
- Daywatch: Ukrainians in Chicago protest Russia invasion | Speed cameras ticketed drivers when school was closed | Basic income program coming soon
- Lista de ganadores del Premio Lo Nuestro 2022
- This day in history, February 25: Cassius Clay becomes world heavyweight boxing champion by defeating Sonny Liston in Miami Beach
- Evergreen Park neighbors celebrate homecoming for Olympic medalist Abbey Murphy
- Russia is stripped of hosting the UEFA Champions League final with St. Petersburg replaced by Paris, and Formula One drops this season’s Sochi race
- Urban League, Boeing Awards Grant sponsor STEM programs for Gary youth
- Putin lo hizo: amenazar con el uso de armas nucleares
- Farruko brilla en un Premio Lo Nuestro de honores
- Republicans, fueled by redistricting legal setbacks, eye state courts as next political battlegrounds
- Glenwood District 167 says principal removed due to lapsed license, reassigned as teacher
- High school basketball scores for the Southland and the Aurora, Elgin, Naperville and Lake County areas
- House panel requests Trump White House records from National Archives
- Oscar-nominated ‘MASH’ actor Sally Kellerman dies at 84
- Rusia se dice dispuesta a negociar con Ucrania
- Las mejores imágenes de Premio Lo Nuestro 2022
- Key inflation gauge hit 6.1% in January, highest since 1982
- Las grandes novedades de la nueva temporada de MLS 2022
- Asesinan a otro periodista en México, el sexto en 2022
- Biden elige a Ketanji Brown Jackson para la Corte Suprema
- Kim Kardashian pide divorcio expedito
- Speak Out reader opinion: Attorney general’s strategy appears to be ignore prosecuting Trump officials
- Biden y Europa se reservan una sanción clave contra Rusia
- Doctor convicted of driving through protesting crowd in Mishawaka
- Ford hace llamado a reparación para pickups F-250 y F-350
- Thrash metal band Overkill returns to the Forge to promote 19th album
- Detalles incompletos de Rusia complican cobertura de medios
- Gene Ha exhibit at MVCC a chance for ‘Wonder Woman’ artist to offer peek behind scenes of comics industry, mentor next generation
- Por qué las embarazadas fueron rezagadas mientras se aceleraban las vacunas para la mayoría de la población
- Japanese favorite Izakaya Mita closing for good, two months after co-owner’s death
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist performs with Southwest Symphony Orchestra in Palos Heights
- Hope Chicago scholarships
- Johnson & Johnson, distributors finalize $26B landmark opioid settlement
- París acogerá la final de la Champions de San Petersburgo
- ??Mario Sánchez, de Austin TV a la importancia de la distribución digital
- ‘No quiero morir’. Ucranianos huyen de la invasión rusa
- Bad Bunny fue el gran ganador de Premio Lo Nuestro
- Santos Laguna destituye a técnico portugués Caixinha
- Muere Sally Kellerman, actriz de ‘MASH’ nominada al Oscar
- Kmart se ha reducido a sus últimas cuatro tiendas en EEUU
- Column: Texas attempt to criminalize medical care for transgender youth is cynical exploitation of this moment in time
- Aurora restaurant owners come together to open new place on city’s far West Side
- Ucrania: Redes sociales llenas de propaganda y videos falsos
- Rusia pierde final de Champions y GP de la Fórmula Uno
- Canadá autoriza vacuna de origen vegetal contra COVID-19
- Aurora OKs software to better track employee compliance to COVID-19 vaccination protocols at City Hall
- Around the Southland: Lincoln museum to display art by Flossmoor student, Richards performance a hit at state, and more
- Helping Chicago-area homeless people
- Ritmos latinos tomarán la ciudad del juego en el Festival de Verano de Las Vegas
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Tristan Thompson follows the path of his idol Dennis Rodman to a new role with the Chicago Bulls
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- El tenista ruso Rublev se pronuncia contra guerra
- Expulsan a Rusia del Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión debido a invasión de Ucrania
- Steve Chapman: Texan governor and attorney general aren’t advocates of parents. They care only about their own agenda.
- 18 Chicago-area bakeries with paczki both classic and novel for your Fat Tuesday fix
- Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day
- Playing for Andrean, and for their father, gives Aiden and Alex Austin yet another thing in common
- Prosecutors drop murder charge against Gary man who claimed self defense
- Community news
- Sentencia sobre un cementerio obligaría a 24 familias a trasladar a sus seres queridos
- Biden nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court in historic appointment
- Review: ‘Creature’ is English National Ballet’s return to Chicago, a powerful story with echoes of ‘Frankenstein’
- Digital marketer Justin Brenner shares Ignite Your Brand’s secret to success
- OTAN envía refuerzos a aliados en el este
- Arreglar el Seguro Social animaría la agenda tras las elecciones de noviembre
- Column: Slave cabins will be forever shackled to our nation’s sins and our reconciliation between the past and present
- Nick Gomez presents opportunity through digital currency
- Judge orders man accused of dual murders to remain in Lake County until trial
- Letters: The world should prepare for war to oust Russia from Ukraine
- Conversation about guns prompts first grader to bring one to school, dad charged, police say
- Garry Kasparov: How the free world gave Putin the green light
- US Sen. Dick Durbin urges stricter sanctions in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
- Get a ‘Clue’ with La Porte Little Theatre production
- Tite dejará selección de Brasil tras Mundial de Qatar
- Hinsdale’s Oak School community organizing blood drive for popular student recovering from surgery
- Two teens linked to Broadnax gas station murder charged in adult court
- Regresa MKY, la sensación del R&B latino
- Ucranianos cruzan hacia países vecinos para ponerse a salvo
- Stocks up, fear down on Wall Street despite Ukraine invasion
- Judge allows cameras in courtroom for Jussie Smollett’s expected sentencing next month
- Music to his ears: Conductor Kirk Muspratt marks 20 years with NWI Symphony
- Carlos Vela podría irse del LAFC a mitad de temporada
- Madre de fotoperiodista asesinado en Tijuana pide justicia a Gobernación
- Chicago actor Larry Neumann Jr. is dead at 62. His off-Loop roles were legion and he had many stories to tell.
- La pelea Fury vs. Whyte ya tiene fecha y sede
- Paramount Theatre in Aurora to make masks optional starting Monday
- Lil’ Heroes: arte español aspira pasar de NFT a serie de TV
- Indiana legislators still seek deal to end COVID-19 order; Senate could vote as soon as Monday
- Comedian Marci Deloney headlines Tomfoolery Fun Club’s 8th Anniversary Show
- US, Europe step up Russia sanctions to target Putin directly amid Ukraine invasion
- Prisión para el insurrecto que se llevó atril de Pelosi
- Column: Sure, celebrate the eagle’s comeback but imagine a world in which the dragonfly population soars, too
- Praying for Ukraine, pinching pierogi to stay connected as Russia invades: ‘It was hard because my family over there and I’m here, and I can’t talk to them’
- ‘La balada de Chalino Sa’nchez’
- Highland Park man injured in Mettawa accident Friday
- Valparaiso Parks looking for community input for new park developments
- Los hermanos Klitschko, excampeones de boxeo, prometen pelear por la independencia de Ucrania
- Michael Sampson: I taught Ukrainian children as a Fulbright Scholar. Now I imagine the terrors they face.
- Slowed by COVID-19, Gary energy firm asking for air permit renewal
- Former Chicago Blackhawks player Duncan Keith sells Roscoe Village home for $1.7 million
- Matt Nagy is headed back to the Kansas City Chiefs as a senior assistant and quarterbacks coach
- Aurora approves new pedestrian bridge over McCoy Drive
- Domino Saints lanza un explosivo video
- Community leaders discuss importance of using education tools and more during panel with Boys & Girls Clubs of Lake County
- Last concert for outgoing Chicago Symphony Chorus director Duain Wolfe will be an ‘Ode’ to his first
- After transgender lawsuit, supporters push for change at Valparaiso schools meeting
- Editorial: Vladimir Putin is a despot. The world must treat him like one.
- With a high percentage of vaccinations, Lake County seeing dramatic drops in positive COVD-19 tests and hospitalizations
- District 203 shifts to site-by-site approach for COVID-19 mitigation
- Potempa: ‘Come From Away’ is an important stage story of ‘neighbors helping neighbors’
- Cuba reduce siembra de tabaco pero garantiza exportación
- Will County endorses making Juneteenth a holiday, will negotiate with unions
- Column: For Ukrainian native now living in Naperville, no words ‘describe the evil that is happening right now’
- Gary students bring spirit and spunk to Black History Month show
- At Ukrainian National Museum in Chicago, supporters connect with a war-torn nation. ‘Our people, everyone has been through so, so much.’
- The best white puff sleeve blouse
- Alex DeBrincat’s ‘just shoot more’ directive doesn’t tell the whole story of his offensive production for the Chicago Blackhawks
- The best men’s earring
- Business groups weigh in on food trucks as Naperville is poised to consider regulations
- Black Hall of Fame on track for June opening at Governors State University
- Valerian root vs. melatonin
- Panel backs exploring tax increment financing district for $53 million project in Aurora’s downtown
- Keith Ellison, lead prosecutor in George Floyd case, to join local coalition for a ‘fireside chat’ Sunday
- Feds: Maine man found with homemade explosives plotted online to commit ‘mass murder’ at Chicago mosques and synagogues
- Column: Find a friend in an unlikely place when you’ve got cabin fever
- Round Lake Beach man facing charges of battery, and possibly more, in the death of a six-year-old child
- Clarence Page: We stand for democracy in Ukraine, but don’t seem so certain about the price
- State police charge Harvey man, 16-year-old girls in Chicago and Alsip carjacking incidents
- Aurora police detective, Elgin officer share Kane County award for outstanding police work
- Elgin, other area towns, join forces to oppose proposed Canadian Pacific Railway/Kansas City Southern Railroad merger
- Elgin man convicted of child sexual abuse
- ‘This is really the shot in the arm that we needed.’ Five CPS schools partner with Hope Chicago to help send roughly 4,000 students to college debt-free.
- No, it’s not in your head. This stretch of the Blue Line is the loudest in Chicago’s entire train system
- MLB lockout, Day 86: Sides make progress in 5th straight day of negotiations, but spring games are canceled through March 7
- Love INC provides solutions for those in need of material and spiritual help
- Pritzker halts school mask mandate with arrival of new CDC guidance
- KidsMatter, Naperville police forum addresses stress, warning signs, pandemic’s impact on youth mental health
- Operation Disrupt will add suicide prevention signage, patrolling to Naperville area parks, trails
- This week in Naperville: Feb. 27 to March 6
- Kyiv under threat as Russia presses invasion to Ukrainian capital
- Chicago police still wrapping up foot-pursuit policy in wake of lawsuit in one of two high-profile fatal shootings
- Northwestern done in by a 17-2 run in a 67-60 loss to Penn State, the Wildcats’ 4th setback in 5 games
- ‘A store of discovery:’ American Science and Surplus relocates to Park Ridge
- Jordan Brown, ‘the best unknown, underrated guard in the state,’ sparks Bloom past Brother Rice for Class 4A regional title.
- Owen Guest makes himself right at home, and that’s just fine with Chesterton. The junior guard earns it: ‘He’s a great kid.’
- High school basketball scores for Northwest Indiana
- Nashawn Holmes says father and brother know best: ‘They get on me about energy.’ He scores 15 points as H-F wins 29th regional title.
- ‘Nothing fazes’ Nojus Indrusaitis. Lemont’s sophomore star isn’t rattled by the stage or his shaky start against Marian Catholic.
- High school basketball scores for the Southland and the Aurora, Elgin, Naperville and Lake County areas