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- Photos: Chicago celebrates Juneteenth
- Daily horoscope for June 19, 2023
- Photos: Mother’s quinceañera dream for daughter comes true
- Ask Amy: Patience with estranged granddaughter pays off
- Editorial: Here’s what Evanston should be saying: Northwestern, show us the money.
- Susan Gzesh: Asylum-seekers should be allowed to work in Chicago
- Minority-owned development firms have been in short supply in Chicago. New initiatives aim to change that.
- Fatal I-55 dust storm crash puts focus on Illinois farmers: ‘We haven’t advanced … but we can’
- Judith McCray, founder of Juneteenth Productions, was working on social issues surrounding the day long before it became a holiday
- Top 10 art shows to see this summer: From a Stanley Brouwn retrospective to a Derrick Woods-Morrow solo exhibition
- Column: Drag brunch prevails at The Walnut Room, where history and radical acceptance collide
- Letters: Op-ed writer draws an unfair comparison between Brittney Griner and a fictional traitor
- Laura Washington: The city appears to be making a last-ditch effort to keep the Bears in Chicago. Don’t do it.
- Bridget Gainer and Amanda Williams: Red tulips in Washington Park testify to the need to reverse redlining
- Chicago migrant arrivals: Mayor Brandon Johnson aims to resettle asylum-seekers from shelters, but it won’t be immediate
- Mansion sells for $4.75M, making it the highest sale price for a home in Oak Brook since 2009
- Chicago baseball report: Starting pitching is giving White Sox and Cubs a glimmer of hope in substandard divisions
- Aurora looks to buy former bank building downtown
- Who impressed at OTAs? What does Justin Fields need to show at camp? 4 key topics as Chicago Bears head into their summer break.
- Daywatch: Fatal I-55 dust storm crash puts focus on Illinois farmers
- Donald Trump and other Republicans conjure a familiar enemy in attacking Democrats as ‘communists’
- 20 years after the United States invaded Iraq, Iraqis are still trying to emigrate to the US
- Glenview’s ‘summer book hunt’ tasks kids with finding books hidden throughout village
- New superintendent chosen for School District 308
- 2 killed, 3 wounded in Roseland at Father’s Day barbecue, police say
- DuPage County board passes contentious new voting precinct map
- Column: Investment in communities follows political visits to south suburbs
- Festival at Geneva farm celebrates all things strawberry
- Cedar Lake dredge project is decades in the making
- Why Robert Kennedy Jr.’s 2024 presidential bid is a headache for Joe Biden
- Column: Waukegan firm ignores Illinois space for new Wisconsin home
- Review: ‘Magical Life’ by Larry Hass is a blend of magic, philosophy and Chicago
- Portage High School engineering class, part of Project Lead the Way, teaches precision
- Connor Bedard — the likely No. 1 draft pick by the Chicago Blackhawks — honored as IIHF’s first male player of the year
- Juneteenth celebrants in Skokie say it’s important to note the day’s meaning
- Museum of Science and Industry staff vote to unionize
- Community news
- If you have limited space, check out these compact exercise-equipment sets
- Afternoon Briefing: What we know about the shooting near Willowbrook
- What is craft beer? Here’s a complete guide — for beginners to veterans
- Glenview pediatric patient serves Chicago Cubs as honorary bat girl: ‘One of the best days of our life’
- Ukrainian refugees who fled war eagerly attend Norridge employment fair: ‘I want a job’
- Fiercest fighting in years erupts in West Bank city of Jenin, at least 5 Palestinians killed
- Pregnant Gary woman drowns Sunday in Hobart’s Robinson Lake; fourth, fifth drownings there in four years
- ‘Tremendous collection’ of midcentury architecture focus of tour in Flossmoor, Olympia Fields
- More than 1 million dropped from Medicaid as states start post-pandemic purge of rolls
- This is why your strawberries were so meh this season until now
- Evanston’s Juneteenth celebration kicks off for 2023
- AG Raoul’s office charges Barrington man as drug dealer in fentanyl overdose death
- Illinois woman who survived attack that killed fellow U. of I. grad from Naperville is released from German hospital
- Daisy Days returns to Clarendon Hills
- Child seriously injured in Aurora crash now in stable condition
- Letters: Evolution of the 5th Ward’s new and long overdue neighborhood school
- New principal, administrators starting in Park Ridge-Niles School District 64, as well as superintendent
- Deerfield police charge 3 with driving without a license
- Calumet City woman charged with shooting up Gary home, wounding woman
- Highland Park police arrest man for weapons charges, DUI and endangering child after crash, authorities say
- Crown Point woman charged with domestic battery
- Barrington man indicted in drug-induced homicide, officials say; ‘Fentanyl-laced drugs continue to wreak havoc’
- Griffith will break ground on therapeutic classroom addition
- Ex-State Rep. Denyse Stoneback sues successor, GPAC Illinois saying they defamed her
- Winnetka Music Fest shines in its 7th year with Evanston’s SPACE partnership
- Corrections and clarifications
- Mass shooting at South Side park likely caused by personal dispute, CPD says
- Family of five among those displaced after Park Forest town home fire
- Elmhurst Police: DuPage County bomb squad disposes of device discovered while cleaning
- UK lawmakers back scathing report that slammed Boris Johnson over ‘partygate’
- Libertyville Days Festival Parade recognizes health care providers; ‘One of the best parades in Lake County’
- Thierry Roger, Chicago-based fashion designer known as a ‘true artist,’ dies
- New Chicago monuments will honor police torture victims, labor leader Mother Jones and gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, among others
- Weekend of Juneteenth events mixes history, celebration and fun; ‘This is about the freedom of our people’
- Lake County health department evacuation notice only applies to two Hickory Ridge buildings; owner claims lack of money for safety repairs
- Aurora Juneteenth flag ceremony focuses on youth
- After a Park Ridge child was allegedly beaten by teens, parents want more response from police, school district, who say they’ve addressed concerns
- Helicopter crashes into Cedar Lake, but two occupants swam to safety without injuries
- Local woman arrested for DUI also facing multiple other charges, including battery: Buffalo Grove police
- Longtime Aurora Ald. Scheketa Hart-Burns, the first Black member of the City Council, dies
- Cook County judge accused of making racist comments in motion for new judge
- Nearly 1.5M are dropped from Medicaid largely due to paperwork
- Column: Adbert Alzolay has emerged as the Chicago Cubs closer — even if no one wants to call him that
- Search underway for missing submersible that takes people to see Titanic