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- Daily Horoscope for April 19, 2024
- 4/20 grew from humble roots to marijuana’s high holiday
- Ask Amy: Boyfriend doesn’t want to ever marry
- Today in History: First Boston Marathon held
- Letters: Closing Clark Street for outdoor dining is a bad idea
- Editorial: How much is tuition really? Your favorite college does not want you to know.
- David McGrath: You can run, but you can’t hide from heart risk posed by family genes
- I doobie? Weed wedding the latest sign of spread of cannabis events
- What to do in Chicago: Holi in the Park, Friedberg and a last chance at Art Institute
- Chicago Public Schools launches a new, ‘more equitable’ funding model
- Elizabeth Shackelford: With war and US dysfunction, NATO at 75 faces an uncertain future
- Alexander Shingleton: To prevent cyclist injury and death, we need a stop-and-yield law
- Alexandra Block: As Dexter Reed shooting shows, pretextual traffic stops don’t enhance public safety
- Around the Southland: Pies to the face for Richards ‘winners,’ Southland dancers get state nod, and more
- Column: AI moviemaking software ‘so easy an alien could do it.’ But where do visual effects go from here?
- Column: As ‘Tortured Poets Department’ arrives, we wondered: Can Taylor Swift be poetry?
- Chicago baseball report: Cubs’ Jordan Wicks shows swing-and-miss stuff, while White Sox match franchise’s worst 18-game start
- Ayo Dosunmu helped forge Chicago Bulls’ identity in play-in victory. Can they replicate it tonight vs. Miami Heat?
- How Paris is preparing for the Olympics, from the venues to transportation to security
- Tim Anderson looks ahead with Miami Marlins after time with Chicago White Sox: ‘I’m back on my journey’
- Opening statements set for Monday in Trump’s hush money case after judge rejects latest bid to delay
- BNSF Railway says it didn’t know about asbestos that’s killed hundreds in Montana town
- Would you like a cicada salad? The monstrous little noisemakers descend on a New Orleans menu
- 12 students and teacher killed at Columbine to be remembered at 25th anniversary vigil
- Daywatch: Celebrations planned to mark 420 this weekend
- If Congress passes funding, this is how the US could rush weapons to Ukraine for its war with Russia
- Michael Osipoff’s softball rankings and player of the week for Northwest Indiana
- Man, 23, found stabbed to death on Lower West Side
- Elgin News Digest: IDOT to hold April 25 public hearing on Route 20 ramps in Elgin; Kane County to take down toll signs near the Longmeadow bridge; Grand Victoria makes donation to ECC’s Black Student Achievers club
- Naperville News Digest: Build a Bouquet event to be held May 11 in downtown Naperville; 5th-annual Pint for Kim blood drive returns to Naperville North HS; flower, herb and vegetable plants for sale at COD’s spring event
- Lemont police probe apparent murder-suicide at motel
- Gov. J.B. Pritzker says ‘evolution of the leadership’ needed at CTA
- Top picks to be more sustainable this Earth Day
- Is popcorn healthier when you use a hot-air popcorn maker?
- Geneva church to hold spring rummage sale
- Chicago’s response to migrant influx stirs longstanding frustrations among Black residents
- Never mind Ryan Gordon’s height, or lack of it. Senior catcher looms large for Highland. ‘Gordo’s our guy.’
- A fully healthy Emma Amberg gets back to scoring goals in bunches for Lemont. ‘One of the best feelings ever.’
- Avanza plan de Johnson de $70 millones para asistir a migrantes recién llegados
- For Metea Valley’s Jeremy Wrona, ‘back-to-back-to-back’ refers to injuries, not homers. But he’s back in the swing.
- Steve Millar’s Daily Southtown girls soccer rankings and player of the week
- Taylor Swift drops 15 new songs on double album, ‘The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology’
- As a pitcher, Lincoln-Way West’s Reese Rourke counts on Reese Forsythe and Reese Cusack. ‘We figure it out.’
- Letters to the Editor: Help foster children in Kane County by volunteering with CASA; where is it written that baseball must be a four-season sport?
- Letters to the Editor: Selle’s wrong — voter fraud can and has happened; proposed hike in price of stamps make me want to scream; why is there outrage over Gaza and not over Ukraine?
- Unfair labor complaint filed against Notre Dame over athletes
- Glenda Miller, former McHenry County treasurer, dies at age 68
- Protesters appear at testy Chicago Police Board meeting to call for firing of officers involved in killing of Dexter Reed
- Church news
- Tony Baranek’s Daily Southtown softball rankings and player of the week
- Editorial: The CTA is broken. Agency President Dorval Carter Jr. must go.
- NIRPC hears about local, healthy food from NWI Food Council
- Two people killed, third wounded in ‘domestic’-linked shooting: Gary Police
- Review: Magnetic Fields plays ’69 Love Songs’ at Thalia Hall, a long and epic romance
- Naperville Police Arrests for April 14-17
- Students sample potential careers at Waukegan High’s Trade and Tech Fair; ‘These are jobs where you don’t need a college degree’
- After setting goal, Andrew Dawson doesn’t just reach it for Oak Forest. He goes one better. ‘That was a surprise.’
- Law & Order column: Elderly driver narrowly misses hitting deputy
- Steve Millar’s Daily Southtown baseball rankings and player of the week
- 13th ‘Next Level’ cooking competition almost proved to be the last for ECC-trained chef
- Re-elected Lake County Republican chair looking for more GOP candidates; ‘We want good candidates, not just a choice between political parties’
- Kylie McMillan is an only child. Her Valparaiso teammates are ‘like my siblings.’ To them, she’s a linchpin.
- Alex Caruso says he expects to play for Chicago Bulls despite ankle injury: ‘There’s nothing to hold back’
- SSCVA gets update on CEO search
- NHL team moving from Arizona to Salt Lake City will have a name starting with Utah
- Dick Van Dyke earns historic Daytime Emmy nomination at age 98
- Ukraine and Israel aid advances in rare House vote as Democrats help Republicans push it forward
- Ravinia Festival seeks dismissal of lawsuit from expunged Women’s Board member
- Jury convicts Gary man of molesting two girls
- Mandisa, Grammy award-winning ‘American Idol’ alum, dead at 47
- Walter ‘Slim’ Coleman, community organizer in Uptown and Pilsen, dies at 80
- Decent: Body transformation achieved in six months leads to two bodybuilding titles for Naperville man
- After playing quarterback, West Aurora’s Mason Atkins takes center stage in center field. ‘I feel comfortable.’
- Paul Johnson’s Aurora-Elgin area baseball rankings and player of the week
- Ex-bookie gets 2 years in prison in case tied to Chicago mob probe
- Afternoon Briefing: Pritzker says ‘evolution of the leadership’ needed at CTA
- Steve Balich seeks to have uninitialed ballots thrown out in GOP race
- From the Farm: Marriott’s ‘Music Man’ a magic Mother’s Day memory for audiences
- A power hitter at heart, NIU recruit Aubriella Garza pitches in for Oswego. ‘I like being in those two situations.’
- Aurora close to getting new restaurant in spot near Paramount Theatre
- Chicago Teachers Union asks for 9% annual raises as bargaining sessions are set to begin
- Rick Armstrong’s Aurora-Elgin area softball rankings and player of the week
- ‘Our goal is to get students to see problems as opportunities’
- El Sindicato de Maestros de Chicago revela demandas contractuales y promete no ‘acobardarse’ ante propuestas para dotar de personal completo a las escuelas en medio de un déficit presupuestario
- Hinsdale resident curates a business in downtown Clarendon Hills
- Wilmette South Beach at Gillson Park to open for swimming this summer
- Judge dismisses 3 of 4 counts in lawsuit over Ryan Field rebuild
- The man who set himself on fire outside the courthouse where Trump is on trial dies of his injuries
- Aurora City Council to vote on major East Side sewer project
- Start planning your alternate routes now — myriad Naperville road projects coming this spring and summer
- Longtime Aurora pancake house looks to add liquor license
- Former Bears defensive coordinator Alan Williams sells Lake Forest home for $2.7M
- Waukegan starting recycling awareness campaign; ‘One item that cannot be recycled can contaminate the entire load’
- Cook County Health Department warns of possible measles exposure in Evergreen Park
- Additional charges filed against Chain O’ Lakes boat rental company owner
- University of Chicago charter school to pay $125,000 after video showed teachers mock special education student, call him ‘dumb’
- Illinois now home to federally recognized tribal nation in historic Department of Interior decision
- Johnson’s ambitious $1.25B bond plan, $70M migrant proposal pass City Council
- Clarendon Hills inviting residents to celebrate the village’s centennial through volunteering
- Food that helps feed more than 1,000 at Antarctic research bases for a year procured by Elgin company
- Tesla recalling nearly 4,000 Cybertrucks because accelerator pedal can get stuck
- Bill Tobin, longtime Chicago Bears personnel man who played a major role in building the Super Bowl XX champions, dies at 83
- Chicago’s young activists demand climate action, steps to ‘protect our planet’ at downtown rally
- Remains of an Illinois soldier who died during WWII at a Japanese POW camp identified, military says
- Dolton Village Hall hit with federal subpoenas amid ongoing probe into Mayor Tiffany Henyard
- As Jameson Taillon delivers a win in his season debut, Chicago Cubs rely on resiliency during challenging start
- Biden EPA declares two forever chemicals are hazardous, making it easier to force polluters to pay for toxic waste cleanups
- Photos: Chicago Cubs 8, Miami Marlins 3
- Cops: Woman killed, man injured by gunmen in two vehicles on West Side
- Chicago Bulls miss the NBA playoffs for a 2nd consecutive season after a 112-91 meltdown in Miami
- Haake: European court rules that climate action is a human right
- 2-11 alarm fire damages three homes, displaces families in Avondale, no injuries
- Chicago White Sox are shut out for 7th time, extending their worst start in franchise history
- Review: ‘Stereophonic,’ about a band under pressure, is a Broadway show not to be missed