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- Daily Horoscope for August 19, 2024
- Asking Eric: ‘Helicopter’ grandma is suddenly ghosted
- Today in History: Last US combat troops leave Iraq
- Today in Sports History: Mike Tyson starts his comeback
- Monarch butterfly numbers have dropped this summer in Illinois, Upper Midwest, experts say
- Kate Lowe: Chicago’s public transit fiscal crisis needs more attention
- Andy Thayer: What links the 1968 and 2024 conventions? Mass youth disaffection from traditional institutions.
- Laura Washington: As the Democrats roll into Chicago, the GOP is on the political back foot
- New-fangled internet dazzled 1996 DNC in Chicago. Today, experts debate the benefits — and dangers — of online influence.
- The DNC kicks off today. Here’s what to expect — including who is speaking.
- Letters: Chicago’s parking meter deal is a case study in immorality
- Amid talk of unity, DNC opens in Chicago with diverging themes
- Editorial: American farmers are doing their jobs. Not so Congress, with no Farm Bill in sight.
- Northbrook man ordered held on reckless homicide charge from fatal May vehicle crash
- Homewood steakhouse primed for downtown building vacated by La Voute
- Northbrook Park District holding summer flea market on Aug. 24
- Column: Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama? Which political star from the DNC should sing at Wrigley Field?
- Northbrook buys Dundee Road land next to DuPage Water Commission’s Green Acres site
- 5 moments that mattered from the Chicago Bears’ 27-3 preseason win, including Caleb Williams’s ‘unreal’ play and Kyler Gordon’s sack
- Aurora panel recommends changes to grant program for businesses
- Daywatch: What to expect from the DNC today
- Las Vegas Aces coach Becky Hammon again disputes Dearica Hamby’s claims of mistreatment during pregnancy
- 7 must-watch college football games in a season of must-watch games
- Trump will campaign across the country this week as he struggles to adjust to Harris
- Favorable views of Kamala Harris have risen this summer heading into the DNC, AP-NORC poll shows
- Blinken says Israel agrees to a U.S.-backed proposal for a cease-fire and calls on Hamas to do same
- House Republicans release their impeachment report on Biden but the next steps are uncertain
- Fans revved up about car show at VFW in Batavia
- The top Cuisinart cookware sets for every kitchen
- At Elburn Days, the ‘whole community comes together’
- The best must-have Android phones for tech enthusiasts
- Countdown to football: Justin Buckner steps up to lead St. Rita, No. 6 in Daily Southtown preseason rankings
- Column: GOP domestic violence cartoon takes the low road
- Police investigating death of Portage Township boy, 5
- Milwaukee Brewers were expected to take a step back. Instead, they’ve built the biggest division lead in MLB.
- National Association of Realtors taps Nykia Wright as its new CEO
- Fox Lake hosts Cardboard Boat Race; ‘It’s just one of our summer traditions that makes us a community’
- The DNC starts Monday in Chicago. Here’s what to know.
- Teen charged after Saturday shooting at Chicago Ridge Mall wounded 17-year-old
- No. 7 Notre Dame will lean heavily on new QB Riley Leonard to make expanded 12-team playoff field
- As DNC begins, nurses at nearby University of Illinois Hospital go on strike
- Demonstrators chant, break fencing, but first major protest of DNC stays mostly peaceful
- Countdown to football: Reece Powers turns into key piece for West Aurora, No. 6 in Aurora-Elgin preseason rankings
- Crumbl Cookies opens Niles location on Golf Road
- Chicago White Sox reliever Matt Foster has ‘new appreciation’ after returning from Tommy John surgery
- After describing war in Gaza as ‘genocidal’ ahead of DNC, Mayor Brandon Johnson reiterates call for cease-fire
- Rock the Ride event raises money, awareness about gun violence; ‘We want to bring the community together’
- On busy first morning of DNC, Gov. JB Pritzker speaks to Illinois, Pennsylvania and Florida delegations
- President Joe Biden’s journey: After getting knocked down, he keeps getting back up.
- Hawthorn Woods opposes proposed Aqua Illinois rate hike
- Naperville police charge man with loaded gun at Topgolf lot — arrest no. 23 since August 2023
- Outdoors column: When a tree dies, it leaves memories
- As 100th birthday nears, lifelong Aurora resident says diet, exercise and faith keys to a long life
- Lake County Board OKs updated $850M transportation plan; ‘To make life easier for our residents’
- Talking to Jordan Klepper of ‘The Daily Show’ about prepping for a DNC week in Chicago
- Naperville News Digest: Naperville Park District plans summer/fall events; Derek McDaniel announces Naperville council bid; Dinner on the River a fundraiser for 360 Youth Services
- Gary-Notre Dame partnership yields ideas on rethinking its downtown
- Editorial: Phil Donahue sparked Chicago’s improbably long run as locus of daytime TV talk
- Afternoon Briefing: Largest planned protest of DNC week begins in Union Park
- North Chicago schools open for business; ‘I’m nervous and a little scared’
- A super blue moon can be seen through Wednesday. How rare is it?
- Northbrook Park District’s Party on the Green draws an estimated 1,500 people
- Indiana Dems excited about Harris-Walz ticket as DNC opens in Chicago
- Elgin News Digest: Rev. Andrew Love named pastor at Progressive Baptist Church; Elgin National Watch Historic District exhibit opens Friday
- Fashion design, sex abuse prevention programs approved for Thornton Township high schools
- The Chicago River Swim is still on — but it’s been moved to Lake Michigan
- Community news
- Mediterranean restaurant coming to downtown Glenview with financial aid from the Village
- Tinley Park man guilty in May 2022 beating death of 17-year-old daughter, a senior at Andrew
- Area pet shelters face food shortages: ‘The need has exploded’
- Gary man facing charges of dealing methamphetamine, cocaine
- School funding question to be on Nov. 5 ballot in handful of Southland communities
- Tickets are on sale for Northbrook Brewfest in Village Green Park on Sept. 7
- Griffith woman accused of beating teen who she said stole her drugs
- Stellantis to delay reopening the shuttered Belvidere Assembly Plant
- Naperville Police Arrests for Aug. 12-15
- Skokie cyclist, 27, dies three weeks after car crash: authorities
- One for the Books: Don’t let ‘early literacy’ intimidate you — everything you do with a baby can stimulate love for reading
- Ascension, Prime plan to close West Side hospital, amid deal valued at more than $370 million
- Mayor Brandon Johnson stresses Chicago’s Black history in opening-night DNC speech
- Gun control in spotlight on first day of DNC in Chicago
- US Sen. Dick Durbin calls Trump a ‘bad boss.’ Former Chicago Bulls star Steve Kerr also speaks at DNC.
- George Santos pleads guilty, acknowledging lies and blaming ambition for conning his way to Congress
- Planned Parenthood offers free abortions and vasectomies at mobile clinic near DNC to ‘show what is possible’
- Phil Donahue, whose pioneering daytime talk show launched an indelible television genre, has died
- After RV tour championing Democrats, Gen Z activists bring DNC to peers
- Democrats praise President Joe Biden as he cedes DNC stage to Vice President Kamala Harris
- Kane County committee recommends sales tax referendum to solve budget shortfalls
- US intelligence: Iran to blame for hacks targeting Trump, Biden-Harris campaigns
- Gov. JB Pritzker talks concern about Joe Biden’s candidacy during ‘Daily Show’ bar crawl
- Shots fired in Park Ridge road rage incident at rush hour: police
- Hillary Clinton rouses Democrats with vision of Kamala Harris on ‘other side of that glass ceiling’ if elected president
- Joe Biden gets a rousing ovation from Democrats as he gives Kamala Harris an enthusiastic endorsement