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- Daily Horoscope for October 29, 2024
- Asking Eric: Children did not check in after Hurricane Helene
- Today in History: China announces plans to abolish its one-child policy
- Peoples Gas pipeline program will cost another $12.8 billion to complete, report says, socking Chicago customers with 7% annual rate increases through 2040
- Today in Sports History: Klay Thompson, Golden State Warriors, breaks the NBA record for most 3-pointers in a game
- John T. Shaw: During a time of hatred toward immigrants, here’s how statesmanship can bridge the divide
- What to expect in Arizona on Election Day
- What to expect in Nebraska on Election Day
- What to expect in Colorado on Election Day
- State legislators announce plans to introduce campaign finance reform legislation
- Qué esperar el día de las elecciones en Pensilvania
- Qué esperar el día de las elecciones en Indiana
- Pizza news: Crust Fund, a mythical pizzeria in a Chicago alley, plus restaurant opening, closing and award news
- What to expect in Missouri on Election Day
- Qué esperar el día de las elecciones en Colorado
- Qué esperar el día de las elecciones en Florida
- Qué esperar el día de las elecciones en Nebraska
- Qué esperar el día de las elecciones en California
- What to expect in California on Election Day
- What to expect in Florida on Election Day
- Qué esperar el día de las elecciones en Nevada
- Joe Ferguson and Bob Boik: Use Chicago’s budget crisis to prompt a management overhaul at CPD
- What to expect in Michigan on Election Day
- Qué esperar el día de las elecciones en Missouri
- Column: They killed their parents but will the Menendez brothers soon get out of jail?
- What to expect in Texas on Election Day
- Kenilworth 6-bedroom house with saltwater pool: $4.6M
- Trump and Harris back fracking, but what does that mean for Illinois, where sand mines provide a key ingredient?
- What to expect in Wisconsin on Election Day
- Election Day 2024: What to expect in Illinois, Indiana and key battleground states up and down the ballot
- What to expect in Ohio on Election Day
- Qué esperar el día de las elecciones en Illinois
- Qué esperar el día de las elecciones en Arizona
- What to expect in North Carolina on Election Day
- Daniel DePetris: Is there really an ‘axis of evil’ set on destroying the US?
- Qué esperar el día de las elecciones en Texas
- Qué esperar el día de las elecciones en Georgia
- Qué esperar el día de las elecciones en Wisconsin
- What to expect in Georgia on Election Day
- What to expect in Nevada on Election Day
- Qué esperar el día de las elecciones en Ohio
- What to expect in Pennsylvania on Election Day
- Qué esperar el día de las elecciones en Carolina del Norte
- An uncertain future for Chicago’s Latino students: What’s been their experience amid CPS turmoil?
- Letters: Assumption about male voters’ views ignores an important consideration
- Oak Park’s Connor Sorg takes top prize at film festival
- Editorial: Brandon Johnson has a choice in his upcoming budget: Stick it to taxpayers or to city workers.
- Letter: Why the Golf School District 67 referendum needs to pass
- New play asks why America can’t elect a female leader. Will rewrites be needed after Nov. 5?
- Qué esperar el día de las elecciones en Michigan
- Column: Is Matt Eberflus feeling the heat after the Chicago Bears’ crushing loss? And why does this all feel so familiar?
- McDonald’s value meals turn around US sales in third quarter with customers hungry for deals
- ‘Autumn’ fair in Morton Grove a showcase of local small businesses, services
- Football pairings and local scores for the Southland, Aurora, Elgin, Naperville and Lake County
- Daywatch: The future of fracking and its impact on Illinois
- Evanston mourns loss of former alderman Delores Holmes
- Future’s bright for Lake Central’s Brody Ramirez. ‘He’s going to be a good one.’ But he’s pretty good already.
- CLC officials show off technology center to business community; ‘Why waste time trying to find someone when they’re right here?’
- Burglar smashes window of restaurant to gain entry overnight in Lakeview
- 4 displaced Monday night after building fire on Far South Side
- Arab American voters make their choice — Harris, Trump or neither — in the election’s final days
- Gunfire from drive-by shooting wounded man in residence Monday night in Morgan Park
- Andrew’s Brady Tanquilut set sights on scoring TD against dad’s alma mater. But a four-peat? ‘That was pretty cool.’
- Will No. 3 Penn State have QB Drew Allar for Saturday’s showdown against No. 4 Ohio State?
- Instead of closing in on a 28th title, New York Yankees on verge of getting swept at World Series for 4th time
- Gunfire from armed robbery outside veers into residence wounding woman in Chatham apartment
- Steve Millar’s 4 takeaways from Week 9 of high school football season in Southland
- There were opportunities for Chicago Blackhawks to fold, but ‘we dialed it back in.’ 5 takeaways from the win.
- Naperville News Digest: ALMAS hosts 2nd annual Día De Muertos celebration; shoreline stabilization project along Riverwalk planned
- ‘Mr. Steady’ Tyler McBride is always ready for Grayslake North. Why come off the field? ‘Everything is clicking.’
- Teens join Oswego commissions as non-voting members
- Rick Armstrong’s 3 takeaways from Week 9 of high school football season in Aurora-Elgin area
- US House Rep. Brad Schneider faces GOP challenger in bid for 6th term: ‘There is so much at stake’
- The best avocado slicers for easy, mess-free slicing
- Northbrook Board open to car dealership expanding
- The best coffee mugs for your daily brew
- Wauconda man killed in Antioch-area crash
- Man, 18, found shot outside Naperville apartment building near Jefferson and Ogden
- Column: The peculiar tale of Trump’s insult comic and a joke that could change the election
- Beach Park sexual predator charged after giving candy to trick-or-treaters
- Northbrook puts on the dog for Halloween pet parade
- Area group leading charge against time change, calling daylight saving time ‘harmful’
- Outdoors column: Wildlife busy creating winter pantries
- Alleged push to fill plum ComEd board seat takes center stage at Madigan corruption trial
- Martha Kuwahara and Illinois commit Alexis Myers are dynamic duo for Glenbrook North, which makes history
- A century after Native Americans got the right to vote, they could put Trump or Harris over the top
- New Trier High School Board raises tax levy 3.4%
- Missing Korean War vet identified 74 years after death gets full military honors at Elgin funeral, burial
- Should the Chicago Sky hire Curt Miller or Stephanie White? Here are 5 options for their coaching job.
- Town hall meeting with Niles mayor touches on traffic headaches, capital projects and falling crime
- Community turns out for Fox Lake’s Halloween Howl; ‘We’re a family-oriented town’
- Trump says his New York rally marked by crude and racist insults ‘was like a lovefest’
- Amenazas electorales persisten cuatro años después de que extremistas asaltaran el Capitolio de EEUU
- Mundelein man killed in Libertyville multi-vehicle crash
- One for the Books: Good villains make for great reading, as these books demonstrate
- Review: Usher is all confidence and talent in his ‘Past Present Future’ tour at United Center
- At 7 feet, 9 inches, Olivier Rioux is the world’s tallest teen and an intriguing basketball project
- Pierog, Bell face off in race for Kane County Board chair
- A dead body at the barn, ghost sisters and a sweet skunk: Uncovering the haunted history of the Lincoln Park Zoo
- Man who shot one, traded gunfire with police in West Rogers Park is ordered held pending trial
- Police, school investigating report of racial slur written on Naperville Central student’s locker
- Campañas electorales apuntan a latinas preocupadas por el cambio climático
- Naperville conducting controlled burns to restore native plants as part of new program
- Kane County Board race in District 22 features Teas, Tepe
- Elgin News Digest: Habitat seeking military vets to help volunteer Saturday; Elgin Image Award winners announced by Elgin chamber
- Afternoon Briefing: Latino students face an uncertain future in Chicago schools
- Area political volunteers hope to make a difference in swing states
- Walgreens laying off 256 workers, mostly in Chicago
- As scary as it seems, Halloween has far spookier origins; ‘It was a day to sort of brace for and worry about’
- Big Ten is taking no disciplinary action for skirmish at end of Michigan-Michigan State football game
- East Chicago man charged with dealing fentanyl that killed man
- As 3 incumbents and 4 challengers file to run for Elgin council, Rauschenberger says she’s not seeking reelection
- Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard files reelection petitions, will face Trustee Jason House in February primary; 9 seek 3 trustee spots
- Column: Roney brothers get a kick out of West Aurora Blackhawks football
- Lake County to establish human trafficking task force with federal funds
- 78-year-old Skokie man killed in hit-and-run on Crawford, police say
- Harvey 147th Street Metra Electric station reopens after two-year rebuild
- Gary School Board signals “no” to cell towers
- Teri Garr, offbeat comic actress of ‘Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie,’ has died
- Truck driver killed after his semi collides with another in unincorporated West Dundee
- Liberty Township woman charged in death of foster child submits guilty plea
- Israeli strike in northern Gaza kills at least 88, officials say, as Hezbollah announces new leader
- Six candidates file to run for Aurora mayor in 2025 election
- Bradshaw: Questions abound as convicted college consultant restarts business
- Former Outcome Health analyst sentenced to probation, avoiding prison time, for role in fraud scheme
- Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says war with Russia is being pushed ‘beyond borders’ as North Korea joins in
- Elburn joins Aurora Area Convention and Visitors Bureau
- Target, Walmart lower prices this year with competing Thanksgiving meal deals
- Newspaper non-endorsements at Washington Post, LA Times fit a trend, but their readers aren’t happy
- Good seeds: Stewards make sure native plants stay in Calumet area preserves
- Police: Man shot, killed by son Monday night in New Chicago
- Árabes estadounidenses en un dilema: ¿Harris, Trump o ninguno?
- Column: How the popularity of Yankees and Dodgers baseball caps have evolved from the field to fashion
- Puertorriqueños en Chicago condenan broma en mitin de Trump: ‘Es una falta de respeto al pueblo’
- Steve Bannon spends his first day out of prison on the airwaves stumping for Trump
- Ship owner in Baltimore bridge collapse seeks to blame others as liability case takes shape
- Manager of a key Nevada swing county goes on medical leave ahead of election
- Harwood Heights newborn ‘firefighter’ wins Halloween contest for babies in Advocate Children’s Hospital NICU
- Supreme Court rejects push to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from ballot in two swing states
- Andrea Mitchell says she’s ending her daytime MSNBC show after 16 years
- Man serving 30 years for attacking Nancy Pelosi’s husband gets a life term on state charges
- Ballot drop box fires rekindle concerns that election conspiracy theories are making them a target
- Franciscan Health breaks ground near Ivy Tech campus on fifth Valparaiso facility
- In a first since 1938, Des Moines, Iowa, kids will trick-or-treat on Halloween
- Naperville Police Arrests for Oct. 24-26
- How close are the Chicago White Sox to making a manager decision?
- Chicago tops daily heat record for Oct. 29, toppling previous high set in 1901
- Latino politicians decry comedian’s ‘nasty rhetoric’ about Puerto Rico at Trump rally
- Kamala Harris urges voters to reject Donald Trump’s efforts to sow division and fear
- Biden suggests Trump supporters are ‘garbage’ after comic’s insult of Puerto Rico
- About 475 damaged ballots retrieved from burned drop box in Washington state, auditor says
- A to-do list, size matters and a ‘petty tyrant’: Key moments from Kamala Harris’ speech
- Anthony Volpe’s grand slam sparks a comeback, New York Yankees beat the Los Angeles Dodgers to force World Series Game 5