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- Daily Horoscope for December 02, 2024
- Asking Eric: Why are we still friends?
- Today in History: First permanent artificial heart implanted
- Today in Sports History: Notre Dame quarterback Johnny Lujack wins the Heisman Trophy
- Letters: Raising the tax on alcoholic beverages would help reduce crime in Chicago
- Batteries are a missing piece in Illinois’ clean energy transition. Engineers and lawmakers are racing to add them to the power grid.
- Activists: Chicago-area residents want electoral reform such as ranked choice voting
- For ex-Stateville inmates, prison transfers mean disruption, separation from families
- Cookbooks 2024 gift guide: Our food critic’s picks for new and notable cookie books
- Ald. William Hall: How Chicago can protect kids and grow new revenue with hemp regulations
- Editorial: Oak Park, Evanston and Aurora were guinea pigs in a huge fluoride experiment. Now what?
- At the annual ‘Songs of Good Cheer,’ Christmas carols never go out of style
- Aurora City Council approves addition to contract to allow for four online surveys
- Column: Piling on — and planting flags — take center stage on the Big Ten football field
- President Joe Biden has pardoned his son Hunter. What does that mean?
- Daywatch: Suspect in shooting of Jewish man found dead in jail cell
- Panic among spectators at soccer game kills at least 56 in the West African nation of Guinea
- Crown Point’s Elle Schara, a Purdue commit, is the 2024 Post-Tribune Girls Volleyball Player of the Year
- How Matt Eberflus’ 14-32 record stacks up against other Chicago Bears coaches
- Top Cyber Monday deals for holiday shoppers
- How to sum up 2024? The Oxford University Press word of the year is ‘brain rot’
- Stars, heads of state, solemn rituals and high-security celebrations for Notre Dame’s reopening
- Introducing the 2024 Post-Tribune Girls Volleyball All-Area Team
- Dolton settles police shooting death lawsuit by family of 19-year-old Alexis Wilson
- ‘Patience, love and understanding:’ Santa’s wish at Glenview’s holiday parade
- ‘Sir, you’ve been with prostitutes right?: FBI mole Daniel Solis on hot seat in Madigan corruption trial
- Metea Valley’s Tre Watkins steps forward following teammate Jake Nosek’s injury: ‘Now he’s like our guy’
- Notre Dame falls 7 spots in women’s Top 25 basketball rankings as UCLA and UConn remain 1-2
- More than 3 million travelers were screened at US airports on Sunday after Thanksgiving. That’s a record.
- Kansas is No. 1, SEC grabs next 3 spots and Illinois enters at No. 19 in the men’s AP Top 25
- WBBM-Ch. 2 anchor Jim Williams sells South Loop condo for nearly $800,000
- Column: A Park Forest Christmas wish for Santa
- Column: Bears’ Lake Forest HQ team faces coaching dysfunction
- Montgomery set to light village’s Christmas tree
- Chicago Cubs agree with left-hander Matthew Boyd on a 2-year, $29 million contract
- ‘I never think of him as a Shula.’ How a grandson of NFL royalty made his own way in the league.
- Orland Park’s Steve Michaels travels the country to wrestle, helps Windy City Ghostbusters closer to home
- Thousands flock to Grayslake’s Festival of Lights and Holiday Market; ‘This is just so nice to have everybody come together’
- Frank Nitikman, attorney and Lyric Opera supernumerary, dies at 84
- Randy Moss reveals he’s ‘battling something’ internal, and the Hall of Fame wide receiver asks for prayers
- College football’s signing period begins earlier this year. Some coaches would rather it be even sooner.
- As she is sworn in, State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke decries violence and pledges new detention policy
- Board of Review Commissioner Samantha Steele attends meeting remotely after DUI arrest
- Afternoon Briefing: Black cowboys in Chicago, northwest Indiana carry on traditions
- Police: Machine gun seized after I-94 pursuit, two Illinois men arrested
- Waukegan holiday event features taller, more impressive tree; ‘Look at that star at the top’
- Chicago Sky will start the 2025 WNBA season on the road against the Indiana Fever on May 17
- Aurora appoints first members of advisory board which will focus on seniors
- Lake County judge Hawkins facing discipline for harassing court employees
- Decorated train, star musicians kick off holidays in Franklin Park
- Editorial: For Joe Biden, Hunter and personal pique trumped the rule of law
- Residents gather in Lake Forest’s Market Square for 40th Annual Tree Lighting Holiday Celebration
- Unions score a major win in Wisconsin with a court ruling restoring collective bargaining rights
- Batavia man dies in Sugar Grove Township car crash
- Jim Dodge’s challenge to Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau heads to Cook County court
- President Joe Biden’s broken promise on pardoning his son Hunter is raising new questions about his legacy
- Hezbollah attack draws Israeli strikes on Lebanon, killing 11 people and testing ceasefire’s limits
- Thousands cheer Biden’s arrival in Angola for his long-promised sub-Saharan Africa visit
- Gary man shot to death at gas station
- Lake Forest having West Park tennis courts renovated in 2025
- Snowy I-94 in Michigan shut down in both directions after multiple crashes
- Hinsdale Middle School caps 14-1 season with conference win
- Cyber Monday shoppers expected to set a record on the year’s biggest day for online shopping
- Lake Forest and Lake Bluff residents to see property tax increases as levies rise
- Column: Thomas Brown’s top priority as Chicago Bears interim coach? ‘To unify this team’ amid chaos and division.
- Community news: IUN art exhibition and compost site hours
- Lake County PTABOA member also on Cook County Board of Review, was arrested for DUI last month
- Christian McCaffrey is headed to IR after the San Francisco 49ers running back injured his right knee
- ‘The most coveted job’ in the NFL: Chicago Bears GM Ryan Poles will be the ‘point person’ in head coaching search
- Officials: Man accused of wielding chainsaw in a St. Charles assisted living facility who was fatally shot by police has been identified
- A top Fed official leans toward December rate cut but says it depends on economic data
- Lions Club tree sale continues nearly 60-year-old tradition
- Some Democrats are frustrated over Joe Biden reversing course and pardoning his son Hunter
- Mariyana Spyropoulos promises to modernize Cook County court clerk’s office
- Trudeau told Trump Americans would also suffer if tariffs are imposed, a Canadian minister says
- Mayor Brandon Johnson says he didn’t know about allegations against ex-communications director
- 8 shot, 3 killed in Chicago Lawn, Fire Department says
- More CPS principals voice support for Pedro Martinez, after Board members urge ‘swift settlement’ of CTU contract
- 3 things we learned from the Chicago Bears, including Jaylon Johnson not backing down from postgame eruption
- Will County Board elects Democratic speaker, replaces Steve Balich as Republican leader
- Richton Park apartment fire leaves 1 dead, building evacuated until smoke clears
- Gov. JB Pritzker names first head of state’s new early childhood agency
- Elton John says he has lost his eyesight and struggles to see his new stage musical
- Trump says he’ll attend Notre Dame Cathedral reopening celebration in Paris this weekend
- Lonzo Ball is finding his rhythm on defense with the Chicago Bulls: ‘It’s amazing to me’
- Apartment building for seniors proposed in Oswego
- 5 takeaways from a dominant Chicago Bulls win, including Matas Buzelis’ 20-point night and Josh Giddey’s triple-double
- Did the Chicago Blackhawks use up all their power-play goals? 3 takeaways from the 4-1 loss.