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- Daily Horoscope for December 20, 2024
- Asking Eric: Husband’s splurges at grocery store are bothering me
- Today in History: Louisiana Purchase completed
- Today in Sports: Kobe Bryant scores a career-high 62 points
- The Rev. Beth Brown: Why the holidays have me contemplating scarcity
- Jerald McNair: This holiday season, let’s help our youths see the good in others and themselves
- How Chicago’s zoo animals stay warm during cold, snowy winters
- Heidi Stevens: Holiday pajamas and police escorts — the infuriating contrast at Abundant Life Christian School
- What to do in Chicago: Tink or Trans-Siberian Orchestra, plus a holiday pickleball tournament
- Letters: Here’s what I think Walgreens should do to right its ship
- Michael Peregrine: WGN host Frazier Thomas made Christmas magical for Chicago kids
- Judge dismisses most of woman’s claims against Hubbard Inn in lawsuit involving viral TikTok
- Magic Masters show celebrates eighth decade of tricking Chicagoland
- La Grange Area League of Women Voters celebrate century of participation
- Kathy Griffin is doing a NYE show at the Chicago Theatre — because it felt like time for a laugh
- Chicagoan of the Year in Film: Keith Kupferer, headliner at last, thanks to ‘Ghostlight’
- SMU eyes validation while Penn State eyes a breakthrough in 1st round of College Football Playoff
- Heavyweights Texas and Clemson meet for the 1st time in the College Football Playoff
- Ohio State — still stinging from loss to Michigan — seeks redemption vs. Tennessee in a 1st-round playoff matchup
- The 1st 12-team College Football Playoff arrives after 100 years, a few billion dollars — and many detours
- Ben Johnson has a ‘burning desire’ to be a head coach. Could the Detroit Lions OC be a fit for the Chicago Bears?
- Notre Dame and Indiana get the 1st taste of playoff football under the Friday night lights
- Divided Will County Board approves plan designed to expand dial-a-ride service
- Daywatch: Another government shutdown looms
- Crown Point’s Noah Ehrlich, a Miami of Ohio recruit, is the 2024 Post-Tribune Football Player of the Year
- Naperville Central’s Erin Hackett joins Candace Parker and Gabi Melby by scoring 1,000 points before senior year
- Former Blackhawks player Jonathan Toews sells Lincoln Park condo for $4.5M
- Naperville Police Arrests for Dec. 14-16
- It’s beginning to look like another record for holiday travel
- Official says Wisconsin shooter was new student at Christian school where her victims had deep ties
- Amazon workers are striking at multiple delivery hubs. Here’s what you should know.
- International students urged to return to US campuses before Donald Trump inauguration
- Starbucks baristas go on strike in several Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles stores
- Lakes’ Kaylee Anderson is a 5-7 rebounding machine. What’s the key? ‘If you think you can do it, you can.’
- Chicago weather: Snow expected through Friday afternoon, with gusts up to 35 mph
- Taking advantage of an obscure rule, LA Chargers’ Cameron Dicker makes NFL’s first fair-catch kick in 48 years
- Secure your belongings with these top wall safes
- Sketchbook Brewing named 2024 Skokie ‘Business of the Year’
- Law & Order column: Man charged with breaking into Antioch cars, garages
- Create, plan and organize with these must-have whiteboards
- Chesterton freshman Lindsi McGuffey quickly makes an impact. But her success hasn’t happened overnight.
- Photos: Heart condition choir
- Keep your feet nice and cozy with these women’s winter boots
- $20 million grant building NWI pathways; funding will help with trail construction, signage, more
- From Northwestern to Duke soccer, Sandburg’s Ella Hase learns most valuable lesson. ‘You can do whatever you want.’
- Scholz rechaza afirmación de Musk de que solo un partido de ultraderecha puede “salvar” a Alemania
- 4 takeaways from the Chicago Blackhawks’ 3rd straight win — their 1st such streak since February 2023
- Naperville council hires energy consultant to evaluate electricity source options
- OUCC urges regulators to slash NIPSCO’s requested rate increase
- Given starting spot, Naperville North freshman Sydney Smith keeps taking: ‘She’s got a motor on her’
- Donald Trump wants debt ceiling in the budget deal. If not, he says let the government shutdown start now
- Gobierno mexicano investiga operativo y por qué había armas en cárcel donde murieron siete personas
- Students from Covenant Christian in Aurora brighten the holidays for veterans in St. Charles
- Chicago officials warn of potential boil order this weekend on South Side
- Residents thankful for help at Aurora-Naperville Salvation Army’s toy giveaway: ‘I don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t have this’
- Oswego museum announces holiday hours
- Chicago man charged with kidnapping woman in Palos Park, carjacking elderly man in Worth
- Worship news: Christmas Eve services and Santa Run & Walk
- Estudiantes internacionales instados a regresar a campus de EEUU antes de la investidura de Trump
- The Way We Were: Downtown Washington Street in the 1940s offers good view of small town Naperville
- No. 7 USC at No. 4 UConn puts the primetime spotlight back on JuJu Watkins
- Gary Redevelopment Commission approves signage contract
- Naperville News Digest: Greene Valley Forest Preserve wins $600,000 state grant; Menorah lighting, helicopter gelt drop among Chanukah festivities
- Introducing the 2024 Post-Tribune Football All-Area Team
- For some, Hispanic Christmas traditions maintain their connection to home; ‘A little bit of peace to those minds that are worried about the future’
- Your college football team, now brought to you by whiskey
- All Netflix wants for Christmas is no streaming problems for its first NFL games
- Aurora City Council OKs sale of $40 million in bonds
- Islamic Center of Naperville’s new mosque on 248th Avenue now complete
- CPS CEO goes to court in last minute attempt to save job before Friday board meeting
- Edzo’s Burger Shop in Evanston plans to shut down, owner says
- Field set for April 1 Lake County local election races; ‘Voters have more direct access to local officials’
- Naperville North’s Noah Radeke and Jaxon Stokes win together one more time at High School All-American Game
- Naperville residents receive college/university degrees, named to honor rolls and dean’s lists
- Drake volleyball recruit Caroline Smith feels right at home for Lincoln-Way West in basketball. ‘She carried us.’
- Afternoon Briefing: Indiana man gets 130 years in killing of 2 teens
- Oak Lawn college student surprised with trip to Hawaii following chemotherapy
- Valparaiso parks department takes over operation of Memorial Opera House on Jan. 1
- Diesel spill reported at Portage gas station
- From the Farm: Mary Daly passing is final bank chapter for a small town history
- State matching grant to help fund updates to Mundelein Park & Recreation District
- Elgin News Digest: Elgin’s Wing Park awarded $600,000 state improvement grant; forest preserve district planning first Polar-Palooza winter fest
- Joe Pettit, who has Division I rugby offer, goes from football to wrestling heavyweight for Geneva. ‘Built for it.’
- Party City immediately closing all stores after 38 years in business
- Art Center Highland Park names new full-time development manager
- At least 2 dead and 60 hurt after a car drives into a German Christmas market in a suspected attack
- Heinrich to be first woman president of Elgin Community College
- Lake Bluff’s Knollwood Park getting makeover with help from state grant
- 5 things to watch in the Chicago Bears-Detroit Lions game at Soldier Field — plus our Week 16 predictions
- Year in review: Lake Forest, Lake Bluff see changes in in public safety leadership
- Hobart prepares for spring school referendum vote
- Law & Order: Hammond man gets probation for stabbing parents
- New Hollywood Casino resort in Aurora on track to open in first half of 2026
- Mayor Brandon Johnson launches unified shelter system as migrant shelter population wanes
- Hyzon, which has hydrogen EV fuel cell plant in Bolingbrook, may lay off all employees, liquidate assets
- CEO Pedro Martinez’s termination wasn’t the only high-stakes financial decision the Board of Education voted on Friday
- Editorial: Bring home Austin Tice, a journalist long imprisoned in Syria
- US wins ruling in a trade dispute with Mexico over its bid to ban genetically modified corn
- Standoff continues between Thornton Township Supervisor Tiffany Henyard, trustees
- Merrillville man charged with assaulting two sex workers
- Cámara baja de EEUU aprueba ley de financiación y la envía al Senado
- Man gets 13 years in September 2023 Hammond slaying
- Activist Anthony Clark, who ran against Danny Davis, resigns as OPRF teacher
- Dyer man – driving over 100 mph – charged in drunken crash near Cedar Lake
- Removing Elgin’s huge tent city no easy task: ‘We were in awe of how far it goes’
- 3 things we learned from the Chicago Blackhawks, including Connor Bedard thinking big and Seth Jones’ imminent return
- Judge sets January date to hear NASCAR’s motion to throw out antitrust lawsuit
- Indiana man sentenced to the maximum of 130 years in prison for 2017 killings of 2 teenage girls
- Residents sound off about ‘objectionable’ handling of welcome sign project in Park Ridge
- EEUU gana fallo en disputa comercial con México por su intento de prohibir el maíz transgénico
- Morton Grove fire Chief Ensign to retire in January, closing 5 decades in firefighting
- Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas, new discoveries suggest
- World Series champion LA Dodgers top MLB luxury tax at $103M as a record 9 teams — including the Chicago Cubs — owe penalty
- Tesla recalling almost 700,000 vehicles due to tire pressure monitoring system issue
- LA Zoo hatches first-ever perentie lizards, one of largest lizard species in the world
- Motormouth: Problem may stem from a weak or dying battery
- Ex-etiquette: Should I get my ex a Christmas gift?
- Ask Anna: Boyfriend puts in little effort to gift giving
- Terry Savage: Gifts to spark financial interest in the young
- Government funding bill clears Congress and heads to President Biden, averting a shutdown
- Habitat for Humanity’s Elgin-area sculptures to promote an Earth-friendly message
- Board of Education votes to absorb five Acero schools
- Chicago Board of Education votes to fire schools chief Pedro Martinez
- Even coming off the bench, Ryan Lawlor takes control in the clutch for Marist. ‘I just try to embrace my role.’
- Notre Dame dominates Indiana 27-17 in the first College Football Playoff game with expanded 12-team field
- No short fuse for Gavin Szerlong as St. Charles East tops St. Charles North. Those fouls? ‘Just keep playing.’
- Take it easy. There’s no stopping Lincoln-Way Central’s Alex Panos at the free-throw line. ‘I never rush things.’