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- Daily Horoscope for January 01, 2025
- Asking Eric: Husband doesn’t want children’s friends in home
- Today in History: President Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
- Today in Sports History: DeMar DeRozan hits buzzer-beaters on consecutive days
- Today in Chicago History: Chicago Public Library opens — in a water tank
- ‘Nickel Boys’ review: Starting the new year right, with an astonishing feature film debut
- John T. Shaw: University president shows that statesmanship can work wonders in academia
- Letters: There are barriers to upscaling healthy food production
- Steve Chapman: For 2025, we should resist despair — but also false hope
- 2024 in review: The year in Scott Stantis cartoons
- Favorite foods from 2024: The most memorable dishes and drinks we enjoyed across Chicago
- Booking ahead: Astro tourism, cooler destinations and a passion for pickleball are trending for travel in 2025
- Editorial: Here are our views on new Illinois laws on everything from your health care coverage to your Netflix subscription
- Monee workers set to move into new Village Hall in new year
- Column: Reader, so confusing: Making sense of 2024, with an eye on 2025
- Rose Bowl traditions may change, but Oregon’s matchup with Ohio State has the makings of a classic
- Georgia and Notre Dame give the newly expanded CFP a classic feel at the Sugar Bowl
- Chicago Bears Q&A: Would retaining GM Ryan Poles deter a top coaching candidate? Are Pete Carroll and Kliff Kingsbury legitimate options?
- 8 New Year’s resolutions for Chicago basketball, including a Bulls decision on Zach LaVine and steps forward for Sky’s frontcourt
- Texas returns to Atlanta less than a month after losing SEC title game to face Arizona State in CFP
- Daywatch: About those New Year’s resolutions
- Driver rams into New Year’s revelers in New Orleans, killing at least 15
- New Illinois laws for 2025 include minimum wage bump, artificial intelligence protections
- Award to honor work on Batavia peace projects
- Cupitol opens cafe at Skokie’s Old Orchard with all-day service
- Photos: New Year’s Eve Chicago
- Hobart data center opponents again square off against city officials
- Gear up for snow days with these top-rated snow pants
- Hello world: Newborn babies welcomed in first minutes of 2025
- 5 takeaways from the Chicago Blackhawks’ 6-2 loss at Wrigley Field — their 5th defeat in 5 Winter Classics
- Sugar Bowl between Notre Dame and Georgia postponed after deadly truck attack in New Orleans
- Israeli strikes kill 12 in Gaza, including children, as war grinds into the new year
- What we know about the New Year’s Day terrorist attack in New Orleans
- Cat, bird die in Aurora house fire
- Chicago White Sox acquire lefty Tyler Gilbert in a trade with the Philadelphia Phillies
- Saquon Barkley will not play in the Philadelphia Eagles’ finale — ending bid to break the NFL rushing record
- Firework mortars, gas canisters found in Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel, killing suspect
- Injured Chicago-area teen being flown to US after Mexico shooting that killed his father and uncle
- DePaul’s losing streak against UConn hits 19 with an 81-68 loss to the 11th-ranked Huskies
- Hemp business owner sues over what he calls illegal raid, as officials in several towns consider bans
- Texas outlasts Arizona State 39-31 in double overtime in the Peach Bowl — avoiding a huge CFP upset
- Ecuadorians celebrate Mass and community at Albany Park church
- Bryce James, the younger of LeBron James’ sons, commits to Arizona
- Ohio State dominates top-seeded Oregon 41-21 in the Rose Bowl for a spot in the CFP semifinals
- Chicago Bulls commit 20 turnovers in a 125-107 road loss to the last-place Washington Wizards
- NYPD probing gang connection in shooting of 10 people outside Queens club holding memorial for slain teen
- Emancipation Proclamation celebration resonates with call for freedom