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- Daily Horoscope for January 09, 2025
- Asking Eric: Quiet friend not welcome at Thanksgiving
- Today in History: iPhone makes its debut
- Today in Chicago History: ‘McCaskey, you’re a bum!’ The coin flip that cost the Chicago Bears Terry Bradshaw.
- George Cardenas: Chicago must create a relief mechanism for property taxpayers
- Letters: There is no conspiracy or federal failure behind the price of eggs
- Eboo Patel: My mentor Howard Morgan helped me become the leader my institution deserved
- Bird deaths plummet at McCormick Place Lakeside Center after safety film installed
- Patrick Hughes: Lawsuit against Des Moines Register is about holding media groups accountable
- Column: In the blur of awards season, let those strange and unfamiliar movie titles be an invitation
- Lincoln Park 5-bedroom home with heated garage, outdoor spaces: $1.5M
- Federal grant boosts mental health efforts at south suburban schools
- Editorial: Nicor Gas’ delivery rates have doubled in six years, and now it wants another $309 million. Enough.
- Classical, jazz and experimental music for winter 2025: From Ensemble Dal Niente to a new chamber series
- ‘On Call’ review: Another (forgettable) cop show from TV producer Dick Wolf
- Live music for winter 2025: 12 must-see concerts from Regina Spektor to Kraftwerk
- Lake Zurich board holds off approval on subdivision plan
- Notre Dame and Penn State meet in the Orange Bowl — 2 steps from ending long national title droughts
- Chicago Bears Q&A: Has the dynamic shifted? Should there be confidence they’ll get the coach right this time?
- Chicago Blackhawks are 14-25-2 at the midpoint of another lost season. What’s left to play for in the 2nd half?
- In the era of NIL and the transfer portal, Penn State’s Tyler Elsdon is an example of a player who stayed
- New Los Angeles-area fire prompts more evacuations as officials say over 10,000 structures have burned
- Basketball and local scores for the Southland, Aurora, Elgin, Naperville and Lake County
- Daywatch: Disaster relief funds for Cook County families
- Freshman Terrence Davis Jr. longed for this moment at Libertyville. ‘Definitely a privilege.’ Wildcats value it too.
- TikTok’s fate arrives at Supreme Court in collision of free speech and national security
- The Biden administration succeeds in temporarily blocking a plea deal for accused 9/11 mastermind
- Jimmy Carter lauded for his humility and service in Washington before his return to Georgia
- More than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, officials say
- Italy’s Meloni hopes to attend Donald Trump inauguration as she downplays his Greenland and Panama comments
- Schools cancel classes across the Southern US as another burst of winter storms move in
- How an independent streak helped build Notre Dame into football’s historic — and now modern — behemoth
- Chanteze Holland can be ‘so quiet.’ Then she scores 44 points. With her emergence, Morton is making noise.
- Steve Reaven’s boys basketball rankings and player of the week for Lake County
- Brother Rice alum Nick Niego — yes, from that Niego family — thrives in college at St. Francis. ‘Has that gene.’
- Supreme Court rejects Donald Trump’s bid to delay sentencing in his New York hush money case
- Chicago Shakespeare will have the pre-Broadway premiere of ’42 Balloons’ musical
- Michael Osipoff’s girls basketball rankings and player of the week for Northwest Indiana
- Larkin alum Baylei Johnson knows she’s not Dennis Rodman for St. Francis. But it helps. ‘There to pick up boards.’
- U.S. Marshals arrest Hammond man charged with gunning down ex-wife
- Teens arrested in 2023 Libertyville-area carjacking, kidnapping
- Elgin police, social service workers reach out to homeless tent city residents before move
- Protect your knees with the best lifting knee sleeves
- Donnelley Foundation announces $1.58 million in grants to Chicago arts
- Park Ridge City Council agrees to further look into liquor license cigar bar would need to operate
- Chicago couple first to sue ex-Sgt. Ronald Watts in line for $7.5M settlement
- Perfect your strikes with these top kickboxing gloves
- Forget about the points. Evan Frieders gets fired up about one thing for Kaneland. ‘I just like to win, honestly.’
- Down to Business: 7 Brew Coffee met with immediate success in Naperville — here’s how they operate
- Construction to begin this year on 2 Fox Lake developments; ‘This will bring a new demographic to the village’
- Gary Common Council members urge police support after comments on crime
- One for the Books: With 2024 relegated to the history books, here’s a look at the year’s most popular library items
- Cencere McDaniel, the niece of former NBA great Dwyane Wade, settles in at Governors State. ‘A great teammate.’
- Review: In the musical ‘Shucked,’ who needs a story when you have jokes like these?
- Naperville News Digest: Urban Stream Research Center tours to be offered Saturday; two Naperville caddies win full-ride college scholarships
- Brief hearing held in case of alleged Highland Park parade shooter
- Christkindlmarket in Aurora sets attendance record, organizers say
- Two-time Frankfort cancer survivor raises more than $50,000 for children’s hospital
- Elgin News Digest: Former Cub Sammy Sosa to sign autographs at Elgin restaurant; pipe organ tour making stop at Westminster Presbyterian
- St. Charles Arts Council to hold Trivia Night fundraiser
- Photos: A day of mourning for former President Jimmy Carter
- 3 arrested after postal carrier robbed at gunpoint in Harvey
- NFL moves Vikings-Rams playoff game to Arizona after days of devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area
- CPS CEO Pedro Martinez injunction hearing postponed by judge
- Carpentersville sends firefighters to Mexico to provide basic fire and emergency training
- It’s not really the typical time for nasty California fires. What are the factors that changed that?
- Vintage Chicago Tribune: Debunked — what we’ve found in the Tribune archives that changes conventional wisdom
- Afternoon Briefing: Jimmy Carter lauded for his humility and service in Washington funeral
- Gary schools criticize House bill to dissolve district
- Leo Segedin, artist whose magic realism often depicted his West Side youth, dies at 97
- North Central’s marching band relishes third NCAA championship: ‘Their win feels just as much our win’
- Oswego looks at policy on issuing debt
- Elgin to pay $2.5 million to get rid of tent city along the Fox River
- Homicides declined in many south suburbs last year, records show
- Woman stabs 2, steals SUV in early-morning attack on Southwest Side: police
- Lawsuit accuses Winfield, Lake County police of wrongful treatment of Black residents
- Chicago man charged in Oak Lawn traffic accident death
- Judge scraps President Biden’s Title IX rules, reversing expansion of protections for LGBTQ+ students
- Waukegan workers hospitalized after truck touches power line
- Column: ‘A great lady’ who loves Aurora history honored as she turns 104
- Jimmy Carter’s funeral brings together 5 current and former US presidents to honor one of their own
- Senate Democrats to focus on healthcare, education and housing in 2025 session
- Judge releases woman who stabbed a classmate to please Slender Man from a psychiatric hospital
- The Los Angeles landmarks from film and TV damaged by wildfires
- Houston-based developer pays $148M for Evanston complex as apartment boom gets underway
- Chicago Cubs acquire reliever Matt Festa from the Texas Rangers and designate Miles Mastrobuoni for assignment
- ‘I’m more than happy to play a new position every day’: Josh Rojas brings versatility to the Chicago White Sox
- Alec Baldwin sues for malicious prosecution after judge dismissed case of fatal ‘Rust’ set shooting
- A record 449,553 Illinois residents sign up for Affordable Care Act insurance, amid uncertainty over future
- Chicago transplants flee wildfires raging across Los Angeles: ‘I just didn’t know how fast things could spread’
- ‘Don’t reach, bro!’ Newly released body cam footage captures shootout between Oak Park officers and suspect that killed detective
- Dream Team? The exec who bought Michael Jordan’s former Highland Park mansion is offering co-ownership shares for $1M.
- Appeals court denies bid to block public release of special counsel’s report on Trump Jan. 6 probe
- Kendall Bostic’s double-double helps Illinois women beat No. 23 Iowa 62-57
- Earth records hottest year ever in 2024 — and the jump was so big it breached a key threshold
- Notre Dame earns a spot in the CFP title game with a thrilling 27-24 win over Penn State in the Orange Bowl
- Kyle Tucker and the Chicago Cubs fail to agree on his 2025 salary — and now appear headed for arbitration