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- Asking Eric: Should I ask my adult sons to pay rent?
- Today in Chicago History: Parking rates increase due to ‘boondoggle’ meter deal
- Today in History: ‘Rent’ premieres off-Broadway
- Ask Anna: Partner is fixated on retiring by 35
- Willie Wilson: Democrats and Republicans fight over immigrants while children fall further behind
- Editorial: Mayor Johnson’s public market idea leaves us hungry for details
- Former ICE official: Sanctuary cities pose an unacceptable risk to public safety
- Column: You know who’s suddenly flocking to old movies in Chicago? Young audiences
- Paul Vallas: What would it mean if the US Department of Education is abolished?
- Old Town 4-bedroom home designed by Harold M. Hansen: $1.4M
- Letters: Illinois should follow President Donald Trump’s example and cut the waste
- Best Leapfrog toy
- Best ovulation test
- Oak Forest teen shot in Mexico left with serious brain injury; man gets 66 years for shooting that killed his father, uncle
- Column: 50 years of ‘Saturday Night Live,’ half fascinating, half underwhelming
- Basketball and local scores for the Southland, Aurora, Elgin, Naperville and Lake County
- Daywatch: CPS hires outside firm to advise on finances
- Ravinia Festival begins a $75 million renovation plan, starting with the Pavilion
- Second suspect charged in death of 12-year-old Dalilah Batey
- Who’s Charles Schlicht? Grant’s opponents don’t ask that anymore. Not after the sophomore’s ‘great emergence.’
- At least 28 are hurt as a driver plows into a demonstration in Germany
- More snow possible Friday afternoon with below zero windchills into night hours
- Speedster Bri Fincannon is in a different race with regional-bound Valparaiso. Even there, she ‘never stops.’
- Elon Musk calls for the US to ‘delete entire agencies’ from the federal government
- Russia rejoices at Trump-Putin call as Zelenskyy rejects talks without Ukraine present
- Hamas says it will free 3 more hostages as planned, paving the way to resolve ceasefire dispute
- Could Canada really become the 51st US state? Here’s what it would take
- NATO allies insist Ukraine and Europe must be in peace talks as Trump touts Putin meeting
- Garrett Crochet — after being on ‘short leash’ with Chicago White Sox — ready to unleash with Boston Red Sox
- Elgin News Digest: East Dundee Black & White Art Show winners announced; Elgin Area Chamber honors local businesses, volunteers
- Waukegan library opening ‘makers space’ for craft projects; ‘We identified this as a need’
- Steve Reaven’s boys basketball rankings and player of the week for Lake County
- Boston Red Sox land Alex Bregman with a $120 million, 3-year contract
- Pan-Asian restaurant moves to downtown Evanston
- Portage ambulance, SUV involved in wreck; two medics, other driver injured
- Vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed as Trump’s health chief after a close Senate vote
- Waukegan man charged in 2022 expressway shooting
- Lake Bluff-area babysitter charged with stealing $11K in merchandise from clients’ homes
- Elgin’s Judson University to start offering nursing degrees with acquisition of Ambria College
- Remembrance ceremony to honor victims on sixth anniversary of Pratt mass shooting in Aurora
- New York Jets are moving on from Aaron Rodgers, who hasn’t said if he plans to keep playing
- ‘Rounding’ review: From Chicago’s ‘Ghostlight’ director, an eerie tale of a doctor’s demons
- President Donald Trump signs a plan for reciprocal tariffs on US trading partners, ushering in economic uncertainty
- Senate panel advances nomination of Kash Patel, Trump’s pick to lead the FBI
- Lawyers want former Hobart man charged with shooting at estranged wife released, saying evidence turnover has been slow
- Elgin council set to ban sales of all edibles containing delta-8 or delta-9 THC
- Little Calumet River Basin Development Commission budget review bill passes out of committee
- Column: Big Rock couple still in step after 70 years of marriage
- Sending flowers for Valentine’s Day? Naperville florists offer a behind-the-scenes look at the time-honored tradition
- Charlie McAvoy and father-in-law Mike Sullivan are cherishing being on the same US 4 Nations team
- Afternoon Briefing: Oak Forest teen shot in Mexico left with serious brain injury
- What are United Airlines’ ‘future options’ for Denver airport site?
- Chicago Cubs OK’d ‘significant exception’ to payroll budget in failed pursuit of Alex Bregman
- ‘There’s a great story to it.’ Pat Riley reveals where his ‘three-peat’ trademark revenues wind up.
- Country Club Hills firefighters protest as city decreases minimum paramedic staffing
- Joann to close stores across the country, including 26 in Illinois, amid bankruptcy
- Naperville renames plow trucks with help from area school districts
- Vintage Chicago Tribune: Our grand, old flag
- New study to consider staffing levels at Aurora Police Department
- Fran Sullivan, Oak Park activist and member of insurgent 1972 Democratic convention delegation, dies
- First-time candidate challenging four-term incumbent Waukegan treasurer
- Union threatens to strike Midlothian, alleges unfair labor practice
- President Donald Trump wants denuclearization talks with Russia and China, hopes for defense spending cuts
- Of Notoriety: NWI Comic Con in Crown Point, Kenny G to the north and ‘Rules for Living’ in Valparaiso for Valentine’s weekend
- Federal judge pauses President Trump’s order restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth
- Three top city officials stepping down after Mayor Brandon Johnson’s message: ‘If you ain’t with us, you just gotta go’
- Could Jonathan Cannon start for the Chicago White Sox on opening day? ‘I still have a lot to learn.’
- Actor Steve Carell tapped as Northwestern University’s Commencement speaker
- Prosecutor who quit after refusing to drop NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ case says she’s confident he ‘committed the crimes’
- Indiana Senate passes Braun’s property tax plan on first reading
- City watchdog: Mayor Brandon Johnson and other mayoral administrations have hindered probes over fear of political embarrassment
- Man to plead guilty to 2023 shooting of Black teenager Ralph Yarl, people familiar with case tell AP
- Daily Horoscope for February 14, 2025
- Trump administration begins sweeping layoffs with probationary workers, warns of larger cuts to come
- Fans in Montreal boo US national anthem before the Americans’ first 4 Nations game against Finland
- Deadline extended for taking part in St. Patrick’s Parade in St. Charles
- Ex-Speaker Michael Madigan’s state pension suspended following conviction
- Mobile Museums of Tolerance bus to come to Aurora church Sunday
- What will happen if HIV drugs are stopped for millions of people?
- Review: ‘Redwood’ on Broadway holds few surprises as Idina Menzel communes with the trees
- President Trump calls Indian Prime Minister Modi a ‘great friend’ but warns of higher U.S. tariffs on Indian goods
- Bubba Wallace celebrates his 1st win at Daytona with his newborn son and a new outlook
- Olivia Miles’ 8 3-pointers match a school record in No. 2 Notre Dame’s rout of Pitt — its 17th straight win
- What to know about the federal workforce under President Trump
- Judge orders Trump administration to temporarily allow funds for foreign aid to flow again
- Kyziah Lewis, who lists basketball heroes as Derrick Rose and Kobe Bryant, leads Evergreen Park. ‘It’s in my DNA.’
- No. 6 USC hands No. 1 UCLA its first loss of the season behind JuJu Watkins’ 38 points
- Tkachuk brothers each score twice as the US beats Finland 6-1 in its 4 Nations opener