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- Asking Eric: Family won’t stop sending widow Valentine’s Day greetings
- China renews threat to retaliate against US tariffs
- Ukrainian troops losing ground to Russia as Trump talks of ending war
- Today in Chicago History: ‘I loved my mom,’ Heather Mack says from Bali jail
- Today in History: ‘The day the music died’
- Show your love with the best Valentine’s Day cards
- Watch the Super Bowl in stunning clarity with the best 8K TVs
- Make Valentine’s Day special with these Bath & Body Works perfumes
- ‘Division Street Revisited’ resurrects the spirit and stories of Studs Terkel
- Heading into budget season, Gov. JB Pritzker faces major challenge to show ‘Illinois can govern itself’
- US Sen. Dick Durbin’s latest role: Leading Democrats on judging President Trump’s top nominees
- As ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ nears theaters, a look back at the pivotal shows the band played in Chicago — or almost did
- Just a few days remain to vote for your favorite restaurants in the Readers’ Choice Food Awards
- Letters: The Trump administration is focused on soundbites, not substantive change
- Graduate student unions gear up to protect gains under second Trump administration
- Dr. Cory Franklin: Dr. Anthony Fauci should come clean about COVID-19
- Maddy Wheelock: School choice does not equal education freedom. It drains public resources.
- Editorial: Do Chicago voters know there are 1,900 places to buy hemp and get high?
- Editorial: Even during the 10 darkest weeks of the year, Illinoisans brought some light
- Restaurant review: Mariscos San Pedro, excellent Mexican seafood and breakfast tacos in Pilsen
- President Donald Trump administration’s push for a federal funding freeze is back in court
- Casey’s horse rescue in Maple Park fundraising to buy the farm they rent or to relocate
- Column: Luka Dončić trade helps spur the Chicago Bulls to finally make a deadline deal — trading Zach LaVine
- Will Harvey becomes a prodigious rebounder. Naperville North teammate Sam Ryan has ‘made me better and better.’
- Daywatch: Dick Durbin’s latest role is judging Trump’s nominees
- Did the Chicago Bulls get enough in return for trading longtime star Zach LaVine?
- Salvage crews remove large portion of commercial jet from river after deadly air collision near DC
- Billionaire Jennifer Pritzker donates Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Emil Bach House and neighboring home to Loyola University
- Hundreds rally in Waukegan for immigrants’ rights: ‘We will not let Trump’s war on immigrants go uncontested’
- Deerfield freshman Eve Engler watched her predecessors play. ‘It was really inspiring.’ It’s her turn now.
- Lake County volunteers search deep into the night for the homeless; ‘They left their warm homes to seek out our unhoused neighbors’
- Golden State Warriors’ trade talk for Jimmy Butler reportedly stalled ‘for now’ over extension
- NFL emails reveal extent of New Orleans Saints’ damage control for clergy sex abuse crisis
- Crown Point’s Ivy Henderson ‘affects the game in so many different ways.’ She’s happy to be back in that game.
- Jury ends deliberations Monday in Madigan case without reaching a verdict
- Evolving as senior leader, Taylor Bolton takes game to another level for Marian Catholic. ‘I was never like this.’
- Steve Millar’s Daily Southtown boys basketball rankings and player of the week
- The NBA trade deadline is approaching — and Giannis Antetokounmpo says no one is exempt from the chaos
- Once the plucky underdog, the Kansas City Chiefs have become the NFL juggernaut fans love to hate
- Northbrook mayor stresses inclusivity, boosting downtown
- Science Olympiad competitors take challenges in stride
- Switching between baseball and basketball, Keith Jenkins finds home on court for Mount Carmel. ‘A superb athlete.’
- Bobby Narang’s girls basketball rankings and player of the week for Lake County
- Community news: Black History Month events and Big Band Bash
- Beyoncé announces ‘Cowboy Carter’ tour with two nights at Chicago’s Soldier Field
- Illinois man gets 8 years for jail fire
- Column: So far, Trump 2.0 has been one long amateur hour
- Star DE Myles Garrett requests to be traded from Cleveland Browns so he can have chance to ‘win a Super Bowl’
- Rick Armstrong’s Aurora-Elgin boys basketball rankings and player of the week
- USC drops to No. 7 in women’s basketball rankings after loss as UCLA, South Carolina and Notre Dame stay 1-2-3
- Man shot at Highland apartment Sunday
- How will the newest Chicago Bulls fit in? Meet Kevin Huerter, Tre Jones and Zach Collins.
- Chicago Bears expected to hire Tulane’s Dan Roushar as their offensive line coach
- High-ranking Chicago Housing Authority director fired amid ongoing staff exodus
- What is USAID? Explaining the US foreign aid agency and why President Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to end it
- Crown Point asks voters to renew school referendum
- Evanston art therapy group gets $163,000 grant
- Two knee surgeries later but three inches taller, Hinckley-Big Rock’s Max Hintzsche finds his form. ‘A lot easier.’
- Auburn and Duke remain 1-2 atop the latest men’s basketball poll, which welcomes 2 new Big Ten teams
- 3 things we learned from the Chicago Blackhawks, including why they called up No. 2 pick Artyom Levshunov
- Work on final phase of apartment development in downtown Oswego set to begin by June
- Kellogg Fairbank III, who took over at Chicago Maritime Museum after a business career, dies at 83
- Tariff threats take aim at fentanyl trafficking. Here’s how the drug reaches the U.S.
- Investigative reporter Chuck Goudie, who left WLS-Ch. 7 in December, is joining NBC in Chicago
- Baxter announces CEO’s immediate retirement, days after $3.7B sale of kidney care business
- Chicago man charged after 2 carjacking attempts in Oak Lawn
- Family of Sean Richards questions Fuller’s Car Wash bankruptcy timing
- Column: South suburban business advocates warn targeting of DEI will hurt small businesses and the economy
- Afternoon Briefing: High-ranking Chicago Housing Authority director fired
- In Kentucky bourbon country, the newest trade war feels like a hangover that won’t go away
- Review: In ‘Frida … A Self Portrait’ at Writers Theatre, an actress strives to become the painter
- Donations being taken for Prom Dress Giveaway in Batavia
- Online gaming on the table in the Indiana House
- Cops find gun on teen robbery suspect at Cal New Tech
- Senate bill takes taxing authority from library boards
- Nazareth Academy dancers repeat in top 10 at state tournament
- Annual Lake Forest Daddy-Daughter Dance chooses Superhero Soiree for 2025 theme
- Neighbors in dispute: After Trump declares a trade war, Canadians grapple with a sense of betrayal
- Trump administration ends temporary deportation protection for 350,000 Venezuelans
- Dismissals and rulings keep Napoleon Harris and Thaddeus Jones on ballots
- New Gary council will bring services to local senior residents
- Winnetka mansion listed for $35M finds a buyer in what could be a record sale for the Chicago area
- John Shumate, who helped Notre Dame end UCLA’s 88-game win streak, dies at 72
- Area STEAM Scholars visit employers with eyes on potential careers; ‘They learn what they need to study to reach their … goals’
- Did RFK Jr. mislead the Senate on measles deaths in Samoa? The island nation’s health chief says yes
- Trump agrees to pause tariffs on Mexico, Canada after they pledge to boost border enforcement
- Election bills that cut the early voting period, require ballot counter oaths pass out of Indiana Senate committee
- Commission hits brakes on Envision Evanston zoning reform plan
- Outdoors column: Why some trees hold their leaves through winter remains a mystery
- Pacific Coast Highway reopens nearly a month after devastating Southern California wildfires
- Oak Park Winter Fest organizers hoping to ‘keep it cold’ for Feb. 8 event
- Lake Bluff-Lake Forest group takes Lake Michigan polar plunge to aid Honduras
- New organization aims to transform Aurora region into ‘premier hub of innovation’
- Lawyers for Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni get a reality check from federal judge
- MLB fires umpire Pat Hoberg for sharing sports gambling accounts with a friend who bet on baseball
- Canada’s most populous province to pause retaliatory measures as US puts tariffs on hold
- Chicago man, 19, charged in murder of Elgin High School senior near United Center headed to Lil Durk concert
- Aurora man killed in car crash on Route 59
- Elon Musk tightens grip on federal government as Democrats raise alarms
- Scientists hope these tiny froglets can save their species
- Flu activity increasing in Illinois, driving state back up to high levels of respiratory illness
- ‘Chicago has always been a city of immigrant workers’: Some Chicago businesses close their doors to protest immigration crackdown
- Daily Horoscope for February 04, 2025
- Senate confirms fossil fuel CEO Chris Wright as energy secretary. He vows to ‘unleash’ US resources
- Emergency crews deployed on Santorini as an earthquake swarm worries Greek experts
- Marist’s Abby Parker decides to wrestle, works to make weight. And then? Regional champ. ‘Best feeling in the world.’
- Marco Rubio says El Salvador has offered to accept deportees from US of any nationality
- If anyone can, Lemont’s Molly O’Connor can. It works in comeback for regional title. ‘Just always believed in myself.’
- Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles handle the Super Bowl opening night like they’ve been there
- Don’t ever underestimate Batavia’s Anabelle Guthke. For whom the bell tolls? Indeed. ‘She’s like a quiet assassin.’
- Scoring, yes. But Mother McAuley’s Delia Sullivan delivers key sequence with perfect pass. ‘A great, unselfish play.’
- Dolton employees without life insurance after premiums go unpaid; Mayor Tiffany Henyard skips meeting
- Jeff Vorva’s Daily Southtown girls basketball rankings and player of the week
- President Donald Trump’s foreign aid freeze could prove to be a boon for the world’s authoritarian strongmen