'It's very serious': Police investigate spike in Round Lake area overdoses
Round Lake area officials are investigating a rash of overdoses in just over a week's time, and it is believed at least some cases are connected in terms of the source and the drug involved. Round...
View ArticlePolice: Charges filed against man shot while carjacking off-duty Chicago cop...
Charges have been filed against a teen who was shot while trying to carjack an off-duty Chicago police officer two blocks from police department headquarters on the South Side, authorities said....
View ArticleAmtrak train speeding 50 mph over limit before deadly derailment in...
The Amtrak train that plunged off an overpass south of Seattle, killing at least three people, was hurtling 50 mph over the speed limit when it jumped the track, federal investigators say. Bella...
View ArticleHow 'The Last Jedi' created a powerful farewell to Carrie Fisher
If the moment does not move you, you've got a heart as cold as planet Hoth. Whether you love or hate "The Last Jedi," it's near impossible not to experience a jolt when reality crashes into fantasy as...
View ArticleOn 'Ellen,' a father's grief over his gay daughter and a call for us all to...
I know a Nathan Mathis. You might know one too. Mathis is a father who loved his daughter but didn’t love the news that she was gay. He’d been taught that her truth — whom she loved — was...
View ArticleCube high school boys basketball rankings, Dec. 18
The Chicago Tribune suburban sports department has teamed up with The Cube to present the rankings for the top 20 high school boys basketball teams in the Chicago area. With records through Sunday,...
View ArticleBetrayed by the family over soup stock at Christmas
You can only be betrayed by those you love and trust, and now it appears that my family has turned against me for Christmas. They say I’m obsessed with my soup stock. Nonsense, of course, but they...
View ArticleLINDA C. BLACK HOROSCOPES for 12/19/17
Today's Birthday (12/19/17). Spiritual quests and personal dreams direct your plans this year. Realize them through steady, organized action. Redirect your investigation this winter, before an...
View ArticleWhen people wouldn't believe two dogs killed their owner, the sheriff...
Rumors swirled around the death of Bethany Lynn Stephens, a young woman from rural Virginia who, authorities said, was mauled to death by her dogs while out on a walk last week. Many suspected that...
View ArticleTeen shot dead while delivering Tribune, other newspapers was working to buy...
For his sister’s 12th birthday, Brian Jasso wanted to buy her Skullcandy headphones. But he also wanted to take his girlfriend out on a date, and the 15-year-old didn’t have enough money to do both....
View ArticleMan suspected in machete attack outside Hammond bar arrested in downstate...
A man suspected in a machete attack outside a Hammond bar earlier this month was arrested Monday during an Illinois traffic stop, police said. Ryan C. Turner, 25, of Hammond, is charged in Lake...
View ArticleHacker-for-hire pleads guilty to shutting down company websites
A Maryland man who once used a screen name that called the FBI “losers” pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Chicago to running a hacker-for-hire service that shut down company web sites and...
View ArticleCubs' pursuit of Yu Darvish has been under the radar
The Cubs’ interest in free-agent pitcher Yu Darvish is surprising and intriguing at the same time. Darvish and Jake Arrieta, both 31, are considered the top two starters on the market, and if...
View ArticleChicago's top business stories of 2017
Kentucky passenger dragged off United flight: Airport security officers dragged a passenger off an overcrowded, Louisville, Ky.-bound United regional jet at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport...
View ArticleChance the Rapper and Jeremih release 're-wrapped' edition holiday mixtape
Chance the Rapper and Jeremih have delivered a gift to music fans this holiday season — a re-wrapped edition of their 2016 mixtape, “Merry Christmas Lil’ Mama.” The free download — also streaming...
View ArticleU.S. home sales climb 5.6 percent in November to 11-year high, but Chicago...
Americans purchased homes at the fastest pace in nearly 11 years, as sales climbed 5.6 percent in November, but the Chicago area continued its slow recovery from the Great Recession. The National...
View ArticleSesame Workshop child refugee plan wins first MacArthur $100M challenge
In the end, the Muppet may well have been the secret weapon. A proposal by Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee to educate Middle Eastern refugee children is the winner of the...
View ArticleFirst gene therapy for inherited disease — blindness — gets FDA approval
U.S. health officials on Tuesday approved the nation's first gene therapy for an inherited disease, a treatment that improves the sight of patients with a rare form of blindness. It marks another...
View ArticleHome away from home: Fox Valley families serve as 'surrogate parents' for...
Players from the Chicago Steel hockey team based in Geneva may be some of the toughest young men in the country, but that doesn't mean they don't think about home when the holidays roll around. The...
View Article'This Christmas': The sad, joyous story behind the Chicago-made holiday carol
There is a moment every Christmas season when Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas” brings water to my eyes. It doesn’t happen with the Chris Brown version (though many a millennial will insist,...
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