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What happens when a dog’s owner dies? Thanks to a retired police lieutenant, a no-kill shelter and a woman who heard about Keto, it’s all good news.
For three straight Christmases, 12 million Americans in uniform had dreamed of one thing — to be home, instead of whatever rocky Pacific atoll, British bomber base, Alaskan radar station or German POW camp they happened to have found themselves.
Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Vince Vaughn and Ted Danson are among the big names starring in top-tier shows this year.
Nicole Kidman does powerful work as the upscale, insecure executive betraying her loving husband (Antonio Banderas).
This is the story of Mary, Joe and their newborn in Chicago on Christmas, as written by the late Mike Royko in 1966.
Is Williams really a bright spot on a bad team, or have the Bears simply not had time to ruin him yet?
Over the year there was advice that the advisor found hard to follow, a topic that brought new understanding and a tip that helped a reader.
Inspirational story of real-life boxer Claressa Shields tracks her path to Olympic gold — and then her struggle to turn her talents into an income.
The Lions’ offensive coordinator is one of the hot head-coaching candidates.
Also, grab a bowl of chips — make that a whole potato — and get ready for Northern Illinois against Fresno State on Monday.
As festive as GroceryLand, Edgewater’s food pantry for people with HIV, was the Saturday before Christmas, there was also a sense of trouble ahead, though co-founder Lori Cannon insists that neither the implosion of Heartland Alliance nor the nation’s lurch toward increasing intolerance will affect anything.
Don’t worry, the playoff will regain any momentum it lost over the weekend. Probably.
A fanciful 20,000-pound depiction of a ram cracked during installation at the National Public Housing Museum on Taylor Street.
Full of chilling sequences and appropriately outsized performances, gothic horror feast immerses you in the creepy German countryside of 1838.
What happens when the “fill in the blank” line is left empty? On those super-rare occasions when no one has earned or deserves the honor?
A source with knowledge of Stratton’s poll and the thinking behind it told Rich Miller she is “keeping her options open” as Gov. JB Pritzker decides if he will seek reelection.
How good will the first-round competition be? Hopefully, better than most semifinal action was under the four-team playoff model.
Images that girls and young women see online are curated, filtered and sometimes fake — nothing like IRL (in real life).
10 best movies of 2024, a year of good times with a vampire, a stripper, an amoral CEO and Bob Dylan
From a prison, an Oklahoma reservation and the Munich Olympics come some top-notch viewing experiences, and the finest of the fine transports us to 1985 Ireland.
In the Trump era, there is simply no Republican, no matter how deranged or unfit, whom the Journal will not prefer to a Democratic opponent. The spectacle of the Journal chastising the Biden administration without a solitary word about Trump and his enablers is breathtaking.
Without clemency, those on federal death row remain at risk of execution under the incoming Trump administration, in a system rife with racial bias and other serious flaws, the head of the National Urban League writes.
The former slugger will be coming to the Cubs Convention after admitting to vague mistakes.