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V.V. Lightbody wants to assure everybody that there were no flutes harmed in the making of her new“Practice Smiling” music video. “It was a broken flute; it was ready to be destroyed,” the singer joked during a recent conversation at …

Talk about a Sweet Home Chicago. “Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story” is like a game plan where the coaches write down the first 15 offensive snaps in advance, and the team follows that script to the letter. It’s a …

America’s energy sector is growing rapidly, driven by infrastructure investment, technological innovation and the transition to a more modern energy economy. Yet one question remains: Will the communities too often left behind be part of that growth? The National Urban …

Months after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, no one has been charged. He was 25. He was Colombian. He had a 3-year-old daughter. He had a federal work …

DEAR ABBY: I’m 34 years old and have been diagnosed with schizoaffective bipolar disorder. I have been in treatment for years with a psychiatrist and a therapist, and I take my medication daily as instructed. I do not drink or …

Metra BNSF service was temporarily halted early Tuesday for a death investigation near the Naperville station, officials said. A man was found dead about a mile east from the station, at Loomis Street and 5th Avenue, around 4 a.m., though …

A 46-year-old man was found suffering from three gunshot wounds to his leg Saturday night in the Roseland neighborhood, according to Chicago police. Officers discovered the man around 10:45 p.m. in the 10900 block of South Wabash Avenue. He was …

Good morning, Chicago. ✶ 🔎 Below: With the Chicago Public Schools board moving from mayoral control to a fully elected membership for the first time, new political considerations mean tax hikes might no longer be a foregone conclusion. 🗞️ Plus: …

The Chicago area shattered a record high that stood for nearly two decades Monday. The high at O’Hare Airport reached 88 degrees — four degrees higher than the previous record for Oct. 12, set in 2008, according to the National …

Chicago Public Schools has released the new Public League basketball conference alignments. The Red Conference has expanded from 32 to 40 teams. No teams were relegated after last season and Longwood, Dunbar, Chicago Richards, Jones, Schurz, Corliss, Prosser and Wells …

Una mujer de 22 años que recibió un disparo mortal el sábado por la noche en La Villita después de llegar a casa tras comprar artículos para Halloween con su madre fue identificada, informaron las autoridades. Abbigail Somoza estaba de …

Olivia Rodrigo can clearly buy herself flowers. A lot of them. On Sunday night, the celebrated singer-songwriter drowned her horseshoe-shaped stage at the United Center with thousands of pink and white stems, probably enough to give one to every fan …

It is impossible not to perceive 1787 opera “Don Giovanni” in a more fraught way in the aftermath of the #MeToo movement. But there is no need for a director today to try to somehow unduly amp up the ugly …

A reader writes, aghast at government plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army major who murdered 13 fellow soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009. “I am so upset, so disgusted and in disbelief,” she says. …

An investigation is underway after a 50-year-old man died was found dead in a basement apartment after a fire early Monday in North Lawndale — and his missing car was found about a mile and a half away. About 5:25 …