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With her platinum blonde hair and a cherubic smile, Lois Riess looks in photos like what she is - a 56-year-old grandmother from small-town America.

Today's Birthday (04/17/18). Family abundance rises this year. Discipline with your career pays off. Envision perfection and enlist support. Coordinate and plan over spring for summer rollout. Domestic upgrades invite romance and intimate gatherings. Solve a group challenge together for winter...

You’ve probably heard the joke about why trees in Illinois lean east — because Indiana sucks.

It’s nice that so many white people are appalled by that incident at a Philadelphia Starbucks where two African-American men were hauled off to jail for being black.

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Dear Amy: I am in a quandary.

When my husband and his three brothers divided up what was left of my in-laws' possessions after my father-in-law died, we received the majority of photos. I finally have time to go through and sort them.

In the process, I came upon a very large photo that was taken...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s latest attempt to get Chicago cops and firefighters to spread out into the city’s struggling neighborhoods has yet to draw much interest.

There’s something about Reynaldo Lopez starting that sends the White Sox offense into the witness protection program.

There’s something about Reynaldo Lopez starting that sends the White Sox offense into the witness protection program.

The A’s are trying something that is unusual, to say the least, for Tuesday’s game against the White Sox. All tickets are free.

Random thoughts while grinding through another Cubs postponement:

Spring numbers can inspire or depress, depending on who is relying on them to project the rest of the season.

It’s nice to think Kris Bryant will hit .352 this season, but his history suggests that’s not going to happen....

A man and a woman were found shot to death in a Logan Square home Monday morning and another man was killed in an unrelated double shooting in the Back of the Yards neighborhood later in the day, according to Chicago police.

Prairie View Elementary School music teacher Nathan Etter reportedly was told to "stick to the curriculum" after he talked to students about being in a same-sex marriage. Etter addressed members of the school board at Central Middle School in Burlington, Ill., on April 16, 2018, asking for an...

The White House said Monday that President Donald Trump still intends an early exit for U.S. troops in Syria, as French President Emmanuel Macron attempted to walk back his suggestion that he had convinced Trump to keep them there for the "long term."

Macron's remarks on Sunday had hinted at a...

Harry Anderson, the actor best known for playing an off-the-wall judge working the night shift of a Manhattan court room in the television comedy series "Night Court," was found dead in his North Carolina home Monday.

A federal judge signaled Monday that she is unlikely to grant President Donald Trump's request to let him unilaterally determine what material seized last week from his personal lawyer is privileged, but she indicated that she may appoint an outside attorney to assess the records in an effort to...

John Fisher is a late bloomer when it comes to running marathons.

When he crossed the Boston Marathon finish line in just over five hours Monday, the 65-year-old Naperville man completed his 12-year journey to run a marathon in every state in America.

For much of his life, running was the last...

Wheeler senior Jose Diaz was one of the 13 Indiana wrestlers who wanted to make a statement Saturday night.

Random thoughts while grinding through another Cubs postponement:

Spring numbers can inspire or depress, depending on who is relying on them to project the rest of the season.

It’s nice to think Kris Bryant will hit .352 this season, but his history suggests that’s not going to happen....

The city's official high temperature Monday was 34 degrees, a level more typical on Feb. 10. Though unseasonably cold, the Chicago area avoided much of the accumulating snow from this past weekend's storm. Totals across the metro area were generally less than an inch. Northeast Wisconsin, including...

Ethel Shelton wept as the jury in her public corruption trial found her guilty Monday in Hammond’s federal court.

A retired West Aurora math teacher awaiting trial on child porn charges was found dead in a field Saturday of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said Monday.

An appellate court on Monday ruled that the state comptroller should return tax revenues it had withheld from Harvey and cease garnishing the city’s revenues until a dispute with its police pension fund is resolved, a spokesman for the comptroller’s office said.

State Sen. Napoleon Harris, D-Harvey, said he is considering introducing a measure amending the state law that requires the Illinois comptroller’s office to seize a municipality’s tax revenues when a community is delinquent funding pensions.

Tarrano Murry tried to get a trace of his 18-year-old daughter’s scent as he packed up her dorm at Bradley University, one week after she was shot to death at an off-campus party.