Black Friday 2020 is unlike any other. As the coronavirus surges across the country, more than half of consumers are nervous about in-store shopping this holiday season, according to a...

COVID-19 vaccine trials show promise, but some people appear hesitant to be first in line. Efforts to flip Black Friday to “Black Shop Friday.” And a preview of the Bears-Packers matchup.

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The city’s top doctor on how Chicago is preparing for a Thanksgiving COVID-19 spike. How small businesses are coping with the latest shutdown. Fallout from the city budget vote, and the...

Illinois Congressmen on Biden’s Cabinet, transition and COVID-19 relief. How hospitals are holding up. A plea from a Chicagoan who lost his trailblazing mother. One-on-one with music star...

How will aldermen vote on the $94 million property tax hike? Inside local COVID-19 vaccine trials. Catholic schools reconsider remote learning. And new life for Wisconsin’s troubled...

Making COVID-19 vaccine distribution equitable. Hurricanes rip through Central America. Living with and preventing diabetes. How the monarch butterfly builds bridges between the U.S. and...

A former Commonwealth Edison executive and former ComEd lobbyists are indicted in a bribery scandal that’s roiling the Illinois House and the future of Speaker Michael Madigan’s leadership...

Michael Madigan’s days as Illinois House Speaker could be numbered after bombshell ComEd indictments. How to equitably distribute a COVID-19 vaccine, and Geoffrey Baer takes us to new...

Checking in with nursing homes as COVID-19 cases surge. The future of Facebook under a new president. The status of local school council elections. And a high school student’s passion...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and CPS CEO Janice Jackson discuss plans to reopen Chicago Public Schools. The role of the White House chief of staff. And a Chicago artist interprets blackness.

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