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Allegory chef/owner Chris Mason cuts wood behind his Naperville restaurant on May 27, 2020, as he builds picnic tables to accommodate customers once outdoor dining resumes Friday.

Suburban restaurants open for outdoor dining Friday. Here’s what to know.

May 28, 2020 at 5:37 p.m.

Chris Mason, chef and owner of Allegory in Naperville, spent Wednesday afternoon building picnic tables in preparation for the expected start of outdoor dining in most of Illinois Friday. He...

Kimura Original: Bubblegum meets lemon lime.

Ramune, the wildly popular Japanese soda, comes in many flavors. But what’s the best? We tried 19 to find out.

June 2, 2020 at 9:45 a.m.

Whether it's unwrapping the tiny opener or hearing the marble clink against the glass when a bottle is opened, there's something undeniably fun about ramune, a Japanese soda. Popping one...

Purdue University biochemistry graduate student Emma Lendy talks with Andy Mesecar, one of the leading scientists identifying protein targets for potential COVID-19 drug therapies, on campus at Purdue in West Lafayette, Indiana, on April 30, 2020.

As researchers at Northwestern and elsewhere scramble to find a treatment for COVID-19, they hope this time the money won’t run out before the next threat hits

May 18, 2020 at 6:23 a.m.

More than a decade ago, a center was founded at Northwestern University as a rapid-response operation against infectious disease. But funding for coronavirus research across the country was sporadic —...

Justin Reyes administers a COVID-19 test to Maria Suarez outside Heartland Health Centers in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood on July 10, 2020.

COVID-19: Where do we go from here? Experts say contact tracing, more testing key to suppressing new coronavirus, reopening economy

April 28, 2020 at 12:13 p.m.

As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, new questions arise every day. We started taking concerns from Tribune readers to experts in early March. For our newest set of questions and...

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Suburban restaurants open for outdoor dining Friday. Here’s what to know.

Ramune, the wildly popular Japanese soda, comes in many flavors. But what’s the best? We tried 19 to find out.

As researchers at Northwestern and elsewhere scramble to find a treatment for COVID-19, they hope this time the money won’t run out before the next threat hits

COVID-19: Where do we go from here? Experts say contact tracing, more testing key to suppressing new coronavirus, reopening economy

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Brookfield Zoo union files labor complaint over worker furloughs

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Pritzker: ‘It’s wrong’ the way federal government has handled coronavirus pandemic

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‘To us right now, time is life.’ Chinese community mobilizing to provide medical supplies to Chicago-area hospitals.