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The National Weather Service issued the watch for Winnebago, Boone, McHenry and Lake counties from Thursday afternoon through Friday morning.

Here’s some of what’s happening in the Chicago area’s vibrant dining scene.

CHICAGO — For the second year in a row, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is proposing the state spend tens of millions of dollars on a witness protection program that went unfunded for the first nine years of its existence.

In our Wednesday newsletter, it sounds like the Bears are closer to trading the No. 1 pick than many expected.

The boy’s father rushed to the Northwest Side home and performed CPR on his 34-year-old wife, according to the Chicago Fire Department.

CHICAGO — Ricky Cobb has tweeted for nearly 3,000 consecutive days.

CHICAGO — During a postgame news conference last June at Guaranteed Rate Field, Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa showed up wearing a T-shirt with the word “FAMILY” spelled out in capital letters above the team’s logo.

CHICAGO — Robin Means Coleman has heard it all. Cliches like: Maybe we should split up and look. Tropes like: I didn’t get bit, I’m fine. Also: That sound — it’s probably just the wind. And: My uncle owns a cabin in the woods. Plus, of course, the evergreen: I’ll…

CHICAGO — Taking a luncheon break from what has been a life of considerable movement and accomplishments, Frank Sennett plunked himself into a booth at Club Lago, that pleasantly old-fashioned bar and restaurant in River North, and started talking about his three kids, his wife, his father and how he…

"Every novel is a mystery," said author Rebecca Makkai, on the phone from her home outside Chicago. "It's a mystery about the future — what's going to happen next — which is most books. Or maybe a mystery about the present: what's really going on here, who am I really.…

It shouldn’t take the city’s inspector general’s goading for the Chicago Police Department to acknowledge the glaring red flags that were unfurled as soon as a picture of Officer Kyle Mingari wearing a Three Percenters face mask emerged .