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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden takes photos with supporters at a campaign event at Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh, N.C., Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020.

News | Biden wins South Carolina, hopes for Super Tuesday momentum

Joe Biden scored a convincing victory in South Carolina's Democratic primary on Saturday, riding a wave of African American support and ending progressive rival Bernie Sanders' winning streak.
Santa Clara County Public Health Department Director Dr. Sara Cody speaks during a news conference in San Jose, Calif., on Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. Santa Clara County health officials confirmed a second case of unknown origin of the novel coronavirus.

News | Washington state sees 1st virus death in U.S., declares emergency

A man has died in Washington state of COVID-19, state health officials said Saturday, marking the first such reported death in the United States.
Nicholas G. Konz of Grayslake is the president of the Lake County Veterans Assistance Commission. He also spends time with dying veterans in the hospice program at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago.

News | How Grayslake Army veteran comforts fellow vets in their final hours

Grayslake resident Nicholas Konz Jr. has been helping veterans since his U.S. Army service ended in 1966.
A speeding car that hit a parked SUV on Cleveland Avenue in Arlington Heights Dec. 10 led to a recent community meeting and a village action plan to help curtail cut-through traffic.

Transportation | Arlington Heights' Cleveland Avenue plan on cut-through traffic: Stop signs not included

Arlington Heights officials have unveiled a short-term plan to curtail speeding on South Cleveland Avenue, including a bigger police presence and making radar guns available to residents so police can issue warning letters to speeders. But some neighbors say the immediate action plan still falls short of changes they'd like to see, like more stop signs.
News | Third Illinois case of COVID-19 diagnosed Saturday in Cook County, officials say
Third Illinois case of COVID-19 diagnosed Saturday in Cook County, officials say
Rebecca Zielinski and her daughter Amber Olivia Hildebrand pose for a photograph on Leap Day, hours after Amber’s birth at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield.
News | New parents welcome leaplings into the world
Just after midnight, Noah Jaes Eason came into the world and immediately joined the ranks of the "leaplings" -- people born on February 29. "We tried not to so he could have an actual birthday each year," Noah's mother Lacy Eason said Saturday.
Meteorologist Tom Skilling of WGN-TV talks at the Tornado & Severe Storm Seminar at Fermilab in Batavia in 2011. Skilling, Chicago television’s superstar meteorologist, says he will undergo gastric bypass surgery Wednesday in an effort to lose weight. “I’ve been working over the past half-year to get ready for this,” Skilling announced on Facebook Saturday.
Columns | Tom Skilling to undergo gastric bypass surgery
Tom Skilling, Chicago television's superstar meteorologist, says he will undergo gastric bypass surgery Wednesday in an effort to lose weight. "I've been working over the past half-year to get ready for this," Skilling announced on Facebook Saturday.
Sax player Joe De Maria reacts at the conclusion of the performance by the Rolling Meadows jazz combo during the 35th annual Jazz in the Meadows festival at Rolling Meadows High School Saturday.
News | Jazz in the Meadows celebrates 35th anniversary Saturday
The Midwest's largest high school jazz festival, Jazz in the Meadows, was held Saturday to Rolling Meadows High School.
The iconic Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles is scheduled to close Sunday, though uncertainty remains over the property’s future.
Business | With Pheasant Run set to close Sunday, uncertainty remains over the property's future
Once known as a premier entertainment destination that put St. Charles on the map, the iconic Pheasant Run Resort is set to cease operations Sunday.
Gov. JB Pritzker outlines the state’s plans for responding to the spread of novel coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, during a news conference Friday in Chicago.
Politics | Pritzker says current coronavirus risk low, but public health agencies prepared for possible spread
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Friday that state and local public health agencies are fully prepared to respond if coronavirus surges here.
A man holds a baby while walking by the entrance of Zekai Tahir Burak Hospital where 17 passengers of a Turkish Airlines flight from Tehran, suspected of having coronavirus, were to be quarantined in Ankara, Turkey.
Health & Fitness | Best way to protect yourself from coronavirus? Wash your hands
Amid growing fears of a global pandemic, health officials are taking precautionary steps to limit the spread of coronavirus in the United States. But local health experts say individuals don't have to take drastic measures to protect themselves.
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Crime | Man found shot dies near Des Plaines Friday night
A 20-year-old man who'd been shot multiple times was pronounced dead Friday night after being found about 9:15 p.m. in the 9500 block of Greenwood Drive in unincorporated Maine Township near Des Plaines.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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From an underwater perspective, Oswego’s Austin Millard competes in the 500-yard freestyle at the IHSA state boys swimming final in Evanston on Saturday. In the next lane Ricky Williams of St. Charles North.
IHSA boys State Swimming and Diving Meet
Palatine’s Henry Gabriel competes in the 100-yard breaststroke at the IHSA state boys swimming preliminaries in Evanston on Friday.
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The Grayslake Library Foundation’s 9th Annual Mini Golf Fundraiser was held Saturday Feb. 22 and Sunday, Feb. 23 at the Grayslake Area Public Library in Grayslake. Local businesses and organizations sponsored and built unique mini golf holes set up in the library including the Alice in Wonderland themed hole sponsored by the Literary Ladies of the Lakes
The Grayslake Library Foundation's 9th Annual Mini Golf Fundraiser
Prairie Ridge’s Gabriella Riley performs on balance beam at the state girls gymnastics championships at Palatine High School on Saturday.
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The Daily Herald Archive, Assignment # 3,106, Tom Grieger photo: About 15 members of Local 811 of the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers picketed the north side Arlington Heights offices of Illinois Bell Telephone Company on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 1966. It marked the first day of the strike, which was called after union members refused to ratify an agreement between union officials and management.
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Bud School, 72, of Elgin, took his grandkids sledding with a trio of sleds that are probably between 75-80 years old and “were around when I was a kid, and I know my dad used one of them,” he said.
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