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This screengrab from a security video released by Arlington Heights police Thursday shows two men approaching a North Evergreen Avenue home Saturday before a home invasion that turned deadly.

Crime | Arlington Heights police release doorbell video of home invasion

Arlington Heights police on Thursday released doorbell video of the harrowing early moments of a weekend home invasion that left one would-be robber dead and another charged with murder.
Members of the Illinois Air National Guard assemble wheelchairs March 30 at McCormick Place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chicago | Auto show to medical facility in 2 months: How the Guard is helping transform McCormick Place

McCormick Place overflowed with chrome Feb. 8 on the Chicago Auto Show's opening day. Now the state's McCormick Place Alternate Care Facility is intended to serve up to 3,500 patients who do not need intensive care for the respiratory disease COVID-19.
With his cape blowing in the wind while dressed as Superman, Nicholas Rivera of Aurora loads food for clients Thursday at the Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry. Rivera leaves Sunday for a stint with the Marines.

News | Superheroes help serve clients at Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry

Batman, Robin and Superman had to wait patiently as the Easter Bunny used a carrot to direct a long line of cars toward them Thursday in Aurora. Several Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry workers were dressed in superhero costumes as they served clients in their impromptu drive-through food collection
Video attached to article Stripped trees lighted by search lights and wrecked cars, some with dome lights on, create an otherworldly landscape after an F-4 tornado damaged every house and killed two people in Fairdale, an unincorporated community in DeKalb County southeast of Rockford on Route 72, on April 9, 2015.

News | Fairdale 5 years later: Residents share how town has rebuilt after devastating tornado in 2015

Clem Schultz said his wife, Geraldine Schultz, is still with him every day, even though she lost her life in the tornado that devastated the unincorporated town of Fairdale in north DeKalb County five years ago.
There was no official announcement Thurday, but the Bulls appear to have settled on current Denver GM Arturas Karnisovas to be the team’s new head of basketball operations.
Sports | New Bulls GM Karnisovas' strength lies in his connections
There was no official announcement Thurday, but the Bulls appear to have settled on current Denver GM Arturas Karnisovas to be the team's new head of basketball operations.
Cook County’s Department of Public Health has a website, seen here in mid-March, that breaks down cases of COVID-19 suburb by suburb.
News | April 9 breakdown of suburban COVID-19 cases by county, and search by ZIP code
Suburban COVID-19 cases and deaths by county, and some towns, on April 9, plus where to find out more.
Indianapolis 500 champion Bobby Rahal is picking the winner of a bourbon drawing to raise funds for the Glen Ellyn Food Pantry.
News | Indy 500 champion, bourbon add hype to Glen Ellyn Food Pantry fundraiser
Indy 500 Champion Bobby Rahal is lending his celebrity to a drawing for highly sought-after bourbon to raise funds for a Glen Ellyn food pantry trying to meet rising demand from the coronavirus economic crisis.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office has received more than 1,120 complaints of price gouging since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, but has not taken any kind of “enforcement action” against accused retailers.
Business | Attorney general's office finds no evidence of price gouging
Despite investigating more than 1,120 complaints about alleged price gouging throughout the state since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, the Illinois attorney general's office has not taken any enforcement action against accused businesses.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly on Thursday ordered Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart to begin prompt testing of county jail detainees who exhibit coronavirus symptoms. He also said the sheriff must also enforce social distancing when taking in new inmates.
Cook County | Judge orders new coronavirus safety procedures at Cook County jail
A federal judge handed down a series of mandates Thursday designed to help keep Cook County jail inmates safe from the coronavirus, but he ultimately refused to order their release to home incarceration or other forms of custody.
Mount Prospect Mayor Arlene Juracek urges residents to “Stay Home, Save Lives.”
News | Mount Prospect mayor urges compliance with stay-at-home order
Mount Prospect Mayor Arlene Juracek urged those ignoring the state's stay-at-home order to "stop being knuckleheads out there" and practice social distancing health guidelines during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont is a possible location for a field hospital of up to 3,000 beds, but is only being considered as a “last resort,” village officials say.
News | Rosemont convention center considered a 'last resort' field hospital
The Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont has been considered as a possible field hospital that could deal with an overflow of patients, but only as a "last resort," village officials said.
Terrace Apartments, three blocks from the Wheaton College campus, will give city police and firefighters a place to self-quarantine away from their families.
News | Wheaton College provides free apartments for police, firefighters under self-quarantine
Wheaton College is providing apartments for city police and firefighters under self-quarantine from their families during the coronavirus pandemic.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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The pink supermoon rises over St. Louis on Tuesday, April 7, 2020. April’s supermoon is the brightest and largest it will be for all of 2020.
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The Daily Herald Archives, Assignment # 5,395, Bob Strawn photo: Santa Claus invaded the feminine precincts of Duchess Beauty Salon in Rolling Meadows to get a glamour treatment before his official arrival at Randhurst Shopping Center. As Santa sat under the dryer, regular customers appeared to be speculating whether it would be worth while to tell him what they would like for Christmas in December of 1966.
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In a sign of the times, someone draped a mask on the “Mr. Eggwards” sculpture at Mt. St. Mary Park in St. Charles. The mask has been there since at least Thursday. The bronze sculpture, by Kimber Fiebiger, was dedicated in 2013 and is part of the permanent collection that highlights the annual St. Charles Sculpture in the Park event.
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“In the midst of changing our lives, we began to miss our weekly grind of two soccer practices and one or two soccer games on the weekends for our twin 9-year-old daughters,” says the Nero family of Hoffman Estates. “Early on, my mind went to the vintage 1980s Wilson soccer ball from my childhood, which my parents brought to me in the last year. Of course, it's not the cool new balls that the kids use nowadays, but the movie “Cast Away” and Tom Hanks brought this idea to mind. I call it 'Soccer Sunday coffee with Wilson.'”
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Joy Symonds says her family from left Emily, 4, Daniel, and Vivienne, 2, have enjoyed walks through their neighborhood and even tried out the “balance beams” along the space mural at Elgin Lock and Key.
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