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Tuesday, May 26, 2020

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Video attached to article Naperville firefighter and water team coordinator Chuck Gros, right, leads a training exercise in the days after he helped conduct two water rescues May 15 to save stranded kayakers along the West Branch of the DuPage River.

News | How Naperville water team leader coordinated two rescues in one day

The rescues of two boaters stranded in the West Branch of the DuPage River in Naperville after one of May's many rainy days began long before the men got into the water. Here's how.
A 21-unit apartment building is slated to be constructed on a vacant lot along St. Charles’ First Street corridor.

News | Plans moving forward for new St. Charles apartment building

Among the shops, restaurants, offices and residences that have revitalized the First Street corridor, St. Charles will expand its downtown housing stock with the development of a new apartment building.
Lakewood Chapel Church members pray during a Memorial Day service Sunday in Arlington Heights.

Illinois | 1,713 new COVID-19 cases in Illinois, 31 new deaths; positive-test rate at 12%

The Illinois Department of Public Health today announced 1,713 new cases of COVID-19 in Illinois, including 31 additional deaths. That brings the total to 112,017 cases, including 4,884 deaths, in 100 counties in Illinois.
Vrushali Thakkar

Straight from the Source | Straight from the Source: When a global pandemic interrupts senior year

Stevenson High School senior Vrushali Thakkar expected this spring to be full of graduation parties, road trips, prom and perhaps a slight case of "senioritis." Instead, her graduation consisted of sitting on her living room couch, sporting pajamas under her revered cap and gown.
Jo Jorgensen
Politics | Woman who grew up in Grayslake is Libertarian Party's presidential pick
Former Grayslake resident Jo Jorgensen will represent the Libertarian Party on the November presidential ballot.
St. Charles District 303 administrators have developed an interim plan for implementing innovative learning experiences into a longer elementary school day, regardless of whether students are learning remotely or in a classroom.
Education | Amid COVID-19 crisis, District 303 to consider one-year plan for longer elementary day
To tackle the unique challenges related to the coronavirus pandemic, St. Charles District 303 is proposing an interim plan for the 2020-21 school year to support remote learning, classroom learning and the transition between the two.
Colleen Odegaard
Crime | Wayne woman accused of not returning accidental wire transfer of more than $100K
A Wayne woman faces charges for not returning more than $100,000 in wire transfer funds that were accidentally sent to her, police said Monday.
Members of the Illinois National Guard work with the public at the state’s new drive-through COVID-19 testing facility at Rolling Meadows High School.
News | May 25 COVID-19 cases per county; search by ZIP code
Since the outbreak began, there have been 57,558 cases in the suburbs, 51.3% of the state's total, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. There have been 2,420 deaths in the suburbs, about 50% of all deaths in Illinois.
Crowds in the COVID-19 era are sparse in Terminal 1 at O'Hare International Airport, but travelers and pilots are raising concerns about a lack of face coverings and long lines at security checkpoints.
Columns | In Transit: Uneasy skies for some airline passengers, pilots in COVID-19 era
Who is that unmasked man? Travelers dish on flying in the COVID-19 era and pilots want the FAA to get tough on face coverings.
Ethan Embry, from left, Steve Zahn, Johnathon Schaech and Tom Everett Scott play The Wonders in the 1996 music-based comedy “That Thing You Do.”
Music | A song to make you smile: 'That Thing You Do' by The Wonders
Here's a song chosen to lift you out of your coronavirus funk.
United States Marine Corps veteran John Kline wearing a protective face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus, pays his respects at the Korean War Memorial, in Philadelphia, on Memorial Day, Monday, May 25, 2020.
News | What others are writing about COVID-19
The names behind the numbers, How risky is summer fun? Here's what we're reading today about the pandemic.
A person stands in an aisle of a converted field hospital Tuesday at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, in Cape Town, South Africa. With dramatically increased community transmissions of coronavirus, Cape Town has become the center of the outbreak in South Africa and the continent.
Business | New York Stock Exchange reopens as U.S. closes in on 100,000 dead
The trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange reopened Tuesday in a largely symbolic step toward economic recovery, and stocks surged at the opening bell, even as the official U.S. death toll closed in on 100,000, a mark President Donald Trump once predicted the country would never see.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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World War II Army Air Corps veteran Ed Mampre, 96 of Elk Grove Village, waves as a Memorial Day drive-by parade passes by Monday to honor him and two other veterans.
Memorial Day events in the suburbs and around the country
Naperville resident and World War II veteran Bob Piper points back at someone yelling out congratulations to him during a drive-by parade celebrating his 98th birthday Friday.
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The Daily Herald Archives, Assignment # 4,270, Bob Finch photo: Roselle Jaycees and Roselle firemen faced off in a donkey baseball game at Lake Park High School in July of 1966. The donkeys, with names such as “Bad News,” “Castro,” “Elmer Fudd.” “Khrushchev,” and Beetle Bailey,” were provided by Bob Crosby’s Baseball Donkeys in Chippewa Falls, WI.
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Tony Melton, a teacher at Madison Elementary in Lombard works on a weekly school video project called “Some Good News” to keep his fifth-grade class active, happy and connected during the pandemic.
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A senior drives past saluting teachers during Hoffman Estates High School's senior send-off parade Wednesday. Graduation was scheduled for the next day but was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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