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Wheaton North players celebrate with their trophy after defeating St. Rita 35-6 in the Class 7A football state championship at Huskie Stadium in DeKalb Saturday.

Prep Football | Championship ends 35-year drought for Wheaton North

Wheaton North won the fourth state football championship in school history and first since 1986 Saturday, beating St. Rita 35-6 in the Class 7A title game at Huskie Stadium in DeKalb.
Cary-Grove head coach Brad Seaburg, right, claps for his team as the Trojans celebrate with their trophy after defeating East St. Louis 37-37 in the Class 6A football state championship at Huskie Stadium in DeKalb Saturday.

Prep Football | Late defensive stand key as Cary-Grove wins Class 6A championship

Cary-Grove's defense held tight when it had to Saturday and the Trojans completed an undefeated season with a stunning 37-36 win over top-ranked East St. Louis in the Class 6A state championship football game at Huskie Stadium in DeKalb.
Where did you go, toll collection machine? Probably in storage, after the Illinois tollway mothballed more than 100 units, which all told cost about $20 million to purchase and maintain.

Columns | Illinois Tollway's $20 million toll-collecting machines are now collecting dust

In roughly four years, a fleet of over 100 automatic payment machines along the Illinois tollway has sunk from essential tools to expensive white elephants.
A developer wants to build a gas station and convenience store on the northeast corner of routes 45 and 176 in Mundelein. A former restaurant building and a vacant industrial building are there now.

News | The Week That Was: Schaumburg hotel murder, DuPage Democrat's tweets, Thorntons in Mundelein

Progress for the Thorntons gas station planned in Mundelein. DuPage Democratic party social media director resigns over "karma" tweets about Waukesha deaths. Elgin mourns Mike Alft. First-degree murder charge in death of woman in Schaumburg hotel. Families sue in Astroworld deaths of two Naperville men.
A Super Mario Brothers-themed bedroom was created for 8-year-old Palatine resident Angel, bottom left, by volunteers from Fremd High School. At bottom right, student Max Malak, teacher Josh Cattero and student Mikayla Rau paint components for the bedroom.
News | Super Mario and firefighters: Palatine students create themed bedrooms for young cancer patients
The holidays have been made brighter for two young Palatine boys battling cancer, after students and staff at William Fremd High School teamed up with a national nonprofit to give them dream bedroom makeovers.
Wearing holiday outfits, runners start the inaugural Dashing Through Palatine Holiday 5K run sponsored by the Palatine Police Department on Sunday. Organizers of the event asked for participants to bring a toy which will be distributed throughout the holiday season by police officers while on duty.
News | Runners dash through Palatine for inaugural charity run
With clear, sunny skies and cool, crisp air, it was an ideal morning for a run Sunday in Palatine. It was even better for the Palatine police officers who organized the inaugural Dashing Through Palatine Holiday 5K, which drew dozens of runners for a good cause.
Rabbi Yaakov Kotlarsky of the Chabad Jewish Center of Arlington Heights lights the lanterns Sunday during the fourth annual menorah-lighting ceremony marking the first night of Hanukkah at North School Park in Arlington Heights.
News | 'Light over darkness': Arlington Heights celebration ushers in Hanukkah
In a celebration called triumph of "light over darkness, freedom over oppression" families gathered Sunday in Arlington Heights' North School Park to light a menorah and mark the beginning of Chanukah.
Crime | Police pursuing leads in deadly shooting near Gurnee Mills
Investigators continue to pursue leads, including from video surveillance footage, in the hunt for the killer of a 26-year-old Zion man fatally shot Saturday in a parking lot near the Gurnee Mills mall.
Police are searching for someone who fatally shot a 26-year-old Zion man in Gurnee.
News | Zion man killed in Gurnee shooting
One person was killed in a shooting in Gurnee Saturday afternoon, according to law enforcement officials.
The blurring of the presidential seal in a video retweeted by Vice President Kamala Harris is not proof that President Joe Biden isn’t really president.
Columns | Facts Matter: Blurred seal not evidence Biden isn't really president
Social media users recently pointed to a video that includes a blurred presidential seal, retweeted by Vice President Kamala Harris, as proof that Joe Biden isn't actually president. Those claims are false.
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Crime | Westchester man charged in attempted home invasion in Oak Brook
A 24-year-old Westchester man is being held in DuPage County jail on charges he tried to break into a couple's Oak Brook home while armed with a gun on Thanksgiving night.
Lake County sheriff’s police are searching for suspects involved in a Saturday morning carjacking in Green Oaks.
Crime | Sheriff's police investigate carjacking in Green Oaks
Lake County sheriff's police are searching for suspects involved in a Saturday morning carjacking in Green Oaks.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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The Daily Herald Archive, Assignment # 62,498, Scott Sanders photo: After seeing their regular trains delayed by a strike and the ones that were running pass them by, the numbers of commuters at the Arlington Heights train station grew so large that they spilled on to the tracks in April of 1982.
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Youngsters watch from a window as balloons from the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade pass by, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in New York. The parade is returning in full, after being crimped by the coronavirus pandemic last year. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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