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Pastor Dave Learned speaks Sunday to members of Harvest Bible Chapel in Rolling Meadows about changes planned for the megachurch in the wake of its founder’s removal last week. “The message is more than the messenger,” he said.

News | Church leaders to resign as Harvest Bible Chapel announces sweeping changes

Members of the executive committee of elders at Harvest Bible Chapel plan to resign over the next few months, one of several sweeping changes announced by church leaders this weekend in the wake of founder and Senior Pastor James MacDonald's removal last week.
Mourners place a flower at the crosses outside the Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora on Sunday in memory of the five employees killed on Friday.

Crime | Three of five officers injured in Aurora shooting released from hospital

Three of the five police officers wounded in Friday's mass shooting in Aurora have been released from area hospitals, as the investigation into the deadly spree that left six dead continued Sunday, police said.
Five people were killed and others wounded in an Aurora shooting Friday by a man who authorities say should not have had a gun any longer.

Crime | Aurora shooter was convicted of beating girlfriend with baseball bat, stabbing her

Two decades before an Aurora man opened fire on his co-workers at a manufacturing warehouse, killing five, he was convicted of aggravated assault in Mississippi. Authorities there said he regularly abused a former girlfriend, at one point hitting her with a baseball bat and stabbing her with a knife.
Trevor Wehner

News | NIU student with 'heart of gold' killed on first day at Aurora warehouse

After landing a human resources internship, Trevor Wehner still kept his college job at a DeKalb restaurant where he was known as a "big bear."
Eight SWAT teams, from the federal to state level, responded to the shooting Friday afternoon at a manufacturing plant in Aurora.
Crime | Inside the warehouse: Police detail their search for the shooter
Aurora police Saturday detailed the 1 hour and 35 minutes at the Henry Pratt manufacturing warehouse Friday afternoon, from their initial dispatch to the shooter's eventual death.
A plow clears snow at Route 12 and Ela Road in Lake Zurich last week in another storm hitting the suburbs.
News | Winter weather advisory in some suburbs: Up to 5 inches of snow
A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect until 6 a.m. Monday morning for Lake and McHenry counties, ABC 7 is reporting. It's part of the snow and freezing-rain mix moving through the suburbs now.
Marvin Rozner died late Friday night in Florida at 88. He is seen here with wife Gloria on their wedding day in the early 1950s.
Columns | Rozner: Common to the world, special to me
If you had passed him on the street, my father was not someone you would have likely noticed. He was, nonetheless, a great dad.
Vicente Juarez, left of center in glasses, was an Oswego man among those killed Feb. 15, 2019, at the Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora.
News | Oswego victim of Aurora shooting was a devoted grandfather of eight
A day after the Aurora shooting, Vicente Juarez's children remembered him as a loving and devoted father who put his family above all else. "Words can't even describe how good of a dad he was," his daughter, Diana Juarez, said through tears on the family's front lawn Saturday afternoon.
Clayton Parks, who lived in Elgin, was a human resources manager responsible for Henry Pratt in Aurora, the site of a shooting that killed him and four others.
News | Aurora victim's wife: 'I'm living my worst nightmare'
Aurora shooting victim Clayton Parks was an "incredible father" and his wife's best friend.
Josh Pinkard of Oswego loved his family and Mississippi State sports.
News | Aurora victim loved 'God, family and Mississippi State sports'
Josh Pinkard, of Oswego, the plant manager at Henry Pratt who transferred to Aurora last spring after a dozen years in Alabama, was described Saturday as a dedicated father by a cousin who said the family wasn't yet ready to talk.
News | Aurora victim's dad: 'My son died trying to set it straight'
Russell Beyer had a "big heart" and tried his best to make his office a better place, his dad said. That's why the 20-year mold operator and union chairman from Yorkville sat in on a termination meeting Friday afternoon at the Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora.
“Friday was basically the worst day our company has ever had,” said Scott Hall, CEO of Aurora’s Henry Pratt Co.
Crime | Aurora shooting: 'The worst day our company has ever had'
"Friday was basically the worst day our company has ever had," said an emotional Scott Hall, chief executive officer of Mueller Water Products, which owns Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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