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Customers line up outside the new Portillo’s Hot Dogs as the company opens its Elgin location on Jan. 15, 2013. (Brian Hill/Daily Herald)

Portillo’s lays off 18% of corporate employees at Oak Brook headquarters amid sluggish same-store sales

With food costs rising and same-store sales falling, Portillo’s executed a round of corporate layoffs last week, trimming 18% of its Oak Brook-based workforce.

An attorney wants evidence preserved from the July 27 accident in a Downers Grove storm sewer that left one worker dead. (Joe Lewnard/Daily Herald)

Man who survived sewer flood that killed worker asks for evidence to be preserved

A man who survived a sewer flooding that killed a co-worker in Downers Grove is asking to preserve evidence of what happened that day, to decide whether to sue his employer or other entities.

Chicago Cubs' Pete Crow-Armstrong celebrates after scoring the winning run on a throwing error by Toronto Blue Jays catcher Brandon Valenzuela during the eleventh inning Thursday in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

One curve too many: Bregman’s clutch home run rescues Cubs offense

The Cubs trailed Toronto 2-0 with two outs and two strikes in the bottom of the ninth, before Alex Bregman connected for a tying 2-run homer and the Cubs won 3-2 in 11 innings at Wrigley Field.

D'Andre Swift, above, and  Kyle Monangai combined to rush for 1,870 yards last year, the third best duo in the NFL. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

‘It’s no secret he loves to run the ball’: Chicago Bears looking for more explosive plays from ground game

The Chicago Bears have tried different formations and personnel groups since the start of training camp— typical at this time of year — but when it comes to offense, thei...

Kane County Board members have approved a county budget for the 2027 fiscal year. (Jeff Knox/Daily Herald)

Kane County Board OKs $402 million 2027 budget, without use of cash from dwindling reserve fund

After years of balancing its budget by dipping into a dwindling reserve fund, the Kane County Board on Wednesday OK’d a $402.9 million county budget for fiscal year 2027 that doesn’t, at this point, rely on using any cash reserves.

This former bank building on Lee Street in Des Plaines has been bought by the city and will be converted into a restaurant. The city council on Monday approved contracts with companies that will oversee its renovation. (John Starks/Daily Herald)

‘This is going to be fun’: Firms hired to restore historic Des Plaines building

The exterior and interior restorations of a historic building in downtown Des Plaines will begin soon.

Jillian Olson

‘She was proud to wear the badge’: Stevenson High School grad and South Carolina sheriff’s deputy remembered

Funeral services were held Wednesday for Stevenson High School graduate Jillian Olson, a 29-year-old sheriff’s deputy in South Carolina who died during an underwater training session last week on Lake Murray.

A driver pilots the Alcoholic Haze tractor to a pull on the final day of the 2025 McHenry County Fair in Woodstock on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025. This year’s fair runs through Sunday, Aug. 9. (Patrick Kunzer/for the Daily Herald)

Things to do Aug. 7-13: McHenry County Fair, Smoke & Irons Music Fest, Warrenville Summer Daze and more

Mark your calendar for McHenry County Fair, Warrenville Summer Daze, Smoke and Irons Music Fest, Jamboree Days, Gurnee Days, Hampshire Coon Creek Country Days and more.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 

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