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Fox River Grove Fire Protection District Chief Bob Kreher, left, and his brother Barrington Countryside Fire Protection District Chief Jim Kreher help maintain a memorial near the site of the deadly Oct. 25, 1995, bus crash in Fox River Grove. “We never forgot what happened to our community and our students,” Jim Kreher said. “It’s just something we can’t forget about.”

Transportation | When 7 died after train hit school bus in Fox River Grove: 'Just something we can't forget'

Sunday marks 25 years since the tragic day a train slammed into a school bus in Fox River Grove, and many in this tight-knit community still can't pass the railroad tracks at Northwest Highway and Algonquin Road without remembering the students who died there. It's where a small group of loved ones gathers every year on this date to say a prayer for those they call the seven angels.
Sherrellis Stinnette, facing, grandmother of Marcellis Stinnette, is hugged by a participant at a Black Lives Matter rally in Waukegan Saturday. Tafara Williams, was shot and wounded, and Stinnette, her boyfriend, was shot and killed by a Waukegan police officer this week.

News | Woman shot by police speaks at emotional rally in Waukegan

About 200 people rallied in Waukegan Saturday afternoon to protest the police shooting Tuesday night that killed Marcellis Stinnette, 19, and seriously injured Tafara Williams, the mother of his child, who is still in the hospital.
Armed with campaign signs and refrigerator magnets, Amar Patel of Lombard is on the Illinois ballot on Nov. 3 as the vice presidential candidate of the American Solidarity Party.

Columns | Constable: Suburban teacher on ballot as third-party VP candidate

In the 2016 presidential election, Amar Patel of Lombard rejected Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and voted for himself as a write-in candidate. This year, Patel is on the ballot as the vice presidential candidate of the American Solidarity Party.
Video attached to article Cary-Grove High School girls volleyball coach Patty Langanis, third from left, and former Trojan players Kelly Speer Hoffman of the Class of 1996, left, Karen Naymola of the Class of 1999 and current Huntley girls volleyball coach, and Katie Scully Krysh of the Class of 1997, meet in the Cary-Grove gymnasium, recalling the 1995 volleyball game that was played two nights after the Fox River Grove school bus/train crash that claimed the lives of seven Cary-Grove students.

Columns | Never forgetting: The healing continues 25 years after Fox River Grove crash

Four people affected by the Fox River Grove bus/train crash in 1995 -- Cary-Grove head girls volleyball coach Patty Griffith Langanis, players from that team Katie Scully Krysh and Kelly Speer Hoffman, and current Huntley head coach Karen Liss Naymola, a freshman at Cary-Grove in 1995 -- sat down earlier this week to recall the night two days after the crash when they played a regional championship match at Crystal Lake South. They did so amid a pandemic, so there were masks, no handshakes and no hugs. But there were some tears.
Ki’s Steak & Seafood Restaurant managers in Glendale Heights say they intend to continue indoor dining despite the governor’s order to close indoor dining in DuPage County.
News | Indoor dining ban starts in DuPage, Kane, and so does defiance. How about enforcement?
Gov. Pritzker warns of potential penalties for businesses that defy new restrictions to curtail COVID-19 spread in some counties. But the enforcement process might not be quick.
This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S.
News | COVID-19 case counts per county, ZIP code as of Oct. 23
There have been 160,582 COVID-19 cases in the suburbs as of Friday. That's 44.1% of the state's total, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.
Editor John Lampinen discusses the First Amendment at the last installment in the Daily Herald’s Facts Matter presentations Oct. 23, 2019, at Forest View Educational Center in Arlington Heights.
Politics | District 214 election webcast Tuesday to include Daily Herald editor
Daily Herald Editor John Lampinen will participate Tuesday in a nonpartisan virtual panel discussion of the presidential election sponsored by Northwest Suburban High School District 214 as part of its Community Education program.
Larry Carrier, right, a mentor with the Lake County Veterans Treatment & Assistance Court, is with Greg Parker at his graduation.
Lake County | Helping veterans is continuing mission for Gurnee vet
Army veteran Larry Carrier of Gurnee has been a mentor with the Lake County Veteans Treatment & Assistance Court since its inception.
Protesters gather in front of the police station during a “Peaceful Grieving for Black Lives” event in Elgin earlier this summer.
Politics | Black voters: Racial justice, health care access are the top issues in this election
Black voters say there's a lot at stake for people of color with this election. It's been a racially charged year with the coronavirus pandemic ravaging Black and Latino communities disproportionately, police brutality against unarmed Blacks, a national resurgence of white supremacist activities and growing concern over voter suppression, intimidation and lack of access.
Former Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson participates in a news conference at police headquarters in Chicago.
Chicago | Sources: Chicago police respond to domestic incident at former superintendent's home
Sources told the Chicago Sun-Times that police officers were dispatched to Eddie Johnson's house after a "verbal altercation escalated" and Johnson allegedly shoved his wife.
Gomez Misael
Crime | Police: Round Lake Park man faces charges for brandishing gun
A 22-year-old Round Lake Park man faces charges for threatening another man with a gun following an earlier road rage incident, police said
Edwin Chandrasekar
Columns | How Oakton College plans to use federal grant to help minority students
Asian Americans often are viewed as a model minority that's educated and affluent. That stereotype presents a challenge for Asian American students who come from low-income families or are first-generation immigrants struggling to assimilate in American society while facing unique cultural challenges and barriers, said Edwin Chandrasekar, Oakton Community College vice president for administrative affairs.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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The Elgin Area Chamber celebrated the grand opening of South Elgin’s brand-new luxury apartments in downtown, Panton Mill Station located on the Fox River. South Elgin Village President Steve Ward led the ceremony with volunteers and staff from the apartments, Village and Chamber for special community event.
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