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Volunteer Jerry Lane unpacks and shelves cans of enchilada sauce at the Loaves & Fishes food pantry Friday in Naperville. The organization serves 10,000 people a week.

‘Overwhelmed already’: Food banks, pantries carry on with SNAP emergency plans

The Greater Chicago Food Depository will set up temporary distribution sites in areas with the highest concentration of SNAP participants starting Saturday. Though a federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture must use contingency funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program during the federal government shutdown, nonprofits that were bracing for a cutoff in benefits along with surging demand are still keeping emergency response plans in place.

Lawmakers approve $1.5 billion transit funding package with 45 cent toll increase

Check our list of trick-or-treat hours so you can have the candy ready when your doorbell starts to ring on Friday, Oct. 31.

Halloween trick-or-treat times in the suburbs

Schaumburg gives apartment buildings more flexibility on switching between heating and A/C

Candy bridges generational gap at senior center in Bartlett

Cook County to hold hearing on improving rush-hour congestion on Quentin Road in Palatine

‘You can see a change’: Building improvements ongoing in downtown Wauconda

Prospect’s Jacob Sutton and his teammates will battle Downers Grove North on Friday in one of the best first-round matchups. Both teams are 7-2 and just a few plays away from going 8-1 or 9-0.

Five first round high school football playoff games to watch

Here’s a look at five of the best high school football games to watch in the first round of playoffs of the 2025 season.

Palatine Community Consolidated School District 15 Superintendent Laurie Heinz, with microphone, announced Thursday she will retire at the end of the school year.

District 15 superintendent retiring at end of school year

Palatine Township Elementary School District 15 Superintendent Laurie Heinz will retire at the end of the school year, ending a seven-year tenure highlighted by the passage of a $93 million referendum and successful negotiations with the Chicago Bears to settle a property-tax fight.

Protesters gather outside an ICE processing facility in Broadview Friday.

Advocates allege ‘inhumane’ conditions at Chicago-area ICE facility in new lawsuit

Illinois advocates sued federal authorities Friday over alleged “inhumane and torturous” conditions at a Chicago-area federal immigration facility.

The Schiffer family has been putting on a popular Halloween display at their Downers Grove home for 14 years. Creating the haunted front yard each fall takes James Schiffer about 250 hours.

Nightmare on Williams Street: Suburbanite raises goosebumps on his home turf

“We just love Halloween.” That’s what James Schiffer says of his family’s commitment to assembling a monster display of spooky magic in the front yard of their Downers Grove home.

4 killed in head-on crash in western Kankakee County

Four people, including a 5-year-old child, died in a head-on crash Thursday night 2 miles east and south of Reddick in western Kankakee County.

Yogi Patel, 15, center in gray, responds to a question during class Tuesday at Bartlett High School. Illinois School Report Card data shows Bartlett High School, in Elgin Area School District U-46, saw significant increases in English language arts proficiency and growth scores.

‘Progress, not just achievement’: State emphasizes growth over proficiency in new Illinois Report Card data

Illinois students are showing continued growth especially in English language arts and mathematics, outpacing pre-pandemic levels, according to 2025 Illinois School Report Card data released Thursday.

Two suspects fleeing from federal immigration officials crashed a vehicle near Warren High School O’Plaine Campus in Gurnee Thursday morning and attempted to enter the school before being caught.

Suspects fleeing immigration officials caught entering Warren High School in Gurnee

Two suspects fleeing from federal immigration officials crashed a vehicle near Warren High School in Gurnee Thursday morning and attempted to enter the school before being caught.

Daily Herald takes top honors in regional journalism awards

For both its print and online editions, the Daily Herald has won top honors in the 2025 Northern Illinois News Association contest, and individual Daily Herald staff members were recognized with 47 first-, second- and third-place finishes in the annual competition.

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