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Vehicles pass through the tollway iPass reader at Interstate 90 and Route 31 in Elgin on Wednesday. (Paul Valade/Daily Herald)

Forever toll increases? Some question rationale of tollway’s plan to raise rates every two years

Hidden amid the sticker shock of the Illinois tollway’s proposed 57% hike on passenger vehicle rates beginning next year is a biannual cost-of-living increase that would follow. Here’s what that would look like.

Man gets 14 years in prison for robbing six suburban banks

A Cook County man who pleaded guilty earlier this year to robbing six suburban banks and brandishing a firearm at workers and customers was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Gov. JB Pritzker, right, talks with Illinois Sen. Mark Walker during a stop at the Lakeshore Learning Store in Palatine to promote the state's 10-day sales tax holiday on school supplies. Palatine Mayor Jim Schwantz is in the background. (Gov. JB Pritzker)

State offers 10-day tax break on back-to-school shopping

Parents starting on back-to-school shopping will get a temporary sales tax break for 10 days this month.

High-speed chase leads to charges for two women

Two women were denied pretrial release after being accused of leading Oak Brook police in a high-speed chase Saturday, according to a statement by DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin.

A truck, at bottom, headed east on Route 176 in Mundelein crosses Canadian National railroad tracks Monday. Starting Friday, ComEd crews will shut down about 500 feet of Route 176 between Route 45 and these railroad tracks so they can bury power lines. (Paul Valade/Daily Herald)

ComEd utility work to shut down Route 176 in Mundelein

A section of Route 176 in Mundelein will be closed to traffic for three weeks starting Friday because of utility work.

A barge moves through the lock at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam on the Des Plaines River in Joliet, the site of the Brandon Road Interbasin Project to combat the movement of invasive carp and other nuisance species into the Great Lakes, Dec. 5, 2023. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)

Pritzker calls Trump’s halting of Brandon Road carp project an attack on Great Lakes water

President Donald Trump’s administration has stopped work on a project to slow the spread of invasive carp in the Great Lakes, a move Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday said amounted to a major attack on Illinois’ and the nation’s freshwater supply.

North Chicago-based AbbVie is one of the pharmaceutical companies that’s trying to influence the outcome of November’s elections by donating to Chicago-area congressional candidates. (AbbVie)

Special interests have dropped more than $4 million on suburban congressional races

Special interest groups have given more than $4 million to congressional candidates running in the North, West or Northwest suburbs this cycle

Bears safety Coby Bryant, pictured last week, went down Monday with an apparent knee injury during the team’s training camp in Lake Forest. (Nam Y. Huh/AP)

Speed bump: Bryant’s knee injury puts damper on Bears’ first padded practice

A knee injury to safety Coby Bryant put a damper on the Bears’ first padded practice of training camp. According to ESPN, he’ll miss 8 to 10 weeks.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 

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