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A person wisely bundled up before heading out Tuesday morning in Elgin, as temperatures fell below zero throughout the suburbs overnight. The cold snap is expected to break Wednesday, but chilly weather could be back as soon as Thursday night, forecasters say.

News | Cold snap expected to break Wednesday, but temperatures could plunge again

The suburbs woke up to a deep freeze Tuesday, as temperatures plunged overnight to as low as -10 in some far western communities.
DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick said Tuesday that censure didn’t come up in a meeting with DuPage County Board Chair Deb Conroy and State’s Attorney Robert Berlin.

DuPage County | DuPage sheriff says censure was not discussed at meeting with county chair over gun ban

DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick says he was not threatened with censure during a meeting Monday with the county board chair and state's attorney. "We ALL agreed that our police should not be going to the homes of our law abiding residents to harass them over gun registration," Mendrick posted.
Balmoral Restaurant in Campton Hills recently landed at No. 63 on Yelp’s top 100 restaurants list in the United States.

News | 'Feel like royalty': Balmoral in Campton Hills makes Yelp's list of top 100 in the nation

Balmoral Restaurant in Campton Hills came in at No. 63 in Yelp's 10th annual list of top 100 restaurants in America, one of only two restaurants in Illinois placing on the list.
Robert E. Crimo III’s father Robert Crimo Jr., right, and mother Denise Pesina attend a hearing for their son before Judge Victoria A. Rossetti at the Lake County Courthouse on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, in Waukegan, Ill. Crimo III is accused of killing seven people and wounding dozens more in a shooting at an Independence Day parade in the suburban Chicago town of Highland Park, Ill.

Crime | Prosecutors continue to share evidence in Highland Park mass shooting case

Prosecutors reported no issues Tuesday in the lengthy process of reviewing materials and evidence for the criminal trial against the suspected Highland Park Fourth of July parade mass shooter.
Fire erupted out of a storage building Jan. 12 in an industrial area on the 1000 block of Lunt Avenue in Schaumburg. The cause of the fire has been determined to be sparks generated during work on a car inside the building.
News | Car repair mishap led to massive fire at industrial building in Schaumburg
A massive fire that led to the demolition of a storage building in an industrial area of southwest Schaumburg was caused by sparks generated by work on a car, investigators have determined.
News | Driver dies after two-vehicle crash near Bensenville
A Romeoville man was killed in a two-vehicle crash on Insterstate 294 near Bensenville Monday afternoon.
A 23-year-old Aurora man died early Tuesday after the car he was driving plunged into a retention basin and flipped over. Aurora police jumped into the icy water to pull the man from the vehicle, but he was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
News | Aurora man dies after car plunges into icy pond, flips over
A 23-year-old man died Tuesday after the car he was driving went plunged into a retention basin in southeastern Aurora and flipped over.
Yobane Fernandez-Villa
Crime | Pingree Grove man charged with 12 felonies after Carpentersville drug investigation
Authorities said they found Yobane Fernandez-Villa with a loaded Glock 21 handgun that had been stolen from Texas, as well as 1.77 kilos of cocaine, 1.781 grams of THC oil, a scale with suspected cocaine residue and approximately $7,300.
The billboard at 1580 E. Algonquin Road will be removed by its operator perhaps as early as St. Patrick’s Day now that the village of Schaumburg has closed on the purchase of the site.
Commercial Real Estate | Billboard, hot dog stand's days are numbered as Schaumburg closes on purchase of eyesore site
Schaumburg officials have closed on their $700,000 purchase of an eyesore property containing a crumbling hot dog stand and highway-style billboard in an effort to create a more attractive gateway at the village's northeast entrance.
A new Illinois law bans the sale and purchase of a long list of semi-automatic weapons defined as “assault weapons,” .50 caliber rifles and large-capacity magazines,
Crime | Appellate court upholds downstate restraining order on weapons ban
A temporary restraining order that partially blocks Illinois' new ban on high-powered weapons from being enforced will remain in place after a divided state appellate court panel's ruling Tuesday. The order applies only to the 800 or so gun owners and firearms dealers named as plaintiffs in an Effingham County suit.
Raising Cane’s, which opened this Naperville location in 2017, plans to open a new restaurant in Mount Prospect by September 2024. The plan has some residents concerned about traffic.
Commercial Real Estate | Raising Cane's plan raising traffic concerns for some in Mount Prospect
Raising Cane's is coming to Mount Prospect. And so, some residents say, is more traffic congestion at an already logjammed interseciton.
After being in business since 2016, the CVS Pharmacy at 1500 Lincoln Highway in St. Charles is set to close its doors on Wednesday.
Business | CVS Pharmacy in St. Charles closing Wednesday
The CVS Pharmacy at 1500 Lincoln Highway in St. Charles will close its doors Wednesday after more than six years in business.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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Lake Park celebrates its Class 3A state championship during the Competitive Dance finals at Grossinger Motors Arena in Bloomington Saturday.
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