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From Chicago to the World Cup: Local fans embark on soccer pilgrimages

By Dave Oberhelman
Jun 11, 2026 5:21 pm - For soccer fans from suburban Chicago, World Cup 2026 will send them across North America in search of the human drama of athletic competition. And a good time.
Palatine church delivers good news with gas giveaway

By Steve Zalusky
Jun 11, 2026 4:57 pm - A Palatine church will hand out $25 of free gasoline to every driver who pulls into a Dundee Road gas station early Sunday afternoon.
District 23 breaks ground on Eisenhower addition to facilitate all-day kindergarten mandate

By Steve Zalusky
Jun 11, 2026 4:55 pm - Prospect Heights District 23 officials broke ground Thursday on an addition to Eisenhower Elementary School, launching a construction project aimed at meeting a state mandate for full-day kindergarten by August 2027.
El Niño is here and scientists fear it’ll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires

By SETH BORENSTEIN
Jun 11, 2026 4:21 pm - El Nino, Nature's chaotic climate agent, has formed in a warmed-up Pacific Ocean and is expected to grow to historic strength, meteorologists announced Thursday.
Man pleads guilty to killing a top Minnesota Democrat and her husband while posing as an officer

By TIM SULLIVAN and HANNAH FINGERHUT
Jun 11, 2026 4:14 pm - A Minnesota man who pounded on Democratic lawmakers' doors in the middle of the night while posing as a police officer, killing the state House speaker and her husband and wounding a state senator and his wife, pleaded guilty to murder Thursday so that federal prosecutors would not seek the death penalty.
FISA spy powers are almost certain to expire after Congress fails to act

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, LISA MASCARO and SEUNG MIN KIM
Jun 11, 2026 4:03 pm - A key surveillance tool that allows the United States to collect intelligence abroad appears certain to expire after Congress on Thursday failed to temporarily extend the program, in a protest of President Donald Trump 's temporary pick to head the nation's intelligence agencies.
Trump plans to nominate US Attorney Jay Clayton to be national intelligence director

By COLLIN BINKLEY, LARRY NEUMEISTER and MICHAEL R. SISAK
Jun 11, 2026 3:58 pm - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to nominate Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, as director of national intelligence.
Wheeling man convicted of running down former friend wins appeal, but could still lose in the end

By Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas
Jun 11, 2026 2:01 pm - A Wheeling man serving a 50-year prison sentence for running over and killing a former friend in 2020 won his appeal this week, but it may not be enough to get him a new trial.
Body found in Des Plaines lake, foul play not suspected

Daily Herald report
Jun 11, 2026 12:59 pm - Foul play isn’t suspected in the death of a Rosemont many whose body was found in Des Plaines’ Lake Opeka, authorities said Thursday.
Aurora man faces multiple drug, gun possession charges

By Rick West
Jun 11, 2026 12:09 pm - An Aurora man is facing multiple felonies after authorities searched his home this week and found guns, drugs and drug distribution-related paraphernalia.

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