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From Chicago to the World Cup: Local fans embark on soccer pilgrimagesJun 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.
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Palatine church delivers good news with gas giveawayJun 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.
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District 23 breaks ground on Eisenhower addition to facilitate all-day kindergarten mandateJun 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.
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El Niño is here and scientists fear it’ll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires
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.
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Man pleads guilty to killing a top Minnesota Democrat and her husband while posing as an officer
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.
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FISA spy powers are almost certain to expire after Congress fails to act
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.
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Trump plans to nominate US Attorney Jay Clayton to be national intelligence director
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.
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Wheeling man convicted of running down former friend wins appeal, but could still lose in the endJun 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.
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Body found in Des Plaines lake, foul play not suspectedJun 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.
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Aurora man faces multiple drug, gun possession chargesJun 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.