All Stories from April 25, 2025 (Change date)
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Stratton secures Pritzker’s backing in Senate bid, positions herself as ‘fighter’ of TrumpApr 25, 2025 3:54 pm - Just one day into her campaign to replace retiring Sen. Dick Durbin in the U.S. Senate, Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton on Friday received a key endorsement from Gov. JB Pritzker, nearly eight years after he first tapped her to be his running mate.
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Incumbent wins tiebreaker in Queen Bee school board raceApr 25, 2025 3:36 pm - One school board race in DuPage County came down to chance after two candidates received 895 votes apiece in this month’s election.
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Time to put PCA at leadoff spot? Counsell waves the stop signApr 25, 2025 3:16 pm - Pete Crow-Armstrong has been on a tear at the plate and is a contender to lead MLB in stolen bases. Cubs manager Craig Counsell explained Friday why he hasn’t moved PCA to the leadoff spot.
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Palatine preschoolers plant tree, unveil ‘Little Library’ for Arbor DayApr 25, 2025 2:42 pm - Raindrops didn’t deter Salt Creek Park District preschool students as they celebrated Arbor Day with a tree planting at the Rose Park Community Center in Palatine.
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Rosenblum named District 211’s new board presidentApr 25, 2025 2:39 pm - The three newly elected members of the Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 board of education were sworn in Thursday, but the board’s new officers were chosen from among the already seated members.
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ICE is reversing termination of legal status for international students around US, lawyers sayApr 25, 2025 2:32 pm - The federal government is reversing the termination of legal status for international students around the U.S. after many filed court challenges against the Trump administration crackdown, government lawyers said Friday.
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A new Netflix film features a hurtling Japanese bullet train with a ticking bombApr 25, 2025 2:31 pm - The highspeed bullet train says Japan as much as Godzilla, sushi and Mount Fuji. And it takes center stage in Shinji Higuchi’s new film, “Bullet Train Explosion,” which premiered on Netflix Wednesday.
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Canadians put off by Trump’s bluster and border arrests are booking far fewer US visitsApr 25, 2025 2:12 pm - Diana and Rick Bellamy initially planned to take a Caribbean cruise out of Houston before heading to Laurel, Mississippi, to visit the home of one of their favorite HGTV shows, “Home Town.”
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Beware of Facebook posts for ‘tariff relief’ payments. They’re lies.Apr 25, 2025 2:01 pm - Tricksters have been paying Meta to show you Facebook and Instagram posts touting a $750 “tariff relief credit” or $5,600 in “tariff relief benefits.”
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David Hogg riles Democratic Party with plans to primary incumbentsApr 25, 2025 1:41 pm - David Hogg, a top Democratic Party official, isn’t backing off his controversial plan to fund primary challenges against Democratic members of Congress he deems “ineffective” in reaching disaffected voters, particularly young ones.