All Stories from May 17, 2025 (Change date)
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Your guide to Summer FunMay 17, 2025 1:36 pm - Summer in the suburbs means fairs, festivals and fireworks, and Summer Fun — included in today’s Daily Herald — is the perfect guide to those events and more. Summer Fun...
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The Biz Week That Was: Sears’ HQ nearly razed, Dick’s buys Foot Locker, and Walmart warns of higher pricesMay 17, 2025 1:35 pm - The demolition of Sears campus in Hoffman Estates is almost done The demolition of Sears’ former 2.4 million-square-foot headquarters in Hoffman Estates is entering ...
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‘I’m still battling this’: Endeavor Health recruiting patients for long-COVID studiesMay 17, 2025 1:34 pm - Researchers still are working to understand long COVID, a condition encompassing a laundry list of symptoms.
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Severe weather leaves at least 23 dead, including 14 in storm-battered KentuckyMay 17, 2025 1:29 pm - LONDON, Ky. — Storm systems sweeping across parts of the U.S. Midwest and South have left at least 23 people dead, many of them in Kentucky, where what appeared to be a d...
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Illinois’ motor fuel tax is working as intended: Fixing roads and keeping up with costsMay 17, 2025 1:28 pm - Every July 1 since 2019, Illinois’ motor fuel tax ticks upward with the rate of inflation. And every year, the same talking heads emerge attacking it as some evidence of broken government.
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People on the move: Fehr Graham; Pulse TechnologiesMay 17, 2025 1:26 pm - Fehr Graham hiring and promotions Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, recently hired Josh Elmore as an engineer. Based in the firm...
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Pope Leo XIV not registered as a Republican in IllinoisMay 17, 2025 1:23 pm - In this week’s Facts Matter column, Bob Oswald examines claims that the new pope is a registered Republican, three European leaders were caught with drugs and more.
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AI poses new moral questions. Pope Leo says the Catholic Church has answers.May 17, 2025 1:15 pm - Artificial intelligence might not seem like an obvious focus for a new pope taking over the world’s largest Christian church. AI is developing faster than most people can...
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Boys track and field: Batavia defends its DuKane Conference title in storm-delayed meetMay 17, 2025 12:40 pm - It surely wasn’t the best day for track and field. From a dust storm that turned into a 90-minute storm delay, to high powered winds that caused the pole vault to be post...
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Rare dust storm that raced through Chicago area caused by strong winds from cluster of thunderstormsMay 17, 2025 11:19 am - A rare dust storm swept in from the southwest and enveloped the Chicago metropolitan area Friday evening, darkening the sky and creating eerie images.