All Stories from June 18, 2025 (Change date)
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Headlining Windy City Smokeout, Old Dominion isn’t sitting on record-breaking laurelsJun 18, 2025 8:55 am - When Old Dominion’s eighth group of the year victory broke the tie for consecutive wins at the 60th annual Academy of Country Music Awards, it changed the record books — but not their perspective. The band releases a new album in August and tours to Chicago’s Windy City Smokeout Friday, July 11.
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What’s ahead for Waubonsie Valley’s estimated $143 million school renovationJun 18, 2025 8:45 am - As Waubonsie Valley High School nears its 50th anniversary, Indian Prairie Unit District 204 officials have detailed plans for a sweeping renovation.
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Dining out: Portillo’s expands breakfast test, Sicilian- and lobster-themed dinners and moreJun 18, 2025 8:38 am - What’s on suburban menus this week: Breakfast at Portillo’s, a Sicilian cuisine-themed dinner at Niche in Geneva, a lobster boil at Main Street Social in Libertyville, summer seafood at Truluck’s in Rosemont and more.
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Authorities: Reckless driver wreaks havoc, injuring several people during chase through Lake CountyJun 18, 2025 8:16 am - A reckless driver caused mayhem in Lake County and injured several people during a police chase Tuesday evening near Gurnee, authorities said.
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Mount Prospect, Des Plaines approve settlement with Prestige Feed ProductsJun 18, 2025 8:15 am - The two-year legal battle pitting two Northwest Cook County suburbs against an odor-causing animal feed producer is now over.
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Singer R. Kelly alleges mistreatment after hospitalization and prison ‘murder plot’Jun 18, 2025 6:36 am - R. Kelly collapsed in prison and was hospitalized, attorneys said in court filings this week, adding the details to the singer’s extraordinary allegations of a murder plot by prison officials that he argues require temporary release on home detention. Government lawyers have dismissed the claims as a “fanciful conspiracy.”
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Whole Foods Market opening next week in St. CharlesJun 18, 2025 6:35 am - The wait is nearly over for St. Charles shoppers looking forward to browsing the aisles of the new Whole Foods Market downtown.
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Fear stalks Tehran as Israel bombards, shelters fill up and communicating grows harderJun 18, 2025 6:34 am - The streets of Tehran are empty, businesses closed, communications patchy at best. With no bona fide bomb shelters open to the public, panicked masses spend restless nights on the floors of metro stations as strikes boom overhead.
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Iran’s leader rejects call to surrender, saying US intervention would cause ‘irreparable damage’Jun 18, 2025 6:32 am - Iran's supreme leader on Wednesday rejected U.S. calls for surrender in the face of blistering Israeli strikes and warned that any military involvement by the Americans would cause “irreparable damage” to them, in an official statement read by a state TV anchor.
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The best bowls are delicious, complete and convenientJun 18, 2025 6:06 am - Do you remember when the only thing served in a bowl was soup, breakfast cereal or an ice cream sundae? My, how things have changed! Today, bowls are a vehicle for just about anything. This recipe for Asian Salmon Bowls is a favorite.