All Stories from August 19, 2025 (Change date)
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A Texas Democrat sleeps at the Capitol to protest GOP actions in Texas redistricting fightAug 19, 2025 5:25 pm - AUSTIN, Texas — Democratic Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier refused to come to the state Capitol for two weeks. Now she won’t leave. Collier was among dozens of Democrats ...
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Suburbs regrouping from onslaught of recent stormsAug 19, 2025 5:22 pm - Residents of a Mount Prospect condo building that had a portion of its roof sheared off by a microburst Saturday are among the suburban residents recovering from a series of storms that hit the suburbs over the weekend and continued into the early week.
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The best blue paint colors, according to design prosAug 19, 2025 5:16 pm - As a paint color, blue is endlessly versatile, in part because it works well with many other colors. Here are nine shades of blue that designers swear by.
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Benedet inserts himself into Bears’ left tackle competitionAug 19, 2025 5:05 pm - After an injury altered his rookie season, Theo Benedet has inserted himself into the Bears’ left tackle competition.
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Do Bears have answer at left tackle with Braxton Jones? Why is it still a question?Aug 19, 2025 4:47 pm - The talk of a four-man open competition at left tackle dominated Bears talk this week and led to a lot of “If you have four left tackles, you don’t have one” kind of jokes.
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West Dundee to charge residents with lead water service lines part of the replacement costAug 19, 2025 4:38 pm - People who have West Dundee replace their lead or galvanized pipe water-service lines are going to have to pay part of the cost, around $5,000, the village board decided Monday.
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No. 6 Notre Dame names CJ Carr starting quarterback over Kenny MincheyAug 19, 2025 4:38 pm - Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman named second-year quarterback CJ Carr his starting quarterback Tuesday, ending the preseason competition with Kenny Minchey. The announcem...
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Slumping Tucker takes time off in strideAug 19, 2025 4:23 pm - Cubs outfielder Kyle Tucker was supposed to start his time off in Monday’s doubleheader nightcap. But since it was rained out, he was not in the lineup for Tuesday’s Game 1.
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Local teacher honored for 25 years at Elgin’s St. John’s Lutheran SchoolAug 19, 2025 4:08 pm - As the new school year began, St. John’s Lutheran Church and School celebrated preschool teacher Linda Childers in her 25th year of teaching.
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A record 383 aid workers were killed in global hotspots in 2024, nearly half in Gaza, UN saysAug 19, 2025 3:57 pm - UNITED NATIONS — A record 383 aid workers were killed in global hotspots in 2024, nearly half of them in Gaza during the war between Israel and Hamas, the U.N. humanitari...