All Stories from August 31, 2025 (Change date)
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Algonquin police mourn passing of longtime evidence tech, community service officerAug 31, 2025 11:16 am - The Algonquin Police Department is mourning the death of Kim Peluso, who served at the department for 24 years.
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‘News of Gliniewicz being shot rippled through Lake County but also across the country’: Key players reflect on notorious case 10 years laterAug 31, 2025 11:02 am - There were no killers. Rather, it was an elaborate ruse by a well-known and, by some accounts, beloved officer who staged his own suicide to escape the outcome of a pending investigation. Fox Lake police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz’s notorious death 10 years ago made national news and its ripple effects across the law enforcement community reverberate to this day.
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Cary gives $10,000 to help restore 160-year-old downtown buildingAug 31, 2025 11:00 am - The new owner of a 160-year-old structure in downtown Cary that’s now an apartment building is looking to restore the exterior to its original state with the help of a $10,000 grant from the village.
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Naperville’s O’Reilly shows off a big leg at NorthwesternAug 31, 2025 10:00 am - Northwestern University freshman soccer player Aaron O’Reilly, a Naperville Central graduate, registered a goal and an assist in his first two collegiate games, earning Big Ten Conference honors.
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Week 1 of prep football is in the booksAug 31, 2025 9:21 am - What an opening weekend of football. Downers Grove North put an exclamation point on a exciting weekend with a last-second game-winning field goal against Morgan Park in...
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Prioritize federal role in public educationAug 31, 2025 9:03 am - Last Tuesday marked the anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing white women the right to vote. Only decades later did Black, brown, Asian ...
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Condemn totalitarianismAug 31, 2025 9:03 am - The president of the United States is trying to violate our First Amendment rights by dictating what art is suitable for display, which parts of our history are suitable ...
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A premature claim on National Guard deployment in ChicagoAug 31, 2025 4:00 am - In this week’s Facts Matter column, Bob Oswald examines claims that Donald Trump had already deployed National Guard troops to Chicago last week, someone changed the U.S. Constitution without going through Congress and more.
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Flag burning: Trump's latest, dangerous, stuntAug 31, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: A court challenge to Trump’s executive order on flag burning would be an opportunity to ask the court to overrule precedents that protect political speech from the suppression of a dictator.
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A Labor Day tribute to remember: COVID is five years behind us, but contributions of essential workers remain specialAug 31, 2025 4:00 am - Daily Herald opinion: At the height of the pandemic, we all took pains to honor the special sacrifices of our essential workers during a crisis. Five years later, it seems fitting to remember not only their efforts of that time, but the continuing role they play in keeping our communities comfortable, safe and healthy. As a reminder, the following editorial is a lightly edited, updated reprise of the editorial we published on Sept. 5, 2020.