All Stories from September 18, 2025 (Change date)
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Bad Bunny, Amy Poehler and Sabrina Carpenter will host ‘Saturday Night Live’Sep 18, 2025 12:22 pm - Fresh off its historic 50th season, “Saturday Night Live” is kicking off its 51st with some familiar faces: Bad Bunny, Amy Poehler and Sabrina Carpenter.
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‘Him’ fumbles a potent premiseSep 18, 2025 12:12 pm - “Him” was made with the potent premise of bringing a kind of dark, satirical perspective to our violent national pastime: pro football. But that promise gets fumbled in an allegorical chamber play that grows increasingly tedious.
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Fall is prime season for home improvement scams, BBB warnsSep 18, 2025 11:35 am - As the crisp air of autumn rolls in, homeowners begin preparing for colder weather — and unfortunately, scammers do, too. The Better Business Bureau is warning consumers to stay vigilant against seasonal scams that tend to spike during the fall months.
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McHenry County fills top job from within its ranksSep 18, 2025 11:21 am - McHenry County promoted a familiar face to the county administrator role. Scott Hartman, who is the deputy county administrator, was promoted to the county’s top non-elected job in a unanimous vote Tuesday by the McHenry County Board.
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Mount Prospect renews contract with controversial license plate camera reader outfitSep 18, 2025 11:21 am - Mount Prospect village board members this week approved a two-year renewal of its license plate camera reader contract with Flock Safety, despite significant data privacy violations discovered earlier this year.
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Friendly coaches ready to square off as No. 9 Illinois and No. 19 Indiana try to stay unbeatenSep 18, 2025 10:59 am - Bret Bielema and Curt Cignetti don't have a long relationship, but it is clear they admire each other's work. They sat together at last year's Big Ten spring meetings, crisscross one another's recruiting paths and have built budding powers in the Big Ten, Bielema at No. 9 Illinois and Cignetti at No. 19 Indiana. Both have 3-0 marks this season and top 20 teams heading into one of Saturday's featured games.
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Who are the area’s top quarterbacks of this century?Sep 18, 2025 10:47 am - Throughout this prep football season, we’ll be presenting the area’s top players of the century. This week, we start with the top 10 quarterbacks from the last 25 years.
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‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ is big, bold and sappySep 18, 2025 10:22 am - Starring Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie, the rom-com “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” is a movie that sometimes cuts to the core of human feeling and sometimes has an audience cringing at its achingly whimsical pretensions.
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Man dies from blunt impact injuries after riding coaster at new Florida amusement park Epic UniverseSep 18, 2025 9:54 am - A patron at one of the nation’s newest amusement parks, Epic Universe, has died after riding a roller coaster there, Florida authorities said.
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Did ducks at a Buffalo Grove pond die of botulism? Village working with state to find outSep 18, 2025 9:05 am - Buffalo Grove officials said the village is aware of reports of dead ducks in Pritchett Pond behind Pritchett Elementary School, as well as concerns about avian botulism.