All Stories from November 18, 2025 (Change date)
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Proposed e-bike regulations progressing in Des PlainesNov 18, 2025 7:52 pm - The Des Plaines City Council on Monday tentatively approved local regulations for e-bikes, e-scooters and similar battery-powered vehicles.
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Trump administration announces dismantling of parts of Education Dept.Nov 18, 2025 7:50 pm - The Education Department said Tuesday that it will move several of its offices to other federal departments, a unilateral effort aimed at dismantling an agency created by Congress to ensure equal access to educational opportunity but long derided by conservatives as ineffective.
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Fourth annual Elgin Sing-Along Messiah to benefit Well Child CenterNov 18, 2025 7:46 pm - The Elgin Sing-Along Messiah returns for a fourth year with a new date and location. This year’s sing-along of selections of Handel’s ”Messiah” will be Thursday, Dec. 4, at Second Baptist Church
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Trump tells Congress don’t ‘waste’ time on Obamacare creditsNov 18, 2025 7:41 pm - President Donald Trump said he will not support legislation to extend expanded Affordable Care Act subsidies even as senators are preparing to tee up a vote on the issue, complicating his party’s efforts to address health care costs.
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Trump attacks ABC News correspondent Mary Bruce in angry response to three sharp questionsNov 18, 2025 7:21 pm - President Donald Trump denounced ABC News' Mary Bruce as a “terrible reporter” Tuesday and threatened the network's license to broadcast after she asked him three sharp questions at the White House.
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Training our minds to be thankfulNov 18, 2025 7:16 pm - Years ago, the Rev. Greg Asimakoupoulos discovered faces in nature, leading him to train his brain to recognize such patterns. A friend's book on everyday miracles taught him how the brain can be trained to notice blessings and goodness around us, just as he learned to see faces in unexpected places.
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Cook Board president, officials back efforts to unionize at Chicago Botanic GardenNov 18, 2025 6:59 pm - Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle led a press conference Tuesday supporting unionizing efforts among employees of Chicago Botanic Garden
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What to know about the F-35 fighter jet that Trump is selling to Saudi ArabiaNov 18, 2025 6:52 pm - President Donald Trump says he has agreed to sell the nation's most advanced fighter jet to Saudi Arabia despite concerns that China could gain access to the plane's vaunted American technology. The sale to the Middle Eastern nation, whose top trading partner is China, was reaffirmed Tuesday during Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to Washington.
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Senate President Don Harmon avoids $10M fine after election board deadlocksNov 18, 2025 6:46 pm - Senate President Don Harmon will not have to pay a nearly $10 million fine for violating state campaign finance laws last year after the State Board of Elections deadlocked Tuesday on approving the fine.
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‘Like they forgot her’: Sleepy Hollow teen’s death was reclassified a homicide, but family still awaits justiceNov 18, 2025 6:31 pm - Sixteen years after their 19-year-old daughter died in their backyard pool, and three years after her death was classified a homicide, Martha and Larry Schneider of Sleepy Hollow are still seeking answers about how she was killed.