All Stories from August 30, 2026 (Change date)
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Three dogs, one cat killed in Des Plaines fireAug 30, 2026 8:12 am - Three dogs and one cat died in a fire in Des Plaines early Sunday morning, fire officials said.
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‘A perfect storm of problems’: Feds dig into gate flaw and crew fatigue in deadly Elgin train crashAug 30, 2026 8:04 am - “I was fighting sleep” before a fatal Kane County train crash, an engineer tells the NTSB. But there are other issues at play, documents show.
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Can this new initiative get Congress to do something about Social Security?Aug 30, 2026 4:00 am - Guest columnist Keith Peterson: Two modern-day Don Quixotes, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin and Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy — a Democrat and a Republican — are trying to fix Social Security. They are prepared to grab the third rail of American politics because the system is in deep trouble and, in roughly 140 days, they will no longer be senators, so they assume no risk to careers that end on Jan. 20, 2027.
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What Dolly is taking with herAug 30, 2026 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: “If you're trying to decide what to do, and you only have two choices, do the thing that's hardest,” my pop used to tell me. “The right thing is always the hardest thing.”
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