Columns
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DCFS timeline shows no abuse reports on foster child until her deathAug 30, 2025 4:00 am - A timeline released by DCFS shows foster child McKenzi Felmlee had questionable oversight before her death, with frequent changes in caseworkers and accusations of abuse and neglect.
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Hundreds of police departments use camera company accused of breaking state lawAug 30, 2025 4:00 am - An automatic license plate reader company used by hundreds of police departments around Illinois broke state law by allowing federal border enforcement officers to access Illinois license plate camera data, according to Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias.
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‘Hate Divides, Love Unites’: Church buys billboard space that had hosted Proud Boys signAug 30, 2025 4:00 am - In response to an uproar over a Proud Boys message displayed on a billboard near Central Community High School in Breese, the United Methodist Church has a simple message: “Hate Divides, Love Unites.”
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More than 30 years on, hope endures in unsolved 1992 killingAug 30, 2025 4:00 am - New DNA techniques are raising hopes anew that Illinois authorities will find out who killed a Greeneville, South Carolina, woman whose car broke down on I-80 near LaSalle in 1992.
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‘What Holmstad is all about’: Annual bazaar in Batavia showcases senior community’s talents, generosityAug 29, 2025 5:35 am - The Holmstad senior living community in Batavia has been holding an annual bazaar for 47 years, with residents creating handmade items to sell and raise funds for scholarships and charity.
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Lack of kratom regulation causing health risks in IllinoisAug 29, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Heidi Sykora: The lack of regulation in Illinois threatens access to safe, quality natural kratom leaf.
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Trump is not the biggest threat to the Fed’s independenceAug 29, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy: Repeated attacks by President Trump highlight concerns over Fed independence, but fiscal policy also threatens it. Rising interest costs may subordinate Fed policy to fiscal decisions, enabling inflation.
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Counting down to prep football: One final thought on the thrill of opening nightAug 28, 2025 4:45 pm - Our countdown to opening night for prep football concludes with one final thought on the thrill of Friday night lights.
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The true courage in ‘telling it like it is’Aug 28, 2025 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: There is a lot to unpack in Gov. JB Pritzker’s appeal to news media to “tell it like it is” and not “pretend there are two sides” to the story of a possible National Guard deployment to Chicago.
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Lawmakers should act to reform utility rate systemAug 28, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Emmanuel Thomas: The biggest driver of rising energy bills is ComEd's delivery charges, not the cost of electricity, as the utility claims; lawmakers must reform utility ratemaking to rein in ComEd's out-of-control spending