Des Plaines
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Healthy Babies Drive: Local Nonprofit Collecting Much-needed ItemsApr 08, 2026 1:34 pm - Keeping kids safe as they grow is a parent’s most essential and challenging responsibility, especially for first-time caregivers.
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Northwest Choral Society to perform Vaughan Williams works in Des PlainesApr 08, 2026 1:12 pm - Northwest Choral Society’s 2025-26 concert season concludes at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 3, at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Des Plaines, with a program of works by the 20th-century English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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Home & garden calendar, April 7-18Apr 07, 2026 4:16 pm - Learn about gardening club meetings and events in the Chicago suburbs, covering topics like integrating natives into traditional gardens, tulip history, and more. Also, listing of spring wildflower walks and plant sales.
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Waymo begins testing in Chicago as bill seeks to legalize autonomous vehiclesApr 07, 2026 12:43 pm - Autonomous vehicles, known as AVs, currently are being tested on the streets of Chicago. A bill in the legislature would eventually allow such driverless vehicles to operate in Illinois counties that have more than 1 million residents, plus Sangamon and three downstate jurisdictions. They could replace rideshare and taxi drivers.
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Celebrating creativity: Meet the 2026 District 214, Daily Herald Community Art & Writing Contest winnersApr 06, 2026 11:29 am - We proudly present the winners of the Arts Unlimited District 214/Daily Herald Community Arts and Writing Contest. Their winning submissions will publish over the next week.
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Third place winners, 2026 Arts Unlimited District 214/Daily Herald Community Arts and Writing ContestApr 06, 2026 11:20 am - Here are the third-place winners in the 2026 Arts Unlimited District 214/Daily Herald Community Arts and Writing Contest. The first-place winners published on March 20; second-place winners published on March 25.
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College Achievers: Once a Hersey volleyball star, now one of Iowa’s women in the boatApr 05, 2026 4:32 pm - College Achievers: The Big Ten Conference last week named its “Boats of the Week” for rowing. One of them was the University of Iowa women’s Varsity Eight. On that Hawkeyes boat — which she never could have imagined before her junior year at Hersey High School — was sophomore Leah Nawrot.
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Mount Prospect manufactured home fire believed accidentalApr 05, 2026 2:19 pm - A fire at a manufactured home near Mount Prospect is believed accidental.
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Easter Mass draws faithful at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des PlainesApr 05, 2026 2:13 pm - With sun streaming in through a skylight inside the Chapel of St. Joseph, Fr. Esequiel Sanchez delivered Easter Sunday mass in English to a full crowd at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines.
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Boys water polo: St. Charles co-op clinches tournament title; Hersey tops Mundelein for third placeApr 04, 2026 9:24 pm - St. Charles co-op defeated Glenbrook South 11-6 at the St. Charles boys water polo tournament championship match Saturday.