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Home & garden calendar, Sept. 14-26Sep 14, 2026 9:00 am - Upcoming gardening club meetings and events in the Chicago suburbs, covering topics like Little City’s horticulture program or how hydrangeas change color. Also, listings of garden shows, nature walks and workshops.
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COD’s Youth Academy sets summer enrollment recordSep 13, 2026 9:02 pm - College of DuPage’s Youth Academy recorded its highest summer enrollment with over 4,500 registrations, offering 380+ camps and courses for K-12 students in areas like culinary arts, manufacturing, graphic design, welding and business.
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Police say Flock is invaluable. But as misuse mounts, many wonder how to rein in the surveillance systemSep 13, 2026 3:32 pm - Automated license plate readers — increasingly synonymous with Flock, though there are other brands on the market — photograph the license plates and other identifiers of passing vehicles. Police officers are then able to search and share the data for investigations. But a growing number of cops throughout the Chicago area and across the country have been accused of searching those databases for personal reasons. Civil liberties activists too are alarmed that law enforcement departments could use the cameras to work with immigration officials or surveil ordinary citizens.
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‘Safe, stigma-free alternative’: DuPage County Crisis Recovery Center marks anniversarySep 13, 2026 9:43 am - In its first year of operations, DuPage County’s Crisis Recovery Center has completed more than 2,200 onsite assessments, providing mental health and addiction recovery services to thousands of residents and easing the strain on area emergency rooms.
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Cross country: St. Charles North edges Hersey on tiebreakerSep 12, 2026 3:54 pm - The 51st annual Harvey Braus Invitational was as close a finish for the team title as you can get in boys cross country Saturday morning at Lake Park. Led by undefeated i...
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Vander Luitgaren, Zeng put up big numbers as Batavia rolls past Lake ParkSep 11, 2026 10:58 pm - Final score: Batavia 55, Lake Park 7 Records: Batavia moves to 3-1, 2-0 in the DuKane Conference while Lake Park falls to 1-3, 0-2. Player of the game: Michae...
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Lake Park High Theatre opens season with ‘Bedtime Stories’ for kidsSep 11, 2026 8:42 am - Lake Park High School is putting on "Bedtime Stories (As Told by Our Dad) (Who Messed Them Up)" Sept. 16, featuring 17 student actors and 20 crew members. The play follows a father who improvises classic fairy tales for his three children.
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Girl power: Big vocals, savvy casting fuel Paramount’s ‘Mean Girls’Sep 10, 2026 2:02 pm - Paramount Theatre’s regional premiere of “Mean Girls” benefits from outsize performances from the actors playing the musical’s titular queen bees and wannabes.
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DuPage Water Commission gets more federal money for new Lake Michigan water projectSep 10, 2026 1:54 pm - The DuPage Water Commission has received another $500,000 from the federal government for a plan to build a $6 billion system to draw water from Lake Michigan.
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Share your community event in Daily Herald’s 2026 Holiday Happenings guideSep 10, 2026 9:38 am - Nonprofits and community organizations can submit their Thanksgiving 5Ks, craft fairs, holiday fests, tree lightings, holiday walks, Nutcracker shows, Breakfasts with Santa, or other family events for free by Sept. 25 on the Daily Herald's online calendar.