Cook County
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Elgin’s Bluff City Cemetery Walk honors local history and legaciesSep 24, 2025 10:09 pm - Experience Elgin's past through outdoor theatrical performances at the Bluff City Cemetery Walk on Sept. 27-28, highlighting notable locals like an early car dealer, a pioneering female driver, a decorated World War II pilot, and a road safety innovator.
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Girls volleyball: Massow powers Huntley past BarringtonSep 24, 2025 9:37 pm - Wednesday was only the third day of fall but summer has hardly disappeared from Huntley's highly-ranked girls volleyball team. That's Summer Massow, a 6-foot junior middl...
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Former Prospect Heights pastor cleared of abuse claimsSep 24, 2025 7:26 pm - The former pastor of St. Alphonsus Liguori Parish in Prospect Heights has been cleared of sex abuse allegations and reinstated to the ministry, Cardinal Blase Cupich of the Archdiocese of Chicago announced Wednesday.
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U-46 plans to spend $963M in 2025-26 school year, including major construction projectsSep 24, 2025 7:25 pm - The Elgin Area School District U-46 board on Monday approved a $963.2 million spending plan for fiscal year 2026.
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‘I will not apologize’: District 300 school board president defiant amid backlash over social media postSep 24, 2025 6:05 pm - After facing a backlash from parents for a social media post following Charlie Kirk’s death, the president of the Algonquin-based Community Unit District 300 school board says she won’t apologize.
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Golfer’s drive gets St. Edward program back on the linksSep 24, 2025 4:18 pm - St. Edward senior Kendall Pemberton wanted to play golf as a junior in 2024. So she recruited players and a coach to keep the program alive.
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Man held in custody after leading Aurora, Oak Brook police on two high-speed chasesSep 24, 2025 3:54 pm - A Berwyn man is being held in DuPage County jail after leading police from Oak Brook and Aurora on two high-speed chases Wednesday morning.
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No one hurt in Wheeling house fireSep 24, 2025 3:42 pm - No one was hurt in a house fire Tuesday night in Wheeling, but the home was left uninhabitable, authorities said.
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Planned industrial buildings in Schaumburg require demolition of 19 unincorporated homesSep 24, 2025 3:15 pm - A proposal for a pair of industrial buildings between Wintrust Field and Experior Logistics’ new trucking headquarters in southwest Schaumburg will require the demolition of all 19 houses along unincorporated Long Avenue.
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Long live the queen: Four seasons in a bumble bee colonySep 24, 2025 3:00 pm - The common eastern bumble bee, rusty patched bumble bee and nine other species live in Lake County. Their features differ. But the annual life cycles of their colonies and queens rhyme.