Cook County
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Softball: Conant pays tribute to beloved former player, coach GadomskiApr 23, 2025 9:50 pm - Northern Illinois softball commit Ava Falcone of Conant will never forget her first hitting and pitching coach Sammie Gadomski. In a special game dedicated to the late Ga...
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Baseball: Palatine splits series with Barrington, stays game back of Fremd in MSL West raceApr 23, 2025 9:35 pm - It lined up to be a pitcher’s duel between Palatine’s Toby Peterson, who is headed to play at Kentucky next year, and Barrington freshman sensation Jack Postma. But walks...
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Smackdown at village hall: Elk Grove mayor wrestles with trash talk, agrees to tag team matchApr 23, 2025 7:43 pm - Elk Grove Village Mayor Craig Johnson accepted two wrestlers' challenge to join a tag team match at a summer festival, turning a village board meeting Tuesday night into a spectacle resembling a WWE event.
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How Henderson overcame autism to become a nationally ranked junior bass fishermanApr 23, 2025 7:33 pm - Robbie “Goose” Henderson, a junior at Wauconda High School, is rated among the nation’s top junior bass fishers.
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Stevenson High School graduate Brunson wins award as NBA’s clutch playerApr 23, 2025 7:31 pm - New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson is the recipient of the Jerry West Trophy as the 2024-25 Kia NBA Clutch Player of the Year.
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Barrington breaks ground on long-awaited Route 14 underpassApr 23, 2025 4:14 pm - In an event 17 years in the making, Barrington officials finally sank shovels in the dirt Wednesday, getting construction on the Route 14 underpass officially underway.
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‘Heavy and heartbreaking’: Highland Park survivors testify as sentencing beginsApr 23, 2025 3:47 pm - The man who admitted to killing seven people and wounding dozens more at Highland Park’s 2022 Independence Day parade was a no-show Wednesday for the start of his sentencing hearing.
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Amid retirement reports, Schakowsky says she’ll announce decision May 5Apr 23, 2025 3:38 pm - Veteran Democratic U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Evanston on Wednesday said she hasn’t made up her mind about running in 2026 but will announce her intent soon.
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Survivors of 2022 July Fourth parade mass shooting describe chaos, panic and bloodshedApr 23, 2025 3:28 pm - Survivors recounted the horror a gunman caused when he fired dozens of bullets at a 2022 Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago, detailing during a sentencing hearing for the man on Wednesday how they fled the route, hid inside businesses or treated the wounded packed into an emergency room.
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Police: Niles man groped teenage girls in Park RidgeApr 23, 2025 3:20 pm - Park Ridge police have arrested a Niles man they say groped several teenage girls near downtown last summer.