Cook County
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Key trends influencing mortgage ratesMar 22, 2025 1:08 pm - Navigating the world of mortgages can be challenging, especially with the ever-changing housing market. Here are several key trends influencing mortgage rates and the overall market landscape.
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Conant student writes the book on investing for teensMar 22, 2025 1:06 pm - Isha Patel of Elk Grove Village, a 16-year-old junior at James B. Conant High School in Hoffman Estates, is the author of “Invest-Teen: The Ultimate Teen Investing Guide,” a book born out of her passion for finance and education.
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‘The customers got us through’: Wheeling eatery’s owners recall tactics used to survive pandemicMar 22, 2025 12:45 pm - Until March 2020, the father-and-son owners of The Original Granny’s in Wheeling thought the biggest worries about their then-39-year-old restaurant would always be finding and retaining the right staff as well as keeping favored food items in stock.
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The Biz Week That Was: Stalled development, rising home sales, and neighborly tax disputeMar 22, 2025 12:42 pm - What’s up with Wheaton apartment project? Developer could soon begin site’s demolition Developer Banner Real Estate envisioned 300-plus apartments along the south si...
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Voters to decide school, mental health, sales tax issuesMar 22, 2025 12:15 pm - From a $140.3 million school construction plan in far western Kane County to establishing a mental-health board in Palatine, voters are being asked to decide a slew of issues in the upcoming election.
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Boys track and field: Batavia wins another DKC indoor titleMar 21, 2025 11:47 pm - Batavia’s boys track and field team won its third DuKane Conference title in four years.
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District 15 school board candidates say what drives them to run for electionMar 21, 2025 5:33 pm - Palatine Township District 15 hopefuls discuss their priorities in an endorsement interview with the Daily Herald editorial board.
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‘The creepier, the grosser, the better’: Morbid Mementos brings macabre oddities to ElginMar 21, 2025 5:22 pm - Morbid Mementos recently opened in downtown Elgin, offering oddities and curiosities, bone art, occult supplies and more.
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Bartlett Police Chief Pretkelis retires, revealed as department’s Facebook page ‘wizard’Mar 21, 2025 5:12 pm - Accepting both the credit and the blame for the humor of the Bartlett Police Department’s Facebook posts, Police Chief Geoffrey Pretkelis revealed himself as “the man behind the curtain” as he announced his retirement from his official position this week.
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Man gets 27 years in prison for sexual assault, abuse of childMar 21, 2025 4:42 pm - An Elgin man was sentenced Friday to 27 years in prison for sexually assaulting and abusing an 11-year-old girl.