Cook County
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‘Losing this funding will cause deaths’: Suburban leaders blast Trump’s federal funding freezeJan 30, 2025 12:34 pm - Suburban gun violence prevention efforts, counseling programs for sexual abuse victims and road improvement projects would be crippled if President Donald Trump’s controversial order to freeze spending on federal grants and loans stands, advocates for those causes said Thursday.
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‘It was never a job for him’: Longtime Mount Prospect florist dies at 97Jan 30, 2025 12:31 pm - Harold Busse, who turned Busse’s Flowers into a Mount Prospect institution, has died at 97.
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Fire leaves South Elgin home uninhabitableJan 29, 2025 11:20 pm - A home in South Elgin was left uninhabitable Wednesday morning after a fire officials believe may have been sparked by a mini-fridge.
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Wheeling man charged in Elgin shooting, ordered detainedJan 29, 2025 11:12 pm - A Kane County judge on Wednesday ordered a Wheeling man detained after he was accused of a shooting Sunday afternoon in Elgin, officials said. When officers responded to ...
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Girls basketball: Carmel continues its surge, avenges loss to St. ViatorJan 29, 2025 9:29 pm - Carmel's girls basketball team came to Arlington Heights on Wednesday night to play its third game in three days. You would have never known watching the Corsairs avenge ...
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Man killed in South Elgin Monday after SUV crashes into traffic signal poleJan 29, 2025 8:15 pm - South Elgin police are investigating a fatal single-vehicle crash in which a man was killed when his SUV struck a traffic signal pole.
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Caregiver charged after Bensenville group home resident suffers serious burnsJan 29, 2025 8:04 pm - A caregiver at a Bensenville group home is facing felony charges stemming from an incident that left an older resident with second-degree burns to a majority of her lower body, state authorities said Wednesday.
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Prominent Illinois Democrats to speak at Kane County Truman Dinner fundraiser March 2Jan 29, 2025 7:42 pm - Kane County Democrats are hosting the annual Truman Dinner on March 2, featuring Illinois politicians Alexi Giannoulias, Susana Mendoza, Illinois AFL-CIO president Tim Drea, and keynote Pam Davidson.
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Arlington Heights District 25 set to borrow final $15 million for kindergarten and building projectsJan 29, 2025 7:21 pm - Arlington Heights Elementary District 25 next week plans to sell the remaining $15 million in bonds from the $75 million authorized by voters in 2022 for full-day kindergarten and building projects.
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Forest preserve district sues to acquire property, while West Chicago wants housing thereJan 29, 2025 6:17 pm - The Forest Preserve District of DuPage County has filed a condemnation lawsuit against the owners of a property abutting Pratt’s Wayne Woods, months after the West Chicago City Council approved plans for a townhouse-style development on part of the site.