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Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC allegations it duped customers into enrolling in Prime
Sep 25, 2025 4:41 pm - Amazon has reached a historic $2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which said the online retail giant tricked customers into signing up for its Prime memberships and made it difficult for them to cancel after doing so.
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Come for the food, stay for ax-throwingSep 25, 2025 3:16 pm - Local officials and well wishers Wednesday welcomed Up North Axe & Tap at 547 N. Milwaukee Ave., in downtown Libertyville, a Northwoods-themed restaurant and bar that also features four ax-throwing lanes.
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Cook County launches grant to support businesses ready for growthSep 25, 2025 3:06 pm - Cook County on Thursday launched a new grant program, offering 88 established businesses in select industries a chance to receive $100,000 to fuel their growth.
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Deer Park Town Center gets new tenantsSep 25, 2025 2:23 pm - Deer Park Town Center is getting a new lineup of restaurants and retailers opening this year. The latest tenants include Toastique, LaserAway, Warby Parker and American Eagle.
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Why Illinois is issuing separate COVID-19 vaccine guidelines for fallSep 24, 2025 5:32 pm - Illinois widens approvals for COVID-19 shots, says CDC foments “confusion and uncertainty.”
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Lumber duties fail to stop price slump as housing demand falters
Sep 24, 2025 4:02 pm - When the Trump administration more than doubled import fees on Canadian softwood lumber earlier this year, the goal was to support domestic prices and boost U.S. production. Instead, prices have plunged, and mills on both sides of the border are scaling back.
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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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Trump's workforce purge batters DC's job market and leads to rise in homes for sale, report finds
Sep 24, 2025 2:14 pm - The Department of Government Efficiency's remaking of the federal workforce has battered the Washington job market and put more households in the metropolitan area in financial distress, according to a report released Wednesday.
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Condo budget approval timeline explainedSep 24, 2025 1:23 pm - Does the Illinois Condominium Property Act state a date by which a board must meet to adopt the annual budget?
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‘Trying to build a community’: Three bourbon lovers bring auction house/bar Aged in Oak to Vernon HillsSep 24, 2025 10:08 am - “This is something we are truly passionate about,” partner James Hall says about Aged in Oak, the recently opened establishment that marries a bar with a bourbon auction house in Vernon Hills.