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Vernon Hills High School senior’s Kit Outreach delivers hygiene products to those in needSep 29, 2024 3:40 pm - Vernon Hills High School senior Siddharth Avula hopes to live in a world where access to hygiene products is a human right, not a privilege.That’s why the 17-year-old founded The Kit Outreach.
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Suspects in custody after fatal shooting in StreamwoodSep 29, 2024 2:17 pm - Multiple suspects are in custody in connection with the fatal shooting of a 24-year-old Elgin man early Sunday morning in Streamwood, authorities said.
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Three injured in Huntley crashSep 29, 2024 1:56 pm - Three people were injured in two-vehicle car crash Saturday morning in Huntley, officials said.
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Shodeen ordered to make historic blacksmith shop “weather-tight”Sep 29, 2024 1:28 pm - The Shodeen Family Foundation has been ordered by a Geneva hearing officer to make a historic blacksmith shop at 4 E. State St. “weather-tight” by Oct. 17.
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Sugar Grove issues clarification on referendum petitionSep 29, 2024 1:14 pm - Sugar Grove officials say that residents cannot place a binding referendum on the ballot seeking to overturn the village’s annexation of the 760 acres intended for what’s known as The Crown development.
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Mount Prospect pickleball facility’s opening a smashing successSep 29, 2024 11:31 am - Players and spectators jammed The Picklr on Saturday as Mount Prospect’s new indoor pickleball facility held its grand opening.
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Bartlett marks OktoberfestSep 29, 2024 8:59 am -
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‘Short corn’ could replace the towering cornfields steamrolled by a changing climate
Sep 29, 2024 6:00 am - Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that seem to block out nearly everything other than the sun and an occasional water tower.
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Suburbs shouldn’t impose their own grocery taxesSep 29, 2024 5:13 am - Gov. JB Pritzker attempted some political theater this spring when he and the General Assembly eliminated the statewide grocery tax. It was a hollow victory for taxpayers.
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Medicare Advantage shopping season arrives with a dose of confusion and some political implicationsSep 28, 2024 10:36 pm - Thinner benefits and coverage changes await many older Americans shopping for health insurance this fall. That's if their plan is still available in 2025. More than a million people will likely have to find new coverage as major insurers cut costs and pull back from markets for Medicare Advantage plans, the privately run version of the federal government's coverage program mostly for people ages 65 and older.