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Kennedy’s vaccine advisers change COVID shot guidance, calling them an individual choice

By MIKE STOBBE and LAURAN NEERGAARD
Sep 19, 2025 4:23 pm - Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers added confusion Friday to this fall’s COVID-19 vaccinations — declining to recommend them for anyone and leaving the choice up to those who want a shot.Until now, the vaccinations had been recommended as a routine step in the fall for nearly all Americans who wanted them — just like a yearly flu vaccine.
Speakers again debate transgender students’ access to sports teams at District 211 meeting

By Eric Peterson
Sep 19, 2025 3:27 pm - Supporters and critics of a state law enabling transgender students to participate on sports teams consistent with their gender identity again debated the issue at the Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 board meeting Thursday.
Wall Street coasts to the finish of its latest record-setting week

By STAN CHOE
Sep 19, 2025 3:26 pm - Wall Street tacked on some more gains as it glided to the finish of its latest record-setting week. The S&P 500 rose 0.5% Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.7%.
ICE arrests nearly 550 in Chicago area as part of ‘Midway Blitz’

By REBECCA SANTANA
Sep 19, 2025 3:02 pm - Immigration enforcement officials have arrested more than 400 people as part of an operation in the Chicago area that launched a little less than two weeks ago, a top Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said Friday.
Protesters try to block vehicles at key immigration building in suburban Broadview

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO and COREY WILLIAMS
Sep 19, 2025 1:39 pm - Protesters tried to block vehicles Friday outside a federal immigration enforcement building in suburban Chicago, leading to a confrontation with authorities who used a chemical agent to disperse the crowd.
CyrusOne proposes 120-acre data center campus

By Joey Weslo
Sep 19, 2025 1:31 pm - CyrusOne, the developers who teamed up with Green Door Capital for Yorkville’s first data center plans, are back with another proposal. This time the developers are eyein...
$1.2 million face-lift proposed for McHenry’s Cold Springs Park

By Janelle Walker
Sep 19, 2025 1:30 pm - Since Cold Springs Park was donated to the city of McHenry in 1994, there has been little development on the 46-acre parcel.A new proposal developed by the McHenry parks and recreation department, with the help of Hitchcock Design Group and resident input, would spend $1.2 million to enhance nature-based play areas and more.
Sale of central, Southern Illinois newspaper group puts new state law to the test

By Ben Szalinski
Sep 19, 2025 1:28 pm - A newspaper publisher in central and southern Illinois has sold its papers to a Kentucky-based company, testing a new state law designed to keep newspaper ownership local.
‘It’s amazing’: Glen Ellyn District 41 offers full-day kindergarten with 12-classroom center

By Katlyn Smith
Sep 19, 2025 12:26 pm - Glen Ellyn Elementary District 41 has unveiled a new kindergarten center with a tree house theme and its own mascot. The 12-classroom center allows the district to offer all-day kindergarten. “To see it all come together into this … I am beyond thrilled that we're here,” Superintendent Jeff McHugh said.
Jack O’Lantern World returns to Lake Zurich Sept. 26; second location opening in Lemont

By Ryan Cole
Sep 19, 2025 12:12 pm - Jack O’Lantern World, annually held in Lake Zurich and expanding this year to Lemont, will carve more than 10,000 pumpkins this year for visitors to come see between its two locations.

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