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Trump’s tariffs remain unpopular, a warning sign for Republicans
Aug 30, 2025 1:38 pm - Four months after voters and financial markets recoiled at global trade wars, Wall Street and Main Street have taken sharply different views about President Donald Trump’s signature economic policy.
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Blame high taxes, excessive regulations for businesses fleeing IllinoisAug 30, 2025 12:45 pm - Illinois has a remarkable entrepreneurial spirit, but too many of our businesses don’t stay. In the past several years, companies including Takeda, Caterpillar, Highland Ventures and Tyson have all fled Illinois’ suburbs and moved their headquarters out of state.
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‘Every day is a struggle’: Gliniewicz widow says she’s still devastated 10 years laterAug 30, 2025 11:45 am - A decade after Fox Lake police Lt. Charles Joseph "Joe" Gliniewicz died, his widow, Melodie Gliniewicz, says she has become a virtual recluse, struggling with severe panic disorder, anxiety, and PTSD.
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DCFS timeline shows no abuse reports on foster child until her death
Aug 30, 2025 4:00 am - A timeline released by DCFS shows foster child McKenzi Felmlee had questionable oversight before her death, with frequent changes in caseworkers and accusations of abuse and neglect.
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Hundreds of police departments use camera company accused of breaking state law
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‘Hate Divides, Love Unites’: Church buys billboard space that had hosted Proud Boys sign
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More than 30 years on, hope endures in unsolved 1992 killing
Aug 30, 2025 4:00 am - New DNA techniques are raising hopes anew that Illinois authorities will find out who killed a Greeneville, South Carolina, woman whose car broke down on I-80 near LaSalle in 1992.
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Fundraising tour set in Geneva’s 1892 historic courthouse Sept. 18
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Public hearing set on Campton Hills 900-home development. Here’s what’s in annexation agreement
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Fox Lake father faces child endangerment, child pornography charges; mother charged with child endangermentAug 29, 2025 8:18 pm - Logan J. Jentink, 29, of Fox Lake faces charges of possession of child pornography, child endangerment and cruelty to animals. Lake County authorities say his three young children were living in “horrid” conditions and multiple animals were malnourished and neglected.