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‘I stared down the barrel of a gun’: Lawmakers focus on transit safety at hearingApr 22, 2025 9:12 pm - CTA workers describe violence on the job, suburban, Chicago lawmakers listen amid transit reform churn.
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Probation, restitution for ex-employee who stole $142K from Palatine businessApr 22, 2025 8:29 pm - A former employee of a Palatine seal-coating company and her husband were ordered to pay restitution of more than $140,000 to the owners as a condition of their guilty pleas to a theft which authorities say occurred from 2019 through 2023.
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Krishnamoorthi joins Little City Earth Day celebration on horticultural center anniversaryApr 22, 2025 8:26 pm - U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi joined a small crowd gathered Tuesday at the Little City campus in Palatine to celebrate Earth Day.
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Buffalo Grove hikes fines on smoke shops selling THC productsApr 22, 2025 8:22 pm - Buffalo Grove is raising fines on licensed tobacco shops that sell synthetic and hemp-derived THC products like Delta-8.
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Arlington Heights honors outgoing mayor, who is town’s longest-serving elected officialApr 22, 2025 7:11 pm - As Arlington Heights' longest-serving elected official after 34 years on the village board, Mayor Tom Hayes received honors and accolades at his final village board meeting Monday night.
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Residents displaced by Lindenhurst house fireApr 22, 2025 6:29 pm - Residents were displaced following a house fire in Lindenhurst on Tuesday afternoon.
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Buffalo Grove board approves local grocery taxApr 22, 2025 5:53 pm - Buffalo Grove trustees voted this week to impose a 1% local tax on groceries when the state’s 1% tax expires on Jan. 1.
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80 years ago this week, a Cook County forest preserve was converted into a POW labor campApr 22, 2025 5:51 pm - Nature is slowly reclaiming a swath of land buried deep inside a suburban forest preserve near Des Plaines that was turned into a World War II prisoner of war labor camp 80 years ago this week.
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Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Education Department says
Apr 22, 2025 4:55 pm - The Education Department will begin collection next month on student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for potentially millions of borrowers, officials said Monday. Currently, roughly 5.3 million borrowers are in default on their federal student loans. Beginning May 5, the department will begin involuntary collection through the Treasury Department's offset program, which withholds payments from the government, including tax refunds, federal salaries and other benefits, from people with past-due debts to the government.
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Pope Francis worried about greeting crowd in St. Peter's Square but was thankful he did, report says