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Proposed affordable housing project near Lake Zurich advances to a final voteAug 26, 2026 4:15 pm - Rezoning and other approvals needed for a 24-unit workforce housing apartment building near Lake Zurich have cleared another step before heading to the Lake County Board for a final vote.
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Bartlett Public Library planning informational meetings on November referendumsAug 26, 2026 4:00 pm - Bartlett Public Library officials have scheduled six informational meetings to further explain the two referendum questions on the Nov. 3 ballot and the relationship between them.
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Des Plaines man reports debit card fraud to policeAug 26, 2026 2:27 pm - Someone fraudulently used a Des Plaines resident’s debit card information to make three ATM withdrawals.
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‘Extremely committed to the community’: Kristen Graack was a teacher, library board member and moreAug 26, 2026 2:22 pm - Over the course of her life, Des Plaines resident Kristen Graack was a mapmaker for the U.S. government, a restaurateur and a teacher. She was a Des Plaines Public Library board member, too. Graack, 70, died Aug. 18, surrounded by family. She had cancer.
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Endeavor Health partners with District 211 to provide sports medicine services to athletesAug 26, 2026 2:14 pm - Endeavor Health and Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 have launched a new partnership providing sports medicine services and training support to student-athletes at all five district high schools.
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‘Our contingency plans have contingency plans’: Officials preparing for potential changes ahead of Election DayAug 26, 2026 1:41 pm - Suburban election officials insist a U.S. Supreme Court decision that preliminarily approves President Donald Trump’s order restricting mail-in voting isn’t affecting their plans for the Nov. 3 midterms.
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Villa Park man faces sexual abuse, battery charges in attack on Illinois Prairie PathAug 26, 2026 1:15 pm - A Villa Park man is charged with aggravated battery and sexual abuse in connection with a reported attack on a woman last week along the Illinois Prairie Path in Elmhurst, authorities said.
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Bailey implores GOP to improve turnout as campaign’s focus shifts to suburbs
Aug 26, 2026 12:58 pm - Darren Bailey told supporters on a downstate campaign tour this week that they won’t be seeing him again soon. Instead, he’ll be focusing his energy from now through November in Chicago and its suburbs.
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Plan for brewery on Durty Nellie’s site advances to Palatine village councilAug 26, 2026 12:30 pm - The plan to turn Durty Nellie’s into a restaurant and brewery received an enthusiastic reception from Palatine’s planning and zoning commission.
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Elmhurst University receives $1.5M gift for business school professorship and scholarshipsAug 26, 2026 11:54 am - An anonymous donor’s gift to Elmhurst University will establish an endowed professorship and a scholarship benefiting the university’s school of business and its students.