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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.
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United Center megaproject sounds enticing, Burnett says. But who’ll pay for new Pink Line station?
Sep 28, 2024 9:43 pm - Zoning Committee Chair Walter Burnett says he’s enticed by plans for a proposed$7 billion mixed-use development that would transform a sea of United Center parking lots i...
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After a chaotic Congress, lawmakers head home to ask voters: How about another term?Sep 28, 2024 5:30 pm - Congress is off for the campaign season, as lawmakers from one of the most chaotic and unproductive legislative sessions in modern times try to persuade voters to keep them on the job.
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Trump lists his grievances in a Wisconsin speech intended to link Harris to illegal immigrationSep 28, 2024 5:16 pm - PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis. — Former President Donald Trump meandered Saturday through a list of grievances against Vice President Kamala Harris and other issues during an eve...
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SpaceX launches rescue mission for 2 NASA astronauts who are stuck in space until next yearSep 28, 2024 5:09 pm - SpaceX launched a rescue mission for the two stuck astronauts at the International Space Station on Saturday, sending up a downsized crew to bring them home but not until next year.
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Walz leaves Trump off his list of union membersSep 28, 2024 5:05 pm - In this week’s Facts Matter column, Bob Oswald examines claims that Americans overseas do not have to prove citizenship in order to vote, JD Vance rents a dog to take with him on appearances and more.