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St. Charles Electric Christmas Parade canceled Saturday due to snowstorm
Nov 29, 2025 1:27 pm - St. Charles’ annual Electric Christmas Parade has been canceled because of the snow that’s expected to leave at least half a foot of snow on the ground.
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Trump says he wants to ‘permanently pause’ migration to the US from poorer countries
Nov 29, 2025 1:06 pm - President Donald Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the United States by revoking their legal status. He is blaming immigrants for problems from crime to housing shortages as part of “social dysfunction” in America and demanding “REVERSE MIGRATION.”
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Zelenskyy’s chief of staff resigns after anti-corruption investigators search home
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Retired Arlington Heights man shows children, adults what it means to be a good neighborNov 29, 2025 12:00 pm - Gerry Grapenthien is a beloved neighbor on his block of Donald Avenue, known for his willingness to help and his presence in the community.
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Living history: Hawthorn Woods village barn a symbol of being ‘rural, by design’Nov 29, 2025 11:45 am - As the home of administrative offices, police department, meeting space and community event center, the 1880s-era dairy barn pictured on Hawthorn Woods’ village logo is the embodiment of its “Rural by Design” philosophy and purpose.
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Fire destroys 24-unit apartment building in CarpentersvilleNov 29, 2025 10:18 am - Carpentersville fire officials are investigating the cause of a late-night fire that destroyed an apartment building and displaced dozens of people.
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‘Creating a sisterhood:’ A year into Marmion’s coed journey and what it means for the ‘brotherhood’Nov 29, 2025 9:00 am - Around 80 female students are expected to enroll in the freshman and sophomore classes at Marmion Academy in 2026, with plans for single-gender core classes and coeducational activities.
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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Nov 28, 2025 9:49 pm - The longer the U.S. surveillance aircraft followed the boat, the more confident intelligence analysts watching from command centers became that the 11 people on board were ferrying drugs.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a verbal directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. “The order was to kill everybody,” one of them said.
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Northwestern University reaches deal to restore federal funding, officials sayNov 28, 2025 9:49 pm - Federal troubles that loomed over Northwestern University in Evanston for months seem to be over.The university announced Friday that it has reached a deal with the federal government to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in research funding, while also ending what the school's interim president calls “a deeply painful and disruptive period in our university's history.”
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Pulte proposes 66-unit townhouse development in LisleNov 28, 2025 7:48 pm - The homebuilder behind a new residential subdivision in Lisle wants to develop a townhouse community to the east of the former Family Square, an empty shopping center at the gateway to the village’s downtown.