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New interactive sculpture commissioned for Mundelein parkApr 23, 2024 9:31 am - A large, interactive sculpture of an upturned, oversized hand is coming to Mundelein’s Courtland Commons park. The village board on Monday voted to hire Kentucky artist M...
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Crime novelist to lead writing workshop at Des Plaines LibraryApr 19, 2024 2:52 pm - Crime-fiction writer Libby Fischer Hellman will lead a workshop about building suspense in your writing Wednesday at the Des Plaines Public Library, 1501 Ellinwood Ave. T...
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Wheeling expands, renames business grant programApr 19, 2024 1:27 pm - A Wheeling grant program that helps business owners pay for renovations and other site improvements is expanding again — and getting a new name. Perhaps most significantl...
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Why a former garbage dump could be turned into a solar farmApr 18, 2024 8:09 pm - A private company wants to create a solar farm on the site of a former landfill in South Barrington. The proposal is for vacant land at 541 E. Mundhank Road. The 110-acre...
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Des Plaines awards $250,000 in social service grantsApr 17, 2024 2:43 pm - Thirty-seven community programs and groups that aim to assist troubled kids, homeless people, sexual assault victims and others in need will receive grants totaling $250,...
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South Barrington cops getting pay raisesApr 16, 2024 12:21 pm - South Barrington police officers will get pay raises under a new four-year contract. The village board approved the pact with the union representing full-time patrol offi...
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Flood prevention a key focus of new North Barrington budgetApr 16, 2024 10:37 am - A flood prevention project in North Barrington is the showcase project in North Barrington’s new annual budget, officials said. The village board on Monday night approved...
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Des Plaines moves to ban sale of unregulated hemp productsApr 15, 2024 8:39 pm - The Des Plaines City Council on Monday took a big step toward outlawing the local sale of potentially intoxicating products made from hemp or kratom plants. Without oppos...
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‘It’s terribly sad’: Two dead in Wheeling murder-suicideApr 12, 2024 7:09 am - A Wheeling couple with a history of domestic problems are dead in what authorities on Friday called a murder-suicide. The bodies of Marisa Dister, 46, and Russell O’Conno...
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Des Plaines woman loses $8,000 to man posing as federal agent, police sayApr 09, 2024 3:41 pm - A man posing as a federal agent scammed a Des Plaines woman out of $8,000 last week, police said. The impostor called the woman on April 5 and said he was with U.S. Custo...