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Park Ridge police seek video in investigation of battery that left a teen seriously injuredMay 23, 2026 11:44 am - Residents in a Park Ridge neighborhood are being asked to review door bell or surveillance camera footage from Monday evening as police investigate a battery that resulted in serious injuries to a teen.
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‘The site is clean’: Former Kerr-McGee property in West Chicago declared safe to start park projectMay 23, 2026 11:30 am - Decades after the Kerr-McGee factory shut down in West Chicago, city officials are moving ahead with a plan to transform the notorious site into a recreational area.
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One killed in early morning Tri-State crash near GurneeMay 23, 2026 10:49 am - One person was killed and another injured in an early morning crash Saturday on the Tri-State tollway south of Route 120 in the Gurnee area.
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Students find purpose and community impact at West Suburban Community PantryMay 23, 2026 12:22 am - Local high school students are making significant impacts through volunteer work at West Suburban Community Pantry. Peyton Szydlowski, newly appointed president of the Pantry's Junior Board, has been volunteering since elementary school and emphasizes the importance of helping struggling community members.
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DeVry University Advantage Academy graduates celebrate early college milestonesMay 22, 2026 11:45 pm - DeVry University Advantage Academy celebrates 76 high school students from Chicago and Atlanta who graduated with both their high school diplomas and associate degrees.
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After misconduct accusation in ‘Broadview 6’ case, former lead prosecutor fired from new D.C. job
May 22, 2026 6:23 pm - The federal jury trial for the remaining “Broadview Six” protesters may have been canceled, but the fallout from Thursday’s bombshell revelations of alleged prosecutorial misconduct in the case continued Friday, with the former lead prosecutor’s firing from her new job and defense attorneys making moves toward sanctions.
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Photo Gallery: Stevenson, Libertyville and Vernon Hills graduationsMay 22, 2026 6:14 pm -
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Girls flag football is booming in suburbs, with pipeline that begins in kindergartenMay 22, 2026 5:05 pm - Women's flag football will debut at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles but on fields across the region, the future is closer to home and growing fast.
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Memorial Day forecast: Gas a painful $5.14 a gallon, O’Hare expects 1.75 million passengersMay 22, 2026 4:56 pm - The cheapest gas in neighboring states may be found in Indiana where the average for a gallon of regular is $4. Here’s other long weekend travel tips.
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A proposed additive ban could change New York’s pizza and bagels, some say for the betterMay 22, 2026 4:47 pm - After more than a decade of mixing and kneading dough in his family’s Brooklyn pizzeria, Salvatore Lo Duca recently made a distressing discovery: A key component of their thin-crust pies, bromated flour, contained a suspected carcinogen already banned in much of the world.