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Pritzker wants Illinois to be latest state to ban cellphones in classroom

By BEN SZALINSKI
Mar 07, 2025 6:41 am - Are cellphones a useful tool or a distraction in the classroom? According to Gov. JB Pritzker, they’re a distraction, and he has proposed banning them during classroom instruction.
Differing opinions among South Barrington candidates on controversial church plan

By Russell Lissau
Mar 07, 2025 6:40 am - A candidate for South Barrington’s village board has criticized how village officials handled a controversial proposal to build a church and religious school on vacant land in town. Other candidates defended the way the village dealt with the matter, which now is in legal limbo.
Attorney jailed for missing start of trial in DuPage County

By Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas
Mar 07, 2025 5:15 am - An attorney who had asked for a criminal trial to be postponed in DuPage County has been jailed herself after missing the start of the trial.
Half a million US jobs on the line as DOGE fallout spreads

By Augusta Saraiva, Mark Niquette and Jarrell Dillard
Mar 06, 2025 7:59 pm - The Trump administration’s rapid efforts to dramatically shrink the size of federal government have economists rethinking forecasts for another solid year of labor market...
Trump administration plans 15% cut to VA workforce

By Gaya Gupta
Mar 06, 2025 7:56 pm - The Department of Veterans Affairs announced plans Wednesday to cut roughly 80,000 jobs, more than 15% of its employees, the latest in President Donald Trump’s effort to ...
Draft executive order calls for closing Education Dept.

By Laura Meckler
Mar 06, 2025 7:52 pm - President Donald Trump is set to issue an executive order as soon as Thursday directing his newly confirmed education secretary to work to close the department she now le...
GOP must cut Medicaid or Medicare to achieve budget goals, CBO finds

By Jacob Bogage
Mar 06, 2025 7:49 pm - Republicans in Congress cannot reach their goal of cutting at least $1.5 trillion in spending over the next 10 years for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” on...
High school student helps draft bill to put opioid overdose meds in Illinois libraries

By Ismael M. Belkoura
Mar 06, 2025 6:38 pm - Jordan Henry, a senior at the Illinois Math and Science Academy, is working with her local state representative on a bill that would require public libraries to keep on hand medications that can reverse an opioid overdose.
Lisle’s French market gets room to grow

By Katlyn Smith
Mar 06, 2025 5:29 pm - Lisle trustees say “oui” to French market move downtown and new food truck markets.
A weak Pope Francis thanks people for their prayers ‘from the bottom of my heart’ in audio message

By COLLEEN BARRY and NICOLE WINFIELD
Mar 06, 2025 4:03 pm - ROME — A weak and breathless Pope Francis thanked people for their prayers for his recovery in a remarkable audio message broadcast Thursday, the first public sign of lif...

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