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Cook County declares disaster from Aug. 16-19 storms

Daily Herald report
Aug 28, 2025 11:09 am - Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle issued a disaster proclamation Wednesday in response to storms that hit the region Aug. 16-19, leading to severe flooding in suburbs including Mount Prospect.
Elgin police reopen portion of Randall Road after semi overturns

By Jake Griffin
Aug 28, 2025 11:08 am - An overturned semitrailer truck caused Elgin police to close northbound lanes of Randall Road near Hopps Road Thursday morning until about 3:30 p.m. No injuries were repo...
Trump, Gabbard purged top CIA Russia expert days after Alaska summit

By Warren P. Strobel, Ellen Nakashima, Greg Miller and Karen DeYoung
Aug 27, 2025 10:38 pm - In the days leading up to President Donald Trump’s Aug. 15 Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, one of the CIA’s senior-most Russia experts worked gruelin...
Our Lady of Guadalupe sculpture makes appearance in Des Plaines

By Madhu Krishnamurthy
Aug 27, 2025 10:20 pm - A life-size sculpture of the “Pilgrim Mother” — Our Lady of Guadalupe — made its first U.S. stop in Des Plaines Wednesday as part of an international tour. The exhibition will be open to the public in the St. Joseph Chapel at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe and remain on display there through Sept. 30.
National Guard troops deployed in DC add sanitation, landscaping duties

By Tara Copp
Aug 27, 2025 8:57 pm - The August air was crisp Tuesday as members of D.C’s National Guard, a key component of President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of the District, scooped, spread and smoothed mounds of mulch around the city’s treasured Tidal Basin cherry trees.As they raked, specks of dirt and mulch floated upward into early morning sunbeams, an idyllic image starkly at odds with the president’s portrayal of Washington as a violent, lawless dystopia.
Louisiana urges Supreme Court to bar use of race in redistricting, in attack on Voting Rights Act

By MARK SHERMAN
Aug 27, 2025 8:16 pm - Louisiana on Wednesday abandoned its defense of a political map that elected two Black members of Congress and instead called on the Supreme Court to reject any consideration of race in redistricting in a case that could bring major changes to the Voting Rights Act.
CDC director being ousted refuses to resign, says RFK Jr. is ‘weaponizing public health’

By Lena H. Sun, Dan Diamond and Lauren Weber
Aug 27, 2025 8:06 pm - The Trump administration moved Wednesday to oust Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after she faced pressure to change vaccine policy, sparking the resignation of other senior CDC officials and a showdown over whether she could be removed.Hours after the Department of Health and Human Services announced Monarez was no longer the director, her lawyers responded with a fiery statement saying she has not resigned or been fired.
Man accused of secretly recording people in bathrooms at Naperville club

By Susan Sarkauskas
Aug 27, 2025 8:02 pm - A man is accused of secretly videotaping 11 people in restrooms at a boxing club in Naperville.
A man has been accused of carjacking women, twice within a week, in Naperville and Warrenville.

By Susan Sarkauskas
Aug 27, 2025 7:20 pm - A man has been accused of carjacking women twice recently in Naperville and Warrenville. Archie Banks, 63, of the 1500 block of Westminster Drive, Naperville, is accused ...
Journalist’s final images show the Gaza hospital stairwell where she was killed by an Israeli strike

By EDITH M. LEDERER and JOHN SEEWER
Aug 27, 2025 6:57 pm - The last photos taken by Mariam Dagga show the damaged stairwell outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip where she would be killed by an Israeli strike moments later. Dagga,...

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