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GOP must cut Medicaid or Medicare to achieve budget goals, CBO finds
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...
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High school student helps draft bill to put opioid overdose meds in Illinois libraries
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.
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Lisle’s French market gets room to growMar 06, 2025 5:29 pm - Lisle trustees say “oui” to French market move downtown and new food truck markets.
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A weak Pope Francis thanks people for their prayers ‘from the bottom of my heart’ in audio message
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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Batavia man facing federal investment fraud chargesMar 06, 2025 4:02 pm - A Batavia man is facing federal fraud charges after prosecutors said he lied to clients about investment opportunities and spent their money on personal items.
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Spooked by Trump and Putin, Europe rushes to rearm
Mar 06, 2025 3:56 pm - BRUSSELS — The European Union, an entity that has long cast itself as a peace and trade project, is in crisis talks Thursday focused on defending itself. Along with the s...
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Trump envoy says Ukrainians ‘brought it on themselves’ after US pauses aid and intelligence sharing
Mar 06, 2025 3:53 pm - WASHINGTON — Ukraine was given “fair warning” by the White House before President Donald Trump this week ordered a pause on U.S. military assistance and intelligence shar...
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With electricity price spikes coming, environmental and industry groups pitch reform
Mar 06, 2025 3:26 pm - Illinois faces potential energy shortfalls and all-but-guaranteed price spikes for northern Illinois this summer, consumer and environmental advocates say.
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Obama archive in Hoffman Estates planned move to Maryland before appearance on DOGE listMar 06, 2025 3:13 pm - The Department of Government Efficiency recently claimed to end an annual $1.48 million lease of a Hoffman Estates building as the temporary archive of the Barack Obama Presidential Library, but the materials’ imminent move to a permanent site in Maryland had already been announced last August.
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Late night fire guts garage of Kildeer home, leaving it uninhabitableMar 06, 2025 2:11 pm - A fire tore through the three-car garage of a Kildeer home late Wednesday rendering the house uninhabitable.