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Ballroom donors won $50B in contracts after giving to Trump project, watchdog group finds
Jun 04, 2026 6:26 pm - More than half the publicly identified donors to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion during the past six months, according to a report released Thursday by a government watchdog group.
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Naperville police make another gun arrest at TopgolfJun 04, 2026 6:17 pm - A convicted felon was ordered held in jail pretrial in DuPage County after being arrested with a loaded firearm outside Naperville’s Topgolf facility Wednesday.
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Supreme Court chooses Kane County judge to head up electronic monitoring fixJun 04, 2026 6:06 pm - In the wake of several high-profile electronic monitoring failures — the most recent leading to the killing of a Chicago police officer — the Illinois Supreme Court is launching a new task force to fix the system. And it’ll be a suburban judge leading the way.
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Buffalo Grove’s 2050 vision gets nod from planning panelJun 04, 2026 6:00 pm - Buffalo Grove’s planning and zoning commission voted this week to recommend the village’s 2050 comprehensive plan.
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Suburban schools ready for state ban on cellphones in classJun 04, 2026 5:52 pm - A pending state law will require school districts to largely ban students from using cellphones during the school day. But many suburban districts have already done that and say they are seeing a difference already in student behavior.
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Residents concerned over gun wholesaler relocating to Mount ProspectJun 04, 2026 4:37 pm - A firearms wholesaler has a group of residents concerned over its relocation from Des Plaines to Mount Prospect.
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St. Charles leaders affirm historical significance and role of the Fox River damJun 04, 2026 4:21 pm - St. Charles City Council members made it clear this week that the Fox River dam — and impoundment north of it — are important to the city.
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Trump scraps ocean sensors providing crucial data on climate, flooding
Jun 04, 2026 4:14 pm - The Trump administration’s decision to dismantle most of a $386 million federal ocean-observing network will leave scientists without an irreplaceable source of data used to understand how climate change is affecting crucial currents and marine ecosystems and increasing coastal flooding.
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Hezbollah rejects latest ceasefire agreement as Israeli strikes kill 4 in Lebanon
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At least 10 people killed in strikes on Gaza, hospitals say