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Trump urges patience, blames Biden after weak economic newsApr 30, 2025 1:01 pm - President Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday morning at increasingly dim economic forecasts that have cast his policies in a harsh light and clouded what he has hoped would be a valedictory marker of his 100 days in office.
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POW/MIA Chair of Honor installed at McHenry County courthouseApr 30, 2025 12:18 pm - The Rolling Thunder group has donated a chair honoring POW and MIA service members to the McHenry County Sheriff's Office.
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Oui, chef! ‘Carême’ introduces world’s first celebrity chef, a Napoleonic-era kitchen godApr 30, 2025 11:05 am - Antonin Carême is a dream in the kitchen — and elsewhere in the house. He makes a mean cream-puff tower. And he’s got moves like Jagger. Now a new Apple TV+ period drama, “Carême,” argues that he was the very first celebrity chef.
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How bugs and beet juice could play roles in the race to replace artificial dyes in foodApr 30, 2025 10:40 am - Last week, U.S. health officials announced plans to persuade food companies to voluntarily eliminate petroleum-based artificial dyes by the end of 2026. “Most of our customers have decided that this is finally the time when they’re going to make that switch to a natural color,” said Dave Gebhardt, senior technical director at Sensient Technologies Corp., one of the world’s largest dyemakers. But is the industry ready?
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‘We’re simply keeping what was already ours’: Huntley adopts local grocery taxApr 30, 2025 9:45 am - Huntley has become the latest municipality in the McHenry County area to go for a local grocery tax.
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Wall Street storms back from early losses, echoing its manic moves through a historic AprilApr 30, 2025 8:55 am - U.S. stocks began Wednesday with a thud after a report suggested the U.S. economy may have shrunk at the start of the year. But the big losses soon eased in the latest sharp swings to hit Wall Street amid uncertainty about what President Donald Trump’s trade war will do to the economy.
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Lucky ducks: Algonquin officers rescue ducklings from sewer drainApr 30, 2025 8:51 am - Algonquin police officers were able to save nine baby ducklings unharmed after they stumbled into a sewer drain Sunday.
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Batavia plans to continue collecting grocery tax, despite state repealApr 30, 2025 8:46 am - Batavia is among hundreds of municipalities in Illinois considering whether to create a local grocery tax in response to the state’s decision to eliminate the current one after 2025.
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Barbra Streisand announces new duets album with Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Mariah Carey and moreApr 30, 2025 8:43 am - Barbra Streisand is still a woman in love, and she’ll do anything to get you into her world. That includes a new collection of duets with some of the biggest names in music.
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U.S. economy shrinks 0.3% in first quarter as Trump trade wars disrupt businessApr 30, 2025 7:56 am - The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.3% annual pace from January through March, first drop in three years. It was slowed by a surge in imports as companies in the United States tried to bring in foreign goods before President Donald Trump imposed massive tariffs.