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Feb 13, 2026
Thirteen educators from Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Elementary District 181 have been recognized with the 2026 Those Who Excel award.
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Feb 13, 2026
Illinois' three House Republicans — all loyal Trump supporters who reliably vote with the president — may have recalibrate as they weigh in on increasingly unpopular positions.
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Feb 13, 2026
This green approach avoids the release of smoke from cremation and the leaking of fluids from burying embalmed bodies.
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Feb 13, 2026
Paul Modrowski was 18 years old when prosecutors charged him and a co-defendant with the murder of a friend, Dean Fawcett, whose headless body was discovered months earlier near railroad tracks in Barrington.
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Feb 13, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 13, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Feb 13, 2026
On Feb. 13, 1996, the rock musical "Rent," by Jonathan Larson, premiered off-Broadway less than three weeks after Larson's death.
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Feb 12, 2026
Authorities said the 18-year-old alleged shooter, identified as Jesse Van Rootselaar, killed her mother and 11-year-old stepbrother before heading to the nearby Tumbler Ridge Secondary School and opening fire, killing five children and an educator before killing herself.
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Feb 12, 2026
In the Midwest, climate change is fueling extreme heat, toxic algal blooms in the Great Lakes and tornadoes across Illinois.
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Feb 12, 2026
Activists say the death toll from a crackdown over Iran's nationwide protests has reached at least 7,000 with many more people still feared dead.
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Feb 12, 2026
An assistant principal and childcare worker at Evanston schools face charges of child sexual abuse in Cook County and Florida.
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Feb 12, 2026
President Donald Trump has nominated for director of the National Park Service an executive from a hospitality company that has extensive contracts with the agency he would lead.
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Feb 12, 2026
A Northwest Indiana state senator introduced two amendments to a House electric affordability bill that were shot down before the legislation makes its way to the Senate floor. State Sen. Rodney Pol Jr., D-Chesterton, introduced an amendment that would require electric utilities to offer 12-month payment plans and another that would require companies to explain […]
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Feb 12, 2026
Toni Preckwinkle called Thursday for State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke to pursue charges against federal agents in the killing of Silverio Villegas González and shooting of Marimar Martinez.
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Feb 12, 2026
The Environmental Protection Agency revoked its own 2009 "endangerment finding," a scientific conclusion that for 16 years has been the central basis for regulating planet-warming emissions.
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Feb 12, 2026
U.S. stocks fell sharply Thursday as the market punished companies seen as potential losers from artificial-intelligence technology.
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Feb 12, 2026
A search of the Tribune's archives found the significance of five of the Black Panther heritage sites — including the apartment where Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were killed.
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Feb 12, 2026
Police are investigating after a woman was pulled from the water Thursday afternoon on the city's Lower West Side near the South Ashland Avenue Bridge over the Chicago River.
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Feb 12, 2026
Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas held stock for years in a company with a major contract working in her office, a potential violation of the county's conflict-of-interest rules.
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Feb 12, 2026
Don Tracy, Jeannie Evans and Casey Chlebek appeared Wednesday night at an hour-long debate. Each made some missteps as they contended a Republican could win the race to succeed retiring Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin.
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Feb 12, 2026
Disgraced former Chicago police detective Reynaldo Guevara invoked his 5th Amendment rights against self-incrimination more than 80 times Thursday in an ongoing federal wrongful conviction trial where he is accused of beating witnesses and coercing a confession in a 1989 gang-related slaying in Humboldt Park.
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Feb 12, 2026
Democrats said the White House offer, which was not made public, did not include sufficient curbs on ICE after two protesters were fatally shot last month.
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Feb 12, 2026
Merrillville officials hope a letter denying the existence of a Department of Homeland Security contract on a warehouse in town will calm residents' nerves about a theoretical immigrant detention center.
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Feb 12, 2026
The city of Aurora will hold a wreath-laying ceremony on Sunday to honor those who lost their lives in the mass shooting at the Henry Pratt Co. facility in the city seven years ago.
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Feb 12, 2026
The Northwestern alum discovered and bought the shop Eximious while living in London as the wife of the U.S. ambassador to the U.K.
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Feb 12, 2026
Hundreds of students in Portage, Griffith and Munster held walkouts Thursday to voice their opposition to actions by ICE.
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Feb 12, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Feb 12, 2026
Zeldin and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy have moved to drastically scale back limits on tailpipe emissions from cars and trucks. Rules imposed under Democratic President Joe Biden were intended to encourage U.S. automakers to build and sell more electric vehicles. The transportation sector is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.
The Trump administration announced a proposal in December to weaken vehicle mileage rules for the auto industry, loosening regulatory pressure on automakers to control pollution from gasoline-powered cars and trucks. The EPA said its two-year delay to a Biden-era rule on greenhouse gas emissions by cars and light trucks will give the agency time to develop a plan that better reflects the reality of slower EV sales, while promoting consumer choice and lowering prices.
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Feb 12, 2026
President Donald Trump says he intends to block a new bridge connecting the United States and Canada that aims to ease congestion at the busiest trade corridor between the two nations.
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Feb 12, 2026
A group of six Chicago Public Schools board members blasted Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday, accusing City Hall of sabotaging a professional search for a new head of the school district.
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Feb 12, 2026
James Van Der Beek, who died Wednesday at 48, seemed to understand early on that his lasting legacy in Hollywood would be the title character of "Dawson's Creek."
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Feb 12, 2026
The fast food giant said Wednesday that its global same-store sales — or sales at locations open at least a year — jumped 5.7% in the October-December period. That's better than the 3.9% Wall Street was expecting, according to analysts polled by FactSet.
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Feb 12, 2026
Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services one year ago, he has defended his upending of federal health policy by saying the changes will restore trust in America's public health agencies.
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Feb 12, 2026
Investigators are pleading with people to share home surveillance camera footage from specific dates leading up to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie as they deal with thousands of tips in their hope to crack the case of "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie ‘s missing mother.
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Feb 12, 2026
Officers found a 70-year-old man and 43-year-old woman unresponsive inside a residence in the 4500 block of South Albany Avenue around 8 p.m.
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Feb 12, 2026
The Trump administration is ending the immigration crackdown in Minnesota, border czar Tom Homan said Thursday of the two-month operation that led to thousands of arrests, angry mass protests and the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens.
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Feb 12, 2026
The immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to mass detentions, protests and two deaths is coming to an end, border czar Tom Homan said Thursday.
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Feb 12, 2026
Key senators and the families of the 67 dead in an airliner collision with an Army helicopter near the nation's capital are convinced that advanced aircraft locator systems recommended by experts for nearly two decades would have prevented last year's tragedy. But it remains unclear if a bill will pass Congress requiring the systems around busy airports.
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Feb 12, 2026
Dolton seeks reclaim $1.9 million from Fifth Third Bank, saying it paid unauthorized checks signed by then-Mayor Tiffany Henyard.
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Feb 12, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Feb 12, 2026
About 6 in 10 U.S. adults say President Donald Trump has "gone too far" in sending federal immigration agents into American cities, according to a new AP-NORC poll.
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Feb 12, 2026
Lindsay Slater Hannigan, who is director of the University of Illinois at Chicago's Human and Sport Performance Laboratory, talks about her work with Olympic skaters.
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Feb 12, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 12, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Feb 12, 2026
On Feb. 12, 2019, Mexico's most notorious drug lord, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, was convicted in New York of running an industrial-scale drug smuggling operation, murder and money laundering. (Guzman is currently serving a life sentence at the federal supermax prison facility in Florence, Colorado.)
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Feb 11, 2026
Proposal would increase local accountability by setting water and electricity reporting requirements and water efficiency standards, and ensure community engagement.
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Feb 11, 2026
An immigration judge on Wednesday denied bond to a Chicago man acquitted last month of charges he offered money for the killing of Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino.
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Feb 11, 2026
Mayor Brandon Johnson's fight with aldermen about the budget continued Wednesday as council members said they are organizing to monitor his execution of the plan.
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Feb 11, 2026
The lack of progress in the Nancy Guthrie investigation has generated pressure and questions for local and federal investigators who haven't held a news conference in days.
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Feb 11, 2026
A long-awaited analysis of the Chicago Police Department's staffing and deployment calls for the hiring of hundreds more officers while urging scores of other positions be shifted to civilians.
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Feb 11, 2026
The sentencing hearing unfolded almost exactly six years after the slaying that rattled the tight-knit Chinatown community just a month before much of the world shut down at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Feb 11, 2026
An Indiana immigration bill allowing local and state police to enforce federal immigration laws and for those officers to cooperate with ICE was amended Tuesday
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Feb 11, 2026
Bud Cort, who personified the role of Harold in the 1971 Hal Ashby classic "Harold and Maude," died Wednesday in Connecticut after a long illness. He was 77.
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Feb 11, 2026
Meet all the medalists from the United States at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
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Feb 11, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Feb 11, 2026
Concerns about the tax impact led the Lake Station City Council to reject a plan to form a fire territory with New Chicago.
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Feb 11, 2026
Several hundred high school students from Proviso Township walked out of their classrooms Wednesday morning in protest of mass deportation.
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Feb 11, 2026
James Van Der Beek, a heartthrob who starred in coming-of-age dramas at the dawn of the new millennium, shooting to fame playing the titular character in "Dawson's Creek" and in later years mocking his own hunky persona, has died. He was 48.
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Feb 11, 2026
New Hope United Church of Christ plans a prayer vigil Sunday to raise awareness of actions taken by ICE and Border Patrol agents.
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Feb 11, 2026
The Chicago police officers involved in the March 2024 shooting of Dexter Reed were largely cleared of wrongdoing by investigators with the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, city records show.
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Feb 11, 2026
Arlington Heights leaders and residents plan to rally Wednesday for Illinois lawmakers to fight off a bid from Indiana to build a new enclosed stadium for the Chicago Bears.
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Feb 11, 2026
Lawyers for Marimar Martínez, the Chicago woman shot by a Border Patrol agent in October, said evidence released this week "shows the world" that Trump administration officials "have created a culture of violence among their agents."
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Feb 11, 2026
The House Courts and Criminal Code committee passed three amendments to the doxing bill before passing it Wednesday.
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Feb 11, 2026
Canadians were in shock Wednesday after authorities said seven people were killed at a school in remote British Columbia and two others were killed at a nearby home in one of the country's deadliest mass shootings.
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Feb 11, 2026
Crime reports from south and southwest suburban agencies from police and court reports and news releases.
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Feb 11, 2026
A judge has dismissed yet another set of Operation Midway Blitz related charges, this time against against a man who had been accused of resisting or impeding federal agents during the Trump administration's expansive immigration raids in and around Chicago late last year.
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Feb 11, 2026
Investigators said one immigration enforcement official got away with physically assaulting his girlfriend for years. Another admitted he repeatedly sexually abused a woman in his custody. A third is charged with taking bribes to remove detention orders on people targeted for deportation.
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Feb 11, 2026
Investigators said one immigration enforcement official got away with physically assaulting his girlfriend for years. Another admitted he repeatedly sexually abused a woman in his custody. A third is charged with taking bribes to remove detention orders on people targeted for deportation.
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Feb 11, 2026
Attorney General Pam Bondi will face questions from lawmakers Wednesday over the Justice Department's handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein that have exposed sensitive private information about victims despite redaction efforts.
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Feb 11, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Feb 11, 2026
A person was detained for questioning Tuesday in the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, hours after the FBI released surveillance videos of a masked person wearing a handgun holster outside Guthrie's front door.
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Feb 11, 2026
Fresh surveillance images from Nancy Guthrie's porch the night she went missing, coupled with intense police activity across Arizona and the detention of a man had raised hopes that authorities were nearing a major break.
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Feb 11, 2026
The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.
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Feb 11, 2026
A Mexican cartel drone incursion prompted an hourslong closure of airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas that was lifted on Wednesday morning, the Trump administration said.
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Feb 11, 2026
The Federal Aviation Administration reopened the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas on Wednesday morning, just hours after it announced a 10-day closure.
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Feb 11, 2026
The backstory of Chicago's century-old symbol — a "Y" inside a circle — that can be found dotted throughout the city.
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Feb 11, 2026
The made-in-Chicago documentary series this season follows a teacher, a suburban grandmother and others who have found their own ways to fight for democracy.
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Feb 11, 2026
Leading up to the national shutdown, many businesses took to social media to decry the Trump administration's immigration enforcement actions, but explained they were not in a financial position to close.
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Feb 11, 2026
Leading up to the national shutdown, many businesses took to social media to decry the Trump administration's immigration enforcement actions, but explained they were not in a financial position to close.
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Feb 11, 2026
Homeschooling has burst from the ideological fringe to the center of Chicago's education landscape.
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Feb 11, 2026
The verdict found that Conagra did not adequately warn consumers about the potential dangers of inhaling fumes from Pam cooking spray containing diacetyl, a butter-flavored chemical linked to respiratory illness.
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Feb 11, 2026
On Feb. 11, 2013, during a routine morning meeting of Vatican cardinals, Pope Benedict XVI announced he would resign as pope effective Feb. 28; it was the first papal resignation in nearly 600 years.
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Feb 11, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 11, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Feb 11, 2026
With the new gift, Bluhm will have donated $135 million over the last two decades to the Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute.
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Feb 10, 2026
Tuesday's release of video surveillance footage showing an armed, masked person at Nancy Guthrie's doorstep on the night she was abducted has raised a host of questions about why it took so long to publicly release, how it was retrieved and what it means for privacy.
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Feb 10, 2026
A school shooting in British Columbia left eight people dead, including a shooter, and dozens injured, Canadian police said Tuesday.
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Feb 10, 2026
Sunday night's Super Bowl and Bad Bunny fell short of setting records for most watched U.S. broadcast and halftime show.
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Feb 10, 2026
Passed in 2024 and set to take effect this July, the law bans certain so-called swipe fees on the tax and tip portions of customers' bills, with a goal of lowering how much credit card companies can charge retailers.
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Feb 10, 2026
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said President Donald Trump and his administration need to be held accountable for their aggressive immigration enforcement actions — even if that accountability comes after the president is scheduled to leave office in 2029.
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Feb 10, 2026
A trove of evidence was released Tuesday in the controversial shooting of Marimar Martinez by a Border Patrol agent at the height of Operation Midway Blitz last October, including a body-worn camera video showing the tense moments just before their vehicles collided and text messages sent later by the agent joking and bragging about the shooting.
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Feb 10, 2026
A trove of evidence was released Tuesday in the controversial shooting of Marimar Martinez by a Border Patrol agent at the height of Operation Midway Blitz last October, including a body-worn camera video showing the tense moments just before their vehicles collided and text messages sent later by the agent joking and bragging about the shooting.
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Feb 10, 2026
The spending plan Mayor Brandon Johnson and aldermen put together for 2026 includes a a $12 million cut in the facilities budget.
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Feb 10, 2026
Patrick "PJ' Hennings and his father, Leo, led bands including at Queen of Peace, St. Laurence and Brother Rice high schools.
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Feb 10, 2026
La Grange's Welcoming Community ordinance prohibits federal agents from using village property in conducting immigration enforcement.
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Feb 10, 2026
A Lake County judge delayed sentencing or a man who admitted he was the getaway driver in a November 2024 Gary pawn shop owner's slaying.
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Feb 10, 2026
An Indiana State Police trooper was seriously injured Monday after being hit by another police car following a police chase of a vehicle that ended in Highland.
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Feb 10, 2026
The walkout joins a string of other similar protest actions across the Chicago area in recent days.
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Feb 10, 2026
The House Local Government Committee will again hear a Senate bill to merge Indiana townships before its final approval.
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Feb 10, 2026
The bill would make changes to the Indiana Code about how the Indiana Department of Environmental Management issues permits to nuclear facilities.
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Feb 10, 2026
An annual meeting of the nation's governors that has long served as a rare bipartisan gathering is unraveling after President Donald Trump excluded Democratic governors from White House events.
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Feb 10, 2026
The FBI obtained a search warrant to seize hundreds of boxes of ballots from election offices in Fulton County, Georgia, as part of a criminal investigation into possible "deficiencies or defects" in the vote count in the 2020 election.
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Feb 10, 2026
Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday said he will not refer alleged cases of misconduct by federal immigration agents to the Cook County state's attorney's office.
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