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Apr 02, 2025
Reflecting voter angst over President Donald Trump, Democrats score major victories in suburbs critical for rebuilding state GOP.
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Apr 02, 2025
At close of trade mission to Mexico, Gov. JB Pritzker positions Illinois as a 'stable and reliable trade partner' amid President Donald Trump's tariffs.
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Apr 02, 2025
The Senate passed a resolution Wednesday night that would thwart President Donald Trump's ability to impose tariffs on Canada, delivering him a rare rebuke just hours after the president unveiled sweeping plans to clamp down on international trade.
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Apr 02, 2025
The sweeping new tariffs announced Wednesday by U.S. President Donald Trump were met initially with measured reactions from key trading partners, highlighting the lack of appetite for a full-fledged trade war.
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Apr 02, 2025
Judge finds two men guilty in videotaped slaying of Brittany Hill, whose daughter waved at killers in North Austin attack.
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Apr 02, 2025
Judge finds two men guilty in videotaped slaying of Brittany Hill, whose daughter waved at killers in North Austin attack.
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Apr 02, 2025
Two DePaul University students filed a lawsuit Wednesday morning against their university, alleging that DePaul failed to intervene in an alleged antisemitic attack against the students last November.
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Apr 02, 2025
Just before polls closed April 1, a flyer described as antisemitic circulated attacking Jewish candidates Nate Mellman and Josh Gertz.
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Apr 02, 2025
Just before polls closed April 1, a flyer described as antisemitic circulated attacking Jewish candidates Nate Mellman and Josh Gertz.
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Apr 02, 2025
Despite voters ousting high-profile mayors in Aurora, Tinley Park and Waukegan, residents reelected incumbents in numerous other towns.
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Apr 02, 2025
Rescuers pulled two men alive from the ruins of a hotel in Myanmar's capital on Wednesday and a third from a guesthouse in another city, five days after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake.
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Apr 02, 2025
The start of Wednesday's Chicago White Sox game against the Minnesota Twins at Rate Field was delayed as rain fell in the area. The Sox now are targeting 4:30 p.m. for the first pitch.
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Apr 02, 2025
Jose Gregorio Gonzalez, 43, would likely be released this week from detention in Clay County Detention Center in Indiana to donate a kidney to his younger brother.
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Apr 02, 2025
Senate Bill 2 — authored by Sen. Ryan Mishler, R-Mishawaka — places restrictions on Medicaid. It passed the Ways and Means committee Wednesday.
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Apr 02, 2025
Elon Musk recently suggested that he will be done with his work at DOGE in the near future.
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Apr 02, 2025
The Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday in a case over whether states should be to able cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.
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Apr 02, 2025
Two challengers in the school board election, Mayra Reyes and Vannia Valencia, appear to have won seats, per unofficial election results.
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Apr 02, 2025
Amazon has put in a bid to purchase TikTok, a Trump administration official said Wednesday, in an eleventh-hour pitch as a U.S. ban on the platform is set to go into effect Saturday.
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Apr 02, 2025
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offered no new details Wednesday about his massive restructuring of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Apr 02, 2025
Indiana legislators are seemingly preparing to review the Indiana-Illinois border without its neighboring state.
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Apr 02, 2025
Nintendo has announced a June 5 launch date for its latest gaming console, the Switch 2, which will introduce interactive chat and screenshare functions to connect gamers.
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Apr 02, 2025
The unofficial results for the contested elections held Tuesday in the Naperville area, including city council, board board, school board and other races.
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Apr 02, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Apr 02, 2025
The University of Illinois System announced the launch of a pilot program aimed to increase the number of students transferring from community colleges to four-year universities.
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Apr 02, 2025
The start of Wednesday's Chicago White Sox game at Rate Field will be delayed as rain continues to fall in the area. First pitch was scheduled for 1:10 p.m.
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Apr 02, 2025
Unofficial results from Will and DuPage counties show the four incumbent District 204 board members retaining their seats.
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Apr 02, 2025
Chicago Bears President Kevin Warren confirmed at the NFL owners meetings that the team no longer has a singular focus on building its new stadium downtown.
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Apr 02, 2025
Mayor Brandon Johnson plans to name Cook County Commissioner Anthony Quezada as his choice to succeed Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa on the City Council.
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Apr 02, 2025
Crime reports from south and southwest suburban agencies from police and court reports and news releases.
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Apr 02, 2025
The liberal status quo appeared to have scored a victory in the Oak Park and River Forest High School District 200 School Board race.
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Apr 02, 2025
National Weather Service officials are expecting Wednesday waves of showers and thunderstorms to hit the Chicago area capable of producing damaging winds and large hail and possibly tornadoes.
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Apr 02, 2025
In Park Ridge, Martin "Marty" Maloney appears to have breezed to another term as mayor, holding off a challenge from the current city clerk Sal Raspanti.
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Apr 02, 2025
Susan Crawford's Wisconsin Supreme Court election victory over a conservative candidate backed by President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk cemented a liberal majority on the state's top court for at least three more years and dealt a devastating blow to Republicans who fear it paves the way for a wide array of rulings that will overturn or block the GOP's agenda in the swing state.
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Apr 02, 2025
Two incumbents - board President Richard Kerns II and Julie Stone - as well as challenger Erika Garcia appear to have won four-year seats on the West Aurora School District board in Tuesday's election.
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Apr 02, 2025
Here are some election results from Aurora, Elgin, Elmhurst, Evanston, Glenbrook, Gurnee, Homer Glen, Naperville, Northbrook, North Chicago, Oak Park, Orland Park, Skokie, the south suburbs, Thornton Township, Tinley Park and Waukegan.
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Apr 02, 2025
Tesla sales declined 13% in the first three months of the year, another sign that Elon Musk's once high-flying electric car company is struggling to attract buyers.
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Apr 02, 2025
Nintendo has announced a June 5 launch date for its latest gaming console, the Switch 2, which will introduce interactive chat and screenshare functions to connect gamers.
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Apr 02, 2025
Senate Republicans said they are pushing ahead on President Donald Trump's big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts this week, even though they're punting some of the most difficult decisions — including the costs and how to pay for the multitrillion-dollar package — until later.
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Apr 02, 2025
After weeks of White House hype and public anxiety, President Donald Trump is set Wednesday to announce a barrage of self-described reciprocal tariffs on friend and foe alike.
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Apr 02, 2025
Val Kilmer, the brooding, versatile actor who played fan favorite Iceman in "Top Gun," donned a voluminous cape as Batman in "Batman Forever" and portrayed Jim Morrison in "The Doors," has died. He was 65.
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Apr 02, 2025
A trio of elections on Tuesday provided early warning signs to Republicans and President Donald Trump at the beginning of an ambitious term, as Democrats rallied against his efforts to slash the federal government and the outsize role being played by billionaire Elon Musk.
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Apr 02, 2025
Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip is expanding to seize "large areas," the defense minister said, while officials at hospitals inside the Palestinian territory said that Israeli strikes overnight and into Wednesday had killed more than 40 people, nearly a dozen of them children.
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Apr 02, 2025
Rescuers pulled two men alive from the ruins of a hotel in Myanmar's capital on Wednesday and a third from a guesthouse in another city, five days after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake.
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Apr 02, 2025
The trade war that U.S. President Donald Trump has escalated in his second term is a challenge for all Asian economies, large and small, in an era when the most populous region of the world is expected to drive global economic growth.
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Apr 02, 2025
Referendums in Northbrook School Districts 27 and 28 appeared to have won April 1, per unofficial election results.
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Apr 02, 2025
Glowacki, Hope, O'Hara and Downing have won, in unofficial results, the Glenbrook High School D225 school board election April 1.
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Apr 02, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Apr 02, 2025
Mass firings and regulatory rollbacks come as scientists routinely determine pollution is far more damaging than previously thought.
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Apr 02, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 2, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Apr 02, 2025
On April 2, 2005, John Paul II, the Polish pope born Karol Józef Wojtyla, died in his Vatican apartment at age 84. The first non-Italian pope in over 450 years, John Paul II became one of the most influential leaders of the late 20th and early 21st centuries while playing a crucial role in the fall of communism in Europe.
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Apr 02, 2025
In Tuesday's consolidated election, Aurora voters appear to have mostly kept incumbent candidates on City Council — except in the alderman at-large race.
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Apr 02, 2025
Ann Tennes declared victory in the three-way Skokie mayor race, starting a new era after a 24-year mayor chose not run.
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Apr 02, 2025
Val Kilmer, a homegrown Hollywood actor who tasted leading-man stardom as Jim Morrison and Batman, but whose protean gifts and elusive personality also made him a high-profile supporting player, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 65.
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Apr 02, 2025
Voters in Tuesday's consolidated election appear to have shot down a referendum question in Kane County that would have increased the sales tax by 0.75% to pay for public safety expenses in the county.
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Apr 02, 2025
Incumbent Elmhurst Mayor Scott Levin appears to have defeated longtime City Councilman Mark Mulliner in Tuesday's election.
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Apr 02, 2025
Evanston voters have re-elected Daniel Biss as mayor over challenger Jeff Boarini, unofficial results show.
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Apr 01, 2025
Here are the election results for high school district races in in the south and southwest suburbs.
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Apr 01, 2025
Here are the Waukegan election results in the race for mayor featuring Sam Cunningham, Harold H. Beadling, Ann Taylor and Keith E. Turner.
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Apr 01, 2025
Judge Susan Crawford preserved liberals' narrow majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court Tuesday by defeating conservative Brad Schimel, but in a way the real loser of the election was billionaire Elon Musk.
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Apr 01, 2025
Here are the election results for Gurnee mayor in the race between Tom Hood and Quin O'Brien.
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Apr 01, 2025
In the Oak Park village president race, incumbent Vicki Scaman claimed victory over challenger Ravi Parakkat.
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Apr 01, 2025
Incumbent Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin has admitted defeat to his challenger, Ald. John Laesch, in the Aurora mayoral election.
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Apr 01, 2025
Rose Reynders, Michael LePore and Nicholas Muller had a commanding lead Tuesday night in a race for three Homer Glen trustee seats.
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Apr 01, 2025
Here are the election results for North Chicago mayor in the race featuring Leon Rockingham Jr., Anthony Coleman and David Hood.
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Apr 01, 2025
Three incumbents and one newcomer appear headed to the Elgin City Council, according to unofficial vote counts from Tuesday's election.
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Apr 01, 2025
Here are the results for the Tinley Park mayor's race between Michael Glotz and Michael Maloney.
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Apr 01, 2025
Here are the election results in the races for mayor and village president in the south and southwest suburbs.
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Apr 01, 2025
Susan Crawford, a Dane County judge who led legal fights to protect union power and abortion rights and to oppose voter ID, defeated Republican-backed Brad Schimel in a race that broke records for spending, was on pace to be the highest-turnout Wisconsin Supreme Court election ever and became a proxy fight for the nation's political battles.
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Apr 01, 2025
Here are the results for the Orland Park mayor's race between Keith Pekau and Jim Dodge.
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Apr 01, 2025
Thornton Township supervisor candidate Napoleon Harris and his Democratic slate were leading for all offices Tuesday night.
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Apr 01, 2025
Wisconsin voters decided Tuesday to enshrine a voter ID law in the state constitution.
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Apr 01, 2025
In a feat of determination, New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a marathon speech that lasted all night and into Tuesday evening, setting a historic mark to show Democrats' resistance to President Donald Trump's sweeping actions.
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Apr 01, 2025
Residents, including a Streeterville neighborhood group, are calling on Mayor Brandon Johnson to stop the "reckless and unlawful behavior."
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Apr 01, 2025
A lawsuit against firearm manufacturer Smith & Wesson and two other gun dealers linked to the July Fourth 2022 mass shooting in Highland Park will be allowed to move forward, a Lake County judge ruled Tuesday. Judge Jorge Ortiz denied Smith & Wesson's motions to dismiss counts of unfair business practices and negligence but granted […]
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Apr 01, 2025
The complaint notes that the city zoning administrator had recommended denial of the application because the dispensary would be within 500 feet of a school.
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Apr 01, 2025
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said the legal community needs to stand up against intimidation by the White House.
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Apr 01, 2025
Mayor Brandon Johnson envisions getting the empty lots into the hands of developers ready to build mixed-use districts or other projects.
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Apr 01, 2025
The Skokie Village Board approved updates to its ordinances providing certain protections for people despite immigration status.
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Apr 01, 2025
Majority control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court will be decided Tuesday in a race that broke records for spending and has become a proxy battle for the nation's political fights.
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Apr 01, 2025
Majority control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court will be decided Tuesday in a race that broke records for spending and has become a proxy battle for the nation's political fights.
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Apr 01, 2025
President Trump will hold a Wednesday meeting with aides about possible investors who could buy a stake in TikTok, a deal that could potentially stop the social media site from being banned in the United States.
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Apr 01, 2025
In her email to the school community, Plascencia said that conditions like a persistent cough lasting three weeks or longer, coughing up blood, pain with breathing, chest pain, fatigue, weakness, loss of appetite, fever, chills or night sweats are warning signs.
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Apr 01, 2025
Hooters, known for chicken wings and its skimpy "Hooters Girls" wait-staff outfits, has filed for bankruptcy protection.
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Apr 01, 2025
A bill that would ban transgender women from collegiate sports passed on second reading in the Senate Tuesday, with amendments proposed by Democrats voted down by the Republican supermajority.
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Apr 01, 2025
Thousands of people responsible for tracking health trends and disease outbreaks, conducting and funding medical research, monitoring the safety of food and medicine, and administering health insurance programs were laid off Tuesday.
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Apr 01, 2025
Caprice Cashaw randomly pulled in front of a Hammond bar just after he lost at least $7,000 at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond. He was "mad" and took it out on his girlfriend — beating her while driving back from the casino. He pulled in front of the Portside Pub, 1516 Indianapolis Blvd., to keep assaulting her. When she tried to run, he opened fire, killing two people — a new bartender and longtime female patron — and wounded three others, including his girlfriend.
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Apr 01, 2025
House Speaker Mike Johnson endured a decisive defeat Tuesday after he staged an unusually aggressive effort to squash a proposal for new parents in Congress to able to vote by proxy, rather than in person, as they care for newborns.
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Apr 01, 2025
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a marathon speech that lasted all night and into Tuesday afternoon in a feat of endurance to show Democrats' resistance to President Donald Trump's sweeping actions.
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Apr 01, 2025
Craig Podolski, middle school English teacher and coach in Buffalo Grove who developed an annual service day for students, died at 45.
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Apr 01, 2025
The Social Security Administration said Tuesday that it is investigating the root cause of website outages that have affected the "my Social Security" portal where recipients access their benefits.
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Apr 01, 2025
President Donald Trump says his tariff announcements slated for Wednesday will amount to a "Liberation Day" for the United States.
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Apr 01, 2025
La Grange area nonprofit OptWell will host free Healthy Aging presentation and resource fair in Countryside.
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Apr 01, 2025
Police witnesses and an old boyfriend sifted through decades-old memories, documents and pictures Tuesday in a 1999 Gary cold case killing. Orvall M. McMoore, 58, of Chicago, is charged with 27-year-old Lisa Anderson's death. She was discovered on Jan. 12, 1999 after her mother hadn't heard from her.
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Apr 01, 2025
As polling stretched on into the afternoon, turnout in Tuesday's consolidated election across DuPage and Will counties was on par with expectations, local election officials said.
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Apr 01, 2025
Voters across Lake County cast ballots for mayors, village presidents, city councils, village boards, park district commissioners, school district board members, library board trustees and more Tuesday to help shape the futures of their communities.
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Apr 01, 2025
Voter turnout in Kane County was expected to be higher than 11%, which was the lowest in recent years, but won't reach the high level of 24%, the county clerk said.
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Apr 01, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Apr 01, 2025
At least four states — Illinois, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana — are considering giving college athletes tax breaks on endorsement income.
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Apr 01, 2025
Mayor Brandon Johnson announced a ticket penalty amnesty program Tuesday after working the plan into his 2025 budget passed in December.
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Apr 01, 2025
The bill requiring property tax assessment board of appeals members to live in Indiana passed unanimously out of the House Monday.
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