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Nearly 3,000 migrants dropped off in DuPage County as Chicago cracks down on ‘rogue buses’

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Grand jury indicts Elgin man on charges he murdered his infant son, seriously injured another baby

Two men shot to death in Gary over New Year’s weekend

Waukegan bans ceremonial balloon launches

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Adkins, Latham to lead Gary Common Council after unanimous votes

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Buffalo Grove Village Board cites safety in setting regulations for bus drop-off of migrants in village: ‘There is nothing political about this ordinance’

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Bond denied for Michigan City teen after allegedly shooting woman in carjacking

Migrants dropped at Elgin Metra stations en route to Chicago haven’t posed a problem for city, mayor says

Hobart man gets 9-year sentence after child molesting plea

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Bond hearing started for Chicago man charged with rape, child molestation

Skokie trustee walks out of Village Board meeting alleging conflict of interest; mayor, other trustees disagree

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Elgin’s newest poet laureate says he wants to create space for people to feel safe exploring the artform

Unsealed documents show again how Jeffrey Epstein leveraged his powerful connections

Olympia Fields mansion built by R. Kelly listed for $3.5 million

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After 77 years in Batavia, Olmstead’s TV signs off: ‘The vast majority of customers became friends’

Bigfoot stops by new coffee shop in Lemont to add to area’s Folklore

Spurred by own fight with sickle cell, Naperville North senior organizes blood drive

Strike kills 12 people, mostly children, in Gaza area declared safe zone by Israel

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A diamond gem, Jake Johnson comes long way for Burlington Central in basketball. ‘I was a cone drill last year.’

Magical Starlight add tweaks to ‘Beauty and the Beast’ but it’s still a tale as old as time

Elgin Salvation Army falls short of reaching its $240,000 Red Kettle goal: ‘We’ll make the most of what we have’

Green Bay soccer recruit Laney Stark switches things up in basketball for St. Charles North. ‘I like it a lot.’

Elgin News Digest: Three Kings celebration at Elgin library this Saturday; Dundee Township offering free fitness center access, classes; Side Street Studio seeking submissions for art show

Country Club Hills native curates The Exhibit House in Water Tower Place in Chicago

NCAA agrees to $920 million, 8-year deal with ESPN for women’s March Madness and 39 other championships

Drugstore chain Walgreens cuts quarterly dividend to get more cash to grow its business

Paul Johnson’s Aurora-Elgin area girls basketball rankings and player of the week

Kaleb Jackson steps back amid losses to step forward even further for Carmel: ‘He flipped a switch’

‘The Great Gatsby’? Well, here’s the great Smiley. Valparaiso’s Jack Smiley may be among the team’s best ever.

Northwestern law student sues State Department seeking family’s safe return from Gaza: ‘My pleas are falling on deaf ears.’

Rory McIlroy eases off his criticism of LIV Golf, referring to Jon Rahm’s defection as a ‘smart business move’

The NBA’s wild night: 5 teams score 140 points — and 4 teams score 130 in losses

More Chicago-area suburbs pass ordinances to curb migrant drop-offs

2 teenage boys arrested 30 minutes after armed-robbery Wednesday on Near North Side, cops say

Scenes of loss play out across Japan’s western coastline after quake kills 84, dozens still missing

Michael Osipoff’s boys basketball rankings and player of the week for Northwest Indiana

Denmark’s next queen is a progressive, common-born former Australian

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Unsealed court records offer new detail on old sex abuse allegations against Jeffrey Epstein

Daywatch: Illinois finds 46,400 people missed by 2020 census

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Exhibit at Christopher Art Gallery explores the concept of memory

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Steve Chapman: Gaza, Ukraine and ‘the futile logic of war’

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