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West Dundee trustees are getting started on their first project at the former Spring Hill Mall site. On Monday, the trustees hired Itasca-based Williams Architects to draft plans for a new police stat...

West Dundee plans to build new police station at former Spring Hill Mall site ↗

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Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch said he is hopeful about the Chicago Bears’ prospects of victory over the Green Bay Packers in their playoff game on Saturday. But he likely didn’t...

Illinois House speaker calls Bears stadium ask ‘insensitive’ amid budget pressures ↗

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After months of debate over its closure, and a ruling by a state agency in favor of Ascension’s closing it down, the Alexian Brothers Medical Center’s labor and delivery unit in Elk Grove Village ...

Alexian Brothers labor and delivery unit shuts down ↗

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Some 150 students from two dozen high schools across Cook County aren’t just learning about elections in their civics classes. They’ll soon help run them. Cook County Clerk Monica Gordon and her s...

Cook County students get a crash course in elections before running the polls at their own schools ↗

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A developer is eyeing the construction of 12 to 15 buildings — including shops, restaurants and a possible hotel — at the site of the demolished Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles. To ensure the d...

Developers proposing shops at former Pheasant Run ask for $3.3M in incentives from St. Charles ↗

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Despite concerns from some nearby residents, plans for a Costco Business Center and a Costco-branded gas station on Des Plaines’ southeast side got a tentative go-ahead from the city council Monday....

‘Too many positives’: Despite residents’ concerns, Costco plan moving forward in Des Plaines ↗

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In a move slammed by health experts, the federal government dropped the number of vaccines it recommends for children Monday — leaving immunizations like flu shots up to parents and doctors. The sha...

Amid Illinois flu surge, U.S. drops key childhood vaccine recommendations ↗

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Growing up in Addison, Steve Caputo would ride his bike through an unincorporated neighborhood called 53 Trails Estates. Caputo “always loved the area.” So much so that he moved to a mid-century-s...

‘More than houses’: Residents fight to save neighborhood near Addison ↗

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