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Mar 02, 2026
Burden, a wide receiver and a St. Louis-area native, was drafted last year by the Bears and played in 15 games this year.
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Mar 01, 2026
The U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran rattled world markets early Monday, with U.S. futures falling more than 1% and oil prices soaring.
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Mar 01, 2026
President Donald Trump, his Treasury secretary and his choice to lead the Federal Reserve believe they can coax the U.S. economy into partying like it's 1999.
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Mar 01, 2026
In the rush by the Indiana legislature to bring the Chicago Bears to the state, lawmakers gushed over the proposal. One group was conspicuously absent from comments: taxpayers who opposed the plan.
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Mar 01, 2026
Potential Chicago Bears stadium near Wolf Lake just the latest story for a place thats long balanced nature, recreation and industry.
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Mar 01, 2026
Postponing the closure of the Schahfer coal plant also means continued exposure to toxic emissions and leaks for nearby communities like Wheatfield.
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Feb 28, 2026
Four lucky winners raced through the Forest Park grocery store, gathering everything from meat to laundry detergent.
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Feb 28, 2026
America and Israel's attack on Iran disrupted flights across the Middle East and beyond Saturday as countries around the region closed their airspace.
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Feb 28, 2026
A high-stakes dispute over military use of artificial intelligence erupted into public view this week as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brusquely terminated Anthropic's work with the Pentagon and other government agencies.
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Feb 28, 2026
The USW president said in a statement that the country's trade system needs revamped after the U.S. Supreme Court's recent tariff decision.
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Feb 27, 2026
The Federal Aviation Administration says flight reductions are necessary at O'Hare International Airport this summer, citing planned increases in flights that "will exceed the airport's capacity."
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Feb 27, 2026
After years of financial turmoil, Hawthorne Race Course filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Chicago on Friday.
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Feb 27, 2026
The union contract negotiations update announced plans for the Whiting refinery's environmental department and compensation strategies.
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Feb 27, 2026
For the report, Northwestern researchers aimed to analyze violent deaths of Illinois children ages 10 and younger who died at the hands of caregivers between 2015 and 2022.
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Feb 26, 2026
The maker of the AI chatbot Claude said in a statement that it's not walking away from negotiations, but that new contract language received from the Defense Department "made virtually no progress on preventing Claude's use for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons."
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Feb 26, 2026
Netflix is declining to raise its offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming business.
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Feb 26, 2026
Netflix is declining to raise its offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming business.
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Feb 26, 2026
Across the U.S., Dollar Tree is moving into more higher-income areas. In the last six years, almost half of new Dollar Tree stores opened in wealthier enclaves of metropolitan areas, according to an analysis by Bloomberg News.
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Feb 26, 2026
A second round of layoffs hit WGN-Ch. 9 this week, with three employees getting the ax Wednesday, including Debbie Brockman, the producer whose aggressive detainment by ICE agents in October became a symbol of urban enforcement clashes.
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Feb 26, 2026
Home insurance rates may be going through the roof, but State Farm has some good news for its auto insurance customers.
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Feb 26, 2026
Two ratings agencies have downgraded the city of Chicago and kept their negative outlooks intact, citing the city's back-to-back budget shortfalls since 2023.
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Feb 26, 2026
The CEO of Northfield-based Medline cheered the company's successful initial public offering late last year following the company's first earnings call Wednesday.
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Feb 26, 2026
This six-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bathroom home offers multiple patios, a landscaped side yard and a passenger elevator.
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Feb 26, 2026
The racial disparity has raised some eyebrows, including those of State Rep. Kam Buckner, a Democrat who sponsored the legislation that allowed the transit systems to start suspending riders.
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Feb 26, 2026
Can the Obama Presidential Center stick to its guiding principle of attracting investment and helping longtime South Side working-class neighbors build wealth without pushing them out?
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Feb 25, 2026
With utility rates rising across Illinois, consumer groups are backing proposed legislation to wring $40 million per year in hidden expenses out of customer bills.
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Feb 25, 2026
NIPSCO will be one of five utilities included in the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission's inquiry into energy affordability.
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Feb 25, 2026
Q&A with Anthony Vai, co-owner of VAI's Italian Inspired Kitchen Bar on Route 59 in Naperville.
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Feb 25, 2026
Customers upset with NIPSCO over pricing and policies got a chance Tuesday to ask the experts about their concerns.
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Feb 25, 2026
After 68 years, Mr. Clean, the bald, strapping mascot of the household cleaning products bearing his name, announced his retirement in a social media post.
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Feb 25, 2026
The self-driving taxi company is deploying about 10 vehicles in Chicago to start mapping the city's streets — thus "laying the early groundwork" for future operations here — Waymo said.
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Feb 25, 2026
As the Bears waffle between potential destinations for their new planned stadium, including potentially moving across state lines to Indiana, the Chicago Fire is ready to break ground next month inside the city.
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Feb 24, 2026
The city of Chicago could be on the hook to pay drivers back millions of dollars following a class-action lawsuit alleging expensive late fees were tacked onto tickets for infractions like parking without a city sticker.
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Feb 24, 2026
A spokesperson said the announcement of the next laureate, which typically occurs in the first week of March, would be delayed slightly.
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Feb 24, 2026
Excerpts released by the White House before he began Tuesday's address said President Trump will vow that, "Moving forward, factories, jobs, investment, and trillions of dollars will continue pouring into the United States of America."
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Feb 24, 2026
President Donald Trump will use Tuesday's State of the Union to champion his immigration crackdowns, his slashing of the federal government, his push to preserve widespread tariffs that the Supreme Court just struck down and his ability to direct quick-hit military actions around the world, including in Iran and Venezuela.
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Feb 24, 2026
President Donald Trump will use Tuesday's State of the Union to champion his immigration crackdowns, his slashing of the federal government, his push to preserve widespread tariffs that the Supreme Court just struck down and his ability to direct quick-hit military actions around the world, including in Iran and Venezuela.
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Feb 24, 2026
President Donald Trump declared during Tuesday's marathon State of the Union that "we're winning so much," saying he'd sparked a jobs and manufacturing boom at home while imposing a new world order abroad.
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Feb 24, 2026
This six-bedroom French Provincial home has four full bathrooms, one half bath, parquet wood flooring, hand painted walls and crown molding.
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Feb 24, 2026
The tiny but mighty hot bar makes fried chicken, rice bowls and a Morning Glory breakfast sandwich that rivals any around the city.
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Feb 23, 2026
The ax is falling at WGN-Ch. 9, cutting a wide swath out of "Chicago's Very Own" TV newsroom.
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Feb 23, 2026
Sean Lewis, a nearly two-decade veteran who has anchored the weekend morning broadcast since 2010, was among those laid off.
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Feb 23, 2026
The Park District pitched state officials on converting the 61,500-seat venue to a destination for concerts and other special events once the Bears leave.
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Feb 23, 2026
Dixmoor Mayor Fitzgerald Roberts said access to 145th Street near Spaulding Avenue was closed after Friday's train derailment.
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Feb 23, 2026
Former Chicago Bears running back Khalil Herbert on Feb. 5 sold his four-bedroom, 2,461-square-foot town home in Buffalo Grove for $610,000.
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Feb 23, 2026
The expansion is expected to create 300 new jobs, including positions for engineers, scientists, manufacturing operators and lab technicians.
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Feb 23, 2026
The expansion is expected to create 300 new jobs, including positions for engineers, scientists, manufacturing operators and lab technicians.
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Feb 23, 2026
A pre-apprenticeship program at Bethel Family Resource Center in Chicago Heights offers an introduction to employment in 25 trades.
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Feb 22, 2026
According to Nielsen and Adobe Analytics, NBC averaged 24 million viewers across its prime afternoon coverage (2-5 p.m. EST) and Primetime in Milan (8-11 p.m. EST and PST) through Friday.
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Feb 22, 2026
The European Union's executive arm requested "full clarity" from the United States and asked its trade partner to fulfill its commitments after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down some of President Donald Trump's most sweeping tariffs.
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Feb 22, 2026
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is suspending the TSA PreCheck and Global Entry airport security programs as a partial government shutdown continues.
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Feb 22, 2026
The Transportation Security Administration said Sunday that its PreCheck program would remain operational despite an earlier announcement from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that the airport security service was being suspended during the partial government shutdown.
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Feb 21, 2026
JPMorgan Chase acknowledged for the first time that it closed the bank accounts of President Donald Trump and several of his businesses in the political and legal aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021 attacks on the U.S. Capitol.
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Feb 21, 2026
Governments and companies around the world scrambled Saturday to determine the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down some of the Trump administration sweeping global tariffs.
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Feb 21, 2026
Many Republicans greeted the Friday morning decision with measured statements, some even praising it, and GOP leaders said they would work with Trump on tariffs going forward.
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Feb 21, 2026
Trump said in a social media post on that he was making the decision "Based on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday," by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Feb 21, 2026
Trump said in a social media post on that he was making the decision "Based on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday," by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Feb 20, 2026
The ability of federal safety regulators to oversee airplane maintenance at United Airlines has been hindered by inadequate staffing, high employee turnover and the improper use of virtual inspections instead of on-site reviews in some cases, according to a government watchdog audit released Friday.
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Feb 20, 2026
Heartland Human Care Services plans to lay off more than 140 workers as it prepares to close several Chicago sites that temporarily house children who come to the U.S. without adults, according to the state.
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Feb 20, 2026
In Illinois and across the country, breweries have been struggling as consumers seek healthier drinking habits or have a wider range of options, such as THC-infused drinks
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Feb 20, 2026
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said, "I think we're down to the question of whether they're going to build in Arlington Heights or they're going to build something in the state of Indiana."
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Feb 20, 2026
The nation's highest court struck down some of U.S. President Donald Trump's most sweeping tariffs on Friday, in a 6-3 decision that he overstepped his authority when using an emergency powers law to justify new taxes on goods from nearly every country in the world.
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Feb 20, 2026
All truckers and bus drivers will have to take their commercial driver's license tests in English as the Trump administration expands its aggressive campaign to improve safety in the industry.
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Feb 20, 2026
While questions remain about where the Chicago Bears will build a new stadium, the team reaffirmed Friday that its practice facility and corporate headquarters — Halas Hall — will remain in Lake Forest.
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Feb 20, 2026
Now that Lincolnwood Town Center mall has been sold, Lincolnwood village leaders may consider tax incentives to help with redevelopment.
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Feb 20, 2026
BP announced the changes on its negotiations website, ahead of a potential United Steelworkers Union strike or lockout at the Whiting refinery.
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Feb 20, 2026
Chicago Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong in late January paid $1.195 million for a two-bedroom, 2,200-square-foot condominium in the Loop.
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Feb 20, 2026
The South Holland storefronts will be on the same plot, forming an outdoor shopping mall open weekends from May through December.
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Feb 20, 2026
Learning Resources filed a lawsuit last April against Trump, alleging the president exceeded his executive authority in implementing the tariffs.
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Feb 20, 2026
The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's far-reaching global tariffs on Friday, handing him a significant loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda.
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Feb 20, 2026
Indiana and the Chicago Bears announced plans for a potential stadium in Hammond as an amended bill to fund the stadium passed out of the House Ways and Means committee Thursday.
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Feb 20, 2026
Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott called the proposed Chicago Bears stadium at Wolf Lake an opportunity for Hammond, Northwest Indiana and the state.
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Feb 20, 2026
The Tribune is tracking 11 everyday costs for Americans — eggs, milk, bread, bananas, oranges, tomatoes, chicken, ground beef, gasoline, electricity and natural gas — and how they are changing, or not, under the second Trump administration. This tracker is updated monthly using CPI data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Feb 20, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 20, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Feb 19, 2026
Sometimes to get what you want, you've got to twist a few arms, as the Chicago Bears are doing so well in their threat to move to Indiana.
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Feb 19, 2026
Builder DLG Development plans to create 188 units, including 38 affordable apartments, at 3611 N. Halsted St., and transform an adjacent alley into a public park.
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Feb 19, 2026
The city of Aurora is considering putting in place new regulations around data centers as its moratorium on these types of developments nears its end.
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Feb 19, 2026
The employees work at the company's offices in Deerfield, at the Old Post Office downtown and in Danville, according to a letter the company sent to the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Activity.
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Feb 19, 2026
United Airlines Holdings Inc. is overhauling its loyalty program, offering more benefits to customers who carry the airline's co-branded bank cards while reducing some rewards for budget flyers.
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Feb 19, 2026
Vibez on the River, a new restaurant coming to downtown Aurora, plans to serve soul food with a twist.
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Feb 19, 2026
The recent decline in rates is a favorable lead in to the annual spring homebuying season — good news for home shoppers who can afford to buy at current rates.
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Feb 19, 2026
Indiana lawmakers took another step Thursday toward potentially luring the Chicago Bears to the state, as a key committee approved a plan to create an agency that would build a new stadium for the team.
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Feb 19, 2026
Indiana lawmakers took another step Thursday toward potentially luring the Chicago Bears to the state, as a key committee approved a plan to create an agency that would build a new stadium for the team.
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Feb 19, 2026
Indiana took another step to potentially lure the Chicago Bears to the state with lawmakers set to consider creating an agency to build a new stadium for the team.
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Feb 19, 2026
Jeff Babinski, American Place's vice president and general manager, said the casino's performance grows from paying attention to its customers and continuing to build a loyal clientele.
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Feb 19, 2026
This four-bedroom home has wide-plank hardwood floors and a kitchen outfitted with Gaggenau and Thermador appliances.
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Feb 19, 2026
On Feb. 19, 1878, inventor Thomas Edison was issued a patent for the phonograph.
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Feb 18, 2026
The grandson of the inventor of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups has lashed out at The Hershey Co., accusing the candy company of hurting the Reese's brand by shifting to cheaper ingredients in many products.
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Feb 18, 2026
The carrier first announced the switch to assigned seating in 2024, part of a series of moves the carrier made to increase revenue. CEO Bob Jordan previously said that a majority of customers and potential customers preferred the ability to pick a seat.
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Feb 18, 2026
The Youth Entrepreneur Fair at Moraine Valley Community College featured dozens of young people selling items such as crafts and pet goods.
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Feb 18, 2026
A bill that includes two dissimilar issues — college degree elimination and social media restrictions on children — passed the House Tuesday but faces an uncertain future.
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Feb 18, 2026
In an opinion heavy on chicken puns, a district court judge ruled that the boneless wings at Buffalo Wild Wings could indeed be called wings.
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Feb 18, 2026
Mark Zuckerberg will testify in an unprecedented social media trial that questions whether Meta's platforms deliberately addict and harm children.
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Feb 18, 2026
Mark Zuckerberg will testify in an unprecedented social media trial that questions whether Meta's platforms deliberately addict and harm children.
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Feb 18, 2026
The Minnesota-based food company lowered its outlook in the face of "historically low consumer sentiment, heightened uncertainty and significant volatility," CEO Jeff Harmening said.
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Feb 18, 2026
The Oswego Planning and Zoning Commission recently recommended approval of a request to annex and rezone property for a proposed development near the intersection of Route 34 and Ogden Falls Boulevard that would include a Dutch Bros drive-thru coffee shop.
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Feb 17, 2026
The U.S. Department of Transportation said Tuesday that it was threatening to withhold $128 million in highway funds because a federal audit had revealed illegally-issued commercial drivers licenses in Illinois.
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Feb 17, 2026
More than 500,000 Illinois residents have so far benefitted from the program, with average debt relief of about $1,200 a person, according to the governor's office.
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Feb 17, 2026
The Chicago Bears are raising season ticket prices by an average of 13.5%, President/CEO Kevin Warren announced in a letter to season ticket holders.
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Feb 17, 2026
The newest businesses now open or soon to open in Naperville are Lilly Pulitzer, Free People and Ruth's Chris Steak House.
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