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Prosecuting suspected online predators and human traffickers is hard work, Kane County State’s Attorney Jamie Mosser said. She ought to know — her office has prosecuted 93 of them since 2022. Now she hopes a $1 million federal grant to the county will help her office’s efforts.
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Overcoming first-day jitters, thousands of students returned to classrooms Thursday across Elgin Area School District U-46, ushering in the new school year.
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Cook County authorities have identified a 22-year-old Hoffman Estates man as the person who died Wednesday after being pulled from Lake Michigan on Chicago’s North Side.
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A developer’s much-discussed plans for a portion of the former Pheasant Run resort site in St. Charles will not — at least at this point — be heading to the city council for final approval, as resident and aldermen pushback about the proposal continues.
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Mundelein officials are discussing whether police should continue using digital cameras that capture images of passing cars.
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St. Edward Central Catholic High School in Elgin school held a special “Wave of Service Day” at nine area nonprofits Thursday in remembrance of and in solidarity with the community of Annunciation Catholic School in Minnesota on the first anniversary of a shooting that took the lives of two students.
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After 16 years, the final Alley Art Festival will take place this Saturday in downtown Aurora. Since 2010, the festival has helped make arts more visible, accessible and woven into everyday life in Aurora.
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The Aurora City Council approved a townhouse development near Fox Valley Mall after a few last-minute questions at the council’s Tuesday meeting. Developer M/I Homes plans to construct 185 townhouses in 38 buildings on the long undeveloped land in the triangle created by the intersection of Ogden Avenue and 75th Street on Aurora’s far East Side.
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President Donald Trump said Thursday he is renaming Lake Ontario to be known as “Lake America” in the United States as he exacerbates his trade war with Canada.
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Rescue teams searched on Thursday for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border, where a catastrophic and deadly torrent of water and mud several stories high swept through communities a day earlier following a glacier collapse.
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