1+ hour, 1+ min ago  (423+ words) A new rideshare policy that allows children 13 or older to use a rideshare service like Uber or Lyft to leave school during the day with parental permission won Naperville District 203 School Board approval this week. The need for a policy…...

1+ hour, 26+ min ago  (883+ words) Federal immigration officers detained two adults and a minor at the Bridgeview Courthouse on Wednesday in the latest clash at a local courthouse, despite a state law that prohibits warrantless civil immigration arrests in and around the buildings. Matthew Hendrickson,…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago  (602+ words) Valparaiso's Central Park became a global microcosm Sunday afternoon for the 16th'annual World Cultural Festival. Onstage, there were 24 different acts from all over the world. Attendees could sample cuisine from around the world, and kids could participate in activities like…...

3+ hour, 1+ min ago  (722+ words) The Naperville District 203 School Board approved a budget for the coming school year Monday, but only after a heated exchange with one board member who claimed the true deficit was not being reported. Board member Melissa Kelley Black accused the…...

6+ hour ago  (659+ words) WASHINGTON " The Federal Reserve kept its key rate unchanged Wednesday yet almost half the central bank's policymakers said they could support a rate hike later this year. The unexpectedly aggressive tilt toward higher rates would disappoint President Trump and suggests…...

4+ hour, 6+ min ago  (386+ words) Over the past year, Illinois AFL-CIO affiliates and union members from across Illinois consistently voiced frustrations about the lack of progress around our core legislative priorities," Tim Drea, president of the state's largest umbrella organization for organized labor and its…...

4+ hour, 50+ min ago  (865+ words) For Donna Murray, it's been 929 excruciating days since her son was fatally shot by Elk Grove'Village police.' The family's attorneys announced Wednesday morning that they had reached a $10. 5 million settlement with Elk Grove Village over the 2023 shooting death of Jack…...

5+ hour, 21+ min ago  (706+ words) Growing up in the 1970s, one of the shows that remains as a memory footnote is "Man from Atlantis," starring actor Patrick Duffy and airing on NBC in 1977 and 1978 before the marquee name leading man Duffy (who sported webbed hands and…...

6+ hour, 8+ min ago  (814+ words) The Northwest Indiana Forum, on Wednesday, announced a new $7 billion Amazon data center campus in Jasper County, called Project Rise. Ennis also thanked the Jasper County commissioners and council for their work on the project. According to Jasper County government's…...

5+ hour, 55+ min ago  (241+ words) Storms came through the Aurora area again on Wednesday while clean-up work is still going on from last week's bad weather. Following last week's severe storms, city officials said Aurora's Public Works Department and Street Maintenance Division have been working…...