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Iowa's Big Grove Brewery has a contract to buy the Palatine landmark and plans a restaurant and taproom by the Metra stop.
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Merchants pressed officials over rising costs as Aurora eyes a new downtown tax district to replace one expiring this year.
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A Field Museum curator's childhood love of Guns N' Roses helped inspire the name Lielaphis slashi for a newly confirmed New Guinea snake species.
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The 17-year-old was last seen in Mishawaka and South Bend, with family fearing for his welfare across the Michigan border.
Stephen Miller, 41, ran a Northwestern engineering facility since 2015. Police dogs Grip and Enzo helped find hidden devices at his home.
Darryl Short, 45, faces a detention hearing Thursday after allegedly leaving a woman to die on West 79th Street.
Four or five suspects rammed a gray Jeep into a West Ogden Avenue gas station before dawn and made off with the ATM.
The Atelier alum is turning his Time Out Market pop-up into a permanent Logan Square bistro blending Kentucky roots with Midwestern seafood.
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A trailing pilot spotted the shredding tread and warned air traffic control before Flight 3280 could take off from O'Hare.
Alan Salazar was released pending trial after deputies say he admitted using Grok to generate the images inside his DeKalb dorm.
The 15-year-old was flown to a Level I trauma center after the Route 31 crash; deputies found the suspect's car 20 minutes later.
Javier Murillo pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the 2023 drive-by shooting of Ulysses Campos, who was celebrating his grandmother's birthday.
Anthony Pointer, 37, faces two Class X felonies after an eight-month probe into a December shooting on the Stony Island ramp to I-94.
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