Mother turns pain into purpose
— December 18, 2024Bertha Purnell felt a calling after her 28-year-old son was murdered in 2017 less than a mile from her home. “I had never done advocacy work in my life, but I know compassion and…
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Cat rescue marks 10th anniversary
— December 18, 2024Cats kept finding Barb Weber. For some reason, the former Palatine resident kept having cats show up at her house. “They were either injured cats or cats that were not wild, they…
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Casten questions exporting liquified natural gas
— December 18, 2024U.S. Congressman Sean Casten, D-Downers Grove, questioned the continued exporting of liquified natural gas in light of a Department of Energy’s assessment of U.S. liquified natural…
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Raoul announces $25 million settlement with Grubhub
— December 17, 2024Attorney General Kwame Raoul, in partnership with the Federal Trade Commission, announced today a $25 million settlement agreement with Grubhub Inc. over its alleged deceptive business…
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Digital equity grant winners announced
— December 16, 2024Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle today announced the inaugural recipients of the Digital Equity IMPACT Small Grants Program, an initiative designed to promote digital inclusion…
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Collaborative gets funding to help homeless families
— December 18, 2024An organization that works to reduce homelessness in suburban Cook County has received a $2.5 million grant from a charitable fund set up by Jeff Bezos. Since 2018, the Bezos Day…
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Suspect charged with attempted murder of woman
— December 17, 2024A Chicago man has been charged in connection with the shooting of a woman on the city’s South Side. Adale Taylor, 23, a resident of the 6900 block of South Lowe Avenue, is charged…
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Artists consider our relationship with the earth
— December 17, 2024The Elmhurst Art Museum will present an environmentally focused group exhibition Sustenance & Land: Five Artists Consider Our Relationship with the Earth and related programs that…
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