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An Antioch teen accused of killing two men during an August protest in Wisconsin is due in court today for a preliminary hearing in the case.

The producer of Kane County's email newsletter, Rick Nagel, lost his job this week via a budget cut the county board approved this year.

Six people were stabbed Tuesday night during a brawl at an apartment complex in Carol Stream.

Shuttered only months after playing its first song, a dueling piano bar in Rosemont's entertainment district is being converted into a recreational marijuana dispensary.

Glenview police are asking for the public's help in identifying a pedestrian who was struck by a vehicle Wednesday evening.

Geneva graduate Kevin McDowell has become one of the best triathletes in the world. He is focused on making the 2021 U.S. Olympic team.

Kathryn Finch, who teaches music at Meadowbrook School in Northbrook, has coauthored a book on innovative instruction titled "Pass the Baton: Empowering All Music Students" that was released on Amazon in November.

Sarah Stetina witnessed her first live birth during a labor and delivery clinical rotation as a second-year nursing student at College of DuPage. "I had just witnessed the most empowering event in this person's life, but no one in the delivery room seemed as impressed," the COD alumna said. "In my nursing classes at COD, we spent a lot of time focusing on holistic care, especially when it came to assisting a patient through labor, but what I witnessed was very clinical and impersonal."

One year after it rejected the sale of recreational marijuana within the village, the Mount Prospect village board voted Tuesday to opt in and allow its medical dispensary to sell recreational pot at its current location.

A festive display of twinkling lights has earned a Villa Park family home the title of "Villa Park Holiday House."