Charley Hull made quite the sensation this year at the U.S. Women’s Open with a social media post of her signing autographs with a cigarette dangling between her lips.
Elmhurst Park District commissioners voted unanimously Monday, Aug. 5, to put a referendum item on the November ballot, asking voters to approve a nearly $90 million bond issue to replace the aging Joanne B. Wagner Community Center, put a bandshell in Wilder Park and add amenities to several other city parks.
A 38-year-old man was fatally wounded Tuesday morning while he was inside of a vehicle on the South Side in the Calumet Heights neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly before 8:45 a.m., the victim was inside a vehicle in the 9600 block of South Merrill Avenue when gunfire erupted, striking him multiple times to the body. He was taken to UChicago Medicine where he was pronounced dead, according to police. A black sedan was spotted fleeing north from the scene, police said. No one was in custody and detectives were investigating.
An Aurora man has been charged with driving under the influence of drugs after hitting a house with his car in Batavia early Monday morning.
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DuPage County announced the establishment of a “Cybersecurity Task Force” following a roundtable discussion between members of the county’s Information Technology Leadership Thursday, Aug. 1.
The Danada Equestrian Center and the neighboring Gladstone Ridge farm have brought generations of horse lovers to the south side of Wheaton. After several stalled attempts through the years, Danada’s owner — the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County — is now on track to buy the pastoral property to its east.
Four Venezuelan girls sat cross-legged on the ground Monday night with gags on their lips that said “liberty, peace, dignity and justice “to protest the reelection of their country’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro, following increased scrutiny of the country’s electoral practices. Demonstrators held pamphlets behind them in Daley Plaza with statistics about how many people had been arrested and killed since the election. Thousands of miles away in Venezuela, protesters surged in the streets of their home country against what many described as one of the worst moments in the country in over a decade of decline — caused by corruption […]
A strike date has not yet been set, and a strike could still be averted. The nurses and health system have several more bargaining dates scheduled for this week.
Operated by the Urban Muslim Minority Alliance, UMMA Executive Director Hamaas Ibrahim said patrons can select 15 grocery items every two weeks. Patrons shop rather than take home a prepackaged bag.