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Nearly 23% of Illinois high school students say they drink, according to report • Norbert Holtkamp to serve as new director of Fermilab in Batavia starting in January
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Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Former Goo Goo Dolls drummer Mike Malinin purchased $1.5M home in Winnetka

Mike Malinin, who was the drummer for the rock band the Goo Goo Dolls for almost two decades, earlier this year paid $1.54 million for a Winnetka home.

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Nearly 23% of Illinois high school students say they drink, according to report

Nearly 23% of Illinois high school students said they drank alcohol within the last 30 days when surveyed in 2021, according to a report released Monday.

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Norbert Holtkamp to serve as new director of Fermilab in Batavia starting in January

Holtkamp, who worked at Fermilab from 1998 to 2001, was the deputy director of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University from 2014 to 2022, and is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.

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St. Charles considering development plan with restaurants, retail for former Pheasant Run Resort site

The development proposal is for the last remaining property at the site of the old Pheasant Run Resort, which closed in 2020 and was the scene of a devastating fire in 2022.

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Barrington Hills 5-bedroom French Country-inspired home: $2.5M

This five-bedroom French Country-inspired home has five full bathrooms, two half-baths, designer lighting and custom millwork throughout.

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Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills District 181 officials settling in at new offices

Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Elementary District 181 staff is giving very positive reviews to its new offices

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Big retailers didn’t pull ByHeart baby formula fast enough after botulism recall, FDA says

Four of the nation’s top retail stores failed to promptly pull contaminated infant formula tied to a dangerous botulism outbreak from their shelves, federal health officials said in warning letters posted Monday.

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