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Smashing Pumpkins To Perform At 2024 Illinois State Fair Grandstand
Since its formation 36 years in Chicago, the band has sold more than 30 million albums and continued to evolve.

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Since its formation 36 years in Chicago, the band has sold more than 30 million albums and continued to evolve.

"I’d always joke with them saying, ‘When I win, I won’t give you any!’" the purchaser of the winning ticket told Illinois Lottery officials.
The North Chicago man made "sexually suggestive" comments to the woman he kidnapped before she jumped out of his SUV, authorities said.
By a razor-thin margin — fewer than 1,600 votes out of more than 500,000 cast — the former judge defeated the party-endorsed candidate.
A portion of Catalpa Avenue in Andersonville was dedicated to the late Evanston resident on what would have been her 34th birthday.
Excitement is building for the solar eclipse April 8 in the Highland Park area, where we'll experience 92.6 percent partiality.
Excitement is building for the solar eclipse April 8 in the Lake Forest area, where we'll experience 92 percent partiality.
Excitement is building for the solar eclipse April 8 in New Trier Township, where we'll experience 93 percent partiality.
Excitement is building for the solar eclipse April 8 in Wilmette and Kenilworth, where we'll experience 93 percent partiality.
Excitement is building for the solar eclipse April 8 in Skokie, where we'll experience 93 percent partiality.
Excitement is building for the solar eclipse April 8 in Evanston, where we'll experience 93 percent partiality.
An evenly split Highland Park City Council has so far rejected changing the city code to allow liquor licenses for cops and councilmembers.
Feds say a jailed Wilmette attorney dodged taxes while making $1 million in payments to a former stripper with whom he was having an affair.
The driver of an Alfa Romeo rear-ended another driver on Oakton before crashing into a tree at Emerson Middle School, Niles police said.
The race between retired judge Eileen O'Neill Burke and longtime government staffer Clayton Harris remains too close to call.
Siegel's abstract paintings will be on exhibit in Highland Park for six weeks starting in early May.
Northwestern University officials are looking to raise $20 million from donors to build a new softball field by early 2026.
A drunken Chicago man with a suspended license crashed into another driver before he was taken into custody: Lake Forest Police Blotter
A group of carjackers led police on a chase that reached 100 mph before the SUV they stole crashed in North Chicago, authorities said.
Food truck break-in discovered; Waukegan man charged with DUI after crash; shoplifters steal iPad, alcohol: Highland Park Police Blotter