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Commuters board a Metra train in Arlington Heights. The commuter rail agency is expanding a program offering reduced passes for students at certain colleges. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Metra expands discounted student rail pass program to DePaul and Roosevelt universities

Metra began offering cheaper fares to University of Illinois Chicago participants in fall 2024 and thousands signed up. Now the program is being expanded to DePaul and Roosevelt universities.

Road closed due to fatal crash near Sugar Grove

The intersection of Scott and Dauberman roads west of Sugar Grove was closed Monday due to a fatal crash, officials said.

Prospect Heights Elementary District 23 will again ask voters to approve a tax hike to help boost district revenues. The measure will appear on the Nov. 3 ballot. (Tom Quinlan/Daily Herald)

District 23 board votes again to go to referendum

Prospect Heights Elementary District 23 will again seek voter approval for a tax rate increase in November.

Rosemont’s Public Safety Department will install a dozen walk-through metal detectors at the Allstate Arena in the coming weeks. (Mark Welsh/Daily Herald)

‘Proactive not reactive’: Rosemont to install walk-through metal detectors at Allstate Arena

Rosemont will install a dozen walk-through metal detectors at all Allstate Arena entrances in the coming weeks, potentially in time for the Garth Brooks concerts Sept. 10-13.

High Five: The reasons we’re looking forward to Week 1 of the prep football season

This week’s edition of the High Five breaks down what we’re looking forward to in Week 1 of the prep football season.

Kirsy Velasquez and her son Kairos Ortiz, 10, wait in line for school supplies Sunday, Aug. 16, at Wilder Park in Aurora during the annual Aurora Community Back to School Bash. (David Sharos/For The Beacon-News)

Back to School Bash in Aurora makes sure kids have needed school supplies: ‘Families have come to depend on this’

A back-to-school event was held Sunday at Wilder Park in Aurora. The event included music, bounce houses, community resource tables, free food, games and, most importantly, school supplies.

The Indian Prairie School District 204 board meets at the Crouse Education Center at 780 Shoreline Drive in Aurora. (R. Christian Smith/The Beacon-News)

District 204 implementing changes in effort to encourage student attendance

To encourage student attendance, Indian Prairie School District 204 is working on some revisions to how student absences are logged and how the district communicates with families about their children’s attendance going forward.

A nurse prepares a combination measles, mumps and rubella vaccine for a patient at Tiger Pediatrics this March. (Mary Conlon/AP)

Pediatricians push back against Trump's plan to revamp kids’ vaccines

Local experts offer advice for parents amid a White House push to tear up immunization schedules, split up MMR vaccine.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 

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