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Take a look. Today temperatures will slowly be headed back up. Were still looking at rain. Filtered sun shine High Temperature three degrees above the average. Today we will reach the mid60s. Showers return into the evening. Its 40 at ohare. Joliet greeting at 41. 42 in morris. Kankakee trading at 43. Across the region of the 30s to the northwest. To the self low 40s. The rain continues with lights sprinkles. Nothing too heavy. This afternoon and this evening we will have showers. Chance of a th...

Toni Preckwinkle currently serves as the Cook County Board of Commissioners president, where she manages the financial affairs of the county and has championed a variety of projects. But before that, she came to Chicago to study the social sciences at UChicago. In an interview with The Maroon, Preckwinkle discussed her time at the University...

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