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Oakton Community College officials dedicated the Des Plaines campus' new cannabis cultivation facility. The Federal Aviation Administration will move its regional headquarters to an office building in Rolling Meadows. College of DuPage increases tuition.
Though part of the pending property sale to the Chicago Bears and closed as an off-track betting parlor, Arlington Trackside is hosting daily cash poker table games through April 13.
Hawthorne Race Course Thursday picked up one more of Arlington Park's shuttered off-track betting parlors -- this one, in Rockford -- giving the Cicero racetrack its maximum 16 allowed under state statute. But there's legislation proceeding in Springfield this week that would remove that cap.
The Illinois Racing Board Thursday granted Hawthorne Race Course's request to reopen Arlington Park's off-track betting parlor in Villa Park, but five other locations formerly operated by the Arlington Heights racetrack remain shuttered.
Freddy the fox has a smaller drain pipe in Bartlett. About 40 horses are rescued from a fire near Elgin. Former Sears headquarters in Hoffman Estates going up for sale. The restaurant Tuscany in Wheeling will close. The Odeum in Villa Park could go up for sale. DuPage sheriff's office buying an armored vehicle.