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The official number of suburban homeless students plunged during the pandemic, but those stats are misleading. Homelessness is not down, educators say. "It's just that we've lost track of them, which is the worst thing that can happen," one student advocate said.

Maha Ayesh of Lombard is the first in her extended Palestinian American family to become a police officer, joining the Bartlett Police Department last October. She also is the suburbs' first Muslim female police officer who wears a hijab -- an Islamic head covering.