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By Burt Constable His voice catches and his eyes water as Ryan Mains tells this story from his days as a combat medic in Iraq. Hearing him tell it makes me gasp and forces me to dab my eyes. Reading it might not be much easier, but it is essential to who Mains is today.   "I can still see it clear as day, as if it is happening this morning," says the soft-spoken 41-year-old husband and dad, as he sits at the kitchen table in the family home in Huntley. A combat medic with the 3rd Infantry Division pushing into Baghdad at the start of the war with Iraq in the spring of 2003, Mains had near-mi...

Updated 2/24/2021 7:32 AM A cooperatively owned grocery store is planning to open a brick-and-mortar location next year in downtown Lombard. Prairie Food Co-op has signed a 10-year lease for a 10,000-square-foot building at 109 S. Main St. Indiana-based Holladay Properties will begin construction of the building this spring, and the store is expected to open in July 2022.   "As a cooperative business, we are literally owned by the community," said Kathy Nash, Prairie Food Co-op board president and co-founder. "Our mission is to open a grocery store that supports local farmers and producers."...

Elmhurst 1st Ward Alderman & Elmhurst City Centre Board of Directors The single most pressing issue facing our city is _______, and this is what I intend to do about it. A pressing challenge is the Covid-19 pandemic as it relates to our residents and the city's financial stability, business growth, and retention. Sales taxes, which are generated by local businesses, are the most significant revenue source (28%) of the city's general fund. General fund expenditures include departments such as police, fire, streets, and sanitation. Because of the pandemic, sales taxes in 2020 were down signifi...