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Naperville begins enforcing ban on kratom sales (opens the original)
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'Just in the first six months of 2026 alone, we had four kratom-related overdoses here in Naperville,' Mayor Scott Wehrli said. NAPERVILLE, Ill. (WLS) -- Smoke shops in Naperville are no longer allowed to sell kratom, a popular supplement that was banned by city officials, as of Thursday. "Just in the first six months of 2026 alone, we had four kratom-related overdoses here in Naperville," Mayor Scott Wehrli said. Wehrli led the city's ordinance last month and confirmed that businesses received
Referees stop working over alleged missed payments, leading to CPS game cancellations (opens the original)
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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago referees have stopped working, jeopardizing football games for thousands of student-athletes. "We needed to shed light on the situation because nobody else has these issues," Breyion Hutchinson said. He and Michael Outten are among the referees who allege missing paychecks. They say Chicago Public Schools was supposed to pay them directly, taking over from the schools, earlier this season. "To have to go three weeks, almost four weeks without getting any money - think ab
NIPSCO president faces questions over response to August derecho, weekslong power outages (opens the original)
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GARY, Ind. (WLS) -- Seven weeks after a storm brought down trees and power lines across northwest Indiana, state lawmakers questioned NIPSCO President Vince Parisi about the utility's response to the Aug. 11 derecho. "Did you have a plan for emergency response? Was it executed pursuant to the plan?" state Rep. Alaina Shonkwiler, R-District 29, asked. "Representative, we do have a plan," Parisi said. "We use the ICS structure, the incident command structure. It's the same system that's used by FE
Chicago woman says AI helped her identify, locate alleged attacker (opens the original)
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CHICAGO (WLS) -- One Chicago woman is now crediting artificial intelligence with helping her identify the man who she says assaulted her over the summer. "I saw his picture," Zoe Threlkeld said. "I used reverse Google Images to try to look for the background of it." Threlkeld said she met Isaiah Del Toro at a River North bar in June and invited him to her apartment, but later asked him to leave. That is when she claims Del Toro attacked her, stealing her phone and hitting her with a pot, leaving
'Innocent bystander': Father shot, killed outside NW Indiana liquor store; family seeks answers (opens the original)
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Brent Jones was leaving the store when his loved ones say he walked through a fight. EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (WLS) -- The death of a northwest Indiana man has now been ruled a homicide, according to the Lake County, Indiana Coroner's Office. "Wrong place, wrong time, innocent bystander," said Maria Parris, whose cousin, Brent Jones, died late Saturday night. "There was something that went on that didn't have nothing to do with him, and he was shot," Parris said. The shooting happened outside Euclid L
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