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Presenting the 2025 Times All-Area Football Team

2025 Times Football Player of the Year: Seneca’s Cam Shriey

Nellie Roberts Curiosity Shop, a one-stop antique shop

Behind Joe Hoesktra’s 19-point, 24-rebound double-double, Streator holds off Reed-Custer

Bill Walsh dealerships in Ottawa under new ownership following acquisition

Mr. Salsa’s Mexican Restaurant in Oglesby closes after 25 years

Zach Weigel named as head football coach at Sherrard

Seneca, Marquette wrestlers see plenty of positives in quadrangular meet

Herald-News Football Player of the Year: Lincoln-Way East QB Jonas Williams

Suburban Life-area coaches react to IHSA football playoff expansion: ‘It is a net positive’

Zach Weigel named as head football coach at Sherrard

Scheduling relief or false hope? IHSA playoff expansion divides DeKalb County schools

Eye On Illinois: After BIPA missteps, can lawmakers get AI regulations correct on the first try?

Oliver: Skeptical Bears fans might finally have something to be excited about

Eye On Illinois: End-of-life options backers feel guardrails sufficient to inhibit felonious abuse

Toby Moore: Actor Dick Van Dyke teaches us to just let go

Haish LaRue: Help Elevate our community’s young professionals

Roll Call: Is justice truly blind or is it applied differently if the victim has political power?

Rich Miller: Illinois’ political tensions nothing compared to failed redistricting push in Indiana

Eye On Illinois: Redistricting thankfully moot, railroad reaction and WIU selling QC assets

5 Things to Do: Trans-Siberian Orchestra tribute show, holiday lights shows in Kane County this weekend

5 Things to Do: Shop at Ottawa’s Chris Kringle Market, Christmas-themed haunted house in Peru and more

Streator board accepts resignation of Northlawn Junior High principal Karen Brennan

Silvy: This is the biggest Bears–Packers game in a decade, and Chicago is built to win it

Photos: Reed-Custer, Marquette and Seneca boys wrestling

Barden Behringer’s double-double, tough defense lead Sandwich to win: The Times Wednesday Roundup