THU, 10/18/2018

Thursday, October 18, 2018

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DuPage County | Driver acquitted in Carol Stream armed robbery

The man who walked into a Carol Stream 7-Eleven around 10:15 p.m. on Jan. 26, 2015, and put a gun in the face of two clerks, demanding their money and the store's money is serving 23 years in an Illinois prison. The man prosecutors allege drove him to and from the store beat two counts of armed robbery Thursday in DuPage County. A 12-member jury deliberated for less than two hours Thursday afternoon before acquitting 24-year-old Quincy Skanes.
Video attached to article Kurt Billsten, Harper College’s manufacturing program coordinator, leads U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos on a tour of the Palatine school’s advanced manufacturing lab Thursday.

Education | DeVos visits Harper College's manufacturing lab, apprenticeship program

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visited Harper College in Palatine Thursday to explore its multifaceted apprenticeship program and advanced manufacturing lab, as well as get students' feedback on a new financial-aid app.
Former NASA astronaut Scott Altman talks to a team of Otto Engineering employees who are making the switches on the control module for the Orion spacecraft.

Business | Ex-astronaut: Otto Engineering in Carpentersville is making Mars mission possible

Scott Altman, a former NASA astronaut, had a hand in designing the spacecraft expected to travel to Mars. On Thursday, he met with the Otto Engineering employees making parts for its control module.
The family always went all out in their Halloween decorations, and the ashes of Michael Podlin, who died of cancer last year, are in a box topped with a skull with light-up red eyes, held by his widow, TammySue Margalit, and their daughter, Ginger.

Columns | Constable: Halloween family balances macabre with memories of late father

Exhausted from the physical and emotional toll of battling pancreatic cancer, Michael Podlin depended on his wife and three kids to put up their family's annual spectacular display for their Arlington Heights neighborhood last October. This Halloween, a box of Podlin's ashes, topped by a grinning skull with glowing, red eyes, are part of the scary scene.
Claudia S. Peters can have her 5 1/2-year prison term cut in half for good behavior.
McHenry County | 5 1/2 years prison for Cary woman four times legal limit in 4th DUI
A 53-year-old Cary woman was sentenced Tuesday to 5 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to her fourth DUI, in which prosecutors said she had a blood-alcohol concentration of .387 -- more than four times the legal limit.
Hey Nonny, a new music venue and gastropub in downtown Arlington Heights, officially opened its doors Wednesday.
Dining | Gastropub/music venue Hey Nonny opens in Arlington Heights
Hey Nonny, the new 3,974-square-foot gastropub/music venue in downtown Arlington Heights, has officially opened its doors.
The O’Hare Noise Commission is tackling a new runway rotation plan to share the pain of jets around the region.
Transportation | Who gets night noise? Debate on runways getting underway
New runway options on O'Hare's north airfield in 2021 means jet noise being dispersed across more neighborhoods. That's good, right? The reality is a little fraught, a group planning an overnight runway rotation finds.
News | Victim in Aurora shooting identified
One man was killed and a second injured after an unknown offender opened fire on their vehicle while they were parked in an Aurora coin laundry parking lot Tuesday evening, authorities said.
Kane County | Kane County gets state money for election security but can't make changes yet
Kane County officials will receive at least $70,000 from the state to boost election security ahead of Nov. 6 voting. But large changes to the existing system will not happen because that would cause more harm than good with so little time left to implement them, according to Roger Fahnestock, the county's chief information officer.
Students in Michelle Johnson’s sixth-grade essential tech class at Still Middle School work on coding Thursday at the Aurora school. Indian Prairie Unit District 204 plans to add some of the thinking skills behind computer work into more of the curriculum during the next three years using a grant from the National Science Foundation.
Education | Dist. 204 gets national grant to improve students' 'computational thinking'
New thinking skills that support work with comptuers are coming to the curriculum in Indian Prairie Unit District 204 under a national grant.
Republican Barrett Davie, left, and Democratic incumbent Julie Morrison are running for state Senate District 29
Politics | GOP megadonor gave $305,000 to state Senate candidate Davie
Nearly all of the cash state Senate candidate Barrett Davie received from supporters in the year's third quarter came from one source: conservative megadonor and fellow Lake Forest resident Richard Uihlein.
Columns | Slusher: Toss the mailers and vote with pride
Columnist Jim Slusher: I would never urge anyone not to vote in an election, but I've been reviewing campaign mailers from candidates for county, legislative and congressional races throughout the suburbs and this conclusion is inescapable: If you base your voting decision on the political advertising you see, that may be worse than if you did not vote at all.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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