All Stories from January 19, 2009 (Change date)
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Juan Thomas, AuroraJan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Aurora Township clerk Juan Thomas has been active in politics for years. He first met the president-elect in 1998, when Barack Obama was a state senator. "I'm not in his...
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Hawthorn students watch historyJan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - The students in Karen Oliver's second grade class were getting a little fidgety moments before Barack Obama took the oath of office. What wasn't clear is whether the Haw...
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Kevin Allen, AddisonJan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Kevin Allen was a political Independent who hadn't worked on a campaign for more than a decade. But the prospect of an Obama presidency was so compelling to this Addison...
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Village President Catherine Melchert, BartlettJan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - This won't be the first inauguration Bartlett Village President Catherine Melchert has attended. Melchert was in the nation's capital in 2001 and saw President George W....
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Saving the moment: There's no shortage of inaugural merchandiseJan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Barack Obama's face might be on more merchandise than Elvis Presley's or Mickey Mouse's. Today's historic inauguration seems to have created an insatiable demand for Oba...
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Arrest made in Hoffman Estates repo shootingJan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - The man Hoffman Estates police say used a gun to threaten three people as they tried to repossess his car turned himself Monday morning. Ronnie Kindred, 42, of the 1900 ...
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NCC student: ''There was no way I was going to miss this'Jan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Sarah Richardson didn't let an internship in Costa Rica stop her from voting for Barack Obama - with an absentee ballot, of course. So the 20-year-old North Central Coll...
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Lily Lichner, St. CharlesJan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Eleven-year-old Lily Lichner of St. Charles will attend the inauguration along with two friends as the result of participating in summer camps at Northern Illinois Unive...
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How are Lincoln, Obama similar?Jan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Echoes of Abraham Lincoln reverberate throughout today's inauguration of Barack Obama as our nation's 44th president. Obama's inauguration theme - "A New Birth of Freedo...
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Donna Mohn, NapervilleJan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Naperville Central teacher Donna Mohn is giving her students the ultimate history lesson. Mohn and 28 Central students are heading to D.C. to see the inauguration firsth...