All Stories from May 1, 2014 (Change date)
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Bolingbrook teen finds patterns of success across fieldsMay 01, 2014 5:30 am - Timothy Zhou excels at music, math and chess. While that may seem like an unusual combination, the Bolingbrook teen is quick to explain the three disciplines are much mo...
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Lyric's 'Sound of Music' traditional, but not transcendentMay 01, 2014 5:30 am - Lyric Opera of Chicago's "The Sound of Music" is every bit the grand production you'd expect from one of the country's leading opera companies. Among its pleasures are ...
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An education challenge for GOPMay 01, 2014 5:01 am - In one of the lower policy points during the 2012 Republican primary campaign, Rick Santorum told a Tea Party group, "President Obama once said he wants everybody in Ame...
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Dawn Patrol: Sandy Hook mom in suburbs; Portillo's considers sellingMay 01, 2014 5:01 am - Sandy Hook mom talks to suburban educators Michele Gay, who lost her daughter Josephine during the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012 in Connecticut, spoke yesterda...
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Time will tell what 'right side of history' isMay 01, 2014 5:01 am - The other day the Obama administration announced it had hit their goal of 7 million signed up for Obamacare. After months no specific numbers, we are told it is now exac...
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Social media comedy #disappointinglysillyMay 01, 2014 5:00 am - The plot of Sarah Smick's blackly comic “Friended to Death” is thin and simple stuff, a premise that might feel right at home in a half-hour TV sitcom such as “The Big B...
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Grayslake District 46 board member raises concern about trade association spendingMay 01, 2014 5:00 am - Questions about the level of spending with a privately operated statewide education trade organization have surfaced at Grayslake Elementary District 46. At issue during...
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Paddock board names Stone COO of Daily Herald Media GroupMay 01, 2014 5:00 am - Scott T. Stone has been elected executive vice president and chief operating officer of Arlington Heights-based Paddock Publications, publisher of Daily Herald Media inc...
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Allen-esque 'Fading Gigolo' lacks Woody's magicMay 01, 2014 5:00 am - Apparently, only Woody Allen can make a Woody Allen movie. At least a good one. That's the upshot of director/writer/star John Turturro's "Fading Gigolo," a comedy that ...
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Teen crews linked to 40 percent of NYC shootingsMay 01, 2014 1:01 am - NEW YORK - There are more than 300 of them in New York - violent crews of dozens of 12- to 20-year-olds with names such as Very Crispy Gangsters, True Money Gang and Cas...