All Stories from October 15, 2014 (Change date)
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Discrimination alive, well in schoolOct 15, 2014 5:01 am - I recently received a tweet about a young man with Down syndrome. Danny tried out every year for the variety show at Maine South High School, but he was never chosen. Th...
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Take Ebola threat more seriouslyOct 15, 2014 5:01 am - If a man would get on a plane with the intent to kill himself and the 200 or so innocent passengers by igniting his explosive shoes, isn't it not only conceivable but pr...
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Dawn Patrol: Rauner, Quinn on income tax; 3 Gavin teachers to be firedOct 15, 2014 5:01 am - Quinn doesn't stand by tax-extension timetable Gov. Pat Quinn declined Tuesday to repeat his assertion, first made in an interview with the Daily Herald, that he'd ...
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'Road from Nowhere' would send jobs awayOct 15, 2014 5:01 am - This is in response to your editorial of Oct. 3, "A waste revisited." Doesn't anyone know where the "Road from Nowhere" goes? Well, it goes to the other waste the politi...
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A heckler's reasoning on immigrationOct 15, 2014 5:01 am - When someone puts herself at risk to make a point, the rest of us might ask why she stuck her neck out. But she could just as well turn the question around and ask us wh...
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Praise for church's gracious actionsOct 15, 2014 5:01 am - A most interesting article by Burt Constable, "Jesus hidden for High Holy Days in Catholic Church," on Sept. 30 serves as a profound reminder to us all that appreciating...
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6th Congressional hopefuls differ on health care reformOct 15, 2014 5:00 am - Republican U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam and his Democratic challenger for the 6th Congressional District seat, Michael Mason, are on two different sides of the spectrum when i...
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Barrington project gets started with coffee, not cementOct 15, 2014 5:00 am - Village officials and developers intended to have the “first pour” ceremony for The Barrington Village Center, the long-awaited retail project at Hough and Main streets,...
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Parents: 'No justice' for girl killed by huffing driverOct 15, 2014 5:00 am - It's been two years since 5-year-old Jaclyn Santos-Sacramento was killed by a chemically impaired driver while walking on a Highland Park sidewalk — and time hasn't ease...
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Illinois woman gets snake she didn't order in mailOct 15, 2014 1:01 am - GRANITE CITY, Ill. - Granite City police say a woman has received a baby python in the mail that someone purchased with her credit card number. Delores Gavin tells K...