All Stories from July 19, 2019 (Change date)
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DuPage jail's welding program yields first inmates graduating with 'hope and purpose'Jul 19, 2019 5:33 am - How often do you see a sheriff hugging jail inmates? It happened Wednesday at the DuPage County jail as Sheriff Jim Mendrick congratulated the first graduates of a new a...
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Twice rejected, backyard chickens back on table in Rolling MeadowsJul 19, 2019 5:27 am - A little more than a year after city leaders rejected calls to allow backyard chickens, a new Rolling Meadows council is open to the idea. Former Alderman Rob Banger Jr....
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Flight 232 survivor from Schaumburg: After plane crash, 'some things aren't important anymore'Jul 19, 2019 5:20 am - For the past 30 years, Jeff Miller has been sharing a perspective on life's priorities that only seems to come naturally when "that fine line between being here and not ...
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District 211 approves $17,900 contract for superintendent searchJul 19, 2019 5:20 am - Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 board members Thursday unanimously approved a $17,900 contract with Minnesota-based School Exec Connect Inc. to compile and ...
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Child sex offenders at Aurora shelter sue city over demand they moveJul 19, 2019 1:00 am - Child sex offenders who live at Wayside Cross Ministries in Aurora are suing the city, saying its recent order for them to move out because they're too close to McCarty ...
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Marshal named for Aurora's Puerto Rican Heritage ParadeJul 19, 2019 1:00 am - Emilio Berrios, who fought for the rights of Latino workers in the United States, will be the Grand Marshal of the July 28 Puerto Rican Heritage Parade in Aurora. Berrio...
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Wisconsin man charged with sexually abusing girl in Arlington HeightsJul 19, 2019 1:00 am - A 43-year-old Wisconsin man was charged with sexually abusing a girl at her grandparents' house in Arlington Heights about 10 times since 2014, police said Friday. Scott...
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'I definitely know I'm in for a wild ride': Son hopes to buck odds in rodeo to help his father, othersJul 19, 2019 1:00 am - This literally is Justin Burau's first rodeo. Oh, sure, the Wheaton native's been to many rodeo shows in the past, watching riders, including his father, handle a bucki...
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Marklund hopeful holdup on water/sewer permit for new school will end soonJul 19, 2019 1:00 am - Marklund is hoping to get some good news Tuesday night: permission to connect a new therapeutic day school it is building to water and sewer service. It would settle...
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Neither heat, rain, cold nor drought can stop local sweet corn cropJul 19, 2019 1:00 am - In this dickens of a summer, the worst of times has given us a tale of too much sour weather for sweet corn at Wiltse's Farm Produce in Maple Park: Too wet. Too cold. To...