All Stories from October 15, 2021 (Change date)
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Climate activists resume weeklong protest at CapitolOct 15, 2021 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Indigenous groups and other environmental activists marched to the Capitol Friday as they continued a weeklong protest demanding that Congress and the ...
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Lawyers for Nikolas Cruz say he will plead guilty to killing 17 people in Parkland, Florida, high school in 2018Oct 15, 2021 7:00 am - FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Lawyers for Nikolas Cruz say he will plead guilty to killing 17 people in Parkland, Florida, high school in 2018. ...
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Civil War battle re-enactment returns to Hainesville this weekendOct 15, 2021 6:00 am - Relive history in Hainesville as knowledgeable re-enactors, both military and civilian, in period costume re-create an American Civil War event hosted by the Northbrook ...
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How a Latina student found support at Waubonsee to break the cycle and work toward her goalsOct 15, 2021 6:00 am - According to a 2019 report by Excelencia in Education's Latinos in Higher Education: Compilation of Fast Facts, half of all Latinos in the U.S. (44%) were the first in t...
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Spotlight: Goodman stages 'Fannie,' and The Second City returnsOct 15, 2021 6:00 am - E. Faye as Fannie Lou Joseph Jefferson Award-winner E. Faye Butler channels civil rights and voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in Goodman Theatre's production of ...
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Ron Onesti: Remembering another lost rock 'n' roll 'king'Oct 15, 2021 6:00 am - We lost one of the very last founders of rock 'n' roll last year, Richard Wayne Penniman, otherwise known as Little Richard. As flamboyant as he was entertaining, he was...
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Parents grapple with loss after a school-shooting tragedy in wrenching 'Mass'Oct 15, 2021 6:00 am - “Mass” - ★ ★ ★ ½ The piercing traumas of school shootings, when they've made it into the movies, have seldom carried quite the right tone. Even the best intentions in w...
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Late Army staff sergeant's love of scuba diving inspires Palatine mom to write children's bookOct 15, 2021 5:30 am - Echo Morgan was having an especially painful, emotional day in July 2020 as she walked and thought about her late son Matt, who'd died five months earlier in a scuba div...
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COVID-19 has taken a heavy toll on police, but suburban departments avoid vaccine mandatesOct 15, 2021 5:30 am - By Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas Law enforcement professionals and their supporters gathered Thursday night on the National Mall in Washington for a candlelight v...
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Former Libertarian candidate for governor charged with threatening Lake County judgesOct 15, 2021 1:00 am - A man who ran for Illinois governor in 2018 was taken into custody Thursday in Arkansas and accused of threatening to kill two Lake County judges, authorities said. Gray...