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Why older generation must prepare to pass the torch to the youngApr 02, 2019 11:00 pm - Listening to a young minister preaching in a church I was visiting, I found myself being somewhat condescending in response to her laboriously intellectualized, dry and ...
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SpaceX crew capsule marks a new chapter in space travelApr 02, 2019 6:00 am - “How do spaceships work?” asked a young patron from the Wauconda Area Library. Just a few weeks ago, the SpaceX Crew Dragon space capsule roared into space from its...
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Sound check: Marina City's evolution, show at Chop ShopApr 02, 2019 6:00 am - ‘Addicted' to Marina City For a while now, Plainfield power-pop sextet Marina City has been secretly cultivating something new, rolling out bits and pieces of the ...
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How Stevenson engineering students designed an adaptive recorder for a Long Grove third-graderApr 02, 2019 6:00 am - At 8-years old, Ella Doloughty of Long Grove loves dogs, unicorns, dancing - and anything pink. She also loves to play the recorder, and she sailed through learning the ...
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Tasting Burgundy part history, agricultural lesson, part heavenly experienceApr 02, 2019 6:00 am - It's tasting season, when Chicagoland wine trade and press carefully vet an onslaught of invitations, in hopes of sparing the palate and a few waking hours of sobriety. ...
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Mission for two suburban shelters for young asylum-seekers: 'I am safe'Apr 02, 2019 5:30 am - Flags from 18 nations hang in the stairwell of the suburban Viator House of Hospitality as a colorful reminder of the 48 men who have lived here after coming to the U.S....
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'I have never felt this safe,' says teen awaiting asylum ruling in the suburbsApr 02, 2019 5:30 am - The last leg of her pilgrimage to escape the violence of her hometown in Honduras found 17-year-old Alma, who never learned how to swim, clinging to a flotation device s...
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Administrator-consolidation bill would boost school quality in IllinoisApr 02, 2019 1:00 am - "Our tax bills are too high. If we are truly interested in reducing our property tax responsibility, we really have to start with the school districts," Illinois state R...
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Feder: Deborah Norville has surgery to remove cancerous noduleApr 02, 2019 1:00 am - Deborah Norville, longtime host of "Inside Edition" and former Chicago news anchor, underwent surgery Tuesday to have a cancerous nodule removed from her thyroid, Robert...
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3 with local connections to watch as Augusta National Women's Amateur tees offApr 02, 2019 1:00 am - AUGUSTA, Ga. — Last year the biggest new event in golf was the U.S. Senior Women's Open, which was conducted in July at the Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton. This year's big...