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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...
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Rozner: 30 years later, '89 Chicago Cubs opener a wild memoryApr 02, 2019 1:00 am - It might not be quite the Willie Smith home run to end the game in 1969, but as Opening Day hysterics go, the Chicago Cubs' 1989 opener was one of the all-timers. And it...