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Editorial: A close-to-home economic strategySep 19, 2012 8:59 am - At a meeting with the Daily Herald editorial board this week, Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin reflected on the usual topics — political dysfunction in Washington, the o...
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COD commissions sculpture of chaparral mascotSep 17, 2012 11:06 am - It’s a bird that may be best known in popular culture for escaping Wile E. Coyote in Looney Tunes, and you may actually see the real thing in the American southwest, but...
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Longtime Wheaton educator made her markSep 16, 2012 4:18 pm - Helen Gum Westlake spent her elementary school years in a one-room country schoolhouse near Elburn, always the lone student of her class and usually left to fend for her...
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Ride the rails on the Nebraska Zephyr Sept. 22-23Sep 14, 2012 6:00 pm - The Illinois Railway Museum, in cooperation with Amtrak and the BNSF Railway, will operate the Nebraska Zephyr, built in 1936 and powered by the 1940 vintage Burlington ...
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Images: Montini vs. St. Francis footballSep 14, 2012 10:52 am - ...
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Images: Montini vs. St. FrancisSep 13, 2012 11:00 pm - ...
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Dining events: Waterleaf pairs fall foods, winesSep 11, 2012 3:00 pm - Fork in the fall Taste the season at a four-course fall wine dinner at 6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16, at Waterleaf. Begin with a butternut squash, ricotta and sage crosti...
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2 Glenbards might move graduations to Sears CentreSep 11, 2012 2:32 pm - Officials at Glenbard North and East high schools say holding graduation off-campus is more accommodating to the nearly 4,000 guests who attend each ceremony. But some h...
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Naperville memorial features survivor of Sept. 11 tragedySep 10, 2012 6:00 am - The piercing screams on the streets of Manhattan still haunt Joe Dittmar's mornings. The red-orange flames devouring the towers still sear his memory. His voice still ...
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Kline Creek Farm hosts 1890s version of a country fairSep 02, 2012 10:24 am - The country fair held at Kline Creek Farm in West Chicago over the weekend was about as old-school as you can get. On hand at the sixth annual fair were exhibits and ac...