Island Lake
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Defending a columnist's subject choicesJul 18, 2007 11:00 pm - A friend of mine, who is a regular reader of this column, told me the other day that he hadn't seen me in the paper the previous week. I replied that my column was in t...
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Just say bahJul 18, 2007 11:00 pm - As it has been for generations, the bedrock of the Lake County Fair will be the animals. This year, however, fair goers can expect one animal-related event that's comple...
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Supplies sought for students in needJul 18, 2007 11:00 pm - There are many children in Lake County who arrive to their first day of public school without the supplies they need. The One For All Coalition, in conjunction with the ...
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Lake County Fair funJul 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Lake County Fair The fair runs Tuesday through Sunday at the Lake County Fairgrounds, routes 45 and 120 in Grayslake. TUESDAY 9 a.m. Dairy junior livestock show 9 a.m....
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A food pantry that couldJul 18, 2007 11:00 pm - It was a passion for Millie Ruth. In the late 1980s and early 1990s as Grafton Township secretary and treasurer, she saw more and more people coming into the township of...
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Give blood, enter raffleJul 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Highland Park Ford Lincoln Mercury and LifeSource, Chicagoland's Blood Center, are sponsoring the Highland Park Ford Lincoln Mercury Blood Drive, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.,...
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Juror who voted to spare Luna's life 'at peace' with her decisionMay 19, 2007 11:00 pm - The lone juror whose vote spared Juan Luna's life in the Brown's Chicken trial last week is praying for the families of seven people slain in a Palatine restaurant 14 ye...
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Families' reactions reflect split views of justiceMay 17, 2007 11:00 pm - Some had hoped desperately for this. Others had wished publicly for Juan Luna's death, their eyes watering over when jurors said no. But the grief-stricken families of t...
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Trial 'took a toll on us all'May 17, 2007 11:00 pm - For five weeks, they've sat in the same chairs and listened to tearful testimony and gruesome details of the bloody case. They couldn't sleep. They couldn't see their fa...
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Thoughtfulness saved life of man who didn't think of othersMay 17, 2007 11:00 pm - It's not so easy to snuff out a life -- when you think about it. After thinking about it for two hours in a room by themselves, a jury of 12 people from different walks ...