Maple Park
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Parents want to give elementary classroom a makeoverOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - A toy that costs $10 in a "regular" classroom could cost up to $300 for the children in Penny Mayer's class. That's because the 11 third-, fourth- and fifth-graders in t...
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Harsh reality, but beauty, tooOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - The Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota is an out of the way place many Americans may never have heard of, much less visited. But a group of nine Elgin Academy junior...
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'Cool' career fair returns to St. CharlesOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - Thirteen-year-old Ashley Shanel has more than a few ideas for what she might like to do when she grows up. Last week, the list included medicine, art, occupational ther...
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Their love wasn't so rockin', apparentlyOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - The romance, so to speak, is dead. After winning VH1's reality series "Rock of Love with Bret Michaels," Naperville native Jes Rickleff said Sunday that she is not datin...
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Teen dies in Sunday crashOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - A 16-year-old Carpentersville boy died of head injuries early Sunday morning in Elgin after a woman sideswiped the vehicle he was riding in, Kane County Coroner Chuck We...
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Recovering baby tiger dies at Brookfield ZooOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - The young male tiger cub mauled by its father late last month at Brookfield Zoo has died. Chicago Zoological Society officials, who oversee management of the zoo, are bl...
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The King reigns at Scarecrow FestOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - Forget the straw-stuffed figures dressed in simple overalls and hats. This year, 156 creative scarecrow entries crowded into Lincoln Park for this weekend's St. Charles ...
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Having fun with Elgin's historyOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - Anyone who says history is boring sure didn't attend Sunday's Elgin Youth History Fair. In one corner of the Lords Park Pavilion, children learned lessons in a one-room ...
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Dist. 300 school plan may shift eastOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - Community Unit District 300 has one more school to build with 2006 referendum money -- and some officials are considering putting that school on the east side. The conce...
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Pat Metheny's guitar riffs to jazz up ECC stageOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - The Pat Metheny Trio will heat up the Elgin Community College Arts Center's Blizzard Theatre on Saturday when the Grammy Award-winning jazz guitarist takes the stage, wi...