Prospect Heights
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Kohl's clerk leads her team of volunteers by exampleNov 29, 2008 10:00 pm - Ask most volunteers and they'll say their efforts are about others, not themselves. Jane Lindstrom is such a volunteer. "She's very humble and doesn't like recognition,"...
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7-year-old Palatine boy serves as officer for the dayNov 29, 2008 10:00 pm - While he was fighting an infection from acute lymphoblastic leukemia earlier this year, 7-year-old George Marijan told his mother he wanted to be a police officer who is...
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Longtime Herald employee set standard for accuracy, customer serviceNov 29, 2008 10:00 pm - Anita Wilkins ~ 1921-2008 Anita Wilkins never had a byline in the Daily Herald, but she contributed to its editions for nearly 34 years. As a display advertising represe...
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Services held for Streamwood girl killed in Long Grove crashNov 29, 2008 10:00 pm - Hundreds of mourners poured into Mission San Juan Diego Catholic Church on Saturday, including parents who seemed to hug their children just a little tighter. They fille...
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From foster child to foster careNov 29, 2008 10:00 pm - Ozzie Calhoun is a 24-year-old who moved into a three-bedroom home in Hoffman Estates three years ago. He works from home in real estate. He speaks confidently about how...
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Providing 'Normal Moments' for families with fragile childrenNov 29, 2008 10:00 pm - If we're lucky, we can't begin to fathom what Patricia Fragen is talking about. Unless we've been there, we don't know what life is like when your child has cancer or an...
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A look behind the state's revolving-door policyNov 29, 2008 10:00 pm - Just a few days after he first talked with McDonough Associates about a job, former Illinois Tollway chief Brian McPartlin had to recuse himself from signing off on a $1...
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Time to jam revolving door, watchdogs sayNov 29, 2008 10:00 pm - In 2003, reform groups and lawmakers thought they'd sealed the revolving door allowing state officials to accept high-paying private sector jobs with companies that rece...
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Cannon connects as Wheeling prevailsNov 29, 2008 10:00 pm - When Wheeling girls basketball standout Ashley Wilson had to take a seat on the Wheeling bench with her fourth foul early in third quarter, teammate Janelle Cannon took ...
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$1.5 million bond set in Hanover Park slayingNov 29, 2008 10:00 pm - Calling the crime calculated, a judge set bond Saturday at $1.5 million for a 23-year-old Aurora man accused of shooting a former girlfriend to death in a Hanover Park p...