Wheaton
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Home & garden calendar, Nov. 16-22Nov 12, 2025 4:14 pm - Learn about suburban farming, growing tea gardens, winter tree ID, and more with garden club meetings around the suburbs.
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Stories of Local Impact: Bob Schillerstrom & Mary O’Connor, Champions for conservation and community progressNov 12, 2025 3:16 pm - Leaders and Legacies, a partnership with the Daily Herald and DuPage Foundation, continues with Bob Schillerstrom and Mary O’Connor, a Naperville couple with a decades-long commitment to conservation and community service.
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Wheaton’s Gary UMC volunteers build home in IndianaNov 12, 2025 11:33 am - A group of volunteers from Gary United Methodist Church in Wheaton traveled to Lafayette, Indiana this fall to build a home with Habitat for Humanity.
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DuPage County names 2025 scholarship winnersNov 11, 2025 12:34 am - DuPage County awarded scholarships totaling $54,000 to 10 residents through its Community Services Block Grant Scholarship program this fall.
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From continuing education to bestseller: Author Shelby Van Pelt’s journey to successNov 10, 2025 6:39 pm - Shelby Van Pelt developed early drafts of her novel “Remarkably Bright Creatures” in a College of DuPage continuing education writing workshop, highlighting the importance of being surrounded by a community of like-minded learners and the value of diverse perspectives and experiences.
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College of DuPage offers new Ecological Restoration certificateNov 10, 2025 4:01 pm - College of DuPage’s new Ecological Restoration certificate teaches students how to restore natural functions to disturbed ecosystems. It emphasizes restoration techniques, local natural history, ecological concepts, and natural resource management policy.
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Wheaton Warrenville South struggles to slow NazarethNov 08, 2025 9:37 pm - Playing on the road in a steady rain against an inspired Wheaton Warrenville South team Saturday, Nazareth’s first half effort wasn’t emblematic of the three-time defendi...
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Shipley’s forced fumble propels St. Francis past Prairie RidgeNov 08, 2025 6:04 pm - Who would be the first to blink? As the St. Francis and Prairie Ridge offenses went down the field Saturday, scoring touchdowns on nine straight possessions, it looked a...
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Teacher, soccer coach faces sexual assault charges involving student at Aurora schoolNov 08, 2025 4:00 pm - An Aurora middle school teacher has been charged with sexually assaulting a former student who is underage, DuPage County authorities said Saturday. Authorities said the two met at middle school and a relationship developed when the teen was in high school.
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Can suburbs, counties enforce ICE bans on government property? Some say noNov 08, 2025 12:45 pm - To respond to concerns about immigration enforcement, many suburban communities have turned to ordinances, resolutions or signs to try to stop ICE agents from using their properties for operations. But some, including DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick, say the signs and other local actions are not enforceable.