Cook County
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Signal Hill, DAR donates $1,000 to purchase books for District 220 schoolsMar 04, 2024 9:06 am - Barrington-based Signal Hill Chapter, NSDAR, donated $1,000 to purchase books for young readers at Sunny Hill Elementary School in Carpentersville, and for children at the Barrington Early Learning Center.
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Heun: St. Charles Arts Council to hold plein air competitionMar 04, 2024 6:13 am - St. Charles Arts Council director Kathryn Hill wants to increase the public’s awareness of all the arts events, locations and promotions the city has to offer. One new event this year will be a plein air art competition in August.
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Leyden’s Johnson lifts Elmhurst basketballMar 04, 2024 6:00 am - Led by Leyden graduate Ocean Johnson, Elmhurst College’s men’s basketball team won the CCIW tournament championship.
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The Week in Pictures photo gallery for the last week of February, 2024.Mar 03, 2024 8:16 pm - Daily Herald photographers bring you the best of you and your neighbors in the Chicago suburbs. ...
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Elgin to provide AI chatbot for residents to engage via text, web chatMar 03, 2024 7:28 pm - Elgin plans to harness the power of generative artificial intelligence to make it easier for residents to engage with the city via web chat and text messaging and receive...
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Hair today, gone tomorrow; Shavees sacrifice locks for a good causeMar 03, 2024 6:13 pm - Chris Crane made quite a sacrifice Sunday when he allowed the shaving of his long beard — dyed green ahead of St. Patrick’s Day — for the annual St. Baldrick’s Day fundra...
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Prescribed burns part of conservation, nature’s cycleMar 03, 2024 4:58 pm - Long before Europeans settled in Illinois and transformed the Prairie State into what it is today, fire fueled the land. Landscape scale fire, both natural and indigenous...
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One acre at a time: Barrington’s Citizens for Conservation reconnects the suburbs with Illinois’ Prairie State originsMar 03, 2024 4:55 pm - Every Thursday and Saturday morning, Matt Van Acker puts on his work gloves, grabs his curved hand saw and leaves his home in Barrington on foot, walking south across a v...
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Nurse practitioner helps revive Rolling Meadows community clinic he went to as a kidMar 03, 2024 9:59 am - Adam Chavez was 9 years old when he and his family moved to a Rolling Meadows apartment complex, where he could visit a neighborhood resource center’s clinic for physicals and vaccinations. Now a nurse practitioner, Chavez is helping bring those health care services back.
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Skyview: Visual elegance at former Sears headquarters in Hoffman EstatesMar 03, 2024 9:02 am - For many people, it’s hard to imagine the former Sears headquarters in its prime. Tucked within the rectangular buildings of the former Sears headquarters in Hoffman Estates are a couple of structures designed with wavy walls that overlook the property.