DuPage County Crime
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Memorial services begin for Carol Stream nativeNov 02, 2021 6:18 pm - The picture of Gayle Dubowski and her father at a Valentine's Day "Daddy-Daughter Dance" taken a couple of years ago was a fitting choice for her Bible's bookmark last T...
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The few students on campus are sticking togetherNov 02, 2021 6:11 pm - Beth Cooney and Brittney Ginter sat in NIU's Village Commons Bookstore Monday afternoon tying one red-and-black memorial ribbon after another. The sophomores, each clad ...
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Dad recounts son's heroic actions when NIU gunman struckNov 02, 2021 6:12 pm - Days after his death, Dan Parmenter is still making his father proud. The 20-year-old sophomore from Westchester was one of five people shot and killed at Northern Illin...
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Group will protest at two victims' services todayNov 02, 2021 5:12 pm - The group that has protested at funerals of military personnel killed in the Iraq War announced Sunday they will picket the services of two victims of the Northern Illin...
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Suburban churches mourn their ownNov 02, 2021 6:07 pm - Christ Church of Oak Brook has felt the impact of a national tragedy before. On Sept. 11, 2001, Associate Pastor Jeff Mladenik died when American Airlines Flight 11 stru...
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A call for more gun control lawsNov 02, 2021 5:11 pm - After 60 minutes in agonizing limbo as she waited to hear if her son, a Northern Illinois University student, survived Thursday's massacre, Connie Catellani doesn't want...
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Quiet 'angel' made her mark as a singerNov 02, 2021 5:00 pm - Sweet and quiet is how friends and former instructors at Glenbard North High School remember Gayle Dubowski. But put her in a choir robe and on some risers -- that's whe...
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NIU had plans in place for disasterNov 02, 2021 4:57 pm - As they hunkered down behind locked doors, one common thread emerged from Northern Illinois University faculty and staff in the midst of the shooting crisis Thursday. Pl...
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Virginia Tech president responds to NIU shootingsNov 02, 2021 4:57 pm - The following is a letter written Friday to Northern Illinois University President John Peters from Charles Steger, president of Virginia Tech, in response to the ma...
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Bolingbrook student recounts panic in classroom during shootingNov 02, 2021 4:49 pm - DEKALB -- Desiree Smith wasn't supposed to be in the classroom. The senior journalism major had picked up the geology class at the last minute after dropping another cou...