Will County Lifestyle
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Get your Thin Mints as Girl Scout Cookie season kicks offFeb 01, 2021 10:00 pm - Area Girl Scout troops have a variety of ways to sell your favorite cookies this year
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2020 was a big year in birdingDec 18, 2020 5:00 am - You probably heard about "Rocky," the saw-whet owl discovered last month inside the huge Christmas tree on Rockefeller Plaza in New York. The adorable stowaway became an...
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'We'll feed anyone': That's the motto at Aurora pantry where demand has more than quadrupledJun 09, 2020 6:00 am - The Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry served 2,000 people a week when Cat Battista became executive director 18 months ago. Now it serves 9,000. For the past two mont...
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Where's Jake's cell? Old Joliet Prison finally unlocks the gates.Apr 12, 2019 1:00 am - At the start of "The Blues Brothers," the 1980 comedy classic, "Joliet Jake" Blues walks out the front gate of Joliet Correctional Center, a looming, limestone fortress ...
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Churches in DuPage, Will counties collecting items for asylum-seekersJan 21, 2019 12:00 am - In response to what the Trump administration calls a growing humanitarian crisis at the southern border, a Wheaton-based group is organizing efforts to collect supplies ...
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Cheerleaders get boost from Women Who CareMar 20, 2017 11:00 pm - Members of 100+ Women Who Care of Will County recently donated $2,500 to the GymTyme "Hearts" Special Needs Cheerleading Team. The donation will help members of the team...
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Diminutive drag racer produces enormously fun driveMar 06, 2017 5:00 am - Small things can leave a big impression, just like "No Big Thing." It's a tiny blue Vespa 400 that was turned into a serious drag machine in the 1970s. Mark Cryer freque...
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South Suburban Family Shelter names new directorJun 06, 2016 1:00 am - South Suburban Family Shelter has named Jennifer Gabrenya as its new executive director Gabrenya comes to the agency with many years of experience in the nonprofit secto...
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Joliet center received $15,000 grant from Silver CrossJun 06, 2016 1:00 am - NEW LENOX - The Silver Cross Healthy Community Commission awarded the Warren-Sharpe Community Center of Joliet with a $15,000 grant to help fund their "Quality of Life" ...
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Constable: Rare dragonfly calls the suburbs homeJul 22, 2015 1:00 am - With its dazzling, jewel-green eyes, exoskeletal-thin body and two sets of translucent wings, the Hine's emerald dragonfly looks almost too prehistoric to be at home in ...