Religion
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Des Plaines rejects Muslim group's requestAug 06, 2013 5:00 am - Despite the threat of a lawsuit, the Des Plaines City Council Monday night rejected a Bosnian Muslim group's request to allow a religious center in a part of town zoned ...
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K-9 Comfort Dog Ministry recharged by convention in RoselleAug 05, 2013 2:47 pm - Lynn Buhrke of Palatine and her Golden retriever, Chewie, have been deployed to countless disaster areas, including the days immediately following the school massacre in...
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Palatine Sikh temple remembers Wisconsin shootingsAug 05, 2013 12:00 pm - Finding inspiration in tragedy, the Sikh community gathered Monday in Palatine to commemorate the shooting that killed six people at a temple in suburban Milwaukee a yea...
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Palatine Sikh temple to hold vigil for Milwaukee shootingAug 05, 2013 12:00 pm - The Palatine Gurdwara will hold a candlelight vigil Monday evening to honor victims of the shooting massacre last year at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee. The ceremony will...
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Unlikely alliance emerges from Sikh temple shootingAug 04, 2013 10:35 am - OAK CREEK, Wis. — Six weeks after a white supremacist gunned down Pardeep Kaleka’s father and five others at a Sikh temple last year, Kaleka was skeptical when a former ...
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Geneva church hosts exhibit about kids in povertyAug 03, 2013 8:00 am - Geneva church hosts exhibit about kids in poverty
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U.S. to track crimes against Sikhs, six other groupsAug 02, 2013 5:29 pm - WASHINGTON — The Justice Department will begin keeping numbers on hate crimes committed against Sikhs and six other groups, in connection with Monday’s one-year annivers...
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Sikhs added to hate crime statsAug 02, 2013 5:09 pm - WASHINGTON — The Justice Department will begin keeping numbers on hate crimes committed against Sikhs and six other groups, in connection with Monday’s one-year annivers...
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Kotowski wants to ban guns from places of worshipAug 02, 2013 3:36 pm - Illinois lawmakers who last month beat a court-imposed deadline to allow concealed weapons in public left out something a suburban legislator now wants to change: A ban ...
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Augustfest opens Thursday in Des PlainesAug 02, 2013 12:16 pm - St. Zachary Church in Des Plaines is holding Augustfest Thursday through Sunday, Aug. 8-11. The festival includes carnival rides, entertainment by well-known festival ba...