Education
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Harper College students get lessons on drunk, distracted drivingApr 01, 2014 1:01 am - Harper College students got behind the wheel of what looked and felt like a car parked inside the Student Center. Except this high-tech machine raised the alarm on the d...
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Stevenson student honored:Apr 01, 2014 1:01 am - Stevenson High School junior Kevin Cheng was named a semifinalist in the American Museum of Natural History's Young Naturalist Awards competition, school officials annou...
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Teen entrepreneurs make their best pitchMar 31, 2014 11:00 pm - Twelve high school students from the Northwest suburbs pitched their business ideas this month before a panel of eight real-life investors to compete for funding at the ...
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Editorial: A useful debate that can't be renewedMar 31, 2014 11:00 pm - The lead story coming out of Gov. Pat Quinn's budget message last week centered on his proposal to make permanent the 2011 temporary income tax increase, a troubling - i...
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WHS students headed to nationals:Mar 31, 2014 1:01 am - Thirty-two Wauconda High School students have qualified for a national Future Business Leaders of America competition, officials announced Monday. Those students and doz...
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Tuition going up at WIUMar 31, 2014 1:01 am - MACOMB, Ill. - It will cost about 3 percent more to attend Western Illinois University this fall. The school's board of trustees approved a 2.99 percent increase for und...
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District 15 reassigns Whiteley principalMar 31, 2014 1:00 am - Editor's note: The headline has been updated to reflect that the principal was reassigned. The Palatine Township Elementary District 15 school board on Monday reass...
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Local students laud learning experiences at Honeywell space campMar 31, 2014 1:00 am - Nine high school students from the North and West suburbs who attended a weeklong camp at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., say it helped teach them le...
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Bradley University offers Executive MBA info sessionMar 31, 2014 12:01 am - Learn Friday and Saturday. Apply it Monday. Bradley University's Foster College of Business will host an informational meet and greet at the Stonebridge Country Club, 27...
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Different phases of the moon determine its sizeMar 30, 2014 11:00 pm - You wanted to know "Why is the moon more like a fingernail sometimes and sometimes it's a circle moon?" asked a young patron at Cook Memorial Library in Libertyville. Th...