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Lombard honors 2013 Senior of the YearOct 07, 2013 10:12 am - Lombard has named 100-year-old Claude Walton as Senior of the Year for 2013. The village’s community relations committee chooses recipients of the Senior of the Year aw...
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Son’s short life forever changed Aurora parentsOct 07, 2013 9:00 am - What is it like to die? What sensations does the body experience? Do we see the infamous tunnel of white light? Do we hear angelic voices whisper our name, calling us ho...
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Yorkville mom feels like someone is missingOct 07, 2013 9:00 am - I have actually had six pregnancies total. With my first son, who is 6 years old, the pregnancy was perfect. No issues except for morning sickness. He was born at 40 wee...
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Mom hoped her loss would save someone elseOct 07, 2013 9:00 am - This is a story about Donavan Thomas. No one will ever get to meet him, but he is one of the most important people in my life. His story begins on July 5, 2011. I went ...
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Bolingbrook family’s photos don’t tell the entire storyOct 07, 2013 9:00 am - We thought we had it all planned out. Jobs. Marriage. House. Kids. And if you looked at our family now, you’d think everything went according to plan. Looking at our fa...
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Chicago-Atlanta walk is Lombard man’s first step toward ending Alzheimer’sOct 07, 2013 6:00 am - William Glass of Lombard recently completed a journey of more than 750 miles, walking the entire distance from Chicago to Atlanta in two months on a mission to get back ...
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Acclaimed storyteller to present Volo Bog Ghost StoriesOct 04, 2013 8:04 am - Volo Bog Ghost Stories welcomes internationally acclaimed storyteller Syd Lieberman Saturday, Oct. 12. In its 28th year, Volo Bog’s Ghost Stories continues a long tradit...
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Moving Picture: Wheaton muralist works on ‘masterpiece’Oct 04, 2013 8:00 am - When he was a boy, R.J. Ogren found himself spending a lot of time in his elementary school library. It wasn’t so much the books that attracted young R.J. as much as the...
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West Chicago art exhibit celebrates fallOct 03, 2013 11:07 am - West Chicago’s Gallery 200 ushers in the season with “Fall into Art,” a mixed media exhibit to celebrate Artoberfest through Oct. 27 at 200 Main St., West Chicago. Memb...
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Magician at Bloomingdale Library for On the Same Page eventOct 03, 2013 11:00 am - Jeanette Andrews was 4 years old when she presented her first magic show for her preschool class, and she’s never lost her passion for mystifying audiences. Andrews will...