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'Secret Garden' begins Geneva HS runMar 16, 2011 12:00 am - The secret's out at Geneva High School. This weekend students will be performing “The Secret Garden,” a musical adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children...
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Aurora police sponsor St. Baldrick’s shave-a-thon for childhood cancer researchMar 16, 2011 12:00 am - Kane County Sheriff Pat Perez expects to have a new nickname after Sunday: Shrek. When he’s bald, Perez said, people somehow see some similarities between him and the fi...
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College pals find success as actors, composersMar 15, 2011 2:00 am - Once upon a time, at a Midwestern university called Northwestern, an undergraduate theater major from Minnesota met a fellow theater major from New Jersey when both work...
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DuPage service groups provide happier birthdays for needy childrenMar 15, 2011 12:00 am - When the Wheaton Junior Woman's Club first donated $9,000 to a small humanitarian group that essentially operated out of the founder's garage in Wheaton, little did they...
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Help strike it rich for Elgin High studentMar 15, 2011 12:00 am - Bowling a turkey or scoring a perfect game earns top bragging rights among your friends, but on Friday your 10-pin bowling skills will be worth much more to an Elgin Hig...
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Chew on this: First chewing gums were from tree resins and beeswaxMar 14, 2011 2:00 am - You wanted to know Fourth-graders in Rachel Boehm's classroom at Hawthorn Elementary North in Vernon Hills asked, “What is the history of gum?” Chewing gum — and spittin...
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U-46 schools to compete in TalentFest at HemmensMar 14, 2011 12:00 am - Awards season may be over for the rest of the country, but for Elgin-area schools, there are a few more prizes to hand out. Elgin Area School District U-46 is holding it...
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Lombard attorney helps immigrant victims of domestic violenceMar 14, 2011 12:00 am - After Japanese immigrant Nobuko Kudo survived breast cancer, she felt blessed with a second chance for life. “I made a commitment to myself that if I could in any way gi...
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Lombard sleep center, “Biggest Loser” contestant teach importance of shut-eyeMar 09, 2011 11:00 pm - Donna Pavisic wonders whether she even knows what it feels like to be truly awake. “I think I get a good night’s sleep, but a half an hour after I get up in the morning,...
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Music competition at Wheaton Warrenville SouthMar 09, 2011 11:00 pm - Katie Magoon could not have known her first exposure to Wheaton Warrenville South High School's chorale group, the Classics, would shape her teenage years. But after wa...