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As a little girl growing up in the town of Karlsdorf, an area of Austria-Hungary that would later become Yugoslavia, Elizabeth Walter looked forward to the Kirchweih Festival every fall.
Sixty years later, the Harper College student has illustrated ...
Updated: Nov 29, 2011 at 06:16 AM
A judge Monday sentenced a 29-year-old Crystal Lake man to seven years in prison after he admitted to causing a crash that killed four of his friends in September 2007.
Mohammed Jaffrie also will receive 13 months credit for time served on electroni...
Updated: Nov 29, 2011 at 11:14 AM
As a Harper College student in the 1970s, Nancy Castle was terrified of public speaking.
Then she took a required speech course, and there was a transformation.
She’s since earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Northern Illinois University and ...
Updated: Nov 28, 2011 at 11:45 AM
Imagine a world in which Republicans and Democrats work together for the common good, in which government programs actually serve people in need, in which neighbors help neighbors — or, for that matter, total strangers — in a time of crisis.
That wo...
Updated: Nov 24, 2011 at 07:42 AM
A drunken Harper College wrestler may have believed he was returning to a party when he allegedly entered the home of an off-duty police officer and was shot in the abdomen, according to two men who said they attended the party with him.
Kerin Rami...
Updated: Nov 26, 2011 at 09:54 AM
Sergio Gonzalez attended his first Latino Summit at Harper College in 2002, an experience he says transformed him from a high school freshman who wasn’t sold on the idea of college to an inspired 15-year-old who knew with certainty that higher educa...
Updated: Nov 25, 2011 at 10:03 AM
Lest anyone doubt there is a growing abundance of people in need, even in the relatively affluent suburbs, consider these statistic from Loaves & Fishes Community Pantry in Naperville:
It just completed its busiest week ever, serving 764 families, p...
Updated: Nov 25, 2011 at 10:03 AM
He sometimes forgets if he's already eaten lunch and he gets lost if he ventures a block from his home in Hoffman Estates, but tonight, 26-year-old Jack Donehey-Nykiel will finish an amazing lifetime journey that has spanned continents, fed his inte...
Updated: Nov 23, 2011 at 05:08 AM
Robert D. Zimmanck, whose 23 years on the Northwest Suburban High School District 214 board made him its longest-serving member ever and who was described as “passionate about education,” has died at the age of 84.
“You can’t imagine that the (Energ...
Updated: Nov 21, 2011 at 09:14 PM
Palatine’s current comprehensive plan dates back to 1990, when a population hovering around 36,000 people lived in a smaller physical footprint.
Since then, the number of residents has nearly doubled, boundaries have expanded after a series of land ...
Updated: Nov 21, 2011 at 10:49 PM