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To a group of children in Ghana, Rachel Johnson is known as “Ma Rachel.”
The children were trafficked into a brutal fishing trade on Lake Volta in the West African country. They worked 14 to 16 hours a day in what Johnson, a Wheaton native, calls da...
Updated: Jun 20, 2012 at 03:38 PM
DuPage County Forest Preserve officials have approved a total operating budget of nearly $42 million for 2012-13, a decrease of more than 4 percent from last year.
“You wanted to show your financial responsibility to the people of DuPage County,...
Updated: Jun 21, 2012 at 07:22 AM
SPRINGFIELD — Suburban mayors have seen their budgets drained over the past several years by rising pension costs for police officers and firefighters but are unable to cut retirement benefits because state lawmakers control the rules.
Now, suburba...
Updated: Jun 20, 2012 at 06:23 AM
College of DuPage has named 63 Presidential Scholars for fall 2012.
The recent high school graduates will receive full-tuition scholarships to College of DuPage for a maximum of 64 semester hours.
“These high-achieving students have an average GPA...
Updated: Jun 20, 2012 at 09:03 AM
Grayslake North (20-3) will move to Class A next season after winning the Lacrosse Cup with a 12-5 victory over York.
While some programs have been devastated after winning the Lacrosse Cup, losing most of their starters due to graduation and then ...
Updated: Jun 29, 2012 at 12:08 PM
The Boy Scouts of America has awarded five local scouts, all from the same Boy Scout troop and patrol, scouting's highest rank, the rank of Eagle Scout. Nationally, only 4% of Boy Scouts achieve this rank.
In separate, recent ceremonies, Derek Brees...
Updated: Jun 18, 2012 at 05:06 PM
The best gift Sam and Alison Summins will give their dad today is the expectation that they will celebrate lots more Father's Days together.
“No doubt about it,” said a beaming Ray Summins, a 48-year-old Hoffman Estates dad who has beaten cancer twi...
Updated: Jun 19, 2012 at 01:13 AM
Taxes increase when values are down?
When property values were increasing, DuPage County governments used that as an excuse to raise taxes. Now that property values have declined, our property taxes have still gone up.
What is going to happen ...
Updated: Jun 17, 2012 at 06:00 AM
A longtime school administrator, Bryan Buck, has been named principal of Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200’s Monroe Middle School, officials said.
Buck comes to District 200 from the Oswego School District where he most recently was principal o...
Updated: Jun 16, 2012 at 10:04 AM
Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200 approved a three-year contract with its teachers union that lengthens the school day for some faculty members and provides raises in each year of the pact.
The average teacher will receive a .64 percent rais...
Updated: Jun 15, 2012 at 02:57 PM