Jamie Sotonoff
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Captain Awesome's humble beginnings in Glen EllynAug 09, 2011 12:00 am - You know the nice-looking teenage boy from Glen Ellyn who rang your doorbell in the early 1990s and tried to sell you a Daily Herald subscription? Well, he grew up to ...
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Osteen brings 'Hope' to Chicago with Saturday showAug 05, 2011 12:00 am - A near sellout crowd of 40,000 will fill U.S. Cellular Field Saturday night when popular TV preacher Joel Osteen brings his national "A Night of Hope" tour back to Chica...
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Why this summer's cicadas are noisier than usualAug 04, 2011 12:00 am - Cicadas loudest during day, crickets and katydids at night
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Grayslake's 'Glee Project' finalist learns the ropesAug 02, 2011 12:00 am - The critics can be cruel, especially the anonymous online ones. Grayslake's Ellis Wylie learned that the hard way as a finalist this summer on Oxygen's “The Glee Project...
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Attorney: John Wayne Gacy had a 34th victimAug 01, 2011 12:00 am - Gacy's attorney says there was another victim in the Des Plaines River
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Tips for dealing with flooded basements in suburbsJul 28, 2011 12:00 am - Just as soaked carpet and furniture had been hauled from basements to curbs, suburban homeowners faced the prospect of more heavy rain today. Exhausted, angry and fearin...
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How Wheaton kid became a 'Cowboys & Aliens' stuntmanJul 26, 2011 12:00 am - 1986: Wheaton kid Joe Bucaro sees the action movie “Lethal Weapon” with his parents and his brother. The stunts enthrall him. They stay all the way through the clos...
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Burbs take another beating with brutal heatJul 19, 2011 12:00 am - Whether it's a blizzard, tornadoes, floods or unrelenting heat, we can't seem to catch a break this year. Still recovering from last week's power-zapping storms, many su...
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Beach Boy's former St. Charles house for saleJul 19, 2011 12:00 am - The man who bought Brian Wilson's St. Charles home in 2001 never used its custom-built, underground recording studio. "It's just space," said the resident who answered ...
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'Pinkalicious' pleasing to the pig-tailed crowdJul 18, 2011 11:00 pm - Early on, Mrs. Pinkerton — Pinkalicious' mother — asks the audience to repeat this line after her: "You get what you get, and you don't get upset." In a way, that sums u...