Katlyn Smith
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Effort to rename Warrenville post office after fallen Army medic restartedAug 24, 2017 1:00 am - Posing for his senior picture in his Wheaton Warrenville South High School football uniform, Jeffrey Williams stayed true to form. He didn't smile at the camera. Instead...
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How Cantigny museum updates story of 'Big Red One'Aug 23, 2017 5:30 am - Brenda McEwing looks directly into the camera and recalls what it was like to hear her platoon leaders describe her as "too weak." A video of McEwing appears at eye leve...
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'Duty First' provides new look for revamped Cantigny museumAug 23, 2017 1:00 am - When you visit the newly renovated Wheaton military museum, you can still sit in a replica D-Day landing craft and imagine what it was like to storm Omaha Beach and turn...
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How museum's new exhibit reflects 'humanity of soldiers'Aug 22, 2017 11:00 pm - If you want to know something about soldiers, spend some time peering into a glass case near the exit of a new gallery at the First Division Museum in Wheaton. Mounted o...
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Starbucks, burgers, subs among novel features at new Mariano's in LombardAug 22, 2017 5:30 am - A Mariano's opening Tuesday morning in Lombard will serve as a testing ground for the chain's first in-store Starbucks and other new offerings. Coffee drinkers can sip t...
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Glen Ellyn considering $1.5 million tax incentive for shopping center ownerAug 18, 2017 1:00 am - By renovating a long-vacant Dominick's store, the owner of a Glen Ellyn shopping center hopes to entice a grocer to its anchor spot. Phillips Edison & Company also has p...
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Late Glen Ellyn teacher remembered for generosity, road tripsAug 16, 2017 1:00 am - As a kid growing up in Wheaton, Michael Miele and his family would spend summers on the road, traveling to every state in the continental U.S. Those family vacations ins...
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Wheaton auto repair shop closing after 47 years - the only job its owner knewAug 15, 2017 1:00 am - An auto repair shop is usually an impersonal, mechanical place. But Tom's Service Center, a fixture in downtown Wheaton for nearly 50 years, became more like a second ho...
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Relighting of DuPage Theatre lamps stirs memories of Lombard landmarkAug 11, 2017 5:31 am - It was the fall of 1954 when a young Pete Kramer went to his first movie at the old DuPage Theatre in Lombard. He can't remember the film he saw. But Kramer was - and st...
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93-year-old hosts vintage car show at Carol Stream retirement communityAug 10, 2017 1:00 am - Don Henry's restoration of classic cars was more than a hobby. Rebuilding a 1937 Chevrolet offered him a challenge. Henry was a product of the Great Depression, a man wh...