Katlyn Smith
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Muralist gives new views for Glen Ellyn restaurant dwarfed by downtown developmentAug 09, 2021 5:30 am - The views out of a downtown Glen Ellyn restaurant seem to go on forever. Looking through the windows, diners are transported to the street life of Mexico. People dance t...
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'Just exquisite': Photographer brings Frida Kahlo to life in Wheaton exhibitionAug 05, 2021 1:00 am - Miguel Morna Freitas usually focuses his camera on movement: ballet dancers leaping midflight, gymnasts soaring through the air. But for his photography exhibition, "a ...
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Mask-optional schools in suburbs reverse course, say they'll obey governor's mandateAug 04, 2021 1:00 am - Suburban school districts that had made face coverings optional for their students and employees backtracked Wednesday, saying they won't defy Gov. J.B. Pritzker's state...
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College of DuPage students must wear masks; vaccinations required in 2022Aug 03, 2021 1:00 am - College of DuPage students and faculty must wear masks, even if they're vaccinated, for the fall term starting this month. The state's largest community college is follo...
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More DuPage County schools requiring students to mask upAug 03, 2021 1:00 am - A growing number of DuPage County school districts and colleges will require students and employees - vaccinated or not - to wear masks when classes start later this mon...
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Wedding planner opening new event venue in downtown WheatonAug 02, 2021 5:30 am - Alexis Heller is everything brides-to-be want and need in a wedding planner: accommodating, calm and obsessed with the details. Raised in a military family, Heller comes...
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How suburban police will celebrate National Night OutAug 02, 2021 1:00 am - It's one of the more laid-back events of the summer, and it's also the one with the heaviest police presence. But officers won't be breaking up the party. The men and wo...
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Driver charged with DUI in fatal head-on crash in WestmontAug 02, 2021 1:00 am - A Blue Island woman charged in connection with a head-on crash that took the life of a Downers Grove man early Sunday had alcohol, cocaine and marijuana in her system, p...
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First cases of mystery songbird illness seen in suburban wildlife centersJul 30, 2021 1:00 am - The young bird, a blue jay about a month old, couldn't open its eyes, both swollen and crusted shut. Willowbrook Wildlife Center in Glen Ellyn took in the sick fledgling...
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How an 'ambitious project' would re-imagine Willowbrook Wildlife CenterJul 30, 2021 1:00 am - So many hungry mouths to feed, and so little room to do it in. That's the challenge of the bird nursery at the Willowbrook Wildlife Center in Glen Ellyn, a 65-year-old c...