Kerry Lester
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Arlington Heights FanCon connects summer reading with love of comicsJun 18, 2016 1:00 am - Arlington Heights Memorial Library officials had long wanted to host a comic convention. But this year, teen program adviser Alice Son said, felt like kismet. The libra...
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Notre Dame great Tommy Zbikowski fights his way back from addictionJun 16, 2016 5:00 am - Tommy Zbikowski is dripping with sweat at Sam Colonna's boxing gym in Chicago, hitting the heavy and uppercut bags with the same intensity the former Notre Dame All-Amer...
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Lester: Nun tells Maryville youths, 'We won't leave you behind'Jun 09, 2016 5:13 am - In her decades of work with abused and neglected children, Sister Cathy Ryan has come to know how much suffering and tumult have taken place in children's lives before t...
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Watch the skies: June is top month for tornadoes in suburbsJun 05, 2016 6:30 am - It was with trepidation that Frank and Char Kozak of Schaumburg returned to Oklahoma last month for the first time since they survived a violent EF5 tornado there three ...
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Lester: Lifeguard jobs go begging this summerJun 02, 2016 5:30 am - Despite the lure of earning a paycheck while getting a poolside tan, high school- and college-aged students aren't lining up to fill suburban lifeguard jobs. Local park ...
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Rauner: 'I'll compromise on anything' to get spending plan passedJun 02, 2016 1:00 am - Not willing to give up on passing a set of pro-business, anti-union measures, Gov. Bruce Rauner has held the line for more than a year as Illinois has gone without a bud...
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Lester: New Sox announcer gives hope to others with cerebral palsyMay 30, 2016 1:00 am - Lifelong White Sox fans Grace and Sam Brandon of Schaumburg had already warmed to Jason Benetti, the team's new home game announcer with the smooth baritone. Then the tw...
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Elgin activist says lynching mural could open good dialogueMay 26, 2016 5:22 am - Lifelong Elgin resident Ernie Broadnax remembers being a small, scared child when the Ku Klux Klan marched up Dundee Avenue past his dad's cobbler shop in the 1940s. He ...
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Keeping it simple the key to fabulous grilled fishMay 25, 2016 6:00 am - There's no surer sign of summer than the shift from cooking indoors to the outdoor grill - but grilled fish, one of the healthiest options, can be among the most intimid...
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Lester: Where will suburban homeless go after Journeys cuts?May 23, 2016 5:30 am - Many homeless people in the suburbs have places to spend the night, thanks to shelters like PADS. But there's also a question of where they spend their days - and how th...