Kerry Lester
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Lester: Does Trustee Zimel really live in Hanover Park? What's Mayor Craig say?Sep 07, 2015 1:00 am - Trustees are required to live in the towns they represent. But does Ed Zimel live in Hanover Park? First elected in 2009, Zimel went through a foreclosure on his Hanover...
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Lester: Group for fallen officers gives Fox Lake cop's family $15,000Sep 03, 2015 6:00 am - Plus the latest on U-46 CEO and Wes Craven at Wheaton College in today's Suburban Rundown
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Suburban Rundown: Untold Rauner-Quinn tiff over veterans sketchesAug 31, 2015 6:00 am - By Kerry Lester klester@dailyherald.com 1. Where are those sketches? "We definitely didn't steal anything," Billy Morgan, a spokesman for former Gov. Pat Quinn says, ref...
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Suburban Rundown: Payton coffee, Duchossois selfieAug 30, 2015 6:00 am - Our new column, The Suburban Rundown, is an energetic look at what’s happening in the suburbs and at the people who make it happen. Today’s column gets the rundown on Jarrett Payton and shares rare selfie of Arlington Park Chairman Dick Duchossois.
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Mount Prospect native cooks healthy meals as private chefAug 26, 2015 5:45 am - Drizzle Kitchen chef and owner Kendra Peterson laughs now as she remembers using her Mount Prospect family as culinary “test dummies” when she was growing up. After bec...
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Schaumburg Business Association watching 8th District race closelyAug 26, 2015 1:00 am - Candidates vying for the 8th Congressional District next fall haven't courted the Schaumburg Business Association yet. But President Kaili Harding says they'd be wise to...
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Study: While heroin use spikes, treatment options drop in IllinoisAug 23, 2015 2:00 pm - Drug addiction treatment options in Illinois are getting fewer as heroin use continues to increase, particularly in the suburbs, a Roosevelt University study has found. ...
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Legendary meteorologist Volkman tried to 'educate people about the weather'Aug 21, 2015 1:00 am - Harry Volkman's career as a meteorologist began near the dawn of two technologies — television and modern weather forecasting. By the time he retired in 2004, Volkman h...
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Cook County Democrats won't endorse Duckworth or Zopp in U.S. Senate raceAug 19, 2015 1:00 am - Three suburban candidates for top offices did not win the endorsement of Cook County Democrats over their Chicago challengers. The county Democratic organization will no...
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State board of education to consider ACT or SAT contract without funds for itAug 18, 2015 1:00 am - Thousands of suburban families could be forced for the first time in more than a decade to pay for high school juniors' college entrance exams next spring, as the state ...