Russell Lissau
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District 63 boosts pay for substitute teachersJan 12, 2021 10:00 pm - Des Plaines-based East Maine School District 63 is boosting its efforts to attract more substitute teachers by increasing their pay. The district now is offering to pay ...
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Palatine police searching for stabbing suspectsJan 12, 2021 12:00 am - Palatine police are searching for two suspects in a stabbing Tuesday morning. Officers were called to an apartment complex on the 1000 block of Bayside Drive about 8:30 ...
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Schneider tests positive for COVID-19, blasts lawmakers who don't wear masksJan 12, 2021 12:00 am - U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider of Deerfield has become at least the third member of Congress to test positive for COVID-19 since the siege at the Capitol last week, when he an...
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Candidates expect hard-fought battle in four-way Mundelein mayoral raceJan 11, 2021 4:30 am - When Mundelein Mayor Steve Lentz won his second term in 2017, he defeated two rivals, finishing with a mere five-vote margin over the second-place finisher. In next spri...
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How We Got The Story: Reporters carefully crafted the narrative about fatal fire in InglesideJan 11, 2021 12:00 am - Interviewing people after a deadly tragedy and writing about the circumstances that led to the loss of life is perhaps a journalist's toughest assignment. It requires th...
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Waste Management wants to expand truck parking at Wheeling facilityJan 11, 2021 12:00 am - A plan to build a new parking area for garbage trucks at a Waste Management transfer center in Wheeling will mean more trucks on nearby roads, the company confirmed. But...
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Des Plaines-based District 63 to reopen campuses part time starting Jan. 19Jan 11, 2021 12:00 am - Des Plaines-based East Maine School District 63 will resume offering its students in-person education programs starting Jan. 19, officials announced Monday. Students in ...
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Despite security concerns, Schneider and Foster still plan to attend inaugurationJan 08, 2021 12:00 am - Despite concerns about U.S. Capitol security after Wednesday's incursion by a violent mob, at least two suburban congressional representatives still plan to attend Presi...
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'The president is unwell': Suburban lawmakers call for Trump's removal from officeJan 07, 2021 12:00 am - Editor's note: The story has been edited to indicate Trump was impeached by the U.S. House in late 2019. Every member of the congressional delegation representing ...
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'This is a coup attempt': What Republican and Democratic reps from Illinois said about Capitol attackJan 06, 2021 12:00 am - As a violent mob laid siege to and then occupied the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, members of Illinois' congressional delegation tweeted eyewitness accounts of the historic...