Articles filed under Charities and Fundraising
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New Turkey Trot 5K benefits Wheaton school, nonprofitsNov 24, 2014 12:01 am - Wheaton serves as the setting for many 5K races, but members of Emerson Elementary School's Parent Teacher Association recently realized there was one type of run that w...
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Breakfast with Santa in GrayslakeNov 24, 2014 12:01 am - Santa will be on hand to welcome kids at a family breakfast on Saturday, Dec. 13, from 9 a.m. to noon, at the University Center of Lake County, 1200 University Center Dr...
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Palatine man's nonprofit helps Third World orphansNov 23, 2014 10:00 pm - Craig Muller of Palatine has just returned from a two-week trip to Africa, and it reinforced all over again why he has devoted his working life to restoring the lives of...
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Blood drive, bone marrow registry drive to help Buffalo Grove 4-year-oldNov 23, 2014 10:00 pm - Blood drive, bone marrow registry drive to help Buffalo Grove 4-year-old 'Superboy'
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Lazarus House Thanksgiving Feast celebrates communityNov 23, 2014 6:00 am - When Lazarus House began serving a free Thanksgiving feast in 1998, the majority of guests were clients, staffers and volunteers. Over the course of 16 years, it's evolv...
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Other groups offering a free Thanksgiving dinnerNov 23, 2014 6:00 am - Here's a look at a few of the other groups serving a free meal on this special day: Arlington Heights: 105 sailors from Great Lakes Naval Academy in North Chicago will v...
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Churches, organizations offer free Thanksgiving meals to people in needNov 23, 2014 6:00 am - Churches, restaurants and service organizations in the suburbs give the lonely, the elderly, the poor, the homeless and those in military service camaraderie and a great...
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Thanksgiving tradition grows at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Hawthorn WoodsNov 23, 2014 6:00 am - After their Thanksgiving celebrations thinned as relatives died or moved on, Dean and Susan Stewart took a different approach. “We started it with people who didn't have...
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Great Lakes soldiers find Thanksgiving home in PalatineNov 23, 2014 6:00 am - Some 34 Great Lakes sailors will find a home away from home Thursday at American Legion Post 690 in Palatine, thanks to the organizing efforts of program chair Cindy Alt...
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Naperville restaurant offers free Thanksgiving meal to those in needNov 23, 2014 6:00 am - Hossein Jamali has always liked to help people, to extend a little charity to those in need. It's a lesson he learned from his father, who struggled to make ends meet b...