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Throughout the suburbs, Memorial Day ceremonies honor America’s fallen heroesMay 27, 2024 5:49 pm - Even as Arlington Heights honored its own 59 fallen heroes for the 105th year on Memorial Day, attendees received an outside acknowledgment of how special is the village’...
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Lake-Cook Road Path proposal narrowed to three options; public input soughtMay 27, 2024 4:36 pm - An open house meeting on three alternatives for a proposed path along Lake-Cook Road in southeastern Lake County will be held May 30.
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How Illinois’ more than 400 bee species are supported by native plants — and how you can help them, tooMay 27, 2024 4:31 pm - While native garden plants like wild bergamot and common milkweed certainly are vital resources for pollinators, one only needs to look up to find that trees are just as important — especially for the more than 400 native bee species in Illinois.
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Photo Gallery: Memorial Day parades and ceremonies in Arlington Heights, Elgin, Lake Zurich and PalatineMay 27, 2024 4:31 pm -
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Memorial Day parades, services, fundraisers in the suburbsMay 26, 2024 11:18 pm - Memorial Day parades, services and observances throughout the suburbs will pay tribute to those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
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‘They also sacrificed so much’: Streamwood honors Gold Star families with new monumentMay 26, 2024 5:42 pm - Rain poured relentlessly on the crowd Sunday morning as they gathered at Streamwood’s Veterans Memorial for the unveiling of a new monument to Gold Star families. It was ...
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Kitchen fire damages Naperville townhouse; No injuries reportedMay 26, 2024 4:27 pm - No injuries were reported Sunday after Naperville firefighters extinguished a blaze in the kitchen of a townhouse, officials said. According to the Naperville Fire Depart...
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Rare blue-eyed cicada spotted at Morton ArboretumMay 26, 2024 3:52 pm - It was late morning when The Morton Arboretum's Senior Horticulturist Kate Myroup arrived at the Children’s Garden with a special guest: a rare, blue-eyed female Magicica...
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Diamond in the rough or money pit? Metra board chagrined at costs of warehouse ‘fiasco’May 26, 2024 3:35 pm - Buying an empty warehouse in Harvey for $7 million to store Metra materials in 2020 seemed like a good investment. But the building is problematic, Metra’s poured millions into it and one official called it a “fiasco.”
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Remembering D-Day: Cantigny exhibit shows how Allies fought for ‘Nothing But Victory’May 26, 2024 3:15 pm - “Nothing But Victory,” a new outdoor exhibit installed on the Cantigny campus for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, depicts how Allied troops encountered one obstacle after another.