Articles filed under Good News
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Striking out cancer: Foundation helps officials/umpires fighting the diseaseJul 08, 2024 12:13 pm - If you see a high school umpiring crew working a game in a Vegas Gold shirt instead than their usual blues or black, it is because they are doing more than just calling balls and strikes. Members of the UMPS Strikes Out Cancer Foundation are raising money and bringing awareness to their cause.
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Back where it belongs: Family of suburban Pearl Harbor veteran receives his missing Purple HeartJul 05, 2024 10:48 pm - Last week, Jerome Even’s family received the Purple Heart the longtime Park Ridge resident and World War II veteran received after he was wounded in the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. His family didn’t know it was missing.
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Opened during Prohibition, Kane County bar celebrates 100th anniversaryJul 04, 2024 2:10 pm - The year was 1924, during the Prohibition era in the United States. Even though consuming alcoholic beverages was illegal, it didn’t stop Flora and Albert Mott from opening a bar in western Kane County.
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Brat Fest set for July 13 in WheelingJul 04, 2024 2:09 pm - The Wheeling Helping Hands community group will hold its fourth annual Brat Fest fundraiser July 13.
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‘It gives you goose bumps’: 2,000 flags fly in Wheaton to welcome July FourthJun 29, 2024 4:23 pm - Volunteers on Saturday turned a Wheaton soccer field into a patriotic display of 2,000 American flags.
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Woodfield Mall hosts entrepreneurial teens running stands on Lemonade DayJun 27, 2024 5:45 pm - For generations, lemonade stands have been the first entrepreneurial experience of many youngsters -- but would the lessons learned mean more at age 16 than 6? Woodfield Mall helped entrepreneurial teens from the Boys & Girls Clubs of North Central Illinois find out on nationally recognized Lemonade Day.
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‘You feel like family’: Mount Prospect’s Mrs. P & Me celebrates milestoneJun 26, 2024 11:35 am - Mount Prospect officials paid tribute this week to Mrs. P & Me, the bar and restaurant that’s been a downtown mainstay for more than a century and this year is celebrating its 20th anniversary under its current owners.
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Along for the Ride: How adaptive biking enriches the lives of people with disabilitiesJun 26, 2024 6:00 am - Two Chicago-based nonprofits with suburban connections — Out Our Front Door and Envision Unlimited — are pioneering adaptive biking to deliver outdoor experiences, seemingly unattainable not long ago, to individuals with special needs.
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Here come the Hawks — to Palatine’s Little CityJun 25, 2024 9:02 pm - The Chicago Blackhawks brought a full day of activities, as well as a player and mascot, to Little City in Palatine on Tuesday.
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Mural, projection art pitched for downtown WheatonJun 24, 2024 8:25 pm - Advocates for public art in downtown Wheaton have proposed a mural for a retaining wall along the Illinois Prairie Path near the city’s French market pavilion. They also hope to eventually add a projection mapping system to the space.