Articles filed under Inauguration
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Third-graders hold own inaugural ballJan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - President Barack Obama's inauguration may have had celebrities, but River Woods Elementary had the "Hokey Pokey." Third-graders at the Naperville school had an inaugural...
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Obama inauguration a dream realized for many Fox Valley studentsJan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - On the first day of Elgin Community College's second semester, hundreds of students clustered around the big-screen TV in the school's Jobe Lounge. Jeff Metzger, the col...
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Aurora University gathers for inaugurationJan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Each of them applauding on cue, nearly 300 Aurora University students and staff watched a live feed of President Obama's inauguration Tuesday in the Crimi Auditorium. D...
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Hawthorn students watch historyJan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - The students in Karen Oliver's second grade class were getting a little fidgety moments before Barack Obama took the oath of office. What wasn't clear is whether the Haw...
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Saving the moment: There's no shortage of inaugural merchandiseJan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Barack Obama's face might be on more merchandise than Elvis Presley's or Mickey Mouse's. Today's historic inauguration seems to have created an insatiable demand for Oba...
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NCC student: ''There was no way I was going to miss this'Jan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Sarah Richardson didn't let an internship in Costa Rica stop her from voting for Barack Obama - with an absentee ballot, of course. So the 20-year-old North Central Coll...
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How are Lincoln, Obama similar?Jan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Echoes of Abraham Lincoln reverberate throughout today's inauguration of Barack Obama as our nation's 44th president. Obama's inauguration theme - "A New Birth of Freedo...
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Suburban second-graders write to SashaJan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Hailey, a student at Kildeer Countryside School in Long Grove, has a simple request for fellow second-grader Sasha Obama, the president-elect's youngest daughter. "Coul...
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Inauguration crowd gathers at CODJan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - A sense of camaraderie brought many people to watch today's inauguration events on a giant screen at the McAninch Arts Center at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn. "I...
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Images from the eve of the inaugurationJan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - ...