Articles filed under September 11
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Rekindling our 9/11 spirit of unitySep 08, 2011 5:00 am - So many people turned up at a suburban LifeSource blood donation center that the line was six hours long. Seeing the throng, a restaurant sent sandwiches. Volunteers flo...
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A decade later, we remember the silenceSep 08, 2011 12:00 am - Playing football, watching football…it seemed so surreal. In fact, doing almost anything, routine or otherwise, seemed surreal in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, 20...
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Carol Stream begins Sept. 11 memorial with beams from World Trade CenterSep 08, 2011 12:00 am - Two steel pieces of the World Trade Center will become part of a permanent memorial in Carol Stream dedicated to the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the em...
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Naperville lights will symbolize Twin TowersSep 08, 2011 12:00 am - For the next few nights, two World War II-era searchlights will send beams of light into the Naperville sky. The beams are meant to represent the World Trade Center’s T...
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9/11 prayer service FridaySep 08, 2011 12:00 am - A Wheaton private school will hold a public prayer service to remember the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The service will be held at 1 p.m. ...
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Harper College hosts emotional tribute to 9/11 victimsSep 08, 2011 12:00 am - Like most people, when Sam Giordano heard a plane had hit the World Trade Center, he hoped it was an accident. An active duty firefighter in the suburbs, his thoughts im...
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Sunday will be about more than the NFLSep 08, 2011 12:00 am - Freud, I suppose, would understand. Or maybe Denis Leary. But I do not. I can only guess as to why I remember what I remember about 9/11 and its aftermath, the incongrue...
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Educator paying tribute to Wheaton's Todd BeamerSep 08, 2011 12:00 am - Like so many others, Steve Clum could only watch in horror as the news following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks came out. Four airplanes had been hijacked and ne...
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Wheaton Christian students remember Todd BeamerSep 08, 2011 12:00 am - Most students at Wheaton Christian Grammar School don't remember the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and for good reason: they were not yet born. But that doesn't stop the sc...
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Elgin firefighter restores old firetruck as a gift for NYC colleaguesSep 08, 2011 12:00 am - When Elgin firefighter John Tobin noticed an old New York Fire Department firetruck sitting in a junkyard in New London, Wis., he knew he could transform it into somethi...