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Glenview couple reflects on 15 years as foster parents to teens
For most people, raising one child is exhausting. But to take care of your own and give shelter to dozens more is a feat not a lot of families can claim.Marcia and Tom Korman, who have lived in their Glenview home for about 35 years, have fostered 40 local teenagers over 15 years while also raising their own son and daughter.Once the only foster parents in Glenview, the Kormans, who have been ...
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Highland Park and Deerfield talk about guns
Highland Park resident Daniel Easterday comments during a June 13 meeting sponsored by the Illinois State Rifle Association to strategize opposition to several municipal assault weapons ban proposals in Lake ...
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Work at tennis center in Wilmette on schedule
The damaged indoor tennis center, covered by a plastic tarp and concealed by a temporary wall, was little distraction to swimmers at Centennial's Aquatic Center in Wilmette on a recent sunny day. The tennis pod is expected to reopen on September ...
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Final Bell To Ring For Last Time At 28 Schools Today
Anthony Overton Elementary School is one of 28 schools set to close for good in Chicago on June 19, 2013. Another 19 schools will close for good on June 24, while two more will close in 2014 and 2015. (Credit: ...
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Chicago activists lobby for plastic bag ban
Rahm Emanuel is trying to get more information on the environmental and economic impacts of the proposal before deciding whether to support it, mayoral spokesman Tom Alexander said. "The mayor will work with members of City Council to reach a consensus on this issue," Alexander told the Chicago Tribune. Alderman George Cardenas, the council's Heath Committee chairman, has ...
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David Eads runs FreeGeek Chicago an Apple Store for the rest of us
FreeGeek Chicago gives volunteers hands-on training in restoring old computers to sell or recycle - while they earn credits toward taking home their own desktop or laptop free of ...
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Food bank gets more than $30000 in donations
Tweet Widget URBANA -- The Eastern Illinois Foodbank says it will be able to expand its school food pantry program in the upcoming school year with the help of a new donation. The $29,882 donation from Project Goodstart was one of two the food bank announced Tuesday, along with a $5,000 gift from Ameren Illinois. Both have been designated for the food bank's Healthy Futures Initiative ...
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Concrete examples of engineering
Members of the 2013 concrete canoe team from the University of Illinois at the regional competition. Left to right, front row: Raphael Stern, Tawa Sulaiman, Min Yin, Arielle Malinowski,; Jonathan Daly; left to right, back row: Hong Kim, Hareem Dar, Sharla Evatt, Jennifer Zablotny, Robert Butler, Clare Curtin and Luis ...
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Money Mentor program debuts in Vermilion County
Tweet Widget The University of Illinois Extension is launching the new Money Mentor program in Vermilion County. Program organizers are seeking volunteers to help promote healthy financial habits among their community. Applications for volunteers are now being accepted. Anyone is welcome to apply, and no previous financial education is needed. Money Mentor volunteers will help others with ...
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CUB Watch over cellphone bills
Tweet Widget CHAMPAIGN -- An Illinois consumer watchdog group says Champaign residents are overpaying on their cellphone bills by as much as $9 million per year and more than $1.4 billion statewide. That's how much consumers are overpaying on their data plans, according to an analysis conducted by the Citizens Utility Board in cooperation with wireless industry research firm Validas. The ...
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Catlin leaving federal school lunch program
Tweet Widget CATLIN -- The Catlin school district will provide its own meal program in the upcoming school year, and is currently taking orders for items that students and their parents would like to see on lunch trays. Superintendent Gary Lewis said close to 120 people have already responded to a lunch survey that was posted on the district's website earlier this month. It's ...
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Urbana library board meets tonight
Tweet Widget URBANA -- As a controversial "weeding" procedure continues to upset patrons of the Urbana Free Library, board members will meet Wednesday night in a special meeting with only two items listed on the agenda: public comment and a closed session to discuss library personnel. The special meeting at 7 p.m. in the Lewis Auditorium of the Urbana Free Library, 210 W. Green St., ...
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Transit districts budget history
Tweet Widget In its years in operation, the Champaign Southwest Mass Transit District has collected about $195,000 in property taxes from residents of the area of southwest and west Champaign. It's unclear what those residents got for their money, although about 25 percent of them have avoided paying taxes -- temporarily, it appears -- to the larger, more costly Champaign-Urbana Mass ...
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Tom Kacich Campaign law loophole allows for concealment
Tweet Widget I thought I was onto something last week when, looking through state campaign disclosure reports, I saw that Attorney General Lisa Madigan had reported only $22,500 in itemized contributions of $1,000 or more since March 31. Since Madigan had reported $831,190 in campaign donations in the first quarter of this year, clearly that $22,500 figure meant that she had dialed down her ...
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City Announces Taste of Chicago Food Trucks
Ahead of the 33rd annual Taste of Chicago, running July 10 to July 14 in Grant Park, the city announced the 14 food trucks participating in the food ...
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Man Shot To Death In South Suburban Homewood
HOMEWOOD, Ill. (STMW) – A man who was recently shot in south suburban Homewood died late Tuesday, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's ...
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Bike Cops Nab Thief Who Knocked Over Woman On Crutches
CHICAGO (STMW) – A thief accused of knocking over a woman on crutches and then stealing her cell phone during a Tuesday evening robbery in the Loop is expected in court Wednesday morning, police said. Clayton Jones, 23, was arrested by Chicago bicycle police after a concerned citizen flagged officers down following the robbery in the 100 block of North State Street, police said early ...
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Two Shot Within Blocks Of Each Other In Greater Grand Crossing
CHICAGO (STMW) – Police are investigating a pair of shootings that occurred blocks apart during a roughly one-hour time span early Wednesday in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood. It was not immediately clear if the two shootings were related, police said. In one case the shooting victims was not cooperative with investigators, police said. In the other instance the victim provided ...
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Cavs coming up empty for top-pick deal JUN 19
Cavs have been talking to teams for weeks about a trade, but they are finding a limited market and at this point are likely to keep the pick. Sources in Cleveland strongly suggest that ...
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Zeller to the 76ers JUN 19
07:11 AM ET 06.19 | One cannot teach height, and Cody Zeller certainly has that particular part of the game covered -- even if some question his NBA upside. I've long dismissed the notion that ...
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Likelihood Dallas keeps its pick Zero percent JUN 19
Mavericks having the 13th overall draft pick on their opening-day roster next season at 0 percent. There is an 80-percent chance that the pick is traded before or, more likely, during the draft, the source said. There is at least a 15-percent chance that the pick is a foreign player who is under contract and can be left overseas for a year and not count against ...
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Warriors Jackson the anti-Nelson on new deal JUN 19
07:10 AM ET 06.19 | Mark Jackson brings a certain zen quality that Don Nelson lacked. So: Jackson is not going to scheme for a bigger, longer contract this summer after leading ...
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Doc Rivers may not return to Boston this season JUN 18
Clippers to assume head coaching duties. But just because he's not heading to Los Angeles does not mean he's coming back to Boston. Danny Ainge's promise from last month seems about as reliable and useful as a weather report on Mars, and Rivers' future with ...
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Kansas couple missing on trip to Illinois
Police say 91-year-old Vernon Hunt and 81-year-old Goldie Hunt of Garnett left their home Monday for a trip to Dwight, Ill. Relatives believe the couple planned to drive Interstate 70 from Kansas City to St. Louis and Interstate 55 to ...
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1 in 12 Illinois bridges structurally deficient
CHICAGO (AP) -- A transportation advocacy group says about 1 in 12 Illinois bridges are "structurally deficient" and need serious maintenance and rehabilitation or should be replaced ...
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Thorne Miniature Rooms go fictional
If you live in Chicago and do not know about the Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago, then you must have been living under the proverbial rock before you came across this article.
The Thorne rooms are one of the most famous museum exhibits in the city. They are a collection of 68 rooms contained within glass boxes and are notable because each room is constructed at a 1-inch to 1-foot scale and all 68 rooms together display a range of historical periods from various cultures. Read more
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