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Local Voices: Highland Park
Letters to the editor from Highland Park residents. Community success It is a sincere honor to be elected to serve as councilman for Highland Park. Campaigns are not as much about the candidates as they are about the community they want to serve. As...
Tags: Pension and Welfare, Government, Executive Branch, Interior Policy, Elections
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Report: 6 Lake County high schools in Illinois' top 20
Six Lake County high schools were listed among the top 20 in Illinois, according to U.S. News and World Report's rankings for 2013. Deerfield, Stevenson, Highland Park, Lake Forest, Vernon Hills and Libertyville high schools cracked the top 2 percent...
Tags: Students, Schools, Libertyville, Education, Teaching and Learning
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Boeing, billionaire Penny Pritzker among Obama's donors
Tribune reporterIllinois donors to President Barack Obama’s second inauguration included aviation giant Boeing Co., which contributed $1 million, and billionaire Penny Pritzker, who gave $250,000, according to newly filed records. Pritzker, who is being vetted by...Tags: Gaming, Lady Gaga, Barack Obama, Penny Pritzker, Coca-Cola Co.
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Some unhappy with IDOT removal of trees in Highland Park
Some business owners are smoldering over an initiative that chopped hundreds of trees along Illinois Route 41 to improve visibility to businesses along a mile-long stretch of the highway in Highland Park. What was originally billed as a program to...
Tags: Business, Illinois Department of Transportation, Skokie, Karen May, Susan Garrett
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Lake Forest again is named Tree City USA
Despite an ongoing battle with an invasive beetle that is devastating ash trees, Lake Forest has been recognized nationally for the care it pays to its trees. Named a Tree City USA community for the 32nd consecutive year, the village met the standards...
Tags: Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), Forestry and Timber, Human Interest, Waukegan, Science and Technology
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Teen inventor eyes entrepreneurship
As early as 12, Jonny Cohen was called an inventor. Now, at 17, he's already headed toward a new title: entrepreneur. As a seventh-grader, the Highland Park resident conceived GreenShields — a curved wing atop school buses to decrease drag and...
Tags: Technology, Arne Duncan, Human Interest, Science and Technology, Illinois Department of Transportation
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Brotman: 'Silent Witness' exhibit tells victims' stories
Cindy Bischof was gunned down by her ex-boyfriend in 2008. But she was there, in a way, at an exhibit last week at Northeastern Illinois University. So was Kimberly Vaughn, shot to death with her three children by her husband in 2007 in the family SUV....
Tags: Witnesses, Human Interest, Lobbying, Politics, Judaism
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Curbside composting on hold in Highland Park
A lauded Highland Park curbside composting program, launched in January, is on the rocks after a Waukegan facility abruptly stopped accepting food scraps as it scrambles to address odor complaints. About 140 residents took part in the pilot program,...
Tags: Park City, Waukegan, Lake County (Illinois)
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Women's suffrage supporters in Highland Park
On April 9, many Illinoisans will go to the polls for local and consolidated elections. Enshrined in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, universal suffrage evolved piecemeal. The 15th Amendment in 1870 and the 19th Amendment in 1920 enfranchised African-...
Tags: Lobbying, Minority Groups, Springfield, Elections, Politics
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Local governments unhappy with state plan for sharing income taxes
Gov. Pat Quinn has proposed that the state bolster its own troubled finances by freezing the amount of state income taxes shared with local governments at 2012 levels, which could cost some towns hundreds of thousands of dollars. Quinn estimates the...
Tags: Finance, Personal Income, Pat Quinn, Taxation, 2010 Census
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Basketball | Locals in the NCAA Tournament
MEN Akron Deji Ibitayo, Rich Central, So., G, 6-3, 205 Albany Mike Black, Fenwick, Sr., G, 6-0, 180 Boise State Derrick Marks, Plainfield Central, So., G, 6-3, 206 Davidson Clay Tormey, Chicago, Jr., G, 5-11, 165...
Tags: Morgan Park, Niles, University of Chicago, Monee, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Boys gymnastics | Coach will serve double duty
Just call him Double Duty Doug. Doug Foerch has seemingly done it all in the world of boys gymnastics. In 1977, he and his brothers Steve and Brad became the first three brothers in Illinois High School Association history to be on a state final...
Tags: Mundelein, Schools, Gymnastics Clubs, High Schools, Homewood
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