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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: Executive Branch, Rick Perry, Politics, Interior Policy, Government
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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: Teachers, Vernon Hills, Schools, Students, Education
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State Senate OKS measure on recordings of police interrogations
Illinois would allow audio and video recordings of police interrogations in all felony cases to be used in court under a proposal the Senate passed Thursday to expand current law that requires taping in murder cases. The recordings would not be required...
Tags: Psychologists, Lawyers, Justice System, Criminal Laws, Psychiatrists
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Local Voices: Highland Park and Deerfield
Letters to the editor from Highland Park and Deerfield residents. Gun conundrum The column "Many mysteries shroud gun debate" (Commentary, April 12) was yet another brilliant opinion piece from Tribune columnist Eric Zorn. He ponders various aspects...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, National Rifle Association of America, Voting, Travel, Local Government
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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: Penny Pritzker, Bill Enyart, Microsoft Corporation, Business, Lake Forest
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William P. Levine, 1915-2013
William P. Levine was an Army intelligence officer who was among the first Allied troops to arrive at the Dachau concentration camp in Germany as World War II was ending. He entered Dachau on April 29, 1945, encountering starving, frightened survivors...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Northbrook, Deerfield, World War II (1939-1945)
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Business profile: North Shore College Consulting
Names: Amy Herzog and Debbie Kanter Ages: 44 and 42 Hometown: Highland Park Name of business: North Shore College Consulting Describe what you do. We are professionally-trained independent college consultants, providing individual, comprehensive...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, School Examinations, Email, Financial Aid
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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: Susan Garrett, Karen May, Business, Illinois Department of Transportation, Skokie
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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: Waukegan, Forestry and Timber, Elmhurst, Natural Resource Industry, 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: Oak Forest, Technology, Chicago Tribune, Science and Technology, Arne Duncan
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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: Prosecution, Politics, Health and Safety at School, Abusive Behavior, Witnesses
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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: Waukegan, Lake County (Illinois), Park City
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