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  • COD paves new way to earn bachelors degree

    Lewis University Provost Stephany Schlachter addresses the first graduates of the 3+1 program partnership coordinated by College of DuPage. The program allows students to get a bachelor's degree by taking three years of classes taught by COD professors, and one year taught by Lewis professors, all on COD's Glen Ellyn ...

  • Choking is easily averted but always a tragedy

    Fred Y. Sasaki put on a red tie and his gray suit. He was not a man who typically dressed up, but tonight was special. At 80 years old, Sasaki had built a successful career as a dry cleaner. He had just spent the day with his grandson. And now he was headed to his favorite restaurant, Yoshi's Cafe. When he sat down at the table, he said: "I feel great." Across from him was his ...

  • Council debates banning drones from Evanstons skies

    TOPSHOTS Members of Grandmothers Against the War, Granny Peace Brigade, the Raging Grannies and other groups hoist a model of a drone in the air as they protest the US military's use of drones during an "April Days of Action" demonstration April 3, 2013 in New ...

  • 25 years — and a surge in school violence — since Laurie Dann shootings 25 years since Laurie Dann marks escalating era of school shootings

    John Fay walks by Winnetka’s Hubbard Woods School, site of the Laurie Dann shootings, Fay, then a paramedic, was among the first ...

  • Law toughens penalties for social media-linked attacks

    Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law Saturday a measure that allows stiffer penalties for people convicted of using social media to organize mob attacks.Social media has made it easier for groups of people to orchestrate violence, including those related to gang activity and some recent problems along Chicago's Magnificent Mile, legislators said."As we know in recent months, we have had a ...


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L'Enfant [DVD]

L'Enfant [DVD]

Before they directed their first feature-length fictional film, Falsch, in 1987, filmmaker-brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne spent nearly a decade shooting documentaries. Not surprisingly, the raw immediacy of the documentary tradition is writ large in their fictional works, as is the ... ...

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  • 4-year-old survives 2-story fall from window

    A 4-year-old boy fell from a second-story window of his family's North Lawndale neighborhood apartment Saturday, narrowly missing a spiked metal gate in front of the entrance, authorities said.The boy apparently fell while jumping on the couch near an open window, taking with him a metal and glass candleholder, family members said.He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in serious-to-critical ...

  • Will County activates its West Nile virus hotline for mosquito season

    The Will County Health Department has responded to the opening of the 2013 mosquito season by activating its annual telephone line to help zero in on potential West Nile virus hot spots by identifying birds that died from the disease.Launched in May 2002, the county program relays information collected on its 24-hour line (815-740-7631) to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Although ...

  • Gender pay gap starts right away for college grads

    Among the challenges college seniors such as National Louis University's Sarah Ridder and Liz Tsybulski will face when entering the workforce is the pay gap. A report by the American Association of University Women finds women are paid an average of 18 percent less than men one year after ...

  • Cary businessman turned wars terrors into art

    Encompassing the emotions of a soldier at the end of the Vietnam War, Duffy's painting titled "Aftermath" is part of a special exhibit opening Saturday at the National Veterans Art Museum in ...

  • Paul Klein Chicago Art Migration Transformation Absence Presence a Damn Good List

    There are perks to having a press pass; like getting to preview exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art with a small group, several curators, and the ...

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