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Protesting students: 'There's no reason kids should be dying'
By Marie Wilson and Madhu Krishnamurthy
Apr 20, 2018 5:30 PM - Students across the region who walked out of class Friday as part of the National School Walkout continued to call on legislators to tighten gun laws and take steps to make them feel safer.
Students learn about trauma care at Advocate Condell
By Joe Lewnard
Apr 20, 2018 5:03 PM - Students from Carmel and Libertyville high schools learned about emergency car Friday at "Trauma Day" at Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville.
How Southwest flight heroes tried to save mom who was sucked halfway out of plane
Ashley Halsey III, Faiz Siddiqui and Dana Hedgpeth
Apr 20, 2018 9:18 AM - A passenger who was onboard Southwest Airlines flight 1380 Tuesday emotionally described Thursday how he and others tried to save the woman who died when she was sucked outside the plane when one of its engines exploded in midair. Jennifer Riordan, a 43-year-old bank executive and mother of two from Albuquerque, was seated in row 14 when she was sucked through a 10-by-14-inch window that had been broken by pieces of the disintegrating engine, two individuals familiar with the investigation said.
Gingrich, Dean talk bipartisan cooperation at Judson forum
By Madhu Krishnamurthy
Apr 20, 2018 10:07 AM - Two former presidential candidates at opposite ends of the American political spectrum urged seeing the other side as human rather than the enemy Thursday during Judson University's seventh annual World Leaders Forum.
Constable: Poet from Rolling Meadows making waves

Apr 19, 2018 12:11 PM - Even as a Rolling Meadows teenager writing poems at Fremd High School in the 1990s, Faisal Mohyuddin took on subjects far beyond his suburban world. Now, the teacher and poet is compiling prestigious awards and has a book-signing Sunday for his first collection, "The Displaced Children of Displaced Children."
Why rare Action Comics nameplate was on display in Mount Prospect
By Christopher Placek
Apr 19, 2018 6:04 AM - A prototype of a comic book nameplate known the world over -- which had to be created before Superman could be -- was on display for awestruck suburban superhero devotees Wednesday in Mount Prospect.
Embracing a widower's grief: I reread her letters, I played her favorite songs
By Dennis F. Depcik
Apr 20, 2018 10:21 AM - In his first-person account of coping with the death of his wife, Dennis Depcik of Buffalo Grove says: It's easy to run away from grief, but to stop hurting, I needed to embrace it.
A Buffalo Grove widower's cry: Just Let Me Talk
By Dennis F. Depcik
Apr 20, 2018 10:20 AM - In the fourth installment of the Last Kiss series on coping with the death of a spouse, widower Dennis Depcik provides a first-person account: "I know I've been guilty of this myself, but it doesn't stop me from feeling the way I do, it doesn't stop me from feeling abandoned when someone doesn't ask me how I'm doing."
Bigger water park, ropes course among new features at Great Wolf Lodge in Gurnee
By Doug T. Graham
Apr 19, 2018 6:09 AM - This summer the halls of Great Wolf Lodge in Gurnee will be bustling with families there to shop, play, eat and water slide. But on Wednesday the halls were filled with construction workers putting the finishing touches on the extensive, expensive renovation.
Jeb Bush remembers his mom: 'She would never stop teaching'
By Katlyn Smith
Apr 18, 2018 9:43 PM - Jeb Bush shared memories of his mother Wednesday, speaking to a crowd of roughly 1,000 in Oak Brook. "If she was here, she'd say, 'Thank God, you made it,' because she would be very upset if I stayed at home," he said.

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