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Updated: Quinn announces state funding for Evanston bridge

August 18, 2013

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn on Thursday announced a $2.4 million project to repair an Evanston bridge built more than a century ago. Illinois Constructors Corporation of Elburn, Ill., will rehabilitate...

Caracotsios: No escaping education in summer TV wasteland

August 14, 2013

Summer classes just finished, so I’m sitting at home in the undisputed capital of Suburbistan – Naperville, Ill. – trying to find something with which to entertain myself. Though I’m actually...

After transplant surgery, Nordman looks forward to new chapter of life

August 13, 2013

Only three days after a double lung transplant, Josie Nordman took off the oxygen mask that had helped her breathe for the last eight months. Her doctor was unsure, but she insisted. She walked a lap...

Northwestern students to perform in backup choir for pop star Josh Groban

August 9, 2013

Two Northwestern students will sing in a backup chorus for Josh Groban on Saturday evening at the Ravinia Festival. Bienen junior Jimmy Reese and Ryan Townsend Strand, a voice and opera graduate student, will...

Police: Family friend sexually abused 9-year-old Evanston girl

August 8, 2013

A family friend has been charged with inappropriately touching a 9-year-old girl, Evanston police said this morning. Richard Coleman, 57, of the 1600 block of Eagle Grove Court in Wheeling, Ill., sexually...

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