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The Des Plaines Park District Creative Corners Preschool graduated forty-eight students on Thursday, May 16 in the Prairie Lakes Theater.
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Families of children who lost their lives in the Newtown school shooting came to the Illinois State Senate on Monday urging a statewide ban on the sale of high-capacity ammunition magazines.
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