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The following information was submitted by Oakton Community College. Oakton’s IT Club Flexes Muscle at National Conference Oakton’s chapter of the Association of Information Tec...

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Forest Elementary School’s gymnasium was packed with District 62 faculty, administrators, their families and friends, parents, students and others to honor the 2012 Lighthouse Award recip...

Credit Dick Barton

“I don’t think anybody has come up with answer to the balancing act, and I think every woman struggles with it,” said Elizabeth Brackett in a recent interview.  However if anyone has co...

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From elegant and stately mansions to modern, environmentally-friendly abodes, the North Shore is chock-full of one-of-a-kind homes. Each week, Patch will feature one ‘Wow House’ that...

Credit Joan Weisman

This week’s column was submitted by Claire Greene of the Des Plaines Public Library. In a book very dear to me it is written, “every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote...

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Step up Your Cultural Enrichment at the Spring Dance Show by Artistry in Motion When/Where: Friday, April 13 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, April 14 at 2 p.m. at the Prairie Lakes Community...

Credit Dick Barton

It’s that time of year, Ladies and Gents; despite the relative mildness of this winter, we are all hungry for spring and what better way to usher it in than with the annual Running of the...