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Class Options

By Margaret Van Duch | Today at 11:29 a.m.

Fremont District 79 parents of students entering 1st grade or 3rd grade in the fall are invited to meet with Fremont staff to learn more … Read more ›

Children and family
Junior Naturalists collect scientific data. Photo by Pat Winkelman.
From the community

Citizens for Conservation presents a Leave No Child Inside class "Journey to become a Junior Naturalist"

By Citizens for Conservation | Today at 8:24 a.m.

Join us for a fun-filled afternoon at Citizens for Conservation-owned Flint Creek Savanna. Using activity books created by Citizens for Conservation called Junior Naturalist; participants … Read more ›

Crime

Owner of day care center where boy killed seeks bench trial

By Ruth Fuller | Yesterday at 11:53 a.m.

The owner of a Lincolnshire day care center where a boy was murdered appeared in court Tuesday on charges that she obstructed the homicide investigation. … Read more ›

Home and garden
From the community

Chicago Flower & Garden Show Welcomes Group Tours

By Sue Markgraf | Monday at 6:51 p.m.

Chicago Flower & Garden Show Welcomes Group ToursMarch 10-18, 2012 ~ Navy Pier CHICAGO (Feb. 20, 2012) – Group tours are a great way to … Read more ›

Government
From the community

Voter Information Guide Available

By Willard R. Helander | Yesterday at 9:57 a.m.

Lake County voters who visit LakeCountyClerk.info can view the Voter Information Guide for March 20, 2012 General Primary Election. A printed version of the guide … Read more ›

Family
Magic Dave Performs at the 2011 event. Photo Credit Melissa Haak
From the community

Small School Big Fun

By Melissa Haak, Little Lake County | Monday at 2:08 p.m.

When you hear “Family Fun Day” for a school whose current enrollment is 50, you probably think, small, boring, only for current students. In the … Read more ›

News
Dorota Tazbirek glazes paczkis at the Oak Mill Bakery commissary in Des Plaines. The bakery will pump out 80,000 paczkis with various fruit fillings and custard to be sold at its six locations in Chicago and suburbs. ( Brian Cassella, Chicago Tribune / February 22, 2012 )

For Fat Tuesday, Chicagoans stock up on paczkis

Yesterday at 7:11 a.m.

They start out as 4-pound hunks of flour, butter, margarine and lard, then get beaten, rolled and cut into fist-size domes. Next, their jiggly bodies … Read more ›

Community service
From the community

March 14: Fourth Annual ‘Empty Bowls’ fundraiser at CLC to fight hunger

By College of Lake County | Friday at 4:10 p.m.

Food and art will be combined to fight hunger in the Fourth Annual Empty Bowls fundraiser, to be held at the College of Lake County … Read more ›

Schools
Steven Levy, author of “In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes Our Lives,” will speak at CLC on March 12.
From the community

March 12: Learn how Google thinks, works and shapes our lives

By College of Lake County | Friday at 4:18 p.m.

Internet technology writer Steven Levy will speak at the College of Lake County at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 12. His presentation will focus on … Read more ›

Entertainment
Director Nicholas Meyer works with William Shatner on the set of a Star Trek movie.
From the community

CLC professor invited to present ‘Star Trek’ research at Saint Louis Science Center;

By College of Lake County | Friday at 4:20 p.m.

John Tenuto, sociology professor at the College of Lake County, will make two “Star Trek” presentations at the Saint Louis Science Center in St. Louis, … Read more ›

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