Raging Waves, Illinois’ largest waterpark, will open for summer on Memorial Day weekend, Saturday, May 26. Raging Waves will mark its fifth season by adding a The Cowabunga Zip Line — making it the only water park in Illinois with a zip ride.
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The theme of the evening was “bittersweet” for many of Morris Community High School’s class of 2012 graduates. Some were giddy with excitement while others fought back tears as they lined up in the school gymnasium waiting to walk onto the football field to receive their diploma. On Friday night, Morris High School had 180 seniors graduate.
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CHICAGO (MCT) — Drew Peterson is set to go on trial — again.
The former Bolingbrook, Ill., police sergeant was first scheduled to go on trial for murder in 2010, but a last-m
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CHICAGO (MCT) — The Chicago man accused of stabbing to death his new bride in Illinois was last tracked to a Texas town near the Mexican border, authorities said Thursday.
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LOS ANGELES — In 1975, Donna Summer released a pop single unlike any before it.
The singer, then an unknown in the U.S., was living in Germany and working with Italian produc
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For the first time since 2000, the Morris girls track team has a state champion.
Redskins' sophomore Haleigh Knapp cleared 5-7 in the high jump at the Class 2A meet on Saturd
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CHICAGO (MCT) — Derrick Rose, who underwent surgery to repair the torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee Saturday, will make $15,506,632 for a 2012-13 season of whic
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Raging Waves, Illinois’ largest waterpark, will open for summer on Memorial Day weekend, Saturday, May 26. Raging Waves will mark its fifth season by adding a The Cowabunga Zip Line — making it the only water park in Illinois with a zip ride.
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Local fire crews called to Pontiac early Friday afternoon were requested for a missing person case, according to a Pontiac official.
Pontiac Fire Department Chief John Cummi
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Two area nonprofit agencies reported extensive damage to air-conditioning units Thursday afternoon in Morris. According to the police department release, unidentified suspects punctured the coils of at two free-standing air-conditioning units that had freon still flowing to the unit.
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Sheep and chickens. That’s what America’s greatest corporations have become. Whether it’s in California or nationally, it’s the same sad story.
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EFFINGHAM, Ill. — Grundy County Association for Home and Community Education members Ginny Bellamy, Kay Bonneur, Yvonne Canik, Ruth O’Hara and Patricia Buchholtz attended the
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WILMINGTON, Ill. — Mr. Richard G. "Bootsy" Hansen, 77, of Wilmington, Ill., passed away Thursday, May 17, 2012 at Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet.
Cremation rit
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COAL CITY — Mrs. Louise Togliatti, 95, of Coal City, passed away Thursday, May 17, 2012 at Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet.
Born May 19, 1916 in Utica, Ill., L
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One Chicago paper devoted most of the front page of its sports section today to a reporter's column explaining he didn't want to compile his all-city team because, essentially, there aren't enough worthy players. Come back in a month, and I may do one then, he said.
