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1 dead, several injured in overnight crash in Evergreen Park
WGN Chicago via Yahoo News· 2 months agoEVERGREEN PARK, Ill. — One person died and multiple others were injured in an overnight crash in a...
Memorial Day remembrances, parades planned in Portage
Record-Courier via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPossibly thought of more as the unofficial start of summer, Memorial Day is a time of remembrance...
Red crossbills, bald eagles and other unexpected birds have been spotted in Chicago this winter
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 months agoCHICAGO -- After walking the grounds of the Morton Arboretum for hours on a December morning, John...
Man laid to rest 80 years after his death in World War II
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 7 months agoCHICAGO -- First Lt. Edward T. McGuire, a graduate of the Mount Carmel High School class of 1939,...
WWII pilot finally laid to rest 80 years after heroic act
KTVX via Yahoo News· 7 months agoCHICAGO (WGN) — Eighty years after he left Chicago’s South Side to fight in World War II, Ed McGuire...
These four Titanic survivors are now buried in Texas. Here’s when and why they moved here
Fort Worth Star-Telegram via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA search is underway for five people who made a submarine expedition to view the wreckage of the...
Sheboygan's first three mayors, all born in eastern states, led the fledgling city
The Sheboygan Press via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSHEBOYGAN - Mayors didn't materialize until the city was incorporated by act of the Legislature...
‘The Black guy dies first’: A Northwestern provost is our leading expert on representation in horror...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCHICAGO — Robin Means Coleman has heard it all. Cliches like: Maybe we should split up and look. Tropes like: I didn’t get bit, I’m fine. Also: That sound — it’s probably just the wind. And: ...
Palm Beach County's first Black doctor arrived in 1902 and had offices on Clematis Street
Palm Beach Daily News via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThomas Leroy Jefferson toiled in Palm Beach County for more than three decades. As an Black man...
'Colorado's Grandest Mile of Scenery': 140 colorful years of a colorful destination
The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.) via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFeb. 24—"We imagine Heaven is like this," wrote the Rinkers of Indianapolis. "Like a fairyland," wrote the DeLoaches of Houston. Better than Niagara Falls, suggested another couple from Oak ...