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It's only been four weeks that 7-year-old Grace Moderwell of Lake Forest has been taking a local product called Speak to help with her verbal apraxia, but already her mom can tell the difference.

June 1, 2009 This is the final installment in a three-part series on executive management issues.

When I was a child, it seemed impossibly exotic. When I was an adolescent, it seemed impossibly tacky: Trader Vic's in St.

When Oakland Elementary School opened in 1958, only 10 of what would become 17 classrooms were open, and former principal Cliff Houghton recalled that "the rest of the building was nothing but a shell." This was the first third-grade class at Oakland Elementary when the school opened in 1958.

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"Four dances, each evoking a very different perspective on love, and each revealing something intriguing about the choreographer who created them." That is how Joffrey Ballet artistic director Ashley Wheater describes the company's spring program, set to run Wednesday through May 10 at the Auditorium Theatre.

The music director of the Oakland East Bay Symphony and the Sacramento Philharmonic will serve as artistic adviser during the Peoria Symphony Orchestra's 2009-2010 season, the orchestra announced Wednesday.

It'll go down as one of the greatest shots in Bradley's storied basketball history.

Between Fourth and Seventh streets, people were lined shoulder-to-shoulder along Lincoln Avenue.

Updated 2/18 at 5:30 p.m. CST President Perry announced Wednesday in an e-mail that a military ceremony and procession will take place Thursday morning for 1st Lt.

The governor of Illinois, a Congressional Medal of Honor winner and the top ranking officer in the Illinois Army National Guard all turned out Monday to honor a fallen soldier from Marshall.

"Thus it is said that one who knows the enemy and knows himself will not be endangered in a hundred engagements." Sun Tzu, The Art of War.

More now on the two Illinois National Guardsmen killed in Afghanistan over the weekend: 27-year-old Staff Sergeant Jason Burkholder of Champaign and 26-year-old First Lieutenant Jared Southworth of Oakland were ...

An Illinois National Guard soldier killed in Afghanistan on Sunday lived in Marshall, Ill., according to corrected information released by the Department of Military Affairs.

Two Illinois Army National Guard soldiers assigned to a Marion-based battalion were killed in action Sunday in Afghanistan, according to the Department of Defense.

A local family is mourning the death of an Illinois National Guardsman killed in Afghanistan on Sunday.

Country Market, the independently owned local grocery surrounded by outdoor displays of flowers in the summer and pumpkins in the fall, opened Monday in a new building that moves the business from Jerome to ...

Many people in the Bay Area knew Oscar Grant, III, as a good son, a good father, and a good Christian, who worked two jobs and made time for others.

BART officials, faced with a projected budget shortfall of up to $92 million over the next 18 months, warn that service cuts and higher fares may be imposed later this year to balance the budget.

A jail official says a former transit police officer who allegedly shot dead an unarmed man on an Oakland train platform on New Year's Day has been arrested in Nevada.