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Wednesday Feb 8 | Chicago Sun-Times

Elevator company vows to discipline workers guilty of racial harassment

The elevator company accused of racial harassment by a former employee will take "disciplinary actions" against supervisors or other workers who acted inappropriately, a corporate official promised Wednesday.

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Mon Jan 30, 2012

Muskegon Chronicle

Group working to save historic Owasippe hunting lodge

A historic hunting lodge in "serious disrepair" on Owasippe Scout Reservation property could either find new life or face the wrecking ball.

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Mon Jan 16, 2012

Daily Herald

NIU to reopen Cole Hall, site of 2008 shootings

The building where a gunman opened fire on students in a Northern Illinois University lecture hall, killing five people, hasn't been used since that day four years ago.

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Pioneer Local

La Grange audience agrees King's dream still alive, but needs work

Even after nearly 50 years, the Rev. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech served as a launch pad of inspiration for listeners gathered Monday in La Grange to celebrate the slain civil rights leader's legacy.

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Fri Jan 13, 2012

T.H.E. Journal

5 Illinois Schools Implement Streaming Media

A pair of school districts and one elementary school in Illinois are using streaming media to help supplement lessons in the classroom.

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