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Hamblin-Kim
Larry and Dianna Barker of Gravel Switch announce the engagement of their daughter, Jamie Marie Hamblin, to Steven Sockwhan Kim, son of Nancy Kim of Des Plaines, Ill. The bride-elect is a 1997 graduate of Boyle County High School, 2002 graduate of...
Tags: Local Elections, Colleges and Universities, Champaign (Champaign, Illinois), Education, Northern Illinois University
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Centre honors distinguished alumni and Hall of Fame inductees
Centre College will honor four distinguished alumni and three Hall of Fame inductees during the college’s homecoming festivities in a ceremony at 11:30 a.m. Saturday. The Alumni Recognition Ceremony will take place in Weisiger Theatre in the...Tags: Government, College Basketball, Alexander (music group), Politics, Intel Corp.
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Prep Football: Former Mercer kicker Blau will walk on at Illinois
larry@amnews.comHARRODSBURG — He made eight of 11 field goal tries in high school, including a career-best of 37 yards, and went 47-for-53 on extra points the last two seasons at Mercer County. Now kicker J.J. Blau has worked his way on the University of Illinois...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Human Interest, Politics, Schools, Elections
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GABBF 2011: History conference returns to festival offerings
tkleffman@amnews.comOn the surface, a lecture called “John Philip Sousa’s Adaptations of His Band Works for Theater Orchestra,” by Jon Mitchell of the University of Massachusetts, might sound as dry as a drought for anyone who is not a hardcore Sousa...Tags: John Philip Sousa, Colleges and Universities, Music, Boston, College Baseball
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Brass Band Festival: History conference to examine the life of Sousa
tkleffman@amnews.comOn the surface, a lecture called “John Philip Sousa's Adaptations of His Band Works for Theater Orchestra” by Jon Mitchell of the University of Massachusetts might sound as dry as a drought for anyone who is not a hardcore Sousa scholar....Tags: John Philip Sousa, Colleges and Universities, Boston, Music, Celebrities and Health Issues
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Cerna 'Chickie' Alter, 1939-2013
Cerna "Chickie" Alter was not a brilliant artist, but she knew great art when she saw it, friends said. Mrs. Alter studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago, and then in the 1960s started a corporate art consulting business with a fellow art-...
Tags: Ovarian Cancer, Mexico, Art Institute of Chicago
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Leslie Zemeckis sashays into the history of burlesque
During the shabby final days of the last of the burlesque houses that once dotted State Street near Congress Parkway, three of us — in possession of a few bucks and self-confidence fueled by fake IDs — entered the Follies Theater and saw a...
Tags: Chicago International Film Festival, Jeffrey Tambor, Authors, Gypsy Rose Lee, Flight (movie)
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Nganje joins NDSU as chair of Agribusiness and Applied Economics Department
William Nganje has joined the North Dakota State University Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics as department chair and professor. Before joining NDSU, Nganje was an associate professor of agribusiness finance at Arizona State University'...Tags: Environmental Issues, Newspaper and Magazine, Food Industry, Teachers, Colleges and Universities
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Madigan says universities, community colleges willing to share pension costs
— House Speaker Michael Madigan on Thursday announced that he has struck a preliminary deal with the state's universities and community colleges that will require them to slowly pick up the cost of teacher pensions over several years even as tuition...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Politics, Schools, Champaign (Champaign, Illinois), Illinois Governor
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Marcelyn J. 'Marcy' Henrikson, 1934-2013
Marcy Henrikson was a supporter of the civil rights movement in the 1960s and marched for women's rights in the 1970s. But she wasn't proud of her initial reaction 30 years ago when she learned her teenage daughter was lesbian, her family said. She...
Tags: Minority Groups, Feminism, Elgin, Civil Rights, Crime, Law and Justice
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Chicago bike accident highlights the oft-brutal laws of physics, biology
Any attempt to make bicycling in Chicago easier and safer by using the law is welcome. That includes Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposals last week to amend the city's bike ordinance to give cyclists more freedom to maneuver but also increase penalties on...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Sports, Applied Physics, Cycling, Rahm Emanuel
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Livingston sworn in as La Grange president
Tom Livingston may be new to the village presidency, but he's no stranger to La Grange. In addition to serving as a trustee for eight years between 2003 and 2011, Livingston, 45, grew up in the village, attending grade school at LaGrange Highlands and...
Tags: Jim Edgar, Champaign (Champaign, Illinois), YMCA, Springfield, Urbana (Champaign, Illinois)
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