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A hand-made sign reading "This yard is part of No Mow May" is seen in the front yard of Barbara Dolan's home in Oak Park. Dolan is participating in No Mow May, a movement in which home owners don't mow their lawns through May to encourage pollinators such as bees and butterflies to feed off plants that would have been removed due to mowing.

Speak Out: Guns — or at least assault rifles — have got to go; if people, not guns, kill people, the same is true for drugs; if it’s only for bugs, I’ll skip No Mow May

May 31, 2022 at 10:52 a.m.

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Carpentersville man who fired gun at village police officers gets 15-year prison term

May 27, 2022 at 11:12 a.m.

A 25-year-old man who shot at Carpentersville police officers, striking their squad car five times, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Jose M. Cervantes, of Carpentersville, pleaded guilty...

Speak Out: Mass shooters can’t be defended by Second Amendment; Irvin’s ability to work with Dems should be seen as good thing; time for Chicago mayor and police chief to resign

May 27, 2022 at 8:41 a.m.

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The state could probably reap a nice windfall if the Illinois Governor's Mansion were to be sold, one Speak Out commenter says.

Speak Out: Make the state some money by selling the Governor’s Mansion; oil companies are gouging Americans; how does country like America run out of baby formula?

May 25, 2022 at 9:21 a.m.

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Speak Out: BOGO sales force customers to buy two items; pandering to voters vs. ‘the big lie’; unless cost comes down, what’s the point of eliminating front license plate?

May 23, 2022 at 1:25 p.m.

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Speak Out: Sox fans deserver a better team than they have now; guns and cops and shootings should make for interesting Chicago tourism; pandemics just a part of historical evolution

May 20, 2022 at 8:41 a.m.

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Speak Out: America’s problems are taking a backseat to Ukraine; CEOs’ salaries keep growing despite inflation; Obama’s houses show he’s not ‘green’

May 18, 2022 at 12:16 p.m.

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Speak Out: Reviving old TV shows, movies and plays feels like longing for good old days; inflation’s quickly killing the middle class; suggestion that Alito leaked Roe ruling ‘ridiculous’

May 16, 2022 at 12:03 p.m.

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Elgin resident Betty Brown was named an honorary chief nursing officer at Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin Thursday. In 1951, Brown was rejected from nurse's training at Sherman because she was Black. She went on to be the first Black nursing student at Amita Health St. Joseph's Hospital in Joliet, where she was later employed.

Elgin resident Betty Brown named honorary chief nursing officer by Sherman, decades after hospital rejected her from training program

May 13, 2022 at 2:10 p.m.

Betty Brown, of Elgin, wipes away tears of after being named honorary chief nursing officer at Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin Thursday, Pictured with her are her son Judge F....

Speak Out: Dems are hypocrites for not condemning pickets at justices’ homes; justices lied during appointment interviews; was Roe v. Wade leak a trial balloon?

May 13, 2022 at 1:13 p.m.

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