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It’s hard to imagine a couple better suited to owning and restoring an historic Chicago bungalow than Katrina and Mike Morrissey. Over the last decade, they have lovingly restored their Austin home, bringing back some of the original character, which had disappeared over the years. They also got married, added three children to their family and did that lion’s share of the restoration work themselves, while holding down jobs in other fields.

It was standing- room only at Naperville's Municipal Center recently when Naperville Preservation Inc. presented its architectural survey of two early post-World War II neighborhoods: the East Highlands and River Haven Estates.

The grant — announced this weekend — helps cover the planned $5 million restoration and rehabilitation of the historic 1907 sunken garden.

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

An investigation by the Tribune and ProPublica that exposed the little-known practice of school-based ticketing won a Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award for Investigative Reporting.