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Noon update DECATUR — Joni Knierim and Michael Grossman assisted voters at the Decatur Indoor Sports Center on Tuesday. By noon with approximately 80 votes handed in, the election judges were able to confirm Macon County Clerk Josh Tanner's prediction for a steady stream of voters around lunch time. "This is about average for this time of day," Grossman said about the four midday voters. "But it's a puny turnout," said election judge Bob Lewis. The judges expected more voters throughout the remainder of the day. "But we have piles of people left to vote," Knierim said. Rob Fleming, 42, w...

Waukegan Research Paper 563 Words3 Pages Waukegan is one of the oldest communities in Illinois. Waukegan began as Potawatomie Indian settlement, Little Fort, and a French trading post. In 1829 the Potawatomie Indians ceded their land to the federal government in 1829. Between 1844 and 1846, the population grew from 150 to 750 people and then became incorporated in 1859 when the population rose to 2,500. On March 31, 1849 Little Fort changed its name to Waukegan, the Potawatomie word for “fort” or “trading post”. Growth in Waukegan can be accredited to industry and railroa...

Preservation Chicago called on the city and the Chicago Park District to seek a national park designation for Chicago's entire lakefront, which topped the group's new list of Chicago's most endangered historic places.

The historic Phyllis Wheatley Club and Home at 5128 S. Michigan Ave., an early 20th century settlement house established by suffragettes in the early 1900s, to aid African-American women coming from Down South during the Great Migration, made Preservation Chicago’s list of the city’s “7 Most Endangered Buildings” on Thursday. Supporters are fighting to save the home that’s poised to be torn down. Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times The Phyllis Wheatley Club and Home, a historic settlement house in Bronzeville established by Black suffragettes in the early 1900s to aid African American women c...

A 27-year-old woman was carjacked Tuesday in McKinley Park on the South Side.