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Marriage equality legislation in Illinois was approved Tuesday by a state Senate committee, advancing the measure toward a vote of the full Senate that is expected to take place on Valentine's Day. The Illinois Senate Executive Committee voted, just as they had a month earlier, in favor of the bill, which would legalize same-sex marriage in the land of Lincoln. Nine committee members voted in favor of the bill and five against. State Sen. Heather Steans, the bill's sponsor, told the committee Tuesday, "Same-sex couples want to marry for the same reasons we all do. Civil unions have created a second-class status," according to Chicago Pride. The Skokie Police Department has been working around the clock with Chicago and other area …
Big news involving the late Ron Santo reminds of his days living in Glenview's Valley Lo, starting with his Cubs prime in 1969, when his home, backyard and nearby lake rocked with the noise of neighborhood kids.
A little bit of Glenview clung to the good feelings surrounding the late Ron Santo's election to baseball's Hall of Fame Monday and the dedication of his spectacular statue outside Wrigley Field’s right-field gate on Aug. 10. At some point in all his incarnations as the Cubs' greatest-ever third baseman, popular baseball announcer and fund-raiser to fight the Type 1 diabetes that later ravaged him, Santo had to cool down his fiery personality, kick back, relax and re-charge his batteries. From 1969 to 1983, that place was a lakefront home in Glenview’s northwest Valley Lo sub-division, a place “just like Kiddieland,” according to Peter Nestos, one of the neighborhood kids who hung out with Santo’s two sons. The inviting home rocked with …
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Brian
1:51 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013
You can talk all you want about essence, but as I said in another message board in response, isn't the essence of marriage love? more ›