Plane Crash Kills Suburban Chaplainand Two Priests
A light single engine plane crashed in a McHenry County suburb Sunday killing assistant pastor Rev. Ken Wojtas of St. Thomas and two fellow priests. The fourth casualty was the pilot, a brother of one priest. Funeral rites are planned with Cardinal Meyer presiding.
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St. Mary of the Lake Seminary
Illiteracy Reading Series Aims at Chicago Area
WITW plans Operation Alphabet a 100 lesson program for 500000 functional illiterates. Airing weekdays at 6 p.m. from April 18 on WITV, the effort faces publicity challenges as channels reach the illiterate audience.
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Court Orders Slum Closure After 5217 University Case
A Superior Court judge orders the slum closure of the 5217 University property almost a year after it was exposed as owned by a group of Chicago baseball players. The structure is vacated as a public record decision, with the board set to act on the order.
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Views differ by sixteen days as spring arrives near Dorchester
A split view shows Farmer's Field after winter’s last storm from inside the southwest corner of 50th and Dorchester, and from outside last Monday when the area below the window was steam blasted by worker Robert Robewalt. Other signs of spring appeared around the University of Chicago.
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University of Chicago
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