Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 11:55 PM

The Trinity and Fenwick girls basketball teams haven’t played each other since 2007, but in the opening round of the Class 4A Lyons Township Sectional on Tuesday night the rivalry returned in a flash.

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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 10:00 PM

To many of the Thursday night guests at First United Methodist Church in Oak Park, they are Mama and Papa Bear. Patti and Phil Sheehan take the nicknames as signs of love and respect, earned through the weekly volunteer shifts they've been doing for almost 20 years.

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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 10:00 PM

Henry Huizar, a 15-year old Chicagoan, stood at the intersection of Roosevelt Road and Lombard Avenue Monday evening, his eyes darting back and forth at the oncoming traffic. With just a flick of a button a mere foot to his right, some flashing lights would've started going off, theoretically parting the speeding cars like the Red Sea.

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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 10:00 PM

Oak Parkers hoping to get no-strings-attached payments from the village to help flood-proof their basements might instead have to pay that money back, elected officials said last week.

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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 10:00 PM

It was by all accounts an ambitious art project for Longfellow Elementary School, one that took four years, hundreds of Oak Park students and thousands of pounds of cement. But more than a decade later, the mosaic, which depicts the village's history dating back to the Stone Age, is sitting in one mom's basement, rather than being displayed in all of its splendor.

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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 10:00 PM

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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 10:00 PM

The grownups in Oak Park may be visiting District 97 schools to cast their votes come Election Day this November. But they won't find any children in attendance.

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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 10:00 PM

Odds and ends, with some a bit odder than others ... Stick to the script: When last we heard of His Excellency The Most Reverend Edward K. Braxton, Ph.D, S.T.D., Bishop of Belleville, Illinois he was a mere Rev., pastor of St. Catherine-St. Lucy's over at Washington and Austin boulevards.

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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 10:00 PM

Indigo Smith got a front row seat in her preschool class Feb. 15, the day her dad was scheduled to read a book to the kids at West Suburban Temple Har Zion. Smith, 4, sat calmly on the rug as she and her classmates listened to her dad read one of her favorite stories, "Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed."

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