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We continue our “Community Close-Up” series with a proposed change to the educational structure in Freeport. At Center Elementary School, some third grade…
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As you head off Interstate 39 and drive west toward Mendota, the sign inviting you to the city’s annual summer sweet corn festival reminds you that you’re…
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WNIJ's Community Close-up of DeKalb examines how a community supports its most vulnerable members.About 44,000 people live in DeKalb. Another 5,000…
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We continue our occasional series “Community Close-Up” in Oregon, Illinois. For the past nine years: large sculptures have been popping up around town.…
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In our latest Community Close-Up, we look at Elgin. Like most cities, this suburb is faced with a variety of infrastructure needs and challenges. City…
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We continue our series "Community Close-Up" in a city trying to capitalize on its prime location. Rochelle sits along Lincoln Highway near I-39 and I-88,…
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We continue our series "Community Close-Up" with a look at a milestone in Aurora. For the first time since 1946, the city ended the year without a single…
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In the first of WNIJ's occasional series "Community Close-Up," we turn our attention to Belvidere. Like many other communities, Belvidere is trying to…
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Pablo Korona is a Rockford native and filmmaker. He’s taken charge of a movement called “Our City, Our Story,” a grassroots effort to showcase the stories…
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This story originally aired during the summer of 2012.In the first of a two-part series, WNIJ’s Jenna Dooley finds out what it means to live in…