Vietnam Moving Wall brings thousands to Oswego
— June 30, 2017The Vietnam Memorial still sparks memories and emotions even 42 years after the end of America’s second-longest war. A scale model of the original, located on the National Mall in…
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At Circle of Change, dogs help veterans ease PTSD
— June 29, 2017Hallmarks of the Fourth of July are parades with loud marching bands and shrieking fire engine sirens, neighborhood firecrackers punctuating the night and community-wide fireworks shows…
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Measures to help Central IL veterans, special needs pass; road tax fails
— November 10, 2016Voters in Peoria County approved a property tax increase Nov. 8 to provide assistance to people with developmental disabilities, military veterans, and the families of both living and…
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PTSD sufferers added to medical marijuana list
— July 6, 2016Jim Champion used to take 59 pills a day for Multiple Sclerosis and post-traumatic stress disorder. Now he takes just five or six. The difference? Smoking one-and-a-half to two medical…
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Student helps launch Veterans’ Screening Day at UIC College of Dentistry
— March 28, 2016As part of her Schweitzer Fellows project, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Dentistry student Nisha Garg initiated a Veterans’ Screening Day at the College recently…
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Medical marijuana shop now operating in East Peoria
— December 19, 2016For those who may be wondering what’s behind the frosted bulletproof glass windows in the strip mall at 504 Riverside Drive in East Peoria, it’s cannabis, and it’s…
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Frustrated Hines veterans give up on Melrose Park housing plan
— August 8, 2016This summer, formerly homeless Air Force veteran Ron Kubert, 62, experienced a phenomenon he’s encountered too many times with promised veteran services: If it looks too good to be…
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Search for missing relatives amid WW II combat in the Philippines
— May 25, 2016Corporal Francis Callaghan, a long way from his home on the South Side of Chicago, was a determined man on the morning of February 4, 1945. Callaghan was a member of the…
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