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Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br />
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Many of the homes in the Country Meadows subdivision in Kirkland, Ill. were assessed incorrectly.<br />
Taken on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012.
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Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com

Many of the homes in the Country Meadows subdivision in Kirkland, Ill. were assessed incorrectly.
Taken on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012.

  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br />
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West Elementary teacher Jennifer McCormick listens to a question from second-grader Beau Cash while two students in the background use an online dictionary to look up words on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. Each student in McCormick's nearly paperless classroom has a hybrid tablet laptop computer.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br />
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Aidan Nehring, a third-grader in Katie Algrim's class at West Elementary, puts his laptop away before lunch on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. Each student in Algrim's nearly paperless classroom has a laptop computer.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br />
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West Elementary second-graders Nica Martinez (left) and Beau Cash work recording some poetry in class on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. Each student in McCormick's nearly paperless classroom has a hybrid tablet laptop computer.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br />
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Dave Kolars plays the guitar and sings for the guests of the Winter Farmers' Market at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of DeKalb on Saturday morning.
  • Chris Johnson – cjohnson@shawmedia.com<br />
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A loss of offsite power led to the shutdown of unit 2 Exelon's Byron Nuclear Generating Station.  The north cooling tower in the middle of the photo shows no steam indicating the unit has been shut down. At the left steam is leaving the building.
  • Chris Johnson – cjohnson@shawmedia.com<br />
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Steam from a relief valve enters the air outside the auxiliary building (yellow building with brown roof) and flows past the containment building (concrete structure with brown roof).
  • Chris Johnson – cjohnson@shawmedia.com<br />
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A loss of offsite power led to the shutdown of unit 2 at Byron's Exelon Generating Station Monday morning.  Here steam from a relief valve can be seen escaping the auxiliary building.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br />
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Aidan Nehring, a third-grader in Katie Algrim's class at West Elementary, raises his hand with a question as he and other students work independently on their laptop computers on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. Each student in Algrim's nearly paperless classroom has a laptop computer.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br />
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Charity Son (center), an Army veteran, and Nathan LaForte, a Marine Corps veteran, listen to Northern Illinois University instructor Dr. William Penrod during an orientation and mobility class on Friday in DeKalb.<br />
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DeKalb. Ill.<br />
Friday, Jan. 27, 2012
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br />
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Nathan LaForte (right) leads Dr. William Penrod down a flight of stairs during a mobility and orientation class exercise at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb on Friday. LaForte, a Marine Corps veteran, is now a student at NIU who is focusing on helping rehabilitate veterans who have lost their sight in battle.<br />
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DeKalb. Ill.<br />
Friday, Jan. 27, 2012
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br />
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Northern Illinois University instructor Dr. William Penrod (front), with the help of Nathan LaForte, demonstrates how to safely prevent a visually impaired person from falling down stairs during an orientation and mobility class at NIU in DeKalb on Friday evening.<br />
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DeKalb. Ill.<br />
Friday, Jan. 27, 2012
  • Indian Creek's Jaron Todd
  • ANDREW MITCHELL — amitchell@shawmedia.com<br />
DeKalb Police officer Kent Quist directs traffic Wednesday at the intersection of Pearl and Gurler Streets. Traffic was backed up with motorists looking for a way around a stalled freight train in downtown DeKalb.
  • ANDREW MITCHELL — amitchell@shawmedia.com<br />
Traffic backs up Wednesday along Pearl Street in DeKalb. Motorists had to find their way around a freight train stalled on the tracks due to a broken couplings between railcars.
  • ANDREW MITCHELL — amitchell@shawmedia.com<br />
A piece of the broken railcar coupling sits along the train tracks Wednesday in downtown DeKalb. Officials say it was part of the reason a frieght train stalled on the tracks Wednesday morning.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br />
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Many of the homes in the Country Meadows subdivision in Kirkland, Ill. were assessed incorrectly.<br />
Taken on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br />
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Many of the homes in the Country Meadows subdivision in Kirkland, Ill. were assessed incorrectly.<br />
Taken on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br />
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Cele Meyer, one of the cofounders of the DeKalb Interfaith Network for Peace and Justice, has accumulated a number of signs over the years. For the past ten of those years the network has been holding a weekly peace vigil every friday since December of 2001.
  • On the right, Eddie Deja, 12, tries to flip a pancake as Ian Lovell, 15, holds a small skillet over a fire built by Sycamore Boy Scout Troop 2 on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012.<br />
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By Nicole Weskerna - nweskerna@shawmedia.com
  • Aidan Bengford (right) and Bradley McKendry, both of Cub Scout Pack 133 in DeKalb, try to build a fire using flint Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012.<br />
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By Nicole Weskerna - nweskerna@shawmedia.com
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