The community is the hero in Tinley Park, Elgin, Joliet and many other Chicago-area towns, where alert and responsive kids and adults learned of threats to their schools and quickly reached out to authorities. “I can’t emphasize enough how important it is for the community to keep us in the know,” Tinley Park Police Chief Thomas Tilton said.
Category: Elgin Courier-News Opinion
Donna Vickroy: If only they could have ‘rock(ed) me, rock(ed) me’ a little while longer
The power of live music and the feeling it gives us transcends age and can fill you with memories and emotions you first felt years ago, Donna Vickroy says.
Hilary Decent: What you’re reading will help explain why I don’t have a column today
With a COVID-stricken husband isolating and back and tooth pain mounting, Hilary Decent had plenty of reasons to write about why she couldn’t write.
Letters to the Editor: Driving on Randall Road during rush a lesson in frustration; Central Kane LWV planning candidate forums before election
Letters to the editor submitted to The Courier-News.
Decent: Human trafficking is closer to home than you’d think, says pediatrician-turned-ministry leader
Human trafficking is closer to home than you’d think, says Dr. Joyce Lo, a Naperville pediatrician who now leads a ministry to educate people about its prevalence.
Vickroy: In the crosshairs of a gun, all of us are equal
Now that one of the country’s top political leaders has been the target of an assassin, will it be enough to finally bring about tighter gun control laws?
Letters to the Editor: Here are a few of the things that are really bothering me
Letters submitted to The Courier-News for publication.
Letters to the Editor: Elgin Township supervisor, others commended for Flag Day celebration
Letters to the editor submitted to The Courier-News.
Letters to the Editor: Nothing like seeing where you live through another’s eyes; Burnidge Forest Preserve looks like ‘battlefield’ thanks to pruning
Letters to the editor submitted to The Courier-News.
Vickroy: My father wasn’t a rich man but what he gave me can’t be calculated in dollars and cents
The value of hard work and thinking for yourself are the gifts columnist Donna Vickroy’s father gave to her that are worth so much more than money.