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Friday, October 22, 2010 

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[Photos by Jan Youngquist]

Stars still twinkled in the night sky this morning as hopeful LDC parents, employees and supporters filed on a bus headed for the Chicago hearing. Senator Larry Bomke, LDC's primary voice in the state senate, accompanied the group.

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