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Thursday, September 26, 2002 

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[Photos by Joan Crabb]
The new Scully Park playground is awash with activity.  Left, "almost-4-year-old" Hope plays with the new sand diggers.  On the right, Selena tries the slide while her friend Rebecca climbs the wall of the big red firetruck.

• Local volunteers and contributions transform Scully Park playground

• Gov. Ryan breaks ground for women’s correctional facility in Kankakee County

• World/National News

• Isidore blows ashore in Louisiana

• Asserts That Al Qaeda Has Links to Iraq's Hussein

• In Policy Shift, U.S. Will Talk to North Korea

• U.S. Children Evacuated From Ivory Coast City

• Milosevic denies genocide charge

• 3,000 India troops guard against riots

• More...

• Job Hunt

• Classifieds

• Business News Elsewhere

• The Economy: We're Not Turning Japanese

• More...

• Personal Tech News Elsewhere

• Zonta speaker addresses sesquicentennial

• Writers to meet Oct. 1

• Manure application goes high-tech

• Agriculture News Elsewhere

• Americans begin arriving, setting up for U.S. agribusiness show in Cuba

• Lawsuit failed to end discrimination at Agriculture Department, minority farmers say

• Web site digs into Minnesota farms

• The corn isn't green

• More...

• Attention football players

• High school volleyball

• LC golfer ties for second in MacMurray match

• LC men’s soccer team shuts out Parkland

• Sports News Elsewhere

• St. Louis Pulls Even With Arizona

• NBCSports.com's top 10 running backs

• CNNSI.com

• ESPN.com

• More...

• Consumer Health News Elsewhere

• Employment and Prosperity Affect Body Inflation

• The Rising Cost of Care

• Risk of Cancer Death Lowest for Whites

• More...

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