Howard Peters, senior vice president of government relations for the Illinois Hospital Association, poses for a portrait Wednesday afternoon at the IHA's Naperville offices. (Danielle Gardner/Staff Photographer)
Our readers' concerns about the health care system were all over the board. But most agree that something has to change. Here is what you told us in a Naperville Sun survey in September.
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A suburban police patrol car recently hosted a large and perhaps inadvertently adventurous Felis Catus under its hood. “It's like nothing I've heard,” police Cmdr. Steve Husak said Friday of the incident.
Downers South ends Raiders' season
With 1 minute, 37 seconds left to go in the Class 8A Round 2 playoff
game in Bolingbrook, Downers Grove South's Chandler Whitmer snuck into
the end zone behind his right guard for what would be the game-winning
score in the Mustangs 22-19 victory over the Raiders. • Photos: DGS stuns Bolingbrook
'D' Bulls top LeBron
Would you believe the Bulls won for a second straight game because of their -- ahem -- defense? Believe it.
• Bulls notes
Heart attack survival rates improve in women
Two new studies show that heart attacks have become more common among middle-aged women in the last two decades, but in-hospital survival rates, especially for younger women, are improving compared with men. Both studies were published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine. • Money-back guarantee from fertility center
Is recession finally over? Possibly
The economy accelerated last quarter. But is it driving off a cliff?
The car comparison is apt, because economists believe the third-quarter improvement in the nation's Gross Domestic Product depended heavily on the "cash for clunkers" program. The tax credit for first-time home buyers also had a role.
Grove Players to perform 'Man of LaMancha'
The Grove Players will present the first production of their 74th season, the musical "Man of LaMancha" by Dale Wasserman at 8 p.m. Nov. 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21 and 2 p.m. Nov. 8, 15, and 22 at the Lincoln Center, 935 Maple Ave., Downers Grove.
