
Claire O'Brien
Reporter at Shaw Media
Reporter at NorthWest Herald
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4 days ago |
dailyherald.com | Claire O'Brien
Pope Leo XIV appears on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Thursday after being chosen the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. AP McHenry County-area Catholics were eager to learn Thursday of the new pope, Leo XIV, and were thrilled to learn he’s from Chicago. Leo Errera, a kindergartner at St. Thomas the Apostle School in Crystal Lake, was “really excited” about the new pope, and about sharing his name. Leo was in music class when the announcement came.
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5 days ago |
shawlocal.com | Claire O'Brien
Buffalo Wild Wings, in to-go form, is coming to Woodstock. The wings chain is going in at 150 S. Eastwood Drive, said Megan Falsetti, who works in the city’s building and planning department. The location is in a strip mall alongside FasTacos, Antioch Pizza and Holzlager Brewing Co., among others. It also is in the middle of the Route 47 corridor, where construction to widen the road is expected to start later this spring. Buffalo Wild Wings has active building permits, Falsetti said.
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6 days ago |
shawlocal.com | Claire O'Brien
The proprietors of BratHaus in Richmond are planning to expand to the Woodstock Old Courthouse. The new BratHaus location will all three floors of the old sheriff’s house on the north side of the building, including the smaller footprint Milwaukee-based MobCraft Beer had before it closed in November.
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6 days ago |
shawlocal.com | Claire O'Brien
McHenry County-area Catholics were eager to learn Thursday of the new pope, Leo XIV – and then thrilled to learn he’s from Chicago. Leo Errera, a kindergartner at St. Thomas the Apostle School in Crystal Lake, was “really excited” about the new pope – and about sharing his name. Leo was in music class when the announcement came. One of his classmates joked that he was the new pope.
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1 week ago |
shawlocal.com | Claire O'Brien
Twenty years ago, Elle Creighton was among the first dual-language students in Woodstock School District 200. And Lillian Hayes was one of the program’s first teachers. Fast-forward to now, and Hayes is still teaching dual-language third graders in the district, at Dean Street Elementary, and Creighton works with her former teacher instructing second graders at the school. Creighton’s mom enrolled her in dual language as a child.
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