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Employer Tells Hero Kidney Donor to Move or Lose Job

By Hugh CollinsJun 16th 2010 – 3:24PM
Zbigniew Bzdak, Chicago Tribune / MCT

Zbigniew Bzdak, Chicago Tribune / MCT

(June 16) -- When school social worker Dan Coyne donated a kidney to save the life of a woman he barely knew, he became a hero. The principal of his school declared March 23 "Dan Coyne Day" and incorporated his gift into the teaching curriculum. Thursday, Coyne will be honored at a dinner for school social workers. But...

Best Moments in Big Ten Football History #4: Northwestern Smells the Roses, 1996

By Mark HastyApr 11th 2008 – 11:24AM

FanHouse is counting down the 10 best, 10 worst, and 10 weirdest moments in Big Ten football history.Howard Stern could take over for Katie Couric on the CBS Evening News. Your cat could win the Nobel Prize in physics. Guns 'N Roses could actually release Chinese Democracy. Those are three things which seem as unlikely now...

Background on Evanston

Evanston is a suburban municipality in Cook County, Illinois 12 miles north of downtown Chicago, bordering Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, and Wilmette to the north, with an estimated population of 74,360 as of 2003. It is one of the North Shore communities that adjoin Lake Michigan.

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