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Diane Pappas
Diane Pappas is a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate. She was previously a member of the Illinois House of Representatives for the 45th district from 2019 to 2021. The 45th district, located in northern DuPage County, includes all or parts of Addison, Bartlett, Bloomingdale, Carol Stream, Hanover Park, Itasca, Medinah, Roselle, Wayne, West Chicago, and Wood Dale. Background and personal life Pappas was born in Poland and immigrated to the United States aged 11. She attended Lake Park High School. She then earned a Bachelor of Arts from Michigan State University and a juris doctor from Yale Law School. Pappas is an attorney from Itasca specializing in corporate negotiations and contracts. She has worked for Motorola Solutions, YRC Worldwide, and Locke Lord. Pappas was previously President of the Friends of Itasca Community Library. She is currently married to William Pappas. The couple has no children. Illinois House of Representatives 2018 election Pappa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Cullerton
Tom Cullerton was a member of the Illinois Senate representing the 23rd district from 2013 to 2022. The 23rd district spans northern DuPage County and includes all or parts of Addison, Bloomingdale, Bartlett, Carol Stream, Glendale Heights, Hanover Park, Itasca, Roselle, Villa Park, West Chicago, Wayne, Wood Dale and Medinah. Prior to his service in the Illinois Senate he was the Village President of Villa Park from 2009 to 2013 and served one term as a village trustee from 2005 to 2009. Early and personal life After graduating high school from Loyola Academy Cullerton went to the University of Kansas. In 1990 Cullerton enlisted in the US Army and served as an 11H TOW Gunner until being honorably discharged in 1993. After moving to DuPage County, Cullerton decided to become active in the community. He formed and served as a captain a local neighborhood watch. He also became a member of the Knights of Columbus, the American Legion, and coaches little league with his team wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medinah, Illinois
Medinah is an unincorporated community in the state of Illinois and is a northwest suburb of Chicago, located in DuPage County. It is neighbored by the three villages of Roselle, Itasca, and Bloomingdale along old Chicago-Galena highway between Route 19 and 20. History The community of Medinah is named after the Medinah Country Club. In the 1920s, a group of members of the city of Chicago's Medinah Temple (affiliated with the Shriners) moved into the area, then known as Meacham (for the Meacham, Lawrence and Rosenwinkel families). Together, they built a country retreat and 54-hole golf course, aiming to make it the best golf course in North America. The club had 1,500 members in the late 1920s; the Great Depression and World War II drove membership down until the postwar period, when membership recovered to the present-day 600. In 1999, a group led by Jack Roeser and backed by Senator James Philip attempted to bring a charter school to Medinah. The proposed Thomas Jefferson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Addison Township, DuPage County, Illinois
Addison Township is one of nine Civil township, townships in DuPage County, Illinois, DuPage County, Illinois, United States, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 88,612 and it contained 31,820 housing units. Geography According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 97.90%) is land and (or 2.10%) is water. The township has recently undergone many changes including a complete renovation of its west end connected to Lake St. Many new stores and services were opened. Cities, towns, villages * Addison, Illinois, Addison (partial) * Bensenville, Illinois, Bensenville (vast majority) * Elk Grove Village, Illinois, Elk Grove Village (partial) * Elmhurst, Illinois, Elmhurst (north quarter) * Itasca, Illinois, Itasca (east three-quarters) * Lombard, Illinois, Lombard (north edge) * Villa Park, Illinois, Villa Park (partial) * Wood Dale, Illinois, Wood Dale The south west edge of O'Hare,_Chicago, O'Hare in the city of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locke Lord
Locke Lord LLP is an international law firm formed on October 2, 2007, after the combination of Texas-based Locke Liddell & Sapp PLLC and Lord Bissell & Brook LLP. Locke Lord's earliest predecessor firms date from 1887 and 1891. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and changed its name to Locke Lord LLP on September 27, 2011."Law firm shortens name to Locke Lord," Houston Business Journal, September 27, 2011 http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2011/09/27/law-firm-shortens-name-to-locke-lord.html In May 2007, the management of both Locke Liddell & Sapp and Lord Bissell & Brook proposed a corporate merger. On September 12, 2007, the partnership of each firm approved the merger, effective October 2, 2007. On January 10, 2015, the merger between Locke Lord and Edwards Wildman Palmer Edwards Wildman was an AmLaw 100 law firm. It was formed from the 2011 merger of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge and Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon. Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge had been for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YRC Worldwide
Yellow Corporation is an American transportation holding company headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas. Its subsidiaries include national less than truckload (LTL) carrier YRC Freight, regional LTL carriers New Penn, Holland and Reddaway and freight brokerage HNRY Logistics. From 2006 to February 2021, Yellow was known as YRC Worldwide. History Foundation and early history In 1906, Grover Cleveland “Cleve” Harrell (1884–1942) started what was to become the Yellow Cab Company with a horse-drawn hack and a team of horses in Oklahoma City. After a year, he bought a Model T Ford. People were willing to pay more to ride in an automobile. After World War I, he bought two more cars and hired a relief driver. In 1918, Harrell painted one of his cars yellow. Although ridiculed by other cab drivers, he was hauling more passengers than anyone else, so he painted all his cars yellow and business boomed. Harrell trademarked the name Yellow Cab in Oklahoma. Later, John Hert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motorola Solutions
Motorola Solutions, Inc., is an American video equipment, telecommunications equipment, software, systems and services provider that succeeded Motorola, Inc., following the spinoff of the mobile phone division into Motorola Mobility in 2011. The company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. History Motorola Solutions began trading as a separate independent company on January 4, 2011, under the NYSE symbol MSI. In April 2011, Motorola Solutions completed the sale of its cellular infrastructure business to Nokia Siemens Networks for $975 million in cash. As part of the transaction, approximately 6,900 employees were transferred to Nokia Siemens Networks. The same month, Chinese telecommunications company Huawei and Motorola Solutions settled their intellectual property disputes. In 2012 Motorola Solutions purchased Psion for $200million and added it to its Enterprise business. A large majority of the Enterprise business was formerly Symbol Technologies, which Motorola, Inc. had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arlington Heights, Illinois
Arlington Heights is a municipality in Cook County with a small portion in Lake County in the U.S. state of Illinois. A suburb of Chicago, it lies about northwest of the city's downtown. Per the 2020 Census, the population was 77,676. Per the 2010 Census, it is the most populous community in the United States that is incorporated as a "village", and is the 13th most populous municipality in Illinois, although it is not far ahead of its nearby Illinois neighboring villages of Schaumburg and adjacent Palatine. Arlington Heights is known for the former Arlington Park Race Track, home of the Arlington Million, a Breeders' Cup qualifying event; it also hosted the Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships in 2002. The village is also home to the Arlington Heights Memorial Library, which has one of the largest collections of books in the state. History Arlington Heights lies mostly in the western part of Wheeling Township, with territory in adjacent Elk Grove and Palatine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights)
The ''Daily Herald'' is a daily newspaper based in Arlington Heights, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The newspaper is distributed in the northern, northwestern and western suburbs of Chicago. It is the namesake of the Daily Herald Media Group, and through it is the leading subsidiary of Paddock Publications. The paper started in 1871 and was independently owned and run by four generations of the Paddock family. In 2018, the Paddock family sold its stake in the paper to its employees through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, employee stock ownership plan. Areas of circulation The ''Daily Herald'' serves Cook County, Illinois, Cook, DuPage County, DuPage, Kane County, Illinois, Kane, Lake County, Illinois, Lake, and McHenry County, Illinois, McHenry counties and has a coverage area of about . It is the third-largest newspaper in Illinois (behind the ''Chicago Tribune'' and ''Chicago Sun-Times''). History The ''Daily Herald'' was founded in 1872 as the ''Cook County Herald''. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juris Doctor
The Juris Doctor (J.D. or JD), also known as Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D., JD, D.Jur., or DJur), is a graduate-entry professional degree in law and one of several Doctor of Law degrees. The J.D. is the standard degree obtained to practice law in the United States; unlike in some other jurisdictions, there is no undergraduate law degree in the United States. In the United States, along with Australia, Canada, and some other common law countries, the J.D. is earned by completing law school. It has the academic standing of a professional doctorate (in contrast to a research doctorate) in the United States, – mentions that the J.D. is a “professional doctorate”, in § ‘Data notes’ – describes differences between academic and professional doctorates; contains a statement that the J.D. is a professional doctorate, in § ‘Other references’. where the National Center for Education Statistics discontinued the use of the term "first professional degree" a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Park High School
Lake Park High School is a four-year public high school occupying two campuses, both located in Roselle, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. Freshmen and sophomores attend the East Campus (the original campus built in 1956), located near Medinah, and juniors and seniors attend the West Campus. It is part of the Lake Park Community High School District 108. Students from Roselle, Medinah, Bloomingdale, Itasca, Wood Dale, Keeneyville, and Hanover Park attend the school. History The name "Lake Park" is derived from the campuses being between "Lake" Street and Irving "Park" Road. The citizens of northwestern DuPage County, Illinois founded Lake Park High School District 108 in 1953, and the doors opened at what is now East Campus, 600 South Medinah Road, Roselle, in September 1956 to 320 students. In less than twenty years, the number of students had increased substantially and West Campus was built in 1975. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous member state of the European Union. Warsaw is the nation's capital and largest metropolis. Other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin. Poland has a temperate transitional climate and its territory traverses the Central European Plain, extending from Baltic Sea in the north to Sudeten and Carpathian Mountains in the south. The longest Polish river is the Vistula, and Poland's highest point is Mount Rysy, situated in the Tatra mountain range of the Carpathians. The country is bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. It also shares maritime boundaries with Denmark and Sweden. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wood Dale, Illinois
Wood Dale is a city in Addison Township, DuPage County, Illinois, Addison Township, DuPage County, Illinois, DuPage County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 14,012. History Wood Dale was originally known as ''Lester's Station'', after John Lester, an early settler. Geography According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Wood Dale has a total area of , of which (or 97.91%) is land and (or 2.09%) is water. Wood Dale shares borders with Elk Grove Village (on the north), Bensenville (east), Addison, Illinois, Addison (south, southwest) and Itasca, Illinois, Itasca (west). Demographics As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census there were 14,012 people, 5,135 households, and 3,684 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 5,599 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 68.93% White (U.S. Census), White, 1.84% African American (U.S. Census), African American, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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