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Sickening Gas, Summer Festivals and a Memorial Scholarship: Weekly Recap

Chicago Heights Patch stories, May 23-27

We had plenty of great stories last week, from Hayley Pelock's family trying to create a scholarship, to an awesome summer festival round-up by our calendar editor, Bob Bong.

The majority of our popular stories were negative though.

A gas leak near Lincoln School put 13 kids in the hospital. A 17-year-old Ford Heights native is going to trial, charged with raping his niece. A woman accused her husband of threatening her with a knife in the Heights.

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To cap things off on a more informative note... we introduced our step-by-step video on posting events to our calendar. Take a look at it if you're interested in posting events. It will make your Patch-life easier!

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