Park Board wants to kill southside park. SPORTS
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SCHOOLS
Bengals pick up fifth win of season
School administrators, staff get raise
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Thursday, October 17, 2013
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Eich’s Sports moved to its present location at 24316 W. 143rd St. in Plainfield in 2009.
flesh eating drug now in Will County New drug reported to rot skin from inside out
Eich’s Sports celebrates 25 years in Plainfield story by suZanne baker | enterPrise rePorter
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or anyone in Plainfield who ever needed to buy gym shirt and/ or shorts, spirit wear, a letterman coat, or that extra pair of socks for to accompany a child’s sports uniform in the past 25 years, chances are that a stop at Eich’s Sports was in order.
A fixture in the Plainfield community for a quarter century, Eich’s Sports will marks its 25th anniversary Oct. 18-20 with a slew of sales, give-always and raffles at its three locations in Plainfield on 143rd Street between Route 59 and Van Dyke Road; in Lemont at 216 Main St.; and in Coal City at 293 S. Broadway. Eich’s is the epitome of a true “mom and pop” shop. Chuck and Betty Eich opened Eich’s Sports in 1988 in
PHOTO The Eic BY SU their c h family - (fro ZANNE BAKER hildren /ENTER m left) , P annive rsary o Tracy and B Chuck and B RISE REPORTE rian – w f Eich’s etty an R d il Sports l in Plain celebrate th e 25 th field.
See GAME, page 2
A deadly, homemade drug known as krokodil has made its way from Russia to the U.S. and is now in the Will County region, according to officials from Presence St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet. “As of late as last week, the first cases – a few people in Utah and Arizona – were reported to have been using the heroin-like drug, which rots the skin from the inside out,” said Abhin Singla, MD, Boardcertified Internist, Director of Addition Services at Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, and Medical Director of The Promises of Recovery, a treatment facility. Singla has begun treating at least three local area patients who have reported use of the drug and have presented with manifestation of krokodil. Krokodil originally began in Russia in 2003, where availability and distribution of heroin is problematic. Krokodil, or crocodile, is compared to morphine, with similar properties of methamphetamines, but is cheaper to obtain. Made of a combination of
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