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Threatening Call Causes School Lockdown BY EMILY SPECTRE DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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chools in Winnetka and Wilmette received threatening phone calls on June 7 and 8 that police say are similar to fraudulent calls that have been made to schools across the United States and in the United Kingdom. Wilmette police said the calls were vulgar and implied violent acts. In Winnetka, police said a caller claimed a person with a handgun was outside of Crow Island School. “Literally hundreds of schools have been victimized in school districts throughout the United States as well as the United Kingdom,” Wilmette Police Chief Brian King wrote in a letter to District 39 parents on June 8. ABC News reported schools in Wisconsin, Colorado, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire Minnesota, Montana, Washington and Wyoming have all reported automated threatening phone calls. In Continued on PG 12
FIRST-RATE SECOND HOMES BY BILL MCLEAN
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North Shore resident sits in a car in a driveway, waiting for the rest of the family to enter the car. The car will soon head to the family’s second home, near a body of water, in Wisconsin. Or in Michigan. Or in Indiana. It is time to escape Illinois. “Your blood pressure goes down, almost immediately, as soon as you start the car,” says Mary Brennan, a realtor and lakefront specialist for @properties in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. “That’s one of the first benefits of owning a second home, feeling less stressful when you get there. You get to leave behind the nine million things that are going on in your hectic life and look forward to spending time with family and friends in a different environment.” Bettye Raglin, an associate broker at Coldwell BankerWinnetka, has been recharging herself at her family’s farmhouse in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, for some 30 years. She usually experiences her “Ahhh” moment as soon as the front of her car crosses the Illinois-Wisconsin border. “Life is slower up there, totally different,” Raglin says. At times, along the North
New Buffalo Michigan is a popular summer getaway.
Shore, life careens at a 100-mph clip for full-time professionals and their uber-busy children. Families live in beautiful homes and neighborhoods. Families
live near that magnificent body of water, Lake Michigan. Why in the world would any family want to flee such surroundings to spend weeks or long week-
ends in another state? “It doesn’t matter how old you are,” says Roberta Miller, a sales professional and marketing specialist at Berkshire Hathaway
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