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🌱 How an Oakbrook Terrace-based foundation is reshaping grief support across Illinois

Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois Patch AM: a 3 min read

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In today's newsletter:

  • How an Oakbrook Terrace-based foundation is reshaping grief support across Illinois

Also on today's calendar: POPPIN' YOUR BRAIN TRIVIA - FREE All-Ages Event W/ Lots Of PRIZES Such As GIFT CARDS! and 5 more events.

Today's riddle: What did the man do after he went upstairs to get a stovepipe? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Monday: A gusty t-storm; hot, humid, with a high of 90 and low of 71 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Tuesday: Mostly sunny and breezy, temps: high: 83, low: 63.
  • Wednesday: Sunny with low humidity, with a high of 84 and low of 65 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• ‘Grief is a beast': Interventional care, palliative care. It's time to consider bereavement care. (santacruzsentinel.com subscription) — Oakbrook Terrace residents are directly connected to a growing grief-support effort through the HAP Foundation, which is based in both Chicago and Oakbrook Terrace and runs the Missing Pieces program for bereaved families. The story follows a Chicago mother’s loss of her infant son and shows how Illinois-based grief navigators and groups like Soaring Spirits and Camp Widow provide long-term, no-cost emotional and practical support to those struggling after a death.
   

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Elmhurst

  • Four-bedroom house sells in Elmhurst for $1.63 million (shawlocal.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: He came down with the flue. (Thank you Fred P. for sending it in!)
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