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Also on today's calendar: Central Street Restaurant Week and 9 more events.
Today's riddle: Why aren't koalas actual bears? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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• Legacy of Holocaust survivor and education advocate Sam Harris `58 (thesandb.com) — Skokie’s Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center stands at the heart of this remembrance of founder and Holocaust survivor Sam Harris, who died April 1 at age 90. The piece traces his journey from Poland to Northbrook, his studies at Grinnell College, and his decades of work building the museum into a major educational resource.
• WBEZ's Weekly News Recap: April 17, 2026: Taxi fares, President criticizes pope, magic mansion opens off Mag Mile and more (wbez.org) — Skokie gets a brief mention this week as a Wisconsin sheriff files a defamation lawsuit naming a Skokie woman and a Cook County commissioner. The broader roundup covers Chicago’s taxi fare hike, a failed bid to end the subminimum wage for tipped workers, a proposal targeting police with extremist ties, and new state limits on rental junk fees.
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