Word: joliet
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Obama's play-to-win approach drove other players crazy. Former state senator Larry Walsh, a conservative corn farmer from Joliet, once got ready to pull in a pot with a four-of-a-kind hand. But Obama had four of a kind too, of higher rank. Walsh slammed down his cards. "Doggone it, Barack, if you were more liberal in your card-playing and more conservative in your politics, you and I would get along much better," he said...
...weekend field trip to a local convent. At that point, her parents realized Johnson's discernment was not just a passing phase. Her father, Len, took it the hardest. "I was initially very upset by Katharine's discernment," says Len, a manager at a power plant in Joliet, Ill. "I always had visions of her being a wife and a mother, but especially a mother because of how good she is with children...
...easy to see why they want to help. Sosenko is a native and a favorite son of Joliet, a middle-class town about 45 miles southwest of Chicago. The child of Ukrainian immigrants who fled a displaced-persons camp in Germany after World War II, Sosenko grew up in Joliet watching his father, Roman, serve the town as a family doctor. He wanted to do the same for his friends and neighbors, treating people suffering from diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, emphysema and lung cancer...
Sosenko's petition drive generated more than 1,000 letters to Illinois' congressional delegation in Washington and to state legislators in Springfield. It got the attention of state senator Larry Walsh, a Democrat from Joliet. Concerned about the availability of medical care in his hometown, Walsh persuaded Midwest Pulmonary's original carrier to give the practice a special two-month extension--albeit a pricey one, costing about $35,000. Walsh has reason to be worried. Sosenko's practice isn't the only one in Joliet that is perilously close to shutting down. The area's last remaining neurosurgeon, after learning...
...where malpractice premiums are lower, Sosenko can't imagine cutting his ties to his hometown. Not only would he have to take his kids away from their school and friends, but he would have to relocate his wife's elderly parents, whom he and his wife recently moved to Joliet. "I don't want to leave here. I'm too old to start from scratch," Sosenko says...