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WICKER PARK — Roberto Clemente Community Academy is in the running to win a free renovation of its library — and the school’s library is asking neighbors for help getting over the finish line.

Clemente, 1147 N. Western Ave., is one of 10 finalists from around the United States for the Cloud Cuckoo Land Library Makeover contest, sponsored by nonprofit Heart of America.

The winning school’s library will receive new paint, furniture, books and a mural. Online voting in the competition is live, and participants can vote daily until Aug. 10. A winner will be selected by mid-August, according to the contest’s rules.

Clemente librarian Andie Townhouse said the repairs and new furniture are desperately needed at the high school, which sits on the border of Wicker Park and Humboldt Park. When she was hired last year, she was the school’s first librarian in 13 years, she said.

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Future remodelers of one St. Louis home are in for a real shock thanks to one extremely “humerus” Missouri carpenter.

Cole Henderson, 31, has been waiting several years for the right opportunity to pull out an epic prank involving a kitchen renovation and a skeleton.

The lead carpenter for Callier & Thompson, a remodeling company in Manchester, Missouri, told TODAY Parents he was inspired by a meme he saw in a construction group about hiding a skeleton in unused cabinet space for future homeowners or demo crews to uncover.

“The original meme just had a skeleton, so I decided to throw my work uniform on it,” Henderson said. “20 or

FRANKLIN COUNTY (WSIL) — The $17.5 million renovation of the Rend Lake Resort in Franklin County will get underway in 2023.

The funding will be used to renovate the conference center, restaurant, cabins, pool, and boatel, which collectively will enable the resort to host lodging guests, conferences, and other visitors and events.

The Resort has set empty after the state terminated a lease agreement back in 2016 after mold was discovered in the hotel and other buildings.

RELATED: Closer Look: Rend Lake Resort, will it ever reopen?

At the height of its operation, the Resort drew 2.4 million visitors annually and employed up to 125 staff members. It had an estimated economic impact of nearly $245 million in 2010.

The Rend Lake Resort is located at the 3,300-acre Wayne Fitzgerrell State Recreation Area and is operated by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (DNR) on the shore of Rend Lake

Renovation and Extension of Casa da Silveira / Trika Arquitetura

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Casa da Silveira was originally designed by Helena in 2000 as a single compact volume – a glass and wood cabin standing on a stone base. Inside the stone base were placed the bedrooms and bathrooms; and above them, the glass prism modulated in plan and height in order to create flexible spaces whose only fixed function is to allow integration with the natural landscape.

Two decades ago, Casa da Silveira related to