All Stories from April 10, 2014 (Change date)
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First Folio announces seasonApr 10, 2014 5:06 pm - First Folio Theatre announced Wednesday it will open its 2014-15 season with "The Gravedigger," a world premiere from Joseph Zettelmaier, whose "Salvage" runs throug...
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Racial turbulence couldn't ground suburban pilotApr 10, 2014 4:31 pm - Knowing longtime suburban resident William R. Norwood as the groundbreaking pilot whose name graces the Boeing 727 United jet on permanent display at Chicago's Museum of...
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Are you ready for 16 hours of Sci-Fi Marathon?Apr 11, 2014 5:55 am - Film critic's notebook • The After Hours Film Society presents Clio Barnard's “The Selfish Giant” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 14, at the Tivoli Theatre, 5021 Highlan...
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Elgin to spend nearly $500,000 on police vehiclesApr 11, 2014 7:52 am - The Elgin City Council unanimously voted Wednesday night to spend nearly half a million dollars to buy 14 new public safety vehicles. The $498,759 expense comes from pub...
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Will Tiger ever be as beloved as golf's Big Three?Apr 10, 2014 6:16 pm - The snapshots never get old even if the subjects have. Arnold Palmer (84 years of age), Gary Player (78) and Jack Nicklaus (74) played Wednesday in the Masters Par-3 Tou...
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Look at the benefits of e-cigarettesApr 10, 2014 5:05 am - Electronic cigarettes contain no tobacco, nor do they emit smoke. The most popular e-cigarettes, also called "personal vaporizers," used today don't even look like tradi...
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Red-light cameras are there for revenueApr 10, 2014 5:05 am - To provide added safety, or to raise money for a municipality? There is a gross miscarriage of justice by certain local governments on these red-light violation laws as ...
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A broken system en route to failureApr 10, 2014 5:05 am - In 1965, the chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, Wilbur Mills, brought legislation establishing Medicare and Medicaid to the floor of the U.S. House. That...
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Beefed-up short 'Oculus' an impressive creepfestApr 11, 2014 5:55 am - I saw Mike Flanagan's hair-raising horror short film "Oculus" at 2007's Microcinema Fest in Palatine, where it deservedly won the "Best of the Fest" award. Seven years l...
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'Rio 2' a colorful, musical adventureApr 11, 2014 5:55 am - A vivid and delightful animated spectacle, "Rio 2" is chock-full of colorful 3-D wonder and jubilant musical numbers set against a tale of family dynamics and environmen...