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Daily Archive : Wednesday May 16, 2012

News

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    Members of the Palatine High School Symphonic Band play their final home concert of the year.

    Palatine HS band will end year at Nixon Library
    By Eileen O. Daday
    The Palatine High School Symphonic Band had a distinguished narrator in WGN Radio's Orion Samuelson for their piece "To Heal A Nation" at a recent concert. They'll have an equally distinguished narrator over the Memorial Day Weekend -- Edward Nixon, the late president's younger brother.

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    Dave and Susie Hodgson each lost a spouse to Huntington’s disease. Now married to each other, the Sandwich couple organizes the TEAM HOPE-Walk for a Cure to benefit the Illinois chapter of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America.

    Wheaton walks aims to stamp out Huntington’s disease
    By Christie Willhite
    Dave and Susie Hodgson know the stats as well as anyone: Huntingtons disease usually strikes adults in their 30s or 40s; one in 10,000 Americans has Huntingtons; none will survive. But what the Sandwich couple knows better than most is what those stats mean in the everyday life of a Huntingtons sufferer and...

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    Dawn Patrol: Wife of man shot by police sues; pension pain
    By Paul Biasco and Lee Filas
    Wife of man killed by Des Plaines police files lawsuit. Legislators may push pension costs to local governments. Two men charged in high-profile Lake County murders. Eleven-year-old Bolingbrook girl drowns near school. Two men charged with stealing $39,000 worth of cigarretes. Schaumburg man, 22, missing.

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    Denise DiMarzo is pushed by her husband, Chris Benyo, at the New Jersey Marathon May 6. They are accompanied by Benyo's co-worker, Kyle Mitchell, and his girlfriend, Meredith Kline, who stayed with the couple throughout the race. DiMarzo was diagnosed with ALS in 2010.

    ALS doesn't stop Bartlett couple's marathon dream
    By Jessica Cilella
    In the summer of 2009, while they were still dating, Denise DiMarzo and Chris Benyo made plans to one day run a marathon together. The next year the couple wed - and six months later DiMarzo was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease. But the couple refused to give up their marathon dream. “It was not only the most difficult marathon of my life, but it also was just the best because Denise...

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    Antioch police adopt online sex offender search system
    By Taylor Goldenstein
    Antioch residents can now map sex offender and predator information through a new online service introduced by the police department. The system, called OffenderWatch, allows citizens to look up an address and see a map and listing of all offenders within a radius of up to two miles. "This just adds to the toolbox," Chief Craig Somerville said.

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    Many residents of Plum Grove Estates near Rolling Meadows are upset at Palatine Township's plan to replace a 60-year-old bridge that features lanterns atop flagstone pillars.

    Palatine Twp. residents want to keep 60-year-old bridge
    By Kimberly Pohl
    With curvy roads designed to bend around mature trees, rules prohibiting fences and an architectural committee that reviews any changes that could affect aesthetics, Plum Grove Estates in Palatine Township isn't your typical suburban neighborhood. But many of the suibdivison's residents fear its unique nature is threatened by the township's plans to replace a trademark bridge.

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    Michael J. Coleman

    Schaumburg man missing
    By Paul Biasco
    Police are asking for the public's assistance in locating a 22-year-old Schaumburg man who has been missing since Tuesday morning. Michael Coleman was supposed to attend a business meeting in Indiana Tuesday morning, but never showed.

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    Pam Althoff

    ‘Drano bill’ heads to governor
    By Ryan Voyles
    A proposal that would eliminate the need for customers to provide identification and sign a registration log when purchasing common household drain cleaners, pesticides and paints from retailers is in the hands of Gov. Pat Quinn.

Sports

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    Phoenix Coyotes goalie Mike Smith reacts after giving up a goal to the Los Angeles Kings’ Dwight King Tuesday during the first period of Game 2 of the Western Conference finals in Glendale, Ariz.

    Kings top Coyotes 4-0 to go up 2-0 in series
    Associated Press
    Jeff Carter scored three goals, Jonathan Quick stopped 24 shots and the Los Angeles Kings matched an NHL record with their seventh straight road playoff victory, beating the Phoenix Coyotes 4-0 Tuesday night to take control of Western Conference finals.

Business

Life & Entertainment

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    Think of the kids in U-46 contract decision
    The Daily Herald Editorial Board
    As teachers in U-46 prepare to vote on a new contract, both sides should keep the students' needs the top prioirty, a Daily Herald editorial says.

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    Romney is short on specifics
    By Eugene Robinson
    Columnist Eugene Robinson: My guess is that Republicans wont want to talk about the past or the future in much detail. Theyd like to keep things blurry,

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    Religion as partisan trump card
    By Michael Gerson
    Columnist Michael Gerson: Even when Obama changes his political views, Jesus somehow comes around to agreeing with him.

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    Restore drug prevention funding
    A Wheaton letter to the editor: Gov. Pat Quinn proposed a budget for next year that will eliminate drug prevention services for nearly 35,000 Illinois youth, but lawmakers need to restore this money. Quinn's budget will break the back of Illinois' drug...

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    Obama playing politics on Medicare cuts
    A Buffalo Grove letter to the editor: Not wanting terrible publicity with seniors, a few days ago President Obama in secrecy delayed a cut to Medicare Advantage until just after the election.

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    Near-empty buses wasting our money
    A Buffalo Grove letter to the editor: We are concerned that an agency that gets a hefty supply of our tax money cant figure out where and when to run buses except empty ones hoping for customers.

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    Start work now on Keystone pipeline
    A Des Plaines letter to the editor: This pipeline project and any possible problems were studied for two years, and the latest idea to reroute the line around the Nebraska sand hills should make it time to put politics aside and proceed.

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    Obama kept us out of depression
    An Elgin Letter to the Editor: We have problems now, but not on a scale remotely comparable to what existed in 2008. We are no longer in panic mode. Like all Democrat presidents before him, President Obama is into a job growth agenda that is producing...

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    Reduce pension for system gamers
    A St. Charles Letter to the Editor: Greed may not be against the law, but those who gamed the pension system should be held responsible for their actions, which adversely affected the financial stability of the pension plans.

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    We need more statesmen
    A St. Charles Letter to the Editor: Our most important responsibility as citizens is to ensure the future of our Republic, the United States of America. To this end, we must elect statesmen and stateswomen and not politicians. Peter Roskam is a statesmen...

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    A great idea whose time has come
    A Wheaton letter to the editor: Dr. Arthur Siml for president ... of something. His Tips For reducing Medicaid costs letter of May 4. is near genius. It is smart and so simple, I am sure it will...

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