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More good bugs than bad in your garden
By Diana Stoll
Apr 18, 2014 12:26 PM - Our gardens attract insects. Some gardeners lament this fact of nature, but they shouldn't. There are considerably more good bugs than bad calling your garden home. Beneficial insects play a valuable role in reducing the population of those insects that cause damage to your plants. And many beneficial insects act as pollinators, too.
Solorio looks forward to basketball at Illinois College
By John Leusch
Apr 14, 2014 12:22 PM - Three-sport athlete Melissa Solorio of Elk Grove recently decided her basketball future will be at Illinois College in Jacksonville.
GIV Mobil launches in Lombard, Schaumburg
By Anna Marie Kukec
Apr 10, 2014 5:08 PM - Kukec's eBuzz column features GIV Mobile, which recently opened kiosks in Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg and Yorktown Mall in Lombard. While it offers subscribers a 4G network and no contracts, like most others, GIV Mobile also donates 8 percent of your plan cost to a charity of your choice.
O'Malley helps Elk Grove shut out Wheaton North
Daily Herald report
Apr 9, 2014 3:48 PM - Adam O'Malley tossed a complete-game shutout and also had one of the Grens' 2 hits in a 1-0 nonconference victory over host Wheaton North on Monday.
Baseball/Fox Valley roundup
Daily Herald report
Apr 9, 2014 3:43 PM - Jacobs erupted for 20 hits and capitalized on 11 errors in a 30-0, five-inning bombardment of Woodstock North in a Fox Valley Conference crossover Tuesday. Thirteen Golden Eagles collected hits and 11 drove in at least a run against six Woodstock North pitchers, led by Owen Oreskevich (5 RBI), Ryan Sargent (4) and Brenden Heiss (3).
Hooded Bandit strikes again in Bensenville
By Justin Kmitch
Apr 9, 2014 1:24 PM - Authorities believe the man they have dubbed the "Hooded Bandit," who theysuspected of robbing five banks in Rolling Meadows, Wood Dale and Bensenville in the past year, has struck again in Bensenville Monday.
Another lawsuit filed against ex-Schaumburg cops
Daily Herald report
Apr 9, 2014 12:20 PM - Another federal lawsuit has been filed against the village of Schaumburg and former undercover police officers accused of skimming drugs in police seizures and selling them through a former informant. An attorney for Xavier Neodina filed the lawsuit Monday.
Former airport manager receives year's salary
By Deborah Donovan
Apr 9, 2014 9:13 AM - Dennis Rouleau, former manager of Chicago Executive Airport and an employee there for almost a quarter century, will receive a year's salary through his settlement agreement with the airport. Rouleau will get a total of $144,555 plus about $12,000 for accrued vacation, according to the agreement reached in January.
Chicago pension overhaul sent to Quinn
Associated Press
Apr 9, 2014 8:58 AM - State lawmakers on Tuesday approved Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposal for overhauling two city pension programs that officials say could otherwise be out of money in little more than a decade. The measure, which hinges on a $750 million property-tax increase over five years, now goes to Gov. Pat Quinn, who has been noncommittal.
Pensions pose latest challenge for Chicago mayor
Associated Press
Apr 9, 2014 8:57 AM - Less than a year before asking voters to give him a second 4-year term, the man once nicknamed "Rahmbo" for his fierce political maneuvering has now come face to face with a mess that could derail Chicago's ambitions to become a high-tech business mecca: the worst public pension crisis of any major U.S. city.

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