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Aug 3, 2014 9:53 PM - If the weather and the crowds keep you away from your town's Independence Day events this weekend, you can still enjoy the trappings of the holiday from your couch with TV shows that feature both gastronomic and pyrotechnic fireworks.
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Des Plaines aldermen move ahead with plans to restructure TIFJul 8, 2014 4:58 PM - Des Plaines' city council has started the process of restructuring an existing special taxing district plagued by a growing deficit. The city's sixth Tax Increment Financing district, encompassing a triangle-shaped piece of land roughly bounded by Higgins and Mannheim roads and Greco Avenue, is in an estimated $6.8 million in the hole this year, and on track to be $20 million in the red by 2024. -
Images: Independence Day parades, festivals, and community eventsJul 7, 2014 7:31 PM - Patriotism was on colorful display Friday, July 4 throughout the suburbs in parades, festivals, and community parties. -
Cougars shut out LumberKings 4-0Jul 6, 2014 7:39 AM - Three pitchers combined for the visiting Kane County Cougars' ninth shutout of the year as Duane Underwood, Jose Arias and Michael Heesch silenced Clinton's bats for nine innings. A 4-0 win guaranteed a series win for the Cougars (12-3, 57-28) as the LumberKings (5-10, 35-48) will try to avoid the sweep Sunday.
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Parades, picnics, festivals, fireworks as suburbs celebrate FourthJul 5, 2014 12:14 AM - A healthy dose of good ol' Americana came to hometown streets, parks and backyard picnics Friday as suburban residents celebrated our nation's freedom with Fourth of July parades, feasts, festivals and fireworks. A warm, bright day drew thousands to parades from Arlington Heights to Elgin and Vernon Hills to Wheaton, and crowds packed festivals from relaxed neighborhood gatherings to major music and food bashes. -
Sources: Cubs trade Samardzija, Hammel to OaklandJul 4, 2014 11:37 PM - The Oakland Athletics have an agreement in place to acquire right-handers Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel from the Cubs for three top-line prospects in a surprising trade for baseball's top team, two people with knowledge of the deal said Friday night. -
Sale again makes all-star pitch for White SoxJul 4, 2014 11:04 PM - Chris Sale was sidelined for five weeks earlier in the season with a strained flexor muscle, but the White Sox' ace starter is back at full strength and once again showing he's one of the best pitchers in the game. -
White Sox avoiding distraction of trade rumorsJul 4, 2014 11:00 PM - Dayan Viciedo's name always seems to pop up in trade rumors, and this season is no different. The White Sox outfielder has been linked to the Mariners, Red Sox and Giants, but Viciedo said he doesn't worry about things he can't control.
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Former Gov. Ryan: 'Americans should come to their senses'Jul 4, 2014 10:30 PM - George Ryan, an ex-Illinois governor and now an ex-convict, says he'd like to re-engage with the cause he left behind when he went to prison in 2007 -- campaigning for the end of the death penalty in the U.S. "Americans should come to their senses," Ryan said this week, in an hourlong interview with The Associated Press at his kitchen table. Newly free to speak after a year of federal supervision that followed his more than five years in prison for corruption, Ryan appeared to have recovered some of his old voice and feistiness, in contrast to the subdued figure that emerged a year ago from the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, and ducked briefly into a Chicago halfway house. -
Boomers rally past CornBeltersJul 4, 2014 10:21 PM - The host Schaumburg Boomers treated an Independence Day crowd of 7,178 to a come-from-behind 6-4 victory over the Normal CornBelters in Frontier League action Friday.
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