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At 5-foot-6 and about 190 pounds, the beefy looking gunman didn't exactly fit the ascot-wearing, pipe-puffing image pioneered by Hugh Hefner.
Full Story published 10/7/2008 5:52 PM
State Rep. Rosemary Mulligan is the target of a recent TV ad from Democratic challenger Aurora Austriaco that calls her out of touch with district residents.
Full Story published 10/7/2008 5:09 PM
Republican challenger Mike Sweeney is going after Democrat Dan Kotowski on the campaign trail for the state's fiscal mess and for voting to lease the lottery to a private company.
Full Story published 10/7/2008 3:39 PM
Democrat Aurora Austriaco's law firm and law partners have given more than $100,000 to Gov. Rod Blagojevich's campaign fund and they have won more than $1 million in state legal work since 2005, according to public records.
Full Story published 10/7/2008 12:03 AM
U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk continues to outpace Democrat Dan Seals in the money race as the two head into the final month of campaigning in the Northern suburbs.
Full Story published 10/7/2008 12:03 AM
Republican Christine Prochno says her Democratic opponent is a puppet of the "Chicago Machine," while Mark Walker says he is taking on the "Republican Machine."
Full Story published 10/7/2008 12:03 AM
Hoffman Estates officials say September's storms cost the village $50,000. Those costs included overtime for police and public works personnel and sandbags.
Full Story published 10/7/2008 11:58 AM
New Connections Academy Principal Tom Dempsey says he has to turn away prospective students nearly every day.
Full Story published 10/7/2008 11:57 AM
Construction on the new Gail Borden Public Library branch is on time, on budget and pushing the envelope of environmental friendliness.
Full Story published 10/7/2008 10:42 AM
Three days after the Cook County Health and Hospitals System publicly debated and passed a "billion-dollar budget," it continued Monday to refuse to present the document to the public.
Full Story updated 10/7/2008 9:03 AM
The Buffalo Grove village board on Monday revisited flooding issues that came up from a major storm just over a year ago.
Full Story updated 10/7/2008 6:17 AM
Bartlett village officials are reminding residents and business owners affected by last month's storms that they can now apply for federal money with the Federal Emergency and Management Agency.
Full Story published 10/7/2008 12:03 AM
Flooding issues still dominated the Des Plaines City Council meeting Monday night, almost a month after floodwaters from the Des Plaines River inundated a portion of the city.
Full Story published 10/7/2008 12:03 AM
An Elgin man was sentenced today to seven years in prison for his sixth drunken driving offense. Cirilo R. Goytia, 42, pleaded guilty to aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol in exchange for the sentence approved by Circuit Court Judge Grant S. Wegner.
Full Story updated 10/6/2008 5:01 PM
Ten seventh-grade boys filed out of Kimball Middle School's auditorium Monday afternoon, the smell of pizza trailing behind them.
Full Story published 10/6/2008 5:05 PM
Water pressure - or a lack thereof - is a problem for parts of Elgin's east side. With more new subdivisions on the horizon, city leaders are making headway on a comprehensive fix for the future - and a method to require developers to help pay for it.
Full Story published 10/6/2008 5:11 PM
Police are investigating whether an Elgin woman used nude photos of her daughter's 13-year-old ex-boyfriend as blackmail to get the two back together.
Full Story updated 10/6/2008 8:05 PM
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