All Stories from July 15, 2011 (Change date)
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Icahn makes $10.2B offer for CloroxJul 15, 2011 12:00 am - NEW YORK — Activist investor Carl Icahn made an unusual offer to buy Clorox Co. this week, presenting himself almost as a disinterested bidder and encouraging the compan...
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E. Dundee gives heath center $73,000 for $183,000 renovationJul 15, 2011 12:00 am - A health care center with offices in West Dundee and Huntley soon will shut down those locations to open one office in East Dundee. But it needed a little bit of help in...
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Wauconda community serviceJul 15, 2011 12:00 am - The village of Wauconda will accept nominations for the 2011 Mayor’s Community Service Awards until Aug. 1. The award recognizes youths and adults, organizations and bus...
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Corbett drilling panel recommends fee on industryJul 15, 2011 12:00 am - HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Tom Corbett’s advisory panel on the rapidly growing Marcellus Shale drilling industry supports making the companies help the government pay for th...
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Neighborhood profile: Thornwood, South ElginJul 15, 2011 12:00 am - Last year when Jay and Jennifer Allard were house hunting before their move to the Chicago area, they looked at the Thornwood area in South Elgin and saw basketball hoop...
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Arlington Heights family host benefit for ill siblingJul 15, 2011 12:00 am - Members of a longtime Arlington Heights family are hosting a fundraiser Saturday to help a sibling in need of a lung transplant. Wally Preissing, one of eight Preissing ...
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Liberal group threatens to pull Obama supportJul 15, 2011 12:00 am - A liberal group upset over potential cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security has delivered pledges to President Barack Obama’s Chicago campaign headquarters threa...
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Waubonsee Community College purchases student artJul 15, 2011 12:00 am - Submitted by Waubonsee Community College During the spring 2011 semester, Waubonsee Community College purchased 17 pieces of student-created artwork to display around it...
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Being engaged is hard, but there’s hopeJul 15, 2011 12:00 am - What makes being engaged so tough? A couple are perfectly happy and starry-eyed in love — the epitome of compatibility. Then CRASH! They wipe out in the final turn just ...
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New Gilman Trail overpass will bridge the safety gapJul 15, 2011 12:00 am - It seems like only yesterday when a bike ride on the western edge of Aurora was a peaceful pedal along country roads. Even better was the Virgil Gilman Trail, its wester...