All Stories from August 5, 2011 (Change date)
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Behind the Scenes at Libertyville microbreweryAug 05, 2011 12:00 am - Dressed in shorts, a T-shirt and rubber boots, brewmaster Greg Browne grabs his canoe paddle and starts stirring a kettle filled with hot water and crushed malted barley...
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Wildflowers offer beauty and medicinal properties,tooAug 05, 2011 12:00 am - Wildflowers not only offer their beauty, but medicinal properties, too
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Winfield trustee keeps pressing for street repairsAug 05, 2011 12:00 am - It seems regardless of the issue before the Winfield village board, the discussion returns to its deteriorating roads. Three unrelated agenda items all crumbled into dis...
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Saying 'thank you' can be a tricky businessAug 05, 2011 12:00 am - There was this traveling salesman. One day, while driving past a pig farm, he was startled to see a particularly large pig walking around on a well-fitted wooden leg. T...
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Chicago Freight Car Leasing names Cleator vice president of sales and marketingAug 05, 2011 12:00 am - PRNewswire ROSEMONT — Chicago Freight Car Leasing Co. named Robert “Bob” Cleator as vice president of sales and marketing. Cleator will succeed Paul Deasy, who was rec...
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Belgium beer edges into innovationAug 05, 2011 12:00 am - Carlo Grootaert wanted to tell me a story, so shortly after 11 a.m., we drove to a cemetery near the coastal Belgian town of De Panne, where, not far from a giant crucif...
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Northwest Community Hospital Health Center opensAug 05, 2011 12:00 am - The new Northwest Community Hospital Heath Center in Mount Prospect will hold an open house from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6. The center is at 199 W. Rand Road. Visitors c...
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Murnane gets brief taste of NFL life with BearsAug 05, 2011 12:00 am - A big, bad Chicago Bear occupies space in the Murnanes’ Green Oaks home. He blocks nearly an entire wall. The Murnanes — proud Bears fans — are proud of their pro. After...
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Jury convicts 5 officers in post-Katrina shootingsAug 05, 2011 12:00 am - NEW ORLEANS — A federal jury on Friday convicted five current or former police officers in the deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina. Former o...
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Quinn picks McHenry native for veterans agencyAug 05, 2011 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD — Erica Borggren is only 30, but she’s already been valedictorian at West Point, a Rhodes Scholar, a company commander in Korea and a high-level aide to Gen....