All Stories from August 17, 2011 (Change date)
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U.S. Judge to review madoff trustee's anti-class action lawsuitAug 17, 2011 12:00 am - U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff said he will decide if the liquidator of Bernard Madoff's firm may stop a class-action suit against directors and advisers of so- called f...
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Stevenson library catches up to 21st centuryAug 17, 2011 12:00 am - With a collection of 70 iPads, a dozen semiprivate study rooms and a veritable sea of comfortable couches and chairs, Stevenson High School’s new information and learnin...
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Trying to make sense of Sox' nonsensical seasonAug 17, 2011 12:00 am - This is why gamblers arrive in Vegas on planes and leave on buses. And why Ozzie Guillen seems to have so much more gray hair today than he had in February. Of course, i...
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Court orders Chicago to hire 111 black firefightersAug 17, 2011 12:00 am - Some 6,000 blacks who passed a Chicago Fire Department entrance exam nearly 16 years ago will walk away with either jobs or cash under a federal court order entered Wedn...
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Three charged in Glendale Hts. man’s beatingAug 17, 2011 12:00 am - Three men have been charged with aggravated battery after a weekend fight at a party near West Chicago left a 19-year-old Glendale Heights man with a number of missing t...
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Addison native takes on Robert Ludlum franchiseAug 17, 2011 12:00 am - When Jamie Freveletti used to ride her bike as a child in the summer over the bubbling tar roads in what was then rural Addison, there was an odd-shaped building that al...
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Enjoy music, wine at Long Grove Art FestAug 17, 2011 12:00 am - The 23rd Annual Long Grove Art Fest will be Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 20-21. About 90 fine artists from across the country will showcase and sell their original works. ...
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Batavia High School’s Fine Arts Centre to open SaturdayAug 17, 2011 12:00 am - I graduated from Batavia High School in 1968. Although the old high school where I started in downtown Batavia had a stage, there wasn’t enough money to include one in t...
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Theatre-Hikes to premiere show at CantignyAug 17, 2011 12:00 am - The idea came to Frank Farrell, fittingly enough, while he was on a walk. This was in 1997, and Farrell was working with students as a guest equity actor at Grand Valley...
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Warren fastpitch tourney fields 68 teamsAug 17, 2011 12:00 am - Submitted by John Rossi The seventh annual Warren Wave Wipeout Fastpitch Tournament, held July 22-24, was a huge success despite rain and thunderstorms each day. Played...