All Stories from August 19, 2011 (Change date)
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Market down for fourth straight weekAug 19, 2011 12:00 am - A growing belief that the country is headed toward recession gave the stock market its fourth straight week of losses. The anxiety in the market was obvious Friday as th...
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Sex offender evaluation ordered for ghost payrollerAug 19, 2011 12:00 am - A former Lake County Health Department official who admitted his involvement in a ghost payrolling scam was ordered Friday to submit to a sex offender evaluation and to ...
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Homers sink White Sox; Ramirez gets thrown outAug 19, 2011 12:00 am - Josh Hamilton hit a tiebreaking home run in the sixth inning, Mitch Moreland added two homers, a three-run shot in the fourth and a two-run shot in the sixth, and the Te...
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Cubs manager Mike Quade: What a day ... weird, I guessAug 19, 2011 12:00 am - Cubs manager Mike Quade agreed Friday was a “weird” day. Quade had just watched his team come from behind to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-4 on Tyler Colvin’s pinch-hi...
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Geneva police will serve burgers at Tom & Eddie’sAug 19, 2011 12:00 am - Submitted by Geneva Police Department As a special Tom & Eddie’s birthday event titled “Burgers and Badges,” uniformed officers from the Geneva Police Department will se...
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Wheaton College mourns artist, alumAug 19, 2011 12:00 am - Their parents called them crazy; “Hippies who had lost their bearings.” But Marjorie “Marge” and Richard “Dick” Gieser didn’t care. They were spending a year in New Yor...
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AU to offer Basic Skills Test review sessionsAug 19, 2011 12:00 am - Submitted by Aurora University Aurora University will host four review sessions to help students prepare for the Illinois State Board of Education Basic Skills Test. Edu...
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Lombard to spend surprise $1.3 million on Finley RoadAug 19, 2011 12:00 am - For Lombard, 2011 is turning out a little better financially than village staff expected. The village has about $1.3 million of “unanticipated revenue,” and that funding...
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Lombard debates transparency in public salariesAug 19, 2011 12:00 am - Lombard village board members all agree their town needs to be transparent about salaries of public employees. But they disagree about how to define such openness and e...
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U-46 parent on bus routes: ‘It is stupidity’Aug 19, 2011 12:00 am - The new transportation routes for high school students in Elgin Area School District U-46 drew more than 100 parents to a special meeting Thursday, where many vociferous...