All Stories from October 20, 2015 (Change date)
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Des Plaines OKs townhouses, apartments for vacant industrial siteOct 20, 2015 5:40 am - A long-vacant industrial site on Northwest Highway in Des Plaines will soon be home to new residents in townhouses and apartments after the approval of a $90 million dev...
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Lake Zurich swears in new fire chiefOct 20, 2015 5:35 am - John Malcolm has officially taken over as Lake Zurich's fire chief. Malcolm's family and about 50 fire personnel from Lake Zurich and other departments were at village ...
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Lakemoor settles on a plan for new municipal buildingOct 20, 2015 5:34 am - A continuing mission to change the image of Lakemoor will take a significant step with the expected construction next spring of a new municipal facility along busy Route...
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The children among the ruins of violenceOct 20, 2015 5:33 am - BEIRUT, Lebanon - A 5-year-old Syrian refugee explains the picture he has drawn: "This is a boy. This is a bed. This is a bomb. This is an apple." Wondering if the apple...
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COD leaders respond to scathing accreditation reportOct 20, 2015 5:30 am - College of DuPage officials defended themselves Monday in the wake of an accreditation agency's frequently scathing report that raises questions about the actions of the...
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Distributing overnight noise from O'Hare a tall orderOct 20, 2015 5:30 am - Officials tasked with crafting a rotation system to evenly distribute noisy overnight O'Hare flights left their first meeting with added reasons why finding consensus wi...
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North: Cubs, Bears find themselves in tough spotsOct 20, 2015 5:18 am - Here it is plain and simple: the Chicago Cubs are being outpitched by the New York Mets. Boy, it feels like 1969 all over again except this time the Cubs are at least i...
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Government can't be run like businessOct 20, 2015 5:03 am - Every time I hear someone say government should run like a business it makes me cringe. Government is NOT a business, it is a SERVICE. Could any business survive with a...
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Police can't make up for bad parentsOct 20, 2015 5:03 am - I believe that until people who create a child (you'll notice I didn't say "parent a child") accept the responsibility of parenting that child, the crime rate in America...
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Good Wine: Matching Alsatian cuisine with Pierre Sparr winesOct 20, 2015 5:00 am - As dining moves indoors, a meal's star attraction shifts from the surrounding backyard, deck or park to the food itself. To translate your standard dishes with internati...