Autos
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No one injured in Round Lake business fireSep 30, 2015 1:00 am - A fire at Gerber Collision & Glass in Round Lake left Route 120 shut down during the evening rush hour on Wednesday, but no one was injured. The Round Lake Fire Protecti...
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1,000 collector cars to be auctioned at Mecum event in SchaumburgSep 29, 2015 11:00 pm - Meet Chicago Northwest, the official destination marketing organization for Chicago's Northwest region, welcomes Mecum's Chicago Auction, one of the largest auto auction...
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Car-crazy daughter has father to thankSep 28, 2015 6:00 am - Colleen Conway-McQuade grew up around classic cars, having been raised in a family that embraced and loved vintage vehicles. As the Arlington Heights resident progressed...
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Carmakers cheating on emissions almost as old as pollution testsSep 27, 2015 7:33 am - WASHINGTON - Almost as soon as governments began testing vehicle emissions, automakers found ways to cheat. In 1970s some cars were found to be rigged with "defeat devic...
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Schaumburg Toyota holds celebration to kick off expansionSep 25, 2015 1:00 am - After nearly four decades in its original facility, Resnick Automotive Group is starting construction on a new, state-of-the-art showroom facility to house its Schaumbur...
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Mecum auto auction coming to Schaumburg in OctoberSep 22, 2015 1:00 am - Mecum's Chicago Auction, one of the largest auto auctions in the U.S., will return to the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel from Oct. 8-10, with an estimate...
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In the race for driverless vehicles, auto and tech worlds collideSep 20, 2015 7:41 am - Google had all of Silicon Valley to choose from when deciding on a leader for its ambitious self-driving-car division. Instead, the tech behemoth hired an auto industry ...
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Google's 'self-driving toaster' rattles the auto industry
Sep 20, 2015 7:34 am - Before Google introduced the prototype of its autonomous car - a k a the "self-driving toaster" - to the public last year, the search-engine giant made the rounds of the...
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Criminal charges weighed in VW scandalSep 19, 2015 1:00 am - (Bloomberg) -- Volkswagen AG's admission that it cheated to make nearly half a million diesel cars appear cleaner-burning than they are leaves the automaker facing billi...
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What to look out for at the Frankfurt auto showSep 15, 2015 11:00 pm - FRANKFURT, Germany - New small cars for the mass market from Opel and Renault and powerful, expensive SUVs from Jaguar and Bentley for the upper crust are among the top ...