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Why parks director with four jobs gets to keep his pensionsAug 16, 2017 5:00 am - A parks executive holding jobs in four suburban districts is eligible to continue participating in a statewide taxpayer-funded pension program, an investigation has dete...
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Ziehm on golf: Huge opportunity at U.S. Amateur for Hardy, GhimAug 16, 2017 1:01 am - Nick Hardy, coming off playing the Western Amateur and Illinois Open back-to-back, was understandably tired last week, but not too worn out for perhaps two more big even...
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Ridge breaks ground on Bartlett business parkAug 16, 2017 1:00 am - BARTLETT - Ridge, the industrial development arm of Transwestern Development Co., has broken ground on a 186,000-square-foot development in Brewster Creek Business Park,...
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Trump-backed immigration bill has many critics, but voters like itAug 16, 2017 1:00 am - Some Democrats and their advocates in the press have been quick to denounce the RAISE Act, the new immigration reform bill proposed by Republican Sens. Tom Cotton and Da...
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Synergy Flavors makes things taste betterAug 16, 2017 1:00 am - Synergy Flavors Inc., an international food and beverage flavor company, is expanding again in Wauconda. The company started construction on the first phase of a pr...
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Rock the Fox Music Fest returns to Carpenter ParkAug 15, 2017 11:00 pm - The Odd Fellows Rock the Fox Music Fest is returning to Carpenter Park in Carpentersville this weekend. Odd Fellows Lodge 492 members will bring back the three-day festi...
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New school year brings new opportunitiesAug 15, 2017 11:00 pm - Students across the nation are preparing for the start of another academic year. For some, this will be their first year of preschool, kindergarten or first grade. For o...
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Sound check: Lisle '90s-Palooza takes you back in timeAug 15, 2017 6:00 am - Back to the '90s Dig out your flannel and head down to BaseCamp Pub for its inaugural '90s-Palooza, a daylong festival celebrating the music, dance and fashion we grew u...
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Some extraordinary white wines to see off summerAug 15, 2017 6:00 am - If you're anything like me, you've chilled, iced, slushied and spritzed plenty of white wines this summer. But with several weeks (we hope) of hot weather left, the pala...
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Constable: Is this the last pay phone in suburbs?Aug 15, 2017 5:00 am - A generation ago, you could spot these things all across the suburbs. In the 1970s, it seemed as if their population was growing. Then everything changed. I couldn't rem...